Peking, Aug. 19.
Foreign observers, especially thee who have just returned" from Mukden after an inspection trip, have advanced the belief that the age of 25 or 30, and they seem not only to have been an exceptionally handsome race, but to have possessed a, halcyon state of morality {and civilization until (according to Havelock Bills) their "art of living was undermined by the arrival of Christianity with its usual accom-Paniments." The curious thing is, however, that while no one is ds. turbed at the sight of a naked lack or brown body, we should all jump at the sight' of a whi one. "Merely a matter of custom," our contributor would reply, and would back his argument with reference to the number of liberties, from mixed bathing onwards, which We now accept as commonplace. Assuredly we have moved a long way since the days of Miss Edgejworth's proper little heroine, Quowsgue tandem? In point of fact, fashions are seldom ruled by Jeomimon sense nor by any aparent rule of balance, Indeed there are indications that now, when men are beginning to bare their' limbs, women are inclining to cover themselves op, Soviet Government will not officially declare war against the National Government, but will connive at the belligerent activitic troops along the Dorder in increasing proportions until the Manchurian authorities are frightened into entering into negotiations with the Soviet Government for a settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway dispute according to Moscow's terms.
It is also stated that the Moscow Government is not in a position to send a fally equipped army which will be large enough to conquer the entire Manchurian forces of ap-Froximately 150,000 strong, a 1wajority of whom have been through actual warfare in the past few years—Ta Chung.
Waswwxcton, Aug. 17:-—Dr. Wa Chao-chu, Chinese Minister to Washington, to-day received instructions from Nanking to proceed to Geneva as delegate from China to the League of Nations meeting. He will sail about September 1, he said, United Press,
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