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"SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1929.

DAY BY DAY.

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It is notified that the name of the Connaught Investment Co., Ltd., has been struck off the Register.

does not appear to give any indica- tion of ill effects of the use of opium. Its use la common among the coolie manual labour and among the agric- in ultural community working localities where fever la present. | ENJOYS.--Paul Sabatier. The inference to be drawn is that

Mr. J. W. Franks resumed duly the Chinese view opium-smoking

ns Superintendent of Prisons on just as foreigners do tobacco-smok-23rd November.. ing, and that, generally speaking, they do not smoke to excess. If that is the case which we believe it to be, then the wiser couree would appear to be, not probibition, but a continuance of governmental con- rol. One point which WO nre pleased to note is that the authorl- ties have ceased to interfere un-ing Senor Don Antonia Alexandrino Rosello Botelho to act as Honorary duly in thedivans which

are Consul for Salvagdor at Hongkong, patronised by the poorer classes. has received His Majesty's signa" In the past not only has much of ture. the time of revenue officers 'been wanted on raids which resulted in very small quantities of the drug being seized, but our prisons were becoming congested with thousands of poor folk who has committed no { kong. worse an offence than to indulge in

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The King's exequatur, empower-

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THE EVOLUTION OF AN

manner,

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An Impression From North China.

And between these two visits lies the story of Wang Yu-kuei, for I had never seen her before and now I know I shall never see her again.

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MAH.

Three years ago a young Chin-tures to Wang Yu-kuol through ese giri, poor and shy, called upon certain other channels available. me in a humble way: Last week I asked the amah of one of my a young Chinese matron, rich and friends to tell Wang Yu-kuel that The name of Mr. D. S. Robb, C.proud, called upon me in the grand had returned; I sent word to her by my rickslia runner that her old fob was waiting for her; 1 dispatched the same tidings by way of a friend of her mother. The reply was always the same: Wang Yu-kuci had a baby now and did She came to me three years ago not want to work any more-but to apply for the position of amab everyone had plenty of friends in my household, to do mending whom they would like to recom

She mend for the post. and Hght laundry work. spoke no English, she had never Rather suspecting that it would been inn foreign home before, and be impossible to find a disinterest- she had not the slightest idea of el courier to take my message to the duties of a lady's maid. As 1 Wang Yukuei, I finally instruct- His Excellency the Governor has, had just dismissed one anah who ed the Number One Boy to tell her in accordance with instructions re- ceived from the Secretary of Statenew everything, and knew it all that I wanted to see hor; whether for the Colonies, recognised Mr.rong, 1 decided to try to teach she wanted work or not, I must see

this girl, and my patience was re- her myself.. J. T. Bagram As Honorary Consul-General for Siam at Hong-warded, for she became the best

amah I have ever had.

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"And that is how Wang Yu-kuci happened to call on me.

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Wang Yu-kuel had a feeling for

The Number One Boy came into Mr. Shaw," of Tregunter Man- the fine things in life. She cares- a cheap pipe of opium. In some sions, has reported to the Police sed my silke more tenderly than my study und 1, busy at my type- respects it does soèm, in the light | that some

If they had been her own, and writer, only half understood time between 1. n.m.

the sparkling beauty of an even Chinese. I gathered that he was of subsequent happenings, that the and 7 a.m. yesterday somebody ing gown filled her with awe. Her announcing the arrival of a guest,

stole a quantity of silverware

cwn faded blue cotton suit, with so I get aside my work and went to divans many years ago, as the re-being given as $145. It was

the ankles, was always clean and drawing-room. sult of Exeter Hall influence, was stated that the door of the house carefully patched, but Wang Yu-

To my surprise I found there a mistike. Many of the divan was open at the time.

luci could afford no finery, for her plump Chinese woman, dressed in keepers at that time received com-

wages of $7 a month-high pay green satin gown, with jade and Table U in the Schedule of the indeed for a Chinese amah-was pearl earrings dangling beside her. pensatiou, and we beligye it to be Merchant Shipping Ordinance, the chief support of herself and cherry-culoured cheeks. She was the case that some of these have 1899, has been amended by the addi- her mother.

accompanied by a small, round- tion of the following regulations: since been discovered running leit17A. No vessel licensed under kue. I once gave her some of whom she was holding up to hear Cosmetics enchanted Wang Yu-faced boy, also garbed Inailk, establishments. The advantage of these regulations shall be used for my hand lotion when her rough my clock tick. She put him down the registered divans WX the purpose of prostitution or for fingers caught the threads of her when shem me and came for

the conveyance of women within that they

under official were

the limits of the harbour for pur-she helped herself to a few drops kuci daily for twelve months, I silk Boss, and every day thereafter;}

Although I had seen Wang Yu- control, juut #8 public-puse of prostitution."

of the rose water. Several times did not recognize her in this wo- the Old Coun

I found her brown" face strangely

ink and white, and it was evident, and she had to tell me who JACK-SPALDING—AL Hong-try. The shutting down of these kong op 29th November, 1929, establishments has merely driven

powder and rouge box. But I did while I tried to recall the few that she had been dabbling in my dor, I invited her to be seated, she was. Abashel at her splen-

Lawrence Jack, son of the fate W. C. Jack and Mrs. Juck to the evil underground.

nut reprove her, for I could not polite phrases which I had learned, Daisy May Spalding.

The extent to which Hongkong at 11 o'cipek on Sunday morning. but feel sorry for this young girl for my Chinese vocabulary is strict

Mrs. Monica White..

MARRIAGE.

APPRECIATIÓN.

The

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Hongkong Eelegraph.

SATURDAY Nov. 3), 19:0.

THE OPIUM QUESTION.

houses are

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The Scottish Company of the will hold the annual parade service Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps at Union Church, Kennedy Road,

Lieut. 1. R. Forsyth will be in command. The Chieftain (Mr. A. H. Ferguson) and the Committee of the St. Andrew's Society will also attend, and the service will be conducted by the Rev. F. C, Young.

who, just at the age of her greatest beauty, seemed condemned to drud- Fery.

For about six months Wang Yu- kuel came to me each morning and returned to her mother's house when it rained.

except each evening that is,

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Then the inevitable happened, A Chinese girl, capable of earning

ward.

ly utilitarian. I paid my respects

to her venerable mother. I con- gratulated her on the fine appear- ance of her young son,

"Yon have a nice. house, now,' Wang Yu-kuel condescendingly complimented me, "belter than the ene you had before,"

"You seem very prosperous” yourself," 1 told her. "You do not want to work any more?"

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Sho umfled at the iden, as Mrs.

"But you have your mother and your two big, daughters at home,"

suggested, trying to pry out the exlanation of her new grandeur, "Burely it does not take four grown women to look after one little

has endeavoured to keep down con- sumption may be gathered from Mr. and Mrs. D. Ó. de Silva, ni

fact that is maintains its price at Hampstead, London, NW: 6: $14.50 per Lael, comparel with from desire to thank all Hongkong $2.80 to $3.50 per ingl as thơ'price friends for the good wishes of the smuggled drug: Any attempters for the week ending Novem; The health bulletin of Eastern and presents sent on. the man casion of their recent mar-to limit sales by further raising the|ber 23, shows the following cases riage. "True Triendships price would, the Government atutes, of infectious diseases: Place: ahide--though oceans divida""" | fall to diminish consumption; as

Alexandria 1 case, one death; Rangoon, 1 case, one death; the immense sum of $7 a month, smuggled oplan, would take the Colombo, one case, 1 death; Prom could not be left unexploited. It Hoover might smile if I should place of the Government supplies. Penh, 2 cases, 2 deaths. Cholera, was an opportune time to arrange ask her if she wanted to run a As we have previously argued, in Calcutta 86 cases, 46 deaths; match for Wang Yu-kuci, and lemonade and soda pop stand.

"I have #baby now," she said Tuticorin, 18 cases, 4 deaths; Bang urie day she told me in tears that deed, we think it would be wiser

her mother had betrothed her to placidly, and she began switching koir, 4 cases and Phom Penh 1 case.

A middle-aged widower who had my electric lamp on and off to polley to reduce the price, as was Smallpox: Berbern 6 cases, 2 done experimentally in 1927. Why deaths; Baghdad, 3 cases, 2 dentha; two grown-up daughters. She had amuse the youngster by ita bright

Bombay, 9 cases, 1 death; Calcatin, been so happy, he said though light. that experiment was abandoned, we 7 cases, 6 deaths; Cochin, 29 cases, I could not see much to be happy do not know. It at any rate proved 10 deaths; Karachi, 3 enees about in her position as maid to Madras 20 cases 2 dentha an allen woman-and she dreaded one thing, namely, that smuggling Moulmein lease; Rangoon, I case; marrying this strange man, whom became far les marked. The case Pondicherry 1 death; Batavia 5 she had never seen. for reduction in price is well stated cases, 2 dents; Samarinda 1 case No-one can have read the Memor.fr the Memorandum, from which and Shanghai 1 death.

on the use of opium in we cannot do better, in conclusion Hongkong, just issued by the Gov-than quote the following extract;-- "The cessation of the use of smug- ernment, without realising that this gied opium would have a fourfold Colony is doing more than its share

Paris in the efforts which are being made reaction in that it would reduce the

grows amount of opium consumed. Brussels to suppress the traffic in the drug, would reduce the demand for pro-Amsterdam and, as far as possible, to control duction in the interior of China, Copenhagen

Berlin and limit the smoking habit. It is would reduce the profits of smug- Vienna "possible, of course that we may hear glers which now go to increase the Lisbon

Helsingfors a good deal in the future from busy contraband opium trade, and at the Ducharest bodies at Home about Hongkong same time would eliminate that eri- Buenos Aires deriving considerable revenue from minality in matters relating to New York apium, but we imagine that even opium which now undermines the these well-meaning but misguided general respect for the law and sub- folk would modify their views very mits the guardians of the law to the considerably if they took the

temptations of bribery."

andam

pains to official

end.

read through this document from end to The position of Hongkong in the matter is tersely summarised in the statement that opium cannot be kept out of the Colony so long as unlimited supplies are

The Coal Tragedy.

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EXCHANGE RATES.

Hong Kong

Geneva Milan Stockholm Orlo

Prague

Madrid

Athens

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Bombay Shanghai

If truth be told, the protracted | Yokohama struggle between, the coal-owners| Silver (sp01) and the Cabinet Coal Committee re- Silver (forward) garding the legislation measures to Available be taken for the improvement of the industry, reflect little credit on

she has falled to honour her mises. On the other hand, tain has seen to it that Indian

London, Nov. 29.

123,855 34.87

.12.00 .20.38

But Wang Yu-kuei was a obedient daughter, and she did boy?" net dreani of disputing her

"You do not understand," Wang mother's decision. She only asked Yu-kuci replied. "A baly na me for a week's vacation for her great deal of bother." wedding preparations and honey-

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moon, and I gave her a whole She glanced at my bonbon box net of cosmeties as a present, so and I was reminded to order tea, that she could enter her crimson customary at any time of the day bridal palanquin adorned to her when one entertains a Chinese, heart's content.

(Continied on Pape, 9.1.

She returned to me, after her 18.196 week's leave, with only her glossy

34.67 black bangs shaved from her fore-

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194 head to indicate her wifehood, and WHO WAS...

.188.25 work continued as before, She ....817 | did not see much of her husband, 465/16 for he worked in Tientsin and ....1/8

came only now and then to visit 4.87 20/32 i ancestral home in Peking.

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Wang Yu-kuei-l never did learn .03.175

her new married name-lived with .18.135

18.205 her mother and her two stepdaugh- 1841%ters in a little huf, and I thought .35.125 | she was rather glad of the hours .:.376 she spent away.

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Altogether, Wang Yu-kuci work- ed for me for nearly a year, when 2/24 it became necessary for me, Loo, .22 1/10 to visit my ancestral home. Wang

11/16 | Yu-kuei was expecting a baby then,,

and all the while, as I sailed cast across the broad Pacific Occán, 11 could not help thinking of her, wondering how she would get along without my $7 a month, sorry that so attractive a young girl should go soon be burdened with these added cares.

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Several months later I returned

in China. That China herself is the employers. The consensus of perpetuate between the collerles making no effort to suppress either opinion, not by any means confined their existing shares of the market, the growing of the poppy or the to one side of the House of Com-Poor colleries were to continue, to mona, is that the Government has prevent cheaper coal. A reduction exportation of opium is amply done its best to accommodate the of output at all mines was planned, proved in the Memorandum. She views of the owners to a policy re- diminishing the output of the good garded as essential to the success collieries, increasing their overhend is under an obligation to do so, but of the proposals,, and that the at- charges per bon, throwing more to China, and it was heart-warm- pro-titude of the owners amounts to miners out of employment, and ing to be welcomed at the Chien Bri- sheer obstinacy. The signs, there- causing a scarcity of cool which Men Station in Peking by all my opium breaking down, to some extent, will The Government through Mr. and the air thick with grit, but fore, that the stolid resistance, is would thon command a dearer price. old staff. The dust was blowing is excluded from China, and has be warmly welcomed. The whole, Philip Snowden told the miners en-there they all were, cook, Number thus done even more than she need position depends upon. the success phatically that the way to the im- One Boy, coolie, and ricksha run- have done,

ful operation of the Marketingprovement of their conditions was ner, all, that is, except Wang Yu- Scheme and the owners have been not by high wages and fewer hours kuel I promptly engaged the Whilst there can be no question holding out, for a plan which would at this time, and that that would whole ratinue again and instruct- ing the harmful effects of the exces-mean disaster not only for the coal merely destroy the origin of their ed the Number One Boy to fetch sive use of opium, it must not be industry, but for nearly every in bread and butter. The owners, ap Wang Yu-kuel, too.

dustry depending upon a cheapparently in an attempt to save from He shook his head dubiously. overlooked that a great deal of non-supply of soal for its success. The extinction mines which cannot be. "Amaḥ now have baby," said he. sense is talked about the evil. There Government examined this pet worked except at a loss, are pre- "I think she no want work any is, we are told, no public opinion in scheme and notified the owners of pared to face the possibility of the more." Then his face brightened, the_fnadequacy of the proposals, samo disaster by another route, "My wife, I think, çan be your this Colony hostile to the use of the without apparently making any im- In the better collieries which al- amali new," he suggested. drug. Indeed, the practice

of pression upon the leaders. Details ready produce more cheaply, every His wife, I know, had two babies. have come out unoffelally only, but effort should be made to Increase of her own and I saw no reason onlum-amaking has a very large if the reports are correct, and there output in order to lessen overhead for replacing Wang Yu-kuef with measure of popular support. As to is no reason to suppose otherwise, costs and cheapen coal.. The Gov-a new amah. Appreciating the the medical aspect of the question, the idea of concentrating an theernment's marketing scheme has personal bias of the Number One! it is recorded that the general better collieries was not taken into this end in view and it is to be hoped. Boy, however, I did not press the consideration. The owners, on the that they will go ahead without the matter then, but made my over- physique of the Chinese population other hand, sought to sterotype and owners assent if it ie not given.

ST. ANDREW ? -

One of the original twolve disciples of Christ,; Saint- Andrew, was adopted as the

· patron saint of Scotland in- the fourth century.

Tradition says that he was crucified at Patras, in the year. 70, on a cross placed, not in an upright, but à ålant- ing position, which is the reason why St. Andrew's croši in always represented us diagonal.

After his death, some of his relics were brought to the church which stood on the. site of the modern city and University of St. Andrews.... Pilgrims came to the shrine in increasing numbers, and bo- fore long an archbishopric was created there.

It is further narrated that Achalus, King of the Picis and Hungus, King of the Scots saw a diagonal cross in the aky on the eve of their victory over Athelstan, After the battle the two kings made m

- pilgrimage to the church' of: St. Andrew and ever since then this cross has figured an.. the national emblem..

'The highest order ́ ́in Freemasonry Is that of St. Andrew of the Rosy Cross, to which the initiation ceremony Is understood to be extremely trying.

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In many parta of Scotland St. Andrew is regarded as ex- ercising a special protectio over young lovers, Apparently this is a relic of the worship of Frayr, the Norse God of Marriage.