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SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928

INDUSTRIAL. PEACE.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928.

DAY BY DAY:

WOMAN'S USUAL DISINCLINATION TO RISK DECISIVE. "ACTION DESERTS HER ENTIRELY IN HER LOVE AFFAIRS MANY WOMEN WILL CHEERFULLY RISK MARUAGE WITH A SELFISHI SPEND-THEFT OR AN IGY - EGOTIST. -M. P. Willcocks...

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IN PEACEFUL PEKING. Impressions of a Foreigner.

or Capital is willing to make con- cessions on points vital to the maintenance of either's rights. But, without the need for any sacrifice of principle, there is without the least shadow of doub a very large fold to be explored

Roam the Far East from Manila of European peoples in great perll, in'which it will be found that the

to Tokyo in that leisurely fashion although, forsooth, in not half as interests of, both sides are ident!- There was a clean bill of health which alone is suitable to the great perll as they thought they cal. One point which cannot fall in the Colony yesterday,

Orient and then, ás fitting were! But BO lingers that to suggest itself is that Labour la

climax, 508 Peking! And when at momory of the venomous hostility We have received, from the last the towering Chienmen Gate of a Manchu woman that tourists in a vastly different frame of mind Asiatic Petroleum Company an reveals itself to you, peering ex-come to Shanghai to-day, oven, to-day, from what it was prior to the artistic Chinese calendar bearing pectantly from the railway and exclaim, "Why, Is It really

Chinese pastoral. disastrous General Strike. That colours.

sceno in carriage window, when along the safe?" at the very suggestion of

roadway paralleling the tracks | visiting the most exotically allur uphanoy episode. In the history of

there comes into view a longing city in all. the world," The Government Gazette pub-camel-train from the, vast regions British industry has had its value.lishes, a lat of masters, mates and of the northwest, when pagoda first of my own surprises-I have Safe? Why and here was the for the consequences which have engineers who passed their exam and temple and palace-roof begin seen on every evening of my stay arisen from it have tempered the inations and obtained cortificates to appear beyond the outer walls, in Peking European women, mood not only of many Labour

you will feel the lure of Feking capecially the teachers in the already drawing you within its various foreign Institutions, walk- leaders but of the mass of the The Empress of Australia, on

grasp,

ing freely and confidently through workers too. It took an upheaval her world cruise, arrived at Bom

Poking at last! The strangest, all parts of the city, in the streets bay on the 10th January at 6.60 most picturesque, most surprising most remote from the Legation of that magnitude to convineam., and is due at Hongkong on the of cities, not in the least like one's Quarter, in many dark and nar- many of the working, class that. 10th February at 8 a.m.

anticipations, yet, as with Nikko, row alleys through which the with rare exceptions, strikes · do

outdoing them all. The city of institution compounds are reached. His Excelloney the Governor has not pay, and, above all, that appointed Mr. John Watson to act000 years and more, of richly

Could they do this in every nothing is to be gained by seeking as Secretary to the Sanitary Board Coloured history, of bitter realism,

of flaming romance.

American city? And the Yen- and Mr. F. D. Angus to act as to gain political ends by "direct Ansistant Secretary to the Sani- twenty-eight emperors with their Languages, in whose commodious The city of the Change and their ching School of Chinese action. British industry has tary Board.

600 years of rule; of the Tains quarters the visitor may larry at boon languishing of late, not be-

and the Yuans and the gorgeous nominal charge during his visit cause the British workman is less

and spectacular luxury of Kublai in Peking, is located more than a skilled than he was, nor because

Khan, host more than six cen-mile from the foreign district, in administrative enterprise has de-

turies ago to a fearless and wanhe heart of closely massed. dering Venetian; of the stern but Chinese dwellings, and reached clined. One factor undoubtedly

far seeing and high-aspiring only through a long, dark, winding a has been the failure of employers

Mings; of the decadent Manchus passageway. and now the bone of contention Indeed, as I came to it by, à and employed to co-operate to the

of a dozen self-secking militarists, ricksha from the Chienmen station fullest extent possible-a circum

yet still "Peking, the wonderful, the other day, I was sure that my stance due in part to

foolish

the ever-fascinating, the half-coolie had mistaken the direction. mutual suspicions one of the

was re- unreal, the never-to-be-forgotten! and was taking me, I knew not whither. Yet presently we reach- ather. If the Conference now so

Talk not of China until you ed an open space, and there, huppily assembled can break down

know your Peking!. Or, at least, inclosed by a high wall, was A that wall of reserve and mistrust

until you have striven to make its broad compound containing the An apprentice mechanic of the acquaintance. For whoever has fine modern buildings of this and proceed with practical Tung Hing Long Shipyard, of Tal-known. it, whoever shall truly extraordinary institution. methods for securing unified effort koktsui, was removed to the Kwong know: it, any more than, one may About the gate hovered a score in the common cause of British from burns to his hands and body, Rome?

Wah Hospital, yesterday suffering truly know London or Paris or of ricksha men, poddlers with strange and mysterious ware, prosperity, then it will mark the caused by the explosion of a blow

lamp, which he was using whilst able city. Its moods are as vary curio dealers, a motley throng, but Indeed. Peking is the unknow. curious old men, no less curious commencement of a new "era,

children, coollos, mendicants and working on the 8.8. Wing Hong. ing us the giving endless promise for the

fortunes of its ephemeral rulers. It is

each ready of response to a friend- grey days to come.

It is notified that, at the expira-to-day and brilliant to-morrow. ly smile, delighted as children if tion of three months, the Tung Tin It is lifeless and sombre to-day, the stranger perchance spoke a Restaurant, Limited, the South but to-morrow it will be vivacious word or two of their own tongue,

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His Excellency the Governor has appointed the Hon Mr. E. R. Hallifax, OMG, C.B.E, to act as Chairman of the Licensing Board during the absence on leave of the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern C.M.G.

The familiar confidence trick" was successfully played on a Chin ese married woman by two men who met her in Queen's Road East yesterday. The woman lieved of a pair of gold bangles, valued at $75, and a finger-ring valued at $6.

China

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The Brussels Affair. While we have no sympathy with With the commendable object of Soviet Russia, much less with her exploring, the entire field of in-propaganda in other countries, casse is shown to the contrary, be dustrial reorganisation and indus. there is no valid reason for construck off the register and the com-

donation of the outrageous invasion pantes will be dissolved. trial relations, the first sitting has of the exhibition at Brussels, or-

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Limited, and the Rural Land in-and sparkling. Its ways are as harbouring no more thought of vestment Company, will, unlesstrange and unforecastable as its hostility or "hatred of the streets and tortuous alleys and Polynesian women washing beside hundreds of miles of winding foreigner" thari a group of

passages su narrow that a ricksha a Tahitian stream. blocks their strange traffic. Its The Boxer incident has no signi ganised by the Russo-Belginn seizure of a large quantity of surprises, both physical and pay-ficance in respect of the Peking, concluded in. London of a conLeague of International Relations, raw and prepared opium was made Phological, are, constant.

or of the China, of to-day; and ference between a representative For a while the party of youths by a European detective on board

It is the very essence of the neither that nor anything else un- group of employers and the who ordered the attack acted a boat lying of Arsenal Street nexpected, and it is as uncertain pleasant need hold an instant's General Council of the Trade as though demented, smashing yesterday. According to a police the identity of its next ruler lace in the thought of the basts to smithereens, slashing report, 30 taals of raw opium And 80 .it is fascinating--stranger planning to visit Peking. Union Congress. This gathering valuable paintings to ribbons; in a and 20 lets or prepareit opium fascinating with the never-failing Indeed. I havo never seen a more is the outcome of a move made by word, totally wrecking the exhibi- were scindy Detective Sergeant appeal of the very uncertainty tranquil place, nor one less sug- which hovers about it, alluring ingestive of conflict. The northern large employers of labour, who,tion. The excuse proffered for the Fitches. No arrests were made.

the unexpectedness-of the sights Chinese, of all the race always raid was that it constituted a pre- to use their own phrasenlogy,, test against, the lies distributed by The forthcoming wedding is an- and sounds and characteristics the most friendly to the foreigner, believe that the common interests the Soviet agents, but there are nounced of Mr. Thomas Wilfred which it reveals, and sure of a is quite the same to-day.

other and more legitimate methods. Doyle (Shameen, Canton), son of place, in one's memory equally be- which bind Capital and Labour of protest, which fact should be Mr. and Mrs. T. Doyle of Mel cause of the gorgeous pageant of As, according to my custom; I are more powerful than the duly impressed upon those, cor-bourne, Australla, and Miss Alyce its past and the high, if a little have wandered at night through

cerned. Equally, much good would Hart Breman, only daughter of tarnished, colour of its present.

miles of the winding streets and be done if Russin would learn her Mrs. W. M. Brennan, of Repulse Picture to yourself Peking, not narrow ways of the native dis-· lesson too. Than such incidents, Bay, Hongkong. The marriage is as the capital of a country torn tricts, I have found the Peking nothing is more indicative of the to take place at St. Joseph's by civil war, not as a city dark Chinese so friendly that tha

eine conflict and revealing the nine months of close contacts in

apparently divergent

interests

which seem to separate them. It was on the basis of this belief

Trade Union leaders to meet them in conference, and it is gratifying

unistic doctrines. Russia has

hand against the world for too long, and now she is outcast even in China, a house divided against itself. Taking, as a cue events in Moscow, we may very well reflect that if a few

recent

to record that there was an imme- diate response on the part of the representatives of Labour, with- out whose co-operation such a perverted intelligences were exiled, conference would have been im-things Russian might leave a better possible.

taste in the mouth

The New Dean,

fell. It rained on only four days-

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that the employers invited the widespread reaction against Com-Churchy on Tuesday, 7th February. robed in the shadows of interne- heen another surprise, though. in been endeavouring to play a lone The weather report for the influences of bitterness and strife. many parts of China I have never month of December shows that the For it is not that even to-day. had a single disagreeable dateel." average mean temperature during Indeed one's first impression is ence. the month was 65.5, the highest tem that of the laborious Industry and But in Peking, though it be the perature recorded was 79.9 on the peaceful inclinations of its people, capital of a war-torn land, there 6th and the lowest 49.1 on the 9th. and of a friendliness toward the is even less talk of war, less of There was sunshine amounting to foreigner much more marked than anti-foreton moru

176-1 hours in the course of, 27 in the South,

propaganda, even than in Shanghai. All of which days, while 1370 inches of rain

makes for the stranger's pleasure The average mean humidity was known to Canton under any con-it should be seen, rather than There is an arderliness here un- and permits him to see Peking as At the moment, the problems

ditions, less of noise and less of from the terraces of some, vast which these representatives of

The invitation to the Rev. Alfred

Mr. Biek Norton's talented the sombre and depressing. tourist caravansary in the foreign Capital and Labour will have to Swann to follow in the footsteps of company of oleven artistes, "The Evidences of the grandeur of the quarter.

He can wander at will where consider have only been outline 1. the Rev. H. Copley Moyle offered Globe Trotters," will present their past still linger, and there is event

nt ano and the same time an entertaining revue, "Scenes

kind of atmosphere of greatness, wandering is a ceaseless delight, but we are to judge from the ambitious task, but the obvious Screams" at 9.15 in the Star of breadth of vision and high and where something unexpected obrimisly sincere atmosphere sincerity underlying his speech of Theatre night. They will give aspirations, developed through and surprising and curiosity- thanks at Thursday's reception, a complete change of programme centuries of Oriental culture and arousing is to be found at every opening and the quiet igaity

For turning, nay, at every step. The which to-morrow night with "Pleasure-not yet entirely dissipated. gathering, there is every reason has characterised the new Dean land," which they will repeat on Peking yet epitomizes, as it has ubiquitous ricksha coolle will to hope that stems of the greatest of St. John's Cathedral in his Monday night, bringing their sea-always done, the best in Chinese often urge upon him the desir- few public appearances, have been son to a close on Tuesday night life, the highest in Chinese ability of ricksha travel instead of Importance to the future of British adequate testimony of his earnest with yet another brand new pro-achievement and the really sub-wandering on foot, but never with industry will soon be taken. As acceptance of the heavy respon gramme, "Incidents." Booking for stantial and worth-while in the Inaistence of the tourist-epojl- ed coolie of Hongkong and Shang- Sir Alfred Mond aptly observed,sibilities, and we take this op these revues is now open nt

portunity of joining in the cordini Messrs. Moutrie's and the Star It is but a truism to suggest hai; and the beggar will be that the East is a constant suc encountered frequently, to be cession of surprises, yet how satisfied with two or three cop.. abundantly is that fact illustrated pers. But-and this is the most in Peking! Speak but the name, surprising of all the surprising and what is the average things about Peking-to every out- foreigner's immediate reaction? ward appearance it is the peaceful A beleaguered section the capital of à peace-loving people. Legation Quarter-and a handful

M. T. G.

which pervaded

the

the Conference cannot hope to welcome which has been extended Theatre at the popular admission create heaven on earth, but, if it The Rev. Mr. Swann's sporting prices of $3, $2 and $1. can give Britain freedom from and war records stamp him as a man'a man. For three years he Industrial disputes, it will place rowed at Cambridge in. University. the country in the forefront. of boat races, and he gained a half- international commerce and Indus-blue for running. During the war

try. Amongst the subjects which are to be considered are the better organisation of industry by means

EXCHANGE RATES.

as an officer in the Royal Navy he took part in the Zeebrugge Rald, and for his services was decorated Paris with the D.SC. We may take It New York that the Rev. Swann has had op Brussels

Geneva of amalgamations, the introduc-portunities for the accumulation

Amsterdam tion of new methods, the transfer of experience which will stand him

Berlin in good stead in the serious ence or pensioning of displaced ligious life since undertaken, and Stockholm

re- Milan workers and the improvement of

we are sure he may rely on the Copenhagen the security and status of the co-operation and goodwill of every

Christian member of this cosmos- Vienna worker. The mere mention of politan community,

Prague these headings-and there will

Helsingfors Madrid naturally be others as well-1@

The Kowloon Fire Brigade was Lisbon Athens sufficient to illustrate the immen called last evening shortly after 9

Bacharest sity of the task to which the Con- p.m. to an outbreak in a tenement Rio ference will devote its energies. house in Arthur Street, Yaumat. Buenos Aires

The cause was the overturning of Bombay The present occasion is not one a kerosene lamp, but little damage Shanghaf in which to look at these issues was done, the flames being exting- Hongkong solely from one standpoint or the wished by the inmates and firemen, Yokohama

without recourse to pumping ap Silver (spot) other, and it would be equally

pliances, ill-timed to auggest that Labour

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GERMAN POLITICS

DR. GESSLER, DEFENCE MINISTER RESIGNS,

Berlin, Jan. 13.

Dr. Gessler, the Minister of

Defence, has resigned.

94.675 .10435 In view of suggestions that arme -1934 which were found on board the 28.00 steamer Pregn, when she arrived at .867 Manila en route to China,

It is learned in political circles .2.13/32 from Krupp's, it is pointed out in that President Hindenburg and 790 Hamburg shipping circles that the Cabinet have been trying for .5.20/32 these weapons actually came from a 47.18/14 1/6.1/10

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Czecho-Slovak arms factory at some time to persuade Dr. Gessler Bruenn and were purchased by the to retain his portfolio and go on

sick leave, because the elections. Peking Government.

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