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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1930.
CHINESE GIRLS.
TIENTSIN BEAUTY'S VIEWS.
By arrangement with the North China Star, the United Press. pre- sents the following article by Miss Madeline Chang, 17-year-old daugh. ker of the Chinese Consul-General at San Francisco, who recently was adjudged the most beautiful Chinese girl in Tientsin in a beauty con- test:
I have been asked to write what I think about the young girls of Now China, especially, those who have had many foreign friends.
"I have been living in Tien- taip ever
since I was brought here by my parents, when was six months old.
Of course,
back as
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TERRIBLE STORY OF FIRE AND SWORD.
15,000 KILLED BY HONAN
GANGS.
NINE THOUSAND HOUSES DESTROYED BY FIRE,
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
fORDERS BY MAJOR H. D. L DOWNLOGIN.]
8-Engineer Company. There will be no parade on Thura thay, May 22, at 5:30 p.m.
9.-Corps Signals. Signál Class will parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.th. on Thurs
1.-His Majesty the King's Birthday | day, May 22.
Parade,
..
There will be a rehearsal for the King's birthday parade at Volun- teer Headquarters on Tuesday, May
at 6 p.m.
A dinner will be held at Volun teer Headquarters on Friday, May 30, at 8 p.m. Tickets price $1.50 tach are now available.
Terrible stories of looting, rain- massacre by Honan page and
Dress Uniform. bandits are contained in the Shang-
2-Annual Rifle Meeting, Prizes. hai Sinanpao. No fewer than
The prize giving in connection 500 villages are said to have been burnt, more than 15,300 people are with the Annual Rife Meeting will reported to have been massacred be held at Volunteer Headquarters: or kidnapped and nearly 10,000 on Friday, May 30, when H.E. the General Officer Commanding has houses worn destroyed by are.
According to the Sintonpao, Į kindly consent to be present. bandits in large hordes recently oc
3.-Dinner. I had a very vague idea ofcupied Mihsien and threatened on what foreign customs were like more than one occasion to descend till about five years ago, but as far upon the neighbouring hsien of I can remember a new Yungyang, to the west of Cheng. spirit has been motivating young show. Yungyang is surrounded on Chinese girls, a sort of restlessness, three sides by mountains. Their a desire to break away from the schemes, however, were frustrated narrow ideas and rigours of old Chi-by the "Min Tuan," or "People's Army," who took every precaution This restlessnesa, this new to defend the haien against the spirit, I think, was engendered by tufei contact with foreigners. But this Taking advantage of several weak breaking-away came about gradual-spots in the defence, however, over ly, ever so gradually: It was not 3,000 bandits entered Youngyang' a sudden revolution."
on the morning of April 23, and looetd every village through which Suppressed Desires. "This is typical of the Chinese they passed, leaving wholesale de girl. I am talking about the educat-ablation in their wake. Hundreds of houses were burnt, innocens peo- ed classes. No matter bow strong ple murdered, or carried off, and:
nese custom.
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the desire of a Chinese girl is to do something, to want something, she suppresses that leaire, or rather she covers it up with a placid face. This quality is a rare one, ingrained in her by centuries of Chinese cul-
ture.
are
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women outraged. From early in the morning until noon many vil
Inges had thus been burnt,'
Learning of these outrages, gov crament troops under Brig. Gen. Li rushed out from the city to eng- age the marauders and, after a fierce engagement at several places which lasted for well over 25 hours, the bandits retreated in a souther- direction with the troops in hot pursuit.
No Local Confirmation.
"Chinege girls
changing more and more rapidly, but many of the customs remain. These cus- toms may seem strange to foreign- ers, but to us they are natural; they
The whole of the southern section are part of our life, part of our being. Contact with foreigners has of Yungyang, an area of nearly made us see things through dif-,500 square li, was later attacked ferent eyes, yet even in those things by huge bands and 9,600 houses in on which our ideas have changed,000 villages-were-burnt to the
I do not think that we have changed ground. Old and young, men and completely as to see them in the women, boys and girls, were kid.
4.-National Rifle Association. The 8th annual meeting of the N.R.A. will be held at Bisley from July 7 to July 19.
Any member of the Corps will be
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10.-Machine Gun Troop. Thursday, May 2, parade At Chaseway Bay Stables at 5.30 p.m. for Troop drill.
11.-Scottish Company. Parade on Thursday, May 2, forị Machine Gun instruction:-
No. 6 Platoon at Kowloon Dock under Lieut. G. Duncan, M.B.E.
No. 7 Platoon at Headquarters at 3.30pm under Captain H. R Forsyth,
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5.-Board of Officers.
The Board of Officers referred to in Corps Order No. 10 paragraph dated April 10, 1830, will re- assemble or Tuesday next, 20th instant, at 5.45 p.m. in the lecture room. A separate notice has been sent to all concerned.
6.--Corps Band,
1:
The Band will parade as strong as possible for practice at Head quarters at 5.30 p.m. on the dates as shewn
Monday, May 19, únder Corps
Bandmaster.
Monday, May 26, and Thursday, May 29, under Senior Garrison Bandmaster,
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15.--Struck On the Strength. On Medical Grounds.-No. 1233) Bdm. V. G. Xavier, Corps Band, as from April 18, 1930..
16.-Leave.
Capt. E P. Minett, Medical Section, returned from leave as from May 13, 1930.
No, 1231 Pte. L. J. Cave, Armour-) ed Car Company, Car Section, from May 1 to December 31, 1930.
Notice,
Sergeants Mess.-The members of the Sergeants Mess will be At These parades are in rehearsal of Home to their friends on June 3 H.M, the King's Birthday.
from 11am to 1 p.m.
7.-Battery, There will be no parade this week.
R. C. STRACEEy, Captain, Acting Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. Hong Kong, May 16, 1930.
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sane light as foreign girls. We napped and those who resisted CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.
have adopted foreign customs, it is true, but in the adoption they have become peculiar to ourselves.
The Question of Dress.. Take for instance the dresses of
were too old or too young and who made themselves a nuisance end a burden to the bandits were murdered in cold blood and their bodies were thrown into wayside creeks or left on the roadways. The sten miles four days, could be away. Investigation shows that no fewer than 15,400 people were mas sacred or carried off.
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the modern Chinese girl. Rarely Bames of the fires, which lasted for Edward Boad Kowloon 4 Seven10 LET.-SHOP in NATHAN ROAD, I CECOND-HAND Bradster of say
does one see a Chinese girl wear ing a completely foreign dress. The dresses one sees are generally semi- foreign, a mixture of Chinese and European. Chinese girls have caught the taste
of foreign girla for nery, yet have. retained in their dresses the simplicity of Chinese garments.
"Having been brought up more like a foreign girl, attending Eng. lish schools and baving made friends of all nationalities, I can see wide differences in ideas, in manners, and
to
At the time the latter was sent the Sinanpas, bodies were still lying on the roadways, un- buried and in a most mutilated state, and the "worst part of the whole affair is that the people 'ure too poor to ransom their dear ones or even to re-build their homes."
No "confirmation of this report could be obtained after full in quiry. Those in direct touch with
in culture, in spite of the changes the districts referred to deny any we have undergone. I do not be knowledge of the wholesale destruc lieve that Chinese girls can ever betion and murder contained in the come thoroughly Europeanized.'
Conflict With Old Ideas,
The modernizing' of the Chi- nese girl started only a few years back, and the older generation of Chinese women still are not a little perturbed at the carryings-on' of The the modern Chinese girl. younger generation must contend with the older for any changes they desire to maké.
Chinese press despatch.
PROSPECT OF FLOOD
AT HANKOW.
NO REAL DANGER THOUGH WATER IS RISING
* In
the one age-old custom,
Although rumours regarding the younger generation has not made a imminent Rooding of Hankow dae" very serious attempt to break away. to the river there having risen to That is marriage. Chinese "parents 38 ft. during the past few days still choose the mates for their child- have been prevalent in Shanghai, ren, and although some girls venture the N-C. Daily News is advised to seek their own mates, they would that. no real danger exists. not marry without the consent of their parents.
#P.L. CONSTABULARY
IN ACTION. "
FOUR KILLED IN FIGHT IN MINDANAO.
[WHITED PRESS.
The average depth of the river off the British bond at Hankow is 42.309 ft. On only one occasion has this figure been exceeded, when 50 ft. caused floods in, the Hankow district. The lowest figure on re- cord, 31 ft. 5 in., refers to a-par-" ticularly dry year, tanke
High water usually comes in August, although there have been creeptions during the past few years. One year the high-water Reason commenced on May 23, The next year it was in full swing on October 27. Hight water is expect ed earlier than usual this year.
Hankow is quite safe as long as the river keeps below 49 ft.
Manila, May 8.-Dispatches: re- ceived here to-day from Dansalan, in the Lake Lanao region of the
We are advised, however, that if island of Mindanao, the largest Changshan is not already flooded and southernmost of the Philip it soon will be, and that Lake Tun pines archipelagó, reported that one lieutenant of the Philipting, which acts as a reservoir for excess water from Ichang, is the pines Constabulary and three only possible danger spot in this troopers had been killed in fight connection. The lake is usually ing against Maro outlawe in their more reedy than watery. mountain strongholds,
It has a maximum depth capac ity of 20 It Above this point a might prospect of Gooding
Six members of the Constabulary were wounded Seriously othersconfer.ed less goribus mosoda sursanding district existe con Fifteen of the outlaws were killed.It is the practice of farmers, in The fighting is still in progress. the vicinity of the lake to smash Reports said that the clash arose the protecting dykes at the efforts of the troopers to slightest indication of a food. They disarm certain of the Moros who usually take care that in so doing were rebellious.
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