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No. 26,054
DIVINE RIGHT
MAKING MONEY OUT OF OPIUM'
THE SHANGHAI SCANDAL
Dodges Used by Generals to Exploit Traffic
PROVOKING LOCAL WARS AND DOUBLE-CROSSING
[By "Li Chung-yin"]
The divine right of the military bestows the prerogative to make money out of opium in China, irrespective of what is said about suppression.
'HONG KONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1928. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
NO RECOGNITION NO STUMPING UP TO SECOND DAY'S PLAY
SIGNATURE
IN 2ND TEST
SUTCLIFFE OUT
BRITAIN AND CHINA
AMERICA
WAR DEBT
FOUR MILLION DOLLARS
SIR G. LOCKER - LAMPSON ON BRITAIN PAYS ANOTHER NINETY ENGLAND 194 RUNS BEHIND:
THE NEW TARIFFS
"IMPORTANT STATEMENT
London, Yesterday.
"Your Eyes Are Safe With Us,” LAZARUS
Hong Kong's".Only European Optician. We grind our own lenses, Accur- ate repair work, highest grade lenses, friendly, courteous service. Manager:
RALPH, A. COOPER, Registered Optometrist (Canada) F.LO. (London).
IS THAT SOP
Thoughts Terse, Perverse—and Worse:
In Paris a restaurant has been How to get sound sleep-Keep wireless, lectures going in your bed-built in a tree. A'branch establish- -
ment!
9 WKTS. IN HAND |PROSPECT OF HEAVY STORM
Bad light stopped play after room. was lunch to-day, at Sydney,
on the
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Letter received by 0
know what are the prices of the the trucks motor.
. What spoils
Prohibition laws are like "ple- 'crust-made to be broken.
LONG WAY TO GO
London, Yesterday. Payment of $94,200,000 Mr. G. Locker-Lampson, Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in almade today by the British Govern
A professional footballer who
"Early mornings are now woo- written reply to a Parliamentary ment to the United States Treasury second day of the 2nd Test Match amount of, between Australia and England, sum an
came to the town as such is to bederfully beautiful," gushes a writ- question states that in a note dated of which
ar in a daily. December 5 the Minister for For $27,000,000 is on account of the re- England having won the first, eign Affairs for China notified the payment of the principal, the bal. When the closure came, England Mayor of Barnsley. The goal of them is having to go home to bed.
were 194 runs bahind Australia's his ambition. British Minister that the new Chinance being interest.
With this payment the total pay. 1st innings total, with nine wickets ese customs tariff had been promul- gated and would come into force animente to the United States since in hand.
the funding of the British debt Reuter says: "Bad light stopped motoring firm yee want to February.
amount to $964,380,000, of which play. There was lightning and Lories and Exercising their ill-defined powers, the Chinese authorities of With the exception of certain arti- $147,000,000 have been on account slight rain; and there is every Pleas sent me a price List for the Shanghai have caused a national scandal that has been shelved now cles which are subject to special of the repayment of principal. prospect of a heavy storm."
Lory. I want to buy me ona and but not hushed. The trouble is only one of the multifarious symp-rates, the rates of duty appear to The amount outstanding has been If it rains during the week-end I will seen were I can get the best. toms of China's worst, chronic ailment that of squabbling for re-be identical with those of the in- reduced to $4,453,000,000. British and the wicket rolls out nicely on Plense
anser quit."....He Was venue, legal or illegal, bo matter the cost.
iterim schedule accepted by the for- Wireless Service.
Monday, England should, make a answered as quit as possible. Extendling protection is the most common form of getting eign delegations in 1926. rich out of opium. There are many such methods, as I shall en- The Commercial Secretary at deavour to show. From actually growing the poppy itself to being Shanghai, has been instructed to actively interested in retailing the drug, the Generals whose name make a detailed examination of is legion have had recourse to every dodge possible, from provoking a local war to double-crossing confederates,
EXERCISING A PREROGATIVE
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"TOM JONES"
HOUSE GUTTED
THREE HOURS' BLAZE IN ;.
SAIYINGPUN
COUNTING THE INMATES
No. 185, Connaught-road West, To-morrow's "Sunday Herald" in the Salyingpun district, Vas will contain, in the fine art sup-gutted early this morning after a blaze lasting three hours and tax- plement, a full page of scenes ing the resources of the Fire Bri- from the Hong Kong Philhar gade considerably. monic Society's presentation of from the play are published in "Tom Jones." Other pletures
this Issue.
Developing into à political issue district in the south of Fukion with wide consequences, the facts province issued an edict forcing us alleged of the Shanghai'case the farmers to plant the poppy have become hidden in obscurity. The General did not say so in so But the action of the National Gov- many words. He levied a tax on ernment at Nanking portenda Inoplum growing; and those who ternal strife in the near future. preferred other crops had to pay Briefly, what happened was this: a much higher rate than on opium.
The National Government had only recently laid down the law the sale of opium through a mono- Establishing a bureau to conduct, that illicit opium must be suppress-poly granted to a, ayndicate is the tariff and to report any discrepan-
Flauting the order, smugglers most common form of raising re- cles. Brought down a big shipment of
No reply, so far as he was aware, raw opium, worth a considerable then rely on a fixed amount of in- had been returned to the note of the sum of money, from u-Yangisze come, which he assures by taking Foreign Minister.
ed.
port to Shanghai.
The opium was landed in Chinese territory where the Police, so they Bay, seized it, accusing the Garri son Commissioner's men of escort- ing the contraband ashore in a Gov- ernment launch.
The Police who made the arrest, with the dope, were, in turn, "ar- rested" by a strong detachment from the Garrison Commissioner's headquarters and charged with smuggling, the inference being that they had been caught red-hand- ed with the stuff in their posses sion.
A Trial of Strength
venue. The General concerned can į
does not
exacted equalling the total of the THE NANKING RIOT intended return to shareholders.
DR. C. İ.. WANG'S MOTOR-CAR
BURNED
LATEST VERSION
This house is in the Cirinėse
water-front. business part of the town, on the It had four storeys, the ground floor being used for business and the upper for shops
and tenements.
a.m.
THE KING
SPENDS A DISTURBED DAY
London, Yesterday.
score.
England's Innings After Australia had been dis missed in the morning for 253 (two
BRITISH SHIPPING
Ichang, Yesterday. The anti-Japanese Boycott Socfety here is still reported to be active against British ship- ping.--British Naval Wirelesa.
[Note: Earlier this week stevedores were intimidated by. boycott agitators into refrain- ing from working the Chiña · Navigation Co.'s 8.8. "Kin- tang").
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"Some widows are well off," said a Judge to a woman witness
Yes, but they don't all know it.
In America people try to keep the source of their liquor supply. a secret, and in some cases it is a secret still..
Weekly Welleriam:"Ah, here's our old and tried friend," as the 'Sir Oliver Lodge says that, as a Judge sald when the habitualschoolbey, he was constantly orirainal appeared in the dock for thrashed....Well, it seems to have the forty-sixth time.
made him amart 1-
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A headline says, "A Good Word for the Mediocre Amateur," but there aren't any words for him (
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No. Emmeline, the letters "BC" not indicate that it is the oldest British colony,
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There is a good deal of 'fu about, with stomach trouble.... Stomach trouble happens to people who are not rich enough to have. appendicitis.
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"I shall never demaan myself by committing a crime as long as I am able to sing," said a captive at Willesden Police Court......
Some singing is a crime in Itself.
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"I shall give up writing about foolish people," says Lady Eleanor Smith. Oh, if some writers of auto-biography would imitate her!'
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"An artist must always be more of a bachelor than other men," says Jascha Heifetz, the violinist. The wife has to play second fiddle.
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"I am sure he can pay, for he has a most expensive wife -- was said of a debtor.re/This seems like evidence to the contrary,
Agenda and in
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A gossip says that a well-know nobleman is "wintering in the South.”............And where la he going to spring?
That expression. "Wild Highlan- der" probably came from the well- known fondness of the Highlander for his fling.
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Nobody has come forward yet to
which floor the he runs added to the overnight score broke out. Nor is the cause known as stated in the mid-day edition of
You can always rely on a dancing the China Mail"), Hobbs and Instructress to take the necessary at present.
At first it was feared that some Sutcliffe opened England's 1st inn-steps. of the inmates might be missing, Ings. The former, who celebrates a substantial.caah security, in ad- Mr. Locker Lampson states that They have not all bee space to his 46th birthday to mortow, "is, Shome on the wretch who wrote dition to payment in advance for Sir Miles Lampson's visit to for yet, but no casualty has been still not out
to say that the Presidential election or the first time has con a stated period, followed up at in- Nanking
indicate reported no far.
At the lunch interval, the score was "all Hoover bar shouting."
ducted an auction at Northampton" the National tervals by demands for further recognition of
The alarm was sounded at 4.10 was 36 runs for no wicket, Hobbs
Ram Fair.
The Fair auc- "loans" against pending contribu-Government .of China by Am., engines from, Central, Wan-25 and Sutcliffe 11.
Answer to correspondent. No, tioneer. tions to his exchequer.
the British Government but re chai and Kennedy Town Stations After lunch there were 50,000 Clarence; we cannot undertake to When the laat 'lot of Yunnanese cognition,would be a necessary con-
responding. The Fire. Float was people. Hobbs scored a single. Off supply you with a riddle for your and Kwangsi adventurers held sequence of the signature of any also utilised.
the fourth ball of the same (first) answer: "One feels the heat and sway in Canton, they made money treaty which might be concluded as
An adjoining house was damag-over sent down by Ironmonger, the other heals the feet." concurrently with the opium ayn- a result of the negotiations which ed. The fire was subsued at 7.30 Sutcliffe half cocked up a ball to diente. But when the latter began Sir Miles Lampson is now conduct-
give Hendry an easy catch at slip. One melody is said to have to pay dividends, the manager was ing-British Wireless Service.
-One wicket down for 87 runs. |brought Irving Berlin thousands of thrown into prison until a fine was! *
Second Boundary
dollars....Evidently one of those There was
the greatest en-million airs!. thusiasm in the crowd, Reuter adds, Classic Instance
the attendance packing tight..
The dairyman's favourite song;. Several campaigns in the. west
Hammond then went in to
"Pail Hands-I Love.".
"Hard-lying money' is paid in part- Then followed a stir in political of Kwangsi province at the door
ner Hobbs. With a drive - past
view of the inevitable discomfort circles because it became a trial of of Yunnan's granary of opium-
cover point, off Grimmett, the
successful of service abroad in certain-ships,” strength between the civil author-have been fought solely to decide
Gloucester all-rounder' made the criminal without much in the way we read...There' now! And we ity (as represented by the Police) who is to levy the first of a series
The following version of the A bulletin, was issued at 8.15
second boundary stroke of the of mental equipment," says always thought that it meant the and the military (the Garrison Commissioner). An unsuccessful
on contraband shipped affair at Narking is published by P. signed by three doctors, the
some of those "financiers" who suite ing the day and his general con- lasted an hour and 23 minutes now. on the board. ́. The innings had attempt was made to muzzle the down the West River for consump-courtesy of the Royal Naval autho- King was somewhat disturbed dur-Innings and thereby sent the 60 up writer....This is a nasty one for fees of expert witnesses in
think themselves so clever! vernacular Press of Shanghai,
tion in Kwangtung, and also in rities:
dition is not quite so satisfactory. thereby attracting more attention. Hong Kong.
The pulse, however, remains steady: the 22 put on so far for the 2nd Liner On the Rocks"...Ships are Newspaper caption! "White Star Public sympathy lles with the There was the classic instance of
Check In Progress Chief of Police who has now been one General who wae shrewd this evening, the students making
Despite the unsatisfactory bul-wicket partnership, Hobbs claimed dismissed.
enough to realise that he could a demonstration against Dr. C. T.
--- And behind the scenes, the high- never dislodge, by force of arms, Affairs) completely wrecking his slarta, as the pulse is steady, which
Wang (Minister for Foreign Palace that there is no need for Hammond 12.
letin, it is pointed out at the 10-bringing his total to 86 and not the only ones that get that way. A fashion writer. talks about
"Fifty Years In a Cemetery" est in the land are said to have a rival astride the West River and house; but attempts to set it on indicates that the strength of the analyses returned by the England
Full scores, together with the Smart Gowns for Small Women," says a headline....Some people who, accordingly, get the revenue
... And you ought to see the have been dead longer than that: actual seizures at least in the for- from opium in transit through his fire were frustrated; and the riot-heart is being maintained. bowlers, follow-
small gowns for smart women! tunes of the pawns in the game. domains. He subsidised a third ers then burnt his motor-car.
Anxiety prevails in the Palace, The Garrison Commissioner is party to attack the holder of the Dr. Wang is at present in Shang-as to-day marks a check; in the W. M. Woodfull, 1.b.w., b Geary .68 the nominee of Marshal Chiang River zone, made a pretence of al-bai. The students apparently ob- King's progress towards recovery. V. Y. Richardson, b Larwood, Kai-shek, who is virtually Presid- lying himself against No. jected to Dr.. Wang's handling of
Prince George
A. F. Kippax, b Geary ent. The Chief of Police is the brought his army into the Promia-The riot was: quelled by the
treaties with foreign Powers.
New York, Yesterday. W. H. Ponsford, retired hurt protege of Feng Yu-hsiang (the ed Land as a friend, and then pro Police and all is quiet at present.
H.M.S. "Durban," with Prince H. L. Hendry, b Geary ...... 37 "Christian General"), who is Vice ceeded to stir up turmoll, and
George aboard anchored in the J. S. Ryder, 1.b.w., b Geary, .25 president and Minister for War, -eject No. 2 so as to annex control The British Minister (Sir Miles lower bay this morning in a dense D. Nothling, b Larwood
Lampson) is in Shanghai and re- fog.-Reuter. turns from there on Saturday." That is only one dodge and therej have been many more, some eyen more cunning.
interested themselves-if not in the
A clash between these leaders, each with an Army Group behind him, is predicted; but more serious quarrels have been patched up ere
now.
Where It, Comes From Most of the opium, raw or pre- pared, which is smuggled into China is for re-export. So much is being grown in China at present
of taxes
of the River portsl
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Another episode worth recording is that of the company' commander who bribed his superior officer to transfer him to à market town- stands a church. The transferee this in the East River area-whore
Nanking, Thursday. Rioting by students took place
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THE TRAM LINE EXTENSION TO SHAUKIWAN VILLAGE
350 YARDS SINGLE TRACK Notice has been given that the
that the supply, exceeds the demand coveted the place because, in his Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., intends
and a percentage-is exported as, for
opinion, the church would make
STOCK OF WINES
HANKOW GOVT.'S SEIZURE AT RACE · CLUB
FLAUNTING NANKING -
Hankow, Yesterday.
Nine more runs were added. Of
Australia-Ist Innings
W. A. Oldfield, not out.
C. V. Grimmett, run out
D. D. J. Blackle, b Geary ..... H. Ironmonger, e Duckworth, b
Larwood
Extras
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"I suppose," said' dear old Aunt Aphasia, "that these talking films must be the speaking likenesses' 5I hear about."
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"I suppose," said dear old Aunt one of those 'quay industries' I hear Aphasia, "that stevedores' work is
about."
Films are now shown in some public-houses....More resis on the machine mean lese reels among the customers.
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At a House of Commons lun- According to Lady Hilton Young, to alt down thirteen at table
cheon, Sir Park Goff said he hated
the sculptress, sculpture and sur-t'a unlucky if there's only food!
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much In 9 There's a lot of cutting and carv Bing about each.
common.
enough for twelve.
"Huddersfield To Travel" Mov
Dr. Ami, the geologist, says that
15 every civilisation that has been
ing geography?
It is rumoured that, in recogni- discovered tried to go one better tion of his achievement in taking 258 than the previous civilisations. three hundred wickets, the county. Fall of wickets: 1 for 61 runs Then what must it have been like town of Kent is to elect their load- (Richardson); 2 for 65 (Kippax), to start with?
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ing bowler, an honorary freeman.
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"Our Stationmaster, Mr.
8 for 75 (Ponsford), 4 for 162 (Woodfull), 5 for 153 (Hendry), 6 Burglar broke Into The local Tax Bureau has repu for 171 (Nothling), 7 for 192 ball club's pavilion and stole foot has been transferred to pastures instance, some of the southern crop an ideal, roomy opium dep; and to apply for power to construct a dated the ruling of the Chinese (Ryder 8 for 382 (Grimmett), balls and football boots knickers; new in the North-Western Karroo which finds Its way down to Hong An had much of the drug to sellele track tramway approxectos National Government at Nanking for 251 (Blackle), 10 for 255 and shirts... The police are saldCape paper. If he hopes to
ly 350 yards in length connecting and has refused to return (as order (Ironmonger). the present Shaukiwag termínus
to be watching for the announce find any pastures there he is an with Shaukiwan. Village,
ment of the establishment of a new optimist. w.club.
Kong yla Wuchow or Canton.
Yunnan and Szechuan provinces,
to the population..
od by. Nanking to do so) the stock
of wines illegally removed recently
Tate
::BOWLING ANALYSIS.
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18 5 36.
in the south-west corner of China
Grandiose Title "Proper, produce the most oplum;
Which vessel in the Kwangtung This extension is to be carried out but the output in some other pro- Navy, from the flagship down to in accordance with plans deposited from the Hankow Race Club Larwood vinces is steadily increasing. Yun- the smallest armed or. unarmed with the Director of Public Works,
British Naval Wireless. -nan's "excess is consumed In South shallow-water craft, has not at one!
[Note: It will be recalled that White the Club had, to forgo a day's 'racing| China; Szechuan's in Central and time or another since. 1911 carried!
Geary North China, bejng sent down the oplum either for constituents or a fixed aum for retailing opium-
rather than face exorbitant demands
Hammond
5 0 18 Yangtze River, as was done in the for the officer in command, trad- under the grandiose title of the from the local Hankow authorities.] ⠀ England-1st Innings case of the lot seized at Shanghai. ing as principal?
"Oplum Suppression .Bureau."
J. B. Hobbs, not out Opium smoking in Yunnan has
GERMAN SHIPPING Only. last month, in the Sze Yap And the labels on opium pots des-
H. Sutcliffe, c Hendry, reached an appalling extent. One districts, a, batch of soldiers sold cribe the stuff as "medicine pasto
Berlin, Yesterday.
Ironmonger "estimate is that half the male adult $200 worth of raw opium to à mer-to cure the opium; (habit);" population use the drug habitually, chant (pho had made similar pur-Somebody with less power farma nounces that the negotiations with The North German Lloyd 'an- It does not appear to be an, exagchases before) and, as soon as the out the exclusive right to a monothe Hamburg-Ameries Line for a geration if the Yunnanese mor cash changed hands, arrested bim polist in the districts; and the lat-working agreement have cenaries in Canton from time to for possession, took back the oplum ber, in turn, cuts up his territory broken off-Router. time were any criterion, good under order of confiscation and into towns and villages; so that in Aghters though they often proved. Imposed a stiff and the smallest hamlet there is in How It Is Done In nearly every province now, variably an official, probably the Only a few years ago, a brigade somebody or other in paying (in headman, who selja, opium under of Infantry on garrison duty in.al nearly every case to the military) the protection of the law..
W. R. Hammond, not out
Extra
Total (for 1 wkt.)
been
Fall of wicket (Buteliffe):
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The eminent actor was puzzled to Darkness, says a useful hint, is decide on a name for his 0 necessary for the keeping of suburban home.
There apples. Also, adds Hittle Willy already, The Oaks, The Cedars, 0 for the gathering of them.
land The Elms in the road; and in a-flash of Inspiration the mummer decided on--The Limes.
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"International Sheep Dog Trials." But the sheep dog's worst trial iş 11 when the sheep behaves like a goat.
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0A London landlady complained of the number of rabbits in her house. 59 It is the same on the links-rabbits
at, every tee. for 87,
To bat: D. A. Jardine, E "New Flight Record. But the Hendren, A. P. F. Chapman, G. référence wasn't to the man who, The closing rate of the dollar on Geary, W. M. Tate, H. Larwood, as reported in the same issue, walk- emand, to-day was 2/0-8/16. | 'J. C. White, G. Duckworth. Fed away from Wandsworth Prisons
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR
"The firm of Messrs. Arthur Hime and Co. were this afternoon appointed solicitors to the City Council at a remuneration of £350 per annum...... The appointment will not preclude the firm from pri- vate practice."-news report The last sentence is reassuring, 229 38, 4d, a month being hardly an ex- citing living wage for a whole fram of solicitors.