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"TRADES UNIONISM"
PAN-PACIFIC SECRETARIAT
CLASS-WAR CREED
How Truth is Distorted: Kidnapping Upheld!
"WHITE TERROR" OF LAW AND ORDER
Supported by adversity of facts, a treatise is given here- with which tends to prove that there is foreign, influence behind the sinister attempts of Communists to stir up, trouble out here under the guise of trades unioniam.
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1928. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
HIS MAJESTY'S GIGANTIC FRENCH
HEALTH
RESTFUL SLEEP
FRAUD
£600,0001
GENERAL STRENGTH BEING ONE OF THE MOST COLLOSAL
MAINTAINED
MORE OPTIMISTIC TONE
A British official wireless mes- sage from London yesterday, 8 p.m., states:-
SWINDLES
BIG SENSATION
TRAGIC DEATH OF MR. E. SHELLIM
Your Eyes Are Safe With Us.”
LAZARUS
Hong Kong's Only - European Optician.
Careful, accurate werk, first quality lenses, reasonable charges.
Manager:
RALPH A. COOPER, Registered Optometrist (Canada) FLO. (London).
IS THAT SOP
Thoughts Terse, Perverse—and Worse
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"Empty House Ablaze." Nothing
A deserted wife may suffer agony,
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A FORMER TAIPAÑ
SUCCUMES AFTER FALL FROM HIS HORSE
One of our headmastere com-} EX-CHAIRMAN OF THE BANK plains about the amount of office said
On Wednesday, the S. C. M. Post anent the Test Match:- work he has to do....Well, it's "Jardine was 65 not out, top score Paria, Yesterday.
The "China Mail" records with part of his job to fill up forms, isn't in second innings. A part of the Financial and political circles ex- much' regret the death
of Mr.it?
score, taken from the same page, perienced, in the arrest of Miffame Edward Shellim, a former Hong
reads: This morning's bulletin after Marthe Hanau and her divorced Kong talpin, stating that the King had had some bushand, Lazare Bloch, in ciner Mr. Shellim was, very prominent In it
England 2nd Innings C. P. Mend, .b.w., Grimmett restful sleep and that his general tion with what is described one in Hong Kong business and former-
D. R. Jardíne, not out strength was maintained added that of the most colossal financk vin- ly manager in Hong Kong of Messrs. further investigation of the right dles in French records, David Sassoon & Co. He fell from but it is never untold agony.
Both are accused of huge frauds his horse while riding at Brighton, side of the chest would be under- taken during the day. It was subse at the expense of small investors. 'anya Reuter, and died.
Madame directed a vast share in quently announced that an xray
Mr. Shellim was 59 years of age. What is being done by the moderates and extremists is des- examination of the patient had been the investment organisation of the He is survived by his wife, nes Miss Paris "Gazette du Franc" founded Howard, the daughter of another cribed. Reference is made to the Hong Kong Seamen's Strike of carried out.
in 1926 with the avowed idea of former manager of Messrs. David This was the second examination storing public confidence in the Sassoon's and there is one daughter. Is his motto “I serve?”. 1922 and the anti-Hong Kong Boycott of 1926. And it is de- of the King. The first was conduct-'franc. finitely stated that the Pan-Pacific Secretariat, with headquarters ed by Dr. Graham Hodgson, of The "Gazette" boosted the shares
After about 30 years' residence in now in Hankow, plays a big part in the plotting and in the dis.
King's College Hospital, and
There is to be A man had a $285 call to New was of her companies, published articles the Colony, Mr. Shellim retired in
a theatre in Whitehall, semination of a class-war creed based on a curious, illogical distor-ness. Dr. Hodgson again carried, known authorities and once the ed by Mr. A. H. Compton, the pre-
We have always undertaken in the first stages of ill- by several ministers and all the autumn of 1918, being succeed-York from London. Money talks,
Baid that there is nothing really tion of truth. To this Secretariat is affiliated a portion of the out the work to-day.
front page was devoted to a letter sent manager. Mr. Shellim went to Gushes a writer-up of fashion amusing about Government offices. Labour movement in countries peopled by the white race, declares
from M. Poincare.
Shanghai for a year or two and then notes in the Daily Press: The crash came when Inquiries settled down at Home.
are fane from Paris, which is quita were opened on her proposal to
autre chose"
......Quita! issue bonds of 170,000,000 francs at a high interest.
a writer who calls himself "Fung Shui.”
REVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN
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Regarded as **Good”
London, Yesterday,
Reuter says!-
The bulletin issued at 11.30 this morning states that the King had some restful sleep and his general strength is maintained. A further Investigation of the right side of the chest will be undertaken during the day.
STANLEY HEWETT,
Dawson of Fenn.
Radiographs
An examination of the books are aleged to show an uncavored de ficit of £800,000.
'It is alleged that a number of de-
Member of Counell Mr. Shellim was an unofficial member of the Legislative Council," an unofficial Justice of the Peace and an elected member of the Licensing Board.
He had been chairman of the
Given a few more, big Criminal Sessions cases, this would be a good year for Bar gains.
"Peer Who Worked in Shop."
These
A fire took place at the baths at Marshall-street, London. Hot baths!
Is That Sof
Elsewhere on that page, a sports writer said:~~"The night sub-editor has been almost driven to dietrac- tion and will be very glad when it is all over," Wo agree. Then ho'll be able to do either subtraction or addition.
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1 Cam 1 "Five thousand British wives wanted," read out the
bud man from his newspaper.
"Well, they can have mine, for a start.”
From a story, "She came in wear- "Plain Hair Carpets,"
Aing a look of astonishment." plain hair carpet goes well with a Some climate, that. shingle bedded room
3 — d Who says that theatre managers Extracts from the China Mail:- do not read plays? Clayton and ing November at the Botanic Gar- which they wrote themselves.
The record of the rainfall, dur- Waller have just produced ene dens, is as follows:-
Date
Nov. 20.
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Inch
puties are involved in the scandal. Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking M. Poincare, in the Chamber, pro Corporation and was director for mised a thorough investigation many years. He was a director of which judging by the cartloads of Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., Hong documents seized at the "Gazette" ed. Reuter. omec, will likely be of very protract: Kong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Land Re- clamation Co., Ltd., Central Estates, Ltd., Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.; a member of the consulting committee of the China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd,
A hundredweight would be bet- Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., ter if it fell on the head of the com- Tadi. Canton Insurance Office, Ltd. positor who set that
Among other activities Mr. Norwood, Shellim served as member of the
"FRESH, FAIR " "
"Fresh N. E. winds, fair" is the forecast till noon M morrow for Hong Kong and south coast between Lasocks, Gap Rock; and Hainan. For Formosa Channel it is strong N. E. winds."
1929 HOLIDAYS
OFFICIAL LIST FOR NEXT YEAR
SAME AS BEFORE
That furtive organisation, the difficult for lawbreakers; which ex- Pan-Pacific Secretariat, has moved plains why the Pan-Pacific Secre- its headquarters from Shanghai tokow is one of three great industrial tariat has moved to Hankow, Han- Hankow. The reason given is that cities clustered together in mutual the "White Terror" established at slummishness 600 miles up the late issue of the morning bulletin. No significance is attached to the Shanghai provides an uncongenial Yangtze River. It is the depot for It is authoritatively stated that the the Siberian fur and the Russian atmosphere for 'the furtherance of brick-tea trade, and communication bulletin is definitely regarded as its ideals. The "White Terror" is, by river, rail and coolie track with good. One of the doctors is at pre- of course, nothing of the sort. It Soviet territory is excellent. It is sent concentrating his attention on Is certainly bloody enough, but is more so than Peking.or even Nan
the natural centre of China, much the infection of the right side,
actually an attempt by the interna- king. It is thus admirably situated Radiographs of the King again tional leaseholders and the Chinese for the spreading of Communism were taken at Buckingham Palace through China, and a general-Com- this afternoon. The Red Cross capitalists to maintain some sem-munist revolution, to begin in radiographie car was drawn up in blance of law and order in an area China, is the principal plank of the the precincts of the Palace and a which was rapidly relapsing into Secretariat, according to its printed cable led into the King's bedroom chaos.
constitution.
It is understood that this ex-ray With Impunity
Hankow is also minus a British investigation, which was carried out concession, that having been hand- by Dr. Graham Hodgson, who per- One of the staple industries of ed over to the Chinese authorities formed the previous one, was for the Shanghai is kidnapplag. If you of a British police force would un- of the chest, wher ebacteriological nearly two years ago. The absence purpose of examining the right side want funds for a revolutionary or-doubtedly be regarded as a blessing infection had become localised and ganisation, you rent a house out-by the Pan-Pacific plotters.
defined.
The list of official holidays for aide the foreign settlement, stroll
Situation Less Anxious
next year is published in the "Gov- over after dark and seize the first
"His Majesty's symptoms are im-ernment Gazette." It is the same The interesting thing about the likely-looking Chinese merchant you organisation is that the Chinese Proving and the situation is less as before, including 14 days, exclu- trades unionists themselves repudi- anxious" заув message from sive of Sundays. There has been run across.
ate it. Trades unionism in China is Buckingham Palace, sigced by the talk of doing away with the "second Out of reach of the Settlement older than the Republic; the unani-Private Secretary and receiving by Monday in October" and substitut- police, you can retain the gentleman mily with which ricaha-coolles in the Norfolk Yeomanry Old Coming October 10 (China's National | Singapore · downed ahafta as ongradés". „Association In reply to a with impunity while you arrange man in the past suggests that message hoping for the King's If he turns out unionism is ingrained In the Celea-speedy recovery. to have no assets, you let him go, tial.
The Prince's Kit first snipping a place out of his ear, 11 province evolved the
The Tongshan coal-mines in Chih-Sir Godfrey Thomas, principal Bo that future kidnappers won't modern trades unión.
first private secretary to the Prince of It now has waste their time over him; this is 30,000 members, its own schools, Wales, has left for Brindisi to meet the Prince. Sir Godfrey is convey- known as giving him a flesh-ticket. reading-rooms and periodical.
The unions of Canton numbering a complete outfit of clothing as Bright Lights
over 100, more or less merged into the Prince in his rush home is al- One Big Union. They have scored most without kit, some notable victories, including the marine strike of 1922, which tied
about the ransom;
If he has money and his relations are slow in coming to the point, a finger or too of the captive pushed under
door will relation's A often work wonders...
Chinese Repudiation
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More Hopeful Tone
A more hopeful tone is creeping up 280,000 tons of shipping in Hong into authoritative public utterances. Kong: and the boycott of 1926, For example, Sir Robert Armstrong that militarily invulnerable British etin as the most comforting since which inflicted enormous losses on Jones described this morning's bul- outpost.
the King's Ineas.".
Mainly in Hiding
The Duke
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committee of the Hong Kong Gen that schoolboys are being made Into rrow says
Whereas they love
eral Chamber of Commerce, member parrots. of the War Charities General Com
¡larks mitttee, memeber of the committer
of Sailors' Home, chairman of the
A paper, tells us that bucket shopa
Finance Committee of Alice Mem are active again. All summer it orial and Aliated Hospitals, and has been the turn of the bucket and president of "Ohel Leah" spade shops. Synagogue.
NAVAL CRUISE FLAGSHIP RETURNING FROM
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JAPAN
DUE ON WEDNESDAY
Headline, points"... painted?
"Treasury's weak .As black as they are
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A dear old lady who has been reading about the "ery wickets” of Australia says she now understands about those ashes.
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The visit of the British 6th Crui- New records not by cricketers, Day) but nothing seems to have aer Squadron to Japanese waters but gramophone manufacturers. been done. In the list below, those has concluded. which do not concern the Police. H.M.S. "Rent" (flagship) and Magistrate's department are denot-H.M.S. "Berwick" left Yokohama Don't ask an artilleryman what a
When at the Volunteer Camp ed by an asterisk." "
yesterday for Hong Kong, and are "dry battery" is. due here on Wednesday.
Jan. 1, Tuesday, Now Year. Feb. 11, Monday, China New Year. Feb, 12, Tuesday, China New Year March 29, Good Friday.
March 30, Saturday.
April 1, Easter Sunday. *May 20, Whit Menday.
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H.MS. "Suffolk" left. Yokohama to-day for Woosung, the port of Lifted." In fact, you can't be too "Violets Should Be Carefully
Shanghai.
careful if the keeper is about.
H.MS. "Hermes," the aircraft!
June 8 Monday, H.M. the King's carrier, left Jesselton yesterday and
Birthday.
arrived at Kudat in the course for her southern cruise.
July 1, Monday.
*Aug. 5, Monday,
Oct. 14, Monday.
Nov. 11, Monday, Armistice Day. Dec 25, Wednesday, Christmas
Day,
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It was Chen Chl-mei, a highly re-
Dec. 26, Thursday. Boxing Day. spected revolutionary, who showed the possibilities of kidnapping in
The Imports and Exports Depart- the early days of the Republic by
Lord Lee of Fareham to-night 12 noon on all holidays except San- ments will be open from 9 a.m. to lifting Korean prince from the Since the National Government said that owing to medical science days, Feb. 11, March 29 and Dec. hotel in which I was staying. The decided to recognise and legalise there was now every prospect of a 25. 'royalty, well pickled, was invited to the unions instead of chopping their speedy and happy recovery. step out and see the bright lights of beads off, the moderates have been
May 24, Friday, Empire Day is the Focchow-road--and woke up in in the ascendant. A conference re-
public holiday... a dungeon in the native city. The presenting 14 million unionists fands thus extracted became the which met at Canton passed resolu- from Capetown for home in the Binews of the civil war which hap-tions about co-operation, workers' liner "Balmoral Castle" this after pened shortly after.
education and arbitration. The sec-noon. A large crowd assembled at tion which advocates the class war, the quayside to witness. His · Royal As Nationalist sentiment spread,
sabotage and world revolution' ls, Highness' departure and heartily the idea became current that like the Pan-Pacific Secretariat, cheered him in hiding.
"Logical" Conclusion
wealthy natives sheltered in the for- eign settlements to evade taxation, and that kidnapping them was a patriotic duty, like income-tax as. Beasment,
Finally, extreme trades unionists carried the argument to its logical conclusion. They argued that the native capitalist had no right to evade the application of their so- cialistic principles by hiding behind foreign policemen. Several of the more radical unjons owe their pre sent favourable financial position to energetic kidnapping-gra
Lately the exasperated foreign police have extended their pursult of the kidnappers beyond the Sattle ment boundaries, despite patriotia protests. Recently no less than 90. of them were in the municipai gaol awaiting excution,
Principal Plank
The Settlement, polies have thus made the environs of Shanghai more
LOCAL PENSIONS
WIDOWS OF TEMPORARY OFFICERS
GRATUITY CONDITIONS.
The Duke of Gloucester sailed
Warmly Welcomed Reuter Bays:
The Duke of Gloucester arrived
"JOY RIDE
ENDS IN DISASTER AND COURT PROCEEDINGS
A new taxi belonging to the New Taxi Co., crashed outside the Dragon Motor Garage at Wongnet chong this morning and was dam aged to the extent of $700
PROHIBITION
U.S. SPENDING $13,500,000
Modern girls are so expert at make-up that they would laugh at the idea of being merely "two- faced."
"A great deal of work has been going on in the House of Commons since Parliament rose in August,” Bays a gossip. This looks like a nasty slur on our leginator
Miss Marion Lorne made a........ in a new play at the St. Mar In fact, the audience were all for Lorne!
•Don't tell a man with an ugly nasal organ that something la "as plain as the nose on his face."
Your sympathy is invited for the writer of pantomimes, who is unable to follow his vocation. He has lost, his memory,
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All sorts of amusements are pro- vided on ocean liners now. In watch the ship pitch and toss. stormy weather the passengers can
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In New York all the actors and actresses, performing in a play were arrested. Dramatic criticism hasn't got to that stage In Eng- land.
A Dr. Tatman, of the U.S.A., has invented a cure for black eyes. A
It is now as easy to sleep in a non-pugilistic correspondent sug- third class railway compartment as seats that prevention is better than in a third class House of Commons. cure,
Reading between the lines "Spec-) "I love you, mummy, Hisped tator" keeps a good eye on "Cover the child," is a sentence in a now Point."
serial. You try lisping a sentence without ans in it, and see how
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The Cooks Championship-The difficult it is. Taste Match..
Washington, Yesterday, "Wet: battalions" were respon-
Dorothy Black writes on "Danger- sible for a heated debate In the
"Honeymoon by Air" After ous Women." What other sort is, House of Representatives, termin-one of those marriages in high there 7. ating the passage of a bill appro-
society? priating $19,500,000 to administer prohibition-Reuter's American
Service.
AERO ENGINE
PRAISED HIGHLY BY BERT. HINKLER
London, Yesterday Squadron Loader Bart. Hinkier, at
A headline reads "Hunt Balls" The counter-revolution threatened Itaks rather like an injunction in Russia is not one of shop assist to novice at golf. ants.
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Walter Ashley opines that All lights at. King's Cross. went | the e of theatre seats must be out the other day. ........ No wonder brought down. In the meantime King's cross.
It is put down.
The fellow who says he would share his last dollar with you relies on your not waiting til he gets to it.
The protest against the peril of
was a professional walker; now the Thirty years ago, a "pedestrian" term means everybody who fan't a motor-car owner.
A writer on marriage custome saya, French girls, are not allowed as they haven't much chance of to marry whom they please." And marrying whom they displease, what are they to do, pour dears?
at Capetown in the early morning It was alleged that it was taken the Royal Aeronautical Society last yesterday. He sailed aboard the out of its garage in Russell-areet night, discussed some of his experi "Balmoral Castle" In the afternoon by two young car cleaners, for a ences during his memorable fight dumps continues. But some people
Wherever possible the people of joy ride." The taxi first collided to Australia in 15 days, when he are always in the dumps. South Africa, English, Dutch, black with and damaged a private ricahs flew throughout on an Avro Avian spank and white alike, have accorded the and then swerved and ran into the light aeroplane with only a 38 h.p. People wishing to grow fat are Duke of Gloucester remarkable and wall of the Dragon Garage, Cirrus engine. He paid a handsome advised to eat "dry cereal foods." "A gratuity at the rate of one unrehearsed welcomes during his The two boys were arrested and tribute to his aircraft and engine. And to read funny serial month's salary in respect of each dash to Capetown. As an instance charged before Major C. Willson, which had already covered. 15,000 stories? complete period of three years at Beaufort West, the capital of O.B.E., at the Central Magistracy miles before he left England, and service may be granted to the Karroo, a crowd collected at the this morning.
which had covered some 40,000 miles In a hotel lounge we heard a
This was told me the other day widow of any oficer who has con- railway station, headed by the town They were remanded until Mon- without, so far as he could see any woman say that nagging had its during a discussion on our public tinuously served on the temporary clerk, a veteran Dutchman, who day morning.
deterioration. British Wireless points. And sharp ones, too, fark and a man was still working ptility companies. It was getting establishment of the Colony for conveyed their greetings and sym
hard on a streat excavation, An in- Dean Inge suggests that Saint quirer asked why employed him Wellington, Yesterday. The George was a dishonest army con- "Electric Con came the reply, "And Coates Government has resigned as tractor. Why? 7 Did he get the why the hurry Pick The man A sequel to the defeat of the Govern O.BE1
with the shovel abot backi Bito Friday, and we
cot less than three years and whopathy, and dwelt on the honour he the train to take walking exercise. at the date of bis death was in felt in walcoming ather Royalties on To his regret It was -receipt of a salary not exceeding various occasions. Natives formed the train passed
8420 per annum."
picturesque background to the battlefields.
Clause 18 in the local Govern demonstration of loyalty, ON THE staff state ment's Pension Minute is cancelled At Intervals through the long greatest feat on and the foregoing has taken its railway journey from North was the baggi place, announces the "Gazette" Rhodesia the Duke descended from Hon.
Bervice,
Duke ment by 60 votes to 28 on a motion
trip of non-comidence proposed by Mr. maned Ward of the United Party in which
Labour: Joined Renter.
rere married at Gretna the road surface because the
Coale coming along to dig up Hond