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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY M. 1948.
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suicide upon the signing of the it is my opinion the entry of the Joukiou, Colonel Cheng, and armistice; and this might almost United States into this struggle, Major S. M. Tao. Hon. Major D. have been foretold by those who may spell absoluta dimatar for us. Pudsey is attached to the were aware of the letter written. Our people have little or no mission. last December which we are now knowledge of the American char-
HONOURED BY JAPAN,
able to publish. Mr. Parton haa'acter. - Fou end I have made a The Emperor of Japan, in! kindly sent the Sydney Morning moat careful study of it. What Herald a copy
stuff our publicists and journalists London of Prince Fushimi, has commemoration of the visit to
Hamburg, Dec. 4, 1917,
write abous thair Mammon wor- My Dear Herr Gehimrat.-
ship, their greed, their envy of made the Lord Mayor a comman- You honour me in asking me line-oh, that blessed word discip- Sun and the Sheriffs Officers of other nations, their lack of discip der of the Order of the Rising to express an opinion regarding ina! You and I know that the the same Order. The Order of the probable course of OOT economic policy after the war. idealistic nation on the earth's stowed upon Mr. T. F. Rider." Americans are probably the most the Sacred Tressure has been be- But I cannot do this in any surface. We know that they Chief Commoner, and Sir James! satisfactory or sufficient way would not have entered the lists of Bell, the Town Clerk. within the brief compass of our foes had they had any doubt
letter. All I can do is to jot dow as to the justice of their cause, GOOD WORK BY SALVATION ARMT. a few thoughts that strike me as Nonsense to say that they have
The work of the Salvation
being applicable to the present been influenced by Britain. We Army in Peking at Christmas serious situation. I must say at
once that neither in this city nor are mad not to see where we are, included the feeding of 1,000 of in any other part of the country antagonising America we have and a smaller number in Tientsin and whither we are driving. In the poorest children in Peking. do I find a definite or well-can- done a disastrous thing, a thing and other places. In Tientsin. ceived plan of action for the which will throw its cold shadow Tainaafa and other towns & sub- re-establishment of after-war
vocating which can be adopted without grave misgiving as to ita feasibility. Most of what we read in the newspapers as to our pre- paredness for embarking on brisk trade and manufactures as soon 3.5 peace has been concluded
tions.
economic relations, nothing ad. on our economic life for genera- stantial meal was given to a
BRITAIN'S OPEN DOOR. number of beggars the crippled, ' But if I am concerned about blind and aged ones being spec States. I am still more anxions Ta Tung-fu the prisoners in the our relations with the United ially selected. At Kalgan and.
realise as never before that all tival prepared for them by the about our relations with Britain, gaol were made happy by a fes- is, I fear, written with the the increase in our wealth, all the Salvation Army Officers.
success which attended eur
them.
ROLL OF HONOUR.
was
manifest intention of heartening our people, who are notoriously enterprises in the years before the
Second Lieutenant Camming, ignorant of our actual economic war, ware owing to our intercourse conditions and all that threatens with the British Empire. Her Royal Highlanders, who
home parts, her dominions and killed on Oct. 23, aged 19, was Take, for example, that branch colonies, were freely opened to the younger and surviving son. of commerce with which I am ones I wondered at this gen- Singapore, and of Mrs. Cecil our shippers and traders. Some of the late Mr. Alec Cumming, of supposed to be familiar shipping. What sorry lies has been dished erosity, and even called it folly. Carver of Sutton, Surrey. He yup to our people on this subject. Is it to be imagined for a moment was educated at Uppingham,
One reads of the resounding ham-
that those old relations will where he was in the O.T.C., and, return ? mer strokes of riveters as they
and was gazetted to the Black work at the creation of new levis-
I am not to be supposed, dear Watch last July. He proceeded Herr Geheimrat, as saying one to the front in August. thans for our overses commerce.
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Settin are supposed to be buzzing entered it from some base motives ming, the Black Watch, was 26, Des Voeux Road Central. with shipbuilding. Not long ago t for a moment do I believe in killed in March, 1916, in the one journal asserted that nearly her humankarianism, her alleged relief of Kut. 400,000 tons were almost ready desire to Herate or protect small
for launching. And there is
nationalities. Britain is a greedy
hardly a vestige of truth in say and unscrupulous Power, as all Dover, Falmouth, and Southamp of these statements. Our yards are only working for the navy,
her past history proves, but I am t ton, Gibraltar Malta, and and as for other ships, we have now only dealing with the fact Alexandria, Aden, the Per- not the material or accommoda- that by our conduct of this war, sisu Gulf, Bombay. and tion, and, above all, we have not by the insensate folly of our pan- Colombo, Singapore and Hong- the necessary labour, skilled and Germans and our anspeakable kong-what are they?
Great Press, we have turned her inborn British arsenals, naval bases, dislike of us into a loathing so coaling stations, repairing docks, old, and fierce," and lasting as in which we dare not show our
unskilled.
A CRITICAL FIVE YEARS.
stag. eren
Believe me when I say that our mercantile marine is in a perilous condition. The bill to
tinent, the same in the West re-establish and strengthen it, which is now before the Reich- OFFENCE UPON OFFENCE.” Indies, and in the Pacific. We Consider what we are risking, have not a coaling station of our if passed in its integrity, will show no results We look forward to resuming our own, not a place where we can for at least five years, and it is sea trade. We build our proudest effect repairs. Yet in face of this in these five years, that our fate expectations on this. How are most deadly serious state of
on piling will be most adversely influenced. we to resume it in face of an affairs we go What will not our great maritime Anglo-Saxondom which loathes offence on offence.
But we must beat England, you competitors make of these five and must loathe our presence years-Great Britain, the States, among them? Do our fools of say, no matter what the consequ- Japan? What will not neutrals Chauvinists realise that we have ence. I agree. All I say is that make of them-neutrals who have hardly a port at which our ships whether we beat her or the beats enormously added to their reserve can call, and where friendly us the consequences will be the capital Norway, Denmark, welcome will be extended to them? same disaster to our OTOTUCA Holland? I almost despair when I
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it is perhaps quite as serious. With a hostile British Empire, galled and fretted with our mili- tary success, raging at its losses, hopelessly alienated, how are we to procure the raw material which this Empire alone can apply! You have studied this question, and agreement, You do not believe in the silly assertion that after the war the British markets for raw material will be open to us. Where are we to procure our supplies of jute if not from India? If we are driven from Africa, where are we to seek our full supplies of rubber, palm kernels, and copra?
What a prospect! Within the British Empire are produced countless articles on which we have hitherto relied, and which will be indispensable in the future if we are to swim and not to sink. Wool from South Africa and Australia, spelter, wolfram, mineck, sakala, and endless: zoore. That great Empire is mo}f- contained and we are zół‚and “all- the military victories, and all the wild will-o'-the-wisps about “Hamburg to Bagdad,” will not help us,
. I remain, my dear Geheimrat, etc etc.
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