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give effect to that assurance. Nanking officials prate loudly and often of the Government's re- cognition of this duty, ̈ but, the facta belle their utterances.
1930.
DAY BY DAY
WITH A FAVOURABLE OPINION OF
IF YOU WOULD BE WELL WITH A The recent "happenings at
GREAT MIND, LEAVE HIM WITH A Changsha are a case in point. FAVOURABLE IMPRESSION OF YOU; Owing to the inability of Govern-IP WITH A LITTLE MIND, LEAVE HIM- ment troops to hold the city, HIMSELF-Coleridge. bandits seized the place, com- mitted wholesale'outrages, burned foreign consular buildings and business establishments, and ruth-
A Chinese case of typhoid was notified yesterday.
Charged with boarding the s.. Tilpanas without the permission of the master or the officer on duty, three Chinese male hawkers were were fined $25 each at the Marine Court this morning before the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, R.N.
The Return of The Exile.
THIS is, the season of the years There was both his special
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when many exiles return to memory and his special longing. England, 'driven back, one To some degree one feels it-must lessly destroyed mission property.
feels, by a kind of nostalgia, a be shared by all exiles in the longing to see their home-land tropics. How tired they must get Do facts such as these warrant
again (writes Godfrey Winn in of the endless expanse of blue sky, the claim by Nanking that the
the Morning Post). It is a long the constant glare, the garish Government is able to protect
ing whether their exile has been colours, the over-luxuriant a voluntary or a forced one foliage! How they must long for foreign property? Not only so,
which, has never left them all the the sky-line, to be broken up, the but foreign lives were also placed Messrs. Dodwell and Co. advise time they were away.
sua momentarily hidden by a masa What form exactly did that of scudding, billowing clouds. in jeopardy, with the result that that the Blue Star Line ss. Doric
Star has met with an accident out-longing take? Had they each How they must long for the notes- foreigners had to be withdrawn side Shanghai and put back to that some special memory which they sity of a mackintosh, as they lift hurriedly to safety zones. The port. She is expected to leave would enjoy in secret, even though their faces and feel in imagination same thing, an a smaller scale, Shanghal on the 16th instant, and Buch enjoyment must inevitably the soft rain falling.
the provisional date of sailing from have Increased their feeling of has happened in other places in Hongkong la the 19th instant. home-sickness?
The green, the unique green of the Yangtsze district. Every now
Or was their longing crystal-|an English countryside. Does the
and then,
hear we
Chinese
A fine of $5 was imposed by Mr.leed in the remembrance of some exile picture that, too? And with Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magi- favourable object, habit, luxury, ita carpet of daisies and butter politicians protesting against the stracy this morning on a Chinese,
food or drink even, from which cups, hawthorn hedges, hayatacks, they have been unwillingly farm-yards," with their attendant presence of foreign warships in who was charged with causing Chinese waters, but the question cruelty to a goose by carrying it separated and which has recurred pigs and hens, and sheep and cows The warm suspended by its wings. The deas to become almost an obsession red brick of an old country-town,
so constantly in their daydreams in the fields beyond. we should like to see answered fendant had carted the goose for
with them?
cottage gardens with sundials, and fa what would happen in instances a distance of 500 yards and had
I know that in my own case it hollyhocks and plum trees trained such as that at Changsha but for intended taking it across the har-
Was 80. Some time ago I was against the southern wall, and the fact that foreign gunboats
motoring across the mountains village greens where the children which separate the desert from play after school, and the sweet were available to remove to areas The many friends of the Chief the Algerian coast. I was on my sound of church-bells on a Sun- these in danger? The fact re- Engineer of the 5.8. Lungshan, way back from an expedition day evening.
Mr. J. M. Xavier, will be glad to which had taken ma far down into mains that the Nanking Govern hear that his wife, who first had a the heart of the Arab civilisation, tweeds which smell of tobacco and country clothes. Old ment, however much it may severe haemorrhage, then con- so that for a long time the scenery gun-oll, plua fours which have Fosseas the desire, has not the tracted blood poisoning, was had consisted entirely of sand followed a golf ball over many Even the mountains were of a courses and on many occasions.
bour.
And
Thongkong Telegraph. authority to provide adequate operated on and had the misfor-
tume to develop pleurisy, follow-yellow-brown hue, very trying to I feel that as he prepares to put.
THURSDAY, AUG. 7, 1930.
NO SAFEGUARDS.
Another kind of exile is the man who stood next to me on the deck the last time I crossed the ・・
protection to foreign life and ed by pneumonia, is now well on the eyes, and I was beginning to on yet one more of his endless property. That being the case, the way to recovery.
feel very impatient for the end of suits of spotless duck that the our journey, when we turned a Englishman stationed far off in any concessions which may be
Cheung-ho, }. Tung contemplated in regard to ex-quarter-master of the ss. Ming valley thickly covered with blos fully of such garb, together with (81), the corner and there below us lay a India or Africa must think wist- trality rights must be jealously Hai, drank an anti-cholera mixture som, a pink and white carpet as its accompaniment of crumpets Apple for tea, an open fire-place, the scrutinised before being made yesterday afternoon, and was re-far as the eye could see.
moved to the Kowloon Hospital and peach blossom, wild cherry scent of burning logs. effective. Otherwise, the future where he died at 6.20 p.m. It ap- and almond, lay olustered together Two items of news which have outlook for foreigners in the in- pears that the deceased complain-in royal profusion.. come through from the North re-terior of China will be even fared of a pain in the stomach about
noon and took the mixture to It was like an enchanting pic-| Channel, and as the cliffs of Dover worse than it is to-day.
ture from some fairy story. And appeared on the horizon, remarked garding the treatment accorded to
alleviate his suffering.
its enchantment lay in that it with enthusiasm," "Well, thank British ladies in different parts of China are such as
In prosecuting a Chinese before could instantly make me feel no heavens, this means to arouse
longer an exile. That valley Italian vermouth for me, no more Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon might so easily have been an blasted Fiuji water to ruin my gin. the indignation of all right-
Magistracy this morning on a thinking people, Chinese and
charge of stealing two suits of English one, that blossom the I can have so many tonic waters foreigners alike. In the case of
clothing from a house on the Castle same blossom that surrounded my as I want from now on."
home in Worcestershire in the He was a Londoner who had Peak Road, the complainants in spring. And, with the sight of it, spent the last five years engineer- Miss Nettleton, a missionary who aiderable amount of money on the bably climbed to the verandah of my longing for home increased sing in Italy. He was tired not:" timated that the defendant had pro-
The Colony's Water System. While evidence of the develop ment of Howloon is always wel come the fact that the. Govern- ment is forced to spend a con-
it provision of more water meters the perpetuation of a system which is far removed from the ideal. The official message asking for the vote explains that water meteri are revenuo
pro-
has been captured by bandits, is recounted that .one of her means fingers has been cut off and sent to the Chinese authorities, with a demand for $50,000 as ransom money, and it is believed that her
ducing, but we suggest that this captors intend to cut off further should not be the aim where the fingers if the sum is not quickly supply of water is concerned. forthcoming. The other instance An authority on water supply has concerns the wife of the Engineer-stated the position in a nutshell in-Chief of the southern section by saying "The worst evil of the of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, water meter system is the cir- who was subjected by a soldier cumstance that it treats water as an article of commerce, to be to a most outrageous assault, in paid for according to the quantity the course of which A bayonet taken. In the organisation of the was used.
best municipal water undertakings. We have become accustomed, in the United Kingdom the free during the chronic state of un- use of water is encouraged, and rest in China in recent years, toit is only the leakage or occasional. the reading of all manner of in-improper employment of
water that the water authority dignities suffered, by missionaries
seeks, and that successfully. to and others in various parts of Buppress." In Hongkong the the country, but the two in-position is that the householder stances under notice are "even❘ pays the Government taxes, ef more revolting than those usually which a proportion is set aside. encountered. In other days, such as a water rate. In addition he occurrences would have called a further charged for the amount forth vigorous action by the water consumed. The meter British Government, but to-day it free use of water, with a corres- system, therefore, discourages the
seems that nothing more effective ponding effect on the general will be done than to make "strong cleanliness of the Colony and the representations" to the Chinese health of the community. The Foreign Office. Of what practical ideal to be aimed for in Hong- value such a procedure can be it kong is the provision of free water is hard to see. At the most, it
to every house in the Colony upon probably means a mere exchange rate, not payment for the amount the payment of merely a water of letters, in which China'satused. This ideal is impossible at tention is called to her obligations the moment when the Colony's to protect foreign life, followed by storage facilities are inadequate a worthless assurance that such to cope, with the considerably in-. obligations will in future becreased demand which such an respected. In the matter of pre-naturally bring in its train, but Ideal state of affairs would
venting such happenings, there protests are utterly futile, but should be for ever borne in mind we do suggest that this principle the fact that foreign Powers and steps taken towards this nowadays do not adopt more objective whenever possible. stringent measures is, unfor There are further objections - tə tunately, liable to create the im- the meter system. Only last week pression amongst Chinese officials provision had to be made for an ad- that they can afford to treat very increasing use of meters, bart!- ditional inspector and with the lightly any representations which cularly on the Peninsula, It seems are made. That is one of the certain. that even more staff will worst features of the more pacific be required, not only for checking policy adopted by foreign nations, consumption but for the office The point to be stressed in this work of dealing with accounts. matter is that we have a right This argument is particularly ap- plicable at a time when ad-
to expect from the Government of ministrative staffs are much in the the day not only an assurance that limelight and when retrenchment foreign: Iffe will be safeguarded, on the part of the Government/is but some display of an ability to highly necessary,
thousandfold,
no more
The
the third floor. The defendant,
only of foreign drink, but also of: The blossom waa my special foreign food. He was looking for- who was subsequently arrested in
memory. Other exiles, other ward to a decent mixed grill. possession of the clothes, was sen- memories. For instance, in He greeted his porter at the fenced to one month's hard labour. Somerset Maugham's "The Gentle barrier like an old friend.
man in the Parlour," he tells the latter's air of cheerful Indepen- Chan King, a married woman, story of a taan who refused to dence, his "See you in the Customs. living at 337 Hennessey Road, re: marry a Burmese girl because he Office, sir," after too much defer- ports to the police that about 3 knew that if he did so he would ence, and too many "Si, Signora," p.m. yesterday, an unknown Chin-never be able to retire to England was well worth half-a-crown, and ese called at her house and said that when his work was done. He I watched him rub that half- he had come from her husband to would have to end his days an crown, a shining new one, back- take an electric fan which her hus exile in Burma, and that he could wards and forwards in his palm band had promised him. As the man not endure, for bedded deep in bis as if its very touch gave him a knew the name of her husband she mind was the memory of a muddy secret pleasure. believed him and allowed him to re lane in Devonshire, with great For him home means the adver move the fan. When her husband clay banks on both sides of it, and tisement signs in Piccadilly Circus came back in the evening she ask-the beech trees bending over, and flashing at night like artifical ed him if he had sent a man to re- it had a cold earthy smell that he comets above the heads of the move the fan and found that he had could never quite get out of his passers-by, a fleet of omnibuses in
nostrils
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not done so.
D. THAT
"WE THRO
When ignorance is bliss,
Baul