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per and the seizing of Peking and Tientsin. When the history of this development comes to be written, It will probably be found that there. was some connexion between this

TRUTH, LIKE CORK, WILL DE UP- sudden turn and the Sino-Soviet FERMOST AT ONE TIME OF ANOTHER, problem. It has been hinted, InTHOUGH KEPT IN THE WATER.

fact, that Chang Hsuch-liang inter-Isaac Taylor.

LADY ANKARET JACKSON asks

SHOULD PARENTS BE SEEN

-and Not Heard.

vened against Yen and Feng in re- Passengers who left by the 8.s; Mr. tarn for an Assurance that Nan-Empress of Asia included king might be disposed to make and Mrs. W. A. Cornell, Mr. and

Mrs. C. E. Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. of the children.""

Lewis.

some

concessions to the Soviet. GG. N. Tinson, and Mrs. B..that of Dr. Blatz, and is 4 training followed by years of ex-

“They should get out of the wupiter in whose hands the affairs of an entire department lie, or even is not my opinion, but an experienced bricklayer or hos

pital nurse who has undergone a perfectly serious extract from perience and who are experts at

Whether that is so or not remains to be seen. There would, however, appear to be good grounds for be lleving that all through the China civil war, Russia has been closely watching the situation and even now may be hoping that Mukden and Nanking may find it difficult to work in harmony..

It is not without its significance that the Soviet has latterly been

The death of a child may be so

inclined to lay down the law to the Knitting Factory, of 34, Fuk Tsun the diet was as distressing to the mful when it is accompanied by

the kind of suggestions that head

A Chinese was charged before a speech delivered by him to a con- their jobs. Mr. Butters at Kowloon this mornference of scientists and education- ing with the larceny of six iron fists at Bristol. bars belonging to the military, which was stored on the. P.W.D. true, but it is true for all that, and, quite get over it, but it does not It is almost too amazing to be bitter a blow that the parents nevar ground at Hunghom. He pleaded what is more, it only expresses suve a blank in the lives of as guilty and was sentenced to five a little more frankly than is usual many people as the death of a man the growing trend of thought of a or woman in the prime of life, and weeks' imprisonment.

number of modern educationists no person of sense will attempt to As a result of getting her arm Their forerunners discovered the claim that it does. To invest child- caught in a dyeing machine whilst Victorian child, languishing in and with a fictitious importance e outcome of sentimental think- hat may be positively harmful. dyeing stockings at the Min Ngal unhygienic atmosphere in which

Street,

Taikokisui, a Chinese children for its sameness as it was Chinese delegates at Moscow and female worker, Leung Hing, 23 to the reformers for its unscientific of age, had the limb selection; vitamines, of course, were to issue a very pointed warning to years

amputated yesterday and was im-ignored in the schoolroom, and Mukden regarding the alleged anti-mediately rushed to the Kowloon nursery menus of those days, clothes selves, would lose if the board was were as heavy as the diet, and the to be cleared of parents! Of course, Soviet activity of "White" Russians Hospital.

moral atmosphere in which the there are dull parents, priggish, in Manchurin. M. Karakhan has

Mr. John Videro, the owner of children lived was more stifling Prosy parents who talk down to their children; and foolish, vain. bluntly stated that his Government the Cafe Pavilion, No. 6, Nathan than either.

Prudery and priggishness were ones who spend their time in telling insists on the strict observance in Rond. Kowloon, was summoned be- spirit and letter of the Kharbarovisk fore Mr. Butters this morning by rampant, and quite old children their offspring how wonderful they Protocol, so far as the Railway dis. Sanitary Inspector J. Gellatly for were fobbed off with the shocking one moment, but getting on to the having failed to keep his bakery in lies about gooseberry bushes änd a clean condition. The summons storks. was adjourned until to-morrow as Pendulum Swings Too Far. it was stated that a solicitor was appearing for the defendant.

Children were emancipated thinks

...

this article.

And what a lot the children then" ~·

The Romance of the Parent.

But by far the greater number of

are, making confidants of them at

high horse of parental authority. pute is concerned, and on the Pek-

whenever it suits them better to be ing and Mukden Treaties as well.

mysterious; the sort of parent who says, "Don't do this, that and the' The Chinese response to this, 30

other because I tell you not to.". far, has not gone beyond a nicely-.

to a set of people who believed that without giving any sort of reason education should be something dif- for the prohibition. worded assurance that friendship A Chinese was fined $25, or three ferent, but now the' means have The Wedding arranged between

the Rev. L. N. Watkins and and anity is all that is desired.. It weeks, by Mr. Williams at the Cen-eclipsed the end the modern educa-

tral Magistracy this morning for Miss Hazel Somerville, will will be interesting now to watch the theft of two knives from the tionist is lacking in the sense of proportion; childhood, that should President Jefferson, It was stated merely be a preparation for the in-parents really are more interesting. that the man was searched by a finitely more important and more and wiser too, than their children..." constable after coming off the ship, interesting period of maturity, has and even the most unpriggish of on which he was employed as assumed & wholly fictitious impor-children prefer their company, out kwives, tance in their eyes, and grown-ups, of play hours, because they realise pantry boy, and the two bearing the Company's mark, were it would appear, are only valuable that they can find out so much more discovered.

because they can produce more children. Once they have done so. To the child's mind the mother When the case of Wong Sai-flet them fade gracefully out of the and father seem to lead an untram- the cheung, who is wanted in Sydney picture, leaving the stage clear formelled existence of boundless. pos- sibilities. They go to bed when for the alleged theft of £100 from the immature beings they have they like, eat what they like, visit. his former employers, was again created to make a mess of. mentioned before Mr. Lindsell at Now I am not for a moment deny-whom they choose, why not travel the Central Police Court this moring the importance of a child com-to the end of the world then or pay A visit to the moon As far as one ning, Mr. T. Murphy, Assistant pared to that of a grown-up. As new, one's parents did neither of Director of Criminal Intelligence, the rising generation they occupy these things, but one did not ques- intimated that the first ship would a position that is indispensable in

the developments arising from the Moscow Conference. Mukden will, no doubt, be still as anxious as ever but all friends will be wel come at the Cathedral and at to get the long-standing differences the reception to be held after-with Russia settled, and it may well be that if there is any undue delay the matter, the Soviet will come out strongly for ratification Kharbarovsk Protocol.

wards in the Cathedral Hall.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15 1930.

THE SINO-SOVIET OUTLOOK.

Very little attention appears to have been paid to the resumption of the Sino-Soviet Conference in Moscow, which is charged with a

The Fukien Outrage.

The pious horror of Nanking

at the

two

|

Out of Focus.

from them.

the

to

brutal murder of Miss be sailing on Tuesday next, and if the scheme of things and that is tion the possibility of their being Nettleton and Miss Harrison does his Worship remanded the fugitive so obvious that it is hardly worth able to if they wanted to. not impress. It passes into the until Monday he could be discharg- the trouble of pointing out, so that That was their charm a bound- same category as the excuse ad-ed and sent back. The fugitive if one wishes the race to continue less horizon was attached to them

was accordingly remanded till one will see to it that the children compared with which even vanced that the Government was Monday.

are housed and clothed and fed in freest childhood appeared as narrow distracted by its activities against

the best possible way; and also, be a birdcage, and that is the ex- the Feng-Yen Alliance and the

A Chinese pleaded guilty before cause it is one's own pleasure to do perience that Dr. Blatz wants

It is a suggestion that if it were promise to take immediate steps Mr. Butters at Kowloon this morno, one will play with them and keep from the children. for the complete suppression of ing to the larceny of some brass give things up to them and gen carried out would make children the callous gang responsible for sheets valued at $5 from the Kow-erally try to make them as happy either as dull and unimaginative as solution of the Chinese Eastern

loon Godowns yesterday. He was as it is possible to do.

the good little boy and girl in the the outrage. The unpalatable sentenced to six weeks' imprison Railway dispute and the adjustment facts connected with the incident, ment. A woman was also charged

fairy story who never wanted, anything that did not belong to of other outstanding issues. This and with the Communist-bandit with receiving the sheets. She That is, to my mind, the normal them, or else as furtively cruel as The at-the children in "A High Wind from gathering is being held under the menace over a large part of the pleaded not guilty, saying she had outlook about children. terms of the Kharbarovsk Protocol territory where ostensibly the Nan-bought the sheets from the first titude of mind that puts childhood Jamaica," children who became a defendant. Detective Sergeant in the centre of the picture is put-law unto themselves simply because of last year, which the Manchurian king Government takes responsi-Humphreys said he would not press ting it out of focus, for it is dif- they got separated from the civille- delegates signed without the sanc-bility for foreign lives and pro- the charge against her as she had cult to see how a child can be of ing influence of their parents. It tion of Nanking. The Protocol,perty, are not, so easily dismiss already been in police custody for as much value to the community as is an unpleasing alternative that ed. It is a notable fact that one night. She was accordingly a doctor with hundreds of lives de- the future generation should turn which provided amongst other

pending on him, as a cabinet minis-out either of these types. while civil war has ravaged China

discharged. things for the reinstatement of the for the whole period since the Re- dismissed Russian Manager and public was established, the Assistant Manager of the Railway, and a half years of the Chiang. was virtually a surrender to the Kai-shek regime have seen bitter Soviet viewpoint, being practically feuds unprecedented in extent and wrung out of Mukden in face of an character, while lawlessness and extremely threatening situation, banditry have spread in Nanking territories to an extent un- Nanking has never taken kindly to

exampled in any other part of the it, and it still remains to be seen country. Apart from the long what the attitude of the Nationalist series of outrages on foreigners, Government will be now that Chang prinelpally missionaries, Chinese Hsueh-liang is once again nominally men, women and children have in allegiance with Nanking.

been ruthlessly slaughtered and A variety of causes have con- their homes burned to the ground tributed to the delay in proceeding the Government has done precise- in every southern province, and

with the Moscow Conference, but

ly nothing of lasting effect. Dr. it is quite conceivable that whilst C. T. Wang's profound expressions the war between Nanking and the of regret at the Fukien crime are Northerners was in progress, the doubtless sincere, but the effect is Soviet was in ne hurry to expedite spoilt by the attempt to folat the the conversations, preferring to blame on to the shoulders of Lu see how the struggle would eventu-Hsin-pang, the rebel leader. The points of importance are the ate and, particularly, what the final failure of the Chinese authorities decision of the Young General of to take any genuine action to- Mukden would be. Russia possibly | wards release in a period of three hoped that. Nanking would me months, and the knowledge of the with defeat and that after the seriousness of the plight of the formation of a new Government in victims, conveyed two months before the murder by the revolt- Peking, composed of the conserva- ing method of cutting off Mias tive clement, there might be Nettleton's finger. Inaction in chance of profiting from the situa- the face of such indications of tion. All the time, the Man-grave danger requires an ex- churian Government appearedplanation not covered by any, plea anxious to secure a settlement with of "prior engagements.". Russia, even to the full extent of the terms of the Kharbarovsk Pro- Five minutes sufficed for the tocol. So far as the Nationalists transaction of business at a meet- Ing of the Sanitary Board held were concerned, they still inclined yesterday, the only item of public to repudiation of this agreement, interest being the refusal of the although being far too busily ground floor of No, 20 Hollywood Board for the registration of the

cupled with their own self-preserva, Road, as a dairy, Mr. G, R. Sayer, tion to intervene actively. Then presided, and members present were Dr. Wellington, Dr. Koch, came the sudden change in the war Dr. Pope, the Hon. Mr. H. T. sitaation caused by the Man Creusy, Mr. F. C. Hall and Mr. T. churian expedition into China Pra N. Chau.

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