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CORRESPONDENCE. CHINA'S SELF-RESPECT.
AND
INCIDENTALLY OF THE DEPORTA TION, ORDINANCE,
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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.""
S-It true that you cannot write anything about Ching without something offensive oozingent Your Trailing
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG,
TYPHOONS GOING AND
COMING.
1SLAND OF CHEUNG CHAU ISOLATED..
The typhoon which came near the Colony during the week ond brought a welcome fall of rain on Saturday and there are indications of more wet weather. Warning signal No. 4, hoisted at 3.43 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, was not
moving North West
MONDAY, JULY 1ST, 1923.
CARGO BOAT STOPPAGE
MATRICULATION EXAMINATION-OWNERS PREPARED TO CONCEDE
JUNE, 1992-
HONOUR LISTA,
Candidate. No. 53. Tung Chien Tsing, St.
Francis Xavier's College, Shanghai Disk Book-keeping.
MATRICULATION PANG LIST.
Pentre-Hangkang. 1.D. J. H Rättonjee, Queen's College, 10-Mak Chun Poy, St. Joseph's College..
College, Dist. English, 12-Yee Shii Kee. Ying Wak College.
a. Private Study. Lee Shee it. Wah Yan School.
ng Chang, Centre-Shanghai."
DEMANDS IN FART."
The Cargo-Boatmen's dispute has not been entirely settled although after the typhoon a good many of the boats hafa accepted cargo. It should be explained bat in addition to the foreign, type of lighter (or-punt) used, by the Kowloon down. Co., Holt's Wharf, etc., there are two kinds of cargo-boats in Hongkong
and Doh Tai" the first being the square. ended kind that, cannot get about without towaga, and the other similar to any ordinary Chinese junk. The smaller
article yesterday, for instance, is an ad-towered until 8:10 nm, on Saturday, when 11-Philippe Trau-Ba-Buy St. Joseph's harbour. They are known as "Pan Teng" anirable reply to Mr. J. O. P. Bland's the typhoon was to the north of Hoihow, characteristic outburst in the London Times. Why have you disfigured it with an ungererous ancer?"No nation," you say withen proper sense ·
of self-respect 14 would welcome, ni China does, the edu- cating of her youth at the expense of other
nationa
#
Did "England and her allies lack proper sense of self-respect when they appealed to America for assistance in the Straggle with the Germanic Kingdoms 1 Now but is fool or a madman would sug
Why Extraordinary situations call for extraordinary measures. The war found your country and its allies nupre pared, while the enemy was armed with
Yesterday's report stated that the other typhoon, at 6 am.. a north of 32 Haiphong and was probably filling up,
Hsu
The Daily Weather Report for. Satur | 19,--Ling Yah Si, St. Francis Marijunks, which are larger than the average |
day noted, indications of a typhoon form. ing to the South-West of Guam.
During the weekend up to to a.m. Jesterday, nearly 31 inches of rain feil.
The fact that the No. 4 signal was lowered at 6 am. on Saturday was not communicated to anybody in Cheung Chau. and, as the weather was still boisterous, the ferry-boat remained under shelter and did not make either of its usual trips in the morning thus putting
College.
simpan, are known by Kam Sing Teng" 20-Dong Zai Hua. St. Francis Xavier, and are included in the category of "Doh
College
Tai," Though they all belong to one Poi shing To, St. Francis Xavier's guild The Fan Sun Kung Wai," only, Colleges
2. Sih The Ling. St. Francis Xaviere Fun Teng owners are concerned in the present dispute. The boats that. College, Dist. Book-keeping. >4-Bua Kwa Chong. St. Francis Xavier's accept cargo now do so on the strict unders College. Dist. Maths and TrigonomeHanding that work must be finished before 5-Zi Veng Pao, St. Francis Xavier's 101m. so that the question of compḥnsa-
College
tion for overtime need not be considered. Arthur Parker, Thomas Hanbury The cargo-owners are willing to concedo School.
the clause about compensation for night-
the mightiest engine of destruction known residents on the" island to considerable 33.-Themistocles Sofoulis, Thomas Hanbury) work; but they are only willing to pay |
in history. Defent meant to you more than it now means to Germany. The Latter survives as an Empire: England "would have gone the way of dead Em- pires. In such a sittin what were self- respect but a dizzard's concern I
Consider China. Alone,as well as with country "other" conquerors of asia, your
has benten and packed on China a series of blows and humiliatious which have fored her to search for strength in a new order of ideas and n new technique. This has put her into disarray and disorder. And there she will lie till, through the new creative agency of education, A generation of workers arise to deliver her from the Slough of Despond. Reforma tian, Hegel teaches, is impossible without remainsdner.
School Dist. English.
inconvenience. The Police telephone line. had apparently been restored to nae but 60 Dorab E. Mistry, Thomas no one thought to send a message that the black signal had been lowered
Hanbury
-School: 68.-Thomas Greener, Thomas Hunbury V School.
.
Chinese.
The first communications were made by 69, Yoh Me Zang, Public School members of the public in Hongkong who were interested in the fate of the island-Gee Waite, Public School for Chinese dwellers. When the launch did not-Wong Nai Kong Publice. Sebo for appear at Hongkong during the more-Bong Zung Sung Public School for ing, the publie naturally fearful that some mishap had befallen the launch on 73,--Zien Zen Mea, Medhurst College, her return trip to the island the previous 74-Kwan Pak Chien, Medhurst College,"
Centre-Prugn afternoon, sent inquiries and information
Chinese.
Chinese.
over the line at midday. The usual early-Lam Her Yin. St. Xavier's College. morning supplies of foodstuffs were, ofShum Sin Kum, St. Xavier's College course, held up in Ilongkong and businesses Hong Leong, St. Xavier's College. people were confined to the island unnecesLee Yoon Seok, St. Michael's College,
Ipoh. sarily.
43.---Boi Phce Taan, Aggio-Chinese School, Centre-Wuckaný.
87-Chou Trung Yen, Wesley College.
Centre-Singapore.
47-Tan Beng Ie, St. Andrew's school.
The following candidate has been referred in Chinese,
in proportion to the quantity of cargo left in the boat after 10 p.m. In other words, they are ready to pay 25 per cente
discharged at 10 p.m. The boat-owners over the agreed rate for the balance un
want 5 per cent. on the whole load, should even a very small percentage be left in the boat.
..... ff.
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THE CHINESE RESTAURANT WORKERS STRIKE, RESTAURANTS STILL CLOSED.
The prolonged strike of a section of the Chinese Restaurant workers has not end- ed. Only the floor-clerks, cooks, pur. chasers, etc., belonging to the Jau Lau Kung Wai are out, the waiters nob | being concerned in the present dispute. and prefers not to venture where angels
All the masters creept those conducting business at West. Point and Yaumati fear to tread. He knows or believes that "speaking his mind in public may
came to du agreement with their em direct him to the attention of the keeper
ployees and have carried on business all ‘along. The Yauminti restaurants;have got of this ist; of undesirables" in the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs. And, he is not going to risk being marked down.
their previous meh back on the under- standing that they will try and do busi for such attention and the possible ex-
The following candidates who have press on their terms. If it does not pay perience of being kicked out of the siously Matriculated are--qualift to both sides will
reconsider, terms, ***↑ enter the Fagulty of Medicine, Colony--
The West Point owners are adamant in. 8-Allston Gourdin...
their attitude and the strikers, who are G.-Teli Yoh Chin:
In quarters at Canton, will not give in. The masters have dat succeeded in. în- ducing non-guild men to work as the prospective employees fear intimidation and the antagonism of the guild men. The cooks have been reluctant to strike and a good number are in hiding in their respective restaurants. They have been expelled from the Guild.
Do you say that China is seeking the education of her future workers at the exprase of other nations" Examine that. The Boxer Indemoitics, whose appropriation for the education of our youth is suggested, are not a true debt due to the Powers but essentially a penalty imposed on the Chinese people for Manchu misdectis, And it remains to-day the one and only international obligation of purely punitive, character in exist
It is clear that you will not have a tace. The suggestion is that, instead of England insisting on the resumption of healthy public opinion in Hongkong as payment of the British share of the In-long as educated Chinese here do not! dunities, the same be applied towards take an active part in the discussion of the education in England of the Chinese Falers and workers of to-morrow. And unless British success in China demand the extraction of the last tael of the Indemnities, fue cannot douht put that the conversion of this punitive pbligation into what may rightly be described as a maral investment must yield gains which no mere money can harvest.
questions of public interest, And edu cated Chinese, so far as I can see, will not do so while the Statute-Book of the Colony is disgraced by a Ordinance which is a negation of the profoundest principle of British justice the right to a public trial-Yours, etc,
EUGENE CHEN
Hongkong, July 30th, 1932. [There is no similarity that we can see between the act of Great Britain seeking the co-operation of the United States in the war against common danger, and China seeking to educate her youth at the expense of a fund belonging to the foreign Powers, while at the same time niillions of money are annually being
Candidate No. 4.-Young Is Sheung, St.
Stephen's College, Hongkong.
College.
KENIOR LOCAL EXAMINATION PA List, Hongkong--boys 4.-Young Tha Sheung, St. Stephen's 13- Wing Chaan, St. Paul's College. 11-Wei Wing Po, St. Paul's College, 19-Wei Nai Fu, Tutorial Institute 22-Ng Ying Lok, Privato Study, 30Yvo Ferdinand Fenton, Private Spids,
Dist. English. 34-Teng Ták Po, Queen's College:
Shanghai-Boys.
62.-William Heary Roc, Thomas Hanbury
School 63.James E. Emamooden, Thomas Han
bury School.
Yesterday, three restaurants, the Kam Ling, Kwong Chow and Tai Yuen-an- nounced that they, would resume business to-night: They had arranged for non- guild men to work and had obtained Government protection for them; having forty armed Indian guards and posses of
You have expressed disappointment that nobody, Chines or Foreigner, has sutured a word in opposition, or support of the views si dogmatically expressed by Mr. J. O. P. Bland. Who takes that swashbuckler seriously, with his stridency, wasted in China on keeping the bountry C6.John Wilson, Thonias Hasbury Belical policemen patrolling the district. We
George Mann, Thomas Haubry Schuet.
67Abraham Bodda, Thomas Hanbury
School
rn-Song Tu Dzing, Methodist College.
Pass List Girls.
hisintellectual dishonesty, his maletolin-n perpetual state of turmoil. ----- Gence towards China? He is regarded in
So far as the British portion of the einformed Chinese eireles në a
Boxer Indemnity is concerned, we do not pro
accept our correspondent's view that the Japanese propagandist, and it is signi- Boxer Indemnity is not a truo debt '; Scant that he has ceased to be a paid owing by China, but is of a punitivn contributor to the Times since Lord character. We have seen the statement
made that some nations added to their 31 Queenie Ng French Convent, Hong Northcliffe liberated the great London bill of expense additions of the character paper from Japanese influence.
once referred to by President Kruger as representing intellectual and moral damages, "but it has been claimed for the British demand that it represented actual cost, and when the patent of fach nation's "effort is contrasted with the amounts of the various indemnities the British portion certainly seems die proportionately small.
kong 60-Glodra M. T. Ganley, St. Jose
Institution, Shanghai, Dist. English
„and Bib, Knowledge,
THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTS,
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE OF
REVENUE
For the first four mouths of the year,
learnt late last night that the arrange ments have fallen througth and the res taurants will remain closed.
It is stated that the present strike has been engineered by a number of floor- clerks out of employment, and the majority of members have been unwilling to strike. On the other hand, the masters
fuse to give in and it is said that some
of the landlords of the restaurants, whe are partbers, are ready to waive the rent during the period of the strike. Thể strikers have tried to enlist the aid of the Pork, Fish and Vegetable Guilds, by ask ing them not to supply the employers who engage, non-guild men. Whether they succeed or not will be seen when the restaurants resume business.
LATER
I venture to suggest noother reason who no Chinese in Hongkong has address, r you on the subject. Responsible Chinese opinion scarcely finds expression in the English press in this Colony This is a very striking fact: And during
We do not see the connection between. my short stay here as a Chinese national free discussion of the subject of educating visiting Hongkong na of right under Chinese students at the expense of the Article one of the Treaty of Nanking, 1 Boxer Indemnities, and this Colony's De have been led to inquire for some explana himself evidently does not believe that portation Ordinance Mr. Eugene Chen thor of this practical suppression of the an expression of his own views will entail
At a late hour last night we were in- Chinese mind as an intellectual and moral his deportation, and we know of no reason revenue received by the Hongkong Gov- formed that the proprietors of the thres
why anybody else should. Though the factor and a guide in the life of the com-power of deportation may be justly deserunt
to 86,007,033, which above-mentioned restaurants had succeed- ed in engaging a new staff and had re munity.
cribed as the negation of the pro- comparee with 34,053,128 for the corres-opened their premises The explanation, I fear, is to be found foundest principle of British justice we ponding period of last year. The ex- In the system of minor despotism which are satisfied that it is a highly necessary
qwer for a Government to possess in penditure amounted to $4,056,530, as prevails here under the name of Depor- such a Colony as this, liable as it is 10 against 84,301,330 for a like period twelve tation The Deportation Ordinance, 1917, invasion at all times by fugitive alien
criminals and disturbers of the peace of months ago which consolidates and improves on runny kinds. Contrary to the impres
A Chinese merchant living in the heap of other similar enactments, confers sion which may be derived from reading noted. Interest brought in $44,844, as vicinity of the shut Pen Chinese news bu the Governor in Council which, in 3r Eugene Chen's comments on the
subject, the powers given, under the against 84,140; miscellaneous receipts paper, with Sun Yat Sen sympathies, practice, means the Secretary for Chinese Ordinance are not exercised by the yielded $102,846, againat 800,040, land gituated in Jervois Street iniforms us that the offices werd rushed by abans twenty Affairs, who, presumably, is guided by the Governor in Council without the fullest
prodaced $1,930,184, against men this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, a pr information supplied by the Famen-
inquiry possible into the allegations on sales which-ang-person has been detained $190,923, whilst in licences and internal The compositors on the first floor were roughly handied by the attacking party, Funners" attached to the Chinese Secre Deportation is no listy, proceeding ex tariat-the despotic power of deporting sept in cases where the evidenco is clear us not otherwise, specified there was put up such an effostire, défonce that Chinese as may seem meet to His Ex- and indisputable. No alien refugee who increase of more than a million the Editorial Staff on the second floor
has not been guilty of serious crime, or
made good their escape, nay, ellency, The average Chinese is an
who a not a sedition monger, has uny average son of Adam. He la mot a fighter thing to fear from the Deportation
(Continued at foot of nezt column.)
Ordinance ED.]
Several large increases in revenus are
dollars.
PRO-SUN NEWSPAPER OFFICES ATTACKED,
The sounding of police whistles brought The revenue for the month of April was
a bumber of constables on tho doene, but $2,570,910 and the expenditure $2,320,842. I no arreats were offected.
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