THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
THE SHANGHAI SITUATION.
SHOPKEEPERS URGED TO BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS.
Shanghai, December 3. Chinese shop-keepers will be asked to-morrow to siga pledges to boycott Japanese goods.
A four-days' strike in the schools, except those in the Settle. ment, started today. The students are conducting demonstrations
and lectures.
Extra police are out, but there has been no disorder. Rain prevented bonfires.
RESCUED PASSENGERS..
Shanghai, December 3. The s.s. Kingshin, from Hankow, has brought 500 passengers and cargo from the Kiangloo and a Japanese steamer which is aground above Tungchow.
SHANGHAI WATCHING FIREARMS TRAFFIC.
Shanghai, December 3.
COLLEGES FOR WOMEN.
FORWARD MOVE NEEDED
IN EDUCATION.
Mrs. Oliver Strachey, writes to the Daily Chrouide:-
Several things have happened to the educational systems and institutions of this country within the last generation, with the result that a curious transition period has set in. One of the things that has happened has been the in- clusion of women. And this inclusion, which has been almost dramatic in its suddenness, has itself led to other modifications which in their turn have reacted back, until the whole fabric of our classical education seems likely to totter upon its base..
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1919.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
HOW IT GREW.
· Dean Walker gave an intarest- ing lecture recently to the mem bers of the Shanghai Branch of the Royal Society of St. George, in the Masonic Hall, east room, on the subject of "The English language." Dr. R. S. Ivy, pre- sident of the Society, occupied the chair and there was a goodly number of members present
The lecturer said that "Spoken English" was the branch of the subject with which he intend- ed to deal. The talkers were the makers of English, but were helped in their work by the writers of English. He would like to acknowledge For example, the emphasis of the valuable assistance of the attention seems to have shifted gra.nmarians and lexicographers, away from the studies of the but so long as these put forward young person of the University the intolerable claim that talkers age to the amusements of the should be the slaves of graramars small child, and most of the re-and dictionaries he would offer search, the excitement and new them nothing but scorn. On a experiments of the educational dead language the grammarians could hold a post mortem examina- the infant school. Scholarship tion, and evolve a complete and erudition seem to be being dictionary and a complete set of overshadowed by the psychology rules and exceptions. So long as of juvenile development, and this
a language was alive all that these shifting of interest may well be gentlemen could do was to follow one of the indirect results of the close upon the heels of the tolkers, serious inclusion of women in and try to keep their grammars educational affairs.
and dictionaries up to date.
The Municipal Council has ordered that records be made of firearms, and ammunition imported into and sold in the Settlement.world now seem to centre round
EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
THE VLADIVOSTOK REVOLT.
COL. GAIDA'S INTERESTING STORY.
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But for all the attention to
English was a wayward child. infants much remains to be done with remarkable powers of assimi- for the older children. in particu- latico. It was always doing the Shanghai, December 3. lar for those of University age.wrong thing, and then being told Colonel Gaida (the Czech leader of the Vladivostok revolution) Never before has the demand for that the thing was right. Old says: Bolshevism will grip Siberia unless a stable democratic a college education been so great English had case endings. There government is formed. Költchak's troops are now being driven back especially for girls, never before were accusatives and datives. by bayonets. Koltchak has no army and the Cossack leaders are have parents realised so clearly with forms for the singular and supreme in their own districts. The Russian people are against that training and knowledge must and plural. The talkers got Koltchak. There was a sympathetic movement against Koltchak be part of their daughters' equip-stuck, muddled up their indexious Never before have and at last found that they could and to establish a new democracy, but he took no active part other for for life.
All than promise to lead the military forces after a bloodless revolution."young women themselves felt to quite well without them.
Colonel Gaida's story of the coup d'etat of November 16th differs
need to train that remained was a form for the from that previously published. Gaida alieging that the Koltchak for the wurk and the opport-genitive a plural: e...garden's" troops under Rosanov fired first. Two hundred of Rosonor's troops unities that now await them. and gardens." This most blessed ordered to attack Gaida deserted Rosonov and joined Gaida's Never before has the country state was due solely to the fact armoured train. The fighting in the railway station ended in a expected so much from its young that the language was made by victory for Gaida as Rosenov's forces were driven out, Then the
BS in this generation, the talkers, who in the early days Japanese established pickets, and later the Allies drew a cordon when they present all too large a
were not hampered by gram. Found
share of the country's youth.
marians! They are flocking therefore, to
The Dean gave some striking their colleges and eagerly looking illustrations of the pranks that for learning, only to find that the the talkers played with the means to teach them are, notings of words. To strike pro-
HONG KONG POLICE adequate, the buildings not built, perly meant to "go fast." It now and the endowments not ready.
often meant "not to go ati very at all the women's colleges al The noun "stroke" kept
The Hongkong Police Victory the City now the waiting lists have grown nearer to the old meaning. Yoned goods are to be left in the to disturbing dimensions, and the can go fast with the band when Godowns, where they will be Ball will be held at
examined on any Tuesdays and Hall on Wednesday the 17th girls are impatiently demanding you give strokes to a bad boy, or Fridays between the bours of December 1919. Dancing to com-
16.45 am and noon within the mence at 9 p.m. free storage period.
Colonel Gaida adds: "When my forces saw the Japanese, orders were immediatly given to cease firing." Colonel Gaida was under fire from Koltchak's warships all Sunday night and was captured on Monday morning. He is staying here for three weeks On the Saturday recuperating from a shrapnel wound in the leg. night previous to his capture the Allies agreed to Colonel Gaida retaining his Czych citizenship despite his uniform as a Russian officer.
He will therefore be allowed to return to Prague without
interference from Koltchak.
THE AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.
women
more accommodation..
Meanwhile, the young men are knocking, too. Working men are seeking for their sons these same chances, and the Universities and colleges of the country are wholly
Singapore. December 3. Ta connection with the England to Australia fight, the Asiatic Petroleum Company have received a wire from l'enang stating that Captain Ross Smith who arrived at Singapore at two o'clock had asked for two gallons of petrol to be sent from Penang by the early morninadequate to the needs. ing train. If he is waiting for that it is hardly expected that he will arrive here today. It might be that he is ordering petrol for Poulet, as Ross Smith had four hundred gallons at Bangkok and that should be sufficient to bring him to Singapore.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
WAR GUILT.
London, Nov. 29.
Thr "Times" as published extracts from Germac official deatnents, examined at the Wilhelmstrasse by Kautsky, the Giermah Socialist writer, dealing particularly with the responsibility for the war. The extracts, which are published in diary forg, reveal in most conclusive fashion. that Austria had the unconditional support of Gennary in forcing the war against Servis in July 1914. Extracts from ambassadorial despatches are published with the ex-Kaiser's marginal notes. A typical Comment is made to M. Tschirsky 1/1 a despatch of al: June.
3914. "A clearance must be made "of Serbia and that ven.” A conference was hell at Potsdam on 6th July after which orders were issued for preparatory measures of war. Commenting on one of Lichnowsky's despat-le-, adumbrating Earl 'Grey's attitude, the ex-Kaiser comments that Grey must understand stand no nonsense. Grey makes the mistake. of putting Serbia on the same level as Austria and the other great posers.
This is unheard of Serbia is a pack of brigands who must be brought in book for their, crimes.” The extracts proceed to describe the subsequent kaleidoscopic events in close detail and depict the ex-Kaiser's fury on realising the possibility that England was unable to stand aside. The ex-Kaiser describes Grey as Archibase and Mephistophelian but truly English."
THE SCAPA FLOW SINKINGS.
Berlin, Nov. 29. Germany Las sent a memorandum to the Peace Cus ference blaming the Allies for the Scapa siakings, as the warships, contrary to the armistice terms, were not interned in neutral but in British ports. It contends that Admira! Reuter was cut off from intercourse with the homeland and was bound to assume that the armistice ended on 21st. Junc, when he ordered the sinkings in accordance with seamen's asage. Admiral Reuter was withdrawn from the German Government's authority, and the latter therefore accepts no -responsibility for his acts. But in order to prevent dispute delaying the Peace Treaty having effect," which is urgently desired by Germany, it is proposed that the affair be sub mitted to a permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague'
THE P. AND 0.
London, Nov. 20.
The report of the Peninsular and Oriental Company states that a large bolding of shares has been acquired in the Orient Company which continues to be worked separate- ly but in close conjunction with the P. and. O. and its allies. The bulk of the shares of the Khedivial Mail Company have been acquired and the Board is arranging to fit the passenger steamers under construction for oilburning. The sbips contracted for include five of 13,800 tons each for the " Australian emigrant and cargo business via the Cape.
The
mean-
go fast with the hand when you give strokes to a pet cat. A great number of words from foreign lan- guages had been assimilated by the English language. It might that every almost, be said language had made its contribu- University system itself. hoary tion. Latin was the largest con- with complex antiquity and with tributor, but as most of the words the traditions and trammels that came through Low French, and come from ecclesiastical origin.Lot by a direct road, they had have seemed up till now unable more easily acquired a thoroughly Ito stretch out and meet these English flavour. “Gracious
ney demands. The cost of so and gratify" had a big an expansion as is now re-origin in the Latin tongue_but quired would cripple the old the former was thoroughly Eng- endowments, and the incalculablelish. Here again the talkers had results of a really serious invasion played all sorts of pranks. by women would stagger the old traditions.
common
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December.
Optional cargo will be landed. unless notice has been given prio to steamer's arrival.
All broken chafed, and damag-
No claims will be admitted
after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 10th December, will be subject
to rent.
All Claims against the Steacher must be presented to the under- OT before the 24th signed on December, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents. Hongkong. 3rd December 1919.
WANTED.
The new-comers. therefore, knock somewhat uselessly at the old Universities, and turn sadly away to the more recent ones, where progress is easier and the ground less cumbered by the past, But even the old Universities of Oxford and Cambridge will have to change at last, if they are word "crowd" suggests number. WANT D-Pupils for violia not to fall out of the running but not the temper of the number. by fully qualified and experienced altogether and cease to be the A scholar knowing the uncer lady teacher A. R. C. M. For educational centres of the country,tainty of the temper of a crowd. They will have to clear up their need a Latin phrase mobile vul particulars. Apply Box 228 c/o
Hongkong Telegraph." affairs and reconstruct their congus." The talkers shortened this. stitutions so as to supply what "mobile and then again is now demanded, namely, wide-shortened it to "mob," restricting spread, cheap, and easily acces-the meaning to bad-tempered Bible facilities for advanced study. crowds. The word was so useful TO LET. - Rooms Kowloon,
They must face the fact that that it was made a verb as well with or without board women are demanding their share
No one nowadays mediate as a noun.
Not one of his hearers would feel that he was dragging the glorious English language in the mud, if perchance he used the word" mob. But it was not so WANTED. inmediately, for very long ago that the would-be our Canten Office, EFFICIENT classicists" were wringing their Stenographer. Apply to Shewan, hands in utter despair on account Tomes & Co.. Hengkong- of this really useful little word. It's history was as follows:-The
of these things in altogether un-minds being mobbed." precedented numbers. and that In acknowledging the debt of they can no longer be withstood. the talkers to the writers, the The Universities will have to arrange matters so that women can get what they need, the State will have to step in and compel them. For it is an absurd and maly that our greatest centres of learning should still treat women as outsiders, and still strive to keep them
away from their responsible share in the academic world..
lecturer pointed out that if Ten- dale had been bound to the sole use of words in the dictionary (had such existed in his day) we shoubi never have had the beau: tiful word peace-maker," nori the word "beautiful" with which
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Manager. Hongkong, 28th Nov. 1919.
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NOTICE.
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UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG
FACULTY OF MEDICINE.
Notice is hereby given that the
Part-time Tutor of Anatomy.
Full particulars may be obtain- ed from the Dean of the Medical Faculty.
to qualify it. In conclusion he TO HELP IN THE RECONSTRUCTION University is about to appoint a
thanked the Society for the honour conferred on him, and said that
OF WAR DEVASTATED REGIONS he had every confidence that his
GUARANTEED BY THE Meanwhile, while we wait upon audience would always be worthy FRENCH GOVERNMENT the tardy generosity of these makers of the English language." Four thousand million Francs ancient seats of learning the
At the conclusion of the lecture appointment of Mr. Balfour to Dr. Ivy expressed the thanks of
divided into Eight the Chancehorship of Cambridge the meeting to Dean Walker for 500 francs 5% Premium Bonds gives great hope of a forward the interesting manner in which Free of all Taxes. movement in this direction, and he had handled his subject. the institution of the Government
University Commissions will, let isting colleges are strained to the us hope, prove unnecessary in this utmost; they need immediate respect if the Universities will help to expand themselves. And, themselves take immediate action in addition, new once should at in the matter. "
once be promoted, and new build- And in any case we must haveings found:
mora colleges built. Whatever The young women of to-day
the senates and councils may do have heavy responsibilities, and about degrees or membership of need the best equipment they can universities for women, learning have, and ample facilities for they must have, and places to their college education is one of live in, and people to teach them. the necessary steps of serious And this cannot wait. The ex- reconstruction.
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PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
By Order of the Mortgagees Mr. Geo. P. Lammert has received instructions to sell by Public Auction
on
FRIDAY
the 12th day of December, 1919 at 3 pin. at his Sales Roms Duddell Street. Victoria, Hongkong.
The following Leasehold pro- perties situate at Victoria and Kowlcon. Hongkong in two Lots
Lot 1 All that piece of ground situate at Victoria registered in Land Office as Inland Lot No. 346 together with the messuage there- on No. 15 Mosque Street Ter 999 years from 27th November 1849. Area 1440 square feet. Annual Crown rent $1.24.
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Lot 2 All that piece of ground situate at Kowloon Point regis- tered in the Land Office as Sect- ion N of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 410 together with the mess- age thereon No. 22 Ashley Road. Kowloon Term 75 years from 24th June 1882. Area. 189214 square feet. Proportion of Annual Crown rent $10.50.
For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to Messrs Johnson Stokes & Master, Prince's Building, Ice House St. Hongkong.
Solicitors for the Mortgagees
o: to
Geo. P. LAMMERT.
Auctioneer.
HE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
MONDAY the 8th Dec. 1919. commencing at II a. m.
at his Sales Rooms, Duddell
Street.
A Quantity of Ledy's brown & black shoes, corsets,
moirette frill skirts, silk gloves, lady's silk mittesa, silk trimmings, ostrich feathers, Gent's silk ties etc. etc. Also
50 Pairs Union Fierce Blankets.
On view from Saturday, the 6th inst.
Terms: Cash on delivery,
Geo. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
A DOG STORY.
An extraordinary story of the recovery of a dog four months after it had been reported killed has just been related to the French police at Shanghai. The owner of the animal in question last June sent two dogs to a Japanese veterinary surgeon for treatment. Towards the end of that month he received a letter from the vet. to the effect that one dog had already, died, and that as the other was past treat ment he had killed it by an in- jection. The owner paid the bill and mourned the loss of his dogs. A few days ago he went to Wasih, and there saw one of his dogs in the company of a Japan960. There was no question of mis- taken identity, for no sooner had. the man appeared on the scene, than the dog rushed to him, dis- playing signs of profuse affection. Needless to say he at once took possession of his
long lost property,
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