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THE LATE HON. MR. NG HON-TSZ.
YESTERDAY'S IMPRESIVE
FUNERAL
The funeral of the Inte Hon. Mr. Hon Tax. ene of the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council and highly respected leader of the Chinese community It was a Book place yesterday afternoon, most impressive ceremony and to the enlooker gave
some idea of the high
THN HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1935.
THE FIGHTING IN CANTON CORRESPONDENCE.
.
SURPRISE ATTACK BY KWANGST
TROOPS.
BITTERNESS AGAINST WU PEI FU,
The following telegram from "Mr. Eugene Chen should have appeared in a careless our yesterday's issue, but telegraph nieasenger delivered it, at the wrong address and consequently it did MOL reach us until yesterday morn.
ing!
CANTON, April 16th.
THE RENTS ORDINANCE
ĮTO THE EDITOS OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY FRESH."}
HONGKONG HOTEL ROOF
GARDEN.
That the new roof garden of the Hong- Kong Hotel has already become, the prin cipal centre of entertainment in Hongkong SIR-There can be no doubt that the was the reflection suggested to a Daily Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock's letter, appear Press representative who paid a visit last ing in to-day's issue of the Daily Press, night at the invitation of the manage will serve to correct many misapprehement. With two séances daily the beautiful sons regarding the Renta Ordinance, and ballroom affords devotees of the dance- I feel sure that many others, like myself, and they are many-with ample oppor-
await with interest his further latter.
tunities of passing. a few hours in their Might I be permitted to offer a sugge favourite diversiou. An artistic environ Respect in which the deceased gentleman The Kwangsi forces launched surprise tion There are quite a number of was held. A great muny well-known reattacks carly this morning against the tenants who have taken possession sininent, a highly skilled band and every
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in
provision for the creature comforts ensure nidants-European as well as Chinese-- Yunnanese forces stationed at Kun Yin the Ordinance came into effect, and
n few hours' forgetfulness of the carking took part in the ceremony,
Shan and the Experimental station.” The many instances they are paying higher;
cares of daily life, be they associated with The customary observances occupied the attacks were completely repulsed by the rents than the previous tenants, If Mr.
Government services, Brokers Alley, a greater part of the afternoon. So long Yunnanese, who are now counter-attack-† Pullock could define their position I feel]
Naval quarter-deck or a parade ground. was the funeral procession' that it tooking and surrounding the White Cloud | sure that his explanation would be appre well over an hour to pass any given point mountain where the Kwangsi forers have ciated. I will quote a
Just now, the adepts who assemble to typical case. The and so great was the crush that the retreated.
ront of a certain flat was, on December lance have the opportunity of seeing a traffic police found it necessary to close Dr. Sun Yat Sen witnessed the opera-31st, 1920, $100 per month. Between that performance before which their best. Caine Rond to motorists where Mr. Ngtions along the foot of the White Cloud date and December. 1923, veral tenants forts pale into insignificance. Mist resided, for some time previous to the mountain accompanied by the Yunnanese occupied the flat, and, each new tenant Mura Shipoff, nasisted by Mr. Koka hour of commencemeat of the ceremony Commander-in-Chief who was confident of was charged additional rent, until to-day shipoff, gives an exhibition quite in the and until the long cortege had got well entirely crushing the Kwangsi troops very the present tenant is paying $150 per Pavlova manner, hinting a great Inture With month. Now, the questions in the mind for the exponent as a danseuse. Canton remains calm although the of the present tenant are:-Should he be such an addition to Hongkong's perman- public are indignant at the action taken charged only the rental value at December entertainment facilities no one need by the Kwangsi forces and bitterly 31st, 10207 If he has been overcharged, be dull at this end of the world. denounce General Wu Pei Fu who has con he recover the amount illegally! inspired this wanton attack.
clear of the road. En route from the residence to the Farewell Pavilion,” at
Kennedy Town, the procession passed through the principal thoroughfares" of the City,
Boon.
Just prior to the procession, which was timed to commence at 1 pm., a number of intimate friends of the deceased assem- bled at No. 62, Cains Road, and one by KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY one, bowed before the coffin as a tribute of respect. The processing hended by a Chinese band, was made up of the usual
Chinese funerai eniblems, some of them being hired for the occasion by various
meins of the deceased,
behind the chief mourners
SERVICE SUSPENDED. MILITARY HOLD UP TRAINS AND
• COMMANDEER COACHES.
changed! Has he muy access to Gor erument records which would show the exact rent at December 31st, 19201 Trist- ing that Mr. Pollock will continue his| good work on behalf of tenants.--Yours faithfully,
ONE OF 'EM."
MISSIONS TO. SEAMEN IN HONGKONG.
MENT OF $30,000.
Sir Paul Chater's well-known gedero-
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THE PEAK TRAMWAY.
NON-STOP CARS.
We direct the attention of the publie, and especially those who regularly use the Peak tramway, to the advertisement relating to changes in the timetable which come into force on May 1st.
The schedule provides for three extra cars on weekdays and two on Sundays) during the husy parts of the day. Six non-stop cars will run from terminus to terminus on week-days for the benefit of
hose travelling to the Peak at lunch time and in the evening, and three non-stop
There has been a recurrence of trouble; Chinese public institutions. Interspersed on the Chinese Section of the Kowloon throughout the procession were six or Canton Baiway, which, on Monday night, poveri Chinese hands. One of these pre-resulted in the through service to Canton SIR PAUL CHATER OFFERS ENDOW ceeded a large photo of the deceased, being suspended until further notice. which was draped in white and bourne by No details had reached Hongkong four coolies. Immediately following the yesterday, but a telegram received from photo came the casket containing the re- the Canton Railway Offcinds by the sity has again been exemplified by the This was covered Kowloon officials yesterday morning states offers of an Endowment of Fifty Thot
cars will run from terminas to terminus by a large canopy and carried by about that the service is cancelled until further sand Dollars to the Missions to Seamen
on Sundays for the benefit of those thirty men. Then came the chief mournotice as the military are commandeering in Hongkong, which, needless to say, the travelling to the Peak in the evening. ers, including Mrs. Ng, the widow and rolling stock, and engines.
Committee haro most gratefully accepted. their little son aged four years.
The aorstop cars will be non-stop in Tha On Monday a number of trains were This gift wil' solve a problem which, for general public followed in large numbers held up at Sheklung, just over the some little time, bas been puzzling the every sense of the word, not even stopping There are very few border. No. 13 train (the down express Missions to Seamen authorities locally, at Plantation Road, At West Point the cortege was net by from Canton) was held up at Sheklung the ways and means of raising a salary residents at the Peak to whom the upper the King's Regimental Band, which took by the military for over two hours, and for an Assistant-Chaplain, whose efforts terminus is not as accessible as Plantation over the position of head of the proces-consequently arrived in Rewloon at a will probably be centred round the newly Road Station and to stop at Plantation Road would mean stopping at Kennedy sion and led the way to "Farewell late hour on Monday night. Before re-opened Kowloon Seamen's Instituté.
Road which the Company are anxious to Pavilion," "playing Chopin's "Funeral learing Sheklung the troops detached a The Missions to Senmen already owe a March." At the Pavilion the Regimental number of the coaches and allowed the great debt of gratitude in one founder of avoid. Band, the Chinese hands and those carry-train to proceed with eix coaches only, the firm of Mesars. Chater and Mods, for The tifin hear non-stop cars will begin | ing the paraphernalia hed the roadway The up-express was similarly treated, the late Sir H. N Mody gave a similar running at 12.40 p.m. and end at 1.13 on either side for some considerable dis- but in this case the train was only allow amount towards the building fund of the pm, and the evening non-stop cars will tance, and the cofin passed between thejed to proceed with four coaches. The present Seamen's Institute on the Praya begin running at 7.90 p.m. and cad at to ranks and into the Pavilion. The slow down train got as far as Sheklung East, when at a public meeting an appeal [7.84 p.m. on week-days. On Sundays only Chinese bands and those carrying the where it was held up and not allowed to was made for dotations for the purpose, the evening non-stop cars will be run. regalin here dispersed, but the Regimental proceed further.
As that gift then enabled the Missions to Stopping cars will run alternately with Band remained and played very impres It is not clear whether any of the pas- Seamen to make great progress in the way the non-stop cars, as the timetable wively the Dead March in "Baul.". sengers have been interfered with or not, of "extension, this latest gift from the clearly shown.
Inside the Pavilion a large number of and no confirmation could be obtained of other founder will, we are sure, open the that three Chinese road to a still 'more vigorous advance it Chinese had assembled and after the 40 ugly rumour
passengers were taken out of one of the the field of opportunity offered by the - candles had been lighted and placed on a trains and shot by the Military. All the ever-changing seafaring life of the Port.
small table in front of the coffin the coaches which have been commandeered mourners entered and bowed three times before the coffin and once before the widow and her small son.
His Excellency the Governor was the
boon.
belong to the Chinese Section.
THE FRENCH CRUISERS.
Geveral.
Enst night a banquet and hall "were given on the flagship by the Admiral.
A MUSICAL FEAST.
WELL-KNOWN CELLIST IN
TAIKOO MOULDERS'
DEMANDS.
DISSATISFIED WITH CONTRACT SYSTEM.
13.
Messrs. But
The little difficulty which has arisen at HONGKONG..
Taikoo Docks regarding the system. of first to pay the customary tribute of A delegation from the Chinese General
employment of Chinese moulders appears respect; members of the European com Chamber of Commerce visited the French
Hongkong masio lovers were given an
to be well on the way towards munity followed and the deceased gentle-lagship this morning, and was received unusual treat yesterday afternoon at the amicable settlement. The moulders, inse man's countrymen continued to pass by by the Admiral, the Delegate from the City Hall, where Miss May Mukle, the the birr antil a late hour in the after French Ministry of Commerce, and Mr. well-known violincellist, gave a delightful Friday, expressed dissatisfaction to their Felix Yung, of the French Consulate concert, with the aid of Miss Rebecca employers at their present system of Those who attended at the "Farewell photographie exhibits was made after Gertaudo Watson, whose pianoforte accentractor and controlled by the firm, A tour of inspection of the Clarge, a very clever violinist, and Miss ployment which is that they are engaged Pavilion" to pay their last respects were: which the party proceeded to the
They ask, now that the contract is H.E the Governor (Sir R. E Stubbs, Admiral's saloon. Included in the party companiments were not the least note K.C.M.G.), H.E. the General Officer Com were:-Mesere Yip Lan Chuen (Scere worthy feature of a delightful concert. running out, to be engaged direct by the tary of the Chamber), Simon Tae Yan, Lady Stubbs was among the many well-firm and that the middle man-the manding (Sir John Fowler, K.Q.M.G., Wong. Kwong Tin. Wong Ping Sang C.B., D.5.0.), the Chief Justice (Sir Chow Chuen Nin, So Yow Chin, Koo Yik known music lovers of the Colony to be contractor-be eliminated, William Rees-Davies), the Vice-Chancellor Pang, Chan Po Kwong, Li Tse Fong, Attracted to the concert, and she evinced terfield and Bwire have undertaken to go of the Hongkong University (Sir William Young Po Kwan, Win Lew Cheng, Chan every sign of thoroughly enjoying the per- into the question with a view to rectifying
Ning, Ko Kit Chun, Ma Man Fai
the grievance. The moulders apparently formance. Brungate, K.C.MG), Sir Robert Ha
This is the first visit Miss Mukle has nocepted this, but on Monday morning Tung, the Colonial Secretary (the Hon.
paid to Hongkong, and after the very they suspended work. During the course Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, C.M.G., C.BE),
excellent concert to which the audience of the day a conference was held between were treated yesterday, there is not the representatives of the employers and re- the Attorney-General (the Hon. Mr.
Amongst the large number of Chinese slightest doubt but what she will receive & J. H. Kemp, K.C., C.B.E), the Colonial Treasurer (the Hon. Mr. Mcl. Measer present were:Mr. Li Po-kwai (Chair- warm welcome if she come again to the presentatives of the moulders at which it man of the Chinese General Chamber, of Colony while the recollection of her was oettled that the moulders should O.B.E), the Secretary for Chizce Commerce), Mr. Ting sun (Chairman of playing endures
return to work on the following day and Miss Mukle is the complete mistress Affairs (the Hon. Mr. E. R: Hallifax, the Tang Wah Hospital), Mr. Liang C.B.E.), the Director of Education (the Secretary Yuan Shib-kai, First Pres only one word which will adequately be presented to there by Monday next for Shih-yi (Ex-Premier of China and Private of a very difficult instrument, and there is that the new terms of employment would Han, Mr. E. A, Irving), tha Director of ident of China), and Messrs. S. W. Teo, describe her renderings, and that is, consideration. It is not considered likely Public Works (the Hon. Mr. T. L.Wong Kwong-tin, Lo Chung-kue, Fung-exquisite. Her last interpretation, that there will be any further trouble in
Ping-shan, Benjamin Wong Tape, T. N. was perhaps, her best. Popper's "Elfin this direction. Perkins), the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, Chau, Chau Siu-ki, Simon Tse you, J. 3. Dance" The composition is a beautiful KC, Ym R. H. Kotewall (representing Wong, Siu Ying-chow, Ho Wah-tong, Ho one in itself, and her listeners were held her husband, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Foog, Ho Kwong, Ho Tu, Chow Tung fascinated throughout. As an encore,. Kotewall, who was prevented from attend. Bang, Ip Lan-chuen, Kwok Siu-lau, Chan Miss Mukis gave Alice Verne's "Lullaby. Harr, Li Yau-chuen, Lee Hysan, Kwok Another beautiful rendering was Dvorak' ing owing to his being indisposed), the Churn, Li Ping, Leung Kwai-tiu, To Sze delightful composition "Dumky," given Paisne Judge (Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz), yaco Lau. Kwan-po, Chow Kom wing, by the trio-pianoforte, violin, and violin the Captain Superntendent of Police Ko Wan-kun, Leung Yan-po, Harry Fong, cello. The Largo andience sat entranced (Mr. E D. C. Wolio), the First Magis. Jeo Kew, Ip Liu-kwong, Fung fu-tung, throughout the piece. The complete per
Shum Pak-ming, Shum Chung-hing, Chan formence was as follows:-- trate (Mr. J. R. Wood), the Chairman of Kau-yus, Li Wing-kwong, Lo Cheung-ip, Violinello Solo; Sonata in A, Bocche the Sanitary Board (Mr. G. R. Sayer), Leung But-iu, Fung Tang, Li Yik-mui, rini, Adagio, Allegro. violin and Violin the Crown Solicitor (Mr. A. E. Holmes), Dr. W. K. Wen, General Tang Yu-kwong Trio for Pianoforte, BB the Governor'e Private Secretary and many others. (Mr. Eric Rice), Mr., C. B.. Melbourne Mr. B. B. McElderry, Mr. A. E. Wood, Mr. J. A. Fraser, Mr. N. Teesdale Mab kintosh, Mr. C. H. Lyson, Mr. A. E. Hali and others.N
(Continued at foot of next column.)
A great many wreaths and many letters of condolence were sent. Among the floral tributes was one from His Excellency the Governor.
After refreshments had been served, the procession proceeded to the Chinese Per manent Cemetery at Aberdeen where the remains will be interred.
WRONG FIRM, SUMMONED.
At the Magistracy yesterday morning, Mr. O. J. Roe, of the Imperie and Exports Ofice, told His Worship (Mr. J. B. Wood), that he wished to withdraw four tummonses issued against a Chinens firm. There were two firms of the sou cello; Dumky, Dvorak, fin four move name, but a different addres, and they mente).
Violincello Solo: (a) Bois Epois, Lily had caued the summonses against the Mukic, (b) Guitarre, Moszkowski. -
Trio for Fianoforte Violin and Violin- cello, Colonial Song, Perey Grainger
Violincello Solo, (a) Idylle, Baras, (b) Swedish Folk Tune, (c) Elfin, Dauce, Popper.
wrong firm.
The offences were issuing an inaccurate. manifesto; for not returning two manifesta for the ss. Saïchau; and for not return- ing a manifest for the es. Sin Pin Am
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