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NOTES OF THE DAY

PROBLEM OF PLENTY

Puritan Governor Dudley wrote from New England to Intending colonists in Old England that persons who thought of migrat- ing for sake of material gain would botter remain at home. It

WANTED: A HOME FOR A NATION

By GODFREY LIAS

(In the Christian Science Monitor) JANTED A home for a na-] appeal to the League not merely W tont Such to the sud 9.0.5. for redress but for at my that he gone forth from Geneva for the whole Assyrian people. on behalf of 10,000 to 15,000 That is the problem, the League is Assyrians, that once powerful race at present investigating. which in days gone by was para

*

The Very Idea!

IN

AT A BAZAAR

By the Hon. Horatio Bogg, C.M.G. TN All Our Eventful if chequered career, we have faced many risks and gone through many nerve-wracking experiences.

menna business,

All

They preas closely behind a mast who had brought a rope,

was different with those whose reasons were those of conscience.

this, unflinchingly and without ing circle of readers, impregnated These would find, at least, the bare

complaint, to the end that a grow- 'with the highest Ideals of Boggion, necessities of life in the New Eng. fand wilderness. There were mount in the Middle. East and to- A proposal that found favour for may be served and this column regularly filled. Even now, WO "materials for building, fuel to day is reduced to a homeless a time was to read the Assyrian can hear them in their thousands

remnant with its ancient tribal across the ocean to a new home in

mustered under our study window. burn, ground to plant, seas and organisation broken up and its fow Brazil. A British concern, the "Give us Bogg!" they clamour on- rivers to fish in, a pure air to surviving clans senttered across the Parana Plantations Company, Lim-thusiastically, and there is that in breathe, good water to drink, length and breadth of Asia Minor. Ited, offered the land, and a League the insistence of the cry which which, together with the cows, Conflicts with their more power-commission went to Brazil early hogs, and goats brought hitherful neighbours, the Kurds and this year to investigate the pro- Arabs, have made it impossible forposal. But the Brazilian Govern- already, may suffice for food."

the Assyrians to stay in Iraq,ment in September passed a law

As we were anying, we oncom- The problem of the pioneers where they have been since the restricting immigration from any centred on dearth. Theirs was war. Hence the search for a new country, which meant that the plan passed all these dangers without turning the single hair still loft daily struggle to wrest a living home which is now being carried to make the Assyrian settlement on

on our head: but there must come the Parana pinatations had to be on under Lengue auspices,

a time when the best of us are from a niggardly sail and a fear.

Until the great war the Assyrians dropped.

Then it was proposed that they cowed. and the danger

HOW ocean. Sometimes they were a fairly compact little nation

becoming Imminent of being hong- was of about 70,000 individuals (re-be settled in Canada, but their na- near starvation.. It cause for thanksgiving that they duced now to about 30,008), living tional entity again would disappeared as a Publie Enemy No. 1 is 88 under Turkish rule in the Hakklari there, and the Canadian Govern- nothing to the experience we have kept alive at all. Their succes-Mountains of Kurdistan. Among ment showed no particular anxiety in mind. sors of to-day fd modern pro- the very first peoples to adopt to make room for them. There is blems spring, strangely enough, Christianity, they were not always also a proposal that they be settled from abundance. There is too on the best of terms with their un the Niger in French Equatorial much of almost everything. Or Moslem overlords. Consequently, Africa.

when the war broke out, at least such is the belief, Men Russians found little difficulty in are hungry because there in too peraunding the Assyrians to rebel, much wheat, and. Bl clad because Then came the collapse of Russia there is too much eatton, too much and, after Incredible hardships and many weary wanderings, the larger wool. Surplus I always getting part of the remnant of the Assyrian In the way of our prosperity. The people were helped by the British Apostle Paul once declared that, to escape to Iraq. among the other lessons he had

Home

were

learned, was how to make a right use of plenty. "I know how to

abound," he said. That lesson fo-day's civilisation

will

Зн

must

Áя a HONKONG LIVING PER-

not courage of the rare order

SONALITY, it sometimes falls to our lot to be naked to grace this or that social function with our the Another proposed home is in distinguished prosonce. That In

British Guiana. The legislative turn calls for polse. council of that country, adjoining It also calls for quite a few Brazil, approved a proposal to offer other things as well, but certainly the Assyrians a permanent homo in an extensive area of grass-clad anvannah on the southwestern bor- der of the colony, not far from the Brazilian frontier. The country possesses good stock-raising possi hities. The Council of the League approved sending a commission to British Guiana to study the posal billies of the plan. It will report

Of the rest, some are living on

the Turco-Persian border while a four thousand are scattered among the tribeafolk of eastern Turkey and Soviet Transcaucasia.

early next year.

owe

exacted on that occasion.

Let us tell you all about it. An exacting Editor one ne Saturday afternoon required us to cover othe of those managed, as is frequently the case in Hongkong, by women.

bazaars

Picture us therefore, replete in frockcoat and with last year's bowler hat to match, staging a sensational entry into the bzaar grounds.

.

"Ahn, coke," we approved, gratification. In our acknowledge,

ment.

We rewarded the pretty young

thing with a pinch in the cheek. She blushed prettily. "Oh, Mr. Bogg!".

Theodore, me lass, Theodore is the other name," we said, graciously.

Suppose the obstacles are sur- somehow master. The Deat For a time after their arrival in mounted and the Assyrians agree thought of the age must be rallied Iraq, the Assyrians fared sump-4 to go to a new home halfway across to the problem, not primarily, oftuously. The menfolk were found the world, one inevitable result, in

"Mr. Bogg, can we say anything production, but of distribution, to make excellent soldiers. Under the opinion of most qualified obser- Next to the question of link. i Can anyone doubt that,, ultimately British officers they became the vers, will be the destruction, not more than that we are truly hon- famous Assyrian levies which were only of the national entity of the oared?" gushed the Chairman, or ing up Hongkong with the the benevolence that has filled the employed first to fight the Turks Assyrians but of their language.ns we should put it, the Chair.

earth with the overdowing pro-and then to keep order in the When it is realized (and not many woman of the Committee. world's major air services, a

ducts of field and factory will northern part of Iraq, beth among people do realize it) that the langu- A pretty young thing came for tople touched upon by the lion, bring all these good gifts of God the Kurds and the Arabs. Thus, age spoken by the Assyrians to-day ward at this moment and present- Mr. W. H. Bell at the Rotary within reach of all the sons of arousing dialike on the one atdr-known as "vernacuter Syriaced us with a bouquet. "From our and contempt on the other, the s almost identical with the Vegetable Stall," she explained, Club yesterday,

the men?

British inadvertently owed the Aramaic tongue, spoken by Jesus,, dropping a courtney. desirability of this Colony being

seeds of the present plight of their such a loss must be written down' We inhale the offering long and war-time proteges.

as nothing short of a disaster. satisfyingly. to granted facilities get into LAST OF PROHIBITION

While the British held a mandate Those who know the Assyrians direct touch with the outside

Except for a few "dry" spots, as ovor Iraq, an attempt was made to best any that the only way of pre- world by means of radio tele-

implement the promise given to [serving nation and language is to they arc called, in Scotland. phony. Both the British

the world has now seen the last of the League 10 years ago to Audi find a home for them in Asia Minor. a home in Iran for the Assyrians The problem, of course, is-where? Government and the Imperial that futile social experiment on the Turco-Iraqi border north of They are a pastoral and agricul- | Communications, Ltd., are an- liquor prohibition. Iceland has Mosul. But when the British tried tural people, accustomed through xious that such facilities should clung on to it longest. She began to do so, they discovered that the many generations to live in the only suitable land belonged to the mountains and demonstrably un- she ngoi be provided in the near future, it twenty-two years

Kurds, who did not want to let the able to establish themselves in the end It on the first and it is worthy of note in this

day Assyrians have it. Accordingly it plains.

Escorted by the ChairwoMAI, of February of this year. was decidcut-to sandwich the Aasy- connection to observe that

Like all other countries. Iceland rlans in piecemeal among their! Their claim while in Iraq has

we toured the grounds. In as at- tempt to sort order out of the in the course of his New has found the attempt at total re-

more powerful neighbours. This always been for local autonomy in

chaos of numerous stalls and still Year messige the Post-pression worse than useless. The stubborn resistance on the part of patriarch, the Mar Shiman, to more numerous assistants.

course, however, met with equally a single locality. Their hereditary master General, Sir King-law could not be effectively en- the Assyrians, who saw that it whom the great majority

When we thought we had had it Esley Wood, had some interesting forced, and contempt for the law would mean the loss of their nation- allegiance, has stood out for this all pat, just at that moment a

things to say about the further bred other evils of which the entity.

throughout long years of unsuccess. second sweet young thing nestled The end of the British mandate ful negotiations with the Iraq GovP to us and querled, demurely, development of international United States has the most dis-i 1932 removed the chief check on ernment and the British. All that "Mr. Bogg, whom have you got telephone services. Ho stated astrous examples to show. It wil The mutual animosities of the the Assyrians have been offered, there as Manager of No. 4 Stall ?"

races, Kurds. Arabs and however, is scattered settlements that it was hoped to establish be a long time before the stain of three

the criminality which prohibition Assyrians. The climax came last dotted between the villages of their a direct telephone service by engendered is wiped from the face autumn when a band of sum 800 ancient foes, the Moslem Kurds. raulo with Japan in February of America. I prohibition and cision to try to find a new home in back, the Assyrians could return Assyrians, repenting of their de If the Turks would have them adding that successful experi-crime came to be so closely asso-Syria under French mandate, came to their old honies acress the bor ments had already been carried ciated in that part of the world, back across the border only to get der. But the Turkish Government out between London and Shung-more than in any other, it may into a fight with a detachment of has refused. Another proposal-a hai, Iceland and Kenya Colony, have been because the wealth of the Iraq army. The unexpected much more promising one-though victory of the Iraqis was followed again involving Turkey's consent- to mention only three instances. Americans made the illicit trade by a massacre of Assyrian noncom is that they should be established It will be recalled that some enormously profitable and attracted batants in the village of Simell on in the Russo-Turco-Persian no-

in type of criminal who had the Aug 10, 1933. Then

(Continued on next column) three or four years ago, there brains and audacity to operate on was talk of a radio telephone

a large scale. The Roosevelt link between England and Government is engaged In a deter- Singapore, with an eventualmined effort to exterminate those extension to Hongkong, but gangsters. But a police and a elvil certain difficulties were

en- | administration perverted by years countered, with the reault that of corruption cannot be purified by the project had to be dropped. legislation. A new standard of Some little time ago, Imperial public morals must be establish-

ed and Communications

that takes time. In hinted that Hongkong might best secure Iceland, where the social fabric a comparatively poor country like link with the Old Country via is not of a complicated structure, Shanghai, in which connection the, return from prohibition need it was suggested that the ser-not be attended by any serious Įvice might be operated through difficulty. But there is a curious the medium of the Hongkong provision in the new legislation Government radio department, which points to at least one, weak Since that time, not a great deal spot that may have been due to the inevitabla corruption of the Inst has been heard of the subject, although the experiments carried

twenty years. Under the new law. Government officials found drunk

out between London and Shang-while on duty will be subjected to hal have shown that the Home severe penalties. authorities are thinking of

getting contact with the Far

East by this route. Once such and it is safe to assume that it link is established, it should is still keeping the question be a relatively easy matter to well in mind. Technically, the extend the service to Hongkong, plan presents no insuperable Apart from any efforts which | difficulties, but it could only be may be mada in Government made commercially feasible by circles to give this Colony the Hongkong coming into a benefit of direct radio telephone scheme applied to the Far East communication with the out-generally. It la to be hoped side world, it is known that the that, the appropriate interests

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Came

"I was perfectly happy on this corner, captain, until I seen this South Sea Island movie.

We looked it up and found Allco Crookshanks.

"No. ahe lan't; Doris Peabody is," the corrected.

A happy idea struck us. We thought we saw daylight. "Oh Doris is the most popular girl, 1 percolve," we suggested.

Two minutes were absolutely all that was required for the correction to be bruited abroad, before we received another de putation,

"Oh, Mr. Bogg," this other sweat sweet young thing said, sweetly, "Will you make it Dolly Delamey? You nee, she has been doing the most work and we think she ought to have the position you just gave to Doris Peabody."

This was the last straw. "Oh please, ladlea please make up your mindal"

This from a soul in mortal agony. It had hardly been utter- ed when there advanced on us from all sides, stall assistants and still more stall assistants.

It was then that we disengaged ourself and fled; leaving our frock- coat in other hands.

And we can assure you that it was about the toughest news. paper assignment we ever under Look.

man's-land between Lakes Van and Urumiya, not far from Mt. Ararat,. and placed under the direct super- vlalon of the League of Nations.

It would cost money to put them there. But perhaps no more than it would have cost to send them to Brazil. And there is no reason to believe the Turks would refuse their collaboration on suitable conditions. Moreover, It would be an instruc- tive experiment to have the League as actual mandatory instead of merely supervising the mandative activities of individual powers,

Re-established in the mountains,- the Assyrians, it le urged, could recover their self-respect. For the past few years they have been sa outcasts. Those who have come Into closest contact with them say that many of them have developed. (Continued on Paga 5.)-