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SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN INDIA.

THE BLIGHT OF SUPERSTITION AND CHILD MARRIAGE

WHAT THE BRITISH RULE CONTENDS WITH."

AMERICAN WOMAN'S INDICTMENT OF

HINDUISM..

"Mother India," by the American. When I frst came out to India authorem, Miss Katharine Mayo, I tried going to the parents of each which has just been published by case to tell them of their daughter's Jonathan Cape (10s. ed. net), is state, in the hope that they would likely to make the same painful act in her behalf. But when I -impression in England that it has found that they had known the hus- already done in the United States. band's diseased condition before Miss Mayo went to India to find giving their daughter in marriage, out for herself "what a volunteer, and could still see neither shame subsidised, uncommitted, and unnor harm therein, I gave up the attached, could observe of common attempt." An experienced surgeon things in daily "human life," by in the Madras Presidency says that strictly confining her inquiry to in the thousands of gynecological such workaday ground as public cases I have treated and am still bealth and its contributing factors." Her intention was to leave religion and politics out, of her purview, Mr. Ghandi Fails-As Estormer. Religion, however, and the customs There are, one gladly admits, to which religion gives ita sauction many Indians-Mr. "Gandhi is one of them who denounce the evils of are the very last things that can child-marriage and child-widowhood be_left aut of account in India, 1 as wholeheartedly" as any West- especially in connection with public health. Consequently Miss Mayo's Leck, whether she desires it or not, by its frank. exposure of the ter rible facts of Indian public health

treating I have never found one woman who had not some form of venereal disease."

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17th, 1927.

PUKOW DEVELOPMENT

PLANNED.

$30,000,000 LOAN WANTED,

WILL IT ALL BE ABANDONED?

NANKING, August 8th.

With the creation of the Special Municipality of Nanking by the Nationalist Government and the inclusion of the port of Fukow with in the limits of the Special Muni cipality, plans for the development of the southern terminus of the Tientsin-Pukow Line have been

A loan of $50,000,000, under way.

is being considered for the purpose; and ten proposals, suggesting how the port development can best be effected, are being submitted by the Special Municipality.

Proposals.

1-To' regulate the system of taxation in the port of Pukow and to enforce vehicles licence, boat licence and theatre licence in the port-area.

-To draw up a new plan of

AMERICAN VICTIM OF BANDITTI,

CARAVAN OF STANDARD OIL COMPANY HELD UP.

SAVED BY BAD CHINESE MARKSMANSHIP.

Although robbed by bandits, Walter Falmer, official of the Standard Oil Company who reach ed Peking on August 4th and left for Mukden the same day, is con- gratulating himself that he was mistaken for a missionary. For, having lost all his possessions at the hands of hunghutses north of Jehol, even down past his under wear, he was given back his cloth ing when the plea was presented by his Chinese drew on the caravan that he was an evangelist.

Mr. Palmer arrived in the capital with his essentials, plus a ter dollars that had been left in ane of his trouser pockets because

1.

KU KLUX KLAN TERRORISM.

WOMAN WHIPPED.

CHAIN-GANG SENTENCE FOR

LEADER.

New Yoak.

A severe blow has been dealt to the practice of the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern States of meting out justice with the horsewhip by the conviction of W. C. Anores, of leading a masked band who whip- ped Mrs. Ansley Bowers.

The self-appointed · administra- tors of Klan justice hitherte have found juries unwilling to convict them.

Ancree, although principal of the High School, superintendent of the Sunday school, and moderator of 20 Baptist churches in his dis- trict, was found guilty of assault, sentenced to a year in a chain- gang and fined £20,

According to the evidence, An- the bandits didn't know the comcree held Mrs. Bowers's head be the streets in the port and to open bination or overlooked that parti- tween his knees while her bared five main streets connecting Pukowcular receptacle. He was met by back was lashed by masked floggers. with Puchen to facilitate traffic. Mrs. Palmer and after a brief when Lloyd Bowers, aged 15, 3.-To make a strict survey of the visit to the Standard Oil Com sought to protest his mother, An- land of the port.

To promote the organization pany's office here proceeded

in base at Mukden. erner, but they preach to deaf of "Construction Companies ears. Not even Mr. Gandhi, when Pukow so as to facilitate the open- at the height of his influence, could ing up of commercial districts and make any sensible impression in the construction of public markets. this direction upon those who ac 5.-To construct the new main strects simultaneously with the cepted his political utterances as an inspired prophet.

those of

bis

He told a story of perit in the northland in which only the notori" Qusly poor marksmanship of the robbers averted loss of life. While

cree ordered the lad to be lashed. Reign Of Terror.

Mrs. Bowers was so terribly beaten that she had to go to hospi- tal, thus forcing the authorities to take cognisance of the attack. This

in which it was alleged the Elans-

and its causes, conveys 'by implies These customs, which are so in opening up of commercial districts touring the country about 480 brought to light four other cases,

tion the most seathing commentary on the Hindu religion as it affects both life and conduct.

human to women and so detestable in practice, whatever may be said for the theory, are strongly en- trenched in a religion whose authe ritative exponents excuse and pal liste their vices. The British an- thorities cahoot take effective ac- tion, because it is the cardinal principle of British rule in India

Modern Indian Progressives and Swarajists are always asking bir terly why, after long years of British rule, Indians are still mark ed among the peoples of the world for their ignorance, their poverty, not to interfere with the practices people in Pukow. All traditional however, the bandita, who evident sentence of labour beside negroes i

and their monstrous death rate, and they invariably ascribe the cause to the blighting influences of British rule.

alissalayo, on the other band, retorts upon them that their helplessness and their lack of initia tive and originality are due entirely to themselves, and are the direct and natural outcome of native cus- toms, which they alone can change, but all reform of which they resist with the most dogged obstinacy. In her view it is neither in the stars nor in the British rule, but in them- selves, that they are underlings

I

A Now Spirit Needed,

"No agency," she says, "but new spirit within his own breast can set the Indian free, and his arraignment of outside elements past, present, or to come, serves only to deceive bis own mind and to put off the day of his deliver-

ance"

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30 24 to avoid delay in the plan from Jehol, at village named Chith of development.

To clarily, the division of Feng, the inhabitanta hailed the men, led by Ancree, had taken the caravan of eight parks and con- law into their own hands in the private and public property within the limits of the port. so that no gratulated them on having missed

same Klandestine" manner. controversy shall arise regarding the attentions of a band of the ownership of land the port.

The Southern Press has gradual- 7-To promote social welfare and marauders. Shortly after the arly become aroused, and has predict- improve the mode of living of the rival of the party at the village, ed that Ancree's unprecedented in a chain-gang will go far towards ending the reign of terror the Klan has imposed in Georgia nad Alabaina.

of the native religions, since that is ❘ and obsolete customs are to be the first elementary rule of wisdom abolished and the people are to be for the prevention of riot and taught to adapt themselves to

more sensible way of living. bloodshed. It is a terrible dilemma from which only Indians themselves

can provide the way of escape.

.

Horrors Of Confinement,

8. To improve and regulate the police system which shall be placed ander the immediate control and supervision of the port authorities." 9.-The establish a training school for candidates for the police force so as to ensure efficiency of the police service which usually contri.

As it is practised in ordinary life the Hindu religion rung counter to public health in nearly every parti cular. According to the Hindu code, woman in childbirth and in convalescence therefrom is cere-butes of the place. monally unclean and defies al 10. To improve public education.) whom she touches. Therefore the Twenty public elementary schools midwives, the dhais, are drawn from are to be established the mainten- the cican and the untouchable, ance fund for which shall be appro ally from the dirtiest and prated from the Educational Bureau filthiest crones among these.

If the dhai, when the call reaches of the Special Municipality of Nan

king-Kuo Min her, chances to be wearing decent clothes she will stop, whatever the

haste, to change into the rags she keeps for the purpose, infected and re-infected from the succession of Take a girl chiid twelve years diseased cases that have come into old, a pitiful physical specimen in bone and blood, illiterate, ignor her practice. And so, at her dirtiest, and the bearer of multiple con- ant, without any sort of training tagions, she shuts herself in with habits of health. "Force her victim. If there be an air-bole motherhood upon her at the

in the room, she stops it up with earliest possible moment. Rear her, straw and refuse; fresh air is bad

UNIONS' ACTIVĮTIES

ly bad witnessed their movements, returned to the scene.

Attacked Like Red Indians. Dashing up to the caravan and circling the small hand in the man- ner of American Indians at work on a covered wagon transport, they fired off volleys regardless of the fact that the crew had their hands aloft. Then they made prisoners. of the lot, and most completely looted the outfit.

UNIFORMED HOOLIGANS IN 'HANKOW..

1:

JARDINE'S GODOWN AS

BARRACKS.

"

Leading the party out into the The only happy persons in Han- those situated open lands past the village they kow to-day are leisurely depleted them of erery similarly to the Kentucky moun "thing even to their personal cover- taineer whose auets were of such ings, Mr. Palmer being treated nature that when things in his like the rest. CLEANING UP IN SHENS! of, however, Chinese explained monotonous or too turbulent for Before they made neighbourhood became either, too

that the foreigner was a mission comfort, he was able to move hiz ary, and presumably feeling that entire physical property by simply it was unseemly to leave a preacher spilling a bucket of water on the in this plight the gang returned fire, whistling to the dog, and hik the fundamentals of his clothing.

After forcing the victims to hide ing on foot to a new neighbour. their heads the bandits dashed hood, says the Hankou Herald. away and later villagers came out Take Jardine, Matheson and and gave some small comforts to their way back to the railway

CURBED.

According to a message from weakling son in intensive vicious in confinements-it gives fever. If Blaafu, capital of Shensi, quoted practices that drain is there be raga sufficient to make in the vernacular press, General outlet in sports. Give him babits strings them across a corner, and

vitality day by day. Give him no curtains, she cobbles them together: Shih Chin Ting, acting Chairman the party who afterwards made Company, for instance. They have i

that make him by the time he is puts the patient within, against the of the provincial government com thirty, a decrepit and querulous wall. Then she lights the glim--

old wreck and will you ask what bit of cord in. a bit of oil, er mittee, on orders of Marshal Feng N. C. Standard.

smoking villainously. Next she various magistrates to effect a

has sapped the energy of his man kerosene lamp without a chimney, Yu Hsiang has instructed the hood f

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illiteracy. Try to give it primary education without employing any of its women as teachers--because if you do so employ them you invite the ruin of each woman that you so expese. Will you ask why that people's education pro- ceeds slowly?

ated.

.poor 1

Debased Sex Life.

In The Citadel of Authodox Hinduism.

Miss Alayo's description of how a confinement is expedited in cases of difficulty cannot be read without

Unions Checked. The message says that all the city: and district Kuomintang commit- tees have been reorganised while the farmers' and peasants' anions, the women's unions, labour unions,

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The troops, looking for head- quarters, moved in at two o'clock The fundamental policy of the on Wednesday afternoon (August present Ministry to Manchuria 3rd). The Brigade Commander and Mongolia is based on the had already written out a letter to Take bodies and minds bred

"Open Door" and Equal Op Jardine, Matheson and Co., saking and built in the lines thus indie-

portunity" and Japan expects permission to occupy the godown Will you ask why the in Benares, the citadel of orthodox tions have been checked from far developments by people of all mission might not be given, he did death-rate is high and the people Hinduism, the lowest grade of the ther activities. It is pointed out nationalities. Under all circum not send the letter--thus he ex-

"Untouchables" costs of the "cord-cutters." Is it surprising that ever since the victory of stances, however, Japan's preferen-plained to a representative of That is Miss Mayo's case, stated that 40 per cent, of the deaths of the national revolutionary armies, tal position from the dual geogra: Jardine's when the latter called on phical and historic standpoint him on Thursday. He simply in a few sentences, especially as infants occur in the first week after

The 3th concerns the vast Hindu populs birth, and 60 per cent. in the first members of the communistic party must be recognised. Any country moved in instead. tion. She holds that the whole month? Indian childbirth is one have been active but what they have ignoring this preferential position Brigade, he stated, was only here pyramid of the Indian's woes, perpetual slaughter, and yet, such done is contrary to the people's above alluded to should be stoutly for a few days. and at the end of this week would move on its way opposed, rests is the "unlimited propagation " of material sad spiritual,

Premier Tanaka, in refashioning to Kiukiang, having come here upon a rock-bottom physical basis, human life in India that the scil three principles and administra

out Japan's policy to Manchuria from Huann. This base is simply his manner of of India has to support the presence tive policy of the Kuomintang.

and Mongolia, has established this On behalf of Jardine, Matheson getting into the world and his of $4,000,000 more human beings.

principle with a firm resolution to and Co. the British Consul- sex-life thenceforward" There is, than it did fifty years ago.

If this state of affairs is not lay down a permanent foundation General, Mr. Harold Porter, wrote of course; nothing original in this There are lurid chapters in this, theory. The British Government in book-lurid because the facts are checkmated once for all, the future for developing Manchuria and to Mr. Engene Che,, Minister for

Mongolia.

Foreign Affairs, protesting against India have been up against these plainly stated, and not because of of the national revolution will be

The railway construction plan in the use of Jardine's promises by well-known facts for many genera any artificially coloured, description allected. The magistrates are then these regions, too, has thus been troops. The soldiers, therefore, tione They have striven without on the 80,000,000 Untouchables,"

drawn up in accordance with the evacuated the godown buildings casing to modify them and in- of whom the Brahmin pundits any advised to act upon the following above policy. The following six and are now quartered in the troduce cautiously and tactfully the that "Untouchability is a necessity orders: (1) No communistic party railway lines have been decided to yards, under the sheds, in all the beginnings of change, but they have for the man's growth and that is to be permitted to exist. (3) be built at the hands of the B: M. authouses, and everywhere over the to move with the greatest circums It should be enough that Un- pection because they are doggedly touchables are not denied the privi- Leaders of the communists should. Co. at the recent Oriental Con-premises except in the actual ware

house building. opposed at every step by the fanae leges of the other world" on the be deprired of their official duties (1) Kirin-Kwaingi. Line.

When they arrived, the troops tical cry of religion in danger. results upon public health of drink.

(3) Taonon-Taiteibar Line In broke the locks off the doors, enter- ing the holy water of Ganges in the Kuomintang and their mem Child Marriages and Disease.

quid sewage--in which millions of bership, while in time of necessity, Taonan-Angangchi line to Taiteed the building, and made them pages pilgrims have bathed their disease they should be put under close sur har, which is still pending, owing tive from Jardine's arrived, to in- a representa selves at The accounts given in these") of the physical consequences of ridden bodies, and on the sacred-veillance (3)-During the time, the to the Soviets obduracy. What quire the reason they had occupied 800 MURDERS IN A YEAR. child-marriages — where the wife | cow. It might be supposed from

hindrance there is in the way the premises of a British fim, he maghe-saything froin seven to the fine-spirituality which forbids national revolution is going ahead should be overcome by all means to was asked for the keys to a few

More than 800 persons were twelyo years of age and the hus the Hindu to kill a cow that cattle in this country, ug one is allowed effect the extension. ^ in

doors which had not yet been band a man of thirty or forty-sro have a better time in India than

broken open. He refused to hand murdered in Barma in 1926, and frankly horrible. They are given anywhere in the world. The truth to show any activities in the hams(3) Taonan-Solun Line.

(4) Talai-Shibtowchongtze Line over the keys, and was informed robbery with violence has increased on the unimpeachable authority is exactly the opposite. Nowhere of the communistic party, nor até

via Fuyu.

that the rest would be broken into. by nearly 23 per cent., says an of British "women-doctors "My is such monstrous cruelty practised the Kuointing members permitted (5) Hainchin (Colliery)-Linsi On his Brst visit, on Wednesday administrative report just publish patichti * writer one of these The Hindu dairyman in the town

afternoon, the troops talked avered. medical women," are largely the does not kill the calf; he allows it to work for the communista Offen- Line,

(6) Harbin-Heiho Line The the prospect of beating up the Terrible savagery by Burmes wives of university students. ⠀ Frap-half a cup per day of its mother's ders will be regarded as anti-reline is also pending between Japan perialistic foreigner, but wiser criminals is reported. A fahez tically everyono, is Feuercally in milk and lets it slowly starve te volutionary and be severely dealt and Russia, but is to be built on counsel prevailed and he was not man, in one case, was backed to lected:

tha standard gaugel

molested

desta because he would not surren-

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death

ference:-

"TORTURE TERROR IN

BURMA

AGENTE:

VICENTE ATIENZA & CO. No. 54, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOOK TRL K. 155..

der his day's catch" A number of victims were fortured and burned. When a revolt occurred in the "Pyapon gaol the prisoners seized the arms of the police and killed or wounded all of them. Failure of ammunition finally compelled the surrender of the convicts to the military who besieged them.

The redemption of more than 2,400 slaves in the Hukawng valley by the Government of Burman cost nearly £17,500 but only 18-per cent of the liberated slaves took advantage of their freedom. The remainder did not relish the idea of having to support themselves.