1931-11-03 — Page 7

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1931.

SOUTH AFRICA LOOKS EASTWARD

South Africa

THE ASIATIC AS TRADE COMPETITOR,

By Jan H. Hofmeyr,

tween

the two

THE CHINA

CHINESE MURDERED IN MARSEILLES.

Opium Pedlar's Body in à Trunk.

killed

Marseilles, Sept. 14.

MAIL.

PLAN TO MOVE THE DUBLIN CROWN LOOK/what Records

DEVIL'S ISLAND.

Cruel Cold After Cruel Heat,

JEWELS.

Sensational /Theft of 1907. Recalled.

necessary

Complaints received from for- A report has reached Dublin Two Chinese murdered an- eign Powers who have posses-suggesting that the famous other Chinese an opium ions in the neighbourhood of Castle in July, 1907, and valued

Crown jewels, stolen from Dublin; pedlar in an Aix-en-Provence hotel and carried the body out French Guiana concerning the at £60,000, may he had at a ran- in a trunk in view of a police in-number of escaped convicts who som price. spector.

The authorities were told that are seeking refuge in their hands The hotel manager, who sus-

"certain valuable treasures") have caused a proposal to be could be obtained for the city if as a white man's; The matter stands in abeyance Dected crime when his guest was

in France that the authority to move in the matter land owes its origin to the East. pending a further conference be missing, called in the police, who mooted

Governments in inspected the room.

obtained und They saw French penal settlement at St. was It was discovered in the course of men's search for a sea route to the January next. At this conference nothing wrong, The crime was Laurent du Maroni, which is one guarantees given. No move to

the fact wealth of the Indies-white men

is surely not without later discovered by a girl.

get in touch with the holders has These are the facts of one of of a group of three islands, in yet been made. first settled there in order to e- significance the South African;

notorious Devil's the most unusual crimea the Mar- which the

Several times recently, it is tablish a refreshment station, a Government has arranged that the

seilles detectives have half-way house in their eastward | Opposition slinil aleo be' represented, ·

ever Island is included, be moved to stated, mysterious moves have tackled - unusual

because it Kerguelen Island, in the exhave been associated with efforts been made which are believed to voyagings. So throughout its his. The problem has enme to be con-

as a national problem-as was committed almost without treme south of the Indian Ocean. tory South Africa has faced cast-velvet

concealment. ward as well as westward, and in

If this is done the convicts will to sell the jewels. It is believed one that must be removed from the spite of the determination to make arena of party strife. And in the The room where the man was change from almost dying of the that the treasures are either in the westward orientation prevall, light of conditions at present pre- was examined again to-gruelling heat and malaria of England or on the Continent.

India's day, and blood-stains were found French Guiana to the most ex-

The jewels were stolen from a the East, for all men's efforts to vailing in India and of

won the mattress, which had been treme cold, for Kerguelen Island under the eyes of detective head. in Dublin Castle strong room expel it, ever returns. Once again prospective new status, it

turned over, and on the floor. is the last shred of land before to-day, there is being obtruded that it should be so.

The question now upon the Union's consciousness the

arises the Antarctic Ice pack is reach-quarters, then in the Castle, on the eve of the visit of King! But in the meantime a new Asia-how did the policemen who were ed persistence of its eastward orienta-

It is one of the most dismal Edward and Queen Alexandra tion, and, as always, fear of the fi: problem has developed in South in the room a few minutes after

for the International Exhibition. East and desire to benefit from the Africa that of the Japanese. At the murder was committed miss and lonely spot in the world, no

tention has been drawn to it mainly seeing these signs of a crime? vegetation can be grown there ex-in the ceremony, but just before

They were to have been used; A girl, walking along the high-cept a special kind of cabbage; it the door of the strong room Aix-en-Provence no cattle could be raised there, was found open, the safe inside

across a valise and only a few sheep. Even It was the same strike deeper. Under the 1913 Art and a small trunk. When open-fish, for some reason which has Neither lock had, apparently, unlocked, and the jewels missing. to reveive them."

led the trunk was found to con- not yet been discovered, avoid its been tampered with, and the Milner who, a few years later, was the Japanese also are prohibited

small coast line.. a party to the importation of Chin-immigrants, subject to the issue of tain the body of a Chinese.

The only occasional inhabitants of the late Sir Arthur Vicars, keys were still in the possession eve coolics to work on the Wit-temporary permits in individual

are the members of whalers' watersrand. The contradiction. Is cames, The "Gentleman's Agree- characteristic of South Africa's utment" amants to an exchange

Even these usually die of scurvy: Chester Masters, the London crews and shipwrecked mariners. custodian of the jewels.

An inquiry, over which Mr. titude towards the East. A is Notes between the two Govern- being illustrated to-day at once in ments, in terms of which such taxicab driver reported that he Devil's Island

ly place, but this morning The scandal of the present. respect of Indians-an old problem mits will be issued to all Japanese had been hailed by two Chinese lessened.

would not be magistrate, presided, was held, brought anew into prominence-and whose admission is recommended by

yesterday afternoon in front of Another suggestion is that the declined to appear before the of Japanese-a problem now first the Commul for Japan, and who are

either tourists, or scientists,

moved to the island of penal settlement should attracting altention.

be commissioners. They deemed students, or wholesale

New merchants.

his reasons for so doing insuf- Amsterdam, another, French pos- session further north in the In-ficient, and reported that he had dian Ocean,

not exercised due and proper

East are seen to be in conjunction.

"The Asiaties," su wrote Milner once, "are strangers forcing them- seives upon a community reluctant

The Indian came to South Africa because the white man willed it.

creased and multiplied. He spread

to the Tranvaal. He competed with the European trader, and, because of the Indian's low standards of

The Japanese.

concluded

with way

near

because of a "Gentleman's Agree ment" recently dapan, though in reality, its roots yesterday, came

Police Puzzled. The police were at a loss to trunk and valise at such a lone- understand the presence of the

them and their trunks to a spot an hotel in Aix and had taken

on the main road.

The pollee went to the hotel, and were astounded to be told by

al-

The climate here is more

but no trace of the jewels was ever found. Sir Arthur Vicars

care.

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or members of their staffs, or buy-1 His coming sel sugar-planting on 'ers of South African produce. its feet in Natal, and established The agreement was concluded the colony's prosperity. He in-without reference to Parliament the proprietor. that he had

it came up for discussion, Indeed, ready called them in because he equable, and the buildings re- was suspicious of the actions of quired could be constructed from only as a subsidiary issue on an Immigration Act Amendment Billerlain Chinese in the hotel, but local stone, thus avoiding the Even so it gave rise to praionged the police inspector who had in- necessity of transporting it many vestigated reported that there hundreds of miles from the main- debates, meeting with much critle-

was nothing wrong. ism from the South African party

land. In addition to this, the The room in the hotel had been land could easily be cultivated, Opposition in the House, criticism occupied by a Chinese pedlar, go that fresh food could be ob-Bank, wire which has been echoed by many Sia Than Siang. On Saturday tainable. Government supporters outside. And in fact, the issue has since been evening he left after settling his hotel bill. He was accompanied

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living, the competition was dis- astrous for the European. So was born the "reluctance of those who had originally "received" the Indian willingly enough. There followed restrictions and strife, and the birth of Gandhi's passive resistance converted into one of first-class by another Chinese, who was methods, and inducements to volun-importance by the very noticeable helping him to carry a trunk, GERMAN EPICURE'S Documentary,

in the importation of from which a red liquid trickled. Japanese goods into the Union. It

Red Wine!

tary repatriation, and agitation for increase enforced repatriation "bag and baggage." For all that, there are

and well over two-thirds of them

quality of the goods imported. To- day Japanese industrialists have because the

are of South Afrlean birth. And the Indian prospera,

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is not the first Japanese attack on Sia Than Siang, when ques- still 160,000 Indians in Natal, and the South African market. One tioned, said coolly that there was 20,000 in the Transvaal, and smaller was launched in the post-war years.

Herr Gustav Horcher, the numbers in the other provinzest failed because of the uncertain in the trunk a bottle of wine.greatest of modern German epi-}

which was cracked.

cures, died in Berlin on Septem-On demand Following upon police inquiries ber 9. His restaurant was one to-night, it appears that the of the most famous on the Euro- set themselves higher standards of murdered man was one of a num-pean Continent. It was patronis- quality, and aided by wage rates her of Chinese hawkers who also ed before the Revolution by Credits, 60 days' sight 26% which are low in consonance with peddled drugs.

On Bombay→→→ His name was royalty, both German and non- Eastern standards of living they Shan Chang Taund, aged 42, and

Wire Indian immigration into the

are able to establish their position he had recently arrived from since the Revolution, by states- German, and, both before and

On demand Union hos, of course, reased long effectively in many lines. Their

Oran, in Algeria.

On Calcutta- since. The Act of 1913 geve the first notable conquest has been An opium pouch vás found on stars.

men, diplomats, and theatre and

Wire South African Government the made with an excellent quality the body, but no money, and this

On demand power, without specific mention, to plimsoll shov, which is be-

to indicate that robbery distinction it does not com- German cooking rather lacks

On Singapore-- "deem" Indiane, and indeed all ing Janded at about 1r. 6d.

was the motive, since drug traf-

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pare with French, and, except immigrants. and

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On Manila-*** That power

has been acted on. selling like hot cakes. It has al-

money. The problem is, therefore, that of ready had a marked effect on the

achieve anything more than the It is doubtful whether the where and how the Indian popula- South African boot and shoe and police will now be able to lay can show little of unique fascina-

On Shanghai- massive and the monumental, it on demand tion in the Union shall live and leather industries. This has been their hands on the murderers, tion, as Russian, Polist, Hun- Dollar carry on its business and on the followed up with.calico and shirts who have disappeared into the garian. and English cooking on. On demand

and other articles of apparel, some underworld of Marseilles. competing more than successfully

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That cry played a part in putting General Hertzog into power in 1924. Not long after, his Government in troduced a Class Areas Bill, which was designed to appease it. There followed comings and goings be the erection of tariff walls is scri-from the national point of view guest would be served with per- Chinese Sub. Coin .. 25% dis tween India and South Africa, a ous; of considerable consequence there is little to be said for it, feet understanding.

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A New "Yellow Peril."

that it will lead to an expansion of interval of years -- even after conclusion in 1927 of an agreement. The "Gentleman's Agreement" is, the Union's export trade to Japan. the interval caused by the war The Union Government, having of course, not the direct cause of But it is difficult to see what Japan were amazed by Herr Hor- tacitly dropped the bill, accepted in

this increased importation. It has can buy from South Africa that cher's memory. He was also a principle the task of uplifting the stimulated it in same measure; it cannot be bought by it more advan- philanthropist in his way. There Indian within the gates, and the seems designed to promote and ex- tageously nearer home. Perhaps, were no prices on his menu. Indian Government promised its tend it considerably; it does not however, the real reason has not With one glance he would assess assistance in making effective the make any easier the Government's been disclosed; it may be that it the amount each guest could policy of voluntary repatriation. task in dealing with the resultant seemed good to the Government, in ufford, to pay, and the price, But the economic essentials of the problems. Yet it would be strange response to pressure from Japan, to often a very high one, was ad- problem remained. In the 1980 if in the public mind the two things relax the prohibitios on Japanese justed accordingly. session of Parliament it assumed were not brought even more closely immigration while yet it is pos- Poor students, especially if importance as a result of judgments together, and that is what is hap-sible to make a small concession they came from his native of the courts which invalidated the pening to-day. "The Japanese, and before the whole dam 18 Baden, were allowed to take rights of a large number of Indiana the cry goes

meals, up, "are destroying broken down by the pent-up flood. free

sometimes for on the Witwatersrand to their trad. our industries and forcing

Meantime the agitation against months on end, amid all our ing altes. A Select Committee In-people into unemployment; eoon the the agreement goes on throughout wealth and glitter of his restaur- vestigated the matter, with the re- wedge of immigration opened up by South Africa. And meantime also ant. sult that at the end of the session the agreement 'will be driven home, the purchase of Japanese goods in- a Transvaal Asiatic Tenure Bill the flood of immigrants from Japan, creases, The Japanese "per!!" When Albert Henry Roper, 16, based on the segregation principle with its seemingly insoluble popu-could, it would seem, be dispelled by was charged at Hastings with was introduced. In deference to lation problem, will become irresis- the people themselves if they would stealing provision from a fishing- India the Government agreed that | tible; South Africa, faced today abstain from purchasing those boat, it was contended that an it should stand over till the follow- with a black cloud, will be confront-goods. They are asking, In effect, alleged theft from a boat in the ing session, but declared that it ed also with a yellow peril.”

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