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CORRESPONDENCE.
THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "NONGKONG
DAILY PRESS."}
Sin-In forwarding to you for publien tion the enclosed letter from the Secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute, I would venture to express the hope that several British Subjects in Hongkong will send in their names to me (as Local Correspond. ing Secretary) ds. Candidates for elec tion as Fellows of the Institute.
A Non-Resident Fellow, on his election, pays an admission fee of £1,1/- and an annual subeription of £1 1, the latter of which may be compounded for by a Jump sum payment of £10-Yours faith
fully.
H. E. POLLOCK.
5. Queen's Road,
3rd September, 1012.
(Copy)
Royal Colonial Institute,
Northumberland Avenue,
London, July 19th, 1911: The Hun. H. E. Pollock, K.Ó., M.L.C.,
Hongkang,
DEAR SIR-Is continuation of my letter od 29th of March last, in which I supplied you with a record of the work of the Institute for the previous quarter, I have now pleasure in letting you know the general progress of the Institute since that date.
The session of 1911-12 has just closed and the papers which have been read and dis cussed at the various meetings have proved of excoptional interest. The moetings have been very largely attended and the Council view with satisfaction the educative value of the circulation of these papers amongst the people of all parts of the Empire in the columns of United Empire.
A series of valuable contributions regard. ing British Citizenship appeared in United Empire, beginning with the issue of the Journal for November last.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 418, 1812.
Although the Council is now adjourning for their summer rocose, we still have a very large number of visitors calling at the Institute daily, in fact we have had almost as many of our non-resident follows in London during the present yoar as we had during the Coronation festivities last year. One and all have intimatest how useful they have found the Institute building, both as centre for meeting their friends and becam- ing acquainted with representatives of other parts of the Empire and also as a permanent address for the conduct and receipt of their correspondence. They also appreciate secing all the chief newspapers of their own parti eular parts of the Empire.
It has hean decided by the Council that
FIRST OFFICER CHARGED WITH
NEGLECT OF DUTY.
LEAVES THE BRIDGE TO QUARTERMASTER.
A Court of Inquiry was held at the Harbour Office yesterday into charges of misconduct against W. McGhen, first offi- cor of the 1.8. Kumchow. The Court was constituted as follows: Commander Beckwith, R.N., President; Lieut. C. E. Stainer, R.N., H.M.S. Tamur; Mr. E. J. Tadd, master of the s.s. Laisang; Mr. J. W. Evans, master of the Haimun and Mr. A., W. Stewart, master of the
a.s. Antilochus,
J
I should visit the Dominion of Canada this year during my vacation leave, and I ap
Captain Martin, of the ss. Kumchow, leaving England on the 26th instant with read the entry from his log book report- the object of visiting the Honorary Corro-ing that on August 3rd, while Mr. sponding Secretaries in the Dominion and coming into personal touch with follows in
McGhee was ou watch, he went on the each of the Provinces of Canada. There is bridge at 12.35 am, and found the first a possibility that such visits may in the officer missing. Ho searched the ship futuro be extended to other parts of the with the assistance of the second officer Empire.
and ultimately found him in the third
SUPREME COURT,
Tuesday, 3rd September,
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE Chief Justice (HON. MR. REES DAVIES, K.C.)
ONTINUATION OF STAY OF EXECUTION,
In the action Li Tse Shi v. Li Yu Ming and archer, a motion was presented on
behalf of the defendants for an order for a continuation of the stay of execu- tion Batil the time for the appeal ex- piros.
ORINA'S LAST DANGER.
No one is inclined to make adverse comments about the Salvation Army just at present. The universal desire is
INTIMATIONS
to warmly praise the real goodness of JOHNSTONE'S
motive that underlay all the work of the late General Booth, and to acknow- ledge that the sum of its merits for outweighed the aggregate of its defecta. We and ourselves, in perfect agreement with Mr. Bramwell Booth when he saya that there is still plenty of work to be done by the Army in the lowest strata of European society, but we note with some considerable alarm his further statement that China is to be the next field of The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, B.C., operations. We may take ri, perhaps, that and Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instructed by this is a hasty declaration, and that be Mr. J. Scott Harston, appeared in sup-
fore adventuring on such a task Mr. Booth would take counsel with men who part of the motion, and Mr. Eldon Pot-Boat work towledge of Mattia and the ter, instructed by Mr. R. Harding, re-
Chinese We can hardly doubt that if presented the plaintiff.
such precautionary consultations were not sought voluntarily, the representa tives of the Government would very strongly and earnestly endeavour to per
After hearing the parties,. Bis Lordship allowed the notice of
services you bave rendered in the past and engineor's cabin, which was locked, Hemotion for a further stay of payment suado Mr. Booth to beware of excessive,
Again thanking you for the many valuable relying on your netire co-oparation in the Was drinking whisky when he found him of the amount awarded to the plaintiff misdirected zeal. There are, of course, a prosention of the work of the Institute in He considered it dangerous that the first and interest to be paid into Court, on
the future. Yours very truly,
JAMES R. BOOSE, Secretary: -
HONGKONG POLICE FORCE,
San. The leading artiels in the Daily Pres of to-day (Tuesday) says what needs to be said on the subject of the Colony's Police Force. Unfortunately, we have only too much reason to fear that in regard to the native members, which are axcess of the Euro- overwhelmingly in
peans, inefficiency coupled with ignor ance and the Oriental propensity for killing time," is not only existent, but is so glaringly apparent that it is a mystery how the authorities carry on as well ne they do The lordly Sikh,
officer should leave the bridge in such
He also read his a locality. letter to the Harbour Master ask- ing for an inquiry. Mr. McGhee had
GENERAL LI'S PLEA OF JUSTIFICATION.
M.P.
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very considerable number of "comparative- terms agreed upon between Counsel only well informed men who regard Chins both sides.
as a nation of semi-barbarions. Always we find ourselves inclined to smile we recall the naive derisively when admission of the Rov. Lord William Cecil that when he came to Ching to lay the foundations of a new missionary enter: prise, he was greatly unazed to meet a number of highly cultured and striking, Following is a translation of a further he had gone no farther than Singapore ly intellectual Chinese gentlemen. LI telegram from General Li Ynan Hung, we could have introduced him to a few the Vice-President, in justification of his men whose knowledge, scholarship, and action in connection with the execution surpass in the West, and we could have
mental
would be difficult to
shown him one or two men whose com- WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. of the two Generals at Peking:
"To President. Yuan, the Cabinet,mercial acumen would match the bast the National Council, the Governor that is to be met with in the city of Generals of the Provinces, the Various London. No good can be done to China Organizations ind the National
by anyone who is unaware, or reluctant to acknowledge, that there is in that lectualism vastly subtle, than the West country a civilisation and an intel. end in many possesses. It is different from that with
been on the ship seven weeks and had THE EXECUTED GENERALS. made three voyages. That was the only occasion on which Mr. McGlae had been Logged. Witness then detailed the ovents of that morning, and in reply to his Worship said it was not customary for the first officer to leave the bridge when on watch. In his opinion McGhee was not sober when be discovered him in the Hé sent him to third engineer's room. his room and put hire off duty. Witness had had trouble with McGlice a week before at Saigon.
Witness, in reply to questions from the
Press!---
"Since our Republic is still in its
These were resplendent in his blue and gold turban Court, said he came up that night be- infancy, it is a matter of cxtreme and respecta vastly more i contributed amongst others by Mr. Jametand the complacent lukong with his Bryas, Prof. Westlake, Sir Sammel Griffith (Chief Justice of Australia), Mr. Malan quaint headgear resembling an inverted
other notable jurists and men of affairs
cor.
cause he was suspicious of the chief offi- Mr. W. C. Ramsey, second officer of (Minister of Education, South Africa), and pudding basin, are neither sraart in the Kumchow, stated that on the 22nd throughout the Empire. These contribu- / appearance nor calcalated to inspire August he took watch from 8 to 12 p.m. the Revolution. tions have since been published in volume respect. The lukong morcover, is prone He received special instructions concern. form and Mr. E. B. Sargant, who to be too familiar with the ricksba coolies ing the first officer, and when the latter inaugurated the discussion, would be pleased, or hawkers in the vicinity of his beut and took the bridge he was quite sober. He I am aure, to present any copies that you might require. The work is an exceedingly too ready to ask for or demand the assisted the captain to take a search for interesting and, as you will have no doubt cigarette or the bonbon from the hawker's the first officer when he was missing, and gathered from the articles which have stall. This is no new characteristic burn they found him in the third engineer's appeared from time to time in the Journal of the spirit of these democratic times and room. He then appeared to be sober.
With regard to the work of the Empire traceable to the new order of things pre- In answer to the Court the witness Trade and Industry Committee: A very vailing in China. It is an old failing said he considered the first officer was important mamorandum was recently drawn up requesting the members of the Royal well-known to anyone who has resided quite capable of taking his watch, Commission on Trade, which was recently here for any length of time. Small wonder i A Chinese quartermaster said on the appointed, to consider the proposal made is that the Chinese burglar and sneak-thief date named the first officer told him to keep 1907 by the Australian Prime Minister at
find in Hongkong a veritable Eldorado. watch. It was the first time he had ever the Imperial Conference, to creaté a genorol fund and Board for promoting schemes of The Indian policeman certainly has a kept watch. The chief officer had been Inter-Imperial communication by steamship higher conception of his duties, but his away about a quarter of an hour when and telegraph. Copies of this momorial were sont to the Secretary of the Royal thoughts are generally miles away from the captain came up. There was nothing Commission, as well as to each individual his surroundings, and his time is mostly in sight at the time. Royal Commissioner, with the result that spent in humming to himself the songs! the question is to be taken into considera-
that he learned as a child on the sun. tion on the reassembling of the Commission dried plains of Rajputana. in October next, when evidence will be given by the mombers of the Institute Committee.
The memorandum appears in the July issus
of United Empire.
The usual Annual Conversazione was held at the Natural History. Musoun on the 28th. of June, nad was attended by some 2,000 of our fellows and their friends. This event is always looked forward to with consider able interest by non-resident fellows and their wives when visiting England.
The number of new fellows slected has beon highly satisfactory, 787 having been elected up to the present timo since the first of January, compared with 519 in the corresponding period of last year, so that we are perfectly justified in expecting the total increase on the 31st of December nart to be over 1,000.
The statement of the accused was to the effect that he was not drank on the night in question. He relieved the second officer at midnight, and shortly afterwards he was taken ill. Ho called the quartermaster to the bridge and also told the captain that he had to go below. He went to the engineer's room for the
Under these conditions, Sir, it is not difficult to place one's finger on the weak spots in the organisation of our local Force. What we require is not increased numbers but increased efficiency better purpose of getting some brandy. The pairt men with a proper conception of door of the engineer's room waa not lock- their duties to the community by which ed, and as he walked from the room into they are cumployed. It is noteworthy that the saloon the captain hit bim in the most of the outrages that have recently chest.
sense of security in Captain Martin, recalled, said thore undermined the
was no truth in the statement that he Hongkong have been perpetrated at
He never gave him night, when most of the European officials struck the accused. are off duty or have retired to rest. This permission to leave the bridge. Witness would seem to point to collusion, and is was a light sleeper, and it was impossible phase of the question that calls for the for anything to have been said to him with most earnest consideration by the heads out his hearing it. As soon as the ship of the Department.
arrived in Hongkong the accused went ashore without perraission, and had not received any
pay for the month of August
After a lengthy consultation in pri case--then immediate steps must be taken vate, the Court returned the following to remedy this and a clean sweep mande finding: We find the charge made by
In China there would be no
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paramount importance that all military men should strive to promote and secure
which we are familiar-so different that serve and maintain the name and reputa- is hard to attain. The most enlightened the welfare of their country and to pre-comprehension between the two peoples tion which they have won in the work of men in China realize this and are not Wuchang, the birth ashamed to ask a man like Dr. Morrison place of the new regime, bears and holds to serve as their adviser and guide on an exceptional relation to the general some of the problems that are likely to weal of the Nation; and therefore we can arise. But how few of our people who outbreaks and disturbances in the region ment are aware that there is just as much not permit the recurrence of further appreciate and applaud that appoint whereof the City is the centre. Chang need of a great and experienced Chine Chen-wu had been persistently trying to man to advise Sir Edward Grey in London seduce the soldiers from their loyalty and as there is for a great and experienced to ally himself with local ruffians in order Englishman to advise Yuan-Shib-Kai in to overthrow the Government of the Re-Peking! There is modesty and wisdom public, and also openly to commit himself in the Chinese acknowledgment that they to the perpetration of unlawful acts, need help. Can we be quite are that With a body of evil-minded men, he was there is not foily in our Western assump- the grave and menacing disturbances1oose a throng of militant Balvationists at the head of and was responsible for tion that we need none !
It would be a mad, mad business to let which lately spread alarm among the inhabitants of Wuchang. In view of in China. Even the trained missionaries sent to that country, and cautioned not
SCIENTIFIC AND their services at the beginning of and reason and pruderico dictated in order assaults on pupular prejudice or super-
stition are during the Revolutim, I did all that to arouse popular antagonism by rash A BOUTCO of constant to overlook ånd condone their acta of
SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS Those who anxiety to diplomatiste. orime. I have done more. Not once, but have the greatest succese are the quiet repeatedly I telegraphed to President ressoners who know how to touch the Transits, Lovels, Plano Tubles, Prismatio and Yuan recommending, not without force, intellect of the Chinese, which is a vastly
more important factor than their emo- Bight Compasses, Hand Levels, ka, So.) that Chang should be appointed one of a special Commissioner in charge of Baivationists have a foundation to work
also the advisers in the President's Office and tions. In any white man's country the reclamation in Manchuria. I also asked upon. Their teaching is almost undenom President Yuan to assign him a suitable inational, hence they are able to appeal DRAWING salary, and also to show him special to all who at any part of their life have come under any kind of Christian-in- courtesy. All this was done simply ca account of his former merits, and nothing Buonco. was left undone to compensate him for his aitailar foundation to work upon, and past services.
there would be a total dissimilarity of To our groat amazement, Chang and thought, leading almost inevitably to others, instead of appreciating what had gross insults to things which the Chinese This would cherish most reverently. been done for them, and without per- lead to violence and outrage, and well mission from Peking, came back to
meddlesome and ignorant Wuchang, and used all ways and means moaning, to foment and create trouble and dis- Salvationists would be martyred, with heaven knows what consequences to the order. Not infrequently did they demand as much as $100,000-the sinew peace of China and the tone of its relations to the rest of the world. This people which they and blood of our
If the Chinese were must be avoided. simply squandered according to their strong enough, it is quite probable that whims and fancies in Shanghai and they would deny right of entry to balya- elsewhore. Nor only that: with this tonists. As, for the present, they are money they succeeded in rallying around politically weak, the country to which them armics of unprincipled men who Mr. Bramwell Bouth belongs must ave were strategically placed in different them from feeling their
impotency to places, and were ready to break out at prevent an invasion provocative of grave Sinco my last lottor Earl Grey, whose name is & household word throughout the
any time. They availed themselves of the unrest. This view is not antagonistic to easy and open transportation of the real mission work, and we do not think British Empire, has become the President
Paking-Hankow Railway, and pretended that reformed, republican China will be of the Institute. He is no ordinary figure of the non-efficients by replacing them the master of the as. Aumchow against that they were labouring for the good of as hostile to such work as the old Chine head, but an active worker and a keen
with more responsible and reliable men.
of unshaken prejudices. Gradually the you, William McGhee, first officer of the the Republic. Every move of theirs was enthusiast in the affairs of the Empire, as well as in the progress of the Royal Colonial This can surely be effected by offering above-named ship, proved, in that dur-watched by the people with suspicion and spread of Western ideas in matters of Institute. His Lordship psided at the
Chang and his men, and to pacify the paring the ground for a vast expansion Annual Dinner in May last, who, as I have higher wages and better conditions. The ing the middle watch of Friday, August hurror. In vain did I try to convert politics and in material affairs is pre- proviously mentioned to you, a most interest-present paltry rate of wage is little better 23rd, at or about 6.30 a.m., when you people: truly, Chang's actions provoked of the best kind of missionary offert
ware in charge of the navigation of the | both God and men.
The Chinese are clever enough to say ing departure from previous functions of than coolie pay and would shame a
ship, which was then steaming in the
among themselves: "The railways "Recently a telegram was sent to the kind took place in the reading of various ricksha puller.
good; these carts which run without tho Overseas cables of greeting from
This, Sir, appears to me to be the solu vicinity of Capo Padaran, with 600 paa persuade him to go to Peking in the hope horse or an are good alse; these doctors cure ills vastly better than any of our Dominions. This proved one of the most interesting features of the gathering in the tion to the present difficulty as touching songers on board, you did leave the that he might undertake to better himself
own people. There is much goodness in works. Nevertheless, he was still bent the wisdom of the West, and we will look Motherland. It is sincerely hoped that next the inefficiency of our local Native Police, bridge without any competent person in and to set his heart on good and noble year it may be possible throughout the whole It should not be a difficult matter, for charge for a considerable period, and upon making plots openly to overthrow into all varieties of it so that we may Empire to organise dinners simultaneously if the right sort of men cannot be obtain was found by the master in one of the the Republican Covernment. If I had choose what is best. The religion of the a hear with that of the parent Iactitution. Forthcoming Journal will contain an interested in Hongkong then go farther afield. cabins in the after saloon drinking with continued to suffer his rebellious actions West may be good also; leb
in a patient way, who knows what havoc patiently what those who preach it have to After taking into
When that temper begins ing article setting forth particulars regard-From our many dependencies it should a passenger.
con- Chang and his men would have wrought to say." ing some of the gatherings which took place, be possible to obtain, for a reasonable sideration the previous serious charge in China? Thus, I was compelled by display itself we may be quite sure that circumstances to telegraph President the influence of Christian teaching will you will see that acknowledgement is
to manhood who would, among other ad- but also taking into consideration your Honorary Corresponding Secretaries, whom is due the success which attended vantages, perhaps speak English, a bloss previous record of sobriety and good and his accomplice Fang-wei immediately In the first instance, however, the appeal to be arrested and dealt with according must be intellectual, and the influence to martial law.. This stop was taken must work downward from those who cin merely The Institute has been invited by the ing, indeed, after the gibberish to conduct produced to the Court, we order
which one
is treated when soliciting your certificate to be suspended for
because the preservation of the general can think to those who
The Salvation Army does not Canadian Club at Halifax, Nova Scotia, to
welve months, during which interval a peace and the welfare of our country imitate.
il to intelleets but to the crudest information from the Sikh or the lukong second mate's certificate will be granted demanded it.
It would have to abandon It is necessary, may imperative, for our to you, and that before your cortificate "I know that I am poor in my know- emotions. national credit that the Government take is returned to you you will require to ledge of men, that I lack the wit and Christianity and adopt the fundamentale of Chinese. faith, if they are discoverable, up this matter of the reorganisation of produce to the Board of Trade a reference udgment to devise cans for the main-
ful campaign in that country of many our Native Police at once. The present for sobriety covering the previous aix tenance of order: I can hardly hope to before it could hope to conduct a help
escape the penaltics of failure.
contradictione, But it can be better em feeling of insecurity is causing the wives
The other men who have blindly ployed elsewhere. Physician, heal
zamereherine
The Couscil feel that they are deeply indebted to the Honorary Corresponding
Secretaries for this most satisfactory state of affairs, and I am again requested to convey to you the Council's most grateful thanks.
'and
The
If a certain section of the Force is ineficient and untrustworthy--and there is every reason to believe that such is the
ore
inade to the important work rendered by the wage, well act up, healthy specimens of officially logged against you at Saigon, pan, requesting him to order Chang depend upon the skill of the teachers. 1
these functions.
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