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CHINA'S CHRONIC
MALADY
THIS WEEK'S TURMOIL
How An Agreed Division of Spoils Works
IS A COUNTRY-WIDE CLASH IMPENDING ?
[By Li Chung-yin "}
Even at the close of a week of turmoil in various parts of China, An a degree of satisfaction can be derived by careful analysis. apologia-if such were due for disappointing the world after hav- ing had a "good Press" for some months devolves, if on anybody, on the National Government functioning in Nanking. But of the five major factions in China at the moment, that with the biggest repre- sentation in Nanking and which is whole-heartedly supporting cen tralisation has not been directly embroiled..
Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian General," it seems, is one of the figures around whom developments have centred. Although he is Minister for War and has much power in Nanking, he has not dragged the National Government into the arena.
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BANKRUPTCY LAW DARING HOLD-UP IN
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FITZMAURICE AND KOEHL TO
ATTEMPT IN JUNE
AMENDMENTS TO LOCAL ORDINANCE
THE RECEIVER'S REPORT
A short bill to amend the local Bankruptcy" Ordinance is to come before the Legislative shortly to in- troduce two provisions of the English bankruptcy law which do Berlin, Yesterday. not appear in the Hong Kong Bank- Colonel Fitzmaurice and Captain | ruptcy Ordinance (No. 7. of 1891), though they did appearțin the Eng-
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In view of the excellent annual News item: The garden party at report submitted the shareholders, ] the Club de Recreio in honour of of the Star Ferry have elevated the | Kowloon's two now Legislative Directors to the Pierage.
Councillors has been fixed for Wednesday, March 6. Do Koehl, the first airmen successful-lish Act on which that Ordinance/employees of the Matthias Stinnes' |
When these automatic phones are,
Extract from Chinese diary: was founded, ie, the Bankruptcy carrying miners wages across the duly installed it is expected that
63 "Excited Act, 1890, 63 & 64 Vict, 71. These courtyard and forced them to part subscribers will carefully behead Wednesday, March two provisions appear else in the with 26,000, after which they fed in their "Hellos" when making a call. Insects." present English Bankruptcy Act,
ja waiting motor-car-Reuter. 1914, 4 & 5 Geo. 5, & 59.
ly to fly the Atlantic from east to west in the company of the late Baron von Huenefeld, will, in- troduce novel features when they again attempt the feat in June.
The machine, a Junkers three- engined acroplane, will be fitted with floats for rising and alighting in the water instead of wheels and a start will be made on a large lake near Berlin.. Very little petrol ,will be taken aboard, thereby over coming the difficulties of rising, but the airmen will refuel while aloft over Berlin ae was done on the "Question Mark."
Refuelling will again be carried
Once again it is the disheartening recurrence of that chronic malady-the grabbing of revenue-which is behind the series of un-out in the air over Lisbon. settling incidents of the week.
W!
BACK AT THE OLD GAME
ed. front.
It is expected that this will suffice to enable the flyers to reach New York, but In the event of impeding winds they will refill their tanks off the Azores from a third machine summoned by wire- Two viws can be taken lu a dis-, four other political factions, including less. cussion such as of this kind. The even that which dominates Manchuria, The airmen expect the voyage ... China presents a unit from New York to Berlin will oc- first, which finds favour among the 80 that
. From this fact, in majority of foreign observers. Is itself vitally important, we may safe-cupy B0 hours. Two other pilots that the Nationalists must begin ly conclude that some sort of agree-will accompany them.-Reuter. fighting each other all over again, ment has been reached in advance for The second is that the line of least a division of the spoils between the resistance will be taken, principally war-tords and high officials concern-
ed."* in the interest of the individual, and partly because public opinion to-day does count for a little-but Hufficiently to restrain wholesale civil war as a personal or faction! enterprise.
The "Christian General returned from Russia in October, 1926. Ever since then it was prodicted that he would launch a campaign of aggression to make himself Dictator He has been or even Emperor.
At right, Chang Tsung-chang, formerly Tupan of' Shantung under the aegis of the now defunct "Northern" (le, An- kuochun) Government,
some-
time Commander-in-Chief of the Chih-Shantung Armies,
Balance of Power
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General Yen Hsi-shan, who rules Shansi and is commander-in-chief of the 3rd Nationalist Army Group, obviously does not wish to see the "Christian General's" domains ex- tended because that would upset the of power in the North. balance Having followed, however, a policy the of masterly inactivity since Revolution in 1911, Yen Hai-shan is
and for years the proud possessor of a harem of eighty con cubines, including a sprinkling of Russian women. On telt, ex- Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, (whose title of Marshal was formal- Jy bestowed by the de jure Government of the time) whome scholarly attitude towards affairs is indicated in the photo. He stole Shanghai from Chang Taung-chung-the swashbuckler .--and not long afterwards all but kow-tow-ed to him for as
slitance against the Nationalists. While Chang Tsung-chang has raised the Northern standard (in the new form, of four bere and yellow cross) in Shantung, Sun Chuan-fang, who Is also mixed up with the venture, remains in the background.
in the fighting, of course, but no unlikely to risk a breach with the
more than a good many others, and his policy, if not his creed, has boon consistent.
"Christian General" at this stage. So that war between these two, al- though rumoured, does not seem im
An unconfirmed report came minent. through about hostilitieg in It is the same with the Kwangal the south of Shantung be-military party. True, a few of the tween bia troops and 'units "Christian General's” men have been actively supporting the Na disarmed by Kwangel troops from tional Government. The report re: mains unconfirmed.'
Hankow; but serious consequences would have followed erè now were What Mr. Bland Says the occurrence not local and due to War between the "Christian Gen a misunderstanding which can be eral" and Nanking is not an ac- cleared up. The Kwangsi military complished fact. I even think that party has sufficient common sense Nanking welcomes his march into to know that civil war, as far as Shantung because he is logically the South le concerned, is much too risky. Thursday's disturbance In
the best man to crush the attempt Huan province shows that the of the Northerners to regain a footing there, of which more wangsi party is busy with its own anon: Shantung province was all affairs, to says the least of it.
but officially promised the "Chris- 195 Doubtful Calegory ́tian General,” as his reward for Hunan has been nominally under the drive on, Feking last year and the influence of the Ewangsi-ites. also to provide him with essential In reality, several minor Generals access to the sea..
are in control, there. Most of these has changed coats more than once during the last three years. They will continue to do so were they to gain by it with commensurate safe-
Mr. JO. P. Bland, who sca thingly denounces the Nationalists: unconsciously shows that there Is
working scheme. He says
PASAR The Nanking Govern ment, enjoy the cordial support of the
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CRACKER FIRING
LOCAL “GAZETTE” PUBLISHES WARNING
PERMISSION NECESSARY
A previous notification having ap peared as long ago as Jan. 7, 1921, the Government has made an an- anouncement to-day in the "Gazette" relative to the discharge of fire- crackers in the Colony. It reads:-
"Attention is drawn to the fact that the firing of crackers without a pormit is illegal.
"Applications for permits to fire crackers ashore should be made to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The sanction of the Har- bour Master is required to fire crackers, from Vessels of any kind."
IN BANKRUPTCY
The Official Receiver notifies in the "Gazette" that a first and final dividend is intended to be declared in the following cases:-
Chung Kam-ching, merchant, No. 259, Queen's-road East, 2nd floor.
Hau Pak-yan alias Ah Hau, fitter, of the Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
The trustee in the case of the Shun Loong Shing Kee Lan, sait fish commission agents of Nos. 9 and 10, Mul Fong-street, Issues a similar notification.
MONDAY NEXT WILL SEE THE BEGINNING OF THE RACES AND A FEW PEOPLE WILL
"YO AWAY
THE STAGE
is ALL SET AND
WE LOOK TO OUR
FOUR-FOOTED.
FRIENDS(1) TO
They are (a) a provision that when a bankrupt comes up for his discharge the Court shall take into consideration a report of the Official Receiver on the bankrupt's conduct and affairs, including his conduct during the bankruptcy proceedings, and (b)
provision that the Official Receiver's report ahall be prima facie evidence of the statements therein contained.
BLACK SNOW
SEVERE WEATHER STILL IN EUROPE
THAW IN ENGLAND
London, Yesterday. While the thaw reigns in Great Britain other parts of Europe · are
The amendments are made apless fortunate. plicable to pending bankruptcies.
\NOTES ON RACE WEEK
Notes on race week will.be found on page 13 of this issue.
APPOINTMENTS
LATEST NOTIFICATIONS IN "GAZETTE"
Latest appointracats -notified the "Gazette" are as follow:---
Mr. D. W. Tratman (who has re- turned from Home leave) to be Assistant Colonial: Secretary, and Clerk of Councils (which position he held before).
Athens, Yesterday.
Some are said to be diligently practising already--Oh!
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The "heat wave" during the week caught the ice cream manufacturers frozen.
With a leader like Scullin the Australian Labour party seem to be rowing hard for victory:
Stanley Bruce, the Federal Prime Minister Canberra lot but not the
A severe snowstorm has been ex-Lebourites. perienced throughout Greece and
of
many country districts are threaten- The sudden warm spell during ed with a food shortage owing to the the week did not catch the flappers Interruption communications. on the Ferry a bit unprepared. Hitherto 3,500,000 drachmas have They wore their usual smile!
Dom been subscribed for the relief of the sufferers in the floods in Southern If we feel a bit warm to-day we Greece, including the National Bank can join the Circus fans or the of Greece which gave a minion and football fans. M. Venizelos half a million drach-
más.
Sofa, Yesterday.
of the Kiel Canal-Renter.
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“A Curious Case" `{"S.CM.P.”)—— We will say that those who filled the Court during the hearing of the case were actuated by curiosity.
Heading in Singapore paper:
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Pahang Planters Damage Caused
Animala
by
Wild
And yet most of us thought they on the Pahang
were all bachelors rubber estates!
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Wide, the famous Swedish middle distance runner, cables that the "China Mall" was wide of the mark when it called him both Jimmy and Edvin in its picture page on Tuesday.
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"Broad The seaman from the Arrow" who appeared at the Sas- sions will not wear the broad arrow.
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There was no rush for the empty beer bottle produced during the trial by counsel for the defence.
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Quite a score of Peak realdents were peaked at missing the last tram the other night after the A.D.C. show.
There is no truth in the rumour
A Kowloon Scot who posted an order for half a ton of coal at 11.59 The cold wave has returned with on Wednesday night wrote and 25 degrees below zero (fahrenheit) cancelled it at 12.1 am, next day! at some places. Black snow due to in volcanic duet fell at Rustchuk
S.C.MP. headline on Thursday: Moscow. Yesterday."Clergyman's Threat"-To "close Two ice breakers have left shop" unless fewer buttons are Leningrad to assist in extricating found on the collection plate 7 about 100 ships stuck in the leo
The annual report of the Benevolent Society contains the that they're out to start ад пр names of two life members who are position tramway to the Peak
- mn D Meanwhile the Peak management retorts that passengers are only graciously permitted to hold season tickets "On Approval,"
the Criminal Sessions
One is never out of the Wood at until one's out of the dock.
The Rev. Fr. George Byrne, D.Ph., re-appointed to the Board of Education for two years.
Mr. Ho Kwong, re-appointed to the Court of the University for three years.
Mr. H. R. B. Hancock to be a
EXTRA JUDGES ·
SUPREME COURT ORDINANCE
· AMENDMENT
marked deceased.
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A poster for a coming faney dress dance has the line: "In aid An ordinance to amend the of the Hong Kong Telegraph." Supreme Court Ordinance of 1873 is to be introduced at the next meet seems to be a minor affair for the 'Tis only fair to add that It
member of the Court of the Univerfing of the Legislative Council. miners' fund.
sity during the absence on leave of Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin.
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At present the power to appoint temporarily a judge of the Supreme
"The hard frost at Home during Court is confined to the following the week has created a great demand cases: Where the office of a judge for skilled miners"-Will the fund has become vacant by death or be a frost by the time it gets otherwise; in case of the temporary Home?
lines or absence of a judge; for the purposes of the Full Court Ordin- ance of 1912,"
NAVAL MOVEMENTS
Units in the 8th Destroyer Flotilla, China Station, have moved as follow:--
There is no express power to H.M.S. "Sepoy" arrived at Nan-appoint a judge to relleve from or king yesterday from Shanghai.
H.M.S. "Seraph" left Nanking this morning for Shanghal and Hong Kong.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR
The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/11 11/16.
in his judicial duties a judge who may be engaged at the time in other pubile work, or to appoint an addi- tional judge for the purpose of deal- ing with a pressure of judicial work. The chief object of this bill is to give the Governor power to appoint a temporary judge in any case in which he comliers it desirable for any reason. This is effected by clause 4 of the bill.
Keep Your Eye On Them!
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DO THEIR STUFF. ABERDEEN THEY HAPPY VALLEY
IS FULL OF
RUMOUR,
BUFF JACKET
WILL PROVE A VER
are you going
WHILST WITH LOT OF OTHERS THEIR MONEY WILL JUST GOAWAY'
THING
•HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORMANDY HAS THE RACE
THE GEE IS OFF!
WILL KEEP
A COMMON SAYING:
"We Are Well Armed”
Many minors (and adults, too): out here will dance and play cards to their hearts' content If there la a remote chance of figuring in the prize list.
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The inmates of the Anopheles Maternity Home at Taipo received a ruca folt last Sunday when they observed the Director and Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services giving the place the once over on the ground floor.
Tram
when a jury acquits well-known It's often Gollan to the Police
suspicions characters.
By way of helping along the con- cord movement what about an in- ternational swearing competition?
"Advice to Investors"-Experi- ence is what one finds when con- fidently looking for something else!
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“Girl art students are increasing" Alas, more designing women!
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The Arctic wave seems to have reached Singapore, where the Inter-Commercial Football Cup was won by the Cold Storage.
1 patent,
Next Week's Great. Query: "What's your cash sweep number?"
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"was not to be expected that the Star Ferry directors would have any objection to considering start- ing a vehicular and passenger ser- vice seeing that they carry so many "cows" at present.
A celebrated author has laid it down that the great Republic of America is now only a relic of its - D
farmer self-Well, what can one Since then some of them have expect? Republic minus the sent in a petition for the grant of pub' only leaves a "relic!' 'Tub' only leaves a "palle! old-age pensions.
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Mr. Eric Rice the travelling ' From "S.CMP."—"Troopship | secretary of the Overseas League, ré- Stabbing Affair"-Although the cently spent two months in Brazil, ahip was stabbed (premimably by where he combined his vocabularies a sword-fish): It was not disabled. of. Spanish, Portuguess and: Italian with a litle French and sometimes "The Spring War" (vide S.C.M.P.Arabic-A hard Brazil nut to crack headline on Thursday) certainly is het did apring a surprise on those who thought they understood Chinese Sergeant Want is amused at the politics,
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“S.C.M.P.” makinig him a member
of the Water Follow and the sug- gestion that he bearded a boat. It' was Sergeant Went who want to
In spite of the same headline, there is no ground for the rumour that the war words intend in future the fishing boat the mistress of to organise all their warwin
'BARSONS,"
Tuesday's "Morning Post" secured
a scoop when it referred to Elsie Keene's fine performance of "Little Boy Bines at Banard's "how at the Biar Theatre----
#here
depaty
which was fined for failing to show regulation lights. whilst und