ALIEN POPULATION
OF GREAT BRITAIN
Fewer Foreigners Resident Since Great War
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GREATEST NUMBER IN LONDON
At the present moment there are about 200,000 alicas resident in the United Kingdom. As might be expected, by far the greatest number are in London, where about one person in twenty is a foreigner or of foreign extraction.
Before the war Great Britain was a much more cosmopolitan country. With splendid assurance we kept open house for almost anybody who cared to accept our hospitality.
"Even up to the outbreak of war London welcomed Are-eaters and revolutionarles whom riobody else
barrels to be bottled by the French residents.
But of late. With the tightening up of ·labour restrictions. the French colony has beeti dwindling a. the rate of about a thousand a
year.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936.
BIG MOSUL
OIL FIELDS
SHARE DEAL.
Britain Acquires
W
Italian Interest
CONTROL OF NEAR EAST SUPPLIES
ULSTERS SOUND RETREAT
Ceremony On Murray Parade Ground
The Retreat one of the tradi- tional Army ceremonies, was play- ed by the band and buglers of the Ist. Batallion, the Royal Uister Ries On the Murray Parade ground yesterday.
The ceremony opened with the The sale of the Italian interest band and buglers marching and in Mosul Oil Fields Ltd. was off-counter-marching to the tune of clally announced recently. The "The Little Buglers." With the principal purchaser is understood massed buglers halted at one end to be the Irak Petroleum Com-ot the parade ground, the band moved to meet them, playing The deal has politient as well as "American Revetlle Coming into financial importance. for it in- position behind the buglers the creases the share of British con- band halted and the clear clarion trol of the most important oil sup-notes of the bugles sounded the alles in the Near East.
Number Retreat.
pany
MONDAY WAS UNLUCKY DAY FOR WOMEN
Many Accidents And Suicide Attempts
Women Egured prominently in minor trafic accidents reported to the authorities.
Whilst walking" in Shanghai which 18 ¤ crowded Street, thoroughfare, a married woman Wong Sun, was knocked down by Kowloon Motor bus No. 828. Bhe was removed to the Kowloon Hos pital for treatment.
Chan Chow, 68, widów was knocked down by lorry No. 718 in Castle Peak Road and removed to the Kowloon Hospital.
Another woman, Chan Ho, Was knocked down by a bicycle ridden by a soldier, Pte. Paine, of the East Lancs.. while strolling in Sham-
at the Kowloon Hospital but was not detained.
Mosul Oll Fields Ltd.. which has Then followed a series of mar- an issued capital of £2,300,000. ches and counter-marches which
with a formed four years ago to concluded
régimental
dared allow to land. The terrible rearly always prefer the northern 012 Fields Development Company,
Northerners purchase the capital of the British march. "The Royal South Downs" shulpa. The woman was treated
Malatesta, Italy's arch-anarchist, kept a shop for electrical fittings in Islington. Karl Marx, father of revolütions. lived quietly in London. Lenin settled here, and, curiously enough, was financed by another emigre, Joseph Fels, the American soap king. Trotsky and Chicherin, the late Communist Foreign Min- ister, lived in London, writes G. W. L. Day to the "Evening Standard." In fact, it was somewhere off the Tottenhain Court Road, that Lenin and his friends met in 1903 and formed the Bolshevist Party.
or re-
But the war wiped out most of these foreign settlements duced them to a mere shadow of their former size. Very few have regained their pre-war strength. ITALIAN COLONY INCREASES One of the few that have in- creased rapidly of late year is the Italian colony. Before the Duce summoned the younger men to the colours there were about
20,000 Italians here, 9,000 or 10,000 of whom were in London.
Hardly any of our Italian rest- dents are organ-grinders now, but many still hold the monopoly of certain trades and crafts which
It is said that
suburbs of London, while Souther mers choose to live in the southern districts. Swiss residents grew so fond of one northern district that It is called Swiss Cottage to this day.
The Swiss colony is one of the few which has held. Its ground. There are close on 10.000 Bwiss in this country to-day. including 3.000 household servants, and even their colony of 1,000 in Manches- ter has four clubs. Their "Swiss Observer" is published in English. but often bursts out Into German, French. or Italian.
NETHERLANDERS UNIT A
SHADOW
followed by the sounding of the "Retreat on harmonised bugles.
The spectacle of the band and
were
whose chief asset was 1 conces sion of over 40,000 square miles of territory in Irak. The acquisi buglers marching, counter-march- tion of this "concession was aring, and inter-weaving was most ranged by Mr. Rickett, who sub-impresalve and bewildering to sequently figured in the arrange watch. The precision with which ment of oil concessions for Ame-orders rican interests in Abyssinia. "The Irak Petroleum Company, of which Sir John Cadman is Chairman.
has
capital 4
of £8,500,000. The company owns a pipe-line capable of transport-
Ing 40,000,000 tons of oil a year from Kirkuk, on the eastern bank of the river Tigris. to the Medite ranean const..
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The Anglo-Iranian Oll Company. which the British Government has £7,500,000 Ordinary shares. a large interest in -- Irak holds Petroleum.
The only other foreign residents as highly organized as the Swiss
are
the Hollanders. In London to-day, their colony has no less than three men's clubs. a indies"
It is the most important Eastern club.
ol deal s'nce the Anglo-Iranjan 8 benevolent society. а church, an almshouse, an hotel, al Co.' concession was signed in convalescent home, and a holiday 1933. retreat for children at Southend. Yet the total strength of the colony is only 4.000, a mere sha- dow of the enormous settlement of 30,000 in. pre-war days.
they introduced years ago. In Some of these people are petty Manchester they do special mosaic "work and special branches of road-mcers, seamen, deck hands, fore
making. In Scotland there are nearly 2,000 who own ice-cream shops,
The Italian colony in London Is in two main groups-the artianna in Saffron Hill and the walters and restaurant proprietors in Boho. Go any afternoon to the Co-operative Club in Clerkenwell, and you will see scores of Italians eagerly dis- cussing the Fascist newspapers. ONLY 237 GERMAN WAITERS The huge, compact), German co- lonies of pre-war days' totalled fully 75,000, of whom about 40,000 ved in London. To-day they are only a memory. Of the thousands of German walters only 237 remain.
Those hearty, nolsy restaurants where, you could drink Pilsener or good Rhenish wine, munch your sauerkraut and join in, a German chorus have disappeared entirely. The "Charlottenst rasse" is again plain Charlotte Street.
once
About three years ago, not count- ing the German Jews in White- chapel, there were not more than 6,000 Germans in the country, of whom over 1,500 were maid-ser- vants
Then came the Jewish persecu- tion in Germany, and for some time we received a steady stream of refugees. Many of these are doc- tors, barristers and other profes, sional men who once practised in Berlin, Cologne or Leipzig. Others are eagincers and scientists. True in our national tradition, we have. let them come, and are now pro-
nting from their brains and in- genuity.
FRENCH GROUP SMALLER
men. and trimmers, a good many have gone into the hair-dressing trade,.
Another colony, many of whose members are seafaring men, is the Scandinavian. In the old days there were about 9,000 Norwegians and Swedes here. To-day they number about 4,000.
RECONSTRUCTED BOARD
Irak Petroleum will avold the possibility of competitive produc- tion with a shorter carry to the European market, while Mosul Onl will be saved the enormous ex- of Tristalling ย separate pense pipe-line to the Mediterranean.
The merger was foreshadowed by the following statement issued by Mosul Oli Fields Ltd.
"The Azienda Generale Italiana Petroll. having disposed of its in terest in Moral Oll Fields Limited. its representatives on the board You may sit down with Swedish | have resigned, and the board now sea captains and timber magnates consists of, the following: or match kings to the famous
"Viscount Goschen, Ali Inwdat
"amorgasbord." Sweden's bors Beg Al Ayoubi, William R. Brown. d'oeuvres, at the luncheon club of the Swedish Chamber of Com- merce. You may even sip Swedish "aquavit." If you know where to buy it.
THE "RUSSKI DOM"
Paul
Lord, Glencorner, P. L. Hunting. Girod. Joseph Whiteside Boyle, John Skliros. Montague Plesse, Langlois Lefroy. Rene de Montaigu, and Kevork Loris Essa- уап.
"The reconstitution of the board The Russian contingent totals no less than 24,000, but the vast includes representation for the Russian several important oli groups which majority of these are Jews living in" Whitechapel. have acquired an interest in the Twenty-five years ago the Tsarist company.”
and the Revolutionaries lived in The new directors are Joseph Skliross, close proximity near Tottenham Whiteside Boyle, John Court Road, There were sples. Montagu Piesse, Langlois Lefroy. plottings and counter-plottings. René de Montalgu, and Kevork But to-day Russian life in London Loris Essayth. revolvès "round an old Tsarist diplomat named Sablin, whose house in Kensington is called the "Russki Dom," or Russia House.
RIVAL CLAIMS TO SHARES
Last May an action was brought in the Chancery Division, in which There are still one or two res- three rival claims to shares in taurants where you can ea: Rus- Mosul Oll Fields were mentioned. alan bortsch, sour cream, pancakes The plaintifi company, Ferro- and chashlick just as you could staal N.V., a Dutch concern, ask- in the old days, and at least one en for specific performance of an place where you can drink genuine alleged agreement by Mosul Oil Russian vodka, but not many peo-Fields to allot it shares, pursuant exercise of an option: ple know where to and them. to the There is also a Rasputin Club in Azienda Generale, Italiana Petroli Camden Town, but that is still were also named as defendants. harder to find.
It was stated that there were The Chinese, who number about three contracts in existence re- 2500. are, despite all legends, for
plaintiffs asked that the status quo, should be maintained bending trial of the action.
The French colony has shrunk the most part simple, industrious/garding the same shares, and the
considerably since the war.
The people, occupied in pressing and last census shows 15,628 French laundering for a mere pittance. people. Out of these 1.992 were do- The average Chinese no longer mestic servants, 819 women wears his queue and picturesque
In addition to the claims of the teachers, and 244 walters.
garb, but shumes along in a cheap Dutch and Italian companies, it The most celebrated of out auit imported from Poland or was stated that there was an op- French residents are probably the | Czechoslovakia, with a bowler ortion to the Egyptian Government
soft hat on his closely cropped which might impinge on
plaintiffs' option.
300 chefs, about 230 of whom live in London. They include some of head. the greatest names in the world of In Limehouse and Pennyfields cookery, but their number is sadly you can still buy noodles, bolled reduced as compared with the old sea alugs, bird's nest soup. "stewed days. Once many an English arly-sharks' fins, chop suey, and even tocrat had two French chets, or enormous medicinal pills as big even three, but now comparatively as horse balls, which a Chinese few can afford even one.
swallows when he feels 111,
BALLOON RACE
the
Warsaw. Sept. 1. Late reports state that the Cor The only true French settlement There are still dens in Penny-don Bennett balloons are still fly- now la in Soho, where you hear fields, Cardiff and Glasgow where ing in a south easterly direction the "Temps" and the "Petit Jour- } one-, chalk. mark on the door and heading for Crimea. Weather nai" being cried in the streets means that oplum can be obtain- forecasts predict, rain along the straight from the Paris air-Unered within, and two marks mean route the balloons have taken and You may still see the first tresh that "now" is on sale as well. vegetables from the Belle Valley But, thanks to the police, the int arriving in Little France." and quity of Chinatown to-day is the fine Bordeaux wine coming in largely a myth.
the opinion here is that the win- per will be the balloon which is last to get a drenching Transactan News Service.
obeyed, the brisk the undeviating
marching and formations, which. though accom- panying all military ceremonies, is a never-ending source of wonder to the public.
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The National Anthem brought the ceremony to a close.
SUICIDE ATTEMPTS
Women also figured in suicide attempts brought to the notice of the authorities.
Yuen Sui Ping, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital on Monday suxering from the effects of an overdose of potassium permangan- ate. Her condition was stated to bę serious
"Ng Kee, 51, widow, of 174. Pel Ho Street, attempted suicide by drinking chloride of me. She is now a patient at the Kowloon Hos-
Bugle Major Lily was in charge of the buglers, while the band was conducted by Bandmaster H. Al-pital fred Hole. A.R.C.M.
ARABS IGNORE CHALLENGE Military Open Fire In Jerusalem
"Jerusalem, Aug. 31. Two Arabs were fired on in the streets of Jerusalem to-day and one was killed.
The men refused to halt. after
Ho Sze, 25, was removed to Gov- ernment Civil Hospital with in- juries received after being knocked down by tram No. 20 in Queen's Road.
being challenged by a British mill- tary patrol,
One man was instantly killed wounded, but a and the other bomb was found near the place where they were challenged.---. Reuters Bulletin Service.
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