Mr. Tan Cheng, Vice-President of the Judicial Yuan, has been seeing a great deal of our law court work in the short time available before the' Courts rose, and last week sat beside the Master of the Rolls and his two! fellow Judges in a hearing of the Court "of Appeal. Yesterday visited Sir John Simon, and has had some long conversations with Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, and Lord Sankey, the Lord [Chancellor, whose private secretary has been taking care of Mr. Tan Cheng.
The latter meeting took place at the House of Lords, just after the; formal reception of two new peers. Mr. Tan Cheng watched this cere-Jmony from the gallery and was much impressed by it, and by the gorgeous jand stately robes worn by the Lord recently married in London, is now on the Continent, and Iam told will, at the beginning of October, leave for New York and Vancouver on his way to China. It is not yet settled in which town he will start practice a doctor.
I happened, the other day, to see. his testimonials for his work at St. Thomas's where he seem? to have filled three roles, Casualty Omicer and House Physician, and Yocum Clinical Assistant to the Children's Department.
He seems to have obtained some extraordinarily good testimonials from doctors of the standing of Dr. Tidy, Dr. Hedley and Dr. Thompson. They speak of him as a medical man of very high standing, well qualitied both for private practice or hospital appointments, of outstanding ability very much above the average, and popular with everyone with whom hho came in contact. He seems to be Fegarded as the best pupil at St. Thomas's, which was shown when ne was elected in 1931/32 Secretaray of the Medical Physical Society of the Hospital, a post which is only given to a student with the best qualifications of the year.
'Dr. Sze's "second son, who was trained at Charterhouse' and Cam bridge and is now working in the Chase Bank, London, will, I under-[stand be transferred'in the Autumn to the head office of the' National City Bank of New York, and fatter a brief stay there he will be Jsent to the office of the bank at Shanghai. This son is the first Chinese to be elected as an Av. societe Member of the Institute of Bankers. Other Chinese have been elected as ordinary members but not jas Associate Members, Suicide Saddens Chinese The Chinese community in London nas been much saddened by the Bedford Calege andthe thea feat suicide in a London hotel of Mr, [Chang Chung-yan, a very brilliant nus vit nas been cad sow aod student of Liverpool University. He was a man of about 30, had just taken' his MIA. and had written a book on. a"eceat any of he Sd Rend oad has much enjoyed his stay. {the origins of provincial divisions in JChina, of which Professor Roxby nad a high opinion altogether of Mr.
A new type of army pursuit plane, an capable of attaining & speed. of 406 The latter came up to London to) Idlometree an. our, has been deve: see about a passage to China, and oped by the Polish Aeroplane Works. [went to see Mr. Quo Tal-chi. He was talking in rather a hysterical way, More than 300 hair-pulling and Jand Mr. Quo put him in the charge wildly clawing women busily en-of one of the secretaries. However gaged the police in Madrid. in pre-Mr. Chang insisted on going off to venting them storming the War Min-[Euston alone, and he actually bought istry on Saturday, to make a vigor-a ticket for Liverpool. Then he ous protest against the much dis-/went to a hotel and hanged himself. cussed practice of "mobilising the was a pure case of nerves and Spanish population." Turned away Joverwork. He had no tangible trou from their goal by the effective tacbles of any kind, having done bril tics of Madrid's experienced police, antly in his examinations and being the modern amazons paraded to the well provided with money. city's. main squares" shouting in chorus "Down with Fascism", "Down China Society Dinner swith "War."
'The history of those years is rapidly sketched, Japan's war with China, ier enforced surrender of the Liao: tung peninsula, Russia's occupation Jot what she had compelled Japan to give up, her filling' of Manchuria with {troops after the Boxer year, from which the impending struggle between Japan and Russia for the supremacy in Rastern Asia become obvious Then followed the Russo-Japanese war and, in due course, Mr. Byas emphasizes that "Baron Shidehara steadfastly respected Russian interests and the Japanese halt-fed at Changehun. But when he fell, they pushed forward to Harbin and [Tsitsihar, The Russian sphere ceased to exist" Continuing, he writes:
"EL the extensive claims which Russia staked out nothing now Tee mains but the salient of Viadivostox, Can Japan tolerate fts continued exis tence in her own sphere? Does Russia Value it so highly' that she will risk another war in ite defence?
t is the situation Itself, therefore, Ominous background the recent alarm of "impending war found" ready Prophets, however, are not always van examination of the indicate that the danger has been avoided; the situation remains, but also the means fof dealing with it by peaceful states-
July 23.
ter presided at the annual dinner of restdad sat me genes MIDIS: sordan who was for a long time very were reported io him and he came Femember that the alarm wa fet falsed in, but not Un the: Russians had made extensive military Soviet chiot of state which resulted in American recognition. On October "America's intention' being then Known, exultant' Moscow sounded the first note of the tocsin. Tt published Intercepted dispatches. alleged from "General Hishikarl, Sapanese Ambassador and Commander-in-Chieh, tothe Tokyo Government, which, if they were authentic, revealed. Japan complicity in picis to take posses sion of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
The Japanese Government took this undoubtedly provocative act very calmly. It remained equally unruff-Jed when voMslton. 1sevino, foroahiloft, and Bluecher engaged in 4 crescendo of challenging speeches, Accusing Japan of aggressive designs and "Boasting. "of Russia's defensive Dowers. "We have barred our frontier with "a lock "of steel and" concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth... Hayashi "grumbles "about our 00 airplanes (in Siberia). T'will not say whether we have more or los Dut Twill tell" you this—we ave and wit Wem more: than the Japanese..." We "fear no comparison with the enemy in tanks and aviation aid Bluecher to the All-Union Communist Congress on Jandary He" so: ShQuting, was a method of de fence," says Tur. Byas; "By telling the world that Japanese militarists were making plans to seize the Maritime Province, the Russians were Jensuring that public opinion would find Japan guilty if war broke out'
Military Preparations Mr. Byas goes on to deal with Russian military preparations in ber connected by rail with the Manchurian system; the new railway that ig being built to Helho, opposite Blagovesichensk; 2,000 kilometres, of motor roads; and (the Russian al-Togo) 80° alr-tolds, yas)" that "apan a" respon ite Yor "it must not be forgotten (says Mr. the defence of hianchoui, and these ay "be" defensive meaturtn, Tt ma be' honesty atated that Japan has as uch reason to fear Russia fy Wussla {to fear Japan. That the Japanese: sry aal enure saar ategie advantages Manchouuo offers Is, in "the "opinion of most Japanese, mot a premonition of war, but a safeguard against it, But those reparations, the speed with. which they are being made, the strengthens ing of the army" and navy, andthe Dombastic talk which hae furnished on obligato to the deeper muse et ever_was any" danger of a Japanese Surprise attack it has been warded of, The. Russians. ha who thought the time opportune to secure Japan's safety by aking the Sea of Japan 'a Japanese Jake and thrusting Rusela's frontiers. back, but (eis 9 Jong step, from. such -strategical a pirations to a national war. The risk, {e'there was. any.. that some frontier Incident during Japan's banaltshunt= sug operations might "give the army fan excuse to act without waiting, for the government hax been dispelled the Mussan preparations, The oppeytunity has 0 clearly been Tost that One must doubt whether it war really sought"
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