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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1930.

THE SOCIAL EVIL.

say, it is to be presumed that Hongkong will deal with the issue on linea similar to those In Sin- gapore, since our own Ordinance

LAST OF LEVER HOUSE

DAY BY DAY.

GENIUS AND ABILITIES ARE GIVEN AS LAMPS TO THE WORLD, NOT

for the protection of women and THE GRAND BABYLON OF SELF-Sir Egerton Bridges.

girla follows in main respects the enactment in the Straits."Sottle- mants which is now to be radical- ly amended.

FORMER DAYS.

DEMOLITION WORK.

on

D

The Very Idea!

One of Chicago's bright young women bandits has been playing a Inovel trick on victims of her own

There was a cleas bill of health | sex. In the Colony yesterday,

During the temporary absence from the Colony of Mrs. H. E. Goldsmith, Mrs. Maçkichan, of 204, The Peak, has taken over the duties of Honorary Treasurer of the Hongkong Benevolent Society.

We are not surprised to find Lever House, the old De Key that one of the Singapore news-ser's Hotel, the great crescent- papers, the Straits Times, criticises shaped building that fronts in a trenchant manner the pro- more than a hundred yards of Embankment at Blackfriars, is posed method of dealing with the

being broken down writes a evil. Pointing out that prostitu-Morning Post correspondent..

A Chinese lad named Cheung tion cannot be ended by legisla The demolition of the Grand Kwai, (15), of 80, Second Street, West Point, was removed to the tion, it takes the view that what Babylon of Victoria times, with Government Civil Hospital, yester cannot be eradicated is better re-its inner quadrangles, its vistas day with a severe injury to his of corridora, groups of suites and left hand, caused by a chopper staircases threading their way be-with which he was chopping fish. tween six huge floors, is one of the biggest tasks of destruction ever undertaken in London.

The work, recently begun, will last for more than two months.

Before a building is razed, the interior is stripped of all metal, decoration, or fixtures that can be put into service elsewhere, and

A Chinese boy named 'Wong this preliminary "scrumping," Shek-kwong, (12), was removed to In the expressive language of the the Government Civil Hospital contractor's men-is still being yesterday, suffering from injuries carried out. But simultaneously parts of the walls are being bew: ed down, expanses of roof have already been torn away, and more and more the old De Keyser be gina to assume the crazed and desolate aspect of hotels in Ypres or Arras a dozen years ago,

The dust was thick on the

when I mounted towards

Reports to the police disclose that she gains admittance to apartments when the menfolk are absent Then, at the revolver's muzzle, the intruder will compel the woman or women of the house to disrobe and to sit in a bath after it has been filled with water.

Thereupon the robber woman carries off all the other women's clothes and otherwise loots - ** 1 place at leisure,

A parishioner, meeting his vicar, who was carrying a brief bag, re- marked, "Got your lunch, vicar?"

"Sermons," returned the clergy- man. "Food for thought, you

"Oh, I see-dried tongue!":

The Chimes, St. Stephen's Col-know." lege magazine, again makes an- other appearance. It is full of informative matter relating to various aspects of College life, whilst some interesting particu- lars are given regarding Old Boys:

received as a result of a fall, whilst, it is.alleged, attempting to commit a larceny, on the second floor of No. 22; Kennedy Road..

"D. X." is the title of the official organ of the Hongkong Amateur Radio. Transmitting Society, the first number of which has just

To-day's tragedy:The little girl who attended three Sunday schools religiously throughout the year has discovered that the an- nual picnics are all on the same date.

Three tales from Pro Patria the British Legion Scottish journal

A student when sitting for an examination, was asked to com- pose one verse of poetry includ- ing the words "analyse and "anatomy." He wrote:

My analyse over the ocean,

My analyse over the res, Oh, who will go over the ocean

And bring back my anatomy.

•

•

Mrs. Mary Hughes, the original

stairs, and the landings echoed toe its appearance. It contains the distant thudding of picks and many instructive articles on ama- Mary of the nursery rhyme "Mary the splintering tap-tap of trowels teur radio, together with station Had a Little Lamb," has just cele the reports, observations, and inter- brated her. 89th birthday. When crumbling and precipitous brick esting light reading matter. The she was 3 years old Mrs. Hughes peaks in which the building dis-magazine, which is to be publish- nursed the orphan lambs on her ed monthly, can be obtained from father's farm at Tyissa, Llangol- Messrs. Kelly and Walsh at 50len, and one day the pet lamb- cents per copy.

followed her to school, two miles away.

concertingly ends.

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COLONY'S WATER

SUPPLY.

CONTRASTS WITH LAST YEAR'S SHORTAGE.

Miss Sarah Buell, who was then. staying at the farmstead, "com" memorated the incident in verses which became world famous.

Judge. “You've

kens??

You've stolen no chic-

cognised and controlled than ignored and allowed to flourish in its most harmful form Strong criticism is offered of that type of morality which is made at Geneva and which believes la pushing underground what it is ashamed to ace and too moral' to deal with rationally, in the in- terests of public health." Our town reaction to the question is precisely similar. We are all for the mest drastic punishment of those found guilty of the buying and selling of girls for the pur- poses of prostitution, and we also want to see every possible mea. aure taken to wipe out some of the worse aspects of brothel management in this Colony. But to imagine that a service is being done to the community by the ruthless shutting down of these establishments, and thus en-

Writing on the Wall couraging the coming into exis- tence of innumerable uncontrolled Radiators stood adrift in the "sly" brothels, is to shut one'sed bodily against the walls, and shabby rooms, mantelpieces lean- From a remark made by Dr. eyes to the obvious. This grand-dismembered doors showed the Drummond Shiels about

fort motherly legislation is on all names of a staff which will never night ago, it may be assumed that fours with the closing of properly every step upwards, the measured trouble their handles again. With Hongkong will shortly be expected regulated.opium divans, which in clamour of destruction grew more to pass legislation dealing with this Colony has only resulted in t menacingly loud.. what is popularly known as the the springing up everywhere of social evil. Dr. Sheils stated that illegal houses, many of which it is the Government's policy to were at one time, if they still are abolish brothels, and added that not, run by interests, which had Sir William Peel had conferred received compensation when the with the Secretary of State on the suppression of the former matter before coming out to take tablishments was ordered. up his post. Some idea of the na- ture of the proposed legislation

One passage higher, another

The mainland reservoirs on July on the subject may be obtained by Lepers in Hongkong. room into which the bun pried taking note of an amending Or-

through a criss-cross of smashed 1st contained 390.80 million gal The information given to Mr. laths, and again there was the lens, as against 111.30 million gal dinance which has been made pub- M. K. Lo by the President of the writing OR the wall. Edging lone on the same date last year. lic in Singapore and which is to Sanitary Board in answer to a across the threshold, with a dis. The consumption for June was

The following table, issued by turbing side-glimpse of a broken 135.14 million gallons, compared the Kwangtung River Conservancy deal with the same subject. One series of questions on the subject rotunda in a courtyard far below, with 62.33 million gallons last Commission, shows in English fest of the Straits papers, in comment-of leprosy was generally reassur- once more I read. "Bare, ruined year.

na | the water levels on the West ing on the question, states thating and on the whole tends to choirs, where late the sweet birds The total rainfall from January River, North River and East the new law is the outcome of the show that the problem is not by sang," said the epitaph morbidly. 1st to June 30th was 31.42 inches River, on the dates named?

against 14.38 inches last year.

July 8. July 9. any means one of the Colony's:

Alps of Rubble. cogitations of a committee

major ones. The number of

It must have been the typists' pointed by the Colonial Office. lepers dealt with by the Police room. And now, stealing a look This committee sat under the in the last eight years or so is through the yawning floor, the chairmanship of Lord Balfour of small, and if the incidence of the visitor might answer with another Burleigh, but it is stated that pri-disease is only a quarter of that line: "How dizzy 'tis to cast one's marily the whole action now pro-in Kwangtung Province then it is yes so low!"

DRAWING PACKED, HOUSES A short stage more, and at last clear that there are posed is based on a dictum of a

compara- you are on top of all, with ugly

TO THE STAR. tively few cases in the Colony.chaams right and left, and auch League of Nations sub-committee Taking the population, at the pro- tremors as must have come. to

Nicola, with his wonderful array that "organised prostitution leads bably extreme figure of a million, Icarus when first he had doubts of illusions and sleight-of-hand to traffic in women and girls," then the total number of cages on noticed in the street, up here is a diences at the Star Theatre. It is of his winge. The wind, hardly tricks, continues to mystify his au-- The action being taken in the the estimato is about 250 and we terror to stability. But after the evident that he has made a very ex- Straits Settlements-and we pre-presume that if the disease was stuffy pavement it is very wool, haustive study of his subject, and sume that the same procedure spreading that more official in-and there is a giddy, foolish, exul all that he produces has the stamp will be followed hero in Hongkong it than has been the case. If the

terest would have been shown in tant sense of supremacy in gazing of originality,

down upon mankind...`

In the gaol-breaking scene before is by way of amendment of the disease is comparatively rare in a neglected chimney, solemnly re-gave free rein to an easy guesa. S The only company is a cowl on a crowded audience last night, he Women and Girls Protection Or- the Colony, as it appears to be,volving. Just below a number of to how the trick was done, but just-

ap:

од

Sam"No, sah." Judge-"No geese?” Sam"No, eah," Judge-"Any turkeye?" Sam-"No, sah." Judge-"Discharged.”

Almost at the top, from a room The water return made up to in which the walls showed rents July 1st shows that the total stor- into outer space; and only the age in Hongkong reservoirs was joists of the floor were left, a bold 1,140.32 million gallons, compared caricature, charcoal

plaster, with 168.59 million gallons on the caught my eye. Gingerly I ven-same date last year. tured in. to gaze on a wicked The consumption" on the island esneath, the inscription ran: "Beau- gallons, which included 64.14 mil-

travesty of bald authority: Under- during June was 341.99 million ducks," ty and grace once dwelt in the lion gallons from the mainland, this place." Writ sarcastic, ob-

compared with 116.26 million gal- viously.

lons last year.

NICOLA BAFFLES

EVERYBODY,

rooms have been laid bare, whose as the audience had begun te con- distempered walls have the look gratulate themselves on their of Intimacy surprised; and at the smartness in seeing through it, he bottom of the abyss little Agures staged his climax, and, hey in a chain are passing bricks presto! the convict disappeared from hand to hand to a lorry. right before their eyes. Saint Paul's dome looms near, and thero glides the diminished Thames; around are the towers and churches, and factory stacks

dinance. The principal amend there can be no disagreement with ments proposed are the repeal of the Government's policy in adve those provisions of the existing cating the treatment of cases at law which are directed at brothel the Shek Lung Settlement. There keepers who allow prostitutes suf- would not seem to be the need for fering from venereal diseases to any place of segregation in the Colony itself while cases re remain in brothels, and which em- main few in number and while power the Protector of Chinese to satisfactory treatment can be of hazy London. require individual prostitutes to given at recognised centre of cura- submit to medical examination; tive work like Shek Lung. There. and the introduction of provi- are far more urgent requirements sións to render illegal the keeping concerning public health in Hong

kong, particularly in view of the

EXCHANGE RATES,

Prague

or management of a brothel, or fact that cases of leprosy can be Paris the knowing acquiescence by a treated at present in the Colony's New York landlord or lessor in the use of hospitals. Mr. Lohas, however, Amsterdam

Brussels his property as a brothel or for done a service to the community Milan. habitual prostitution. According- generally in bringing the matter Berlin ly, one clause of the amended Bill forward and in pressing for in- Stock provides for the suppression of formation on points regarding brothels, whilst another makes which the general public has been Vienna

In doubt. The Information: re- provision for the determination ofgarding the infectious or, con- Madrid

Helsingfors the tenancy of premises in respect tagious nature of the disease was of which a conviction has been reassuring, and nothing but satis- Bucharest

Athens obtained under the earlier clause. faction can be felt in the know- Rio... Both these clauses, it may he ex-ledge that leprosy is curable, even Buenos Aires

Shanghai plained, are modelled on the cor- although the cure is in the same Hongkong responding sections of the sense as that of tuberculosis, a Yokohama

disease which demands far more Silver Lapet)... Criminal Law Amendment Acta

Bliver (forward). attention In Hongkong than now in force in England. As we

The human pin-cushion is another usion which hafies. all ordinary. explanation. Long apikes are ap parently driven through a box

without so much as scratching the subject previously manacled and placed inside the contraption.rd

A repeat performance is being given to-night.

Want must be welcome news for the children is that Nicola will be London, July 9, giving a special children's matinee 123.69 on Saturday at 5:30 at the 4,806 Star Theatre, Kowloon. This 26.05 will afford the little ones, a $12.10

92.50 unique opportunity of marveling, and who will not, at the illusions ..20.395

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83.13/22 41.36

108.26

-175%

866 leprosy. There is ample evi 118dence that the Colony's medical 5.13/22 authorities are well informed on 40% the subject of leprosy and we 1/3 would advocate a continuance of 2/0.13/22 adequate vigilance in order to dis.

$16.13/10.

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Sum (grinning)Boss, I-sure was skeared to death you all'd any

WATER LEVELS.

ON WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

Shiubing

Tsingyuen Samshuí Sheklung.

9.5

7.0

*0.8

5,6

5.2

2.0,

2.4

The highest levels on record are: ---Shlubing, 41 feet; Tsingyden, 29.2 feet; Samahul, 27.8 feet; Sheklung 15.5 feet.

The lowest level on record at Samshui ismining 5 feet and at Sheklung minus 2.7 feet.

WHO WAS ? POLLY PEACHUM.

Sweet Polly Peachum was the daughter of the landlord of a disreputable inn, the re- sort of crooks and rascals of both sexes. When she mar- ried the handsome and fascinating Captain Macheath, a highwayman, ahe uninten tionally folled the designs of her wicked mother, who had planned a more spectacular, though even less respectable, future for her to en Bee Polly's parents tried to end the marriage by betraying her husband to the police;a; foriner sweetheart of Macheath

her: attempted to poison Macheath himself succumbed ever and anon to the sedući tions of other charmers, but Polly's loving constancy triumphed over parents, pos- soners and profligate, fancies alike. When Macheath was pardoned just in time to escape the hängman's; rope," he vowed to be faithful to her evermore, ver

The story of sweet Polly and her captain is sung ing "The Begger's Openi, com- posed by John Gay, and first produced in 1728. Lavinia Felton has a great success in the role of Polly, and since then, many Pollys have charmed themselves into the heart of the public, and three of them into the peerage.'