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WU PEI-FU'S THREAT.
A DESPERATE MOVE TO RESTORE PRESTIGE.
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It is of the atmost Importance They also are disappointed, for to British and all foreign in-Marshal Wu's power has not extend- terests in China that the lie beed itself to any appreciable part given at this time to these re- of the country and his incrousingly anti-foreign attitude is designed to destroy the last vestiges of financial solvency and the authority of the treaties upon which China's inter- national relations are based.
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There is of course not a word of truth in the stories that Marshal We Pel-fu has received British and American loans; and the suggestion that these Powers are supporting him, the report in an American
Powers Suspicions. newspaper that they even winked at Finding then a greater disap- collaring the Hankow saltpointment in Marshal Wu, whose money is false, without foundation talk out of office was different from and unfortunate.
his actions in office, the Powers aro hopeless of any solution of China's internal chaos in the near future and their political conduct during the next year is bound to be based upen this sense of hopelessness. Marshal Wa's, shrest of tariff nuto-| his methods are not unlike those of nomy convinces the foreigners that
is Red predecessors.
It is becoming customary for the younger generation of Chinese to The dividend will be payable on resent any criticism of their coun-his Fund after MONDAY the 9th August, try even when that criticism consists 1926, at the Offices of the Corpora-of a mere statement of provable tion, where Shareholders are re-facts. In this hypersentitiveness quested to apply for Warrants. fies a fundamental weakness of the
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED. from MONDAY, the 28th July to "SATURDAY, the 7th August, 1026. both days inclusive) during which period na transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
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Chinese, for it makes it possible for otherwise logical and intellectually honest meto denounce and lify what is called Peking in private conversations and yet to take office in that city because they feel it a duty to confound the foreigner and
have
It is important to note that when. ever anyone has taken the trouble to trace down these reports, it was fount that they emanated from Marshal Wu's entourage.
waited
Wa Grows Desperate. The second damaging fact was the impossibility of going ahead with the Tariff Conference while. Now, the foreigners, have gone! there was no government fecognis make obvious facts less obvious. For instance, the various acting in any articulate manner by the further than the Chinese ever Ministers who now preside over Chinese people, by the provinceshed in making concessions to Cabinet offices in Peking knew and and those who rule them. in Peking foreign point of view, were unwar- China, concessions, which from the al' times expressed their The
foreign delegates opinion of Peking politics they through a war and through a periodanted by the facts of China's know that Peking is not a govern-of-politicut-trivialities, until they made on the assumption that these politics condition. They were THE HONGKONG LANDINVEST- | ment," represents nothing and can wearied of waiting and weather concessions formed a constructive under no circumstances again be Yet Marshal Wu could not get to- come the government of Chise, un-gether a government.
method of assisting China to solve less the feudal autonomy of theference with Marshal Chang served war, delay, careless political think-
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If the report is gue that he Now comes the day of determining upon a new course of action and stated that he would declare Wa Pei-fn is attempting to hurry Dividend Warrants may be obtain Peking's authority even or so. small tariff autonomy, without further the foreign Powers into a consent **edenjapelication at the Company's
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Peking a Mere Bubble. - Now there are naturally some men who believe that a fight toval finish should be made in China over the question of centralisation of authority. Wh Wei-fu is such a man; he does not see any good in "pro- vinoja autonny.
But there is no widespread sup- port in any part of Chiao for the exercise af blandarinism by Peking, for, the reassertion of the centralised conception of political organisation,
Whenever a militaris, asserts his authority over a section of the coun- try and governs it, the people prefer to treat, with him rather than. to trust to the uncertain intricacies ni Peking peliies. Thus, to repeat what has so often been shown to be. a furt, Canton. is independen. Yunan is independent. Mongolia is independent. Manchuria is indepen- dent. Szerbian is independent. Sum Chuan-tang's five provinces are in
į dependent. And to adil so the in
By Order of the Board of dependent areas, Chang Chung-
chang's territory is always his ter ritory and he functions with without Peking's consent as he pleases.
A. H. ROWE, Managing Director." Hongkong. 9th July, 1926.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.
nothing for the foreign delegates autority to make effective any new
to de but to go home and to wit until China has a representative government and until the men who govern ara less petulant and more goncerned with the welfare and sentus of their country.
The Ward Grows Weary.. Unfortunately for China, there are those in Peking, who believe that all China's woes can be amend-
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Marshal Wu's haste lies the Nerm of a suspicion that he himself whatever control he has dveli over does not believe in the tenure of
the city of Peking. It is his haste which causes Ching damage. for i 1ds the forsign Powers into a new channel of thought: why not wait until the next "great man" seizes Peking?
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Sydney Marks. the man who es- caped from Pentonville Prlson last October while serving a sentence o 12 months' imprisonment for assaulting the polles, was arrested in Stoney-inne, Houndsditch, E.. June 9, and taken to Bishopsgate Police Station
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Marka escaped from Pentonville į grams are lying at the offeo of The with another prisoner, named Great Northern Telegraph Company
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in the wall of the cells with a pair of scissors which' nad been smug- gled into the prison. -
Bacon was recaptured after he had been at liberty for about eight weeks.
There are many accounts of how months' Marks spent his seven
concern about being recaptured.
His mental attitude was that if the
clined to necept orders. Wa Pei-fu, abroad against the foreigners.liberty, but there is no doubt that then, found that his victory over That may have been true during the during that time he showed little i theuominchun was meaningless months of June and July of last except that it offered lum a posat-year. It is not true to-day. bility to obtain a foreign loan if the Tariff Conference could be made hurriedly to reach a conclusion.
The partisans of Wu Pai-fu have been somewhat careless in the con- versatidus, with regard to their overlord's foreign relationships.
They permitted it to be under- stood that arrangements had been made for Eritish support for Mar- shal Wu and that actually loans had been made to him by British firms in China..
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Tytem
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1028
• Level
B. 42.31 Tytam Byewash... 1.30 B. 25. 5 B. Tytam Intermediate Level, Tytam Tui Wong Nei Chung.. Pokfulam
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Storage in millions and decimala of gallons.
The pendulum ia swinging police got him, they got him. He against China and although it is id not adopt any elaborate dis-
Tytum List of Unclaimed Telegrar3 Tytam Byewash -perhaps too much to believe that Ruises. All he did was to grow a China bas leat all the sympathy moustache and occasionally to wearing in E. E. Telegraph Once Tytam Intermediate
Hongkong.
Tytam Tuk developed during the discussion a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles.
He never left London. He lived
Wong Nei Chung of the Max 80 tables, it is either in the Soho district of the from New York.
Harry F Payne care Banknote, Pokfulam nevertheless true that the preamWest End or the Shoreditch district
of the East End.
On the night that he and Bacon
in foreign countries indicate by their editorial opinions that the world is weary of a derellet. What Peking does not seem to escaped from Pentonville they both realire is that no matter what we visited the West End, and Marks.:
in China may think of Feng Yu-wearing only a mackintosh over his prison clothes, remained in the
"
E. J. PATERSON,
'Superintendent
Hongkong, 10th July, 1026.
The Chinese press has been fullhsiung, he has been able to arouse of items in this connection, the for himself considerable friendll-enfes of Soho until after 8 o'clock HONGKONG HEIGHTS. names of some of the Arms being nees in foreign countries. mentioned
They have also allowed the in- pression to circulate that they had
He is
the following morning. The even- ing of the same day Bacon and
one of those curious political figures Mark's spent in a small hotel bar that do little good and yet are less than 100 yards from Vine praised' immensely for the little
a method of settling the tariff they do. Even Canton is not with- question. an that funda would out its friends abroad, the Jiberals speedily become available. It was and labourites in all countries on these assumptions that num-favouring it.
ber of military men, actual' posses- sors of territory and controlling troops, supported him in his efforts to assert himself as a government.
Falsehoods to Repudiate. Two facts, seriously interfered with Marshal Wa's plans-er other the plans of his entourage, One was the obvious lie in the reports that there had been: British louna to Marshal Wu: Any checking of the situation proves the falsehood of the innuendo, the purpose of which was to indicate that as Feng was backed by a foreign Power and as Chang had been supported by a foreign Power, so is Wu supported and backed by a foreign Power. The facts that the British, pregs of) China has always been kind to Marthal Wu in the general discus- afon of the politica) situation, that certain British individuals have been
on friendly terms with certain important members of the entoure age, have given the appearance of truth to these suggestions,
Merely a MIlitarist, We Pel-fu, on the other hand, is regarded merely as a militarist. His foreign support came from two general sources:
Street. Police Station.
Talked to Detectives. Marks had many narrow escapen from capture. On one occasion, while he was living in a house in Fitzroy-square, Tottenham Court Road, the police raided the place, but as the officers entered the front door, Marks ran into the basement 1. There were those who be and escaped into the street by lieved that only a strong man climbing the area rallings, could unify and govern China.
On another occasion Matke and and that Wu Pel-fu was such as friend were in a well-known hotel strong man.. They believed that in Tottenham Court Road when two China could only be unified by detectives whom Marka knew to be force and that Wa Pel-fu was the on his track entered the bar. With- man to do it. This element is out any hesitation the friend walk- now disappointed in Wu Pel-fu,ed over to the detectives and eri- his methods, hig results and his gaged them in conversation while following..
Marks slipped out of another door.
2. There
element was" an among foreigners to whom Bol-" shevism is the worst possible political doctrine and who dread-
od the effects of Soviet influenco
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172.20 and Hill. District in millions and de- Consumption of water in the City
cimals of gallons during the month of Junu:--
Consumption
1026 1028... 255,10 250.42 Estimated Population 292,110 402,460
Consumption per head
per day (gallons)
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Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts from 13th to 17th Juno inclusive & Constant Supply in all Rider Main Districts from 18th to 30th June inclusive 1925.
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1828
1774
1734
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1725
1726:
1306
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1925 1926 Kowloon Gravitation 304.80.207.60 Shek Lai Pul Reservole... 23.80 38.72
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Estimated population..150,680 156,620 Consumption por hoad
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Total Rainfall to 80th June 46.87 declared himself as anti-Red, this ly with Chamberlain's Fain Balin.mocracy has for smoothing the element looked with favour upon Try it when you have need of such path of the second-rate is one of in 1923 and 88.99 in. in 1020. the return of Marshal Wu to preparation and see for yourself what the gravest dangers to artistic
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