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A mall from Japan is due tb-day by the sa. "Seiyo Maru.””

suspect a surveyor, not a Governe ment surveyor) he has managed completely to misunderstand the letter from a British shipmaster which we printed last week. He accuses it of audaciously condemning our Govern ment surveyors and all masters and officers sailing out of Hongkong. It did no such thing. It condemned

The only case of communicable certain local owners, and it con- demned a deficiency in the disease in today's return is noe of Hongkeng laws as regards the diphtheria. safety of officers and crews on

Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Wakeman ill-found ships. We have not met a ship-master yet who disagreed with returned to the Colony yesterday on

"Shinyo Maru." the letter, and we have made it par the 18. business to ascertain the views of all we could reach..

AT ALL.

*

Consignees are reminded that all

THE WAR TORN DISTRICTS

OF FRANCE.:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER.

1919

Ever since the beginning of the Not a stick of furniture remains in war and bas men these sad droves these houses, so when the inhabitants fleeing before the enemy. Now I first go back they sleep on the ground. was seeing them in a new light Later they make beds out of old A PATHETIC APPEAL. these brave souls were going home boards with wire drawn across, and again. They have long since learned contrive most. Ingeniously to arrange [To the Editor of the China Mail] to wait for interminable hours at the. a home, but their destitution is pitiful

station, sitting on their Impossible | Could greater love of home exist that. | parcels all their riches.. Old baskets) is shown by these poor souls? Byld- Sir-May I ask for space in your mended with string and wire, potatoently only this powerful love coult colugins to appeal to Hongkong to bags bulging out on all sides with make such an effort possible. They whose generosity in war causes I can. pots and pans, linen and shoes, their cling to the very spot of earths as personally warmly testify-for help clothes and bed covers. They had though some deep, invisible roots held to our stricken Allies in the war come from distant regions of France, them there where they were born, and devastated districts of France. If and had already travelled one or lived and suffered; they feel they can they were not left only with eyes more days. They sit silent, yet be happy nowhere else..." to weep with" they had not much longing for sympathy. At the least These are the ones who have borne Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse returned

alse, for their houses remain mere word their apparent apathy dis- the brunt of the war. Should we not to Hongkong yesterday on the s.s.

Suwa Maru after a short holiday piles of stones and rubbish, their appears and they quiver into life belp them all we can, just to get This man says he has

once Kruitful fields are laid waste, again, and taking possession of you, them started again? The utmost NO SURVEY Salled for the last 20 at Tsingtao.

their fruit-trees have been murdered they pour out their tale it is we can do for them is as nothing years out of Hong-

Vice Admiral Sir A. L. Duff, our in cold blood, their wells have been all so vital to them that they can compared with what they have lost; kong, and "at no

One look let us at least help some of them tó Interest, and other port have I seen a better or new Naval C. in C. is due to arrive choked with filth and even corpses, think of nothing else.

they seem get to work once more. every form, it would seem, of human to clutch on to you, so I soon The French Government does all · stricter survey of ships and their on his flagship, H. M. S. "Hawkins" while their inhabitants have suffered of equipment. What has that to do on Sunday.

misery.

found myself in the tender mercies it can, but France is poor now; finan- with the unlicensed ships which are

While working with the French of two dear old women. One was clally ruined by the war-Indemni- not surveyed at all? He doesn't pre- tend, we hope, that all ships leaving broken, chafed and damaged goods Red Cross in 1915-16 and 17. I saw an old maid of 77 who confided to ties will be given later on, but the here, whether they have passenger ex the 9.5. "Stanley will be inspect-much of this ruin and sorrow, and me that she had seven skirts on her cannot possibly be sufficient, land can never cease to be grateful to alim individual, as it was easier to who will give them back their tears? licerces or not, are well and ed at the godowns at 10 am to this Colony for the help they sent, carry them that way! The other was as St. Elizabeth of Hungary put it). strictly surveyed, because wemorrow.

through me, to our brave, uncom- an old grandmother of 79 who had Just try to figure, up the cost of the repeat what

letter said,

The point in dispute between plaining Allies in response to a letter had elever children and wetked hard the contents of even a simple home! namely, that Government surveyors do not survey

ships that are the two youths was whether a certain in which I did not even ask for aid. all her life, but a beautiful light came And now the price of everything has I can never tell you how far-reaching into her face, every time she spoke increased tenfold, moreover every- under Government without passenger licences, with a factory was view to life-saving equipment.. "One control during the war period. this help was, for certainly half of of her past happiness. She was re-thing now manufactured is of very It was of the moral kind engendered turning to a ruined village near inferior quality, in spite of the ex- who knows" has told us of instances 'Course it was, triumphantly ex- by sympathy.

Albert-with these two women, as orbitant prices. There is also a Don't you The need of assistance is at least with all refugees, it was the same shortage of working hands, so that of the expensive changes insisted claimed Number One. upon by Government surveyors, remember how they used to be as great now as it was then, and the tale. Evacuated once, twice, even labour can demand any price. What in ships whose owners appiled always buildin' up that wall an' then sooner it is given the sooner can the three times, according to the fluctua- I would like you to understand is the Ltd for passenger licences. This bears knockin" it down again?"

out his defence of the Government y'are," replied Number Two, now people restart their own industries tions of the battles, sent here and magnitude of the task and the d

and carry on without help.. He there, Kving in strange places, in dis culties of its execution. Facing it. surveyors, but as his defence was fully convinced.

gives twice who gives quickly." comfort and unhappiness, often it is hård not to allow, a hopeless

Very many societies in France, among an astonished population quite despair to seize uncalled for, since they were never attacked, be cannot get much satis. faction out of that. We consider describes the sinking of the two England, and America have taken up overpowered by the inrush of this remedy is to set resolutely to walk this work of reestablishing the ruined panting human herd overrunning and do simply and steadfastly all that the Government has a duty Bolshevik dreadnoughts by British districts of Northern France, and their small towns and far away vill one can, and doing merely this will towards the safety of officers and motor-boats as an incident"in the these organisations have been co-ages.

be a blessing and a help to many. well as of passengers course of the police work which the ordinated under the Ministry of Re- And yet they testified that they crews, as Would he deny that?

navy carries out in its daily 'occasiona all over the world." It is, of course, construction of the French Govern had never lacked any of the necess

But I am only asking for aid ties of life. It made me think of the a little dificult to find out just exactly for two particular districts, whose words of Christ, that man does not what our armed forces are doing in restoration has been undertaken by live by bread alone he needs Lote various parts of the world at the present time. But if the sinking of my own friends, and in parts where, even more, does he not? to really

sorely needed. other people's warships." all over the my personal knowledge, it is so live. world" is a normal part of the navy's peace-time routine some in-

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it, for the writer of such a letter must have a head so empty that it simply couldn't sink.

REFORM

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My ambition is to succour at least my own former convalescents (that have now reached the number of 1,400) and their families.

It is wonderful how much new

courage a little help will bring them,

such as supplying a little clothing, After Amiens, the train took me some linen or shoes, household The part near Noyau and Cam- due east, and then the battlefield utensils or garden tools. Vegetable

seeds I give out extensively just now,

and these are received with en- thusiasm.

In the village of one of my soldiers,

a prisoner back from Germany, cook-

Biegne is ably locked after by the began shell holes, barbed wire Fund for French War-devastated entanglements, trenches and dugouts, villages, of which ex-President Taft is then graves. Some solitary ones, president, and to which society I be indicated by tiny crosses, nestled low For the first time in the history long. This is my own particular part, along the line. Here and there whole

ing utensils are so scarce that one Government off of the Sun Life Assurance Company as the French Government allowed new cemeteries had sprung up,

me to visit it shortly after the As we passed by familiar districts pot or pan has to serve five or six cials themselves, of Canada the amount of new policies German evacuation in 1917. FORESHADOWED. whom we are un issued and paid for last year exceeded did a good deal of work there before down from their seats.

We the refugees would pop up and families. One family cooks the meal "Oh mon hastily, and passes the pan on to the fortunately ret ten million pounds sterling, the the ememy re-occupied it in 1913, Dieu! Est-ce cela le village de ext. Ah, Madame," explained allowed to quote, admit that the actual figures being 23,055 policies but much of this effort was lost, for "--"Ma chere, regardez dont la the poor fellow, "si vous saviez Government should do more, and for £10,600,970. This is an increase the Huns systematically destroyed maison de Monsieur Mais quelle patience il faut quand les they would deplore such foolish of £776,676 over the figures for 1917, everything they had time for, in c'est qu'il ne reste rien !" Yet there gosses ont faim!" letters were it not now understood the best previous record in

order to prevent the fesumption of was a glow of exultation on their One of my soldiers, a widower. After that something is going to be done, history of the Company.

agriculture and industries by the faces as they felt they were nearing whom I visited in his ruined farm at and that these merely cantankerous deducting cancellations from death French people. In 1917, during a home. At stations, or on the train, Progart, is living in his cellar with h23 used a cliche instead of making carpings are ineffectual for mischief maturities, surrenders, and all other motor tour of hundreds of kilometres, they would meet friends or acquain his little 12 year-old aqu. "The child a deduction. Even if we did make For his own sake we hope this poor causes, the assurances in force now I saw not one undamaged house, tances from neighbouring villages, was at Proyart (left with some aged EZRA. On October 11. t Viewin that assertion more than once, it fool is never caught in a collision on stand at £70,029,381, being 3 in church, or factory left standing, and and would ask for news of each and parent, since dead, while his father B. to Mr. are . Inacisn't evidence that we are fond of one of the river steamers he thinks crease of £5,945,311 during the there was scarcely an agricultural all: "On rentre!" the would exclaim was fighting) when it was evacuated

making it. We produce a newspaper so well equipped. If he bas given twelve months. This large net gain implement or a cooking utensil left

"Thomas,

in March 1918 at the time of the triumphantly: Ezra Shanghai, y daughter.

six days a week, but no newspaper. away his private collapsible life gives evidence to the high quality of in the district.

rentre?" Qui, depuis huit jours, great German drive and the battle of man is likely to accuse. us of being buoy, and relies on the boats and the new business coming to the com

The other part for which I asket Delpierre aussi ne reste the Somme. The child fled with the fond, of doing it because we do it rafts provided (sufficient usually for pany and the value of the methods Hongkong's help is near Armentieres, plus grand chose, vous savez y rest of the pitiful herd-German "Eh bien, tant planes flying low fred with machine so often. The reason we ever made one third of the number of souls) employed to conserve the business where the work of restoration basaura à travailler."

on the books. In the item A sort guns on the refugees, killing and of income, all previous records were the wife of the well-known French of joyousness would gain one after wounding many. In their haste, all outdistanced, and the total £4,489,829, poet, playwright, and journalist (he another they were going home," parcels had to be left by the roadside. shows an increase of £362,543 over is now editor of what was though it be to ruing Qui, on The child, however, escaped and the preceding year.

Clemenceau's paper). Madame Loy-rentre?"

reached Paris safely. The father was son turned her house in Paris

Now let me tell you something of on leave in my home, so we took CORRESPONDENCE.

into a convalescent hospital cur the lives of these brave people who being shelled at the time, when the the boy in also. Then, as Paris was war, and treated there have gone home. To me they seem father returned to the front. I put the 1,300 soldiers, many of a new sort of pioneer, more intrepid little fellow out in safety in the MEDALS FOR POLICE RESERVER.

The China mil.

4XECTO. JERTICE. PRLIC SERVICE.

plain. It is because the respon when it is to late. sibility attaching, in

the câge old-fashioned respect for the printed HONCRONG, THusnaỶ, fer. 23, 1918. word is maintained, is too great for

O'R

ADVERSARIA.

the modern, untrained, half-educated and often venal journalist to bear. The teacher has a terrible respon sibility; the mere gossip has none

At "Mon e during the

Several of our acquain- War, there was only

PUBLICITY tances have remarked tances have ble anter, "SPECIALS" one "special" that

Hould be understand-prise of the local agency for the ingly mentioned without an accom Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, in panying on. If you had asked a sending out postcards with their small special" she proposed sailings for 1919-1920, would probably have told you there! These neatly printed little schedules was one outside. It was, a special are no doubt being filed all over special, a sedentary citizen who had Hongkong to-day. undertaken voluntary police duties. in a spirit of patriotism or in an itch to be in the procession, and who subsequently regretted it with aching feet and a cold in the head. Those

barmaid fer a

stuck it gut are probably d: The Home ig medals for

we are aware that it is deserved. Is there any hope that we can be relieved of the system which thrusts ondent" Anti-cadets, merely because they are cadets,

When the Government WHEN awakes to its respon- REFORM sibility in this matter, COMES. and insists on adequate provision for safety of that the Government surveyors will crews and passengers, no one doubts see the stricter ordinance carried out. They themselves at times have

HOUSING SHORTAGE.

In Shanghai, as here, the people most af- fected by the house. shortage are the

THE KING RECOGNISES LOYAL WAR SERVICE.

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whom came from this part of France.

etc.,

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just beamed at me. Ah vraiment,

I am sending you an appeal which by far than any pioneer of old setting country. So we were already friends. I received from her lately, as it tells out in a new country, as of yore in The poor souls could not believe regretted that they had not more juris- [To the Editor of the China Mail.] mare eloquently than I can of these stupendous. It will take years and ing in the mids: of their ruins. They America. The task before them is their eyes when they saw me stand- diction than they have. There are

poor peoples' needs. As I knew owners in Hongkong, as elsewhere,

Dear Sir, From the enclosed copy many of these mer and some of their years of work to arrive at even an either too greedy or too mean to of the

Daily Express" for Sep- families while they were in Paris in approximate result, yet they under· | Madame, on ne s'attendait pas a

take, the task resolutely,

vous volt ici! Regardez, Madame, provide necessary equipment. These tember 6th you will notice that the the hospital, I feel a special interest

Their houses are in ruins, the ce qu'on a fait de ma belle ferme AB are the only people condemned, and Authorities are issuing medals for in their cause. Perhaps by a side wind the Govern loyal war services of the "Specials". It has been suggested that a bazaar country about them is still the uptor ces salles Boches!" Ee had left his ment also for letting them get away Some of the members of the local should be held--perhaps in December battlefield I have described, with its home a well-to-do man, with cattle, with it. Not to be misunderstood, Police Reserve have done more than in order to raise funds for these dugouts, its trenches, its munitions horses, field implements, everything We grow tired of meet. We had better mention in the same 4 years' service and deserve some two organisations, and His Excellency lying loose, its graves. Guns and that belong to a prosperous farm, and

breath that JUSTICES' ing in outside papers

we have also local tangible recognition for their services. the Governor has generously offered bayonets still lie just as they fell now he is living in his cellar, a deep JUSTICE

the use of Government House for the from some soldier's hand, and spades and dark and damp place, where no sneering allusions to the owners who more than do their

Yours faithfully, quality of Hongkong duty, and who could satisfy even

ANTI-HUMBUG. purpose, and his co-operation in the and pickaxes, too rusty new for use. fire can be made. They have built

work.

All the disorder, all the destruction, up--"invented," I feel almost temp- justice and our local magisterial Home requirements in this con

Hongkong, October 22 1919, methods. It is unpleasant because pection.

May I ask that all France's Allies all the wanton waste of war! The ted to say a bed, but they hope Here follows the cutHog to: in the Colony, especially the Chinese, trees stand out against the sky mere gradually to patch up two of the MEDALS FOR "SPECIALS." American, Portuguese, and Japanese, carborised skeletons. No imagina-rooms of the farm house that can be who have already so vitally helped tion can picture such utter ruin and made habitable, and move up there. in the war, will join us in this work desolation. It does not look like our But for that the father needs a man to help him for the child is still too kindly draws into positions of such grave respon smaller salarled foreigners. (A" for:"

of sympathy and restoration.-Yours, planet.

Then graves graves at every young to do much and some mater- n to the facts sibility? Their ignorance of law is eigner," by a Hongkong public meet under the royal sign manual insti A warrant issued by the King found fully a byword among the lawyers, and ing in 1846, was defined as any per tutes a new medal for faithful and

"HARRIET OSGOOD TAYLOUR. English, German, all reconciled in etc. I am helping him to get these turn, of soldiers of every naticuality,ials, such as plaster, tar paper, nails, our corres. their notions of equity as between son not a native of China.) In Shang. devoted service given by members of

Hongkong, October 21, 1919.

death! The tiny crosses, sometimes things, for he must hasten, the time "specials" man and man sometimes conspicu-hal as here, the shortage is largely the special constabulary during the

give a name, sometimes (record that to plant and sow being now here,” for not less ously deficient. In no other place due to the influx of Chinese and war. It also provides a means of

some unknown soldier lies there, the I could tell you many other similar did not less that we know in the Empire are

munitions lying about, shells of all tales of hardships, all equally sad, all. are to have 2 re-hearings"

Japanese. The Shanghai Munt recognising such continued

PARIS, le 26 Avril, 1919, and reversals of

dimensions, hand grenades and fuzes, bravely borne. For instance, of the edless to say judgment so frequent and free, claims that it cannot) undertake the in the future by members of any returned home from a visit to a few dangerous: every day accidents died of cold during the evacuation.

cipality, however,

(or efficient service as may be rendered

Dear Mrs. Taylour, i have just make every step across country | poor. woman whose two little boys. rrespondent's and in no place is justice gkong Police less tempered with mercy. Quite responsibility being shouldered by the special constabulary reserve.

Hongkong Government. It cannot The award will be made to those of the devastated villages of the occur: It is impossible to imagine She is home again now with her us and more and the fine old British principe that all the money it needs now, for other of the special constabulary during the ruined families of my soldiers forms more the soil and getting it fit to be sad, and will never be the same poor people are fined ridiculou. Sus afford it. It has difficulty in raising who, being or having been members Somme; and as the relief of the the formidable work of levelling once little daughter, but the house is very subjected to the accused shall have the benet of purposes. Shanghai employers are war or of any special constabulary now, and is more and more bound to ploughed.

again. ritations un- any doubt is often disregarded he therefore being invited to do their reserve, shall satisfy the following for, an important part of my work, Of the 13 villages I saw, few have The remembrance of a tiny green ve some such onus of proving innocence (especial, share towards meeting the difficulty conditions, namely

I wish to tell you about it.

any houses left standing, none are faced baby of seven months about n't get it, she as regards possession of property) ia

On leaving Paris I at once found intact. If a mere shelter remains, the size of a normal baby of three ain what. His substituted for the usual onus on the

Where house property fetches only (1) Shall have served as a special myself surrounded at the station by the owners are allowed back. Some months-haunts me. It was being about it. prosecution to prove guilt. Partly,

about five per cent, and money constable without pay for not our Ordinances are wrong, having

worth far more, the invitation is less than three years, and shall refugees It was too early for my times it is a cellar, sometimes one or fed on bread and tapioca, milk being

scarce. Condensed milk will save, ikely to be jumped at. But we teen contrived to meet special diffi

during that period have pertrain and I sat in their midst for a two rooms with floors uptorn, no ngkong cor

formed not less than 150 police couple of hours. My heart has windows, of course, and plentiful many infants' lives nt of the N-C.culties due to Asiatic subfety, but shal

always ached for refugees. They holes and cracks in the walls, through One pathetic couple of pioneers F , as will be largely the scandal we complain of is

duties;

and which the wind and rain enter know is that of a poor old man, with ewhere in this due to the appointment of unsuitable

(2) Shall have served in a special have something so humble

constabulary reserve for not less apologetic in their demeanour. Alas! pitilessly. These they patch up with his blind boy of 16, who were among the China Mail men as magistrates. The Govern-

than nine years, and shall have they have so often been unwelcome much ingenuity: oiled paper: takes the first to return to their home. As hat a statementment secma to think there is no

(a) taken an approved course guests; so few people have really the place of glass: the holes are I talked to the father, the boy Fought not to difference between a magistrate's job DIP

anderstood their distress, their utter stopped up with anything that comes hungrily devoured a big stick of nificance than and that of a departmental clerk-

of training in police duty:

They start clearing up chocolate I had given him. His There is, because a mistake by one, ttered by one

(b) voluntarily performed such bewilderment, their pain at having to hand at the street means far more than a mistake by reception and der

actual police duty, as may have been required by the chief officer That makes it the other.

of police:

more real

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the

when cold prepares the

and

[ENCLOSURE).

had to leave their homes, abandoning their gardens, full of the debris sightless eyes were turned on me as everything they-owned and that of the ruined houses. Sometimes I held his beautiful slender, hand in made up their lives. They have been they find now and sacred owners mine. I questioned the father as to mostly so brave and uncomplaining, of the soil that cannot be dislodged what the boy could do to help. "Oh, yet their suffering has been intense, soldiers have been buried there. Un pas grand chose, ma pauvre dame, and it has always seemed to them exploded shells, as I have said, make tout ce quill sait faire c'est de pous that no one has really understood it, the upturning of the soil very danger ser. Si je lui dis pousse, il pousse, ld's throat medal is awarded for service during or sympathised as they should."cus, and they must work very mais je ne peut rien lul faire porter,

theris germa. Wa hbourhood children diphtheria in the nebe kept at homa that have colds abou

“Trecovered... Give There is a very silly and off the street anti? th Remedy and ..HONGKONG letter in the Morning they will not have to re them Chamberlain's Cou,

„naán'at hom SHIPS AND Post this morning, so long. It also cleans out

the culture

(c) been annually certified as efficient by the chief officer of police. In the case of those to whom the

ag them, which SURVEYS silly that nothing will beda, which form in a chimizes the the wat, a bar or clasp shall be at Que voulez-vous, Madame," they cautiously. Then the ruined houses car Il est nerveux, il laisse tout

spaper has any think, however, written by "Another British Ship For aslo by all Chemists and

convince us it was when it has a cold, and min

risk of contracting infections a

the correspondent master." Whoever it was (we keepers

discare

Staro. tached to the riband bearing the

words. "The Great War, 1914-1918.

say sadly, ceux qui n'y sont pas often collapse totally, all of a sudden, tomber Lee M

...constituting another danger. passes ne comprennent pas 1".

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