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.HONGKONG DAILY
PRESS MONDAY, JULY 23RD
1913
THE TYPHOON.
PERILOUSLY CLOSE TO.
HONGKONG.
FERRIES AND TRAMS STOP RUNNING,
The typhoon which was reported on Friday got within striking distales of Hongkong yesterday, when shortly after Boon at Observatory warring was issued that the typhoon was likely to pass over the port at any moment. At 12.30 p.m. the
which had been ip since ti previaus
continued run another bour
THE SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
SIXTY YEARS WORK FOR CHARITY.
Sixty years' continuous service for charity in Hongkong is a record of which the Society of St. Vincent de Paul might writ be proud. Frun small beginnings it has grown into an important institution
it was hondurable. At the sanis time it PRISON REFORM AT CANTON. taught him that he was not of a degrailed į
"CANTON OFFICIAL ON HONG, ' race. With the conversion of the Emperor
‹ KONG'S GAOLS, 4. Constantiae,che Chazeh emerged Trom, thờ catacombs but slavery still outered'into thej structure of Roman Society. But the Christian emperors curtailed the harsh authority of the masters and took away*
their power of life and death."
Dealing with the rise of the feudal caring for the needs of poor people often the middle ages the speaker all nationalities in the Colony.
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expenditure of over $20,000 on charity for that year, whilst the receipts exceeded this amount by some $1,000.
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The following has been communicated for publication by a Chinese correspondent, in Canton:--
Chiei Justice of the South China Supreme Court, and at present Procurator-General
Cantau recopated by two nssistants, of the Constitutionalist Government
Indgs L Hing-yuen, formerly Acting
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and a prison in Kowlooni on July 20th. with the object of getting saggestions and methods for the introduction of reforms in the prison naisistention in Kangtung Province: Judge Long as Procurator General, is ex-officio supervisor of prisons.
1 in the intention of Judge Lo us erectĆ a new prison in Canton with all features form the character of those who had he necessary to assist the authorition to re-
fremstances to be there. Judge Loo organizing a Prism Reform Commission to undertake the supervision of the can ing construction and administration of the new prison. The commision will rent in Chine, qual tarsign residents in Canton so as to insure having an institution which will taret the and of the expectes interuntional commis sion of jurists coming to study the adw Chinese judicial system and report da the possibility of abolishing the extra-torri- Eriality of the foreign Powers in China. The proposed Chuton Prison Reform Com mission will also be the trustee of all funds tu he appropriated by the Canton Govern. gent for building purposes and will supe plement what is lacking by popstar sub- triptions. It is the hope of Judge Loo to keep the prison administration out of politics and operate it as T charitable institution for the morally sick,
No. 8 signal (gule expected to increase The Society was formed on July 13th, asperialism. The Church having deliver visited the Victoria Gant. 2. Hongkong) night, was taken down and the dreaded 156 Mr. J. C. Whyte ar. Englishmaa, the slave then extended her protection Its income in the serf. Her first step was to establish} being its first President.
a dignity of labour, which in the past bhick cross was run up in his place. At the first year of its existence was 8401.50 the same time the Water Police act offnud out of this eight families were sup-
had been held in great contempt. A great hose to assert the dignity of purer From the warning bombs to indicate to those portal at a total cost of 8291.73.
labor; that power was the monk. Of the who could not are the signals what was those days of small beginnings, the Society many beings which monastic institutious likely to happen. With the change of has grown until today it provides for had conferred upon society few could signal the jod tags which had been flying 174 poor families of various uationalities are with their resusientation of the at the Star Ferry Wharves throughout
Its balance sheet for 1922, showed dignity of labour. St. Benedict gave the the morning, were hauled down and the
key-note to the rehabilitation of inhour: blue flags hoisted intimating the suspen- sion of the service. A few minutes later,
Work is the leadigden of soul ami Inly," however, these flags were taken down and
This was the fpirit that led to the red flags run up again, and the The members of this Society are even the recess of the Benedictine monks as ferris fortid to us for ben hoist now working on a movement of expansion they spread throughout Europe. Great ed pu the usual maxis, The black cross ns they have on hand a scheme for monastries arose in every cœnutry, within nist have been blown down from the housing 500 aged poor. They have been where walls every kind of labour was Observatory wireless mast for it dis- appeared within a few moments of its in communication with the Government gathered together naal sanctified. By the bring hoisted there. About the same on this matter and very shortly hope to example of the monks whole countries time the City tram service censed to obtain through the Government a suitable warts changed, grent forests were cleared, operata, all this trams being ordered back site for building a new home for the aged marshy lauds worn raised and waste to the Depots The Peak tram service
poor which with replace the existing ons lands were ovelaimed. At the same time was also stopped: «
There was not much sea running in at Kowloon Tong, recently taken over by the Church strenuously exerted herself the harbour during the day. Neither did the little Sisters of the Poor,
obtain the manumission of the seris, the force of thewind appear to be so great us on the last ecension, throw weeks The Society has specially interested Then came the graft guild system. with ago, when a typhoon came perilously itself during recent years in the educa-which the spenker denkt very fully, clove to Hongkong. But even su skippers tion of children of extremely poor people were taking to risks and early yesterday
maintains two vernacular schools, morning all vessels had left the wharves and and moored in midstream" or in the one in Wanchai and the other in sheltered, bays The Empress of Canada Yaumati. was amongst those that went out to
The Society is almost entirely dependent shelter. Vessels lying in midstream, in addition to having fixed up at double cable for its income on the proceeds of its open to the buoys, had in many cases dropped air bazaar which is held "each year in their anchors, and in all cases there were tar month of vermber. The attraction. sncking funnels, indicating that they had strom up ready for typhoon fight should at this bazaar is the draw for a moter car it come. Small craft had gone into and other valuable prizes. This year shelter on this previous night, though one the Committer is organising or two sumpans were to be seen struggling charity draw and the prizes will include against the rising seas of West, Point- yesterday morning.
a Studebaker motor-ear, a motor-cycle, In the late afternoon stronger squalls a piano player, a victrola, electric sewing swept across the face of the waters, lifting machine, two typewriters and other valt the surface into a fi spray, and the able and useful articles. There are to be "white topped waves grew "burger", A curious feature about the storm was that 50 prizes and this year they are to het there was practically no wind at all in organised under one grand draw. the city whilst on the middle levels, niong Caine Road and at Breezy Point it was strangely calm. Probably Aberdeen and Repulse Bay (on the other side of the Island) were getting the force of the guir.
During the day little orino damage, was a general meeting of members and friends upon currency and credit, and the done. On Kewloor side the Peninsula of the Society was held as the Mission exigencies of competition-recilly in
ternational competition LI forbigu Hotel hoarding was again down (for the House of the Catholic Cathedral, yester-arkets-render a solution of the problem second time this season) having been day morning. Unfortunately the sinse blow down during the night. A proximity of the typhoon prevented many extremely difficult. Minus remedies have Blake Pier, whilst the mechanical traffic the number present was subsequently his he has destroyed everything of the old damaged lamp-post was to seen, on Kowloon residents from attending and been suggested. The Bolshevist has tried order through carnage and pillage but signal at the fort of Garden Road was small.
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Judge: Lon was received by Superinten dent J. W Fennks of the Victoria Goal upon his visit and was shown through the building by Chief Wurder J. C. West. After the visit at Victoria Gol, Judge Leo went over to Kowloon to inspect the temporary prison there, the superintendent instructing Mr. Wiltshire, a principal wander to conduct him and his puržy across the bay, At Kowloon, Chief Warder ti. Passmore and Principal Warder Wit shire explained the working of the tem porary prison to the visitors.
Judge Loo, when askel of the impres son of his visit, spoke highly of the eff ciency of the prison administration at Hongkong, mentioning preindly the clean-
traile flourished the lords scheme to more of the profits and appropriate multiplied taxes and exactions These ex- cessive demands obliged the craftsmen of arh town to form themselves into general association or guild in self-defenge, the lord then found he had to deal with the whole town united in common setion The gesult was usually a system of com- promise, These guilds usually took the estitution of the existing religious guilds as model and adopted many of their Thus religion formed an uhservances, integral part of the craft guibls from the beginning.
liness of the places... He was much interest- differmat is the condition ate in noticing the variety of trades being labour today," the speaker ontinued. taught the inmates of the Victoria. Cinol disappeared but the personal nations in and the excellent quality of some of the Slavery has been abrilshed, serfilem has within that comparatively small compari
impersonal domination of fus faible capital. and a Hongkong, when he was craft guilds have yield to the products, Ile, however, could not under why corporeal punishment is still The relations between expital and labour,
being and the condition of the workmen are such les to cause anxiety as to the future, in the minds of all students of history, but INTERESTING ADDRESS BY ME." PITZ-U1SBON, the ramifications of the complex com- mercial system of today, the dependeige To commemorate the woth universary of one idustry upon another and of all
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND
LABOIR.
show some of the apparatus for that puz pose, in the prison chapel. Judge Loi rr. marked that Canton abolished" corporeal puni-hment more than ten years ago.
A HEUNGSBAN PRISON
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À FEARFUL PICTURE."
Mr. Jue Chock-mau, district magistrate telegram to the authorities in Canton gave a fearful pic of Heaugshan ture of prison onditions in Shekki, the enpital of his district, says the Cauton The Yangtze, which should have General of the Soristy who briefly review this
Daily News He autounced his intention arrived with the mail from Home oned the history of the Society since itsdeavouring to crect on the ruins will of making a sweeping reform of the distri Saturday had not arrived in port up to formation, closed his remarks by an appeal materially improve the condition of the prison. last night. She has probably experienced for new members. There was a waning the Russiau. workman. Throughout the
According to his telegram, from the the full brunt of the storm, of dodged interest, he said. amongst some of the world the workmen have combined in higher officials in charge of the prison,
older meibers who, in the past, had nions to defend their rights and, as we down to the warden and other minor of "The track of the typhoon since Friday devoted much time in house to house Now here in Hongkong, last year, at times ials, corruption is the order of the day. moved from W.X.W. to directly North visitations. This work had to be carried open war is declared between capital and Many of the primers whoor terms of
labour." and yesterday morning it was reported on" and new members were required to
Describing what the Catholic Church is being kept, while not a few who are work imprisonment have long expired are still, to be directly South of Gap Rock and cope with it. making for Hongkong, The barometer) Mr. W. G. FITZ-Grusos, a prominent doing for the present day worker, the
attention. The workroom of the prison is showed a steady fal On Saturday at 3 worker of the Society, followed with speaker said the Church accepted the sick are not given proper medical p.m, it read 20.50 and yesterday at 6 a.m. stirring address on The Catholic Church existing industring, arrangements in all said to be in a condition similar to
countries, codemning where they diverge junkshop. The farm belonging to the pri it had receded to 29.38; whilst at 2 p.m. and Labour."
He said, in the opening stages of his fr the principles of justice and extend son is now a negreted fell filed with it was still going down, the Observatory
her sympathy and native influenes to debris and garbage, Mr. Jue considers it The afternoon remarks, that with our present conception initigate the hardships of afly system. his duty in ses that reform is introduerd reading being 90.31. pressed without incident and at 7 pm. the of personal freedom and the rights of There had been a general Catholic labour and it is his determination to begin hy barometer showed a more favourable even the humblest citizen in modern demo movement in every country with the object noplying for the dismissal of officials of Prading, though late last night the No 7 cracies, it was difficult to realize the of taking effective means to relieve the the prison who are found guilty of cor signal was still displayed on the Railway influence of slavery on the social life of oppression of the mvlern commercial ruption,
the Western world in the early years of system. In Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Tower.
"There were heavy showers of rait the Christian Church. The social life of France, Belguim. England and the United throughout the day and up to 2 p.m. Imperial Rome was founded on slavery. States the Catholic labour movement was. nearly an inch and a half had fallen. Captives taken in war were held as slaves today, well-organised and especially and the great Roman conquerors return during the last few years, the development ing from Africa, Asia. Gaul and Britain had been remarkable la England the brought back to the Imperia! City, their Catholle Young Men's Society and the thousands of slaves to be sold in the Catholic Social Guild had done, and were market places of Rome. Masters held doing, splendid work and a Catholic their slaves as their property just as workmen's college had been founded at fission, is stilt in the hands of they held their dogs and their chattes; Oxford to train young Catholic workers indits and there is nothing more in Roman law they found such phrases to take their places as Iraders in the definita regarding the expectationa
aslave or any other, animals." labour movement.
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THE CHEUNG CHAU LAUNCH DISASTER.
COMMISSION TO HOLD AN INQUIRY.
STILL IN THE HANDS,
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OF BANDITS.
FATHER MELOTTO'S CASE.
Father P. A. Melotto, of the Catholie
of his release than the verbal 'pro- mises of the Chinese authoriting to do their best for his boration The French Consul has called on the Wuchang author- ties several times, and the result of his
Jannch, Per Din Ya', on July 8th when glaves of pleasure "-éauld scarcely he formation of a purely Catholic labour interviews was a verbal nasurance from
A Commission has been appointed by. the Government to hold an enquiry into the capsizing of the Cheung Chau ferry approximately 30 passengers lust their lives.
H.E. the Governor has appointed as members of the Commission Commander C. W. Beckwith, IN (Chairman), Mr. W. Davison and Mr. E. W. James Mr. L. H. V. Booth is to act as secre Mary
ANOTHER NOTE ON CHINA. INSURANCES COMPANIES TAKE,
ACTION.
sloves. animals and other things" The Dealing with China the speaker said: slave had no legal rights; his master could In China where there is a Catholic torture or even kill him with impunity. population of 2,000,000 little or noting The position of the female slave-theappears to hark been done towards the described by Christian lips and the organisation with a membershin more the Governor that his subordinates have extent of the dreadful social evil could be than double that of all the other Christian hen instructed to effect the release of realized when they were told that at the bridies in Caina together, the Catholic Father Melotto as soon as possible
The Italian priest is now held at n time of Claudius, about the 50th year of Church would appear to be in a parti the Christian era, there were in Itacularly advantageous position to exercise place called. Luotungan between Miyang over 20,000,000 slaves and less than a powerful influence on the Chinese and Turgachhsien in Honan. The re 7,000,000 freemer..
labour movement, guiding it on the path moval of the captive, from Hunch te The speaker went on to describe the of prudence anil disertion and counsel within the Honnn border eems to have revolt, of the slaves which menaced the ing against violence and the destructive shifted the responsibility from Wuchang very existence of Rome. The slaves were doetthurs of Russian and other agitators. to Kaifengiu, as the Tuchun. General defeated and 6,000 wers crucified on the Theantaral. centres for the Chinese Beino, stated that he has asked General ronds leading to Rome in order to strike labour movement are Shanghai and Chang Fu Lai, Governor of Kaifeng, to terror into the hearts of the enormous Canton in the former city, with its huge attend to the case. It is also felt that slave population of the city.
Catholic population, there are many General Wu Pel Fu should do something Tho. Christian Church might have thousands of Catholic workmen. Some for the foreign captive in his own pro- At a meeting held at Shanghai on.
attempted to overturn the pagan of these have probably received a good vince. Friday, the 13th inst. and attended by society of Rome by an armed rebellion of English education. Is it too much to The information from Father, Melotta representatives of all British insurance the slaves. Buy had such rebellion
hope that we may yet see some of them up to July 10th stated that he was well, interests in China, the present deplorable been surcessful, could the victorious slaves being sent-abrand, under the auspices of though previous reports bad it that he condition of the country was discussed have established a new form of society
Catholic Mission: and it was resolved to send a special based upon freedom? They had never Catholic Social Guild of China- for was sick for a time. cable to London in support of repro- known free society, and they had a Courses in social science at the Catholic rice say that all letters from Father sentations already made by the China the moral qualities at would fit them Workmen's College at Oxford and similar Melotto never mentioned that he was sick. Probably, the captive, did not choose to Association and the British Chamber of to exercise freedom or even work towards institutions in other countries
The speaker concluded his address by have his fellow missionaries and the out- Commerce. The telegram which has been it, The result of a successful slave sent refers to the general chaotic state of rebellion, would, therefore, have been a saying that through the conturies of side world seriously concerned about his affairs due to banditry and misrule and dreadful period of rapine and anarchy, strugg'o the church had been the work well-being.
A later report says that General Hsiao requests the various companies to combine followed by a long transition period with man's friend and bis champion and today in urging HM Government to take con all its risks and difficulties. The first step the wonderful world wide-activity of her Yao Nan is preparing a military, expedi certed action with other Powers without of the Early Church was, to make the labour organisations showed that the tion into the stronghold of bandits in further delay with a view to improving slaves, morally capable of freedom. Out fight for his welfare was still for the Honan. The troops that he is planning. w to send to Honan will carry with them conditions which, if unchecked, will ulti- side of Christianity the very notion of Church a labour of love."..
The meeting closed with a brief address field pieces and ammunition to sweep mately render business impossible and re freedom was lacking. Christianity taught
that locality clean of malcontents. sidence dangerous.
the s'ave that labour was a duty and that by his Lordship Bishop Pozzoni.
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