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TunSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1938.
On Being Critical THE ARTICLE
John
by 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.
After all, there are more ignoble aims than the desire to preserve the pence. And when all that there is to say about Mr. Chamberlain's alleged inner Hympathy with the 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
A
My Amah took a "Walkee-walkee,"
1
H.LUM
was a brave and gallant little boy, though possibly trifle foolhardy, after the manner of youth the world
over.
His mother and I hope that he is still a boy-of whatever size 01 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
once
'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 had 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.
At times the primitive, but extremely effective, air-raid warning-the temple bell- clangs the alarm.
by- N. S.
Whitestone
peaceful village, unper- With that familiarity which At least that is her intention. CHINA'S TRIBULATIONS in- clude the whole gamut of 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 wacs-poverty, over-population, directed brain-the aerial mons- lis haven.
beyond Shumchun.
flood, famine, drought, oppres- "Go tlain, Miasie, go tlain." sion, exploitation, civil strife, ter.
"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; she has exasperating methods, often. tlain, man-tlain!"
Richsha, wheelbarrow? Ap- But are not the traits exhibited parently not, but some mysteri- by these two ordinary, unnaaum- 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 completo fortitude territory.
Nor is it the bliss of ignorance; boon to the Chinese countryman, and unquestioning faith. to their the Missionary Hospital, when I curse my typical European accounts are being brought into somewhat Ah Lum returned he was no ignorance of her langunge, block- the Colony-true or not I cannot longer, strictly speaking, a biped. ing the way to fuller understand- say which might well deter a A drone is heard overhead.
But he still clung to his reso- ing of her thoughts and philo- lesser personality than Ah Sum. "Shall we go"? Sin Sun asks. lution not to come to Hongkong sophy. No one answers-but no one until his village education was goes.
completed to his entire satisfac- ful, contented, debonair and con- THE HOVERING, vulture na- fident the perfect foil to a des- tions might be well advised. pondent, dyspeptic, gloomy and to seek easier-or less danger-. pessimistic Missle!
Sin Sun Wong, the long- teacher, asks his charge: "Shall garbed, gentle, bearded old
we go?" "No." but not a very decided "no"!
The scholars return tasks, but with a divided attention.
A dull thud shakes and shivers tion. the little timber building.
No need for further question-
رسم
So off she goes, smiling, cheer-
A little food and a few gar- is her ments are stuffed into an old
ous-prey.
*
>> 。
AWAIT the return of Ah Sum
--and Ah Lum
Doubts? China's philosophy forbids their craven entry..
ing. Teacher and taught scat AH SUM has left me. Canton ter to field and open country. A has fallen. Where 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 sccret be- for a more distant and unfor- Sheungping "more far.”
tween Amah and me! tunate prey, and before long small figures emerge from scrub and bamboo clump, make their way schoolwards, and resume their interrupted education.
England will have to fight any- IT IS ALL in the day's work,
and any word of recognition of
way, and will only make the this admirable nonchalance
fight tougher, by postponing the
evil day,
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 rémember it
T. PAUL GREGORY recalls the
STRANGE CASE OF THE YOUTH WHO CAUSED AN "INCIDENT" ably merely meet with uncom-How a nineteen-year-old Hong-procession-something was fated to under arrest, and beckoned the young.
typical of China-would prob-
prehending stares.
and
man
kong youth was once the happen.
man to follow.
enviable and envied little lud.
But Ah Lum is a favoured, cause of a serious international
He was taken to the guard-room OPPOSED CUSTOM
and there locked up for the night. "incident" forms one of the He has discovered and staked most amazing episodes in the
But let Mr. Summers tell this por-Ey net morning, the young man had
lost all
evening, and began out his claim to a tiny natural colourful history of this Colony.in of the story in his own words: stel his cocksureness and bravado cave in the hillside, just about This was the celebrated case of Steamer Canton, on the afternoon ng his release. A letter addressed
"Having arrived at Macao by the
to look around
for means of secur- large enough to shelter three Mr. James Summers, a resident of Thursday, June 7th, about to the Portuguese Governor being small bodies.
here during the late 'forties, 'clock; after taking refreshments, un
unanswered he addressed a note to on shore about six-walked Mr. P. Forbes, the American consu- In this haven-of exactly the who, during an excursion to ent pretty clearly. A whole gen- type in which all children love Macao, became involved in an along the Prayu Grande, and then lar offelal in Macao. The latter.. Turning a narrow street, presently realising that there was no British eration of young men was des- to play out their little romances occurrence which was to create came to a crowd of persons looking Consul in Macac
and aympathising: -Ah Lum, Liang Ho and Kam much embarrassment in official at a procession with banners, etc. with the young Briton in lus an- troyed. The monument which Tong spent hour after hour, not circles,
was ultimately as I came nearer I observed the men fortunate plight, at once. called on commemorates the Somme drive only those of danger, but the solved by tactful diplomatic re- with their hots off and almost all the Captain Henry Keppel, of H. B, M. S. people lineeling, but seeing that it Meander and Captain Keppel was a leisure time when school is over, presentations and the payment was a Roman Catholic ceremony, and man
who, sailor-like, distrusted bears a plaque in honour of There is small fear in their of an "indemnity." But that is entirely at variance with my belief, diplomacy, and would not hesitate to
remained, covered." minds-the. cave
take action if bir demands
were re- is a familiar, getting ahead of the story. some 60,000 unknown dead-
Mr. James Summers was born in Apparently homely spot, and were it not for
the young
man did fured. First of all he consulted with
lying ships not total casualties, just men
He not feel disposed to conform to cus-other captains of British the year 1830. the occasional sickening drone England about
the impetuosity of off Macao, and then, together with who vanished without a trace overhead, life might be the Hongkong about the year 1847 when youth be
first appears in the chronicles of old tom, but with
determined to secure a Captain Troubridge of H. B. M. S. normal one of the Chinese coun-as a youth of soventeen, he was cm-grand-stand view of the proces he Governor. In the meantime,
Amazon, called upon the Portuguese the during the course of the battle.
tryside.
nloyed by the Rev. Vincent Stanton, and with this intention in mind he
Mr. Summers had of the charge against the balcony wrecked England's
Chaplain of the Colony, to serve as stood beneath
of disrespect an assistant teacher in a tree school Misericordia Church-the only man simmered down to one of
among the multitude with a hat on to the Governor, and while it was his head. A Catholic priest, Father recognised that he had been origin. the soldiers village unscathed for BO PİOUS YOUNG MAN Almelda, approached, and requested ally arrested by one of |long-is deliriously excited and
astonished by the dropping of a passed quietly enough, and we know hond, and even had he never been out reference to that, his special of His first two years in Hongkong the youth in English to remove his for not taking off his hat at the pro-
hat. Summere, however, shook his cession of Corpus Christi, now, with bomb, outside the village it isle of this period except that he told to do so, he could not her failed fence was considered to be not taking the order of the deafening burst which shakes cidentally, too, one who was making good-breeding and to those who were truc, but with sulton thud and was regarded by his superiors as an to perceive that to be the only one off his hat, upon
extremely plous young man, and in-covered would be offensive alike to Governor of Macao. the little hamlet to its staunch excelent progress in his endeavours engaged in religious offices,
COMPLICATED CASE little heart.
The
war
>
economy and left the Empire ONE BRIGHT MORNING the and later in St. Paul's College.
with problems that will be gen- erations in the solving.
In view of all of this, the English are hardly to be blamed if they choose to move cautious
ly in the European powder,
minc.
ARRESTED
to master the Chinese language. fortunately, however, his degree of
The matter might have been easily religious platy was tinctured with so
solved then and there, it Captain.
disposed to mudi dogmatism that he was narrow An ̈áhgry' murmur went through Keppel had felt If we think that stopping and doing our part. Since we and uncompromising and in his the crowd, and people
were des- Governor. Amaral to release Mr. to be loyal to his creed, he patched to report poet-haste such Summers as a personal favour, but regarded it aro The latter dispatched a soldies to
Thereupon
the
right.
and
the Governor re-.
Fascism is worth a war, we don't have the slightest into the most important In-disrespect to the Portuguese Govern, he felt it' could have offered four the tion of doing that, it would be the beliefs, and observances of other tone, who ordered the young man plied; Then the prisoner in of piety itself-wolerance. for dr, Jodo Maria Torreira da 'Amaral, I that ground want to ask for it on: dividual services to Spain in the just as well for us to stop talk-Con quen be paid & white hated to take on his had to our man committed to the Judicial authorities, Consequently, it is to be expected early days, of the civil war by ing about the policy, of our one June day in 1849 to witness the mets compiled, but immediately to be judged by Portuguese
Capiai Keppel had now decided most solemn, festival of the Roman placed it on his head... Thäréstron, kes tecontinued on Page $.}} getting out on the firing line Homeland,
Catholle Church-the Corpus Christi] the ‘soldier Intimated that betwe
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