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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1926.
FORTY YEARS AGO.
HONGKONG IN THE BIGHTBEN. EIGHTIES.
COLONY'S EARLIER DAYS.
Interesting Impressions of An
ex-Governor..
Some interesting comments on 'the housing problem in Hongkong forty years ago are given in Sir William Des Voeux's book, "My Colonial Service." from which wo have recently been giving extracts. Sir William writes:.
Housing Problem.
"No one who saw the Chinese quarters of the town of Victoria could fail to be struck with the insanitary condicions under which the houses had been permitted to be built many dwellings touch- ing each other; not, as in other towns, only at the sides, but at to back, so that the only opening for air was the narrow street in front; and this evil was rendered the greater by the internal ar rangements and great overcrowd. ing of these houses.
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"Each floor ordinarily consisted of a passage down the middle, on either side of which were several diminutive rooms, mos; of which were tenanted to their fullest capacity. Except the two rooma on each floor facing the street, none of these had any window, so that the door gave the only en- trance to light and fresh air. The passage itself being dark and stuffy, the condition of the rooms can be imagined; in fact, very' many of them were involved in patchy darkness even at mid-day.
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AT THE STAR.
DANGER SIGNAL"" FOR
TO-MORROW,
At the Star Theatre to-morrow and the two following days will Le screened a thrilling Alm. having as its background the rather novel scenery of great American railway, and is appropriately named "The Danger Signal."
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PROBLEMS FOR FASCISM
THE CHINA MAIL
FTALY'S LACK OF OIL AND
*COAL
As is well-known, the principal problems of modern Italy are due (1) to an absence of raw materials, such as coal and all, and (2) to a rapidly Increasing population. deprived of any satisfactory outlet: It is clearly impossible to do juss tice to these in the space of a single article, but some account of how they are being faced may be of interest.
The Danger Signal" deals with the men and women behind a great railway system. Jane
It is common property, of course, Novak has the part of a woman that overy endeavour is being made who is forced to decide between
to counter Italy's lack of coal and She has moncy and her baby.
oil by a development of hydro-elec married the son of a powerful rell-tric power. The main iden may be way president, who, after his summarised as being the son's death, refuses to recognise of the his daughter-in-law. He offers to adopt her child if she promises to give up all claim to it and move to another town.
What he does not know is that there are twins, boys. The boys grow to. manhood, ignorant of their relationship. Finally they meet under very tense circum stances. It is a case of loving the same girl and still not knowing they are brothers
on
use
water
the Apen- nines in the winter and of In the melting Alpine snow the summer. Further, the torren- tial apring rains in the South are Judged to be sufficient to supply the power needed there, and great re- servoirs and damms are in process of construction for that purpose. As a matter of fact remarkable progress has already been made all over the country.
On-the-coast-line one now.travals The events leading up to the electrically as far as Spezia, and discovery of this and the adopted it will not be long before power is son's finding of his mother are available as far as Grosseto, and, placed against a background of eventually, as far as Rome itself. thundering trains and a crashing Throughout the whole of the North wreek, said by pre-release re similar rapid developments are take views, to be one of the mosting place and Italian Water Power, thrilling ever captured by the
camera.
This feature stars Jane Novak with an unusual supporting cast including Robert Edeson, famous character, Gaston Glass,
the young
the
French favourite,
Dorothy Revier, who is called the most beautiful woman in Cali fornia, Robert Gordon and others. Brie C Kenton directed. The story is from the published one of the same title by Douglas Doty.
according to a statement issued the other day now amounts to seven milliard kilowatts, representing a saving to Italy in 1928 of ten to thirteen thousand million lire that would have been expended in other forma of energy. Incidentally the ultimate goal of Italian Water Power, is stated to be 25 million kilowatts, which shows that much still remains to be done,
Donlod snow trial, Charles Ponzi, the "financial wizard," was sentenced. to prison for a year for fraud 'in selling real estate.
all favourable to Fascism, though It has always been very Royalist, When, however, the Opposition committed political harikari on the Aventine, it developed also great devotion for the person of Musso lini. If not for the general prin- ciples of his party..
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"Baby Pavlova'
KORA (her Brother
An address on education in girls, clubs was given by Mrs. T D Barlow in the Mayor's Parlour Sulford, when the annual meeting was held of the Manshertors and Salford Institute. Mro Barlow alve. It is a long time since we sald that work was becoming high- had a good racing pleture, the last, ly specialised and organised, and we believe, being. The Hottan- Instead of starting a place of work and seeing it through from beyin tot." That was pure comedy, but ning to and a girl might nowadays the flm under review is some
pend her whole time In some de- thing more, for it combines a real" failed, monotonous occupation.
ly thrilling story with, excellent Though she might become highly skilled and technically efficient, the acting and a pulsating series of repetitive nature of the work mado race track scenes. her Incapable of occupying all her,
In the story, Johnny Sheridan! thoughts and interests. The only is a care-free, fun-loving horse solution seemed to be the shorton-race devotes. An old Southern ing of the hours of work, as had juage barriends nim and Johnny been done in ap many cases, in or
I waken into the family. There' der that the workers might have he promptly fails in love with the more leisure to seek their interests Juage's daughter, a beautifui, cul- outside. But leisure was of no use tured girl, Johnny makes remark- without the power to use it pre-anie progress with everything but perly, Here, then, was the oppor- his love affair, and finally he saves will be in attendancs. unity of such a movement as the the family from run. Through Girls' Institutes, and they might be is all he has an inferiority com- sure that if girls were not provid-| ad with good interests, they would plex as far as the girl is concern- And for themselves some that were He feels that he never
ot so desirable.
Lo
edi
"could scale the barrier of her aristocra tic social position, That's why the authors let the lady in the
caso do the proposing,
Besides the realistic scenes ahot at
NOW," READY
A Potential Danger.
"am. aure," Mrs. Barlow said, The problem of superfluous popu "that the chief cause of gambling lation and emigration is perhaps among working women at present the most serious of all, and certain is not so much the wish to get the something, for nothing as the ly the one fraught with greatest potential dangers. Italy's dulness of life, and the need of at the International race population inaresses by nearly some thrill that will break the Latonia in which Epinard, the French champion, ran and lost, half a million a year, and even in monotony of days that seem 1920 there were 126 persons to pass in dull, and endless susces: racing sequences were taken at the the square kilometre in Italy, a son," A ours for this, she sug-Culver City and Riverside county The Culver City. against 71 in France. At the pre gested, was provided by the classes d'air tracks. sent moment emigration to the at these institutes, where there track passed into history direct United States being negligible was comradeship and friendly in-ly after the Barker company owing to the quota, most of the tercourse, and the training of the finished work, the dirt track giv
mind to now activities gave a ing "way to a new automobile emigrants go to France, where "Only people of a race such as
number of them have settled on novelty and interest which alone speedway. the Chinese, inured by long ages
the land. There are whole In Ear could suffice to satisfy the natural There are three different races: Sicily's Awakening. of natural selection to similar con--
certain districts of Closely allied with the problems villages in
gravings of the adolescent mind in the Gerald Beaumont story. ditions, would maintain health and
of vial and all as representing an France, and so seriously is the These natural cravings had a right Dixie, the horse, has a part near- strength in such places; and that'
to be satisfied, and by scatteringly as important as that of Claire Important factor in Italy's adverse matter considered by the Italian the death-rate of Hongkong. in-.
trade balance, is the problem of the Government that at Toulouse for the seeds of knowledge those who Windsor, Frank Keenan, Lloyd stead of being much higher,
cultivation of corn in sufficient instance, there is, now a Consular aught in these institutes were Hughes, and John Sainpolis. THE SEXES IN RUSSIA. should have, in fact, been lower
quantity of supply the needs of the Ceneral, with an agricultural ex doing their part in furthering the Waldemar Young made the adapt- than in any of the great towns of
cause for which civilisation exlatation from the story by Gerald Moscow.--Alimony works both
country. Some time ago Mussoliniert attached, to give advice to the the East of which statisties had
launched a campaign to increase, settlers,
ed. The voluntary basis of these Beaumont I have rend somewhere that, ac
ulusses. was of the greatest import been published, is striking evid-ways in the Soviet Union, as ence of their wonderful vitality, may be seen from a recent court reduction, and the personal devo-
decision ordering Mrs. Mary Lion with which he is regarded can curding to French statisties, therence, Girls attended because they wanted to, and not because they But, apart from the question Guster to pay a quarter of her to some extent be measured by the were altogether nearly two million of mortality, such a condition of
salary to her former husband response to his appeal. Hia motto Italians now in France, which, ever had to, and in that fact lay the things, with the misery and other,
ecret of successful education. until the latter finds a job.-nothing apparently can be done if a liberal deduction is allowed fo evil.consequences proceeding from
motto was political exiles and others who have Gustev, it seems, was a soldier in in Italy without a it, could hardly fail to excite the Russian Civil War. When he "Intensification not Extension," involuntarily or under compulsion desire for improving it, and so a
returned from the front his wife other words, the ideal aimed at great part of my bine in Hong applied for and obtained a divorce was not to bring more land under kong was occupied with efforts in
corn (it being required for equally on the ground of mutual incom this direction..
patibility. The daughter remain important products, such as fruit "The elaborate measaro pre. ed with the mother, while the son and vegetables), but to increase the pared by Mr. Price, which origin-was in the custody of the father. production of the existing corn
For the moment the problem i ally contained more clauses Recently Gustey lost his position. lande. This is being accomplished than the eighty-nine which appear en suite refused to contri- by the use of seed better selected being met. in various ways. There in the Ordinance as eventually
to the exigencies of the various disare schemes for "internal emigra
June 17. bute to the support of the son passed, many of them conflicting he went to law on the matter and trict, by deeper ploughing where tion that is to say to persuad with vested interests likely to be
drought is to be feared, and by an people to migrate from the crowd. ed districts to Sardinia and the increased use of artificial manures. strenuously defended, required, of the Court upheld his claim.
The progress made, particularly Basilicate for purposes, of develop in the South, is very striking, and thent; and no less than 70,000
statistic Sicily, for instance, known in bands, according to classical times as "The Granary of issued by the Ministry of Finance I had to pay various visits of in- |
Two imported cases of small--Rome, is rapidly-qualifying once are employed on public works suc! spection to the localities which
These chiefly indicated the necessity, of pox (Chinese) with one death, more for that honour after cen- as railways, roads, and hydro
one of diphtheria (British) and turies of parasitism. Incidentally clectric installations. particular clauses; and, with re
in enteric fever case (Chinese) this remarkable awakening and en-various palliatives, it is said
ease the situation for view to learn what were the ob-
afterwards? jections, valid or otherwise, which which proved fatal were reported thusiasm of the South have a cer- Italy, will
is notifiable diseases for the week tain political significance. Origin- ten years But were likely to be raised, I had ended June 12. During the same ally, I am told, the South was not "Morning Post." many interviews with proprietors, period there was one death from both European and Chinese.
influenza. "Owing to the occupation of The return for the 24 hours my time with other matters, it ended June 14, showed a Chinese
case of diphtheria.
course, very careful inquiry and consideration. In order to under- stand its manifold bearing upon sanitation and safety in building,
was not until the latter end of
1888 that I felt sufficiently primed
with the subject to bring the measure before the Executive
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COLONY'S HEALTH.
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Council with a view by exhaustive then threatened by the continual discussion there to put it into influx of people from the shape for, introduction to the mainland.". Legislature. This duty occupied Referring again to the housing several long meetings, which sug-problem, Sir William says else. gested fresh difficulties to bewhere:-- overcome; so that it was not until "The Crown Lands Resumption March, 1889, that I was able to Ordinance, 1889, making better bring the Bill before the Legisla provision for the acquirement of ture,
land for public purposes, was in- "The greater part of the Bill itiated and passed by me for a passed without dissent; but there purpose,
the non-fulfilment of were a few clauses to which the which more than anything else opposition promised to be serious, made me feel bitterly my break- I had a very long discussion in down in health. Inquiries quietly my office with Mr. Price, as re-instituted had led me to believe presenting the view of extreme that the most complete relief to stringency, and Mr. Chater, (the the congestion of the town might late Sir Paul Chater) the able be gradually effected without representative of the landlord great loss to the Colonial Treasury interest, The result was a com- by the compulsory purchase of promise, and the Bill, amended some of the most congested Accordingly, was passed without areas, and by the substitution for dissent
narrow lanes and insanitary "After all, the alterations from dwellings of broad streets and the original form, though many, comparatively civilised houses were very few of them of much with access to the air at the back, importance; so that the credit of the space lost on the ground be- this useful Ordinance, as finallying made up by the height of the passed, not less belongs to Mr. buildings. Had I been spared to Price. That officer was in this carry out my fixed intention in matter ably assisted by his subthis respect, which, as is known ordinate, Mr. Cooper, of whose to those about me, was con- talent I expressed so high an opin- tinually occupying my thoughts, ion that his subsequent promo-there is at least a possibility tions in the Service have afforded that the worst.consequences of the me peculiar gratification plugue epidemic which invaded "The Ordinance in its final the Colony a few years after my form, if not as stringent as I departure might have been pre should have liked, was capable of vented, and. it is not even beyond affecting great improvement In conception that there would have existing conditions. Should it been no carriage of this scourge forced by subsequent administra understand It is almost beyond tions, it has, I do not doubt, been doubt that the Infection which a considerable factor, if not in first reached Bombay came from actually Improving the health of Hongkong.
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resigned a allegiance to theis native land, must be a matter of rave concern to the French Gov rnment On the other hand, the position is not one that commendi itself, to the Italians.
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