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MIXED NUDISTS IN HONG KONG.
[The Editor, "China Mall."1," Sir. Recently somo
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1
RECORD POLLING AT TO-DAY'S voting was going inside the poll,
ELECTION.ing office, and up to noon indica
tions were that Dr. Li Shu-fan was leading at least three to one. It was also easily seen that
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It will be learned with no little local doctors, and members of the surprise that of a total popigation legal profession were for Dr. Li, in the Colony of 849,751, only Shu-fan practically to a man. about 2,500 are entitled to vote in There was also no difficulty in that those voters an election. These are those discovering remarks whose names are on the Jury who are known to be residents were passed in the local Press to List, and others who come under on this aide of the harbour the effect that the efforts of Nud what is known as Part II., or the were eclared voters for Dr. Li ists seem not to have lad them exempted list, auch
as lawyere Shu-fan before they entered the anywhere. It is therefore time to and their clerks, medical men, polling office let the poor in faith in the suc dentists, and journalists. cess of Mixed Nudism in our Few Voters Eligible.
their.
"District Sense."
The district sense" was very Colony know, that our trials and Not all members of the profes. much in evidence, but while efforts have not been in vain, for sions named above were entitled Hong Kong residents were with- not only have they strengthened to vote, however. For the pur- were declared voters for Dr. Li our Ranks, but to-day the Hong pose of this election it was de Shu-fan, at least a dozen who Kong Nudist Society have also creed that those who were not in are known to live on the main- very excellent Nudist the Jury. List must make special land declared themselves for Dr. Grounds and Fields with a large application to be listed as exempt- Li before entering the polling fresh water river frontage, provided persons, before: April 25. office. Ing most excellent. bathing and Several, were obviously not aware Both the Hon. Sir Henry Pol. swimming facilities, the depth of of this, because when they, ar- lock, K.C., and Sir Shou-Bon the water. being from 4 to 10 feet rived at the polling office it was Chow, respectively Dr. Li Shu- in the dry season. The total area found that they were disquali fan's proposer and seconder, ar- obtained by the Hong Kong Nudist ned from voting.
rived early to register their votes, Society is about one and a quar-]
Mostly Chinese Voters,
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Election Placards.
ter acres, and comprises even land At the west entrance of the The majority of voters up to only surrounded by steep and gen-long vorridor leading to the poll-noon were Chinese with a good tly rising mountains from three ing office are exhibited two big sprinkling of Europeans of vari- sides, the fourth side, whilst pro- placards Vote for Mow Fungous nationalities. Portuguese viding an easy access from a huge black letters, and "Vote residents of the Colony, the ma- motor road, is yet entirely hidden for Li Shu-fan" in smaller rad jority of whom are entitled to by a turn of the river. The site letters, Tramcars also bore pla- vote, being on the Jury List, did is uninhabited and sufficiently cards on the fronts calling for not show up in any large num- secluded from all sides. It pro- votes for both candidates, bers up to noon. However, it vides excellent opportunities for
The distinction of being the must not be taken that this is a the laying out of tennis grounds, first person to register a vote in show of lack of interest, because and all sport activities, swimming, to-day's election falls to Dr. they are all office workers and roaning, air and sun baths, etc..E. W. Kirk whe entered the poll- cannot get out during working and there is plenty of space for ing office as soon as it was open-hours. It is anticipated that they erecting matsheds and all struc-cd. He was followed by about a will go to the poll during the tif- tures without encroaching on the dozen others, and by the time fin hour or after 5 p.m.
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have already made use of the others had arrived and the corzi be between 1 and 2 p.m. and 5 place, although some groundwork dor remained full throughout the and 5.30 p.m., which is the clos- is necessary to free the site of morning, but there was
never ing time, because not only the some shrubs on the water front,: Any undue rush..
Portuguese but many other vot- with Brland, and to his failure on and to give the site a smooth sur
Three European Police Officers ers will find it more convenient mis visit to the United States when face. The Site Committee and the were on duty in the corridor and to go to the poll during their Working Committee have been very conducted the voters through leisure. This rush is anticipat- he spent several days with Presi-busy and are greatly indebted to one door, and after they had voted and provision has been made dent Hoover, without, however, several persons whose identity ited they were shown out of the for it. securing any real results.
is not yet free to reveal. The
to lout.
Counting To-day.
Laval's downfall was most inap Nudist Idea has a very good foun- Polling office through another
door.
The votes will be counted at dation, and is supported by more
5.30, immediately after the close propriate as it occurred at the people in this Colony than our few
Candidates Attend. Both candidates with their of the polling and It is anticipat would make it be The defeat of Tardieu at the opening of the Disarmament Con-adversaries
supporters were present a few ed that the result will be known time when world lieve. A general meeting of mem- minutes before the polling was by 7 p.m. at the very latest, as French elections will not be wel-ference, at a
hers and supporters will take place and di-leaders were meeting at Geneva. this or early next week, when fur-opened, and while Dr. Li Shu-fan the number of votes to be scruti- comed in many quarters
remained till noon, Mr. Mow nised and counted will not exceed might be given plomats are presented with another Painlevé, an outstanding figure ther information
Fung left after the first batch 2,500, which is approximately had voted. A
the number of residents who problem in the already complicat-since the War, was called on
All for Mixed Nudism in lovely There was more organisation have the necessary qualifications ed European situation. The many form a Cabinet, but he failed to
surroundings, away from dusty and vitally important coming con- secure sufficient support. Tardieu crowds and unhealthy wet cloth-in Dr Shu-fan's "camp." In to vote, which are 21 years of the corridor were seen several age; a juror; or an exempted Chinese, with strips of pink rib person under Part II, but the ferences on matters which require was then summoned and he
bined a number of different parties,
bon on their coats with the words latter must have applied to be immediate remody, such as
Dr L Shu-fan's Supporter," registered before April 25. and these assisted the candidate debts, reparations, trade treaties, mostly moderates, to form etc., call for a harmonious spirit Cabinet which included Laval. It・・
to welcome the votars. had dummy voting forms on a of international co-operation, and was generally thought that Tardieu it is feared that the Socialists' suc- would gain the country's con-
table at which they showed the voters exactly what they had cess in France will prejudice the dence, and his surprising reverses
to do before showing them second balloting
into the polling office. chances of auccess at the forth-at the
French per- startling. The effect, on coming conferences.
war
com-
A
were
interna-
ing.
Yours, etc., HERBERT E. LANEPART, President, H.K. Nudist Society
P.O. Box No. 304. Hong Kong, May.10. SANITARY BOARD ELECTION.
They
The votes will be counted at 5.30 p.m. by Mr. E. P. H. Lang.
acting Registrar of the Supreme Court and with him will be four scrutinisers, two representing ench candidate.
[The Editor, "China MaiL")+ Sir,As to-day Is the election day, I should like to summarise the No Secret.
Personal Pars. Although newspaper men were 'sistence on war debts and repara-tiqnal affairs will be a disturbing points in favour. of the rival cannot allowed to enter the polling
have didates urged by their respective office, and in spite of the fact in the Colony by the se. President Lady de Longeville Smith arrived view of supporters,
upport understand it. Mr: Mow that there is no eh will not start
that there is no automatic count McKinley yesterday: She is on a Fung's, chief, and indeed only until 5.80 p.m. when the polling pleasure, trip. qualification is that by reason of will be closed, It was not difficult, change his 37 years' residence in Hong after spending a couple of hours Mr. M. de Cortabitarte, who is ac A prominent resident of Manila,
•
will
in
Paris. momentous
defeated the French attitude is in France's policy would be disas-Kong, he is conversant with the in the corridor, to get an indica
sanitary requirements of the tion as to how the voting was go-ter arrived by the s.5. President
Each candidate and his sup
and policies [tions has been the stumbling-block one,
be amended in to arrival at any satisfactory settleto
new influence ment of the German and French the
present is a differences, and now that the more The moderate Right Parties have been perlod and any radical
companied by his wife and daugh trous to the hopes for any new in Colony in general and Kowloon in ing. likely to become more extreme.
McKinley yesterday and will spend French politics have always ternational co-operation. Many particular.
Dr. Li's residence in the Colony is porters seemed to know their avacation here.. puzzled outsiders, and; It is see sinister signs in Tardieu'n de- shrewdly suspected, the French feat, as his foreign policy must certainly not shorter than Mr. Mow particular voters and welcomed!
Fung's, as I understand that Dr. them upon arrival. The few Mr. M. B. Carroll, who is on a The variety have met with popular disfavour. Li was born in the Colony some whose leanings were not known tour of Investigation in the Inter- people themselves. and number of the Parties, the There is consulation in the reflec- forty-eight years ago. Dr. Li is not upon arrival were also not dif- este of the League of Nations pass issues, the tion that the new President, the only a medical practitioner but is dcult to identify, because noted through on the ss. President many complex instability of all Governments successor of the late M. Doumer, also a public health expert, and his knowing their way about the cKinley en route to Tokyo. He is
experiences as a medical man invariably inquired which way to accompanied by Mrs. Carroll, and the rapid changes in Cabinets will a and administrations perplex ob- of M. Le Brun. Had the vacancy of Victoria and Kowloon will en instance they gave away, the i
Tobacco Co., Ltd, Will Abe, pleased
No leader can gain been caused a few days later, afterable him to have far better in-name of the person they wishermanager of the British-American power by the strength of his own the new House had been convened sight into the sanitary require to vote for to the first person to learn that he has now left the
servera.
War Memorial Hospital and return-
ments of the Colony as a whole. * they approach for direction. party alone, and he depends on the the election of Painleve, through It cannot be stressed too often Dr. Li Leading? 1737.
of Socialists and Radi that the constitution of the Sanitary In this way anyone watchined to his residence, 250 The Peat. support on a group of parties, the whose agreement on several mat-cals, would have bean certain. The Board is statutory; it is fized by the crowds as they arrive could
n certain. The Ordinance. Under the constitu- get a fair idea of the way the ments are Pay Lieut. W. J. Farrell
Among the latest Naval appoint means President of France is not as tion, only two of its members are
ters may be by no. ishanimous.
quy
these elected members, Dr. Basto,
to H.M.S. Tarantula (May 2), and
The combination powerful a figure as the President elected by pubile votes. As one of tain medical and health measures Pay Cadet R. M Garside to HMS. Forming the Government is liable of the United States, his sphere of already on the Committee of the Which Dr. Li Shu-fan has shown to Berwick (May (20) Both ships to disruption at any moment, as infuente being much more limited, KRA. the only question remains be absolutely ill-conceived and chi- belong to the Ching Station, The merical, It Mr. Mow. Fung could Berwick feet present at Home any of the smaller parties may but he is important enough to play is whether the other elected men have his way: Hongkong WONID HAYO for reconditioning, listISI
break away if the policy is not to a big part in the form
PELARETIRAR KAMPALANG 2 Cabinets, when a crisi hreatens. their liking. Usually the issue" is
between the Right and the Left. The personnel and polic
the latter being formed mainly of Radicals and Socialiste, while the
the
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