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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920,
DISTORTED VIEWS OF CHINA.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
THE CHINESE STUDENT.
THURSDAY, MARCH A 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
EN PASSANT.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
ALL DISORDER IS HORRID Everybody's talking boxing WHEN IT IS AMONG THINGS THAT this week. One would almost ARE NATURALLY
ORDERLY tire of hearing about is if baxing tainer who has just died, had a Mr. Percy French, the entar- were not such an engrossing sub-
A picturesque figure in the political affairs of China, and one | Ruskin. who is the hope and, at the same time, the despair of her well- wishers, is the Chinese student of
want of the economic
A strong
SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES.
L.
Yesterday's
health
in Portland Place on 16:1 January.
foreign nations and their peoples Accused of stealing 121bs. of
spots.
Boxers seem
+
not
were ia
Hongkong?
Jove
חם
dawn pictures. He would work
there were
▸
to
three marks
•
FLOWER SHOW.
THE EFFECTS OF A BAD SEASON.
Hongkong's Flower Show, held
some
were seen.
&
scene
enjoyable programme of music.
rear
were:--MesSTA. L Gibb J. A. Plummer
ject. The great point is "Who great talent for drawing upside-under the auspices of the Hong-, is going to win Kerrison thinks rapidly with coloured chalks, in ons Horticultural Society, is the present day. The introduc-shows one Indian imported case person with an alleged sense of ience, on a landscape which seem-year and the Botanice! Gardens, return he is and so does Bux. Some full view of an interested and always one of the events of the tion of semi-foreign ideas into of small-pox (non-fatal), his edocation since the days of
humour has descended to make a the Revolution has wrought a
pun on the name Bux. We all Mr. French would turn the sketch day, has again been
ed quite natural. Then suddenly
where the show opened to- strong influence on his mind
The gunboat Creala was com- we need not speak about it that upside down, and quite another blaze of flower colour well worthy
know that Bux can box, but which, if it has not improved bis missioned 3. Chatham on 14th wax.
of much activity and a general educational outlook, has January, by Liaut. Com. R. G. M. a love of impossible names. Here aristocratic in birth and appear
to have picture would be seen. He was of a visit. Unfortunately, the at least reinforced his patriotic D. Hunt D.S.O., for service on the we have a "Skyboxing an ance; witty and musical; and all season has not been a good one. instincts. The part which he has China Station. played in the anti-Japanese
"Iron and Hongkong has seen hear of his death in Liverpool. who knew him will be sorry
Whilst it commenced very well, boycott should prove this, but in
dozens of Youngs" one or two
the cold damp weather of the past this also is reflected the A lascar on the P. and O.may be all very well, but it
three weeks has materially affected Battlings" and 3 "Kid." It of a broader knowledge Dunera was to-day fined 8500, for doesn't seem quite necessary old saying. It probably relates not so many entries this year. for the worse plants and flowers "Long neck, long life," is anand in consequence there were position being in possession of 88 taels of Why cannot a man fight as to the danger of apoploxy for In fact they only totalled about in which China stands in relation prepared foreign opium. In the plain George or Henry, or what-those with short, thick necks. 830 88 against 990 last year. to her more powerful neighbour. alternative a sentence It may be argued that the students months' hard labour was passed. pose if Mr. Wildin
of six ever his name might be? 1 sup Scientifically speaking it is cannot be blamed for what ther
As will be seen from the prize have done in the harming of the
America, he would be known as
difficult to say what the signs of list below many of the classes commerce of the Japanese, be,
The Special Congregation of Dope Fuster Manager Wildin." long life are. Lord Bacon, the were not filled and in some, even cause the latter have been show the Hongkong University which He ought to be thankful that he great philosopher, said that be where exhibits were staged, the ing An unbecoming desire 10 was fixed for the 8 h instant is to isn't.
had questioned many very old judges did not think that the spec- establish
economic take place on the 7th.
imens were worthy of prizes. The people, and could not deduce any The position in China at her expense degree ceremony is to be at 4
There have been one or two that would lead to long life: both pot plants and cut flowers certain rules of living, diet, etc in the exhibits from the Peak. most noticeable difference was and to the exclusion of other o'clock, and tea will be served unfortunate people in Hongkong bus Powers. Doubtless this is the afterwards.
this week. sentiment underlying the actions
One was the man or signs that were certain in showing a great falling off. Mar- of the Chinese students, but in its
who opened his morning paper to dications that their poseessor, bar uerites, usually such a feature of achievement they par no rear dispute which arose last Decem-speaking about rent profiteering as if they were too large for the from the Peak distric: were under The arbitration in the shipping that H. E. the Governor had been prominent veins, crowded teeth-appointing. The vegetables, too. find, as he was told by headlines, accidents, would live to be old-the bloom display, were very dis- to the harmful effects into whicalber is to commence early next and that another Volunteer Bill mouth-and "stubborn" hair, that average. In the open class some a political movement may throw a note too stable Government of the China Coast Officers' Guild.searched in vain. And then he Many, of course, say that moder, Pecially the collections. Taking week. Capt. D'Olivera. Secretary had been passed. But the reader refuses to be brushed into shape. good vegetables were seen, es- The student of the present day arrived here yesterday in con- remembered that has grown out of the chrysalis stage in which he existed during approved arbitrators are Mr. N. said
nection with this matter. The happened a week before. What be long life. And yet the celebrated;
ir had allation in diet is a great cause of the show all round the exhibitors the Manchu regime, but, unfor
must be congratulated on shall I tunately, only into a half-edged Hughes.
Watson
2nd Mr. Owen Another rather youthful re-la fall from a tree at the advanced
reveal. Countess of Desmond who died of staging the quality produce patriot.
they did because A little learning is a
the year sident, I hear. has dangerous thing." and the semi-
become age of a hundred and forty-and has been
one of the enamoured of the joys of motor the still more celebrated Old worst. There were cot so many as won ma i of the modern appointed British Ambassador to went very merrily until well past kind of life that everybody about ladies competing in the table de foreign ideas described by himself" Sir Charles Eliot, the newly-cycling. He took his machine Part, who lived to an age yet exhibits as usual sent in not for
over to Kowloon on Sunday and greater, probably led the same epoch") have, when grafted into Japan, who was
competition. The number of his native education, turned his London on Feb. 7 for Tokyo to went bust. Sunday morning was case cells in favour of moderation:
due to leave)
Lai-chi-kok. Then mind os a course with which take up his diplomatic duties. nice and warm. And I met that for be is said to have died of over-
something then did. But perhap. Parr's Corations was up to average and heis not fully acquainted.
cherming arrangements was entertained by the Chinese Minister and me. Sze to a youth just as he arrived back at much enjoyment
The work of judging was car of London farewell dinner at the Legation the machine all the way back. him up' to town to see Charles.Commander C. W. Beckwith, the Kowloon Ferry having pushed hospitality when they brought ried cut by Mr. Justice Gompertz, What he said is another of those I.. at the age of a hundred and Messrs. N. L. Watson, John W. National obligations, such as those in which China stands
things that cannot be revealed. fifty-two. William Harves, the Taylor, A. Nicol, L. N. Leefe, E The Editor wouldn't print it. Iris is Japan. have not been; We are infurmed by Bishop
great physician, however, res
F. Aucott, H. Green, L. Gibbs, taught to these students. On the Pozzoni that the Mission to be
ported that it was change of air Mrs. Aubrey and Mrs. R. M. Dyer. question of the necessity of a more conducted by the Redemptorist people have romanced to them-lived much longer if they had only I wonder how many other that killed him. He might have|
During the afternoon the band thorough education, we think of Fathers in the Catholic Cathedral selves like I have when standing kept him to show to Queen Anne. The officials of the show this of H.M.S. Hawkins rendered an the methods by which such an will commence on Sunday, the on one of the Peak roads and education can be secured. The 7th instant, and finish on Sunday, looking down on present system of introducing athe 14th. There will be a sermon Often have I been few foreign subjects hitherto every evening at 6 p.m. and durOlympus. fully armed with des-that the authorities of the Church
It was stated some weeks ago Treasurer). H. B. L. Dowoiggin
(President), absen; from the vernacular curing the 7.30 am. Mass on week-tructive thunderbolts and I have of England were resolved to make S. B. C. Ross, J. Taylor, E. J. ricaluin is obviously insufficient.days and 9.30 am. Mass on Sun-pictured myself hurling them a strict and scientific investig- No-anah, D. Harvey, W. J Tut- (Secretary), Miss Wallace, Messrs History of China, with but a days.
down on all the Colony a black ation into the subject of Spiritcher, N. L. Watson, R. Baker and light reference here and there to Dr. Geil, who has just given Reuter's Agency an interview, on and customs, forms to the average potatoes from a steamer berthed volumes of black smoke, have must precede any definite judeto Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, who
The electric generating ualism for the guidance and bene Commander Beckwith. works at Wanchai. belching forth St of their people. Investigation the majority of people who come East. He is an explorer of note, national intercourse. The classic workman to-day told Mr. E. A Hunghom to see his return from the Far East. has probably seen more of China than student his only ideas of inter-at the Taikoo Docks, a Chinese and I have bowled one over toj Roman Catholic Church, how in his capacity of Hon. Secretary, A special word of praise is due been well and truly aimed at ment on the other matter. The to Burmah. But we fear that he has let his imagination carry him done, take prominence in the the potatoes and in the course of his travels he has crossed China from Shanghai i hooks, as they always have Irving, at the Police Court, that works go up in a finai cloud. the happy position of being able success of the event. away somewhat when he talks in such a breezy and glowing manner aching of morals, and
the Cement ever, is (saya a Home paper) in of the marvellous prozress made by the Chinese in recent years. merce
were broken ones and then He says that they have immensely advanced towards modern he learned except in the fated them up for food. The potatoes show: have pulled strings and sort of inquiry which would be
com-and were cast away. He picked manipulator of and economics
have been the to pronounce judgment without civilisation, that they are becoming more and more kindly disposed light of the shop of the small however were sound ones, and it worked the buman figures, until necessary in any body outside marionette inquiry; or at least without that towards English-speaking visitors and that the young Chinese are tradesmen. "crazy" to learn the English language. Now, there is some truth quite out of keeping with the ship. Yesterday afternoon, dehe whole of the Colony and ualism an effort to set up a new
This omission
was proved that they were includ is underlying these observations, but they are read by Western idea tha: China can work out
ed in the provisions of the
I have in fancy remodelled that Church. It sees, in Spirit-i peoples as indicating what they probably will-that the whole of her own salvation by the interest Chief Officer, Mr. J. the Chinese people have taken on Occidental manners and that her inhabitants
put things straight. It all seems religion, and as any new religion seen by the their one desire is to clasp the foreigner to their breasts and learn development of
so simple when day dreaming must Evans,
false take in the
religion his tongue-then it will be a pity that this worthy doctor ever per products and industries.
going down the gangway holding would do well to get up high the
thusly.
Plants in pots (open to all ex- Our local legislators to any one accepting Christianity, cept Peak Gardens and Chinese China's mitted himself to be interviewed.
Romish-Church a bag in which the potatoes were sometimes and let fancy roam a and logically. forbids its children! rightly. It is an unfortunate circumstance that people in Europe knowledge
merket gardeners.) student who is out for deeper perceiving that he was detected, mountains gives to men lofty the heresy. So far as we have Jordan.
contained. This he dropped on little. It is said that living arcong to and in America as well have a very distorted conception of European schools which unhappily and arrested by the Indian watch-city people are often narrow this country has not lately made K. C. C.
Marguerites-1, United Ser- dealings with vices Recreation Club; 2, Mrs. China as she is today. They get led astray by returned are not available to the general;
and bolted, but was intercepted thoughts and ideals, and that noted, the Catholic Church in visitors to the East who mustly confine their trips to the Treaty mass
Nasturtium.-1, U. S. R. C.: 2, Ports and who proceed to talk very glibly about the progress Much good is undoubtedly being
man. He was sentenced to six because they have of the
population. of the Chinese people. Then, too, the judgment of men who ought achieved by the schools in Hong-
weeks* hard labour by the landscape cutlooks.
no broad any formal and public pronoun- Salvia,-1, I would cement in this sense, but the Club; 2, U.S.R.C.
Kowloon Cricket to know better
magistrate. is warped by coming into. Chinese of the type who have been engaged in the peace. deliber- but the question is often asked, contact with kongand the Treaty Ports of China
prescribe a month on Tai-mo-shan visit of Sir Oliver Lodge to the ations in Europe-Western-educated men, of considerable polish and whether the students here have his record, a Chinese boy was
for some of the Hongkong people United States a country not raised from seed same season-1, Six pots of annuals or plants world-knowledge-who are in no sense typical of the great bulk of learned all that they might have again arrested on board the s.s. With a previous conviction on
I know.
orious for freak religions-has Mr. Ho Kom Tong; 2, Lady Ho their countrymen. We even fear that the sight of an occasional The annual reports
caused one of the leading Catholic Tung. young Chinese in silk hat and frock coat disturbs their sense of Director
by the Laisang yesterday. for the theft indulged in one of those fancy- the faithful that the Church has raised from seed same season, not
It was quite recently that clergy in New York to remind
Three pots of annuals or plan's judgment, inclining some of them, maybe, to the idea that this is the sounded a rote of warning to the ship, the
of Education have of a steel pin from the stern of the free moods. but soon had to placed an absolute prohibition on included in other classes.-1, Mr. conventional attire of the greater part of the people of China to-day pupils of the Government schools is We say these things not in any disparagement of the admitted pro-in regard to their attitude during His excuse to the Magistrate daily life seemed more sordid one respect; they repose in the Tong: 2, Hongkong Club; award
which descend into the town again, any debbling in Spiritualism. Ho Kom Tong. gress which is apparent in Young China, but because a very false the boycott, They have been (Mr. E.A. Irving) at the Police than usual. The coolie women, authority of the Church. It of merit, Hon. Mr. J. Johnstone.
$50. where all the sordid realities of Rothan Catholics are happy in Antirrhinum.-1, Mr. Ho Kom idea exists in the Western Hemisphere regarding general conditione told, and rightly fold, not to Court to-day was that he picked especially, made one long to be would have been much better for in China at the moment. It would do some of the people at Home follow the example of the other up the steel pin for a closer able to take hold of our social some people if they had been Hu Kum Tong. the world of good to know of the absolute corruption which per- students in China, bus to leave examination. But thieving, pro-system, as though it were some by brains stronger than their 2, Mr. G. M. Shaw. meates practically the whole of the official class in China to-day political affairs to their elderspensities, and not curiosity, were thing tangible, and smash it as and of the hopeless administrative muddle which prevails through who have a wider knowledge in what induced him to commit the a
controlled in their researches out the length and breadth of the land. When Dr. Geil talks of the these matters. young Chinese being "crazy" to learn English. he obviously must mean a section of the inhabitants of the Treaty Ports. We presume he does not mean to infer that the young country yokels in the heart of China, or even within a stone's throw of the Treaty Ports, are consumed with a mighty yearning to speak a Western tongue. Why, even in British Hongkong there must be thousands of Chinese with reason be imparted is the Magistrate, Mr.
Further advice which youths who do not know a word of English and who do not want to importance of a reserved opinion second officer of the ship was something better that we just The use of the English language is admittedly growing, and we hope of one own's worth. Some of uur one of the witneses in the case. and believe it will continue to do so, but when we think of the teeming budding Anglo-Chinese students) millions of China we realise that as yet we are only on the fringe are the funniest figures off the
According to one of the local of this development.
I shall soon papers I notice that the s.8. There are good grounds also for thinking that Dr. Geil has over observations in many cases and in his rendering of the language
comedy stage. We have made!
be getting really serious and I'm Japan, which left Singapore on stated the case so far as the spread of Christianity in China is have arrived at the conclusion, will pass un-noticed over their
not allowed to. I apologise.. March 28 is due here on the 5th. concerned. There are undoubtedly more Christians in China to-day which is endorsed by Mr. Lau heads.
This beats aeroplanes. than ever there were, and our religion is appealing to more and more | Chu-pak, that
It would have been Often have I heard the remark every year. The old gods may be falling into decay, but even here Chinese boy with an elementary cf his extreme youth not re-nothing matters." Most of us early favouring us with an organ
too often
the tragically pathetic, were the fact "Oh well, it's only Hongkong, in Hongkong we see plenty of evidence that "joss pidgin" is very, knowledge of English which he membered.
Mr. Denman Fuller is very very slowly dying. As to the statement that since prohibition in supplements by a liberal dash of most tragic figure in Chinese horno. and we develop a "maskes" Colony, and he ought to be well But perhaps the look upon it as only a temporary recital after his return "to-the America efforts are being made to transfer the liquor trade to Chine, lingo franco has a conceited studentdom is the youth woo has idea that makes us belittle the supported. I notice that Prof. there may be cases in which American brewers and the like are knowledge of his own importance, acquired the advantage of an place and everything connected Danenberg's pupils are giving looking to the East to find a fold for their energies. But liquor bad He thinks himself a manh-ming education abroad but turns its with it: One.friend of mine treats their annual recital on Wednes got a big hold on many Chinese communities lang before America person, boards the tram with a benefits in the wrong direction. the whole Colony and all the day next, and in this connection went dry." It is absurd to connect the two sets of circumstances.grand air and lords it over his On this subject Mr. Lau makes people in it as a huge joke. I have also heard that a lady The Chinese, many of them, have taken on Western vices along more ignorant compatriots inside. no bones of discrediting the stud- He talks about the necessity vocalist, recently arrived in the with Western benefits. And it is useless to shut our eyes to the Now and then be calls to his ent whose cative born ideas are for fact. Even the anti-opium movement has had its reflex action in aid the freer consumption of alcohol. China is advancing, yes; but she English
retaining words of entirely aleniated by foreign humour. Such an attitude is 't with solos, and so the event of Colony, is to favour the company is not yet the perfect nation that some tourists paint ber as being. observe their effect on his co-country ignorant of her needs and just that sort of thing that has than usual
that he knows, to learning and who returns to his humour; its ridiculous. It is should be even more succesfal And it will be many weary years yet before she can hope to nationals, with the sure know- not caring one iota what becomes been Hongkong's greatest handi- approach anywhere near the standards of the West.
Telge that whatever errors exist of her.
CONTEMPORE,
cannot
OWD The
must seek it in
THE WORST TYPES.
the
'few
fendant was
act.
value of
set dows xt
I
3
thing. Beem
own.
be
have any
was largely responsible for the A great
grudgingly of his time. amount of work is involved and Mr. Dowbiggin has given un-
The following was the
PRIZE LIST.
SECTION 1.
Arums.-1, Mr. A. Nicol; 2 Mr.
Begonias.-1, Sir Paul Chater;
Cercations and/or Picotees.--1, Sir Paul Chater; 2, Mr. Ho Kom Tong.
vile and hateful It was established that be We are all wrong; we was seen trying to hide the pin to have lost the intended track. by the method of tucking We
work Bt it beneath his waist
our particular thousands of inhabitants had beent band. petty jobs, we grade ourselves thought a little more seriously of, Six weeks' hard labour was the into unnatural classes, we dabble we might have had a different. could punishment indicted by the in littlenesses and think the result.
Bedwell, great, but all the time there's
B.
miss. We have gone askew somewhere.
B
Berge
cap.. If the Colony and Its
Dianthus-1, Hongkong Club Cactus and/or Peony Dahlia.- Sir Paul Chater:, Mr. Ho Kom Tong.
Double Heraniume.-1, Mr. Ho Kom Tong: 2, Bon. Mr. J. John- stone.
Dahlias, other than Cactus or Peony. No award:
Heliotrope. 1. U.S.R.C.; 2, Hon. Mr. J. Johnstone.
Larkspurs.-1. Mr. Ho Kom
Tung: 2, Mr. Ho Kom Tong. Tong: 2, Sir Paul Chater.
Maidenhair ferns.-1, Lady Ho
Jordau; 2, Mr. Ho Kom Tong.
Feras-1, Mr. Ho Kom Tong- Asparagus Plumosus.-1, Miss
2. Mrs. N. J. Stabb.
Freesia,-1, Mrs. R. Makebam;
Kom Tong: 2, Mies Crockatt.
Freesia Hybrids-No exhibits. Strigle Geraniums.-1, Mr. Ho
Ho Kom Tong, 2, MT, N.J. Brabb. Ivy Leaved Geranjums. Mr. Mignonette.-1, Mr. Ho Kom Tongs 2, Lady Ho Tung
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