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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929.

U.S. AND THE WORLD

COURT.

DR. W. G. HIBFEN ON "ALOOFNESS"

Dr. John G. Hibben, president Princeton University, Now Jersey, at the Independence Day dinner of the Amerfonn Society in London at the Savoy Hotel, criticised the attitude of aloofness from the rest of the world adopted by n section of his countrymen.

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national Justice. All former objections and prejudices seem to be completely answered: Our entrance is the Irreducibic minimum of our natio i obliga- tions.

This represents a responsibility not merely of our Government but of the American people. The voice of the people has not been sufficiently loud or sumciently persistent to reach the Senate.

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It does not seem possible that we can longer maintain the n- titude of complacency in proaperity and a fancied security in our alleged isolation from the possibilities of war.

We are all proud of the Kellogg Paet, and yet it does not seem that we have adequately realised the full import of the obligation which it places upon the Amercian nation,

A particular responsibility rests, upon the peoples of Great Britain and the United States to take the initiative In showing to the worl not by words, but by deens, that the Peace Pact must be regarded:

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I have said it publicly in the United States and have been censured for it, but I da believe that we might have been a little more generous in the settlements, After all, it was a common cause, and, after we declared war it was a full year and one month before; we could pul an effective Army:] on the front, and you, Great Bri- tain and the Allied Armies, were during that period fighting our huttles for us. holding the Ilinden-northern Indian, his nominal head- burg line not only with your quarters, but when he 'la writing money but with the life blood of one of his many books he retires to a certain mountain, the exact

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xious to indicate.

It was Sir Aurel who first ex-

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We meet to celebrate national birthday in the midst of plored a chapel in one of the cave- the great British nation-among shrines of the Thousand Buddhas. our brothers and friends.

walled up a thousand years ago

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We sense a duty to each offer near the Ton Hang nasis and to the world at large to fur. Turkestan. He found there, ther the ideal of comradeship among many other treasures, per- apposed to force as, the arbiter fectly preserved owing to the between nations,

dryness of the ground, the earliest We realise what cant frued printed book and the earliest wood-

•pace and amity, menn, both to neu in the world. They are now and to the world, and are deter in the British Museum, mined in co-operation with the other Naval Powers to achieve n common purpose for peace by the practical expression of it involved in naval reduction.

SIR AUREL STEIN'S AMBITION,

SECRET MOUNTAIN

RETREAT.

Yesterday I talked to Sir Aurel Stein, the great explorer, who is to receive the Petrie Medal from Sir Gregory Foster, Vier-Chanel-

On that seraxien he travelled 10,- |000 miles in two years and a'baif..

is feet were ladly frostbitten at the end of his journey, for part of it had taken him along the enves of the Roof of the World-as the [reat Central Asian plateau is cated-thrangh eternal slows, at n height of 20,000ft.

He has visited the Black City of Khara Khote, which was stormed and destroyed by the Mungols in the days of the Con- queror Genghis Khan 700

yours ago, and it has lain forsaken and in ruins ever since.

Natives and His Magic. The natives believe it to be be-

that of the demons.

lor of the University of London, in witched, but Sir Aurel had no di- recognition of his services to lieulty in obtaining gulles. They archeology, says, I Daily Mail believed his magic stronger than currespondent.

To look at his trim, alert figure; On his way home to England fand keen, bronzed face, you would this year he travelled through Irak,

never imagine that he was in his Syria, and Transjordanla. 67th year. The first of three ex- In what he calls the "lame" peditions he has made to Chinese desert to the east of Syria, he Turkestan on behalf of the Indian found motor-tracks criss-crossed Government started as long ago as all over the sand. They had been 1500.

mude by a car which had as passen-

He was 11 years over the age gers ¿wo Syrian merchants, a limit for employment when he re- Bedouin sheik, and three shepherds, tired, a month ajgo, from his post| And they were looking for lost on special duty in the Indiansheep, i Archaelogical Survey.

Sir Aurel visited the site of the Despite that, he is planning ancient Ur of the Chaldees, where fourth journey in Central Asia if exenvations are in progress, and can be granted the funds referring to the splendid work of necessary for the three-years work Mr. Woolley as director of the ex- it will entail.

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