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CHINA AND ENGLAND

ART LINK URGED

Recent Conference

Held In Cheltenham

GREAT CHANGES IN

THE FAR EAST

A plea that Chinese thought and artistic expression should become the link between China and the modern world was made in Cheltenham recently by Dr. Chang Peng-chun at the seventh World Conference of the New Education Fellowship.

The

Dr. Chang hails from Nankai University, Tientsin, China. subject of his, lecture was "Inter- cultural contacts and creative ad- justments"-the Impact, that is. of the modern world upon an an- cient civilization such *S China. and the necessary readjustments that follow it.

Chinese painting and poetry. Dr. Chang said. have served as stimu- lation and suggestion to máte than one modern school, And in regard to thought, the lecturer quated a hope expressed by Lord Russell, better known as 'Bertrand Russell, who once wrote. "The dis- tinctive merit of our civilization. I should say. 13 the scientific method; the distinctive merit of the Chinese is a just conception of the ends of fc. It is these two that one must hope to see gradus at uniting."

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Reviewing the world situation. Dr. Chang said that modern Euro- pean culture covered the entire earth. There were persons, how-. ever, who wondered whether this culture was altogether satisfactory and satisfying; others again asked what was to be done to improve it while yet another group was thinking, "how to save it from Im- pending catastrophe."

INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS All through history, the lecturer continued, the world had witness- ed intercultural contacts. AD peoples had contributed and bor- forms .the However. such contacts were a "much" more hur- ried affair. chiefly a one-sided verture."

rowed cultural

modern world.

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Thus the Arat Impact of modern European culture on other cul- tures was usually accompanied by conflict. much misunderstanding and ill-feeling. "A trinity of far- ces--military, economic and ideo- logical was employed to open un' the areas that resisted."

MORE LIBERAL ATTITUDE Then followed the adjustments of the non-modern, cultures. "some quickly, others have Engered. and some have fumbled and failed." The first phase of intense con- flict was followed by a more liberal attitude of taking what was good in other cultures and keeping what was good in one's own.

This method, the lecturer claim- ed, left a certain indefiniteness" in. Its approach, for how was one to determine what was the "good" to be assimilated, and what pre- cisely was the nature of the pro- cess of "taking" and "keeping" in 'the field of cultural activities?

unpromising."

H. K. POLICE

• RESERVES

Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. IL. King, Inspertor General of Police.

AQUATIC SPORTS,

All Police

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TÜESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1936.

NEWS FROM

SWATOW

Property Sale Causes Imbroglio

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UNJUSTIFIALLE

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ARREST ALLEGED

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press"]

Swatow, Sept. 3.

A recent sale of British property to a Japanese buyer, through a Chinese broker, has developed into what may be called an internation- u (?) imbroglio judging from the view the local government have taken of it.

The property forming the subject matter is the Masonic Lodge build-

BRITISH EMPIRE MODEL

FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS International Co-operation

-A Great Experiment

The world League of Nations has much to learn from the experience of that other league of sovereign states which is the British Empire, it was emphasised by Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, British Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, in · address given in London to the Foreign Press Association.

Argued

Mr. MacDonald

that Great Britain had succeeded by a system of trial and error in effect- ing cooperation in mutual in- terest between itself and the other nations

of the Common. wealth. He emphasized also that it had done this without weaken- Ing the absolute independence of each of the member states.

Onea Great Britain had been Ing and land situated in Klalat like the Spanish Empire in that Road side by side with the com-It endeavoured to administer far-

of the City Government of countries pound

from A common Building.

centre. It failed in this just as

to

natural manage their

The sale having been effected in the Spanish Empire had Talled. July, with Dr. Wong, a Formosan for the reason that the attempt minded of the 15th Annual Aqua-medical practitioner (and formerly interfered with men's tic Sports of the Police and Prison of the staff of the Japanese Ras-determination Departments which will be held pita), becoming the purchaser.wn affaks. at the V.R.C."on Saturday. Sep- eventually after certain renovations cember 12, 1936, at 15.00 tours,

Al ranks of the Hong Kong Police Reserve are cordially in

vited to attend.

a club as well. Due to its close proximity to the Municipal Office, therefore, much significance and importance appear to have always been attached to this piece of "allen property."

AN EXPERIMENT

past

Curbing

Speedsters

SUGGESTED METHOD FOR HONG KONG

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To curb the speeding propensities of the lorry drivers of Hong Kong, we could do no worse than to erauiate the scheme, devised by the Brooklyn Edison Company, which when it was put lato practice had the effect of reducing pedestrians injured by 45 per cent,

The system was this.. When any driver is to be tested, a fairly deserted street on his route

Ing automobile Inspector

CHINESE COMPANY. Death-The Hon. General o Police and Deputy Superintendent of Polce (R) re- gret to announce the death of Sub-Inspector (R) Ow Yeung Kin Hong on 26th August, 1936.

Training

Course-Part EL.

Constable R16 Kwok, Chung Shing has qualified in Part II of Train- lag Course Knowledge of Police Dutles and Regulations on 27th August, 1936.

Course Part

Training There wil be a revolver course for Chinese Company on Friday, Sep- tember 11 at 17.15 heirs at the Kennedy Road Range nider Police Sergeant A210 Perkins. Those detalled by the OC. will attend.

INDIAN COMPANY. Training Course-Par:

to was rented out to the Japanese Residents' Association to be used as The dominions and Great Bri- picked out and two photoelectric tain. he went on to Indicate.rays are secretly set up. spaced taught by the events of a

about, 30 feet apart and aimed so generation In America, were to that they will be broken by a pass- day engaged together in a great;

They emanate experiment-an experiment in in-

from contraptions disguised as fire hydrants. When the first ray is ternational co-operation.

broken it starts This group of nations in its own

a stop-watch: way," he continued, is a league of the watch stops. thus registering when the second ray is reached. the whole nations and on

the the truck's speed. And at this sec- league is working fairy well. We end impulse da, not often have crlaes. We don't from behind a parked car a wooden often have to call a hurried meet-dummy of a 12-year-old boy on ing or our council or our assembly. roller skates. If the driver has In fact one of the curious things been going too fast, or hasn't been about this league is that it has watching, he runs over the dummy, no council and has no assemby. which he has no reason to suspect

"PRESSED" STATEMENT For some reason or other, two weeks ago, Mr. K. M. Lee was made the victim of an unjustifiable arrest and detained in police custody for four or Ave days and only released on ball on the strength of three big shop guarantees, in addition to a "pressed" written statement that the property be returned, and the transaction cancelled, within two weeks.

How the matter of satisfying the authorities can be arranged re- mains a difficult problem to solve.. IF. But meantime Mr. Lee has the full members support and sympathy of his large will attend Indian Company Head-circle of Chinese and foreign quarters on Tuesday, September friends, all of whom cherish the

The

undermentioned

there is catapulted

"We are working out our own, isn't really a child. He stops his peculiar „methods and ways of truck and sits there, quivering. co-operating without in any way Then, the superintendent of trans- infringing the absqlute sovereignty portation pops out from his hiding of any one of our members, and at place, enters the whole sordid in- the same time maintaining-with cident on his record sheet, and he occasional differences which do not and his aides go and lay for an- matter-close co-operation."

3 at 17.30 hours for Part II of hope of the ultimate exoneration JAMBOREE

Training Course:-

Constables R210 Abdullah Shah Mohamed, R213 S. B. Hussian, R236 M. S. Dillon and R256 Sher Ahmed Khan. Training

There will be a

of his guilt" and an honourable discharge.

no

A significant feature of the arrest was the fact that, when taken to: the Police Course-Part

Headquarters.

·II.

"official" revolver course

charge waj preferred for Indian Company on Tuesday. against Mr. Lee either verbally or September 8 at 17:15 hours at the

in writing. All the information Kennedy Road Range under Police.

available pointed that the arrest Sergeant A210 Perkins. Those

order came from the Mayor's ad- detailed by the O.C. will attend. viser Mr. Mok Chi Nam-and this

EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE

seems to lead the man in the street Training Course-Part

to believe there was some ulterior III... There will be a revolver course | motive behind the whole affair. for Emergency Unit Reserve on Friday.

September 18 at 17.13 hours at the Kennedy Road Range under Police Sergeant A210 Per- kins. Those detailed by the: O.C. will attend. Police Reserve Van will leave Queen's Pier at 17.15

hours.

C. CHAMPKIN,

D. S. P. (R) Hong Kong. Monday, Sept 7.

BATCH OF MOTOR ACCIDENTS

GREAT CHANGES IN CHINA Rejecting both the method o conflict and o compromise. 23 "inadvisable "and the lecturer turned toward China Mar Samad of No. 20. Nam for answers to "his questions by Cheung Street, was admitted to the analyzing the readjustments which Kowloon Hospital with injuries followed the Western impact upon caused by being knocked down by the traditional Chinese torms and a lorry in Chatham Road. The in- methods. Very great changes Jured man's condition is believed to were taking place in China. Poll- be serious. tical organizations, economic e, social customs, educational prac- tices, and intellectual habits were all being modified.

Chan Sze was knocked down by a lorry in Hennessy Road and was taken to the Government Civil Eos- pital for treatment.

In Dr. Chang's opinion. there A rickshaw coolie was knocked are certain comparable elements down by lorry No. 9193 in Nathan in the culture of China and In Road on Sunday and was admitted that of Europe of pre-modern to the Kowloon Hospital. times, especially in some torms of technological equipment,

econo-

mic institutions, and, intellectual habits. The modern West cannot be understood without a know- ledge of its inheritance from. say. its Greek, Roman and Hebrew sources. On the other hard, China cannot learn from all periods of Western history or from all the practices prevalent to-day in dif- ferent parts of the world.

CAREFUL BORROWING

NEEDED

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE START

NEW TERM

Stanley.

St. Stephen's College, commenced their new term yester- clcs master, returned from leave day. Mr. J. A. Gaunt. Mathema- last week, and has resumed work The Headmaster of the College is the Rev. E. W. L. Martin.

Is in

IN HOLLAND

THIRTY THOUSAND SCOUTS TO ATTEND

Boy Scouts, representing 50 na- tions, will meet for the World Jamboree in Holland next year. The site will be at Vogelenzang. Bloemendaal, a village, 10 miles west of Amsterdam, and 2 miles north of Haarlem. in a giorious set- ting of woods and sand dunes. Here

within the sound of the breezy North Sea, 30,000 Scouts will meet to establish world friendship. It is proposed to have. 10 sub- camps with a maximum accom- modation for 3000 Scouts in each camp. During the Anal four days The present incident should be of the Jamboree visits will be inada viewed with very grave concern by to picturesque parts of old Holland the Japanese because events show as well as to busy industrial cen- that the Chinese dislike the idea tres 11

PROMINENT FIGURE The real broker of the deal town and yet he is not wanted -an ordinary nonentity! On the other hand Mr. Lee is a prominent Agure in the social, business and sporting circles, and very popular amongst the foreigners.

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of the Japanese accumulating and The emblem which has already acquiring property in China. While been chosen for the, Jamboree is unable to prevent the Japanese in "Jacobs-slaf," or Jacob's rod, a

y oficial capacity. they can only primitive nautical instrument user pick on, a Chinese broker. It is a by the early Dutch navigators to well-known open fact, though not find their way around the world,

оред standing order, that

the rod enabling them to measure Chinese house or property owners the angle between the polar star are forbidden to sell or transfer

and the horizou such property to Japanese buyers.

A recent rumour has it that a few

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other driver.

Conclusions drawn from the tests. show it's dangerous to drive as fast as 20 miles an hour on a crowded street with cars parked on it. Fifteen is a lot better. "The New Yorker."

WHEN YOU

ARE BITTEN

BY A DOG

SOME USEFUL SAFEGUARDS

Nineteen times out of twenty a Berce dog will not hurl itself at a stranger who stands motionless and calm. Do not allow fear to become master when in the pre-

dog and a bite will not result. It sence of a vigilant or ill-tempered

is an uncanny and inexplicable fact that tear in a human being arouses in an animal a corresponding feel- ing but one of superiority.

Most dogs are not biters and if let alone will not bite. It is the foolishness of trying to get on with a strange dog, met in the streets, that is the basic cause of being bitten.

If one is bitten it should be re- membered that if the bite is where your lips can reach it-suck it out thoroughly, bathe it in Inke warm water and paint it with fodine. Should, however, ane, be afraid of rables use the same" treatment but instead of iodine use carbolic acid.

Chinese landlords have paid heavy SPURIOUS BANK acid burns for a short while

monetary penalties for simply-rent- ing houses to Japanese.

NEW AIRWAY FOR CHINA

Chungking-Chengto "Låne Tu Be Inaugurated

NOTES

SERIES OF CASES REMANDED

Chiu Yuk, 48, waiter, was charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Cen- tral Police Court yesterday with the possession of a forged $10 bank note Australia and China, on August 27. of the Chartered Bank of India, Ho So, 48, cook, was also charged with the possession of a forged $5 of the same Bank

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but it is safest,

One reason for dogs. attacking a human who is afraid is one that is father Tantastic but based on an established scientific fact,

wyer one ta frightened nature pumps an undue amount of adrenalla into the blood stream. This throws off an odour which is said to be something like that of fermic acid. Human nostrils are unable to detect this odour, but dogs, however, hate it. It arouses in some of them rage many an otherwise inoffensive dog and in others only contempt. Thus will attack a man that is afraid.

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT

Mulafar Khan, a watchman em-] ployed at David: House, was admit- sted to the Government Civil Hos

ing air communication in Szechuan, With a view to further develop plans are being made by the China National Aviation Corporation for the opening of a new air line along the Yangtze River in the province. Sub-Inspector A. J. Johnson was It is plain, therefore, the speaker are being put forth in creative ad- Chungking to Chengtu by way of of the cases,

The projected route starts from granted three days' remand in both argued, that no blind and hurried justments." Such adjustments re- Luhalen, Shuchow, and Chisting, borrowing would do any good, In- quire "a close analysis of the important cities along the Yangtze the possession of two forged

Man Wai Kuen was charged with deed some foreign institutions and needs, a search for means to meat River in southern Bzechuan. The banknotes of the Hong Kong and pital on Sunday with a bullet ideas, he said, have been taken those needs from experience both passenger and mail services on the Shanghai Banking Corporation on wound in his right thigh. The over without due consideration of Western and Chinese and both new line is expected to be inaugur-September 6, and uttering one of wound was inflicted by Outsm their suitability and intrinsic present and past, and an inven- ated as soon as branch offices of the notes in Main Street Weat worth,

Nadar, another watchman while on tiveness in taking formulated the corporation have been es- There are clear indications, how-methods as stimulation and sug- tablished at Chuchow and Chia-two days. Inspector T. O'Connor gun when it went on accidentally, The case was alsó remanded for a visit, Nadar was cleaning his ever, Dr. Chang said, that "efforts | gestion,"

tung.

prosecuted

according to a police report.

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