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"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Viena, To-day.

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GENTLEMAN GILLIE

A

An interesting Highland char- acter recently passed away in Mr. An official communique issued George Macpherson Fitzroy. here early yesterday morning an-descendant of Charles II through nounces the reconstruction of the the Dukes of St. Albans, he was Cabinet and then goes on to say: on his mother's side related to the "The retiring Vice-Chancellor. Macphersons of Cluny

After an adventurous but Prince von Starhembers. withdrawn from the Government prosperous life as a sailor and gold in consequence of material diver-digger he returned to his native gencies of opinion between him Badenoch.

There he acted for years and the Federal Chancellor.

ments."

has

country.

1117-

of

CRUSADE AGAINST

TIPPING

ORGANISED SYSTEM OF

GRAFT

HABITUAL TRAVELLERS SPEND SMALL FORTUNES

(By Sir Percival Phillips)

Wabolish tipping?

not 2 crusade to also be described as a form of jcowardice. is responsible for The public are heartily sick much of the over-tipping-at Why should such pub- of submitting to the system, home.. and the recommendation that it lic utilities as lifts and cloak- be suppressed, contained in the rooms with three, washhand- last volume of "The Survey of basins be looked upon by the London Life and Labour," will persons in charge as a commer- received with general cial asset for their own ex-

ploitation?

approval.

I myself have spent a small mole-catcher and fortune in tips. in going about the world. One is compelled to

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"The Government has set itself sillie on the estates of his uncle, the task of concentrating all the the late Clany Macpherson. Mr. & Mrs. Fung Kong Un be patriotic forces of the

"Squatting." as he called it, in be

bonse to announce that the marriage of This concentration requires

ancestral the tis OWE their daughter, Stella, to

complete unification of political Craigdhu, he latterly found em-

Continental System Chau Sing Kan will take place at leadership, as well as the clarifica-ployment as a

The percentage system the Registry on Thursday 21 May tion of the relations between the salmon fisher.

No invitations are being Fatherland Front organisation Yet the neighbours of "Master pay tribute at almost every step the Continent tends to diminish Mussolini was the 193$.

had or find obstruction and much the evil. issued but all friends will be and the various State institutions. George" as the clansmen

Even the pioneer in compelling hotel ser- welcome, at the Reception to be For this reason the Federal Chan-called him in infancy and continu- unpleasantness. held at the Hong Kong Hotel atcellor assumes the leadership of ed to do till his death-never fail short journey from London to vents and their like to refure

the Fatherland Front

ed to greet him with that respect Paris is made irritating by the personal gratuities.

I have had tips refused by the outstretched band. "At the request of the Federal which Highlanders give to

Once aboard the Channel chamber-maids and valets of the ground Hong Kong, Friday, May 15, 1936. Chancellor, the leader of the Home well-born, irrespective of fortune.

boat, and the harbour porter Italian hotels on Guards. Frince von Starhemberg,"

were pledged to the DICKENS-LITERARY DOMESTIC satisfied (call it 2s.), alert that they has given instructions that members of the new Cabinet who One eminent novelist would have stewards whose courtesy is accept their share of the com- Mui-tsai

are also members of the Home

regarded the Pickwick Centenary equalled only by their ingenui-mon pool and nothing more. Guards should accept the appoint-Celebrations with a jaundiced erety hover about with ingratiat Of late they have shown signs The question of mui-tsai in

Lest the exuberance of the Picking smiles. Will you have your of weakening, and gratuities Has Your bestowed unostentatiously find the Colony is, like the poor.

Close To Rome It is brought

wickians who were jollying toge-money changed?

too passport been seen to and can their home in a closed palm. always with us.

Vienna, later: The compost ther recently should become

The system works well Is they take charge of it? constantly to our notice by the

Dickensian, this depreciatory

If so, it many French hotels. many cases cropping up in thetion of the new Austrian Cabinet police-courts of ill-treatment of shows that the former Christian judgment, delivered in a letter this your luggage? mai-tsai by their mistresses, or Social Party will exert a consider about one of the writer's own will be guarded against thieves have in mind is staffed by ser the able influence within it. The Lew, was submitted by a Londca Do you wish a porter at Calais? vants who are as polite and at- other offences against

Administra Commentator. Female Domestic Service Ordin- Minister for Social ance of 1923, such as failing to tion. Dr. Resch, has already oc

position cupied the same register a mui-tsal, bringing a various Cabinets presided over by unregistered mri-tani into the

That these chil-Dr. Seipel and Dr Dollfuss, while Colony, etc.

Commerce and dren need protection has long the Minister of been recognised and the Ordin-Communications. Herr Stockinger ance of 1923, designed to that who was an intimate friend of

Dollfass the Minister Dr.

of end. was a long step forward in

Justice, Dr. Hammerstein-Equord. that direction. But, despite

Education. all the efforts of the Chinese and the Minister of

Peruter, also belonged to Secretariat and its inspectors

Political circles express the

Herr

to see that the law is obeyed, that party. there have been, and still are.!

La

Expects To Be Paid

in

One I

tentive to the client who lives within the percentage agree

I am afraid that the critics will This last query always elicits ment as those who go beyond it. not find out how good it is while I

Yet it is undeniable that a

am on the top of the earth. my admiration. The Inexperi would forgive them if I could only enced traveller naturally says, few extra francs will make a If the steward is subtle difference in the treat- bring it home to them that Dickens "Yes." and Thackeray, Eliot and the realready booked to carry luggage ment the visitor receives. sidue were not writers, but merely to the Paris train he will come

In America literary domestics. The critic was George Moore-

Your Daily Smile!

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up cheerfully with a 'Calais man in a blue smock and say, Tips are high in the United "Ive got your porter. str." And States for certain services, but he expects to be paid for the the field is more limited.

train guard or a liftman would introduction.

You pay the French porter be astonished, perhaps amused, Tea on the beach puts the sand in

for carrying your bags to the if offered a gratuity for doing crisiandwiches.

train and another porter for his ordinary work.

One of the most troublesome The Old Man: "Well, my boy. so putting them in the luggage

take my daughter rack. The charge for luncheon problems of a voyage is the dis- evident that the penalties pro-jor events which took place last you intend to

away from her poor old father." The Sunday, when clashes occurred in vided are insufficient. offenders, moreover, in all too the streets of the capital on the The Young Man. Not at all, sir. We includes 10 per cent. for service. tribution of adequate tips to many cases are people of educa-occasion of the annual relay of are coming to live with you” tion, who cannot plead ignor-the Catholic working men's jance. The result of this failure ranisation. "Freiheitsbund,"

so many evasions and contra-opinion that the Cabinet

become was to a large extent the result ventions that it has

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“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley.

And then you have still only the right people.

are In the Atlantic liners, and in begun to tip. If you *

Far travelling beyond Paris in a British ships plying to TRANSPARENT Foreman (testing the wall of new sleeping car you are taxed-as Eastern ports, it is a case of to check the evil is the amend-tween detachments of Prince on house): speaking quietly, Bill by right a fat percentage of every steward for himself, and the cost of your berth as "ser-heaven help the weak-minded ment. passed by the Legisla- Starhemberg's Home Guards and Can you hear me?"

Bili (on the other side):

vice" for the attendant..

passenger. tive Council on Wednesday, con-members of the Freiheitsbund. It

(Continued on Page 15) Our good rature, which can siderably increasing the penal-jis believed that these incidents you? That's a good 'un! I can see ties previously provided by add-convinced Chancellor von Schusch-you in three places." ing imprisonment to the fines nigg-who delivered a speech to and the Catholic demonstrators imposable in certain cases.

From time to time the sub-subsequently marched through the ject of the Colony's mui-tsai streets behind their columns -- attracts the attention of the that matters had now come to a House of Commons. the last head and that the reconstraction occasion being in February. of of the Government was inevitable. this year, when the Minister As soon as the new Cabinet had for the Colonies, referring to the bees formed Dr. von Schuschnigg many cases of offences against sent telegrams to Signor Musso- the Ordinance, said: "I have lini and Dr. Goemboes, assuring looked into the prosecutions them of his unvarying friendship and find there are too many and stressing that he was "firmly fines. I would like to see im-determined to adhere to the ap- prisonment as а deterrent."proved policy, based on the, pro-

of immediate conse-tocols Rome."--Trans-Ocean And, as

а commission quence,

was Service appointed to make a thorough enquiry into the matter. That

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commission has now arrived in FLAG FLIES FOR CENTENARIAR the Colony.

Mrs. Roberts, of Godmanches. It has long been the settled

Huntingdonshire. recently policy of the British Govern-ter. ment, as regards the Colonies, celebrated her 103rd birthday. to interfere as little as possible She was born in Somerset-efreet, with the religions and customs Aldgate, London. The flag on the

of the peoples living under Town Hall was flown in her bon- their protection and jurisdicour.

tion and only to intervene in cases of grave abuse. But in

succeeded in

the mui-tsai system mariy domestic slaves, at a minimum thoughtful people see a case, cost to their owners.

Britain has not merely for regulation, but for abolition. Look at it how stamping out domestic slavery one will these children are in her African colonies, though domestic slaves, Bought or, in in some cases it has taken long! rare cases, given away by their years to effect. Then why not parents, they become the in her Asiatic colonies as well? absolute property of their mis- A further point to be noted is tresses. In country like that Hong Kong and the Straits China, ravaged by food, famine Settlements are not to be rank- and pestilence claiming their ed with other colonies which hundreds of thousands, even possessed a large indigenous millions, of victims and leaving population at the time they Both Singa- more hundreds of thousands were taken over. starving and homeless, there is pore and Hong Kong were uninhabited islands every excuse for the existence almost

of the system; at least the when the British took posses- children so disposed of are sion; and the hundreds of thou- assured of food, clothing and a sands. of Chinese who have home of sorts; but these rea- since then made their home sons do not exist in Hong Kong there have elected to do so be- for the Straits Settlements, and cause of the protection afforded it is futile to adduce them in them by the British flag and support of the system in the British laws.

two Colonies. Be it noted that) It has been said that no slave. the mui-teai are girls, not boys, can breathe British air. Should and that they are acquired for not this apply to every part of ene purpose only-to become our far-flung Empire?

John Bull

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