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SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933.

REPORT.

P.&O.-British India PO LEUNG KUK

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ŻEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8.5.

*MIRZAPORE RAJPUTANA

BANGALORE

From Tons Hong Kong)

About

1953.

6,000 12th Aug, 17.000 12th Aug. 6,000 18th Aug.

17,000 20th Aug. 14,000 9th Sept

Destination.

Straits Colombo & Bombay. Bombay. Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, H'burg,

R'dam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London.

Helping Women And Children.

COLONY'S RESCUE HOME

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Unseen Collection

(continued from „Page 12.)

womenfolk, strangely, reminiscent of the figures on the etchings of German masters who have come to the grave "He threw open the first sheet of of their Saviour and stand beside the the portfolio. The Great Horse" He

open lifted out of the portfolio with the de-of awe and fear mingled

empty grave with an expression with ecstatic licate care with which one touches faith and Joy on their faces. So something fragile, hardly laying his these In the report on the work of the finger-tips on it, a mount, framed in beamed at the childish, soulful joy of

two elderly midd

middle-class women Po Leung Kuk, Hong Kong's Rescue) which lay an empty, yellowed sheet of the old man, half laughing, half weep- women and girls, thel paper, and enraptured, ho held up the ing, a sight such as I had never before

life.

women In

The origin of the institution thus described:-

How

moving away.

It was

Home for

worthless trash in front of him. Hej experienced in so Secretary for Chinese Affairs ex-looked at it for several minutes, with-But the old man could not tire of bear

out actually seeing it, but he held up ing me praise his prints. He kept plains that not only cases of the empty sheet ecstatically, with his cn turning over the Cases,

hand

thirstily stretched at the level of his eye; drinking in every word. destitute children, and

his whole face expressed magically the relief when the lying cases rere distress are dealt with, but many rapt gaze of one who sees. And into last pushed aside, and he had to

gire matters affecting Chinese family his eyes, his dead, rigid cuddenly Yet what was my guilty relief com the table reluctantly for coffee their empty orbs, there came suddenly Tet

was it the reflection of the paper.pared with the swelling, tumultuous is or a glow from within! brightness, joy of this man who seemed to have.

light knowing

become thirty years younger! He The Po Leung Kuk Society was

anecdotes about "Well, he

he said, with pride, have related

and his finds; rejecting founded in 1878 to aid in the detec-you ever even a finer print

sharp, how clear each detaŭ emergen | 40

he kept getting up to And

then a tion and suppression of kidnapping. I have compared this print with the bring out another print especially of girls and women, and one in Dresden, but that looked very other; he was intoxicated as if with fint and dull against this. And what wine. When I finally said that I must to shelter auch girls or women a pedigree it hea! Here he turned the go, he looked frightened, and pouted had been kidnapped in the interior pointed out with his Enger nail several like a child, stamped his foot petulant.

the ly and brought to Hong Kong for sale places on the blank sheet, Anding

"When he had at last got out of his means precise spot so exactly, that I could or emigration. Its "institution for the protection of not help looking to see if the marks tantrum and had reconciled himself to good women." The initiative in its were really there-here you have the my going and I was on the point of formation came from the Chinese Rey and Esdaile stamps; they never leaving, his voice grew very gentle. He dreamed, these illustrious owners, seized both my hands, and caressed themselves, and ever since by sub-that their print would one day be in them with all a blind man's power of feeling, stroking them with expressing "A cold

Dame

scription and personal service, they this little room ran down my back his fingers right up to the wrists, as is a paid Chinese stali-with_such enthusian man speak they wanted to know more of me.

have continued to support it.

There

12 noon

te hear the

עים!

about an utter and to convey to me more affection matron, two lady teachers, sevenly blank sheet It was fantastic to than words could do," "You have made amahs and nurses, and two clerks watch him indicate the very spot to me very happy, he began with anch millimetre where in his imagination emotion that I shall never be able to who are secretaries to the manage saw the signs left by previous col- forget it. It was an act of kindness.

The Committee lactors. ing committee.

There

Lank

■ fump in" my} At last,

I was able again to I could not think what to look through my beloved

with meets every evening from Monday throat.

prints In

But when I looked up a reply,

man who understands. shall not to Friday at 7 p.m., the principal ay Ther meeting of the week being held at behands to me in entreaty. So I let it go unrewarded. My wife is here pulled myself together, and began to as witness. I shall add a codicil to on Sunday. It not only play my part

will that the sale of my collection "'Amazing!" I stammered at last. is to be entrusted to your arm. You mbay, Marseilles & London. manages the Pa Leung Kuk, but 6,000 16th Sept Marseilles, Havre,

London, H'burg, acts as an advisory committee to A glorious print Instantly all his shall have the honour of looking after R'dam, Antwerp & Hull

face beamed with pride. But that is this pricectionately on the despoiled treasure' placing his the Secretary for Chinese Affairs; nothing, he cried Marseilles & London.

the caser till the day it is dispersed all in all Bombay, Marseilles & London.

cases affecting women and must see the "Melancholy You hand

Passion," an Chinese family life:

Ulustrious Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, children and

Rotterdam. Antwerp & Bull.

It corresponds when you can rarely example, such over the world. Only promise me that second time you will issue a beautiful catalogue generally.

and That will be my tombstone. I need no Marseilles & London.

of like quality. Look at it." necessary with charitable institu-

better. *

moved Again lightly over

I looked at his wife and daughter representation. "This went on parts of China, traces parents of lost children and shelters for the soild hours. I cannot describe to you occasionally a tremor passed from one

RANCHI CARTHAGE +BHUTAN

NALDERA CORFU **SOUDAN

16,000 23rd Sept. 14,000 7th Oct. 6.800 14th Oct.

11,000 21st Oct. 4th Nev. 10,000

MANTUA RAWALPINDI *BURDWAN

Bombay, Marsellies London

his

or

6,000, 11th Nov. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg. tions and private persons in various Angers reinmphantly for two They were supporting each other, and

15,000 18th Nov. Antwerp & Hull.

Marseilles & London. 2nd Dec. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

how

9th Dec. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, night any Chinese woman or girl ghostly it was to examine with to the other as if they were one body

Holl

COMORIN

CHITRAL

+*SOMALI

RANCHI CARTHAGE

BANGALORE

15,000 6,800

17,000 16th Dec. 14,000 30th Dec. 6th Jan. 6,000

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

R'dam, Antwerp & Hull.

"Cargo only.

R'dam,

& Antwerp Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London,

+ Calls Carablanca. I calls Karachi. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the

Khedivial Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

*TALMA

10,000

TILAWA

*SANTHIA TAKADA

SIRHANA

TALMA

calls Rangoon.

1935.

4th Aug.

3 p. 10,000 19th Aug. 8.000 2nd Sept. 7,000 16th Sept. 8,000 30th Sept. 10,000 14th Oct.

Singapore, Fort Swettenham, Penang,

Rangoon & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore. Pezang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calentta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

him these hundred who chooses to go. When parents blank

睡

un-

and relations cannot be traced, the repro suspecting man were dous of his loss, assign to me the

Committee arranges for the girls in

its care to be given in marriage in the the most minute detall- that I could never carry out

(never

or

promisc

or ένα hundred

that shook in unison. I felt uncom

this blind man, or wretched fortable hearing in the memory of 纽

of his long-since-dispersed so real, however, that he made no slip/milection, 3. if it were something pre- describing and praiacious. I gave him

a solemn injing concubines) 213

cach

His adoption, always under bond and this unseen collection, that must long dead eye-sockets again lighted up. 1

since have

been scattered to all the always with the consent

it in his tenderness, in the office, and in every case this office sadly deceived man, still complete, affectionate grasp of his fingers that ascertains the girl's willingness and the transport of his visio was held mine gratefully. before giving consent.

overpowering that I almost began to Once only the believe in it myself. drager seemed

imminent at thent

of this winds, "was for this blind man tastened his yearning to tell me.

The number of inmates of the

600

persons were

4

ways

my

the

#ision

1.

T

"The women accompanied me to the door. They did not dare to speak, for his hearing was so scute that he

Po Leung Kuk on January 1, 1932, der

awakening from the somnambulist was fifty-two, and during the year certainty of his enthusiasm. Be had would have heard every word, but

their faces beamed with, gratitude, and i admitted as praised sharpness of the printing there

of

there were tears in their eyes as they Antiope (a proof looked gratitude, and there were tears against 366 in 1931.

the Rembrandt print that must have been worth Five hundred

women and girls fabulous sum) and his sensitive finger felt etunned as I groped

erin their eyes as they looked at me. I my. way [were admitted without warrant.

the right depth in the sub down the stairs. The fact was that finding Twenty-five

A shadow suddenly were Jost children, stituted sheet.

ashamed, I had come like the His voice I felt sixty-one were accompanied by appeared on his forehead,

faltered.

'But that is, that is the angel in the fairy tale into a parents or guardians, and seventy-Antiope" 1" he uttered a little puzzled for an hour, helping to keep up a pious

had given a blind men his

sight two were maid-servants or mui, trai "I

quickly matched the sheet out of who had left their employers. his hands and enthusiastically descrit deception. I had had in reality come On leaving the Kuk 203 women ed every detail of the etching, which there only 11's sordid business man by artifice of a The blind to deprive someone was visible to me, too. and girls were restored to husbands man's face cleared again. And the few costly prints. But I took away

had again B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for for other relatives, fifteen were sent more I praised it the more this goar with mo much more. I

•1st and 2nd class passengers.

to charitable institutions in China, led, doddering old, man developed a come into contact with real enthusiasm fifteen were given in adoption, three Jovist cartiality, a hearty, honest joy in our dull and joyless time, an over- Here is a man who understands powering ecstasy given entirely to the married, 235 released (eleven re-something, he said, turning trium-

service of art, such as people to-day EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, leased under bond), twenty sent to

phantly to

family. A

At last, at seem to have competely lost. Convent or Refuge and seven died.. A

tall men who can

ynu "As soon as I got into the street what

You

and prints are worth.

I heard a window open above, The number of inmates remaining what distrusted me and abused me, someone called my name. It was the in the Kuk on December 31 was because I sank everything I had into old man, who would not forgo the jafty-three.

collection.

For is true,

his blind eyes in the chance of

turning The institution suffered a great sixty years, no beer, no wine, no to direction in which he supposed I wa loss in the death of Mr. A. G. bacco, no travelling, no theatres, no going. He leaned so far out of the books, but always saving and scrap window that the two women had to Coppin, who for over twelve years ing for these prints. But

you hold

He waved him back carefully.

Happy had been one of its Visiting Jus-will see, when I am gone you will his handkerchief and shouted: tices. His place as Visiting Justice be rich, richer than anyone in the journey! and his voice sounded Jolly It the richest people in and fresh like that of a schoolboy. Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and "Japan and the Hon. Dr. S. W. Tao, O.B.E that I have been such a fool.

was filled by Mr. M... T. Johnson, town, as rich

Dresden.

Then you will be thankful was an unforgettable sight-the happy and Hong Kong to Australia.

But as face of the white-haired old man in Hong Kong to Sydney --- 19 days..

has also continued to serve in this long as I am alive, not a single print the window,

above all the high

Bullen

street, Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

capacity throughout the year. may leave this house-you must carry faced, preoccupled people in the The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New The average monthly number of me out first, and only then, my col. gently lifted out of the world of harsh white cloud lection Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

reality, borne aloft on the Jinmates was seventy.

And he drew his hand caressingly of a happy delusion. And I thought Ninety-eight cases of - sickness over the despoiled partiellos, as if they once more of that true saying I think The P.&O. Branch Service of steamers to London viz Suez The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and were sent to the Tung Wah Hos were living things-it was horrifying, it was Goethe who said it-Collectors London via Panama Canal.

pital for treatment and of these and yet intensely, moving, for in all are lucky people."

the

years of the war had never (From Yisroel the First Jewish seven died.

seen such pure apirituality in a Ger- Omnibus, edited by Joseph Left- Mrs. R. H. Kotewall and Mrs. man face.

Beside him stood his wich. John Heritage. 10s, 6d.). S. W. Tso paid regular visits of in- spection during the year, and took a great interest in the sewing, emi [broidery and other handiwork of the girls.

NELLORE

TANDA NANKIN

NELLORE

TANDA

NANKIN

NELLOME

7,000

7,000

1935. 4th Aug.

9 p.m. 2nd Sept.

7,000

3rd Nov.

Melbourne.

7,000 auth Sept. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney &

7,000 2nd Doc.

7.000 30th Dec.

7,000 3rd Feb.

The P. & 0. Royal Mail Steamers to Landon and

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

TANDA *KIDDERPORE *BHUTAN CARTHAGE SANTHIA TAKADA NALDERA

NANKIN

SOUDAN

COMPU

MANTUA

BURDWAN

1911.

7,000 7th Aug. 0,000 7th Aug. 6,000 11th Aug. 14,000 10th Aug.

8,000 10th Apr 7,000 24th Aug, 16.000 24th

24. Aur.

7.000 3rd Sept 6.800 24,000 7th 11.000 6,100

RAWALPINDI 17,000

COMORIN

*SOMALI

CHITRAL

15,000

6,800 15,000

• Carge only.

21st Sept. 4th Oct 6th Oct. 20th Oct..

ist Nov. 3rd Nov.

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Mo

Osaka & Yhama. foundation stone had been laid by] Moji,

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opened by Lady Feel. His Excel- Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

lency was unfortunately, prevented Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohams

by illness from being present, but his speech was read by the Colonial Secretary. This speech palda warm tribute to the work of the [Po. Leung Kuk and in particular to colleagues who had held office for successive years in order to bring] to completion the splendid new building.

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U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shaughal (S

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SUNDAY, AUGUST

Japan

Straits

Manila MarZ, „Kidderpore

Shanghai and Amoy

Francisco, July 14)

Straits Japan

Pres. Coolidge Yamagata Haru

Muroran: Maru,

DE TUESDAY,

AUGUST

Shanghal

Perseus

SATURDAY AUGUST

Shanghaf

Bhutan

Straits

Australia and Manila

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USA Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San

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(Continued in Next Column.)

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