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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1933.
MONGKOK FIRE Internationalism: What
ENQUIRY
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Verdict Of Death By
Misadventure”
FIRE BRIGADE COM- MENDED
The enquiry at Kowloon Magis- tracy into the big are at Reclama- tion Street on the 9th inst. in which seven people were killed. ended yesterday when the jury re- turned a verdict to the effect that they were satisfied there was no proof that the fire had been de- liberately caused. 2
Mr. Butters acted; as Coroner and the jury was composed of Messrs. H. J. D. Lowe, T. Wong, and W. Saunders.
Mr. L. P. Kwok, of the Wing On Fire and Marine Insurance Co.. said that the gunny bag shop on the ground floor of No. 393. was insured with his firm of $1,000. I The master of the shop sent in a claim for 8000 after the fire but after investigating into the matter the company paid up $540. Wit- -ness Beld the opinion, that the
claim was genuine.
The Coroner, in summing up, said: "Gentlemen. you have heard the evidence, and I do not think there is any doubt that the seven deceased except Poon Sam, met their death by burns as the result of this fire at No. 393 and 395; Reclamation Street. Poon Sam met his death by failing to the ground when attempting to escape to another floor by a drain-pipe. According to the evidence the fire originated in the gunny bag shop belonging to Tsang Cheung, who has given evidence. His evidence was given in a very unsatisfactory This might have been caused by nervousness, but he him self says that he insured his stock for $1,000, knowing that it was worth only $600. The insurance agent, however, says. that a claim for. 8600 was made to his company but after investigations, they had decided to award 8540.
Evidence had been given that there were no electric lights in the
manner.
building.
It Means
MR. C. E. TERRY ADDRESSES
"Y'S" MEN'S CLUB
“UNDERSTANDING BASED ON
·MUTUAL RESPECT”
At the weekly luncheon of the "Y's" Men's Club, Mr. C. E. Terry, i Chairman of the Kowloon Resi- dent's Association gave the mem- i bers an interesting talk on inter- national co-operation and good- will. To be a true internationalist. said the speaker, one had to be a nationalist to a certain extent.
Mr. Terry's address was as fol- lows:--Those of you who have had occasion to visit the Kowloon on a busy day cannot fall to have been struck by the diversity of na- tions represented by the ships lying alongside. The flags of Great Britain, America, Germany, Nor- way, France, China, Japan-in fact of practically every country in the world both Oriental and Occident al can be seen at the same time either at the wharves or in close | proximity in the stream, and serve as a striking example of how much we in Hong Kong are dependent on international co-operation and goodwill. Particularly is this true
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bétween ourselves and our nearest neighbours; dot only must there be external co-operation and good will, but this is also essential internally in the Colony itself. This co-operation and good- will must necessarily be based on mutual understanding and respect, and this can only follow an un- derstanding on the part of the individuals of each country of each others view point.
Napoleon's Nationalism.
I have said that this under-
who can see no good in any other country but his own is to be avoid- ed like the plague: provided such
I
·worn
wooden shoes. I would rather have lived in a hut with! a vine growing over the door, and the grapes growing purple. In the kisses of the autumn sun.
I would rather have been that poor peasant., with my wife
knitting as the day died out of the sky-with my children upon my knces and their arms about me--I would rather nave been that man and gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust, than to have been that imperial personation of force and murder, known as "Napoleon the Great.'"
Napoleon is a striking example of what I mean by "Individuallstic Nationalism"-other examples will readily occur to you. I myself am an Irishman, and I have seen in my own time my country divided by bitter internecine strife through the megalomania of one man.
tion of one's own individuality,
trics as it is of individuals.
All the distrust and conflicts of the past have been built up on
Basis Of Friendship. Do not for one moment however imagine that I am decrying true. Nationalism-a right and proper pride in one's own country and its history and achievements is the thinking man can ignore the his heritage of every man, but no
tory and achievements of other countries, and in awarding them their full measure of respect and admiration lies the basis of a real International friendship. Here again the dangers of extremism standing must be based on mutual creep in, and we get the type who respect--this is where Nationalism can see good in every country buz and Internationalism are inter- their own. This again is bad; The lamps were fit by inked. No one can be a true In- no contact or friendship is of value kerosene, There was also evidence ternationalist who is not to a cer- which necessitates the subordina that the bean-curd maker used tain extent also a Nationalist, but an open fire for cooking, but there the perfervid type of Nationalist and this is just as true of coun- was no reason to believe that the fire started from that open are place.
Continuing. Mr. Butters said that
a man is honest in his opinions, lack of knowledge lack of know- this was not the arst enquiry he had presided over with regard to some measure of respect must be ledge of the other man's view deaths caused by fire in Chinese accorded him, but only too often point, habits and mode of life; in this type of Nationalism is "the world of to-day, everything is tenement houses, where inflam-
tending to increase our knowledge When dividualistic Nationalism.”* mable good were very often stored: In the present instance, the Fire carried to extremes, it is capable and consequently to increase our of plunging whole countries into understanding as between coun- try and country, race and race. Brigade had done everything they chaos and distress for the glori possibly could to evacuate people fication of one man or one party to journey from London to. Edin- At one time, when it took a week from the houses. If the jury were History abounds with examples burgh, the people of the South of satisfied that the blaze had result- and even in contemporary History England knew nothing of the cul- ed through accident and that there
ture and civilisation of the Scat- were to return a verdict of death type; the words of Ingersoll at the Hsh capital, and considered every- was no evidence of arsen, they we have not far to look for this grave of Napoleon illustrate ad- mirably what I mean. In record-body North of the Humber as bar- barians and of no account. To-day The jury, after retiring for a ing his impressions as he stood at shore while," returned the follow the grave, he said:
London knows what is happening and what people are thinking in ing verdict-"We find that all
New York, Hong Kong, Canton, the deceased met their death by misadventure. There is no proof
and even some of the darkest parts that the fire was dellberately
of Africa almost as soon as the caused and we express our sym-
people of those very parts, and all pathy to the relatives of the de-
this progress is wasted unless we ceased. We commend, the work of
can train ourselves to think in- ternationally as well as--not in the Fire Brigade."
stead of-nationally.
by misadventure.
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The Coroner:-Gentlemen. agree with your verdict' and asso- ciate myself with your expression of sympathy with the relatives of the deceased.
THAT SINO AMERICAN "TREATY"
I thought of the orphans and widows he had made of the tears that had been shed for his glory.
...And. I said I would rather have been a French peasant and
Hong Kong And China. dents, declared, through one of it; spokesmen, that news of this sort We in Hong Kong are in the often trickles down from the happy position of being in close Japanese
China consulates in
contact all the time with our though the Foreign Office pays no, neighbours, and endless opportuni- attention to them. But there are ties exist for furthering good- other parties that welcome such fellowship, understanding and canards It may not be Too much good will. It is the younger gen- (Continued from page 6.)
to say that these canards are eration on whom this responsibil often manufactured to order and ity chiefly devolves, and it is to appears to be conspicuous by its they are generally represented by Clubs such as yours that we look absence. Only a few days ago the words "authentic sources for a lead in this object. I can- there was the nonsensical talk on which the Japanese press falle not do better than quote from the here of America seeking to estab: back to bamboozle the public. striking address given by Dr.
to High a naval base in Fukten and to These absurd fabrications crop up Henry of Canton our local supply the Chinese air forces there every now and again, and the Rotary Club, when he said ""No- with money and large quantities bogeys are trotted out at regular thing can be more sure than that of munitions, and before that intervals, with the garnishings a Hong Kong and Canton that there was the tall tale of the Unit more or less trimmed. There Is know each other more, and hold ed States planning to construct a however, one note that remains a certain respect, even regard, one tunnel from Alaska to Siberia anunaltered and runs through "the for the other will mean a happier scheming to establish air buses warp and woot of all these notori and more prosperous Bouth China, along the Aleutian Islands in or ously-false fabrications, this being that is the end to which we are der to swoop down on anun the Incessant insistence that all striving, and an end which I offending, trusting and peaceful short-in the form of Japan-is | am confident we shall achieve by Japan,
Omcees China's friend, not the Codiins of co-operation, mutual give and The Foreign Omce, questioned the benighted lands of the West— take, and mutual work for the by foreign newspaper correspon N.-C. Daily News."
common end. (Applause).
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