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CENTENARY BROADCAST:
GOVERNOR REVIEWS. ASTONISHING
GROWTH OF COLONY IN PAST 100 YEARS
Is Anglo-Chinese Affinity Praised: High Hopes Held For Post-War Development
"PERHAPS THE MOST STRIKING "THING ABOUT THE UN- DRED YEARS GROWTH OF HONGKONG IS THE ASTONISHING PACE AT WHICH IT IS STILL GROWING AND EXPANDING. AND ITS COMPARATIVE PROSPERITY IN A STRICKEN WORLD; THAT, IN SHORT, IT IS STILL A LIVE, VIGOROUS AND GROWING, OR- GANISATION," SAID HIS EXCELLENCY THE ACTING GOVERNOR,
·LIEUTENANT-GENERAL E. F., NORTON. C.B., D.S.O.. M.C., IN A BROADCAST ON SATURDAY NIGHT WHEN HE OPENED THE SPE- CIAL CENTENARY BROADCASTS ARRANGED BY ZBW.
Continuing. His Excellency said: In reviewing the progress of Hongkong during the last hundred years I like to think of Hongkong as it was a century ago, arid In so doing. I conjure up a picture not unlike that of Lantau today. I know second-hand something of what it had begun to look like twenty-five years later after a quar- ter of a century of surprising progress.
ST. JOHN'S "U"
PRESIDENT
RESIGNS
After about 50 years continuous service, Dr. F. L Hawks Pott. President of St. John's University, an American missionary institu- tion in Shanghai, will resign from his presidency as from Feb. 1 on account of failing health, accord- ing to a Shanghat report
His resignation, it is under- stood. has been accepted by" the Board of Directors of the Univer- sity. At the recommendation Of the Board,
GENERAL
UNITED STATES WARNED OF PACIFIC MENACE Compromise With Japanese Precluded By Hull Speech
CHUNGKING, Jan. 19 (Reuter)-The "bombshell speech" of .. Mr. Cordell Hull, United States Secretary" of State, before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee which is examining the Lend and Lease Bill, was featured under banner headlines in the Chinese press in Chungking yesterday.
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Most newspapers received the speech too late on Friday for comment but the Takungpaʊ, in a short lender, terms it “most. penetrating." The menace to America is greater in the Pacifie than in the Atlantic, the paper points out. Japan has already reached the mainland of south-east Asia and has begun to in- cinde the Netherlands East Indies, Indo-China and other passes- sions in the greater East Asla prosperity bloc." If Britain should be allowed to an Acting Chinese fall Japan will grow even more President in the person of Mr. Wm. ruthless and would become Z. L. Sung has been appointed. menace to American security it- The office of the Chancellor has self. also been created and the Rev. "We hope the isolationists will Francis A. Cox has been appointed sec a little Turther after this to serve in that capacity.
speech," the paper concludes. Dr. Pott, who is 75 years of age Under the heading "Hull delivers now, 'first arrived in China in another biow to, Japan" the New November exactly 50 years ago. People's Dally describes Mr. Hull An ardent educator, he has won as even more blunt than President much respect and goodwill from Roosevelt. many Chinese. He will be known
the
News).
Need I emphasise the contrast once more after another seventy- five years with the Hongkong of today, with its harbours, its dock- yards, its hospitals and social services, its university and schools. its industrial and banking organisations, its great shipping concerns, and that latest and newest development to be seen in the mass of factories and businesses so strikingly represented in the recent Chi-
ol Think again of the Happy Valley of today nese Trades Exhibition? with itsyRace Course and playing grounds, of the swimming clubs, and of all the facilities for these games and sports at which the young Chinese of Hongkong 'loday take
British who have taught them to beat us at our own games.
Perhaps the most striking thing years to come, and I believe that about the hundred years' growth we must inevitably be in for a pro- of Hongkong Is the astonishing longed period of peace and of the pace at which it is still growing arts of peace.
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If this proves to be the case,
COMPROMISE POSSIBILITY
BUDGET FOR OVERSEAS CHINESE EDUCATION
An
For the promotion of Overseas Chinese education the Commis- sion on Overseas Affairs has in- creased the budget for the cur- as President Emeritus after his His remarks precluded any pos. rent year to $1,200,000 as com- resignation and will continue
to ability of a Japanese compromise Pared with $200,000 last year, ac- live in Bt. John's campus where a with America.
cording to Mr. Chen Bhu-jen, new residence was recently built
Admiral- Nomura, the new JapChairman of the Commission. for him by a prominent alumnusanese Ambassador to the United
Overseas Chinese Middle institution. (Central States, now on his way to Wash. School, Mr. Chen sald, was estab
ington in the hope of achieving lished last year at Paoshen, Yun- something of that nature.
winan.
accommodate Chinese find als schemes have been nulli- įstudents returning from abroad. fled
The present enrolment is more Till recently Japah could still than 400. hope to ease the tension with An Overseas Chinese Teachers America is is now impossible. Training Glass was opened од Instead moving southward as January 15." There are now 40 she Intended Japan must now students. After five months' train-
the different overseas Chinese schools
to teach.
JAPAN'S
5-YEAR- PLAN FOR
to
FARM LAND wait hoping that time will bringing, they will be sent to the
and expanding, and Its compara- INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION tive prosperity in a stricken world; that, in short, it is still a live. what may not be the Hongkong The Japanese are reported to vigorous and growing organisation. of a hundred years hence? We have drawn up a 5-year plan for To what is this vigour due?
ll know what happened to Eng-developing North China
son
"
agricul-
s solution of her difficulties. 'paper concludes
JAPAN WATCHED Washington is watching with
the
DEEPER CONCERN Since the outbreak of the Sino-
affairs
In discussing the industrial pre- land, when after the Napoleonic tural fand. eminence of London today it is wars Europe settled down to a long In accordance with this plan a interest matched by its calmness Japanese hostilities, the National often said by the geographers and peace and the industrial revolution North China Agricultural Land Japanese reactions to Mr. Cordell Government, Mr. Ohen asserted, economists that this pre-eminence began with its astonishing in- Development Company is being Hall's statement before the For-
has shown deeper concern over the conditions of the overseas is due to the geographical position fluences on the development of the; of the Port of London with its Empire. There seems to be signs organised jointly by six Japaneseign Affairs Committee of
House of Representatives.
Chinese. Measures for the protec great facilities set squarely on the of something like the beginnings China Industrial Company. the companies, Including the Japán-
It is noted that under the via.. tion of the overseas Chinese have trade routes connecting Western of an Industrial Revolution In
lence of that reaction there is no committee has been organised by been promulgated and a special Nortb Ching Communications Europe with the rest of the world, Hongkong, the reflection of all
Company, the Mitsui Bussan Japanese reply to Mr. Hull's ar and particularly with the Western those new influences which are
the Commission on Overseas Hemisphere. But I have been told making themselves felt in young Kaishs, Ltd. and the Mitsubishi guments except a repetition of the
Shofi Kalsha. Ltd. Capitalised at statement that the United States Affairs and other organisations that there is perhaps another rea-China of today.
concerned to misunderstands Japan.
undertake 20,000,000 yen tentatively. the for the fact that London A Hongkong which is no less an
In so far as there is comment pertaining to the relief, employ- is the financial and trading cap- entrepot than London and, in ad-Company will have its head office
ment and investment of overseas matter in Washington ital of the world, and this is ditfon. achieves something of Lon-in Pelping and branches at Tùng-
Chinese returning to China.—(Cen- devotes most at- that an Englishman's word is as don's industrial pre-eminence chow, Chunilangcheng Tientsin. and the press
tention to more important mat-
tral Newe good as his bond, and that we are might present to us as startling Kaifeng and Tsinan.
ters in Europe) it is that a fatetu albeit non- a contrast a hundred years hence The Company is expected to Dr
decision rests with Japan-whether military race, first and foremost a with the Hongkong of today as established in mid-January.
to extend the war to the Pacific nation of shopkeepers.
does the latter with that almost Meanwhile, a Japanese MAGNIFICENT HARBOUR uninhabited island, the Hongkong poly has been instituted over the or discreetly to refrain from it
Reports distribution and marketing of the
reaching Washington Can we not trace an analogy of a hundred years ago.
trom the Far East indicate Japan with Hongkong Here
IN HINDUSTANI
rice produced at Blaochan near keted in Pelping and Tentsin- cially the United States attitude function point of sea communica- Here I should like in parenthesis Central News)
and the speed of her rearmament. tions between China and the rest to say a word to the Indian troops!
JIU-JITSU D.PLOMACY
though
martial, น
we have
mono-
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the same magnificent barbour His Excellency here interposed a Tientsin It is principally mar-15 watching events keenly, espe- facilities admirably situated at a few sentences in Hindustani:-
One writer yesterday pointed
of the world, particularly with the and the Indian community "In struggle that she once enters upon,, West. But here again there is Hongkong. They are in a sense no matter how long such a strug-out that it "would be difficult to perhaps a similar alternative "ex-fellow countrymen of mine-for Igle may last or how great the over-estimate the importance to planation. In building up the have spent nearly half my service sacrifices that may be necessary, or Japan of knowledge about the prosperity of Hongkong two great as a soldier in India, much of that what the means that have to be speed of American rearmament nations, the British and the Chi-period in the North. though I know employed; and all this even though and how much is to be shipped nese, have closely cooperated: may every province of the Country, the actual military equipment at overseas because Japan is "su- not something or the same quall- have thus come to regard India as hand may be utterly inadequate premely opportunist." ties that have made. Lendon my second home and, having a when compared with that of other qualities shared by those two races wife and family in that country,nations:"
ago
Her diplomacy is described as of the lu-tsu variety-yielding the -have made Hongkong as well? I have a fellow feeling with all In- I wonder how many of my force when she must, only to I know that seventy-five yearsį dians in Hongkong and particular-listeners tonight can place the catch her opponent of balance
the British merchants orly with those whose families are origin of this quotation-These later. Hongkong could always do, and left behind in India.
words were written by Adolf Hit- This theory is "supported by to liked doing, business with the Chi- I have watched with pride shar- ler in Mein Kampf. I hope that ferences to the Twenty-one De- nese, in whom they found much ed I know, by all Indians" in Hong- he will yet learn how true, a pro-mands which would have made the same straight dealing in trade kong the achievements of the phet he has proved in this respect chma a Japanese dependency and which they themselves belleved fri. Indian troops in Libya: I have at least.
In my own experience there is a greater affinity in matters
of social and business inter- course and less hidden reserva- tions between British and Chi- nese than we British can trace in our dealings with most other nations, even though these may be apparently much more nearly racially akin and mem- bers of the same Aryan-speak- ing stock.
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. H.K. WAR EFFORT
to Japan backing down when the United States caught her in the act, only to renew her aggression in 1931, when she found foreign opposition weak.·
OFFICIALDOM`IRED
watched the great efforts India is making to expand her share in To this end Hongkong has help every department of the Empire'sed, and is helping,, but we cannot war effort and it has been a great say that we are doing our full duty pleasure, to me to find Indians until we have thrown 100 per cent. playing, so large and so important of our resources of men, money;
role in the defence of and in the and industry into the battle. Meanwhile the incoherent anger civil administration of Hongkong. Great strides are being made to of the Japanese press is taken by I feel sure that Indians in Hong-achieve this, and if we out here Far Eastern circles here as an kong realise no less than the vast feel ourselves sadly out of the ple- indication that Japanese official- majority of Indians in India that ture, as many of us do, (well, Idom has been stung to anger by the cause for which the British | know it)" we can only console our-Mr. Hull's frank statement of the Empire is fighting is no less the selves with the thought that this American view of Japanese aggres- I suggest then that the Hong-cause of India and that anything war is being fought no less in the jesion in the last nine years. kong of today owes much of its short of the victory we are deter-workshop and on the ocean trade Statements in the Japanese greatness to a happy combination mined to achieve would be no less routes, than on the battlefields on preas are taken as a clear indica- between the people of these two a disaster for Indla than for England and in the air. For the motion that there is little under- great nations, both of whom hate land.
HAPPY COMBINATION
war (though both are prepared to nght stubbornly when they have
tó) and both of whom are traders cellency sald
ment we can do two things only. standing there of America's post- - UTOPIAN DREAMS
We sat do the job that lles imme-tion that nothing must stand in Continuing in English, His Ex-diately at our hand, and do it with the way, of measures deemed es- Ji all our might, and we can prepare sential for self-defence, and it is by Instinct, sharing certain coin-! But before Indulging in topian to defend ourselves against all-recalled that Japanese. officials mon qualities which make for con- dreams we have Arat to win this comers should the need arise. and the press have repeatedly and fidence and success in trade. war in which we have so far Let us then close our ranks, for distinctly threatened the United
When our present troubles are fought, but the Arst round. To get our own troubles, disappoint-States. over-past I am no believer that many mention at our hopes and ments and grievances: let us make
the
back on our part in the war with
the golden age will get in, or that fears in this wat today is to neglect our maximum contribution to the U.S. AIR BASES IN the nations of the world will es-he one great subject which is in- Empire war effort even if is not chew war. I am reluctantly com- evitably uppermost In all our s spectacular one. So when the ST. LUCÍA · ISLAND pelled to believe that "dogs delight thoughts. Well, let me give you a day of victory comes we can inok to bark and bite for 'tis their quotation:-
WASHINGTON, Jan, 19 (Reuter) nature to" and that men are
"England has always had the just pride, and we can start Hong-It was officially announced yes- same. We shall never abolish war armbent which she needed. She kong worthily on its next hundred terday that the United States is of one has always fought with those years of prosperity and greatness, constructing both landplane and atever weapons which were necessary for. Others who broadcast were the seaplane bases on St. Lucia Island of the sbccess ...... Tenacity in her Gov- Postmaster-General, 8 Robert in the West Indies, for which the sent war eriment as well as in the spirit Kotewall, the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, United States and British Govern- to make war of the broad masses, enables her Mr. C. B. Brown and Mr. C. Pments have reached an agreement ale for saty to carry through to victory any Morris.
lun the question of siten
But at least I feel sure
thing, and that is that,
their inclinations
participants in the
will be in a position
again on a serious
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