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mists like a giant tor- toise with its head buried in the waves, avoided by of large ships on account of its reputation for fog and sud- den squalls, lies the little known island of Hainan, the occupation of which by plentifully to-day among the the Japanese is vital aborigines. Blood feuds descend threat to British, French from father to son. Revenge is Excellent top gear perform and American interests in a sacred duty.

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blood feuds, which exist also

There are numerous Christian

Yet, although the interior or graves on Hainan, this mountainous and jungle- covered island, about the size of

Belgium, is largely unexplored, IN 1875 the island was ceded it has claims to fame apart from its strategic situation.

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to Portugal, but the Por- tuguese returned it to China. An island, so frequently visited by earthquakes and with such a dangerous coast, was of little use to them.

IT HAS been referred to as "The Siberia of China," for

Rice, cotton, sugar and indigo to Hainan were banished exiles Phones from

are cultivated along the coastal the Chinese Empire. 27778/9 Among them was one of the regions and in the north. The carliest experimenters in So- island is also noted for a very cialism Su Tung-Po, now the earthy-flavoured tea, which the inhabitants call "Celestial" tea. legendary hero of the in- habitants. Su Tung-Po lived and its popular cattle, among

them albino buffaloes. during the reign of Emperor Shen-Tsung His banishment

It will be something new for the inhabitants to handle bags of cement for the Japanese. Prime Minister. In three years, The invaders are reported to Wyndham St., Hongkong from 1098-1100, this carly So have conscripted all civilians cialist pioneer taught the people and to have, begun building letters and court dialect and shrines to his memory are found at frequent points in the coastal districts.

Hongkong Telegraph. followed differences with the

'Phone 26615 March 10, 1939

Air Raids

attacks

large aerodromes.

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As They

See It

Abroad

WHO GOES

THERE?

"Washington Post

CREDITS

NO ADMITTANCE EXCEPT BY ORDER JAPAH

TILLIE TAKES A

THE

THIS RAW AND misty morn-j

ing Tillie, as she skims the broad and whitened steps of

LETTER

-by-

to

N. B. W.

In the matter of trial mar. A PERMANENT Japanese oc- the V.B., has something of the a slightly enraged. cupation of Hainan would aspect of preceded the constitute a permanent threat kitten, her rounded little chin THIS newspaper respectfully but riages, Hainan

firmly disagrees with a morning United States by centuries. to Hongkong, French Indo- sunk into the cosy depths of her contemporary. which

to fur, dark blue eyes smouldering, as When a youth casts his eyes on China and trade routes

Tillie's matutinal desire ridiculous the Government's plans for a girl whom he thinks might Australia and the Far East. muss evacuation of the population to make # guitable wife, the Indeed, because of its strate- scratch and bite has been fired by the New Territories in the event of parents build a bachelor house gic situation, it has been termed the appearance upon an already overburdened wall of another of for their daughter. If the the "Minorca of the Far East," emergency. The cleacy

couple of glaring but plaintively ing manoeuvring for a chance, at evacuation has been proven beyond couple get on well together, they and like Minorca's Port Mahon, worded entreaties from the man-

But she trips off, dangerously all doubt in Spain and in China. are married. If not, they part. Hainan has an excellent naval agemont, the silkiness of which

An enemy is not going to waste ex-It is claimed that marriages in harbour, Yu-Ling Kang, which does not by any manner of means inalert to the needs of passing traffic, down the hill and office. pensive bombs on refugee camps Hainan are very successful.

→wards, when there are more fruitful objec- tives, and the parts of Hongkong that' will suffer will be the overcrowded

an

Enement areas on the island and' mainland.

a bathroom.

Up in the lift she goes, with a pleasant "Good Morning to the akinny lttle operator; even her. temporarily feline mood sweetens before the wide and impish grin of the sloppily-uniformed little

was used by the Russian Im- dccetvo:

Will residents please perial Fleet on its way to fight the Japanese fleet.

"Membera are again reminded known to HAINAN WAS

All the principal centres of that...... Alexander Selkirk, hero of French Indo-China are domin- Defoc's "Robinson Crusoe," who ated completely from Hainan. POSSIBLY TILLIE'S conscience Since, as Wing Commander Steele called at Yu-Ling Kang, one of It is only 260 miles from Hanoi,

pricke as regards the use Perkins admits, there is no method of the main harbours, on his way 480 from Saigon and 500 from of current (toast can be made by mannikin.

these tenements protecting

from home after his years of exile on the new French naval base of

clandestine various

methods). bombers, the obvious course is to

Anyhow, her equilibrium has been San Juan Fernandez.

Camran Bay.

entirely unbalanced by a scram- empty them,

bled breakfast, itself necessitated by the customary nerve-exhaust

Hainan is also known to the British Navy, which has had many a hard fought encounter with pirates, who preyed on shipping from the rocky laira of the dangerous coasts,

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JAPANESE AIR bases on Hai-

ộ

"Hullo, Inssos and lada! Any- body.hero7"

"No, Til, Jimmie's not here and Ponto won't become to Macao... pontes, I bet-can't be refugees."

"Oke" and she disapears Into. tho attenuated dresaingroom,

Our contemporary attacks the plan on the wounds that it cannot be car- ried into effect unless a fleet of liners

nan would bring Hongkong, ls to be employed to convey the is land population across the harbour,

Manila and Singapore within more easily exert pressure on aings off her outside gear, dabs France to cease munitions traffic

a pert and upturned nose; and so unless umple food kitchens are to be,

reach of bombers, while, as a available at short notice, and unless The existence of the island is submarine base, Hainan could on the Tonkin-Yunnan railway to work.

between French Indo-China and

Off with ₫ clatter comes the an army of robots is to be trained first acknowledged in history by scarcely be excelled for our Far!

China,

cover of the Underwood. yester to carry on the work of the Colony. the Chinese in the years 245-210 Eastern trade routes.

dov's dust is perfunctorily blown We are in a position to reveal that B.C.

So important is the island to

off. a fleet-not of liners but of launches

About 100 years afterwards, the security of French Indo- JAPAN HAS given an asaur-

She gazes diaconsolately at the and other smaller ships-is available Lu-Po-Teh, the Chinese general, China that China agreed with ance, the sincerity of which fine basket. to curry civilians across the harbour brought a huge force over in France in 1897 never to cede the is negatived by outspoken state-

"Just as soon as I got these at a moment's notice, and that plans junks to subjugate the islanders. island to a third Power, ments by her military leaders, things read out all over the have been prepared for over twelve He found people totally dif- and Britain has repeatedly last that the occupation of Hainan place, somebody will want some-

thin, vou'll go." month's for setting up camps and ferent from the Chinese. Their year warned Japan that occupa-is not permanent, food kitchens to care

"Well, they've got to be dono, But the fate of this Minorcalf's do them together." not envisage a complete evacuation of population, but an evacuation of They had high cheek bones, able complications.

depend, like Minorca nearer to sort their letters into order.

chetting-and that part of the population not en were almost beardless, and had Hainan is the latest pawn in 'Britain, on what effective action Inconsonuentially, gaged in essential services.

long black straight hair. We believe that, China in or

the Japanese effort to obtain Britain and France, with pos-this manoeuvre required a com In following the

Lu-Po-Teh's men used their non-intervention in China by sibly the United States, can sidernhle gereage of elbowroom. examples of Spain and

"Re-Rz-Bz!" With a take to remove a dire threat to ranging for evacuation in Umes of swords against the bows and the Western Powers.

"Theral. I told von so. Doris, In emergency, the Government is acting arrows of the aborigines, led by "Japanese" Hainan, Japan can, their interests..

It for you or for me? MEI wisely. But at the same time we in- their lop eared chief. When the tend to go on demanding deep shel island was conquered, the Chin-, fers and tunnels as the only ade- quate method of protection for that cse divided it into two main considerable part of the population provinces-Tan-Urh (or Droop- which will have to remain in the ing Ear) in the south, and Chu built-up areas. We know that they Yai (or Pearl Shore) in the are expensive-so is everything con- neeted with defence-bul, cheap as north.

for refugees.

Finally, the Government plans do eyes were not oblique, their tion of Hainan by Japanese

skins were copper-coloured. forces could give rise to undesir-the Far East seems likely to The two oirla proceed amicably.

human life is sometimes regarded in this part of the world, it is not so

not be done to protect it.

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cheap that everything possible should TO-DAY three distinct races are found in Hainan, They

We would suggest that some of the refugees who are costing the Gov- are the Chinese immigrants, ernment thousands of dollars a day civilised aborigines, or Shu-Li, for maintenance could be employed and the wild aborigines in the in helping to make the Colony a safe

remote unexplored interior, place to live in in war-time." It has been said that there is no point in known as Sheng-Li, totalling in setting an unemployed man to dig all 2 millions souls in a land a hole in the ground. Well, now about the size of Belgium. there is a point," and an urgent one. The Harvest

Kublai Khan reconquered Hai- nan later, the inhabitants of THE BRITISH guarantees for a capecially in the south, Chinese which have always resisted, loan of £10,000,000 by Hong soldiery. kong and Chinese banks for the pur- pose of stabilising Chino's currency,

In 1630, a. courageous Jesuit coming so soon on top of the recent priest, Benoit de Mathos, went Anglo-American credits, Indientes to the island. He found the that the democracies are no longer | prepared to take the Japaness polley natives with curious customs, of economic exclusion iving down. many of which continue to-day.

Thee

is every indica.ón, indeed, "Dry" mourning is the fashion that the position in China is rapidly in Hainen. It is "not done” to approaching a point that bodes for Japan's future andisement, cry at a funeral. Sorrow is dis- In addition to the already-announced played by swallowing huge aid from Britain and the United quantities of raw meat, the States, it seems possible that France coffin is a hollow tree trunk, will create large credita as a reply and, after the body has been to Japan's action in invading Holman Island, and there are also possibili put in, the mourning procession des that Britain and America: Dave, is preceded by a native who by no means made their final gesture. straws eggs in its path. When

Japan, In short, iis: beginning #to: reap the harvest of a rough shodan ogg does not break, that is policy that has antagonised, the the burial spot, a nations that counte

Father de Mathos also for

"All right, Ti. F'll get on with

·GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

it and scare interferors away."

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"Don't you find it awfully monotonous, doing nothing in school

all day?"

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TULLIE SNATCHES iglobook and pencil, casts a glanco into the diminutive wall-mirror, and trips into the unlor nartner's well-found and comfortable office. "Morning, Miss Texborough. Must get down to it to-day....Wanit to write to that chap. Peterton frat John Peterton. Fan. 540- Oh here you are. take his letter. John Peterton. Eat. Dear Sir, We are in recalut of your letter of the 14th instant, and note that vou are unable to say note with racret please come to terms with the local Company full. stop. naragraph.""

"Ting-a-linet 1′′

"Hallo! Eddystone speaking, No. sorry can't be done, Forry. the Missus. What?

Ynua Right-o".

"Where did we get to↑ Better wad it, please."

mulia dinma 30, disentangling and dintomatically omitting the various Interiections. She has hang endeav mming to recall the pedantic admon!- Hong of the "efficiency" exneria Halways onnear. Interested in the subject at hand" (Is the expected to kalen an, interact in theen gemi-con- Adonile). family, affairs?) --"Don't stare vacantiv out of a window' wher

hiatus occurs in the dictation" what, le girl to do?

Thonket Um-Fr....."Company mame, in forme molth: the Indah), ENTA nan with reonrd to the Atting up ne the new-factory, full sien, ?¿You wellfiremember: that He dönei'll that. the latest report:" stated mer-beller: *^{Continued on 'Fade 8:)":