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DECEMBER
8, 1937.
HOUSING EXPERIMENT ( so bad as he is painted. And I be
ilove, that In whatever system or EXPLAINED TO ROTARY | schemes are adopted to meet the
housing problem, the principal tenant should have his place.
Three or four per cent., Gentlemen,
Fire Behind Retreating China Army
Wide Destruction
At Nanking
RADIO BROADCAST
(Continued from Papó 7.)
A Davies, H. A. Lytton; D. Old- ham, E. Grifin, H. Elburn, L. Shef- field, G. Baker and Chorus.
10.15 London Relay-The Coven- fry Hippodrome Orchestra. Con- ductor, William Pothers. From the Hippodrome Theatre, Coventry.
Afraid to Dream (Gordon and Rovel, arr. Bayford); A Moorland Idyll (Phillips); Selection, Princess Nanking, Dec. 7.
Charming (arr.
arr. Ray Noble); Ein Ammunition dumps, gasolene de- Landier (Danse Styrienno-Facher- pols, aerodrome hangars and work negg, orr, Komponisten); Erin's Isle shops were systematically destroyed (Bayford-Caryll);
These to-day as Chinese detences in Nan- Things (Holt Marvell, arr. Cardew); king, which is about to fall to an Panto Parade (arr. Langdon). were set on fire. All the allen for the first time in its history, 11.00 Close Down.
Chinese
is what I would characterise, plines hind left Nanking for a new "brotherhead" profit on such a pro-base in
the interior, while the ject, a profit consistent with good damaged machines which could not citizenship.
be repaired at the time were also destroyed.
market is to be found, they over-Supervisionongkong, by brotherly of this once thriving treaty port has
Ilcd
across
Foolish
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES 7.20 am. It. Robinean Cleaver, at the
Organ of the legal Cinema, Boxley- heath. 7.45 2.111. "Th
England (Second Seriexy,
Series),
40 am. The News and Announcements.
Greenwich Time Signal at 0.45 am. a.m. 13 Ben. Oxford v. Cambridge: A running commentary by H. B.T Waketam on the Inter-Üniyerzljy Nuby Union Zootball match. From Twicken. kam. 9.15 am. “Muate by Modern British Com- 10 am. Big Ben, Wild Aftale." 10.15 am. Entertainment at Bt. George's
1837-1037
(Continged from Page 11.)
When Bir Valentine Chirof created for no cost at all, but allow
was puzzled to decide which me to present the situation as I seu it. Let me preface what I have to Lystem of land-tenure was best suited to the area of India under say here by stating that I um ab- solutely satisfied that the Government his administration, the zemindari or of Hongkong does not profit directly the ryatwari, he eventually decided one single solitary cent from what on the ryotwari aystem, was that has been called the "rent ramp," by system was most fitted to help the means of which the font poor are people who lived under it, to manage often exorbitantly exploited. The their own affairs. I think that here, solution
of the housing problem the principal tenant system, comes begins, I am convinced in the refute the same category, as a system Land is not most fitted to help people to manage Gulation of land values. an absolute value, but it can be their own affairs.. regulated artificially. It has been, In many districts in longkong, in- creused artificiully. One of the rea- sons for this increase is the fact that in value according as houses increase
over-crowded, the tenants they are and subtenants in them, being forced
The solution of the housing pro- 10 cach to pay ever higher rents
blem. I am convinced; lies in true, Three big fres were started by the successive landlord.
intelligent, informed citizenship, as do Chinese military authorities who, foram his Old Folks at Home' (Second Over-crowding regulations must the solution of many other local difi- the purpose of depriving the enemy enforced. and supplemented culties, and that brings us to the third of cover, burnt property at strategie
bellet behind the experiment known points in Nanking. by new regulations and powers
as Social Settlements, We believe Travellers from Chingklang repo-i necessary. For over-crowding
citizenship can that the entire population of 150,000 certain oilowe
natural laws that the standard
be raised in -people over-crowd where good
and education. The ex-
the river. Refugees of
some дости. crowd gear the places where their periment insists that the children of every type and description,"
and others not con- work is most plentiful, and the slum-all tenants must attend a kindergarten, stoically calm
school for which we have set aside ncealing their fear, have begun to mentality which has not nequired a
flat. Adult tenants will be asked and Pour into the safety zone in Nanking 11.15 am. The News and Announcements. knowledge of the necessity of solitude,
encouraged to nitend an adult even- which the International Committee 1:35 am. Recital by Canadian Artists:
Greenwich Time Signal at 11:30 Ban. obeys more faithfully the natural gre-
to the Japanese to
Barry Sherwood (Tenor) and How Pratt tPianoforte). garlous instincts which we all share, ing school which is to be organised, has appealed and which is cae of the underlying English and Arithmetic, elementary
where such subjects as Chinese, and, isolate from warlike operations.
Wuhu suffered a number of succes-4.15 p.ro, Big Ben, "World Aftales" reasons that makes us come together
-1867-1637," in meetings like this. I believe that ethics, hygiene, personal and domes- sive Japanese raids, In one of which 30 gm Entertainment at St. George's a godown belonging to Butterfeld 5.55 pm. The News and Announcements, If the authorities could enforce re-tic, and the elements of citizenship,
and Swire, whose steamer, the Greenwich Time Signal at 5.43 pm. culation against over-crowding, limit-will be laught. All such teachin# | Tatung, was bombed and beache i ca 3.45 p.m. Oxford v. Cambridge,
will be provided free to the tenants, Sunday, received ing, the standard Chinese flat, to twelve persons, housing problems so by voluntary teachers. far as rents are concerned would automatically Solve them- almost selves. Of course such regulation To envisage any general scheme would necessitate the building of new covering the greater part of Hong houses, which latter, I belleve, should be carried out according to specifica-Kong and Kowloon on this basin, also tions and conditions Inid down by visages un, increased undertaking Government experts, by private enter of the responsibilliles of intelligent H. W. Baines said the lives of most
citizenship by everyone of us, price, and the rents charged should Social Settlements are to mean any-ut the community in Hongkong were thing considerable, if they will ever based on the lives of the Chinese have any real contribution to make People, but this was never realised to the solution of the housing pro- properly and it would require
labour strike or big pingue blem, it will lie in the fact thai an Here I would interpose a word on increasing number of people use the mortality to make people begin to 32 nm. The News and Announcements.
Greenwich Tinio Signal at 12.13 a.m. behalf of a much maligned class of Settlements as a point of contact for ask into the conditions under which
12.20 nm. 'Matters of Moinent. the establishment of brotherhood re- the Chinese lived. people the principal tenants. Truc
The
Recital of Classical Sange. survey which the speaker and i am. Dance Music. there are instances where the prin lations with those whose Ilves do not cipal tenant charges ridiculously high normally cross their own In the his friends were making had suc- 130 nm. Variety, with The Four Aces
Bennett Gangster Rhythm,
and their interest. rents, making enormous profits, but ordinary course of events. As a ceeded in arousing
Williams in 'Child's Play by Bert Lloyd, Buch n survey seemed
and Jean Melville and Billy Thorburn the direct means to solving the housing Generally u class, I would venture
hopeless because Settlements problem the principal
Planos
The News and An- wine sole function is to guarantee nothing at all, if they were inutilien Chinese and the poverty levelber of
Greenwich Time Signat at 2.15 am rent to his landlord, seldom a thousand fold, those responsible for was accepted; for instance the level charges more than the amount neces-them would only be throwing more at $4 per person per month on which
the Hongkong Benevolent Society Lew Stone and hila Band sary to cover the cost of his own liv-people into the street. Their main,
2.40 am, "From the London Theatre." to loott after their 3 The Music of Melville Cideon." ing accommodation. Of course, he indeed their only value lies in the undertook
People wero inclined 315 nm, Irish Concert. usually has the best cubicle, he is opportunity which they offer to you, harges.
leave all .40 am. Wheels generally better off than the people Gentlemen, and to others, of associat- to think they could
4.35 n.m. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under him, and that the extra charge ing yourselves with this public ex-such questions to the Government,
Season (1037-38): Eighth Concert. which he imposes often makes it pression, may I say, this pubile but the speaker had shown them 4.m. interval, necessary for a whole family to live affirmation of the belief, that every that by accepting his invitation. to in a bed space instead of in n cubicle, man and woman in this Colony, ean, visit the scene of the experiment, nevertheless as a single factor in the given decent opportunities, and the they might at least be able to con-
of their tribute some constructive criticism. exploitation of the poor he is seldom brotherly
But exceed a 3% or 4 proft on the capital expenditure,
PRINCIPAL TENANTS
418
opinion,
the
* MAKING GOOD CITIZENS
the
encouragement
If
mean
a direct hit. No 0.10 p.m. Haunting Harmonics, by Jack Curtis and John Hotchkia at two Pianos, 845 pm. g Вел. Beethoven Biring
Quarteto~4,
casualties are reported.--Reuter.
7.10 p.m. Musical Interluda,
fellowmen, become good citizens of 7:18 Hongkong. (Apphuse).
DEPTH OF POVERTY
In thanking the speaker, the Rev.
number
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*Tho Cheshire Cheese. 7.45 pm. The BBC Welsh Orenestra. 0.15 p.m. "The Song Reporter."
Stewart.
8.33 p.n "The Vagabond Lover,"
4 p.m. World Affairs.
Ian
0 p.m. The West Chider Brass Band:
conductor, Herbert Bennett.
3pm. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 9:40 pm, 10.19 m. fl Ben. The Coventry Hippo-
droine Orchestra.
11 p.m. Music Hall, including Gearzo Formby. With the BBC Variety Orches- tra.
1 ת 12.15
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35 am. The News and Announcements.
5 a.m. 1.ight Orchestral fusic.
Greenwich Time Signal at 4.45 a.m.
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