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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1933.

M.C.L. SALE OF WORK. SLATIN ' PASHA DEAD.

ATTRACTIVE DISPLAY FOR ST. PAUL'S GIRLS' COLLEGE

aldo.

ROMANTIC CHARACTER IN

SUDAN JIISTORY

Vienna, Oct. 4. A sale of work in ald of M.C.L.

The death occurred here to-day An interesting discourse on the funds has boen arranged to take ro hereby informed that all goods morits of the English public place next Saturday, October 8. of Blatin Pasha, former Governor

com-of the Sudan-Reuter. ro being landed and placed at their isk into the hazardous and/or extra school was given by Mr. C.B.R. at St. Paul's Girls' College

Rudolf Carl Slatin, was born in zardous Godowns of The Hongkong Sergent to a large audience at mencing at 2.80 p.m. nd Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co the Union Assembly Hall at the

Mrs. W.T. Southern has kindly 1857, near Vienna, where he at- td., where delivery can be obtained Hongkong University last even consented to open the sale, and tonded the Handelsakademie and

soon as the goods are landed,

Ing.

Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotowall will pre-studied at the Observatory. When No claims will be admitted after the

The speaker safd:

he was only 16, his love of adven- roods have left the Godowns and alt

When I chose this title I thought

ture took him to Egypt where he foods remaining undolivored after the

to talk The many attractions will in- became acquainted with the ex- 9th October, 1932, at 4 pm, will be it would leave me free

about anything I pleased. I soon clude entertainments for children, plorers Scrweinfurth, Rohlfs, ubject to rent.

realised what a bad title it was, and these will comprise auch Nachtigall and Houglin. The partly because each school has features as chutes and other fun, Inst of theso induced the lad to go its own system, the two I know kindly organised by commander with him up the Nile to Khartum most about being radically dif-Morris and men from H.M.S. and through Kordofan. On his feront in method, and partly be- Tamar. feausa no two persons agree as to

what a Public School In.

broken, chafed and damaged oods are to be left in the Godown where they will be examined by Metsrs. Anderson & Asho on the 8ti October, 1982, at 10 am.

All claims against the vessel must be presented to the Undersigned before the 18th October, 1982, or they will not be recognised,

No Fire Insuranco will be effected Bill of Lading will be countersign ed by

JOHN MANNERS & CO. LTD., Hongkong, 3rd October, 1932.

DAL NIPPON

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Ką PWOBYCI ACE IN SANTIN

ASAHI

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return to Khartum he met Emin later recommended Articles on sale will include Pasha who St. Paul's School, London, and Peking carpeta, ornaments, bed-him to General Gordon. From Austria 1870 to 1878 he was in spreads, and jewellery. Wellington College, Berkshire,

and 8. reserve officer sorved in the campaign against Bosnia. afford an Interesting comparision

In responso to an invitation from Gordon, he returned to the

THE LATE ARNOLD BENNET'S LAST LONG STORY

(Continued from Page 3.)

"The big sceno is in a block of a perfect pompous idiot after all."

workmen's flate." Phobo con- tinued. "I should say outside it.” |

And Roland had the sensation of being swept down a rapid river to- Wards a weir. Some coincidences were affrighting.

"If I could be of any use," ho ventured, and stopped. He was en the weir, he was over it. Why hu he said that? He had said it un- thinking.

"I shall tell them," sald Phobe. "You might be the very person they'll need. You are a friend."

They went on talking, in closa forto ΠΟΥ In murmurs,no Phebe's tones. Plates were brought and plates were rapt away. All the othera, except Millicent chattered fast, but not loud. There was n ton is the more typical. Both dull, done against time and odds,

hubbub. The dinner had brilliant- have about 700 boys, but while St. is surely a far better raining In-Sudan 1870. After a brief period ly succeeded, and Nancy was serone Paul's has only about 100 board-tellectually and morally for the Inspector of Finances he boy and commandingly conent, and ors, Wellington is solely a boarding grind of future jobs than

came, at the age of 22, Governor more benevolent than she had ever school. St. Paul's has a very fine amount of vague interest.

of the district of Dara, and in been. Roland and Phoebe still res record of successes in scholarship It seems to me that

the sub-1881 was promoted Governor-trained themselves to murmuring, examinationa at Oxford, Cam-jects taught matter little, as long General of the Province of Dar- but in no other way did they res-

of methods. Of the two Welling-

any

ASAHI

BEER bridge, and London, and the as the boy learns how to learn, fur where he remedied many train themselven. And then they

Sole Agent

on

was self-

education provided for the intel-how to work, how to apply him-abuses.

were startled. by a queer silence. ligent boy with some initiative is self. Any average examination Then came the Mahdi, and the Nancy was trying to catch Phabo's extremely fine.

syllabus satisfies me as a founda-Arabs in the south rose in revolt, eye. She caught it, and Phoebo The insistence classical tion for a boy's education, so long With inadequate forces and no ald blushed, and Roland grounding even for prospective as it includes a fair range of sub from Khartum he defended his conscious. Everyone rode, And MITSUI acience scholars produces good jects. I have no patience with Province valiantly, but the Mah-Roland felt immediately restless

hates BUSSAN results. Practically all the most the teacher who says he

dists were too strong. As his and discontented and expectant. successful scientists have started examinations because they cramp KAISHA

of the ho ant down next to the old on the classical side of the school, his style. Surely it is bad teach-troops under the influence of the When the door had been closed,

religious propaganda LTD. transferring to science specialisa-jing which is only interesting and HONGKONG don

tion only after passing the Lon-alive when diverging from the Mahdi became unreliable, he out- gentleman, and brought the port

matriculation examination. subject in hand? The true teach-wardly adopted the Moslem faith with him.

"Some of these millionaires are On the other hand boys of no parer makes the subject itself the to strengthen his hold on his men. ticular ability gain little or noth-source of interest, and need notBut, when the army of Hicks extremely mean," the old gentle- Pasha was destroyed, Slatin sur-man was saying to Tommy. "Thero ing from the school. This, at any rely on sidelines.

rendered in 1883, refusing to was one in the club to-day. Ho sacrifice more lives in a hopeless asked me at the end of lunch if I'd latruggle.

have a glass of port. I said I wouldn't but I'd have a bottle."

BEER

ASAH

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raic, was true during my time at the school, from 1920 to 1925.

Interest in Dull Boys.

Specialist Teachers,

And this raises another point, the Importance of specialist teach- era.

"And what did he say?" "Nothing. He got up and walked off. That's your millionaire."

(To be continued.)

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Eleven years of terrible suffer. WAS dragged hand, the Interest centres on the

I profoundly disagree with the jing followed. He

to place, often in dull boy. Every hoy has to his statement that if you can keep from placer the school certiñcate examination boys in order, you can teach them chains during the interminable before he cnu enter the upper part all you know. The converse is campaigns of the Mahdl and his of the school. Last December all true, yes. But all the best teach-uccessor Abdullahi, the Khalifa, G7 candidates obtained certiora I have known are men whose forced to take part in the Masleni fientes, and the percentage has knowledge of their subject is rites in order to avoid being mur- never fallen below 90, as compar-deep, far beyond the requirements dered. ed with the 40-50 of the schools, or netunt teaching, How can aнe; Vain attempis were made to use Q

as a whole.

teach well unless sure of one's him to induce Gordon to surren- or two These resulta are largely ac-own competence in the subject der. In 1885, an hour U counted for by the rigid Rystem taught, no that all the heart after the fall

of Khartum, the of supervision, by tutors and searching can be directed at the end of Gordon was shown to him, form masters, of every boy's work, teaching not the subject lowrat length after over 11 years in was planned the elaborate system of marks, can any but an expert really be bondage his escape

Major) and form orders and reports, the enthusiastic about his subject by Sir Reginald (then complete organisation of a boy's and keep the interest alive and Wingate, and he reached Exypt in time, and the judicious use of fresh, without wandering? 1895. He gave a vivid account of punishments, including beating. If you meet a man who is an his experiences and of conditions None of these were employed at expert in one subject, but also under the Mahdi's rule in his book St. Paul's, when I was there. to teaches others, he will always tell "Fire and Sword in the Sudan." jany extent.

you that his own is the hardest After a year's reat, he entered Wellington has been called the to teach. Only the expert sees the Anglo-Egyptian army with the

of the British army in 1907 and or the true title of Pasha and the rank Ybiggest cramming establishment the real dificaties

in England. This is probably significance of what he teaches. Colonel, having resolved to use the G.C.V.O. in 1912.

The war put an end to his ser true, and I consider that it is a I would rather have even the most knowledge he had gained against

WILS in thing of which to be proud. I am elementary work taught by men of his foes. As head of the intel-vice in the Sudan. He sick and tired of hearing how bad real authority.

ligence service he took part in Vienna on leave at the time and He therefore of 1897-8 could not return. the examination system is, and In an article in the October Kitchener's campaign

W(15 crowned by the took up work as head of the Aus- how wrong it is to cram boys for number of a Hongkong monthly, which

of Omdurman. Surely it is not it is stated that far too much at-capture

Ho trian Ited Cross and would accept examinations. wrong to teach boys to work hard, tention is paid, in education, to was made K.C.M.G. and thank-no remuneration for his services. his He did much to ameliorate the dull boys.

by I strongly dis-ed even if the work is not easy or the pleasnat, to teach them to make agree with this, and though service. In 1900 with the rank of conditions of Imprisonment and

for the TANDA the utmost use of available time am proud to have been at St. Major-General he was appointed was largely responsible by working to a careful schedule, Paul's, and am grateful for the Inspector-General of the Sudan, in humane treatment of allied pri- NANKIN

of soners in Austria. Offered an im- his mastery to teach them to overcome dif- splendid and inspiring teaching which capacity fleullies and to have some sense that I had there, I am also proud Arabic and his intimate know-portant post by Germany, he de- of relative valuca.

to have shared in what seems to ledge of the land and the people lined it. After the armistice he That is what I understand by me to be the far more valuable proved invaluable in the work of was a member of the Austrian he was peace delegation to Paris. Since com-reconstruction. In 1906 cramming. Of course it is bad if working rendered to the it only means learning by heart munity by n school like Welling-given the title of Freiherr by the then he had lived at Obermals the valency tables or irregular ton, by concentrating on the Austrian Emperor and was made near Meran in what is now the verbs, though even this has its average boy,

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