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DEPARTURE OF
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST VIH, 1991.
COL. W. FIVE HUNDREDS FOR TEN. SERVANT GIRLS OR SLAVES? LORING, C.M.G., D.S.O, R.G.A. STORY OF A FAKED NOTE.
chief who entered the car.
The charge of unlawful possession of a 10 note, coverted by pen alterations into one for $500, was further investigated by Mr. E. E. Lindsell, at the Magistracy, on Saturday
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ANTHRAX DANGERS.
THE RISK OF USING CHINESE HORSEHAIR.
علوم
This much agitated question wus tha subject of a small public meeting held here on July 30th, and, though ruletion, the Home Offes Departmental Com taken at the meeting on certain questions,
girls slaves?
The second question was: Are servant supposed to have been: "No." If the The answer to this is question had been: Are inui taai (pei) of the same class as slaves the answer would have been: Yes."
As the result of a further investigation,
Lieut.Colonel W. Loring, C.M.G.. B.3.0., who recently vacated the cop mand of the Royal Artillery at this Station left the Colony by the P. O. ** Kolyan, on Saturday, was given a
the answers to which were in the negates on Anthrax report that it has farewell by the officers of the Royal Artil-
The story had to be unravelled begin lery which testified eloquently to the ning at the wrong std, so far as 532- tive, the main question cannot get bo been clearly demonstrated that the pro cess devised for the disinfection of wool regarded ness was concerned. The Court first.
as settled, esteem in which he is held by them. A
with ferns learned that a man, running, was arrest
The first question put has according efficiens as motor car tastefully decorated with the ed by constable and dropped the faked servant girls are brought up for prostitu- factori'y applied without causing manu- method of disinfection to the English version: Is it a fact that of horsehair, and that it can be satis and with red and blue Royal
Artillery Ang flying on the minds note. The man said he dropped it accion 1 This was explained as meaning:facturing difficulties. Certain media- was waiting at the Garden Road terminus dentally.
Is it the practic of those who take such cations are necessary in the case of tail to receive Colonel and Mrs. Loring on Further evidence was to the effect that servant girls to bring them up as proshut these are simply due to manufac their arrival by the 9.30 a.m. car from
the defendant and another man the Peak: The Officers of the Regiment partners on a fifty-fifty basis, trading
were titutes! To this the obvious answer was turing Tcessities, and not to defects in
No.
If the question had been in opium in Wuchow. The partner had it a fact that many people bring up their fore, unanimous in advising that this the process. The Committee are, there stationed in Hongkong received their lato
A procession been swindled in Canton by receiving mai tai (pei) and dispose of then as was formed and, headed by the drums the faked note in connection with "hirunthe answer would how Process is suitable for adoption as a
prostitutes and pipes of the Hongkong and SingaReturning to Hongkong, he asked pore R. G... the car was drawn ar latter was very sarcastic and told
method for the compulsory disinfection been: the partner, the defendant; to share his losa.
of horsehair. Officers down Garden Road, Queen's Des Voeux Road through Statue Square his partner he would not help him as he
drawn hair, .., partly manufactured The fact bus, however, been, brought our notice that large quantities of along the Prays to Murray Pier where should not have been taken in by such an a large crowd of Civilians and Officers obvious fake. The two quarrelled, the
hair, are now imported from China, and had assembled to bid on engage, to defendant was chased out of the place
further that consignments of shaving Colonel and Mr. LoriBwers-Majör the arms of the policeman, -the first wit-then there is no getting away from the friving in this country. The preparation Among those with the note in his hand, and ran into If the mini mi are recognised as pei, brushes made from infected hair are ar present on Murray Pier General Sir G. M. Kirkpatrick, G.O.Cness in the case.
stigma of slavery. In dictionaria "ad" of horsehair in China has new become Lady and the Misses Kirkpatrick, Colonel The Magistrate said the defendant's slaves and pei Humphrey, Colonel Davy, Colode! Nichel story was probably a true one, and dis no pei" means male and females slaves.manufactured
are used together, and established, and the trade in bair partly won Colonel Wyndhan young and Capt. be destroyed.
that country is likely Colonel Crosse, charged him. The note was ordered to Pei is a slave girl, a maid servant, a to increase at the expense of the raw Major Edwards, Major
lowly or base woman, a female slave. bair rade. The satisfactory disinfection Fisher, A.D.C. the Hon. Mr. Claud and
The 110 slaves are slaves in per- of such prepared hair and of shaving! Mrs. Severo, His Honour Chief Justice
petuity and to all generations; the "pe brushes is impracticable, while the dali- Gomporta, Mr. R. Hancock and many others. The Offers of the Regiment pre
ger to consumers is very great. Twa courses only are possible, namely, (1) sent to say farewell to their Inte chief
total prohibition "of the import into this country of any manufactured or partly manufactured hair, and of goods horse or goat hair; or (9) the establish composed or partly composed of foreign nient, in the countries from which such 82 are imputed, of disinfecting statione. under the control of a central authority, invested with the power to enforce disinfection of the raw hair be fore manufacture. This is a matter of international concern."
were
Lieut. Colonel Banders. Majors Hickling Downing and Bagnall, Capts Olliver. Noel, Murphy and Hewitt. Lieut. Fox. Mortimer, Lovegrove, Mock, ridge, Donovan, Wilde, Bingham, Gra ham, Bigg.
gg. Davies, Chester and Subadar Majar Khan Singh.
A STRANDED) SEAMAN,
are not, but, are free when" married.
Therefore they are not the same as slaves though they are of the same class. From what was said on Saturday a stigma often attaches to these girls after marriage. masters and mistresses who treat their
There are of course.
many Chinese pei very well indeed, both while they are in the house and after their marriage.
HIS SHIP DESERTED HIM.
The police asked Mr. Orme, on Satur day, to send to the House of Detention an italian seaman charged with being deserter from the 8.5 Sicilia. He would I be sent back to Italy by the Trieste,Similar remarks might be the about
questions numbers three and five.
"the steamer went away without him.",
After the usual leave-taking had finish-on August, 19th, ed the Colonel proceeded on board the The sailor, through Mr. Huang, who. W.D. vessel Duphale, the Royal Artil-interpreted, said he was not a deserter; lery Bag breaking ont from the mast head as he stepped on board. To the strains of "Auld Lang Syne the vessel steamed slowly away from the pier.
Colonel and Mrs. Loring received the good wishes of the RA. Officers and their ladies before leaving the Omphale. On the Omphale leaving the side of the Kalyan, a large string of crackers was Bred on bourd as a sale to the depart ine Kalyan Colonel.
was escorted by the Omphale down the harbour as far as opposite the Harbour Office: where to the strains of "Auld Lang Syne," loud cheer ing and a farewell salute with crackers and bombs the vessel returned to Murray Pier to disembark the Officers and ladies.
1921.
Colorel. Loring was promoted Licent - Colonel on July 13th, 1917, and by a recent "Army Order is placed or half pay from
July 12th,
after four years la the rack. He has been succeeded in the command of the Royal Artillery by Lieut-Colonel Sanders, D.S.O.. recently promoted,
IT IS AN INSULT TO THE
COMMUNITY
NOT TO SIGN THE PETITION _FOR_MOKE.
POPULAR REPRESENTATION.
AN AFTERNOON CALL. THE GAMBLERS RECEIVE THEIR
FRIENDS."
Sixteen men gathered round a table in a upper room at 140, Wellington Street, on Friday afternoon, all taking part in a game of dominoes and staking money on the issue, with one consent denied before Mr. Orme at the Magistracy, next morning, that they were gambling. They did not explain what harmless purauit occupied their "pleasant Friday after noon; possibly the gambling instinct was still upper most and they only want- ed a run for their money and so longed the proceedings by pleading guilty,"
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The Magistrate: Tell him he is now committed to the House of Detention till the steamer comes back and fetches him. The interpreter reported that the sailor's response to this was that he would like to stay in a hotel and the shipping company ought to pay for it
When he saw that the Court was amused at this suggestion the sailor smiled pleasantly, glad to have contri. buted to the gaiety of nations.
The Magistrate, however, could not sea his way to vary his order and 14 the sailor to a suite of rooms at the Hongkong Hotel. He will have to be content with humbler accommodation in
Government "hotel."
SPORT.
.commit
KOWLOON ORICKET OLUB.
LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE
day begun the Taiko Howling Club A Leagus match was played Satur- and the K.C.C., which resulted in a win for the former.
Appended are the scarce:-
NO. 1 RINK
TAIXDO.
T. Grimshaw.
D. Morrison.
N. Drummond. ·
J. Ferguson.
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W. Weir..
G. Morrison.
B. Wallace.
A. Hamilton..
(Skip)
J. Russell.
Young.
X.0.C.
J. M. Jack. P. W. Ramsay, H. Overy. J. Gibson. (Skip)
NO. 2 RINK.
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R. C. Hunter. W. T. Elson.
J. P. Robinson.
A. G. Pile.
NO. 3 EINK
J. Maclachlan. W. Wotherspoon.
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H. E. Stevens...
10
14
J. Hyde,
J. Stalker.
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J. McMurtrie.
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THE COLONY'S FINANCES,
·EXPENDITURE HIGHER THIS
YEAR.
The fourth question was: Has the Chinese overament passed any law to abolish the practice of keeping servant girls" (pei)}
The Hon. Mr. Lan Chu Pak went care
The Committee have not gone into the: fully and exhaustively into this part of question of the varieties of horsehair the subject, and stated that there never which should be compulsorily disinfect- has been such legislation. Possibly, evealed. These are questions which ought to probably, this is true, because the Chinese be dealt with by a central authority. Governmens has forced upon it, though, there seem to have horsehair generally are, however, certain never had the matter Russian Chinese Siberian, and Asințio been cases where restrictions were made.y dangerous, and they recommend that The pri were useful and cheat servants, the proposals contained in the report on system of buying them should be abolish ties of horsehair were included in the why should officials suggest that the anthrax should be read as if these varie ed? They were weak, and could not com- bine or state their grievances, 30 now, wool and hair" and was it likely that there should be legisla tion in their favour? It is stated that some legislation exists on the
the subject, but it is not readily obtainable,
and
GERMAN ACCOUNT OF MINELATING.
mate-
If the Republic had had an oppor- LORD KITCHENER'S DEATH. tunity to do so, it would before now have broughs in legislation on this subject, but up to the present the Government of China, since the revolution, has been mostly military, and the Republic has not
d
It
the
yet had a chance to show what it would Ledger from Berlin alleges that the Ger- A dispatch to the Philadelphia Public do. There is every reason to suppose man Admiralty has now cleared up the Republic becomes an accomplished fachos that on May 29th, 1910, the Ger that, as soon if the Chinese mystery of Lord Kitchener's death. the necessary legislation in favour of man submarine W.75, under the com these girls will be enacted. Already, it is mand of Lieutenant-Commander Kurt said, compulsory education has begun in Teitzen, laid 34 mines in the vicinity of one part of
of the city of Canton, and when the
the Hampshire sunk. spot where owners have to educate their pes, they Four days before (three will not be so likely to purchase themiess-of-the-Hampshire) a chartered-mine-
ays before It was interesting to hear that some maj tors educate their pes, and it would be sweeper was sunk by one of these mines. more interesting to know how long such German version, did not reach admira! but the news apparently, according to the a practice has prevailed amongst the Jellicoe or was overlooked by him in the Chiness..
confusion over the Battle of Jutland, because he ordered the Hampshire, which was expected to carry Mr. Lloyd George as well as Lord Kitchener, to follow a course west of the Orkneys, on the as sumption that German submarines were not operating so far north.
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It is abundantly evident that this system lenils itself to all the abuses that are charged against it. and, as long as it exists, it will be difficult to stop them. It has been suggested that a Society for the protection of pei should be or ganised in the Colony, but this would be to recognise and perpetuate the system. If it were a Society for the protection of children, and prevention of cruelty to children, it would be a much better
prac.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, presid ing at the Canterbury Diocesan Confer propos Chan Kung Yue (Tong Yung) ence, which opened at Canterbury on
Mr. stated that he gave up, the practice thirty June 30th, made a speech on the progress In the course years ago, and returned all his peito of the Lambeth Appeal. their families as he could not bear the of his remarks be said they would cer thought, of breaking up family life and tainly not remain long without impor on that
account he is opposed to the tant tidings from China and Japan. practice.
He seems, however, to have Time bas hardly sufficed as yet for our voted in the negative.
knowing adequately about the reunion A statement of the revenue and ex- It has been suggested that if the movements, either in the Nippon Sci Sgt. Stimson was in charge of the raid penditure of the Colony for the month of tice were stopped it would be necessary to Kokwai-the Japanese branch, that is, of and a Chinese constable explained how April, issued in the Government Gazette, put away all the pei in Hongkong, the Anglican Communion-or in the Gen- it was brought to a successful issue. He shows that the revenue for the month was amounting to several thousands (exact eral Synod of the Chinese Church, but went (in plain clothes) to the door and 81,397,190 as compared with a revenue figures are not known). It does not seem the Synod bad passed resolutions wel- D woman inspected him through a Peephole. She asked him who he for the corresponding period of last year that this would be a necessity. Legisla. coming the Appeal and securing its cir- and he said he was looking, for Bo- of this year the Government received practice might be stopped; and no one China.
of $1,212,308. For the fret four months tion might be made for the future, the culation among the different churches in and-So" (the Chinese equivalent of
Bill Smith."y What are you to first four months of last year.
84,963,120 as against $4,884,169 for the should be allowed to bring pri into him?" inquired the woman.
Colony, Those at present in the owner- "I am-bis friend,"
The expenditure during April dividually, or the basis of holding the
ship replied the cunning constable.
of people might be dealt with in- Then,
It is not, as a rule, philanthropy that woman said $1,382,038 as compared with 91,110,303 Pass frierently, the
or words to that effect, and
There is the basis of the purchase of these girls; for the same month last year. Up to Present pei might be changed. the spy went in and watched the game for the end of April the Government had would be no need to dislocate so many at the best it is generally commercial Philanthropy would accept a little time, until the main body of spent 84,91,300 ns against $3,600,745 for households and throw so many children advantage.
them on other lines, and help them to the first four months of last year,
The Colony, at the end of April, had gistered, and in any case where it was the
All pei in the Colony should be re- better conditions. There is too much of asked the
appearance of the pound of flesh balance of assets over liabilities of proved that there had been cruelty or about this system for it to pass perman- $3,052,050.
malpractice the children might be inspectently under the name of philanthropy. ed at regular intervals, perhaps at the The temptations of a man are great, but expense of the offender.
with a number of young girls in his
constables arrived..
"How did they get in!" Magistrate.
WLA
"I told the woman there were some More friends coming," replied the constable.
At $3 a head for the rank and le of the gamblers and 325 each for the "banker and the woman who ran the place, the afternoon proved a profitable one to the Government.
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BANK NOTES IN CIRCULATION
MONTHLY BÁNK RETURN.
The returns of the average amount of bank-notes in circulation and of specie, in reserve in Hongkong, during the CHILD ROBBED IN PEDDER month ended July 31st, 1021, sa certified
by managers of the respective banks :- STREET.
Specie Banke:
Average in
"MEAN AND DASTARDLY ACT."-
"It was a mean and dastardly act" said Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Magis tracy, on Saturday, in sentencing an Indian to twelve months' hard labour and 10 strokes of the birch for anatching tiny gold earring from the ear of a Chinese child, aged 11 years. The in- cident took place in Pedder Street, neas Blake Pier, at a quarter past seven o'clock on Friday evening.
The child's
was hurt by the prisoner's violence. The police mentioned that the man was drunk when brought to the Central Police Station, and the man himself told the Magistrato that he did not remember anything about the affair.
Drunkenness is no excuse for a crime of this sort," said the Magistrate, in passing the sentence already mentioned.
on to the streets at once.
the
has been said that this would inter-bouse, who are in his power, they must ba fere with the Chinese custom of securing greater still, and the controlling factor of household servants, but, as suggested the fear of the wife is not always suffi above, this might be mettled by adjust clent to keep him from malpractice. ment No doubt the servant problem is a What coa the girl do in such a case 1 difficult
The time seems to be ripe when wo! it is mainly the wealthy and the well-should one, but, as regards these girls,
save the children.' In connec to-do who get them, and the financial tion with the late famine in the North sapcot of the question would not affect Chiness officials aro reported to have them very seriously, If, however, new said: "There are too many people in conditions meant a constant change of China, the loss of a few million will leave servants it would be a great inconveni-more poem--for those who remain." but the Chinese are very clever at Children at home are giving money" for
blems, and would, no doubt, soon find is not confined to one country or contin. methods of securing the servants they ent, This movement will spread, and 5,700,000* need.
children will be saved not only from Meanwhile, the fact that so many girls starvation but from excessive drudgery, are bought and sold; and that their and cruelty and oppression, and even, labour is so cheap, and perhaps even perhaps, from vice. This Colony has too profitable to their owners and employers, many child workers, and this problem is bad from an economic point, of view. Imust be dealt with, if for no other reason To the individual it is, of course, then on
of ita economic import- account economical, but it is bad economica and ance. has a strong bearing on the whole problem
There is much to be done before all the of wages and social life: Wages are reproblem of child salvation is solved, bas Sterling Securities deposited with duced by competition through child the present is the time to deal with this the Crown Agents valued at labour, to below living point, and men particular branch of it, and it is to be cannot support their families, and so hoped that the Government will realise w is economic conditions are produced that the real outcome of Saturday's meet- Men cannot support their families, and ing was to condemn the system, though the therefore sell their children, and the apparent result was to negative the vicious cirete coptions.
charges against it,
Amount. Reserve....e arrangements to settle such pro- the save the children movement which
Chartered Buck ot Indis. Australia, and China 11,788,214 Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-
ing Corporation35,027,225 23,500,000+ Mercantile Bank of
India, Ltd....... 1,265,565 550,0005
248,978,237 $29,750,000
Total
*£560,000.
-Securities with the Crown Agents and Straits Government £1,100,000. §-Securities with the Crown Agents
£160,000.
lab
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