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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1927.

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to consider the matter with a mind "FOOTBALL COUPONS. open to actual conditions and not;

governed purely by sentimentul

omotions. A hopeful issue that AN ILLEGAL COMPETITION. would ensure permanent peace can only be achieved in so far as dis-1 cussion is based on reason and due consideration of facts.

READJUSTMENT IS

The question of the legality of a CONSIDERED.

football competition published in As a beginning to the solution a paper called the Racing and .Shanghai and other Treaty ports are very much wanted by others, of the complicated question now Football Winner was raised in In dispute between the Chinese and the King's Bench Division recent- especially Shanghai. This. much wanted city wanted by the foreigners over Shanghai we sugly in an action between Turf Pub Erent and little patriots of the gest a few salient points for the lishers, Ltd., and Others v. Davies, consideration of those who are which was an appeal from a decl- country is to-day the cynosure.

Appellants were the Turf Pub- of all eyes. The National Geogra- insistent in the demand for un- sion of the Merthyr Tydfil justices. phical Society of America has been conditional surrender. This la giving it a little attention. This done on behalf of the present ten- lishers Ltd., of London, and Od- magazine calls it the Cosmopolitanants, who are assumed to be for hums Press, Ltd., of Long-nero, cibly retaining that which does not London, respectively publishora and printers of the paper, who had Hybrid of East and West.

belong to them. Those people from Amoriea or

In the first place it is necessary been convicted of an offence Europe who have been forced to

The case pre- this spot by the duties of business to say that foreigners have con- against the Ready Money Football business in all sented by the magistrates stated have determined to make their tinued to live here in the pursuit Betting Act, 1920. home in this inhospitable climate of their various as pleasant as possible, writes good faith that they had, a legal that the capy of the paper in re- "Cymro" in the Shanghai Times, tenure. A limited area was given spect of which the informations of test, and the announcement that White men's working hours might by the government for the use of were laid contained a football con- have been framed by a visionary foreigners for the purposes socialist for the year 2,000. Office commerce. In a sense, it was a £100 would be paid for the most hours are from ten to four with measure of relief to the govern- successful coupon forecasts of a two hours rest midday. When ment of China. It should be observ-number of given football matches. four strikes the harassed merchanted that before there was any war It was stated that a competitor other coun- might send in any number of cou- and the clerks hurry away to club between "China and or casino or golf and go on to be tries, trade had been carried on in pons containing forecasts.

Cunton. But because the author-. gin "the real business of life."

The Bund is always crowdedities were averse to this commerical with prosperous unhurried West. intercourse it was necessary to use erners and thronged with stylish-force in order to obtain the rights to trade à right which is univer- ly dressed men and women of lei- Bure. It may rival the Champssally regarded as legitimate. Elysee or Fifth Avenue. Of course there are coolies, too, with only loin cloths. It is, too, a favourite residence of the retired official. Means of transport are various and rivals anything the world can show. It was made a treaty port in 1812. France and America get up their own Settlements but the British Is the most cosmopolitan. Here there is plenty of local colour including the mandarin robe and the Indian's shirt. It is a model city with its street pavements, drainage and sanitation. It is one

Lord Ilewart: If one wanted to send in thirty forecasts he would have to buy thirty papers at two- pence each?

Sir Travers Humphreys (for the appellants): That is so.

The justices held that in many Taken As A Chance.

cases the paper was bought for the War was unfortunate but inevit-sake of the football coupon, and able. Tho exclusive ideas of the upon that Sir Travers Humphreys. Chinese made it necessary. To argued that the facts did not jus circumscribe the field of operations tify such a finding, for while the certain districts were accorded for weekly circulation of the paper the purpose of trade: Shanghai was from 60,000 to 80,000, only being one of the districts. about 20,000 competitors took part

in the football skill contest.

It was an inhospitable spot offer ing little promise of becoming a emporium of trade. It was spec- lation. The place was marshy and malarious. But by dint of patient effort, through the co-operation of foreign talents and Chinese help

Lord Hewart observed that each

competitor might send in severni coupons. If each person who bought the paper sent in four cou- pans,, that would account for the whole of the circulation.

of the great citics of "the world...the place was made habitable. Sir Travers Humphreys suggest-

Capital was invested, business was attracted. The mud flat became a thriving city. Shanghai has be- come one of the great commercial centres of the world. "As a self- governing Municipality it is most successful. The public utilities are well organized. Owing to its cosmopolitan character it is not easily administered.

ed that the statement made meant that 20,000 coupons were sent in.

Mr. Justice Shearman: I do not profess to know much about these things.,, What is a "nap?"

Sir Travers: I am afraid I have even less knowledge than your lordship. I will ask my junior (Mr. B. P. Morle). (Laughter.)

Lord Hewart: As I understand it. " lip is n tip that a horse may win; and a special nap goes to even greater lengths. (Laughter.)

Being Considered. This then is our city. There are a few errors in the description, But let those go. Correct and exact description is not found in much that is written about our city. The thing is we are being considered. What is to become of us is another matter. We and our fellow metics in other parts must hope for the best. Some who The police services discharge.its ought to know better say the gov-duties efficiently considering the ernments should ship as home. immense difficulties they have to

Sir Travers argued that the They are blind to the local colour cope with. All the other depart- and its importance to the world. ments are carried on with equal justices at Merthyr Tydfil had no.. For the time being we must do efficiency. For a city of its size jurisdiction to deal with the Lon- the best for ourselves.

and the complex nature of its peo-don printers for that offence, and Should the time ever come when pie and crowded population, it is that it had to be proved, to secure we could look to a central govern- a remarkably healthy city. In the conviction, that the Turf Pub- ment able to be respected, that British and other Courts justice ahers Ltd. were carrying on a would ensure law and order, and is dispensed impartially. Under the ready-money football betting busi furnish adequate protection to Mixed Court, so far as it was hu-ness, which, he contended, they Chinese and aliens alike, it is not manly possible to do. so, no abuses were not. In the course of his ob- unlikely that we would be averse were tolerated. Under the new re-servations, counsel remarked that to rest under the aegis of such a gulations, by which the Provision- there was very little of general shelter. In the meantime let us al Court was catablished it cannot public interest in many sporting put confidence in the wise men of be charged against the Settlement papers. our governments and in the mo- that it desires to harbour political derate men of China that there refugees from Chinese justice. shall be no cataclysm.

Liberty is granted to all: favour What must be done now is to to none. Law and order have pre give an answer to elamorous devailed. Everyone has been pro- mands for our absorption in the tected in his lawful avocation. confused mass of chaos that per- It has attracted business people sists in the land. The Commis- from every land and given empley sioner of the Foreign Bureau has ment to multitudes of Chinese. made a formal request for the abrogation of rights. The Street Unions and the Labour Unions are not dilatory in making similar claims. The official and the dc- magogue have this similar con- structive idea amongst much that is destructive, they want this solid and rich organization. They want

it badly.

The transportation services, the mills, and the shipping industries have given work to multitudes who would otherwise be idle.

"Lord Hewart: Why do you say "sporting?" (Laughter.).

Mr. Comyns Carr, K.C. (for the respondents) dealt with the ques- tion of the jurisdiction of the jus- tiles with regard to the summons against Odhams Press, and con- tended that the magistrates had a right to hear and determine it.

Lord Hewart, giving judgment, held on the first point that the jus- tices had acted within their juris- diction in hearing the information Moral Demands.

against the printers. On the other This then is the Shanghai that part of the appeal, he thought it clear that the demands something more than un- was abundantly conditional surrender. For it football skill contest was part of must be said that, if it had been a ready-money football betting left to purely Chinese manage- business, and that there was umple ment, it would not be the place evidence upon which the justices that it is to-day. It is question- could come to their decision." able whether there would be a Therefore, he thought the appeal Settlement at all without foreign failed and should be dismissed.

Mr. Justice Avory, agreeing, leadership, enterprise and energy.

Demand Surrender. They demand the unconditional surrender of Shanghai and other Treaty Ports. That is from their point of view. But there is our point of view too. There are two Above all it has been free from the said that because a paper contain- sides to this question as to every blighting effects of corruption in ed something more than the cou- other. In this respect, the view public life. It is the dread of in-pon that did not show that it was of the Commissioner is a little efficiency, of corruption, of niepot- not printing the coupon for a more equitable and proper chanism and other similar evils thatrendy-money football betting busi- the demagogue's. He does recog- make people reluctant to surrenderness.

nize that there are two sides. And the place to Chinese goverbment

Mr. Justice Shearman also con-

he therefore says we shall not use pure and simple. The creation of curred, and the appeal was dis- force, but make the question a sub- such a Settlement, the immense missed, with costs. jeet of negotiation. This implies interests involved, the capital in-

the title of the present occupier to vested morally demand that these

some claims. Negotiation implies

shall be adequately secured before, At present there is no govern- that the balance has to be adjust they can be delivered over.

ment. For the last 20 years the ed. This is a step in advance of The objection is often heard country has been in chaos and the unconditional surrender pro- that in this respect the Chinese anarchy. When these conditions position. It shows a sense of jus- are in a position of inferiority. have passed and the country can government with tice and that, there is to be an The principle of equality and reoffer a stable amount cf moderation exercised. ciprocity iA lacking. Foreign promise of law and order than re Unconditional surrender is a dem-communities in China should be ciprocity and exchange on equal mand of the unenlightened.

govorned by the Chinese just as terms may be discussed. The ex- Let the question be looked at Chinese communities are govern" ample of Japan' can be followed.

It ja the daty of all governments from his point of view. The pat- ed in other countries by the gov riot is obsessed with the idea that ernments concerned. Under pro- to protect their people in foreign he has been robbed of something. per conditions this should be 80. lands where the conditions of safe- He wants to get this back. It is Unfortunately the conditions arety cannot be guaranteed in those quite true that a mud flat was not proper in China. They never lands. It is the duty of the Unit- given by the proper authorities to have been. It is to be hoped they ed States, Great Britain and others to protect their people in China, the alien for purposes of trade, will be at some future time.

The Chinese in Paris are under President Coolidge has made it etc: It is true there is a little im- pertum in imperio. But it must French laws: In the Straits Set-

how doing it here in conjunction not be forgotten that within this tlements they are under British plain that this will be done. It is the Chinese Resident has absolute laws. In California they are un with Great Britain, Japan and equality before the law. There is der the laws of the United States. others. This in the correct thing:

to do. no partiality. Further he de- The governments of those coun- manda by unconditional surrender tries are able to guarantee protec- much more than was given,

Foreigners are in China by tion to allons as they do to their rights that are universally recog- Centre of Wealth.

own people. They are equal benized by all civilized counties. It The mud flat has been created fore the law. But China has is useless to charge them with im-- into magnificent centre of never been able to afford similar perialism for doing the thing wealth. But the tenant is always protection to strangers within its which they ought to do. The best. given consideration for improve gates. Therefore there can be nothing for the Chinese is to hurry ments. There would be no quid reciprocity; equal exchange is im up the work of reconstruction of pro que in unconditional aurren possible. The old officials were the country and furnish a stable and enlightened government. der. This point evidently has hampered by tradition. The gov bison overlooked. The demago-ernment was cautious and fearful Until this is done it will not be easy gues must take a little more time of consequences.

to discuss any other "mattor