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Speaking at the London Diocesa
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TSINANYU, June 10th A large and representative public meeting, under the auspices of the local Anti-Opium Society, was held in the Pro-
on May vincial Assembly Hall on the afternoon Conference, at Church House, of Juan th. The chair was taken by Me.isth, the Bishop of London announced Chang Kung chih, Vice-Chairman of the tast his official income was inauthent to
bath Provincial Assembly. The Civil and maintain
Fulham Palace Military Governors sent representatives London House, and that be had died who addressed the meeting on their beto put London House up for sale or let half the American, British and Japanese ting. Pessimists, he said, declared that Consulates were also represented. E.E. he would be unable even to keep Fulham Tang Ko-san, Head of the Foreign Bureau, Palate going, but he would make a great made an effective speech calling upon efort before parting with a historie the people to assist in every way in seek-building which had been a possession of ing to evanume the evils of opium and morphis
The speech of the British Consul (Mr. 3. T. Pratt) was regarded as that which best summed up the whole position. It was listened to with marked appreciation, some of the passages calling forth rounds of applause.
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1919.
TEA DUTY PREFERENCE. LANCASHIRE TRADE WITH CHINA,
THEATRE
ROYAL.
In the House of Commons, on May 7th, TO-NIGHT 9.15
the Budget resolations agree to in Cons witter of Ways and Means were consider '
ed on Beport the the resolution relating & TO-MORROW NIGHT! to the tea duty,
Mr. T. Shay moved an amendment to omit the words sanctioning a preferenco
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presenting a Colossal
on tea grown in British possessions. He Initial Appearance la Hongkong understood that Imperial Preference was for the purpose of helping our Dominions, Protectorates, and Colonies, but surely is could not be maintained that in the case of ten any preference was necessary. 1918, 87 per cent, of our total supplies of ten came from our own Colonies and the church for 1,800 years. To show the Dependencies, and there was no evidence arvessity for this devision, the bishop that India or Ceylon had any need for a pointed out that of his £10,000 a year preference of this kind. The only country 26,500 went in income-tax, super-tax, that could be injured by preference with rates, taxes, and insurance, leaving onlyChina, and China was in a position to £5,500, out of which he had to maintain retaliate effectively, by injuring Lanca the garden of Fulham Palace, run astir, for while we imported in 1913 motor-ear, and keep ten servants; who Egos,000 worth of tea from that country, were essential for a big house. *You it imported from us in cotton goods no BRITISH CONSUL'S SPEECH.
must see it cannot be done he added. Less than £5,500,000 worth in that year. including the Popular London
The Government proposed to give a pr M Pratt said: I to sve such a large and representa
In his decision to let or sell London forenes against, a country on one article, tive gathering here to-day because it Hous, in St. James'sare, the Bishop and yet we were exporting in a normal shows that the people of Shantung are in of London has a precedent in the netion rear to the same country from one county earnest in their endeavours to stamp out of Dean Chase some ten of twelve years afons 13 times as much as we were im the ice of opium and morphia Every body cuties how great is the evil of 480. The Dean sold the house in Dover Porting from her. It was inadvisable to street. Piccadilly, surrounded at that time-15% preference to people who did not. oplum and it is unnecessary for me to by clubs and dress-makers establishments, need is against a neutral country which expatiate further on that point. My which, for many years, had been the Lon-could injure our trade far more than any object in coming here to-day is to expr den residence of the Bishops of Ely. It may benefit which ould be derived from that my warm sympathy with the objects which be recalled that in early days, long before
Mr.A. Short, seconding the anwend this meeting has in view, namely, the sup- the Reformutrien, the bishops of that pression of the morphia and opium evil.
diocese possessed one of the most magri, neat, said the proposal of the Govern lo order to suppress this evil it is necesficent dwelling places in the metropolis ment was going to interfere with Tree and unfettered international trade to auch an sary to prohibit three things: one mastin El House. Holborn.
extent as not to facilitate or axint in prohibit planting opium, smoking opinmi Sad enough it will be to are London the recovery of the normal state of com. and trading in opium. Now planting House pass to cluer uses, but it is impus merce, msr would it engender that qu Topjamand ̄ ̄amozing opium are both matters which pertain to the internal sible to imagine Fulham Palace in like paise of trade which was so necessary and administration and the prohibition of Predicament. "One shudders at the very essential
thought of what would bäppen if such a Mr. Chamberlain. Chancellor of the planting and smoking are, therefore thing could be that it fell into the hands Exchequer, said that in so far as the matters which are easily within the pro at 11 building spreulater. But Dr.Amendment was a general attack on PA vince of the Chinese officials. Not only
Hie are they within their province but I for Ingram says he will make a great effort ference, it was a challenge to the declared
to keep Fulham Faluer, and he exagge policy of His Majesty's Government am convinced that the Chinese rates nothing in his description of it as Majesty's Government accepted two years prople behind them are in earnest over
an historic possession of the Church for age the principle that on duties now ne this matter and will wincerely prohibit 100 years. Fulham has belonged to the hereafter existing a preference should be both planting and smoking.
e of London ever since about the year given on Imperii produce. That was the sa, when a grant of the manor was made policy which the Government were pursu to Erkenwald, Bishop of London, and bis
TOK. They initiated no new duties, in successors by Tyrtilus. Bishop of Here, forder to prente Proference. but where for ford. The "construction of the wonder
our own purposes they found it, necessary When I first came to China 21 years ago ful moat round the palace grounds, which or in our interests to impose a Customs the poppy was cultivated over wide areas is nearly a mile in circuit, is attributed duty, in was their intention that there in every province in China and far to a body of Danes who went into winter should be a preference to the British Dominions. That was decided in 1917., quantities of the drug were imported quarters" at Fulham in $79, from India.
They were confronted with the case in the tea consumed in which 90 per cent. Domesday Book says: In Fulbam the country was already the product of the Bishop of London holds forty hides his Majesty's Possessions overseas--the its whole value is forty pounds, the like great Empire of India and Ceylon. Of when received in Edward's (the Con the remaining part of the import a great fessor's) time fifty pounds." The palaereal was high-class China tea, which was
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At last public opinion was aroused and an agreement was made between China and England by which the import of opium from India was stopped and the planting of opium in Chian was to be eradicated.
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Many people believed it was absolutely is built, to use Sir Walter Besant's des an article of luxury or taste as much as Written & produced by GEORGE ROSS impossible for the Chinese Government to feription, round two courtyards, and the champagne and for which the special prohibit the cultivation of the poppy but one first entered is by far the older,demand would remain. in spite of time administrative difficulties of having been built by Bishop Fitzjames ducing the duty by ed. on the Empire Admission $3, $2 & $1. enforcing such a prohibition, and in spite in "the reign of Henry VII. The great product, when the Empire product con
Booking at MOUTRIE'S. of the huge financial sacrifices entailed, gateway which leads to it bears his armsisted of so large a part of the ordinary the Chinese Government did practically cut in stone. In the wing on the riverside consumption of the country, must be to wipe out the poppy over the whole of are the rooms used by Land when he was increase the consumption. The increased China and at the same time genuinely bishop. On the other side are the rooms consumption in Great Britain would enforced the prohibition against amnoccupied by Bishop Bonner. A great react on the development and prosperity deal of the oak in the hall originally be of the tea industry in India and Ceylon. longed to the chapel of London House in Instead of this proposal being of no use to those countries, and harmful to Great Aldersgate-street,
Britain, it would be a benefit to the.com suer he and of great hope and promise to the producers there.
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The question of retaliation by foreign' Governments had been raised, and the mover in particular had dwelt on the case PALACE HOTEL. KOWLOON. of China It would not occur to any
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foreign Government to think that the in- Corner of Haiphong and Hankow ternal arrangements of another nation or Empire was their affair at all if so many members of the House of Commons arid publicists outside did
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not studiouslyWO Minutes from Ferry and Ballway station. This. Hotel har just been com- pletely renovated and refurnished, is now sp to-date in every respect and under English Management. Cuisine ander personal supervision of the Proprietor
And this was no mere spasmodic effort but a sustained effort spread out over Once more one comes to a ense of a several years, and only so recently as last Bishop of London being hard pot to it year we have again seen in the burning for funds to keep his establishment going. at Shanghai of over twelve million Bishop Robinson in 1715 presented a peti- dollars worth of opium a proof of the tion to the Archbishop of Canterbury, sincerity and earnestness which animatesurging that the palace was in a ruinous the Chinese in the matter. I have no state and was too large for its revenues. besitation in saying that this is the As a result a Commission was appointed greatest moral reform that has ever been to inquire into and report upon the matter, in the history of the world. among the members being Sir Chrisopher It has commanded the deep respect of Wren and Sir John Vanbrugh. Ultimate. all the people of the West and we are ally a fidense was granted to pull down
to teaching foreign ready earnestly to support the efforts of what was superfluous and to put the rest the Chinese Government and people to into better condition. Some Afty years
Had we any right to com- maintain this prohibition and to prevent later Bishop Terrick began extensions and a recrudescence of the evil.
rebuilding, and his was the idea of the plain because goods could pass from one In urder to prevent a recrudescence of second courtyard. Bherlock, who succeed province of the Chinese Empire to another, without paying the charges which the evil it is necessary to provent trading ed him, carried on his work. in opium, for if you probibit planting Howley undertook extensive alterations English goods must pay when they enter. but are unable to prevent trading thereafter ideas of his own, cutting off the cd China? We had no right to complain. Yet many parts of the British Empire are sure to be evil characters who will bästlements and levelling the frontage be be tempted by the large profits, and will twpen the towers. Much as he left it were hardly more widely separated than parts of the Chinese Empire, and the cretly import opium and thus bring all stands the building of to-day. your efforts to nought.
One of the glories of Fulham. Palace is diversities of language and thought in the Now in order to prevent trading in its grounds, but the formation of the Chinese dominiocs were as great as in opium it is necessary for the Chinese public park by Bishop Temple has shorn the British Empire. What we chose to do Government to have the assistance of then considerable portion of them lying within the British Empire was the con- various foreign Governmenta, otherwise it along the river bank. But they still concern of the British Empire. It gave no right for any foreign nation to take will not be possible to provent foreigners stitute a delightful little area of green
offence. No foreign nation invited or importing opium.
country amidst a sca of houses. For the
would tolerate our interference in their
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Bishop
Now I have come here specially to-day creation of these beautiful gardens to tell the people of Shantung that not Bishop Compton was responsible, and they only have they my own personal sym-atill contain many curious specimens of pathy in this anti-opium movement but England. that they can also rely in the fullest
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support and assistance from the British SAILOR ATTACKS EFFIGY AT Government whom I have the honour to
MADAME TUSSAUD'S. represent.
Britishers residing in China enjoy the privilege of extra-territoriality. That is
:
The effigy of the criser at Mmo. Tussaud's has been staabed under the
Britiab sailor.
internal Customs arrangements, and he Saw, no reason, but for the suggestions. coming from the hon. gentleman. why any foreign nation should take any cffence at our doing what other foreign natione had done for years without com plaint from us or anybody else. If a foreign nation chose to raise that issue, and to say that be one portion of the British Empire treated another portion of the British Empire as kinsmen, as
to say they are not subject to the laws of beeLof an indignant deed stood for parts of one whole, as partners in one
China but to the laws of England, and
The sailor who did the if they commit any offence they cannot some time in front of the figure in silent great Commonwealth, that was an offence then," said an off the whole British Empire would be ready contemplation,
Bad be punished by the China officials but only cial, he flung himself at the effigy and to meet that contention and to stend by the British officials.
it off its pedestal. This done, he shoulder to shoulder to combat it. (Chears) That is a great privilege but, we
to jump on it, amehing its face!
Captain Wedgwood Benn said that ons Britishers Ermly believe that the enjoy to pieces and breaking its arms. In doing of our most important foreign marketa ment of a privilege involves a corres- so, he used some-wall, rather seafaring ponding duty, otherwise the privilege is language.
not a benoft or a blessing but a curse. Canadian soldiers had previously been Therefore though Britishers enjoy the very nasty towards the effigy, and once privilege of extra-territoriality they are someone out the upward point, off his chjoined not to offend against the laws moustache...
or customs of China in the slightest degree. Ifa, British rubject in China
was China, and it was obvious that if we deprived China of the consideration in respect, of which we enjoyed most- favoured nation treatment in her market she would be perfectly entitled to deprive us of most favoured-nation treatment, and hand over her market, say, to America.
Mr. Chamberlain (interposing) said Chine would be entitled to do nothing of the kind: There was no infringement in the proposed preference of the most- favoured-nation clause-none whatever.
Captain Wedgwood Benn thought there
commits any offence, the British Govern-the regulation he may be fined £50, or im- inent does not attempt in the slightest prisoned for 3 months. The epium-will degree to protect or screen him,
also be conhacated and he will also be We hold on the contrary that by com fined three times the value of the opium. mitting an offence he has beemirched the England a long way from China and good name of England and instead of the journey is so long and so expensive was no question that we were risking the being protected he is punished more that only the better class of tradere come Chinese market for Lancashire cotton merely accordingly. Therefore the British from England to China. Therefore, I goods. He also believed that the proposal Government will by no means permit any think no British subject will be found would imperil the entrepôt trade. British subject to break the law in the trading in opium.
The House divided, when there voted: [matter of opiuin.
Within the last few weeks the British that if any British subject so offends he majority, 100.
I can assure the people of Shantung For the resolution, 262; against, Minister in Peking has made new regula will be most severely punished because the Mr. Rose moved an amendment to re- tions absolutely prohibiting any trading British Government is most anxious to duce the ten duty from terpenes to of any description in onium by a British assist the Chinese Government and threepence, but it was rejected by 285 subject and if a British dubject disobeys Chinese people in their campaign against votes to 63--Government majority, 999
(Continued-at-foot of next column.) this evil
The resolution was agreed to.
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