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No. 19,410 END. NORI4E+=BAT-HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1925.
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WHAT GOVERNMENT MAY DO.
Fresh Debate on Rents Ordinance Shortly.
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OPPOSING VANGUARD FLEE.
CADETS MOBILISING FOR THE FRONT
Anxiety on the part of tenants, lest the protection afforded them under the Rents Ordinance be withdrawn, will be allayed in some (From Our Own Correspondent. measure by the news which the "China Mail" is able to give that the Government has not finally decided to repeal the Ordinance.
1
QUEEN'S ROAD.
GOLDSMITH ENTRENCHED.
Possession Case "For the King Himself."
Resonant of the Clydeside evictions this winter is an episode in Hongkong's history, enacted yesterday, which may result in a house possession case being tried by the King himself!
*
Just as the Glasgow Bailiff, a "China Mail" reporter gathered needed Police protection to evict that the Building Authority had Cantory February 8.
tenants, so were a number of condemned the wail and that the The Government has not amended in the direction of re- Dr. Sun Yat-serry forces scored workmen protected whilst smash- occupants of the whole building of decided one way or the other, but stricting owners of new property a military. success on the East ing up an iron trellis-work expand- four floors had been served with the matter will be brought up from charging the high rents they River front where the Chan ing gate.
notices to quit. Shoring, was to very shortly (probably at the are doing, and that the Govern- Kwing-ming vanguard took to
European Police officers, Chinese have been put up against the next Legislative Council meeting) ment should consider the advis-flight in improvised motor-buses. and on the views of the Hon. ability of establishing a Fair
detectives, two burly Chinese party wall from the inside of No. Yesterday morning the pro-Syncrown-sergeants,
282. members the issue will presum- Rents Board in, respect of pro-detachments at Shektan carried policemen, öfficials from the Build second and third floors were.
several Sikh
Yesterday afternoon, the first, ably depend.
perty erected or occupied since out a surprise offensive on the ing Authority Office (Public Asked by a "China Mail" re, the coming into force of the Or-anti-Sun encampment at Shek Works Department), architects supty, the occupants having com. porter this morning whether the dinance in January, 1921. But, lung, which is about 40 miles from and draughtsmen, solicitors and plled. Inside the ground floor, a Unofficial members had decided all these are matters which the Canton. GeneralChan's troops were interpreters and a photographer himself behind an iron trellis- goldsmith had firmly entrenched on any line of action, Sir Henry Unofficial members must decide caught off their guard and offered were all concerned in carrying cut work gate and, so it was alleged, Pollock, senter Unofficial member, themselves, influenced as they will little or no realstance. Fortunately an eviction order in Queen's Road refused to budge irrespective of said, that all discussions on the be by representations which are for them, their fleet of motor Central, some distance beyond the the consequences. matter so far had been in Execu- almost bound to be made by Asso-buses (converted from old motor- old fire station, but before the his shelves were still in a position At any rate, tive Committee and as these were cintions representing residents of cars purchased in Hongkong and approach to Paddy's Market. private he could make no state the Colony and individual tenants used for military transport
were still on show in glass cases. and a quantity of gold articles us. well.
between Shamchun and Sheklung) was near at hand, otherwise there might have been a debacle.
ment.
The Government's position was clearly defined by the Hon. Mr. to a "China Ma"" reporter, this A. G. M. Fletcher, C.M.G., C.B.E.. Mr. Fletcher said:
morning.
Although in view of S Henry's non-committal attitude it would not be advisable to pro phesy demnitely what the outuome of the discussion will be, the chances would appear to be all on the side of a renewal of the Ordin. The Government intends to intro- /ed yesterday and-to-day. "Some of shop, and a part of the interior There was no mistaking on which!
duce into the Legislative Council the cadets from the "Red" Mili seems to have been demolished.
side the sympathy of the crowd ande, for the Unofficial members shortly the matter of the renewal tury Academy at Whampoa are have hitherto shown themselves of the Renta Ordinance, when an reported to be mabilising for the operations had endangered the along to obtain a view of the Apparently the demolition lay. When a photographer came in favour of the Ordinance, and open resolution will be discussed front.
party-wall separating. Nos. 282 | buildings "before and after"" one there are not lacking proofs of by the Council.
Armoured waggons. are to be and 284. From those on the spot wiseacre told those around him, in the survival of the need of the tenants for protection.
a voice loud enough for all to hear, FILM STARS JEWELS SEIZED. BY THE CUSTOMS.
There you are." The landlords are not going to have everything their own way. See that solici tor's interpreter talking to the photographer? That means that the case will be fought out to England's capital where it will be heard by the King himself."
On the southern side of Queen's Road, below Circular Pathway, is a row of Chinese goldsmiths battering ram was brought up Long before the improvised establishments, comprising about the different parties had been in Evidently Canton is to take full a hundred shops. No. 284 was consultation. advantage of this initial success, vacated some time ago. Scaffold-
A crowd collected
and kept on reassembling after as reinforcements were despatching has been put up outside the being chased away by the Police.
The question which the Council will be called upon to answer is whether or not they consider the need for houses sufficiently met by the buildings erected during the past year or whother the tenant would become the victim of un- serupulous landlords and his rent raised out of all proportion to the real value of the buildings if the protection were taken away.
Those who contend that there is still a considerable shortage will point to the exorbitant rents charged for recently erected flats which would appear to be sufficient indication of the opera tion of the economic law of supply and demand. Recent events, too, have shown even more forcibly the strength of the argument that allowance must always be made for that section of the Chinese community which is subject to periodic political seares, which send them rushing by thousands into Hongkong for safety and protection-some of them in a position if it were possible to out bid local residents for possession of their own homes.
The property-owning interests may approach the Government with a request that, if the Ordin- ance be retained, it should be amended in such, fashion as to permit a rental, in all houses.to bring in a larger return on capitel expenditure than received at pre- sent; but this, if made, will no doubt be met with the reply that, as it was the prime object of the Ordinance to safeguard the inter- eats of the tenant, and it is still fulfilling it, no whittling down of its protective character, ought to be considered.
JADIES RENNIE.
DOROTHY GISH
LILLIANGISH"
Lillian and Dorothy Gish, cinema stars, had their jewela seized by the customs, owing to the faulty memory of James Rennie, husband of Dorothy Gish. Rennie failed to declare to the customis jewellery which the Gish family had purchased in Italy. The gems were. seized and Rennie only got them back again after six weeks by paying the duty, which amounted to £2,500. "I clean forgat about, declaring them," he explained.
DR. SUN YAT-SEN.
LATEST REPORTS OF HIS - ILLNESS..
1.
CHINESE DOCTORS ATTEND,
Some members may take ad- A telegram published in this vantage of the occasion, to urge morning's Chinese paper, "Wah that, if the Ordinance is
to be Tsz Yat Po," states that Dr. Sun amended at all, it should be was attended by two Chinese
STRIKE
FEARS.
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HOME RAILWAY MEN'S WAGES.
COMPANIES PROPOSAL.
(Reuter's Service.)
doctors (herbalists or leeches, hot "Western practitioners"). The. first did not.make out a prescrip- tion, and the second deferred treatment till after Li-ch'uni
(Beginning of Spring) which was yesterday.
According to a cable in 'to-day's Tai Kwong Po," Sun Fo (Dr. Sun's son and ex-Mayor of Canton) arrived in Peking on Monday and Immediately proceeded to hospital to see his father.
"This message also stated that immediate reductions in wages of with visitors from Shanghai whom The railway companies propose Dr Sun conversed for some time Gr. a week in the rural districte and a week in the industrial he was very pleased to sea.
arens.
London, February 3.
"A Brave Fight."
Tuesday's “Canton Gazette” re-
I learned that under the Railways Act the whole matter must be submitted to national ports:- 0000000000000cionooranges board
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seen in the Eastern Suburb and the outskirts of Canton. "Big. naval guns have been mounted at the Taishatau Station (Canton terminus of the Kowloon-Canton Railway) directed toward the East.
"CHINA'S FUTURE.
OUTLOOK FOR CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT.
REMARKABLE SPEECHES."
(Reuter'e Service"
London, February 8. Mr. Wellington Koo, former Chinese Ambassador to Britain, travelling as Secretary of the World's Student Christian, Move- meat, addressed a packed meeting at Westminster on the subject of the evolution of China and its possibilities for Christianity. The hall was not big enough to hold all the would-be heaters, and Mr. Koo addressed an overjoy gathering. The Archbishop of Canterbury,
presided, eulogised address as, "a remarkable speech by a remarkable man."
who
Weaker Yesterday. (Reuters: Service)
the
Police whistles were blown | from several directions and it was stated by one yewitness. from inside the shop when the workmen with the detective officers present to prevent a breach of the peace forced their way inside.
Attracted by the whistles; others came running toward to the scene; but, once inside the scaffold, the men last no time. Cutting holes through all the. verandahs, they passed their poles up, and soon had the front part of the wall secured.
When the "reporter returned later in the afternoon, he learned that the Police had revisited the shop, as it had been found neces- sary to break into the upper floors which, although vacant, were locked. The crowd was dispersed by the Chinese sergeants, and an Indian sergeant and a ship's guard were there to preserve order.
The "house-breakers” worked on as though nothing un- usual had happened.
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The Hongkong public is taking [" Enter Your Name. the keenest interest in the unpre- It is the desire of the "China cedent undertaking inaugurated Mail" and "Sunday Herald" to Herald." Many people have already ever heard of in the Colony and by the "China' Mall" and "Sunday make this the greatest Campaign entered the race, expressing & for that reason more prizes will desire to prove their popularity: be added from time to time. The exceptional value of the prizes Nominations are coming in 'by and the easy manner by which every mail and every hour of the they are to be awarded has stamp day people are calling in at the ed the Campaign with success Campaign Headquarters to enter from the very first. The announce their own name or that of a friend. ment that every person subscrib. The names of those nominated.so ing for the "China Mall" and far will be published in Saturday's "Sunday Herald" and paying their paper. Therefore persons desiring subscription could cast a certain to enter the race should send in number of votes and the fact that their own names immediately in myone securing those votes from order that they may appear in the their friends could win a motor first published list. carme almost astounded the public.
New Prizes Added. While the Campaign has not yet officially opened the "China Mall" and "Sunday Herald" are already adding more prizes to the list
Call at the Office. Persons desiring to win one of the prizes offered should call at the Campaign Headquarters, 34, Queen's Road, corner of Wyndham him to withstand the ravage of previously announced.
Street, Room F. 2ad floor, to get receipt books and supplies, then "Cable messages to hand the malady." "Most sericus tromble" in the yesterday from Peking indicate
The prizes added to-day are a begin calling on friends and $96,00 Order For Portraits from acquaintances to collect subscrip- railway world is anticipated by Mr. that Dr. Sun Is making a good C. T. Cramp, secretary of the fight against the disease which
the MEE FONG Studio, the tions and votes. An early start "China" Mail's”. National Union of Railwaymen, as has laid him low for the present.
official photo is half the battle, as subscriptiona result of railway manugers refus His appetite remains good and he
grapher. Samples showing the will never again count for so many ing the tiew wage demands of the sleeps well.
size and excellence of work, may votes as NOW. Who is the most Peking, February 3. - Union and the Railway Clerks
To-day's bulletin states that Dr.be seen at the Meo Fong Studio, popular person in the Colony? Association, and submitting comvature of the disease and the morning, although his pulse was
"Inspite of the mysterious Sun Yat-sen was weaker this The other prize to be added it pays to be popular in this case.
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