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BURMESE EPISODE.
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this result I can speak with first-children, born to live and
Dr. Sidney Hartley, while surgeon tary) yesterday evening in the pre- hand knowledge of slaves and slaves, with no hope of freedom. at the Bethnal Green Hospital, mar-sence of the Church Committee, slavery, writes Sir Harcourt But. They might be sold away from ried a nurse, Miss Megan Richards, members of the congregation, and
ex-Governor of Burma, in the their parents, or given in settle and they both went to Peshawar in
representatives from Hong Kong, Sunday Observer.
ment of a blood feud, or as a wed-February, 1929,
Dr. Hartley died in February.of
The new church adjolna the old Speaking with this knowledge, I ding present, or even sold to Negas say unhesitatingly that slavery is as a human sacrifice, though this this year, and his widow dled a few one, which will be used as a Sun- the worst thing I have seen in the was rare. A slave was a chattel weeks later.
day School and Church Hall. The world, and that no act of my official who could be sold or given away. life has given me greater satisfac- tion than to have had a hand in abolishing it.
London, April 23..
LORD KITCHENER.
The Ceremonies.
The ceremonies opened with a Prayer of Invocation by the Rev. W. Walton Rogers, M.A., after which the Rev. J. Horace Johnston briefly touched' 'on the events which gave birth to the Church.
new
After preliminary conferences A poignant scene was witnessed at foundation stone bore the follow- with the chiefs, in which I was Southampton Docks, on the arrival ing inscription "To the Glory of greatly assisted by Col. E. T. Rich, of the steamer Dorsetshire from God, this foundation was laid Some slaves, no doubt, are com- C.J.E., R.E,, a distinguished officer India, when an officer of the Royal May 27, 1930, by the Hon. Mr. GEN-paratively well treated by their of the Survey of India, who knew Army Medical Corps, Major C. TERAL MEETING of Voting masters: they are allowed some the people and their language, Wilson, and his wife, placed a six-W. T. Southorn, C.M.G., Colonial Members will be held at the Club sort of home life, their children held a tribal gathering (Darbar weak-old baby, Anne Marion Hartley Secretary." | House, Happy Valley, on WED and their wives are not taken away Manao) on January 27, 1925, at (who was orphaned by the most not often which 1-announced the unalterable tragic death of both her parents, NESDAY, 4th June, 1930, at 5.30 from them, they are
beaten, they are allowed to ac- decision that slavery and human Dr. and Mrs. Sydney Hartley, In By Order,..
cumulate some little property of sacrifice must cease. British off the North-West Frontier district) their own; having known no better cers would visit the valley, make in the arms of her grandparents, lot they do not seek actively to lists of slaves, free them and pay change their condition.
compensation to their masters. There are such slaves, eo happi- "From to-day, onwarde," I said, ly placed, and some of these when "there must be no sale of slaves, given freedom prefer to live on or gift of slaves as part of dowries under the old conditions, but within marriage, in settlement of blood-
Obstacles Deplored. this great and crucial difference,
The Hon. Mr. Southern that at any time when they want to
Baid inter alia:
have, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN they can go away. These are the
It was a memorable scene. On a
05 you No
know, a
great faith that an EXTRAORDINARY favoured ones. Their number is clearing in a rice swamp, about a
"General C. R. Ballard, in his book, in the future of Kowloon and GENERAL MEETING of the Vot-few. I will now describe my ex- thousand chiefs and oldera-squat-"Kitchener gives his readers a solid though. I do not expect it to oust ing Members of the Hong Kong periences in the Hakawn Valley, ted down in rows with their guns and serious criticism of that great Victoria from its place as the busi Jockey Club will be held at the which I visited five years ago. and matchlocks, spears and swords.
This is a large valley some fifty My officers and I, in fail uniform, soldier's work from the military side. ness centre of the Colony I do ex- He is fully appreciative of Kit pect it far to outstrip the Island Club House, Happy Valley, Vic- toria, In the Colony of Hong miles long and sixty miles wide, marched down the middle to a Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 4th near the frontiere of Burma and grass shed at the end, where our chener's splendid services, but he is of, Hong Kong in the number of It is, therefore, day of Jane, 1930, immediately Assam, China and Tibet. Low- two transport elephants added not afraid to point out Kitchener's its inhabitants.
fitting that the Union Church A curious incident in India is should
prepare itself for the a habitation disclosed. During his dispute with future by building Curzon (then Viceroy), Kitchener worthy of its high purpose and I as Commander-in-Chief was naked to am glad to be thus associated in
Viceregal. ball at Simla. In accordance with custom there
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
feuds, or otherwise, nor must Angry with Late Lord families of slaves be broken up."
defects.
Curzon.
reserved
Artistic Tastes.
your work..
of conduct which - conduce to worthiest citizenship.","
"Well and Truly'Laid”. The Hon. Mr. Southern was then presented with a suitably inscrib- ed silver trowel, a gift from Messrs. Leigh and Orange, after which the foundation stone was
It is a sign of Kitchener's real lowered and bedded, and he de-
Benediction by the Rev. J. C.“ Knight Anstey.
Our to the occasion. after the Half Yearly Meeting of lying, with water a few feet from dignity Voting Members, for the purpose the, surface, soddon with fever, it escort of 100 mounted police gave of considering, and if thought fit, is surrounded on three sides by the necessary display of force. passing the following resolu- hills which rise as high as 10,000 Presents were distributed. tion:-
A great feast followed, with fire- feet. It is crossed by many "That the present unincor- streams and covered with dense works never before seen in the val-
I am a firm believer in unity and porated members Club known forest or elephant grass 15 feet ley. It was somewhat remarkable
that as the rockets went up there were two supper-rooms, the smaller have always felt that the disunion as the Hong Kong Jockey Club high.
for the of the Christian Churches is one The Kachin Tribe.
was a murmur of prolonged "Ons," of which was be incorporated and registered].
The villages are found in small such as one hears from a Western Viceroy's own circle and distinguish of the greatest stumbling blocks to In Hong Kong under the Hong
a sort of village crowd, evidently an involuntary ed visitors. They were sitting down, the universal acceptance of the Kong Companies Ordinance as clearings round
Some 40 mules to table when Lady Curzon noticed basic principles of the Christian a company Hmited by guarantee green, with one or two large trees articulation.
I therefore pay high of such of the fig tribe, often wild rubber, stampeded to, the forent, and two that Kitchener was not in the room Faith. and that the name company shall be the Hong surrounded. by rice fields and came back only three days after- and no place had been kept for him; tribute to those who, sinking those was owing to the minor differences of outward form, Kong Jockey Club and that the patches of cultivation, vegetables, wards, mauled by a tiger or a this, no doubt,
were inspired to raise in this draft Memorandum and Articles tobacco, and spices., The free, men leopard, saved no doubt by their negligence of one of the staff,
She was horrified... and rushed Colony undenominational churches of Association contained in the live by familles in long barn-like heels. The tribes consumed quan- printed document submitted to houses of grass and bamboo raised titles of buffalo flesh and rice out herself to find Kitchener and dedicated to the teaching in their the meeting and for the pur-about three or four feet from the spirit, and danced their serpentine put things right. But when she simplest forms of what you have pose of identification subscrib-ground on wooden piles. The pigs dances round the male and female reached the main entrance the so well expressed as those exalted ed by the Chairman thereof be live under the houses and do the totem posts that had been put up. wheels of a carriage were heard ideals of life and sound principles
The Kachin chiefą were sullen, driving away. approved and adopted. as the necessary scavenging.
It was Kitchener driving off in Memorandum and Articles of The people are Kachins, a large but accepted the decision about Association of the Club as in- tribe which has given trouble in slavery, and we left the valley disgust.
The His abrupt departure implied that corporated and that the same the past. The chief usually has without untoward incident. be subscribed by the existing a long bamboo over his house with Naga chiefs obstinately refused to in his opinion the slight had been Stewards of the Hong Kong discs representing the sun and the give up human sacrifice, but were intentional and constituted a public ploop. Each house has its own told very clearly that it must be accusation against his host of grave Jockey Club and registered as such and that the company be granary outside but near it, like a done, and thanks to Mesars. Mit-discourtesy. registered without the addition big bee hive carefully plastered chell, O.B.E., and Dewal, O.B.E., of the word Limited to its name with mud to keep out rate. The who have visited their country as being an association which principal houses have their own since more than once, it has been greatness that before the War heclared it laid in the following had begun to realise the danger words "To the Glory of God and intends to apply its profits in sacrificial posts in the form of a done:
Later, on January 10, 1927, from Germany. But he could do in his service I declare this stono promoting Its objects and which St. Andrew's cross, to which to tie prohibits the payment of any
buffaloes for sacrifice: there is held another Darbar Manao at little himself to convince others. well and truly laid."
A Prayer of Dedication was.de- also a village sacrifcin! ground for Myatkyina, the railhead, to deal Lord Minto said of him":" dividends to its members and
Hia shy, reserved manner may livered by the Rev. Frank Short that the existing Stewards of communal sacrifices to the all-with the Triangle, an inaccessible
and this was followed by those tract on the Chinese frontier in-have been somewhat against him ... the Hong Kong Jockey Club do powerful spirita...
The slaves, until married, live inhabited by very truculent Kachins, he is a curious personality, not at present singing the hymn "This forthwith after the incorpora- tion and registration of the said the houses of their masters; after We. Impressed their chiefs by de- tractive in manner, but has a kind stone to Thee in faith we lay." sham village with heart buried away somewhere, and The ceremony concluded with the era in the above Company will be company transfer and assign all marriage they occupy mean quar-molishing &
much more held at the Company's Offices, P. the property effecte benefit and tors of their own. Before my vialt machine-gun fire. The chief plead his inner tastes are & O. Building on WEDNESDAY,
Habilities of the present unin- there was no road to the valley: ad hard for the maintenance of artlatie than military.
Perhaps it was because of this shy June-4, at 11 a.m. for the pur corporated Hong Kong Jockey a mule track was cut for my party, slavery, an old institution-without
not live manner that he found such difficulty pose of receiving the Report of Club to the company so incor-Any slave wishing to escape to which they could
British territory had to take
жав clipping their wings in making himself understood by the the General Managers together porated and registered." with a Statement of Accounts to AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO forest path. The way was full of and telling them to fly, and politicians.
but I listened,
Nevertheless he saved his country the 81st December, 1929.
GIVEN that a further Extraordin perils: the forests were haunted by so The TRANSFER BOOKS of the ary General Meeting of the Hong spirits and fall of dangerous after each outburst repeated that and Europe, and but for him the animals; they were Hlable to be the decision was unalterable, and Great War could hardly have been Company will be CLOSED from Kong Jockey Club will be held at pursued and shot. As a body, the I could say no more.
won. In the first place, he saw that 29th of May to 4th June, both the same place on MONDAY, the slaves were very depressed, wore The detailed work of emancipa- the War would be long, when almost days Inculsive,
23rd day of June, 1930, at 5.30 DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO., o'clock in the afternoon for the little clothing; and had a dull and tion was carried out in expeditions, every other stall expert in Europe extending over, three years, under scouted such an idea. In the second General Managers. purpose of receiving report of
the proceeding of the above mens The Life of the Staves. the direction of Mr. Jer. 1. Bar Place, he was convinced that ho Hong Kong, 17th May, 1980.
tioned meeting and of confirming, if. While I was interviewing a chief nard, C.L.E., C.B.E, an officer with could create a great British army thought fit, the above mentioned and his wife, two of their female an unrivalled knowledge of the of millions of men.tel et des When the fighting began, he resolution.
slaves came to the camp to claim Kachina, who feared and trusted Coples of the proposed Memoran- freedom. The master and his wife, him as no other man. He was rendered one more stupendous-ser- dum and Articles of Association the leading lady of the Hakawn assisted by a hand of devoted vice. French, after Le Cateau, an- are open to the inspection of Valley, I was told, certainly voci officers, and especially by Mr. nounced that he must retire, with- members and can be seen duriniferous and masterful, sat on a mat. Leonard, 0.B.E.
drawing from the French front the usual business hours at the The lady did the talking and the The slaves have settled for the "behind the Seine, in a south office of the Secretary, Mr. G. B chief quietly de-loused himself: mcat part in their own country, westerly, direction, west of Paris." Brown, Messrs. Linstead, & Davis, in the early Christian Church, The latest report la that they are Joffre and the French Government were greatly alarmed at this threat. Alexandra Buildings, Hong Kong, when extreme asceticism was happy.
of desertion. It was only with and at the office of Messrs. fashionable, and anything that
much difficulty that Kitchener stopped this proposed movement, Deacons, 1, Des Voeux Road Cen made the human body unpleasant tral, Hong Kong, the Club's Boll was estimable, lice were called eltora, and at the Club House,
"CRAZY AMERICANS.” Happy Valley, Hong Kong.
Dated the 21st day of May, 1980.
By Order of the Stewards,
Miss Aimee M'Pherson
CB; BROWN,
in the Holy Land. rival of the two malcontents in the Secretary camp. She completely lost control of herself, lamenting and yolling
Jerusalem, April 18. that it was the last werd in human Scotland Yard is on the trail of America's "hot gospeller is. not Ingratitude. She had treated them the two swindlers, posing as Rus receiving exactly a cordial welcome. not as slaves, but as daughters. sians, who have robbed jewellers in in the cradle of religion. Misa How could she get on without various parts of the country by Aimee M'Pherson, wearing "Biblical them in the house? They cooked their sleight of hand trick with two garments, headed her '64 followers the food and ground the rice and little green bags, one containing or visits to Bethany and the Via
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keda
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The slaves were pearance in Dublin, where they obsacred opera she has written To
tailed £760 by their usual trick of morrow she and her, followers gu to showing a Jeweller real gems and the River Jordan to be baptised
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