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TRUCULENT STRIKERS
ARRESTED.
"ACTION BY THE STRIKE COMMITTEE.
CANTONESE FOOD.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22ND
TWENTY AND FIFTY CENT MENUS.
THE SAD END OF FOOR FUSSY.
(BY JANET HALL]
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE FALLING DOLLAR.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " HONGKONG. DAILY PRESE']
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CHINESE SUPERSTITIONS.
BELIEF IN FAIRIES; EVOKING THE THE DEAD.
A BEWILDERING CASE.
A NEW USE FOR PICKETS.
TO PROTECT SHIPPING AND PREVENT SMUGGLING.
(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
The Kuomintang Central Executive Committee in Canton has commissioned Hsia Chao, Governor of Chekiang, as Chief Representative of the Kuomintang certain that no housewife or cook in home for their children's education, contention of both "parties is also be
in Chekiang Province.
Kuomintang circles do not give much credence to the "anti-Red" report that
SIRA the Sterling Exchange is A case, in which numerous belies in dropping every day, and I understand regard to Chinese superstitions are being it is still going lower, the price of incited, came before Mr. Justice Wood in The Chinese restaurant in Hong ported goods is bound to go up and it the Summary Court yesterday." kong." Wembley, certainly led to a wider will maka hardships for everybody. The
woman claims to have been married understanding of Chinese food, its pre-rate yesterday was la sid, to the dollar. to a man to whom she loaned $1,000.- The paration and doliency. Whether it As practically all our imports are from really appealed to the general public countries with a gold standard, that woman is the plaintiff and the whether John Bull would feel that he means we are paying for our goods up defendant in the case. The defendant had had a "square meal," no matter how
to our nose on account of this drop is denies having married her, and denies many courses, is immaterial for it is Exchange. People who have to remit that she loaned him money. The exact England would spare the amount of time necessary to the preparation of these intricate dishes. It is probable that those at Wembley were mixed in Cantoa;
for British consumption.
The food, in its natural state, is highly flavoured, fat, and rich, without fari naceous qualities, with the sole exception of rice, which is consumed in much the same ratio as potatoes are eaten in-Ire- land-filling up those corners which cannot be more richly accommodated. Throughout the south of Chins, food is very much more expensive than anywhere north of the Yangtze, and a large pro-
General Hsu Chung Chi, one time off and subsequently came out of a tin, ready some years ago, but the Hongkong & he did so under. the iaßuence of super-
commanding the Cantonese Army, a Kuomintang leader of the Right Wing, is prepared to lead an "ant Red" up- rising against the Kuomintang in the East River districta
The Strike Committee arrested eigh: strikers last Tuesday. These strikers, it is said, endeavoured to cause trouble by
Axed stition.
The
This
are suffering. Why can't the tongkong Government ax the Hongkong Dollar at wildering. It seems that the man signed 23. 40., same as the Straits Dollar. I a promissory note. for à 81,000 parable |
to the woman. ft, moreover, seems that understand this subject was brought up Shanghai Banking Corporation was not in favour of Hongkong having a
it is hardly possible to give a com- rate of exchange. Of course, it pays the prehensive story of the case. It seems Banks to gamble in Exchange. Colony has suffered terribly for the fast that the defendant was married, and 18 months with the strike and boycott, plaintiff met his wife. This woman had and now with this sudden and terrible bad eye, and the plaintiff told her drop in Exchange what is this place that she would get in touch with the coming to. As this subject is of vital fairies, and get medicine for her. importance to this Colony, and others was done, and the eye was cured. Later, called up the spirit of defendant's bro- will agree with me, I trust His Excellency the women lived together. The plaintin opee, and will earn the blessing of the Insuficient rice is grown locally in community when he carries it through, the dead man held that his brother's wife spite of every inch of arable land being as it is up to the Hongkong Government should belong to him, and that the de- fendant should have plaintiff as his wife. cultivated. There are D
few sweet to fix the Hongkong Dollar, and not up The Kuomintang is thinking of reor potators, and a kind of chestnut, grown to any one Bank or Banks to say yes or Further, the spirits of the defendant's gagizing the boycott pickets as a pre-underfooded Alde. But that is all.no. If the Singapore Government fixed forefathers were raised, and they told ventive and convoy service. The former Duck, pork, chicken, and fish of all kinds, the rate of Exchange for the Singapore the defendant, through the plaintiff, that are first favourites; and even now the Dollar at es. 3d. years ago, and it is he should marry her, and that he should. pickets, many of whom have been given Cantonese dees not take kindly to beef working all right, why can't the Hong. Pay her $1,000 as a dowry. So the pro- some military training, will be placed on
kong Government fix the same rate for missory note was signed. board river craft to protect shipping and
the Hongkong Dollar 1-Yours, etc,
X. Y. Z prevent smuggling.
denouncing the Committee for having Portion of it is imported from further the Governor will take this matter up at her, aad it was said that the spirit of
accepted the Kuomintang instruction to abolish the picket system.
south still.
or mutton.
I know a man with estates who tried for five years to induce his fellow Can- tonese to drink coffee. The local tex The Kuomintang in Canton has again dealers got to hear of this; and a little called the attention of shipping people propaganda soon, killed the proposed op position. To this day my boy assures me to the order that between seven o'clock that alloills that foreign flesh is beir in the evening and six in the morning, to come from partaking of this noxious ne vessel may pass the military area atlaid. When he prepares it for me, I
I am inclined to believe bim. Whampoa. The Kuomintang is said to have received information that two. "anti-Red" Northern cruisers are near "Canton waters.
The Whampoa Academy is sending out agents to recruit more students. More than 7,000 Whampoa cadets have left Canton for the "front" since "the com- mencement of the Northern Expedition
Mr., Wang Ching Wei, formerly Chair- man of the Kuomintang in Canton but lately absent from the Southern Capital because of personal differences with General Chiang Kai Shek, is being asked by the Kuomintang Conference, now in session in Canton, to return from his vacation abroad in order to resume the leadership of the party and administra tion. General Chiang Kai Shek does not now object to the return of Mr. Wang, as General Chiang himself has been made Commander-in-Chief of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Army, a post having super- vision over civil, as well as militäry affairs in time of war.
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THE TEAHOUSES.
Hongkong, October 21st, 1920." [We publish the above letter in order to show the sublime faith some correspon- dents have in the power of the Govern: ment. It would need more than a notice in the form of a Government Gazette Extraordinary to fix the dollar at 2. 4d. The question of stabilising the value of the. Hongkong dollar has been discussed on many occasions, but the difficulties No sound in the way are numerous. comparison can be drawn between Hong. kong and the Straits Settlements in this matter,-ED. H.K.D.P.]
SUMMARY COURT CASE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKO
DAILY PRESS.''] :::..
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SIB, I observe in this morning's edition of your paper in the course of a report of two Summary Court cases between me and Mr. G. H. Kirkabhoy you have mentioned that Mr. Kikabhoy alleged he had married my adopted daughter, and failed to point out that in the witness box I stated that the Chinese woman in question was only employed by me to look after my children and had never been adopted by me.
I should therefore be obliged if you would in your next issue mention that this fact was inadvertently omitted from your report of the case.-Yours
▪ - H. M. H. ESMAIL
Such, in brief, is the contention of one party. However, the wohan vigorously denies this.
Mr. M. K. Lo, for the defence, before the case opened, said that he had as a Chinese reporter, who at witness A plaintiff's instigation bad put a mar Fiage notice in the paper. Plaintiff denied having ever spoken to the re-
porter.
Nonsense I
Mr. Lo (to plaintiff); You told this man that you could call on the fairies, and the spirits-I have never seen the man..
Did you not tell the reporter that you had to consult the fairies before he could publish the marriage report-You are talking nonsense.
Then you stood on a stool and shouted (to the fairies) "Come on, Come on "1- No! No!
You deny you are a pai-aan-poa (2 who worships fairies) -That woman man would not have married me, if I did..
In answer to her solicitor, Mr. Reme. dios, she denied evoking the spirits of the dead and also of being a worshipper of fairics. She swore she had married the defendant,
And so at went on with its fairies and spirits, bewildering, interesting, but scarcely understandable. Surely, a stranger case has never come before his He will Lordship, the Puisne Judge. listen to further stage of the case on Monday morning, the bearing being ad- journed until then.
THE NEW GOVERNMENT
BUILDING.
THE FIRE BRIGADE'S NEW QUARTERS.
All about Canton city are scattered teahouses--restaurants where any class of working man can sit at a trestle table or stand in a group, and speedily empty The first a bowl of appetizing food. thing that strikes a foreigner in these houses is the wonderful dexterity of the cooks.
fect A chopping board, two across, is piled with the leaves of some herb; similar to int-the operator, with a flash of his long knife passed each way across the surface as lightning speed, has reduced the whole mass to strips a quarter inch in length, seemingly in a single movement. Quickly follow large red capsicums, nettles, water-cress, let tuce, sweet cabbage mixed with fellow bean shoots grown in the dark, water chestnuts, Chinese mushrooms, a liberal scattering of bright pink shrimp, and a tomato or two. Aiter frying in an enormous pan, a spoonful of this mixture is put on the top of a small basir of glutinoua rice, some fish gravy лод sweetened sauce added, and for £ve centa The Kuomintang Agency in Fatshan the waiting coolie has a nutritious meal, faithfully. is asking the residents there to subscribe including in itself all the necessary pro- to a fund of $50,000 for the purchase of teids. At a twenty cent table the same arms and equipment for another volun- treatment is being given to other, and teer corps under the party's supervision, richer, foods. Chickens, poor thin little come, and so diuer can begin. Sing- The residents of Fatshan, having several things weighing but a pound spicce, song girls display their arts, and take times subscribed to funds for such & are killed at the back of this barnlike up their places behind each chair to purpose only to find that every change room-stripped of their feathers, while light the frequent cigarette, or bend far in the mayoralty meant the confiscation still warm and quivering, singed and dis over the round table to secure "some
a special patron, │· of the arms, are hesitating about putting inembered. The flesh is torn from the special morsel for up any more money. The city of Fat-bones; and cut to half inch pieces; tossed Swiftly half a dozen boys bring steam.
The new Government Building in Des shan, like the town of Kaukeng, while brown in boiling fat; feet, head, carcase ing bowls of rich mixtures. Here are under Kuomintang control, is surrounded go quickly into the stock pot. The gravy all the cook-house treasures with many Voeux Road Central, and Connaught by anti-Red villages. Fatshan has thus obtained is mixed with herbs, and more added; twelve or fifteen bowls, and Road Central, which is now completed, been subjected to "anti-Red' attacks rice, making a delicious mélange. What the guests, having lined their bowls with except for fina! touches here and there, very often, and party troops there have is left but the offat Ah! but there you rice, scoop and pick from each in any is being moved into by the various de- never been able to get rid of the anti- have the best part of the bird, gizzards, order chosen. There are chopsticks for partments which will occupy it. A list Red annoyance.
livers, hearts are strung on long tooth the solid foods, and small porcelain of these departments was published a picks in their dozens, dipped in the boil. ladies for the fluids and sauces. Sharks' short time ago.
Yesterday the Central Fire Brigade en- MR. SUN FO AND M. BORODIN.ing fat, and sauce, and up they go to us stewed with herbs, and birds' nest
of calves gines and appliances, together. with the that table where the plutocrats pay fity soup vaguely reminds one Reuter is reliably informed from Can- cents & bowl. Ducks are roasted whole, head; duck skin treated like pork crack- two ambulance cars were transferred from their "home"a few doors away to ton that the published report that there and treated the same way as chicken tain seasoned crab, or portions of suck their new quarters on the ground floor
ling is delicious. Pieces of omelet con. is à conflict between Mr. Sun Fo, Can-and then come frogs, The Chinese "are ton's Mayor and Member of the Kuomin- very fond of batter; eggs are cheap, even ing pig More and more dishes. Tea on the Des Voeux Road side. For a day tang Central Executive Committee, and if small, and a frog is usually jointed and brandy! and now the politenesses or two previously this weck the alarm M. Borodin, High Adviser to the Kuomin- into four, and served in this casing. must be attended to. Samshu is a fiery bells have been in course of installation tang is without foundation.. The most Now that England provides France With white liqueur, made from fermented rice and have been fully tested to ensure cardial relations exist, between them." a hidden import by spending her surplus and possessed of a curious flavour of prompt and accurate working. Now that roses. Served in silver goblets, no this has been done the appliances, as stat money in holidaying there, it may po THE RIVER TRAFFIC, longer be necessary to enlarge on the bigger than thimbles, each gucet must ed, have shifted over.
deliency of froggy and his friend the drink to his friends, one and all. Hav- There is little change in the river traf. excurgut. Both are appreciated in China, ing risca from the table, the entertain fic. The Fai Lee, another of the West together with eels, snakes, pangolins ment is over, as far as the host is con River bonts, has now gone alongside the baked in mud, black-beetles baked erned. There is liberty to go home, or wharf preparatory to resume her former brittle, sea-slugs, sen-urchins, musssia, to smoke the pipe of peace. service. The Lungekan brought down be small land and sen crabs, crayish, tor ENTERTAINING THE FOREIGNER. tween five and six hundred passengers toises yesterday afternoon and the Sai On had
A NOTE OF SADNESS.
Such is the dinner given by a China- nearly thousand passengers and some five hundred packages of cargo.
Such is the witches' brew; and I have man to his friends, but should he intend foreigner,
RUNAWAY CHICKEN, Fatshen took up about 500 passengers to only one note to add, and that one of doing the same honour to
sadness. As you are leaving the cook.complications begin with the menu and house-restaurant, a pitiful mewing is the arrangements of time and procedure. AMUSING STORY TOLD BY COOLIE.“ There may be a cloth on the table, knives heard.
Poor pussy, you are said to and forks, and though the food, with a
An amusing story was related before bring joss, but in this city you may not few semi-European additions, is as above, Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis take your accustomed place beside the witches cauldron, but in is Times are it will come to the table in separate tracy yesterday by a Chinese "coolie hard, and you have become fat with courses and without any rice accempani who was charged with unlawful potses mice and scavenging. You are carried At the end of the meal rice will be to your execution in a cage. Enough i banded as a mélange, with chicken The Diplomatic Corps for several days pies so lionesque and bear-like, why were this, since it implies that you have not in the chase, and caught the bird first, Alas, poor Fido1 the handsome. fat pup-juicca. It is considered impolite to take away from a verandah" and he saw six seven persons chasing it. He joined has discussed the Canton surtaxes. It is you surnamed Chow, which being inter- been previously satished with rich fare.
Further, that it was bis intention to make understood that the matter was again preted can only mean food? So the cat From the merchant and mandarin to a present of it to his wife. referred to the respective Home Govern, and the dog, who in this topsy-tr the poorest coolle one rule holds good. His Worship: So you were the lucky ments yesterday. It is believed that if land never exchange a cross word, meet He would view with disgust, food soone, or at the memont you thought you unanimity is reached, identical notes will in a crifice to human gluttony! bo presented through the Consuls in The Chinese dinner is a very different scantily prepared as to allow of its were lucky. But it was not your chicken? original form to be plainly apparent. Defendant admitted this was so, but. Canton.
affair. The invitation comes on a red Our legs of mutton, with glaring knuckle said he was prepared to surrender the Official Opposition. “
single slip of paper, the name, date,
served entire, shock the Chinaman as- Divisional Inspector Grant stated that Chinese official opposition to the sur- and time thereon. It is probably 7.30 bone, our chickens, pheasants and ducks, chicken if anybody had claimed it. taxes is growing owing to the belief that p.m. which simply means that from that only such grossness can. In his opinion defendant was found by a detective with the proceeds will be used sooner or later time onwards the host is ready to receive the morsel should be of convenient size the chicken under his arsa and when guests. By about nine o'clock there will for the chopstick to hold, whether in questioned gave the same story about the for another war against the North.
Unofficial foreign circles also are in probably be two tables of Mali chenk and meat or fab, and all preparation neces bird having flown down from a verandah. creasingly against the surtaxes fearing some guests sitting talking, or endlessly sary should be done behind the scenes by Defendant pointed out the verandah of that if they are even tacitly admitted, smoking Virginian cigarettes. Little they will soon, be increased to 10 or 20 cups of fragrant tea stand about. Guests those persons, properly employed for the the house, but none of the inmates claim- per cent, thus strangling trade almost continue to arrive up to eleven thirty, as affectually as the boyentt did. when the host announces that all have
(Continued on next Column).
Canton yesterday.
DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND
CANTON TAXES.
"REFERRED TO HOME
GOVERNMENTS.
Reuter.
The
PEKING, October 21st.
ment,
work:
Chinese food is suitable to the climate, and though the penalty of conversion may be obesity, it will not be dyspepsia.
The European officers and the Chinese members of the Brigade have also taken up their quarters in the portion of the building allotted to them.
Other departments are also making pre- Parations to transfer their activities to the new building
sion of a chicken.
or
Defendant said that the towi "broke
ed the bird.
In imposing a fine of 25, or seven days' imprisonment, His Worship advised de fendant to leave chickens alone in future.
1926
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