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HEAVY SOTRM. (Pruin Our Own Correspondent)
[To the Editor of the China Mail,j Between 4 and 5 p.m. on Sunday Bir saw with interest that a very heavy storm of wind and h. Copley Movie had preached rain broke over Wuchow. Several on this subject, and subsequently sampans were overturned and a number of letters appeared in some lives were lost. the Press more or less con-1ou demnatory of the Almighty.
It seemed to me that one aspect of the case was completely ignored in all the letters I read and if you will grant me the space in your valuable columas, (never more valued than when read in the home land!) I will deal with the matter as briefly as may be.
At 3 am
the 19th the river Fu, a tributary of the West River, came out in spite and for three or four hours the port of Wuchow was demoralised, River steamers having to leave their Pals and go over to the south bank and anchor The steamer "Lee Lung" with 2 number of rafts alongside was dragging to such an extent as to endanger-the Gunboat Moth." Few are so grossly ignorant as. She had to let go her rafts and to deny that Jesus Christ lived on drifted gaily down the river to carth. Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny another anchorage. The river rose and Lucian, all refer to Him, while from twelve feet to twenty-one the date at the head of nur note-feet in three hours. On Tuesday paper A.D. 1924 is a silent witnessPorning the river" had reached to His existence. In Matt xxiv..wenty-eight feet and then stopped rising. The river at Samshui was is recorded a conversation between Christ and His disciples; they ask ten feet three laches at midnight
on Wednesday. Him "What shall be the sign of thy coming." He gives them eight signs, i.c.,
(1) A World wide wur. (2) Great earthquakes in divers
OPIUM SMUGGLES.
REPORT BY IMPORTS SUPERINTENDENT,
THE CHINA MAIL-
SYNDICATES DISPERSED.
FINES INFOSED "NON-DETERRENTĄ“
in time and steps were taken to pro- rent the formation of the society. According to information received. the objects of the proposed society were to pay watchers and engage solicitors whenever a member was arrested, and to pay compensation ic any member who was sent to prison and to Het hun in business again as That 284 persons were banished soon as he was rulpuses by providing during the year for opium offences him with a new divan" quifit. A ixed subscription was to be paid that large quantities of Chinese do every month, and from the cumulatou ouments relating to opium had bee funds it was proposed to pay the seized making it possible for power
new indicted on any member. The fut syndicates of smugglers to be originators of the schemo were Hak dispersed bus that the fines imposed to and it was reported that mom for anuggling bad most cases bership was intended to be restricted proved non deterrent, was reported Hakkas, who conduet most of the at the Legislative Council yesterday opium divans patronised by the in the yearly report of the Superm working classes in the Eastern dis randant of Importą.
Tho report also stated that the gross revenue under the Opiu Monopoly was $5,750,443.68 compared with $6.661,305.95 in 1929. The price of prepared opium remained unchanged during the year, Sales maintained steady" "love" throughout the year notwithstanding the large amounts of Chinese rau opium which reached the Colony This was due largely to the enter prise of Sonior Revenue Officer Wa in conducting raids all over th Calory on Illicit opium divans at al hours of the day and night. Th record of his work for the year is a follows: Number of koopcie e opium divans convicted 716, numbe of smokers of illicit opium convicte 3,359, number of dealers in illici opium convicted 286, number o boilers of illicit opfiam convicted 60 Had smother Officer beer available for this work, a for larger numbe of convictions could have been pb rained in the Kowloon Peninsula."
AMOUNT SMUGGLED. The amount of Chinese rew.opiur nontioned in the documenta examin ad amounted to over 500,000 tsel: smuggled into the Colony ir a perio
trict.
REWARDS.
Deniled figures are as followe:
: 1922, European Liquors... $458,874.00 Chinese Liquors ....... $780.868.15
1923. Europban Liquors. $158,256,77 Chinese Liquors.... $810,326.10
The 'no revenue collected under the Tobacco Ordinance was' $1,881,- 979 as compared with $1.474,677 "The smuggling of for 1922.
igarettes was 'chlofly confined to tigh de cigarettes of foreign manufacture, of which some k
large eizures were made.
The amount of Tobacco seized was As follows: ·
Cry Cigarettes Foreign Tobacco Chinesa Tobacco.
#
pounds
10,200
516,230
165
1,2241
Under the heading of "Rewards" it is stated that the amount paid For anchoring on the central aut as rewards in connection with fairway the master of a junk was copiam and druge including sundry fined $3 at the Marine Court this sxpenses in connection with seizurestorning, his excuse being that the was $88,882. The largenges of thi: junk spranga leak and he dropped sum is due to the heavy seizures and anchor in order to get the water out. to the intensified campaign agains opitim divarts, as all, information bas to be paid for at a fairly high rate to encourage informera coming for ward.
DRUGS.
YEAR'S BEIZURES IN COLONY. According to the annual report of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports for last year, the seizures turing the year wore as under:
Morphine
5,2631 Heroin pagar un dienas apa seg 23,400 Jocnine.
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12 seizures were made and 3 per sons wore convicted, 2 being Japan Use and 1 Chinese..
Heroin made its appearance for
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James, Germany bas rapidly re- gained her aupremacy in the manu- facture of Optum derivatives, the ctual distribution of which appears u be still largely in the hands of Fapanese or Formosan Japanese sub. TO LET-Two large cemi detach- ed five-roomed houses with all the drugs seized were intend-extensive grounds and tennis court for use outside the Colony. In at Pokfulam. Beautifully "situated the Colony there would appear to be with splendid view of harbour and
of 12 months. To doable this figurapidly become popular amongs to account for those smugglers no discovered would givere fairly con servative estimate of the amonni ó opium mostly of Chinese origin whic COMMERCE AND FINANCE is successfully introduced into
Colony during 12 months. The do cuments examined go to show thejects. So far as could be ascertain- not much more than a quarter i this contraband was retained in th Colony for local use. The amount of raw opium seized during the yea was 284.821.17 mels in 200 seizures The amount of prepared opium' seiz ed, was 15.059,65 tuels in 100 seizures, most of the seizures bein. of small amounts under one tal.
places. (3) Famines. (4) Pestil-NAM PAK HONG MARKETS encer. (5) Fearful sights and
great signs-signs in the sun and. This morning's Nam Pak Hong the moon and the stars. (6) quotations, basis usual guild terms, Jerusalem shall be trodden down were as follows: of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (7) Upon the carth distress of nations with perplexity. (8) The return of the Jews to Palestine as a nation, under the symbol of the "fig-tree budding."
Java sugar, average quality. per picul net:-"Futures: No. 24 rough white-July delivery $10 73. August delivery 10.63. September delivery 10.53. "Spot No. 23 rough white 12.00, No. 24 fine white 15.10, No. 18 rough brown 12.85, Java brown 11.80.
ance of this observance and respect but the patriots of the nation are not found in this for distant outpost of the Motherland. During her late Majesty's long and glorious reign, the supremacy of England has been made and powerful as she is to-day, the people of the British nation should
OPİLM-DIVANS"—
1 present little misuse of such drugs easily accessible by motor car. Canton has been taking drugs in For further particulars apply to Box
all gamities and there is some No. 1491 c/o China Mail." drugs ia reviving notwithstanding
ndication that the trade there in
he Theilities for the purchase of opium. Most of the morphin seized was intended for Amoy, most of the nerout for Japan. It is reported that the demand for Heroin in Can- on came from one source chielly medicine. he manufacture of a popular putent
Revenue Oficer Ward did very food work in connection with drags during the year.
Most of the seizures of prepary," opium, continued the report, wert made in opinn divans, where a large Colony is consumed., part of the illicit építim us in the This wa mostly composed of Chinese opium boiled in the Colony, in many keeper. Divan keepers are supplied daily with small quantities of illicit
A new "Ordinance No, 22 of 1923 prepared or raw opium, generally no more than half a mel of repared was passed based on the Home and up to six tatis of raw optum at legislation. The penaltios are great are time.. Regular dealer's sendly increased and the import sale and Women and children to deliver these strictly regulated in accordance daily supply to the various divans, with the system in force in England. Many of the divans are mangized by
LIQUOR CONSUMPTION. paid keepers, one man owning sev-
The consumption of European eral places while the real owner Liquors shows a very slight increase keep in the background and is rare-on the whole compared with 1914.
y caught. After a certain time a valuable goodwill attaches to a floor
Never before in the World's history have these eight signs gross for net: No. 1 Siam pag Rice, average quality, per picul All are "now white $9.20, No. 1 Saigon long occurred together. coming to pass before our eyes.
white 7.40. The Tokyo earthquake is a ful- Flour, per sack of 50 lbs-eases on the premises of the divai filment of prophecy, but Sperry' XXX $340, White Greens it is only one of many. A few 2.52, Nutmeg Orange 2.48, King days ago the "Times" und "Morn-fisher 2.82, Maize 2.42, Tiger Shield ing Post reported a larger earth-2.90, Globe, 2.42, Old Mill 2.42, quake than the Tokyo one, but Reindeer 2.50, Melon 2.46, White stated the position was yet un- Rose 2.42, C. & C. 2.56, Dayton 2.50. known, it was believed to be in the Banana 2.42, Kwan Tao 2.42, Blue Pacific Ocean. Off the coast of Ribbon 2.40 Africa some months ago it was found that the sea bed had risen
Such reverence has not been some three miles by a convulsion observed for very many years and of nature, being only one mile during the last couple of years deep instead of four. We have I have reminded the British people had no less than haif a dozen in this Crown Colony the import- or cubicle which has become a po earthquakes in Englund in the
polar divan, and though the divan last few weeks; who is man that
has been raided and the keeper con-- he should question his Maker
victed and his oplom smoking gear The Tokyo carthquake happened
confiscated, it is not very long before to be the most destructive of life
the same place is in full operation therefore it caused comment, the
again under a new keeper. In some others were many of them just as
instances. the tenant of the door great convulsions of nature.
charges a regular fee each night for (4) Pestilences: is it realised
allowing one of the cubicles to be That while some 15,000,000 perish for ever have the thought of the run it for a few days and then some- used as a divan, so that one man may eil in the Great War, in four years, good work done by the beloved one else. In one case the same floor some 12,000,000 perished in four ruler and memory of lier must not was found to be used as a divan ne months in the great influenza be forgotten.
fewer than five times the keeper epidemic of 1918? »
I am certain that in London was convicted each time and in some The subject is an interesting to-morrow keen observance will cases wont to prison, but the only one, but I must not trespass on be taken and a wealth of floral thing which finally put an end to your space. May I add however tributes will be laid at the Victoria, the use of this place as a divan was that the year 1934 measures to memorial, not only from the the demolition of the house. The completion the mysterious period people of the Nation, alone, but use of children to not as menagers of of""Seven Times" or 2520 years her admirers of foreign nations divans is increasing, it being impos from the destruction of Jerusalem will also deposit wreaths.
sible te imprison children og punish in B.C. 587 before which Christ is
I shall pay my respectful them for doing what their parents expected to return to earth to homage to-morrow at the Square, or employers would punish them for usher in the long wished. for and I am hoping to see other refusing to do. millenium which our Bolshevist wreaths laid. friends tried somewhat vainly I fear to anticipate in their own way.
The whole subject is fascinat- ing, but far too long to deal with satisfactorily in a rewspaper article. I hope however I have offered one explanation of the Tokyo earthquake
Yours faithfully,
C. G. S. BAKONSFEATHER,
M.A., LL.B., M.D.
Yours etc.,
Hongkong, May 23.
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Local and General An attempt was made by divan Social and Personal keepers in the Western dierict of the Dashing Aviator.... City to ferm a mural protection "For Valour .... ciety, but the project was discovered Some Excuse."
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