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PRENS, FRIDAY, JUNE 6TH.” 1919.

TO LONDON.

IMPRESSIONS OF SINGAPORE AND PENANG.

JAPAN,

"MISERABLE PAIR OF

BROTHERS.

ON THE LONG LONG TRAIL the Government for lack of foresight MB, HUGHES AND

On auch matters, also, it is impossible AMENDMENT IN PEACE TREATY. to form opiniona without hearing the

MR. LINDSELL ON FILIAL DUTY, defence as well as the accusations. But Mr. Hughes, in an interview in Paris the talk was about food shortage. Here, referred to statements that the rejection A Chinese was charged at the Magis again, there wore stories of bow the of the Japanese amendment (for racial tracy, yesterday, before Mr. R. E. Lind- Japanese had purchased large stores of equality) in the Peare Treaty was dueel, with snatching 89% from a Chinese. rice; but it seemed that they were only entirely, to the attitude of himself as the shroff.

Complainant said he was going along more far-sighted than the others; and, representative of Australia. if so, they deserve praise rather than censura,

(100)

[BY PROFESSOR MIDDLETON SMITH,).

During the last six years I Khe listened to many stories about Singapore and the Malay Peninsula; most of the narratives led me to suppose that for tunes have often been made very rapidly in that part of the world.

Even 1,

IN PENANU.

We were fortunate in having as hosts,

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"I do pót know," Mr. Hughes, who Des Vaux Road when defendant and is responsible for these rumours, but they obviously emanate from those who another man stole up to him, and defen- wish to make trouble between Japan and dant snatched the money from his out- Australia, or to make the Japanese people side breast-pocket. He seized the defen- beard during my recent visit For thera during our short stay in Penang, two of believe that Australia is the only country dant, and the other man threw the money

which objected to the insertion of the amandment proposed by Japan in the down and ran away. Peace Treaty

Mr. Lindsell: Why should he have done He seemi have had a good

I was not prepared for what I saw and

erally supposed. It is a wonderful coun

It revealy try and is an object lesson. the triumph of scientific knowledge, and

Rubber

and are the words most commonly heard when discuss arises as to how this.

clean administration.

1

man or that ma made his fortune. feel that, as a tribute to the hypnotic powers of the Criental money-changers, it should be mentioned that those very alert calculators also did quite well out of the passengers on one of the ships which called at Singapore and Pegang towards the end of Apni, 1919,

made

thera.

AUSTRALIA MOT REPRESENTED,

conclusior.

to

Mr. Lindselt: You are a shroff, and. you should be ashamed of yourself to

an opportunity to thieves-Complain-" a footing and I am generally very careful, but

will be more careful in future. Besides, I do not carry much money on my person. The defendant said the complainant. Mr. Hughes then paid a warm tribute

Japan as one of the Great Powers accosted him in Des Voeux Road and took world admitted into the fauer him to & house in a lane close by. There, Councils of the Fence. Conference of footing of absolute equality. But while be produced two bundles of notes, and seat for a policeman, to whom defendant admitting this, Mr. Hughes held that to insert such a clause in the covenant might vitally affect the industrial development was handed over... of Australia, which he considered a pure-

domestic matter.

ix indeed, much wealth in the Straits the Chinese graduates of the Hongkong Settlements and the Federated Malay University, one a medical man and the They quickly de-

"It is most emphatically untrue to that States, and there seems to be every reason other an engineer. to suppose that the sources of wealth monstrated to us the popularity of the say that Australia alone is responsible opportucity of running away with the He probably have been by no means used up. Indeed, motor-car in the Straits Settlements. We for the rejection of the Japanese amend despite the obvious prosperity, enquirirode in a British made car, but although mont. Just what happened at the meet money. Complainant:

we saw hundreds of cars of the popular of the Commission, which rejected threw it down thinking that I would the

the Japanese amendment, I do not know, release the defendant. and investigations led to the concluajah American models we did not recognise for Australia had no representative

another car

in Great Britain. that there is a much more brilliant future

There will to a big market in Malaya Mr. Hughes went on to say that cer for this part of the world than is ger for care in the Sear future, and 10 tain sections that by the rejection of the carry, money abous so carelessly, affording

of the Japanese people seem are welled to think doubt British manufacturers aware of that fact. But it would have

amendment the world bad refused to ad- been a pleasure to see evidence of their mit the Japanese nation on efforts to cultivate it by means of the of equality with the other nations of the usual advertising methods.

There had been heavy rainstorms in League, but, in his opinion, there was Penang just before our arrival, and we not the slightest justification for such a were told that some of the roads had been washed out. But those along which we motored were of good s

surface, and wide. It was, indeed, relief to run through a town with roads theads of traction. were suitable for modern mechanical The nightmare of Caine Road was hon THE RUBKAR PLANTATIONS.

dreds of miles behind us in Hongkong. the place On the vexed question of speed limit we much less hilly than can only suppose that our drivers ignored 8 Hongkong. That may account for the any rules about it, if there are any. more reasonable tariff of the motor car We often reached a speed of thirty miles

an hour although there was no You may hire a light America tour-seater for three dollars (even shill to hurry. ings) un hour, or a

It was noticeable that a large number Comfortable venicle for our dollars an hour.

oure of private ears were carrying Orientals evening, ons passengers. We came to the onel arrived at Singapore

of We saw one wonder- Malayn own. CATS. Tul vehicle reputed to have cost fifteen Our Chinese friends thousand dollars. said that the body was supposed to be made a silver, although it was really of slusainius. Whatever the metal, it was curious to see this attempt at Oriental splendour made by the owner of this motor-our, which had been built, especial

in America...

As everyone who has

knows, Singapore

owners

scen

imore

towards

hun-

reason

INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS DIFFERENT. Mr. Hughes argued that all he had done was to support the

traditional pelicy of Australia, which was well known throughout the world and which he believed essential to the industrial welfare of the people, After many years

and struggling a high standard which they hoped and intended to raise still higher.

Mr. Lindell: How long have you been bere -Defendant: About ten years.

Where are you employed 7-I am out of a billet

How do you live-My mother looks after me.

Have you any other relatives 1-1 have an elder brother.

We contented ourselves that night, with sign that a large number of Chinese in had been secured in Australia, was be

run out to the Sea View Hotel, a sort of a Deep Water Bay joy-ride Thore we saw not only the rictel, but the resi- rence of the individual who is said to be the richest man in Singapore His name is Meyer, and we wore told that he is

is of the Jewish faith. He had selectid a charming situation for his house, e note

and some residential flats. We saw dir the beach, but the tide was too low fly p swimming.

Next day we consulted the Indian who managed the motor garage, and explain

ed that we wanted to see the rubber For three hours we motored extates.

alang miles of excellent roads, and we saw, perbapa, millions of rubber

THE ONLY VERDICT.

י

3," said the tall "It's

Englishman who had passed ane-loking: more than twenty years of his life in the service, administering justice and doing all sorts of odd jobs of the British ad- however sub-

Government

We saw them as seedlings and a Mas come the way

ninistrator in the

The defendant's elder brother, said his younger broker was unemployed, and so

Mr. Lindsell What! I suppose your You mother has to support you, too. bath should support her, and, instead, you live on her. A miserable pair of broth- ers you ar

Defendant, who had been previously convicted for a similar offence, was sen- tenced to three months rigorous impri-

Workmen insisted on high wages and good working conditions, but the in dustrial position in Japan was not the same. Only the other day the Peace Con. ference adopted a proposal for the estab lishment of 2 permanent International Labour Convention for the purpose usonment. improving the industrial position of workers all over the world. That pro- posai contained a clause inserted at the suggestion of Japan and other Eastern countries which, in effect, oxempted them from paying the sante, wages and work the same hours as other nations. infin, Mr. Hughes, was a plain ad-

IMPORTING arms.

A FINE REDUCED,

Turdinate his positionpics, anawe mission that Japanese industrial condi. revolver and a quantity of ammunition

who

Ies.

were very different from those of Mr.

had been built-out local newspaper and nointed our THE CHINESE AND THE WEST. of 8500 was imposed, ng

course,

of rubber. Which meaat, of that rubber had paid for them. on we niet & planter from Johore and

the

bo explained that the estates in F.M.S. contained the rubber which paid best of all. We saw Johore in the dis- tance, but there was no time" to cross thos ferry, The disappointment "Tommy and his brother was express ed in vehement fashion.

01

{

ng possible verdict. is only on the fringe of it.

OF LIQUOR.

170

fine

A Chinese seaman, who had brought a

the bearing trees; we saw the grubber #but what a

to the Colony, was fined $500 at ning from the cut in the bark into

turious mixture of races tigations.

Alagistracy Jast week. little cup fastened to the tree all eady you people have to deal with-laeys,

Europeans,

Chinese, Indians, Armeniana, to catch it; we saw men pouring it"

Yesterday, Mr. D. J. Lewis, öf Messra, the little cup into larger rec

Japanese, Javanese, Siamese, and even the Japages said that he did not ask

Japanese people to vary their domes Johnstone, Stokes & Muster, applied aborigines whe stay in the Bark of tic policy to suit Australia, so he thought for a re-hear yewis said that the defen-. and we saw carts carrying it into

of the case. Addressing also saw rubber-soled tennis Boydad and The Civil Servant Australia the same right. We

ed sticks the Japanese people, would concede to the Court. still use poisoned poro

with blow-pipes

dant, when arrested, was granted bail in shoes which, so we were told, used rub

$1,000. This was met by him and seven ber that had never been twenty miles amiled, and just said that in time you And we saw the get to know them, He was very definite

other fellow-seamen. Then, when away from Singapore.

the defendant was

་སྐ houses of wealthy Chinese; and they, so his admiration for the Chinese Even

I took the people t told us,

when, in order to test him I

unable to meet it. He drew the

Magia the of Chinese names figuring in the report

fendant had been on various vessels for a period of seven or eight years, and had gang-robberies, he was unshaken. PROTEST TGAINST IMPORTATION tate's attention to the fact that the de- acknowledged that there had been some

received very good certificates of charac af bad cases

Les and that the

The Mail and Empire of Toronto ter. During the war he and served on Chinese often were

but that did

prints the following editorial-The many vessels chartered by the Admiralty. not make him take back his words.

Chinese are adopting more and more, The Police rightly, remarked, Mr. Lewis, You don't judge our nation by the men in the dock at Bow Street Police Cours, tre pleased tons of the west which we tegarded the importation of arms into

consider more civilised Colony as a

offence, as the be remarked, with a smile.

American brew weapons might fall into the hands of 1. It's & Breat country civilisation ers, finding that their own doors, defendant borë & very good cherved The story of how a huge industry

That is the but they hark at beer.

bad characters, buty in this case, the rubber has grown up in the Straita

When all about to be closed, are arranging tô ex- Settlements is something which ought to

After years. of hard work, he had of the jungle is won, when ronds and ploit the country of 400,000,000 or more

nor little Chinese, and this has brought the follow-

money, and had obtained the encourage those who believe in modern wilways are extended in all directions,ing righteous and significant protest from 1 weaper. for self-protection against law- civilisation and the money valde of scientific work. It 13, Ferhaps

when the bountiful gifts of nature are

We have dige, Peking:

to drive less characters in the Do desire

country, where he able for, the Briton to be proud of the there will indeed be a new Malaya. Jr drunken sots

the fully made use of by scientific knowledge, out the opium fiend only to usher in

the

intended to sett

to settle down. The revolver story. F From the other side of the world

rld Welly has remarked that those of

Apparently the brewers and ammunition were not concealed, but A few specimens of the rubber piantinere | **** who have had 1, scientific training think they must educate the Chinese to were discovered in his kit-bag along with brought, perhaps forty or fifty years. Us

the delights of Western bacchanalianism. other belongings. It was a genuine ago, and now the jungle is being clear and it hard to restrain ourselves from Why do not the Westerners come to teach case of a man obtaining a firearm for a ed; and acres and acres of rubber planta prophecies about the future; but a very us better manners than indulging, in reasonable purpose. ·

untrained could see a great future

The Police testified that the revolver ur such a wonderful country as Malaya opium, cigarettes, and intoxicante

This reference to opium uncovers aand ammunition were not hidden. The ship is o the long long trail:

stain on European morals, for the efforts The Magistrate reduced the amount of men, have replaced the old chaos of na

We saw a little of We are now within of. ture unrestrained.

sight.

land said to be

from the

actually Jed to From war in the jungle and we heard a great deal which

Sumatra

1840. The result was that the more about it from our new acquaint- Malaya to Australia there stretches a tier... The the planter from Johore. He has chain of islands-the last front

and

care, then sorts throDINNER TO ADMIRAL TUDOR inct, charge of 2,500 acres of rubber, which white man who made the first steam..

of

AT HANKOW. Asiatics 1,300

engine sounded the knell of the pirates open to foreign trade; that the Chinese LDC. pays the wages

were compelled to pay to the British an incidentally, repays very well, we may and did more than all of the missionaries And now the

of $21,000,000, and that the

of opium be sure, the enterprise of those who to destroy cannibalism

1906 continued. In

At the invitation of the Hankow branch initiated the scheme. And each year the white man is pushing back the last fron-

the Chinese Government issued an ict of the China Association, upwards of

edic estates are extending and the jungle is tier and the tangic of the jungle is giv

to put an end to the use of the drug sixty of the leading residents sat down to cultivation. Medical science diminishing, while the district grows

within ten years. By this time public richer and richer.

is fighting malaria and other tropical

opinion

the endeavours of

of Admiral Bir Frederick Tudor in the Of course the word rubber" explains diseases. Botanical science is producing a throughout the world had chang- on May 20th, to a dinner given in honour

the Chinese to rid themselves of this curse. Hankow Club. In addition to the guest a great deal. But there are two other the plants fruite and trees which are

three years Inter the leading Govern-of the evening, the Captains of H. M. explanations one is the Union Jack and most suitable for the climate. the older is the industry of the Chinese, always was brilliant sunshine in the tormenta of the world agreed upon measures vessels in port, and the Consuls were For centuries there was murder, pirney, pica, but in the jungle there was darkness, to assist the Chinese, and as a result present. bloodsbed and ravaging of that

disenso Malay

decadent vegetation and men. of a report to The Hague. Conferenco

After the toast of "The King" the disappearing before the in 1912 the Chinese passed drastic law Admiral's health was proposed by Mr. white man's enterprise and knowledge,

exterminate the opium trade way of our Empire, it just and there will soon be room for nothing importation of opium from

19 Geary Gardner in a speech in which be bappened that the Union Jack was placed

some way useful. That first here, and then there and then in that is not in

is the входа of the new civilisation. not end until 1913, but the Chinese Re-expressed the indebtedness, of residents in the Far East to His Majesty's Navy, public is thoroughly in earnest in IZA some other place stow miles away. They are framing, rules and regulations endeavour to wipe out all traces of the giving instances of how often they had

It the dawn of a new era comme deeply in Paris just now. In Malaya the Briton has the power to prevent the establish had nover been found wanting. He sug did not fly as the result of some deep

for the reconstruction of the whole world traffic. The Chinese Government alone needed to look to it for protection and it Isid scheme in London or by command of some great Imperial Architect. It was is just going on with the job he comment of plants for the manufacture of gested that a branch of the Naval League just the restless British pioneer who menoed about a hundred years ago, but was carrying on his self-imposed mission

he is now moving rapidly. We shall see of "tidying up,"

," and among those great remarkable changes in the near future.

-M.8. adventurers was a man named Raffles. Thoughtful men in Singapore and the Straits Bettlements respect his memory.

tions, containing trees lined and spaced providing employment for thousands and thousands of Asiatics and a few white

to

London, and Penang is well astern of the to prindin e importation the fine from $500 to $300.

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and

bed and then, in the typically Hut the Jungle is

F

There

YOKOHAMA'S GROWTH. THE UBIQUITOUS JAPANESE We were surprised to find that ordin-

Investigations made in trustworthy aryarticles in the shops of Singapore quarters show that, since the outbreak of vate more expensive than in Later on we heard the story

Eppskong

Japanese invazione.

soaring in

the

shown almost a steady increase annually. the war, the population of Yokohama has

of

British acquired Hongkong;

hai

INDON of

to

that

The

,'

liquor in that country, but public opinion should be formed at the port, in the United States, Canada, and other The Admiral, in reply, contrasted the countries which have adopted prohibi- China of to-day with the China he had tion for themselves, will endorse any known thirty-four years ago. He spoke measure to prevent the exportation of of the heavy burdens which had been liquor to China;

placed upon the Motherland through the war, which nothing but extended trade and prosperity would remove, and urged altor do their part. He said that he had brought with him the whole of the A dirty, ankempt, and raggedly.dress prosent fleet, but the Government was

"PERFECT PESTS.”

Tentares

fell off by 13,203, due to the deracy, yesterday, with begging in Queen of the station and once pence was restored

In 1917, it reached 400,300 but in 1918 the ed Chinese was charged at the Maxis fully alive to the importance and needa

that the N... took over some

at a

a rental about forty per cent

than

the

Chinese

previe

who tenanta,

Road West pression in industrial circles as a result; Inspector, Macdonald said the man war we might expect to see a goodly fleet of were of the signing of the Armistice in arrested 'nt 1 a m.

vessels out again, we heard, weigh of November.

Mr. Hutchison: Has he been at it be the influx of the Japanese me

The following table shows the popula fore 1-Inspector Macdonald: I don't re- goods. It is not easy to form an opinion

Briontion of the port during the past six remember having seen him before. without hearing both sides of the question, together with the mortality

Defendantsid he was brought to bus it seems reasonable to suggest that

from Wunbow. He had been the British should have in Japan the same privileges in the way of trade and ownership of

property

1913

that are given to the Japanese in Hongkong and the 1014 Btraits Bettlements.

HongoDy a couple of weeks, but had

the

Bot

men.

They are perfect

Population. of Deaths. in

found 6,878. 298,109

Inspector 0,304

peste, these me 6,382 Mr. Hutchison: Probably; but I shall 7.108 have to take into consideration what you 7,700

just said that you do not recognise the inan.. Three dollars or acven daya y gaol

410,785

.1016

428,603

(117

There were stories of impending legilor tion concerning food in the district, said 1917 some of the commercial ken were blaming

1916

441,018

480,300

1918

30,000

IRRESISTIBLE HONGKONG!

I wanted to see the place again, and that was my main reason for returning." said a returned banishes, to the Magis- trato yesterday. As a result of his cari- osity, he will pass the next nine months in the safety and seclusion of Victoria