After attending the Kyoto Confer-fence he went to Mukden, Tientsi and Peking, and has come 19 Shanghai vid Nanking.
Mr, MacDonald when interviewed yesterday said that he was very Torry indeed. that he could only spend such a few days in China, Ho Would like to stay at Jeast three months s0 as to get a much more thorough idea of local conditions; fas it was ho had already learned great deal, but this had made him curious to learn more, have been in touch with the Far East for the past two years, as T attended the Honolulu Conference 1027, and have kept up friend. ships made there and also met many other Far Eastern people since the he declared. I am not specialising in Far Eastern matters. There is so much going on at home, really nowadays one has to specialize a little in many things.
have already learned a great des {in the fow days I have been in China, but feel that T should really stay three months at least.
Talk With Young Marshal "In Mukden I had a long talk with Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang snd heard his point of view. In jen tsin I talked with several' business men and officials, staying there two days, and spent'a day in Peking. In Shanghai I shall also meet business men and officials and shall speak at one or two meetings. Then I shall return to England by way of Japan and Siberi My engagements here include a talk before the local branch of the Pan-Pacific Association regarding the Kyoto Conference ang another: at the Chinese Y-M.C.A. Last night he was a guest on H.M-S. Kent.
The Premier's son is quiet-spoken and youthful-looking, As one of three of the same family who are members of the House of Parlia-
Jment, the father being the first Labour Prime Minister of Great.
Britain, he is one of the most interesting figures on the present liament, He has worked as a journalist and is now doing his best to help his father by. learning all he can on his travels and passing the information on. He is an ardent supporter of Me. Ramsay MacDonald' policies.
'Voone Lan-ting, a notorious armed robber and kidnapper, who was sentenced to death recently by the Shanghai District Court, was executed at Lunghua on Thursday' afternoon by order of the local Gendarmerie Commissioner.
Mr. R. d'Auxion do Ruffé yesterday evening delivered a brief but most interesting talk to the China Society of Science and Arts on the subject of "Ancient Chin Pottery," _demonstrati points with several specimens from his collection of antiques. With the worship of the dead an ancient fi custom of the human race, figures have been found in tombs in various parts of the world, and though in. Egypt and Chaldea' they have been. found to be some 40 or 50 centuries old, thdse in China date at the earliest from the second century. B.C, and it was only recently that, they had been found. The Han Dynasty bronze vases did not come from graves.
While tribes in other parts of the' country appeared to have been. wanderers and not definitely settled peoples, the original Chinese seemed to be those settled along the banks of the Yellow River, and it was there that these figures have originated. With frequent' inundations of the countryside graves had ind the figures. in the mud, only to be unearthed ut rare intervals. until the present century, when the: march of civilization' had caused many hitherto untouched graves to. be torn down. The building of the: railway line in the vicinity of the Yellow River brought to light these figures, in the shape of men, women, horses, dogs, carts, the representation in fact' of anything the dead might need in the next world, even toa model of a house.
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