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EIGHTY EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION-
HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1932.
SOCIAL EVILS IN PEIPING.
(Continued from Page 1.)
The public cries out against this] atate of affairs and there are in- dividuals who are demanding con-j certed and immediate action to! remedy the situation.
Pelping Letter,
The following letter from a prominent European resident of Peiping, speaks bluntly of the con ditions existing:
SUCCESS OF WAR LOAN CONVERSION.
"Greatest Step To World Recovery.”
2,000,000 APPLICATIONS.
GIANT REGISTER THE DOUBLE.
(Continued from Page 1.)
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which has sprung up in Feiping as out of 2,600,000 have been received, a result of the introduction, dur- of which 1,900,000 are for conver- ing the past couple of years, ofsion. These include nearly all the Chinese public dancing girls, has big holdings. already had a very demoralising The Federation of British In effect on the 70,000 school boys dustries in a business forecast for and giris here, as Peiping is an the third quarter of the year des- educational centre of China with cribe the scheme as the greatest Washington Senators up-to-date,modern Universities step towards world recovery made where co-education exists. Res since the onset of the slump. pectable families also live in this ideal residential city.
"Public dancing halls, presum ably under foreign registration. with Chinese public dancing girls, are open every night until the
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The "success of the operation is Cleveland Indians likely to mark the turning point in Philadelphia Athleties. 1 Britain's commercial position Detroit Tigers, British Wireless Service.
FLOOD DISASTER IN CANTON.
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small hours of the morning and girls from Shanghai, Tientsin and the "icensed quarter" outside! Chienmen in Peiping become danc-
the organisation of relief ing girls. Thus the "red light dig- and trict" in Peiping is practically de parties set in hand. Those assist serted. Girls of 1-fame have a ing include parties from the Fong new field open to them for their Ping Hospital, the Wai Nan Charity TUNG WAH BUILDING SCHEME immoral.. activities degrading Hospital, the Kwong Chal Hospital, society, and respectable families, the Ngoy Yau Charity Hospital due to present economic condition, and the Government Offices.
APPROVED.
(Continued from Page 1)
permitting their daughters to be Mr. Jim Ku-yee, head of the means of wiping off part of the yearly deficit of $100,000 on the come dancing girla, have become Bureau is in charge of the work.
of the Tung Wah Hospital. Hitherto the Mr. Lau Kee-man, head the victims of circumstances.
Canton Municipality, has subscribed deficit had been met by subscrip. Students Attracted.
tions, but the Board considered this. "Boy students, attracted by the $5,000 to the relief work. alluring temperament of dancing Two hundred Chinese people were method unsatisfactory.
Eight houses have been propos- girls, visit these places every night either killed or seriously injuried
SO CON
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in the week and familiarity breeds as the result of a rain, storm and ed, and it is estimated that the cost scandal. Their study is neglected, flood which swept Canton City on will be about $70,000. The annus! Hundreds of rent roll is estimated to return and the purpose, for which they Saturday morning. have been sent to Peiping by houses were destroyed, and over 30 $24,000 per year, $4,000 of which demolished will be absorbed by taxes and ex- parents, as well as the expenditure fires occurred in thes
The heavy loss of life penses, involved, is entirely forgotten structures,
unprecedented in the last 60 Thus in three and a half years, Student suicides have also been re-is
The river rose rapidly on the money spent on construction ported. The freedom in these years. dancing halls is such that with Friday, and the whole city was will be repaid.
taken entirely by surprise when the sleeping accommodation veniently available in semi-foreign storm broke. hotels in the neighbourhood, it is The most serious disaster occur- not at all surprising that social red at the Home for the Aged, Gov- disease in Peiping in on the in- ernment Mint Road, when the whole
As an instance that the building was submerged, about demand for hotel accommoation in aged male and female inmates be-nine matches whilst on tour with
About 1,060 persons were the following results: the small hours of the morning is ing lost.
v. Combined Saigon. 6-1 v. Sadec... greater than the supply, it may removed to the roof of the Home for be stated that a dancing girl with safety.
While many collapses were re- her young-man-of-fancy had one night to seek hotel accommodation ported from the low-lying districts, The woman over 100 houses in Sai Kwan and in numerous places. was eventually arrested at a hotel Nam Kwan were destroyed, many perishing. A block of 30 newly Land fined $25.
crease.
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SOUTH CHINA BEAT SAMARANG, (Continued from Page 1.) Results: South China have now played
v. Samarang
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v. A. Combined XI.
41
v. Bandoeng.
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The most unfortunate part of the constructed buildings collapsed in Marines present situation is that girl the Ngar Tong Mei area. students of comparatively limited from the gunboats, under Com means are enticed by the fascinat mander Chang Chi-yung, who was
Lee Wai-tong heads the goal- ing social life and the inducement recently appointed, spent a buay offered, and sooner or later become morning rescuing victims from de- scoring list with 18 goals to his molished houses.' Communications credit, while Lee Yee-sun (11), the victims of circumstances.
between the City proper and Honam Chu" Kwok-luen (5), Wong Ka- Places of Evil, "In brief, dancing halls are meet- Island were completely interrupted, leung (4), Ip Pak-wah (6), Wong ing places for the opposite sexes to owing to the suspension of the Mei-shun, (2) and Chang Kwai- the remaining cultivate illicit relationship until Honam, Ferry boat service on Fri- leung added
day at mid-night, Destruction to twenty-nine goals. the small hours of the morning,,
"If, as a
result of this letter, property is also reported in Honam. action is taken to restrict the sources from which this social evil
AMAH WOUNDED BY SOLDIER.
A Chinese amah, employed at breeds, then the writer considers to the welfare of their sons and Murray Barracks was accidentally that the time and labour spent in daughters is allowed to continue, shot in the right buttock, yesterday placing his observations on record and for whose education China is afternoon, by Lance Corporal Lee, will not have been in vain. It goes spending millions of dollars every of the South Wales Borderers. without saying that the minds of year, and for which the remissions The wound was inflicted by parents who send their children to of the Boxer Indemnity by the small calibre bullet, and is stated Peiping from different provinces to foreign powers are also ear-marked: to be slight. The woman was treat.
Yours, faithfully, -
ed, at the Government Civil Hos pursue a higher education, are not
#SOCIAL WELFARE.".. pital: Her name is Lee Sam
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