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SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928.

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through the Empire, it is difficult CHINATOWN UNEASY. to overestimate the strength of NOTED AUTHOR & PLAYWRIGHT.

this great current of interest in London Feb, 25, the Imperial problem. It will in Mr. Basil Macdonald Hastings, There was consternation in all creasingly affect for the better the well-known author and Journal- the "Chinatowns" of the porta- 'the agriculture and the industries lats, died in at London nursing London, Liverpool, Cardiff and of all the nations concerned. Im-home at the age of 47, after a long elsewhere early one morning migration will develop the produc and painful illness which he bore this week as a result of a police tive powers of the Dominions and with great pluck. rald. Under an order of the Home Colonies, and at the same time. Mr. Hastings first came into pro- Office the palico descended Bud the Home Country will benefit by minence as the author of "The danly at a fixed hour on the un-similar increase of employment New Sin." suspecting Celestinis and arrested overseas for those for whom it This powerful play, remarkable everyone who could not produce may be difficult to find work at in that it had no woman in the antisfactory identification papers. home. No one, I am sure, could cast, was produced at the Royalty The raid was carefully planned and visit our great Dominions, as the Theatre in February, 1012, and bas well. carried out.

| Duchess and I have had the good several times been revived, both in For some time there has been fortune to do, without bringing England and in America. a suspicion that numbers of Chin- back an unshakable beef in the ese have been smuggled into this future which awaits these young country by their fellow country- countries and their vigorous mon resident in England to work peoples. (Cheers). in Chinese laundries, restaurants and other establishments, and there la reason to believe that Rome were engaged in licit drug traffic.

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t is said by people who supposed to know all about things, that of lite scarcely ship with Chinese among the crew has culled at a port in Great Britain without the disappearance of some of its members, and it is believed that many Chinese have heen hidden among the cargo during the voyage from the Far East.

The Elusive Chinese.

The son of a solicitor and edú- cated at Stonyhurst (he was a de vout Roman Catholic), Macdonald Hastings began his career as a clerk in the War Office.

His more serious dramatic work was mainly confined-to "The New Sin," and អ collaboration with Joseph Conrad in "Victory."

With Eden Phillpotts he wrote "Bed Rock" and "The Angel in the House."

Our distinguished visitors will forgive me if I have spoken main-

He wrote verses, short stories, ly on our domestic intereats. I and amusing cosays in his spare would plead in the first place the time, and as these became more nature of the occasion, and in the and more generally accepted, hoj second place that healthy trade | determined to become a journalist, conditions in any country are and joined the staff of "The By- beneficial not only to that country stander." any

itself, but to all peoples with 1 The stage attracted him also, and whom that country trades. Inter his sketches were found in many national trade is and always has popular revues.

of the great civilising been one forces of the world. When, there fore, we seck and find hopeful signs for the immediate future of British trade, we are discovering. Hitherto efforts by the police symptoms of improved commerce throughout the world. (Hear, obtain complete records of hear.) Chinese among the floating population in seaport towns and mend to you the toast of "The "Love and What Then," "A Cor- cilles have failed owing to the British Industries Fair." May ittain Livellness" (which, produced clusive character of the "auspects."

from strength to strength, by Seymour Hicks, could be called To the ordinary man here, whether bringing in its train a constant in a brilliant failure), and "Adver- police officer or not, one Chinese crease in the volume of trade, in tisement" were full of wit, and ob- scems as like another as two peas; opportunities for employment of and there have been instances of labour, in the prosperity of all ten or a dozen living in a house those who do business within its where only three have been regia walls: (Cheers). tered. The others could never be, traced. Always in some myster- ious way as. soon as a policeman appeared in the vicinity the "wanted" individuals vanished.

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