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Suirpine News Historic Battlefield History is being made in Shantung where the Chinese forces are putting up ouch a stout resistance against the Japanese, but the swing bback and forth of the contending forces is also reviving history. Shantung'e. ancient historical foundations and the number of famous philosophers and scholars it has produced, headed Confucius, have long made this province one great interest and the changing fortunes of war around many of its cities is bringing to light all sorts of interesting associations with the basis of Chinese history and culture. Lingyi, now in the hands of the Japanese, is a case in point. This city has a history dating back at Yeast 2,000 years, and Emperor Shih Huang Tib, who built the Great Wall, visited the city on his way to Tai Shan, the Sacred Mountain. To Chinese it is even more famous because it com. memorate one of the outstanding acts of filial piety which for centuries has guided the conduct of children towards their elders and is taught in the first primer in most Chinese schools. This concerns a boy named Wang Tsiang, whose parents were sick during the winter and desired fish, which was impossible to obtain, The boy stripped off his clothes and Iny naked on the frozen river until the heat of hhis body melted the ice and he was able to ate several carp and take them to his parent This is one of the 24 distinguished filial acts, and the river on which Lingyi stands is named in honour of the boy, being called Hsiao Ho, or Filial River. It is reported that some concern is being felt regarding the safety of many ancient monuments, temples and tombs in and. round Lingyi for the Sino-Japanese hostilities hitherto have left nothing but utter and complete destruction in. their wake. The swift ro-Capture of Lingy! by the Japanese, who are reported to have passed the city in their southern Advance and have reached Tancheng, only a few miles from the Lunghai Railway, may have resulted in the city being spared of the worst destructive phases. of the campaign., Those Pacific Islands Except for the development of aviation, and the: necessity for stations in the Pacific Ocean. for trans-oceanic aeroplane services the question of Canton Is. and Enderby Is. would probably never have arisen. The two islands in question form part of the Phoenix Group in the southern Pacific approximately midway between Auckland in New Zealand and Hawaii, and for that reason would make admirable stations for a trans-Pacific aeroplane service connecting the antipodes with the United States via the Hawaiian Islands. As far back as 1922 British atlases marked the group as belonging, to Great Britain. The nearest island belonging to the United States appears the Samarang Island in the Central Polynesian Sporades. but as outside that istané there are other British possessions including Christmas Is, Fanning Is, Washington Is, and Palmyra Is, separating it from Hawaii, its comparative proximity to the territory now in dis-ute gives little if any colour to the American claim. Britain officially. occupied the island in 1997 Sending a resident there, the United States following suit some months Inter by despatching a party to settle there, Fortunately, though both nations reserve their rights to the Jand in question, there is no likelihood of the dispute ever assuming imposing proportions. and the possibility is that, if Washington and Whitehhall cannot agree on the subject, the most that will happen will be a reference of the whole matter to arbitration, following precedents which have already been established between the two countries, or, as is now suggested. the administration of the islands under a condominium. British cartographers, in describ-Ing the islands as belonging to Great Britain, may, of course, have been in error, but the fact that the rest of the group are in' fact under that sovereignty lends colour to the contention that these two must be also. It does not, however, necessarily follow, and there may bbe tome justice in the American claim. Whether there is or not, it can be taken for granted that no dispute over so comparatively trifling a mat ter will be allowed to interfere with the cordial elations "existing between the two great wers, Treaty Secrets Following more dramatic and disturbing developments in other parts of Europe, the signature of the Anglo-Italian agreement comes. 'a5 an effort towards an appeasement of the situation which political observers generally believe will have favourable results, But. ap-Parently, it has not cleared the alr of those elements of suspicion which strive to indicate the existence of secret clauses nullifying or complicating for other parties the new condltions brought into existence. "Open covenants openly arrived at" is @ diplomatic ideal which has had a chequered existence and has received a dubious obeisance since it was first Propounded. but an honest effort to remove dimiculties, even at the cost of a grave cabinet split, ought to commend more respect than has "been accorded the Anglo-Italian agree~ ment by some countries. Japan refuses comment on it beyond indicating that it will be regarded only in the light of possible Bri-fish policy in the Far East. Soviet Russia Inelines to believe that there are secret clauses applying to the question of volunteers in Spain and territorial concessions in. Africa. 'The United States, naturally not 50 intimately interested' in European affairs, hag deferred comment until working conditions permit such an expression, But. this is only a part of the suspicion which still clings to treaty-making and diplomacy. There must always be some unpublished stipulation which accords with the belief that everything is not Jabove-board, and that these negotiations between countries are undertaken to mystify rather than simplify international relations. It is a sorry. state of things for it has induced even Siam to come out with an avowal that the Kingdom of the White Elephant has no secret understanding with Japan, and that the recent treaty was solely" concerned with the establishment Siamese sovereignty over Slam.—which ought, not to involve many secrets, The Anti-God Campaign That hardy old annual, the godless campaign against religion in Russia, has again broken out fas the Easter of the Orthodox Church, next Sunday, nears. It probably does nothing to in-{erfere with the faith of the older people, for they have been long set in their ways "and grounded in their beliefs. Among the younger godless propaganda may make some headway for a while, for atheism in one form or another seems 10 be one of the symptoms of adolescence. It is all so very brave not_t0 believe, for afler all there may be a foundation to religion, and for the time to set it at naught regardless of the possible consequences has about it the apparent quality of bravado. "It may, therefore, be merely one of those "isms" with which youth is so often oMlicied, and there is no justification for thinking that these campaigns against religion have anything more than a temporary effect. "Tt is but natural that (Dazsting-sing-eht-chow-fan %F Hk HI 93
Cunwest $18 Penjawuse, $040 PER core thesg: annuay, etGiNitiod' against religion should come'ah thékime et the greatest religious feast the Orthoge®™Chureh's year, as a kind deindnstratfon by the powers of evil "against the story of the Prince of Light. But for some years past there have been. signs. that the Influence of religion was again. growing Russia, with a modiftation. of the attitude of the authorities towards it. There is. something the quality of faith which seems to make 1 live under the most adverse conditions. The suppression of churches. in Russia, the persecution of the priests, did not have the effect for which the originalers of the movement hoped. The light for the time being may be no stronger than the glow of a simple rushlight, but history has such a habit of repeating itself that it may confidently be felt that the time will come When the oriflamme of the. Orthodox Church wilt again shine with all their effulgence. That at least will be the hope of those ther Russians who scattered through the world are as faithful to their church as they have been their political principles.
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