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Before sitting down I must not omit I hope that when this, Exhibition is a word of reference to one of our Chinese over a good many million people, who flan-subjects who has made a valuable į did not know.it before, will know where and peculiarly gracefäl contribution to Hongkong is, will know that she is not the success of the Hongkong section of the sort of second coalhole of the Ensa. the Exhibition-indeed. 1 might add. to that they pictured her. I hope they will success of Wembley-1 allude, of Tripler, you, that she is the great distributing depos for South China, thas course, to Lady Ho Tung. It was a very in point of view of the shipping enter- The Commissioners of the Hongkong

happy idea on the part of Lady Hoing and clearing her barbour she is the China is passing through one of her Tung to give to the millions of people second largest port in the world. "And Section of the British Empire Exhibition, great political unheavals at present, bus who come to Wembley a practical illus greater things to come, she dreams of still shes not satisfied; she dreams of the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallitnx. Sir Robret China is made of indestructible material.tration of the great and elegant industry the day when the Canton-Hankow Rail- Hy Tung, and Mr. Chow Shoa Son, wore Her futurs will lie with, her merean- for which Chinn has beene famous since was will be completed, when she will be hosts on the evening of July sth, at the tile classes and her great law-abiding the time of the biblical deluge. Silk has fichest country in China, when we shall asene end of a line tapping some of the Chinese Restaurant in the Section. There masses, and not with her politicians: The romantic history. We have, at least, step into a cumpartment at Kowloon and was a good gathering of Hongkong auit opportunities of Hongkong in this directwo words in English which are Chinese out of it at Calais; she dreams of her China folk, who renewed, with possibly, tion are great. The South of China in their origin-silk, and ten-the two mineral wealth of the new territories on steel rolling its supplied by the variv feelings, their experiences of a fabours in some respects under greater staple products of China, About the and of the neighbouring provinces of Chinese menu, "prepared by Chinese cooks disabilities than the North. Let me middle of the sixth century two Nestorian of an untold expansion of ber industries.- China, development that would permit and served by "boys. The repast con puntipu two of these drawbacks-piracy monks brought the eggs froin China con adait that in the present chaotic state tained the usual high-class dished of such and the absence of railway communicsealed in a hollow eans to Constantinople, Chinn these dreams seem very very & meat, and there were native, or foreign tion with the interior. Piracy still and the Empire Justinian gave such those who confidently believe that one far from realisation, but I am one of beverages, acording to individual meste. Hourishes, and is much worse than it was enragement to the industry that it sown day they will come true, provided they The room was reminiscent of China, and in my line, 10 years ago. In those days we rivalled that of China. The prosaic are undertaken in co-operation with our is & fine one: tables and chairs were acted in close cooperation with the local Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the neighbours on the mainland. Hongkong

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fellow citizens and Chinese Chinese, and it was lighted by Chinese authorities at Canton and kept it in Roman Empire" indulges in one of his is prosperous to-day, but no one will lanterns. within which W

check. In the early 'sixties the Viceroy moralising reflections. He was not insen.deny that her prority is based too much lights. The company present included commissioned the British Consul to prosible, he says, to the benefits of such an the neighbouring disturbed country, and on the influx of wealthy refugees from the Bt. Hon. Sir John Jordan, Mr. Liang Shih Yi. the following representatives of

cure him three gunbits, and have thrip elegant discovery, but regrets that the not sufficiently on the solid foundation the Colonial Office-Sir H. J. Bend.nard by British subjects. For 20 monka did not, instead of silk, bring the of an ever-increasing inde with China. And so it seems to me that "all" well- Fears or more these vessels patrolled the art of printing from China. Some future wishers of the old Colony cannot better K.U.M.G. Sir G. E.

Grindle. K.C.M.G. Mr. J. E. W. Flood; Mr. G.

Canton Delta, and did most excellent Gibbon may well take note of the fact further her interests than by doing their work. The same form of co-operation is that at the great Wembley Exhibition of The salvation of China, we know, must utmost to help China regain her feet. E J. Gent, D.S.0); Ms. J. J. Paskin, N.C and Mr. H. Beckett., Forrige

doubtless no longer possible, but co-op 1924, Lady Ho Tung, following the tradi- come from withing but there are ways thee: Bir E. T. F. Crowe, CMG, and ration of some kind in such a beneficent tions of a long line of noble Chinese in which we can help from without. We work ought not to be impracticable, women, who had made silk gultare Ho Tung, who is doing his utmost with have with us this evening Sir Robers Mr. S. Waterlow, C.B.E. Crown "Agents:

Again, take the question of railway hobby from the days of Noah, brought courage and preseverance in this direc Air W. H. Mercer. K.C.M.G., and Mr.

communication. P. H. Ezegbiel. Ministry of Health: Chiun is practically destitute of railways.phanalia of silk production, and initiat-idas too quickly: it seems to me her The whole South of from her distant farm' all the paration, Sir Robert says China is suffering because she was trying to digest Western Mr. A. W. Neville. Home Offer: Mr. E For some 1, rrason or other Canton, Davies and Sir C.-S. Akis, K.C.M.O., although the most progressive and in Britons into the mysteries of this fas plaint that this country is suffering from ed millions of the rising generation of complaint is very similar to the com- Mr. A. 6. Angier. Mr. Maxwell Aryton, relligent part of the country, never exer- cinatingng. And now, gentlemen, amongst the people who suffer most from

-luck of organisation and apatby F.R.L.B.A.. Mr. A. H. Ballard, Mr Hised the induene it ought to have done ask you to drink thu toast of Hong the disturbances in both countries. Here A. Heckenham. Col. Berey, Mr.in the imperial councils at Peking. It kong and, our Chinese fellow subjects." they used to be called the great middi X. F. Blanch, Mr. C. H. Blason, Sir

is a strange fact that all during the Man-

class; in China they are the merchants, Win Branyate, KCMG., Mr. H. Ach dynasty only one Cantonese was a

MR. STANLEY H. DODWELL. the shopkeepers, the farmers, whome goods In making the first of the responses, are confiscated. ne at the best, heavy military depredations of their so-ékifed moments ngo—before Me. Hallifax divul- ¦ provincial rulers. Chinese patience and

think, we cau' console ourselves with the

not far distant future even the humble worm will turn. (Applause.)

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Cartwright Mr. (hao Hsin Chu, Mr. P member of the Grand Council at Pekias Mr. STANLEY H. DODWELL krid: A fry/taxes levied on them to pay for the

Làn Chươn, Mr, A. 6. Chuter, Lient in the very last days of the Empire we

General Sir Te ir E. Clarke. K.C.B..

3. B.E., Mr. II. X. Cobbe, Mr. G. Dod. signed a contract at Peking for the con- well, Mr. Mr. E. Dafett, Dr. Dyann, Mr.truction of the Hankow-Canton line.ged his secret-if any of you had been endurance is almost beyond belief, but I G. H. Feará. Dr C. B. Goddard, O.B. That was to take some three years for asked to look mund the room and select thought that there are signs that in the

the fortunate member of the London Com-¡ completion over a dozen of years have Mr. F. S. Goldsmith, C.M.G. (West))

maittee of the Hongkong "section" who was Africa), Mr. Gowring. Mr. H. Hancock passed and there are still great fawn-:

MR. CHOW SHOU-SON. Sir Maynard Hellstrom, M.L.C. (Fiji)ing gape in the construction. This is to reply to the toast of Hongkong. I feel

Mr. CROW Stereos, who also replied, hir J. W. Jathieson, K.C:M.G.. Mr. eminently another case for british and that you would have had no difficulty,

for the kind and generous remarks he Kwok Siu Lau, Mr. A. O. Lang, Mfr. De Chinese co-operation, and one in which ven since I noticed that the number of expressed his thanks to Sir John Jordan W. Larton, Col. € 6. Liddell C.M.G. Hongkong-is vitally interested, for the my table was I have been fitted with made concerning lidngkong and the Chi- Sir J. H. Stewart Lockhart, K.C.M.C., Hongkong-Canton section can never pay apprehension, for it is now four years nese British subjects of the Colony. He doing for the Mother" Country and its Dr. O. Marriott, Mr. J. G. Maline, Mr until through connection is favned and Binen last addressed an audience of commented on what the Exhibition was C. Mcl. Messer, Major Natham, Mr. Hongkong is placed in direct comunica portance. The honour of participating possessions. There were most wonderful Hongkong would in the reply to the toast of "Hongkong" things which are the result of liritish E. H. Parsons, Mr. J. M. Pearson. My tion with Hankow.

I was accorded to me somewhat late in the genius, patience and long years of bard then become the gullet for the produce A. Rodger, Sir John W. Simpson.

fabour. Speaking particularly of Hong- of all China south of the Yangtze Onday. Mr. Hallifax may have thought king, he said: I am afraid that the P.PRIKA J.-Scout. Bir the mural, as well as on the mglerial that he gave me ample notice, hut he British public do not realise the value Gershom Stewart, M.P., Mr. R. Suther side. Hongkong in destined to exercise to do justice not merely to one of our On the map, you see a small dot repre- forgets that in replying ́1 am anxious and "importance of this distant Colony. land, Col. L. G. Tempest Stone, CMG great influence upon the South of China. Crown Colonies, but to the dear old seating an island of about 20 square miles Mr. E Villiers (Ceylon), Sir A. M.Its university is already a seat of barn Colony. Hongkong gave me my chance in area. Eighty years ago, this island Young. (i.C.M.G., and "the following ing, which attracts students from all It was one of the saddest days of my was a barren rock, inhabited only by armbers of the London Committee-Sir Parts of China, and the example of the life when I had to leave her hospitable fishermen, charcoal burners ned gangs of Crown Colony in all measures intended and appreciable shore. Four years have notorious pirates. In speaking of pirates, Newton J. Stabb, O.B.E., Mr. C. H. P.to promotes the well-being of a numerous passed since my last opportunity to air I may mention here that my family has Hay ML Perkins, C.M.G. Mr. Chinese population naturally stimulates my views in public. The osion was heen settled in Hongkong for some 200 S. H. Dodwell, Mr. D. K. Blair, Mr. G. a spirit of healthy imitation on the main, the annual dinner of the China Associa years, and, perhaps, I must accept the Duncan, and Mr. T. Petris.

tion, and Sir George Grindle will remem inference that I am myself directly de

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PROSPERITY OF HONGKONG.

The second part of the toast, "Our ber perhaps that i had the audacity to scended from a pirate king. (Laughter.).. Chinese Fellow Subjects," is one that give a hint or two to, our permanent But all that has been changed by the Sir Jous JORDAN, giving the toast of especially appeals to me. There are official guests. I suggested that it would cession to Great Britain. From a barren Prosperity of Hongkong, maid: After people of all nationalities living under, not be a bad idem if some of them oock the island has been transformed into thinking over why Mr. Hallifax asked me the British Flag in all parts of the easionally visited the lunds whose des { almost, a paradise: Hongkong is now an to propose this tous it struck me that Empire, but there are few equal to, and tinies they direct from the Celonial important trade centre. Commercially, any being an Ulsterman was possibly the none better than, the Chinese, (Ape I much fear that none of them she ranks as the second part in the British reason. Hongkong, as you all know, ower plause) In Hongkong, the Minlay States, took the hint, and after all perhaps it Empire, and is one of the largest shipping ias origin to one of my compatriots-Sir and, in fact, wherever they fettin in is just as well, for if they had. I rather ports in the world. The population dé Henry Pottinger, who concluded the British Colonies, the Chinese form the doubt if we should have seen Hongkong Hongkong is to-day extimated at about Treaty for the cession of the island to backbone of the community, and to them at Wembley today. I seem to picture 1,200,000. The readiness, with which the Great Britain, and who became its first the development of these possessions is the old Colony, saying to herself, Chinese Hock to the Colony, especially in Governor. In Belfast, a district in the principally due. Chinese grit and British Well, if these great permanent officials timoa of trouble in Chim, is a fair proof gity bears his name, and." I believe, there administration expacity, have converted who control my destiny at home, and that they appreciate the justice and pro- is a Pottinger Street in Hongkong. Sir the barren islands of the southern seas these Crown Agent gentlemen, who look tection which is the British Government's Henry does not seem to have possessed into great and prosperous, communities, alter my wants and do my poor mer constant effort to afford to all within its the amiable qualities generally associat- whose trade, bas spread over the entire chants, out of so many orders, won't come borders.

with Ulster. The Chinese Plenipoten globe, I can well imagine that the trau-out and have a look at me and my pre

Geographically, Hongkong being so near- iary, who negotiated the Treaty with Sir sition from Chinese to A British

gress, I must go to them, otherwise one Canton, is an integral part of China. It Henry, reported him to the Throne as a subject is not one that involves any of these days they will make an inglorious is a channel through which foreign gooda very stiff personage who answered all his great change, for the two races have mess of my fature"; and here she is are imported for distribution to the South- apalsy knitting his brows and saying, much in common in their outlook You are sitting in one of her restaur: ern provinces. When the Haskow-Canton upon life. They WIE both boru ants, within a few hundred yards you railways are completed and linked up with Hongkong had little or no history be traders, and carry into all the affairs can see her harbour, her docks, her Peak the Cantoh-Kowloon railway, then Hong fore the British occupation, hit it has of life that epirit of compromise and in all its beauty, her shops, her silk kong will become the terminal outlet for certainly made a good den since, and give and take which in the essence of worms, and her industries of all descrip the exportation of goods to Europe froux from a barren rock has in less than abcessful trade. They are both ein- tions, and I do sincerely hope that our the rich central provinces. When China. century become one of the greatest com- ently practical. We have with us here Colonial Office friends will make the has settled down to her commercial pur- mercial centres in the world. Hongkong to-night typical examples of car Chinese most of it-

suits, the development of trade between is. in this respect, a miniature of the fellow-subjects in Sir Robert Ho Tung Although I am a member of the London China and Europe will begin a new era, United Kingdom. It produces nothing and Mr. Chow Shou Son, who have been Committee of the Hongkong section, by and Hongkong will then be the principal itself, and the whole extent of its arable instrumental in bringing this durming no stretch of imagination can i take portal and will increase enormously in land would hardly ranke a decent English miniature of Hongkong to Loram. Sir any credit for the success of the under-

sumportance. farm. It draws ita food supplies from Robert has been a generous benefactor to taking, except in one respect; it was my wish to add and to make it clearly the neighbouring mainland, imports the the place of his adoption, and has lately suggestion that we should appoint as our

anderstood that too much credit must not raw materials for its inanufactures, and extended his activities to a still wider honorary secretary, Mr. CH. . Hay be given to Chinese-British subjecta alone tives almost entirely on its foreign trade. sphere; he has pinbarked on the project I made the suggestion because I knew for the prosperity of Hongkong. That it succeeds almost as well as the of bringing me and concord to his if Mr. Hay undertook the job he would prosperity is due inure to the friendly and Mother Country is shown by the presence native land. It is a task of appalling put his heart nad soul into it. With the practical co-operation of Chinese resi- of so many Hongkong magnates here to magnitude in which we wish him all invaluable technical assistance of our dents and merchants, coming from many night. I happened to make a short rail-success.

hon.architect, Mr. Bird, he bore the parts of China, chiefly from Kwangtung way journey the other day, with one of I must crave indulge for straying brunt of the burden until the arrival of province, together with the capable and themir Gershom Stewart, the late from my text for a moment and saying a Mr. Hallifax and the Hongkong con far-seeing British mercantile community, meanber for Hongkong-and he pointed word about one distinguished guest pre-tingent. I am sorry that Mr. Thomas is under the able advice and direction of aut to me, one after another, the stately sent with us to-night-my old friend, Mr.not present to-night, because I was going sympathetic and common-sense Govern mansions occupied by retired merchanta Linng Shih Yi. He is not a Chinese to make a suggestion to him. I should ment. And these, together, have made from Hongkong. Had I pot been here fellow-subject, but he is a resident in like to see Mr. Tuomas with a representa Hongkong what it is today. to-night, I should have attended an in- Hongkong, and a way who has a great live body of Labour and of their traile teresting debate on the Singapore base, past, and I am certain, a still greater unions visit Hongkong, and I should like Wales, now President of the Exhihition, When His Royal Highness the Prince of and have probably learnt much about the future. As one who was closely resociat-to personally conduct Mr. Thomas over, visited Hongkong two years ago, the Chi- Far East, of which we who have lived fed with him for many years, I am glad say, one of the dockyards, and show him nese community entertained him with there are supposed to be ignorant. Har-to have this occassion of testifying to our Chinese follow citizens completing maquet and a theatrical performance." ingassed through three or four wars the high esteem in which he is held by under British foremen the construction was then one of the principal hosts, and here, having witnessed many other up all British subjects in China. He and I of an up-to-date ocean-going stemmahip. Had the honour of sitting next to him. heavals, and having seen kingdoms and have had many wusstes in bygone days, I will guarantee that Mr. Thomas and and taught him how to manipulate the empires fall like ningins. I am not con- but we have always remained steadfast his friends would return to this country chop sticks--(laughter)and also initiated vinced that.. wars have ceased, and that friends, and it has been one of the realising more sentely than they have him into the mysteries, of the Chinese ern of perpetual peace has come greatest pleasures of my retirement to see over, realised before that if we are to engine, 1 have personal reason to be Forma Korea, Port Arthur, and Mr. Liang once more. We had one great, maintain our position in the markets grateful to His Royal Highness, as it is Kinochow are there to remind us of the link to bind us our common admiration of the world many of the present-day his support which has made the Exhibi instability of the Far Eastern world. But and affection for Yuan Shib ki, who disastrous and ridiculous regulations tion possible, and it is the Exhibition. this is controversial ground, and had untimely death was an untold Jess to governing trade unioniem 1st go by the which has afforded me this opportunity [better be avoided.

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