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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1925.

TROUBLES IN CHINA.

Interesting Historical Survey.

GRAMAPHONE RECORDS.

EURASIAN CHARGED WITH

THEFTS.

HOME RACING."

STEWARDS' CUP RESULT.

London, July 28,

En-Tout- Cas

The Stewards' Cup, run at Good Hard Lawn Tennis Courts.

wood to-day, resulted as follows

Defiance (20 to 1) ... 1 Bunstono (20 to 1) ..., 2 Purple Shade (100 to 9)... 3. Won by three quarters of s longth; half a length betwasn

We call the following very interesting article on the present troubles in China from The Fleading guilty to a charge of Nation and Athena&um :

stosling seven gramphone racords "The government of Shanghai from Messrs. Fathe Freres obop is a curiosity of history fax which at No. 12 Queen's Road Central, it would be hard to find a parallel George Olyeon, a Eurasian, was

abort of Herodotus's description remanded for further enquiries eccond and third, Twenty-four of the Greek international settle-when brought before. Mr. R. A. D. ran.-Reuter, ment of Naukratis In Ancient Forrest at the Central Magistracy Egypt. Hore le a municipal this morning.

council, composed of representa- The occurence took place yea- tives of half-a-dozen natione, torday afternoon, it being stated administering a torritory which by the police officer in charge of belongs juridically to no single the case that the defendant was one of them, and which also chased and arrested by the man- contains a Chinose population ager of the shop on attempting to vastly outnumbering the fow escaps with the recorde under thousand mixed foreigners in his arm. whose hands the administration lies. This extraordinary system

;

U.S. AIR PORT.

SAN DIEGO'S NEW ROLE.

San Diego, July 28. The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Wilber, has announced a plan for Mr. Giraud, manager of Messrs. making San Diego a home air port was horrowed from the Levant, Pothe Freres, said the amount for the rigid dirigibles Los Angeles and ite nearest uxlating analogue involved was small, and in view and Shenandoah, transferring the Js perhaps to be found in of the lesson learned by the de-whole of the "lighter than air" Tangier: but whereas the Levan, fendant, he asked his Worship to activities of the Navy to an operat

ing base which will be constructed. tino ayetem of extra-territoriality pardon the offence,

grew up gradually and naturally,

The Magistrate, who was in here.-Reuter's American Service. in China it was deliberately im-formed that the defendant held a posed by the Western nations oot job with a Chinese firm, remand-

more than eighty-two years ago ed the hearing until to-morrow U.S. HEIRESS MARRIES,

for it was caly in 1843 that for the case of the defendant to Chine was opened by force to be further gone into..

Western trade. The position has -beon complicated by the fact that, in the interval, the Western world has undergone the Industrial Re volution, in which Shanghai has shared. "A factory strike, as has been mentioned, was the origin of the present crisis; but it is equal-e ly significant that the troublo took a gruver turn through the intervention of the studenta. for

the contemporary Chinose student is a monument of the merital, as the factory hand is of the econo- mic, penetration of Westernism

into Chinese life.

CHINA STATION.

RECENT APPOINTMENTS.

TO VISCOUNT DUNSFORD."

New York, July 28. Guinevere Gould, widow of the late G. 3. Gould, and heiress,, tó part of the Gould fortune, was married to-day at Montreal to The following appointments Viscount Dunsford, son of Earl have been made by the Admiralty Midleian.-Reuter's American So

Commander F Ratroy to vice. Titania and Wt. Tel. T. F. Parrow to Tamar.

"

For the cruiser Carlisle Cap

It is

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Two large hawks forced two

tain R. S. MacFarlan, at present carpenters to stop their work on at Shanghai, a now crew is to be a church stoeple at Pueblo. Both "The Chinese student, of all out from Durismouth Depot of the men were scratched by the generation ago-the-boy who sat her present commission of 22 birds, for those interminable eximinal years expiring on Aux. 3 "tions in the Confucian Classics experied that the relief crow will in order tu qualify for busoning be sent out in the Weymouth. a mendurin~would hardly which will ho dotached from the Noro Reserve. Among the cognize his modern Ruccessor. Until the other day, China really officers appointed to the Carlisle was what Mr. Belloc would like is Lieutenant-Commander, K. H. to persuade himself and us that Grant, formerly in command of Europa might be; a Roman Em-the destroyer Wrestler.

pire which had tottered but never fallen, and had passed through times of trouble without a breach

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practically all the Chineso employees have absented themselves from work and the remainder of the Staff is required

No court possesses enough for the maintence of the electric of continuity. Under the iron power to atop a woman from supply, the Company asks con- discipline of filial duty and patria talking. Judge Walter Gates sumers to call at the Head ffice, potestas which for the vast un-ruled in Los Angeles recently. AF. & O. Building, (3rd floor) and educated majority was embodied husband sought an injunction to pay their accounts which are now in ancestor-worship, while for the prevent his wife from talking ready. literati it was expressed, down to about big. The judge admitted the last word, in the Confucian some of the wife's remarks were

Classics this extraordinary peo-

ple had been patiently multi- plying and inheriting the parth

(always at, and often below, the:

catty."

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Hongkong, 13th. July, 1925.

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L. S. GREENHILL

Secretary. Hongkong, 17th July, 1925.

MILNERS' SAFES

a single point, however small, philosophic justice in this, since payable on Thursday August 13th there suddenly burst our agitat-China's modern contact with the on which date Dividend Warrants ed.and agitating Western way of West undoubtedly is the influence may be obtained on application life. First came treaty ports on which is turning her upside down; at the Company's Office, 11, the coast, then treaty ports up the but it is no remedy that the Queen's Road Central..

The Transfer Books of the! great navigable rivers, the rail-Chinese should turn upon the ways leading into the interior. foreigners, drive them out, and Company will be CLOSED from their handiwork. and, finally, the far greater in-undo

No Thursday the 30th July to Wed- novation of Wostern ideas... contemporary people gan escape nesday the 12th. August 1925

"At this point, in 1911, China the economic

mental (both days inclusive). during which Western which period-no transfer of phares fell again into one of her per-moshes iodical fits of anarchy-a phend- civilization.. has cast about can be registered.

By Order of the Board of menon which was probably npc- the world. The only wise course! essary to the health of a Roman is to learn how to move among Directors Empire determined not to die, these meshes with ease; and, bo- but which had never before.oo-sides, the West has great gifts to curred in China, under these offer. Western engineering, with special external conditions. Nor-its railway construction and river mally, the prosent turmoil of conservancy, can solve for China warring Tuchuns would have her food and population pro ended-after a fów decades or a blems; Western education oan few centuries (hardly distinguish-help her to breed a new race of abla in the long rhythm of Chinese the great administratore whom THE Undersigned havo just received a shipment of history)-in a renewal of the she always neede, by filling the Empire's youth through the mental void that has been created safon of various Size. These may foundation of a new dynasty. by the downfall of Confucius. be seen at No. 5 Duddell Street. This time, however, much more While we should be wrong-headed than the Manchu Dynasty has and shortsighted if we tried to been overthrown. The present exploit Chin's temporary troubles revolt in China is not against to our selfish advantage, it would this dynasty or that, but against not be to the advantage of China, the Confucian system itself, under any more than to our own, that we which the rulers of China have should let ourselves be driven

Tho P. & O. Steamers Alipore lived for more than two thousand from the legitimare position we and Sonden will sail for usual years, and against the patriar-occupy because, at present, we chal system, under which the alene san fill it. In China as she ports on the fith prox

The P. & O. Khyber Salls on people of Ching have lived from is, Shanghai is a city of refuge 7th prox: time immemorial. The Western; which must. be preserved in the The M. S. Tongking will load leavon has done its disinegrating common interest. work; but to say that China has China has muddled through her for usual ports on or about Sept. bocome a republic or that the periodical troubles in vacio, undis- Chinese bave adopted our nation-turbed from outalde, except by a alistio outlook would be to give fringeofbarbarian tribesmen round far too positive an account of her frontiers, Now, however the what has occurred. Wostorn world is one; and China, Impotent ideas are the driving force. be- and impressionable, les near the hind all this stress and, change, centre of two very dangerous in- but so far their operation has tornational tensions-the racial been almost entirely destructive. tension round the Pacific and the They have produced, in Cainage challenge of Bolshevism to the life, an unprecedented void, and Wostorn order of society..

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