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LEAGUE OF NATIONS.,

THE “TSING MING.”

LOCAL LECTURE ON ITS ACTIVITIES.

THOUSANDS OF CHINESE LEAVE HERE.

THE

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JEAN ROUSSEAU.

A TRÁGIC YOUTH AND

AMAZING MANHOOD."

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"The early years of Jean Jacques Rousseau" was the subject of an instructive lecture at the Univer sity by Mr. H. G. Hughes Thursday evening, when he gave graphic description of Rousseau's tragic experiences as a young man. He said in part:

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Born of Calvinist stock in 1712. Rousseau spent his child-light. he hood in Geneva under the care first of his father and then his uncle. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to an engraver, was unhappy in this pursuit for two years, and ran away to Turin and WES there converted to Catholicism. For the greater part

A Fellow Convert. of twelve years he dwelt with a fellow-convert, Mme. de Warons.

Employment was found him, but occasionally an ungovernable but he failed to make good and wanderlust possessed him. He was compelled to leave Turin. left her in 1740, and became a He went to Annecy in .Savoy, wanderer for more than a decade and was befriended by a fellow during which he gained bitter convert, ime. de Warens, under experiences of life. He entered whose wing he was destined to into an unhappy partnership with spend the greater part of the Therese de la Vasseur, by whom next ten years. he thought he had five children. but not one of them did he ever

The Rev. Mr. W. W. Rogers lec-1 The Chinese Tsing Ming Fes- tured on "The League of Nations" tival is being celebrated to-day at the Helena May Institute, Kow-and thousands of Chinese pilgrims will be visiting the cemeteries at loon branch, last night.

He explained how his interest in Happy Valley, Aberdeen and in the League's work was first in-the New Territories. For three duced by a visit to the League of days there has been a continuous Nations Union in London prior to exodus of Chinese leaving for his coming out to Hongkong, and their native districts, via Canton. by subsequent enrolment in the River steamers and the railway membership of the Union. The have been doing big business for caterial on which he now address the past three days, and, to facili- ed his audience was prepared from tato the travellers, the manage information contained in The ment of the Canton-Kowloon Rall Union's publications.

way ran a special train, leaving After dealing with the origin of Kowloon at 8.50 each morning. the League of Nations, the speaker

The Kowloon Railway Station went on to recount the activities was marked with Chinese-reater nl the organization during the ten day when it is estimated by an of years of its existence, and the not-tial of the railway that no fewer able performances which it had than from three to four thousand achieved under the headings of Chinese must have departed by political disputes, boundary ques- the two morning expresses and a tions, repatriation of refugees, slow train for Canton. The crowd international financial rehabilita-Was so big at one time that the tion, social and humanitarian ser railway officials had to telephone vices, such as have been discharge to the Water Police asking for ed in connexion with dreaded extra Police services to maintain epidemics, and so forth.

About 1,500 more pilgrims left Referring to the success which the League had in the past at the afternoon express tained when it dealt with currency some hundreds had to be turned

In every occupation he found problems in two European

away an account of lack of accom- little success and little happiness, coun- tries. the speaker suggested that

and by degrees became confirm- Police Protection. when the problem of the

ed in a hatred of society and a Hongkong dollar had batlled all

To ensure the safety of the pll-longing for solitude and tran- gritus the Canton Government, acquillity such as Incal ingenuity to solve it, wcording to messages from Canton, with Mme.

he had known de Warens. might be well advised to take it have instructed special Police to years after he had parted from Ten

The lecturer concluded on an patrol the Canton suburbs from her. his first important work was optimistic role in his review of the 4th to 14th instant to prevent published, and in the following the work of the League, and en

netivities by bandits.

decade he gave the world the works, which, pressed a hope Toy the formation

for better or for of a local League of Nations

worse, have deeply influenced its Inion.

thought to the present day. He was then fifty.

to the League!

BANDIT OUTRAGES IN YUNNAN.

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A nasty incident, which might have resulted in the loss of many lives, occurred on the Canton Ricer on Wednesday afternoon. when the Chan Chuen, towboat, carrying hendreds of Tsing Mine holiday visitors to the country, collided with the Tai On towboat. plying between Canton and the Tai Leung District.

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badly damaged by the collision, necessitating her return to Can Shanghai, Apr. 4. ton for repairs. The other tow Terrible stories. iure to handhout accompanied the damaged from the most reliable sources, of vessel back to Canton to, ensure brendit outrages in Yunnan Pro her safety during the voyage.

In one small town several well-to-do persons, who would not

vince.

or could not pay the sums de-tacking farm houses and tortur- manded of them, had their hands ing the inmates if the loot is not bandaged with pieces of cloth, worth while. Among the exam- song above their heals and plea is one in which a farmer was soaked in paraffin, then set afight placed in an iron pan and roasted to and burned like a torch to over the fire till seriously injur- cinders. One bunker committed el.

a farmer's suicide to avoid this torture. wife was treated in the same way, On the outskirts of Shanghai, and badly. burned about the balita with painted faces are at-hreasts and abdomen.-Reuter.

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Mrs. P. E. Barker, M.A., drew an interesting comparison between the drama of the Elizabethan era and plays of modern times when entitled "Plays. New and Old" in the Unior Assembly Room of the University last night.

He returned to her (Mme. de Warens) and immediately there began an intimacy which for strangeness has few equala" even' in the 18th Century. Both were eccentric, sensitive and deeply ant homes and were now rather religious: both had left Protest-

uncertainly finding a place for themselves in the Catholic fold: they were in It, but hardly of it. The gods were indeed at their merriest when they brought these two together, and to this day their relationship has been the happy hunting-ground of the in- she delivered a lecture Thenceforth, though not un- productive, he was a spent force.decently curious as well as the A tragic decline set in, and after unfeelingly scientific. I make no 1766 it is now generally admitted pretence to be able to give that he was partially insane. He adequate account of this relation- died in extreme misery in 1778 ship, much less to explain it. It at the age of 66, some say by his would be a mere waste of time Paris. Sixteen years later, amid the frenzied toil of the great which his social and political upheaval with

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own hand, and was buried near

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Early Influences.

Examining Rousseau's early life, Mr. Hughes said that after he had been brought up certain lines by his father and thence by his uncle, who tried, rather Unsuccessfully to teach him mathematics and Latin, the

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Referring to tragedies in olden drama, Mrs. Barker said bloodshed was very common and played a olden playa. great part in most The more blood was shed the more

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grief or any other emotions were country and faith for a mess of being registered. In modern plays, potage. Otherwise why bear the only a few words or few gestures patriarchal name of Isaac7

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time came for him to choose a Subsequently Rousseau took to the road again, and returned to career. He wished to become a

asked for his minister of the Church, but his his father and him. As he felt no inclination to stickler for fine points, but he family could not afford to support forgiveness. The father was no embrace his father's craft of watchmaking. it was decided to send him as clerk to a lawyer's office. In three months he had to leave for he was found utter- ly unsuitable. They then bound him apprentice to an engraver. The work was not without fascina- tion for Rousseau and he kept at it for about two years. It con-

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