TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1929.
SPECIAL TAXES
TO ASSIST CENTRAL BANK
OF CHINA
BUSINESS RESUMING
Canton. To-day.
In order to raise a large sumi į
ZANZIBAR SULTAN
TO VISIT LONDON WITH HIS SON
GOVERNMENT'S GUEST
THE CHINA MAIL,
CHANGING EAST ́
ICONOCLASM IN THE "NEW CHINA"
MODERN SPIRIT
SHADOWS BEFORE.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL"
ENTERTAINMENTS
London, Yesterday. The Shanghai Correspondent of His Highness Seyyid Khalifa bin "The Times" writes: In 1923 Dr. to enable the Central Bank of Harab, Sultan of Zanzibar, will ar- Sun Yat-sen, who was in power in China in Canton to resume partrive in London on Friday as the Canton, caused # ecnsiderable redemption of their notes, the fin-guest of the British Government scandal by dispossessing two or ancial authorities in Canton are and his visit will continue until three important and wealthy "Lovey Mary." again considering the proposition Friday, July 5,
monasteries, appropriating their
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To-day Majestic of levying special tuxas on the The Sultan will be accompanied by lands for public use and turn-"The King Of The Turf.” people. Property owners will his son, Seyyid Abdulla, 'and Sheikh ing the monks and nuns adrift to probably be asked again to con-bin Suleiman.
earn their living as best they might.| tribute amounts equivalent to He will be officially avelcomed by Dr. Sun seems to have acted purely Francisco and Europe via Siberia their monthly rent collections. the Government on arriving at or social grounds-that the monks ("Taiyo Maru") 8.30 a.m. and they may be ordered to pay Victoria Station, and, while in Lop-were idle and worthless, living all taxes in advance.
don, will reside at the Hyde Park luxuribusly on the public and mak-
May 30-At 16, Knutsford Ter The Central Bank of China in Hotel.-British Wireless Service.
ing no return. There was some race, Kowloon, household furniture, Canton has been ordered to re-
truth in these charges, but even
2.30. p.m. thus and with all Dr. Sun's prestige
May 29-At Sales Room, Dudden- to back his iconoclasm, numbers of Machinery, motor spare parts, Chinese were greatly shocked and furniture, and miscellaneous goods no further raids were made.
sume business, but the full re-
demption of their notes will be im ACADEMY "SNOBS
possible for the present. These bank notes are still
refused on MR NEVINSON COMPLAINS OF
the market except at a low dis- count-Nan Chung Kuo News! Service,
VOLUNTEERING
CRITICISMS BY GENERAL VAN STRAUBENZEE
ANNUAL REPORT
INSULT
"MORIBUND INSTITUTION"
Now la recent months a wave of] hostility towards temples; monks, and idols has spread through the Kuomintang. It is one of the most Mr. C. R. W. Nevinson, the artist, curious phases of the new spirit in complaining of having been China, and its manifestations are "insulted" because he has been worth recording. The first Inaccurately described as a Royal striking instance of it was Academician.
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Fle told a reporter that he is in North Kiangsu. A few miles noori. bitter about the Royal Academy, east of the city, Nanchang, is a
lle said:-
Miscellaneous
at the Hong
ARY GENERAL MEETING of In his annual progress report on "because it is an institution that big and famous temple which the May 30-Dinner at Hong Kong Shareholders of the above Com. the Straits Settlements Volunteer has made English art and artists local Kuomintang determined to Hotel to serving and ex-officers of pany will be held
Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on FRI- Force for 1928, Major-General Sir laughed at throughout the world."attack. The legend runs that the the Royal Engineers. C. C. van Straubenzee points. out|
Jane Heriotonians' dinner at DAY, June 7, 1920, at 11 a.m. for first three men, who planned the that, as regards Colour Service It is a moribund institution. Ari campaign
the purpose of receiving the re- fell upon
Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden, 8 untimely strength there was a further fall in should be a living thing; the Royal disaster.
port of the Directors together with But the Kuomin- p.m.
a Statement of Accounts for the Europeans in Singapore, the figures Academy's art is a
dead thing. tang leaders were not to
year ended April 30; 1929. for 1926, 1927 and 1928 being 505, They have only one ideal, and that be frightened. Providing them-
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the 478 and 436 respectively. This is to be dull. They always attain selves with á guard of downward tendency, he says, is to it.
Company will be CLOSED from
June 7, 1929, both days inclusive. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hong Kong, May 28, 1929.
soldiers as a protection against HORSE THAT DOZED SATURDAY, June 1, to FRIDAY,
really serious and it is hoped that When an artist jolna a society temporal enmitics at least, they it will be recognised by the Euro-like the Academy he rapidly ceases went to the temple, Inssoed the pean community in Singapore to be an artist.
He becomes, in-principal images, dragged them
as such and that every effort. will stead, a famous person-and be made to stop it.
anobbish famous person.
Should the Corps mobilise Euro- I do not wish to say anything pean units would be 153 men about any individual member, but short, to make good which deffici-1 know that there are greater ency
there are only 34 men artists outside the Academy than in effective in the 1st Reinforcement it. The Academy will never come Group of Auxiliary Service Volun-live, though it should last for ever. teers. It must further be remem. It will always be dead, because it bered that Europeans are required will kill'originality in everyone who for duties other than those in pure-belongs to it. Ty European units.
It has done no good to artists, nor 1 am glad to say that in the has it--done anything to enlighten Penang and Province Wellesley and the public as to what art really is. Malacca Volunteer Corps the nam- The majority of people who ga ber of European Colour Service to the Academy's exhibitions know Volunteers has risen by 22 and 7othing about art, nor are the respectively. European units in the sort of people who buy pictures. these Corps are, however, still well The exhibitions are, in fact, mere under establishment. The Eura-ly social functions. sian Company in Singapore has in- Probably the only people who are Freased its strength by 47 men and really interested in them are the is in a Rourishing condition.
rish snobs who have commission ed portraits and like to look at themselves on the line.
Eurasian Units
The Eurasian units in Penang and Malacca have decreased by 15 and 11 respectively, In Malacca, where the Eurasian community is very small, there is some excuse for this. In Penang there is none. It is impossible to work with a com- pany only 63 strong and unless the l Eurasian community in Penang Lake active steps to bring beir units up to establishment (136) 1
Pictures, he declared, should-be exhibited "anywhere but in the Academy."
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WHOSE HAT?
from the temple, and burnt them. Two other temples in the neigh- bourhood
the were treated in
formers was
But to their
SURPRISE FOR A HORSE
GUARDS SENTRY
If a vote were taken on which are the best behaved and best
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
a serious riot, and one of the reserts a London daily just to hand, same way. In one case there was trained animals ir. England, as-
the Kuomintang stuck
badly hurt.
the first prize would assuredly go to the horses of the Guards which instructions to sell by Public HE Undersigned have received purpose, closed the temples, and lands confiscated, the property to declared their very considerable
Auction
be used for educational purposes
Pilgrimages Prohibited
The next mave occurred at
In
stand at the entrance to the Horse
Guards Parade, Whitehall, S.W.
Almost immobile they stand on
sentry-go for their hour of duty. 'Gypsy' Disgraced
Crowd Humoured
of the
ON
WEDNESDAY, May 29, 1929, commencing at 11 a.m., at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
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and
The other day, however, Gypsy. Hanyang, at the great temple of a large black horse, fell into dis- the Nine Pure Ones. This temple
grace. As a. battalion is particularly frequented at the Guards was marching out of Mid-Autumn Festival; but this
Horse Guards Parade the sentry The Hupeh Government declared jerk her into a position of atten- year there were no celebrations.
on her back pulled the reins to that no one was to go
near the tion. temple for a month,
and put a Instead of standing up she guard of soldiers about it to engently collapsed on to the ground, force the order. No actual shooting her rider from the destruction was done.
But saddle. similar prohibition was enforced a few
days later upon the In a moment he was on his feet, nilgrimages to the Mu Lan Shan had remounted, and was saluting, temple a few miles from Hankow. with Gypsy standing as quiet and These pilgrimages have always ladylike as though nothing had been very popular during the first happened. days of the eighth moon.
The crowd who were watching An unusual report was made to Imperial days large strings of laughed as the secret of the fall the Police at 9.50 p.m., yesterday boats would be seen going up the became known. Gypsy had gone by the coxswain of the ferry launch river, flying flags which announc-to sleep, soothed by the summer sun shall be reluctantly compelled to re."Meridian Star." He etated that na ed that they carried pilgrims to and the continual roar of traffic.
berthing at the the Mu Lan Shan, and these flags disbanded and replaced by a com- Kowloon wharf at the end of its 8.55 were a sufficient safeconduct alike This trip from Hong Kong, a Chinese with officials and outlaws. The Chinese companies in Pen- first class passenger approached him year ang and Malacca decreased by and handed him a felt hat which he again, 3 and 4 respectively. I referred in said belonged to another Chinese tempted and confiscation of Double, aged nine, had his armHE Undersigned have received my report for 1927 to this shortage first class passenger who had jumped temple lands, though talked of, broken
when they were knocked instructions to sell by Public has not been carried out. in the Chinese units which, consi- overboard when the launch was
But down by a motor-omnibus at Dover-Auction dering the size and flourishing con- three-quarters way across the bar- this probably because the court, Essex. ditions of the Straits-born. Chinese bour.
menke, being very big property The coxswain added that no one owners, arc population, is quite unnecessary. In
also good land- Malacca particularly unless the raised the alarm of "man over-
lords, who care for their tenants situation can be improved I shall board" during the voyage, and he assiduously; and the Kuomintang lessness of Idols," "Superstition be forced to take the same steps as was unable to secure any further are probably frightened of the and Igorance and their Ends."
commend to Government that it be
pany formed from some other race.
Company.
in strong contrast to this is the Singapore Chinese Company which has increased in size by 61 mes and
the launch
was
there was none.
is
no iconoclasm WAS
Here, John Ernest Rogers, aged 12, was at-killed and a companion, Thomas,
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ON FRIDAY, May 31, 1929, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Room, Duddell Street:
A Valuable Collection of in the case of Penang Eurasian information either from the seamen consequences of assaulting them. Three hours were thus spent in
CURIOS. or other passengers on the launch, Reports of similar action working up popular feeling in the
(Particulars from Catalogue). against temples have drifted approved way, and then a con- On View from Thursday, May through from several other dis- certed move was Mr. Bridgeman, First Lord of the tricts, but not on
made on the 30, 1929. Admiralty, attended at Government In one case
a large scale, temple, all the images backed
Terms: Cash on Delivery. and the city magistrate down House, Gibraltar, a farewell dinner himself struck the first blow doors locked and sealed while the destroyed, and the
LAMMERT BROS., The Malay units, as regards re-given to the Atlantic Fleet on the which was to decapitate the idol. priests fled in terror.
Auctioneers. cruitment, have shown excellent re-completion of the Fleet exercises. sults in the Singapore and Penang and Province Wellesley Volunteer
is in very good condition.
Corps, the latter having increased by 66 men.
There are
Bright Features
M. S. V. R. Record
Hong Kong, May 28, 1929.
A DEAL IN PIGS
Oй flew the axehead and in fall- It is interesting to recall that, ing wounded the magistrate's early last year Nanking solemnly foot. Instantly the legend spread proclaimed religious toleration as certain must make a great effort in 1929 to that the idol had wrested the axe the law of Nationalist China, other units of Sinhalese and Indian work up to the level of its sister from his hand and smitten its im- and it was reiterated by Feng personnel amounting in all to 165 Corps. The only standard which pious assailant dead. But the Fuhsiang in Honan a month At the Summary Court this men. These have paintained their is "good enough" is 100 per cent. magistrate lost no time in appear-
later. This law is being ob morning before his Honour, the strength.
ing about the streets to
served fairly
well prove
towards Puigne Judge, Mr. Justice J. R. himself very much alive. "The Christian Institutions, thought Wood, the Nam Hing Loong firm The year's work on the whole dog it was that died''or rather does not prevent soldiers from of pig dealers. sued the Fook Tai Viewing this recruiting situation can be regarded with satisfaction. the idol, for another axe was ob- ocupying their property where Pork stall, of Saiyingpun Market, as a whole, the bright features have Efficiency is certainly increasing tained and the decapitation com- they have a mind to do so, as for the recovery been the Malay units throughout but will not be adequate until a pleted "according to plan."
of $235.35 for and the Eurasian and Chinese units great deal more attention has been
happened quite lately at Tsin- goods sold and delivered. Plain- in Singapore, while the Europear paid to the training of platoon and Kuomintang executed
Just before Christmas the kingpu, on the Grand Canal not tiff alleged that he had sold soy- units in Singapore, the Eurasian section commanders.
a big raid a hundred miles from Nanking. eral head of pigs to the defen- The latter in the Company in Penang and the Chin- must be absolutely competent to the Whangpoo enters the Yangtze thinking students making them- ment.
Paoshan district, where Occasionally one hears of free-dant, but had not received pay- ese Company in Malacca give cuuse train their sections and the efforts some 12 miles from Shanghai, selvos obnoxious and trying to for anxiety.
of the permanent staff must be where there is
Defendant averred that the ac- Amons! European
Volunteers concentrated on training them to well-known temple containing 60 ples, particularly Taoist, there is the plaintiff and Mr. D. L. Strellett
one particularly stop. Sunday services in mission count had been liquidated. there we 335 men in the Singa- do so.
chapels. But for Chinese tem- In organization the force | pore Voor Corps under 30 has made very great strides.
or 70 images, besides numerous years of are as compared with 391.
With the exceptions to which were ruthlessly attacked, images
smaller fanes. All the shrines no protection. 15 in Penang and Pro-have drawn attention the strengths dragged ster as compared with of units have been well maintained their heads hacked off and bodies monks
n Malacca as compar Though comparisons are, as a This at any rate gives rule, odious I should
in 1927
vince W
340 and
ed with
like
as an
sawn
Destruction of Images'
Mr. FH. Loseby appeared for
was for the defendant.
Case proceeding.
FISHING WITH DYNAMITE
It is difficult to aay to what this from their pedestals, hostility is due. Many of the are undoubtedly mere asunder. Whether there parasites, and disreputable para rise to tion that the short- example of what can be done to have not heard, but it is to be in the Temple at Hankow men (32) who was admitted to
has been any confiscation of lands sites too. But in some cases,, 28 A Chinese named Mak Yau-sing age of uropean Volunteers in draw the attention of the S. S. V. P.
the Singapo due to a disinclination to the record established this year
expected,
tioned above, they are a decided Government Civil Hospital at 9 p.ni., to join ry the young men. by the M. S. V. R. in which regl
benefit to the people. Canton, yesterday died at 3.25 this morning. The Iligente section in Singa- ment 99.66 per cent. were "efficient"
Lastly, at Taichow, on the which at the beginning of the He was picked up by Kwok Pai-yau pore a
Malacca and the newly and, out of which, only 3 men were Chakdang coast, there was a big revolution was the most advanced the master of fishing boat No. 4894- formed tilley Brigade Signal avoidably absent from my inspec- demonstration against the grin in its views, has latterly become HA lying unconscious in a dinghy Section Toban:) and Infantry Bri-tions. I hope that the S. S. V. F. cipat city temple on New Year's quite conservative; it has for off Tankunshat, in Chinese terri- gade Sition (Sinhalese) in will work to an even better stan- of police, and local garrison cemtion in its schools and colleges, brought in to Hong Kong. fo
Day. The city magistrate, chief instance rigidly stopped co-educa. tory yesterday afternoon and Singapa ad figures of 100 tard next year.
Nevertheless I heartily acknow-mander, as well as the chief re Elsewhere the new spirit easily
The man was suffering from a Singano a Malacca are to be ledge all the good work which has presentatives of the Kuomintang tends to run to extremes, of which badly lacerated right hand, evidently congrafted their walts, been done during the year for which all took part Speeches were the raids on the temples are the caused through fishing with Penang.davince Warpsley ny thanks are due to all ranks.⠀ made on such subjects as "Te most conspicuous manifestation. dynamite.
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