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BOYCOTT QUESTION. POLITICS IN
DIPLOMATIC COMMISSION."
·OBTAINING THE VIEWS OF THE PEOPLE."
[Fлon on CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
Mr. Eugene Chen, acting Minister of Foreign Aairs of the Kuomintang in Canton, is asking the leading trade guilds and labour unions of the Southern Capital to appoint a representative each in order to form a Diplomatic Commission," which will use the Ministry as its head-
quarters.
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Through this Commission," it is said. the views of the people will be learned, and this Commission will deal with the settlement of the boycott of Hongkong.
In the meantime, all labour unions con- cerned are being requested to reconsider their terms to be presented to interested parties in Hongkong so that an carly and satisfactory termination of the boy. cott may be reached.
THE HONGKONG DAILY. PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE, Ara, 1926
CANTON.
NO GOVERNMENT QUORUM.
THE REASON FOR DR. WU TE CHEN'S ARREST.
M. BORODIN'S ASSURANCE
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. }
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Citizens in Canton are watching with considerable concern the inrushing of troops of the 4th Kuomintang Army to the Southern. Capital, as it is generally
understood that the commanding officer
MODERN MANNERS.
"SWEET AND TWENTY" IN
HONGKONG,
جسم
[BY PATERFAMIL142.]
SPANISH AVIATOR'S
DEPARTURE.
CAPTAIN GALLARZA" LEAVE MANILA FOR HOME.
VALUABLE GIFTS.
A Well-Satisfied and Independent According to the Manila Bulletin, the Young Woman" put forward her views | Spanish" aviator, Captain E. Gallärza, about “ Modern Manners" in Thursday's and his mechanic Joaquin Arosamena, Daily Press. She was not very compil who recently few from Madrid to mentary to her own sex,
Manila, left for Spain on Saturday "Woll-Satisfied" people seldom are morning last the Spanish mail complimentary. It is one of the penalsteamer Legaspi.
According to the Bulletin's report the ties of growing old that we get to know our own foibles and our own weaknesses pier was thronged for hours before the so thoroughly, that, after middle life, few steamer sailed and Manila beauties in- of us are well satisfied." We appre-vaded the place to bid the fliers fare-
OR
of these forces, General Li Taxi Hain, hasciate the durm of others because we are well. never been really friendly to General so well aware of our own defects. We' Chiang Kai Shek.
are stricken by memory sometimes, old affections rush back on us vividly na if The appointment by General Chiang
to remind us that we have carelessly Kai Shek's recommendation of Mr. Salet fall from our lives things that were Fo as acting Chairman of the Provincial priceless. The most successful of us aside like cha Gallarta and his me Council of Kwangtung and acting Chief Commissioner of Canton Municipality is regarded as a political move only.
Captain Galların was soon discovered on board the Lagarpi, surrounded by countless girls. A rush to board the ship followed. Officers of the steamer who were guarding the gangplank were swept
chanic were kissed, embraced and sobbed over until they could hardly breathe. Shouts of "Bon Voyage" and "Long live gur heroes" rent the air, when the ship's whistle blew at 9:50 warning the visitors to leave the ship.
have had disappointments a disloyal
the discovery. friend,
of something crooked" in business, or the realisa tion" that we ourselves fall very much The departure of Mr. Hu Ban Min. below the standard we ought to have Mr. Wang Ching Wei, and Dr. C. C. Wu reached. By all means let "The Inde
An army plane, piloted by Lieutenant from Canton, and the absence on leave pendent Young Woman remain well-
satisfied" as long as is possible. The C. O'Connor, who had escorted the of Mr. Koo Ying Fan, have rendered the Americans. "call it The Victorious Legasp outside the breakwater, crashed Political Commission in Canton powerless Attitude." It is, perhaps, charming in on the return to Camp Nichols. Accord- for lack of a quorum. The new Political youth but it is conceit and aggressive-ing to Fort Santiago, the plane in land- The Diplomatic Commission" is ex-Commission will consist of Genstal Tanness in middle life. It seldom appears ing, knocked the wheels off causing it to
in old age.
averture. Neither the pilot nor chanic was hurt. The plane was de molished.
pected not only to submit, suggestions for the termination of the boycott of Hong kong but also such demands as may be regard as reasonable in connection with the incident of June 23rd.
The labour
Yen Kai. Mr. Chang Ching Kiang, Chair- man of the Kuomintang, and ir. T. V. Soong. Kuomintang Minister of Finance. The names of Dr. C. C. We, Mr.. H& Han Min and Mr. Wang Ching Wai will be
THE POET'S VERDICT. The ladependent Young Woman- may one be excused for being old. fashioned enough to wish to call her a Young Lady "-quoted the poet Pope
me
unions will pay most attention to strik, still retained on the membership Nat. by way of introduction to her tale of Corporal Arozamena. Spanish residents
settlement terms, while other organiza. tions in Cantor will deal chiefly with the other questions arising.
The incident of June 23rd is being dramatized for presentation by students of a Canton school.
To avoid attending the parade that is expected to be arranged by the Kuomin ting for June 231 in Canton, a number of schools have decided to close for their
summer vacation before this date.
The Political Commission is the highest executive commission of the Kuomintang in Canton outside the Central Executive Committee which meet only twice a year.
Mr. Lin Tze Fung, Director-General of the Revenue Bureau, Canton, has been appointed Superintendent of Customs, rice Mr. Foo Ping Sheung, dismissed.
Mr. Tam Wey, a brother-in-law of Dr.
C. C. Wu and; until the departure of Dr. Wu, the Canton Municipal Treasurer, has
seen fit to leave Canton.
Friends of Mr. Wu Te Chen, the dis- missed Canton Chief of Police who was taken into custody by General Chiang
Modern Manners. We must not take her too seriously, for Pope wrote do truer lines than the following:-
And yet believe me, good as well as
"Woman's at best
contradiction
ill."
still."
She writes a whole column about her own sex and she omits a reference to the one absorbing subject which Barrie so cleverly discusses in his play What every woman know". It was Lord Lyttleton who told the fair sex "Th important business of your life is lors, yet this Young Woman" writes We are each out for ourselves." My dear young thing, you are each out on the eternal quest of woman—man.
George Eliot stated that the woman made up her mind and then caused the to make love to her. George Bercard Shaw has depicted her as the huntress. It is because young
Kai Shek on May 30th, have been advised by M. Borodin, the Soviet High Commis-man sioner" to South Ching, that no personal harm will be done to Mr. W. Many
arreet, but the principal one is said to conveying passengers to the Hongkong be the policy outlined by Mr. Wu'a poli- steamer were fired upon. No one, bow-tical chief, Mr. Sun Fo, during the
GIFT OF 13,000 PESOS. Net content with opening up their hearts to Captains Galarza, Loriga and
of the Philippines showed the true depth of the affection and esteem they hold for the aviators who composed the El Cano Squadron, by opening wide their purses, says the Bulletin..
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As a parting gift, Captains Gallarza and Loriga, before they left the Islands, were presented with a purse of 7,000 duros, equivalent to P.13,000, by the executive committee of the Spanish com monity. Captain Estevez, the leader of the Madrid to Manila fight, who unable to complete the fight, also, was presented with similar amount.
was
Each one of the mechanics received a present of 10,000 pesetas, or P.2,000.
Another gift was made by the Spanish residents of the Philippines to the aviators gift of remembrance-by which Captains Estevez, Loriga, Gallarza
and their mechanics always will remem Ler the pride their compatriots feel for "Sweet them.
According to reports received from Canton the pickets are renewing their efforts to tighten the boycott and the position appears to be growing steadily worse. Picket boats are very much in
and Twenty" has got into her head the A solid gold cigarette case, with a evidence and on Thursday night sampans reasons have been given for Mr. Wu's modern idea that pallishness" with nieture of the route taken by the aviators i the lads increases her chances of in their flight from Madrid to Manila success in the grent object of her life that engraved on the top--the line of the she demande what she is pleased to call
route traced in platinum-and their freedom. In the Victorian daya Miss
landing places marked with a brilliant, Sweet and Twenty longed for the society of men."
was given to the three captains. The In the Edwardian days mechanics each received a beautiful gold she sought it. She now demands it:
and platinum watch. That leads to the explanation “Our fathers think us rude and rough of apecch. But we believe our manners are!
ever, was hurt.
LATER.
The Kuomintang have designated Mr. Eugene Chen, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs; Mr. T. V. Soong, Minister of
session of the Central Executive Com mittee of the Kuomintang from May 15th to 21st. Mr. Sun Fo made uncompli mentary remarks about the Bolsheviks and in order to reduce Mr. Sun's influence to the minimum, his opponents decided. to disarm the forces of Mr. Wu Te Chen,
Corporal Arozamena, the mechanic of Captain Gallarza, received an additional
Kuomintang Finance; and Mr. Chan who was also commander of the 17th as suited to the world we live in, as the gift of about P.3,000 before he sailed. Kunk Pok, Commissioner of Agriculture Division of the Kuomintang Army. Mr. latest fashions we wear, much to their This gift was made to him by country-
and Labour a Canton as a special com- mission to settle the boycott and strike against Hongkong.
Mr, Eugene Chen was to address a gathering of representatives from the four leading commercial organizations at the General Chamber of Commerce of Canton on the alternoon of June 4th.
Wu
WAS
the only follower of the "Prince" faction possessing any mili tary power, and his disarming and dis-
disapproval." Oh! No! My dear young Lady; the fathers are as vainerable to your charms as are their sons.
We have
men resident in the Island who were born in the sarne region of Spain.
Cablegrams were received Monday and
Legaspi, bidding Manila authorities, the Apostolic delegate, other officials and Manilans, good-bye.
missal followed by arrest have practic-more experience and we see through the Sunday from Captain Gallarza on the ally shattered any hope the members of little feminine strategies this party may have had of securing
We don't really disapprove of short influence in Canton. Since the arrest of skirts and flesh-coloured stockings. We Mr. Wu practically all the leaders of the are sometimes amazed and amused at the "Prince" party have shaken the dust of Canton from their feet.
alang you use.
The office of Ccinissioner for Foreign | JAPANESE STEAMER ASHORE. Afinira of Canton will be abolished by!
the Kuomintang, and Mr. Eugene Chen,
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acting Minister of Foreign Affairs,
wil! henceforth look after all foreign
intercats.
"ATTACKED BY PIRATES.
It won't take me two the parity written across the face that shakes to change into my bathing makes it so beautiful. Any pan, how. clothes," said a "sweet and, twenty" to ever degraded he may be, despises the a youth' in Hongkong. "There are only other sort of womla.”
two garments between me and the police." The modern "Sweet and Twenty"
She was a young minz, but she will make knows that quite as well as did her a splendid wife for the young fellow ale mother, her grandmother and her long
A wireless message was received in bas selected. She is loyal, truthful-alliine of maternal forebears. She has her Hongkong on Thursday that a Japanese the virtues; but she just wanted to re-instincts of self-preservation. Let us, st of which mind her victim that she was also Eve the risk of being old fashioned, put it
steamer, the exact name
is still uncertain, but which was given Her mother did that too.
as the Nisshu Maru, was ashore on the
THE WOMEN NOVELISTS.
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a bit higher. Let us say that, as the divine poet intimates, she realises that Mr. Eugene Chen has recently invited
Second Bar of the Canton River, and It isn't the "pallishness" with "the the perfection of her character does not come from a showy talent, or a well- back to Canton Mr. Wei Yuk, a French-
was being attacked and plundered by inds" and it isn't the short skirts that advertised accomplishment. Her char speaking Chinese who was once associated pirates.
make the parents anxious. It is the cocaists not so much in acts as in habits. with Mr. Chen as a secretary to the The message was received from the rotten novels and the sex pamphlets that
Those thousand decencies which 8.8. Shima Maru, and immediately in-circulate so freely that cause dismay. At daily glow lato Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Mr. Wei Yukstractions were forwarded to Canton long last Parliament has declared against From all her words and actions" will be assigned the duty of publicity, and a British naval vessel proceeded to the nauseous reports from the divorce. My dear "Independent Young Woman,”
the spot. and Mr. Chen is asking for a budget of
courts If only it would eliminate all it any Old fogers" growl at your Kaitics, they must suffer from livers On her arrival there it was found that printed stuff that drags into the gutter Most of us who are getting on in years some $15,000 for propaganda purposes.
the message bad been a little exaggerat-the moet incred emotions in life:
welcome joyous youth as we welcome Labour unions have been holding ed. The grounded steamer had «been
Many years ago, the, writer stood look-sunshine. If we have not learnt to he charitable of what use to us has been given assistance from another source, and ing at a recumbent figure hown out of the experience of the long years that have nightly meetings, recently in order to
the British vessel returned to Canton. marble. It was of a very beautiful passed since we, too, were youngt We instruct their representatives on the
woman-a paternal grandmother or great are delighted for you to have fun, but we pray that you may be saved from Strike Committee as to the stand they
grandmother, of the German Emperor, fally. For in life you may easily shatter A. Stranger, an American, stood near and noble, ideals but you cannot easily re- should make on the questions now before
as he became alongside he said It is cover a lost reputation. It is the instinct for self-preservation that makes your own the Kuomintang.
(Continued on next Column).
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No vessel with the name of Nissl aru, is given in Lloyd's Register and it is suggested that it may be the Nissei farm. The vessel apparently was on the way from Shanghai to Cantón.
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