The statement received from Paris to-day, evidently official, that "the French Legation in Peking has played & preponderating part in the BinoRusnian negotiate Hons," is distinctly cheering. France, we are told, tsirea "collective demarche to Posing the ines of the resolution of the Washington "onteranco on Febraney. 6 1922, isloting on. Okina's respon for the performance of obligations to wards ho foreign stockholders, ood: Holders and craters of the hiaex Bnatorn Rally and that the poms n, n mitral of the rile onatitated tax in_ China's 'This inn fact which, as Mr. Rodney Gilbert recalled the other day, in yond dieputa, but which the Woichisopa as Blandly' ignored, doubtless in harmony with Dr.
Hon 'Koo's normal assumption that treaties between China and. foreign Powers are old-fashioned, out-of-date things, which nobody pays aay attention to nowadays. We are not special Ty interested in the C.E.R. But] all foreigners are. vitally' interested in remembering and seeing that China remembers, that] the Washington Treaties not only granted concessions; they did also contain stipulations. In this way one was heartily glad to seo Sir} Tohn" Jordan's letter to the nimes)"" last week protesting strongly against the proposed 24] per cent, surtax being granted Roerely' for the paying all of China's unsecured debt and urging that it should not be acquiesced in except in return for foal -and much-needed fiscal reform. What Sir John Jordan says, deservedly,. carries great weight with the Foreign Offica.
The fact that a duel should have This modesty in. expenditure is wholly gratifying, only it will strike a great many people that serious consequences, as in this Ser Sg Sanat tween two officials of the Argon-tine when both were badly wound-_ something almost surprising in modern days, Wo leave Seovle capes. stone, back Brut SP ite eat iis Tac
thrust being in the show. the donation to the waiter sav- compris pistols, usually on" French toil, Bil ae ber han mang aomeras of extravagance, End for yoars'thero haa' boon Which a subsequent "Lossiemouth levy on the gentleman parently a monotonous regularity both partie missing or manag. Eeneration bad apparently ting to fre in the ein nnd than mind. reconciliation on the ground, Vary Tikely the pablic hea, however, Aerial Ambitions sul teen given a motif ance tion oat of the premet records of duelling, for ever and anon 1 the most ambitious of all hitherto The year 1924 promises to be ts have been etirrent in Eng. in aerial enterprise. One British) land of gentlemen settling tour and one American flight round differences after a trip, across the Channel with much more, sarioun attempted, resulte than have untally. bon or two the ai faggested. A challenge which 0o-mon will have Jef tcasioned quite @ aenaation in Rng off stations on fand rather over a quarter aft quest. While the American ship Shenandoah has been order-century ago was thal issued by 2 member of ihe Honey of Lords ed to relinquish her Arctic flight, Amundsen is to mike one more] well "advanced" in. years. toa! Political opponent, bat which waa effort to guido aeroplanes over the ico-bound Polar regions, and Aeolined. "The most recon sues. the year is accordingly full of tion in the way' of duelling came wonderful possibilities, While) from Ht. Poincaré who a itn Wo hope for success, we must re-fortnight ago. challenged. member the disappointments of Royalint deputy. to comin. Tt the past and, if achievement falls failed, however, to go. beyond short of expectation, not be too challenge, the' scends deatding, unduly despondent. When the that the quarrel was nob bit Ttalians set oat from Rome on smongh 0 call for actual howl their sanai voyage to Tokio, the ica Probably just an well, for public, unfomilior with the' dif courts of Taw ought to be compo ty ficulties of the task, expected font' to settle any diepnio. which something in the nature of a rush arises out of political controversy. over Jand and sea, and it weal matter for surprise that months} elapsed before the journey had) Children from the East been completed. But when Captain McMillan was overcome by Very few paronta, of shceo who disaster after loaving India on 2 are fortunate enough to. be abe] similar venture, it was reales to send their children Home to they who would be successful. school, are also so lucky aa to pioneers, "must veaturo warily.
Able to ment with confdonco the Bo far the air has only in part} question, "What is to breome_ of eon conquered. Acroplano coo- them di 16 the holidays?" And Straction nnd aerial science, how upon that follows the equally tron, are seedily advancing, snd poignant problem, "Shall the even the Iapse of " Fear or tO) mother go to England to make a Should "improve the chances. of Bringing about o successful fight: home for them, oF should she stay
Te has sirenely been shown Poo in the Far Babb and, Ieuvy the iron to strangers" Il in pos. ble to fy by short fom sible that both father and mother Europe fo Australia and the east may have plenty of relations Gf Auto, and interest. in the forth-Home. But it is by no moans! emuing? ventures will. be. largely certain that that fact will dispoea Seotred in the dificult, task of of the difficulty. We cannot, help! frosting the Pacific. If that ena feeling that few indeed of our fo succtsafully ancomplisbed desistorsin-law and bro therein-Ivw, Enitely mew stage im the mastery our cousins, uncles and aunts are of the alr will have been reacted 20 wisely endowed by nature na to bring up their own children in the way that we world have our own!
The Famine Centres brought up: and oven if they can Pass the tet, we have a misgiving The reports so far received thas they might nob jump. at the: from the former famine centres of charge of additional and exotic 5 hina are encouraging. Agricul-olive branches, For all them toral. -work is proceeding along sons thorp shoald certainly Eo normal-jines, and granted reason-opening for the sort of school Home which is forocasy to-day in an. advertinomont on our front
headmaster who has Jong personal experience of the For Bast and fully qualified to win the of parents and holiday time would be catered for ae well a the school terms. There ig, is eohcme, no apparent pro ion for girls, but we imagine that arrangements might be made in that direction, without trenfching on the ce-oducalion system which some of us are. still old-fashioned enough to dislike, Altogether the project scerne to offer a-welcome escape from the uneetaintios of guardianship by. relations on the one side and the terrors of another edition of "Baa Ban, Blackahorp" on the other.
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