12
BEGGARS IN TOKYO.] FRAUD ON PAPER.
TWO HUNDRED STILL ON THE STREETS.
BOLSHEVIST PROPAGANDA
INSERTED.
THE CHINA MAIL
TOKYO NEWS.
..CHANGES IN DIPLOMATIC
CORPS.
“SQUEEZE."
STRONG CONDEMNATION OF NATIONALISM.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1927.
WUSIH EXPERIENCES
CHANGED SITUATION WITH
CHIANG GONE.
suffered
LADIES HAIR DRESSERS,
Its the way you
have your HAIR
done that makes it attractive.
ing.
Tel. C. 151
TOTAL
office boy was at fault but whose, and why the "C. C. P."? We knew of no philanthropist likely to spend good money on us just to wrap up another publication, and we had not been informed that the community had suddenly realised
Tokyo, Aug. 25,' Twenty years ago 200 beggars The following leading article. In how meagre had been the thanks
We print an illuminating descrip-
Wusth, Aug. 22. were scattered about the streets of the "Central China Post" at Han- received in comparison with the
The following change of diplo- tion of the methode of extortion
Our barbers are Since General Chiang Kai-shek Tokyo, and a campaign was devised kow describes how that Journal has fight we had made for foreign in-mate was gazetted yesterday. practised under the distinguished retired from his office of General- experts in Bobbing, Ell Amau, Consul-General at Har patronage of Chiang Kai-shek on issimo, the situation in this city Shingling and Wav- by police authorities to rid the been made the victim of one of the į terests.
bin, to be First Secretary to the thoroughfares of these "hand-me- most remarkable frauds in the his-
great As the "Pan Pacific. Worker"Teration at Peking; Mr. Totsu the eve of his flight. A Chinese has
changes. outs," -To-day there still are 200tory of newspaper journalism: hides its identity under a screen chiro Miyake, First Secretary to
pawnbroker, Ong Tah-yuen by
CAMPBELL MOORE beggars on the streets of Tokyo, It is not often that the truth of of obscurity the detective depart-the Legution in Netherlands, to be name, was charged at the Prov. During last week nearly all thel
18, Queen's Road C. sional Court, at Shangkal, on the troops of Fourteenth Army under according to recent figures, and three trite proverba are demon-ment was immediately instructed to Coneul-General at Batavia; and Mr. 9th inst, at the instance of the the Commander Lar Sha-hen' suc- authorities declare that so long as strated on one party in one day, nose for cluca. By one p.m. we Geahachi Yagl, Consul at New Or- beggary remains "a paying profes- yet such was our experience on had discovered where this loath-leans, to be Consul-General at Har Nationalist military authorities, cessively retreated from the north sion" so long will beggars persist. Monday. "The longer you live the some production was being printed; | bin.
with being a Communist auspect. bank of Yangtse River and are Swimming. Of the beggars in Tokyo, about more you learn" is one of them by 2 p.m. It was established, that
He was arrested in the Settlement now concentrating in this city.. 40 per cent. are between 20 and 50 and "A good name is more precious the Postal Authorities were, inno- Pan-Pacific swimming meets are by a military detective, after resid-All the temples, public buildings years of age, enjoying health. than rubles" is another. On Mon- cent; by. 3 p.m. Sherlock Holmes expected to be held in Tokyo and ing there for 32 years, and there and some of the schools are being But police complain they have no day we experienced the truth of had discovered that the perpetra- Osaka late in September and early is little doubt that it was intended foccupied by them, ships steamers ambition to rid themselves of the both these anyings. For about a tor of the deed lived in a house on in October, respectively, under the to smuggle him out of the area, and launches are all being com- stigma of a humiliating business year now we have made a close the Tungtung Road and by 5 p.m. auspices of the "Hochi," one of the says the "Peking and Tientsin mandeered so that water com- in Times." Not a tittle of evidence of municatione between Kiangyin, due to the fact the work is both study of the tricks of the publicity the combined efforts of our sleuths leading vernacular papers
the accused's communistic activi- Ihsing and other ports are all comparatively easy and profitable. and propaganda ngent, and thought had so narrowed the circle that we Tokyo.
Also Work At Usury."
Personal. we had learned most of them. felt confident of being able to
ties was produced, but he was, suspended. Some of the beggars examined Such; however, we have found to pounce on the culprit as soon as Mr. Morl, the Parliamentary nevertheless, ordered to be handed
we had received the opinion of our Under-Secretary by police last year were found to our cost is by no means the case.
Foreign over to the local military authori- be in possession of money amount-As is well-known the "Central own authorities as to the best Affairs, who was touring in Man- ties. The Dutch Assessor, who, ap- that the northern army will soon ing from a few hundred to two China Post" enjoys a large circu-course of procedure.
churia, returned here last night-parently, under the new system has cross the river, taking the route thousand yen. They had been ad-lation in the interior, and although
no power to prevent such abuses, from Kiangyin to this city and Appointment.
recorded a most scathing protest on selous fighting is inevitable in vancing sums to, neighbours who the majority of our foreign sub-
It only remained to discover why
Tokyo, Aug. 26. the charge sheet. It appears that this district. Many of the rich were ordinary citizens, combining scribers have been forced to leave,
General Shingi Mutoh, Com-Ong is Chairman of the Pawn-took refuge either to Shanghai or the centuries-old institution of there are still quite a number in it was that the "C. C. P." should
"China beggary with the equally old trade places beyond the control of the have been chosen as the medium mander-in-Chief of the Japanese brokers Guild, that he was ap to other safe ports.
"Nationalet Government" where for the distribution of this mon- Garrisons in the Kwantung leaned proached some time ago for a Presa." police declare that the the inhabitants are glad to receive dacious production, It was ob- territory, was appointed to-day as subscription" of $100,000 to a lowest Income of a beggar is 80 sen the "C. C. P." to obtains us truth-vique that the "Worker" which Inspector-General of Education con- "Nationalist" Loan, and that when Military Councillor the Guild only subscribed $10,000 a day, while the highest is about ful an account of events in Han unknown to us had sheltered under currently
our wing, being issued from Han- Lieut-General Chotaro Muraoka, he was informed that he would be Y.3. But a beggar arrested only a kow as is possible.
kow, is in the ordinary course Commander of the 4th Division, has few days ago and haled to Koma.
posted openly here we receive the been appointed as his successor. gomé police station admitted he
copy they honour us with in this
of usury.
The
L
Free Circulation.
Difference In Wrapping. ́
Why?
Toho.
A
for
JAPAN AND CHINA.
MINISTER GIVES VIEWS AFTER
TOUR.
Peking, Aug. 22. Mr. Yoshizawa, the Japanese Minister to China, returned to his post this evening, accompanied by his family.
Rumours prevailing here are
held personally responsible for the HONEST OFFICIALS.
GENERAL TO ESTABLISH COLLEGE.
of a
as
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THE CARLTON, 140, Queen's Road C.
balance. The Jocal Chinese, at the It is the one paper which has
Colonial Department. made Y.6 to Y.8 a day. He resent-been allowed to circulate with per-way. There must therefore be
The "Hochi" reports that the Gov. instigation of political agitators, ed the suggestion that he give up so fect freedom and without suspicion some vital reason why it should be
ernment has decided to create a clamoured for the rendition of the lucrative a profession, asking the
The problem was soon
Colonial Department for the pur- Mixed Court, and attributed much police to suggest another which trel of a Government antagonistic solved. A few months ago we re-affairs of Korea, Formosa, the South delay of the Powers to make this
or scrutiny in places under the con- hidden.
pose of unifying the administrative of the local unrest of 1926-6 to the would pay him as well,
General Chang Hsiao-liang, to this centre, and we felt proud ceived a letter from a foreign cor Seas, and the Where Beggars Are Found.
other Japanese concession. But if the Mixed The places of "business" which that the honesty of this journal respondent in the interior which in colonies, and at the same Court were still in existence, Mr. commander of the 3rd and 4th the beggars of Tokyo prefer are was so recognised. Here we bump. formed us that the only publics-solving the population problem.
Ong, and others who have been Fengtien army corps, is initiat- ed the third quotation which is that tlon for which the military authorl- Sudacho of Kanda: Nihonbashi "Pride goeth before a fall."
The journal states that the view handed over to the local military ing the organisation Re-ties allowed free circulation from in gaining strength in Government authorities for purposes of extor Shutsaikuan, with the object of Bridge of Nihonbashi; Sakiya Bridge and Glaza, of Kyobashi; cently we have had several of our this centre was the "Central China
circles that the expenses required tion, would still be free, and pro-improving Chinese civil adminis- All others were censored papers returned through the post by .Past." Kagurazaka of Ushigome Shim- reason of the fact that they have before they were delivered.
for the establishment of the new tected by the Settlement authori-tration and readjusting official hashi-Bridge, of Shiba; Shinjuku been addressed to parties who have
department should be included in ties. Many better-class Chinese discipline. Graduates from the Then there was the indication the Budget for the next fiscal rear. must now be wondering how they various universities will be enlist- of Yotsuya. Kojiki-zaka (Beggars already left their stations, and had which the number of stamps on Toho. slops) of Shitaya; Uyeno Park, of not yet notified us of their new ad-the packages presented. This was
could ever have been so foolish as led in the institution for further to assist in opening the way for studies, and after their gradua- Shitaya; Asakusa Park, Nakamise," dresses. These papers invariably according to weight, too many for Kannon Temple, Asakuan Shrine, and their way to the wastepaper domestic post yet too few for for
this conscienceless extortion.
tion, will be commissioned When this kind of thing is done magistrates or other civil officials Hongaku Temple of Asakusa; basket but, on Monday the eagle cign countries. Where then did
brazenly, in circumstances which in local districts. Nakanogo of Honjyo; Yeitai Bridge of Fukagawa, the licensed eye of the management noticed the the addresses, whose names had
render it inevitable that it will re-
The Young General will assume fact that five of the returned copies been omitted from the wrappers, Quarters of Susaki; Mikawaahima, were unaddressed and prepared to reside?
.ceive wide publicity, one may be In other words what Olikaidani, Sunamachi, Kirigaya, interview the delinquent responsible places fulfilled all the requirements
pardoned for suggesting that the the chancellorship of the college, Yotsugi Horinouchi, near the cre-for such carelessness.
brand of "Nationaliam" practised while Mr Chu Kuang-shu, chief of the cover of our paper to gain matory of Kirigaya, Honmon Tem-
by the Southern militarists ta a of the military law department of free admittance and the sum spent
spurious one, serving only 18 ple of Ikegami and, so on.
a the headquarters of the third and on postage? Stamps showed postal
cloak for wholesale extortion. The fourth army divisions here, has these places a group of a few to
charges according to Column V. of
same kind of thing has been hap. been slated as dean in charge of UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS In the course of an interview | pening on a larger scale, though it the school the Postal Schedule and pointed to the intended destinations as either with a representative of the Toho has not received as much publicity, Hutung, west city, has been Hong Kong, Macao, Tsingtau or News Agency on a train on his throughout the area under the selected as the site of the institu- Weihniwei. The fact that the way back to Peking, the Japanese control of the Wu-Han "Govern- tion. It is learned that as soon ment," but in this case the most as all necessary preparations have "The first thing that I was im- efficient extortioners appear to have
of the pressed by my recent trip to been the Russians and their Chin-been made, enlistment Shanghai, Nanking, and elsewhere, ese agents. "Nationalism" indeed, students will commence..
General Chang is said to have: to that, in spite of the fact that the
become a вутопута for feeling between the Japanese and "squeeze" upon a scale which attributed the corruption in gov- Chinese nations is very friendly, would have made the most corrupt ernment circles to the lack of the Chinese authorities both in and unscrupulous of the old Man- properly-educated civil officials, north and south, as a result of darins blush with shame.
and considers the institution in their Internal strife, are vying
question as a necessity.--"Shang- with each other in enforcing 'illegal
hai Mercury.". pede the friendly relations be- taxation. Such will, indeed, im- tween the two countries and give a serious effect not only upon for- eign merchants but also on the Chinese merchants in general.
"It is, therefore, absolutely im-
imposition of the tonnage surtaxes and other illegal duties. If the Chinese authorities continue the imposition of such illegal taxes, we
20 or 40 beggara press pedestrians
for alma.
At Close inspection then revealed the fact that there was also a slight difference in the wrapper and dis- package after package was opened section became the order.
1916 Cording to the crash police According the census taken in
As
there were 220 beggars in the city, the staff were horrified to discover "Worker" is particularly anti-Minister remarked:-- of whom 156 were men and
that the innocent "C. C. P." was 54 tvomen.
But the statistics taken being used as a cover for the most British would tend to eliminate two last year of 158 beggars told that virulent bolshevik propaganda that of these places, but of course this there were only 30 women.
On the other The emunates from this centre. Prac-s pure deduction. authorities say that this remarkable tically the whole of the reading hand the point that there were decrease in the number of female matter had been removed, and the several copies of the "Worker" in beggars is accounted for by the indignation of the editor can be each package shows that "cells moral degeneration of Japanese better imagined than described have been established in those when it was discovered that in ports. On these watchful eyes are 30 Own Their Houses. place of his leading article there now most likely being kept,
Here then was the solution. A In July 1925, the police authori- had been substituted several copies tica examined 153, beggars about of that viciously communistic or "Fan Facific Worker" would not bloshevik production such as the their lodging places, and were aur- gan the "Pan Pacific Worker." prised to find that not leas than Here was a clear case for the be tolerated in the north or any 30 had their houses, a few of which League of Nations and the Postal region where communistic activi- It would were rented for above Y.20 a month Union, and there arose visions of ties are being curbed.
And 39 others were staying the prompt re-establishment of a be confiscated and destroyed.
woman.
ench.
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at inns in Fukagawa, Honiyo and Consular mail service. "Exhibit A" the contrary the "C. C. P." would
has
so forth, four lived with other beg was carefully laid aside to be pro-be welcomed and read. It is now possible for us to approve of the declared Mr. Yoshizawa,
expose the been practised, gara, and 10 built cottages with duced at the auspicious moment our painful duty to their own hands. Of the remaining when the League arose in its might fraud which has
of the removed to prove the charge of tampering and in doing so there has been 76, about 30 slept grounds, nine in unoccupied houses, with the mails, and what was in- brought home to us the truth of six in.stations, 10 among the lumber tended to be a full report of the three different proverbs quoted will have to cope with them by ap- I do not consider it necessary to piled near canals, and the rest un-event was commenced in our best earlier in this article. der the floors of temples and journalese. This report, however, 'shrines.
was hardly begun before it dawned
A FAMILY NECESSITY. The former occupations of beg- upon our feeble intelligence that if
Every family should be provided gars include a variety of jobs. Of the Postal Authorities were really the 73 beggars examined last year, parties to this nefarious scheme, with Chamberlain's Pain Balm at all Sprains may be cured in one had been a waiter in a leading they would hardly have left its times.
underlings whose much less time when promptly treat cafe, one a girls school graduate workings to
ed. Lame back, lame shoulders, pains and one a clerk of a Tokyo periodi-mentality was so low that five un-n the side and chest and rheumatic cal, one a printer, three keepers of addressed copies would be return palas are some of the diseases for inns, 25 factory workers, 10 pea ed to us and thus give the whole which it is especially valuable. sants, two ricshamen, 12 labourers, show away. Obviously sorgebody's can be purchased everywhere. one carpenter, three cooks, six commercial employes, one tailor,
seven coolies and one fishermun.→ "Japan Advertiser."
CHINESE POLICE.
SCALE OF SALARIES IM- PROVED IN SHANGHAI
Having secured permission from the Mayor of Shanghai (Chinese territory) Munici- pality, Sun Pu-chun, chief of the Police Department, has increased the pay of the police officers and constables, who will in future be paid
on the following scale:-
Chief Inspectors: $120 per month, with an allowance of $80. Inspectors: $100 per month, with an allowance of $10.
The pay and allowances of in- spectors in charge of the various patrol group will be the same as those of inspectors in charge of the various sections.
The pay of first class police off cers will be $40, second class police officers $35; and third class police officers $30.00
The pay of the musicians of the police band will be $40 each.
The pay of station clerks will be from. $80 to $35.
The pay of detectives will re
main as before
The pay of first class sergeanta will be $18; second class. ser
geanta $17; and third class, ser
geants $16,
The pay of constables will range from $10 to $13,000
A circular to the above effect was sent to the officers of various police stations, adds Shanghal Journal of Commerce.
PROHIBITED
It
propriate means,
"As to the negotiations for the revision of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Naviga- tion, I intend to see the Chinese Foreign Minister soon after my re- turn to Peking and to resume the negotiations as soon as poselble.
Situation in Manchuria. "What they call Japan's positive policy towards Manchuria and Mongolia, which has been freely
affairs. Tuanku
WATER SUPPLY.
Level and Storage, of water in Reservoirs on August 1, 1927;~ CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.
circulated, appears to be exciting the nerves of the Chinese people, but the Japanese Government has no intention whatever of adopting any aggressive policy towards those districts that is far from the pelley hitherto pursued by Japan,"
"Therefore," he continued, "the misunderstanding which was caus- ed by the words "positive policy will be dispelled spontaneously, so
Tytam explain the matter especially."
The Minister then, referring to Tytam Byewash... the question relating to the aboli- Tytam Intermediate tion of likin and imposition of sur-Tytam Tuk
Wong
Nei Chung
2'11'B taxes by the Nanking Government, Pokfulum
Level Do.. said that as the matter was now being taken up between the Nan- A denotes "Above Overflow."1
[Note: B. denoten "Below Overflow": king Government, the Consular Storage in millions and decimali Bady in Shanghai, and the Diplo-
of gallons. matic Corps in Peking, the question was likely to be settled shortly. Tytam Toho.
WHERE TO FIND SHIPS IN HONG KONG HARBOUR-CHART OF THE PRINCIPAL MOORING BUOYS.
CHANNE
QUARANTINE
ANCHORAGE
DANGRADUS FOODS
ANCHORROR
ST8 Cay
CENTRAL.
ANCHORAGE..
HONG KONG HARBOUR SHOWING
YAUMATI BAY
COSMOPOLITAN,
KOWLOON
HONGI
CUST ROCK BUDY
Tytam Byewash Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk Weng Nei Chung Pokfulum
Total
1928
1927
Level Level
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do
1928 384.80
1047
• 884,80 22.87 22.37 195.90 195.90 1,410.00 1,419.00 20.36 30.34 66.00 66.00
2,114.73 2,118.41 Consumption of water is the City! and Hill District in millions and de- cimals of galions during the month of July:-
1926 1927 Consumption
285.17, 380.23 Estimated population. 463,820 418,840 Consumption per head
per day. Constant Supply in all Rider Main
18.8 25.7
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owing to damage to the supply mains in the eastern and western districts. From July 24 to 21, 1926, an. In- termittent supply to all rider main districts was maintained. Full-supply in all rider main districts during July 1927.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS'
LEVEL.
1926-1927. Kowloon Reservoir 2012: Level Level Shek-Lai Pul Reservoir '0'4′′1⁄2 **- Ɖò, Reception: Reservoir: “...
- Storage in miillone and decima
Kowloon Reservoir
1926 1927
862.50 +252.50
Bhek Lat: Pat Reservoir 99.46 100.80 Reception Reservoir
Total
451.94% 458.30
Consumption of water in Kowloon
in millions and decimals of gallons dim.
ling the month of July
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Estimated population 156,0
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