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The principal residential dis- trict is the Peak 2,000ft above. sea-level, the large houses on the tops of mountain crags and along the skyline adding a fantastic
this by hundreds of junks, some eight ports of the world to its original splendour to the wooded slopes
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below and the distant views of simultaneously clustored 'round HY- and several smaller rocky the freighters and liners in the
Hongkong is a place which water and barren hills. Across Islands. The total arca extends fairway or alongside the docks, must be held by Great Britain. the harbour, the new town of Without it China is cut off from Kowloon, with wharves, ship- over 340 square miles-about South of Shanghai Hongkong the West, except for precarious yards and a fine garden city, is the size of Middlesex. On the is the only modern-port in China, connection vin Yunnan. If about the size of Portsmouth. WHIZ NON-EVAPORATING HY-hilly shores of #
and, in consequence, it does an Hongkong goes, the field is left The British population, apart magnificent enormous entrepot trade. It free for Japan and Russin. Not from the garrison, numbers ⚫ landlocked harbour stand the has a big shipbuilding and re- only is it the British naval and about 8,000, and there are some Jarge and very up-to-date towns pairing industry, with docks able commercial base in China, but it 10,000 other non-Chinese, mainly to take either a battleship or the is in itself one of the greatest Indians, Portuguese and Filipino, of Victoria and Kowloon, with a 30,000-ton liners of the Canadian achievements of the British race. With representatives of every na. total population of about 1,000,- Pacific Steamship Company.
tionality. The Chinese popula There is also a naval dockyard. tish colony extends far beyond 1937, or over 98 per cent. of the The significance of this Bri- tion was nearly 1,000,000 in 000 people.
any matter of profits for the total. Now the figure has been The British observer of news.
firms doing business there. It swollen by an indeterminate from the Far East makes instinc- Kowloon,
on the mainland has been, like Shanghai, the number of refugees. tive comparisons with the other shore of the harbour, is the meeting place of China and the Becauso Hongkong has been u great westernised port of China, terminus of the much-bombed West. Foreign tradera-there model for a new civilisation Shanghai. Hongkong, having Canton-Kowloon railway, which is no discrimination in favour of blending East and West, Japan is now linked through to Han- British people in this cosmopoli- regards it with deep hostility the status of n British Crown kow and forms the main line of ton place-have in it a healthy and sees in it a source of infiltra- colony, and being, unlike Shung communications of the Chinese city where they can live, and a tion of European ideas to China hai, an integral part of the Bri- armies defending that city. secure base from which they can and an outpost set against her tish Empire, is in a much better There is also a large airport at conduct trade with the hinter plans for isolating the Far East
stead of an overcrowded port, Airways, Air France and the Africa in classical times, and it turn her eyes from the West, three overseas airlines-Imperial China what Carthage was to Japanese ideology Chinn must partly international and partly Pan-Pacific-and for two Chi has much of the magnificence and West largely means Hong- Chinese, with no natural boun- nese aviation companies plying associated in imagination with kong.
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Thongkong Telegraph. position to protect itself. In- Kowloon which is a terminus for land. It has been to South from the rest of the world. In
FRIDAY, Ocronen 28, 1938.
THE WAR DEBTS
Concurrently with the revival
daries between the adjacent inland. cities (as in Shanghai) we have
n self-contained area here Home size.
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of
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The military task before Japan Since the outbreak of hostill-
will not be easy, though hardly ties with Japan it is through
greater than her invasion of the Yangtzse Valley. In advancing Hongkong that China has been On the other hand, the Chi- from Bios Bay the invaders will of rumours of a war debt settle-
drawing the bulk of her war neso have settled there to the have to contend with mountain. ment comes a report from!
supplies and carrying on her ex- number of a million, and with ous country, alternating with America that Britain has aguin
port trade. As Japan is not the advantages of political se stretches of rice fields. These The narrow harbour entrances officially at war with China, she curity they have evolved a new will be dry at the present time, informed the United States that are protected by powerful bat- does not enjoy belligerent rights, civilisation of their own, neither but offer difficulties to a me- interest will not be met at teries and, along a land frontier and the British naval authori- old Chinese nor European, which chanised force. Of roads there December 31.
of some 20 miles, a natural bar- ties have firmly refused to has been copied in Canton and is are none. rier of hills has been strengthen- tolerate any interference with the model for urban reconstruc- No interest on the war debtsed by field fortifications British ships carrying cargo in- tion all over South China.
reason
anti-aircraft batteries.
pre-
to Hongkong. No right of search has been admitted--nothing The place is well administered The provinces of Kwangtung
of Hong-
* has been paid since 1934. It is pured under the eye of General a great pity that Britain ever Sir Edmund Ironside, who visit more than a demand to sec iden- and is notable for the real friend- and Kwangsi have been inten- interrupted the "token" payed the colony in 1936. The only tification papera.
ship between the peoples of all sively preparing for this ordeal, ments, for at least such nominal danger is from aerial bombard-
nations. In domestic and inti- and the quality of their troops The Japanese Navy has thus mate the ment of the exposed and densely had the mortification of secing communities keep to themselves, nese success at Taien. The Car- social life the different was.recently proved in the Chi- remittances. recognised obligation. The
that populated towns. Much atten- quantities of war material pour- but in hotels and cinemas, on the ton River is difficult to negotiate, tion has been paid to passive air ing into the British colony for sports flelda, in offices and in but possible for destroyers and payments cessed at all was the
raid precautions, and there are transhipment inland to the Chi- public life there is genuine good gunboats, especially as China Johnson Act of 1934. This re-
nesc armies. They have watch feeling and co-operation.
can oppose no flect of her own. vealed American contempt of
ed the same ships leave with
Near Canton the river narrows, tokens; for under the Johnson
The Japanese do a good deal and it is only 100 yards wide at Hongkong is a riverine port, their holds filled with the ex- Act they did not prevent the but the Canton River is shallow ports by which China's credit of trade with Hongkong, but the fortified passage of the
has been maintained. It is for their community there is aloof Bocca Tigris (Tiger's Mouth). British Government from being and only coasting steamers can these reasons that the Navy and inconspicuous. They own a
reach Canton, 80 miles distant, Office of Tokyo has long been few small shops, and some little threat to the future
The operations constitute a branded as a defaulter. The The West River, South China's urging either a declaration of hotels, but the big stores seen in kong. sense of injury which is felt in main artery of trade, which war or an expedition against the Philippines are noticeably ab- dominate South China, as they If the Japanese were to Britain over the Johnson Act is branches from the main stream South China.
intend, it might not be impossi- very real. And yet the pique near Canton, is navigable for
When the island was ceded to ble to find an alternative har- which resulted in the stoppage about another 120 miles by light
Britain in 1842 it was a desolate bour in the indented coast, Mo- of the token payments was as draft steamers and by native Japanese airmen have failed, resort of pirates and fishermen, dern harbour engineering makes NO WONDER THEY ARE PLEASED-advised as the Johnson Act craft much further. Hongkong despite almost daily bombings, New Victoria, one of the largest it by no means impracticable to barbour is thus the place where to put the Kowloon-Canton Rail- towns in the Empire, has grown build new berths and docks and itself.
way out of action, and the pre- up along its shores, and spread a railway to Canton. With the junks and river steamers, plying sent expedition, launched from over the lower hill-alopes. Huge aid of the tariff weapon it would How to overcome the im- far inland, meet the deep-sen the wilds of Bias Bay, a famous reclamations, a triumph of engi- be possible to laolate Hongkong passe? It is a ticklish problem, ships from all parts of the world, haunt of pirates, aims at throw- neering, have been thrust out in- and divert its trade. The same for in few other subiccts bringing goods for and from ing a cordon round Hongkong to the sea, and the waterfront thing has happened before. and blocking both rail and river stretches over a distance of Over the other side of the Can- is prejudice more entangled. South China.
traffic. It seeks to reduce Hong- seven miles. The central dis- ton River the once-glorious Por- Partly, however, the prejudice Every day some 20 to 30 river kong from one of the greatest trict has been largely rebuilt in tuguese city of Macao is now a shadow, with a silted harbour comes from a lack of willingness craft push off from the Praya,
and ruined churches and palaces. on both sides to see the point
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carrying the trade of the pro- GRIN AND BEAR IT vinces of Kwangtung, with its 30,000,000 inhabitants, and
Two rights are in conflict overKwangsi, even larger in area,
the war debts. A debt is owed
to the United States, and no casuistry can make it appear in any other gulse; for there is the
though less densely populated. The steamers are supplemented
signed and sealed Baldwin Set- which both the British and the tlement of 1923 to endorse it. American governments can raise Yet it is a debt aui generis. For money.
it was incurred in a common If the amount already paid cause, and such contracts are on war debt accounts were re- not usually drawn up in a count-garded as a contribution to the ing house.
principal, and the remainder Specifically the basis for con- divided into a short series of cessions resides in the interest annual payments, this should rate. It was hardly in accord provide a basis for a reasonable with the spirit of a partnership settlement. The world is full of to charge any interest rate at unresolved disputes upon which all. Among partners such a partics have taken Immovable practice is absent more often positions,
Britain and than not. And it was certainly America provide an example of discriminatory to charge Britain; the only basis upon which inter- 3.3 per cent., while charging]national controversies can be Italy 0.4 per cent. This gave settled, namely, in the spirit of the entire scheme of acttlementa compromise. That would give the look of a bankruptcy court. point to their present preach- Moreover, 3.3 per cent. is now ments to the rest of the quarrel- [higher than the going rate at‡ing world.
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DANGER TO WORKMEN
Heavy Machinory Without Guards
Plending ignorance of the regula tions in mitigation, Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared on behalf of the manager of the Yee Kel Company, summoned before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac-
fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday for running an unregister- ed factory, and admitted the offence, Mr. D. W. Phillipa, Assistant In- apector of Factories and Workshops, said he had visited the Company's premises, at 182 Hai Tan Street, on October 1, and found heavy machin- ery in operation, grinding wolfram
There were 12 workmen pre- sent, but die machinery, including the bolting and the pulley, wheels, was unguarded. No fee was charge ed for registration, which, however, was necessary to ensure that safety precautions were taken.
ore.
not
Mr. Silva explained that the Com. pany was a Cantonese one, and had Intended
to operate in Canton, but had been forced to come to Hung kong
of the hostilitica. because hnd
been known that registru- tion was necessary,
Commenting on the danger to the wurkmen, because of the unguarded machinery. which could have been avoided if the factory had been re- gistered, his Worship Imposed a fine of $50.