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CHINA AND SHAKESPEARE. Speaking on the occasion of the Shaka A recent Japanese religintis book has spare anniversary at the Shakespeare By the invitation of the Parliamentary Committe of Lancnshire Members. Col. quickly obtained a circulation of 900.000. Clab, at Stratforil-on-Aven on April Dobson, of Messrs. Dobson and Barlow, It is called "The Life of Repentance," rd, Mr. Chao Hsin Chu, the Chines of Bolten, recently, at the House of and is written by a new teacher pamul | Charge d'Affaires. in London, said it gay Commons, explained the scheme put for Nishida, our of the products of the mhim great pleasure to visit the town on ward by the Textile Machinery Makers' ligicas and intellectual fermentation going such an occasion. He was also honoured Association of Lancashire for the estaban to-day in Japan. Nishida (Augliesin being called on to respond to the "Westfield ") may be described as a com- |-Mayor's welcome, in honour of the event. lishment of a textile technical school at Shanghai out of a portion of the remitted pourd of Buddhism, Communism and it was of great interest to attend such a Boxer Indemnity. Colonel Dolsch said Christianity as Tolstoy understood it. eremony. He proceeded : —

I have brought with me a very distin. that the traile between Grent Britain and Dr. Albertos Pieters, the manager of China bad, from the earliest days, been "Shinseik Kwnn," the newspaper evange-guished compatriot, Mr. Fau Yuan Lieu, for the lisation movement in Japan, who is in who used to be Minister of Education in an exceedingly important ene

of Peking. Mr. Fai is a great admirer of British Engineering Industries, and partielone touch with the movements:

From the religions thought in that country, des Shakespeare's literature, so he joins me cularly those of Lancashire. beginning of the introduction of modern, crikes him as being 78 per cent, Buddhist in coming to pay his personal respect to cotton, spinning industries into China, the 10 per cent. Communist, and 15 per cent your great dramatist and post. Shake- speare is known worldwide; his literature machinery had been supplied entirely by Christian.

The great problem: for Nishida was the is not only appreciated by Westerners, but Lancashire Grigs

Some years before the war, America,reonomie tangle of modern society rather by Orientals as well, Shakespeare's works together with France and Germany and than sin in a religioas sense. Why should are generally studied by the Chinese stud- n home. We appreciate foreign other countries, remitted the Boxer la tien make money by buying goods and ents demnity on the understanding that this sling them at a higher price! Is it not literature; you English people also have Confucius's money was carmarked for educational rubbery? Why also this eternal struggle the same fiterary taste. Quite a part of between labour and capital? Why should our classics and philosophy have berza

translated into English purposes. America had applied the money there he such a thing as interest on teaching is equally admired by the Eug-EVEN-ROOMED DETACHED HOUSE to the development of commercial rela- i capital? Is there no way out? Nishida lish scholars, as Shakespeare's literature with Tennis Lawn and Garage for Two-

ly admired by the Chinese. Intelectuals Cara tions between herself and China, a large turned especially to Tolstoy's writings

But be read are international. You can claim Shake- sum being spent in the education of young his wearch for a solution.

speare as in Englishman by birth, but we Chinese in American engineering eatab Tolstoy's tenching through Buddhist have an equal right to claim that Shake- ishorats. In spite of this, it might have spectacles, and came to the conclusion speare is a man of the world by intellec taken America some time to have made that the way out for him was to die totualism. Same day I m sure Shake the progress they had done in their his old life and begin a new one in which war's birthday will be universally cele- brated including Fat. Eastern countries. machinery imports into China, if it had he would have nothing and seek to gain When that time comes not been for the European War, 1914-1919. || nothing. Nishida says that so long as in China to hoist the Chinese ang in Up to this time the British engineers had

aan retains any notion of his own in-conjunction with the British flag, under

which Shakespeare was born. had little to fear from the American comdividuality being worth while ho will seek No dould your distinguished dramatist! to gain things for himself, which is the and poet knew about most things, thugh i petition. insomuch as business relations!

I have always doubted whether he knew with China had always been of the bit, not of all evil.

anything about China. In fact, I believe and the goods supplied of the first-clas

that in the whole of his works there is

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. quality, In 1984 the British engineers Having come to this point, Nishida only one reference at all to my country,

The Steamship FIUME L' were engaged in making munition: of went out on to the streets as n mendicant, and even then when using the expression war, and were unable to construct exactly like the Buddha of old, with this doubt if he associated it with the Far

FROM TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDIS), East. In fact, the only reference that

PORT SAID, SPALATÓ, ADEN, delivre any machinery. When the textile | seeption--that he added the modern know of is in Measure ler Measure

MASSAUA, COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE. machinists coasei to deliver machinery, it Christiau idea, of social service. Hence wherein the line oveurs:-" They are not was the opportunity for which Ameries he is not content 10 beg and do nothing. Chinese dishes, but very good dishes."

You will are the great thought which ia-

MONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform was waiting, and they at ones began to but works wherever be finds something dued the dramatist to pay what I have that all Goods are being landed at obtain orders in this commercial field that needs doing, preferably some dirty no doubt, was a well-deserved tribay to which hard hitherto been essentially British, manual job, like cleaning out cesspools, the excellence of the earthenware of my their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong

"Cathay."looz, Handreds of young Chinese returned to This, he says, cuinis the mind. He never native land. Nor so far as I can truce did Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., at Kow

Shakespeare ever mention If mentions Cathay." not beenuse it means

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stincts I suggest that you try and make a be subject to rent.

which kitchen seraps, he will eat them gladly, easily. If any of you have any poetic in-ve left the Godowns, and

line to rhyme with another in but will aut look upon them as wages."

From the Christian teaching he has China is the last word. On the other You adopted the idea of faith in sine higher hand, Cathay rhymes easily. power, and of prayer to it, yet his will remember that one of your living pantheistic conception of that power posts (Kipling) wrote:-- although the words might fittingly be in the mouth of Christians, have a different idea behind them.

On the road to Mandalay Where the flying fishes play."

Hs might equally have written:

"On the road to far Cathay Where the flying fishes play."

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UNITED STATES" OPPORTUNITY. This had had the result of turning the attention of the master cotton spinners to American engineering goods, and several

Nishida's ideal state of society is that' of the most prominent Chinese cotton! spinners who were, before 1914, essentially we should all eat only such food as every- uno can have, wear only such clothing as pro-British, were now all in favour of the poorest can obtain and dwell only American manufactures. The hold Asein wich houses us all may occupy. Then, rica had got on China was evidenced by he says, there would be no envy, no lust the number of spindles supplied since of possession, no garrels or wara 1915. The American shops had diyered This Japanese Buddhist Tolstoy is particularly as you will regner he goes 801,974 spindles, as against the English having a profound effect on many of the on to mention China in the concluding imports of 941,936 spindles, and this was younger generation to-day, for his own all the more striking when it was reinen-life is a very noble one. Your men aro bered that before 1014 they had had no seeking to follow it, and are putting on spindles in China. The American com-old clothes at taking on manual work 1-etition became so serious that it was sugand forsaking their previous thede of Perhaps we escape luckily. Sametimes I Letters are lying at this Office for gested in 1991 that some attempts should existence.

It would have been just is appropriate,

verars:

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gu, in my very few spare moments, "to be made to establish English Textile Col

The theatre, and it seeins to me there is leges in China, where the Chinese could

always a fancy to depict, if the play bas Le trained in English machinery and English methods. It was hoped at, the It was suggested that such an educa Far-Eastern character, a purely in-O LET-ONE FLAT, 1st Floor, Three-

189 tims that some Government gript would tignal establishment should be voted in aginary China and an equally imaginary Rooms, Modern Conveniences No.

Chinese people. Knowing the devastating Jordan Road, KorLoox. Apply, Koos Tat be given to this, but it was found that joint committee of British and Chinese, effect with which your great medial & Co., 21, Des Vaux Road Central. the British Government had not then con- and if it was necessary in the terms to dramatist employed geographical detail, templated the reversion of the Boxer In liquidate the Boxer Indemnity definitely

sufficient knowledge, bo never ANTED EUROPEAN and might be possible, if the Chinese spinners of this period the whole College would be from back of suicountry at all. Still he W CHINESE, Live, Energetic and demnity, and it was then thought that it in a certain number of years, at the end it is perhaps fortunate that, probably

the Chinese Government, and merchants, who were interested in the turned over

than the modern dramatist and the BROKERS in Hongkong and Sonth Chita question, would provide the building and by which time it would probably have could not have been more unkind to us Enthusiastic Mea, to act as INSURANCE Few writers are Apply to:-Sur LIFE ASSURANCE Co. of

[87 land, the English textile machinists wou'd done its work, f.c., would have enabled a

Thu CANADA. provide the whole machinery gratis. This large number of Chinese to be thoroughly modera film producer. proposition wag Javourably received, versed in English manufactures, would ever kind to my native country. although at the time it was considered bave filled the positions of mill managers majority are in the position of your dis-

NO LET-EUROPEAN FLATË in Los it would be a mere drop in the ocean in with British-trained, instead of American- tinguished Victorian poet, Tennyson, who comparison with what was wanted to re-trained men, and would have advertised rote:-"Better fifty years of Europe

[86 cover the Inst ground. Then came the tossery urge extent the latest mecha than a cycle of Cathay," because he had T LITRO Gap Hond. Apply

not the remotest idea what China, where

to 32, Kennedy Road. financial and trade slump in China, and nical products of Great Britain. the Chinese merchants regretfully with By sout such means only was it possible he had never beer, was like. Perhaps, drew from their proposal, as owing to the to counteract the American incursion intotherofore. in approaching Shakespeare, aid trade depression they were unable to this line of industry, which they obtained who is very widely known in the Chines put up the necessary amount of capital,during the war., Trade with China was schools and universities we can do so By this time considerable interest had of very considerable importance to Lanca under specially favourable circumstances been aroused on the question of the Boxershire, not only to the engineers, but to the for the value of his deep thought and the Indemnity, and mary letters were written cotton spinners and manufacturers as charm of his poetic expression, untrou to the British Press. When it was heard well. If the eyes of Chinese merchants bied, so far as we are concerned, by in that the British Government contemplat and manufacturers, were turned away correct historical or geographical detaile. ed earmarking the Boxer Lademnity for from the British mechanical side, and educational purposes, the scheme was they purchased their machinery in Ame again brought forward, and was enthus rica, they would also purchase auch yarns iastically received both by the Chinese and and piece goods as they required from the the British merchants in China.

same country, and not only thes", indeed, but all courmodities,

Not long since, at Lunk, in the Sun Although the counts spun in China were low ones, from 8. to 20s., average 149. archipelago, writes the Manila correspond

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Messrs. Reid Sharman and Co., solici The scheme, which would be a large Textile Educational College, wou'd cover

and the London papers that with regard to all the trades relating to textile fabrics, enerally, from their own grown cottonsent of the Times, three enterprising tors, of 52, Bedford-row, W.C., write to

mixed with Indian and Japanese grades, Moros, named Abura, Dambung.. viz., cotton spinning, weaving, dyeings for the production of coarse cloths. the Damang, stole two horses, which they the various Victory and Thrift Bond Clubs bleaching, etc, and the College would

at present in the High Court money re- ountain the most up-to-date winchinery of exporte from this country consisted mostly drove to a remote and sparsely inhabited formed by Horatio Bottomley, there is Feeling themselves secure the three presented by £20,520 Conversion stock, every British maka, driven by Britich of bettor class goods, which necessarily district. made electric motors, and furnished had to be produced from much higher throughout with all accessories, such as grade cottons than they themselves grow friends proceeded to debate upon & just hich, with a small sum in the bands of eard cans, bobbins, and so on. The staff Therefore, so far as could be at the pre-and equitable division of the spoils. Each the Receivers, is the only money available The debate became heated, and still more who have sent in claims anonating to

2781,470. out would, of course, be selected British ex-sent time. determined, there was little Moro voted himself one horse as his share. for distribution among the 88,130 claimant As it would be impracticable to subject perts as the heads, with the beat British probability of them going in for the spin heated. Finally, seeing no other trained Chinese teachers, who would be ning of such better class goods as would of it, they decided to fight it out. Each able to teach both in the English language adversely affect the experts from this man drew his kris, and the battle was all the claims to formal proot by litiga- were young and sturdy tion, and that a of and the vernacular. As aplaning district country. Any increase in the spindleage: were some distineo, Apart, there would would naturally be on the lines of estab- Mores, and in the pursuit of Lover couling all clamps would involve an expenditure had become expert in the use of a of about £3,000, and would mean a pay- have to be accommodation for at least 200 liched plants for the production of low

blade. The mult was dramatic and deci. ment to the claimants of 3d. or. 4d, in the pound, they have been instructed by two out-studenta, the day students being

The scheme outlined above would un-give, They were all killed.

their clients to apply to the court that drawn from Shanghai and district,

doubtedly have a beneficial influence on where a considerable amount of the textile all evetions of the British trade, and thus

the whole of the fund available should industry in China was situated."

they asked for the sapport of the British

be handed over to the Prince of Wales'a Hospital Fund. (Continued at foot of nezy column.) Government.

way

Shortly afterwards a Constabuarly patrol came along and recovered the two horses, which were returned to their right ful owners,