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P.A. Crush & C.W. Kinder Digital Archive
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Re Claude William Kinder's lack of pension & what other chief engineers were paid.
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Re Claude William Kinder's lack of pension & what other chief engineers were paid.
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Addressee:
Claude William Kinder
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Claude William Kinder
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G.E. Morrison
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Noted-1:
PEKING,
CHINA.
June l0¬th, 1912.
My dear Kinder,
Your letter of the 14th May reached me in due course. Gladly would I do
anything I could for you. Certainly you ought to have a pension, though I
understand you voluntarily relinquished all idea of getting one, saying that
you were perfectly satisfied with the treatment given you, but in the present
impoverished state of China's finances, I doubt whether a suggestion to this
effect would meet, with a favourable response. The Chinese quickly forget
that men have done for them.
You ought to have paid yourself better. It was the one great blemish on
your famous career that you valued your own services and those of your
subordinates too lightly. You left the service with an unblemished
reputation, and it is absurd to think that you were “kicked out” or your job. I thought Foley got £1,600 a
year, together with a bonus which is usually the equivalent of a month's salary. Ricketts gets £2,000, and
considering the importance of the work. Although I do not think he does his
work well - for all accounts agree that he is the most indolent
engineer-in-chief who was ever given such an appoinyment, more indolent even
than Collinson - this is not too much. Tuckey seemed to me to be underpaid at
£2,500 a year – you get no thanks for
underpaying work.
No man ever rendered more honest services to China than you did. When you
left, you were so foolish as to write a letter, expressing your complete
satisfaction at the way you had been treated.
It was I who took up the
cudgels for you and put in that leader in the paper , pointing out how
scurvily you had been treated, contrasting the trifling sum given to you with
the handsome gift made to Jadot. By
the way I spoke about this to the Yuchuan Pu. They gave me the explanation
that Jadot received his present from the Belgians who were then
powerful enough to pass it to him. Things are not getting on very well
here. The fight between the Provinces
and the Central Government is being renewed, and it looks very much as if we
were to have the same kind of trouble that took place In connection with the
Chekiang Railways.
With all good wishes to you,
Very sincerely yours,
(signature of ) G.E . Morrison ( )
P.S.
I think you ought to answer, if you do not mind, the following
extraordinary statemeny which appears in the “Dublin Review” for May, ( or
April?)
written by C.J.L. Gilson.
-Nor were these suicides confined to the inhabitants of the northern
provinces of Chili and Shantung, but men walked hundreds of miles in order to
get themselves killed that their families might thereby profit.
CHINA.
June l0¬th, 1912.
My dear Kinder,
Your letter of the 14th May reached me in due course. Gladly would I do
anything I could for you. Certainly you ought to have a pension, though I
understand you voluntarily relinquished all idea of getting one, saying that
you were perfectly satisfied with the treatment given you, but in the present
impoverished state of China's finances, I doubt whether a suggestion to this
effect would meet, with a favourable response. The Chinese quickly forget
that men have done for them.
You ought to have paid yourself better. It was the one great blemish on
your famous career that you valued your own services and those of your
subordinates too lightly. You left the service with an unblemished
reputation, and it is absurd to think that you were “kicked out” or your job. I thought Foley got £1,600 a
year, together with a bonus which is usually the equivalent of a month's salary. Ricketts gets £2,000, and
considering the importance of the work. Although I do not think he does his
work well - for all accounts agree that he is the most indolent
engineer-in-chief who was ever given such an appoinyment, more indolent even
than Collinson - this is not too much. Tuckey seemed to me to be underpaid at
£2,500 a year – you get no thanks for
underpaying work.
No man ever rendered more honest services to China than you did. When you
left, you were so foolish as to write a letter, expressing your complete
satisfaction at the way you had been treated.
It was I who took up the
cudgels for you and put in that leader in the paper , pointing out how
scurvily you had been treated, contrasting the trifling sum given to you with
the handsome gift made to Jadot. By
the way I spoke about this to the Yuchuan Pu. They gave me the explanation
that Jadot received his present from the Belgians who were then
powerful enough to pass it to him. Things are not getting on very well
here. The fight between the Provinces
and the Central Government is being renewed, and it looks very much as if we
were to have the same kind of trouble that took place In connection with the
Chekiang Railways.
With all good wishes to you,
Very sincerely yours,
(signature of ) G.E . Morrison ( )
P.S.
I think you ought to answer, if you do not mind, the following
extraordinary statemeny which appears in the “Dublin Review” for May, ( or
April?)
written by C.J.L. Gilson.
-Nor were these suicides confined to the inhabitants of the northern
provinces of Chili and Shantung, but men walked hundreds of miles in order to
get themselves killed that their families might thereby profit.
noted_1
PEKING,
CHINA.
June l0¬th, 1912.
My dear Kinder,
Your letter of the 14th May reached me in due course. Gladly would I do
anything I could for you. Certainly you ought to have a pension, though I
understand you voluntarily relinquished all idea of getting one, saying that
you were perfectly satisfied with the treatment given you, but in the present
impoverished state of China's finances, I doubt whether a suggestion to this
effect would meet, with a favourable response. The Chinese quickly forget
that men have done for them.
You ought to have paid yourself better. It was the one great blemish on
your famous career that you valued your own services and those of your
subordinates too lightly. You left the service with an unblemished
reputation, and it is absurd to think that you were “kicked out” or your job. I thought Foley got £1,600 a
year, together with a bonus which is usually the equivalent of a month's salary. Ricketts gets £2,000, and
considering the importance of the work. Although I do not think he does his
work well - for all accounts agree that he is the most indolent
engineer-in-chief who was ever given such an appoinyment, more indolent even
than Collinson - this is not too much. Tuckey seemed to me to be underpaid at
£2,500 a year – you get no thanks for
underpaying work.
No man ever rendered more honest services to China than you did. When you
left, you were so foolish as to write a letter, expressing your complete
satisfaction at the way you had been treated.
It was I who took up the
cudgels for you and put in that leader in the paper , pointing out how
scurvily you had been treated, contrasting the trifling sum given to you with
the handsome gift made to Jadot. By
the way I spoke about this to the Yuchuan Pu. They gave me the explanation
that Jadot received his present from the Belgians who were then
powerful enough to pass it to him. Things are not getting on very well
here. The fight between the Provinces
and the Central Government is being renewed, and it looks very much as if we
were to have the same kind of trouble that took place In connection with the
Chekiang Railways.
With all good wishes to you,
Very sincerely yours,
(signature of ) G.E . Morrison ( )
P.S.
I think you ought to answer, if you do not mind, the following
extraordinary statemeny which appears in the “Dublin Review” for May, ( or
April?)
written by C.J.L. Gilson.
-Nor were these suicides confined to the inhabitants of the northern
provinces of Chili and Shantung, but men walked hundreds of miles in order to
get themselves killed that their families might thereby profit.
Noted-1
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Date:
1912.06.10
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1912.06.10
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