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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1931.

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To-day.

(July 21.)

Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15 p.m.

Rotary Tiffin, Lane, Crawford's, 1. p.m. Speaker: Senator Pittman.) on" The Occident, and the Orient." Hong Kong Football Association Council Meeting, 3.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatro: "Parlour, Bed- room and Bath."

World Theatre: "The Pagan.". T Star Theatre: "Let's Go Pisces." Central Theatre: "Call of The

West."

King's Theatre: "Unfaithful," Majestic Theatre: "Just In agine.'

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and

Peninsula 'Hotels

European Mails-Inward : Europe via Siberia (D'Artagnan). Out ward: Europe via Siberia (Prese McKinley) 1.30 p.m.; Europe is Suez (D'Artagnan) 12.30 p.m. Europe via Suez (Diomed) 230 p.m.; Europe in Sibaria (supers- cribed via Siberia Air Mail Shang. hai-Manchouli) Angers, 2.30 p.m.

Tides:-High and 2.03 and 1.22; Low at 6.55 and 8.20

Wednesday.

(July 22)

Lawn Tennis B" Division: South China v. Army T.C., M.B.K. 2. Chinese R.CC Division: Tiniversity v. Civil Service, Hong Kong C.C. v. Kowloon C.C., Crai gengower

Club de Recreio. Mixed Doubles: Kowloon: 0.C. ». U.B.R.C., Club de Recreio Ladies' R.O.

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Water Polo-First Division V.R.C. v. Kowloon, p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Parlour Bed room and Bath."

World Theatre: "What A Man." Star Theatre: "Dancing

Sweeties."

Central Theatre: Call of The West."...

King's Theatre: "Skippy." Majestic Theatre: "Just Im- qgine,"

Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Danoes at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel

Thursday.

(July 23.)

Feast of Ah. Entries for Motor Cycle Re liability Trial Close.

Queen's Theatre: "The Eagless Way."

World Theatre: "What A Man." Star "Theatre: Daneing Sweeties."

Central Theatre: "Once a Sin-

ner,"

King's Theatro: "Unfaithful" Majestic Theatre: Monta

Carlo."

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.

Tides: High at 32 and 3.50; Low at 10.02 and 9.44.

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WHY THE EAST IS IN REVOLT.

MR. MANICO GRULL'S NEW BOOK ON

CHINA.

REVIEWED BY SIR REGINALD JOHNSTON.

approximate to the truth.

A new book by Mr. E. MANICO GULL, entitled FACETS OF THE

The author raises, but does not CHINESE QUESTION" is reviewed at attempt to answer the question some length in the News Chronicle whether wo. Europeans would dis- by Sir Reginald F. Johnston, play similar savagery if the former Commissioner of Wei-hai habitual restraints were removed. Wei, and Professor Elect of ChiThe question should be pondered, nese Language and Literature in because on our answer to it must the University of London.

Bir largely depend our Reginald writes as follows:-

One of the main purposes of this short but admirable book is to sug gest an answer to the question whe ther the history of China has been most affected by practical purposes, in the Western, sense of the phrase, or by ethical, spiritual and artistic

purposes.

In questioning whether the Chi-

tical, people as they are often re nes are such an eminently "prac

presented to be, Mr. Gull ands himself in emphatic disagreement with Mr. J. O. P. Bland and many other writers who believe that | "indifference to things spiritual is a keynote of the Chinese race" and I believe he is in his view.

judgment on the Chinese peoplo; and their civilisation.

I we reluctantly

come to the conclusion that under like conditions of a collapse of established order terrible sconés similar to those now witnessed daily in China might be observed in Europe and in England, we 'shall no doubt lament the fact that the "ape and tiger" have not

Chiness as more cruel or sadistic Jet died out of the human race, but we should be wrong to condemn, the

than ourselvea.

Olvilisation for the Tow. Perhaps the fact is that only `a. limited proportion of the people of any country aro truly civilised lyustified and could be trusted to conduct themselves as civilised beings in an uncivilised environment; and we may hope, oven if wo are not quite certain, that in England and in other European countries, the pro- portion of the population that is truly civilised is somewhat larger than it is at present in China.

Mr. Gull's remarks on

the racial

He gives us reasons-in my apin- ion valid ones for his belief that Chinese history and civilisation can only be understood if we as sume that practical purposes have been subordinated to those of a cultural and artistic nature. He rightly laya great stress on the important part that the Chinese written language, with its thou sands of ideograms, bas played in determining the direction of Chi- nese civilisation and in moulding | able to the educated, natives of““ Chiness mentality.

India and China, are not at all too , strong.

prejudices of the average English- man, whose assumption of superi- ority over the peoples of the East is becoming mon, and more intoler-

The Truth About Cruelty. The chapter on the sinister. I believe that one of the causes aido" of Chinese life, with special underlying the present revolt of the roference to the atrocious crueltics East against Western domination and sadistie horrors which are in largely the sudden emergence or being daily perpetrated in all parts rather intensification not only of. of China where the forces of law racial, and national but of in and order have been upset, makes | 'dividual self-consciousness. This in very distressing reading, but it its turn is partly the result of tho must not be skipped by squeamish | gradual detay of the family system readers, because any conception of and the consequent emergence of China as it is today must find the individual as the social unit, room, for these things if it is to "Continued on Page 3.)

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