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KUOMINTANG MILITARY
POLICY.
COMMUNISTS PREPARING TO
INTERFERE.
YESTERDAY'S JUDGMENT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JUNE 1ST. 1926
BANK OF CANTON'S CLAIM ALLOWED. RESTAURANT RENT DISTRESS CASE RECALLED.
In the Summary Court yesterday Mr. Justice J. R. Wood delivered judg- ment in the ease in which the Lee Shing Company were plaintiffs, the Nam King Restaurant, defendants, and the Bank of Canton, claimants.
I will be recalled that in this case
WAITING OPPORTUNE MOMENT TO ATTACK CHIANG KAI SHEK.
{PROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] *
According to information sent on May 30th. from "neutral" sources, tho Northern troops have reached Yangfeng, Hunan, and their opponents are with drawing to Siangsi, or Western Hunan.acting under a In the meantime, Marshal Wu has ordered the military authorities in Fukien to be prepared to attack Kwangtung from the
cast.
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The 3rd, Division of the Kuomintang Army now stationed near Swatow has been particularly instructed to guard the eastern Kwangtung borders, against pos sible invasion from Fukien."
the furniture and effects of the Nam King Restaurant were asized by the bailiff, warrant of distraint which had been granted following an application by the landlord of the pre- mises, who claimed that, the Restaurant was behind in its payment of rents.
In view of yesterday's judgment, how ever, the landlord will have to turn over the property to the Bank of Canton, Ltd. They produced a mortgage deed on the property and their claim has been up-
held.
THE JUDGMENT.
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In the course of his judgment. Mr. The Kuomintang Army commanding | Justice Wood stated that he allowed this claim with some reluctance, as it seemed officers will publicly address the troops
to him that the landlord is being penali. going to the front on the Eastern Parade sed for having shown exemplary Ground, Canton, on June 1st. At the patience at a period of commercial de sare/time a formal declaration of war pression. The facts showed that before will be made against Marshal Wa Pei Fuhe Lur Shing company, who are the And his allies.
It is said by some of the vernacular papers that the Communists will ender. vour to prevent the smooth working of the Kuomintang's military plans. According to the Industrial and Commercial Daily News, the Communist Party in Croton, not being satisfied with recent Kuomin- tang policy will combine with certain fabour unions to work against General Chiang Kai shes and other leaders. The recently organized Workers, Farmers, Students, and Merchants League, it is alleged, will Soaner any movement direct- A against the Chiang Kai Shek faction. While according to reports the Soviets will
supply arms and ammunitions.
the
landlords had recourse to culling in the bailiff to protect their interests, the pro- perty had already passed into ownership of another party by the as- signment of a mortgage deed.
These proceedings, he continued, were taken by the Bank of Canten in the Dis tress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, section 21. The relevant portions of this section ATC as follows:-Any-person alleging himself to be the owner of any property seized under this Crdinance may "after certain formalities)" apply to the Court -to release the distraint article and the Court may release such article accord ing to such terms as it may think just.
The circumstances are as follows:- The debtor from whom rent is claimed is
THE LATE MR. P. H. HOLYOAK. YESTERDAY'S MEMORIAL SERVICE.
THE BISHOP'S TRIBUTE.
A MAN OF HIGH IDEALS AND OUTSTANDING
CHARACTÈR
race of man has encamped upon this earth for countless generations and yet it has been an encampment only not a possession. One generation goeth and another cometh but the Earth abideth. forever!?!
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GOD'S STRANGERS.
We have been cast by the wearer of Yesterday evening's memorial service at time on an unknown shore and are awate- St. John's Cathedral to the late Mr. P. Hing for the rising tide to bear us out Holyoak was simple and impressive In again to sen. the course of an eloquens address, His Lordship, the Bishop of Victoria (the
But such is not our deepest belief about Rt. Rev. C. B. Duppuy) described Mr life. We are strangers and sojourners, Folkoak as a man with a big spirit and
but we are something more.
We are kindly constant heart; a man of high ideals, wide sympathies, outstanding character, grit and determination.
The Church was well led. la addi-
God's strangers: We have here no abid- ing city, but God has prepared for us a
City.
Heaven is behind this passing show of earth; Heaven the region of reality, of things that are.
You remember hów St. Paul takes an
old Jewish legend and uses it to illus- trate his belief about the Providence of God.
tion to a representative attendance of
We are in this world as God's stran the general public, there were present H.E. the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi,gyre, cast upon his care and protection, nay, say rather his K.C.AL.G.), members of both Councils, poor guests,
friends representatives of all Government De And behind all our life is the pro- partments, and the business community vidence and purpose of God.
God is a work in all history and in of Hongkong, and about 150 Freemasons.
the life of every man. It is He who gives to each his daily bread and leadoth The late Mr. Holyoak was at the time of his death the Right Worshipful Dis-man by ways that they know not. trict Grand Master of the District Grand Lodge of Hongkong and South China, E.C. About eighty members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and Nursing
The Rabbis used to say the Rock which Section, under the command of their various officers, also attended the service. Moses struck and from which the water In addition to the Bishop, who is the ushed out was round like a beehive and District Grand Chaplain of the Freema-rolled along in the desert after the people sons, other Clergy present were the Rev. so that they never needed to thirst H. Copley Moyle (Cathedral Chaplain), against. This, Paul tells us, was their the Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, the Rev. J. way of saying that God was about them Horace Johnston, Union Church, Kow the time. That it was not just a case loon, District Grand Chaplain (Scottish of 4 miracle here and there on the desert
march these forty years but all Constitution), and the Revs. G. E., S.
mirtele and wonder. Upsdell, W. E. L. Martin, W. T. Feather- stone and N. Y. Halward, M.C., M. (the Bishop's Chaplain).
THOSE PRESENT.
and about us in all our goings are the We are strangers, hat God's strangers,
everlasting arIDS.
GOD HAS PREPARED A CITY.
city, but God has prepared for us a City.
On this earth we have no continuing
H.E. the Governor, was accompanied by Cant. H. B. L. Dowbiggin (HC A.D.C.) Among the congregation were Hon. Sir Shou Son Chow, Hon. Mr. the whole creation moves is a common Commodore A. J. B. Stirling, R.N., the
The one far off divine erent to which R. Hallifax, Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, life, & life of fellowship, the life of Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, Hon. Mr. Ca City where there shall be no night, no Mel. Messer, Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird, Hor. Dr. R. H. Kotewall. Hon. Mr. D. G. 3. pain, no death, where the curse has been Bernard, Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang. Hon.
And in this city. God's servants, shall Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe. Mr. Justin J. R.
continue to do Him service. Death is Burlingham, Cape Bloxham, Dr. E. Plimitations, a setting free of old powers Wood, Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Mr. D.
not a breaking off, it is a removal of Minett, Capt Ralphs, Dr. W. VM for new developments. All instincts in- Koch, Dr. Woo, Messrs. N. L. Smith, W.mature, all purposes unsure shall find E. L. Shenton, P. Lauder, G. S. Arch their full development, when that which batt, E. H. Cameron, C. la French Lia in part shall be done away,
taker away.
What here is faithfully begun Shall be completed, not undone. Things learnt on earth
We shall practise in Heaven.
a limited company, the Nam King resYue Chun (Chairman Chinese Chamber taurant, Limited." On May 8th last of Commerce), Ho Kom Tong and Ho
Kwong. this Company owing arrears on rent for ten months, suggested payment on acu count. The arrears mounted altogether to $27,086. For this amount the warrant of distress was duly issued: The warrant ed that he will be a guest of M. Borodin, was executed on May 10th. In pursu- Charge) and Officers and Brethren of the and its meaning, now let us consideri
The Communist Party in Canton is preparing a welcome for Mr. Chen Tu Hsino, a leading Chinese Bolshevik from the North. While in Canton, it is expect
the Soviet High Commissioner to South Chinn. The Communist Party intend
ance of the warrant the bailiff of the court seized movable property found on
"A SHELTER AND FOUNTAIN
The ashera for the service were Lieut. Col. T. A. Robertson, Messrs. P. S. Cas- sidy, W. L. Pattenden and W. Jackson.
The procession of Masons into the OE FORCE chon (District Grand Senior Warden in Cathedral comprised Mr. J. M. MeHut-
We have thought for a little about Life
District Grand Lodge of Hongkong and
man can do, among his fellow South China, E.C.. Mr. E. J. Edwards man," said Isaiah, "shall be as
Deputy District Grand Master), Officers.
what a men.
The Machinists' Union in Canton has other effects in use by the defendant com- decided to join the popular petition to
pany on the restaurant premises. All the Kuomintang to abolish the present the goods seized under the warrant, are oil monopoly. It is said that, since the now claimed by the Bank of Canton who Introduction of "the monopoly, many alleges itself to be the owner of them. Jaunches and power houses in Kwangtung Under section 21, it has been the prag have been unable to operate on account tice of the Court to release from dis-stitution). of the shortage and high cost of fuel oil,traint in the absence of good cause shown and many machinists have been forced into the unemployed ranks.
shortly to hold a conference in Canton the premises mentioned in the warrant and Brethren of the District Grandan hiding place from the wind, and as which is now the only city in China where and in the apparent possession of the Lodge of Scottish Freemasonry of Hong-of a great rock in a weary land." A a covert from the tempest, as the shadow kong and South China, the Acting Mas- Communist organizations are permitted. debtor, with the furniture, fittings and ter. Officers and Brethren of the Zetland man, that is, ahall be both a shelter and
Lodge, the Wortbioful Masters, Officers
a fountain of force to his fellows and Brethren of the Victoria, Persever Hobsbon Holyoak that he was both a I think we may truly say of Percy
Cathay Lodges, representatives from the man with a big spirit and a big kindly ance. United Services, University and fountain of force and a shelter. He was Star of Southern China Lodge." Wor- constant heart; a man of high ideals and shipful Masters, Officers and Brethren of wide sympathies. He was an outstand Eastern Scotia Lodges (Scottish Conan the Councils, his chairmanship over the St John's Naval and Military and ing character among us. His positions long period of the Chamber of Com- meren, of the Alice Memorial Hospital,
THE KING'S BIRTHDAY.
LOCAL CELEBRATIONS. H.M. The King celebrates his Blat birth- day on Thursday. There will be a parade at Happy Valley at 9 a.m. in which the Military (Infantry and Artillery), the Navy and Marines and the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps (represented by the Infantry Company) will take part H.E The Governor (Sir. Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) will take the Salate.
THE SERVICE.
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Ito the contrary, articles found to be in The service opened with the reading of na President of the Hongkong Boy the sentences of the Burial Service by Scouts Association, as Vice-Chairman of the Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, which was the YM.C.A., all attest to this. He was followed by the chanting of Psalm 23 man who loved his home and yet did by the choir and, congregation. The not spare himself in public service with lesson was. read by the Rey, J. Horace all its heavy demands; a man of no half Johnston, and then icllowed the singing measures who always saw through to the of the hymn, "Through the Night." end what he undertook Prayers were led by the Rev. H. Copley Moyle and the congregation then sang the byma "O God Our Help."
the ownership of a person other than the debtor. This practice was proved in formal judgment delivered by me on May 27th, 1923, in this Court, under Distraiat No. 124 of 1993, from which jadgment no appeal was entered. I pro pose therefore to follow the practice which was adopted in that case,
In order to obtain the release of articles which have been seized the claimant must show that he is the owner within the meaning of that word as used in that section. It appears that the de- fendant company on April 14th last exe cated an assignment to the claimant by Lady Clementi and party will be accom.
means of a deed, affecting all the pro- modated in the Hongkong Club Stand perty which is now seized under the dis- which has been reserved for the use of traint warrant. This deed was produced members of the Councils and Heads of to the Registrar on April 7th, and was Government departments The Hongkong duly registered by him. This document Jockey Club have placed the Grand Stand is, described in its cover as a Floating and members enclosure at the disposal of Charge." On perusal it becomes clear the public. The Tramway Co. will run that it is in fact, a mortgage to the cars every two minutes from the Post claimant of the chattele in question." The consideration of the mortgage is 824,000. Office to Happy Valley between 8.10 a.mi
It vests the legal ownership of those and 8.50 2.1.
articles in the claimant, who is therefore entitled to an order for the release of those articles.
At noon there will be the usual salute of 21 guns by the warships in harbour, which will dressed" in honour of the occasion.
AT THE HONGKONG CLUB
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Those who knew him as leader of
English Freemasonry in this Colony can testify to the high ideals for which bo THE BISHOP'S ADDRESS.
stood he regarded his position as Dis trict Grand Master as a sacred trust and The Bishop based bis address on two never tired of keeping before him these texts-1st Chronicles, 29-15: "We are high ideals of brotherhood and charity strangers before thee, and sojourners as for which masonry stands. all our fathers were: our days on the I hope the Masonic service started this earth are as a shadow and there is no year will be kept up to his memory. He abiding."
was a man of integrity; a man much Hebrews 13-14 "We have not here an beloved abiding city but we seek after the City Steel true, blade straight, which is to come."
"The great artificer made my mate " friend Percy Hobson Holyoak has al-GRIT AND DETERMINATION.
His Lordship said: The body of our could be said of him. ready been laid to rest and his spirit has And he was a man of grit and deter returned to God who gave it, and yet over his memory we fain would pause mization You had only to look into awhile and let the thoughts which come flooding in at such a time as this have with his share of adverses as well as their way with us:-thoughts about life success but he was never beaten, for be and its purpose and of the influence of fore a man can be beaten at his task he a man's life upon his fellow men.
those eyes of his to know that. He met
must be beaten in his own soul, and this he never was. And to anyone who knew him in the deeper side of his nature it. was apparens on whom he put his trust It was the Most High.
Man goeth forth to his work and to his labour until the evening but be who dorth the will of God abideth for ever.
The remainder of the day will be obthe landlord is being penalised for served as a public holiday.
having shown an exemplary patience during period of commercial depres sion. If the Nam King Restaurant that alone so soon afterwards losing his And to Perry Hobson Holyoak we atd., being in arrears with its rent, had life in the typhoon of 1909, and now may truly apply these words which caused to be removed from the premises twenty years later of that grand old man Browning applied to himself: this property so as to prevent or hinder of Hongkong laid to rest; that master the bailiff from distraining the same, the builder who has left Hongkong and Kow- remedy is provided for the landlord by loon as his memorial and I thought of section 37 of the Distress for Rent Or- all that has happened in the world and dinance. But if the established practice in this place since then. And as to-day of the Court is correct it is possible that we think of our brother Percy Hobson the same purpose may be legally accom- Holyoak, cut down in his prime, with so plished by the method of assignment by many unfinished projects in his hands way of mortgage on removal from the the words of David come again to my mind. "We are strangers and sojourners before thee our days on the earth are a shadow and there is no abiding,"
LIFE AND ITS PURPOSE. Time, like an ever rolling stream, bears all its sons away. We are only strangers on this earth. That was the thought that There is here no question of collusion pressed in upon me yesterday as I stood between the claimant and the debtor. I in St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, at the make this order in the present instance memorial.service to Catchick Baul Chater How they ring out. I hope there with some reluctance. It seems to me and let my imagination go back over will be trumpets in Heaven, Burne twenty years to the day when the founda Jones said. That is what he wanted at tion stone of that Church was laid. I Browning's funeral. The trumpet, clan. thought of Bishop Hoars who dedicated gorous, triumphant.
At the Hongkong Club a similar pro- gramme to last year has been arranged. The Club will be open to members' wives and their lady friends from 10a.m. to 3 p.m. From 11.30 a.m. to 3 p.m. a band will play in the, Maia Hall, and at noon the King's health will be drunk Follow ing this a special tifin will be served.
In the evening H.E. The Governor and Lady Clementi are holding a reception at Government House.
premises.
The costs of the clair will be paid by the plaintiffa
One who never turned his back, but marched straight forward Never doubted clouds would break "Never dreamed, though right were
worsted, wrong would triumph Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better: Sleep, to wake." Following the singing" of the hymn. Blessed City," the "Dead March in Basi was played by Mr. F. Mason
The pronouncement of the benediction by the Bishop concluded the service.
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IN QUALITY THAT MAY
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MAGIC NOTES
TALDEVENING
Introducing Part 1—I'm a Little Bit Fonder of Yön; I am Thinking of Yea;
Dipping in the Moonlight; Tie a String Around Your Finger.
Part 3-Mercenary Mary: 'Over my Shoulder; Honey, I'm in Love with Ton;
Charleston Mad
Lolicol
MACIC JUHTES
AT
ANDERSON'S.
ÁLLOKO NOTEŽ
PIERS 18 & 19, MONTREAL HARBOUR, CANADA.
The Montreal Harbour Commissioners have used ROBERTSON'S ASBESTOS PROTECTED METAL for many years. Light, permanent and attractive construction is an essential in harbour and warehouse buildings.-
Sole Agents:
DAVIE BOAG & Co.,
Messrs.
Bank of Canton Buildings.
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