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BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.
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HIS EXCELLENCY'S SPEECH,
The Bolshevik Bludgeon a Boomerang.
A PLEA FOR PUBLICITY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,'
FRIDAY, APRIL 29.
. 1927,
П pirate base. But,
if they do not, we are determined to see this matter through and to
The Dawn.
wise and progressive Governmen: merchants in this Colony from now afflicting the wild men of the from the storm now raging In the necessary steps to police Bias give most serious consideration t I am convinced we shall ясс maintaining their trade with Can- Kuo-min-tang. When sunity re- China is appreciated by none more Bay and to prevent its use this matter. (Hear hear);" prosperity in China such As we ton and the other principal cen- turns to them, they will see-as all than by the Chinese themselves, as have never realised, and Haked tres of commerce in China. Un- but the purblind now see-that it who of late have been taking ro- up as wo in Hongkong are with der the bludgeoning, of fato you is Great Britain, not the Russian fugo here by the thousand. They
Gentlemen. It is always the Canton and the surrounding have suffered, but you are unbow- Soviet, which would rejoice at the are welcome and they will be pro- protect our shipping from further darkest hour that comes bofor districts--for
outrages of this kind. (Applause) the dawn; and already I seem t we ar intered and, what is more, you will establishment of a strong, stable, teeted. (Applause).
The roport of the Piracy Commis-sce a glimmer of light on the another certainly win through to eventual enlightened, patriotic and efficient I was particularly glad to notice dependent
Piracy. re- success; for your aims are precise- Government of a re-unified China.
sion; just published, Indicates very horizon. The Chinese Nation the reference made to the Sun-this prosperity will be
itly those of the great mass of the (Applause). From such a Govers- Another thing we are resolved clearly what we have to do.
allst Party is at last strugglini ning piracy and the great ap #ected on Hongkong. While
to rid itself of the taint of Bolahe": preciation shown of the gallant may yet be a long time to the Chinese people--safe and normal ment we should have nothing to upon is that our coastwine ship-
Constrast. action of the officers and engineers peaceful conditions we all desire, trading conditions. (Applause). fear; for it would restore peacej ping shall not be preyed upon with
vism and is discarding Comrad In recovering their ship against there are, I am inclined to think,
Now, as always, British policy and a security to the harassed po impunlly by organized piracy, such An instructive comparison and Borodin and other demagogues signs of a break in the clouds, in China aims wholly and solely pulation of the Eighteen Provin- as that emanating from Bias Bay. contrast can be drawn between who deliriously direct chaos and almost overwhelming odds.
With these few remarks, I beg to at sreurity, freedom and equal op- ces and give back to Chinese mer Time and time again the Canton-present-day happenings in China who are prophets of communis Sound Policy.
second the resolution (applause).portunts for British trade chants the thing they most desirese authorities have been urged by and the events of the Boxer year, and "world-revolution." It not As you rightly say, Sir, we have
throughout the territories which I mean safe and normal trading the Hongkong Government and by in 1500 the anti-foreign extremists looks as mesures, similar t been through difficult and anxious
once formed the Chinese Empire, conditions, free from the tyranny His Majesty's Consuls General at of northern China believed that the emergency regulations mad times during the past two years
but which are now distracted and of Bolshevized Labour. (Ap Cariton to stamp out this pest in the bullet-proof Boxers they by the Hongkong Government t but the sound lines on which the
disintegrated by Bolshevism and plause).
Over and over again we have of had found a weapon, capable of save this Colony from the tyrann trade of the Colony, is conducted,
[of bolshevized Labour, have ulse civil war. Great. Britain, as all We are quite determined to have fered them for this purpose our driving all foreigners Into the sea. been enforced by Chinese nation is ovidenced by the manner in
the world knows, has no territorial no Bolshevism in this Colony full naval and military co-opera-But the great Chinese Viceroysalist generals both in Shangha which, in spite of the chaotic}
ambitions whatsoever in China. The Chinese as well as the Euro tion, if they desired it. Theyat Hankowy, Nanking and Cantonand at Canton and in other larg state of affairs in the neighbouring}
His Excellency aald.—Mr. Chair- It is, therefore, most amazing that pean community of Hourkong is gi have, however, rejected our offer Chang Chih-tung, Liu Kuni and cities, although Chinese, general provinces, and the insensate
man and Gentlemen, I am glad you the self-style "nationalists" of one mind in this matter, and I have of help and they have done nothing Li Hung-chang-know better nad have had to use the mailed As boycott proclaimed
shall whatever themselves. In has invited me to be present here to China should vociferously and in- no doubt whatever that wo
fat kept poace with the foreigners where I was fortunately able t British goods, business
All the recent emer they have been scandalously for- along the Yangtze and in these the velvet glove. We may been carried on. (Applause). It day, for it gives me an opportunity cessantly denounce Great Britain succeed.
while clasping geney measures taken by the getful of the first duty of any is to be hoped that Baner and of expressing publicly my ad- as their "enemy,'
in turmoil. The northerners then renewal of the friendly relation wiser counsels among those in miration of the dogged determina to their hearts as hosom-allies the Hongkong Government aim at ob civilized and self-respecting Gov South, while northern China was therefore, be on the verge of
disturbance of the ernment, namely the suppression learned that Boxers were not in-which are traditional between this which we are so deeply interested, community of Hongkong has con- to be pursuing in Chinese Turks- law and order and good feeling of piracy and brigandage and the vulnerable and that to exterminate Colony and the neighbouring pro control of this great country, nation with which the mercantile Russian Bolshevists, who appear viating any will prevail, and the futility of tinued to do business as usual" in tan, in Outer Mongolia and in now happily prevailing among us maintenance of law and order, all foreigners was less easy than vines of China. With all m Manchuria the old Czarist schemes We shall certainly not allow any At long last His Majesty's Gov- this economie weapon, the boycott, spite of the discouraging and even), of which we have heard so much alarming situation in which, for of Slavonic aggrandizement in the imperium in impere to be formed ernment has now inflicted salut- they had supposed. Remembering heart I hope that it is so. I hav recently, will be realised, affecting no fault of ours, we find ourselves Par-Gast
here by an armed-and-violent-propunishment upon the pirate this, the northerners to-day are complete faith in the future of letariat, as unfortunately has been dens in Blás Bay. We hope that not attempting to destroy foreign this Colony. (Applause) I do not the case at Canton, at Hankow the lesson given will suffice. We treaty-rights by violence, but are believe that the day of British ing it is directed. Given peace and dils. nor pirates. nor civil war This self-deception is one of and in other Chinese cities. The hope that the Cantonese authori- willing to negotiate a friendly set fluence in China is drawing to quietness in the country, and a have deterred British or Chinese many symptoms of the madnessj shelter which Hongkong offers ties will now themselves take tlement. It is the southerners clue. On the contrary I believ this time who believe themselves bot, when the spasm of madnes to have found an invincible weapon How couvulsing China is spent wherewith to drive, all foreigners Great Britain and the British of China. They miscall it Colony of Hongkong will be re "the economic weapon," meaning rognized throughout the Eightee
Provinces as the potent, the most thereby strikes, boycotts, labour unrest, mob violence, all excited friends and coadjutors of the
beneficent and the most congenia by lying propaganda-piracy Chinese people in this era of it brigandage and every other means renaissance. (Cheera).
as much, if not more, those using) placed. Neither strikes, nor boy-
it, as it does those against whom cotts, nor armed pickets, nor ban-
Self Deception.
"Just watch it ride P
out
of making trade in China unprofil- The resolution having then bec able to the foreigner and residence put to the meeting and carried un in China disagreeable to him. Animously, the Chairman said Better name for this weapon would On behalf of the Chamber, I wish hehe Bolshevik bludgeon" and to thank your Excellency for com those who brandish it have beening here this afternoon and fo Laught by their Russian "high ad-the very able and helpful spoee) visers" that with this weapon they you have made. The matter ti can so budevil the foreigner that which you have drawn the atton of his own accord he will after a tion of the Chamber, will certain while pack up his traps and leave ly be considered by the Committed China for cod. But the true and I to thank you again for st name of this, weapon is "the Bol-indly being present with us tol shevik boomerang", because it day. (Applause). will most certainly curl back and deliver its shrewdest blow at those
The Committee.
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who endeavour to wield it. (Ap- Mr. A. L. Shields proposed that plause). Already none suffer the following be elected the Gerl from it more than do the Chinese eral Committee for the ensuing themselves, and it will sooner or later knock out every bolshevized Chinese in the country.
Lying Propaganda.
Lying propaganda of
the
year: Hon. Mr. D.G.M. Bernard Hon. Mr. A.C. Hines, Messrs. W H. Bell, N.S. Brown, L.J. Davies . Owen Hughes, Paul Lauder, Fj A. Perry, J.A. Plummer and Te Weall
Mr. F.S. Harrison seconded, and
New Members.
most virulent type gives the the resolution was unanimouslj initial impetus to all these carried.. Bolshevik machinations: and. gentlemen, we must counter it by telling the truth and exposing the falsehoods. There are many who, like Coventry Patmore, would sit down and Say that for lack of them the war's course will not fail.
"When all its work is done. the lie shall rot.
The truth is great and wit prevail,
When note cares whether it prevail or not?".
On the proposition of the Chair man, seconded by Mr. W.S. Bailey the meeting confirmed the election of the following members elected during 1926; Mr. Frank Austla Mesars, W. R. Grace and Co., The China Agency and Trading Ca of Hongkong, Ltd., Messrs. A. P Leong lingkee and Co., Mesere! Sui Heung Yuen.
There being no other business the meeting terminated.
Such a defeatist attitude will not help us now. We must be up and doing. We must see to it that the lie shall rot before, not after, Rum runners, driving an autol its poisonous work is done, and mobile equipped with a poison gas thu the truth is widely told all exhaust pipe, left federal prohibij over China now when the victory tion agents far behind in a chasd of truth is the best means of in Alabama, gasping amid mustard averting the Bolshevik menace. fumes. They laid down a emokd The Hongkong General Chamber of screen that obscured all vision Commerce as well as the Chinese and also contained enough must Chamber of Commerce should tard gas to frustrate pursuit.
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