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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931.

for the services of a currency expert; in short, it may be a con- fession that official *currenty

interest-apart from the problems

of increased expenditure-more or

DAY BY DAY

MANY A ONE, BY HEING, THOUGHT

leas lapsed with the despatch of BETTER THAN HE WAS, HAS BECOME the Report of the Currency Com-BETTER-Jowett. mission to England.

to

It is advertised that the Exchange Banks will be closed to the transac tion of public business on Tuesday and Wednesny. February 17 and 18 (Chinenu New Year Holidays).

How Can China Hurdle 200 Years?

MODE

tinct challenge-to-western-na-lcadorship.

education. After

the

Which brings us to the reason The Hongkong Sharebrokers' As. for the appointment of Mr. Cleggsociation will be closed on Tuesday,

Wednesday and Thursday, FebruaryODERN Chịna presents a dia- mothed of training her people for local currency, 18 and 19. advise matters. Lord Passfeld has

tions. The present situation is In the days of dynasties, China evidently take this step on his own

one of the most criticni since the developed her mandarins and initiative, and with commend

dragon throne crumbled beneath other officials through a system of the Manchu dynasty nearly two classical abile promptitude in all the circum-

Half an empira Manchus overturned this plan, the decades ago. stances. We can only conjecture]

cannot become the arena of rival country suffered from the lack of

leadership. war lords without affecting the adequate

To-day, an the main Incentive, but it is

fortunes of distant states. Com-among the younger pupils, there not unreasonable to suppose that

Shanghai muniam cannot extend its grasp is a renewed effort to develop Atatesmen through education-- it lies in the recent correspondence Hotels, Ltd., advertise that no Dinner upon the Far East and leave other

education in western political between the Hongkong Govern- Dance will be held at the Peninania nations complacent in their own science rather than psittacine re ment and the Colonial Office on day, February 20 or Friday, February by the scourge of guerrilla looting. Yet often, political half knowledge-

Hotel on Monday, February_10, Fri-Kocurity, Peaceful elties, awepetition of the Confucian elasSİCR

the rapidly increasing casts of 27. Kovernment, particularly with regard to civil servants' salaries. It would not surprise us to learn that little help was to be ohinined THE HONGKONG HOTEL from the Report of The Cur- rency Commission. Only a week ago we expressed the view that

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THURSDAY, FI, 12, 1985,

THE CURRENCY EXPERT.

The

Hongkong and

need fur more than casual вузл

pathy. Clearly, the entire prob- has been applied only to the super lem ba attained such magnitude ficlalities of governmental form. The Royal Hongkong Yneht Club that it cannot be compressed It has included little provision for in those fields which advertise that the interport between Hongkong and Shanghai will

Race within a "great wall" of arbitrary training

underlie the economic and social be sailed on Sunday, February 16. geographical boundarles.

At the outset it was apparent structure. In Buch education The firal gun will be fired at that military intervention would there is a vast opportunity in be highly, inadvisable. The entire China, an opportunity for offcial progress of western policy in the and private contribution which not For having returned from banish-Middle Kingdom has been away only will aid the Flowery Kingdom no useful development could be ex-ment before the expiry of his term of from the injection of foreign force but will build a country whose

ten years imposed in 1929, Cheung except in case of finni extremity. trade

the world will more pected from a study confined to Yuk-shing

sentenced to six Not only would intervention react rest of imprisonment hy that Report. for reasons which months'

Mr.against the political integrity of than repay intelligent assistance were given, and that the only hope Butters, at the Kowloon Magistracy China, but it would make no inst-in her present stage of develop

was that the experts examining the situation might decide to pursue

impressed by the last paragraph of the Hon. Dr. Kotowall's reserva-

this morning.

Was

which

were

..

ing contribution to the development. ment of self-reliant government.

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will tow into the Far East as fast It is to be expected that capital

relationa

with

the

What part, then, can the powera One of the major bare to ansist- The police have been handed four play in aiding China to recast the ance in China's effort to equip for their own course, This, apparent-motor-car radiator enps, one of which fragments of its old empire into her people with a new economic is the vast submarginal ly, is what has happened. It was is fitted with a calormeter,

were found discarded by the thieves in the foundations of a modern state? order

The governmental problem of agricutural area which is untouch- felt necessary to get a new angle motor car on the Peak recently, Chins, reduced to its simplested by highways or railroads. Yet

seaboard on the problem. Maybe they were Claimants should apply to Inspector form, involves the recurrent ques-the

citice, where Alexander at the Traffle Ofee.

tion of whether civil or military modernization processes already authority is to be supreme in the are under way,

form At of Middle Kingdom. intervals the nuclous of further economic to charges Pleading guilty

It is from these tions to the Report, in which he having kept a gambling house on the since the revolution of 1911, order development.

But the that the industrial and com- said that the Colony ought not to second floor of No. 30, Reclamation has been established.

progress of China rely solely upon the opinion of the Street and possession of live pospin country, in one form or another, mercial

| lottery tickets, a woman, Cheung has been controlled by, authority must grow, just na rail lines and Committee in attempting to dis-King, was ned $100 or six weeks at which gave no more than lip serhighways can be thrown from the $10 or a week respectively by Mr.vice to the Chinese tradition that commercial centres back into the pose of a problem which affects Butters, at the Kowloon Magistracy successful government must be hinterland: From the coast pro- the very life blood of the Colony's this morning.

based on moral strength rather vinces and the Yangtze Valley, the than physical force,

influence of growing industrialism Trade. The question, he added,

To end the hostilities of the can spread. should he referred for neyire to Yeung Ying and Wan Mui

present civil war is a task in One major difficulty which faces estuda best $100 for having kept the highest posable experts whose gaming house on the ground four of China's own hands, one in which China's new economie order is the The dlsinterestedness and lack of bias No. 5, Argyle Street by Mr. Butters, there is much precedent for the problem, of Communism.

This expectation of compromise. Ouce China of 1925 presented a suem- thu Kowloon Magistracy could not be questioned. This is morning. Twenty-five others were the "beginnings of peace" are ingly golden opportunity to the

an even

ven Sovieta to develop their doctrines the course we have advoented from fined $5 or one work's Imprisonment established, however, an

each for gambling. The So bail of graver problem is before her among the Sons of Han. The (the very beginning of the cur- Dirve absentees was estreated,

that achieving an economic and southern Nationalists, disappoint- The intention of the Colonial

social basis firm enough to permit ed in their efforts to obtain u. rency crisis. The prospect of its Ofier to obtain independent ex-

uninterrupted national progress. friendly hearing at any of the fufflment is, we are sure, a matter

Charged before Mr. Butters, at the For this, two foundation atones courts of the other nations, had pert opini upan Hongkong's,

for the deepest satisfaction,

The first is capital turned eagerly to Moscow, where Kowloon Magistracy this morning, are necessary currency problems, as indiented by

with having broken into No. 199, Apliv for industrial and commercial de- promises of political assistance Street, at 2.30 p.m. yesterday, and velopment. The second is modern were augmented by military advice the report of the impending des

stolen a wall clock, a quilt and six economic and technical knowledge, and sinews of war. parture from South Afriza of Mr.

The Indemnity Funds.

pieces of clothing, the property of For both. China turns westward The government which function- W. H, Clegg, is the must cheering

Wong Yuk-kang, a school boy, Chanto escape the painfully slow pro-ed in the South from 1925 to 1927 Seeing that the China Indemnity So, on pleading guilty, was sentenced cass of developing them herself. news for months. Six months

was essentially Soviet in form. Bill

to eight weeks' imprisonment by Mr. As did Japan, the mat horrow It owned no direct allegiance to Application

involves pro-Butters, at. Kowloon. hence, if the report is accurate. visions which will be of distinct

from the lessons of the younger Moscow other than that which the shrouds of mystery surround-mutual benefit

China Lo

nations can sprang from intimate diplomatic and

uations. And these ing the stabilisation issue may be† Britain alike, it is regrettable that

scarcely perform any greater so relationships. And yet the Com- Between the 20th and 30th January

in her munists frankly anticipated dissipated and we may learn there should be any further delay lat, a finger ring was found in efforts to bridge the gap between the beginnings had been sown of local cinema house and is now in the from an unbiased suuree whether in pushing the measure through hands of the Pelice. Any person who modern order and one outdated the ultimate inclusion of China.

all its stages. First. or not Hongkong may safely place rather ill-timed and misinformed apply in writing, giving full partic

we had has a rightful claim to the ring should by at least two centuries.

within the Soviet fold. Borodin was at his height early in 1927. her currency on a gold basis with-criticisms of stipulations contain-alsa a description of the ring, to the

Soviet arms and inrs of time, place and date of lons,

The military successes of the out reference to the course followed in the agreement reached be- Director

Propaganda final. of Criminal Intelligence ed by China. We have to be tween China and Britain concern Department, Police Headquarters.

as conditions justify a reasonable placed the southerners in con- expectation for its safety. This trol of Peking. And then within cautious, regarding the accuracying the supply of much-needed

applies bot

both to government fiscal a brief six-months the power of of the report in view of railway material to the former The manager of the On Fat Hing reform and individual enterprise. the Communist diplomatists col- country, and now the Universities vegetable stall of the Central Market Bat economic, technical and social turned in a sudden reversal, and

the Soviet was the communique iss4134el yek.

and Man-has reported to the police that his enlightenment constitute a prob- terday morning by the Govern- of Oxford, Cambridge

chester want the Bill held up as deliver, to different

accountant was handed $2,127.63 to lem which needs the sympathetic China began to shake off the cloak

of tho Soviet administrative, mt. There is no

they are anxious that their but after the money Canton understanding and co-operation

was received the western nations. There is no system, only to find that the weeds ascertaining exactly what it is interests shall not be, neglected. the packages were found in contain thought of handing China a "ready of Communism had not been light- intended by the phrase: "The seeing that they have already had also, it is alleged, atalen a aum of

only waste paper. The accountant made weatern technique. Ruthery own. Government has received no la-devoted attention to Chinese cul- $182.62 from the market stall before it is necessary to modernize ane of China's oldest institutions, her formation on this subject." Itture study. It will be recalled leaving for.Canton. may mean one of several. things: that under the agreement reached, a local protest, an expression of after very protracted negotiations, substantial educational grants are pique, arising from the failure of mads to the Hongkong University the Colonial Oflice to consult the and to the China Universities" Hongkong Government: an nt- Committee In London. It is pre- tempt to rextrain share OL cur- sumably in connexion with the reney speculation based upon a disposition of the latter funds that report not yet confirmed officially; the Home Universities are inter- or the casting of a genuine doubt vening, with what good cause it upon the accuracy of our Informais impossible to say at this dia- tance, We must, however, ex- tion. The final alternative seems

press astonishment that there the least likely. Circumstantially should be any reason for these everything points the other way Univeraltics to be taken by sur The appointment of an expert to prise at the Bill being pushed enquire into Chinese currency at through Parliament so, quickly, the invitation of the British It was months ago that the agree- Government, as originally segment on which the Bill is based gested, looked strange on the face cause for regret it in that the was reached, and if there 'is'any of it. The substitution of long-whole issue has not been disposed kong as Mr. Clegg'a destination, of long ere this. Indeed, the was not entirely unexpected and question ought to have been settled coupled with our correspondent's two or three years ago, and it statement that the appointment would have been had the Baldwin Government taken pains to ex- has been made at the instance of

pedite progress. The presont the Colonial Omce, appeare to Government is to be commended settle the argument at once. Poe for getting a move on, the only albly, Indeed, there is ho mystery pity being that there should be about the Government's com-any further delay, However, the munique. It may merely mean matter in held over for only a week; what it really says, that the in order that the Universities may

put forward their views. Government has no knowledge of not anticipate any radical amond- the matter, that it has been sur-ment of the main features" of the prised by the 'announcement, that Bill, but, all the same, these re- no request has recently been made fcurring delays are most irritating.

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FIRVICE RIC.

"What I really meant In last week's recipe was a pinėli of salt instead of a tablespoonful. So if any of you ladies have tried the recipe, I guess the joke's on ma

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But the failure of the Soviet form and the decline of the Boro- din influence contain a lesson which the western powers can use to advantage; The failure- was due to the inherent character- istics of Chincee social structure. The Soviet programme was based on an appeal to the proletarint, and the dependence upon class consciousness as a basis for revolt. In Chinn, however, no such class.

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conclousness existed. The agra rian population for centuries had known only the family system as an economie

ns well social basle. The Sovieta were able to take advantage of certain phases of unrest and diecontent; but when their halevon promises were un fullled, their control over the masses waned. It was the lack of a modern economic system-- tlla lack, paradoxically, of capitalistic system-which reault- ed in the Soviet defeat in China.

'Yet Communism la far from ax- punged. In the prosent d¡Meul- iles there has come increasing evi- dence of the Soviet hand in the banditry and depredations in the south, Nor is it probable that it will

be a simple

aple, matter to rid China pro- But meanwhile, as xreases toward an industrial era, the profound question before the West is whether this is to be permitted to develop along Soviet lines or along, those which the western world believes make for much greater national stability and individual well-being. Undirected growth of trailem might well develop the very elements of class dissension, the Absence of which eclipsed the cARO- ful plans of the Communist exp

China of Communism,

Continued