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Censorship
The question “ newspaper censorship in Hongkong has again ren brought to the forefront by tite suppression yesterday of all reference in Chinese newspapers to the Japanese raid on the Colony on Tuesday,
For some time, we understand,
THE GATEWAY TO ANCIENT CATHAY OF WESTERN DEAS, INSTITUTIONS, AND GOODS
IS A BRITISH CROWS COLONY"
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there has been an agitation in 1of modern trade when he obser- "just growed" into a self-governing And und which there used to be ing concerns, warehouses, a Chinese newspaper circles to test ved that the East formed and municipality.
Korut is the gateway to anelent tra
(c)
censor
red-inked news
and
(1)brought from the East by the over territorial design. Indeed, the break. 4 now bealant Englund at her own owns half of China's earrying trade
the Dutch, and finally the English, lent Palping I
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a
to
at buys
of
were
in
not
dank with an over- The distinction between longkang culton textiles in Lancashire seun It was then
of reet. On steel piles IN A BROAD generalisation,
Adam Smith expressed the and Shanghai from the standpoint of ever to have envisaged the sime growth
British Interests is vital. Shanghal when the Chinese and the Orientals driven into the mud eventually rou economic differences between
leased in perpetulty to the generally would themselves adopt international Shang!, the world's as fourth port. Within this settlement East and West in the carly days foreign land renters individually, and the industrial revolution. But,
know, you
they have adopted it. the British
it. the British alone have onussed over With Shanghal, Hong-
they have helped to 1 the £150,000 in investments; that is, trad- lent trade
hipping: any fond British hopes, the constitutionality of the legis- | manufactured but did not carry. Cathay of western ideas, institutions, so many
banking offices, wills and factories
Britain
# number of the lation which so effectively muzzles Consequently, the West had to and wods, but, unlike Shanghai, it is they have helped to make Lancashire (for the Chinese Press. Indeed, we
a British Crown Colony. Both a distressed area. The
The figures are facturies in Ching which outcompeted believe that action on these lines come to the East.
quisitions were criticised in Englund, imesive. The United Kingdom, Lancashire), real estate, and public would have been taken in 1936 had By more than any other factor the It is said that the British Empire was before the war, shipped cotton piec. uulities. Through this port flows not Assurances been made that imagination of the western sea rovers created in an absent-minded moment, goods to China (including Hong- nearly half of China's foreign trade, censorship would have been con-had been stirred by the presence in but the meu on the spot seem to have kong) amounting to 717,000,000 liner which means that headquartered in hod pre-vision which was anything yards. By 1936; the amount was less Shanghai are prosperous shipping fined to (a) anything subversive | European markets of Oriental teas, but absent-minded.
than
one tenth. The drop was even lines plying betwern coastal and to the British Empire; (b) any-ks, and choice, handmade non-
greater in the trude British interest in Chinese and, to add insult to injury, Japan home shippinus carry
with Japan, riverm
porks as well as the docks of Britain thing likely to damage Hongkong's teens, spices, ivurica, ornaments of relations with friendly Powers: amber, and other semi-precious stone, tivated solely by commercial
porcelain, and other objets d'art, perialism. There was basically no
Then most of the railroads Bame, and
so proficient that prob- communistic doctrine,
Govern- matter likely to incite breaches of land route. These luxuries were a up of Ching, which seemed to be in ably the best loum in the world is built with British capital
the Toyoda Inom.
ment loans are held by British in- peace and good order in Hong-constant incentive to the navigators mingat in the nineties, caused most Jujianese,
they kong; (e) indecent matter.
to on all-sea
d
what route
It is now time to look into that vestors, and mines are concessioned and perturbation in Downing alarm and called the Indles. With the Portu Street. For it would interfere with trade as it stands to-day, Britain to British interests.. We wonder under. which ente
the Cape trade. The British sour frantically sells guest discovery in 1408
Japan less than £4,000,000 gery falls the suppression of route, the way was open, and into to prevent the break-up of China, worth of merchandise. She buys How much is it all worth? We fegitimate news In connection with 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 Tuesday's border outrage? We quese, after them the Spaniards, then In the
Rebellion the British
tish nearly £8,000,000 worth. Japan as mate of the American economist. Dr. Gordon to the Manchus
for market
British gooda have seen a censor's proof of the
C. F. Remer, who has made a special A study deletions from the "Luenhokan", who established a trading post, or in order to keep the Manchus on the gradually disappearing-imports
of foreign investments Dragon Throne, It was a poor ser- well as exports-are simificant as Ching. Out of tolul of £500,000,- the tabloid newspaper jointly "factory," at Canton in 1884.
vice to China, for the Manchus were to amount. China's account is bel- 000, he reckons the British are at published by the Chinese News-
in decay, as the British ter, it was showing signs of increase about half, of £250,000,000, over two paper Owners' Association while HERE were two difficulties in the
realized in 1911, when when the Sino-Japanese War broke their
been" OWR papers have
early days of trading with China, they birds of which is located in Shang- suspended dering the lunar New One was the hostility of the anti- to interfere with the Nationalistie Re- are relatively slight, Brita
In order to put this estate in per- Year holidays. Not only has the commercial Munchu court. The volution against the Manchu dynasty from China (and Hongkong) about
the Manchus were what we would ол
other powers. with the shares of now
public.
Closer to modern Umes there chiefly eggs and their derivatives, fur England's stake is valued at £250,- bombing outrage gathered by the call natarchists, und autarchists with putte set up the present Chinese Re- £8,000,000 worth of merchandise, spective; one must set it side by side
"Our have been the continuous efforts to British confectioners.
Britain sells 060,000, with Japan next at £150,- Chinese paper's own reporters, but out benefit of ersatz materials. has also suppressed re-publication Celestial Empire," wrote the magni- build up China and help the Chinese to Chion and Hongkong
Emperor Ch'ion Lung, in attaining full sovereignty, which
which much, £8,000,000 worth. All these way
way third, with £40,000,000. So of reports which had alreadyses all things in prolife abun- began in the Foreben Sreretaryship figures are lost in the
thought Britain lags badly in trade. appeared in contemporary English dance, and lacks no product within of Sir Austen Chamberlain's. This Britain's foreign trade, which last it is well in the lead in the value language journals. The "Luenho- its own borders. There is therefore policy was assiduously pursued from year was: Iniports, £860,000,000; ex- of its estate. kan", when its own reports were no need to import the manufactures 1931 to 1937, when China was suffer-
poris, 109,000,000. Thus Britain's suppressed, endeavoured to "lift" of outside barbarians in exchange for ing from the effects of America's exports to China in 1996 were about the full report published by the our own,
produce.
silver policy, and no doubt accounts 1 per cent. of its total exports. Not "Hongkong Telegraph". This The second difficulty of tending 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.
in cotton textiles there was a coni- could read English, was not pering Trade is a two-way business,
The sad state of British trade in Imitted 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 formal period of penec adds tesa newspapers. Similarly, a "Ren. Manchu court was hostile to trading, un limitable demand on the part of more than one report of a British income. This amount, small as it is so the Chinese were really not in nearly 500,000,000 people. The hold ennemie mission since the World is certainly in danger from the Sino- ter" report from London, stating terested in Western produce, though on the imagination of British indus- War. The first one in 1930-31 noted Japanese War. But so are incomes that the British Ambassador in they readily took silver in payment trialists of the possibilitics of such lugubriously. "We find our compati of ather nations, even China's, in Tokyo was lodging a protest with for their own producs. Accordingly, trade was quaint. For population tors beating; us in supplying the China. It so happens that Britain the Japanese Government, was the bouls used to go out lunded to the has
judgment. II. M. Stanley, the
factured
Britain, even with protecting one another's trade stukes. dollars and ballast.
to stir Manchester audiences by Honikeng
which is merely a trans
The longer China holds out, the Eventually, the Americans hit on der something that the Chinese valued. grasp cloquent pictures of the shipment point for the goods of all more chance there is of the Britisia
with Africa prospects of commerce
fourth estate ranks nationalities),
being saved. Indeed, This was ginang, esteemed all over when the missionaries should have an Chim as a medicine. The Chinese persuaded the Negroes of the Couro among Chinn's purveyors. The rat length of the Chinese resistance may the United States, the second so weaken Japan that Britain, sery- the it seem to us that the height domestic supply was running low to wear clothes of least on Sundays Japan, the third Germany. All of ing the care of expediency, may be of absurdity was reached when the when the Empress of China set sail, When the natives had further learn them have profited from the falling encouraged to move more actively in forbade Chinese news and the American but is fed to array themselves in eutton on off in British trade, Bul, till the south and central China (never in papers from mentioning the fact in export product the swapping
what a contemporary American weitere wern
days as well, the looms of La Sino-Japanese War broke out, British North Chin, I believe) for
in know no resuntion. falt that His Excellency the Governor er rulled "this useless produce of our Similarly, the late Wu Ting-fan falth in the recovery of a modicum preservation of her estate, even for was at Fanling at the time of the mountains and forcats" for the "ele was wont post-prandially to hold of trade was riding high, for outrage and that he had proceeded gont luxuries" of China. An excel-
for egineering products, to take to the scene of the bombing short-lent illustration of the virtues of in- forth on the necretion to world trade hoped to expand the Chinese market To textiles. Chinese ly afterwards.
her news-ternational trade! England, in papers were also forbidden to turn, hit on opium, though she didn't ing Chinese should have been in place of the vanishing
Britain's Chief Econamle Adviser, had mention the fact that Bishop Hall Stroduce it. It we introduced by duced to add half an inch to their that end Sir Frederick with Ross,
The Arabs, I believe, as for back na
been in Chima for almost a year: had proceeded to the frontier to the thirteenth century, but the Chi-
Dr. II. II. Kang had virtually obtain- investigate the damage to the nese took avidly to Indinn oplum, Shum Chun refugee zone.
But Chinese buying power, like ed a fairly sizable loan in the British which was carried in British bottoms. African, is restricted. In spite of the MACts had been reached; and E love of pretty Mrs. Dorothy!
a happy arrangement We believe that such consorship
early fables of the anted East, it is
Holderman for her nirman hu- of legitimate news will greatly
SYSTEMATIC foreign economie in- a bitter fact of modern experience even the abolition of extra-terri- strengthen the claim of
and her desire to be with him at all tercourse with China starts with that hunger is the dominant problem torially had been initialed ad re-band, Commander Russel Holderman, Chinese
cen- newspapers that
the peace treaty, the Treaty of Nan of China. The salutation is: "Have ferendum.
British trade with China la by no times, recently cost him the victory caten you
New York In the
to Miami in Hongkong Is
air ruce Borship
reking, 1942. Nothing about opium you?"ally. China is what means the extent of the British estale pressive. In fact, If Halsbury's appears in the peace treaty, but a
Dr. Goodrow calls a vegetable in China. This has two other parts and a £400 prize,
the Commander Holderman lost "LBWA of England"
an good deal about the rights of general
race by a matter of seconds to Max authority, tho catiro question trading. And, to help that trade, civilisation, meaning that the people in addition to trade; nainely, Invest- of constitutionality is raised. It four more ports of bottlenecke were are dependent mainly upon the plant ment and shipping.
These ports which were opened by Constant, of New York, because lits world for their food and clothing. науа: "The Crown cannot, apart opened to foreign residence and trade. Even in this lowly department it is the Treaty of Nanking have become plane was averloaded. Mrs. Holder-
including Shanghal, a stretch from the rules of law relating to muddat with a few tumble-down not self-supporting. Population has wealthy emporin; particularly Shang: man 'Huil slowed away in her hu-
the
Traders band's cabin
a few seconds before the licensing of stage plays. Offishermen's
Ploncer hutz; now Asia's been autracing available food supply hair When
Commander to blasphemous or seditious libels, wealthiest city. In addition, Hong before, and since Chlon Lung de- moved into Bhanghal on the heels of the roachine took off.
economic self-suf- the Trenly of Nanking of 1842, they Experts kald that or the publication of reports of kong, an arid rock, which was used clored China's
adek na tomar marked out plots on the Whangpu Holderman' would have won but for. judical proceedings, exercise any as a pirate's hideaway, was ceded to fielency. control over the public press. Dritain.
Moreover, those early purveyors of liver, a udal river of the Yangtze, the plane's additional load.
However, hese Agurts are really impressive, especially in the £200,000,000 days. A sum of £250,- 000,000, after all, is only u
per cent. Britain's total Investment, and in
than £10,000,000 to British national
of
mutilated to auch an extent that unwales with pieces of eight, Caralus always betri st-explorer, user needs of China and Japan in manu- und China are mutually engaged in
an entirely different interpreta- tion was placed on its meaning. A "United Press" message had all except one paragraph deleted.
Confors
窅
of
which would result when the team-
shirt falls.
not "How are
Bow
the
the
was the integrity of that part of China.
the
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