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HIS ITALIAN VISIT AND IMPRESSIONS.

NONE DARE TO SPEAK "

AGAINST FASCISM.

TRIAL OF SHANGHAI

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AGITATORS.

MAY BE HANDED OVER.

ONLY IGNORANT YOUNG STUDENTS.**

No one who has been brought into re-contact with the gracious and beautiful personality of Rabindranath Tagore, or who has entered into the spirit of his

The usual sequel to a day of demon- teaching, would easily believe the reporta

which he has now disposed of that hestration such as yesterday (says the returned from Italy an admirer of Shanghai Mercury of the 8th inst.) was Fascism. He is just now in London on prosented in the Mixed Court this mora- his way, to Germany, where his writings are very widely, read. Seated in the ing when sight very youthful students corner of a couch, the poet, whose fine appeared before Assessor Martin and head over the flowing brown garments Magistrate Kwan charged with creating fulfils one's ideal of what the head of a

A DANISH HEROINE'S WORK.

ALLEVIATING MISERY AND REUNITING FAMILIES.

Dame Hackel Crowdy has recently turned from America, where she lectured in many places on the League of Nations, stressing especially the humanitarian side of its work. She told a Manchester Guardian representative that the two things that most interested her audiences were the accounts of the child welfare work carried on by the League and the story of Miss Jeppe, the Danish woman who is devoting herself to the rescue of Armenian women and children. Miss Jeppe has many admirers in England, and just now some of the women's societies poet should be, talked in his gentle and a disturbance in Louza and Central are disturbed by a suggestion that in reasonable way of his visit to Italy. He districts yesterday when an attempt was spoke of his anxiety to keep the students September the League may not renew the in his university in touch with the made by about a thousand agitators to grant it has hitherto given year by year thought of the West The present stage an anti-foreign. demonstration. Of for Miss Jeppe's settlement of refugee moment in India," he said. "is not the eight accused five were arrested in the huts in Syria, which is known collectively favourable for this propaganda of mine. former district and three in the latter. They want to repudiate everything Asked for an explicit,account of the Western, but I find feeling is changing, Mr. E. T. Maitland appeared for the work Miss Jeppe is doing, Dame Rachael and I hope that our movement will be prosecution and without going into the explained that it was the outcome of the more acknowledged in India before Commission set up by the League in 1990 long." Tagura went on to speak of the case asked for it to be remanded for for the rescue of the Armenian women valuable gift of Italian books which Musfurther and closer investigation. and children who had been deported dur solini made to his university recently. ing the fighting in 1918 and 1916. In He was very grateful for it, for many look upon this case as a very those years 70,000 of them were taken of his students are studying Italian serious affair," said the prosecuting. into captivity and sold to Arabs, Kurds, literature under that great teacher Pro solicitor," as there is no doubt that these i and Turks. Misa Jeppo nas piled to festor Tucci. He wants his students to make investigations, and ever since then be in touch with all European literature, people deliberately planned this disturb she has been living by herself in Syria Valuable gifts of books have been made ance. They had been preparing for some with only Armenisa helpers, and making also by the French Government and from time to create trouble. Another aspect a haven of Neutral House, near Aleppo. Germany, where a fund was raised to of the case and one which does not

celebrate his birthday in this way.

as a Neutral House."

Neutral House."

This wonderful woman, who has the rare gift of getting on well with every one and who is absolutely absorbed in ber chivalrous work, is carrying out in middle age the dream of her childhood. As a little girl of seven or eight in Den mark she read some book about the Armenians and made up her mind then that when she grew up, she would do all she could to help them

And now any one of the hundred thou- sand Armenian refugees in Syria who makes his or her way to Neutral House finds a friend. Women and children come. there after a captivity of many years, and one of the extraordinary things about Miss Jeppe is that she generally manages to put them in touch again with their own people. Out of about 300 people whom she has rescued in recent months she has managed to get over 270 reunited with their families. She has her lists open for everyone to examine, but even so her success often seems miraculous.

For instance, during the flight of re- fugees years ago one woman who could no longer feed her 18 month old baby put it by the roadside, where it was found by Arabs. They kept it, but later on as 3 child it managed to escape, and reached Neutral House. It was identified by a birthmark, and i

is now safe. with its mother."

Finding the Lost

Tagore went on to say that when he directly concern the Settlement is that a went to Italy this year his desire was to lot of the pamphlets seized from these remain neutral, and to form his own con- clusions. In our country," he said, people are anti-Northern in tone. Peli- we have lost faith in the incriminating tics are no affair of this Settlement but reports which have come to us about it is possible that the local authorities European countries All the Govern

ments have their propaganda of misrepre- may wish these people to be handed over sentation. My Italian friends assured to them and that is the reason why I me that Fasciam had saved Italy from ask for the remand, in custody.” ruin and that things are not so bad as they have been described. While I want-

Mr. T. Ting, Chinese lawyer,

is

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ed to remain neutral I could see that it peared for the defence of all the accused. was difficult. Freedom of expression repressed in Italy. I never met a single He objected to a remand stating that his. individual in Italy who dared to speak clients all pleaded guilty. He would

word against Fasciam. My tour was officially arranged, and I was only taken therefore ask for leniency. No persons to places where it was thought it would were injured," he said, "and" no 'pro- be safe. Even if I had had freedom I do not think I would have met many inperty was damaged. My clients are just dividuals who would have been courage ignorant young students who acted ous enough to speak against Fascism through patriotic motives." They were all unanimous in praise of Fascism and Mussolini, not only the Italians but the English. I found, for instance, that our Ambassador highly admires Mussolini and his doinga, and was quite sure that Mussolini was the one man who could have saved Italy from utter bankruptcy and disorganization."

The Temperament for Self- Government.

Counsel Asked for a Fine,

Mr. Maitland-"They did no damage simply on account of the exceedingly able manner in which the police dealt with the situation, that's why,”

Several pamphlets seized by the police from the accused were submitted to the Court as evidence to support the state ments of the prospecuting solicitor. Some of these were pictorial in character and were distinctly anti-Northern, show Sun Chuan Fang in a particularly un- ing as they did in one picture Marshal

flattering position: Another "one depict The Assessor-"You don't mean to sayed Marshal Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Mr. Ting, that it was due to the preéd in the air by his feet. Most of them Lin drinking the blood of a man suspend- sence of your clients that no damage was were as usual crudely drawn but served which they were one? Rather was it not the presence of the purpose for

intended. police which prevented them?"

The Court remanded the accused in (Continued on next Column.) custody until Friday, the 10th inst.

Discussing the state of politics in Italy, Some of the children who have escaped | Tagore remarked that people could not from the villages are to delighted with get a certain form of government by de: Neutral House and their freedom that wiring it, but only if they had the tem- the they offer to go back and tell other cap-perament to sustain it. Few European tive children about it, through they fully realize the risk: One boy about 15 years old went back again and again, till he bad rescued six other boys. In all his adventures be waa rearching for his mother, and at last he found her, and brought her to Miss Jeppe.

countries now have the same sort of poli- tical freedom that England enjoys, and that suggested to him that while in the abstract a democratic or republican form of government might be desirable, it would not be attained unless people, bat what he called the temperament for

Qap of Dame Rachel's stories was self-government. Failing this people about a 16 year old Armenian girl living were sure to find themselves under the in an Arab camp in the Syrian desert. government of

He a strong hand. She was filling her water-pots at a pook thought it strange that so many. English- when a motor-ear on its way across the men should have been enthusiastic about desert broke down near her. The chauf-Fascism, but such was the fact. When feur, who was an Armenian, said some thing to himself, and the girl jumped for ward with the eager question, Are you an Armenian ? She had not heard her own language sigte she was a child. A few days later that girl was brought to Neutral House, which stands outside Aleppo. Some Armenians who happened to come there were struck by her resem blance "to a woman living in the town, and when they brought the woman to see her a mother and long-lost daughter were reunited

ho reached Switzerland from Italy he learnt the true facts of the situation. His friends there were surprised as the re ports that he was in favour of Fascism. They asked him for explanations, and he found that his words had been misrepre sented and exaggerated. "Those who had suffered from the hands of the Fascists came to him, and he gradually learnt the truth about the atrocities that bad been committed. "I realized then that it is. not enough that Italy should be prosper. ous. You can make a country prosper. Many of the women who as women orpus, but if your methods are wrong that girls were taken into captivity have maris the concern of humanity, and they must nied Turks. Others are living as servants be judged according to the ethical stan or slaves to their captors. The women dard.” one hears of who have been branded ou the face have been disfigured in that way by the Arabs to indicate that they are household property. If Miss, Jeppe has only been able to rescue a few thousands out of the enormous number of captives she has rescued them from miserable con- ditions.

Tagore went on to say that he was greatly struck in Italy by the extent to which translations of his books were pub lished and read

Shaw Story.

He touched for a moment on the general strike in England, and said he had come to feel that the English were the only She is not content with saving them people who had the particular Lind of She is doing all in her power to remake political wisdom needed to deal with such their lives, and one way of doing that an emergency. He spoke of our patience is by reviving their old national indus and tolerance and lawabiding discipline, tries. Last year she built a village in the result of centuries, of experience in which she established families, and political freedom, and he returned to the now she has built a second village and idea that self government is a thing that bas about 40 - buys there learning farm can be given to no people unless they work. She believes that the salvation of have the temperament" necessary to main- the Armenians lies in agriculture and not tain it steadily over long spaces of time. | in training - them for trades that ars" In the course of the conversation Mr. already overcrowded. These villages pro- Shaw's name cropped up apropos of his mise such success that the Armenians seventieth birthday celebrations. Tagore themselves are beginning to copy them him, not only his great powers but and have started one or two more villages for his humanity He rocalled of their own on similar lines. Miss Jeppe story which Mr. Shaw himself told makes herself understood in various dia him to the effect that during the lacts and gets on well with all her neigh suffragist troubles someone came bours, She likes the Bedouins, and de him and presented a forged letter scribes them a most friendly folk. The from a well-known suffragist who was in French authorities in Syria give her every prison, asking for a loan of £51. Shaw kind of help and support

gave the money at once, and when the "A Little Candle."

forgery was discovered someone asked Two years ago, it was, however, sug him whether he was not going to try to gested that her work was not particularly and the culprit, "Certainly not," said the concern of the League, and two dele Shaw, "ho has paid me the very best gates went to the Assembly with instruc- compliment possible. He knew it was tions to oppose a further grant They only Shaw who would have the magnani. both said they admired Miss Jeppe's work mity to be so easily duped.” immensely, but thought it should come to an end.

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simply, It is a little candle, but the Then Miss Jeppe got up and spoke for night is so dark." Then she sat down, ten minutes about her work. She created and the money was voted at once,

a great impression on the Assembly. The

Dame Rachel said Miss Jeppe believer first delegate who had spoken said. If that if she can carry on her work for one the work to be done is so great and the more year she will then have done all Teague can do so little, is it worth doing † that can be done on those lines, but it. it at all" Miss Jeppe stood up to say is important that she should continue for

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