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TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1929.

DAY BY DAY.

THE THREE MOST DIFFICULT THINGS TO DO ARE TO KEEP A SECRET, SUFFER AN INJURY, AND EMPLOY ONE'S LEISURE.-Voltaire.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

Hongkong Evils.

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.J

The Very Idea!

We have all heard the plaint that many young married couples ··

more anxious to posscas n baby ear than a baby of the mere-

аге

| having “recently drawn up a com- prehensive scheme for the freedom of the múi laai," in which the most stringent ragulationa hayo been' incorporated and sovera penalties Imposed for any evasion of the law. Registration, she points

Normal cable out, is the first step recognised by

working with Canton in the abolition of the aye-Shanghai, and beyond has been re-

Sir-Coincident with my letter human kind, says a writer in a established..

to one of your morning contem officer of health for Hampstead Home paper. Now the medical tem. Here, again, it la implied

poraries on Saturday, the 24th tells us that houseroom is being that the Chinese authorities are

At the Marine Court, before the instant, a copy of which I in curtailed by the demand for gar- more sincere and thorough-going Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole. It. N., advertently omitted to forward to

morning, the master of a your paper) came the report of averted to this use, while portions ages, even living-rooms being com- than the authorities in Hongkong mp wwa fined $10 far not conference in London on the sub-

having a regulation light on his ject of "Child Slavery in Hong front gardens are sacrifled to kong," which appeared in your to-

make approaches. boat whilst under way.

day's issue. My letter to your contemporary was on the "White Slave Traffic." which, broadly "Child Slavery, or na is better viewed, embraced the subject of known in this Colony, the " taat problem.

in suppressing the system. Inei- dentally, it is rather strange, if the system was abolished by China when the Republic was establislied, that Canton' should only "recent ly take the preliminary steps of legislation on the subject:

this

Torcat's Roosters, which are to Theatre, arrived this morning and give performances at the Queen's attracted much attention as they were left on the Kowloon Star Fer- in-Hongkong.

ry Wharf, pending transportation to

In writing as we have, any tention of upholding the muf teni | system, or' of defending the easy- going manner in which the Hong kong Government has dealt with it, is farthest from our mind. We have all along held that the ays

Aleko E. Lilius was again be- fore Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on charges of fraud. His Worship remanded the defendant until next Tuesday afternoon, when the hear ing will be commenced.

Believed to have taken a big dose of oplum with The intention of committing suleide, Yok Yik-fan, (26), unemployed, was yesterday taken in an unconscious state to Government Civil Hospital, from the Tang Ting Restaurant at West Point,

the

'CRUSHED BETWEEN

VESSELS.

41

Where the space is needed to shelter members of the human. race this is lamentable enough; house which has no garage and. but it is true that nowadays the

no room to build one has a much' worse chance in the market than It is indeed refreshing to read the house with a garage com- that the matter of the "mui, taia | plote, éven though it be a small Problem has not been forgotten one. and left to stalemate. Mrs. Hos lewood is to be commended for her untiring effort in liberating the child slaves of the Colony, and she can rest assured that she has at least one supporter in Hongkong who holds the same view as herself. 1 sincerely trust that Mrs. Haslewood's effort on behalf of the mui teia will prove successful.

most of tho mui tsia in this Colony are claimed as "adopted daugh ters," and as such they are under no obligation to register at the Secretariat, for Chinese Affairs, raguin, unless the Government institute a house-to-house search,

is not possible to know which house has, or which house has no nini taia. The only path left

be the

likely to increase rather than The difficulty, is one which is diminish until the day when the private aeroplane private car. Then, perhaps, wa. replaces the shall be able to fold up the winge of our baby 'pland and stow it away comfortably in a dog kennel,

# 躺貔

A young man went to a fortune- "that you will be very, very pour teller. "I see," said the woman, until you reach 30 years of age." -

"Yes," said the young man, eagerly, "and what after that?"

"Oh, after that you'll begin to get used to it?

.

(It is proposed that the holes on golf courses should be kigger.)

I don't possess much golfing

skill

I've heard no man my strokes

uxtol.

My Victories are almost nil-- And yet, I view with not a thrill This more towards a bigger

holo.

I reach all else except the pin.

In quandaries I knit, my

brow.

Swear, scratch my, head, or

stroke my chin;

And I don't rellah getting f

To bigger holes than I do

now!

seems to be for the Government to enact laws strictly forbidding Pleading guilty to a charge of people to buy or sell any children, larceny of an alarm clock from and any adoption of children must hawker's stall outside the Yaumati be with the knowledge and con- market, a Chinese, with a previous sent of the Government, the conviction, was sentenced, to three failure of which would mean months' hard labour by Mr. T. *. aevere punishment to the offen- Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Maders. gistracy this morning.

Mrs. Hastewood would doing a greater service to people if she would exert her effort to free some of thore unfortunate girls in the brothels who are forced to lead a life of shame and hardship. Unless the Government can show that pros titution is a necessary evil, there is absolutely no reason why the brothels should not be closed. True, there are some of these girls Wong Luk, a boatwoman, was who have no desire to lend a better sent to hospital yesterday, suffer-life, but the majority of them held when you do not breathe you ex- "When you breathe you Inspiro,

Ing from Internal injuries re 0 different view. A rough piro." tween two junks in an accident prostitutes in Hongkong and Kow-III. people were beginning to think ceived through being caught be estimate places the number of "Is the reign of King George which occurred at the Praya East. Loon at over 500, and this number more about farming. A plain far- ceived by the police, it appeurs

does not include those in the slymer named Bakewell taught, the According to a statement re-brothels, or those in Wanchai. people how to improve the breeds that cargo junk No. 679V WAR

A BOATWOMAN SENT TO HOSPITAL

A Watlington, Oxford, reader senda to a Home papor the follow- ing examples of schoolgiri how- lers:

tem; however much it may conform to Chinese custom, smacks far too

An earthenware pot, which fell much of actual slavery to be accep- from the second floor of No. 49, table to British ideals. But we do Wanchal Road, struck a Chinese

Registration is undoubtedly dif- resent the impllention that Hong.buy, named Mok Mun (16), who

was living in the ground floor, yes-cult, for the simple season that kong, in seeking to secure some terday, causing injuries from which amelioration of the system, lags he died after perroval to hospital. behind China. That, is not true; and we can only confess to some measure of surprise that. Mrs, Haslewood, who herself says in regard to the continued existence of the system in Hongkong that "no evil enn be abolished by merely declaring that it is illegal," does not see that the same argument applies to Chinese derrees on the subject. If she is still under the impression that China is strictly unforcing the law against the Like so many other good-intensystem, she may be interested to tioned people, Mrs. C. B. 1, Hale- learn that in a recent case of child. wood, who, since her return to selling which came before the England, has thrown herself henrt Hongkong Courts, the document of and soul into the movement for the sale was actually stamped at a Abolition of the müi taai system in Police Station in Canton Hongkong, makes the mistake of over-stating the facts. After

The Palestine Riots. reading the full text. of

Not a second has been wasted the address which she recently by the Labour Administration in delivered on the subject to a con-acting upon the recommendations ference of the British Common of the High Commissioner for wealth League in London, part of Palestine in measures for bringing which we reprinted in our issue to an end the religious feuds of yesterday, we have reached the which have thrown Jerusalem and conclusion that her hearers must the immediate vicinity live gene away from that meeting turmoil. Six hundred fresh troops with an entirely false ides of the were in the Jewish capital rendy

the Kwong Sang Hong Factory. netual situation in this matter as for any emergency within forty- elght hours, and another con-

A steam launch, the Lau Fong, between Hongkong and China. There is only one inference to be Staffordshire Regiment, is now on with the junk, which in its turn tingent, the 2nd. Batt. South owned by the Kwong Sang long

drawing in alongside, collided bost. drawn from Mrs. Haslewood's its way from Malta, with the pros-bumped into another junk. The address-namely, that China haspect, we hope and believe, of and woman, Wong Luk, who is a mem- completely abolished the system, ing the worst of the trouble over) ber of the crew of the first junk, but that Hongkong atill obstinately before they arrive. The Secretary fender between the two junks. part in a movement for a good had really seen the accident,

at that moment holding a declines to do so. That, of course, for War, Mr. Tom Shaw, has acted The collision knocked her off in a complete distortion of the with commendable promptitude, her feet, and she dropped in be and we have no doubt that com- Actualities. Not that we suggest plete order will be restored with that Mrs. Haslewood has wittingly almost equal rapidity. The In- lent herself La the decep- medinte cause of the tion; she obviously does not know tension which developed se aud- denly and so seriously is not the facts,

very clear at the moment, but there seeme Httle doubt that the outbreak is a fresh mani- festation of an old antagon- ism, arising from the rc- ligious associations of both the laws and the Mahommedans with the Dome of the Rock, commonly known

the

of Mosque Omar. The Jews claim that the Holy of Holles, the sacred Solomon, stood over temple of A charge of being in possession Copenhagen

chamber

AN

of the

into

communal

the

lying alongside the seawall, un loading cargo, at a point opposite

was

tween the two boats.

When rescued, the woman was found to have beon crushed, receiving internal injuries which necessitated her. removal to the Government Civil Hospital.

POSSESSION OF A BANGLE.

If the local Press would give of sheep by which a great many child slavery and prostitution, I off one sheep than had been be some support to the abolition of more legs of mutton might come have no doubt that the Govern-fore, and as there was more meat ment would give this matter its there were more people to eat it, serious attention. In the mean- and the population became a great time one can only hope for the deal larger."

Thanking you. for the courtesy

of some space in your esteemed

In the course of a judicial in- paper, and trusting that some quiry into the responsibility for more spirited citizens would come a collison between two. motor- forward to give some tangible sup-cara, a witness was asked if he cause.-Yours, etc.,

AN OLD RESIDENT," Hongkong, Aug. 26th, 1990.

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"Yes," he replied, "I anw the affair from start to finish." **

"That being so," said the coun- sel, "can you tell the Court just what you think was the cause of the accident?"

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"Well," replied the witness, "I can't go so far as that, but it ap peared to me that both cars wero chasing the samo pedestrian."

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'Tis said that Eve in business

falls,

As she knows naught what'or

about it. #

"Tis one of those unfounded

tales;

And chivalry prompta me to

doubt it.

Most women do know quite o

lot

Of business some are in

excelsis.

Yet I admit, more oft than not, The business known is some-

ono else's,

.

There are two statements in Mrs. Halewood's address which create the wrongful impression to which we have alluded. In the Arst of these, she quotes Colonel John Ward as rocalling a lunch at Gov- erminent House in 1917 when a reception was given to the then Governor of Canton, and at which

rock of a gold- mounted bangle, reason- a discussion took place on the which is still held in venerationably suspected of having been Vienna the Mahummedans. From stolen or unlawfully obtained, was Prague traffic in human beings. Colonely

time to time, riots, have occurred brought against a coolfe before Mr. Helsingfors Ward's account of this gathering

as the result of the controversy, T. S. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Madrid is quoted, ending with the state though the incidents of the past Magistracy this morning.

Liebon ment that the Canton offelalous for many years. The speedy fendant said, he found the bangle Nin

few days have been the 'most serf-

In answer to the charge, the de- Athens silenced the whole discussion by action taken by the War making the following observation: precludes, however, the possibili-on one of the Kowloon Godown Buenos Aires

Bombay "It is true that under the old of a long maintenance of the

feuds, and incidentally, gives 黯 According to Detective Sergeant Shanghat Manchu dynasty alavery was, a further earnest of the Labour Go-Kellet, the defendant was searched Hongkong... legal institution in China, but the vernment's determination to risk when coming of the se. Kum Sang Yokohamn

nothing when British interests are on Sunday and the bangle was moment that dynasty was swept at stake. The

Silver (spot) demonstration found in his possession. The ship away, and a Republic established, should ease the mind of the Ausz had just arrived from Singapore its Arst declaration, and its first trallan Government, and any of and. a large number of passengers Domínions Governments that may were disembarking. The defendant most stringent law was the aboli-vlew the proposed treaty with could not give a satisfactory ex- tion of slavery, and the buying Egypt with distrust, regarding the planation of how he came by the and selling of human beings even safety of the Suez Canal. If de-angle and was detained. He sald fenco of the Suez Canal Zoné be-that ho had gone on board-to-find for adoption, or any other pur-comes necessary, there will be no work as a coolie. poses, or in any other guise. Now hesitation in Whitehall about ro His Worship remarked that the ona of the strangest things is that Another curiour development or given any satisfactory explanation. The following table, compiled with the milk,''

inforcing the troops on the epot defondant did not seem to have the only place where this can be the incidents is the request by If, he had found the bungle, he by the Board of Conservancy. done is Hongkong, the possession American Jews that America should have handed it to the polico.Works of Kwangtung, shows the of. England." In retailing this Naturally, the State Department dant that if he had been caught the West, North and East Rivers short stay in Hongkong last week It was pointed out to the defen- water levels in English feet on During Mra. Woodrow Wilson's atory, Mrs. Haslewood makes no has not fallen in with the proposal. stealing the bangle from the wrist on the dates named: comment on it, and was obviously It is obvious that if a warship was of a child he would have got at sent, no action could be taken least six months' imprisonment, as reciting the Canton Governor's without the express donsent of re-well as a birching. assertion as though it represented quest of the British authoritica. His Worship accepted the plea as

Palestine la under British the actual truth. Later in her date, which some-one appears to and imposed a fine of $6, or seven man. an admission of unlawful possession address, she speaks of Canton have forgotten.

days' hard labour in default.

should send a warship to Palestine.

"Speaking of farming," said .1/11.3/32 the visitor from the West, "we ..24.5/16 have some farms that are quite .24.7/10 | sizable. I've seen a man on ons -British Wirolena.

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of our big farms start put in the spring, and plough a straight furrow till fall. Then he har vested back."

"Wonderful!" said the listener. "On our Dakota farms," he went on, "It is the usual thing to send young married couples out to milk the cows. Their children return

she and her party were entertained Aug. 26 Aug. 26 | on a sightseeing tour in and about

8.8

25,1 11.5

16.2 16.0

5.2

4.5 The level at Shlubing on the 24th inst, was 25.9.

Hongkong, a tea at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Tredwell, Am2" erican Consul; and an Informat dinner at the Peninsula Hotels guests of Mr. and Mrs, Elliott J. Spear of the NY.K.Line..