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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930.

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ENTERPRISE,

NÓNSENSICAL STORY OF THE NOVEL SCHEME TO PREVENT MODIFICATION OF POPULAR

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To-day to Saturday.

MUI-TSAI SYSTEM.

"SLAVERY" ́, AGAIN.

ACCIDENT.

REPRESENTATION.

DOCK EXTENSION.

A SMALLER CHAMBER,

London, Oct. 22.

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Amazing stories, mostly based

Cairo, Oct. 22. on imagination and a distortion An interesting development in King Fuad has signed the new of the facts, appear from time to frailway operating methods is an-Constitution and Electoral Law Western drawn up by the Provisional regarding the mui-tsai system in Bailway, which proposes to equip Cabinet. Hongkong. The latest to come to 1.760 miles of track, embracing all The Cabinet, in the course of a our notice is the following from its principal main line routes, and Report on these enactments, re-i The People's correspondent in 2,000 engines with its own system commends that the Chamber of Hongkong. It appears in the paper of automatic train control.

Deputies shall consist of one named of September 7th last:

The system gives audible warn-hundred and fifty instead of 235 ing to the engine-driver of the members, and that three-fifths of state of the signal and, in the the members of the Senate be.ap- event of a danger signal being pointed and the remaining two- passed, automatically pulls up the fifths elected. train before it reaches the next signal-British Wireless.

I have recently made а thorough investigation of the mui-tsai (slave gal) traffic in the British colony and find the system organised and scandalous.

It is not an underground traffic

London, Oct, '22. fearing and fleeing from the law, Work is to begin at once on the but an open Government-approved further enlargement of the South- form of slavery, legalised, police-ern Railways extension scheme at protected and horrible.

Southampton Docks, under which I have interviewed many slavesome 3,500 feet of deep water girls between the ages of twelve quays, suitable for the accommoda and twenty years and all complain tion of vessels of forty foot draft, of ill-treatment and lack of food. together with cranés, sheds, rail- None of them receives any ways and all modern accessories, wages, and some complain of a life jare to be constructed, at an eati- made unbearable by their appalling mated cost of £3,000,000. The experiences.

work will take about five years to

courts.

It is also recommended that each Parliamentary Session shall be for a period of five months in- stead of six months.

be raised in the case of libel and Parliamentary immunity is to

lese majeste.

Voters must be 25 years of age. Neither the Senate nor the

Chamber will be empowered to in-

itiate financial laws.

The King is to, appoint Moslem religious chiefs.

Press laws are to be tightened up.

Yet Hongkong is A Crown complete. Colony, an integral part of Bri- The Government has agreed to The election of Parliament will Lain's overseas possessions with give financial help under the Deve- be by a two-degree suffrage sys- British police and British lawlopment Loans guarantees and tem, under which every fifty elec- Grants Act. The Scheme also in- turs will be represented by an The elector-de- The courts have held that the cludes the reclamation of about two elector-delegate.

an Electoral lawful guardian of a mui-tsai is hundred acres of mudland-Brit-legates, sitting as

College, will elect all Deputies.- the owner or mistress, and the fish Wireless,

Renter. Government has adopted a systom

of registration to determine such ownership.

What can be done to prevent such a terrible state of affairs? China has always practised

THE KINGSHIP OF CHRIST.

Slavery, for the Chinese regard EAST TO BE OBSERVED ON moral standards from an entirely different angle to ourselves,

Throughout China are markets where girls from babyhood on wards are openly sold by parents whose poverty forbids the fending

of an extra mouth.

S

CHINA'S DEFAULT IN LOAN OBLIGATIONS.

SUNDAY.

SESSIONS TRIAL CONTINUES.

PRISONER DECLARES HE IS FALSELY ACCUSED.

the Feast of the Kingship of Christ On next Sunday, October 26th,

The Pilkem Street case was con- will be celebrated in the Catholic tinued before Mr. Justice Jacks at Cathedral, Caine Road. There will the Criminal Sessions this morn- be Pontificial High Mass, in the ing, when the third acused, Wony morning at 8 a.m. and in the even-Kei-fuk, continued his evidence, in ing beginning at 4 p.m. Rosary, which he denied the charge of Procession of the Blessed Sacra- assaulting three other men with ment with Benediction in the open, intent to do them grievous bodily Sermon on the Feast of the day, harm.

Accused said that one of the preached by the Rev. Fr. Gallagher, S. J. followed by Solemn Benedic-complainants named Wong was ¡Continued "from Page 11 tion in the Cathedral,

trying to get him into trouble. The Feast of the Kingship of On one occasion he succeeded in enforcement of a budgetary Christ was established a few years getting accused charged with system, which has long awaited ago by our His Holiness Pope Pius stabbing a blind man, but he was execution but which it has been to recall to the minds of men discharged after a hearing in the impossible to put into effect due that, no matter

He denied, he had what kingdoms Police Court. to the regional unruliness of the may come and go, there is One King threatened another complainant, warlords and constant revolts of whose Kingdom there shall be Cheung, to make him give up his against Nanking. With these

No end."

job, and alleged that all the com endel, a budget system will be

were bad characters. The appeal of the Holy Father plainants enforced. The mifention of may be summarised as follows: The whole story. he said, was a national currency and the aboli-

"It has been tried by natural fabrication in order to get him tion of likin, or regional taxes, will be carried out as ond

means, by natural ideals, but tried sent to gaol or banished; possible.

AN

Cross-

in vain, to solve the world's pro-- He continued that at the time blems by organisations. confer-of the alleged attack he was not Revision Needed.

ences, formulaes and compromises, at the scene but was working on These ways have failed because the a motor car hood at another street "The creation of an elficient roots of the world's unrest lie für in Yaumati. government means defined respon-deeper. If we wish to succeed, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, for the sibilities for officials, while the we must get right down to the Crown, pointed out. in. supervision and impeachment of heart, to the soul of man. We must examination, that, when charged, officials guilty of corruption will put before those hearts an Ideal. accused had said he was not in be vigorously enforced,

not merely to guide and strengthen Kowloon at all and now he said "Industrial development means them in the ordering of their own that he was in Yaumati. that we must procure. upon an individual lives, but to direct them · Accused explained that a young honorable basis, foreign capital. in the great questions which are apprentice was working with him thereby bringing about economic agitating the world. That great at the time and expressed a wish expansion. However, such capital ideal is Christ. We must get back to call him as a witness.

While this witness was being should be confined to developing to Christ. Let us, therefore, open-

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the nation's basis industries in ae-ly bail Him as our King. Let us found, a woman in Court, who is cordance with the party's recon-be led by His principles, animated the wife of first accused,, struction programe.

with His spirit. Christ must, the called to give evidence by Wong "Regarding local

autonomy. Holy Father tells us, reiga in each Kei-fuk, her husband offering no upon its achievement depends our human heart, in each human family, objection, She stated that on the ability to establish a democratic in the nations and in the world. evening in question her husband form of government. These tasks With His Kingdom thus establish-went out to borrow some money await immediate realization if the led there will be room for confer-but he did not return. She learnt Nationalist government is to

ences, but until Christ holds sway that he had been assaulted and continue to live."

there can be no hope of a lasting was in hospital.

The case is proceeding.

peace,

"Sunday's Feast will be the pub-

A scheme is being submitted to lie acknowledgement of the Sover-

the New Zealand Cabinet for the eignty of Christ. Let us, however, still greater and more glorious, let provision of steam stand-by plants not be content with a great pub-us, motived by His Ideals, stirred throughout the country, in order to lic manifestation of our loyalty, but by His example, give a continued be prepared for possible future full-by consecrating our individual and practical manifestation of what ares of the larger hydro-electric selves and our families to Him, by He means to us-the subject of schemes.

our efforts to make His Kingdom Christ the King."--Contributed.""

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