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THE EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of EXCHANGE BUSINESS on" WEIS NESDAY, THURSDAY and FRIDAY, the 17th, 12.1 xal 13th instant, at. 12 1a.m."
Hongkong, February 9. 1920.
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE
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THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATER DAY, the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th instant.
By Onler of the Committee.
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SUNDAY, 15th February.
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EAST.
THE ORIENT.
ing such remarkable development in This gateway of the Far East; but, whatever the cause, the effect is there for all the world to see. For Hong- kong is a monument, set in the tropic CAS, to a people whose hotne is Cistant 10,000 miles away.
GAVE THE BRITISH AN ISLAND OF GRANITE AND HIS RECEIVED A MOUNTAIN OF"The maritime instinct of the race GOLD IN RETURN—A - STORY. made those men who had been in the OF THE BRITISH IN THE FAR trouble with Chinese officials in the forries use a little island, which can be cffcumnavigated in a small tears launch in five or, six hours, as a base. No more fascinating story could be It was the magnificent roadstead which told than that of the British in the Far lies between the island and the main East. told to the Society of Acts re- land that made them pick out Hong cently, by Professor C. A: Middleton- keng for the purpose. Rising up in Smith, M.Sc., M.1.Mech. E., who is glory out of a sea of wondrous hue, it Taikoo Professor of Engineering in reaches a height of nearly 2,000 feet; the University of Hongkong.
What a romance is the story of that
splendid island as he jold it!
1837 that the Governor of the Colony of Hongkong was Superintendent cl Trade, and he was also the representa- tive of Her Majesty the Queen in ail diplomatic matters in the Far East.
CHINA'S LOCKED CUPBOARD. **My.conviction is, that the Chinese nation may be compared with a hun- gry man who is sitting in a room con-- taining a locked cupboard, for which he has no key. In China there are sast mineral resources which can be used to improve conditions of life in the country. The key is a knowledge of Nature's laws. There is water- power which can be made to replace man-power. There are waste regions which may be reclaimed for agricul tural purposes.
and on its topmost peak is the flag.
"To`give one example, Mr. G. D. which guarantees freedom for men of Jameson, the engineer of the Ameri- "The Chinese ceded a berren island any creed or colour who live under its can Red Cross, has estimated that in protection. Trees and pats and the Hwai Basin '17,000 square miles in order to keep the British out of flowering shrubs all deck the sides of of valuable agricultural land could be Canton, but no one, except a few the monument with a wealth of colour reclaimed at a cost of four millions British traders and sailors, regarded seen only in the tropics. No scene sterling. The land-fax -alone would the island as anything but a temporary more perfect was ever painted than pay a handsome dividend. The result base. In the first few years of oc- that which at times surrounds the cupation it was terribly unhealthy island at sunset one-third of a British regiment died
in one year, and that was nothing un- isual. But the little stream of British
A BARREN ISLAND AND ITS
· TRANSFORMATION.
of the development of the natural re- sources of China will be an improve- ment in the scale of living; that will inevitably increase the purchasing power of the people, and that soon in
urn will develop, external made.
A GLORIOUS VIEW, From the wide verandah of my trade from the Canton river has spread house in the University grounds, I all over the Far East. In 1841 Hong. plten look out upon the glorious view.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS. kong was the home of a handful of I see also evidence of the activity of
**When first 1 went out to the Far pirates. It was just a barren rock my own countrymen. The shrieks at forming one side of a magnificent the fussy steam faunches which warm East was amazed at finding any op- in the harbour four hundred feet be position amongst my own countrynien natural harbour to-day it contains a prosperous city with justice and free-lew, and the pur of the luxurious to scientifle progress. I seemed sud- motor-cars, as they race round the denly to have stepped back into the dom for all.
terraced roads between the house and days when Huxley and others had to the sea-level, remind me of the West-fight the forces of ignorance and blind Sir Frederick Lugard once re-
ern energy and machines which mulyposition in this country. I found a lated that a Chinese friend of his said tiply our time. The turbine-driven suspicion of science in the minds of that China ceded to the British an liner, standing our like spare, levia, some of the missionaries, but that sus- island of granite and had since re than amidst a curious swarm of in-picion was not confined to mission- "And" yet missionaries ceived a mountain of gold in return.sects, which are really sampans, Ares only. Certainly the Chinese have benefited jerks, launches and motor-boats, has have done most valuable work in China more than the British from the splen come from far away Vancouver, bring would pay a bumble tribute is it did results of the co-operation; ining is complement of tourists, busi Hongkong, of the two races.
So ness men, mails, and cargo to this quietly and so smoothly as the de- Emporium of the East. velopment of the colony continued during the last forty years; that many
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-in connection with medicine and education. It seems to me utterly logical to educate young Chinese in. the English language unless you also give them some knowledge of the way Above the yellow funnels rise up in which the British have made the people in Britain, if net unaware of the barren hills of China, and behind most of the natural resources of their its existence, still imagine it to be the them, the expiring centre of a thoi-country. I am hilly aware that the e fever-stricken, almost unimportant, sand shafts of light, the sun goes are evils in industrial life in Great outpost of Empire it was seventy years down. It seems to be falling upon Britain, but these evils are not caused #go. But science has transformed that other city, only ninety miles by they are cured op-an increase Hongkong as it has changed England. sway, which stands as a monument of in scientific knowledge. When” I There are still the summer heat and another country, so dear in space, so hear of some new invention or pro- the great humidity, traceable to a tro far in thought, from this active West cess for cheapening manufacture I am pical position and the granite forma ern Colony. For Canton is China, delighted, because I am sure that a fion of the island. But there are now and Victoria, as the city of Hongkong large number of people will reap great electric fans, ice, and a ceaseless war is called, is just a little chunk of Bri- | bencilf from it. with disease. Hongkong cannot be tain set on an island in the wide Paci recommended as an ideal resort in the fic Ocean. Canton vastatic for summer, but it is healthy all the year centuries; even now It is a city of a found and the climate is delightful in million with scarcely a wheel. Hong- kong is a place with dockyards whére The winter, ..
A MONUMENT TO. THE BRITISH standard ships are built, vessels larger: "An. American writer, who lived | than - are: launched in any other part "many years in the Far East, has ex- of the Expire except Great Britain: pressed the opinion that Hongkong The British originally went our to all pulmonary trouble, and pneumonis stands as a monument of British fuck the Far East for trade purposes, and may
(Continued on Page 6.).
DON'T RISK PNEUMONIA::
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and pluck in the Orient. People who for a long time the most important Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It is visit the Colony may differ about the British official in that part of the world a simple thing to do, but the effect la relative proportions of luck, or was called the Superintendent
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