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BEAD OFFICE:-SHANGHAI. BRANCHE-HANKOW, TIENTSIN, PEKING, CHUNGKING,

CHINKIANG, HONGKONG CANTON, CHANG·· BHA, NEWCHWANG, MUKDEN AND HARDIN. AGENCIES-LONDON AND NEW YORK.

RACIAL DISABILITY.

DOES IT EXIST HERE?

MEETING.

OFFICIAL PATRONAGE DEPRECATED.

A certain livelinces marked the proceedings at the general meeting of the League of Fellowship held in the old Chamber of Commerce Room at

That was a SMART YOUNG MEN. ing on the footpaths. That was' A disgrace to whoever was responsible for it. They could not talk about fellowshipa until they had abolished that state of affairs,

as richha

PREVENT ROBBERY AND CATCH CRIMINAL

could remember about the affair was

question of reservations would have arrived at the conclusion that it was not a matter of emphasizing racial dia abilities but purely an economic quos- tion.There is no one," continued Mr. Pollock," who does not recognise The Chairman: I am not quite

Two risha coolies were charged be- that the Chinese of the Colony-clear from Mr. MoGuigan's remarks extremely clever traders and mor whether we are all of us to pull ric fore Magistrate Lindsell yesterday chants as they are, with vast wealth, shas in Queen's Road or whether far in excess of that possessed by the zicha coolice and others should with the theft of a watch belonging the Europeans could simply buy go and live on the Peak. I am not to First-class Petty Officer Frank up poor British who have quite clear whether we are to go down; Pattern of the Carlisle." erected houses, cut corners off the sides of hills, built big retaining walls and have expended energy and fore sight in selecting sites. If this re- servation were removed there is not the smallest doubt that it would be possible for the Chinese of the Colony to buy us off the Peak to-morrow. The same applies to Cheung Chau and

Taipo; I was not aware of it-it is not racial but purely an economic ques tion. I entirely dissent from Mr. Braga's amendments and from the brought forward with regard to the view which he and Mr. Lo have Peak Reservation."

or up. I do not think we should The complainant said that all he make a very good living coolies.

Mr. McGuigan: I want to see evey that he engaged a ricsha outside the body have equal opportunities and let Naval Cantean about 6 p.m., on Sat- the best man get to the top. What urday. He had no recollection of we find now is that the men who what happened afterwards, as he was render most service to the community under the influence of drink. are very poor and the men who do no

The rest of the story was told by

the matters mentioned by the Chair- Taipo-if, there is a reservation at work at all are at the top. (Applarse) two Indian young men, Messrs S.I

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Mr. Lo, on a point of personal ex- planation, said he had not attempted to deal with the question and must not be taken as agreeing with every thing Mr. Brags had said. His views on the Peak Reservation were well known.

The Chairman: That is all right as a piece of rhetoric but I do not see Abbas and S Cassimbhoy. They put the ricsha were returning home in the evening how we are to coolie in such a position that he has from the I.R.C, in Sookumpoo Valley has had throughout his life. The the Coffee Plantation. As it was an all the opportunities Mr. McGuigan when they noticed a richa light in Chairman congratulated Mr. Me. unusual place for a riesha to be in, Guigan on making good use of his they decided to investigate. opportunities so far as public speak- arrival, they found Pattern lying unconscions on the ground. The ing was concerned. He, however, wished to point out that the question second defendant pulled the empty of class disability was alien to the ricsha away as they came subject under discussion.

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man hardly came within the scope of the League of Fellowship he thought the formation of a branch of the Royal Asiatic Society was one of LIVELY FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE these. The promotion of goodwill and harmony in this little com- munity," Mr. Braga suggested, was more within the sphere of the League. The objects, as proposed to be amended from the Chair, arrogated

up. to the League an importance which it

First defendant walked beside the did not possess. They could not promote good fellowship among

Mr. Braga withdrew the first point vehicle. Leaving Pattern on the ull nations." As to the telegram

The Chairman thought it most dis-in his amendment but pressed ground, the Indians followed the the City Hall last evening. Th to Washington, Mr. Braga said

matter of discord that relating to racial

dis- coolies. The latter bolted. Chase was and second defendant was he was waiting to hear from the astrous that such

as racial disabilities should be intro- abilities. On being put to the meet- Chairman if

arlar No. 1, Police Station. reply had been

carried by 25 votes to 21. Many defendant and caught him near the the League.

present abstained from voting.

proposed.

The other objects were passed as Hongkong Football Club matshed at Happy Valley. As Abbas got up to the defendant, the latter threw something over the fence enclos- ing the matshed. After he had handed the defendant over to & constable, Abbaa searched in the enclosure and recovered Pattern's watch. Defendants wore

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Chairman thought, it "disastrous that such a delicate question as that

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of the existence of racial disabilities received; if none had come it support-/duced at the first general meeting of ing Mr. Braga's amendment was Abby kert up the chase after first

in Hongkong should have been intro-ed his argument."We, in this little duced but the keenness of the discus-

world of ours, are just a nonentity, added Mr. Braga. As H. E. the Governor said recently, we can help to promote an atmosphere of goodwill but to promote good fellowship and Peace among all nations' is too big ask for little Hongkong."

sion was proof at any rate of the League's vitality. Further evidence that the League is a lusty intant furnished by the spirited endeavour of one member to kick off the swaddling clothes of official patronge. The President (the Hon.

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Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C.) was in the chair.

Opening the menting the Chairman referred with satisfaction to the latest news from Washington and said that everyone would be glad if agreement were reached at the Conference for the maintenance of the open door in China and equal opportunities for all the Powers; they trusted that China might soon become united and be able to speak with one united voice in the councils of the nations.

INTERNATIONAL CLUB SCHEME.

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Mr. Braga proposed amendments to vary para. (i) above to read:"To

good fellowship, etc." and to vary para. () by making it read:-To promote good fellowship by seeking the elimination of racial disabilities within the Colony, etc."

Mr. Lo: Either racial disabilities harm is there in saying we want to exist or they do not. If not, what eliminate them? Some of us think they do exist.

The Chairman: I absolutely disagree that there are racial disabilities which require to be eliminated.

Mr. Braga said he came to the

ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

WHO MADE H.E, A PATRON ?

The election of officers was the

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where Pattern was placed in second defendant's ricsha and taken to No. 2, Police Station.

contribute towards the promotion of meeting quite prepared for his next business and there was a brisk taken back to the Coffee Plantation amendment to be defeated; he did little discussion when the Rev. J. not suppose that with such a Kirk Maconnchie wanted to know it. gathering as this he would succeed in H.E. the Governor had been made carrying it. The economic necessity" patron of the Society and if so by argument had been trotted out on whom? every occasion that the question of reservations bad come forward in Hongkong. Racial disabilities did not exist only in the matter of habitation but it commerce and other spheres.-Loud applause).

"VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS." The Chairman: What do you mean by that, Mr. Braga?

Mr. Braga: I will proceed to

The Chairman: He was invited to

become patron.

Mr. Macanachie: I am sorry to introduce discord. but 1 do think the Society should have been con

sulted.

The Chairman: A patron is not an officer.

Mr. Maconachie: There is nothing personal to this or any future Gover-

Both defendants said that they wore new arrivals here and won' nowhere near the plantation, nor und they know where it was. They suggested that it was ·· CASE of mistaken identity.

Magistrate: I don't suppose you can stay here much longer.

To Inspector Blackman: these two men banished.

Have

labour each was passed.

Sentence of three months' hard

Mr. Pollock mentioned that some of the aspirations of the League of Fellowship were the establishment of an international club, open to all. The Chinese members desired an statute book of the Colony it will elaborate my point, Sir. Let us look nor. It seems to me we shall got up Messrs. Abbas and Cassiabboy, the

around the list of directorates in against the Government if we are Hongkong. We find the same string going to do anything. It would be

In commending the action of Magistrate said "Bring the conduct of these young gentlemen to the notice Police, and ask that they be suitably rewarded. It is a most excellent

arrest,"

I know I shall be skating on thin ice," he said, "when I mention aceking the elimination of racial disabilitics but no one is better acquainted than our Chairman with the fact that a great deal of racial disability exists in Hongkong, in a very pronounced form.-(Applause). I say that so long as the League of | Fellowship permits the Peak Reser- vation Ordinance to stand in the industrial instituto in Kowloon for stultify itself. (Applause). As long boys and girls under 18 (Chinese as we permit racial distinctions in a reckoning); it would take the reservation at. Cheung Chau and at. of names time after time, almost with an awkward situation. and, apart of the Captain Superintendent of Į place of a reformatory for boys Taipo wa belie our membership of monotonous regularity, submitted for from that, I don't like these things acceptance as directors of this and being done without the ociety being and that it was needed was da- the League of Fellowship."

It Las put us ander monstrated by the fact that between Seconding the amendment, Mr. M. that and other Companies, without consulted. January 1st, 1920, and September K. Lo said he thought that the chief regard to technical or other qualifica official patronage and I am bound 30, 1921, over 500 boys under 18 were merit of the Washington Conference tions. (Applause). You talk, Sir, to say I hoped we might keep away thing in sent to prison in the Colony. It was was that the people taking part in it of wealth swamping the Peak and from it. Let us have one hoped to get a site from the Govern were now facing realities and were other reservation districts. Haven't this Colony that is not ran from Gov.

wealthy corporations ernment House. ment.▲ suggestion had alad been prepared to make eacrifices. No one made of utilising the cinema theatres in that room doubted that Britain, in Hongkong that have acquir during the day, until 4 p.m., for America and Japan in agreeing to the ed property after property for educational lectures to Chinese reduction of armaments were each of their more highly placed employers, children whose parents were at work. them making a great sacrifice. On and yet the underlings, the bottom It was thought that elementary in the question of racial disabilities, Mr. dogs, crying like a voice in the struction could be given in Chinese Lo asked the meeting to adopt the wilderness, are denied & roof over characters and sentences, geography, amendment put forward by Mr. Braga, their heads because they cannot history, national history, and trades. As to the promotion of good fellow provide it out of their $100 or Teachers provided by the Governship among nations he confessed he $150-their pittance of a salary. Do ment, it was thought, could give did not hold the same definite you, sir, not call those disabilities? suitable instruction b.tween the opinion as Mr. Braga did about the Call them racial, call them whatever pictures and some sort of physical task being too ambitious for them. name you please, to me they are drill might be added. About 1,000 At the same time he saw no harm in nevertheless disabilities. children might be passed through the amendment. It they could each theatre daily, it was estimated.

achieve more so much the better and more to their credit.

Mr. Pollock added that a local branch of the Royal Asiatic Society might be formed in the Colony. There was a branch in 1849 but it died in 1859 and had not been heard of since, The principal business before the meeting was proposed amendment of the objects of the League to read

as follows:

(i) To promote good fellowship and

peace between all Nations. (i) To promote good fellowship within the Colony, irrespective of race, clues, and creed. (iii) u promote matters which shali The un service to the community. The Chairaian proposed that the above form be approved.

CHARITY BEQUINS AT HOME.

Mr. J. P. Braga maugurated a discussion by saggesting that some of

HONGKONG NOT A "NONENTITY.”

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The Chairman: You are speaking of racial disabilities,

Mr. Braga: Yes, but it is a very fine point, eir. I recognise it as such. I find equal opportunities are afforded in Hongkong as they should

be afforded.

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Replying, the chairman disputed Mr. Braga's suggestion that Hongkong was a onentity. He had remarked before, though he believed Mr. Braga Mr. J. H. McGuigan thought the was not present, Hongkong was proceedings at the meeting made it amongst the first shipping ports in clear that there was not much fellow- the world and it contained the head | ship in Hongkong. The Chairman's office of the chief financial institution reply had suggested that disabilities in the Far East and of the biggest were more of class than of race.. From marine insurance company in the this Mr. McGuigan developed a dis world. Mr. Pollock added that no cussion of the problem of extremes of reply had yet been received from wealth and poverty. Hongkong Washington. Coming to the "racial should set an example to the rest of disability" question, Mr. Pollock re China in good Government and ad- marked that Mr. Braga had said that ministration but did it do so? How no one knew more of these than did the masses. of the Chinese live ne did. On the contrary, Mr. Pollock here-packed like sardines in a box; said, he knew of no such disabilities. in fact, worse; there was no room i Anyone who had studied carefully the the box and they might be seen sleep

I'LL GET YOUR NUMBER IN A

MINUTE SIR!

THAT'S ALL RIGHT-I'M IN NO HURRY.

The Chairman asked if Mr. Macona-

Mr. Maconachie: I don't say that, but the appointment should be left to the meeting.

An attractive Christmas and New Year holiday programme has chie thought the League should not been arranged for the Hongkong and Repulse Bay Hotels. The revels have any patrons at all.

include a dinner dansant at Repulse

dinner dansant at the Hongkong Bay on Christmas Eve, a fancy dress Hotel Grill on Boxing Day, another dinder dansant at Repulse Bay on December 28, and fancy dress dinner dansant also at the same

Year's Eve. delectable pleasure resort. oo New fails on a Sunday the last named As New Year's day event will commence from 7.30, P. A final dinner dansant at Repulse

The Chairman: You mean it

should be put to the meeting now?

Mr. Maconachie: Ob! we can t go back on it now i

In the course of further passages the Chairman and Mr. between Maconachie it was explained that the promoters of the League, before the first meeting, invited the patronage of B.E. the Governor.

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PROCESSIONS AND TRAFFIC.

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The big procession organised by the

attention in the city on Sunday, bad coolies' guild, which attracted much ita sequel in Magistrate Wood's Court

It

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AT TIENTSIN,

Before fire razed it to the ground,"

and kinema, was Charlie Chaplin's one of the last pictures shown at the Empire, Tientsin's beautiful theatre. six reel comedy "The Kid," "It is

The noise made

Bay on Monday, January 2 will yesterday, when one of the musicians, calculated that not only did the entire the man who makes the big noise with European and American population the brass cymbals, was summoned by of Tientsin see this wonderful picture. The election of officers then took placo,

Inspector Appleton, of West Point, but that twenty per cent, of them for having obstructed the police in saw it owice. Mr. Pollock was elected President (amid applause) on the motion of the vote Mr. Arnold Hughes and the only the execution of their duty. Hon. Mr. Lau, seconded by the Hon. lady member (Miss Pitts) withdrew appears that the police had a difficolt and the old Committee was then task controlling the procession which Mr. Chou.

Mr. Chas. Gerken and Mr. R. H. elected, without a ballot, and with was followed by many thousande, time.

because it persisted in hold- the "band" was so great that Kotewall we e elected hon. secret- four new names, as follows:-

The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-pak, the ing up the traffic by occupying the shouted orders of the police were aries, and Mr. Gerken also undertook

Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen, the Hon. Mr. the centre of the road. Traffic drowned by the in. When spoken the duties of hon. treasurer.

When the election of a committee A. O. Lang, the Hon. Mr. Chou Shou- Inspector Garrod's instructions to to by Inspector Appleton, the defend- was being considered Mr. McGuigansen, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Mr. Chau keep to the left were ignored, and as ant refused to desist and be was wanted a bullet and he also took ex-Suki, Mr. Montague Ede, Mr. Ho if in defiance, it turned from Dea dragged out of the ranks and placed

Road into the praya under arrest, ception to the old Committee being Kom-tong, Mr. G. N. Orine, Mr. W. L. Voux

Inspector Appleton asked for a rÓ- proposed en bloc from the Chair. Mr. Fattenden, Mr. S. W. Tao, Mr. U. and then back again into Des U. Rumjahn, Mr. E. M. R. de Sousa, Rumjaba, Mr. E. M. R. de Sousa, the Vaux Road through one of the narrow mand, and applied for a summons The obstruction was against the holder of the permit to Mr. Maconachie and Mr. Braga were Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie and Mr. J. P. side streets.

greatest at the Whitty Street tram Thold the procession. nominated as additional members; Braga.

The meeting concluded with a vote terminus where traffic was completely These were granted, and the case Mr. McGuigan was also nominated

disorganised for a considerable will come up for hearing on Friday, but would not stand. To avoid a of thanks to the Chairman:

BRINGING

HELLO - HELLO- CENTRAL PLEASE

HURRY THAT

NUMBER -

OH! TAKE YOUR TIME I'VE GOT

·ALL DAY¬MISS!

UP

FATHER.

YOU KIN GO TO LUNCH NOW-MAM- I'LL TAKE THE SWITCH-BOARD.

ALL RIGHT-

YOU GET THIS,

MAN HIS NUMBER-

AN HURRY UP AN GET IT- I CAN'T STAND HERE ALL DAY