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THE CHINA ASSOCIATION.
HONGKONG BRANCH TO BE RE-FORMED.
SIR HENRY POLLOCK'S OPPOSITION.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21ST, 1925
NO NEED FOR WAR.
Sir Henry Pollock said that he might say it would not be necessary to go to war with China. The Canton Govern. ment did not claim any allegiance to Peking, and was a Government on its What would happen would be the same as at the bombardment of Alexan
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CORRESPONDENCE.
A VERY PRACTICAL POINT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS.
Sia. The public meeting next Tuesday on the Hongkong and Canton situation will doubtless desire to send a long and
at war with Egypt. He thought it was The question then arises. Who is to pay detailed telegram to the Prime Minister. Gladstone who invented the phrase thas for it! May I suggest that every member there had been a "hostile operation" of the nudience comes prepared to con- They had had plenty of proof of hostile tribute a "dollar towards the rest of the operations against this Colony, and he thought it was about time a return watch
was playeil.
At a very largely attengled meeting MN. CHAMBERLAIN'S STATEMENT. held in Messrs. Jardine. Matheson's Their failure was all the more remark-dra. There, to one could say we were Boardroom, yesterday, it was decided able in view of (1) the clear and definite that the Hongkong Branch of the China statement of policy made by the Foreign Association should be re-formed. The Secretary, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in the House of Commons on July 1st, Hon. Mr. P. H. Halyoak presitlet.
and (9) The very clear apprehension of the situation shown in a Leading Article is the Times of July 11th. In the House af Contions, Mr. B. Smith asked the Foreign Secretary whether His Majesty's Government could forthwith call a confer ence of the Treaty Pawers with a view to the liquidation of the present differences with the Chinese people on the basis of a vision of the treaties in so far as territorial concessions and extra-territorial privileges were concerned in a spirit of equality and reciprocity, Mr. A. Chamber-
Mr. H. R. 1. Hancock, in seconding the original resolution, said that Sir Henry had made a fine fighting speech, but he thought the Association should be formed, and was sure the majority of the mirting werd of the same opinion.
Any balance could be handed over to the newly revived branch of the China As xociationYours faithfully,
gram and the hire of the theatre!
PROLETARIAN.
Hongkong, August 20th, 1925. STOCK EXCHANGE ENQUIRY:
In pinining the object of the gather ing, the Chairaan said that i had call el the meeting because during the werks and siner the crisis in China ros there had been constant occasions when it bad boy: messary to negotiate, as far as passible, livet with the Foreign Offer, and the only mens which obtained in Hongkong, unless vid His Majesty's Minister in Peking, was through the China Association in London. The Hong! kong Branch of the Asseriation did on during the War, and all that remain ed to its name was a little balance in the Bank. Even the constitution had been test and it would now be necessary to replied: His Majesty's Govern speaking as one who for two years had the tiovernment of a Commission of With regard to the Committee he thoughtraments énncerned, with whom they in London. he could say that members in at present existing in Hongkong for end to Shanghai fer a copy of theirs.ment are consulting with the other Gov been Secretary' of the Association in enquiry to report as to the arrangements;
tead to act in ziowe cóllaboration, as to
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The Hon. Mr. Alabaster said that
LONDON'S INURANCE EXPLAINED,
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE MONOKONG DAILY PRESS."}
SR.-To my mind, the appointment by
the reply to be returned to the request London were people who had been in dealing in stocks and the shares of public that aine would be a workable number.
Continuing, he said perhaps a good which the Chinese (lovernment have made | China, and they were kept in touch with companies is welcomed, as, within the in China by regular past few years, forces that threaten our deal of the laxity in realising the gravity that the matters mentioned in the que passing events of che present situation by the Foreign tina should be nonsidered. In the mean- Offer was due to the fact that they had time I can make no statement on the letters from Chairmen änd Secretaries of business structure have been generated not been able to make direct representa, I subject beyond saying that any discussion Branches and if they were ignorant of and these should be hrolight"untier con- At present there are three Ex- Cits to the latter offer with all the of these large issues is impossible until went was going on in Canton it was trul power that they could demand. They the Chinese Cerament have taken steps because the Hongkong Branch of the changes whereas a large one should suffice
the present anti-foreign nebel sang sors of machinery" for this to put an ind
agitations and have shown their ability Association had died. He was in favour and would be easier to control. Since purpose, The present situation was b
to enforce law and order and respect for of the Branch being revived; for through business in stocks and shares has largely
it they could make their views heard.
inercased in recent years, provision for the treaty rights of the Powers."
"The Commpist Goverment is laying plans to expel British influence and British Trade from South China, it continued. This is a moment when British policy must take a clear and definite shape. If this policy is sach that it com. mends itself to others and leads to effective common action, so much the there were members of the Committee brokers' Association was formed because
Mr. L. Whyte asked whether it the aunission of more metafers into our would be possible to have Hongkong re- Exchange is necessary and a' security of presentatives on the Committed in Lon-at least $100,000 should be required fruta ench member. In this connection it has that to be borne in mind that the Share-
don.
.The Chairman pointed
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ing herrasingly grave, and they nerded sonsaus to inake Limiten realise that whatever was done as regards the North, it would not affect Hongkong They might have conferences in the North and send out special envoys,
long as the Bolshevik Russian Goverts, nicht rated in Caution, the trade this Colony would," werk by week, grow worse, and not only the trade of Hongkong. but that also of the better. But the responsibility for defend.
of the Chinn Association in London of the restricted membership of the Stock Cest parts lying between her and Fooing the great and now seriously threaten.
knew conditions out here and Exchange and its refusal to admit, Chinese chow, it was all very well to say dued British interests in China les first and who
He thought brokers as members. In these enlighten- int mock the boat in Hongkong while foremost upon the British Government.*
who had resided here. Northern questions are being settled"
Later there was, this passage is Hongkong's problem was entirely dis
difficult to perceive at present with what the real dithealty was that conditions, had eil days, it is futile to attempt to uphold Liurt from
Northern problem. the
Chinese Government or representative changed with such rapidity is the last such a restraint. The new Exchange to Peking could
man who went be a success miter be ensopolitan and the a conference (ie, a Tariff
month or SC Even a and nothing done alleriate the position in longkongdy such
China As conference) of the Powers could disenss He suggested that the Nociation Branch should be reformed so anything, seriously. The air must first Home six months ago could not possibly substantial security required from a me- that they would be able to instil inte thee clear of the clunge and wild die visualise the present conditions here. Heher would enhance its prestige and inspire London authorities some knowledge order of the anti-British campaign. The the plight of Hongkong. He did not befundamental fact must be face, tint it is honestly believed that much of the news five that any man who lived in Hong. kong six mouths age and was now in London could possibly understand the present situation. It was with the hape
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went Home was regarded
not China alone that is in question. The that organizing force is the Soviet Government exagggerated. of Moscow,”
In view of those, promising expressions
Mr. W. S. Bailey said that it seemed That practical results might be obtained of opinion, in carly July, as regards the to him that the meeting was not sufficien that he proposed that the Hongkong preservation of Trenty rights and the tly informed on the matter to vote with Branch of the Association should be reprotection of British interests, one could any degree of confidence. On one hand,
formed
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OPPOSITION.
conesee in the public.
In my opinion. forward dealings can also be eliminated by the adoption of the eash margin system ruling in foreign Ex- changes; for instance, in the New York Stock Exchange, where a' trapsaction is completed the day after the order is executed, or in the London Stock Ex- change, which requires fortnightly settle- require further elaboration, tend
curbing speculation, of an Association with its headquarters eliminate all manipulators of no financial in London, and, un the other hand they standing, thereby were informed that the Association. in which, after all, is the object of the present Commission of Enquiry.-Yours faithfully, London should get the sack...
S. W. R.
only share the suspicion, hinted at in the they were recommended to form a brunchments. These systems, too well-known to
South China Morning Pest, that, the Ching Association in London had been very lukewarm advocate of Hongkong's special interests and its separate Canton problem.
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Sir Henry Pollock said he fell bound, in the interests of the pulilic of this Colony, to oppose the formation of a
Accordingly he felt that it would be Hranch of the China Association here.
Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton said he woul Certain broad general facts were well useless to open a Branch of the Chins
like ter second Sir Henry Pollock's Association in Hongkong. known, namely, that representations that strong and speedy action must he take trary, what we wanted was the opening negative resolution. It seemed to bim tu end the present situation had her of some Association in London which that so far as Hongkong was concerned rande by the local British and Chinese would devete, itself completely and en-it was on an entirely different footing mercantile, banking. and shipping in-
The mystery surrounding the feared Arrests and had received the strong supily to the interests of this Colony and from the North They had it repeated CHIEF OFFICER HEIR TO FORTUNE? to the preservation of our Treaty rights, again and again that the Canton Govern- part of the Hongkung Government. It
on the faith of which rights British sulment was not recognised by the Central was also well known that, so far as jeess of all races had invested their Government. If that was so dealings loss of the 8.3. Fue Fing WF has brought with the Central Government could not to light an interesting story concerning British interests here were concerned, the capital in this Colony and its concerns,
the Northern Government decided they kintosh.
It is understood that Mr. Mackintosh's General Chamber of Commerce had been He hos that all present would vote possibly do them any good. Whatever the Chief Officer of the vessel, Mr. Mac- arging our cause at the Foreign Ofice against the motion.
could not enforce, and if anything was to through the medium of the China Associa
be done at all it would have to be done brother in Scotland has been out of tion in London. What was the result of
by Hongkong Hongkong would have to touch with him for the past thirty years, those negotiations? Brundlly speaking i
The Chairman said he was sorry ho deal direct with Canton. The attitude but knowing that Mr. Mackintosh was in might be said that the Agents-whom w
Sir they should take up should be to support the Far East, he recently communicated had chesen for pressing our case before found himself disagreeing with the Foreign Office, namely, the China Heury Pollock, but he appreciated the the anti-Reds. Something undoubtedly with Hongkong with a view to ascertain- Association in London, had proved a comfeelings which led him to move his must be done. Surely they were not going the whereabouts of his brother. In plete and thorough failure; and we in solution. Ho sympathised with some of ing to allow three cxtremista in Canton his communication it was stated that the this Colony could only surmise, in the his indignation, but he was inclined to to dictate to Hongkong? The merchants brothers had become coheirs to a con- absence of the publication of confidential think that Sir Henry was unduly hlan-here should get into touch with the mer siderable fortune. The letter arrived in Communications from the China Assccia ing the China Association for the fact chants in Canton for the purpose of sup Hongkong just after the Yu Ying Wu tion in London to the General Chamber of that a far cothing had been done and porting the anti-Reds. It seemed to bim had left on her trip for Heibow, and a Chunmerce that that Association had not much attention paid to the repre- useless to deal with the Foreign Office at reply was seat stating that Mr. Mackin- sent, was away from Hongkong as Chief proved singularly wanting in earnestness sentations inade. He had not the slight alf, when all they could do was to dei tosh was in good health, but at the pre- and purpose in pressing upon the Foreign est doubt that the representations made with Peking.
The resolution that a Branch be formed Officer of the Yue Ying Wa.
It was only a few days later that the Uflee the urgent necessity for local and by the Chamber of "Commerce to
was then put to the meeting, and carried news came through that three lifeboats alquisive action in Canton being taken by China Association in London had been to the Foreign
bad been seen adrift and fear was felt order to faithfully passed on the British Government in
The Chairman then read letters of that they belonged to the Yue Fing le, terminate the tyranny of the present Office, and at one time it certainly looked by a large majority. terrorist faction in Canton, who had not as though they were making progress. only declared a boycott of British shipping The fact that progress was not made apology for being unavoidably absent from and goods and a complete severance of all could not he laid wholly at the door of 31. D. G. M. Bernard and Mr. A. H.
Cauton and the China Association. The truth of the Barlow... communications between Hongkong in defiance of every Treaty matter was that the British Government It had its own labour
On the proposition of the Chairman, right, but had also openly avowed their would not move. intention to ruin this Colony and its problems to deal with, and he thought trade, shipping and husiness, and to reit unfair that the blame for this should seroned by Mr. Bird, Mr. Bernard was duce this, the second port of the world, he attributed to the Association, for in appointed President. On the proposition
the Colony. It is understood that these to a position of commercial insignificaned his pinion that was the only body which of Sir Heory Pollock, seconded by Mr.ing Moreover as the Chairman had pointed had the ear of the Foreign Office. Send Bailey, the Hon. Mr. Holyoak was elected Canion, letters for various addresses in The following Committee was elected, men will appear before a magistrate this ent in his letter to the newspapers the ing telegrams to the Foreign Office direct Vice-President. Canton faction already, in the course of was futile, and even Government tele-
grams. at least some, appeared to have 31cssrs. D. G. M. Bernard, Hon. P. H.morging, on a present charge of convey. some two months only, had succeeded to a great extent in achieving this hostile pur.been completely ignored, and he wild Holyoak, Hop. C. G. Alabaster, G. Ming letters to Hongkong otherwise than pose, for as the Chairman had said on testify to the fact that no man in Hong-Young, Hon. A..O. Lang, A. H. Barlow, through the Post Office.
nokoug had worked harder to carry out W. H. Bell, H. Lauder and A... Fer- his letter, and the statement was
"this. Colony wh the wishes of the Colony than the Gay-guron,,
Mr. 1. F. Key was appointed Secretary exaggerated one, British, trade throughout Southern China ernor. His viów was their view. He did drift daily nearer to utter ruin." The not want to take up a lot of time in and Mesura, Love, Bingham and Mat It was devided that the yearly subscrip Chairman bad also stated and everybody political discussion, however, and he thews, Treasurers. in the Colony must agree, that conferences would like someone to second the original
Sir Henry Pollock then moved. up North could not possibly settle the resolution, which was? That the Branch tion be $10,
of thanks to the Chairman, which was Southern situation, or affect it in the of the China Association be re-formed
mallest degree. And yet we found, not here.
The Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird asked where enthusiastically, supported.
The Chairman announced that telegrams withstanding all these arguments which
must be presumed to have been forcibly Sir Henry Pollock would obtain the men pressed home by the China Association in in London who, knowing the conditions would be sent to London and to the London on the Foreign Office," that that out here would devote themselves, as be Shanghai Branch, informing them that the Association had been wholly useless to us: suggested, to the interest of this Colony,Branch here had been re-formed.
ELECTION OF OFFICIALS,
vote
SMUGGLED LETTERS. SEVERAL BUNDLES "INTERCEPTED. Several Chinese were arrested last evon- for bringing from Bhekki, dear
It has been the practice apparently, for large numbers of letters from up- country to be made into bundies of The authorities, have been aware of the about 200 for conveyance to Hongkong: practice and have been keeping a kera look-out.
The letters captured have not yet been examined and it is not known therefore whether they contain" anything of a All seditious nature, or whether they are simply business communications. General for the purpose of investigation. will be handed over to the Pontmaster
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