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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

6,

1936.

SLAVE TRADE IN THE FAR Constant Flow of Girls From China's Remote

Conference To Be Held In Java

HONGKONG TO

ATTEND

NEXT year a conference

will be held in Java, with delegates from French Indo-China, Timor, Dilly, China, Java, Siam, Hong- kong and Malaya, to discuss what steps should be taken to stamp out the slave traf- fic in this part of the world.

It will be recalled that a

Arrow Goll is a new game in-recent Commission was sent

vented by Herr Pichler Mandert, un out from England to inves-

offelal of the Austrian Air Ministry.

who is seen above demonstrating it.tigate Mui-tsai in the Far The game is played with whips and

Arrows and is a favourite pastime East.

with King Edward VII

2,000 B.C.

Temple

Discovered

The slave traders search in the remote villages of China for persons who are willing to dispose of their daughters, nieces and young female relaims for a pecuniary consider- Hon. Such girls can be procured rasily, especially in poverty-stricken districts

The conskleration usually ranges: between five and ten dollars paid to the guaritians of the girls who, inee the money as paith, are delivered to the slave-trader. At the end of the year the guardians will either

NEW LIGHT ON STORY get their girls back or are paid for

OF EGYPT

Cairo, Out. 20.

The excavations of the Royal University of Milan. which are being conducted at Kom Madinct Madi under the direction of Pro- fessor

[further periods.

NO PAPERS SIGNED

No documents are signed, not only because traders want to pro- tect themselves in case the deal is exposed, but also because the guar

Implicit falth in the dlans have traders and are content to keep quiet as long as the hire money is paid regularly. Often the hends of the villages are privy to the deal commission for not reporting the matter.

Achille Vogliano, have resulted in interesting dis- coveries. During the past season the most important find was that on receive a

the of a Pharaonic temple of XIIth Dynasty.

The girls are then taken to Hong- kong or other seaports from which Professor Vogliano Oral came they are consigned to Malaya or Java atross, at the vestibule of the temple accompanied by the trader himself or of Kom Madinet Madi, four hymns

the truder has ar extensive

in Greek composed by a port named business, by one of his

deputies.

Carmen, one of the stars who will appear at the Gloucester

to-morrow night.

Subsidies Drive British Ships From Pacific

Isidores, who lived at the beginning The party travels with faked pass-BRITAIN'S shipping is being driven from the Pacific

it

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showing that the man

in a close relative of the

Those who are destined for alf- Singapore find itle or no Biculty in entering and, should there be any hitch, this is sooti surmounted by the agents of the slave traders who meet the party on arrival, claim that all are their

of the First Century BC. The fourth ports

the charge hymn gave important dela o founder of the temple, Amenemhet Kirls 11, son of Schostris, and was enn- sequently legitimate to expect that the course of the excavations would reveal the presence of the Pharaonic temple, slice they had already cleur- ed two large courts of a monumental character.

by foreign subsidised competition.

The Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, principal shareholders of which is the P. and O. Company, starts with- drawing ships from the San Francisco Australia-New Zealand run next month; P. and O. vessels will stop operating on this route after December.

The Union Steamship Com- pany has made an annual loss of about £60,000 in the last few

Company, to run into six figures, will also be withdrawn.

EAST Hats Villages

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1.30 p.m. Reuter Press. Rugby Press,

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Time

2.15 p.m., Close Down.

47D.M. Chinese Programme.

7 p.m. Cinema Organ Melodies

by Quentin MacLenn.

Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin): The Clouds will soon roll by: It was so beautiful,

7.15 p.m.

A Recital by Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).

Sons of the Sea (Coleridge-Taylor); Watchman, whint of the night (Sar- jeant); A song for you and (Rizzi); Don't let the river run dry (Haines).

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7.30 p.n. Closing Local Stockt Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 p.m. Marck Weber and

Orchestra.

JIIN

Entr'acte Menuett (Beethoven); Gavotte Mignon" (Thomas): has rested Where my Caravan

Lehariana (Geiger); The (Lohr); Caravan (Bayer, arr. Leopold): The Coolies of Sumatra (Jessel).

8 p.m. Time, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.nl. Variety Items. Vocal-America Calling

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9 p.m. News and Announcements. 0.20 p.m. From the Studio.

"Music Light and Gay." by

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Programme." These Arms have had no money to relations and promptly supply the

Orchestra Play" from 1. "Piny. Very soon an important pronaos authorities with their names and

replace vessels which have become was found, about 20 metres broad,. addresses in Singapore.

out of date. An American firm, sub-To-night at eight-thirty."....Mary in front of which was a small vesti- The agents usually herd the flock

It is probable that the Canadian-sidised by £1,000,000, has been able; Gray: 2. "Meads". A tale da Costa bute; and in front of this, on the axis Ap the Rochor district and the girl Australian line operating from Van- to build much faster and modern Interpretation played by Olga Mor- of the dromos, was an altar, while slaves are distributed among houses couver, whose annual losses on their ships.

The wheels service are stated by Mr. Alexander the foundations of the progos were occupied by sub-agents.

immediately set in motion Shaw, chairman of the P. and O. more ancient building are irners of £ The colour of the stunes and, above to find prospective hirers. all, the great size of the blocks show.

ed that

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a Pharaonle building bad been incorporates with a Ptolemaic

PROLONGED HAGGLING

The hirers found, prolonged hag-| led to on columned gling and bargaining ensues. The one. The prendos

was followed by an agents usually demand $130 as court, which obviously Pharaonic hypostyle hall wages for a year. He gets half or through a door, to the less than a half of this sum which giving иссебя,

either paid immediately or sanctuary, which consisted of three is large chapels. Thul, however, was Instalments.

by

In the latter case a not the end of the monumental en-rate of interest is fixed. Here, too, no

back of semble; for at the

the contacts or receipts are signed. The Pharaonic sanctuary was another of hirer's faith in the integrity of the Ptolemaic dete, with doors leading gent is great; and the agent is al- into a corridor flanked with chapels. Ways very chary in his choice of the

In front of the new sanctuary were massive constructions in the form of a monumental gateway, which in its turn was preceded by a colonnade containing Corinthian capitals, About

on were metres further foundations of another monument. which was probably the north en- An- trance gateway of the town.

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The

other series of monuments, about 150 anetres in length, preceded, by a route of monumental character, with sides

hirer.

It is difcult to say whether the slave girls are used for immoral purposes. Usually they are em- played as maid-servants to clean- houses, take care of children and help in the kitchen. But when a girl happens to be handsome, her beauty will in all probability prove to her detriment.

in the form of steps and danked by Amelia

sphloxes and lions, was also brought to light.

HISTORY TOLD IN HYMNS The hymns of aldores speak processions of pilgrims who came twice a year to this site from all parts of Arsinoite province (the present-day Fayum)..

It is certain that the conditions of the land were different in ancient | tumes from those to-tay. The deso-

advanced and has gradually buri.. 109 ed the old town.

Plans

Lone Flight Round World

M'S

years.

TORTURE WOMAN TO DIE

Maid Beaten, Starved

Vienna, Oct. 25.

SPECTATORS in a crowded

court cheered to-day when pale, smiling Josephine Luner was condemned to be hanged for torturing one maidservant to death and brutally mis- handling three others. Crowds waiting outside the court received the news with joy.

Vienna has been horrifled by the Luner case for nearly three weeks. Frau Luner will be the first woman.

IS.

from

how

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gan: 3. "Un peu d'amour". Gaston The shipping Industry

d'Aquino: 4. "Canzonella"Prue Lewis; 5. Duet: "Make Believe" alarmed at the Government's de-

Mary Gray and Showboat". lay in tackling the question.

G. d'Aquino: 0. Valse Romantique CARGO MONOPOLY

A Raie da Costa Interpretation

7. "Learn ed by Olga Morgan; 7. Colonel Ewhrl. of the P and O. Jose" from the fim "The King steps Company, said: "If British ships are out". Mary Gray; 8, "La. Poema" completely withdrawn from the and "In the middle of a kiss"....Prue Pacifle routes, the communications of Lewis! 9. "Sweet Melody of the the Empire will be menneed and the 'All-Red' route will be cut-a serlous blow to British

prestige.

Night”..........Gaston d'Aquino.

10 p.m. London-Big Ben.

Songs of Scotland.

The Regimental Band of H.M. "It will be impossible to maintain Grenadier Guards. these services unless something is

Nautical done very soon. It is not fair to ex-Moments (arr. Winter & Dutholt). pect the shareholders

to bear heavy The Grenadier Waltz (Waldteufel, losses year after year. In addition art. Winterbottom). lo subsidies the American ships are given ( monopoly on the carriage of

passengers. cargo and

There is nothing to prevent Ame rienns from operating their ships in the purely British Dominion trade between Australia and New Zealand,

"There will be a serious chink in the Empire armour. If our mer chantmen are withdrawn from that Paciile. Remember the Germany, Italy, and Japan are. all carefully nursing thele mer- chant navies.

Mr. H. M. Cleminson, general man-

to be hanged in Austria for 30 years, ager of the Chamber of Shipping of

Anna Augustin, 14-year-old the United Kingdom, said: country girl, entered Frau Luner's service in December 1934. She was tortured, beaten, burned, starved, and otherwise Ill-treated by Frau Luner until she died of exhaustion seven months later, "worn to skeleton," as the judge said. Frau Liner got the simple little

submission and making her aign confessions of misdeeds which

Los Angeles, Oct. 25. MISS AMELIA EARHART, the famous United States flyer, is considering making) a solo flight around the world, In her new "ying laboratory" making a number of experimental into

F1

When about 2,000 B.C. King aeroplane Miss Earhart has been girl into her clutches by starving her

Ainenemhet II, during the

Just

years of his reign, built his temple nights designed to test the stresses she bad not done, the locality must have been prosper.

strains affecting the human To "cure her of lying" Frau Luner ous and brilliant, and the desert and

surt element in aviation, rather than the burned her tongue repeatedly with plain, which now separates

red-hot spoons and pokera. "koms" of Madinet Madi from the mechanical side.

"My experiments will include limit of the cultivation, must have long-distance flights-engineers have

a flourishing aspect. Pharaoh, who had reclaimed such

anid that my machine could By 4,000. large areas in the Fuyum for cultivanties non-stop," she said.

hind

The

great

tin, perhaps wished to marit the

Burned Her In Bed

On one occasion she bound Anna¦ to her bed and burned her with red | Four such long-distance non-stop hot instruments. Then she

poured site of the limit of his conquest of farther than the trail which the late crease the pains.

"bops" would carry the air girl spirits over the girl's wounds to in- nature, erecting a temple to

the Wiley Post blazed Jinrvest-goddess Terenulet.

In the First Century BC. a town circling fight-Reuter.

of considerable size sprang up on

in his globe. She fed Anna on offal and made

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her drink salted milk. The girl had to work until 3 a.m.

At nights she threw her into the morning threw buckets of ley waler

over her.

Frau Luner, a stoul, dark、woman

the south side of the hill, which was vinities adored were Terenuict, the cellar to shiver all night and is the probably the reason for the manu-harvest-goddess, represented as mental roadway, the two courts, and cobra with horns and a disk on her the large pronaos. It remained un head and Sobk, the crocodile god, finished however, the Romans not the titular divinity of the Fayum of 40, was also proved to have mis- caring to complete what the Ptotemies and some other localities. lind successively endeavoured to In the course of the work, a rich handled three former malds in a similar horrible fashion, injuring collection of ennoble.

has been nculpture

them seriously, found, the masterpiece being a She received her sentence calmly The walls of the Pharaonic temple statue, probably of Amenemhet III.with a grin. Her husband, a piti are covered with sacred scenes and The modelling is equal to that of the able broken figure, was sentenced to hieroglyphs, including the Royal most celebrated works of all periods. six years hard labour as an acces- protocols of Amenemhet III. and it is a true portrait of a XIIth sory to several of his wife's atroci-

| iles. Amenemhet IV. The principal de Dynasty Sovereign

HARVEST-GODDESS

The shipping industry expects the Government to promise immediate action. It is confidently expected Iti will recognise the need to join with the three Dominions concerned in providing such financial aid necessary lo maintain

effective British Pacifle service.

"Whether the contribution will be financial help in building fast modern vessels or a financial subsidy for operation will be a matter for de- liberation.

"Subsidies are being used to drive British shipping entirely out of the trades between this and such coun- tries and even to displace British shipping from inter-Empire trade."

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G.B.P., 7 p.m. 7.16 p.m. 7,09 P

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1.1. Belence Talk......Na. E. 11.35 p.m. Beatifah Dance fale.

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