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The question of newspaper censorship in Hongkong has again been brought to the forefront by the suppression yesterday of all reference in Chinese newspapers to the Japanese raid on the Colony on Tuesday.
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"HONGKUNG
THE GATEWAY TO ANCIENT CATHAY OF WESTERN IDEAS, INSTITUTIONS, AND GOODS..
18 A BRITISH CROWN COLONY"
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WHERE were two difficulties in the addering in decay, as the British ter, it was showing sign of Increase about half, of £250,000,000, over two One was the hostil with Chint. they prevalled upon the Japanese not out: but even with China the tools
early days of
of
the lost in
about
IN A BROAD generalisation, The distinction between Hungkong collon textiles in Lancashire scem It was then dank with
Adam Smith expressed the and Shanghai from the standpoint of never to have envisaged the time growth economic differences
between was
British Interests is vital. Shanghal when the Chinese and the Orientals driven into the mud eventually rose of reeds. On steel piles For some time, we understand, East and West in the early days foreign land renters individually, and the Industrial revolution, But, as fourth port. Within this settlement leased in perpetuity to the generally would themselves adopt international Shanghai, the world's there has been an agilation in of modern trade when he obser- "Just growed" into a self-governing you know, they have adopted it. the British alone have amassed over Chinese newspaper efreles to test ved that the Eust the constitutionality of the legis manufactured but did not carry. Catling of western Ideas, Institutions, so many fond Brin uncashire (for Britain owns a number of the farmed and municipality. With Shanghai, Hong And they have helped to kill the £150,000 in investments: that is, trad kong is the gateway to ancient trade around which there used to be ing concerns, warehouses, shipping and lation which so effectively muzzles Consequently, the West had to and goods, but, unlike Shanghat, it is they have helped to make the Chinese Press. Indeed, we
oftees, milts
mills and factories believe that action on these lines come to the Egat.
British Crown Colony. Both uc a distressed aren, would have been taken in 1936 had
The figures are factor quisitions were criticised in Fire was before the wars pied Kingdom,
in China which outcompeted By more than any other factor the It is said that the British Empire was before the war, shipped catton
Innenhire), real estate, and public not assurances been made that Imagination of the western sea rovers created in an absent-minded moment, goods
Through this
port Alloys censorship would have bech con- had been stirred by the presence in but the men on the spot seem to have kons) antingen og nearly half of China's foreign trade, fined to (a) anything subversive European markets of Oriental teas, had a pre-vision which was anything
amounting to 717,000,000 linear which to the British Empire; (b) any-silks, and choice, handmade nan- but absent-minded.
yards. By 1930, the amount was less
means that headquartered in less Shanghai Bre thing likely to damage Hongkong's keens, spices, Ivories, ornaments of
than one tenth. The drop was even
prosperous shipping British interest in China was mo- greater in the
even lines plying
between coastal and trade relations with friendly Powers; porcelain, and other objets d'ari, perialism. There was basically no is now beating England at her own owns half of China's carrying trade.
and other semi-precious stone, tivated solely by commercial im- and, to add insult to injury, Japan home shipping concerns.
with Jupun, riverine ports as well as Use docks of communistic doctrine, (d) brought from the East by the over- territorial design. Indeed, the break- gume, and is so proficient that prob- Then most of the railronds were Britain matter likely to incite breaches of peace and good order in Hong-constant incentive to the navigators minent in the nineties, caused most Japanese, the Toyoda loom,
land route. These luxuries were a up of China, which seemed to be im- ably the best loom in the world is built with British capital. Govern- kong; (e) indecent matter.
to find an all-sea route to what they alarm and
ment loans are held by British in- called the
perturbation in Downing It is now time to look into that vestors, und mines are concessioned falls the suppression of route, the way
in 1408 of the Capo
no trade.
The British sought frantically sells to Japan less than £4,000,000 legitimate news in connection with
was open. and into to prevent the break-up of Asiatic waters sailed first the Portu- They suggested the Open Door policy, nearly three times as much as that. have to take the authoritative esti
China, worth of merchandise. She
buys Tuesday's border outrage? Weguese, after them the Spaniards, then..
How much is it all worth? have seen a censor's proof of the the Dutch, and finally the English, lent General Gordon to the Manchus a
In the Taiping Rebellion the British nearly £3,000,000 worth. Japan as mate of the American economist, Dr. deletions from the "Luenhokan", who established a trading post, er in order to keep the Marchas on the gradually disappearing-imports
market for British Kouds is C. F. Remer, who has made a special the tabloid newspaper jointly "factory." at Canton in 1884.
Dragon Throne. It was a poor ser- published by the Chinese News-
a study of foreign investments welt to China, for the Manchus were to amount. China's account is bel- 500, he reckons the British are at
as exports-nre Vlee to
insignificant as Ch
Chino. Out of a total of £500,000,- paper Owners' Association while their own papers have been
themselves realized in 1011, when when the Sino-Japanese War broke thirds of which is located in Shang- suspended during the lunar New Year holidays. Not only has the
the anti- to interfere with the Nationalistle Re- are relatively slight. Britain Commercial Manchu censor red-inked news
court. The volution against the Manchu dynasty from China (and Hongkong) the Manchus were what we would now which set up the present Chinese Re- £8,000,000 worth of merchandise, spective, one must set it side by side
ban buys
In order to put this estate in per- bombing outrage gathered by the call autarchists, and autarchists publie. Closer to modern Chinese paper's own reporters, but fout benefit of ersatz materials. have been the continues there chietly eges and their derivatives with the shares of other powers. has also suppressed re-publication Celestial Empire," wrote the magni- build up Chins and help the Chinese to China and Hongkong almost as 800,000 and the United States a long
efforts to
rts to British confectioners. Britain
England's stake is valued at £250,- seils 000,000, with Japan next at £150,- of reports which had already
ficent Emperor Chien
Lung, in attaining full sovereignty, which much, £8,000,000 worth. All these way third, with £40,000,000. So appeared in contemporary English dance, and lacks no product within of Sir Austen Chamberlain's,
"possesses all things in prolific abun- began in the Foreign Secretaryship Agures are language journals. The "Laenho-its own borders. There is therefore polley was assiduously
This Britain's
sum of though kan", when its own reports were
Britain ings badly in trade, foreign trade." which Just pursued suppressed, endeavoured to "lift" of outside barbarians in exchange for ing from the effects of
no need to import the manufactures 1931 to 1937, when china sudufrom year was: Imports, £060,000,000; ex- it is well in the lead in the value
of its the full report published by the our own produce."
ports, £400,000,000. Thus Britain's
estate, However, silver polity, and no doubt accounts 1 per cent. of its total exports. Not £200,000,000 days. A sum of £250,- exports to China in 1930 were about
these figures are not. "Hongkong Telegraph". This The second difficulty of tending
really Impressive, especially in these In part for present-day Japanese much of a chestnut here! news, available to anyone who with China was that it was not trad bitterness toward England. could read English, was not per-ing! Trade is a two-way business,
000,000, after all, is unly 6 per cent. In cotton textiles there was a com-
of Britain's total investment, and in mitted to be published in Chinese foods for goods. But, just as the modity for which there seemed to be the Orient has been the theme of than £1
The sad stale of British trade in a normal period of peace adds lesk newspapers. Similarly, a "Reu-
Manchu court was hostile to trading, an illimitable demand on the part of more than one report of a Brilish income. This amount, small as it is, tor" report from London, stating terested in Western produce, though
so the Chinese were really not in- nearly 500,000,000 people. The hold economie mission since the World is certain
£10,000,000 to British national that the British Ambassador in they readily took silver in payment the imagination of British Indus- War. The first one in 1930-31 noted Japany in danger from the Sino- Tokyo was lodging a protest with for their own produce. Accordingly, trades of the possibilities of such lugubriously, "We and our competi- of other nations, even China's, in War. But so are incomes the Japanese Government, was the bonts used to go out loaded to the has always betrayed judgment. H. M. needs of Chine and Japan in mani and China are mutually engaged in trade was quaint. For population mutilated to such an extent that gunwales with plexes of eight, Carolus Stanley,
latators beating us in supplying the China. It so happens that Britain an entirely different interpreta-dollars and ballast
the Journalist-explorer, tion was placed on its meaning.
Eventually, the Americans hit on drawing cloquent pictures of the shipm
to stir Manchester audiences by Hongkong (which is merely a trans- goods." Britain, even with cfactured
with protecting one another's trade stakes. A "United Press" message had all something that the Chinese valued. prospects of commerce with Africa shipment point for the goods of all more chance there is of the British The longer China holds out, the except one paragraph deleted,
This was ginseng, cateemed all over when the missionaries should have tiles), China as
now ranks fourth estate being saved. Indeed, the It domestic was of it seems to us tached when the when the Empress of China set sall, When the natives and further lenin- Japan, the thote from the falling encouraged to move more actively in medicine. The Chinese persuaded the Negroes of the Congo the United States, the second length of the Chinese resistance may
Y among China's purveyors. The first clothes at least on Sundays. is
so weaken Japan
that Britain, sery- third censors forbade Chinese news-and the Americans built up as their ed to array themselves in cotton on t
the cause of expediency, be papers from mentioning the fact main export product the swapping of week days as well, the loom
British trade. But, till the of Lan- that His Excellency the Governor / what a contemporary American wrli- cashire were to know no cessation, Sino-Japanese War broke out, Bri Eouth and central China (never was at Fanling at the time of the mountains and forests for the "er Similarly, the late Wu Ting-fang of trade was riding high, for it was the integrity of that part of China.
er called "this useless produce of our
North China, I believe)' for the faith in the recovery of outrage and that he had proceeded gant luxuries of China.
a modicum
preservation of her estate, even for to the scene of the bombing short-fent illustration of the virtues of in- forth on the accretion to world trade for cgineering products, to take the
An excel-
xcel- was wont post-prandially to hold hoped to expand the Chinese market ly afterwards. Chinese papers
were also forbidden to turn, hit on opium, though she didn't due Chinese should have been in that end Sir Frederick Lelth-Ross,
news-ternational tradet England, in her which would result when the teem-for
place of the vanishing texilles, To mention the fact that Bishop Hall Introduce it. It was introduced by dured to add half an inch to their Britain's Chief Economic Adviser, and proceeded to the frontier to
the Arabs, I believe, as four back as
shirt talls. Investigato the damage to the
the thirteenth century, but the Chi-
had been in China for almost a year; nese took avidly to Indian opfum, Shum Chun refugee zone.
Dr. H. H. Kung had virtually obtain- which was carried in British bottoms. African, is restricted. In spite of the market: a happy arrangement on But Chinese buying power, like ed a fairly sizable Joan in the British
New York. YSTEMATIC foreign economic in- a bitter fact of modern experience even the aboillion of extra-terri-Halderman for her airman hus- early fables of the sated East, it is railroad debts had been reached; and THE love of prelly Mrs. Dorothy Stercourse with China torty with that hunger is the dominant problem toriality had been initialed ad re- band, Commander Russel Holderman. the peace treaty, the Treaty of Nan of China. The salutation is: "Have ferendum. king. 1842. Nothing about onium you eaten to-day?" not "How pre brilah trade with China is by no times, recently cost him the victory rasive. In fact, If Hainbury's appears in the peace treaty, but a you? Economically, China is what means the extent of the British estate in the New York to Miami air race "Lawa of England" iB
vegetable in China. This has two other calls authority, the entire question trading. And,
meaning that the people
and shipping.
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We believe that such censorship of legitimate news will greatly strengthen the claims of the Chinese newspapers that cen- sorship in Hongkong is
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• food deal about the rights of generalent mainly upon the plant trendition to trade; namely, lavestad a £400 prize,
to help that trade,
Commander Holderman lost the of constitutionality is raised. It four more ports of bottlenecks were are
race by a matter of acconds to Max says: "The Crown cannot, apart opened to foreign residence and trade, world for their food and clothing. These ports which were opened by Constant, of New York, because his from the rules of law relating to Including Shanghai, a stretch of Even in this lowly department it is the licensing of stage, plays, or muddat with a few tumble-down not self-supporting. Population has the Treaty of Nanking have become plane was overloaded: Mrs. Holder- to blasphemous or seditious libels, wealthiest city. In addition, Hong before, and since Chien Lung de- moved into Shanghal on the heels of the machine took off.
Asia's been outracing available food supply wealthy emporia; particularly Shang man had slowed away in her hus
hal. When the pioneer traders band's cabin low-seconds or the publication of reports of kong, an arid rock, which was used clared China's econorate self-auf- the Treaty of Nanking of 1842, they Judical proceedings, exerciso any as a pirate's hideaway, was ended to ficiency.
Experts wald that Commander- control over the publle press." Beltain..
marked out plots on the Whongyu Holderman would have won but for Moreover, those early purveyors of River, a tidal river of the Yanglaze. the plane's additional load.
fishermen's huts,
now
before