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The
Personalities Of Oid· Hongkong
SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON
Popular Governor Of The Colony
By T. Paul Gregory
HIS FIRST GOVERNORSHIP
POPULAR figure in the history of the His editing of the report of Colony during the last the Colonies represented there was considered a remarkably decade of the nineteenth thorough piece of work, and was century was that of the doubtless directly instrumental Governor, Sir William Ro- in influencing the Secretary of for the Colonies in him Governor of
binson, G.C.M.G., K.C.M.G., State
his prede naming
the Bahamas in 1874. He
|C.M.G. Like
continued in this post until 1881,
cessor, Sir William Des Voeux, his. career in and so capable did his adminis- Stubbs Rd. Hongkong was not noted tration prove that in 1877, he perhaps for brilliant accom- received the thanks of the Gov- and was further plishments, but it can rank crament
honoured by Queen Victoria with as an honourable and
a Commandery of the Order of efficient one; for he was St. Michael and St. George, most capable administrator Henceforth, has promotion was
Hongkong Telegraph. and one who always endea- rapid, and comprised in succes-
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1938.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Cher, 19ắt by United Feature Syndicats, Ena.
19.24 "I understand Snodgrass is stone brokel-Ue hasn't a penny di his wife's name!”
The man who wrote "Love on the Dole" asks
Can You Really Get
AWAY FROM IT ALL?
-By- WALTER GREENWOOD
voured to uphold the high sion such important posts as of the Windward
TWO women paused out-{ traditions of the colonial Governor
Islands, 1880-1885, during which
side the cottage awi service.
time he was the recipient of looked back at the land-locked Sir William Robinson was K.C.ALG. from the Queen. In harbour and the village. It was born in England in the year 1885, he was transferred to evening, and the wind had died 1836. He was the son of the Trinidad where he remained as away. Silvery smoke rose Rev, J. Banks Robinson, and like its Governor until 1891, in which straight as a ruler from the the majority of sons of the Eng. year he had conferred upon him chimneys and east a pearly fish clergy was favoured in what is justly regarded as one sheen over all the white cottages had thought "all people were securing an excellent education. of the "plams" of the Colonial At the foot of the with law. At certain stages of He started his career in Her Service-the Governorship of garden of this cottage is a nar-beautiful and had happy-looking
terraced
LAW OF FORCE: FORCE OF LAW
Civilsation has always tried to bind men's hands and arms
face.".
life is ideal.
development in every State or Majesty's civil service at the Hongkong.
row road, then a low wall guard-
But what of the lives of the Empire there has been a time early age of eighteen, his first Sir William arrived in the ing the rocks which descend to
appointment being that of a Colony to assume of reckless and
his new ap- the cove. Occasionally the sea people of this Cornish village? sometimes
clerk in the Colonial Ofice.
In pointment on December 10, 1891, waters the garden's mosses with Are they ideal? No human's heroic single-handed rule against fact, it was in this branch of the and the accusion was fittingly its spray. It is, as you may
The menfolk here live under lawlessness; and eventually the service that he was later to dis- observed with all the pomp and have guessed, a lovely place in
an arduous and declining trade. sane and balanced citizen has
tinguish himself. By the time ceremony-that is characteristic which to live. he was twenty-two he had risen of similar events in colonial his-
They are honest, simple folk The two women were leaning come to the aid of the man who to be a third class clerk and sub- tory. The inauguration went off against the wall, looking at the who have pedigrees as long as first tried to discipline a rawsequently served дя private without a hitch, and the Colony pretty picture of the village and any to be found in Burke or Debrett. They are men who and dangerous community. It secretary to Mr. Herman Meri- settled down to the rule of a the sunlight glinting
vale and Lord Blackford. So Governor, whose administration water in the hûrbour, One of can trace their ancestors back was fifty years ago that the favourably regarded were his was to be a most happy augury them exclaimed with pleasure at that: men who surprise one by to the Armada, and long before western secretarial attainments that he of the growing wealth and power the sight. Her companion re-the extent of their travelling. plains of the United States. was appointed in April 1864 to of the community. What was plied grudgingly:
They know the meaning of act as private secretary to the more, however, his seven years King Colt--as
"M-m-m-m, yes, it's very nice. | the pioneers Rt. Honourable Edward Card- in office were typical of the cra; All right to stay here for a day futile labour. Sometimes, after
worse than unemployment- were fond of quoting-was the well, and afterwards in 1867 to for Hongkong in the nineties-but I wouldn't like to live here. I
gunman ruled the
laws to
Was
on the
as
a night's toil on the face of the judge and jury on the frontiers. sit as a representative of the was the placid little Colony Why," she went on, amazed, waters, they return with a catch And so the bully and the bad-Colonial Office on the East Afri- which seemed to have entirely "there's no cinema!"
for which there is no market; can Slave Trade Commission. outgrown its reputation for tur-It was not difficult to see that and they stand watching the man, armed with his twin Colt So thorough and painstaking did bulence and lawlessness which this second woman was quite gulls glut themselves. six-shooters, sometimes ruled he carry through the arduous made it notorious throughout lost here. Her remark was where there were no
duties of this appointment that the
They are not cursed with that civilised world less than characteristic of one of the in 1872, he
nerve-strained restlessness Chater Road. curb him, or where there were Principal Clerk.
nominated forty years before. Lest the penalties of having been brought
are we of the city, nor do they reader form the opinion that up in a town where, with enter- no guardians of the law suf-
envy us our diversions. When ile was now thirty-six years of Hongkong was idyllie let him be tainment provided for us, we are their work is done they for ficiently strong to challenge him. (age, and, had already spent some
informed that the Colony was apt to lose the art of entertain-gather at their favourite spot at That state of affairs did not hold eighteen years in the service of not without its problems or sen- ing ourselves.
the harbour and yarn in the open Even worse, We can પત for long, any more than it did in the Crown. He had proved him- ational events which disturbed
air. easily lose the appreciation of self in every appointment, and the calm of the community. any other progressive country,
They have a pleasant com- The law came, with gun-fighters promising men in the service, was regarded as one of the most
nature, we can so easily become munal life impossible in a city, "RACKET-BUSTER"
alienated from it and feel "lost" On Sundays they go One of these which occurred if we are alone. of its own, men like wild Bill and hence; it is not to be during the Governorship of Sir
to their Hickock. Pat Garrett and Bill wondered at that the very next William Robinson was the great from which this woman
I visualised the sort of place ly, an old retired fisherman, un- small chapel, where, occasional- Tilghman, heroes of America's year, he was named to serve as Gambling House Scandal which
had educated, a lay preacher of re- new West. It
a rule of Special Commissioner
I remembered my own putation, gives the sermon and for the uncovered such A formidable visit to London the previous talks of "....coming home in these iron-nerved guardians of Colonial Office at the Vienna amount of evidence regarding fortnight: crowded streets, irri- the dawn, with the mist lying the law never to argue with a
Exhibition.
the corruption and graft alleged table pedestrians, walls every-low on the sea and hiding the gunman-except with weapons.
to be rampant in certain quar-where, and noisy vehicles fouling innd. Then it rises and hangs. ters in Hongkong that it was felt the stilling air with the stench above, on the hill tops, like the
it was of their exhausts.
hath charms
Music hath
Sunday Classical Concert
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Under leadership of
Geo. Pio-Ulski
Programme for Sunday, 18, Sept., 1938.
1 p.m. — 2.30 p.m. PROGRAMME
1. Fingal's Cave. Ouverture. Mendelsohn.
2. Serenade
3. Scheiden and Melden.
4.
Paillasse. Selection
5. My Son. Ballad
0.
Ivana Voles
7. Un peu d'Amour"-
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Whatever
WAS
is us."
Our
come.
Honest, Simple Folk
!
It was a harsh sort of code, but undefended frontiers. The les-in official circles that it was essential for the restora; son we must learn is that for the high time for a grand clean-up,
love of God.” tion of peace and security in terrorised communities.
unification of our people nothing Sir William, proved himself
Instead of astrology the local true "racket-buster" and in thei
bellef is in fairies and pixies. It is unpleasantly true. it except
Own power and Criminal Sessions of June 1897,
was from this that the Now and again you will hear, seems, that the same practical, strength is at our disposal. No the trial of a police officer for
woman had escaped to very reluctantly told, stories of cold-blooded system is required conferences or negotiations could receiving bribes was the signal spend a holiday touring the villagers who were "pixie-led" in 4 broader sense to-day. give us what you have given for an extensive "shake-up" and Cornish coast. But from her by fairies while crossing a mea-
interpretation
In other words, it seems, several European inspectors and remark I guessed that, so far dow in the dark; of being tempt- placed upon the words of Ger- Hitler has frankly chosen arms detectives were summarily dig- as she was concerned, the es-ed from the path, then walking many's all-powerful Fuehrer, he us against arbitration in the missed. The cleaning-up of cor. cape would be when she re-round and round the
meadow follow the hedge yet being un- has stated unequivocally that settlement of disputes and the "uption in connection with the turned to the city.
gambling racket was highly ap
It is so very easy for us city able to find the gate-until the the might of the nation he rules enforcing of what he considers plauded by the community and dwellers to fly off into a romantic charm was spoken and the spell will be used to force Czocho- Germany's rights. He has step-Sir William's departure for day-dream of escape from the was broken.” Slovakin to her knees, to compel ped buck fifty years to the days Home on February 1, 1898 was city to the country. Everybody. Petrified With Fear her people to accept the terms of the western American pioneer regarded with real regret. The I suppose, at some time or of settlement demanded by the who marked his range boun-jusual addresses and compliments other, cherishes the secret hope Sudetens and their blood-rektarios where he willed, and de-were presented to him, and the of a cottage "away from it all."
NOW and again a sou”- westerly galo puts on tions within the Reich. The al fended them with gun-fighting European community expressed The tragedy is it seems, that a show. A red, forge-like glare ternative is terrible. It is noth-cowboys. His speech to his words delivered by the Chief capacity to be "away from it the horizon, the gulls wheeling its sentiments in well-chosen most of us have lost the in the sky, sullen mutterings on ing less than war: and such a cohorts at Nuremberg, whatever Justice, Sir John W. Carrington. all for any length of time, war as the feeblest imagination clso it may be, is no very im-
and calling uncasily. The sea The Governorship of Hong- Which of us, then, is living as still as a lake, and the long must shudder to contemplate. pressive evidence in support of kong was Sir William's last ofl- the real life, the countryman, grasses and bushes on the cliffs There is something alarmingly the Fuehrer's oft-repeated claim cial appointment, and he spent or the townsman who is under standing motionless, like things significant in Hitler's words to that peace is the foundation-this remaining years in well- the daily obligation of catching petrified with fear. hia troops at Nuremberg. stone of German policy.
earned retirement at his home at the same bus or fram every The first puff of wind marks speaking of the At the moment there is noth-No. 28, Evelyn Mansions, Lon-morning, performing the same the sea as though a fast-moving founding of the Greater Gering very potent in the fashion don, S.W., where he passed away routine fobs in the same condi-invisible hand has scattered sand
and the
facts of a law enforcement body in on December 1, 1912, aged 76 tions, then, twice a week, in on its surface. Cloud has come two
dulging in the only relief avall-from nowhere, and white horses which made it possible; the international affairs; but there is
The Colony in which he aorable, the cinema? establishment of what he terms the nucleus of a disciplinary ved as Governor has most ap-
begin to ride towards the land: Recently a town girl, blind gulls are bleached against the a real German community by the force. And there still exists the propriately chosen to perpetuate from birth, regained her sight. dirty, darkening sky, then the annexation of Austria, and the machinery of Geneva and The his sojourn in the naming of She is reported to have expressed great winda rage and terrific founding of a real German Army Hague, which only lacks for de- that well-known thoroughfare great disappointment with the sens hur? themselves with ooooooo by the march across Austria's fenders to ensure its operation. Robinson, Road,
faces of those about her. She *1 (Continued on Page 7.)
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