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Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, MAY 21. 1997.
BETTER STANDARDS.
SATURDAY. MAY
21, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
IN MY OPINION THERE 19 ONLY ONE WAY O SERVING, HUMANITY EITHER AT HOME OR ABROAD THAT IS TO ENDEAVOUR TO KILL SELFISH- NES3-Sir William Hartley.
The was one case of small-pox reported yesterday,
The Government is calling for tendere for the repair of No. Police Launch.
The B. I. 5.8,
Trobartha left Singapore on Thursday and is due here on Thursday afternoon.
from the North by a.s. Kashims Passengers arriving yesterday Maru Included Mr. C. B. Shank.
mob was infinitely more depress- ing than the modern multitude which worships middle-class stan dards of gentility in behaviour." We make no apology for quoting at such Jength from the writer under notice, because we think that. there is
is room for a
for keener realfantion than is often apparent that we are living in better days than were experienced before the was. We have progressed far in the past 20 years, though there are many who fail to realise it. Thero can be no doubt that the lot of the average working-class family at Home is much better than for- merly, and that the people as whole are living on a higher scale of social comforts. As the writer
Two men have been arrested in says, there has been a very great
connexion with the murder of a advance in the matter of women's Chinese on the Castle Peak Road, clothing, the old days of leng anden the 7th instant." bedraggled skirts having given
The Assessor's valuation lists for way to neater and saner costumes. the Colony for the year 1927-1928 There is, generally speaking, more will be open to inspection at the social pride and if there is a fair Treasury for twenty-one days.com amount of mimicking of middle-mencing on Monday next. class standards there is the con- solation that the middle-class.stan- dard is one in which better ideas are born
and higher aspira- tions developed. There has been much industrial rest of late years an insist
on higher
waxes and better conditions all-round-and one of the direct results of that
ence
un-
unrest has been the raising of the standard of living.. Education, too, is bearing fruit and there is in- controvertible evidence that in social welfare and general ideas the working-class population of Britain in better off to-day than ever before.
A Chinese girl was removed "to the Government Civil Hospital with injuries to her legs caused by be ing knocked down by a taxi at Queen's Road East, yesterday.
18
"LANKA
THE ISLE OF PALMS.
A Melting Pot of the East.
.
I
As I sit at my window and look Kandyan Singhalese, or "highland- out over the indigo sea of the ers," strove bitterly to bar Europe. Tropics, L regard the tall cocos The Portuguese of the sixteenth, palms at the water's edge over century and the Dutch of the seven- bowing toward their beloved teenth never set foot into this ocean, and, above all, as I rejoice plurious mountain valley, nor did in this golden sunshine, It seems the British until the beginning of to me that the ancient peoples of the nineteenth century, when the Ceylon chose well when they hille peoples, wearled with conflict, selected the title, Lanka"the accepted the English King as their Up these mountain ways, shining land-for their matchless ruler. isle. For of a certainty it is a through the pusses and into the "shining land, in its rich blue, once impregnable fastnesses a re- its emerald green and its gleamingmarkable railway leads to-day; and And not less alluring than as it rounds a shoulder of the moun the glory in which nature has intains not unfittingly termed "Sen- gold." vested it is the many-hued colour eation Reck," it discloses such a of its native life, blending the panorama as to draw, from the new- characteristics and customs of all comer a gasp of amazement. the races of the East.
And when, emerging from the Sir Hugh Clifford, the present Kandy station, he finds himself in British Colonial Governor, calls the very midst of one of the most Colombo the "Charing Cross of picturesque native markets in the the East." And so far as the port world, a market piled high with goes that is an apt and sufficient fruits of every sort, procurable for characterization. People and ships trifling sums, he searches the re from all the world are here, tarry-cesses of his travel experience for ing a little and then moving on, anything. else anywhero in all the cast and west, north and south. world like this tropical Eden of the The wanderer of the world crufso "Shirting Land." de luxe" makes his brief stop, falls
Even. Singapore's blended popu- ready victim to "curio" dealers in "Oriental" objects made in Birm-lace scarcely presents as many typea ingham, Eng., is rushed to of every race cast of Suez na does matchless Kandy and back by mo- Ceplon, nor as characteristic repre- tor, and then hurries on to Singa-sentatives, of these races.
Ceylon The mortgage case WAS Cou-
is the "melting pot of the middle. cluded in the Supreme Court yes-pore or Port Said.
The more leisurely wanderer, East. Here one the Indian peo- terday afternoon, before the act- Ing Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood, "tramping" the world by sea, ar-ples, including oven a few from rives on a dingy, far-roaming Afghanistan, Kashmir and far when judgment was reserved.
freighter, wanders the island until Tibet, to mingle with the dignified he has had his fill, the while watch- and voluminously clothed Arab, It is notified that H. E. the Goving the ship news and haunting with the Malay and with the Chin- ernor has been pleased to ap- consulates and chipping offices on ese and the Japanese. And among point, Mr. Owen Hughes to be an the alert for still another dingy the strictly native peoples, the Unofficial Member of the Legisla freighter bound he cares not where: Singhalese and the half-negroid tive Council, with effect from 18th
For every traveller, whatever his Tamils, one encounters now and May.
purposes .or methods, passes again a handful of the folk who through
at Colombo as,
one probably were the original Cey- To the list of cinema houses in time or another, he passes lonese, the Veddista. the Colony, a new one will be added through Charing Cross. As Strange people are these, their when the newly-built picture thea Singapore and Port Said half-savage, mullen features sug
and Shanghai, the world-racets in gesting the Fapuan of Borneo and Colombo. Ships lio side by side New Guinen, strange and little behind the great breakwaters for known, for their origin antedates an hour or a day, as if renewing 'all historic record or even legend. old acquaintances, and then pass Thus one finds, "gathered here. in on to China, to Australla, to South this tropical isle, a representation Africa, to Europe. Likewise do, of pretty nearly every one of the men, and the coincidences of their numberless alien peoples who, in meetings in Colombo are "strange one degree or another, are the sub- jects of His Majesty, King George V. Like the mingled peoples of and Singapore and Recently I stood on the station Honolulu platform and waved farewell to the Manila, they live here in rarely dis- American Consul from the far-set turbed amity, going their own post of Kalgan, on the borders of ys, following their own faith, Mongolia, as the trans-Indian train living according to the habits of
Our ac- their kind. departed for the north.
On one street is a Buddist Tem- quaintance had begun in Peking a
A few days ple, on another a Mohammaden- few months before.
the next a Hindu before 1 mes, in one of the hotels, mosque, on
tre at Mongkok, which has recently been completed, is opened in the near future.
Captain Christopher Willson, O. B.E., V.D. has been promoted to the rank of Majur in the Volunteer De fence Corps and transferred to the Reserve of Officers, with effect from 6th May, 1927.
Tenders are being invited for the filling in of areas at Tony Me tween Lal Chi Kok Road and Tuipe Road, and the filing in of areas at Kowloon Tong East and West of Nathan Road Extension.
ones.
Planes for the Colonies. The recent references to the de- sirability of extended aerial ser- vices in the smaller parts of the Empire territories, both at Home and in colonial circles, have cul- minated in the statement by Sir Samuel Hoare. before the present Colonial Conference in London, as cabled yesterday, in which he urg: ed the consideration of develop ment of aerial units for the Colonies and Dependencies. He pointed out the very good work that can be done from the air, Among those leaving for Home both as regards maintaining com-to-day by the s.s. Kashima Maru munications and opening-up un-will be Mr. D. O. de Silva, F.R.G.S., a man from Tahiti; and on another shrine; and yonder towers the tem developed or sparsely-populated FR.S.A. of the Sun Life Assurance occasion, as I was walking along ple of an Anglo-Saxon procathedral. areas. The application of science Company of Canada, who has been beautiful country road ten miles Caste distinctions are rapidly los to modern agriculture, and the use transferred to the London office outside Kandy, I encountered a pro- ing their significance in the middle therefor of the latest devices of of the company.
fessor from Yale, on a world tour. East, yet the mark of the comb So does Colombo justify its latest worn upon the crown of the head invention, was indicated in the al- lusion to the employment of acro- planes in wholesale spraying of in-
By means of a duplicate key, it appellation, but Colombo is no more still entitles the Singhalese of a It is other, whatever may be their rela- secticides over large tracts of land, is reported, a safe in the premises. Ceylon than Hong Kong is China, certain caste to the homage of an-
of the Hang On firm of flour dealerser than Papeete is Tahiti. as it has been proved in America, at No. 10, Wilmer Street, West & energetic, bustling tropical sea- tive callings or economic circum- Istead Heath on a Bank Holiday regards time and expense, besides Poirit, was opened yesterday and pert, more colourful than any other stances.
Singapore, supremely beautiful in introducing a more efficient method money of the amount of $4,000 with the possible exception of This, he showed, could effect à sav cf arriving at definite results.
We were very interested to read the other day some comments of a well-known London writer rc- garding the behaviour and dress of the average crowd in England in these post-war days because. speaking of the great holiday crowds in Lordion during the East- ertide, he said he was struck by the extraordinary changes in their lock and behaviour as compared with the pre-war multitudes. "It is now possible to cross Hamp-
Having a great deal both as
stolen.
a
The half-Europeanized Ceylonese
from end to end without seeing
its flower fringed, paim-embowered has taken to foot-wear, but he is single person who has drunk too much. It is common
Gored by a bull which he was re- European quarter, international vastly in the minority, and shoes to explaining which would balance otherwise
and interracial in its life, yet only aro stili ng rare among the Sing- moving from one shed to another, a A detail of the wonderful, richly halosa and Tamils as rain in Aden. this hy the quality of post-war expensive service of mails or paChinese dairyman was removed yes-ed suleidoscope of nature that is Attired in high state otherwise heer, but this explanation is in. Fungers. He tributed the Gov-
ernment of the Straits Settle-terday from the Dairy Farm at sufficient. Drinking to excess,
which was going out of fashion be- fore the war, is a fast-dying habit. People are censing to be interest
though he may be, the boot is a con- For this immense island has vention he has not yet yielded to; munts, Which, as we nos very long Pokinium to the Nethersole Host "Lanka, the Shining Land."
more than 25,000 square miles of and an amusing sight in some of the age pointed out in these columns,pital. The man was seriously in-
area, and every one of them is a hotels is a Singhalese head waiter has gone rapidly ahead. In the jured about the body and legs.
tropical beauty spot. It has its in much-adorned evening clothes, eommencement of aerial units, either by direct encouragement or Mr. W. E. Smith is appointed lowland, its "hill stations," and its but still lacking footwear.
Ita railways The breezes ever blow upon "The actual support; so that our sisterActing General Manager of the mountain peaks.
**
ed in drinking as an amusement Crown Colony has already a civi- Union Insurance Society of Can-climb upward as climb the railways Shining Land," and, upland or low-
More sylille entertainments arc demanded. Friends of mine who saw this year's huge crowds at Brighton make the same report. Thousands of people will camp cut for the night on the beach without
lian flying club, a projected volunton, Ltd., the British Traders' In-of the Engaline and the Bernese laud, the atmosphere is rarely op teer air corps, and surveying andsurance Co. Ltd., and the China Oberland. From the tropical at-pressive. There is the northeast passenger machines in the offing. Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., during the mosphere of Colombo you may as-monsoon and the southwest mon- A service between Penang, Singa-absence of Mr. Paul Lauder from cend in a few hours 8,000 feet to soon, and cúch of them provides a the climate and scenery of New sea breeze, strengthening always as pore, and Batavia is planned, and the Colony.
England; and if you are energetic the swift-passing tropical twilight the sponsors of the project are, A collision occurred yesterday
Though the latitude of Ceylon is sure to receive Government sup-
between harbour boat No. 1465 and you may climb still farther by don-yields to the scented night.
key and on foot to true alpine sum port. With this actua! taking up
low, the climate is delectable, al- thinking of forgetting their suffer- of the matter at the London Col- the launch Lee Ying, the former mit.
But when, if ever, Ceylon adopts most as rare as that of Tahiti. And, inga in drink. I was at Kew duranial Conference, and the recom-sustaining damage to the extent of ing the holidays, and what im- mendation of a Minister of State, $100. The boat was at the time the "slogan," the visitor will be met quite as in the South Stas, does one on the docks at Colombo by some linger too long in "Lankin," he is pressed me there was the notable it is likely that Colonies hitherto lying tied to buoy No. 52, und was
Kandy." For Kandy, like Nikko epell weaving itself inescapably into For Ceylon, if any-" uniformity, and excellence of the pathetic will now be prepared to run into by the launch, which had such bit of alliteration as, "Kome to pt by and by to feel its tender
consider ways and means. Hong two junke in tow.
and Agra and the Pyramids and the his thought. kong must eventually come inte
A fishing boat capsized and Victoria Falls, is an objective of where, epitomizes the "call of the line, and although present condi- tions are not suggestive of much sank with the loss of four lives objectives. Here, according to East" that call which one never progress being made, it is never during a squall which caught the some of the ancient hill peoples of hears in its moet seductive noto too early to consider plans in ad- hout in the vicinity of Tai-0, on Ceylon, was the Garden of Eden; until he has remained a while and
One of the and from this vale of beauty, the then left, i vance, and thus have them ready Wednesday evening. against the time when action be survivors was the son of the mas comes possible.
ter, who arrived yesterday and re-. ported the disaster to the police,
be-
women's dresses. There has never been a time when the old rough-and-ready, distinctions tween the "classes" in dress were so slight and misleading. These London pleasure resorts are now-a- days rarely visited during the great public holidays except by people well below those of the cheap car standard, and yet it was obvious that the Kew Gardens crowd on Easter Sunday was bet- ter dressed and better behaved than the crowd of a higher or at
· P. O. BOXES RIFLED.
CHINESE BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE,
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FOREIGN LANGUAGES.[yet in a sufficiently simple form to
TAUGHT BY THE LINGUA- PHONE SYSTEM.
A Police sergeant on patrol in the Central fairway yesterday re- covered from the water the body of a Chinese malo. The remains of a Chinese were also picked in the vicinity of the Leung Kwong
At last has arrived an ideal aid wreck. Bath bodies wero in an
which is destined to mark an epoch advanced stage of decomposition in the annals of modern language and it is possible that either or teaching, we refer to the Lingua fated ship.
enable their concentration to be focussed on the sounds.
To meet this urgent demand, ́ ́. which no one person-even in his fullest enthusiasm-cang dupply, has the Linguaphone method been demonstration prepared, and a convinces beyond all doubt that. not only has all sign of drudgery been removed, but that languages unknown simplicity.
laust more mixed social comples from subscribers boxes at the both were pasengers of the ill-phone language" records-a Kur- can now be mastered with hitherto
Charged with stealing letters xion of twenty years ago. Wo-General Post Office, a Chinese was men's clothing is now extremely remanded by Major C. Willson this nent and sensible and cheerful Inmorning, on an application by De-
tective Sergeant Carey. colour, and there is now little or nothing to choose in these respects between the product of White chapel and that of Brixton. Uni formity does not Always spell duliness: my impression is that the old rowdy and miscellaneous
the
don.
Eighty thousand frogs sing. Ed-
prisingly simple system evolved by Linguaphone-Instituto of Lon-
Lending schools and educational institutions throughout the British To learn a foreign language Isles have adopted the system, It is stated that the arrest reward Chambers to sleep every fuently, studenta must, above all, and the unanimous appreciation sulted from complaints regarding night in Laporte, Indians. He has hear the language frequently which has followed, is in itself the the systematic rifling of a number been a frog farmer for more than spoken, and as is fully recognised, mest emphatic evidence of Its ex
forty years, raloing them until the grammar is one thing, but the cellence. of post-office boxes.
they are a year old, then markot-spoken language is something on. The local agents are the Ander ing the legs. At first he caught tirely different. To speak it cor-son Music Co., Ltd. and we strong them along stream beds at night,rectly, students must hear it fre-ly advise those interested to call but the demand became so great quently-hear it spoken with ab-round for a demonstration and that he now has his own proserve, solutely correct pronunication, and particulars.
That the police authorities view the case in a grave light was in- dicated in a statement that the committal of the defendant would be asked for:
of