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HONGKONG IN THE EIGHTEEN-ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION action.
DIGHTIES.
COLONY'S EARLIER DAYS..
Interesting Impressions of An ex-Governor..
AMONGST RUSSIANS,
Harbin, May 26-The arrest and certain startling disclosures made in respect of a former chief of the detective police named L.S. Volkof tend to whitewash the
for the support of disabled men and the survivors of men killed in
This
the agreement, Russians dllege, dates back from 1923 which was the year Marshal Chang Tso-hin commenced to en- list. "White" Russians into his army.
The discipline of t: Russians was exemplary at first, but, as
AT THE STAR.
ALAN HALE AS DICK
A TURPIN.
"Dick Turpin," with Tom Mix as the highwayman, will show at
the Star Theatre, Kowloon, to-day and to-morrow.
With an author's licence to
POET AND AUTHOR.
DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM CANTON.
Mr. William Canton poet, ni thor, and journalist, died on May
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2 at Hendon, in his 81st year. Born in the Isle of Chusan, of the East THE Undersigned have received Coast of China, on October 27, instructions to sell by Public
Below are given a few general) Chinese personnel of the Harbin time went on, it became clearer amend history and re-varnish 1845, he spent his boyhood in Auction'.
coraments
wormonis
from the
topolies from charges of graft and that there course the whole buite facts, Charles Kenyon, who pre- Jamaica, was educated mainly in
י.
on
commencing at 11 am.
and it was during his Glasgow days at their Sales Room, Duddell Stroot.
A QUANTITY OF SHIP
FITTINGS
That contradicts Truth and that he published his first volume,.
graphy of Sir William Desi. Vaity, callousness toward the. interests that in due course the whole busi-pared the story for the screen Franco, shd going to England WEDNESDAY, the 23rd June, 1926, a former Governor of Hongkong of the community, and to bring ness would reduce itself into a case cheated the law of England, and become a teacher. A long spett of When passing through Japan he/out the fact that the Russian of "save us from our friends." sont Richard" and his lovely journalism in Glasgow followed,
are greatly. if not Under the control of their own bride to France, members there seamed to me for the most taln phases that have character. little heed to the injunctions, of denies History, because records" Loat Eple, and Other Noems"
"Our countrymen whom I met almost solely, responsible for cer-officers, who themselves, paid very N or About MARCH, 1926, part, or what aggressively Bri-ised the activities of the Harbin the Chinese employers, the prove that Dick "decorated the (1887), the "other poems" nema 0N
WHOLE FLAT or SPACIOUS ishin Chet(if I may be per police ever since the Chinese took "White" soldiers conducted them- end of a rope" at Knavesmire on ing the songs of childhood which }
mitted to indulge in canine control of the town and its solves as they jolly well pleased. Latinity), Ipsis Britannis Britan-affairs. The point again stands ment of "White" Russians, who piores and to take apparently out that the wholesale employ pride in being entirely out of
have been accustomed to easy-liv- Sympathy with the people amonging, in the various Chinese govern- whom they lived and made their
SUITE of OFFICES in the "French Building" ex "Victoria Building," No. 5.- Queen's Road Contral (between Chartered Bank and Mercantile Bank).
Apply to- BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE Chater Road.
living.
whenever an opportunity for making money presented itself.
Unensiness Over the "Whites"
Arat revealed a "poet who would take his place among the laurentes of the nursory.
Tyburn Hill near York in 19
As Turpin, whose gorgeous cos tumes, smiling courtesy and deeds of daring made him the most
In 1891 Canton left Glasgow for Camous of England's highway rob- London to join the publishing bers, Tom Mix has been fitted house of Isbistor, and became man with one of the finest characters nger, also acting for a time as of his career.
Comprising:-
Bronze Steam Gate Valves, Bronze Nickel Plated Steam Valves, Globe Valves, Bronze Check Valves, Cocks, Blancs, Cast Iron Valves, Steam Traps, Galvanised. lasulator Holders, etc., etc.,.
ALBO
3. Motors It occurred to me then, ent departments and institu-
as it often did afterwards, that if members of the mercantile com- munities of the Far East were to make more effort to understand the point of view of the people of the country, whether Japanese or 10-LET No.88-Orient Build-Chinese it would not be the worse ing (Top-Floor), Coronation for either side or for the world Road, Kowloon, suitable for Euro-in general. One of the effects of pean family. Apply to:-M. C. Chow, c/o Clark & 1a, 10, Des Voeux Road Central.
то
LET-One large well venti- lated House, No. 15, Kennedy
Road.
Apply to Rent moderate. Sui Kut Bank, No. 169 Queen's Road Central.
MISCELLANEOUS.
T
While denouncing the actions of Soviet agents in China on the one hand, Marshal Chang Tso-lin, tions, in Manchurin tends to with that far-sightedness for embroil the Chinese authorities, in which he has become so famous,. no end of unpleasantnesses, has viewed with alarm, on the - Volkoff
was arrested about other hand, the recent attitude of three weeks ago, by the Chinese his "White" Russian troops and authorities, but the reason for his is finding ways and means to solva arrest has been kept secret untia very nasty problem. yesterday when startling dis That the Marshal acknowledge closures were made. It seems the bravery of these men there is this extreme aloofness is that that on the examination of his no question. He has more than strangers are apt to be most private premises, the police came once alluded to them in his de- misled about the peoples of Japan across certain papers which they clarations and statements. But it As is quite evident that he is deter. and China by these who have had never expected to find.
a matter of fact he was arrested mined to introduce a more satis lived longest among them, and by the police and his lodgings factory state of affairs.
accurate knowledge of whose
were searched upon information. The Russians, however, in an them is therefore taken for imparted by a kidnapper named effort to exculpate themselves, granted,'
Gromoff that he, Volkoff, had allege that the terms of the Commenting, in reference to a
been interested in the kidnapping agreement under which they were visit to Shangha upon the fact cases which have occurred in employed have not been fulfilled that the Chinese dialect of one Harbin in recent years. When by the Chinese side. They say part of China is practically a for-the police searched Voikoff's pre- they have been made to bear the eign tongue to the native of an-mises, amongst the papers in a brunt of every battle, clearing the other part, although the written cabinet they found a book and way for their Chinese fellow. language is the same) Sir William certain documents which brought soldiers, and that their casualty remarks:
out the fact that he had been re-percentage has been more than Language Difficulty. Sceiving from seven to eight thou-double that of the native troops. "The use of this apparent sand dollars a month from the They are made to do "all the dirty anomaly is. I think, not difficult to U. S. S. R. Consulate in Harbin. work" so to speak. "In spite of imagine. The educated class According to these papers, the this, they say they have not throughout the Middle Kingdom money was given each month for received certain bonuses promised having always been in com- distribution among various police them and they further alleged inunication with the seat of gov-officials as a reward for non-that men disabled in battle have Ternment and with, one another, interference with certain U.S.S.R.nos received the allowances agreed the same wristen language would nationals and institutions. The upon, whereas the widows and naturally remain common to all. police tire now investigating whe- children of those killed in action On the other, hund, in a'dense ther the-
received had have not been", provided for. population, which appears to have
Moreover, instead of finding their. Bemained much the same for over
wages increased." they are now theo thousand years, only a small
receiving less money than they ever agreed to receive because
Fengpiso" notes have lined unprecedentedly and are now not worth what they fetched prior to the Kuo revolt
YOUR visiting cards neatly and Y promptly printed. "China Mail Office, No. 5, Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22,
NOTICES.
MR. JOHN MAITLAND PHILIPS, DECEASED.
LL CLAIMS anast
At the same fraction of people, Dereased must be agat forthwith to the Manager of The Asiatic Petroleum Company. (8.0) Lad,
"Hongkong.
Hongkong, 21st June, 192%
NOTICE.
sums
ever been shared by other Rus- sian officials in their employ.
Money for Non-Interference. The sum paid out each month by the U. S. S. R. Consulate ac- counts for the non-interference, comparatively speaking, with Soviet unions and gangs, despite
the
ditor of the "Sunday Magazine"
to him at
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A powerful cast supports the and sub-editor of the "Contempor. During these busy star, Alan" Hale giving a fine imary Review." Personation of Turpin's bluff com years he wrote his most famous panion rogue, Tom King, books, drawing hia inspiration from Kathleen Myers, now entrusted the daughter born for the first time with a leading Glasgow in 1899. coin in a great picture is caarm as "Alice Brookfield Philo McCullough plays "Lord Churl ton so well that those who see him hate him from the start, James Marcus as Squire Crabtree never did better work and Bull Montana and Sid Jordon will be found doing splendid work in roles admirably fitted to them.
PREHISTORIC INDIANS.
ARIZONA HOUSE TO BE RESTORED.
Washington, May 15-To pro- serve the homes of the prehistoric Indians of the Grand Canyon area, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief of the sureau of ethnology under the smithsonian lustitution, has left Washington for a summer's work Arizona. He will concentrate is attention on the "Wupatki Na- dona "Monument neur Flagging. This contains the best preserved
ins and the highest standing" valls of any Indian structors in
entral Arizona,
In the morning of the world the at Indian emerged out of, the upth of "the, earth through the hasm of the Grand Canyon. They de-read to their allotted: places on
TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that ing of similar causes in England, article recently appearing in the time by the Soviet government {
for
Mr. M. DHUNII is leaving
given aren would at any time have communication with any but their immediate neighbours, and thus language would tend to differentiate more than in other
A Difficult Question. determination announced countries where travellers would bear a larger proportion to the more than once of the Mukden That the Reds in Russia are comparatively small number of in-authorities to eradicate certain anxious to have these "Waltes" in habitants. We can see the work phases of their activities. It is Manchuria removed is reflected by no. wonder. therefore, that the the demands made from time to though its until recently sparse columns of the "North China that the authorities of the Three poptilation and the much shorter Daily News" under the caption, Eastern Provinces should discon- period of our history have pre-
"Oppressive
Police," tinue employing them. Comrade cluded them from having effect should have elicited the wrath of Chicherin recently advised the in the same degree. The agricul- the Soviet organ, "Echo."
Chinese Chargé d'Affairs tural labourers of Yorkshire and
Without wishing to whitewash Moscow that he attached very lit- Cornwall have dialects so distinct the "Reds" in any way, it must the importance to the controversy that they would, I imagine, under be admitted that the "White" over certain outstanding ques stand one another with difficulty. Russians in Manchuria havetions between Russia and China But for the rapid and easy means proved themselves to be a highly because they are not at all difficult of communication which has been
incapable lot. Accustomed us of solution. He blamed the bathing recently established, it is probable they have been to easy living con- "White" Russians for having that when they had lived in theditions in the heyday of Tsarism "adroitly dragged "their Chinese matshed permits kindly send in ter
same localities as long as have the and the undersigned, on
anti-Red ör before
campaigns in employers in" in the chronic
Bombay And that RAHIM will manage the business of the firm us from the 21st inst.
CURRIMBHOY & CO., LTD. Hongkong. 21st June, 1928.
"
PUBLIC NOTICE.
1-Will holders of
Harbin
at
be earth and built their Bomen. ast of all came the Hopi, so that heir homes were nearest" the anyon. So rans, the Hopi legend > explain man's origin and account or such ruins as that at Wupatki. Wupatki was probably inhabited zhen Caesar ruled at Rome. It is} omposed of a cluster of houses be largest of which contained hree storien. The walls of these uildings are a striking monument
the craftsmanship of these uilders of thousands of years ago. hey are constructed of a filling ced on both sides with slabs of Pessed stone, often more or less
ificially worked. But as in the onstruction of all prehistorie aasonry in the southwest, some of he first principles of the craft-- or instance, binding the stones uti
e corners were neglected.
Dr. Fewkes proposes to restore
the 23rd day, of June, 1926, unawore peoples of China, this difficulty Siberia, a great number of them White-Red feud. On the face of the largest of these ancient houses!
to the following questions:-
a. What is the Heener number of your bathing matshed and where is it situated?
b. To
matshed-used:.....
e. If you have more than one
benches?
Will they also suggest additional bathing beaches and any schemes for developing the same?
(Sd.) W. SCHOFIELD, " Hon. Secretary Bathing Beaches Committee,
Post Office Building. Hongkong, June 12, 1926.
time."
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The Agreement With Atamanɛ Simionov.
engage
in political
so that it will have the same ap-
deserted it. The stones will be
pearance as when its inhabitants
aid in adobe as was the custom in pueblo dwellings, and, the interior
will be restored, and large
When he resigned his connection with lessrs. Isbistar, he because the official historian of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Though without the slightest inside know- ledge of the society's operations. he brought to his task powers of application which enabled him to completa a history in five volumes which remains a worthy memoria: of the certahary celebrated in March, 1904.
In celebration of his 30th birth- day a presentation was made to him last October by Sir James Barrie on behalf of his many friende.
Mr. Canton, who was awarded a Civil List pension in the spring" of 1943, leaves a widow, and only son, the Brother Greatheart, who wil be remembered by nil lovers of that foyous little soul."W, V." in China, Express and Telegraph.
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Auctioneers.
Hongkong 21at June, 1926.
ON
WEDNESDAY, the 23rd June, 1928 commencing at 2.45 p.m..
"J
at No. 35, Kennedy Road A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
ALSO
น
Plants in Pois (Particulars from Catalogue): On View from Tuesday, the 22nd June, 1926.
Terms-Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkong, 17th June, 1926.
ON THURSDAY, the 24th June, 1926
from 11 am to 1 p.m..
and resuming at 2.30 p.m.
at."St. George's House". Nos,
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2 and 4 Kennedy, Road The Whole of the VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
contained therein
comprising:
Fine Teak Dining Tables and Chairs, Carpets, Glass Ware, Dinner Services, Crockery, Brass Ware Curlos, Table Fans, Old Paintings, Bedsteads, Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Dressing Tabies with Bevelled Mirrors, Writing Desks, Marble and Tiled Top Washstands, Tables, Chairs, etc., etc.,
ALSO
A. Quantity of CANTON BLACKWOOD
FURNITURE.. and ***
One Plano by "Vose & Son." One Piano by "Brinsmead." Fuller Particulars from Catalogue. On View from Wednesday, the 23rd June, 1926.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
"LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 18th June, 1926.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.
THECHINE beg to inform all BANQUE DE L'INDO-
Interested in safe deposit, that they
Ing. 5, Queen's Road; safe deposit boxes at the yearly rate of $8- for
large size.
Please apply to the Cashier. Hongkong, 21st April, 1926,
would have become an impossí-
are not able to engage in bonest | it, the Russian request that the bility. The distinct difference of
Chinese should discontinue engag dialect between the English of the
labour. European natives of Australia Chang Tso-lin's military head Russians appears to be reason It has leaked out that Marshal jng the services of "White"
Dr. Legard's New Life Tablets and New Zealand and between quarters are now much concerned able. According to the standard
A FOE TO OLD AGE what extent is your both and any dialect of the mother over the increasing arrogance of of fairplay as existing between will be plastered with adobe de Imparts to the Old and Middle-aged |
country is a curious instance of the "White" troops forming part non-Bolshevist nations, the em
Youthfulness, Energy and Fitness, the quickness with which spoken of the so-called 'Allied forces" and ployment by any oile Government orated with red pigment. The matshed, please fill in ans-language tends to differentiate are seriously considering how to of the subjects of another Govern-plait be laid across the top of thus promoting longevity.
retards mental and physical decay, Pre- wers to the above questions even within a very short space of keep them in check. Attempts ment, who, for political reasons, fr regard to each of your
serves the arteries and tissues. # have been made to withhold all in are precluded from returning to se walls to support the roof of atsheds. 2-Would members of the public as another example the differ-public as to the attitude of these istently
Sir William might have quoted formation from the press and their home-land but who yet per. Villow twigs, cedar, bark and clay. Sufferers from Deafness with its As a leading authority on the many distressing accompanying ail kindly favour the Bathing Beaches ences between the American and "White" Russian troope, but machinations against the existing Hopi Indians, Dr. Fewkes has been menta as head noises derive almost Committee with any suggestions the English language! He adds several incidents having become system at home to the danger of, to collaborate in
cked, in conjunction with his immediate benefit. Calm refreshing
the pre-
sleep is assured. Gloom, Depres. they may have to offer for the commem on "the curious fact publicly known, the military head-embroiling their employers. and Jervation of some of the songs of alon and Nervousness; are banished have actually in their new bufid- improvement of bathing facilities that coast Chinamen of different quarters of Muxden are no longer the latter in "grave conse- this tribe. He will check the au- under the influence of these Life. in the Colony at existing baching provinces are beginning to com- able to hide the nasty situation quences," is not calculated to proenticity of the songs, of whichines and blemishes disappear. The the small, size and $12 for the
Wrinkles, hard giving Tablets. municate with one another in that has arisen.
mote international good-will. The | 'Pidgin-English." This tendency
"Whites" in Manchuria
phonograph records aro to be have has, of course greatly increased
madė
From 1890 to 1896 Dr. skin becomes clear, tight, and taken advantage of every oppor-ewkes lived with the Hop Indiana elastic, and the Complexion bright| of recent years.
From the Russian side, istunity to "keep the Reds in their to study their customs, language, and smooth. Think of the bless Here are some comments on a
alleged that the original agree-
proper places" as they frequently and beliefs, and was the first while inca of perfect health, the passes visit to Indo-China:
put it.
thesion of few: the Joy of a clear man to be Initlated into The Governor-General's palacement between Marshal Chang
The Bolshevik Perfidy. at Saigon struck me as disproper- Tso-lin, and one of the former
mysteries of the famous snake Youthful appearance and tingling of Atamanı In every function,-in concerts dance,
blood, of lustrous hair, bright eyeg tionate in grandeur to its sur-major-generals
and health tinted chooks--tho roundings. To the eye of a Simionov called for a "supply of and other entertainments, every transient visitor these seemed to "White" Russian officers and opportunity is taken to denounce, consist of a few respectable build- troops under the command of the in congs or speeches, the activities fruitful opportunity for leisure, it realisation that Time has been put ings amid. a city of hovels, said major-general.
re of the Soviet Government. In will have a materialistic people."-back Ten Years to the envy and Though enormous sums have been muneration for the privates was Mukden, not a long ago, the Aller B. Found. spent upon Indo-Chine, principal to be a dollar a day in big silver Japanese police had to interfere ly from the Treasury of France, money and two dollars a day in in a concert given in the Japanese. the result would seem to have "Fengpiao," small coin dollar railway area when "White"
Furthermore, in case been very disappointing, and the notes.
of Russian mounted the platform the Chinese would eventually get are no arduous rules to follow, no contrast presented by its principal a final victory for Marsha Chang and delivered a long harangue on rid of their "White" Russian em-restriction in diet, nor are there city with Hongkong is most strik-To-lin, each soldier was to re- the "perfidy of the Bolsheviks." ployees. Indeed, there is every any ill effects after. On the con. ing. The vessels in the port ceive a bonus and a pension for Some of the members comprising probability that in exchange for trary it gives the entire system a were very few, and of these few
the audience being Red Russians, several concessions from the part feeling of exaltation with increased it is no wonder that counter-of the Soviet. Mukden will agreemental and bodily vigour. Why vituperations were freely ad- to dispense with their services, not look and feal 30 at 50? the other flags visible were either country do not tempt them to the vanced, and by the time the Comrades Serebriakoff and his not delay, commence the treatment Cerman or English, the former investment of capital. It would Japanese police interfered, the colleagues have insisted in at once: You will never regret the being in greater number, The supposed that these conditions entertainment lost all its aspects friendly manner that so long as slight cost incurred for such incal tagnation plainly visible and the would at least attract Frenchmen. as auch and assumed the identity. "White" Russians hold positions culable benefit. The price of these But they have not done so. For, of parliamentary expostulations as officers in Chinese military and Marvellous Tablets including Mall either to progress or to become self-supporting are not difficult to by me at the time. it appeared temperament.
Do they encourage the perpetuationed in plain wrapper on receipt of We guarantee against Breakages or account for. Not only is the country the great majority were the Reds in Manchuria have not danger of the peace of the Far
that of the few Europeans in the However, we must admit that pf Sino-Soviet disputes, to the amount.
Obtainable only from commercial policy of the Govern ment rigidly protectionist, but the officials who, according to our been idle in any way and have also East inasmuch as Japan primarily DR. LEGARD'S LABORATORIES, difficulties placed in the way of ideas were in very inordinata contributed their share to make and other Powers in general are 108, Liverpool Road, Barnsbury, foreigners are such that even the
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