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My Amah took a "Walkee-walkee,"
H LUM was a brave and gallant little boy, though possibly trifle foolhardy, after the manner of youth the world
over.
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His mother and I hope that he is still a boy-of whatever size or mental calibre-and not merely another heap of mangled flesh and broken bones.
Ah Lum would not come to Hongkong; on that point he was adamant.
He would stay at his village school, learn all he could there, and then come to Hongkong to his amah mother and learn English.
His programme was complete, decisive and inflexible. And he is eleven years old!
So there he remained in his
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THURAY, November 24, 1930.
On Being Critical THE ARTICLE
by John Blunt in our issue yester day was timely.
It might be a very sound idea to say a little bit less about England's moral duty in regard to the checking of the dictators.
peaceful village, unper- With that familiarity which
'He had been lying on his face, Sturdy, well-fed and tidily mouth well open, as instructed clad. he left his uncle's tiny by the painstaking Elders, but dwelling each morning for the one bare, hardened little foot hud village school, casting aloft a been badly torn by an errant bright and questing eye, set in a splinter. cheerful, impish face, for possi- ble overhead dangers.
clude the whole gamut of
At least that is her intention. CHINA'S TRIBULATIONS in- turbed by that hideous outcome breeds contempt, Ah Lum had Questioned, she had only hazy of prostituted science and mis- not completely sheltered within ideas of how she was to proceed woes-poverty, over-population, directed brain-the acrial mons- his haven.
beyond Shumchun.
flood, famine, drought, oppres- sion, exploitation, civil strife, ter.
"Go tlain, Missie, go tiain." "But there are no trains Shum- disease, war!
A Satanic enumeration! China chun more far, Amah.”
"Have got, Missie, have got has faults, many of them; sho has exasperating methods, often. lain, man-tlain!"
Richsha, wheelbarrow? Ap- But are not the traits exhibited parently not, but some mysteri- by these two ordinary, unassum- ous means of locomotion known ing typical members of the na- only to herself, or at all events, tion unmistakably and obvious- unfathomable to me, and in- ly those of an indomitable and dicated by the motion of winding an unconquerable people? up a huge peg-top!
And Ah Sum and her boy are She seemingly has no doubts not exceptional, evidenced by the whatever as to the successful fact that they-and their neigh- termination of her aims, and bours-think nothing of the ad- contemplates her hazardous venture into the enemy-haunted Hurried to that inestimable journey with complete fortitude territory. boon to the Chinese countryman, and unquestioning faith.
Nor is it the bliss of ignorance;
At times the primitive, but extremely effective, air-raid warning-the temple bell- clangs the alarm.
Sin Sun Wong, the long- old garbed, gentle, bearded teacher, asks his charges: "Shall we go?" "No," but not a very decided "no"i
A drone is heard overhead.
goes,
A dull thud shakes and shivers the little timber building.
No need for further question-
-by- N. S.
Whitestone
completed to his entire satisfac- ful, contented, debonair and con- THE HOVERING, vulture na- tion.
fident the perfect foil to u des- tions might be well advised pondent, dyspeptic, gloomy and to seck easier-or less danger-
ous-prey. pessimistic Missie! Canton A little food and a few gar- are stuffed into an old
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ing. Teacher and taught scat AH SUM has left me. ter to field and open country. A has fallen. Where is her ments
After all, there are more ignoble aims than the desire to
The scholars return to their the Missionary Hospital, when I curse my typical European accounts are being brought into preserve the pe ce. And when tasks, but with a somewhat Ah Lum returned he was no ignorance of her language, block the Colony-true or not I cannot
divided attention. all that there is to say about
longer, strictly speaking, a biped. ing the way to fuller understand- say which might well detor a But he still clung to his reso- ing of her thoughts and philo- iesser personality than Ah Sum. Mr. Chamberlain's alleged "Shall we go"? Sin Sun asks. lution not to come to Hongkong sophy,
with inner sympathy
one answers-but no the No
one until his village education was So off she goes, smiling, cheer-
Fascists has been said, the fact remains that the man has been making a desperate effort to keep our country out of war.
Maybe he has been making his effort in the wrong way. Maybe the risks of a policy are greater than the risks of a forthright, daring and clear-cut policy of defiance to all aggres- sors. Maybe in the long run England will have to fight any- way, and will only make the
evil day.
few of the more scary-minded son? She brave and gallant blue cotton bag, her money safe foolishly make for home.
mother of a brave, gallant and from those who might break in Happily the planes are making fatherless little son-sets off for and steal-but this is secret be- for a more distant and unfor- Sheungping "more far."
tween Amah and met tunate prey, and before long small figures emerge from scrub and bamboo clump, make their
way schoolwards, and resume T. PAUL GREGORY recalls the
their interrupted education.
IT IS ALL in the day's work, and any word of recognition of this admirable nonchalance- typical of China-would prob.
prehending stares.
AWAIT the return of Ah Sum -and Ah Lum.
Doubts 7 China's philosophy............. forbids their craven entry.
man to follow.
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STRANGE CASE OF THE YOUTH
WHO CAUSED AN "INCIDENT fight tougher by postponing the ably merely meet with uncom-HOW a nineteen-year-old Hong-procession--something was fated 10 under arrest, and beckoned the young
kong youth was once the happen.
He was taken to the guard-room But Ah Lum is a favoured, cause of a serious international
OPPOSED CUSTOM
and there locked up for the night. enviable and envied little lad. "incident" forms one of the
But let Mr. Summers tell this por lost all his cocksureness and bravado Ey next morning, the young man ind He has discovered and staked most amazing episodes in the
"Having arrived at Macan by the to look around for means of secur cave in the hillside, just about This was the celebrated case of steamer Canton, on the afternoon
A letter addressed here during the late forties, o'clock; after taking refreshments, unanswered he addressed a note
an shore about six-walked Mr. P. Forbes, the American consu- In this haven-of exactly the who. during an excursion to ent
along the Praya treet, presently realising that there
und then type in which all children love Macao, became involved in a turning up a narrow
crowd of persons
looking to play out their little romances occurrence which was to create came to a crowd
But it is hardly becoming for persons at a distance to be too
vocal about all of this.
The last war isn't so far away but what we can remember it
out his claim to a tiny natural colourful history of this Colony tion of the story in his own words: of the previous evening, and began
large enough to shelter three Mr. James Summers, a resident of Thursday, June 7th, about ng his release.
to the Portuguese Governor being
small bodies.
lar official in Macao. The latter. British was no Consul in Macao, and sympathising young Brilon in his un- the men fortunate plight, at once called on
peuple kneeling, but seeing that It
remuined covered."
pretty clearly. A whole gen- eration of young men was des-
-Ah Lum, Liang Ho and Kam much embarrassment in official procession with banners, etc., with the
and WAS ultimately I came nearer observed troyed. The monument which Tong spent hour after hour, not circles, commemorates the Somme drive only those of danger, but the solved by tactful diplomatic re-thin hats off and almost all the Captain Henry Koppel, of H. B. M. S.
who, sallor-ke, leisure time when school is over. presentations and the payment was n Roman Catholle ceremony, and Meander and Captain Keppel was a distrusted diplomacy, There is small fear in their of an "indemnity." But that is entirely at variance with my belief, wh
not hesitate to and would bears a plaque in honour of
take action if his demands were re- minds the cave is a familiar, getting ahead of the story. some 60,000 unknown dead---
Apparently the young man did fured. First of all he consulted with homely spot, and were it not for Mr. James Summers was born in not totul casualties, just men
Engiand about
He not feel disposed to conform to cus other captains of British ships lying the year 1830. the occasional sickening drone arst appears in the chronicles of all tom, but with the impetuosity of off Macao, and then, together with
idge of determined to
D. M. S. H. D. who vanished without a trace overhead, life might be the Tongtong about the year 1847 when youth he
secure a Captain Troubridge
Amazon, called upon the Portuguese normal one of the Chinese coun-as a youth of seventeen, he was em grand-stand view of the procession.
the meantime, the during the course of the battle.tryside.
ployed by the Rev, Vincent Stanton, and with this intention in mind he Governor. In
the balcony of die charge against Mr. Summers had Chaplain of the Colony, to serve an stood beneath
simmered down to one of disrespect The War wrecked England's
an assistant teacher in ʼn free school Misericordia Church--the only run to the Governor, and while it was among the multitude with a hat on hls hend. A Catholic priest, Father
Father recognised that he had been
een origin- and requested ally arrested by one of the soldiers the
youth in
with problems that will be gen- erations in the solving.
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Almelut, appro to remove his for not taking off hin hat at the pro-
economy and left the Empire ONE BRIGHT MORNING the and later in St. Paul's College.
village unscathed for BO
PIOUS YOUNG MAN long-is deliriously excited and
His first two years in Hongkong hat. Summere, however, shook his version of Corpus Christl, now, with astonished by the dropping of passed quietly enough, and we know head, and even had he never been out reference to that, his special of In view of all of this, the bomb, outside the village it is little of this period except that he told to do so, he could not have failed fence was considered to be not taking
true, but with sullen thud and was regarded by his superiors us to perceive that to be the only one of his itat, upon English are hardly to be blamed
deafening burst which abakes cidentally, too, one who was making good-breeding and to those who were
extremely plous young man, and in-l covered would be offensive alike to Governor of Macao. if they choose to move cautious-the little hamlot to its staunch excellent progress in his endeavouts engaged in religious offices.
little heart.
ly in the Europear powder mine.
war, wo
to
much
or plety was tinctured with so
master the Chinese language. Un- however, his degree of
the order of the
COMPLICATED CASE The matter might have been easily ARRESTED
solved then and there, if Captain dogmatism that he was narrow An angry murmur went through Keppel had felt disposed to Rak release Mr. and people uncompromising and the crowd,
were des- Governor Amaral to If we think that stopping and doing our part. Since we and uncome oral to his creed, he patched to report post-haste such Summers as a personal favour, but Fascism is worth a
don't have the slightest intend the most important In- disrespect to the Portuguese Govern-ho felt it repugnant to ask for it on of piety itself-tolerance for or, Joao Maria Ferreira do Amaral, that ground, and regarded it as a could have offered our in- tion of doing that, it would be the beliefs and observances of others. The latter dispatched a soldier to the right. Thereupon the Governor re- the prisoner In Consequently, it is to be expected scene, who ordered the young man plied: dividual services to Spain in the just as well for us to stop talk at when he pald a visit to Macao to take off his hat at once. Sum-committed to the Judicial authorities, early days of the civil war by ing about the policy of our one June day in 1049 to witness the mers complied, but immediately re to be judged by Portuguese laws.
most solemn festival of the Roman placed it on his head. Thereupon, Captain Keppel had now decided
(Continued on Page 4.) Catholle Church-the Corpus Christ the soldier Intimated that he was getting out' on the firing line Homeland.
Then
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