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TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1982.
An Appeal
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CHINA'S HINTERLAND
WORKERS WANTED AND WHAT
THEY CAN DO TO HELP SET
CHINA'S HOUSE IN ORDER.
Dr. Yue Man-Kwong's Address.{{
On the occasion of Prize Day of and who has eyes to see can fall St. Stephen's College, Stanley, lastį to see these forces which are per- Friday, Dr. Yue Man-kwong, a petuating the grossest of injustices former pupil, delivered the follow- without righteous indignation. ing address:--
I am emphasising this second He said:
point very strongly for, unless When your warden wrote to me, something is done, and done quick- The mentioned in his letter that hely I am fully convinced the Chinese would like me to say something nation will be plunged into yet about China and working in the greater anarchy with consequences Interior of China. That gave me bayond the imagination. a shock for I feel that it is quite
No Exaggeration. impossible saying anything definite Perhaps you are thinking that I about the Chinese problem. I wish am exaggerating and that
with I really knew and so were able to many years of work in the interior, tell you intelligently what is troubl-I am naturally pessimistic. Let me ing this great land of China.
tell you a story to illustrate my Among the intelligent people and point. This event took place very .among, the student class in China recently in a county near where I to-day, there is much searching of am working.
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WARDEN'S REPORT.
Rev. E. W. L. Martin, Warden news has reached us to-day of the of the College, reporting on a year's death in England of Mr. J. E. work, on Prizė Day last Friday, Warner, Vice-Principal of the Bras aaid:
tal Institution. Mr. Warner was on our staff in 1923 and 1924 and he endeared himself to all our staff and students. We feel his loss) keenly,
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The "Results" which St. Stephen's College'seeks are not only examina tion successes, but men. To-day this. School-Mother sends affec- tionate congratulations to Hon. Dr.:
Alumni Association. Lo Wen-kan, Foreign Minister of Yesterday the Old Boys elected China, to Hon. Dr. Foo Ping- Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau as President sheung, LL.D., also a member of for 1982.... We should congratulate the Chinese Government, and to the College Council, and the Old Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, M.A,, a mem- Boys Committee, appointed in 1922. ber of the Legislative Council of with Mr. Li' Hoi-tung as Chairman, Hong Kong.
upon the success, which has at We welcome to-day Dr. Yue Män-tended their efforts to provide these kwong, M.B., B.Sc., who comes to New Building at Stanley.
New Staff House Donors. distribute pur prizes. Dr. Yue is a representative of the large number Another Staff House is shortly of Old Boys in professional, or com- to be erected, and we have to thank mercial life who are serving China Mr. Tang Shiu-kin for his help in in their day and generation, but this matter. The generous donors often in ways and places.valiwn Include Mr. Chan Lim-pak, $1,000,| - "to fame. "But these men we hon- | Mr. Som Pak-ming, Mr. Cheng Tin- Our:" By their knowledge of tau, Mr. Choy Wal-hun, Mr. Mak learning meet for the people. Men Shiu-cho, Mr. Poon Iu-cho, each furnished with ability" and furnish- $500,
Union Insurance, $407%. Hotels (old)), $181⁄44. Chinese Estates, $95. - Ewo Cottons, Tls. 13.80. Hong Kong Trams, $20.60. China Lights (old), $19.40. China Lights (new), $19, Singapore Tractions (pref.), 14/-. Dairy Farms, $204. Amusements, $19. Constructions (old), $5. Govt. Loans, 3 per cent. Premium.
Sellers. Douglases, $26. Docks, $29.
H.K. Realties,
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Staff.
ed too with the Divine Spirit of love and service. This School- ¿ We all congratulate Messrs. Ling Mother never forgets any of her Hung-ming, B.A., and F. A. Britton, M.A., on twenty years' service at St. Stephen's College.
SODS.
Dr. Yue's Devation to Work for China
heart and restless anxiety. The There was a general who was in scene of bloodshed and slaughter in charge of this country. He had Shanghai has made things worse. armed · soldiers all ex-bandits in- At a time of great national distress corporated into his army. He
We have five resident English| and anxiety, it is imperative that wanted money for himself and for
Dr. Yue Man-kwong, at St Graduates, and four resident Chin- we should have our minds clear, for his subordinates and there re-
Stephen's College, won a President ese Graduates. Three English| .I am convinced that a confusion of mained the methods of raising the
of China's Scholarship to the Uni- ladies help voluntarily in the teach- ideas will not help us to understand | necessary funds. He sent his up-
versity in 1918. After graduation ing. Even the youngest boys are or to solve the so-called Chinese disciplined troops into villages—
A boycott Association has
in Hong Kong he went to England taught by Chinese and English Gra- problem.
often of fairly large population. been formed. It is designed to for further study. It is an open ' duates. But I am digreasing from the These troops quartered themselves subject: I am
establish an official country-wide secret that Dr. Yus refused the here to tell you in the houses of these villages and boycott of Japanese goods in or-/offer of a Rockefeller Scholarship, In the Matriculation Examina- about China and why you should kept on their ruthless methods until der to enforce arbitration be- preferring to get to work in the tion ten students passed with five go into the interior to do your bit money was
extorted. The process tween China and Japan for the interior of China. For five years distinctions; and for your country. If I ask you now of bleeding the people white was preservation of an Open Door" he has been in charge of the large Examination three passed, with what thoughts flash through your repeated in this district until one policy-Reuter's American Ser- Mission Hospital at Hinghua, two distinctions. We have again mind when you think about China, morning the general woke up to
vice.
your mind.
Some Results.
the
Junior
{Fukien. His work in cholera to thank Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow I am sure you will have a vague confront a peasant army of hun-
epidemics, in leading District for kindly presenting prizes for the idea that in China civil wars are dreds of thousands with shovels,
Nurses into bandit infested areas, best Chinese, Essays, and Hon. Dr. chronic and never-ending affairs: axes, bows and arrows, against his thought to do your bit for your and in hospital practice has gained: R. H. Katewall for a Gold Medal for that banditry is making life in-mon with rifles and machine guns.
Needless to say country will remain foremost in him provincial reputation. Dr. Yue the Chinese Dux. secure and that the student body You won't be surprised if I tell
has again this year refused these awards Ara particularly is something quite unique.
you that these peasants, gfter ex- What Help to Render. honourable position in North and valued by the Students. Of those] You might have read of revolu-hausting the ammunition at terrible Many of you will soon be through South China, in order to devote who took Chinese in the Matricula- tions and the setting up of new sacrifice of life, were able to put school and apme will be going to himself to his own Fuklenese peo-tion and Junior Examinations the governments and of what most the general out.
the higher seats of learning. As I ple. After a refresher course in percentages of passes were 83 per people are not weary of telling you
This is just an incident among have said before we are but a very England he is to return immediate cent, and 84 per cest, in that sub- about China's glorious past and her countless incidents of similar a minute percentage among the massly to Hinghua.
ject. equally glorious future.
ture throughout the length and of illiteracy, and there, in the breadth of China to-day.
A Few Facts.
But let us have a few facts. I have seen two revolutions-ose in
Chinese
Masses Unaffected.
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Downtrodden. *
This leads
Some of you may be in the Ser-
Vale.
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Strength. We have now 154 students of This is whom 144 are, boarders.
an increase of 20 boarders on last Spring, and new students enter al- most every week.
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sphere of education, you can, con- We bid a sofrowful, farewell to tribute your bit as educationalists, our Chairman, His Lordship the to my third point, Some will be doctors like myself, Bishop of Victoria, who during the 1911 when all I remember was the which is that the finest peasantry and you will find that if you go past twelve years, has never failed cutting off of my queue-and one in in the world is downtrodden, and into the interior you may be the only us in counsel and aid. 1926 when there was such a wave forced by means, legal and illegal. doctor in an area se big as Hong We also say farewell to Rev. A,D, of hope and expectancy which im-to acts of self-defence-a patient Kong who is qualified and knows Stewart, who was Warden of this Among the Committees in which) pressed all those who saw and felt people showing their impatience how to deal with epidemics and so School in 1914 and 1915 and students and masters co-operate are it. Yet these movements are mere- and a law-abiding people taking the prevent and relieve sickness and who is leaving Hong Kong. The sad those of the Athletic Sports, Foot ly mov ments on the surface and law into their own hands. The re sufferings.
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WHAT IS A 'SEX NOVEL”? state of anarchy.vices and it will be your duty to
Social, Indoor-sports, Tuckahuj,| That is the first point I wish to em-When they rise up in self-defence, see that justice and fair play are
Library and Christian Union Com phasise to-day, that is the articu- the defence of the most elementary meted to those who are entitled to Mr. W. B. Maxwell, the author, mittees. There is an Art Club; a) late Chinese represented by you and rights of a citizen, we are apt to be them. In these and other spheres criticised the use of the expression Photographic Club, and a Debating I are perhaps, making the greatest unkind to them and call them com- you will be required by your coun- "sex novel" when he spoke at the Society. Weekly collections are mistake by thinking that because munists.
try, put do not let your imagination inaugural dinner of the Writers' made for Charity, and Christmas we have changed, China is changed; Problem of Communism. run riot, for as Rome was not bullt Section of the Forum Club. entertainments given to the college fundamentally.
I have now mentioned that aspect in a day so the new China out of Princess Merle Louise, president of servants and to the poor children of the Chinese problem: there are the old will not be built overnight. the club and of the section, was in of Stanley Village. School Com Most of our diBculties arise benow large tracts of land in China Students Interested in Politics. the chair,
mittees are useful training for ser Cause we did not realise that in to-day where such menace is.or Have you been inside a Chinese "Of all categories in which fic-vice and citizenship. 1911 there was no revolution, and ganised and directed by efficient school? If you have you will be tion is classified the "sex povel" in
Trees. that in 1928 Nationalist movement machinery of Government. You struck by the
number of posters the most senseless," he said. "Any Last year the Garden Committee | followed the route of the cities and must have heard of wise heads! on the walls. You must not be novel that deals with both sexes collected $850 for trees and shrubs. of the dilating upon the subject of China surprised if I tell you that every must be a sex novel, and you might A year ago Mrs. Southern kindly going stark red and becoming a Chinese- student takes politics most as well talk of a sex train or a sex suggested the Idea of a Tree-plant But let me now indulge less in menace to the world in general. seriously. Among the many hotel. The time may come when a ling Day, and we specially welcome theoretical considerations and out. I wish, when thinking about it, you posters I have seen, I will just father will hesitate to ask whether her presence here today Hue a few outstanding events which will bear in mind that these mention two. One is "Students his new-born child is a boy or girl are taking place and which I con- uprisings in self-defence have not wanting to save their country, must leat, the nurse should rebuke bim
'I would conclude as I began by sider you and I should know more necessarily communistic back-study, diligently," and the other for introducing the unsavoury referring to past and present stu-| ground. I am quite convinced that gave your country when you save element of sex at such an early dents. The possibilities of service Exploited Peasantry. when forces, economic and political, yourself by having a noble and stage." (Laughter.)
at St. Stephen's College are great When you go into China proper, perpetuating such tendencies to lofty character." Reflecting upon The strong and atfent English It we, who are members of staff, <or anywhere the Chiness are, the wards anarchy are removed, the that it seems to me that you have a man, who talks about this rs that ever feel down-hearted and inclined first thing that ought to strike you problem of communism will be a great opportunity here for acquirare "not cricket" was an entirely to give up, it is when we feel we is their cheerful industry and long way nearer solution....... ing, knowledge and for the develop feminine invention. On the other have failed to rise to our opportuni- patience under the most adverse Well, ladies and gentlemen, Iment of a noble and a lofty char- hand, the lovely and adorable girlties. With very sincere hearts we||| conditions. There you have most have drawn a rather inglorious pic-acter:
who would rather be kissed by a would appeal to all old boys" and admirable qualities of the Chinese ture of China as I see it in the in- I am going to put it to you that good man than a good-looking one, į present boys to seek God's help to peasantry cheerful, industrious, terior. I am aware that youthful the Christian aspect of this school was nothing but a comforting plan live worthy of your school and ra patient and law-abiding-whom we minds like yours, full of patriotiets very important and such train-tom of the masculine mind,
tive land. call the illiterates. We are a na zeal and idealism, are apt to regarding hopes to launch you into the tion of farmers, and there is no my remarks as unduly pessimistic world fully equipped with the finer doubt that China to-day possesses But let me assure you that I am as faculties of judging what is true, the finest peasantry. In the world, sincerely, anxious about China as what is fair and what is right and which is her backbone. That is a you are.
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Ever since 1926 we are rather Glorious Adventure For Yout Yet all these years the most éx- slogan-minded The walls. in China needs leadership in every ploited class in Chips is the Chinese towns are full of pro-sphere of her reconstructive work. peasantry. Forces natural and pagandist posters and it has been It les glorious adventure and I unnatural, have combined to keep my misfortune to reflect upon these hope that some of you will heed that them down and to wear their half-truths, excuse my branding cal. patience cut, What a tragic, record them as auch. I feel sure that Finally, if you are going to China it is ever since the beginning of passionate partiranship, with Its for fame, I advise you not ta; if the Republic. Can you Imagine flow of meaningless catchwords, is you are, going to China for money, what has happened? The Govern- not going to save Chins. Rather I think you ought⠀⠀ ment seems bent upon means to we must be bold enough to face the Trent Ports, where money is deprive them of whatever they get, facts of the situation," however, easier made; if you think that yon over and aboys, their existence from humillating that may be. ...”;
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