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Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 6 1927.

HANKOW'S PLIGHT.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER

6.

1927.

DAY BY DAY.

CORRESPONDENCE.

kow's plight. It is pointed out that Shanghai mude a great, nolse when it was threatened with be

ing over-run and that it got very PRECIPITATION 19 THE RUIN OF "OUR DESCENT FROM APES.” THE YOUNG PELAY. THE RUIN OF adequate protection from the Bri-THE OLD.-Samuel Maunder

tish Government, Hankow is clamouring for notice, and we think that something ought to be done in the interests of the gal. lant little band that is trying to carry on in face of heartbreaking conditions. It is argued that the Chen-O'Malley Agreement ought to be cancelled as it has been broken in spirit by the Chinese on many occasions and that Bri- tish forces ought to re-occupy the British Concessions and restore it

disease reported in Hongkong yes- There were no cases of notifiablo

terday...

A Chinese constable who was charged with preparing and selling opium, was fined $250, by Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning.

The police have received a re- No. 39, Gage Street, that a foki of port from a firewood-merchant-of his shop sosconded

on Tapsday, taking with him money and jewel- lery to the total value of $4,169, the property of the merchant.

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The Very Idea!

"Saxpenco?" said Sandy, to the To the Editor, Hongkong.

village chemist, "for a packet of Telegraph.]

sulphur. Why, man, I can get it for fourpence in Glasgow."" "Sir-With referance to the arti-for a I care ye can gang to̟ an- "Aye," said the chemist "An cle which appeared in your other place where ye can get as paper of the 4th. October will you much sulphur as columns to express my opinion, as kindly allow mé a little in your naething." a student of Psychic Resourch to

ye. want

the vexed question of Evolution?

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for

A suspect" at Kingston: I had the Jemmy to protect myself be

night.. cause I feared an attack during the

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'Caesar's 'declaration of "Let me have men about me who are fat," Von Zittel, who ranks us one of apparently does not impress the the chief scholars in these re-British Ministry of Transport as searches, says: "All the human much, as Mussolini's recent ex-' remains of reliable age from the pression of his horror and disgust labour was

Sentence of nine months' hard drift of Europe and all the skulls of fatness. imposed by Mr. W. found in caves agree in size, form Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis-and capacity with 'Homo sapiens.' tracy this morning, on a Chinese.In no way do they fill the gap from banishment after being de who was charged with returning between man and ape,"

ported from the Colony last May.

officially

Motorist summoned at Kingston: Revelation and history and tradi-Speeding is not a habit with me. tion alike attest that man

I am a married man. was Lance Sergeant Mackay was bit created, substantially in form and Willesdon woman: I've got into ten by a mongrel dog while enden-attributes, as we know him to-day. trouble with my fellow lodgers. was finally dispatched with a shot man has evolved from some lower Woman: vouring to trap it yesterday. It The Darwinian hypothesia, that Magistrate: What sort of trouble?

About tho "pram." to the control of the old Muni-gun, and the carcase was removed form, either, from the anthropold Magistrate: It always is the cipality. It does not take an over-

to the Bacteriological Institute for

apes, or from some common ances

"pram"-a

fruitful

source of .examination,

tor of the apes and man, is a most

trouble. discerning person to read into the

degrading theory, which fortunate- utterances of the residents of

ly remains a theory; for there is Hankow the fact that they are

support it, in spite of the fragment not a particle of real evidence to dangerously fed up" and that is

of Java or the recently found of a skull found in the yolcanic ash is quite possible that an attempt

Thungs skull. might possibly be made to tak matters into their own hands. There is talk of a mass meeting and of the election of leaders who can "fix the proper responsibility for the control of the Concession." The atmosphere is tense, not only among the Chinese of the native cities. because of the intolerable

An ancestry of upes and monkeys may appear satisfactory, to some burden of financial chaos and the

professors, but the majority of men welter of mismanagement, but

will demand a nobler origin, and A Musicale will be held at the the statement in the Old Book which also among the Europeans in the Helena May Institute on Thurs-describes man, as physically perfect various Concessions and ex-Con-day, 13th. October, at 5.30 p.m.creation distinct from the lower cessions. The Powers ought to Selections from Gilbert and Sulli- animals will continue to commend make it their special business to booked at the Secretary's office.

van will be given. Tickets to be itself to mankind. take, a close look at Hankow to Teas may be had from 4 p.m. on- changes in form and condition due Evolution may explain niinor kay, before the rigours of the win-wards.--Advt.

to environment and other causes, ter precipitate a great catus.

but it can never sustantiate the de trophe. The British Government

grading theory that man evolved from apes. especially, which was so pusillani-

is it to suppose that they were two Far more reasonable mous in the days when Eugene

distinat orders of created things, existing side by side. Chen was the active puppet of Moscow, ought to take serious thought of the plight of its na tionals in the ex-Concession and pught to take whatever action is necessary to restore to them their safety and social amenities.

Restriction of Output.

It has always been a moot point whether restriction of output of a commodity can be fully justi- fied, and there must continue to

condemnation of the British

A Chinese woman was admitted into the Kwong, Wah Hospital yes- commit suicide. terday, following an attempt to She took an over- dose of opium and was anconscious when diccovered, and was removed No. 18, Berring Street, Kowicon. to the hospital from her home at

The ministry has designated the space which those fortunate enough to secure a seat on an omnibus may occupy as 16' inches. The figure determined upon to prevent arguments among bus users has a historical preced- ent as do most official decisions in England. At the coronation King Edward the width of seats provided for peers was limited to 16 inches.

of

man would hence-forward leave If I wrote my memoirs not a for war.-M. Clemenceau.

One thing which still troubles me is the fact that rents are cost- berlain. ing too much Mr. Neville Cham-

I have a dismal foreboding that my life may yet "be prematurely over me-Lord Newton, closed by some vehicle running

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keys exist and show no signs of Many species of apes and mon- developing into human beings, nor have they done so for thousands of years. If any explanation were An artist who wont into a cot- needed to The Royal Observatory reports likeness

account for what tage in County Wicklow for tea that pressure is highest, to thetween the anthropoid apes and bearing the words:-"Ici on Parle there may be be-saw a framed card hanging up cast of Tukyo. The typhoon, man, it could be more reason Francais." which is now severe, is about 100 ably found in the long-con-.

When the old woman. brought

miles west of Manita, and is at tinted degeneration and degrada-in his tea he addressed her in present moving towards Hainan. tion of isolated tribes, or indivi-French; but she only stared at The local forecast up to noon to-duals; or in the results of improper him, and said, "What are ye murrow is; E. winds, freshing; intimacy, between man and the thryin' to say?"

fuir.

lower animals in the steppes and He explained that he had been forests of prehistoric or primeval misled by the notice, and she re- tipes, than in the deplorable theoryplied, "I bought them from 4 of evolution from the are. Such tinker goin' by and I thought the relations were common in the an cient heathen world, and are men-Irish!"

word was 'God bless the home,' in tioned by Herodotus and other writers.

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It need not be construed as an In conclusion. I might remind your readers that Father Byrne is insult that the Chinese Nation- going to give a lecture on Evolutionalists in rehoisting the Union Jack over the British Consulate at at the St. Patrick's Club this ever-Hankow put it upside down. The ing. I have not had the pleasure

R. P.

of meeting this Reverend gentle- correct placing of the flag is a while the Yaumati ferry Man Lok will. I am sure, be welcorned by the Chinaman unused to heraldic nice- Shortly after noon yesterday,man, but his views on this subject problem which may well puzzle a

overboard" was raised. A passen- was in midstream, the ery of "man public.-Yours, etc.

ties. It has puzzle even ourselves, ger stated he saw a man jump over-

for the national emblem has been board.

seen wrong side up even in White- The launchi was stopped

hall, and cruised around the spot for some considerable time, but the man was not seen again.

days, a wash amah of No. 84, Kow- After being employed for hve

loon Tong, the residence of a Chin- ese, stole several articles of her mistress's clothes, but she was later arrested in the street by an Indiar constable. At the Kowloon was sentenced to six weeks' hard Magistracy this morning the amnh

Kowloon, October 6th., 1927.

ACCIDENT AVERTED.

Sir, In the short article nder Many Days, Irvin S. Cobb tells this In his book, Many Laughs for the heading "Accident Averted" in to-day's issue, your reporter states story of a minister who had ened, tried to jump out at the back, ed. One Sunday he was in es- that "one lady, who became fright-eputation for being long-wind-

but fell.” '

pecially good form. His topic was the Prophets of the Bible. For along. more than an hour he droned

disposed of the Major Prophets., "Now then," he added, "we have

Prophets. To And next we come to the Minor friends, shall we assign the Minor what place, my Prophets ?".

He paused as though for

One cannot read unmoved of the terrible state of affairs which Britishers in Hankow have to en-

A Chinese boy living at Kong be a pro and a con in every argu-Chung village, in the New Terri- ment on the subject. What really tory district of Lokmachau, was dure, now that their authority over matters is that the Governments knocked down by a motor-bus, be- what was the British Concession which have had to decide the ques-longing to the Ham Hing Company has been taken away from themtion have not hestitated to take on the motor-road near the village by the Cher-O'Malley Agreement. the big step where necessary, and yesterday.

as a result the practice has re-

lie was injured and In yesterday's paper we publishedceived official sanction, and is pital.

was removed to the Kowloon Hos- a letter which a correspondent of more likely to become an accep- ted means of stabilising prices. the Central China Post had ad-We learn of a new measure in dressed to that journal, in which fiavana, whereby the sugar crop he enumerated some of the many is to be thus controlled. For some time there has been a fall disadvantages pow suffered by in the price of sugar, particularly the unfortunate residents of the in the Americas, and this action great mid-Chinn Centre. Not has followed. It probably will have the approval and support of only is there a filthy Bund (over-opinion in the United States, in- run by dogs and coolies), no precluding those sections of indus- par police control of traffic, notry which were so loud in their school, a mockery of a court of Government's rubber restrictio1 justice. beggers and hawkers policy. It is about five years now everywhere, but an almost total since, rubber restriction became an actual fact, and in this period

lost her head a bit and acted in a The impression left is that she absence of those well-guarded we have seen stabilisation, and the

panic. amenities which has made life rescue of a great industry from

As a matter of fact she realised that the brakes had refused possible for Europeans in the There is a likelihood of the re-

dangerous ineline; and she reason the chaos that threatened it.

to work, and that the bus was on a various Concessions and Settle-striction of rubber output being labour.

ed that there was every chance of ments throughout China. The rescinded, ere long, for it has

a crash-a deduction also arrived British Concession at Hankow served its purpose. There is

at by the reporter after the event talk of its not being a effective. was one of the best managed in as thought, with some estates $74.000 has been recovered on the wiser to get out of the bus, which reply, and got a reply from "an

It is stated that altogether was over. She argued that it was the whole country, and when the failing to observe the regulations, persons of those men arrested in was increasing in speed, before that unexpected quarter. From a rear writer paid a visit to it in early great deal of smuggling, and Hongkong recently in connexion chance was impossible; and more new rose a bored-looking stran- 1925 (before the Shanghai incition policy of the increasing rub gunboat Kwong Kam.

the non-adherence to the restric- with the piracy of the Cantonese over she avoided much more serier. Be waved an explanatory

It is now dent precipitated the anti-foreigu ber

ous consequences to herself by arm toward the seat he had just arcas in Dutch territory. permissible to disclose the interest alighting in the proper way. Your vacated and said:

of rubber cataclysm all over the country) When the matter

ring fact that the money was dis- paper makes it clear that it was it was a beautiful, well-run resi-cussion, there was a big contro- British gunboat,

striction frat came up for dispatched to Canton from here in a

only the happy combination of re- markably skilful driving on the dential and business area- veray as to whether it could be

part of driver, and the suitability European sanctuary for Eur-justified, and the example of the

of the road for the manoevre he

The humours of the Post Office never fail. A firm in Glasrow has peans. The native city adjacent of coffee was cited. By and by 1st. showed that there was nearly brought to rest.

The Water Return on October employed that enabled the car to be just received a card posted in Had the axle Carnoustie twenty-four years ago;" afforded a lesson in contrasts, and we may observe similar action a full capacity in storage on that broken on Garden Road two min- and has been charged twopence now that the Chinese are over- taken with cotton, which, if grown date, there being 2,010 million gal-utes later, where the clever tactics because it was insufficiently stamp running the Concession and spoil-enough to

further, and if it is fortunate lens in storage on Hongkong is of the driver would have been of ing it by neglect and abuse, it is free from pests, may result in a lions gallons capacity), and 445 of the lady in leaving the bus be-

meet with a year land (as compared with 2,118 mil- no avail, I submit that the actioned by the sufficient half-penny of not hard to imagine the acuteness glut on the market likely to pre-million gallons in storage in the fore its speed became excessive, of the sufferings of those bravecipitate a crisis of the greatest Kowloon water works (as comparable risk, would have been reported even though this entailed consider- magnitude. At present Britishers who are left to carry chester is debating the restriction lion gallons,)

Man-ed with a full capacity of 153 mil as a case of presence of mind. Three Malayans are among on. Not only have they seen busi- of spinning. Later we may see been maintained in all districts wise after the event; it is only fair who have just joined the Royal A full supply had rather than fear. It is easy to be new junior division of 270 cadets the introduction nesses built up by years of hard.

of restricted ethics growing. The

of this and patient work go into ruin but means of bolstering up prices are

throughout the month.

they are witnessing the physical not very clear, and certainly it is

The case in which four coolies deterioration of their homes and a system of price: atabilisation

were charged with open to criticism. So far it has

intimida- of the little township in which applied only to raw materials tion and assault, and in which many of them have put their all.. used in manufactures and to

a foreman of the Hongkong luxuries, not to any essential

Construction and Pile-Driving Small wonder is it that they feel foodstuff of the masses. Yet a Company appeared as the complain neglected by Britain and that precedent has been

ant, was concluded before Mr. R. established, their leading newspaper, the and one doubts whether there Lindsell this morning, when his may not be some who would want Worship bound over all parties in Central China Post, contains much to extend the polley to staple a sum of 3100 to keep the peace for correspondence urging that some-necessities in years to come. a year. Both charges and cross thing be done to call the atten-That trend would have to be defendants were warned against a sumrionses were dismissed, and the tion of the outside world to Han. combatted at the outset.

repetition of the incident.

Brazilian Government in the case

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"Parson," he said, "don't worry. One of 'em can have my place."

1903.

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to the chief sufferer, that, herilitary College, Sandhurst, They motives should be set forth in their are the first of their nationality true light-Yours, etc.

to enter a British military college.

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THE OTHER SIDE. Hongkong, Oct. 5, 1927.

NOISY DREDGER.. Sir, I was very glad to see in your yesterday's issue the letter from "Sleepless with regard to the noisy dredger, whose remarks: I fully endorse.

Surely the matter of dredging the Harbour is not so urgent as to

necessitate working almost the whole night through, which, as your correspondent rightly states, is ta decided nuisance to the residents hope that the Authorities will take on and near the waterfront. I immediate steps to rectify it -

Yours et

ANOTHER SLEEPLESS.