The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-22
W. R. Coor1bs Says Business Men
on Philippines Are Dissatis-
fed With Administration
EUROPEAN WAR HAS,
DEPRESSED ORIENT
HonohIan Granted Audience BY
President Yuan, Who charac-
terizes Him China'S Hope
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Walter r. Coombs, secretary Of Lew
ers & Cooke and chairman of the Re.
publican County Committee, who, with
Mrs. Coombs, returned on the Korea
from a fotr-month : vacation trip to
the Orient, stated yesterday that
Shanghai is the only ritv in the Far
Fast where business is not at q stand.
still on account of the war.
HOngkong Is absolutely dead, Mani.
Ia is very quiet and the northern Chi
nese ports and all of Japan are stag.
nant. Mr., COonf said:
In the Philippines there is wide
dissatisfaction among all classes of
business men and all political parties
over the trend affairs have taken un.
der this administration. The govern
mCnt has displaced many Of the men
who have made Manila what il il
and in their stead has appointed Fiji.
pinos who have even less aptitude for
the management of the departments
than our own native IIawaiians.
Constant Political Unrest g..
"There Is constant political unrest
all through the islands Many Amer.
leans who have male investments there
are in great doubt as to the future
This is not a matter Of political tias
but a question of the stability of bust.
ness. l found no one in Manila who
approved the eourse along which
events are shaping
Mr.. Coombs visited some time in
Hongkong, which is n British city and
one of the chief trade centers of Chi
ma; or was before the war. From
fifty to sixty per cent of Hongkong i
import and export trade was with Ger
many and that is, of course, now cut
off. There is a marked decrease in
trade withs.other countries, so Hong
kong is not, doing at ALL well.
Trade Boohs In Shanghai
lat IS1Sa $s @ oft ton is tSs , Tats
way Of Southern China. It is a ricl
and powerful city and while the wal
b has = sffssStsdb R9srfG5haapdising somewhat {
tremendons YoGIme, of business still
flows through its doors
Mr.. Coombs visited Marking, the oil,
capital of southern Chinarfnd saw thu
wonderful Ming tombs where the an
Gent emperors Of that dyhasty ar,
buried. He went on up 10 Picking
Fraw the Great Wan, paid his respect
to the President of the republic, Yual
Shi Kai, and had tea with, dis secre
tary of state. After rambling througI
more Ming tombs and taking in al
the sights, ancient and modern, OF
| view to western tourists, he crosse,
| over into Manchuria
Driven Out BY Dissentions
owe were at Mukden when tn
+ trouble between China and Japa
started, Mir COombs said. If Their
had been war we never would hay
got out. | wanted to see more o
that c"untrv too. 1t is a very won
: derful land. -
When the warlike demonstrations be
gan Mr.. Coomhs left hurriedly for HON
and Honolulu, going out across Chose
-(Korea), instead of back by way o
Picking From Seoul he crossed to Sh
menosaki and after a few days i
Japan caught the Korea, homewar
! bound.
Everywhere we went in China,
! Mr.. Coomhs said, there was somt
thing worth seeing. 1t is the most il
teresting land there is. All China
one vast graveyard. The, eemeteric
are not segregated 6sl in other cour
! tries. Where n man dies there he
buried and so fields, gardens and rio
fields are pittcd and SCARED with tn
heaped-up mounds wAich no Chimes
! farmer would disturb under any ell
cumstancrs. noticed that there
no such thing as continuous graf
fields in China-there are too man
grave mounds.
Glad to Get Home
We have had n wonderful trip bu
Honolulu is the best looking town
have seen yet aud I am glad to &c
back. The United. States Is a goo
place to stay if there is war in tn
: Orient -
Mr.. CoomhS said that Yuan Shi III
is undoubtedly one of the world
| greatest men.
"Ho is wise, tactful and diplomat
statesman who has done more t
amalgamate the Chinese people an
rake one homogeneous nation of ther
than all the rulers who have gone b,
! fore him, - snid Mr.. COombs.
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