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China Mail
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No. 25,976 HONG KONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1928. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
LOOKING FOR
TROUBLE. COLONY'S FINANCES
& SURPLUS.
AUSTRALIA'S GREAT SHIPPING STRIKE.
EXTREMIST LEADER COMES HERE?
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LAZARUS
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Manager:,
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IS THAT SO?
INCREASE THIS YEAR 300,000 TONS IDLE. MR. CHEN KUNG-POH. Thoughts Terse, Perverse--and Worse.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE
BOTH GO UP.
BALANCE OF 5 MILLIONS.
The Colony's Intest financial
The Powers and the Government at Nanking. statement shows that revenue is still exceeding the expenditure and that there is balance in hand SYMPATHY ALLIED WITH WATCHFULNESS.
[By "Li Chung-yin."]
of over $5,500,000..
Revenue in May was $1,961,- 645.87. Expenditure was $1,777,-
THE WORKERS UNSUCCESSFUL
APPEAL TO PREMIER.
“UNLAWFUL ACT.”
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BELIEVED TO HAVE ARRIVED
FROM SHANGHAI.
'Peakiness and perkiness are as STRIKE & HANKOW RECORD. for apart as the top tram station
and Kowloon, Melbourne, Yesterday, That a Nationalist extremist Twenty-six overseas and 89 politician, who is certainly per
Ethyl denies that her spirits sona non grata with the Canton are rather low. vessels, aggregating coastal 300,000 tons are at present idle most unlikely to seek sanctuary Government, and who would be and the crews of eight inter-state in Hong Kong, has come to the The reform of the piers again? vessels have 'bee npaid off..
"Reconstruction of Pier."
a.
Holland has put a duty on im-
The Prime Minister, Mr. S. M. Colony and has been staying here Bruce, has refused the request of for a few days is believed by a
leading vernacular paper, the ported wood shoes from Belgium.
A clog to trade? Suggested new name for the
Although cross-currents have not altogether faded out in the 510.14. The balance on May 31, the Waterside Workers to arrange "Kung Sheung Yat Po," to be a
sen of Chinese politics, the surface is calm and no Nationalist leader of note challenges the statement broadcasted to the world that one government functions for the whole country, namely, the one at Nanking."
1928. was $5,544,628.16.
Figures for the
first five months of this year are also satis factory,
The revenue for May this year is higher than that of last year! by about $340,000 and the expen- diture Is higher by about
Dr. C. C. Wu, a former Foreign Minister, has. stated that the time is now ripe for the revision of all of China's Treaties. The Powers, on the other hand, nearly all show an inclination to be, $437,000. sympathetic on major questions but to be strict when isolated in- stances occur of foreign lives, property or interests being endanger-
ed.
It is these disconnected incidents which cause uneasiness.
If
one is bent on "looking for trouble" in China, especially in out of the way places, he is likely to be successful to a degree.
WILL SHE MAKE GOOD?
Conditions being what they
are at present, with huge tracts
of country inaccessible except over caravan routes full of dan-
One of many similar looking men in the defeated Northern Army, who is unlikely to "look for trouble."
ger, or by tortuous waterways which are notorious for pirates, it is not to be wondered at that: petty civil war or rebellion should still exist in more pro- vinces than one.
Whereas revenue for January to May, 1928, is $9,749,143.05 (or $1,349,691.46 more than the cor- responding period in 1927), ex- penditure was only $8,190,276.47 (or $745,760.79 more than that of the first five months in 1927):
POLICE WEDDING.
POPULAR OFFICER MARRIED
TO-DAY.
fact.
Mr. Chen Kung-poh (Chan
a conference for the settlement of the strike. He says the request| is equivalent to asking the Gov-Kung-pok in Cantonese) le said Flying Squad-Suicide Squad, ernment to be a party to an unlawful act.--Reuter.
OIL WORLD.
to have come here from Shang- hai. He is also said to have met
was
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A new fast service has been be-
Mrs. Lino Chung-kai (another gun from London to Cologne. Leftist, whose husband assassinated in Canton in 1925) | on board the steamer, but Mrs.
BETTER UNDERSTANDING IN Liao's whereabouts are unknown
NEAR FUTURE.
CURTAILMENT PROGRAMME.,
Efforts to trace Mr. Chen have been unsuccessful. The story is
that, he came here, intending to stay a few days prior to vlaiting. the Philippine Islands,
The Red Taint,
Eau indeed!
р
"Ten Bonus Frauds .”
It is
only the purchaser who is really given away with a pound of tes."
A sweep was arrested through a sooty finger-print. All the
same, he wasn't as black as he
Paris police have just collected a large number of international
New York, Yesterday. There are Wall Street rumours that leaders of the oil industry Mr. Chen is best known as the seemed. throughout the world are serious-leader of the batch of Nationalist ly considering some pogamme of leaders, mostly natives of Canton curtailment. This has received and therefore called the "Can-pickpockets. Quite a pick pocket some confirmation by the an- tonese clique," who are accused full. nouncement that Mr. Teagle, pre-of bearing the red taint. Mr. sident of the Standard Oil Com- Wang Ching-wai is the accepted pany of New Jersey, on his re- chieftain but he is an exile on show. A tattooed lady.
Suggestion for the Sookumpoo alist Generals in the field called a RECEPTION AT POLICE H.Q.turn from Europe stated that a account of political opposition.
"better understanding in the When negotiations were open- Learning that in an auction halt, voluntary or involuntary, to argue over the division of the Mr. Timothy Murphy was mar-world oil programme is in prosed in 1926 to settle the boycott spoils. In the interval, the ried this morning at St. Joseph's pect."-Reuter's American Ser-of Hong Kong by Canton, Mr. 500m £3,000 was given for a Northerners began freebooting in Church, Kennedy-road, in the vice.
Chen was one of the three dele- can't have his for twice that mummy, little Willie says they the Kailan Mining Administra-presence of a large number of tion's zone and in the Imperial fellow-members of the Hong Tombs, and also launched a for-Kong Police Force and other Torn hope at Chefoo, in Shantung. friends.
SIGNIFICANT FACTORS.
The bride was Miss May Much as strife is deprecated, Colbert, who arrived from Home one cannot resist the temptation this week. She is the daughter of to feel a certain amount of ela- Mr. and Mrs. P. Colbert, Liver- tion over the trend of events. pool."
GOOD WEATHER.
North west, to west winds, moderate; fair, is the forecast until
to-morrow.
spector. He is now Assistant CHINA “DECLARES War on Director of Criminal Intelligence.
NARCOTICS.”
The groom is Assistant Super- First of all, General Pei intendent of Police, a rank to Chung-hai is directing the cam-which he was recently promoted OPIUM IN FAR EAST. paign in person. This is signi- from that of Chief Detective In- ficant. General Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi took over Peking and Feng Yu-hsiang (the "Christian
Mr. W. Kent, Assistant Super- General") cast covetous eyes on intendent of Police, gave the bride Tientsin. General Pei Chung-hsi away and Chief Inspector Peter brought his army up from Han-Grant acted as "best man."
of (consisting mostly Kwangsi and Hunan men) to be in at the kill.
kow
The fact that it was left to him to deal the final blow can be taken to. indicate that he enjoys the confidence of the
JAPAN'S "SMALL CROP,”
Geneva, Yesterday..
The service was performed by At the sitting of the League of the Rt. Rev. H. Valtorta, Vicar Nations Committee on Opium, the Apostolic of Hong Kong, and Chinese delegate declared that one Father Riganti officiated at the of the first acts of the Nationalist organ.
Government had been to declare war against narcotics....Z
The Japanese delegate said that
Large Attendance.. Miss M. A. Lysaught and Mlas
Nanking Government (and, of M. Kent were the bridesmaids. Japan's small production of opium course, Marshal Chiang Kai-
The bride wore a white geor-was exclusively for medicinal pur- shek) that General Yen Hsi-gette dress trimmed with pearls poses. Reuter. shan (who has gone back to and gold roses, also a veil of Brus- Shansi) bears him no ill-will; gels lace and wreath of orange! and that the "Christian Gen-blossoms. The bridesmaids were eral" is content to let well in creations of pale pink crepe de alone.
Ichine.
Further, General Pei Chung- The reception was held in the hsi must be placing some value gymnasium hall at Police Head- on Nanking's confidence in him quarters, where an exceedingly as, should his Nationalist col- large number assembled to drink leagues jump on his rear, he the health of Mr. and Mrs. would indeed be in a precarious Murphy. position.
SIR B. WEI YUK.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
MISSING PLANE.. FOUND FLOATING NEAR THE
SCILLY ISLES.
TAKEN IN TOW.
Land's End:
Mr. Chen Kung.poh.
sum,
A landslide is promised for Mr. Hoover, whose opponents say that if they promised anything of the kind, the landa lied indeed.
A paper asks, "Do Women We should Earn Their Keep?" like to ask, "Do Women Keep Their Earnings ?**
A correspondent is dissatisfied with the uniform of our police.. .. What is wanted is some- thing more arresting.
"Government
From the Gazette," notification by the Harbour Master: — “One diving barge, flying a red flag, a motor boat and two sampans will be em- ployed on the above work for a period of two months,”
That paragraph above reads very much like an extract from the scenario of "The Volga Boat man."
A woman juror was reproved for not being in time.... But every woman loves the latest pos- sible.
A woman of ninety has just flown to Paris....But now« : adays even centenarians belong to the rising generation.
At Southampton Docks the other week a young lion escaped. It was understood to be wanting a job in Fleet-street.
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A diplomat of Chill has been Peru. And now the other in.. fighting a duel with one from:
habitants of the two countries want to know why they were not allowed to take part.
Some rich, men have nothing but praise for the deserving poor -nothing at all. -70
A "wonder instrument” hes been invented which displaces orchestras. But where is the Santa Fe train; but railways ers Cecil de Mille got married in a wonder instrument for displacing used to couplings,
neighbours' planos?
"Hobbs Better." Better? He's. It is an odd thing that when still best!
you contract debts they do not get any smaller.....
Song for No. I day “Every- where a Shroff is Calling"
་་?
Income Tax Collector Touched."| For how much?
Gunpowder was found under a platform at Euston. It might have awakened the sleepers.
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Outside some re-building opera- tions in Upper Baker-street is a sign: "Danger. Work going on." This looks like a warning to job. shirkers.
Hammond didn't make a duck in the Surrey and Gloucester match, so let's have none of your
A fight at a Sunderland wed-nonsense about "Hammond eggs.'
Iding was stopped by the best
man, who thus proved himself.
Modern parents complain that gates officially appointed with
they cannot get children out of Dog raises alarm of fire. Was bed in the morning... Not Borodin's approval, Mr. Eugene it a loss-retriever? Chen being another.:
Before the peace conference Pictures by Air Feat." Bat, Mr. Chan Kung-poh left for
an early rising generation/ We What
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Hankow-newly wrested from are afraid the pictures were sident did the well-known re-
skled. the Northerners--to become the
1 cm 1. first Nationalist Commissioner of
It is complained that Magis- Foreign Affairs there. He was in trates haven't time. They give office there when feeling was London, Yesterday. stirred up against the British so much to other people, o'clock on Thursday Concession and the movement
Flying Squad speedsters get
gets free thrills.
Later
Not Confirmed.
•
The honeymoon is being spent
At ten in Macao. The bride's travelling What of the immediate conse-dress was of grey georgette trim- morning, Lieutenant Demougeot, culminated in the Concession be- free petról ...and the public Take the Communist scare
quences of this campaign?
med with blue and silver grey fur. who has been the leading figure in ing overrun.
the new scheme was catapulted which is still prevalent in
The Northern Army, of which
from the deck of the liner. "Ile de Since then Mr. Chen has been Plymouth painters have gone (according to Reuter) there are Kwangtung. There are no regu- only 10,000 left out of about
France" with the Continental malt described as an out-and-out Red on strike. Those at the R.A. are lar Communist hordes. When 100,000 two years ago, is being
from America, and also as a Pink: Be that as not out in sympathy.
Lieutenant Demougeot started It may he worked closely with
started an opportunity: occurs, the agita- driven towards that part of the
Lady Oxford says Prime Minis- tor rallies to his side the bandite Great Wall of China which separ- BALANCE OF HIS ESTATE IN from a point off the Irish coast, but other extremists whose votes
after taking off from the "Ile de Marshal Chiang Kai-shek sought ters don't get enough. To keep COURT. and robbers and then whips up ates China Proper from Man-
France" nothing was heard of him at the recent fifth plenary session them in Prime condition? churia. the enthusiasm of the peasants in
Seaplanes from Cherbourg fruit-of the Nationalist Party. H the country. These cause unrest According to Information at
lessly searched the waters in hla Then the pendulum swung the "Women Shouted Down" Mr. but can offer little resistance to the moment of writing, the
Several well-known names of line of route, and shipping was other way. The Moderates won N. Peck says he will believe this Northerners have not quite reach-
warned to be on the look-out. the day and Mr. Chen and his when he hears it. trained and well equipped troops. ed the end of their tether. They deceased residents appear in the The Air Ministry received a friends receded into the foreign
It is the same with other pro have yet to pass through Peitaiho Government Gazette under a
We see a reference to "police vinces. Communism is often a (the noted summer resort), Chin notice by the Official Administra message from the British steamer concessions at Shanghal. handy word-both. for the gov wangtao (a: port where foreign or that ten sums (none smaller Mostyn" stating that her crew had The local Police have no 1 men boxers. We hope there was ernor who wants to levy a new warships call frequently) and than $100 and the highest buing seen a white lifebelt floating off formation that Mr. Chen came nothing Savidge about them.
here at all. tax for his conveniently-called then Shanhalkwan, where there $716.68) are lying in his hands, anti-red campaign, and for the is a passage through the Great being balance of intestate estates.
Malls Saved. S The Administrator gives notice
SOVIET'S PLANS. mischief-maker, out to benefit Wall out into the beyond.
Lieut. Demongoet's missing BER- that claims for same' -'must be KEEPING AWAY.
made within five years from date plane has been discovered in the ENDEAVOURING TO ATTRACT All this week despatches have of deceased person concerned, en south-west of the Scilly Isles FOREIGN CAPITAL,
"and" has been taken in tow, “ The come down showing that the Among the names are those of pilot and his companions are anfe. at the moment has become a pur- units of the Manchurian Army Sir Boshan Wei Yuk (formerly suit. I refer to the advance of which had been occupying the member of the Legislative Coun- A British wireless message states
Reuter places referred to (in the rear of cll), against which there is that Demourest and the Northerners) have been $716.68, the largest amount. The
pantous were rescued by gradually withdrawn back into late Sir Boshan's sons Include Mr.
trawler and brought to Manchuria, -, W. Lock Wei (who has represent
The Manchurian forces, led by ed China in the Davis Cup lawn General Chang Hsueh-liang, who tennis) and Mr. Wel Wing-sam, has openly expressed his readia Police official in Cantons who ness to join hands with the Na- took part in the reception of H.Eve tionalists were it not for the the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, pressure of the Japanese Imperial K.C.M.G.) during his visit to Can- Government, have withdrawn of ton in Marchin course, to avoid bein embroiled Sir Boshan died in April, 1924. in the confilct Wil they let the Another name is that of Cap tain EH Lawrence: ($170,18) and C. Cattrall. ($480,88);
· himself,
- PURSUIT, NOT WAR,
The war of most consequence
the Nationalists in the extreme north-east of China Proper and the retreat of the Northerners who have been driven from the Yangtaze Valley up to Peking and then eastward towards Man- churia.
Those who wish to see peace in Chiun at least in places which count for trade will al most be glad that the National ists are taking things seriously, and really making the Northern era run. After the "fall" of Peking and Tientsin, the Nation
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MANY INDUSTRIES.
C.S.P. about the F.S.? =
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The seaside landlady will take anybody in but draws the line at trying to board the boats.
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Miss M. A. Gunn, the world's champion jumper, has been mar, ried, but not in a jumper suit.........
What do we do for a summer cold, you ask, Emmeline? We'do nothing for it, as we do not wish' to encourage it.
A paper predicts that women will be going in for curves, again. So when bad lads follow a girl in the street, they will soon notice if she looks round.
Frankly, we do not believe that tale from New York which says that when a British heavyweight is boxing there, a band will be engaged to play. "God Save the King all the time to keep him standing up.
"Sharks In Harbour." Ice House-street aquatic meeting?
The Hawthornden literary |prize has gone to the author of, u "Old Persian runner for sale, Tarka: the Otter." Mr. Wallace length 191t.”—Advt." If he is not is hot stuff, but this seems to be too old he ought to have been en- Kotter.TV
tered for the Olympic running contests.
Moscow, Yesterday, The Council of the Peoples "Lunch Scores." Always- Commissaries of Soviets has ap- it's a good one!
omente
ed, of a plan to deve sions in Ruskia
together with
mitt has
The closing demand, to-day
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to attracting foreign
oncessions structedi
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The use of vehicles and intoxi- cants is to be forbidden in Greece Mr. Baldwin is about to have on election day, and the army is two garden parties. For garden to be confined to barracks Com-party politics
But how will the Greeks know treat pad there's an election on?
alonWoollen Stockings as a Bul. MAN
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when our pipes were frozen, maneuv