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THE MOST CONFIDENT CRITICS ARE THOSE WHO KNOW LEAST ADOUT THE MATTER CRITICISED, General Grunt.

THORNY PATHS OF PEACE

By O. M. GREEN.

IN CHINA.

THAT Japan would be ready to A Danger Foreseen.

THAT

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discuss peace, once she had

Now relics of the old Nanking gained a victory and restored Government remain and events are more than mere outlines of

her military prestige at Shanghai, have tended to bring them to the the work to be covered; they aro

"A Village Concert" to be given by was obvious to all who know what front again. Chiang Kai-shek who undoubtedly has tho mind of ́planned and phrased so as to pro- the Red Triangle Concert Party on conditions are in China.

voke Inquiry and to point to pro-Tuesday, April 5, at 9 p.m., will be

Japan has nothing to gain by statesman, always realised the danger for China of resisting Jn- blems which it is within the grasp held at the Holena May Institute, of the child to solve. In the Rub-Gardon Road, and not at the Cathedral war, nor does it appear likely to pan, however much the latter bring any finailty. There are other might to hurt in the process. He Ject library. They are the vital Hall as previously announced.

armies about Chinn; the formid- and others who could be mention- instrument of the Dalton Plan. The teacher thus becomes a per- Whilst handling iron bars at the able Christian troops of the Chrla od (but Chinese nantes are

General Feng Fu-hslang: fusing) are realists with whom sonal guide and helper to each of Kowloon Godowns last night, one of tlan the children who work in his special the workmen, Ng Fook-sing, of 7, Chang Fa-kuci's hard-bitten "Iron- negotiation should be possible. Halphong Road, received an inquiry aides," the Shansi army of active But they help from outside. Thore must be active and stateamanlike field, and a sbarer of their rc- to his left leg. He was taken to the

Manchurian mediation. searches and discoveries.

Kwon Wah Hospital for treatment. mountaineers; the

army of "the Young Marshal,"

cannot negotiato Japan alone the competitive spirit is no longer

Chang Hauch-lang, which was with China (the phrase is used Invoked to adulterate the aims

Wednesday's health report shows withdrawn inside the Grent Wall for convenience). The Chinese and achievements of the child,

successes at Shanghai during the 'four cases of meningitis being report- ed to the Medical Officer of Itealth, early in January. The question of learning or not

There are literally millions of past month would forbid them to aurrender. Equally they forbid learning is, in the bad old system compared with one on Tuesday and

There other troops which could probably the Japanese to give in. It is three during the week-end. of. maas teaching, largely a per- was one care of small-pox, one of be gingered up to make a nuisance case of saving "face"the most. apnal contest between the will of diphtheria and one of enteric fever of themselves. And, the teacher and his pupils. The on Wednesday. skill of the class tencher all ton often lies in devising way'a by

of widely different abilities

And

enu

leaving

of course,

denunciation throughout, China. The realista must have a backing from other Powers on which they may dopend after they have made

But with whom will Japan peace.

make pence, and how? The very: Without expressing any opinion conditions which make peace desir-as to the rights and wrongs of the

the first successes of the Chinese powerful motive with Orientals- at Shanghai have fired the whole on both siles.

Further than this, whoever ac- nation. Hundreds of thousands of Engaged in hoisting-pieces of iron

students are strung up to the cepta pence on the Chinese side. which a large number of children on board the naval tug Allionce ye highest pitch of war fever--and any peace that Japan, too, would terday, Li Kam-yau, aged 48, an allerhere remains that terrible wen-nccept, will have to face a storm of

A wound to his leg and be forced to attend all together to received

bruises to his back through an iron pon, the boycott.

hlm. the same discourse, or perform the bar falling on He Булл not same task. Neither the task nor seriously hurt but was taken the Civil War and Faction: the discoursa can, under such con-Government Civil Hospital for treat- ditions, meet the real needs ofment. more than a minority of the chil-

The rest

by the able make it dificult to attain. Sghting at Shanghai, the eternal those rus to

Among dres at once.

Tuesday is Chinn proper is twenty-five times background of the whole Sino- sred; morally and intellectually, transport Neuralia on It is claimed for the Dalton Plan Capt. C. A. de Linde, of Staff Head-as big as England and Wales, and Japanese quarrel must be remem- who has been in the Colony it is only a slight exaggeration to bered. That is that China is bro- quarters, that it holds the promise of an for three years, during which time

ferent Governmenta in it, the that deal with her have been suf- educated democracy, for it gives he has been secretary to the Military say that there are twenty-five dif- ken and anarchical;, all nations its children more than an under- Sports Board. Born in Tientsin, Capt. fruits of years of civil war, and foring more or less from her con-

few years de Linde, then a child

dition for years past; and, in the standing of the art of thought,d, was hidden by his amah until he fiction.

There are many leading Nation- opinion of her best friends, ahe. more than skill with the tools of was rescued by British sailor.

alists for whom one has high-res-must have help to put her house discovery. It affords them

pect. The former Nanking Gov-in order.

over which General ample social education too. It

No attempt to mediate a peace We etin theroughly recommend ernment,

Kai-shek presided for between China and Japan can have brings the experience of co-opera-Alibi," the British thriller now show-Chiang tive effort in the pursuit of knowing at the Queen's Theatre. Based on nearly threo years (till his onamics any lusting success that does not THE HONGKONG HOTEL|ledge, and the emotional satisfne-Agatha Christie's novel, "The Murder dragged him down inst Decem-recognise these facts frankly and real, ber) contained the gorms of the seek to restore ordered govern- GARAGE.

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MODERN EDUCATION.

Is Democracy Safe?

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!

and self-seekera.

to the life of the mind. One of mystery play, with the audience kept best Governmont China has seen ment in China. Six months ago its most striking results every-guessing to the end as to who the for many years. But its power the League of Nations might have

real murderer is. The acting is

was limited, for all practical pur tried, but unhappily it must be natural and convincing,

poses, to three or four of the coast said that the League has only irri- where has been that the old bug-together

weak

big apot in tho cast.

as provinces, and from March, 1920, tatod Japan and disappointed bear question of "discipline" has without

re-till October, 1930, it was engaged China. dissolved away and ceased to trou-In particular, Austin Trevor Poirot, the French detective, in

Happily there exists an instru- ble either teacher or child.

sponsible for some fine work, nbly in ceaseless civil war. backed up by Frank Dyall, J.H. Ro A year ago months before the ment, the Nine-Power Treaty, berts and John Deverall. Besides Japanese conflict--Chlang and the created at Washington in 1922, the main film, there is an interesting other realists in Nanking tried to and surely designed to cope with Cine Magazine and a funny comic reform the Government on prac- such crises as that of to-day. The these rounding off a really attractive tical popular lines. They had all Nine Powers are Great Britain, "The March or. Halts

educated public opinion behind France, Italy, America, Japan, Demnerney Since the War" was the all-British programme.

them. But Canton revolted and China, Holland, Belgium, and subject recently of a stimulating

declared a separate Government. Portugal. Their duty under the address by Mr. G. P. Gooch, an

part with democratic self-govem-It is a striking example of the treaty is to consult together and Chinese poli-take such stopa as may be neces- eminent British authority both on

ment. But when he used those factiousness of the history of Europe and its pre-confident words he appeared to ticians, and how the best men are sary where China's welfare is at sent Constitution. Observing the

The tnak to be undertaken in ups and downs of democracy across verlook the fact that some of the thwarted by the mass of intriguers stake."

soundest democrats in his own All northern China is split up China is dificult, but It need not country are profoundly uneasy among numerous militarlets, bly be costly or impossible. The Cus We are living in times when the Continent, he commented more increasing attention is being paid severely on the dictatorship of about many demagogic practices and little, with their respective toms and salt gabello, in which all to the technique of education. Mussolini than on that of Stalin which threaten to turn the rule of armies. Szechuan, the wealthy essential work is done by foreig-

province, big A Western

88 ners ns. servants of China, with Many reforms have been institu- for Rusela hnd never possessed the ballot box into mob-ocracy.

France, is the private preserve of Chinese superintendents at the In weighty official report has com-: ted during the post two or three liberty, whereas Fascist rule,

six generals who divide It among top, are examples of what might decades, but there is still a wide-his opinion, had "stunted and mented on the danger arising from themselves. Yunnan, in the south be done in other directions. Both spread feeling that much more dwarfed Italians," though it "had the fact that every political party west, is practically an independent these services are supremely ef- по lons of -needs to be accomplished. Except made Italy greater in the material is tempted to put its promises too state. And in central southern ficient and involve in limited circles, not a great deal | sense." He glanced uneasily at high in bidding for the support of China the Communist organisation "face" to China. A similar sys- has been heard of what is known the despotism of Marshal Pilsudski groups of voters. This kind of (aftermath of the yours 1925-27, tem might be tried in the army, as the Dalton Plan, but that it is in Poland, and at the political mass bribery seems so peculiarly when Moscow dominated the Chl-which is really China's greatest thwarted self- the weakness of "democratic" nese Nationallet party) is really problem, both for using it to sup- achieving successes in various machines which

a terrible danger. It has flourish press brigands and Communists parts of the world seems indis-government in Hungary

and countries like Britain or the United ad on civil war and last year's and in gradually disbanding it. He recognised the States or France that a true de catastrophic floods on the Yangtze, Of course any attempt to restore putable. It has been tried in Eng- Rumania. land, India, China, Poland and double danger from the Right and mocrat can hardly dare to sing and is insidiously extending its effective government would have China. All to be on a small scale at firat. But also in America, where it was the Left in Germany, and urged the praises of democracy unless he power through all

that help be given to the moderate is at the same time prepared to do-Nanking'a utmost efforts have if peace and order wore secured thri clare open war on those enemies failed to crush the Communists, only in the Lower Yangtze Valley. Government. He concluded in spite of the sethneks due to within which tend to corrupt and and the mennee they involve in its prosperity would soon act as a

the present upheaval can hardly magnet to draw In other regiona.. poverty, fear of war, political cor- destroy it.

bo too strongly stressed. ruption and coalitions, the tide still is running in the direction of de nocratic government. Mr. Gooch was both judicious and painted in putting hit Anger on the conditions which have militated against the forms of democracy. But did he

evolved by a young practical tea rher. Helen Parkhurst. What the results have been is disclosed in a book, "The Triumph of the Dalton Plan." recently published in Lou- don, in which evidence is brought to show that the Plan has won golden opinions wherever put into force and has brought new life to teachers and pupils alike.

The Dalton Plan is a technique

in education which makes it pon-sufficiently examine those elements slile for every child to discover which threaten democracy from for himself the delights of genuine | within? Did he not too rendily intellectual effort and the sense of assume that the ideal of democracy intellectual growth and mastery is fulfilled wherever representative and at the same time to enjoy the government is established and the pleasures of intellectual comrade- } representatives are clected by # ship with his teachers. He be-free and secret. ballot? The im- comes responsible for his own pro-portance of these devices few gress in each part of his work, | liberal-minded persons will deny. and neither his teachers nor his But they are not in themselves fellows stand any longer between sufficient to save a country from him and his natural interests in perversions of demoerney which the world and its history. Each have threatened from time to time child is in direct contact with this | to bring democracy itself into con- subject of study. He works inde-tempt. It would be folly to deny pendently In a room devoted to that a democratic form of govern- the literature and the tools of a

ment may produce weaknesses such particular subject. He has his as those which led to the recent own asalgnment, of ground te bo dictatorship in Spain, or made covered, and he moves forward at the pace which his native › gifts

many Italians welcome Mussolini and his personal experience make as the saylour of his country. De- possible for him. He apportions meracy still has elements within time between his various subjects danger, and the most urgent poll- Itself which are its own greatest according to his own judgment.tical need of the moment is that its He learns, how to learn, how to

champions should recognise and uso text-books and authorities, how to gather his facts into disruptive tendencies which havO faco them and rescue it from the generation, how to quarter tho ground of a specific problem. And again and again, from the time of

the ancient 'Greeks down to. ho is enabled to measure and re- cord his own progress in under own day, brought about ita down- standing by the use of charts and fall. Mr. Gooch said that he had graphs. The skill and intelll.no foar that English.ben would

dur

"It got so she couldn't stand it when I was away, so we de-.

Loided to get s

Shanghai's Future.

The future status of Shanghai ought not to be excluded from the general adjustment. The iden of a neutral zone surrounding both the foreign and Chinese districts ls in the air, and wherever it comes from, it ought not to be lightly rejected.

The argument la simple, Civit war lives on the money which mill- tarists wring from merchants. Protect the latter, so that they may resist the former and civil war langulshes. Again and again. In the past twenty years Shanghai has been the prize for which fag- tions fought. It's welfare is of far greater importance really China than to foreigners, for it is. the backbone and mainstay of her finances.

to.

And again to consider China's "face," if Shanghai were nou- tralised, it would not be difficult to arrange for its joint administra- tion by the local Chinese and foreign business man on the lines advocated by Mr. Justice Feetham in the report on the future cons- titution of Shanghai, which he produced last year. The whole schomo might come up for recon- sideration as and when China grow more peaceful.

In conclusion, there does not appear дву Government with which Japan could treat success- fully at present. But with wise atatesmanship there might be

Suffering from the effects of food polsoning, Li Lam, a married woman... of 4, Taun Shing Street, West Point, was taken to the Government Civil' Hospital by her husbands yesterday... Her conditions is not considered to bei serious.

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