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The following incident occurred In the Central Police Court on Wednesday morning, during the hearing by Mr. Wynne-Jones of a minor caso. A Chinese · woman was saying the address of a cer-) tain place was No. 37 Wyndham Street, when a male voice from the back of the Court shouted "No, it is No. 47." "Bring that man up here" was the sharp retort of Mr. Wynne-Jones. The man, Chinese, came forward, and stood in front of the dock. "Fined five dollars" remarked his Worship,
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1932.
JAPAN'S RULE IN SOUTH SEAS
SEIZED TERRITORY FROM
IMPERIAL GERMANY
THE DOCILE MICRONESIANS
Palau (Pelow Islanda). retarded. So thriftless and ignor- In 1920 the Japanese Government ant are the natives that the repeal was charged by the League of Na- of this enactment
would tempt tions with a mandate over the three many of them to soll their island groups of Micronesia which properties a
for
com-
handful of before the War had been in the silver, to find themselves in a very possession of Germany, and which a short time without land, without Japanese naval force had occupied money, and without food. A sys. In 1914. These three archipelagos tom exists by which the "foreigner" constitute a vast triangle the base of may lease native land by consent which the long line of the Caro- of the authorities and after oficial Hino and Marshall groups-extends registration;, but with the increas- cast and west for 2,500 miles at a ing immigration abuses may ensue distance of a few degrees from the-without the knowledge of the res Apple crops are said to be good Equator, while the apex is at the ponsible officials-that will be dif- this year.
Mine promised well, extremity of the Marianne group, ficult to control. Few colonizing but a bird pecked it.
1,200 miles farther north.
efforts have escaped such abuses, Within this expanse of ocean are and illegal methods of evading situated the 623 islands and the such laws have occurred in most Brush-and-brush-just, to
800 islets and reefs that form the countries similarly situated. The brush think brush that —
thrée archipelagos, with an nggre lander is not only ignorant, but fourteen-brush short brush gate area of land of only about 700 he also lacks the energy to defend brush I had square miles. Communication be his own interests. Probably no -years ago - brush a batman brush to tween Japan and the islands la population in more dependent upon clean brush → my — brush -
maintained by two steamers which paternal protection. visit the eastern and western
Rental System. groups at regular intervals. The Yet there is no reason why land distance traversed on the former in the possession of the individual route from home port (Yokohama) native, ar of native communities, It was market and Christmas day, back to home port is over 7,600 should not be rendered available and John Smith, farmer, Bograxie, after finishing his business in the mile, and on the latter over 6,700 for cultivation while retaining its miles. The mail is delivered in native proprietorship. Where par- corn market, went to celebrate the the. Caroline and Marshall islande ties are agreed-the native to let Beason. He patronised several eleven times in the year. The dif- and the foreigner to acquire on public houses, with the result that ficulty of administering such release-a notification to this effect he got fairly well to do," and miss-mote Islands, scattered over ed the last train home. Making his vast an expanse of sea, is manifest, petent
so could be mada to the proposals. However, it was an way to the Post Office he rolled up Although the German control had examine the circumstances.
authorities, who would, nounced that opinion on the spot to the counter, and from the young been benign there had been no instead of the "foreigner" leasing But was satisfied, and that was the lady on duty, brusquely demanded-excessive haste in organization, and the land from the native tho Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 22, 1932. main purpose of the British Gov- "Gles a form."
little had been accomplished be- Government might become the ernment's scheme. Never before want?" she asked.
"What sort of a form do you yond careful preparatory study direct tenant--preferably on a long had any satisfaction been as
during the 16 years that the Caro-lease-and sublet to the "foreig "Oh, ane o' yer telegraph forms, line and Marianne groups had been ner." The native proprietor or much as pretended, so here at an' will ye fill it up for me?" Jast was something distinctly
in German possession. To-day the proprietary community would re- "Oh, yes, what shall I any?" gained. This was on the politi "Let's see. Oh, ay, jist address it out the mandate with efficiency, and paid by the Government, and Japanese Government is carrying ceive an annual renta! guaranteed The semi-humorous warning it was, for at least some days, Lost the train-Jock."
cal side, But on the moral side to Mr. Smith, Bograxie, and say, generosity, and good will.
the Government would in turn col attered by Kipling for the bene-declared in messages from several
The natives of these archipelagos lect rent from the "foreigner." One "But won't you give some reason about 45,000 Kanakas, distribut-native interest would require the fit of those who might seek to Indian sources that a still greater for losing the train?" asked the ed over all the groupe and about strictest protection. If forest land "bustle the Aryan brown" is but Orthodox Hindue, it was stated,
gain had been accomplished. young lady.
3,000 Chamorros, restricted to the is to be cleared-and nearly all na- little needed to-day. For a much the men who treat those of lower that she'll ken!"
"Oh; ye needna bother aboot northern and western islands-are tive property is forest land-it docile, thriftless, only moderately should be stipulated that the wild wider circle than that of Anglo-caste or of no caste at all (mem-
intelligent, and immoderately idle.fruit trees-particularly the bread- India has learned, and is still bers of their own race, be it re-
Nor is there much need for them fruit should be protected for the learning, that the supposedly tempt than the most arrogant
Ito work for Nature furnishes them benefit of the native owners, to patient East must be outplayed white man ever shows towards
with almost all that they require: whom they furnish their chief sub- Their staple article of food-bread-sistence. The Japanese would no at its own game by those of the the lowllest aliens, were throwing
fruit grows wild in profusion. doubt prefer that wild Nature West who would treat with it off their age-long prejudices, Japan's now factory law pro- The coconut, on which the inhabi- should provide the native popula
fraternising with the Untouch-hibits the employment of women tants of many of the coral islands tion with food rather than that the guccessfully. Patience, indeed, ables, and allowing them to ap and children between the hours of almost entirely subsist, exists in islanders should become a charge is rather with the white man proach the temples and sacred 11 p.m. and 5 a.m
unlimited quantities. For change upon the administration. than with the Oriental, and as- bathing-places. Alas! this hal-
and variety there are the banana, The good will and officiency-of- suredly he needs it more. In In It does not seem, in fact, to have instead of bristles, a new shaving though worn by the men in and near their administrators is
cyon period was sadly short-lived. Composed of a soft rubber pad papaya, taro, and fish. Clothing, the Japanese Government and of manifest dia, that world in itself, he has long survived the political re brush massages the face as It the settlements, is a luxury rather throughout the islands. Justice, to deal with a multitude of child-adjustment which enabled the applies lather.
than a necessity, and is often dis-education, hygiene and sanitation, like minds, normally capable of Mahatma to break his self-
carded. The women are rendered research work, and moral and phy imposed fast. In Mr. Gandhi's) recognising as a whole the bene-own district, which at first wel picture camera and telescope in an the missionaries are stated to insist fous attention. The hospitals, dis- Germans have combined a motion unattractive by the costume that sical culture are all receiving ser- fits he brings them, but at all comed the reforms, the enthus-instrument for recording airplane upon their wearing a garment repensaries, and schools are admir- times liable to strange upheavals. iasm soon died down, while in test flights..
sembling the caricaturist's pictures able. The police force is incredi They are easy material for in- Surat those who had mingled
for the early Victorian nightgown bly small, for theae Micronesians with the casteless had to under- citement, and they have among go a public purification.
An inventor has mounted a six and said to be fashioned on that are docile and law-abiding; and the Little compartment diah on ball bearings model. them-masters of that art. Hence wonder that the Untouchables on a base to facilitate aelection of
maintenance of order is easy. The Imported Labour.
missions, Catholic and Protestant, the swift alternations that are themselves came to the conclusion its contents.
In addition to the 48,000 native enjoy complete inerty and receive witnessed of better coditions or had been only a bribe to induce that the short period of tolerance
inhabitants of the islands there are financial assistance. About twoN A Japanese wireless telegraph to-day about 18,000 Japanese, most-
(Continued on Page 7.) worse, contentment and unrest them to abandon their claim to company is erecting a station at ly people of the Luchu archipelago. succeeding each other with little the benefits of the Government's Koyama for communication with The majority of them are employed apparent cause. At the moment, scheme. That done, they were the South Sea area.
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membered) with deeper con- Facts You Did Not·
Know.
thrown aside once more by lead- report is made of rapid progress erg of the Congress type.
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In the cultivation of the Bugar- cane and in the sugar refineries 'of Saipan and Tinian, or are engaged in the fishing industry elsewhere. They do not actually compete with native labour, for both these were industries have only recently
NEGRO'S BRAVERY.
IN GREAT WAR.
Public Tribute To Black Fighter.
London.
in attempts to bring about com-Through all these devious shifts, munal political peace. It may be political crime has continued, though mainly, even almost en- so; but premature rejoicings tirely, confined to Bengal, the notified to the Health Authorities been introduced. In both casca
Two cases of diphtheria would be inadvisable. So many territory concerning which an old on Tuesday. swift reversals have been seen in Indian saying has it that "the
a trial was made of native la- a land so ideally fitted for panic men are women and the earth! The third meeting of the Hong found to be inefficient and unsa bour, which, when procurable, was propaganda and for bitterness, often pointed out what the fate ciation will be held in the Helena
water." The hardier races have, Kong Branch of the English Asso- tisfactory.
Lan Hamilton at the Cenotaph in- racial and sectarian. The only of such a region has been repeat May Institute on Tuesday January
It is evident that progress and London recently and heard him pay wonder is that the presence of edly in the past, and would be 8, 1993, at 6.30 p.m. when Mr. H.C. Prosperity depend upon imported la- tribute to the bravery, of negroes in the British is able to keep native again in the future, were the Macnamara will speak on "Light will not play more than an insigni- After setting a wreath in their
bour and that the '48,000 natives the war. antagonisms in check at all. British protection removed. Vores.”
"A Oblivious of such harsh realities,
Coloured men stood around Sir
fcant part in the material advance- memory agalust the Cenotaph; Sir note of unreality ie added to the Bengalese agitators, though Mr. W. S. V. Curtis, manager af harvesting of the coconut and the from Scotland to do so, said:
ment of the islands. Beyond the Inn, who had made a special journey these latest rumours, when we they cannot either fight like war the Duro Pump and Engineering preparation of copra, with some "Although war is a wicked and have it gravely stated that Mr. riors or make peace like states- Company, was summoned before intermittent work in the settle cruel thing, it has one great merit in
men, can employ the revolver and Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magia- the Government) is known to their wielders than the dagger, sinking four wells on Kowloon In 38,000 people, whose capacity and are equal; colour is no bar.
What then is the future, of, then one family. All men and women be ardently desirous of peace To combat these tactics by direct land Lot 2168 without a permit inclination to work is almost nil Recalling the fine service of the since his "triumph on the ques- methods is the work of the sore from the Building Authority. De-and who leave the land in their Senegalese soldiers in the tion of the Untouchables. What by moral suasion is now the
ly-tried police. To check them fendant was cautioned. possession that is to say, almost Dardanelles, he said: was that "triumph? In West- avowed aim of numerous politi-
Be the entire surface of many of the "No men could have died more After 35 years service with the islands uncleared, uncultivated, bravely. Over and over again, ern eyes it was almost non-cal leaders, both European and In Hong Kong Government, Mr. Sirder and unproductiva? existent.
As the result of his dian. It is natural and proper Khan, Chief Clerk of the Harbour By the existing law no race has shown qualities of courage fighting for Greater Britain, your for the latter to bestir themselves, office, will leave the Colony on re-foreigner Japanese or other and self-sacrifice second to none, but well-advertised hunger-strike in seeing that the great majority of tirement next year, He and Mr. can purchase, or otherwise acquire, this is the first time in modern his protes again the granting of those politically murdered have Mir Alam Khan of the Naval Yard, possession of native land, the pro- tory that the debt has been publicly separate rep
the been of their own race. But we who is also retiring on pension, priet Ights of which can only acknowledged.
Gandhi (still wisely detained by the bomb, which are safer to tracy yesterday for unlawfully ments, the native shuns exertion; that it draws folk together into
26, Queen's Rd., Hong Kong. 18, Hankow Rd., Kowloon,
seemed
very
com.
do not yet see Mr. Gandhi's name wer among them, or read of any in- tention on his part to under
to dif- for example and protest, and
original hunger strike
lests of: honour at tea he dig given by the Moslem Society, thema
Crawford's Hest
Laser
rday. Many prominent residenta: were present:
ef among the natives The ceremony followed a service law should be for coloured men in Westminster. But some method may Abbey and a visit to the Unknown. visad whereby the pro-Warrior's gra
ess of the islands is not was Jäld.