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complex character of the problem and the very real difficulties that would have to bo faced in any We Barious suppressive effort. agree with the Attorney General that something more than mere legislation is needed to abolish the system that there will have to be progressive education of public opinion and continued pressure on the part of the authorities. If the Chinesa of Hongkong were. ม isolated, self-contained community, with no coming and going as be- tween the Colony and China Pro- per, it would be easy in courge of time to wipe the system'oat, but the broblem is aggravated by the fact that we live on the fringe of a eduntry which, despite supposed abolition, still
recognises that mai-tsui have a place in the social structure. It is this circumstance which will prove the biggest ob- stacle in the enforcement of the new law. All the same, difficulties should not be permitted to deter the
DAY BY DAY.
· INDOLENCE INCREASES WITH EVERY HOUR OF INDULGENCE, AND WHAT IS LEFT UNDONE BECAUSE IT IS DIF FICULT TO-DAY WILL BE DOUBLY DIF-. FICULT TO-MORROW.-Ellis.
The E, and A. Company's 8. Nellore, from Mojl, is due here on Wednesday morning.
The P. & O. s.. Mantua, from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on 25th October at 11.30 h.m.
The Admiralty announce that H.M. Destroyers Blanche and Boadicea will be two divisional leaders of the Beagle class.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
Oplum. Traffic,
(To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
The Very Idea!
The London Gazette states that the King has issued a warrant amending the regulations govern- ing the Special Constabulary Lòng Service Medal,
Sir, feel duly gratified that
The medal will be of bronzą you are prepared to agree up to a point with my superficially con- with the King's eiligy on vincing submission that the sailor- the obverse, and on the rim the man has quite enough to do in at name of the person to whom it tending to the job of getting his is awarded.
It' will be awarded only to ship along. Having agreed to that, you immediately proceed to intro-those who served as Special, duce another factor into the argu Constables, without pay, during ment.
have
The shipper was not mentioned this War for not less than thro
years, and to those who Senate amendment, your riserved in a Special Constabular ginal comment or my previous let Reserve for not less than aine ter and, unless it be to mix the years without pay, and havE lasue, I fail to see why he enters, H. E. the Governor and Lady for he and his consort the consignee bean recommended by the Chief
OMeer of Police. Clementi, with their daughter, re- are in such a vastly different cate turned to the Colony by the Em-gory that, so far from absolving press of Asia after their Manila them, I consider them the head and black and white stripes, and in holiday this morning. They were front of the whole offending. Let the case of those who served. accompanied by Captain F. G. us, however, leave them to their de- during the War a bar, or clasp, vices and, for the time being, con will be attached bearing the Sillitoe, A.D.C.
fine ourselves to the people with words, "The Great War, 1914-18," whom the Senate amendment and An additional bar bearing the our difference of opinion are con- words, "Long Service,'t, may be cerned.
mwarded.
the rates for the installation of Canton is making a reduction in
the automatic telephone. The
As I read your argument, you are
1,000,000 Government in the task to which it rate will be $100 for oilst the of the opinion that the ends of
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The riband will consist of red,
Willesden Man-I need no time to see this place again.
mark by the Attorney General that monthly subscription will be $8 for justice are inadequately served un- to pay my fine sir. I never want.
the authorities have no intention of allowing the new regulations for the control of the evil to remain a dead letter, it must be assumed that a serious effect is at last to be
Pleading guilty to a charge of being in unlawful possesion of a chain which was suspected of having been stolen from one of the ships that had berthed alongside the
"Mr. Snowden's Fight for the Right," reads a heading. surely he's fighting for left.
less the sallor-man is forced by threats Into being an Amateur and honorary Custom house detective.
I do not exactly see how you deduce from my letter that I con- cur in a continunt battle of wits be tween ship's officers and preventive man used such abusive language Constable at Southend-This
But
what's
made to rid the Colony of a slur on Kowloon Godowns, a' Chinese was men; anyway, I did not say so in my that it quite upset my sergeant.
its name which has persisted all too lang.
It is six years since the Ori-
HOLLAND-At Larkfield Nur
sing Home Chatham on 25th Oct, to Mr. and Mrs. M.nance designed to suppress the Holland, a daughter,. (still-system was passed, and, as we re- marked last week, the real import of the Ordinance was to provide for the registration and control The wedding of Miss Mary Kut (with abolition us the ultimate wall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.end) of muci-tsui. Part III should E. D. Kotwall, to Dr. M. B. have been brought into operation Osman, M.D.. of the Univer-long ago, and the fact that no new sity of Hongkong, will be solemnised on Friday, 8th No circumstances have arisen since that the vember, 1929. A reception 1923 acems to suggest will be given at the Roof Gar- Government has reluctantly moved den of Hongkong Hotel at 3.30 in the matter. However, the pro-
m. o invitations are be ing issued, but all friends are mise that the law, once proclaimed, cordially invited to the receps to be enforced should reconcile na to the delays that have occurred. Only one point, it seems to us, needs clearing up. We refer to the, position of those who have employ- ed mui-taal since the passing of the 1923 Ordinance. By the law as
tion.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
fined $5 by Mr. T, S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
In attempting to escape from ar-
rest after having stolen two pieces of wood from a timber yard ́in Mongkok, a Chinose who appeared before Mr. T. S. White Smith at the Kowloon, Magistracy this mor- ning on a charge of larceny was stated to have jumped into the har- bour but was arrested on the ar- rival on the scene of a Shantung sergeant.
superficially convincing argument, nor do I say or even intend it now.
My argument is that: The "suilor-man's time is other- wise fully employed.
He is not trained in the detection of crime.
as to be practically non-existent.
His opportunities are so limited
He has no time to spare for any more honorary jobs.
The services of the indispensable informer are not available to him.
The opportunity to discover con- traband is at the time of transit. from shore to ship and from ship
Sheriff Robertson, at Glasgow -Begging is a very lucrative om- ployment in this philanthrople country.
London--I was not standing out- Indignant woman at North side the public-house with my husband. I was inside,
Married Woman, complaining of assault at Marylebone--I do not see why another man should' knock me about,
The Annual Report of the Bir-
Doctors McTavish (slightly. deaf): "Ye'll no be sleeping weel?"
Lady Bed: "Oh, aye! Aya!" "Does "your heart bother ye "Oh, na! Nah!”
Sentence of three weeks and to shore (the sailor-man's busiest mingham Municipal Bank remarka hard labour was imposed by Mr. T. time), not when the hutches are that the Bank inspires con S. Whyte Smith ut the Kowloon battened down at sea. The only fidence, and indeed affection, in Magistracy this morning on a efficient means is by trained wat- the minds of the citizens." Quite Chinese who pleaded guilty to a chers who are paid to devote their naturally. "Where your treasure charge of larceny of a quantity of whole time and attention to the job, is, there will your heart be also. rice, which the defendant was not by honorary searchers whose stated to have taken from a shop livelihood depends on their atten- in Canton Road at 3 am. by insert- tion to and perfect discharge of ing his hand through a hole he had the duties for which they are em- ployed and which keep them fully occupied, so that, if they do attempt made in the staircase partition.
a little amateur preventive work, On the application of Detective it can, at its best, be only incomplete Inspector Fallon, a Chinese woman who was charged before Mr. T. S. and therefore worse than futile.
Without the services of the in- Whyte Smith at the Kowloon if now stands, they have been guilty Magistracy this morning with beformer the work of the preventive of an infringement" of the Ordi- in in possession of two automatic service would be equally futile.
Who among us sailor-men have Will they, however, be per- pistols and 102 rounds of ammuni- THE REGISTRATION OF mitted to register their mui-tation at a house in Woosung Street, not seen the preventive posse come was remanded for one week, forn board go solely and straight to This is not made clear by the At- further enquiries. Mr. MUI-TSAI.
Leo the cache, colleet the contraband and torney General's speech. The posi-d'Almadu, snr., appeared for the go ashore again with all the beam- ing self-satisfaction of the cat tion needs clarifying In this re-
caught with the canary's feathers sticking to its whiskers? If that is purely deduction, it is wonderful work and the sailor-man can never achieve it.
MONDAY OCT. 28, 1929.
nance.
on gard, but possibly it will be dealt the with in the regulations which are
defence:
stroyed.
the
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NE SUTOR ULTRA CREPIDAM. Hongkong, Oct. 28th, 1929.
In commenting a week ago,
Owing to her age and the fact the Bill which is to amend
that she had already spent two Femule Domestic Service Ordin-shortly to be issued.
nights in the cells, Mr. T. S. Whyte
From Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy
rather involved ance, we suggested that it was most
this morning cautioned a widow, 53 anecdote at the end of your article likely being brought forward in
China's C.E.It. Manifesto. years of age, who was charged with I understand that, even with the
trespassing on the Government law as it stood before the amend order to pave the way for the en
Interest in the long statement Plantation near the Kowloon Rifle ment, rewards were necessary, and Forcement of Part 11 of the origin-
issued by the Nanking Foreign Range. The defendant was stated that you postulate that with the al Ordinance. Otherwise the
Office
Chinese to have had three pieces of dried end of the rewards to sailor-men regarding the amending Bill would be valuciess, Eastern Railway and the abortive pine wood, hidden, among a bundle the curb of the traffic will be de-
the Soviet of grass. because although there are con- negotiations with
I do not agree. Let these clan- stant references in it to registra Government, lies solely in the rea- son for its preparation and
Two Chinese, who were charged destine rewards be paid as wages to tion, no machinery has yet been publication. It contains no start Before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at some more trained preventive men. provided to put registration into ling revelations: nothing, indeed the Kowloon Magistracy this mor- and then,
The histoning with causing cruelty, to effect. Our interpretation of the that is really new.
of the negotiations at Manchulthickens by carrying them su- position proves correct, for the and Berlin, of the drawing up of a pended by the wings, were each Attorney General announced at last joint declaration for a settlement, fined $6. One man stated that the Thursday's meeting of the Lexis- and of the submission by the Soviet fowl was tied by the market people fative Council that orders have been of the two slight alterations to the causing his Worship to remark draft, with the alternative, sug that the defendant should have received from Home that registraestion that the Chinese chairman pointed out to the stall holder that tion of mui-tsai must be proceeded of the C.E.R. should be dismissed, it was cruel. with. This is to be done by pro.serves to prove nothing in favour
A young Chinese who was arreat- of one side or the, other that bus claiming effective Part III, the already been accepted, sineeed for the alleged theft of some really vital part of the Ordinance.the details were fully, disclosed socks from the counter in the Wing which has remained in abeyance during the progress of the discus-On Store last evening, was found
Two boys, aged ten and twelve since the law was passed some six sions. The Nanking Government to have a large sum on him. "The repectively, appeared "before Mr. has juggled with the facts with circumstance called for an in-TS. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon yours ago. The development does the facility attributed to the vestigation of his antecedents, and, Magistracy this morning, on not surprise us, and it may be Karkahan Clique, omits to mention to enable this to be carried out, a charge of trespassing on the mill- regarded as the culmination of the in, its indferment of the Soviet short remand was given to the tary rifle range on the Talpe Road. campaign which has been waved Government that the aftantion police when the case was mentioned Both defendants pleaded guilty,
would not have developed into one before Mr. A.W.G.H. Grantham at
It was stated that the boys were at Home by the Anti-Slavery of crisis but for the seizure of the the Central Police Court this morn-apparently sent by stone-breakers Society and in Hongkong by the Rallway by the Manchurian nu ing. Anti-Mui Tsui Society..
thorities, and credits the Soviet
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TRESPASS ON RIFLE
RANGE....
TWO LADS ORDERED to be CANED.
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in the vicinity na the elder people were invariably seen to asalst them to hide or climb over the hills whenever chased by the authorities, His Worship remarked that he was afraid the defendants would have to be whipped, and ordered each to receive six strokes of the care.
"Ye'll have nue appetite?" "Oh, ayel, Aye!"
Dr. McTavish: "Ah, weel! I' gie ye a bottle that'll stop a that!!"
WHO
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WAS MR. PUFF.
The character of Mr. Puff, in Sheridan's satirical play, "The Critic," is a burlesque edition of the successful. writer of advertisements.
From earliest years, Mr. -Puff had yearned to find a pro- fitable outlet for his own peculiar gift of embellishing plain statements. He" found Rome dimenity at first in amassing, enough.. money to enable him to retire from commerce and devote his whole energies to literary pursuits; but with great in- genuity he conceived the idea of going bankrupt and trust- ing to the charity of the kind- hearted to supply him with funds.
This version was so success- Ful that Mr. Puff repented it, and rang many variations on
Five times he WZLEC bankrupt; twice his house was burned down; he suffered from dropsy, consumption, im prisonment for debt ared
other valuable calamities": all in the space of two yeara, during which he collected. enough alms to set him up for life, and enable him to turn his attention to advertisement writing.
He did very well at this, too." 'He coached'auctioneers on the merits of their wares; he wrote eulogistic paragraphs for estate agenta, turning In- sanitary, dilapidated", propor=" ties into imposing residencea, -complete with every conveni-h
ence, making fruit trees grow and brooklet's flow where they had not been before. He was an adopt in the art of persuad- ing the public that such-and- such a play was the most wonderful ever staged, that such-and-such a lady was the greatest beauty of the season;
Not unnaturally, the bene fciaries from Mr. Puff's eloquent panegyrics were ex pected to express their satig faction in a solid, substantial way. As they usually did sop:: Mr. Puff was an woll content ed with himself, and as proof against the ancers of the rest
(not, perhaps, entirely without - Arrested by Detective Inspector On the introduction of the cause) with nothing but malicious Fallon, who was searching for amending Bill last Thursday, the Intent. The statement that the auspicious characters in Nathan Attorney General said its object is Chinese authorities commenced on load early yesterday morning fol- to assist the Government further July 11 "necessary precautionary lowing the armed robery at. Kow measures for the protection of the loon Tong, a Chinese appeared be- in its settled policy of putting railway," which was not their pro-fore Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the an end, as soon as possible, to the perty, is an example of the general Kowloon Magistracy this morning employment of mui-tval. We must tenour of the Foreign Office mani on a charge of being in unlawful therefore take it that the Govern-vides rich food for thought. It is A fine of $1,200 with the alterna Among the passengers arriving festo, the purpose of which pro- possession of 40 taels of raw opiumt. ment has all along desired to sup highly satisfactory to have the tive of six months' hard labour in yeaterrlay on the Hakona Mare wore Mrs HO Hazeland, Mr F. Lammort, Mr. and Mrs. A. Morley, press the system, even although we definite assurance that no Chinese default, was imposed. haye not, until latterly, seen much soldier, aeroplane, or
Mr. D.. W. Munton, Mr. F. E. Nash, has crossed the frontier, and it evidence of putting that desire into must be admitted that China has we can see contributes little to the Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Pinguet, Mr. effect. The explanation is no doubt endured almost Intolerable pro- formulation of outside opinion, NB Slater, Mr. and Mrs J. B to be found. In the fact that vocation with extreme patence. Its publication, therefore, would Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Carsten Russia's indiscriminate raiding has appear to have been dictated by Andrews, Mr. KA whilst the Government considered put her in the wrong in a manner some feeling of apprehension reson, Mr. B Noosa, Bor Fr. the system repugnant and contrary which reduces China's original high-garding the future, as the Nun- du Dastillon, Rev. Fr. A. to British ideas of the liberty of handed action to the shadows. king Government received in Labaerl, Rev. Fr. A Lyssens, Rev. Nevertheless, the manifesto die formation causing them to discard Fr. Peeters, Mr. W. N. Scott the subject, It healtated to make closes only the one side of a very the belief that Moscow's threats Capt G.G. Bradshaw, Capt J.A to be
O'Brien and Capt K. Robertson. direct war on It because of the intricate question and as far asore bluff?
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