The Government has also a very excellent way with its own civil servants, whom it provides with a house at a charge of seven per cent. on their pay, to include furniture. This has naturally proved a very great boon especially among the lower grades. In all its schemes, it is the man on a few hundred dollars and less per month whom the Government has specially had in mind. It is planning, for instance, a special quarter in Kowloon for the Portuguese. And, that the amenities of life shall not be forgotten, its town planning includes three fine parks.
It- is said by some: that the day will come when Canton will be at peace once more and then the refugees will flow back again to their own land. To some extent they undoubtedly will. Every boom is followed by a reaction and nobody imagines that the-present abnormal prices will be maintained. But hardly. likely that the Chinese, once having settled down. in the colony. and made their. homes there and come to appreciate British rule, will forsake it very easily.
So far as one may venture to prophesy anything in
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