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CHINA ASSOCIATION. the Chamber of Commerce is an international body and in order to care for British Interests in particular it is essential that there is a British organization,

BOYCOTT SITUATION DISCUSSED AT YESTERDAY'S MEETING,

be taken for granted, therefore, that the Hongkong Branch will continue tb restrict itself to nat ters arising in South China ‘art,'"] in order that it may cover the ground thoroughly, will always welcome news from Canton, Fool chow, Amoy and Swatow.

The Branch Revived. The necessity for reviving the References to the boycott, andal Branch of the China Asuo-

A strong committee was recently. to the Home Government's polley station thus became imperative appointed in London" to advise in China, were made by the Hon. when the Canton trouble deve the Government on matters-pla Mr. D.G.M. Bernard and Mr, W. Lloped last year and British mòr-ting to China. The Committee: Pattenden at the annual meeting cantile interests had to keep in is under the Chairmanship of the yesterday of the Hongkong lese touch with the Association Rt. Hon. Lord Southborough, and Branch of the China Association. in London and Shanghai and put includes two representatives from The meeting was held in the forward their views and recom-the China Association. Mossta board

room of Mesars Jardine, mendations for dealing with the David Landala and G. Warren Matheson and Co., Ltd, those situation.

Swire. This Committed a very present including the Hon. Mr. At a largely attended meeting representative of British interests D.G.M. Bernard (President); the held in Messrs, Jardins, Matheson in China, and we can be auge that Hon. Mr. A. Q, Lang, the Hon. Mr and Co.'s Board Room on August, it will do everything possible to C. G. Alabaster, Mr. W. H. Bell, 25th, 1926, it was decided to re-protect and further them. Mr. Paul Lauder, Mr. F...A.vive the Branch and the following

Government Attitude. Perry, (members of the com- Committee was elected:-

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mittee), and Mr. John Fleming, Mr. D.G.M. Bernard (President), There has been a good deal of Hon. Secretary. --

th Hon, Mr. II. Holyoak (Vice-criticism of the nction of the Others present included Messrs. President), the Hon. Mr. A..O. British Government in handling W. L. Pattenden, R. E. Ost, A. G. Lang, the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabas- the anti-British movement that we Maclay, the Hon. Mr. 'H. W. Bird, ter, K. C., Mossrs. A. H. Barlow, have had to face during the last Mr. F. C. Hall and Mr. W. FG. M. Young, W. H, Bell, A. H. year. There are those who have Simmons.

Ferguson, Paul Lauder and T. G. felt that strong action should have been taken in the beginning; The meeting was rather sparse-West,

Mesars. Lowe, Bingham..and but it must be remembered that ly attended, and the President, before giving his address, com Matthews undertook the duties of the British Government was bound: Honorary Treasurers, and Mr. by the terms of the Washington mented on this fact.

not it The Hon. Mr. D.G.31. Bernard M. F. Key, Secrentry of the Hong-Treaty and whether or

kong General Chamber of Com- would have wished to take morej

alected Honorary forceful action it was not free to merce, was

do so. Secretary.

said:

Since the report was issued we have heard with deep sorrow of the deaths of our Vice-President, Mr. P. II. Holyoak, and Sir C. P. Chater..

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At that meeting it was pointed Whether. such action would! out that one of the principal func- have been effective and restored tions of the branch would be to normal relations months ago will

jecture.

Mr. Holyoak was chiefly res- keep in touch with the China always remain a matter for "on- ponsible for convening the meet-ssociation in London by means ing last year which decided to re- frequent letters." form the Hongkong Branch of this Association and was elected Vice-President. His public ser- vices to the Colony, are so well known to all of us that I need not Suffice it to refer to them now.

say that the Colony has suffered a grievous loss by his death, and it will be exceedingly difficult to find someone adequate to fake his place.

It has been difficult to deter- mine what has been at the bottom of the attitude in Canson' towards! us and where the cause is uncer tain it is hard indeed to find a remedy.

ap-

But it is becoming more parent that the people themselves have no real anti-British feeling and that it is the extreme ele ments in Canton, otherwise the "Reds" a comparatively smal body, filled with revolutionary doctrines from Moscow, who main- thin the boycott conditions by force.

It was suggested that us the Hongkong branch had been dead practically throughout the revolu- tionary movement in China, and Canton, there had never been Foochow or Amoy branch, any want of knowledge on the part of the China Association, in so far as South China questions were to the ab- oncerned, was due ence of a branch in Hongkong. "Communication With London. Sir Paul Chater was an out-

Since the revival of the Brunch, Hongkong. He had watched the communication with the China growth of the Colony from what Association, London, has been

It is to be hoped that this state must have been a small place in maintained from week to week by the early sixties into one of the forwarding newspaper reports of alfairs, which has lasted for largest ports in the world. He and letters when

the situation nearly a year, will not continue! shared, moreover, in this deve-appeared to call for special com-indefinitely and that the public lopment work and it was in higment.

opinion in Canton which is oppo. brilliant mind that many of the The London daily newspapera (Continued on Page 10.), extensive development schemes and have been kept well informed by undertakings had their "origin

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A few remarks will be appro- priate as to the extent of the work which the Hongkong branch of the China Association may be Early Association History.

expected to undertake in the fu- The formation of a local Branch ture. When the branch was first of the China Association was established, the whole of China, first mooted in June, 1893, by some and even Japan, was regarded of the London members then re-as its province, but as the years sident in Hongkong,, and at their passed it became the custom to | request" a meeting was called by confine representations by the Mr. (afterwards Sir) Tomas Branch to matters originating in. Jackson, a member of the London South China,"

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