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Once the immaculate, white-clad disciple of Aesculapius and the capable and comely nursing-sister maintained health and well- being on a speckless, shaven lawn, charmingly edged by gracious bamboo and the flaunting, shameless, scar- let hibiscus.

Not the slightest vestige of that verdant turf remains; the whole is now one desolate plain of gritty dust, which every errant whiff of breeze sends stinging into eye and nostril.

The sigh of regret for yet an- other beauty passed away was quickly stifled by the remem- brance of that altruistic slogan "the greatest good for the greatest number,"

Where once that cherished lawn rendered perhaps two hours pleasure daily to, let us say, a half-score people, now the dusty, gritty eyesore vouchsafes sanc bodily and mental recreation to

Hongkong Telegraph. unending bands of Chinese re- fugee children of all ages from, as far as I can discover, dawn to

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 January 21, 1939

Japan In China

dark.

common purpose. In its place, be securely fastened to the per- order, method, comparative quiet son; then the excited little peo- and confidence. Worldly goods ple were quickly, but without un- were neatly bundled and stoutly seemly haste, shepherded into Here the young things ticketed.

the waiting lorries, together chased out of humble (though well-loved) home, village and

THE Kokumin Domei, a Japan-country by a pitiless, barbarous ese minority party of strong and inhuman foe-find blessed nationalistic tendencies, warns peace and security. the Tokyo Government that Britain may encroach on Japan's preserves in China.

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ren recover from terror, hunger, homelessness, the absence of all

by

N. B. WHITESTONE

there a bed mat lay etill unclaim- ed, and a few disconsolate-look- ing cooking utensils awaited col- lection.

The children almost without exception showed neither foar nor anxiety, though here and there a tiny fellow hid in an clder's skiria at my approach.

All seemed well-nourished, sufficiently clad and eager and willing for a continuance of life's hard adventures."

WAN

But one note of doubt raised, and that by the sole male adult refugco; he seemed some- what perturbed at what might await him and his at Kam Tin. I left him, I hope, reassured and newly confident for the immedi- ate future.

It

The only sleeper was a tiny baby, swathed and swaddled in an infinity of bundling, who lay on his (or her) mat stertorously and with effort breathing. appeared that the mito had re- latives in the place and that the pitiful little human derelict would be collected later on. All the same, he made a pathetic picture of forlorn solitariness in that scene of bustle and cheerful activity.

through courtyarda and MEANDERING HOMEWARD grounds of the old Hospital, which has seen and relieved so many and varied a human woe, I pondered upon the possible fu- ture of that tiny speck of humanity.

What will he become, and how will he end the pilgrimage com- menced under such inauspicious circumstances?

These young ones have started thus carly-even for the Chi- nese race-on that hard and A tour of the dormitorics often bitter path of life which

At the exit, which permitted) with their bundles-nnd so to the passing of but one individual | Kam Tin! But what are the facts? On HAVING IN MIND the all but

incredible powers of the lowest estimate, Britain has something like £230,000,000 in-cuperation of the Chinese race, at a time, each child (or the

one scarcely marvels at the adult if in charge) was given a found all but one ready for the is the normal and accepted lot vested in China, including the

and of the peasant Sons of Han. investment of British nationals rapidity with which these child- corresponding ticket number, to adventure, though here residing in Hongkong and other parts of the East. Other es umates. put the total as high as £300,000,000. Britain's stake, indeed, exceeds that of Japan and all other countries together.transportation under durance to an entirely unfamiliar mis-en- China's railways, water-borne transport, public utility indus- tries, textile trades, and many more, have been developed by British capital, and still more by

British enterprise.

adult relatives and the anxiety T. PAUL GREGORY, "Telegraph's" expert on Old China,

inseparable

scene.

therefrom, and

Writes Of

Few adults were to be seen in The TEMPLE OF INNER REALITIES

the corridors and courtyards of

pital,

hands.

the old Government Civil Has CLAIRVOYANCE the "clear THE ancient peoples around skilled clairvoyants in South beyond the blue-clad, sight" of the mesmeric¡ · the shores of the Mediter-China, and from the 1st to the Japan has made no secret efficient and courteous overseers. trance has always been regard-ranean were familiar with clair- 20th of the eighth moon (no- that the hegemony she seeks

My last visit coincided with ed as a subject of more than voyance, employing it as a minally October 13 to November over China is economic as well moving day there, and the aspect passing interest. However nove means of promoting quiet sleep, 1), they have a peculiar custom as political. Wherever her of the old building seemed at it may appear to be in this accompanied by what they con of holding moonlight scances, to armies have gone, the open door first sight, and not unnaturally, modern age, it is not new to the sidered the highest desideratum which flock crowds of interested has immediately been closed and somewhat depressing. But con- world: for the philosophers and good and prophetic dreams. spectators from all over the

Within the first padlocked. few months of hostilities the tact with the cheery and con- teachers of antiquity were ap According to the Sacred Scrip- countryside.

The clairvoyants are young tented little "movecs" quickly parently acquainted with it, and tures, Moses was doubtless an operations of British owned

other lore of the are placed in a mesmeric state the "trek" of this vast family wished to enter the so-called among the companies in Shanghai were dispelled any such feeling, and had recourse to it, when they adept; for, it is probable that lads of fifteen or sixteen, who restricted by 50 to 80 per cent.seemed to be in very capable Temple of Inner Realities." Egyptians he was also instruct- in the following manner. The The Yangtse, the most import-

They were aware that by itsed by their sages in this singu- youths, generally five or six in ant artery of Chinese com-

application, "the Internal be-lar phenomenon,

number, are ostensibly selected None of the shouting and came, without the use of the Like the other nations with at random from the audience, munications, has been progres- sively closed to British traders, yelling, the pushing and shoving, outer senses, more perceptible an age-old history, the Chinese and invited to lie down on the as the Japanese forces have the tearing anxiety and near-than the External is to us by from their earliest period have ground in a row, about two feet After they advanced. The Pearl River, panic so often the concomitant the ordinary mode of objective been familiar with the general from one another.

principles of not only clairvoy-have done so, several necroman- which is open to Japanese ship of a Chinese crowd bent on perception."

on regular service to

ance in its broadest sense, but cers appear, and waving lighted Macao and Formoss, is closed to

also hypnotism as well,

joss sticks over the prostrate British ships from this Colony. The Customs receipts in nc- cupied areas are being held by the Japanese, and for months no revenue has reached the bond- holders. With every new town and city occupied, the same story of hamstrung British trade is told.

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There should be only one end to all this. Japan's markets are her Achilles Heel. Outside the so-called "yen bloe" coun- tries, the British Empire takes 140 per cent. of Japan's exports. Four democracies-Grent Bri-

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Why, it may be asked, should Great Britain-or the other democracies, for that matter- he particularly anxious to supply Japan with materials essential to a campaign whose object is inimical to their own trade In- terests in China? And if Great Britain with her present un- favourable trade balance, de- cides to reduce the total of her imports from Japan, what can prevent her from carrying out her determination?

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"K'am-k'ui-tsal, l'am-l'ul-wong, Ytu-glu paai-paal lok-leung-fond, Lok-io-Leung-fong kung-kung-chau

In fact, these phenomena are forms, commence a peculiar re- commonly met with in China to petitive chant, accompanied at this day among the superstitious intervals by the crashing rover- practices of the host of naam beration of brazen gongs: mo-sin-shaang, or Taoist necro- mancers, who have intimately mingled their knowledge of the subject with that of the obser- vunces of religion, and have more or less employed it with the object of impressing the

masses.

Fa-shau lok-leung-fong.

"O, pe little toads, O, thou Ring of toads (who dwell in the moon), Descend to earth, ye proud ones, and enter our cool abodes,

When we have entered our cool. apartments, we clasp our hands and respectfully boto to you,

O, change hands and enter our cool chambers now!"

THE Chinese while they have never made a scientific study of the complicated phenomena US incantatory formula is of mesmerism, have recognised repeated until the monotony nevertheless several degrees of of the repetition seems to numb this extraordinary state, which the sensibilities of the listeners. they describe as "receding from Meanwhile, the gongs assume a Sha-p'oh the sensuous world faster rhythm, and the cres- of the living-and entering into cendo of sound coupled with the rupport or relation with objects weirdness of the chant, and the in universal nature."

ecriness of the nocturnal seance, Clairvoyance, they affirm, is impress all with the utter un- practically always induced by reality of the scene. The various agents and means, and audience now becomes keyed up. it is interesting to consider with expectancy. The chiant is when and how such a paychical abruptly halted, and as the last or spiritual state is brought vibrations of the gongs de

about.

away, the youths apparently b como en rapport with the spirit world. Suddenly, as if impelled bad inhabitants of the district by a signal from the unsson of Tung-kwoon in the pro-sphere, they leap to their foot, vince of Kwangtung are popu- and commence performing re- larly reputed to be the most (Continued on Page 15.)