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THE MARCH ON CANTON. REMARKABLE PROGRESS OF INVADING FORCES.
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OVER 30.000 TROOPS ADVÄNGING
ALONG WEST RIVER. "
We have been able to gather from a trustworthy surco
Information regarding the advance of Sun Yat Sen's forces down the West River, which certainly lends support to Sun Yat Sen's expectation that his forces will be in occupation of the city of Canton within a fortnight.
The Cantonese force at Wuchow, con-
fronted by a concentration of Yunnanese and Kwangsi troops, commanded by one of Sun Yat Sen's Generals, evacuated the Treaty port on December 31st, drop- ping further down the river on a flotilla of sunboats, armoured tow boats and
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11TH, 1998.
JAPANESE NAVAL CADETS IN PORT.
YESTERDAY'S ENTERTAINMENTS.
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Three vessels of the Imperial Japanes Navy, conveying 400 Naval cadets on a world tour, stemmed into Hongkong Har- bour yesterday morning to the accom- paniment of salutes from the warships The Japanca vessels are: the Idzums flagship of Vice Admiral N. Taniguchi, the male nod the Asama all of which were constructed in Great Britain,
in port.
Admiral Taniguchi made his official landing at 10.13 .m.. at Murray Pier. A guard of Honour and Band of the King's Regiment was drawn up on the Prays, looking very smart and soldierly, H.E. the Governor's A.D.C. (Capt. Neville) received the Admiral who, after inspecting the Guard of Honour," proceed
to Government House in one of the Governor's care, followed by members of the staff in another.
"MEI-TSAI" STOET.
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Most of the speakers cited instances of the ill-treatment to which rui-tial were subjceted For the most part they were such as are reported from time to time in cases which come into the police court, but there was one story which WGS angular. It was a personal incident. The speaker in his younger days had been nie, poor, man. His wife was them in de
To cars for her, and to provide her with proper medical treat ment he was forced to sell his daughter the sum of $100 and he signed the so-called "presentation card." "Directly the bargain had been completed both he and his wife repented their action His wife's health became worse and finally in
THE MUI-TSAI BILL UPROARIOUS MEETING AT TUNG WAH HOSPITAL
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY FAVOURS THE BILL. Yesterday's kaifong meeting held at the Tung Wab Hospital to discuss the Mus-teai Bill, now before the Legislative mich. Council, terminated in an uproar, as the result of the Chairman, (Mr. Lo Chung Kui) declaring the meeting closed with out the sense of the meeting being taken An angry scone followed in which there was much shouting, and the Chairman The attitude of was severely heckled.
large section of the audience was so menacing that the Chairman was forced to re-open the meeting and ask for a show of hands.
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The meeting, which was a very crowded one voted in an overwhelming majority in favour of the Bill and the crowd die persed amidst cheers and there was much jeering at the Chairman and his co-direc. tors.
junks. The allied troops pursued them, * marching down both banks of the river,
At one o'clock a party consisting of and by the 8th inst. the Cantonese gun half the naval cadets, with British mid- bents had dropped back to Luk Po, which shipmen to help fulfil the duting of hösts, is about 10 miles down from Wuchow. Was entertained to tifin by the commun In other words, the Cantonese have beenity at the City Hall The cadets and falling back as the rate of ten miles amidshipmen filled St. Andrew's Hall, and included many of those who were present
The overwhelming... opposition must have been something in the nature of bombebell to the organisers of the meet ing, who were of the merchant class and
desperation he took 'the #100 back to the buyer of the mai-teni and asked for hor His request was refused. Ele return. consulted a lawyer. (it is not clearly in- dicated whether it was local lawyor) who informed him that as he had signed the
presentation rard nothing further
could be done. Fearing that nothing but
be finally threw it into the sea. From evil could come from using this money, that day his wife's health improved and prosperity attended the family. He was now in a position to wear European clothes...
Mr MK-Lo pointed out that there was nothing objectionable in the Bill, which he explained to the gathering in detail. The only part to which any objec sien could be raised was Part. III., which would not become law until such time as the, Governor in Council made an order, This part of the Bill could be discussed
day, although they are reported to have a party of 30 British and Japanese navalist week at an extraordinary meeting by the public after, the rest of the Bill made a stand at least four times cfficers who accompanied the party nt of the Chinese General Chamber of Com had been passed. There would be plenty |
Konghau, Fong Chan, Dosing and Tak- hing.
Observers are impressed by the soldierly appearance of the Tunnanese troops.
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down to tifin in St, George's Hall.
During the proceedings, the Colonial Secretary (the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, C.M.G.) visited the hall, accompanied by the members of the Committee which made the arrangements: The Hon. Mr.
merce at which a resolution was passed unanimously asking the Chinese repre- sentatives of the Legislative Council to oppose the Bill when it comes up for
second reading..
The opposition which attended yester
They appear to be under good control, Lang (Chairman) Commander C.day's meeting in force was composed of are well equipped, and are marching in W. Beckwith, R. N., Commander Tait, of Christian Chinese, members of the Chin- orderly fashion Estimates of the strength H.M.S. Harkins, Mr. D. K. Blair. (See ese YMCA., and the YW.C.A-mem of the Yannanese and Kwangsi troops retary of the Chamber of Commerce) and bers of the Chinese Seamen's Union and quite a large representation of other which are marching along the river banks Mr. M. F. Key (Assistant Secretary).
The rooms had been very tastefully de Inbouring classes. As the meeting pro- range between 30,000 and 40,000. The curated by the Naval authorities, the ceeded men from the streets strolled in
Japanese Flag, the Union Jack and the Yunnanese carry bayanets, and this,it White Ensign being used with good effect, coolies of all sorts. They listened with is said, pals the wind up'
the The Hongkong Hotel served an excellent interest to the proceedings but took ho tiffin and the hotel band played sélections. part in the scene at the conclusion of the Cantonese," who will not stand up against The B.A.T. Company supplied packets meeting. The hall was crowded and bearing a design combining the Japaness there must have been one hundreds pre- at and British flags.
The two Chinese unofficial meat Afterwards, the visitors were taken by
cold steel.
The main Cantohese army was
of cigarettes for the guests, each packet
Bett
of time to do that later.
A speaker, woaring a badge of the Chin- a system was the outcome of poverty. cse Y.M.C.A., said people, said the mui- The poor people could not be blamed for that the people who were to be blrümed were the rich, who condoned the evil by
buying girls. If these rich people had developed industries with their riches instead of selfishly boarding them they would probably ever have heard of the The speaker's remarks," wero greeted with much applause."
system.
UPROAR STARTS. The commencement of the uproar arose over a point of order. A speaker-one of the three who spoke against the Bill asked why everything was being done for the women and nothing for the men. There was slavery amongst the men Coolies were being sold daily to work in countries abroad.
A number of members arose and an pealed to the Chairman to rule the
Shiuhing on the morning of the 8th inst. special tram cars to Causeway Bay for bers of the Legislative Council-the Hon, speaker's remarks out of order, they werd
They have four two-funnelled gunboats, and possibly a dozen river gunboats or armoured toy-boats and a large number of troop junks. It is
considered that if the naval force was imbued with the fighting spirit, it could hase beld the invading army at Wuchow. About the insi chance it will have of pre- eventing the invading troops from captur. ing Canton will present itself at the "Shiu Hing Gorge". The advance guards, ofthe invading army and the rear guard of the retreating Can tonese were in contact just above the Gorges on the 8th inst. Evidently the invaders are Rot counting on serious -opposition from Chen's Navy, and there is some reason for thinking that the Navy has been bought over, or, at all events, that their sympathies are with the invading force,
forces."
mot confined to the subject under discus Mr.sion. The speaker, however, attempted to carry pa, but the interruptions were many that he was eventually compelled to sit down.
Sookuppco Valley, where the Japanese Mr. Chow Shou-son and the Hon. community had arranged a gymnastic Ng Hon-ta-were present, but they took display for their entertainment.
Today some hundreds of the leaver deck to active part in the meeting. will be entertained to tifin mind after wards be taken to Happy Valley, where the Navy has arranged football matches - CONSUL-GENERAL'S DINNER
A HINT FROM THE OPPOSITION,
A hint of possible strong opposition
At this stage the meeting had assumed an attitude of impatience. There were
the merchants was expressed in the open-cries of vote" and much stamping, of
feet. Two or three of the Bill's suppor
ing stages of the meeting when a quaters cominenced excitedly to address the Last night the Consul General for tion of procedure was raised. A member Chairman, all at the same time. Tear- Vice Admiral and officers of the Japanese Japan (Mr. Takakashi) entertained the suggested that, as it was not a Tung Wahng that the meeting was getting out of hand, the Chairman announced that Training Squadron to dinner at the Hospital meeting, but a meeting of the there would be no farthr discussion and Hongkong Hotel. The guests included. kaifong, the meeting should appoint its he declared the meeting closed by ringing H.E. the Governor (Sir R. E. Stubbs,
OWD chairman To this the Chairman & bell. K.C.M.G), who wore the order" of the Rising Sun: H.E. Vice-Admiral N. Tazi replied that it was only a meeting for guchi, H.E. the Commander-in-Chief discussion and the expression of opto- Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, K.C.B.Y, ions. It had invariably been the prat
the HE General-Officer-Commanding tice of the Tung Wah Hospital wap (Sir John Fowler, K.C.M.G.), Commo doen once point its own chairman for macetings William Rees Davies, the Hon. Sir Paul
The matter was not "carried further, Chater, C.M.G.. Sir William Brunyate, and Mr. Lo Chung Kui. continued KC..G...Sir Robert Ho Tung, LLD upy the chair. the Hon. Mr. Cland Severni, Q.M.G.,
PANDEMONIUM. What followed is difficult to describe. Pandemonium reigned. One could not hear one's own roite. "The noise was deafening and there was 3. decidedly Several. Deople angry tone." about it. were seen to quietly leave the meeting. There were angry demands for a vote to be taken, and the crowd, now standing Then followed impassioned harangues on its fect, began to press in towards the Capt. R. Odera, Eng-Capt. S. Kawai, by ardent supporters of the Bill. Speak long table at which the chairman and his Chpt. K. Bara, the Hon. Mr. Mel. er followed speaker and they, denounced supporters sad,
The Chairman attempted to speak, but Messer, the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifox, the evils of the mut-trai system in vigor. There must either be some very C.B.E, the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.C., ous language. These speeches were his voice was not heard in the uproar.
Mr. M. K. Lor to his feet and, serious fighting in this region in the C.B.E., Hon. Mr. Choy Shou-son, the Hor. Punctuated with frequent applause which next few days, ox, General Chen Chiang Mr. Ng Eon-tez, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, nearly always started from amongst the eventually succeeded in getting a hear He asked the permission of the C.MO, the Hon. Mr. E. V. D. Parr, formidable section, representing the Sea-ing. Ming's resistance must entirely collapse the Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen, the Hon. men's Union. Of nearly 20 speakers, who Chalman for the use of the ball for a It is a quration of the solidarity of his Mr. T. L. Perkine, Capt. Neville, Bir addressed the meeting, unly three opposed few moments. He pointed out, the irre- Eric Rice, Mr. Tsuda, Mr. Tsutsumi, the Bill, and two of the were not exact. gularity of closing the meeting without Capt Fisher, Lent. Commander R Ely against the Bill but suggested that it Worthington, RN., Lieut. Peachey and should be deferred for some years, Mr. Ponsonby Tane, the Editors of the The speakers in favour of the measure four British newspapers, and a number of were drawn from all sections Members members of the local Japanese Com. of the Chinese Y.M.C.A spoke. A lady, named Mrs. Ms Ying Pui, representing munity.
After the customary honours had the Y.W.CA. fiercely denounced the been paid to the Sovereigns of the two mui-teai system and her speech was reapplause, and the Chairman, after some The Bill, hesitation, re-opened the meeting and Natiods, the host, in a felicitously phrased ceived with..much applause." speech, extended a very cordial welcome the remarked, would wash out a very called for a vote. to his guests. He recalled with pleasure shameful old custom.. Women, she add At the rate at which the invading army the happy relations which had subsisted ed; were mostly to be blamed. They didly in favour of the Bill, has been advancing they were expected for so many years between Great Britain most of the buying and selling of m to reach Samshui on the 13th, but we learnt and Japan, culminating, after the Russo, and were responsible for their illther incident of note except the jeering last night that Samshui has been surprised Japanese War in the Anglo-Japanese treatment...
Allance, which had ensured the peace of by another section of the invading array, the Far East and contributed materially which had made a detour and come down to the cause of penee in the world at The Bamboo River, and Samahui ha large. That Allance had now bein con- tinued in a wider pact as a result of already fallen, apparently without serious the Washington Conference, and the friendship of the two nations was assured
It should be mentioned that besides this large force of Yunnanese and Kwangsi troops advancing down the West River, a large force of Fukienese troops is reported to be advancing towards Waichow.
fighting.
་,
SAMSHCI, CAPTURED.
NERVOUSNESS AT CANTON.
(Continued on nest column:)
Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, on yied, his colleague the proud task with which he and been entrusted that of taking round theworld 400 cadets, who would be the
for all time (Applause) in ex Japanese Naval officers of the future; i
ascertaining by a vote the feeling of the meeting on, the subject under discussion," He suggested, seeing that the Chairman had declared the meeting closed, that the meeting should elect another Chairman and proceed to take a vote
This suggestion was grected.
with
much
The show of hands was overwhelming
The crowd then dispersed without far
at the Directors by noisy elemente in the crowxi
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THE ANNUAL POLICE SHOOT. INSPECTOR MONAB. WILSON'S BIG
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SCORE.
Adaret Taniguchi, WILD
Same, remarkably fine, shooting by cellent English and with a breezines endorsed all that Admiral Taniguchi Inspector MoNab Wilson of the Hong- An extra? issued by one of the characteristic of his calling, said that Hongkong Chinese papers last night when he left on his world voyage he had said as to the importance of Anglo kong Police Force has been witnessed at Japanese friendship, which had been so the annual police shoot, which is now stated that the Civil Governor and other was assured that the words thanks, strikingly manifested in the recent world diaring to a conclusion. Shooting on the merci," and "gracias ** would carry war. Buntesmen and diplomats and people Kowloon City rifle range, Inspector officials have seat their families away him, through wherever he want. But he of that sort might draw up treaties, Wilson has scored 101 points out of a from the city, that merchants are remov soon learned that they were inadequate pacts and alliances, but the coment that possible 500. He is some 40 points ahead
to express the feelings of gratitude ing their goods,' and' people have become raked be the kind receptions acorded really bound countries together the of Traffic Sergeant Smith, the present In the 100 vards grouping competition, very apprehensive, as the numerous armed to him, his officers, and the ship's ratings goodwill that existed between their runner up in the competition..
standing, and this was in large meakure Inspector Wilsonhooting yesterday troops, and also the Volantears, are supecially in the British porte,where the peoples as the result of mataas na
welcome had always been of the warnet supplied by the Nagies. (Applause morning under very favourable condi patrolling the main thoroughfares, while character In Hongkong they had been the Governor expressed his plea tions, scored 25 points out of a posible bodies of troops are being moved out of overwhelmed with the programme, sure at the viss and said thin while in 25. His marksmanship has been subject
provided for them. Allu the city to resist invasion. It is also entertainment motion of rat Ceylon and elsewhere he had had fro of much comment in polies circles and quent opportunities of meeting the loss his score this year is believed to be the stated that the commercial bodies and arranged at the Washington Conference, Japanese, Navy, and never had he highest for many years past and sociatios are coprening a meeting to die he said it was only by the British and known of in single case of miscosino A décided point in Inspector Wilson's
Japanese nations cotitinuing to work
among them on any of their visits-To favour is that the ride range is situated be able to say that was a high compli- in the district which comes under his ment to them. (Applause.),
charge and he has therefore better The gathering shortly afterwards dis- portunities of practising than his colle perved
Lagues.
cuss the protection of the city, and it is side by side that the reduction of their indicated that negotiations to this end respective Navies in the interesta will be entrusted to Ngai Pong Ping, or cofony could be ecathrined.
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