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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1938.

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A group of patriotic young women, who recently returned from the "front", who were present at the open-air meeting

of the Chinese National Women's Relief Association and the Women's Section of the New Life Movement (H.K. Branch), which was held at the Hongkong Football Association grounds, Happy Valley, yesterday.King's Studio,

N the life of every man

and woman there are several regular and un-

avoidable crises. Starting

SCHOOL FOR

Tel. 27778-9.to breathe is one; starting indeed, it is all-important. We

PEARCE—On the 8th October, 1930, at Exmouth, Devonshire, Thomas

Aged 82.

to talk is another. Probably shall see in a moment precisely

to most of us starting to be why this is so. an adult is the worst of the ilot.

Let us glance at a typical example, the key village of Bot-

ALL AGES

In some ways a good public Is it necessary that this last tisham, which with ten other door arts of workshop and William Pearce, O.BE, LL.D. should be such a terrible crisis? Cambridgeshire villages forms a counting house but in farming school is the best kind of clubs, a club to which your parents But that is not all: it is, in have paid a life subscription. If Need leaving school or the uni- group having together a populas matters and rural crafts.

tion of just over 6,000. If you versity be a crisis at all?

have wisely chosen your parents You are now a full-grown citizen you have any brains you will every sense, only the beginning.- Consider what it is that from among these 6,000, the schools have to do.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1938.

1937-1938-1939?

The Japanese successes along the Wuhan "Maginot Line" culminating six weeks' bitter bombardment in which until

this week the Chinese have held steadfast against odds that

the

a lot to

A school is Bottisham Village College will and the Village College will make good (if discreet) use of a factory where boys and girls welcome you in its Halley Ste- mean Women's Institutes, the this club; if you have none, your

British Legion, athletic clubs, membership will do are turned into little men and wart Clinic even before you are dramatic clubs, debating clubs, soothe the pains of failure and women (there are those other born. You may come to factories, too, of course, where welfare centre a little later, and horticultural societies, societies mediocrity.

for natural history, photo- little ladies and gentlemen come if your parents live in the cen-

But really the use you make from). Upon leaving this fac- tral village you will want to join graphy, chess. Under its roof child is suddenly the nursery school as soon as are your meeting rooms, your tory the

hall, with its stage and special

of membership is immaterial. a strange and you can walk. launched upon

acoustic devices, your common What matters is that the cor- difficult world. It is like a tree

prooted just as it is coming is open to you. After the age of cheerful panelled walls.

From 5 to 11 the junior school room, with its armchairs and its porate life of the school is follow-

ed by a corporate life-however feeble, howevef scattered-im All the the years that follow.

into bloom.

11 and for the rest of your life, The child cannot recall that the Village College is yours in would have crushed many a other violent egress some years whichever of the villages you

Tile College kitchen, ties are not broken, though the Western Power, need not be before, but it may perhaps be may reside. You will spend vaguely aware of a reception your school years till the age of

the showerbaths and gates behind you may be closed. taken as an indication

of the that was not cold or unfriendly. 15 or 16 in the "post-primary" other things are still yours. As Yes, the gates do close, every.. early fall of Hankow. Every-This time it has to meet the school, with its wood and metal a Parish Councillor you will at where; everywhere clac, that is, thing points to the city which full, untempered blast. Can workshops, its art room and tend your Council meetings in except in the Village College. cradled the Chinese Revolution nothing be done to alley the science laboratory, its school the College committee room, and That is why the Village College twenty-seven years ago remain-severity of this process?

ing inviolate until well into

1939.

I the

HAVE just discovered answer to

By Christian Barman

who has made a study of Village Colleges, the new centres of rural life for people of all ages. Above are buildings of the Village College at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire.

In the north, where the Bevered the Japanese have

this Peiping-Hankow Railway, their vanguards are still 200 miles question. Not only is it possi-

the distant. In

north-east, ble to do something, but some- where they have attained the thing is actually being done here. summit of the Tapleh range of in England this very moment. mountains in the face of obsta-Readers have already had news cles which many military ex-of an institution created in the perts believed unsurmountable, County of Cambridgeshire eight they have

yet to traverse 180 years ago and known as a Vil- garden, its gymnasium and play- local government in the village ing fields. miles of some of the most lage College. But many people diffleult terrain in China before are aware of the existence of the Wuhan cities lle below these Village Colleges (of which them. Startling though

the there are

now three, with naval advance

in the Yangtse fourth being built) without

will acquire a new dignity and importance in your eyes.

is so utterly and completely dif- ferent from anything that we know. Its school is open to the world, free to the fresh winds of when school- actuality. And days are over the child is not shut out. The same kind of life goes on, the same guidance is. available, the old

friends are

about.

the Village And in this social centre the

Now that children "go to school." It is

College has come into put these words existence, let our local authori- the juvenile into quotation marks, despite ties clearly realise what it If they do, if they can of this part of the scheme) will help pect the school is just a school,

As soon as you leave necessary to

school and the military advance along clearly realising what a Village employment officer (he, too, is the fact that in every other res means. the north bank of the river have College means. been in the past 72 hours,

Japan's difficulties in this sector The Village College is a social you to find congenial work; the where the things are taught that grasp the significance are increasing with each mile, and cultural centre for all ages. County library (in the College a better-class County Council new social invention, there can From Kitow to Hankow Reach The social centre is, the whole building) will lend you the books usually tenches. It is not the only be one course open to them. of Generalissimo of which the school is a part. you did not have time to read at curriculum that is different, it is From now on, to build a school Chiang Kai-shek's greatest for- This relation between the centre school; evening classes will in the way the school is attached to of the old-fashioned type where tifications, each of which, as the and the school, this subordina- struct you not only in the in- real life. Chinese defenders are pushed tion of one to the other, is vital;

lies Bome

back towards their pivotal point, will become more difficult

to reduce. South of the Yang-

of abortive at- tse, the Japanese have made their hundreds comparatively little progress tacks in the Telan areas, will since their great offensive need more than courage to drive started on September 8, al-further away from the Yangtse though their claim that Aikow River. They will need heavy which can be has fallen will, if substantiated, reinforcements, possibly prelude the fall of ill-spared from the other sectors

Hankow, and con- Tehan, around which one of the driving on greatest battles since 1918 has tinuous and lengthening lines| incessantly raged for six weeks. of communication through dif- It is improbable, cable des-ficult and hostile mountainous patches tell us, that the regions. And, above all, Chang- Japanese in the southern sector shà is still some hundreds of will drive for

Hankow if miles distant.

they succeed in their long and

The indomitable will of the arduous task of crushing the

the bitter stubborn Chinese defence along Chinese people and the western shores of Lake determination of the Chinese

around Poyang and

Tehan. troops are proof against any

оп Hankowi More probable, it seems, this direct attack

will

year Japancao Army

atrike until 1938 becomes in

the past and 1939 be- southwards towards Nanchang of -which boasts that Ita 22 comes the third year of the miles of walls have never been Christian Calendar in which scaled in the eight centuries of bloody and uncivilised warfare their existence and Changsha, has raged in China. China the vital city on the Canton-may take heart from the fact Hankow Railway. The fall of that, in the first fifteen months Changsha would undoubtedly of the Great War in Europe, hasten the end of Hankow, since much of France and all of Bel- along this vital railway flows gium and Servia were in invad-i much of the war materials used ing hands. The outlook for the then, with German In the defence of the Wuhan Allies areas. But the Japanese forces, armies at the doors of Paris, almost decimated as they have was much blacker than la the been repeatedly flung back in outlook for China to-day.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

19-17

and then she gave my lettere to her latoper. What a foot I

waa-me!—with half a dozen phones}"

conditions make a Village Col- lege possible is going to be a grave misapplication of educa- tional funds.

THRILLS

DEAD the murderer's confes-

Ron: 1 had invaded the

sacred

him-

territory, forced

Have self into the sanctuary. you read the story of the priest. and the man who desecrated his temple? He poisoned him with the Communion wine-and has con- sclence was at rest.

Only rock climbers can tell whether rock climbing makes you feel that way" about fellow rock climbers you don't like. Anyhow, that is what happers in Newton Dayle's Hinster Crag (001-.

hold in Jancz, 7 d.). Result: chiselled off and three men fall to their death.

There are some well-dons descriptive stuff and somo fairish detecting with a sprinkle of authentic-sounding Lechal- calities. So don't hold that confession: against Mr. Qayle.. Those heights.

Helen McCloy's medium in Design: for Dying Heinemann. Ta. Gd.) in a alimming drug that leaves glowing hot in the snow. Her mantrap for murderers is a paychiatrist who detecta through "paychle fingerprints."

A good old-fashioned check-up might: havo got there more quickly but hardly an entertainingly. And 1 commend à good new motive, tong overdue.

a porpac

A mad doctor, a rided grave, a Ber- mest growing mis-shapen almost as you that is David Whitelaw's look florrar en the Loch 133les. 76. 00.1. Ob. and missing rubles. Horror Indeed, P. E I