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THE UNIVERSAL “SQUEEZE.”

Under the above headings, Sir Percival Phillips writes as follows to the London Daily Mail-

SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1926.

ENGLISH POETRY.

BELGIAN PROFESSOR'S

VERDICT:

"English poetry is the greatest British trade in China is suffer-burne and Browning are the most poetry of the world, and Swin- ling from a variety of complaints, interesting poots of the last half

ranging from the disease of Bolof the nineteenth century." shevism to civil war complicated by such characteristic Chinese fessor of English philology and So declared Paul de Rod!, pro- symptoms as brigandage black-modern 1florature in the Univer mail, and the paralysis of rail-sity of Brussels, in a lecture on

ways.

These interwoven enemies of "Swinburne" at Houston Hull, at foreign commerce are in them- the University of Pennsylvania. selves sufficiently formidable, but still more trouble looms ahead for the harassed British trader if his forecast of the new Customs

Defending the English poet from frequent charges that he is "flesh- ly," Prof. de Roul declared:

"To me Swinburne seems to lack

too

regime proves correct. He seca flesh. often, instead of being himself at the mercy of an age-floshly. "At bottom he often is old power which has successfully too abstract. rather than defied all opposition-the tradi-sensuous. There is in him a tional,

all-pervading practice white heat and passion for beauty known as "squeeze."

that purifies everything." Putting aside the "Die-Hurds," Swinburne's Animalism “Absurd." who would maintain the "ancient) and obviously impossible relations "There in Swinburne · 'an with China which were establish animalism against the higher ed early in the last century, there issues of the spirit," once wrote remain a large body of sound, Edmund Gosse, author of what harti-headed business men who, Prof. de Reyl termed "the best while sincerely anxious for the re- biography of Swinburne." organisation of these relations, 'so

"I quoted those words to Swin- as to conform with the altered burne, on his seventieth birth- conditions of our times, see only day." related Prof. de Reul. "Hu 'disaster ahead if the present safe-burst into thundering, Olympian gitards surrounding foreign com- laughter.. merce are swept away before Now isn't that too funny!' Chipa is capable of replacing them exclaimed Swinburne. The accu- by an equally sound system of eation is so absurdly beside the control.

mark! But the wave of Philis- tinism is retiring."

And they ask pertinently, "How are you going to deal with the system of ‘squeeze'?”

fi...

"Swinburne led a sensible' cam- paign for the liberty of art-then threatened," went on Prof: de Reul. Is the requisite of art to

ive no offense? Is the domestic ile to be the limit of art!"

"Taking Your Bit.” "Squeeze" is known in Great Britain as illicit commission. In China it is a perfectly legitimate method of "taking your

In no other poet dies English bit." Everybody does it.

seem to a foreigner so full, rich, The house boy who runs the kitchen may be pure and melodious us in Swin- a paragon of honesty bit on every inferior to German for poetry. burne Before him, English was purchase he gets his "angiecze'- -

paid by the purveyor. The nanoIt has too many "monosyllables. magistrate who decides a lawsuit English says love, dove, rose, sun, has his "aqueeze," "and no one but German says liebe, taube, rose, thinks any the worse, of him. Onsenne, and the extra syllable all Government contracts there gives a natural rhythm. Euglish are "squeeze," ranging from the is lacking, in pure vowels-think "fut cheque paid to the man at of the word cat, for instance!

the top down to the handful of Compared with Italian, English is i silver dollars arriving eventuallycrowded with an overgrowth of

| consonants in the lap of the foreman.

What is crudely described in

"Swinburne's Glorious Music." Western countries as bribery is in China merely "squeeze." It is But some English poets learn- frequently blackmail a well.fed to put monosyllables in groups. From time immemorial all State And Swinburne disciplined the servants have taken their bit-consonants by alliteration, using often a good bit. Government it so constantly that it ceased to revenue is a never-failing source seem artificial.. His alliteration

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of wealth. Taxes arrive so far, ts a humming accompaniment to: and often no farther. Peking is his rhythm, Hc ranks with complaining bitterly at the pre Victor Hugo, Shelley and Goethe sent time that they never arrive among the best rhythmists. In anywhere.

frier shades of music he is un- Every local war lord is milking rivaled save by Shelley. We can't the territory momentarily in his do without Swinburne's glorious grasp for as large a "squeeze" as music-no more than we could do the gasping merchants and land-without Wagner.* lords can be made to produce. Taxes have been imposed in some

districts for 1930 in order to extract fresh "suceze."

Foreign merchants know to their sorrow that it is only pós- sible to get goods through to cer- tain parts of the country by pay- in several sets of officials,

There are woes about being. translated, declared Prof. de Roul

"Once I wrote, in French," he said, "that, Swinburne's high, buld forehead bad the luminosity of alabaster." And the translator Fendered that, Swinburne looked like an old albatross.""

| thereby, wiping out their legiti- To profits. Fortunately, the Customs Service has "been free

Stettin, Germany.-Seldont bas |from "squecze" owing to the anti-the imagination of Baltic skippers uthy of Westerners to this form and sailors been inflamed to such of livelihood.

fe degree as by a story brought

If the Chinese Control Customs. There by an old Finnish sea-dog, What will happen when it is on his way from Amsterdam lo hanged over to the Chinuse? Heroesand, Sweden, who assorts

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Let the British business men in that he has been",charged by men China answer in chorus:

believed to have been dead since *Squeeze' will be a rampant November to bring greetings to vice. Underpaid Government ins-the home folk and tell them that pectors will be expected, as they are now pirates coining big always, to eke out their salary money. The Finlander, declares by private pressure on trade. that they transformed the Swedish Fines, confiscation of cargo, inter-schooner Rapid, believed to have minable delay in shipment, vexa been sunk in November, into a tious inquiries--the methods open buccaneers' vossel. A veritable! to agile Customs officials are in-pirate chase is to start on the numerable.

Baltic, as every steamer and sail-] Pay or lose' will be the motto.ing vessel is on the lookout for It is manifestly impossible for any the sea raidor. Since the visit of Central Government-provided the Finnish skipper here, various there is one to mako "squeezing" other seamen assert they have]

punishable offence, or to en-seen the vessel, which, despite its force such punishment if it did. partial reconstruction and cuman- Discrimication between nationa-flage, they recognized as the lities will be inevitable. The Rapid. country whose agents show the greatest willingness to be bled will receive the lion's share,"

The history of the Government- At the time of writing five- managed railways does not yield sixths of the railway system is MASSAGE HALL much comfort for foreign busi-ured only for troop movements. iness nea. It is, a history of con- The warehouses at Shanghai, Han

sistent "squeeze" resulting in the kow, Tientsin, and Nanking are, disappearance of revenue, before filled with British goods which It renches Peking. Local cannot be moved because of the Governor, and more latterly local paralysis of all communications. bandits, have looted the, system it will take years to put them

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