CHINA AND THE MONARCHY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2615, 10 November 1915, Page 5

CHINA AND THE MONARCHY

• NO OPPOSITION FROM THE PEOPLE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Brisbane, November 9. The steamer Empire has arrived from the East. Those on board say that the monarcliial movomont in China is meeting witli no opposition from the people. •

It is also reported that there was a severe revolver affray at Pokin, in October, between Italians and Anstrians. Many were injured.

The organisation of Teutonic hate has actualy spread through to. the live stock industry, and, according 'to a London newspaper/ this movement has become so continued as to have resulted in the Gorman Agricultural Council revising a long list of names of British breeds of live stock. There are : two proposals put forward, one vf them being to accept tho English nomenclature as it stands, but to abandon' the English spelling for the German phonetio systom of orthography. . For example. Shorthorns, Shire horses, Clydesdala horses, Berkshire pigs, and Shropshire and Cotswold sheep would be spelt respectively Schorthariij Scheier, Klaidsel, Berkschir, Scliropsc'hir, Kotsuold. Whether or not tho absurdity of this procedure has penetrated the thick skulls of the "kultured" pastoralists, the proposition (remarks the, "Pastoral Roview") seems to find less favour than that which lias already been adopted in part, viz., to describe the particular breed with a German nahie. For ox-.\ amplo, Shorthorns aro to bo called \ '.'Germali beef-horned cattle," Clydo' dales are to he known as "Scottish \ Cold-bloods," Shire horses as "English Cold-bloods." English breeds nl swino are to be divided into "noble" pigs and "not-noblo." The problem of sheep has been solved with reference to the quality of their wool, and British territorial names aro to be entirely dropped, and tftioy. will be known as "long-woolled," "short-woolled*" "shiny ' -wmllad," eta.