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HYMEN, CUPID, MARS, AND LENIN'S SPIRT.
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Tokyo, Oct. 11.
Hymen and Cupid have come to
CUBA AND CHINA.
LIKELY TO ALLOW CHINESE IMMIGRATION?
AN INCREASE FORESHADOWED
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Peking, Oct. 18, An increase in Chinese emigra-| the aid of Mars and the Spirit of tin to Cuba is forecnal in a state- Lenin in an effort to re-establishment issued by the Ministry of civilian control of the Kuomintang Foreign Affairs announcing Party in China, and the Chinese na agreement with the Cuban govern- ment permitting the entry of certain tionalist revolutionary movement.
classes of Chinese emigranta. Following announcement in Japan
Cuba's decision to break with the of the betrothal of Mel-ling American policy of absolute exclu- Soong to General Chiang Kat-sion of Chinese, was said to have shek, an American who was close followed many months of negotia- to the Kuomintang loaders in the tion by the Chinese Minister in hey-day of their success in the Havana. The latter's report to the Yangtse Valley told the United nese citizens would henceforth be Foreign Office here said that Chi- Pross a strange story of the love allowed to unter Cuba subject to plots within the group which con- these qualifications:- stituted the leadership movement.
of
the
1.-Each Chinese immigrant must have complete evidence that he has 600 pounds in available money.
2. Each must submit assurance to the Cuban authorities providing| that he has a definite occupation on landing.
This American, who for a time was in the most intimate contact with the Hankow group, said that was rivalry for some time there
The local Chinese authorities feel between Eugene Chen, then the Nationalist Foreign Minister, and that the question in one for China General Chiang for the lections and Cuba to decide without the in- of Mies Seong. The girl Choaa terference by the United States. the general because of his youth They say that the number of Chi- ncao, under the new regulations, and the fact he held a greater place who will go to Cuba for the pur in the party than Chen.
pose of being smuggled, along with White Chen, according to the "United the Johnny Walker and Press" informant, yielded graceful- Label, into the United States, is ly to refusal and not long after was negligible.
The Chinese minister to Cuba re- forced to flee to Russia with Madame Sun Yat-sen, widow of ported that there was no funda-
mental abjectlon in Havana or else Sun Yat-sen, "father of where to the immigration of Chi-
Dr.
of
the revolution," and a sister of Miss nese except their poverty and the fear that certain disease germa Scong.
might be brought into the islands.
The Cuban negotiations are not only part of a general programme| undertaken by the foreign office of General Chang Tso-lin's government
A date for the marriage General Chiang to Miss Soong has not yet been set, as far as can be learned in Japan, but it is expected
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to take place in the not distant for the purpose of breaking down future and after his honeymoon the the cordon of exclusion laws enact- General la "very Hikely" to resume ed against Chinese throughout the active participation in the muddled world. Officials say that no
until political-military situation in China.nouncements will be made The Kuomintang is ready to take some definite step has been accom plished. It is understood that ne- General Chlang back at any time, gotiations Are proceeding with the "United Press" informant said, several important South Amerlean and will give him an important countries and that some of them military post.
promise to result successfully.
The generalissimo is said to have!
The marriage, it was pointed instigated the programme himself out, will do much towards re of the ground that the policy of ab- establishing control of the Nation- solute exclusion followed in North alist revolutionary movement in the America and Australia prevented hands of the group which headed the free economic development of it when Canton's victorious armies China. Local officials believe that atarted their northern sweep to the foreign countries are justified in. barring immigrants without founda- Wuhan cities of the Yangtse,
tions but fools that the restriction Miss Soong is a alster of Madame should not be extended to Chinese Sun Yat-sen and her brother, T. V. citizens of ample, means and hold- Soong, is one of the outstanding ing legitimate figures of the Kuomintang and was United Press, minister of finance in the original Nationalist government. The mari
occupations.
riage will mean. that the Soong DEVOTION TO DUTY.
Lovel and Storage of water in family and its friends and relatives Reservoirs on October 1, 1927:-
CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.
Tytam
Tytam Byewash
Tytum Intermediate
Tytam Tuk
Wong Nei Chung
Pokfulum
1926
1927
will be one of the dominant factors RAILWAY DISASTER AVERTED
BY FRENCH GIRL. .... in the party, the "United Press" in- formant believed.
It was stated there is not likely
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Level 6 London, quoting Moscow dispatches, ed, under
do. 20 8" Level
most tragic circum.
that Eugene Chen already hos maratances, by Renés Chassenotte, ried Madame Sun Yat-sen. That daughter of the Station Master at Rheims and do. Level Chen is extremely fond of the Prunay, between
do.
do. 17'11"B do.
widow of Dr. Sun there сап
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be no doubt, the "United Press"
The Station Master was crossing
[Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow"; informant said, but a marriage be the line to the signal cabin, when
A denotes "Above Overflow"]
Storage in millions and decimals
Tytam
of gallons.
1926
. 1927 384.80
830.55
Tytam Byewash
Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk
Wong Nei Chung Pokfulum
tween the two is unlikely as it would be was struck down by a passing
train. mean that Madame Sun would lose
the strong hold she now has on the
Renée, surprised at seeing the
Kuomintang as the widow of its signal not function, left the station 2.42 inte leader. As the widow of Dr. and found her father, whom she 195.00 195.90 Sun, it was said, Madame Sun carried to a waiting-room, where 1,419,00 1,419.00 wields a great influence. As a wife he soon died.
22.87
30.34 11.45 of Eugene Chen this influence might thought was for the safety of the Mastering her grief, Renée's sole 60.00 61.06
Total ..... 2,118.41 2,010,39 Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in milions and de- cimals of gallons during the month of September.
well be lost.
The "United Press" informant trains, so, knowing how to work the compared the Soong sisters to the signals, she took her father's place famous Langhorne sisters of Vir- in the cabin, where she remained ginia, noted beauties of the United for five hours, assuring the safe States, and all of them, it was said, passage of train after train, thus 1326 1927
avoiding a disaster. Consumption
268.24 314.54 contracted marriages as brilliant as those of the Langhorne sisters. Ons Estimated population 105,040 415,360:
sister marled Dr. Sun, another THREE MEN COWED. Consumption per head
22.0 per day
H. H. Koong, who claims to be a Full Supply in all Rider Main Dis- lineal descendant of the great tricts during September, 1026 and Chinese Philosopher, Confucius, 1927.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS
LEVEL.
25.2
1020 1027 Kowloon Reservoir .... Lavel 09"B. Shek Kxi Pul Reaorvoir Do. Level Storage in millions and decimals of gallons.
1926 *1927 362.50 -844.71
and now the third is to marry Chiang Kai-shek who, in many ways, is the outstanding hero of the revolution at present.
RESULT OF A HEALTHY IMAGINATION.
Napa, California, Oct. 6. Following a hurried telephone| call from a ranch near by that à The "United Fress" informant man had been shot and killed there, was confident that Madame Sun police rushed to the scene and found and Chen are very active-in Mon- father and his two sons huddled cow in an effort to regain control in a corner of a back room afraid
to venture out. of the revolutionary, movement and
They told the officers that a jug| said that the degree of their suc of wine-sitting on the table had cess will depend largely upon the been shattered by a bullet and two Kowloon Reservoir Shek Lai Pul Reservoir 100.80 100.80 support they receive from Russian more had been lodged in the wall.
Investigation proved that the clements interested in their succcés, Reception Reservoir
With Borodin, late adviser of the two holes in the wall were ordin- Total
458.30 445.51 Hankow regime, Karakhan, late ary and that the wine jug and been broken by the powers from within. Consumption of water in Kowloon ambassador in Peking, and other
A healthy imagination did the in millions and decimals of gallons dur- influential, Russians close to the rest.-United Press. ing the month of September,
China situation, now In. Moscow, it 1926 1927
Chen and Madame Consumption
81.78 105.83 was believed Estimated population 156,880 161,920 Sun have a good chance of success. Consumption per head'.
It is entirely possible, the have gone over to the Nanking fac per day...
17.8 21.7 "United Press" informant said, that tion, then headed by Chiang Kai- Full Supply in all districts during the apparent coalition between shek. Now Chiang'a marriage, and Angust, 1020 and 1927.
Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Shishan, the activities of the Kuomintang The Government Analyst's reports governor of Shanal, may have been propagandista in America, it was show that the quality of the water is caused by the efforts of Chen and argued, may make a coalition, be- satisfactory.
Madame Sun in Moscow. The in tween the old Hankow and Nanking Total rainfall to September 30, 1920,
formant believed it likely Russia is crowds possible and gain for them 02.09; September 30, 1927, 09.25.
assisting both Feng and Yen. the united support of the Kuomin When the original Hankow civil tang societies in foreign countries. fan group left, the Wahan area, the While the "United Press" corres- informant said, it was planned a pondent, is unable to vouch for the majority of them should proceed to accuracy of this information, it the United States in an effort to bears many of the ear-marks of get support of Chinese Kuomintang probability and only events can organizations in the country for indicata whether or not it is true. the Hankow regime All the Chin- It is given merely as an interest- ere Kuomintang Beleties in Amering story from a person who was, ica, with the exeption of that in close to all those mentioned
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