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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL

VAUXHALL

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1933.

however, that this was not the THE SOCIAL EVIL determining

factor in

the

change of site. The asylum was HONGKONG'S PROBLEM: 1.

past to bring about a much needed

The Very Idea!

THIS WATER EVIL

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Boil the whole question down and what do you get? Hot Water?..... of course!

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originally intended to be placed

B, H.M.S. EDWARD Kally. on the hill boyond Laichikok

The searchlight recently focuss relief oventually brought about IS TAKING A RISE

Judging from correspondence we Prison, overlooking the Soconyed on the social evil question in the abuses and acquired notoriety. installation. In consequence of Colony has prompted investiga. The ground is fertile, the seed is THIS YEAR

the huge amount of rock encoun- tions by a Telegraph representative cant, the wind of adversity blows have ocen lately it seems almost with results which amaze and hard, and the Procurer stalking certain now that the train. from

gathering in an out of water. STRAIGHT UP—THEtered, the laying out of this must come in the nature of a abroad as the Reaper, Has had no Shaungahul to Kowloon did run But why all this fuss should be site was found not to be a prac-revelation to those who have not difficulty in

In the past there has been a con-made over a trifle like water beata SKY SEEMS TO BE

tical proposition. Hence it be given it. sarlous thought. The abundant harvest

questing lead has yet to discover came necessary to look about the abysmal bottom or find an staat stream of these unfortunates us. To Edward Keily water THE LIMIT.

for a fresh location. A way out affective solution, so intricate le with their consent or against nothing but H20. of the impasse was discovered the system of organized vice-for their will it does not matter which It is a system-and so many are guided into contres or as it to

And as one who has been in hot. by calmly appropriating the the unknown factors, without any termed in the parlance trade of the ......Shanghai, Canton, school site. On the point of plac-parallel elsewhere it can be safely "depots" ing the asylum near a hospital, assumed, that have to be properly Hongkung, Saigon, Bangkok, Ran-water more than anyone elan in the necessity for this is still understood before the problem can goon and Singapore. The "goods" Hongkong, what with editors with be followed in all its ramifications. are disguised and moved about in lack of vision and shroffs with here and now that the less said In the course of the many years various forms; suchì cases na have visions of lakhs. let us say right very much open to question.

of these places have about water had better he left An asylum should have its own of actual experience on the spot, gone through the process of the

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

ኬ a search

Speaking from experience, we Police authorities, one trained staff, and not need to be combatting the local evil, the Courta dependent on other institutions. have yet to evolve a method by ways by which Moreover, in a few years' time, which effectively to countor the steamers may be evaded, or 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 congested as a result of new who have expressed surprise at delivery and installation of the than we've seen purple snakes building.

It would therefore the seemingly laissez-faire attitude "goods" at their place of busin-through drinking too much of it.

of the authorities, or who under- css."

Local. Aspects

We can always proudly point seem much more reasonable to estimate the efforts exerted in the find accommodation for the asy- lum somewhere out in the rural social reform. Because of the This leads to the question nearer to the fact that, although we are Inherent delicacy of the subject home of the Colony's interest; the one of those he-men who drink Therefore it may be taken for. 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- centre of an urban area. From cases, very little of the quiet work and in co-operation with other drink what a fish drinka.

le shown to the general public. general problem; the results of is viewed, the appropriation of That work is being continued, and such local action in the present any about water should be taken What is water, you ask? Lomme the school site for the purpose continued relentlessly, even though stage of transition; the dificulties with a grain of salts, just before there can never be any real check to policy by which it is hoped the ovil

can be checked, at any rate, seo.....

....runs under bridges and over- of accommodating the asylum is It must have been realised that still unencompassed; and future retiring. most regrettable.

most the evil.

locally. serious aspect is the delay

The local Government and the flows. Medicine is taken in it and swim in it. which will be occasioned in

In these articles, the result of Press from time to time have re trains runs out of it. Battleships Amaha use it for laundry purposes talks about it. Elephants have been to give a reasonably accurate credit of the former, it can

camels go portrayal of the work of traffic stated that when they finally made and the Hongkong government kers, the life of those impresand a move, they did so with courage known to drink it, and Collective Peace

cow syrup it has been known to Into the "trade", the measures the and decision. The first step, of Hongkong Police authorities on course, was the closure of licensed without it. Added to a dash of

own account and in co- houses and the first to receive There would be few

who operation with other Far Eastern attention in this direction were the make fortunes for milkmen. Doc There are also different speclen would deny that in ΠΟ

small entres have taken to combat the former establishments in Lynd- tors prescribo long sea voyages over measure the present situation of evil, and the period of transition hurat Terrace (immortalised by

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, on the brain, low water, high water, and and over which queations of pre water main and what-a-man, water the world seems to be sunk, is

Immoral trafic in women due to excess of nationalism to girls to contend with. It is a stige and sometimes been ailowed -Oh, all right, all right! ... 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 focussed on the Wanchal area,

condition reformer, and, in addition, the THE SCHOOL & THE with internationalism, a broad-loent problem has this appreciable traditional haunt of the wandering

£500.000 is now being spent at whatever standpoint the matter that is going on behind the scenes ports with which is is linked in the granted that anything we have to

Luton in buildings and new equipment to speed up deliveries because production on some models is now lagging 4 months behind delivery requirements.

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pushing on with one of Kow- Arst-hand information, we are able viewed the matter, and to the float on it and fish

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Hongkong Telegraph depression and unemployment, following the drastic measures in Gilbert Frankau the author of "The of water. Sea waer, fresh water,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1933.

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KELLY'S DIARY. February 7. Gumble came in to- er patriotism, a love for man- difference: that while elsewhere sailorman and seafarer; and ite

worry to police and Colony could do with our services. "Look at what the Legislative kind broad enough to reach be the methods of traffickers are well red-light district, cause of hitherto day. Talked politics. G. agreed If proof were needed of the yond geographical boundaries, understood and prevention work constant

grouped toto more or less uniform, patrolman, disappearod,

a later com-ho said. "Even you would be a godsend." Don't quite like his urgent necessity of proceeding to envisage the whole world, to channels, here in Hongkong, as in term "disappeared" is used ad- Council has done and is doing,"

way of putting it. equally densely populated China visedly in view of

plication. with the building of a new Cen- embrace all humanity.

We mused. Could we spare the not little too The Western Front tral British School, it can easily such a movement is on the way coastal ports, are present so many

time.. Are we and is making progress, how-dimculties which must be taken

The City Elders having carried advanced in our ideas. We have be found in the annual report ever alowly, there is much into acount and for the removal of the Headmaster, in which re- evidence. How to accelerate the of which no one proscribed set of! ference is made both to the process is of great concern, if rules is effective. It is not within the Northern and Eastern Sectors been rather positive about some

the the disasters which seem

im the purpose of this article to define by storm, new moved against the things, e.g. Shing Mun Dam and overcrowded condition of

immorality in the commonly under-Western Front, and at once there suchilko Gumble says, soft pedal or the whys and rose a loud outery of ale custom is the thing. Writing to-night to existing school and the constant pending are

not met with H.Q. of the Taipans Club, asking requests by British parents for Drifting will not do. It was a wherefores connected with "the and trade suicide. No reformist see how the land lles. Also to thr

condition of apathy on the part oldest profession in the world" (it in the past has the admission of their children. 1 of many and of aggressive de were easier to trace the Origin of strong oppasitlon, 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.

SEEN YESTERDAY. of the new use to which the led the world over the brink into physical and material considera- interests vested in valuable pro-

war, the

most tions by which the evil has been perty in a onco popular district,

Buitable Troddles, one of the volciforest originally-selected site is to be the great

the largely fostered in this part of the is that it will mean the depriva

tion of merchants of a

Group put, there will be a further de- cataclysmic abomination

place where to put that finishing of the vociferous Peaco world has ever known. Rela-

to tho

important He had two black eyes and walked lay in making a start on project. The irony of the situative to the present world situa- Economic Considerations touch

We raised our eyebrows in as- tion, certain facts are patent.

The first consideration there-business deal meaning so much with a slight limp. tion is that although the site First of all, international rela- fore, readily suggesting itself, is to the "life-blood of the Colony.

To one happily free from these tonishment. We always raise our a vast inland

looking eyebrows thus and thus. examined. the contiguity to

and Cores has been alienated for the new tionships rust be

Troddles smiled a man smile. other specateles, the

"Just back from a Peace Group Lunatic Asylum, no money is to All will agree that three im- population stricken as much by business be spent on this building in the portant questions for the mo- flood and famine as by civil strife through

result ment are the debt situation, dis- and unsettled economic conditions quarter is one for extravagant

a bar to his current year, with the

cleawhere. The its brothels, clubs and gambling in the armi-Anals." We hope he gets snare to morale and

O.B.E. that the site, on which a big armament, and stimulation of to a degree of adject poverty pleasure and the night life, with meeting. Slapski knocked me out

trade through tariff revision. hardly excelled sum was spent for the specific Solution of these problems is mui teat syetem designed in the resorts, a

beginning to absorb some of the purse. It is purpose of accommodating the urgent and imperative. new school, will be lying idle becoming generally apparent! another year.that there is something more in- for at least Meanwhile, a fresh site has to volved than the usual relation be prepared for the school, and of debtor and creditor, and nc- building operations must in-cordingly that the debts cannot evitably wait over until the area be collected in the ordinary way that is, by immediately trans- in 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 ur- ing a distressed debtor to re- gency over the Lunatic Asylum, habilitate himself both in order being one of three selected to discharge his obligations and to help society in general. The undertakings. At that time,

sum to be paid by each debtor there was no hint that the egreed upon, an issue of bonds chosen site would be diverted by those nations to be accepted to other uses. Yet the claims by the creditora in lieu of cash, of the school are now made sub- might be a practical solution. aidary 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 ac and readjusted to the benefit not tual building-"lve horse and of one nation but of the whole A considerable reduc you'll got

No-one group. grass." wishes to deny that the present tion of armaments and a corres- asylum needs replacing, but no ponding decrease in burden of convincing case has yet been taxation would aid substantially in establishing confidence among made out why British educa- the nations. Unity of action tional needs should give way to resulting from a survey of the the desirability of batter ac-industrial and productive, ma- commodation for the Colony's chinery of the world is another lunatica. It is contended that stop 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 make for collective existing hospital. We suggest, peace.

HILIRIAS DIEATERS

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

mako a good sweater last them eight years."-

on

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

yourself "connexion"

go good out of your way to represent her as a member of the drinking, flirt- ing, time-wasting class who we all vant to see suppressed. What I as occasional

aho

does havo

"quick ane"; do you not think wamen in her station deserve a Hittle relaxation; the same →→ shall we say-journalists? I am sorry to seem consorious as Tay husband Jikes your column, but, there is not much of "old England" loft and what there is I feel I must Stand Up for.

Yours respectfully, (Mrs.) H. R. LEATHERDARROW.

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THINKING OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH CHRISTIANITY 18 TAUGHT, AND WHENEVER I FIND ONE THAT MAKES ANY IT A WIDEL BLESSING THAN OTHER, LOLING TO THAT AS THE TRUEST-George Eliot,