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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1933.

NEW

generation of addicts disappear. oplum smoking will have been mado so prohibitive that it can- not be indulged in by the ma- jority of the class now addicted to it, but this is an ideal pursued in disregard of ugly realitics. Wo have contiguous to us Д

OVER THE OPIUM PIPE

AH LO DISCUSSES HIS PET PROBLEM

(By C. V.-L. for the Telegraph)

STUDEBAKER country where, despite assuran When I first mot Ah Lo those oplum, its quality, its prices. A

AND

ROCKNE SIX

CARS

AT

GREATLY REDUCED

PRICES.

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Phone 23124. Stubbs Road,

The

Hongkong Telegraph. except to point to

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1938.

the

ho

The Very Idea!

REACHING OUR GAUL By Eddie Kelly, Sing-Slager:

WE see that over two hun- dred prisoners have been released from Hongkong's prisons in the past three weeks, because there is no

It seems that the gaols are

so overcrowded that whenover anyone takes a deep breath, all

the rest have to breathe out. Despite protests by corres-

•

on

Many of them entered Laichikok

on the distinct understanding that

what to do.

Boreft of home

to

It is easier for a rich man cheaper needle than for a coolle to enter

Franks's Hotel, wriggle through the eye of

ces to the contrary, extensive

now, he was in do- can be easily imagined, the sub

A touched him deeply. poppy cultivation la carried on.many years

cidedly prosperous circumstances.ject When cultivation has been sup- You could tell that by the affable metallle tube from which he had pressed in one province, it is smile and mod he had for every Just squeezed sufficient of the stuff taken up in

a more intensive body, by the swish of his immacu- to make a pill, arrested my atten-accommodation for them. form in another, so that for all late gown as he swept gracefully to tion, because it was so very differ- practical purposes, the output your desk to take up with you the ent from the earthen or horn pots and facilities for the massts re-hundred-and-one matters connected in which I had seen Hongkong with harbour transport. Stevedore, Monopoly opium packed. More in- main the same. An allied pro-hip-chandler, coal merchant and teresting was the information that blem is the absence of proper re-funk contractor, there seemed to It was opium now being imported. creative pursuits for the lower have been nothing connected with by the Hongkong Government from classes, to whom an evening harbour transport that he did not Singapore following upon its recent pondents in the newspapers the to close down the local prison authorities remain ada- spent at an opium divan has know. There were times when his decision about the same object and utility knowledge extended beyond his factory and disponse with the ex-mant.

In these days of financial as an evening apent by others strictly business kon and he saw port services of the boiling staff.

stringency, prisoners cannot ex- WE SHARE A at a club, Addiction to the in-much that lay beneath the surfaco

pect to enjoy the hospitality of the -the waterfront undercurrents not sidious drug is acquired with always perceptidle to you er me.

JUSTIFIABLE PRIDE.

Hongkong government any longer. Lo hnd піждун Fortuna changed with the times,

My Irlond Ah continued practice until

the Too many shroffs, are victim is so completely in its and when I renewed his friendship shared with our

City Fathers abroad line

talpana can grip, he is not able to help him- the other night, it was obvious that justifiable pride on the score of our hardly make ends meet, and the crimes in in the interim ho had had more turning out the best opium in the Treasury officials are also going self. How many

of business Far East, and he now deplored the local Police records have been than his fair share

These people must receive first committed by victima driven to reversca, confessing to many die-step as cutting local smokers from about with patches on their panta.

a cherished supply. Ah Lo'o rea- desperation by the great craving appointments in which I could

crimes which they would not easily sympathisc. He had the sons for his preference wore not consideration, so it has been de-.

sharp acumen and patient per set out too clearly to a non-smoker, cided that in future prisoners have thought of in their normal severance of the native business-but it is safo deduction that his must fend for themasives. senses? But this is not to ba man, and I predicted for him an arguments covered much the same cared by action tending to the early return to his former pro- grounds as those relating to the

It seems, novertheless, a cruel use of poor quality opium and perity, for which he thanked me respective qualities of diferent it is seriously suggested that exceedingly and invited me to con-alcoholie vintages. Connoisseur in hoax to play on our convicts, whose Government policy is in danger tinue the talk over the oplum pipe. his own particular line, he is there only crime, after all, is the fact

Now, his friends will concedo fore to be trusted for the pro- that they are criminals. of being defeated by the mea there is nothing fundamentallynouncement that Singapore opium sure of false economy recently wrong with Ah Lo, except for this does not taste quite so nice as our taken. We do not propose to weakness-if it could be so regard-former Monopoly brand. In short, deal with this matter further ed-for the pipe that soothes. It does not confer on Ah Lo and

An equal they would be allowed to remain a possible With the privilege of an old crony, company, bon viveurs,

there for at lenat twelve months. Hatiafaction, broader scope for Government I had taken him to task for it on

The revelation made me prick What do we find? A heartless activity in the removal of some more than one occasion, but always he had grinned disarmingly, closed of the causes for the habit. hrs to counsels irrespective of my ears up. Here, la informa-government repudiates its pro- tion, 1 thought, of a sort upon mises, and these poor, poor man This is only to be secured by these being advanced on psycho-which his expert knowledge could are suddenly thrown out on the education and propaganda in logical or on pathological grounds, bo solicited. While he was busy eruel, cold world. THE OPIUM EVIL which the co-operation of Chin-and steadfastly refused to bellave with his pipe I had time to summon and sustenance, they wander the The Government's decision to ese members of the medical pro- there was anything unmoral in the up the probabilities, and when he streets of the city.. not knowing

fession may well be enlisted. It indulgence. He had seen the ant- had finished his second, (or was

Of what use is it to commit import a new brand of prepared assumed that hitherto no van get beautifully inebriated on his third 1 smoke, inquired as to

Own high-powered liquors. His

4 possible reaction in a lowering of oplum to replace the Monopoly known effective cure has been preference as he put it, was the Government sales with a corres-orime when this is all tho' thanke product discontinued when the found, except in a few rare in quiet and dignified ritual of the ponding increase in smuggling of they got? The downward path

times of pros-cheaper products.

opens before them. Discouraged, local factory was closed down, stances when the process has opium pipe. In

regretful His exposition of the new situa-they enter business.

Some of them will reach the suggested an important change been long and laborious and perity (and he heaved viewed against the long and un-has depended for its eventual af yah here). it had stimulated his tion was not free from the intru-

Others, less eventful history of the Monopo-success on the determination outlook on life--was an incentive to slon of his scholastic make-up, but lowest depths of depravity by be-

and self-control of the patient. further endeavours. In times of briefly it bears a close analogy to coming taipans. ly. Enquiries, however, show The small percentage of success depression like the present, it was our anying that in the effort to save fortunate, may sink so far that that it amounted to no more however should not discourage his solace, although because of a few pennies, pounds were being they ultimately become shroffa,

A few thousand present necessitous circumstances, thrown away.

And have you over seen any- than a measure of economy, the further efforts in the research he agreed it was not to be indulged dollars at the outset may have thing as Woebegone as an ex-

in been retained by savings wisdom of which is to be ques- for a 100 per cent. curative in to the former extent.

factory salaries, but against this prisoner who has become 'k tafpan

act off the big drop he or a shroff? tioned. It appears that the sub-agent, and while that is being

attempted, clinics, or more pro-MY FRIEND IN A

predicted for Government sales, stitute now being supplied from perly speaking, sanatoria for NEW LIGHT. Singapore in pursuance of an cases might be usefully establi Full well I remember thoso mo-as smokers, not relishing the newly- arrangement with the Monopoly shed, not only for the purpose of ments of intimacy established over imported Monopoly stuff, began to there, does not appeal to the assisting in research work but the opium. pipe. Then his usually exercise their preference for other

kinds. "refined" smoker, and the also offering some assurance for business-like but sometimes insou-and undoubtedly much

self HE SAYS IT IS smoker's preference is about to those in the carly stages of ciant exterior dropped away like a

addiction. Something will then mask, and the subconscious be, if not already, freely exercis- have been attempted which will that is the scholar and philosopher FALSE ECONOMY.

out in many scintillating

My friend made it clear that he ed by discrimination in favour of be far more useful than reliance peeped

facets, refreshing and instructivo other brands. Of these, there only on price-increase or on the to the beholder. No affair of had all the respect in the world for feeling tired of working for his public or national import could have the long experience to which our living, and forthwith is told he are a variety: "foreign re-futile war against traffickers.

taken place without it being present Superintendent of Imports must spent three months as the cognized" ones like "Red Lion,"

brought within the capacity of his and Exports could lay claim to, but guest of the Government.

After six weeks, he is told his favour hitherto occupying a

genius for the rhetoric, and a most it seemed to him that the Govern- learned dissertation on present-day ment had been ill-advised on a cell is required for his pal Hoo Becond only to Hongkong's, and

trends in social and political out-measure which he was sure would Flung Wat, and with many mutter- others without benefit of official

Prisons filled to overflowing, looks would be liberally intera-turn out to be one of false economy. Inga and hard words, he is banish-

convicta turned blessing, but nevertheless ex-and

away! parsed with Truths from the Clas-He pointed to an intensive raiding ed for ten years.

In four days, he is back and tensively consumed on account What a subject for a Gilbort and sies of which, true scholar that he being undertaken of divans as a

necessity impelled by the new arrested.

this torrible on Arraigned Over the opium pipe that night change, and to the discovery of of their comparative cheapness. Sullivan to exploit. Not even is, he has an amplo stock.

We may take into account the their delightful Trial By Jury we forsook the usual inquisition of contraband oplum in almost every charge, he is sentenced to twelve commanas such scope for a Chiang Kai-shek and other military instance na vindleation of his views. efforts of

Preventative

"You may And Red Lion oplum," satirical libretto as Hongkong's and political busybodies to inquire Officers against

nearer home of the remarked, somewhat pompously, these "com-

prison "comedy". But it is a into the matter petitive" brands, but it is a comedy of errors, not of wit. generally conceded fact that Behind it all lies a problem despite intensive campaigning second only in importance to against smuggling, illegal opium that of the annual water short- age. This situation of-having continues to make its way into twice as many prisoners as ac the Colony. From all accounts commodation is not now. It has indeed, it has been coming in not risen overnight. For a very in increasingly large quantities considerable time, the Govern- within recent weeks; and this is ment has been confronted with said to be mainly due to the the urgent need of increased officials havo introduction of the unpopular pace. Prison

mado significant observations Singapore product which, while from time to time. It has even offered at the former high affected the police, price, has not the former ex-officers and other officials con- cellence to commend it. The cerned with preserving law and position is one extremely favour- order in the Colony. They com- able to smugglers, who are tak-plain that it is little use making arrests and securing convictions. ing full advantage of the situa-They "get their man" only to see tion as demonstrated by recent him turned loose after serving seizures. Failing to secure the but part of his sentence. Ma- bulk of the illicit drug in transit,gistrates are overworked, daily the authorities have fallen back sending offenders to gaol, only ovade justice to Beo them to extensive raiding and closing through past shortsightedness. of divans as the only known Quite apart from letting loose means of cutting off the demand, undesirables on the public, cogni- and in almost every case the de-sance has to bo taken of the de pressing discovery has been plorable conditions to which made of "Red Lion," or one or prisoners are subjected as a several of other debased mix result of overcrowding. The tures that generally manage to position is an acute one, fraught with unhappy possibilities. More find their way into these out-of-than once, have prison officials the-way places. If Government been faced with threatened re- policy (as has been declared) 18 volt by inmates. For a long Overcrowding to put down smoking by a time all has not been well at gradunt raising of pricea, we Victoria gaol. fear a disappointment. There merely aggravates the position. is, of course, some logic for the It is a problem requiring early attention or consequences of a nition that as the present serious nature may result.

our

Our Prison Problem

revenue

"ye've finally reached an agreement. He'll let us go this avening, if we give him half of anything we win at bridge."

A LITTLE PROBLEM A coolie snatches a roll of cloth,

months.

Who wins?

THOSE SOLICITORS,

We have been thinking, a habit we have when we have nothing better to do, and we have been thinking about the little list of costs attached to the last writ we managed to keep out of court.

We are only waiting now for the time when a solicitor wants a note taken of an important enso he is interested in. Something, ilke this:

To taking note

$50

To time spent taking note $43.50 To professional services.. $95 To use of typewriter...... $10 To research work, visiting witnesses and verifying accuracy of nota

To travelling expenses, ro

same matter...

To services of typlat

Total

"

Bay, $250 to cover all.

....

$20

$10

$3 $281.50

Waft! We have forgotten one to item. Wo have forgotten charge for the interview arrang ing to take the note.

"In the lot they have solzed. Maybe Red Lion la not so good, but is cortainly cheaper and can rank with this Singapore oplum in refinement. Retainment of an in- ferior substitute at the same high price without the former excal- leneo to commend it means simply the holding out of a big Induce- ment to smuggling, and you may be auro that traffickers will be taking the fullest advantage of the posi tion."