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THE FUTURE OF WEI-HAI-WEI.
INSECURITY, OF TENURE AND FOREIGN ENTERPRISE: CHINESE OPTIMISM.
NEW CHINESE SCHOOL, BUILDINGS: OPENING FUNCTION.
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.}
05
Chinese Opinion.
has nothing to do with the ques- tion, that in marked contrast to foreign enterprise-there has been a remarkable increase in the num- ber of Chinese shops and houses. progressive increase in the value of the land in Port Edward, since Lord Balfour's fateful pronounce: ment at the Washington Confer
Education,
Enterprise in education furnishes further evidence of local optimism. New school premises, occupying an the northern slope excellent site
of Hagstaff Foist and providing
Our summer visitors have often more recent anti-foreign explosion expressed surprise that after 30 to nations incurred more virulent years of British rale there has been abuse and slander at the hands of so little real development at Wei-Chinese patriots" and propagan Accommodation for ever 200 pupils, hai-wei in certain directions that dieta-violent enough to
have recently becen make
completed. so many foreigners have purchased Palmerston, or a Disraeli, turn in The opening function was attended building sites, but done no more his grave-than the two Powers by H.H. The Commissioner and that Port Edward is to-day one of who were responsible for preserving his staff, including the Senior Die. the worst-lighted towns
trict Officer, Mr. H. I. Prideaux- the them from national extinction. China Coast: and that the town
However this might be, whether M.C., Junior District Officer, Others Brune, and Captain C. E. Thurston, water-supply is still eo unsatisfacto-day we are pessimists, or not, present included Major R. Scott. tory. To all such criticisms there is no doubt that at the time. Moncrieff, O.C. Troops, Captain F. have but оде reply:-Give security of tenure, and foreign when the statesmen of Europe were L. Johnston, of the Royal Scots, enterprise will soon be in evidence. busily employed in tracing out the Headseter, Mr. H. T. THER "apheres of influence" on the map and Mesars. Y. C. Lee and Y. T. It was as far back as February, 1900, that at the Washington Con of China, all concerned, officials Ku of the Chamber of Commerce. ference Lord Balfour offered the and civilians, entertained optimis-
In the course of an interesting. lie views regarding Wel-hai-wej. restoration of the British leasehold Admiral Fremantle put it in speech Mr. Johnston referred to the to make it easier for Japan to sür-
1909 in a letter to The Times, pro Government to education in general steady support given by the local render the ex-German leasehold at Tsingtao. Tell us when and how testing against the decision not to this prolonged nightmare of unce: fortify the harbour. "We are about and to that school in particular
now known as "Wei-hai-wei School," tainty and doubt is to end tell us to develop Wei-hai-wei ne a com-
the but formerly
Chih Tung whether Lord Balfour's note to the mercial port, under an energetic Middle School." For a time the Chinees delegates at the Confer colonial administrator, and I ven- School occupied, free of reat, part ence is to be merely another serap ture to prophesy that a few years of the old Chinese Regiment's bar- hepce our interests there will have racks, but moved to other premises of paper," or not: whether, or not, the policy of patient concilia. increased to such an extent that when the barracks were required tion is to leave us on the beach, it will be necessary, to take come for Military vac. No extra finau and the foreigner who has settled defensive measures.
cial burden was placed on the here will be able to reply to his
School by this change of abode, as the rent was paid out of official During the Great War some rash In his Narrative of the War with funds. As time passed the growth pereon ventured to assert that the China (1800) General Wolseley had of the institution emphasised the days of secret diplomacy" were nothing to say, in favour of Wei- pressing need of more suitable ended, but we now see that this | hai-wei. The harbour is a bad accommodation, and, with London's premature prediction is more of the one"; the district sterile and approval, he had offered a grant nature of 4 pious hope. The Wei-water-less-most unsuitable as a publie land and the sum of hai-wei negotiations, at any rate, base for an invading army. Forty 6,000 if the community contribut have been shrouded in impenetrable years later Sir Frank Swettenham, ed a like, amount through the mystery, and some of the people reporting officially to the Colonial most concerned-that is, the pro-Offee, wees in the place nothing perty-holders—are very much in the more than a colder Aden." Under dark as to the steps, which are such depressing circumstances, it is being taken to protect vested in really surprising that so much has been' accomplished. "In the early years contributions from the British taxpayer-direct and indirect-were Most of his hearers were aware very helpful. Grante-in-aid through that some years ago he acted as the Colonial Office totalled nearly Secretary to the Boxer Indemnity £150,000; expenditure by the War Commission. In that capacity he Office, more particularly in connee had brought the educational needs tion with the Chinese Rogiment, of Wei-hai-wei to the attention of Optimists and Pessimists,
probably exceeded half a million the members of the Commission Roughly speaking, foreigners in sterling; and there was substantial and, he hoped, but eventually there terested in Wei-hai-wei might be outlay by the Admiralty in connec- would be a satisfactory result. He divided into two classes, pessim- tion with our small dockyard and would advise the Chamber of Com- ists and optimists. Your extreme the dredging of the naval anchor merce to make a formal applica pessimist is certain to be a pro-age. Further, the annual visits of tion for assistance when the fame perty-holder and, in all probability, British warships: the influx of sum.
arrived for the indemnity funds to the more he is involved, the greater mer visitors in increasing numbers, be allocated, and he saw no reason his pessimism. To him there is have meant-quite apart from a why such an appeal should not be little if any hope in the future, for remarkable growth in trade-a
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Under these circumstances it is not at all surprising that the people who, years ago, were proposing te invest capital in Wei-hai-wei sub sequently adopted Fabian tactics and decided to "wait on see.”
Chamber of Commerce. His offer and received a gratifying response, and in a very short time subscrip- tions from the community reached
total amounting to three times the official contribution." They wit- cessed the result that day:
successful.
it is only too evident that the pre-steady flow of money from the He thanked various speakers for
eent prosperity of the territory foreigner's 'purse.
their kind references to himself, Tests on. two main props,--(1) Under these circumstances, to and was indeed glad to have been British rule, with its araurance of most local Chinese-ignorant of the able to help is no good a cause. peace and security, its efficient and fact that Wei-hai-wei was, found to He felt sure all present would join ita ressonably honest Government; he a useful pawn in international with him in wishing the "School-a (2) Freedrade, for, like many a negotiations, and, like the majority successful career, д prosperons other British trading centre, Wei-f their countrymen, constitutional future in its new buildings. hai-wei has no Customs house, no ly incapable of understanding import or expert duties. Rendition generosity, or "a generous gesture" removes both props. Thirty years it must seem an extraordinary ago the British found Port Edward thing that the British should volun- a wretched little fishing village to tarily offer to restore a place on a fishing-viilage it will revert the which they have spent so much. greater part of the town will be. It is, perhaps, for this reason that come a wilderness of bricks et eo many of them seem to think that, the name thereof be changed to rendition is not a live question, and display a confidence in the
"Ichabod."
On the other hand We meet future which to some of us is people who, not owning a square almost pathetic, though a few inch of land in the territory; probably agree with our extreme would bid us be of good cheer and pessimist in thinking that retroces- lift up our heads the darkest sion spells overwhelming disaster cloud has its silver lining: the and have not put all their eggs British Empire is not founded on into one basket. It is partly due was it built by to this invincible optimism of the pessimism, nor pessimists: and when all is said local Chinese, who, of course, fully and done, the British Government realise that self-determination never lets its subjects down. Hence
to regard the future as hopeless is unwarrantable and unjustifiable.
The Official Attitude.
The present attitude of the local Government is, of course, abso- lutely correct, and Our Commis- sioner has gone out of his way to warn British subjects here that there were no grounds of assuming that the retrocession of Wei-bai-wei would be postponed: пок would there be the slightest warrant for
assuming from anything he said, or did, that they were being encour aged to invest more capital in the leased territory. It is a thousand pities that, over a generation ogo, his predecessors-Sir Arthur Dor ward and Sir James Lockhart--did not adopt a like cautious attitude. There is, however, this much to be said in their favour, that no respon. sible official or diplomat io the capitals of Europe, or in Paping, for a moment dreamed at that time that the restoration of foreign leaseholds and concessions in China would ever take place.
The Partition of China, The historian of the fature will have no hesitation in deciding that in the decade between the Chino- Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars
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dissolution, and a scramble for his possessions, it would appear, was inevitable. The morê ́ aggressivo Powers, Russia and Germany, claimed Manchuria and Shantung, respectively, and other Powere fol lowed suit. It would not be stretching, the point if our historian also asserted that it was the Anglo- Japanese Alliance and its sequel, the Russo-Japanese War, that pre- vented dismemberment, Nor will be fail to draw attention to the very significant fact that during the
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