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TUESDAY.
SEPTEMBER 27, 1927,
HONGKONG COURIER.
[By Y. Curtis.1
knew nothing whatever about the Up to a few short weeks ago, I East, and I fear this lamentable ig norance is fairly common. have, by acting as a Courier in this So, buckling on my armour, 1 interesting Colony, endeavoured to do my share for one day, by spread- least three interested seekers of ing some small enlightenment to at knowledge.
YOU and armed resistance on the part. MUST of their owners. There may be land, no doubt, are many cases where OWN IT
the domestic slaves are really an- xious to remain with their so-called owners. But when by escaping, they show that they are anxious for freedom, then it should be no part of British law to assist in their recapture. The fugitive slave on British soil must be free. And now, Reuter tells us that an Ordin- ance has been passed abolishing slavery in the Protectorate-strik- ing evidence of the reality of Bri- tain's horror of slavery: In the Treaty which has just been made An American, his wife, and an between Britain and the Hejazduced by a mutual acquaintance, Americanised Englishman; intro there is a provision for the libera- came to Hongkong to see the place. tion of slaves, further proof, if it Would I show them the ropes, but were needed that Britain is really thrown in?.
with no conducted tour..business Oh, No! They just in earuest when she declares her- wanta see how the English live out. self on the side of oppressed people, in the wilda.' This was the way the message reached me. "Talk about ignorance of The East: I'll show them' I said to myself. And I
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A Silly Resuscitation.
Almost as foolish and harmful
Hongkong Telegraph, culpable as any elsewhere.
TUESDAY, SEPT, 27 1927.
SUPPRESSION OF SLAVERY.
Now, although I says it 33 shouldn't, I've scored A huge success. But you shall judge for yourselves.
did.
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The ship docked early, and follow me was the order of the day, and follow they did,-up the Peak, at a brisk pace, walking. This is, in my opinion, a good way to start seeing Hongkong.
DAY BY DAY.
STUPIDITY 18 THE WORST OF VICES, BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY ONE WHICH.
For attempting to import 172 19 INQURABLE-Edmund About.
bags of foreign copper coins the Chow was arrested by the harbour Chief Fireman of the ss. Kwai police yesterday.
ad to the police that a fok District, Kowloon City, has report
A shopkeeper of the Chuk Un
absconded on Sunday last with 300 ducks valued at $250.
Penung, Sept. 19-Mr. F. N. Knight was admitted to the Fenang. Bar this morning by Mr. Justice Simpson made the application."" Sproule. The hon'ble Mr. Palgrave
The F. and 0, s.s. Lahore arrived from London dated August 25. at 7 this morning, with the mail This consisted of 388 bags, and was distributed shortly after 10 am.
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"The Butterfly on the Wheel," the play which the Forbes Russell Comedy Company is presenting in the Star Theatre at 9.15 to-night has not been staged before during the present season and should therefore attract special atten- tion. Booking is at popular prices.
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The Very Idea!
The costermonger was selling cranges, aided by a stentorian cry of "Here you are. Oranges like wine! Oranges-oranges like wine
One said to the other You ask Two small boys were looking on.
him then."
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the seller of oranges-and darted "No, ask him yourself. Dare you for two-pence."
The boy went up and spoke to off before the shaken fist of the costermonger became dangerous.
"Of all the cheek!"-gasped the latter. "What d'yer think?
He asked me whether I'd got вду oranges as liked beer!".
Wife at Willesden: After six months of married Iffe my husband
client was sober enough to know has returned me to my father.
Solicitor at Willesden: My
he was drunk, and he said so. The clerk: Perhaps he was too drunk. to know what he said.
He
Solicitor at West Ham: called my client a "nincompoop!" Magistrate: That is very mild for this neighbourhood.
Woman at Shoreditch County Court: Am I at the right pinee? It is awkward to owe money when
you are deaf.
Wife at Shoreditch County Court: My old man blues the money and leaves me to come here to apologise for it. these two women won the fight? Midland Solicitor: Which of
Man: Neither; it was a dead-hent. Clerk at Kingston: Was it a.m. or .p.m.? Policeman: It was 1927.
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as the old question of "Who won the war?" is the continued harping on the controversy of war gullt and war-time atrocities. It is noteworthy that the German people have consistently refused to Half-way up I relented, knowing
The prince of Wales unveiling admit that they were guilty of that sea-legs are apt to get out of the Laurier monument at Ottawa precipitating the outbreak of training, and we got into the motor is one of the recent interesting hostilities in 1914, and inasmuch car that I had ordered to be there events depicted in the topical their rulers, and statesmen, in waiting. It was half the battle gazette showing at the Queen's were more concerned with the to do this unexpectedly, I can Theatre to-day and to-morrow. outbreak of the war, that stand-truthfully say the whole party sank The gazette also gives glimpses of point has some amount of justi- into that 'auto' giving thanks. So the work in connextion with South- fication. It were better. to leave much for the subtlety of a Courier! ampton's £13,000,000 dock exten- to posterity the exact assessmer.t Then, after the view from the topsion scheme. of the position of war guiltiheas, of the Penk, and descriptive or otherwise. There is evidence speeches from me to lunch, at a According to information from Elizabeth Wolls, a young domea.. to show that certain influences in house I know.
Calcutta, Mr. Dennis Rooke, thetic servant, stated to be a native the Balkans were at least as Memories of England in the Australian airman, has abandoned of Northampton, but now home
But it wilds, will return, to mock and jeer his flight to Astralia owing to dif-less, was remanded for a medical were, best in these days, when at these three after lunch. fculties and delay incidental to report at Westminster Police Court everyone desires to see an era of
Nebulous visions of a rose-coloured securing a new machine to continue on a charge of attempting to com peace settle down on Europe, to drawing-room, with lacquer, old his flight. It will be remembered mit suicide.
It was stated that at midnight forget such matters altogether, brass, exquisite china-ware and that Mr. Rooke's De Havilland Moth and leave them. for the future faultless, flowers, with here and acroplane, in which he started from a man saw Wells, loitering on the generations to discuss, when the there the vague outline of the Chin-England, was wrecked at Auranga Albert Embankment, and when she subject will be more an neademic the senses, will return again and
ese Dragon unobtrusively charming bad, near Gaya.
attempted fo climb the wall he restrained her. A policeman ask- than a personal one. It is a pity
again. They'll remember too, the
Viola Dana is the star of "Á.cd Wells what her trouble was, to observe that both France and perfectly-cooked and served lunch, Noise in Newboro," the big picture and she broke away from him, Belgium have not failed to seize with its English country-house at at the World Theatre to-day and dashed towards the river, rat her On Friday brief messages were upon the opportunity presented mosphere, despite the Chinese Dra-to-morrow. She plays the role of baby on the parapet, and tried to published recording that all slaves them at the unveiling of memorials gon
and the white-clad serving a young woman who returns to clinib over. in the Propectorate of Sierra Leone subject, and assail the German
the other day, to revert to the Boys.'.
her native town famous and weal would be freed as from January 1st contention, repeated by President tram." Waal, drawled the lady of slights when she was poor. The We now descended the Peak by thy to make a noise in revenge for next pronouncement which docs Von Hindenburg at the Tannen- the party, the next cars oughta be picture at the 2.30 and 7.15 per not seem to have attracted the at-week-end,
berg memorial unveiling
last designed by a man I know from my formance is a Chinese drama call- that Germany Lention it should.
was Home Town. He'd sure make the ed "The Vampire." It is worth while neither responsible for the war step easier to negotiate.
You'd recalling that about a month ago nor for the atrocities perpetrat- want to be an acrobat to get on and and you are the rat member who the British public, which has aled therein. He specifically re-off this gracefully."
has spoken to me." pudiated the allegations of Ger- ways believed that under the Union man atrocities. Belgium has rea- we proceeded to the Town in rick-Time was getting on. and lots yet. However, being safely alighted, However, this would never do. Jack slavery cannot exist, was son to aver that the German 8has, the Courier again waving an to do and see, sa, "Follow me," was
Christians should show their greatly disturbed to learn of a detroops did commit terrible out- invisible wand, and describing the again the order.
unity by showing their Christiani cision in the Supreme Court of matter of isolated groups or in- Pedder Square, I expected my party sha coolies were hailed.
rages. It appears again to be various buildings. Fetching up in After a quick dinner, four rick-ty-Dr. Soderblom (Swedish;
Archbishop). Sierra Leone by which the judges, dividuals, and for this nobody can to hall the new traffic post with now bound to see our first bit of by a majority of two to one, quash- justly label a whole nationalec, as being a bit of America Chinese Hongkong willy nilly. Was It's no use the Magistrate er the conviction of two owners of There seems to have been a great transplanted. they seemed sorry I not the Courier?
intervened. "I couldn't believe deal of provocation on either side. not to have seen the Indian with his The lights were now on, and you even if you swore to your torate who recaptured by force the late war dropped such re-
for Imitation!
Bargaining for a walking pace silence. Then the prisoner smiled. These was a moment's swed and the payment of one man, one your worship," he said, “I plead When prominent men
so, waxing facetious, and happening dollar-we started off. speeches which receive world-wide the same in my bag, I handed it return to this my party of that
to have a printed explanation of And here, again, memories will guilty.". publicity, on occasions of national to the American, saying, "Tell me slow importance, then, if they raise the latitude, longitude, size, how Chinatown
ride through Hongkong's controversies or awaken sleeping far away, and from where we may is quite distinct from it. In the vernacular, "asking for it.". One few moraents, he looked at me wild- kimonos, tripping along with feet Charity, an hotel porter, summoned
They saw painted Chinese girls dogs, they are, in the words of the expect the next typhoon?" After a bedecked in wonderous silky tourne Policé Court when Thomas particularly regrets that these eyed, then at the signals, then at shed in Parisian shoes and silk him for the recovery of wages. has never been any for a century.matters should be revived at war the printed matter, and
handed the latter back to me with- mam'selle.
finally stockings, as gaily as any French alleged to be due.
puzzled America! out a word. For once I have
We were
Wells was then taken to the baby meantime, and declared that police station. She cried for her she would not hurt it.
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Ulster must guard against external attack. Sir. Malcolm Macnaghten.
We want men in Australia and markets to keep them going-Sir George Pearce."
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slaves in the Sierra Leone Protect were well if all participants in baton, under his umbrella. So much Chinese night life just beginning. statement on a stack of Bibles."
some runaway slaves. It has to ferences at public ceremonies.') All the typhoon signals were out,
be borne in mind that the Pro- tectorate of Sierra Leone is not British soil in the same sense as the colony of Sierra Leone, which
make
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colony there is no slavery, and there The protectorate, however, is still memorial unveilings. It should largely under the government of memories of hostilities to such an be unnecessary to probe the bitter native chiefs, whose authority is extent. After all, they are mere
Thea to tea. The inner man safeguarded by treaties with the words, but they are always likely needs sustenance after such a prob. British. The organisation of 50 part of a set policy of keeping
to ating, and ought not to be made lem. ciety within this area is almost as alive the worst feelings which Club, still another bit of England And now en route to an English primitive as it was in Mesopotamia the war engendered, and which in 'the wilds."
Apropos of nothing, the lady re here between foot-path and road" "Yes, "replied the Courier," they are necessary to carry away the heavy rains," but, judging from the slight sneer on her American face, I divined that she thought here again was a job for her Home Town
AWAKENING WAR MEMORIES.
!!
in Abraham's days or in England should be given final burial along marked "Wide ditches you have
with their victims of 1914-18. under William the Conqueror. A form of domestic servitude exists, which may be strange enough to our modern British ideas, but which is entirely different from the slay- éry of the Southern United States before the Civil War. When the protectorate was constituted it was considered that this form of
M. POINCARE PILLORIES THE man,
GERMAN.
"Fe is the world's champion slacker," said Mr. David Weinberg, restaurant proprietor, at East-
Charity admitted that he had“ They got thrills aplenty when a been in 288 aituations since 1913 tall bearded Russian strode past, and that his average time in a reminding them of Red Russia, situation was three days, but when they saw a raid in progress, It was stated that Charity had (or what, we thought was a raid been employed seven times by Mr. bales of opium seized, and opium marily for being absent without and the imagination conjured up Weinberg, who dismissed him sum-
dend raided. flower-bedecked,
They saw the tawdry artificial-
inillion-lighted
leave.
The case was dismissed,
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shooting galleries, and thanked Two farmers met in town a few- their stars when a friendly Irish days after a cyclone hit the coun voice belonging to a late R. 1. Ctryside. Sergeant, bade them 'Good Noight..' "Yes, it did quite a bit of damage They saw the Chinese open-air out our way," said one, reflectively bedrooms, and marvelled thereat.. "By the way, Hank, was that new
They saw Chinese families at barn of yours injured any?" chow chow, and marvelled more. The other shifted his wad of "What's that?" her better half Off the beaten track, where were chewing tobacco. "I can't say.. demanded, as a Chinese strolled past no banners with cryptic charac-rightly," be answered, slowly.. Bar-le-Duc, Sept. 26.
carying meat tied on to string. Asters which is the Chinese language ain't found it yet. domestic servitude must for a time Germany's war guilt was challeng to know, I hazarded, "Oh That lights, my party visibly waited, ex- Von Hindenburg's denial of it would never do for a Courier not inscribed thereon, and very few be tolerated. The British "planed by M. Poincare, when address-
**"Someone told me you entertain-¦ that's Chinese meat." adopted was that of as far as posing the general council of the
"It looks as though a little goes knew not what,
pecting something to happen, they ed your neighbours informally last sible preserving native institutions,
Meuse,
a long way," he chuckled, then rour-
But nothing happened. Back to
"Yes, I had a quarrel with my while humanising them and con- be more devoted to peace before this is where the Americanised En-was indeed, a memorable dollars
He said that no country could ed outright at his own joke.
Soon we arrived at the Club, and breaths restored equanimity. It
the tram lines soon, and deep husband on the front porch." trolling them. Mr. Justice Petrides, the war than France. The war glishman came into his own. who dissented from the two other old men and women, and too many the place, or it may have been some more sight. Gently shepherding
EXCHANGE RATES. had brought too many killings of may have been the atmosphere of
It worth.. judges of the Supreme Court in burnings of houses in invaded backward brain-wave, but instantly my party to a shop I know, where- Amsterdam the recent ruling, pointed out that France, for the French not to feel the English Clubite came to life.in I had often gazed and gazed, I Berlin in the protectorate successive ordin-it their duty to protest when they Glaring round, he sank into a chair, pointed to the greatest surprise Copenhagen ances have watered down servitude
Heard the evidence denied.
France wished to forget it all, grasped the Weekly Times, and be and treat of this long, long day, Vienna to such an extent that "it has been but would not see lles recorded in slavery only in name." In a few history-Reuter,
It was a Mandarin coat, and-what Helsingfors a cost!
Lisbon
years It must vanish altogether, as
came dead to his world,
Gone was the effect of years' spent in free America, where they tell us one man is na good as the next, here, for moment,
by an ordinance adopted in 1926 no DANISH BONDS ISSUED, or the unapproachable bras
person born in the protectorate or brought into it can be a slave, and all persons now in servitude become free at the death of their present
owners.
TAKEN UP IN HOLLAND.
Copenhagen, Sept. 26..
lish Clubman.
yarn-Two men in a club, Said Back to my mind rushed the old
one. "Will you pass me the bitenes Please?"
the other and will you shake hands "Certainly Sir" promptly replied with me?"
The Danish State building fund has disposed of a new series of 5 per cent. bonds to the amount of 12,000,000 ferins, to a syndicate of Dutch banks, headed by the nonplussed. Twentsche Bank of Amsterdam-"Because, Sir, I have been a member of this club for ten years,
Servitude can only be tolerated where its sudden suppression would bring immediate and evident evils
as misery for the slaves Reuter.
Buch
"Why?" demanded the first one,
And now there remained
one
night."
Paria
Brussels.
Thousands of stitches have gone. Bucharest ment gold, red, black, green, with Yokohama to fashion this wonderful gar Buenos Aires each stitch in its appointed place, New York. like some marvellous mosaic. de
Geneva
The little yellow men who had Milan. so patiently accomplished thie Stockholm work of art, had woven the most Oslo able, and how I had yearned to wondrous colour scheme Imagin Prague Madrid Athens possess it
yes. It is now my very own.
Then I heard bargaining and Bombay
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