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"HE DECADE OF THE EIGHTIES SAW HONGKONG UNDER THE
THE RULE OF TWO GOVERNORS SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN AND SIR GEORGE WILLIAM DES VOEUX. - WHILST NEITHER CAN BE CALLED REALLY GREAT, IT CANNOT BE DENIED THAT BOTH WERE EXTREMELY CAPABLE AND CON- SCIENTIOUS ADMINISTRATORS AND LEFT THEIR MARK UPON THE FUTURE OF THE COLONY,
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DEFENCE OF DEMOCRACY
Sir George Ferguson Bowen recorded that it was due largely to was born in England on Novem- his efforts that the native Macris reconciled to the ber 2, 1821, He was the eldest were ultimately
novelty of British rule.
In 1872, Sir George was trans- Bowen, who subsequently held ferred to the post of Governor of Victoria, where likewise his honest the living of Taughboyne, County Donegal, Ireland. On and emcient administration won for
him
a further nomination as Gover- account of his parents's posi- nor of Mauritius.
It was not until 1802 that Sir George tion, Sir George was afforded the advantage of the best educa- became connected with the history
of this Colony, whe
when he was appoint- tion of his day, attending school ed Governor and Commander-in- at Charterhouse and later Chief of Hongkong in succession to finishing at Trinity College, Ox- Sir John Pope Hennessy, who had been transferred to the guberna- ford.
torial duties of the Colony of Mauri- flus.
In arrived
Like many cons of the clergy, Sir George decided upon teaching as a
ihe
Str George Bowen Hongkong on March 24, 1883, and at once assumed the routine responsi-] bilities of his high office.
career, and his keen interest in classical Greek, at the age of twenty- stx, secured the post of President of the University of Corfu, in
Even whilst in England, previous Colony, Ichian falands. In addition, he ser- la his embarking for the
efforts were being made to influence ved for a time as private secretary to the British Governor there, a fact his future administration here. Like that proved to be an introduction in his predecessor, Sir John Pope Hen-
diploma-
nessy, Governor Bowen was known which he so distin
be a man of intense liberal spirit and what is more something of a him reformer; for he was at once singled by the Church element in the out
organised vice, crusade upon
to
by a
who rule by tact; but both of his efforts to secure the complete
exploration of the territories under which was particularly obnoxious
of the electors. And right however, that he
let it be made clear here that it is not proposed to argue the relative value of democracy as against some other system. Democracy has its faults and its weaknesses, and the abuses which the "party
LTD. chief
ch-
measures,
of
This meant in part that the un-
were at
the
"It's changed the entire course of my life-I'm gonna be a
gentleman crook, not júst a common thief!"
BOMBERS are the
Supreme Weapon
Says
CAPT. NORMAN| MACMILLAN,
M.C., A.F.C.,
IN two widely different areas in the past few days atten- tion has again been focused on the bomber.
the sphere of Her Majesty's tie service: in Besides good and bad states-guished himself that Queen Victoria
there are several other honoured him by creating But mainly, in a democ-K.C.M.G. in the year 1850.
Three years after the imring of British Isles as the very one to lead! racy, they can be divided into this distinction, he was two categories: those who rulathe Secretary of State for the Colonies which, it was asserted, was tourish-j Da the first governor of Queensland. int under the very negis of the by force and fear, and those Here he gained distinction an account Colony's ordinances,
The bit of colonial legislation) tral, and they bis control, rule only so long as
also for establishing
blishing and therefore the target of the the nucleus of D volunteer forer on righteous wrath of the social re-
On the Aragon front, Franco, have the confidence and trust the
Queensland soil. History records,
he at length Incurred formers of the period was that de
as Ordinance signated
No. 10 or in his thrust into Catalonia, has the enmity of a considerable portion 1005.
employed the bomber as a me- of the population by reason of his
The purpose of this enactment was dium range heavy gun. unwavering opposition to the Boating
check the spread of contagious In the waters of the English of an issue of bank-noles which the
system of inspection than that pre- populace deemed necessary to stem discases by providing for a closer channel the Home Flest has, as the acute financial crisis of 1806,
viously prevalling."
a manoeuvres exercise, run the Perhaps it was on this account
Actually, however, the power of peacetime gauntlet of R.A.F. shore the
at ordinance were that the Colonial Office saw t
were wide; for it pro- bombers stationed dorse his judgment by naming him system" us the Governor of New Zealand in vided for the regulation of prostituerodrames from Exeter to Chl- the makes inevitable are among the the following year. His career in tion in Hongkong, and especial chester.
this new post was in reality a sag brothels and the regular medicalance to the student of modern war.
ordered
registration
Both events are of great import- causes for its criticism. of wise administration, and it is
of the inmates. spection of
Incidentally,
will be studied with the But those who subscribe to the
it may be mentioned that this legis- Both Iction was enacted under sugges greatest care by professional sailors, democratic scheme of things,
out, and if I pretended, as Itions from the Secretary of State, coldiers, and airmen as pointers to who have fought for it, indeed, have done in the course of my who, realising the high incidence of the future conduct of campaigns by and who can recall the struggles career, that I was more simple bodies of troops stationed in an area
venereal disease prevalent amongst land and sca.
Since the invention of firearms the of their fathers, and their than I really am, then again you where no sanitary regulations were whole basis of war has been to bring fathers' fathers towards the would know
Earl Bald-in force, decided to "take the bull by to bear upon an enemy such a weight
destruction and defeat. which promised such win speaking. He knew the the horns" and institute prophylactic of missiles as will bring about bis goal
value of the appeal of simplicity.
One by one have come the stages golden bounty, generally realise
Simple Stanley allowed his fortunate victims of the traffic would; of progression in the scientific ap- fully that though it is still far audience to get a glimpse of his have to be inscribed by the Police, plication of the underlying principle: from the ideal as it is con- technique here. None should and that periodical inspection would musket, connon, rifle, gun, inachine gun ball, bullet, shell, torpedo, stituted at present, it is right condemn this little guile. As a be enforced.
Such regulations which were in- bomb.
How the weight of projectiles is to and good, because it seems to statesman he knew he must tended to protect the health of
have the trust and confidence of thousands of single men
be supplied to the front line and there be the way of freedom.
his people not alone that he once pounced upon by well-expended to the best advantage is The greatest blessing of de- might survive some political menning, who felt that they were part of the function of the Com- To-day infantrymen, artillerymen, mocracy, it seems, is the op- upheaval, but because leader nothing more than a bald attempt mander and his staff.
upon the part of the authorities to
Tie- portunity it gives to the genius ship, to be really effective, must favour what has been described as and the Army generally are
chanised. The Navy has been mo- chanised for some 50 years, and to- of a people to rise to power and, be based on these two things, the world's oldest profession.
Incidentally, he led the nation In the end the reformers were day is more highly mechanised than from places of eminence, to in the days of the abdication successful and the Ordinance was ever. the nation. The achievements crisis which might easily have repealed with the unforeseen result like of the British race and they been mishandled by that other mushrooms, and the evil which for Prying Eyes are not small-are due in no type of man. small measure to the fact that
however, of days, In these capable leaders have never been Britain goes from crisis to
During Sir George's term of office, wanting. Prime Ministers and crisis. When Bari Baldwin
amongst the numerous amending office, critics are bound to arise. Sir
there who Ordinances passed, many Foreign Secretaries, and all the went
was George Bowen was no exception, but other high officers of the realm, doubted the wisdom of the one which was deemed especially those who carped at him were mostly can come and go; and their choice of his successor. They important, as it provided for the es- the lesser fry, although some of the tablishment of the first tramway in local papers were not adverse to oc- Mr. Chamber the Colony-that of the Peak fun casional cynicism, sneering at coming may bring some new may still doubt.
Acular line. This enactment lain has done things which
con- Governor's mannerisms much in the ambition, some great enterprise, less daring man would have tained 145 sections, besides lengthy same way as a band of small boys some long-sought reform; while found impossible. The dismis. schedules, and was passed on June who have suddenly discovered the
peculiarities of their teacher. their going is never, irremedia-sal of Mr. Eden and the swift Governor Bowen was, morcover, with childish glee, feel that they are ble. True, the leaders some-change in foreign policy, the keenly interested in increasing the something to be mimicked and ex- times blunder; but they are less wooing of the man in Rome and popular representation on the Legis- posed to public view. Some of the apt, perhaps, to commit them- the swift cementing of the lative Council, and to this end he things that his critics discussed stem directed the attention of the Home to us to-day to be extremely puerile Anglo-French friendship,
that Government, with the, result
-one for example was the Gover selves to some ill-advised or
the greatest expenditure
concur with nor's habit of prolonged oratory and, on ultimately it come dangerous policy because of armaments that the nation has his views. Ha accordingly requested it must be admitted, a too decided in the Chamber of Commerce and the penchant for quoting Robert Burns bem naked to meet very insecurity and be ever cause of the always strident peace-times; these are some of Justices of Fence to elect a member at length, so much so that he was each to sit on the Council and both nicknamed behind his back Sir voice of the Opposition. In the things this hardjawed bodies accepted the invitation with "Gush" Bowen,
Apart from these minor faults, security? It is just here that Prime Minister has dared, and atacrlly. At a general meeting, the the democratic system scores. time may well show that they Chamber of Commerce unanimously Sir George was an administrator of If a man is sound there is little were strokes of genius. Mr. chose Sir Thomas Jackson as their such ability that in 1880, the year representative. In short, as Mr before his departure from the Colony, PEAK DEPOT TeL 20352
likelihood of his being insecure. Chamberlain la going after the Norton-Kyshe in his "History of the he was nominated a Privy Councillor. KOWLOON DEPOT Tel. 08548 There are, remember, the force-confidence and trust of his Laws and Courts of Hongkong" points
He was a scholar of merit, and the ful and suave, the grim, blud-people in a rather different way out, "the election of members to
ed: "Ithaca in 1050." London, 1854: geoning and dictatorial official, than did Earl Baldwin; but ho, Council marked a new era in the amongst his works may be mention- Colony, and, according to reports, Mount Athos, Thessaly and Epirus," and the cool, quiet, smiling type. will have it, and in full measure, there was witnessed at one meeting London, 1862, The Universities of PENINSULA HOTEL TOL S801 Both may accomplish much. If he can shape events in Europe that of the Justices of Peace) Some Oxford and Cambridge, in recognition GLOUCESTER HOTEL Tol. 28988 But it is fairly cortain that the to his will even for a little time. thing akin to the excitement of a
Intter, the friendly, seeming
The strength of this de popular election. No less than three of his researches in the field of candidates were proposed, the result classical learning, bestowed upon him simple man, will be the most mocracy of ours is that there is being the election of Mr. F. D. Sas honourary degrees, and savants felt
that by his death at Brighton loved and will retain the nation's always a trained man ready to soon by a majority of votes.” confidence the longest.
hand, with a full knowledge of To be the Governor of a Colony as February 21, 1800, the world had lost "If I were to pretend here to his ship and his crow, and ex- important as Hongkong is no sine one of its most eminent sons who curo, and regardless of how ably the had so capably distinguished himself have greater abilities than If collent bearings from the past occupant of the gubernatorial chale by patient delving into the vanished
of his giorms of ancient Greece. you would soon find me to help him shapo his course. may administer the duties
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been mechanised; its nero- the hotels and even the residential planes are the principal manifesta- districts.
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BUT
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To-day
tion of the age of mechanisation and speed.
Last Monday, when I flew above the fog-wreathed waters of the Bay of Biscay in a Royal Air Force flying-. boat, the Fleet was found with ease 300 miles away from the English const.
Grey
shapes on the grey sca steaming at 16 knots below the grey mist, they were not hidden from the prying eyes that searched from the times winged hulls sweeping six faster through the air.
And so they were shadowed and watched until they came within the exercise zone of attack. Then bomb- ers wheeled out from the land to harry the hips,
In real war such an advancing fleet would have been bombed for out on the ocean.
Old Menace Gone
THE guns of five battleships, seven cruisers, three do- atroyer fotillas, and one aircraft- carrier could not engage the baseS whance the air attacks came, The shore-based aircraft showered one attack after another upon the Ficet.
The old menace of fleets, secrecy. of manoeuvre, has been destroyed by the aeroplane.
Noval history tells of the mancouvres of rival admirals to secure favourable conditions to be- gin attack. To-day this preliminary to a naval battle is no more one of scamanship alone.
The modern bomber has cramped the manoeuvring power of naval ships. No longer can a fleet steam with impunity to its gun range. In a first-class war, what admiral is go-. Ing to sall his feet into the sea area heavily covered by enemy bombers? What can he achieve by doing it?
In Spain, Franco's use of the bomb- is vastly different. There the bomber
is acting as a battering-ram. Formerly the commander
UT
of
ground forces wisely kept his con- centration
main of supplies, his transport services, and his reserves of men behind the reach of enemy gunfire.
But he cannot keep them out of range of the aerial bomb unless they are so far back as to be useless,
Relays
THE speed of the aeroplane Tenables the air commander
to keep relays of bombers in the at- Lack, To-day the aeroplane and its bomb is simply a longer-range gun, battering, battering the back arena that formerly went scathless.
So, when the front line erumples under attack, there is nothing be hind to buttress the weak point. This accounts for Franco's series of pd- vances to a considerable depth before the opposing forces could re-form.
In the war of 1814-18 first, second, and third trench lines were close to- gether. But modern conditions of war Indicate that armies, when dļa- bo posed to resist attack, must spaced in parallel zones many miles, instead of only hundreds of yards, spart.
Bath at sea and on land the bomb- er has forced commanders to adopt. new methods of warfare. No maro Is it necessary to wait to meet an army or a fleet.
No more. Is it necessary to dovo- teil in advance every detail_of_q sea or tand battle into the speed of up- port possible on land or sea.
Given superior air strength, the commander can almost instantly pros vide pressure where it is most need- ed, for bombérs, can be thrown into action instantly to meet a developing situation,
To those who have cyes to see, it Is abundantly clear that the nation with the greatest force of hith match, long range bombers and mambient the other elements of way arona, witi win the ware of the future.