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Empire they happen to be HALF THE COUNTRY stationed during the festive sea-
Effect of Victory for Canton..
LATEST WAR EXPLAINED.
son. It is therefore, a spirit worthy of the highest ideals Fanimating the Y.M.CA. move- ment and its supporters that has led the members of the European institution in Kowloon to invite as their guests on Christmas day members of the Services station. ed in the Colony, If the same
[By "Li Chung-yin."} high ideal of service characterises the activities of each individual the Nationalist Armies are again After a month or so of rest,
All South of the Yangtse As Objective.
army..
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OBITUARY.
LOCAL CHINESE CHRISTIAN
TEACHER.
MR. MOK BALCHI,
The death has occurred at No. 2, Bridges Street of Mr. Mck Lui- chi, # well-known Christian seacher and former Rong Kong" Government servant..
Mr. Mck died after a short #11-- to-morrow at 3 p.m. ness and the funeral takes place.
Mr. Mok was born on Jan. 10,
1868. He was educated at a pri vate school and afterwards at the
throughout the coming season, moving forward in, their. cam- we may iqok forward to a Chrisign to unite China by force of mas in the Colony reflecting in w higher degree than ever before This series of present enguge-Government Central School (now Iments, if successful, will have the Queen's College), After gradunt- the true spirit of Xains-that of affect of giving Canton the coming with honours at the age of 18, service to others.
BANK NOTE CASE.
LEAVE TO APPEAL.
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trol of all territory south of the he was monitor for about a year. Yangtse River which, running For the next few years he was from west to east, divides the employed at the Royal Observa- country into two halves, " tory, the Police Court, and the Generull Chang Kai-shek Registrar General's office launched his expedition this year
(S.CA.) In the year 1898, he with only two provinces, to fall started the well-known Morrison Kwangsi. back upon, viz., Kwangtung and English School, teaching English
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and Pitman's Shorthand. This
Hunan Hupeh and Kiangat School has existed now for over have been conquered.
33 years. It was the pioneer of the numerous private schools that have sprang up in the Colony. Mr. Mok was an indefatigable
The Main Energies.
Sitting in appellate jurisdiction at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan and Mr. Justice Wood, granted an applica- tion made by Mr. Eldon Potter The southern half of Fukien K.C. on behalf of the Hong Kong has also been subjugated and the worker. He was for many years and Shanghai Banking Corpora-northern half is comparatively. Thon, secretary to the forerunner tion, for leave to appeal against all mountainous ar 1 poor coun- of the Chinese Y.M.CA (known the judgment of Mr. Justice Wood try.
es Pui To Shu Shut), and devoted: ir the recent action in connection Between Hankow and Shanghaiell his leisure time to the Ameri- with a bank note, payment of (ie., the coast) and lying south Ican Board Mission, being a deacon which was refused owing to its of the Yangtse are a small por- and also superintendent of a Sun- number being missing.
tion of Anhui province which hasday School. In 1907, he founded Judgment was given for the already been threatened by the the Pentecostal Mission of which plaintiff, a Chinese woman, whose latest advance, Cheklang pro he was the Pastor. In 1908, he
the case was conducted by Mr. vince and the southern part of published
"Pentecostal Somerset Fitzroy.
Kiangsu province.
Truths," a free paper distributed Addressing their Lordships It is in this direction that the all over China and abroad. yesterday afternoon, Mr. Potter main energies will be directed as twenty years, he had used all his spare time in preaching the Chris. tian gospel in Hong Kong and elsewhere, quietly and unassum- ingly...
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a flip to New Territories produc- said that the decision involved at represents all that has been question of considerable import-left to Marshal Sun Chuan-fang ance to the Bank. It was also i out of the war. matter of importance to the gen. eral public in so far as it was the Colony.
The involved phraseology in which court judgments and argu- ments are often couched, whilst it! may be necessary from the legal point of view, renders judgments and arguments more or lesa un intelligible to the casual reader. Those who did not read carefully the judgment on rent distress given by the Chief Justice this
able to affect the note issue of
Proximity to Shanghal One Nationalist arm has already be kiang.
For
Expert Criminologist, stretched into Che- The Police Department will feel a distinct loss in the passing away Referring to the importance of
Another army had set out of an expert in çertain brunches: the maintenance of serial num- from Swatow and taken Floodhow. of criminology who did much to bers, counsel said that it was This can also enter Chekiang expose Triad Society documents serious thing, the whole system from the south, but it will need to and signs.
The Chinese Ten- of the Bank's
note issue being dispose of the remnants of Sun ants Protective Association will based upon it,
Chuan-fang's garrison which re- Hose in him an ex-President and Their Lordships granted the treated into the mountains re- an enthusiastic supporter. Thou- application.
sands of his students and con- ferred to.
Furthermore, the Cantonese verts will mourn the loss of a week in the Court of Appelate REPULSE BAY RAID. to fall back upon. Reference all his time, money and energy in have their strong bases in Kiang- teacher and leader, who sacrificed
jurisdiction might have inferred
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to the map on this page will proclaiming and explaining the He that from Anking and truth of his convictions.. Hangchow' to Nanking and has passed away, but his work Shanghai are no great distances. and memory will last forever in the hearts and minds of all those who had been benefitted by his. teaching and fnAuenced by his example. Contributed.
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Interior "Must, Submit? Once the objectives are gained, Canton will hold all the southern half from the coast inland to the western borders of Huna” and Kwangsi.
that all property of the wife of a debtor is liable to seizure local ly by a bailiff armed with a dis- A gang of armed robbers boarded a fishing jurk which was tress warrant. But, reading
ying at anchor between Deep deeper into His Lordship's find-Water and Repulse Bays in the ing, it will be found that the early hours of yesterday morn Ordinance protects certain classes ing
According to the report which of property. Furniture and mov reached Aberdeen Police Station able effects in a house are liable later in the day, the affair was to seizure, as they are in the of a particularly daring nature, "apparent" possession of the with $120 in cash, but also kid- the robbers not only making of
debtor, but if the wife can prove napping a Chinese woman with a by the production of a deed of view, it is surmised, of extorting that such ransom from the owner of the gift or otherwise,
junk. property is her own, then the Up to the hour of going tomatically, without much effort, try-which, however, is strongly
It was as a result of the dit. ficulties experienced during the
landlord on European war in maintaining
whose behalf the press, no arrests had been made. food supplies to the Colonies that bailiff, acted must return the the Imperial Economic Confer- same. The mere production of ence met and recommended that receipts in the wife's name in re as far as possible every Colony spect of the purchase of property should be inade ́self-supporting is not sufficient, in that the pur- as regards food supplies. Hong chase money might have been Kong, in common with other her husbands' and got her own. Colonies, was asked to co-operate The justice of such a provision
in achieving this result, and in
1921
is obvious. The landlord would
an Economic Resources be in a sorry position if, in every Committee was appointed locally, case where he had caused dis- levied for money The sum total of its recommenda- tress to be tions in regard to the New Terri-owing, the mere statement, un- tories; the possibilities of develop-supported by documentary evid- ing which have been brought ence, that the furniture, and to the public notice by questions effects were the property of an asked at the Sanitary Board, was
inmate other than the debtor was that, whilst the ignorance and sufficient to debar the landlord apathy of the Chinese farmers from realising on them.. Apart
were big obstacles, better results from the individual merits of the might be obtained, by securing case, it has achieved a useful pur- technical advice on fertilisation pose in that it has enabled judg- and making grants to families re- ment to be given on a point which quiring money to start in indus-the Ordinance seemed to have
left obscure. try. Mr. J. P. Eraga is to be con- gratulated on keeping this mat:
ter before the attention of the Few of us whose residential oc- Government. In spite of refer-cupatione here give greater op- ences in the Legislative Council portunities for social intercourse Unofficial members, little and the exchange of social greet- seems to have been done to carry inga during the Christmas sERSON any Committee into effect. than fall to the lot of the Service That there are difficulties is men can entirely recapture the obvious. But that these difficul- spirft which animates gatherings ties constitute insuperable ob- at Hame at a season which has as stacles has yet to be shown. its chief joy that of family re- The founders of the Hong Kong union. We are, however, in a Horticultural Society were faced more favourable position than with equally as grave problems in those whose sources of cujoyment making their show an annual fea and sociability are confined at ture of the Colony. Their efforts this season to the limitations of have
Breen, crowned with, success. the provision made by public in-
not agricultural and poul-stitutions and places of amuse-
try shows give equally as great ment in whatever outpost of the
Owing to the refusal of Senator Hardy to accept the Lieutenant Governorship of Ontario, the ap- pointment has beer deferred, and Colonel Cockshutt will remain in office.
SHENSI
Between Shasi and Ichang (on
Stronger Than Fengtien. the Yangtae, above. Hankow), the
Bottled up as they are, figura- Southerners are now engaged in tively, these, local generals will pushing back General Yang Sen. have no alternative.
Military observers predict that Therefore, although Canton » once the Kuomintang is firmly has still a few more pro- entrenched in Shanghai and Nan- vinces to capture completely be- king the subjugation of the fore consolidating the south,, southern interior will come auto- there is not a great deal of coun-"
as the local rulers" will swing over defended-which has to be won to the Nationalist cause to..pre- before the area exceeds that of serve their positions. They refer Marshal Chang Tao-lin's domains. to the generals now in Kweichow
When that will be it is impossi- and Yunnan provinces, and in ble to say. It will depend on whe that bit of Szechuan which lies ther Sun Chuan-fang's men will south of the Yangtze.
fight or surrender and whether the Fengtianites will step into the Continued at foot of pert column, "breach immediately.
SHANS!
HONAN
SHILI
SHANTUNG
KIANGSU
SZECHUAN
HUPEH
ANHUI
Honków
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HUNAN
KWEICHOW
YUN
KWANGSI
NAN
KIUKSANG
NANCHANG
KIANG SI
KHANG TUNG
HONG KOND
FUKIEN
NANKING
SHANGHAI
Syme Kine
KARNING
HANS CHOW
FOOCHOW
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The thick dotted line 'running out of Canton shows the line of communication northwards. The black arrows Indicate the directions taken by the Cantonase whôn thay bagan their offensive, against Marshal Sun Cluan-fang / after dafoating Marshal Wu Pol-fu (who now holds the shaded part of Honan).
Shanghai, is folhed to Hangchow by railway and the black crosses denote where the rival armies are situofed. To the west of Hankow are Shari, Ichang and (farther up the river) Wanahlen.