THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917.
THE DISAPPEARING
JUNK.
HON. E. S. MONTAGU,
Chinese Forsaking them for Steamer.
His Movements in India.
GENUINE CLUB COURTESY.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
A correopet dens (says the New CHRISTMAS
The Right Hoà. E. S. Montagu, York Outlook) sends us the follow- Secretary of State, and partying interesting account of how a consisting of Lord Donoughmore, group of clubmen are doing their The Chinese junk, that clamer, Chairman of the Committees, bit to help win the war in rather picture que araft which has figur-House of Lords, Mr. U.F. Roberts, & unique fashion: ed so largely in the sea lives of M.P., Sir William Dake, Member "The aristocratic club of a the Chinese, is gradually diasp of the Council of Indis, Mr. Murishing city in central New pearing from the ocean
trade. Saton,, Seotary, Judicial and York bad long been famous for routes. Where there were hand. Pablis Departments, India Office, the number of young bloods who reds of the big, awkward ships Mr. Kitob, Private Secretary, and assembled evety altercoon jus: in cosat-rise traffic, to-day Mr. Pareous, Acaistant Private before dinner for their cocktails #thera BIB bat
Cosens, Secretary, proceeded to Delhi on and every evening for their high- The two resecca given for November 9.
balls. The club was the drink- the decline in junk trade.are the A correspondent of the ing place for the well-to-do men invasion of steam craft and the Associated Press of India who of the city, and no attempt wa losses incurred through brigands. arrived in Bombay, 88 an ordinary made to disguise i'. Recently the Statistics from practically every passenger, by the same vessel as the Federal Government established port in China faraiah ample Secretary of State, says that Mr, a military depot in this city for a evidence that the day of the jonk Montagu and the other members specialised arm of the service, it passed,
of his party all travelled anpre The city club, with laudable The pre junk as applied to the tentiously like other P. and 0.
ptiotiem. immediately "throw largest of Chinese esiting craft is passengers with whom they mixed open its doors to all the com- a corruption of the Portuguese freely on the voyage which was an missioned officers of the service. jance, which in turn was taken uneventful ore. None of the party The lounge-room, the dining from the Malay ajong. The fer allowed themselves to be inter-room, the library, the pool-room- Obinese besta, perbape net en viewed on the subject of their miss are filled every day with men in large as the present day jank, ion. on which Mr. Montage is an khaki. Bat Uscle Sam has issued were the invention of Boikoa.derstood, to have still an entirely an order that no liquor shall be a pious women, who became open mind, bis object in visiting served to a man in coiform, and One of the eight Taoist genii, India being, se already announc the club obeyed the rale to the sccording to the Chinese version. ed in Parliament, to discuss with letter. Not an officer, even in hie This first tost appeared in the the Viceroy and other authorities, private room, could obtain a third century before the Christian official and non-effois!, in this drink. Much sympathy was felt In medieval times the country the beat method of by the civilian club members be Chinese proved adventuroua carrying out the policy announcosuse of the enforced abstinence voyagere, travelling to the Straits ed on September 20th.
of their soldier guests; the Settlements, India and Japan. At
Be hes brought no out and sympathy con took a tinge of one time janks formed the Chinese dried scheme with him and is shame, and finally blossomed deirous of hearing all sides be into a rare chivalry. The mem The few jonka that are still fore committing himself to any tere of the club esid among seen on the trade routes, notwith-one set of proposals.
themselves 'It is bad form for as standing their uncouth shape, It will be remembered as the to be taking oar diiuke in the boge square sails, high stecce, Vioroy has already stated, that presence of these men who are rakish maste and general clamay be sent an invitation to Mr. deprived of theirs. Let us cat it appearance, are picturesque. Chamberlain, when still in office, oat.' So the members of the elab With their bizarre ball, brilliant and suggested that be should voluntarily pledged themselves ly painted to frighten away ses proceed to India this cold not to driok in the presence of devils, fish eyes bulging from weather, and when Mr. Montagu the officers. It may be called the bow; the gingerbread work succeeded to office, Lord Cheime total abstinence by courtesy. For and carvings; the brown and ford transferred the invitation to many weeks now practically no black sails, often speckled with him.
Mr. Montagu is bas merely served to any one in the club, liquor of any kind bss beez Damerous patches; gay colour-
Hying from carrying out what had been pro- although the wine cellars and the the maat top and the half clad, posed to his predecessor. The bar are well stocked. The two almost grotesquely garbed crew secocistion with the mission of bartenders, with their legitimate they present a picture in the two such experienced and respect-occupations gone, have been ed members of Parliament turned to food waiters, and do As early as 1911 the gradual as Lord Donoughmore and Mr. not seem to reeant to change. extinction of the junk trade wae Roberts, also of eo broad-minded The club is just as popular as foreshadowed. Although a cheap an Anglo-Indian administrator as ever, and its members are & transportation, the Sir William Dake, end of so glow of virtue in the feeling that modern steam and gasoline boate trusted a member of the Home they are doing voluntarily what proved, from
commercial Civil Service as Mr. Seton, should Uncle Sam compels their brothers standpoint, superior, and with be guarantee that the in-arms to do under penalty."
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"Air Raid Trophies.
each year the old jank enquiry will be impartially con- bas been supplanted by ducted and that no decision ill steam craft. The Maritime Cas be come to until all sides have) tome Return of Trade and Trade been fally heard. Reports for 1918 show that the No pronouncement of any kind decline in the arrival of sea-going sun be expected for some time Many livra have been risked junke at Tientsin was 30 per cent. and probably not until after the daring the London air raide by. and clearances 29 per cent. se return of the Secretary of State to persons running from emelter to compared with 1915. Similar de England. No particulars of the Pick up pieces of earspel. In elines occurred at Chefoo, and places in India to be visited by and a sailor had a rough scuffie one case in North Lonuna bay other northern ports. While the the Secretary of State number of junks show an increase procurable on board, nothing The former secured it, and while for a formidable piece of metal. Arrivals and "departures in more being known there about the two pursued their search some Shanghai the tonnage has de- the programme, ther has clined.
already been announced by the more shrapnel fell, wounding both of them on the back of the hands..
4
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were
In South China even greater Government of India, but inter- destraction has been wrought in views granted by the Secretary the junk trade, and this was due of State to the members of re- obiefly to brigandege, particularly presentative bodies and other in the Pearl River delta. Preoti- persons of importance will usual- eally all the Commissioners of y be of an informal character and Customs in the South Chins will not therefore be reported. ports, in their last annually Throughout his visit Mr. published reports, refer to the Montagu will act in the closest manner in which the Chicees oo-operation with the Viceroy and junk is giring way to the steam Government of India. vessels. The ability of the steam Yes?!
to escape the pirates,
by virtee of its speed, and
also because of the foreign pro-
Sir John Anderson. Hie Excellency Sir
John
taation afforded it, has led to ita Anderson's condition remains un- being engaged by shippers in changed says a Ceylon mesesge preference to the junke. Mr. of November 23,
George E. Anderson, Consul at
Hongkong, in his report to the
United States Government, states
that the Commissioner at Canton junk. A few Chinese merchanta in his 1916 report shows the still prefax to abip their goods in value of junk trade "passing native style boats, because of the through his officee in that cheapness; but after repeated year was only Tie. 36,000 000, robberies, they find it much more instead of the Tis. 39,000,000 economical to use the steam vessel. of the preceding year. The The passing of the junk is only decrease, he stated, was due what might be expected from entirely to the two_censes men progress and is similar to the tioned previously. The Commis- passing of the old sailing schooner. aioner at " Lappo describes Comparatively few of the old conditions at length and indicates four mastera are seen on the seas that most of the lost trade of the to-day. The greater cargo-carry. port of 1915 was due to brigand. ing, speedier steam craft have age, At Kongmoon only 1,811 superseded the graceful old sailer,, junks cleared that port as com and the faw remaining in the pared with 4,510 in 1915. The trade are principally lumber car- consul farther remarked that the ziere. junk trade was being killed, and although at a higher freight rate, the trade was going to steam
So this piotareeque assemblage of coloured wood and square eails, which looks að though the builders might have begun their A result of the trade going to task in the antediluvian ago, is -foreign style vessels means that it doomed to extinction, like many
will nevar return again in the other things Ching
The sailor ultimately purchased the disputed fragment for 2a.
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