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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1950.

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Talos told in "Chino Mail" files

Gen. Gordon PERSONALITY PARADE

not yet requisitioned

An official of the American

Financial Secretary

His position is not an enviable

Gentlemen now added to the Her Majerly to give him some APL oficion to the United one; it compels, pertups, the

nese

Prussian

also learned how to handle men. In June, 1943, with the Euro- born neur pean war over and the Far Eay- tern hostilities about to be-Lon- don told him to be ready for transfer to Hong Kong as Finan- cinl Secretary

world

of

He was back in England when the war of 1914 broke out, and he

the 88 80031-D Colony was liberated. The Japan-. cac surrender was not then en- visaged, and, Mr. Follows, ùstuned that he would have to wait for quite some tline.

But that, was not to be,

The

and the military administention of Admiral Sir Cecil Harcotirt was in control,

He was not then officially the Financial, Secretary; his title was skuply adviser on matters of n- ance to the military administra- to When civil government was re-established, his appointment as Financial Secretary followed.

The conviction that the, whelm him.” At that time he was

į in 'Afelva. President Lincs yesterday world needs more sincerity Mr. Follows. Was Year. A analler offer was actually denied previous Press reports and realism at this moment Liverpool in 1800 from parenta minde to his Majesty without nuccess, we suppose in the days saying that the shipping firm's than anything else forms the who never dreamed their son when Mr. Stephen's influence was

liner, the sa. General Gordon, highlight of the approach to would enter the Colonial Service Last Friday David Jardine, all powerful. This Esquire, und Joseph Frost Edger, Dahomey goes hunting for two or

King of has been requisitioned by the philosophy of Hong Kong's and thereby travel to the far cor

U.S. military authorities.

hors of the earth. They wern Esquire, were aworn in

Financial Secretary, Mr. C. G. well-to-do, suburban people to Mem- three months every year, The The doncial Gordon merely bers of the Legislative Council of bounds for his chase are an army brought from San Francisco some S. Follows.

whom England was the world. Hong Kong.. We need scarcely of more than 8,000 couples-ad- 1,300 US troops aside from the One of the busiest men in Hong

But they believed in giving the say that these appointments ure in visedly, for nearly a half, or full usuni amount of passengers shvi Kong, Mr. Follows hng no time to eat to their son, and when he every respect antisfactory to the 0,000, are women, Upon this carries to this part of the world extend his knowledge of met had finished his studios at Well- community, A seat in the Legis female force the King places the from the U.S. West Inture is the highest honour which greatest reliance, and they con-

coast, the hyales; but what he knows of it ington School, in Somerset, they

despatched him to Germany be- Japanese capitulated in August, official said. can be conferred in a Colony,titute his Majesty's bodyguard.

fas impelled the beller that insin-fore sending him on to Oxford. and by September he hopped on n The troops were unloaded fr. cerity in the realm of politics Iri the present instance, the

of German, Plano and came to Hong Kong, They are his best troops. They Yokohama. Japan, before honour is enhanced from the cir-

the as well as on the personai plane. His knowledge are trained to storm forts, which cumstance of the

nomination of they

vessel mailed for Hong Kong coupled with a universal ostrici gleaned during those years spent when the Colony was still wildly excited over its newly-won free- The in do

extraordinary with

where, she arrived ou, Saturday. the two unofficial Members having bravery and skill. They are very

her trip to the Far Ear at the root of much of the world's to serve him in good stead.

like rofusal to accept facts, are Kaiser Wilhelm, was subsequently dom, when everything was awry been left to the unbiased selection fao women, ranging in height she

changed her course once bo- present stress. of the Justices of the Fence, Watron five feet eight to Ave nine cause of the troops sho

was

Charles Geoffrey Shield Follows will here say nothing of the legis- and

and ten. Marriage is not per carrying. She omitted calling at is the man whose yearly calcula lation which to past; we know

that mitted. It would have the pro- | Honolulu Inic

therofore

hertions determine, by and large, the In Hong Kong the Members of verbial effect of doing tungs by Honolulu

passengers were rate of the Colony's taxation and Council hold but limited power halves.

"bumped her passenger lists the subsequent revenue. that of advice; but the Honourable

The

King of Dahomey requested Furthermore, according to the The number of Chi- Council are possessed of qualities | war caps for his slave-hunting which assure us that for the Amazons; and to our astonish- future an Independent expression ment wo see it stated in evidence of opinion will not be withheld that the request was graciously upon the merits of any ordinance granted and that Her Majesty the Governor may lay Lefore sent the King 2,000 female wor than.

caps. There must surely be some mistake about this, as it would, if true, involve a preposterous in- On the morning of Thursday the and make prize of any vessel with consistency, Our cruisers seize abl "Elizabeth Ainslie" destroyed by fire at the Cursing ment for the slave trade; and is the slightest evidence of equip- maan anchorage. She arrived credible that Her Majesty can from Coteutta on the 8th instant with a cargo of cotton saltpetre have been advised to furnish any and opium, the greater portion of, article of equipment to the troops hunting On Wed-sually employed in

down and capturing the slaves int engaged the interior? One would be sunset the! chicals on deck were struck below, of the cap could have been for the curious to know what the pattern the hatches put on and fastened tiles enacting the part of the so as to keep any one from having dogs of war. We know something access to the cargo. At that time of the sort of cape with which there was not the slightest sus

ladies design pielen of ignition. Between three

enslaving hearts, but and four in the morning the alarm what is the mode, the fashion of the alarme thing for enslaving black was given by the

and exiles? violent continued striking of the ship's

How do they set their bell. Boats were promptly dese cups al men to make booty of patched from the different recely their persons? Whal manner of tug ships, the cable slipped and cp does Bellona don when she

cts about

the the smoking vessel towed clear and

enthrals in the

Destroyed by fire.

which is totally lost,

the crew

Mil oplum;

were

wds

of the shipping. By dint of great iron fetters 7 exertions about 50 chests and part of the ship's stores and sails vere saved. The fire was then raging in the lower hold and had.

became unpleasantly ho

foot

foutest coelest

At Timbuctoo the bortyguard wear east-off lawyer's ladies' war caps of any such pre- vles :

are the King of Dahomey's

seized on the gun-deck, which ell, t

datory symbol ↑ Perhaps, after hot 10

the the cups were percussion-caps, An explosion-supposed to of the pink-ribboned genus. Or much more harmless than many be ka cusk of cleared the ship, and, nimosi in- were no caps at all presented, as spirits BOON perhaps and most probably, there mediately afterwards 1,300 bags of saltpetre weal

went off like a shell, will so turn out. The statement, * alleged. We hope and believe It blowing the side of the vessel, however, whether true or false, cotton bales, oplum chests and will be found in the evidence of other articles high into the air. Captain Vinniett, This was three hours after the Governor of Cape Coast Castle, in R.N., cx- Ersi alarm. The Chinese collected the last Blue Book of evidence on in conskierable numbers to pick the African slave trade, taken by

what they could, but such was the vigilance of the European boats that it is doubtful whether The wreckers got a single chest In all, there have been

saved bout 120 chests of

includ. ing those taken out before the! cxplosion. The ship is a total wreck; the loss to the writers must be severe. We hear she was insured at Calcutta, und come on with a native o crow, hor owners intending to turn her into

up

spium

under.

aur

Lords.-The London Examingr. the. Committee of the House of

Farewell for CPA pilot

A farewell party was held a receiving ship in lieu of the at Kai Tak "Sea Horse."

last night in The latter vessel honour of Captain Frank was to have gone to the Woosung Smith-of-the-Cathay Pacific- station.

Airways.

A correspondent sends us a shipping list of the 30th June last Captain Smith, a veteran CPA

Slatno by APL chips is not as cutest nousure of responsibility large as some of the local Press cial Secretary, he tins to bear the after the governorship. As Finan. reported.

brunt of criticism over Govern- Chinese passen- of

inental gers departing here for the U.S."ways and means of raising money spending he has to devise sald the official. Is about the to support an abnormally expen-.

sive administration.

Our

number

samo as in normal times.”

However, the offlelal revealed that from what he had gathered there is a considerable number of South American ports and Aus- Chinese nationals leaving for

tralia,

HK Hotel

rumours

The vernacular "Kung Sheung Man Po" sald yester. day that the Hong Kong Hotel will be pulled down next year and replaced by a modern 12 storey hotel.

Yesterday being Sunday, official confirmation was not available. The company, however, had previously dented reports that the hotal will be pulled down.

APL official

arrives for survey

While other Government ometals repair homeward at the end of the

work until the morrow, Mr. divorce themselves from their day and thereby automatically

Follows goes home nightly merely to worry more. Next year's bud- et Is constantly with him the whole machinery of returns and expenses, Income and outlay, waits on his decision. He is not helped by the uncertainty of con- ditions which at any moment might make a month's work appear unrealistic and thereby compel a new set of esilmates.

Just as vital

As a man, Mr. Follows is as unspectacular as the work he does, and almost just as vital; He ambodies, the spirit of silent con- trol. Without any flourish, with out publicity, he pursues his task. Esteemed becouse of the vigour of his taxation policies, Mr. Follows remains one of the least-known cficials of the Hong Kong Govern ment today.

This is perhaps due in large treasure to the contradictions which colour his personality- contradictions, which, speaking

Faradox of excessive raffrement

Cogin

MR. C.G.S. FOLLOWS

Immediately enlisted as a second heutenant in the King's Regiment.) He went to France, and was om- broiled in action from the start,

Because he knew German and French quite fluently, he was put on the Intelligence' Staff after the Battle or the Somme. He was shifted at the end of the war to the staff of the Southern District, in Ireland, and then to the Alder- shot Command Headquarters.

Many applicants

At the end of 1919 he qualified

President of

Mr. E. D. Flaherty, Vice- generally, are nearly always for a vacancy at the Staff College, President Lines, San Fran- experts.

the American port of the make-up of financial but owing to a congestion of ap

The excessive Impor. plicants everybody tried to get cisco Operation Department, tance of the roles they play in into the College after the war- arrived from Singapore by the Pubile life produces the inevitable he did not secure any appointment. He left the Army in 1920, and British Overseas Airways yes- In private. Most men who have entered the Colonial Service. At terday.

swayed the financea of states the end of August that year, he like Bir Slufford Cripps, the late got his first culport post when he Lord Montagu Norman, Mr. Henry was made private accretary to the the retiring nature of their dis- served as Governor only for a Morgenthau are celebrated for then Governor of Seychelles, Sir Eustace Fiennes. Sir Eustace positions.

Mr. Flaherty, who is planning to stay here for about four days,

a on a For East tour.

Ills main object of the tour to look over business prospects

for the AFL..

Before coming there he visited Singapore, Indonesia

Jakarta

Byrnu, for whom Mr.

while he dominates the state of Sir

Mr. Follows is no exeption, short while, and-was replaced by

Joseph In Hong Kong's monetary affairs, Follows also worked. Philippines. He visited Indoneala intimates say he is dominated In Leaving the Seychelles in 1024, surveying possibilities of including turn by his daughter, Wille ho he went back to London, and the Next year he in APL's world route.

round-the-addresses the Legislative and Colonial Office,

went abroad uguin, this time da Executive Councils here with ley assistant secretary to the Govern He told Pressmen yesterday determination and cold-blooded- that

three new luxurious APL ness, he addresses all members

ment of Gibraltar. of liner will be put on the shipping his staff with a friendliness and firm's round-the-world route geniality bordering on the paternal some time in early 1951.

His brilliant annual reviews of Askert why APL has decided to the state of affairs here always include Indonesia Into its ship-printed in full the next

He has been identifled with that Department of the Goverment hero ever since.

Mr. Follows married in 1922. The Follows have no children, except an adopted daughter, who is working in the Special Branch of the Police here.

Because he works almost every day from 9 nm, to 7. p.m., Mr. Follows rarely goes out. But when he has time he enjoys play- ing tennis. His lack of leisure lins sodiy crippled his opportunities to rend, but whenever he wishes tu get away from the severely mathematical world or figures and statisties, he atens to good ::usic.

He urges more universal realism and sincerity as the best hope of world peace.

He describes his work with that sincerity which he seeks to pro- mote. He says simply: "1. very trying."

Who

Wants to be HURLED THROUGH SPACE at 28 Miles an Hour?

year. There were then 20 vessels pilot, is going on leave shortly. ping lanes Mr. Flaherty replied cause of the importance ay be transferred to Northern Rhodesia, |

moored in this harbour, four of He joined CPA about three years which have been lost-three out ago.

of the four were never heard of, This accounts for the high pre- mium charged for insurance on

the coast of China.

The African Amazons.

Our best friend in Africa is a certain King of Dahomey, who loves us so well that he will do anything for us but put an end to the slave trade in his dominio, unless upon ille terms of our buy- Ing off lils royal interest in the trame by a subsidy of £8,000

During the last war he was bomber pilot with the Royal Air Foree and had distinguished himself in many missions.

More than 70 persons attended the farewell party, among them many close friends of Captain Sanfth, and CPA employees.

The party was organised through the offorts of Mugers. Bill James and Peter Smith. Both are flight crew members of the CPA.

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Two years later, in 1927, he was made chief-assistent-secretary-on The Rock. He was to remain at this post until pad when he w ulsa. as citief assistant secretary. there are many business prospects mand are delivered with abso-

Promotion came two years there.

lutely no bombast.

solter, in 1930, when he was made. Rather, the Mr. Flaherty was met at Kat softness of his voice and the un which afforded him his arst in-

administrative secretary—the post. Tak by Mr. J. J. Barrymore of med monotone of his the API, office here, and Captain suggest not the vital financial pro-sight into the workings of high

pro-finance. O. A. Pierson, at one time Com-nouncements that they but

ato, modore of the as. President Wil-worried comments at a church at interesting work, the Second Then, when he was in the midst meeting after collections had fallen for two Sundays in a row. teak began to bristle with Im- hd World War broke out, and his Mr. Follows has been in Hong

mense importance. Kong nearly five years now, In

He was given responsibility for tornis of seniority he is reiniivaly the security of the big copper new to the Colony, but his grasp mines in Rhodesia, which were of the exact nature of Hong the only source of supply for tho achieved so swiftly as almost to Kong's financial position was whole of the sterling arep.

RED CHINA'S AIR FLAGSHIP

The first aircraft to land at Peking in the maas defection of CNAC and CATC frum Hong

Kong last November was re- christened "Paking" of u cere- bolle this. mony held in the capital of the new People's Ceutral Government on Saturday.

д

Done his job

This was reported yesterday in

Since he came here in 1045 he "Now | China News Agency" message from Peking published denies having done anything par

bos simply dope his job, Ho

In the Ta. Kung Pao."

The report added that thecularly worthy of note, but "Peking" will inaugurate the new people whose minds stretch a little are amazed int the adroitness with weathered the cumulative inan-

civil air services on the China beyond his tent which he has

mainland on August 1.

MAN MISSING FROM SWIM

to

The Nazis and the Fascists made repeated attempts sabotage the trines. Their efforts look the form of Inelting the native labourers to strike, to im troy the mines with explosiven peda the progresa of work, to de-

secretly planted.

Neutral territory

This sabotage was controlled by setbacks of the occupation Srganisations wet up in the neutral of Portuguese East years. They appreciate that the territory

cial

Hò

has brought monetary dormalcy Africa. To cope with this, Mr. here with the least possible irrit. Follows learned how to breaks up

nights for months in a row. An unidontised. Chinese man | ation.", was reported to be missing yester. And yet, Mr. Follows has not any after he was last seen awin- | always been interested in finance, ming out to sea in Chung Hom Before he came to Hong Kong-to Wan Stanley. His clothes, a take over this post he did very white shirt, a pale of klinki | Uttle of it--but hp did it with auch. tràusers 'und, a pair of canvar painstaking care that the sudden shoes, were found an. the beach | order to fly to the Far East to re- at 4 p.m. when a report was pair the shattered Treasury of a trade to the Stanicy Police Station, vital British outpost did not over-

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