ITION: Les 6 jours de la semaine sont donnes: Le
lundi--1er bat. du 164 et C.H.R. Le mardi--1er bat. du 169 et
C.H.R. Le mercredi--2e bat. du 164 et C.H.R. Le jeudi--2e bat. du
169 et C.H.R. Le vendredi--3e bat. du 164. Le samedi--3e bat. du
169.

(4.) Dans chaque bataillon il sera etabli le jour qui leur est
fixe, 20 tickets deposes aux bureaux des sergents-majeur a raison
de 5 par compagnie. Les hommes desireux de rendre visite a
l'etablissement reclamerout au bureau de leur sergent-majeur, 1
ticket qui leur donnera driot de priorite.

The value of that document derives from its having been issued as an
ordinary regulation, from its having been reproduced in a widely
circulated journal of the capital without evolving comment, and from the
strong light which it projects upon one of the darkest corners of the
civilization which has been so often and so eloquently eulogized.

Manifestly the currents of the new moral life which the Conference was
to have set flowing are as yet somewhat weak, the new ideals are still
remote and the foreshadowings of a nobler future are faint. Another
token of the change which is going forward in the world was reported
from the Far East, but passed almost unnoticed in Europe. The Chinese
Ministry of Public Instruction, by an edict of November 3, 1919,
officially introduced in all secondary schools a phonetic system of
writing in place of the ideograms theretofore employed. This is
undoubtedly an event of the highest importance in the history of
culture, little though it may interest the Western world to-day. At the
same time, as a philologist by profession, I agree with a continental
authority[42] who holds that, owing to the monosyllabic character of the
Chinese language and to the further disadvantage that it lacks wholly or
partly several consonants,[43] it will be practically impossible, as the
Japanese have already found, to apply the new alphabet to the
traditional literary idiom. Neither can it be employed for the needs of
education, journalism, of the administration, or for telegraphing. It
will, however, be of great value for elementary instruction and for
postal correspondence. It is also certain to develop and extend. But its
main significance is twofold: as a sign of China's awakening and as an
innovation, the certain effect of which will be to weaken national unity
and extend regionalism at its expense. From this point of view th