The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-20
AHLO ON Chinese REFORM
GRADUATE OF CAMBRIDGE ON HIS
COUNTRY'S NEEDS.
Empire must be aroused from LetEargy.
Friendship with English Speaking
Race solution of the Problem.

The return of A. l.. Ahlo b. 4. to
Honolulu has added an interesting per-
SOnality to the ranks of the Reform
Chinese party in this city
Mr. Ahlo has returned from a four
years course at Cambridge University
England, having along with his deg zee
become imbued with English thought
feelings and customs, not however de-
trimental to the interests Of S1e country
of his race. The welfare of China has
always been the cause celebre in the
mind of the young Oriental and with
him the understanding gained Of Euro
pean knowledge and customs has only
been a means to an end, the advance
ment of his own country along the lines
of the modern thought of the Eastern
hemisphere
When in England, to gain closer in
tmaCy with the inner customs of social,
political and commercial affairs, which
the wearing of the distinctive costume
and mannerisms of the Flowery Land
would to great extent have barred
him from, the young student adopted
English dress with the English lam
guage and i'm delving more deeply into
the social side of life adopted also the
affections of a charming English girl
giving his i'm return. The romance Cul-
minated i'm the marriage of the two and
the birth of two children. Mrs. Ahlo is
the grand daughter of a peer and has
entered heartily into the reform move
ment with which her husband is afIi-
lated.
Mr. Ahlo left Honolulu four years ago
accompanying Liliuokalani and her
suite as far as Washington. Arrived
at Cambridge he passed his preliminary
examinations without difficulty or fur
Their coaching, a fact that rebounds
with much credit both to the assiduity
g -, 1,
College where he received his early
training.
He will return in two years to Eng
land with the intention of taking an
oxford degree and has already taken
the finals in the Cambridge law course.
In the intervening time he will assume
the management of his fathers business
the latter taking advantage of the OPP
pOrtunity to visit China where he has
not been for forty years.
Mr.. and Mrs Ahlo are now living at
their home on upper Liliha street and
have been enthusiastically received by
the syspathsers of the reform 1nove-
ment and their immediate friends both
American and Chinese. Their home
coming was saddened by the loss of one
of their children in San Francisco, Louis
Ahlo. The body was brought with them
on the Ventura and was buried in the
Catholic cemetery yesterday.
Mr.. Ahlo spoke freely yesterday after
noon concerning his aspirations for the
beginning of a new regime in China. In
England during the Boxer movement
he leCtured by request on the matter
and also addressed a mass meeting in
San Francisco shortly before he left
for Honolulu
THE Chinese nation at large said
Mr.. Ahlo yesterday must arouse them
selves from their lethargy. They must
make the government reform CHINA or
proceed about it on their own response
bility. To look to the Government for
reform is, as bitter experience has
shown. almost hopeless. 1t is welded
70 traditional methods. COnsuls who
have favored progression have been de-
nounced to the government and their
relatives punished for their outspoken
thoughts. Minister WI is an excellent
man to have been sent to England, he
was educated in that country and isl
well liked there.
THE action of the allied forces" con-
tinued the speaker. lin attempting to-
parcel out the Chinese Empire among
themselves would have a tendency to-
make the people rebel as would be only
natural if such a wholesale robbery as
that would be carried out.
II think if China would rely upon
the friendship of England and the Eng
fish speaking race they would have no
future diplomatic troubles. The Eng
fish people are anxious to have their
commercial relations with China undis-
turbed which would not be the case if
the powers parcelled out the empire.
There is great interest in England over
a revival in China and the awakening of
it's people to the value of modern