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Towards the end of many columns of & post-mortem on our strike, Hr. One of the Colonial Secretaries, a Rodney Gilbert has the following to man who speaks Cantonese and say. It may do us good. It is, any evidently keeps in close and syrapa-

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Even if Hongkong did not confess tothetic touch with the Chinese, told s certain irritating attitude of self- the writer that he felt throughout the sufficiency and ignorance of Chinese strike that the Chinese in Hongkong. affairs, the impressions of the casual rator would be suficient to prove

knowing it was of a political character, these charges. The daily press in interpreted the struggle as racial also, Bongkung is sufficient evidence in and took the opportunity to express itself that Hongkong does not know a vague, inarticulata grudge against enough or care enough about Chinese the Hongkong British community for activities and thought in this generracial discrimination. While fear ation to do good business with China undoubtedly played by far the greater nor to do deal intelligently with Cinn- part in taking the seamen and finsly ese political situations as they arise in all foreign employers out on strike. adjacent territories. It is impossible this secretary feels that "face" and to pretend that such political resentment of the foreign attituds situations have no bearing upon life in which prompta the lordly bank clerk. the Oofony when it is known that a to push the grandfatherly. Chinese | few hundred British officials are sursavant into the gutter, played some | rounded by 300,000 Chinese virtually part in sustaining the strike, that it

sil of whom are bound up with affairs was to this extent anti-foreign on the mainland through domestic or Rodter 'G.lbert in N. G. Došly Ñesoa, business relations. The strike itself is sufficient evidence, if there had

been no previous reason to think it, that Hongkong enjoys neither com- plete economic por complete political isolation from the mainland.

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This isdy's husband "spanked" her for flirting. Separation proceedings followed.

"THE PENALTY."

CORONET THEATRE'S STRONG

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Realism so vivid at times that patrons are requested not to bring children with them makes this even-

con, "The Penalty," a very remark- ing's Coronet Theatre festure attrac the picture. While the realism is not unpleasant at times, it is never erude. It may be strong but it is always finished.

The leading role obviously demands the highest dramatic skill. It finds it in the acting of Lon Chaney, the "Frog" in that other notable photo- play "The Miracle Man." With the other parts capably sustained,

forbade the subscription of funds to the San Yst-sen war chest. This was a futile order, since it could not have been enforced anywhere in the crud, It is a fact, however, that Hongkong except perhaps in Korea, where per- refused to admit this a few months sonal books are audited by the Gor Written by Gouverneur Morris, The newspapers are com- ernment, and since it was fatile and staged by Rax Beach and produced mercial institutions and print, if they profitless, it was simply a gratuitous by Goldwyn. "The Penalty" stands hope to survive, what the people are insult to Canton. This is fully ad- one of the most arresting products of interested in reading, what the people mitted in Government House and the kinema skill. Naturally the story want. In Hongkong the papers reflect existence of these documents in the possesses more than usual interest. the popular British attitude by print-Government files is duly deplored injured in an accident, the principal ing virtually nothing about Chins or It is only fair to add that 'Sir character is taken to hospital the Chinese not even about the doings Regicald Edward Stubbe, Governor Emerging from an anesthetic alter of prominent local Chinese who are of the Colony, was in Peking when having both his legs suputated, British enbjects and who have been these diplomatic atrocities

were he overhears one doctor knighted or decorated. The writer perpetrated by his subordinates, and telling another that the read through two copies of the that he does got now attempt to operation was a horrible mistakė,~: most popular Hongkong paper endorse them or excuse them. the lega need not have been a one evening in Canton without If you believe that the strike was a patated. The patient is shocked and finding a single reference to China Kuomintang demonstration against, angered. In vain the doctors ek tal ! except in the advertisements Hongkong, you cannot escape the persoade him that he is suing and without finding a single Chin-conviction that the publication of from a delusion, that he never heard COA name in type outside the these proclamations marked the open them admit they had made a mistake advertisements. It would be difficult ing of the fend. To discuss these He becomes the relentless enemy of to duplicate this experience with two documents at all in connection with society, and despite his deformity, consecutive issues. of any London or the strike,

the Chinese becomes master of the underworld. New York paper, and it is safe to persistently do, is to admit or at assume that the London Times least take it for granted that the devotes more space to Chinese affairs strike was fundamentally political in the course of a year than any daily and that these unfortunate mandates paper in Hongkong. There is no use were the first cause. pretending that this is not significant. Newspapers do not withhold news in which any representative class of its readers is interested. Nor is there any reason to pretend that it is wholesome. It is not. The fairest Chinese critics of Hongkong say that if the strike sufficed to shake Houg kong's indifference and self-sufficiency it was a good thing. The Hongkong Government endorses this statement.

The proclamations issued last year which were interpreted in Canton as canstically critical of Dr. Sun Yat-sen Insofar as Hongkong has been and his government are described in reactionary enough to frown upon every Government office in Hongkong the "young idea," Hongkong is se ghatly errors. The one prohibited wrong and this is generally admitted the celebration of Sqn Yat-sen's by the officials of the colony. Pro- inauguration. Tha Hongkong Chinese gressive movements founded upon were wamed not to make any ideals which have received the demonstration with lanterns or fire endorsement of our peoples at home works. This was an arbitrary edict, cannot now be opposed in the betraying not only narrow and petty Orient just because they are new; prejudice but a dictatorial spirit which they can only be led. If Hongkong was entirely foreign to all British is determined to spend ita energies colonial tradition or policy. The deploring the fact that the "old time other proclamation, issued at the in- Chairman" has become a rara aria stigation of Chinese who had business instead of trying to find points of establishments on the mainland and sympathetic contact with the young were afraid that the Kuomintangides, Hongkong will gravitate to the would descend upon them for money, backwash.

Sir Charles Addia, during his recent tour of the East, visited the South, sounded opinion in Hongkong and then came North expressing in each community, the belief that British opinion upon Chinese affairs was too conservative, that it held in contempt the "young idea" which he thought incorporated in Canton, and that it was damaging foreign interesta generally and British interesta parti- cularly by deliberately antagonizing the "young idea.”

The Penalty" is one of the most striking pictures of the year,

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