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{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE PANAMA GOLD.

TIMES WARNING TO UNIN

FORMED PUBLIC."

THE MOROCCAN WAR. FRANCO-SPANISH PEACE CONDITIONS.-

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 13m,

Paris, April 12th. Preparations for the 'ppening of the Moroccan prace negotiations are rapidly pushing on,,M. Painleve conferred yes- terday with Signor Olivan, the bead of the Spanish delegation.

The French delegation. headed by General Simon, are to go to Madrid to-

LONDON, April 12th. The Timer City Netes, commenting on the Panama Corporation prospectas, remarks the work done by the Vendor Company of Central America Explora-morrow with Signay Olivar en raste for tion Consolidated. Limited, in develop Ujda, where they are expected on Fri- ing the concessions seems very little for day. the £1,000,000 shares of the Panama

Corporation which Vendors receive. The engineery employed refers, to minerai deposits of various kinds, but does not mention the Vendor Company having ob tained output. The engineer also states in one area there are no roads, and the country a practically uninhabited

The Times adds "There may be gold in large quantities in Panama), but in their present state, the concessions are obviously more suited to exploitation hy a private syndicate of experts than by the general investing and uninformed public. Only investors with money to burn should subscribe to this issue."

MUSSOLINI IN AFRICA. GIVEN, A GREAT RECEPTION AT``

TRIPOLI

TRIPOLI, April 12th. Signer Mussohní received a mest stir- ring welcome on landing. from the battle ship Carour. Ships in the Harbour thundered salutes, "bands "played and troops presented arms.

The Mayor of Tripoli made a cordial speech of welcome in Arabic. Mussolini then, on horseback, reviewed the troops, including the Libyan Eritrean contingents It was a mest imposing spectacle. Musso.

lini was enthusiastically cheered by the large crowd.

After this Mussolini gave a speech to the crowd in the Central Square, saying their noble and mighty King, Victor Emanuel, who was blessed by God and loved by all his people, had sent him to

It is reported from a native source

from Fez that Abd el Krim has ordered his forces to maintain a strict defensive.

According to Le Matin, the Franco- Spanish peace conditions include com- pulsory disarmament of the rebel tribes men, and supervision of any armed militia maintained by the Riffs in the future, submission to the Sultan, and, if possible, the removal of Abd el Krim from the country with suitable compen- sation.

FLIGHT TO THE POLE. AIRSHIP NORGE" ARRIVES IN

ENGLAND.

The airship Vorge, piloted by Major Scott who twice crossed the Atlantic in the R.3, landed safely at Palham at 5.30 this afternoon. He is expected at Spitzbergen on April 20th..

LATER.

The hundreds of groundamen ut Pulham resembled children chasing n derelict air balloon na the Norge re- peatedly approached the white signal patch on the ground.

It overshot the mark, and had to manoeuvre in wide circles. Occasionally the men seizing the ropes "were lifted in the air six or seven feet before releasing their hold and it was over two hours before the airship was secured and shepherded to her hangar.

The Norge necomplished her, non-stop fight in thirty hours and the fuel would have insted another eight hours The engineers are satisfied with the airship's hehaviour and ability to perform the Polar trip

BAGHDAD FLOODS.

CITY'S SITUATION GROWING WORSE. HOURLY.

BAGHDAD, April 12th Many well-dressed native gentlemen are doing hard manual work for the first remainder of the population to stem the flow of water.

FAR

EASTERN CABLI

NEWS,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE SITUATION AT PEKING.

NO REPLY FROM WU PEIFU.!

PERINO, April 12tb.

HONGKONG UNIVER

SITY'S CLAIMS.

CASE FOR BOXER "INDEMNITY COMMISSION.

TWO PRACTICAL SCHEMES.

[BY A CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] Up to this evening Marshal Wu Pel Fu

Among the more recent claims for the had not replied to the Knominchan's invitation to him to come to Peking. use of at least a portion of the British The coup d'etat, which was evidently Boxer Indemnity, which Lord Willing engineered without his knowledge, is don and his Commission are now con- now seen as a desperate hid for bis sup-sidering at Shanghai, are those from the port on the part of the Kadminchun College of Agriculture of the South- leaders who are hard pressed on all sides

and obviously near the end of their

tether...

Prodigious efforts. are still being made to secure admittance to the upch fold, and delegates have been sent to Pactingfu

to interview General Chin-Yun Ao.

FOUR KILLED IN BOMBING RAID

some

"mutual

Eastern University, Nanking. The pro- motion of Chiness agriculture, however, is not the best use to which the Boxer money could be put, even though it might help to bring about beneat to both countries. And yet such claims are bound to occupy a prominent piace in the deliberations of the Com-. Four Chinese were killed and ning in-mission for the simple reason that they jured by five hombe dropped by a Chinese are advanced by an educational in Allied aeroplane attempting to demolish stitution which is purely Chinese." the Railway Station.

Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, chief of the American Asiatic expedition, narrowly escaped injury.

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PERING, April 12th.

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THE CHINA ASSOCIATION. LORD SOUTHBOROUGH ELECTED

PRESIDENT.

LONDON, April 12th. Lord Southborough has been elected Presidrat of the China, Association.,

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As yet it is not definitely known in what direction the money will be exprad- ed: but there can be no doubt that the remission will be to the mutual advan tage of China and Great Britain, and that the claims of education will be duly respected. What appears to be a tragedy in this connection is the manner in which have been ignored in China. Indeed, it is the claims of the Hongkong University safe to assert that in certain quarters our University is still regarded with animesity.

TRAINING MEN AND GENTLEMEN.

And yet the Hongkong University does not represent British propaganda in any sense; nor is it an institution with any political or

religious complexion. Its honesty of purpose, for which no pub- licity is desired, will always remain as solid as it has been since the foundation of the University. Secondly, it bears for China a silent but sincere good-will. What China needs most is not scholars training men and gentlemen of the type but men, and it is on the importance of represented by Cardinal Newman that. the University emphasises. If the British Boxer Indemnity Commissioners, Chinese friendship, should they not sup- therefore, really aim at promoting Anglo

port an Institution which already has that for one of its ideals? Should they not consider rather the ideals and as pirations of an institution than the geographical situation in which it is placed?

On the University's legitimate claim for a portion of the Indemnity, the former Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Brunyate, wrote at length to the Chair- MAN of the London Consulting Com- mitter, Sir Charles Addis. Since then, up hope in the matter, and now the Faculty of Arts is preparing to put two schemes before the Commission. One of them coincides with the proposal made by H.E.

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"POPULARISING" THE CHINESE

LEAGUE

DIET AND HEALTH.

THE VALUE OF FASTING. Dr. Ma Shih, of the Peking National University, has attempted to unify the

Lecturing for the People's League of dialects by popularising the Chinese Health or The Nature and Purpose of language and introducing an extensive Food, Professor Leonard Hill said that element of colloquialism. This modera there was not only no advantage in over- language and literature," as it is known, eating, that was, in taking mors food shorn of all artificialities and obscurities, of good quality than the fuel value need- has found innumerable sponsors, and it ed, but disadvantage. People were wrong seems as if this new movement would provide the hope of solving the problem in thinking that they could become gether an insuperable one, and the At any rate, the problem is not alto strong merely by good feeding. Strength special Chinese Department of the Foto sunshine and open air, which promoted was got by exercise and exposure the literary forces and take its due share appetite and good digestion of food and kong University, when formed, will join of responsibility in the task of overcom- growth of muscle. Flabbiness, weakness, ing it.

The teaching of Chinese in the Peking loss of appetite and disorder of health National University, and, in fact, in came from sedentary indoor life in over most Chinese Universities, is based on

warm atmospheres. We should all play modern scientific principles. The same games, young and old, and playing folds, art of the classics that was read for the meats and gardens must be pro-

Haalin

Academy would now be via to secure healthy, happy people. studied in a quite different way. In

In gardens fresh vegetable foods, rich adopting this method of teaching the

in vitamins, could be raised, while the Chinese language, the Hongkong Univer- exercise of gardening promoted health. it might imagine. Among the students Rames and gardening more possible sity will be doing more useful work than

Bummer time was a great boon in mak- themselves it will serve to popularise for town workers. terest in the language such na might offer the study and evoke an intelligent in-, scope for research and reform. "But it will also offer the Colony in general an opportunity to beneft from the course of Chinese studies.

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At the recent meeting of the British Chamber of Commerce, H.E. The Gov craor expressed his intention of sending future Government cadets to study Chinese at the University. The import ance, of some knowledge of the Chinese language, and so of the Chinese people. emphasised, and there is no place where to all in this Colony, cannot be over- this knowledge can be acquired better than in our own University. When the teaching of Chinese is carried on in the same way as it is done in the Peking National University, there will be pro- vided- a quicker and more practical course of studies than would otherwise be available. In addition to their special work, the cadets may, if they so desire, find a useful supplementary course in the regular lectures by the Faculty, and he able to follow them. Under such con- ditions, not only the Government cadets but also members of other services in the Colony may be able to utilise the opportunity..

Dr. Hill went on to say that occasional

fasting not only did no harm, but good to those who over-ate. Store cattle could be underfed during the winter, and, money thus saved, and brought into prime condition in the spring by good feeding. Mice could be kept in excellent yondition fasting one, two and even three days a week. It was not necessary then to eat every day, and certainly not four or five meals a day. More people were probably killed off too early by inter- berance in eating than by alcoholic in- it, and it should be regarded as dis- temperance. A man should keep his body

raceful to become fat, gross, and of ill condition. Most of us would be better. for being rationed and exercised as a racehorse is rationed and exercised. The following was a suitable diet-

Breakfast: one egg, bread, jam, butter and fruit, or porridge and milk and fruit.

Dinner: one helping of meat, potatoes and greens, a piece of bread, and a help- ing of padding.

For the evening meat: & helping of vegetables Bavoured with a very little meat and greavy, or eaten with some fish, or with an egg, fruit or salad with some bread and butter, or cheese, or a milk pudding.

THE SECOND PROPOSAL.

A rup or two of tea or coffee might The other proposal is for the establish be added to the morning and evening ment of a Chair of Comparative Law

meals. Beer or wine should only be ago, the late Mr. Brayshay lectured on and a Law Department. Some years taken in moderation with meals, and spirits altogether avoided. To eat, say, International Law, and Constitutional fish and souanges, or bacon and eggs for History was also taught. But unreakfast, a meat Junch, afternoon tea fortunately these two subjects were, for

with sweet cakes, and then a three or some unknown reason, dropped, and at

four course dinner in the evening, was present, besides a fragmentary, study of to overleed, and invite disturbance of

health. Jurisprudence and Political Science, there are practically no legal studies at all. The Law Department now contem- plated will aim at providing a specialis. ed course of legal studies leading to the degree of LL.B., which, though not en- titling the holder to the privilege of the Bar, will be definitely

an academie to a complete overhauling of the pre- sent grouping of studies, and will, in effect, considerably raise the standard of the B.A. course.

Tripoli which is forever Italy's. If the time in their lives by joining the good living-healthy exercise and proper however, the authorites have not given qualification. The Department will lead!

Tripolitans persevered in their obedience to his Lord and master they would be protected by just laws, for the King and the Italian Government desired this land. in which were so many deathless meni orials of ancient Rome should he pre- sperous and happy.

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He concluded by calling "Long live the King," and the crowd answered with cheers and cries of "Long Life the King" and Long live Mussolini."

Addressing a large "crowd of Fascists later from the balcony of the Governor's residence, Mussolini declared the visit was a demonstration of the might of the Italian nation, which had lofne triumph at the immortal Fusces from Ronie to the shores of the African Sea. Destiny „úrgéd us to this country, and nobody can dam the stream of destiny. Above all nobody car break our inffexible will,"

11,000 MILES FLIGHT.

BRITISH AIR FORCE AVIATORS - REACH "CAPE TOWN.

Cape Town. April 12th. The Air Force fliers have arrived here.

A message from Cairo on March 1st, said:The first stage in the 11,000 miles Highs by the Royal Air Force to Cape Town, under the leadership of Wing Commander Pulford, comprising five officers and two mechanics has been com pleted by their arrival at Assuit from Heliopolis in four Fairey seaplanes fitted with undercarriages instead of floats, each one of which has a Napier Lion 450 b.p. engine. The flight is following the route mapped out by the Royal Air Force at the end of the war, when dense bush and tropical jungles were cleared, and aerodromes established 200 miles apart. The trip and retard is expected to occupy ten weeks. There, will be no attempts at record. breaking.]

THE SPANISH FLIGHT. ONE MADRID-MANILA AIRMAN' MISSING.

BAGHDAD April 11th.

Two of the Spanish airmen who are Aying from Madrid to Manila" have arrived. The whereabouts of the third man is at present 'unknown.

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The damage hitherto is £1,000,000, but the situation is hourly growing worse. The flood level is fifteen feet higher than Baghdad, which is being protected by embankments.

NO HOLIDAYS. With humble admiration, says the London Daily Telegraph, we wonten plate the physician who has just been telling us that we ought to be able to work for eleven years instead of cleven months before we are doing, but the sentiments will not be popular, but they are most impressive. Whatever honour and glory await the man who tells bis fellow.creatures what they profoundly But we could wish him a little gentler dislike must be Dr. Crichton, Miller'

with us. Great beyond our dreams is his energy and his staying power, but strong us he is, he should be merciful, he should recognise that we have not all his dura dia. Some of us are bat feeble folk. Some of

in ouri weakness feel need

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of rest, und even of anusement. But he is ruth less. It wo are. tired our fatigue is not genuine. If we want month's holiday by the year it is because we never observe the simple rudiments of rest." While we smart we wonder with a fearful joy what the doctor would say to those dreadful people, who take more than a month's holiday out of twelve. But the subject is too painful for levity.

the Governor, Sir Cecil We deeply regret that the truth about Clementi, at the University Congregation exists in China is the Comparative Law Probably the paly Law school which man's need of holidays was never dia in February 1st. While the Medical and School of China, in Shanghai. The covered until in this year of grace it Engineering Faculties enjoy magnificent efficiency of this School has been doubted. was revealed to Dr. Crichton Miller. financial support, the Faculty of Arts is Many realise the need for more well- is most unfortunate that in a groes and Kroning under discontent. Both Fro-trained legal men to tackle the multitude corrupt love of idleness men have confessor Soothill and Dame Anderson have tinually been seeking to make feast days visited the University and seen

of problems confronting China at the and holy days and week-ends and vaca Faculty and its deficiencies, and it is who ask whether the necessary facilities present day, but there are scarcely any tions. Even such a model of industry as hoped that, if a portion of the Boxer Bob Cratchit liked to have one day money is forthcoming, the two projects men in the legal profession. The great "are available for the training of young in the year if quite convenient. Ifontlined by the Faculty of Arts will disadvantage from which Chinese stud- New York, April 11th. only this pernicious system had not been be given consideration. Several links in Havana experienced allowed to grow up, if the human race

ents abroad suffer is the wide difference Bank of New York is reported to be no need of holidays, how much simpler, runa yesterday, and the Federal Reserve had earlier been taught that it really had SPECIAL CHINESE DEPARTMENT. Letween the conditions of national life abroad and those at home. More often sending $33,000,000 in

The first of the proposala points to the than not, these returned students find by how much more gracious and beautiful formation of a special Chinese Depart their knowledge impracticable. The great special train to Keywest, from which life would be. But we fear the revela place it will be conveyed to Havana in

ment to promote a sound, and useful advantage, therefore, of training Chinese tion has come too late. Not now, not study of the Chinese language and youths in the University in the legal pro- the Cuban warship, President Machado. even by Dr. Crichton Miller, will a per- literature. This should not be taken to The Government newspapers are

fession is that while they acquire a reverse generation be convinced that it can assuring frantic depositors who arework eleven years together, dinners has not been sound or useful, but it as can be obtained in England, they are mean that the study of Chinese so far knowledge of law possibly just as good clamouring for their money.

and suppers and sleeping times except certainly suggests that at present the able, at the same time, to keep themselves suburb of Havana and the news quickly creation grown upon us that we are ment, if such there is, are painfully in-

The trouble started in the Marianas ed." So has the evil habit of rest and re-

facilities and equipment of the Depart a close contact with the varying con- ditions in China. And there can be few spread, creating a panic among depon-actually convinced it does us good to adequate.

leave our work while we are perfectly that the University aimed at providing of the Boxer Indemnity could be put, if tors of other banks. Rumours of

It is high time, therefore, better uses to which the British portion moratorium are officially denied. The well and go right away from it and forget such a thorough course of Chinese studies it aims at the promotion of peace and latest reports say that the panic has all about it. We even cheat ourselves as would offer a scope for the student good-will between the two peoples, than spread to the cities of Santa Clara and into believing that we work the better of the Chinese language to help in the to the support of the University of Santiago...

when we come back. Such are the wild solution of the eternal language dificulty Hongkong in realising these two projects. delusions of corrupt generation, and which exists even among the Chinese we fear that even Dr. Crichton Miller's eternal labours will not avail to exorcise themselves. them.

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EKRUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

THE CUBAN CRISIS. PANIC FOLLOWED BY BIG BANK

RUN.

currency

"ANOTHER OIL, EXPLOSION.

FIFTY CASUALTIES ON TANKER LOADING PETROL.

NEW YORK, April 11th. A message from Port Arthur, Texas, saya that 20 were killed and 30 injured by an explosion on an oil tanker, which was loading ninety thousand gallons of petrol."

OBITUARY.

MR. LUTHER BURBANK:

NEW YORK, April 11th. A message from Cienfugo, San Fran- cisco, announces the death of Mr. Luther Burbank, the noted naturalist.

ABOLITION OF CLOISTERS

RUSSIA.

the

"WA HING" SEIZED.

PORTING OPIUM.

The details for the establishment of the special Chinese Department are as yet wanting, but there are vertainen ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN TRANS. INeral considerations which should be *

of interest "to Hongkong's literary community. The Faculty of Arts. is The Russian Government has decided quite conscious of the defects of its to abolish the cloisters stating that they Chinese Department. So far the teach no longer attain the objects for which ing of Chinese has been scholarly, but they wore established. The monks will it has also been unscientific. The last be forced to find other employment. The shadow of the Classical Academy has famous cathedral at Leningrad is to be vanished, and in its place has been in

stituted confiscated by the Government, the There is no longer a pride in the per- a school of scientific thought. reason given being that the church authorities were not able to prevent theft imitation of a classical masterpiece, treasures from being stolen, and the but a growing desire to be more logical church from being plundered.

"The .s. Fa Hing, a steamer employed on the run between Canton and Wuchow, has been seized by the Canton authorities, whe allege that she has been engaged in transporting opium.

The steamer cleared last week from Wuchow with cargo and passengers and the upper region of the West River. It was examined near Bhiuhing, a port in is reported that raw opium was found among the cargo. and precise both in thought and in ex It is also reported that four of the pression, and to adapt language to the small vessels in the Canton Navy, have conditions of daily life, while at the seized number of small craft near. same time, retaining the essence of Boces, Tigria. Following a fight of abant "olassician." One of the greatest proban bour, the crews, who are either, lems of literary China is the fact that smugglers or pirates, left their boats, The Board of Education, which Lord the written language is not the same as leaving behind a few casualties, arms, he always had as many as 3,000 experi- Gorell described in the House of Lords the spoken one; it is much more difficult. general merchandise, etc. ments under way and had growing over the other day as "a misnomer," is not.Superimposed on this difference is the 3,000 distinct botanical specimens from the only Government body in that poni all parts of the world. Over a million tion. The Board of. Trade, says a com plants were raised every year for testing mentator, is equally a constitutional fig- purposes.

He was Fellow of the ment. Among its members American Association for the "Advance Speaker and the Archbishop of Canter are the ment of Science; Hon. Member of the bury, but its last meeting was held in American Plant and Animal Breeders' March, 1650. A Board which never met Association; Special Lecturer at Stan at all was the Local Government Board, ford University, and asociated with which, after forty-eight years of constitu- most of the leading Horticultural and tional disintegration, was merged in the Botanical Societies in the World.] Ministry of Health in 1919.

The late Mr. Burbank, who wna 77 years old, has been famous for the past 50 years as a 'baturalist and originator of new fruits and flowers On his farms

MISNOMERS.

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enormous variety of dialects spoken in China. The Phonetic System" which consists of splitting characters into their characters according to the sounds, has component sounds and reproducing these: failed to achieve the parpose of educating the masses on account of the difficulty of inducing them to learn the Peking dialect upon which the system is based. So that the eternal problem of unifying the language still remains unsolved...."

WEATHER REPORT.

Last night's weather report, forecast and remarks by the Royal Observatory said: Depressions are shown to the south of Ishigaki; to the east of the Balintang Channel, and over Tongking Local forecast: N. W. or variable winds,"moderate, variable, showery.

AN EPIC OF HUNGER. POWERFUL RUSSIAN INDICTMENT

OF BOLSHEVISM.

The Prague correspondeat of a London paper writes:-imagine that a Bolshevik that the French Riviera is deserted ex- revolution has broken out in France,

cept for a few remaining inhabitants, and thieving toughs. This is the atmos who are controlled by red-capped marines phere of Ivan Shmelyor's book, The been translated into German.. Sun of the Dead," which has recently.

This book, one cannot call it a novel," is one of the most moving that has come Although it is distinctly anti-Bolshevik, out of Soviet Russia since the Revolution..

the author does not present a prepared book is the work of an artist; it is n "ease" with horrors all complete. His brilliant tour de jurce of pure pre- sentation." I Knut Hamsun had not already use the title, this book should have been called "Hunger!" For it ropcerns itself with very little else. These poor people, shut off near some small fishing town on what was once the Russian Riviera, not far from Yalta, in taining of food in some way or other. the Crimea, are only concerned about the their talk is full of it, and the actions of Their days revolve around the search, everyone, gond and bad, are connected goats, and cows are stolen, and enten in with food, food, food. Hens, chickens, secret. And when the redcaps come and steal, the inhabitants dare not complain in case worse befall. The author does not indiente exactly what year it is, but sine surmises that it takes place some- Line in the early twenties. For the Bolsheviks are well in the saddle.

The book is worth a hundred political pamphlets to the anti-revolutionaries-of All countries For Shmelyov has been quite merciless in revealing how near human beings get to wild animals when revolution and hunger come.

And yet there are compensating passages; noble human beings, maybe; how Then there are lovely passages, such as the one describing vividly the sad death of a peacock, which was always strut- ting round the verandah of a destrud The book calls out for an English tran- ville with somewhat draggled tail.. slation; it is so excellently written

-LORD BALFOUR. **HANKERING AFTER TENNIS" IN HIS 78th YEAR.

Lord Balfour, who for some weeks had been suffering from severe attack of· bronchitis, is reported in the latest-home papers es considerably better and was expected soon to be able to leave for the Riviera

Lord Balfour's secretary told an in- quirer that his condition had given rise hankering after a game of tennis again, to somadxiety for some time. Ho is he said, and has been annoyed at being unit to make the journey abroad." Lord Balfour is 77.