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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1939.

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Swatow and Britain

5.

PROGRESS MARCHES

US SR

"A demand for education. the spread of fearning, the beginnings of culture, have raged like a forest fire."

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 centres learning,"

W

of

turing during the autumn before And I also remember, with lust. There are scores of them. renewed astonishment and Some of these universities something like awe, what is E are always being that have sprung up on the happening in Russia. 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 of the largest in the Red Army. There is no harm-- and perhaps much good-in may mean the end of world, a whole town of pro-

that, but what really takes my civilisation. This looks and fessors and students,

breath away is the spread of education in these Soviet sounds well and may be use-

publics. ful in reminding people that

is one

X

ON

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."

re at work, not counting the in- numerable amateur dramatic Performances of suc- This will come to be seen as units. institutions of learning. It one of the most dramatic move- cessful plays reach astronomical

The mind of At least it rival Oxford and Cambridge. an epic of literacy.

reels at them.

FT IS undeniable that the loss of war is no longer a remote IT is easy to criticise these new

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

to China, whose only direct sen-it is not true.

itself threatened with invasion.

neither

the

fewer

In the

port henceforth will be Pakhol,does not seem to me to be They teach a curious hotch- I am a popular writer, who

potch of subjects and their has produced what are called, And the Soviet stage has. No less exasperating from the true because I cannot im- standards are 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.

pigmies addressing a Anglo-Saxon communities it is with which the treaty port the will be fighting its hardest the background of these great mere

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 popular Russian significant number. Japanese hands-was lost, for) It is quite possible that such seem

Against that vast darkness, authors.

It is the same story with the would leave Germany, they are flaring beacons of foreign nor Japanese a war

In the last twenty years, the Press. In 1937, 8,521 different accounts mention serious fighting Italy, France and Great Britain learning. in defence of the city.

sales of the Russian editions newspapers were published, and in ruins and bankrupt. The

I never travelled across these alone of Gorky's works have 1,880 miscellaneous periodicals Ofeial statistics of trade move mistake is to suppose that

plains, past scattered, lonely amounted to 33,000,000 copies. and magazines, with a total ments since last year are difficult civilisation is the private pro- farmsteads and tiny towns, His novel "Mother" sold out a circulation of 250,000,000 copies.. to obtain, but the Japanese claim

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

Passed 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

the lights twinkling around Russian authors, such 48 Some of these reviews ure through Swatow after the fall ofly this is nonsense.

some enormous campus, with- Dickens, are consumed not in written in English, and 1 regu- Canton is not believed to be an

out a lift of the heart. For here tens of thousands of copies but larly

them. receive copies of were the people, the whole in millions. exaggeration.

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,

people, inheriting at last-the world's-store-of-know-

The Report of the Inspector General of Customs-for-1988 INDEED, I suspect that al- common

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

to

I say I let my mind wander A DISTINGUISHED poet in somewhat naive and too "ideolo- in Chinese hands, the Maritime is flowing away from Western about the globe and I remember this country will be fortun- gical."

revenue from Swatow Europe. I suspect that the the accounts that are filtering ate if he sells a couple of thou Customs

I read recently in one of these revenue future historian, say in a couple through from China. Some sand copies of any new book of periodicals typical extracts from was second only to the 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 the total of 1,118,€20 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 1,105,383 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 professors and students, deter- a dead loss. In Russia, where it did not go much further than the port, only Shanghal and Che progress, will not ask:

what were Britain, France, mined that the aggression of twenty-five years ago there was a cursory political and sociologi- foo showing a greater percentage.

Japan shall not ruin their now a vast population of completely cal examination. The literary The effect of the Japanese Germany, Italy, doing then?"

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

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 doubtedly become the biggest century, had passed from the their former

trade in comparatively small countries necessary in shacks and caves. entrepot for overseas China. Even last year Imports to the very big ones, from the they still teaching and staggering scale. from foreign countries totalled people on islands or archipelagos learning. 16,052,317 gold units, whilst ex- to the people living in enormous

continents.

ports to foreign countries totalled

In this matter it is not what 37,553,202 gold units. Of the 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 per ly one of the signs of a great cent, from the Netherlands and 6.5 new civilising movement is the Where per cent. from Germany. Of the spread of education. exports 99.97 per cent. were 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 Official statistics show that holding its own but definitely direct exports to Hongkong rose making headway. from $4,954,000 in 1936 to $9,403,-

I shall be told that this is not 157 last year, while imporis from

A country that I Hongkong increased from $407,834 a fair test.

point to as being in the van of in 1936 to $873,294 last year.

Official 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 along the total trade ex- ceeded the entire trado for 1038. The full effect of the loss of

Canton on Swatow did not become To that I reply that if this making up for past deficien- apparent until late in 1938,

Whether Japan intends to con-cies is on a gigantic scale, sug- solidate her capture of Swatow bygesting a colossal eager effort view to on the part of a whole people, pushing Inland with a taking possession of the entire then such à 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 has Indicatit 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 Japan-

Thus it is that when I hear

cso 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 auperiority In munitions--but my mind wander about the I remember all thoso quite another effectively to garri- globe, son a country as enormous universities and colleges in the China,

Middle West, where I was lec-

are

universities, if

Far away from the ruins of number hundreds of thousands evidence that they were dealing

of copies.

with a novelist and his novel. The Theatre is on the same It might have been a Blue Book.

There are

But here again, though ad- over eight hundred of them hard verse criticism should not be silenced, it is necessary to stand back, uso the imagination, and see this vast movement against its own back-ground,.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

5+22

"Looks like things are on the upturn, Horman! Cigars aro averaging fully an inch longer than in '98,"

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

like

national. progress 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 ono gigantic football pool.

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

J. B. P.

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