1938-10-28 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1939.

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BUT

Hongkong's Danger From

JAPAN'S

new

expedition

against South China aims at Isolating Hongkong, the British port through which China has maintained her last seaward con- nection with the outside world.

Hongkong proper is a small, mountainous island in the mouth

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recent years, the

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building being the 10-atorey headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corpora- tion.

*

The principal residential dis- trict is the Peak 2,000ft above- Bea-level, the large houses on the tops of mountain crage and along the skyline, adding a fantastic: colany includes besides this by hundreds of junks, some eight ports of the world to its original splendour to the wooded slopes below and the distant views of know you will STOP regardless of island a peninsula of mainland or nine of which may be seen status of an isolated island.

simultaneously clustered round

Hongkong is a place which water and barron hills. Across rocky the freighters and liners in the must be held by Great Britain. the harbour the new town of A high-quality, permanent fuld that islands. The total area extends fairway or alongside the docks,

Without it China is cut off from Kowloon, with wharves, ship protects and preserves Hydraulic

over 340 square miles-about South of Shanghai Hongkong the West, except for precarious yards and a fine garden city, is Brakes.

. Contains no water or

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the size of Middlesex. On the is the only modern port in China, connection

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landlocked harbour stand the has a big shipbuilding and re- only is it the British naval and about 8,000, and there are some STOP

large and very up-to-date towns pairing industry, with docks able commercial base in China, but it 10,000 other non-Chinese, mainly to take either a battleship or the is in itself one of the greatest Indians, Portuguese and Filipino, of Victoria and Kowloon, with a 30,000-ton liners of the Canadian achievements of the British race. with representatives of every na-

Steamship total population of about 1,000,- Pacific

Company:

tionality. The Chinese popula There is also a naval dockyard. tish colony extends far beyond 1937, or over 98 per cent. of the The significance of this Bri- tion was nearly 1,000,000 in 000 people.

any matter of profits for the total. Now the figure has been firms doing business there. It swollen by an indoterminate Kowloon, on the mainland has been, like Shanghai, the number of refugees. tive comparisons with the other shore of the harbour, is the meeting place of China and the Because Hongkong has been a. great westernised port of China, terminus of the much-bombed West. Foreign traders-there model for a new civilisation Shanghai. Hongkong, having Canton-Kowloon railway, which is no discrimination in favour of blending East and West, Japan is now laked through to Han- British people in this cosmopoli- regards it with deep hostility the status of a British Crown kow and forms the main line of tan place-have in it a healthy and sees in it a source of Infiltra- colony, and being, unlike Shang- communications of the Chinese city where they can live, and a tion of European idens to China hai, an integral part of the Bri- armies defending that city, secure base from which they can and an outpost set against her tish Empire, is in a much better There is also a large airport at conduct trade with the hinter plans for isolating the Far East Hongkong Telegraph. position to protect itself. In- Kowloon which is a terminus for land. It has been to South, from the rest of the world. In stend of an overcrowded port, three overseas airlines-Imperial China what Carthage was to Japanese ideology China must. Airways, Air France and the Africa in classical times, and it turn her eyes from the West, partly international and partly Pan-Pacific--and for two Chi- has much of the magnificenco and West largely means Hong- Chinese, with no natural boun- nese aviation companies plying associated in imagination with kong. daries between the adjacent inland.

the Phoenician outpost. cities (as in Shanghai) we have here a self-contained area of

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1933.

THE WAR DEBTS

Concurrently with the revival

a great pity that Britain

The British observer of news from the Far East makes instinc-

some size.

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The military task before Japan will not be easy, though hardly Since the outbreak of hostili- ties with Japan it is through

greater than her invasion of the Yangtzse Valley. In advancing Hongkong that China has been On the other hand, the Chi- from Blas Bay the invaders will of rumours of a war debt settle-

drawing the bulk of her war nese have settled there to the have to contend with mountain- ment comes a report from

supplies and carrying on her ex- number of a million, and with ous country, alternating with port. trade. As Japan is not the advantages of political se- stretches of rice fields. These Amerlea that Britain has again

The narrow harbour entrances officially at war with China, she curity they have evolved a new will be dry at the present time, informed the United States that are protected by powerful bat does not enjoy belligerent rights, civilisation of their own, neither but offer dificulties to a me- interest will not be met at teries and, along a land frontier and the British naval authori- old Chinese nor European, which chanined force. Of roads there December 31,

of some 20-miles, a natural bar- tica have firmly refused to has been copied in Canton and is are none. rier of hills has been strengthen- tolerate any interference with the model for urban reconstruc- No interest on the war debts ed by field fortifications pre to Hongkong. No right of search

British ships carrying cargo in- tion all over South China. has been paid since 1934. It is pared under the eye of General

has been admitted-nothing The place is well administered The provinces of Kwangtung ever Sir Edmund Ironside, who visit more than a demand to see iden- and is notable for the real friend- and Kwangs! have been inten- interrupted the "token" pay-jed the colony in 1936. The only tification papers.

ship between the peoples of all sively preparing for this ordeal, nations. In domestic and inti and the quality of their troops ments, for at least such nominal danger is from aerial bombard-

The Japanese Navy has thus mate the ment of the exposed and densely had the mortification of seeing communities keep to themselves, nese success at Taien. The Can- social life the different was recently proved in the Chi- remittances recognised

that populated towns. Much atten- quantities of war material pour- but in hotels and cinemas, on the ton River is difficult to negotiate, obligation. The reason payments ceased at all was the tion has been paid to passive air ing into the British colony for sports fields, in offices and in but possible for destroyers and

raid precautions, and there are transhipment inland to the Chi- public life there is genuine good gunboats, especially as China. Johnson Act of 1984. This re-anti-aircraft batteries.

nese armies. They have watch feeling and co-operation.

can oppose no fleet of her own. vealed American contempt of

ed the same ships leave with

Near Canton the river narrows, The Japanese do a good deal and it is only 100 yards wide at tokens; for under the Johnson Hongkong is a riverine port, their holds filled with the ex- Act they did not prevent the but the Canton River is shallow ports by which China's credit of trade with Hongkong, but the fortifed passage of the British Government from being and only coasting steamers can has been maintained. It is for their community there is aloof Bocca Tigris (Tiger's Mouth)

these reasons that the Navy and inconspicuous. They own a The operations constitute a reach Canton, 90 miles distant. Office of Tokyo has long been few small shops, and some little threat to the future of Hong- defaulter. The a

The West River, South China's urging either a declaration of hotels, but the big stores seen in kong. If the Japanese were to sense of injury which is felt in main artery of trade, which war or an expedition against the Philippines are noticeably ab- dominate South China, as they

sent. Britain over the Johnson Act is branches from the main stream South China.

intend, it might not be impossi- very real. And yet the pique near Canton, is navigable for

When the island was ceded to ble to find an alternative har which resulted in the stoppage about another 120 miles by light

Britain in 1842 it was a desolate bour in the indented coast. Mo- of the token payments was as draft steamers and by native Japancae airmen have failed, resort of pirates and fishermen. dern harbour engineering makes: harbour is thus the place where to put the Kowloon-Canton Rail- towns in the Empire, has grown build new berths and docks and NO WONDER THEY ARE PLEASED ill-advised as the Johnson Act craft much further. Hongkong despite almost daily bombings, Now Victorin, one of the largest it by no means impracticable to way out of action, and the pre- up along its shores, and spread a railway to Canton. With the junks and river steamers, plying sent expedition, launched from over the lower hill-slopes. Huge aid of the tariff weapon it would How to overcome the in-fur inland, meet the deep-sea the wilds of Bias Bay, a famous reclamations, a triumph of engi- be possible to isolate Hongkong passe? It is a ticklish problem, ships from all parts of the world, haunt of pirates, aims at throw- neering, have been thrust out in- and divert its trade. The same for in few other subjects bringing goods for and from ing a cordon round Hongkong to the sea, and the waterfront thing has happened before. and blocking both rail and river stretches over a distance of Over the other side of the Can- is prejudice more entangled. South China.

traffic. It seeks to reduce Hong- seven miles. The central dis- ton River the once-glorious Por- Partly, however, the prejudice:

Every day some 20 to 30 river kong from one of the greatest trict has been largely rebuilt in tuguese city of Macao is now a comes from a lack of willingness craft push off from the Prays, on both sides to see the point

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THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO. Head Office & Works, Kwong Woh Rd, Mongkok, Kowlzon. Tel. 67032.

branded as

itself.

of view of the other.

carrying the trade of the pro- GRIN AND BEAR IT vinces of Kwangtung, with its 30,000,000 Inhabitants, and

Two rights are in conflict over Kwangsi, oven larger in area, the war debts. A debt is owed though less densely populated. to the United States, and no The steamers are supplemented casuistry can make it appear in

any other gulse; for there is the

signed and sealed Baldwin Set- which both the British and the tlement of 1923 to endorse it. American governments can raise

Yet it is a debt sui generis. For money.

it was incurred in a common If the amount already paid cause, and such contracts are on war debt accounts were re- not usually drawn up in a count-garded as a contribution to the ing house.

principal, and the remainder Specifically the basis for con- divided into a short series of cessions resides in the interest annual payments, this should rate. It was hardly in accord provide a basis for a reasonable with the spirit of a partnership settlement. The world is full of to charge any Interest rate at unresolved diaputes upon which all. Among partners such a parties have taken immovable Lot Britain and practice is absent more often positions,

than not.

And it was certainly | America provide an example of discriminatory to charge Britain the only basis upon which inter- 8.3 per cent., while charging national controversies can be Italy 0.4 per cent. This gave settled, namely, in the spirit of the entire scheme of settlements compromise. That would give the. look of a bankruptcy court. point to their present preach- Moreover, 3.3 per cent. is now menta to the rest of the quarrel- higher than the going rate at ing world.

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By Lichty

MAMA

DOLLS

masses

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bar in it!"

shadow, with a silted harbour and ruined churches and palaces.

DANGER TO WORKMEN

Heavy Machinery Without Guards

Pleading ignorance of the reguln- tions in mitigation. Mr. M. A. do Silva appeared on behalf of the manager of the Yee Kel Company, summoned before Mr. Q. A. A. Moc-

fadyen at the Kowloon "Magistracy yesterday for running an unregister. ed factory, and admitted the offence. Mr. D. W. Phillips, Assistant In- speelor of Factories and Workshops, said he had visited the Company's: premises, at 182 Hai Tan Street, on October 1, and found heavy machin- ery In operation, grinding wolfram ore. There were 12 workmen pre- sent, but the machinery, including the belling and the pulley wheels, was unguarded. No fee was charg- ed for registration, which, however, was necessary to ensure that anfety precautions were taken.

Mr. Silva explained that the Com- pany was a Cantonese one, and had intended to operate in Canton, but had been forced to come to Hong- kong because of the hostilities, had not been known that registra tion was necessary..

Commenting on the danger to the workmen, because of the unguarded machinery, which could have been avolded if the factory had been re- gistered, his Worship imposed a fine, för 880.