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OUR FRIENDS IN THE FAR -EAST.

JAPAN'S LOVE OF ENGLAND,

"THE MOST PRO-BRITISH OF

FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

[BY HAROLD E. PALMER, Adviser to the Japanese Ministry of Education.]

Japan is by far the most pro-British of all foreign countries," writes Mr. Harold E. Palmer in the Daily Mail.

Amid scenes of tense excitement Romney's famous portrait of Mrs. Daven- port was sold on July 25th, at Christie's rooms, King Street, St. James's, Sw.. for £80,000-the greatest price ever paid for any English picture sold by auction.

It was bought by Mr. Alexander Martin on behalf of Sir Joseph Daveen, the art That is the impression I have gained dealer. The canvas is 20in by 24in. during four years spent in intimate con- and Romney's fee for painting it, in la tact with all classes of Japanese society stated, probably did not exceed £45 or in all parts of the Japanese Empire.. £35. It was only obtained by Mr. Martin after a swift but relentless fight with Mr. Charles Carstairs, representing the American art-dealing firm of Knoedler's who are probably Sir Joseph Duveen's most formidable rivals.

Sir Joseph Dureen, who is in France, informed the Paris correspondent of The Daily Mail that he has not acted as an agent but that his firm has bought the picture for itself. Whether or not it goes abroad depends upon to whom it is sold.

When the picture of the rather haughty beauty of the 18th century, with "her ringlets of powdered hair tumbling beneath her wide white felt hat was placed on an easel by the rostrum,& great berst of hand-clapping brake from the crowd of men and women who com pletely filled the great room and who were even standing outside the doors. Enthralled by Picture.

Marmurs of admigation and delight, rose alike from pretty young girls with close cut hair and, tight ätting hats, and from elderly grey-haired men. Frankly entaralled they teasted their bright eyes upon those calm dark ones of this woman ut a more tranquil age, whose eyebrows were faintly raised as in mild protest at their cathusiasm,

Hidding begun, at about 5,000 guineas, and bids came quickly from several parts of the room. When the price had reach ed 12,000 guineas, however, only Mr. Martin, a quiet, middle-aged man who stood just by the rostrum, and Mr. Car stairs, who stood in a corner of the room close by, continued to bid.

Hapidly, by jumps chiefly of 1,000 guineas, varied by an occasional jump of 2,000 guinear, the price rose.

In an atmosphere of tushed expect ancy, the voice of the auctioneer, Lance Hannen, chanted its regular re- frain-10,000 guincas, 17,000 guineas, 18,000 guiirens.

Nobody else spoke. As he uttered each figure he turned arst to one: contestant and then the other, to receive from each Fa quiet bat-decisive-nod

Quite recently a Japanese Minister, commenting upon the great strike, ob- served to me thas in England only could such an event be marked by common sense, good humour, and reasonableness, and that in England only could freedom of speech be permitted without andesir able consequences.

The Japanese and British aristocracies have this in common-that they are re- served and shy and that they are incap- able of boasting or of adopting the defen- ! sive attitude, for they have nothing to defend

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For exactly the same reason both the British and the Japanese are suspected and misunderstood; we are the two nations on earth who are too proud to explain. The modern Japanese samurai bases his conduct on his ideal-the Eag lish geatleman. He finds little or no dis crepancy between the code of Bushido and that which characterises the English- man. For the Japanese educated classes the term Western Civilisation" is more or less synonymous with the term

British Culture."

The Japanese Press is sympathetic. With a broad outlook it discusses British internal and external difficulties as friend who sees all sides with generous understanding

The Press deplores the building of the "We have withdrawn Singapore "base. our garrisons from China and from Russia, the Japanese say We have. accepted the Washington agreement in letter and in spirit. Although we, like Great Britain, depend on our navy and distant bases, we are content to adopt

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non-aggressive policy, contracting rather than expending. We have been of humble service to England in the past can you sot trust us to be as friendly in the future In no other Press do we find such sympathetic cordiality.

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"Hongkong Weekly Press.

THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, PUBLISHED TO-DAY, CONTAINS THE FUEL DETAILS OF THE ASTOUNDING RAID BY PIRATES ON THE LOCAL FISHING PARTY OFF LANTAU.

There are reports of other piracies and outrages from different quarters, all of which reflect the general state of disorder in South China.

Each issue of the WEEKLY gives a comprehensive view of the conditions prevailing in the Country It is a paper, therefore of particular interest to all engaged in Far Eastern trade.

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To-day's issue also includes the full report of the meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council. The di-cus. sion on the rainstorm damage and the scheme for a harbour survey will be of particular interest to old re-idents.

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LONDON'S TUBES.

ANOTHER FIVE MILES ADDED,

WHAT MR. COOK WON'T SEE

NEWSPAPER.COMMENT.

"FANATICAL BITTERNESS

Mr. Cook, like the Bourbons of old,

THE ESCALATOR HABIT.

With the opening of the extension of the City and South London Railway whom he so strikingly resembles with his from Clapham Common to Mordon this fanatical bitterness and his insistence on month, London's Underground Railway his own supreme importance, has evident, system will push another five and a half ly learnt nothing and forgotten nothing miles into open country and bring as the result of recent events, comman 300,000 more inhabitants of the outer the Daily Mail belt of linked subsurbs into close contact

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The people are sympathetic. In re mote villages and distant countrysides with the City. the inn-keeper or farmer will respond This new stride forward again, em-

**From what cou-phasises the importance to friendly advances. try is honourable-foreigners? the reply from England" the reaction is genuine and spontaneous: "I am glad you are from England; we know you are cur friends."

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our ab terranean traffic ways in developing new residential areas, as well as in helping to solve the complicated puzzle of congestion on surface lines and roads, writes Sir Percival Phillips.

London can say with truth that her

The Popular Escalator.

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"He has been told by fellow trade unionists that it is not leadership to stand by while hundreds of thousands of men and their families starve o slogan." His only answer is to denounce the brutal methods" of the Govern- “ment sud the coffiery owners and to Pretend that a "reign of terror against the miners exista in Warwickshire. Such transparent nonsense was seldom talked. If Mr. Cook wants to know what a true reign of terror is like let him go to his beloved Soviet Russia, where, as the Statist recently recorded, three Bolshevik

for being found with foreign money

The real issue-before-the-miners and the whole country is this-that the times are so hard and foreign competition so intense that we must all work harder, Lord Birkenhead stated the unmistakable truth when he said that since the war all the conditions of life have become

English is the second-language of As the swiftly ascending bids passed Japan. "When any language other than inzo 30,000 guineas the excitement be- Japanese is felt to be needed, English Underground Railway system is in some came very intense. Only a few moments is that language. All foreigners are, as-respects the best in the world. Foreign later, however, it has passed to 40,000 sumed to know English; and the French cities may boast of greater mileage, and guincas.

Still neither of the two bidders showed man, German, or Russian going to Japan of more trains in a given time, but for commissars" were shot a few weeks ago learns English as a part of his necessary comfort and security, as well as speed, any signs of irresolution. People at the equipment. French is occasional, Ger- the service linking the City with her more back of the room stood on tiptoe man is the second language of the medical remate dependencies can easily claim straining to catch a glimpse of these two world, but English is the foreign lang first place. men who were calmly nodding at 45,000uage. either in its American guise of, guinens, 46,000 guineas, 47,000 guinens

Expansion under ground would have When 55,000 guineas had been bid preferably, in its British form.

been greater by this time but for the many of the art experts present must Speaking as an Anglo Saxon (this term disinclination of travellers to go below more painful for all of us. "We are that the previous record price was pass- at this; speaking, as the English adviser/ground for short journeys. In this re; living." he said. "in a country which in have felt a sudden thrill, for they knew really means Anglo-American) I rejoice

ed, and that they were present at an

to the Ministry of Education, I may be spect London is at a disadvantage com- the future will not be a country. either pared with Paris and New York, where comfortable or self-supporting for idlers. occasion which was to be historic in the permitted to gloat over the bias in favour the tubes" are shallow and quickly It will be a country in which workers art world.

of the British variety. But as a non-teached.

may find it difficult to obtain even a Still the voice of Mr. Hannen con tinued to chant in even tones the same tale-55,000 guineas, 50,000 guineas. Refrain Broken.

Mr

Suddenly, when he reached 5,000 guineas, his refrain was broken; Carstairs had not nodded A wave of

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Nationalist I should have perferred to Escalators have helped to remove the means of subsistence." It will be a coun- the Ido type (call it Reformed Esperan- obsession that surface journeys are pre- try, in fact, where there will be no room to) as the second language of Japan.ferable, even if they take longer. Under- for parasites, whatever their station in temperature charts" of crowded sta In the long run no industry can pay For the same reason I am grieved and ground railway experts who watch the life. glad that the Japanese have adopted the artificial non-national metric system tions have found their bookings increas wages that are not earned. It is this emotion swept through the room. Every rather than the "natural" Anglo-Saxoned by leaps and bounds at points where truth which is overlooked by Mr. Cook. the moving stairway has superseded the He knows that, if his own "slogan "of not a penny off the pay nor a second body looked towards the man in the system of weights and measures.

Although English is the second language more cumbersome combination of lifts

were really accepted, balf corner. He gave a gesture to show that of Japan, strangely enough the Japanese and winding tunnels for pedestrians. on the day he-was-bidding no longer

Logking towards him, Mr. Hannen said students, instead of learning English, Escalators, therefore, appear to be the the mining industry would be bankrupt

learns merely how pass a competitive antidote for travellers who are under and half the miners would-be-left para- quietly, 38,000 guineas, 56,000 guineas, examination in that weird sort of English ground shy," as well as for the more sites, dependent on doles, unless they fled and then, bringing his hammer down on which is unknown beyond the foreign distinct type known technically as the this country. What he wants is another huge subsidy at the taxpayer's expense. the rostrum, said decisively,

class-room. He acquires a sort of ex-"short-distance man.” güinces-Martin."

pertness in handling subtleties of anti- Five miles of the new line are below But as one of the members of the Co- operative Society which owns Shilbottle Immediately the throng of spectators, quated idiom; he is told-and believes the surface. All six stations between Colliery wrote the other day" hundreds high pitch, broke into loud and sustained that this is the road to scholarship and Clapmen Common (the present terminus) of thousands of us (who would have to

Western culture.

Hence the English and Morden will be Stted with the latest pay taxes for the subsidy) earn lower applause. Their fixed attention relaxed,

wages and work longer hours than the they talked excitedly to cach other, distening reform movement, which, in- type of cacalators.

cidentally, brought me to Japan.

miners do." cussing the amazing price...

"58,000

whose nerves were now strained to a

Mr. Martin then announced in a few words that he had bought the picture on behalf of Sir Joseph Duveen, and there was again a burst of applause. Five Minutes Bidding.

The actual bidding for the picture only

Garage for Travellers.

At Morden there will be an omnibus

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Prince Chichibu, whom I was privileg ed to coach in spoken English before his stay in England, I consider to be a model terminus enclosed in a forecourt of 14,700 to the Japanese student of English-a square yards, where passengers

In addition to shed hard worker, conscientions, ready to study alight under cover.

for 230 Underground cars, a garage has English as it is.

A generation ago the Japanese studied been constructed with accommodation for

Mr. Cook himself two years ago ad- mitted that he knew only too well that the miners of Great Britain cannot re- tain their seven-hours day and their pre- sent conditions while the miners of European countries, and of India and Japan, work long hours for low wages.

took about 5 minutes in all, and a mem- English in this spirit. The present gene-250 private cotor-cars, motor-cycles and He has not the manliness to advise the

ber of the firm, of long standing, told a Daily Mail reporter afterwards that he had never known a picture fetching a high price seld-so-rapidiy.

too,

It was exceptionally, quiet auction,

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The high price is especially remarkable as the picture is a comparatively small

one.

Mr. Martin, who bought the picture, while not disclosing whether he was given any limit to which to go, said that Sir Joseph Daveen was very determined "to buy it. Continuing, be remarked:

Oddly enough, the two previous re- cord sales of pictures by auction have both been Romneys and both have been) bought by Davcen's

A portrait of Anne de In Pole was Sought for £41,370 in 1913. This was a record price, but it was beaten in 1920, when £54,600 was given for a portrait of the Misses Beckford when children. Wonderfully Preserved. /»

The portrait of Mrs. Davenport is wonderfully preserved and is, I should Bay even better now than when it was first painted.

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ration has tended to study that sort of bicycles, English which exists only in the vain imaginings of pedants. The rising gene- ration is concerned with English as means to Western culture in the true

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course which is necessary and inevitable. Much time will be saved by the new Since he made that admission' the work- ing day in Italy has been lengthened train service

Another Underground extension which from eight to nine hours for the main will materially increase the efficiency of purpose of competing successfully with the service is provided for by a Bill To foreign countries (ourselves among them) Parliament which will probably be pass in the world marketa. The Italian peo od this month. It will enable the com- ple have accepted the sacrifice and recog- Save on two occasions when it has pany to build a short link connecting nised the hard facts, while Mr. Cook is been exhibited to the public the last the Piccadilly, line with two disused still bellowing his "slogans" unabashed. being about 20 years ago--the portrait lines of the Southern Railway at Ham-What the miners have to contend has bung on the walls of the house of mersmith, thereby giving access to with is not the colliery owners or the Mrs. Davenport's family. It has been Hounslow," Harrow and Ealing Four Government, but the simple economic law sold by a descendant, Sir William lines will be built between Turnham that the worker cannot be paid more Bromley-Davenport, of Capesthorne, Green and Acton as part of this im- than he earns by his labour. If he pro- Chelford, Cheshire,

provement scheme, the total cost of which duces little (and the British output per miner is now below that of the German The picture, while privately owned, will be about £1,300,000. has-been-made familiar to the public, "It Londoners want still further imminer and is 102 tons per man per aa- and famous by engravings. It is of provements in the Underground system num below what it was a generation ago), Charlotte, daughter of Mr. Ralph Saeyd, they must use it more," an official of the then he cannot long be paid a high wage of Keele, Staffordshire. She was born in company said, "We suffer from the for the shortest working day in Europe. 1758, married in 1777 Mr. Davies Daven the fickle passenger who only comes to Neither colliery-owners, nor Government port of Capesthorne, M.P., for Cheshire; us in wet weather, and at other times can alter the economic law. The grant and died in 1820.

elings obstinately to the omnibus way of of doles or subsidies, like poulticing & A portrait by Romney of Lady Hamil travelling. We hope that the now ex cancer, can only make the disease in the ton, the friend of Nelson, was bought at tensions which give rapid long distance end worse. There is only one cure ond the same sale by Duveen Bros. for service will tend to stabilise traffic, and certain and sovereign cure for our illa. £13,650, while Roeburn's pettrait of Sir lead to the realisation that the quickest and that is to do our very atmost and Duncan Campbell, Bart, was bought by and hest way of getting about London work our very hardest, all classes from

Li..by Underground."

the highest to the lowest.!! Messrs. Knoedler for £5,460,

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