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HEAD HUNTERS OF
FORMOSA.
cooked game or pork, and the old
men may have some chicken, but it is taboo for younger warriors;
WHY THEY ENGAGE IN THIS it makes cowards of them. Some
PURSUIT."
A TRIBAL CUSTOM GREAT ANTIQUITY.
"Old Fashioned Gentlemen, the Headhunters of Formosa" was the subject of interesting sad scholarly address by Professor J. O Clark, given recently before the Asiatic Society, Tokyo.
Professor Clark, according to the Japan Times, firs: described the ordinary day of a Formosan family and the Formosan house which consists of a single room. Both men and women work in the fields, but they do not work together, and the men consider the field work side issue, hunting is their chief work. For the evening meal, the maia course is rice or boiled millet, Occasionally they have some badly
times, they est, wild honey, best, comb and all, eggs of the mantis, grasshoppers or the mountain rat. They never eat frogs or makes. They feel greatly the lack of salt, as a substitute they use native ginger or berries with a salty taste.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13th, 1929.
When
Head Hunting Not War. Head-hunting, Professor Clark said, is not looked upon as war but merely as a form of hunting. Some of the causes of head-hunting are religion, love of adventure, love of women, and love of prestige. AD- other strange cause is law. no compromise can be reached con. cerning boundaries; when two men call each other liars; when tw families are at each others throats, the chief of the clan turns their wrath from one another to enemy. He awards the decision to the man or family who can bring in more heads with a certain time.
man suspects his When a wife of unfaithfulness, be
goes head-bunting, and if he is success
MARCHANT'S ful, her guilt is proved.
SIR?
Certainly.
What else
should, I
drink?
MARCHANT'S Gold Label Whisky.
the
PHILIPPINES AND CHINESE IMMIGRANTS.«
**SMUGGLING.” PROHIBITED AND REGISTRATION
SUGGESTED.
OFFICIAL ACTION COMBINED.
LARGE INCREASE OF FEES IMPOSED.
Smuggling of Chinese into Manila received a setback last week when H. C. Anderson, special agent of the United States Treasury, began action based on the results of some three years' investiga tion into violations of the interaŝi revenue laws, including unlaw- Sul catry of Chinese and smugging of opium and other prohibited drugs,.
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Chinese, with the exception of business Den and students, are nat permitted to enter the Philippine Islands, yet the Chinese quarters grow yearly, and large industries, using entirely Chinese cookie labour, are expanding. For generations the Chinese, established in hittle arhacks throughout the Islands, have controlled the retail trade, as the Filipinos have no trading ability and the upper classes lock ca trade As andignified.
local Government has failed in its task, and so the United States Government has had to step in..
Besides these reasons, they er gage in, war because of historic batred against the Cantonese or Fukicnese of the plaias, or against some distant clan, or any of the other tribes Head-hunting is a panacea for all ills, it cures pesti-
Now they are going into industry. lence and plague, it makes the
and it is the duty of the Govern crops grow, it secures the mysteriment, under the law, to keep out ous help of one's ancestors in all these low-standard labourers. The the trials of life. The raids are never undertaken until after the harvest. When a family resolves to kettle feud, it communicates its design to its neighbours, asking them to observe certain taboos while the raid lasts. Some of these are: 1. No marriages. 2. No visit ing. and no receiving a guest." J Neither giving nor receiving fire. 4. Among the women, no spinning. no weaving, no touching a thread, and strangely, no burning of clothes.
Rules Of The Bald. Professor Clark then, described the procedure of the rail, whien follows certain prescribed rules.
The hunt ends in murder. Mao
their enemy.
The situation was crystallized by the discovery that large numbers of Chinese were making their way into the Philippines and thence to the United States, using passports obtained by using Filipino names.
Several employees of the Bureau of Customs have been discharged outright and others have been naked to explain, the entry of many Chi- nese who had no right to come in..
Dodging The Law.
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a revenue tax which may amount to more than P.200..
The shop-keeper lists his five or Customs Barcau are given a little more "children," employees of the oil to make the machinery of im- migration work smoothly, and then certificates are obtained and sold in China at high prices, like hot cakes."
The newcomers-carefully "coach. ed-establish their right to enter (it is difficult anyway to probe into each individual case, with so many hundreds of Chinese coming in each month) and soon get jobs as labour- ers or as stora Asistants. Each month they pay a large portion of their income to the broker, and the sum is divided among the original shopkeeper and the other inter mediaries..
Birth And Baptism Certificates. Another ingenious way to cheat the Immigration Office is as fol- fows:-First the agent hires a re- presentative in China to look for Chinese parents who wish to send their children to the Philippines He gets their pictures. Then the agent hires as many Chinese child-
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by this to the place where all the skulls are kept. He puts food into the gaping mouth, and commands the spirit of the dead as master cotamanda servant, to help them on future raids.
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and takes them to the Church for
baptism. After the baptism the agent secures birth certificates, to which be affixes the pictures of the minors in China.
When everything is ready, the agent wires his representative to send over the Chinese children whose pictures are affixed to the birth certificates. These with other
proofs, are presented to the im migration officers, and upon estab. lishing their identity, the Chinese are allowed to land as Chinese This method takes mestizos. months, sometimes years, but has been many times successful.
The broker who related this
There are many ways of getting into the Islands, For example: A method said that from 40 per cent. obliging Chinese with a small shop to 30 per cent of the Chinese in the Philippines came here illegally, and no reputation to lose is induced by the larger immigration agents to either through the custom house announce himself as the father of in Manila, or smuggled in native- In order to boats from Borneo to Mindanao sons living in China. make himself appear as a merchant and thence to the northern islands. doing a respectable business, he The broker says that registration of voluntarily increases the amount of all Chinese in the Islands is the his business on his books and pays only way to stop this practice. 1
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London, January 25th (UP). Dissatisfaction with the date- September 6th and 7th-which has been fixed for the 1020 Schneider is to be stationed at Dover for the port to port to the final port of call to Trophy race, is being expressed by special purpose of racing to the which the option. Pad damaged Goods help of cross-channel airplanes aeronautical quarters, due to the which may come down in the are to be left in the Godowns, where they
All broken, chafed fact that this is so late in the sethannel. The new boat will have a will be examined on any Tuesday and Bon there is a strong probability that weather conditions will be speed of 17 to 18 knots which is unfavourable for the race.
considered the fastest speed possible to obtain without sacrificing the Fight Lieut. D'Arcy. Greig, it is essential qualities of a lifebost. recalled was ready at the end of
Motive power will be furnished August last year to make his at- tack or the world's speed record. by two Thronycroft engines of 373 but it was November before there horse power each, and the boat will came a day combining the exact have two electrically lighted cabins, requirements of good visibility and
with accommodation for fifty per- calm water which are essential to
sons, an electrically-driven capatan, a search light, a line-throwing gun the safe handling of seaplanes which will have a top speed in the and a wireless telephons equipment neighbourhood of six miles a minate capable of sending and receiving distance of fifty and a landing speed of between 100messages over a and 150 miles an hour. Then, when miles. Flight-Lieut. Greig had made his attempt and failed by ÁLITOW margin to better the world's record af 318 miles an hour held by Major di Bernardi of Italy, it was decided because of the unsuitability of the weather to postpone any further attempts on the record until 1929.
Calshot, where Flight-Lieut, Greig made his flights, is in the some ares as the Solent at Southampton, and it is declared that if the wea the in September of this year. matches the sample met with last Fall, there is a fair once there will be no Bolmeider Trophy rucs this year. For it is fairly certain the speed of the new contenders will be at least ten per cent. higher than the 1827 machines in which both Greig and "di Bernardi ex- ceeded 318 miles an hour, and cor respondingly more dificult to
handle and land.
Though especially designed to help airplanes, where speedy rescue work is vital on account of the rapidity with which most land air- planes will sink if forced to land on water, the new boat will also be at the service of cross-Channel steamer traffic, and especially suitable for. work of Goodwin sands, or close in-shore.
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The Steamship "BENLAWEBS." informed that all Goods are being than ever due to the fact that four landed at their risk into the hazardoused that all Goods are being nations Great Britain, the United and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the
YONSIGNEES of Cargo ars hereby States, Italy and France-are com. Hg Kong and Howloon Wharf and landed at their risk into the hazardous peting, and each of the four nations Hong and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the are putting a tremendous amount and/or from
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All Claims against the Steamer must If haze, low clouds, general poor they have won it twice before in visibility and unfavourable winds the previous four conteste. Those 10 din. Chaims against the be pro de sin instant or gas or
including those
Cargo Vessal
| before the 28th
will not or delay a single machine ten who the race will still have a weeks from making a safe big chance at capturing world honours:
short delivered must be presented on the be recognised.
All broken, chafed and Special Form provided, and munt also
damaged apsed flight, it is asked what for it is planned soon after the race rubmited within 30 days of rival as to be left in the Godowas, whers chances are there for carrying out
to hold an international contest otherwise they will not be recognized. they will be examined on the 13th instant, to schedule in September flights by for the official speed record over
No Fire Insurance will be effected of 10 AM. MössYN,
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Goddard and twelve machines of equal, and prob- the regulation straight three kilo by us in any case whatever.
Donglas. ably greater speed?
metre course. This racord is now
Bill of Lading will be 'countersigned
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The race is the greatest aeronau. tical event in the world, and this rear will attract wider attention (Continued on heat Column).
Great Britain's three entries, it is understood, will all be mono- plazes.
Hong Kong, 11th Feb., 1929. [7884
signees and the Company's Surveyors, Messia, Anderson & Aske at 10 mm on the 16th of February, 1928,
No Claim will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown and al. Good Claims must be presented within Two Weeks of the Ship's arrival hore, after which date they will not be recognised,
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Hong Kong, 7th Feb., 1829, (7878