THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 1924
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INTEND TO DEFEND THEIR PROPERTY,** "The Canton authorities have seized the Norwegian steamer Hae, carrying a large largo of arms and arimusition worth more than a million dollars consigned to the Canton Merchants Volunteer Corps, and a serious crisis has aries in
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the vessel.on, which they have come, by THE LICHEE OR CANTON, the Canton authorities to whem formal
[FROM THE CHINESE ÉPONOMIC BULLETIN."} notice had been given. There is the poss ibility of these articles being ordered to When lichen is exported to foreign forts at Whampoa for detention and countries, it is usually in the form of But in Canton where it is falling inta hands of parties unfavour-dry mits. able to an early peace in the Republic of produced, it is eaten fresh, and is more other fruits. Fresh China or working towards the detriment juicy than many
chee is a great delicacy, which was of the people.
As the Canton Merchants Volunteer appreciated even by the former rulers of Corps is a legal body authorised and China As long ago as the Tang dynasty. approved of by both the National and the period of Tiepas (749.75 A.D.) Local Governments of the Republic. Its great trouble was taken to secure the members and patrons and the business fresh fruit from Canton and transport it Our Chinese correspondent writen 2-
community of Canton intend to defend to the capital. then at Sianfu, Shigusi pro The arms involved in the Government | their property and maintain their or vince, in order to please the famous court hold-up consists of 4,850 rifles with ganization intact against all unlawful beauty, Tang, Kwei-lei." Railroads and motur ears not then being available, the 1,130,000 rounds of cartridges for same interference and wish to nequaint the fa
4.81 pieces of Mauser pistols, public, Chinese and foreigy, that their 2,000.000 rounds of auïunitions, together import of arms and ammunition, is a with 180 pieces of revolvers and 104.000 legitimate one and an act necessary and rounds of ammunitions. They have come proper for the practical purpose and the in 1.129 cases on a Norwegian steamer,
Meiency of their organisation. and are Dr. Sun Yat Sen, in holding up the asking for just treatment and unpre arms and cancelling the permit grnating | judiced, consideration from those labour the import. has stated that the applica-ing for the interest of the Chinese tion as submitted by Mr. Chan Lim Pak prople." siid that the consignment might not arrive before 43 days after August 4th, but that it came only six days after the permit Was granted. The Volunteer Corps authorities are, contending that what is really required by the Govern- ment is knowledge and approval of the import and that whether the arms and Laismunitions have come after six or
days is immaterial.
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CANTON GOVERNMENT'S VIEW, OF THE MATTER. The following from yesterday's l'anton fatette gives the Canton Government side of the matter, including a sprch by Dr. Sun Yat Sen himself:-
fruit.
Hundreds of
In Canton itself lichee is common fruit. Many gardens contain hundreds of lichce trees yielding thousands of catties It sells at from twenty cents to half a dollar a catty, but because the fresh fruit is very hard to keep, the price goes up ten or twenty times when brought to Peking and other places far away from
CANTON NEWS."
[FROM OUR CHINESE, CORRESPONENT:]
FLOOD RELIEP FROM HONGKONG.
For the fortnight running from July Sud to August 8th. the Hongkong Chinese- General Chamber of Commerce and Tang Wah Hospital have sent up to Can- toĥ for food relief purpose rice alone amounting to some 3,000 marks, costing $84,574,61. In addition money has also been sent up to the Kwangtung Provin eial Merchants Volunteer Corps Central Canand to aid its work in its several relief expeditions to the suffering inhabi-
tants in the 15 districts of the Canton
Delta which are suffering the worst mis fortume they have experiened for years.
STILL ASKING FOR MORE.. Not only the foreign employers in Sha-
WAGE-EANSERS
fruits were carried by men on horseback, who role at top speed under a relay sya. tem that each group of men covered only ascertain, distance. men were kept busy on geout of this meen, but also the Chinese in the native ployés these days, when labour is the errand, yet when the fruits reached they of Canton have to bow to their em- already back-bone of the present Kuomintang capital, many of them were
Since then liehee has always régime. Waiters in Canton, are celebrat- spoiled. heen associated in people's mind withing their victory just now, as their de that famous beauty, which association mands for a 40 per cent. increase on enhances the already high favour of the their minimum wage schedule has been granted. It is not believed that the tea- house and restaurant owners will aro much about this, as they have the option of changes in their bill of fare and listed prices. Following the success of the waiters. the hands of the rice mills are asking for an increase of 25 per cent. in wages, the minimum henceforth of which must be not less than six dellars a month, even for a beginning. The mill workers are asking for nine things, in- cluding the pon-employment of non- union men and medical attention and month of the lunar calemlar, and are fully regular wages for those injurer while in ripe in the early past of May. Hei-yi or service for their employers. Besides the "black leaf lichce comes next, and is mil hands, the dress-makers are asking gathered toward the end of that month. for more than they are getting just now. Both varieties sell at 20 or 20 cents a It appears, however, that not all dress- makers are members of the union, chik eatty when the supply is normal. The! better grades are No-mi-tsih and Kwei. those non-union dress-makers have been wei, both of which ripen in the latter urged to take out their membership cards part of June and are sold at 10 or 50 at once. The leader of Custon have been cents a catty. The former is very soft culisted to the support of the Kuomintang and juicy, while the latter is the most headed by Mr. Lino Chung-ho present Political Party, and a special division good arrowront. They are the Civil Governor of Kwangtung, has palatable. Toward the end of the season, created by Dr. Sun Yat-sen for their about the middle of July, wei-cheepolitient interest. These leaders vill Ficheca coine on the market, but they are
What appears to he an andacious attempt at wholesale" muggling and trafficing in arms by Chan Lim Pak, Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Compradors of the Hong In preventing the official or formal in-kong and Shanghai Bank, Shameen, has auguration of the amalgamated Volunteer been revealed by the arrival of the the production centres. Many varieties movement, Governor Liao Chung Hoi has Norwexian steamer Hay with a shipload of lichee are produced, in Canton. Those of arms and amanunition from Germany.which ripen first are knowe as San such given as his reason that the conference
Six" days ago, acting in his capacity hung because they turn red in the third arranging the amalgamation and theas Commandant of the Mërchant Veiun- election of officers for the provincial teers, he applied for and obtained a entral command have done so without Government permit (hu-chino) for the importation of five thousand rifes which Government sanction and that the central
were to arrive in 40 days. Command is too much like an army head- Barely week. however, elapsed since the issue of the Government permit, and the Government authorities were amazed to find upon the arrival of the Norwegian steaner on Sunday, August 10th, that Chan Lim Pak way sweetly intriguing to take delivery of a shipment containing double the quantity of arms covered by the permit applied- For.
quarters.
The Kuomintang, by going against the people's movement. is putting en- barrassment to rearly 130.000 uiembers of the analgamated force actually in Canton and districts. These 120.000 volunteers are representing some 33,000,000 Can Jones
The Government has taken prompt action and ordered the Captain of the Norwenias steamer to steam down the
That there would be a confict between river had anchor his vessel off Whampoa, not particularly good and constand only meet on August 17th next under the of the Kuomintang. and among where the ship and cargo will be detained the same price as the very early ones
auspices the people of Kwangtung and the gilipoling's thorough investigation.
speakers advertised for the gather Jany less popular varieties are also ing will be Mr. Wang Ching Wei. Mr. tarists now oppressing them some day has Before an audience of more than 1,100 produced, aurong which the Hsiao-fu-thes, Tom Ping Shan, and other communists
Merchant Volunteers who called been expected, but it is somewine of a
sometimes known as Kwa-lu lichee, is friendly to the Reds of the Soviet Re- General Headquarters yesterday after worth mention. While all other-lichees public which now maintains a represen surprise that it would come so early ronn for an interview with Dr. Sun Yat turn red when they ripen. this variety fatives in Canton. There is ng secret that the Kuomintang Sen. regarding the Government's order remains green all the time. There is a is dead against the people's movement, for the detention of the Norwegian legend attached to it. It is said that steamer which arrived in a port a few centuries ago a certain rich man WAS as it has been the backing assured by the days ago with a large consignment of abnormally fond of lichee. One year he volunteers of Canton which has prompted arms and ammunition for the Merchant was away from Canton on business, and the merchants here to oppose many of the Volunther." Dr. Sun spoke for an hour misscil the licher season. Bis daughter- explaining the Government's object in in-law, who was very filial, took a good
WHO THREW STONES, obnoxious "taxes the party and its ner taking such a step. The Merchant Volun-dent of pains to keep some against his cenary parasites have tried to force on teers daimed that the arms and ammuni- return. She selected the best tree in
Two small Chinese hoya faced Mr. the people.
tion on heard that steamer were purchar- the garden, and forlade anybody to touch Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistrney The strength of the Canton Merchantsed by the Merchant Volunteer, Corps and it. When the fruits ripened and hung yesterday, charged with throwing stones
request that they be released...
low, she tied them one by one with green at an Indian constable. Dr. Sua said that the Government was silk thread and prevented them from The latter said that he had occasion ignorant of sucli a large consignment of dropping. In this way, she was able to
to move on a woman street-veldur, and
Volunteers Corps alone is 13.000, sorge 5,000 of whom are fully armed and train- ed for service. In case of armed con- fiets between the volunteers and the Kuomintang i11 Canton City,
SCEPTICAL MAGISTRATE.
ORDERS WHIPPING FOR BOYS
the Indian constable
arms purchased by the Volunteers, as preserve a good quantity of the fruits till this seemed to annoy the boys, who start there had been no record of any applien her father-in-law came back, when theed to throw stones at him. He chased the tion for a permit to import arus until season was already over. Since then the them, blowing his whistle, and a Chinese latter will rely be iLt dis only five days before the arrival of the ficbees from that tree bave been consider constable arrested one boy, while witness advantages eventually, for while it may steamer. At that time, the Commandered as a special grade. Fisian-fu-chee arrested the other.
ain at Brst, because of the number of of the Volunteer Corps applied to the means the lichee of the filial daughter Both the lads denied throwing stones, ercenties, it still has on hand, the Military Department for an import per-in-law and Kwalu means "hung with declaring that volunteers outside. Canton doubtedly come to the relief of their com- rades in the city, and all houts and junks and other craft will likely refuse service to all working for a party against the people of the whole province.
STATEMENT BY THE CORPS
COMMANDANT, '
Remarking that he did not heliove them his Worship added that it was distinctly
ease for a little corporal punishment... He ordered the bars to receive six stroker“ ench
will un-mit covering a stipulated amber of rifles green thread. They were reserved for chased them because they were kicking
and cartridges, only to take effect an days the imperial family under the dynasties, In small ball in the street hence. The permit was granted on the hut ander the Republic, people may buy understanding that the arms and am munition had not yet been purchased.
Now, only "five days after the issuance of the permit, a, staimer arrives in port with a cargo of contraband goods that is more than what was stipulated on the peruit. That the Merchant Volunteers should clain the cargo was theirs as covered by the permit, is inexplicable, said Dr. Sun.
them in very elaborate boxes, each enn taining a couple of the fruits. They are bought more as an object of curiosity than as a delicacy, as the taste is no better than that of the ordinary ficheen. The price per pox is about a dollar or so, which makes the price per catty aɛ. high as ten dollars.
Fresh lichees are now nnned for con- sumption outside of Canton, but they do not taste so well as those juist picked fram the trees.
PIRACY GUARDS.
50 RECRUITS ARRIVE FROM
INDIA.
SPARTAN MOTHER-IN-LAW. BEATS SON'S WIFE TO MAKE
HER GOOD.
At the Kowloon Magistracy, before Mr. E W. Hamilton yesterday, a young Chinese woman charged her mother-in- Taw with assault
Mr. Chan Liu Pak. Commandant, and Mr. Lee Shung Shiu and Mr. Tank Kai Shek, Vice-Commandants, of the Canton Merchants Volunteer "Corps, and Mr. Chan Lim Chung president of the
CLANDESTINE INTRIGUES.. General Chamber of Commerce of Cañiton,
Then followed the discovery that the to avoid possible trouble regarding the Commander of the Merchant Volunteers Mizure of a consignment of arms and solicited the assistance of a certain ammunition intended for their organiza-General to have the cargo removed from....
Inspector Ogg Bard that the complain- tion by the Canton authorities, have the steamer, with a promise of presenting issued a joint statement which, in part, that General with 200. rifles. When this
ant had several times come to the station states, as follows:-
General refused the offer, the Commander
to report her mother-in-law for ill-treate **The Canton Merchants Volunteer of the Volunteers approached another
ing her, and on one occasion was ad- Corps was organized in 1919 by special General with the same object but with a yesterday morning for the purpose of suffering from injuries inflicted by the Fifty Indians arrived in Hongkong mitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital charter of the Chinese Government for higger offer, ie, 80 rifles locul and self-defence, in object and or
joining the Hongkong Police Force an older woman, The fact that clandestine negotiations ships' guards. Most of the men hare ganization not unlike similar movements were carried on between the Commander seen Military service. A number of thein beaten the girl, but pleaded that she had The defendant admitted that she had in other cointrjes. The freedom from of the Volunteers and a couple of miliare experienced Lewis gunners and these reason to complain of her moral character extreme militarism and the existence of tary leaders, for the object of taking should prove to be an asset to the pre- 'semblance of peace and order in the delivery of the cargo secretly only arou sent force of guards. After a period of
and general behaviour.. past few years in Canton have been due sed the suspicions of the Government.about six weeks' training as Lewis gun for 48 hours, to allow of both parties She was remanded in police custody largely to the vigilance and sacrifice of The whole matter looks shady and only ners the recrnits will be used to replace going clore the Secretary for Chinese this corps, a body of readient archants means that there is an intrigue going on and responsible citizens ts service has among some responsible persons, espe- or coastal weaseli
a number of police at present doing duty- Affairs, in the hope of some sort of recon- Jong heen recognized not only by persons cially one who appears to be the
siliation being effectel, in Chutoa but also by the 33,000,000 Musejini of Canton. It is feared that Cantonese throughout Kwanhgtung Pro this case of arms smuggling under the vince, whose town and district organiza nann of the Merchant Volunteers. Dr. Abons have just amalgamated" with its Sanwarned the Volunteers to beware! Lemand in Canton. The corps is not of becoming the tools of these intriguers.
feniled for and has not participated in
INVESTIGATION NEČESBARY. any internal, partisan conflict or poli tical demonstration outside its function Who knows that them contraband goods and duty of self-protection and focal are really intended for Volunteers! Jefense in the laterest of the general What is the meaning of the airplus enrgo public. To strengthen the corps and put that is said to be as much as the amount it in a higher state of efficiency, it im-laimed by the Volunteers? Why all possible without arms and ammunition: these clandestine efforts in trying to have Permission to import was, therefore, the catize cargo removed secretly } Is applied for and given by the Department there another cargo coming 40 days of Military Afairs of the General Head- hence! All these points need clearing quarters of the Government in Canton, up, and Dr. Sun declared that a thorough August 4th, the quantity having been investigation is necessary. He promised stated in the application and repented in that as soon as the investigation is com the permit given. Upon the arrival of pleted: the arms and ammunition claimed the sa. Hap al Canton, on August 11th, by the Merchant Volunteers will be re- however, the articles for the import of leased. In the meantime, the Merchant which all legal requirements have been Volunteers must waited until the inven Tact were forceably seized, together, with tigation is over.
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