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SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1928.
Mr.
SAFEGUARDING.
Baldwin appears to be still sitting on the fence in regard to the tariff tague. Attempts made in the House of Commons to "draw" him on the subject have only result ed in non-committal replies being given to questioners. If he peralata in this attitude, bis leadership may be jeopardised, for there can be no doubt that the majority of his
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1928.
DAY BY DAY.
THE CONTEMPLATION OF CELESTIAL THINGS WILL MAKE A MAN BOTH THINK AND SPRAK MORE SUBLIMELY AND MAGNIFICENTLY WHEN. DIE DE- SCENDS TO HUMAN AFFAIRS.- Cicero,
Bishop Renaud arrived in Hong- kong on board the P. and 0, 8.5, Kashmir from Shanghai,
necessity of permitting the case of the fron and steel industries to be investigated under the existing pro- cedure, and it is significant that all the decisions which the "Con- servative M.P.a have reached on this, "safeguarding" problem have been reached with absolute unanimity. Yet Mr. Baldwin still hesitates to commit himself. In- deed, ho would appear to be opposed to bringing the major industries under the scheme, for in his latest utterance he points out the benefits which they will enjoy under the rating scheme and the proposals for: reductions in railway freights. The King's Exequatur empower The inference from this emphasising Mr. Ferry N. Jester to act as Vice-Consul for the United is that he thinks enough has al-States of America in Hongkong, ready been promised these indus has received His Majesty's signa-
tries.
ture.
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LETTERS FROM HONGKONG.
Archict Mosquitoes.
16.
I
Reaching Hongkong through a three other floors with balcontes series of other Eastern ports (or in front. How many poople live. Western also for that matter), on each floor I do not know. No one of the most pleasantly doubt it varies with the circum- striking features is the relative stances of the inmates, but I have Mr. S. R. Tickner, senior
absence of beggara," or, Indeed, been into one or two of these Chi- any other Hind of tout nese houses; and I should say it is. structor at Portsmouth Dockyard, (Colombo, for instance, has in very doubtful whether they, or our has been appointed Chief Constructhis respect a lot to learn from own tenement alums in Loudan, Joaghin, M.B.E. tor at Hongkong vioo Mr. J. C.us). From the reports of one or have the distinction of being the two cases in the papers, I gather more unhealthy. Also there is that there is a fairly sternly-something a little.depressing, per....... enforced Ordinance (the local haps in the unending rows of word for law) prohibiting touting them, all the same; perhaps in by or for hackney motors, and their height. suppose other services as well. The old houses that still remain But with beggara there is another fin Chinese villages, Shok 0, parts method.
of Shaukiwan, Kowloon City, and The question as to who is follow-
I mentioned in my last letter dirty, but they do not seem quite other places besides,may be as His Majesty the King has how distasteful it is to us to see, so aqualid. They are not so ing the wiser cquirse on this issue, approved the appointment of the or Mr. Baldwin or his supporters in Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith, to be an starving in our immediate neigh- and their are odd corners whore a even to know of people stereotypo in their leader height, Parlament, must be left for time Unofficial Member of the Legis bourhood. to decide. The Prime Minister isgn leave of the Hon. Me, W. E. L. is almost ideally practical and
In the matter of body may run and hide, in spirit if' lative Council during the absence beggars, we have a remedy which not in flesh. sufficiently fat-seeing. to perceive Shenton.
straight-forward.", Wo Blmply One thing they do here, though, the lessons of the Conservative de
ship them off to another part of which has never been attempted at bacle on the tarlíf reform, question
His Majesty the King has the coast, that they may go and Home, so far as I know. At cor- approved the appointment of the beg (or starve) somewliere clan.tain times of the year comes an in 1923, but apparently the majority Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes, to be an There seems indeed to be no other imperious order from the Sanitary of the M.P's think the benefits Unofcial Member of the way of dealing with them. We Department,-"house cicanaing," secured by certain industries under Executive Council during the cannot provide free food and Out come the goods and chattels "Safeguarding" are likely to take absence on leave of the Hon. Mr. lodging for all China's hungry of all the houses of the street con-
W. E. L. Shenton.
millions, and the population of our cerned, every stick of furniture, such an impresalon that a further
little Colony is already somewhere cooking pot, and bundle of clothes, step along the road would meet with
Tenders are being invited for near. saturation polut. Food-at to be stacked In the roadway, while widespread approval in Industrial the construction of a new section 19 price-suema fairly plentiful, the thorough-going members of circles. The point to be borne in of Shamshulpo Market, including but the water organization creaks the Sanitary gang enter with hose. mind, however, is that the electorate the roofing over of the open space badly at times, while as regards pine and whitewash; and for a between the two existing nurketa housing, conditions are frankly while it is necessary to keep wall. generally, and not merely the also the provision of fish tanks and bad. Some of our beggara find clear of the balconies while pas- "big interests," will play à vory stalls and the construction of a their way back from time to time, sing down the street below,
explain laconically to the magia- vital part on
the question when trough closet and urinal.
trate that there is no livelihood to the Government next, goes to the
he had anywhere but in Hong- country. And we shall be sur
kong, and are duly shipped nbroad once more. Others, prised if there is any endorsement About Hong Kong.
fancy, just fade away.. of a policy of Protection. But the Baldwin Government has to make up its mind on the lasue, which t certainly has not done yet,
A Famous Moslem.
In the death at an advanced age of the Rt. Hon. Syed Amir Ali, the Moslem world has suffered the loss of one of the greatest champions of its religious cause, and the British Empire a staunch friend. A man of irrepressible vitailly, of remark- able energy, he spent his life in the service of his fellow-men, and pro- bably did more than any other to followers are keen on a bigger meu-gain for Mahommedanism its right. sure of Protection than has yet ful place in Indian política. In that been devised under the Safeguard- vast. country where religious ing of Industries Act. Mr. Winston fervour holds amazing away, the Churchill may still endeavour to hold the Free Trade banner aloft, but he is ploughing a rather lonely furrow, because not only do most
Do you know that--------
In the early days of the Colony the principal mer chants of Hongkong kept arm- ed constables in their employ for the protection of their pro- perty?
new-
In
A time-honoured question which no doubt occurs to every comer who thinks at all about these things is-What benefits have the Chinese received from us Westerners, for which we can ex- There was a very thin, very old pect them to feel in any way. dame, whom I met one day resting grateful? The answer. seems to like a crumpled lenf beside her be confined to engineering, In its load of grass, on the road not far broadest sense, a certain amount from my house. She caught my of medicine, and hygiene. The eye and mumbled something as hygiene is no doubt very bonefi- passed, in a dim far-away, voice. tial, but it can be something of an In the 40's, burglars were so
It looked impossible that she infliction. It is also strangely active, even
could ever rise from the ground, spasmodic and incomplete. twice entering Government .House, that
much less shoulder her bundle. the matter of mosquites, for In- The next day she sat there with stance, we are a happy-go-lucky special means of protection became essential. Messrs.
out the bundle, and addressed me lot. If I were a statistician, or Jardine, Matheson and Co.
waveringly as "Taipan." She cost even if I expected these terrible kept twelve armed men on
me ten cents a day for a week, exposures of mine,, to carry any during which time she seemed to weight, 1 should of course go and their premises at East Point,
shrink more and more, to become find out how many casca the monthly expenses Incurred
more wrinkled and more brown, malaria there were In the Guvern- in this way being put at £60,
She may, for all I know, have sunk ment hospitals; I should range In 1847, European house-
into and been absorbed by the myself beside Dr. Koch and in- holders were ordered to sup-
crumbling bank against which she veigh with hard words against the plement the imperfect street
used to alt. There came a day traditional Inuctivity of our lighting by suspending lamps" when she was no saore to be acen, rulera. But I wont partly because in front of the doors of their
and a little bundle of joss sticks I know, dear friend, you don't like Moslems were the last to overcome houses.
were smoking quietly in her usual statistica, and partly becaure I am place. their prejudice towards Western
|convinced that by far the greater Another type is that of the boy not in the Government hospitals number of cases of malaria are culture, but Amir All, who claimed
who, for a certain period; used to at all, but out on the hillsides, descent from the Prophet whom he
A Chinese was admitted to the hop nimbly from his position cutting grass. honoured, concentrated all his ef of the other Cabinet members dif-forts on the advancement of the Government Civil Hospital yester under a tree which I had to pass fer from him in their views on the Indian Moslems, and gradually which occurred at 7.30 p.m. in Con- saluting smartly, hauled up his drastic punishments are inflicted day following a motor car accident daily on my way to work, and I have heard of places where subject, but practically all the overcame their unwillingness to naught Road Central. The victim Conservative M. P.'s are also in the obtain a Western education, and to of the acc. eceived a fracture trouser leg to display a hideously for having water lying about any
distorted knee. His reiterated where on one's property. Hong- opposite camp.
noi participate in political life. For of both legs and his injuries are de demands for cumshow followed kong is not one of those places, require much perspicacity to some time he was Chief Presidency scribed a serious. The car con-
me vigorously down the road for It would indeed be wasted effort, several mornings, Magistrate of Calcutta, but even in cerned is publie car No. 427, detect a sharp divergence of this position, he chiefly devoted his
for there is no lack of breeding aren outside peoples private pro- viewpoint in the speeches recently attention to literary work In the Amongst the passengers who ar But probably the most unusual perty. In Kowloon and the Pesk. made by the Chancellor of the Ex-A member first of the Bengal and Madison were Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
President of the "employed" type of beggar the drained nullahs are magulfi Mahommedan cause and public life, rived here by the 4,8.
was one that had but a day's cent works in granite and con- chequer and the Home Secretary, then of the Viceroy's Legislature, Becking,' Mr, M. W. Benton (of "trade" under the arendes of Icecrete, but we are given to under- but it would appear that Mr. Bald- he made his aim the fuller parti- the Yukon Gold Co.), Mr. G. E. N. House Street He was a small stand that the Colony's finances win has been able for the moment cipation of Moslems in public life.de Man (a Dutch banker), Coindr. boy, kneeling on the pavement, do not run to very much more, In 1877 he established the Central and Mrs. C. S. Gillette (U.S.N.), crying. His was no ordinary cry-either in the way of research or to prevent an actual split. His National Mahommedan Association and Professor J. M. San Martin, ing, such as small boys sometimes practical work. interpretation of the two opposing with branches all over India, and of the University of Tokyo. indulge in for the relief of their utterances takes us nowhere, and the appeal which he organised in
feelings, but something super- he is careful not to commit himself 1885 to pass a resolution recognis 1883 led the Viceroy's Council In
on the issue raised.
It does
This question of what the polley
of the Conservative Party is to be
on "Safeguarding" at the next
General Election has been agitating the rank and file for a considerable A year ago, some two hundred Conservative M.P's sign
time now.
HANNIS BACTERIAN CATARINACEAE
Tenders are being invited for
the
mere
It is therefore ruther startling lative in the art. He simply knelt to read that $53,000 have been Rumours have been current in and yelled; the tears spouted from voted for improving the Cause- ing the strength of the Moslem the Colony for some time of the his eyes, and he rocked his body to way Bay Shaukiwan Road. It is claims. This was the turning possibility of Sir Cecil Clementi and fro, touching the pavement difficult, of course, for a point in the history of Mahomme being appointed British Minister with his forehead at each forward newcomer to appreciate the rela danism in India and paved the way at Peking. These are based on movement. Just in front of where live value to the Colony of an im- (motoring for their advance in all branches of paragraph which appeared in the his head hit the ground was plac proved motor road Morley-Minto regime, seats were arrival at Home, but no confirmabutions. He must have political life. Under and after the Evening Standard on Sir Cevil'sed a cap to receive our contri-being used here principally for been a pleasure) and a step towards reserved for them in all Legislation of the report is obtainable in small gold mine to his employer stamping out disease, but no doubt
wisdom will come. tures. Amir All was the first official quarters locally.
for a day. Moslem to sit on the Bench In India, spending 14 years as a Judge of the ed a memorial urging the immediate Bengal High Court, but in 1904 the construction of a road from very fine view of the facade of study on mosquitoes, in Kwaidan, From the harbour front you get Lafcadio Hearn has a delightful safeguarding of iron and steel. retired and settled in England. In March of this year, a largely is Majosty conferred a unique Causeway Bay to Quarry Bay. this remarkable city. Alas, we and his troubles in Tokyo seem in
This work comprises honour on the famous Moslem lead- attended meeting of Mr. Baldwin's er in appointing him to the Privy excavation to form 100 ft. road- have as a nation, no eye for colour. many ways very like ours. There Parliamentary supporters passed a Council and to serve on its Judicial way between M. L. 321 and M... Nor, in this part of China, have the Buddhist cemeteries had little the Chinese. To the west, the tanks mizulames-bamboo cups, | resolution urging an alteration in Committee. Amir Ali was the first 481 near eable house, including bulidings are so covered with or other flower vessels, before
Indian whose public service was BO forming of embankments... 'and
tombs themselves are frequently the existing procedure under the recognised. He gave his English dumping surplus excavation on signs and the balconies with each tomb. Here, of coure the Act, which they declared to be colleagues invalanble aid in cases M.La. 430 and 431 and any other clothes, pots, and assorted goods, earthenware pots whose tops get that you can barely see the houses, broken. Mosquitoes "rise by bill- cumbersome, expensive and in many dealing with Indian law and custom contingent works,
tall though they are. But in the on which he was a great authority.
lions from the water of the dead; district, architecture, other respects unsallafactory.Indians of all croods will deeply
Writing in St. John's Cathedral English Last month, another meeting was mourn a great patriot, and his Eng- Notes, the Dean says: I am glad to either in red brick picked out with and according to the Buddhist called to draw up a formula which lish friends a worthy colleague, be able to report that during the yellow, or in grey cement and doctrine, some of them may be re- past mouth a possibility of secur- stucco, has been given an Impo: condemned by the error of former should form part of the Conserva-
ing a Second Assistant Chaplaining hand. Some of these odineles tive programme for the forthcom We have lost, for four years at has arison. Canon Cunningham of remind me vaguely of the old lives to the condition of k-ketan- once At the end of his little essay, ing General Election. The recom-lenst, writes the Dean in St. John's Cambridge has written to me re- Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, vakt, or blood-drinking pretas. Cathedral Notes, a loyal Churchman commending Rev. D. A. Whitwham, recently burnt, which was mendations made by this meeting George Zimmern, who, as I expect late of. Patorhouse and. Wostcott poignantly described as belonging expressing a desire to be buried at Jast in his Buddhist cemetery, he were that two conditions ought to most of our readers know, has gone House, Cambridge, who is now to the Later Marzipan period. bo satisfied before a duty is im- to England to prepare for ordina- working in the parish of St. Behind the water front are says:" ... And, considering tion. He goes with our great Alban's, Bedford Park, London."shop-houses." I remember read-the possibility of being doomed to posed-namely (1) Would a im-thanks for all that he has done, and Canon Cunningham put to him our ing a newspaper report of somo the state of Jiki-kelsu-gali, I want position increase employment or prevent unemployment in the in-is preparation for the ministry come. The Church Body met on Singapore, where it was being in some bamboo flower-cup, or mizutame, whence I might issue dustry making the application? will involve three years at St. July 28, and decided to offer pointed out that perhaps the "shop-softly, singing my thin and pin- Augustino's College, Canterbury, him a four years' agreement on cor- house" is not altogether the most and (2). Would it have any adverse and one year at Durham University tain terms. A cable was sent to ideal unit for a great city. It con- gent song, to bite some people that effect on the general volume of cm-to complete his degree course. We Mr. Whitwham the same day, and sists of a ground floor, open in ployment in the country? The first-rate work in the years to patched. I hope very much that take a three-ton larry (some of inspires the serene immobility of have no doubt that he will de some a letter has since then been disfront, of a size just sufficient to. Can it be that a like contingency meeting was unanimous on, the I come,
The will be able to accept.
them do); and above that, two or our august Government.
incarnations of those very dead,
I know."