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SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1935.

THE MYSTERY OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK

SATURDAY, MAY 13,

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JEW AND CHRISTIAN

By E. L. ALLEN

BULLS AND INNERS

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From the Office Butts Things are not as bad as they

Silver has become the currencie-

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such a policy by Chiang the recont financial troubleg of Amerlen and the consequent' accentuation of financial pro- blems in Europe were not, of course. anticipated. The facts

What is it that prompts these tract attention. from the present which combine to lead to this outbursts of anti-Jewish feeling in difcutties and the future short-seem to be even if they neom to conception of Chiang Kai-shek's an age like our own which prides comings of Gerninny's new ruters.be. policy are well-known. During itself on its tolerance? What lies CHIEFLY ECONOMIC PROBLEMS. It should be obvious to every- the famous stand of the XIXth behind that hostility towards the Route Army at Shanghai Inst Jew, or at any rate suspicion of one that what is at issue between year he was believed to be hold-him, which is fairly widespread Jew and Christian is not merely son's tuple! ing aloof and only very late and even in those countries which, like or even mainly a religious ques- for the sake of form did he send England, have long since made uption. For showing up human na-

mo An infamous saying due to be some of his own troops to their their minds to give him the name ture at its worst, commend

chance as everybody else? The to an economic struggle mas revived. "Yest your breath dors nanistance. Chang Hsuch-liang story of Christian persecution of querading as a 'Holy War'. lamell as though you have been has bitterly complained that the Jew makes as and reading as imagine that the religious riots playing bowla!" Nanking sent him neither direc-anything in modern history. But and communal disputes of which tions nor

the it in a good rule that one should we hear In India, are quite often Japanese advanced into Jchol, understand before one condemns. at bottom the old clash between

is himself What then is responsible for this the money-lender and, his victim never left alone for a moment! Chiang Kai-shek

sort of thing?

the landlord and his tenant, and Japanese-trained' and

To begin with, through by far that a thorough-going economic what he would be up against in the greater part of their history programme would do more to

Tunny fishing is to be organised a real war. These facts suf-the Jows have been in the position provent these trouble than an ficiently indicate his aloofness of a religious minority, and a re-army of occupation. In the mid-hore. We'll bet some whoppers and the reasons for his apparent gicus minority is always an ob-dle ages, because the Church con- get away.

the State policy of giving the Japanese ject of suspicion. Just because demned usury while

as its members have so much in com- needed it, it became the licensed armies

much trouble

means of local mon with each other and so little sin of the Jow; because the cur early" in Hongkong is an unfor possible by

that the Jews

It's certainly resistance without throwing in a common with anybody else, they rent theory was

original. his own forces or mobilising there drawn closely together and wore slaves of the king and all seable sin nation. To these facts must be tend to develop a sort of free-their possessions really his, the masonry. So the early Christians only means they had of meeting

Theft of Gold Bars" BAYS added his recent activity. His regarded themselves as a band of the extortionate demands of an inability to throw himself into brothers, but even educated Ro- absolute master was to employ ex-hending. This should be a lesson

So we have to Ice House Street. the Japanese war is emphasised mans thought of them as atheists, tortion themselves. by the events in Kianggi, where meeting in secret for horrid riten crimes. If

At any rate, the economic and of the Central and unmentionable the troops

The gentleman who stole Government have suffered a that was not so, why did they hide the religious questions must severe defeat. In the fighting themselves in the Catacomba? I kept quite distinct. Even if, for camera this week has been pro- numerous high officers were kilChina in 1925, it was widely said | example, certain accusations canvided with a nice, dark room..

that the Christian Church was a be proved up to the hilt against ed, to say nothing of rank and menace to the country, injecting a Jewish financier, it is as a finan

"Gandhi's Fast" says a heading. file casualties. Earlier in the youth with the virus of pacifismeier he is, guilty, and not at all

ns a Jow. In fact, his misdeeds But what about Malcolm Camp- year, after addressing a Christ-and internationalism.

And a relllous minority, just have been committed, not because bell? ian Theological College in Kiang- si, at which he and his wife because it has to make an extra of his religion, but in were staying, Marshal Chiang effort to maintain itself, tends to of it. Indeed, Christian

alto-

A new definition might have been spared a great went out to worship at the get power into its hands

Did he ether out of proportion

achieve many of its calamities if it had motion: Communistic Southern Mountain.

numbers. Hence the

only paid greater heed to those in China. intend to make a gesture such ments of the Jews in so many moral idents which are preclaim- as would show his government's spheres, and the influence which ed, Sabbath by Sabbath, in the direct lineage with previous the small Protestant minority haa

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dynastics or did he feel that the secured for itself in France. Synagogue, and which it professen

faith. fate of the kingdom lay in the Hence also the fear of English to have incorporated into its own development of events in this Protestants that the Roman Catho- Communist-overrun province? lic element in the population is many vantage occupying too It means little to наз that Certainly fate

of how these Pro- Free State man of Chinese politics, for think that Chiang Kai-shek and testants are getting there is no Chinese politician the central government do not into their bandal

ugo, A hundred year:

there whose actions are not shrouded take the serious view of disunion

A second reason is probably to in mystery and whose political in the country-apart from the

are all de railway locomotive-the father outlook is completely calculable. Communist threat that their be found in one curious trait of died in poverty the inventor of the human nose. But he Whether in theory he may be re-friends would expect. It is human nature. We garded as the head of the State suggested that they do not view lighted when we can find an in-not only of George Stephenson's Road at a certain time of day.

Our Theosophists this week were is doubtful, especially since the it with any real distaste. 4/dividual or a class to serve as a more famous "Rocket" but of the our sins on and send it out into practice which, even in these days

But the speaker suppression of the movement to solid China behind them might scapegoat, so that we can put all giant express engines of modera make him Dictator and Wang make impossible the present the wilderness with them, while we of electrification, still retain their entertained to a lecture on "Com-

our-romantic pre-eminence. This was plex Characters." Ching-wer's resumption of the policy of wait and see and com- sit back and congratulate

excellent Richard Trevithick, the Cornish ought to see our cookboy's collec- office of director of the Execu-pel mobilisation for a real war. selves on being such

round for mining engineer who, after tive Yuun. He is, however, re-in which the result would be fellows! We look

It is noted that Manchukuo garded as the de facto hend and disastrous. An element of con- someone whom we can make re- career still regarded as unsurpass

to be provided with race it la important to try to assess fusion within the country, loud sponsible for what has gone wrong, ed in invention, was only

instead of accepting responsibility froin a pauper's funeral by the

courses at Harbin and Mukden. his policy in the national crisis. cries of perfervid patriotism at ourselves. A bad workman blames generosity of his fellow-workers We have no definitive public the circumference and masterly his tools, or

his neighbour, or in a Dartford factory.

Trevithick was the first man to Which just goes to show that the the weather-any- declaration upon which to go. inactivity at the centre are use his boss, Or

When there is a make practical use of high pres- League of Nations cannot prevent ja country from becoming civilised, "puff" We can only proceed from ful to the policy which cir- thing will do. inference. A number of facts cumstances dictate. We can strike, it is so much easier tofsure steam--giving the

A foul has been born in Hong- go to show that bitterly hostile make no estimate of the likeli-raise the cry of Russian money! familiar to every nursery: as he must be to Japanese hood of this view except that than to look into it, and see if the first to show that the friction aggression, he is opposed to the frequent passing of pro- there is a real grievance some of two rails could transmit suffi-

Colony. facts of her internal disunion, in- and invented the system of coup-all, griffins which mobilising the strength of the minent envoys between Canton where. China, loath to face the cient power to drive an engine; kong. Apparently they are not

as if this nation against Japan and is in and Nanking and the figurehend vents the theory that it is the ling all the wheels to give greater favour either of peace by ne-appointments showered on unequal treaties that are entirely driving force. And, gotiation, or, as is more likely, General Chan Chai-tong give to blame! So in the old days in were not enough, he extended his

went wrong intercats to the introduction Ireland, whatever of giving Japan enough rope to colour to it. hang herself by luring her into

an international imbroglio. This

he may be doing by allowing her,

Germany's "Purge"

ation.

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WAR

of

was the fault of Dublin Castle, central heating the improvement and in India to-day the British of steamships, and the produc ma- Raj has to bear the sins of others tion of a pioneer threshing

I suspect that, just chine.

"PUFFING DEVIL". at such a cost as to give Although it only received its as its own.

Da kings in the old days used to

His first high-pressure locomo- verisimilitude to the plan, and name when Nazi students, en-embark on foreign wars to keep

as the ec-tive, known in Cornwall as it is convenient to pay, to couraged by their politicians, the minds of their subjects

so the Nazi campaign "uing devil," was completed on advance upon Peking and Tient- took to burning sex literature cupied,

(Continued on Page 13.) sin. The other policy, that of the "purge" campaign which is against the Jews may serve to dis-¦ pence by negotiation, is not

new

likely unless Japan encounters now aweeping Germany is not difficulties too serious elsewhere new. Ever since Herr Hitler assumed control of the govern- gay with

Russia. Soviet

ment of the country, "purge", in Japan's terms to-day would at the least involve recognition of one direction or another, has Manchukuo and its rapidly ad- been attempted. Possibly one of the most interesting outcrops vancing borders, the surrender, of the existing regime is that that is, of China outalde the Hitler and his satellites have Great Wall. They would in- thought it necessary to adopt volve the complete cessation of the boycott and in all possibility methods of coercion in their at-

tempt to give birth to special concessions to Japaneso form of government just as did trade. And they might-re the Bolsheviks of Russia. Yet membering the Twenty-One

Hitler's biggest "hate" is direct- Fas- Demands involve the accepted against Communism.

have ance of Japanese "advisers" at

Communism cism and Nanking. Though everyone in the country might realise these nothing in common. Yet Ger conditions to be, inevitable, the many and Russia are striving outcry from such organs of towards much the same goal; opinion as the press, the stud- both are beset with economic, ents, politicians with nothing to industrial and social problems of lose and everything to gain, the somewhat similar character; Canton clique and the bitter and in the last analysis the opponents of Nanking within the methods employed have but a Party, led by Mr. Hu Han-min, very thin dividing line. The would drive him from office. It world recoiled with horror when that it learnt of the Russian at- is probable, therefore, Chiang Kai-shek is playing a rocities of 1917 and later, just waiting game. Japan has ans the world to-day is shocked ready become seriously involved by Hitler's ruthless methods. and Lenin. with Soviet Russia. She may Hitler has touched extremes just have other enemies in the North on did Trotsky any day. And the influence of Hitler's methods of coercion opinion in the West, though it may be less tragle than those of may be tardy, may eventually the first Soviet regime, hut time lead to an agreement between may also bring repercussions America and the League, for- closely allied to those which bidding the supply of arms to swept Russia after her orgy of Japan and possibly some exer- blood which left her a nation cise of financial and economic struggling to emerge from a. pressure. In the formation of condition which was worse than

the first.

"He must have a lot of money. He has that worried

look."

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During the week, a report in a contemporary stated that military aviators in Canton have been or- dered to remain in barracks at night, the object boing to lessen the number of flying mishaps. Apparently some of them have been too flighty by night.

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Funny how some people find it so hard to get out of bed, especial- ly when they have been doing it all their lives,

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A Taipo goat swallowed a stick

of dynamite. We trust that it will

be compelled to hoist a red flag.

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Never speak ill of a stranger.

He might be your Inndlord!

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"Rastus." We are unable to explain

the

thal распотопоп causes some people to experience - a violent coldness of their pedal extremities when passing through. Ice House Street.

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It is said that a cuckoo flow from Berkshire, England, to Wost Africa. That reminds us that the craze trans-occan stunt-ying seems to have waned somewhat.

Enter politics and see the world, adoms to be an appropriate slogan those days.

When planning summer holl- days remember that tho fall al- ways follows.

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Inviting his roaders to inspect a specimen of Russoll's Viper, "Vinjar" statca that "It is quite dead, and preserved in a bottle' This substantiates the occasional assertion that, under certain con- ditions, even bottled snakes ap- pear to wriggle.

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