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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27TH, 1911.
Tewas a slim Cantonese youth of six- Jeong with the face of a Chinese angel, and a compehensive knowledge of evil. On gala days, when he wore his costume of fine blue silk and his little crimson shows with the curly foes, he was strangely pleasant to look apon, and made one think of Oriental fairy princes-until one noticed his eyes. And then one thought of wicked genii.
Li's status on the big Rand gold mine was that of inossenger:, and when to was 'not sleeping on the compound office verandah or stirring up strife among his fellow-servants he was fitting to and fro carrying letters in a leather bag. The spoke real English. Là. picked up in the slums of Hong Kong, where his childish wits had been ground to razor edge on the whetstones of trickery and viro, East and West, it would seem, Ind conspired to do their wirst on him.
Doubtless, it was a novel experience for. this Chinese gumin to find himself a respec table, wagge-enmer. You for a tiny' Li'ae-
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even set himself to gehieve a half-furtive re putation for virtue. He performed bis work quickly and efficiently, and an iustraction once given him was never forgotten. His curiosity was insatiable, and he rose to a new iden Wie a greedy trout to a fly. For the Ktle Cantonese derelict an undream-of exis- tence was opening out, all a-glitter with pro- Imise for the ambitious-as witness. Chan Fat, the interpreter, who earned eighteen golden sovereigns a month, and spoke with, Europeans as with equals! But the gernis of lawlessness lurked in Li's bloor," and change of environment failed to neutralise the poison. His first transgressions took the mild form of pranks played upon his com- Janiche. Pigals were knotted together when weary messengras died, and Chinese crackers exploded inmysteriously in ales pockets of unsophisticated Katirs. L's favourite victim was Cabbage, dhe Shangaan, who washed office floors and rendered, offer monial service.
į. Cabbage had all the raw nalive's bonesty and more than his nommé stupidity, such ideas as penetrated to his frain arriving apparently upside down. Time and again he would approach me, his black fare comical with bewildered wrath, to make the terse unvarying complaint : Bass, Li no-dam- good!** Investigation on one occasion dis- closed that the Cantonese had been winning his money in gambling games based on the
hends I win, tails you lose principle.
Reprimands had no deterrent effret upon Li; he accepted then as he would a coin- pliment-courteously, deferentially-and an hour buter was in fresh troulale. At this tine Captain A----, an official in the -For- eign Labour Department and an eminent. Orientalist, becaine interested in the boy, and on his visits to the mine often conversed with him. It was A who gave me an inkling of Li's early history; he also essured me that, despite fils lack of eduration, the young Chinaman showed indications of de- veloping unusual intellectual powers.
"That little Chinese gubersnipe," affirmed the captain, "has a future before him; but whether as an expert criminal or merely as a revolutionary 'I won't venture to pré-
"Not long after came Li's downfall: he stole money. The theft was audacious, and so adroitly committed that accident, alone revealed the culprit. When taxed with his dishonesty, Li similed a little and demanded proof, which was given. I remember him ás he stood before his accusers-the slight, well- poised. Easter figura, the oval, girlish_face with its small, vermilion mouth, the black "eyes that sparkled wirkedly.
I must be big fool-fikke Cabbage," was all he said. Li was banished from the office and became a klourer underground. ---
There can be little doubt that not only deplored the forfeiture of his new-found re spiolability, but ₺i at bo bitterly resented it. He grew sullen, and sought the company of the worst charters in the compound. His chafing spirit found outlet in no mere boyish escapades, but in serious revolts against authority.
exercised influence over. many of his adult associates, and it aftre wards transpired that he had organized a serret society among the more youthful malcontents with the avowed object of fomenting disturbances,
Such course could have but one end. Li was convicted of being a ringleader in a Iriot-resulting in the destruction of valuable mine property, and underwent a term of imprisonment. On release he suffered the last indignity he was repatriated as
an
undesirable"; and as a tragic climax to his brief career came official notification that he had committed suicide on board ship, and was buried at sea,
A dismal tale, you may say, and 'better left untold. But there is a sequel to it, and one with...a truly-Eastern flavour." I give it as it was given to me bɔ a jetter from China written by my “friend A
late of the Foreign Labour Department ;--
was recently, in the office, of a well-known Hongkong merchant, and And occasion to speak to the cashier, a very capable
"Cantonese. young
You imagine my astonishment when-I-recognised. him as Li, the young scapegrace, we knew on the Rand, and who should have been at the bottom of the China Sen! When I had assured him of my good will, he told me his story.
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It appeared that on the voyage to China Li was
Ilis much exercised in spirit. sojourn in South Africa had croused new desires and ambitions at varliner with his earlier propensities. He. now perceived clearly that to win and retain men's con- fidence was the first step towards success but how to retrieve, how to escape the stigma of undesirable '?. A few days out from port his opportunity, care. Only an Oriental could have recognised it as such and have successfully graine. it. A young Chinaman, an intimate of Li's and closely resembling him in appearance, committed suicide for reasons best known, to' himself: Before the ship's officials know of the tragedy there was a mysterious interchange of clothing, painers, and identity between Li and his deceased companion; and when a body, was consigned to the deep it was re- corded, ne being that of Li Hiu, undesir- able. If course, many of the Chinamen knew of the little transsetion, but the Euro- ncans were comfortably ignorbit of adv Irregularity. It was absurdly easy, Li said, especially as the dead men had no relatives to make inconvénient inquiries,
"Sei here was our young friend safely landed in Hongkong with a new name, a first-class character, and a great thirst for knowledne. Avoiding his ancient hounts.
he soon chained employment, and set him- self resolutely to educate himself; and ever
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7,000 i.h.p.. Captain
1 Kiddle, en route to Hongkong due on 21st inst Atlas, admiralty tag, 615 tons, 1,400 i,b.p..
Comar, Donaldson, Pakhot.
Bramble, gunboat 710 tone, 900 i.h.D. Lisat,
Comdr. B. G. Washington Kinkiang. Britomart, gunboat, 710 tons, 900 hp., Lient.
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tá., Comdr. H. İynes, Hankow. Cherub, water tank and tag, 390 tons, i.h.p. 340.
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Comdr. H. R. Veale, Shanghai. Fame, torpedo-boat destroyer, 340 tons,
guns, 5,700 i.b.p., Lt. Comdr. . S. Mouros, Forchow.
Flors, 2nd alnes orniser, 4,360 tons. 10 enni.
7.00h.p., Captain C. F. Corbett, M.V.O. Shanghai. Handly, torpedo-boat destroyer 295 fons, 6 gtns, 4000 h.p.. Lieut.-Comdr. B. R. Rosoman, West River.
Janus, torpedo-boat destroyer, 320 tons. 6 gene, 3,900 h.p., Lieut.-Comdr. R. B. England, Swa.ow.
Kont, armoured arnizor, 9,800 tons, 14 guns. i.b.p. 22.000, Capt. §. St. J. Farqutar, Singapore,
Kiusha, rivor gunbost, 616 tour, i.b.p. 1,200,
Lieut. Comdr H. Marrtat, Haukow Herlin, surveying ship: 1,070, tens, 6 guns, 1,40 i.h.p. Commr. B. O. M. Dovy. Hongkong. Minotaur, armoured cruiser (flagship Vico. Admiral Sir A. L. Winsloe, F.F. C.V.O.. C.M.G.,) 14,600, toma, i.h.p. 27,00', Capf. G. C. Carley, Hongkong, Monmouth, armoured cruiser, 9,800 tone, L.b.r. Captain L. E. Power, M.V.O.,
Moorhen, rivor ganboat 180 tons, 2 grns. i.h.p.800. Lieut.-Comdr G. P. Loith. West River Newcastle, 2nd class oruiser, 4,900 tons, turbine.
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Otter, torpedo-bont destroyer, 385 tone, 6 gums. 6,300 f.b.p., Comdr, Lambe, Nonking. Robin, river upbeat, 85 tona, 2 guns, 240 h.p.. Lt.-Comdr J. S. Tyndall. West River. Itoseria, depot ship for Submarines, 980 tema, Ib p. 1,400, Lt.-Commr, N. E, Arohdale, Canton.
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Sandpiper, river valoat, 85 tons, 2 guas, 240 L., Lieut. Comdr. E. J. J. Southby. West River Baips, river garboat, 95 tone, 2 guns 240 hp
It-Comdr. Matrice B. Leslie, Shanghai. Taka, torpedo boat destroyer, 305 tona, i.h.p. 6,000.Gunner E. J. Trile R.F.Hoogktug. Tamar, receiving ship, 4,650 tons, 6 gaus
Commodore Eyres. Hongkong. Teal, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guns, 800.i.b.n. Lieut. Comar. Hor. Guy Stopford, Chang kiang.
Thistle, gunboat, 710 tons, 900 h.m., Lient.
Comdr. M. R. Baillie Hamilton, Hankow Virago, torpedo-boat destroyer. 395 tons, 6 puss 6.300 1.b.p.. Tieut. Coindr. Harold D. Adair Ball. Amoy.
Waterwitch. surveyine ship. 620 tons, 450 Lày, Lieut-Comdr. R. L Hannock. Hongkong. Whiting, torpedo-boat destroyer. 360 Tore.
5,900 bp, Lieut. Comdr. G. B. Hartford, Yongleze, Widgeon, Funboat 195 tous. 2 enne, 800 hr.
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