“CHINESE” MORRISON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 257, 27 September 1935, Page 14

“CHINESE” MORRISON.

HIS JOURNALISTIC SECRET. DR WU’S REMINISCENCES. Ail explanation of the famous journalistic “scoops” of the Times, London, was among the interesting personal reminiscences of George Ernest Morrison, which formed the first section of the Morrison Lecture, delivered at the Institute of Anatomy, Canberra, by Dr Wu Lien-Teli, director of the national quarantine service of China. Dr Wu visited Australia as a delegate of the Chinese Government to the international Pacific health conference. The Morrison lectureship was founded by Chinese residents of Australia to perpetuate tho memory of “Chinese” Morrison, the Australian-born doctor and journalist who gave notable service to the Government of China. Morrison’s life, as told by Dr. Wu, was in reality a tabloid history of China from IS9B, when the voung’Emperor Kwaug Hsu, was attempting his reforms. It was in 1898 that Dr. Morrison was appointed Pekin correspondent of the Times. His brilliant and reliable dispatches were often 24 hours ahead of the official Foreign Office news. Dr. Wu told liow, years after-

wards, Dr. Morrison introduced him to a Mr Tseng, who had been a secretary of the Chinese Foreign Office, and explained that Mr Tseng had furnished him with English translations of all Chinese dispatches the same evening that they wore signed. “All I had to do,” said Dr. Morrison, “was to edit them for journalistic use, add mv comments and telegraph the result.” Dr. Wu spoke of the Australian-horn and educated Chinese who had become successful in China as journalists, authors, merchants, etc. ITe said that their biggest contribution to China’s progress, next to the prominent part they took in the Chinese revolution, had been the establishment of those huge, wonderfully-equipped department stores which formed such a feature in the commercial life of Hong Kong, Canton, and Shanghai.