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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MAY MORE ABOUT CHUNG SHAN.

ORIGIN OF THE MODEL SETTLEMENT.

TEN YEARS OF WORK BY TONG 'SHAO YI.

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Now that Chung Shan is so much in the news in connection with the Chinese Government's plan to establish free-port there, for handling foreign trade, it is inter- esting to recall the work done in that district by Mr. Torg Shao Yi. "For very many years he held in portant diplomatic and administra- tive positions in North and South China, but he has been in retire ment since 1921, although still one of the High Advisers of the National Government. The follow- ing information is taken from arti- eles appearing in the Press several inonths ago.

14, 1930.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE NEW FREE-PORT.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,"

S1-1 note with pleasure the article in your paper about the It is in matters of education, opening of the new port at Chung however, that Mr. Tong Shao, Yi | Shan, which I consider to be a pro- | has directed his greatest efforts,gressive step of far-reaching poss- and the school at Tong Ka Chuen,ibilities because of the benefits such where there are more than 600 development will bring to the scholars, is a model in its own way, people of South China. Mr. Tong believes that the future of China lies in the preparation of the future generation to take its place in the conduct of affairs, formulated a very ambitious deve. and with that end in view has given lopment programme, and develop. more of his thought and time toments how in progress in this branch of his activities than to district, show appreciation of the any other.

Chung Shan distrist, once known as Hewig Shan (Fragnant Moun- cains), is so named in honour of In ten years Mr. Tong Shao, Yi Dr. Sun Yat Sen, whose ancestral hay transformed Tong Ka Chuen, home it also is, and it has been the village of his forefathers, into known for some time that Mr. Tong what is possibly the cleanest and Shao Yi is the sponsor of an effort hest-conditioned of all the town to make this the model district of ships in China, and this with no Chica Mr. Tong has stated that, It with the help of a number of enthu- fanfare, no benting of drums.

siasts like himself, he expects to was honest work done in an honest muke Chung Shan so ideally govern. way but for the ubiquitous Pressed that other places in China will man the world would still be in of necessity follow suit, and once ignorance of the great work that is this idea becomes extended it will go a long way toward solving many so persistently going on.

For in of China's ills.

According to the published article, it is very evident that the officials of the Chung Shan District have

the

value of fundamentals, industry and transportation seeming to be the foundations on which they pro- pose to and no doubt can, bring to pass the establishing of a model, ambitious programme, fostered by efficient, industrial district. It is an Chinese initiative which is highly commendable, and no doubt meets with the approval of all men who are able to see the value that will accrue to the immediate community and the neighbouring cities through- out South China.

The advance guards of civilisa- tion's progress, with whom China has been so long and closely asso- ciatod, should feel just pride in recognizing, as it no doubt does, the evidences of real progress face of great obstacles merited such.

the midst of his work he was dis-. In the course of a recent inter-made by these, who have, in the

covered by a newspaper-man, who could not let pass the story of the good work, and gave it to the world.

The Force of Example.

recognition.

People with money, Bocking into the city each day is what creates business; millions there are who would if they could come to and trade in Hong Kong: the develop meat of transportation solves that difficulty; this new port will bring thousands of traders to this city.

view Mr. Tong said that the work they had set about would take years to materialise, but there already are indications of improvement of Chung Shan, Education would form a part of the plans of deve. In ten years the surface of the pinens, for that more than any thing else would determine the re- land has undergone a transforma sults in years to come, and the work tion from a series of arid, treeless of the schools was the subject of

Perhaps the day will come when special care and study on the part gentle uplands to a thing of beauty of those working for the welfare of many such ports will be developed that will be a joy for ever, and on Chung "Shan. Much headway has and add their values to this great the eve of his departure Mr. Tong already been made with the build port of Hong Kong, whose strategie offered his gorgeous gardens, builting of the Macan-Shekki highway, position, if properly understood and and with facilities, of communica-developed in its relation to this and surrounding com- up by slow and steady toil, as ation, by branch-rands and water Colony freewill offering to the land of his ways, the more successful will be munities, should become the great- est port in this world, and number birth and pride. Here will be the results of the plans of the new

Administrative Council. There was its poculation by the million.-Un- foutal garden-walks and tower-beds nothing spectacular in these plans. selfishly interested,

MAN-IT-SZE and pergelas galore, and in the but successful toil had to be adopt midst of them orchards, plantations, ed on a small scale, the results of which would materialise..only hater and many another experiment inn local agriculture, all part of the greater plan to lead the Chung Shan farmers to an appreciation of

better things.

Hong Kong, May 12.

HONG KONG CURRENCY PROBLEMS.

DAILY PRESS. "]"

It is now more than ten years since Mr. Tong Shao Yi Jaunched his plans to develop Chung Shan. and he slowly succeeded in getting [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG XONG willing workers to co-orerate with him, inspiring them with his ow cothusiasm, and the work has at- tracted considerable attention on

Sta.This question has of late the part of others who are keenly brought forth, view from mang interested in the development of China. To them it is particularlyChinese Bankers' Association and Mr. Paterson are more tenable. On the question of stabilisation, clone, some were for and some against it. and it requires no stretch of imagina- tion to view with alarm its adop tion because of trade being driven to China.

LIVES WHICH ADD GLORY

TO ANCESTORS.

And encouraged by Mr. Tong's example and precept the young men of Chung Shan have rallied to the good chase and cach labours for the common weal. Their energratifying to see. amid the conflict: gies are directed towards modern ing interests that are tearing China development, with naught but the asunder, a genuine effort to develop from small beginnings, and create thought of the needs of the people, with little material, great things. and so it is that great schemes develop and will in time come to fruition. Not least among these schemes in that of the Muno- Shekki Highway, which will lead from Macao, past all the great centres of Chung Shan on to the city of Shekki. The road is already in 1920] more than half accomplish- ed, and in Shekki there are the stirrings of anticipation of the suc cers that will accompany its com pletion, when, linked to Macao, there will begin for the hsien an era of prosperity such as has never been heard of in the far-famed trict of Chung Shan.

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persons, among which those of the SHIP'S ACCOUNTANT]he voice as that of the complainant

It is regrettable that no one has so far gone into the problem at all fully as its importance demands. and the signal failure to grasp or finust emphasise, due to no regard having been given at all to men's minds by which it is 80 much

OCTOGENARIAN'S ADVICE TO. appreciate it intelligently has been,

HIS FAMILY.

Property in Hong Kong worth $37,300 was left by Sung Yu Nam; alina Sung Lan Cheung, who died on November 14, 1929, at Lam Shu Chung Village, Fa Yuen District, Kwangtung Province. Testator was 8 years old at the time of his death, and in the will made in February last year he appointed his daughter- dis-in-law and two sons as executrix and executors. Probate has been granted to them by the Supreme Court.

"The Town of Tong Ka Chuen.

-Testator also left property in his Tong Ka Chuen is a township with a population of over eleven native country, where he resided thousand souls, and here there is most of the time. His interests in true peace amidst the chaos in Hong Kong, which he visited oc- China.

The cleanliness of the casionally, were bound up in a gin- streets, the perfect order and dis-seng root business at 10, Bonham eipline among its people, its general Strand West, which was managed air of satisfaction; stamp it as one by other partners.

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TESTIFIES:

STREET LAMP REVEALS ROBBER'S FORM.

KINSMAN ALLEGED TO HAVE

MADE ATTACK. · ·

The case in which Wong Lai. Woo, accountant of the Chinese branch

affected; for Hong Kong currency office of the China Navigation S.5. has undergone many peculiar as Company, was attacked by a robber pects which are noticeable if they at 3 Des Voeux Road West on the have been closely watched, and it morning of Aprni 21 was continued will spring a great surprise to many

and even the Committee of Inquiry before Mr. R. E. Lindsel at the Magistracy. yesterday. appointed by the Government to Central leon that from a premium tion Chung Wing, an employee of the Kong banknotes had its position reversed only in 1910 and suffered a firm, was charged with committing anarmed robbery, and also with causing grievous bodily harm to Wong Lai Woo.

discount.

and ran to him. The room was unlighted and he was travelling to the light switch when the complain. ant shouted out that n robber was in the room, and pointed out in the direction of the safes. At that moment his attention was drawn to a torch and, opening the door, be found that a Shantung policeman had arrived. The light was then I switched on and the complainant was seen lying on his bed, groaning

in pain and bleeding profusely from several wounds,

Magistrate: Is defendant your relative.

Witness: He is the son of on? of my clansmen,

Did you get him his employ- ment 7-Yes.

Has he got plenty of money - He is from a poor family. His pay was only 84 a month, board and lodging provided by the firm.

Continuing, witness said that he. saw the complainant at the hospital. was his nephew. Witness demanded an explanation why that informa when he was told that the assailant

The com- tion was not given to him on the night of the robbery. in great dgony. plainant replied that he was then

Witness also told the Court that there were four other servant boya sleeping on the same floor that night. In his opinion, the roober could only have gone up- found the door was unbolted when

Mr. Paterson said he could assign no reason for the premium, but as every cause must have an effect,

Evidence was given by the com- which, the premium undoubtedly is. there must be a cause which must plainant yesterday, when he said be determined. In short, this prob lem is, as I said in my article of that although the lamps on the floor April 17 last, very complex, and for in which he was sleeping were not this reason it requires to be treated switched on, he could see from the exhaustively.

The origin and cause of premium light deflected from the street and of the most perfect villages in The following passages occur in

notes issued by the Government, staircase lamps the form of the China, Mr. Tong's garden, too, is the will:- I left home for abroad and men's mentality were some of robber, and he recognised it-to be. almost unique in its own way, while young and toiled throughout Here he has transformed an arid my life. With benediction extended the grounds fully covered in my

Replying to the Magistrate, the hill, where there was hardly a blade to me by my forefathers I could only lecture which applies with equal that of the defendant.

force to the currenet problem of of grass before, into a beautiful afford to build up a family and to-day as it applied to that obtain complainant said that he slept on estate. Part of the hill has been create such a small estate. Both in taken down, and pleasant walks the country and in Hong Kong I ing then, and which I shall be glad and delightful pathways have taken am possessed of some insignificant to show to the Committee of In the first floor to guard the money stairs or down to the street, as he properties. On account of my crab- quiry fus tome, papers suggested I that was kept in the safes. The he went to admit the Shantung con- the place of a desert.

should) if any of its members will

Seen Three Times. Garden a Fairyland. bed age and frequent liness, kindly intimate to me its desire. People who visited him first when stable.

cannot foretell when I will meet y fallard to do so was that I was he was at the hospital after the

Leung Chi Tat, secretary At Tong KL Chuca, in compara-my end. In the event of my death, afraid I was out of time, as the incident were his daughters and tive seclusion from politics, the all the property left by me during

Road West, gave evidence that he retired statesman has spent the last my lifetime shall be dealt with in notification appearing in the papers daughter-in-law, and that was the charge of the office at 3 Des Voeux The following are my answers in first time be mentioned that the stapt on the third floor of the few years in encouraging the vil accordance with the Law Code of limited the time till April 14 last.

defendant was the assailant. Chung premises. During the night he got lagers to better things, and has the Tai Taing Dynasty of China by brief to the terms of reference:- built for himself a Chinese garden my eldest daughter-in-law, Yeung

Kwong, uncle of the defendant, up three times, and on each occasion he remembered areing the defendant. The which at all times is a thing of Shi, a widow, my second son Pui

(b) Premium (or it may yet became two days later and he inform who also slept there, in bed. beauty, but in spring, when the Choi, and my third son King Choi,

come discount). peach-blossoms and the plum three of them in-co-operation.

"You must all appreciate my im- blossoms are in bloom, is the verit able fryland of the story books partial-and-anselfish-spirit-through Here in the perfectly balanced out my life. Bo affectionate and sharm of this lovely spot Mr. Tong obedient, diligent and frugal, und receives the friends who tone wendtuvo byvo

Incao to seck_him, for Tong Ka be my good sons and good 'daugh Chuen is about 20 miles from the termin law. By so doing I can anti- Portuguese colony, an hour's drive cipate that you will be able to by ear along the new highway that add glories to your ancestors and is linking up all the outlying parts to ensure prosperity to your desem

dants." of Chung Shan with Macao.

(a)-In the affirmative..

in

(c)-Two ways, namely, failing ed him then that his nephew whakeys to the safes on the first, floor.

the robber. accord then by legislation. (d)(1) Premium is detrimental:

to the prosperity of the Colony (2)-ame as (c). (e)-Present currency.

tory. (1)-In the negative.

Yours faithfully,

3. M. XAVIER. Kowloon, May 13,

Cries of "Save Life.” Sleepige on the same floor with the complainant that night was in

-1 Chung Kwong, who told the Magie. the large safe before the robbery

was committed trate that he was awakened by

The case was adjourned until cries ofve life.” He recognised 1 ́to-day.

withesi said, were kept by himself. On the night previous to the rob bery, the keys, were in his coat

The sum of 89,833.78, kept.: pocket, but since then they