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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25,

1931.

THE

CHINA

MAIL.

ft

THE

ADOPTION

A DELIGHTFUL HUMAN

STORY.

By

G. MANNING-SAUNDERS.

cheerful

girl of Grace, twenty, had been spending a holiday in the cove with her uncle, Sampy Collum, and as the time drew near for her to return to London Sampy became thoughtful, his wife, Eliza, often eighed, and the girl last much of her gaiety.

On the last evening of her holiday Grace went inland to gather wild flowers, while Sampy sat moodily in the kitchen watching his wife, Eliza, make bustling preparations for the cooking of a huge pasty which the girl was to take with her on the journey.

"

"And whose fault is that?" said Eliza defiantly. "Isn't it natural a wife would crave any company when her husband is half his time tossing about on the old sen and the other half beating his heels on the pub

floor?""

"That's what I had in mind," said Sampy meekly, "when I came in to talk over ways, and means of keeping Grace down here along with we altogether." A paper bag of flour slipped from Eliza's hand on to the

"Talk sense."

she alated floor. said angrily, "and leave me to bear my cross alone."

Sampy dropped on his knees

to scoop up the flour with his "The tiles that tender hands. child have told to me of town life would most curdle your blood," he said.

house, so

A WORLD APPEAL. A WEEK'S DISEASES.

Manifesto by Chinese in Great Britain.

Two Imported Cases

of Fever.

44 TUBERCULOSIS DEATHS.

Hore is a copy of a "Manifesto on the Japanese Invasion of Man- churia" which has been issued by the Federation of Chinese organi. stations in Great Britain. Tho Lon- Federation comprises the don Chinese

the

The official return of diseasen Association, East London Overseas Chin- and deaths during the week end-

Association, the Chinese ed November 21 is as follows:- Students Association in Great

Chinese Britain, the

CBC

1

Students Typhoid fever

Cases Deaths

3

2

5

3

-1

1

44

"And why didn't you tell about Unions in Great Britain and Ire-Diphtherla this hair-snipping thief long land, the Chinese Workmen's Co-Gorobro-apinal fever. 1 ugo, for then we could have put operative Society, the Chong-yi Puerperal fever our heads together over how we Labour and Commerce Association, Tuberculosis could keep Grace and cherish her, the Chih-kung Association and the One case of typhold and one of

few

CHINESE ART.

To Be Sold by Auction for Charity.

The China Exhibition Committee, under the chairmanship of Mrs. E. D. C. Wolfe, will hold an auc tion of two treasured specimens of Chinese porcelain of the Kiangal 靄 beautiful Ch'ion period and

from the

Lung sandalwood table

Imperial Factory on Friday at 8.30 p.m. In the Music Room of the City Hall. The proceeds will go toward the Flood Relief in North China, and local charities.

The Committee feel exceedingly grateful to Mr. Chan Pik-chuen, of Wing Fat Hong, 34, Bonhara Strand West, for his great gen- cerebro-spinal fever were importerosity in offering these art trea-

sures to be disposed of by aur tion at the highest price obtain- Summary to November 21.

able entirely for charity and to The returns from January 1 to Lammert Bros. for offering their services free and also to the City Hall Committee for the use of the Music Room. It is, indeed, an opportunity to be able to acquire such rare objects of Chinego art.

for it's not as if we were pau-Tung-ho Society. pers; we'd not grudge a

The manifesto rende as follows: ad. pound. I've heard tell of decent! "In view of Japan's expansionist! folk that had no chick of their policy in the Far East, which has own making adoption of some-given rise to the present Man- one else's. What's the matter churian crisis, wo, the Chinese re- Novembar 21 give the following with you and me doing as much idents in this country.

are con-figures:-

law.

the measures.

Japan

Japan's Reasons for Invasion."

He returned in an hour with (1) The murder of Captain Naka- such a peculiar mixture of bra-mura in June, vado and humility shown on his

Tuberculosis

Cages Deatha 193 61

14

9

3

121

4G

20

10

19

13

2,629 Twenty-one of the typhoid cases were non-Chinese, as were three scarlet fever cases, one small-pox cose, two cerebro-spinal fever cases, and 30 diphtheria cases.

gramme in Manchuria will jeopar- dise the utility of the South Man- churian Railway, without recognia the fact that there is enough room for both Chinese and Japanese enterprise in the vast and rich ter- ritories of Manchuria.

PEARL EXHIBITION.

This year's pearl exhibition by Mr. Kodaka at Messrs. Komor and Komor's, Chater Road, is even bet- ter than any previous exhibitions.

held.

It opened to-day and will be open for only ten days, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, so that early visitors will be able to secure first choice of a wonderful array of pearls, no- tural and cultured...

Of special interest to many will be the oyster specimen which is ex- Mr. Kodaka will be hibited and

there to explain to visitors growth of the pearl.

A GREAT ORGAN OF EXPRESSION.

the

I often wonder, if only I didn't English, what I should think of the sound of it, well talk-

-is-that I would

volting word, it has acquired rich harmony of its own, a vigorous individuality. It is worthy of any destiny, however wide.

by Grace? I've got a flowered strained to submit to the public a silk gown wrapped away in brief resume of the various stops Typhoid fever lavender that she could cut her-which Japan has taken to realise Small-pox self dresses from. I'd learn her her ambition of annexing Chinese Scarlet fever to cook and to buke, fit to wife territory, and the salient facts in Diphtheria any prince, and come by and by the recent Japanese invasion of Cerebro-apinal fever "We'll miss her more than they'd raise childer to fill this Manchuria which is against every Puerperal fever

1 house with proper code of justice and international Paratyphoid fever tongue can tell," said Sampy, stale old

sound. The girl likes you un- breaking a long silence.

"Speak for yourself!" retorted common, and she don't mind me

"Since the Russo-Japanese War, Eliza.

so much as some do. Bid her fought on neutral Chinese territory "And for

likewise, stay here with we, Sampy; don't! you

let her go back to be crushed in Japan has turned envious eyes to woman.' said Sampy courage.

She helped wards Manchuria. a train or run over in the street: ously, "for I've a-got eyes, and

or choked with black fog, or be Korea to independence only to an I've a-got cars, and I've seen how

Ever since then her de- droopy you go, and I've heard made a mock of by any oily, for nex it.

signs of aggression have proceeded the roaring great sighs youeign hair-snipe."

Sampy answered in a gruff to the Korean-Chinese border, and heave whenever Grace speaks of

voice: "But she can earn five beyond, under the cover of 'apecial going back to town."

and twenty shillun' a week in privileges,' self-made.

"Elsewhere in China, the Japan- the town."

"And if she could put half as eae policy of aggression has also much in her pocket along with been vigorously pursued.

has attempteed to enter Southern we, she'd do well enough."

"That's so, but it takes time China through Formosa and Cen-

"They have not shunned the dis- to fix, and to-morrow morning trai China through Shantung. For- she's for going back."

mosa has been annexed, but owing tasteful road of aggression. After "Never! She musn't. A way to the conflict of foreign interests, falling to manufacture à crisis out must be found," said Eliza the attempt to seize Shantung failed of the Korean massacre, they creat

to tear up a section of the South know shrilly. "Put your wits 'pon it and concentration has been shifted ed one by causing their own soldiers and make her to stop. You're to the North.

"Against such occupation and Manchurian Railway and accusing ed. I believe I should catcem it for ever plaguing me with tales of how you can get round this annexation of territory without re- the Chinese soldiers of the offence,

TERBON or justification, and occupied all the important cities soft speech very pleasant to the The statement that car, varied but unemphatle, gin- and that. Now's your chance to gard to

gularly free from guttural or China, as is well known throughout in Manchuria. show that you be no common

the world, has spared no effort in the Japanese soldiers tore up a sec- good-for-nothing boaster."

Sampy hunched himself on a resorting to peaceful and amicable tion of the South Manchurian Rail-metallic sounds, restful, dignified. Past records clearly way themselves is no idle accusn- and friendly. I belleve how pre-

judiced one chair with his elbows in

The spot where the railway choose it, well spoken, before any soiled flour, staring at a trades- indicate China's intentions of abid- tion. men's calendar on which Grace ing by the rules and customs which was alleged to have been torn up

medium of expression of which one had marked off each day of her are considered as binding upon all was within the protection area of language in the world, but as the Eliza tiptoed about civilised peoples, as well as Japan's the Japanese troops, where no would tire last. Bland though it holiday.

secure Chinese Chinese troops would have dreamt be, hybrid between two main the kitchen, but every now and determination to

stocks, and tinctured by many a "Three pound of best floor again she drew near to stare territory, at whatever cost, by what of entering.

"At the very beginning of the wasted and no more left in the into her husband's absorbed face ever method and on whatever pre crisis, the Chinese soldiers have

that the maid can't and whisper impatiently "Have text!

bean ordered not to resist; this till at last have a

all," said you got it yet?" pasty after

"As regards the present crisis, order has been, on the whole, obey Sampy, to escape from the in- Eliza.

The mind, taking`a bird's-eye "Maybe she won't take пи terruption, got up and went out Japan may advance as her reasons ed: Nevertheless, the Japanese in

vaders bombarded unfortified cities, view of the English language. for the invasion of Manchuria:- journey," said Sampy impres of the cottage.

wantonly destroying Chinese pro- from Chaucer to this day, noting sively. "Maybe it was ordained

perty. They havo killed unarmed the gradual but amazing changes that the stuff should go flop

(2) The dynamiting of a section Chinese civilians, including women it has undergone, will and it im- from your hand the way it did,

The latest report possible, I think, to give the palm because now you can give over face that Eliza instantly became of the South Manchurian Railway, and children.

to any particular period in all cooking and sit and lend ear to suspicious and cried out indig "No intelligent person will be de- states that a Japanese-army nero-

by this propagandistic plant swooped down over a refugee those centuries. As with the lov all that I've in mind to say. For nantly, "I know what you've ceived

train, machine-gunned it, killed two or of flowers who, through the camouflage, leaving alone the ques- I've been sounding Grace, and been doing!" from what I can hear of it this But Sampy silenced her with tion whether these accusations are civilians and injured many. Several moving seasons of the year, walks In his garden, walching the tallp old London town is no fitty un imperative gesture. "I've cerrect and true in every detail as British subjects were on the train.

"The Japanese army, of occupa and the apple blossom, the lac, place for a tidy maid, Soon got it," he said; "only, more's presented by Japan. For some time after every dawn of day she must the pity, you'll have to take the the Japanese militarista party has tion in Manchuria has now reached the fris, and the rose bloom in rise and scrimmage to catch a brunt of the play-acting."

wished to provoke an incident in the enormous figure of 50,000.

A Challenge to the World. which most delights his eyes, nor train, where she's packed tight

"Japanese action in Manchuria when hia garden reaches its full as a sardine with swarms of her

is not only a challenge to China. It sweetness, so, it is with us who kind, to be whisked miles and

fs also a challenge to the League of love good English. Chaucer, miles through a tunnel black us said Sampy, "and I must wrap "More than 100 Chinese were night. At the end of that she red flannel about your jaws, for killed in Korea-by Korean mobs, in. Nations of which Japan is a mem-Shakespeare, the makers of the must fight and nudge her way that makes a face look greeny stigated and organised by the ber, but to which she has given only Authorised Version, Defoe, Swift,

It is also a challenge Addison, lip-service.

Johnson, Burke, or And you must Japanese. out into the open and risk being and skimped.

meant to This was

cannot crown the rum down on all sides by great groan in the room overhead so aroute the Chinese to retaliate in to all the Powers of the world who. Bright, you 'buses like mountains for size and that Grace can hear directly she Manchurian territory which would have fostered the growth of Inter- English of any one of these and height. When she gets to her comes back, and then I must have been a good opportunity for national law during the past say: "Here the pinnacle was de- workplace it is a vault that's come out with it plumb and say the Japanese army to advance into Japan has hit China when China is finitely reached." They were mas- figged up with gilt and mirrors it's her bounden duty to stop Chinese territory. If the killing of down with her disastrous floods; ters, of expression, they used and music to pretend it's not, and nurse you out of your ail-Capt. Nakamura justifies the send she has slighted the League of Na-Eupremely, well the English langu- and there's no natural light to

ing of a Japanese army into Man- tions, knowing that the League can-age of their days, tuning the in- frizz the ladies' hair by, but "I'd rather it was you must churia, the killing of these peace- not effectively apply any sanctions strument for their contemporaries, only electric that's so shiny, it sham sick for all that," said ful residents in Korea would have against her; she has defied the enlarging it for those who came makes Grace's eyeballs sting and Eliza,

presented a very much greater jus world Powers, knowing too well the after them. But the possibilities smart when she goes outdoors When Grave came down the tification for China to send a economic troubles which are dis-of this great organ of expression again into the foggy street, She hill late in the evening with her Chinese army without warning into tracting, the attention of these transcend evan Shakespeare or the

Bible. says that most times she feels arms full of wild flowers, Sampy Koren. Throughout the whole of

"No person with a sense of jus- I, at least, liko to regard the as if the life was being hurried stood at the kitchen table, osten-thia Manchurian crisis the Japanese and fretted out of her body; all tatiously making a monstrous Government, people and militariat tice, who recognises the existence English language as still in the day long the street traffic rattles poultice from the soiled flour and party have conveniently forgotten of international law, can afford to making, capable of new twists and and bangs over her head, and at an old stocking; there was

Ignore the Japanese invasion of bold captures; and yet I think our what happened in Korea. night-times where she do live in pungency of vinegar and burnt Manchurian Railways.

Manchuria, not so much that it may attitude toward it should hava that we should the midst of rows upon rows of brown paper in the room, and "As part of the programme of the mean the beginning of a world war, more reverence; brick housen there's trams and overhead Eliza could be heard reconstruction of China, the Gov aa that it will certainly mean the love our mother tongue as we love trains and milk waggons plung-systematically groaning. But arnment of the 'Three Eastern Pro- end of the prestige of the League our country, and try to express ing about all night long. She Grace was too full of something rinces, during recent years, has of Nations and of the International ourselves with vigour, dignity, and Say it isn't as if home WAS she had to say to notice these either constructed rajiways or made law that has ordered International grace-John

"Castles In Spain" comfortable either; her step- unusual happenings. "Uncle !" plans for the construction of new society possible. mother has only eyes for her she cried directly, she had open-railways and of the port of Hulu. "In view of all these facts, we, own children and is always nag- ed the kitchen door.

"I don't tao.

Japan thinks that the rail the Chinese residents in Great Brl-

FIRING PRACTICE. ging at Grace to get a rise. But want to go back to the town. I'll way and port construction protain, wish to appeal to those who Grace duran't ask the foreign stay here if you'll have me, and

have an interest in China to bring

Firing will be carried out by man who owns the hairdressing I'll find work and pay for my child, I've been stricken sick their opinion to bear on the Japan- shop for a riso, because by all board. These last days I've often and nigh to death from thinking (1) To withdraw immediately allity of Hong Kong as under:

fest Government:-

the R.A. from forts in the vicin accounts he tries to behave meant to ask if I could, but on thee going, but now, thanks alight with the maidens that was afraid Aunt would mind. be, the blackness has passed

Its troops to positions previous) November 30 from Mount Davie work for him."

Will she mind, do you think ?”*

to the present crisis.

at 10 a.m-Aren South of Kau-i- clean out of my veins." From the room above, where! Grace hid her face in the wild To give compensation and an Chau and North of Lamma Island. assurance of non-repetition of; Decembar 1 from Devils Peak the present high-handed action, at 10 am, Tathong Channel together with an apology,

December 8 from Mount Davis at 10 n.m.-Ares East of Cheung Chau and West, of, Lamma Island.

Eliza sat down in a chair and

"If it's not anyways shame-order to secure a pretext for for- ful I'll do it," said Eliza firmly. cibly taking over a part of Man-

"Then you must feign sick," churia.

ment.”

Powera.

(2)

began to rock nerself. That the floor boards made the ceil- flowers. Sampy, after clearing such wickedness should be allowing of the kitchen, came the thud his throat many times, stalked of Eliza leaping from bed and majestically out of the cottage ed I'd like to dig a pit to

" this evil

excited merchant's her

voice shouting: to toss his cumbersome poultice (8) Tect

said vehemently, "Mind I'm proud and glad, to the ravenous gulls. she'

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