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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Consular Buildings.
Replying to a question on the Vote for Consular buildings in the Far East, the Home Govern ment spokesman intimated that the operations were being carried out as economically as was cont mensurate with the dignity of our position. As over £120,000 is
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
WHEN THE WILL OF MAN, 18 RAISED ABOVE LAW IT IS ALWAYS TYRANNY AND DESPOTISM, WHETHER IT IS THE WILL OF A OR OF BASTARD BASHAW PATRIOTS-Noah Webster,
SUN YAT SEN'S INAUGURATION.
This was not the only narrow sum placed upon the refugee's escape, for there was in enormous head, but space does not allow of further details,
Legation portera stated that they had never heard of such a person as Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Happily, For the Second Time Proclaimed “President of China,” there was one power with which the_Legation plotters had not AN OUTLINE OF HIS LIFE-STORY.
[reokoned with. The British Fress proved to be Dr. Sun's saviour. Before the mass of seething Whether or not to-day, which political. How the attempt to indignation aroused by publicity, witnesses the formal inaugura- Capture Canton and its arsenal Idiplomatic niceties were swept tion at Canton of Dr. Sun Yat- failed is a matter of history. Of away at a stroke. sen as "President of the Chinese the eighteen prominent members Jarvis, of Scotland Yard, called
Inspector.. There was a clean bill of health Republic," is destined to become of the society seventeen were be- at the Legation with a significant a turning-point in the history of, headed. Sun, was the only ment-noto, and Dr. dun drove safely to be expended in respect of three in the Colony yesterday.
the sons of Han, there cannot bar of the original "conspirators" away in a cab.. Consulates, we ought to cut a
well be any question that the left, had to flee the country. tolerable appearance. Tientsin Madam Lottie Gordon's con-new titular head of the great takes the biggest slica, with cert which was to have been given nation that spreads over Eastern Japan, and thence to Honolulu The reformor went first to £55,515 for the acquisition of a on May 12 has had to be post-Asia is a distinctly remarkable and the Inited States. Dr. Sun, site and the erection of a new poned.
man. At present, up at Peking, it may be mentioned, came under Consulate, the present building
President Heu Shi-chang is still the ban of the Colony in con- having been condemned upon
carrying on, and he has the ad- hygienic grounds. If the Govern To-day's issue of the Canton vantage of being in possession, While in Japan he wrote inquir: ment's expectation that £37,500 will be obtained for the present Times is in keeping with the de-which the adage says is nine site is anything like realised, the corations in the city from whence points of the law, and at any rate 108 whether he would be allowed not outlay will be reduced to com-flag of the Chinese Republic and recognition by the Powers. Dr. candidly replied that if he re- it is published. A large coloured carries the practical benefits of tortura with immunity, to which Hongkong's Government paratively modest dimensions. Canton comes in for £42.000 photographs of Dr. and Mrs. Sun's sway is at present restrict- of which £22,000 is for rebuilding Sun Yat-sen embellish the fronted to the South, and it is turned he would be handed over
to the Chinese Government.. the Consul-General's house, page, which ought to become an agree-
DRAMATIC ESCAPE FROM THE able abode, while £20,000 in
LEGATION IN LONDON. allotted to the robuilding of the
The owners of two cargo boats his writ runs beyond the borders
Kwangtung, if as far Proceeding to London he had Coneular offices and staff quarters. and the steersman of a passenger of
that. Kwangsi. indeed, one of the narrowest escapes of In this connection it is explained boat were fined $5 this morning as
been falking of his chequered career, for it was that "sovere floods swept off at the Marine Court before Lt. has many of the Shameen buildings." Conway Hake, R.N.R., Marine another resort to arms, but has then that his secret arrest (..
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uncertain how much of that area acknowledges him. At the moment it is doubtful whether
nection with these activities.
After various adventures, camio the great overthrow of 1911, when
the Father of the Republic, as Dr. Sun was named, saw his hope rapidly coming to fruition.
On December 14th 1911, Dr, Sun was at Ponang with Pr. Wu Ting-fang and Kang Yu-wei directing the campaign in China. In November 1911, Dr. Bud was named as probable President of the now Republic. Then came the inevitable dissension between "moderates" and extremists. Yuan Shih-kai was offered the Presidency, but did not take it.
An armistice between the arrived at. Dr.
& CO., LTD., They appear to be well posted in Magistralt for going alongside apparently been deterred some-kidnapping) and detention at the
Legalion, and hisfactions was
HONGKONG.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1921.
THE LESSON OF CANTON.
it
in hie turn
been much
to Shantung, his visit almost
months.
The Hyder Brothers' Records.
EARLY YEARS.
2.
Manchus declined to abdicate
Between Ourselves
London concerning happenings the Yangteekiang without the what by Dr. Sun's resolute com- Chinese in South China. But when was permission of a Police Officer be- portment. Abroad the Canton dramatic escape therefrom, oo-Sun Yat-sen went to Shanghai the Shamcen devastated by these fore the ship had been examined regine has not met with success curred. The wife of one of the
on December 26th, and was made by a Police Officer.
so far; only the other day the English servants in the Legation President of sovore floods ?
the Provisional United States refused to recognise sent a note to Dr. Cantlie appris- Republic on December 29th, Dr. Sun's emissary. Buting the English physician that In January he issued a stirring Wo learn that Mr. J. W. Wood,
changes Chinese Envoy in England. at present employed in the Royal politics. China, for centuries the and that if he was not liberated pleased the whole world. The bappen quickly in his friend was in custody there, manifesto of policy that The exchange of complimente Navy Victualling Department at land of stagnation, has had a glut soon he would be sent back to between the Chinese Envoy, Chu Kowloon, has been granted a per- of political permutations during China, where he would suffer and on January 25th., with Yuan Chi Chion, and Mr. Fisher, the manent regular commission with the past decade; and the man capital punishment.
and party still dissatisfied, the British Minister of Education, the Border Regiment in the rank who has to-day beon proclaimed The note reached Dr. Cantlie's armies were moving again. It appears to have waxed enthusias of Lieutenant with seniority from President at Canton doubtless house at 11.30 p.m. on the night was then that Sun Yat-sen proved tic, not to say effusive. Mr. Fisher July 7, 1917. Mr. Hood served hopes (for Dr. Sun is nothing if of Saturday, October 17, 1896. A his greatness. Yuan Shib-kai declared that the British were with the Border Regiment during not an optimist) that the develop-ring at the door-ball brought him was offered the Presidency again, greatly attracted to the Chinese the war and gained the D.S.Oment thereby consummated will from his bed. He found no one for the sake of peace, and was by the latter's art, moral teach- and M.C., in addition to attaining mark the dawn of another and at the door, but observed and took formably elected, Dr. Sun being ing, religion, honesty, simplicity, the temporary rank of Major. more durable change.
up the letter which had been push-named Vice-President. and absence of pretence." One
Thus for the second time ined in below the door. Dr. Cantlie The National Assembly at fools constrained to speculate A Chinese recently returned his dramatic career has Dr. Sun had great difficulty in getting any. Nauking paid him this tribute. upon whether the Envoye from Panama was this morning Yat-sen been proclaimed Presid-one to believe his story. He "Such an example of purity of cars began to tingle before this fined $200 by Mr. R. E. Lindsellent of China.
went to Scotland Yard, but was purpose is unparalled in history, Canton is witnessing a unique happening to-day recital of virtues had boon com- for illicit possession of two re-
told to go home and keep quiet. It was solely due to your Sun Yat-sen or Sun Won, as They could do nothing in the magnanimity and modesty, Doctor Never before in its history has it been the venue of a ploted. After such a panegyric volvors and 311 rounds of amn- Presidential election and the ceremony of inaugurating the Envoy to reciprocate, which found in the false bottom of a trymen, was born on the Chinese them. Finally, however, he got
was manifestly "up to" munition. The contraband was he is known among his coun- matter, as it did not concern Sun, that northern China was Sun Yat-sen as the constitutional head of China's he did quite handsomely, affirm box. Defendant frankly admitted mainland between the city of in touch
won over to republicanism." with the Foreigh Later his railway and other constitutional Government" is one that few would have ing
that be that the concealment of the arms Canton and the Portuguese Office, and Dr. Sun in due course economic schemes left him under a few years ago.. Yet the story of had
impressed was to hoodwink the police. He, colony of Macao, some. thirty was liberated. That bare state something of a cloud. thought likely even Canton's full secession from the north is but the story of by the genuis of the English however, had no intention of miles south of Hongkong. His mont conveys no idea of the time of the attempled restoration At the people, and avowing himself an using the arme in Hongkong. Mr. father was B .convert to thrilling character of the episode. of the Boy Emperor, Dr. Bun China's inevitable disintegration, due to her inability to ardent admirer of British institu- Lindsoll ordered the conditional Christianity, and was a mission- Hurrying to the Foreign Office reappeared to demand the re- practice the elementary principles of government. The tions. Allowing some discount confiscation of the arms for three ary agent under the London Dr. Cantlie was informed that
convocation of the dismissed Canton situation has its own interesting story of intrigue, for the occasion--a similar inter-
University Society. An English nothing could be done because it Parliament, which had been pro- lady connected with the mission was Sunday. A Judge was asked porly elected; but the military of the unscrupulous exploitation of opportunity, and of the change of amenities occurred
interested herself in the lad, and to issue a writ of hubes corpus leaders refused, and appointed a unchallenged dictatorship of the military party, but for during the Envoy's stay in France a few days previously-ground
San was well-grounded the moment it would be well to put all that aside and remains for believing that the HONGKONG ATHLETES. English.
in against the Legation, but replied parliament of their own. The old At the age of point-blank that he could not Parliament came down to Canton. attempt a study of the conditions that have brought about tributes stand for something more
eighteen he became attached because of the extra-territorial Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Dr. Wu Tang- When than commonplace platitudes.
to the such a cleavage in the ranks of the same nationals.
hospital ot the privileges enjoyed by diplomatists. fang and others of the old revolu- a country has two Presidents, one in the north and one in As to the concrete purposes of
Anglo-American Mission at Cau- Dr. Cantlio even appealed to Lord tionary guard with them. After ton, then under the direction of Salisbury (the Premier) and the sundry the south, and when-civil wars (even inter-Provincial wars) Chu Chi Chien's missic., little
vicissitudes Dr. Sun Dr. Kerr, and was deeply inter- Foreign Office
was prevailed threw out the militarists, from are more frequently being waged than not, one has to look has been heard at present. In a general sense it has been in-
ested in medicine and surgery upon to station for a cause a little deeper than the schemings of animated that the Envoy will
detoc- Kwongsi and returned at the ond The Hydor Brothers, who are consult with the British authori- shortly leaving Hongkong for At twenty years of age be wont tives near the Legation, but, of last year to take up his tasks opportumist.
answer to inquiries, the again. The Central Government in Peking, ever since the ties upon Chinese problems, Shanghai to take part in the Far to Hongkong to prosecute his in
studies in the newly-opened Eastern Oplympiad which takes overthrow of the monarchy in 1911, has signally failed to doubtless with special reference place in the northern port from College of Medicine, the work Sir James govern. What was thought at that time to be evidence of synchronising with the imponding May 30 to June 4. have records of Dr. (now
whom the student an awakening democracy has in practice proved to be but Dominions Conference, at which which wall merit their choice for Cantle, a scramble among the powerful families that formerly the question of tonewing the this international event. They there met for the first time--the long friendship, which prompted Sir James to surrounded the throne. Political and military notables have Anglo-Japanese Treaty comes up are both past pupils of the Anglo-prelude to
for discussion. It may be, too, Indian School and St. Joseph's vied with each other for power, not because they were that the Envoy, who shows an College and are members of the write a biography of the Chinese reformer under the title of "Sun imbued with patriotism or a desire to help in the needed interest in education, will take up Indian Recreation Club, the
Yat-sen and the Awakening of Aye, civilization's a wonderful pair of pants. Now it would appear remodeling of their country's social and political systems, the subject of oversea students Moslom Club and the United
China."
thing. I daresay very few of that every fidgeting Fijian wears but because of personal gratifications and benefit. The and the proposed Anglo-Chinese Athletic Club
After five years' study at ye take in the Surg Times? I cotton trousers and those who B. A. Hyder won the history of Peking since the Presidential regime is a University in London, respecting
the Hongkong Sun Yat-sen obtained had a look through it the other don't, run up garage bills.
Civilization is overtaking us" story of personal animosities and clashing interests, which a definite announcement half-mile championship
Hongkong School Sports for three his diploma-he was the first day and if yon shost's to be of military commanders vieing with each other for still awaited..
years in succession, in addition to graduate of the college and he trusted, I'm bound to admit that said their No. 1 Police Judge as many other races. He is the pre-fession at Macao.
oommenced to practise his pro- the Fiji Islanders are being he inflicated the fines on the local power, of Provincial Tuchins following the dictates
Sir James civilized at a sent champion of the Colony for
fast pace. No bunch of distance annihilatore. of their own fancy, of the South openly defying the The Curve of Population.
thus describes tho the half-mile, and mile and holds}
young content wi' recording the fact But between you and me and the authority of the North and of the North being impotent Some illuminating figures pre- the championship of Kwangtung physican's activities:
that 16 natives were fined for bedpost, burning upexcess mileage to enforce its orders. China has lacked a cohesive scheme pared by an eminent biologist in for the same distances and the
In a large, well-built hospital motor car scorching, our Fijian isna' in the same class as making (Dr. Cantie saya) Chinese contemporary announces a great pot of control and the consequence has been that contending relation to the War and the plague Kwangtung record for the mile.
roast of martyred mia- of influenza which followed on its His brother, C., Hyder, won patients were treated according reduction in cotton goods. For sionaries. factions have set up their own camps and followed their heels suggest that war and pes- the quarter-mile championship in to native methods. Sunimpress the first I would say in passing The womenfolks have been own sweet wills. The Yunnan rebellion of a few yearstilence, though they may tempor- the Hongkong School Sports for ed upon the Chinese governors of that what Suva appears to need taking a hand at the oivilising ago, the delaration of "independence" by the majority of ally disturb, are powerless to alter three years in succession; he is the hospital the importance and badly is a traffic inspector a game as well. No content wi the southern Provinces, the formation of a Military the rising curve of the world's the champion of the Colony for the future emancipator of China and for the last that the dusky stores to get reduced prices, there benefits of Wostera medicine; Ethiopian Garrod, so to speak- special efforts directed at clothing at Canton, and all those other happenings population.
for the 220 and 440 yarde events and still fresh in the public mind point the truth of the above England and Wales are particul- also holds the championships of mended himself to these old-womenfolks of that airt are right has been lots of loose, talk about arly remarkable. If the index Kwangtung for the same dis-world bred men by his honesty up to the minute wi' their acquiring a vote into the bargain. review. And down here in the south there has been dis-number of the proportion of tances. He is still a student of and unselfishness as he did fashions. A still further reduc
later to the whole mass of his tion in the matter of material is sension and strife among the provinces themselves, not be deaths to births be taken as 100, Queen's College.
countrymen. Hepersuaded them under consideration, for, let it be cause the interests of one province conflict with the in-then in the years before the war
to open the portale of the hospital known, modern styles seem to terests of the other but because the personal ambitions of this figure was as low as 56 or 57.
to admit bim with bis newly ac-have hit the Islands. Owing to the one clique have been opposed by the personal ambitions In 1918, the worst of another. And into the Canton picture has recently implied that English deaths Toronto at the age of 110 years.
it rose to 92, by which is Mr. Joseph Mantell has died at mind, characteristic of Chinamen, the ladies have decided to wear quired knowledge. With a large H.C.C. (high cost of cocoanuts) come the dramatic figure of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who seeing almost equalled English births.
the governors said, 'Certainly, just as little as possible, we will devote this wing of the opportunity to exploit the local unsettled field has achieved But in 1920 the index number fell
hospital to European methods and the coup of having himself elected "President" of the to 47, showing that for every death there wore more than two births
the other to Chinese practice, and southern Government.
-the population-growth curve
we will judge the results." China has been urged by all who wish her well to get was rising faster than before. If you have to hold the print| THE YOUNG CHINA PARTY. a better grip of herself; her big men have been urged to The same phenomenon, though too far away to see clearly, the The opposition of the Por- devote themselves altruistically to the betterment of their the proportions are different, is eye will be strained to make out tuguese modicos drove Dr. Sun country, but the results so far have given rise to little else visible in France. There in 1913 the fine print. If you have to from Macao. He was then 28
Where the idea came from is. than cause for disappointment, There is pertinence in the index figure was 97; deaths hold the print too close that will years old. Dr. Sun had become a almost equal to births. It rose to strain the muscles of the eye. British national, but, proceeding
still a mystery-floating Bol query Will China, unaided, ever be able to help her-198 in 1818, deaths almost double. Either way is bad. When you to Canton in 1894, resumed his
shevik bacilli it is rumoured self" Dr. Sun Yat-sen has achieved another personal But it has now fallen to the pre-cannot read any fine type held at Chinese citizenship. As a boy
but the fear of their womenfolka triumph, but it is safe to predict that it will only be the war figure. Even in Vienna, with proper distance say 14 inches he had been fed on thrilling
being driven back to the fig-leaf prelude to more internecine strife and sorrow. Kwangtung the highest mortality figure in the from your eye, have your eyes stories of the Taiping rebellion by
garment outs no ice wi' the Fijian world during the war, rising to examined by the has to face the armed opposition of neighbouring Pre inces 229 in 1918, the curve is approach- Optical Co., Successore to Clark first heard of the Young China Hongkong his uncle, and while in Maceo he
man of the horse.. I think he still primive enough to knook and the cost to Canton of a President will probably being the normal limit again. This & Co., Refracting and Manu Party, of which, on removing to
Once there was a time when the "Votes for Women move- greater than its benefit. And so the wheel of haphazard makes those over-anxious gentle-facturing Opticians, located in Canton, he became an active the natives in that part didna' ment on the head wi a very large fortune rolls round without guidance or logical purpose. men who, as an outcome of the 53, Queen's Road Central, and mumber. Indeed, his activities care a tinker's curse for motore and powerful club When will all this wasted scheming give place to enlightened consecrated unions, look fatuous pair of right seeing and right pronounced that he found little They didna know the difference civilization dope has its draw-
or magistrates or cotton goods. war, wanted "recognition * of un- bave the satisfaction of using a in this direction soon became so
Taking it by and large, this administration ?
fitting glasses.
time for any work except between a sparking plug and a backs at time
Government
Indeed.
The
figures
is
war year,
LONGEVITY.
THE WRONG WAY TO READ.
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By Robt. MacWhirter.
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