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CHINA'S RECOGNITION OF THE SOVIET. THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S
COMMUNIQUE.
The communique issued by the Chinese Foreign Office after the signature of the Agreement concluded between the Chin ese Government and the Soviet Govern ment of Russia is as follows:
CHAINS AND CELLS IN SHANGHAI,
CHINESE INSANE KEPT UNDER 18TH CENTURY CONDITIONS.
THE CANTON ARSENAL PLANT.
LOCAL SPORT.
COLF.
31r.. Eux-me Chen, whom the Canton The monthly medal competition, plasm Government has appointed a spec'al dele, ed as Fanling on th-9th June was wom
by R A. Camidge 52-3-17,
PROFESSOR BARY'S REVELATIONS, gate to deal with the Canton Arsus matter, hay ispod the following statement & very interesting lecture on Modein in refer to the explanation of the Theories of Mental Discaves in Relation | American Legation at Peking on the sub to their Treatment " was given by Prof.ject:-
part :-
The winner of the pool (8 entries) wast F. G. Walker 59-102.76.
:
STEVENSON'S LAST MATCH.
AT THE RACES..
A Sino-Itussian Agreement and DeBary at the Royal Asiatic Society's Hall, the America "legation would re 1 Stevenson ex-billiarde clarations were signed at the Waichianpu in Shanghai, on June 3rd. He said in direct its attention to the communique champion--of-England, will play, his last' at 11 am today (May 31st) by Dr.
issued by my Government, it would se match in the Colony on Thursday night. Wellington Kon, Chinese Minister of
Quite recently paycho-pathology began that the Arms Embargo pact was advisely but the EA.S.MA Club, when in meets Affairs, on behalf of the Chinese Govern ment, and Mr. M. L. Karakhan, tha to follow quite a new path; aliénists now | referred to therwins the soleiled Arms C. Earnshaw, who receives 250 in:100:
Mr.. 11 W. Stevenson played at the Soviet Extraordinary Plenipotentiary"; on behalf of the Union Soviet Socialist are not on the search for new morbid | Embargo Agreement and that the co Republie After the signing of these symptoms, they are not heaping up new munique concluded in the sense that the Hongkong Chil, last night, lub to these documents, "the Plenipotentiaries ex- liseuss which they are unable to put sale of the grins plant by an America Kämes the Press were not invited. changed felicitatis, un the re-establish- in good classified order, but their atten-national in China would involves an ment is normaal relations between Thinati in attracted by quite different mat-American beach of the pæet not as re and C.8.5.R
gards China but only, shade the other"] Just before the fourth race on Monday parties thereto, The suggestion that the a gentleman was seem to hurry to the
not an agreement is surely tring with the dog in his arms... pinet en self denying ordinance and main entrance to the course with pet
meaning of words. I may observe, that] Sorry, sir,” said, the N.C.O, om duty the phrase" gef-denying ordinance is at the gate, bat am not allowed to
let your bring a dog inside." not a term of art in diplomines.
A regard the plant it
be carried protested the man.
But it is only a little thing,, and can state that I have informed the endors
Can't help it, si returned the that while (n) I and they know that the Chem's my orders. Four of American Government cannot well inter our fellows have already got the pack of rene on their behalf in view of the arm this job threagh letting dogs in. Embargo past and (b) the plant being on Chinese territory, in
be taken posseR= can s'ch of a Chinese Government property at any time. Dr. Sun Taten wishes to have the matter, settled on fair and just! terms. Negotiations on this lasts ant now proceding with the vendors."
These grecarats and declarations ters Freud's psycho-analysis greatly en embody the principles which are to guide lightened modern psychologs and the pro the lature relations between China, and
gress in the study of inner segretion led the ...R., and, in defining these print attention to the gland activities in ciples special care was taken to confine all the provision to the rights and relation to the brain. Much stress wha tertats of the two contracting parties, Ittaid on the study of personality and is satisfactory to observe that th agreements at a declarams were workharacter, that a new science is arising ed out with entire freedom on both sides. |--the so-called chareterology-and it can Exeliange of views whinh had taken be shown that the peculiarities of each plass between the Soviet Mission and character and each personality, corres the Waichiaopat extended over a month. as a result of which fall agreements were pond to certain peculiar morbid mental reached on all points discussed. Soonynstoms, and that the peculiarities of these the character are bidden, shuubering, after signatures wire, affixed documents. the Waichinopu delivered to morbid features which develop ia mental the Mr. Karakhan a Note for the immediate diseases. The mental diseases are re-establishment of normal relations. * reactions of the "more or less, morbide The seven Declarations consist of three character to the struggles of life and to contained in the Wang-Karakhan Agree the harmful infimeves of environment. ment which were not altered. The first The reaction of a healthy person to the is comparatively unimportant. It refers exhaustion caused by physical and mental to the employment of Russians on the day-work is a sound sleep, the reaction Chinese Eastern Railway. The seconil of a person in a morbid condition might deals with the enncellation of Russian be quite different, resulting in excite- Extraterritoriality in China. These two ment and insoumit. The reaction to remain unaltered. The third provides alcoholic intoxication, in healthy persons for the restoration to the Soviet Govern has been known froin time immemorial ment of all forner Russian Government According to an apocryphal tale of the property such as the Legation in Peking Talmud, Noah when first planting the and the Consulates throughout China, vine fertilized the soil with the blood but not including the Russian Concessions of a sheep, a lion, a monkey and a pig, at Tientsin and Harkow. The fourth, indicating that the drinken man is at dealing with Russian Church Property brst docile like a sheep, then brave like represents an alteration of the former a lion, then foolish like a wonkey and agreement and is given in full as follows: finally lies unconsciously in the dirt like
n pig.
DECLARATION.
stun.
!.
TWO GREAT GRDUTS.
I may
-- EUGENE CHEN.”
THE OPTIMTIST. »
Preuching at St. Paul's Cathedral. recently, Dean There, who is often tre verently designated The Gloomy Dean,' said: In a world where good and evil nearly balance each other, optimista wyd pessimists are both foolish people. The optimist is a barometer which bas stick at Set Fair. the passimist one which has stuck at "Stormy."
THE FAT AND THIN
What is now found out by"scientific investigation was long ago noticed by folklore. In the people's mind the devil is slender and has a pointed ching the old witch has a lean bird's far, saints are represented as fine, transparent. longlimbed figures. Where there are merry folks, there appears stout Falstaff
Let me have men about me that
fat,
But its not really dog," replied the man, anxious to see the fourth rare.
N.C.. What is it, then?
alar:
it's a China pony.. SCO: Garn, that ain't a Chi ponyt
"Well" rejoinded the man, realising. that his passage with the t was com pietely Barred, "what is a China peng !” After which né strude triumphantly
MWIN
CANTON POLITICS. THE VACANT GOVERNORSHIP
- A corespondent forward-us the Fulian ing:--
A group of labour leaders from Can- to approached Mr. Hin Wong, the Chi- e jouruilst banished from Canton by Dr. Sun Yet recently, at Mano last Satriny, asking his consent to having his nume ned in a popular agitation in favour of appointing the next Chutoa evil govorior by popular nomination. Mr. His Wong is underwent have des lined al offers, atiating that he is going abroad and that he will work fag Canton only through newspaper netëvitim and segial service organizations,
"It appears that a certain gup of labour leaders are diseased with the pre sent controlling group who are too much under the indues of the politic aus and that a standard bearer is being sought to Brad an independent labour movement. It sems to be the opinion of a certain group
tag will make
Stockhead men and such as sleep that, Mr. Hin Weng
Ra graduate of an,
The Goverment of the Republic of
Modern alienists reject the old classi China and the Government of the Enion of Suvies Socialist Republies Ecation of mental diseases practically hereby declare that it is understood with the exception of the organic lesions that with regard to the buildings and of the brain, and some maior sections. landed
the Eussian admit only two great groups of mental of property Orthodox Mission belonging as it does diseases-the so-called shyzophrenia and to the Government of the U.S.S.R. the the maniacal depressive psychosis. The question of the transfer, or other suit features of the first consist in balli
tions, delusions, censionally cataleptic, able disposal of the same will be jointly determined at the Conference provid-symptoms, negativism, etc, and gen ed in Article 11 of the Agreement ou rally, though by no means always General principles, in accordance with progressive mental decay. The latter The devil and virtue mast have a thin the internal laws and regulations exist: offers in the first line alternative changes Dose, and good humnar a thick sue. ing in China regarding property-hold of temper: that is to say, there exists Shakespeare the fine observer, has put in the infants regards the periodical excitement followed by depres-people's wisdom in the well-known res of Julius Caesar, chosen by Kret asian Orthodox Mission belonging as
Kretschmer found out that in most it does to the Governnient of th
cases each of these groups has a peculiar schmer for a motto of his book BAS.R. at Peking d Patachn, the Chinese Government will take steps to body constitution. In spzophrenia the inmediately transfer same as soon as muy constitution presets the so-called the Government of the U.S.S.A. will astenic typ. tall imividuitis, « with thin narrow shoulders. flat chest, a designate a Chinese person or organi sation, in accordance with the laws and slender face and delimate features
poor of the site of Canten. Mr. Wong fegulations existing, in China regarding may be observed that the sanic constita- tion offers Patients suffering from con-
He thinks too much; such men are was one general superintendent of the property-holding in the inland,
dangerous.
government homes for the gi men and Meanwhile the Government of the sun fron, which so often occurs in altyzo
women and the blind and infirm in Republic of China will at once take phrenics Other shyzophrenics belong to
of Canton measures with a view to guarding all the athletic type, with broad shoulders,
Cty. He was some chief of Dr.
Sun's for department the said buildings and, property and
ed muscles. The patients with maniaco of the brain is finished; the activities of time a clearing them of all the persons, nos
anit erliter fairs intelligence offic", depressive, psychosis offer the "penie "
many glands of the pluriglandular end-ofading Canton newspapers. He w living there.
It is further understood that this type-individuals with great body cavities erine system are the workers in main- expression of understanding has the head, chest and abdenien), fat accumu-taining mental health and in producing at one time head of the villages in Intions on the trunk and comparatively mental diseases. Adopting this stand his district. One time he was secretary same force and validity as a general siender muscles. We see, this classifien-point we must also admit the conse
to a governor and a colonel in a military Before he was banishest declaration embodied in the said Agrection, has a resemblance with the "type"
quences in relation to treatment. Chief Hawror's staff.
from Canto two werkt ago. he was ment on General Principles.
of the French anthers-type cereben, attention must be paid to the possibility Frater errepondent, Frexing Star v The fifth Declaration deals with the digestif, musculaire, respiratoire, Accord of altering the troubles of inner ser te leuler of the boy scout mowmrat, Russian portion of the Boxer Indemnity ing to the observations of Kretschmer, tion in a favourable manner. In the first member of the playgrounds committer. in the following terms:-
Among 175 patients suffering place there must be avoided all conditions English secretary to overal labour mark
the which may induce changes of inner svern-
trade guilds, and prison inspector for 5 tion-all intoxication, infection, meta- Dr. San's attorney-general."
It
o' nights.
American univerity and has also been You Cassius has a lean and migry friendly to the labouring interest and the
look.
Many a kingdom is replaced by à re-
un athletic chest and beautafully develop | publie and in psychology the autocracy of men and chici of the department of
from
The Goverment of the Republic of shy phrenia, belonged to Chim and the Goverment of the asthenie and athletic type: from
... jointly declare that it is patients with maniaco depressive "ps-holic troubles, etc. Then, as we know
to chosis 72 were pycnics, erstood that with reference Articls. NL of the Agreement on General Principles :--
xion
PERSONALITY AND ENVIRONMENT. The morbid conditions are only exagge- rations of the normal character; the peculiarities are, so to say, increased in
Linner heretion is mostly affected by emotions, the latter also must be eliminat- ed.
+
HOSPITAL CHAOS.
PREMIER ON THE NEED OF FORMS. "
Our hospital system-il such a chaos as now exists, can be dignified by such A title-has been, and still remains, symptom of our adequate civic ore ganisation la intention it typifies thes
heartedness of our people; in ex- emplifies the co-operation of hand, am Iain workers in the work of the world for which our ovennent stands; but in effect it falls Ez abort of the achieve ~ menty that it keenest friends and supporters desire.
CONDITIONS IN SHANGHAS 1.-The Russian share of the Boxer Indemnity, which the Government of
Let us are now what are the condi the USSR renounces, will after the
A letter from the Prime Minister. satisfaction of all prier obligations the sense of a caricature. In other words, tions in Shanghai. For the Europeans
read at a conference at Caxton Hall, Secured thereon, be entirely appro- the niental disrake is a changed reaction there exists the so-called mental ward of
Though Westininster, organised by the Labor printed to create a fund for the ednu personality to the environment. The the Victoria Nursing "Home.
quality depends upon whether the per from the modern standpoint, it is not Party, of hospital, medical, Labour and 'cation among Chinese people.
ideal, yet, thanks to the endeavuar of 2-A Special Commission will be sonality any turn in a shazuphrenia or a established to administer and allocato maniaco-depressive psychosis. Kritseliner a gond trained staff, imodern treatment kiired organisations to discuss the box". the aid fund. This Commission will terus the Brst shy zochytric or shyzoids; of mental disease may be performed pital problem, stated :-- consist of three persons, two of whom the scorul cyclothymic or eyelids., Shy according to the above mentioned will he appoisted by the Government zida are not fond of society: only seldom views. On the contrary, for the Chinese of the Republic of China and one by they have a friend with similar felina population there does not exist any in- the Government of the Republic of tions or are members of a chosen cirrle.stitution that in the least might remind The utinest contrast is offered by the one of a mental hospital and the state Chin and one by the Government of the U.S.S.R. Decisions of the said Com- staut, fat jyenic eyeloids-they are every of,things in this relation is literally the man's friends, kind-hearted, responding same us it used to be in Europe in the raission will be ananimous yote.
3-The said fund will be deposited as to jokes, taking life as it is, always in 48th century. I have seen Chinese insane it neernes from time to time inn bank the society of merry fellows, and sociable patients in two plaers. The one was a As a good made of many examples | Cantonese "hospital" in the Settlemen to be designated by the said commis given by Kretschmer among poets, where the patients were chained to the pity to hear their It is further understond that this authors, statesmen philosophers and floor and it was expression of understand has the same scientists, I will only nication two très constant prayers.to free them from their force and validity as a general de tors of how religions-Luthor and Calvin chains A year ago, na my" proposal, claration, embodied in the said agree The pynie and eyeloid Luther was ob- the Shanghai Medical Sneinly approach aged to leave the pastery, an his joyfuled the Municipal Council to abolish suck anent on gaberal principles The Seventh Ceclaration, was the first temperment was quite able to bear worthy conditions, but as far as I know. point China raised in these later nege the severe seclusion; but as a sociable, nothing has been changed. The ther liations. It covers Article 1 of the Wang kind-hearted fellow he took alsa," perhaps place in the Native City. There the Komkban Agreement. It says the Gov during a slight hypemania, the opporta patients are not chuined to the floor, but erament of the China ned, the Govern-nity to free his countrymen from their they are shut up in mall cage-like cells ment of the U.S.5.R. jointly declare yoke, but he did not despise life, as in with thick: iron bare, resembling the that it is understood with reference to shown by his fieraan verse of wine ages of wild beasts in a zoological On the contrary, the garden. Many of the patients also ure. Article 4 of the Agreeinent on General wife and song." Principles, the Government of the Re-asthenic phyzoid Calvin, founded his re handcuffed. In such circumstances there public of China will not and does not ligion as a necessary system which he purennnot be the Icast pexibility of a stien recognise as valid any treaty, agreement, sued to the least detail with the whole fe treatment and thus many Chinese etc., concluded between Russia since the obstinacy of the shroud charmetery so citizens who could be eure and return, Tsarist regime any third party or parties, that life in Geneva by its castere paritato social life are condemned to remaiji affecting the sovereign rights and internism resembled a monastery; it was only for ever prisoners in a barbarian.state. este of the Republic of China. It is natural that the unweinble Calvin in hisIt would be of great importance and a further understood that this expression inflexible straightness burnt to death on work of real humanity if the China Ho of understanding has the same force and the pile his ill-fated rival, Hichel Bereicty of Science and Arta would take the
lead in trying to create in Shanghai validity as the declaration embodied in vet
on next enluma.)
modern mental hospital for the Chinese, (Continued the said agreement on general principles.
Perding the day when the country becomes mere fully aware of the neck for prevention the prevention of des. titution asal disense-we cannot start idly by and allow our curative centres to suffer from neglect. The time has come low a survey of the whole fiel of hospital activity:" for a fer reali sation of the art that medient men and nurses, hospital managers and ad- ministrators, play in the life of thes prople, and above all for the devising of ways and means wherchy the greas services thus rendered may be pursued free from the unhealthy methods by to seek france in these latter days. which some of our hospitals have had Viscount Knutsford, chairman of Lon don Hospital. stated that an inquiry of all the hospitals showed that 43 per cent. of the patients were so poor that they old pay anything towards the cost of. their treatment,
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