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These would find, at least, the bare on necessities of life in the New Eng-Assyrians, that once powerful racont present investigating.

which in days gone by was-para- land wilderness. There were

A proposal that found favour for mount in the Middle East and to-

homeless a time was to send the Assyrians "materials for building, fuel to day is reduced to

remnant with its ancient tribal across the ocean to a new home in burn, ground to plant, seas and organisation broken up and its few Brazil. A British concern, the rivers to fish in, a pure air to surviving clans scattered across the Parana Plantations Company, Lims breathe, good water to drink, length and breadth of Asia Minor.ited. offered the land, and a League Conflicts with their more power-commission went to Brazil early which, together with the cows. bags, and goats brought hither ful neighbours, the Kurds and this year to investigate the pro- Arts, have made it impossible for posal. But the Brazilian Govern already, may suffice for food."

the Assyrians to stay in Iraq, ment in September passed a law The problem of the pioneers where they have been since the restricting Immigration from any llence the search for a new country, which meant that the plan home which is now being carried to make the Assyrian settlement on on under League-auspices.

the Parana plantations had to be dropped.

centred on dearth. Theirs was a dally struggle to wreat a living from a niggardly soil and a fear-

Rome

ocean. Sometimes were телг starvation. It

they

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war.

In the way of our prosperity. The Apostle Paul onco declared that, among the other leasana he had learned, was how to make a right use of plenty. "I know how to abound," he said. That is lesson to-day's civilisation must Aomehow 'master. The beat thought of the age must be rallied to the problem, not primarily of production, but of distribution, Can anyone doubt that, ultimately the benevolence that has filled the earth with the overflowing pro-and then ducts of field and factory, will bring all these good. gifts of God within reach of all the song of men 7

RADIO TELEPHONE POSSIBILITIES Next to the question of link. up Hongkong with the world's major air services, topic touched upon by the Hon. Mr. W. II. Bell at the flotary Club yesterday, comes the desirability of this Colony being granted facilities to get into LAST OF PROHIBITION direct touch with the outside

A Except for a few "dry" apote, as world by means of radio tele-

they

called, in Scotland, phony. Both the British the world has now seen the last of Government and the Imperial that, futile social experiment Communications, Ltd., are an- liquor prohibition. 'Iceland has xious that such facilities should clung on to it longest. She began be provided in the near future, it twenty-two years and it is worthy of note in this will end it on connection to observe

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this unracing experiences,thout ing circle of readers, impregnated with the highest Ideals of Boggiam, may be served and this column regularly filled. Even now, can hear them in their thousanda mustered under our study window. "Give us Bogg" they clamour on thusiastically, and there is that in. the insistence of the ery which means business.

We

They press closely behind a man who had brought a rope,

As we were saying, we emcom- passed all these dangers without turning the single hair still left on our head: but there must come a time when the best of us are and the danger_now

Let us tell you all about it. An exacting Editor one fine Saturday afternoon required us to cover onc managed, as is frequently the case of thoso bazuary in llongkong, by women.

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

"Mr. Boggi, can we say anything more than that we are truly hon- oured?" gushed the Chairman, or. as we should put it, the Chair woman of the Committee.

A pretty young thing came for- ward at this moment and present- ed us with a bouquet. "From our Vegetable Stall," she explained, dropping a courtsey.

Ve inhaled the offering long and satisfFingly.

Bogg!".

"Theodore, me lass, Theodore

Until the great war the Assyrians

Then it was proposed that they owed; were fairly compact little nation was of about 70,000 individuals (re- be settled in Canada, but their na- becoming imminent of being hang- cause for thanksgiving that they duced now to about 30,000), living tional entity again would disappeared as a Pubile Enemy No. 1 is as under Turkish rule in the Hakkiari there, and the Canadian Govern- nothing to the experience we have kept alive at all. Their succes Mountains of Kurdistan. Among nent showed no particular anxiety in mind,

As a HONKONG LIVING PER- nors of to-day find modern pro-the very first people 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 SONALITY, it sometimes falls to Is Loo on the best of terms with their of the Niger in French Equatorial our lot to be asked to grace this from abundanco. There

or that social function with our Moslem overlords. Consequently, much of almost everything. Or

Another proposed home is in distinguished presence. That in when the

broke out the

Gulana. The legislative turn calls for poise, at least such is the belief. Men Russians found little difculty in British

It also calle for quite a few are hungry because there is too peraunding the Assyrians to rebel, council of that country, adjoining much whent, and ill clad because Then came the collapse of Russin Brazil, approved a proposal to offer other things as well, but certainly there is ton much cotton, too much and, after incredible hardships and the Assyrians a permanent home not courage of the rare order wool. Surplus is always getting many weary wanderings, the larger in an extensive area of grass-clad exacted on that occasion.

part of the remnant of the Assyrian savannah on the southwestern bor- people were helped by the British der of the colony, not far from the Brazilian frontier. The country in escape to Iraq.

possesses good stock-raising possi- Of the rest, some are living onbilities. The Council of the League approved sending a commission to the Turco-Persian border while a few thousand are scattered among British Guiana to study the possi the tribesfolk of eastern Turkey bilities of the plan. It will report and Soviet Transcaucasia.

early next year,

Suppose the obstacles are sur- For a time after their arrival in mounted and the Assyrians agree new home halfway acroar Iraq, the Assyrians fared sumpto go to tuously. The menfolk were found the world, one inevitable result, in to make excellent soldiers. Under the opinion of most qualified obser- British officers they became the vers, will be the destruction, not famous Assyrian levies which were only of the national entity of the employed, first to fight the Turks Assyrians but of their language. in the When it is realized (and not many to keep order northern part of Iraq: both among people do realize it) that the langu- the Kurds and the Arabs. Thus, age spoken by the Assyrians to-day by arcuaing dislike on the one side-known as "vernacular Syriae" and contempt on the other. the is almost identical with the British inadvertently owed the Aramale tongue spoken by Jesus, Reeds of the present plight of their such a toss must be written down war-time proteges.

as nothing short of a disaster. While the British held a mandate Those who know the Assyrians "Aha, lecks." Wa approved, ever Iraq, an attempt was made to best say that the only way of pre- gratideation in our acknowledg implement the promise given to serving nation and language la toment. the League 10 years ago to find find a lame for them in Asla Minor. We rewarded the pretty young n home in Iraq for the Assyrians The problem, of course, is where? thing with a pinch in the check. on the Turco-Iraqi border north of They are a pastoral and agricul- She blushed prettily. "Oh, Mr. Mosul. But when the British tried tural people, accustomed through to do so, they discovered that the many generations to live. in the only suitable and belonged to the mountains and demonstrably un-

is the other name," we said, ago; #ho

Kurda, who did not want to let the able to establish themselves in the

graciously. the first day Assyrians have it. Accordingly it plains,

Escorted by the Chairwoman, of February of this year. was decided to sandwich the Assy-

we toured the grounds, in an at- Their claim while in Iraq as tempt to sort order out of the that Like all other countries, Iceland rians in piecemeal among their in the course of his New has found the attempt. at total re-

niore powerful neighbours. This always been for lucal autonomy in the Year message,

course, however, met with equally a single locality. Their hereditary chaos of numerous stalls and still Post-pression worse than useless. The stubborn resistance on the part of patriarch, the Mar Shiman, to more numi rous assistants.

When we thought we had had it Generul, Sir. King-law could not be effcctively en- the Assyrians, who saw that it whom the great majority sley 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 second sweet young thing nestled throughout long years of unsuccess-

and queried, demurely, things to say about the further bred other evils of which the al entity.

The end of the British mandate ful negotiations with the Iraq Gov- up to us

"Mr. Bogg, whom have you got development of international United States has the most dis-i 1932 removed the chief check on ernment and the British. All that there as Manager of No. 4 Stall?" telephone services. He stated astrous examples to show. It will the mutual antrosities of the the Assyrians have been offered,

We looked it up and found Alice Crookshanks. that it was hoped to establish be a long time before the stain of three races, Kurds, Araba (and however, is scattered settlements the criminality which prohibition | Assyrians. The climax came laat dotted between the villages of their

"No, she isn't; Doris Peabody a direct telephone service by engendered is wiped froth the face autumn when a band of sople 800 ancient foes, the Moslem Kurds.

If the Turks would have them is," she corrected. sayrius, repenting of their de radio with Japan in February, of America. If prohibition and cision to try to find a new home in back, the Assyrians could return

Wo A happy Idea struck us. adding that successful experi-crime came to be so closely asso-Syria under French mandate, came to their old homes across the bor thought we saw daylight. "O ments had already been carried ciated in that part of the world, back neroak the border only to get der. But the Turkish Government Doris is the most popular girl, I gut between London and Shang- more than in any other, it may into a fight with a detachment of has refused. Another proposal-a perceive,” wo suggested.

the Iraq army. The unexpected much more promising one-though ha Iceland and Kenya Colony, have been because the wealth of

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 enormously profitable and attracted batants in the village of Simell on in the Russo-Turco-Persian no- It will be recalled that some

came an (Continued on next column) three or four years ago, there a type of criminal who had the Aug, 10, 1933. Then

brains and audacity to operate on was talk of a radio telephone

The Roosevelt large scale. 1 link between England and Government is engaged in a deter- Singapore, with an eventual mined effort to exterminate those extension to Hongkong, but gangsters. But a police and a civil certain difficulties were en administration perverted by years countered, with the result 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-

that takće ed, und

time. In Communications hinted that

a comparatively poor country like Hongkong might best secure Iceland, where the social fabrie 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 scr- not be attended by any serious vicu might be operated through diffealty. But there is a curious the medium of the Hongkong provision in the new legislation Government radio department, which polnis to at least one, weak Since that time, not a great deal spot that may have been due to the has been heard of the subject. twenty years. Under the new law | inevitable corruption of the Inst although the experiments carried Government officials found drunk out between London and Shang-while on duty will be subjected to hai have shown that the Home | severa penalties. authorities are thinking b

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was perfectly happy on this corner, captain, until I seen this

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

"Oh, Mr. Bogg," this other sweet sweet young thing said, swectly, "Will you make it Dolly Delamoy7 You see, she has been doing the most work and we think ahe ought to have the position you just gave to Doris Peabody."

This was the last straw. "Oh plense, ladies please make up your minde!"

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

It was then that we disengaged ourself and fled, leaving our frock- coat In other hands,

And wo can assure you that it was about the toughest nows- paper assignment wo, ever under- took.

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man's-land between Lakes Van and Urumiya, mot far from Mt. Ararat, and placed under the direct super- vision of the League of Nations.

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

Ro-established in the mountains, the Assyrians, it is urged, could recover their self-respect. For the past few yogra they have been-as Those who have` come outcasta... into closest contact with them say that many of them have developed (Continued on Page 6.)