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ARMSTRONG-On May 28, at Matura, after two days" ill день, Agnes. Constance. Maud, wife of Wilfred Speldewinde Armstrong. PHILIPS-On or about May 27. travelling from Lungchow to
Shanghai-that it was hoped eventually to form branches in
Hongkong and elsewhere, but on
NORTHERN TERRITORY.
CHINESE MAKING GREAT PROGRESS.
FUTURE OUTLOOK.
A very pessimistic view of the future of the Northern Territory was taken in the course of an in- terview with the "West Australian (Parth) by Mr. H.. S., Bickford, of Geo. Wills and Co., who had just returned from a voyage to Darwin, Prefucing his comments on the condition of the Northern Territory with an appreciation of the - cloney and discipline which charle. terised the running of the State steamship Bambra," by which he made the voyage, and by the com ment that the North-West ports nowadays appeared to be monų“. ments to past glory. Mr. Bickford said that his interest had cheaply centred in Darwin and its pro
blems.
"While at Darwin," he said. "I visited the State, convent and
-the-top-of-that-came an inspired
Chinese schools in the hope of statement that the Government. here would not sanction a local was being reared there,
ascertaining what type of citizen I found branch "owing to its political that the efficiency of the white nature." Is Communism ordinary childrer was only about 60 per cent. politics as the term is understood of that attained elsewhere in in most countries? Can Bolshe-Australia, an effect purely of the vism be classified under the head-elimate. Where, schools exist of ing of politics? Commmunism, or mixed nationalities and colours, the its localised form. Bolshevism, is white children are apt to absorb nothing more than an organised in the Northern Territory, Aua- the worst morals of the coloured system to root up organiaed gov-tralian-born Chinese are making ernment a ruthless scientific rapid progress in education, largely progress, a question of strategy and tactics. Communism has as mnch resemblance to politics as chalk has to cheese,
schools in the evening, and after as a result of attendance at Chinese
State school hours. In one, Chinese school I saw suspended from the celling a long streamer having large Chinese characters embroi Baffled and rebuffed the Com-dered upon i Asking for 2 munists turned from Europe and translation of the inscription, I concentrated on China which, in was told that it signified Advance Its disorganised state, presented the less many of these children are Australia-Your Country.' None" an admirable field for the ex-sent to China when 13 or 14 years
SO
the
their fathers.
TUESDAY
LEPER WORK.
ENLISTING". SYMPATHY.IN
CHINA
REV, T. C. WỰ'S MISSION.
General Secretary of the Chinese The Rev. T C. Wa, MA., B.D1 Mission to. Lopers. Shanghai, has had a busy time since his arrival in the Colony last Saturday:
On Sunday, as reported yester day, he addressed three large Chinese gatherings.
15, 1926
THE LOST WORLD."
GREAT EXAMPLE OF CINEMA: ART.
MARVELLOUS SCENES...,
art of representation can be dea
A thrilling picture in which the cribed as nothing short of marvel- lous In The Lost World," the First National Super-Production which is shown at the Queen's on, two more nights-to-night and to mor=" Frow night,
The Rev. T. C. Wu, yesterday Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's morning, addressed the boys of St. descriptive gifta were used to such Stephen's College and this morning effect in his novel that one lost at 8.50 o'clock, he will address the sense of the Improbable and girls of the St. Stephen's College shared with that little band of ax- at Lyttleton Road.. According to plovers the thrill of living amongst Mr. Wu, students in other parts of mighty animals who survive now China have taken an interest In the only in-name and in musuem plaster mission by giving frequent enter- tainments and engaging in activi But words are as nothing com- bios, through which money
is pured with the unfolding to the eye- raised towards this good work. of the actual events themselves and When in Swatow last month, the the presentation more realistically Rev. Mr. Wu succeeded in getting than they had lived in one's ima
gination, of the terrible monsters
the residents there to form a
"port-and-neighbourhood
canta, p
branch of the Mission, so as to do who survived, through millions of something for the lepere in that years he reason of the complete separation-with-even-the-wild lite of the unexplored tracks of Firgin forest ensured by their restriction to an almost inaccessible plateau.
A meeting of Hongkong Chinese interested in the support of the Chinese Mission to the Lepers will be held in the Chinese Y.W.C.A. at Caine Road on the 18th, at 8 o'clock In the evening and a general Invi- tation to the public to attend is being extended.
The Rev. Mr. Wu's programmie for the rest of the week is a follows:-
Wednesday, 16th, 8.50 a.m.-St. Paul's Girls' College. 8 a.m: General Meeting at Chinese Y.W.CA. Thursday, 17th, 9 a.m.-Ying Wah
Girls College. Friday, 18th, 11 a.m.-Wah Yan
School. Sunday, 20th, noon-Chinese Baptist Church, Caine Road,
RUBBER MARKET.
LATEST DIVIDENDS AND SALES.
year
Are
Shown in that native haunts,
following their native habits, these monsters are wonderfully real in their department and in the scenes of Aghting one has difficulty in persuading oneself that one is not Witnessing actual acones
which must have taken place before the evolution of man and on which ng man's eye has rested.
Combined with this, one has de picted the efuption of a volcano, the wild flight of the animals, the battle for life of those of the party who were away from the cuves at the time and a romance which develops in settings such as one. had imagined beyond full concep tion
The picture is all that has been claimed for it-and more;-it must be the most wonderful achievement in the art of efnema production which has yet been screened- Hongkong,,
in
CRUISER ARMS ECHO.
JUNK MASTER HELD FOR RANSOM
NO EVIDENCE. Three boatmen appeared before the Kowloch Magistrate yesterday on charges of holding the master of a junk for ransom.
FULLER. On June 5, 1926, atploitation of Industrial troubles.old, where they remain for a year Government Hospital, Singa- To quote the Constitutionalist's or two absorbing the culture of pore, to Mr. and Mrs. O report of a speech at the opening quently re-admitted to this country: They are subse." Fuller a son.
meeting, since 1917 the of course, being Australian born. NANCE. At the Fraser Nursing
At the annual meeting of the Home, Colombo, on May 31,
Communists have had
they cannot be refused admittance. Allenby Rubber Company, the to the wife of H. A. Nance cieties of Chinese for
Half the population of the Terri Chairman after announcing the tory is in Darwin-an ominous final dividend of 20% making a daughter.
conversion of China. In 1919, circumstance. I am prepared to 50% in all for the year, remark Stalin addressed the students of say quite definitely that led that the prospects for the the University for Oriental physically impossible for an Aus- current
reasonably Nationalities in Moscow and said, there in a similar standard of com- continue the policy of paying The case as cutlined by Det.- tralian to labour and rear a family bright and the Directors hope to you must create in China afort to that existing elsewhere in regular quarterly dividends. The inspector Pincott was that the de- yearning for national inspirations, the Commonwealth. The develop crop is estimated at 426,615 befendants visited the complainant's ment and settlement of the North of this 138,880 lbs. have been junk in the Yatmat breakwater You must use this and every other ern Territory will not be possible sold forward at an average price and demanded the payment of 3250 power you can enlist to break the except by tropical agriculture under of 88.71 cents per lb. These sales the ground that he had been Nanning, John Maitland existing order of governments and tropical conditions.
will realise in all a sum of $116, implicatad in the Chinese cruiser: Philips of The Asiatic.Petro- | bring about a world' revolution,
256 and the total cost of revenue. "Kwong Ching" arms case. The leum Co. (S.C.), Ltd., aged 24 You must engender a spirit of
working for the year is expected man was then detained at a house. years, killed by "robbers."
to come to $90,000. national awakening and prostitute.
in Portland Street, but is niece gave information to the police and it to our uses." It was the old
the defendants were arrested... doctrine of “attain your end by any means
foul or fair". You can trace the paths of Cominunism through Mongoha down the Chin ese Eastern Railway to Japan and i
Shanghai, and to Canton where a has been established. You can revolutionary Soviet Government
see it to-day in the Dutch East Indies, and we have documents to
standards, Last year 50 bales prove that it is spreading to the
were exported. But the labpur rubber plantations in the Feder-problem makes the would-be cotton ated Malay States, and to India grower's position impossible. The and from South Russia to Turkes-aboriginal is quite unrealiable as tan, and following the old Im-senting himself when he is most a seasonal worker, frequently ab perialistic trail to the Indian wanted; and white labour is costly Ocean.
Hongkong. Tuesday, June 15, 1926.
SOVIET MACHINATIONS.
From the Constitutional league in Shanghai we have received a copy of the initial issue of a public cation called the Constitutional ist. If expressing the hope for a much wider sphere of interest in its work the Constitutionalist
observes
This support is all the more Leeded when the real nature of the force behind the strikes, civil wars, and general unrest in-this- rountry is beginning to be better understood. With such better und derstanding the battle-front widens and what we were at first deceived]
in treating as the struggle of the
oppressed nerfs of Russia for re ligious and political freedom is suen to be an organized assault on the ancient civilisations with 1 view to their overthrow and the setting up of another world-power
"It was stated to me that white labour is one-third less efficient in the Territory then elsewhere, while wages there are one-third higher. If it is impossible to compete with conditions. how is it possible to Southern Australians under the
compete with races. lang inured to tropical labour, Buch AS the Javanese? Tropical agriculture ed immigrant labour under Aus- would be possible only with colour..
tralian supervision, and that the
it can be grown successfully in the White Australia policy doesn't per- mit. Take cotton as an example!
Northern Territory, and samples compare favourably with American
and difficult to secure. How is it hope for an increase in the area. possible, in these circumstances,
under cotton? Mining Bas utterly decayed. There was a time when gold valued at £100,000 was pro- the annual production of all metals duced there in a single year. Now
in the Northern Territory amounts.
And yet, in spite of the menace to British interests all over the world, the Government here is credited with the ruling that Com munism is politics and, therefore, politics are tabooed here. That is to say, we maywrite, we may to lees the one-tenth of that amount, The mining industry la publish cables, we may talk in
practically non-existent. Else- denunciation and exposure of where, mining has usually led to Communist machinations but we settlement, but no successful miners have atttled in the Northern cattle-raising which cannot, az ita best, do much to pepulate the Ter- ritory. Exclusive of aboriginal half-castes, a territory, measuring 1,000 miles by 600 is carrying a total population of 2,440, and of combed throughout the British that number 2.300 are Europeans. Isles and there is even a Comlation than Hved in the Territory
This la a smaller European popu munist Member of the House of 50 years ago Commons Truly the ways of the Questioned to the attitude, of
on their ruins. Such and no less cannot. aid or abet or actually Territory, The only industry fe is the fight in which the Constitu- form a local branch of the Con- itionalist in asking its readers to
bear their part. But without In:
telligence and information of the enemy's movements and methods of operation, no defence can be effec- Such defence is the main
tive.
object of our newly-formed League,
so ably set forth in the address on Communism given at our first public meeting on March 12, but our ability to supply what is need. ed is dependent on the measure of support given to the Constitutional Defence League.
stitutions! Defence League in Hongkong! And yet, to look at the other aide of the picture, Communist Leagues are honey:
British authorities in matters of the residents towards the North grave moments the menace of Australia Bill, Mr Bickford said it was generally favourable to the Communiam undoubtedly are appointment of a commission. The past understanding!
reverse gear,
öne ray of light in the whole gloomy prospect was the projected extension of the railway from the Catherine River to Daly Waters. If that line should be further ex- Into," "a mator car tended to Newcastle Watari it Rumjahn would tap the excellent sheep' coun- antry of the Barely Tableland. Even the resultant products would Atend, naturally to go into Queens and rather than to Darwin,
Running on It may be recalled that we com-
police, van mented at some length on the formation of the Constitutiovul
which had come Defence Longue in the iddle of incline on Queen's ROL March Then it was stated-in. are to the mudgua
Caused
Dividends declared :---
Tapah Rubber Estates Ltd.: 10% Interim for the year 31st December, 1926,
Mr. A. J. O'Donoghue. defending, submitted that there was no evi dence of the man being held under Mentakab Rubber Co., Ltd.: restraint, In cross-examination, 10% Interim, making 20% to complainant said he was threaten date for the year ending 81sted that if he did not pay the money. December, 1926.
Mayfield Rubber. Plantations
31st December, 1926.
Ltd: 25% Interim making 50% to date for account of the year
made:-
The following sales have been
Allenbys Ayer Panaa Changkat Serdangs Glenealies Jimahs Pajama
$3.65 14.10
9.15 2.95
he would be given in charge, and the men also mentioned that a re- ward had been offered by the cufser "Kwong Ching" for his arrest
Inspector Pincott stated that no police reward was offered, but he could not say whether the cruiser had offered any or not. The boat was at present at sea.
At the close of counsel's crose- examination, His · Worship' held 2.65/70 there was no case and the defan- 14.20 x.d.dants were discharged. »
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The milk of kindness shows in thee, Though rock and nothing else thou be, A humble refuge for a king, A LAR When Fortune pressed him take to wing Thou almost vanquisher of wrong, But featured ne'er in any song Thou lasting mate of fallen might More loyal than the loyallest wight- Standeth alone in statelinesst A thing of weight and loveliness; Looketh so boldly 'pon the blue In morning glory or evening hue,
A history dating back from yore Knits on thy face and in thy core A history Man is marvelled at; Yet Man's own courage tells us that.
Thou covert cold, hospitable, Thou boulder strong, unchangeable, Thy waves of friendship sendeth to All hearts of people my heart too; Breathe forth thy essence to all man Maketh them see a bigger ken
O rock of ages, teacheth us Thy spirit of love as named thus f
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