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THE DEATH OF DR. MORRISON
STORY OF A VIVID CAREER.
The dews of Dr. Morrison's death, sayı the N.-C. Daily News, will bring with it a sense of personal loss to many-friends in China and will leave a notable gap i the British community of Filing Thongs there are many with longer experience of China than Dr. Here is no one i whose life was so
interwoven with
bera as was that of ber late Political Adviser, and for a number of years it was difficult to think of China, and certainly of Peking, without the name of Peking Morrison coming to one's thoughts. That he will never more be seen in the
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often castigated and lashed with his Auction Or mordaunt wit, yet which he fought for and upheld with all his strength is at ter of grief to Chinese and foreigner alike. Only a few weeks ago the telegram* told us that he was better in health-after reaching Europe for the Peace Conference early in 1919 he fell ill with jaundice, and shough able to attend the Lonference in April and May, he subsequently had to be operated upon, no fewer than three times
and that be expected to return to Chinn in July. The news of his death is thus the more distressing.
DE MORRISON'S FAMILY.
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The goods can be inspected on application to BORNEO „Texas-20 per cent. Deposit to be guid Only last week, our Edinburgh.. corres-. pondent sent us an interesting note on Dr.mediately on the fall of the hammer, Morrison's
family which may well be re- peated bere.
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Dr. Morrison's father and his four SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE. brothers came from Edenkifiie, near Forres, in Morayshire. The eldest bro- ther, ans, was for 40 or 30 years the Free Church minister of Urdunald, was Elgin, Another brother, Rector of Glasgow Academy for many years. A second brother, Thomas the father of G. H. Morrison, D.D., of Well- ington Church, Glasgow, was head, of the Free Church Normal School in Glasgow. And still another brother, Alexander, went to Victoria about 1855, and became head of the Scots College in Melbourne. The father of Dr. Morrison, George, went to Victoria two or three years later, and became head of the Geelong College. » An- other brother, Robert the Scots College
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Dr. Morrison was born at Geelong on LAMB. MUTTON, BEEF. RABBITS February 4th., 1989, and was educated at Melbourne and at Edinburgh University He where he took the degree of M. D. practised medicine for some time, if we are not mistaken, in Spain. But x journey on foot. all across Australia, from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne, made when he was only 20, both revealed and spurred his instincts as a traveller and though always rather proud of his medical knowledge he was not, one would say, by instinct or inclination suited for a doctor's life In 1883 he was wandering in New Guinea, where he got himself speared by cannibals, after which he betook himself to the more peace ways of Europe with occasional wanderings "in its romantic "corners, "Though latterly to entirely-awo
ciated with China, Dr. Morrison knew
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many men and tiany countries and spoke FRENCH LESSONS an assortment of longues, one (of the hy say so) wall, except his native English, all effectively.
ON THE "TIMES" STAFF.
In 1884 he marched across China from Shanghai to Hargoon, recording his ex- periences in that inimitable book An Aus tralian in China" Promptly the Tivies snapped him up and sent him on another walking tour from Bangkok to Yunnan and round Tonking; after which he settled down in Peking as its correspondent. But he was alway wandering off in one dires- tion and another, now from Stretensk, in Siberia, to Vladivostock; again, from HonanfutoAndijan in Russian Turke- stan: and at one-time or another" be floot-slogged". It through every pro vince of China except Tibet, He was: through the siege of the Legations in 1900 the Boxer year; and five years" later was present at the triumphal entry of the Japanese into Port Arthur. He repre sented the Times at the Portsmouth Peace Conference.
ADVISERSHIP TO CHINA
In 1912 Dr. Morrison relinquished the Times correspondentship in Peking-there is perhaps no harm in saying now that he could not see eye to eye with them in matters of Japanese policy--and became Political Adviser to the President of the Chinese Republic, in which capacity it
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may be said that he managed to do more Wed, 9 m 361 than most of China's advisers have been allowed to do, but far less than his wide Ther. 10 m 4 29 knowledge and keen insight into what was best for her would have enabled, and his Fr ardent sympathy for her would have prompted him
He held the 1st, Satur 12 Class Order of the Excellent Crop...
A GREAT JOURNALIST.
do.
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the few men who have made the post of Mon 14m
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Ambassadorship, that he will be remem
bered., The Times has had some remark-
able men on its staff, but none more so
than Peking Morrison."
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that Dr. Morrison never forgot. His know
AN INIMITABLE TALKEE. ledge of every treaty and agreement signed Dr. Morrison was, when in the right by China, his exact recollection of dates mood, as brilliant a conversationalist as and armes and of the career of everyone could well be found. His talk abounded who had cut anything of a figure in China, in wit and irony and be had an inex- almost since Europeans first came to the haustible fund of droll stories, nil the country, was absoïutely uncanny. And droller for his way of telling them. Ho to this unrivalled qualification for his pro was a geniai and generous host who enter- fession, he added a faculty for obtaining tained largely and loved to do information on any and every subject that a delightful afterdars, once one of the
dinner speaker was almost miraculous, The tortuous ways of the Forbidden City, the scheming sights of Peking, may here be mentioned. and chicanery of Peking yamens appeared He collected books from deasers all over to hold no secret for him.
the world and boasted that, he possessed
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and
It would be wrong to say that Dr. Mor a copy of every book ever published about rison's judgment was never at fault, but China, The library was sold some four it was certainly far oftener right than that years ago to Japanese purchasers, for, wa of anyone else, and his messages to the think, 30,000, and it was so bully packed Times were the despair of leas gifted men. by them that on its way to Japan the sea He worked at them often for hours. A water got into the case and ruined many
elegram despatched at, midnight and pos of the books. aibly, amounting to po more than half, äls
EISM MARRIAGE. column. perhaps, of in the more writing, Jentie Watk, daughter of Mr. Robert
of the Tinies, would often
Morrison married in 1012 Miss have engaged him, since six o'clock. But then every single Robin,, and they bad three sons, Mrs. word told. He also had the rare faculty Morrison and her children accompanied of being able to criticize the Chinese with him to Europe on what unhappily has out wounding them and without sacrifice - proved - his Iant journey. She has the of his character as their sincers friend. deep sympathy of many friends, not leke
(Continued at foot of next column,)
hers than her husband's...
rakisen, Köbe.
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