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White Label
We beg to notify our Clients that the Distillers Agency, Ltd. have decided to withdarw the Top Notch altogether, making use of an even better quality of whisky than heretofore and adopt the Gold Label as their standard brand for the fature, therefore, when order- ing see that you get
"Gold Label King George IV"
Old Scotch Whisky-
M.B.-Noos genuine unless bearing the... above Label.
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No. 2, Ias HOUSE STREET, HONG KONG.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 1927.
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GENERAL MANAGERS,
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"Hazeline". Snow? is not greasy and may be applied conveniently at any time.
In glass pote
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in glass pots, at all
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AZ Rights Humans
CHINESE IN THE CARIBBEAN.
PROSPEROUS STORE-KEEPERS.
PROBLEM OF ENGLISH-EDUCATED CHILDREN.
Chinese immigrants thrive every ties; but he cannot disregard the where; they can withstand the hard world he lives in His wile, at any ships of field labour and also the rate, must therefore be shut away in their tiny apartment, never to germs that plague the dwellers in be seen except as a face at the a city slum. Their natural field | window.
WHAT BRITONS DID FOR THE YANGTSZE
[Br G. C. DIXON]
..
APPREHENSION AT KASHING.
INHABITANTS TIRED OF ALL FACTIONS.
like defeat.
Fear Of War And Disorder.
from the U.S. Consulate General, Acting on advices not mandatory
and children have the women
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
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Canton InsuranOS verkee
*$655 buy. 0.90 buy
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les 3d buy.
..you buy. 1615 bay
Dongluses immun. 1904 bay. Hong Kong Fire ins
tombol. Hong Kong Tag
Da (hof) Indo-Chinas (Pret.) Shell Transports. Be Farrios
Waterboat.... China Sugar Malabon isagara
1.10 pro
„330 SOL
$39-buy.
buy.
SSA BUL
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41.30 nom.
Kailan Mining Ad........5/- som. lang kata (combined) Th, fáik diy nom,
300,- (single)
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44 sal.
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gradually gone on to Shanghai Several of the men are preparing to seal their residences and make
Hongkows findi srangements with the Chinese HR. & K. Wharts. staff to carry on with hospital, K. & W. Dooks... schools, etc. There are no signs Now
Engineerings.. manifest of local bastility. There Bhanghai Docks British missionaries in H&A Hotel no
B. K. Lands
($112) buy, diss.
"THOR OFS**
Tis. 165 nom ‚'ils, öt bar.
lia, 102) boy,
7,80 8
B. L. Bank....#1,100 buy, &i na.
DO The Chitose Bolsheviks have been.
Landán...1192 mam. Reports of Marshal Sun's délest Chartered Bank.del nom learning the truth of Oscar Wilde's cynical maxing that nothing succeeds have been disproved so often that Mercantile Bank, A&B... nom. like artese. Having devised clover circumstantial details are discredit.P. de O. Fant and unscrupulons anti-British pro-ed daily, almost hourly, writes the Bast Asia Bank pagands for the heartening of their Kashing correspondent of the China Underwriters own lukewarm adherents, they are Daily News. An armoured train North Ubins In Union Insurance now finding that their storica of runs up and down the S.H. and Nangare Insurance British tyranny on the Yangtze are Railway as a precaution, Normal Chias Fire Lararance of race expansion, however, seems Problem of Batter Class Chinese. being accepted by the ignorant time tables operate with occasional delays. Soldiers are seen going to to lia within the tropics. Here they There are two or three families throughout the world.
When Britons themselves swallow wards "Hangchow and some coming fnd fertile countries such as the in the West Indies who claim to
be people of rank in China. They nonsense of this kind, it is time away. Marshal Sun's advance may archipelagos of the Pacific, held by
are wealthy merchants, trading on that we all learned something of possibly have been checked, but so dark races who are natural agricula larger scale than most of their the real history of the enterprise far no actual evidence of anything turists, unfited for life in the town compatriots, from whom they hold through which the Upper Yangtazo aloof, as from inferiors. They are has developed from the grave of The islands of the Caribbean ara so well Atted for Chinese im the most progressive part of the countless rotting junks into the migrants that it is strange to find yellow community, they study-Eng-world's greatest commercial water. that their settlements have been Lish ways, and frequently send their way. small. In some islands they nam children to Europesfo school. Yet of the social ber a few hundreds; in Trinidad they form no slight part a few thousands. Nowhere do they problem of their race. The sons form more than two per cent of the and daughters come home educated, fastidious, with traditiona half of people, and throughout the greater part of these countries the yellow China, half of England, and they find no place prepared for them. element is a fraction of one per They may not intermarry with the low-class Chinese; the Europeans In other islands for, example in patronize the girls and mistrust the Mauritius-the increase of the Chi-men; while the quadrons or never which for thousands of years had ness has been phenomenal. On the whites will not compromise their west coast of America, in Califorais, doubtful position in society by Chile, Peru, they flourished and friendship with yellow people, i multiplied until checked by drastic
I The Chinese Mulatto. exclusion Acta Every great sea-
this section, where the river thun- the ideals of the Southern party port from San Francisco to Singa- !
ders and foams between rocky they fear mismanagement by the leaders that may force war issues pore, from Cape Town to London, is has its Chinese inhabitants; and the Mongolian-Negroid is a hideous ob- walls, each junk is hauled by teams with England and involve China white dominions believe their lands ject, with the slant eyes and stof sweating, chanting, groaning with other Powers. I have just had try, labour leaders; and all ́alike to be menaced by millions of cheeks of his fathers, plus the skin, junkmen. Langs and hearts may talks with bankers, merchants, gen- would-be settlers from Eastern hair, and look of coarseness that burst, feet may slip and men may hope for better things, but none is type was never foreseen by Nature; but the onward surge never halts it has neither the poise of the For once a junk enters the danger yellow man nor the physical com- 200e there can be no pause. A pleteness that makes the pureblood- moment's slackening of the ropes ed Negro such a sleek and hand- and the craft would swing round come animal. These half-breeds are with the torrent and he dashed to found even in colonies where the pieces. Chinese rame in singly, bringing
Even with the most heroic efforts their families with them, but they one junk in ten goes aground each. voyage and one in twenty is wholly fost usually with all aboard. As
седі.
A peculiar result of this invasion the Chinese, mulatto. The
The romance of the Upper Yang. taze begins in 1883, when the late Archibald Little chartered a junk and made the voyage from Shang hai to Chungking, 1,497 miles,
The journey took 59 days, no less than three weeks being required to negotiate the dreaded, gorges he Kushing. Other nationals in the and Chungking, Customs and Roman Catholic Mia tween Ichang
on seem to be staying on at pre strangled trade and commanica.sent. A number of British and American missionaries have with tion
..are
Responsible people here feel de
True, junks did pass them and drawn from Hangchow. still do pass them-at a cost. Up pressed. While sympathetic with
pro.$74 bay,
Hong Kong Realty..... Tarmorial 39 sol Humphreys kistatos...$11,60 x. div. buy, Prince's Building...... Baral Leade
66
wo atuous Orientals Shanghai Doltons (old)....
Do
Bom
„Tis. 8,35 bay... Tis. 24 apm
27% aom.
The St bay.
bay. $15 buy. 81 bay.
China Busen HK TramWAY I Peak Trama (old)
De. Singapore Tractions.15/-
Amusemente Canton Ices Comenta (comixned) Da. (old) (LOW)
....$18 buy, & sa
$5 nom. 261.
...31 nom.
Asia. These crowding myriads have come from the Negro stock. This fall clawing into the foam beneath, one could speak for all, it Ohiza Lights (combl....1 nomi
not yet, however, taken the easier
path into the West Indies.
In every West Indian village stands & small shop, generally one only, and it seems incredibly small to deal with the-trade of such a
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fertile district. The shop is shaped like a large box, its front open to the road, with a counter running pcross, a few shelves, and a small 470 most numerous in Guiana.
If no great influx of Asiatics storeroom at the back. Above these f are the tiny rooms that serve as takes place, these half-castes will for the junkmen, the number lost dwelling for the owner; and at the soon be absorbed in the dark po is beyond all knowing. This rocky back is a yard or trodden earth, pulation of Defers Probably path has been drenched, every foot such as surrounds the peasant's the Chines if y settled in the of it, with sweat and blood; and house, edged with palmthatched West Indies, would absorb so much the junkmen earn, if they ara
colour that their racial type lucky, sixpence a day. would be profoundly modified
hovels.
and
4
Where Chinese Do Well.
Chinese and Negro Antipathy. The most prosperous of store-
The West Indian world has room keepers are the Chinese. They have a general reputation for honesty for men of all colours; the Chinese for stocking sound goods alone are regarded as interlopers, White people will deal with and their worst enemies are the Chinamin when they would not blacks. Sir Harry Johnston notes: think of buying provisions from a The Negroes are afraid of the shop of that size if it were kept Chinese, and do not behave to them by & Negro or a mulatto. The in the bullying manner they some yellow man is a good buyer when he times adopt toward the East In- knows his market, and the petty, dian.' But, collectively, the Negroes daily commerce of the countryside can terrorize individual Chinamen
by riot and violence. suits him exactly.
Money Remitted to China. The mulatto, when he makes money, improves his style of living
+
+
..
If goods and the great majority of passengers, Chinese as well as foreign, are carried to-day in hip-| pier and safer conditions the change is mainly due to a few dogged British pioneers.
In 1888, five years after his voyage of exploration, Mr. Little steamed the Yangtze in the Kuling, specially built for the rapids.
a service was impossible.
The Kuling proved unsuitable, In 1908 Mr. Little made another attempt in a little 7-ton launch; and in the following year, he sent Baiting the Chinaman, is an up the Pioneer, a paddle-wheel easy game. After the war, when steamer of 331 tons, built on the Jamaica passed through a time of Clyde, under Captain Plante. She, minor, disorders, there were two teo, proved unsatisfactory," and but the Chinaman, when he grows anti-Chinese riots to one antiwhite when a German vessel was wrecked rica, alters his mode of living demonstration, and Chinamien's is 1000 the pessimists declared that not a whit. It is one of the chief shops were looted when white men's traits which make the blacks wary
went untouched, regarding him that they can never aure whether a Chinese is wealthy or not. It does not follow, however, that the Chinese puts his profits back into the business on the contrary, the greater part of it is generally remitted to China, The capital amassed from some of these small shopa must be very con- siderable.
be
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Celestial Patriotism.
But, fired still by Mr. Little's dream, Captain Plante induced
Loyalty to their homeland persists some Chinese capitalists to form among the Celestials, even among the Szechuan Steam Navigation those born on the Islands Most of Company, and designed a vessel them intend to return home, and with twin screws that worked in all have sympathies there. During tunnels so that they might not be the recent famine large sums were shattered on the rocks. She passed raised by them for the relief of the gorges safely in October, 1909, their starving compatriots at home, mada 14 trips in 1910, and the When China--was declared a re- battle of 30 years had been won. The first sign of rising fortune
How the trade of Chungking public, her leading citizens in is cot a large house, but a motor Jamaien assembled and were photo-alone has grown since then may be caf. A carload of Chinese may be seen, the men wearing American graphed, in European costume, seeen from the figures:
against the back-ground of their
Year.
1910
1916
1020
1925
would be something like this.
We
Da (old)
(new)
bate England to-day, we dislike all foreigners with few exceptions, we China Providence fear our own North, we Jenn temConstructions, porarily to our Southern leaders Dairy Facts...... and hope for provincial autonomy Lee A Wings ... but are not fully assured of our Hong Kong Busetrics.. self-selected advocates" As the old order passes they want some sort | Macao Electrics of basis for new illusions.
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WAGES IN UNITED STATES.
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It is officially stated that in the per cent between 1913 and 1925. bay buye same periods the retail prices of food increased 99 per cent and 87 per cent respectively. An hour's. wages in 1925 purchased 151 per cent as much food as in 1913,
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Rugar, February 14th.
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Sureand certain for all Female complants Every lady should keep a box in the house. - - Chemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietari.
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cleared.
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Brussels singin
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Berlin
20.47
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Shanghai
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30.3/10
Silver (forward),
LÁTH AND BIBLEKU POR LAKIN
suits, while the women, whose pre- sence is a concesion to English new republican flag.
*8,584 On the surface, they conform to custom, look much out of place in
31,627 their coats of heavy milk, An the laws and even the customs en-
73,758 441,478 old 'yellow-grandmother in blue joyed by white rulers Actually, trousers will hold a moon-faced they spread round them the in-
The decay of the junk traffic, child clad in white frills and pink fluence of their own morals and which, together with the sinking of aash-a costume designed to set off ideas; and these seem to be especial-junks by the wash of steamers, has naturally embittered thousands of junkmen, bar not been due to the the bloom of a Nordic infantly unsuited to the Negro.
"The womon are often secluded The true obstacle to the Chinese foreigner alone The Chinese have learned that passengers and goods, it conveyed by steamers, run less of the contaminating influence of fact that the immigrants spring risk of being seized by militarista. the blacks The Negro has no from too high a class. They are And it is also worth remembering moral code, and no sense of a little above the blacks in their that ships flying the British fing like the prosperous looking build- etiquette, but he has the virtue of ideas, and do not care to compete ings in the British Concesione, are Thus as often as not owned by Chinese jolly good-fellowship. The Chinese, with them in field labour. austere and dignified, is disgusted, they learn, an the white man also anxious to obtain the security and justice under the Union Jack_that as much as the European, at the learned, how hard it is to live down their own laws deny them-Daily loasences of the Negro domestic the Negro-Contemporary Review. Mail.
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