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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
VIEWS ON CHINA.
SOME LESSONS FROM PAST HISTORY.
Mr. J. U. P. Blund writes to the Times:
THURSDAY,
CHINESE LABOUR
CONDITIONS.
POSITION OF BRITISH EMPLOYER VINDICATED.
APRIL 14, 1927.
FRIENDSHIP ABUSED.
KOBBED BY MAN WHO BORROWED MONEY.
At the Kowloon Magistracy London, April 13.
yesterday afternoon & Chinose was In the course of the recent de-
The Foreign Oftee has issued charged before Mr. W. Schofield bate on the Supplementary Esa memorandum on labour condi- with being encerned in an armed timates for the Shanghai Defeneotions in China in the course of robbery committed at No. 211 Port- Force, Mr. Pothick-Lawrence
lack of land Street at noon on March 27. Sub Inspector Fallon prosecuted said: "In the interests of trade which it states that the between Britain and China, the accurate information is the cause
charges and outlining his case said that of many unfounded less we relied on force and the
Q married more we relied on reason the bet brought in Britain against British the complainant,
woman, was alone in her house employers of labour in Chinn. ter."
The memorandum outlines the at noon March 27, when she heard
If this were merely the expres-charges which are concerned with a knock on her front door. In re- a voice from sion of Mr. Pethick-Lawrence's
without asked to see her husband, individual opinion, it might be the employment of cheap labourly to her query, disregarded; but, fnasmuch as and says that the misstatements
to some extent arise from honest at the same time' giving his name, The woman admitted three men something very like it has come to be accepted, since the Wash-ignorance of a very complicated whe were escorted to the front ington Conference, as the basis and little known subject.
room. They informed the woman
of American policy in China, and It proceeds to explain that that they had been told to go to to some extent of our own, I ven- nearly the whole of the capital in- the house by the husband. After ture to ask of your courtesy to vested in the factories is Chinese.some me the woman went to the be permitted to observe that there British interests in China are door to see if her husband was' re- is nothing in the whole history overwhelmingly those of traders turning when one of the men told of our relations with China to only and in a most insignificant her to go to the kitchen.
She asked why he requested her justify it. As an academic theory degree those of the capitalist or it may have the merit of being labour employer. The influence to go into the kitchen and the in the fashion; nevertheless, since of foreign capitalists, both Bri- men then seized her. With the it runs counter to the invariable tish and Japanese, inasmuch as assistence of the, other two she experience of two centuries and they have established higher stand-was tied to a nail in the wall by to the recorded opinions of a.hostards and introduced humanitarian means of a piece of wire which af competent witnesses, would I ideas, is entirely beneficent. not be reasonable to ask those
who prepose to make it the basis of our national policy in China that they should justify it by Some serious argament or valid precedent!
Moderation Misunderstood. In the meanwhile, may I be al- owed to cite certain authorita- tive opinions to the contrary, which appear to have the merit of a direct nearing upon the circum- stantes and needs of the present situation? In 1831 the represen- latives of the
British Challenge.
Conditions in. foreign factories,
was first tied round her neck. The defendant was seen to enter the floor with a revolver in his hand.
They robbed her of ear rings
The memorandum is of the op- inion that the disappearance of the Concessions and of extrality will probably militate against the im-and other articles of jewellery as provement of conditions, On the well as $5 in money and then de- other hand the growth of the camped. The woman after great power and influence of the Na-Lefforts freed herself from the wall tionalists, which (on least)
paper at but was unable to release herself has adopted #1 labour from the wire round her neck policy, may promote such improve-She went to the door and knocked. inent,
Her noise attracted the attention of the woman in the adjoining house and she was later freed.
In her report to the Police she East India Com-particularly British and Japanese, gave the name of the defendant, pany at Canton, addressing the are better than in the Chinese stating that he had taken pars in Governor-General of India, ob- factories.
A high proportion of the robbery. She had known the the few British factories challenge man for some five months, during An impression has long existed comparison with any in the world. which time he frequently visited that H., ships The movement for securing better her house, cousionally borrowing money and having his meala at were required by the orders of labour conditions was initiated and the flat. their own Government to submit led, by foreigners, both mission- to indignity, which has had theries and capitalists. The Chin- wotal possible effect in cucour, with a few brilliant exceptions aging the very evil which it was were generally apathetic, and the desirable to avoid. The Chinese, Chinese labour organisations as in common, we believe, with all far as they were not led astray by Asiatic Governments, are incap- politics, were interested in only able of appreciating the motives the wages question.
served:
in this country
of a policy which suggests mo- The White Paper proceeds to deration.in the exercise of power.state facts in connexion with the
The defendant was arrested that same afternoon."
At the conclusion of the evid- ence the case was adjourned.
TERRIBLE TORNADO.
IN TEXAS.
San Antonio, April 13.
lu 1834 Lord Napier, invoking charge of failure to adopt a child OVER ONE HUNDRED KILLED all past experience, observed that labour bylaw for the International in every instance, nothing but Settlement, which was due to a humiliation and failure had ever doliberately Zrganised boycott and followed attempts to obtain any says there is no doubt à quorum It is reported that a tornado just and reasonable demand by a would have been secured for the killed 126 persons at Rock Springs. show of moderation; while viggar bylaw had normal conditions pre-Texas.--Renter and determination, had as invailed. The memorandum says
variably led to better results.
A little later the venerable Able line, a missionary of wide experience and a good friend to the Chinese, placed on record his considered opinion that "this people yields nothing to reason and everything to fear." In 1869, Mr. Ross Browne, United States Minister to China, replying to an address by the American and Bri- fish merchants at Shanghai, said:
Firm Pressure Needed.
Progress in China could only be achieved by friendly but firm pressure and by insistence upon due observance of the Treaties. If we undertake to go back and to make reparation for all the crimes and errors of the past, I Tear that we shall not make much progress in the future.
We can only accept the present and pro- At by experience, and if experi- ence teaches anything, it is that neither forbearance por persua sion has ever advanced the cause of civilisation a single step in this country.
Since then a cycle of Cathay has elapsed; nevertheless, in des- cribing the seizure of the British. Concession at Hankow by the
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the British Consuls are unanimous
for
Waco, Tex., April 13.
It is reported from. Rock Springs
to
in reporting that the provisional that over 50 persons were killed factory regulations passed by the and 150 injured in the Tornado Chinese Government in March, which virtually destroyed the 1923, exist only on paper, and adds: town, the 800 inhabitants of whieh
inclad 200 Mexicans. "Probably the sole reason
Relief parties are hurrying promulgating them
the Seene from neighbouring desire on the part of the Chinese towns but are hindered by floods. Government to appear at Geneva-Reiter's American Service. and before the world at large in the guise of a modera progressive state-Reuter.
was a naive
TAINTED MONEY.
TEXTILE WORKERS REFUSE ·
MOSCOW AID.
Moscow, April 13. Following the settlement of the textile strike, the Soviet textile Workers' Union at Moscow sent ten thousand.roubles to the Lodz Textile Workers' Union. The lat ter returned the money asserting it was not welcome from Com- munist agitators.-Rauter.
Chinese mob some weeks 4x0, cited from the records of every your correspondent there had oe-stage of our relations with China. asion to observe that every sign Can those who now advocate com- conciliatory disposition onplete reliance upon sweet reason- our part provoked renewed ag. ableness, as a practical policy in a single in- gression whereas a show of firm- the East, point to news produced much better re-stance in which it has been suc- suit. Innumerable instances and Leessfully adopted? If not, quo opinions to this effect might be Trudis?
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