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Hongkong's Danger From
TAPAN'S new expedition
against South China aims at isolating Hongkong, the British port through which China has |maintained her last seaward con- nection with the outside world.
Hongkong proper is a small, mountainous island in the mouth
of the Canton River. But the
Japan
By R. T.
enormous
BARRETT,
recent years, the dominating building being the 16-storey headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- tion.
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The principal residentini dis- trict is the Peak 2,000ft above sea-level, the large houses on the tops of mountain crags and nlong the skyline adding a fantastic colony includes besides this by hundreds of junks, some cight ports of the world to its original splendour to the wooded slopes below and the distant views of know you will STOP regardless of island a peninsula of mainland or nine of which may be seen atatus of an isolated island.
simultaneously clustered round ITX- and several smaller rocky the freighters and liners in the must be held by Great Britain, the harbour the new town of Hongkong is a place which water and barren hills. Across islands. The total area extends fairway or alongside the docks.
Without it China is cut off from Kowloon, with wharves, ship- and preserves Hydraulic over 340 square miles-about South of Shanghal 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 via Yunnan, If about the size of Portsmouth. and, in consequence, it does an Hongkong goes, the field is left The British population, apart. hilly shores of a magnificent
entrepot trade. It free for Japan and Russia. Not from the garrison, numbers landlocked harbour stand the has a big shipbuilding and ro- only is it the British naval and about 8,000, and there are some- large 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 overy na-
Steamship total population of about 1,000,- Pacific
Company.
tionality. The Chinese popula- The significance of this Bri- tion was nearly 1,000,000 in 000 people.
There is also a naval dockyard. tish colony extends far beyond 1937, or over 98 per cent. of the any matter of profits for the total. Now the figure has been The British observer of news
firma doing business there. It swollen by an indeterminate from the Far East makes instinc- Kowloon, on the mainland has been, liko Shanghai, the number of refugees. tive comparisons with the other shore of the harbour, is the meeting place of China and the Because Hongkong has been a great westernised port of China, terminus of the much-bombed West. Foreign traders there model for a new civilisation. Shanghai, Hongkong, having Canton-Kowloon railway, which is no, discrimination in favour of Liending 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 tan place-have in it a healthy and secs in it a source of infiltra- colony, and being, unlike Shang- 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
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Hongkong 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 stead of an overcrowded port, three overseas airlines-Imperial China what Carthage was to Japanese ideology China must
Airways, Air France and the Africa in classical times, and it turn her eyes from 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. daries between the adjacent inland.
the Phoenician atpost.
The military task before Japan cities (ns in Shanghai) we have
will not be easy, though hardly here a self-contained area of
greater than her invasion of the some size,
Yangtzse Valley. In advancing,
THE WAR DEBTS
Concurrently with the revival
of rumours of a war debt settle- ment comes report from America that Britain has again'
1
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Since the outbreak of hostili- ties with Japan it is through Hongkong that China has been On the other hand, the Chi- from Bias Bay the invaders will drawing the bulk of her war nese have settled there to the have to contend with mountain- supplies and carrying on her ex- number of a million, and with ous country, alternating with 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 dificulties 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-
British ships carrying cargo in- tion all over South China.
No interest on the war debts ed by field fortifications pre- to Hongkong. No right of search has been paid since 1934. It is pared under the eye of General has been admitted-nothing The place is well administered The provinces of Kwangtung
reason
a great pity that Britain ever Sir Edmund Ironside, who visit more than a demand to see iden- and is notable for the real friend and Kwangsi have been inten- interrupted the "token" pay-jed the colony in 1936. The only tification papers.
ship between the peoples of all sively preparing for this ordeal, nations. In domestic and inti- and the quality of their troops ments, for at least such nominal danger is from aerial bombard-
The Japanese Navy has thus mate social life the different was recently proved in the Chi- remittances recognised the ment of the exposed and densely had the mortification of seeing communities keep to themselves, nese success at Taien. The Can- obligation. The
that populated towns. Much atten- quantities of war material pour but in hotels and cinemas, on the ton River la difficult to negotiate, payments ceased at all was the ton has been paid to passive air ing into the British colony for sports fields, in offices and in but possible for destroyers and 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-anti-aircraft batteries.
nese 'armics. They have watch- feeling and co-operation.
can oppose no fleet of her own. vealed American contempt of
ed the same ships leave with
Near Canton the river narrows, The Japanese do a good deal and it is only 100 yards wide at tokens; for under the Johnson 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 British Government from being and only coasting steamers can has been maintained. It is for their community there is aloof Bocca Tigria (Tiger's Mouth).
these reasons that the Navy and inconspicuous. They own a The operations constitute a reach Canton, 90 miles distant. Office of Tokyo has long been few small shops, and some little threat to the future of Hong- branded, as a defaulter. The
The West River, South China's urging either a declaration of hotels, but the big stores seen in kong. If the Japanese were to 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 Britain over the Johnson Act is branches from the main stream South China. very real. And yet the pique near Canton, is navigable for which resulted in the stoppage about another 120 miles by light of the token payments was as draft steamers and by native
craft much further.. Hongkong despite almost daily bombings, Now Victoria, one of the largest it by no means impracticable to harbour is thus the place where to put the Kowloon-Canton Rail- towns in the Empire, has grown build new berths and docks and 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, Inunched from over the lower hill-alopes. Huge aid of the tariff weapon it would How to overcome the im- far inland, meet the deep-sea the wilds of Bins Bay, a famous reclamations, a triumph of engi- be possible to isolate 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 subjects 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 dia- 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 & shadow, with a silted harbour comes from a lack of willingness craft push off from the Praya,
and ruined churches and palaces.
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itself.
on both sidea to see the point
of view of the other.
Two rights are in conflict over the war debts. A debt is owed to the United States, and no casuiatry can make it appear in any other guise; for there is the
sent.
intend, it might not be impossi- When the island was ceded to ble to find an alternative har- #
Britain in 1842 it was a desolate bour in the indented coast. Mo- Japanese airmen have failed, resort of pirates and fishermen. dern harbour engineering makes
carrying the trade of the pro- GRIN AND BEAR IT vinces of Kwangtung, with its 30,000,000 inhabitants, and
Kwangsi, even larger in area, though less densely populated. The steamers are supplemented
signed and scaled Baldwin Set- which both the British and the tlement of 1923 to endorse it. American governments can raise
| Yet it is a debt mui generis. For money.
If the amount already paid |
it was incurred in a common 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 parties have taken immovable. practice is absent more often positions, Lot 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 bo Italy 0.4 per cent. This gave settled, namely, in the spirit of the entire scheme of settlements compromise. That would give the look of a bankruptcy court. point to their present preach-{ Moreover, 8.3 per cent. is now ments to the rest of the quarrel- higher than the going rate ating world..
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DANGER TO WORKMEN
Heavy Machinery Without Guards
Pleading ignorance of the reguln- tions in mitigation, Mr. M. A. da Silva uppenred on behalf of the manager of the Yee Kel Company, summoned before Mr. Q. A. A. Moc
fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday for running an unregister- ed factory, and admitted the offence. Mr. D. W. Phillips, Assistant In- spector of Factories and Workshops, said he had visited the Company' premises, at 182 Hai Tan Street, on October 1, and found heavy machin- ery in operation,
grinding wolfram ore. There were 12 workmen pro- sent, but the machinery including the belting and the pulley wheels, was unguarded. No fee was charg ed for registration, which, however, was necessary to ensure that safely precautions were taken.
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 long- kong because of the hontulties, had not been known that digistra= Bon was necessary,
Commenting on the danger to le workmen, because of the unguardekk. machinery, which could have. DERY avoided if the factory had been ar stored, Ms. Worship imposedTMTM |
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