THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929.
"EN PASSANT "
War and Pestilence in China [By C. L. C
To-day there are no fewer than sixty millions of Chinese whe are facing death from starvation. Their only hope for succour must necessarily come from the outside world.
Chind the land which gave birth to this mass of suffering humanity is too deeply plunged in the throes of party, warfare to give even a passing thought to the problem. Millions of dollars are being expended on sinews of war, and for what purpose nobody seems to know. Yet the people of the famine area must perforce fend for themselves!
Surely a more anomalous state of affairs cannot be found in any other civilised country. But then queer things are done in Cuthay!
Nanking's In:lifference
The question therefore arises as to what the National Government has done for the relief of the famine districts and the sixty millions of cuple who are facing starvation and death as the result of drought, flood, Ineusts and dis- case. Practically nothing.
Nanking has so far shown an Indifferent attitude and, instand of helping where help is mort ur- gently needed, it amuses itself in Party warlare, thereby causing more hardship to the people.
to
How to Combat Famines Modern economic organisation poes a long way to allay the fre quent recurrences of famines, Posts and plant diseases are cou- trollable, and nature is not the only contributing Inetor in Famines.
WATER PROBLEM
THE CHINA MAIL,
CHINESE REPRESENTATIONS TO GOVERNMENT
OPINIONS EXPRESSED
A large number of prominent Chinese residents met yesterday at the Tung Wah Hospital to discuss means and Avays of easing the prevailing hardship occasioned by the water shortage.
It was decided that the Chinese, unofficial members of the Legisla- tive Council should urge the Gov- ernment to take steps to transport more water, with the aid of water junks and other vessels, from other places to Hong Kong.
The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall said that what was urgently needed was the erection of more water tanks and that these tanks should be available to the public the whole day long and the greater part of the night. He said that he under- stood from the authorities that three additional tanks would short- ly be established in Wanchai, one more in the Central district and one
The growing importance of in- dustries renders the proportion of those who are untirely dependent upon the products of the soil teat Kennerly Town. be smaller and smaller, Better farming methods and wider ap plication of machinery all tend to produce a better condition in life. Nationalist China and those who are at the helm of State can
Already we are burianing hear that in certain districts aid will new arriva Loo late. The strickon people are now entering do much in this direction for the
that stage of the famine where those who have been on the verge of starvation since the meagree in warfare. harvest are finally sucumbing in great numbers.
Kansu is doomul
Thousands are dying daily in the streets. Cannibalism is resorted to and
hatterment of the whole country than by being ungeasingly engag
The wealth that has been and is yet to be spent on shot and shell may well be applied to the building up of
a great country, Improved means of transportation children dare not venture out of will greatly mitigate the severity tif famines, Grain and other foodstuffs can be brought in from ather districts, other nations and ather Continents, if necessary.
The Causes of Famine
doors for fear of being eaten. And yet what is Nanking doing to meet this terrible situation? The world has a right to know.
Is Chiang Kai-shek a Patriot? Nanking has done and is still
doing practically nothing to alleviate the sufferings of these
people.
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that
Seven Hours Insufficient
said Dr., Kotewall
the increase the time period when these Government should be asked to
tanks will be opened to the public. hours a day was inadequate. He The present allowance of seven
was also of the opinion that the Government should assume - the that more responsibility to see water is conveyed by vessels to fill these tanks. and also to bear the expenses incurred therewith.
in connection
ROUND THE CINEMAS
EXQUISITE SCENES IN BRITISH FILM
"THREE PASSIONS"
Alice Terry and Ivar: Petrovitch: are co-stars in Rex Ingram's latest picture, which comes to the Queen's Theatre today. It is the third picture in which they have played under Ingram's direction.
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BANKS will be CLOSED for the transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY, the 3rd June (His Majesty The King Birthday),
Hong Kong, 28th May, 1929,
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
Founded on the novel by Cosmo, Hamilton, "The Three Passions” is the first enterprise of the new British company, St. George's Production. Ltd., of which Capt.HE Undersigned have received Alastair Mackintosh is the instructions to sell by Public maraging director. St. George's | Auction is thought to have made a splen- did start in production by captur- TUESDAY, the ith June, 1929, ing Ingram when so many were commencing at 11 a.m., anxious to have his first story of at No. 231, Nathan Road, Kowloon British life.
(2nd Floor).
British scenes in "The Three Passions" have as backgrounds the famous Balliol College at Oxford University, the Arm- strong engineering works at Newcastle, and London in its most fashionable "West End" and "East End" aspects.
Interiors made at Ingram's studio at Nice include sets repre- lionaire's mansion in Park Lane, senting a huge shipyard, a mil- London, and an ultra-modern re- staurant also in London.
Money, religion, and love are The Three Passions" which, clashing in the surroundings of modern London, provide Rex Ingram with the motif for this latest film.
Shayle Gardner, well known on the British stage and screen; mui concurred, and it was decided spearean actress, Andrews Engle- Mr. M. K. Lo and Mr. Li Yick-Claire Eames, famous as a Shake-
that due representations should be man, the Russian actor who made made to the Government accord- a name in "Mare Nostrum," and ingly.
Leslie Faber, well known both in London and New York theatres,
The Hon. Dr. S. W. Tao said that
ON
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
(Particulars as per catalogue).
On View from Monday, the 3rd. June, 1929.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong. 30th May, 1929.
THE Undersigned have received Tinstructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
TUESDAY, the 4th June, 1929, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at No. 38, Rose Terrace, Ground Floor, Nathan Road, Kowloon.
A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF
Comprising:
CURIOS.
Celadon Vases, Bowls, Plates, Powder Blue Vase, Old Bronze Ware, Jade and Crystal Orna- ments, Ivory, Wood and Bamboo Carvings, Old Chinese Paintings,
Peking Rugs, etc.,
That such a sad state of affairs as 75 per cent. of the water con- are leading members of the strong Table Screen; Old Embroideries,
should be found in a great coun-sumed by the Chinese was for try which has an old civilisation washing purpose, it was therefore like Chinu is indeed deplorable. obvious that if mare' water were Nature cannot be blamed for re- brought into the Colony for that current famines in China, The purpose, the famine would be solved
upon those to a very large extent.
The leaders seem to have time to go into the problem and the interest provided by the poli-responsibility falls tiea! fiasco and warfare is too en- thralling for their attention to be diverted to other channels.
If Chiang Kai-shek is the patriot, the strong man, and the saviour of China. us he has been acclaimed by some to be, now is the golden opportunity for him to show his worth.
self
Let personal desires. aggrandisement, hate and jealousy be subordinated by the altruistic desire to work for the common weal-the weal of the people and the country.
who failed to make the best use of their opportunities.
The poorer the people become, the more do they aufter and the foebler their effort in withstand- ing the encroachment of Hunger and Want.
The people of China have been hard pressed.
They have been surely taxed. Civil Wars and bunditry have left their marks.
WATER "POACHING"
Short-Lived Scramble. With Buckets
east of "The Three Passions" which will be shown at the Queen's until Saturday,
"WHITE SHADOW"
A Picture Made in the Tropics
Thrilling adventure and exotic romance feature the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pro- duction, "White Shadows in the
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Large Quantity of.
Blackwood Ware.
Catalogues will be issued.
Termo-Cash on Delivery,
On View from Saturday, the 1st.
June, 1929.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 30th May, 1929,
THE Undersigned have received
Auction
ON WEDNESDAY, the 5th June, 1929, commencing at li a.m.,
at No. 14. Knutsford Terracė, Kowloon,
Chinese living in On Lan-street South Seas," which will be shown instructions to sell by Public last night engaged in a midnight game of water poaching. The water was turned on to enable the Fire Jr China wants to be placed in Brigade to cope with a small out the family of nations, 03 she break of fire in a house is Jervois maintains she is, the
one and strect. The On Lan-street foun- foremost thing for her to do istain was on the same main, and to provide economic security for when someone discovered that the her people. Security from the fountain was functioning, he passed ravages of we, of militarism; the word round to his neighbours. securily from wicked appropria- The opportunity was too good to centrate on the work of rehabilitions and exactions; security from be missed and, within a short space tation. In this good work he will the dangers arising
from the of time, there was a small queue have the whole-hearted support raveneus nature of ravenous men. with dozens of buckets eager to fill
Chiang Kai-shek can do all this. figuratively speaking, with one stroke of the pen. All he has to do is to call off the war and con-
of the country. The people of China are tired of warfare and Chiang Kai-shek is only flying in the teeth of pablic opinion by ever und anun renewing strife and turmoil in China.
The "Maskee" Spirit Unfortunately rehabilitation is not yet to be. Chiang Kai-shek must fight and the people must
suffer.
of
Furthermore, the leaders China are imbibed with a spirit of "maskee-ism." They can well "maske" the sufferings of the people, knowing quite well that certain foreigners will sooner or later comme forward with money and personal labour to help the sufferera,
As in the great famine of 1920-
21 the problem of relief work and; the money in connection there- with all came from the American Red Cross. Even now a contin- gent of workers are on their way to the famine area from America. They are bringing the money, too, so why should the National Gov- ernment worry itself?
ernment that
The
Until she
can provide sound them with the "precious Auid."
security for her people, it will be j Like all good things, the flow did
ut no use for China to demand not last long,
however. The
the abolition of extraterritoriality, Jervois-street fire was quickly extin-between greed and a desire for for if she cannot safeguard the guished and within a few minutes lives and interests of her own people, much less can she do for the foreigners within her gate And when such security is pro- vided, famines will he dangers ed.
at the Queen's Theatre from Sun- day to Wednesday.
The plot is built on the re- generation of a doctor, who, after the level of a having sunk to beachcomber, pulls himself to- gether to avenge a wronged child, and as a result of his chivalry is lured on board a plague ship, lashed to the mast, and set adrift. The ship wrecks on the reef of a tropical paradise where, after a series of thrilling and romantic adventures, he is adopted by a na- tive tribe and wins the love of the most beautiful girl on the island. What happens when pearls are discovered on the island, his fight civilisation, and his love for the the main was again turned native girl forms a story of in- with the result that many of the tense dramatic appeal. On Lan-street water poachers had to return to their beds disappoint doctor.
Monte Blue plays the role of the Opposite him is Raquel Torres, one of the new sensational dramatic "finds" of the season. Robert Anderson is also in the cast. A large group of native gan questioning the woman and islanders supply the authentic writing down the answers. The third accused the electrician) re- turned to the fat, and Gifford and the second accused scolded him for installing the fittings.
Eventually Gifford told woman that he would have to pro- secute her and, in her presence, told the second accused that he two Chinese pleaded not gulity would be dismissed from service. yesterday at the Kowloon Magis- The third accused then took the
of the past,
FALSE PRETENCES
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST EURA
SIAN AND CHINESE
A BOGUS TAIPAN
A Eurasian, Douglas Gifford, and
the
tracy before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith woman aside and told her that, as she had got him into trouble, it
to two serious charges.
The prosecution's story was that would be to her advantage to settle
the complainant; a woman, residing the matter by giving several tens
at No. 870, Canton Road, was intro- of dollars.
duced to one of the Chinese accused
by the caretaker who said that the
A Bolt and a Chase
To this the woman replied that
accused was an electrician and could she would settle the matter in the fix up her fittings for her.
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE ALSO
One Victrola and Records. On View from Tuesday, the 4th June, 1929,
Catalogues will be issued. Terms:--Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 30th May, 1929.
and
picturesque atmosphere. The company, under the direction of W. S. Van Dyke spent five months in filming the scenes on the island of Tahiti.
The picture is said to have broken all cinema records, includ- ing "Ben Hur" and "The Big Parade," in New York, where it was recently shown.
THE ROMANTIC SENSATION
- actually filmed in the South Seas!
WHITE
SHADOWS
One, therefore, cannot help pointing out to the National Gov it is its bounden duty to shoulder responsibility and to go that both money and transport are provided at the earliest possible moment. events in the North-Centre and in the two Kwangs must not be, al- lowed to overshadow the pressing accused. On May 14, the
fan, and she again called in the had been waiting on the staircaso needs of no fewer than sixty mil-
other landing) joined in the run. Chinese accused called on the woman lion soula, In any
A Trump Card event the public should be made aware of what is being done..
The precedent of active relief set by the late Manchu Govern- ment is
which Nationalist one China may fellow with credit to itselt.
accordingly engaged him to do the had caught a Tartar in the person
She Police Station. On seeing that heN THE SOUTH SEAS work.
of the woman, the third accused
On May 3, the woman decided to lost heart and made a bolt for it. instal an additional switch for a Gifford and the other Chinese (who
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with a screw driver in his hand. Chase was given by the woman's He said that he was a representa son, and both Chinese were inter- tive of the China Light and Fower cepted by a Police sergeant. It was Co., and had come to tell the woman then Gifford played his trump card. that she had been stealing current. He coolly walked up to the sergeant
This the woman denied and the and told him to arrest the Chinese. man then made a pretence of The pursuer came up in the mean- examining her meter, after which time and as a result, all parties. he told her that he was satisfied were taken to the Police station. that she had been stealing elee In the charge room, the Inspector," tricity. He pointed out the serious before he had time to obtain the ness of the offence and reminded facts of the case, saw Gifford, but her of a recent case in which a¦ not knowing that he was implicat- proprietor had been fined several ed, ordered him to get out. hundreds of dollars. He suggested' Gifford at once made himself to the woman to "square", him and scarce. After he had left, it dawn- he would say nothing more.
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later with Gifford. The latter, it
was alleged, represented himself to
was involved, with the result that
he was subsequently arrested.
The case was adjourned.
Thirty buns and a collecting box
be the 'taipan" of the China Light were stolen from Lingfield mission
and Power Co. He drew from his room, which had been prepared for
pocket a bundle of papera and beds mothers' meeting.
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