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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 1927.

SIR F. WHYTE UPON NATIONALIST ASPIRATIONS, IN "ASIA.

LIBERAL SPIRIT OF SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, NEED FOR SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE AT PRESENT.

SHANGHAI, Oct. 13th.

British Imperialism.

HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.

[OLDERS BY THE CAPTAIN SUPERINTEN-

DENT OF POLICE.?

CHINESE COMPANY, Strength.

Constable 79 Charles Sinn en-

Training: Part XII. (Muskatry). All members of the Chinese Com- pany who have passed out of Fact II. will attend at the Kennedy Road

Sir Frederick Whyte was the It was not easy, however, to per- rolled in the Chinese Company on guest of honour and speaker at the suade his Chinese friends that October 13th

Britain in her actions in! Union Club monthly tifin yester Great day. Mr. V. G. Lyman, President China was acting in good faith. of the club in introducing the dis There was the prejudice in their tinguished guest, said that he was minds of what was described as a distinguished authority on poli-imperialism." tical matters and had recently been) present at the Pan-Pacific Coa- ference in Honolulu.

The British empire had under gone great changes during the last 23 years. The year 1000 was & con venient date to take as it was the year of the Boxer Rebellion and also the year of the Boer War. Since then British imperialism had undergone substantial changés

will

Revolver Range on Saturday, Octo- ber 22nd, for instruction in revolver shooting under Inspector H J. Paterson. Firing commences at 2.30 p.m. sharp.

MOTOR CYCLIST SECTION (FLYING SQUAD),

Speed of Nationalist Movements.

Sir Frederick said that the situn.

INDIAN COMPANY. tion which we are facing to-day is

Training: Part III. (Musketry). · one of the greatest importance both

All members of the Indian Com to European countries and Asiatic and the speed with which the amounting almost to a revolution, pany who have passed out of“ „Past called Nationalist movercent had which was due to the development II. will attend at the Kennedy Road spread in India and China is signi. of democratic thought in Great Revolver Range of Saturday, Octo- Asant of the times through which Britain itself. Equally in domes-ber 22nd, for instruction in revolver we are passing. In contrasting the tie and in foreign policy the pur shooting under Inspector. H. J.. situation existing in India and pose of the British people had de Paterson. Firing commences at £30 China, the speaker laid stress on veloped in what might be called a p.m. sharp.

"literal" direction. the fact that during the 20th cen

to

The Two Chamberlains. tary new relations had come

The policy of the Conservative

Training. exist between the East and the

of to-day

All members of the Flying Squad West. If I am to judge," he con- government

He referred to who have not passed out of Part tinued, from certain manifesta-Hiberal". tions in the Press, there are points Joseph Chamberlain and his son, I will parade in multi at the Joseph Central Police Station on Wednes- which are Esputed. My view is, Sir Austen Chamberlain. that when an analogy is to be Chamberlain was perhaps the last day, October 19th, at 8.15 p.m. drawn between one country and of the great line of British im sharp for Squad Drill under Sergt. another, there are lessons to be perialists, and if he could now RJ. Hunt.. drawn between one country and an- know" that his son was the author other: there are lessons to be of the Locarno policy and also of drawn from old history. In India the new China he would probably we are faced with the rapid growth refuse to believe it. Sir Austen, of national opinion finding its out- however, could say that his policy

Police Training School. let in different forms and in dit was the natural development of his

Classes for Instruction in Part II. ferent ways." Sir Frederick then father's ideas. The Chinese found went back to the old history of Asia it difficult to believe that such a of training course will be held at and Europe, mentioned how Asis transformation of Great Britain's the Police Training School under Inspector H. J. Paterson on Thurs. had in the past threatened Europe policy and taken place. He assurday, October 20th, and Tuesday, with its domination and pointed ed his Chinese friends that there October 25th, commencing both out that only about five centuries had been a transformation in Great evenings at 5.30 p.m. ago had the European nations be Britain's policy and that they were come a controlling influence in the ready to give sympathetic consider- destinies of Asia, which had little ation to China's aspirations. power to redit. Attilä, Roland and John Sobirski of Poland were names that he would mention in this regard though they did not seem to be known to a number of journalists. Tod

Powerful influences were to-day being brought into play to effect political changes from Angora to Yokohama. It was a fact that, on after the other, the peoples of Asia had signified their intention of effecting changes in the conduct of their political and government affairs. They had realized that the operation of European ideas 'wers

Britlar Admirala And Generals, Unlike the Chinese militarists; British admirals and generals were under the direct vontrol of the civilian government, and to under- stand the policy of the civilian government it was necessary to understand what was moving in the s whole. minds of the people as Sir Frederick was convinced that the main motive of the public of Great Britain was the desire to put Chinese and British relations en d proper footing. Therefore princi ples of what had been called the Chamberlain policy" must be in direct contract with their own taken as representing something and they were taking their Nation-like the settled purpose of Great alist ideas from Europe: these were undoubtedly receiving the sym- Fathy of Great Britain and other European countries.

Britain.

...

The weekly instructional patrol of the Hong Kong section will start from Central Police Station at 3.15 P., sharp on Thursday, October

20th.

GENERAL.

Recruits.

All recruits of both the Chinese and Indian Companies will parade in multi at the Central Police Station for Squad Drill and Rifle exercises, under Sergeant R. J. Hunt on Thursday, October 20th. and Tuesday, October 1stk. Fall in at 5.30 p.m. sharp.

(Sgd.) F. C. Mow FuNG, A.S.P. (R), Acting Adjutant. Hong Kong, October 18th, 1927.

ARGENTINE OIL PROSPECTS.

STATE BORINGS.

STANDARD INTEREST IN

THE NORTH.

There is still but little official news regarding the actual develop- ment of the Argentine Government reserves of oil, and reporte as to the yield from the private companies must be taken, wholly on trust, states the monthly review of busi

There might be room for a great difference, of opinion regarding the method by which the policy could Where the Difficulties. Are. be executed, but he donbted whe-ness and trade conditions in South America, issued by the Bank of In India as in China the Nation- ther there could be any divergence London and South America. alists were apt to assume that the of opinion regarding the per- In the north of the Republic the obstacles to their progress lay in

manence and the propriety of the Standard Oil interests are said to the attitude of the British Govern policy as a whole. Those who had have abandoned all hope of find ment. The more they came up first-hand knowledge of the Chinese ing petroleum in commercially pay able quantities in the provinces of against the facts of the situation, situation could certainly influence Jujuy and Salta, and as the State the more they realized that the real British action in the right direc- berings in the same region have differences lay in Indian conditione tion providing they understood been equally fruitless, little interest ther development of existing con and not in the attitude of the and sympathized with the underly- now likely to be taken in the fur British Government. It seemed ing motive described above. This sessions in that part of the Re reasonable to draw an analogy in was true of the Chinese themselves public. the case of China. While it was and the British communities in very easy to make a case against China.

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An important legal pronounce ment bearing on the appropriation fiscal by the Government as

that pending special legislation relative to the protection of the national interests in the petroleum fields the administrative and judi cial authorities must protect the principles from absorption by for national patrimony on genera! eiga capitalists snidly desirous. of obtaining our oil reserves."

The much-talked-of organic law has, however, not yet been brought. up for discussion in the Legislature, nor does there appear to be any great interest shown in the matter

the unequal treaties and the Chinese Part of the Bargain. reserves of certain lands previously British Government had recogniz A more definite understanding under private exploitation has re cently been made by the Federal ed the validity of the case the real on the part of the Chinese was an Procurator-Fiscal Permission was difficulties in the Chinese situation

but essential in any improvement in Bought by the interested parties to not international national. It would necessarily fol- the situation. He was glad to proceed against the State, and un- der this judgment the right de low that most of the steps that think that there were certainly manded is refused on the ground could be taken in the immediate fatare must be taken by the Chinese signs that a better understanding themselves, in the establishment of between China and Britain was an effective government of their possible. They should all remem

ber, however, that the disposition Britain's business was to find out on the part of the British people where the real differences existed to be friendly towards China's a and to endeavour to establish

pirations could not be maintained friendly relations. Treaty revision indefinitely in the face, of a con- was undoubtedly a necessity, but it stant fre of anti-British pro- could only be brought into being paganda. by the sympathetic study of the Their Chinese friends' should both the European countries and realize that Britain's policy in the Asiatic nations. The funds China was a Nationalist, policy and mental problem which all Aristic that they were acting in good faith

E Meanwhile, the administration of nations were up against was the and if the, Chinese could begin to on the part of the Deputies.

show their belief in this policy of system which was to be adopted. Great Britain, then he could re- the Y.P.F. (Yacimientos Petro- The ideas which the European Home sure that a solution of liferos Fiscales) is busily extending countries had brought into being their problems would soon be found its radius of distribution for the in Asiatic countries were purely

products of the La Plata distillery. European, and in this connection (loud and continued applause).

After the President had thanked throughout the rural areas, where, It was to be said that there was, & great deal to be learnt by European Sir Frederick for his speech and it is claimed, the price of kerosene countries from India and China said that the points which had been and naphtha is thus considerably When speaking of European coun- brought out enabled him to view reduced

Users of naphtha, it may be of tries- be desired to sasociate in the situation from new angles every way his American friends, which those present would un-interest to add, are loud in their who were every bit as interested donbtedly discuss in their own praise of the local product, which in the future of China as Great minds, the meeting terminated.—ia, they say, both cleaner and more

North China Daily News.

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various questions at variance by

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