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MORE OPINIONS
FROM HOME.
COMMENTS ON HANKOW
INCIDENTS.
A FIRM AND JUST POLICY.
FORMER HONG KONG GOVERNOR'S VIEW.
"We are not going to do any good in China by having our fing hauled down, evacuating women and children, and allowing houses, shops, and warehouses to be in vaded by a mob. What is going to help us is the prestige of the British
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IN THE WILDS OF BURMAH.
HUMAN SACRIFICE, SLAVERY
AND BLOOD FEUDS.
BRITISH EXPEDITION'S TASK.
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The first dispatches describing the progress of the expedition to the Naga Hills of Barmah were received at the end of last month. Mr. Dewar, of the Burmah Frontier Ser- vice, who is in charge of the poli- tical side of the expedition, and Captain Howman, who commands the escort of military police, left Myitkyina in Christmas week and pa January 4th arrived at Haing- kwan, a village 70 miles "from the nearest outpost and 35 miles from
THE WEEK'S DIARY.
To-day.
First Committee Meeting for New Territories Development Show,
Rehearsal of Miss Violet Capell's pupils, Theatre Royal, 3 p.m...
.. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy tea dansant, 430 p.m.
Golf Club "Ladies"; Bogey pool, Fanling.
Football and Cricket: Details in to-day's issue.
Yachting: Fresented Cups Race, for all classes,
H.M.B. Hermes dance, Hotel Savoy, 830 p.m.
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the boundary of the administered Europeia Marseilles (Kalgan), In association with the Gear Her CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO... territory. They encountered heavy 10.30a.m.; Europe via Siberia rain and mist, the male track along | (Nyanza), 10 am. which they travelled was marshy and slippery, and leeches were met with in thousands. They left Maing kwan on January 7th.
"A Pleasant Neighbourhood i The expedition is investigating the slaves conditions of life of the liberated by the earlier expedition of Mr. J. T. O Barnard, Deputy Commissioner of the Burmah Fron-
Sunday.
Golf: Junior Championship Semi-final; Bogey Pool, Fanling.
Theatre:
Cricket Volunteers v. C.R.C., at Chinese Recreation Club, 10.43 8.m. Yachting: Re-sail of 1st Cham pionship race, cruisers.
Social
St. John's Gathering, Cathedral Hall, p.m.
Queen's
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World" Theatre: "Prairie Wife." Star Theatre: The Ten Com mandments.
Principal Mails-Inward: U.S.A., (Shinyo -Maru); U.B.A., etc. (Prendent Jefferson),
flag, backed by the stout heart of the British nation," declared Ad- miral Sir Reginald Hail, Director of Naval latelligence during the Great War, amid the cheeys of a Conserva. tive meeting at Bath. "I believe, if we only stand firm, we can keep the fag flying, and have no more incidents like that of Hankow. If we want foreign nations to respect the British fag, we must assert our | tier Service. At the request of rights Contempt and total loss of tribal chiefs the expedition is con trade would follow the hauling downtinuing its investigation into the possibility of stepping inter-tribal of the flag and the running away on blood feuds and attempting to in-ete. every occasion on which a Labour duce the natives, to abandon the manifesto declared the British had practice of human sacrifice. It is intended to penetrate territory to right in China."
never previously visited by white man, and to facilitate the progressi of the expedition the tribal chiefsp.m. are clearing roads and making other preparations..
SIR MATTHEW NATHAN. La the course of an interview in the Daily News, Major Sir Mat- thew Nathan, & former Governor of Hong Kong, who recently revisited To Stamp Out Blood Feuds. China, did not think that things Before leaving Maingkwan several will ever be again the same in blood feuds were brought before China as they were before the Mr. Deware Naga chiel, whe growth of the spirit of rationalists undertook des journey to visit but believed that the direction of him, stated theople had in that spirit against Great Britain urred a
“tlocu resulting re would die down if the violent cently in a double murder, owing to Soviet propaganda ceaser: We the arm attitude of bis brother. should do what we can, he said, to against human sacrifices in his terri- counteract the propaganda, apd to tory.
nako the Chinese realise that
The correspondent saya that the
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nothing.. would be more advantage- Fans or welcome to this country thanatory appears to be substantially accurate, and adds that if chiefs are Nationalist Administration which prepared to face personal danger top.. would make unnecessary for the suppress the custom, it would ap security of foreign trade in the near the day is dawning when the future any interference in the ia hideous practice will be finally ternal affairs-national or local-of stamped out.
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pet, been suggested which offers any Sir Gerhom Stewart, M.P., who hope of the real settlement for spent twenty-four years in business which everyone hopes, which will in China, and was a member of the make possible in the new nationally Hong Kong Legislative Council, conscious China the friendly com said a revision of Treaties is hound mercial and cultural relations to be undertaken.
He did not which we all desire to see. The fact agree that Nationalia' is the is that we can enjoy no prestige. cause of the situation. He attach in China' unless we can convince at ed signicance to the influence of least the more reasonable sections of Bolshevism on the Cantonese, but he the Nationalist Party that we considered that, when the Cantonese had achieved their ends they would endeavour to throw over their pre- sent leaders. Great Britain's at titude to changing China should be one of sympathy with legitimate aspirations,
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5th Annual Dancing Display by Lt. Col. R. V. K: Applin, writing way to secure this end; and that from the House of Commons to the only if loyally supported by all Miss V. Capell's pupils, Theatre Morning Post, says: With the sections of the British communities Royal, 3.15 p.m. Chinese, as with all Oriental peo-in China and of their friends at ples, firmness must be backed by home.
LT-COL. APPLIN,
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róle) to vanquish Napoleon ovez a century ago. No other policy has (Continucă on next column.)
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