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ALTRUISM
The prevalent conception of a government employee as a clock watcher who is interested only in his regular" pay, has too much justification in many instances.
HUNG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1936.
KWANGSI PEACE
ACCORD
Great Satisfaction Felt
All Round
CHIANG AND PEI TO
MEET IN CANTON
Negotiations To Wind Up
Minor Problems
Shanghai, September ".
The news regarding the peaceful settlement of the Kwangsi problem has been received with great satisfaction in political and civilian circles in Nanking. Shanghai and Canton,
The local vernacular press particularly hall the announce- ment from Nanking and Canton concerning the solution, al- though it states that further negotiations are likely to be con- tinued to wind up the minor problems.
Great significance is attached to 1
forthcoming conference of
Bilt it is unfair to the great body the of permanent public servants, Generals Chiang Kai-shek and Pet Chung-hsi in Canton. It is
and recording instances of un- the first meeting of the two lead- selfish service is always a plea-ers for many years.
sure.
WELCOMED
NANKING REACHES
AGREEMENT ·
Meanwhile the press highly com- Position Found For Kwangsi
mends General Chiang Kai-shek
settling the trouble.- Peter
for his restraint and patience in
GREAT RELIEF
tiations
between the
post
18
Generals
Hence this leader." Note, then, the discovery by
Nanking, Sept. 7. an American reporter that 100
After several weeks of negotia- persons transportation experts,
tions and warlike manoeuvres, an Canton, Sept. 7. Statisticians, clerks and steno-
been reached as- agreement has The outcome of the peace nego-suring the peace of South China. graphers, are still at work in the
Kwangal General L Chung-jen, who had office of the one-time federal co-wariords and the representatives previously been dismissed from his ordinator of transportation, al of the Central Government have
Commander-in-Chief of though Congress allowed that been watched and followed" with
the Kwangsi Army, remains as organization to lapse into limbo the greatest anxiety and concern Pacification Commissioner of that so far as legal standing or finan- by all interested in the peace and province, while his ally, General cial support is concerned six tranquility of Scuth China, parti-Pei Chung-hst, is transferred to cularly merchants and traders of Nanking as a member of Standing, weeks ago.
all nationalities, and those depen- Committee of the Military Affairs
Commissi02.- dent on them for a living.
Consequently, the peaceful re- Reuter sult of the Nanning peace confer- ence la a great relle, and has
satisfaction general
".
the These people were in middle of a job, an
extensive analysis of transportation sub- vidies. Completing that
job
given
∙all
A
OVERSEAS APPEAL
"
Brussels, Sept. 8.
CHIANG KAI SITEK
ST. LEGER
Latest. Betting Trend
RHODES SCHOLAR
FAVOURITE
London, Sept. 7. The following are to-day's call- over prices for the St. Leger to be run next Wednesday:
100/6
20/1
33/1
33/1
11/8 Rhodes Scholar t. and o 3/2 Mahmoud o. 75/20. t. 100/6 Roeburn: 1, and o, 100/6 Boswell . and o.
Fearless Fox o. 17/1 t. His Grace and o: Esquemeling t. and o. Thankerton d. 40,1 Columcille 0.45; 1 t. 50/1 St. Magnus . and o 50/1 Foxfield t. and o 68/1 Magnet t. and o. 80/1 Haulfryn t. and O
PLACE BETTING
1/2 Rhodes Scholar, wanted 8/11 Mahmoud, wanted
3/1 Raeburn t. and o. 7/2 His Grace and o 100/30 Fearless Fox 1. and o.
Juble and Precipitation have been scratched.
The Chinese delegation to the| Reuter.
Place Convention Generals L Tsung-jen and Pel international
meant more to them than their around. salaries. Joseph B. Eastman.
the co-ordinator, ins loaned Chung-hst having expressed their here has cabled the Kwangsi.ge- ' money to some of them to live wingness to accept the cereal and to the threat of Civil War and ARCHIE LOGAN
un.
Government's terms, and the Cen-
A fund of $32,000 contri-trai
Government having issued unite with Nanking in order to re- buted by railroad is tied up by mandates appointing them to thesist Japanese aggression.--
following posts:
a ruling of the comptroller gene- ral's office.
The work goes on pay or no pay, and will go on until it is
finished. say these workers.
(a) General Li Tsung-jen to be Pacification Commissioner of Kwanst;
be
(b) General Pat Chung-hsi to & member of the Military
Such loyalty to a task deserves Council of Nanking; and
Jeward...
LLOYD GEORGE IN GERMANY
(c)
General Wang Shao-hung to be Chairman of the Erovincial Government of Cheklang, it now remains for the peace delegates to meet and arrange the concluding terms for a permanent peace set. tlement.
It is hoped that the meeting desired by Marshal Chiang Kai- London, Sept. 6. Mr. Lloyd George who, during his shek will eventuate and that Gen- week-end visit to Berchtesgaden crats L! Tsung-jen and Pel Chung- had opportunities of long talks hal will be able to meet Marshal with Herr Hitler and also with Chiang Kai-shek in Canton. for and Herr the purpose of mutually arranging Herr von Ribbentrop Hess, returned this morning to and settleing the terms of the Munich. Accompanied by Herr von peace settlement. Ribbentrop, he visited the Munich War Memorial where be laid a wreath...
British Wireless.
CHIANG ADDRESSES
HEADMASTERS
Canton, Sept. 7. After addressing the headmasters
GEN, TSALTING KAI
Reuter
MR. CHOW LOU TO RESUME POST
Canton, Sept. 7.
SCORES SUCCESS
IN SHANGHAI
WINS BACK
STROKE OVER
HUNDRED YARDS the The outstanding event in I is reported that "Mr. Chow Lou Chancellor of the Chung final nights swimming of the Row- ing Club gala which was concluded Shan University, who left on a
last week was the 100 yards back to the tour of Europe, previous downfall of General Chan Chai-stroke Shanghai Champlonship in tong, will resume the post of which A. Logan the Interporter. Chancellor of the University when narrowly defeated E. Smith to re- he returns.
cord 73.3/5 seconds for the dis- tance. This time is only 4/5 of a second lower than the record which Noel Hammond established last the Central Government will con-year. C. C. Wang, a Chinese entry
was third, five feet behind Smith. Brim him in his office. Chinese Brening Press.
Mr. Chow Lou is
expected to
return to Canton from Germany at the end of this month, when
TELEPHONE LINE PROTECTION
Journalism And Public Opinion In China
PRESENT DAY CENSORSHIP
SYSTEM DISCUSSED
Lack Of Co-ordination
And Consistency
IN HIS BOOK, "A HISTORY OF THE PRESS AND PUBLIC OPINIÓN IN CHINA" PUBLISHED FOR THE CHINÄ INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC RELATIONS BY KELLY AND WALSH, SHANGHAL, THE AUTHOR. LIN YUTANG DEALING WITH CENSORSHIP TO-DAY BRINGS THE READER DOWN TO THE METHODS AND ACTIVITIES OF PRESENT DAY JOURNALISM AND, IN A 'DISCRIMINAT- ING CHAPTER, COMMENTS, ON THE LACK OF CO-ORDINATION, CONSISTENCY AND SYSTEM OF THE CENSORSHIP.
Diplomatic correspondents will be thrilled to learn from Dr. Lin Yu- tang that oficial mentality towards publicity has not greatly changed either in the East or in the West in the last 2,000 years. In 1160 A.D an official memorandum to the Emperor demanding the suppres- sion of news based its arguments on the ground that the small news papers (tabloid) of that day were apt to publish news in advance of oficial authorization, and some times the news turned out to be true, sometimes false. The meme-lapse of the ruling, dynasty was to randum proceeded then to say that if the news was true it should not
fairness
by the ennuchs and court misrule, hardly treated; compared with generally, that dissatisfaction be- some of the experiences of their they must count ing stimulated by students and i predecessors
specially
The by themselves truly fortunate.. Inspired scholars.
Was really ideals of personal heroism and profession
exciting chivalry. Dr. Lin Yutang says: when an adverse comment on the
... It is highly unfair to blame policy of the government of the " these fearless scholars for the day was likely to be so drastically
In sun. downfall of the Han. Dynasty, as answered.
to some later dyspeptic Confucian governments of the 20th century critics have done. If anything, it must be said that some of them the scholars lengthened the reign have shown themselves apt pupils of the Han House, and their even-
of the Emperor Chengteb, and al- tual failure together with the col- though unemployment in the pro- fession was, healthily diminished be ascribed to the absence of a by frequent casualties. It cannot more democratie machinery of be said that there is no sign of government than what we had the operation of that ameliorating factor in certain countries to-day. this period,
The
have been permitted to leak out and if it was false it was mislead ing. Thus began the idea of off- Briefly speaking, the pontical cial censorship and it indicated background had its origin in a that journalism in China was start- simple biological fact, namely, ing to prove vigorous and effective. that the royal blood of the ruling
house The press was not the first in-
was running thin. strument of public criticism in great power of the eunuchs and China any more than in other of the brothers of the Empresses countries. Ballads and epigram-(the cause of all misrule) was duë matic verse demanded pride of to the simple fact that 'most of
of the place and Dr. Lin Yutang main- the rulers
later Han tains that the Chinese excel other Dynasty were extremely short- races in criticizing their rulers, and lived and that there was a great he gives reasons:
scarcity of male descendants to the throne.
IMPERIAL CENSORE The institution of imperial cen- Borg played an important part which is now fulfilled by the critic in the Western press. The ten- sors were particularly courageous men because they had no guaran- tee that their outspoken criticism was protected against official dis- pleasure. Some of them. of course.
What makes the Chinese such great critics of their govern- ment is the fact that they are con- sistently and thoroughly cynical about most of their officials all the time a fact which is often super- clally ignored through the ap- the parent quiet submission of beople to their oppressors. No cen- sorship or monarchical absolutism has ever really stopped criticism of the government in their hearts. I Imagine the rise of the ballad and weakly sold themselves to the rui epigrammatic verse was something ing powers, but others were quite prepared to draft Impeachmenta
Chinese people always think of
CENSORSHIP TO-DAY The modern press in China dates from 1815. Before that time the government gazettes publish- ec in Peking and in the provinces for the exclusive benent of om- Cialdom formed the sole medium for the regular publication of news. The modern press in China took its rise from the efforts of early missionaries, and the names of Morrison and Medhurst are mentioned by Dr, Lin Yutang in
(Continued on Page 12)
CONSERVANCY PROJECTS COMPLETED
ALONG YELLOW
RIVER
Three stupendous conservancy and flood-preventing projects, one
and the other two along the Yangtung River in Hope!, are com- pleted.
like this. I have said that the and told the emperor of his faults their government, and when they even though the rebuke might be think of their rulers all the time, personally disastrous to them:
To see the imperial censors in they cannot help talking about them. Or they gossip, to be more operation is therefore highly in along the Yellow River in Honan exact. "There has always been a tremendous amount of political gossip in this country which never quite reaches the papers, and in modern days it has ever been the desire of the authorities that such gossip shall not reach the papers But the gossip persists at tea-
of going forward Iza phalanx parties and behind closed doors, the Chinese censors had the babit broke making futile, all official censor-
The other two projects are con- “ taking up the combat when those ship, and whenever there is a clever formation, the ones in line or an apt remark, people are
in front fell. The Chinese censors
cerned with the Yangtung River in bound to pass it on from mouth to
their first petitions or protests in resisting the course of the river mouth, and it gains great im- had the habit of fellowing Up Hopes, the first of which consisting
with a succession of others, when and repairing and strengthening. tains a phrase that clicks or B mediate currency. If the line con- clever pun or an unforgettable the first ones falled of their mark. the dykes along it.
The second project, costing $426,- clever rhyme, It always ands its Sometimes it was the original
teresting. like watching a Roman gladiatorial combat. And the Chinese imperial censors often carried themselves like the Roman.
Costing a total outlay of $800,000, were af gladiators, when they
the first of the three engineering their best. Several characteristice works is in the vicinity of Lanteng of the operation of this system to the east of Kaifeng, Honan, may be noted. In the first place. where the Yellow River overflowed,
a number of dykes changed its course further north- ward two years ago.
the rear
and
Tommy Britton added to his sea son's laurels by winning the junior 220 yards free style championship way to immortality long after the sender who followed us with six 000, on the Yungtung River is de- or seven, or, even fourteen or nf-signed to prevent the change or from 8. Starkovsky with V. Turen-rulers are dead and buried.
Its course and to control, silt 'ac- cumulation, including the dredging
slow.
atmosphere
A knotty question is, now, haw
ko third. Britton's time of 2 min- This is an amusing picture and it teen. Ruccessive petitions. If he to deal with General Tsa: Ting-kal
utes 40 seconds was comparatively recalls to the English reader the was then still alive; and some and his Nineteenth Route Army.
of The School for times when the original sender as it is reported that the troops of
Miss Patricia Smith regained the
Scandal" in which it was apparent was put out of action, other cet- General Yung Shao-woon have
Canton, Sept, T.
50 yards women's breast stroke that once an epigram bad been sors or scholars came to his re- occupied Fa" Yuen district, during
Owing to the great importance championship when she narrowly
conceived no consideration whether cut, braving the same penalties for themselves. This." for in- the progress of the peace parleys, of telephone poles in connection defeated Miss Vera. Dodd by a of propriety or accuracy prevented
stance, we see in March. 1519. in. the author from and that General Tsai Ting-kai | with telegraphonic communication, touch,
spreading it
of the middle stream of the river and the construction to a higher level of its southern embankment.
himself is ambitious to perman- it is 'reported that the military H. Farmer won the Club 100 yards abroad. It is to be doubted whethe reign of Chengteh, when the LOCAL AND GENERAL
ently occupy South-West Kwang-authorities of the Fourth Division free style championship after an tung as a base for future opera- Army have sent instructions to all exciting struggle with C. Smith.
FAST PACE tons against the Central Govern- the commanders of local volunteers
ment.
of the different Universities last
of the different districts of Kwang- Tommy Britton set an extremely Baturday, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek
that It is reported
Marshal tung Province, holding them res- fast pace for the 220 yards Junior has now decided to address the Chiang Kai-shek has telegraphed ponsible for the sound condition free style championship,
being headmasters of the Middle Schools Generals Li Tsung-jen' and Pel and
safety of such
telephone clocked at 18 seconds for his first on September 10 regarding the Chung-hat to warn General Tsai poles.
length. He continued to hold the guiding principles for the instruc- Ting-kal and send troops to Mow Chinese Evening Press.
pace and negotiated the first 100 tion of the students-
Ming and Mcoy Luk districts to
yards, in 63 second. This extraor Chinese Evening Prem.
watch and checkmate the move-
dinarily fast pace proved too much ments of his army commanders.
for him and he slowed down con- However, it is the hope of hero-worshippers that General Tsal Ting-kai will not suliy his good name and reputation by openly defying the Central Gov crnment. and participating in any rebellious movement.-
HEAVY RAINS IN KANSU
Lanchow, Sept. 6. Heavy rains commenced to fall last Friday and lasted for nearly | Chinese Evening Post. six days, breaking all previous records and resulting in foods and the collapse of numerous houses,
The Wháng Ho River is awollen with the food waters and has risen to record levels.
The destruction and distress caused by the floods is consider able, and is causing the local Government much anxiety.-- Chinese Evening Préss,
BIG RADIO STATION FOR KWANGTUNG"
Forming part of the Kwangtung reconstruction programme for the 25th fiscal year, a huge radio sta- tion will be built in the northern suburbs of Canton.
HU HAN MIN'S FUNERAL
Nanking, Bept. 7. The Central Government has sued a mandate fixing October
embellishment further
ar the
ther the exposure of the baseless-Emperor decided to take a ples- ness of the charge against Miss sure trip down south and leave Letitia Piper effectively prevented his capital at Peking, he was the circulation and probably the bombarded with a succession of Detitions from different officials amusing story of that amiable including the censors, in spite of maiden lady's elopement and mis- the fact that many of these peo- ple had already been submitted to fortunes,
various penalties for it. This was started first by two censors, then followed up by seven others, then Organized conflict between pub-a third protest came from three le opinion and the ruling au- mote, a fourth one from fourteen thorities is discernied by Dr. Lin others, a fifth one was signed by Afty-three persons, a sixth one ulang to have occurred for the
one Han algned by sixteen, a seventh first time
the later
SCHOLARS AND THE
GOVERNMENT
in
Scalded with boiling wax, Tam Tal, aged 15. living at No. 14. San Kung Road, was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital during the week-end.
Cho Wah, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital on Sunday with injuries received, when a sack of wolfram ore fell on him while load- ing a junk at Boy Street,
A Flat car,' No. 958, 'caught fre at the Vehicular Ferry at 8.30 p.m. The Sunday..
fames
on
were
siderably, but the remainder of the competitors had dropped back some distance behind so that Britton went on to win comfortably by 20 feet, but his time was considered dynasty. It involved the gigantic by sixteen others, an eighth one quelled by means of an extinguish- byer, any without material damage slow. Starkovsky swam well to student movement which repeated by ten otherss a ninth one 25 as the date for the official take second position with Turenko itself later in other periods of twenty others and a tenth one by being done. funeral of the late Mr. Hu Haq-likewise lying well up among the Chinese history right down to the still others and the Emperor still
present day. It checked the went down
Tang Tai, 58, a female was ad- the South for e leaders." min, the Kuomintang leader and chairman of the defunct, South- The interport water polo team powers of the eunuchs, but it in-pleasure trip. Of these, senders mitted to the Government Civil the of petitions, some were imprison- Hospital on Sunday with injuries West Council. "..
early defeated the, Rest of Shang-volved heavy sacrifices in The burial site is at Lung Ngan hal by seven goals to nil in a trial murder of several hundred schol-ed, some were exiled, others were received in a fall at the Central Hill near Canton, and during the match played at the conclusion of ars, the imprisonment of over a punished by nogging or by being Market. day of the burial all flags through the gala. The winners led by five thousand university students, and made to kneel down for a certain catastrophle upheavals. period of time and eleven were out the Republic of China will be goals to all at the conclusion of the several. half-masted in his honour, and all first half and gave evidence of be- The war between the scholar cri- punished by death,
It is highly unreasonable for public amusementa wil be using much the stronger side, giv-ties and the government was the pended.—··
ing a good exhibition of passing outcome of popular dissatisfaction newspapers and journalists to and combination.
with the usurpation of authority complain to-day that they are
Chinese Evening Press.
Burns from Caustic Boda, result-
ed in Ho Pun being removed to the Government Civil Hospital. The injured man worked at the Bin Cheung Soap Factory,
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