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CORRESPONDENCE.
Slavery.
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(To the Editor, S. C. M. Post.)
Sin your issue of May 24 las you announced in regard to
thể status of mui teai that “An in- teresting notification has been issued by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs explaining the status of the mui taai. This intimation, which appeared in the Chinese news- papers yesterday, le to the effect that mui tai are not the property of their masters or mistresses and that they are free at any time to return to their parents or guardians.
"The notice, which is issued on the instructions of H.E. the Go- vernor, points out that slavery i: prohibited in all British Colonies, etc., etc."
In yesterday's paper you publish an account of the sale of a boy to a certain Fung Yau, of No. 101, Praya East. According to this ne-
UrIUM TRAFFIC.
Railway Firemen in the Dock.
THREE MEN CHARGED.
The three employees of the Kowloon Canton Railway who were arrested on. Thursday in cnti- nexion with quantity of raw opium which was found by Revenue Officers prior to the de- parture of the 12.7 train, appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yester- day morning.
The first defendant, an engineer, was charged with dealing in raw opium as well as being in posses- sion of 20 taels. The other two men, both of whom were described as stokers, were alleged to have been in possession of 20 tuela of raw opium.
Mr. H. S. Loseby appeared for the second and third defendants and asked for a date to be fixed for the hearing. On being told that the first date convenient to his Worship was Saturday, August count Detective Sergeant Fitches 17, Mr. Loseby suggested that the said the sale was " perfectly case be adjourned till Monday lawful transaction which had taken when he would be in a better posl- place through the Secretariat for tion to say how long the case was Chinese Affairs" and that "there likely to take. were several witnesses to prove
the sale of the boy, who changed
hands for a sum of $140."
Taking for granted that the facts are as stated. it would certainly be interesting to know whether child slavery is or is not still practiced In the Colony with the knowledge and consent of the Government, despite the fact of its acknowledg ed illegality. If a mui tsai is not the property of her master or mis- tress and is free at any time to return to her parents, what about the boy in this case?
be dropped after I have had a dig. "It may be that the charge will cussion with the Revenue Officer," added Mr. Loseby.
His Worship smiled, causing Mr. Loseby to remark:-"It very often happens your Worship."
Later in the morning, Mr. B. C. K, Hawkins appeared in Court and when the question of bail was brought up Mr. Hawkins said the Department regarded the first defendant's offence very seriously indead and would ask for $2,000 The question of slavery of bail. In the case of the second domestic bondage is not one of ". and third defendants, the prosecu- and is to be condemned from. tion was not asking for such heavy every point of view. If the no. They were firemen under fication of the Secretariat of the first defendant and therefore Chinese Affairs is not u doed were not, possibly, in a position to letter it is time that the local help themselves. The prosecution courts And the poli e took would accept $500 bail each. cognisance of the feet and some- Mr. lawking later said that Mr. thing was done to rid the Colony J. Smith, of the Kowloon-Canton of this stain on its escutcheon.- Railway, had just told him that Yours, etc.,
the railway were extremely short of firemen and therefore wanted the case decided one way or the other as soon as possible.
W.
"The Peking Man."
In view of what Mr. Suith had
Sir-It is refreshing to read the said, the prosecution was prepared article headed "The Peking Man" to accept $100 bail each in the appearing in your issue of the 9th other of the second and third August, 1929, the more so, since it helps to confirm my 1914 discovery
defendants.
The three defendants
were
that Chinese Turkestan (Sinklang accordingly remanded till Monday, basin), the locality between the the first on $2,000 bail and the Tienshan and Kuenlun mountains, others on $100 each.
is the Cradle of the Human Race and the "Garden of Eden" of Genesis of the Bible, and which is supported and proved by my 27 supplementary pamphlets special articles, published between the years 1915 and 1926.
My discovery is the result of years of patient research work in connexion with the study of An- clent Chinese Historical Records, Genesis of the Bible, the geological conditions of the different contin- ents, and the reports of explorers and archaeologists. And it was the intensive study of the geological conditions of the different contin- ents and the origin of the world's big loese deposits, which confirmed me in my discovery of the great upheaval of Central Asia and the subsidence of a large mass of con- tinental land in the Pacific Ocean, and my belief that the solution of all existing scientific and geologi. cal riddles is centred in the fact that the flooding of all the differ- ent continents of the World by a Tidal Wave'was caused by this great upheaval and subsidence of land.
And. It is this great upheaval and subsidence of land which is responsible for the "changes" (shifting of the Polar regions)
"This is the most important find
of early human remains yet made." Ja-support of this view he gave the following five reaPODS:
1. The "Fcking Man" actually was found by scientifically trained investigators who knew what they were looking for, whereas both the "Pilt- down Man" and the "Heidel. hcrg Man" were found ac- cidentally by workmen.
2. The remains were found in association with a wealth of contemporaneous material, including fossilized bones of animals whose position in the geological scale is definitely known.
3.
1.
Remains of more than one in- dividual have been found- perhaps as many as half a dozen.
Its significant location at the castern end of the Euroasia- tic continent, as opposed to the "Piltdown Man" at the western end.
5. The teeth reveal it to be more human than the "Piltdown Man," which was more ape than human.
When the type originated is un- which have taken place in the certain, but most of the scientists Arctic regions, and the erroneous who have the question under study belief in four "Ice Ages," which in Peking feel that the probabili are, in fact, climatic changes dusties point to Central Asia.
to the sudden advance and retreat Dr. Grabau himself thinks that of the Arctic cold, which affected the most likely region for the North America, northern Asia and origin of man is the Sinkiang basin the north of Europe.
(Chinese Turkestan), and this,
Now, after waiting for sixteen confirms my discovery. years, it la most gratifying to Dr. Grabau also refers to "the know that scientists are beginning tilting up of the Himalayas," to confirm my discoveries and which also confirms my discovery findings.
of the upheaval of Central Asia.
The finding of two human metar Dr. Grabau believes that one teeth formed the first clue to the branch of this primitive race pass- hunt for primitive man in Asia, ed Southward to Cathaysia. and they were found as the result Others came East to China, while of investigations made in the first others went to Europe. place by Dr. J. G. Andersson, Swed- Let us hope that further Inves-- ish adviser to the Chinese Geologi-tigations by these worthy Scientists. cal Survey in 1926 at a place called will lead to the solution of this Choukoutien, south-west of Peking. Interesting and absorbing ques- The second and most important ion (Cradle of the Human Race). discovery of parts of skeletons, in-yours, etc.. cluding several jaws and teeth, a
brain case and other bones (Eoli
TSE TSAN-TAL.
thle or "dawn stone age") was made by Dr. Li and Dr. Birger Bohlin of the Chinese Geological An alarm of fire was raised Survey in the fall of 1928.
last night shortly before ten o'clock Regarding these discoveries Dr. at the Japanese hair-dressing Amadeus W. Grabau, for 18 years saloon at No. 20, Wyndham Street, Professor of Palaeontology at the but a small outbreak which had University of Columbia and widely occurred was extinguished with known as one of the greatest living the help of three Indian constables authorities on the subject, has ex who arrived on the scene. pressed himself as follows:
damage was done.
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