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A quarterly non-political review of life and conditions in China.

Changing China is an interesting and useful quarterly. The articles which it 'contains have been written in the form of letters by men and women of various ranks of life who are living in the interior of China. The reader gets a picture or rather a series of pictures of life in Modern China, and at the same time a resumé of the progress made in industrial development during the past quarter

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"TIKES" LITERARY SUPPLEMENT dated 19 h October, 1883.

CHANGING OBINA. A Quartazky No-Fetifical Barlow of Life and Conditions in Modern China. Vol. 1, No. 1 April, 1933, 123 pp. Fol. L. No. 2, Faly; 1933, 128 pp. 7X 41. Hongkong Daly Press (65, Fleet Street, E.0.4.). 11. 6d. n. pach. In a predatory, note the editor exptals that the pers pose of this newly established quarterly is to keep a rosord of the progessa på ovesta in all parts of China and, by disseminating fuller knowledge of the -country steal conditions and needs, to sariat in the promotion of trade and a better understanding be tween East and West, To this end, qualified corre spondents in every province káve undertaken to supply reports, commentarice, and forecasts, The Arst two numbers contain saveral articles on interesting sup jesta.g., the industrial development of the Knang provinces, the spread of Communism, the condition of the native cotton industry, and the Mind of Young Chlu

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IMPERISHABLE

DOCUMENT

New Process On Gold

The perishability of written re- cords of all kinds has come into deserved prominence within the past few years. This is partly because the salvge work of the various re- cord societies has been hampered almost as much by wilful neglect sa by deliberate destruction, and partly because the impermanence of paper and printer's ink has been causing concern to libraries and their uniting body, the Library Association. Accordingly, a recent invention which dispensés aliko with paper and ink, parchment and pig ment, as retaining media for writ ings, may repay attention.

INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE

Feasible Only With

· Disarmament

Specific proposals that a perman- ant international force should be placed at the disposal of the Lea- gue of Nations are contained in the French disarmament plan which will shortly be under discussion at Geneva.

Although the Anglo-Saxon mind has never taken kindly to the idea of a permanent international force the fact that a Great Power such as France has given is official ap- proval in a concrete form suggests that the pros and cons should at least be seriously debated.

It is impossible, say the prota- gomists of an International Police The inventor, Mr. Everard Digby, Force, to conceive of any civilized set out to provide a method of community in which force has been Behind all recording which would be proof satirely eliminated, against all forms of decay, imper-laws stand the Judge and the Policeman. Until men become an- gels and we reach the millennium, the practical problem must be, not how to use it in the right way, i.e. how to abolish force altogether, but

in the defence of law and order.

meable to insects and bacterial in-

fection and capable of withstanding neglect or burial in earth, swaINŲ, ot water. No animal or vegetable tissue appeared to fulfil then's "coa-, ditions, and of metals hole wa known to be absolutely immune from rust or the attacks of atmo-

spheric acids except gold platinum group of metals.

and the

These metals were accordingly selected as the components of an imperishable document, and Mr. Digby went on to discover what appears to be the first satisfactory method of imprinting platinum characters and half-tone upon gold, The thin sheets of gold he uses" are one four-thousandth of an inch in thickness (roughly the thickness of a page of The Times). They will bend but not crumple, Gold above 18 carats in fineness is too soft for the process, gold below 14 carats contains too many impurities to ensure permanence, but between these limits excellent results appear to be attained:

PLATI UM AND GOLD ~

That the League of Nations may, in difficult ciremmstances, be com- pelled to resort to pressure to en- force the observance of interna- tional obligations is contemplated under Article XVI of its Coven ant the famous article on **BDC- tions." Those vague provisions, it is argued, should be organised, in order that the League may imime- diately be able to suppress war and bring assistance to any State vic tim of aggression.

THE ORANGE CAPITAL

Belfast From An American Angle

The above title should not be allowed to smother the aspiring and well-rounded character Ulster's capital, yet it is a fact

that each twelfth of July is Bel- On this day in fast's "big day." the year 1689. William of Orange won the Battle of the Boyne. It is a fact, too, that wherever you go in the "Norhern Countries,” you are likely to see a big gaunt struc- ture called "Orange Hall.” It may be of a drab, alate gray color or dingy brick, but it is nevertheless militantly "orange, which means, or course, militantly Protestant

Few Americans

realize their

country's enormous debt to Uister. In the pre-Revolutionary period. Ulstermen by tens of thousands, oppressed by their landlords, fed to America,

Actually Ulster lost one; per cent of her population each year for some decades. Whitelaw Reid called aftention to the fact that the Declaration of In- dependence 15 in the handwriting of an Ulsterman; that it was first publicly read by a second Ulster- man; and that it was first printed by a third Ulsterman, Even more impressive is the fact that nine of our presidents have been of Ulster descent, Behold the list: Andrew Jackson, James "K. Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Ar- thur, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson. Con- sider mathematics of this column. Some four per cent of Great Britain's population (Ulster has only a million and a half in- habitants) have fathered thirty per cent of our presidents and this takes no account of those (includ ing the Roosevelts) who are of other than British ancestry. The

the

motto of the city of Belfast, it seems, should be our motto when thinking of Ulster: "Pro Tanto Quid. Retribuamus" (For So Much What Shall We Give in Return?).

If such a proposal should eventu- ally find favour, with the Govern- ment of the world, it is clear that it will have to be linked up with a general reduction of armaments. Three main plans have been sug- gested in various quarters. The first is based on a quota of men and material to be received from each of the Member-States, while the second contemplates a complete self-contained international force. In view of obvious objections to each of these methods, the third -After some experimente it was scheme is composita, embodying, the observed that print or script could best features of each of the other be read most clearly when the two. Stress is laid on a differen- margin of the page was left in tiation of weapons, which is inter- polished gold, the background of the esting in the light of the efforts to lettering being brightly polished abolish aggressive weapons at the platinum and the lettering itself Disarmament Conference. Certain matt platinum. Since the document types of aircraft, for example, or printed matter is reproduced by should be handed over for the use A process akin to photography-in- of the League, deed involving photography-there As with the internal administra-thing doing, but there has been is no chance of an inaccurate re-tion of justice, this force should be cording. The results are so minute allowed to operate only within in their exactness that portraits can clearly defined limits, for example be reproduced very faithfully on a to uphold the verdicts of the finely tueshed line-block of the same Permanent Court of International thinness and permanence as the gold and platinum documents,

Belfast to-day, like nearly every other industrial city in the world, in the doldrums." Ita two great industries

are shipbuilding and linen weaving. In the former she is terribly hit as is Glasgow "across the way. There is, in short, no-

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Justice. Since problems of equity In 1638, Belfast's first ship was may arise, Lord Davies of Llan-bullt, a 130-ton sloop called the of Eagle's Wing which conveyed Irish A potrait of Prince George has dinam (the principal apostle been reproduced, by permission, by the International Police Force in Presbyterians to the freedom of the Digby process, and the shading Great Britain) looks upon the the New World: From this smali a valuable beginning the industry gradually comes out well by the use of polished Lytton Commission as

took root. The White Star Line platinum for the blacks" and matt precedent. He suggestion is that a

has been Belfast's great custom- platinum for the "whites of the similar body should be made a per- original photograph. The possibili-manent part of the League's mich-er, some seventy of its liners hav- ty of an unfading portrait seems inery. Opposition to the creation ing been built here. as valuable for historical purposes of an International Police Force is giant of the sea, a Write Star as that of an unfading document. based on various grounds, i.e. that boat, stood ready for launching." Its realization has depended on the it is undesirable, unnecessary, pre- Like a prisoner, it bore only a num- combination of the highest technique mature, impracticable or inconsis-ber, for such is the universal cus- of the pirater, the potographer, and Much can clearly be said and tent with national sovereignty. the goldsmith.

written on both sides.

The expense of the materials and the rather arduous technique re- quired make it highly improbable that the Digby process will ever form a serious rival to paper or even to parchment for general pur- poses. But the price of imprinting a minute quantity of platinum upen "relatively negligible weight of

а

gold is not so high that it cannot

CONTESTS OF THE PAST

Cat-and-Dog Fight

We are being taken so much be be used for really important docu-hind the scenes just now in regard, ments which are intended to have a to the "fight for circulation" be life measurable (if measurable at tween certain newspapers that the all) in centuries rather than years. subject is no longer one of those

PLAQUES OF SPEECHES

In 1912 a

tom. A ship acquires a name only when ready to be released from the stocks. This one received the resounding and appropriate name "Titanic" and was gloriously set free. The appalling result of this freedom threw the whole world into mourning. A moving memor lai stands at the corner of Donegall Place, the city's central square, commemorating the many Belfast men who went down with the Titanic, Belfast spent much money on this monument and yet four times as much she gave out- tight to the relief of the families who were stricken.

In this great shipbuilding port, steel gantries slide back and forth carrying huge plates as lightly as

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