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From
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About
1933.
-6,000 12th Aug. -17,000 12th Aug.
Destination.
Straits Colombo & Bombay Bombay, Marseilles & London.
6,000 19th Aug. Marseilles, Havre, London,
17,000 26th Aug. 14,000 9th Sept. 6,000 16th Sept.
14,000 23rd Sept. 14,000 14th Oct.
11,000 21st Oct. 16.000
6,000 11th Nor.
15,000
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BLIND JUSTICE
(Continued from Page 10.)
THE CHINA MAILA
a queer business! If anything `comer of it. I'd give something to see those two faces when they're brought to- gether."
It was indeed a sight, as an impres- bionable young English policeman anid to the mess afterwards, “Very nearly)
At for the pictures,"
"Pictures your grandmother," said
a South African; "we get life here, not Hollywood."
Sandasa, who had not slept since the
day when a constable came to the hat
and said, "Should you know his voice!
Chinese Secretariat
Report For 1932
The Department's Activities In Mui-Tsai Supervision
if this one-cared man of yours LABOUR AND FACTORY CONDITIONS
the same room with you
And he, Sandasa, had been seized with a dreadful cold shivering as he whispered, after long silence, "Yes,
yes, Is he coming soon! To
day asa sat on the floor with bis his Department's activities. Inments at
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The Secretary for Chinese, a petition for increase of wages Affairs, in his Report for 1932, made by employees in junk gives an exhaustive review of building and caulking establish- Cheung Sha Wan, back to the wall in his accustomed at titude. His blind gate was lifted as cluded in the Report are sections Aberdeen and Shaukivan.. | if it
went on strike pierced the office, wall and could dealing with emigration and re- number of men see something beyond. But his skin patriation, lahour and factory and soine new men from outside was ashen-grey and shone with mois conditions and legislation affect the Colony were taken on. There ture on the forehead.
no unanimity When a blind man cannot sleep and ing them; also a review of the was, however.
the among
workers the visions press upon him too sercely charitable work of the Tung Wah either
the
of Hospital and the Po Leung Kuk. jor
employers, some Three or four natives were ready to The Report states in part: the latter granting increases pass through the office, with orders not
others refused. The to speak unless they were addressed Inspector Fraser and his two while by the sergeant. For O'Gorman had, Assistant Chinese Lady Inspec-time chosen for an applica an idea that the blind
would tors have worked with conspicu- tion for increase of wages seems know when the mutilator was near, ous loyalty and diligence through to have been inopportune in view even if he never heard the voice.
"It's not very probable," said the out the year on work in connec-of the general dullness of trade.
The help of this department i Commandant, "but we can try it first. [tion with mui-tsan 5,184 visits
in the tedious night.
bian
I admit that natives have queer in were paid to the homes of regis-was also sought in the matter of tuitions that would be very useful intered mai-tsai. At the beginning a dispute between masters and
office." So Sandasa sat with his back to the of the year the total number of men in the cake baking trade. wall, and at his left hand was the mudi-ians was 3,743; and at the As usual some interesting details
a corridor by which door from
the end of the year this had been were revealed in connection with natives were to enter. Opposite to 'burg, him was another open door by which reduced by 555 to a total of 3,188. the mysteries of the trade, and an they were to make their exits into the This very considerable reduction amicable settlement was reached
is mainly accounted for by per-in due course.
R'dam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, H'burg.
Antendo R'dam, Marseilles & Bombay Marseliles & London Marselles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Gull.
London. Marseillea &
& Londen. London, Hamburg,
4th Nov.zam,
15,000 18th Nor. Antwern & Hull.
2nd Dec. 6,800 9th Dec, 17.000 16th Dec. 14,000 30th Dec. 6,000 6th Jan.
Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.
Havre, London, Hamburg, Antwerp Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay. Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
R'dam, Antwerp & Hall.
* Cargo only. Calls Casablanca. I calls Karachi. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Perls hy steamers of the
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BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
*TALMA
10,000
TILAWA
*SANTHIA
TAKADA
SIRHANA
TALMA
calle Rangoon.
1953. 5th Aug, 3
Pim 10,000 19th Aug. 8,000 2nd Sept. 7,000 16th Sept. 8,000 30th Sept. 10,000 14th Oct.
1st and 2nd class passengers.
NELLORE
TANDA NANKIN
NELLORE
TANDA
NANKIN NELLOME
1953.
4th Aug,
7,000
4 p.m. 7,000 2nd Sept. 7,000 30th Sept. 7,000 7,000
3rd Nov. 2nd Dec.
7,000 30th Dec.
7,000 3rd Feb.
Singapore, Pert Swettenham, Penang,
Rangoon & Calcutta Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore. Penang & Calcutta.
Commandant's office.
The first man stepped in. His bare manent departures from the The average. percentage in- fet halted. They made little restless Colony, restoration to relatives crease between 1931 and 1932 in could have touched them. But he and marriage,
the retail costs of food, clothing
movements on the Boards.
Sandasa
made no move, and the native, grin- Fifty-five prosecutions were and firewood appears to have ning widely at this experience, pass brought under the mui-tacă Or-heen a fraction over 1 per cent.
on a beckoning policeman and dinance, with fifty-four convic- burst into that high-pitched, almost
Factories.
Trade remained dull through jout the year and the factories of
xirlish titter common to the black man. tions. These prosecutions includ- Sandana gazed through the wall, noted forty-three cases of keeping having moved
an eyelid, Only his unregistered mui-tsai, five cases nostrils made slight dilations.
A second prisoner entered and stood of illtreatment of registered mu- the Colony were working at much tsai, two cases of illtreatment of below their full capacity. Some near the blind man.
"What's your name, Jim?" said the unregistered mut-tari and three were on half time only (a most unusual thing for this Colony) | name, sir, is Methuen Malama. Cases of non-payment of wages, and all were on short time with much depleted staffs. Complaints The deep voice made no impression on Sandara His brain was intent
Malaya continued to repatriate were general from factory owners some other vision.
Pergeant.
Emigration.
A third bare foot padded sullenly Chinese in considerable numbers, as to the harmful effect of high through the doors handcuffed man, but this department is not in a tariffs and the dumping of cheap huge and hideous a repulsive orge position to give the total num-goods. The import duties impos- with a disgusting smoothness at one side of his head: a physical hiatus the bers thus repatriated to Honged in recent years by the Gov. a faint Kong during the whole of 1932. ernment of China has had the right of which would rouse
Up to June, so far as his depart-effect of practically closing the Three steps and he stopped motion- ment is concerned, the repatria-China market to Hong Kong lees. the very picture of an animal sensing a trap, but not yet locating it tion figures were
nausea.
glaring eye and flickering nostril A movement behind him brought him lunging round to the right. With his eye on the police in the farther office he had not noticed a man seated with his back to the wall.
5,874 from Penang
368 from Singapore
$25 from Sandakan and 676 from French Indo-China. Tung Wah Hospital.
manufacturers and they have) been compelled to seek other markets, notably in the Dutch East Indies and the Straits Set- tlements. For a time these southern markets filled the gap This was the second year of caused by the loss of the China like movement. On his knees he mov-operation under, the consolidated trade, but the depression in and revised Tung Wah Hospital these countries with the conse ed forward, mowing, mowing.
Sandasa had risen to his knees, His hands mowed. the air with a scythe-
His blind head was thrown back in 'Ordinance (No. 31 of 1930). The quent return to China of large an ecstasy of inward sight, and on the amalgamation of all three Hos-numbers of unemployed labour- sibilant. Sing saliva.
lips there formed pitals.
the Turg Wah, the ers, has now lessened the demand froth "nd
At the sight of those eyeless, star. Kwong Wah, and the Tung Wah for such articles of local manu- B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for ing sockets the giant screamed in Eastern, under the unified con- facture as cotton socks and humanly as a wounded stallion. The trol of a single Committee has singlets, rubber shoes and Chin- first touch and grip of those mowing had an excellent effect.
ese foodstuffs. In spite of the hands round his knees brought an EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, describable shuddering roar from his Funds amounting to more than trade slump, however, the num- wide-open mouth the noise man $400,000 were raised, under the ber of factories in the Colony. In the makes when nightmare gently touches auspices of the Tung Wah Hos-continues to increase. him, or when a snake curls about his neck. Roaring, he raised his manuel. pital for Shanghai refugee work, electric torch trade for instance, ed hands above his head as if to beat and were forwarded to the Kwong there are now seventeen fac Įtories, whereas in the previous Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & that appalling mask for ever from his Shiu Kung Sho in Shanghai.
dreams. Melbourne.
Two new wings, completing year there were but six Knit- There was a rush from both doors. the existing scheme for the Tung ting and weaving factories have "Gosh!" panted one of the men who were hanging to the plunging ball of Wab Eastern Hospital, were also increased in number in spite aman. Close shave that Bennet, added and opened by His Excel of many failures, and together you get that blind devil away before lency the Governor in December, with the confectionery and per-
But that was easier sat Sandans still mowed the air with his specially raised by the Directors tion for large numbers of women tentacles as if automatically driven by themselves without drawing on and girls. the dynamic forces let loose in that lost the funds of the Hospital.
The number of children (that is, With the approval of the persons under the age of sixteen was a small sharp knife, held at a shockingly convenient angle for a bul-Secretary of State the site of the years) employed a factories shows let in somebody's stomach.
old Po Leung Kuk, which had no tendency to increase and unless been originally granted by the there should be a sudden boom in Sandana wept when they took him Crown for Tung Wah. Hospital trade with a demand for large num away to his hut. Not the feverish, purposes, is to be utilised for the bers of learners, there is no reason lively tears that had arisen when fire erection of houses or shops. It to fear any movement towards the broke out in the location, but slow is hoped that some $20,000 an- old conditions when the factories frozen tears that oozed one by оде from eyes that seemed only now to nually will be derived from this were staffed mainly by children. have died.
For days he lay against the wall, a man shorn of a dream-Sameah with-
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TAKADA
NALDERA NANKIN *SOUDAN
1933.
TANDA
7,000 7th Aug. *KIDDERPORE 4,000 7th Aug. *BHUTAN
8,000 11th Aug. CARTHAGE 14,000 10th Ang. SANTHIA
8,000 10th Aug, 7,000 24th Aug, 10,000 24th Aug. 7,000 3rd Sept. 6,800
5th Sept. 14,000
7th Sept. 11,000 21st Sept. 6,100 4th Oct. RAWALPINDI 17,000 5th Oct. 15,000 20th Oct, 6,800 1st Nov, 15,000
3rd Nov.
CORFU MANTUA
*BURDWAN
COMORIN
*SOMALI CHITRAL
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Basin-Tamar.
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N. Arm-Wild, Swan, Parthian, Perseus and Cornflower,.
Chinese factory owners now realis; S'hai, Moll, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama.
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ally cheap, No European firms Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
ing grandly about doomed shoulders. Colony during 1932 were quiet. employ children under the age of
fifteen years. Dark now, indeed, was the world to The level of wages has been Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Amoy
S'ha
hat Mofi Ko
Kobe & Osaka. Sandasal dark amid the blaze of
mainly unchanged, but unemploy-i Shanghai, Moil Kobe & Yokohama, noon." S'hai, Aloji, Kobe, Garica & Y'hama. Not even when the superintendentment has been more marked. The slackness of trade is reflected for many years and may be expected Shanghai, ideft, Kobe & Yokohama. brought him a biggish box that had The building trade, however, in the reduction in the number of to lead to an improvement in gen- Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, come all the way from Europe to that
cases where women and children eral factory conditions and Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama poor but did he rouse binell to feel showed considerable activity.
In February trouble occurred were found working during pro gradual disappearance of the more at the wonderful One Eared Negro and "The Murderer's Fist the work in a silk-weaving factory employ-hibited hours at night. Only two undesirable type of tenement house
... blind savage that had for weeking a fumber of Shanghal work cases occurred where prosection factory. drawn to themselves the amazed and pitiful eyes of every artist in Emme men. After investigation by this was necessary, as against ten the and, later, in Paris--not even thon department, it was arranged that previous year. Convictions were could he lay his sensitive hands on the the management should pay the secured in each case with fines of smooth bronze in pride and peace, expenses of repatriating the dis- $25 and $50 respectively.
factories during the year was ninety- and Cleala.” As for the strange sort of septor satisfied Shanghal men.
one, of which five were fatal, as that came from:
the j-the proceeds be wrote to the saper In August a dispute arose in A farther important step forward compared with seventy-two (ve which must take him back to work connection with the Chinese in the industrial legislation of the fatal) for the preceding year." "A people. Sandasa's old mother took it Compositors' Union Detailed Colony was taken with the passing large proportion of the sccidents and went back alone to her kraal with enquiries were made by this of the Factories and Workshops occurred in the shipbuilding yards, the prestige of a queen, a new sew: Department with regard to hours Ordinance No. 27 of 1932. This most of them being due to falls or a scarlet parasol, Foof work and allowance for food new Ordinance consolidates under to injury from falling materials. Ing-machine, and a
his work filched from him
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bis, face to the wall and paitors in local Chinese Dews governing factories, and rotkshops, dom from the scalping Recidents Japan ports and Bhanghai, arrive. and besides affording scope for fur- which were formerly so frequent at Bong Kong on August 16. Who but Death may wipe away the paper offices,
A more serious dispute took ther expansion, it carries the-im-among women workers in the knit morning, and she Idaves for Manila chill tears of the artist bereft of im
on the same evening, place in September arising out of portant new regulation requiring all ting factories...... pulse?