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SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

FALSE HAPPINESS RENDERS MEN STEIN AND PRÓUD, AND THAT HAPPI- NESS 18 NEVER COMMUNICATED. TRUE HAPPINESS RENDERS THEM KIND AND BENIBLE, AND THAT HAP,

LETTERS FROM HONGKONG.

1. The Problem: Civil

v. Military.

nolthor hero nor- thore, What does malter, however, is whether the least attomat is made to pro- |hibit poppy-growing or oplüm- smoking. The answer to that is a decided negative. Let us again quote from the atalement made by PINESS 18 'ALWAYB SHARED.- Dr. Graham Aspland. "So coms | Montesquicu.

First of all, a word as to how fed out, it would do a world of plète is the reversion to the old

these letters came to be printed. good." oplum daya of unrestricted indul-

The Civil outlook versus tho A Chinese case of typhoid fever them written from Hongkong it- Military. That vague, undefined The fact that they are not all of gence," he says, "that secrecy is no was notified yesterday.

self does not really matter. When feeling of suggestive antagoniem longer required. In the provinces,

Karel Kapek wrote "Letters from that strikes every newcomer as laxation removes all semblance of The P. and O. b.e. Nágpore, England," he had alrendy invaded perhaps the greatest curiosity of from Shanghai, is due here at 6 the annctuary of our home life. Hongkong. Certainly it, can be legal infraction, and thereby enam. on the 24th inst.

He was hore, He had been scorn-classed as a social feature. We courages an openness which renders

ed, reviled, laughed at, and gen-will probe it to its horrid depths; the act perfectly legitimate." Wo

erally acknowledged to be someone not in any blatant or straight- His Excellency the Governor has worth while.. For him to describe forward manner; partly because if could quote much more, but will reappointed Dr. Alice Hickling, how one reaches England from we did, I know my good but lazy content ourselves with this final ob- M.B.E., to be a Member of the Mid-Slovakia was obviously, allly, friend, you would never read it; servation:-"'Opium restriction is wives Board for a further term of Besides, it had nothing to do with but also because such a subject

three years. la figment of the Imagination.,

the subject in band. Kapik had, cannot be tackled directly. It is so far as I can discover, no object the outcome of the clash of dif- Oplum production and use are" en-

in view save a certain bonhomie ferent characteristics meeting so couraged in every corner of China

and & laudable desire to make a many thousands of miles from le money. Now at ao many ionic and compressed artificially except Shanat, and the sole purpose on of the traffic is taxation in every per cent.; Connemara, 6 per cent. dollars a colum, there is very into abnormally close contnet. form. China is using as much final; Kuala Sidlins, 6 per cent, final, little chance of your unworthy letters (dear clusive frieml) bring- opium to-day na in the pre-pro-

ing me in much of a fortune; but hibition years, with the added gain wegian Africa and Australia Line, plain.

The M. V. Tancred, of the Northen I have a mission. I will ex-most of us, and; the stranger the place, the more our racial In- stincts draw us together. In Eng- that the opium is her own pro-left Hamburgh on 6th April and is diction." It is, old history that expected to arrive here on or about Britain more than twenty years ago and Ports.

May 10th, with cargo from Norway

concluded an agreement with China | which had for its object the céssa-

Messrs. Carroll Bros. have been advised of the following dividends rubber shares:--Bassett, 21⁄4

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The land is a strange land to

The other day I met the Generals, we know perfectly well Manager, and while pointing out where to look for our friends; to him the desirability of a series they are not shovelled out to us in of articles on Hongkong by some boatloads. It may be that when The Canton Municipal authoritiesne who know nothing about the we get to the other end of tho

finding the same types in similar" tion of opium exports from India Propose to build a bridge between place, we, or rather he, hit upon earth we are disappointed at not

The Bund and the Pearl Park on the the mission. and the suppression of cultivation Dutch Folly, which are to be buoy- "I hardly know what to-call it; sorroundings. It may be that wo- in China. The British part of thated by iron floats. It is learned that he said, "but shall we say, "The are still troubled by "conventions." Admittedly it seems scarcely pos contract has been fulfilled to the $3,960.

the "estimated cost amounts to Civilians versus the Army.

But Mary asks, And, of course, I saw at once aible in this age.

"couldn't the letter, even although it was made

that, with the usual persipacity inconsequently,

marriott ones- contingent on China doing hers, His Excelleney the Governor has of General Managers, he had hit civilians--the

leave cards on meases-wives as which she has lamentably failed to appointed Subedar Major Sultan the nail on the head.

Ahmed, 3/15th Punjab Regiment, Your letters, dear friend, shall well as men?"

Well, I don't know. What do. These are facts which the to be one of his Honorary Aides deal with a "problem," as all good world knows, and no good purpose de-Camp, in succession to Subedar letters should. Nover mind when would happen if they did? Would will be served by Chinese delegates Major and Ion. Captain Fazal they were written, nor who are it help to bring us together, or at Geneva attempting to gloss over

Khan, Sirdar Bahadur.

the queer folk who stagger across would it be merely another annoy- their pages. They shall be about ance in a life already too full of the unpleasant truth.

His Excellency the Governor has persons and things and the little trouble?

make other: appointed Subedar Major Mungul odd events that

We will not attempt any swift Singh, Hongkong and Singapore peoples' lives, so different from our Brigade, to be one of his Hongrary own. Forget even your own idenor drastic remedy to a problem ever had one. To which, after all, is a source of a Aides-de-Camp, in succession toy, if you The announcement that the pro-Acting Subedar Major Piran Dilin, whom were Kapek's lettera al-good deal of satisfactory bicker- THE OPIUM QUESTION. visions, of the Daylight Saving [D.C.M., Hongkong and Singapore dreased? It seems doubtful if any ing amongst a lot of otherwise of them ever reached Slovakia.quite normal folk. Come with me. Bill, more popularly referred to as Brigade, R.A.

will not plunge you directly into *** the Summer-time Bill, comé into

"I live," said a certain business the human ant-heap of Hongkong. Two land sales are to take place

man, "In an excellent house in Prop me against the coffee pot and been taking place at Geneva on the ration in England on Sunday, at the P.W.D. offices on May 7th

bring to mind once again the value-New Kowloon Inland Lot 1130, Kowloon. In the same house live we will approach the subject several Army officers-different guardedly, like Christians in a oplum evil, there have been the i customary attempts by the Chinese effected in Hongkong. After con New Kowloon

of similar legislation were it with an area of 60,000 square ranks-all kinds. Good chaps 1 Bibby Liner painted white with a fect (upset, price $18,000) and know, and all that. But do you lot of ather worthy people, nearly delegate to minimise the extent of

Inland Lot 1132, suppose any one of them nods or quite as ignorant as ourselves siderable objection, by the farmers of about 6,610 square feet (upset to me or any's good morning when of the charms and whims of the production of the narcotic in

chiefly, who thought it a great price 36,887.60).

we meet in the hall? Not on your travel, the customs and manners China. When the French Assessor hardship to ask their cows to rise

life. Well, why is it? It's been of the East.

The theme will be pursued quoted figures a few days ago to an hour earlier, the practice was Regulation No. 21 under the touched, on before, but I don't show that the production had in introduced in Great Britain suon Merchant Shipping Ordinanca has think anyone has got down to it further in next Saturday's issue.

after the War, and its advantages been amended 40 read:"No properly, and if it was really sift-Ed. H. K. T.] meusely increased, Mr. Chao do were so apparent and readily re- steamship shall use A steam clared that the statistics were im cognised that but a short time whistle except for the purposes of aginary, and, later in the mussion, elapsed before it became a fixture navigation as laid down in Articles on the Statute. What the Dalry 16, 29 and 31 of the International he denied the existence of any Farm Company thinks about it we Collision Regulations," Chinese law permitting the cultiva- have no idea at the moment, but,

ne

In the discussions which have.

Daylight Saving.

POEMS THAT LIVE.

fair!

LOCAL SHIPBUILDING,

W. S. BAILEY & CO'S BUSY SHIPYARD.

tion of the poppy. At the moment, as we have argued many times, it The Star Ferry Co, ran for the UPON WESTMINSTER, BRIDGE. does seem that an extra hour of first time this morning the new daylight in the summer evenings | ferry-boat "Northern Star." She Earth has not anything to show more would be a great boon to the is pretty much the same is the

We are informed by Messrs. Dull would, he be of soul who could w. S. Bailey and Co., Ltd., that Colony, and Incidentally, more other new boats built at Kowloon

pass by beneficial in the long run than Docks, excepting for the feature

trials have taken place and de- could be claimed for the British of a swing gate in conjunction This Clly doth like a garment wear liveries made of the steel bulk of Isles, where the twilight is suf- with the passenger gangway. The beauty of the morning; silent

bare,

motor lighter Utah and of the ficiently prolonged to preserve reasonably good light until quite

Ships, towers, domas, theatres, and steel tug-hoat Chirm Chom Phol, a late hour. Owing to its latitude,

temples lie.

we have not before us the detailed Sigures for the period of which the French Assessor made mention, but it will be sufficient for our purposes if we are able to show that the situation in China to-day is far worse than it ever has liven,

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A sight sa touching in its majesty:

will:

NEW GUINEA GIVEN GOVERNMENT.

The National Hum Steeplechase In the course of a lengthy article Hongkong is not so fortunate. at Cheltenham is shown in to-

All bright and glittering in the a recent issue. The Utah made an on the present position of the Very few are in the happy pasi-morrow's British topical gazette Open unto the fields, and to the sky: descriptions of which we gave in.

smokeless air. Dr. Graham Lion of ability to escape from the at the Queen's Theatre, which also includes views of 'Nelson's opium question,

average trial speed when fully office desk until an hour when the

II.M.S.Never did sun more beautifully steep loaded of 7.63 knots against the Asplund, the Secretary of the Intersun is already hanging low in the Victory," glimpses of

In his firnt splendour valley, rock, contract speed of 7.5 knots only, national Anti-Opium Association in West, and darkness follows all too "Tiger" and Submarine 122 sub

with the King of

or hill. Peking, asserts that the general rapidly for these who would in merging

No'er saw I, never felt, a calm so and the Chirm Chom Phol an other circumstances indulge in Afghanistan on hard.

deepl

9.65 knots consensus of opinion in China, tennis, or other outdoor parsult, in

To the list of medical practi-

The river gildeth at his own sweet average speed of

against a contract speed of 9 knots Foreign and native alike, is that order in preserve fitness. Several every aspect of the opium traffe firms, we believe, arrange for theirtioners. Has been added the name Dear God! the very houses seem only. The machinery in both

akleep:

cases ran perfectly and the speeds has got considerably worse during employees to begin earlier and of Miss Martha Hunter Hoahing, leave earlier in this excellent Licentiate of the Royal College of

And all that mighty heart is lying were easily maintained.

still: the past year, Whilst it is true cause; but we should like it to Physicians and Licentiate of the

Wordsworth. an understood thing, Royal College of Surgeons, Edin- that there is not much evidence of becanic

covered by an Ordinance follow-burgh, and Licentiate of the Royal compulsory cultivation under milling the same lines as the Daylight Faculty of Physicians and Sur- tary duress the people have been Saving Bill. The difficulties are geons, Glasgow. encouraged to cultivate and, in obvious, but, judging by qvery-day

experience, certain 'classes of the It is notified that, at the expira-| some parts of the country, opium Chinese pay little attention to time tion of three months, the General land taxes have been reduced to anyway." Theoretically the argu- Exchange Company Ltd.:

Commercial Company stimulate production. We have itments pro and con are equally Colonial on the word of this competent ob- strong, but we are convinced that Ltd.; the Sedan Company, Ltd.; AUSTRALIAN PROPOSALS FOR a speed of over 18 knots; a 94 ft.

a practical experiment would and the Yue Tak Company, server that the Chinese authorities favour adoption of the system Ltd., will, unless cause is shown have made no attempt whatever to The chief need, of course, would to the contrary, be struck off the restrict, control or suppress opiumbe for all Far Eastern business register and the companios will be

dissolved. cultivation or use. Indeed, the reverse is the truth, for millions have been raised out of opium for military operations and civil pro- paganda, "The opium traffic in Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, and

Paris Nanking and elsewhere," says this

Now York commentator, "has not only been a Brussols

Geneva.. scandal and a contradiction of the

Amsterdam declared ideals of the Nationalist Milan ....... Government, but it has been of Berlin

Stockholm

centres to join in the movement.

EXCHANGE RATES.

London, Apr. 20.

ficially conducted with a total Copenhagen

absence of regard for the pepple's Oslo welfare." A summary of the Vienna altuation for the past twenty-three Heiningfors.

Praguo years shows that in 1926 cultiva-Madrid

| Lisbon tion was "universal," and it is Athons added that for 1927 the conditions Bucharest

Rio were oven worse,

Buenos Aires When Mr. Chao asseris that there Bombay is no law permitting the cultivation Shanghai

Honglong of the poppy, he may or may not be Yokohama technically correct. But that is Silver (spot and forward)

the

Messra. W. S. Bailey and Co. thave now in hund an 80 ft twin screw teakwood launch for the Harbour Master's Department, to be fitted with acmi-Deisel Gardner. motora; a 100 ft. steam launch for the Police Department, generally similar to the "No. 4 Police" they lately built and which maintained

tug boat for the Macao Govern- FUTURE.

ment; and three gunboate for the Canbera, Apr. 20,

Canton Government, all these ves bels being of steel, The Australian Government pro-

Two of the gunboats are 84 ft poses to establish representative

fitted with twin sterling Mr. Herbert Welham has been institutions in the Mandated Terong with galvanized sheer strakes

And appointed editor of the Straits ritory of New Guinea, consisting motors to give a speed of 16 miles Tinica, in succession to the late Mr. of a nominated Council and elect-on a draught of 2 ft. 6 ins. only. Wentworth Lowie. Practically the ed House of Representatives. The other gunboat is 121 ft. in whole of Mr. Welham's journalistic Reuter.

career has been spent in Malaya. .124 He came out to the Straits in Jan- 4.888/10 unry, 1905, as editor of the Pinang

.34.90 Gazelle, where he remained till The health bulletin of Eastern 25.38 1910. From 1912 to 1926 he was ports for the week ended Satur .12.114 editor, of the Straits Echo, of Pen-day last, issued by the Director

.92.60 ang, which he loft to take

20.41 over the Malay Mail in March 1927 of Medical and Sanitary Services,

gives the following caseA,

18.18 .18.20 18.24 104%

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length with all the hull plating galvanized, and will be fitted with twin triple expansion engines and Thornycroft boiler to give a speed of 14 miles on 4 ft. 6 ins, draught. All three vessels are armour plated from deck to water line.

All this work is well advanced

e and the yard and shops also kept

An extremely enjoyable evening figures in parenthesis indicating busy on general construction and 84.726 was spent by many at the R. E deaths: Plague, Aden 108 (97), repair work, for which they are

Bassein (4), Bombay (15), Ran-well equipped. hontre, Wellington Barracks, yes- 104terday evening when a smoking Koon (3); Cholera, Bassein (20), 29.10 concert and concert were held un patam 1, Rangoon (2), Tuticorin Calcutta (111), Madras (4), Nega- ..2% der the auspices of the Royal Ar

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48 (26), Pondicherry 2 (2), Bang- kok 24(17), Saigon 60 (87); papers and periodicals for the 70gramme was well sustained and ro Smallpox, Alexandria 1, Sucz 1, Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. the 5.59/64 Rected

credit on the artists. Bombay 50 (32), Calcutta 49 (32) Committee wish it to be clearly. 47.18/10

Those taking part were Major Madras 49 (16), Moulmein 4 (2) understood that donations of .1/6.81/82

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