Extract from a letter sent home by Captain Begg “The Hong Kong Club. “It is no good in this part of the world appealing to the civic responsibility of the individual to exercise restraint in the use of water. John Chinamans first and only duty is to the family, and if in supplying them he should cause the the families in the next room to die of thirst, he would be quite indifferent. Not, one would think, really a very suitable breeding ground for the communist doctrine. Nor of course is it, but the Communists offer relatively un-corrupt government – at any rate so far, though no-one thinks this will last – and the last lot were just praying for”
By kind permission of Peter Begg.
