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BIRTHS.
BRAINE-On June 3. at the European Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, to Mr. and Mrs. C. D. C. Brine, a son. COLEMAN.-On May 26, 1926, as
Malacca, to Mr. and Mrs. C. Gj "Coleman, High School,
Malacca, a daughter. FOZARD.At Maryhill, Nuwara Eliya (Ceylon), to the wife of E. Fozard, a sen.
MARRIAGES.
FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1926.
LEPER WORK.
VISIT.
DUE ON SATURDAY.
China Committes has been in- augurated in London with the specific object of advising the CHINESE MISSION OFFICIAL'S British Government on matters relating to China, and on that body are two representatives Di the China AssociationAs the Hon. Mr. Bernard stated yester- day, this Committee is very re- presentative of British Interests in China, and we can be sure that it will do everything possible to protect and further them. And this in itself constitutes another strony argumont for every British resident here joining forthwith the Hongkong Branch of the China" Association.
EAST OF SUEZ?
INTERESTING DEBATE AT ·
Y.M.C.A.
HOME LIFE WINS..
fair for an individual British re- sident to be content with the role of a mere spectator and permit others to shoulder all the re- sponsibility and all the expense, A membership of only 83 and an absentee list of 70 at the annual meeting combine to make an in" glorious record of which everyferable to that at Home, Briton outside the Branch mem-
bership ought to be heartily ashamed.
As the Hon. Mr. D. G. M Bernard recalled at yesterday's meeting, when the Branch was revived about twelve months
night.
What was generally recognised as the most succadaful debate heid under the auspices of the European V.M.C.A.. Kowloor, took place last was the very
The topic of discusalon live one, Es to whether life East of Suez is pre
There have been debates held at Y.M.C.A. In which experienced debaters have taken the principal parts and have held the audience by their oratory,
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members of the Society, having had Last night, however, the younger little or no experience of public speaking, held the floor, and the
ESSAY CONTEST.
ON COMMUNISM IN CHINA
OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS.
The "China" Mail" was able to
The Franco-Chinese Educu- throw considerable light on the tional Society, 17, Ngol Tang, good work that is going on in leper) Shanghai, (c.p.o. box 1108), aro an settlements in South China when, nouncing an essay contest on "Com- abrile months ago we published an munism in China." The competi- interview with Mr. Danner, ation is open to all students, boys leper worker who had concluded a and glaik, in all schools and univer- tour in South China, and a report sities, throughout China. Sixty- of the year's happenings at the C.M.S. leper and settlement hos pital at Fakhoi..
four prizes totalling $1,700.00 are offered, viz:-2 of $200 oach, 2 of #100, 8 of $30, 12, of $25, and 40 of $10.
The contest will close on Decem. ber 31, 1926, and the list of prize winners will be published on Feb.
Mr. Danner then foreshadowed "the, visit to Hongkong of officials; of the newly formed Chinese Mig- sion to Lepers in which Chinese medical men are taking a keen in- 2, 1927.
terest."
Full particulars can be obtain-: News has been received ined from the Society, who have a Hongkong of the coming visit of large collection of books and the Rev. T. C. Wu, General Secre- pamphlets on the subject, which tary of the Chinese Mission to will be sent out on loan to compati- Lepers, Shanghai. Mr. Wa is at tora. present in Canton having tra- velled there overland by way of the interests of his Mission. Foochow, Amoy and Swatow in
The
LAUNCH INQUIRY.
Through the courtesy of Gen- eral Chang Kai-shek at Canton,
GROUNDING OF "POLICE,'
NO. 4" Wu was enabled to visit Tai Kam, an island leper colony in a notori- PRIVATE PROCEEDINGS. ous pirate" infested region. trip was made by a Chinese gun- An inquiry is being held into tha boat in company with the Rev. 1 circumstances attending, John Lake of Tungshan and the grounding of Police launch "No.. the Rev. Shu Ding-chong, the Super 4" on June 2, off the north point intendent of the Tai Kam Leper of Port Shelter Island, in the Sai Colony,
kung district (New Territories),' about 25 miles from Hongkong.
Details were published at the time.
Although the party met with many armed pirates on the trip settlement, Mr. Wu preached to a unmolested. At the they were gathering of over one hundred Government departmental pro- The inquiry is in the nature of
ago it was pointed out that one Johnson, voleed the feeling of AllPeople, mostly labourers who ceedings, and not in the open.
combined piracy with their pro- Marine Court..
Chairman. the Rev. .. Horace
present when he said they had come.
-Witnesses appeared before the Harbour Master this morning, at the Harbour Office.
NETHERLANDS TRADING
SOCIETY.
of its principal functions would be to keep in touch with the China out of the ordeal with dying fession.
Mr. Wu is expected to arrive Association in London by means colours. The object of the society in Hongkong on Saturday and of frequent letters. It was sug discussion by those experienced in him to address some local meet- was not to limit the subjects to arrangements are being made for gested that as the Hongkong public speaking but to give the branch had been dead practically members the opportunity for selfing in regard to his humane work of helping and caring for the most throughout the revolutionary expression. The speeches, from movement in China, and there had the uphelders of the affirmative afflicted class of sufferers, the
jepere. and negative, and from the general' never been a Canton, Foochow or body of the audience that night had. Amoy branch, any wait of know-roved that the society had made fever (Chinese) shown in the re-landsche Handel-Maatschappij has
There was one ense of enteric I was the ledge on the part of the China wonderful atrides.
nost aurressful evening from this turn of notifiable diseases during Association, in so far as South point of view find from the num-the 24 hours ending noon yester China questions were concerned, bera attending that had yet been was due to the absence of a branch held. in Hongkong.
During the height of the trou- bles last year' one of the prin cipal grievances here was that our position was not thoroughly un- derstood or appreciated at Home. Many may not have exactly ex- 1926, at St. John's Cathe-pected the Home Government to dral, Hongkong, William Arthur, son of the late Mr. give effect to all our demands
NOWERS-KING-On June 9,
made at the
Mr. W. L. Walker, in proposing the motion "that life East of Suez is preferable to life at Home," rave a forceful speech in which he dealt largely with the monetary advan- lages which life in the East affords to many; also the conditions of ease with greater opportunity for leisure afforded by working conditions and shorter hours. The greater education afforded by experience
in travelling and in an atmosphere. of freedom for broadening one's. mind was also the subject of re ference.
EH. T. Nowers and Mrs.
public mass Nowers, to Dorothy Alice, meetings, but nevertheless daughter of Mr. and Mrs. the resolutions then adopt "L. H. King.
ed were widely. circulated in
Mr. E. R. Price, in opening for BATTISHILL - LONSDALE, Great Britain and, incidentally, consider whether conditions of the negative, asked the audience to proved to be excellent propaganda ense
- were better in the
On June 2, 1926, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singa- pore, by Special Licence by of Hongkong's point of view. The long run than conditions of The Right Rev. Ferguson public, by its unanimity at these keener competition such as one Davie, Bishop of 'Singapore, mass meetings, demonstrated that one mentally alert and to Increase had at Home which tended to keep Phillip Henry, youngest son it appreciated the great and ur one's chances of rising to of the late William John
good Battishill, (Solicitor of gent need at that time of "educat-positions when the opportunity. Exeter, England), of Messrs, ing" both the Government and arose; positions which entailed Sisson and Delay: Singapore, the public at Home in regard to hanced chances of promotion to greater responsibilities and en to Ida Emilie Marquerite the developments here and in Can-higher positions of administration Lonsdale, widow of the late Granville Lonsdale (F.M.S.).
Had an appeal been made at than one could ever attain to in one of these same mass meetings the limited sphere of the East. He for members of a Hongkong dealt with the peculiar difficulties Branch of the China Association, regard to separation with children |
of married people in the East In the membership thus secured sent home to be educated and drew would have been a record one.
a comparison Between the limited. However, the local Branch was
opportunities afforded for relaxa- tion and amusement in auch places. not.resuscitated in the glare and as Hongkong and the unlimited op- splendour of a crowded masa portunities afforded at Home.
DEATHS.
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TRIANCE.On April 24, at Cape Town, George Howard, of Huttenbach, Lazarus and Sons, Ltd., Singapore. TOD. On May 21, at Madras, from pneumonia, after short illness, W. H. Tod, part. ner in Messrs. Huson, Tod & Co., Madras, aged 62.
Hongkong, Friday, June 11, 1928.
ton.
meeting, but in the cooler and less Mr. W. J. Keatea, and Mr. E. exciting atmosphere of the ordin-armative and negative respec- Buxton followed in seconding the ary board-room of one of our tively. Mr. Keates referred to the leading firms. Needless to say, it quick passage of time in the East has succeeded in doing valuable and the social atmosphere which work on behalf of British re- made, for a more detached viewpoint CHINA ASSOCIATION.
in one's mental outlook, also the sidents generally in spite of the greater bonds of friendship which fact that its membership is only were cemented in the East by ren- There seems no great reason 83-thanks, no doubt, to the takson of separation from the Home to enthuse over the Hongkong ing over the funds of the old handicap of health under which land. Mr. Buxton referred to the Eranch of the China Association, Branch amounting to the respect- many laboured in the East due to judging by the facts that after able sum of, $1,638. The Chair- tropical conditions, maintaining being twelve montha in existence man was able to report yesterday that conditions of bodily health it has only 88 members and that that since the revival of
were engential if we were to give out of these only 13 considered if Branch, communication with the Conditions of case were a necessity of oar, best....... in our occupations.
worth while to attend the annual China Association in London has in the East. They were not a mecting yesterday. This apathy been maintained from week to necessity at Home and once the is to be regretted. The Hongkong week by forwarding newspaper they ceased to be advantages.
nucessity, for them was removed Branch, after lying. dormant for reports and letters when the situa- eight years, was revived last tion appeared to call for special year solely as the outcome of the comment... troubles in Canton. It ought to newspapers and news agencies The London daily have been expected that
have been kept well informed by crisis
of this nature, their local correspondents of the affecting the prosperity of
developments in the situation
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the Colony, there would have from day to day, so that detailed rallied round the Hongkong "news letters have not been
Interesting contributions to the debats were made by Messrs. P. D.
H. G. Swinburne and others. wount Willes Petrie, H. J. Fountain, G. Harman, Ingram,
The voting resulted in the motion being lost by 20-22,
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Poets' Corner.
"PASSING THROUGH.”
Life is most unfeeling, it deals some nasty knocks It seems to take delight in serving hefty shocks. This wasn't my own seeking, I never had a say
I was young and she deceived me in a diabolic way.
The "she" of whom I'm writing is an Aunt both old and grey A maiden of uncertain years, the kind who watch and pray. She often sends me letters chock-full of good advice "Don't drink too much, mind the sun and don't eat Chinese rice."
She said she had a young girl friend a touring round out here- And when she gets to Hongkong will you, my boy, please see her. Too' right I will-you bet your boots a young girl friend.
What Ob!:
"Catch 'em young and' treat 'em rough" was always my motto.
· Ishroffed my clothes and fixed my tie and hied me to Kowloon And watched that stately ateamer a'swinging to the boon. I swung my stick and cocked my bat, let fancy have free play Had visions of a damsel fair, all charming, young and gay.
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The "flapper" came, my luck was in, thank G—I saw her first She wasn't any little peach to still a bachelor's thirst. She wasn't any "cutie" from off the Zeigneid stage. She was fat and plain and homely and of uncertain age.
I didn't stop to wonder, I had no time to think...
I was miles away from Kowloon before you'd rouse-a blink
I tore through Taipo Market and staggered through Sham Chun And when the "pickets" got maT was safe---the race was won.
So ones who write and beg me to show friends round out here. Must send along a snapshot to give me some idea Of what the goods consist of and if both young and gay" Tltrot them round and fête them in a most expensive way.
RAINBIRD.
TO "A" CHINESE "COOLIE.
Beneath a ruthless Eastern sun,
With feet on heated earth, Amid surroundings all so mean-
Himself a child of dearth- The Chinese coolie looks at you
With endless, puzzling mirth..
He earns his living day by day; No post that is his own.
He can but just keep up to-day,
Yet he has children grown. He reads the difficult book of life Without a sigh or moan.
His days brought him no joy as this-
A meal that pleases all; Yet with the plainest rations, but Hardworking as a Gaul, He makes himself a fine. physique,
A hardy lad, and tall.
A godless, wanton brother he,
His worries total none. Bo kind and tender can he bej
Yet he, as sure as one,
It roused, can give a savage anarl,
And act not like a jun
He knows the face of a mistake,
The troubles of his land;
He shouts about bad treaty rights-
An Instrument at hand."; When comes sage of this vast soll
Will make him understand?
ALEXANDER GLÄUDE. GREAVE