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EXAMINATION OF PASSPORTS WAR FILMS IN THE ORIENT
JAPANESE OFFICIALS"
INQUISITION.
THE
RELESS NURSE AND HER
HANDKERCHIEF
The Peking corespondent of The Timer recently sent home the following:-
of Blighty,
Do you ever think of Blighty and all the Buffering that this war has brought? If you do you will bay
Hongkong St. Andrew's Society
Mr. Robert Young, editor of the Japan Chronicle, who was recently in Shanghai,
A letter from Lanchow-to, in the far has some interesting remarks to make on
West of China, gives a picturesque ac the examination of passports in Japan. by which he has recently had some prao. count of the experiences of one of the tical experience. He saya in the FC. British war films recently shown in that? „Daily News that, to judge by a recent city. Apparently there is no such thing as a cinema palace in Lanchow-fa, and experience on the Shingo Mars entering Japanese ports from Manila, Hongkong the film was presented in the large hall and Shanghai, the Japanese police officers of the Anhui Club, lent by the Governor and other officials. The Commissioner of appear to conceive that it is their daty Police entered upon the duties of advance. to instituto personal inquisition into agent with real and posted the city with Thinking the antecedents stretching as far back as proclamations announcing the exhibition. the ancestors of the fourth generation.
He further provided troops to guard the At Nagasaki, wveral of the passengers doors, and the Governor ordered the were put to an inquisition lasting tersupply of electric light free. Two mis- minutes or a quarter of an hour, partly, sionaries did showmen, and made a very it would seem, for purposes of curiosity | good job of it. 3 and partly for practice in English. An The whole business was too novel to be American missionary, who has been out an immediate success in an unsophisticat in the Far East for many years, wased place like Lanchow-fu. But the fame aked what college he was a graduate of, of the show spread quickly, and after the whether, be had taken, a degree and what first night it was a case of house full all degree it was The same passenger was the time. Soldiers and police in uniform were allowed in free, and many of them asked if he was married, and replying in slept on the premises in order to be there the affirmative, was asked where his wife at the next performance. It is the plea was. On being satisfied on this score.ding to be accompanied wherever he sant Oriental custom for a person of the inquisitor proceeded to ask if the passenger had any children. Learning that there were three children living (none of these being on board, it must be remembered), he then desired to know their ages, and so the inquisition went
WAR BOND DRAWING
December $iat, 1918.
Tickets on Sale at all Banks! Hotels
...Clubs and Stores...
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ou. All this time not the alightest defect would have witnessed the show. One man. CUTLER PALMER & CO, 8
had been discovered in the passport held by Dr.hich had been issued by the American authorities in China in the usual way to one who was well known in missionary work. ***
If this sort of thing is to continue why trouble to get passports?
Hep
goes by a long retinue. When such one dines out his rag-tag and bobtail have to be fed up to the neck. On this prin- the natural right to enter in likewise, and ciple every ticket-holder had a queue at his back, and if it had not been for the soldiers at the door the takings would have totalled a dollar, representing 10 ten-cent tickets, although a full thousand one ticket, was an unpopular departure, and evasion was rampant. lanterns claimed the special privilege attend their masters, some crawled in be- tween the legs of the crowd and some borrowed soldiers cops or tunics in their earnestness to get a free loot. Infants in arms wore proclaimed free, and when the people understood it they came festooned with Large boys and girls hanging round The waiting crowds were their necks. enormously amused to see those who tried to get in without paying turned back.
HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE YOU GOLÊ What is the value of a passport if the information concerning the holder is to be treated as of no account? Why should a lady bornaked to state whether she
Fractically none of those who attended was married, seeing that the passport the exhibition had ever seen moving pis with its information that she is a mar- tures and few indeed and ried, woman gives all the information the scientific knowledge to understand curious charac that can rightly be required? As in how it was done. It is dicating the slight knowledge of English teristic of the uneducated Oriental that possessed by one of the police officials at he can look at an engine or pe around Nagasaki set to examine passporta, be of any other mechanical marvel, asked one lady what year she was mar no interest in its construction or the why ried, and on being told it was in 1890,er wherefore of its ability to move. If he remarked, after comideration, that is enough for him that it is some inver-
tion of the foreigner she must have been married 90 years!
of the picture
aren shown at Lanchow Probably he meant 19, but it seems ef represented a group of officers and tremely doubtful whether the information nuries on the deck of a ship. There is oncerning the validity of passports a strong wind blowing, and the kerchief acquired by an oficial with so little round 2 nurse's head is carried away. It knowledge of English is likely to be of would be interesting to know what was Falue. Of what importance can it pos in the mind of the man who commented:- ably be to ascertain whether the pass" That nurso is very careless. She loses port-holder has any friends in Japan, her handkerchief every night." who they are, and what is their social or commercial position 1 Yel such... questions, were put. If lady is travelling, why should there be an inquisition into the business car
FUTURE OF AIR TRAVEL.
red on by her husband; the firm he iMR. HANDLEY PAGE'S FORECAST. connected with, or his position in the Mr. Handley Page, speaking at a meet- firm! Even these questions are harming at the Automobile Club in London, less compared to sa interrogatory re-prophesied that as soon as peace was: peatedly pat by the Nagasaki police declared it would be possible to open an icial. How much money have you air service between London and Marseilles, got 1 To be asked this question before with a single stop at Paris for an over- a large number of people waiting their baul and the taking in of patrol. Before turn to be subjected to the ordeal is em the war the actual transit of mails from barrassing, and when one Russian offer London to Constantinople took 72 hours whose passport was in order, and who By air the journey could be made in 20 had answered all interrogatories satis hours Rotne could be reached in 121 factorily, was naked this question, he bight hours instead of 23 hours. He we 42 hours, Marseilles in hours instead replied "Plenty, and seemed disinclia: convinced that an 800-mile service could ed to say more Thereupon the editor o run at a profit, both for mails and of the Chronicle, whose passport was next passengers, at a rate but little in excess in order to be examined, naked the official of that now in force. He based his cal- what authority be had to put such ques-culations on the use of a medium-sized tions. The official feplied be was asking machine making non stop fights of 400 the questions under the authority of re miles. Each would be provided with "300- gulations issued by the Japanese Govern borse-power engines, and would carry iment It was thereupon pointed out to 4400lb of revenue earning load in addi- him that no regulations issued could. tion to the pilot and mechanic and the justify many of the questions that were petrol necessary for a five-hour flight being put, that all questions should be directed to the identity of the person holding the passport, that before issuing passports the respective Consular autbo rity had put all the questions that were relevant, and that it was an insult to the Governments issuing the passport to ignore the information embodied in the documents and issued under the soal the various Governments, concerned.
EVERY BEAKER BUST
of
There
here would be first-class, aerodromes At each end of the route, and another in tag and repairing machines. Second middle, completely equipped for over- class aerodromes, with necessary equip ment, would be provided ve ordinary 100 miles theso latter corresponding to stations of a railway. He provided for 24 machines running a minimum service of six machines each way per day. Such a service could be provided for a capital of undertale post per ton mile annual cost would
be under This explanation of the duties of an would work out at 20fd., and the cost per ataminer of passports appeared to startle passenger mile to 1.38d. Merchandise the official considerably, and after that would have to be carried with passengers the questions he put were more discreet if the passenger rate were to be kepő down.
600 horse Pengeta
machine could carry! When the editor in his own case pointed
totalling Bay out that all the legitimate information 200lb. 3,500lb. of portal matter and required was embodied in the passport, merchandise, and it would be and that he declined to answer any other possible to carry those aix questions, the official passed the document at 18. per lb. per 300 miles. This without a word. The whole thing is amount-toi 2d per mile On the basis farce. Where there is some measure for of is, per lb. per 300 miles, the charge doubting the holder's bond "fides, ques for carrying letters that distance would, tions with a view to establishing identity be less than id. per ountahand that charge are clearly in order, but to treat every would cover also the handling of the mail. bearer of a pasport as a suspect is to At the cost of ordinary first-class travel- destroy the very object with which the ling, every part of the globe would be available to the traveller/by, sert
America would
And to the
document is issued," which la tiat ro HD and come within
reach in
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abla person may pass from one country to another without interferencs.The airmad America, was no more distant than inspections of passports are begun at Manchester was at the end fof the 15th Nagasaki, repented at Robe, and again century. The time would come when an repeated at Yokohazia as if it were in Englishman in New York would be bis NOW ON SALE, possible for the officials at one part to London paper the morning after its pub- trust those, at another. The whole-Prlication, and the same thing would apply der ONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS ceeding while causing the maximum to the whole continent of Europe Ho a tradottumákədə MEETING Prof?? the amount of irritation is absolutely fideles agreed that reliability would be very CEDIRLATIVE ·COUNCILS, 2 for the 38 At present, conducted It requires things
AATEN Seaded 1917 thorough reorganization in the interestal Bir Joseph Ward inid that he had of effcrency and care should at least be decidedals: Postmaster-General of NoW taken! that officiala sention board shup realmud, to introduce teroplanes in Now for the purpose of examining passports, Zealand to carry, the mile from use ond have a good working knowledge of of the country to the other sa sconi, sa
the war was over. English
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