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CORRESPONDENCE
TOO UTTERLY STUPID
The Editor, “Ilongkong
Daily Press]
Dear Sir-The remark made by Herr Hitler, eulogising the herolst of the Japanese for almost twa years and their fight for civilisa- tion in the Far East, is, apart from the gratuitous Insul offered to China, a nation with whom Ger- many is supposedly living in amity, toa utterly stupid even for a Nazi to have made,
PANY will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & If Herr Hitler had been spouting
English.
might have one Co., Ltd. on Friday, the 24th in
thoughts that owing to un error in February, 1939, at 11.30 a.m.
to say "transmission, he meant for the purpose of receiving the heroinism." the reference to elvi- Report of the Directors togethersation being merely sarcastic!
I am. with # Statement of Accounts
Yours (althfully. for the year ended 31st Decem.
X. ber, 1938.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 17th February 1939, to Friday, the 24th Febru Ary, 1939, both days inclusive. By order of the Board of Directors,
CO
C. M. MANNERS,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 30th Jan. 1939.
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Macao. Feb. 2. 1939.
DANCE DISPLAY
[To the Editor. "The Hongkon
Daily Press"]
Str. At about 4 pm. yesterday I went round to the King's Theatre jwo book a seat for the above dis
play.
I was much disappointed to find the house was completely that "Sold On!" and your write up of the Display has considerably" whet- ted my appetite to see the show, If possible.
I feel swe that many other pens ple were obliged to share my dis- appointment. and no doubt they would falh with me in calling on Mr. Gonchareff for an "Encore."---
Yours etc. *TERPSICHORE""
Hongkong, Feb. 3,
C.E.C. MEMBERS RETURN
Admiral
Chan Chek,
Genera:
EDITORIAL
Hello & Goodbye
BY AW HYER
The ups and downs of the travel business are going famous- ly: "Sea Dragon," that beautifully painted junk, due to sall for the San Francisco Fair sets sail this morning about 9 o'clock. Capt. Jack Welch says it is do or die " and away they go with ten members of the crew.
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But commercially, speaking we have bad ships of many nations calling by in the last 48 hours and there have been many visitors arriving and departing.
Empress of Canada
י
Mr. and Mrs. J. Livermore, one of U.S.A.S number one Talpan in BACK HOME FOR some time to the stock business "departed by come аге Mr. and Mrs., D. this motorship for a visit in the Drummond and Miss E. Drummond. South. The de luxe sulte, which is The able Oriental Passenger Re- magnificent on these ships, will be
of presentative
the
Canadian their home during the next six Pacific has been travelling about weeks. the Oriental waters for several
Vacationing are Mr. and Mrs. C. months. However, his last visit to W. Jeffries, Director of the Royal Mana means finis for a while. Observatory. However, we spled Wing Commander and Mrs. H. S. them through our glasses, bat due Kerby came up from Manila to the mob which surrounded them Various people inform us that this at the last moment we could not is the Al aviator in this territory, get a word with them as to destina- but it really goes without saying if tion and length of absence. you know the record.
On business trips are Mr. C. C. Dee and Mr. C. W. Dee, prominent Manila residents. Lumber, bank- ing and many other organizations claim these gentlemen as directors. They are glad to say hello again: however, they will not be here for long.
S.S. Rajputana
NOT MANY PASSENGERS. but those on board had a grand trip down from Shanghai, at least they reported such when they arrived on Friday morning at 7.30 o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Burford and Captain E. Alkman, of the Cana- their youngster, former residents of dian Pacific, came up from Manila. Shanghai, (will now put out their and here will be a grand hello for welcome mat in the Colony. This father and daughter, the latter gentleman, formerly connected with arriving on another vessel.
the Shanghai Waterworks Co. has The very charming and hand-passed through our town many some Mrs. N. R. Applegate came times and looks forward to home- calling to Hongkong for a vacation. hearths in Hongkong." Nothing more. She is staying at the Peninsula "Hotel during her visit.
And so into drydock went the Empress of Canada for two weeks' overhaul.
M.V. Tegelberg MANY WALLA WALLAS left the ship's side at 5 p.m... Thursday
S.S. Conte Verde
FRIDAY MORNING at 8.30 o'clock
!! this sleamer Was Shanghai, safe and sound. Pre- parations were going ahead for the honour to be bestowed on Mr. E. Cock, of the Hongkong & Whampoa
Dock Co.
MOTORISTS IN COURT
Fines For Speeding Offences
Several summonses for traffic offences were heard by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kow- loon Court yesterday. Miss V. Tkachenko. of No. 3, Hankow Road, 1st floor, was fined $5 for leaving her car unattended on. the north side of Saigon Street on January 11
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Captain R. F. Colson, of the R.A.M.C.. Gun Club Hill, who pleaded guilty by letter to charges of failing to produce his driver's licence when called upon to do so by, a police officer and for speeding at 26 m.p.h. through the controlled area in Nathan Road on January 13, was fined a total of $10,
Mr. I. A. Pelham, of the 1st Bn.. The Middlesex Regiment. Shum shut Po. was fined $8 for speeding nt 38 m.p.h, in Waterloo Road on January 11.
A summons against Fr. Dahlman. of 20. Stafford Road, for travelling at 30 m.ph. through the controlled area in Nathan Road on January 11. was adjourned sine die, It, being revealed that the defendant had recently left for Europe..
GUNNERY
PRACTICE
Gunnery Are WIS audible throughout the Colony yesterday when defences on the Island of tested Victoria was extensively
by the military authorities.
Firing practice seawards was carried out from a.m. to 6 p.m.. although; of course, at intervals.
commenced The fring from
from Devil's Peak Fort and Fort Collin- son. Later the guns at Fort Fvan- ley and Fort Davis, the two new forts on the southern side of the island, were brought into action.
West Fort and Stonecutters Is- and also fired during the course of the day.
Chen Ching-yun, and Mr. Chan when this Dutch vessel disconnect-vessel yesterday noon to 53. Flect Street
Many friends gathered on this witness Cho-szu, inembers of the Kusmin-
ed her chain from the baby and the short and impressive ceremony tang Central Executive Committee.
sailed for southern ports and South for this gentlenian when he was returned Lo the Colony from
Africa.
Invested with the Order of the Chungking yesterday after attend
And who did not have a glorious Knight Commander of the Crown ing the Afth plenary session o
time at Mr. R. 1. Moncrieff's fare- of Italy. the CEC, says "Central News."
Hoxumos, FEBRUARY 4, 1939.
ON RESTORING CONFIDENCE
THE LAUNCHING of the new by Lady Northcote on Thursday was a function which must go down in the history of the Colony as one of the features connected
vessel at the Tulkoo Dockyard
with the shipbuilding industry in Hongkong for the good ship Bre- conshire, with a torinage of 10,000 tons, is the biggest ship ever to have been built in Hongkong, ard indeed in the Empire outside the British Isles. This fact. was com- mented upon by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geofry Northcote, Lady who returned thanks for Northcote, and who, in the course of his address, remarked on the steady upward trend of British in- terests in Far Eastern waters.
Admiral Chan Chek... interviewed by the press, holds great hope for the future of China's war of re ststance against Japan. He de clared that the spirit of solidarity and harmony, as displayed in the
LAUNCHES
and No. "4
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1939.
THE STORY OF THE OLD CHINA TRADE
"Kettysols" Exchanged For "Pieces Of Eight Reales"
(BY T, PAUL GREGORY)
THERE IS NO MORE FASCINATING chapter in the his- Time tory of the sea than the days of the old China trade. has cast a halo over those memorable years before 1840 when Canton was the only port open to merchants from the West, and something of the picturesque charm of that vanished epoch still survives In' tradition.
The trade began in the year 1880 when the Hon. East India By Company secured a foothold in the ancient City of Rams. the twenties of the eighteenth century commerce with the West was well established, and placed under the strict. almost paternal supervision of the so-called "Co-hong" of Chinese merchants,” who were the sole authorised, traders with Europeans and others from beyond the limits of the Western Ocean.
came
The foreigners who
to and America. Front the mani- China were from the very begin- fests of old ships, we glean. many ning compelled to realise that details of what were in vogue at their presente was only permitted the time, as such items as these on sufferance. The hauteur dis-attest: played by the mandarins and the "Pearl buttons, Lambskins. Įvory sullen hostility of the Canton and. Lacquered Wares, Tea-caddies, populace, however, seemed only to Tea-trays, "Walters, Bottle-stands, lead them to tolerate any incon- Kittysols (Paper Parasols) venienee as long as trade could Handkerchiefs. Hair Ribbands." be carried on..
Cinnamon and Cinnamon Buds. Black Pepper. Sugar, etc., etc.".
No wonder that the Chinese. of that day characterised the Westerner as an "inexplicable Barbarian who would willingly swallow the spittle of insult provided he were given an"
to opportunity buy Chinese silks, teas and porcelains produce which clearly showed the superiority of China and her culture over these peoples from the West."..
with
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EQUALLY DIVERSE
ASSORTMENT
Silk
and bales
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On the other hand, the Euro-
and pean
American traders brought to China an equally di- verse assortment from their res- pective countries Spanish "ploces of eight reales." and later Ameri- can and Mexican silver dollars." were important items in a ship's cargo, but other commodities of SPIRIT OF OCCIDENT
Interest to the Chinese were casks But it was something more in of ginseng from the woods and
the spirit of the felds of New England. keeping Occident which brought the for- of furs from the Northwest coast
It was an age of of America. eigner to China.
Ginseng. of course, and adventure, of "romance,
of was an especially profitable item great deeds of achievement. The of cargo; for. as it is well known, era of the Empire bullder was at the Chinese esteem the forked hand, and the China trade was rearrot-like root of this plant as the supercall to red-blooded the sovereign' remedy for all- NEW GOVERNMENT youths of Britain, New England, human lils.
and the Continent. The riches of Furs, too, were greatly prized the ancient East were to be "had among the luxury-loving man. well party. This very prominent He was deeply touched and re-
these Four new launches, casting about for the seeking, and never since durins of old Canton, and gentleman certainly had toasters ceived speeches of thanks from the and good wishes a plenty. The Italian Consul-General
and the $250,000 are being constructed for the days of Marca Polo were there brought a range of profits which Who counted it their must have been exceedingly grati- former manager of the Hongkong Captain of the Conte Verde in the the Hongkong Government, it is so many
highest ambition to make fying to the shrewd English and learned. and Shanghai Bank over in Kow-name of the King of Italy.
Two of the vessels will replace journey to the shores of mysterious Yankee sea-captains. Imagine loon found many friends sorry to
Mr. Edward Keller, of Keller & No. 10 Police launch
Cathay.
pelt of beaver, or an otter-skinį sce him deserting these shores.
The ships in which these in- which had been "bought" from Though this big, ponderous gentle Co., returned from a business visit Harbour Department launch. The 1
trepid souls entrusted their lives the Oregon. Indians for sixpence the best of spirits in the North. He was most anxious third will be for use of the Pos
selling in there was a faint semblance of be-regarding the member of this or-
ganization who is ill in the Canossa Office for trans-harbour carriage were of such size as would startle worth of trade-goods ing sorry at his parting.
of mails, while the fourth will be the imagination in the present China, for as much as a hundred Hospital. However, it is only so-long. he
used as a control launch at Ka'day of ocean leviathans; for few dollars, and one has an idea of
extent of "the commerce,." except vessels of the Hon. East the will be coming back to our shores Back home from Shanghai came Tak Airport.
India Company averaged more which succeeded in disposing of after a well deserved vacation. Mr. B. Moller, and his manager Mr.
than three hundred tons burden, thousands of furs every year until The funeral took place at the The very nice Dr. J. H. Mont-R. D. H,, on the Conte Verde.
while many were so small that, the very scarcity of the product Colonial Cemetery yesterday even-gomery of the Matilda Hospital Their journey was all for business.
CONVERSION their successful voyages were in forced the market to be eventually Balfour of Capt. Thomas ing
themselves epics in the history of abandoned. Lau Yat, 32, was charged before navigation. The greater part of
A further Indication of the Robertson, late of the as. Kalapoi,
Edwards at the Central the craft were not even equipped commercial abilities of our great- The Rev. Cyril Brown officiated.
Among those who attend were
Court yesterday with four counts with adequate nautical instru- grandfathers in the China trade of fraudulent conversion of sums ments, and with no Mr. S. T. Williamson, Mr. W E.
European and Kirby and others.
of money to film to pay to the than the stars, a compass, and a amount of old following: Messre, Tin Heng Kee set of maps inferior to those in a American wares which still exist director of modern elementary atlas. they in Chinese homes throughout the Co. Wikle Lum, a
unerring course' province of Kwangtung. Every- Wing On Co., Tai Koon, Tal Wo charted
through the waters of the Seven thing from clocks to bottles of and Wan Kee.
Accused was sentenced to two Seas. Equally amazing was
the snuff may be found. .and these" months' hard labour.
youthfulness of the men engaged (us usually the case with such The money involved totalled in Far Eastern commerce: the things find their way back into majority were still under the age trade via the curlp shop, where of thirty, while a surprisingly large they are "found" by the delighted number were lads not yet out of European resident, who upon his their teens,
return to his Homeland repatriates,
'which his own ancestors exported to
session throughout its meetings was unsurpassed by previous occa- sions.
FUNERAL OF CAPT. T. B. ROBERTSON
and Seamen's Institute, Home China Coast Oncers' Guild Wi- Caplair Lamson and Co., Ltd., and Officers of sa. Chuen Chow, Captain, Officers and Engineers of S 8, Leana, Staff of as, Kalapol 5.3. Halyang, Douglas Steamship Palace Entel and Co., Ltd, and Staff.
Wreaths were seat by "Loving Wife," Mr. and Mrs. 8. T. William- son, T. Ramsay, C, D. Witchell, J C. MacKechnie, A. Benson, Chap- HIS EXCELLENCY said that there
were many who were so pesst-Iain, Manager and Staff of Sallors mistic as to predict that the trend would be moving in the opposite direction In the not distant future but, for his own part, he could not but feel that the launching of the Breconshire was symbolic of what les before us. In keeping with the message he gave the
for COLONY Community AS SNUG New Year, His Excel- AS EVER lency stated that this outpost of the British Empire, though at the very edge of a war-torn country, lies snug and quiet, patiently waiting for the clouds to lift when she will again play the great part he had been doing for well-nigh a century. WVE ECHO His Excellency's sentl-
the
ese hostilities than any other sec-
man was
In
What
Mr. Ruben D. Hill was another arrival, but we no catch'em.
Sea Dragon
Ji
went journeying on a short vaca- tion in this Dutch vessel, and he informs us that several pounds will be added when he returns! about the figure?
WITH MANY good-byes and aloha "Continuing round the world is this American junk of Richard Miss C. E. Marr, of Chicago. An Haliburton's puts to sea to-day for artist, not by profession, this San Francisco. After many trials American lady was extremely sorry and tribulations, a Captain, eight not to be on hand for the "Sleep-seamen and cook go to sea to see Ing Beauty" performance, which what they can see! Happy sail she was most anxious to see.
FORGED RECEIPT
ALLEGED
Ings!
SENT TO THE SESSIONS
Committal proceedings against Abdul Rashid, 21, Abdul Caramat,
1.
FRAUDULENT
Mr.
$55,70.
FINANCE MINISTRY CASE ADJOURNED ·
the
art
other guldet may be
evidenced
from the
Upon the captains and crews of those objects Hsu Oclen, 48, employed by the these China-bound craft were imthrifty. Further Evidence In 20, and Carlos Karier da Crui, 32, Chinese Ministry of Finance, Hong posed many responsibilities which Cathay so many decades before.
fortunately nowadays not on a charge of highway robbery, kong, appeared on remand before are Car Sale Case-
such concomitant factors in ocean AIR MAILS concluded before Mr. E Hims- Mr. R. Edwards at the Centrai sands of Chinese, workers in Hong-
the Kowloon Court Court yesterday charged with fau-navigation. There was the ever-
Due to a delay on the main Em- kong. These people, are, perhaps, Before Mr. R. Edwards at the worth at more affected by the Sino-Japan-Central Court yesterday Ka Bal- yesterday when two witnesses call dulent conversion of a draft for present risk of shipwreck by strik-
scheduled to arrive in the Colony Course through man appeared on a charge of uted for the third defendant were UB. $6.204.92, the property of the ing some yet uncharted reer along Pire route the mall from England
tropical Ministry of Finance. Bail was tion of the Colony for the simple tering, with intent to defraud-
were mira-to-day will not arrive, until Mon- allowed in the sum of $35,000. Mr straits. and if such reason that not only have they
It is alleged that the three ac- Tsang Wan-cheung, a receipt for
culously avoided, there was still day or perhaps Tuesday according Yau Tin-sang,
Peter H. Bin was for the defendant now to keep their own families on the sale of an Austin Car purport- jcused robbed
and Det-Insp. A. L. Hopkins is in the danger of encountering whole to Imperial Airways' officials. The what little money they earn, theying to be signed by Mr. D. Davies, fisherman of Si Kong. of 16 in
fleets of swift pirate vessels mann.Australian mail is on schedule and charge of the case, have also to feed and house rela knowing the same to be forged. Hongkong currency as he was pass-
ed by flerce Malay and Chinese will arrive to-day at approximately tives from the war devastated
Mr. C. A. Sutherton Russ was for ing the hillside by Ngau Chi Wan,
Corsaire. areas in China. And yet have we the defence while Sgt.-Det. H. B. on his way to Kowloon City, on heard even so much as a murmur Dewar conducted the prosecution. January 10. in protest?.
ments and feel grateful that hé should again see it to give the Colony in general this much-need- ed encouragement. For there is no denying that there is an unduly great amount of non-confidenco | THESE are the people who are and defeatism in Hongkong and chiefly responsible for making this more than anything else, is the wheels of industry go round preventing business and trade to and if they can look ahead with a make the strides that fa ours for quiet calm there is no reason for the asking.
the moment is NO REASON "HONGKONG at
FOR playing a very important part in the history of the Far East DEPRESSION though very few people appear to realize this to the full.. Since the Japanese occupation of Canten, up-country business has, admitted- ly, fallen to some considerable "extent" but in other
fields we have been HOLDING able to hold our OUR HEADS heads up and, if
UP only some of our leading business hongs could see the future in the same light as His Excellency, confidently and calmly, there is more to be reaped by all, concerned.
"
some of the leaders of the community to be so depressed about the state of affairs, for nothing be more injurious to the trade and commerce of Hong- kong than a complete lack of con- fidence.
can
THAT IS WHAT we are suffering from to-day 30 it is up to us, one and all, to take heart from Hia Excellency's words of encourage- ment, put our backs to the wall and keep on grinding. War clouds are looming over the world to-day but even more serious threats have
heard.
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Richard Wong, clerk of Glihan Mr. E. da Rocha testifled yester- and Co., gave evidence that the day to having given the third de- car had been traded in November fendant two dollars on January 1937 from Mr. D. Davies. On No-10, and Mr. M.A. Gomes testified to vember 18, Ka Sal-man and John having promised the third defen- Lo, salesman of Gilman's had a dant a letter of introduction for a
rial run and negotiations were job. entered on November 20.
It was The three defendants were com- agreed that defendant take over mitted to stand thetr trial at the the car on a hite purchase basts.
next Criminal Sessions." Defendant paid-550 in the morn- ing and a further $250 in the af- The licence book, was ternoon.
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TRAFFIC CASES
handed to defencant. On Novern- W. Minderhoud was fined $5 by ber 22, witness received a telephone Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central message from Chik Chek-chuen in-Magistracy yesterday for leaving forming that he had bought the his car unattended outside the
Mercantile Bank..
var.
Hau Shau-ching, one of the two office boys in the trust department of the Bank of China, gave evi- dence that most of the letters and documents from the Bank of China
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MORE VARIED CALLS
4 p.m. via Imperial Airways.
A delay in the departure of the China Clipper from San Francisco will make the American air mail
The route generally followed late by two days. It is how report- to the Ministry of Finance, Hong- took the merchant vessels first to ed due in the Colony next Batur kong, were delivered by him to Cape Verde Islands and thence day. The return flight is scheduled Hsu Chien, From August to Sep- around the Cape. Other ships in for the morning of Sunday, tember only one"chip"book was the trade often made more cir-February 12. used during the period.
called at cuftos voyages, and
The weekly service of Air France Chan Sew-chee, translator of Calcutta, Bombay, and Batavia on is due to arrive in Hongkong, on the Ministry of Finance also gave their way to China, and on their Thursday at noontime... evidence.
way back home some months later Further evidences was given by would stop at St. Helena, Ascen-
NAVAL MOVEMENTS island ports. Chong T, ale attendant, and Tingston, and other Taz-long, who supervised the print-Frequently, homeward-bound craft H.M.8. Medway," with eight sub- ing of the Government Bonds and would. make other even more marines, will leave for a southém calls, and it is probable cruise, including Bingapore, on took charge of the accounts of the varied
that no harbour along the route February 8... Ministry of Finance here.
quota The hearing was adjourned to was ever without its
barques, brigantines, and sloops February 7.
engaged in the profitable China
trade.
of
HMS. Grampus has been releas- ed from quarantine, and her "rew Defendant also gave evidense
have returned on board after an Lal Shiu-wing, lorry driver, was
MR, SHAO LI-TZE stating that he bought the car and $20 for driving his lorry along
The cargoes brought from Can-labsence of over three weeks. from John Lo. He used to have Connaught Road West on January
The Kuomintang War Zone ton were as varied # miscellany A case of infantile paralysis and transactions with him before. The 25 without due care and caution.
Political Committee has decided to as may be imagined; for although one suspected case occurred early receipt, alleged to be signed by Mr. Pleading guilty to a summons of appolat Mr. Bhao Li-tze to be its teas, aflks, and porcelains were last month and both officers and Shao, is the staple articles of the Import men were segregated for the In- D. Davies, was also. hafided to de-failing to have full control of his secretary-general. Mr. striking
car in Wongnelchong Road on the metal who was erronemaly trade, there were literally hundreds cubation of the disease. fendant by Lo.
The Grampus will join the Med- The hearing was adjourned to January 25, a-private
car driver reported to have been kidnapped or "other things which were' in" Monday.
demand as chinoiseries in Europe way later, in her southern cruise. Chu Ying, was fined $20.
by the Japanese in Shanghal.
been overcome in the past, last September being me AS HIS EXCELLENCY said, we instance, and it is to be hoped that have always received excellent they will be overcome in the service from the hundreds of thou-future.