1931-07-28 — Page 7

TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1931.

THE CHINA MAIL.

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCE IN CHINA programme; China does not raise. "FROM HAREM TO

An Atoll of Safety in an Ocean of Turmoil.

OUR SANCTUARY.

of instances,

the question of the Kowloon lease,

confining her demands to Kwang-, chowan and Llaotung. China is' resorting to her traditional

DESK.

diplomacy of pitting one foreign Turkish Women Doing

"the Work of Men.

A PROUD FEMINIST.

J

WEDDING PARTY TRAGEDY.

Typhoid Carrier As Cook.

and the packing of figs and raisina." Health Department, explained:

nation against another; soft- pedalling the issue of Kowloon Th the hope that British sympathy will be with her against Japan. in' It is to be hoped, says G.B.R. In Outside of his recommendations Liaotung.

BURIAL. OF THE BRIDE. the Far Eastern Review that Mr. as to the future government of the! Here is the real cruz Justice Feetham's report to the Settlement, Justice Feetham's find- whole extra-territorial problem. Turkey, Pau Refik Hanum, is involved 17 members of a recent

of the

A lending feminist of the new An outbreak, of typhoid fever Shanghai Municipal Council on the ings are virtually the same as those Japan apparently is willing to proud of Turkish women's achieve wedding party in the Bronx section future status of the settlement has arrived at by the International accede to all of China's demands ments in business and professions, of New York City. The bride was not come too late to be of practical Commission that five years ago in- in so far as they apply to China but is sorry that economic condi- buried in her wedding dress; one value. The sole justification for vestigated China's fitness for the proper, in return for the recipro tione have forced them to leave of, her aunts also died, and 15 engaging the services of the aliolition of eminent South African jurist was The indictment of China's unfitness terior, right to own and lease pro-

extra-territoriality, cal right of residence in the in. their homes and seek work,

other guests Refik Hanum, in an interview, them being in a critical condition. .

were, some of the pran.ise held out that his. re-to discharge commendations

her international perty, conduct business and operate Praised Turkish women's speedy to obligations is the same in both industries on an equality with the of the harem, and their ability to son at the home of her parents, a would serve

When Miss Charlotte Wilmot abandonment of the indolent life was unite the conflicting interests

married to Mr. William Jack- the Powers concerned in a com- body was composed of the official the stand that these privileges can work like men.

The first investigating Chinese. Nanking, however, takes mon programme for preserving the representatives of all the Powers net be extended to Japan as long views of Mustapha Kemal (the pre-paring chicken salad for the wed

woman, 71 years of age, and an old "Thanks to the broad, modern friend of the family, assisted in pre- ! settlement as a sanctuary until the concerned, whose nationals, had as she retains her leasehold of turmoil and anarchy prevailing in every right to expect that these Liaotung, and maintains her troops ident) we are going farther and ding party. the interior gives place to stability recommendations would, serve as in Manchuria and her war-ships on ready we have practically reached thoroughly examining everyone who

farther every day," she said. "AL and security. It was obvious that the basis of a common programme Chinese rivers.

The Department of Health, by no single Power would be, permit- for negotiating new treaties. Yet

the condition of Western, women. helped to prepare, the food, dis-. ted by the others to dictate a pro- we have been compelled to witness! The Chinese placed on record at the Stamboul municipal council. the typhoid carrier.

Japan and Manchuria.

Five women are now members of covered that the elderly woman was gramme for the solution of such a the gradual scraping of these re- Washington their refusal to recog-We complex international problem. commendations in a pitiable and nize the validity of the 1915 treaty, judges, lawyers, doctors and to did the records of New York City She did not Can point, also, to women recall having had the disease, nor The initiative had to be taken by pusillanimous surrender to the reserving to themselves the right these who hold important Govern show that she had typhold, and the Municipal Council in order to clamour of Chineec Nationalism to open the question at every. P meat and commercial posts. Hun- since she was not devise some plan that all the by entering into negotiations for portune moment. This has become dreds of thousands of Turkish girls cook of food she had not discovered Powers could subscribe to and the abolition of extra-territoriality a cardinal principle of their dip are working in tobacco and silk her rare affliction.

a professional support.

long before China is prepared to lomney, that no statesman dare, factories, at the making of ruga, Mutter of Revenues.

assume her new.obligations. These Ignore and preserve his usefulness.;

Dr. Charles E. Bolduan, of the Two years ago when the idea thoughts do not imply that we lack In like manner, the validity of, the! was conceived, there was a chance of sympathy with Chinese nation- 1915 treaty has become the corner that an unbiased expert might alism or with the legitimate as stone of Japan's position in Man- THIS BATHING CRIME find a formula that would meet the pirations of the Chinese people. churin and no Japanese statesman legitimate spirations ນ the

Criticism Resented.. Chinese with due regard to the As a friend and counsellor of the of these rights. Neither side can

would dare discuss any impairmont It Is Not Lawful to Use safety of the immense foreign in-late Sun Yat-sen, we have a deep or will recede from their position,! terests centered in the Settlement. appreciation of the principles he so we come to the stone wall, the Του much water has run advocated and a loyal respect for jumping off place, where unless a under the bridges since then, and his will and teachings. When the compromise is found a clash seems! it is now highly problematicnl if real menace that threatens the life unavoidable. any plan short of absolute and im- of the nation is removed, and its For Japan to surrender to the law at Home regards sen-bathing as CRIME IN COLOMBO, mediate rendition will satisfy the Government is in a position to dis-Chinese viewpoint and withdraw an innocent recreation, and, as Chinese. It is no longer a ques-charge faithfully its obligations to her troops in Manchuria, would such, prohibits tion of China's national honour the outside world, we will be the simply result in making a present and dignity lavolved in the first to recognize that the time has of the territory to the Sevict. The legal right to pass along the sea-f

Member of the publie have no! Fewer recovery of Shanghai, but the more arrived for the surrender of the presence of Japan, in Munchuria is share in order to enter the sea for vital and pressing one of increased Settlement revenues to maintain the huge rights.

extra-territorial the only check to the complete com-mere recreation. military establishment upon whose China

We realize that National,manization of North China and The only purposes for which the possession reals

resents criticism of its North-eastern Asia. It is not like-beach may lawfully be used are the power and policies or prestige of National China, and suggestion

programme or any ly that Japan will budge from her navigation and fishing. which serves as the only bulwark struction of any kind, but we between the diplomatic representa- more leniently on persone who walk a drop of 44 from that of May,

that it needs in position. Discussions may proceed! Even ni those cases th elaw looks against the capture of the port by hold firmly, to the belief that Dr. ives of the two nations in order to across the beach after having in 1980. Thefts have decreased from the communist armies, waiting to Sun's dream can never come true, arrive at a solution of minor ques-dulged their vicious propensities to 93 in May last year to 68 this year, ywoop down and couvert it into aif foreign prestige and control are tions, but both sides realize that navigate ships or to catch fish, This is due to the intensive shambles.

weakened while the major problem sooner or later they must come to than upon those who use it before patrolling by the Police of the greas A Race for the Port. remains unsolved. The Nationalist, the stone wall and face the main indulging Chiang Kai-shek should Government at Nanking was creat-issue, on whose solution depends with serious

ined and received its first support the signing of a new treaty con- at all conceded only in case of In fact the right to use the beach

where an epidemic of erime breaks his present campaign. or handicapped through lack of suffi-purpose of combating Communiem. sidence.

is from the foreigners for the express ceding reciprocal rights of reperil or necessity."

out.

Burglary cases have dropped from cient funds, to carry through his The only justilleation for this con-

In a famous case where a school this year. This also has been 47 In May last year to only nine master was faced with an action to partially due to the vigilance of the

I

meet

reversea

and

offensive, the future status of tinued support from without as ! Arbitration Pessible.

Beaches.

CASES CITED.

You may not believe it, but the

"Now that her carrier condition has tered as a carrier by the Board of been established she will be regis-" Health and required to comply with the law covering the other 240 car. riers under the surveillance of the Department of Health. This means that she must take special, precau- tions and not cook or serve food."

Thefts and More Violence.

month of May alow a marked de- Colombo's crime statistics for the crease as compared with the figures for May last year.

Last month's crimes totalled 137,

jail

Shanghai will not be long in doubt, been to strengthen some one group phecy as to the outcrise of this were camping on the cliffs over-picious characters and partially to It is too early to hazard any pro-restrain him and his pupils (who Police in keeping their eye on Buy We will once more witness a race that will free the country from situation. For the present, the looking Joas Bay, in the Isle of the fact that most of the dangerous between the foreign troop-ships and Soviet influences und turn back the issue is squarely planted. If Japan Thanet) from descending to the housebreakers are having a spell in the victorious Communists for the rising Red tide beating against the and China refuse to recede from nea, the Court of Appeal pointed out occupation of the port, with the Himay dykes In odde on the Red. Anything may Kiangsu that protect Shanghai to go to arbitration to avert hos-law, a necessity.

Chekiang and their position, the issue may have! that bathing is not, in the eye of the happen in China. The watchwords from, loot and massacro. of the Powers should be Vigilance, We entertain little hope, how that when China realizes that whether it might be deemed a peril tilities. It is almost certainty Apparently, they did not consider Preparedness and Security, for if ever, that the faint-hearted states Japan will not accede to her and so permitted. foreign control over Shanghai un-men who now direct world dip wishes, another national boycott

In another leading case where

The only increase has been in

The largest number of cases were last year to 50 cases last month. crime of violence from 81 in May

in the Maradana area, which re-

year.

duly weakened by handing over Its lomacy will give any more atten- against Japanese goods will be de- Llandudno Town Council brought ported in all 13 cases last month as. administration to the Chinese until tion to Mr. Justice Feetham's reclared. China will go to war-with an action to restrain a clergyman against two cases during May inst the major issue confronting the port that they did to the one drawn Japan, within the limite of the from holding religious services on nation is definitely settled, there is up by Mr. Silas M. Strawn. little doubt as to who will be Its There is very little left-to-the endeavour to ruin her opponent by striet eye of the law, he was a -future masters. It is all very well extra-territorial rights of foreign economic pressure. The result will trespasser.

Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact and the beach the court said that,-in-the

So, too, was

Can

in the future

every nursemaid

to discuss academically the lengthers in China to-day, and the con- be exactly the same as though the

BROADCASTING IN CEYLON. of the transition period before the stant nibbling at the foundations war was fought openly with bat-wheeling a perambulator, and every I had the opportunity of visiting International Settlement

During my brief visit to Ceylon, safely handed over

be of Shanghai's autonomy has under- to Chinese mined its security. We would like tleships, bayonets and bullets. Voy riding a donkey on the sands. authority and in any such discus- to feel that the four great Powers China reserves to herself the right

As for bathers, they simply had which was fully described in a for- the Colombo broadensing station, sion the Chinese with their chiefly concerned

to use this económic weapon not a leg to stand on. Even navi-mer issue of World Radio. The specious arguments and utter dis-stability of the Settlement, will against any and all powers who gators and fishermen, to whom transmitting regard for the realities of the come together in some joint ander- refuse to accept her viewpoint and rights to use the sea are conceded, situated at Wellkade, situation will wear down the other standing to carry into effect Justice the Kellogg-Briand Fact fails to enjoy their rights as water rights skirts of the town, in a truly won- side. The issue that confronts the Feetham's recommendations, but if provide an answer to this type of and not land rights. Powers in Shanghai has absolutely the events of the past few years,

The reason for this curiosity of tion and colouring. At present, the derful setting of tropical vegeta- nothing to do with whether or not are any criterion of what we can economic warfare during the worst the law is that the foreshore (be-ordinary coast station, is modulated the Chinese can be entrusted with expect in the future, it is hopeless Industrial and trade depressions of teen high and low water-mark) for brondenating purposes; but a the administration of the Settle-to look for any unity or agreement, modern times, is tantamount to inall belonged to the Crown original new transmitter

ment. It can be admitted for the sake of argument that they are

Afraid of Realities.

On all sides there has been eminently qualified to assume this reluctance to face the realities of responsibility.

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for: broadcasting, and it is hoped, Much of it has, in the course of will deliver approximately 2 kw. to The real Issue is the situation in China. The state might prove fatal. The question the centuries, passed into private the aerial system. It is expected to triumph and use Shanghai as the ment given out in Washington that arises as to whether or not Japan hands, as part of freehold of leased that, with the new transmitter, capital af n Red China and a new the kidnapping, outraging 'and kill. Can retallate without arousing the estates.. Pacific centre for spreading its doc-ing of missionaries bears no

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Ito an international court of ar- enforce In a court of law

ing, and it is hoped shortly to defences. One or two reverses in negotiations between Dr. C. r. way will be unsatisfactory that there is a public right of way mental short-wave broadcasts of Kiangai, Or a. relaxation of Wang and the British Minlater and

With this picture before us, we along or across the sea-shore, the Colombo, programmes.---Ex. vigilance in Chekiang, will bring those carried on in Washington be abolition of extra-territoriality or happily, the judges who administer see little profit in discussing the Such is the law. In practice, the Red hordes pouring into tween Dr. C. C. Wa and Secretary Klangsu, cutting off the port from Stimson have destroyed any hope until China and Japan arrive at right to set it in motion against the rendition of the settlements it, and the landowners who have the the Interior,

that Britain. or America will ad- Mr. Justice Feetham's report is here to the findings of the Extra- some permanent solution of their the hardy criminals who wish to

a remarkable document, but its territoriality Commission. The

vital feature as far as it affects policy of surrender and scuttle go

problems.

the main issues is the paragraph clearly revealed in the published A LIKING FOR JAIL

in which, referring to the longth reports of these negotiations, in-

bathe,wink at its infruction.

SCIENCE IN CLOUDS.

DON ALFONSO'S' INCOME,

It is the talk among the friende

of Don Alfonso: here (writes the London correspondent of the

his recent visit he said that when

Manchester Guardian) that during

of the necessary raneltion period, dicates what we may expect when Eskimos Cause Bigger Station Built on Summit everything was settled his income

he says: "If an opinion were to the question of Shanghai's future

bo ventured now as to the minimum comes before the same group of Prison to Be Built.

period required, it would be a statesmen for consideration,

ubation of the number, not of China will approach the problem Point Hope Alasku, has ordered years but of decades," Ze be A Sanctuary

of rendition of the settlements In the construction of large all be the same manner that she has caues the old one is so popular with The whole problem revolves undermined extra-territo around preserving, Shanghai as un notifying the Powers of her inten, those who have committed crimes in ality by the Eskimos that it cannot hold all island of security a sanctuary, tion to take over the settlements hope of being arrested anatoll of safety in Oceano and concessions in Shanghai, Han Some time age the United turm

on to any ow and Tiantain and the leased Marshal arrested Immed

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