The proprietor of the Whanam Hold has been arrested" for rath.
Foochow man wished to go to Singapore, He paid to the proprietor $115 to procure him passage Im one of the J.c.iL. vessels, He Femained in Amoy over four months waiting for his ticket, being put off day after day by sweet falke and soothing promises, Another resident of the hotel states that he al the proprietor $120 for passage and, in his ease steamship ticket never was forth coming. As similar complaints have been made' against the hotel proprietor before, he was arrested.
"Amoy has Tong been the jumping off place for labour travelling, to Malaya or the Netherlands Indies. The traMe in human flesh as labour to the mines and plantations of the south has Tong been a lucrative and ccasy business. Amoy, in the past. had a large import trade, but had no exports except. that of humanity: was a city of boarding-houses oF hotels and it still remains. so." almost every street two or three hotels exist: they cannot be said to flourish. 'Their period of prosperity pasted with the restriction laws of Malaya and Java and the refusal these places, at the instigation of the League of Nations, to allow girls from Amoy {0 be taken there to enter lives' of prostitution, When 9 man could not got, work at home, he could always fo to the fouth, A passage was provided him by these hotel owners at a price, Every= thing was provided that he wished. He was mot in Singapore by other coun trymen and hotel partners and was herded with others: men, women and children, to similar boarding-houses there, branch establishments of those Amo; 'They stayed in those so-called hotels until they found work, oF rather until work was found' for them. When working, they realize] that they were burdened with debt. advanced by their kind countrymen that years of labour could not repay. 'And "young girls were bought. and {aken' there and, if pretty and at. tractive, were fold into a life of vice, All this has been stopped.
The districts adjacent to Amoy are exceedingly rich. Amoy has to im= port coal from North China, Japan and even from Australia, within 300 W lie Immense beds of anthracite Pottery Potentiatities so, Bane, sol is a ies evidently brings its own reward in atrophying the mind of 9 people to all true enterprise and work. The only two industrial projects that Amoy can be said to possess are the Nalerworks and the electric power The Commissioner of Customs for Amoy must be an. exceptional man. His work is most dim cult. "Not only, thas he direct smuggling to contend with, and the multitude of tricky dodges that accompany It, but he also faces petty smuggling by the passengers and crew. of many of the Maru steamships. Almost regularly every week captures of smuggled goods are made on the vessels and frequently the discovery brings with ita Right. The Custom's tde-walters generally come off second best in these encounters, they" being "few, their aggressors many. These men re dissatisfied with the condition of affairs: if they do their duty it is at the risk of maltreatment: if they do} of, hey certainly" wil get into New regulations have come into force in an endeavour to stop the flow of smuggled goods Into the me lerior, A list of foreign goods has been issued which, when they pass ind, must bear a conveyance cer tifeale to show that they have had duty paid on them in Amoy, At Hinhwa a. shipment of sulphate of ammonia was held up, as smuggled, Hoods, because it had sno certifeate, This fertilizer was not on the hsi of foreign materials that require such a certificate, but notwithstanding. the uff wat threatened. with con ion. It required a _representative from the Amoy Chinese Chamber of Commerce to make a special Journey the country, to interview the head of the inspection department of the place before the goods could be re-
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