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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1927.
62 AND 28.
Scathing Comment From Sexagenarian Princess's
Shanghai.
PROCEDURE QUESTIONED. Grave Questions For Canton To Answer.
Although there are signs that the Canton authorities are restraining the boycott pickets in Canton, the following editorial in the "China Press," of Shanghai, of November 8, is still of con- siderable interest:---
Complaints.
SCANDALOUS ARTICLES.
Insulting Letter Received Daily
Bonn, Sunday.
"SQUEEZE!"
Canton Pickets Under Suspicion.
MALADMINISTRATION RIFE.
Two Boycott Societies May Be Disbanded.
Chinese institutions which have Riding on the pillion of her adversely affected foreign trade fiance's motor cycle is among the have come under the attention of pleasures Indulged in by the Sexa-the Canton authorities. genarian Princess Victoria.
Maladministration by those in Interviewed by Reuter, she ex-charge has led to discussion in plained that the ex-Kaiser, who in Canton official circles which may any case was not the head of the lead to the disbandment of the Schaumberg-Lippe family,
with Anti-British and Anti-Japanese drew his approval of her marriage Boycott Societies. in consequence of scandalous news- paper articles,
The Frincess bitterly complained of hundreds of insulting letters she receives dally-many
anonymous.
of
them
"I am only too glad to have some- one protect and love me and will
how old she actually is in years?”
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It is alleged that persons, under guise of maintaining the boycott, have engaged in the landing of merchandise for their own bene- fit, taking unfair advantage of abnormal conditions.
Pickets are under suspicion of having allegedly taken "squeeze" to pass through imports on which
comman-
Evidently, experience in this world teaches some people noth- Ing. One would have supposed that the Cantonese boycotters, warned by the loss in revenue, work and all that goes to make a prosperous state of society, that accrued to them through the last boycott, would be willing to write it off as a total loss and not try it again, yet here we have a Reuter cable stating that Canton be only too glad to fulfil my hus-the owners are willing to pay. again is permented with pickets band's wishes." who
Prestige of Moderates. are confiscating British
M. Zoubkoff, her fiance, admitted goods, and searching passengers the disparity in ages, but added: posed to be voluntary organisa- The Boycott Societies are sup- who arrive on steamers to sec "Every woman would like to be as tions formed at public meetings whether they have brought British goods into the sacred young as the Princess no matter representative of all classes of the precincts of Canton.
The Princess keeps it by danc- people, and without any Govern-
ment support. And the question at once
Activities by the arises: What have the Britishing, tennis, swimming, and walk-
boycott Ing.-Router..
pickets have decreased during the done now that their goods should
The "Romance" In Brief. '.
last few days. The prestige of be barred from a port which was
Berlin, Oct. 29.
the Moderates, under General Li opened by treaty so many years Alexander Zoubkoff, the im- Chai-sum, who is the ago? Another question also arises pecunious scion of a minor Russian der-in-chief, is increasing dally as to the right of the Cantonese, noble family, whose marriage short- and the majority of merchants under that treaty, to put bars ly to across the trade of any friendly will give him the ex-Kaiser as a while
Princess Schaum Burglippe hope that steps will be taken; nation which is supposed to enjoy brother-in-law, has issued an in- and extremists is at a discount, the privileges of that treaty?
dignant denial of the report that he to wind up the Boycott Societies. Is not the Cantonese Government
Dosing Restrictions Off? responsible to anyone or is it as once earned his living as a dancing lawless as the robbers and pirates contradicted as it "annoys the Prin- the port for several months, Hong partner and wishes the statement After refraining from calling at of Bias Bay? These are grave questions, which Canton may ces." He insists also on a correc-Kong (West River) steamboats have to answer 800ner than it tion of his age he is not twenty-flying the British flag may touch
three but twenty-eight." The at Dosing again. thinks, for acts such as these can readily be construed into declara- bride, who is sixty-two, bitterly Dosing is on the way to Wu- tions of war in which inter- complains of Press attacks as ro- chow. Officiousness on the part prefation Canton would be well gards the disparity in age and says of officials of the local depot of advised to act warily.
that experience compensates him the Anti-Smuggling Bureau, who insisted on searching all ships, It all seems so senseless, these for what he lacks in age.
caused the Hong Kong boats to boycotts against a nation that
It is stated that the ex-Kaiser in-pass the port over. certainly has shown itself to be
News has been received that a long-suffering since no retaliation formed his sister ex-Princess Vic- has as yet been made, but toria that if she marries Alexander new local director has been ap patience is a virtue that hangs by Zoubkoff he will break off all rela-pointed to the depot and that this official is notifying steamboat a pretty slender thread, and if tions.
agents that orders for searching are being relaxed.
Berlin, Nov. 6.
the influence of Leftista
Seamen Draw Bonus.
Canton is that the Opinion
that thread were to snap, down It is reported from Bonn that the might come a sword of vengeance ecclesiasticals have intimated that that would make Canton shudder they will not permit the marriage for several decades. China-in- in the Church as they regard it cluding Canton-has guaranteed as "unethical" owing to the diapar- authorities will grant no exten- freedom for trade to all the na-ity in ages,
sion to the period fixed for paying|| tions that are now on her shores. The registry ceremony is expect-out the demobilisation bonus to But if a boycott-allowed, If noted to take place at Bonn on Novem- strikers whose names remain on the register of the "Canton-Hong sanctioned, by the aemblance of her 24.
Kong Strike Association." government that prevails-is put
into force by those whom the
Government should control, what MEXICAN OUTRAGE. large number of the strikers were
answer can be made?
This particular boycott does not seem to be dictated by the merchants, for naturally, they want to buy British goods to re- It plenish their alender stores.
BOMBS FOR EX-PRESIDENT OBREGON.
ASSAILANTS ARRESTED.
It has been pointed out that a
seamen on ocean-going vessels and 'that these men, now at sea, will not be back in time.
seamen's Information from boarding-houses in Hong Kong is that a number of ex-strikers who is the hooligan labour element and
happen to be here now have pro- New Mexico, Yesterday.
ceeded to Canton to draw their if the cables are based upon
Ex-President Obregon (who is a bonus of $100 (part cash and part trustworthy information, that candidate for the Presidency) while bonds). particular section of society is driving to a bullfight, was attacked being goaded on by certain politi- by a bystander who flung two bombs cal leaders, "who for their own at his car.
panions were seriously injured.
Hong Kong Rice Junks, No solution has yet been found for dealing with the attacks on party ends, require as much sup- Obregon escaped with cuts from rice junka going up the Canton port as they can get." Rather the broken glass, but his com- River from Hong Kong, disgraceful, is it not, for politi cians who claim to have the best interests of their country at heart to support, even it they did not instigate, such flagrant viola- tion of the treaties? Fine rulers they would be were power to govern all China eyer given into their hands!
Service.
Arms for Nicaragua.
Local rice merchants have Two attackers and a third man petitioned the Canton Government were arrested-Reuter's American to post gunboats at strategic points along Chinese waterways. According to the "Hong Kong New York, Yesterday. Evening Post," the Canton The New York American" re-authorities are not in a position produces the facsimile of a docu- to promise permanent protection For three years now, both ment purporting to be an order sign-and feel that a feeling of false
ed by the Mexican President Calles security may be created. Britain and Japan have been
The merchants, continues the 12.80 p.m. harassed by this foolishness on authorising the payment of
the part of Canton, and it would 100.000 pesos to Zepeda for the report, are in negotiation with a seem about time for some astute purchase of Arms and ammunition syndicate which has a number of statesman to suggest a remedy for the Liberal Revolutionary Army armed junks whose business it is The only one which seems to be the Nicaragua-Router. uppermost in people's minds is
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the meeting of force with force and treating Canton as a Bias Bay on a larger scale, but this is not along lines of modern diplo macy, which is ever seeking a peaceful solution but when peace fails, what is one to do?
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At a dinner at the American TO BE PUBLICLY EXHIBITED Legation, the American Minister presented Dr. Nansen with a medal from the Explorers Club, of Now York. Reuter
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