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With regard to the future, as your Chairman has said, there is tion, and there should be, for Bri- marked improvement in the situa-| tigh interests in China are not

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I came here, but that it was your fault, and not maine if I was asked a second time without having those official attributes of the Minister | who looks after your affairs. I am

now responding for the toast of separate from, but parallel with, H.M. Ministers, and may I thank you for what you have said with After all, what is most required by that great mass of humanity? regard to them? Of course, I must speak with great caution. You, Sir, Surely it is law and order, safety, played your part marvellously well. 50 that there can be a recovery from the losses, the dangers and I notice that you threaded your way the atrocities of the civil war. through little obstacles any one of which might have marred your Safeguarding the Future speech. With a great dexterity, Your Chairman has pointed out! which speaks

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upsetting any those things. You have been ese interest, but it is equally a kind enough to give me some British interest, for if there is an special credit for the despatch of improvement in their standard of the Defence Force to China: I do life there is also an improvement not deserve any such special credit. in their purchasing power; and In this matter the Cabinet is one the possibilities of trading in and undivided, as it always Is China amongst 400 millions of (Laughter) in public. (Laugh- people, with a larger purchasing ter.) Of course, no body of men power is almost unlimited. It is with more than the usual quantity therefore a necessity not merely to the Chinese is likely to agree upon of first-class brains-(Laughter) the British, but to

all such themselves, that there should be a subjects, but on this subject we certainty and a safety in their fu had no doubt whatever as to our ture existence. We have heard a

great deal about the unequal) duty. (Cheers,)

An Oasis of Law and Order treaties but the unequal treaties There were British subjects in were originally made AS at Shamshuipo, in the Colony danger: there was an army; that safeguard to those foreigners who be by the British were trading with China, So far army should of Hong Kong, for a term of TO BE LET.

subjects in danger. (Cheers.) as Great Britain is concerned, we 75 years, commencing from 1st You were extremely fortunate; they made it public more than a year HOUSE at Broadwool Road-Two July, 1898, with the option of bedrooms and bathrooms Two re- renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed got there in time. If there had ago that, given other equivalent delay no one safeguards, we have no desire to reption rooms-Garden and tennis by the Surveyor of His Majesty the ben hesitation or court. Apply to Johnson, Stokes King, for, one further term of 24 knows what would have happened. keep China in any position of in-!

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who went out to take command of her rights, and we have no desire that Defence Force. (Cheers.) to stop China from exercising You had in him not only a great those rights, so long us the tariffs soldier, but a diplomat-a- man are without discrimination, are re- who made himself the friend of'gular, are known and are legal. those whom he was about to serve; If they are known and legal and and the support that he received uncertainty in avoided, then all of was not merely the support that you gentlemen who are trading the army always gets from its na with China can resume your pro- tionals wherever they may be, but per business of trading and co- it was also a tribute to his tael operate with China in establishing and courtesy and the efficiency of tariffs such as she may need. The the work that he was undertaking, advice and assistance that we have You suggested, Sir, that it was had from the China Association: very difficult to make an honest and the China Committee are penny in this last few months, or gratefully acknowledged by H.M. perhaps years, in China, and you Government. We have had help: did not offer to me those dazzling from you and we continue to con- and glittering prizes which some sult you. I hope that the position; might seck if they went into to-day is really clarifying itself, the City. (Laughter.) You refer and that we may find that in China a Central Government

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Reason, and stilor Ave years of office any Govern- clation and to hold periodical as- more I hope will come away shortment becomes the target of a great semblages of a social kind; and |ly.

number of people who hope to that was the reason for the pre- Local Responsibility find things not quite as they are. sent gathering. He was proud of May I suggest that, while you They do not necessarily judge the opportunity of bidding wel might reasonably thank H.M. Gov-rightly whether it is the Govern- come to the guests, who, he hop ernment for Bending that force ment's fault or whether this or, ed, would go away feeling that the there, you have also got to prepare that is within the power of the traditional hospitality of the East for the time when that force is Government. They know where still remained with the China A-12 noon to 6 p.m. on Sundaya. very much reduced and the extra the shoe plnches, and wherever it sociation. Referring, firstly, "to battalions are no longer there. pinches they say the Government the Foreign Office, the Association You have now, and have had for is treading on their toes. But just was glad to welcome Sir Victor Sunrise and Sunset in Hong, some time, an efficient local force as the weather last week produe- Wellesley and many members past Kong for December, 1928, in Shanghai in which many mened an enormous atorm and the and present of H.M. Consular Ser THE Undersigned_ have received dian, East of Greenwich), `Is

(standard time of the 120th Meri- not martial men, filled, as I am barometer first want down and vice In China-men who at home instructions to sell by Public follow:-

as supposed to be filled, with martial then came up again, so the for and. In Chine bore the brunt of ardour, although I do not pretend tunes of the Government at one the kaleidoscopic changes in poll- Auction

Sunrise, Sunset. to be anything but a civilian-in particular moment may seem to be ties which went on In the Fari

which many business men have in the dip. But, they are rising East. With regard to the neigh pm. MONDAY, 24th December, 1928,

felt it their duty to serve their again, and notwithstanding misre bouring Colonial Often, they wel- nationala in Shanghal. Now that presentations on this matter or on comed Sir Lawrence Guillemard, force is capable of being render that, I am aure, the tide is turn-not long returned from a success- 6.59 5.45 ed even more efficient, and I hope ing not only in the favour of fal tour as Governor of the Straits 7.00 5,45

the time will not be long distant trade, but also in the favour of Settlements, and alao Sir Cecil, when those whose business it is the Government. I have therefore Clement! from Hong Kong, well will see that that force is increas no hesitation in feeling that your known not only as an administra.

Aa ed and rendered more efficient, so toast, while not deserved by me, tor but also as a linguist 6.17 that Shanghal may be able, should the unworthy representative of other great Englishman present itsever be necessary, to do a great the Government, is in fact dèserv was Sir Denison Roas, who, ne deal more in its own defence than ed by the Government. (Cheers.) understood, had forgotten more at a moment of emergency:7,WAB

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Hong Kong, 21at Déc., 1928.

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