CORRESPONDENCE
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, AUGUST 28TH, 1923.
A CHINESE AMAZON. PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANIES. FIVE CONSTABLES TO ARREST A
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG..
WOMAN HAWKER. DAILY PRESS"}
and others like my poor self! Unless he is a
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TECHNICAL EDUCATION. IN THE
CITINA.
SEAMEN'S STRIKE IN-
THE NORTH.
"OVER PRODUCTION OR UNDER CHINA MERCHANTS' SHIPS STILL
DEVELOPMENT."
HELD UP. "
Sergt. Elson related to Mr. Hamilton, at the Magistracy, on Saturday, an
During the past year several articles. account of the arrest of a Chiness female
bearing direcly or indirectly,on Technical hawker who was charged with hawking various daily papers and reviews,
Education in China have uppenred in the without a licence and with assaulting the! police in the exrention of their duty.
utter is targely explanatory and as sue ix tot of a controversial nature, but cer
Station."
This
TWENTY-FOUR VESSELS IDLE
The Shwaghai "Moury of Angast 23rd
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Sin-have read with inteïest “ Rain-i krop lament anent the lower level tram-cara Does "Raindrop" wriously! think that the Directors will ride in thi "conveyances in order to discover and
the mithreak of the seana's strike but Eighteen days hub now elapsed siner and remedy inconvenieners sufiered by him The woman struggled violently," sail tain statements, some of which are attri and the China Merchants Stram Naviga the position between the Sekmen's Union the Sergeant, "and it took five constables bated to Yeh Kung Cho, former Ministention Umpany is exactly the sane as it kin, youe correspondent might to know, to arrest her and bring her to the Pulice of Communientious, appear to the writer tinues to hold aloof insofar as negotia that Directors are always very busy seeingį.
to be so much at variance with actual facts tions with the Union are concerned, mist was in the beginning." The Company con that interim and final dividends, are
At this statement of the Europeans in as to call for some comment," possible.. "It is one of their many datiest the Court becte interested in the case; China will undoubtedly feel that the direct. The strikers, on the other hand, All interested in technical education in ing on its right to negotiate with its men Another is to draw frem for attending
and all eyes were turned on the defendant amalgamation of the Peking. Tangshan refuse to have any dealings with the Com Jattis commonly "termed, metings;”
The woman, who carried an infant in her and Shanghai colleges to form the thino pany's officials except therugh the Union's Writing about Pabile Trility Com arms and laid another youngster by the order to get economy of effert, satisfac foon as to when a start would be Tung (Communeations) Eniversity inicials. There was no indication this panies, toust-racks, and damnable"affairs, and, did not appear to be exceptionally try co-ordination, etc., and the general made in negotiations. It is known, how Permit me to ask your readers (o) if it powerful, though she was perhaps a little is a step in the right direction, and that; to come to terms with its men through out. improvement of such ralucation generally ever, that the Company has endeavoured is not a fact that, since the Hongkong saller than the average Chinese woman, y consequent temporary disorganization, side mediators. The Union's officials in Electric Co. changed the voltage, the Her head was swathed in a bandage and
will have its compensations, Jalaps, exhanged gratis, go out of com- what could be sea of one of her eyes issues raised by various writers together the fact that no reduction of working It is considered that certain minar in every way reasonable, considering sive that the increased wages now asked- alission sooner than the old ones were ever i showed a nasty discolouration.
with their comments thereon, may pro hours nor the employ of more men has known to do; and (3) whether it is not Giving evidence, in the witness box, points which are dealt with below are con- men put in no less than eleven hours of duce erroneous impressions and these boon" asked for. At the present time, the a fact that the desk-fans re-wound, free of Sorgy. Elston said the woman refused to sidered by the present writer in the light work each day. charge by the Company, un longer pen came to the station and dealt him several stitution ad his subsequent, residence in the formage excords 31,000. Below will be of his experiences as a Government In Merchants ships tied up now total 21 and with us with the little epol rumfort it was blows. Whilst struggling with her the wit this country.
The number of China our privileges to enjoy during the kot ness was bit on the left leg. In her efforts days! It is perfectly true that this ex-
found a list of the steamers with their to break away tropy the constables she hit change has been effected," and rewinding her head on the pavement, which after xt the
brae
Friching Isimming
9:0
1468
Hsinching
1,954
Hsinkang
1,260
#xinrki Hacan
1, 3 "ን
5317
"520
Karangbuh
1,034
Kangle
1.264
Kangping
172
Taishaa
1,062
For
Tungwuh
7-08
1,075
1.076
2,321
1.
versity schemic was launched because s
We are asked to believe that the unregretive tonnage:- few stadhts after taking Technical courses followed technical carvers. It is further of faus done, at the expense of the Coonwards pressitated treatment pany, but it was not out of charity and for Government Civil Hospital. Withey took factory training, rendering them are or suggested indirectly that lack of co-ordi nation has aleprived students of satis-- consideration for its consumers. it was her into a shop for the purpose of dress of a technical nature. It is the writer's decreed by a beneválent tiovernment, so
less unfit for the carrying out of duties let us pray that the tingerment will dep her wound. There she again be studied opinion that the trouble is the ree that the work should be properly and me very violent. She threw a wooden deep seated than this, and to shirrest satisfactorily don
bowl at his head. Fortunately this,nisseorganization is the panacea for what. that anything in the nature of a college ed its mark. A wooden shop shutter was we may call wasted technical talent is also sent hurtling through the air but the of the conditions now obtaining in China to show an igcorance or total disregard aim of this was deflected by a projretion Moreover, it implies that the instruction dressed the woman was taken back into quate that students who were sucessful from the wall. After the wound had been given in the several colleges prior to the
nalgamation was so hopelessly lande the street, where she pretended to faint, in passing out were not qualified to he At qa unguarded moment she got up'and "ffered work on a remunerative basis, by made off; doing the whole distancs of with the coming into existence of the) the Board of Communications, and thir Cilman Street before she was caught.. On university, raperts will be produced in. the way to the Police Station she was very
quantity, violent.
There are many other complaints to be angelo, but I must leave sapo të abler peni than mine.
With many thanks, alente, for the publications of this poor
For Faithfully yours,
FOLLOW ON, Hongkong, with August, 1999.
CHINESE SEAMEN ON
BRITISH SHIPS, INTERESTING ARGUMENT IN SHANGHAI MINED COURT. NOT ENDER, BRITISH JURISDICTION WHEN IN-CHINESE TERRITORY. Citations from voluminmus authorities,
"
The Magistrate: She seemed to take dislike to you!
give any particulars regarding herself, "
The witness: Yeshi also refused to
Corroborative evidence was given by a Chinese detective who said that the woman
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licence a fine of 34 was imposed with the On the charge of hawking without alternative of seven days' imprisonment, both sentences to run concurrently.
BLACKMAILING GANG AT
WORK,
CHINESE ACTORS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN THREATENED.
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300
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As suggested above, the trouble is, largely one of employment and it can be masters and carpenters at the rate of $30 The Company pays its bosuns, quarter- officials of adequate training and expert the No. firemen 830, the ordinary re- solved only by drastic reforms applied by each per month, the seamen 824 per month, short, by officials who are prepared to month, and the boys 810 per month. The ence and of unimpeachable integrity, in men 828 and the No. 2 firemen 829 per eliminate favouritism, and who mean to ges the best of their countrymen for their asked is 30 per cent, which the strikers men pay for their own food. The increase country's needs. That is, to say that! only men with the requisite technical natin is quite reasonable in view of the qualifications should hold technical.posts, i
present abnormal cost of living. At present such posts are more often than LA telegram received yesterday reports not held by politicians who possess a the settlement of the strike-ED, H.D.P.] have never taken part in the actual superficial book, knowledge only and who direction of engineering work.
to the
no attempt
gays the Shanghai - Mercury of Augant scratched bia en the hand,
3rd did not succed in saving two.
The woman, asked if she had anything "Chinese seamen from the jurisdiction of to say, hid she played her basket of fruit the Mixed Court this morning when they on the pavement and was reating when she avere charged with having uttered forged was arrested. When I fainted," con-
We are told that the Board of Com For obvious reasons, there is less to be American Botes, before Mr. Mend, British timurd the defendant, the Sergeant students employment.
munications is in a position to give the said against this practice in the States Assessor, and Magistrate Loh. Det Sgt. struck me many times with a stick?
Dag respectfully and in England, because a student uncon- Tinkler prosecuted,
asks Where Will the Board, make jobs sciously conforms to precedent, and, after The accused, were
Asked why she was able to run away if its be plader could even fifty stnd-all, there is something in the traditions setmen on the Esther Baliar of the Robert shu: fell faint, the woman said, "I had to weiter ventures to suggest that statisties tice as a matter of course and invari- ents at the present time! The of a profession. He takes his shop prac Duilar Company, and flying the British and my children. I did not wish them to students who have kept to technical work recollections of some seven and a half Rag.
showing exactly what proportion of ably enjoys. The writer has lively "Mr.-7. W. Schoenfeld, who appeared for lost in the crowd." the defence, argued at length to show In anding the defendant guilty of Communications would make illuminating offices of the premier railroad of Great have found employment in the Board of years spent in the shops and drawing is why the accused were not subject to assault, the Magistrate said, do not reading. One is inclined to ask whether Britain. These and anbsequent experi the jurisdiction of the Mixed Court, believe for one moment that Police Ser the old students of the constituent colences of a practical nature have confirmed Counsel cited from voluminous authorities geant Elston would use viol ner faless it leges are to be penalized simply because his opinion that there is no royal road to to denionstrate to the Court why seamen on British ships should is abject to a savage. I am prepared to he lesions thought of in their tane and if not how of view is certainly not understood by the
was necessary. You sem to act just like the university scheme had not
been a knowledge of engineering. This point. British jurisdiction. Counsel even quoted with women but you have forfeited all we explain the fact that old students majority of the students who are getting from treaties between China and Great clafins to leniency Britain and argued that inasmuch as
from Tangshan-according to one writer their technical eduention in this country. China had given up her rights under sent to prison for one month with hard Associateship of the College behind them Department of Tangshan College to spend For assaulting the police the woman wis country with four-year courses and the students from the Mechnical, Engineering the finest Technical Institution in the extraterritorial engagements, the neeased labour. The Magistrate added that if she and a further two or three years' experi the summer months in the shops of the In 19 the writer, arranged for six Jould be transferred to the British had not been knocked about he would have eace in or upon engineering works, at Peking-Mukden Railway. authorities for trial.. Counsel said that sent her to prison for two mouths. if they were American or of any other. nationality, that is to say, belonging, ta
writer for heip. He was referred to the authorities concerned, and apart from an old student so qualified applied to the presentations had been made looking for work? Some two months ago was sanctioned only after repeated re- This scheme countries having extraterritorial engage
officials of one of the Northern group of the fact that the officials gave very little ments with China, the same argument could not be sustained, but they were Chinese, employed on a British ship, and
railways then actually extending it encouragement, it is an undoubted fact system, and was offered work on the same that the students made China having givet up her rights in extra
footing as a "atadest engineer" or what improve on their opportunities. In short, territorial treaties, the fwo men could
ver fancy name the Board has adopted the objected to the time limits and claim British protection.
to define the status of such servants, at general restraint, imposed and the experi Mr. Menil stated in reply that it was
a rate of remuneration which did not ment was a failure. And yet this is the impossible for the Court to agree to coun
exceed $80 per month. el's line of reasoning. While on British
The real explanation of the unsatis tory solution to the problem. Why not only method which will give a satisfac ships, scamen of any nationality other
factory state of affairs is not poor teeb take a leaf out of the book of the crain- than British, could claim British protec
nical training but lack of development ent engineer Sir Joseph Whitworth, who tion, and were entitled to British protections, two eles, one bearing upon the hundred engineers and Axperts on a total ships he must produce satisfactory evid As the result of recent police investiga country to absorb yearly some one to two enter for the coveted Whitworth Scholar- and it is manifestay impossible for any stipulated that before a student could tion, but the nccused were arrested for another. were mentioned at the Magistracy, track mileage of from four to five thouence of three years' workshop training i offence committed on Chinese soil and on being Chinese could not be dealt with by The existence of a gang of blackmailers navigation ser the postal telegraph and Why not pitchfork the students into the
Saturday, before Mr. Hamilton. any Court other than a Chinese Court has become known to the Police. Accord. China has started to fly before she can of other places where they would lose If the accused bud committed the offenceing to Inspector Appleton this gang preys walk in more ways than one, and, apart much of the angularity with which youth Bristol, for example, they would then mostly on Chinese actors and actresses and froin the consideration of adequacy of seems to be so abundantly provided? works at Tangshan, Nankou, and a host be subject to British laws But they com-in this connection a young Chinese was training given, the problem reduces it fake then conform to shop rules, and, mittest it on Chinese soil and, therefore, charged with attempting to obtain 8100 self to either over-production or underwork strictly to the clock. As an uminent the Mixed Courtwould-have-to-assume by means of menaces. Jurisdiction.
development, whichever way one cares to English engineer once said. It is only After un exchange shop proprietor had The Inspector said that the prisoner
look at the problem. given evidence as to how the second belonged to this gang and his netivities Communications have brought technical press, by the personal doing of In the past, officials of the Board of by the following of the various engineer- nccused attempted to change 8000 gold were traced to a theatre at Causeway Bay education to the point of ridicule by things, and by the actual handling of the notes into local money, the first eccused and to a couple of other theatres in the sending up students who have been that one tan ever hope to become more was placed on the witness-stand for the Colony. Que
materials and tools used in engineering purpoat of testifying how he came in threatening letter to the effect that he two and three re-examinations in almost person. In one year of such training, i rosived a ploughed in the final, for as many as than a wonden-hended, cocksure, ngademic possession of it, which included several would be shot if proceedings were taken as many weeks. Comment is superfluous student would have the opportunity to forged notes. Accused at first said he was against the defendant. paid the money for junk he had sold in Mr. Leo d'Almada appeared for the the fact that China's, trained engineers could ever hope to get out of the world's And yet it may be advisable to emphasize learn more of real engineering than ho New York, but upon some questioning on defence and naked for a remand with bail" will never have any standing in foreign text books, or from three years' spoon the part of the Assessor, it was found that This was granted, bail being fixed at eyes so long as it is known that candi-feeding by the heat brain at Cornell, what he had sold was Chinese wine con- $1,000, Mr. R. E. A. Webster is for the dates who have failed in their examina London, or Charlottenburg, ~tained in forty bottles.
Mr. Mead: Are they
tions are more or less pushed through by. money?...
As a sequel to these threats a well-known official order. Two or three such men
After all, apart from the fact that each. Mr. Schoenfeld America is in pro-armed himself with a revolver, but unforthey are not entitled to use,
Chinese actor in order to protect himself ruin the degree which they hold but which country has its own peculiar difficulties, bibition and it is cheap or that necount. tunately did not receive the consent of the education as now given is not of a
engineering in one is very much likel The second accused said he was asked the Captain Superintendent of Police to practical nature, one can but emphasize upon, there will be little need for chang
With reference to the statement that engineering in Another, and. by the first accused to cash the money. He do 8.
curriculum has been satisfactorily decided once the had no idea at all that it was not genuine befort Mr. Hamilton with being in illegal grouping of colleges will leave this ques the good of students who have the On Saturday he was charged the fact that any amalgamation or Chiao Tung Pu wish to pull together for If the administrative authorities and the af aamunition, possession of a revolver and six roundation untouched. It is a pity, that the defence and asked for a remand. This bodies,
MR. E. A. Webster appeared for the London University and other examining is simple. In fact, it is the only way Chinese have fallen into the ways of the technical men," in theory at least the way potentiality of developing into the best was granted, bail being granted at $250. degrees on purely theoretical training the needs of their country-Peling and giving engineering to give Chinese a training suitable to The case will come up for hearing to-day.
(Continued at foot of nezi column.} Tientsin Times,
money.
prosecution.
.worth
that
My Schoenfold addressed the Court briefly, asking for a dismissi),
The first accused was sentenced to two years, with one year suspended, and the second accured to three months...
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