FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
VETERAN INDIAN EDUCATOR.
KOWLOON PARKING
BRITAIN'S CLAIM TO COOLIES RESENT
SEA POWER.
REPLACEMENT.
TROUBLE BETWEEN MARKET PROFESSOR KARVE ARRIVES
WORKERS.
IN HONGKONG.
SECURITY OF EMPIRE A EMPLOYER'S RIGHTS. GREAT WORK IN HAND.
PRIME ESSENTIAL.
A noted, pioneer of women's
PROBLEM.
QUESTION OF CARS WAITING FOR PATRONS.
DRIVER CAUTIONED.
Trade rivalry between Hollo
The parking near the Star odd-job coolies and regular education in India, Professor D.K. Terry Pier of cars used for public Cantonese vegetable carriers in Karve, arrived in Hongkong to day service, which are specially order Waterloo Road, at the Vegetable from Shanghai, on his way back to od to await patrons from Fong- Market yesterday led to erstwhile India by way of Manila, and Java, Kong, was the subject of discus- workmen of a vegetable dealer in the course of a journey which slon bofore. Mr. Whyte Smith at] ho undertook to study women's the Kowloon Magistracy this England, America and Japan..
SIXTH OF WORLD'S TRADE IN THE creating a disturbance, with the education in European countries, morning when a driver from the
HANDS OF ENGLAND.
1.
that police had to be summoned to the scene to prevent
Arrar rements are being made Duro Motor Company was sum- trouble.
for Professor Kurvi to deliver a moned by an Indian constable for On the arrival of the police, number of lectures here. One of causing an obstruction. three Hollo, coolies were seen those will take place at the Sindh The defendant informed his brandishing bamboo polos and Merchants Club, China Warship that he occupied
COSMOPOLITAN BREAD. adopting nighting attitudo against Buliding for flow at 80% of piters anak te bin dataspied the
BY CHARLES HODGES.
some Cantonese coolles. It tran-morrow (Saturday), the subject | several years. spired that a vegetable dealer had being "The" Education of Women' Mr. M. H. Large, manager of formerly engaged odd-job Hokle in India." The lecture is open to the Duro Garage, Intimated that coolles to convey ia vegetables all interested.
thero 'was no stand specially
from the junks to his shop but] „Prófessor Karve opposed the re-allocated to his firm for their Authority on International Relations at New York University. since the beginning of the year figious prohibition forbidding cars when waiting for patrons
(Final Article: Copyright, 1930.)
The dominating fact in Britain's. naval outlook is the security of Empire.
This is something more fundamental than even the political future of what is possibly the foremost world power to-day. The livelihood of 45,000,000 people, packed by modern industry into an arca equal to that of a single American State. Not greed for Empire but fear for, bread, sums up the British case.
on earth. Six out of every seven come from over-sen. Britain The Englishman's loaf of bread is the most cosmopolitan draws upon the world's granaries 11 months out of the, twelve.
THE SUBMARINE NIGHTMARE
about 700,000,000.
+
he had
when his Worship pointed out to
his wife started
dispensed with their widowa of certain Kindu castes to from Hongkong. An order chit services and had hired his own ro-marry and when his own wife was produced showing that the coolies. The Hollos reaented the died he, a Brahmin, was rigorously car had left the garage ten action and threatened the new ostracised when he himself mar-minutes before the time mentioned rled a widow. He founded the first
on the summons. employees.
Sergeant Clark intimated flat-it. They were arrested and brought Widow Re-Marriage Association
was a eneo whore "there is no- before Mr. Whyte Smith at the 10 years ago and in 1896, after a Kowloon Magistracy this morning, discouraging struggle, he and his thing in it." If the car had be
a home for there for only ten minutes, he them that if the dealer wished to widows where they could be train himself would not have taken out ed as tenchers, midwives and employ other coolies he had a
His Worship pointed out the. been employed once, that the deal-education of girls was considered passengers from Hongkong. He right to do so. The defendants nurses, this being at a time when a summons.
cars waiting for could not expect, because they had the education of girls was opposed
by orthodoxy as a crime and the difficulty of er had to retain them dor the rest
a sin.
Intimated that a patron might tele- of their lives,
phone for a car and, knowing that it would be waiting for him, he might go to a hotel for a drink and spend half an hour there.
In ordering the defendants to be bound over, his Worship re- marked that it was only human nature for the cookies to be angry at losing their work.
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In five years' time, however, the
applicants
Karve,
were so many that
Mr. Large agreed and pointed, out that in the present case the driver had only left the garage ten minutes before being sum- moned. He intimated that if the Company was not allowed to wait! for passengers from Hongkong. they would have to cut out all Hongkong trade.
His Worship suggested that ar- rangements should be made with the drivers to wait for a limited time only. Arrangements might also be made with the police.
students had to be refused through lack of funds, and in 1902, Prof. Karve induced his widowed sister- in-law to join his work. Although she was then unable to read a word in her own or any langunge, The British commercial ton she was educated by Professor Altogether, the United Kingdom; Nution Holds Fourth of the World:
nage, on this basis, equals the Karve and in to-day one of the best takes 220,000,000 bushels of whent
One-quarter of the earth's sur
known public speakers in Maruti, out of the total world imports of settled or held by the Brit-combined fleets of her closest and for years has been one of the ist people. A newer "common rivals-those of the United States,elief supports of the educational The starvation threat of the wealth of nations", and old co-Japan' and Germany, in the order institutions founded by Prof. German submarine blockade is lonial empire combined in this of their ranking.....
One of the institutions was the still un admiralty nightmare, changing world, It feels every "Junked ship and cargoes rot- turn of world politics.
Glance at Britain's use of the Mahila Vidyalala, founded in 1907, oceanic highways of world life. which immediately took up the ting at the bottom of the sea inay
That - "hub of the empire" The "food router" from Canada work of raising the marriage age not shock like the ruined villages
In reply to his Worship, the of France and Belgium," the Brit- London, bears responsibility, across the North Atlantic short of girls and oventually, in 1916, ish Foreign Office bluntly told the
eclf-unsured of expansion, for cut up from South America and the Widows' Home and the Institu- Indian constable who took out the Allies in 1923, "but they are
the Antipodes; the lines of raw Lion combined into one big school summons said that the car had equally material damage caused the destiny of a fourth of hu- material movement from the In for girls. The first building, four been at the ferry for 35 minutes. His Worship said that in view dinu ocean and more eastern seas; miles from Poona, was a hut made by German aggression and repre- manity,
the market lanes along which flow of mud and stone with a leaky of the order the garage had re- sent equally heavy losses of na-
Apart from the strategie libld-out Britain's manufactures these rook, but to-day thero stands the célved, he thought a caution would tional wealth."
Ings in the old world from Giblines of communication occupy great Indian Women's University meet the case. raltar to the Levant, which total 9,600,000 tons of British ships on into which the institution has Replying to his Worship, Mr. 27,000 square miles, Imperial any typical day the length and grown. The University is for all Large said he was very doubtful Britain les predominantly in the breadth of the globe. Two-thirds castes, creeds and classes and to- of the accuracy of the "constable's
of the tonnage on which British day there are 15 schools of sec-time. t. three other continents.
education and three His Worship asked if it would The Asiatic Empire, centreing economic life depends, entered and ondary.
cleared at English ports, is under colleges, one each in Poona, not be possible when the Company ain can support herself for only upon India, is two-thirds the size her own flag. It keeps freight Baroda and Ahmedabad, in which got an order from Hongkong that seven weeks in
the event of a of the United States proper, which money and other profits at home, there are 1,600 girls and young the car should wait until successful interruption of her may be taken as 3,000,000 square helping decidedly to balance the women studying. The University arrival of a ferry, and, "if world contacts. These constitute miles; the population, however,
has graduated 60 students and four customer was not on ส national accounts. virtually an organization of Brit three times as great.
Here we come to the challenging
of them are now doing post-grade- drive past and then return again. 'ish business at home and abroad
The African Empire is almost realities which lie in the back-ate work in Europe.
Of course, continued his Worship, to provide sustenance for this
The Government of India does that would be regarded by the island people and raw materials one-third larger than the United ground of this phase of the strug for the machines they tend the States; but it has less than half gle for world power. Greater Bri- not recognise the degrees of the police as loitering in the case of
tain, dependent on ships, demands University, nor does it give any. export of their manufactured the population.
British America, again, is a fined in categorical terms at the ill-coming from larve donations from would not hold it as loitering if national security. This was de- financial support, this latter forth a driver who had not got a de finite order, but he (his Worship) product bears the brunt of the
third greater in area; but it con-fated Geneva naval parley of 1927. the, Indian public and yearly dona- the driver had a bona fide order. Lill.
tains only one-tenth as many in- "We have stated before, and we tions by educated Indians. Most babitants..
state again, that as we have only of Prof. Karve's time is now taken Lift at any given moment, we de-although 71 years of age, he has a few weeks food supply in Bri-up in campaigning for founda and, pend far aur very existence on free plan in mind which provides for passage on the sens,” declared woman's unversity in each of Britain's spokesman, the Right the twelve provinces in India. Honourable W. C. Bridgeman, an First Lord of the Admiralty. "We this
Enough Food for Only Soven Weeks.
This vulnerability is summed up in the statement that Great Brit
Australasia, sprawling #cross
If there are responsibilities at Lached to the control of
This challenging dependeu: on Empire and foreign lands sinds cut in bold relief when we look the South Pacific, even is greater at workaday Britain. Only than the United States in area; cont. of the British people the by but here, too, the population is argriculture-Russin has 72 per far less--one-fifteenth. cont. Italy 56 per cent. Frame 11) per cent, and even super-indus- trialized Germany 31 per cent.
Another 7 per cent. of Brain's
of a quarter of the as the transport of our food and Empire, we are, owing to their dis- millions are in mining. Two- thirds, however, are involved in art cannot be lost to sight. raw materials and of our inter- tanes apart, more dependent than the business of being a nation of There are but few products so imperial trade also depend on safe any other nation on uninterrupted
long as British sea-power is unim-Pasage over the cent. on-
1 per paired-for which Britain must gaged in manufacturing, cent. in trading, and 7 per cent. independ upon through alien hands. transport.
shop-keepers"40 per
Britain Docs Sixth of World's Business,
All in all, possibly one-third of Britain's agricultural, mining and industrial production is exported.
world stake, the resources and
commeres
From tin, nickel, chromite, as- bestos and mien to rubber, wool, diamonds and gold, the British Empire is in an enviable position.. Cotton, copper, nitrates, sulphur and tobacco list the major weak spota.
Commercially speaking, the over- Naturally, Britain is the seas territories supply one-third of British imports, and take nearly her world's foremost intermilion-ang-half of
exports. The
al trader. She does approxi-trade of the colonial Empire, 37
Colonies, apart from the Dominions, mately one-sixth of the world's has a yearly turnover, alone of two gross turnover, now roundly and a half billions. Empiro trade, estimated at 65 billions of gold fostered by Imperial Preference, gives an economic solidarity which dollars.
Britain values to the full when con- competi- This business abroad, anually fronted with America's in excess of 10 billions of guld tion in foreign markete and tariff dollara, represent 17 per cent. of walls protecting that nation's own the world's movement of imports home market.
the
and 13 per cent. of the exports. British investment since From the standpoint of searity, World War has been on the aver- this has rested down to the pre- age 10 times as great within the sent moment upon British sea Empire as in foreign countries, power.
Behind, there Ho the huge financial stakes of Britain. These investments are more widely dis-
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Shipping Her Connecting
Link With World
shipe
The British Empire is really tributed over the globe did for 80,000 miles long-the ses routes exceed in value those of any other transversed by British. lending country. As the world's would go more than three times banker, Britain's financing of in-round the globe if stretched into ternational development aggre a continuous line.
..
gates 22 billions-chiefly outside British shipping represents be- of Europe in far-flung loan from yond doubt the most-vital part of Canada to Singapore. Den Greater Britain. Every third mer The aun, which, we are told, chant ship afloat files the British never sets on the British Empire, flag-28,000,000 out of the 67,- shines down upon a venture in the 000,000 tone, all told,, which com really holding of the nations that prise, the world's mercantile ma-
said before and we repeat it, that separate the different parts of the
oceans which communication by sen:"
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“I wouldn't tell a soul, but I happen to know she bought 'that watch bracelet herself, weeks ago.", oljus
the
the board, to
Mr. Large pointed out that as
body, it would be better if they the cura did not obstruct any- were allowed to stand there in- stead of driving round again.
Sergeant Clerk said he quite agreed that the Duro Garage were in a bad fix but the police had no alternative when a constable up- plied for a summons and Intimated that the car was parked for 35 minutes. Instructions would be
given, however, that no
action
should be taken if the car was only waiting for ten minutes.
His Worship registered a cay- tion.
POLICE ACCEPT ON
EXCUSE
SCHOONER COMES INTO PORT WITH DAMAGED MAST.
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As the police were, prepared to accept the excuse given by the defendant, the Hon. Commdr. G. F, Hole, RN, at the Marine. Court this morning, imposed a nominal fins on Yanomine Saburo, the master of a Topanese schooner, who was charged with anchoring his schooner off the Praya East reclamation with 680 gallons of kerosené on board instead of at the Dangerous Goods Anchorage. In pleading guilty the defen- dant stated that he had never. been in "Hongkong before and came in only to have his maat repaired.
Acting Sub Inspector Shepherd; fo answer to his Worship, con- firmed the fact that the mast of the defendant's schooner "WAS broken and intimated that the polico were prepared to accept the defendant's excuse,
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