THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
INDO-CHINA
Steam Navigation Company, Limited.
The Company's new steamer,
S. S. KUTSANG,
(14) knots, 3847 tons gross)
will be despatched at 3 p.m. on 16 May for Singapore, Penang and Calcutta.
Through Bills of Lading issued to Rangoon, Madras, Port Swettenham and Dutch East Indies.
This steamer has the most up to date accommodation for 2 first class passengers, all Staterooms, Bathrooms, Saloon and Smoking Room being fitted with the very latest improvements. A qualified Doctor is carried and every comfort is assured. Wireless is installed and refrigerators allow of a constant supply of fresh food.
First Class fares :-
Return.
$175.00
Single.
Hongkong to Singapore
$100.00
Hongkong to Penang
$132.00
$231.00
Hongkong to Calcutta
$226.00
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922.
the slightest natice of them. To him that social revolution meant | degeneracy, while to me despite all transitional excesses, it con- stituted the bright star of hope| which I have so far seen in the Indian Braament.
FRANCE'S DWINDLING
POPULATION.
Annual Loss, 200,000.
Ta the great French people in- THE EXODUS.
(different in its destiny? Does it The British people who cannot realize that in the matter of reconcile themselves to the new populatio, it is on the downward (order are doing one of two things grade and that the birth statistics They are either getting out of inexorably point to a France of India as bess and as quickly as 25,000,000 in less than half a they can, or they are trying to centory hence? writas the Paris use their influence to make India correspondent of the Times. * behave.” Persons belonging to If not, it is not for lack of ward- the first group are taking advan-ing. The National Alliance for tage of the privileges of com-the Growth of the French Pop- mutation, designed br tbe alation is never weary of calling authorities on a basis which public attention to this grave nearly all Indians consider ou- dauger. Parliament has voted on necessarily generous, and are several occasions measures for retiring prematurely. Strange the encouragement of marriage though it may seem, among sach and of numerous families-such persons are included comparative as the remission of taxation and rates and ly young men-pat msoy, to be increased pension Bure-who, having come out to bonuses on children above a cer- **rule" India, find that they can tain number all apparently in only "serve" her, and therefore, vain, Conditions of life in France prefer to get out. It is by far to-day, the housing problem, the best for India, and even more so cost of food and lodging and for Britsm, that the British people clothing, are so disheartening that who cannot fit themselves into the ordinary working man, who India of to-day should not stop has always been the chief pur-|
Anyone who knows the veyor of the population, HOW British their sporting instinctshrinks from marriage, or, if he and the appeal which difficulty marries, contents birnself with makes to their nature does not the smallest of families. take these defections seriously. The latest figures published by though the men-and unfortu- the N.A.G.F.P. show that, where- | nately women of British blood as in 1865 there were one million) who would force India back into births-giving an average of 33 the pit from which she is now children par marriage there Hrising are naturally seeking to were only 745,000 births, or an
make capital of them.
average of 48 children per mar- the British bo would riage Immdiately after the war' inspire fear in Indian breasts, I do marriages increased, and in 1920 cot wish to speak, though to my 834,000 children were born, but great dismay I have come upon the average per family dropped such specimens, even in some of to 166, and in the following year. the bighest office. I ignore them 1921, statistics were lower all because I feel that such tactics round. run counter to the British cature.
bere. $396.00
For further particulars please apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON CO., LTD.
lཀའིཡ 1དྡྷཡllཨཔྤཡུནྡྷཡཱ་ཏྠིསh; TAI LEE CHAN"
METAL GOODS
Telephons 1993.
Stablished 1384.
and SUNDRY HARDWARE
$19.
Jezeris Stee!
FRENCH LESSONS.
G. MOUSSION,
15, Morrison Hill Road.
‘VALET” Auto Strop Safety Razor
THE STANDARD (No. 1) esitle of hea
plated, weƏN AN
Shop Yaz
and genunan
Hanne Ven
in durab came neden
TET
The word "
the you stop
197 207, Cha
Moonlight
THE SECRET OF
AN EASY SHAVE
lies in the sharpness of the razor blades. "Valet" blades are the sharpest in the world, but they would soon lose their edge il it were not for the automatic stropping de- vice which is the essential feature of the Valet" AutoStrop razor. A few strokes on the strop retain a perfect shaving edge on the Hade for weeks and weeks..
Happiness
Rebecca
8
Sunshine
Big Columbia Sellers
AT
ANDERSON'S
Mazie.
Two Sweet Lips
Wyoming.
Lazy
Agents.
INDIA RE-VISITED.
The Problem of Adjustment.
By S Nihal Singh in the
It is now prophesied that even Chserver)
Anglo-India like India, has and these men, whatever success if the average of 1'66 childred per changed almost beyond recogni- they may score for the moment, family is maintained there will tios. So great, indeed, is the will fail to win the moral support only be in 1924 a maximum of change that The very phrase of their own people at home, 275,000 marriages and 456,000 canjes 您 diferent meaning. among whom I have spent not a births. Taus, it is pointed out, ifi Whereas a few years ago every few happy years of my life. the death statistics remain nor- one understood an Anglo-Indian feel, moreover, that Indians can.mal France will have annosliy to be a Briton living in India, or not be coerced.
& Briton with Indian experience. THE MOOD OF BITTERNESS.
union, or
200,000 fewer inhabitants. The experts go still further in their deductions and announce that by 1940 the 456,000 births will have
brunk to 265.000 (for 160,000) marriages) or shrinkage of 350,000 annually.
1965.
now the term is applied to man- My heart goes out to the Eng bers of the "domiciled com-lish who are genuinely distressed munity who resunt the ex.abont India conditions-who see pression Eurasian" even when the old order being swept aside,
| they are the product of mix di authority undermined, rudeness
In other words, the population of as confused with independence, but "miscèzenation," they put it in the United States who are unable to discover sign will be 35,000,000 in 1940, 31.000.- France which is 30,000,000 to-day", Men and women who used to belof Krowing individual self- known as "Anglo-Indians" now restraint and national discipline. 000 in 1950, and 25,000,000 in style themselves "Ecropeans." and who, therefore, fear that the And it difficult to get used to so country is going the way of broad a term, especially in view¦ Russia. I know many of these of the aftagobism roused by the men and women--sm oftea hold-Government of India, consider- meas by Great War.
ing converse with them-and am ing the ways and Ever since I have returned to greatly moved by their sincere which to get rid of the racial in- India Ihave been asking myself concern for my people. Some of equalities which disgrace the what effect the changed attitude them can point to two, or even present system of the adminis of Indians-especially of the three, decades of service of which tration of justice. The evidence m*c and younger generation-has exercis any man may well be proud--and given by British
DOW
ed upon the pay,hology of the one, two, or three generations of women who have appeared before British people in India; and box their families have similarly that Committee, though they have been affected by the devoted themselves to India's and again betraying racial pro- political transformation through cause before them.
jadier, unmistakably shows tbal which my Motherland has been A thousand pities that India the minds of the British com- passing. The situation existing in ber present bitter mood, is manity in India have passed in India to-day cannot ba com-unable to asress the services through a revolution since the prehended by anyone who has not of such men at anything days of the Ilbert Bill, when over succeeded in satisfactorily un-like their true
worth-this very question, Lord Ripon, derstanding that aspect of it. that she cannot speak or write of unable to manage the machine, I and that it is almost as them without ascribing unworthy throw up the Viceroyalty. Now, difficult to talk, in general terms. motives to them. It is, however, even the fire-eaters recognise the of the British in India. as of the a time of nati nal ebullition. But principle of equality bofore the Indians, though there is greater the other day India was compell-law, though before Indians sing solidarity, at least so far as aped to pass through a series of hallelujahs th-y naturally wish- that principle ia, pearances are concerned, among racial humiliations which she to see bow them than there is among my finds it difficult to formet. And it carried out. own people. In temperament and something of a positive character,
The real test is still to come.
in experience, they differ greatly and of a magnitude calculated to Will Englishmen in India choose one from the other; and as I touch India emotionally, does to serve ander Indian chief and move about from place to place, not happen soon, and the mood be tried by Indiao judgesandjuries from province to province. I am does not change, it is useless to composed at least partially of much struck by this contrast.
expec: that these servants of Indians. and still keep Indians India, who are truly estimable out of their clubs, which, as I men and women, will be paid the have noted. have been like isola homage which they so richly tion wards, cutting the British off from Indians? The objection that deserve.
A CHANGE IN "MANSERS." Since only Festerday the Indian was crawling and cringing, and the best of us were content to peti.
Out of all this anguish and, Indians will not bring out their tion the forerument. it stands to
00 which such reason that comparatively few unfortunately, some blastering, women-folk. Englishmen in India have suc. there is. however, rising in India isolation has been justified, is ceeded in adjusting themselves & new order of Englishmen, who becoming less and less based upon intellectually, much less morally are not averse from getting down facts.
the
and spiritually, to the ever-shift- from the pedestal on which they LORD WILLINGDON'S EXAMPLE. No Viceroy, however powerful ing situation. Many of them have posed for so many decades, have lived so completely cut off and who are even willing to serve and justice-loving be may be, order that such ex- from the people among whom under Indian heads of depart-can their lot has been cast, and in ments, and loyally to carry out clusiveness, following strictly the little Englands which, in the the policies laid down by their social line, shall cease. All that. form of civil and military Indian chiefs. The transition" is bighly-placed British men and stations, are dotted all over the of much too recent a date to bave woman can do is to set the pace country, spending much of their enabled these men to cease to for the rank and file. Even leisure in exclusive clubs which feel awkward in such positions-in
City of Madras are like so many isolation wards, or even to enable the Indians in where Lord and Lady Willingdoo
in command to fulfil the duties have set that these developments
a lofty standard of Indian character bave come appertaining to their offices with camaraderie, I find not the light- the dignity and grace which come est move to revise the club rales upon them as an utter surprise.
How many times have I heard, only from experience. If these which exclude Indians from inem.
and during the last three months. Indians Englishmen are bership. So keen is the resent chance, orderly ment roused in Indians by this mea and women of British given half a complaining that my people progress and, I believe, most social slight that recently, when bave lost their blood manners! rapid progress-awaits India. the Prince of Wales visited the Only the other day a high mili-
Indian club, the natives took a every tary officer said to me that The real issue #bich tares delight in keeping out not so very long ago Indians British statesmanship in India in Englishman they possibly could. and Englishmen would get off the sidewalls, and, the face is racial equality-sociel If Indians
co-operate, these if carrying an umbrells, would justice. As His Excellency the are
Tscia!. prejudice shut it, as a mark of respect, as Viceroy reminded me a few days centres as they saw a Sahib coming. ago, a Committee is sitting, under must disappear from the face of
SOCIAL JUSTICE.
to
of
Mississippi Now, on the contrary, even the the chairmanship of that eminent India, and Englishmen must learn
commonest men brush past the Indian lawyer. Dr. Tej Bahadur not to confuse patronage with higbest officials without taking Sapru. the Law Member of the social intercourse.
NOTICE.
DINNER SERVICES. TEA SETS
¡POR 12 PERSUAS)
RUGS
CARPETS & TABLE COVERS
HOP
Telephone No. 134.
CHEONG
Comply Bonso Famishara
35. Queen's Bond Canual
PINECOUGH SYRUP
A VALUABLE REMEDY FOR ACUTE AND CHRONIO AFFECTIONS OF THE THROAT AND LUNGS, COBOUS, COLDS, ETC. obtained at
COLONIAL DISPENSARY,
Tel. 1877.
14, Queen's Rood, Central.
T. TANAKA
PHOTOGRAPHER
Tel. 1877
No. 8, Rose Terrace, Nathan Road, Kowloon. Phone X.
Developing Printing & Enlarging Undertaken. Modera Photography. Up-to-date Studio.
KOMORS
SALE
AT
KOMOR'S
"'Nuff Said "'!
May 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Alexandra Building,
SUMMER DRESS MATERIALS
AT
WHITEAWAY'S
Dainty Summer Materials original pattern and tone.
LARGE SELECTION OF NEW VOILES IN PLAIN COLORS & FANCY DESIGNS From $1.95 yard.
TOOTAL'S PIQUE 44in. wide WHITE AND COLORS $2.50 yard. TOBRALCO IN WHITE AND COLORS 27in. wide. $1.50 yard.
TERMS CASH NO CREDIT ALLOWED.
WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD., HONGKONG.