THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2ND 1921.
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THE DUKE AT CALCUTTA, DIPLOMATIC COMPLIMENT TO "LONDON OF THE EAST."
...
The Duke of Connaught arrived at Calcutta on January 28th, and, despite attempts made by the Non-co-opera tionists to boycott his visit, he received
COST OF PREMIERSHIP. MR. ASQUITH'S EXPERIENCE. The report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the remunera- tion of Ministers, with the evidence taken, was isaned, recently. The report, con taining the lists of suggested salaries- £8,000 per annum in the case of the Prime Minister has already appeared. Among the witnesses called was Mr. As- quith, whose evidence, now available,
Replying to an address from the Cor- contained a great deal of interesting in formation, both personal and in relation poration, the Duke said that his acquaint generally to the office of Prime Minister. ance with Calenta went back 40-years, In the opening part of his evidence Mr. and he proceeded. I know well that Asquith who has held four offices in the you have advanced by giant strides sinco Cabinet (Home Secretary, Chancellor of last passed over the Howrah Bridge, the Exchequer, First Lord of the Trea and it will be of deep interest to me to
right Royal welcome from the crowds, which were probably bigger than those which greeted the King in 1912.
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tary), pointed out that while the office of now contemplate. I yield to no man in First Lord of the Treasury carries with affection for the beautiful city of Bombay! it £5,000 a year, the Prime Minister gets nothing as Prime Minister. On the point of official residence 3r. Asquith said: "I do not think there is any other office, except, if my recollection is right, that of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and, perhaps, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, to which an official residence is attached. The occupation, according to my experi- ence, of the official residence in Downing
In the streets there were a few scenes BORNEO Street is by no means an unmixel.ad vantage to the occupant of the post of of, violence. Beveral carriages occupied First Lord of the Treasury. It is quite both by Europeans and Indians were true that you live in the house free from stopped and the occupants made to alight rent, rates. and taxes, but it is a very and continue their journey on foot. The TIENTSIB expensive house to keep up; it is a very train cars were not running, the men inconvenient house in many ways; it re having again gone on strike, and there quires a large staff, and I suspect myself were no gharries owing to a hartal having The taxis running that any Prime Minister who had ex- been proclaimed. perience of it as I had would, if he were were driven by volunteers, mostly Euro- offered the choice, rather not live in peans and Anglo-Indians it at all. It certainly does not add to what one may call the sweets or spoils of office to have that residence at your dis- posal; that, however, merely affects that particularly office."
where I spent several years of my life, and I must be very guarded in what I say, but there is no overlooking the vast extent, immense population, and amazing SHANGHAI growth and capable administration of this huge trade emporium; and when I see the ships lying in the Hooghly. I feel that here in Calcutta is the Port of MANILA London and here in Asis is the London HAIPHONG of the East."
KUCH POONER AFTER OFFICE.
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At the unveiling of the statue of the late King Edward in Victoria Memorial Grounds on January 29th, the Duke of Connaught said:
King Edward was
the first heir to the British throne on his visit to this country. As was to be ex- pected in a Prince of such unique quali ties, his personality created a deep im- pression wherever he went and he on his side gathered vivid impressions. I well
The Prime Minister is, Mr. Asquith
• I was, bo considered, underpaid. said, "in office myself continuously for eleven years-two years as Chancellor, of the Exchequer, and for the best part of remember bow on his way to England in nine years as Prime Minister. I do not 1873 I met him at Gibraltar, where I was suppose my experience is in the least then serving, his enthusiastic description unique, but I was a much poorer man of his Indian experiences, and expres. when I left office than when I entered. sions of admiration and affection for the The office of Prime Minister, if it is to be people of India aro still a fresh memory properly discharged, cannot, I think, be with me. Today, when, after the lapse discharged, unless a man has private of so many years, and he is no longer means of his own, on a salary of £6,000 a with us, we are gathered here to pay year. He has a number of duties, if he honour to his memory." is to perform his office properly, of enter
The Duke on February 2nd laid a stone taining and affording hospitality to all sorta and conditions of people both as to commemorate the commencement of home and abroad, which, under the the work on the new King George's dock existing arrangement, he has to defray at Kidderpore. There are to be alto entirely at his own cost. We established gether 14 berths, the first five of which when I was Prime Minister a useful in- may be ready for use in 1827 and the stitution at least I think it has turned others not much later. The Duke in his ont to be useful-the Government Hos- speech said: "The times are changing pitality Fund, which is resorted to for and we must change with them. Your the entertaining on a large scale of dis trade and commerce. may, and indeed But must, undergo many and important modi- tinguished foreigners and others. even with that, which was a relief to the ficationa. India, from being a purely Prime Minister, I think his salary ought agricultural country. is, in the opinion of many well qualified to judge, about to be raised."
Questioned as to the personal enter..to enter, and has indeed partially entered, taining of foreign visitors by the Prime pod an epoch of industrial activity for Minister-independent of tho Hospitality which she is in many ways well fitted, Fund-Mr. Asquith said that this is enor alike by her fertile soil, her mineral pos "Nobody who has not been Prime sessions, and her diligent peoples. These Minister knows really what a Prime developments will affect your trade, and Minister's day is. During the time I was changes will be required in your indus Prime Minister, for a special reason 1 trial and commercial" arrangements," but took on the office of Secretary of State I have no cause to doubt that, provided for War, and held it with the Prime you gentlemen who are responsible for Ministership for, I think, four or five the Port of Calcutta exercise in fnture Ldid not get any salary as Secretary of ligent foresight, business enterprise, and State for War, and to the extent during pr. dent finance, you will carry this Port of Calcutta to a degree of prosperity a little
yet higher among the those few months there waS economy; but taking the two offices to which will place gether, I think the work was really great ports of the world, and ensure and heavier than probably any man ought to facilitate further growth in the trade and undertake." This personal entertaining, commerce of this great province of Mr. Asquith added, would lose its value Bengal and the other provinces you it carried out under the Hospitality Fund; serve." and an official banquet was not the same thing as personal entertainment.
mons.
LONDON & ANTWERP via Singapore, Peasng, Colombo, Sues months before the outbreak of the war. as in the past the great qualities of intel
Port Said and Marseilles.
10th Maz, at 11 am 18th Mary at. Ho
1st Apr 4 11 .. 18th Apr., at 11 am. BOTTERDAM. Thursday, 24th March.
12th March.
KLEIST MISHIMA HARU BADO MARU
Thursday,
Friday,
Friday,
KITANO MARU
Friday,
15
HAMBURG, AMSTERDAM, LONDON &
MITO MARU
104
TAMBA MABU
LIVERPOOL & MARSEILLES via Sues.
MELBOURNE & SYDNEY via Manila, Zamboanga, Thursday
Island, Townsville & Brisbane.
Saturday,
7.
TANGO MARU
Monday,
NIKKO MABU
Tuesday,
AKI MABU
Tasuday,
28th Mar. at 11 am. 19th Apr., st 11 am. 17th May, atli mm.
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NEW YORK via Buez.
Tuesday,
2nd March.
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SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS via CAPE,
KANAGAWA MARU (sailing from Singapore) Friday,
4th March.
BOMBAY & COLOMBO via Singapore.
BOMBAY MARBU
+19
Thursday, 17th March.
AKITA MARU
CALOUTTA & BANGOON vis Bingapore & Penang.
Sunday,
TOYOOKA MABU
6th March...
JAPAN POBTS-Nagasaki, Kobe & Yokohama.
NIKKO MABU
Tuesday,
15th Mar, 23 11 am
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA..
KITANO MABU-...
WAKASA MABU
HELIN MARBU...
INABA MABU
Thursday, Monday! Tuesday, Friday,
3rd Mar. at 11 am 7th March. 15th March
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18th Mar. at 11 am,
-DISBAFLI AND PITT.
It further evidence Mr. Asquith said he was hot in favour of the Prime Minis
and he contemplated going back to the Western Circuit as a barrister."
"Would not you think, as I think; that
ter receiving a pension. There were, be a great many people would prefer to see admitted, strong arguments one way and that, once a man passed the chair as the other, but personally he would rather Prime Minister in this country, he should that the Prime Minister had not a pen-be protected in so far as he has given a sion. If the Prime Minister were pen great slab of his life to the public service sioned, he did not see why all the other at very inadequate remuneration?"- be pensioned."You are asking me a rather delicate Ministers should not Interesting subsequent passages in this question. The arguments both ways are portion of the evidence Mr. Asquith's strong, but all I can say is the balance questioner being Mr. Hogge-are the of my own judgment on the whole is
rather against it." following:-
"There is a very much higher spirit
"As far as I can recollect, the bulk of British Prime Ministers have been men of public daty among politicians than the who could occupy the post without work world at large believes," Mr. Asquith ing for their livelihood1" Certainly said, in reply to a question relating to the bulk undoubtedly have been such." the varying pay of Ministers. "The dif But there have been within the last ference between £2,000 and £5,000 a year fifty or sixty years three or four Prime is not the deciding factor. I have known Ministers who, one might say, were pro- cases in my own experience when I have fessional men?""Yes. I was_a_pro- offered higher and better paid office to a fessional man fryself, and it meant a con capable man and he has refused it on siderable sacrifice of income to me to the ground that he thought he was mora fitted for the office he was at present dis charging."
take office."
There is also the present Prime Minister; and was not Lord Beaconsfield a man who had to write largely for his
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Mr. Austen Chamberlain, who was also wife, he would have been very badly off." following statement in the course of his called before the Committee, made the “I think you will agree that it is.advis evidence: "I think, the Prime Minister able that the nation should have the shares my view as to the general import- Prime Minister with the Treasury and the him "Certainly"
"If that man has held that kind of special importance of doing so at the pre- post, is it possible, in eonsonance with sent time. But he asked me to say to the dignity of a British Prime Minister, the Committee on his behelf, and in the that that man should go back to his most definite terms, that if they recom ordinary vocation1 Is there any preced- mended an addition to the salary of the ent for it?"Thero is precedent for it Prime Minister he could not under any in the President of the United States of circumstances accept it for himself in America, who habitually goes back. Pre present financial conditions, and he beg- sident Taft went back first to the Bar, ged that it might be as a recommendation but he is now professor at one of the for a new appointment whenever a new universities. Many Presidents of the appointment was made. I-think-neither. United States have gone back to civil he nor I have reason to suppose that you make contemplate any additions to the salaries. I think there is no precedent in of other Ministers already on the £5,000 British politics "I do not know that a year scale, but if you do, then in his there is an actual precedent. Mr. Pitty opinion the same rule should apply to who was spenniless man, or practically them the addition, should not be made penniless, when he became Prime Mnis applicable to the present holders of the ter at the age of 24, took on a most pests. That is mosange which the precarious job, as history has recorded,, Prime Minister asks me to give you in
quito clear and distinct language.... (Continued et foot of next column:}
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