SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926.
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FORTY YEARS AGO. front gallery
HONGKONG IN THE EIGHTEEN- EIGHTIES.
COLONY'S EARLIER DAYS.
PROBLEMS OF CHINA.
MR. KIYOUSE INUF AND PROFESSOR BURGESS..
of Government House, before the moon had risen, 1 witnessed an effect which was The sky, quite now to me. though clear of clouds, was some- what hazy, so that the small- magultudo stars were not visible,
May 20-Interesting though some of the larger ones aspects of various problems, of were plain enough, Beneath;" China's internal conditions, includ however, the air was quite clear,
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Frofessor Burgoss said, in part "The hard legallatio mind is not the one to understand China to-day.. Knowledge of law, of treaties alone may only lead to supreme stupidity' and mistakes in dealing with China. Unless one can apprealate the tremendous. spiritual movement of the new national life end an op- preciate the signs that clearly in and consequently, though then the questions before the cus-dicate the birth of a new national vessels in the harbour were invisi tome conference in Peking, were consciousness one has missed the It is pleasant sometimes to take ble in the darkness, their innumer-presented by two speakers yesterday point in Chian.
at the Imperial Hotel, The a backward glance and got a pic-able lights seemed like another at the Pun Pacific Club luncheon ture of Hongkong in days long hemisphere of stars even intorest in rending some extracts gone by. There must be much numerous than the others, and speakers wore Mr. Kiyouse Inul, of.
Interesting Impressions of An ex-Governor.
from the life-story of a former
more
differing only as being redder. delegates at the customs conference, and Professor John Stewart Burgess "of Fenching University, Peking.
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France is convinced that the day Sufferers from Deafness with its "I could give you many signs of w not far distant when America many distrossing, accompanying all- progress in China but i want to will lift the bars against wines, ments as head solses derivs almost
The present (1925-8) issue of turn in closing to the one great and she has mapped out an ex-immediato benefit. Calm rafrashing the CHINA YEAR BOOK is again fact in China to-day that makes tensive campaign to alleviate the sleep is assured: Cloom, Depres-considerably larger than any of "The more I saw of Hongkong,
The Chapters optimists of all whe appreciate it great American thirst. Five sion and Nervousness are banished its predecessors. Hongkong Governor, Si G. the more I was struck with the
the birth of a new national feel- minutes after the prohibition law under the influence of these Life on Mines and Minerals," "Educa-
"Products," Wrinkles, hard tion,"
"Labour," William Des Voeux, GCMG., enterprise which had created such
The tarif troubles of China arsing and national pride, and with it is repealed, France could start giving Tablets. who reigned here for a short a city on such a spot, bearing in
of a new public opinion. It is per loading twenty vossale with the lines and blemishes disappear. The "Opium" "Commerce," "Ship. period from 1887.
mind that the foundations of all as old as the history of her com- "In "My Colonial Service," Sir the building-many of them of mercial intercourse with modern hans not necessary to point out wines she has stored away for skin becomes clear, tight, and ping," "Currency etc., have been elastic, and the Complexion bright rewritten and brought up to date. William Des Vaux gave an ac- almost palatial size and appear- nations. Mr. Inui said, as a preface that the people of Chinas have no America.
It was the winegrowers of the and smooth. Think of the bless The Report of the Shanghai Child count of his career in British ance and all the roads had been to his remarks about the difficult interest in these civil wars.
questions before the customs con fighting is not Manchuria against champagne country who sureredings of perfect health, the posses Labour Commission is reprinted Guiana, St. Lucin, Trinidad, Fiji, cut of of the solid granite, and rence. After giving some of the Chili-or-Canton-the-north against most when America went dry and sion of few: the Joy of a clear in full in the Chapter in "Lubour." Australia New Foundland and that the trees everywhere visible historical fasts in connection with the south, but one sufitary louder they hope to make up for the ofght Youthful appearance and tingling "The Political Summary de-
over the face of the mountain had the case. Mr. Inui showed how thro Hongkong, with interludes at
For clique against another. The im roars within a short time, blood, of lustrous hair, bright ayes scribes events up to the end of Home, in course of which he met all been planted on equally unpro- Chinese delegates themselven pro-people of Poking feel no hatred for Champagne, while distinctly and health tinted cheeks-thë | March, 1925. The Chapter on several of the eminent figures of mising soll. The roads were ad- cipitated a further tangle by mak- the people of Canton but a comunen French product-so much so, that beauty of radiant life and the Defence appears at the end of Victorian era. Sir William was mirably constructed and kept,ng ad interim propositiona to solidarity and a profound wish to real champagne must be produced realisation that Time has been put the Book. New Chapters include
conscientious and those ascending the Peak being which none of the Powers could be rid of all the militarists. evidently h
within an aren 25 miles square-back Ten Years to the envy and a Summary of Medical Events." fearlera administrator and entirely of Portland cement, so agree, though the variance between- "If you could have seen with me
is equally an American drink. admiration of your friends, and the "Political Parties," "Taxation" a withstand the torrential the suggestions of the Powers strong defender of native races as to
one surging. mass of 10,000 weil ör
Untouched by Tourists. unbounded satisfaction of yourself. "Bibliography for 1924," and a in Colonies where plantation rains, which would quickly have might have been smoothed over indered atudents and common people
less durable
Americh always absorbed the Can you allow a golden opportunity documented Chapter on "China's labour systems tended to place swept away any
parading the streets of Peking last time. Continuing, he said: undue power in the hands of the material.""
"Before we could bome to any June and seen their intense faces, greater part of the French cham-like this to pass? Remember there Constitutions and Election Laws."" planters.
ARE Life in the Colonial
Tytam Under Construction."
the heard their yella of Down with pagne production before the war are no arduous rules to follow, no THE TERMS OF THE GOLD niore of these questions, service proved full of hardships in
"But amid many remarkable bi-annual coup d'etat took place western Imperialism, "we are not and what America did not want restriction in diet, nor are there FRANC SETTLEMENT
ars not anti-was shipped to London or to Berlin. Any ill effects after. On the den INCLUDED IN AN APPENDIX. Sir William's case, and he re- marks in his preface: "As a con-public and private works," says and China, lost her captain and the anti-foreign, we
As you all christian, we are not Bolshevist, "Gout Americain"-American taste trary it gives the entire system a Why sequence of several dangerous the new Governor, "the most Conference Its host.
Do maladies, including yellow fever striking of all was that which I know, the Foreign Minister, Chin but we cry for freedom,' you would was parfected for the American feeling of exaltation with increased. And sunstroke, and two serious found near completion for the aup-Jul-lin, chairman of the Conference, have felt as I did, the sense of palate and only Americane like this mental and bodily vigour.
Dr. C. T. new life. The Shanghal incident sweat, bubbling liquid, accidents which cause concussion ply of the city with water from resigned long ago. of the brain and spine, almost the
had crystallised national indigna- tion and helped make articulate whole of my life as a
the Tytam Valley, at a.distance of Wang, chairman of Committees A Governer some six miles on the other side and B had taken refuge in a foreign
was a continual struggle against "ill-health." From the tropics Sir William went to New Found- land where he arrived in pheno- menally cold weather thence he sailed some time afterwards to Hongkong. The earlier part of his two volume work deals with his career prior to arrival in Hongkong. It is full of interest and variety, but for the present purposé quotation will be limited to the chapters on Hongkong.
Hongkong in 1887,
We urrived in Hongkong (writes Sir William) in the early -morning of October 6. 1887; a fine
day, which showed to the best ad- į vantage the very beautiful har- bour. Looking at the abundant shipping (including many, ocean steamers, some large sailing clip- pers, and innumerable Junks), the imposing front of the crowded city beyond, and, on the mainland of China, the town of British Kowloon, alrendy growing into im portance, I could not help marvelj- ing at the contrast between this! scene and the one witnessed here forty-seven years before, when a visiting man-of-war would have found itself alone in the harbour, and when the island was inhabit- ed only by a few fishermen and pirates, and, according to the re- port of an engineer of the time, contained apparently only one site it for a European house. What a monument of British enterprise!
Photo by Ying Ming.
IMPOSING MASONIC PROCESSION.
Hongkong freemasons proceeding to St. John's Cathedral last week for the service in memory
of the late Mr. P. H. Holyoak who was District Grand Master,
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and intensity. of feeling in som parts of China. A few years ag an incident like that in Shangha would have passed with littl notice. With the breakup of old groups there is a formation of th new large unity, the nation. Th new patriotism is here."
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In the Bordeaux region, much of the claret produced before the wit was destined for America. England has been converted to claret drinking-end-a-certain. quantity finds its way to South. America, but. Bordeaux still has a million buttles stored away for posti prohibition-celebrations ....in
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The French winegrower was hard hit by the war. The vines in the Champagne country were toen up by their roots when trenches were dug through the vineyards; vines all over France rotted when there were no longer men left to care for them.
Lose on All Sides. But the hardest blows were those which. cost the great American market by prohibition, the German market by the break in friendship.
wartime temperance regulations and the Russian market by the collapse of the Tsarist regime.
In fact, national feeling. The people gen of the mountain which forms the concession of Tientsia. hackbone of the island." This, of practically all of the Chinese delecrally, in all parts of China from course, was Tytam Waterworks gates have either resigned or dis-Tibet to Manchurin, knew, of thi Those Who remain incident and were one in their pro not the Tytami Tuk scheme, which appeared.
Sir William would not be anxious to toko. any lest. The continuance of the Can came much later. describas a pleasant journey in responsibility of "hinding China to strike is a gauge of the depth.the English market by chairs to Tytam, and the wonder-without-a few more of their collea- ful views of the Harbour en route gues present." familiar to walkers. A sudden
Delegates Patient. turn of the road," he says, "show-
"sec by the press that the red some 2,000 coolies at work,
several steam engines palpitating, foreign delegates and experts with and all the sounds and signs of a Pat China are holding Informa) big undertaking in progress. The meetings with the view of getting valley had been walled-in about a something concrete for presenta mile from the sea, the wall beington as soon as a stable Government 100 feet high, 80 feet thick at the is prepared to take the seats now waiting and diligently planning, The description of the Oficial buse, and 25 feet in the top, en-left vacant. They are patiently landing might have been written tirely composed of cut granite looking forward to the reappear HEILUNGXIANG MERCHANTS the world and sold in competition for the present day: these fune- and Portland cement. tions are naturally stereotyped in months later I had the antisfaction ance of the host. character, and Sir William's ac-of seeing a serious dearth of water unity is being afforded so as not to disappoint the expectant people.. count of the landing ceremonies brought to an end by a plentiful But as things stand now it is no better than throwing kisses in and of his first impressions of supply from the new sources."
[To be continued.]
darkness. You know what you are Government House are only in- teresting as representing the "in-.
[One could wish that that engin eer could see the Peak to-day. He would have to admit that he was a creature of limited imagination and contrivance:]
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CHINESE ILL-TREATED.
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Germany has regained her taste the trade for French wines and with the former enemy is again brisk, but Germany seems to have i lost her liking for champagne. Be-- fore the war the apples of Nor- mandy went into. Germany by whole trainloads and these were madv eidre-champagne into a cheap which was then shipped all over
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ter apple champagne and bought Russian portion of Heilungklang for herself heavily of the Rheims have complained to the Chinese side viewpoint." In those days A nice young couple from the doing but you have no idea how the General Chamber of Commerce product. Last year, however, only there of ill-treatment by Russian two per cent. of her wine imports the houses of the more well-to fresh, sweet countryside were lacther is taking it or will take it.
"Yet I am an optimist, optimist soldiers who looted, their stores from France were champagne. The do inhabitants" rose only "for a the city for their honeymoon. One
heavier wines of Burgundy. theatre. enough to believe that the Chinese and carried off 11 Chinese as pri- bulk of her purchase were the third of the distance up the moun-night they went to a tain." The Botanic Garden was Presently descended the fireproof are a peaceful people. I believe soners..
Domestic Occurrences "inferior to the Trinidad gar-curtain, upon which was inscribed, too that there is an overwhelming. A telegram from these mer- of Justice-loving and chants states that an armed squad
Leading Articles den in luxuriance of foliage, but large and portentous, the mysteri-number
legend: Asbestos." She quality seeking people averywhere of Russian soldiers made had nevertheless a beauty of italous
Misbehaviour own which could hardly be surwhispered, "What does that word in the world. Not only Japan, but thorough search of the Chinese
all the Powers represented in the stores. Disappointed in their in- LONDON DIRECTORY Seven Injured
with Provincial & Foreign Sections and
Correspondence passed. Placed on a slope which mean, dearest?"
He squeezed her fluttering hand Peking Conference are deeply inspection for contraband, they ar-
terested enabled the greater part of it to
in catisfying. China's rested. 11 Chinese and looted large
Trade Headings in Five Languages. legitimate" aspirations. be taken in by 'a single coup reassuringly. "It'a
Accidents. Nor does quantities of valuables. In spite mables trades to communicate direct Marine Court Cases
Thefts d'oeil, its general effect was strik- 'Welcome! love," said he,
China need to doubt, their sincerity of the strong protest lodged by the with
MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS ing. Considering that its site
Their hopes and best wishes are Chinese Consul-General in these "Archimedes," read the pupil,
and Industrial Centres of. the United was originally bare rock, out of which a large portion of it had "leaped from his bath shouting. written in black and white in the districts, they still hold the Chin London and in the Provincial Towns HE. The Governor
Sino-Japanese Treaty and Sino ese. The latter have not been Kingdom and Ireland, the ContinentPres. Jackson" originally been scooped, and that Eureka, Eureka!"
"One moment, James," said the American Treaty of 1908. "They tried and they continue to suffer of Europe, Africa, Americs, Asia, To Beauty Australasia, etc. The names, addresses Traffic Day most of the soil supporting the
are reiterated in the Washington both bodily and mentally, resolutions and treaties. The
more than 8,000 trade headings, Bandits Work vegetation had been borne thither, teacher: "what is the meaning of
The telegram continues: "Since and other details are classified under Local Wills
Money Loan the place was typical of the enter-Bureka?".
Eureka' means 'I have found Powers, particularly Japan, wait their form of government was including
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Property Auctions SETEAMSHIP LINES Ran Aground sive policy, which is even worse arranged under the Farts to which the Thefts and Crime role of a modern nacións
than that of the imperialista, salt, and indicating the approximate
Bound Over Our Wild Beasts They have purposely delayed con- Sailings cluding the Sing-Russian Trade
Mr. Claude Falkiner Impressive Scenes
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"Looking out at night from the
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