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Jain, in the House of Commons, that Britain has no intention of re- nouncing extra-territorial rights in China. One might almost have: concluded from the phraseology of the telegram giving this news that WHITE-Kabir, Germany, Austria and Russia had
THE INSTRUCTION OF THE FOOL- ISH IS A WASTE OF KNOWLEDGE;
GOVERNOR SPEAKS OUT.
SOAP CANNOT WASH CHARCOAL HOW THE COMMUNITY CAN HELP
Cafo Wiseman is now serving about a thousand moats a day.
STATEMENT IN COUNCIL.
1
Colonal and Mrs. Russell
At yesterday's Council Meeting, any moment, diminish consumption Brown returned by the P. and G. on the adjournment His Ex-by deporting, unproductivo. ^ con-
colloncy tha Governor said; sumors. Wo aro, of course, experi liner Kashmir from the North.
Gentlemen, Before we adjourn Ieneing a loss of trade and con- think it would not, be out of place sidérable inconvenience and minor
About 150 Chinese have now;
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only the latter. country did so. Typewriter Germany and Austria lost their
with the
extra-territorial privileges when Standard China-declared war on the, Central keyboard. Powers, and these were not restored been registered as Special District for me to say a few words as to hardships, but I am confident both by the subsequent Treaty of Peace. Watchmen in connection with the situation with regard to what, of the power and of the will of the for lack of a better phrase, we must community to continue to endure "Nothing
other the strike, The subjects of all the
call the strik As I said at the these inconveniences as long as Powers remain outside Chinese
last meeting of this Council, the necessary. The Observatory reports that prosent movement cannot be called The inconvenienco is not entirely jurisdiction, and we shall be very the typhoon bas entered thela strike in any proper sense of the on one side and I trust that tho surprised if that position is not coast and is probably filling up to word, since those who have ceased strikers will abortly find the game is maintained for many years to come. the west of Foochow. Another is to work have not done so with a not worth the candle. We have had situated about 300 miles north of view to attaining any definite object to take some drastic measures to There can, on the part of Britain Yap, moving W. N: W.
It has become increasingly clear deal with the situation. It neces at any rate, be no question of
during the last fortnight that the sary, those measures will becomo surrendering these rights until Amongst the passengers who movement is nothing else than an more drastic. I am, as you know, there is established a thoroughly arrived by the P. and O, liner attack organised by agencies out man of peace, and I assume I am Kashgar yesterday wore Burgeon side the Colony on the existing as fond as most men of getting my stable Government, whose authority Lieut. R. M. Still, Lieut. Cobbold, standards of civilisation as repre- Jown way, but I have always profer runs throughout the length and Surgeon Commdr, Paterson and sented by Hengkong. The pretencered to do so by convincing others that it was a strike to show sym- that my way is the right way by Capt. J. E. Watson. breadth of the country. That
pathy with the Chinese whe suffer-process of argument. But it takes ed as a result of certain incidents two sides to make an argumens, and much accomplished, together with
The river steamer Sai On arin Shanghai and other parts of if the other alde has no reasons to a reform of China's judicial system, rived yesterday afternoon minus China has now apparently boon drop advance to support this point of the question might well come up her firemen, who had all struck ped. This is all for the best, as it view, the possibility of argument
work. The boat was brought clears the air
coases to 'tooist and it is accessary, for serious consideration. It
down by the foreign officers and It must be obvious then to the to take other measures would be interesting to hear what engineers. There were somo 500 most confused mind that the We find now that people will not the Germans, for example, think Passengers aboard, of whom 25 Government is not concerned in any work. They have no reason to ad- were taken to the police station way with happenings elsewhere. vance, therefore we cannot discuss about their position in China now for examination.
Nothing that we can do or refrain the matter. All that can say ACKNOWLEDGMENT. that they are under native jurisdic
from doing could have the slightest ie, "Very well, if you do not want For cutting down, trees in a effect on any negotiations which to work don't, but we cannot camber Eduardo Leitao wishes to thank tion. We recently heard one assert
plantation above Kennedy Road, may take place between the authori-this small area with idle moutha all his friends for their kind sym- that nowadays it is utterly impos- Brewood-banters were fined ties of Shanghai and the Govern. If you will not work you must leave
The Government has taken, patby, floral tributes and the sible for a German to win a case $10, or two weeks' each, by Mr.ment at Peking, or between any us many letters of condolence re- ceived in his recent sad bereave- against a Chinese in a native court S.B.B. McElderry at the Central other parties whatsoever as the re power to remove such idle months. ment.
of law. That is sufficient to de- Police Station this morning. Asult of these happenings, nor could from the Colony. We have started boy who was charged with the any such negotiations have any in-on a small scale and invited some of In this those whose presence can most easily monstrate the kind of "justice" samo, offence. was given sixfluence upon our affairs
matter Hongkong stands by itself. be dispensed with, to seek other which would prevail were the strokes with the birch.
An attack has been made upon us, spheres of inactivity, to the number
tho representing
existing of about one hundred. If necessary, Powers to surrender the very neces-
A heavy batch of mails and standards of civilisation, by the this process will to continued and sary privileges they row enjoy parcels was brought here by the agents of disorder and anarchy. intensified. If it were necessary I Even with conditions as they are, Kashgar from Home yesterday. No doubt we have been selected should have no hesitation in deport
They wore landed last night, and for attack because we are supposed ing from this. Colony every ady The speech delivered by His foreign lives and property get it is a creditable fact, for the to be a small and parlous community who did not show by working i Excellency, the Governor at yester- precious little security in Chini volunteer hands concerned, that and also because of our propinquity he was a useful member of the In that respect, the letters were all sorted out to a district which, owing to a long munity. Revolutions, its the pr day's meeting" of the Legislative these days.
and consigned to the private period of war and misgovernment, says, are not made with roses Council will have been read with matters are decidedly worse than latter boxes by 10 o'clock this has become a fertile soil for the Neither are they suppresse much satisfaction by the whole of they were in pre-Republican days. morning. the law-abiding element of the Is it therefore conceivable that Colony," because it reveals that Britain, or any other Power which
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FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1925,
His Excellency's Speech
dance with the spirit of the foreign community, and it will hearten and encourage all those who are making
ns
ealtivation of all the worst growths and this movombat amq of Bolshevism, Anarchism and Com-revolution against law an munism.
The Right Way.
so helpless as our enemies have na
Against Law and Order. It would appear from who gi there is not the slightest doubt seeks to secure adequate protection work, which the members of the
The attack is directed not against happened during the last for in the mind of the head of the for its nationale, is likely to re- Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corpa
As A British that the main reason for the spr The men have this Government Government that this "strike" is a nounce the rights now enjoyed? are performing.
Government, nor against foreigners of the strike has been the coward deliberate attack upon the very Under existing conditions, that is responded splendidly to the need, as such: it has not even the excuse and folly of the working classes.
not of being a Nationalist movement, allow themselves to be intimidat existence of the Colony, and that utterly unthinkable, and if China is and while conditions have
as may be seen from the fact that It is difficult to deal with this situa there is a firm determination to hoping to the contrary, we fear that improved sufficiently yet for their it is made against all law and order, by the murest shadows of threate fight and defeat that attack. The she is in for a bitter disappoint-duties to be lessened, it has become the reputable Chinese here are as tien owing to the gross cowardice of possible now, with the larger much the object of attack as the the labourer, who, in spite of the spirit of the speech is all in accor- ment.
numbers who have come forward European community, even more so offer of handsome rewards, will not it would seem, for it is difficult to hand over to the police those who both as Volunteers and special see in what way any anti-Govern- threaten them with violence for do- Dealing With Strikers. The case of a resident of Kowloon police, to arrange a routine ofment or anti-European sentimenting what every man has a right to
can be involved in a strike of Chinese do-continue his lawful avocation
I have almost completed arrange- special efforts to help "see, this who prosecuted a house coolie duties which ensures an equal barbers; tea house attendants or
ments the details of which I must for leaving without division of labour. The Colony "can pork butchera.. thing through." His Excellency's yesterday
well be proud of the work the Corps
We have to realise that we are withhold lest their efficiency should faced with a deliberate attempt to for which will enable us to be appreciation of the loyalty of the notice, recalls the other prosecu». responsible Chinese community, his tions which have been brought in has done and is doing, and can rest destroy, in the interests of unarchy, fairly dartain of catching such in- reference to the drastic powers the the marine court against seamen assured that it is prepared to the prospects and the very existence timination and under i refintion liberty of asserting to be as well will, in future, be dealt with in a Government is prepared to take to who refused to work. In all these respond to any future. calls which of a community, which I take the which has been issued to-day they rid Hongkong of idling loafers, his cases the men have been treated might be made upon it in case of governed as any in the world. It manner which will be likely to ap- is by the cat We have already, issuance of powers to Magistrates as they would be in normal times, sudden emergency, and will give a is for us to show that we are not peal to their deepest feelings that to award flogging to intimidators and have been punished according good account of itself. Most of the sumed, and I can heartily congratu: succeeded, thanks to the activity and his general firm attitude stamps 1 Most employers are perhaps Volunteers have been training for late the community on the evidence of the police and to members of the use a trite phrase, the situation is Chinese, to whom I tender my him as being the right man to inclined to lose sight of the fact several years, and of the recruits which has already been given To Bneral public, both European and thaaks, in catching some dozen of direct the Colony's affairs at this that the strikers have broken the many have had active service and well in hand."
The European community has these acoundrels I regret that critical juncture, And
law, and are actually liable to in a few days have picked up the the As
neted, as everybody except perhaps owing to delay in itauing the regula speech has been given wide punishment under the ordinary old routine again. A good idea of the originators of this trouble knew tion to which I have just alluded publicity in the Chinese press of the criminal code of the Colony. While the strength of the Corps and its that they would act, and those see those will escape their deserts, but have the capacity for thinking for purgo thoir offorice by a period of Colony it is to be hoped that it will few might care to treat a returning smartness was provided the other tions of the Chinese community that it is not intended that they should have its effect on the strikers so striker as a criminal and have him day, when it paraded through the themselves have shown that thos confinement in gaol, where the as- justly" referred to by the Governor immediately haled before a magis-eastern part of the city. A large realise the issues that are involved commodation and food are much and that the cause of good govern superior to what is provided for. trate, the power that the law allows proportion of the Volunteers were ment is as much theirs as ours. It those strikers who seek the hos reason for the spread of the strike during the might usefully be borne in mind in unavoidably unable to take part in may seem invidious to mention in pitality of Canton. They will be past fortnight has been
cases where men are "striking" in the march, as they were on essential dividual només, but I should like given an opportunity of proving here to express my gratitude to Mr. their value to humanity by under- cowardice and folly of the working order to obtain better-paid work duties elsewhere, yet the muster G. M. Young for his work in organis. taking useful though somewhat un elsewhere, or where strikers return, was a big one, and a splendid proofing labour, and to the Chinese men productive duties in connection with the sanitation of the city. It is Wo
bern of this Council and to Dr. Tro not to resume work, but merely to of the true spirit of service.
for the great efforts which they have possible that they many regret that claim what they consider are their observe a tendency to criticise the mide to bring the Chinese communi- their activities have caused a coera- Government protection and reward, June wages.
Cases have been uses to which the Corps is being ty to a full understanding of the tion of work on the part of curtain
acctions of, the community. T situation reported to us in which former put, but we are sure that the
Government Not Idle... The Will to Win. servants have been seen loitering Volunteers themselves need no arm-
I do not wish to dotain you, gentle As regards the present aspect of more than a little near the premises where they had chair advisers, and are prepared to affairs it is difficult to say anything man, by talking of what has been shame-faced and to send them back been working, apparently with leave it to the competent authorities definito. There are, I think, aigns/done or what will be done. I would that the strikers are coming to their ask you to roalise that it is not view to observing how their to decide how best the Colony's senses. My are still going out, always necessary to believe that employers were getting on. These trained citizen man-power can be but many are returning to work, and the Government is doing nothing. persons should immediately be utilised. If the task prove ardupis1 am not without hope that common becntiae it does not talk
Wit so will shortly peprail over ignor about, what hot tik given into police custody, and the at times, it is accepted in the same auce and fear. Meanwhile we have There are many cecasions on which rounded off a speech full of hope full powers of the law. exercised. spirit which pervaded the ranks got to carry on and to see this thing is wiser to say nothing bechuse and determination-a speech cal
through The prospects are not measures that are being taken are No potential intimidator should be during the war. It is a time touch as to cause any alarm Food more likely to be successful if calated to inspire confidence and to permitted to remain in the Colony put the good of the State before supplice, so far as the European they are not talked about. stiffen any would-be waverers.
unless, it be behind prison bars. personal convenience, and the mom-and can easily his replenished. The would; in conclusion, appeal
community is concerned, are ampla Two Ways to Help. bers of the Defence Corps have same is probably true with regard to the community to help the Gov- been among the first to realise this to the Chinese community, and bore ernment in two ways. The first No-one will be surprised at the
Some little while ago we referred and to respond to the call when it we have the additional advantage is this: Do not listen to or spread
tlint should there be any prospect statement by Mr. Austen Chamber-to the work, much of it arduous came.
36 cowards. The main
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the
classes for allowing themselves to be, intimidated in face of liberal
and His Excellency's reference to this matter should do much to make our workers
to work. The concluding advice to the community regarding "the spread of rumours and the beat method of treating intimidators,
Extra-Territoriality.
Defence Corps Service.
of supplios rinting short we can, at
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