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CHINESE CULTURE AND

CIVILISATION

The Rev. F. R. Lankester's Eloquent Tribute

"MY FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS”

Preaching on Sunday at St. John's Cathedral the Rev. F. R. Lankester of Yunnan, made an eloquent and outspoken appeal to European people in Hong Kong to get to know the Chinese people about them, to put into practice the teachings of Christianity in all their dealings with this great race, and, above all to abandon the un- pleasant manifestations of superiority complex.”

"Mr. Lankester paid a remarkable tribute to the Chinese people and Chinese culture. He has lived among them for over ten years. "It is impossible_for ne in any sense to look down upon the Chinese. They have been my friends and companions, the sharers of my joys and any successes in my life, and the sympathi. sers too in my sorrows and many failures...'

"When one is living in close contact with members of this great old race, one realizes that distinctions of race and colour, and differences of nationality and language, one only like a thin veneer, and the solid

part. underneath, the part that matters most, is the same.'

HONG KONG ĐAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1933.

SALE OF POPPIES Over $6,200 Collected For Earl Haig's Fund

Although the final figures are still not available because certain cen- tres have not yet sout in their returna, the amount received to date through the sale of poppies on Armistice Day reached 86,200.

The sellers in Hong Kong were under the charge of Mrs. "E. D. C. Wolfe, while Mrs, J. H. Hunt sap- erintended the Kowloon salea..

It is gratifying to note that no less than 8713.97 was collected from H. M. Ships while the compara tively small community in Taikoo raid $110.00. Mention must here be made of the excellent results achieved at Happy Valley where the daughters of members of the Civil Service Club took charge of the Lales.

'INVISIBILITY OF SUBMARINES

Less Top-Hamper

A new policy with regard to the construction of British submarines was foreshadowed in the "Morning Post" on August 11th.

I then stated that naval officers believed that British submarines Iess

HONG KONG'S GREAT OPPORTUNITY would, in future bave much

The Rev. F. R. Lankester took his text from Roman XII, verse 3. For I say to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly

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The Preacher said:- Each one of us looks out on life

from a different angle. Heredity, upüringing, environment, profes- sion, temperament, standing, each one of them effects financial the kind of seat or box from which

we look down on the stage, on which the drama of life, its comedy or tragedy, is being play- ed before our eyes. When you get 3 number people looking out on life from the same or similar angle, then they form themselves into a social class or clique and if this division or distinction is made too clearly or thought too impor-

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it always impresses me as a kind of fairyland, East. Although I live among the story-book-like mountains amid beautiful scenery in Yunnan, yet Hongkong seems to me to have a beauty of its own, Impossible to compare with other places. As I see the Iffe here one matter stands out very clearly in my mind, and that is the unique opportunity

here for thus promoting real, honest good- getting to know the Chinese, and will, between the nations, and so

that exist

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the superiority

East efforts in this direction Real un- diplomatic derstanding cannot come through treaties, pacts, or conferences.

channels, through can only come through natural

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top-hamper.. and a smaller above- water form, with a view to decreas when operating on ing the visibility of these craft the surface," that newspaper. writes the naval correspondent of

Some of the "8" class submarines have since been altered with this object. The first of these, H.M.S. Seahorse, has returned to service after alterations.

This submarine now. shows

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CHARGES FOR WATER

Complaints From Meterage Area

CHINESE LANDLORDS

BADLY HIT

There has been recently a num- ber of complains from those living in Chinese tenement houses that the charges for water made by the au- chorities have been excessive and there appears to be very general feeling that something should be done to investigate whether or not the meters are functioning properly. Complaints have been coming from all parts of the Colony, ae- cording to Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, who was interviewed by a "Daily Press' representative on the question.

It is learned that in some cases the water charges are so high that they amount to almost half the rent paid on the premises

flat rate charge for water are

Chinese landlords, who make badly hit as those who have to meet their own water bills. The general the area which has been recently complaints. have arisen mostly from put on the materage system.

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There is every likelihood that this will be taken up by the Chinese question of excessive water charges community and representations made to the government. It is un- derstood that quite a number of sg.

NEW MOTOR BUSES On The Repulse

Bay Route

The Shanghai Hongkong Hotels Limited inaugurated their new service to Repulse Bay yesterday when five big new Bedford buses were placed at the disposal of their guests. These cars which are finer

than any

formerly in operation in the Colony have a passenger capacity of twenty per-! sons each, and are a great advance upon the old type of bus.

They are finished in grey enamel on the outside and the interior is more like a parlour than a car. All the seats and upholstery are finished in grey leather and designed to give the maximum amount of com- fort, and space to passengers.

These cars will run upon the same schedule as the old buses used to, and will reach Repulse Bay in about twenty-minutes from the Hotel. time of leaving the Hongkong.

A RACIAL PROBLEM

Canadian Natives Of Mongol Type

The of a people always

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practically minded souls who get greatly reduced shove water form offices of the Water Authority yes tish Columbia one of the largest their joy from facts and facts alone. Our representative visited the The history of the natives of Bri and a general reduction of top- deck casings been considerably cutent had received a hamper. Not only have the upper terday and was told that Govern- provinces in Canada should have a down, but the 3-inch gun, which complaints, both from Hongkong in or familiar with the Orient, for number of special attraction for anyone living give a valuable contribution to world peace.

wae formerly mounted just before and Kowloon, but mainly from the the commonly called Siwash Indian the conning tower on a platform buses which have been put on the of British Columbia is neither a complex of many Europeans in the raised several feet above the deck meterage system within the past Ocidental nor an Oriental, he is

level, is now mounted much lower eighteen months. great hindance to all

an enigma, a little of both. His on a level with the deck. The gun, The Executive Engineer in charge

facial features strongly represent moreover, is on mounting. The top-hamper of the the bulk of the complaints received bear a direct likeness to the coolie a disappearing of the Waterworks dice stated that the Mongolian and in many ways he bridge has also been reduced.

by him came from districte which of not very deanly habits and as of Hongkong. Small, of stature, In consequence, the Seahorse now up till recently had drawn their unlike his romantic brother of the the submarines of her class before and did not then have to pay for it, far less visible when operating on alterations. It follows that she is

claim that thousands of years ago. It was stated that overcrowding he migrated from China and is e the surface-a consideration of the sible for the heavy consumption of Oriental and the people who then in certain areas was partly respon result of the interbreeding of the utmost importance, since rubma water. In one Chinese house of two rines have to lie on the surface or three flats in the Taipingahan

inhabited Canada's Pacific Coast.

From time to time, ancient coins processes and strange

teries, and have to proceed to and than 120 people lived. It was not of B.C. which bear markings that forms of culture. We have here so many

from their patrol positions largely surprising therefore that under are plainly Chinese characters and men., are

on the surface on nocount of their such conditions a vast quantity of only two months ago, a medal, said women brought up in slow speed and limited radius of water in excess of the free allow- to be 8000 years old was discovered schools like Our shaped- and trained in Western" action when submerged. ways. If one meets some of the

in the heart of a giant Douglas fir planks. This souvenir was sent to tree which was being cut into an antique shop in Victoria, the capital city of the Province, and is now on display there,

tant it rightly or wrongly is social coacts; leading to mutual appears very much smaller than supply from the rider main system plains as possible, many historians

understanding and appreciation." Look at the opportunity that exists. To a large extent in Rong- kong we are not up against the barrier that language forms. need not spend years in getting an

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understanding of different thought when charging their electric bat-district it was found that no, fewer have been found buried in the wilds'!

ese men

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ance' was used.

reckoned as sagbbishness or vulgarity, a weakness in human nature to which the human race, and some think, in particular our English race, is over prone.

As regards myself I feel that I berhaps have been looking out on Me during the last 10 or more bars from a different angle from hat of most of you who are kind-

Istening to me, Nearly twenty years in the in- telor of China; finding ones best frinds amongst the Chinese, ap-most cultured Chinese gentlemen about the conditions in Hongkong sentative that the meters were all

I cannot pretend to know enough

It was explained to our repre- pretating the contribution, their and ladies here in Hongkong in a forn of culture and civilisation, social way, one cannot help being to give much advice, as to how tested before installation and that ther old philosophies and" customs deeply impressed You find Chip- we can in practice give this con- they were tested in exactly the same have given to the world, must

and women who speak tribution to international goodwill manner as that employed by the make a man look down on the

and write our language better than

and world peace, and give practi- manufacturers at Home. Inciden drina going on day by day before

many of us do ourselves. You look cal expression of the spirit of tally it was pointed out that the his eyes from a different angle to

for intelligence and knowledge of Jesus Christ in everyday relation-meters were ordered from a firm that of others who during these

English literature, science, art and

ship with the Chinese. Of course which had been seventy years in the same years have been living a life

culture and your find Chinese who

if we try to get to know the Chin- business, and that these very meters hire in Hongkong very kimilar

ese around us as a duty," it tahad been satisfactorily in use in to life in England, or have spent these maters than most of us are perhaps more proficient in

hopeless and useless. No form of Hongkong for the past thirty years. most of this time in Europe or the You look out. on sport and you

organisation or society is much With regard to the testing of the Dominions. I may perhaps bend them playing our ganes and good. It must be spontaneous and meter, it was pointed out that the biased. I probably am, but there enjoying our pastimes and many

natural. With a feeling of bene-consumer was always invited to be is no great harm in' that because

excel us in their athletic ability, fitting ourselves by such contact, present at the test, but this offer in all questions it is generally best to study rather blassed views

minds of a lot rather lian helping others, We was not always availed of by the can and should however clear our consumer. on each side, and then perhaps take a middle course. OURSELVES AND THE CHINESE On this Sunday, the day after Armistice Day, our thoughts turn- ed to what our contribution as men and women trying to live in the spirit of Jesus Christ should be goodwill and furthering the cause

are

ing out on them the same angle These men and women are look. that we are ourselves.

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shallow thinkingIt was also stated that any con- and out of date ideas and realize sumer who desired to have his that a

cultured Chinese can be meter tested could have this done! and is the equal in every way of a on payment of $10 which included cultured European. Perhaps the all charges, but the money would be most practical method is the social refunded if the test proved the com one and a determination to try

It seems to me that if we fall to look on them as our equals, as being of the same class, or mem- bers of the same clique as we are, then we are making a great mis- take, and losing a great opportun ity for promoting international and ook on people just as they er to have a legitimate cause for

really are.

If we are

complaint. Buch instances had been able to do so very rare, however, probably one

towards World Peace. It is a pity of world peace as well as casting thieri let us make opportunities meter in a thousand proving erre-

to let this important question be aaide an opportunity of getting for ourselves and give opportun- come so general and its scope" so enjoyment and pleasure. wide that it is shrouded in mist or We are failing too, as Christian

ities to others of meeting the The accuracy of the meters was men and women, in carrying into Chinese around us, through friend not to be doubted, if anything, the We can easily make it a practi-practice the spirit of Jesus Christy and genuine social contacts and registration was slightly in the con- cal problem. Here we are living and promoting that real brother- so help, clear up so much misumer's favour..

fog.

In close contact with another great race and our contribution, should be to try and improve the relation- ship and promote understanding and goodwill and friendship be- tween ourselves and the Chinese around us

hood among men that we should fatherhood of God. have if we believe really in the

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them.

TYPHOON TRAGEDY

Thousands of years ago, China evidently found it was worth her while to investigate the natural re- sources of the continent of North America surely nowadays, when these same resources are so much more easily obtained, it would be worth while for business men to try and promote a feeling of closer har mony and co-operation with the "Lady of the Snows."

JAPANESE POLITICAL

MURDER

Prisoner's One Regret. The end of one stage of the trial of Nagamitsu Kawasaki, who at tempted to shoot Nishida took place. at the Tokyo District Court on Saturday:

In the early part of the day's. proceedings, the accused described his reasons for undertaking the murder of the betrayer Nishida and the soone of his outrage at his prospective victim's residence. He stated in conclusion that he was very sorry that he had not com- pletely destroyed Nishida,

numerons, “institutes,

understanding. We should too, it seems to me, reward Chinese men and women who are doing valuable Surely it is only class snobbery of their race or colour. Treating and honest work for us irrespective and race prejudice that can make them according to their value as

person judge anyone else by any

In the afternoon the bench allow- It is impossible for me in an a man or woman really is at hearty without subordination such other standard than that of what scales according to their national- men and women, without different

Twenty-four Per

Persons Lost In ed Kawasaki to make his harangus sense to look down upon the Race, colour, money, profession, men and women fust because they

regarding the miserable state of Chinese. They have been my social position, should not be used

Fishing ・Boat⋅

family he in rural communities, friends and companiona, the

are not Europeans.

for which he and his comrades rose sharers of my joys and any suc- ax weights in this balance, that we cesses in my life, and the synse to test men and women and into this problem, not only affee- 2770 with the total loss of twenty-The future in store for the

Let us bring the spirit of Christ

in the May 16th case," the following The sinking of fishing boat No. being its purport. pathisers too, in my sorrows and contribution of the war was to general and individuals in parti- typhoon, about a week ago, was re-ing than the lavish apprenticeship

estimate their value.

One great ting our treatment of Chinese in four persons during many failures.

the last children of rural families is noth- When one is living in close con-help sweep this away, and one cular but changing also our at ported to the Water Police yester for boys and the lives a factory. tact with members of this great

great contribution we can make to world peace is for us to clear titude and mental outlook towards day by a Chinese woman named women, maidservants and abandon- old race, one realizes that dis-

our minds of fog and mist, and re- tinctions of race and colour, and cognize that the value of a man radical changes in its thoughs and According to the report, the boat established cetensibly for the impro

Chan Ab Bue, the mother-in-lawed waitresses. - The world to-day needs many of the master of the sunken boat. There are differences of nationality and language, are only like a thin an is not something out ideas If we are to assure our child left Hong Kong for Shanmal on a vement of the life of rural women; veheer, and the solid part under something inward what they really Peace Sunday let us not think of ber; and on her return on Monday represented by the Patriotie Wo ward what they look like, but ren of world peace. So on this shing voyage on the 13th: Octo- but, preotically, such institutes, as neath, the part that matters are.

The underlying nature, person-

As Christians we believe in some ought to think, but think soberly.

ourselves more highly than we eth November, she encountered a men's Society, have never shown alit character, does not differ future existence of a human soul, Not drunk with our own impor-side Victoria Harbour and was slough of misery

typhoon near Tom Kon Tau" ouf much seal to relieve them from the Fadically from that of Europeans and surely even in our wildest im- tance of posttion, race or colour, cuised and runk leaving her Contrasted with the frivolous life The trouble in that most people armation we have not thought of Then we can selse this unique optures white masts exposed of wealthy woman whose daily only see the outer layers, the tom heaven in which nations and portunity while living here in Venter, and they do not have the races will be segregated and cut Hongkang of promoting real good-

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four persons were work is to visit to theatres and de- opportunity of Inclination, the off from contact and intercourse will and understanding frenchhip drowned and all property valued partment stores, the rural women time of the ability it may be to with each other. Even outward and appreciation between West about 35,000, in the boat was are destined to servility, ignorance see behind the vericer, the solid differences will be non-existent and East particularly between the characteristics that lie there. 23 beyond the grave and our duty as British and Chinese and thus in The masts were recognized by a rural women-is

But the cause of much a THE FAIRY BEAUTY OF

followers of our Lord Jesus Christ, the spirit of Jesus Christ give our sherman who informed the wo-oapitalism Is to make these differences non-conflrbution, as HONG KONG MERA existant while we still inhabit world peace and international Hong Kong last Saturday after

Christians to man concerned when he arrived Whenever I come to Hongkong this material world..

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