Word: fors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"Last August", he said, "just before I sailed from Hankow for America, I received an invitation to tea from a group of prominent Chinese merchants of Hankow. The opinion they presented to me on the Shantung difficulty represents the sentiment of the more modern Chinese business men, for my friends...
"'It is very commonly stated,' they said, that the Chinese have no patriotism and are quite indifferent as to the fate of one of their own provinces, even the sacred province of Shantung. For in Shantung, the Holy Land of China, are the birthplaces of Confucius and Menshious, the two...
"'But we recognize the fact that the myriad troubles which beset China are not all due to foreign aggression; that which is probably the most serious is accounted for by the corruption of the Chinese officials themselves. Embezzlement and the misuse of public funds to the advantage of private affairs...
As a result of a five weeks' competition, Albert George Townsend Unc. of Flushing, L. I., has been chosen business manager of the Cercle Francais play for next year. It is not expected that there will be a spring production by the society.
The business management announces that the two performances of "Primerose" which was presented a few weeks ago by the Cercle cleared $550, which is to be donated to the American Committee for Devastated France.