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CORRESPONDENCE.

[4 letters intended for publi cation must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not for publication, unless so desired, but us evidener of good faith.—En.]

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A PEIPING SCANDAL.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE

I

DAILY PRESS."]

HONG KONG

Sin-Chinese dancing girls in Peiping have migrated to foreign lands and the object of the Nan king Government's order for their suppression bas been completely de- fented. The curious thing is that some of the dancing halla, in which the dancing girls claim imannity, no longer possess extra-territor iality rights. In this connection, the following may be of interest to your readers.

The ancini evil which has sprung up in Peiping as a result of the introduction during the past couple of years of Chinese public dancing girls, has already had a very demo- rolizing effect on the 70,000 schval boys and girls here. Peiping is an educational centres of Chinu with up-to-date modern Universities where co-education exists. Res. pectable families also live in this ideal residential city.

Public dancing halls, presumably under foreign registration, and with Chinese publie dancing girls, are open every night until the small hours of the morning and girls from Shanghai, Tientsin and the "licensed quarters" outside Chienmen in Peiping hrcome dane- ing girls. Thus the red light district" in Peiping is practically deserted. Girls of ill-fame have a new fald open to them for their immoral activities, and respectable families, who have become the victims of the present economic conditions, are permitting their daughters to become dancing girls.

Boy students attracted by these dancing girls visit these places every night in the week, Their study is neglected and the purpose for which they have been sent to Peiping by parents is entirely for gotten and the expenditure in- She- volved is a serious matter. dent suicides have also been re- ported. Owing to these dancing halls and the facilities for immor ality, it is not surprising that veneren! disease in Priping is on the increase.

The most unfortunate part of the present situation is that girl students of comparatively limited means enticed by the fascinating social life and the wilucement offered, snoner or later become the victims of eizenmatocès.

It

without saying that gous parents who send their children to Peiping to purano higher education, will soon be insisting or proper stepa being taken to end this scandal and enforce discipline.

China is spending millions of dollars an education overy year, including remissions of the Boxer Indemnity. It is high time that these abuses should cease.-Yours, etc.

SOCIAL WELFARE, Peiping, July 20, 1932.

HEALTH OF EASTERN PORTS.

The following health bulletin of ""eastern"porty," for the week-ended

July 23, has been issued:~~

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1932.

PROPOSED HEALTH HEAVY RAINS OVER LOCAL

BOARD.

VIEWS OF UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS.

MOTION AT TO-DAY'S

MEETING.

Sanitary Board, Mr. C. Champkin, pursuant to notice, will movo:-/

WEEK-END.

SEVERAL ROADS BLOCKED.

TRAINS TEMPORARILY STOPPED.

The heavy rainfall of the past few A to-morrow's mesting of the days has caused several landslides in various parts of the Colony and on Saturday, owing to a washout on the Kowloon-Canton Railway nó n "That, in ragard to the copy spot between Wuchung and Nam

kong the service was suspended until yesterday morning when traffic

of Recommendations submitted by the Honourable the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for the Reorganisation on modora

was resumed at 8 o'clock.

!

ADVERTISING.

PRESERVING COLONY'S

LANDSCAPE.

The Hongkong Government has decided to strengthan the law in regard to the prohibition of adver. tisement signs which diafigure the natural beauty of any scenery or affects injuriously the amenities of any locality.

THE BISHOP-ELECT OF VICTORIA.

WAR VETERAN AND NEWCASTLE VICAR.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, July 30. The Rev. Ronald Owen Hall, M.A.,] vicar of St. Luke, Newcastle, been appointed to the Bishopric. of||| Victoria, Hong Kong.

lines of the Medical and Sanitary people wore waiting to board the the advertisement to be erected or The new Bishop was

Services of the Colony, which was forwarded to the Président of the Sanitary Board by the Honourable the Colonial Secre-

tary under covering letter of the 19th April, 1932, the unanimous

viows of the unofficial members of this Board in regard to such recommendations are as follows:

a Publio

which is to function separate- ly and independently of the existing Sanitary Board. That the Constitution of the Sanitary Board be enlarged

outgoing Canton train on Saturday when word came through that the line was blocked.

New regulations just issued pro [The new Bishop of Hong Kong, vide that when any advertisement we are informed, will be the young deemed to come within the des.est of Anglican Bishops. We un cription given above, a notice shall derstand that he is still a few be served on the person who caused months on the right side of forty one of the exhibited, and on the owner of the

war candidates" for Holy or land or building on or in which the advertisement is erected or exhibit. The Castle Penk Road was blocked requiring such person or owner ed near Tai Lam Cheung owing to

to remove the advertisement within small landslide there: the road fourteen days at the date of the was impassable for heavy vehicles but small cars could just squeeze through.

ed. There was a landslide at this spot, which is very near the French Hospital.

notice..

..:

ders Having served in the War

he went, following the Armistice, to Brasenose College, Oxford, and] took his degree in 1920. From the University he entered Cuddleston Theological

College, and was If the person against whom an ordained Deacon in 1920, and priest urder for the removal of an adver the following year, being then tisement is mado shall fail to re.appointed to the ourney of St. John! move the same, it shall be lawful the Evangelist. Lambeth, in the

i.—That it is uncessary to create Tai Hang Road and Eastern Hload, The roadway at the junction of

Health Board Causeway. Bay was partially block- for any person authorised in that Diocese of Southwark. As secretary behalf by the Director of Public to the Students Christian Move. Works to enter upon the land or

ment, the Rev. R.O. Hall made an) building on which the advertise-extensive visit to China and t ment is erected and to reanors or Shanghai, in collaboration with Mr. obliterate the advertisement.

T. Z. Koo, he organised a number of conferences attended by Euro- pean and Chinese Christians at which missionary problems, and the bearing of rocial and political pro- blems of the Far East upon Chris tianity, were fully discussed.

THE TYTAM TUK RESERVOIR.

OVERFLOWING AFTER HEAVY RAINS,

In Prince Edward Road, a bonider thirty feet in circumference was in order that it may func-washed down the hillside. tion ля Л Public Health Board with the personnel suggested by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Ser- vices for his Public Health Advisory Board (except that the vice-Chairman shall be a non-technical man, preferably the Secretary for Chinese Affairs) but with a propor- tionate increase in the num- | ber of the unofficial repre- sentatives of the public, (so that the existing unofficial

"Just a little time ago, the majority be approximately powers-that-be were faced with the maintained), such enlarged serious question of a water short- Board to exercise all the age," writes a correspondent, “but functions of

present

now one supposes that they are Sanitary Board, together

quite at peace with the world in with the new functions con-

general and with themselves in templated by the Director of

particular because we have plenty Medical and Sanitary Ser-

of water, and what is even more vices for his Public Health

(important, no more water restric Advisory Board,

tiona."

‚A MINIATURE NIAGARA AND

tinc

That it is imperative in the

A LANDSLIDE.

"I took a trip to the reservoir ing

The materials of any advertise ment removed in pursuance of these regulations aball be forfeited to the Crown,

along and intended to go in by the road that leads down from Tytam but I had not gone very far when the way was blocked. There had been a landslide and the road came to an end there, that's all! It will he some days before they clear up the mass for in my opinion there are a good few tons of earth to be carried away.

Rainfall Figures.

од

The rainfall from 10a.m. Friday until 10 am, on Saturday was 3.21 inches while a further 5.02 inches fell between 10 a.m. on Satur-

day and 10 a.m. yesterday.

Enquiries made at the Royal Observatory at 7 p.m. yesterday elicited the news that the rainfall from 10 o'clock in the morning up

interests of the general Kowloon last week and it certainly till then was 0.75 inches.

public that all questions of did my heart good to see that the policy and expenditure of tide was at its highest." Yesterday public money should be vest-afternoon my curiosity once more ed in the Public Health got the better of me so I took the Board.

old bus out of the garage and as she

MINE FULL OF BATS.

OF THE ROCKS,

iv.-That, as regards the Direc happened to be in very good be-PWARD WIND FROM DEPTHS

tor of Medical and Sanitary Javiour, I took her out to Tytam Services' recommendation Tuk by the Shaukiwan route

under Kub-heading "The "From the time I got into the | A hole in a desort, reported by Medical or Curative Branch," famous Shaukiwan Hill-more fam- an Egyptin villager who was in having regard to the neces ous with those who own cars that search of a loss camel, has proved to sity for economy in the work-simply wont take any hill on any- be the entrance to a mine 3,000 years

old. ing out of the scheme, suf- thing less than low-gear, I saw

The report was made to Mr. S. R. ficient recognition has not dozens of streams running down the

some instances the Sherman of the Egypt Exploration that there are in the Colony streams were so large that they re- Society, who hopes to explore the mine next arason with the support highly qualified medical prac-sembled mininture waterfalls.

Cairo "Seldom, if ever, have I seen so of the

Museum. It is titioners who may be will

been accorded to the fact

hillside. In

ing to co-operate, either in many streams running down the thought that it may have been

hillside at one time.

From a dis. worked for rubies or emeralds. an honourary capacity, or on

The site is about seven miles part time engagement, or to tauce the water resembled silver the fact that Hong Kong streaks and they were really beauti-northeast of Tel-el-Amarna," Mr. University Clinical Professors ful. But more was in store for me Sherman explained to a representa ara, and have for some time for whom I was about 100 yards from tive of the Morning Post, "und the past been, rendering valued the Tylam Tuk reservoir, I could extraordinary thing about the mine is that at a depth of more than and highly appreciated pub-hear the roar of the rushing waters. lic services.

"All impatient to get to the 150 feet the wind is still blowing up v.-That copies of such memo- and which is such

bridge which spans the reservoir | na: strongly as ever.

beautiful "As far as I was able to penetrate randa on the Director of

drive, I stepped on the accelerator with improvised equipment, it was

П

Medical and Sanitary Ser And * Lizzio" Alawared gamely, impossible to tell how the ventila vices' recommendations 11.8

and in less than a minute I was tion was offected. As there is no have been submitted to the

looking at one of the most beautiful lower entrance to the mine within Head of the Sanitary Depart ment by members of this sight I have seen in Hong Kong at least half a mile, it may be that The roservoir was overflowing and the workings extend for more thin Board he forwarded to the Goverment for its considera into the bay below-a drop of over

the surplus water was shooting over that distance,

tion.

a hundred feet.

The only other possibility is that the air comes from a subter-

The Rev. R.O. Hall is the author of a number of books of which the best known is "China and Bri-

volume tain." This

was⚫ the outcome of these conferences in Shanghai and indicates the breadth of view, and wide sympathies of the new Bishop.

The Rev. R.O. Hall is married and has, we understand, a young family. It is expected that he will leave for China in the near future,]

MINIMUM WAGES ORDINANCE.

IMPORTANT NEW ORDINANCE.

Bug-

An Ordinanes is shortly to be introduced in Hong Kong to makej provision for fixing minimum wages in occupations where pay is at present unreasonably low. This legislation, which is gested by the Secretary of State, is devised in order to carry out the' obligations arising from Article 421 of the Treaty of Versailles in re spect of the International Labour Convention concerning the creation of minimum wage fixing machinery

The power of fixing minimum wages is to be given to the Gov error in Council, and for the pur pose of making an enquiry in con- nexion therewith the Governor ray appoint a Board of Commissioners consisting of five persons, one af! whom must be a judge or gistrate, such officer to be Chair- Payment of a less wage than that fixed by the Ordinance will vender the offendor liable to a fine not ex- ceeding $500.

man of the Board..

1

MA.

MINISTERING CHILDREN'S

LEAGUE.

SWIMMING GALA AT REPULSE DAY.

A Swimming Gala will be hold at Repulse Bay on Tuesday, Sept. in aid of the Ministering Child- rea's League.

There will be a series of races for vi-Subject to the points enu- In the reservoir, the water was ranean river. In any case the children, also Sand Building Com

petitions. merated above, the unofficial a dirty muddy colour but on the construction of the mine is a veryIn addition to the usual-sido

· members-of-this-Board-are-in-uther side, it was like so many clever picca_of_work. So-far-as-shows there will be a Beach, Suit general agreement with the million tiny snow-flakes.

have seen there are six or eight Parade for grown-ups and Babies, policy of reform advocated by

chambers and more than 20 passages. public transport by the Hong Kong Arrangements are being made for the Director of Medical and

The mine is cut in hard lines Hotel who are running ou accole." Sanitary Services,"

tone, but many of the passages are rated bus service from Hong Kong Hotel to Repulse Bay; ratum tie- kets: adulte, 78 cents, children 35 cents,

Plague,

Cases. Deaths.

Alexandria

1

0

Beirut

T

¡Cholera.

Chleutta.. 57

48

Maeno

0

21

Amoy.........200 -181

Canton

22

Nanking

104

10

Bombay

Shanghai

2.411

36

Calcatta

Email.pox.

Cochin

Madras

Alexandria

Bangoon

0

1

Pondicherry... Saigon..........

Baghdad. *Continued:at-foot of next-column.)

And just a few months ago they were faced with the grave situation of a water-shortage," I used. Why et millions of gallons of water run to waste Cannot some too narrow to allow of the removal thing be done to keep all we get But I don't want to ask silly questions now that we have an ade- quate supply,"

A Landslide.

After looking at the miniature a Niagara for some minutes, I went

¿Continued 'oni, usai Cutümni).

of oxtensive blocks.

All parts of the mine are ing Tickets for lie Gale, including habited by thousands of bats, but tea and entrance fee to all competi the. ventilation is no effective that tion, may be obtained from Branch: the air remains perfectly pure. At Secretaries. each stage of our preliminary Adult Members $1.50; Adult exploration we throw stones ahead Non-Members -82; Children Mem." of us, and then lay flat on our bors 50 cents; Children Non-Mer- faces while the bats, few pastberg $1.

Yes it really

is what I call a sale, simply marvellous bargains in every department, I'm 'broke' but I've saved hundred's!

LANE, CRAWFORD'S

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERA

Columbia

MIKADO

The YEOMEN OF

Columbia

THE GUARD GONDOLIERS

SIX RECORDS

IN SPECIAL ART ALBUM WITH BOOK OF WORDS $15.00 less 10% discount for Cash.

The Anderson Music Co., Ltd.

Ice House Street.

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:

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