Governor's Criticism of Canton:
What is to be Gained?
Hongkong, Aug. 17.
About 1,500 guests attended the formal opening this morning of] Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co.'s new] premises.
LIH. E. the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, x.c.41.6.), in the course of a speech, said, "The firm owes its!
to a member of the British mercantile marine.
"As long as the commercial great. ness of Hongkong rests on a founda. tion like this, our commercial prosperity will be sound and secure "For the Stm to enlarge its business at a tine like this is proof, if proof were needed, of the vitality of Hongkong and the futility of organized bandits and pirates, miscalled a Strike Committee, to do injury to the Colony.
"Canton has not realized that the! first duty of a Government is to maintain law and order instead of conniving in the provincial capital with organized piracy and brigand-which, forced by the Strike Pickets on' the Cantonese people,
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