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ECHOES OF

OF 1859

61-The American Consul And

Shipping Monopoly

(August 19, 1859)....

In our advertisement columns will be seen an announcement from the licensed boarding house keepers, complaining of a mono- Poly eatablished by the US Consul of this port, which is calculated to injure the general business of shipping seamen, for the' behoof of the individual to whom the Consul has given the monopoly.

most"

CHINA'S POLICY CHANGING

Realisation That She Is Her Own Master

Tokyo, Nov. 28.- Dr. Yotaro Sugimura, Japanesu Minister without portfolio and former- Under Secretary of the League-of Nations, who bea just completed an 80-day inspection trip of Manchuria and China, day afternoonvened to Tokyo yester

Interviewed by Rengo, Dr. Sugimura said, "During my trip of Manchuria and China, I mat a number of re- sponsible Chinese officials, as well as infnential Europeans and Americans, and had intimate conversations with them. From these men, I was able together that China's view of foreign nations is undergoing a change, that is to say, while China thought that she had to depend solely on European countries and the United States, she seems suddenly to have. realised that she is, after all, her own master. On the other hand, foreigners. seem to have lost their confidence in China largely because of the destitute conditions at present prevailing.

he has actually paid. But the iden of allowing a Zoreign Consul to dictate on subjects which in- revenue of volve not only the the Colony, but the integrity of the Government, appears to

If the Consul has outrageous.

any complaint to make of the boarding house masters, be should make tt, and attempt to obtain redress-but to take upon himself to do what the Govern Treat

of the Colony could not There surely must be some- do without an ordinance-is thing. harsh if not illegal in this

reprehensible. Hongkong act of the Consul. Inasmuch as is a free port-surely that should the boarding house keepers pay satisfy the cobsul It is a cori-

for their licenses, verjerit place government for

American they

the have B right to expect ships, which "indeed obtain

cream of the trade. But is it The clash of foreign interest in protection from the invasion of their rights by a "monopoly. Yet any reason

because from China, which was brought about by that it seems that the harbour mas- motives of courtesy. the British China's reliance on foreign powers. Government permits the Consul and her getting support from them to "exercise such extended, juris- before and after the Paris Peace Cen- diction over the shipping of his ference and the Washington Confer. al- eros, has been swapt away, and of- country, that he should be

ficials of foreign nations in China now lowed to make a monopoly of a find themselves in a different position

which the Colony in deshng with her." up which trade from spring sends them to the wall, is hard-derives a revenue, simply for the

improve

of American ly the way to

them. beneat

ships in Many people look

the fact upon

for their exclusive advan- Sailors boarding house keepers tage. As they do upon skinned eels, The whole affair wears the and conclude that as they squee- appearance of one of Jonathan's zo Jack, 50 should they be smart tricks, and as in duty squeezed, and therefore as they bound we raise our voice against are either continually squeezing. it. Let the Consul look at his ör" being perpetually squeezed, † "exequatur”, and tell us if he they have become used to it. can, how he dares thes to Ret and it is of no consequence, In defiance of all propriety or This is very bad reasoning-R į precedent. We would advise the boarding house master writhing boarding house masters to con under a feeling of wrong. is sult the acting Attorney General much more apt to treat sailors He can petition the Colonial badly, or at all events less kind-Secretary for them at all events

dealt ly. then if he were

with and we make no doubt a stop fairly, and due protection afford- will be put to this act of Con- ed to the privileges for which sular agreesion.

ter has fallen into the Consul's views. If sailors' boarding hou- ses are a nuisance, let them be abolished but granting them licenses, and then allowing monopoly to

THE BRAIN OF THE

GORILLA

How It Compares With

·Modern Man

INTERESTING ADDRESS BY PROF.

J. L. SHELLSHEAR

The Development of Speech" was the title of a very interesting address given by Professor J. L. Shell hear of the Hongkong Uni- versity to members of the Rotary Club yesterday, at which Mr. T. B. Wilson presided.

Professor Bhellshear 'said that his address might have been more appropriately called the "Evolu- tion of Speech" but, he added, the word “Evolution” had been SO often misused that he hesitated before employing the word.

Speech, he said, was not so much language but the capacity of form- ing ideas more or less in harmony with the environments. To manufacture anything was speech, To be able to put 'together a table or a box was speech.

different

made out of so many elements, but out" of different planes. The first lot of speech was on the emotional plane and then we got higher and higher until we reached the highest form, which was known as creative cort position.

League Co-Operation

+

Refering to the question of League of Nations co-operation with China, it seems that, as things now stand, Nan- king does not take his subject serious ly, according to Mr. Sugimurs. With the temporary oclipse of Mr. T. Y. Soong, Dr. Rajahmaan, the League's representative in Chins and adviser to the Chinese Government, appears to have lost the ground on which to start his favourite political work, the re" turned diplomat said.

Continuing, Mr. Sugimura expressed his surprise that very much exaggerat ed views about the financial and pol- itical of Japan were gaining prevalance. in China. This is probably due to the traditional attitude of the Chinese people to see things in their magniffed and exaggerated forth and I took great pains to convince them of the fallacy of such view whenever I came into contact with Chinese obsessed with these mistaken impressions," Mr. Sugimurs explained.

It is a matter of gratification, how- ever, he added, that there are many Japan returned students almost every- where he visited who took the correct view of the situation in China and who were disseminating a true and ac- curate knowledge of the situation in Japan.

Japan's Polley

As regards the point of emphasis to be placed by Japan in determin- ing her policy toward China, it is very important to take into account the state of affairs in China. To judge the position of China by merely observing the situation in Shanghai or other particular centres alone would give a completely erroneous impression of the true state of affairs, Mr. Sagimüra averred.

For instance, the situation in Shanghai is quite expectional in it that, due to continued disturbances in the interior, many rich people Booked to Shanghai, thereby creat ing a state of abnormal inflation there, while, almost everywhere in the in- terior, peasants are practically on the verge of starvation.

Professor Shellshear after ex- │plaining the developments to be

As far as Japan's policy is con found in the modern skull, pro- take into consideration the compre cerned. Japan should, first of all, duced the cast of the brain of Dean Swift. He said that theensive view of the situation in Chins and deal with it consistent with the gorilla probably saw the same true state of affair in each particular things as Swift did, but it was the place.-Renpo. development of the brain in the latter that enabled aim to wider- and more fully the things he saw around him."

Importance of Sequence. Speech was the formulating of thoughts into words and the first essential" was that these words should be put in their proper re- quence. Probably in the first in- stance the word was used as an ́ expletive, afterwards it became a word meaning something, but the next stage was the important one, i the finding of words to make a j proposition.

During the War there were many remarkable cases of men who had lost the capacity of putting words together in their proper order and séquence. It was observed that these very people were un- able to put together pieces of wood so that they could form a box. The fact was they were unable to bring their ideas together, "

Professor Shellsbear explained that we did not think in words as Professor Shellshear gave an ex- we all so fondly Imagined we did. ample of what is known sa pra-- Our thoughts were more or less posticising. We could use the haphazard things, a sort of day- word "Snow, but when we said dream mixed up with stupidity that "Snow labwhite" we made a and all sorts of things, but it was proposition. We generally thought when we got down to express them

in terms of colours, straplés, Kizer, to make ourselves understood by persons, and so on Thought was our neighbours that the language, a very difficult thing to put into began to bring these thoughts to- words, but when we spoke, the geher so that we gained that words came in a sequence which power. Language therefore was a was called propositionising. The part of speech to bring us into re- question of using phrases. was not lationship with our environment.so much finding the value of the

Producing several plaster models of brains, Professor Shellshear then took the audience over the evolu- tion of speech from the earliest period and pointed out the vari- ous changes and development in each.

The Gorilla Brain

word as anding their proposition- al sequence.

Producing the arall of the Pe- ring man, he said he was of the opinion that this man had the power of speech, sined he was able to make certain implements and was able to use fire. Making a Are and making stone implementa The gorilla brain, he said, had a were examples of a creative type: certain capacity for speech. Ex-¦ of proposition? * amination of that brain showed" The speaker concluded by relat- that the gorilla could discriminate, Ing; some of the latest nnds-in Scientists knew that gurfilas had China and said that the scientific an area in the brain for the rework that, was being done in China ception of sensiblity

was second to none in the world,

In the modern man speech had At the conclusion of the address, been divided into many different the Chairman called upon. Ro- categories in the past, but most tarian Bacchi to propose a vote of. of these theories were knocked thanks to Professor Shellshear, out during the War, as the in- Mr. Bacchi in doing so said that juries, then caused gave the world as long as humanity will remain of science plenty, of information, a speaking, there was hope for a It was found that speech was not great: future.

Welcomed Back „Rotarians (Dr.) G. D. R. Black and L. C. F. Bellamy were wel- corned back to the Rotary Club on their return to the Colony from Europe.

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