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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4th, 1928. GERMANY TO STAGNANT CHINA CORRESPONDENCE. DIMMING OF HEAD-DEATH OF MR. F. TSE

CANTON.

PREPARATIONS TO WEL COME GERMAN FLYER.

BARON VON HUENEFELD DE- LAYED BY BAD WEATHER.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ]

FAR BEHIND THOUGH FORMERLY IN ADVANCE.

NO PROGRESS FOR MANY CENTURIES.

[BY CLI

A close study of Chinese history shows us that the Chinese of old were industrious, patient, enter prising and full of initiative." The greater portion of the Chinese have always pursued agriculture, but the implements of husbandry have remained imperfect. Besides farming they have engaged in fishing and hunting, rearing silk- warms, trade and commerce.

CHINESE CONTRIBUTION, TO THE UNIVERSITY.

4 TOND NÔNG (TO THE EDITOR OF THE

DAILY PRISS."

Sta. Concerning the annual con tribution of $1,000 from the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce to the Hong Kong University, permit me to remove an erroneous imprés sion which your report might create in respect to my views on the subject.

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History does not show us very clearly how mental development CANTON, October 3rd... among the Chinese stopped sudden- Baron von Huengfeld, the famously after the glorious beginnings of German flyer, who was expected in the Empire's civilization. China While Canton yesterday afternoon, did has just been stagnant.

You are quite right to say that not arrive after all. Latest reports Japan, ber neighbour, equally I was the only dissenter, but you to hand state that the German isolated from the West till fifty have omitted to add in your ac aviator was delayed by bad wex years ago has risen to be one of the count of the Chamber's meeting pher. However, he expected to Great Powers of the world China hold on the sad instant my grounds arrive sometime to-day, accom.has made no progress for many for the dissent. In effect, I said. panied by bis Swedish engineer, centuries.

that since the Chamber had not Mr. Lindner. The Canton Aviation

the funds available at the moment, Department at Tai Sha Tau has

it was not absolutely essential to "arranged an elaborate programme

continue the donation this year to welcome the foreign visitor. "A

After all, in consequence of this large pailau has been erected in

small sum, it would not make or front of the Canton Aviation School

unmake the University, Then, with the word" Welcome" written

also, while the Chamber had to in huge Chinese characters. Ger

strain itself to continue the sup- man and the Chinese national faga

port of a higher seat of learning, are banging side by side on the

it should also be thinking of con- Less tributing towards the maintenance front of this temporary edifice, a symbol of welcome Mr. Chang

of some of the middle and the Wai Man, hand of the Aviation

lawer schools in Hong Kong, which Department, has arranged for the

stand in great need of funds to Canton Aerodrome to be the land-

HO IU. ing place for the German aviator. 3. Chang has further ordered

Hong Kong, Oct. 3rd, 1998. aeroplanes Nos. 112, 114 and 115 to fly over Chinton and vicinity to wilsome the Baron when he arrives, The German residents in Canton are also making big preparations to welcome their compatriot and are to give a reception to the aviator

attention, however, was paid to arts and sciences.

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LIGHTS.

QUESTION RAISED AT INQUEST.

POKFULAM ROAD FATALITY ON WET NIGHT.

DRIVER WHO HAD NO SCREEN WIPER,

YAT.

'PROMINENT MEMBER OF BUSINESS COMMUNITY

AN INTERESTING AND HONOURABLE CAREER.

We regret to announce the death yesterday morning, at his residence, 37, Caino Road, of Mr. Francisco The Yat one of the leaders of the Chinese Roman Catholic commanity

The death of a Dairy Farm cow: 40g father of Mr. Simon Tae Yan, coolie was investigated at an in-compradore of the N.Y.. line. The funeral takes place this after- quest held at the Central Magis-

noon at the Roman Catholic Ceme tracy yesterday afternoon. Mr. R. E. Lindsell sat 43 Cordner and the cottage passing the monu- was assisted by, a jury with Mr. H. G. Stewart a foreman.

The deceased died as a result of injuries received by being knocked down by an Aberdeen motor bus on the Fokfulam Road, near the Hong Kong University, at about 7.30 p.m. on September 95th.

ment at. 3 p.m.

· Mỹ, Francisco Tra Yat was born in 1834, at Macao. At the age of fifteen, he started as a clerk in the ship chandlery firm of Wing Kee & Co., of Hong Kong. He did very well and at the age of thirty became general manager of the business."

Mr. Tae Yat took a keen interest in shipping and became an au thority on the subject, travelling to all parts of China.

Chan Tong, a Chinese coolie em- ployed by the Dairy Farm Com; pany at Pokfulam," said that he was walking towards the City with the deceased on the might in ques-

In 1003, Mr. Tee Yat was invited It was raining heavily and on the deceased shared the umbrella by Mr. F. da Costa, the Governor of Maçao, "to start a branch of the which he Was carrying. They Banco Nacional Ultramarino, in were walking on the left side of the Colony of Macao. He agreed the road and the deceased was on and, after the branch was establish is right. As they were approached, Mr. Tse Yat was appointed ing the Pump Station just before Chinese Agent. This work was ex the University the received a sudden knock which knocked him tremely difficult because of the keen down in the side channel

competition of many other fan- When

cial Institutions. he was picked up he found several people beside him and he was help ed into the bus where he saw his colleague lying unconscious..

Witness Baid that he was not certain as to what actually knock-tion in 1904. He was one of the chief promoters of the Inter- ceased was thrown heavily against valuable oil concessions in the Por-, national Petroleum Co. which owns him. He did not notice any car in front of them nor did he hear tuguese Island of Timor. or see the lights of a car coming liberal towards charitable institu Mr. Tee Yat bar. also been very

ever, added that it was a Tung Wah Hospital Committee, hard at the time and that he was slightly deaf. The deceased died and rendered valuable assistance as before they reached the Hospital!

a meruber of the Typhoon Relief Committee, on the occasion of the great storm that swept over the Colony in 1908.

- History records до progress among the Chinese over many cen-day.-Yours truly, turies. They have been found to be familiar in rudimentary form with many things the modern use of which they were obliged to learn from Europeans. Flavio Gioja. invented his compass about four (TO THE EDITOR OF "THE HONG KONG ed him down but he thought de

thousand years later than the Chi- nese and as early as 2,600 B.C., the Yellow Emperor had a carriage on

THE TATTOO.

DAILY PRESS. **]

Six-May I take this opport

Mr. Tse Yat. was a leading mem- ber of the Canton-Macao Railway Syndicate, being one of the negotia- tors of the Macno Railway Conven-

at the Siemseens & Co., a large the top of which was a Agure which dity of urgently requesting all who up from behind. Witness, how-tions.. He was a member of the

German firm in Canton.

always pointed towards the, south

The students of the Canton Avia-whatever might be the direction of tion School will parade at the Arro- the vehicle: China, however, had drome to greet the German flyer as he descends and a heavy guard will

no Lord Kelvin to make the com pass the reliable instrument it is

be placed at the entrance of Taito-day, and thousands of year Sha Tau to insure that nothing inter, the Chinese were still creep

are attending the Grand Tattoo to note that the performance, each 8.30 evening, will commence at sharp

Much inconvenience will be caused if, seatholders arrive after the performance will be worth see the opening time. Every item of

shappens to the distinguished visitor.ing along, the sea consta in theiring and should not be missed. The

CANTON'S MUNITION

FACTORY.

TO BECOME GEOLOGICAL

LABORATORY.

(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, Oct. 3rd. Among other things decided at

Tuesday's meeting of the Canton

Political Council was to, türn the Second Experimental Munition Factory on White Cloud Road in the north-eastern suburb of Can ton into the Leung Kwong Geo- logical Investigation Headquarters. It will be recalled that there was

a serious explosion at the factors sometime ago many of the build. ings being badly damaged.

clumay junks until Europears showed them how to find their way in the open sea by means of the magastic needle. We also find that the art of printing was practised by the Chinese about 300 years before it was known to Europe. They printed. like the first European wood cutters, by means of immovable blocks on which the characters were cut, They did not get any further and type-casting was brought to them by the Europeans. It is not surprising to relate that the an cient method of printing is still in vogue in the inland provinces of China to this day.

The Origins Of Silk, Two of the Chinese oldest indus tries, and in which the Chinese excelled, are now being gradually captured by the Japanese. I refer

ground, excepting the Arena, will, at times, be in darkness so that it will be difficult for the Stewarda to conduct the seatholders to their places should they arrive late.

We confidently expect the co- operation of all, spectators and performers alike, in making this Tattoo an event worthy of the Colony-Yours truly,

"J. Á HUNT, Hon. General Secretary, October 2nd, 1938,

When this nation could acquire no more new learning between their own mountains, they left the country and wandered forth north, south, cast and west. The oldest and who stood together by wisest natural predilection, did not intend to silk and porcelain. Silkworm to go far, and found rest in China. The Council also decided to grant $8,000 to the Preparatory Com-rearing is a very ancient occupa The aborigines approached them in tion, dating as far back as the troops in order to acquire know. time of the Emperor Hoang Tiledge from them. The wise men in- According to the oldest Chinese structed all comers and dispensed authors, Hoang Ti began his rule their knowledge of the sciences and after the country had just been arts with full hands until they had made habitable, and men were still no more to teach. The natives then dressed in skine. The population departed, and for the patriarchs increased and skian became scarce, nothing remained but to tie down

mittee for the celebration of the "Double Tenth "next Wednesday in compliance to the latter's re- request,

EX-FINANCE MINISTER LEAVES CANTON,

HOW HE OPPOSED EXTREMISTS.

peror...

and the use of silk clothing was and die. But as there were no des- invented by a consort of the Emcendants of these wise men, no one was capable of making any advance in the cultivation of the sciences and arts, and thus nothing new was added to the stock of knowledge brought. by the wise old men."

This chronicle from a time whose FROM OUR CHIKERS CORRESPONDENT.) records are richer in fable than fact

contains, however, one unquestion CANTON, Oct. 3rd. able truth, namely that the pro-

..

Four Riba Broken. Dr. Alexander Cannon, Govern-

Mr. The Yat Was Д devout ment Medical Officer in charge of

cealed. The cause of death was progressive Chinese, he took an in- the Victoria Mortuary said that he Catholic and President of the held a post mortem on the de- Chinese Catholic Union. Like al laceration of the liver and right terest in education being patron of lung; and internal hemorrhage. the St. Joseph's College Association The deccated was in good health of Hong Kong and a Director of revealed the Catholic Union and School at The west mortem also that four ribs had been crushed Macao. He was very prominent of the most. There were bruises on both knees popular and respected members of apparently by some heavy pressure. socially, and one and on the back of the body. This the large Cosmopolitab Community together with the rupture of the of Hong Kong An entirely self- liver and lung would suggest that made man, he achieved success by something henry had passed over attention to duty, loyalty to his employers, and honesty in desling with all classes.

the body.

The Driver's Story:

Mr. Tse Yat had a family of Lau Foo, the driver of the Aber- deen motor-bus No. 304, said that eleven children. Of his four sons, he was returning from Aberdeen the three surviving ones are success- on the evening of September 25th, fully engaged in business in Hong and reached the point of the road Kong. The eldest son Nicholas Tse in question at about 7.43 p.m. He Yung Kwong held an important post in the Peking-Kalgan Railway had just rounded a bend and siw

car with four headlights coming for several years, until he was offer- in the opposite direction. He in- ed a very responsible position by stantly dimmed his own headlights the Hamburg-American Line Go- but the driver of the other vebiele down and Wharf of Tientsin. In did not. As soon as thetwa 1917, when the City suffered from a vehicles passed be was about to destructive Rood, Mr. Tae Yung switch the fights on to full again Kwong figured prominently in the when he felt a bump followed by relief work.

feeling of the Dear wheel of the 'bus being raised over some object. He was moving at about 8 or 9 .p.h. at the time and pulled up in a few yards. Getting out he saw the last witness try to rise from the gutter, while a few feet to the rear of the 'bus he found the deceased lying on the road unconscious. He put both men in his hus and took them to No. 7 Police Station and thence to the Government Civil Hospital

ot Provided With A Screen Wipe Witness said that his vehicle was not provided with a screen-wiper; neither were any of the buses of his Company. It was a dark night and the heavy rain formed a thick blanket through which he could not se. Had his bus been oup plied with a screen-wiper he would bave been able to see much better. Even if he had not dimmed his lights, the witness said that he doubted if it would have helped bim owing to the other car's dazzling beadlights, He had driven

Mr. Koo Ying Fan, a member of daction of silk originated in China. Another ancient Chinese Chroni- the Central Executive Committee of Until recent years, the lustre, Ene-cle gives a second reason for the Kuomintang, and former - ness and softness of Chinese silks their stagnation. According to the ance commissioner of Kwangtung left Canton for Nanking yesterday had no equal, but to-day Japan is chronicks, China was at arst, and a motor-bus on that route for five

morning by the s.s. Kinshan. capturing the trade by leaps and Accompanying Mr. Koo were his hounds. The Japanese have also for a period of unmeasurable years, or six years. wife, Messrs. Li Fan, Ma Siang brought this industry to a standard ruled by gods called Tien Hoang

and others.

equalled by the Chinese, and the Shi. These god regents were able

other few years, the Japanese will overtake the country which "invented" silk.

Taught To Dim His Lighta.

The witness was asked whether

"Mr. Simon Tse Yan, the second san, is the present compradore of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Line of Hong Kong. He is also the Vice- President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Chairman of the St. Joseph's Association and of the St. Joseph's Home for the Aged and the Poor He was also a Director of the Tung Wah Hospital and Po Leung Kuk.

Mr. Frank Tse Wing Kwan is a returned student from America, kaving studied in the Northwestern and the Loyola Universities of Chicago.

Mr. Tae Yat received the Golden Cross of Merit with Crown, from H.M. the late Emperor of Austria. Although a Septuagenarian his robust constitution allowed him to continue his public work until a week ago."

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A very well got up tram car The Koo party was expecting to anger is only too obvious that into instruiet their subjects in many he' knew of any Government re made its appearance last night and leave Hong Kong for Shanghai

different arts. Then todium and guiation requiring him to dim his created a great deal of speculation discontent set in and the dynasty headlights. Witness replied that among the Chinese. It also re- of board the s.a. Empress of

which had ruled for millions of nothing had been said about it by minded the Europeans of the cele Canada. From Shanghai Mr. Koo

In the porcelain industry the years became obnoxious to the peo- the Police Officer who tested him bration of the Armistice. will proceed to Nanking, where im-

ple. The nation suddenly re for his license, but he had been The tram was illuminated and. Chinese long ago arrived at a per portant business is awaiting him.

tection perhaps never attained by solved to depose the eternal sover taught by his instructor always to decorated with bunting and made During his short sojourn in Caa- Europeans and Japanese. To-day, eigns, who out of revenge took with dim his lights when meeting units way around the town in a most ton Me Koo was lavishly enter however, Japanese and the Euro-them-all-finished and unfinished other car at night time

imposing manner the driver and tained by the various Government peans excel the present day work projects of reform, so that the The Coroner in summing up said the conductor, both being dressed departments and be made several men of China in this ancient branch, Chinese were compelled to remain that up till 1924 it was compulsory as classical actors of ancient China. speeches explaining why he had to of art. d

exactly where they were

for car drivers to dim their head-On both sides of the car were leave Canton a year or so ago. He

China has during the last century lights to an approaching car. This the words "The Grand Tattoo Two Legenda. recalled that when the Communist

or so asimilated much Western very important question had again in English and Chinese, and the This gives rise to the perpetual culture. Thousands of her sons have been raised at this inquest, and organising committee had certainly influence was at its bowing query, why has the Chinese mental been to Europe and America for there still existed a great deal of hit upon a abst novel way of ad-

height Can- ton" he opposed the"""" Element but finally, he had to development stopped! An ancient education and yet nothing positive. doubt in the minds of matcrists vertising the event

Ho-uriticised several Ex- writing explains it in this way has been accomplished. No Chinese as to whether the practice should rehearsal held yesterday even tremist members of the NationalistIn a large mountain range in the has invented anything or in any be resumed generally or left as ating went of very well and as tram Party and said that they were interior of Asia, there lived once way advanced modern science:

present, to the discretion of the loads of troops were conveyed from directly responsible for the Com upon a time a model people very: China appears dazed by an age- || driver.

the ground Wanchai bear what munist holocaust of December 11th rich in experience and knowledge. long sleep and has not yet shown the The inquest was adjourned until British soldiers can do in the way.

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