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SPEECHES AT TIFFIN YESTERDAY.
Passengers from the Malole were busy yesterday sight-seeing, shopping and generally "sizing up" the Colony.
A very interesting function on board was a lunch given to local business men, when commercial conditions in South China were discussed.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929.
Quite by accident an S. C. M. Post reporter stumbled upon it while being shower over the liner yester- day. He had seen the marble swimming pool, the period smoking. rooms, and had had an iced soft drink, made as only Americans can make these delicacies, in the ship's soda fountain. He had seen works of art that had gladdened his soul, longthy corridors inspecting state- and was wandering through the rooms, when a familiar sonra caught his ears.
Crulse of the Malolo. "We who | Kowloon is a small, but well light- have lived in this corner of the ed and airy room. Its presence British Empire," continued Mr.ļ moans as much to the ship as the Tratman, "are accustomed to see bridge, the wireless room, and evan large ships enter the harbour and the kitchen, to the ship's passen. suddenly to find pur streets full of | gers, but few of them ever see it, strangers and conveyances although they know it must be aomewhat crowded. A day later there. the ship has gone, the streets aro normal, and we think no more of it than of the incoming and going of the tide. But with the Malolo it is different: har passengers come anong us in, the most friendly Cashion and as a crowning token of Anglo-Saxon goodwill they have asked us to share their hospitable The San Francisco Chamber of board. I hope this is the "first of Commerce invited the Colonial It gives me the greatest pleasure many visits of a similar nature. Secretary (the Hon. Mr. D. What the brief vicissitudes of office Tratman), Sir Robert Ho Tunk, have laid on me the pleasant task the Committee of the Hongkong of welcoming the Malolo at this the Chairman of the Chinese Cham-juncture, when the heads of the ber and other representative busi- two great Governments have just neas, men to tiffin on board the een meeting in the hope of bring
ing a little nearer realisation that Malolo yesterday. Others present were the Hon, Sir Henry Pollock, great dream of universal peace by Kt, K.C., the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kote which alone this world-not ex- wall, C.M.G., the Hon. Mr. W.E.L. eluding China--can possibly
saved. (Applause). Shenton, Mr. M. T. Johnson, Mr. A. H. Ferguson, Mr. Allan Cameron, Mr. C. C. Scott, Mr. P. W. Parker, and A. P. Bungey, Mr. F.Me D. Courtney, and others.
General Chamber of Commerce,
Mr. Robert Newton Lynch, Vice- President of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, presided in the absence at Canton of Mr. C. C. Moore, the leader of the Cruise which the San Francisco, Chamber of Commerce has organised around the Pacific..
"Good heavens," he gasped, and clutched at his guide. "I must be dreaming. I must be back in my office-that-that's a linotype."
"Sure," said the guide unbioved. "Come'n I'll introduce you to the boys." be
So into the small room the re- porter went and the sight of a smail, but wonderfully compact printing room, as efficient, on a small scale, as any great American plant, gladdened him. Straight to a smart booking young operator he went with outstretched hand.
Perfect Printing.
Message from Chinese Generals.
Sir Robert Ho Tung, who was asked to address the gathering, thanked the hosts for the invita tion to be present and remarked that he could scarcely, at such short notice, give an account of his "Glad to meet you," said the adventures--and he might say operator. "My name's Floyd Knad- strenuous treatment-in the North. son, 'Frisco, U.S.A. How d'you He had listened with much plea-like the plant?” sure to the kind words of sympathy which had been expressed towards At the conclusion of lunch, the China and he could assure the bosts of "II. M. the King," and hosts that they would be very much "The Republic of China" were pro-appreciated by his Chinese friends. posed by Mr. Lynch, the Colonial In the course of his visit to the Secretary proposing the health of North he had the honour of meet "The President of the Uniteding all the four leading Generals in China and had the privilege of dis- In welcoming the guests, Mr. cussing with them the prospects of Catering as it does only for the Lynch said that, until the war, the the industrial and commercial United States of America had redevelopment of the country. He garded itself as to a great extent, would give his American friends self-sufficing, but of late years they this message, from the Chinese had more fully realized that they Generals: that any surplus funds were partners with the English-at their disposal would be welcome. speaking world in the maintenance
for the purpose of developing the of their common civilisation. The resources of China. In reply, the members of the present, cruise question would possibly be asked. were not on a tour of exploitation With the exception of Hongkong, but were anxious to gain impres-where is there security in China? sions and information that would
States."
be ultimately of mutual benefit. They recognised in China the greatest reservoir of humanity in the world, with potentialities be yond the reach of human imagina tion. The solution of China's problems was essential to the safety of civilisation and demanded the intelligence and spirituality of the entire world and, particularly, of the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
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To this Sir Robert said that hig
After the exchange, of courtesies. Mr. Knudson explained that while printing plants aboard liners were common enough nowadays, few ships curry one so up-to-date and well equipped as that of the Malolo.
wealthiest of passengers, the Malolo, prints a newspaper, con- taining anything up to eight per- fectly printed sheets daily. In the several issues shewn to our reporter not a printing error was discern- ible. This is due to the fact that two proof readers are carried on board, and the proofs are always, scanned by them before the paper
is printed..
Several beautiful menu cards
answer was, "Can anyone point to which were printed for special. n single instance in which a justi- dinners aboard the liner were in- fiable claim on China has not been spected, but the greatest luxury of recognised, or a trust abused by any all is the fact that the ship's Chinese Government?"
printery can provide passengers Sir Robert referred, with plea-with monogrammed personal letter- sant recollections, to a visit he heads at a moment's notice. paid to San Francisco in 1918 when
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he had the honour of being enter-picture of the Malolo, the ports to tained by the Chamber of Com- be visited, and the writer's name merce there, and by his oldest in old type. Mr. Knudson friend in the United States, Cap-ceived this plan, and believes it to tain Robert Dellar, to whom he | be unique, would like to be remembered. The Chinese
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had. always counted America as one of their best The linotypist, Mr. Knudson, friends. Sir Robert Ho. Tung con-ranks as an officer of the ship and cluded by thanking their hosts for has two assistants, one being a their sympathy and promised co-compositor. He is quite a young operation in the task of bringing man, and has travelled the world about peace in China, a task to in his present capacity. which he had devoted himself with no selfish motive and in which he would continue to work as long as he lived. The problem was a dif- feult one but he did not despair. (Applause.)
Mr. James Mills, of the Regent University of California, mentioned that he was a Canadian, who had beer compelled, an grounds of health, to live further South. In visiting the third greatest port in the world they had been greatly struck by its commercial ad vantages and natural beauty They were impressed with 'all, that the British people had done, and were doing, in all, parks of the world: they built on solid founda tions, unselfishly, for the good of living within their borders. Mr. Mills also compli mented Sir Robert, Ho Tung on his efforts to bring about an ußer- No Special Privileges. standing between the various fac The Hon. Mr. W. E. F., Shenton, tions in Chinn, and concluded with replying on behalf of the Chamber à reference to the conversations of Commerce (in the unavoidable between Mr. Ramsay MacDonald absence of the Chairman, the Hon. and Mr. Hoover, remarking that Mr. B.D.F. Beith), said it was s the spirit that greeted Mr. Mac pleasure for members of the Cham- Donald when he landed in the ber of Commerce to do all they United States was the true spirit could to make the visit enjoyable of America whitch bonestly sought and informative to the visitors. for peace and hoped it would cover In a brief reference to the early the earth as the waters cover the history of the Colony, Mr. Shenton sea. In that spirit they joined mentioned that in the very earliest hands with Sir Robert and gentle proclamations it was always made men of the Anglo-Saxon, nation in clear that the British claimed no seeking a solution of the problems special privileges in Hongkong but which vexed the nations. (Apheld the Colony free to all nations plause.)
and all flags, guaranteeing to the Chinese that their religion, tradi- Anglo-Saxon Goodwill,
tions and customs would be respect The Colonial Secretary (the Hon. ed. That pledge had been carried
Tratman), who was out to the letter. (Applause.) called upon to respond for, the At the conclusion of tiffin the taken over the Hongkong community, remarked visitors were
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that those present who knew himnumerous handsome saloons of the well as a man of very few words Malolo. could imagine the consternation with which he received the news that an address was expected from him, especially when he saw 89 many round him who were more practised in public oratory. How ever, it was not a very difficult
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"No, I didn't find it so. A 1 did when I wanted to travel was to shift along to the offices of this company and get placed. Since then I've seen almost every place, and this cruise makes me a round globe trotter.”.
Mr. Knudson added that he liked the Malolo's present trip" better. than anything he had previously undertaken. He was particularly taken by what he had seen of the Orient, and thought the view of Hongkong by night was the only one of the world's wonders people were not disappointed in.
When finally our reporter left him the Malolo's printer was climb- ing into a shoregoing suit to rush ashore for a run to Repulse Bay.
"I've printed to-day's paper," he said with a smile, and made a dash for the gangway and a wailing ricksha at the wharf gates.
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