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us that there in danger ahend unless the men and women of the Empire recognise and carry out their responsibilities in this matter of parentage. If we have not yet reached a stage when the State actually provides bounties for babies we have wit- nessed during recent years the introduc tion of legislation to confer maternity
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The slips on the Kowloon-Canton
Sgt Geo Witchell, son of Mr. and Mrs.
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Hongkong, writes from Holland. describ- One case-ench-gerebro-spinal fever,ing his painful experiences as a prisoner SHELDON'S benefits" upon mothers whose station in enteric fever and diphtheria were notified of war in Germany, as follows:-
I expect you will be surprised to know that I am now in Holland on the exchange scheme. I arrived here a week ago. What
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life brings them within the operation of National Insurance, and we have seen the
in the Colony on Wednesday.
The water return for the Colony shows House of Commons agree to a rebate to that on August 1st the water in storage Income tax payers for each child. The amounted to 1,323.51 millions of gallons whole trend of domestic legislation in as compared with 1,279.00 million gallons Great Britain this century has been to on the same date last year. Since the relieve parents, more especially poor date of the return nearly to inches of rain parenta, of some of the financial burdens have fallen. which children impose. The introduction of free education was, perhaps, the first acknowledgement that the State had an interest in the rising generation,
The who have studied the habits of the Chinese must often have been surpris ed by the strength of the passion of each individual male of that race for offspring. It is, of course, a passion rooted in the ordinary pro-creative instincts of man-
INTERESTING SHIPPING CASE JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN
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Chambers, yesterday, the Chief Justice (Sir William Rees Davies, K.C.) heard a motion to set aside a writ of summons in a case in which The Eskside
great and glogious relief it is after to long years, to feel oneself free again without anyone following behind, with a rife and bayonet! I am just beginning to shake off that' awful feeling and to realise that all this is true and no im- agination. ... There is some talk of our exchange being arranged similar to the French; anyway, I hope so.
Well, it is a lovely place here-a fashionable seaside resort. Everything has been done for our comfort. We had a grand welcome from, the moment of
kind, but in China it is very strongly steamship Company, Ltd.. owner of the on our arrival. It was a treat to hear
ss. Competitor, sued the Mexico Steam- ship Company, owners of the 3.8. Mezice City, for £7,901 0s. 9d. for damages caused, by a collision which took place between the two vessels whilst the as. Competitor was moored alongside a quay at Havre,
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Mr. H. E. Pollock, K. C. (instructed by Messrs. Johnson, Stoken + Master) appeared on behalf of the plaintiff, and Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Messrs, Wilkinson & Grist) appeared on behalf of the defendants.
Crossing the border to our destination, also a reception at the Hotel Gallries an English lady speak. They are many. Workers in the Y.M.C.A. here, which ha been erected for us. The Dutch people are very good to us, but it is some job trying to make each other understand, although most of them speak English and am feeling a great difference in every One thing, I am in the very best of health
way during the short time I have been here from what I felt in Germany 1 tell you they tried their best to kill us. It was bell. The things that were done you would not believe possible of a supposed civilized nation.
at
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might be a paraphrase of the commands of Confucius. India and China are, per- haps, the countries in which the people are most completely steeped in these ideas, but every nation which is not
have read about our treatment, but the papers have got full details now and aro decadent regards children as a blessing
making a big thing of it. I read în The notice of motion for the dismissal the papers this morning that we are even though they may prove an anxiety. There is, undoubtedly, something wrong of the action was dismissed, and leave traffing the German prisoners in return, Well, I will tell you some of the things awas given to the pliantiffs to proceed with that were done to us. While we were in a system which,, produces such WATSON & terrible infant mortality as that which the action, the costs of the motion to be Minden things were not so bad, but The Rachels of the defendant's costs in any event and we were sent to a place called" Bhomite, in Hanover. Sveen hundred N.C.Os Europe are very much in our thoughts plaintiff to give the usual security for ved ther
p.m.. after just, now on account of the vast number costs. The filing of the preliminary acts travelling "from 4 m. 49 miles as soon as we arrived, three men were put in of sons who have been slain in this war
cigarettes in their hands. Then we were prison cells for 5 days for having but the Rachels of India and China
told that Dieut. Muller" was in chargej have always been very numerous. Unless
and that if we did not do everything he wanted he would use arins and force u The first thing, we were to leave all our. belongings outside just where we stood, and had to go into the barracks. We wore locked in-four hundred of us in one place. Nothing was provided for us except a drink of water. Some slept on floors, others on boards. No blankets pr couts, as all these had to be left outside HU CHUN, HUEN, 2
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succumb to that most insidious of germ which is always seeking to under- mine the energy of Europeans in China and contract the disease of fatalism, we, cannot be content despondently, to accept the present state of affairs as inevitable. "We should be very foolish, however if we permitted optimism to make us think that the remedy for overpopulation in China is likely to follow a diagnosis of the evils caused by the early marriages and very large families common in Asia," The desire for a higher standard of decency and comfort has undoubtedly been responsible for the diminution of the birth-rate in Western Europe and Ameri ex during the last fifty years. It is now. Benerally considered unfortunate if marriage produces no offspring, and almost equally unfortunate if it results in families so large that proper parental
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BIRTH-BATE.
war
Auoso the obscure causes of the great has been included the rapid increase of the population of Ger- many during the last few decades. The latest champion of the Malthusian doctrine is Mr. J.-O. P. BLAND, well PEND your Holiday Maple Bay (35 known in the Far East by his hocks deal
mies from Victoria, BC and four miles from Duncan Staroak BOOMS To ing with the modern history and polities, Let with Board in House on Bes Bathing of China. In a recent issue of the Boating and excellent cod, fat fish and Edinburgh Review Mr. BLAND boldly con
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of the children is impossible. The well- known and rather pessimistic theologian, Dr Isaz, once stated that in the Middle Ages the birth rate was forty-ve-per mille and the death-rate about the same. Within the last century the death-rate has been reduced from the mediaeval level to fourteen per mille, Mr. BLAND points out that at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century the population of England and Wales was less than ten millions, and by (3901 it had risen to 39,500,000. If the increase continues at that rate the popu- ation, 300 years hence, in England and Wales will be 1,500,000,000 is
to be. by consent, postponed for six months, at the expiration of which liberty was given to either party to apply.
CANTON NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG MOJI SAS PO."}
CANTON, August 7th.
bo went recently to consult General Luk Wing-ting in Kwangsi, will return to Canton shortly.
Another message states that Shum failed to meet Lak either in Wuchow or in Mo-ming (Luk's native village). This is taken as a confirmation of the report of Luk's death.
THE SPECIAL PARLIAMENT.
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rained, so our belongings were in nice. mess Next morning we were all chased out by the sentries a good many were struck with the butts of rifles, and three were bayonetted. One of the poor fellows died afterwards. Our kits
were all searched, etc., and next day he wanted to
We said no, that German N.C.Os. did know if we would volunteer for work. not do so in England. Then be went mad
for five minutes and told us we were in "Deutschland," not England, and called us-all the dogs and swine he could think. The Special Parliament, was opened in of. With that he went into the barrack
Canton yesterday- THE BRIGANDAGE.
The brigandage, which was reported in the San-wui district city on the night of the 3rd inst.. caused a great panie in the city. It is further reported that the robbers were met by a gunboat when they were excaping by launches. One of the robbers' launches was captured and over
20 robbers were killed.
TYPHOON.
and said it was dirty. The place had not been in use for two years and was full of fleas and bugs, and we were not given brooms to sweep with or anything. Well, for that he said we would be punished
and have to stand to attention from 7 am till 1.30 p.m. every day for eight, day, having one hour at mid-day, and up at 6 in the morning. If anyone moved he was hauled out and taken to the cells. Then lie ordered the sentries to use their ärm, if necessary, which, zeedless to say, were used whether it was or not,, Fellows, were fainting through starvation. We got nothing except two slices of black A typhoon visited Canton yesterday. bread a day, coffee made of burnt grain in the morning with no sugar, a bowl of It was followed by a rain-storm. The thin watery soup at midday, and the ferry traffic was suspended and all same at night. One might as well have
boiled potato and carrot peelings in other communications were interrupted drunk water. Sometimes we would get Several junks were upset, and other it, as the other went to the troops. damage was done. Several bouses I have seen pigs get better, and many a time L have longed for what collapsed, but fortunately there was no the pigs got as it was more solid., loss of life. Most of the streets in if was not for our people at home send- Canton are
will continue unless an end is made of obvious that before such figures were submerged.
the age-long habit of overcrowding the
reached economic pressure would com WOMEN'S WAR BERVICES eradles of the world. It is evident that
pel vast emigration and apparently
Mr. G. H. Roberts, Minister of Labour, he has no faith in any auch panaces for the statesmen of Canada and Ausspeaking at a woman's war service exhibi: international strife as the League of tralia would welcome if "Too crowd- Nations In his opinion, the one lessoned indeed,* cried Carlyle in his for mankind to leam before the word vehement way in Sartor Besartus," Can be beaten into a ploughshare is that
Too crowded indeed! Meanwhile, what there must be a general reduction in the portion of this inconsiderable terraque birth-rate. "For," he says in effect,
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ing us parcels every man a prisoner would be dead in three months. I got so weak it was agony to walk Well, after 14 days, our parcels, which were sent po from Minden, arrived. Then an other plan was thought of to make us work. We were asked again, but no. Bo tion, opened at Swansea by Lady, Mack we were not to have our parcels for worth, said the advent of women into 21 days, and by that time five thousand wider spheres of industry had done a parcels were going bad. The bread was great deal to shake us out of the lethargy no use when we did get it, for after 21 of the past. He had personally seen what days it had all gone green. The rats had women were doing. They were acqnitting a good go at the remainder of the stuff, themselves splendidly, and it was no so there wasn't much left except & few
thorough and loyal co-operation we could We were taken out each day and worked delved till it will grow no mora↑ "
not have waged the war with the measure like-slaves-some pulling waggons of are constantly reminded of the vast pos-of success that had so far attended coal; others digging in helds. Ona Joh
there is only a certain amount of foodaus globe have ye actually filled and exaggeration to say that but for their tins. After that we were forced to work,
We
to go round, and as, under present condi- tiens, there is not enough for everyone, sibilities-Siberia, Canada Central To-day many more women were required. I was on was pulling a plough-twenty- it inevitably follows that mankind will Asia, Africa, and other parts of the earth There was no woman who need shelter four of us ploughing a field all day. Wo TOMMODIOUS and Centrally Situated Sight for the rations." We believe rather to support a huge population if the herself behind the excuse that she was were used for anything, I really don't. means of transport and modern agricul- not able to do anything or because she know how I stood it all, but, thank God, I was able to stand it all. We could sea NEW OFFICES, with lift in the old that mankind will strive to increase the tural methods be provided. We are not had no training. Mercantile Bank Buildings, corner of Queen's
There was some misapprehension that the game he was up to. All this was lo Road Central and Lee House Street. 3
rations. The actual words which, Mr. alarmed, therefore, at the disquieting Also in Canton House, No. 31, Shameru, BLAND uses to express his thesis are "That picture painted by the vivid pen of Mr. if women undertook manual labour they get us to mutiny, which would be playing BLAST concerning the inevitable continu might suffer something from sex equality into his hands. He told us it was no- British Concession. 20
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I was there for six weeks, and then I SA Des Voeux Bond
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was sent to another places I'm sure you many things which appear impossible sweet home," would still be the most he adduces many interesting" Agures re- can be accomplished by organisation and attractive sentiment. Any ser war would would never have known me, as I had. garding various nationalities, including the application of scientific knowledge be a most tragic event in the history of got so thin. I could hardly recognisa to food problems. In India, for example, our country, but there was no rach myself. At this new camp they left us the Chinese, and he makes out a very plaua paternal Government wages war with danger, There would be stormy times alone. There were fifty of us sent there, sible case for his own point of view. Yet ever-increasing success against famine after the war, and there would be trade and when our parcels came through I THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. we have English Bishops deploring the and pestilence, and the standard of wars, and unless we maintained national soor got back to my old self. I believe living has risen despite the great growth co-operation we should be unable to cope things have altered since there and are fact that the birth rate of our own nation of the population that has followed upon with the problems that would arise from not so bad, but it was their chief delight
to see us starve, is falling, and Imperial statesmen telling the peace and prosperity of British rule time to time.
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