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KOREA TO-DAY. LAND OF THE MORNING CALM.

JAPAN'S PROBLEM.

Mr. J. O. P. Bland writes in:...the Times

the female of the species in more deadly than the male. I caught a glimpse of this truth, subtle and significant, as a private performance of Korean geisha giyen br my Japanese hosts,

Preeminently anngst the cities of the It was after an informal dinner at the Ancient East, Seoul is a sermon in stones,

residence of the Civil Governor, Dr. Mid. which the stranger within "w gates may.

zuno, that one of his secretaries (possibly rend, mark, learn, and inwardly digist.

realizing that the thread of our political I know, of, none which teaches more conversation was wearing rather thin) forcibly the old, old lesson of the sins of suggested a visit to the Taisho Kaba. the fathers, or which suggests such inorit high-class geisha entertainment under able reflections concerning the mysterious.

Japanese management. forces that form the character and mould the destinies of nations. The Imperial City ar. Peking tells its own impressive

“control”

INTIMATIONS

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TELEPHONES TO SHIPS.

COMING DEVELOPMENTS.

WONDERS OF WIRELESS.

Further details of the possibilition sur rounding the working agreement arrived i hetween the American Telephone and Tele DUNSANY'S

graph Company and the General Electric Company of America are available in a stateinen issued in New York by Mr. H. B. Thayer, the president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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"It is believed." Mr. Thayer states, Never having seen Korean geishal dance, I that the art of electrical communication unsolved thus problems of militarians in advanced practically and beneficently by welcomed the opportunity; and so we left wire and radio transmission will be

high place, of self-determination and the the contract by which, through na es tale of splendid isulation, and departe! Length of Nations, a istody found things of licenowys, the patents and scientific THE greatness, but China is still mistress in ourselves driving in his Excellency's com developments of both companies are made hey own house, and though her present fortable motor-car through the silent state political be rotten, it does not carry, streets of old Seoul. We alighted at the the same conviction of utter helplessas entrance to a narrow alleyway, running ing of the United States Navy Department.

compels our

Buddhism),

darkly between, mud huts, shat brought to mind, the parlieus of the old Chicamen quarter in the shadow of the city wall at Peking.

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*** Lastly January both companies received

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GOLDEN DOOM. GLITTERING-GATE: COMPROMISE OF THE

KING.

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In 'Ail of

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FUND

H.B.Sir Reginald Edward Stubby, K.C.M.G. H.D. Major General F. Ventris, G.B. H.E. Commodore W. Bowl Smith, O...

Hon. Mr. Lau Cht Pak. Hon. Mr. Ho Fook.

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Oct. 28th

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of dignity pathetié in irretrievable 'adver"

referring to the wireless situation and Usilir the Patronage of sity, as that which impresses itself upon on

saying The Bureau has consistently held in Korea. There is something in the very

the point of view that intereste shall be sadness and silence of this white-robed race

best served by some agreement between the of passive resisters, something in the noi

several holders of permanent patents | galty of their monument and

men, which

There was something furtive, almost The letter ako urged the necessity of some whereby the market can be freely supplied.' instinctive paympathy and respect and yet when all is said and done, sinister, in this approach to a reputed such arrangement so that ships at sea may the problem of self-determination for Korea remains, humanly speaking, as far shrine of Korean musical and dramatic get the benefit of the latest devions which would contribute to their safety and the removed from solution as the federation culture; not a light shone, not a voice safety of their passengers. The Bureau of the world and the brotherhood of man.. sounded from any of the squalid houses further states: In the past the reasons Chaperoned by the courienes secretary past which we groped nur way, We, too for desiring that arrangement have been of the South Manchurian Railway (a moved silently, for the snow lay deep belargely of monetary considerations. Now kindly soul, Addicted lo. scholarly tween these close-built walls. Finally, the situation has become such that it is researcles in orthodox

Iturning the corner of a house which, in saw he sights of modern Seoul and coin the darkness, looked like all the rest be made without further delay, and this a public-neemity that such arrangements pared it in my mind with the city came to a door over which a flickering letter may be considered as an appeal, for knew it long ngu, before Japan had forced lantern bung; here our guide knocked, the good of the public. to remedy the bolt was drawn, and passed from th bitterly cald night into a long narrow situation." room, furnished at one end with charcoal

“Negotiations were commenced between braders and chairs for the audience, and the two companies with a view to the ex-. as to the rest, fitted for the dance with change of licences so that the Genera) soft clean matting and sliding panels a la Electric Company and the Radio Cor | Japonaise,

poration of Amerien, with which it had be the honours were done by the Japanese teame interested, would be able to further manager or impreanrio of the geisha ad. | the development of the art of radio trans ministration; except the performers and mission, and especially of wireless tole- two attendanta no Koreans were present.graphy, and the American Telephone and There were six dancers, girls still in their Telegraph Company could employ in its I qmembered, too, that when Japua teens, said to be the fire fower of Seoul present nation-wide system such radio ap- funght, first China and then Ruskin, for grisbadum. They were the elaborate, headparatus as is adaptable is wire transmission, supremacy in the peninsula, the attitude gear, the quaintly stiff bus comely costumes and further, could supplement its wire of these dogged conscientious objec.ars was of old Korea-high girdled waista and system with wireless extensints, where ever that of unconcerned spectators. Re-

colominous, many-coloured skirts-and particularly adaptable, na Hétréen the shore membering these things, no understands they danced slow and stately measures, and ships at sea. Much has been to 40 something of the nature of the tragedy of with flawless precision, to the sound of radio communication which can be made Koren, the pitiful destiny of a people too saisen and drum dances intelled to me fully effective in the public service only proud to fight, whose home is the strategie bolize either the poetry of nature or by this cooperation of the several interested keyland of North-Eastern Asia, and a pre-episode of legendary romance. Their con- destined bune of contention between the ventionally painted faces, like those of all companies. Powers that struggle for the mastery of mental dancers, were as masks, all cast

in the same mould of aphinx like inscrut

China to abandon her suzerainty over the Hermit Kingdom, and again later, before the Russo-Japanese, war, when the Korean King assumed the title of Emperor, and, for a breathing space of top years, the country was free to manage its own affairs, I remembered how, in 1808, the people had demonstrated their discontent with their own rulers, sitting, sihat is their thousands before the Palace day and hight for 14 days

the Pacific,

TOO PROUD TO FIGHT.

Radio Corporation and the universal service «The world-wide wireless system of the

of the Bell system are thos brought into harmonious relation that will facilitate the use by the public of the present wire

As I stood in the great Audience Halability, but as women they lacked the little of the old Palace untenanted now and alts and graces, the butterfly daintines open to the winds of heaven, yet splendid and spontaneous griety of the Japanese in decay, and railed to mind the history word Basinetly heavy, and when, botwcorporation, and, as the art, advances

as entertainers, they les telegraph facilities of the Radio Cor of this people since those days when re

the Korea aspired to lead the East in arg and

with

they came as in duty bound, enable the American Telephone Company learning: indukooked one-pon site or chat, they dick guarts and drink d with te ex and 10%. foley boste tertio de tipe triuziphs of incongruous modernity.. of

it perfunctorily at to foreign countries. The public which Jupan has decked the hill-girt city a courtesy so studied that it became interest lies in the fact that by an exchange (her banks and barracks, her hospitals and oppressive. Not thelra the bird-like chint of licences as suggested by the Government huge hotels), dominating, like alien giantser and light-hearted laughter with which the patents of each company will be the clustering hovels of the native-born, it the ger ha of Tokyo entertain their guests, utilised to greater advantage, and the pro- Our friend the secretary ascribed the gress of the art of electrical transmission seemed to me that this empty Audience Hall fittingly typified the last scene in elemnity of the proceedings to the reticent and communication will be sooolerated in drama, of inevitable.

stolidity which is natural to the Koreans, America as in no other country. Jestiny.. They showed me the “Governmen; Gen- but to me it seemed and I saw several The American Telephone, and Tele- eral Museum," housed in the ancient and

incidents and gestures

to confirm the im-graph Company, in order better to carry venerable precincts of the Palace also the the Morning: Calm were not so much with the General Electric Company to co- pression that these daughters of the Land out the purposes of the recent agreement delectable pleasaunee and rustic retreat which has been set apart for the use and on their dignity as on the defensive, and operate in advancing the art of radio trans. behoof of Prince Yi, further consaled for that behind these inscrutable masks there mission and communie tion, has purchased the loss of

his

lurked the soul of a race whose patriotism a minority interest in the Radio Corpora By Throne alientenanes in the Japanese Army and the hand of a deep at the mod of memories and tion of America. Mr. W. 8. Gifford, vice- beautiful Japanese Princesa. I saw the

the dreame. As we walked back to the most President of the American Telephone and preparations for his Highness's wedding sumptuous hotel in the Far East (a very Telegraph Company, has been made a (that ill-omene marriage of which the fine piece of window-dressing) I asked one people

in whispers-furniture and of our hosts if these women never smiled director in the Radio Corporation of speak embroidery and bowls of silver, being madeOut, I thing so he replied, but nos by native workers under the directies of 50 much with strangers." Japanese craftsmen. They showed me

It will, take some time and tact. model schools where Korçan boys and girls methinks, to assimilato

a people whose are being taught to look upon Japan as dancing girls decline to smile for the their spiritual home, and many other Invader. cogwheels in the ingeniously devised machinery of assimilation.

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COMMISSAR OR CLERK?

America,"

Mr. Edward J. Nally, president of the Radio Corporation of America, who is eaving London for New York, on being shown the above statement added:

This arrangement also opens up for the Radio Corporation of America wide pas sibilties of land line communication which will enable this corporation to reach the large and important centres of the United Esion and the postal companies, The States in competition with the Western

Radio Corporation, which so far has had PARIB, August 31st to rely for the inland distribution. of its

the city I saw evidence of the dogged cop A FRIEND OF THE BONNOT GANG. servatism of the race, and proof of the tact, which the Japanese. themselves are beginning to appreciate that this very policy of assimilation bus breathed & new spirit už life into the passivo resistance | ported to have Seen promoted to the rank of possess under the new-agreement indeponds of the Koreans and aroused in them a Commissar of the Central Soviet Com-ant facilities.». strong, though still non-combataut, ardour mittes at Moscow, has been the subject of of nationalism. They, bow to the inquiry. is good reason presence of the alien invader, they may to believe that he is the Ruasian who con- even admit that his progressive admin-ealed the motor bandits of the Bonnot istration has increased the material proses, and for this underwent five years perity of their country, but they firmly imprisonment

The identity of Kilbutchich, who is re-traffic on oxisting land telegraphs, will

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decline to admit the superiority of Japan's His wife, Mme, Riretto Maitrejean, a intellectual and moral culture they refuse former directrice of the Anarchie, admits to be assimilated, and their refusal has that he has been in Russia since January,

FIUME, August 30th. assumed the force of a conscious national 1918, and his lotters show that he is hold Fiume-has-to-day-published the text of the Signor D'Annunzio, the Commander of movement.

Despite its recent trials

ing a high position, for he wrote on July Consti ation of the new State, called the And tribalstions despite the strong hand of a ruler that doubt if, in this Russian torment, any man has been constituted for the town of

By: My lot has been fortunate. I Italian Regency of the Qaarnero, which noither topknots nor tutelary gods,

iFiume old Seoul still preserves the philosphic could live more calmly and with a clearer and for the islands which belong to

10 Fegice dignity which is the birthright of the Land conscience than I.'. . - ****

by the tradition of contarios, .. of the Morning Calm Here, & eleywhere

Constitution may be applied t in the East, one may note the disastrous be holding such a high post of confidence results of putting now wine into old in Soviet Buwis naturally upeets MM to it. It may be royied every seven years, bottles, uncouth new clothes and unplea Cachin and Frossard, for it damages their or when "amendments are demanded by sant new.. manners, imported from the cause. The latter has explained at great third of the citizens. It guaranteed to all West strike the same discordant note in length that Bonnet's accomplice oculd not citizens, without distinction of sea or rice, Seoul as they do in Tokyo and Peking, be the Kilbatebich who, after being succes liberty of thought, speech, Press, no îng, Hot these things are exsie and transient; sively-Boeretary to Maxim Gorky and to and religious or other association. they have no roots in the real life of the Lenin, and then Tehitchorin's Chef the inviolabilly of every citizen's house, habeas Farther the Conati ution guarantee, the he soul of the Korean people, lice Cabinet, has attained, this high post, for

like that the main of motor bandie, fame was actually of Lucas or unemployment, and old-age corpur a minimum wage, grants, in chao of the Chinese, stands aedfast in the seon by bim working in Moscow, as mere ancient ways, deep-rooted in it on clerk, under the name of Victor, Bergs, in representation and the right of referendum ansions Ites ablishes direct proportional ancestral beliefs, and con rives withal to a Boviet Government officeThato.ambe and petition. It es ablishe and regulatse presorve a certain stofo kind of geniality. no blame upon the Bolshevista for having communal autonomy, the election of judges, It is a race of husbandmen that bas eaten much a man in their employment, for in genocal ma litary service, and the ins itu. too often of the bread of affliction to allow Russia men of mary persuasions work in tion of a free port open to all friendly itself to bo provoked to desperation. It official posts in order to get their daily nations. is, no doubt, often slothful in business, broad... overprone to pal tice and plotting much, Mavezna, a promirent Borinlist, le, tive of irads an ons, seamen, eurilayers..

The Cornell la composed of given to strong drink: but you have only howe-er, not ratisind wh M. Frossard's employees is private establishments, whe to observs the plac'dly determined faces of mant, ne remake in the Humanité, the technical or a min strn iv. officials, These raight-backed men especially the elders of the Best dent-this-former-accomplice of the Bonnot professors, hib ral profesions, and ther **** -ho fa moreover, a proved spy,, is co-operat ve anc et ss. The compared, this. gait, to realize that bra still a lying an important par over there-ant Council fort's es and deren the law deep. And it is not only on the fares of the mon that you discern something of the the side, perhaps, of other arred with rating to donosic mat eri and to labor dificulty of the problem which Japan has the same broth much foolishness is ex- disc pline. The executive power is in they to solve in Koren; as a passive re later, I plained away."-Times.

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