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'N. LAZARUS, Hong Kong's Only European Optician Established Over Forty Yours Yanager-RALPH A. COOPER, Registered Optometrist (Canada),

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TIME-TABLE.

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MALAYA'S IMMIGRANTS,

ENORMOUS INFLUX FROM

SOUTH CHINA.

GOOD PAY AND CONDITIONS.

BALKAN SPHYNX

THE LATE M. PASHITCE.

THE WEEK'S DIARY,

To-day.

Football: Interport practice, EK.F.C. gesund, 4.15 p.m.

tion: Army Club, U.S.RO Hockey:-Sim Shield Compet- ground; 4.30 p.m.

30 YEARS OF STORMY OFFICE.

M. Pashitch, cup of the most Malaya is the only country in the prominent political #gives of the world whose key industries depend Balkans for the last half century, almost entirely upon immigrant died recently, as our telegraph inbour, and the statistics of the in-service announced aged 82. For 30 ward and outward movements from years he bad, been almost continu Malayan ports to Madras and

ously Premier of Serbia or Yago Negapatam in India, Amoy, Hoi-

Slavia (the greater Serut after the how, and Swatow in China, and the war), and in view of the present the Tung Wah Hospital at Kam

ports of the Dutch East Indies are therefore watched with considerable interest.

political crisis here he was to have formed a Cabinet. On the night of his death there was a heated debate The complete totals for 1926 aren-Parliament.--Later H. Pashitch not yet available, but the returns suffered an apoplectic stroke.

up to November show that neither the mining or the rubber indus

How Fashitch Concealed His tries have any reason to fear that

Thoughts. Malaye is losing her drawing power Nikola Pashitch was making his For most of his 83 years M. in South China or South India. tory in Serbia, says Mr. G: Ward Considering the size of this country! Price in the Daily Mail. He saw -roughly that of England and is country grow from all vbscure Scotland, and the fact that seventy State of 12,000,000 inhabitants.

Balkan kingdom into a Federal per cent of that area is still under virgin, jungle-the figures are as tonishing, and St. John's Island at Singapore is undoubtedly the most hard-worked quarantine station in the world (with the exception of Ellis Island) at, the present time.

Between January and November of this year 587,000 immigrants of the coolie clasa arrived in Malaya and 332,000 returned to their own countries. From Chins the total so far this year is 214,00, which is 15,000 above the 1911 record, and the fact that the average between 1911 and 1920 was only 160,000 shows what a tremendous stimulus bas been given to the southward move ment from China.

Lawless Cantonese,

H.K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m. King Edward Hotel, tes dance, 4.30 p.m.

Dr. E. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., given "Dinner in honour of the "Hon.

by the Chairman and Directors of Ling Hotel, West Point, 7.30 p.m.' Male Voice Choir concert, St. John's Cathedral Hall, 9 p.m.

Theatre Royal 9.15 pm

H.M.S. Hawkins concert party at

Queen's Theatre: "Greed."

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Star Theatre: "Tho Beauty Prize".

Beauty

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Principal Mails:-award: Europe KING EDWARD rid Siberia (Tamba Haru).

Thursday,

H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Lantern Lecture on India," icon, 6 pm St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kow-

Me"

Queen's Theatre: "Take it from

Through a series of minor Balkan ance, but the second year of the wars Sertia developed in import Great War brought what seemed for a time the overthrow of all that the persistent and sometimes ruthless World Theatre: The Hunch- The enemy over-ran the country, policy of Pagbitch, had achieved. back of Notre Dame" and her Premier, when already over 70, had to retreat with the Serbianid Siberia (Oanju). Army across the gaunt mountains of Albania in the depth of a bitter winter.

Star Thestre: "Refuge." Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe

Friday.

But though he wore the long, Ist floor, China Building.

St. Paul's Girls' College Bazaar, Pashitch had the vigorous frame white heard

of patriarch,

H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. and survived to conduct for several 4.20 p.m. of a simple living Balkan peasant, King Edward Hotel tes dance, years the government of a Serbia restored and enlarged into Yugo slavia

Society, Hong Kong (Cymdeithas Annual Meeting St. David's

(Messä. Johnson, Stakes and Mar Dewi Sant), Mr. D. J. Lewis' office ter) Prince's Building, 5.30 p.m.

Church Hall, Kowloon, 8.30 .p.m.

Musical evening St. Andrew's

Queen's Theatre:"Take it from Me"

back of Notre Dame."

World Theatre The

The stream of immigration from South Ching shows no signs of Those keer #yeol his look ciminishing, thanks partly to the ed on much bloodshed, adventure, present prosperity of Malaya, and danger, and plot. In the Balkan partly to unsettled conditions in politics of Pashitch prime the China One unfortunate result of bullet was as effective an instrument this infux has been to introduce as the ballot. into the country a lawless element, mostly composed of disbanded Can tonese soldiery and ex-bandits, but the police in Singapore now Eave what was for, a time en alarming situation thoroughly in hand. The Straits Government is frequently criticised for allowing Chinese to pour into the country at the rate, of about 30,000 a month, with no system of registration or examina-. tion when they land at Singapore, Malaya draws all its skilled labour from China, and the build through the thickness of his great at floor, China Building ing and constructional work which beard was his only means of per-

It was after the murder of King Alexander and Queer Drage that Pashitch began a long period of almost uninterrupted power. His resignations of office were nomer ous, but again and again be proved to be the only possible successor to himself.

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Star Theatre: “Refuge.” Principal Mails-Inward: Canada, U.S.A., etc., and London rid Canada (Empress of Russia); U.S.A., Canada, etc. (President Hadison); Earope vid Negapatam

he was always a cryptic figure.

To Western Europear statesmen | (Talamba), None too feat German uttered

Saturday,

St. Paul's Girls' College Bazaar, Rowing: Hong Fours

Race

was held up during the rubber senal communication with them. In (Challenge Cup presented by Mr. slump has by no mears been com-different parts of the Balkans IE. B. O. Hornell) pleted, particnlarly in Singapore, often talked with him and I never

Yachting:

8th Championship Golf: Bogey Fool..

so that any action which impose re- met 'n statesman with better con-race. strictions upon the free movement versational equipment for conceal- of artisans into Malaya, as well asing his thoughts. unskilled labour, would not be wel- come at the present time.

corner

M Pashitch had all the shrewd ness of the stock from which he An Economic Aspect.

came. It was the belief in Bel- The economic importance of these grade that, foreseeing the develop inward and outward movements of meat of his country's chief city, he population from the Malay Penia- made a comfortable fortune by sula to India and China should systematically acquiring not be overlooked, and this factor building sites when ground values: ia Malaya's labour situation is awere far below their prescat figure. convincing answer to the allegation that the Eastern masses are being exploited by Western capital. The Chinese or Indian immigrant comes from overpopulated, intensively cul- tivated areas where the population is always on the famine line, and where a lifetime of unceasing, labour will yield him nothing mone than the bare means of exis

existence.

"A BOGUS PRINCE OF

WALES.

MR. DIGBY" IN

BARCELONA

Cricket and Football: Details in Saturday's issue.

I.K. Hotel ten dance, 4.30 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "Take it from Me" of Notre-Dame"

World Theatre: "The Hunchback

Star Theatre: Refuge." Canada, U.S.A., etc., Europe vid Principal Mails-Outward San Francisco and via Siberia (President Cleveland), 5

Europe eid Marseilles (Frewa Maru), 9.30 L.m.; Australia and New Zealand, etc. (Taiping), 10,30

t.m.

Sunday.

Point to Point race, Fanling (Mounted Infantry Co., E.V.D.C.Y.

Golf: Bogey Fool Cruisers).

Yachting: 4th Championship race

Parade.

Queen's Theatre: The Big Barcelona under strict incognito.vid Negapatum, papers only (Hong It is believed here that someone is Hwa).

Principal Mails: Inward: Europe impersonating the Prince and de- civing the local authorities.

In Malaya he finds regular and The Prince of Wales, though still relatively well paid employment, in England, says a copy to hand and, on the European estates at of a London contemporary, dated least, careful attention to his phy- December 14th, is reported by vari- sical welfare is enforced by a numous Spanish newspapers to be in ber of health and labour ordinances. The amount of money which leaves. Malaya in the form of savings by its immigrant population, and the ameliorating effect of that process upon conditions among the swAITO- ing masses of India, And China is impossible to estimate.

Malaya does not retain all the im- migrants who land at her porta, And the Chinese, in particular, distribute themselves throughout the Malay Archipelago, where they are. to be found in the remotest and most unlikely situations-in fact, where there is work to be done and money to be made. Straits Times.

THE GAME OF GRAB.

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One message states:-

The Prince of Wales is spending some days in the neighbourhood of Barcelona under strict in- cognito. He arrived by motor car from Perpignan, and is staying at the Hotel Ritz under the name of Arthur Digby, accompanied by his secretary, Mr. Burges.

Monday.

St. Paul's Girls College Bazaar, ist floor, China Building

H.K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m. King Edward Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m.

Lecture: Are we going West," by Mr. A. H. Crook, at Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m.

Farnde."

Queen's Theatre: "The Big

Principal Mails:-Inward: U.S.A., etc. (President Garfield).

Tuesday.

The Prince has called on the principal inhabitants of the city and visited the public schools. He has also made an excursion to Montserrat and visited various antiques shops, buying sculpturez The object of his journey is un-vid known to the local authorities:

The Prince to-morrow is expect-

turn to France.

"I should divide modem girls into two classes-givers and takers' -aid-Miss E. H. Major, MA mised to resume his journey and re- tress of Girton College, Cambridge, as the Wallasey High School for Girls Speech Day.

The tekers, she said, were pre dominant at the present time,

The Prince of Wales was in Lon don at that date and had not been out of England since his visit to Paris in November.

H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p. Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe:

Marseilles-(Angersi, 2.30.

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