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HONG KONG DAILY 1 PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1933

MACAO WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT EARLIEST DAYS OF

MACAO-THE HOLY CITY

EUROPE'S DEBT TO THE PORTUGUESE NATION

(Br J. M. BRAGA)

pro

was to play a outstanding part in Chapel and Schools attached at the Tamagini Barboss District for

the policy that led to the establish-

Portugal among the leading na tions of the time.

The high and-emminent distine (the Navigator) stands out tion of opening the extensive com-eminently in this eventful period of Portuguese story. The third- merce of Asia to the several na- tions of modern Europe belongs son of King John I of Portugal, solely to the Portuguese, whose his mother being Philippa, daugh naval skill and enterprise, ander ter of the celebrated English John the direction of a wise and én- of Gaunt, this distinguished prince lightened Government enabled them in a very few years, after they had sailed round the, Cape of Goodment of an empire which placed ( Hope, to visit all the celebrated cities of the East.

According to the best authenticat- Prester John an Prince Henry,

the ed accounts they arrived on

Though others thought of trade, coasts of China in 1515, only

after thr great Prince Henry had loftier ideals. voyage of Vasco da Gama, who It was at this time that people reached the shores of India" in 1498, spuke of Prester John, a Christian, Morrison; the missionary, stated half-fabulous king of an empire that there was good reason to be beyond the western Nile" With lieve that "the Portuguese came to this potentate Prince Henry hoped Macao as early as 1535 and had into effect an alliance to crush the the hated Turks and liberate Palestine 1537 temporary shelters on

from the control of the infirl. It island."

seventeen year!

THE MACAO FISHING FLEET

The quiet prosperity of modern Macao is admirably reflected

in this picture at the Waterfront and Fishing Fleet.

the Poor.

HONG KONG

Registry Of In-

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CAUSES A STRIKĖ

Some

(Contributed).

weeks have elapsed since this journal Began some researches into the history of Hong Kong. No efforts have beon spared to-excavate #les for documents and photo Of the former, graphy.

readers have doubtlesly observed the ex tracts from this journal's files of the year 1838. That this affords in- teresting reading and consitutes valuable material for the re-writing of a complete history of Hong Kong is apparent from the many encou ers who were really his executors This explains how it we that the raging remarks and expressions of Diogo Cam. Bartholomew Diaz or 3rsuits and other orders were so opinion received from readers. Be Vasco da Gama.... and even by quickly preaching among the In-fore long, the Daily Preas will be the finding of a western route to dians, the Africans, the Malays, in a position to reproduce some Asia through the discoveries of and even in distant Japan. The extremely rare photographs of the Columbus, Balboa and Magellan." Portuguese discovered Japan in Colony, which will give an overr set Xavier was already at work there, of Hong Kong in the brief span of It is not difficult to understand 1542, and in 1548 St. Francis good idea of the remarkable growth that the Portuguese did not

British flag. For the present how- out to conquer, though the oppor under the patronage of the Por years that it has been under the tunities that came to them soon tuguese."

Everywhere the work of the Mis.ever, let us return again to the bo roused the cupidity of many ot. the captains of the time. After the riches of the East had led to sions was paramount, and viceroy ginnings of the courts of Hong trading expeditions among all the and soldier alike rendered every Kong East Indies, a voyage to China assistance to the work of evange opened up visions of new oppor-lization. At Ningpo, where the tunities for trade. This soon caus Portuguese had a settlement, by ed the establishment of those trad. 1542 there were two churches, being ing posts that in time gave plaas cited by Mendes Pinto in to the one and only Portuguese famous Peregrinations. colony-Blacao.

Strongholds of Christianity.

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To the first Criminal Session (1814) the opening of which was touched upon in a previous article. the Attorney General was heari explaining that the English laws! were not laws of vengeance, but were intended to protect the inno cent by the punishment of guilt, guilt by mere vindictiveness.

What more natural then that the Portuguese should establish at Macao a veritable stronghold of Christianity t And so many were the churches they set up and so big a factor was Macne in the work of spreading the Gospel that

The constant interference men named it "Cidade do Santo Nome de Deos de Macao"-City of from Chinese politicians has made the Holy Name of God of Macão-reform most difficult.

A feature of all these discoveries was the great impetus given to the missionary work among the peoples of half a world, and no Portuguese ever refused passage to a priest or was ever backward to support a demand for help when such was required in the name of Christ.the Holy City!

ST. RAPHAEL'S HOSPITAL

The Portuguese, suffered many might not be easy in these sophis trials in their early trade relations ticated times to understand such. This hospital maintained by the with the Chinese, and set up many a conception of Christian duty, Santa Casa da Misericordia, like homes. All of them they were con- but history is clear on this point its parent institution, is the oldest i

Wonder. strained to leave but at Macao they that the Portuguese regarded the hospital in China and dates from were permitted to maintain their Moslems as the hereditary enemies the seventeenth century.

such to be ousted little bit of Portugal" on the dis-of Christ and tant shores of the then "farthest from possession of the holy tomb east,"

Most of the settlements, at Jerusalem, that were erected have been forgot ten and some have not been iden- tified, such, for instance, as Lam pacao, the island where, what was then an enormous community of five hundred Portuguese carried on Templers who warred against the 4 flourishing trade.

hosts of Ialam, was the means Beginning at Nam-0, which in whereby funds and information time came to be called St. John's, were made available for the voy Island, the Portuguese eventually ages of discovery that were plan- traded at Ningpo, or Liampo as ned and carried out by this dis- they called it, and Chin-Chui, and tinguished prince with such ten- Lampacao. Missionaries, Soldiers and Traders. And wherever they went they built churches and brought the

fu cures have been effected by the hospital surgeon and staff, and the hospital is deserving of the support Prince Henry was able to place of all. Lack of funds is the only the resources of the ancient Order reason why the benefits of this in- of Christ at the disposal of his stitution are not increased. pavigators. This old Order, one

missionaries to carry the story of the Gospel to the infidel and the pagan in these distant lands. Thus it was with the Portuguese all the time: the voyages of their naviga- tors meant little more to thero thun as a means for the propagation of the Faith, the spread of the Crusades to other parts.

Emerging victorious from the wars against Spain and the hated Moors, the martial spirit of the nation was still, in the early part of the Fifteenth Century, ready for greater achievements, and to make war upon Islam-while orders of crusading knights still kept alive the ardour of the earlier expedi- tions against the Turks in Pales tin-seemed, to the Portuguese, to be the natural order of things.

The great figure of Prince Henry

of the celebrated military orders of

World.

A LEADING CHINESE HOSPITAL

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The Kiang Woo Hospital like acity of purpose that all subsequent other similar organizations which achievements may even be said to have arisen during the past few owe their primary inspiration to decades in China provides not only medical attendance and care for the the early work of the Portuguese.

Changed Man's Conception of the sick, but also caters to the wants of the poor and needy and even pro- vides education for the children of At his death in 1460 the Porty-those unable to do so themselves. gunge had achieved what no other nation in Europe had dared to attempt, and his programme of geographical exploration changed man's conception of what the world was like, and was the directi means whereby the human race is indebted for the maritime ex- ploration within one century (1490- 1522) of more than half the globe, and especially of the great water- ways from Europe and Asia both by east and by west. The complete opening out of the African south-east route to the Indies need. ed nearly forty years of somewhat intermittent labour after his death, and the prince's share has often been forgotten in that of the piona.

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Registry of Inhabitants. Another example of equity

discrimination, inay noted in the Ordinance No. 10 passed by the Legislature of Hong Kong on August 21, 1844. for establishing a Registry of the Inhabitants of the Island of Hong Kong and its dependencies." As denoted in the preamble, the Or dinânce was passed in order to "secure tranquility and good order in the Colony, and to prevent the resort thereto of abandoned charac ters, and of persons without any ostensible means of subsistence." SHANGHAI, June 30, The Ordinance was meant to stamp The rejoicings with which the out erime in the. Colony, and announcement that a regular air though principally aiming at the mail service. from Europe to China, lawless Chinese elements, European{ via Sinkiang and Moscow, is to residents were also included. The be formally inaugurated tomorrow condition of the island made such has been greeted, may be taken as a meastre necessary, though the a happy augury for the future of Government perhaps went rather the line once it has been formally far in its requirement that every established. There are many ex-merchant, and others duly specified, ports, however, who consider that should take out a registration tie- by setting the inauguration for et for which a fee of five dollars to-morrow the

authorities have

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"We were somewhat startled on a first perusal of this Ordinance to perceive that it included the entire population of the island, and bad we a voice in the matter, we should certainly object stoutly to being in cluded in the Registry,"

Stern Opposition. ¡

The greatest of these is the lock of suitable landing grounds and stores of petrol and spare parte along sections of the route. ticularly in Sinkiang does this complaint apply. The political situation in that outlying territory is confused. The victory of the gov ernment over the invading Moham-

The measure afterwards gave rise medan general, Ma Chung Yin, which resulted in the leader of the to a storm of indignant protest from Europeans and Chinese. There invaders being himself severely was a strike of Chinese labourers. wounded, has done something to

A meeting of compradores was held But much re- clear up the mess. mains still to be done. Unless the un October 31, 1941 and they re victory over Ma Chung Yin is solved to leave the island and on pressed home and his forces utterly November 1, the day on which the peace cannot be regarded as bright the shops and the market were routed, the prospects of immediate Ordinance came into operation, all closed, people ceasing to bring in North of Hami brigands of a most desperate character are al-provisions. Hong Kong being most in complete control, while the situated where it is, and being a tribesmen of the Altai are in a distributing centre "in those early position, thanks to assistance from daye, was threatened with suspen over the Russian border, to defysion of shipping, commerce and food the Tihwa. administration for

a supply for ite inhabitants. So it considerable time, to come.

would be seen that from time im memorial the sword of Damoclez Landing felda, atores of petrol, was hanging over the heads of the depots, and wireless stations are inhabitants of Hong Kong In indispensable along the route of a November 1844 or in May, 1925, the regular service, and so far, in this

It is pointed out that members of the Stock Exchange have responded to the feeling that brokerage in re spect to the classes of shares men-

line through Sinkiang, they have same story could be told, in that tioned is too high, and have decid been lacking. In addition, those all business was completely sus ed to give the scheme for reduced in touch with the situation foresee pended, no boats could be procured brokerage a year's trial as an ex- difficulties in persuading man to for discharging or loading the num periment. A final decision will be station themselves permanently in erous vessels lying in Harbour, (Continued at foat of next column) such out of the way places. There communication with Canton was ia, it is said, a German wireless entirely stopped, and no provisions operator somewhere in Sinkiang were brought in. After much op- from whom no word has been reposition and disturbance, Governor ceived for months. His friends Daris saw the wisdom of abrogat- have been unable to send him ing a rather hasty but nevertheless money or to get any news of him necessary price of legislation. The whatever. Naturally there is some local legislature not long after' reluctance to send other men into passed Ordinance No. 18 of 1814 by surroundings which may result in date 13th November, the effect of condemning them to a similar fate. which was "to establish a registry -NC. Daily News.

and cetisus of the inhabitants of the island of Hong Kong." Thus ended a matter which had caused no end of discussion and a great commotion in the Colony. The in- cident showed the public spirit with which the people in Hong Kong were animisted even at that early period of its history.

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