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RETURN TO GOLD.
LORD MILNER'S APPEAL MR. WALTER LEAF'S' SUGGESTION:
The following letter from Lord Milner The Westminster Bank's Repice "for has appeared in the London papers:-
June contains an article by Mr. Walter Appeals made through the columns of Leaf on the question. of the gold stand- the Press to the generosity of the British ard, extricts from which are given be
low:--
OLD CHINA.
LANDSLIP REVEALS MASS OF
A BURIED CITY.
RITUAL TREASURES.
NEW TRADE PORTS.
| JAPANESE ÅSK FOR FULFILMENT OF PROMISE.
The Japanese Legation has communi- ented with the Foreign Offer on the sub-
WAMOLITO-IN "THE OUTLER"]ject of the opening of certain cities along Old China is the treasure seeker's'next the Tsinau Tsingtao Railway in Shan- The recent report of the Advisory fold, how that Egypt is härred, and Yuca- tong a opin porta for foreign trade. Council to the Federal Reserve Board of
public are so numerous that it is only after serious consideration, and with n deep sense of the importante of the ob the United States has attracted well-de- tan and Nineveh are under local govern During the Sino-Japanese discussion of jeet, that I venture to add one more served attention, chiefly because it seems rest boards. Dazzling things have been Shantung at the time of the Washington to their number, But the institution for to be directed to a policy aimed at brought in every cargo fram Hongkong Conference, the matter of opening up
taking advantage of the Dawes Report in which I plead is, I am profoundly can order to supplant the prund sterling by these seventy years, and every greater cities along the "railway was brought up vinced, of great value to the whole Ear the dollar as the basis of international museum and collection has had its share by the Japanese but the Chinese did no pire, and ons which had a real claim on all those interested in the development, of our Imperial resources.
dad.
dnance. 、
It cannot be denied that there is here them, but they are emparatively consider it a proper subjee: to be dis a. serious challenge to the international modern, most not more than five hun-cussed them, since they said it was a position of the pound sterling. It may died. years old. Treasures of the older mattor entirely within the competence of be urged that hitherto the pot civilisation regain heyond any eurator's the Chinese Government. spite of the depreciation from which it
',
It is the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture recently established in Trini has long suffered, has held its own dreams, to be dug for almost for the usk- After the signature of the Agrevinënt. against the dollar, and that. London is at ing. On the hinder boundary of the em- the Chinese Legation in Washington in least mach the centre of
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international For years past there has been great fangs now, as it was before the war. pire, where the desert begins, there are February, 1954, made the public an- need, in the British tropics, of at insti-London, no doubt, holds its place because wante, vities under, the stimis, of the rouncement that in view of the settle- tutica equipped as the best and more of its commercial relations, so widely archaic times before the invasions, which ment of outstanding questions relative to
throughout the world: whereas recent of mir" University laboratories are, America, which made a bid for similar the excavations of Sir Aurel Stein and Shaftung, and for the purpose of pro-
Sprend where research in tropical agriculture relations after the war, has practically his followers have only began to scratch moting international trade, the Chinesis could be carried on, and where men could abandoned the competition; and it mayThe restless air and the solitudes are be true that, until the United States
Government is contemplating carrying receive a thorough scientific training in enn hold their own in world trade, they keeping them safe for the archaeologists into effect, in the near future, its inten- the various branches of the subject he cannot seriously think of supplanting the ret to be, hoys yet and dreaming perhaps tion to open, of its own accord, certain
pound by the dellar. "fore becoming planters or directors of
of the insignificant hoards of Captain suitable cities along the Tsingtao- But a new prospect is opened up by the plantations, or entering (iavernment seri
Kidd
Where are the caches of Genghis Tsinanfu Railway as self-opened ports Dawes Report Germany is not only to view in the Agricultural Departments of be put upon a gold basis and strictly Khan and his successors of the Golden to the trade and residence of the our numerous tropical Colonies.
kept there; but she is to be stimulated Horde! And those of the mighty pre-nationals of all Treaty Powers under re- an enormous expansion of exports, Christian Emperors and cities as old as gulations. "to e promulgated by the The Imperial College is thus not an
Auch
will put E2.4
her in the first place institution of merely local importaner, among the nations engaged in world com- time- that preceded the Mongol, through Chinese Toverulent? It is intended to serve all our tropikaltion between the dollar and the gold Chinese first trade routes passed? The out that nothing had been done toward merce, The possibilities of a combina whose hands all the wealth of the Greek The Japanese communication pointed possessions, and is started on Hors which.
mark, between the credit resources of the porcelains, the bronzes, the jewels and the opening these cities and reiterated the given adequate support, will enable it United States, on the one hand and Ger-vories and the painted manuscripts, in desine that the Chinese intention be put.. to carry out this comprehensive scheme. aan enterprise and world commerce onstrange tongues, we have reenvered, are hito offret as soon as possibles. On its governing body there are repres regarded without anxiety, so long as in the remute provinces of China; even failure to carry out the previous, ag
form a prospect which cannot nothing to what remains laid up there, Chinese officials in commenting on this sentatives of the Universities of Cam: the pound is depreciated in the exchange the forty six cases of scrolls in unknowa noundement before this time, explain bridge and Glasgow, of the Imperial markets of the world. To put it plainly script that Stein brought back, and this that it complexity of problems in Shan- College of Science and Technology, of the depreciated pound would be squeezed the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the out of worid finance between the two gallery of delights" of the Wannieck Estung has tencted against the scheme, be
gold currencies, the dollar, and the edition, now on view in the Cereuschi caring effective-Chung Mei. great
should mark. In self-defence forced on to a gold basis for the pound.
that we shodld face the sitantion soon.
Empire Cotton Growing Corporation, and
te
the
We
Museur Paris, are only samples of what' is in store. They excite us with their vague promise of other ntiarvellous
the British Cotton Growing Association whether we wished or not. Is it not time legacies, other Pompeiis, richer Ninevehs, strong legs, a laughing horse. Another
Its staff consists of well-qualified Profes sors of Entoriology, Mycology, Bacteri ology, Botany, Genetics, Chemistry, Soil Serence, Agriculture Economics, and Sugar Technology. Its present. Principal is Sir Francis Watts, whose life-long ser vices to tropical agriculture are well kucwn to all scientists. When he retires,
end
vi. this year, he will be sur ceeded by an equally eminent man of setencer Martin Leake, who has had exceptional experience in India. Egypt. and the Soudan.
at
the
and take steps for restoring our parity of exchange in our own time!
A RISK IN BANK RATÈ
stranger Valleys, of Kings, like the sculp
tusk that Salvation Yeo brought back from the Spanish Main.
is a fish, Foldess of mermaid, with sulky fired lips." In a courtyard he found a Impérial howl, the tint of ripe grapes. This Cernuschi Exhibition shows the From a huried garden he brought a foun- We have hitherto been clinging to a Ginds of three nien: Wannicek, the French tain, a carved lotus of aloof beauty in policy of Wait and see in the belief archeologist; those of Doctor Sive of the pink-grey granite, with a name and thats the accumulation of gold in America University of Stockholm, inninly statues verse, seribed in the Sutra script. A would inevitably bring about some inde- and temple decorations: those of Majer palette of rose clay, for ground ink, in tion on the other side of the Atlantic; Lartigues, Fragments of tomb sculpture. the shape of a tortoise without its upper it was clear that a very little inflation Wandleek has been at work since the war, shell, in whose complete simplicity are there, if not followed up on this side through had times in Chinese history, preserved all the secrets of design. In would serve at once to restore the parity. He has been far in the bandit count aquamarine glaze, gurins of ladies with The British Government has given the But the United States have so fir clung and he has had wonderful fuck. He had lambs, sitting rosa-legged. Their chig
all the marked down the buried city of Chu-Lou- nons are done up in lovers' knots, and five years, and the Caribbean Colonies surplas geld of the world and are ecntributing Überally to its support, zing" it, so that it should have no cllect tion of and from the Yellow River, in leaves. This was arubaic China, menter assuring it of a permanent incomoe of bein. "The sig
expansion 23.an
urrency. There is.
no1110 A.D. The day that he arrived and to us than much later stuff. and than the tween 2150,000 and £20.000 a year
sign at present of a reversal of this was ready to go down into the trenches out-of-date work of our own artists twenty Colony of Trinidad bas provided it free attitude. The report of the Advisory that peasut diggers had prepared, they years ago. For good art is always of east wit an ideal site of 85 ergs in Council assumes that there will be no brought him news that a landslip on modern: it is the empty ingenuity of had extent, and given it a grust of £50.000
periods that ages. All these treasures
College a grant of £15,000, spread over rigidly to their policy of takin sterili- Sign, that was overwhelmed in an inunda round their necks are collars of large
of
Thanks to this assistance and the reversal, and seeks an outlet for the use Mount Ho-Chen near by had revealed ai
onege
+ pro-
commerco and
asity has been enabled to make
Rood
start Though as yet only housed in visional building, it has a considerable member of students coming frem widely separated part of the Empire. Five of its students, after a year's intensive train- ing at the College, have already been #ppointed
posts under the Empire s Cotton Gro
Corporation in Nyasa Shipley, who recently visited the Coliere for saying that, in its organization and in the range of the insitruction it pro- vides, it is unique in the British Em Tire un School of Tropical Science.
land and
of a few private donors, the of American gold reserves in Earop mз of ritual treasures, offered, to the inre perfumed with humanity, any one of It may well he that we may carry our spirits of the mountain, one of those five them would sweeten the whole life of a waiting policy too far.
sacred in old China, by the Emperor Tsin- possessor, unless he were blind and deaf. *There remains an alternative Che-Hong-Ti. Two priceless pieces of They come from a world, different in its which woul
woukh to all appearance, bring his trove belonged to this mountain picturesque trappings, its wise_old_gar- about the des red end with fairness to shrine. One, a round bronze pot with a deuers, its caravans of herce Turcoman all and a minimum of disturbance to
cast frieze of figures, with three pointed kuights, fantastic Syrian monks of the". This is an in- industry. crease of the Bank rate to 5 per cent patina of blue. It was in its making a
feet, is coated by time with an exquisite Nestorian sect, and trade în strange stuffs from our modern material of life, but possibly supported, if thought necessary. by an increase in the interest ulicred satisfaction for the eyes: damp centuries intimately familiar in its essence to our the banks on foreign deposits to, say, 31 in the cliff hollow have embellished it dreams. For the supreine fascination of per cent. The rise in the rate should be with a tint that is one of the unattain such marvellous finds as Waunieck's, and entable colours of nature, like the back of Carter's, and Layard's, in spite of the accompanied l an explicit announcement that it expressed a definite policy on the scarabeus the breast of a humming bashful veil of history and science part of this country, and that it was our bird. No enamel in the world is the equal the archeologists draw over them, is that intention to return to a gold basis. now of this rusted pot. In the same glass at any moment may appear, from the There can be fittle doubt that these showense is the chief piece in the collee layers of our rich earth, stuffed down to measures, taken in connection with the tion. It is a sacrificial bull, the length ber tertiary strata with relics of other fall of the Federal Reserve rate now in of the hamsl, spotted with gold, with a ages, the furniture and clear evidence of progress in America, world bring about splash of blue pating, not the ethereal Golden Age to comfort us. They are parity by sure and curtain steps, possibly blue of the pot, but the colour at the base rediscovering the Islands of the Blessed. much sooner than most people are at pre-of a flame. The ball is lying with three Each of the greater fields revenis a civil- sent willing to expect.
I have the authority of Sir Arthur
£100.000 REQUIRED.)..
But further assistance on a substantial scale is required to enable the College adequately to fulfil its Imperial functions. Funds are urgently needed for the com- plevion and equipment of the new build. lngs and laboratories now in course construction, and also to provide for the establishment of as Instructional Sugar Factory, towards which the Sugar Mach inery
Engineers of England and Scotland contributed apparatus of the value £20,000.
of
no
but
CINEMA
NOTES.
that
legs bent, the fourth thrust out in frontisation and a time more beautiful, more in ritual posture, waiting for the knife. desirable than our wil This world of So it must have appeared to the Emperor Old China, set against even the supremio kneeling on his woven carpet, before the elegance of Tutankhamen's Egypt, is grotto in the sacred cliff. The maker of this little masterpiece only in the line of the back and the poise has put all the fat rich weight of the beast.
'HENDARDS OF RARITIES 1
especially delectable. Its ornaments in this exhibition fit into the amiable vision. that Arthur Waley in his translations of the ancient Chinese poets has already prepared, of life in gardens, where every thing in the houses was as situple and
THE WORLD THEATRE. The World Theatre is now showing a The total sum still required for all the picture in nine reels beautiful beyond Bercury purposes is £100.000. This praise. It is based on a famous romance From the buried city Wannieck has beautiful as the trees. Our own age will
gure, put up in the hope of by Victor Marguesite, adapted to the brought hundreds of rarities a cluster Perhaps one-half or one-quar screen by Armand Du Plessy. The reenes of porcelain beauties, fixed in attitudes years, even if swaddled in preserving mu
not leave any such trace. In a thousand ter of the stum asked for. It is based on of the Cafe de Paris show the City of of dance; a bronze pig, with blue flowers our fragile leagues of railway will be a. careful calculation of the cost of real Smiles alive with great splendour. The on his fat, as if tattooed; howls, jars, ratted away, the brittle detail of our essentials £100.000 may seem a large Cafe Napolitan, the Vaudeville, both vases, as thin as shells, coloured as ten- achines be quite corroded. Even in our is not large in view of the famous palaces of joy, are seen. With derly as the inside of a plover's en own times, our possessions have a short sum, magnitude of the enterprise, or of the im. mense benelite which, if effectively care of elegant and beautiful women whose There is a teapot, in the shape of a Bul- life, and end unnoticed. Who knows what
movements are full of art and charm... ried out, it is bound to confer, both upon.
dhist lotus, with a cynical little puppy happens to those of our masterpieces, our our tropical Colories and the Mother.
on top, milk coloured. A heal of some automobiles, after their ten years us? Country. It becomes mora
great lord or robber, bearded and purple The other day, in a country fair in the . every year how vital to our own welfare necessary to make it completely efficient lipped, his black hair in the form of a centre of France, I found the cagine of is the development of the great natural will be obtained from the great number Asistic mitre, the vision of the vigour of the ear that won the Paris-Milan, race in resources of these Colonies. Our depen of wealthy firms and companies, and pow- the senses. In these first diggings the 1910, clattering round to drive a noisy which are direct explorer found inany tiled roofs, and roundabout. With all our wonders, wa stantly increasing, and the expan
expansion of ly interested in
apparent
dence upon them for raw materials is con erful trade tierprise, or in faienee gargoyles of the rain gutters. One will leave less of ourselves and our strange
trade between them and us-a trade of trale with the tropics. But apart from is a green horse, sitting up on its thick times for the excavators of the future unmixed advantage to both part
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crct beating, on empties has appeals to material interest. Fait too
prosperity
end much to hope that the imagination of in Grent
Britain. But there some rich and public spirited men will Tio. menns of increasing
that trade so be fired by the thought of doing a big certain as the application of science to thing for science and for the Empre tropical agriculture. Large sums have "At the instancy of the Colonial Ofice a been subscribed in recent years, with Committee has been set up of which I almost incredibly beneficial results, to sustain the
the faht which men like Ross and hove the honour to be Chairman-te raise Manson have
the £100,000 so urgently needed. - 'By ap successfully waged against tropical diseases. But for the progress pealing in the first instance to a Fmited of the tropical Colonies the fight against number of persons, of whose sympathy diseases of plants is no than that against human dess important we felt assured, we have already obtain
ported contributions amounting to nearly one case, as in the other, the battle 14.000. But this only represents a very of those who can rea an only be won by the weapons of small science. The College of Tronical Agricul sonably be
to take
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