HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1935.
PROBLEMS OF KWANGSI CORRESPONDENCE
Peace and Order Prevails
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"Problems of Kwanza" was the subject of an interesting paper delivered by Prot, Dr. Y. G. Ros of the Chungshan. Univer- „sity, Canton at the weekly tinin of the Rotary Club which was
held at the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday.
The function was presided over by Prof L. Forster who wel- · comed the following guests: Rotarian F. A. Nixon (Canton), Messra, A. Johnson (London); G. L. Herdman (New Zealand), and H. R. Semmelink (Hong Kong)..
Before introducing the speaker Prof. Forster congratulated the Club's past president Mr. M. K. Lò on being élected to the Legis-" lative Council Then the following new members were introduced to the gathering: Dr. S. N. Chau, Messrs. D. G. Glenn-ållen and A. H. Veltman. Prof. Forster also informed the gathering that a letter was received from the secretary of the Young Australian League thanking the Club for the hospitality shown them while they were here.
Continuing the President said that Prof. Dr. Y. C, Hoe, born 1904 in Canton, wen; to study at Taing
Hua Un.versity of Peking at the age of 12, H went to America to study at the age of 18 and gra- duated from Harvard University at 25 with the degree of Ph. D.
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guard the province and not to go outside to Oght
The arcond thing which struck melwas the comparative freedom. officialdom from corruption.
China and Silver Price
OBITUARY
Lucille Garren
NEW SHELTERS
An
NEEDED
For Our Street Sleepers
The many friends of Mr. Garren, This letter was written by Mr. of the US Navy Purchasing Office. G. C. Moxon, formerly of Hong Shanghai, and Mrs. Garren, will with deep'regret of the Kong, to the editor of "The Finan-learn cial Times. It appeared in that death paper on Monday, August 26:-
Sir.-In The Financial Times" of August 21 I see a cable from Washington reports that Mr. James A Monett, Chief of the Federal Housing Administration, has just returned from a trip round the world, and states that the silver- son when she was taken ill and the St. John's Cathedral
purchasing policy was not affect ing China seriously.
1 have known Hong Kong and Shanghai from a business flew point for nearly half a century. and I havg seen many booms and many slumps in China during that period. I left China only last month and I can say unhesitating- ty that there has never been a de- pression there to equal the present.
That depression is undoubtedly mainly due to the sudden increase in the sterling value of the local alver currency. created by what appears to most of us as senseless buying of all silver in sight by the U.S. Treasury.
men are treated just like ordinary saldiers. They are, however, dif- ferent from the regular soldiers In that they are not in the Army and that they have to be retired after a period of training and that they are subject to be called to serve in case of emergency. Their He 'came back in 1930 and was function also differs from the or- Editor of the
China Critic ordinary soldier's as their duty is to Shanghai for a while, Appointed professor of Political Science at the National University of Peking in 1931, he was with the Lytton Com- mission in the summer of 1932 and vyns commissioned to translate a Chinese myself and I do not have
Mr. Moffett is reported as say- into Chinese of the entire Lyttanto conceal from you that there isng that, in his opinion, "the Report, when the Commission left corrupt.on in China as there is silver-purchasing policy of the U.S. for Europe in September of that corruption everywhere--even in Government had not hurt, China.” year. He was elected Chinese de- England I may say 50. In legate to the Fifth Blennial Con- Kwangsi I found the situator al ference of the Institute of Pacine most like that in England. Relations at Bani, Canada, 1933. Theres, by and large, a com- He resigned from the Peking Na parative freedom from political tional University that same year in corruption and on meditating on Afths. drder to study and travel in Europe. the reasons for this I came to the He did research work in Trinity conclusion that it was due to, first-powerful Government or agency I would ask Mr. Moffett: If some College, Cambridge University 1933-ly the r.gid system of accountancy were to raise the value of the US.
34 and visited 15 European coun- tries stretching from Dubitn to Vladivostock. He came back in September 1934, and was mediately appointed professor of the Chungshan University.
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During the summer vacation, he went to Kwangsi for a pleasure trip and travelled 1000 miles, Dr. Hoe is the author of a book on Calvinism and a writer of numerous articles in English and in Chinese.
DR. HOE
The speaker in addressing the gathering said:-
Of recent years the province of Kwangsi has attracted a great deal of atten.fon in China and abroad, the reason being that of all the provinces in China, Kwangs! has been the on-almost the only one with a firm determination to do things. And It has done a great deal all of those who had been there have invariably spoken well of Kwangsi,
Dr. Sherwood Eddy the American speaker alter returning from Kwangsl wrote and said "I can depart from China now in peace because I have seen the promise of a new China."
Dr. Ho Shih went to Kwangsi at the beginning of this year and he spoke of four characteristics of Kwangsi which he thought the rest of China might do well emulate. These were (1) public order. There is perfect order in Kwangsi. (2) thrift, there is strict economy in the province. (3) Martial spirit, both the upper and lower classes of Kwangs are being trained in
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which prevails. The Government sees to it that every cent spent 15 accounted for and the accountants themselves are pleked and trained from the best men in the province. Seccadly there is a severe punish ment for corruption. Any district magistrate who is gulity of a $200 corruption offence is shot out of hand and no quarter's given. That has been an exemplary deterrent to the other district magistrates.
SIMPLE LIVING
That policy was responsible for suddenly (within a few months) raising the sterling value of the Hong Kong silver dollar from 15. 6 to 2s. 6d.—a rise of sonic two-
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dollar from, say, $5 to the pound sterling to $3 to the pound sterling. what would the effect be on the trade of the U.S.-and on the mar- ket value of shares and real estate inside the U.S.? What a terrible alump there would be and what a diminution" of exports and that 18 exactly
what has happened in
China.
their twelve-year-old daughter, Lucille, which occurred at the Kowloon Hospital on Sep- tember 22.
It is understood that the little Birl was passing through Colony in the company of her mother on the s.s. President Jetter
removed to the hospital.
the
The funeral took place yesterday when the Rev. Mr. Tribbeck took
the service. After that the body was removed to Sookunpoo where It was cremated.
appeal to the Kowloon Residents Association to assist in the establishing of a shelter” for ade by Hon, gir H. E. Pollock, street sleepers in Kowloon," was
Et., K... who presided at the annual meeting of the Street Sleepers Shelter Society heid at
yesterday.
Hall
Sir Henry Pollock stated that accommodated in the West Point no less than 17,156 persons were
shelter for 136 nights. and the Society practically had full house there every night during At present there was no shelter in Kowloon, and he would like to enlist the ser- vices of the K.R.A, in the matter of raising funds to provide this need.
funeral were Messrs. H. L. Paddock, the past winter.
Those who were present at the
TB. Wilson. Mrs. W, H. Thomas, Mrs. Hopkins, Miss Patricia Hop- kins and members of the English Methodist Church,
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DONATIONSTM
Miss R. Mow Fung, one of the founders of the Society, was warm- The Hong Kong Travel Associa-ly thanked by the Chairman for on acknowledges with thanks the invaluable work which she has receipt of the following subscrip done for the Society. tions:-
Hong Kong & China Gas
Co., Ltd.
Messrs. Shewan Tomes &
Company
Messrs, Gande Price & Co..
Lita.
Supporting the Chairman were Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Miss E. 50 8. Atkins, Miss R. Mow Fung, and
Mr. J. C. Grenham."
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Previously acknowledged...$10,535
Total
LOCAL ESTATES
SIR HENRY'S SPEECH In presenting the report, Sir 25 Henry Pollock said in part:--
As you will have noticed from $125 page 3 of our report, the total number of sleepers at our West Point shelter (in the former St.. $10,060 Peter's Church) amounts to 17.156 persona for 136 nights, The figures for our Po Yan Shelter (opposite the Tung Wah Hospital) are 16,260 for 123 nights
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Local estates amounting to $231,- Bosch, merchant, late of Sydney, 000 was left by Mr. George Henry
New South Wales who died at Gordon, near Sydney, on August 30, 1934.
An application by Mr. D. J. GU- more, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and Ching, the It would not have mattered lawful attorney, for sealing _cx- the rising price of silver had drag- emplificatich of the probate of the ged up with it all other commodi-wili and the two codicils, was Thirdly there is the comparatives. But it has not done so, and granted. simple lie of the officials, Else-poor China has been marooned on where they ride about in Rolls an island of high currency value; Royces, have a dozen concubines when all the rest of the world is and eat of the best. In Kwangs! it doing its utmost to maintain a low is surprisingly different, official has to wear the gray uni-North America herself, England,
Every and still lower value of currency. form made of native cloth in cold Japan all are striving for low cur- and hot weather. When I was in rency vis-a-vis other countries Kwangsi it was very hot and the for obvious reasons; and then for officials complained of having to Mr. Moffett calmly to state that wear the thick cotton cloth but the U.S. silver buying policy, has they have to do it.
not hurt China is galling to those who have suffered.
Their heads are cropped close; it is not efficient to be stylish and well dressed in Kwangs!. They are not expected to be so and if they want to keep their jobs, they do not have to be stylish. They have to live a simple life.
Furthermore the officials are not allowed t gamble or drink, go to bad houses
opium passes through Kwangsi but or smoke optum.
the officials are not allowed to have a finger in it. They have to be in the office at 7 o'clock in the morn- ing.
it may not be so easy for the U.8. It looks now as though possibly to ruin China by her silver policy, and 400,000,000 people will rejoice when silver is once again allowed to find its natural level. I am, etc..
G. C. MOXON, Lately Member of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange).
Melton. Suffolk.
These figures alone are suffi-
Shelters are appreciated and made clent to show how very much our
Chinese use of by the poorest classes of
for whom this accom- modation is designed.
In fact, if we can raise aufficient money for the provision of an additional shelcer in Kowloon this winter, I have no doubt that
th's will also be filled, and I have no hesitation whatever in warmly commending our cause to the charitably inclined.
shelter of its own, and I would It will have been noticed that Kowloon has no street sleepers
spirited body, the Kowloon Re- services of that active and public- Ilke, f I may do so) to enlist the
of helping us to raise funds for sidents Association, in the matter
Mrs. Ida Hutton Potts, late of Colorado, USA., who died at Den the City and County of Denver,
petition by Mr. C. Bernard Brown, ver on December 8, 1934, left local estate to the value of $19,400. A
attorney, for grant of letters of administration with the authen- chartered accountant, the lawful
ticated copy of the will annexed to the estate, was allowed.
providing us with volunteers to Local estate to the value of assist in the running of the Kow- $12,500 was left by Miss Isabela loon Street Sleepers Shelter which Crescent, Perth, Scotland. Brown Milne. late of 8 Pitallen I am now suggesting. died at the above address on April
who
the equally necessary matter of
a shelter at Kowloon, and also in
13, 1945. An application by Mr. pressing our deep debt to the
HELPERS THANKED
a. G. N. Tinson, solicitor, the law-generous donors who gave to our I take this opportunity of ex-
ful attorney, for sealing confirms-funds or assisted us with gifts, to tion (nominate of the executors), the Doctors and Nurses who as- was granted.
slated in our medical work, to the Volunteer Helpers who have, ren- THE SANITARY BOARD
dered such unselfish aid in the running of our shelters, and to: At the fortnightly meeting of the the members of the Execut've Sanitary Board held yesterday Committee who have done in- afternoon at the Post Office build- valuable work in running the ing the board decided to cancel Volunteer Roster and attended to the permit for the installation of the constructional work in fitting a water closet at the house on New Up the Po Yan Shelter in addi- superstition, that is the absence of speare calls "The delay of Office"- Territories in the evening at about Boundary, Street. Mr. W. J. Carrie/trative side of the work.
Iminable redtape and what Shake-pery was perpe.rated in the New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1798tion to their share in the adminis-
about Kwangsi was the Govern
Another thing that struck me mental and administrative effi-
ARMED ROBBERY News was received late last night
military affairs. (4) Absence of ciency. Elsewhere there is inter- by the police, that an armed rob-
NO BANDITRY
idol
and
The robbery is said to have oc- curred at the Shek Wu Hul Market, which is situated in Sheung Shu. Four rabbers armed with revolvers made a clean got away with some
anything like idol worship "Low-endless and annoying detalls to go towing to anything like Kipling through to get anything done. In according to
7 a'clock. Revolvers were used, and who presided at the meeting in-
The Hong Kong Government describes as "the blooming
the scanty details formed the board that when the have done us a great service not made of mud what they call the
Kwangst the orders are given by avaiable, an nastated. quantity of Fermit was granted an April 10. only by continuing the loan to us Great God Budd',”
money was stolen.
1984, it was stipulated that the
of the former St. Peter's "Church closet was to serve only one fat ment) as a shelter, but also for
(now the property of the Govern The conditions of the licence have now been broken by the water tection of our premises, gunay, the gratis fumigation and dis'n- closet being used to serve two flats. bags and blankets.
An application for the registra-. tion of No. 12, Wing Lok Street is one grave omission, namely, In the report before you. there ground floor as a dairy was grant that it does not mention the ed provided the applicant full the splend'd work which has been Certain alterations will have to be tappause), who was the founder, requirements of
the Inspector. done by Miss Ruby Mow Fung,
For myself I can say that Dr. Ho Shih was quite right in saying that there is perfect order there. In Kwangs there is no organised banditry whereas only few years ago bandits were everywhere. They have miraculously disappeared. I have ravelled 1000 miles both on land and water and I had not a single mishap nor were any of my personal effects stolen. In fact I was told that cases of theft were
rare. There being no organised banditry in Kwangsi there was also no communism.
the superiors to their subördinates эге executed surprisingly quickly. I saw an instance of an order given to a village by the Pro- Vincial Government and only after the Central Authorities at Nanning. money. one day it was issued from the Orders are even given by telephone by the Provincial Government.
BETTER MEN
In conjunction with the Rev. Mr. to register the Klosk on Crown since, throughout the past two An application by the Dairy Farm Halward, of this Society, and has Land near the path way from Shek years, done invaluable oylage to Island Bay as a Dairy Hon. Becretary.
work 25 was granted.
At the present time she is also "acting a Hon. reatine nature. Others present be express heartfelt thanks for her The other business was of a Treasurer. To her I deste to sides the president Mr. W. 3. Carrie public-spirited service, and. In were: The Hon. Mr. R. M. Pender- doing so, I feel that I have behind son Messrs. M. K. Lo. L. CF me the other members of the Bellamy. Dr. R.. 4 de Castro Basto. Committee, who, like myself, are Dr. Li Shu Fan and Mr. Im Ping in a position to appreciate the Teeung (Assistant Secretary). devoted work, which Miss, Ruby Mow Fung has done for the Street Sleepers. (Appause).
Pondering on the reasons for this all the children to go to school siate of things in Kwangsi, so dir-unless these three personages com-made. ferent to other provinces, I de- bine. Now the functions are join c.ded that one of the biggest rea- ed in one man and political power sons for it was that they have bet in Kwangel is one. The theory of ter men in Kwangi.
the separation of power is rubbish The three heads, Generais Li in Kwangsi and they have thrown The reason for this-I will not Chung-Jen, Pi Chung-si and Wong it to the winds. The theory of 83- Say the only reason--is what many Yue-choh are very sincere in their observers called a Militia Corps intention to do good work I do Call The pot want to be more personal but but which I choose to Citizen Training Corps. Their Ides the good personnel there function is to guard the villages, was also excellent Government ma- hamlet and towns of Kwangal chinery that is Citizen Training from organised robbery and of Corps. I call that a Government course to defend the province from machine and not a Military ma- outside attrack,
chine because most things, political, economic and educational are gone through the Instrumentality and by virtue of the Corps.
RECRUITS FROM EVERYWHERE The Corps is a very intricate affair because it is as much mili- tary as it is political and I will stye a simple sketch how it is. forrned. The recruits of the Corps are taken from every household, each household has to furnish one Able bodied man for voluntary mill- tary training for from six to 18 mon hs and during trafing the.
paration is a defeated theory be longing to the 18th Century and the 20th Century has discovered virtue of unity of political power.
SPEAKER THANKED ·
Sir William Shenton in thanking the speaker said they would be interested to know that Dr. Hoe was a lecturer on International Law. It was a pity that his address
To illustrate what I mean there ra not broadcast round the World was formerly, before the present as he felt sure that many of our regime in every village in Kwangs! dictators would be jealous of the a vilinge school principal, a village power that General Li Exercises In headman, and a garrison com- Kwangs. When these dictators mander. Owing to fealousy and were out of a job they would
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her reasons I was often dimeult doubt he phle to live quite happily. do simple things such as getting in a place like Kwangs
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