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The China Mail.:

Acute On The Island

therefore, learn to respect Chinese ways, customs and chars acteristics. It will never do for European employers to get on too familiar terms with their em ployees, particularly the domes. tic class. And above all, if they have any sense of their civic: duties, whites must respect a Chinese or any other Asiatic who wears the. King's uniform.

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mr. J. W. Franks has resumed duty as Superintendent of Prisons, on returning from Home leave,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1929.

THE INVASION OF MANCHURIA

EXODUS OF CHINESE MILLIONS

here starved."

Amor to fut à scrap of paper RAMSHACKLE, little, stampa foranking, the homes of their acarred upper works, crawis along. In one of the empty rooms or under side the pier at Dalren. Her a stone in an abandoned field bear- decks are packed with Chinese of ingjan inscription like this: the poorest claas: old men, wo "Max he who takes up his abode men, boys, and babies, all ragged and incredibly dirty, with a look of

prosper where We hove bewilderment on their stupid faces. The Japanese-owned South Man They are sifted ashore by port churian railway facilitates as far The name of the Connaught doctors like so many animals and as possible this flood of new settlers. Investment Co., Ltd., has been horded in a shed.

Presently they Special fourth-class fares are grant- struck off the register of "cora-emerge, some to open railway trucks ad them, and only the very poorest panjes.

into which they crowd with their are forced to walk, Yet walk unsavoury bundles and insanitary they do, every foot of the 600-miles quilts. Others, who have not even journey to Harbin and thence into the pittance required to pay for the thinly popuinted 'tracts of such mean transport,, shoulder Hallungklang province. Southern their belongings; the women carry Manchuria is full.. cooking-pots and babies,, the men stop there. are laden with more than doubtful

The name of Mr. D. S. Robb, C.A., has been added to the list of auditora under the Companies Or dinances.

The Wah Yan College is holding Its tenth anniversary dinner in the Hall of the College on Monday.. December 16, at 7.30 p.m...

''Details regarding parcel post rates, etc., from Hong Kong to Korea or Chosen via Japan are published in the "Government Gazette."

from

Under instructions Be that as it]

Secretary of State for the Colonies, may, the hous- H.E. the Governor has recognised ing problem Mr.. J. T. Bagram as Honorary on the Island Consul-General for Stam, in Hong

Kong.. is an acute one and, is get

They cannot

luggage corded in bits of cloth, and the family camps

All along the railway one Bees they start off, a dilapidated and A blanket or a mat on three sticks of Immigrants. pitiful procession, along the rail- gives shelter little better than a way line, towards infinity..

dog kennel. The pilgrims live on

Capt. and Mrs. Torrible announce

It is the beginning of their trek, what they can beg or pick up, the engagement of their only on foot to the promised land, Babies are born, and not a few dle daughter Margaret to Paymaster

which is Northern Manchuria. before the goal la reached. Hard- Ligut Commander A, R. Thatcher, They are participating. In the ships are great. Yet they show K.N.

greatest migration in the world. courage and a tenacity of purpose Exhausted by civil war, bandits, which is little sbort of amazing. and the rapacity of fluctuating War

So eager are these refugees to Lords, these pilgrims have left their escape from China that they eroas our farms in the provinces of to Manchuria in every conceivable Shantung and Chili and are seek-way-by junk, open sailing boat, ing a new life in the wilderness that railway, from Shanhaiwen, and, lies close to Siberin...

steamer direct to Dairen. Even Nothing the

like this

wholesale in winter, when the soil is frozen exodus of a people has been wit and cultivation impossible, they neased. In modern times. They press nothward, preferring death.... are pouring out of the oppressed there to death, at home.

Chinese provinces of North-Western China guilds and other charitable at the rate of a million a year. ganisations help many on their way. in advance. Locst: delivery freeting worse every day. It is

Many simply abandon their small The goal is fertile agricultura! The King's exequatur empowering holdings and leave their old homes land adjoining the newly opened jla hothing uncommon to see fami, Senor Don Antonio Alexandrino derelict, without even attempting railways in North, East, and West It has become a Manchuria. The immigrants are lies herded like a pen of cattle, Consul for Salvador, in Hong Kong, custom for these voluntary exiles given seed and a

Rosello Botelho to act as Honorary to sell them. and in Wanchai one can see a has received His Majesty's signa

very small sum to keep them alive until the first .whole family sharing the same ture.

harvest. The usual argcement bed,If a high standard of

with the landowner is on a crop- Ho Man. Tin. Street is the new Two cases of smallpox and two of sharing basis. hygiene is to obtain, rent must name bestowed on the street, com-diphtheria were notified on Thurs be reduced so that each family mencing at Waterloo Road east of day; all were Chinese. can at least have a amall flat in Kowloon Inland Lot No.: 2115 and "Official" sunset to-morrow is which to live.

running in a south-easterly direction

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MARRIAGE

|JACK—SPALDING....— At

Hong

Kong on November 29, 1929, m; Lawrence Jack, son of the late W. C. Jack and Mrs. Jack, to Daisy May Spalding

APPRECIATION

་་་་

Mr. and Mrs. D. O. de SILVA, of

Hampstead, London, N. W. 6, desire to thank all Hong Kong friends for the good wishes and presents sent on the occasion of their recent mar- True friendships abide though odeaua divide.".

rige.

Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 90, 1929.

STILL WATERS.

Problem

The

A. Chinese poultry dealer was

The... present parallel to the Kowloon-Canton: 6.88 pan. On Monday it is 5.39 p.m. system of dividing a small Rallway, terminating at the south Sunrise on both days is at 6:47 a.m. Chinese flat to five or six end of KL 1736. -, • cubicles and red spaces is cerar. Shaw, of Tregunter tainly not conducive to a sanitary stans, has reported to the and hygienic standard of living, that some time between

And

от

Even well-to-do and educated Chinese have joined in the exodus vinces, rather than endure further. from Shantung and Chill pre- the uncertain and often dangerous oxistence of vassala under a local War Lord.-P.P.

TEN YEARS AGO

(From the "China Mail" November 30, 1919.3

i

To-day's dollar was worth 5/- d

Man- fined $25 this morning at the Cen Police tral Magistracy for putting 44 1a.m. chickens in a small crate resulting und 7am. yesterday somebody in the death of three. It was also stole a quantity of liver ware otated that several fowls were un Ten years ago, a from the house, the total value conscious, but they revived after Snobbishness European lady, being given as $145. It was they had been let out in a yard.

who called her stated that the door of the house

Two Chinese, one of whom was Indiscretion, self a "white was open at the time.

described

There was a good gathering at the 88 a musician, were race course to attend the Gymkhann. woman" cham.. Lt. W. A. F. Mockler, R.A.O.C., charged at the Central Magistracy. The racing was particularly good. The pioned the cause of her two, chair who has been Ordnance Equipment this morning with fighting, Mr. time registered by some of the winners coolies, who were Chinese, and Officer in Hong Kong since Aprit, Grantham, the Magistrate, asked if wete surprising. The the winners in the same breath told the Police G. W. Smith, R.A.0.C., who has man objecting to the music. The surprise when Geordie Bac, zank Fa exchanged stations with Lt the fight was a result of the other day-St. Andrew's Cup-brought some authorities that she did not want carried out the same duties in Inspector in charge of the case said outsider came in first, with. Mr. Doyle to be accosted by a Chinese con- Shanghai. Mr.. Mockler, will be that the two men fought over a

up. He paid his hackers $40.10.

Mr. Johnstone, on John Peel's "Un stable. She considered it beyond returning to a station with which he gambling debt. They were, both

named" was a hot favourite for this. Is familiar, he having served there bound over in the sum of $10 to keep race and did his best, but he simply A correspondent, signing

early this year then pointed out through the medium of the “China Maul" that the same lady would consider herself, flattered if spoken to by Sir Robert Ho Tung, who is also a Chinese, Even Inspector Garrod of The Police, took the incident very seriously to heart.

her digelf John Kesterior to obtaining his Commission

the

pence.

could not beat Geordie Mac.

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

Rare Chinese Books: A National Theatre: Theatrical Golfers: The Italian Giant: The Prince's Secretary

VERX varied have, feen the expadi

He made a protest before the Chinese Treasures

which he invited to a famous party Night Club Boxing Magistrate, Mr. N. L. Smith..

he gave at 11 Downing THE rare collection of Chinese songsters

the Illustrated books and scroll garden, lit with fairy lights, and by

Topéra

Too White? cident, took place which were hought by Sir George, was practically

Although the in-pletures, all by named artists, inidnight it seemed to be tried gars

Ferally that Stats abou

ten years ago, it Scott in Peking during the Boxer Government ceased to exist and hot

Brighter than it was

Stage Golfers

Committee is not out of place here to men- troubles of 1999 and 1960, when the B.N.O.C. bas fellaway High Rent appointed by the tion that there are certain people the nobles were left destitute and the future for such a scheme is far"

Twenty-Four Mer chants' Guild to investigate the high rent problem. will, we have no doubt, a hercu- lean task before them. But

on

Beter's

ents adopted at different timas

by London's night; clubs for the er tertainment of their patrons." : But, the latest attraction Primo Carners

must coftainly be counted novelty

The

gigantic

Italian boxer sppears edetsuppertime at one of the more intime clubs on a recent even- ing, and there epared several ex- hibition rounds.

Historically considered, of course, this is only reversion to the prac

when boule wore frequently

who are alleged to be unneces were obliged to see all the trea. ↑ sarily snobbish, and at the.

sures they possessed,, was sold at game time most indla

Sotheby's, on October 21 One of THE Stage Golfing Society have There are the drawings depicts the legend long made it a custom to have ice of the old prize ring of Regency people

like the lady of 35th Miao who was born Cabinet Minister as the chief guest held in lofts and barns adjoining

days, calf-man from q, cow, and dated at their annual dinner. many will congratulate them In this assinho, consider, them--Spring of chon Kuan li 640 This year they invited Mr. Arthus these ingia much frequented by, Corla,

selves too "white" to be accosted A.D.)gar sem að 36 hath d their public-spiritedness.

Greenwood, the Minister of Health;

thians and the "Fancy.""""" but his speech was not the best, a few yards off St. Martin's Lane,

- The tibb if question decupies rooms. by a Chinese, constable even it The collection, with many curl the evening There is no denying that not only they do violate the laws, and at ous and interesting treasures in To

extent

they are carofully once the workshops of Chippendale: shall tradesmen, but wage the same time they think it finefon, Sir George sent home to his speeches are usualy AP thing of a sensation By arriving at carnerate being badly, hit

porcelain, bronze, facquer, and go prepared beforehand is not known,

but there is no doubt

Carmora, by the way, created soms- by the excessive rental which date in and go android meta

fun playing with their servants. mother at Cambridge and since this dinner Bir Nigel Plati Mr the Motor Show in Baby Austin Some European ladies are berdeath they have remained Leslie Renton, Mr Hubert Harben, Information is not avaliable as to they are called upon to pay. That known to be unduly Kamillar many two, no carved wood and Mr. Owan Nares pake wisely whether the car was Carnera's own rent is too high in many cases with their amshs, and, of course, Chinese cabinets with His brother, and witi One could as the property. If it was, one feels that needs no investigation, but the in the long run, this leads to con- St John Colleges Cambridge. John Simon was another oratorical have to get into it, sir.

expected, hear every word they guld,

the saleaman inust have adopted the Sir Robert Scott now Master of and they were not too lang Bis now familiar assurance "You don't factor which the Twenty-Four

tempt.

You wear 3 Dating the long #vacation they Merchants' Guild will have to contend with la whether any pro- posal which they may put for- gith mpathy We are nclined have

spect.

Keep in Their Placa

success.

were all brou of to Lon-

be bet dd, and the facts.. beauty

ob

Are bait Messrs and

It is the subsequent entertainment Mr. Hugh Lloyd:Thomas's Loss that forms the elou of these dinners, Hugh Lloyd Thomas, the quiet, ragtilwhitest

aro attended by men choTEC 10104-106king, youngish man who, eresti The acting profession is, perhaps the other day was appointed Private ött at unkype in that its member the MarSPLAY to the Prince of Wales, has in, Kuchli, willing to work hard (or Flare F•g, blow^ in the death of his

weeks in order

pernotrate somo father aizborato Jakey

Why? thought? reward beyond the fund out of Sir Gerald

Mr. Nares

Mr. B. Lloyd Thomas, Hogay/EhSmal, wer who was Wrent most of his life Ketebe marsed Com

lunes On retiring ho

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