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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, “ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1923.
EAST OF SUEZ.
SCOTSMEN IN HONGKONG.
[By A B D in the Dundee
Advertiser
RENDITION OF WEIHAIWEI.
CHOW DYNASTY. RELICS.
Peking. Sept. 27-The Govern ment has despatched Chiu Shang to investigate the reported dis
CHINA STRIKES A GOOD.
PARGAIN. Peking, Sept. 27-The official ext of the Weihaiweicovery of valuable relica of the Chow Dynasty at Hain Hsien-slen.
ärst
"There dwells a wife by the Rendition draft agreement was --Reuter.
Northern Gate,
issued this afternoon by the Bri- tish Legation.
And a wealthy wife is she: She breeds a breed o' rovin" men
And east them over sea." Happenings in remote corners gignty of Liukungtao
The British Government pro
the full sover- poses to return
to China.
In return China
of the world frequently hold no nore than a passing interest fer British Navy the
will allow the
of the 12
FOOTBALL.
CLUB TEAMS.
The fulluajog team will representi
5,35 pm-1,}
the people of this country, but so/unchorage after the Chinese Navy The Club on Saturday against the{ far as the inhabitants of Tayside for a period of years which may Pulice in the 1st. Division, Club? are concerned this cancel he said be extended by mutual agreement and kick all
The British Government does) Wilann, W. Gerrard or D' Parvis, { of the terrible typhoon which
A. S swept Hongkong. The news of the no! ask for compensation for the CW. Bishop, A. Mair. disaster caused many an anxiousaval lands and buildings on the Forsyth. J. W.R. Melan!. It. B-1},{
Island, but in return the Chinese|J. Watson, H. G Howard, J. Me- Government will loan certain lands Bride, 5. D. Begg. and buildings to the British Navy for purposes of instruction and Frecreation.
beart in Forfarshire.
The following will represent the. Kipling's lines. quoted above might well be applied to our town,
ob Reserves against the King's for ever since the days when
Reserves in Pad. Daision, Club Barton in his Yellow Frigate put
Lekungtao will not be opened around, kiek in 4 - Hui- out in search if the English teet, to foreign trade residence isso. 5 Gandner, A T. Buxton, men of Dundee and Angus have but will be maintained by China. F. Paul. G. Angua, R. W. Wil-
bread upun the sought their waters.
and
Fergus^.
The Enval base under the control iamson, F. Bass A
Į. F. Godesberg. G. Max Capt of the Chinese Navy.
4. Duon.
Within later years "somewhere
Similarly, the whole of the! east of Suez has had an irresis aased territory on the mainland | tible fascination for them, and shall be returned to China, a smail
Коле to seek while many have
portion being set aside as an fortune on the banks of the Hooglrea for foreign trade and resi-}
WHALE PROBLEMS. a large proportion of those whose dense wherein a special municipal Hot it was to go down to the sea
area with be established.
Are We Catching too Many? in ships found their way to China,
The British Government wil The new voyage of Captain and particularly to Hongkong, the return all Government lands and Scott's old ship, the Discovery, beautiful whose "Praya steep buildings gratis, the Chinese Go-which is to be made, as soon as under innumerable keels to-day." jeroment in return placing certain she is refitted, to the neighbour- Were a census of Scotsmen in specified land and buildings at hood of South Georgia and the Hodgking taken, it would be found their disposal for use by the South Shetlands has been de- that they for considerable consulate and a club, golf signed with the object of obtain. perties of the European popula-course and cemetery.
ing as much evidence as possible! tion. It used to be said of Gov- The territory will be governed abolit the natural history of ernment House in Calcutta that by a Chinese Administrator ap- the whale. in order that the may be taken for it was like Keiller's marmalade,pointed by the Central Govern-steps
this connection
2
science and the nation, was ex- plained by Sir Sidney Harmer. Director of the Natural History Museum, who is a member of the Committee which has been ap pointed by the Colonial Office to direct the preparations, in an in- terview with Home Press representative.
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a Scotch preserve, and much the ment who will be assisted as far preserving the whaling industry. same way be said of Hongkong, as the above-mentioned manicipal The importance of the expedition for in various walks of life the area is concerned by a Sinnot only to the industry, but tol resourciful enterprising Scot Foreign Advisory Committee. predominates. This is particularly
The Chinese Government under true of the shipping and seafaring takes to maintain the existing sertion of the compunity, and in police and sanitary regulations
we may recall under which the territory he the story of a bit made by Mr. been well governed during the Fraser Smith, a native of Forfar-] past quarter of a century. shire. who founded one of Heng- The Chinese Maritime Customs kong's newspapers. Mr. Smith bet will collect duties and control the
"Since the Year 1905," be a friend that he would go to the harbour as in the Treaty Ports, said, "the whaling industry has Sarbour of Hongkong, board the portion of the revesue being been hunting an entirely new
the twenty ships nearest the Praga, devoted to mucicipal expense and district.
dependencies of Falkland Islands shout down the engine room. "Are upkeep and construction of roads. the
and you there. Mac and receive a The foreign landowners in the especially the neighbourhood of reply in the affirmitive. He did territory will exchange their South Georgia and the South They have , and won the bet.
freehold titles for leases of taifty Shetland islands.
been catching whales at a very Scotsmen in the past have con-years duration renewable to
are rather tributed materially to the develop holders at option On the same great rate, and we
anxious about the future. For ment of Hongkong. It is perhaps terms.
we know from previous records not generally known that the New
Government does whaling that what has always Reclamation, off which so many not ask for monetary compensation happened is that they have gone ships were sunk in the typhoon, from the Chinese Government for too fast and the stock has become was constructed under the super-moner expended the main depleted. with the consequence vision of a Dundee man, the late tenante and development of the that the greater number of the Mr. James R. Mudie, who also territory during British occupa-old whaling fields are now useless.. built the Granite City Docks at tion. The Chinese Government of For more than two centuries Kowloon and Aberdee (on the part agrees to inaugurate a whalers used to go to the Arctic other side of the island).
system of motor and cart roads regions. Spitsbergen, and Davis ZJ÷÷÷÷ÍÍÍÍÍ+Z+$F÷IZ/T÷÷÷++++$L$$$÷I+I+IPİY
with the Straits particularly. in pur- Many public offices and Govern-connecting Welhaiwel ment posts of great importance are hinterland in the interests of the suit of the Greenland while. filled by Scotsmen, while it is men trade of the port.-Reuter. who hail from the north of the
Tweed who are the heads of many
The British
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That industry came to an ead last century: and although I should not like to say there are no Greenland whale left, there
of the large private business contended by Don Juan Macle:d, who are not en-ugh to hunt any cerns. Mention may made of the was assisted by the late Mr. Jonger, and yet formerly they Hen. Robert Shewan, дл Aber Mustard, a Dundonian, and later were found in enormous numbers. donian, who is a member of the by another native of Forfarshire, There are many instances of the Hongkong Legislative Council, and who was loved and respected by same kind in other parts of the head of the firm of Shewan Tomes, Spaniard and Filipinos alike,| world. whose interests include the Green Mr. Pat Millar, now living in re- "We have no interest, of course, Island Cement Co., the China Light irement near Dundee.
in the profits of the industry, but | and Power Co... and a line of
Were one to endeavour to pay we are interested in the preserva- steamships. Messrs. Jardine nonpur to all Scotsmen in Chination of the fauna of the world, Matheson (the Indo-China Steam to whom honour is due, the result Besides, it has to be remembered Navigation Company), who ow: would resemble a catalogue of that whales were of great im- about gerenty ships on the China names. But mention must be portance, almost vital importance, Scote Arm, as are made of ye: another Dundoniaruing the war. The main object in hunting them is to obtain oil, Douglas. Lapraik, and Co., the who upheld and glorified the trade and whale oil is one of the main shipowners. The China Sarigations of his countrymen in the sources of glycerine, which can tion Co., better known as Messrs. East, the late Rev. William Bridie he made into nitroglycerine, and Butterfield and Swire, must also who for a quarter of a century into explosives.
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undoubtedly migrate long disprotect them as far as possible tances, and if individual whales during the breeding go over a very large part of the Therefore it is clearly important world at various times it is quite to learn as much as possible about possible to exterminate them the breeding of whales-when generally even if you restrict and where it takes place, and so operations to a single place.
"There is another point worth There is no doubt that whales. mentioning If you will look at go down south for feeding pur
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be included among the Scottish laboured with ever-increasing "There is also another point of concerns which have made Heng-cceptance to all members of the importance about whales and the kong one of the chief parts of the community as a Wesleyan mis- war. There was a shortage of world. "Agents for the Bluesiosary in Canton. Admitted to fat, and the quantity available Funnel Line, the Company owns be one of the finest Chinese lin- had to be used partly for food and about a hundred steamers, many guists in the country, Mr. Bridie partly for explosives. If the the map you will see that the poses mainly. Some people are of which were built in Dundee. taught many Cantonese rficials to source of glycerine derived from Antarctic Ocean goes all round inclined to suppose that these. afficered almost exclusively by talk their own language. He is whale oil bat had to be taken the south end of the world, but | Polar waters are rather barren. Scosmen. and can boast the also remembered affectionately in from something else which was 'it is specially Narrow st That is entirely a mistake. They greatest private graving dock in Hongkong. where he served for used as food it would have affect the southern end of South are extremely rich in the parti the world, the Taikoo Dock in several years as army and navy ed very seriously the already America, where the industry is cular things that whales feed on Bengkong.
Short supply. Besides, whale oil being carried out, and therefore Whales probably go to warmer With such association to. con-tself has a food value and is used if whales migrate round the Pole, regions to breed, and turn down Another important Company & CO.
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seas to feed." where on the China coast is the Dundee people were thrilled when China Merchants' Steam Nariga the news of the typhoon was re- "Whilst everyone is agreed that centrated into a comparatively
A CRITICISED REFRIEVE, tion Co. Subsidised by the Gov-ceived. The land of fragrant whales must not be exterminated, narrow channel, and it is likely
In spite of the astonishment ernment, the firm has a Chinese waters, as it is called, owes mated to be a little unduly optimistic. done by what is going on at the that has been caused by the
the whaling companies are inclin that very serious harm may be Board of Directors, and their to those Scottish members of the
reprieve of Alexander Campbell European Superintendent, who is "Legion that never was listed" One argument put forward on their present time."
The problem of migration is Mason, the murderer of the Brix- tehalf is that whaling is actually known and respected by shipping who broke the way for the rest, men all along the coast, is a Dan- and it is good to know that there taking place in a very restricted one of the very special matters on taxi-cab driver, the Home ares, whilst the oceans of the which the Discovery Expedition Secretary has stated that he bas donian, Mr. Gavin Wallace. But are worthy successors ready to world are extremely large, and will study. We want to ascertain no intention of giving publicity to of all the Steamship Companies follow after.
that therefore it does not matter the extent and direction of the the reasons for his decision- owned by Scotsmen in the Far "Home, they come home from all much what happens in so small migration of whales. Another Esst, none has had`s more roman- the ports,
a district as Bouth Georgis, and problem is that of reproduction. If you look at what is done for the protection of birds and other animals, it is nearly always con- widered a good line of defence to
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