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This is the story of a trip to the British Army's Chinatown. In motoring behind the lines the observe is struck by the stounding medley of races brought together in France to labour while white men åght; during one day I passed on the roads, at raillieads and in the town, groups of Chinese, Fijians, Egyptians, Aazataites and several kinds of Northern and Central Africane.
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«laves." · Let me tell the story how Chow trouble. He seems to stand the climate Mein, a Chinese coolic working in the well, and we shall take special care of rice folds, supporting a family on wages him during his first European winter. of five cents a day, finds himself in When China declared war the other France mending a road behind Bapaume.day, I had a proclamation prepared and Chow is satounded and incredulous to posted in all the camps. It told the be told one morning that sore foreign Chinese that now they um no longer devils are willing to pay him many, cents neutrals, but belligerents, that while we per working day of eight hours, for three will keep our contracts with them, and years, and at the same time pay his family not send them to übrk under fire, they while he is away, if he will sail off to the must remember that they are working other side of the world. He is distrust for the same cause the mtn up the Front ful, he hangs back at first, but a friend are fighting for. I am glad to say the who went to South Africa Sfteen years news has had a goodļeffect. The boards || ago tells him that the English will be were surrounded for days by buzzing as good as their word. Ea signs his con- groups, and the standard of work has tract, and after a long voyage, he finds increased since the coplies came to regard himself in France.
their labour as a contribution to a war which their own country is engaged.”
He je taken to Chinatown. There his fingertips are taken and compared with those obtained when he enlisted in Canton. A very necessary precaution; the finger. which an expert marks, after one glance, COSTLY WAR SATINGS MEETING. prints are indexed by mysterious numbers.
on the print of each anger.
I asked how these thousands of beings transplanted from other climes and con- tinents are fed, kept in order, identified, Chow is, therefore, identified beyond what provisions are made for their fami- the possibility of a mistake even if he lies, and how their work compares with losses his papers. He then receives a work card. His boss marks on this card white labour. For answer I was taken to when he has done a day's work; if, how." the headquarters of Chinese labour in ever, he shirts, he is docked or gets Northern France, and told look about nothing. At the end of each month he and nak questions and see for myself. is paid; at the end of his contract he will Similar organisations, I was informed, be "transported at the Government's exist for the other foreigners, but the largest of all is Chinatown, which takes care of thousands of Oriental labourers now and is prepared to handle five times as many if the war continues another two
years.
A CITY OF TENTS,
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It came out in the House of Commons recently, amid ironial cheers, that 200 honorary officers of was savings local committees," who tended the Albert Hall meeting on October 22nd, and meetings and conferences held before and atter, had claimed $500 as expenses. THE **0.0.**
Mr. B. Lambert, the anked a question, The Chinese get the same ration as on the subject, wield to know the total British troops, with the exception that cost of the Albert Hall meeting, spert rice is substituted for meat to an extent from the £220 expentad on the meeting pleasing to the Chinese palate. I visited itself, also how any persons had | Chinese hospital in Chinatown in charge received, or claimed out of pocket. ar "Chinatown," is" near a sleepy French of army doctors who know the language other expenses, and what was the amount village, in whose streets not a Chinaman and have worked in China. It was the paid or claimed.
same in every essential respect na the M2 Baldwin, Betsitry to the Tres in sen; but once inside the open regular army hospites. In charge of one sury, gave the sose above, and added the visitor and himself transported to the seg In from that the cisims wernus for examination the Orient." A great city of tents stretches Seattle who left an important post in the for acres, few white men are about, but Manila army hospital to see active service, joined the British Medical. Corps, exme ronny Chinese guards and policeman from China with a shipload of coolles. notices in Chinese are placarded every The officer in charge of all Chinese where, and coolies in clothes brought labour in the British Army, zone-the from China
pass to and fro, two by two, Army calls him: 0.C., Chinke
an who has handled Orientals in South each pair carrying on their shoulders Africs, and talks Chinese. He chatted with bamboo pole brought from Chlas, from me for an hour about his charges. The which is suspended a wicker basket experiment, he believes, Has proved itself brought from China...
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are brought to this сапр. They aro identified, card indexed, and sent out froni Chinstown to work, under overscors of their own race, in charge of British
Adiram 2 Aungsik Losowicers. The home camp may contain many thousands of meir, dr ba, simost but here all the recordsre kept
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