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ORDINANCE COMMENTS IN THE STRAITS. PRESS.

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Now that Hongkong has disposed of

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STRAITS TIMES.”

We find that a good deal of interest is being inken in the fen particulars wo

ITALY AND ENGLAND.”

A society known as the Filends of Italy, held its inaugural conversazione at Claridge's Hotel recently.

APPLICATION FOR RECEIVING ORDER.

THE LEUNG KAI-SANG FIRM:

tho bogey which was used by many who have been able to give about the Hong already on foot in Italy, in the dir ction morning the Chief Justice (Sir William

wished to excuse Government inaction

paganda being carried on to-day on the battlefeld would be strengthened by the alliance of sentiment, traditions, and of

interests.

not. As a man of grit and capacity he would set his able and experienced Asiatic staff to work, and, though there would be more labour and anxiety for himself, he would be able to turn over

In the Bankruptcy Court on Saturday

Rees Davies, K.C.), heard a petition by Leung Kai Sang, trading as Hop Fat.

The Official Receiver (Mr. HA

which was in Court was money put up

Mr. Haywood disputed this.

Mr Crew said he was informed that what he said was a fact.

e

In reply to the Chief Justice, Mr. Crew said he represented a judgment creditor who had received a judgment, with scurity for costs, amounting to about 25,000.

The debtor stated he was sole partner. in the Hop Fab firm at Fatshan and had

In his pening address, Signor Sam- bucetti said that a great movement was

of a still stronger friendship with Eng kong Conscription Bill. As a matter of fact this Colony is ahead of the Southland. His people and ours had always understood one another, and in Italy's here as regards compulsory, service out China port in all but the one point of

Mr. G. R. Haywood, who appeared for troublous times her exiles had always the debtor, asked for a receiving order side the Colony, that is to sanctual compulsion All men of military found a welcome in England. The prostating that the assets amounted to 820,000 the bogey Government inability

and consisted of $4,000 in Court, $15,000 constitutionally to impose universal age, have been required to present them ives for medical examination and have

good hook debts, and 9500 in his (M external ɛerviço, wc. my reason-

been classified according to finces, and

Haywood's) hands. The liabilities were ably expect to see at an early date

about $45,900. The petitioner was ar similar Ordinance brought in for the in the event of an extreme energency

Lord Burnham said that, in speaking rested as an absconding debtor and ho anywhere in the East the whole of the Straits Settlements. There is, however, daag might, by special Imperial order, for the Friends of Italy, ho spoke for the put up the amount stated (84,000) azd his one very material difference in the

be sent off at a few hours notice. The whole of our people. There were no men petition was filed before the money was situation of the two-

In Hong

or women in this land, except in 'intern result, however, would be to produce a

baken out. kong the motive

came from the greater shock to business, organisatión ment camps, who were not friends of Chamber of Commerce, which represented than is either desirable or necessary It italy. That friendship was one of the the need for powers to compel for ex-in suite a long time now since we pro oldest and greatest of our national tradi. Nisboi) opposed the application and ask- posed a very precise and detailed clussions. We had more than love, we haded that Mr. A. H. Crow, as amicus ternal service; here, as far as we know, fication of all the ten of military age, no intease reverence for her, and he re curiae, being conversant with the facts, and without wishing to do the local hat it proved a good deal more than the minded his audience of how the whole

be allowed to question the debtor. - OI merchants any injustice, we believe the authorities were prepared to tackle, heart of the country went out to her in

though it bad the support of some very her great struggle for freedom, a

a struggl

Mr. Crew said that the sum of $4,900 Chamber has not moved in a similar able local business men. As conditions which was being repeated to đây, wny. We do not, however, pay too machstand now we should be inclined to war, however, could not be won by advocate a you more complete arsten, phrases, however fine, or words, however attention to that, because we have always which would take in every male Euro noble. We must give the feelings in par to secure the debtor. But for the judg- felt that this is a matter which in reality pean in the Peninsula and assign to hearts fruitful effect in acts and deedsment which the creditor he represented concerns the individua) affected a great him his place in the common service of Comradeship in peace was no less great had secured, his Lordship would never

the deal more than it concerns his employer the State in war or business, for it than comradeship in war, and in It is the individual who for the past seems to us that firms must be prepared future we must cultivate the knowledge, have heard the petition. The money in Court was responsible for the bankruptcy two or three years has been subjected to amalgamate at some not very distant nut only of the old, but also of the new to the sarcasm, invective and innuendo future. We cannot live without busi Italy in our schools and working life,

Mr. Crew said ho repre of countless anonymous correspondents ness, but we cannot live by business alone, both for literary and for practical pur proceedings.

Thus would the union between sented the only creditor in Hongkong : and other persons who, because there are The kind of plan we have in our minds the two countries be comented. In the. undoubtedly a few here who have shirk would be based on this principic: The old diplomacy there was too much of the the other creditors were in Canton. cd as there are everywhere, branded a State has a prior claim upon the ser narrow view. That was out of dato in whole class without particularisation. vicea of every citizen. It has the right these democratic days, and what we must Nor has this been contined to the com- to send old or young to the firing line, aim at was not the friendship of the few, ment of the nsn in the street, for we but it must send the young because they but the solidarity of the many. He hoped have always regarded His Excellency are incomparably more useful than the that the society might do much to give the High Commissioner's speech at old. The fact of the young being called practical effect to this most deiszable, Kuala Lumpur as unintentionally trend-upon to face the supreme sacrifice merely end. ing very much the same way, in that by emphasises the magnitude of the obliga it's failure to make more than a general tion in every man to serve his country. distinction it was reasonably interpreted as and where required, and to submit. to mean that there were very large to any personal loss or danger this sor numbers here who had intentionally vice may entail. A man is not freed avoided their duty. All this ill-feeling, from chligation by reason of the fact which has in no way tended to produce that he is fifty instead of forty years of unity of opinion and a high conception age. Thy State may bring financial ruin of the Empire's needs, will disappear upon a young man by calling upon him much business as before. Matters if a Bill is introduced which will throw to go on service. It has precisely the might not go as smoothly or as accurately carried on business for over ten years. upon the employer the onus of keeping same right to bring financial ruin, upon in some minor details, for if Europeans He had oue basihess in Hongkong Inst

could be quite easily dispensed with do his employes back from their duty if they an old man if it has need of his services firm would bear the heavy expense of year at shop at West Point, which hugt afe ñble to go, and we shall be much. A good many old men overlook this fact employing them. But the business would since been sold. A fire had occurred in surprised if the proportion of appeals They think that becsums they are over against service from engages comes to the military service age Government has not stop. The Asiatics, trained in many his promises at Fatahan and subsequently

cases by long service in the firms, are anything but a very small figure in no right to meddle with them. That is far better second strings than the he came down to Hongkong to collect the deed. The Hongkong Bill is a simple entirely wrong. Therefore our scientific head of a business, say, in London insurance money. Debtor admitted that

would onc. It makes the age limits 18 to 41, conscription

take in every it provides a tribunal to consider excrap. Luropean in Hongkong very man, Glasgow or Manchester can fall back at that time he was owing the Lai Cheung

upon when his trained men, are taken

Wing Hop Kee the sum of 84,700 and that tion claims and it arranges for the European or Asiatic, up to the age of

him to fight. He has to be content with necessary appeal. It does not appear to is included, although it is only in-

women and girls or crocks" unfit for they were pressing for payments Debtor make any provision for subsistence allow, tended to deal with Europeans. We

the army, who have never been inside also admitted that he received a sum of cs, but there was a verbal assurance would clamify the Europeans first, his or any similar warehouse. That is about 818,000 on May 2, and that he told that this matter would be considered according to ntiess for military service the situation as we should view it and sympathetically, and it provides that the overies; second, according to whether deal with it. The conditions are not the Court bailiff when he called that question of the civil service should not they are warried or single; third, a normal, and any man who fails to make $8,000 of the money had been sent to Can- come before the general tribanal but cording to fitness for service within abnormal efforts is not doing what his before the Governor. The last, provision Malaya and then wo should begin to country has a right to expect of him.ton. Also that he made an offer to Mr. is one which all non-Government people deal with the problem of exemption. He is not even doing what the simple Crew's client of 70 per cent. in settle- will regard. with a grin amusement as would classify according to business or law of self-preservation dictates. something naturally to be expected, for professional experienes and standing,

Since we wrote a few days ago, the ment. He said he had liabilities in Can- we have become quite used now to Gov-and we would require men to use their text of the Hongkong conscription ordi-ion and could only pay 70 per cent. On ornments laying down the rule that no knowledge for the public advantage nance has come to hand. It adds but the bailiff threatening to arrest him, hà ordinary parson is capable of estimating irrespective of the firns to which they little to our information. The tribunal produced 4,000, the amount fixed by the the value of a civil servant's services to are attached. A correspondent suggests to be constituted with a majority of Government, although Government of ed ecently that the public interest could commercial men. Judging them by our

Court, including security for costs, and ficials are held to be able to judge the no adequately served, by having one local experience, that damng the whole paid it over to the bailiff. value of business men to commerce.newspaper in sibgapore instead of measure. Neither at home-nor here nor Probably it will be accounted heresy to throy, nad he was right. Circumstances in America have the

Mr. Crew: That left you with about say so, but in reality we do not believe may arise in which the demand for men classes risen to a very high conception $11,000 which you had, either remitted to that, the Colony would suffer any more will be so great that this newspaper of the situation. We mid a former Canton or had in Hongkong -I did if, leb us any, the Education Department, stails are a waste. The same holds good article that heads of local businesses, was closed down for a couple of years more good many will say in regard being men of grit, would carry on even send 88,000 to Canton and took 82,000 up than it would if certain branches of not to other business.

There are, say if three quarters of their European myself. Vobtor further admitted that all absolutely war trades were similarly carve rms in Singapore carrying on assistants were taken from them. The alused. We take the Education Depart business which is impossible without the reply is a suggestion that we are in his creditors, except the Tai Cheung Wang went as an example, because as far as aid of an expert in each firm. That condition of idiotic ignorance about Hop Kee, were în Fatshan, and that, he wo know it has the fewest, if any, em mealla a dozen men "indispensable as huisiness, and yet we had a pretty good old the bailiff and Tai Cheung Wing's piones in it who would be liable under long as you have a dozen firme. But the grip of business principles, from actual the Service Act, but it would be possible note of the business might be done by personal experience, at a time when some manager that his liabilities in Fatchan to discover other Departments. As, how- one, two or thrs firms, and eleven, ten of our critics had scarcely reached the would exclude their dubt here and that ever, the fetish of the indisponsability or the men would because "dispensable." stage of playing marbles. The theory he owed $40,000 in Futshan of a Government Department vis-a-vis Let us, then, get a clear grip of the of some business men that it is the pre- an ordinary class of business occupation facts. The exemption of the dominions war basis or nothing in their business Mr. Crew: Andmow you say that your will not be dislodged by any such attacks is for convenience, not for any reason houses is preposterous under the grave liabilities are about $45,000, including the as are likely here or anywhere else, the under which residents in thus dominions conditions which prevail. The Hong. 85,000 due to the Tai Cheung Wing public will accept the regulation regard- can claim to be exempt from the obliga- kong law may do a little or it may do ing the special procedure in the cap of tions imposed on people in the homeland. nothing. Probably it will in due couray They are more. The 40,000 are taels, not the Hongkong civil servants with that And any exemption that may be granted make its appearance here and then we dollars. ernicism which it must cause,

Lya tribunal either at home or here shall have all over again the question of We should not be particularly concern-can only be made legitimately on evidence what is essential" and what is "indis

Mr. Crew: So that your debts now are ed over the question of the tribunals, that the applicant is engaged on som penible." Hongkong has had experi- the same as when you told the bailiff ?-- assuming the Bill introduced here should work which is of public importance in enves similar to our own. It had men

Yes be similar in terms to this. Hongkong the sense of contributing to general who were officially declared to be. one because, although the previous untional effeicnov. It is not enough to indispensable and who promptly

Then what have you done with the tribunals were not a very great success, say I am conducting a business which snapped at a chance of going from the the conditions under which they worked makes a huge profit, and of that profit firm which had whitewashed them as re- $11,000 you sent from here to Canton - were entirely different from the candi-the State takes a large part by way of garda military service to some other. When I returned to Fatshan all my credi- tions under which these tribunals will taxation, and money is a necessary for which way willing to give them a bigger tors knew I had collected insurance work. It is the duty in Hongkong of prosecuting the war. We have got past salary. The systems which tolerates the proper authority to send before the the stage at which thewo considerations things like that is an insult to public money. tribunal the names of all those affected are sufficient. The man who is organis intelligence, and yet, as far as we can to pay out 30 per cent. by the Bill. The tribunal then has to ing shipping services may be essential, sze, there is act much more power of call up and examine those persons and The man who is producing or distribut preventing it under the Hongkong bill either grant exemption or not. Ifing food may be essential. The man than under the systems we have tried exemption is not granted, then if the who is making anything required by the here and discarded. The Imperial employer or employé objects to the call Navy or the Army may be essential, The Government has been generous to the ing up an appeal lies to the Governor-man who is engaged in governing a part Colonies. It has not pressed them, in in-Council Similarly, it is open to the of the Empire-it may be only a small the least. It recognises that local know- proper military authority to appeal district may also be essential. What ledge of possible difficulties and dangers, against exemptions, and it is because of is not essential is the puroly private quite apart from businces muntter, is creditors pressed me and had to come this, we should not fear a repetition of trader. All that he is doing for element meriting consideration. But we the former comparative failure of the example, here or in such a colony as should not shirk our part in the great tribunals, because it would be the duty Hongkong night be done by Chinese conflict because we are not forced into of the proper military authority, when The withdrawal of all the private traders | it but are trusted to take such steps as power of compelling service had been would not produce chaos and famine we may think sound in all the circum- put into legal shape, to appest against We state the extreme view for emphasis. stances. What we need is the right any exemption which he did not think Actually there is a very great interest in spirit. No man can say this or that justified. From what we read of the preserving as far as possible the existing individual should go, but if we have a appeals in the LD.F. courts in India business relations but before a man of tribunal which earnestly endeavours to the tribunale, although composed largely military age and fitness is excused, on the find evidence that men can be spared of commercial men, were not by any ground that he is "indispenable it rather than one which as earnestly means free in granting exemptions must be shown that there is no pos endeavours to find excuses for keeping The main point about such a Bill assibility of carrying on valuable work them, we shall be doing our country this if it is brought in here is that was which conduces to public interest and justice. If a counsel of men with no shall at last be able to rest assured wo security without bim Take any one of axes of their own to grind, whose namËR tre doing all we can, and a number of our big European houses here. There were a guarantee of good sense and men whose diffeulties have been perfectly is a chief and, any, a dozen European loyalty and who conducted an inquiry honest will have the way made clear for assistants, and behind these there is a judicially were to say every man here them, whilst if there is a residuum of very able and experienced Asiatic staff Blackers that residuum will also be Suppose nine of the Europeans are wiped up. We have urged legislation taken away, would the chief go to bed on these lines for the past three years, and give up the struggle. Certainly and we can only repent we shall be (Continued at foot of next Caluma.)

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is wanted hers, we should accept the decision with relief. It is a feeling that the sordid and the personal are doreinat ing and causing us to shirk duty that makes the whole situation distressing,

2

They held a meeting and I had

Then why have not your liabilities been reduced?~Because I gave them in taels, previously, and now they are given in dollars. The amount I distributed would not go round at 30 per cent, and my

down to Hongkong and seek the proter tion of the Bankruptcy Court so that the Canton creditors, would have to come in Hongkong to collect the money,

After further questions by Mr. Crew, Mr. Haywood protested, stating that the questions should be put at the public ex-

ination.

His Lordship This procedure is cer tainly novel.

Mr. Crew said he could produce autho rities to show that the Court coulij de line to make an order which was au abuse of the Court.

After further discussion his Lordship adjourned the case for consideration of the point raised.