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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND 1981.
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JAPANESE ADMINISTRATION JAPANESE BARON'S
IN
IN KOREA.
MR. PONSONBY-FANE'S OBSERVATIONS.
Adportixer :-
Baving served in
BARON'S VISIT: TO BAGHALIEN.
DESOLATE NIKOLAIRVSK.
CHINA FLOUR.
A GRANARY OF THE WORLD.**
It is taken for granted abroad that rice is the staple diet of the Chinese. With. out minimising the importance of ries Contrary to his 6rst expectation. In a food of the people, the claims of Jawas surprised to firul Nikolajevek sa
desolate to-day is at the time of the Yellow River flour is the principal food. dour must be emphasised. North of tbo,
HASNACTE . Some years ago," remarked | and in some of the proviners in this aren Peers, intervievel by a Press representa grown. Manchuria, for example, lives, as Baron Yabuki, member of House of rice is scarcely eaten and dot at all tive on his tent tour of inspection of Saghalien.
The following is the first part of a article by Mr. R., Ponsonby-Fane (who served as Private Secretary to two Governors of Hongkong-Sir Matthew Nathan nad Sir Henry May. The article was contributed to the fapan
It was really flying trip that considerable number of British colonies and visited ade, accompanied by Baron Shiba and the greater part of the others, I was Baron kura, through the Northern naturally interested, during my rocent parts of Saghalien and Nikolaievak," he visit to Chosen, in studying the Japanese
We expected to find the town system a work there especially in view tolerably Bourishing, but, upon landing at the port, the first impression was one of the very adverse criticism that is af desolation. The Japanese garrison in Current One short visit is, of course, quite inadequate to master the intricacies expected to winter there this year, and
for this purpose all the necessary er of government and I propose merely toparations are now completo. offer my general impressious.
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The bulk of the four is consumed at
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS..
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. "
FROM. ANTWERP, MIDDLESBRO", LONDON AND STRAITS
The Steamship "BENARTY"
Good
No claims will be simítted after the bave left the Godowns, and all Goods romain.
subject to rent.
ing undelivered, after the 6th Sept, will be
much on bread as Siberia. It would beONSIGNEES of Cargoare hereby informed all Goods are being landed at thete difficult to assess the potal amount of rink into the hasardons and/or extra har wheat gross in Maneliuria (or, for that loas Godowns of the Bougkrong and Kowloom matter. in China), but the great plains Wharf und Godown Co, Ltd., whence and/or which sweep north into Siberia form one from the wharves delivery may be obtained. of the great granaries of the world. home and it was not until compartively recent times that China untered into com- petition with the four-exporting nations. Manchuris used to consume large quanti ties of American and Siberian flour. In 100% the Russias built flour mills at Harbin and a thriving trade was done fine quality. Such an example was fol with Russia. This flour was of a very lowed by the Japanese, and later, by the Chinese, who rected mille in
various
At the outset I would state that I do resources in Deanstri is the dense forests, One of the most promising natural not consider it a perfect administration The imperiet system of communication but I have yet to meet with one tha and transport, is a great handicap on the can be put in this category. Quite reutilisation of that particular natural re-arts of the three provinces. The flour cently I remarked in conversation that source, but this defcot is more than evdaidered the British Government of sufficiently made up by mineral produce, Hongkong an eminently successful ex-
in which the ocality abounds. As the ample of colonial administration. My friend agreed but added that it was for a few montha in the year, there is district is only free from now and frost however, quite unjust, and on reflection I was obliged to admit that he was quite hope for agricultural enterprise.
Oil is not so plentiful as experts first imagined. Already more than two million yen have been invested for the but so far with no very reassuring effect. experimental development of oil-heldes The coal deposits are quite limited, but the quality is good...
right.
ESSENTIALS.
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sidents, who are in consequence, apt to contract scurvy, from which only the
atives are immune."
tration would appear to his to be the The first essential in colonial adminis making and keeping of all classes of the population contented, and in order to do this it is necessary to have an intel- ligeut anticipation of their just desires
One of the serious difficulties that and not be forced to make wholesale Dekastri is the inadequacy of provisions. menace the residents in Nikolaievsk and concessions as has been the case recently The complete absence of vegetables is as io India and to a certain extent intolerable experience to the foreign re Chosen also. Great Britain is generally regarded as the most auccoastal European country in colonial administration and has the reputation of treating the native peoples under its dominion with kindness and consideration, yet after careful re- Action I have come to the conclusion that I would coctainly prefer to be a Korcan under Japanese rule, than an Indian under Great Britain or a Zulu or. Kafr under the Union Government of South Africa. In view of much that has been said and written about the highhanded methods and cruelty of the Japanese in Chusen this may seem sur prising and propose to attempt to ex- plain what led me to this conclusion.
SOCIAL AND LEGAL EQUALITY.
THE NEW MESSAGERIES
AGREEMENT.
flour,
as exported through the part of Dairen principally to Great Britain, where ita vindicated after many aspersions. high-grade quality
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to the infact industry, which was again Russo-Japanews war acted assetback throstened in 1909, when the Russian endeavoured to restrict the Beld of ex- Fort by the abolition of a free trade policy." The heavy taxation which was tion charges by the Chinese Eastern then imposed on Manchurian together with an increase in transporta Railway, fargely offset the progress that had been made. But the mill-owners pressed their protest so convincingly that The Russian were encouraged to remove the restriction were more or less lifted. their operations within Russian territory The millers did not relax their enter rise and the total number of mills cow reaches 60, which turn out 18,000,000 sacks of four annually. Kiangsu is the other centre of the four-milling industry, and the development of the Manchurian trade has made the two districts keen compoti- tors for the home, market, although form erly Manchuria was supplied with four from its own, wheat. milled in Shanghai and Wusity.
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presadited to the Undersigned on or before All Claims against the Steamer must be the 3rd Oct, or they will not be recognisi
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 28th Sept, at 10 am.
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be contigned by GIBE, LIVINGSTON & UX LTD.,
Agent. Hongkong, September 19th, 1991. . (1495
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LYD); AND ORINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION
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COMPANY, LTD. UNSIGNEES per Company's Steamer "DEMODOCUS"
are Hereby notified that the Cargo will be where it will lie at Consignee's risk and tscharged into Holt's Wharf, Bow.on subject to terms and conditions of storage st Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Go town on and after 19th Sept
Optional cargo will be landed, untena nuties has been gives prior to uteamer's arrival.
Ail broker, chafed, and damaged gooi ara be left in the Godowns, where they will examined on any Tuesdays and Fridayı ween the hours of 10.45 8.m. ani Nướn. within the free storage period..
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No claims will be admitted after the Gooda The French Chamber recently ratified) the convention made between the State sailed to the agricultural conditions of Supt. will be subject to rent.
The cultivation of wheat is ideally have left the steamer's Godown, and all
Goody and the Compagnie des Messageries Manchuria.
romaining undelivered after the 15th. Maritimes on December 29th, 1990. This whentheld extends as far as Hulan, Hai-prosented to the undersigned on or before. The area of the northern All Claims against the Steamer must be convention was rendered necessary owing lgn, and Lanshih on the north bank of to the impossibility of a private concern the Sungari River. These districts pro
hhe 10th Oct., or they will not be recognised. being able to fulfil at present all the duce wheat in prolific quantities. On the
Yo Fire Insurance will be efected conditions required for the national mail southern side of the River, Swangchen,
·BUTTERFIELD & SWIBE services. This position has been met by Lingan, Fuyu, Ochen, and Pinghsien ard
Ageats. First and foremost comes the question a funited guarantee on the part of the the best-known regions. The districts in
pugkong, September 19th, 1021. of "amour propre, not perhaps parti State, varying in proportion to the re- South Manchuria are mainly Liaosi, cularly important in the case of the salt of the year's working. We noted Sifeng, and Hailung, South African native but of the very first some time ago that to carry this out a The total production of wheat in Man importance with people like the Ingin company would be created with a thurin is not known Various authori- and Korean with their sensitive natures ranital of Frs. 60,000,000, of which one ties differ in their estimates. The report and centuries of high civilization font will be paid up. The present feet of the Japanese Orient Association shows punt. Now in Chosen, the Chor of mail steamers belonging to the Mesa production of 3.800,000 pieuls; Government tries as far as possible to sageries Maritimes will be transferred to recognise the absolute equality of its the new company, which will have the the figure Japanese and Korean subjects. Since the benefit of the existing organisations, reorganization of the Government undertechnical and otherwise, and the new
NOTICE, TO CONSIGNEES.
NHE P. & 0. S. N. Co.'s Steamer
"JEYPORE". Arrived Hongkong, on Bept. 20th, 1921.
FROM BOMBAY, AND STRAITS.,
Consignees of Cargo by the above-nEMOË. by vessel are hereby informed that their good
a private in vesligation gives |
ese Military Handbook for 1020 records the yield at 6,100,100 picule; and the Journal of Manchuria" (published by
the present Governor General, His Ex- servico wilt be managed under the terms the Kuantung authorities) variously cal-are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the cellency Admiral Baron Saito, all dis stipulated in the schedule of conditions tulates the amount at between three and Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
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tinctions in law between a Japanese and
These services, which in each case have Korent have been abolished and there their Europeau terminal at Marseilles, is no longer one law for the Korean and are the same 8 those provided for in another for the Japanese. This cannot be the convention of 1911 between the State maid either of 'India or South Africa or und the Compagnie des Messageries even of British Crown Colonies. Then Maritimes, viz: id Suez to Yokohama, a real attempt is made towards social every fortnight; vid Suez to, Cochin' equality and it must be distinctly borne China, every four weeks, vin Suez to in mind that the Korean of the present Australia, every four weeks; two, ser-¦| day is decidedly inferior in civilization vicës to Madagascar and Muuritius," each to the Indian, Koreans are eligible as every four weeks: and certain Mediter: members of the social clubs. and the runcan,services. higher classes mix in society. Anyone who knows India at all knows the very strong feelings that the average Anglo- Indigo has on this point.
KOREAN GOVERNORS.
Moreover, Koreans can hold the highest offices and soveral of them are provincial
SPECIAL LEGISLATION. AIDING A SUFFERER WAITING
FOR DEATH.
House of Representatives last month The American Senate sent to the
four million picals. sources (Industry of China and the Consignment will be sorted ont Mark by Mark From Chinese Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each. Journal of Materials") the production and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are is stated to reach 8,758,287 picula. would therefore appear that the yield is
Et landed. in the region of 7,000,000 8,000,000.
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OUTWARD FREIGHT
QUESTION.
SHIPPING AWAITING COAL CARGOES.
In connexion with the improvement in the homeward freight markets, which was discussed in these columns recently, says The Timer, it is from the East that the movement in the rates is evidently due, inquiry is now strongest, and the upward Bill for the beffefit of a St. Louis man, partly at any rate, to the scarcity of is unable to move any joint of his body which, in turn, ia traceable to the who is so rigid from ankylosis that he vessels now available there for loading, wxcept to open his lips a trifle less than recent stoppage of work at the British a quarter inch.“
collieries. It coal cargoes had been available to ships would have been sent to the East. Even now there is much difficulty in arranging."{ xtems,'' and from the middle to the end of August is men tioned as the earliest period for which loading facilities can be granted in South Wales to many of the steamers that are dow being chartered to load coals in this country. There are plenty of vessels offered for the trade, and a large coal export business is in prospect. Ita development sooms entirely dependent on the ability of the collieries and the ports. to provide the coal and the loading
guvernors and have Japanese working ander them.' The public baths are, in most pisces, open to both peoples though in some it has been found necessary to provide a bath where Japanese only are admitted. Undoubtedly one of the greatest problems with which the Govem- ment is confronted is that of education. Despite his terrible handicap, this Ten years or so ago at the time of the man, Arthur E. Bump, has for a number annexation it was only with the greatest of years supported bimaolf in a brave difficulty that Korean parents could be manner. Lying in bed, bia body like induced to send their children to the stone, be conceived idea of a combined Government school; now there is such a telephono transmitter and receiver, which demand that the Government are quite he had strapped his chest. Up to a few unable to build and staff schools fast months ago he could move the last joint enough. At present there are separate of his thumb, and with this be operated schools for Japanese and Koreans in the the telephone, calling up various people primary and middle grades-considera in St. Louis and asking them if they tions of language render this imperative "would, subsribe for maguliões - for the time being-but in the higher Howevor, Mr. Rump host the use grades students already attend the same establishments and I was assured that it/of his thumb so, and now he lies haPtsoilities. In the meantime, there is a was the ultimate aim of the Government only a short time away, so it is said tively small size of time charter, such a less waiting for death, which can be steady demand for steamers of compars to establish a common system. Even
The Bill which has just passed the would be suitable for the short-distance now if circumstances of location render
it desirable no dificulty is made about Senate includes Mr. Hump-in the provi- coal trades, which indicates the confid- the admission of & Korean child to sons of the Federal Employés Componence of exporters to do business as spon Japanese school. Imagine much a state sation Act and he will receive $67 as the trade again runs szfoothly. of things in South Africa. Practically monthly as long as he lives. This sum evory white pupil would be instantly will be used to pay for his care and for withdrawn. It is necessary, too, to the wagon of an old woman-who has boen emphasise the point that the Korean of tending him. the middle and lower classes, until edu- About eleven year ago the mufförer cated, is more unclean in his person and was a clork in the St. Louis Post Office, generally unsavoury than the South and was injured by a heavy bag of mail African or Indian, and though racially tossed from a wagon which struck him the Japanese and Korean do not differ on the back of the neck. Ankylosis sot fundamentally their general outlook or
in as a result, life and habits and customs are a dis- similar as those of the English and Indian.
AIRS OF SUPERIORITY,
instructions sued to the troops in gaz.
FLATE GLASS WINDOW. "Looking through my Toric lenses is ke looking through a fine plate gisa window," said an American lady, in the course of her remarks while in a tram car the other day. She said" just the right thing. It cost a bit more to build a:plate glass window and it cost a bil
was unfortunately unable to see any of plaints have been made that the Govern the ordinary flat kind. Torice are more My visit being during the vacations son are emphatic on this pont. Com- more to make a pair of Toric lenses than the schools at work. Though the air of meat are more col citous of providing
schools for Japanese thin Koreans. I do than worth the sinal difference in cost superiority and condescension so appar ent in the sabihin India is far less not think these complaints can be just to you in the added comfort you derive noticeable in Chosen, I thought I detected fed though the rapeness-is-rated far from their use. Torio lenses of any trages of it and an opportunity might be higher for school expenses than the taken, possibly it is; during the hour of Korean. At present there is, I believe, prescription are manufactured by The morals of impressing on the Japanese ano Government primary school for Hongkong Optical Co. successors to children the supreme importance of re Koreans for every three villages.
Cʻark & Co. Máy ifacturing and Refract LOVORY WAY A4: an equal. I notice that there is une" or every 300,
(Contwund at foot of neat column) (To be 'oncluded)
garding and treating the Korean in South Africa 1 very much.doubt whethering Optic ans, 3en's Bond, Central
BAD
This brings on Cargo
From Parsian Gulf or 8.3. B. I. S. N. and
B. & P.B. N. Co.'s. Steamers,"
Optional Goods will be landed hare, unless istractions have been given to the contrasŢ siz hours before arrival of the Steamer."
Goods not cleared within 8 days, including date of arrival, will be subject t
to reat No Fire Insurance will be effected by an in any case whatever.
Damaged
packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's Burveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & Dorezan, pt 10 fat on Mesdays and TruzdaTR. All Claims must be presented within tox days of the Steamer's arrival here after which date
are left the Godown. they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods
MACKINNON, MAJKENZIE & CO.,
Agante.
Hongkong, September 20th, 1921. @[1468
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