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wants a knowledge of English, of foreign weights and measures and money he wants to know the mechanics of modern com- merce and general office work, and, for the moment, he wants little else. Wise educationiste, looking to the higher and nobler alm of education must be left to deplore it all; they want the old philosophies, the moral teach- ings of Confucius, the beauty of the Chinese classics and the idyllic. Young student hot-hoads dabbling in "Red" politics fill them with horror, and they long to dethrone the practical curriculum of our local collegos and schools and sub- stitute a placidly reflective and moralising course of instruction., Mr. Orme is of the true educa- tional school and really deplores the modern tendency, But, to our mind, it has become incrons ingly clear of late that the only

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the young Chinese of this Colony is to give them what the want in the way of practical instruction. Let it

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EDUCATIONAL AIMS.

TWO STEAMERS LAUNCHED LOCALLY.

Group taken at Taikoo Dockyard on the occasion of the launching of the s.s. Antung. Miss Stirling, who performed the christening, coremony, is soon pn right with bouqust. (Photo: Mee Cheung).

them an education they can apply in a practical and rewarding way when they leave school. The teaching and learning of moral conduct, of general ethics and of racial toleration and co-operation will come in its cwn devious ways but will come as surely as it always has through the ages. The world needn't get overmuch perturbed because of the revolu tionery, noise and fuss of a hand-! The late Director of Education ful of immature students, and the has very couragecasly attempted cld wise-heads needn't shake too in his introduction to the annual vigorously in deploring the impo- report of the Education Depart-sition of an unsettling foreign ment for last your to set out grave superficial education on young fundamental dangers and errors natives. It is only a transition; in the work of Incal educational and real moral and mental educa- institutions, and, although there|tion will assuredly come out of were hot a few who differed from i Let's go on teaching our Mr. G. N. Orme in his general | Commercial English classes. viewpoint and conduct of Govern-giving our young Chinese boys THE TRUE END OF LIFE AND THE ment educational matters, there the beginnings of careers, and

TRUE WELFARE. · ·Jouffrou. will be few indeed who will not trustfully leave time and expe-) The opening rate of the dollar. An appeal to the Indian chiefs

Thos.. Slang Wo, recently launched at Kowloon Docks, is here seen leaving the slipways on being christened by Mrs. Cleruenti. (Photo: Mee Choung),

DAY BY DAY.

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INDIAN CHIEFS.

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ly summed up the facts. Mr. Orme's most pregnant sentence is that wherein he states there is,

greater benefits.

Tuberculosis.

The white scourge stil! con-| tinues to exact its heavy toll off

The Marine Court of Enquiry into the stranding of the 3.5. Tean has been fixed for January 6th.

PLEA FOR GENEROUS TERMS.

Washington, Dec. 29. According to the New York Andrews, former times and justify their title of Secretary to the Treasury, will natural leaders of the Indian present, at the re-opening of Con- people, by introducing reforms, gress, a motion in which he admits such as the institution of popular that the French pay taxes repre- at present, a great temptation, for

-assembles, thereby proving that senting 20 per cent, of the revenue, At the New Year's Eve over-hereditary rulership possessed all being double those of the Ameri- parents, teachers and pupils to make out of our educational faci- lives in Hengkong, for the fact is flow dance at the Hongkong the advantages of complete demo-cans, and asks that France bu disclosed in the reports published Hotel, fancy or evening dress may crncy without its evil, was given generous terms for the lities here a short road to the for 1934 that during that your be worn. -

made by Shunkar Lai Kaul, pre-debt settlement pointing ow! acquisition of means of livelihood. tubercular diseases of various

siding at the third session of the that the absence of Americans of The French flagship Jules Native States Subjects Con- French origin, speaking in the The dangers altendant upon Auch types resulted in no fewer than

name of France, results in the a course of action are undoubted. 2,358 deaths, which is the highest Michelet has left for the North.

mortality registered for the nine Sho is expected to

He urged all the native princes public to be constantly misin- ly many-the carly desertion years regarding which figures! Hongkong sometime in March.

to begin a system of budgeting, ¦ formed, and recalling the French of a study of Chinese for the jare given. Of these, 260 were of

to restrict personal allowances to aid to the United States, during infants under one year, but the) We have to acknowledge re immediately profitable, study of highest incidence was in the case ceipt of calendars from the English and the secking of of Chinese between the ages of Colonial, Disponsary and Mesers. external results in preference to 25 and 45 years, of whom no A. B. Moulder & Co., the lutter real mental and moral progress the twelve months.

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five per cent of the State re- and after the War of Indepen- Venues, to prevent reckless waste dence, as well as the losses and of public funds, and not to treat the sacrifices suffered during the State Treasury as a private purse. | Great War.-Indopacifi. He declared that any ruler behav ing like a "little Czar" would he sowing the seeds of Bolshevism,-

are but two of the more import to the total deaths amongst tho A District Court Martial is to ant. Mr. Orme belongs to the Chinese community. the per-up held on New Year's Day for class of educationist who sees centage of deaths from tubercular the trial of Sergt. J. F. Caswell, Renter

discases was 15.7. What is R.A.0.C., and Havillar Sher that the real aim of education oven more striking, however, Muhammad, of the Hongkong should be the moral and mental is the fact that the total deaths and Singapore Royal Artillery. uplift of the people and not a of Chinese from respiratory dis-

of it is that people in the grip of

COMMUNIST CONGRESS.

DISSENSION IN RUSSIAN EXECUTIVE.

SYRIAN OUTLOOK.

CHIEF RSBEL KILLED.

Londen, Dec. 29.

The Daily Mail Beyrout corres- pondent states that the chief rebol, Hassan Kharrat, was killed in the course of an engagement in the neighbourhood of Damascus.

In the Djebel region, agitatora coming from Egypt and Palestine are seeking to hinder the move- ment of submission, which is con--

GERMAN UNEMPLOYED.

A MARKED INCREASE.

Berlin, Dec. 29.

leases came to no fewer than A fourteen-year-old Chinese simplified or intensified acquisi-5,037, or 39.4 per cent. of the boy, has been taken to the Kwong tion of a certain amount of super-total deaths amongst the Chi-Wah Hospital, sufforing from in- ficial knowledge necessary for the nose community. These figures tornal injuries, as to result of are cloquent of the havoc played boing knocked down by a motor pupil to be able to Garn

by diseases which are in large lorry yesterday. The driver of certain wage in the commercial measure, spread by overcrowding the lorry has been detained, pond- i

Moscow, Dec. 29. or industrial world. No-one would and by the objectionable habit of ing enquiries.

The Congress of the Russian promiscuous spitting. The worst dara to gainsay the fact that

The health return for last week Communist Party has passed a education's highest aim is on the the disoaso move freely amongst shows three Chinese cases of ty-resolution urging a continuationstantly increasing-Indopacif lofty meral plane, but as a matter their fellow-men and in many in- phoid (one death); two of diph of the fight against the Right in stances are either unable or dis-theria fone British and one Chi- an ultra-Left endeavour to create. of practical everyday life We

inclined to adopt methods of nesol, of which one was fatal; unity in the international Labour" have to get down to fucts und so living which would help them in one fatal Chinose case of corubro- movement. The vote was taken must the educationist. The pro resisting the inroads on their spinal fever; and ono non-fatal after M. Zinovieff had read a re- blom of native oducation in Africa health. Moreover, there is no imported British case of small- port favouring merciless oppori-

sanitarium troatmant available pox.

tion to private capital. M. Zino- India and China and elsewhere in Hongkong, tt shortcoming

vicif's report was the 'outcome of must of necessity be concerned, which will have to bo faced onio

a five-hour speech by M. Stalin The concert given in' St.

There is a marked increase in un- primarily, with giving to pupils day if the health of the com-Stophon's College Girls' School last week on the work of the

munity is to be safeguarded. an education in a foreign tongue

on Saturday, December 19th, pro- Executive Committee which arous employment, which is now in the because the pupils and the puronts.

ved a great financial success, ed opposition and culminated in a proportion of 11 workmen The students were able to send demand that Zinovieff, the Chair, thousand; compared with 17 per: are out to demand such a foreign

the Executive himself, thousand in the occupied ter- The Ellie Kadooric School for $300 for the Cathedral Organ man of

ritories.-Indopacifi. [education, and all the talk about Indiane is to hold its annual Fund and:$200 for the Mission to should make a report-Reuter,

A further sum of $107) the incautiousness of up-rooting athletic sports on the Indian Re-Seamen,

from their creation Ground to-morrow after-was given to Mrs. Ma Ying-bow, young natives

noon. The prizes are to be pro-for industrial work in the schools

The following forthcoming native tradition und

onsented by Mrs. A. R. Sutherland, for poor Chinone children. A sum

of $100 was sent to the "Door of weddings aro announood. Mr. | vironmont and leaving them

Hope" in Canton. This term Arthur Jamos Kow, of Mesura, atrando as half-óducated discon-

$400 has already been given to Anderson, Meyer & Co. and 333, tents is really beside the point the Hongkong Lunatic Asylum children in different parts of the Beatrice Rose Ablong, residing at There were 367 admissions into help schools for the poor Chinese Nathan Road, Kowloon, to Miss This is an age of materialism, during 1924, compared with 300 Diogose. Miss Middleton-Smith, No 3, Ashley Road, Kowloon; and the young Chinese, Indian in 1923 and 235 in 1922. Of these, the staff, and students, wish to Mr. John Edward Strange, wire- Malakal. Reuter. or African student wants, first 183 were sont to the John G. Korr thank the many Chinese and less oporator, R. F. A. Ruthenia

Hospital at Canton, compared and foremost, the mental equip-with 131 in 1923 and 84 in 1929 English friends, who so kindly to Miss Gertrude Mabel Victoria, Anglo-Egyptian Soudan, near to

supported this effort.

Bullock, of Lycomun. iont for a successful career. He Seven deaths occurred.

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Cairo, Dec. 29.

Alan Cobham has arrived at

[Malajal is in the southern

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