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MACKINTOSH'S

SUMMER

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TO-DAY

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SALE

Gloucester Arcade ANNOUNCES HER SUMMER

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1933.

ECHOES OF 1858

30.-First Newspaper Report of Legislative Council Meetings

Pursuant to adjournment from Modesty appears

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to be their the 13th the Council met on Satur. habitual failing, but it is com day, the 25th instant, at 12. The potent for them to plead insxperi members present were the Lidut.

ence as an excuse, as this is the Governor, the acting Colonial first child they have had to ap Secretary, the Attorney General, | pazel. We trust that our manners the Colonial Treasurer, the Sur will improve with our appearance, veyor General, the Chief Magis-and that our growth will continue trate and the Hon. Messrs. Dent

with our age. Ve hope that when and Lyall

we shall no longer be regarded as interlopers our contemporaries will hesitate to conderin our advice is valneless and condescend to pursue that course which has contributed to our signal success..

The 'Governor' war absent from "indisposition. His place was« oes cupied by the Licut.-Governor, who, before the proceedings concluded, was compelled from the same caust to resign his seat; "whon, to pre- vent an adjournment, at the sug gestion of the Attorney General, the Council went into Committee, the Chief Justice presiding

For the first time since the daty of its constitution, the meeting was attended by members of the. Press. The China Mail" and the Daily Pres" wore the only Journals that availed themselves of the privilege,

The order of the day was moved for taking evidence on the question of the amalgamation of the two branches of the legal profession

Messrs. Parsons, Stace and Haze. land appeared as a deputation from the Law Society.

(Here follow a full reoprt of the day's proceedings.}'

REGARDING OURSELVES.

July 2nd-1858. The community of Hong Kong

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SHANGHAI OF TODAY

FUSION OF IDEAS FROM EUROPE AND ASIA

(Professor C. A. Middleton Smith of Houk Kong - University writes the, following articles on his impres. sions of Shanghai as it is to-day, to the North China Daily News)."

That's all very well, but is it any better than it used to be!" said the old resident in Bhanghai.

chairs on the verandah of the Wa wore lounging in basket Country Club, watching young and vigorous Europeans chasing elusive doubted the advantages of scienti- tennis balls The elderly taipan fic progress. He could not deny the increase in size and wealth of Shanghai. But be found it difficult to adjust himself to the changes in „business" and social life.

Stories of day's recent researches into local industrial developments, my. enthusiasm for what seems to me to be vast improvements in Shanghai since my first visit twenty-one years ago, failed to in- spire favourable comments from my friend. He had seen the changes taking place over thirty odd years. He had grown in Wealth and in weight. He surely should have been grateful for the rapid economic progress in Shang hai and proud of this unique city

The Old Longing

about it. He spoke, in a

But he was not really happy senti- mental manner, about his younger days out here, of the spacious times when the Country Club real- ly was in the country, of holidays in houseboats when there was ample leisure and no bandits, and of dignified evening dinners in private houses set in spacious grounds. The noise of public 'ments and parties in clubs, hotels and cabarets worried him. He wanted quiet, »

Wealth and Edelsncy,

No

gestions that the main cause of the He listened patiently to my mig- wealth now dentred in Shanghai is the new knowledge of science. Mechanical devices and unfailing electrical power have attracted capital and labour and so have sustain them under any conditions of property. In the early days multiplied the value of land and The Riffs are perhaps, the most there was only manpower. interesting of all the people of steel structures and reinforced can- Morocco, combining as they "docrete buildings. No mills and considerable culture with an extra-machine-production factories. ordinary aptitude for war: Their country, which is in the Spanish zone, has never beer. fully explor ed, and it is interesting zo specul late what may one day be found behind those bare and barren hills. The most important town and seat of the Spanish High Commis sioner is Tetuan, one of the three towns, with Rabat and Tez, where, tradition states, the wise and the learned may live. But the most in- Tangier The British policy interesting is the old forbidden city India can scarcely be said to have of Xauen, which was built by those achieved a striking success. The Moors whom. Ferdinand and. Isa- French, no doubt profiting by our belia expelled from Spain. mistakes, have approached the problem of dealing with alion sub- jects in a different manner.

GREAT COLONISATION

WORK

When shooting has been reces- sary to subdue a recalcitrant pec- ple, they have not hesitated to shoot, But, submission made, former enemies become citizens of

France, members of the Republic, with rights aa great as their con- querors themselves possess.

In the cafes in Morocco the dir- tiest Arab boy will deposit his un- pleasant person in a chair opposite one of the ruling race. They all expect to shake hands with the white man, and no effort is made by the Arab police to keep the im- pertinence of the native children

within bounds.

It was on the Tetuan-Xauen road that Keneral Silvester's force of 20,000 men was exterminated by the Riffs. Half Spain mourned the dend, and a powder trail was laid which led to the Spanish Revolu tion.

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eomfort and safety, and anyone To-day, Xauen can he visited in can see this Riff town which is in appearance exactly like Granada.

Surface Quiet.

which

the Riffs, only a little people, suf- All is quiet and peaceful now, for tered terrible losses during the Franco-Spanith reampaign ended in the defeat of Abd-el- Krim and were moreover subse The pacification of Morocco has quently completely disarmed, being been accomplished with great skill not even allowed to wear a dagger. and succcas, although the French The Spaniards would, give much have always been faced by great to leave the country-parcularly difficulties. In the north the Biffs their army her since the revolu people, brave and warlike and re-tion, ceased to be of the slightest garding the Spaniard with amused value, but political complications contempt, have for years been a caused by their departure would be menace to the safety of the French so great that other countries are border. In the South the Berbers, extremely anxious that they should equally warlike, have after suffer remain ing defeat, been able to withdraw into the Spanish country and thus prevent the lesson from being driven home

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Blossoming Desert.

He

parents, spent another on lessons in English, and used a dollar a month on himself. Before he was forty he was worth a million taela, (That was Every year the French push fur He invested his fortune in lands

twenty years ago. ther forward and by making new roads pacify new areas. In the in the Settlement which appreciat South the Partisans and the ed in value enormously. Cavalry of the Legion the spear brought all his family, parents, head of the French attack, have uncles, grandparents, etc.. to reached" Akka and Haks in the Shanghai. And then, true to the: anti-Atlas, and the next campaign traditions of bis country, he be will, it is anticipated, finish with came, a student of the Chinese the dissidents there once and for glassics. all It is amazing in how short "a" time large tracts of country have ary cause of the wealth accumulat

If western science was the prim- first been phoified, then developed ad by this splendid worker is it and "Anally colonised.

Perhaps it is in the setual spread knowledge of the classics improbable that is endeavour to colonisation that the genius of the of China ill give something to French rises to its supreme heights, Europe?" A new world orvilisation Remarkable as agriculturists Hey is evolving before our eyes. It is have made the desert blönben like being built toca the recure founda the rose and the way they have tons of stitutide knowledge. It is triumphed over the difficulties and outting power hardships is entirely admirables, it is

Bane joy of life and a moat intain-suce

hind the worker

gent interest in food and drink that: leisure is cupo

And it will og to how

Twenty years ago the demand for electricity in Shanghai was trival as compared with the output from the generating sintion to-day, and now one pound of coal produces twice as much electrical energy as in 1913. And so production couts in the factories have been reduced. That is why Shanghai has become such an important manufacturing centre.

A Romantic Story.

Shanghai may easily become the within fifty years. Factories are most populous city in the world springing up in increasing numbers. Labourers are daily leaving villages and fields beenufe of the stories of wealth. to be won in Shanghai. So the population 'grows,'

told us a work will win" tale of A few days ago a young Chinese his father, who came to this Earo- Asian city from the country where he lived in poverty."

He was employed at the age of thirteen, in Shanghai, at a dollar: When his wages were increased to per month plus board and lodging. three dollars he sent one of them (Continued on previous" column) hundreds of miles away to his

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