RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1988 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ft84gb83q 218 Tai Sheung Lo Kwan, the notes add, is none other than Taoist Patriarch Lao Tzu. THE HONGKONG MILLING COMPANY'S FAILURE* E. W. WRIGHT The suicide of A. H. Rennie, manager of the Hongkong Milling Co., and the subsequent closing down of the big milling plant which Mr. Rennie founded, is still causing much discussion in Pacific coast milling circles. Late particulars of the tragedy and the causes which led up to it, seem to indicate quite clearly that the death of Rennie and the failure of the institution which he established have combined to postpone indefinitely the attempt to build up the milling business in China on anything more than a very moderate scale. Whether or not it is possible to manufacture flour at a profit at Hongkong, is still a matter of doubt with some Pacific coast millers. They do not regard the failure of Rennie as proof conclusive that the business cannot be conducted with a profit, for Rennie, while a remarkably good flour salesman, knew nothing about the details of manufacturing flour. His failure, however, has made Pacific coast millers sceptical about the future success of milling in China in competition with the product that is shipped across the Pacific. The rise and fall of the milling project at Hongkong is so much a part of the remarkable career of Mr. Rennie, who promoted it, that its history can best be told by relating his. A. H. Rennie was a native of Canada, where he was born in 1857. He became the confidential adviser and secretary of Hon. John Norquay, * This very interesting account is reprinted from the Northwestern Miller of 24 June, 1908, published at Minneapolis. Rennie left his name in Rennie's Mill, Junk Bay, near Kowloon. The editor is grateful to Mr. W. J. Howard, a long-time member of the Society, for contributing this item to the Journal. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2000 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/nk328168n 85 Appendix C [2] Plymouth [Efford] Cemetery, Devon Chen Chu-chieng 10216 29th June 1917 Shun Yu-tsai 25693 22nd August 1917 Sung Ching-lung 11078 7th July 1917 Wang Feng-chu 20012 29th July 1917 Wang Pu-sheng 21470 3rd July 1917 Wang Te-fu 11084 3rd July 1917 Wu Shieng-sheng 11094 28th June 1917 Yang Wu-liu 25489 3rd August 1917 Salford [Weaste] Cemetery, Lancashire Sgt PVR Bowen Lancashire Fusiliers tfd CLC 15th March 1921 Sheffield [Burngreave] Cemetery, Yorkshire 2/Lt Albert Edward Slaney General List att 31 Company CLC died of sickness St Pancras Cemetery, Middlesex Sgt WA Burr 2nd Bn Middlesex Regt 3rd October 1917 tfd 160th Company CLC 31st October 1918 Torquay Cemetery and Extension, Devon 2/Lt Albert Strachan Labour Corps att CLC 30th October 1918 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2000 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/nk328168n SINGAPORE Kranji War Cemetery 1 UNITED KINGDOM Colchester Cemetery, Essex Liverpool (Anfield) Cemetery, Lancashire [ 3 Llanberis (St Peris) Churchyard, Carnarvonshire Minster (Thanet) Cemetery, Kent Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, Devon 8 Salford (Weaste) Cemetery, Lancashire 1 Sheffield (Burngrave) Cemetery, Yorkshire 1 Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Folkestone, Kent 6 St Pancras Cemetery, Middlesex 1 91 Torquay Cemetery and Extension, Devon Total Bibliography Anonymous Cormack, G.E. 1952 : Evaluation of Chinese Labour at Tank Central Workshops: Unpublished Held at the Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset. : War Times in Russia [Unpublished] - held in the Imperial War Museum : London Chielens, P and Putkowski, J : Unquiet Graves : Francis Boutle Publishers: 2000 Directorate of Labour: Notes for Officers of Labour Companies : General Head Quarters : 2 April 1917 Doe, D.H. Drage, Charles Fawcett, B.C. : Pocket Diary [unpublished] held in the Imperial War Museum: London : Two-Gun Cohen : Jonathan Cape : 1954 : First World War Labour Corps Cemeteries in Flanders: Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: Vol. 38: 1999- Page 135 Page 136 ================================================================================