SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1928.
P. & O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australia
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
A TAKING CARGO FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, -AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE
PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.
(Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
Destination
8. 9.
From Tons Hong Kong
About
Aug. 18,668 18th Aug. 16,088 1st Sept. 0.144 15th Sept. 0,005 20th,. Sept.
Straits, Bombay & Karachi Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marseilles & London.
KIDDERPORE | 5,334 | 10th
RAJPUTANA
NALDERA
*KALYAN
"KASHGAR
¡Cargo only.
Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Hull M'Hoa, L'Jon, A'werp & Hull.
* Calls Casablanca.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrra and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TAKLIWA
TILAWA TAKADA TALAMBA TALMA
7,030 | 14th 10.006 8th
| 6,949 | 24th
8.018
2nd 10,000 12th
Aug. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Sept. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Sept. 1 Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Oct. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Oct. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have dintiluet accommodation for Ist and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.
THE CHINA MAIL,
MAID & MISTRESS.
PRISON FOR IRÁTO NAVAL OFFICER'S WIFE.
WITH-HELD WAGES.
THE PURDAH EVIL.
CALCUTTA WOMEN EXPRESS STRONG VIEWS.
ABOLITION MOVE.
The purdah system may be com- pared with deadly carbon mono- xide gas-it causes
a. painless death."
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNBES.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS,
`LIMITED, ́.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO".. ANTWERP, LONDON & STRAITS.
【HE
Steamship
“BENALDER”. Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk Into the hazar dous and/or extra hazardous Go- downs of The Hongkong and Kow- loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., The "Statesman," which inter-whence, and/or from the wharves, viewed representative women in delivery may be obtained. Calcutta last week on the subject No claim will be admitted after encountered a solid weight of the goods have left the godowns," opinion against the continuance of and all goods remaining undeliver the system in Bengal.
Mrs. Agnes Helen Malet Warden, wife of an Engineer-Commander in the Royal Navy, was sentenced to orie month's imprisonment nt Rochester for an aggravated assault
This castigation by a prominent on Eva Pittilla (17), a maid in Mohammedan woman sums up the her employ, reports the "Daily attitude of modern enlightened News and Westminster Gazette." Bengali womanhood towards pur
The girl, who hails from Sunder-| dak. land, stated that she entered. Mrs. Warden's craplay in November last, and all the wages she had received was 4s. 6d. Within three days of her arrival she was struck on the head by defendant because she could not find something at once. The decision, of Bihar to abolish On another day Mrs. Warden, purdah is regarded by members of she said, struck her on the head the modern feminist movement as with a atcel spoon, and every wash-a significant step towards complote
Independence for women.
it
William Sumbraan, general coun- sel for the Ku Klux Klan, wha testi-
·Ded before the Benate presidential campaign committee that the
K. K. H. pald Senator Radio, of Alabama, to give speeches to v rious states. Senator Hella is an implacable foe of Gov. Al Smith, of New York, a Catholic candidate for the Presidentizi nomination.
Speakig from behind, a purdah,{ Mrs. R. S. Hossein, superintendent of the Sakhawat (Mohammedan) Memorial Girls School, Calcutta, said: 'I cannot Imagine how the people who want to keep, half of their population in complete ignor- ance and within the purdah would be able to compete with the other nations of the world who have placed their men and women on an equal footing in the matter of edu-. cation,
ed after the 10th inst. will be subject to rent,
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Under signed on or before the 24th inst. or they will not be recognised.
All broken, chafed, and-damaged goods are to be left in the Go- downs, where they will be examined on the 9th inst., at 10 am. by Messrs., Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
Hong Kong, 3rd August, 1928.
COPENHAGEN.
"For a long time men have been deceiving us and women have been THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. suffering in silence. There has, however, been a great stir in difer- ent Hindu communities for the up- THE Motor Vessel | lift of their women, but the Moham- medan women are still where they
were.
WRETCHED WOMEN.` "You will find societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals which demonstrate how people feel for the lower animals. You must have observed, tho-tears being shed for a dog run over by a car. But there is not a single man in India who weeps for the unfortunate and wretched women like us who are shut up in the zenana.
1
It has been said by great Mohammedan scholar that the purdah is a painful sore to our so ciety. 1. de not agree with him.
Had it been so then our women would have rent the sky with their groanings. The purdah system may be rightly compared with the deadly carbon monoxide gas, 'because it the
causas. a painless death.
ing day she was beaten. because
was alleged she allowed sheets to drag on the ground.
"I complained to a needlewoman,"
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). the girl said, "and Mrs. Warden
TANDA
ST. ALBANS
ARAFURA TANDA
Australia.
}
6,950 | 31st Aug.) Montla, Sandakan, Thursday Island, 4.500 28th Sept.
A 060 2nd Nov. 0,950 30th
Nov,
Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne.
me,
heard of the complaint, punched me on the head, and kicked
ees again she would take me into She said if I talked to her employ the basement, where no one could hear, and thrash me.”
"People do not take notice of and
“JAVA"
having arrived, Consignees of cargo are hereby informed that all goods are being landed and placed at their risk into the hazardous, and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., where delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns, and all goods remaining undeliver- ed-after the 8th August, 1928, at 4 p.m. will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined by 7th August, 1928, at 10 am. Messrs. Anderson & Ashe on the
must be presented to the Under- All claims against the vessel
signed before the 11th August 1928, or they will not be recognised.
will bo
No Fire Insurance effected.
Bills of Lading will be counter-
JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD., Agenta. Hong Kong, 2nd August, 1928.
guard themselves against the gas. afgned by Similarly our sister within the pur- dah are slowly dying a painless
"Well done, Bihar," is Mrs. Indira death due to the purdah gas."
Debf Chandhuri's verdict regarding the decision to abolish purdah in that; province.
Cat Off Her Hair.
our life and honour are in danger. Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to In April, the girl alleged, Mrs. most merely as a means to an end, to make sufficient progress in in- "Education is looked upon by Within the purdah, it is impossible
following day, because she had not self and family. Since women need Warden cut off her hair, and the that end being the daily bread for tellectual and physical culture. finished the nursery, Mrs. Warden not earn, they need not learn either, the purdah system some fifty years "The Brahmo Samaj ' discarded made her nose bleed and struck But men's education. must neces- ago.
The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Follo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as inducement,
*ffers.
Frequent connections from Australis with the following:--
The P. & Q. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal,
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton
London via Panama Canal. ·
The example of Brahmo
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the Valted Kingdom vis New her on the back with a hand-truck. Isarily have and has actually had its women moving freely about and Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, ete.
The giri further alleged that she reaction on that of women. Educa working for the good of the country had been beaten with sticks, and ed men, especially nowadays, seek has made a great impression on the that the defendant's children had educated wives. And as all girls minds of the women of the orthodox and also taken sticks and beaten her must be married therefore they community, and the situation is She was not allowed to go out must be educated to a certain ex-gradually changing for the good. unaccompanied, and her life became so Intolerable, she added, that she tent, different according to their Now the purdah is not no rigid among the women of Hindu society eventually had to put a note under status in life.
WHAT EDUCATION HAS DONE. as in the Muslim community... the gate to the servant next door.
An Inspector of the N.S.P.C.C.,
"Amongst the rich, the English "I trust that complete removal of on visiting the house, found the educated community, some through the purdah, system will make us girl in a state of collapse and re- conviction, others through imita-educated, strong, fearless, useful moved her to the Church Army tion, have their giris more or less members of society and worthy Home, where she was examined by highly educated; the orthodox com- daughters of the country.” Dr. Kennedy, who found bruises munity less.so. The former have
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
TANDA *WARFIELD TILAWA NALDERA
*NAGPORE
KASHGAR
TAKADA
ST. ALBANS TALAMBA
*MIRZAPORE
MOREA TALMA LAHORE KHIVA
Aug, | Mail, Kahn, Danken & Yokohama, Aug. Shai, Mojl & Kobo.
0.050 8th 0,040 | 12th 10.000 17th 16.088 17th
5,283 50th Aug. Shal Moil. Kobe & Yokohama. 0.005 1 31xt Ange, 1 mphs, H. Kobe & Yokohama, 6.00 1st Sept. | Amoy._S'hal,- Moji, Koba & Omaka. 4,500 4th Sept. ! Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. 8.018 th Sept. | Amoy, Moll, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka, 6,716 5th Sept. S'hhi, Moji & Kobe.
Aug. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Aug. Shanghai.
10,953 14th Sept. 1 Shal, Moli. Kobe & Yokohama. || 10.000 | 20th Sept. Amoy, Moil, Kobe & Onaka.
1 6,262 | 24th Sept. | Shai, Moji, Kobe & "Yokohama, 0,135 | 28th Sept. | S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
*Cargo only.
All dates are, approxíniats and subject to alteration without “mation, WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS. Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expennen Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying, steamer.
on her shoulders, chest and legs, practically done away with purdah and abrasion of her cheek. Mrs. from efioice, and certain of the mid-j Warden decinred that the whole dle-class from necessity, e.g., those of the girl's story was a fabrica who have to earn their own living, tion, but admitted that she had been such as nurses, doctors and tea thrashed by her children, who dis- chers.
liked ber. She said she had al- "It goes without saying that the waye treated the girl as one of the lower classes have no purdah to family. It had been her Intention speak of,-at least those who have to dismiss her because she was une to earn their own living, and there- satisfactory, but the girl had beg fore cannot stay at home. It fol adged to be allowed to remain.
All Cabina sre fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft x 2ft x 1ft will be received at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previons to sailing,
For further Information, Passages Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:--
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
P. & O. Building, Connaught Rd. C., HONG KONG.”
Agents.
Miss Spickett, defendant's cook, said she had never seen the maid' filtreated except by the children. The Bench said the evidence show ed that Mrs. Warden had been cruel.
SIGNS "PER PRO.".
Mrs. E. G. Tait recently had con
lows then, that only the rich ortho- dox, and well-to-do middleclass Of these the suffer from purdah. former are gradually, but slowly, relaxing the rigidity of their cus tonis. on account of the time-spirit. With the latter, it is not so much the fear of opprobrium as the stress of economy that keeps their women folk in purdah.
"In the house itself money "is needed to bring more light and air
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.ferred upon her an unusual distinc into the living-rooms; and outside
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:: SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG..
-5.8, “CITY OF EVANSVILLE".Via Suez Canal 5.S. "LYCAON"
S.S. "PHEMIUS"
Via Suez Canal .Vin'Suez Canal
7th Aug 24th Aug. 21st Sept.
tion, by the firm Messrs. Algar & the house, some sort of conveyance "Co. Ltd, architects, surveyors, land,
estate and insurance agents, when is necessary for womenfolk to take it was announced that she would the air, at least in big towns. It is "aign per procuration" for the firm to the goddess Luxmi more than to As far as can be ascertained, this Mrs. Grundy that we must look for is the first time in the history of a a change in this direction,” foreign firm in Chins that any
DEGENERA DEGENERATION CAUSE.
woman has achieved such a position, m observed the "N. C. Daily News." Mrs. Kumudini Basu, - BA
Following the above announce was of the opinion that the purdak system was one of ment: a correspondent called · our. Shanghal contemporary's attention the principal causes of the to the fact that three other ladies, spiritual, Intellectual and physical degeneration of Bengall” man and are known to him as holding similar” -
women. Mrs. Bemediosigning for the "It has," abe said, "made the Ching Realty Co., Miss Flood and women like dumb, driven cattle. It Mrs. Jean signing for the Intar bas taken all our strength away. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE, LTD., Hong Kong, national Savings Society for several it has made us so weak that we Hong Kong & Canton: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Caston,: Jesin,
cannot protect ourselves even when
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