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Hong Kong. Friday, May 9, 1930.
SIR
WILLIAM
,
PEEL.
mind.
FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1930.
Sir William was born in 1875," being the son of the late Rev. W. E. Peel, of Boston Spa, York-
but to intensify the prestige in Vere Smith, Lt. Comdr. "L. M. which Great Britain should be Bridge, Lt. Comdr. J. G. Crossley,
and Lt. Comdr. J. S. Crawford. . held in every part of her Empire. Army Representatives on shire. He was educated at Sil- Whether the matter be currency
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coates School and Queen's College, problems, opium traffic, the mui Col. W. D. S. Brownrigg, D.S.O., Cambriuge, being 11th Wrangler, tsai question, or more serious givil and Mrs. Brownrigg. Lt. Col. Math. Tripos, 1896.
W. F. Hanna, M.C., R.E., Lt. Col. In 1897 he was appointed a affairs, we are certain that Sir W. F. Christian, D.S.O., Col. R. B. Cadet to the Straits Civu Ser- William will steer the Colony Skinner, O.R.E., Lt. Col. F. J. Cylce, arriving in the Straits Settle- through any tribulations that may Wyatt, O.B.E., M.C., Lt. Col. ments in October of that year. come its way with a firm and open C. H. Little, D.S.O., Col. A. S. Among his earliest appointments King, Lt. Col. R. G. Maclaine, was that of acting District Officer M.C., Col. H. A. Stewart, D.S.O., for Province Wellesley-(August to 0.B.E., Lt. Col. Myles, Lt. Col. December, 1898). He passed his Russell, Col. Lang, Lt. Col. Stokes, final examination in Malay in Lt. Col. Thom, Major Dowbiggin December of the following year, (H.K.V.D.C.), and Major Todd. and then received the substantive R.A.F. Representatives on appointment of District Officer,
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Province Wellesley. He occupied (To the Editor of the "China Mall".)-
Wing Comdr. A. H. S. Steele this post until May, 1902, when Sir, I have read with interest Perkins, O.B.E., and Mrs. Steele he was appointed acting Second Mr. Y. S. Chen's letter in the Perkins. Mrs. Steele Perkins is, Assistant Colonial Secretary, current Issue of your paper and unfortunately, ill, and cannot ac later becoming Assistant Colonial consider him to be under some cept the invitation to be present. Secretary and Clerk of Councils. misapprehension. Apparently he and Sq. Ldr. S. T. Freeman, In August, 1903, he was made Je one of the more educated Chin- M.B.E.
acting Assistant Superintendent
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CORRESPONDENCE
TELEPHONE MUDDLERS.
ele. 29 also possibly Are hiv Ladies invited to the Theatre of Indian Immigration in Singa- friends and perhaps does not were: Mrs. J. S. realise how his more ignorant Mrs. Byron, Mrs. brothers carry on. I do.
Mrs. Sears Rnd Mrs.
Crawford,pore, in addition,
Bridge. Thenceforward he occupied Myles various posts, including those of In three cases with which (Navy) and Mrs. Hanna, acting Second Magistrate at personally came into contact, Mrs. Christian, Mrs. Wyatt, Mrs. Penang, acting Collector of Land everything against which warn-Morris, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Revenue at Penang, District Offi- ings were issued by the Company Russell, Mrs. Lang, Mrs. King, cer of Tampin, F.M.S., acting was done, and finally they use Mrs. Thom and Mrs. Todd. Mrs Secretary to the Resident of the old magneto telephone and J. D. Lloyd, Mrs. R. Baker, Mrs. Selangor, acting District Officer of tried to call the old numbers! H. K. Holmes, Mrs. G. R. Sayer, Lower Perak, Chief Assistant to As regards the Canton systen, Mrs. P. Jacks, Mrs. J... Franks, the District Officer at Kinta, and perhaps Mr. Chen will enquire Mrs. Whyte-Smith, Mrs. E. Registrar of Titles, South Perak. how many subscribers there were Wynne Jones, Mrs. Goldsmith, on that system in comparison with Mrs. de Martin and Mrs. H. Green, Hong Kong.
I append the usual disclaimer and merely sign myself, ·
Yours, etc..
SWORN IN.
Municipal President.
In 1911, he was seconded as Pre- sident of the Municipal Commis- sioners of Penang, and in the fol- lowing year he assumed the rank of Officer Class 3, but remained seconded in the afore-mentioned nost. He occupied this position until 1918, serving as acting Re- Following the ceremony at the sident Councillor of Penang in ad- To the Editor of the "Chinn Mail". Theatre Royal, His Excellency dition for a period of nearly one.
Sir, In reference to the letter proceeded to the Council Cham-year.
SATISFIED USER.
Hong Kong, May 9.
Ceremony in the Council Chamber.
by the overland route. It is stated on the subject of Automatic tele-ber, along Murray Road, for the In 1918, Mr. Peel was appoint- that his arrival was warmly hailed phones appearing in last evening's ceremony of taking the Oaths of ed President of the Municipal by the British residents. No won signature of Mr. Y. S. Chen, I
issue of your paper under the Office.
Commissioners of Singapore, and On the Volunteer der, for with his advent as Minia- would like to take this oppertunity Ground, His Excellency was re-the class of Officer 1. B.
Parade on January 1, 1919, was raised to ter Extraordinary to the Court of of assuring Mr. Chen that there ceived by a Guard of Honour was not the slightest Intention of drawn from the 2nd Batt. the Peking all doubts as to the perman-offering any insult to the Chinese Somerset Light Infantry.
Food Controller. Appointed Joint Passage Cen- ency of the British occupation subscribers.
troller for Malaya in 1919, his began to vanish. Sir Henry at I am unable to read this inten-Honour, Sir William entered the Chairman of the Shipping Com- After inspecting the Guard of next post was Food Controller and once gave to those that met him tlon into the article complained of Council Chamber by the north mittee in May of that year, being the impression that the days of interview which I gave to repra the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, he
but if it can be so read, then the entrance, and, accompanied by specially seconded for this work. vacillation and yielding to Chinese sentatives of
In the following year, he became
Yours etc.,
cunning and duplicity were over, and that Britain was going from then on simply to state its griev ances, formulate its demands, and insist upon immediate redress.
The achievements of the Govern- ment of Hong Kong under the administration of Sir Henry. Pottinger are not suficiently realised either by the public or by historians. The existence of this! Colony aa a
British Possession
the Press must proceeded to have been inadvertently misquoted. Room, which is off the Council Chairman of the European Un the Governor's acting Controller of Labour and
Chamber.
employment Committee in addi- Prior to His Excellency's arrivaition. In February, 1922, he re- the members of the Legislative ceived the substantive appoint- For Hong Kong Telephona Council took up their allotted ment of Controller of Labour for places at the Council table, whilst the F.M.S. and Straits Settle- members of Sir William's Staff, ments.
J. P. SHERRY,
Manager,
Co., Ltd.,
Hong Kong, May 9.
NEW GOVERNOR.
(Continued from Prực 1.)"
On the Stage.
together with some ladies, includ-
In 1922 he became British Ad-.... ing Lady Peel and Mrs. Southern, Viser to the Government of Kedah, and a few of the general publie and three years later he was op- occupied seats along two walls of Penang. In 1926, he was appoint- pointed Resident Councillor in the Chamber.
His Excellency entered the
ed Chief Secretary, F.M.S., in
Chamber, in company with the which year he was honoured by Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, and His Majesty the King with the awes more perhaps to Sir Henry Major-General J. W. Sandilanda, took his place at the head of the CM.G. This position he has held than to any man, and his achieve-C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Mrs. Council table, with the following acted for a term as Officer Ad- ever since, but during 1927 he
ernor,
ments, if not the man himself, Southorn, H.E. Sir William Peel, on either side: should stand as a model for all Officer Administering the Govern- Southorn, C.M.G., the Hon. Mr. Commissioner for the F.M.S.
Lady Peel, His Excellency the Left: the Hon. Mr. W. T.ministering the Government of the Straits Settlements and High future Governors of British ment, Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, C. G. Alabaster, K.C., the Hon.. Colonies.
C.M.G. Rear-Admiral R. A. S. Mr. C. McI, Messer, the Hon. Mr.
Knighthood Conferred. From the beginning, he was Hill, C.B.E., and Sir Shou-son J. Owen-Hughes, the Hon. Mr.Order of the British Empire in He was created a Knight of the obliged to face insuperable dif-
Chow, C.M.G.
E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., the Hon. 1928, in which year he proceeded The arrival of a new Governor ñculties, yet, in spite of these, Be His Lordship Bishop H. Valtorta, C. G. S. Mackic, the Hon. Mr. to Lomon on special duty at the
Sir Robert Ho Tung, Kt, LL.D., Mr. J. P. Braga, the Hon. Mr. in the Colony over which he shall made Hong Kong a free part, he the Very Rev. A. Swann, DS.C., J. J. Paterson.
Colonial Offico. have suzerainty is not a mere appointed a Land
the Rev. J. Horace Johnston, the Right: H.E. Major-General J. W. Violet Mary Drake Laing, daugh- He was married in 1911 to Miss Committee to formality, a temporary parting of settle questions of property, he Mr.
Rev. J. C. Knight-Anstey, Hon. Sandilanda, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.Oter of the late Mr. W. D. Laing. the waters of routine.
C. Granville Alabaster, the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, It may took in hand the regulation of the D.B.E., K.O., the Hon. Mr. CC.M.G., Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, and there are two sons of the mar- change the very face of those currency of the Settlement, and Mcl. Messer, O.B.E, the Hon. the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall,
riage. waters from calm to troubled, or also organised a Post office which Dr, R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., Creasy, C.B.E., the Hon. Dr. S. W. keen rider. He is a member of Mr. C. S. Gordon Mackie, Hon. C.M.G., LL.D., the Hon. Mr. H: TWilliam is a devotee of golf and a In the sphere of recreation, Sir from troubled to calm, and thus was' to receive and deliver, free of and Mrs. Kotewall, Hon. Dr. A. R. Tao, O.BE, LL.D., the Hon. Dr. he Oxford and Cambridge Sports write a new page in history. any charge, letters or parcels. All Wellington and Mrs. Wellington, A. R. Wellington, and Mr. A. E. When the flags and the bunting these measures of Sir Henry Hon. Mr. John Owen-Hughes and Wood.
Clubs, have been hauled down, the tum contradicted the rumour which E. R. Hallifax, C.B.E., C.M.G., his place, the Procession of the down to the motor-generator of
Mrs. Owen-IIughes, Hon. Mr. After 'His Excelloney had taken
No Broadcasting. ult of the rejoicing public has was persistently going about that and Mrs. Hailifax, Hon. Mr. H. T. Judges entered, headed by the the Broadcast Transmitter, it was Owing to a last-minute break- the cession of Hong Kong was not Creasy, C.B.E., and Mrs. Mace, borne by Mr. E. R. Stain- oficially recognised and that the Creasy, Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, Beld. Following the Mace walk-not possible to relay the speeches Government was prepared to re- Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o, O.B.E., trar of the Supreme Court. His the reception of H.E. the Gov- R.N. (retired), and Mrs. Hole, ed Mr. C. D. Melbournne, Regis from the Theatre Royal during inquish Hong Kong fa case the LL.D., and Mrs. Teo, Professor Lordship Sir Joseph Kemp, KC., Chinese Government should raise L. Forster, Professor W. Brown, C.B.E. (Chief Justice), and His
It is hoped that a repair will be any objection on that score,
Professor C. Middleton-Smith, Honour Mr. J. R. Wood (Pulsne effected in time for to-night's Of the sixteen Governors who Professor
A.
studio concert. Redmond, Judge), Lindsay T. Ride. The ceremony of taking the
Invitation of Penang Club. succeeded Sir Henry Pottinger, it Professor R. Robertson, Dr. oaths was simple but very impres-
• Declined. cannot be said that all betrayed G. D. R. Black, Mrs. W. E. L. sive.
Sir William Peel, Governor- such fine devotion and patience Tratman, Capt. T. T. Laurenson, of Councils, read His Majesty's time, declined an invitation to Shenton, Mr. and Mrs. D. W First, Mr. D. W. Tratman, Clerk of Hong Kong, owing to lack of in the interests of the Colony, or D.S.C., Messrs. R. Baker, M. J. Warrant of Appointment, after visit the Penang Club. Sir William Peel, who was given wisdom in dealing with the Chin Breen, J. W. C. Bonnar, E. W which the Chief Justice adminis
On April 29 the members sent an official welcome this morning, cse. Of all the Governors whe Carpenter, T., Folkes Claxton, E. tered the Oatha which His Excel wireless message extending to Cock, M.B.E., T. Dallin, A. H. lency took in a farm, clear voles. have tiffin or dinner but a reply is the eighteenth Governor to have come and gone, within the Ferguson, J. W. Franks, V. M.
His Excellency an invitation to take office in this Colony.
After tho taling of the Oaths memory, at least, of this genera Grayburn, H.E. Goldsmith, E. the Band of the Somerset Light was received from Sir William Hong Kong was taken over on tion, the name of Sir Cecil Green, H. K. Holmes, C.B.E., W. Infantry played the first bar of that he would be unable to stay January 26, 1941, and the Govern Clement will stand out, more Woodward Hornell, CIE, P. the National Anthem outside the for either as he was leaving ment administered by Captain perhaps as a scholar, a
Jacks, E. R. Lang, Paul Lauder, Council" Chamber. Then His Ex- Penang on the same evening by Charles Elliot, R.N., as Chief tleman, and a friend of the Chin- de Martin, M.B.E. E. Ralphs, Room and those in the Chamber Lumpur.
gen R. E. Lindsell, J. D. Lloyd, G. P. cellency retired to the Governor's the night express for Kurla
Superintendent of the Trade of eso than for any peculiar gifts of F.R.G.S., G. R. Sayer, Walter dispersed. British subjects in China in accord- administration. Sir Cecil came Schofield, T. HR Shaw, N. L The arrangements, made by Mr. ance with the proclamation Issued here at an awkward stage in the Jones, Paul Sykes, A, el Arculli, Secretariat went off without a Smith, A. E. Wood, E. I. Wynne E. W. Hamilton, of the "Colonial by kim on January 29, which also history of China, and, in spite of Li Yau-taun, C.B.E., Ho Kom-hitch. declared that the Chinese should noble efforts on his part he was tong, O.BE., T. N. Chau, MA., be governed according to the unable to lay more than a thin Leung Pat-u, Lo Chung-shiu,
FungPing-shan, Li Yick-mul, Sir W. Peel's Career. laws of China and others according veneer of friendship over the Wong Kam fuk, and Wong to the lawe Great
Cracks which are so visible in the Kwong-tin.
en Great
died, and the promises in those fervent orations we all of us make on occasions have been forgotten, we shall await the course of events with interest. The British Em- pire has good reason to remember that the personalities and charac- ters of its administrators, military or civil, have been responsible for many of its successes and nearly all its failures.
The firs
Govern
appolit
ed to Hong Kong
Sir Henry
glasted from.
1844.
that Sir
was then called an aste
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short passage of sixty-seven days, splendid
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Naval Representatives on the
StageMARIAL
to
· 33 YEARS IN BRITISH MALAYA
A machine-gun adopted by the United States Navy is aafd to have a range of nine miles, and to capable of firing 800 shots minute.
A Turkish newspaper which has On February, 13 the China Mail made violent attacks on Ismet Pasba Mrs Bodh
ham, Capt. was officially informed that Sir and the Cabinet was suppressed by 3. D. Camp! MVO OBE, William Peel, K.B.E.. CMG the Constantinople police, Capt WP Mark-Wardlaw, Chief Secretary to the Federated
En Capt HB. Sours, Malay States, had been appointed In a speech at Manchester Mr. Comdrate Miles, C.B.E. Governor of Hong Kong to succeed Baldwin declared that the choice be L. Comdr H. C. Curtis, D.8.M, Sir Cecil Clementi, who was trans-fore the country was Safeguarding Comdr. F. Byron, Comdr. N. L. ferred to the Straits Settlements. or growing unemployment.