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G
OF THE CHINESE.
LECTURE BY HE. MR, LIANG
"CHI-CHAO,
nutised form of its philosophy as much), Taoism. Baddhism and Muhammedanisma exist side by side without any trouble. Even the lase set, which is certainly the most intelerant of all religions, learned
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MACAU NOTES- z'over ors conneporigNT. Į
Mario, August 24th. THE GOVERSÒVR'S ARRIVAL,
Seahon Viovernor, ME W At a well-attendeef meeting of the China
Poreria si Silva, and his tanuls arrived Society held on June 19th, at the School
to live in ptations The Chineva there as about 9p. on Friday, They We desire above all else cooperation of Oriental Studies H.E. Mr. Liang whole, not care what shrt, of got or Wh revived by Senhor Santos, the net ing thewernor, and Senher Caneca this between the Chinese and ourselves, før | Chi-chuo gave aa interesting address"
gods their mightaur worships so long as
tatour Master. The gule was blowife it is in this way that wa shall secure the on National Characteristics of the
be does not break the law written or un- with extreme Violence at the thear, and eriat couperation of the influential Chinese." Mr. A. M. Townsend presid
Britten.
There is a Chinese proverb the illuminations which hul, been ars ranged had to be canceled. The guntaut classes of that land. They desire the ed. „ devidoßment of their country, But, they
which says Let us sweep the stew offre, in which H.E, and jurts travel ile not wish the foreigner to come in and
doorsteps, but leave alone th, had diffealty in Sibling he was char free on the roof gf our neighbour into the herbour beause the lights on the
hany's marking the Channd were out. house. This illustrates better than any
H.E. Senhor Corrent da' Sta formally
[dividual liberty.
The chairman, in introfacing the lee surer, referred to his efforts some years age to introduce reforms into the eld sjatert el government in China.
These
the suurten eltarta, he said, were promptly trashed bything else the respurten have do assumed office on Saturday, afterusan.
the Empress Dowager, who imprisoned
tv
1. E. the helik wierce which was attend Fed by the stepskera of the Piovegament and
Baumley of the leading residents. Ser
is
THE GALE.
fortunate in the Hitle A few damage caused by the gale. electric wires supped, some of the wails the Axonida de Republic were blown swift, and a sumall boat laden with pea nuts was wrecked, the oupants being
frowned.
kake site, trenia from Cuci, nut even sang lugas voice as their own its. modesty ko that shamaktikaka and crude and sadná Jury tu votiseu, vy pudgy of Le average mercoaIEL,. แบบ LA/5 no tople to underbadás:" kam pies wait iletdogs of the natives or to hum Al Lulus Pota Zneir point of vi«WW.
gie wor 10: real' kitch developments in China is cooperation. with the unnaman, take him to part (dership, give ou chance to prunt by the Bester organiston and initiative of the British, and a assure you that we shall not have to complain either of his hack ot appreciatina or of the volume of HUSTERANS LA will puur into the ameez wi business conducted on these lines.
"The Unraaman presets British goods when he can get them, but in the vast majority of cases the manufacturer, de eline either to make or wrap their goods How suit the different localities, wany thees has it not been the lot of merchants in China to be taid by British Arns: We make such and such an article | aga shaper unpei j'ai ausing the Kurbneske for Hongkong, nad we shall be glad to of stun DEL Cg Patthia well you the same for Hankow or other place, absolutely refusing to realise that' thes: plices are hundreds of miles apart and that the conditions are quite dif. ferent..."
SOCIAL EQUALITY, 1 as many of the retrivers as she could
Another national charactérisatie her and prutera da Silva will be "At Hoe very Saturday from 1 pum, de The old oi, but Air, Liang Ceremo alla
wwl quality. The station of the
.: 4. one other were fortunate enough to
Jenda! systing tintes back to the secund able to escape to Japan, where he (Mr.
century, KC, and, although ability as Mincto a was mng Chenau), lived in exile for filteen-
a vins has existed, it's always ogwa tu | years. During that period, however, br
w of talent. It has, therefore, lost was able to and dul, exercise great in
its divine character, which was so remark. (bucne sorogowa i v mnanium une' end
able in the middle ages in Europe, Agius or the country to be other, and, later ca
very few of them are hereditary, so that when betur conditions prevailed m
thers is usually a cycle of social rotation. reking, he was rocked, and there-occup As we often say in China. the son of a led several o the inghest and prime minister muy cuman beggar, aand portant positivus in te realig Cuonnet-
tent of a beggar nay leeving, a prime but it was HOL Unig að a setursinua läks | Minister-" "
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aguer pinadas de nang in the history wali baik boka LE'suvceeded iu Dis
'present Alumnusta: Lu.Simpiity and return
Que Chiesa fanguage.
in the course o. x lecture, år. Liang
Um chao sudu.
most popular
The Chinese have plenty of money to invest themselves and are waiting for opportunities to invest in British com- panies, but they rightly ask for wome measure of co-operation with us in this Muni. They deeply appreciate British t methods in so far as they are based on strict justice for all, and have the highest admiration for our method of settling differences. Large schemes are waiting the enterprise of foreigners, preferably British, such
the erection of electric light plants I have 10 uffet fer the erection of complete plants in for large cities in China, but owing to the rotten state of the cables nothing can be done waterworks, ferries, cotton mills, paper works, brick-making plants, sawmills, mining developments, There is a real need for a closer touch with the native, less of the haughty taipan dignity and more real seeking to understand his point of view, and 1| assure you that there is a good deal to he sa for that point of view, though it is too often brushed aside by the unthink ing as of no value or interest. It is indee high time that the financiers and merchant this great country began to do something more than talk. Prompt and energetic action is required if we are to win the golden opportunities that are simply naking to wiilised and worked in that wonderful land of China.
and railways.
CHINA AND THE SHANTUNG
SETTLEMENT
Y
Proces of
The Hongkong lunts, Su Tai and henry hoy, did not make theif stal trip: the Canton beit Wing he left fan for Macau in the height of the gain, but throes back after she had been Ian hour on the way.
SCHODES:
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two
The Serak" intrads to spen mere schools, one with two-malo, and two "Female teachers. There will soon be mare schools than scholars,
THE HARROJUK WORKS.
The Harlur Works are still under the
care of Admiral Laura. It is hoped by the people that this will esatinne to be the
Case,
..
THE TIENTSIN MURDERS.
MURDERER OF MR. AND MRS. GUMPERT EXECUTED.
as to who was the culprit. Ke had been dismissed from Mr. and Mrs. Huppert's houshold in May, 1818, and it was sup posed that he had gone to Peking. dence of his prewne in the capital was btained, and, moreover, it was discover
that he visited Tientsin fur few
E
days at a time corresponding to the dale ul the crime. Further, it was found that
Palic
hot
After this it
appears that K became aware the police were on his track. At rate he disappeared, and the search which fullon ed reflects the highest credit thoroughness of the methods of the The field was a wide one, and A pursuit was kept up, which took the detectives to Mukden, Hankow and Te chow. On one occasion, in the Lien Chen, district, Ka was actually in the back man of Berume to which the police went, climbing an adjoining back well At and only escaped in the nick of time by lust, however, he was armated at Chang- 29th was brought under she and ca
Tintu During his trial he gradually admitted
4.
It is due to this cause also that the Chinese people, do nôt always get a gov, ernment such as they deserve, Detail the great inass the character of the gov ernment affects thera bat Bttle, conse- by there is a natural apathy to thugs politic. So i met warn you put to judge the Chinese people by its gur The Ar characteristic of the Chinese erament, for, however true is the saying in Europe that every people gets the people when Aam golog to describe i Lavar Aalty speak of test.vernment it deserves, it is certainly not
true in China. Hot Decija te is the must puportaat, that
The Lastly, the Chinese are remarkable Le less understood.
and fur their tosinopolitan spirit. I say cos- about thinn ernese "sattur has been, and stil | topolitan for the want of a better word.
The Tientsin Wanicspul Muzette for is, that the Chinese acquired a very niga To us the difference between a foreigner standard of civusation thousands of and ourselves is political rather than
August 1th publishes the tuff polic reports relative to the investigatin which years ago, and since then they have re racial. Thus, whenever we completed an- mained stationary and without any pro uther race, whether Hans, Turks. Hindus, led up to the arrest and ultimate execu gros. They have been standing staf Tibetans, or the numerous native criles of ton of Ko Chi-hatang, the Chinese woon use me in the street would suş. It South-Westers China, they were always who murdered Mr. and Mrs. E. Gut.
the never occurred to them that nations are granted, without reservation, nil the polipert in their house at Tientsin n
17th, [ composed of human beings, and thetical rights enjoyed by a Chinese citizen. night of Detuber 16th
By a process of eliminating the various G Chinese are not an exception in this It remains now only for me to consider-
possibles is appears that by Decem rest. If any man stantly still without briefly the possible effects on Chiacseber, 1915, the Polier had become.convinend moving he would very soon and his legs national character of the would not let him do so. Well, the modernisation. The case with which we Chinese must have extraordinarily strong have changedafrour an empire to are leg muscles in order to stand still for soublie shows that the republican idea ean inany centuries. The truth is that the not be so very foreign to the Chinse mind. Chinese, like all the other civiliised Nor is there any danger that social equa peoples in the world, have arrived atlity will disappear in Chit, as ulviously their present state of civilisation by the no new caste or class, except perhaps, the slow process of evolution. There hare naneyed class, can be rented in a re-
a large quantity of European jewellery, wards or forwards, but on the whole, and heart the lessons of the labour troubles in which was afterwards identified as hay- bon frequent movements, either back public. I hope also that we will take toon his return to Peking he had pawne in the long run, they have been in the Europe, and in war efforts i reorganising belonged to Mrs. Gumpert.
our industry we will do it in such a way direction of increasing complexity in their social organisation, which is gene as to soften down the barrier between rally regarded by insdera historians as capital and labour As to our love of individual liberty. I am afraid we have tu signs of progress.
After a brief historical description of give up a good feat of it for social good, how progress and reaction Fad neces for no "laissez-faire" government can carry the, multitudinous functions of a arily influenced the course of Chinese history from the third eratury, B.C., the modern state, and an netice danserney Jectarer said the modern China, as it was demands that the people must take a known to the Europeans, was the result real interest in polities. Will the Chinese Ant of these two opposing fortes. Chinese lose their cosmopolitan spirit, and have Mr. M. C. Jáme, of the School of history illustrated the adaptability of the in its stead an aggressive nationalism
hinese people. Oriental Studies, replying, in the Man
By adaptabilityhe Personally, I hope cot, that much will chester Guardian, to a letter from Mrt the ability to modify old organisid on how we shall be treated by our neighbors if they let us choose between sations to suit new 'needs.
In this respect I think the Chinese are the adoption of what we may call the The reference to Cyprus is absolutely unique, for, though we are by no means European form of patriotisun and the loss the whole crime-with one important re-
servation. The actual murder, which bo»» But let us irrelevant. The question of Cyprus and only people possessing an antient civi of our independence, you may be sure
described in detail, he said was committed that of Kinochow are essentially different.isation, we are the only people who still we will choose the former.
it a thing unnecessary,
clear that the latter was a purely The case of Cyprus, unlike that of Kino-tain the essential features of that civi hope that the lessons of this terrible war, by an accomplice. Notwithstanding this, chow, is a question for politicians rather lisation. The modern Egyptiana, Arabs will make such An entirely New principle in than for jurists Mr. Yokohama argues Greeks can hardly claim that they are though I must confess most of us have naginary person, and carried ne con-
From thee ense
case of
the judges, as Cyprus that "it is not the true heirs of their respective civilian been disappointed to see that the world fiction whatever to the minds of the
sentence shows. Ines that the lease of Kiao-chow was
conclusion of his report, Super- tions, and we do not regard, for example, after the war does not seem to be any Butomatically determined the declara-
indent Oldham writes:-- the italians As Romans, but there is no wiser. Perhaps we have expected too
be daimed that the tion of war. Why not? Japan had not forcibly prevented China from enter the vicissitudes of national fortune, in mind. One thing I am sure of is that itself on this arrest and conviction. The
bar make about the Chiness. In spite of much; perhaps the tea is to or gas I think it may be clai
us to see its effects on the European department is
congratulate ing into the war with Germany at an earlier stage, China would have expeller it of foreign invasions and pasty the national characteristic of adaptabi- supreme importance to all owners of pro- anima, we have been able to modify our lity will once more safe us from ruin.perty and employers of house servants all the Germans from Kiao-chou and Shantung in the same way as she had
How we shall adapt ourselves depends on of this murderer being discovered and -Ned
all the Germans in the rest of
icramstances over which we have no con- sentenced is so obvious that there is no China Great Britain's rights to Cyprus
trol, but that we will adapt ourselves need to dwell on it.
The circumstances are
derived directly from the owner State namely, Turkey. Surely Mr. Yokohama. That national characteristic is there cannot be any doubt. The Chinese" of the arima itself premated various des not really mean to say that, in white he love of liberty. I know that this must will never become" Europeans or Ameri-initial fentures of difficulty. There were no external clues except the chopper it- of our declaration of war upon Germany. rather strange to thor who regard the old bottle and keep up the continuity self, the keys on the wall and the foot
cans. but they will pour few wine into Germany still retains her rights to Kinn
the len na sa example of despotic, and chow
how and Shantung, and that Jepan has
of the civilisatie., walch is the secret of print on the floodstained floor, none of ernal government. It is true that we
which proved of any subsequent value. claim to take over
ver these rights from
their strength
The murderer had got clean away with bad despolie emperors, but when With reference to
Mr. Geo, Jamieson, C.M.C., expressed out leaving any trace and the description hey surpassed a certain limit they were to Kiss-chow a.zid
of the stolen jewellery was admittedly Yokoyama asks, "Why, then, we lways overthrown by the people, aa there is appreciation of the lecturer's well- these rights ever granted
led to Cermany,
en auch deetrine as that of the thought-out and well digested paper. If quite inadequate for purposes of external
In fact, thee were desirous of being hypercritical recognition has not China cancelled their right of Kings
ne might not be disposed to agree with Pief collector and bend of the all that had been said. With regard to indien nombined. When he attempted to the statement that the Chinese Emperor
anything nem be' usually came to
was nothing more than a chief tax <riel, hegnuse-nowhere in the world, becollector and head of the police combined, ere the Manchester School preached its he (the speaker) considered that the octrine in England, had heen the ideas Chine Emperor was something more. inmal frular and non-interfer than that. He was first of all, the higir -ney from the leg highly developed priest of the nation. He was bound to "Laissez faire" has always do justice and right, but he was the one Min our ideal of overnment, which is intercessor between his people and the at en På keep internal pence and to watch Divine power, and, thereby, nequired n
It does not really govern Divine right to rule. the molar use of the word. IN Mr. Townsend, in moving a hearty vote „dividual axmaq ni tyranny, of entirse, have of thanks to the lecturer, expressed the
teen gare newman, but no muler in China bepe that Mr. Liang Chi-chao would have |
a safe return to his country, and that China's future would be happy and pros perous.
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THE COLONY'S FINANCES FOR APRIL.
The Hongkong Treasury publishes the following financial statement for the month of April, 1919, Balance of assets and lia- bilities On March 31st., 1919 Revenue from April ist, to
April 30th, 1919
Expenditure from 1st. to "
April 30th., 1919
Balance
.87,004,427.18
1,504,016.24
8,588,443,42
1,175,025.58.
-$7,423,417.84
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AN OPIUM CASE.
A
The vote was unanimously accorded. Mr. Liang Chi-chao, in acknowledging the compliment, said that although, be agreed with Mr. Jamieson about the re- ligious nature of the Emperar, the
At the Magistracy, yesterday, Chinese Emperor had no Divine power like the Emperors of Europe.
Chinese was charged with being in un- He was the son of Heaven, "but he must be re-lawful possession of a quantity of opium sponsible to Heaven as well. They had
saying in"China equivalent to the Latin proverb: "Vox Populi-Vox Dei."! The proceedings then terminated.
dross.
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