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China Mail
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No. 25,674 HONG KONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927.
GOOD PROSPECTS.
SWATOW UNEASY.
Local Trade and Political Red Invaders Shelled by
Situation.
REASON FOR NERVOUSNESS.
Gunners.
CANTON REINFORCEMENT.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
INCOME SURTAX.
Home Labour Party Proposal.
Tranquillity And Brisk Times In a Month?
A Forced March And a Flank- Attack.
CAPITAL LEVY DROPPED.
Duty On Receipts From Property
And Investment.
I've ever seen. ful and does
Still it is play- amuse the wife.
[By "LI Chung-yin."]
improvement in
Six Major Rival Factions. Thorough conception of Chinese character in its present changing phases is no help towards predic tion as to what will happen in China in the immediate future.
Swatow is again uneasy,
Three weeks ago the port was
At the confluence of the Han
Ting River, the "Reds" have taken up positions and drawn first blood. The small local gar- rison was easily defeated.
Invaders 3,000 Strong. On Thursday, news reached Swatow that the Defence Com-
London, Yesterday.
HANKOW FEARS.
EX-BRITISH CONCESSION
COVETED.
YANGTSZE NEWS.
Hankow, Yesterday,
A sum of 75,000 taels is report-
tional Commercial Bank here, to
N. LAZARUS
Hong Kong's Only European Optician- Established Over Forty Years Manager-Ralph A. Cooper, M.A.O.A.
Registered Optometrist (Canada).
IS THAT SO?
Thoughts Terse, Perverse—and Worse.
BY "THE MAILMAN."
Whilst the "big guns" were at tried a Club meeting this week. the Nanking tea party Ho Ying-
Moaning over the Bar charac- {
ching was getting ready to cut the Shanghai cake.
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Says Peter, the big talker soon
Whampoa Military Academy is to be closed Maybe the warlord-supply is exceeding the demand.
Seeing that the prize fight was held in Chicago, it's rather surprising that no fatalities ...... Now have been reported if it had been a scrap between a couple of dogs
A contemporary is thanked for pointing out yesterday morn- ing that the result of the rive in time for, the afternoon
missioner's reinforcements had ett to have been lodged in the Na-Dempsey Tunney fight might ar-
It did, and was papers. the account of the Soviet Consul-every copy of the "China Mail."
were
ute.
The Chinese director in attend- ance on the ex-British Concession
in
They are still killing off not here fears that he will be a people, alleged spies, in Moscow Chicago is losing its The temptation for these officials position at the head of the
mortality table.
To venture on the more distant
reached the fighting line. The future is mere guess work.
Smart, but not necessarily Swatow gunners (pro-Canton) clever writers, have risen to began shelling the "Reds" with a brilliance in antithetical analysis view to dislodging them but the without ever going below the sur-mountain batteries
backed up by the infantry. face.
Scouts sent back to Swatow re- port that the "Red" force is about 8,000 strong, with plenty of money and a fair amount of munitions. This is only a part of the full "Red" army, the remain- der being across the Kwangtung border in Fukien province.
Canton's Main Hope. A few Swatow officials
Such being the case, I shall at- tempt to explain the present situation as far as economy of space permits.
placed by the military officials.
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Says Peter, a job is a nuisance that prevents a man lying in bed on a rainy morning and enjoy- ing life.
Efforts to establish as reason- able a speed of sixty m.p.h. along Nathan Road have evidently fail. ed......
That's a bit too swift even for Kowloon.
The driver contended he could have pulled up in a little over 30 yards...... No Laffin matter if that particularly specified dis- tance had been occupied by a human being, or even a dog.
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Plenty of people have a good aim in life, but a lot of them don't pull the trigger,
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"Pleading quilty," commences a "Daily Press" report Some-one feeling the cold break in the weather, apparently.
She (inspecting the engage- ment ring just given to her)- "It's very much like the last one I had."
Have been impressed
The Hankowites the other day- Sunday, in the course of my
got small change out of the journeyings up and I trust that her interest in it will
The annual report of the La-Japanese Concession. Immediate Coast by the be maintained to the extent that down the China
no trade between Hong Kong and in a panic because the Communist bour Party states that the Execu- manner in which we Europeans certain mundane queries observe our Saturday nights. longer find expression. Only Canton hinges on one question troops were believed to be ap-tive will submit to the impending In some ports, for instance, it the other day she was asking me whether there will be harmony proaching. The invaders turned conference at Blackpool a pro- tells you he's the little doer. is essential that you "dress" if fur coats were worn in Hong or not between General Li Chai-out to be less than 2,000 strong, posal for a special surtax on all
Un-Kong...
sum's garrison and the Ironsides comprising bandits, guerillas and incomes over $500 a year derived every Saturday evening.
from property and investment in- who have returned from the Peasants Corps. less, of course, you get too drunk
That rising was quelled but this stead of a capital levy.-Reuter. during a long tiffin hour which
There is much to be North.
Circumstances point to peace time the real "Red" army is mov- is tiffinless and have to go early Tuesday. said for the methods to bed. In Shanghai all the for-
of summary justice Merchants will then have no ing. It is at least three days The issue away but victors move fast in practised to success in the cause to be nervous.. eigners "step out" faster with more vim than on any other North. One seldom hears of ought to be settled in a month. Chinese campaigns. night of the week. Here, how such proceedings being adopted Tranquillity and brisk times are ever, I am not quite sure what in this part of the country. By hoped for and Kwangtung is far River with its tributary, the they do. My Saturday evenings summary justice I do not mean from danger from other causes. are busy ones. I have to work. such acts as inviting an enemy And all I see of my fellow men, to dinner and then, between the apart from office associates, is in fish and joint, smartly popping the course of my ferry ride him off, a practice which many homewards. From these I, have of our Chinese military. leaders discovered that the midnight (including, it is said, the amiable ferry of Saturday to Kowloon is Chang Tso-lin) have been guilty. the Merry One. Every one My idea of summary justice is seems bright: All eyes twinkle. perhaps best conveyed by the In- The Hong Kong Stare (which cident that happened in Peking even some Kowloonites cul- the other day, when bandits at tivate) is momentarily dropped. tempted to kidnap the famous People will say Hullo to you. female impersonater, Mei Lan But the one o'clock ferry is the Fang, whilst he was being enter sleepy one. Travellers look list-
·less. Bedroom eyes abound.
So much so that, in order to Before the journey's end anores
Residence Looted.
compete with the speedy trials rise in series from tired travel.
Chinkiang; Yesterday.
and speedier executions of the lers. Last Saturday, however,
The residence of the Commis- Sovieta, gummen are now shoot- there was a variation. I had
sioner of Chinese Maritime Cusing without waiting to take aim. worked late and just managed
toms at this port has been looted. to catch the one a.m, launch.
have-British Naval Wireless,
Time is called The Comedian Seated opposite me was a man..
Li Chai-sum's Intent.) left but it can hardly be said that]
Nanking, Yesterday. in a film shown here..'............
When the fact that a promin horribly tight. On each side of
By reason of geographical there has been a general exodus. H.B.M.'s Consul-General. re- though there is nothing funment focal Seat did not play golf him were three large bottles of
proximity and commercial Tela-Some of the merchants left before ports that it will take three in getting a three years' stretch was commented upon the other beer, and on the journey across
tionship, Hong Kong's primary but sheir departure was due to months to render the Consulate of it. he methodically set about imbib-
interest is in Cantor-In spite of tra being stegnant on account habitable again British Naval Ing their contents. As each
an official denial to the contrary, of the banknote trouble. bottle rendered up its ficiness
I maintain that the governments Canton's mahi hope lies in the
Chungking-Prospects. it was carelessly heaved over-
of Kwangtung and Kwangsi pro-division belonging to General
Chungking, Yesterday. board. Tying-up process at the
vinces are tending to drift away Wong Shiu-hung of Kwangsi,
The foreign Trade Commission
Says Peter, the boss has a son This unit is also on the northern recommends the re-opening of Kowloon side found him with
Says Peter, nobody wants but no hair-apparent. from the Nationalist Party. still two full bottles to go, and
True, General Li Chai-sum of border of Kwangtung, but about the British Consulate at this port false teeth, but it's nice to have it was really wonderful to see tained by the governor of the
He was the Bank of China. As a result a Canton has asked for the recall of eighty miles away to the west.. It in view of the partial return of something the neighbours don't how. they went.
cage now Chiang Kai-shek and the return has orders to make a forced British firms in spite of shipping often borrow. last to leave and finished the bandit's head in a
and deliver A flank and taxation difficulties." sixth on the gangway, by which adorns the entrance to the ho- to office of Mr. Wang Ching-wel, march
General Yang Sen is still caus- "I will not lose,” said Dempsey time, of course, he was a little tung in which the governor the leaders of the Nanking and attack on
reing trouble by insisting on the before the big fight. If he had more horribly tight, How he lives. It appears that the de- Wu-Han factions respectively. of retreat got home, or if he had one, I capitated one was caught in a By such a declaration, the pre-lieve the pressure on the Han right of search of and carriage of put it "I do not choose to lose"
two sent holder of Canton may mean River which runs down to Chiu- troops in British ships. British we might have laid our money Nowadays the Hong Kong Peking street an hour
Naval Wireless,
differently.
pedestrian is lucky. He does get after his unsuccessful hold-up: a great deal, or he may be just chow and Swatow.
a tran-sporting chance. A trial, which occupied but a repeating a phrase popular in
A man will never acquire a few minutes, was held on the politics.
fortuné unless he is against, buy. The matter of "Hong Kong' MINISTERS ROBBED. ing useless things because they Development" has apparently
are cheap.
"ceased to interest" a number of folk.
ILL TING *SEATE
Final Swig
Famous
Female Impersonator
spot with the above mentioned; result. That, I consider, is the
the community. The procedure.
I know, works quite satisfac torily in Shanghai, where how- ever the heads are displayed on telegraph poles, lamp posts and trees instead of in cages.
Hitherto China's civil war has been between the south and the north. To-day at least six major parties are in the field, some of which are again sub-divided among themselves.
warfare.
the Reds' line
and thus
THE IRONSIDES.
FRATERNISING WITH THE
4TH ARMY. :
NEW IDEAS FOR CANTON.
Officers and men of the Iron-
corps.
is the rates and taxes of the area, these being collected in silver money-British Naval Wireless.
Wireless...
FOREIGNERS' EXPERIENCE NEAR PEKING.
DAYLIGHT HOLD UP.
Peking, Yesterday.
A sensational highway robbery
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HeThat's what the last girl I gave it to said."
That ends my tail," said the old tom cat when he backed into the lawn mower."
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day he explained that he used to do so some twenty years ago, Always choose a bridge part-But, one day, sad to relate, be ner who has no diamonds. She lost his ball. won't mind concealing her hand.
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Rosie, she jumps to conclu- sions. If you asked her who Joan of Arc was she'd imme diately say "one of Noah's daughters."
and A certain young general seems to have taken the Tang out of Kuomintang,
The Hong Kong Loan is cer- tainly a sterling one, but not in the sense a local writer makes out when he says the sum re- quired is £8,000,000.
At yesterday's meeting the "calling" was so loud that we hardly heard details of the big fight coming through.
When is a contributory not a contributory?
Says Peter, almost everything ia better by being used except friends, and credit,
thegood-for-
Merchants' Anxiety, Chinese merchants in Hong stuff to give 'em. We cannot, Keng are anxiously watching the of course, practise such delight movements of the Ironsides, that ful methods in the Crown Colony army under-General Chang Fah- of Hong Kong, though perhaps hui which fought all the way it would serve the officials in the from Canton to the Yellow River and has now trekked back to rest. neighbouring provinces to good The strength of this army has sides are fraternising with their purpose thus to purge them of been variously given as from less confreres in other units of the 4th banditical-inclined members of
than 10,000 war-worn veterans to Nationalist Army at Canton.
If you think a hen makes a lot 30,000 crack troops replete with The Ironsides, of course, are involving two foreign diplomats of noise after she lays an egg, all the implements of modern that part of the 4th Army which occurred a few miles from Peking just listen to a man after he lays
has covered itself with war hon-this afternoon.
à carpet. We are constantly reminded ours and which, incidentally, has M. M. de Warzee and Halle, that General Chang Fah-hui do not know or care, but I do
won fame as commander of a divi- expanded itself into two army Ministers for Belgium
Czecho-Slovakia, accompanied by think he was a traitor to the
alon in the 4th Army, of which Up till yesterday, about 10,000 a Chinese chauffeur, motared to
The demand of the "Kochow" Saturday night cult as practis-
Did awaken this General Li Chai-sum is the recog- of these heroes had reached Can the Ming Tombs to the north of
pirates for six dozens of the ed in Hong Kong. That man Wednesday. morning with the nised head. One is also led to ton and suburbs, going into bar-Peking and had started to return Lady Drummond's description latest gramophone "hits" as part should really have been on the
splash of the sea think that if suspicion was enter-racks or billets marked out for when they stopped to photograph of Shanghailanders as plea of the compradore's ransom is midnight launch. I hope it sounding in my ears, merging tained as to the home-coming them. It is not thought that the famous Ming Pailu or arch- won't occur again.
musically with what appeared to general's intentions, Li Chal-there will be many more to come way near the entrance to the sure secking late nighters with certainly a record.
an overdeveloped provincial lia be a Hawaiian love song. Twas sum would have opposed the down the Canton-Hankow Rail- tombs. Did return home in truth the coolic cleaning down hero's return.
way from Shiuchow. The chauffeur was cranking the mentality could not, of course, The good fellow sooner or
apply to Hong Kongites later becomes Monday. this afternoon to the back verandah to the strains
In Mutual Interests.
New. ideas were shown to Can-car in order to restart when a find the wife some of a Cantonese dirge anent, the
This brings me back to the ton by these veterans. In appear- bandit suddenly appeared and Here we close the place down at nothing fellow,
midnight. what disconsolate. She was loss of four copper cents down what I would term-although I a manhole in Des Voeux Road, difficulty of trying to read a Chinance, the rank and file were like thrust a Mauser pistol in the
Men have found dying for When fully awake Iese warlord's mind. other Cantonese soldiers, but in Ministers faces and demanded detest the word-low-spirited. Central,
Contrasted with the days when their bearing, they gave much their valuables. They had no freedom much simpler than get
option but to comply and were With her eyes looking as if they realised why tumbling waters
forced to hand over their signet ting it. might hold tears at any moment, and sweet warblings engrossed Canton city was over-run by mer-evidence of Russian training. ahe sadly informed me that she my semi-conscious thoughts. Cenary troops and adventurers in
rings, gold watches and money The rubber even secured their We are not likely, according had again been "let down." It My mind was taken up with uniform swarmed over any part took a long while to discover that picture we saw at the of Kwangtung that would yield what was the matter, but even Queen's Theatre last night revenue, the province has not too could dictate terms if he was so waistcoats, which were in the car. to the "Morning Post," to see de Other Chinese stood by but cided the question as to whether And should these old friends whether they were accomplices is Jem Mace could knock any of tually I ascertained that a ter- "Moana" it was called, being a many soldiers. Quite enough for inclined,
clash Canton will be involved in not certain Anyhow, they did the modern boxers into a cocked rier puppy which she been pro, record of existence on a South a settled government, but there
is room for others. A
Is that so? mised had failed to materialise. Pacific island. Apart from the I am of the opinion that Li serious disturbances which may not attempt to assist the foreign hat But what upset her was that this appropriate incidental music Chal-sum does welcome the re- or may not, have far-reaching ers who proceeded to the neigh- was the second canine Infant (plenty of ukes, and anxaphones turn of Chang Fal-hul to his consequences. That is why trade bouring town of Changpingchow Says Peter, home is a place which had died or had been dis- in solemn vein) and the pictures fold. Drafts for war service have between Canton and Hong Kong and Informed the magistrate, and where s chap could do as he patched, to another home; and que scenes portrayed, which in she was very keen on having a themselves. pulled the film well drained the Canton garrison of is comparatively peaceful The requested that he should provide pleased if it wasn't for his wife,
trusted fighters and LI Chal- demand for merchandise is appara soldier as escort owing to the dog in the house, saying that it out of the rut of ordinary cine sum's position has not been too ent but businessmen are appre- unsafety of the road, He com- is lonesome with no one but the achievements, this photoplay secure. Furthermore, he has hensive of binding themselves plied and the Ministers returned ing, according to Mr NL servants to talk to during the possesses virtues which should
area the Peak won't like day. She didn't care what commend it. It does not show strips of valuable territory which when a small, dark cloud is on the to Peking this evening without Smith, a high class residential
he can afford to hand over to his horizon. kind of a dog it was but he us a single Paris frock; nor how old subordinate to look after in wanted a dog Tears were a poor but honest Lad made his
mutual mightily imminent. V Well, to cut pile; nor how a poor but honest
a long story short, I took her ya went right in spite of her
over to Hong Kong and bought a black chow puppy.lt three dollars fifty.It is almost as broad as it is long, has a black tongue, short stockyylegs
Softails and hardly any ears. In fact, it is Just about the most plebian:
self. Better than anything else, it does not ahow cus- a{ civilised.
and love
(Continued on
Feeling of Security We should know withi month or even less Cloud on Horizo The problem then hinges on am tempted to an and Chang Fan hul e attitude. Will he Ga
corbins, the be content to work with 13 Ch
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bordir
further mishap Reyter.
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Sham Shui Po is now becom
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The best thing about a popular song is that it is not popular
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SOME
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very
sirat the
noon has been in
not done. BULTE
Says Peter, many a man who complains that his salary fan't, what it should be wouldn't be able to live on It if it was,
The newly wed young lady who walked into the Kowloon branch
of the Dairy Farm and demand-
ed some meat without any gris- tle, bone, or fat should have asked for an egg.
King Edward arrests.al- leged pirates, according to a
he was dead. morning poster
Thought
Says Peter, people with single- the right of way before starting track minds should be sure
anything