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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY - APRIL 29th, 1927.
and given the people a solemn upon condence in the security that warning that in the event of there the British Government has been being further piracies the action" able to offer to our citizens, their would be repeated Great care trade and investments. It has now was taken that no personal injury been demonstrated that 'wo can was caused to any of the inhabit withstand the severest attack that ants. It is sincerely to be hoped could be made by employment of that this will have the desired effect the so-called "invincible" economic of stopping these, depredations on weapon and it has proved to be Moreover, shipping which have been causing of no avait against us. a well nigh intolerable situation. The British Government has stated that it has no intention to give back the Colony to China.
After the piracy of the sa. Su ning in November, the Govern. ment appointed a Committee to: enquire into the whole question of piracy and the existing piracy re gulations. The report of that Com mittee was published within the past week but we have not yet had, time to consider it..
These two facts will greatly in- crease the sense of security which Hong Kong can give. It is, there fore, safe to view the future with confidence and look forward to an ora of development and prosperity such as we have not yet approach- ed. But we are here to trade with China and what we specially desiro South China where merchants and others can follow their lawful avo cations in safety and peace, and these we trust will be realised at an early date (Lord applause.)
The
the
H.E. THE GOVERNOR. with the foreigners along the Yang taze and in the South, while north. YOU WILL WIN THROUGH," em China was in turmoil. Bortherners then learned .H.E. THE GOVERNOR then address Boxers were not invulnerable" and that exterminate all foreigners ed the meeting, He said I am glad you invited me to be present was less easy than they bad rup-
Remembering this, here today, for it gives me an posed. opportunity of expressing publicly northerners to-day are not attempt- my admiration of the dogged detering to destroy foreign treaty rights but are willing to violence, by mination with which the mercatiile
Eriendly settlem at. community of Hong Kong has con- negotiate a
It is the southerners this time who tinued to do business a sun! in spite of the discouraging and believe themselves to have found even alarming situation in which, an invincible weapon wherewith to drive all foreigners out of China for no fault of ours, we and our selves placed. Neither rikes, nor They miscall it the economic wes- boycotts, nor armed pickets, nor. pou," meaning thereby strikes, boy bandits, nor pirates, nor civil war cats. Jabour unrest, mob violence, have deterred British or Chinese-all excited by lying propaganda, merchants in this Colony from main piracy, brigandage and every other taining their trade with Canton and means of making trade in China the other principal centres of com unprofitable to the foreigner and merce in China. (Loud applause.) residence in China disagreeable to Under the bludgeoning of fate you him. A better name for this wea
the Bolshevik have suffered, you are unbowed,
род would be
NEW BATHING BEACH.
TAI WAN BAY TO REPLACE STONECUTTERS,
DETAILS OF THE 'BUS SERVICE.
The bathing beath at Stone cutters Island, as mentioned in the Daily Prear a low days ago, will men, and in its place a new bath- this year be reserved for Service ing ground has been opened at Tai Wan Bay, Hurghem, near the Colo China Light and Power works.
There will be a regular bus service maintained by the Kowloon On week days, buses will leave the "Star" ferry pier (Kowloon) al Motor Bus Co.
4.30 pm; on Saturdays and Sun- days at 2 p.m. The return service from Tai Wan Bay begins at 6 p.m. vals of 15 minutes. The last bus And buses run both ways at inter
Sunting piracy. A brief account and need are stable conditions in for your aims are precisely those' o! } sian' " high advisers that with this back from the beach is at 7.30 p..
I have no further remarks to make
I cannot leave this subject with out refurring again to the 5.2. is given in the report of the on the officers' gallant attack pirates after they had obtained control and which resulted in the recapture of the ship. This attack was made against unknown odds and carried out with splendid re and now beg to propose the adop source, and daring. (Applause.)tion of the Report, and Statement The conduct of the officers and of Accounts and when this has been seconded I shall be pleased engineers was in accordance with
highest traditions of to answer to the best of my ability service and I wish to place on any question which members may record the Chamber's appreciation Jesire to ask.·· of their magnificent achievement. (Applause.) Their action on this occasion serves to illustrate what the officers and engineera azo pre- pared to do and would do in defence of their ship when attacked by pirates if they were not over- whelmed and disarmed before they were aware of what was taking piace. (Applause.) "..
the
and
and, what is more, you will certain bludgeon" and those who brandisk win through to eventual success; it have been taught by their Rus.
people-safe and normal trading foreigner that of his own accord he the great mass of the Chinese weapon they can so bedevil the conditions. (Applause.)
Al
will after a while pack up his trape and leave China for good. But the "Britain Hi No Territorial
true name of this weapon is "the Ambition In China."
Bolshevik boomerang," because it Now, as always, British policy in will most certainly curl back and China aims wholly and solely at deliver its shrewdest blow as those security, freedom and equal of who endeavour to wield it. portunity for British trade through ready none suffer from it more than out the territories which once form-do the Chinese themselves, and it ed the Chinese Empire, but which will sooner or later knock out every distracted and disinte bolshevized Chinese in the country. are now grated by Bolshevism and civil war. (Applanes.) Great Britain; as all the world knows, has no territorial ambitions
whatsoever in China. It is there
to of China petus
Defeatist Attitude Will Not Help. MR. W. L. PATTENDEN..
Lying propaganda of the most "Mr. W. L. PATTENDEN seconded. fore, most amazing that the sell virulent type gives the initial in
all these Bolshevik nationalista" atzied. He said:-Your Excellency, Mr. Chairman
Gentlemen,We should vociferously and incessantly machinaticos: and, gentlemen, we have followed with close interest denounce Great Britain as their must counter it by telling the truth "enemy," while clasping to their and exposing the falsehoods. There the able speech just delivered and hearts as boson-allies the Russian are many who, like Conventry Fat if I may be permitted to du so,, should like to endorse the Chair Bolshevista, who appear to be pur more, would sit down and say that Chinese Language School. man's remarks with regard to the suing in Chinese Turkestan, in for lack of them the world's course
Outer Mongolia and in Manchuria will not fail. With regard to the Chamber's honour, felt by us all, at the pre- the old Czarist schemes of Slavonic Chinese Language School, seven-sence of His Excellency at our teen students have been in attend annual meeting this afternoon, Hinggrandizement in the Far East. ance in the Beginners' Class in the never failing interest in the trade This self-deception is one of mány course of the last twelve months, of Hong Kong, which as the Chair- symptoms of the madness
When sanity-returns to mintang. These numbers have been reduced man has rightly stated, is that alicing the wild men of the Eur
Dow
not the Russian Soviet,
ment we should have nothing to
"When all its work is done, the
fie shall rot. The truth is great and will
Frevail, When none cares whether it
prevail or not"
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TRYING HIS LUCK.
A LOTTERY PRIZE OF- MINUS $100.
A Chinese tailor when charged with writing and possessing Po Piu lotteries, remarked with pleasing simplicity to Major C Willson yesterday at the Central Magistracy that he had bought the
try his luck." The said. tickets to fuck was a *100 n.
In this case two Chinese were charged; they were represented by Mr. P. II. Loseby and pleaded "not guilty."
Det-Sergt. A. V. Baker said that, accompanied by a Chinese detec tive, he raided a cock-loft at No, 131, Hollywood Road He found the first defendant sitting pa stool and in front of him were £6 Po Piu tickets. The second de- fendant was squatting on the floor
Mr. Loseby told the Court that the first defendant had merely goré to the bouse to visit a friend, but the Police raided the place just then and took him to the Station. The second defendant, a tailor,
not buy the tickets for sale.
His Worship Ened the first de- and the second deferdant $100 for fendant $50 for writing the tickets, possessing the tickets. He had a previous conviction against him.
by the passing of students into the which the Lolony exists, is deeply them, they will see as all but the such a defeatist attitude will not with a roll of paper before him. advanced class, also by transfers' appreciated by all sections of the purblind now see-that it is Grea help us now. We must be up and ' to other ports, so that the Begic mercantile community. (Applause.) Britain, hers' Class as the present time con- The Chamber's Annual Report. which would rejoice at the estab doing. We must see to it that the tains six students. In the Ad-
lishment of a strong, stable, en-e shall rot before, not after, its The annual report that has re lightened, patriotic and Ecient poisonous work is done, and that vanced Class the numbers have) been as high as 15, but recently cently been circulated is, in my Government of a re-unified China the truth is widely told all over is the best means of averting the several certificatee of proficiency opinion, a striking testimony to the were awarded and the number of work of the Chamber. I am glad (Applause) From such & Govern China now when the victory of truth students now in attendance is faur. to notice, included in the report, fear; for it would restore peace and Bolshevik menace. The Hong Kong was a una fide purchaser and did As soon as these students bave ob are various memoranda, dealing security to the harassed population General Chamber of Commerce sa tained certifientes a new Beginners with the cochleaey's speech in the of the Eighteen Provinces and ging Commerce should give most serious
present situation in China Clase will be forined.
Legislative Council on October. 15th back to Chinese merchants the thing the corinal trading conditions, free from As I think members generally last year. 1 venture to sugges; they most desire, I mean safe and consideration to this matter. are aware the Chamber has been that members send copies of the the tyranny of bolsherized Labour. able-thanks to the invaluable help report to their various friends in
(Appause.) of. Dr. Pearce (as Director of other parts of the world, drawing Studies until last year) and of the special attention to these memo Hon. Mr. Kotewall (as Indepen- randa, which, I think, explain dent Examiner)-to maintain the clearly and concisely the attitude Language School since the year of the British Government in re- 1010, A considerable number of gard to recent events in Chine I members of commercial staffs have should like, if I may be allowed acquired, since then, a sufficient to do so, to congratulate the Com- knowledge of colloquial Cantonese mittee on the manner in which to enable them to transact ordinary this comprehensive report has been mercantile business in the lang drawn up, and particularly Mr. unge. The classes are held at times Key, our able secretary, on whose which have proved convenient to shoulders, I understand, the work the students, either in the tifin of compilation has largely fallen. bour or after are p.m. on thres We are glad to have Mr. Key with days a week In addition. cach us again after his well earned holi- student has an hour's individual day, (Applause.) conversational practice with We have learned with satisfac. private teacher provided by the. School.
13. a
A Break In The Clouds, As you rightly say; Sir, we have
"We Will Have No Bolshevism Here."
Borodin and
Light On The Horizon. Gentlemen, it is always the dark- est Hour that comes before the dawn; and already I seem to see a glimmer of light on the horizon. We are quite determined to have The Chinese Nationaliat rarty is no Bolshevism in this Colony. (pat last struggling to rid itself of plause.) The Chinese as well as the the taint of Bolshevism and is dis European community of Hong Kong carding Com:ide is of one mind in this matter, and other demagogues who deliriously have no doubt whatever that we direct chaos and who are prophets shall succeed. All the recent emer of communism and "world-revolu- geney measures taken by the Hong tion." It now locks as if measures, Keng Government aim at óbviating similar to the emergency regula- any disturbance of the law and tions made by the Hong Kong order and good feeling now hap Government to save this Colony pily prevailing among We shall from the tyranny of Bolshevised certainly not allow any imperium Labour, have also been enforced by
in
THE CAT THAT BROUGHT BAD JOSS.
* bad
A certain
SILLY, THEFT AND MORE BILLY LIES.
There is a saying in China that nothing could bring more joss" than selling a cat. Chinese has now shown the limits of the adage for be set out early yesterday morning to steal a cat- Armed with a and was caught. gunny bag, he reached Aberdeen Street at 2.15 a..
There he holt- ed and waited until a cat softly
cious time on him.
in imperio to be formed here by Chinese Nationalist
He walked up to the animal an armed and violent proletariat, in Shanghai and as Cantos andoth walked out of some dark nook as unfortunately has been the case other large cities, although Chi- cautiously, pounced upon it and tion of the stern but necessary measures taken by the Naval autho- at Canton, at Hankow and in other nese generais have had to use the shoved it into the bag. He then The trend of events in Chicorities in dealing with the almost Chinese cities. The shelter which mailed first where I fortunately was walked off, but while all this was recently
has brought home to impossible situation that has arisen Hong Kong offers from the storm able to use the velvet glove. We going on, two Chinese lukongs were now raging in China is appreciated may, therefore, be on the verge of watching him from a dark alley. everybody the necessity for estab- owing to the lack of any real at- lishing closer contact between tempt by the Chinese authorities by one more than by the Chinese a renewal of the friendly relations They allowed him to go on for u short distance and then they re- Chinche and non-Chinese, and, to cope with the continual piratical themselves, who of late have been which are traditional between this
practical means of ob depredations, and it is to be hoped taking refuge here by the thousand. Colony and the neighbouring pro- peated the pouncing trick.
With all my Asked as to why he had stolen taining this, I would earnestly that the measures taken will have They are welcome and they will be vinces of China.
heart I hope that it is so. I have the cat be said he was recapturing commend the work of the Language a salutary effect. Our sympathies protected. (Applause.)
Another thing we are resolved complete faith in the future of this the animal for a friend, and offer- School to the support of firms and go out to the men of the Naval upon is that our coastwise shipping Colony. I do not believe that the ed to take the lukongs to find the individuals throughout the Colony force who had-what is not perhaps shall not be preyed upon with day of British influence in China said friend. They walked a great (Applause). We are ready prace realised by all-a very unpleasant
is drawing to a close. On the con- distance, the mythical, friend was tically at any time to start another duty to perform, but one which unity by organized piracy, such as Beginners Class and will be happy was carried out in difficult circum-bat cimanating from Bias Bay, trary I believe that, when the not found, and the two constables to do so forthwith on iceeipt of stances in a spirit of true chivalry. Time and time again the Cantonese spasm of madness now convulsing marched the hunter stationward,
authorities have been urged by the China is spent, Great Britain and On the way the man offered the even a small number of entrants..
I was particularly glad to notice Hong Kong Government and by His the British Colony of Hong Kong Lukangs 90 cents to go and drink Motors Are Harbour Transport. the reference made to the Sunning Majesty's Consuls-General at Can will be recognized throughout the tea instead of wasting their pre-
Over With the growth of motor piracy and the great appreciation ton to stamp out this post.
The cat-thief was charged before wehicles in Hong Kong there has shown of the gallant action of the and over again we hate, offered Eighteen Provinces as the most arisen an increasing demand for Officers and Engineers in recover them for this purpose our full naval | potent, the moat bencficent and the an adequate service for transporting their ship against almost over and military co-operation, if they most congenial friends and cond Major C. Willson at the Central ing them
desired it. They have, however, Jutors of the Chinese people in this Magistracy yesterday morning and Betase the Harbour. whelming odds. Apart altogether from privata
rejected our offer of help and they exa of its renaissance. (Applause.) sent to gaol for ten days for The CHAIRMAN put the adoption stealing the animal. He was fined care, the establishment of such a
of the Report and Accounts to the $15 or an additioal 14 days in guol have done nothing whatever them
In fact they have been "service will lead to the delivery
for attempting to bribe the police. of goods from godowns in Hong been through, difficult and anxious selven
ried unanimously. Kong or Kowloon direct to destion times during the past two years scandalously forgetful of the first meeting, and the motion was car-
Thanks To His Excellency.
POPULAR CONCERTS. tion, thus saving time and money, but the sound lines on which the daty of any civilized and self-
The CHAIRMAN, addressing E.E The Government have given the trade of the Colony is conducted, respecting Government; namely the
This week's concert at the Naval matter considerable attention duris evidenced by the manner in suppression of piracy and brigand.
At long last His the Chamber I wish to thank you and Military Y.M.C.A in Queen's ing the past year and intend to which, in spite of the chaotic age and the maintenance of law the Cloverpor, said: On behalf of
for coming here this afternoon, and Building was very well received by publish a sessional paper at an state of affairs in the neighbour and order. early date giving details of the ing provinces, and the insensate Majesty's Government has now in- We proposed scheme, and this is now boycott proclaimed against British Hicted salutary punishment upon for the very able and helpful speech large audience of ex-servicemen.
you have made. The subject you The organiser was Mrs. Carson goods, business has been carried the pirate dens in Bias Bay. awaited.
It is to be hoped hope that the lesson given will have mentioned will certainly be The artistes were: Mrs. M. Minney on (Applause.)
BILfice.
We hope that the Can considered by this Committee. I (soprano); Mrs. H. Kalean (violin) that saner and wiser counsels The effect of the boycott on the among those in control of this tonese authorities will now them wish to thank you again for com- accompanied by Mrs. G. W. R. akelele); Mr. G. W. C. Burnett trade of Hong Kong in 1924 is great country, in which we are so solves take the necessary steps to
applause.) indicated by the number and ton- deeply interested, will prevail, and police Bias Bay and to prevent its ing to address us today. (Loud Griggs; Mr. Grenham (songs and HE. the Governor then left the humorist); Mr. Hyde Lay (bari- tons) accompanied by Mrs. Lay; nage of vessels entered and clear the futility of the use of this use as a pirate base. But, if they
Mr. C. P. G. James (accompanist). this matter through and to protect ed in that year compared with 1024, economic weapon, the boycott, of do not, we are determined to see meeting the last complete year before the which we have heard so much our shipping from further oatrage Committee Elected..
A Charleston exhibition (Applause.) The boycott was instituted. In 1924 cently, will be realised, affecting of this kind.
On the proposition of Mr. A. L. given by Mr. Henry Livingston there were 57,766 vesels represent as much, if not more, those using report of the Piracy Commission, SKIZZE, seconded by Mr. F. B. and a number of Servicemen con- published, indicates ing 38,770,409 tons and in 1926 it, as it does those against whom
very HARRISON, the following were electtributed some jolly items. a tonnage of it is directed. Given peace and just
Among those who have already. only 30,231 with
ed as the Committee of the Cham- quietness in the country, and i clearly what we have to do.. 28,371/104.
ber. The Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Ber promised to appear at next Tues- Comparison With Boxer Rising. We have indeed been passing wise and progressivo Government,
An instructive comparison and pard, the Hon. Mr. AC. Hynes, day's concert are Mr. R. Suther Mr. W. H. Bali, Mr. F. S. Brown, land, Mr. Burett, Mr Davis, Dr. through a very difficult and trying I am convinced we shall see. * time for nearly two years but we prosperity in China such as we have contrast can be drawn between pre Mr. d. J. Davies, Mr. J. Owen McCandlias, Mira Sanger and Mr. have been ablo successfully to saz-never realised, and linked up as we sent day happenings in China and vive the attempt to damage and in Hong Kong are with Canton the events of the Boxer year. In Hughes, Mr. Paul Lauder, Mr. F.
namely Mr. Frank Austin, MeRETS, destroy the trade of Hong Kong and the surrounding districts for 1900 the anti-foreign extremists of A. Perry, Mr. J. A. Flummer and
W. Grace & Co., The China which has been built up over a long we are interdependent one on an- northern Chins believed that in the Mr. T. G. Weall.
Agency and Trading Co., of Hong tarm of years. (Applause.) Losses other this prosperity will be re bullet-proof Bozers they had found i
But the On the proposition of the CHAIR-Kong, Ltd, Mears. A. F. Leong have been heavy, certainly, but I am flected on Hong Kong. While its weapon capable of driving all optimistic enough to believe that may yet be a long time to the foreigners into the set. already we have weathered the peaceful conditions we all desire great Chinese Viceroys at Hankow, MAN, seconded by Mr. W. 8. Bailey: Hakee & Co., and Messrs. Sui The CHAIRMAN: That will con storin and are on the way to better thers are, I am inclined to think, Banking and Csaton-Chang Chin the election of the following mem-Heung Yuen times. The prosperity of Hong signs of a break in the clouds Tang, Liu Kan I and L Hang bers during 1996 was confried,
Chang-knew better and kept peace | (Continued at foot of next column). I clude the business of the meeting. Kong has rested in great measure (Applause).
Confidence, In The Future.
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