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charged $11.50, the salesman ex- plaining that the extra $1.50 was the usual commission charged! The money was paid! Another friend asked him to get one for him also. He went to the same store on Friday, and this time he was asked $14 for a ticket. The salesman explained then that there were very few tickets left. None could be had at the Club it- self now, and, consequently, the price had gone up. He also added by way of enticement to buy that in a few days' time the price would go up to $20! Our corres- pondent adds that he admired

the

of

CORRESPONDENCE

EUROPEAN POPULATION

To the Editor of "China Mail") Ste.-Can you give me any figures regarding the European population of Hong Kong and Kowloon (ex- cluding the Portuguese and Military community) for 1920 as compared with, say two or three years ago?

It would be interesting to know these facta in view of the present trade situation, the fact that many stores catering to the European community are doing much less business than they did three years ago, and that hotels and clubs also catering to this community seem to be having a hard time to keep going It seems to me that there has been a gradual but steady outgoing of the British and American residents since the strike of 1925.

Yours, etc.,

STATISTICIAN. Hong Kong, February 7.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO. LTD.

[To the Editor of the "China Mal")

Sir,TM- At the extraordinary meeting of shareholders of this Company held on the 5th inst. It was decided to remove Mesars, Shewan, Tomes & Co. from the office of General Managers and to pay them compensation for such removal any such sum 18 the Company in general meeting may hereafter decide, and an able plea for adequate compensation to Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co. was made by the Hon. Mr. Braga in seconding the resolution. As I shall be absent from the Colony and therefore unable to attend the confirmatory meeting of the 26th inst. I now with your per- mission endorse fully the plea of Mr. Braga for liberal compensa- tion to Messrs. Shewan, Tomes.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1930.

MR. GANDHI THE INSCRUTABLE

gress

IDOL OF FANATICS

[By L. M. Gander]

[At the All-India National Con- Gandhi ki jai," and there would he in Lahore, Mr. Gandhi's a deep-throated chorus of "Jai." resolution demanding complete (The Indian equivalent of "Gandhi Independence has been carried for ever.") with only six dissentienta.]

R. Gandhi's title, "Mahatmu,"

I saw Mr. Gandhi walking down the centre aisle, acknowledging the

Maple a key to the mystery tremendous avation

of his lasting Influence with the was greeted with smiles and an people of India. It is applied to occasional salaam. His those who are considered to have garment was a loin-cloth of rough.

enly transcended the limitations of the home-spun material, and his slight flesh, and Indicates that he is rebody was dreadfully emaciated, with garded by the masses as a saint the ribs showing through. rather than a political leader,

Banned False Teeth His smile disclosed the fact that he was practically toothless, He did not wear false teeth-in public, at least-because of their foreign He had a thin face,

Five years ago it seemed that Mr. Gandhi's power was on the wane; now he is once again a dominant figure. . In a country where asceticism is regarded as a manufacture. shining virtue, and where there sanken cheeks, and inscrutable eyes. seem to be as many begging priests His head was shaven, and at the and fakirs as there are workers, back he wore the usual Hindu pig- Mr. Gandhi is pre-eminent tail. among those who practise When he rose to speak there was and preach simplicity in life.

a profound hush from that great His appearance is, at a first assembly. He spoke in Indian meeting, disappointing and unin dialect, with a swift, smooth flow of spiring to a Western mind. But words, without gestures or violent one soon begins to sense some of language. The British translation that porsonal magnetism that has sounded like a long and somewhat made him the idol of the people. boring political oration, but his My first glimpse of him was after audience was moved to tremendous his imprisonment and Illness; when enthusiasm. At the end he was he emerged from retirement to garlanded with scented flowers, address a big political meeting in according to

the pretty Indian Bombay. He had been living like an anchorite at Juhu, near Bombay, a place noted among Europeans for its beautiful palm-fringed beach.

custom.

Mr. Gandhi is revered by the populace as, one would imagine, were the prophets of the Old Outside the hall in Bombay there

Testament, They crowd around were amazing scenes. Hindus of him, eager to catch a glimpse of My knowledge and personal ob- all caster-respectable clerks in him and, perhaps, to touch the hem. servation of the working of this their black pill-box hats, beggars of his garment. There is small Company extends over the whole and cripples from the gutter, and canse for wonder in the fact, that, forty years

so ably

covered by naked children-made a vast sweat-politieally, he is still. a force with Mr. Braga in his speech, and I Ing, struggling mass,

Inside, in which to reckon.

on the bordar-line which

well remember the shares quoted spite of the sweltering heat, the It has been said that Mr. Gandhi at $1.00, and the very trying hall was packed from floor to cell-is periods in the Company's history ing. Now and again the droning separates sanctity from sanity, but

to the majority of his simple ad- kerents he is the Mahatma. He himself prefers to be depicted as a ange sitting cross-legged on a couch

with khaddar covered

(country cloth), beside a spinning-wheel, which is the symbol of economic independence,

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China Mall," February 10, 1920.1

To-day's dollar is worth 6/ 2d.

How much Crown land is held

which he has so well described. voice of some fanatic would rise In addition to the vital assistance abova. the babel with "Mahatma

at that time, as of Mr. Shewan stated by Mr. Braga, I would re- fer to the sound judgment of Mr.

Factory going under great dif- Shewan in selecting and manag-

culties and at the least possible ing his staff, the then Works cost. The same economy exists at Manager and Chief Engineer be the Hok-Un Factory to-day, and ing men of extraordinary ability right through these forty years and character, and with their - the main spring of this devotion, sistants devoted to the intereste loyalty, and unselfish service has shameless admission

of the Company not one cent of been the encouraging personality, squeeze, but needless to say heed. It was of course continuous himself who financed the Com- whose money was knowingly waat- ability and tact of Mr. Showan did not buy a ticket because he re- day and night and Sunday work pany when moribund and bank- fused to be "soaked."

in the Factory in the heat and rupt, has never lost faith In it Unofficial representations have cement dust, and. I well remem and has lived to see the Company been made, we understand, to the ber the European staff themselves able to run under its own Direc-

stoking the old Club concerned, and doubtless training the workmen.

style kilne and, tors, pay nearly $10,000,000 im by Government officials? Was it

It was dividends and its capital increase all obtained in their investigation will bear out killing work, the staff wishing from $200,000 to $3,400,000 an

open auc- tion, in fair competition with Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 10, 1930. the Information conveyed to their throats a mile long for cold stated by Mr. Braga. In view of outside bidders, Some Chin- the China Mail, It would be drinks, and the living conditions the foregoing facts and those ose friends have requested us ludicrous for any Club to tolerate ideal.

means given by Mr. Braga my vote is to ask this. We haven't the But the Manager and for liberal any abuses on the part of their staff who were called out at any Mesars. Showan, Tomes.

compensation to slightest notion what la behind it. They wouldn't tell us. Well, there agents for sweep tickets, but the time during the night never re-

ia no harm in asking. We trust public must be adequately pro-laxed or became disheartened but

the answer to the second question tected from harpies who are out

strove continuously to keep the

will be in the affirmative. to exploit the-situation for their own material gains. And, it is far from desirable to give the "Puritans" here or at Home an op- portunity for an outburst on the morals of Hong Kong in regard to cash sweeps run in a bona fide)

RACE SWEEPS

At a moment when race cash sweeps in Malaya are being re- gularised in the direction of en- suring that only bona fide mem- bers of Clubs buy tickets, it la

manner.

News in Brief

at Green Island by no

Yours, etc.,

W. S. BAILEY. Kowloon, February 8, 1930.

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

Baron Palastierna: Staunch Friend Of Britain: Sir Montague Shearman: Lingering Preference For The Bar: "Julius Caesar:" Back In China

A Versatile Diplomatist

THE Swedish Minister, whose

daughter was married recent iy. is the most picturesque, as he

well that the hint should be taken in respect of seeps in this Colony on the eve of the annual race meeting. It must not be taken for granted that because such sweeps are, with every rea- son, tolerated, any abuses will be permitted to creep in. As we have seen from the mui-tsai problem, the opium question, and A fine collecion of valuable post-is one of the most deservedly other local topics "Meddlesome age stamps is to be sold at Lammert popular, of the Foreign Envoya in Bros. auction rooms on Friday at London. There is no other. mem- Matties," "Nosey Parkera" and

5.16 p.m. others of a similar kidney-not to

ber of the Corps Diplomatique mention Madame Grundy -- are

The annual Ball given by the with so varied an experience of only too ready to set Governmen- bachelor, members of the Craigen-life, or with such diverse attain- tal machinery going to satisfy gower Cricket Club la to take place ments. their own whims and fancies; and, on Saturday.

we do not for a moment wish

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arbitration, he played a still un- revealed, but important part in arranging some of the conversa- tions between British, French and German statesmen, which led to the elaboration of the Locarno Pact..

An Athletic Judge THE late Sir Montague Shearma

was probably the best all-round athlete on the bench of High Court judges since the late Lord Alverstone, Baron Palmstierna has been in the genial Dick Webster of other

days.

Quite recently he had some turn a captain in the Royal interesting things to say about run- them to be heard in connection In view of his pending departure Deputy in the Swedish Partia young man.

Swedish Navy, a Social-Democratning, at which he to excelled as a with the cash sweeps organised R. C. Tredwall, for a few years

to Australia, on promotion, Mr. ment, a political editor, Minister His theory was that a very warm in connection with the annual United States Consul-General. In Minister of Foreign Affairs in the

day and a following wind make for of Marine, and subsequently fast times, and the more race meeting.

there are on, the track the less the Hong Kong, was entertained by the Swedish Cabinet, finally coming speed. To the last he watched close- Wa On Association at the Kam Ling to London as his country's diple would go out of his way to attend ly the inter-University contests, and restaurant on Saturday night.

matic representative.

those not very thrilling functions-- athletic sports.

One of the readers of the

China Mell asks us to call the at- |tention of the South China Athle.

WAH

curves

Handel as Operatic Composer

so many Londoners -- oven the

miunte-loving ones-are apt to connect that great Londonor, Handel exclusively with oratorio in general, and the "Messiah" in particular, that they must have rubbed their eyes over the preliminary announcements of the porformance of his

oporn, "Julius Caesar," which was given at the Scala Theatre recently.

Д matter of fact, Handel wrote nearly Afty operas, most of which have been completely forgot. ken, savo for fragmentary excerpts, Misfortune dogged him, but he fought for opera at his King's Theatre as indefatigably as Sir Thomas Beecham fights to-day, and was a most prolife composer into the bargain.

Perhaps the reward is coming at last. Two centuries after the operas first appeared there is now a grow- ing vogue for them in Germany, and within the last year two there have been performances of "Rode- Unda" and "Ottone" at Gottingen, and a dramatised, version of "Saul" at. Munstar.

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Old China Residents Return

Cleveland, Ohio, former rezi- Shanghai, are.

an

tic Association to profiteering by Pul-sam (29), living at

A Chinese woman named Pun

Nobody acquainted with the sellers. of their big sweep tickets Connaught, Road Central,

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diplomatic world in London would | And a Good Judge, Too priced on the face of them at $10 alleged to have attempted suicide deny that Baron Palmstierna is THERE are grounds for beleving ML and Mrs. Robert E. Lewis, of each. Books of these tickets yesterday by taking an over dose probably its best-informed mem- that Sir Montague retained to

of opium.

the last a lingering preference for dents ber.

of This is due to his genial the Bar, as is suggested by the fol- visit to the City having arrived She was removed to have been distributed to various the Government Civil Hospital in hospitality, which is not confined lowing story which he told soon after from Ingtal, Falden, where their Chinese stores for sale. Some of a serious condition.

to high officials or to glittering he became a judge..

son, Dr. Neil Lewis, is physician these agents are placing very

social figures,

A Scottish laird visited a British serving under the American Board mansion, taking with him, as he of Foreign Missions. Mr. Lowis fancy prices on them, and making

Baron Palmétierna is that rare always did, his benchman.

It was

was the first secretary of the buge profits at the expense of the

thing, a thoroughly "modern" their custom always to occupy the Y.X.O.A. in Shanghai, coming as the diplomat, who realises, as so few etiquette for the henchman

same bed room, "but it was not representative of the International public. Last month our corres-

diplomats yet do, that modorn either by the side of or above his 1598, and formally inaugurated the aleep Committee of North America Lin pondent visited one of the Chin-

Nanking, Yesterday,

politics are dominated no longer master. So as there was only one Chinese Y.M.C.A. In January, 1900, ese stores to make a purchase. It is understood the National by men of ideas and of solid in-lotted to them the laird slept on the ed to the United States in 1907. by the frequenters of salons, but bed, with a canopy, in the room al- thirty years ago. Mr. Lewis return. Sweeps were not in his mind at Government issued a mandate the

canopy.pl When asked next morning During his residence in China And the time, but the asicaman behind evening ordering the punishment of dustrial and fasatial achieve how he had rested, he said that "but subsequently Mr. Lewis is an

Mesars, Taal Yun-aheng, Chu Shao the counter tempted him with a yung and Chow Lung-kwang

for the honour and glory of its he contributer on Far Eastern "subjects A staunch friend of Britain

›would rather have alept in the bed to various American periodicals and book. He took a ticket and was Reuter.EE

“That is my position," added (giris the author of "The Educational and of the policy of International Montagua,

Conquest of the Far East"

PUNISHMENT ORDERED

ment