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THE OLD PENALTY FOR TALK- ING TO A FOREIGNER.

DEATH BY STRANGULATION,

[BY GENERAL BIR IAN HAMILTON, Q.C.B.]

PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 23rd, 1927.

THE KING'S VOICE IN AUSTRALIA.

Á B.B.C. POSSIBILITY.

BY THE BEAM SYSTEM.

"Why can't we do it?" is the natural query of every Briton when he hears that the Dutch Colonial Minister has just broadcast an address to his fellow-citizens in the

Far East, every word of which was audible in Java and other places.

We can do it," was the reply. made by one of the greatest wire- less scientists in the world.

On Sunday, Aug. 20, 1900, the Pavalovaky Regiment iny in birouac upon an space near the "The beam system, which is al Krasnoo 'Selo-Ropcha-road. Being ready working between this coun a rest-day between the manoeuvres try, Canada, and Australia can be by the. Grand Duke. Nicholas and used," he said, "for the transmis the Tsar's own Imperial sion of speech or music provided manevres, there was a sort of that microphones and other addi- beana in progress. To the strum- tional apparatus are installed. The preparations needed for broadcast- ming of a dozen balalikas a luming an address to these Dominions bering giant would slouch into the by the King, for instance, would

ઘેટ big circle,

his turn

with not need very many days, and the commercial Morse service would not astonishing lightness, and then,

interrupted. The thing has been with a bow, fade, away.

done experimentally and there is Suddenly the shouts and laughter no reason to fear distortion. redoubled. There spinning and hopping about in the most grotesque fashion, was a China- Dan, clad in the uniform of one of the most famous regiments of the Army Imaging Mr. Chen dancing the Highland Fling in the glengarry and tartans of a Gordon Highlander and you may begin to get there! Seeing my surprise, the regimental

Commander, General Nekrasov, explained that the dancer had accompanied an officer

The British Broadcasting Cor- back from Manchuria as his ser poralion might, by arrangement, vant, and that this officer, not hire the beam just as they now en- kuowing what else to do with him, gage a post office trunk-line. The enfisted him in the Pavalovsky.

great trouble is the differences in With some complaisance the time-nearly 12 hours in the case General added, "Oui Pavalovsky of Australia and five hours for South Africa in 'better, Chinaman is a model soldier; he Canada. adores his drill; he is never to

there being only a two-hours differ- ence." happy as when his turn comes

In Ince of this statement, the round for sentry-go; he gets on well with his comrades; his dancing question now appears to be, not and singing are droll: hé does)

Why can't we?" but "Why don't exactly what he is told; we

are doing a bigger thing than you might think, for here you see before you the first practical step in our grand Russian scheme for the Rus sification of China."

Have

care;

my General," I replied, "have a care, lest you be taking the first step in the Chinaßcution of Russia!"

The End Of Nekrasov.

"The working carrier-wave of the beam system can be used almost as a trank line. On it you can superimpose modulations for broad- cast purposes. These would be re- ceived by sets tuned to their special wave-length and theu amplified and re-broadcast from the Dominions wireless stations. The speech would then be heard on crystal sets locally, and on ordinary valve sets greater distances.

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I have gailed the Yellow Sen, not precisely with a mastodon, but with a German missionary. He, poor fellow, had married a Celestial wife, hoping no doubt to create a renforcement for the Corps of German missionaries. Unfor- tunately, yellow is A very fast red Chinese. No Inbel announced colour; the children were thorough- to the world that they had been made in Germany, There was rat one trace of Fappa about those battle of Yantsulin in 1905. Next queer creatures, who called bim he got the Pavalovsky Regiment; Vater. If Russia steps on to throughout the Great War he con- China, our great-grandchildren tinued to do splendidly, and when will be able to say of her spurtus the Revolution first broke out he gesenkt vanished without leaving was appointed to an important

Poor Nekrasov ! He had first made his name by the fine fight he pat up when in command of the 21st-Siberian Tirailleurs at the

command in South Russia and a trace and in one or two cen- started off to take it up together vrics some Yellow Emperor will with his troops. He and his succeed very appropriately to the.

throne of Ivan the Terrible. A.D.C. travelled in a special car riage, with a special engine attach- The Unchanging. Chinese rd. He was supposed to be follow- But who minds anything happen- ing his troops, who adored him,ing a hundred years hence What but the Bolsheviki managed to let does still fairly thrill us is the im his carriage run into the station mediate effect of the control of first and he was received on the China by Russia. Our most able platform by Chinese executioners guides seem to me just now to keep Instead of by the expected Guard on writing with bottles of cham- of Honour. The Chinafication of pagne by their sides to keep their Russia had begun.

spirits up. They are so

so sanguine. Nekrasov was a fine fellow, but, Chinese nationalism,"

says Mr. like all the Russians have met J. L. Garvin, in the end is bound except, perhaps, Kuropatkin he to repudiate its Bolshevist exploi- was haunted by a chronic ache for ters." Mr. C. F. G. Masterman spreading the scope of Russia for says, speaking of the Russians, "I Russifying others. An English-am doubtful of the acceptance by man does not like to see the for the Chinese in any permanence of eigner aping his manners and ces such control In Parliament; in toms. The Bolshaviats, exactly fol- the Press; in lectures by Professors Jawing in the steps of the Grand who have lived in the Far East for Dukes, who were not content with years, constant references are being their own billions of trees, but made to the new spirit of nation- pined for the forests of the Valu, ality which is stirring the dry. want

bones of Confucius and making

1. Constantinople and an out-each Chinaman anxious to free his

let into the Mediterranean; country from the foreigner

2. Pekin and an outlet into the To one who has lived in Chinose

Pacific

houses for weeks on end, eating 3. Delhi and an outlet into the strange things, listening to queer

Indian Ocean.

music, and taking notice, these And the people who want these ideas seem to be founded rather on things, namely, the whole Russian Western than Far Eastern founda nation, are the enemies of England tions. The desire to get rid of Dot of the individua! English foreigners by throwing bricks at man, with whom they got on parti- them is in no sense a new spirit. cularly well, but of the British The old penalty for talking to a Empire, which has always, until feroigner was death by strangula Hankow, been able to stand four- tion, as I have ore now been play square in the path of all their fully reminded by my hosts. The pestilent fallacies.

self-conceit of the Chinese has ever The Mastodon And The Quicksand.man as their incapacity to produce. soemed as measureless to the white Tura now to China-the place a leader. In so far as Nationalism which the Bolshevists hope tovaunteth itself and longs to hami Fussify Travel north and south linte others, the Chinese have from as I have done. Inspect, as I have time immemorial been as full of it had to do, not only Chinese as an egg is of meat. They have soldiers, but the Concessions along not changed; it is we Europeans the middle dividing line of the whe, by our very Chinese virtue Yangtaze from Hankow to Shang- by our very

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