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RANDOM REFLECTIONS. The Hon. Mr. John Johnstone's swan song at the Chamber of Commerce meet ing tells us what is really thought of the Government of the Colony by it protegea

THE * HÔNGKUNG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY: APRIL

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

The complaints about the Telephone HONGKONG IN PARLIAMENT service led me to usk, half a dozen people for their opinions Result about equally divided. The first said be used the phone a good deal in his business and had no reason to complain of the service. No complained of occasional little

The following is the text of questions sbmitted to the Secretary of State, on February 21st and 2nd, in reference to Constitutional Reform. Wireless Tele

CORRESPONDENCE

"OLD BOYS' ASSOCIATIONS.”

"[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ́ ́ HONGKONG

-V: DAILY, PRESS."];

was greatly pleased with the

The Government's reply to the Hon. rexations, but nothing to make a song graphy, and Child Slavery a this advocacy in your leading article of this

Me' Pollock's request for the publication N of the recent official correspondence o the subject of Constitutional Reform affords a striking justention of the deed for a little democratisation four effete

governmental institutions.

I cannot recall, anything said or done by & Governor of the Colony for many yours past which has evoked so much wrathful comment in th's rather sluggish t has surprised me to dis pmmunity. It has oder so much Bolshevistic feel.ng hiding under the ghirts of quite respectable people. It is not so much the refusal to

blish the dispatches is the haughty uncompromising tone of the refusal that

exasperates.

Colony

about” “As good as anywhere elseve

morning, of "Old Boys' Associations" in was the experience of a third, while the

a practical scheme of educational pro CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM..

paganda which received so much pro others complained of frequently being

Lieut. Col. John Ward To ask the minence in the Chairman's speech at the Put on to wrong members or of being wrongly called up or of want of attention Secretary of State for the Colonies, hnual meeting of the Hongkong General at the exchange, In view of the state whether the despatch received from Chamber of Commerce two days ago. ment that complaints are very rarely the Governor of Hongkong in November You concluded the article by saying that received by the manager, one wonders whether he really is put into or October last relating to the repre- "it is more through want of some communication with the clerk in sentation of the British community in the organisation of this kind to krep, the he when she is asked for or Legislative Council has been considered; light burning that we suffer by compari- Whether ons operator just passes the wink to another to receive the comand, la View of the pressing necessity of Ban" inferentially, with wealthy cor plaint, express dude regrets and, let it the purely British attitude upon the porations like the Rockefeller and which operate go at that It is only fair to say that question of slavery and the employment YM.C.A. Institutes " responsibility far wrong members mar of young children being represented under the benefit of very substantial not always lle with the operator. Often

upon the governing body, he can make an early statement upon the subject.

have heard people at the telephone call a longinumber so quickly, or in such way, as to make a mistake on the part of the girl at the exchange easily pos sible, opesially when the number is not repeated front the exchange which frequently the case.

Reply It has been decided to make Re no change in the numbers or mode of selection of the Legislative Council The present Europeño members are fully, uble to represent the British attitude on all social questions.

endowments.

not

Permit mo, please sir, în reply to your article and through the medium of your journal, to bring to the notice of the General Committes of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce that the St. It is, of course, possible to conceive?

Joseph's College Old Boys' Association Motor-car owners and joy ritlers will of one or two reasons why it would be

has been in existence since October 8th, indiscreet to publish the correspondence. welcome with exceeding great joy the

1913. Our Association was the first in For instance, it has been understood, projected improvement to the upper part of Garden Road near-its junction with

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

the field among recognised schools estab rightly or wrongly, I do not know which, Rabin on, and Bowen Roads by Battening

Lieut. Col. Joku Ward To ask the lished in Hongkong. While it is true that this attitude of the Colonial Govern-out two hairpin turns. The improvement

is being effected by a slight encroachment Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the St. Joseph's Association has ment towards the proposals was you the Exblic Gardens which fat this

"appeared prominently in the public pathetic. If that is so it would obviously point) are not a thing of beauty. Furthes whether, in view of possible military and

Magnificats and Te Deums would be forth commercial developments in the Eastern eve, I am happy to say that, since its be dificult for the Governor to publish coming from the aforest.d-1.dns if the Pacific, He has considered the advisability formation eight years ago, it has worked, a correspondence which would throw the Robinson Road between the Peak Road shole odium of the rejection on to the and Upper Glenealy were widened. Motor of acting upon the suggestion contained in if somewhat modestly nevertheless per- trathc is permissible on Robinson Road,& despatch from the Offerer Administering severingly and without external aid, Colonial Office. But I can conceive of but between these points the road is so the Government of Hongkong, on April along the practical lines which you "so no earthly reason at all why he com- narrow that two cars cannot fins without munity cannot be told what reasoned both going into the gutter. It has been 20th, 1918, to construct a high-power patriotically advocate for the considera. suggested to me that perhaps the wireless telegraph station at Hongkong; tion of the Chamber of Commerce in abjections are offered to granting the wealthy owner of the property might and whether, seeing that the present particular and the British community in request for an exceedingly modestike to donate a strip of bit to the public political situation in the Far East makes general.

weak. It would not reduce the value of measure of "constitutional reform.

his property ons iota. Failing that, other this request of those respons.ble for the Apart from the specific objects for means may be found. -

government of the Colony an urgent which the Association was formed, the With all duo deferencs, exception must

necessity, apart from the larger scheme of idea of cultivating the British senti be taken to the statement that the The Suffragettes of Canton may think the imperial wireless telegraph comment," to use your own words, and im Governor is the only channel of com that the reference to them in the locmittee, he will take immediato steps in planting a knowledge of the British munication with the Secretary of State English paper as the thousand oda women and girls" might. have been a

tüis direction.

for the Colonies." While this is true so far as postal or telegraphie com munications sent from the Colony are concerned it does not prevent ang influential resident of Hongkong, present or past, or anybody in fact, from per sonally calling upon the Secretary of

We shall have to revive our opinion State. I go upon something more than about the subjection of women in China, THE CHILD SLAVERY QUESTION. zére surmise when I hazard the state stther from the newspaper reports that Mr. Sitch asked, The Under Secre

many of the militant suffragettes who in fr ment that communication with the vaded the Provincial Edgembly and tary of State for the Colonies whe

ther bis attention has been drawn to youred Secretary of State was made on the paraded the City of CALion, that are adbject through more than one channels weto married women, A Versious statement made by the Attorney chimicer reports: When the parade of these suffragettes was going on inite It would be a great mistake to suppose porter having, known several of those that the local agitation for Constitutional in the march set out to get interviews from their husbanda, 'and found them all Reform can be killed by the snubbing it at home cursing their hard dot." Still, gets in om quarters, whether in they apparently deemed it wise to for dealing with it; and whether, in view Downing Street Hongkong The and bear it."

little more felicitously expressed, but Reply.-The Governor has not express they at least have the consolation thated any desire to proceed with this scheme the report made it clear that they go on fairly even terms with the unchivalrous separately from that of the Imperial Assemblymen who mercilessly knocked Wireless Telegraphy Committee, and it some of the suffragettes senseless on the is intended to await his views before con Bopr."

sidering further steps in the matter.

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Empire in St. Joseph's College was ever" present in the minds of the promoters of the Assog'ation, who received so much encouragement and moral support from the late Rev. Bro. Christian, former Director of the College, and Bro. Corne lius, our theh principal teacher. Paren thetically, let it be observed, both these were typical Irish gentlemen,

From the first year of the Association's formation my Committee have ended sent and with the kind co-operation of General of Hongkong, in the Legislative the Rev. Bio. Director and the Staff of Council in October last that the evils resulting from the traffic in girls are so the College in the spirit in which Earl great that the present law is insufficient, Meath for all these years has so success and to the passing by the Council of fully pegged away throughout the length Bil in November giving faller powers and breadth of the British Empire.

The St. Joseph's College Association of this acknowledged evil and the interest has imported from England leaflets and which this matter has aroused here, the literature concerning the British Empire obvious step for the Constitutioner According to a cable received in recent report of the Governor of Hong, which they have regularly distributed to the boys at the College. The Association Reform Association to take now is to Japan the Crown Prince describing kong will be published bring the terms of the Governor's replies in a letter to Their Majesties and Mr. Churchill. Yes, sir, I have seen has, moreover, given prizes every year his brother Princes his impressions the report of the Attorney-Geral. The for the best essays on Empire Day. under the notice of the Imperial Parlia of Hongkong the first city he ever Bill in question has now become law and Those prizes have not been limited to the ment, and to press the matter continually visited outside his native land,-wrote will, I hope, strengthen the hands of the highest classes in the College, nor to by questions and by raising the subject of this Colony that it is,& Place Colonial Government in the protection of any particular nationality of scholars, but really nice and comfortable." Among women and girls. As regards the latter have been distributed among the three on the Colonial Estimates and on every other things which are sad to have part of the Question if the hon member divisions, viz the Senior or Matricula other suitable occasion until the Secre greatly impressed His Highness were the is referring to the Governor's report on tion Class, the Junior division) and the to direct the good roads around Hongkong. It is child adoption I would refer him to the Remove" class. Through the courtesy. tary of State sees fit fa

odderful how much you can see of reply given on December 9th to a ques of the Director of Education the essays Governor to publish the dispatches or toplice from the deck of a ship in the tion by the hon. members for Welling. are submitted to a high official of his Department for adjudication of their supply a statement of the grounds on middle of the harbour! Not long ago horough (Mr.-W. Smith).

merits, and as a result of that official's examination, the prizes are awarded. which the demand for a very modest was reading at account by one of the pioneer traders of his voyage to Chinn

The distribution of prizes takes place instalment of reform has been refused. and he wrote of seeing Aden through a Probably the question has not yet got spy glass It is pretty much the way in COMMUNICATION WITH THE formally at the College in the morning of dt which either the Director of Education far beyond the offices of the junior clerks which the Crown Prince of Japan sow the Colonial Ofee at all events, there Hongkong. His Highness, did indeed

Empire Day before the Church service,

www graciously presides and is assisted by the ia very good reason for believing that travel over part of the road round the it has not yet received the personal land, but avoided pangng through the CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ASSO. or the Inspector of English Schools very Director of the College. The cost of the prize books and literature above-men- attention of the Secretary of State.

tioned, has been defrayed out of the meagre lands of the Association of $2 from each member and generous dogn two sents on the Legislative Council It was very generally atsumed from and the Government with reference to the tons from past pupils of the College. My Committee have no doubt that were which have fallen vacant by the depar the reports in the papers that the Prince provision of public transport facilities our resources supplemented by gifts from ture of the Hon. Mr. John Johnstone and dined one evening at Government House the Hon. Mr. Parr. The "Princely The Prince who dined at Government between Victoria and the South sido of either the Chamber of Commerce or any Hoone has had what has come to be House was not the Crown Prince, but the the Island :-- regarded as a soft of prescriptive right Prince in whose special care the Crown

city: he landed for his motor trip at Aberdeen and went as far as Tytam, and

at this unusual point boarded British

SOUTH SIDE OF THE ISLAND,

CIATION'S REQUEST.

We have received for publication copies Much curiosity exists as to who are to warship to return to the barbour of the following correspondence between the Constitutional Reform "Ahsociation be nominated not elected to fill their

to a seat on the Council; and it may Prince is travelling: therefore, be concluded that the seat

Which Mr. Johnstone has vacated will be

Costa Bras British organisation, like the China As sociation and the Navy League, the Old 2, Queen's Building, Boys' Association would be capable of

Hongkong, Gjer January 20th, 1991. enlarging the scope of its educational Sir, I have been directed, by my Dom- propaganda so as to reach a class on the mainland beyond-the threshold of our occupied by Mr. Bernard his successor An impression has got about that we mittes to request that the Government Colonial doors, which the present" paro- as head of the firm of Masste Jardine, may soon see the restoration of the should provide, as soon as possible, chial system, such as that complained Matheson & Co. Ltd. Consequently all Siberian mail service now that the Trade. The speculation is hs to the occupant of Agreement between Great Britain and cheap and rapid system of communica of by the Chairman of the Chamber of the other vacant seat. There are three Bussia has been signed. Some time ago. Ition for the public between Victoria Commerce, cannot. hope to attain By residents who have temporarily filed noticed a report that mails from Russia City and Repulse Bay by the most direct this I do not infer any criticism of our seats on the Council-Mr.AR. Lowe, had begun to come through to-Siberin,dates Governmental methods, which possess.

I shall be glad if you will give this many excellent points d H. W--Bird, and Mr. G. C. Alabaster which, was it hopeful sign; but I fear we matter your early consideration. I have. In the February number of The Rock but there have been other aspirants may have long yet to wait before we the honour to be, Bir Your obedient a simple and withal a thoroughly pre for the honour, so that there is a good see the mails from Landgn reaching forranty femical scheme of implanting British range of speculation...a

Hongkong, as they formerly did. T

((((sd.) L. M. WHITE education on the mainland is very clearly seventeen or eighteen days. The whole

(Hon. Secretary) defined. I venture to commend to the consideration and earnest attention of In the matter of the cheap and rapid railway' system in Russia seems to be die To the Hon Mr. C. SEVERN, CHLO

Colonial Secretary,tagal

the governing bodies of the various communication between the City of organized. A contract is reported in the bondon papers to have made by the

British Associations in Hongkong a close Victoria and Repulse Buy, which the Russian trade delegates with Mestre,

Colonial Secretary's Office, study of the scheme in question. And if Constitutional Reform Association has W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd...

Hongkong,O the Committee of the Old Boys' Assb- been asking the Government about, for the repair of a very large number of

February 6th 1921ciation by any manner of means can be should like to have seen some reference Russian locomotives, conditional on the

With reference to your letter of of assistance in the furtherance of that in the Government's reply to the coa ratification of the trading agreement the oth Januars reddasting that the scheme in its drafted or in any improved, ecomon granted, just before the outbreak between Great Britain and Russia. Government should provide a cheap and modified form, I have no doubt that my of the war to a syndicate who proposed stated that arrangements have been pro rapid system of communication between Committer would be very pleased to place to carry a tramway over the Wongrel vir onally made for the damaged engines Victoria City and Repulse Bay, I am their services or those of any individual cheong Gap. Are those rights_still 1-to-be shipped to the Tyne and that the directed to state that in the opinion of member in aid of a came, so ably (and, proserved, or has the whole concession entire contract will be carried out in the Government this is a matter which I trust, not too tardily) sponsored by the Japsed

Newcastle, instead of In Russin should be left to private enterprise. General Committee of the Hongkong originally contemplated, which suggests

Chamber of Commerce,am, Yours faithfully, Tao correspondence in regard to the that conditions in Russia are yet far from Al, sir Your obedient servant,

ray apparatus at the Government such as to give much hope for an early Civil Hospital has brought me tho com restoration of through railway cogunt. Hon. SECRETALY, ment: The Staff at the G.O. may be cation from Europe to Vladivostock

ent but in it suficiently efficient

RODENICE RANDOM.

· CLAUD DEVEEN (Colonial Becretary),

Constitutional Belorm Association of

J. P. BRAGA--- Hon. Becretary, St. Joseph's College (Old Boys) Association Hongkong, March 31st, 1921.

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