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THE HONGKong TelegraPII, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1930.

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Swatow and Britain

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PROGRESS MARCHES ON

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"A demand for education, the spread of learning, 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 ot learning."

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"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 ⚫ Sonic of these universities something like awe, what E are always being that have sprung up on the happening in Russla. 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 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 well and may be use-

education in these Soviet rent 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- 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 rench 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. to China, whose only direct sea- it is not true. At least it rival Oxford and Cambridge, an epic of literacy.

reels at them. part henceforth will be Pukhoi, does not seem to me to be They teach a curious hotch- I am a popular writer, who itself threatened with invasion. true because I cannot im- standards are not high. But always to my annoyance, "hest- presented plays in no

potch of subjects and their has produced what are called, And the Soviet stage has 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 with which the treaty porthe will be fighting its hardest the background of these great mere

a Anglo-Saxon communities it is pigmies addressing plains, mostly uncultivated a coterie of pigmies when com- only the tinned products. of third oldest trenty 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 for

the It is quite possible that such seem Japanese hands-was lost,

Russian significant number. would leave Germany, they are

Against that vast darkness, authors..

It is the same story with the neither foreign

Japanese a war Hor

flaring beacons of accounts mention serious fighting Italy, France and Great Britain learning.

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

in ruins and bankrupt. The

sales of the Russian editions newspapers were published, and mistake is

I never travelled across these alone of Gorky's works have 1,880 miscellaneous periodicals to suppose that civilisation is the private pro- farmsteads and

plains, past scattered, lonely amounted to 33,000,000 copies, and magazines, with a total tiny Lowns, His novel "Mother" sold out a circulation of 250,000,000 copies. perty of these Powers, and that from which these boys and girls neat little first edition of Let us have no more of these it will perish with them. Clear- come trooping in, and saw all 1,500,000 copies. Great, non- figures or we shall go mad.

the lights twinkling around Russian authors, such as Some of these reviews are some enormous campus, with- Dickens, are consumed not in written in English, and I regu- out a lift of the heart. For here tens of thousands of copies but larly receive coples of them. were the people, the whole in millions. common people, inheriting at

No less exasperating from the

of

Official statistics of trade move ments since last year are difficult to obtain, but the Japanese claim that thirty-eight per cent. China's total imports passed through Swatow after the fall ofly this is nonsense. Canton is not believed to be un exaggeration.

The Report of the Inspector General

for of Customs shows that oven

in

1938 INDEED, I suspect that al- last the world's store of know-

ready, without another war, ledge. that year,

"Now

popular

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,

when Canton was for nine months the main stream of civilisation--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." Customs revenue from Swatow Europe. I suspect that the the accounts that are, filtering ate if he sells a couple of thou-

the rovenue future historian, say in a couple through from China. Some- sand copies of any new book of periodicals typical extracts from.

I read recently in one of these was second only to 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 1,195,688 ions cleared gives his account of the world's that are not even names to us, putation, is usually published at ligent as far as on year, but professors and students, deter- a dead loss. In Russia, where it did not go much further than the port, only Shanghai and Che-progress, will not ask:

what were Britain, France, mined that the aggression of twenty-five years ago there was foo showing a greater porcentage.

Japan shall not ruin their new a vast population of completely cal examination. The literary a cursory political and sociologi- The effect of the Japanese Germany, Italy, doing then 7"

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 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 unworld movement born in this Far away from the ruins of number hundreds of thousanda evidence that they were dealing doubtedly become the biggest century, had passed from the their former universities, it entrepot for everseas trade in comparatively small countries necessary in shacks and caves. China. Even last year imports to the very big ones, from the they are still teaching and staggering scale. from foreign countries totalled people on lelands or archipelagos learning. 16,052,317 gold units, whilst ex- to the people living in enormous ports to foreign countries totalled continents.

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. Idone that counts. And obvious- from the United States, 47.03 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. were to the knowledge, however rudimen- British Empire, the bulk of this being with or through Hongkong.

Oficial statistics show that direct exports to Hongkong rose from $4,954,000 in 1936 to $9,403,-

1 shall be told that this is not 157 last year, while imports from Hongkong increased from $407,634 a fair test. A country that I

In 1936 to $873.294 last year,

tary, is replacing ignorance, there civilisation is not merely. holding its own but definitely making headway.

point to as being in the van of Oficial figures for the early part progress may be only making of 1939 are not avaliable, 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

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

making up for past deficien- Whether Japan intends to con-cies is on a gigantic scale, sug- solidate her capture of Swatow bygesting a colossal eager effort a view to on the part of a whole people, pushing Inland with taking possession of the entire then such a country is moving constline between Swatow and in the main stream of world Hongkong remains, to be seen.culture. Whatever sort of past Experience elsewhore has 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 Japaa-

Thus it is that when I hear

ese have somewhat bitterly learn-this talk about the end of our ed that it le one thing to win civilisation, I try not to be pitched battle-a comparatively ensy matter, given the Japanese parochial in my outlook but let. superiority munitions but my mind wander about the qulio another offectively to garri- globe. I remember all those son a country as enormous as universities and colloges in the China.

Middle West, where I was lec-

In

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

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"Looks like things aro on the upturn, Herman! ··Cigars aro averaging fully an inch longer than in '38."

silenced, it is necessary to stand back, use the imagination, and see this vast movement against its own back-ground. -

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 forest fire. Here is a cultural progress like # national stampede.

If the English had developed during the same period at the sume 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. T

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

J.B.P.