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EUGENE CHEN'S VIEW

IS BITTER

A Reply to Wang Ching Wei's Criticism

"GRAND SALON STYLE OF

'LOUIS XIII"

Foochow, January 5. Mr. Eugene Chen, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has authorised the publication of the following reply to Mr. Wang Ching Wei's criticism of Mr. Chen and other leaders of the Government here:

In a Chinese, gown of blue silk, Mr. Wang Ching Wei recently granted an interview to the editor of the Journal de Shanghai in a "grand salon" style Louis XIII." · This " hizarre and incongruous ensemble is not accidental-it is a symbolic expression of the confused mind of the ruling class to which Mr. Wang Ching Wei belongs. Unerring or nearly so in dealing with things purely Chinese, people like him become uncertain, confused in intellectual com merce with the foreigner or in confrontation with the ideas and the facts and processes of life in the West. In a deep sense, you have here the problem of China.

THE GRAVE- DIGGER IN CHINA

funda-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,

JANUARY 11, 1934.

LATE MR. HO SHORT HISTORY OF ONE

TIME LEADER

LEUNG Memorial Service Held Yesterday

COMPRADORES AND MERCHANTS ATTEND

First President of the Chinese Reform Party

FRIENDS PAY TRIBUTE TO

YEUNG KU WAN

Ati the Compradore's Associa- tion yesterday a memorial service for the late Mr. Ho Leung was held and a large gathering of

Relatives and friends of Yeung aksination of Yeung Ku Wan, in Chinese merchants and compra Ku Wan, one of the leaders of Hong Kong, it is high time that this noble patriol dores attended to pay their res- the Chinese Revolution, who was the name of

should be rescued assassinated in Hong Kong in 1901, and reformer pects.

The walls of the Association gathered at his graveside yester- from oblivion to adorn its proper "were adorned with a large num-day in loyal memory of his work page in the history of the Great ber of white scrolls sent by varl- towards the cause of the Revolu- Chinese Revolution, culminating ous arms and associations with tion.

which Mr. Ho Leung had come The commemoration was of a in contact during his lielime simple nature, those attending White chrysanthemums were prolaying wreaths and dowers upon fusely used in the room and at

the grave. one end, a temporary alter was erected, on which stood two long candles and behind them a large portrait of Mr. Ho Leung.

1.

The relatives of the deceased Mr. Ho Kem Tong, CA.E., Mr. Ho Wing, Mr. Ho Kwong, Dr. S.C. Ho and Mr. Ho Ki, together with of their the younger members families stood at one side of the alter while the service which was in Mandarin was read by Mr. T.C. Roger Woo (the represents tive of. Messrs. Huhlley and Pal- mers) after which the gathering bowed three times to the alter and dispersed.

It is understood that the re mains of Yeung Ku Wan will shortly be re-interred in China when the present political turmoil

subsides.

in the establishment of the Re- public of China,

Dr. Sun..

As men are growing old and times are changing rapidly, it would be a great" and, unpardon- able injustice to the dead to delay the publication of their deeds any longer. and this is the writer's reason for making reference to The following is a brief sum these deeds to-day: Moreover, Dr. maary of Yeung Ku Wan's career Sun Yat Sen, Kang Yu Wei, and as it appeared in the Daily Press the writer are the only three men on January 10, 1917. The contri- alive to-day who know the truth button is by Mr. Tse Tsan Tal:- about the early history of the Re

To-day, the 10th January, being form movement in China, and, the 16th anniversary of the ass-in the interests of historical ac-

curacy. It is the writer's duty to disclose the following facts.

It was in 1890 that Yeung Eu

INTERNATIONAL Wan and the writer met together

SCHOOL

in Hong Kong, and as suggested by the writer, established the "Foo Yan Man Sher Kwong Fook: Whul"-the Chinese Patriotic Re-

the form Association-for

Re- formation of China, with Head-

Hong Kong, and, being the senior of the sixteen members. Yeung Ku Wan was elected President of this Association."

Livingstone & Co.), Mr. Fung Pak Lecture By Mr, Man-quarters at No. Pak Ize Lane.

The agrarian question is not, I If the task before us were the:

Among those present were the Hon. Mr. RH. Hotewall, Mr. Kwok re-creation of a Chinese state of have to insist, one of large or

18 historical type, then Chinese small landowners. It is

M.K. La. Mr. M.W. Lo, Mr. Mak like Mr. Wang Ching-wel and other mentally a question of the econo-Siu Lan, Mr. Tang Shiu Kin, Mr.

Sincere's... (Messrs. Kon Sang Kuomintang "veterans" would be mic exploitation of the peasants. the fittest architects for the con- So far as the peasants are con-

is no difference in Mr. Leung Fat In (Messrs. Gibb struction of such a structure of cerned, there rule. Since the task is the crea- principle, between a large tion of a modern state in China, owner who exploits the labour of a another type of builders is neces-hundred or a thousand miserable middle or small sary; and until this truth is grasp- peasants and a ed in the serise of resolute action, landowner who exploits twenty- the present disordered condition Ave or, five luckless peasants. The of the Nation must persist; and vital point is whether exploitation exists. If there is exploitation. the to-morrow will be worse than to-

solution is in principle the same day.

in the case of the small landowner as in that of the large landowner.

Under Nanking leadership, China that 15 is like some organisma unable to readjust its life to a pro- foundly altered or changed en- vironment. And

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and Mr niche Last Evening

Lok (Messrs. Reiss Massey & Co.), Mr. Yung Koon Chan Yue (Messrs. John D. Hut- chison's!, Mr Kwok Chan (Ban- que de l'Indo Chine) Mr. U Sze Wing (Messrs. Dodwell's), Mr. Lo Yuk Tong (Messrs. Bailly's), Mr. H. Hong Sling (Chinese Američan Shipping Co.), Mr. Wong Kwong Tin (Chinese Chamber of Com- merce), Mr. Li Yau Tsun. Lo Yam Shan (Chinese Chamber of Com- merce), Mr. D. Bush,

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A very interesting lecture was delivered yesterday at the Helena

In the spring of 1895, Yeung Ku May Institute by Mr. Peter Man-Wan and the writer conferred to- niche, Principal of the Folks' High gether and joined hands with Dr. School of Denmark, who spoke of Sun Yat Sen. Wong Wing Seong. the work done by his school and and others. They established "the by the International People's "Hing Chung Why!"the Chin- Association at No. ese Reform College. He also give his audience a detailed account of the life of

13. Staunton Street, where all sab- sequent meetings were held.

Grundtvig, who was the founder of the Folk High Schools.

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man of unusually great stature and good physique hind

The Peasant and Food. But why is it necessary to bring the history of about agrarian changes in China

Others present were as follows: dead nations is very clear as to and "interfere with the property

Messrs. Li Chor Sum. Fung Ki

Sir William Hornell presided over the fate of a people in such a of the "gentry whether they be ex-large or middle or small landlords?

Cheuk, L1,Tse Kin, Mok Tat Buen;"

the meeting, and among those national plight. Death,

do as the Kuomintang Andrew Zimmern, William Zim- tinction, awaits it; and the grave- Why not

pre- and talk about land redistribution

mern,

Yung Chi Ming, Ng Wal present were Rev. Fr. G. T. Byrne. digger in China is already

St. Chan Ngar. Tong, Chan Fing Rev. E. L Allen, Rev. Frank Short, Rev. H. R. Wells, Mr. W. L. Handy- paring for his work in the figure but leave the status quo sacred and

Inviolate?

Âu, Chan Ping Wuru Au Chỉ of Japan.

The Social Revolution: New Chinese Leadership.

Mr. Wang Ching-wel ended his Shiu, Chung Wal Cam, Chut Tsanside, Professor R. Forster, Mr.

Yu, Fung Keng U. Hon Fan Lai, C. Felshaw and Mr. S. V boxer What, then must be done?

Lau Sing Sam, Lo Shun Wing, After comparing the founder of This: the conquest of political interview in the Journal de Shang- hal by saying that the existing

Lo Kum Sau. Wong Sik Ki, Chau the Folk High School. Grundtvig power on a federal basis by a new

Man Yee, Yung Tse Ming. Li Pok with Rosseau, Ruskin and Luther, Chinese leadership which, reject-political system la China was not being only one party and that, when one dis- Cho, Yeung Tu Chung, Wong Yuk Mr. Manniche said that Grundtvig ing the present Asiatic conception parliamentary, there and practice of the state, ceives of China and governs it as agrees with the Government, it is Sang. Wong Ngau Chau, Leung was

was a strong man up to the last. a national possession of the Chin- necessary to go before the Central Sau San, Kwok For Hin, Wong Executive Committee of the Kuo- Chung Yau. Lau Ching" Chuan, esc People,

mintang. As this Committee Is Li Shu Tin. Fung Kwai Nga. He wrote his last poem the day Chow Kwok Tong, Mok Lin, Ngim before he died and he preached notoriously domlasted by a deci- sive majority made up of the ya- Fak Kal, Yau Tsun Wan, Taut in the Church the Sunday before. One reason why he was such a men-runners of Chiang Kai-shek Po, Tsul Chan Chu Chul Fan, He, was married three times.

socalled Chow. Lim Tong. Wong Chak who, in reality, is the the

Wong Po success was that he was able to Lo Yam, Tang He Kam.. unite " contrasta." He was born Government at Nanking, I sag- Ming, Cheng Tak Po, gest that Mr. Wang Ching-wel is Sam.. totally lacking in seriousness when Leung Cheuk Pan, Chan Po Yuen, in 1873 and his childhood was not he represents the Kuomintang Cheung Bui Ling. Tang Man Wa, spent by cramming at school. He C.E.C; as a resolver of political Fung Tat Chuen, Li Ping Fan, was allowed by his mother to roam doubts. But even if it were true Tang Shin In, Pu In, Chan Wing. about the garden and the woods Chan Kam Fo, Shum Pak Ming, so that when he grew up he re- that Committee could settle ques- tions at issue between the Clov-Cheng Po Wong, Ho Hok Chau, called his childhood and the pos- non-Kuomintang Chan Chuk Wing. Ma Chi Ling. sibilities of a life th unison with and citizens of the Chinese Republic ChanHo Po. In Fay Shu, Mak nature and with our fellow men.

Chan Kwan Ngar. Grundtvig went to a gramm (Which means the entire popula Hin Sang.

The Foreign „Way. I stress the need of right under- standing of the things and ideas of Western culture. Unless there is this right understanding, foreign way does not lead to eff clency and safety but to confusion and disaster. And here' we have a concise explanation of the present state of China. The Wangs and the Chiangs have tried to use the ideas and the tools of the culture of the West without the knowledge and the intellectual and moral background which alone can en- able them to master instead of

lization.

ernment

of office-holders and "expectant" office holders) to be settled?

Election in 1893.

Yeung Ku Wan was elected on the 11th October. President 1895; and after the failure of the attempt to capture Canton and es- tablish a Provisional Government on the 28th October 1895, he es- caned and proceeded to the Stra- its Settlements India, and South Africa, where he established Jun- tas of the Eing Chung Whut" -China Reform Association.

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Dr. Sun Yat Sen escaped to Macao, whence he proceeded to Honolulu, via Japan, and, in Oc- taber, 1898, he was kidnapped in London.

The election of Yeung Ku Wan cause of as President was the considerable fricion between him

and Dr. Sun Yat Sen in after years.

In October, 1897, Yeung Ku Wan was advised by the writer, who had previously met and conferred with Kang Yu Wel and his late brother: Kang Kwong Yin, in Hong Kong, in February and October. 1896, to join hands with Kang Yu being mastered by Western civi. tion of China less a few thousand ↑ Chán Shek. Kun, Yeung Shing school and later entered a univer Wel and his brother and Liang Woo, Hu Wa Sau, LA Ngat Chonggity, cold and dull In 1805 he Chi Chao in the great work of re 14 Chuen Fong, and Dr. 8. F. L. had graduated and became a form; and, on his return from family tutor. He had the mistor South Africa and the Straits Bet- tune to fall in love with a lady. tlements, he was met by the wri above his station, who was marter on board the 8.5 Wakasa Maru ried and in order to quell that in Hong Kong Harbour on the 11th love, be buried himself m the March, 1898. Yeung Ku wan did literature, and classles

not land, and, after conferring writers.

with the writer, proceeded direct. Later in his life he became a to Japan, to confer with Dr. Sun Bible Christian denouncing the Yat Sen. men of his age but there came a time when he asked himself: "Are you yourself a Christian.”*

To emphasize this view, I point to Hongkong and Shanghai as a proof and demonstration of what can be achieved in China under anything like modern leadership. These two are, of course, not cities of perfection; and

of Far Asia. "National

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IF GOSSIP WE MUST

(Continued from Pape 1) tents were used for supper and bridge, and were tastefully de- corated with gold stars and cres- 'cent moons which looked well against the dark blue back- ground.

At present the Government deels with doubting Thomases and poli- ical protestants by shooting them as Communists; and if a doubting Thomas is not of the type that can Ignobly keep slient and watch Shanghai China being speed to demnation. particular is neither a thing of he actually does become a Com- beauty nor, as an engine of economunist and joins the swelling mic exploitation, an object for ranks of the Social Revolution alavish imitation by any society which is destined, unless a solu- which cares for the welfare of the tion is otherwise found, to bring producing and working masses of about à profound convulsion in the China But there 18 modern ves and affairs of men in this stability in those cities and work region goes on under the rule of law-In-Press.' stead of the rule of the political jungle as expressed in the caprice of a Chinese militarist or the mood of a Chinese politician.' And they are great centres of Chinese population, built by Chinese labor and, largely, with Chinese capital and life is sustained there mostly by. Chinese. But the leadership is modern, and this is the point. I is true that this leadership is for- eign, and China can never be governed by foreigners. But is it not possible to constitute a new Chinese leadership with the know- ledge and the capacity to rule even as the foreigner does in Hongkong and in Shanghal? I airm the possibilty of such a leadership.

The Land Question. Mr. Wang Ching-wel's views on the agrarian problem reveal a mind that is inadequately equip ped to discuss such a question in a modern sense, To justify the fallute of the Kuomintang to carry out Dr. Sun's agrarian polley and to implement promises made in order to secure the co-operation of the peasants at the time of the Northern Expedition, Mr. Wang Ching-wel repeats the stale cliche that conditions in China differ from those in Russia in that there are no large landowners in China as there were in Russia but only middle and small landowners,

There was an excellent band and there must have been at least ninety couples on the dance floor

Mrs. Cock looked most dis Linguished "in white. Mrs. Thom. wore flowered georgette with a" coatee of flame coloured velours. She and Colonel Thom will be much missed when they say good- "bye to the Colony next month..

Beautiful Miss Sheila Hooper was marvellous in black velvet emphasised her blonde beauty. Mrs. Harry wore a very modern gown of pure white with long fluted frills of pace-colour. Mrs. WAS in shimmering Franklin Ume-green satin and Mrs. Shil lington looked lovely in a deeper shade of green crepe, with velvet shoulder-knots. "She and Major hitington came with a large, party which included Captain

and Mrs. Joce, Captain and Mrs. Anderson, Major and Mrs. Grel- Her, Mr. and Mrs. Walsh,. Mr. and Mrs. Womack, Captain Pennack, and Colonel and Mrs. Thom. Most people arrived in parties but "an early Paul Jones" helped to make them intermingle.

Mrs. Lewis Bryan had a gown of black and silver. Mrs. Webb chose black satin with a little coates of velvet to match. Mrs. Chen Evens was in shell-pink. Mrs. van Wyllck locked most etherial in sea-green and lace, and Madame de Precourt was quite adorable in tourquise-blue.

of old

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Resignation.

- On the 24th January, 1900, Yeung Ku Wan arrived in Hong Kong from Japan by the as Ka-

It was in 1825 that the great idea of human fellowship dawned on him. He realised that to under- makura Maru to confer with the stand the people of Denmark, he writer, and he informed the wil- should go among them and live ter that he had decided to resign with them. About this time he the Presidency of the Reform

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Supper was served at midnight and during the evening we were electrified to observe Mr. George Robey (or at any rate a very good substitute in the person of "One Trishman by hame Mullany") who entertained everyone by some smusing and not too naughty songs and stoties!

as he was in the wilderness. He went to England to translate the On the 5th October, 1900, the Norse works and it was his visit to flag of revolt against Manchu do- England that gave him the initia mination and misrule was raised tive to awaken the Danish people in the Wei Chow district of in their political and social atti- Kwanglong Province, but the re- bellion collapsed owing to a short- tudes.

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To do that he realised it was necessary to establish schools

After the fallure of the. Wel

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and where men of different sta opened an English School at No. tions would meet. Thus came the 52, Gage Street, for the support of When beginning of Folk's High School, his wife and children. These schools did not cater for warned by the writer and his children but for men between the friends he replied: ages of 18 and 25. The object was not to get the pupils to an awer questions, but to answer the questions of the puplis

or do not fear death. Rather than spend a single cent of the Re- form Party's funds, I have decid- ed to support my wife and children Mr-Manniche spoke, of the In- by teaching. It is my duty to ternational Schools now establish-set a good example: It was this ed in Denmark and of how the utter disregard of death, and the pupils from various countries came high-souled principles of the man gan to leam and appreciate each nassiris of the Manchu ""Ching” contact with each other and be which opened the way to the da- other's viewpoint.vý

Government, who succeeded in se complishing their foul work by shooting him in his class-room on the 10th Januáry, 1901.

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