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COMMON FATHERLAND FOR

ARAB AND

JEW

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the soil and their children build further villages and colonies. and ask for more land. It is not only a material civilisation which is -be- ing created: on the basis of this

civilisation material

moral superstructure is being created, a Hebrew civilisation which is un- thinkable in any other country but Palestine.

It may seem peculiar, and I dare say we Jews are somewhat pecu- llar, to have staked out a claim after two thousand years. A great many people are blessed or cursed with a long memory. And I think this It was the recognition of yearning of an old race on the part of the British people (a people which knows the Bible and the geography of Palestine and its his- tory better than a great many other people), which made it possible for them to give to that race the op- portunity of converting this e- cumulated sentiment into some- thing which may become a real force. The suggestion that is so often heard that the Balfour De- claration was made to induce the

the south, where and Gaza in "there are quite a number of Arab settlements and where Arab villages have existed for hundreds of years. Let me take, for argU - ment's sake, an Arab who had, in this stretch of plain, a hundred dunains of land. This land could be irrigated so that it would be capable of growing oranges, grape fruit, vegetables in other words, what is called fri American agricultural parlance "money

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1936.

CEMETERIES BY-LAWS

Amendments By

Urban Council

Chairman's Address

At the meeting of the Urban Council held yesterday in the Post Omce Bulldings Mr. R. R. Todd, to moved, pursuant Chairman, potice, amendments to the by-laws under the heading of "Cemeteries" contained in Schedule A to the Public Health (Sanitation) Or- dinance. 1935, with effect on and from January 1, 1937. The motion was approved by the other mem- bers of the Council,

Among those who were present were. Mr. R. R. Todd (Chairman),

crops but in order to do this the land had to be developed, for it had been neglected for centuries. it had been covered with sand. There had been no irrigation, and To it was virtually waste land. make these hundred dunamus of land irrigable would require, even

the Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, for Arab conditions where labour is C.M.G. (Vice-Chairman), the Hon the Mr. R. M. Henderson (Director of In Investment cheap, neighbourhood of two thousand Public Works), the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North (Secretary of Chinese pounds: an impossible sum for a poor Arab peasant. Therefore he Affairs), Hon. Mr. T. H. King (in- had of necessity to grow on this spector-General of Police), Mr. F. land something which he could C. Hall, Dr. R. A de Castro Basto. grow without having to improve it, Mr. L. C. P. Bellamy, Dr. 8. N. which was a little barley or wheat. Chap. Mr. W. N. T. Tum, Mr. B.

Wong Tape. Mr. C. J. Roe, (Secre yielded him approximately" tentary). Mr. Im Ping-tseung (Asst. shillings per dunam-that is, afty Secretary),

If taxes are de- pounds a year. ducted from that, the annual bud- get of an Arab peasant in an area which represents the richest soil of Palestine was not more than forty or thirty pounds. Naturally he sank lower. Then he sold forty dunams, 40 per cent.. to the in- coming Jewish immigrant. He got a price which ranged between ten and twenty pounds per dunam. say teen. He received therefore nién who framed this policy-six hundred pounds, a sum which

rich American Jews to enter theThis hundred dunams of land

war. cr that it was made for im- perialist or any other similar vulgar reason, is entirely false. I think one fact may disprove this legend, When the British Gov- ernment agreed to Issue the famous Balfour Declaration, it agreed on one condition; that Pa lestine should not be the charge of Great Britain.

OUT OF GEAR

The second reason which I think weighed heavily with the states-

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AMENDMENTS MOVED

In moving the amendments the Chairman said.

Before moving the amendments to the Cemeteries By-laws which stand in my name in the Orders of the Day I should like to say a few words in the nature of "Ob- jects and Reasons."

By reference to the By-laws It will be observed that they fall an der two main headings: A Ceme- teries other than Chinese Ceme-

SOCIETY FOR

PROTECTION

OF CHILDREN

Government Reply

HAWKERS LICENCES

RESTRICTIONS

to

The Government's reply letter from the Society for the

to the

Protection of Children in regard

of

proposed restriction hawkers' licences vis read at a jodrit meeting of the Executive and

held on Monday, the Hon. Mr. R. General Committees of Society.

H Kotewall being in the chair.

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YULETIDE REVELS

H.K. Hotel Plans

!!

The Hong Kong Hotel is, as usual, again in the lead in offer ing to its patrons something extra- ordinary for the Festive Season. The Company has gone to consi- derable trouble and expense in securing the best in the East.

On Saturday, December 19, Vera Love and ten beautiful girls will make their bow, whilst on Friday, December 11." prior to the Gala Premier of Romeo And Juliet at the Klag's Theatre, Norman Brooks and his Band will give the Hong Kong public an idea of what perfect dance music is

The letter stated tha. while the

Norman Brooks, the American Government would be pleased to

leader, has selected the very best receive and consider any suggea-

the Jam players to form his combina- tions from the Bodety matters raised in the two resolution. and it can be said that Hong tions passed by the Urban Council Kong has never heard & better

thymthic ensemble. on October 13, these were passed only after the

fullest considera-

tion of the problems involved, but it was added that, except where Licences for the sale of food were concerned, the Urban Council was stl wing to consider appica- tions for licences forwarded by the Society, while reserving the right to judge each case on its merits.

A sub-committee of the Society is now preparing concrete, sug- gestions, which will be submitted to the Government in due course. Those present. in addition to the Chairman, were: The Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Sir Willam Hornell, Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, Chec. J M. Alves, Mrs Alabaster, Miss Brazier, Miss Shin Tak-hing, Mrs. Barker (Hoo

Yule-tide revellers will be able to and New celebre, until 3 am. Year's Eve frolics will be enjoyed unti

am, this extension giving ample time to the large crowds in attendance to forget the worries of 1936 and anticipate the joys of 1937.

Eula Hoff and Bob Burnett who have endeared themselves to the Hong Kong pubilo. will provide a subtle touch of refined entertain- ment and, lucidentally, the price c1 Champagne for these two even- Ings is being reduced from $19.- to $17.-

Upon enquiries, the Manage- ment has informed us the book- Ings for these dates are already Secretary), very heavy, those for New Year's Mrs. A. Hicks (Hon. Secretary. Eve being by now over the three Women's Auxiliary), Mrs. K. Fhundred figure. Noble (Hon Treasurer, Women's Auxillary). Mr. F. H. Loseby (Hon

for a man whose total yearly bud teries, and B. Chinese Cemeteries. Director), Mr. A. McKellar (Hon. APPLICATIONS

get 4 thirty of forty pounds. It i mistake, and prejudice, to think that when an Arab gets hold of a large sum of money he "blues" It of necessity. He does not do any- thing of the kind.

On the whole he is thrifty. in- telligent. hardworking, and be sinks this money into the sixty dunams of land which are left. He gradually works. it up. and instead of deriving ren shillings per dupan he derivès five pounds, and later even ten pounds per dunam, before long he has begun to prosper, and the result is that in the place where one man lived a miserable Bfe, two or three can now live in prosperity. This is why it is exactly in the areas in which we have worked most that the Arab population has increased most.

I happen to live in this very area. It is surprising to go round Arab villages in this area. and to compare them with Arab villages in a purely Arab The difference is that of night and day. The villages on coast are prosperous and clean there are schools, infant mortality has fallen considerably, a civilised way of life is growing up, and a elvilised population. The purely "Arab areas are as primitive as they "were two hundred years ago.

a daring policy. I agree was the is beyond the dreams of avarice position of the Jews in the world. Here was a scattered race of mil- lions of people, who, through the transformation of social political conditions which had come over the world owing to the war, were throws out of gear, suspended be- tween heaven and earth: the countries of the world had come to be divided into two categories: countries where Jews could not live. and countries where Jews were not allowed to enter. What was to happen to them? "After all, they were a people who I am re- peating something which the late Lord Balfour, mentioned in some of his speeches) had made some contribution to the world; and by way of redress it was felt thu a place should be given to at least a part of these people where they could settle down in peace and begin a new life. It is true that Palestine cannot hold all the Jews who need a home: "but the fact that you cannot take all of them should not prevent the settlement of at least a part.

The right to establish a Jewish

in Palestine was National Home

also the condition. quailted oy embodied in the Mandate, that no- thing should be done which in the process of the upbuilding of the National Home would interfere with the rights and the position of the populations which already existed in Palestine, that is to say the Arab population and the Chris- Lian population. " i will be in- teresting to see whether cals sec- ond half of the Balfour Declara- ion has been adhered to how It actually works, and whether there is a conflict, as is sometimes sug- gested, between the first half, the Mandate to establish a Jewish Na- tional Home in Palestine, and the second half, the preservation and protection of the interest of the Arab population.

I should like to state that not only has nothing happened in Pa- lestine during the years we have been working there since the war which might Impair the position of the Arabs, but, paradoxical as It may seem to some who are not

fully acquainted with the position

In Palestine, never has the Arab

been rooted so firmly in the soll

arca.

the

I will give one further illustra- tion of this development. The

total citrus area in the hands of the Arabs has grown from twenty thousand dunams, immediately after the war, to a hundred and thirty thousand to-day. Now that an increase of over a hundred thousand, and as each dunam' of citrus represents an investment, even for Arab standards, of ap- proximately fifty pounds, the in- erease of the actual wealth of the landed property of the Arabs in a comparatively obvious.

"short

time

(To be Continued.)"

CHRISTMAS FUND

FOR POOR

~

The existing By-law 3. which is under heading A. requires that the person in charge of each cemetery shall keep a register of burials but does not specify in what language the register shall be kept nor does it make provision for the ultimate safe custody of the register. By- law 15, which is under heading B ---Chinese Cemeteries requires that monthly registers be kept in the Chinese language and that these registers be deposited at the cffice of the Council after a period of two years.

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(Hon. J. M.

Treasurer), Mr. A. Hicks Publicity Secretary), Mr. Noronha, Mr. J. Middleton Smith. Mr. R. A. McKenny, and 'Mr. L. D. Skinner.

EARLY MORNING

BLAZE

The occupants of the Chan Kung Wung store, Prince Edward Road, luckily escaped disaster early yes

As the By-laws make no distinc-terday morning when a fire broke tion between public cemeteries (by out in the rear of the shop.

At about 4 o'clock an Indian con- which I mean cemeteries adminis- tered directly by the Urban Coun- stable saw the blaze and roused the ell) and private cemeteries (by shop people. The fire which ap which I mean cemeteries adminis-parently broke out at about an tered by committees belonging to hour before completely burnt out various religious denominations)

the whole store. The blaze was put and so, presumably, apply to allout two hours later after a hard cemeteries, It will be seen that the fight by four or five fire engines. wording of the present By-law 3 Flims, stationery and toys to the has the effect, so far as non-value of $1,000 were destroyed. Chinese cemeteries are concerned,

of leaving private cemeteries to their own devices in the matter of the language in which the regis ters are kept and in the matter of the preservation of the registers.

BURIAL RECORDS

for urning purposes is almost ex- remair.der of the hausted--the Island being too steep or too rocky -and that in the near future we shall have to face the problem of Ending a new urning ground.

THE AMENDMENTS ́ ̧

FOR LICENCES

Refused By Urban Council

The following applications for Bcences were refused by the Urban Council at its meeting held in the Post Office. Building yesterday:-

Food factory:No. 176 Johnston Road, ground floor; No. 69 Third floor: No. 338 Street, ground

Central. Queen's Road

ground. floor: No. 254 Shanghai Street. third floor: No. 35A Queen's Road East, ground floor; No. 258 Shang- hal Street, third floor: No. 90 Shanghai Street, ground floor, No. 86 First Street, ground floor.

Food preserving establishment:-- No. 94 First Street, ground floor (front portion).

The list of licences granted br- tween November 24 and December 7 were as follows:--Food Factories, 3: Food Preserving Establishments. 3 Laundries, 2 Offensive. Trades, 1: Eating House, 3: Restaurants, 1.

ta Regula: Returns were also bled.

WEDDINGS

ANNOUNCED

The following weddings have been announced:-

The Council has no record of burials in these private cemeteries posed amendment to By-law 3 is and the main object of the pro-

I now move that in exercise of to rectify this emmission En- the powers conferred by section quiries as to burials are not in- 4 (1) (xxiv) of the Public Health

Mr. William Wyllie Clark frequent and it is natural, es- (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, the

Shewan, architect, Public Works Urban Council makes the following Department, to Miss Christiana pecially in the case of relatives overseas, to apply for information | amendments to the by-laws under to a public body such as the Urban the heading Cemeteries" contain-Helen Angus, Colonial Secretariat,

of 8 Humphreys Building. Council. It is considered that a 3d In Schedule to the Public

Mr. William John Fearon Heslop.. record of all burials should be Health (Sanitation) Ordinance,

the offices of the 1935, with effect on and from artificer, of HMS. Dorsetshire, to available at

Miss Eugenia Mezavtseva, of 823 Coumell and the proposed amend- January 1, 1937:- ment of By-law 3 will, in the case (1) By-law 3 is rescinded and 22 Linda Terrace. Avenue Jofre, of future burials at least, ensure the following by-law is sub- stituted therefor: 3, A that such a record is available. The Hon. Attorney General and the Crown Solicitor do not consi- der it advisable to make the new By-law retrospective in effect and It is therefore proposed that, sub- ject to the approval of the Legis lative Council, the By-law will be offective as from January 1, 1937.

We are informed that the money. Our records will necessarily be in-

Association acknowledges

The proposed new By-law to be

of Palestine as he is c-day. Never box collections of the Kowloon complete unless we can gather. in has the economic and the moral Catholic Women's Association the registers kept in the past and position of the Arabs been so showed a satisfactory result last

propose to invite the persons in strong, as it is to-day. The Arab week, over $150 having been recharge of private cemeteries to population has increased since celved. The sum of money is being deposit their old registers or copies 1922 (I take that time because a turned over to a Christmas Gift of their old registers at the offices census is available) by something Fund for the poor.

of the Council, like 40 per cent.; and, curiously The enough, this increase of the Arab population is largest in those are where Jewish colonising activity is greatest. In parts of Palestine which are to-day purely Arab (for instance, in the centre of Palestine In the triangle formed by the com- paratively large Arab cities, Nablus, Jezin, and Tulkarm, where practically no Jewish work has taken place), the increase has not been so great.

LONG EXISTENCE Why has this happened? We have worked a great deal on the coastal plain, which stretches from Haifa in the north down to Jaffa

fund.

COLONY HEALTH

with thanks the donations made by numbered 21A is an attempt to re- members and friends towards this gulate the size of monuments in Chinese cemeteries and urning grounds with the object of con- serving space. As a matter of fact monuments are marely erected in the graveyards, where exhumation takes place after a period of a Nineteen cases of diphtheria, few years, but considérable space with seven deaths, five cases of has been wasted in the urning typhoid (with one imported), two ground at Aplichau Island by the cases of puerperal fever and 65 erection of large monuments and deaths from tuberenloels were re-enclosures. I will take this op- ported to the local Health authori-portunity to inform the Council ties for the week ended December that it has recently been brought 5- Five ́cases of "diphtheria were to my notice that the area: on notified on Monday.

Aplichan Island Which is suitable

Shanghai.

monthly register shall be CHRISTMAS AUCTION kept in the English language at or each cemetery, by tho person or persons in charge of each cemetery, and the date of burlai, name, sex and age of each person shall be The fine assortment of dressed entered therein against the dolls. trousseau dell sets and un- number of the grave in breakable., dolls manufactured by which the corpse le interred. Messrs. Mrs. A. Dolls Manufactur- The registers shall be de-ing Co., should not be missed by posited at the office of the anybody who desire to purchase Council after a period of two toys, dolls and useful prizes for years and shall be fled there, their Christmas trees. Every such register shall be open to Inspection by any member of the public at any reasonable hour.

Messrs. Lammert Brothers will have their first Christmas Auction to-day at their sales room, Hankow Road, Kowloon at 2.30 p.in.

RESIDENTS

RETURNING

(2) The following additional by- law is inserted in the by-

To-morrow, the as. Rajputana is laws under the sub heading expected to arrive from Home and "B. Chinese Cemeteries" im- some of the passengers on board mediately after by-law. 21:- for Hong Kong include Mr. LA 21A. No monument or en- Barton: Mr. and Mrs. 8. V. Boxer: closure of land occupying an Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Butler; Mrs. area exceeding nine square Morris, wife of Mr. A. Morris, feet shall be erected or zaade Director of Ambulance, St. John over, upon or around any Ambulance and Brigade, and her grave or un space without daughter, Mrs. Langston, accom- the written permission of the panied by her husband and daugh- Council, which permission ter: Mr. and Mr. C. E. Millard; may be granted on such Mise N, N. C. Potter, Mrs. D. M. terms as the Council thinks Richards; Dr. and Mrs. J. T. SmBi- At."

ley; and Mr. R. B.. Wood..

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