1937-12-08 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER 8,

1937.

COMMENCING MR. T. PAUL GREGORY'S

Personalities Of Old Hongkong

OF

JAMES LEGGE, D. D., LL. D.

all the cities in the Orient, Hongkong has been the residence of an imposing galaxy of talented individuals, who, by their versatility and plodding endeavour have earned for themselves the reward of merited and enduring fame. One of those who made our Colony his home during a long sojourn of thirty years in the Far East was Dr. James Legge, the learned Sinologue and Orientali st. Perhaps no one has contributed more than he towards paving the way for the cordial understanding between China and the West; for his translation of and commentary upon the corps of the "Chinese Classics"-n herculean Inbour entirely concelved and executed in Hongkong-have been the means of penetrating the veil of stygian darkness which formerly obscured. China and all things Chinese. Indeed, so painstaking and accurate was his work that it is to-day yet held to be the standard, and is justly regarded as the rade mecum for all those who seek to gain a comprehensive insight into the mole of Chinese thought; for, as all those who are acquainted with this remarkable people realise, the Classics, and especially the "Four Books" of the great Sages, Confucius and Mencius, are in reality the foundation of Chinese- ethics, and, morcover, were until quite recent years, the corner-stone upon which the entire struc- tural fabric of the Chinese system of education was laid.

James Legge was born at Huntley, name "Hongkong, fever" was at one Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and like time A term defined in medical many Caledonian lud before and dictionarles; yet when we consider since, early hearkened to the call of that the real cause of malaria was the East, so that we first find him at still unknown, and that the age of 24 Inbouring as an instruc-arrangements of the infant Colony tor in the Anglo-Chinese school at Malnecu. His few months of Chinese study under the tutelage of Prof. Kidd at the University of London hud Gred him with a desire to thoroughly master the written language of these teeming millions of Asin, und al- though Malacca hud a considerable Chinese population, they were largely merchants and petty traders who had litle knowledge to impart to a man

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Dr. James Lozgu.

Flies Solve Secrets Of Life

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RADIO BROADCAST

Mozart and Haydn Trios From the Studio

AMATEUR EXPERTS

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 355 metres (845 k.ca.) 81.49 metres (0.52 me's.).

H.K.T.

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.

12.3J Beethoven-50 650 Minor, Op. 57 ('Appassionata"),

Played by Frederic Lamond (Piano),

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12.46 Barnabas Von Geczy and His Orchestra.

Sletiana (Apollonio); Blue Skica (Ruxner); Fresh Breezes (Lorchert); In Merry Mood (Haringer): Monike

Tango (Kotscher).

1.00 Time and Weather.

1.03 Carroll ülbbone (Piano) and Ills Boy Friends.

Was Anything But Sentimental (Alax "Take My Tip'); The Charm School Selection; To Beat The Hand --Selecton; You Never Looked So Beautiful; You (Blm The Great Zicg- feld)....Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends; Bubbling Over; Moon- bei Dance (Carroll Gibbons).

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1 Gibbons (Piano); According he Moonlight; It's An Old Southern Custom (Yellen and Meyer) .Carroll Gibbons and His. Boy Friends.

1.30 Reuler, and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements,

1.40 Variety.

At

The

existence for inany years until it fin ally merged into the present Queen's College.

Another Institution of modern sanitary longkong the Union Church

Kennedy Road owes its inception to were negligible with open drains Dr. Legge. Indeed, the beginning

Orchestral Whispers everywhere, we are not at all sur- was in a very humble way, and prosu prised at the wastage of human lives; out of the loctor's wont of holding

Dance (from Meyer-Helmund's Lied) for under such conditions "an atmos Sunday services in the drawing-room

Maria Mark (ui Capua)....berge phere of disease, which only the of his residence. So large did the

Krish Sepict; Vocal--No Regrets strongest constitutions and prudent congregation that docked to hear his

LOVE and bate, fear and con- Tobias, Ingraham) You're Not 1 he living were able to resist, might be preachtag become that in 1054 11 be-

fidence,

transmitted Kind (Hudson, Mills)....Frances said to envelope the Inhabitants day came imperative that more spacious

Clarinet-Memphis Blues from ons individual to another Foye quarters should be sought, so a meet- and night."

(landy) Somebody's

Wrong (Ursel)) Dr. Legge was, however, not a man ing-house was erected at the corner by waves in the other: this is Ern Peiturer; Voc

Vocal and to be deterred by even such a melan-f Peel and Staunton streets. Thir the conclus.en drawn by Pro-My Piano And Me... Turner Layton; of Legge's impetuous ardour and choly portrayal; for he truly fore-edifice continued to serve the religious

fessor A. M. Low after months Saxophone-1 Have Lost My Heart commendable assiduity, so that there- law that the Colony was destined to needs of a considerable portion of the

of experiments with flies.

In budapest (Mihaly, Beiner) My fore he determined after some years enjoy a great future, and that by community until 1886 when it was

The experiments have been Kingdom For A Kiss (Warren, of more or less restricted, if not boot-temperate living the span of human demolished and the church moved to

simple. less effort, to transfer the field of his life would be just as great as in Eng-its present site.

Dublin)....Raymond Baird; Organ Film Hits....

Sidner Torch. Inbours to a more congental and pro- land or in Amerfen. In fact,

2.15 Close Down. Alable environment-Hongkong.

4.00-7.00 Chinese Programme. 7.00 New Light Symphony Or- (Varl- chestra and Keith Falkner tonystery Bells (Wely); The Mill

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mortality statistics of Hongkong at-

fest that after the first decade, con- ditions improved · enormously

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Of course, the greatest accomplish-

Two communities of flies were placed in two quartz glass boxes few feet apart: Both com munitica grew and bred at exactly the same rate.

The "My experiments led

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one com-

Cars

Then Professor Low put a flament In The Forest (Ellenberg); Barcarolle (Tales Of HollmannOftenbach); of pink gelatine over the box.

The flies in that box bred at a Cavalieria Rusticana-Intermezzo .Orchestra; Had A much reduced rate.

Simultaneously there was an equal spherd, See Thy Horse's

Horse; decline in growth and breeding Foaming Mane (Hungarian Folk Songs-Korbay): A Song Doesn't among the other fly community.

(film Mayfair Melody')...... TESTS WITH MICE

Keith Falkner (Baritone); Solemn me to be- Melody (Walford Davies); Cavatina Professor Low -told the (Ruff)....Orchestra. Sunday Chrantele, "that munity of insects is affected by the other and that emanations travel from one to the other by chorl- waves in the ether.

"What is true of insect, lite, may be true of the highest reasonably forms of life, up to man himself.

"If you are in sympathy with someone who wishes you well, you will do well by virtue of the favourable oscillations that are sent

out

ffectual drainage, a better supply of anent of Dr. Legge's sojourn was the Dr Lege nrrived in Hongkong water, and the planting of trees and translation of the "Chinese Classics" with his family in May 1843, and as vegetation on the erstwhile barren This monumental task of profound he said in his own words some thirty island. Indeed, the death rate for crudition was commenced early in his years later, "I have not forgotten the foreign residents, not including the residence here, and was finally com- sensations of delight with which. milltary, averaged from 1880-1870 a pleted in the year 1850, although it when we had passed Green Island, I little over four per cent.; whilst in was not printed until Ave years later contemplated the ranges of hills on 1803-an exceptional year--the mo:- Indeed, it was only through the gen- Jordine of the north and the south, embosomin tality rate was slightly under 2 per trosity of Mr. Joseph between them the tranquil waters of cent, rate said to be much lower Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. why the bay. I seemed to feel that I had than that prevailing in England at kindly consented to defray the costs found at last the home for which I that date.

of publication that it became possible had left Scotland." Little do we

for the seven volumes of the work to realise nt the present day that at that!

be given to the world at all. decision to make Hongkong In the first directories of the Colony

admirable translation, received the place of European residence was we And that Dr. Legge is mentioned acclaim of savants everywhere, and truly a momentous one; for the newly is a minister of the London Mission D. Legge's reputation as a Sinologue dedicated Colony enjoyed during the fury Society with headquarters in was firmly established. Indeed, so first decade or so of its existence the Hollywood Road. Indeed, it was due secure were his laurels that upon the invidious reputation of being the most largely to his vision and patient, eve of his impending retirement from unhealthy spot on the globe, and steady work that the Society was the Colony In 1873. his admirers many a Briton of that era questioned enabled to accomplish so much good amongst the merchant community the wisdom of Her Majesty's coun- | amongst the Chinese people of contributed to the founding of a Chair sellors for retaining such a barren, Kwangtung. He realised, however, of Chinese Language and Literature insalubrious and inauspicious island that in order to gain converts much at Oxford University with the express which was nothing more nor less than Hepended upon the formation of a proviso that he should be the first one vast cemetery. Indeed, so dread-native clergy, and with this end in occupant. This professorship

until his death at Ox- was the place that those who visit established theological, filled by ed the colony in the early forties seminary in 1848 for the training, afford on November 27, 1897.- were "thankful-to-Providence that Chinese boys for the Christian minis In conclusion, one might say that they had managed to come out alive, try. This insitution he carried on few men have been armer believers fortune. and that if the truth were generally for years with unflagging zeal, until in the greatness of our Colony and known no sane human being would he finally saw that the students that in his words uttered shortly before he duro to make Hongkong his home; be so carefully instructed and pro-left our shores ring a prophetle note: for in this fever-ridden spot life was rided for, did not seem inclined to be- "When I try to pierce into the future, so uncertain, that of the graver dug come humble and self-denying prea-t see a 'rallway from Kowloon to each morning, none knew who would thers of the Gospel; but on the Canton. I see a trunk line from Han- be the occupant before nightfall." ther hand availed themselves of kow to Canton, and branch lines con- Legge himself remarked: "Although their English education to secure for necting with it from the great pro- I was charmed with the general themselves more lucrative posts na vinces the west, and from Cheklong appearance of the place, and the clerks in either the Government ser- and Fuklen on the cast. I see this energy that was manifest in laying, v.ces or else in the foreign mercantile island the natural ouilet to all Europe, out the ground and pushing on build-{ establishments. It was therefore, und by the Poelfie lines to the Untied ing, I found many of the residents with great reluctance that he was States, for the mineral wealth and oppressed with gloom because of its freed to abandon this fleeting hope various produce of one half the great unhealthiness." As we look back of the speedy evangelisation of the Chinese nation. see itself the home upon that period now rearing the interiana; but soon the opportunity of happy population, three times century mark, we can scarcely com- | afforded itself of joining with the more numerous than the present, and prehend the feelings of those early Government in the founding of the foreigner and Chinese dwelling to- eluzens, and we are umuzed that the Central School, which continued in gether in mutual appreciation."

was

HEIRS TO ABDUL THE 'Six R's Keep

DAMNED

Palestine Claim Succeeds: 250,000 Acres Involved

Jerusalem. cd from the Palestine Government tands of an acreage of 1,350, nt

A legal decision was given on Muhraka, a village near Gaza.

Nov. 18 in a test case con- cerning vaat estates in Pales

.

A BRITISH JUDGE The Court, consisting of a British tine, Iraq and Cyprus, formerly Presiding Judge, Mr. P. E. F. Cressal, belonging to Abdul Hamid, the and an Arab, Aziz Bey Daoudi, found

that the onus was on the Palestine

Late Sultan of Turkey—the noto Government to prove its title to the rious Abdul the Damned. In-property.

the

cluded in the estates arc entire rich Mosul oil-fields.

The Sultan's rule extended over the heirs. Palestine until Turkey's d:fcat.In

·

People From Church

The Rev. Carl Schultz, of the Hyannis Federated Church, of Hyannis, Mass., blames the "six It's" for dwindling church al- tendance.

Here they are:-- Rest, Radio, Riding, Relatives, Roomers (boarders), and Rum.

Buffalo Skull On Licenses

"In the same way, anyone who wishes you evil may bring you mis As with individuals so with n tions. If people think and talk war the whole atmosphere is charged with war fear."

Professor Low is now testing his theory with mice communities.

Nine Years Motor Show Record Broken

7.30 Stack Quotations and Heng-. kong Exchange Markel

7.35 Varlets.

Organ-Famous Tauber Melodies.. ..Harold Ramsay; Vocal-A Little Dash Of Dublin (fim Peg of Old Drury'); Kiss Me Goodnight (Greer, Green) Anna Neagle (Soprano); banjo Melodies of Yesterday; On A Southern Plantation....Ken Harvey with Piano accompanyment; Orches- tral--Elaisin' The Rent; Happy As The Day is Long (from The Cotton Club Review).....Paul Whiteman presents Roy Bargy and Ramona

·(Plano).~-~

8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 Studio-Trio: Prus Lewis (Violin), Etore Fellerniti (Cello) and Lindsay Lafford (Piano).

1. Trio No. 1 in G Major (Haydn); Andante; Poco Adagio; Rondo Ali Ongarese; 2. Andante from Trio No. -1 (Mozart); 3. Allegro from Trio in F Major (Lafford).·

Allip

Bongs by Norman

(Bass).

Edward (Corder and Loewe); The Midnight Review (Glinka); Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep (Willard and Knight).

8.45. London Retas-World Af- fairn

A talk by The Right Hon, Sir Mal- colm Robertson, a.c.M.G., K.D.E."

0.00 Studio-Series of talks “Ama-

"Bridge.

ATTENDANCES for the Arst tear Experts": EL. E. Lindsell on

of the Motor

Show at Earl's Court, London, 9.10 Variety. were 62,311, against 59,020 last year,

on the first day.

tion:

Organ-Curly Top-Film Selec "Broadway Melody of 1936- Film Selection.....Reginald Dixon: In addition, there were several Vocal--I'm A Fool For Loving You thousand women who went to the (Wendling-Lewis); Lost My Rhythm, exhibition as guests of men visitors Lost My Music, Lost My Mon (Film Soft lights and sweet music'.... The attendance the first Saturday Dinah Miller (The Personality Girl); was 39,960, against 34,247 last year, Banjo-A Musical Journey From the best "frat Saturday" since 1928. New York To California; The World

Orders were brisk.

Is Waiting For The Sunrise (Seitz).. Michael Prince

of Rumanla-¦‚„Ken Hörvey,

£445 through an agent-bought a

9.30 London Relay-Tho News sports saloon Anished in gunmetal. 9.50 Gilbert and Sullivan Excerpta HMS. Pinafore Selection ..... A man who ordered another car from a stand found a replica waiting The B. B. C. Theatre Orchestra; "The outside his home three hours after Mikado'; The Criminal Cried....A. he had left Earl's Court

Davies, IL. A. Lytton, L. Sheffield and Chorus: See How The Fates.....D, Fancourt, B. Lewis, A. Davies, H. A. Lytton and L. Shefeld; The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring....D, Oldham, 11. A. Lytton; Alone, And Yet Alive...Bertha Lewis (Con- Yellow Springs, O.

fralto); On A Tree....Henry A. Antloch College claims to be the Lytton (Baritone); There Is Beauty first American college to employ aB. Lewis and II. A. Lytton; For terms He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum...

(Continued on Page 10) woman professor on

Antioch Points With Pride

cqual the first Antioch catalogue, Issued! In 1853, Miss Rebecen Pennell wan listed na pro- re-fessor of natural and civil history.

lleense

Billings Mont. The buffalo skull used as n signa- As the judges did not agres whe-ture by Charles Russell, into western ther the onus had been discharged, artist, will be used in place of the with men. In judgment was entered in favour of dash on the 1038 Montanu

In plates. Russell's drawing Thers include 14 princesses Un-produced exactly in a sample plate, less the Judgment is reversed on even to the broken nostril hele on the war and the creation of the appeal, cinims will be entered in the skull. mandated, territory. Ilis, helra' now respect of the other property. beck to ricover the Sultan's state: domains, running to 250,000 acres. and, in addition, properties in Cyprus and Iraq.

The Palestine Government against whom, the mult is brought, hold that the Bultan's rights were extinguished

by law.

* In April, 1939, a 'claim ngalust Italy for property worth £2,590,- 000 In Halian North Africa falled. Eight months later a claim involving £10,000,000 against Britain met with a similar falc.,

Older Alions Got Papors

Billings, Mont., A rise in the general nge level of Abdul Hamid-whose palaces and citizenship applicants was noted here seragiles on the shôrod of the Blos as 00, aliens became cliliens after phorus werg famous for their tavisi appointments, was born in 1842, and passing examinations. The age level

Abdul the Damn:d"—the Sultan

REFUSED ORDER TO RETURN TO RUSSIA

Another well-known Itucklan scientist, a physicist named Gamoff, has been expelled from the Academy of the Sciences for refusing to obey an order to retum to Russia,

HOCK VINTAGE

This year's hock vintage in ox-'

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The test caso in which the decision. died in 1910.--- *a- ruled over the fine): court"officiala : Kald, WAR Lakas. conditions which have?" provallódikia keur nous art the red paeksen. Lafras A KON”)

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