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PICTURESUE KWANGSI.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 22nd, 1928.

A section of Kwela, Kwangsi Province. At the left of the picture may be seen the prison which is a copy of Billibid Prison of Manila. The guards are stationed in a circular building in the centre from which they look out over the prison grounds and the various buildings bullt Buildings on the hill to the night were once and the centre awer." Trades and occupations of varied sorts are taught the prisoners.

pleasure pavillons of a former Governor, where he entertained guests at sumptuous feasts.

THE GREATNESS OF '!

PADEREWSKI.

GENIUS, AND PATRIOT,

| By Archituld Henderson, }

New York.

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A great concert, hall, taronged to The ceiling. "Upoù an empty stage the pullings of a grand piano are. faintly visible; the fights dimmed Behind the strament the black velvet cirtains part, and a strange and majestic girre ape penes. The splendid tors, the leonine bead with its tawny aureofe, He regal air and bearing might belong to a Kine and Vonqueror, The eyes are the eyes of a port: The frenzy of applause dies to a breathless.ush; the world stops: space and time era to exist, and the universe of nurse is the only reality.

The scene risimpess. Warsaw, ot the Vistula. is throb with nad excitement. The sun strikes fire fram. Towering spires and golden domes, and throw into high relict the statue of Comenicus, The streets the Jerusalem Ake the Nowy Swial are throned with people, awaiting 1.6 coming of the iitrator.

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.

It was a Apeech which breathed launched the "General Polish Re-Poland were greatly aided by the lief Committee," from Switzerland; presence in Warsaw of the Ameri- the purest patriotism and reveals Paderewski "in all its greatness. crganized a second branch in Paris, can Food Mission.

In a great speech at this crucial A coalition was formed, representa- A third in London."

Kellogg tive of the three divisions of Next he sailed for the United period-which Vernon States, in April, 1915, and by his calls "one of the most eloquent and Polind, and Paderewski was chosen magical influence inspired a pas-effective speeches I have ever Prime Minister, with authority to sion of enthusiasm among the heard"-Paderewski called on the proceed to Paris to net is spokes- Poles in America. Although people of Poland to hold clusely mun for éis government. We must Washington declined his offer of altogether, to work to the common forget Paderewskias,n grent plano Polish corps, 220,000 Poles were good and to adjure violence in player, said a distinguished Ameri- And remember him as a called to military service under the their efforts to securé a truly re-enn, Stars and Siripes.

prezentative government. -

statesman; an orator and n patriot.

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It was through his intimate as- sociation with Colonel House and ls contact with President Wilson that the liberation of Poland came! to be recognized as one of the war laims of the Allies. One of the famous "Fourteen Points" enun- ciated by President Wilson on January 8, 1918, was Point XIII:

"An independent Polish State should be erected which should in- clude the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sen, and whose political and economie inde- pendence and territorial integrity shout be guaranteed by inter- national consent."

Wrought Miracle of Liberty.. The capitals of the world-Vienna, pretotive. A symphony, u concerto,

Calm Under Fire. From peasant to premier is Berlin, Paris, London, New York-piano pieces, songs, fruits of his

Following the armistice, Pilsud- migaty stride. Yet the pages of restunded with his praises. No creative genine, have been ranked history me rich in cominces of the pianist since the days of Lissi has among the best written by his con- ski formed a government in Poland rise from the ranks of the humble rated such popular furor or won temporaries. His opera has been and established himself as dictator. to the seats of the mighty. Ambi-uch personal triumphs in univereal pronounced by Heary T. Finck as Pilsutski's government, composed

"the most inspired dramatic work tion surmounts all obstacles; there acclaim. Paderewski's supremacy

as undeniable and virtually un since Carmen except Parsifal, almost exclusively of Socialists, WILH not representative of the But ar no bars to great seas.

challenged. To his virtuosity as at As a planist he is destined to rank Paderewski has written a new page.

Pilsudski the establishment of a in world history. It is not the executant, his mastery of rhythm in musical history with Liszt and exple, and Paderewski proposed to

Rubenstein, As musician, gem coalition cabinet. "romance of sucressful ambition, not

roser and creative artist combined the attainmem of the god of a life-

it would be difficult to find time's

parallel.

striving. Paderewski's ramance is a tale the world has noi beard before. The great musician, standing in middle age at the sum- mit, of his art, undergoes a trans- formation s Fevolutionary as haile a world credulity.

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In 1877, the fad of 17 fared forth apan a concert tour which, seemed failure. to pell irretrievable Neither money nor fame crowned. the early efforts of the young musician, handicapped with "stubby fingers" and innocent of apprentice. vip to any great tracher of music.

Mastery at Last.

At the age of 18, thet, Paderew- antment s ski seared an professor of musir at the eiser- vatory in Warsaw. For five years he suffered. torments of starved. aspiration and Chwarted ambition--- taught when he should have been stalying married, only to lose his wife within a year,

and

Ignace Paderewski

**

With the aid of the British government he proceeded to Poland, via Danzig. He was in extreme When the World War. camperit; at Posen, a city held by Paderewski was a being transformGermany, the windows of his hotel cd. His insight was unerring, his.com were shot out by machine political acumen Infallible. For a" puna.

Poland divided three ways-be- | "bagged Paderewski," says tweeti Austria, Germany ach

enowski, "to come out of the: Russin-freelom seemed to many room at once. Instead, he sat on atterly chimerical am! fantastic, e edge of the bed and began fai the kiseless fabric of a dream.

pull on his clothes, paying small! Paderewski divined with an as heed to the whizzing spray of steel tuteness amounting to palilien that dug into the walls only a little genius, the only clear chance for above his head, and none at all to With bullets freedom offered in his lifetime. In my frantic appeals. the victories of the Allies lay the pouring past to right and left, he pportunity for Poland to become stood there before the mirror and ence again an autonomous State. Lied his tie!

Closed His Piano.

Ils courage haud its reward in an Paderewski closed his ' plano aut enthusiastic welcome by the in- for five years it remained unopen-abitants of this predominantly! who Polish city, and as the result of

ed. The Polish commaner abis inspiring presence the Province

Posen within a week was in

serond had subjugated the world as ton, was aided in w A a composer. In the musician now Rung himself with of

His Great Oratory. -musician, unsuspected by the world restrained ardour and sfrenons | Palish control. Finally, in despair, the pelago and rhaps unknown to Paderoy energy into the colossal task of

A hundred thousand madly ex- que turrad papil: studied madly ski himself, was concealed an orator world organization of his fellow

feited Poles greeted Paderewski at for two years under the great

of passion and power. Paderewski, countrymen.

Letters, ciphers, sperat emissaries Warsaw, and 'Cracow, with`open Legebeflaky in Vien, and, prae- the great musician, of the period tising 18 hours a day, achieved at Treni 1891 to 1914 was unsurpassed were dispatched by Paderewski irms.

Negotiations between Paderewski 1 completa mastery. 41° the in poetic realition and individual from his estate, Morges, near

top, In Paderewski rules a double Vevey, on Lake Geneva, in Switzer-and Pilsudski - in Triumph surverted triumph. Trenius at once ervative and inter-land. By January, 1915, he had jeoalition government and a reunited,

A genius win has sacrificed his art, vienkoured his ever, surmaj dered his fortule, struggled, with 1 nighty at Paris, wrought fog them the miracle of liberty is at A people of lorious history, hand, who have suffered the martyrdom of alien domination for a century · planaforte. and a halt, wild with my,

Hurry!

...

behalf of

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HONGKONG MEMORIALS. DIED ON CHINA COAST.

Among the naval and military. memorials which stand in the Cemetery at Happy Valley is the above simple wreathed cross commemorating the memory of Oflicers, Seamen and Marines of H.M.S. Immortalite who died on the China Coast Ixtween March and August 1871.

Compared with others to which it is near it is in a good state of preservation and among the facts recorded upon it is that some of the Officers and men in whose memory it was erected le buried at Shanghai and Chefoo.

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