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THE CHINA · MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1958.

THE FITTEST”

A SURVIVAL OF

The Birth

ROM now on, the highest venturous

The

period of the Colony was over.

affairs interesting reading deals with removed from administration. The slanging paper conducted with matches in the decorum, and every one was careful not to tread over the lino.

In 1894, Mr T. H. Reil became a partner in the China Mail, and also editor of the paper; and, in 1900, the Hongkong Telegraph after being run by Mr Chesney Duncan and Mr J. J. Francis, Q.C. was formed into a limited company.

were

The principal shareholders

Chinese residents who took over the Hongkong Telegraph as a paper in which they might express their views. With Mr J. P. Braga as their manager, the paper was conducted on lines in keeping with the highest principles of journalism together with fair expres sion.

and we

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Mr The first editor was Douglas Story, a prominent London journalist and War Correspondent.

The Company got aff

to

By

Of The Post

JOHN LUFF

kung, and Roon seized the the new court were held in

1850, in a building largest circulation.

the

What I ern rend there is that Mr W. H. Donk wan protty hurt. As far as I can rec, he was a Bne sort of chap with n pense of vocation, and certainly no sensational Journ- allet

and

Ho camo from Lithgow, N.5. W. served on the staffs of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, and The Argus, Melbourne.

the

Ho joined the Chirin Mait in 1903 und chair. Ho WIS rapidly rose to the editora pecial correspondent for the Daily Express, London, and the China Mall, covering movemicals of the ill-fated Baltle feet, under was tho Admiral

Rojdestvensky Donald

to witness the only English correspondent Russian feet sail to its domen to Tsushime on May 14, 1905.

which The time was fortunate I place on a site opposite because the Russo-Japanese the present. King's cinema, War was soon to break out. the gentlenen from During this war, the Post press were invited to sit at strongly pro-Japanese, à table inside the bar. was

In the hope that they were but at the same time did

shown not overlook certain trade mindful of the honour

them, they were remladed "that tricks which had been per- they would testify their regard formed by the country that for the attention shown for their Colony, and gave fale comment on Hongkong

by Britain's accommodation

appearing Great was then

there in the ordinary garb of centlemen." Ally.

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There is no record left to show whether they did appear In the ordinary garb of gentle- ITMII.

In 1904, there Wis

Journalists have a repulsticat

of attempt to form a Journalis for disregard the ordinary of Society, but tic Association. Like most conventions

reporters shows the out things formed

here, history

un later given seats once the first enthusiastic mediately in front of the dock.

OVUT.

were

1

No as the century rioses, enter the present century, three newspapers

the thing Which

have had rush wus

might continue, of which only the

fell apart, but with so many sinister intention.

now on the From

press set The China Mail rennins.

recorde Ivoted Colony

maintained the pattern has Hongkong Telegraph Alil!

over the past fly yours, in the a wonderful start with such during the Japanese occupa and however, exists

we could say that the time prominent local personalities tion, it might be as well to un

the keep papers printed from time to

names of the Hangkong to keep it alive. although as Mr E. H. Sharp, KC: Mr record the

sufficient copies

4. Ewens, solicite: Father first Committee in the hope Colony informed of the outside only

the that someone might be able world, and that the papers are better produced--but could an such Robert, the head of pablished to satisfy

Journalist return to the Etrangeres; and to tell us something about d requirements that is nume Mission

Colony, the greatest Playfair, them. Mr G. W. F be retained.

the National manager of

ire

The South China Morning Bank of Chinn,

entered the arena 14.41

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a limited fiability company with a capital of $150,000

on March 18, 1903, and its

The South China Morning a suitable time

first number was issued in Pud chose the following November.

The founder of the Com. was Mr A. Cunning Any lam who had previously been connected with

BUWS-

papers in Singapore, Shang- hai. and Hongkong. Hr Artesi 1474 the general

manager.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"And may 1 rembut you, Chasuble, chur however great the difference in ou fiturgical views, we do not "refer to the Bishop as 'thar Low Church square."

London Exorces Service

in which to be born. That, together with the vigorous and independent policy, plus 18 modern equipment sent 1 rapidly ahead.

An early bust of this ORWEGNICE to journalism was that it produced its own gas to run the 16 and to run its 32 h.p. engines

The President was Mr T. L Reid of the China W. Mail. Chairman, Mr P. Sergeant

the Daily of Press, The Committee was of Mr Douglas formed Story, Editor of the South

Post. Mr

Morning 'hinn W. H. Donald, China Mail Editor, and Mr E. A. Snew din of the Hongkong Tele- graph.

The object of the Asso ciation was to promote the "status of journalists in the Far East."

differtatce

he would notice in the sel papers is in the editorials.

Afy This

out was pointed years ago by Mr W. H. Donald, Mall. then editor of the China and his comment is as true to day as it was then.

He wrote: "Criticism, how- ever, is not so free as is possible in other parts of the world. The commually a small, he meant

Interests comparatively) surprisingly interwoven. and a tendency quarters to obatraci legitimate

exista

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some

a

reference to certain interests by withdrawing support from the This article in

Con- paper guilty of indiscretion. plant, amb it also lighted stitution of the short-lived

"Que or two papers endeavour its building with electricity cummittee fakes us back by to stem this tide of demoralisa- the survival produced on the spot.

first tion. and whether Post was the pioneer of the years of the Colony. When

editors on top 10-cent newspaper in Hong- the Criminal Sessions

remains to be need."

The association

to

the

ROUND-UP

of the liest will ultimately see

of

the

Or But.

Mr

wald Unfurtunately, does not refer to the particular [ inekent he had in mind, and bave

any na reference to "Indiscretion" on the part of the editor of the China Mail. This That for however, 1 do know.

In the KOTUO reference made China Mail during the year 1904,

by the foreign community colled the paper. BRITISH manufacturers may soon have a new line on the West

This was a severe During a week's visit to

not only was the Britain a West German delegation of shoe retallers went to an exhibition of British Tewitwear, orgailsed by the British Footwear Manufacturers. They showed keen Interest in British made soccer boots A selection of these bools will be sent to Germany for examination by specialist buyers, PROUD OF BACON

OUR BOOTS

German market footbull boots.

LANGLISH baren bas goines! a boost in the village of Horsmonden, More than 2,000 customers in Kent, during the past your. and around the village are supplied with focally-produced bacon sahy housewives, while retalaing faithful to their own grocers for all other provisions, obtain their bacon at the one the district that sells the English product. This much- Mitre Ju sought-after bienn vis produced at Ruck Farm, near Horsmonden, by Mr F. Cornwalls, son of Lord Cornwallis, Lord Lieutenant of the County,

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A

MASCOT

TAFF at Watford, Hertford- shire, Pence Memorial hos-

have

they

was

pital's pathological department new mascota Ülis-Gills, the only

one in Britain believe. The Gits-GILS given to the staff by a rat catcher who was called to wipe ou a rul culony which Invaded

Thu Bovingdon Hertfordshire. grey furry animal is about 0 inches long. It came from a family which started when two escaped from the late Lurd Rothschild's private zoo al Tring, 20 years ago. NELSON'S GIFT ASWORD, which Nelson pre-

Ad-

to on Ilation miral over 160 years ago has been handed over by Signora Elens Imbert, inst descendant of the admiral, to the British Naval Attache In Ione for presentation to the Greenwich Naval Museum. It wup given by Nelson to Admiral Antonio Imber for his services and devoilon to a Spunish Branch of the Bourbons,

AID FOR DOG A HARD-OF-HEARING pet

dog has been Alled with a dent aid by a Mayfair, London, "Hearing Correctora Service." A member of the arm chose one of the latest models which battery And

microphone

Are contained in a box one and a half inches long. A special bend band 'had to be made, "After the first bewilderment when the dog did not quite understand where the sound was coming from ho got used to it," sak the maker, "Ho poon reacted like a human being nd obviously enjoyed being able

to hear without being shouted

I should say that W. H. Dunakt was the last very line of the old line of exiitors, although a and responsible oo, who tood side from the

astairs.

I remember In Father T Sherkun,

The last foreign elltor court ww the popular

S. J. Ha Futher Sheridan turned up the fles of the China Mall for 1004, and read Donald's comments on cominent in the press, he would China Mail have been advised on what the euphemistically und indiscretions."

tic

editor

of

Futher

Sheridan Wh

which "Outlook." a very high class journal, maintained An excellent cluss of journaliszu. Unfortunately, the local circulation was insof- ficient to keep the monthly magazine going, and its overwas circulation, while good, did It extend rapidly enough to keep it alive.

In a way, the outcome of the affair was similar to that of the old days, and although Futher Sheridan did not obinín a meeting o the cricket ground, he was certainly OVIT- wheimert with letters and vocal expressions. of sympathy.

nonk

The fact is, weekly m monthly foreign magazines have never gone down in langkong

but mude, Many atianpts have beeR

South succeeded. Oper the have

Chiru to In Morning Post was going, it tried weekly illustrated railed the Weekly Post folded up after a few months.

this new

venture.

il

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could seemed

Tand composing room

South China Morning Post's linotype room (above) as they were in those days. Note the pigtail (above) of the operator.

the

We

to

CHU JOU S

On August 4, 1900, the China Mail brought out 3 wirkly

the incidents are articles and most of From now called 12: New broken plece of poilery bcribed

on, these Ilustrated

ila real history LE press amusing, Weekly

The proprietor offered Latin. By transliteration, it will deal with what the

to be lag, but by

affairs beел said about the domestic

recorded well from Eltol $500 to the person who

o?

Colony before

Endacott; this select the most suitable title for shifting along the letters,

assumed the doubtful reputation attempt to add to that. This in The paper render in tnformed of the where

of being he must respectable merely what the ordinary did as the Hongkong Weekly, (the abouts of a mest useful but im-

bere. people in the Far East. winning ile) paid very high pine receptacle.

They it gave the boys a laugh along rates lo encourage good writma, but in splle

this the Sinekepit, as we christened courageous call this.

Rood the old Honglang Hotel Bar In Journal folded up on March 7,

Story Queen's Road. 1908.

did The public of Bengkang nwt, and do not, want weekly The South China Journal.

another try Morning Pest had with the Review of the Far East, in 1907. This collapsed after two

125ues

uneven-

There was agam na exciting period, or rather, an tion] period ith journalism Immediately before the Second the World War broke out in Far East, and inmediately after- wards.

The letters were racy, and the was sprinkled double entendre

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htt days, not days, but the

is a sign of

dayn. always Colony extremes,

CONTINUED

ON SATURDAY

MISSILE CENTRE

ONCE A COWTOWN

'Man into space' attempt will be made here

Lompoc, California. VAST missile centre stretching for 500 miles along California's coast Once will be the launching site for America's 1,300-pound satellites. freely. The editor had keep serving an area of farms and cattle ranches, the former "cowtown" of his eye skinned as well reLompoc is now the centre of the largest missile range in the free world. slow, fur member. Moul of Hongicong's South China respectable residents were Morning Post, by its new equip heme recuperating from a long send a man tuto space will be moon

emetency, sojourn in Stanley Camp. ment and all round

coverage of the Colony was in the hands of the plus good

trouble, taking Military Occupation, and many Jupan-Rustia over circulation, but this boycott of the members of that memor- placed the newcomer

talent for well able to:ee found front.

Journailsm, broadcasting, acting and everything else.

Mr Donald went on to ask bia readers If such measures made for 100 presu, for, he said, "Tho result is that the average editor think twice before he has to pablishes an article such as the Foots general reader sometimes for,"

at

first America's

#itempl

A Port Arguello, the Navy has 19,000 acres of hilly country- Vandenberg side nexi to the buse

more

The

shots

to the under the direction Chan Mars and Venus,

United States Navy. From this

missile Pacific made from here.

fred the 1,500 Alt three of the United range will be

missiles States

termediate will indle arted services share the huge

of and the 6,000-mile ICBM2, network toace-age facilities.

The Vandenberg base already has been declared "operational. This means It is ready to fre the narkar missiles

of

the

across

Pacific.

At 'the ready' Within a few days the U.S. Launch Force expects the Best of a series of shots

Air

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Scores of bulidings housing picted preparations for to fix television the apparatus which controla

the missiles la flight north-south

With the facilities being built here, the Navy will be ablo to launch all types of missiles.

Selentists

the at

Vanden- it was at the latter

end' of

berg base have almost com- the Colony

firing this stage, just as

Thor-Able missile. was recovering its Wimbledon

air of respectability designed

Within a Common

year, the 100-ton that the editor of the China Mall | cameras

San Nicolas Atias missile may also become the scan bought

an old orbit to what la now

southern Call- avaliable. Alr Force officers spinning earth, readers classic. tells his Mr Donald

Atlas could orbit But

scientists

to Point Sur in believe the and the He had nothing to that "any limpness (in the press)

of Vandenberg Air northern California.

satellite weighing at least noticeable is due more to force about. The Daily Mirror bought ofeeTS

to the it also. The writer to the editor Force Base, just north of of circunstances than

pretended to

a missile centre, ure

weather...、

have

worry

found

In

A

west-cust

tha! intershed

tattered from

Island, off the fernia const

Although

arc

there is no over

all commander, the range is

five tons,

Thumbs down that doesn't suit" me

"Thumbs down to European free trade

The

“Courage, gentlemen! 1 bore the Cross of Lorraine

Cross

any

-(London Express Service).

Cummings

and survived!"

London aroma. Elekylen.