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Thuisday, NOVEMBER 24, 1038.
On Being Critical THE ARTICLE by Blunt in our issue day was timely.
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My Amah took a "Walkee-walkee,"
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H LUM was a brave and gallant little boy, though possibly trifle foolhardy, after the manner of youth the world
over.
His mother and I hope that he is still a boy-of whatever size or mental calibre-and not merely another heap of mangled flesh and broken bones.
Ah Lum would not come to Hongkong; on that point" he was adamant.
his
He would stay at village school, learn all he could there, and then come to Hongkong to his amah mother and learn English.
His programme was complete, decisive and inflexible. And he is eleven years old!
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So there he remained in his once peaceful village, unper- With that familiarity which turbed by that hideous outcome breeds contempt, Ah Lum had of prostituted science and mis- not completely sheltered within directed brain-the aerial mons- his haven.
He had been lying on his face, ter.
as instructed Sturdy, well-fed and tidily mouth well open, clad, he left his uncle's tiny by the painstaking Elders, but dwelling each morning for the one bare, hardened little foot hind village school, casting aloft a been badly torn by an errant bright and questing eye, set in a splinter. yester-cheerful, impish face, for possi-
ble overhead dangers.
John
It might be a very sound idea to any a little bit less about England's moral duty in regard
At times the primitive, but extremely effective, air-raid warning-the temple bell- clangs the alarm.
by- N. S.
Whitestone
At least that is her intention. CHINA'S TRIBULATIONS in- Questioned, she had-only hazy ideas of how she was to proceed beyond Shumchun.
got
clude the whole gamut of woes poverty, over-population, flood, famine, drought, oppres-. sion, exploitation, civil strife, disease, war}
"Go tlain, Missie, go tlain." "But there are no trains Shum
A Satanic enumeration! China chun more far, Amah."
"Have got, Missic, have has faults, many of them; she has exasperating methods, often. tlain, man-tlain!"
Richsha, wheelbarrow? Ap. But are not the traits exhibited parently not, but some mysteri- by these two ordinary, unassum- ous means of locomotion known ing typical members of the na-. only to herself, or at all events, tion unmistakably and obvious-- unfathomable to me, and in- ly those of an indomitable, and, dicated by the motion of winding an unconquerable people? up a huge peg-top!
And Ali Sum and her boy are She seemingly has no doubts not exceptional, evidenced by the. whatever as to the successful fact that they-and their neigh- termination of her aims, and bours-think nothing of the ad- contemplates her hazardous venture into the enemy-haunted Hurried to that inestimable journey with complete fortitude territory. boon to the Chinese countryman, and unquestioning faith.
Nor is it the bliss of ignorance; to their the Missionary Hospital, when I curse my typical European accounts are being brought into somewhat Ah Lum returned he was no ignorance of her language, block- the Colony-true or not I cannot longer, strictly speaking, a biped, ing the way to fuller understand- say which might well deter a A drone is heard overhead.
But he still clung to his reso- ing of her thoughts and philo- lesser personality than Ah Sum.. "Shall we go"? Sin Sun asks. lution not to come to Hongkong sophy.
one answers-but no one until his village education was So off she goes, amiling, cheer-
Sin Sun Wong, the long- old to the checking of the dictators.garbed. gentle, bearded
teacher, asks his charges: "Shall we go?" "No," but not a very decided "no"!
The scholars return tasks, but with a divided attention.
After all, there are more ignoble aims than the desire to preserve the peace. And when all that there is to say about Mr. Chamberlain's alleged inner sympathy with
the No
goes." Fascists has been anid, the fact remains that the man has been making a desperate effort to
keep our country out of war.
Maybe he has been making his effort in the wrong way. Maybe the risks of a policy are greater than the risks of
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A dull thud shakes and shivers tion. the little timber building,
No need for further question-
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AWAIT the return of Ah Sum -and Ah Lum.
completed to his entire satisfac- ful, contented, debonair and con- THE HOVERING, vulture na-- fident-the perfect foil to n des- tions might be well advised. pondent, dyspeptic, gloomy and to seek casier-or less danger- pessimistic Missie! ing. Teacher and taught scat- AH SUM has left me. Canton A little food and a few gar- ter to field and open country. A has fallen. Where is her.ments are stuffed into an old few of the more scary-minded son? She-brave and gallant blue cotton bag, her money safe foolishly make for home.. mother of a brave, gallant and from those who might break in
Happily the planes are making fatherless little sou-sets off for and steal-but this is secret be for a more distant and unfor- Sheungping "more far."
tween Amah and me! tunate prey, and before long small figures emerge from scrub| and bamboo clump, make their
their interrupted education.
forthright, daring and clear-cut way schoolwards, and resume T. PAUL GREGORY recalls the
policy of defiance to all aggres- sors. Maybe in the long run
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England will have to fight any. IT IS ALL in the day's werk,
way, and will only make the
and any word of recognition of this admirable nonchalance typical of China-would prob-
Doubts? China's philosophy forbids their craven entry.
STRANGE CASE OF THE YOUTH
WHO CAUSED AN "INCIDENT" fight tougher by postponing the ably merely meet with uncom-HOW a nineteen-year-old Hong-procession--something was fated to under arrest, and beckoned the young
evil day.
But it is hardly becoming for persons at a distance to be too
vocal about all of this.
The last war isn't so far away but what we can remember it
prehending stares.
OPPOSED CUSTOM
man to follow,
He was taken to the guard-room und there locked up for the night.
of
to
for means of secur-
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kong youth was once the happen. But Ah Lum is a favoured, cause of a serious international} enviable and envied little lad.
"incident" forms one of tho He has discovered and staked most amazing episodes in the of the glory in his own words: lost all his cocksureness and bravado But let Air. Summers tell this por-Ey next morning, the young man had out his claim to a tiny natural colourful history of this Colony,
"Having arrived at Macao by the the previous evening, and began
look around cave in the hillside, just about This was the celebrated case of Steamer Canton, on the afternoon ng his release. A letter addressed large enough to shelter three Mr. James Summers, a resident of Thursday, June 7th,. about s
to the Portuguese Governor being. small bodies.
here during the late Torties, o'clock; after taking refreshments, unanswered he addressed a note to
about
six-walked Mr. P. Forbes, the American consu- In this haven of exactly the who, during an excursion to went on shore
along the Praya Grande, and then or off
lar official In Macao. The futter, pretty clearly. A whole gen. typo in which all children love Macao, became involved in anon
turning up a narrow street, presently ren
British realising that there was no to play out their little romances occurrence which was to create came to a crowd of persons locking Consul in Macao, and sympathising. eration of young men was des-
Ah Lum, Liang Ho and Kam much embarrassment in official at a procession with banners, etc., with the young Briton in his un-
and W08 troyed. The monument which Tong spent hour after hour, not circles,
ultimately as I came nearer I observed the men fortunate plight, at once called on solved by tactful diplomatic re- with their hats off and almost all the Captain Henry Keppel, of H. B. M. S. commemorates the Somme drive efaure time when school is over./Presentations and the payment/ People kneeling, but seeing that it Meander and Captain Keppel was
only those of danger, but the
was a Roman Catholle ceremony, and mam who, sailor-ilke, distrusted bears a plaque in honour of There is small fear in. their of an "indemnity." But that is entirely at variance with my belief, diplomacy, and would not hesitate to
I remained covered."
take action if his demands were re- some 60,000 unknown dead-minds the cave is a familiar, getting ahead of the story.
Mr. James Summera was born In homely spot, and were it not for
Apparently the young man did fured. First of all he consulted with not total casualties, just men
the occasional sickening drone England about the year 1830. He not feel disposed to conform to cus-other captains of Britishi ships lying: the Impetuosity of off Macao, and then, together with first appears in the chronicles of old tom, but with
secure a Captain Troubridge of H. B. M. S. who vanished without a trace overhead, ife might be the Hongkong about the year 1847 when youth he determined to
Amazon called upon the Portuguese In the meantime, the during the course of the battle.normal one of the Chinese coun- as a youth of seventeen, he was em- grand-stand view of the procession,
tryside.
nloyed by the Rev. Vincent Stanton, and with this intention in mind he Governor.. In
the
of
Mr. Summers had the charge against balcony Chaplain of the Colony, to serve as stood beneath wrecked England's war
simmered down to one of disrespect on assistant teacher in a freo school Misericordia Church the only man in the Governor, and while I was
among the multitude with a hat on to economy and left the Empire ONE BRIGHT MORNING the and later in St. Paul's College,
Iti bend. A Catholic priest, Father recognised that he had been origin- ited ally arrested by one of the soldiers village unscathed for 60 PIOUS YOUNG MAN Aimelda, approached, and requested longis deliriously excited and
His first two years in Hongkong the youth in English to remove his for not taking off his hat at the pro- hat. Summere, howover, shoakt his cesalon of Corpus Christi, now, with- astonished by the dropping of a passed quietly enough, and we know hend, and even had he never been out reference to that, his special of bomb, outside the village it is itttle of this period except that he told to do so, he could not have failed fence was considered to be not taking true, but with sullen thud and was regarded by his superiors as an
ins covered would be offensive alike to Governor of Macan cidentally, too, one who was making excellent progress in his endeavours Led-breeding and to those who were
ນາ to master the Chinese language. Ungaged in religious offices. furtunately, however, His degree of religious
ous piety was tinctured with so
The
with problems that will be gen- erations in the solving.
In view of all of this, the
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English are hardly to be blamed Ideafening burst which shakes extremely pious young man, and in to perceive that to be the only one of his hat, upon the order of the.
if they choose to move cautious- ly in the European powder
the little hamlet to its staunch little heart.
mine.
Hloys without a chance!
Thrills without equall
ALSO COLOUR TRAVELOGUE
SORAPPY
CARTOON
BIG
BLACK "BAND SQUIRT? | NAPOLEON" CONCERT."
much dogmatism that he was narrow
ARRESTED
COMPLICATED CASE
The matter might have been easily solved then and there, if Captain. An angry murmur, went through Keppel had felt disposed to ask. If we think that stopping and doing our part. Since we and uncompromising and in his the crowd, and people were des- Governor Amaral to release Mr. efforts to be loyal to his creed, he patched to report post-haste auch Summers as a personal favour, but Fasciam is worth a war, wo don't have the slightest inten-neglected the most
in-disrespect to the Portuguese Govern- he felt it repugnant to ask for it on gredient of piety itself-tolerance for Or, Jono Maria Ferreira de Atenral, that ground, and, regarded 11 as a could. have · offered our in- tion of doing that, It would be the beliefs and observances of others. The latter dispatched a soldier to the right. Thereupon the Governor re
the prisoner is Consequently, it Is to be expected scene, who ordered the young man plied: "Then dividual services to Spain in the just as well for us to stop talk when he paid a visit to Macao to take off his hat at once. Sum-committed to the Judicial authorities, early days of the civil war by Ing about the policy of our one June day in 1840 to witness the mers complied, but immediately re- to be judged by Portuguese laws.",
Captain Kappel had now, decided; most solemn festival of the Roman placed it on his head. Thereupon,
(Continued on Page 433 getting out on the firing lineHomeland,
Catholle Church the Corpus Christ the soldier intimated that he was
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