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WEDNESDAY, AUG, 26, 1936.
COSTLY SECOND
THOUGHTS
The Government House and City Development
Scheme, (DB-1762) which was to have been a self- financing project, appears to have reached a stage of
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OVER FIVE MILLIONS
HONG KONG "Slavery cannot be abolished,"
says the Covemment,
T
HE report of the experts on slavery presented to the Inst Council meeting
of the League of Nations, was one of the most astonishing documents ever laid before an International body.
Members of the Council were obviously shocked to find how widespread and how deeply en- trenched is this "crime against the human race," as Sir Austen Chamberlain once called Slavery.
Slavery is a very ugly thing, and It is abundantly clear from the Committee's report that several Governments and many rulers are
doing their utmost to draw a vell over it.
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(DB-2367/8) the question of the future use of the funds accumulated
RATITUDE of humanity (D82528/9) under the scheme will have has been earned by the Commit-
for up
considera-tee for the courage with which it hns refused to throw dust in the tion in the near future.
eyes of the nublle by accepting the The scheme, as originally plan- | official view that by calling slavery ned, made provision for the by some less malodorous name the
character of the crime is changed.. erection of a new Government
It has done well to remember the the story of the good monk who, hov- House at Magazine Gap. eventual sale of Crown land at ng tired of eating fish every day in Lent, shot a rabbit ẩnd, plung- Beaconsfield Arcade, the demoli-ing it into the font, declared. {tion of the present Government
"baptise thee a fish!" thereby satisfying both appetite and con- House, the sale of further land
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The Committee points out that
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. extensive new lay-out of the not only does urude slavery operate
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area between Queen's Road and Lower Albert Road, involving the disappearance of Battery {Path and the attructive tree- covered area in that locality. Funds for the project, were to be obtained from the sale of the Fold City Hall site and the other areas affected, and it was anti- cipated that these would be more than sufficient to pay for
|
In a number of countries, but that It is allowed to masquerade under such respectabic tities as "Debt bondage," "Pawning," "Peonage," Mut Teal," "Quasi adoption," "Serfdom."
And then it bluntly tells the regard to one of these: "It is pos- Council of the League that with
sible that there is more human
ex-
the entire undertaking. As the of the Colony, which could well sale of these sites, for do with replenishment. Mean- the specific purpose mentioned, while, the possible abandonment ́ was not regarded as normal re of the project serves to recall venue from land sales, the the needless expenditure of on schemes which are Secretary of State approved of money the diversion of the proceeds of planned and then cast aside. In the present instance, quite a the general these sales from revenue, and a special fund was substantial sum has been created by Ordinance, this being pended on the approach road to kept quite distinct from the the proposed new Government ordinary finances of the Colony. House, which may now never be A statement of the condition of built. This is an almost parallel this fund, issued when the last case with that of the road, now Budget was introduced, shows overgrown with weeds, leading that a
sum of $1,257,500 was to the original site of the War received from the sale of Memorial Hospital on Stubbs a portion of the City Hall Road, upon which, and on site site to the Hongkong and preparation, many thousands of Shanghai Banking Corpora- dollars were spent all to no tion, whilst on the other purpose, since the venue of the side of the account are items hospital was later changed. We which total nearly four lakhs. may recall, also, the expenditure Whether the whole of this latter of some quarter of a million sum, which includes over $91,- dollars in piling the original site The Arden method of resting, cleansing 1000 for the cost of construction of the new gaol, at Ngau Shi Gexercising the eyes is the result of long of the approach road to the Wan-so much money wasted in at view of the subsequent decision research & practice.
Government House site Magazine Gap, has been actually to erect the prison at Stanley. VENETIAN SPECIAL EYE CREAM expended is not quite clear. It All these instances arise from VENETIAN SPECIAL EYE LOTION is apparent, however, that there the lack of a policy of con- 4 consequent. VENETIAN CRYSTALLINE EYE DROPS is a very considerable credit tinuity, with
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EYELASH GROWER balance, and this will be sup-squandering of the Colony's re- plemented as and when the venues on ill-starred schemes. All these preparations will beautify remaining portion of the It is therefore to be hoped that maintain the natural beauty of the eyes, the City Hall sito and other the Government House and City arc disposed of. The Development plan, If now aban- PERFUMERY, CORNER—LADIES' SALON point arises, however, whether, doned, will be the last of the if the scheme is to be aban-undertakings to come within doned, there is any further that category, and that the
areas
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ADEN-
"One Sultan alons owns 800 slaves."
misery as the re- sult of debt slav- ery than there is anywhere as the result of domestic slavery)"
the
Indeed, throughout 100 pages of this roport almost every paragraph has its own story of misery and de- gradation.
The most in- teresting-and to British people-most
most
startling facts are found in
are still IN SLAVERY
by SIR JOHN
HARRIS
AFRICA-
"Though the position is confused, there is still a lot of slavery,"
the review slavery in British controlled territories. How few Bri- tish people have grasped the fact that 100 years after the emancipa- tion of slavery in British owned territories our administrators are carrying on a great struggle against slavery in more than a dozen British controlled terri- torical
spite of a despairing Government report that slavery cannot in fact be abolished, the 50 years' struggle In Hong Kong waxes stranger,
In the Aden Protectorate the British Government informed the
· League Committee that "the legal status of slavery still exists," and that "there are no fewer than 4,000 to 8,000 persons in a state
SIDE GLANCES
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that slavery," further,
one Bultan himself "owns about 800 slaves."
In Koweit in 1030 "the number of slaves was estimated at 2,000, but must be much smaller now.” In the Trucial Shelkdoms "the number of alaves employed in pearl diving is not known; but is esti- mated at several thousands.".
Away in Africa the position is confused, but the Report makes it clear that there is a lot of slavery in Northern Nigeria and the Came- roons-"ther is a slave trading route which passes through the north eastern corner of the Bornu Province" "the agents sell
their victims to the inhabitants of the Lake Chad area,"
The Ame story is told of other territories. The Slavery Com- mittee has, it seems, commenced an examination of the modern de- velopments of the transfer of
By George Clark
"It looks just like a real automatic? You can seure, the living daylights out of your friends."
women by means of the s0- called " dowry" or "bride price," and they conclude this section with
a truth strikingly ex- pressed; "From ' bride price' to "slave price 'is but a short step." And that "short step" has led thousands of women down to`a. veritable hell of misery and degradation!
Are we soon to hear grave dis- closures about sinvery in Indin? Nobody can read the report of the League feel- Committee without Ing of profound alarm about the Native States of India. It seems that in 1935 'the Blavery. Committee, doubtless for very substall- tial reasons, suggested a very reasonable step to the India Offee, which, shortly stated. was that the British Gov- ernment should Invite the Indian States in 10hich slavery might still exist" to declare their intention to take action" for its suppres slon "surely a very simple. reasonable and courteous in- vitation. But with what result?
The Committee makes the disclosure that the Indin Office cannot do sol Of course, it cannot, but the re- fusal to do so should now liberate the pens
and voices of those who know whant WAS behind that apparently very simple sug- gestion of the Blavery Com- mitteel
The picture of the British. struggle disclases other slave arcas and other' slave systems, ouch 16 Burme, Bechuanaland, Malaya. It is a picture of the darkest corners of the earth, full of the "habitations" of demoralis tlon, degradation and cruelty.
But it has one or two bright. features. For instance, the coura- geous frankness with which our Government offices have disclosed facts hitherto unknown to the public, and also the devotion and self-sacrifice which British officials: are showing in their great task of securing consent to emancipation from reluctant nativé rulers and slave-owners.
La
ET one eple story, neces- Earlly reduced to a single sentence. sufficet From 1930 to 1935 the Bri- Ush Legation at Jeddah secured the emancipation of 135 slaves who had fled to the British Minister' for protection under the British fagl
The fact that the Chinese Re- public has issued a decree abolishi-. ing the Mul Tant system demon- strates the growing strength of public opinion in China against. any
form of slavery. This is probably the most encourag feature in the Stavery Commit- tec's report, but China has a great task before her if she is to liberate some 3,000,000 Mul Taal!
Signor Buvich, until recently the Foreign Office pen of the Duce. brought to the notice of the Blavery Committee the conditions. of slavery in certain Abyssinian territories occupied by Italian forces.
The most important facts he mentions are that Italian decrees have set free 20,000 slaves in the Tigre; that the Italians discovered the ratio of slaves in that territory to be one-twelfth of the popula- tlon, which, if correct, would make the slave population of Abyssinia about 1,000,000.
But ho nowhere told the Com- mittee how Italy proposes to give practical effect to the decree of emancipation!_ Mussolini' has not yet provided any machinery. for giving effect to the deeren.
THE decision of the Coun-
ell to forward this indictment of present-day slavery to the As- sembly next September, passes to that body the responsibility of pro- poding new measures for emanel- pating the slaves,
Lady Simon has been criticised for estimating the number of persons owned as property slaves at 5,000,000. Now that this Re- port is issued one can understand the remark of C., F. Andrews. "There are many more than thali
·To-day's Thought.
AN
acro in Middlesex is botter than a principality in
Viopia.
LORD MACAULAY.