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Swatow and Britain

itself threatened with invasion, No less exasperating from

PROGRESS MARCHES ON

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"A demand for education, the spread of learning, the beginnings of culture. have raged like a forest fira.”.

CHINA

"Somewhere in the in- terior professors and students, determined that the aggression of Japan shall not ruin their way of life, have re-established contres of learning."

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U.S.A

"In the universities, and colleges the people, the whole common people, are inherit- ing at last the world's store of. knowledge."

turing during the autumn before And I also remember, with last. There are scores of them. renewed astonishment and Some of these universities something like awe, what is TE are always being that have sprung up on the happening in Russin. We hear told that if there is great plains are of staggering a great deal about the size and another great war it size. The University of Illinois formidable equipment of the is ant of the largest in the Red Army. There is no harm- may mean the end of world, a whole town of pro- and perhaps much good-in that, but what really takes my civilisation. This looks and fessors and students,

breath away is the spread of sounds wein and may be use-

education in these Soviet re- at work, not counting the in- publics.

numerable amateur "dramatic ful in reminding people that

This will come to be seen as units. Performances of suc- IT IS undeniable that the loss of war is no longer a remote IT is easy to criticise these new

institutions of learning. It one of the most dramatic move. cessful plays reach astronomical The mind of the Swatow must be a serious blow and romantic incident. But will be a long time before they ments in human history. It is figures.

harassed English dramatist At least it rival Oxford and Cambridge, an epic of literacy. to China, whose only, direct sea-lit is not true.

reels at them. port henceforth will be Pakho does not seem to me to be They teach a curious hotch- I am a popular writer, who

of subjects and their has produced what are called. And the Soviet stage has true because I cannot im- the

not high. But always to my annoyance, "best- presented plays in no Chinese point of view is the case agine that the whole world see them, as you must, against sellers." But I and my kind are than 57 languages. In the a Anglo-Saxon communities it is with which the treaty port--the will be fighting its hardest the background of these great

pigmies addressing plains, mostly uncultivated a coterie of pigmies when com- only the tinned products of third oldest treaty port in China in this war.

hundred years ago, and they pared, in this matter of sales, Messrs. Heinz that reach this. and the twenty-first to fall into

almost miraculous. with the It is quite possible that such seem Japanese hands-was lost, for

popular Russian significant number. Against that vast darkness, authors. neither

It is the same story with the would leave Germany, they are flaring beacons of foreign, nor Japanese a war accounts mention serious fightingItaly, France and Great Britain learning.

In the last twenty years, the Press. In 1937, 8,521 different in defence of the elty.

in ruins and bankrupt. The

sales of the Russian editions newspapers were published, and Official statistics of trade move-mistake is to

I never travelled across these alone of Gorky's works have 1,880 miscellaneous periodicals that suppose ments since last year are difficult civilisation is the private pro- farmsteada

plains, past scattered, lonely amounted to 33,000,000 copies. and magazines, with a total and tiny towns, His novel "Mother" sold out a circulation of 250,000,000 copies. to obtain, but the Japanese claim

perty of these Powers, and that from which these boys and girls neat little first edition of Let us have no more of these that thirty-eight per cent.

it will perish with them. Clear- come trooping in, and saw all 1,500,000 copies. Great non- figures or we shall go mad." China's total imports passed

the lights twinkling around Russian authors, such a8 Some of these reviews are through Swatow after the fall of ly this is nonsense,

some enormous campus, with- Dickens, are consumed not in written In English, and I regu- Canton is not believed to be an

out a lift of the heart. For here tens of thousands of copies but larly receive coples of them. exaggeration.

were the people, the whole in millions.

standards are

The Report of the Inspector | General-of-Customs--for-1948 INDEED, I suspect that al- common people, inheriting at

Inst-the-workd'a-store-of-know-- shows that even in

that year, ready, without another war, ledge. when Canton was for nine months the main stream of civilisation

was second only to

mere

fewer

What are they like? Paper and. print are not as good as ours, but they are good enough. Much of the writing is, of course,

in Chinese hands, the Maritime is flowing away from Western about the globe and I remember

I say I let my mind wander A DISTINGUISHED poet in somewhat naive and too "Ideolo

this country will be fortun- gical." Customs revenue from Swatow Europe, I suspect that the the accounts that are filtering ate if he sells a couple of thou- I read recently in one of these

revenue future historian, say in a couple through from China. the

Some sand copies of any new book of periodicals typical extracts from from Shanghai. Foreign shipping of hundred years' time, when where in the remote interior of verse. A young poet, though Russian reviews of a novel of to the total of 1,118,620 tons he looks back at this period and that colossal republic, in places he may enjoy a very high re- mine. The criticism was intel- entered and 1,105,688 tons cleared gives his account of the world's that are not even names to us. putation, is usually published at ligent as far

as it went, but "Now the port, only Shanghai and Che progress, will not ask:

professors and students, deter- a dead loss. In Russia, where it did not go much further than what were foo showing a greater percentage. Germany, Italy, doing then?"

Britain, France, mined that the aggression of twenty-five years ago there was a cursory political and sociologi- The effect of

Japan shall not ruin their new a vast population of completely cal examination. The literary the Japanese

I have an idea that it will be way of life, have re-established unlettered peasants, they pro- qualities were almost entirely British capture of Swntow on

duce editions of new poetry that ignored. There was hardly any commerce is disastrous. Since the quite plain to him that the new centres of learning. fall of Canton, Swatow has un- world movement born in this

number hundreds of thousands evidence that they were dealing Far away from the ruins of of copies. doubtedly become the biggest century, had passed from the their former universities, if

with a novelist and his novel. trade in comparatively small countries necessary in shacks and caves. entrepot for oversens

The Theatre is on the same It might have bean a' Blue Book. China. Evon last year imports to the very big ones, from the they

are still teaching and staggering scale. There are

But here again, though ad- from foreign countries totalled people on islands or archipelagos learning.

over eight hundred of them hard verse criticism should not be 16,052,317 gold units, whilst ex- to the people living in enormous

silenced, it is necessary to stand ports to foreign countries totalled continents,

back, use the imagination, and sce this vast movement against its own back-ground,

37,553,202 gold units. Of the In this matter it is not what Imports 23.58 per cent, were from has been done but what is being the British Empire, 18.48 per cent. done that counts. And obvious- from the United States, 47.93 perly one of the signs of a great cent. from the Netherlands and 5.5 new civilising movement is the per cent. from Germany. Of the spread of education. Where exports 99.97 per cent. wore to the knowledge, however rudimen- British Empire, the bulk of this tary, is replacing ignorance, being with or through Hongkong.there civilisation is not merely Ocial statistics show that holding its own but definitely direct exports to Hongkong rose making headway. from $1,954,000 in 1936 to $9,403,-' I shall be told that this is not; 157 last year, while imports from Hongkong increased from $407,884 a fair test. A country that I in 1936 to $873,204 last year.

point to as being in the van of Omcial figures for the early part progress may be only making of 1939 are not available, but it up for past deficiencies.

is computed that in the first four

months alone the total trade ex- ceeded the entire trade for 1938. The full effect of the loss of

Canton on Swatow did not become To that I reply that if this apparent until lato in 1938.

making up for past deficien- Whether Japan intends to con-cies is on a gigantic scale, stig- solidate her capture of Swatow by gesting a colossal cager effort pushing inland with

to on the part of a whole people, A view taking possession of the entire then such a country is moving coastline. between Swatow and in the main stream of world Hongkong remains to be seen. culture. Whatever sort of past Experience elsewhere las indicat it had, such a country is one ed that they will be content to with an important future. hold the port without bothering

about the hinterland. The Japon-

Thus it is that when I hear!

ese have somewhat bitterly learn- this talk about the end of our ed that it is one thing to win civilisation, I try not to be pitched battles-a comparatively easy matter, given the Japanese Parochial in my outlook but let Buperiority in munitions but my mind wander about the quite another effectively to garri globe. I remember all those as universitles and colleges in the son a country as enormous China.

Middle, Weat, where I wasylec-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

JL.

"Looks like things are on the upturn, Hormani Cigars are

araging fully an inch longer than in '38.**

HERE in this enormous ter- ritory in East Europe and Asla, in what was regarded not so long ago.us_one_of_the most backward regions of the globe, the a demand for education, spread of learning, the begin- nings of culture, have not mere- ly developed for that is far too tamo but have raged like a forest fire. Here is a cultural progress like A national stampede.

If the English had developed. during the same period at the same rate we should be living: in a new Athens that stretched from Land's End to John o' Groats, instead of wallowing in. one gigantic football pool.

So now I close my ears to this talk of a war ending our civilisation. It is not only too. pessimistic but also too con- celted. Civilisation is taking its : own road, and in both hemi- spheres it is not a road easily accessible to the bombers and obliterating tanks...

J. B. P.