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OUR PEKING

LETTER.

News to-day regarding the consortium loan to tirle

the Government over the lunar New Foon Our Ora Correspondenta Year is better than it has been

for some time. America, Britain!

in and France are agreement Peking, February 4. Public opinion in China was regarding the advance of £5,000,- never more clearly expressed than 90 to be made to the Government! it is to-day in asserting that but Japan is withholding consent gotiations shall not be opened unless the conditions she purs wi Japan regarding the re-forward are accepted. Needless In-to say the other Powers are not trocession of Kinochow.

and inclined to recognise any speciali number messages have been received conditions which Japan sets up from every provine of the such as the elimination of Man- hat notwithstanding churia uni Mongolia from the country. these the Government was scope of the agreement. inclined to

hegotiations,understood that Japan is upen their contention being that if theflonger insisting upon her own present deadlock is continued it ferms and will consent to the will lead to more intolerable con-advance. ditions, whereas if discussions are

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opened with Japan, China may Pur a day or two it was thought secure the return of Kiaochow, that it was the other parties who At present it is still in the hands were holding up the loan, and of the Japanese and the position that in the event of no advance cannot be worsened by negotia- being made. in time that Japan tion which does give a hope that would lend thirty million dollars, something substantial will revert As a matter of fact, it is believed to China. By refusing to negotiin well informed eireles that ate China, places. Japan in Japan is withholding with one good light. Japan says she is hand and proffering the other. willing to negotiate the conditions By frustrating a Consortium loan, under which the territory will be she creates a position of dire restored, but China declines to necessity in which she might in- negotiate. That Kianchaow is duce the Government to open still in her hands is not her¦negotiations regarding Kiaochow fault. The blame lies with on condition that as useful and Chins. However, the recrudes timely advance was made. This cence of student activity in Pek-was the policy adopted more than ing, with its continued expression a year ago when the remission of in Tientem and elsewhere. has the Boxer indemnity was offered inade the Government pause, and as a hait to keep China silent with there seems to be no way out of regard to the several secret agree. the difficulty.

ments and the Sino-Japanese military alliance.

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Peking organised a big demonstration) Bank of China and Bank of for last Saturday, when over ten Communication notes have gone thousand paraded the city, con-up again, recovering from their cluding by throwing their inscrib-fall a few days ago, and it is ex ed banners into the compound of jpected that they will reach 89 by the Waichaiopu. One un-April. It is difficult, however, to fortunate incident occurred. As resist the belief that this move- Dr Kawada, a Japanese doctor.ment is inspired by speculative was motoring to attend a patient, interests from which several of he was assaulted by some of the the banking men are not to be etudents. Hitherto the students separated. have not been guilty of any ex-

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The third aeroplane was tried this incident is to be regretted. To-day the students came out yesterday, making four successful than forty again en masse and bad lectur-flights with more ing parties in the main thorough-passengers all told. The machine faree, but as they interfered with behaved splendidly and the freedom of iraffe they were amateur aeronauts had a first rounded up by soldiers specially class, view of the city as the day! called in from Nan Yuan and was beautifully clear.

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coralled in front of Tien-an-men, where they were detained for a Internal peace seems as far time, all being liberated with the away as ever. The Anfo Club exception of 40 who admitted having for long opposed that they had attacked an the withdrawal of the North- officer's motor car that afternoon.ern delegate, Mr. Wang! Undoubtedly, the students mean 1-tang as it would be an acknow business, and they will need ledgement of de eat, are now careful handling if bloodshed is beginning to realise that the

General pot to engue.

Wu Southern representatives will not: Ping-hsiang, the chief of police, meet him and that he is a barrier with all his faults, appreciates to the resumption of internal the danger of rousing them; and peace negotiations. Consequently it will not be bis fault if any they are considering the propriety serious clash occurs, Neverthe-of a change which will not in- Iess, trouble is brewing.

Ivolve loss of face all round.

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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1920.

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As an instrument of punctua- tion in printed text the comma was first seen in the year 1521. A good plan is to use commas only when they are absolutely necessary.

On one occasion, in the House of Commons, Mr. Churchill was assed a question in regard to the alteration since 1894 of the punctuation of "Thy will be done. in earth as it is in Heaven," in the Prayer Book. Earlier the comma was put after the word "earth. Mr. Churchill replied that the printers presumably follow the Greek. He added that he had no power to alter the punctuation. which would require (1) King's Letters to Convocation, (2) re- commendation by Convocation and (3) an Act of Parliament.

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Here is an instance punctuation which clearly points to the necessity of printers understanding not only what is written, but possessing the know- ledge how to express it. Describ- ing the costumes at a reception. the newspaper report that "Mrs Smith wore nothing that was remarkable." was transformed into the astounding assertion that "Mrs Smith were nothing: that was remarkable."

It is recorded that a disting- uished graduate at Oxford deter- mined to enter the Nonconformist ministry,and.quite unnecessarily, a manifesto: setting published forth his reasons and intentions. In his enumeration of the various i methods by which he was going to mark his aloofness from the sacerdotalism of the Established Church, he wrote:-"I shall wear no clothes, to distinguish me from my fellow-Christians. The picture shops in Oxford soon dis- played a fancy portrait of the newly-fledged minister clad in what Artemus Ward called "the scandalous' style of the Greek slave," and bearing the inscrip- tion. "The Rev.-distinguishing! himself from his fellow- Christians."

A convivial host an one occasion proposed the following toast:-"Woman, without her man would be a sarage." but the toast list was printed thus:- "Woman, without her man. would be a savage."

Readers may have heard of the printer who, in setting up the Psalms for the day, put the com- mas in the wrong place. One verse should have read, "The wicked flee when no man pur- sueth, but the righteous is bold 28 a lion."

The passage was printed thus:-

The wicked flee when no mad pursueth but the righteous, is bold as a lion."

A provincial journal announced that "Two young men, with lady friends, went to a teachers' meet- ing, and after they had left, the girls got drunk." Here, egein,

the punctuation was wrong,

The moralis-" Mind your commes!"

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