By Bernard Mellor
This e-book paints a really human photograph of Lugard as a operating governor within the relative balance of Hong Kong opposed to a backdrop of the chinese language empire being torn aside by way of revolution.
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It was the good order observed both overseas and in Hong Kong and its contrasts with China that inspired both reformist and revolutionary aims. It was no easy task [Q keep a settled calm in which trade might flour ish, in a Hong Kong then also in the grip of a slump wh ich might all too easily subvert the pecking order, shoH of putting controls on entry to the colony and prejudicing ics time-honoured role as hospice fo r C hinese radicals in flight; and with Canton so close, the home of secret societics and the southern fulcrum of a vast country unsettled by the Boxer Rebellion, by the ever-present pressures for reform, and by bloody but abortive attempts at seizi ng power-bases; and with the constant comings and goings of the revolutionaries and reformers up and down the river and along the coast, many of them militancly anti-foreign and encouraged by revolt and riot.
The Cantonese, in no compliant mood, imposed a crippling boycott of Japanese goods in Canton and throughout south China; the destruction of goods m shops and warehouses was reckoned to have cost Japan 300 mlllion yen. The Empress Dowager's order was never carried out and no retributIon was ever made. Her death and that of the Emperor two weeks after these events aggravated the feelings then investing the Cantonese communities. The riots and boycott in Canton, and the sympathetic troubles that rook place in Hong Kong on 2 November, were organized by zenophobic societies based in Canton such as the National Disgrace Society and the Self-Government Society, both led by anti-foreign agitators Big Subjects and Solemn Things 19 given to gorging the malice of the moment by initiating acts of savagery and adept at retiring to a safe distance once the fuse was lit.
In his hundred-guinea coat and knee breeches' in Flora's words, he was take n down to be sworn in at Govern ment House close to the city. A t the levee held there on Friday they 6. The Lugards in Government House, 1907 were hosts to Hong Kong society. the first of many but of such tense induction rites the last. At the head of the civil service. which Lugard soon saw to be 'a very strong and a very able one indeed', was Francis Henry May. May was hard to get used to. 'Here the Colonial Secretary is a dem i-god and his office runs the show,' he wrote to his brother.!