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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 18TH, 1918

"I HAVE DONE WHAT I CAN.”": SIR ARTHUR YOUNG'S FAREWELL SPEECH.

HE Sir Arthur Young. High Coun missioner of the Federated Malay States, bade farewell to the members of the Federal Councif' at Kuala Lumpur o May 2nd. In reply to cordial tributes from the unofurial members, Sir Arthur Young said a

This is no doubt the last time I shall preside at this Conncil. I must tha ik the Balera for the friendship which they have extends to me during the past years since I came here as Chief Srere I value that friendship a great tary. | deal,' and I can assure them that their deep loyalty to` His Majesty has been of the greatest assistance, especially 1П these times of stress. I thank the Un-

AFTER SEVEN YEARS. SOME IMPRESSIONS. OF...

HONGKONG.

[AT PROJESÚCE MIDDLETON SMITH.}

in the early days." It is bad for the individual to get into deht, but phil anthropic organisers know that there is nothing dreadful in the idea, when it is for a good cause However, the "fact

Tuk CHINESE.

ROPING-IN DANGEROUS

CHARACTERS,

HEAVY PENALTIES INFLICTED.

More than a dozen me are in the

It is only a few hours ago that the remains that although frequent appeals custody of the Folice on charges of as yo Mara steamed south through has been made for fands for the Univer being connected with armed robberies, Sulphur Channel, and even now it seanssity that institution has anti! nöw keng

On Saturday, before Mr. R. Hat- difficult to believe that our destination is free of debt. But if it is to"progress it

chison. two Chincu vert charged with Home. We shall and London. Great must increase its expenditure

being in salawful possession of arus.. Britain, and the people over there'

Inspector Kent stated that the two very different after seven years. An effort will be made to send back to Hongkong a taken place, but it is the purpose of this iew. impressions of the changes that have pntribution to discuss Hongkong and the ideas about the British in the Far East which have been formed during the last

seven yeara,

It is impossible to work among the Chinese for nearly seven years without men, with others "But in custody.. were forming very definite impressions shout cult to speak too highly of these wish the Victoria School, Wanchai. A strug.. them. For my own part, I and it diff-stopped by a Chinese constable behind when it has been my good fortune tole ensued, and a second constable weit well and have is respect for learning to his squarade's aid. One of the defind- come into contact. The students work

They are most industrious. The percent the ground, while the other man had a which makes work with them pleasure. ants threw a dangerous-looking "knife on age of "wasteTY, is much less in Hong-

The day before we left the Coleby Sir kong than in the Universities of Eng-loaded rovulver and a packet of pepper

books better than

official Members lor. the kind words in exactly seven years before, when we first them to the only difficulty is that usin his possession. Que statement made

harles Eliot reminded me of the day, land.

met in London. He had then been re cently appointed at Principal and Vice Chancellor of the

machiners,

The men who have surprised me most of all are the Chinese mechanics. Theying for some opium, sanugglers, but other was to the effect that the men were wait- have what we call the engineering in-

neway-stinct." Ther

are remarkably ingenious information received suggested that the

University of Hongkong, and he was and self-reliant When once they ing London for the Far East in order to

which they have referred to me, and I "like the way Mr. E Ton Sen pus. i

We, shall be surry to lose you. 1 mast say that from the Unofficial I have fair criticism, and criticism in a kindly up his new duties. The interview adopt it but they have the national ex: robbery. The defendants had been con- received good counsel and advice and

gaver a new iden they will cheerfully ren were about to commit an armed

'olo custom.

sprit.

They have always "given their cordial, co-operation to the Government, and specially in these times of war when the Unofficials have done their best to assist the Hume Government in the Prosecution of the war. I cannot pass without referring to the Civil Service from Sir Edward Brockman, the thief Secretary, downwards. I must thank them not only for their ateulent work in hermal times bus for the whole-hearted way in which they have worked for the last years, so

as to allow every man troru the Murvies that could be spared to go to the front. communities in the same, was allowed thow that were in professions and occa pations to leave for the same purpose and those that remained behind carried out more than their fair share of a man's work in a climate where wark went to the front from a comparatives really does tell on one. As to those who small British population, the figures are and shartly known, but I think you will

The other

find are not less than 200 men who have been killed in nction or died from wounds-they died. At any rate, in the cause of justice and right, the glorious CAI, and they are to be envied almost I will leave out the almost-in having died for it. Other communities. non-British communities, have helped us during the war. They have boon unable to send mes to the front, but they have helped in furthering nil subscriptions to war purposes. They could not do more than they did... All in this country have been loyal Malaya, both in men and money, has done its duty I consider during this war. (Hear, hear.) 1 will say farewell now to you, Rulers and gentlemen. I have tried--I can con scientiously say, I have done what I can, but everyone's abilities are limited in & way.

TRADE REPORT.

EXPORTS,

Bic-As, foreshadowed in our last re- port, the local Chinese suppliers have withdrawn from the market, and now refuse to sell any grade of rice even at

an advance of a dollar per pieul on last week's price.

The British-Indian Government has issted an order that grain and four will be admitted free into the country up to September 30th, 1919..

The Cuban and New York markets are good buyers, but no business is possible without the commodity, as it would be like playing with fire for any exporter to dare to become a

"bear. The situation will be further aggravat ed when Europe begins buying for the enemy countries

ference has taken the hint contained in

work.

Aggerated respect for

They make very good artisans and they nected with several robberies perpetrat take an intelligent interest in their ed in Wanchai and Shaukivan, but,

owing to lack of evidence, the Police The coolies that have worked in the Uniwere unable to charge them directly with selves to be teachable. It is, of course the offence. probable that wages will increase in the Dear future, but there is a huge reservoir of unskilled labour in the district around Canton. It will be interesting to note the wages paid in England, but we have obtained intelligent and industrious a 20 skilled labour in Hongkong at ten dol lars & wooth. That is an economic fac tor that must inevitably increase the pros

Mr. Hutchison sentenced the first de" fendant, who had several previous con- rictions against him, to a year's hard labour and a fine of 2250; and the second defendant to a year's hard labour.

n great impression upen me but it did not lend me to suppose that 1 should leave London. There was plenty of work to be had for the asking in the Metropolis of the world, and the work that came my way was not drudgery. It was thoroughly enjoyable, and it was part of my

that to be with work that is of interest is Occupied a great help to happiness. The idea may seen a little old-fashioned, for it is not by any means new; probably it cap supported by the sayings of King Solo man. It is certainly to be found in the works pl Lecky, Emerson and even such modern author as Arnold Bennett. But that interview with Sir Charles Eliot brought back to me the dreams of bosperity of the trade and industry of Hong-fanit Sergt. Murphy, when charg bood The gorgeous East, the land of Chinese have a reputation as of a knife mystery called-wrongly say the savants- Cathay; the country named Japan and above all else, the sudden realisation of the fact that travel provides an education a great deal about this new University which books cannot give, made me think and the Colony of Hongkong. For six on sagen week; 1 found my self continually imagining Loing

about the

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In view of hold-ups and numerous robberies in Kowloon City, I hope your Worship will take a serious view of the ing a Chinese with unlawful -possession" traders, but a residence of nearly sever Defendant, was arrested in Hunghom, Fears in Hongkong makes ote inclined in the early hours of Saturday morning, to believe that the Cantonese are the most evidently intending to commit a feleng The stories of how they have acqui wonderful people in trade in the world. Mr. Hutchison fined defendant 123

stories of bow they have acquired with the alternative of two montha' hard in labour.

amount of

has tries, Settlements and the Dutch East Indies, seem to show that they can make bricks without, straw. If they can- BANK NOTES IN CIRCULATION not do so they most certainly and the

IN APRIL straw where others do not notice it.

The weakness of the Cantonese trader. seems to lie in his disinclination to co- Returns of the average operate of

with others, and in his complete Bank notes in circulation and of specie depreciation. la any in reserve in Hongkong during the engineering enterprise those are obstacles month ended April 30th as certified by fatal to success, Those are the reasons the managers of the respective Banks: why it is improbable that Canton will become the centre of any big manufactur ing enterprises. Chinese have con fidence in the limited liability companies in Hongkong, as witness local share market.

But, with the single exception

Average Specie in

Amount. Reserve.

Mr. Stafford Ransome bad formed the British Engineers' Association, a promin eat object of which was the extension of the of British machinery in China. and it so happened that we often met at about that time. Mr. Stafford Ransome was well-known in the Fai Fast. An engineer of a family respected in the profession, he had also earned a

reputa tion as an artist. He was an advocate of a go-ahead policy for the British in China And so, for weeks, the idea of

Banka tour in the Far Eust during one of the long vacations fixed itself in my mind.

Chartered Bank of That was at first the only result of my

India, Australia of the large raceting with Sir Charles Eliot.

and China

******* 7.$11,932

and cable. At the back of my mind I knew for big industrial enterprise. In recent

Then one day there came an unexpected loon, they do not seem capable of uniting Hongkong

Shanghai Bank- years they have joined together in Honging Corporation 22,315,500 17,000,000. at once that I wanted to go out to Honkong to form banks, and, as far as it Mercantile Bank of

India, Ltd..... 1,162,047

kong. And I also knew that a married man with a family is denied a free choice in such

London off matters.

offered security, education, a fair climate all of the

good, for a family. offered the unknown--something

attra tive to the individual but bad for the family. All of the day that the cable lay in my pocket, with its imperative request: 'Reply at once" I wished that I had never even thought about China, nor inet the pioneers Ewing, Ayrton, Perry and Robert H. Smith who had gone out to Japan.

The

reclamation scheme at Kow-

successful; but the experimental stage is is possible to discover, they have been

not yet passed.

THE BRITISH IN CHINA The war has been responsible for a great increase in sentiment on the sub ject of nationality: But before the war it was written: What do they know of England who only England know ! "

Total

ין

5,000,000*

-550,000†

831,300,479 92,350,000 Sterling Securities deposited with

the Crown Agents valued £310,000. t-Securities with the Crown Agents

£125,000.

frat impression of the Far East was that the British in China had greatly increased their patriotism by travelling away from their native land. “At On the next day, the unexpected again Home" we take so many things. for happened. A reply went to Hongkong granted; abroad we find that those things and, as the politicians say, it was are not granted. Perhaps in China we (cautiously) in the afirmative. It appreciate more fully the fruits of such passed the following resolution on March was, my London friends told me,

Charta and the Declara- 20th

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CABIA 75/80 per cent is quoted in descri University. It is impossible tural-but it is not true that they are live in it may well feel proud:

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in the dark," an impulsive act. After tien of

a leap ideas as Blagdence when we see the

Whereas the House of Representa- seven years, when we meet again in Lon-chaos and misery brought about by bad tives in public session at Washington on don, iny friends will be told that the leap Government above all else, we appre- March 4th, 1919, passed a resolution re- was never regretted."

diate clean dealing in national affairs. lating to the rights of Ireland" to self- in the whirl of the next few weeks. The pression.

Dr. Caotlic and Mr. J. H. Scott

zured That

brings me to my outstanding im- determination, and to the desirability" cables urged prompt sailing. The San splendid tradition that the British are able consideration to the transfer of It is the maintenance of the of the Peace Conference giving favour Francisco route was selected. Hongkong not to be bribed. In the Far Eastin authority, inter alia, over Irish ports, was reached on an unlucky day, the 13th any Oriental

country the temptions

harbours and communications, from His of September, and I think it was also are subtle, the

ting the old tradition many.

Majesty's Government to an Irish Direc FIRST IMPRESSIONS.

not the place to discuss the efficiency or tory PEANUTS, UNSHELLED-The recent tariff

Everyone agrees that the visitor's first otherwise of the British Consular and

The Executive Committee of the change shows that the Trans-Pacific Con- The words of Kipling about the harbour excusable to record admiration for the public attention to the necessity of pre- impressions of the Colony are favourable, cade services of the Far East, but it is Navy League deem it their duty to call our former reports and reduced the rate came to my mind, as we steamed into it, complete vindication by those Bervices serving in Imperial and Allied in of freight on this article to G.$12 per He had written of the ships at anchor in

of the Public School traditions of Great terent, both in peace and war, absolute ton of 2,000 lbs. At this rate there is a the nighties chance of doing business at $12 for 20/32 1912. It is still leas true in 1019.

control over Irish porta, harbours and to that "four out of evory five Britain.: belong

It was no longer true in Finally, a few words about the Bri- communications, and is maintaining in- and differentials for other counta

tish men of commerce. The things that violate the Freedom of the Beas in the My first impressions of the Colony were have impressed me most are their tenacity British sense of the term." PRISUT OIL-25 is being asked by ever so much more favourable than I had and their generosity. The war brought Chinese dealers for No. 1 quality, owing been led to expect would be the case. The out those characteristica, but even in 1913 to large sales in the north. Locally, we Colonial Office official in London had told it was my good fortune to comment upon have to record a sale of 18,000 cases for me, with brutal frankness, what be them America

in a London journal. thought about Hongkon borren rock.

It may be twenty or thirty years' time there may The ELCY

true that they lack enterprise, although easily be three or four million people for my own part I am inclined to think living in the security which it offers.. It way. It

mercial interesta in China, comes into the field which home of fine traditions and courageous It is the first impressions of the Colony welcome may be true that they do

it helped me when I they have tilled-and that only na

It is a place of which we who at $218 and 80/85 per cent. at $299.

the disappointment which going to throw up the sponge in this One over me as the unpreparedness test struggle which is about to take ASIBZED OIL. Notwithstanding the the scheme became more and more appar

trade. drop reported last week, no business was engineering laboratories. There wing has set his teeth inte an object one

They res ent. The buildings were unsuitable for mind me of the national emblem, the

hulldog.

It is said that once that a TEA OIL-No further business was done idea that a University could be staffed mis true of the Briton and the trade praise concerning those who have built

moncy to provide anything. The at the old price of $19.50,

cut his head off before he will let go. almost entirely with kind-hearted, Woon O-There has been a small fessional men, who would demand at 16 cents gold for the Pacifio services or accept a small give their of the Far East... He has set his teeth and who are building up the new For

honorarium, into it, and he has the same tenacity there impressed you most favourably

East.

When they nek me: "What man out Coast. The local quotation is 2 per had then not been entirely discarded. aa the bulldog. picul.

The total full-time staff when s

We com

First among the competing nations of My answer will be "Sir Richard Dans." VEGETABLE OILS continue to decline in menced the session 2012-13 was the Vice-to-day on the Beld, pioneer who opened He was so typically British. On two Chancellor (who gave no lectures), a the oyster of Chinese trade, the Briton occasions we had long conversations, and COCGANUT OIL seems to be reaching a Professor of

Lecturer in, Physica, a Registrar, and Hongkong. He has built up 4

has shifted his base From Canton to alter the last one my note was: If only At Engineering normal market. A riz per cent. acid ing of the session 1919-20 it is anticipated ful centre of trade and industry that is

China had the open-

wonder-

Sir Richard Dane at the head. of national and base has been quated at 11 cents per lb. that there will be twenty-four full-time called & Colony, but, the name dries not one managing the Board of Communica

BOYA BEAN OIL has not been in demand members of the staff at the University,

Et the place. It is just a huge trading China is an extension of the system of

tions!

For the one great hope for As much as Peanut Oil.

The first two or three years were full centre It is unique in history and in the Maritime Customs until a new gen of anxiety. It was not until Mr. Lek-Yew

opportunity. Those who have developed oration of officials has been trained. half-a-million dollars, without "interest, haps, intellectually, rather below the now that the German

that, Chincac But the bination has been irresistible. From the friendship between Anglo-Baxons and gone, there will be an increase in barren rock" and "the to's lair

pirate's 1841 there has evolved, as by the word working for. It will benefit not only

Chinese.

That is a case well worth a magician, beautiful island, a a deficit on the annual budget. Mr. hub of industry. The figures about the the Chinese and British bab slso the Chamberlain, in the early days of the population are vaguene say that in whole of the world.

For the Kreat University which he had erected, had 1841 there were lean than 5,000 people menace to Chins as she now la mast remarked at a Committee mesting But Hongkong is only at the dawn of and that now there are nearly a million

terror in the hearts of those who realise "Don't be afraid of getting into.debt in

the evils of

It is for the British in China usually spend much more than they earn (Continued as foot of next column.)

to assist in keeping the country fres of that peril.

done at $145.

price.

When the friends of that era which was before 1912 ask me about the future of the British in China-it will be im- possible to be other than optimistic. It will be difficult to restrain the words of

́LARD' remains at last week's quotation made his remarkable bequest of a loan of it, were just averago Britons, and, per Fortunately, there are riguers are

of $36 for July shipment to South Ame

Tica

Two Chinese who were charged at the Magistracy. on Saturday, with playing fan-tan, offered the excuse that the were trying to guess the number of almonds used' as 'counter Mr. L 0. Hutchison fined them to eccb, and con

for twenty-one years, that the situation was cased. In those early days there was cheese par

.economy that, waa and did not help. seemed to be afraid of:

NETFOO and

average

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