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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, August 26, 1930.

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WEDNESDAY, Aug, 26, 1986.

COSTLY SECOND

THOUGHTS.

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SUR-

is

OVER FIVE MILLIONS

HONG KONG

Slavery cannot be abolished,"

says the Covernment.

THE report of the experts on slavery presented to the last Council meeting of the League of Nations, was one of the most astonishing documents ever laid before an International hotly.

*

Members of the Counell were obviously shocked to find how wltic prend and how deeply en- trenched is this "crime against the human race," as Sir Austen Chamberlain Once Slavery.

called.

Slavery is a very ugly thing, and it in abundantly cicar from the 'Committee's report that several Governments and many rulers are deing their utmost to draw a vell over it.

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for considera- tee for the courage with which it 1233 come

bus reivsed to throw dust in the future. the tion. in

eres of the public by recepting the The scheme, as originally plan-oficial view that by calling slavery ned, made provision for, they some less malodorous name the character of the crime is changed. It has done well to remember the erection of a new Government House at Magazine Gap, the story of the good monk who, hav- eventual sale of Crown land at red of eating fish every day In Lent. shot a rabbit and, plung- Beaconsfield Arcade, the demoli-ing it into the font, declared-- Album: 68)tion of the present Government" baptise thee a fish" thereby House, the sale of further land satisfying both appetite and con-

science! thus rendered available, and an extensive new lay-out of the area between Queen's Rond and Albert Road, involving Lower the disappearance of Battery Mu: Tsnl," Quast adoption," Path and the attractive tree-Serfdom." covered area in that locality.

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Beautiful Eyes

The Committee peints out that not only does crude slavery operato.... In a number of countries, but that it is allowed to masquerade under such respectable titles as "Debt bondage." Pawning, Peonage."

And then it bluntly tells the Council of the League that with

| Funds for the project were togard to one of these: "It is pos-

be obtained from the sale of the alble that there is more numan

old City Hall site and the other areas affected, and it was anti-' bo eipated that these would

more than sufficient to pay for

ADEN-

"One Sultan alone owns 800 davos."

misery as the re- salt of debt, slay- ery than there is anywhere as the result of domesile slavery !**

Indeed, throughout the 100 pages of this report almost every paragraph has its own story of misery and de- gradation.

The most in- teresting and to most British people-most

starting facts are found in

are still IN SLAVERY

by SIR JOHN

HARRIS

AFRICA-

women by means of the so-. called" dowry" or "bride price," and they conclude this section with a truth strikingly ex- pressed: "Frem bride price' to slave price' Is but a short step." And that "short step" has led thousands of women down to a veritable hell of misery and degradation!

Are we soon to hear grave dis-

closures about slavery in India? Nobody can read the report of the League Committee. without a feel- ing of profound alari about the Native States of India, It seems that in 1935 the Slavery Committer. doubtless for very substan tial reasons, suggested a very reasonable step to the Ind Ofee, which, shortly stated. was that the British Gov- ernment should invite the Indian States

which

slavery might still exist" declare their intention to take action for its suppres- alon "surely a very simple, -reasonable and courteous in-

vitation. But with what result?

The Committee makes the disclosure that the India Office cannot do so! Of course, it cannot, but the re- fusal to do so should now liberate the

and pens voices of those who know what was behind thut apparently very simple sug- gestion of the Stavery Com- mittee!

The pleture of the British struggle discloses other slave other slave and' areas

Burma, ht Bechuanaland, Malaya,

systems, such as "Though the position is confused, there is still

a lot of slavery."

of slavery." further, that one Sultan himselt owns about 500 slaves."

-the review of slavery in British controlled territories, How few Bri- uish people have grasped the fact that 100 years after the emancipa- In Kowelt in 1930 "the number of slaves was estimated at 2,000, tion of slavery in Brilish owned territories our administrators are but must be much smaller now." carrying

the In the Truckl Slickdoms Great struggle against slavery in more than n dozen British controlled terri-

tortes!

On ก

IN

spite of a despairing Government report that "slavery" cannot 'In fact be abolished,, the 50 years' struggle in Hong Kong waxes stronger.

In the Adon Protectorate the British Government informed the League Committee that "the legal status of slavery still exists." and that "there are no fewer than 4,000 to 5,000 persons in a state

SIDE GLANCES

of

the entire undertaking. As the of the Colony, which could well sale of these sites, for do with replenishment. Menn- the specific purpose mentioned, white, the possible abandonment was not regarded as normal re- of the project serves to recall

the the needless expenditure from land sales,

on schemes which Secretary of State approved of money the diversion of the proceeds of planned and then east aside. In these sales from the general the present instance, quite a revenue, and a special fund was substantial sum has been

venue

are

ex-

pended on the approach road to the the proposed new Government House, which may now never bet

created by Ordinance, this being kept quite distinct from ordinary finances of the Colony.

no

A statement of the condition of built. This is an almost parallet this fund, issued when the last case with that of the road, how Budget was introduced, shows overgrown with weeds, leading that a

sum of $1,257,600 was to the original site of the War Stubbs the

of Memorial Hospital on sale received from a portion of the City Hall Road, upon which, and on site. site to the Hongkong and preparation, many thousands of Shanghai Banking Corpora-dollars were spent--all to tlon, whilst on the other purpose, since the venue of the Elizabeth Arden stresses the care of the side of the account are items hospital was later changed. We eyes particularly and can advise you how which total nearly four lakhs. may recall, also, the expenditure Whether the whole of this latter of some quarter of a million to keep the eyes strong, clear & bright.

sum, which includes over $91,- dollars in piling the original site The Arden method of resting, cleansing 000 for the cost of construction of the new gaol, at Ngau Shi

·Gexercising the eyes is the result of long of the approach road to the Wan-so much money wasted in at view of the subsequent decision. site Government House research & practice.

Magazine Gap, has been actually to erect the prison at Stanley. SPECIAL VENETIAN

expended is not quite clear. It All these instances arise from

a policy of VENETIAN SPECIAL EYE LOTION is apparent, however, that there the lack of

П consequent VENETIAN CRYSTALLINE EYE DROPS is a very considerable credit tinuity, with

GROWER balance, and this will be sup- squandering of the Colony's re- EYELASH

on ill-starred schemes. VENETIAN

plemented as and when the venues

portion of the It is therefore to be hoped that remaining All these preparations will beautify & maintain the natural beauty of the eyes: the City Hall site and other the Government House and City. The Development plan, if now aban- arens are disposed of.

EYE

CREAM

con

PERFUMERY CORNER-LADIES' SALON point arises, however, whether, doned, will be the last of the

if the scheme is to be aban-undertakings to come within doned, there is any further that category, and that the

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.necessity to keep the funds lying Colony may ire spared from

ille in a separate account needless dutlay of funds on un- whether, in fact, they might not completed works. rovert to the general revenues

number of slaves employed in pearl diving is not known, but is esti- mated at several thousands."

Away in Africa the position is confused, but the Report makes it clear that there is a lot of slavery in Northern Nigeria and the Came- roons" there is a slave trading route which passes through the north eastern.corner of the Bornu Province" ...the agents sell their victims to the Inhabitants of the Lake Chad area."

The same story is told of other territories. The Slavery Com- mittee has, it seems, commenced an examination of the modern de- velopments of the transfer of

By George Clark

"It looks just like a real automatic. You can scare the living daylights out of your friends."

is a picture of the darkest corners of the earth, fall of the " habitations" of demoralisa- tion, degradation and cruelty.

But it has

has one or two bright features. For instance, the coura- geous frankacas with which our Government offers have disclosed facts hitherto unknown to the public, and also the devotion and self-sacrifice which British officials are showing in their great task of securing consent to emancipation from reluctant native rulers and alave-owners.

- ATTR

LET one eple story, neces-

sarily reduced to a single sentence, suce! From 1930 to 1945 the Bri- tish Legation at Jeddah secured the emancipation of 135 slaves who had fled to the British Minister for protection under the British nag!

The fact that the Chinese Re- public has fasued a decree abolish- ing the Mut Teal system demon- strates the growing strength of public opinion in China, against form of slavery. This is any

encoured probably the most feature in the Slavery Commli- tco's report, but China has a great task before her if she is to liberate some 3,000,000 Mui Tsall

Signor Suvich, until recently the Foreign Office peu of the Duce. the brought to the notice of Blavery Committee the conditions of slavery in certain Abyssinian- territories occupied by. - Italian forces.

most important facts he mo...ons are that tallan decrees have set free 20,000 slaves in the Tigre: that the Italiana discovered the ratio of slaves in that territory to be one-twelfth of the popula tion, which, correct. would make the slave population of Abyssinia about 1,000,000.

But he nowhere told the Com- mittee how Italy proposes to give practical effect to the decree of emancipationt Mussolini has not yet provided any machinery for giving effect to the decrec.

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+

HE decision of the Coun- ell to Cerward this indictment of pretont-day slavery to the As- sembly next September, passes to thady the responsibility of pro- pe new measures for emanet-

the slaves.

to

Simon has been criticised anting the number of pot.it armed na property..slaves at 5,050,000. Now that this Ro- port in issued one can understand the remark of C. F. Andrews. "There

are many more than

-To-day's Thought

AN acre in Middlesez la batter than a principality in. Utopia.

-LORD MACAULAY.

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