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MISSION WORK AT NANNING. SEQUEL TO BUS COLLISION
IN NEW TERRITURIES. MOTOR BUS COMPANY SUED FOR DAMAGES..
THE SHAMEEN STRIKE. CONFERENCES IN PROGUESS. MRS. LECHMERE CLIFT AT THE
HELENA MAY INSTITUTE. Though on Thursday night" the pro spects of an early settlement of the Mrs. Clift the wife of Dr. Lechnere general strike of Chinese employers on lift, of the Emanuel Medical Mission, the Shameen were regarded as favour Nanning, gavo an interesting talk yester. | ably there is no news yet that these pro-day morning at the Helena May · Ta- stitute, on the subject of her work at the speets have materialised...
Mission.
A conference which lasted a consider able time took plate on Thursday after- noon at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at which Col, Crosse, Chairman of the British Municipal Council of Shameen. disenssed the strike situation with Dr. C. C. Wu. Foreign Minister, and Mr. Fu Tingsheng. Coatmissioner of Foreign Affairs, & number of the Labour leaders subsequently attended the conference. which, it is stated, was held at the request of Co Crosse.
WHAT THE STRIKERS WANT. What the strikers "waut, the Patio Gherte's reporter was told when he called at the Union's ollies on the Bund
CLAIM FOR BETROTHAL MONEY. At the Summary Court yesterday after- an unusual case came up for bear- ing before Mr. Justive Dyer Ball. The cake was one in which Yung Vik Chai,
There were, he said, many people who
father of a young Chinese girl named Yang Mui Kitt who was killed in the were inclined to ask why there stunlit be Christian missionaries in China at all. Such prople might argue "The Chinese "tor-ims crash at En Long Lehlge a have a religion of their own. Why untile of months ago when several pas- teave then alone!"
Sengers were killed and Kumter of thers injured, gued the Chanting
Mr. W. B. Hind appeared for the plaintiff. There was no aparanch for the defence.
loter Bus Company for damages.
! Mr. W.. B. Hind wail:-This aetion is
The answer, the speaker explainal, was is the propitiation for our own als provided in 1. John ii.: Jesus Christ and not for our own sins only, but also for the since of the whole world. The gospel of Christ therefore should be carried to all the peoples of the globe,
Mrs. Crift Kare a thoroughly interest.hrough: under the Fatal Auridents Onli
nance of 1550 which was re-enactment!! Thursday evening (1) Caplete ng description of how the early sts. abolition of the new Trate and Police picious of the natives of the surrounding of Lord Campbell's Act. As yoar Lori- Permit Begations: (2) Chinese are to country were eventu. By overconrs after be free to enter or leave Shameen before she and her husband sired their Mihip kupus, it is necessary for us, before we ran Succeed in such an action, to twelve o'clock midnight; (3) All the sion work at Nanning in Visi,
Her husband
some Hunga KOLVAR strikers would resuru to work at the same time, after the settlement of the matter, melicine to a man who was so ill that Trove that the plaintif
The pecuniary danges by reason ul, the but no objection or iliscrimination must his connexions had given him up.
carati. Indiarely. the death. In the culinary way at Hohe the be exercised towards anyone of them by man the employers in this respect; and (4) strong stiv suspicion grow less and father would have received no pecuniary There must be no deduction of pay forless, until the peuple would come at all
tu see Dr. "C. Wu to when the terins they demanded would be given.
WILS
the number of dags they were on strike. hours to the tiny house which the Clifts denies in Court, hut owing to Chinese The reporter was further told that if all occupied, putting out their tongues, and social customs there is pecuniary dam- the above mentioned teras were seeepted holding out their limiw to show sorages in this way. This girl was, prior by the Shameen people all the strikersplaces, in the hope of receiving treatment. would return to the laud. The Union from the foreign doctor who had raised to her death, betrothed to a Chinese and in accordance with Chinese istom the had sent funeteen of its representativesa on from the dend.
father received $1,000 ou trothal from the father of the man to whom she was betrothed. Upon the death of the girl the money because repayable. The plains til has therefore suffered pecanjary loss for which he must and can be reimbursed, and this is the basis of the claim. It is somewhat unusual claim but it is a claim, which comes entirely within the meaning of the Ordinance.
THE ORGANISATION, ON THE -SHAMEEN.
WOMAN
As an instance of the extraordinary the foreign ideas with regard to devils which are entertained by the un- educated Chinese, Mrs. Clift instanced a who listened with apparently The following gtification posted on the rapt attention to one of his discourses Shapeen gives information of the urand when it was over. came up and ask rangements made for meeting the situa-eu: "Is it true that you gouge people's tiv created by the withdrawal of all eyes out and boil them to make foreign
Chinese-labs-tri-
SPECIAL. NOTIFICATION.
240 p.m. 1721
(1) SITUATION.
Marike notices have imen issued to ser- vants and/or cuployees and those will probably leave at 6 p.m. to-night. It is abrinus that no desire exists on the part of the strike leaders for a settlement or compromise as no representative basap proached either the Consulate-feueral the Council with complaint of otherwise.
The Regulations have been made public to-day and do not come into force until August 1st. 1921. '
The strike is therefore foreců on the community without warning.
(3) Chairman of Sub Committers have been appointed
Supplies.
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(3) SUPPLIES. Besidents are expected to clicct their own supplies from the Depot, Dairy Farm, fe & Cold Sturge Co.
medicine!"
Mrs. C will give a similar: talk as the Helena May Institute next Priklay
at 10.30 am."
eral Chamber of Commerce of Caston and the Shameen British Municipal Council was published by the Cantou Press on May 16th and 16th.. and this was done upen direction of both parties, and they all thought the incident, the complaint of indiscrimination against Chinese, then and there closed.
It was a coincidence that the Annamite outrage against the French community in Shameen on June 19th and the thought of the British àunicipal Council to re- rise the traffic and jihlice regulations
came about the same time.
BRIGHT AND LETTERS,
Mr. find said that under the Hens Corpus, Act he had produced the two drivers out of gaol to prove negligence.
One of the prisoners produced (not dressed in ponvict garb) in the witness- box said that subsequent to the acrident he was charged, with manslaughter and convicted and sentenced in three years' imprisonment with hard labour.
Jr. Hind: The Court held that you had been negligent
The witness made long reply in Chi- nese which was not interpreted.
The question was repeated and the 20 answered: "Yes."
Afterwards the plaintiff went into the box and gave evidence as to the receipt of the $1,000 from the giri's prospective The Shameen authorities were prompt father-in-law. In support of this evi ed early this year to take some action, dence Mr. Hind produced in Court a according to a member of the British number of Chinese documents of a bright Municipal Council, by the frequent visits red colour. These, said Mr. Bind, were, of non-Cantonese militarists to the con- letters with wedding presents. The let cession; and the permanent abode vi a ter sent with the bet this gift of $3,05) high Yunnanese inercenary conmander was couched in the following terms: ---
May the new couple respect each It will not be possible to enter for in there was not unknown, although no dividual lab must be accepted.
and such satures of sup-direct or official cognizance had been other.
taken of it.
May they live together for 100 years. plies as
Funmediately after the attenspt
May their descendants be as numer. liaskets, it, the supplied by resi dents. Milk bottle to be washed by assassinate the French Indo-China Coverous as the number of locust.
was on "and pay their line of sugenssion he OFFICES 31D, WYNDHAM STREET, Owners and taken personally to be re- nor-General, M. Merlin, who
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FROM YOUR BROTHER-IN-LAW," Cash basis only. Volunteers required for ate-General insinuated that the culprit
was 1 Chinese, and to this the Canton On the envelope the following words cutting up ice.
Governor took exception and he was were contained: May the happy couple later found to be right, "as the criminal live harmoniously appeared to be an Annamite. Following
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After evidence had heen given as to Chinese custom by witnesses from the waiehow district, where the prospective bridegroom belonged, Mr. Hind submitte that his claim' was sound and well within the meaning of the Ordinance.
The sender of the gift went to state the letter of the Governor to the British in the letter that he hoped the plaintiff Consul-General expressing disapproval over the insinuation, 4 labour leader would receive the gift, with a smile and concluded by respectfully subunitting that serving in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Rehabilita he is the plaintid's "unintelligent young-
er brother-in-law." "tion Commission, in a meeting, intro- duced a resolution requesting the Canton Governor to call for an apology from the British Consul General for having charged that the culprit connected with the Sha meen outrage of Jane 19th was a Chinese The strongest apporter of the resolution was Mr. Y. P. fisieh, one of the leaders who directes, the Seamen's Strike of No Hongkong some two years ago.. apology appears to bave come from the British Consulate General over the in sinuation, but a set of revised regulations was soon published at Shameen, and to this the Chinese inside, and outside Sha-
His Lordship said that owing to the defendant's absence, which he thought was due to a misunderstanding, as the defendant had been in Court earlier in the day, he considered it advisable to adjourn the case to give the defendant a chance to attend.
The rase was then adjourned.
meen objected, especially to the sections His Lordship then proceeded to hear requiring those asking for passes to sub- mit their photographs for record. These evidence in connection with two other revised regulations had in fact been pre-claims for damages against the same firm, pared some weeks before the bomb out the Chan Metor Bus Company, the rage and translated for publication by plaintiffs being two Caisse who were elain for $1,000 and the second a claims the Chinese General Chamber of Com-injured in the collision. The first was a merte.ED:]
adviser on
OR. CHINESE. SPLENDID WORK BY THE Y.M.C.A.
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[BY OCK CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] How far is Dr. Sun Yat-sen behind the present strike of Chinese employees in
Foreigners are not disliked in Canton, for $500.
this and, as in the first case, after evi- Shameen nominally against the revised trafic and police regulations published by Two Germans at least are employed by Mr. C. H. Lyson appeared for the plain- the British Municipal Council in that con- Dr. Sun Yat-sen for aninicipal servidence for the platifs had been taken
municipal affairs cession may be judged by a review of one as
police of the city. Several Germans are fasts leading to the general walk-out and another as instructor of military the cases were dazed,
or at least have been employed as ex- fets the place on July 4th.
Early in May of this year the second walk along the water frout of Shameen,perts for making explosives for the mer. EDUCATING particularly that between the football cenaries attacking Waichow on behalf of ground in the British Concession and the Dr. Sun. A Russian is adviser to the
Kuomintang,
of which Dr. Sun is the
For the fourth in siccession the Burd, was close to the public, and the Chinese who usually used this had to walk heads An American is serving Dr. Sun
commence thal session to-day. ow the Bund which they might pass along as a legal adviser, while a Canadian acis Hongkong Da Fuation Bible Schools
On one as his body-guard,
This movement, which is sonsored by the but not use na a promenade.
has done, sprendid ocension a Chinese compradore of
Chinese Y.31.0... Americna fira with his wife while
from fixtures available, the success of along the Bund were interfered with by
work in the past and this year; judging the movement Astrod. Eighteen a Chinese constable in the service of the British Municipal Council. This Chiese called the attention of the
different branches Far been formed in gentleman Canton General Chamber of Commerce
the Colony and 125 Chinese teachers have kindly offered their services to teach poor Chinese children, who have never been to this matter, und friendly correspon dence and conversations between the
Chinese labourers and not a few stud- to school, for a certain period each day. President of the Chamber and the chair-
ents would live staged an anti-American The Children will be taught character man of the Council followed. This re- suited in the Municipal Council instruct-propala in Canton had not the ven-writing, told bible stories, and above all ing the constable on duty to refrain from durs of the arsenal machinery complied trained in the elementary stages of further interfering with Chinese gentle with the demands of the Canton people calisthenics. The movement needs no to leave the goods there and collect the advertising amongst the Chineer and so far over 2,500 names have been enrolled. men who come to Shameen on business.
The bills afterwards. This was done about May 12th.
The leaders of the present strike in At the Y.M.C.A. alone arrangements have Chairman of the Council also got the consent of the President of the Chamber Shameen, those who appear as mediators been made for the teaching of a class of to help in putting any new regulations in in order to hasten a settlement of this 200. Altogether 13 diferent schools will Chinese in such terms as not to be offen unpleasant incident, and most of the be used for the teaching of these poor These schools are being conducted by n sive to the Chinese, Correspondepec re subscribers to the fund subsidizing those Chinese.
strike, are alloro or leas friendly to special committee of which Mr. Fok H. RUTTONJEE & SON. Intive to this matter between the Gen- who are but cannot afford to be long on
Wing Ching in chairman. (Continued on next column.)
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