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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988.

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BRITISH EMPIRE

United Kingdom

-To-day 2,100,000,000

495,800,000

1

1011 1,020,000,000 419,400,000

40,690,000

Irish Free State

3,000,000

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Union of South Africa Canada

0,650,000 8,000,000

10,375,000

45,400,000 5,800,000 6,000,000 7,100,000

105,750,000

41,000,000

.06,000,000

Australasia

Soviet Russla

--France

Germany Italy

United Staten Japan

43,000,000 -127,000,000 00,250,000

. 135,000,000

39,250,000 €4,000,000

34,700,000 01,170,000 51,000,000

World

fertility are at work, though her po- among whom the same influences pulation is silit increasing, and will were seen at work, probably continue to Increase for To change from, the small familly. another twenty years-till it reaches in which the number of children is 80,000,000.

deliberately limited, will not be easy.

But according to Mr. Crocker, who It, will be a case of the cradlo versus and will involve drastic studied the problem on the spot, comfort, Japan's people are marrying at a changes in our housing schemes, later

date or avoiding marrriage, which have boycotted the baby, as despite strong social pressure upon garages have replaced nurseries. them to ma

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to marry. Such is a bird's-eye view of the population problem in pome of the

Hongkong Hotel decrease in our population" is have crouraged marritine they may tends to stagnation or decline.

more rapidly than it has done.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1938.

Autumn or Fall?

When corn cars turn brown

In Italy the case is much the same world's typical States. What stands T is particularly noteworthy in this IN his speech at Margate, and

There, too, the Government is doing out from it is its menace to the connection that, where the stan- last year

when opening the its utmost to increase the birth-rate British Empire. If the population of dard of comfort is highest, there the Budget. Mr. Chamberlain drew and to make Italy one of the most Great Britain sank by 10,000,000 or decline in the birth-rate is most attention to the new set of pro- expert verdict is that its measures flow of emigrants to the Dominions

prolife mitions. But there, too, the 20,000,000 there could be no steady marked.

Action is clearly required, but af blems which "the progressive have not permanently increased the oversea, where the population now what character should it be? Here the biometricians do not help us. and pre-

no The authorities on the subject are Professor Carr-Saunders has going to raise. They are vast vented the birth-rate from falling agreed with a singular unanimity doubt as to the urgency of the matter that the small family customary to or the stupendous difficulties which |and terrifying. problems which

demand the closest study,

State, Jupan, there are distinct Indi- wide movement of depopulation. that there must be a reform in the cations that forces unfavourable to They can point to the ancient Greeks, outlook upon marriage as the prelude. The hour is at hand when...our

will population

decrease. It has risen continuously for the last 250 years. It doubled Itself between. 1801 and 151; it doubled itself once more between 1851 and 1911. But this automatic dvance Is ccasing. We are approaching one of the turning-points in world history.

F

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Falling Population

DR. GRACE LEYBOURNE, a stalis- ilclan of special authority, after

a detailed investigation of the Bgures,

has calculated that a definite decline

and hang downward, when nuts in the English population will begin

thud on thin sod or clatter on

In 1941. By 1951 the population will

PERSONALITIES OF OLD HONGKONG

dom

Fate's Strange Trick On

A Brilliant

H.K. Lawyer

Hongkong during the first By T. PAUL GREGORY the pleasure of Her Majesty be known." Meanwhile, the official have fallen from 40,500,000 to 38,-few years of its history was the the bare earth, when leaves. By 1975 it will have been mecca for all sorts and con-community which thrived upon Coroner of the Colony, Mr.

in ditions of men who flocked here gossip

lieu of infre- Percy Caulincourt McSwynoy, redden and yellow, when the halved and will fall to 19,000,000.

news from the out who seemed to have been lawn caretaker rakes them into

This calculation assumes that fer-in search of wealth, adventure, quent

Some side world was keyed up to a former classmate of his, had heaps, and coal trucks rumble

tility will continue at its present level. and a successful career.

"In

Laith can be placed in such calcula-

the fact that in 1821 calculations of

in speeded-up delivery, there isThere are experts who regard that as had been sailors before the expectancy, and the following been forced to resign from his no mistaking the season, But

an optimistic sumption. Dr. Enid mast, others, army veterans announcement in the Government onice, and he was nominated to do you call it autumn, or fall? Charles, another statistician of dis- from India, and a formidable Gazette of July 29, 1846 was refill the vacancy. This intter avid appointment was, however, but tinction, calculates that if the rate of host of nondescript individuals garded with the most every way,** says д

temporary; for the Government learned Englishman of old Lon-fertility should continue to fall as it of various crafts and profes-attention:

"Mr. N. D'Esterre Parker, felt that Mr. Parker was better 4 don, "fall is better on the merits is at present doing, a century hencesions.. Among these latter were than autumn.

It is short, the population of England will have a number of lawyers, many of Solicitor of the High Court of fitted to serve as Proctor in whom subsequently proved to Chancery, and one of the At-Admiralty than as a Coroner, Saxon, picturesque. It reveals shrunk to only 4,420,000, its derivation to every one who

This would be about half the papu-be pariahs of the legal profes-torneys of Her Majesty's Courts and he was accordingly gazetted Common in that capacity on January 12, uses it, not to the scholar onlylation of Greater London to-day. It sion, whose sojourn here was of Queen's Bench,

is an alarming figure, and were it usually short and troublous. Pleas, and Exchequer, in Ire-1847. as does autumn. We once had verlied, it would mean the fall of Many of them, moreover, were land, has been duly admitted to

The year 1847 was, moreover, as good a right to it ач the

"Sydney ducks" and 'these men, practice as a Solicitor, Attorney, the annus mirabilis the "won- the British Empire. Americans, but we have chosen

especially by their irregular and Proctor of the Supreme derful year" of his stay in to let the right lapse so that to Peculiar Decline methods, brought disgrace upon Court of Hongkong. Mr. Parker Hongkong-for on every hand use this monosyllable now is

the profession, so much so that is likewise a legally constituted he prospered. His legal prac little better than larceny," Twill naturally be asked whether by the year 1845, the European Public Notary of the High Court tice increased by leaps and

Prerogation of England. Apparently autumn is now tions. The answer is that the statis-residents felt that one of their of

bounds, so that he felt it incum- English, while fall is American.icians of the world are in tolerably most urgent needs was for a Office at Messrs. Bowra and bent to seek additional assis Further investigation reveals close agreement. Moreover, there is fully qualified member of the Bar Co's., Queen's Road."

Mr. Norcott D'Esterre Parker tance, and despatched a letter to autumn as better suited to the probable population in 1931 were who would not only be able to

his younger brother William in verse, with fall congenial to made in the Registrar-General's uice represent them honourably in was born in Ireland about the Ireland to come out and join him prose. The searcher can scare-for non-nfcial use. When the 1931 legal matters, but who also year 1818.. Very little is known in Hongkong. The administra- cely find a poetic reference to Census Returns were available, the would be willing to assist in the about his life at Home, save that tion, too, had come to regard error in the estimates was only 0.13 building up of the infant Colony. he was a graduate of the him as one of its most promising fall whereas he encounters per cent.-a negligible amount. Their wishes were soon to be University of Dublin, and was a servants. His successful dis- autumn almost at every turn- "yellow autumn wreathed withing to be peculiar to Great Britain, rumours were circulated that at was, however, apparently a man

The decline in population is not go-gratified; for late in June 1846, member of the Irish Bar.

charge of his duties as tem- nodding corn,"

," "autumn is the dough in her case it threatens to be

fluenced the Governor to name mellow time," "autumn nodding more marked and much more danger long last a barrister who was with high connections; for his porary Crown Prosecutor in- ous than in other countries. The really ornament to his establishment of a legal practice him permanent appointee, and 'er the plain," "an autumn that s cvilised world is affected. In profession was shortly to settle in the Colony was at once wel- on November 30, 1847, an an grew by reaping," "autumn days France, the low birth-rate bus for in the Colony. This person comed, and from the very begin- nouncement to this effect was are here again," "autumn's fire," afty years been causing anxiety, and

"the there a drop in population from 42, whose identity was not dis-ning of his stay he possessed en published in the Gazette, "happy autumn-fields," windy lights of autumn," and 900,000 to 30,000,000 is anticipated by closed, was stated to possess extensive clientele. "autumnal leaves in Vallom 1900, the decline setting in next year. "extensive legal acquirements administration favourably

and he brosa."

In Germany, ever since the Nazland experience," and, moreover, garded him, advent to power, there has been was avowed to be a "welcome appointed by the Governor, Sir Autumn has won classic ap-anxiety about the birth-rate, which acquisition to the society of the John Davis, to serve as tem- proval and wide sanction has shown a distinct tendency to fall.

A positive decline in the population place." Naturally enough the porary Crown Prosecutor, "until through long usage; it be-is predicted by the blometricians from speaks the scholarly. Fall is 1946 onwards. popular because of its shortness According to Kahn's estimate and case of enunciation. But prepared before Herr Hitler's reme- autumn remains the poets' dial measures were put into force- favourite, because autumnal it will sink from its present figure of glory has a poetic ring and fall, 66,000,000 to less than 50,000,000 by 1075; or, by Burgdorfer's calculations, it seems, has none.

It will fall to 47,000,000 in 2000.

Theory-

Almost 150 years ago Thomas Day died without learn- ing much from life. He was an ardent apostic of Rousseau, the French educationist.

The Exception

E most important exception to. the world-wide decline is likely to be Russia, perhaps because her civilisation is too rudimentary to be affected by the mysterious forces at of work: The present population

10 expected about 150,000,000 is His enthusiasm for reform double itself in the next sixty years. even coloured his idea of the Russia of 300,000,000 inhabitants wife he wanted. Day adopted confronting a Europe with shrunken will be an an orphan girl and tried to train and sinking population her after the Rousseau princi-wieldy, heavily armed Soviet State of

even graver problem than the un ples. But she jumped when he to-day. fired a blank shot near her,

The reason for Her Hitler's strenu- screamed when he dropped hot our efforts to increase the German birth-rate is now clear. The por- sealing-wax on her hand.

tentous Russia of the future will be a tremendous peril to Germany.

As yet, however, Hexr litler's measures have produced disappoint- is true that ing results, though they have raised the number of birls from 970,000 in 1930 to 1,181,- 000 in 1934.

In fact, she reacted as any norimal girl would, and Thoniaa Day decided against marrying her. For she would not behave according to his theories.

And human nature

In the opinion of Professor Carr- Years later he was still trying Saunders, the best British authority to train other lives. He experi- on the subject, "ail that has happen- mented with a colt this time. cd so far is that an unusually large number of first births Have been But the horse knew nothing crowded into a year, and no abiding change has been produced in the\rate about Rouascau.

of fertility." He thinks the forces at It kicked Thomas Day and he work too powerful to be readily mas.

tered. never recovered,

an

GRIN AND BEAR IT

The BILGE HOUR Drity. COMEDIAN DOE TRIPPLE BIGE MKERAL WATER PROGRAM

ISLENCE

WHILE CASTING

He

The local re- Was

By Lichty

CONTROL ROOT

LAUGHTER (HARD)

"Next week is, Joe's birthday—I'm thinking of buying him two

ncip page!"

His speedy rise in the esteem. of the general public was -un- to bo suddenly fortunately dashed by ATL apparently inexplicable performance, which brought the young Irishman's lofty visions of success down about his ears like the collapse of a house of cards. It seems that one January day in 1849,' Mr. Parker finding time hanging rather heavy upon his hands.. was hoping that something would turn up to allay the tedium; for life in Hongkong. was now for the first time bt- ginning to surfeit him. As if In answer to his wish there ar rived in his office à Chinese police Informer by name of Lee Kip-tye, who told him that at- Ping Chau, an island between Hongkong and Macao, there was a junk anchored which had on. board a number of articles from the wreck of a European ship. "How jolly it would be," thought young Parker to him self, "If I could just find out what the name of the wreck may. bo. By Jove, I think I will go out and have a look."

Leaving his office in charge of his brother William, Mr. Parker set off for Ping, Chau, in 'com. pany with the above-mentioned police informer, and another Chinese whose name is not mon- tioned in accounts of tho episode. Upon their arrival at tho the island they found Chinese Junk beached upon tho ahoro, and being caulked by number of boatmen who were:

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