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The formal opening of the Ying Wa College, Mongkok, will take place on Friday at 11 a.m., I. E. the Governor officiating.
The annual general meeting of the Girl Guides will take place at the Helena May Institute on Thurs- day at 11 am, when a presentation will be made to Lady Cloment!.
The total output of the Kallan Mining Administration's mines for the week ended December 28, amounted to 101,671 tons, and the sales during the period to 97,479 tons.
The constituent meeting of the Hong Kong Society for the Pro- tection of Children is to be held this afternoon, at five o'clock, in the City Hall. His Excellency the Governor will preside.
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"A quantity of straw was do- stroyed last night when a matshed In an open yard of the Kowloon Canton Railway, Chatham Road, caught fire. Two are engines rushed to the scene and the blaze was put out in a few minutes,
A Chinese has been arrested by the Police in West Point for the unlawful possession of a cardigan. The garment is of a pattern and colour similar to that worn by the Military, and inside there is a tag with the name of a Paisley firm on It. The cardigan can be claimed at Police Headquarters.
His Excellency the Governor and Lady Clementi will hold a farewell reception at Government House on Tuesday next at 9.30 p.m. No Individual Invitations will be issued, but His Excellency and Lady so flowery and so beautiful to talk Clementi will be glad to see their friends of all communities. Those of the League of Nations includ- intending to be present are request ing all the component parts of ed to send in their names to the the Empire. It may flavour of Aide-de-Camp beforehand. Empire fraternity to claim that the Empire represents a League
Yesterday afternoon the marriage took place in semi-European style,
Operland China Mail. of Nations of its own. But that of Mr. Ng Pak-yi, of the editorial in-itself cannot elevate the Crown staff of the Nam Chung Po, a local Colonies and Protectorates from vernacular evening paper, and Miss the status of mere mui-tsais ori
*Sin-leung. Cheung
After the ceremony a reception was held at Cinderellas for whom no Prince Lane, Crawford's Restaurant where Charming can ever be expected to the happy couple were the recipients arrive in all his regal grandeur of felicitations of over a hundred guests, Including representatives of with the "missing slipper. To the Chinese newspapers. nearly all British statesmen the Mrs. Ng later left for Canton, where Mr. and Crown Colonies and Protectorates the honeymoon will be spent. are mere cyphers Their-affairs
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1930.
WHERE THE ZOOS
BEGIN
BY SIR PERCIVAL PHILLIPS
F on a lonely patch of treeless
IFTEEN miles from Singapore, "sardines." A weird, half-human, face peered wistfully up at me, and swamp hemmed in by jungle and an a black hairless hand was thrust arm of the sea, is one of the trang through the bars. It was an orang- est prisoners' camps in the world-outang, with a diminutive baby and the most pathetic.
clinging to its breast. The baby
It is the place where the zoo whimpered, the mother snarled and begins. Here the wild beasts, birds, | hid herself under a strip of sacking. and reptiles caught in Malaya and Something plucked at my coat, and adjacent island begin their lifelong I turned to find a black, fuzzy captivity. From this primitive monkey, with a mournful face, of clearing-house they are consigned to the breed known locally as the hard labour in a circus or painful "Wawa," trying to leave the porch inactivity in a private menagerie or to which it was chiained by the neck a publle zoological garden.
and hide Itself in my pocket. Four honey bears saw this manœuvre from their common prison and stood upright, beseeching to be noticed.
It is an ill-assorted community of the jungle, bound together by foro- city and despair. I have never seen auch manifestations of anguish and hate as are witnessed there whenever a human being comes within sight All the prisoners are newly caught, and they refuse to believe that the rough timber cages are real. Their cries of rage resound hideously in the wilderness, and their despera- tion is pitiful to see. They sleep but little, and the night is broken by their cries.
Six
On the raudbank above the lagoon I found ten wooden boxes like dog. kennels, Isolated from the rest. As I approached I was greeted by a chorus of reading growls. young tigers, all magnificent speci- mens, literally tremble with fury; one lay on his back in an ecstasy of hate and cursed until he was ex hausted. The Tamil attendant walk ed calmly along the front of their cages, and they gnawed the fron bars in the futile effort to get at him.
There were birds of all sizea, colours, and designs, some almost too foolish in appearance to be credible, like the one with a bill bigger than its body; others brood- Ing over their plight, like the defiant caglo, whose breast was torn and bleeding. It kept dashing itself with outstretched wings against the wire netting that separated it from a falcon, in a vain effort to give battle.
There were llamas from South America, awaiting the fancy of some Eastern collector, a half-grown erocodile that responded angrily to the prodding of a hooked stick; a leopard lashing itself into hysteria; half a dozen tawny wildcats with enormous yellow eyes, eager to fight anything and anybody; a pon In- habited by young waliables; pea. cecks disdaining a friendly greeting: and other birds with grey plumage. three feet long, crowded miserably into cubicles and unable to move.
Here, in the vast silence of the Jungle, the strangely assorted cap- tives are allowed to exhaust their fury and gradually to accept their fate. Buyers como to look them proprietor of the camp. All are for over and haggle with the Indian
sale. I could have bought the croco- dile or the black panther at a fair price, or taken away a cobra in ex- change for Straits dollars. Con- signments leave every little while for Europe or the Americas.
Ten Years Ago
Alongside were four lesser cata, no less murderous in intent. At the end was a black panther, a beautiful beast; sitting bolt upright on his haunches, staring with malevolent been only four days in captivity. A eyes and spitting viciously. He had night excursion along a high road in Johore was his undoing. A planter returning home on his motor-cycle suddenly became aware that the pan- ther. was at his side, loping along gracefully, and apparently trying to decide whether to begin on the man or the cycle. The planter put on all surprised panther was left behind. speed with auch celerity that the
A few hours later native boys went in search of him, and the following are of little, if any, general inter- A copy of the January-March night he was "Heatly trapped.
Under a roof of matting stretched [est," "save" and except to the red-number of the Far Eastern Travel-
lers Gazette, issued by Messrs. on bamboo poles were boxes and tape bound officials of the Colonial Thos. Cook and Son, has bean re- crates of various sizes strewn about Office who perform no more than ceived by the China Mail. 'It con- | indiscriminately. The Tamil'rattled the work a generous, Treasury tains a wealth of information for the covering of one and Instantly a Far Easterners going on Home king cobra thrust his hooded head pays them to do. In nearly every leave, whilst an article of special in-, against the wire netting, eager to Empire topic of vital moment the terest deals with the coming Pass strike. The lid of another box was Crown Colonies are ignored as if on Play at Oberammergau, ar- cautiously lifted, and a drowsy they were rank outsiders without rangements to visit which can be python, coiled compactly like The pubile, however, is quito convinced made through Cook's Agency. length of firehose, opened his efnis the shred of a claim to be con- Copies of the publication may be ter eyes, sulted or considered. "Iniperial obtained at the local office of the A scratching noise drew memitted, and that tho supervision must Conferences come and go, but the Company.
to another small box marked have been ineffective. pigmies the Crown Colonies are mere specks beside the giants
the Dominiona A Colonial Conference in its truest sense has The staff of the Newspaper Enter been held, whereat: Hong Kong prise,' Limited, desire toʻsincerely thank all who have expressed their | (or, rather, the Hong Kong Gov. sympathy on the occasion of the ernment) was represented by a deaths of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. C. member of the Civil Service here; Burnett.
EMPIRE PARTNERS
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(From the "Chias Mail” January 21, 1920.)
To-day's dollar is worth 5/- 11⁄4ď.
Serious allegations were made by the
Heaven forbids that we should take every allegation seriously that a des perate criminal makes from the dock. now that things have been going on in the jali that should not have been per-
prisoner who murdered Warder Speed.
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Strange Chinese Societies: Language of the Cinema: "Ladies and Gentlemen:" A Fashionable Course:
tion of the part he played on be-white and Blue.
But, unless our manory is Strange Societies [grievously at fault, we cannot reIN the districts of Kantang and Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1030, call the publication of any official Hsfachin just lately there have |report from the Hong Kong re-arisen beretical sects which are. presentative or any official men
making great progress. They are divided into Red, Yellow, Black, The Reds gre half of this Colony. Dominion the most numerous. It brigands Here in Hong Kong we may be partnership and Dominion unity invade a district, signals are given inclined to be cynical in regard to are by no means to be despised, and in the twinkling of an eye, the declaration of Mr. Stanley but rather most cordially wel
several thousand of the members Rof these sects arrive. Then there Baldwin during his installation comed, but Golonial partnership are also the Iron Plate, the Golden Be Lord Rector of Glasgow and Colonial unity in all great Gong and other strange societies. University. After stating that it Empire questions need to be happiness and the avoidance of All who enter are promised might well be that in the future, lifted out of the rut, of misfortune. near or distant, the changes that trivialities or frivolities at both leaders most profoundly and dare They honour their had taken place within the Bri- the Colonial Office and the Foreign not disober them even secretly tish Empire overscas would most Office Ministers and Whatever affairs. they have to at affect the world, and after he had Ministers and, too, prospective little, the leaders must be Inform-long
tand to; no matter whether big or referred to the Dominions as or aspiring Ministers cannot ed
"Incense" money is paid equal partners with the Mother prate of Empire partnership and monthly varying in amounts from ry he alluded to the Empire unity so long as the 12, which is the lowest, to $10. League of Nations In that Crown Colonies are not even con cannot harm them, so that makes All the members say that bullets Langue, he declared, were insulted in matters affecting their them cockless. The result is that cluded all the component parts of own destiny A new and more the brigands are afraid to attack the British Empire, and that the enterprising policy is required in them the present time they WEDDINGS AND GROUPS A FEATURE Empire represented a League of regard to the Crown Colonies and ply Trotect their hames, but Nations of its own which kept until that has been avolved, all that they might foin together and what of the future. It is possible peace over a quarter of the globe the talk of the responsibility of endanger the peace of the whole itself and amongst a quarter of Britons at Home and
district it therefore bahoves ints, Mr. Baldwin,
high officials to have an eye like so many other British states-
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