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Hongkong Daily Press.

No. 21,262 號弍拾六百弍千登萬式第

日卷廿月七年寅丙

بكلية

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

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TIME-TABLE.

WEEK -DAYS

AJ Noo

6.40 9,15 10.80 11.40 | 12,00

...Dap. 6.50

„Depú

Taipo Market...Dep

Fanling...

Shaungthui

7.03

9.24 10.89

9.88 10.51

7.16 9.40 11.04

7.21 9.58 11.06

...Dep. 7.53 10.08 11,18

Dep, 7.36 10,07 11,23

...Art. 7.43 10.18 11.28 12.20 12.58

Kowloon...

32. Dep

Shatin

Dep

Tripo

12.09

DIESAJ P SAVAshg

JAVONIOJ} DİKKOJ

7.10 3.387.19

Shamchun

A.X.

P.M.

Shumoban

Dep

7.91

8,05 10.38 11.40

1.56

3,00

4.17

Shanngshui

Dop

Tanling...

Dep. 7.32

7.28 8.12 10.45 | 11,47 8.16 10.49 11,31

8.07

Taipo Market...Dep.

Taipe

7.48

7.43 8.26 10,59 12.03 8.30 11,04 19.07 12.87

9.95

8:08 8.20 6.15 3.11 4.09 ·8,24 819 8.21 438

3.$8

Shatin

7.59

8,13 11,17 || 1221

-3,38

6.61

8,48

Yumsti...

8.55 11.29 12.33

9.50 3,08

6,03

6,58

"Kowloos...

9,08-11,37 12,41

2.37 3,33

5,16

6.11 7,06

LX.

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

1.M

F.:

WEEK DAYS, STATIONS,

...Dep. 7,45 11.30-9.20 6.25 Fanling Shatankok...A 8.40 12,5 9,15 7.20 SUNDAYS AD PUBLIS HOLIDAYS,

STACATS

A.M

P.M.

Fanling Dep, 7.45 11.30 3.20 6.25 Shataukok...Arr, 8.40-12,25-415 7.20

LX.

F.M.

WEEK DAYS, STATIONS,

5.00 Shataukok...Dep. 8.80 10.16. 1.05 Fanling ...A.. 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.55

BUNDAYS AND PUBLIQ HOLIDAYS,, Y.X.X

STATIONS.

Bhatankok...Dep. 6.30 10.18 2.05 5.00 Fanling. 7.95. 11.10 2.00 5.35 Farther'information may be obtained at the Bamway Orynx, Kowloon, or from M. THOL, Goor & Sox, Inb., Hoxerore, or from Tua Amexican Extra Co- FANT, Hcxexoxe.

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REVENGE."

THE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR'S

MR. JOHN SMITH'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE

"CANTON GAZETTE.”

'HONGKONG; A STUDY IN BRITISH FAR EASTERN DIPLOMACY."

A "TRAVESTY OF LOCAL CONDITIONS.

Mr. John Smith, late Professor of Education in the Hongkong University, who, we believe, considered it expedient to resign his position. at the Laiversity early this year, has apparently joined forces with those disgruntled persons who take a delight in maligning their own country. No doubt suffering from a sense of grievanco, he has cast around for some method of reprisal and the result in a particularly venomous attack on Hongkong and the British Government generally in the columns of the Canton Gazette.

There is no evidence to show whether the article was written parti. cularly for Canton, but we imaging it must have been. It is very doubtfu whether any English paper, knowing the facts, would have published it, and there is certainly no acknowledgment in the Gazelle that the In the Chinese paper, of contribution was taken from another journal. course, the article coming, as stated, from the late Professor of Educa tion in the Hongkong University," is given a prominence out of all Mr. Smith must have known that proportion to ita real importance. this would be the case, and the only cerclusion we can draw is that is was written deliberately in order that it might be used as propaganda against Some extracts from this Colony among the ill-informed Chinese masses. the article are given below, They will show to what level a man can sink when his sense of justice is altogether swamped by private animosities. "The boycott by Canton of British palatial residence in the British Colony, goods has lasted since June, 1995, and maintained from the funds of his foreign

backers. continues."

"Hongkong's losses," says Mr. Smith, though carefully misrepresented, have beca between 5 and 7 millions sterling per month (making almost 70 millions up to date). Canton's losses have been greater. The loss to home trade and employment is hard to estimate. It has been very great.

The official British account of the causes has been the cry of Bolshevist intrigue.' The Russian advisers were seat away by the Canton Government in March. None are there now.

The Russians have gone. The boycott continues. Yet still the cry of Bol- shevism. Why?

"I shall supply some facts in answer.

**4. The importation into the Kwang tung Province of arms for the brigands (remnants of rebel armies), who are a curse to the Kwangtung Province, and whom the People's Movement is strug- gling to subdue finally.....

Ever since its cession to England, writes Mr. Wong Ching Wa, present leader of the Kuomintang in Canton, the English bave used Hongkong to cut China's throat.'

No faults of omission or commission on the part of Hongkong have caused the present boycott,' said Sir Cecil Clementi, Governor of Hongkong, in November last

Which man speaks mere truly ! . . .

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"I shall say nothing of the Police Administration. I shall not accuse the Hongkong Police Force of freely extort ing confessions by threats and blows, of faking identifications, of accepting bribes as a recognized, portion of their salary. I shall only state the conclusion to which careful analysis has driven me, that British Colonial life in the Far East has a physical effect on my countrymen, unless they are careful to guard against it, demoralising and degrading them.

"And, in excuse, I admit that there is every temptation to insolent and brutal behaviour. If you kick a Chinese servant, downstairs, you hear no more about it. But I have seen a Chinese, nearly run over by a Britisher driving his car at high speed round a blind corner, caught and held by an Indian constable, while the Britisher struck him three blows in the face, to teach him that the sudden use of four wheel brakes is injurious to rubber tyres.

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You think this unusual? `Worse things are common-places.

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BRANDY

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Liseperated under the Compan's Drilrances of Bangkong).

putes, both directly leading to the strike16, QUEN'S BOD CENTRAL TIL ONNIKAL 75.

of June last year.

1. In 1999 there was a strike of workmen, led by the Seamen's Union, who demanded right of assembly, voca tional quality, and better pas-The labourers promised to return to work on the promise of strike compensation to the ameunt of fifty thousand dollars, to be followed by fair discussion of their claims. Of the money promised-whether it should have bees promised is no concern of ours -not one bent has ever been paid; the official reason being that some of the claims were excessive, though they totalled two-thirds of the amount guar- anteed.

"The discussion was never held; and to-day, the seamen are struggling for it, as part of the terms of boycott settlement.

In May, 1935, the engineers were to strike. With housing conditions as above described, the housing hitherto The Cantonese in Hongkong.

supplied as part wages to some of the. "No faults of omission or commission dock engineers was suddenly taken away, at two weeks' netice, without compensa- Mr. Smith's "Facts,"

For the part of Hongkong in the past.' "Hongkong merchants have always Perhaps Clementi was thinking only of trono advance of pay was given the men, it meant borrowing It For been potably wealthy. In 1843, and the Hongkong's domestic arrangements.

commodation was not available. The em years following, this wealth came mainly so he was wrong; for the Hongkong at high percentage; and even then, ac from the illegal opium trafic, of which Chinese population is mainly Cantonese, Hongkong was the main depot, stering in birth, connection, and loyalty, regard and importing the drug under the Britishing Hongkong as a part of their province, flag, and collecting consequently the worst brutally seized by force, and eventually. elements of the South China merchant to become their own again Fapulation

Still, that may have been Clementi's meaning. Let us see.

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"Opium-profits skimmed, came barbour

"In Hongkong there were, before tho development. "Hongkong is a "barrea islacd. But its harbourage is excellent, walk-out of last year, over a million and ideally placed for taking toll of all Chinese, mainly members of a fluid the foreign trade of South China, as farisbour market." north as Shanghai; especially of Canten, Their wages were fair, according to and its province of Kwangtung; the Cor-the rates paid by Europeans to coloured ton harbour at Whampoa being spoiled workers in the East. for ocean steamers by three shallows in the Canton River, up which it lies. On the trade of China's richest province, Hongkong fattened..

players gave their order, and left the men and their families to fish for them-

selves...

The Crash. The Shanghai shootings on May 30th, 1925, 'red the train.

In one week; 150,000 men, some with wives and children, got across to Canton. In the following weeks 100,000 more fol- lowed. A marvellous achievement. This action-was-a-passive protest against the Shanghai affair. The workers would re- turn when justice had been done.

How did the boycott develop from this?

"The Hongkong Governor, Sir Reginald. Stubbs, maintained that the Canton Government had caused the walk-out. He also maintained the Russian influence theory.

"He called upon the Canton Govern ment to catch the strikers and send them back to Hongkong. How could they even had they so desired 1

"The Canton Government-though

Their living conditions were not fair. For instance before the walk-out'; by which, as some Chinese remarked to me, they temporarily solved their housing "Then there is the Hongkong and problem), four pounds and more, per Shanghai Banking Corporation. This month, was paid for small living rooms, Bank has for years completely dominated without any fixtures or sanitation. Such the Far Eastern silver market; profiting rooms usually housed two complete fami- enormously by any Chinese upheavals lics. Two, because the rent was well which produce great fluctuations in the above the total wages of a man and his silver market; profiting by the money of wife combined. Those unable to afford any Chinese whose country, is too hot to luxury slept in doss-houses, in huge rooms sorely embarrassed by the situation, and hold him; profiting by the confusion of packed throughout with bunks from the at its wits and to feed, clothe, and em- Chinese finance.

fcar to the ceiling, on the walls and onploy these unexpected guests-refused to "This bank's nickname among the stands. Even such accommodation was coerce the Chinese workers. Economic War. Chinese is the Government of Hong more than many could afford, and there kong. The Chinese are a discerning people.

Hongkeng the Heaven of Traitora. "With a powerful organised. Canton, Hongkong with her merchants and her bank could co-operate profitably, for the beaent of the world; as. Dr. Sun besought "In competition, Hongkong

them to do. stands no chance.

the streets.

was not enough accorgorodation, -even-Therefore, stubbs, by an order in could they afford it. Hundreds slept or Council, declared economic war on Cun- ton, stopping the foodships from Hong- kong with gunboat patrols. This involved much of the food of Canton City."

Plight of the Workers. Why Land in Hongkong is Govern ment property. Land-sales and leases were an item of Government revenue almost as important as the Opium Mono- poly. Building is cheap beyond anything known (in England); wages of builders very low (woman coolies do the heavy work-being cheaper than donkeys, cranes, or lorries).. Why these housing conditions?

"Canton's reply was the boycott of British goods, some of the strikers from Hongkong were turned on to organize it. Lt is excellently organized. Following this, when the Canton Government were thus embarrassed, came the last great. "Anti-Red" insurrection, financed and supplied from Hongkong

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But the competitive policy has been chosen. It has been backed by the British Government. Therefore foreign business, failing in repeated attempts to acquire mortgages on the Kwangtung

When building is contemplated; land Province by corruption of its government, values rise. Mortgages and land invest has omitted no opportunity of barbouring, financing, and arming every Chinese trai mente have been colossally lucrative, it was then.) intriguing with every faction which might many times before a brick is laid. Thore on June 23rd. There followed all kinds ed Cuisine under the personal supervision of tor whom money could tempt, and of These have been bought and rebought

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restore to Canton the old style of Chinese authorities ready to betray China for I could give a hundred instances The following recent ones must suffice:-- "1. The Anglo-Japanese plot of May, 1925, to establish in Canton a Yunnanere dictatorship dependent on Anglo-Japan ese support for which, I believe, there

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But the Kuomintang did not go down in blood and smoke. It triumphed. (To- day its army is nearly four times the size There followed the Shakee ebooting.

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Again, cost of food. When, Amart- can rice crops, failing,. Hongkong mer chants have exported the rice stores from Hongkong, actually reducing some work erstemporarily to the starvation level, did the Government accede to requests for control"

"The continued obstructions of Dr.

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Meantime, how may complaints be voiced The Trades Guilde are not countenanced by the Government. There are two Chinese representativer on the Legislative Council. These are nominatal Rebels Financed by Hongkong. by the Governor.. One of them is not a 3. The career of the notorious Chan Chinese. They are allowed to make help Kwing Ming repeatedly financed by Hong-ful suggestions. The Chinese have no kong, armed with British munitions and other representation, no redress, no right aeroplanes, supplied with British officers. of assembly, no Mrce speech which the This gentleman has conducted cam-British and Indian police can prevent. GLERCSpaigns, which have never been anything "Yet ninety per cent. of Hongkong's except outrages against law and order, revenue is drawn, by indirect taxation, from the Hongkong Hotel and from his from the Chinese.

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The Boycott Continues.

"The first offer of settlement from

Canton was brought by myself on Febru ary 10th of this year. It was & moderate stipulation, backed by the strongest. desire for British friendship. refused..

It was

Baid Clementi, in the Legislative Council on February 4th, this year: Only the malevolent actions of the Can- ton Strike Committee, instigated by Bol sherist intrigues, prevent the resumption of normal relations between Hongkong and Canton on the old familiar footing."

Normal relations. The old familiar footing. Does any patriotic Chinese want them How can any patriotic English- man want them ?

And now the RussianS are gone. They never had any power to dictate policy, as Clementi and the offeinls must know, if they are not terribly misformed.

"Why?..

"a very few,

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