HUMOURS OF TRAVEL IN CHINA.
AMERICAN COMMERCIAL ATTACHE LOOKS BACK 30 YEARS.
MASS PRODUCTION CORSETS FOR CHINESE WOMEN!
Julen Arnold, Commercial Attaché of the American Lega- tion in China, was the speaker ut the Rotary Club lancicon, yester day over which Sir William Hornell presided.
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In introducing the speaker, Sir William said that Mr. Arnold had been over, thirty years in China and that he would tell Rotar iana of some of his experiences as a Commercial Attaché in this, "bowildering part of the world."
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Mr. Arnold's address, which was frequently interrupted by laughter from his audience, is reproduced in full below..
HEADHUNTER AND FRUIT SALTS.
Mr. Arnold sufd-It is a grunt pleasure to me as a member of the, Shanghai Rotary Club to be here to-day as it is the first opportunity I have had of sitting with you and it is gratifying to note the enthu siasm with which this organisation has gone forward. Years ago, when 4 was in the Customs Service, "that is before I joined the Depart ment of Commerce as Commercial
New Use for Zoo's,
Then the old Chief, who was sitting there watching with wistful wanted a pices of the gauze put cyes, developed a headache and
rcünd his head as a crown.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931.
A PEACEFUL AND HAPPY DISTRICT.
NEW ROADS AND POWER PLAN ROUND KONGMOON
world and her pooulinr weakucas in that direction was to collect little thimbles-full of earth "from" various historia spots.. She askud me ono to get her a little dirt from the Great Wall of China watat Peking at the time, so I went out. into the yard, got together what F considered a good thimblo-full and sent it to her. Of course, you know what sandstorms are like in Poking -(laughter)-but there was a pretty good amount of dirt in it and I thing it was all right and she was
Kosa Moos, Nov. 14. A branch motor road is, also open] pretty well satisßed. (Laughter.)
The typhoon which threatened to between Shaping and Kukfan op- Wo, have various and sundry ro-descend upon Hong Kong last posite the large aity of Knukong. quests on these lines. One thing Wednesday, November 14, prevent As soon as the gap is completed have noticed in 17 years of this ed two of the Hong Kong-Kong Bear Tongha market, it will be pos work, with the Department of Commoon steamers making their resible to travel by 'bus from Kong merce, is that I do feel that manu-gular ruu to Kongmon. The San moon to the West River to either facturers and business men abroad Nam Hoi being the only steamer
Koolow, or Kukfau: opposite Kau are developing a more intelligent in port on Thursday, Nov. 19.
kong.
WHAT RETURNED CHINESE ARE DOING AT KAUKONG.
interest in the outside world. Their enquiries are "moro intelligent. They ask questions more pertinent
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
The Harvest.
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and take more interest in the re-ther is very favourable for the The continued fine autun wen- plies, Now-a-days we have to check farmers engaged in the harvesting
A Go-ahead, Otty.
The main street running froma
through the extended area of Kan the wharf on the West River right
kong is now under construction. by didn't matter much whether we the farmers and for the people of, being well paved with a up our figures while in days gone of the rice erop. Fortunately for The street is fairly wide and is Aolid: We left out a cypher. We now und
we have to be very chutions about materialize. Much damage would will bring the city of Kaukong more Kwangtung phe typhoon did not foundation of broken stone. This- the figures we send out because they have been done to the fruit and up to dete. This is a very large are likely to get into the hands of rice crops if the blow had come and important city on the north in expert and he may send them Travelling about the country one side, of the West River. There is back and ask how we got them. sees many fields. which should yield much wealth represented in the (Laughter.) There is that phase of good returns. Men and women are city the situation which makes our werk busy in the fields from early morn
ware, running pretty low on this gauze and we decided, instead, to give him a dose of Enc's fruit salts, We took out a substantial dose good handful--and put it in a bit of this gauze. Through our Amoy cook, who acted as interpreter, we
Attackó, I was associated with "M.. managed to tell him, "Now, this is more difficult but in a sense more ing until late in the evening during abroad have their homes there..
Jimmy Davidson, who was then an American but who has since become a. "Canadian for business or other Reasons I suppose (laughter)-ind he and I were in Shanghai together. We lived together as bachelors Jim was a great organiser and I was not surprised at his trying to crack this hard nut in connection with the formation of the Hong Kong Rotary Club. (Laughter.) His great joy when he came back to Shanghai, after telling us of his experiences in the South Soa Islande and other places with names you could not Pronounce, where he had organised Rotary Clubs, was his accomplish ment in organising, the Hong Kong Rotary Club in which he took great pride. (Laughter.)
Old Days in Shanghai. We were in Shanghai together in the days when there were very few motor cars there.. In fact I think
there were only six. He was the chauffeur and he and I drove round a great deal together in days when there were no traffic regulations when we ran up a few lamp posts and telegraph poles. Jim organised the Automobile Club of Chin with six automobile members. (Lüugh ter.)
interesting because we feel that people are really asking for some thing that may be helpful in their business.
Fly-by-Nights.
gand for your headache so you had better take it." The Chief made a nice big bag of it with deerskin and hung it round his neck with the bag on his cheat. After time, i on nerpunt of the rain, the Eno's We have, of course, always to fruit salt surted effevescing in contend with the concern that is the bag and his idea was that this intereated to-day and, to-morrow; is was due to the evil spirits entorno longer interested, ing the bag. When the bag had awollen to a nice big size and he thought all the evil spirits were inside it, he buried, the bag and inutilise the United States Govern the excitement he lost his headache. (Laughter.)
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After this, Eno's fruit salts was at a premium and we disposed of the rest of the bottle for all kinds of things, including two suits and some bones. We might also have taker, a couple of girls had it not bean for the fact that Mrs. Arnold wus with us. (Laughter.)
4፡ Strange Enquiries, As Commercial Attaché for our Department of Commerce, I have bad some very interesting enquiries from time to time from the United
There are
also the "Fly-by-Nights" who are tying to do $150,000 Worth of busi- ness on, a shoe string and trying to
ment and every other Government for that purpose. (Laughter.)
these November duys reaping and threshing and carrying to their homes in the villages the baskets of rice and the huge bundles of rice straw.
geese are Reen
Ducks and Geese for How Year Crent flocks of tame dicks and in various parts horing several hundreds herded by throughout the district, flocks num-
men and boys with their long ba animated sight as they pass along boo sticks. These flocks present an
the road way, or through the rice
selves in a stream or wayside pond,, stubble, or as they disport them.
gruin is thrown out from the bis- |
vec Kau-
Many returned Chinese from
Many are ambitious to kong develop. supplied with an electric light plant. The city is now
There is a ramour that a motor road is to be constructed from Palzai the port of-Köngmoon-on- the West River, direct to Kaukong along the west bank of the river.
will mean the expenditure of a Should this rumour preverue it
large sum of money, but it would which in the future should make be the completion of a project
abundant financial returns for the promoters of the rond.
Personals.
Miss L Clement who has been on flough in the U.S.A. for more than a year has recently returned to Kongroon,
We have also delegations, that come from time to time, some rather worthy of a great deal of When feeding time comes and the assistance, and others which arekets the performance makes a fit pretty well skylarking parties seeing sing subject for a moving picture the country under the pretext of camera. These fue flocks estimated representing this or that organisain dollars and cents promise con
siderable substantial tion. I notice, however, that most the owners as the New Year draws of our delegates have got to the near.
How Roads. point where their women folk seeni
The have more say than the man and Kongmoon-Fatshan publie most of their time seems to be highway is being rapidly pushed ahead, 'Buses are now running given to shopping experiences. from Kongmoon to a point Australia and New Zealand.
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returns for
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CREW'S WAGES.
OWNER OF SAN NAM
LIABLE.
Rev. P. B. Thornton, D.D., who was for a number of years minister in St. Paul's United Church in Winnipeg, Canada, has been spend ing a few weeks in. Kongmoon. Dr. Thornton is making a world tour having visited Palestine, Indin,
Miss E. A. Mitchell and Mina M. LeFevre of Siulam were recent visitors in Pukkai.
tereraj, aleg that there was no delay ar refusal on, the part of the owner in the earlier stages of the case "be- KINGcntiae he did not know, and the failure to pay in the later stages was due to the fact that he had not the money at hand to do so,
States. I remember that not long Mr. Arnold concluded by extend-few miles from Tongha, and from ago, one Arm, a manufactures ofing the welcome of the Shanghai Naaiu to Shaping and to Koolow on the West River above Kaukong, corseta, enquired about corsets, Rotary Club to members of the having read of the revolutionary Hong Kong Club. He assured the ideas of Chinese women and he gathering that the Shanghai Club pictured these women taking to would esteen it a pleasure to meet corneta. He figured there were any of them at their luncheons helji 450,000,000 people and he thought
every Thursday. there would be about 80,000,000
Speaker Thanked. adult women in China and that, be
The Hon. Mr. W, H. Bell, un ba- felt, was a great sumber to working called upon by the Chairman to on for a start on mass production express the thunks of the Club to of corsets. He wanted information the speaker, said:-Any of you who Jim was at the Consulate in For about Chinese women wearing co were watching me when our Chair- mosa for many years and he wrote
sets and I replied that I had no a book on Formosa-(laughter)-- inside information. (Laughter.) I which, was another weakness he had referred his enquiry to the Minister and his wife evidently contracted of Interior. (Laughter.) I have the same weakness, shall I call it, heard from him or from Nanking
He was hid up in hospital after wards with typhoid fever and when he was convalescing with a rather attractive, nurse, be induced her to organise a Nurses' Association (laughter)—so he just can't help it It is bova in him.
man spoke just now might possibly have been reminded of a lecture which Father Byrne gave us on emotion some time back. He accom panied that talk with a series of
ORDER MADE FOR SALE OF "SHIP.
Judgment for the plaintiffs in all three actiona for wages claimed from Lau Yat, owner of the 8.5.
Compradore Staff,
On the other legal points, I hold that the compradore's staff and the coolies are entitled to a lisa for their wages as seamen. They are persons necessary for the working of the ship as a ship, and their one previous case here. They are wages have bean allowed in at least
the English case cited, because the purser is not unliko, in, some res The plaintiffs were (1) the crow pests, the compradore, The purser
San Nam King, was given by the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) in the Supreme Court yesterday
in writing in the Rotarian Magazine Feb. (Laughter.) He may be in diagrams showing faces giving An order was also made for the sale 1not unlike the case of the purser in
of a trip round the world.
I succeeded him in Formosa in the Consulate there where I had
my first experience in trade deve lopment which probably encouraged me to take up my present position
of commercial attaché,
vestigating the subject for all know. (Laughter.).
A man living down in the South of the United States had figured for some years on taking a trip round the world and of visiting China and
of the ship.
various expressions, one of which was surprise and another consterna- tion, and I think you will find that my face is a mixture of both, Iof the vessel, including compradore and the compradors staff and the wish-I really wish-that I had the staff and coolies (2) Ignacio Cargo coolies attend to what I might call the business of the ship facility that Mr. Arnold has, of get Antonio Finto Marques, officer. tion
Maria Cordova, master; and (3) though they don't attend to naviga he had looked forward to it with ting up and speaking in such a clear The total of the claims amounted great anticipation. Unfortunately, and, indeed, very interesting way to over 83,000.
he had invested some of the money On your behalf I thank him very in stocks and things but conditions much.
to the trip for 15 years and that
felt the least he could do was to members of the party-was out scout-
have them decorated with stickers ing and fell into a trap ses for wild boar and cut his ankle. Wo of the various hotels in the Far
to attend, owing to illness.
Lost Sweep Ticket?
days' double pay, because. I think. I hold there is no right to ten
the section in the Eagliali Statute clearly does not apply
Some 25 years ago a party of us made a tour of the savage country,,
Dofondant contested the claims of Formosa when we scaled Mount
on the ground that the plaintiffs At this stago, his Lordship point- The guests were Mr. W. J. were Morris (13,500 feet), having the the last few years had not been
engaged by the Lee Saied out that the writ of summons distinction of being the Brat white good, and he saw his surplus Dyment (Yokohama), Mr. Wed the vessel. The ship had been include the names of the compra- Steamship Company, who charter would have to be amended so as to fading away, so much so that he Clark, Mr. E. M. Raymond, Mr. F. lying in the barbour without un-dore's staff and to include reduc people to go there in the heart had to give up the idea. He wrote Bunje and Mr. J. Wattie (all of dertaking any voyage, and in the tions in two cases of the amount the savage country of head huntera
elaimed, one from 8255 to 8141.50 Our little party was held up by rain, saying that he had looked forward g Kong). The Rev. Dr. P.meantime bad been seized.....
Bruce Thornton, of Winnipeg, Nu some of the days we had to spend
Canada, who was to have spoken on structed by Mr. B. D. Evans, of
Mr. Leo D'Almada, in, in-and the other from $770 to $700.
Bale of Ship. in a savage village. One of the he had bought trunks and bags. He "Tho Canadian West," was udable Messra. Johnson, Stokes & Master, Continuing, his Lordship said,“ appeared for the plaintiffs, while subject to that; judgment would be defendant conducted his own case,
given against the ship for the Crew's Legal Rights...
amount claimed with costs, the costs to include maintenance at the East. After a while he might have
Giving judgment in the crew's rate of hall, wages from the date of bandage it up and the savage een able to imagine that he had chester November Handicap, issued case, his Lordship said:1 do feel the writ to the date of judgment.
by the Irish. Hospital authorities, "ympathy with the owner of the with regard to an order for sale rather fancied the gauze, it being made the trip (Laughter.) Any-hind been discovered in the tea room ship, as he asks me to, but what I asked for by plaintiffs, defendant.
way we scouted round and got the after the lust meeting of the Club. have to administer in the law. The asked for a three weeks stay, say hile some of them went off and stickers for him as we didn't want. The number of the ticket was law for the, protection of persons (ing he could raise the money in B.O.D. 39618. He said if anyone employed in sea-going occupations that time, but his Lordship finally wished to claim the ticket he sup provides that they should be able made an order for sale with no posed the owner would do so. Ito claim against the ship for their stay, pointing out that defendant would suggest that the ticket be wages. That loss of couren, falls had had plenty of time in which to put aside and if it should win on the owner of the ship.
raise the money but had not done. £100,000, the Rotary Club will be I am quite prepared to believe so, ottene build a hospital for the Government in the first instance did not rest so wealthy that we will be able to that the obligation to pay the arew
laughter)-which is badly needed, upon him at all but upon the char
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had. some sico white gauze
entirely strange to thom.
to
to disappoint him. (Laughter.)
came back with gushes in their
A Kittia Dirt. arms, having deliberately cut them- selves, in order to get themselves. There was a school teacher down decorated with this nice white in Ohio who was very keen on the gruze We decorated as many as idea of collecting various souvenirs from storle spots around the
we could.
Sir William announced at the outset that stickes in the Man
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also, heard by his Lordship and The claims by the cfficers wore judgment entered against the ship.
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