CHINA'S YOUTH.

Otaki Mail, 10 September 1923, Page 4

CHINA'S YOUTH.

{ FOOTBALLERS VISIT SYDNEY. A STURDY TEAM. 1 SIDNEY, Am-itsi y. \ Lmhe a tun-; ,atc,i u, u,c im.-ng on me mum ueci, .... me steamei Vusj lima .itiiid wnet; sue up Sidney Harpuur lecemn was iineu c» n... a rnmon ui jjiuu iwj wime j»iazeis siirino tuned ny a row oi Cumese .aces with tlie eager expression oi uio s e I who drum in a woiiu oi new mums opening up beloro. liiem. btuien anu ! bright luuKing, i;. O young onmese Lniversny iouinaheis were anoat to ' set tool iur tiie lust time it, iliel j streets ol Syuney, ail in and remix I to meet the soccer teams winch have' : .mown down ilie .gage to tliein. Full I oi iife and animation, thev present j rather a striking contrast to th* immobile counlenauc-e and deliberate - motions tliat the occidental has. iiom ins association with the offer men oi the nation, come to regard as typically Australian. Some «ue stt* students at different universities, and others have completed their similes, which in several case,, include.! courses at Oxford and Cambridge, and are now in big w.a\'s ol business in the Chinese cities. Jim ail were I I young enoufii lo come it- near biu.shI mg as theii iltsh tali cheeks allowed I when they were beseiged on lie' occur ■ when the steamer reached llw wiiaiij j by a laughing band ol Chinese ii.ai.l-, ens, the datigutei's, oi merchants here, I who decorated them Willi ribbons, in ! j ilie colours ol the Chinese Republic ! j and pinned tiny kcwpie> in their nut I tonhules. L was a mei ry crowd tii :l i j ; soon afterwaids swarmed dtovii die gangways, witii- their chatter and 1 i wondering and intelligent eves in P.-. j j the mother city ol Australia.' Smart | j in their blazeis., dean, eager, and po- j hie, they are the cynosure 01. ail eyes i when they stroll irom their (placets tit the Hotel Sydney into the crow .led ! wa.s arranged by (he Australian Tours, j Ltd.. and the promoter, Mr 11. A. Mil- I lard, formerly of New Zealand, says ! I ilea he lias 'got a ma,ifitliconl learn j lake a leafing w ith a latigh and a I j victory with modesty. Thai ihey will I i not prove unworthy of their oppon- I I ents citht'!' in (iiir-de or in strsitegy i and science in the Australian match-j cv has been conclusively demonstral- I ' ed in their games in Sydney. j igieagißgaajßMtggregirßKSßßa