CORRESPONDENCE,
THE SHANTUNG. QUESTION. ITO THE EDITOR OF THE JONGKONG,
DARLY BRASS."
STR.. By ring parts only from my "letter af, September 24th and mitting ather parts. - Mr. Highbridge,” hax 'sueverde ju clothing it with quite ኄ different meaning from that intended to Haneyer.
1 h deb ant sifggest, or intend to yuge "that the Pace Treaty or any pot of it was dishonourable or unjust. 1 subuit that, in the event of a treaty wong found to be unjust, the violation of such a treaty might conceivably le an This submission refers hurable act. to the quotation from President Wilson's speech, and not to any opinions I may
THE
HONGKONG DAILY
THE HON. MR. LAU CHU-PAKS
RECENT SPEECH.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
Sa-May I be permitted to make cers, tain remarks and suggestions on behalf of the Chinese students, who have returned from abroad and have been the subject of such a feree attack by the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Tak in his speech delivered at Governurent bleuse last Monday i
I one of such students who, hy reason of having gone abroad to study at "mature age, have been characterised In the abs speech as having proved
ant to be of much use"
:1
SPORT.
FOOTBALL
ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE
LEAGUE.
PRESS, SATURDAY, ZEPTEMBER 2778, 1919
AND THE
TAL CHING E ISLAND ARMED ROBBERY.
ALLEGED. ROBBERS IN THE DOCK.
the Magistracy, selerday, the bearing of the case was rommenced in Our sporting correspondsus Fer-which five Chinese are charged with bing) mainan writes: ---Two letters have concerned in an armed robbery at Ching appeared for your colunure-recently enden- E. Island. One man is further charged vouring to refute certain statements with returning from: banishment, while which I have made, and it is therefore another, for whom Mr C. H. Lyson is needful that I should reply to theth. appearing, is charged with, receiving a silver bangle well knowing it to have been, stolen.
Mr. de Sousa writes from Kowloon denying that, the Club, de Recreio temn is the second string of St. Joseph's College | team, or that it has anything whatever to do with that team." He adds that the Speaking for myself and others in the team does not contaid mý man" who same category, I beg to state that, in aged for the College last season, Per spite of the epithet used by the hon.haps it might bene well to point out to or wag not hold wegarding the Pencegrafian, we are all busily engaged in Mr. de Sousa thi: 1 did not say that the Trrals.
aseful, oreupations and would not have Club de Recreio tease is the second string night did not suggest that the states-wasted our time writing to the Preea had of St. Joseph's College team, but that per of Britain and France Gere stupid
it not been for the fact that the time has it is practically a second string because iL is composed most whey of St or villainous these are the words of
come to speak and that, in view of theseph's College pups, the inference
• Mr. Highbridge," they are not mine,
statements of the Hogy Afr, Lau Chu Pak, Having, hope, made clear these two ments, I frost Mr. Highridge" will silence'ean no longer be maintained
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se me if not accept his unsup optaqinions as true facts where they einsh with the opinions of ethers.
1. hate no doubt that what Mr. Highbridge" says is true regarding the
The case for the primevution is that an August goth, about men, armed with revpivers and swords, entered various honised in the village und, threatening the inmates with death if they raud an. alarm, stole a large quantity of jewellery One of the villagers man- and money. aged to raise an alarm, and Sergeant J. p of police, Macdonald, with
Jiscover hastened to the scene only to that the robbers Nad fled. A villager, robber, and,
Speech" after speech has been made by the hon. gentleman of our alleged short comings. Incompetency and uselesstriess arg epithets which have turistantly been in the Second Division. Mr. de applict to us to the struggle for exist. Sousa will not be anxious to deny that, took them away after the rubbers, flo
however, tad phased, one being that they would be playing for thesespite several shots from a revolver, College if they were not selected for a managed to arrest the man. This man team made up of Collage boys. Now that gave information which led to the dis covery of twee others, while bontinan St. Joseph's Colidge itself has entered a
who rowed the roblems to the village and
at the time he wrote, his Club team was
Furnished valuable information. The hoatman, it was stated, thought the rob-
ssion by Japan of statesmen when the fittest alone will survive. Toeartically a second team of the College,bers were merely travellers, They pro
bare Sino-Japanese friendship before politic agrandisement, but up to the beeseus it is not known Here that these Station have been sufficiently powerful to swing the balance in Japana ir favour of their high ideals.
As Leunderstand it the economic rights to which Mr. Highbritize alludes
as being retained by Japan are not re garded a trivial by the Chinese ne - by The Republican Party in the American Sonate. 1 Japan, after expending blood Land treasure fer the capture of the Gier
inan-lensed territors; now hands this back to thin, de proorkeed, this act will be acelatud on all sides as one of high and far-sighted statesman mag however, it is arvompanied by
ship t demands for compensation from (hink. as the newspaper reports would suggest. the ethics of the act are thus entirely changed. Yours faithfully.
ALBERT WOODALL SMITH, Hongkang. September 26th, 1p19.
TO THE EDITOR OF
THE, HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."!
well, is the law of nature. But why all this hypocritical cans about our worth lesers! Why, simply because we as turned students have in the eyes of our ow countrymen a kind of prstigs which the hon. gentleman does not pusgess, and upon which he is trying his troost to pht the lowest imate.
ן!
Let me make it clear at once, that I have not the slightest intention of vin palivating these so-called returned students who have gone to Europe or elsewhere for the mere purpose of enjoying them selves. There are good and bad in every trade and profession, but I say that
ne'er-do-wells among returned" students are the exception rather than the rule.
With regard to the remarks made by Str. La that those who were
rent
inised to pay him say, but, when they landed on the island, instead of paying him one of the men produced a revolver
11r. de Sousa further states that the Club the Recreio team does not contain any of those who played für St. Joseph's College fast season. Mr. de Sousa bimself was the college goalkeeper, till he was Tr placed, after several matches, by anothered by the robbers.
The point is that 1 said the Club de Everrio's team was composed mostly of week. those who were on the reserve-list of the
College last season.
If A Lover of Sports" had given ust better ele to his identity 1 might have tee able to admit that he Khow, more about St. Joseph's College than I do. As matiers stand, I am not prepared to accept his denial that someone very much interested in the St. Joseph's College team minde a very eloquent-effort to induce
Van Langenberg, of the Kowloon eleven, to play for the College in the coming season. Knowing what I do of the methods by which those interested in St. Joseph's football made up their team last year, and are endeavouring to make it up this year. 1. quite believe that person connected with the game' section of St. Joseph's College aot only tried to persuade Van Langenberg into the College team, but, when his powers of went to the ld's persuasion failed. mother and asked her to use her inflaener
abroad at a tender age came back with habits, tempers and manners entirely and reating their own foreign. kith and kin with a patronising air, if Six. Your Japanese Correspondeat in nut with contempt, as if the latter were this morning's paper, like Japanese their inferiors" Here we have the pic officials, takes care to cloud the iso, utare of a conceited young man who shows no regard for the feelings of those dearest Mays that Japan has promised to restore Shantung with full sovereignty to Chini to him, who is ungrateful to those to after saying that Japan has just acquired whom gratitude" is due, and who, if he German rights. But.Getmany never
his relations with contempt. owned, nor bad sovereign rights in, Shantents tung Province What Gerbiany got as a
naturally baves towards his friends euterssion for the inunder of her two mis and neighbours with something akin to sionatis was the harbour of Tsinging, generally called Kingchau after village grotesque young men have come into con on the border. Further, Germany had a
tact with the hon. gentleman, but I am railway through the province and certain certain that they did not acquire these mining concessions, but these involved no Part of sovereign rights over the people. disgraceful manners in the school-rooms Shantung. it cannot be too frequently or on the playgrounds of the countries repeated, is a province of thirty-seven
I am rather to which they were sent million, inhabitants with a rich soil and subsit, and has always formed an in- inclined to think that aush youths only tegral part of China. For Japan, there exist in Mr. dau's imagination, or, fore, to talk of returning Shantung, while she retains the harbour, docks, they do exist in fact, they do not exist railway and mining concessions that Gier in such numbers us the hon. gentleman many had, is to say that she will return would lead us to believe. I do not wish something to which she never had
to mention names, but in this connection shadow of a claim. Yet, at the present
I should like to draw attention to the Lime there are stated to be thirty thou sand Japanese in the province, and it i name of the gentleman whose memory is eslealated they are settling in Shantung sacred to us returned" students; I refer
and area of 300 square miles behind hatred. I'do not know how many of sach with her son to help the College this year.
if
at the rate of ten families a day. Before to the late Sir Kai Ho Kai, who left for The war there were three hundred Japan
se. The whole railway-line from Tsing England when he was little more than a tae to Tainanfu is over-run with genuar baby. I am sure his manners and habits mes really soldiers, while in Tsinanfu, the capital, there is a very large Japan were almost beyond reproach. I say that. rse gendarmerie, with wireless installa thanks to the influence of foreign educa
The Chinese complain of the infion, the majority of students who left tion. Fringement of their rights-of the forced sale of their land at figure far below the home when they were quite young are market price, of ubnoxious tolle levied by more like this pioneer student than the these gendarmes to cross the railway unnatural being described by the Hon. line, which in some cases cut their Mr. Lau Chu-pak. lands in two. It is said that Japanese have established law-ourts, while they have also permitted the demoralisation of the province especially by the sale of morphia, etc.-Yours, etc..
X. Y, Z.;
Hongkong, "September 26th, 1919.
HIGH DOLLAR.
These statements I have every reason. to credit, and can only accept denials from those who show themselves to be connected with the College and its fourt
hali.
Meanwhile, I must congruftiate. St. Joseph's College upon having taken the long and joined the First Division. They are a plucky lot, and 1 am sure that all football enthusiasts will join in wishing them succes in the coming
peoples like the British and the Agri- cans: where the teaching of every citizen coats in living honourably, hurting nehody, and giving everyone his due, where every citizen has freedom of action and frendon of speech sa long as the law is not
where a infringed, a man of a higher social plane does not consider himself man by mere energy, conscientiousness above his fellow-citizens, and where and force of character may aspire to the highest position in the State.
and forced him to accompany them. For funately, none of the villagers was injur
Mr. Linder reminded the case for #
THE TAI O. MURDER.
PRISONERS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
At the Magistracy, yesterday, "two
Chinese were charged, on remand, with committing a "double murder at Tai O on August 27th.
Mr. Leo. Longinotte eonducted the pro- section, and Mr. C. F. Mason, M., appeared for one of the defendants.
A Chinese stated that the two defen dents visited his mother and informed her that they wished to en-age her boat for a trip to a steamer. The offer was accepted, and witness and his sister at companied their mother. The two, defen- dants misted in rowing, and suddenly vitnese saw his mother and sister being thrown overboard. He screamed out in fear, and the defendants then threw bin overboard, e Ile managed to swim ushore and inform his relatives, who subsequent- by reported the outrage to the Police.
After evidence of arrest had been given, Mr. Mason said he would reserve his client's defines. The yther man denied
-he change.
31. Linell committed both defen- dants strial ALE The next Uriminal Sessions.
AMENDED AMMUNITION
ORDINANCE.
FIRST CASE HEARD.
TL
The first case under the amended Arms and Ammunition Ordinance was heard at the Magistracy, yesterday, when Chinese was charged with being in un lawful possession of a revolver and an munition and was entered in two years hard labour.
Smith tried the case.
Mr. R. E. Lindsell. and Mr. N. L.
Defendant; I was formerly a soldier in the Chinese army. I brought the re- volver with me to Hongkong; I did not know the laws of the Colony. I intended selling the revolver for 23 or 84 and using the money to start a hawker's trade."
Does the hon. gentleman know that the man who can be of the greatest service to the State is not he who is well versed in languages and can make the finest speech With regard to Mr. Lau's remarks that
on a platform, or even the greatest those who were sent abroad at a more scientist of the age or the greatest mature age failed to learn the foreign in any trade or profession,
but he
Whe languages so competently, as the younger possesses the greatest amount of common
Mr. Lindsell: But the revolver was ones, and incompetency in language was sense and tact, who does not deal in fully loaded-Defendant: "Yes. unavoidably followed by incompetency in knowledge
favours or prejudices, and, above. unable to who end rate things and men at their loaded for a long time. It is a rusty confess
Why did you lead it-It has been pessfully appreciate the meaning of celled, and who has
value? The
who has student gentleman.
read, pondered revolver. and reflected, will have the
Does the bon
SERVICE PENSIONS AND THE these WOT glance, that students with a
mean tone
for
opportunity law degree failed to understand the con of becoining such a well-balanced man as
[TO THE EDITOR OF "THE HONGKONG
*DAILY PILES."]
BIR,-With reference to "Pensioner's "
Sergeant Murphy it is in perfect
tents of a book of law, or that qualified I have described, and those who educa working order. The Police have no evi
did not know enough of a tion is confined to the limits of China,
language
Eg works written in auch langu- opportunity 7
05°
to enable them to read or .even
even Hongkong, can have no such dence that the man is a criminal." At letter of the September 24th. re Service age, or that qualified doctors found them-
about 6 nm, on Thursday morning, With
regard to Mr. Lau's remark that Pensions and the high dollar, I should selves so weak in such language that they "Those who were sent abroad at a more acting on information, the Police visited like to point out that I was in com- could not understand a medical treatise,
mature
do not prove to be of much No. 286, Shanghai Street, where we found nunication with the Command Paymas
or that those who have acquired a degree use and according to Mr. Lau, be it defendant and two other men sleeping far back as January, 1918, on the in divinity are at a lost to comprehend remembered, there is no exception to this in a bed in the passage. We searched the subiect
of being allowed to draw en any religious work on the Scriptures.
my pen-
rule-I need only sion at the privileged service rate of Mr. Lau seems to think that the prin few gentlemen mention the names of premises, and found a basket, which was to prove the absurdity locked. Defendant produced the key. key, exchange, having previously drawn my mary object of education in a foreign of the statement. I refer to Dr. Wu and, on opening the box, we found the pension at the same rate as the soldier, country is to become a linguist. Without Ting-fang, Secretary for Foreign Affairs revolver. He told us that the revolver but was informed that the question of pay admitting the truth of the allegationWellington Koo, the Chinese delegates at of three men had lived in the Colony in Canton, and Drs. T. Wang and belonged to another man. As the result ing, pensions under the new scheme was that students who went abroad at a
subsequent enquiries we discovered referred to War Office and the reply, re- mature ago were not proficient in the the Peace Conference, none of whom left that the ceived was in the negative.
language of the country to which they for America for their education till they for some time and that the same revolver My pension in January, 1910, was were sent, I say that among the most were grown up.
was used by each for unlawful purposes. $160.65; the amount I shall receive in important, if not, the most important Comparisons are odious, bat I should
The
three men were
removed to the October next is under $33, much less than of the benefits derived from a prolonged like on the question of usefulness or other Rolice-station and kept in separate cells. half. They say an old soldier has always stay in a foreign country is the fact that wise to place these gentlemen against the They made statements, and a few hours 4870182..coming. When you compare
a student is imbued with ideas which, most enlightened of my compatriots who the amounts above can you wonder at it unfortunately, do not prevail in China have not gone abroad. Enclosing my -yours faithfully,
refer to the atmosphere of justice and card, I remain, yours faithfully, fair-play which is peculiar to democratic
ANOTHER PENSIONER. Hongkong, September 25th, 1913
i
(Continued at foot of next column.)
"MATURE AGE," Hongkong, September 20th., 1919,
later were put together, by mistake, in one tell, with the result that the men could not be identified and their state- ments are useless. Defendant now ao- cepts all the responsibility.
Mr. Lindsell: Two years hard labour.
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