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ISBISTER. On December 17, 1938, nt the Queen Mary Hospital, John Duncan Isblater, aged 67 years, late chief engineer of ss. Kong So, nalive of Greenock, Scotland. (Shanghai and Singa- pore papers please copy).
December WHITE.--On
18, at Kowloon Hospital, James Sin- elair White, aged 64, Inte Marine Engineer of s.s. Fok On.
On December 19, at Kowloon Hospital, Dorothy White, aged 57 years, beloved wife of James Sinclair White.
Colonial Funeral Services at Cemetery Chapel, Monday, De- cember 10, of 5.15 p.m. (San Francisco, Shanghal and Canton newspapers please cupy),
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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 atreet 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- obtained which, presumably, 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 steppel from ferry, bus, tram, rickshaw or gar, or walked from shop to street, was surrounded by ten or twenty screaming and: fin- of portuning children, some whose antics, suggested that they had learned their lessons in good manners from the beg gar children of Wanchni or West Point.
There is a distinction between an appeal. and begging. On some occasions, during recent charity drives, that distinction appears to have been looked.
over-
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 limited.
AFRICAN
A B C
GERMAN ENVOY arrived in
London yesterday. He is there in Africa handed over at Vor- to talk about Colonies.
Kalles to the conquering Powers the and Togoland When Germany discusses colonies were she means, first of all, the continent Cameroona, divided between Bri- of Africa. That is a part of the tain and France; German East world about which we in Hongkong: Afrien (now Tanganyiko) given to are going to rend plenty in our Britain, apart from a small piece newspapers in 1930."
which fell to Belgium's lot; and German B.W. Africa, which went to the Union of South Africa.
This article tells you who
and owns - Africa
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 alx Powers, whose total aren is 600,000 square miles, seventeen and half times smaller than Africa.
Britain. The six Powers are France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Belgium. The two Powern richest in African possessions are Britain and France.
France has 41 million square miles of African territory--37 per cent. of the total continent. Her colonial subjects there number 30 millions.
BRITAIN'S territory ex- tonde over 2,592,700 square miles-less than France, but her native subjects number nearly 62 millions.
British Africa, including areas held under League of Nations mandate, consists of Nigerin and the West Coast colonies; Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, and east; the scil- Nyassaland in the governing dominion of the Union of South Africa (with Its manda- ted ex-German territory), the Rhodestas; and the Anglo-Egypt- lan Budan,
British African coloules produce 43 per cent, of the pale all, nearly 50 per cent. of the cocon, and 12 per cent. of the copper in the world.
French African colonies produce 41 per cent, of the phosphates and 13 per cent, of the ground-nuts for edible oil in the world.
Belgian Africa, 940,610 square iniles in area (elghty-five times larger than Belgium herself, produces eight per cent. of the world's copper."
IN 1936 Kenya, with two battalions of the King's African Rifles. permaLE7- ently stationed there to defend order, exported 8 million pounds' worth of malze, coffee, sugar, tea, tin ore, cotton and cottonseed for cultivation), hides and skins, ivory. tow and wool.
Of this colony's 7 million pounds' worth of imports 60 per cent, were pur- chased from Britain and her possLIS- Bions.
Exports from the Gold Coast totalled 12 million pounds, and Imports (of which 7 million pounds worth came from Britala) 11 million pounds.
Exports from the Rhodesias totalled 11 million pounds. Imports totalled 91 millions, and half of them came from Britain.
The total exports of British Africa in 1937 were worth 02 million pounds. Imports totalled 145 million pounda.
total 01 An approximate yearly exports from French Africa is 65 mil lion pounds' worth, with imports total- ling the same.
Belgian African trade amounts la roughly four million pounds in exports and imports of seven million pounds.
Italian exports and Imports were two millions und sixteen millions re- spectively.
totalled toon exports Portuguesa million pounds worth and importa three million pounds" worl
The Oerman Colonial possession
Bible Of 1600 Stolen
Covington, Ky.
THESE German colonies had a total area of about a million square miles and their total native population was between cloven and twelve millions.
Of the total of 208 million pounds' worth of exports from all Africa in 1030 only 12 millions were contributed by the ex-Ger- man colonies.
Incidentally, the slinre of the entire African continent in world production is relatively small.
Africa supplies only 3.7 per cent. In of the world's raw materials: 1936 her contribution to we rid trode was 0.7 of the total-co - pared with Europe's 51.3 per cent.
The most useful thing to do now is to quote from an admirably in- formative two-ahllling pamphlet. Germany's Claim to Colonies." Issued by the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
"Judged by their share in world production," says this pamphlet, "the ex-German colonies are at present relatively unimportant sources of raw materials.”
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THE only two materials of which they provide a large part of the world supply are sisal-hemp (Tangan- yikaj and vanadium--used for the manufacture of steel (Bouth West Africa),
"They also produce about five per cent. of the world's phos- phates. palm-oll (chlefty British Cameroons), copra-coconut ker- nels producing oll for soap, mar- and candles (chlefly New garine.
(French cocoa Guinea), and Cameroons and British and French TOTO
The point in which Germany is Interested, however, is the relation
seres of these territories' resources, not to world production, but to her own requirements."
The mandated ex-German territories could (according to Agures taken from a Cerman source) supply Germanny with more than suficient sisal, with nearly enough phosphates, and with about one-third of the cocoa, one- quarter of the banaans, And one seventh of the vegetable oils which she ordinarily requires; while the gold from New Guinea and Tanganyika and the diamonds from B.W. Africa would also -be useful.
Dr. Goebbels has declared that "ths basic materials of modern industrial- isin are coat, Irun, olt, cotton.,rubber and copper." Not in one of these six minterhals 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 1030, it is pointed out, amounted to less than one per cent, of Germany's imports
One other point may be worth a meation in view of Hitler's claims, The budgets of all these territories- rept ce e smaltest-when they Camry possessions showed a Steady defall year by year.
Cleveland, O.
FEGYPTIAN
SUDAN
BELGIAN
CONG
ANGOLA
PLACACH
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TOCEAN
ETHIOPIA
THE GERMAN COLONIES
BEFORE 1014 ARE SHOWN THUS:-
Looking Into
The Future
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PROPHECY, or the revelation John the Divine among Christian through supernatural in- people. Unfortunately, however, spiration of events to come, has the language of the book is like that of most oracles such as a subject with always been 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 scure manner that they might may gain a concreto, knowledge be interpreted to it any circum- of what may be expected to hap-stance. pen is too intriguing to be re
sisted.
almost Consequently,
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 were interpreted some these exert tremendous influence
eighty or more years ago to re- wherever they are studied.
:
vernes
fer to the presence of the Eng-.
Most of these prophetic bookslish 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
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is therefore in order that the THE Chinese, however, like many superstitious Western- continent which produced the
ers are accustomed to search great religions of mankind should likewise take the lead in through all their prophetic books in order to explain the trend of prophecy.
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 true.
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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 or Mongol Dynasty.. therefore prophecies of any des- This individual is credited with as the Art Director Decorated cription have always received being a seer as gifted
the widest circulation. Every prophet Daniel, and it is interest- Sweden, Hungary and Italy have word of a forecast of things to ing to quote the following from 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 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 abies 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 Siu Hing
the three nations. year-old German hymnal and Bible,
partially true, it at once becomes in Chekiang province: sacred in the eyes of the masses
"On the 24th November, work- men excavating near the base of One of the most famous pro-the Sin Yin Bridge at Lo Fung phetic books of the Chinese is a unearthed a remarkable stone little volume known 15 the
about 214 feet in length and 11⁄2 Tui-pooi-t'o, or "Chart of Op feet in breadth upon which were posing Backs," which is said to have been composed by two or The Tablet that responds to graven the words: "Wooi-t'in-pei, celebrated · Individuals, Yuen Heaven. Further, investigation: Tin-kong and Lei Shun-fung, disclosed that the stone bore a who lived during the fifth cen-prophetic inscription signed by tury A.D.
Lau Pak-wan. The inscription. These two men were reputed to was as follows:
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Crpt, 1936 by Cažkok Poklon Brutinka, Ban
By Lichty of the people.
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OU complain of a hard day at the oficer.” Why, mij: work has
Just begun!
be deeply versed in the secrets of nature which the Chinese call the Nghành Yur young chi Lại, or
'Hei
is'at-tsat. Teng to'at- 19'at. K'ei-Ning-Yuet-Hon. Om
yap. Yat kwoo taʼim-mit. Ng Yuet ying, kit: No-lik! No likt
the "Reasons of the Five Elemo t'in yat. Yan Woo Sham 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 yeara, more or less, a great re- bellion." After the latter has subsided, new
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government emerges out of the chaos, and the work of tranquillising the. country begins.
"(The war) shall begin with a double seven, and it shall end: with a double seven. Upon Chihli, Nanking, -Kwangtung: and Hanikow: shall come buch:- darkness as when the sun is obliterated from the heavens... Lure the Huns (Le, 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 1'- Comment, of course, la 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 Apocalypan of St.
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It is to be expected that the Chinese believe that, there are references in this little book to
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