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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9TMa, 1912. law in their defence. It is, we fear, im- evidence. He writes, for instance: "Hun trade. There is no rood to quote their sug- possible to hope for that ideal state when drods-perhaps thousands of innocent gestions, we readily agree with all that is thore shall be no more sin, no more im- girls are yearly decayed to the East, there proposed, and are prepared to admit that the morality, for in spite of the teaching of to succumb ínovitably to disease and horrid farther suggestions they mako- but which In another place, he states that in are contrary to the views beld by the sanc Christianity, and in spite of the teaching death. and influence of every other system of Malay Street-tho Yoshiwara district of timonious but impracticablo, poople who, in
One of the latest TELEGRAMS.
Burglaries have been very aumerous in the Colony fately. sufferers is Mr. B. Layton, who, we hear, was relieved on Wednesday night of pro- party to the value of about $300.
WATSON religion or ethics, modern civilisation Singapore, we should explain-there are former days, supported Exeter Hall-for the sity, has been uffered the position of
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Our Brandies
are
Prof. J. W. Jenks, of Cornell Univer
financial adviser to the Chinese Govern-. mont. Prof. Jenks was considered as the
Powers recommending Vissering Prof. Jenks knows Chinese finances thoroughly and has written several books on the subject.
We take the following from a Straits contemporary-It is reported of Mr. Claude Severn, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, that upon one occasion, when taking the service in Taiping Church, he had to announce the anthem, "It is a good thing to go into the House of the was put on the printed notice that he "It is a good thing— had to read: Lord," by Dr. Bridge. This is how it
Bridge."
hna not removed all mankind far abore"510 Babyloniau houses, each containing better supervision of the unfortunate women of ill-roputo"; who live by immorality and to keep down the moral standards of Babylon and from 8 to 30 women Pompeii. There is, doubtless, less tendency There are no less than 80 well-known the disease which is one of the inevitable currency reform adviser, but un account to parade the unclean and the obscene, but pimps who flourish in Singapore alone, and evils of the life. The world is still a long way of international politics was not accepted, most men and women of the workt know congregate in their open club-known to off from celibacy; and human nature being the that beneath the surface of society there is all who care to koow"; "Singapore is the what it is, and neither education nor roligion instead.
They and women moral or inducing the exercise of WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS foulusss and corruption, and that no one burial ground of thousands upon thousands having yet proved effective in making all men
class can really point the finger of acorn at of unfortunate white girls... the other, though there is a tendency are decoyed to the East, there to be sold, self-control, it seems to us to be folly and nowadays-and it appears in "The White hundreds of European girla yearly"; and worse not to grapple with the social evil in a Slave Market"-to maintain the view that yet, on another page, he states that the business-like fashion. Mrs. MacKIEDY and it is the poorer and so-called lower classes authorities do not allow any woman of wome, of her class and training do not wish to make vice attractive. They wish to check who suffer at the bands of the others British nationality to lend an openly the evit ut ita source--if they can; and the "The White Slave Market" is the joint immoral life in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, production of Mrs. ARCHIBALD MAORINDY Delhi, Bangeon, Burna, Penang, Singa pity of it is that in the present instance she (OLIVE CHRISTIAN MALVERY) and W. N. poro, Ceylon, Shanghai or Borneo. They is in harness with an unskilled observer, WILLIS MF, WILLI, we understand, was are shipped at once to London or America, who has obviously misled. ber. Their book formerly a Member of Parliament in New and be adds, "it is a splendid policy for a will undoubtedly create a very wrong im nation to adopt." Nevertheless, in other pression of the state of affairs in the Far portions of his writings, he leaves it to be Eastern Colonies, and for that reason its inferred that Eaglish girls are decoyed to publication is to he regretted. the British Colonies and sold into u life of shame. The quotations we have made are, of course, self-ovidently inaccurate, to give them no stronger condemnation, to those of us who know like Far East; but it so hap pons that we are able to give statisties which prove Mr. Wits' inaccuracy. the lowest of Mr. WILLIS figures are taken, there should be at least 4,000 woman
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DEATH. On the 5th ult, at Dulwich, JAMES MACLEAN, formerly of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, aged to HONGKONG OFFIOR: 101, Des Vorur Road C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FL Star, E.
The Daily Press.
HONGKOND, AUGUST 9TH, 1912.
THEUS are some good people who imagine that the East, and especially the Far East, is a sink of iniquity. This is an old belief, which has been spread more widely, we fear, by Kirline's well-known song of Manda
far
too much of
If
The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd; announce an interim dividend of one dollar per share.
Lieut.-Colonel A. Mullins has been
to command the appointed
Royal Artillery of Bouth China.
"DAILY PRESS EXCLUSIVE SERVICE.
THE FUNERAL OF THE EMPEROK
OF JAPAN.
TOKYO, August 8th. The funeral of the Emperor Matsuhito.
which takes place on the 13th proximo, will be from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Six white oxen will draw the carriage, and the new Emperor will walk in the procession.
A FRANCO-JAPANESE BANK.
TOKYO, August 8th. The Ministers of Finance and Foreign
Affairs have formally approved the articles of the proposed Franco-Japanese Bank.
[TEROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.] THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, August 8th. Parliament hog adjourned until October 7th.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE INSURANCE ACT.
WORKING SMOOTHLY AND SUCCESSFULLY. LONDON, August 8th.
Prior to the adjournment of the House
In the course of a report on medical, surgical, and dental articles in China, the American Consul-General at Hong- kong states that there are indications that European trade in such lines is likely to be seriously threatened in the near future by Japanese and other Asia- tic production, but high-grade practi tioners will constantly demand American or European equipment, and the increas ed use of all such goods in connection of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George made with the changing life and manner of statement on the Insurance Act. He said it was working most smoothly and in Malay Street, Singapore-and the joyears ago Naval Store Officer in Hong-living in China affords a constantly kong, and was lent about fifteen months widening market for manufactures in aga for service under the Canadian these lines which merits attention. There successfully. The conduct of employers Government, resumes his duties as naval has been also a most satisfactory and was beyond praise. The few cases of store officer at Devonport this month..
siguificant growth of the trade in foreign vindictive spite accentuated the general
loyalty. medicines in China during the past few years, and the attention of manufacturers
Br. J. W. L. Oliver, who was a few
News has been received that Mr.
Hassan el Arculli, third son of Mr. A. F. Arculli, the well-known army contractor and merchant in this Colony, has success- fully passed his final examination in Medicine in the Liverpool University and obtained the Diploma of M.B. and Ch. B.
The Directors of the Manila Railway recommend a dividend of 1 per cent. ok the preference stock for the year 1911. previous distribution on this class of may be regarded as marking a distinct capital, and the announcement now made advance in the Company's fortunes.
ARMY PROMOTIONS.
CONVENTION.
NO LIKELIHOOD OF A RENEWAL OF BOUNTIES.
LONDON, August 8th. The following extracts are from the
Mr. Acland, speaking in the House of London Gazette, dated 12th July, 1912-
Crosse, Royal | Commons in defence of the Government's Lieut. Reginald M. Artillery, to be General Staff Officer, 3rd Grade, vice Captain W. H. Johnston, withdrawal from the Sugar Convention, Royal Engineers. Dated 11th July, 1912. said there was no likelihood of a renewal.
Royal Garrison Artillery. -Major of the sugar bounties. Henry L. Kirke, to be Liout-Colonel, dependent upon the absence of competi- vics T. L. Cockhead, D.8.0. Dated 13th July, 1012..
Captain
Army Pay Department. Francis J. Rowen, Paymaster, to he Major. Dated 13th July, 1812.
The interests
tion of bounty-fed sugar were perfectly sate, and the cane-sugar industry had
The Government had expressly intimated to the Powers that it was not intended every chance of an increasing outpuk
to grant preference to British-grown sugar.
Mr. Bonar Law maintained that with- drawal from the Convention would not
tho reiterated request of the publishers, and she explains that she has toned down many of Mr. WILLIS expressions. Obviously, she was unable to check by personal obser- of Idos. Bot. vation the statements of "fact"; she bad to accept them as correct, and Mr. WILLIS' credentinis as a former Labour Member of ...828.40 2.45 Parliament in a British Colony were accept od, apparently, as all-sufficient. It would 31 40 270 appear from the internal evidcuce of the
book that Mr. WILLIS made his tour of the ference he wishes to create is that they are What are the facts? 31.40 2.70 Far East-from Shanghai and Manila to mostly white women.
Hongkong, Singapore, Bangkok and Ran- In the whole of the Straits Settlements goon, for the sole purpose of compiling this there were at the census last year 2,817 Of
A telegram from Santiago de Chile 37.40 3.20 work. That, we think, is the impression women living oponly immoral lives.
We recollect some-these, 1,820 were in Singapore. Of these states that the newspaper Union in an sought to be created. one passing through Hongkong about two 1,820, only a very small number were white article urges upon the Government the and exporters of medicines and medical GREAT BRITAIN AND THE SUGAR Gold and White Capsule ...43.40 3.70 or three years ago on a freight steamer, women; not one was British. In the whole advisability of inquiring into the pros-preparations should be given the field. informing us that he was taking the of the Federated Malay States, the total num-pects of promoting trade between Chili voyage for the benefit of his health and had ber was 3,308. Of these, 114 wore Malays, and Japan on the basis of an exchange 4.20been commissioned to write a book of this 2,230 Chinese, 21 Indians, 943 belonged to of Japanese coal and Chilian nitrates.
description. Whether our visitor was Mr. other races (probably mostly Japanese), WILLIH we cannot now be certain, but the but we believe we are correct in stating that book we are dealing with is just such as none of them was American or European. might be written by a credulous globetrotter It is undesirable to labour this reference We think WA A. S. WATSON & CO.. whose time at the ports is much too limited to to Mr. Willis' “facto.”
enable him to verify half the travellers' bavo said enough to show that his state- tales that might be told to him in n voyage ments are, at least, grossly exaggerated from port to port. There is much that is and not oven the statement of Bishop
The Times Engineering Contract List general in the portions that he contributes, OLDHAM, that, "Every bout that comes to some that is particular; and we do not think Singapore brings its quota of human freight states that tenders are invited, amongst Mr. WILLIS was in such a hurry that he in the form of these unfortunate, misled others, for the following contract, which could not have verified some, at least, of his girls, nearly all of whom go into Malays open till September 2nd:-Hanoi. "facta." We mention this at the outset Street and are borne out again only to be Post and Telegraph Department.--Ton
ARMY COMMAND IN INDIA. buried," will make us believe that the year mail contract between Haiphong because there is
culars, Direction des Postes.) "white slave traffic" finds the southern and Hongkong. Deposit £400. (Parti alapdash Colonial style in his
Mr.
The King has approved the appoint the
ment of Lieut. Gen. Sir John Eccles Nixon, K.C.B., to an Army commend in writing, a tendency to exaggerate where, Colony one of its best markets.
WILLIS has something to say in praise of T20 exaggeration WB6
India, which will become vacant on Octo. unfortunately, nooded,
efforts which Sir FREDERICK LUGARD and and also 13+ tendency to accept and page or uncorroborated Lady Lugand are credited with having
ber 30th next, in consequence of the re-bring an extra ton of sugar to Britain,
Lieut-Gen. Sir J. E. Nixon, was last statement, picturesque, truly strikingly made to abate the social evil in Hongkong,It may be noted that there has been no tirement of Gen. Sir E. G. Barrow from picturesque, but inclined to raise doubts as though we must confess to never having
the command of the Southern Army. while it exposed British sugar to retalia- Division. He entered the service in 1875, THE MASTER OF ELIBANK'S NEW to accuracy in the minds of those who heard of "the great amount of good
employed in command of the Peshawar tion abroad. and was for three years in the King's
APPOINTMENT. Own Scottish Borderers before joining know the East as well as Mr. WILLIS, even which LADY LUGARD accomplished, “in a
LONDON, August, sth. some of the immoral dous of Hongkong,"
The Commissioner of Customs at Shaog-his present force. He has 6lled a large number of appointments on the staff, and Mahsud, Wazeri, if they have not actually trodden the slimy quiet, unostontatious fashion by cleansing
Incr The Master of Elibank has under-region to which he devoted his atten- tion so assiduously. We are compelled nor bave we any knowledge that the subject hai, reforring in his report to the the "ghan,
appointed Managing Director of the con- to pass over his palpable ignoranca on engaged the attention of Sir FREDRICK enormous number of people who took Chitral, North-West Frontier of India,
Weetman Pearsolt, LUGARD further than in seeing that the passage to Shanghai on the Yangtazo and Boer campaigns to his credit.
tracting firm of matters of detail relating to the Far East, Police had not ignored complaints published steamers from the disturbed regions laat merely mentioning a few to indicate what
in the Daily Preer at a time when your, says it is questiouable whether a large We mean. For instance, he refers to "The vice Baunted itself in the public streets. percentage of the huge sums paid by re-
It is officially stated that he will ba French Colony of Sigon". (sic); in Flere and at Shanghai, it would seem, from Ingers as passage-money over reached the
Mr. S. Murata, the Superintendent of elevated to the Peerage and that Mr. Foreign Maile at Kobe, writes to the place he refers to the Straits Settlements Mr. WILLIS statements that American coffers of the steamor company concerned.
Illingworth will succeed him as the Party amongst other places and the "Federated women are the greatest sufferers in the
Captain C. G. Woodhouse, 2 Indian papers as follows:-
Since the beginning of January last, Whip. Malay States (including Singapore)"; "white-slave" traffic. It comes as a sur-
1 aub-assistant surgeon, officers,
mails sent to Germany vid Siberia from and we are given the geographical informa-prise to us as it will to many others--to
N.C.O.'a and men and 12 followors, 196th Kobe or other ports in Japan appear to "slavery" can be tion that "The Dutch own Java; Sumatra, learn that the term
instance, mails that used to arrive at loon from Pingshan and Sha Kong Mui Hamburg three times week were receiv resignation, but reluxation is imperative The Siam and Borneo are divided up, but still applied to the state of affairs in this Colony, Beluchistan Infantry, returned to Kow. be reaching there very irregularly. For Master of Elibank says he regrets his
It also the British are predominant" [in the more especially in regard to white women. Eastern Archipelago]. We do not wish to It is undesirable in these columns to delve on 6th inst., and Captain J. C. Gretton, ed only twice or once a week.
4 Indian olücers, 1 sub-assistant surgeon, happened sometimes that letters coming after the strain of recent years,
cause of Liberalism was nearest to his from Germany by the same routs were ith similar irrogularity. quibble, and merely mention these items to too deeply into the mire in our own Colony, show what manner of observant tourist Mr. but if The White Slave Market" receives 151 N.C.O.'s and men and 11 followers received here with
of these delays has been given by the au- WILLIS was when in this region of the globe. the attention of Imperial legislatore--for 128th Infantry, proceeded to Pingshan As yet, no information as to the cause heart and he declares that he has n thorities at Berlin, and the Department difference whatever regarding soy part These are more than mere slips of the pen, the book is dedicated to "The Honourable
An important Japanese contract has of Communications, Tokyo, is now press of the policy of the Liberal Party, for
ing ther
in the matter. and, taken in conjunction with some of the the Speaker and the Honourable Members
Recent disturbances among the work which he will continue to work.
The Times says there is a very general statements lie. makes, raise in our mind
measure,
affected the postal service io doubts as to the authenticity of a large in Parliament "our local authorities may Co., Ltd., of London and Preston. They ers in England seem to have, in some
that country. have to answer a few difficult questions. It have obtained from a Japanese hydro- tha
We have this day (July feeling that the Master of Elibank's portion of the book.
When dealing with a question like the may be true-as Mr. WILLIS asserts that electric power company what is described 20th] received information, under date
Office, London, to the effect that, owing ship. should also be said, by way of preliminary, social evil, it is highly desirable that white women gravitate to opium ders in as probably the largest order for water- of June 12th, from the General Post gifts should be utilised in an Ambassador-
should be accurate. We Hongkong and Shanghai, there to become driven alternators which has been placed to the labour troubles, mails to be sent that we do not set ourselves the disagreeable its critic task of analysing the book in question are willing to concede that there is much spectacles of degradation and shame in the in Great Britain. The order covers six por steamer Majestic were forwarded por mail was to be dispatched per plementary because we wish to uphold any system immorality in the Far East. But it is not eyes of Asiatics; but we hesitate to believe it alternators, each of 7,776 K.V.A. capacity, steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 11. and a sup- steamer Adriatic, leaving on June 13th, of inimorality as such, or because we to establish a purer moral atmosphere that so far na thia Colony is concerned. The representing over 60,000 h.p.
These ships are understood to be Atlantic His primary statement is entirely new to us Mr. At the seventh day's sale of the Taylor liners, but the mails referred to above do not sympathise with the objects Mr. WILLIS sets out. of the good-hearted people at Home object, we take it, is to put a stop WILL writes: "Hundreds of American Art Collection at Christie's on oth ult. must have contained some correspondence who are striving so bravely to stop the to the white slave trafic, especially girls pass through Gage Street and Lynd- the Chinese enamelled poreclain provided coming to Japan by the way of America." for Repton, in a letter to his constituents Our so far as it is followed in the Far East hurst Terrace during the year, and, if they cusution à famille vorte vase, 19in. plain why, for some reeks pust, except denounces Mr. Lloyd George's Land immoral traffic in white women. sympathies are entirely with the anti-slavery in such places as Singapore, Hongkong live, eventually find themselves, when their high, of the Kang He period, opened with on one occasion, po London mails have Crusade, and says it can only result ic movement, and we cannot express too and Shanghai. According to Mr. WiLLis bloom is gone, and they become addicted a bid of 500gs., Quickly the thousands Fridays, while those due on other days strongly our condemnation of the fiends in bad as Hongkong may be, accursed as to drink and drugs, in the Chinese quarter came, and Messrs. Duveen carried off the havo come through regularly. human shape they can scarcely be called is Shanghai, Singapore is the chief market in Takka (sic) Road, where early S800 priza at 6,000gs. This was an immense
rise in the value of the vass, which was A Calcutta paper states it has been men and women-who entrap, corrupt, place of the trafficker in "white" human brothels exist, each house containing from a anelave and traffick in young girls and flesh. One of his chapters is entitled, "The dozen to twenty unfortunates of all colours, originally in the Lyne-Stephen collection, practically settled that the European women, who, after all, are somebody's sisters Pimps Club at Singapore," and perhaps creeds and caster," We cannot identify and passed out of it in 1895 for 310gs. commercial community of Calcutta will or daughtera. It is painful enough to see the most lurid part of the book is contained any quarter in Hongkong by this descrip- A set of three vases of Chinese porcelain Council, one for the Chamber of Com- women go down to the uttermost depths in the narrative of & "Madame V.," the tion, but the authorities should have with the Louis XVI. marks sold for 3,000gs. with their eyes open. But it is a thousand kooper of a matron de plaisir in Malay no difficulty in verifying whether this is On 10th ult. the highest prices were made times worse to see inuocent young girls Street in that port. It may be true that the truth or a lie. We leaps Mr. WILLIS for a pair of famille-rose vasca and berutely ruined and then sold into a these inhuman traders find a market in the to them, and willingly turn to the remedies covers, Kien Lang, £735 (parks); and bondage of dishongar that is worse then Far East; but we are not prepared to suggested by Mrs. MacKIEDY and be famille-roso cistoro, Kion-Lang, £316
on Mr. WILLIS so-called collaborator for checking the white slavel (Durlacher).
Say. We are not prepared to defend the moral standards of the East generally, nor are we inclined to enter into a detailed
comparison of the Far East with such centres of sanctity and righteousness as London and Paris, Liverpool and Glasgow,
Berlin and Buds Perth, Amsterdam and
Naples; but when we come across a book like "The White Slave Market," published by a reputable house like Mears, STANLEY PAUL & Co., holding up Hongkong and the Far Eastern Colonies to the opprobrium and condemnation of the world at large, we are compelled, reluctantly, we confess, to take up the cudgels in defence of the fair fame of our Colony. We use the word ** reluctantly," because it is impossible to discuss what is euphemistically referred to as "the social evil" without using words and referring to facts which most of us would willingly avoid in the day's work. It
death, without being able to invoke the believe it
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THE SIBERIAN MAILS.
COMPLAINTS, OF RECENT DELAYS.
this communication does not ex-
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be allotted four seats in Lord Carmichael's
Ltd.
In a letter to his constituents the
THE LAND CRUSADE.
A RIFT IN THE MINISTERIAL PARTY.
LONDON, August 8th. Sir Herbert Raphael, Liberal M. P.
a dangerous rift in the Party.
THE KRUPP CENTENARY.
A MUNIFICENT DONATION.
LONDON, August 8th. On the occasion of the Centenary
merce generally and one each for tea, festivities at Essen in connection with the jute, and mines. This is just half the re- Capital considers if the franchise is 14,000,000 mark in gifts to workmen, off- presentation the Chamber asked for, but frm of Krupp, the family donated intelligently and conscientiously used the cisla, benevolent institutions in Essen
and Naval and Military charities. European commercial influence in the
Council should be a powerful one..
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