1921-06-22 — Page 8

HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING :-

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

སཱུརྞྞ‛"

RUSSELL STREET GARAGE

REPULSE BAY GARAGE

Telephone No. 82 Telephone No. 659 Telephone No. 881

BOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG AND

SOUTH CHINA FOR:-o si

ROLLS ROYCE

Cars

STUDEBAKER CORPORATION Cars

WHITE COMPANY

Commercial Trucks

UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. Tyres & Rubber Goods. A. E LEJEUNE

- Motor Car Mascots

HEAD OFFICE & SHOW ROOM IN PEDDER STREET.

SHIPPING

GERMAN FLAG AT COLOMBO.

CEYLONESE APPOINTED HAMBURG LINE'S AGENTS.

£2,500 £5. on the bandwughty, and the "Odine,” a sailing vessel,, £3,700. The steamship Olga" and the steam ship "San Serafino have been soki by private treaty by the Marshal, the former at £13,750 and the latter st $8,000.

CHINA MAIL.

HONGKONG AGAIN. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU i

TRY TO SUPPRESS

AGITATORS:

The writer of the following article, from the Daily News of May 11, is Lieut. Commander H. L. Haslewood, RN: (retired)

and August 3 of last year, when two girls were taken to the hospital covered with burns and bruises from head to foot sa result of the treatment they | had received from their purchasers. On January 24 and on January-225 of this year, and also on February 7, three small gil chidren were taken to hospital in the same condition. One of them while ink (as her mistress admitted had been beaten and kicked

about, and bore the marks of a rattan

It is high time that the British

To quote the exact words, public were fally informed of the cane. abominable system of child-slavery "she was literally covered with bruises

blunt, rough instru which prevails in the Crown Colony caused by some of Hongkong.

A new trade, has been established between the Far East and the Firth of Forthik. A regular monthly service |will be carried on by the sterners of the Nippon Yomen Kabuabiki Kaika, the port of call being Grangemouth and Leith. The steamer "Lisbon Mart has left Leith" with - a “tarje general-cargo, For nearly a hundred years this The following case shows that the part of which was loaded at Grange island, with its 200,000 Chinese in- buying and selling is by no means mouth. The cargo included heavy habitants, has been under our rule. confined to adoption and domestic machinery. The steamer proceeded There are now some 6,000 Europeans, service, as the Colonial Office would to Hamburg and Rotterdam, whered the island is controlled by the have us believe she will-load-for-Japan.

Dimensions of the new French liner Paris mentioned in pester day's cables are as followsThe vesel. u 224 m. 15 between per pendiculars, and 233 m, 09 in length overall. Its extreme breadth is 26

..

09, and its tiepth from D deck 13

menf”

Governor and a Legislative Council "On December 8, 1920, a Chinese When I was acting as Superintendent woman was charged with obtaining of the Admiralty Chart Depot there by false pretences the sum of thirty in 1919 my wife and I were horrified dollars. The evidence showed that by the screams of a child which came she arranged for the sale of her sister during the evening from a Chinese as a concubine."

As is usual in these cases, incredible house.

it

may seem, As a remit of our efforts to make as

BARIES' BURDENS.

до ex-

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Edam

JUST RECEIVED

Gruyere Cheese -

:1

$130 per lb $3.50

ball

170

lb.

37

.60

++

Haddocks

Kippers

THE DAIRY FARM, IOE & COLD STORAGE 0%, Ltd

is mutical, clam, polite as the Bast

knows how to be polite. The other cry if it can be called a wrys in that of the water seller,

THE MUSIC OF THE WATER-SELLEKS, Į parades the hot

*H

inquities we came to the conclusion ception was taken to the buying EASTERN STREET CRIES, under the very heels of danger. It Its gross measurement that this must be one of those cases and selling, but only to the question 35,103

Four tans

turbines of slavery which we had heard darkly of false pretences, the woman having worked by fifteen double-hinted at. When I reported the case represented her sister as being un- SCENES IN THE BAZAARS. ended cil-fed boilers produce the to the polica I was told that it was married. 44,000 horse-power. If the trials, probably, a slave girl by wife which are about to start in Quiberon Bay, prove up to expectation its speed will be 214 Khota. Its passen

560 are * de luxe" and first-class, 461 second class," 1,100 third-class, and 1,109 steerage. The crew will number 664.

**Empire 535-type steaners

each" have two beds, and.some of them in addi-

immediately began investigations, and

A case came before the courts these revealed to us the fact, which recently in which tiny children aged had indeed already been discussed 1 and 13 were found to be carrying in a sermon by the British chaplain, weights of 60th up the steep hill of the that each Chinese house in the Colony Peak, Hongkong.

SLAVE BROKERS..!

"

alleys with his water-bottle of skin, or of earthenware fashioned to Disenssing the street cries of aldsemble's skin bottle, the mouth of it of pingged with a long lump of ice; and London, those earliest forms trade advertisement, one of group as he goes be makes a soft, delicious

And you have just came, gurgle of music with two brass drilli remarked

and well and inviting all to be thirsty

and to be satisfied of their thirst,, I

had one or more girls virtually in s Arising from this case questions position of slavery. The custom is in the House of Commons elicited back from the East. The street ing bowls held in his right hand. cried there must be very vivid?" These bowlsdo not clash like cyakbals, called adeption, but money payments the fact that there are no regulations Without waiting to analyse into its nor clink like glasses: they gorge It is now possible to map out the

are usually made, and in the majority in Hongkong controlling the amonut component parts the surface in gurgle of Gargantua drinder-deep respective areas occupied by these The Pacific Mail liner

of cases the girls became household of work which a child may be called pression--that of a noisy parrots sections at different seasons, and at State," the second of the

drudges and worse. As the result upon to do, nor any limit of hours cage which an Eastern basaar gives, the same season in diferent years. Shipping Board passenger

to be allotted to the Company, is to of our action I relinquished my for which a child may be called upon I suwered negligently Yes very have never heard anything more APPROACE TO HAIRO-TAKT BAR have no inside first class Cabire, ic-appointment, and step by step have to work; and, further, that a resolu- Then I set myself to the taste of seductive, more delicious. To make Notice is given that on or about cording to information reaching the forced the Colonial Office to admit tion carried ananimously at a meeting remembering in detail some street this music with the brass bowls is now July 4, 1921 the characteristics Pacific Mail office in Yokohama. The the material fact in this grave indict- of the Sanitary Board in Hongkong cries of Egyptian and Syrian bazaars, easy. It is an art known only do the

in May, 1919, calling for by-laws The first mental impression of water-sellers.

For the rest, I think that the of the lights exhibited on the Taku first class cabins, all on the outside ment of British honour.

prohibiting the employment of those bazaars was of continuous Bar Leading Marks will be altered or Decks A and B, vi

A reply recently given by the children under the age of 14 in utering and chatter, of prolonged, clamour of the Eastern bazar in chief. as follows:

persists; and was, I am convinced, a vivid colour. W others who have Colonial Office to questions regarding factories or workshops for more than bright noise and that impression ly clamour of high "Tight-and the buying and selling of children 10 hours in any one day was rejected true this as it was registered in the memories of it confirm or deny?

It is intolerable that such a state consciousness. But analysis has fails in Hongkong was as follows

"Buying and selling of human of slavery should exist in a British ed to give definite component noises. being does not take place openly in colony, where a British Governor For example, the sellers of silks fail Hongkong. A custom does exist rales practically without qheck, and "from Damascus, no doubt, but some there, as elsewhere in China, by which, it would appear that nothing but had travelled via Lyons or the English in pushing trade. they wait for in retom for a money payment, girls public opinion is likely to effect any Midlands). They are not clamorous are tranfarred by their parents or real or lasting reform. natural guardians to the care of another household, usually for the purpose of domestic service, though the transaction is described by the Chinese as a form of adoption."

Front, or Low, Mark (Light)-The tion a sofa berth, but they will be two passengers. The visibility of this light will be increased booked. For so that it will be visible in clear first class passenger capacity has tirus weather for a distance of 12 miles. been retked from 265 to 200, but Rear, or High, Mark (Light)-The the capacity for steerage passengers characteristic of this light will be remains at 300. The ventilation for changed from a fixed white light to the interior passenger space has been & white light occulting every 4 seconds, greatly improved over that of the first boats of this type, it is also

The German flag was noticed flying priidly- over a vessel in Colombo harbour on May 20, the SW. wind helping considerably to keep the flag floating. There was much curiosity aroused over the arrival of this particular vessel, not because it was the second vessel to arrive dy ing the German fag but owing to the fact that she belonged to an altogether new German line of: ship ping, the local agents- being a thus Ceylonese firms... She is the 85 Hannover," a vessel of 5,873 tons under command of Captain Schrott, Her owners are the Deutsch Damp she is the second ship of this line to fschiffsgesse Ischaft of Hamburg and be sent out to the East, the first

·which, panged the Hamburg." did not call here but is due on her return

For all here but i dine terre ply hereafter regularly between Han burg, Norddeutscher, Rotterdam, Port Stid, Golombo, Sabang, terminating at Macassar. She started on her present, voyage from Hamburg on April 2 with a general cargo which included some articles for this port as well. From Colombo she goes to

Macassar

.

Light Eclipse

2 seconds.

.... 2

Used as a "raystery ship" during the war and converted into & passenger

[reported.

بند

--

SUPERSTITIONS.

HALLOWEEN.

on Hallowe'en.**

it to come as Allah wila, and do

PASSENGERS.

ARENTIA.

Fec's.s. “Torila,” resterday ----Krs thế bargaining with a grave solem-Bayes, Misa H. Stunts HeBasty M nity of lying mire suggestive of a MaBride. Mr. Haley, Mr Hallendeand Court of Justice" than of a street and Mr Lamment

market. So I went through item by

item of bazaar-trade, searching for

the source of the impression of

DEPARTURES.

clamour which a bazaar gives, and Par La. "Tanya Mawa,” yesterday. not finding It; and coming feally to Meses. M. W. Part. 3. L. Burrel. M. the certainty that impression of Barredo Balame, M. Baker, A. clamour is mostly a matter of bright Barrin, Kina Byron: Mrz Grebral.

„B. - Cary, Kazan, WFCgor atmosphere of vivid constantly. Chappel, Miss MC, Olsspell, Jizz and not through the ear" that: the and ES A P. Devich, Srand moving colour. It la through the Christian brain gets the impression of a high, anncan, Mr. C. Paser, Mr Ja

somewhat confused noise.

-THE “ NOISE” OF COLOUR.

A fruit market in Jerusalem has

}

Mrs. J. E. Pifend, Mrs B. Green Mr E._L.. Gibited. Me 1. GTÍ Mr'J. S. Gardiner, Mas E. GL Courie

and family, Miss R. Hamburger, links

family. Mr Husber, Ke-vid - Hra · B.

It will be visible in clear weather The 15,000-ton passenger and cargo for a distance of 15 miles and its arc liner. for which they tell Lord's light will show 15 northward and given an order to the Caledon Ship believe that anyone can distinguish that is the evening to November of visibility so arranged that the Liverpool correspondent they have

Outside official circles it is hard to "As everybody knows Hallowe'en 30 southward of the Taku Bar building Co., of Dundee, is the first be difference between the transfer is the night specially favourable for Leading Line, ie, the light will only incursion by Messrs. Alfred Holt into be visible between the bearings N. the domain of the internal combustion of a girl for a moner payment and the practice of all sorts of magic rites, especially of those "projects" or love engine for the purposes of their actual buying and selling 87 W. and N. 42a W.

Sheitang-under this custom, the divinations and charms, by which All bearings given are magnetic.oceangoing service. Hitherto they

have confined their application of the most revolting abuses in the traffic young men and maidens seek to know motor ship principle to barges at of girls and children are openly carried something of their future partners, GENERAL NOTES.

ports in the East. So recently has out. Go-between or brokers are or see them evolved visible from thin the contract for the big motor ship employed for the sale and purchase Bir Ghosts and spirits walk about The Japanese vessel, which was been entered into, that the heel has of these unfortunate girls, and the end weird things are said to happen

In some places boys mount pump-left a very vivid memory of rose; M. Hallman, Miss M. Hird, Mi M. E. reported by the Captain of the as not yet been laid down; in fact, the fact that large numbers are sold into "Ferak" as being aground off Eukob preparation of the designs of the the local houses of ill-fame, and are kins on poles and, draped in a sheet, and certainly there was a continuous Bird, Mr S. Efirsts, de 15. Hobta' d This is the fint German line to was reficated and arrived in port at vessel has not yes been completed. shipped overseas for the same pur carry them about simulating ghosts soft chatter of gossip going on among Legards and family, Mr and May

All this is but a perpetuation of the women sellers, and an occasional ambelet, Km J. G. Lovin, Hr 1. send out vessels to the Far East Singapore last Thanday morning. She will be driven by engines by Hasus pose, is perfectly well-known to the

that feast of the dead which our reminder, to passers-by that their Kickolaen, Hrs. F. Nathan, Mr-M after the termination of the war. She is the "Kaisai Maru," a schooner Burmeister & Wain, of Copenhagen. whole shipping community. while the Hansz line was the first to a registered tonnage of 509. She Her speed will be about 14 kota.

SOLD IN MARRIAGE.”

ancenters celebrated on November peaches or melons or grapes were of HATTO, C. Prieta Hin J. H. -send out the "Frauenfels" to Colom-

-The Hongkong Weekly Press of unnumbered centuries ago. Nearly a perfection worthy of Paradise. But Fereira, His R. Peroirs, Me L. Palma, She is intended for the China trade. >

March 12, 1921, writes as follows: every savage race on the globe has the "noise" mostly was of bright saner. Presbytero, Min B6. Ramonce,

·Him G. E. Remedios, Mr B. F. Beans- bo, Madras and Calcutta. The last came from Belawan. named' is still held up in Calcutta.

"We have heard one of the leading such feast to-day on some date shine streaming on primrose coloured dice, Mr. C. de Remedion Mar 0: Blv The "Hannover" coaled and provi

The position of the consulting Chinese residents of Hongkong ex- when the spirits of the dead are sup quinces, purple grapes, winered Mey. Botes, Mr F. E new, Mr Wea posed to return to their earthly gurras, scarlet pomegranates, vivid shedd. Mr and Mrs K. Shinoda HER. Mesars H.. L. de Mel and Company. carrier, the steamship Haim Mazza, marine engineer and ship surveyor in press the opinion that fully 90 per habitations. Ours is a perpetuation green chilis, golden, melom The Tamers, Kiss Is M. Terry: Min 12 L sioned here, ber local agents being

these colours, rather Terry Mn 8..J. Williams, and Mrs

White. The £3. Hannover made a very 818 tons gross, left Cowes for Marthe professional world has not been cent of the children bought in the of the old Celtic feast of the dead clash of brief stay in port for within a few seilles. It is reported that a batch altogether satisfactory, and with the Colony are bought really as a commer- which was celebrated on the Celtic than the soft chatter of the

New Year's Day--November 1-

women, gave to the mind the idea of hours of arrival she was seen once of these mystery ships lying st object of improving this the newly cial speculation. à

"They are purchased at a very In the hopes of supplanting an oid a host of starlings going to bed in The N. 7. E. ““ Tobs Marn," (Flew more on the high seas. All she southern ports have been purchased formed Society of Consulting Marine landed here was 40 tons of cement by a Greek firm for commercial or Engineers and Ship Surveyors. has tender age for a few dollars," trained pagan custom by a Christian obeer Richmond Park and quarrelling York fine) left-Doo for this port on The crew had no communications pleasure purposes.

been holding several private meetings to domestic service" for a few year, vance Pope Gregory IV in 835 establi- among themselves as to whose turome 19 and ir expected bers on me, a with the shore. Ceylon Independent.

at the Chamber of Shipping lately, and sold in marriage perhaps for shed the feast of All Saints for Nove it was to sleep on the outer side of

But this substitution not the branch that nights "DRIFT BOTTLES.

Mesers. Cammell, Laird, &Co., Ltd., Sir Fortescue Flannery, M.P., who many times the original purchase ber 1.

working as well as was expected a Interesting it is and not without of Birkenhead, launched the twin-is the president, intends to make price.

"In circumstances like these it feast of All Souls was instituted and a value in giving warning against too screw geared turbine steamer Goa- membership of the society a hall-

was placed for November 2. Or pressiona-thus to analyse a memory verneur-General Chancy, which they mark of professional honour and will instantly be recognised that the November 1 being already occupied, positive deductions from sensory in are building to the order of Le Com efficiency. It is felt that members system is open to great abuse, es rather the custom grew up from and to try to get to an exact idea of Odilo, Abbot how it reached the brain. Often, 1 mission Aux Transport Maritime et a should have access to the schedule pecially in the case of children who the example of la Marine Marchande for mail, pasof prices-ruling for construction and fail to develop personal attractions of Clugzy, spreading throughout think, the average man will find that said senses of sight, hearing, and touch They contain a card asking the senger, and cargo service between repair of ships. This is a matter for which enhance their marketsble Christendom, though it is

never to bave been formally sanc have been originally confused. finder to post particulars of the place Marseilles and Algiers. The vessel co-operation with the Ship Re value."

An astounding feature of the case tioned by the Church itself. This Still, there are some street cries in and date of finding them The is 378 ft. long and will have a speed pairers Association of the United

Kingdom, and surely one in which is that the above practice has been custom of celebrating a mass for the Eastern bazars. Two Ir Bag Francisco via Shanghai, Yokoham scheme is part of the research work of wineteen knots. of the Fisheries Department of the

mutual help would be of value, definitely announced as illegal in all the dead who sleep in Christ on member of haunting beauty. As the and Honolala on Saterday, Jane Skat The P. 0.5 *Dilwars, left Broga Ministry of Agriculture.

At the Baltic Exchange the Russian Another problem is the alleged com- Chins itself, and that the Colonisi November 2 it was thought would loaded camel comes through noon 1

be sufficiently analogous in its ides to the bazaar, "silent is a cat on his soft between. classification Office are fully aware of this fact, but wear the people, from their "old pads his driver intones Oo-ur, pore for ille port on Jane 11 am It has already been established that steamship "Mogileff was put up for petition in the North Sea there are separate auction by Mr. H. Kellock, on societies representatives and in- in spite of this ng steps are taken heathen fites of November 1. It was bo-aar, and the bazaar crowd and is dus: here on June 28 at about indies of water from the atlantic, the behalf of the Marshal of the Admiralty dividual surveyors who are working to abolish the practice in Hongkong the Church's second attempt to do makes way. There is nothing peram

The TEE, “Bakuyo Maru away with the old pagan feast of the apptory in the cry, nothing of the arrived at Tokohanes on Junta 20 2nd: Baltic, the Arctic regions, and the Court, Mr. H. W. Lowell The ham on their own."It is hoped a special

Bevolting cases of brutal il- dead, the maimed rites of which still rude shock of the English Luck sails on Ime 28. Yalpasino vis English Chanic. There are also met fell at £40,000 for the vessel deputation to Lloyd's Register, which ather distinct bodies formed by the about fo per ton on the deadweight is being arranged, will suitably settle treatment were brought before the fourish among us in the observances oit!" or the French Attention In Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco and Southa

which offen startles you to rush | Americaă Portar Bra300 The "Rans" (a motor vessel) fetched this difficulty.

Hongkong magistracy on July 13 of Hallowe'en blending of these waters

Drift bottles liberated in the North Ses, many of them from lightships, are being taken in fishermer's trawls or washed sabore at places several Anndred miles from the point where they were set free.

K

MAGGIE "DO YOU REMEMBER THE DAYS

WHEN I WIJZ "COURTIN

YOU?

CALL ON YOU EVERY NIGHT

7

BURNS AND BUISEŚ.

BRINGING

·|-AN 10 GO OUT AN' BÜY YOU LOLLY-PODS AN. ID MEET YOUR FATHER AN - WED SIT UP. UNTIL A

FOUR IN THE MORNIN'-

26...

UP FATHER.

I DIDN'T ZIT HOME' UNTIL FIVE IN THE

·THORNING-THOSE*

WERE THE DAYS

...

The Blas Yannel 1.8.8. Anežzines " will now be despatched for Hingapore and Londou at 4 pm, on June 15,

Tho P. & O. sis. "Delta ” loft Shazı, is due here on Juns at shoot 4 puma/ bad for this port m Jane at 3 sa mad

The NY. E. Ekint* (Europesti Line) left Singapors for this part o

The N.TK/L. * Pening

Mart (Cal June 19 and it expected bees on Jane 34

***

=

cutia Lins) left Moji for this port on June 19 and ta expected hers on June 14. The Hax. *Kanking,” will mil toe

NOT OU HO