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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE
WEIHAIWEI UNDER THE
BRITISH FLAG.
1TS GROWTH FROM POVERTY TO
PROSPERITY.....
WHAT ITS FUTURE SECURITY TEMANDS.
SPORT. INTIRPORT POLO.
KESWICK CUP.-
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The following telegrain has leen received from Me. Č. C. Boyil:-
- LOSSES IN OVERSEAS
TRADE..
When HO
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TRAINS IN THE EAST.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S YM.S. EXPERIENCE.
8.5.
ARRATOON APCAR
TO BE SOLD,
AN INTERESTING HISTORY.
Northcliffe writes in the Daily Mail), I had many years has been, running in and out - Before I started on my workd-trip (Lord Thy as Arratoon pear, which for not giren much thought to railways out of Hongkong and is at present lying in there, Oue instinctively thinks of ships mid-scream, is to be sold. and sea voyages in speaking of China and
When on the India-China run she has. Japan. You know that there must be trains of some kind, but you do not easily usually berthed at No. 1. wharf of Kow picture them. Having made several exten, loon Godowns and is therefore well known sive train journeys, now have a new set to the daily travellers" on the "Star" of very pleasant, interesting and novel referries. For nearly 30 yenës she has been mories to add to my collection.
The
trains of the East vary a good deal running between Japan and ludia Rad in quality, but all of them providest in ber time have carried many thou von with fresh and unexpected experiences.sands of native passengers between the Some, like those in Japan and the various ports up and down the coast Japanese South Manchurian Railway
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Tie for six chukka Result of right chukkas:-Shanghai. six, Hong kong. v. Bibby disabled, not ser A correspondent of the C. Turity
iously bat unable to play inst chakka. News, "writes:-
Magnificent game: In 1000 Sir Frank Swettenham visited The Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong Weibaiwei for the purpose of making an Polo Club has replied on behalf of the official report on the newly-acquired Chi congratulating the Hongkong team
Dit only s colder
Ider on their magnificent effort and wishing Territory. He saw in Aden
barren and treeless" the Rbby a speedy recovery, estimated population of 80.000 was greater
could
the than the district
support: people were too poor to indulge in alcoholic liquor; the revenue might posilly total 820.000 in ordinary years
through Korea to Mukder are already Probably the has carried pore Asiatic a little fish was exported to Formosa: the
have familiar to anyone who has been "to passengers than any other vessel coming imports were sugar, tohaven, paper and
companies timber in small quantities: beyond suffered heavily from the slump of the the United States. The rolling stock is into port, and in a little over a quarter this their is no trade and no prospect of past year, it is not surprising that the an emet copy of the American a smaller of a century it is safe to say that her any!
British Trade Corporation, formuest about and lighter scale. Wonderful cleanliness Two years later Mr. G. T. Hare, who five years ago to finance overseas trad and tidiness are the main features of these Passengers must have totalled nearly had accompanied Sir F. Swettenbam iners, should have had a similar expert delightful trains, not to mention the 200.000. And now the P. & D. Company“. 10, writing as Assistant-Commissioner,
For 1920 there was a preht of excellent dinings, where remarkably to when she belongs have decided that stated that there was no reason for modi Tying the original estimate as given above. £119,302, "and the credit balance in the well-cooked European micula are served by her services can be dispensed with. $29,000 had been spent ou "mud roads, balance sheet was £111,501. In 1921. very efficient waiters. They do not run
The Arnton Apear was built in 1800. and the cast of upkeep should not exceed however, a loss of £183,078 is shown in very fast. In fact, so far as my experience
profit and loss account, after $2,000 per annum: more substantial high the ways would be quite unnecessary since £39,081" has been allowed for bad debts es, no Eastern train does, except the big by Workman Clark & Company, Belfast,
is an advantage in every senst, as you pany. She was christened the Hyson and · too poor to use warts and interests in subsidiary companies. presses on the Indian railways But this for the China Mutual Steamship Com the people were "
actual profit On trading was attempts to raise further resence would The
the old ship's bell bearing that name is he unwarrantably harsh and oppressive £1,103, while the balance brought for could see all there was to see by the way.
The leisurely Japanese trains, there still on board. When she first came i and would certainly bad to serious dis ward was 4,001. Lord Faringdon, in
inging the figures before the general fore, with their gentle and boothing content and disurbaners!
meeting on March 29th, said that the uverige speed of something over thirty here she was considered cur of the smart- directors had decided to recommend a miles an hour, suited me very well. The est vessels entering Hongkong. These doleful prophecies about Wei-drastic treatment of the figures, writing day express from Tokyo to Kyoto, ruscame very popular among the China it does, through some of the [and to this day, she is often spoken of haiwei have proved as fallacious as did down the existing capital by £1,000,000ning, s minibus otheil prognostigations regard and applying such reduction to wiping most exquisite scenery in Japan, with the by them "Joss ship. In 1689 she ing Hongkong. During the British off the debit balance un profit and loss reat Fajiyans as a central figure the tenure prosperity has descended on the accouns and to the reduction of various Territory
If the number of carts is assets and the creation of reserves. It to be taken as the measure of a 4ሧዝ - st also proposed to create £1,000,000 nunity's wealth, we have certainly done of preferential capital shares, entitled well, for, in 1921, 2.171 cart and earriage to Exed 6 per cent, interest per an ferners were taken nut for sehicles using on, lax frre, for issue to existing 50 miles of macadamized roads. the
In the shareholders. The British Trade Cor matter of public revenue 1921-22 is also poration was exceedingly unfortunate in A wcord year. The exact figure is having to face such trying times not yet obtainable, trit. understand it
early, but Lord Faringdon shares the ing over $210.000, about $10,000, in PXCSS of the estimate and over ten times the general belief that there is no intention on the part of the British merchant to amount collected in the early years of den, his position in the world's trade, British pecupation Profuse capenditure by t the War Of particularly in cohne so that he foresees opportunities of tion with unfinished fortifications and the usefulness for the British Trade, Corpo Chinese, Regiment: sumar visitors who ration which will enable it to make gooil
are patronized the place year by year is luses when normal times return. in their hundreds the annual visits of the China Squadron for months on end: have all been important factors in in- creasing the general wealth of the dis trict.
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THE PESSIMISTS REFUTEL,
SUCCESS AND ITS SECRET.
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MORE COMFORTABLE OCEAN TRAVEL.
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whole morning, is one of the nicest trains was soul to the Apear Firm and remainal I know. Father different are the trains with this Company until about 1911 when which take you on to Peking front Mak. she way sold, together with a_number":of" den by what is said to be the most pro- other vessels including the ss. Juan, the table railway in the world. It is idle to go Apr, to the British India pretend, with the kindest intentions, that they are at all comparable with the Japanese Steam Navigation Company, which later- in either comfort or cleanliness, but I think became associated with the P. that is rather the fault of the travellers Compariy
At the outbreak of the great war in than of the railways. While I was in China the progress of trains was sometimes apt to be a little uncertain. Tehsag Tso-lin and 14 the fatoom Apear was requisition. bis any sat watchfully at Mukden anded, with a number of other vessels of the elsewhere, and down near Hunkow, on the Company, and did very meful Goven- Yang-tse-Aiang, there was generally a good ment servier. She was first used as 'a deal of fighting going on. Consequently horse transport from Australia to Cal- ous was never quite positive that one's train would get there."
PRAISE FOR SIAM,
cutta. tu. early 1915 she loaded up at Calcutta for Marseilles, but at Alexandria. she was diverted to Mudros and frotts
After leaving China it was more than a More important still has been the steady:
month before I saw a train again, when we there she was despatched as a transport..... development of trade which; of recent END TO ROLLING AND PITCHING! left Sam for Kuala Lumpur, in the to the East Coast of Africa. Next the years, has been almost phenomenal. For
Federated Malay States.". "As usual we had was used by the Government in the Par. It must be borne in mind that, geographi.| Liners which will maintain a uniform ally, the position of the port is must aped in almost any kind of weather and been told that the journey was one which sian Quit, doing all sorts of bandy work, unfavourable. Situated near the extreme spare the timorous voyage seasickness should be undertaken only in dire necessity, from towing barges to transporting males.
and that the reasonable way of travelling end of the Shantung Promontory," remoto qualms are made possible in the newy from the populous producing centres of future (declares a London contemporary) from Bangkok wu by sen. And, as usual, On the cessation of hostilities she was the interior, backed by a hinterland which as the result of experiments at present we found the statement to be entirely with returned to the Company who placed her is decidedly mountainous, its prospects a being earried out under the auspices of out truth. My principal recollections of the back on the Calcutta, China and Japa generation ago fully justified the loomy the Institution of Naval Architeris.
"of wonderful emcothness of rudning, of views of the most pessimistic of offehl Afr. J. L, Kent, of the National Physiney on the Siamese State Railway are run where she soon regained her forther The Joss" ship. Teddington, has been Jeremiahs.
cai
by means of motels, the problem beautiful jungle scenery, and one of the popularity as
most peaceful and comfortable train Artoon made her final run up the Chinn Rad of preventing ships from pitching:
coast last November... During this mp lu its infancy as a British possession the results have been tested recently dur journeys I can regember.
"H.R.H. Prince Purachatia, who is she encountered the full force of the worst Weihaiwei was little more than a seconding a trans-Atlantic trip on the Canadian"
Pacific Finer Montcalm. He is hoping to diretor-general of the railways, had very monsoon ever experienced by her officers; rate fishing village. Exnut 6gares are not available, but it was estimated at that be able to advise shipbuilthers shortly an
in which he often lives for days at a time whilst on this trip that she received a time that the value of its traile totalled all treasures which aim at reducing pitch generously lent me his own wonderful car, and she behaved splendidly. It was about $100,000. By 1921 it had reached and roll to a minimum:
The lateral roll of ships has been cof- a splendid example of Sheffield (work-and wireless message to the effect that the the handsome total of 810,561,52340 siderably reduced by a recourse to gyros. the three days and two nights, including New York are was aground on the dan. increase of a per cent. on the previous
task, bilge-keels, etc.. Lut the Christmas Day, we spent on the way were gerous Paracels Reef. Being at that time from the reef. sear!
longitudinal
pitch still involves wear and in every respect delightful and memorable about 200 miles distant
and although sbe carried nearly tear and waste of power and fuel through At the time of my journer trains did not 2,000 Chinese passengers, she put about. resistance to the propellers run at night on account of the possibilis to render any aid in her power. After which which varies with the rise and fall of of colliding with elephants and buffaloes stemming bard for one day under most
Sometimes the the stern in a heavy sea. screws are lifted completely out of the straying across the line, and they used to trying conditions a further message was water, and the momentary racing stop every evening at about six or seven received that the Henry Keswick (the 'clock at a country station where there Hongkong Dock tug boat) had been entails damage to the engine, gore,
rescue and that y was a rest-house for passengers to sleep in despatch to the
Japanese steamer was standing by the They looked admirably comfortable. you have not tried this made of night. stranded vessel. She therefore put about travelling you will find it a very pleasant again and reached Hongkong not much
the wore for her severe battering- surprise. You are not, of course, is a For the last three or four months the coolies be tween Oaksutta and the
andel cast. The vessel has fair turn of speed and. averages 11 to 12 nautical miles per hour.
the
triple expätsion Her engines are pattern and on her trial ran 20 years
hour.
Her ago she averaged 14 knots per
# The obvious reason for their avoiding rooms, two bathrooms, and a small com length, over all is 425 feet with a beam the one and at
A covered way untally connects of 48 feet and her gross tonnage is 1,510 tons Captain H. Hobday is at present is that the foam putting in ut the other Bungalow with bungalow. There is also a
in command of the vessel, and the latter is a free port. Under kind of parent bangalow, where you can get will be established at Weihaiwei and this are issued to the sleeping bungalows in the Chinese Administration a customs house mesta, and whence coffee and shaving water
These highly satisfactory results may be attributed le two vnuses: --
(1)-Weihaiwri has prospered beyond expectation, Leenuse the Territory has been a British colony because under the British flag there has been assured to us perfect security of person and property and an honest adulnistration. because uitatiun, the comforts and conveniences of every day life, are the special care of our Meslical Officer of Health, out Sani tary Inspector and other officials. „
(2.)-Because Weihaiwei, like Hong- kong, has been a free port. There is no castonas house here no lesying of impart and export duties.
with
Your prophet of smooth things whom all things are possible it is merely an accidental circumstape that his own financial stake in the colony is it!--that intellectual abortion, your pro-Chinese foreigner, who is only too that which is good it at Oriental. Ieople
evil in
wi
his
own, will them
combat these statements, tions which we
again with cargo from another free port (Hongkong)-chiefly sugar. The steafuers that bring gar, etc., take back suts and oil to Hongkong for re-export
If
to Europe hurry, as we were not. It is unnatural in ¦ Avruthar has been arogandel
and America. Thus a regular cycle of the Far East. So a pause of twelve hours trade has been established. Now many of er more in a little village settlement on the junks come from places in the Leigh edge of the jungle comes as an agreeable bourhood of and even to the south of change. Tsingtas, and in coming to Weihaiwei The rest houses are a series of te they increase the length of the voyage by bungalows, each containing two double sora 100 miles
CHRISTMAS TUNG BONO,
a-borne trade, will automatically cease. morning. There are, of
other branches of course, local trade which will suffer in the annu way and for the same reason, in fact, to
It is really charmning to alight from the these familiar with local conditions, the hot brain before one of these tiny garden assertion that half our trade will dis
and that which is evi with arguments and
Mr. H. de Vére Stacpoole, the famous regard as an insult to our intelligence,
traveller and author, in a letter to the an outrage on rotamon sense. The Briton who in his shoplicity relied on official
Press say "The only good thing that Assurances, both public and private,
has come to England from the war is the protection of his country's flag
island of Nauru, or Pleasant Island, sortby sought the prote and
tat Weihaiei, pitched his tent
"should are in imipeading changes no xcue, no appear within a year of rendition, will cities, spend an hour or two wandering of the line in the West Pacific. Naur cause for striking that tent with a view not seem incredible. It is also reasonable about in the cod of the evening and, after has on it 500,000,000 tons of tricalcium. to Berking pastures new Under the Bew to assert that within five years Weihaiwej dinner, to drop luxuriously into a real bed phosphate, which is the finest manure in régime his vine nod, fig tree will flourish will revert to its former status. A fish and fall asleep to the tiny voices of the the whole world. It belonged to Geranny well 118 before-nay, they will using village the British found it, and to jungle, with fireflies round our nicsquite before the war, and has been wished doubtedly be more fruitful iban ever! a fishing village it will retura.
net as nightlights. We spent Christums on us by the League of Nations. Here is CONSEQUENCES OF RENDITION. "
THAT LINK WITH THE HINTERLAND. right at plate called Tung Song, and, a mountain of wealth-wealth infinitely What will the results and effects of There is one thing, and only one thing, through the kindly thought of our host, more important than a mountain of gold, rendition To begin with there will be that might possibly sare Wethniwei from the car was decorated with holly and because animal manure is falling off year wholesale reduction of the more perman- rapid decay and its community from mistlete, and we had real turkey and by year owing to the fact that petrol is ent white population, which mainly con overwhelming disaster, and that is the test plum pudding straight from England. taking the place of animal power all over siste of Government servants and their construction of a railway from the pro- After dinner we had coffee and lighears the world. The mountain of manure is not dependente A conservative
centres of the interior to Fort in a cosy corner on the station platform, a thing that decreases in value, but is would put the net reduction at not leas | 20
Edward. It may prove in the long run and I never buen before how hours increasing in value every year. If an in only a palliative, and a costly one at that. such a place could be. It was with gentine ternational syndicate were formed to buy
remedy Possible...
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than four-fifths of the present total, and,
ests "'!
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it is
de
only delegates. Washington for Earl Bal superb car at the frontier, and mid good-21,500,000,000...
was present in the minds of our sorrow that we left Prince Parachatra's Nauru at a full price it would be worth, four stated that Great Britain expected, bys to the excelent Sirmese railways.
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with other conditions, some intimation
of
Our next experience of trains began im
if we exclude missionaries, foreign house bolds that might still remain could easily be counted on the fingers of one's hand. This does not work very promisi ingly for the suggested municipality with
ade quate representation of foreign inter link up, Weihaiwei with the hinterland from what was a sort of land-yacht into at the tail of the train, of our car, or
willingness on the part of China to mediately, at the frontier. We stepped clumsiness of the driver, or the pontion, Another result will be a steady and The railway, if it is to benefit us at all train which seemed to be in a great gruesome combination of all threo, I-am progressive decrease in the volume of pet run direct to Weihaiwel and not hurry. I believed the average speed of not prepared to ray. All I know is that trade and a simple illustration will bowri Cheloo, or another port
the Federated Malay States Railways is is "was a very lively night "for us, and why this is inevitable.
As a guarantee of
faith on the Part of China and
subjects from 10 show us that we could not always have under our pillows kept us, like David should things perfect, the God who presides over Haram's dog, from brooding over our
The principal articles of import and all group of Bodo FAVS & to very high, but, in order, I suppose, literally swares of mosquitoes amboibet export are the ground-nut and the ofinous losses, our Government, and Travel arranged for, our brain to Kuala identity.
produced from the nut. The oil is not a insist that, till the railway product of the Territory, but is imported.
order, the Fort Edward di Lumpur to burve as if it were the fastest - A shorter jurnar from Ipoh to Penung in running by junk entirely, and a substantial protrict and the waters in proximity to it thing on rails. Whether the shaking wo was, on the other hand, must comfortable. portion of the nuts exported is first im shall remain in British possession, so that received during the night was due to the ported also by junk.
In depth line was as good as one The junks that trade may continue, as at present, with condition of the permanent way or the could wish Indian railway travel is a bring this cargo to Weihaiwei load up out restrictions and the port remain
(Continued at foot of next column.) free-port for the time being..
(Oontinued at foot of next column.) strange mixture of old and new.
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