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ISDISTER.-On December 17, 1938, at the Queen Mary Hospital, John Duncan Isbister, aged 67 years, Jate chief engineer of s.s. Kong So, native of Greenock, Scotland. (Shanghal and Singa pore papers please copy). WHITE-OF December 38, at
Kowloon Hospital, James Sin- clair White, aged 04, late Marine Engineer of s.. Folt On.
On December 19, at Kowloon Hospital, Dorothy White, aged 57 years, beloved wife of James Sinclair White,
Colonial
Fumeral Services nt Cemetery Chapel, Monday, De cember 10, al 5.15 pm. (Sar Francisco, Shanghai and Canton newspapers please copy),
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Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 December 19, 1938
Street Sellers
WHILE COMMENDING the worthiness of the causes, we cannot refrain from voicing what we believe is widespread exasperation at the methods employed by street collectors for certain charities.
- Hundreds of children, many of whom should have been at school, descended on the streets on Saturday to sell roses on be- half of a charitable organisation which, presumably, obtained sanction for the collection from the Commissioner of Police.
We hasten to state, by way of parenthesis, that there is no question whatever regarding the bona fides of any collection pre- viously authorised by the Police. The methods employed, how- ever, are becoming so menacing that some system of control is not only necessary but im- perative.
Few Europeans, especially at this time of the year, refuse to support legitimate collections for charity, and Hongkong can justly say that it meets the many demands made upon its citizens with liberality and good grace.
Good grace was noticeably absent on Saturday, when each European, as he or she stepped from ferry, bus, tram, rickshaw or car, or walked from shop to street, was surrounded by ten or twenty screaming and in- portuning children, Rome of whose antics suggested that they had learned their lessons in good manners from the beg- gar children of Wanchal or West Point.
over-
There is a distinction between an appeal and begging. On some occasions, during recent charity drives, that distinction appears to have been looked.
We would suggest that strict control should be exercised by the Police Department in grant- ing permission to organisations to launch street collections. Either school-children should be prohibited altogether from be- ing used as collectors, or the number of collectors should be Ilmited,
AFRICAN
A B C
A GERMAN ENVOY⚫urrived in
London yesterday. He is there in Africa handed over at Ver. to talk about Colonies.
sales to the conquering Powe When Germany discusses colonies were Tocoland she means, Arat of all, the continent, Cameroons, divided between Bri-
and 11 of Africa. That is a part of the tot ant France; German East world about which we in Hongkong Africa (now Tanganyika) given tq are going to read plenty in the Britain, apart from a small piece newspapers in 1930.
This articlo tella you who owns - Africa and what its owners get out of it.
Africa has an area of 11 million square miles, It is owned-with the exception of Egypt, Liberia, and the Union of South Africa- by eis Powers, whose total arch 15 40,000 square milen, seventeen and half times smaller thon Africa. The six Powers are Britain: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Belgium. The two Powern riclient In African possessions are Britain and France.
France has 4 million square miles of African territory-37 per cent. of the total continent.. Her colonial subjects there number 30 millions.
DRITAIN'S territory ex- tenda over 2,602,700 square miles-less than France, but her native subjects number nearly 62 millions.
and
British Africa, including areas held under League of Nations mandate, consists ot Nigeri
the West Coast colonies: Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Nyasaland in the cast: the self- governing dominion of the Union of South Africa Iwith its manda-
the ted ex-German terdtorys, Rhodesias; and the Anglo-Egypt - jan Sudan,
British African colonies produce 43 per cent. of the palm oil, nearly 50 per cent, of the cocóa, und 12ßer cent, of the copper in the world
French African colonies produce 41 per cent, at the phosphatra and 12. per cent. of the ground-nuts stor edible oil) in the world.
Belgian Africa, 940,010 square miles in aren (eighty-five times larger thou Belgium herself), produces eight per cent, of the world's copper,
IN 1036 Kenya, with two battalions of the King's African Rifles perman- ently stationed there to defend order, exported 8 milion pounds' worth of maize, coffee, sugar, tea, tin ore, cotton and cottonseed (for cultivation), hides and skins, ivory. tow and wool.
Or this colony's 7 million pounds' worth of imports 80 per cent, were pur- chased from Britain and her posses- alona,
Exports from the Gold Coast totalled 12 milion pounds, and imports (of whitch 7 million pounds' worth came from Britain) 11 million pounds.
Exports from the Rhodestas totalled 11 million pounds. Imports totalled Di millions, and hall of them came from Britain.
The total exports of British Africa in 1937 were worth 92 million pounds. Imports totalled 145 million pounds.
An approximate - yearly total of exporta from French Africa is 55 mii- lion pounds" worth, with importa total- ling the same.
Belgian African trade amounts to roughly four million pounds in exports and imports of seven million pounds.
Italian exports and importa were two millions and sixteen milliona re- spectively.
Portuguese exports totailed four million pounds worth and importa three million pounds' worth.
The GermA TA Colonial possessions
which fell to Belgium's lot; and German 8.V. Afrion, which went to the Union of South Africa.
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THESE German "colonlea had a total area of abou
million square ruiles and their totul, native populati was between eleven and twelve millions.
Of the total of 200 million pounds' worth of exports from all Africa in 1930 only 12 inillions were contributed by the ex-Ger- man colonies.
Incidentally, the share of the entire African continent, in would production is relatively smal
Africa supplies only 3.7
of the world's raw materini- 1936 her contribution to trade was 6.7 of the total pared with Europe'a 51.7 per c
The most useful thing to do
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is to quote from an admirably formative two-shilling pamph 'Germany's Claim to Colonies. fasued by the Royal Institute of international Affairs.
"Judged by their share in world proditetion," says this pamphlet."
-SOUTH
ATLANT
OCEAN
TEARY LEGYPTIAN.
SUDAN
BELGIAN CONGO
TAREDSTAVN
ANGOLA
MADADA
THE GERMANI COLONIES
BEFORE 1914 ARE SUGUN TRUSI-
Looking Into
The Future
"the ex-German colonies are at PROPHECY, or the revelation (John the Divine among Christian
present relatively unimportant sources of raw materials."
THE only two materials of which they provide a large part of the world supply are sisal-hemp (Tangan- yika) and vanadium-used for the manufacture of steel (South West Africa)..
"They also produce about five per cent. of the world's plios- phates, palm-011 (chleßy British Cameroons), copra-coconut ker- nels producing oil for soap, mar- garine, and candles (chiefly New Guinea), and Cocoa (French Cameroons and British and French Togo).
"The point in which Germany is interested, however, is the relation of these territories' resources, not to world production, but to her own requirements."
The mandated ox-German territories could taccording to figures taken from a German source) supply Germany with more than suffelent szal, with nearly enough, phosphates, and with about one-third of the cocon, one- quarter of the bananas, ani one- seventh of the vegetable alla which she ordinarily requires; while the gold from New Guinea and Tanganyika and the diamonds from 8.W. Africa would also be useful.
Dr. Goebbels has declared that "the basic materials of modern industrial- Jam are coal, iron, oil, cotton, rubber and copper." Not in one of these six materials could Germany's require- ments be at present met to any serious extent by the Mandated territories.
The total exports of the ex-German colonies in 1936, it is pointed out, amounted to less than one per cent. of Germany's imports.
One other point may be worth a menen in view of Eller's claima. The budget of all these territories--- except one. the sinallest-when they were Cerman possessions showed steady deflett year by year.
Art Director Decorated
through aupernatural in- people. Unfortunately, however, spiration of events to come, has the language of the book is like always been a subject with that of most oracles such as universal appeal. The possi- those of ancient Greece which bility that one through the were composed in such an ob- perusal of some ancient text scuro manner that they might may gain a concrete knowledge be interpreted to, fit any circum- of what may be expected to hap-stance.
pen is too intriguing to be re- sisted.
almost Consequently,
these exert tremendous influence wherever they are studied,
For instance there are some
every nation may be said to have couplets which are interpreted its quota of allegedly divinely as directly referring to the pre- inspired prophetic works,, and: sent conflict, but as the same verses were interpreted some eighty or more years ago to re-s. fer to the presence of the Eng- Most of these prophetic books lish in the Middle Kingdom, it is' originate, of course, in the East; difficult to place much credence for the Eastern races perhaps en-in the present interpretation. joy a closer and more perfect
communion with Nature, and it
mankind
ers
is therefore in order that the THE Chinese, however, like continent which produced the many superstitious Western- great
religions of
are accustomed to search should likewise take the lead in through all their prophetic books prophecy.
in order to explain the trend of the times. Consequently, the Thus, as is well known, the present national calamity has ancient nation of Israel was dis-been thought to have been fore- tinguished in this respect, and those scriptural portions of the Old Testament which contain prophetic utterances have been greatly. reverenced throughout | the ages, and it is commonly be- lieved that very many of them have come truc.
By T. Paul GREGORY
THE Chinese, even more per- told five hundred years ago, and haps than the ancient Hebrew by no less a prophet than Lau people, take interest in the pre-Pak-wan, a famous worthy of diction of future events, and the Yuan therefore prophecies of any des This individual is credited with or Mongol Dynasty. Bible Of 1600 Stolen
cription have always received being a secr as gifted as the Covington, Ky.
the widest circulation. Every prophet Daniel, and it is interest-.. Mrs. George Kiryland, returning from a four-month vacation, reported awarded decorations to William M. come is seized upon with the a vernacular newspaper relating Sweden, Hungary and Italy have word of a forecast of things to ing to quote the following from to police that $1,000 worth of valu- Milliken, the Cleveland Museum art greatest alacrity, and if any por- to the recent discovery of a re- ables had been stolen including a 300-director, for his services to the arts of tion of it turns out to be even markable prophecy in Blu Hing year-old German hymnal and Bible. the three nations.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Op. 1338 By 'slied Forlore Byuttasia, Zim.
Cleveland, O
By Lichty
"YOU complain of a hard day at the ofice? Why, my work has
just begun!"
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partially true, it at once becomes in Chekiang province: sacred in the eyes of the masses of the people.
"On the 24th November, work- One of the most famous pro- the Sin Yin Bridge at Lo Fung men excavating near the base of phetic books of the Chinese is a little volume known
unearthed a remarkable stone T'ui-pool-t'o, or "Chart of Op feet in breadth upon, which were about 2 feet in length and 111⁄2 posing Backs," which is said to have been composed by two or The Tablet that responds to graven the words: "Woot-t'in-pai, celebrated individuals. Yuch Tin-kong and Lei Shun-fang, disclosed that the stone bore a Heaven. Further investigation who lived during the fifth cen-prophetic inacription signed by tury A.D.
Lau Pak-wan. The inscription was as follows:
These two men were reputed to be deeply versed in the secrets of nature which the Chinese.call the Ng-hang Yam-yern chi Lei, or the "Reasons of the Five Ele- ments and the Masculine and Feminine Principles." It is in reality a Chinese theory of the future course of history, and is based upon the hypothesis that every three hundred years, more or less, "a small rebellion is to be expected, and every five hundred years, more or less, a great re- bellion." After the latter has subsided, a new government emerges out of the chaos, and the work of tranquillising the country begins.
It la to be expected that the Chinese bellove that there are references in this little book to
'Hel ta'at-ts'at. Thung isat- ts'nt, K'el-Ning-Yuel-Hon. Om mo t'in yat. Yan. Woo Sham- yap. Yat kwoo is'im-mit. Ng Yuet ying kit. No-llk! No Jik!'
"(The war) shall begin with a double seven, and it shall end with a double seven. Upon.. Chihli, Nanking, Kwangtung and Hankow shall come such darkness as when the sun tx obliterated from the heavens.. Lure the Huns (2.0. the Japan- ese) to the heart of the coun-- try. Sound the drums and destroy them utterly! Ye: heroes of the Klangs and Kwangs exert all your energy i Comment, of course, is super
the present crisis, and it is popu-fluous; for, the appearance of larly regarded in much the same such prophetic inscriptions is of: light as the Apocalypse of St.
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