1939-11-11 — Page 11

K. K. LIM -HIS WORK

BY IRENE M. A. MACTADYEN

MR. K. K. LIM is the latest and a very valuable recruit to the Hongkong Working Artist's Guild, and the Hongkong Art Club: both of which he has, re- cently joined.

A year ago in December the School of Chinese Studies Introduced his work to the Hongkong public, with some fifty delightful paintings, at the University.

Few of those who enjoyed the ex- hibition realised that Mr. Em a refugee from Amoy, where he

was

the principal of the Academy of Fine Arts, was now living in the Colony, Since then he has bien devoting al- most all his Ume to his beloved paint- ing, and his "One Man Show" at St. Jolin's Cathedral IIali next Monday and Tuesday should prove a great at- traction.

Mr. Lim and his work, are so in- Uimately connected, that in order to appreciate the one you have to know something of the other.

Although I only met Mr. Lim re- cently, since 1 sat to him for a por- trait study I got a clearer imprez- slun of him than many cosun!" en- countera would have given

mc. for

although I fear not sufficiently me to present as vivid an idea of his personality as I should have wished in my too hurried pencil sketch

him

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„All ̈laxicab companies hayo petitioned the Government aak- Ing permission to ralio their fares. The companies complain that since the higher petrol tax their operation costs have in- creased - to an extení which leaves the margin of proût foo small for successful business.

Tho Hongkong companies have naked to be allowed to raise their price of 40 cenia a mile to 50 and the Kowloon companies from 30 cents per mile to 40.

The companies have not yet received a reply from the Gov- crnment,

Asked whether higher prices would not mean a falling on in the volume of business, the Kunager of one company was optimistic. He said the type of person who ordinarily used a taxi for shopping and other pur- poses would not mind the extra charge. Deubiless, some would use cheaper means of transport, but the proportion would be so small as to be hardly noticeable.

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Saturday,

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HOLLAND PREPARED

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ED VICTORY

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ference with tils generals Immediately. on his return to Berlin and the heightened anti-British feeling aroug- cd by the attempt on his life lavo Increased anxiety, and the people aro wondering whether he may not have decided that November 11 is the appropriate, date to launch a terrific attack.

Whatever happens, Dutchmen are determined to resist.

Value Of Floods

World War Battle

Of Scotch!

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· WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Nov. 10 (UP)-A treasured relic of the original Lafayette Escadrille the last bottle of Scotch whiskey, which the American to a depth of 28 inches, will renter pilots of the famed World War territory neither fordable nor navig-squadron left as a heritage to able except for flat-bottomed boats, present to all French squadrons

The whole area is seamed with canals, which would make first-class which inherited their name and

glory-was uncorked to-day.

Floods, which can be maintained

tank traps.

it very kevere frost renders the waters and plains passable, the water level will be raised and lowered alternatively in order to break the

er.

Nine portions were handed round as the descendants of the Lafayette Allers celebrated their greatest victory of the war, a victory In which nine Lafayette fliers fought ngainst three This is the first time since 1072 times their number of Germans, and that folland has flooded the country-shot down nine Cerman Messer- cide.

Schmidts, without a single loss to the French.

The Inundated "urcas will be ren- dered unfit for cultivation for several years, especially K salt water is admitted.

Evacuation Ordered PARIS, Nov. 10 (Reuler)It is reported from Amsterdam that the nhabitants of Baarn, near the south

November 11, 1939.

Envoy Denies Peace Talks

The Belilah Ambassador. to China, Bir. Archilistd., Clark Kerr, arrived in Hongkong ́on Thursday night by ́plano' from Chungking, where he had been on a roptico visi¡ for livo wOCKE. He will leave shortly for Shang- hal

In a stalement yesterday Sir

Archibald entd It had been reu-ntedly stated in the Press that he had been discussing with the Chinese Government peace terms designed to put an end to

the

present · hosililes with Japan. This statement," he de- clared, had rio foundation in fact, and the discussions which had taken place between 'hlen and the Chinese Government durior bis recent visit at no time had touched 'upon' pence terms.

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New York, Nov. 10. Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador, addressing 300 rice bowl diners, said, will be no peace in China until it is

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Immediately upon arrival at the front, where Ave American corres- pondents the first Americans to reach the western front in the present war-arrived to-day with Ganeral Gamelin's speelal credentials, I helped to celebrate the victory as well as perpetrating the traditions of the old ern shores of the Zulder Zee, and Zlot) squadron, which I saw in action 21 are ordered to evzuate the towns us years ago in the days of Lutberry of

SENTENCED to death at the the surroundings will be flooded very and Thow, last Criminal Sessions for the

shortly.

It was the new Lafayette Squadron, A Just peace. The United States used murder of her husband's concu-ready under water.

Part of the land near Baarn is al-nying Curtiss pursuit planes, which her greatest weapon when she swooped on 27 Messer Schmidts when abrogated the commercial treaty with bine, Pang Yiu-mui, a frail woman of 40, will be reprieved

Rushing Defences

the Germans "ganged" two French Japan. It can be used against Japan reconnalasance planes on the border for peace and justice and to justify some time next week, it was AMSTERDAM, Nov. 10 (Reuter). of the French lines "somewhere he the sacrifices of the Chinese. learned this morning.

-Although the Netherlands Govern-tween the Moselle and Rhine," demands have been presented by ment spokesmen atill deny that any Germany, the work of preparing the country's defence lines is being rush-

Those who visit his exhibition will find themselves in an atmosphere of bright repose, which, in spite of in- dividual and somewhat exotic colour-. ing, is somehow surprisingly English; which is hardly to be wondered at, seeing that for decade he was steeped in essential England, and had all his early act training there.

Ned.

It will be recaud that at the trial the Jury coupled their verdiel with the strongest possible recomienda- von Lar mercy. The Chuet Jusuce Bir Atholl MacGregor expressed his appreciation at the recommendation, saying, "Indeed, had there been nu such recommendation, I should all nave made one on my own behalf as trial judge. I think you may rest assured that, although it is my duty to pass sentence of deaths upon you, that sentence will not be carried out." A tragic story was told at the trial Pang was stated to have caused the death of Wan Hang-chung.. 25, by cutting her with a chopper. Her de- ience was that at the time of the uttack 'she did not know what she was doing.

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Born in Kulangsu, soon after the turn of the century, in cultured Chinese family, E. K. Lim was the middle one of three brothers. 1 hud been intended that they should be educated in England, but being pre- vented from going there by the war they came to Ilongkéng, and entered St. Stephen's College, in 1016. Three July years later they reached England.

By that time K. K. Lim had dis- covered his real vocation-painting He was eager to start in without de-Dee. ay on his art training: but his wise Mar. elder brother persuaded him that in | May order that an artist should make the July most of his talent, he should have a Sept. good general educntion. Accordingly he entered at FitzWilliams Hall, Cambridge, whence he gradualed in Economics and Law.

Inferior Naxi Plano

"The future depends on us. If we can fight on for 28 months more or Nine French victories-only seven

five years more, we are quite sure of which may be oficial beenuse two

our bargaining power will be greater fell inside the German lines and it to sacrifice. The time will

as resistance will become accustomed If the food areas are actually in-

is the French General Staff ruling when the Japanese militarists will come undated, any invader from the east that only German planes shot down would be barred from the rich coastal inside and behind the French lines be willing to accept a just peace and strip in Netherlands

which are situated the count brings the score for Curtiss not until then will we cease night-

largest cities, Hague, Rotterdamn and Amsterdam.

The planes so far in this war to almost

Ing" 20 Germans to two French planes. Dr. Hu Shih said that in the pre- been

The roads running to the cast have! The French enthusiasm runs high, sent Sino-Japanese war, Japan has blocked by the army and especially among technicians and lost eight times as much as the first of the road to make cars proceed at French Army counts heavily on the-Arst the Sino-Japanese war barriers are bullt on alternate sides pilots, for American planes and the two years of war Japan ever fought no more than a anal's poet.

etrly delivery of another hundred then the Russo-Japanese Reservists and volunteers are taking Curtiss planes liberated by the re-pan's budget was several mes

war. Ju- up most of the transport and raliway, moval of the United Stags arme great as 1931. Gold worth $511,000,- and travel for civillans has been embargo, further restricted.

All lights on the North Coast and.

and

B#

090 was shipped to the United States from Japan since the Sino-Japanese war began. Japan's gold output was

ment was $25,000,000,

in the Brislub Isionds have been NO AGREEMENT $24,000,000 and the annual require

extinguished, thus depriving aircraft

of the usual guide lights on the coust.

Belgian Preparation

Belgium is also currying forward defence preparations.

This morning King Leopold had a long consultation with the Premler,

IN MOSCOW Finnish-Soviet Talks Last Long Time Foreign Minister and the Defence-The Finnish Cabinet has spent HELSINGFORS, Nov. 10 (Reuter). Minister.

many hours deliberating on the Soviet la Berlin, the spokesman of the negotiations. Nazi Propaganda Ministry refused to deny the report that there are two The latest meeting of the Finnish concentrations of German troops on; delegates with M. the Netherlands frontier, but suggest-Molotoff failed to reach an agreement ed that the report was only being and it is expected here that there w spread to alarm the Netherlands.

be another meeting in Moscow to There has been a rush in Brussels day, when Finland will have decided to buy United States dollars.

on her next move.

One report says that $3,000,000 has gone to New York in the last few

0.07/07 9.07 N Now York Rubber

20.42b/19a 20/45b/50a

18.44/45 18.65/65 17.950/18.15a 18.206/25a days. 17.70/75 17.766/80a

Fotal sales for the day:-1,330 tons. Chicago Wheat,

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At least $10,000 will be raised at the dinner to-night. Similar dinners throughout the country raised ap- proximately $180,000. The notable guests included Mr. Theodore Roa sevelt, Archduke and Archduches Leopold and Miss Talullah Bankhead.

United Preas.

Dr. Hu Shih declared that despite the European war, Britain and France are all helping China,

He said Russia was actively sup Stalin and M.porting with credits and minitions. British and French assistance came through the back door"-Burma and Indo-Cina-Reuter.

that the talks have ended in spite of The Finnish Foreign Ofce dentes the latest failure to reach an agree ment.

to be the danger zones. In some of were the old Zuyder Zee villages, the girls in their quaint Inedieval national costumes.

Dutch Troop Movements 17.75b/80-SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPHY AMSTERDAM, Nov. 10 (UP) 80%/00% 0014/08/4 troops have been moved to various During recent days, 10,000 additional 84%/84% 8034/86%

points on the frontler. ..... 83/827% 849%/64% Thursday's sales

1stlil saw many march along the

The entire feeling is one of con- 24.228.000 bushels.roads as dawn broke to-day, while fidence and calmness,

whole battalions, armed with shovels, with foreign Press insistance that an Chicago Corn

contrasting 49%/50

50/80% continued to work on the new de-invasion of Holland is almost a fait 52/524 524/52%

fences. 534/534 Winnipeg Wheat

Dec.

July

May

the

Dee.

All the time his heart was in paint- ing, and he spent most of bis vuen- tions working at various art schools. Heatherleys: St. John's Wood: Grosvenor.

After graduating he took the full May art courze s The Slade School, Lan- July doa University, under Professor Tonks. W. W. Ítussell (now of the Dec. Royal Academy School of Art), and May Wilson Steer were among his Instrue-July tors. In its small compass England

60%/60% 70%/71%

70/70 77% b

However, the formers in the neigh- bourhood emphatically tell me that they had seen the same activity since the beginning of mobilisation.

The whole armed civil workmen corps is also employed in erecting an amazingly imposing works of new

every picture should be a revelation.ces, and new big canals "some-

in western Holland.

After-War Aims

British Ambassador Speaks To Press Club

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH' must end the war in such a way that LONDON, Nov. 10 (Reuter),-"We accompli

the Germans' only grievance shall be What struck me particularly was Leader and against the system that against their own rulers; against their efficiency of the army guards, who has brought them again to defcat." were everywhere keeping the trafle

noving and seeing that

This war aim was put forward by convoys moved first,At the same Ambassador

the army Sir Nevile Henderson, the last British time they were hastening the elvillan Club at a lunch in London.

Berlin, to the Press cars also. Even the barges and other ships in the canals were kept moving so as to avoid jams, which might blockade the canals and thus weaken

not so much of the painter himself. os af something others could not

I was impressed throughout by the have perceived without his vision complete calmness of the inhabitants corresponding to the Chinese tenen- and soldiers, even in what is supposed the defences. ing of object and subject. order to be able to do this and to know how, he believes there must

In

offers much variation atmosphere as to its function. He holds that und scene, and studied lang and scascope in romantic Cornwall, at the шnous school at Newlyn under Stanhope Forbes. Having absorbed most of what English art training had to give him, he was lucky enough to be able to study abroad for a time and acquaint himself with the different art movements in the post- war ferment that was Europe; and to see the development of European Ar through the centuries in many of the great Art Galleries. He spent some time at the Academie -Julien, Parls, and went on to the Academie des Beaux Arts in Genova. He cer- tainly had a wide survey, but taking it all in all he had a characteristically English education.. What is the re- sult then of this mainly academie training combined with wide experi- ence, and passed through on oriental temperament and Inheritance 7 I should express it as e calm, beauti- ful, glowing art, that rests oven while It Intrigues.

LETTERS

Official Majority

conviction that if war was to be He went to Berlin with the deep avolded, it was absolutely necessary to find some means of coming to an understanding with, and co-operating with Germany.

"In the end, the megalomania of one man detented the Prime Minister and defeated me also," Sir Nevilo said,

FORTY POUNDS OF FAT WENT LIKE. MAGIC

Young Woman's Success

In Reducing

woman received a nasty shoot. The Seven months ago, this young discovered that her weight was 13 st. B lbs. and the was only twenty-fivel

be a solid foundation of good work- manship, sound drawing, profound, perception of colour and values, only attainable through hard study, con- stant practice, especially if the ori ginal Impulse has. the fash and sparkle of genius: Chinese painting

sident, or, in any committee, the in all its schools 13 severely 14- ciplined

Chairman shall have pogard to the and demands arduous labour, and simplification as drastic

charecter of the question upon which Sir-In the course of the Income the division was taken and to the ne the severest modern European. art. Tax debate at the Legislative Counch consideration whether the Interest The one quality absolutely essential meeting on Thursday the Governor therein of the member whose vote is in every type of art is entire sla was good enough to declare that challenged is direct and pecuniary cerity. Where this is present he can "there is no question of calling up and not an interest in common with enjoy, or respect, types of art widely the official majority to support a the rent of His Majesty's subjects and differing from his own, be profound-measure which would extract a gift whether his vote was given on ly interested and moved by Inem. to the Imperial Government." This matter of Stale polley."" But there is one thing he cannot declaration makes it abundantly clear His landscapes aro a world of faery:

stand; where an artist tries to be that the revenue expected to be for advice from the Law Officers of ment that worked like magic is best The question herein raised calls Her discovery of a reducing treat- light everywhere-morning light and

funny(the expression is his own, raised from Income Tax will be used evening, sunset and sunrise: sunshine surprisingly Idlomatie and the very as a gift to the imperial Government the Crown and for exercise of some, told in her own words: on rocks, refreshing shadow beneath one I had refrained from using on presumably for the duration of the searching in the minds of the legal them, and wide spreading, waving the subject for fear it would not be war.

"I am twenty-five years old,. and trees. One longs to open a door, and

among the Unamcial ft. 6 in. tall. Three years ago, I slep out into this sunny land away

understood!) Ho feels that a great Whether such a provision has been, members of the Council.

started to gain weight at an alarm- deal of so-called modern art has this

Might not the Colony hope for ing rate. I did not realise how much from this present troubleus world

or will be embodied in the

another act of grace from His advance the cause of mutual under- Special Committee is not yet known he made at Thursday's meeting, to last August, when curiosity got the standing as genuine Art must do, to the men in the street. you wish you did?" as the objector to

More Imitation in any form he de- Assuming that revenue from In- declare further the disallowance of better of me, and I got on a seale Monet's "Charing Cross Bridge" as

Culture in art or literature come Tax will also be applied in ground of their personal interest exactly. 13 st. jbs. I tried dieting

the oficial membora voles on the und that becomes convention is not alive; part, to meet the general experitur which may be directly affected by but what I lost one week I would nearly fainted. I weighed being what he had never seen, was assed? Mr. Lim's pictures certainly both Oriental and Occidental art has of the Colony, a fine point arises. represent objective views and things. suffered from this sterotyping pro- The question which I would like to

reason of the revenue raised under cess and has had to be shaken back raise is one having to do with the the Income Tax Bill forming part gain the next. So I experimented His portraits like all his work have to Life by occasionally drastic personal emoluments and pensions of and parcel of the money for the with various remedies, Eventually I Government employees directly pro- Colony's expenditure under the tools Kruschen, and at the same time It has often been sold that there vided for out of revenue volsed by powers of the Appropriation BR17.

There is real danger that once In-ifled my diet.

draft

luminaries

What though you never saw such devastating insincerity and does not ill now under consideration of 160 | Excellency, following the declaration Weight I had actually gained until

lavender shindows on the hills, such dream-like skies and; seas?

Don't

rather than his own reaction to them.

tests.

This method

a note of competency. Too represen→ Moihods. ods. tational, a thoroughpaced modern might say, but refreshly like the person painted if one wanted tween English and Chinese, Western | priztion Blll each year, portrait more than a mere picture. and Eastern expressions of a similar Mr. Lim's flowers are gay and fresh. mentality. It seems to me that Mr. I am no critic, and I look forward to K. K. Lim and his work interesting seeing the collection of the paintings ly exemplify tils resemblance, and hels showing, for a more compres is a denial of the depressing, notion hensive understanding of his personal that "never the twain shall meet but rather illustrates the happler be koplir. Laim, has no special theories llef that mutual understanding and

on Art, but he has very definits ideas harmony do come full circle."

is a fundamental resemblance be- virlue of the authorlly of the Appro- come Tax ls raised its appropriation worked ilke magic. I am now down

mylo.

J. P. BRAGA

One of the Standing Orders of the for general expenditure might bp 10 st, 10 lbs., al lord of 40 lbs. in Legislative Council (Clause 24 (7)) perpetunted. provides specifically that."

"n member. shall not vote on any sublect in which ho has a direct personal whether motion for the disallow pecuniary interest. In deciding ance of a member's vote shall be proposed from the chair, the Pre-

seven months."(Miss), J.W.

Kruschen combats the cause of fat Answers to Correspondents

by haisting the internal organs to to carry out your suggestions at Ato accumulate, will be converted by TSL.: Many thanks. We will try duels and polsons which, if allowed throw off each day those waste pro-

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