Show John Russell Young on the Chinese NEW YORK August 27 John Russell Young exMinister to China in an interview yesterday said The emigration question is not understood in America Immigration from China comes from one point alone Canton is a city of a million people the cen tre of a vast province The most southern port in China within seven hours of Canton I by the river is Hong Kong Hong Kong is a British settlement as much under the I British flag as is Cork or Liverpool All traffic in the way of emigration to America comes from Hong Kong mainly through English houses There is no stipulation stipu-lation or treaty and there can be none to justify us in asking the Chinese to prevent Chinamen from going from Canton to Hong Kong Once there they are free from Chinese Chi-nese influence If the American government wishes to reach the emigration question it will have to go to Lord Salisbury and ask I him to instruct his government in Hong Kong so there may be no emigration The British Governor General at Hong I Kong whom I know very well and whose I guest I have been said he was perfectly willing if the American Government wished I it to stop the im migration but I had no instructions I in-structions There is nothing in the record to show that China has ever endeavored to evade the treaty on the contrary she has enforced it even more stringently than any request of ours calls for The Chinese do not care for emigration They would stop the whole thing tomorrow Ihey do not of course like the idea of other nationalities being accepted in America and they being I excluded but that is a question of pride on i tlfeir part |