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CITY UNDER THREE FLAGS

Tsingtao Now And Before

MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS

REVIEWED

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step clon. Up'til the present a total Tsingtao has ahead of its sister cities in intro- of $45,000 has been loaned out.

To reduce the burden of the ducing an efficient system of peo- ple's self-government. in con-people-co-operative societies for

structing 1,000 model houses, in building public cemeteries, in giv- ing a "new dial" to the rickshaw pullers, in promoting free educa- tion, in training a strong police force and in initiating a host of other municipal reforms under the enlightened leadership of Rear Admiral Shen Hung-lieh. Mayor, during the last five years.

This was revealed by the Mayor himself when addressing a public gathering at a celebration cera- mony on the occasion of the 13th rendition of anniversary of the the city held here recently. While achleve- proudly reviewing the ments of the Tsingtao City Gov-

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Jew ernment during the

Shen alsn Rear-Admiral years, outlined His future administrative policies in detail with the eventual hape of making the city one of the "model municipailties" in China.

SINCE RENDITION Since the rendition of the city in 1922, the Municipal Govern- ment, Mayor Shen said. has cen- tered its efforts on cultural and material reconstruction in view of the large rural populace and the vvast tracts of rural districts sur- rounding the city. Being aware of the importance of these two aa- pects of reconstruction work, he has also given them due emphasis. since his assumption of office in 1931.

For

the rearing of hens and pigs and for the transportation and sale of various daily necessities have been organized.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1– 1936.

"LADY PRECIOUS POPULARISING ANGLO-CHINESE

STREAM

ON A BARE STAGE

Audiences Imagina- tion To Supply Details

GOLF

THE PART PLAYED BY NEWSPAPERS

When Ball Was 5/ Each

Mr. Ewing. in proposing the

FRIENDSHIP

HELPED BY THE ART EXHIBITION

Message From The President

London, Dec. 9.

M.C.C. BATSMEN IN FORM

Centuries by Parks And Smith

Dunedin, Dec. 31. The M.C.C. tourists in New Zea land were in great form, Smith and Parks scar.ng centuries while Sims had the distinction of taking three wickets for 11 runs in dis- the Otago missing the whole or batsmen for 78 ruma

The visitors scored 307 for 3. Smith 165, which included, tw

The exhibition, of works of Chinese art now being held at the Royal Academy, consutuses, in the words of the President of the Chinese Republic, another mile

over the boundary and stone in the friendly, relationshits

This phrase occurred in a mes- became associated in a sage from the president, which ship which" produced. 339 runs for was read at a dinner at Lancaster the first wicker Both played bril- wee Great Britain and China. twenty to the ropes; and Parks 103

House last night, given by thellant cricket. "

The 300 was hoisted in 196 minu- Government to representatives of the various countries and organites.

sations associated with the exhibi- Reuter tion.

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partner-

Mr. A. M'L Ewing, a director or The production of "Lady Pro- George Outrura and Co. Ltd.), cious Stream" by the Arts Associa- tion of the Hong Kong University was the principal guest at the an next week will afford those re-nual dinner in the Caledonian sidents in the Colony who are not Hotel, Edinburgh, last night of

the Edinburgh and East of Scot familar with the Chinese stage an opportunity of seeing just land Newspaper Trade Golf Club. What a Chinese play is like, with- out the bar of language. Except toast of "The Club, spoke of the that the dialogue is in English part newspapers had played in the He had, he said, spent some and is not sung but spoken, the development of the game. production follows Chinese stage time consulting files of old news convention. :. Instead of the de-

Western papers, and he had been surpris: tailed realism of the theatre, which seeks to reproduce ed to find how Uttle space was on the actual, stage as closely as devoted 60 years ago to sport in

Mr. Ormsby-Core First Com- possible, the scene of the play general Morning newspapers left the field of football entirely to the

In a reference to the works..on down to every detail, the stages bare save for a few chairs, and "evenings." contenting themselves missioner of Works, who presided.

debtedness to many lands for the shockingly incongruous to over- is the audience who must supply, with only brief summaries in their acknowledged this country's in-view, he said he had the wo

Other sports received scant at-loan of treasures assembled in hear a young lady wonder how & from their imagination. all the Monday issues,fid Invisible properties, made use of by the actors, while it is the tention, editors, no doubt, Delley the exhibition. In his thanks to portrait of Henry Van, and ros

of the actors. by the ing that it was their high office the Chinese Government as the to educate, the public by giving 10 foremost contributor, he remarked business truth of their gestures, to make and small hospitals have been est-

to 20 columns of a Parliamentary that a considerable part of its svident what those properties are. ablished in various villages and

So invisible doors are opened and debate on some dry-a-dust sub-collection was from the works of shut: invisible horses are ridden, Ject, such as the disestablishment art secured by the gifted and cul- counties

FREE EDUCATION

included many marvels of early The

most important work dismounted, and tied to Invisible of the Church or the abolition of tivated Emperor Chien. Lung, and

bends the House of Lorda, et

craftsmanship...le Stream trees, Precious the educational programme, dur- ing the past year, Mayor then double to creep through the low invisible door to her humble In- pointed out, has been the promo visible cave, news an invisible gar- ment with an Invisible needle, a at her own imaginary reflection in

With a view, to improving the fe of the richsaw pullers, club houses have been established for them and they have all been re- gistered at the Bureau of Social' Welfare. For the convenience of the rickshaw pullers as well as the a public dining hall, workers where meals

Berved at the lowest prices possible, has been established. Meanwhile, cllates

are

Into the exhibition, and then, to note her incredulity when she dis- covered that she was looking at a

portrait of Kublai Khan,

Among those present were; - The Chinese, Brazilian, French, German, Soviet and Turkish Am bassadors, the Netherlands and Iranian Ministers, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. Walter Runciman

tion of free education. "A total Sof-306 classes of the primary grade has been opened with a total of deplores her lost beauty by gazing sive game 70 years ago, when the Ormsby-Gore, that never before (Fresident Board of Trade). Ears ·

12.000 students. These have been conducted with appropriations

an imaginary bastn

of water.

ADVENT OF THE GUTTA It was customary to refer to or as the royal and ancient game; it was certainly an expen- feather hall was in general use, The minimum cost of one of these careful how they risked, those balls

(President Royal Academy), Bir

from the Municipal Government/Hsieh Ping-Kuel, returning home balls was 5s, and good scots were' titled 10,000 miles on the Yangtse Percival David (Director Chinese

and subsidizes from the Central from the Western Regions,

Government.

The Municipal Government pas. Mayor Shen continued, spared no efforts in the promotion of edu- cation for the grown-ups. A total of 200 classes have been opened with upwards of 10.000 men and women attending them.

Construction funds for schools appropriated by Government, according to Mayor Shen, amounted to $210,000.

Turning to public works in the municipality during the past year,

the Municipal

In order to expedite the deve lopment ur cultural and material reconstruction he has sought to co-ordinate political, administra- tion and people's education.

low Mayor Shen mentioned the im- the past three years the

provement of water supply at a Inteligence level of the masses

the bad necessitated. promo- cost of over $200,000, the adjust tion of education through pallment of the sewage system, the construction of highways in the tical power, but stice last June the comparative advancement of rural districts, the beautification the people's intelligence has made of the it possible to utilize education po- wer to complete political reforms.

In other words, Mayor Shen ax-of small piers and bridges. plained, while the past three years had been a period of political tutelage, since last June, it has entered into a period of people's self-government.

Laoshan tourist centre. the building of a new bly wharf at a cost of $3,900,000 and a number

... POLICE WORK ..-...

over

dis-

horse mounts from an imaginary and ties invisible. reins tow an The young Invisible willowtree.

non-exist- knock at a suitors

and 1t their feet ent gate

the Imaginary 62 step.

and threshold; Precious Stream her maid mount invis ble steps to the fatal pavilion. The required gestures have become in the cours: of centuries so highly stylized. hat what on the western stage might serm awkward or ridiculous ats with an easy smoothness into the harmonious whole of the play.

W regret that owing to the paper going to press early en Ne Year's Eve. a detailer account of the play mast necessarily be held up for our issue on Friday.-Ed.1

NEVER DISPLAYED BEFORK

I understand" said Mr. has that marvellous, 13th-century of Lytton, Sir William Llewellyn roll painting by Shiah Kway, en- River, been displayed in its entire-

7 fairways and ty to mortal eyes" to од the narrow

Visitors to the exhibition, hazards which were then cómmon

added, could learn more about the cr: courses. (Laughter.)

from It was not fill the late '80s, byl of China there than which time the gutta ball at a many booka.... afth of the price was in common

he

Exhibition), Maj.-Gen. Bir Neil Malcolm, Dr. F. T. Chang, Sir George Hill, Baron Ino, Dan Bir Walter Russell, Bir E.: Denison Ross, Prof. W. Perceval Fetts, Bir Victor Wellesley. Prot. W. G. Con- The Chinese Ambassador de-stable, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Mr. Edward Blayon, Bir use, that golf: began to come into scribed the collection as the most Laurence its own. It even came within the definite and comprehensive exhl Crowe, Str W. Goscombe John, Str Sir Eric Maclagan, and range of the impecunious news-billon of achievements in Chinese Cecil Harcourt-Smith, Sir stephen paper man-(laughter)--and in a arts that the Western world had Gaselée.

Major E. N S. Crankshaw. Very few years the leading news-ever seen. papers were devoting great atten- tion to the sport.

It had oftení beer claimed, Mr.

Ewing said, that Mr. A, J. Balfour's fondness for the game had great influence. In popularising it, but he believed that the newspapers of Edinburgh and Glasgow could claim a still greater degree of credit for helping to make the game of golf what it was to-day- the most popular gama not only The youth problem, Mayor Shen of Scotland but of all the countries declared, is also a serious sqcial of the world:: (Applause.) Mr. B. J. Innes replied. problem at present. To give acade- To ensure peace preservation in mic, athletic and vocational guld-Other toasts included "Edin- the Municipality the police force ance to the youth a Tsingtao burgh Corporation." proposed by has been strengthened. A Po-Young Men's Association will be Mr. Hugh W. Dawson and replied lice, Officers Training Class has instituted under the auspices of to by Battle Tom Stevenson; and "Scottish Golf" proposed by Mr. been opened to train competent educational authorities. WORK REVIEWED

Turning to economic reforms, W. J. Guild, ex-president of the ... Reviewing the work of the police officers. Police dogs have

Municipal Government during the been-trained to help in detective Mayor Shen suggested that in or- Scottish Golf Union, and acknow- past year, Mayor Shen stated that work. More police stations have der to promote commerce and in-fledged by Dr. J. F. A. Wood, in accordance with an order of also been established in various dustry there must be close co- parts of the municipality to main- operation, between Anancial and the Shantung Provincial Govern-

commercial and industrial circles. ment Laoshan has been transfer-tain peace and order.

The promotion of agriculture Unless there be co-operation, be red to the control of the Tsingtao

tween them, the development of Municipal Government from the and forestry, has also demanded Tzemo District Government. This much of the attention of the commerce and industry could xos

Government Mayor be accelerated... 7 ata, sa 10- island has a total area of 200 Municipal

affirmed! Horticultural Meanwhile, the management of square kilometers, the greater part Sten of which is hilly land. Farmlands gardens, saplings, I experimental various commercial-and industrial 25.959 mow, stations, and hens and pigs rear- organs must be improved. Sclenta-, occupy about only

ing stations have been bulit, In- from which an annual tax revenue

proved wheat, vegetable and fruit of about $6,400 is realized.

Since its transfer to the Tsing- seeds have been distributed among

Agricultural the the farmers,- tao Municipal Government,

out to give

PLAGUE SYMPTOMS

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Moscow, Dec. 30% new of the fact, states

fic methods of management must spy et official news agency that be introduced to heighten working cases of nese ending fatally and, efficiency. The personnel must symptoms which point to plague. ex- aleg be, trained, especially in the are occurring in Manchukuo in the Russian district of Blagovyeshchens the territory bordering the Bovlet Government. has decided prov'stonally to class the frontier between the Soviet Union and Amur between the frontier post a Manchukuo, gong the River Kamark, and Pashkova, a distants

population of Laoshan has in-perts have been frequently sent new methods of production and

izwirnetion(tai the transaction. # Made" E-Mar creased by 8,557 householda er 40,481 persons. Owing to the deve. farmers in the improvement of lopment of commerce and indus-farming methods.-To-arotes- Duh- try. the population. in. Tangtao lie interest in the agricultural de proper has also increased by 4,631 velopment agricultural fairs have households or 13,974 persons. The also been being total increase is therefore 13,188 households or 63,455 persona.

all transit through the frontier about five hundred kilometres control in the town of Blagovye- shchens be suspended- Transocean Run Mir

NEW YEAR RECEPTION POSTPONED

Tinder the "serious.

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Specs

OTHER SOCIAL WORK Mayor Shei-is-aware that the labour problem constitutes one of the most important social as well acconomic problems The Lang With regard to the fatuie ad-working hours and insanitary con- ministrative plans of the Munici- ditions in many small factories are detrimental to the health of the A very efficient system of peo-pal Government Mayor Shen-stat-

workers. To improve the life of ple's self-government, according ed that these are primarily under

two categories: social and econo- the labourers these small factor- to Mayor, Shen, has been intro- duced. The whole municipality mical. Among the, social reformsies must be compelled to improve has been divided into a number of will be the elimination of bad cus-their working conditions, villages and counties. At the headme and habits, including the The livelihood of the lower clas- of each village argas village chief suppression of opium and other ses, Mayor Sher Dointed out, has and a village, vice-chief, and at the narcotic drugs, and the prohibi-ways been head of each county are a county tion of secret prostitution, Mean- chief and a county vice-chief who while, good customs and habits authorities, for if the lower classés are responsible for all matters re- such as thrift and diligence will are not living a tolerable life, they

be highly promoted; ..

const the greatest menace to lative to self-government. RAS

WOMEN'S PART

the peace and order of socia's With regard to social welfare

of the Owing to the stri work undertaken during the past In view of the fact that women year Mayor Sher said that to solve play an important part in family muutengt freasury, the housing problem for the comfe the Municipal Government, quent occurences mon people, 1,000 houses have been according to Mayor Shen, are landfy bullt by the Municipal Govern- planning to organize a Teinstan of the ment. These are let out at rea-women's Association-which win this connec sonable rent,

be responsible for: eddcdung the illiterate women, introducing re- To prevent the scattering of forms to the home, and provid- tombs all over the municipality a ing vocational guidance for wo

1 women number of public cemeteries have men. All highly educated, y been built. RE for and id graduates, from schools To relleve small business Cre- of various grades in the munidp- dit Loan Bureau has been estab- silty will be induced to par lished under the joint sponsorship of the Municipal Government and ta

CREDIT BUREAU

in the association so as to make

trong organizat

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to do

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