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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1927.
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Hong Kong Trade With Shanghai.
POLITIC'S WAR & BUSINESS.
(From Our Special Correspondent.1
Shanghai, May. 17.
Hong Kong's trade with Shang- hai has not been crippled by the recent crisis in Central and East China although there has been, necessarily, some falling off..
It is not possible to compare the revival periods of the two places, Hong Kong went through a boycott and strike of eighteen months while in Shanghai the trouble soon blew over. Shang- hai's recovery has not begun yét, as abnormal conditions still exist. Whereas Hong Kong and Can- ton are still uneasy on account of the Communist threat in the two
Kwang provinces, Bhanghai's concern lies in the direction of possible further disturbances through changes in the military
situation,
Shanghai hongs do not mind which party is in power provided it is strong enough to keep order in the adjacent territory and hinterland. Because Chiang Kai- shek now holds sway, popular opinion is on his side, and a Northern drive would upset everything again.
China's Flour King, Cantonese merchants in Shang- hai place faith in Chiang Kai- shek-and-the Nanking National- ists, in fast to an extent that is astonishing after the apathy gen erally shown by the Cantonese in the South,
The Nationalist Government's project to raise $30,000,000 by Treasury bonds has met with favourable response from all sides.
Nationallat Foreign Minister has met with favourable response all round. Couched in moderate : language, it makes pleasant read- ing when placed side by side with Mr. Eugene Chen's Intest state- ment from Hankow.
MORE TROOPS.
ARRIVAL OF TRANSPORT UNITS.
AIR FORCE SQUADRON.
Even foreigners readily admit that Dr. C.:0. Wu has summed up the question fairly, and in a The troopship "Neuralia" ar- rived yesterday and went along- sentence, as follows:
side at the Naval Yard. On "The resentment of the Chin-board are the No. 2 (Army Co ese to the foreigner is not to operation) Squadron of the Royal him individually but to the Air Force, a General Hospital, tho aystem undor which he lives. 88th M.T. Company, A.N.C., to The Chinese object, not to the gether with several detachments presence of the foreigner, but for the Regiments now serving to his position of privilege.”
In Shanghai, An example of Mr. Eugene Chen's bombast is given con-
currently:
"We shall conquer our way to Peking, where, in the name of Nationalist China and the Kuomintang, I shall speak in a language which cannot be ignored by Sir Austen Cham berlain."
His Latest Colours. At any rate, Mr. Chen's de-
This is the first time that a squadron of the Royal Air Force, as distinct from the Fleet Air Arm, has left Britain as a com- plete unit since the Chanak in- cident. The Squadron, which is equipped with "Bristol Fighters," is commanded by Squadron- Leader W. Sowry, D.F.C., A.F.C.
The 38th M.T. Company, Army Service Corps, is being accommo- dated at the Shamshuipo Camp. It is the first fully mechanised
claration is interesting for the transport Company of its kind and fact that he is now definitely is under the command of Major working for Borodin and not for S. W. Morrison. The transport Chiang Kai-shek. Indeed, his consists of 51 six-wheeler 30 denouncement of his erstwhile | cwt, lorries. master must come as a big sur- prise to Chinese in Hong Kong to the Diocesan Boys' School.
SETTLEMENT DAY.
No share quotations were. published to-day, being Settle- ment Day.
and Canton Current gossip was intolerable and that he was try that his position in Hankow was ing to escape to re-join Chiang Kai-shek of whom he now says
"England may suffer "deep and lasting injury if she Airts with Chiang Kai-shek, who will not last out the summer.". At the time of writing. Chiang
Even the warrant issued for List of ships expected to be in wireless communication with Hong the arrest of China's flour king Kai-shek has won another big Mantun, Sarpedon, Dewey, Kwaisang, Protesilaus, City of Marseil-has not been criticised. This victory by re-taking Pukow les, Fingal, Annui, Neuralia, President Harrison, Angers, Van Heutaz, man's name is Yung Tsung-king (opposite Nanking) on the north Athos II. Trebartha, Kwangehow, Szechuen, Kueichow, Luchow, (Wing Chung-king in Cantonese) bank of the Yangtse thereby giv- and he controls between ten and ing his army a jumping off point Panama Muru, Lushan Maru, Kishu Maru.
twenty of the richest wheat flour to move up the railway towards mills along the Yangtse estuary. Peking. Other successes have The allegation against him is of been claimed but not yet con- having contributed large sum firmed,
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man who had placed the order. arrived with the valuables, he was met on the landing by the This man took the parcel and on the pretext of taking it in to his master who was in bed went up- stairs promising to return, with the money. He was not seen again and after a long wait the foki returned to the shop empty handed. A report has been made to the police
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Plans may be seen in the Favi
to Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's coffers. His mills are at Wusih, along the railway from Shanghai | All this is "good news" in to Nanking, in a veritable hive of Shanghai, The expulsion of one industry.
contending faction from the Yangtse estuary and, whether by accident or design, it is the The best informed circles sug- Northerners this time meanis gest that the $30,000,000 for the the suspension of cross-river HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB. Nationalist onslaught on the firing. Yangtse shipping can, North is to be raised in three therefore, resume up to certain parts, Kiangsu and Chekiang pro-limits (ie, as far as the Nation- vinces each being responsible for alists hold sway) and that is so a third and Shanghai for the much the better for trade. other third.
Most of the wealth in Shang While hostilities continue, how hal, as everybody knows, is in- ever, railway services are almost side the International Settlement why a good deal of the produce entirely disorganised. That is and French Concession. Accord that used to be shipped from ingly, it is all the more surpris Shanghal to Hong Kong is now building. 8.30 a.m. ing to find a practically voluntary rotting in the interior. On the
response being made by merchant other hand, Hong Kong cannot tion. princes not in Chinese territory: ship up sugar and other com- Cantonese traders in Shanghai modities because the stuff cannot have been allocated the task of today be conveyed up river and 10.30 a.m. finding: $300,000-not au impos-
sible task for comparatively up country. 10.30 am wealthy interests, but the cash has not been fully contributed 10.80 am yet Delay if it can be called 10.30 a such, is due, not to unwillingness, but to minor disputes arising from handing out the honours and the present tightness money brought about by hoard- ingre
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