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THE BOYCOTT.
panies, although partners in the ennotment of thechnoxious regala- tion, have been less affected, partly because tho services which they supply are in the nature of being
It would be well here to recall, in brief outline, the main points of Mr. Chamberlain's proposals which, as we have stated; bave up till now been regarded as part and parcel of the Unionist pro- He who wants to do a great Yesterday's Chinese Commercial
Unlon Meeting. gramme the main plank, in fact. These proposals were that a deal of good at once will never do duty of two shillings a quarter be imposed on foreign corn and any. flour, a five per cent, duty on foreign meat and dairy produce, and,
A meeting of Chinoso was held indispensable, partly bec, u the with certain reservations, a ten per cent. duty on foreign manufac
yesterday at the Chinese Cham-passengers they carry atat from
where tured goods. On the other hand, it was proposed that there be Mr. P. Soffietti arrived back by ber of Commerce in connection fixed. stations,
money certain remissions in the existing duties on tea, Sugar, coffee and the a.. Singan from Haiphong with the attitude which should changing is more conv-niently cocoa. That the policy here outlined involved the imposition of to-day
be taken by the leading business arranged than is possible in the. food duties, is apparent; and it is equally clear that the suggestions
men towards the agitators. About case of a tram-car, which picks up now advanced by Mr. Bonar Law constitute a fundamental divergence
its fares anywhere and every- There were 316 Chinese and thirty merchants were present. therefrom. We are well aware that Unionists were ever on the alert
36 Hindu steerage passengers |
The Hon Sir Kai Ho Kaiwhere. The street trams, however, to deny that Mr. Chamberlain's tarif proposals were synonomous with the taxation of food, and in their eagerness to prove that all from Vancouver by the Empress made a lengthy and vigorous are in some sort regarded as a speech in which he urged the luxury, and on them; accordingly, consideration had been given to the consuming public they were
merchants to stand by the Gov. the full force of the boycott has wont to point to the fact that the scheme also provided for the
ernment. The speech was well fallon. In the initial stages some exemption from duty of maize and bacon, the latter forming the The 8.8: Wakasa Mara brought received and undoubtedly im rowdyism occurred. This was food of some of the poorest of the population and the former being down from Kobe 1,800 tone of pressed all present. The Hon put down without difficulty. But a raw material to the farmers, who feed their stock on it. "But this cargo for Hongkong, and 3,500 Mr. Wei Yuk C.M.C. was also the mot d'ordre to boycott the was a double-edged argument in actuality, for if it be admitted for through transit. that the classes referred to would feel the effect of a duty imposed Hongkong Christian Union. on maize and bacon, then obviously they would also be affected by The Rev. T. W. Pearce will the proposed duty on corn and four. The exemptions specified speak at the meeting of the Hong- were, in fact, tantamount to an admission that the consuming public kong Christian Union at St. Paul's would feel any taxation on the necessities of life, na they obviously College on Monday next at 5,30 would, despite the ingenious arguments of the Tariff Reform school.
A Chinese merchant who atten- pondent was writing the letter There was another point on which Mr. Bonar Lay struck out on an
ded the meeting told a "Tele- which we print to-day, it is plain opposite line to his predecessor in the Unionist leadership, namely A Chinese malo child aged one graph" representative that much that opinion in the Colony was in his objection to the adoption of the Referendum, this attitude year has been found on the fore-discontent was felt among those disposed to be pessimistic. As contrasting with Mr. Balfour's'definito pledge given on December shore at Tai Kok Tsui. Death present at so small an attendance. the "Hongkong Telegraph" said 1. 1910, that any Unioniat Tariff Reform Bill, should be submitted
was apparently due to natural "Only about thirty people recently "British punishments are 10 Referendam before enactment.
turned up," he said," and we had just a laughing-matter to the man causes.
Returned to the Colony.
been expecting a hundred or a who has seen criminals slowly. hundred and fifty. Sir Kai Ho carved to pieces, beaten, burat And la Kai's and Mr. Wei Yuk's specches or starved to death." no ono to listen to them one mination of the Government will could not expect a first class meet with all the warmer result.'
approval, Another Interview.
Not only does the Bill published Another Chinese merchant who on Saturday provide for heavy
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powerful in his denunciations of trams had been passed round," the boycott promoters, and point and the Cantonese agitator, who ed out that all present should is usually responsible fororders of insist on their employees' using this nature, fise no difficulty in the cars on every possible occas making himself obeyed. At the time when our Hongkong corres
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1912.
THE BOYCOTT.
Up to the time of writing, the Chiagas, ommaaily refuse to be enticed by the very generous offer of fras rides on thoitramways. With this fact before us, we would liko to kas low it is that boycott such as the present one, could potiuus for a long, and, what is more, be so systematically observed by all the classes of the native population, were there no organisation "at the back of it all.
The Wireless Scheme. :
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Sudden Death.
Cadets Successes.
Truck Accident.
Gamblers.
Sergeant Gerrard prosecuted even men before Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Court, this morning, for gambling at 16, Cross Street. They were each fined $3, or in default seven days..
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western of residence; so that On the subject of the new there should be compartatively ordinance, he said, “Of course it little difficulty fixing the source from the fact that, in taxed arcas, ing the many reponsible for the will hit the Chinese badly if only of troubles. The principle of hold- rents will immediately be raised misdoings of the few is a simple in order to meet the tax. We are adaptation of Chinese practice,
"With the above points in mind, it was inevitable that there should be, among his own party, dissentients from the new policy
Mr. H. T. Richardson, of the put forward by Mr. Bouar Law, and it is noteworthy that the "Times
"leads the opposition thereto in strongly expressed terms. C. P. R. Company, arrived to-day party were doing a little "side-stepping" on this awkward food trip Home, being accompanied by
his wife. Laxation question. We are sorry that this should appear to be so,
Arrivals. for Unionism has already suffered sufficiently from the indecision
"Among the passengers arriving of its leaders. Nothing can do the party greater harm than fickle n888, and nothing can do it greater good than the pronouncement by the Empress of India to-day. of a clear, outspoken declaration of policy, altogether free from were Mr. and Mrs. W. O. D. Tar-was present at the meeting speaks penalties in cases of undue and Ho Kai's speech. The Chinese hampering of, lawful business and ambiguities. Believing this, we cannot fall in with the attitude of ner, from Yokohama, and Mr. R. most enthusiasticatly of Sir Kai improper interference with, or Commercial Union has, he in-commercial undertaking, but it men like Lord Curzon when they declare that the party could be R. Hynd, from Shanghai. better engaged than in discussing whether a tax should be paid
Govoruor in on barley, corn and oits in the years to come." One thing is sure,
A youth aged 17 years, died forms us, published 30,000 copies empowers the namely, that this is what the electorate will want to know; and if suddenly at 98, Praya East, yes of the rovernor's recent speech to Council to proclaim any ares a the Unionists have not made up their minds before the next General torday, and the body has been the Chinese, and has, in addition, boycotting district, and to levy a removed to the mortuary. Death issued special notices pointing special rate for the compensation Election, it will assuredly go hard with them at the polls...
was apparently due to natural out that the Chinese poor will of persons damnified. The latter themselves be the losers if the proviso reveals a sound appre- boycott continues. This gentle ciation of Chinese natüre and of ture, with reasonable attention to
Among the It is notified that Mr. N. Lan gave it as his opinion that local conditions. The news that tenders are to mathematics has given place to Smith and Mr. C. R. Sayer, patronised to-morrow which, as dency to restrict movements to the the cars will probably be well poorer classes there is a fixed ten- bo invited for the installation in a topsey-turvoy state of affairs Hongkong of a five Kilowatt wherein the importance of mathe-tide to passed to the Not the Winter Solstice, is a special particular district, eastern
tion in Cantonese on 8th Novem-holiday with the Chinese. wireless installation has been re-maties and the physical sciences
bør, 1912. ceived with lively satisfaction in is magnified out of all proportion. shipping and commordial circles. The modern secondary-school boy The matter has so long been wastes his time in u splendidly the hospital from the Yaumati A coolie has been removed to recognised as of paramount im- (but often inadequately) fitted listrict suffering from injuries portance and has been so largely laboratory, and yat can't write a caused by being run over by discussod, that it is unnecessary, decent English letter. He has a truck. He apparently slipped
very sorry to see so severe a law which should at least be under at this date, to paint to the actual emattering of gematrical draw-
come into force though we realise stood if not relished. And in con- need for such an installation. The ing, physiography and hygiene and the truck ran over his beg.
fully the necessity of it. We are clusion it may be said that to (save the mark!), yet is sub- lower-power station, it appears,
doing our very best to help the make the matcontents pay for the is not to interfere with Hong-limely ignorant of his own las kong's participation in the guage. He has a dim notion that
Government."
damage which they conspire to The Free Rides
inflist, without the oumbrousness Empire scheme of long-distance there was once a language called
The Government have to-day of police court proceedings, is far installations, and there is no Latin, but his knowledge of it, reason why it should. The first is nad his realisation that modern
issued a hand bill in Chinese more likely to be effective than essentially a commercial station; English has any connection there-
announcing that free rides to isolated instances of fining or im the second is not; and if the with, are decidedly minus quan- Kallan Mining Administration. Chinese are being given on the prisonment. It is, of course, easy The total output of the Kailan cars and that the tramway Com-to detect the strong hand of Sir new scheme is less ambitious than tities. In course of time he will was anticipated some time ago, become so highly educated that Mining Administration's mines pany are justified in insisting in Henry May in the Bill. His Excel- ait is, at any rato, a doul better he will have no use for education for the week ending 7th Decem-accepting only Hongkong money. leney's record as Chief of Police is
ber, amonated to 38,073.36 tons than nothing at all. It is a pity, at all.
It is early days to talk of the a fair indication that he will nevertheless, that pormission was
and the sales during the period, success or non-success of the plan allow, no trifling where ques» to 32,056.09 toas.
for granting free rides to Chinese. tions of law and order are at stake, not granted by the Home Author-
At Home.
Some of the cars this morning while the condition of Hongkong ities a year or so ago. It could have been no more dangerous
Lady May was "at home" at were nearly full-one or two having in recent months contains amplo Government House then than now, neither could it i
yesterday a couple of outside passengers as proof that the day of strong go- The offices of the Supreme afternoon whon about two hundred well; but these were the excep-vernment does not come a day have been more objectionable. It would have saved the Hong-Court will be open daily from 10 and fifty guests put in an ap- tion. In most cases not more before it was needed. No injus- A very interesting than two or three Chinese passen tico, as our correspondent's letter kong Government the cost of them to 1 p.m. during the Christpearance.
man Vacation which begin on the address was delivered by the gers wore travelling. Nearly clearly shows, is likely to be done plant and installation, for the 24th instant and terminates on Right Rev. Bishop Taylor Smith, every car has been carrying to the Chinese by vigorous mea- reason that a leading firm here was prepared to present to the the 1st January, 1913. (both days Chaplain General to the Forces. soldiers or police, and the line is sures to repress the boycott Colony free of cost, the necessary days when the offices will be en- The
inclusive), except on Public Holi-
- Interesting Visitor. well guarded at various points Hongkong is British territory and
Rev. E. B. Berry
its foreign occupante have a perfect plant and to erect the same on a
B. A., Vicar of Emmanuel We
are informed that a right to demand that Hongkong suitable site to be provided, by tirely closed. the Colony.
Church, Plymouth, is paying a disgraceful scene occurred early coinago shall be used in payments Education in the Colony.
The Church Committee have visit to the colony and will this morning when a Chinese made to them. That stop has al- In the midst of all this boycott J. Kirk Maconhohio has accopted Pater's Church, West Point, at trama.
received advice that the Reverend preach to-morrow evening at St. attempted to get on one of the ready been taken in the Govern- The incident happened ment revenue departments and by induce a peace loving Chinese community to support a cause with strife it is a relief to turn aside the pastorate of Union Church, 6.15 o'clock when he would like near the Corinthan, Yacht Club, some foreign firms. Nothing less to the contemplation of some of Hongkong. The reverend gentle- to meet as many old Plymouth and the car was boarded by a was possible in view of the ap which they have but little sympathy, and we venture to say that by the speeches made at the prize- man, who has been for 20 years friends as possible.
number of Chinese who literally pallingly inchoate condition of distributions in the various a Congregational minister in the far the larger portion of the Chinese population in this Colony would schools of the Colony, The Go- Manchester district, will leave Empress Boat Goes Alongside. hauled the man from the car and Southern. Chinese currency" and "
The C. P. R. s.s. Empress of then proceeded to pummel him the uncontrolled confusion to-day be glad to feel at liberty to ride in the trams, were it not vernor threw in a remark at one of England in February, entoring India went alongside at Kowloon lustily. Although whistles were wrought by the Cantón mint fear, and were the word passed to them from the proper quarter that these the other day which overy upon pastoral duties here in on her arrival to-day instead of blown, and. Police Station No. 21 On such considerations as those
Hongkong Britisher will cordially March next.
taking up an anchorage. We un- is only two blocks distant, it is it is the more important to lay endorse. It was to the effect that, in the colonies, we are apt to pay
derstand that the reason for this stated that no policeman appear-stress, in that it is not only from Mr Edgar Warwick is confident too much attention to educating that his production of Court al proceeding is that the shiped. The man who was so roughly the Cantonese agitator that pro- has an exceptionally heavy cargo handled managed to drag himself tests against the Hongkong natives and too little to teaching Cards, and their Joker," which and that, in order to save time, up a side street, the mob of Government's action may be ex- our own people. As things are will appear at the Theatre Royal she went directly to wharf No. 3. Chinese yelling and hooting all pected. The interference of well- at present there are many Hong on December 31st, will prove most The Empress is to be overhauled the time."
but meaning kong parents who feel oblig amusing to the theatre going prior to next steaming from
ill-instructed "human trains" is unfortunately Shanghai Paper's Views. to send their children members of the Colony. Miss be educated (and Maude Fane, as the Queen of
Hongkong.
It is gratifying to find that the far-reaching; and while it may many more, who, having children Hearts, is said to be most captivat In addition to the talented words the boycott is warmly en- prepared for censure in certain attitude of the Telegraph" to be believed that Sir Henry May is The speech which Mr. Bonar Law, leader of the Unionist party at Home, will not bring them out fagand Mr. Warwick himself, as Howard Sisters, who still maintain dorsed by the "North Chins quarters, it is of the utmost mo- made at Ashton-under-Lyne on the tariff question is of far more here) simply because an exclu- the Joker, has a great reputation their remarkable popularity at Daily News" in a recent leader. meat that sentiment unrestrained than passing significance. It was a distinctly new policy that hesively British bettor class school as a keen humourist.
the Victoria, Mesara Ramos and Our contemporay says:-
by justice should not be allowed enunciated, or rather hinted at, and inasmuch as it diverges sharply does not exist in the Colony.
The news that the Hongkong to weaken his administration. from the very concrete proposals advanced some seven years ago by Ample provision is made for the Enquiry at the Post Offico this Ramos have secured the services Mr. Joseph Ohamberlain, and since adopted by the Unionist party sons of Chinese; then why not morning elicito, the statement of Miss Nellie Maher, a pretty Government is taking drastic Since the beginning of the Revolu as a whole, it need occasion no surprise that a very considerable for those of Britishers? that the Christmas mail that little Australian soubretto. Both measures to put a stop to the boy-tion Hongkong has been regard- division of opinion has manifested itself among the speaker's Education and Fads.
arrived on Thursday and was she and the Howard Sisters cott of the Tramway Company ed as an asylum for refugees- followers. We say "hinted at" because a close examination of the And talking of odeation re- delivered yesterday was quite received tremendous applause at must be received with entire of all classes, some, respectable utterance will show that Mr. Bonar Law himself does not definitely minds us that, nowadays, there formal, about fifteen hundred at each of their turns last night. satisfaction. For upwards of Chinese flying from depredation; pledge himself one way or another on the matter. To be specific, seems to be as much faddism and parcels in all arriving. It is Miss Mobór should have a very three weeks, that is from about too many, ruffians and wastrale of his speech was not without a paradoxical element, for whereas he quackery in the scholastic world expected that the English mail successful season here. The one week after the regulation the least desirable class. Not opens with a declaration that when the Unionists are returned as in the religious and the modi- that is due to arrive on Thursday films showing are exceeding good against the use of any but Hong-three weeks ago Mr. H. E. Pol to power they "do not intend to impose food duties," he follows cal. The form of education which week will be much heavier, for and include "It is Written kong coinago in the trama and lock in the debate of the Legie- this up with a qualified observation that. "if the Colonies do not put backbone, refinement and there have been number of people Powerful melodrama in three ferries had been put into force, the lative Cuncil on the Estimates, desire such an arrangement, there will be no food duties," and further breadth of views into the British who have been advised from parts, and two splendid comics trams have been running practi- condemned the inadequacy of the cally empty of Chiness. The Star twenty men by which the police says that if any readjustment be necessary, he hopes it will only middle and upper classes a good Home of parcela en route which "A moonlight
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Forry and Peak Tramway Com force was to be increased, and it 'grounding in classica and litera did not come in thin last delivery,
This boycott is well organized; this "org snization" will be bro ken, whether gracefully or not will depend on the organizers and their supporters, and the orders issued from their head quarters, be Ithey here or elsewhere.
The boycott must be broken, will be broken.
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How is it possible for this" organization" to compel such obedience to its mandintos? By threats of a sound thrashing and even of death. It is four that does it, foar; for nothing else will
it was safe to do so. That is the point; from the proper quarter.
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Fear; what is it? It is that all potent factor, so prominent in the lives of all, that some one has been impelled to say for us, "Thore
s no Hell but Fear".
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