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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1917.

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To-morrow's Anniversary.

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PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM: II.

OUR FOREIGN OFFICE'S FAILURES.

HOW THE PEOPLE ARE TREATED BY, THEIR SERVANTS.

[SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH ").

Inww`or reasoning propenser, änd certainly very far removed from |the_ordinary British subject in

position and rights.

Trade, Commeros, factures--what you will-con- atitate Britain. They and they alone have made the Empire. Trade did not follow the flag; the flag, in ninety. nine per cent, of onses, followed trade. Government departments have never, from the time of Oxenham, Drake, or Frobisher, made Britain; and trade had. little enough sid in the time of Elisabeth." But at least trade in those days was never looked dowa. apon, and even Royalties were not beyond giving it its das, and

The following artiole may be taken as a natural continuation of one which we publiabed on December 20, ander the same head. heck and call of the military aary of the arrival of a Captaining. It has been writtes for the Telegraph by one who is an gentleman, the constable-wbe, Scott at the North Pole.

teknowledged expert in China trade matters. The third and final article we hope to publish in about a fortnight's time. This will by the way, is responsible to his

deal with the machinery necessary for Britsin to approach the superiora for any disorder among the coolies at the stands very The Hor. Mr. P. H. Holyoak economic war with some chance of holding her owa. naturally dealt in s summary returned to the Culony to-day,

Daring the paer two years the end of the Trade Services tating their own due from iph manner with the prosecutor, when

Government has not been back- generally.

even as the Emperor William wÀY he saw him leave the stand out

Some examination of the per- | not above trade when he made his of his tarn. We don't know.

ward in affording the people an insight into what it has been good wonnel of this Department, to trip to the Southern Medita enough to consider their obliga-gether with its policy, or lack of ranean; and even as no German tione to the State; but, for a good policy, daring the last ten or American or Japanese Siste.... many decades, the Britisher fifteen years will convince any department is to-day. abroad has been wondering what but the most sceptical that what

The Foreign Secretary,

Sir

Sir Richard Dane.

Richard Dane, Chief how much experience Major Inspector of the Chinese Sals Robertson has had in the hand- Revenue Department, has arrived ling of ocolies; perhaps if he in the Colony. would put in ons. day's

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1917.

WAR LESSONS.

Self-enfio-

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A Serious Charge.

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of

of retiring, and only get the rise.

office so as to add to their " facs "

or three or four hours' police ed for to-day, has to be adjourned last afty years there has come combingout of all those gentlemen Secretary of State of any great The Fall Court, which was fix his privileges were. Within the is actually needed is a radical To blame the unfortunate Chief patrol in the neighbourhood of owing to the fact that the Paisne into being a very small awaker who consider that their office Government department is as e.g. the Victoria Theatre, he Judge, Mr. Justice Gompertz, ing to the fact that every healthy confers on them the power of unfait as to blame a subordinate might change his views as to a has suddenly become indisposed, and educated unit of a country high, middle and low justice, who service, as examination of the position such as that which arose The Coars is therefore adjourned is an asset in the productive consider that trade and every-conditions over which he rales names and addresses' with Jesterday. It is well, too, that the until Saturday morning, at ten economical life of that country; thing connected therewith-save 】 and under which he serves must communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for/DS.P. should have made it clear o'clock. Sir Havilland de Saus- but only within the last ten years in the case of semi-political loads prove. Be comes to office hedged

that this contracting with a coolie mares hea arrived from Shanghai. has any really well-defined policy and

financial agreements is about by a thoneand agreements, who holds the Government's

of State-aid and State-suppert beresth their dignity, and that laws and precedents which he did licence is a precedore which the

Lucky Money," been Forded the people, to aid criticism, either of themselves or cot make and of times does not police cannot recognise. It is, wo. At the Magistracy to day, be them in becoming efficient.coono- their Department, is trea- believe in, but must, none the less, know, a great convenience for a fore Mr. O. . Melbourne, a mic soldiers; and never Lave they son. Ia tte'r place we obey. He is not at liberty to The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will private individual to be able to Chinese was charged with expert- had the same aid and support on need tusiness men, manfacturer, choose his own staff, or even to be as follows:-Daily issue-$30 per annum. Weekly issue-arrange for a certain chair or ing air silver dolars without a the economic aide as they are now bankers and working-class people make any radical changes in the $13 per annum.

ricksha always to be at a given permit. Defendant said he was having on the military side.

who have some actual etake in existing staff who are all civil" The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscriptions place at a given time; but, if taking them to Canton as "lucky A State is judged in a com- the country, who will preserve to servants, and all of them sare for any period less than one month will be charged as for a coolies so bired are to be allowed money" for the Chinese New manity of Sister, not by what it as our foreign markets, who will of promotions and pensions if either to bang about at prohibited Year. He was told by his Wor- does in its interior economy so compel a certain knowledge and they can only mark time long spots or to rush away from the ship' that he would bare to mach as by what its policies and respect for trade from our enough, and every one of whom middle of the rank, to the detri- change them into subsidiary ooins. lack of policies are towards other consule, and who will substitute desires only to do as little 14 ment of other coolies who have

States. In our cass we are common sense for anobbishness, possible, to attract as little notice been patiently awaiting their torn,

anfortunately quite often wrong- hard work for ennui, and know- what is to become of the order. A women, aged 54, was knocked fully judged by foreigners because ledge of the workaday world for as possible, and to live is happily which the police are endeavouring down by motor car, No. 14,

as possible; for aptitude and ability oftentimes bring added to maintain among rickshamen belonging to Mr. J. Reed of the they take our State Foreign Ser-s knowledge of dead languages.

Where the. Fault Lier. and chair-bearers?

Taikoo Dock Company, yesterday

vice as being representative of the China's Milltary Advisers.

Mach has been said of the de-responsibility in their train. A in Queen's Road East, near Grea

people.

fecte in the Consular Service, bat

low of the Third Division olerke,

One of the Hongkong vernica-

ham Street, as a result of which

The British Foreign Office is most of the fault lies, not with who are not of the elect, at times lar papers informs its readers she sustained a fractured arm and

bat in the

but there are aeually on the point eta pidity existe to-day in the British con- Civil Hospital. The Police report sitation. Uncontrolled by Parl he controlling Department; and during their last year or so of

and wrong-headedness Kwing-ming have bath been

that the woman did not seem to appointed military advisere,'

contract agree it in hopeless to expect new herr the horn which was sounded, isment, free to Military advicers to whom or so what? How is it that those resad walked right in front of the mente and treaties behind the growth on the branch until the and forfeit some of their pension. sponsible for such appointments car. The driver was not to blame. country's back, to barter away the main tree has been pruned. Can anyone conceive of the head country's open markata, to make (assuming the report to be correct)

ofa great business house sooep. Hence, before any of the necess | peace, and-by its lack of judg do not see that this kind of thing weakens China in the eyes of

Two Chinese were charged ment and uncontrolled initiative ery changes on be made in the ing responsibility under such And yet practically outsiders, and contribalea towards before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at-to make war; to mess, mar Consular and Trade services of terms and with such very limited

and maddle; to edit trade the Empire, it is essential that the powers? holding her up to ridicule? Wathe Police Court this morning,!

control of these should be mored every great Department is run on to Bait its lack of with stealing from one of Messrs. reporte

from the Foreign Office and giveз

the same lines, though none There is scarcely a branch of sctivity in which the war bes not/Hou-man, it may be remembered. Butterfield and Swire's steamers policy; to dietate feudal ideas; to a modern parliamentary-com. except the Foreign Office claime had its lessons for us as a nation and as an Empire. Since those 68 appointed Tutah of Kwang early days of August, 1914, when it became clear that we could not ing after the Revolution, and two deer horne, valued at $300; and to uphold the Divine right trolled department and that the and obtains the right to carry on without parliamentary suportis. 23 pieces of wild ginseng valued theory. It is manned by gentle bonourably remain at peace with an over-ambitions nation which remained in that cffice for some-

under control. aimed at world domination, life has taken on a more grimly reali. whers about eighteen months-/at $1,000; and 31 pieces of native men of high degree, few of whom Foreign Office itself be brough|ion, eave in the matter of the In the past, benever any presentation of the yearly lio aspect for Britishera than ever before. We have come to ill, in fact, a month or so before ginseng, ralued at $100. The have any practical experience of the coonomic battle which all whole of the stolen property WAR the 1013 Revolution, when bo waA 180 things as they really are. And as veil after veil has been torn

bae come up regarding the been present daring this pro in the face, we have become conscious of our shortcomings and of wing-ming. He was origically Lower Latear Bond. One defer- fight; directed not unusually by always given the public to believe decads, know the fatos it is,

and we have had the courage and the manliness to look facts succeeded by his friend Chan consigned to the Kin Yuen Hong, ather States, other than self-con- question of publicity or control scoonnte; and anyone who ha importers and exporters, of 70, tained ones, are this day bound to Foreign Office, its Secretaries have cedare, at any time within the past in the employment of one of por our unpreparedness in a thousand and one directione.

That "Trialty." contemporaries, and, from there, dant was sent to prison for sixthose who have seldom travelled

There are many things that may foreign economics-and it aots se in Bongkong. Finally, we believe, charged.

Englishman abroad will carefully impressed upon us. But we have at any rate awakened sufficiently he had control of a vernacular Theft From Kawloon Godown, the representative of the British departmentis of such an exclusive not be written to-day, but if any to dissern the truth-and that is something. If we do not now

A coolie, who had formerly people in the courts of all the order that no ordinary civilian consider the amount that the

could understand it. In view of assimilate that truth, and act upon the lessons which it teaches paper somewhere in Kwangtung been employed by the Kowloon world!

Province. Mr. Chan's military Godown Company, was charged

the fact that war is only an out- Foreign Office costs for intellig. Whilst every other department come of the failure of diplomacy, that it returns to our country in then we may well give up hope for the future. Bat if the spirit of

ence accounts, and the smoant the British people is what we believe it to be, and what it has shown history is almost on a per, re, too before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the in the British services may be there is a growing class of people, exchsage therefor, he mast oon. itself to be in this war, then we can look ahead with feelings of high followed the journalistic profes Police Court this morning, with manned by the people, the Foreign not only in Britain but through the past the time is ripe for optimism, thankful that the occasion has been given us, before it lonj was alto a teacher in tesling salt fib, and also with Offios takes care to maintain the out the world, that is apt to believe drastic and far-reaching changes,

native school, and eventually a Was too late, to set our house in order,

being on the premises without old fendal ides, by meking a fixed that diplomacy, sa we know it major or a field marshal or In the realm of commerce, especially, has it been shown to us since war broke that it is dangerous to rest contented with our past eomething in the revolation permission. Defendant was soon and certain income necessary for today, bas outlived whatever In Chios the hand of the For achievements. We may have felt, in a general way, that cur competity army and "saw service" to break open a bale of fish and its employees; and, jadging by nsefalaces it might have at one eiga Ofice has been apparent for tors in the world's markets were gradually overhauling as. Some in the worapping at Waichow. hide some under his cost. When the experiences of this war, ime possessed, and that demo years and whilst a few very

be chased, he threw the fish away, it must

that cracies at any rate should settle of the elect (they are called of our leaders of Imperial thought and action saw the faole in all Neither, we

Defendant maintained that he was the department has signally failed their foreign policies themselves bare toeived aid and help in the holy trinity" on the Coast) their nakedness. They did not hesitate to speak their minde, to atter reasons for believing, speake any there only to find add jabe, and to prove that its blue-blooded in closed debate if necessary. warnings. Bat they were the few. The many were disposed to shut language but his own. We have

the big things in trade dealings their eyes to the uncomfortable truth, to be grits willing to let nothing to say against either did not steal to fish, Mr. R. Pack servante are one whit belter, or In any case, it should not be putting through half a dozen of things slide, with a shrug of the shoulders. To day the general gentleman from a personal point bam, of the Godown Company, exercise more ability, than other possible again for any Govern that have been done between On the ment department wrongfully Britain and Chins, everyone else mood of the people of the Empira is, happily, not what it was. And ed to advise on army matters ? was convicted on the first charge contrary, in view of the consistent to allow any nation to sit in had to conduct bir business with

of view; but are such men qualifi-Eppeared to prosecute. Defendant Government servants. for that we have to thank writers and speakers who have never

sad sentence to one month's hard mistakes made by the department and ignorance whilst Chan Kwing-ming was such a

ia Turkey during the last two soother flagged in the campaign of enlightening our business men in regard military expert at the time of the lebur and four hours" stocke.

no help and nothing but censure. steadily to the enemy's methods of organising and prosecuting enterprises recand Revolotion that, at the ap

decades, in the Balkans during undermining its position, nor Officials. If things went wrong, from the Foreign Office or Consular the whole world over. We have just been reading a few

the past five years, and, during should it be possible for any facie conoerning Germany's sohemes by which she won for herself prosch of Long Obai-kwong with

the war period, in other portions Government department to signo eingle Britisher (outside the such a prominent place in foreign market». Through the world- an army not a quarter the size of

of the globe, the common man sway Britain's or the Empire's holy three) ever had as much help wide operations of a great commercial organisation with headquar. his own, he picked up his goods

who merely pays his taxes and trading rights or powers without vices abroad as any other foreign

araid from his F.0, controlled ser tera in Berlin-the firm of Schimmelpfeng-Garman exporters were and had himself a anggled into

exercises that optimism which is the matter's having been fully national in China. Whilst the supplied with "particulars about every firm in the world." The safety by a French ganbont result was that the exporter knew to whom he might safely give while Wu Hoa-men'e military St. John Ambulance Association the birth-right of our people, in considered by the people who

justified in asking whether this constitute the greatest part of the German, Frenoh, Russians, and long credits--and we in the Far East know only too well what the lore was confined to the verbal

Departmentia really beat qualified population, and all its wealth aided and helped by their Japanese have been consistantly instructions imparted to him by long-credit system has done for German trade,

to look after, control and aid the producers.

services, the mere Britisher might Writing in the New Age, Mr. Houry J. Northbrook has some Gaceral Lung in 1912. Next is

trade and commerce when such

Foreign Office Logic, very pointed facts about these trade methods of our enemies. He the dishonesty of soms of her

public

The Foreign Offos cannot, of whistle for aid, and expect a cold At an examination in first aid, subjsota, sro anathems to Foreign men, China's worst says that Germans and Austrians sold goods to Serbia at nine or

h-ld reasntly, the following Office servadla, in recent

course, be expected to appreciate and chilly welcome at his Loga. yaara has twelve months' credit; and when dealing with South American firme been the theorist ;' the min

Ssiyingpan School candidates

To Control the Foreign Office ordinary logis; if it could, it tion or Conenlate if he took the the German export honesa offered at least six months' credit. Among who, like Punch's applicant for Chnu Choongeai, Chan Kin Yerkshire the nucleus of, a mòva- mistakes, it had so retire whilst theatricals or bridge partiss in- wars successful:An Kwong-lai, In 1915 there was formed in would realise that if, owing to its attention of these off their um sinur the many instances which the writer quotes to show how German

4 DORM'E post, WAL "not exporters studied their foreign markets from this point of view in the statement that s thousand German pianou went to Broxil aloas trained, but gifted." If Li Yaaning. Oban Man-ksi, Chan, Wai- ment which has for its object the others fought the matter out, order to bring to their notion the every year from about 1900 to 1914, because the seller accepted hang is going to control the dis-chong. W. W. Fox. Fang Tik-i, control of the Foreign Ofice. those others should be entitled to privileges the other fellow got

orderly elemente în his country, Hai Obang-ming, Kwan Lan-hin, This was started by several high-settle the terms and conditions and no one who has had ex- payment in instalments of a pound or so a month, while French and and to keep a bay those forest. Leang Po-wing, Li So-hing, Laly infantial manufacturers and on which the strife was to end; periance of Foreign Embassie British makers demanded oath. Mr. Northbrook attributas much of

Moon-fook, Lo Yok-kwan, Pau bankers, and whilst it does not and although the F. O and Legatione skrand "tomle Germany's anosens in this long-oradit system to the co-operation of will not be by

ors who covet his territory, it Lun-wing, Ban Wing-tong. Un aim at securing any – radios! diaws ita money from the describa sint of Britain as being. the State: Bat, if the Far East is any guide, we can quote another soldiers." Offered by Europeans

European Hok-chai, Wong Taos-pie, Wong change during the period of the trade it, alteons to despise anything but a hobbed and solls factor the satounding willingness of British banking institutions the Chin me arcy, or a part of it, Hing-tong, Wong Lai-ching war, it is bending its efforts to the writer has yet, after ten years of snobbery--although it must to give facilities so German traders for operating this favourite nonld still be made into some 13.8., was Hon. Lentarer to the those who have given up and its prosliarities," to meet the are often decent anonga, syan it. system of theirs. In this way we have been anpplying the enemy thing worthy of respect; but, alas, and Dr. G. E. Thoms, M.B., accihood everything during this employes (be he door opera

Dr. Chak Chiu-bang, M.B., secure for our people, and for experience of the Department and ocafomed that the higher with the implements with which to out the ground from under our "run" by amateurs, it is going sold as Hos. Exessicar, war, a very defalta control, in Whitehall de Permanent Upd Seet. In all these matters the war has opened our eyes for ein to be what it always has been in all the scabers of the class time to some of the Foreign Boorstary) who did not consider Home of them, sgalaw our will. It is now our daty to the future unmanow to itmilf nod to the of the Empire to learn from the facts which it has taken a world civilian population:

iency, a fatal complsuancy and a foolhardy inclination to rest on our he obtained work on a native paper months and the other was die or studied foreign necessities and that the species of logis which i

laurels have been at the root of the failings which the war has

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