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INDO-CHINA

Critics Of French

Administration.

Interview With Minister Of Colonies

A few months ago there appear- ed in Paris a book which created a deep stir. It was called "Indo- chipe 5.0.9.,” and its author was Mme. Andree Viollis, one of the most eminent of French Journal- ists, writes the Paris correspondent of the "Manchester · Guardian," Paris of this book had appeared in the daily press, and the account of her journey, dated back to the -end of 1931; but it was supple- mented by an impressive collection. of documents and by footnotes which suggested that there had been little or no change for the better in Indo-China since Mmes Viollis's visit. One of the documents related to the trial and acquittal at Hanel of the five men of the Foreign Legion who had tortured and murdered eleven natives The book is a severe Indictment of the present "colonial methods" and a

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1936.

HOME FOOTBALL U. S. BASEBALL

Rain Interferes

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Blackpool Defeat Tottenham

London. Sept. 21.

The following were the results of

With Matches

New York, Sept 21. The fullowing were the results of

GREAT CHESS STRUGGLE

Alekhine Meets The Champion

League football matches played Major League baseball matches DR, EUWE'S TWO FINE

to-day:-

SECOND DIVISION

Blackburn Fulham

Tottenham

0

-3 Shefeld U.

1

2 Burnley

1

Blackpool

THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH) Millwall Reuter.

3 Gingham

BRUEN ROUTS INNES

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Final Of Boys' Championship

played to-day? :-.-.-.-.-.

"NATIONAL LEAGUE

Pittsburgh Boston

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3

0 St. Louis

Chicago

11

2

4 10 1

The game between New York and Philadelphia was postponed owing to rain. No other games played

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RECOVERIES

The meeting of Alekhine and Euwe (French defence) at the Not- tingham Chess Congress recently was their first contest in public since the great. championship match of last year. The game proved worthy of the occasion.

Alekhine stemed to secure the better opening, and Euse, to get his pieces in action. had to give. up a pawn on the Queen's ride. This loss he afterwards recovered by ne play, but Alekhine made | suck strong strategical use of Queen and rooks along an operi ile and diagonal that Euwe's post-

Brilliant golf was played by J. GIRL IN MODERN tion looked highly critical. Again

cently.

Bruen, Jun. (Presentation College, Cork in the first round of the, 38- holes final of the Boys' Amateur championship on the Birkdale warning that if France loses Indo-Club's course, by Southport, re- China it will be her own fault. The author admits that in certain parts of British India conditions are no better than In Indo-Ching as there, roads and railways have been but by the "colonisers?”

But what is the good of it all if the natives are starving? On the other hand, to say that they would have been no better oft had they been left to themselves is no argument. For the only moral excuse for European colonisation is that it does Improve the lot of the natives. Without such an improve" ment there is no excuse.

SWEATED CHILD LABOUR It is, of course, clear from Mme. Viollis's account that economic conditions are not uniformly bad in all parts of Indo-China. Laos they are good, but in Annam they are extremely, bad. In 1931

In

alone 10,000 Annamites were allow- ed to die of starvation. though

Bruen, Ireland's first re presentative" to take part in the final of the event, d'd the Arst eighteen holes in 73 strokes as against the scratch score of 78. and at the end of the round he

led by 7 holes against his Scottish opponent, W. Innes (Lanark),

Nine holes in the afternoon end. to an brought the match

to play great

Bruen continued

golf, and won 11 and 9.

Bruen, who is sixteen years of age won seven of the first 9 holes afteen-and-a-half

against hig

years old rival. Innes secured his first win at the tenth, where the Irish boy found an almost un- Flayable ite. but was 7 down again at the twelfth. Innes then took the short thirteenth by holing a putt of five yards for 2. but after a series of halves Brue won the eighteen to end the round with a lead of 7 holes.

Braen opened well by winning the first two holes. sinking a putt of fifteen yards at the second after he had been bunkered, and Innes became 3 down when he falied with "a putt of about six feet at the fourth. Innes missed

two

MIRACLE

One-Time Invalid Opens Pets' Clinic

RECOVERY DUE TO NEW INTEREST

IN LIFE?

the champion made a great re- covery, and the ding-dong strug- fle went on with splendid chess by both masters to the adjourn- ment, Alekhine then being a pawn up in a Queen's and pawns' end- ing with good prospects,

Theorists were interested in a game between Tartakower and Winter, in which an old and rather dubious counter gambit was put to a severe test by, it is understood, a pre-arrangement between the two masters following discussion

OLYMPIC GAMES

LOSS LIKELY

Takings Far Below Capital Outlay

4,500,000 TICKETS SOLD

The Arst official proft and loss account of the Olymple rames, is- sued recently shows that receipts from the sales of tickets slightly exceeded running expenses, leaving the huge capital outlay and other State expenditure with no offset except the indirect receipts from tourist tratie.

A total of 4,500,000 entrance wc- kets and 100,000 season tickets to the sames were söld, realising £375,000, while running expenses are given as £325,000.

This includes wages to 300 omce employees and 5,000 other work- people, but it does not include rent. since all the Stadium's ground and, similar accommodation was pro- vided by the State,

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The games attracted 1.200.000, visitors to Merlin, of whom 150,000 were foreigners. About 1,000 spe- cial trains were run by the State Railway: during the fortnight. Ho- tels and cafes probably had the best two weeks in the history of Berlin.

The burning question is: How much foreign currency has Ger- many netted from the 130,000 visitors from abroad? Until this

on its merits. The game will hard-s known it is impossible to ext- Recently a young woman turnedly rehabilitate the From counter mate what price Germany has paid the key in the lock of an Oxford' shop and declared open the latest stoutly to the pawn presented to

gambit. Tartakower held 0.4 for any political value she may get clinic administered by the People's him in the opening. though at the she made during the games.

Trom the great propagandist effort Dispensary for Sick Animals,

cramped position. When at length the cost of the various Stadiums. expense for many mOVES of.. a No ageres have been published of the Polish out the end was not far off, Win-pital expenditure which must run

master got his pieces

the Olympic village and other ca-

ter resigning on the thirtieth move In face of inevitable mate,

Bogoljubow beat Alexander in a

labourer.

The girl who performed the ceremony is Rose Drake, the daughter of an Oxfordshire farm

Six years" apo she became paralysed, and for years she was regard as an incurable invalid..

into many millions of pounds. Huge sums were also spent In the sump- tuous receptions given practically every evening by various Ministers

Specialists and doctors gave her | lively akirish of 24 moves; Tylor in "horibur of the guests.

case up as hopeleas.

and Sir George Thomas drew in described the activities of an or-

Then she read a magazine which 29 moves; Lasker and Batwinnik ganisation of children devoted to

drew on the 44th move: Flohr beat collecting throll to provide funds between Capablanca and Reshey- Vidmar in 58 moves, and the game for the care of sick animals belky was adjourned. longing to people toc Foor to par for veterinary help.

Miss Drake stated, "I decided to do "Realising was out of the world,”

what trie I could to help poor stricken arimals.

'I was helpless and unable to move any part of my body except my hands. Day after day I'lay staring at the ceiling and listening to friends stories of the outside world.

"At 21 I had resigned myself to a life of the

uselessness-until I read about the sufferings of the pets of the poor.“

Bruen got out well from rough at the tenth, but found a very bad lie trom which he decid- ed to lift his ball. This cost him a stroke and he lost the hole, but be resumed his former advantage at the twelfth, sinking a five-yard putt for an eagle 3. Innes re- piled by holing out from similar distance for.. 1 2 at the short thirteenth. Then tallowed a series of halves until the home hole. which Bruen won in 4. to finish

The rest of the story was told by an official of the PD.S.A.

"Miss Drake," he said, "wrote letter after letter asking Oxford ahire school teachers to help her to raise money for cur cause.

there were "unsaleable stocks of rice in Tongking and Cochin China." and 60,000 more remained physical wrecks as a result of the famine. On the plantations and the rich above-ground costrines of Annun sweated labour of the shots at the sixth, and Bruent be- worst description, prevalls: the come 5.up when he holed an! mines men are pald sixpence for eight yards putt for a 2 at the twelve-hour day, women twopence short seventh.

Innes was some and children a

the penny; on

what unlucky at the eighth, for plantations they are paid about

be was stymied when Bruen miss. half that amount. Worte still,

ed a yard putt. and the Scot they are completely at the mercy

knocked in the other ball. This of the "sais," or native foreman, made him 6 down, and he also who recruits the labourers and pays last the ninth, chiefly because of them in any, way he pleases, for

a topped drive. the employers are interested only In the output. If the "cals" puts part of the wages in his own poc- ket the employers do not care, they have no contact with the wor- kers. " In the administrative sphere something similar may be obser- ved. It suffers not from ar excess of French interference in the life of the natives but, on the contrary. from a lack of interference. Such things as the collection of taxes— particularly in Annam-are placed the round seven up. In the hands of the mandarins.

THE FINAL ROUND.. In neory. (says Mme. Viollis)

Nine holes sufficed to bring the the mandarins are, appointed by game to an end, Bruen wlaning the imperial Court of Annum; by it and 9. Ha increased his but in reality they are appointed advantage at the second hole of life. by the French Administration. the afternoon when Innes bunker- she was doing something useful in Only the French Administrationed his second shot, but Innes won the world.. does not supervise their work. ; . back a hole at the next. Bruen Eighteen months ago she con- The mandarin can easily double being stymied after making a celved the lies of raising £500 to the tax at his own discretion, good recovery from the rough start a dispensary in Oxford. putting part of the excess in his which had caught his drive. Bruen, She wrote pathetic begging let- own pocket and distributing the however, became eight up agah ters to gentry of the district, and rest in tips among those whom it at the fifth, Innes missing a slowly her fund increased. may concern... The native has short putt, and after a half at the

"But-and this is where

the not the alightest chance of con- sixth, where both were over the miracle occurred as her work plaining to the French oficial: green with their approaches, went од she increased for before he can get near him Bruen won three holes in a row strength, until 18 months ago, to he will have to bribe everybody up to Bnish matters.

the amazement of doctors and specialists, she crawled from her. sick-bed with the aid of crutches and began to move about her bedroom,

the scale.... Any spontaneous appeal to the French Administra tion meets with bloody repression. The mandarins are robbers

Innes falled to get his 3 at the short seventh, cut his tee shot and bunkered his second at the eighth before" missing a putt for a pos-

who, under French cover, tyran- sible half. and Bruen rammed

The teachers rallied round her and urged scholars to help. "In the meantime Miss Drake had been cared for in London has- pitals, but the doctors could do nothing for her.

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In the women's championship tournament, Mrs. St. John dis ev with Mrs. Thomson and has scored 3 out of four games.

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"Now she had a new interest in For the first time she felt

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nise the population. and the down a putt of ten yards, for ato see the girl who it was thought French Administration is natur-3 at the ninth to convert his would never walk again actually ally, held responsible by the dormy ten advantage into a win walking. natives for the crimes committed by 11 and 9, the second biggest by the mandarinia

margin in the history of the championship. The figures were: Eruer. Out: 5, 4, 7, 3. 4. 5, 3, 5, 3,

"One attributed her gradual re- covery to intense mental reaction. on her physical condition.'

"Finding an interest in Bfe, Miss Drake, it seemed, put forth a super

"COMMUNISM” There is, naturally, intense dis- content in many parts of Indo- [equals 38. China-most of all, perhaps, in Innes: Out: 5, 5, 6, 3. 5. 5. 4. 6. 4, buman effort, which combated her Annum, where economic conditions equals 43. are worst of all, Any, demonstza- | ----

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tion of discontent whether by bombing and burning of villages. word or by deed, is branded as Aa for the "Intellectuals" guilty “Communism." The educated Indo- | or suspected of revolutionary £300. A woman who declined to Chinese discontented with the activities," they are locked up in "give her name gave the last £100 general conditions in their coun- the foulest prisons and tortured towards the £500 required... try, "and unable to get any job in until their spirit is broker ΟΙ

"Then for weeks the plucky girl spite of their French university sentenced to death or to long went from shop to shop begging degreen, are treated indiscriminate- | terms of hard labour, Mme. equipment for her dispensary. ly as "Communists": the starving Violls provides full details of the

"From chemists she obtained peasants of the Vinh Province tortures inflicted on

men

and bandages, grocers provided dog who roam through the country women alike. She also mentions food, and so on. crying for food are also "Com the case of a man who was sent munista" Any signs of active, dis to a penal settlement for having content are savagely repressed by attempted to start a trade union the Foreign Legion and by the among native workers.

"No wonder, that M Drake looks forward to to-morrow's cere money as the crowning stage of her achievement.”

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