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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1930:

6,000 SUFFERING

FROM HUNGER.

Lack of Food on Bantayan Island.

Manila, June 27.

A representative of the Red Cross in Bantayan Island. Cebu, sent a telegram to the central office of the American Red Cross in Manila yesterday reporting that about 6,000 people of the island are suffering from hunger and that the campaign for the eradica- tion of cholera is handicapped be. cause of this situation,

A

GUARDED JEWEL HOPE FOR WORKLESS

KING FROM INDIA.

COOLIES.

Native Attendants with Government Schemes in

Daggers.

£20. MANGOES !

Singapore.

Singapore June 20.

It is understood that Governmert is considering the acceleration of £20-reconstruction work to meet a pos-

alble unemployment

crisis ju Singapore. Every possible work that could be put in hand will be discussed.

I have eaten a fruit worth in London, writes a Daily Express special representative.

"I feel sure you are the first man in London who has ever eaten such a fruit in perfect condition," said ray host, Mr. Ganeshi Lall, who has arrived in London from India with collection

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of emeralds, rubies, diamonds, and pearls worth £750,000.

This representative, who is a Red Cross nurse, said that at meeting of the leading citi- zens of. Bantayan with repre- sentatives of the Red Cross, it was Mr. Lall, who la in Agra what decided to raise voluntary contri-Cartier is in London or Paris and butions for the purchase immedi- Tiffany is in New York, travelled ately of absolutely necessary food-thousands of miles with his stuffs, and that in the meanwhile treasury of jewela and thought 300 cavans of rice are to be dis- nothing of it. His whole care was tributed to the indigent. It was devoted to his mangoes, also decided to appeal to Manila authorities, including the Red Cross.

H. S. House, assistant manager of the Red Cross, transmitted the report of the Red Cross repre- sentative In Bantayan to the executive bureau, stating that Dr. Jasminez, ¡Red Cross physician in Cebu was instructed to make an investigation immediately and in-¡

form the central office of hia find-

"Mangoes," he said, "invariably go bad before they are halfway to England or New York. They are so delicate and their flavour is so ephemeral that they have, to my knowledge, never been transported in good condition before."

The recent suggestion in a letter from the Straits Settlements Asso- ! ciation, urging that reconstruction achemes be pushed ahead at the present time, elicited the reply that Government was considering plans for the Kallang and Geylang development schemes and the building of a new Supreme Court. These schemes would offer ex- tensive employment, which would be spread over a long time. The unemployment question in Singa- pore is not, however, generally considered acute, but it is to meet the probability of coolies from the 'tin mines drifting down here in large numbers that preparations are desirable, says the Straits Times.

"I have brought these mangoes Though there has been a large so that I can give one to each of influx of unemployed coolies from my best friends," he said, "In up-country, actually there are only Europe they are rarer than gems" about 5,000 more than normal un- The firm of Ganesh Lall and employed in Singapore. This does ings, so that measures may be Son has been famous for nearly not mean that Singapore usually taken to send the necessary relief. century, and in the East Mr. Lall has any great amount of unemploy Mr. House also said that they have is the pre-eminent specialist in ment among coolies, except that instructed Dr. Evaristo Payad, emeralds. On his last visit to which is formed by a parasitic sec- head of the Red Cross unit No. 4 London he showed his collection of tion of the community who live by assigned in Samar, to at once pro-gema to the King and Queen. One odd jobs and between whiles on ceed to Bantayan to assist in the of his greatest treasures is the their relatives. eradication of cholera and to help Shah Jehan emerald, which is generally in alleviating the suffer valued at £60,000, ing of the people.

He is guarded in his hotel suite by native servants armed with jewelled daggers.

Mahomet's Ring.

With regard to Municipal work, the Improvement Trust is working up to full available revenue, and if additional developments are start- ed, loans would be required.

Honorio Ventura, secretary of the interior, said .that the Bantayan municipal officials al- ready have been Instructed to make necessary appropriations for have with mé," he explain- formed by Government.-Ex. the purchase of rice if necessary ed, "is 8 diamond ring

"The most historie gem

out of municipal 'funds or to get į which belonged to Mahomet

from

the provincial fund by I bought it from a descendant of

ON

the

remark

No committee of inquiry to deal I with the situation has yet been

gravely at me while he told me of his interest in seeing England and the Western world.

appealing to provincial board. | his family, and the name of the wearing a red turban, and looked The secretary expressed doubt prophet is engraved whether there really exists diamond itself. That is true famine in Bantayan, stating that it is so close to Cebu island where are plenty of provisions and that he could not believe the people would allow themselves to get into a altuation which renders them without food.--Philippines Herald.

able piece of work when one con- siders the hardness of the stone." Mr. Lall is accompanied by his eleven-year-old son, Harmchan Lall, who has begun with his father an eighteen months' tour of the world. He came into the room

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