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HUMBUG OF PEKING CORRESPONDENCE.
THE FUTURE HOPE OF CHINA'S
PROGRESS...
SETTLEMENT OF THE BOYCOTT.
MILITARY SWASHBUCKLERS,
JAPO
MERCHANT'S VIEWS.
SEPTEMBER 21, 1926.
LOCAL APPELLATIONS.
Sir, beg to endorse all that "Ionides" has to say about bad Itaste.
Herewith my card,
'',
Yours, atc...
Hong Kong, Sept. 20
C.BA.
OBITUARIES.
· MR. KUNGPAK KING.
Mr. C. L'Estrange- Malene, who [To the Editor of the "China Mail."] has just returned from China, in Sir,-Allow me space in your an Interview, "given his impressions (journat to disagree with the senti of two great rival dities--Pekinments expressed in your leading und Canton,
article yesterday. To me it 8. Anyone who has met the Chinese plainly apparent that HE Mr. [in North, "Contre and South must Chen Yu-jen makes a categorical
realise that although there may bulatatement. Whether he speaks | differences between those one on behalf of the Government of
The first Masonic funeral over meets in Peking, Shanghai and China or for the Government of the remains of a Chinese mason in Canton, yet the Chinese are on South China makes not the slight-Shanghai was held on September-13 people, one nation, bound together est difference to me.
them.
there are certain
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MR. W. H. DOP.
As repre- at 53 Paoshan Road. The deceased by an age-old civilisation, an ex-sentative of the de facto power in was Mr. Kungpah King, aged 48, tremely high culture and definite Canton he says that the boycott who was a returned student from characteristics, needing only to find will cease on or before October 10. England and a member of the Scot- the form of government through What more do you want.
tish Rita Bodies in Peking..
The " which they may be able to realise H.E. Mr. Chen Yu-jen also ceremony was performed by national unification and end the states that his Government will the local Scottish Rite Bodies eivi atrife which has broken China collect certain taxde. That de-at the telegraphic request of the into the zones of many warring cision has nothing to do with the Paking Bodies, and the officiating. bandits.
settlement of the boycott. It is masons were officers of the Shang- Kye-lim at Swatow, Mr. Brenan Hamburg of Peking."
We must open our eyes to the also outside the jurisdiction of hai Chapter Rose Croix, No. 3, Thare in Hong Kong, official or unofficial Messrs. J.S. Potter. B. P. Dillon, The China Mail points out that "this illuminating in central Government or authority Whether the Powers will inter- Chas. Irons, Wm. Yinson Tether example of the methods employ-in China at the moment. But as fere or not does not concern Hong Adamson, Dr. H. C. Mel Luther
Its histérical Kong one jot. The signatories to Jee and some dozen others, includ-r ed by the scoundrels, who, in the result largely of
position, and also because it is the Washington Treaty are welling N. L. Han and Sohtsu King, a guise of strike pickets, have been easier to continue the humbur qualified to look after their own brother of the deceased who is also Overland China Jait.committing, every imaginable rather than launch into, the in-interests. As one of these signa- member of the Peking Scottish
offence against decency and order tricate complications of change tories, Britain will have to take Rite Bodies.
which facing realities, would her stand with the other Powers: (The weekly edition of the "China-
for the past year, and whose volve, the foreign Powers continue Please do not confuse the two Mail. Annual subscription, E.L $13 including postug $16, payable conduct must compromise serito recognise as the Government of issues. Canton is going to call off ously in the minds of all civilised China whatever military swash-the boycott. Hong Kong is pleas
A shocking discovery was madë, buckler has his nominees la the people the legitimate aims and Feking offices, when
ed. Canton is to find means to re-when the body of Mr. W. H. Dop, The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.
imburse the strikers. Hong Kong aspirations of the Chinese Na seldem extends outside these man has nothing to do with that Singapore was found hanglug in an a well known local merchant of Printers & Publishers
sive and ancient city walls and No. 5,WYNDHAM ST.,HONGKONG tionalist Party."
Again, the innumerable acts often has very little control within Leave well alone and get down to
business. Through Hong Kong Per room at his premises, Ama gdmated Motors, in Orchard Road. Telephones Central 22 & 4641,
Mr. W. H. Don was of Dutch In all my journeyings through being concerned in the boycott Cable Address: Mail, Hongkong.of brutality in the Canton zone of'
Britain is not necessarily internationality and was born at Utrecht, influence against British subjects China All communications should ba
pressions which remain vividly csted in Canton's methods to ob Holland, on February 11, 1896. He addressed to the Newspaper Enter
have found no deterrent echo in
with me. There is "the contrast tain revenue, "
was formerly connected with Boas- priss, Ltd., to whom all remittances:
the Canton administration. In-between the evangelical fervour
Yours, étc..
son and Van Overzee, Singapore, should be made payable.
deed, as the whole world knows, and simplicity of life at the
MERCHANT..Wilson, Holgate Far East), Ltd., (National ""Army) Hong Kong, Sept. 21. that administration has connived Kuominchun
headquarters which I visited at at the long series of illegalities Kalgan, the fine discipline and en- and breaches of Treaties, and has thusiasms, and, on the other hand, made
itself subservient to in- the obviously luxurious life of the
mated Motors, and it was on, these stead of superior to the organised staff of the Army of Chang Teo lin, when I visited his son's heal-
premises' that he was found hang- and of pirates and banditti mis-quarters in Peking.
(To the Editor of the "China Mafling. TAYLOR-On Friday, September called the Canton "Strike" Com- It is quite clear that Chang Tso-
Sir. Having observed late- Mr. W. H. Dop leaves a wife and in and Wa Pei-u are equally the enemies of progress and nationally that there had been some com- one child, for whom much sympathy It may well be asked when this unification in China. I think of plaints about Electric Companies, will be felt. campaign offrightfulness" on Hankow, the headquarters of Wu and having often heard of the | MANSON-On September 10, 1926,
Hospith, the part of the Southerners is Fel-fu, his arsenal belching forth difficulties of others, specially smoke and are night and day, and Chinese, I should like to inform Johore Bahru, to Mr. and Mrs. going to end? When the Great adjoining, the Hanyang works, the the public through the medium of
News of the death on Septem- War was over it was thought that only iron and steel works in the your valuable space of a possible ber 14 at Batu Gajah of Dr. J. G. Dunlea, medical officer the world had seen enough of whole of China, ita blast furnaces danger on the financial side.
and rolling mills rusting for lack I am absolutely ignorant of at the hospital, came as a painful "Trightfulness" to make it resolve of use.
meters and their ways, though shock to Perak, residents. Death, that the days of barbarism were
In Canton it is at once clear know of vagaries in mechanism was due to heart failure..
watch that, I had under Dunlea came but from home a few over. But Canton,,which seeks to that we are in a new progressive jeg, a
China. With new roads, new observation for some time gained years ago and worked at the men- Bspeak with the voice of the Re-
bridges, new parks for the people, on different days 3, 6, 7, 10, 16 tal hospital at Tapah. He played order and discipline, far and and 20 minutes and sometimes Rugby for Perak for one season, but away the finest and most wonder-lost. a few minutes. A power gave up the game three years ago. ful Chinese city in the Far East-meter in my house has leaked a admitted even by its opponents number of units in the last to be the best Government in eighteen months. China-Canton is the hope of] In July I expected an account for about two dollars. When I new China.
London Offices:-The Far Eastera Advertising Agency (London),
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BIRTHS.
10: 1926, to Mr. and Mrs. A. E
Taylor at the Maternity Hos.mittee.. :
pital Kuala Lumpur, both well.
at the Maternity
daughter.
#
Bon.
H. J. Munson, Kota Tinggi, a SYKES-On September 14, 1922, at the General Hospital, Singa- pore, to Joan, the wife of G. Sykes, Malayan Civil Service,
A Bon.
LANGDON—On September
1926, nt Kuala Lumpur, to and Mrs. W. W. Langdon, daughter. Elsa Joy.
DEATH.
a
public of China, thinks otherwise. But, if the instrument of "fright- fulness" is wielded much longer, Canton will assuredly find that it will recoil on herself a thousand-
LANGAN-On September 10, 1926,
at the General Hospital, Pen-fold. ang, Annie Rose Langan.
Hongkong, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1926.
now or later to speak
NAVAL WEDDING.
PRETTY CEREMONY IN CHEFOO.
ARCHWAY OF SWORDS..
[From Our Own Correspondent.]. Chefco, Sept. 8. A very, interesting wedding
י
W. H. Dop's Trading Company and Was proprietor of the Singapore Advertising Bureau. Lately he commenced the motor business in
ELECTRIC COMPANIES AND Orchard Road, known as Amalga
METERS,
13
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DR. J. G. DUNLEA.
MRS. A. R. LANGAN.
Dr.
Penang, September 13.--The The Government. of Canton, and received one for thirty-eight do funeral took place, on Saturday of R. Lengan. widow also that of the provinces, around lars and fifty cents, my surprise Mrs. A.
of Mr. P. Langan of the Shanghai, now gathered under the and dismay may be imagined, my rule of that intriguing unknown finances being very carefully Eastern Extension Telegraph, Com- quantity, Sun, Chuan-fang, are as estimated on the basis of the $2 pany, who died in Penang Hospital much entitled to be regarded as the account. The supply for August from bronchitie and heart trouble. Government of China as are Chang was again, very large.
The interment was at the Western
and Wo.. The "Humbug of Peking"..It seems that the Company re- Road cemetery, the Rev. Father cannot go on for ever.
gard the meter as a truth speak- Devals officiating. Members of the Canton Governer, but I know that I only consum- ment, putting the interests of the led a normal amount of..current. nation arst, told me that they cer-It also seems that there was what
l"
4
DEATH OF OLD RESIDENT..
of Cobb and Co. He was last in 1
"FRIGHTFULNESS.”
Whatever claimé Canton may put forward on behalf of the Republic of took place at St. Peter's Church tainly do not want to be recognised the Company calls "dead earth" Ipoh, September 13-The death
Missne China, must be looked at ask- on September 4 when
an independent Government that was assisting in the con- occurred to-day of Mr. William lance by the foreign Powers until Gertrude Wadsworth was married they do not want to dismember spiracy to drive me to the bank-Frew, for many years local manager
to Ensign Burton Doggett of the China. Undoubtedly, however, they ruptcy Court. the campaign of "Erightfulness" U. S. Navy.
should have their share of the The Company's representative the employ of the Tekka Tin Mine. is completely ended. Beyond the The "knot" was tied by the Customs surplus instead of every-saw the meter on July 24 and gave isolated instance of General Yang Rev. B. M. MoOwan, the port thing being given by its foreign me no warning of any regularity.
chaplain.
controllera to Peking....
I consider that any person who is Sen's barbarity at Wanhaler, the The bride was beautifully China's Future Capital? sent to attend to this should at John W. Plummer, for nearly bulk of the wanton and needless dressed in a gown of white crepe-
employee of The time may come, however. least have enough sense to tell the 14 years firing on foreign warships in the de-chine, embroidered with seed when the Canton Government will occupier and stop the current. Stevenson and company, dled in Yangtze is being done by the pearls and silver sequins and
be recognised as the Government of I think that what happened was England recently of blood pol wore a long bridal vell of tulle China and the capital of China that the storm of July 18 put the aching. A cable telling his death. Southern troops. There is no dis-suspended from a lace circlet, united from Peking to Canton meter wrong, but of this I have was received in Manila. "Mr. crimination in respect of national-which had been worn by her But that is another story.
no proof..
:
JOHN W. PLUMMER..
Plummer was the brother-in-law of
Burton Harrison. ****
ity, British, French, and Ameri- mother when she was married.**. Most of my time was spent. In in- The Company has been, up to former Governor-General Francis
She was led to the altar on the vestigating Labour conditions and its lights, generous and charged arm of Commander Oscar Smith. Labour organisations. I tried to me $19.52 for the two months in- Mr. Plummer was in charge of visit every important trade union stead of a very much larger euns the shipping department of Steven- centre in China.
which I am informed I am son and Company. A few months
can all having to run the gauntlet. A Hankow newspaper, comment- Mrs. Oscar Smith acted as ing on this, asks if the recent suc- Matron of Honour, and her little cesses of the Cantonese have led daughter as bridesmaid, while
Ensign Seigrist was best-man. them to lose all sense of propor- The Church was most tasteful- tion that they now want to do-ly decorated by the ladies of the clare war on the whole world?
Fleet.
Reception and Honeymoon. Miss Emery and two of the bridegroom's fellow officers play
If so, that is certainly not the proper way to press for the revi- sion of "unequal" Treaties. Nor ed the organ accompanied by a is it in the slightest degree likely violin, as the bride entered, and as the married couple left, under
blame them?::
people warning of their danger.
He la survived by his widow and ono child. His widow before her
married Governor General Francis
Trade Unionism in China is in legally likely to have to pay, age he went to England on leave, its infancy. The Chinese have otherwise I thought of allowing and was expected to return here been, and still arc, greatly in the Company to sue me so as to carly next year. need of help in organising them-make the matter more publica selves in order to raise their ter-
The purpose of this letter is to marriage, was Gwyneth Wrentmoore, ribly low standard of life; and let the public know that they are slater of Elizabeth Wrentmore, who If they have accepted the only able to have to pay for what I helping hand held out to the regard as, at least in part, the Burton Harrison. His wife and that of the Russians who can vagaries of meters, and to urge child were with him. In England, The" conditions which I saw that some steps be taken to give and it le assumed that they were to make the Powers welcome any an arch of swords held by officers cotton mille and silk alatures the On my meter there is a revolv. Present at the time of his death. prospect, however remote of Can- of the Fleet. ton ultimately being recognised A reception was afterwards standing twelve hours a day, the ing wheel which is a guide if Manila, not only among his busi- held at the Broadway Hotel, half-suffocated babies who sperd watched, but I could not see itness friends and associates, but also as the sole Government of the when the health of the bride was the early years of their lives in when I looked a few days ago.
I suggested ten cents in alots member of the Manila Club and Republic of China. It is known proposed by the Admiral of the those steaming reeling sheds the that Canton has ambitions in this Fleet, and the bride cut her wed conditions are so indefensibly in for supply, but the Company does before his marriage, was one of the direction, but such ambitions are ding cake with her husband a human that I do not mind by whom pot trust that system. Surely any leading oarsmen of the Manila, Boat
the unions are organised at present, expert engineer must be able to Club.
Dynamo invent any alarm or warning for meters. I would suggest either a bell or a moving figure as possi- ble arangements.
sword. →.
women, the little children working,
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I have no proof that the Coni-
Mr. Plummer was well known in
in social and club, circlas. He was
VICTIM OF A FICKPOCKET.
has his home in the New Territories
bound to be thwarted as much by Later on in the evening the her own senseless policy of happy pair left for their honey-- "frightfulness" as by any hostile moon which they are spending in
Peking.
A Chinese ship's steward who obstruction on the part of the
EASES PAIN. Many valuable and beautiful Us Chamberlain's Pain Balms on the paty has not scored over my was robbed while he was walking Central and Northern war lords, presents are on their way from painful spots. It is penetrating, meter, and I labour under a sense
This aspect of the case is stated Home In addition to those receiv-start up the circulation which carries of probable Injustice, to say the inside the Talpo market yesterday very concisely by the Acting Bri-ed heresy the congestion and pressure that
The bride's dress and yell were causes the pain. That is how it helps least. tish Consul General at Canton
a present from her mother Mrsali, swollen, mahl jointand Diane Luppinendambary, “ backache, Referring to the diabolical treat Wadsworth Charlotte;
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Yours, etc.,
Hong Kong, Sept. 21.
"morning,Chines
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