1937-12-15 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1937.

A Hongkong Governor Who RADIO

Spoke 20 Languages

BUT HE WAS NOT POPULAR AND PERSONALITIES

LEFT THE COLONY

WITH SCARCELY A HANDSHAKE

Sir John Bowring,

TONGKONG

Ho

Kt., LL.D., F. R. S.

coln

of the

nd-

since its cession to schemes. The convenience the British Crown in 1841 has new

WOS reluctantly been blessed with

a succession of mitted, by

his

who opponents colonut administrators of more than represented the bulk of the entry. average nbility. Few, however, und.. the ultra-conservative have been more truly versatile in geolsie, but Bowring secured thereby their attainments than that of the new laurels to augment his already Colony's fifth Governor-Sir John glamorous reputation.

It followed Bowring. He has been described as that upon its seeking to enter the a singular phenomenon of multifari- diplomatle service in 1840 he was ous accomplishments; for in addition awarded the past of H. M. Consul at to being a far-sighted offciol of Iler Canton and Superintendent of Trade Majesty, he was also an advancedat that

four liberal,

four years at by Occasional

nn ecunomist of repuintion, Canton Port d

One

a puet of merit, a profound scholar periods of sojourn in the Colony and a literary genlus, and a linguist of at Macao, were characterised by remarkable talent. Indeed. If was much literary activity,, and we have ginning. in the futter Beld that he showed from his prolife pen a number of of the keenest aptitude, and like litse

poems of his usual excellence. compra de nurse M But of these is the famous hymn "In the the

Cardinal, and Elihu Bus Cross of Christ i Glory" inspired by ritt, the Yankee blacksmith, was the ruined facade of the Church of credited with possessing a

Sao Paulo in our neighbouring Por

Colony. Another

-

his

Sir John Bowring.

"light"

OF OLD HONGKONG

that was urgently required; for al thlo time, the Tal-p'ing_rebellion was sweeping throughout the Middle Kingdom, and the Manchu govern- ment, in order to reassert its authority, was arresting Chinese right and left without

stopping to enquire whether they were domiclied in Hongkong or not. As a con- sequence of the revolutionary move- ment, the Colony was thronged with both revolutionaries and supporters of the Manchu regime. Normal trade with the provincial capital was impossible owing to the fact that Chinese Junks were liable to seizure. by the Chinese Imperial Government under the excuse that either the vessels themselves were rebel owned or else that the crew were nakes treasonable acts; consequently, merce was paralysed, and Sir John In order to restore confidence to the Chinese community, authorised the passage of the legislation designed

to me the situation.

•

the purpose of promoting cavaller, Luis de Camoens. The part of the citizens of our

"Gem

of the urient earth

open sca

Maeno, that in thy lap and

thy breast

Hast gathered beauties

loveliest

on

alt the

cach

the urcen

the

Com-

BROADCAST

The Waikiki Trio From The Studio

LONDON RELAYS

Radio Programme. Broadcast by Z.D.W. on wavelengths of 355 metres (845 k.c's.) 31.40 metres (9.52 m.c'n.).

H.K.T

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 Songs, by Webster Booth (Tenor).

Pale Moon (Legan); The World Ia Mine To-night, (Postord); 'Land Without Music-Medley (O. Straus).

12.10 Waltzes,

The Broken String; The Swallow Waltz... Russian Novelty Orchestra' Cocur Ardent; Souvenir Fleuri (Composer Unknown) ......Nullo Romani and His Orchestra; Donau- wellen, Waltz (Ivanovicl); The Last Waltz (O, Strauss)....Edith Lorand Orchestra,

1.00 Time and Weather. 1.03 Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro

Desconfiale Tango (Canaro-

(Rotrano- Peloy); Novia-Tango Gorrindo); El Que A Hierro Mata- Tango (Canaro Pelay).

1.13 Jack Hylton and His Orches-

Fox-Trots My First Thrill; May All Your Troubles Be Little Ones (lm 'She shall have anusic'); The Fleet's in Port Again; Free (Alm *O-Kay for Sound'); At The Bala- Inika (from 'Balalaika');

Waliz Delyse.

1.30 Reuter and

Weather and Announcements.

Rugby Press; 1.40 Variety.

Orchestra Talking Film Memories ....Salon Orchestra cond. by Fred Hartley; Vocal-Flower Song: Rain- bow On The River (from the Alim).. Bobby Breen; Vocal and Vulin with Plano-An Old Violin (Taylor and Fisher), Looking For You (Taylor. and

Groves Sanderson)....Olive (Soprano); Albert Sundler; (Violin) and Jean Melville at the Piano; Vocat Glamorous Night; When The Gipsy played (from "Glamorous Night Novello and Hassail)....Mary Ellio (Soprano); Orchestra-Gipsy Drink- ing Song, Gipsy Fantasy (Charpen- tier and Rode)....Rode and Tziganes.

2.15 Close Down, 4.00-7.00 Chinese Programme. 7.00. Brahms-Double

In A Minor, Op. 102.

His

Concerto

Thibaud (Violin) and Cusals ('Cello) and The Pablo Casals Or- chestra, Barcelona; conducted by Alred Cortat.

2.

7.35 Closing lount Stock Quota- tions and Hongkong Exchange Mar- ket Report,

7.40 Studio-The Walkiki Trio (The Ho Brothers).

1. Dancing under the stars; Minchaba; 4. Hapa Hoole Hula Girl; 3. Wal O Beneath n Banyan Tree; 5. Hano-liano Hawaii.

8.00 Time, Weather and Announce- ments,

8.03 Alexander Kipnis (Bass) and Ewald Bohmer (Baritone).

With the merchant portion the Colony, especially, he was

THE incident which caused the taps, as some have hinted, on new of the now falls signed never a persona grata, largely per-flare up of hostilities was that In Oc- count of the fact that his scholarship tober 1855, a well-designed ship of had made him more cosmopolitan | foreign lines, but rigged like the knowledge of over twers stuguese

than British. His fondness, too, for typical junk of the China coast und fund of erudition which he praiseworthy "Sonnet to Macno de-society was nt that

American, German and Continental of a type then known in the Colony utilised for the publlention of

day regarded as a torcha, was registered by its series of works on Continental ilter-dicated to Portugal's famed poet and with more or less suspicion on the Chinese owners under the name Ar- ature which won him much acclain verses are so highly regarded that little island; yet needless to say re-

row. This vessel was intended for In his day.

the they and a place in most poetical gardless of what were the opinions ing trade between here and Canton Sir John Bowring was bors at anthologies:

of his contemporaries his tenure of and actually made a number of trips, Exeter, October 17, 1702, and diel)

office saw the doubling of the in the course of one of which she near his native place on November

and Colony's revenue-largely due to his was rald

ralded by

the Canton authorl- 23, 1880. During his long life time,.

economical administration and the

ties, And સ number he was esteemed as a savant of fuel

mber of her crew was colonial treasury showed gales of Crown lands so that the arrested under the pretext that they Arst rank, and early distingulsocd.

un Increase were rebels against the himself by his literary attainments.

imperial £37,776. Moreover, amongst the authority. In this high-handed affair Indeed, by the time he was thirty-

cgislation that he considered judicl-the British flag was insulted, whether .Ave his belletristic reputation was

ous was a recommendation for the intentionally or not it is difficult to firmly established, and his published

provision of facilities for student In-say, but the incident was sufficient works had already received the When the sun smiles in his terpreters in the diplomatic service to fan into flame the long existing praise of monarchả. The Czar of

- far-seeing arrangement which is

tension between the Manchu Russia, Alexander I, was so much

majesty

now universally adopted; for as Sir oligarchy and the truculent "bar- impressed by his translations ofi

John reailsed, in order to have a barians" from the West. Indeed, the Russian

The very clonds that top poems that he bestowed

truly efficient foreign office, It must existence of "barbarian" colony so mountain crest upon him a handsome diamond ring.

be staffed with men who are near to their provincial city had Likewise, the King of the Nether

Seem to repose there, lingering

thoroughly acquainted with lands, Frederick Willian I, himself

long rankled in the minds of the language and customs of the people mandarias of that epoch-more so. a dilettante in the arts of no mean

lovingly;

to whom they are accredited.

since the Colony, as they described ability, presented the young English-

How full of graca

it, was allled with rebels and the man with a gold medal in tokën of

One of the first things which he dregs of the Canton populace-mean- his admiration for an excellent work

Cathayan tree

did during his stay in the Colony was ing those who had fled from the

tur. Dutch terature. Moreover, upon

Bends to the breeze and how thy the accomplishment of a really re-moll of Kwangtung province for the in emulation of the generosity

markable achievement-lhe opening sands are prest

effectunt security of its sovereign, the Dutch uni-

of British of Siam to foreign commercial inter-re versity

rule. The progress and ultimate re- of Gruningen conferred

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" With gentle waves which ever and course. This he managed to do, not sult of the war is, of upon Bowring the honorary de-

as Admirul Perry did in the previous known for any comment here, but course, too well

(Wagner); The Feast of John, Mid- of LL.D. gree

Such was

venr by the

summer Day.. a display of armed force in at the time, Sir John Bowring was

Herr Kavaller eminence of the muitifold talents of

order open up Japan;

pan; but by the cas

....Kipnis with E. Ruzivaka (So- Sir John that he was offered and

employment of truly pacific means costigated by the citizens of the

Colony in no unsparing terms, stat-prano); The Magic Flute (Mozart); те pen. t

It seems that the young Ing that as result of his policy "the A Fowler boid in me you see... Were these_the_scenes that poet king of Siam was a man like Fredogs of war had been]-let loose-in Ewald-Bohmer (Baritone).

looked upon

derick of Prussia in the extent of his on immense Province, the casus belli

8.15 London Relay World literary ambitions, and Bowring en- being the lorcha Arrow."

fairs.' Whose lure, though knoum to joying as he did a world-wide

repu- tatlon as the belleiri

belletristic "lion" of his The remainder of Sir John's tenure

A tilk by J. L. Brierly, 0.0.2. fame, new misery more?

Chichele Professor of International day, naturally became the idol of the of office in the Colony was marked They hava

Law, Oxford. more or less by a period of legisla their glories, and young Stamese ruler who aspired to

8.30 London Relay-Music in the tive Inactivity; for the greater at Morning." enjoy the friendship of the man who, earth's diadems

like Voltaire, had won the esteem of his lasting work was accomplished Have naught

The sixth of a series of pro- confidence of monarchs. Thus during the first three years of his grammes featuring melodies by Bri- began a noteworthy correspondence administration.

Unfortunately, too, tish light composers between the King and the Governor, the gulf between Government House Walker and His Octet. Presented by with Frank and as a result a Commercial treaty and the mercantile community be-ark H. Lubbock and George Gor- was signed between Great Britain come wider than ever. The variance doa. he held for many years. In addition TPON his return to England In and Slam slightly over a year after may have been due to the fact that well established literary 1854, he was knighted by the Sir John's arrival in the Colony-Sir John's policies were misunder- ablilty, Bowring was also deemed

Queen, who graciously

stood, or us we have hinted, accentu- bestowed April 18, 1854, economist of note, being the

him

*** | upon

Governorship

nted by his inordinate opinion of the disciple of Jeremy Bentham, Hongkong and the highly Important

Perhaps the greatest achievements "Number One," or to what may have -and incidentally those which were been more in accordance with ac- In-Extraordinary rian school of political economy,

to China.

The

doomed to misunderstanding in their tuntitles he was simply too big a im- deed, so highly was he regarded by portance of the mission was moment the contillation of the Chinese Inha-For after all is it not said that "a day-were the sincere attempts for man for the Hongkong of his day. that worthy that he was charged by ous, and naturally the reception of

BY T. PAUL GREGORY

accepted the editorship of the

. Werminister Review-a post which

to

anon Break their awakened furies on

the shore:

30 bright pentus" gilded pems."

As

of

the founder of the so-called Utilta- diplomatic post of Plenipotentiary

him with the important task of edit- such a high honour to a man of realised more so than his contem- country?"

bitants of the Colony. Sir John prophet is not honoured in his own

ing the great bulk of his manuscripts, Bowring's temperament, was Luchouries that In order to build the which appeared in print in 23 that he became Immersed In

graphy, In 1043.

were con-

Ino

twice, once from 135 to 1040/20raries have necused hum of belag/erned with securing for them many delegation of the European corn-

without havips of

LESSIVE

sume

opposition

kavaller' (R. Strauss Der Rosen-

At-

.00 Spanish Music.

1-Oriental Spanish Dance No. (Granados); Spanish Dance No. 2- Andclouse (Granados)....New Light Symphony Orchestra Cond: Eugene Goessens: The Lover and the Night- (Piano); Spanish ingale

(Granados).....Elleen Joyce Dance, Op. 54, No. 5 (Popper)... Casals (Cello) with Piano accomp. by Nicolat Mednikoff: If I Could Forget Your Eyes (San- doval-Albeniz); It is you (Sandaval)·· ..Beniamino Gigli (Tenor); Spanish Dance No. 3-Rondolla Aragonesa trated by Arbos)...New Light Sym- (Granados); Triana (Albeniz orchex-

ohony Orchestra Cond: Eugene

0.30 London Relay-The News. 0.50 Joseph Szíɣeti (Violin). Sonata In D Major (Handel),

Piano:

With Nikita De Magaloft at the

10.02 New

| Records.

the

Dance

and Variety

Patricia Rossborough;

Plano-Gangway--Selection

Orchestra- Harry Roy Show....Harry Roy and his orchestra Recordarry

morous Silly, Isn't 117... Bennett Garrick Theatre, Southport); Hu- nctual performance at The

and Williams

Dance Orchestra Swing As It Comes, Swingitis...Bert Firman's Quintuplets of Swing; Cine- ma Organ-Frenado (A Mexican (Continued on Page 5.)

volumes, accompanied by a blo, the atmosphere of self-exaitation, Hongkong of the future much de It is a pity, however, to record that upon his departure from Hong- The Ineluctable result was that his pended upon securing the good-will

und

of the co-operation

Chinese kong there was no bail given in hla egotism mude him very community. Therefore, we find that honour, no address was presented to Justinable unpopular with

the people over the bulk of his efforts

bim whom he was to rule.

His contem-

by the citizens of the Colony, LOWRING also sat in Parliament.

a grandiose and vainglorious pedant, adays commonplace, and regarded as of the advantages which are now-

Goossens. inity presented themselves in the munity as the representative for Bolton, and and it may be mentioned here that

as drawing-room of Government House the second time from 1841 to 1949 there are passages in his autoblo-matter of course in colonial legis to expre their personal regrets al as the member for Kilmarnock.

but at that time were carried his leaving-none came, moreover, Ongraphy which seem to amply support through both occasions be distinguished him their contention. One of those self by his opposition to the Govern- often quoted contains these words: tins of he perdony who were compilshed for the

with much difficulty and to offer thanks or appreciation for work which he had ac- on part of the ment, and managed to carry through "To China I w

I went as the representa fearful of the consequences of Sir notice appeared in the local press effulgent future in spite of the bitter antagonism of tive of the Queen, and was accredited John's

of Hongkong. Nay, scarcely a single the Tories, a

a bill providing that the not to Peking alone but to Japan, policy. Amongst

over-zenlaus conciliatory

those things ad- unless it were to record in words of gross revenues of nil taxes should Slam, China und Cores,

I believe to be paid directly into the Exchequer a greater number of beings (indeed vocated by him were the recognition malice and bitter sarcasme "He (the to undergo the suc- no less than a third of the race of custom and law in legal pro come writhing, wriggling, and floundering

as far as humanly possible of Chinese Governor has moved off at last cessive

covered with shame and obloquy government man) than any individual had ever the establishment of Chinese ceme departments. Fortunately,

this been accredited before." principle, which, in its day was re-

teries, and the granting to citizens in the meshes of disappointed vanity Sir John Bowring arrived in of Chinese race the right of practis and vaulting ambition.” Indeed, it garded by the Conservatives as the Hongkong early in Aptit 1854 to as- ing law. However, it must be men- remained for

the Chinese com- acme of radicalism, became basts

the post of the Colony's toned that one of the nets of his munity, with typical Oriental cour- to the thorough which led

ugh Governor. During his five years administration was singularly "house-cleaning" and reformation of tenure of office from April 13, 1854 fortunate,

un-tesy and deference, shyly to wait upon the

and directly system of British national acto May 6, 1059, whilst he ne about

brought the departing Governor and his lady the second war

them what should with and convey to countancy. Also, whilst he was incomplis many things of great China, even though the the House of Commons, he,

legisla have been the sentiments of every advantage to amongst

the colonial adminis- tion other things, advocated the adoption tration which are well recognized in fact was designed for the citizen of Hongkong. Two delegations of a decimal currency for England our day, he was yet one of

obvious benefit of those Chinese who of Chinese câme to bid Sir John most were radical thoroughness

have was

the granting of the rights of tokens of their community's ally ever held office here: for all that he colonial register, and the use of the esteem a aroused tremendous opposition from did for the good of the community British flag to ships of those of the valuable gifts, including a superbly

number of

of rare and the Conservatives, even, although at large was regarded at the time Chinese community who were the wrought vase,

A plans were

a beautiful

ful porcelain by the Prince Consort. At ous light, and Bowring length, however, a compromise was widely unpoptilar as a

was limits of the Colony and who pald

of over two effected, and

partial victory con- as a man.

Colonial Treasury the hundred names. Their spokesman in It is dimoult for Treasury to issue in 1840 a new sentiments of the citizens of Hong- two ordinances (No. 4 of 1855 and all those who live in our modern act of legislation was confirmed in the sentiments which are echoed by monetary unit of two-hillings, called kong in the aftles of the last century, No. 9 of 1858). The primary object Colony that his great work was the forin, as more or less of an ex- and wo can scarcely conceive how a of these two acts. was to provide truly instrumental in paving the way periment the success or fallure of colonial Governor should incur the some means of protection to those towards the achievement of the true which should determine whether the dislike of even, a anall section of the substantial members of the Chinese spirit of mutual understanding and Clovernment would go farther in act- community, Nevertheless, such was community who Ang in accordance with Downing's Bir John's fate almost from the best trading with Cantona: protection of Britain and China.

wert: engaged in belpfulness between the great peoples

a schema which on nccount of Rs unfortunate of Individunia who he were domiciled in the Colony. Thitarewell and presented to him A

Hour

naturally

bowl and a balo of

high

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