SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1931.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Punishments of a horrible kind NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
CHINESE CUSTOMS
TERRIBLE PICTURE tinguishable from slava raiding
and slave trading and frequently are inflicted on the flimsiest pre- "If we go back, Jimmy OF SLAVERY. by misrepresenting the destina- text.
Miller put us up the kitchen and tion."
(6) Labour employed for pri-aet fire under," explained one na- This >Conditions in the Blackvate purposes or privately owned tive to the Commnasioners.
A common form of plantations "has been impressed refors to
THE OFFICES and STATIONS of high Government officials, but strung up to the rafters to a there is no evidence that the Fire- height, and then literally smoked CUSTOMS for Kowloon and Dis-
Republic.
BRUTAL EXPLOITATION.
A terrible picture of the slavery and analogs conditions which they found to exist in the Black
NOTIFICATION,
for this servlet on the authority punishment in which the native in To the CHINESE MARITIME
store Company consciously ent-over a dire in which red pepper trict will be CLOSED to Puble toys any but voluntary labour on has been thrown. its rubber plantations."
In
Flogging Prevalent. Floggings are provalent, and in (7) The Commission further
canes natives have been African Republic of Liberia are find that Vice-President Yancy some enntained in the report of the In-and other high officials of the beaten to death. To punish some as of the natives their wives have temational Commission of Inquiry Liberian Government as well which has been issued at Geneva County Superintendents and Dis-been taken away by officials and Below are described the cruelticstrict Commissioners, have given forced to live in adultery. involved in the recruitment and their sanction for the compulsory greatest fear of what might hap- shipment of labour which have recruitment of labour for road pen when they returned to their heen inflicted or the native tribes construction, for shipment abroad husbands. these wretched women deliberately killed babies with the connivance and participa and other work by the aid and aa-have tion of officials connected with the alatance of the Liberian Frontier born to them through the adult- Government of the country,
Force. These officials have also cry.
One of the most dreaded men- of the Geneva, Jan, 11.
the utilisation condoned
of
18 punishment the the sures Slave raiding and trading, forced
of intimidation villagers, labour without pay, brigand-
humiliation and degradation of "basket." A big basket is filed age, cruelty, barbarities intimida-native chiefs and for the impri-with earth and heavy stones, and lifted by several soldiers upon the tion and terrorist, brutal ex-sonment of inhabitants."
head of the luckless native, who ploitation of the natives, extor-
Coercing the Chiefs.
The boy is
tion, plunder and oficial corrup-i Some idea of the general char- has fallen foul of the officials of tion, rape, and eve: murder-page acter of the report has previous-the road building. after page. the report of the Ia-ly been given in the Straits Times. then told to turn round and round, he is doing this the ternational Comansion of Inquiry The particulars now given are and while into the alleged existence of slay- based on the sworn testimony of soldiers give the heavy load an In this way necks ery in Liberia, unfolds its tale of a large number of persons inter extra twist. horrors in the Neyro republic ofregated by the Commission, and are frequently broken and men reven! a truly terrible state of killed, and more often it causes injury to the neck. resulting in affairs.
subsequent death,
West Africa.
For years past stories of slav ery practices in that country have
The President of the Republic, been circulating throughout the Mr. C. D. B. King, does not appear world. In reply to a stiff note
to have been personally involved. from the United States Govern-But it is stated that his Vice-Pre- ment in 1929 Be Liberian Secresident, Yaney, hood-winked the tary of State gave in writing his President and became a veritable Government's "solemn and catetrrant, of whom practically all the gorical denial of the existence in chiefs lived in terror. the Republic of conditions hard- ly distinguishable from organised Hlave trading, and offered to have the charge investivated on the impartial, apet by a competent,
This system of forced labour compels the nutives to neglect the cultivation of their own plots of ground, and in the end is a seri- bus economic loss to the Republic. The human hawn system, though a customary feature of the One instance sut of many re-social structure of most backward corded in the report will serve to countries, is greatly aggravated disclose the character of the Vice-in Liberia by the system of com- President. A tribal dispute was pulsory labeur. It has been stat- brought before him by the Chief ad above that heavy fines are fre- nad unprejudiced commission, Jeh. Yancy ordered him to go back quently and unjustly
and bring the lawyers £100. The upon native workers on the road. AR often as not the boys or their Chief returned with the money. "This is not enough for lawyers," chiefs cannot pay these fines, and seck escape from the penalty by said Yancy.
Chief Jch went, back to his pawning their relatives.
£300 from The report gives instances of people and be rowed the Cavalla River Company, giv.numerous cases. In one case ten ing the whole amount to Yancy, chiefs and headinen clubbed to- The case was then dismissed, but gether and pawned their children Yancy demanded further payments to pay
In the following September the permanent Liberian delegate a credited to the League of Nations of the informed the President League Council that "in order to dispel once and for all even the slightest doubt" his Government
Small Boy: "Mummy, what's the matter? He docan't seem able to hit the lady at all"--
ter.
Passing Show, London.
inflicted
Business on the 12th March, 1931, being a Customs Illiday.
J. W. STEPHENSON, Commissioner of Chinese Customs, Kowloon & District. York Bullding, Hong Kong, 6th March, 1931.
CHURCHES
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MADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDER THIS HEADING
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, HONG KONG.
March 8, 3rd Sunday in Lent. Holy Communion, 8 a.m.
Holy Communion (Peak Church),
a.m.
Children's Service, 10 a.m. Choral Eucharist and Sermon, 11 a.m.
THE HONG KONG DEVELOP. MENT BUILDING & SAVINGS SOCIETY, LTD.
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(In Liquidation.)
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a GENERAL MEETING of CONTRIBUTORIES will be held in the City Hall (Music Room), Hong Kong, on THURS- DAY, March 19, 1931, at 2.30 p.m. for tire purpose of receiving a re- port by the Liquidatora, and a Summary of the Liquidators' Ro- ceipts and Payments to July 31, 1930.
Hong Kong. March 6, 1931.
J. HENNESSEY SETH, S. HAMPDEN ROSS,
Joint Liquidatora.
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE
THE Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public
Auction,
ON
WEDNESDAY, March 11, 1931, cemmencing at 6.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, 4, Duddell Street.
A Valuable Collection of POSTAGE STAMPS.
Preacher: The Pean. Subject:-"Ilinduism or Chris- 10, 1931.
tianity."
Evensong, 6 p.m.
Special Notice: Lecture at 6.30 p.m. followed by Discussion.
Subject:-"Does Christ Trans- cond Race?"
Speaker: Prof. L. Forster, M.A.
UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Road, Hong Kong.
Sunday, March 8, 1931. Morning Service, 11 a.m. Evening Service,. 6 p.m. Preacher: Rev. E. G. Powell. Sunday Schools: Kennedy Road at 10 am. and Taikoo nt 8 pm.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
a communal fine of £82. [Branch of The Mother Church,
for setting Jeh free, amounting The duration of a pawn contract The First Church of Christ, Scien
The holder of atist, in Boston, Mass, U.S.A.] to £225. The Che was rearreat- is indefinite.
Macdonnell Road, below Bowen Road Tram Station. Sunday Service,
ed, and his people had to pay a family pawn has the right to take fine of £300 for his release, though he was still detained.
her to wife.
In districts where male labour
Subject: "Mon."
March 8, 1931,
Wednesday Evening Meeting at
Reading Room at above address, open:--
Tuesday and Friday 10 a.m. to
Monday and Thursday 5.80 to 7
12 Noon.
p.m.
The Public is cordially invited to attend the service and visit the Reading Room.
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The Vice-President then com is scarce "a maa will take a num-11.15 a.m. manilecred 60 hovy of Jeh's tribe ber of women in pawn and place
The Sunday School is held on for shipment to the Spanish pro-them at work on his farm. They tectorate of Fernando Po. Heere encouraged to entice young Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, met with oppositioa, whereupon hemen into intimate relations with announced that Jeh's "town" them and the young men are im-5.30 o'clock. would in default have to pay £500.mediately seized, fined, and made The supply of boys was promised, to work out the amount of the fine but when the ship arrived with on the farm." Yancy on board the boys could The price of pawn is the price of a slave, and in practice it is not be found.
Yancy WAS furious and sent impossible for a pawn to redeem word to the Chief that if the gang hir self.
Intimidation. for shipment was not ready in a had definitely decided upon an in-few hours, he would burn the In
their concluding observa- ternational inquiry into the mat-town. The boys had fled to the tions, the Commissioners state bush, but eventually 316 were that intimidation has been and is The Commission was thereupon rounded up and driven on board. the key word of the Government's formed nominally at the request Yancy later sent e large company native policy; that development of the Liberian Government, It of soldiers into the district to col-and social progress are unknown, consisted of Dr. Cuthbert Christy lect the remaining 200 boys. while servitude and slavedom have (British), appointed by the League The soldiers caught the old men, taken their place, that the results Council; Dr. Charles S. Johnson, flogged and bound them, killed are disastrous and that the natives COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED a coloured professor of Fisk Uni-cattle and goals and demanded live a harried and half-starved
IN CHINA MAIL. versity, appointed by the Govern-sums of money and lags of rice. existence or else flee the country. ment of the United States; and The hostages were delivered to The first radical change they re-
Social Functions, the Hon. Mr. Arthur Barclay, for Yancy and placed in gaol until the commend is the removal of the To-day Ten Dances at Hong mer President of Liberia, appoint-200 boys were forthcoming, five District Con-missioners "as Kong and Peninsula Hotels. ed by the Liberian Government. This instance of Yancy's treat-dishonest and corrupt officials."
To-night-Dinner Dances at The Commission have spent four ment of the people is fairly typi-They suggest giving important ap-Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels. Wire months in Liberia, and took some cal of many others mentioned in pointments to Americans or Euro-
To-day. St. John's Hall annualjon demand hundreds of depositions of chiefs the report, and it should be re-peans of high moral standard.
On Singapore-- dance, 9 p.m. and other witnesses.
membered that the Commissioners Their other suggestions and re- March 17-St. Patrick's Society's On demand
Ball, Peninsula Hotel.
On Manllo- March 20-Yorkshire Society's On demand Dinner.
Entertainmenta. To-day
Queen's Native policy to be radically re-"Let Us Bo Gay."
To-day-d Central constructed.
Barrier betweg civilised and "King of Jazz."
To-day Majestic uncivilised to be broken.
Policy of suppression to be "When Love Comes Along."
To-day
Star abandoned.
Humiliation and degradation of "Soft Living."
To-day-World chiefs to cease.
Charges Confirmed. Their report issued at Geneva
had neither the time nor the op commendations may be summaris- portunity of investigating all the ed as followsimu
cuses.
Deserted Villages.
The policy of the open door. Extansion of education to all
yesterday instead of dispelling doubt confirms the charges and now imparts to them an official
This alave trading in Liberian character. It is divided into two main sections, one dealing with natives for Fernando Po must alike, slavery and the other with forced have been a lucrative business, for the Spanish syndicate paid to labour.
The outstanding points in the the Liberian recruiting agents by Commission's findings are as fol- agreement 29 for each boy plus a bonus of £1,000 for each 1,500 boys. Most of the boys were sent to the Spanish and Portuguese jelanda under falsa prétences.
The report states that this re- (2) Pawning la also recognis-cruiting was carried or with reckthority of chlefs.
of the less indifference to the economic ed in the social economy Ropublic (this is a system by welfare of the Stare,
lows:-
(1) Slavery as defined by, the Anti-Slavery Convention of 1926 actually does exist in certain forms.
(3) Women are sometimes taken sa pawns and used to attract male labourers to the land of certain Americo-Liberians.
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Complete reorgenisation of ad- ministration of the interior.
Institution of some form of civil 19.16 p.m. The Commission found on their which a native hands over to his creditor any member or relative journeyings, many villages com-service,
Rearrangement of the political of the family to work for the pletely deserted and overrun with
Forced labour is divisions of the country. creditor without wares until the vegetation.
Pawning and domestic slavery crufted mainly for the construc- debt is settled).
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Shipment of labour to Fernando touch of humour as regards the condition of the offelal mind.] Po to cease.
Road programme to be curtail (4) Forced labour is made use The construction of these roads
This has been dociled upon without ed. of for various purposes. labour has been "wastefully re-any consideration of other deve-. Much strictor control of 'cruited and used frequently under lopments and without consulting Frontier Force Soldiers.
Reconsideration of duties conditions involving systematic in-engineers.
The "surveyor goes ahead into those soldiers. timidation and Ill-treatment, on
March 18-Green Island Cement the part of Government officials the bush with a born. When he American immigration to be er-Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel, 11.80 a.m; and others." None of the labour blows the horn bis assistant tries couraged.
In an introductory letter to the Co., Exchange Ballding, 11.30 ..
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That above report B. Sottile, Liberian
To-day-Inward from Europe vin and frequently this labouris trails. out a line of cord. diverted to private use on the line is the track for the new road. Fermanent Delegate to the League,
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To-morrow-Inward from Europe plantations of Government céfals. In many instances natives have men were at work laying down the disclosures, and declares that the had to pay large anms to release road the Commissioners found the facts mentioned by the Commis-via-Negapatam (Santia). themselves from this forced recently finished section already sioners refer clitelly to the period
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