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BRITISH CARS CONQUER DESERT TREK.
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1932,
Fighting For A Drop Of Water
Waited Four Hours.
By signs this old lady indicat- ed that she had waited at the | fountain for four hours before a
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have as much water as they want.
"Water, water, everywhere, "But never a drop to drink,". wrote. Coleridge in the "Ancient policeman had kindly given her Mariner, and one feels that this her ration one whole tin full! must also be the sentiment of the One gallon of precious, life-poor Chinese people who know that they have to struggle for s giving water for her "old man,” her infant grandson, and lastly, in more fortunate circumstances, few drops of water while others,
can have baths twice a day.
for herself.
She cackled once more, nodded and tottered on her way again. I happened, accidentally, to follow, and saw her pass up a dark staircase adjoining a cook shop. Out of curiosity I follow-
of the Chinese entertain for To illustrate the feeling, some those who are supplied direct from the meters, here is a true incident which I witnessed yes. terday morning.
ed her up the stairs and found
Foetid Water. myself in a hot, suffocating room Two Europeans were walking with beds and bed clothing scat-down from the Peak Tram along tered untidily about. There was Garden Road, and saw two Chin- little ventilation. A baby was ese youths drinking the foetid sprawling on a mat and in awater that runs down the nullah wicker chair, inert and helpless, from the Peak and eventually lay a very old man. Much older, the sea. than my water-carrier, he was "Look at those dirty little begi shrivelled like a brown, dead gara, Taughed one man to his leaf. The only signs of life that friend. "Fancy drinking that came from him were a thin trail, filthy stuff." of tobacco smoke from his lips. SATISFACTION OF WAR OFFICE. and a feeble gleam from half
closed.eyes.
5,600-Mile Journey Completed.
London, Yesterday.
Tired Queues.
The War Office report records a The old lady put the tin on the fine performance by British Botor floor and taking a cup, gave first vehicles in Southern Sudan between the old man and then the baby a vehicles In Southern Sudan drink. A quarter of the remain. between January 18 when a convoying contents she then poured into New Zealand and Australia. The of four military vehicles left a hand basin on the floor. This, Canadian Government is already
Cairo, and April 16, when a journey apparently, was to serve the DE BIERE-At the Matilda Hos-
of 5,600 miles was completed. pital on May 21, 1982, Samuel represented here by a Trade Com-
household for the purpose of ab- Only a negligible proportion of lutions for the entire day. The Joseph De Biere, aged 73 missioner, and the appointment of this mileage was over made roads. old lady passed me unscoingly years, late
of the Chinese an Australian representative in Trackless desert and hilly ground and crept down the stairs, Maritime Customs. Funeral will pass the monument at 4 the near future is not an unlike-ton soil 1,660 miles, very heavy to join the queue of tired, thirsty represented 1,650 miles, black cot-watched her go, tattering along, p.m. (Shanghai papers please ly event.
sand 400 miles and hard gravel or women who waited, waited, each copy.)
The_China Mail.
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One of the Chinese overheard their remarks. He grinned and said in tolerable English, "Ai ya, you Taipans, you have got plenty water; but Chinese man, he no got. Plenty thirst, plenty die." And with a cheerful smile he took another gulp of the stagnant water.
In Kowloon,
food hawker washing his pups In Kowloon I saw a Chinese and dishes in some dirty water in a drain near Austin Road. In licking the sides of a public foun- Hong Kong I saw a tiny fellow tain where the water had drib. · bled over. plete and lesser examples of the These are only a few, incom.
hardships which have been im- posed on the poor people due to the water shortage and the fail. lure of the authorities to cope- with the situation.:
The results of the Fair cannot sandy soil 1,280 miles.
for her tin-full of water. be calculated yet, but already con- were only five punctures; and no Throughout the journey there gratulations are due the members accidents occurred.
Baby's "Wetting.” The convoy In another tenement I saw a of the Committee which has been comprised a Crossley Six-wheel young Chinese mother, neat and Hong Kong, Saturday, May 21, 1932. responsible for such excellent or Lorry, a Commer-Four wheel Lorry, cleanly, washing her three
ganisation of the Fair arrange- nine horse power Riley car,
a Morris Commercial Van and a months' old baby in a slipper
bath. There was about three CHEUNG CHAU NOTES. The Empire Fair. ments. Under the chairmanship The report says that other makes inches of water in the bath, so
of the Hon. Mr. J. F. Braga the of vehicles of these types would that baby got only a superficial [From Our Own Correspondent.] The success that has attended Committee has achieved results the War Office is definitely satisfied
have been equally successful and "wetting."
Quite a number of visitors spent the preliminary arrangements for which exceeded the original hopes that British Car and Lorry Manu- inmates were carefully rationed the Island, a party of 15 Boy Scouts In all the houses I visited the and enjoyed their brief holiday on the Empire Fair to be held on for the affair. It is a remarkable facturers are now producing vehi- by the senior of the household, from King's College in charge of Monday and Tuesday augura well accomplishment that the Fair will cles eminently suitable for Imperial for when it took four hours Scout Master Ferguson were accom for the Fair itself. It is practical-not cost one cent, either to the ex- Wireless Service.
and Colonial employment.-British waiting and a quarter of a mile modated in house No. 19 finishing..... ly assured that the Fair will be successful to a degree that will justify it. being made an annual event. Public interest has been!
hibitors or to the management. This pleasing result was achieved through the contributionа of
walk to
get half a gallon up their evening with a Ping Pong of water, it was no | match at the Government School. joke to see it wasted in wanton A larger party of Y.W.C.A. luxury, such as a bath, a long (Chinese) members. stayed at No.
good time. "
aroused and on the merits of the public-spirited men and the whole- SANITARY REFORMS drink, or to cool one's face with! 22 and 25 and seem to be having
hearted co-operation of all busi- show alone big attendances are certain. The attraction of the ex-There are many who will be sur ness men interested in the Fair. hibits, the variety of the amuse- ments and the significance of the prised at the wealth and variety event provide inducement enough
of the exhibits, and the educa- tional value of the Fair would to make the Fair one of the out-
alone. justify its existence. standing functions of the year in broader knowledge of the products the Colony, The slogan "Buy of the Empire would increase con- British" has never possessed more sumption of those products, and it
IN LIBERIA.
Britain and U.S. Use a Little Pressure,
In the hot streets women and little girls tramped to and fro "There were guests at several of with their full cans and their the houses and house owners as well. empty cans. One saw them in At the local chapel Rev. Lei Shue- the queues, listlessly placid and kwai paid one of his periodic visits silent, or else fighting like preaching and holding a Com-· viragoes for positions of vant- munion Service: - age.
Last week there was great, excite-- "Me first; I was here before'l mant in the village over the annual NO REFORMS, NO MONEY! you," one little spitfire seemed to Dragon Boat races three crews.
say to an older girl who was competing.
Rain is needed sidling up to a higher place. A London, Yesterday. appeal within the Empire as now. is in this direction that the Fair Council Session at Geneva to-daved them. He was sympathetic: Next month will see the first of the
At the opening of the League constable came up and separat local springs are The economic crisis in England-will achieve its most useful pur-Viscount Cecil represented Great he knew how tired and irritable Summer visitors arriving. and in most of the Dominions-pose.
Britain when the question of these people got after their
the friction between London and Dublin and Cape Town, the op-
Personal Pars.
A
proach of the vitally important Ot- Mr. J. M. Walker, of the staff of tawa Conference and a general re-the Chartered Bank, went on Home cognition that the British Common-leave on the Empress of Asia yester wealth of Nations needs some muze
day. definite, and closer, association,
Liberia was considered..
as some of the running slowly.
SHANGHAI “WAR NOVEL”.
hours' long vigil. "Now you two"! A report providing for the BP-London "Bobby" and that was was all he said, just like a kind- pointment by the League and the
Mr. M. Naoki, one of the popular United States of high officials to the end of the trouble.
novelists of Japan, to-day, has arriv... supervise administrative financial
Endless Fight,
ed at Shanghal to gather material. and sanitary reforms was adopted, |
And so it goes on, night and for his projected Shanghai w although the Secretary of State for day, the endless fight for water; novel." He will remain there for Liberia szid that he was not in a the fear that the supply will give about a week. He is registered at Mr. Y. T. King, Manager of position to say if his Government out; the jealously of those who the Hoyokwan Hotel.. all form causes which provide the Griffiths & Co., was also a passeng-would accept these measures. reason for the move towards a er on the Empress of Asia yester-The loan of $247,000 as well as greater Imperial unity. Obser day. He is en route to Shanghai. a moratorium will not be negotiat
ed until Liberis accepts the "full vance of Empire Day, Including Mr. E. Blackbum, Canadian plan of re-organisation as provid- the Fair, in the Colony in a local Pacific Railway auditor, returned to ed for in the report,--British Wire- contribution to this movement and Honolulu on the Empress of Asia less Service.
yesterday, after an official visit to
one that is welcomed, and support the East.
ed, by all Britishers. British
goods and a big sale in Hong Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith, Kong, and 1 tterly the Dominions, popular local entertainment artist particularly & nada, and Australia, on short leave, by the Empress of and broker, proceeded to Shangha! have been fin Ing an increasing Asia yesterday. market here. That market has by
no mesna bean fully developed, Mr. F. 8, Gibbings, Manager of and functions such as the Fair will Hong Kong, left on the Empress of the Dunlop Rubber Company In Iaccomplish much to assist the Asta yesterday on a business visit
in "popularising their to Shanghai roducts, many of which; staple ported an which do
with Chines
Kother me
are
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