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Correspondence
The Editor takes no responsibi. lity for views expressed is letters by correspondents, and Byrda
necessarily agrees wil
means them.
BEACH INGIDENT
Sir-In reply to the letter from Free French" about the ponduct, of British troops in Hong Rong, I, as a regular soldier of some experience in various parts of the world, would like to draw your attention to a few facts.
The main one is the speech H. E. the Governor made when he inspected the 40th Division, When he stated that the British soldier out here is a credit to Eritain. realise that among the garrison there must be a few bad eggs, but surely the garrison are non Junged by the tew..
about
As for the suggestion having M. P.'s on the beach, that Is impossible for two reasons. The allocation of M. P's is one N. C. O. to three or four hundred troops, and the scarlet cap cover in to make the M. P.'s stand out. und when the Jaw is about soldiers and civilians alike are Hittle gods.
THETM CHINA" MAIL, MONDAY,” JUNE“ 5,
Wedding
Mita Francesca Mary Rull became the bride of ME. Robert William Norrla at 61. Theresa's Church yesterday. The bridegroom is a Revenue Inspector in the, Revenue
Mall Department("China
photo).
Graduation Dinner
A hundred
years ago
Tälèt told in
Chifio Mail" files.
PERSONALITY PARADE Chairman, Chinese Manufacturers' Union
Executive ability more than gether with a few friends, ho] buildings, factories, and land. Dut kitchen in the . Sham-ho, liko all thơ' others; had fost education is mainly responsi-opened ble for the successful career ple could purchase bowls of con-
tulpo sisiriet where poor peo-heavily. of Mr. Shum Choy-wah, goe at a nominal price. It Chairman of the Hong Konga very successful undertaking, Chinese Manufacturers' had inspired by: his example Union.
ather, puulle-pirited local per sonalitica did thb sarmb.
Home for aged
Possessing virtually no know- ledge of the English language, he has still been able to buiki a farge. business with varied interests In
During the occupation period A Staff Officer writes to the both Hong Kong and Singapore. Mr. Shum also established a home A rich man, his fortune was for the aged in Shanshulpo, He did Editor of the "China Mail" to made in the Far Eastern outposts this when he learned of the sad suggest that beer no less than of the British Empire, where he plight of come old retainers who hus lived all his life. And yet werd stripped of all means of power corrupts:-
kuch is the inscrutablilty of hip' support as a result of the war, Sir-In the exercise of my Chinese mind that he has allowed Rather than have them beg in Vocation as Staff officer I plek up no · Anglo-Saxon influence a great many scraps. of införma- i ráould his way of thinking. tion, and amongst other things remains the most typically Clin can supply you with the partleu-ese Industrialist in the Colony lars of the usury case hinted at today.
a late number of the "Hong
whs born in the Kong Register.", and for the non- Shuntuk district, neur Canton, ik publication of
at the time1903. His father, the late Mr. which
well- He
Mr.
Shum
It occurred, the Friend of China" Shum Ping-summ, w
wits the Acting Editor of the known
dealt former
the butter with unmannas
Judge whether justly or hot.
to
Не
silk manufacturer.
in raw silk and was one
will now be able to of the original exporters of tha ccmunodity to ebialties abroad,
As a
young boy Mr. Shum
i enncerned, but he could see the joyed at the Graduation Din- payable ing expired, with no more delight in observing how
-012
eve
Furthermore, if the men cou cerned were in bathing sulls,
About the middle, of last year, how does "Free French know soldiers?
Mr. Encarnacao, the Portuguese studied in various schools in his Why no they were
storekeeper, purchased
hased a quantity native place, and belped his sallurs or it. A. F.7 Your corres
trade. pondent states that there word
A cheerful evening was en-of beer from Mr. Robert Strachan, father as an apprentice in the
at short date; and the
At school he took a great deal no means to identify the persons
money forthcoming, Mr. Strachan airis taiking to hem, so in all ner given by the graduates of
conducted the silk father of Encarnacao's in his
businers than in learning to probabilty the title were wil- the Faculty of Arts, Hongm ing parties and assuming he is a Kong University, who passed solvency was desirous of getting meinerise, read and write. From
their Degree Examination nan why didn't he intervene?
that the (Bachelor of Arts) lást: month,ock his beer. But he was fore youth he was (Inièrested in or
Holdforth, Sheriffganisation; he would arrange stalled by Mr. True to form, now Communist Invasion threat at the Kam Lung Restaurant and Usurer, who had advanced and te-arrange, his text Looks. ever, the civilian population are
some $300 (o Encarnacab at the his wardrobe, his days, so that troking at the British Army an
Among the staff of the Univer- moderute rute of intèrest, fer him. while he was a failure scholasti- | falt unnecessary evil. What change from the latter half of
of thirty six per cent per and who, finding the principal
principal sequent industrial success were 1949 and the welcome the B. L. Slumpsɔn, Prof. R. Robertson.
was in peril, walked into the shop well-lald. A. got In Franen in 1944,
Prof. Ma Kiam, Dr. and Mrs during the absence of the pro- E. S. Kirby, Dr. and Mrs. S.G pristor, and ordered the whole of Davis, Dr. and Mrs. KC. Hou, the canks, to be sent up to his THE Phouman. also + S.J. Rev. Fr. F. Cronin,
that the beer was M
with Mr E
Yours etc...
FIVE BRITISH SOLDIERS.
Inst night.
Dr. Dachin Yih. Rev. Fr. M. Mins-He, objected to this, on the}
Sir,- per that "Free French" S.J., Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Endacott
In Singapore
Mr. Shum Choy-wah
Ho aperit several weeks Im- mersed in resorganisation. and one month after liberation was ready to start new, He revived his factories, ordered materials, frojn England and Amerien, hired now personnel, produced the goods and sent them phrond.,
Within a year recovery wás so well advanced that he was able to undertake new responsibiltiem, He entered into the rubber and hotel business, and was success. ful in both. By the end of 1947 ha was so firmly entrenched in the industrial empire he hall built that he was asked to head the union of Jocal Chinese manufac turers acknowledged as the most vital appointment. In the field of Chinese industry tére.
Visit to BIF
Mr. Shum made ene trip abroad In 1949 when he headed; the Hong Kong delegation to the Bri tish Industries Fair in London.
Despite his total lack of Eng- lish, Mr. Shum made a good im- where peo-
pression at the rising abi ple admired his
the rapidity with
which he
reached decisions, hia sincerity and sound business mind. All his contacts In Britain were made through Interpreters-the system which he employs today in Hong 'Kong.
self-made man, Mr. Shum makes no pretentions to social fame. A directorship of the Tung Wah Hospital and a membership of the Labour Advisory Board ure hip only contacts on an official plona with the Government.
He is well-known and admired the streets, hè housed them in an
Lenin Chinese circles, where he has unused dwelling, and is gradually developed into a home a reputation for being the truest for old people. The house, still son of his country in this British functions in Shatin.
colony. In foreign society, his He only stipulates that the name and his factories are known At the age of 10 he went to people comitie to him for succour to everyofie.
rotund Singapore.
Mr. Shum-a large, It was in the year must be Buddhists. He is a Bud 1623 when emigrants from South dhist himself.
man-retains all the native qua- is another of those persons who Mr. and Mrs. K.P. Chan, Mr. and Strachan's, left
China were flocking by the hun-
He is at He was vice chairman of anties of the Cuntonese. lose na time in criticising the Mrs, A.ff. Bentley and Miss C.M. earnauno for sale: but Assietnat dreds to Malaya, where the pro- orphanage at King's Park in 1944 list wary of business acquain Friiish soldier. Some persons at Mather.
Magistrate Heldrorth Insisted,
spect of making monty was easy, and 1945. The orphanage is now tances and a hard man to know; the beach who do something
nim- The weaving industry was just being run by the Salvation Army, but he warms up quickly to stupid to amuse themselves catch
The graduates proposed a toast and having himself called
per aber of coolles, despatched them beginning to make headway in
When the war ended Mr. Shum people when he gets to know and his eye and he thinks straight of thanks to the away that it must be British sol- Faculty and the latter, congratu- | ****; The casks before leaving the Hong Kong, and one of the first still had his 'immovable assets, like them.
things he did when he reached lery-nobody else would think lated the students on their suc-premises.
As soon us these proceedings the Federation was to, devole of doing anything so mad. cess. This rear's graduates have know of many stupid games that ercated a record in the history of reached the ches of Mr. Strachan, himself to the serious study the industrial potential there. were played during the war the University by scoring a 100 he hurried along to Encarnacao, and being made aware of all the
His father wanted him to make and not layed by the British per cent Puss."
circumstances, Wrote un angry solAler
letter to Holdforth, to which the survey of the scene and report back to Hong Kong where he had ather replied in a short note. Just opened a weaving factory, the effect that he (Mr. Strachan) Young Mr. Shum took one quick was mistaken, but offering
look and decided that he could further information on the sub-sell Hong Kong-made piece goods
'n Singapore at a good proft. Shortly after this, the circum-
So at the age of 18, he orgunis- a firm of his Sclènce): Mr. Peter Chan Pe-tak, stance havink come to the know-ed and Iaunched Mr. Eric Ho Hung-luen, Mr, Lew ledge of His Excellency town, the Yik Tai Company, which Governor, he sent for Sheriff Cur-chi, Mr. Sydney S. W. Leong, Holdferth, and demanded an ex-continues to exist. The company
within a Mr. Peter Wong Chok-cheong.
opened a branch
few Mr. Arthur Yuna Mew-long, Miss planation. The latter, with his months in Hong Kong, and hunc Life
frontery, denied
led the distribution of slik goods Miss Usual effcentery, Fung Yun-vim, Lucille hamle Leung Oi-mui, Miss Nancy affair, and offered to bring proof in the Malayan Federation. There This he accom was competition from other firms, Miss to that, effent. Li, Miss Tang Kwel-ying,
plished by getting Encarnaco to
but Yik Tal progressed gradually Bery! Wong Mal-bik, Miss Wong P
sign paper stating that the beer Sui-king. Miss Florence Yeung had been taken with his consent; amounted to more than Strults The
until
1947 its gross turnover Wai-yung. Miss Grace Young H that Mr. Haldforth had always Tslen-kiu.
The following graduated:
"
B. A. (in Economics & Political
As for putting Military Police, un the beaches, docsn't your B. A. (In Letters & Philsophy) correspondent think that a soldier Mr. William Cheng. Mrs. Evelyn need to have a little time away
Lu, Miss Irene Ngan Kit-ling from military discipline? How would he like to go svimming Miss Hunifa Abdullah, with a police constable watching him all the time?
But had I been in your corres- ponient's shock, and had cause tu feel
real concern over the safety of three girls in, a boat, 1 should have done something about it promptly or would I be taking
11 law into my own hands?
D
Yours etc.. EX-BED CAP.
VOICE OF PROPHECY
$10,000,000 been kind to him, and had fre- He stayed three years la Singa-
FİVO
Oxces
U.S. missionary
bright picture of China conditions
paints
In Red China is really hot, 'äs dark as the outside world, especially the Hong Kong Press has painted it, a recént American arrival from Shanghai told the "China Mail" yastar- day.
arrival, who had beeh in China for the past three years and who had been in Shanghai since the Communists took over the city, said. he was very much surprised upon offival here to read and hear about pessimistic reports re- garding Communist China.
quently assisted him with ad- pore before returning to Hong Vinterest; but the
without charging
Kong to join His father. Together under the banner of Christ.
paper dia
did they The Voice of Prophecy Bible Speakers at the rally included not ket forth a promise made at my opened the Sun Ah Suk and Cotton Weaving Factory in Row- Chin, F. W. Deth- the time, and which, being mere 100.4, with the Intehlon of enter- Correspondence School
C. In its Parters T. campaign-for-memberships hold more, He Wai-yue. Meng Chao- ly verbal, was of course never ing the South Seas market where that Encarnacao the demand artificial plece rally al second
For example, he said, the In the factory field thera is at the Alhambra ih, T. S. Geraty, D. M. Barnett Tunned, namely,
and
Yane wes to obtain a good situation gods was intense. Mr.
encouragement to Theatre yesterday morning at H. H. Morse
under or through the Sheriff.
recent report about Shanghai | considerable Mr. Shum realised,
before he tended by more than 1,500 people. Chung-pel. Assistant Principal of
Of all these things. I believe started the Sun Ah weaving fac being turned into a mud flat advance production per man, per Pastor. Milton Lee, in opening the School.
A violin solo was rendered by Mr. Strachan to have been aware; tory that he would comé
broadcast over the radio and hour. There is also change in the meeting, declared that rallies
Exports on printed in Uie Press vide un the manfacturing for against the Dr. Yang in place of Mr. John and If so, his reason for not givin
Japanese competition. were being held all over
to home consumption. world in which much patelotism Braga who was unable to attend. being shouted The Bay View Church Choir was and war were about but that this rally was held in attendance.
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In them publicity at the time: Japan at that time was exporting true and that Shahghat whato During the change over there and now omitting the concluding large quantities, of royon to the never cleaner than it is now is a considerable idleness sinong circumstance, are best known to South, at the expense of Empire The Chinese people are for the the workers but they are conting. himself.
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and to by suge over, has come and has been:¿made oyees had been dropped from cheapness and availability.
hand-cuta," the informant said. tho However,
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He said that during the transi are being pieced under a plan, thing
About this when
Common- tion period there, le bound to be of united unemployment inkurancë, convened in considerable amount of fateness; during the yerlod in which they el by the "Friend of Ch which Ottawa io decide on imperial pre- and confusion but given time the are transferred for other jobs. Hong Kong Register" in
Yours obediently
IDLER
Play out the Play"
A very amusing "play extam pore" has been recently perform
plece goods because of its their own boot-straps instead of emperols. These, however,
the
nations
some-
some rather string effects were ferences. These preferences, en- Chinese people will. And them- produced..
by the actors being abled Mr. Shum to send his pro- selves as they had always found felt to select their own "scene! terms with the Japanese,
ducts to Malaya on fairly even
the
clage room as we could afford in
"Overland” for its re
and machinery, dresses, and decora tions." Being Falltaff's mind his foresight In opening the fac In see them "play out! in Kowloon was soon re-
We Bet spart as much/warded.
dür
themselves.
Praising the Communis loaders, the American said, that In his experience in China h had never before found a group so sincere and honest in their parpose, they mal for no quar-j tor and give none,
Dark side..
Longer hours
The Factories, he said, are now being operated in, a 'more effioight way 1⁄4 although (far longer hours. This was, made pock?618. Wêr the; pawer situas tion had been corrected so that there is cumftalent eléèrribily to operate the blank "for longer Hourait
Because he does aɔt believe in on his laurels Mr. Shum presentation, regretting that it immediately capitalised on the
and our own cal
editorial tuccess of the Sun Ah weaving
He said that while. parsing exhibitions compiled us to give mill by opening anding factory. té the picture by in everything else, factories there running on
factory. He said that there 15'a dark side through Tientsin, he found the the selections only. "Friend" at Kowloon. This occurred in 1941, a dark side for the luxury, people normal basis. This return to the Repster's being a Deacon of on the eve of the outbreak of the the people who fled the country. normal,
Amber from the
ut
hom said, was becausa the Church. ns.
Japanese war. A large tending Hangman of the Colony,
an of the Colony, had negotiated with e order he But, he said, China Will always cities in the North had to the
have a place for thos
thows who are period for readjustment thán seems to have been one of the ment and which was cancelled capable and willing to workt and those, in Shanghai futanar most telling, hits, becall It im- after Pearl Harbour, aut me to as Shanghai, the drivhiroin the Will Regarding the food mituation In mediately, produced an appeal a heavy loss for him. But there not get belőttértilvél) as vuuch. from the Budleire from
from Me. W. was nothing he could do about it. they formerly get, the Commun- the pic for rice? this Spring Mitchell In
ists will not Pa prsa Perghatta persoan kh
Bild dropped for la..at time-in the tiented that
Tieferring to
city's history, Hitherto riều Brico he 12 Pa wito gave the
visors now in China, the arriva always went up in the Spring 800 but only a
to the manipulation of the rico Eachelor of
admitted that there are quite he was inactive, Church the “
"merchant", " The College
that they are wifleli cuit boast of this alumnus ull. Throughout the occupatie that their capacity, in Chica
a
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Wartime charity
During the war This business at
allowe
it, he
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complete stand-Ham them but He bollover the ran HANATRE, Áfried con--
ven
Incidentally
the informant skil.
to themtióned; nor the extent his facidèles.riid nothing exes more in the nature of pallting frot in the xity 48. A. Kridita blog.
Classical fulhiments - minor production he kept
Afnerican college and holdi
PAD legrid. When: hpājast, pal a visit to his home before l departure from Shatthat his Wife Gange complained buttery
dulles, in traintings at Heere la Axeloton staff on Hand but the advisers rather than technical ad- phetico deles but judging by the work they did whs Hogligible, visers. bellaved that their pro specimens from line to life of-m 1944 Mr. Shum embarked sence in China is only temporary Torked by the Editor of
Communiata of the can't they get rid alena In Just
the Latin-xamine in a charitatile, projekt, when he 23/24h 'Aciericans, and this her pilshand fr fottihe, but
learned that many people were be very kiret, Ay the the starving for want of food. To English classics, it is evident that
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To the
Fachelbi
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Wrid
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piákéd
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mka içen He further saved that, tacro he queried. "Then the Chines who are now outside. Chibs and
Will cris unto that) | vi people
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The Thottarit said that in hit to Chi
batish Shanghai under the Com
"mmunikes" unazón, flé wày: