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of the child to solve in the sub- Garden Road, and not at the Cathedral ject library. They are the vital Hall as previously announced. instrument of the Dalton Plan, The teacher thus becomen a per- sonal guide and helper to each of the children who work in his special feld, and a sharer of their ro- searches and discoveries. And the competitive spirit is no longer invoked to adulterato the aims and achievements of the child.

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THORNY PATHS OF PEACE

By O. M. GREEN, IN CHINA

TH

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HAT Japan would be ready to A Danger Foreseen,

discuss peace, once she had

Now relics of the old Nanking; gained. a victory and restored Government remain and eventi her military prestige at Shanghai, hava tended to bring them to thê

conditions are in China. was obvious to all who know what front again. Chiang Kai-shek

who undoubtedly has the mind of

Japan has nothing to gain by a statesman, always realised the war, nor does it appear likely to danger for China of resisting Ja

pan, however much the latter bring any finnilty. There are other might be hurt in the process. He armies about China; the formid-and others who could be mention- able Christian troopa of the Chris-ed (but Chinese names aro con! Whilst handling iron bars at the Kowloon Godowns last night, one of tian General Feng Fu-halang; fusing) are realists with whom the workmen, Ng Fook-sing, of 7 Chang Fa-kuel's hard-bitten "Iron- negotiation should be possible. Haiphong Road, received an inquiry

must be active and statesmanlike to his left for revs taken the sides," the Shansi army of active But they help from outsido. There

the Manchurian mediation. Kwong, Wah Hospital for treatment. mountaineers;

army of "the Young Marshal," Japan alone cannot negotiate Chang Houch-lang, which was with China (the phrase is used Wednesday's health report shown withdrawn Inaldo the Great Wall for convenfonce). The Chinese four cases of meningitis being report-

successes at Shanghai daring the ed to the Medical Officer of Health, early in January.

There are literally millions of past month would forbid them to compared with one on Tuesday and

There other troops which could probably surrender. Equally they forbid three during the week-end. wns one case of small-pox, one of be gingered up to make a nuisance the Japanese to give in. It la s case of saving "face"-the most diphtheria and one of enterie fover of themselves. And, of course, powerful motive, with Orientals- on Wednesday.

tho frat successes of the Chinese at Shanghal have fired the whole on both sides.

Further than this, whoover ac- nation. Hundreds of thousands of Engaged in holating pieces of iron}

to the cepts peace on the Chinesa side. on board the naval tug Alliance yes-students are strung up

any peaco that Japan, too, would fever and of widely different abilities canterday, Li Kam-yau, aged 48, an oiler, highest pitch of war

a wound to his leg and there remains that terrible wea accept, will have to face a storm of denunciation throughout China. received

The realists must have a backing bruises to his back through an iron pon, the boycott. bar falling on him. He was

from other Powers on which they seriously hurt but was taken the Civil War and Faction.

may depend after they have made Government Civil Hospital for treat-

But with whom will Japan peace. ment."

make peace, and how? The very Without expressing any opinion conditions which make pence desir-los to the rights and wrongs of tho the abla make it difficult to attain. fighting at Shanghai, the eternal. seed, morally and intellectually.transport Neuralla on Tuesday in China proper is twenty-five times background of the whole Sino- It is claimed for the Dalton Plan Capt. C. A. de Lindo, of Staf licadas big an England and Wales, and Japanese quarrel must be remem that it holds the promise of an quarters, who has been in the Colony it is only a slight exaggeration to bored. That is that China is bro- say that there are twenty-five dif- kon and anarchical; all nations, for three years, during which time educated democracy, for it gives he has been secretary to the Military ferant Governments in it, tho that deal with her have been suf- its children more than an under-Sports Board. Born in Tientsin, Copt fruits of years of civil war and foring more or less from hor con-

do Lime, then a child a few years

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

There are many leading Nation-opinion of her best friends, sho 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 an

pect. The former Nanking Gov-in order. ample social education too. It

over which General No attempt to mediate a peace- Wo can thoroughly recommend ernment, brings the experience of co-opera-Albi," the British thriller now show Chiang Kai-shek, presided for between China and Japan can have. tive effort in the pursuit of knowing at the Queen's Theatre. Based on nearly three years (till his enemies any lasting success that does not THE HONGKONG HOTEL|ledge, and the emotional satisfac-Agatha Christie's novel, "The Murder dragged him down last Decem-recognise these facta frankly and a real ber) contained the germs of the seek to restore ordered govern-- GARAGE.

tlons of social intercourae directed of Roger Ackroyd," it is to the life of the mind. One of mystery play, with the audience kept best Government China has 6000 ment in China. Six months ago- to the end as to who the for many years. But its power the League of Nations might have guessing its most striking results every where has been that the old bug together

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MODERN EDUCATION.

be forced to attend all together to the same discourse, or perform the same task. Neither the task nor the discourse can, under such con- ditions, meet the runl

needs of more than a minority of the chil- dren at once.

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4

Is Democracy Safe? "The March

Halts of Democracy Since the War" was the subject recently of a stimulating address by Mr. G. P. Gooch, an eminent British authority both on

Amonk

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The task to be undertaken in

real murderer is. The acting is al-

convincing, was limited, for all practical pur tried, but unhapplly it must be without a weak spot in the big cast. Poses, to three or four of the coast said that the League bas only irri- as provinces, and from March, 1929, tated Japan and disappointed: re-till October, 1930, it was engaged China, particular, Austin Trevor

the French detective, is

for some fine work, ably in ceaseless civil war.

Happily there exists an instru backed up by Frank Dyall, J.H. Ro- A year ago-months before the ment, the Nine-Power Treaty berta and John Deverall. Besides Japanese conflict-Chiang and the created at Washington In 1922, the main film, there is an interesting other realista in Nanking tried to and surely designed to cope withi 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, educated public opinion behind France, Italy, America, Japan.. all-British programme.

them. But Canton revolted and China, Holland, Belgium, and declared a separate Government. Portugal. Thoir duty under the the treaty is to consult together and part with democratic self-govern-It is a striking example of

of Chinese poli- take such steps as may be neces- ment.

But when he used, those factiousness the history of Europe and its pre-confident words he appeared to ticians, and how the best men ate sary where China's welfare is at sent Constitution. Observing the overlook the fact that some of the thwarted by the mass of intriguers stake.

and self-seekers. ups and downs of democracy across soundest democrats in his own All northern China is split up China is difficult, but it need not We are living in times when the Continent, he commented more country are profoundly uneasy among numerous militarists, big be costly or impossible. The Cus increasing attention is being paid severely on the dictatorship of about many demagogic practices and little, with their respective toms and salt gabelle, 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, as big as ners as servants of China, with Many reforma have been Institu- for Russia had never possessed the ballot box into mob-ocracy. A western

France, is the private preserve of Chinese superintendents at the ted during the past two or three liberty, whereas Fascist rule, in weighly official report has com 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, Yunnar, in the south be done in other directions. Both apread 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

loss 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 no in limited circles, not a great deal scrise." 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 years 1926-27, tem might be tried in the army Bs the Dalton Plan, but that it is In Poland, and at the political mass bribery seems so peculiarly when Moscow dominated the Chi-which is really China's greatest achieving successes in various machines which thwarted self- the weakness of "democratic" nese Nationalist party) la really problem, both for using it to sup

a torrible danger. It has flourish- press brigands and Communiste parts of the world seems Indie government in Hungary and countries like Britain or the United ed on civil war and last year's and in gradually disbanding it. putable. It has been tried in Eng-Rumania. He recognised the States or France that a true de-catastrophic floods on the Yangtzo, Of course any attempt to restore 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 Arst. But also in America, where it was the Left in Germany, and urged the praises of democracy unless he power through all evolved by a young practical ten-that help be given to the moderate is at the same time prepared to do- Nanking's utmost efforts have if peace and order wore secured the Communists, only in the Lower Yangtzo Valley, cher, Helen Parkhurat. What the Government. He concluded that clare open war on those enemies falled to crush results have been is disclosed in a In spite of the setbacks due to within which tend to corrupt and and the menace they involve in its prosperity would soon act as a the present upheaval can hardly magnet to draw in other regions. be too strongly, stressed,

book, "The Triumph of the Dalton poverty, fear of war, political cor-destroy it. Plan," recently published in Lon-ruption and coalitions, the tide still don, in which evidence is brought | Is running in the direction of de- to show that the Plan has won golden opinions wherever put into was both judicious and pointed in force and has brought new life to teachers and pupila alike.

mocratic government. Mr. Gooch

putting his finger on the conditions which have militated against the The Dalton Plan is a technique | forms, of democracy. But did he in education which makes it poa-sufficiently examine those elementă alble for every child to discover which threaten democracy, from for himself the delights of genuine within? Did he not too readily intellectual effort and the sense of assume that the ideal of democracy intellectuni growth and mastery- la fulfilled wherever representative and at the same time to enjoy the government is established and the pleasures of intellectual comrade- representatives are elected by A ship with his tenchers. He be-free and necrot 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 democracy 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 cos- subject of study. He works Indie tempt. It would be folly to deny pondantly in a room devoted to that a democratic form of govern- the literature and the tools of Ament may produce weaknesses such partibular subject. He has his.

an those which led to the recent own asalgament of ground to be dictatorship in Spain, covered, and ho moves forward at

or mado the paco which his native Zajfts

many Italians welcome Mussolini and his personal exerience make as the saviour of his country. Do possible for him. He apportions grey still has elements within time between his various subjects tact which are its own greatest danger, and the most urgent poll- according to his own judgment. He learns how to learn, how to tical need of the moment, la that its champions should, recognise and uso text-books and authorities, how to gather his facts into face them and rescue it from e generation, how to quartor the disruptive tendencies which have ground of a specific problem. And again and again, from the time of ho is enabled to measure and re- the ancient Greeks down to our cord his own progress in under-own day brought about ita downe standing by the use of charts and fall. Mr. Gooch said that he had graphs. The skill and Intelli- no fear that Englishman would

Shanghai's Future.

The future status of Shanghaf ought not to be excluded from the general adjustment. The idea of a neutral zone surrounding hoth the foreign and Chinese districts ia in the air, and wherever it comes from, it ought not to be lightly rejected.

The argument is simple. Civil war,lives on the money which mill- tarists wring" from merchants: Protect the lattor, as that they may resist the former and

civil war languishes. Again and again: in the past twenty years Bhanghai, has been the prize for which fac tions fought. Its welfare is of far greater importance really to China than to foreigners, for it is the backbone and mainstay of hor finances.

And again to consider China's "face" if Shanghai wore neu- tralised, it would not be difficult to arrange for its joint administra tion by the local Chineso and foreign business men on the lines advocated by Mr. Justico Featham: in the report, on the future cons titution of Shanghai, which ho produced last year. The whole achome might come up for recon........... alderation as and when China grON: more peaceful,

In conclusion, there does not appear

Government with any which Japan could treat success- fully at present. But with wit statesmanship there might be.

Suffering from the effects of f000 "poisoning, Eli Lam, a married woman). at 4, Tam Shing Street, West Poli), was taken to the Government: Civi Hospital by her husband" yester Her conditions is not emssidant