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TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1927.

Unlike

OBITUARY.

RT. REV. C. J. RIDGEWAY.

London, Fob. 28.

The death bus takon, place of the Rt. Rev. Charles John Ridge, way, former bishop of North China, Reuter.

Raul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1866 he was made curate of Tunbridge Wells, and two years later Vicar of North Malvern. From 1875 to 1880 he was Rector of Burckhurst Hill and from 1884 to 1905 Vienr of: Christ Church, Lancaster Gate. He was at one time Probendary of St. Paul's Cathedral' and Rural' Dean. of Paddington, Later he was appointed Surrogate Com- nissary of the Archbishop of Cape Town and later stili Bishop of North China. He was also a past Chaplain of Grand Lodges of Masens both in England and Scot- land and in 1908 to 1919 Bishop of Chichester. He retired 1919. He was the author of adveral religious works.

eyes The hand of the Customs, formerly Sir Robert Hart, now S Franels Aglen, fs but an adminis- trative head, He works under the Maritime Customs Board, or Shui-wu-pu, a branch of the Chinese Government, a board of Chinese officials of high standing. All orders are issued in the In the present phase of misnames, and on their responsibility understanding that has arisen except the purely administrative, between the newly-arrived Chinese Every foreign commissioner in a

The deceased prelate was born in Powers that be and the strangers treaty port has a Chinese colleag July 1841 and was educated at St. within their gates, and with their with whom he keeps in touch. demand for the revision of their The money collected passes, it is Customs administration, it may be true, through foreign banks. f of use to recall how and why that the reason that, till recent years, service was founded. What have big banking was undeveloped in we, as a nation, to do with the China, and of late Chinese ban! matter?

outside the Concessions have In 1853 the Chinese city of suffered intolerable dencedations. Shanghai was captured by the Taip Yu-hsiang's troops 1 ping rebels. From the outlying year in Poking behaved adiniek area of the foreign settlements, towards the populace. however, then a half-reclaimed other troops, they paid their debt

But how did they swamp, they were repulsed by honourably. foreign naval forces; and into thl find funds? An officer, would haven of refuge fled all the to a Chinese bank, emile, and way. Chinese officials of the city proper

"To-morrow morning this bank There was nobody left to collect will pay ten thousand dollars

trade taxes. The foreign

We have n of our war chest." Shanghai was already of considerent it." walls the banker. "I shal able value. "The merchants, then call for it at ten." states the

And in the morning chiefly English and American."oficer. writes H. R. Morac, the distin receives it, or near that sum. guished American historian of The foreign members of the China's trade relationships, and Customs service do not servo

They formerly Statistical Secretary to own countries, but China. the Customs, "inherited the are Chinese Civil Servants, and honourable traditions of the ofthey serve with a loyalty that factory days of Canton, and had becomes an obsession. even an

Bourdity. no desire to evade the payment of

The fieringt Chinese acknowledges this their does, which had been plaer apon a just and moderate basis and finds it a little bewildering, every barrier to every petty the treaties of 1842 and later The last person on whom a Bri

oficial.

the I, with

new Cantonese years; and the Consuls, newly minissioner in the armed with extra-territorial juris-Customs has mercy is a fellow regime, come stability and good dietion, conceived it to be as much comtriat, British Conanls havsgovernment for China, there could their duty to control as to protect often to sit in judgment between be no reason why the Customs "their nationals,"

were

"Squeezing."

Nationalist

Th

in

Mr. Arthur McCamus. The death is reported of Mr. Arthur McCamus, the Communist

who received the famous Zinovie letter--Reuter.

proud of sharing. But it woul be to put the cart before the hor to retire he ere internal reace i achieved and a modicum of equity! and clon-handedness attained The good work of many year does not deserve to be light

Năm vend and a British arrchant · and Pests should not be gradually and the British Consular service given into Chinese hands--a giri is equally noted for its blagof-service in which, we may be At that time only three nations towards the Chinese rather

involved-ihe' Engl the British side of these dispute Americans and French. The volume of British trade, being the largest of the three, a British sub jeet, Captain Wade-later Sir T Wade, our Minister in Peking- was appointed to take control of

other the position,

national assisting him. Their orguniantion proved so successful that when te, Rebellion was suppressed the the Imperial Government desired

that the system should be promul gated through all the Treaty ports and central body formed in Feng. Thus the Chinese Mari- time Customs came into being.

In the meantime, we may th this comfort in our heart that midst all the bitterness there i

more

ייד Th

"Aberdeen versus Belfast." When my husband went to open a Consulate General up the Yang tzse, at one river port there awaited rim a cumbersome pack-riven up to noggible destruction. inr-case from the Foreira Offien It contained, they said, the gilded erat of arms, the Hon and unicoru. which he would have to instal over mounted number of the

deeper-thinking. perhaps the Consulate gate. Being truly patriotig, Chinese, who do ally over-hardened with Con on the Customs with unstinted sular goods, he sighed, but pre: friendship and admiration.

Not! pared to take it. on and slr:

the least amongst them are some, carriage, Hpre however, the

of its own. Chinese, servants, col-] Commissioner of Customs, aleagues of the foreiner, In fairness to the old officials. Ulsterman, intervened with 14 re in profound disagreement with

My their it must be said that their salaries demand for Customs dues.

more opportunist fellow- were so totally inadequate that it husband, a Scot, demurred, point-countryman, and on ocasion they was impossible for them to liveing out the official nature of the have to endure much "abuse without accepting bribes. What object in question. The Ulster- for their convictions-Daily the scale of "squeezing" can be man insisted that all gold or gilt in Chinu is instanced by a story was dutiable, and openly gloated of what happened this very year that there was a great deal of rilt in British firm. They had de about this cont of arms. It was cided to try the experiment of Aberdeen vermus Belfast, in, the paying a foreign scale of salary heart of China, and a Belfast stub- young, modern-trained born in the interests of China. Chinese assistant, instead of leaving him to make up his pay by squeeze." One of his first duties was to collect certain ground Funts from some workmen's houses. He duly sent in the $1,000 Mexican-ie, roughly £100) --which he had received. Now, the directors had never, from any of his predecessors, received more than $100. That is, out of every 100 they had been muleted no less than 90!

to

The Chinese Maritime Customs have carried out an unusually delicate task. A British subject stands at the head, appointed by the Chinese Government, but only as long as British trade pre dominates. If it were not for British India and the huge trans- shipment in Hongkong, Japan would have the right to demand that a Japanese be at the helm, for her trade has long been one of the greatest factors in China's economic development.

The Scot refused to pay, the Ulsterman to give up his prey. The matter was referred ti Peking, and after weeks the ulti- matun came freeing, of course, the coat of arms of a friendly Power's Consulate. But it was Pyrrhic victory, for the British Government had to pay almost as much in special transport as the tax demanded, to the pleasure of

the Ulsterman.

foreign The Customs under guidance has done great things for China. They alone have been the branch of the Chinese Government which has cared to tabulate statistics of her trade. Every Chinese official of worth, every foreign commercial altache, works by means of their annual reports yellow tomes, in Chinese and English. the fruit of years of

research, patient, élaborate

the only object of which is the, in-. crease of China's resources and economic capacity. To the Cestoms China owes the charting of her seas, her lighthouses, the buoying of her harbours, the har Alongside the British work

nessing of her unwieldy rivers. French, Italian, American, Ja- and credit for her Reconstruction and other com- Lcans. The Chinese Post Offige. missioners, -in.. mutual for also under foreign guiding, the bearance and amity; and, of story of which is another romance, course, many Chinese work with began as a side-shoot of the America has lately made Cestoma. The child has outgrown the pronouncement that she will the parent, for its ramifications not interfere in the Chinese Mari-reach from Turkestan to Tonquin. time Customs, seeing that, they The Maritime Customs only con are a Chinese Government servies, trols the greater ports; it exercises For seventy years this has been no jurisdiction over all the vast their sole raison d'etre in British internal trade, which pays likin n

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