THE CHINA MAIL.
10
THE PASSING OF. "THE MERCURY.”
HYMNS OF HATE. TRAFFIC IN ILLICIT
Editor Muses on Phases of Life.
HINDUS' MORNING CHANTS TO ROUSE NATIVES.
WAY BACK IN 70'S.
PLEAS FOR AID,
Bombay, July 20.
DRUGS.
Smuggling Centre at Amoy,
scale.
of
POOR PLANTERS.
VICTIMS OF RUBBER
· SLUMP.
PASSAGE MONEY ASKED.
rubber
MYSTERY OF MANH "RUMPIES.”
Popular Story of Their Queer Origin.
FATHER'S FINE TAIL.
connection with the cutting down A new problem has arisen in
estates, says the Straits Times.
European stafs
Every visitor to the Isle of Man goes about looking for Manx outs, With the price at the present whenever he sees a cat his eye goes level, when very few estates can eagerly over its anatomy to ob make a profit, many Europeanserve, alas, with a vague feeling of agreements are being terminated. Cisappointment, that it has a tall, ceived notice are requesting their passage money in lieu of passage, as they do not wish to face prospect of unemployment Home.
at
Express. i
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1930.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS.
THIS IS WHAT YOU
ARE REQUIRING.
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
NEWSHIRTS
From
$3.00
AT THE TAJMAHAL SILK STORE 5, Wyndham St. Tel. 26136.
BOOTS & SHOES.
WELL TAILORED SUMMER SUITS.
AT REASONABLE-
PRICES.
BROWN
2nd, Rutton Bldg.,
7, Duddell St.
Manx cuts-or “rumples" as they the call them are rare in the lyla of Man. Most women and many men visitors play with the iden of tak It is stated that many companies concerned have refused to do this, is one home as a souvenir, and it and in all cases are making ar- has been suggested, not very rangements direct with the steam-seriously, I think, that in order to ship companies to comply with the preserve the breed the Government should prohibit their export. A more sensible idea would be a Leather Sole Canvas Shces...$ 4.50 Government cattery which would Crepe Rubber Solo Canvas Shoos$ 6.00 Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 sell them to visitors.
These cats go all over the world. Black or Brown Shoes from $0.00 HAIR DRESSERS & BOOKSELLERS
Black or Brown Boots Lom..$8.00} was introduced to one that is Children's Boots or Shoes from $ 200, shortly sailing for New York. -
Best styles, most complete stock If you want a Manx cat, however,
of all sizes. Repairing a specialty, WONG SIU WOON
The British Government's annual Hymns of spite, designed to en- courage expansion of the indepen-report to the League of Nations on Mr. Gen., T. Lloyd, who was at dence struggle, are replacing the the traffic, in opium and other one time editor and publisher of prayer services which the Hindus dangerous drugs states that no the "Lloyds Weekly." in Shang- observe the first thing every morn-seizures of importance occurred in haiz a paper well-knows, for its ing.
Great Britain during 1929 and. no The movement, which started in evidence was obtained to show that fearless comments. is the author of the following interesting the densely populated centres of the illicit traffic in the drugs exists A number of those who have re-writes H. V. Morton in the Daily
Bombay, is being carried into the la England except on a very small article. He was editor of the rural districts as well as into the Shanghai Mercury' up to the time towns and villages, the National- Reports, however, of seizures re- the journal was absorbed by theists continuing their campaign to ceived from British Dominions (1
stimulate Mahatma Gandhi'a move- particular India), "from
British Shanghal Evening Post:-
ment for passive resistance. These Colonies, from the United States of Life has many phases. Comedy efforts go
on regardless of the America, and from Egypt and other is oftimea assertive. Tragedy peace steps taken by Sir Tej countries (through the League of commands attention. The cap and Bahadur Sapru and N. Jayakar, Nations) show that there was little, tells appeal to the crowd, just as Indian leaders, to confer with if any, diminution of the illicit
Gandhi and other im-traffic generally.
terms of agreementa. tears move the multitude. What Mahatma
In September, 1928, 10 bottles of ever the presentative, set and Prisoned leaders in the near future
From inquiries made, It trans- staged by Expricious Fatehow with a view to persuading them to cocaine bearing the labels of a pires that the more general view ever great its success or deplorable help in restoring normal condi- German manufacturer were seized is that passage money should not its ultimate effect-the time comes
in the possession of two coolies at be given unless a planter is assur when the few watch the final Chant Their Pleas For Ald. a railway station in Burmah. It ed of some definite employment
The hymn singers start out in was ascertained from the German here. -scene, see the fall of the curtain,
and conjure up a wealth of re-groups about 5 a.m. dally and go authorities that some of the bottles Already, it was pointed out, miniscences associated with the from one street to another, sing had formed part of a consignment large numbers of planters who you go to the hotel porter and ask
ssing present and the dim pasting in front of houses. Tenements exported under licence to a Chinese were early victims of the stump him if he can find one. He looks, Pottinger St.
and flats, in which a large pro- doctor named E. S. Cheong, of have been unemployed for many mysterious and says. munity in this great port, and ob-portion of the Bombay Indians Amoy, and that others had been ex-months and are at present depend- thought, that he thinks he knows of servers of men and recorders of live, are particularly sought. The ported under licence to a firm in ing on the charity of their friends one. Sooner or later he lets loose events mark the passing of what songs are sung in a sort of chant London for re-export, it was be- for existence.
in your room something between a Most of these
cat and a rabbit. must be regarded as an old British by those of the Congress party lieved, to China.
аже planters whose agreements did not provide If the animal is old it will walk institution. The last issue of the Shanghai Mercury has been print
for a passage home and are now round and cut you dead and sniff el and published.. A record of ser-
practically destitute. Nevertheat you and disapprove of you with less an increasing number of the expression of a rich aunt who
To-day the
cosmopolitan-tom-
tlons.
who are able to read the words in the little booklets which the Con gress has been printing in great numbers, These books are dis-
freely.
1
vice extending over half a centurytributed throughout the country which had, in turn, supplied the planters who have received notice has left her money
has been closed. Calamity comes in many guises.
were
after due
Inquiries of the firm in London showed that the cocaine had been exported by it under Home Offee licence to its branch in Shanghai,
elsewhere, cocaine to Dr. E. S. Cheong, of owing to their estates curtailing Should the creature be young and The singers urge housewives, Amoy. In each case the permit of staff or closing down, held the gay
will leap on the their husbands and all members the Chinese Maritime Customs had view that there are better chances bed, fall off, walk all over of families to join these early teen obtained. :
of employment here than in your typewriter, upset the ink. morning rounds. The groups gain In another case, In which 32oz. of Britain.
in numbers as the singing con morphine 5000% of cocaine, and tinues. They awaken sleepers as 2816. of Peraian opium were seized they chant verse after verse about Ghandi and what he has done and is attempting in his campaign to "free India."
elsewhere..
and go rushing round the room in lolloping baunds like a hare, for a rabbit. A real Manx "rumple"
to continuous, and never runs like an ordinary cat.
Unsolved Puzzle.
of the
all
Way Back in 70.'s. Away In the 70's one can imagine the enthusiasm displayed and the interest evinced by a small group of publicity pioneers when the iden was conceived here that
at Rangoon in October, 1928, cocaine is subject there was "room" for a British
hearing the label of the same Ger- scientific study and action. evening paper. The task of in-
man. manufacturer was traced as (e) The problem of devising an oculating interest into the sceptics
All cats are mysterious, but the having been exported from Germany economic policy for the Empire Maux cat is an unsolved puzzle. I fell to the lot of Mr. J. D. Clark, One verse begins: "Dawn has to Dr. E. S. Cheong.
should be studied in a scientific have heard that the Department of one of the "old school" and one come-get out of bed!" The song The seizure at Rangoon consisted spirit, free from all political blas, Agriculture is holding, or is think- who dedicated the major portion of is chanted in the vernacular. not only of genuine German cocaine and in the work of the permanenting of holding, an inquiry into the an eventful life to the creation and Another stanza starts: "Don't you but also of morphia bearing labels Secretariat and of any Conference breed. the maintenance of the Mercury, hear the bugle sounding? Even in those distant days there calling for your aid in the strug-purporting
It's (evidently printed in the Far East) which may take place in connection I went to see a man who breeds the work, every question them in a modest way. He came vicissitudes
be those of an English with to contend: gle against imperialism!" financial and otherwise. Sympathy |
Inter-Imperial drm, which does not, however, affecting
trado down stairs followed by about ten The different verses urge every exist, of cocaine with forged labels should be brought under review, tailless cats, white, black, and tabby.. was not so shy in those years. The one to action. Another reads: purporting to be those of a well- and по question should be He has been a Manx cat fancier for spirit of fraternity was abroad. "How can you sit idle when others known German manufacturer, and debarred from discussion owing about thirty years, and knows no The community was modest in are doing so much in the interest nico 1000z, of cocaine manufactured to
political party prejudices more about them than when he number. The clubs were few. of our native land?" Friends were fewer but sturdier in
by a cocaine manufacturer of or opinions.
'started. Urge Use Of Shipping Wheel. * promise and performance, Camer-
Tokyo, together with 225oz. of (d) The Committee recommend One verse
"If you mate two Manx cats," he urges men, women cocaine bearing the label of the that in this free discussion and told me, "the kittens in all pro aderie was cultivated. Men called and children to use the spinning mysterious Fujit Suru brand, the examination their bosom or business friends by wheel, following Ghandi's lead, origin of which has not yet been involved.
problems inbility will have tails. Now and
of representatives their Christian names. It was and everyone to wear homespun, traced.
Again one or, at most, two are organised economic common coin. They bore the hall-and "we'll surely win our fight for
interests, "rumpies." It's a queer strain that mark of sincerity.
labour, These two cases appear to indicate including
- should independence if all of you take that Amoy is a centre from which intimately
be crops up again and again, but you associated with Individuals who were connected the pledge to buy
the never can tell how or when. See no foreign drugs are smuggled into India and work, not only in view of their this little chap. IIis father was an with the promotion of the old goods." British organ have stepped off the Another verse is devoted to
vital interest, but because of the ordinary cat with a fine tail. This stage.
| practical experience which they Azreal'a call-boy is ever making India dry, as advocated by
one kitten out of six has reverted Insistent. But the memory of men Ghandl. Men are urged to give up
would bring to the study of such to type, and is a grand Manx who sought to serve their day and all strong drink not only for their
problems.
'rumple'-—not a hint of a tail on him generation is treasured by those good but for the cause of inde
(e) In conclusion, the Com and legs like a hare! You never can who revere contributions to com- pendence and as a means of strik-
mittee realise that there are certain tell...." munity life, and who regard public ing at the Government's pocket-
limitations to the action of Govern It is a British tradition to at- Institutions with a degree of re- book by depriving it of the excise
ments, and that the practical ap- tribute any problem in genetics to The late Mr. George tax.
plication of any policy decided upon the Spanish Armada. Lanning contributed poems fa
is, the task of the business com. Leaders say that early morning prose to the old organ.
Final agreement was hymns are doing much to break
reached munities of the Empire. The Com-
An Ancient Legend. Compared with present
The popular story la that some day down caste hatred by bringing yesterday, writes the Morning Post mittee believe that the only means facilities the Mercury equipment neighbourhoods closer together.
Labour Correspondent on July 11, of obtaining a substantial growth cats came ashore on the Isle of Man of 50 years ago was primitive. All They say all classes and castes of regarding the memorandum to be and efficient rationalisation of imfrom a galleon wrecked during the type had to be set by hand, the Hindus, as
well as Parsees, are placed before the Imperial Economic perial resources, both from the return of the Armada. They found printing machines wore flat bed participating. The Hindus give to Conference on behalf of British in-point of view of Inter-Imperial themselves on a barren island where Public demand had not introduced the hymns time formerly devoted dustry. The report was presented trade jard of Imperial world trade, they fell in love with rabbits and hustle into overy circle of life. A to prayer, at which every Hindu to the Government yesterday is for the representatives of in-lived happily ever after. In the fretful machine might delay pub normally spends an hour or more evening. lication for an hour or two, and each morning immediately after A joint-committee of the Federa-nance in the various parts of the Crewe it is impossible for me to seldom was it necessary tender rising.
tion of British Industries, the As-Empire to be fully consulted by say whether this is as silly as it sociation of Chambers of Com. of polley, and themselves to get into
their Governments upon queétions sounds. Life was not feverish in those NOSE-DIVE TO EARTH merce, and the Chamber of Ship the closest touch possible through- legend is the fact that none of the A strong argument against this ping, at a meeting yesterday, put out the Empire with a view to dis travellers of the 17th and 18th the final touched to the statement..cussing, as a matter of business, centuries mentions the breed. It is Competition AIRMAN SERIOUSLY HURT IN pire should operate as an economic ganisation of Empire production authorities that the Manx cat lo It suggests that the British Em- the most efficient and profitable or therefore assumed by less romantic unit. That this ideal, which has and development as a whole.
descended from.. an East India long been held, has not materialia- ed is due, In the opinion of the joint points of principle as so greatly a fairly late date.
The Committee 'regard the above breed Introduced into the faland at committee, to the lack of proper outweighing in Importance any
verence.
an apology to the anxious readers.
halcyon days. Besides, the Mer-
cury had the privilege for a num
ber of years of monopolising the "evening" market.
was not offered, until Eugene Cher
came on the scene.
Popular and Acceptable.
In those earlier days the sedate-
'PLANE CRASH.
Bangkok, August 16.
EMPIRE UNITY.
BRITISH INDUSTRY'S MESSAGE.
dustry, commerce, shipping, and absence of Professors Haldane and
In the meantime the Government
Budget surplus If it organised the breeding and export of - these strange creatures,
ly and not sprightly enterprise; A Siamese military airman, en- machinery for the consideration of other aspects of the problem that rample" lolloping round a room No one, however, can see a - proved a financial success. Divid-gaged in flying practice over: Don the many problems that arise, In the present report it has been de-without thinking of rabbits!
ends were by no means rare. But, Munng aerodrome, was seriously and for enabling proper and cided to limit their comments to it must be confessed that share hurt to-day when the engine of his suitable action to be taken, fol- these main questions of principle could still further increase its holders were not as eager over the machine failed and the aeroplane towing the conclusions arrived at Trade Advantages collection of profits as they were nose-dived to earth and was com It is recommended that the most anxious over the accuracy of the pletely wrecked.
urgent necessity exists for increas
It will be noted that this report lengthy Court reports and the cita-
ing to the utmost the trade of the follows, so far as it goes, the policy Empire, and that Imperial natural advocated by the bankers, and the resources, fully developed, give the Economic Sub-Committee of the promise of an increase in trade General Council of the Trades Union far beyond anything which can be Congress. Imagined at the present day. This Problem, Tt-is added, "should not be
Kingdom point of view," but should be dealt with in the broades
tion of news of average public im-critical condition Straits Times.
portance. Handicapped as the
pioneers were in the facilities!
available in an alley-way off Nan-
king Road, they aucceeded in pro ducing a sheet which was popular
The airman is in hospital in
a
INNOCENCE
and acceptable. Scare headlines JUDGE HAS NEVER SEEN A approached merely from the United
never affronted its premiers page. The glory of the advertisers was reflected in all its resplendence an Page L. The change came in re cent years; as a concession to and In conformity with the spirit
an aggressive age.
COCKTAIL
Justice Hill confessed in the Divorce "I am ignorant of cocktails," Mr. of Court
I am an old duffer A great deaf could be told of the nothing about modern habits
and know men and their 1ótosyrorasies "Nobody has ever had a dockta from the boss to the boy In the at my house or ever storms weathered and survived never went to any place
until for years there
chorage
Then the
quarters frailty
years oices bel
Road
chot
were
Hong
Rokdi
ndonme of imposing suggestive that sarociates, with coming. retirement to dingy cel's in Nanking
People, consumed cocktails.
tally and well for
Zappre
Rationalisation.
A Bavarian aeroplane --making, a short pleasure fight over the Alpe, had as passengers four parsons with For the moment the question of an aggregate age of 820 years. internal Protection is not being The oldest had fought in tha mentioned, not only for the reason Franco-German War, being ninety- rated at the end of the report three years of age, whilst the tions concerned have not the power but because some of the organisa youngest was sixty-five years old.
to deal with auch problems But
ad, was shown in the Morning Post
It is further recommended: yesterday, power is being sought by (a) That suitable machinery for the F.BL because the problem 1880 constants and adequate Investiga urgent. Lion and consultation: thin the Dotalled Pren Empire should be de
ports from the the Committee bodies) are at
(b)In partic
urge most strongly that a
this machinery,
perial econ
from a part8.01-1
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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