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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1933.

VAUXHALL

IS TAKING A RISE

THIS YEAR

STRAIGHT UP THE SKY SEEMS TO BE

THE LIMIT.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The Hongkong & Shanghai Tintele, Ltd Incorporated in Hongkong. Sluble Road

Inoty Valier

however, that this was not the THE SOCIAL EVIL determining factor inf

the

change of site. The asylum was

originally intended to be placed HONGKONG'S PROBLEM: 1.

on the hill beyond Laichikok

The Very Idea 1

1...

THIS WATER EVIL

The searchlight recently focuss-relief eventually brought about

By H.M.S. EDWARD Kely. Prison, overlooking the Soconyed on the social evli question in the abuses and acquired notoriety.

Judging from correspondence we Installation. In consequence of Colony has prompted investiga-The ground la fertile, the seed is the huge amount of rock encoun. ¡tions by a Telegraph reprosentative cast, the wind of adversity blows have seen latoly it seeme almost with results which amaze and bard, and the Procurer stalking cortain now that the train from. tered, the laying out of this must come in the nature of a abroad as the Reaper, has had no Sheungshul to Kowloon did rum

in an out of water. site was found not to be a prac-revelation to those who have not difficulty in gathering

But why all this fuss should be tical proposition. Hence it be given it serious thought. The abundant harvest,

questing lead has yet to discover In the past there has been a con- made over a trifle like water beats came necessary to look about the abysmal bottom or find an stant stream of these unfortunates us. To Edward Kelly water

Ja for a fresh location. A way out affective solution, so intricate Is-with their consent or against nothing but H20.

Boil the whole question down and of the Impasse was discovered the system of organized vico-for their will it does not matter which

it is a system and so many aro-guided into centres or as it is what do you get? Hot Water?.

the by calmly appropriating the the unknown factors, without any termed in the parlance trade of Of course!

.....Shanghai, Canton, And na ona who has been in hot school site. On the point of plac-parallel olsewhere it can be anfely "dopots" ing the asylum near a hospital, assumed, that have to be properly longkong, Saigon, Bangkok, Ran-water more than anyone else in understood before the problem can goon and Singapore. The "goods" Hongkong, what with editors with the necessity for this is still be followed in all its ramifications. are disguised and moved about in lack of vision and shroffe with very much open to question. In the course of the many years various forms; such cases na have vialona of lakhs, let us say right An asylum should have its own of actual experience on the spot, gone through the process of the here and now that the loss said trained staff, and not need to be combatting the local evil, the Courts of these places have about water had bettor be left

Police authoritice, one is told, demonstrated the hundred-and-one unsaid.

Speaking from experience, we dependent on other institutions. I have yet to evolve a method by ways by which a search Moreover, in a few years' time, which effectively to counter the steamers may be evaded, or a have seen more bottles of Born.

forces of organized vice arrayed legal point countered and negativ-1820 Still Going Strong getting the region near the Kowloon against them; and this should be ed on a technical issue, even when weaker and weaker through the Hospital will no doubt become first of all appreciated by those it reaches the ultimate stage of the application of too much water newwho have expressed surprise at delivery and installation of the than we've seen purple anakos congested as a result of building. It would therefore the seemingly, laissez-faire attitudo "goods" at their place of "buain-through drinking too much of it.

of the authorities, or who under-cas." seem much more reasonable to estimate the efforts exerted in the Local Aspects We can always proudly point.

social reform. Because of the

on

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Brious aspect is the delay Scope of Review The local Government and the lows. Medicino is taken in it and

Collective Peace.

find accommodation for the asy-past to bring about a much needed This leads to the question nearer to the fact that, although we are. lum somewhere out in the rural inherent delicacy of the subject home of the Colony's interest; the one of those he-men who drink districts rather than in the and the sordid character of the steps it has performed by itself like a fish, we don't-thank God- Therefore It may be taken for centre of an urban area. From cases, very little of the quiet work and in co-operation with other drink what a fish drinks. £500,000 is now being spent at whatever standpoint the matter that is going on behind the aconer ports with which is is linked in the

is to the general public, general problem; the results of granted that anything we have to Luton in buildings acliveries is viewed, the appropriation of howk is bring continued, and such local action in the present say about water should be takon equipment to speed up because production on some the school site for the purpose continued relentlessly, even though stage of transition; the difficulties with a grain of salts. just before What is water, you ask? Lemme models is now lagging 4 months of accommodating the asylum is it must have been realised that still unencompassed; and future retiring.

there can never be any real check to policy by which it is hoped the evil behind delivery requirements. most regrettable. The most the evil.

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be checked, at any rate, co......

....runs under bridges and over- locally.

which will be occasioned in

In these articles, the result of Prees from time to time have re-trains runs out of it. Battleships. pushing on with one of Kow-first-hand information, we are able viewed the matter, and to the float on it and fish swim in it. loon's biggest needs.

to give reasonably accurate credit of the former, it can be Amans use it for laundry purposce portrayal of the work of traffic-stated that when they Anally made and the Hongkong government. kers, the life of those impressed a move, they did so with courage talks about it. Elephants have been Into the "trade", the measures the and decision. The first step, of known to drink it, and camels go Hongkong Police authorities on course, was the closure of licensed without it. Added to a dash of their own account and in co-houses and the first to receive cow syrup it has been known to There would be few

who operation with other Far Eastern attention in this direction were the make fortunes for milkmen. Doc- would deny that in no

small entres have taken to combat the former establishments in Lynd-tors prescribe long sea voyages over

¡it.

There are also different species measure the present situation of evil, and the period of transition hurst Terrace (immortalised by depression and unemployment, following the drastle measures in Gilbert Frankau the author of "The of water. Sen waer, fresh water, Woman on the Horizon") which rain water, water authorities, water of darkness and fear, in which relation to the local aspect.

There is here, as elsewhere, the had always been a storm centre, the world seems to be sunk. is immoral traffic in women and nnd over which questions of pre (on the brain, low water, high water, due to excess of nationalism-to girls to contend with. It is a atige and sometimes been allowed water main and what-a-man, water- too little interest in the general perennial trade, with many hidden to colour the real issue. welfare. Of that the remedy pitfalls for the well-meaning social! The official searchlight next

KELLY'S DIARY. is to antidote this condition reformer, and, In addition, the focussed on the Wanchai aren,

February 7. Gumble came in to- THE SCHOOL & THE with internationalism, a broad- local problem has this appreciable traditional haunt of the wandering

ASYLUM

er patriotism. a love for man-difference: that while elsewhere sailorman and seafarer; and its kind broad enough to reach be- the methods of traffickers are well red-light district, cause of hitherto day. Talked politics. G. agreed The "Look at what the Legislative If proof were needed of the yond geographical boundaries, understood and prevention work constant worry to police and Colony could do with our services.

grouped into more or less uniform patrol-man, disappeared. urgent necessity of proceeding to envisage the whole world, to channels, here in Hongkong, as in term "disappeared" in used ad- Council has done and is doing,"

embrace all humanity. That equally densely populated China

The

Thongkong Telegraph

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1933.

-Oh, all right, all right!

with the building of a new Cen- such a movement in on the way coastal ports, are present so man visedly in view of a later com- he said. "Even you would be a

New

be spent on this building in the

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godsend." Don't quite like hia way of putting it. tral British School, it can easily and is making progress, how-dimculties which must be taken

We mused. Could wo spare the The Western Front

not a little too be found in the annual report ever slowly, there is much into account and for the removal

The City Elders having carried time. Are we of which no one prescribed set of of the Headmaster, in, which re-evidence. How to accelerate the les is effective. It is not within the Northern and Eastern Scelors advanced in our ideas. We have ference is made both to the process is of great concern, if

the purpose of this article to define by storm, now moved against the been rather positive about some overcrowded condition of the the disasters which seem

pending are

immorality in the commonly under- Western Front, and at once there things, o.g. Shing. Mun Dam and existing school and the constant Drifting will not do. It was a wherefores connected with "the and trade suicide. No reformist see how the land lies. Also to the be averted. stood scose, or the whys and rose a loud outery of olo custom suchlike. Gumble says, soft pedal is the thing, Writing to-night to requests by British parents for condition of apathy on the part oldest profession in the world" (it in the past has not met with H.Q. of the Taipana Club, asking the admission of their children of many and of aggressive de- were easier to trace the Origin of strong opposition, and the present them to drop the secret of how Unfortunately, as a consequence sire on the part of others that Sin itself) save to comment on the bitter cry, discernible in large speeches are born and made.............. of the new use to which the led the world over the brink into physical and material considera-iutereata vested in valuable pro-

the great

tions by which the evil has been perty in a once popular district, war, the

SEEN YESTERDAY. originally-selected site is to be

largely fostered in this part of the is that it will mean the depriva cataclysmic abomination the put, there will be a further de-world has ever known. Rela

suitable tion of merchants of a

Troddies, one of the volcifercet lay in making a start on the tive to the present world situn-Economic Considerations place where to put that finishing of the vociferous Peace Group. to the ali important He had two black eyes and walked project. The irony of the situation, certain facts are patent. The first consideration there-touch

We raised our eyebrows in aa- tion is that although the site First of all, international rela: fore, readily suggesting inclf, ia buaincea deal meaning so much with a slight limp.

vast faland to the "life-blood of the Colony." has been alienated for the new tionships must

To one happily free from these tonishment. We always raise our be examined, the contiguity to a

population stricken as much by

cares and

looking eyebrows thus and thus, Lunatic Asylum, no money is to All will agree that three imod and famine as by civil strife business

the Troddies smiled awan smile. portant questions for the mo- and unsettled economic conditions through other specatcles,

extravagant "Just back from a Peace Group ment are the debt situation, dis- to a degree of abject poverty hard-quarter is ono for armament, and stimulation of ly excelled elsewhere. The mus pleasure and the night life, with mooting. Slapski knocked my out that the site, on which a big trade through tariff revision. teai system designed in the begin- its brothels, clubs and gambling in the semi-finala."

spare to morale and sum was spent for the specific Solution of these problems is ning to absorb some of the surplus resorts, a purpose of accommodating the urgent and imperative. It is woman population as part of the purse. new school, will be lying idle becoming generally apparent that there is something more in- for at least another year. Meanwhile, a fresh site has to volved than the usual relation of debtor and creditor, and ac- be prepared for the school, and cordingly that the debts cannot building operations must in- be collected in the ordinary way evitably wait over until the area—that is, by immediately trans- is ready. It is pertinent to re- ferring the amount due from call in this connexion that when the debtor to the creditor na- the Budget was introduced last tions. The wise creditor is one year, the new Central British who sees the necessity of help School was given priority in uring a distressed debtor to re- gency over the Lunatic Asylum,habilitate himself both in order to discharge his obligations and being one of three selected to help society in general. The At that time, sum to be paid by each debtor undertakings. there was no hint that the agreed upon, an issue of bonda chosen site would be diverted by those nations to be accepted to other uses. Yet the claims by the creditors in lleu of cash, of the school are now made sub-might be a practical solution. sidary to those of the asylum. But mental adjustments must British parents have still to be made; the desire arrived at to promote the general welfare. wait at least another year be-Tariff walls must be examined fore a start can be made on scand readjusted to the benefit not tual building "live horse and of one nation but of the whole you'll get

No-one group. A considerable reduc- gruss," wishes to deny that the present tion of armaments and a corres- | asylum noeds replacing, but no ponding decrease in burden of taxation would aid substantially convincing case has yet been in establishing confidence among made out why British educathe nations. Unity of action tional needs should give way to resulting from a survey of the the desirability of better ac industrial and productiva commodation for the Colony's chinery of the world is another lunatics. It is contended that step toward the realisation of it is essential, for administra-conditions where the interest of all supplants the self-interest tive and other reasons, that the of the individual nation. All new asylum should be near an this would mako for collective existing hospital. We suggest, pence,

ma-

NEATERS

"I've taught thein to take care of their clothes, and I can

make a good swinter last thom eight years,"

от

A

Dear Mr. Kelly, I do not much like the "tone" in which you write about your aristocratic "friends." i hear from someone who knows my stepmother that Miss Anchovy is really a very well-spoken, hard- working woman; she was Committee that awarded my stop- mother's niece a very handsome certificate, framed, for Good Con- duct and Personal Cleanliness. That was at a school at, I think, Kowloon or it may, have bean Causeway Bay. Yet you who (I should judge) have no specially

"connexion" good

yourself

sho

out of your way to represent her as a member of the drinking, flirt- ing, time-vasting class who we all want to see suppressed. What if

an docs have

occasional "quick one"; do you not think women in her station deserve. a little relaxation; the name 05 shall wo say-journalists? I am sorry to seem censorious as may husband likes your column. but thore la not much of "old England" left and what there is I feel I must Stand Up for.

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Youra respectfully, (Mrs.) H. R. LEATHERBARROW.

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THINKING OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH CHRISTIANITY 18 TAUGHT, AND WHENEVER 1 FIND ONE THAT MAKES IT A WIDER BLESSING THAN ·ANT- OTHER, I CLING TO THAT ́AS” THE TRUEST-Goorge Milot.