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HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIO CLUB.
BUĆCEBBEUL PRODUCTION OF "THE" GONDOLIBRE."
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 22ND, 1919.
** MY REMINISCENCES,"
Gondoliers, Men-at-Arms, Contadine, offer at all, unless its directors considered.
[BY SUN YAT SEN.] Continued from yesterday,).
violent ones if necessary, in order to be treated with justice and to establish peace in the Far East and throughout the world. We mean to go through with what we have |bagun-no matter how much blood will bè
spilt.
the proposition to be an excellent one for etc., etc.-Mesdames Hollingsworth, that Company; and, after all, we benefit Robertson, Jones, Quinn, Head, Young, to a much greater extent than if we paid Pellow, Weston, Kew, Platt; Misses up the balance due in respect of our Main, Boannas, Chanyut, Robson, Hake, issue of new shares to strangers outside. I could tell many stories connected with progressive Government, must be sub-
shares, and raised more capital by the
A new Government, an enlightened and Moreover, we shall be Some few months ago the Colony was Benbow, Schmidt; Mesars. Biden, Parker, the Company,
able to rest content hereafter with the the rewards placed upon my head. All stituted for the old one. perturbed by the announcement that the Darby, Wood, McNulty, Chapman, Platt, knowledge that our property is well look men were not, I am sorry to say, like this beon done, China will not only be able to fate of the Amateur Dramatic Club Bullock, Emmett, Hollingsworth, Rayed after by those eminently capable of one. Some really would have wished to free herself from her troubles, but also actually hung in the balance, that it was mond, Bouter, Grey, Shields, Whittsmoro, managing it, and that it is not likely to earn the reward if they could-but my may be able to deliver other nations from
& serious question whether it should or should not continue to exist, but, happily, it was decided that the public apprecia- tion of the Club and its performances war ranted its existence, and the wisdom of that decision will doubtless be endorsed by all who see the production of "The Gondoliers. At the outset it should be stated that the production is worthy of the A.D.C. It maintains the standard a long set and so admirably sustained by our Hongkong amateurs, whose performances at times would not have been discredit- able to professional artists, and last. night's performance was as brilliant as Boy under the same auspices.
Lake.
The Orchestra was composed of;- First Violins: Mr. T. G. Flynn, Lance Corporal Spieglehaitor.
Second Violins: Mr. F. C. Barlow, Q.M. Sergt. Jenkins, R.E. -
Celli: Mr. G. S. Archbutt, Bandsman Cranlergh.
Double Bass: Bugle Major Johnson. Flute: Mr. J. D. Osmund. Ohoe: Mr. W. Anderson. Clarinet: Band Sergt. Ware. Corneta: Trumpet Major R.G.A., Bandaman Kelly,
Trombone: Corporal George. Tympani, Side Drum, etc.: Lance poral Ervine.
Piano: Mrs. Adams.
When that has
eaffer for want of the capital required to friends saved me. Once I was kept in one the necessity of defending their indopen- nake the Company a good dividend pay room. At another time I was living with there are many of high culture who, we honse six weeks without stirring from my dence and integrity. Among the Chinese ing concern within a short space of time. With these remarks, gentlemen, I beg to a fisherman in a small cabin on the out believe, are able to undertake the task of skirts of Canton, when I was told that forming a new Government. Carefully- muve the following resolution:
That the directors: he authorised to two soldiers had been ordered to take thought-out plans have been made for a a contract with the Rubber their place in a little grove near by and long time for transforming the old Chi- conclude Plantations Investment Trust, Limited, for shoot me on sight. I was made aware of nese monarchy into a republic. the sale of the property and assets of the the danger and kept in the house for two
The masses of the people are ready to Then I was told that the two receive a now form of Government. They Company to a new Company to be formed days. and registered in London by or under the soldiers themselves had been shot.
wish for a change of their political and But in a way my most extraordinary social conditions, in order to escape from auspices of the Rubber Flantations Invest- ment Trust Limited, upon the same terms experience was in Canton, when two young the deplorable conditions of life prevail- Elliott, (modified or otherwise as regards the officials came themselves to capture me ing at present. The country is in a state existing options) as by the resolution of I was in my room at night and in my of tension. It is like a forest of dry wood, the Company passed on the 22nd Novem- shirts-sleeves, reading and looking over my and it needs only the slightest spark to Corber last, and confirined on the 8th Decem- papers. The two men opened the door, set fire to it. The people are ready to
ker last, it was resolved to sell the said They had a dozen soldiers outside. When drive the Tartars out. property and assets to u new Company I saw them I calmly took up one of the over as soon as the revolutionary force has They will come Apart from those on the stage, special to be formed by or under the auspices of sacred books and began to read aloud, gained a footing in South China. tess might have been expected in some mention should be made of the work of the United Lankat Plantations Company, They listened for a time, and after a while sevon divisions around Peking Are tho instances, but none was shown, and every Mr. John Robertson, who not only design. Limited (the name of the Rubber Planta- one of them spoke, and naked a question. entire creation of Yuan Shih Kai. Since responsible for the production. The other substituted for that of the United Lankat Then ensued a long argument, and I stated troops to the Peking Government is great-! ed the scenery and the effects, but was Lions Investment Trust Limited, being I answered it, and they asked others, he has been degraded the loyalty of these! Plantations Company, Limited, in such my case and the case of the thousands who "The Gondoliers," as is well known, G. Worcester: Hon. Treasurer, Mr. G. terms); with the addition thereto that thought as I did at full length as well as options on 6,000 shares in the new Com I could. At the end of two hours the two auch new Company be issued to the Rub want. He is a good man, and spends his thereof that 1,000 fully paid up shares in in the street, "That is not the man we ber Plantations Investment Trust, Limited, fe healing the sick! or its nominees; and upon such other termus as the directors shall deem ex head once amounted altogether to not leas I estimate that the rewards upon my pedient."
Mr. EVAN ORMISTON, in seconding, quot hundred thousand pounds sterling). I
than seven hundred thousand tacle (one ed from the report of the proceedings at these circumstances, I have been asked why the meeting of U.LP.C. shareholders I have gone about in London so freely when the scheme was considered in order and taken so few precautions,
Nervous-
artists acquitted himself and herself on the stage as to the manner born. -
ofücials were:-Hon. Secretary, Mr. W. Beath; and Business Manager, Mr. A
The
is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's brightest Chapman; while the Committee consisted pany to be formed be given or in lien men went away, and I heard them saying that they will not fight for the Manchu
operas. It perhaps represents rather an ambitious undertaking for amateurs, and especially amateurs for removed from professional assistance, but the selection is justified already on the opening per- formance. It went very smoothly indeed, and the audience being sympathetic and indulgent, as they should be when witness- ing such productions. found interest and
pleasure in the clock, with few excop. tions, was admirably carried out, and the solo and other parts were well undertaken by the various individuals to whom they
efforts those on the
were entrusted.
When the curtain rose in the Theatre Royal last night the large gathering was delighted with the beautiful scene which met their gaze, and the pleasant impres sions thus created were deepened with the fine rendering of the opening chorus. Then the audience settled down to enjoy the production, and those who were not under the influence of the Lang Holloway combination could not fail to appreciate the work of the amateurs.
af Messrs. G. A. Caldwell, A. Chapman, R. Sutherland, H. W. Bird, CT. Beth W. G. Worcester, J. Robertson, H. W Iwoker and G. P. Lammert.
COMPANY MEETING.
THE TOERANGIE RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED.
i
My
ly diminished. between them and us, we strongly believe Though no arrangement has been made
in Manchuria which is commanded by a Government, and there is another division revolutionary genoral, who can be depend- when the time comes. ed upon to co-operate against Peking
INTIMATIONS JOHNSTONE'S
M.P.
WHISKY.
Our argument is there is nothing better than M.P.
H. RUTTONJEE & SON,
arrangement for support has been made. As to the navy, though hitherto no an understanding can be easily concluded if sufficient funds for the purpose could to show that the directors of one of the answer is that my life now is of lit be provided. The naval force of China consists of only four serviceable cruisers, my place. Ten years ago, if I had been tons, and the other three two thousand consequence, for there are plenty to take the largest of which is but four thousand assassinated or carried back to China for nine hundred tons. Many of the officers execution, the cause would have suffered and sailors are revolutionists. Now the organization I have spent so I say again, the whole of South China WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, many years in bringing about is complete.is ready for a general uprising. Besides
At the close of the Boxer rebellion the readiness of all the people of South 38 AND 40, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. returned to America. thing I wanted more than troops and tionist has enrolled the best fighting ele- Thore was one China to follow the movement, the revolu arms-without which I saw I could have ments in the provinces of Kwangtung, neither, and that was money.
Not the money in quantities I had been receiving have always produced the hest soldiers in Kwangsi, and Eunan. These provinces here and there--but at least half a million sterling. Anything less than this
China.
for me--a canvasser for political funds. In this capacity I travelled in every city bankers in Europo. Eraissaries sent by in America, and I visited all the leading
He
would be failure. Now began a new rdle
He
most solid and influential companies were An extraordinary general meeting of highly advantageous to their own Com
very strongly of opinion that it would be this Company was held yesterday at the pany to do that which the Robber Plana offices of the Company. Mr. A. Denison Lions Investment Company now offered to presided, and there were also present: Mr. do. The scheme was abandoned by the C. D. Wilkinson and Mr. W. G. Hun-U.L.F.C. at the request of the Dutch shareholders, who were averse to the Com phreys (directors), Mr. M. W. Slade, pany spending £40,000 of its funds in the K.C., Mr. G. Wilks, Mr. H. J. Gedge, Danner proposed. Mr. Ormiston said he Mr. Evan Ormiston, Mr. P. Loureiro, Mr. was of opinion that it would be to the W. Taylor and Mr. E. A. M. Williams Company's interests to accept the offer
Mr. M. SLADE, K.C., said he was not (Secretary).
opposing the proposition as recommended The CHAIRMAN said: Gentlemen, It by the directors, although he could not say may appear to some of you rather strange that he entirely approved of it.
So far it has all happened as I foretold, that you should now be asked to consider thought he was voicing the opinions of a
only the crisis has come a little more practically the sane resolution as that number of shareholders when he said that
would have been able to hold out longer. hurriedly. I expected Yuan Shih Kai which was brought forward for your con- bad their directors been a little more sideration not many weeks ago, and was astute in the negotiations, or their agent,
year age. Yuan sent for me I distrusted I was so full of this belief that when a not then approved. But you will remem Mr. Gray, not been hampered in his bar me penetrated into all quarters. Some ber that, on that occasion, the Chairman gainings by the fact that he was a director professing to act for me and in my name false, but he was really in carnest.
his messenger. I thought he was playing Having said that the general effect of of the meeting stated that little or nothing in the Rubber Trust, the Company which proved faithless. But I prefer not to wished to remove the ban from my life the production was good, this notice would was then known of the Company (named was going to have the great advantage, speak of these-nlthough one man is now
at the time the Rubber Investicent Trust) they would have been able to get a azul, universally denounced as a traitor to the and net openly in concert with me. But be incomplete were not some reference by which the offer under consideration better bargain. The price they were cause for having appropriated-a-huge-sum. I said to his messenger made to the principals. Messrs. G. P. was raade, but information concerning the going o pay, was, in his opinion, con of money entrusted to his care. He will "Go back to your master and tell him I have not laboured fifteen years and Lammert and Bertram Webb as Marco Company would doubtless be received in siderably too high, but they would never meet with his due reward.: Palmeiri and Guiseppe Palmeir, respec course of time, and when received it might theless obtain a great advantage. There
All over the world, and particularly in suffered so many perils to be tricked so lively, the two handsome gondcliers, who cause the members to alter the views they fore he thought that the shareholders America, the legend has grown up that easily. Tell his Excellency I can wait. then held. Such information has now would do well to ratify the decision of the Chinamen are selfish and mercenary.
Tien ming we chang," appear amidst a
bevy of beautiful been received, and we are told by our directors. Mr. Slade discussed the option There never was a greater libel on a maidens twining roses from whom they Visiting Agents in Sumatra that, the Rub- of shares at Considerable length and pro- people. Many have given me their whole revolation would have happened sooner. are going to choose their brides, certainly her Investment Trust (the proper name carry off the honours. They acted their of which is the Rubber Plantations Investe pused the following amendment to the fortune. One Philadelphie laundryman and I should now be in Peking. For I ment Trust, amited) is a Company well resolution put by the Chairman:- called at my hotel after a meeting, and, can count upon millions of followers. "That the directors be at liberty, and thrusting a linen bag upon me, went away They will follow me to the death, as they parts with a naturainess and unaffected-known in Samiatra, where it has been, they are hereby authorised, to enter into without a word. It contained his entire have long followed my teachings.
instrumental in furthering the prosperity an agreement (by their duly constituted savings for twenty years, gather that the view is held in Sumatra attorney) for the sale and disposition of Meanwhile I kept my eyes on China and that the Company is likely to be of equal the undertaking and assets of the Com use to us as would have been the pany to a new Company to be formed in C.L.P.C. had the scheme propounded by London by, or under the auspices of. The the directors of the latter Company becn Rubber Plantations Investment Trast, carried out. We further ascertained that Limited, upon the following terms: the raising of more capital within a ghort 1.That the capital of the new Com-
pany be £150,000. time hence was absolutely essential for
and interests of other Companies; and we
the
property, and was particularly needed if purpose of properly developing our
ose which were in the highest degree artistic, aon their vocal work was not leas successful than the stretly histrionic They were supported in their roles by Mrs. Hunley as Gianetta-and-Miss Hilda Gordon as Tessa, the former being parti. cularly vivacious and vigorous, and the lutter using her fine voice to perfection in the several quartettes, duets, and solos which fell to her lot. As the Grand In- quisitor Mr. M. D. Silas was well suited, and the greater credit attaches to his per- formance in that he stepped into the breach at very short notice, having only had four rebearsals of his important part. Casilda was aweetly portrayed by Mrs. Schofield, who with her husband, Dr. Schofield (Luiz) sang several pretty ducts and had to respond to encores.. The other parts were in capable hands. A pretty feature of the production was the dancing in which a number of young ladies take tageous. Ters would be received very shortly afterwards. No such other offers part, the principals being Misses Main, have, however, bean forthcoming, and it Robson and Chunynt. The scenery was was therefore incumbent upon your direc
Tera, after receiving the informa- rary effective, and the costumes wore tion concerning the RP. I.T. which very dainty. Mr. Denman Fuller is to they did receive, to reconsider the be congratulated or having his forces to offer of "that" Company, WEICH well in hand, and his special orchestration had not been definitely rejceted. of the piece was highly appreciated by Especially was this so having regard to the music loving..
The cast is as follows- The Duke A Grandee of ( Maj. F. J.
of Pinza- Spain
Toro
Luiz His Attendant
Don Al-
hambra del Bolero!
Marce
Palmeiri Guiseppe
Palmeir
Antonio
Francesco
Annibale
The Grand
Inquisitor
Venetian
Gondoliers
The Duchess of Plaza-Toro
Casilda... Her Daughter"
Gianetta.
Teses.......
Fiametta.
Futoria
Contadine...
The King's Inez...Foster Mother
HUNTER,
A.O.D.
Staff-Surg. A SCHOFIELD R.N.
Mr. M. D..
Mr. Geo. P.
LAMMERT. Mr. BERTRAM WEDB.
Mr. A. L.
SUTELUS,
Mr. R. H..
WEITTAMORE. Mr. PARKER.
R.N.
f Miss E. BEN- Bow BowE. ¡Mrs. A.
SCHOFIELD.
Mrs. F. J.
HUNTER. Miss HILDA
GURDON. Mrs. J. W.
KEW
Mrs. G. L
PLATT.
Mrs. T. L.
PERKINS.
we desired to continue the cultivation of tobacco, an undertaking which is much Sumatra shareholders, by whom it is con favoured by our visiting agents, and sidered likely to be most profitable. You will also remember that another offer, somewhat similar to that of the U.L.P.C. and to the one we have now to decide upon, was telegraphed out to us-an offer by the Rubber Estates Agency. From the fact of these two offers having been made with a few days after the U.L.P.C. meet- ing, we, not unnaturally, thought it very possible that other, and, for 15, more ad
the fact that, if the offer were not accept- eft, it appeared to be necessary, without delay, to take steps to ruise capital in other ways first by making an immediate call in respect of the balance of 2. ed. per share payable by the ordinary share- holders. The matter was therefore care-
fully deliberated over, with the result that
If I had trusted Yuan's messenger the
The greatest advance the revolutionary moment has made was when we enjoyed the events happening there. After the the favour of the late Emperor before he death of the Empress-Dowager I realized 5 put under restraint by the Dowager- that Fate was playing into the hands of Empress. At that time many thousands Yuan Shih Kai, who would be for a time of young Chinamen obtained permission the arbiter of my country's destiny. But to leave China and travel about the world, I also knew that he could do nothing with studying European customs and institu
tions. Ninety per cent, of these became out me.
People in Europe think that the Chinese infected with revolutionary ideas. I used pany receive a fully paid-up C1 share wish to keep themselves apart from to meet them by scores wherever I went. in the new Company for each share 176. foreign nations, and that the Chinese They had heard of me, and were anxious 6d. paid-up in this Company.
ports, could be opened to foreign trade to exchange ideas with me. When they 3.That the holders of the 3,700 fully only at the point of the bayonet. That is went back they soon began to leaven the paid-up shares in this Company receive all wrong.
History furnishes us with whole of China.
2.-That the shareholders in this Com-
a similar number of fully paid-up £1many proofs that before the arrival of the Whether I am to be the titular head, of
shares in the new Company.
Manchus the Chinese were in close all China, or to work in conjunction with 4.That the holders of the existing relations with the neighbouring countries another, and that other Yuan Shih Kai, I have done options on 9,000 shares in this Company and that they showed no dislike towards is of no importance to me. be granted similar rights in respect of foreign traders and missionaries, Foreign my work; the wave of enlightenment and 8,000 shares in the new Company.
merchants were allowed to travel freely progress cannot now be stayed, and China 5.That 6,100 fully paid-ap £1 shares through the Empire. During the Mingthe country in the world most atted to in the new Company be issued to the dynasty there was no anti-foreign spirit. be a republic, because of the industrious the people will, Bubber Plantations Investment Trust, Whon the Manchus came the ancient and docile character Limited, or its nominees, in considera policy of toleration changed. The coun- in a short time, take her place amongst tion whereof the said Rubber Planta- try was closed to foreign commerce. The the civilized and liberty-loving nations of tions Investment Trust, Limited, will missionaries were driven out and the the world. pay all legal and other expenses in con- Chinese Christians were massacred, nection with the promotion and flots Chinamen were forbidden to emigrate. tion of the new Company, and the trans-Disobedience was punished with death. THE RECENT DISTURBANCES AT of this Company. fer thereto of the undertaking and assets Why? Simply because the Manchus wish-
SUN YAT SEN.
PEKING.
A strange thing that the looters did was
at to arcade foreigners and desired the
LOOTING TELEPHONES 6.That the said Rubber Plantations people to hate them, for fear that the Investment Trust, Limited, will take up Chinese, enlightened by the foreigners Preat in an interesting letter concerning The Peking correspondent of the China and pay, or procure subscriptions, for might wake up to a sense of their the recent disturbances writes: 40,000 shares of £1 each in the new Com- nationality. The anti-foreign spirit pany, so as to provide at least £40,000 created by the Manchus came to its climax additional working capital for the new in the Boxer risings of 1900, and who were to steal telephones hung up in various Company.
to explain. Some think that the ignorant tion to or in substitution for the fore other than members of the reigning soldiers knew that these things were of 7-Such other Lerms, whether in addithe leaders of that movement? None shops. Why they wanted these is diffent
family. Foreigners travelling in China
great use to foreigners and believed there- going, not being inconsistent with, or have often remarked that they are better fore had come intrinsic value. There are less advantageous to, the Company than received by the people than by the officials, others who hold that the soldiers knew the foregoing, as the Directors or their
I will here again enumerate the prin- that the instrumenta were some kind of duly constituted attorney in their or
cipal wrongs we have suffered during the talking machines and therefore, might tell his discretion shall think fit
Fearing the tele- two hundred and sixty years of the Tartar what they had done amendment was
phones as witnesses they tore them down was carried unruliet
The Manchurian Tartars govern for and either carried them away or destroyed the benefit of their race and not for that them. There must have been some peen- of their subjects.
liar reason for stealing telephones for 2.They oppose our intellectual and nothing, it would seem, could be more Butterly uselesa to a looting soldier than a material progress.
The
we came to the conclusion that we could not do better in the interests of the share- holders than accept the offer of the H.P.I.T., and. accordingly, a telegram was: sent to Mr Cray to the effect that the directors approved of such offer, and animously. were shortly calling the meeting which is now being held. From the re- ports which have been made on our property there can be ne doubt that it is exceedingly valuable. The whole
SHANGHAI'S CORONATION ́CELEBRATION FUND.
A statement of Receipts and Expendi
"Coronation Celebration
3.They treat us as a subject race and telephone. deny us the rights and privileges of.
-They violate our inalienable rights
of it was stated by the U.L.P.C. expert, ture of the appointed to examine it, to be suitable Fund at Shanghai, has been published equality. for robber and at least two-thirds of it showing a balance on hand of Tis: 8,399.81. suitable for tobacco; which necessarily Subscribers of over Tls. 100 (or its equiva- to life, liberty, and property. means that two-thirds of the estate con lent in dollars) who had been promised rists of especially excellent soil. In alli
a refund, pro rata, of any surplus avail- probability, therefore, it would now be able, have now generously consented to valued at a much larger sum than that allow the balance to be given to local
6-They promote and encourage the corruption of officialdom.
6-They suppress the liberty of specah. 7.They tax us heavily and unjustly 8-They practise the most barbarous
It was probably not more than a minute and a quarter after the first shot was fired when the telephone service went bad. It was not due to breaking wires or any effort on the part of the looters, who give no thought to details such as this, but to frightened telephone employes who desert- ed their posts almost at once, much to at which it was valued by the UL.P.C charity. The Finance Committee, there without our consent.
the disgust of foreigners who wanted to expert, and which valuation, and whose fore, with their permission, have divided
find out what was going on or who wanted report, induced the directors of the up the surplus amongst various Institu
to inform their Legations of the situation. LP.C. to make the tentative offer to tuns. The money which has been given.
The telephone office is supervised by a us which they did make, and to strongly out of the surplus Coronation Fund
Japanese, and very soon after the row shareholders of that Company.
started a squad of Japanese soldiers went Conse- quently the R.P.I.T. will unquestionably
office. They took complete charge and be doing exceedingly well for itself by private nurses in Shanghai by a system tecting the life and property of the people through Hatamen Street to the telephone our acceptance of its offer, and it may be of registration and other aida to employ living under their jurisdiction.
Although we have reasons to hate the afforded ample protection After their ment. It is hoped that permission will Isaid that we are proportionately sacrifie be obtained to call the Association by Manchus we have tried to live in, pence arrival at the telephone exchange the ing curselves. But it cannot be supposed Queen Mary's name ns indicating its prefore we, the Chinese people, have rezolved some from under tables, some from closets
tortures.
9. They deprive us unjustly of our 10. They do not fulfil their duty of pro-
recommend the scheme propounded to the towards private nursing is to be used to rights.
assist in the organization of certificated
that the R.P.LT. would have made the sent origin.
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with them, but without success. There Chinese operators began to reappear, By eleven to adopt pacific measures if possible, and and other hiding places.
o'clock that night the system was in pretty good working order.
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