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TRADE IMPROVES.
DESPITE CRUSHING BURDEN OF TAXES.
BETTER BE AN ARTISAN THAN A MERCHANT
A Shameen correspondent, writing ou Saturday, ay:
Trade generally is beginning, to im prove, but it is perfectly true that the Chinese merchants are being 'bled white by the tax collectors. Take a typical case. Likin on silk piece-goods before the strike was Tla 0; now it is raised to Tha 14. Then there is a forty per cent, lonn to the Government to say nothing of trade taxes and capital taxes. As a Chinese trader sorrowfully informed me, it is better to be an artisan or a general labourer these days than a merchant. Since the boycott has been terminated tha Telephone Company have been de manding arrears of subscriptions from Shameen customers for services not rendered. Half the telephone wires were down. I cannot say what will be the outcome of the business. It has been rumoured that there would be a settle nent of the boycott of the Steamboat Company on Monday, but I hear that there has been further dissension among the unions and that the boycott is still going on.
You will be able to judge from the cargoes whether the dispute has 'been ended."
THE FLOATING
'VARSITY.
ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. "RYNDAM."
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2980, 1926.
FIVE HUNDRED STUDENTS ABOARD.
SOME INTERESTING DETAILS,
There was an influx of some. five bun- dred students, young men and women drawn from all the principal colleges of America and Canada, into the Cotony yesterday. They wore in what has be- come known as the Varsity finer, the Dutch &. Ryndam (Holland-America Line), which arrived in port on Sunday afternoon.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE GIRL GUIDE MOVEMENT IN THE COLONY,
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."].
Sis, shall be very grateful if you will make known through your columns that the Girl Guide Association is enter. ing upon, a new series of activities and will welcome all who have bean. Guides or who wish to be Guides. Miss Trotter and Miss Wankiya (District Commis ioners in Hertfordshire) have arrived to take up four months intensive training of ooers and Guides and we hope to deve lop the movement greatly through their assistance in conjunction with our Dis. trict Commissioners, Mrs. Remington dad Mrs. Miles.
dia.
The vessel remained in Kowloon Bay during Sunday evening, and proceeded to a wharf at Kowloon
A friend has kindly placed at your yesterday forenoon, where she stays until poan) a bungalow by the sea for three this afternoon when she sails for alanila days, December 7th, 8th and 9th. The The vessel is in effect a floating univer- Guides will spend the, whole day in cook. sity. The faculty includes several lead-ing, tracking, and nature study and we ing American professora, two British and shall be glad to hear from any girls who two German professors. The American have been Quide officers before or others professors number 71, 48 men and 29 who', would like to take part in these women.
outings.
The cruise is not merely a pleasure tour, but aims at combining study with the enjoyment of a voyage. The steamer, which has a registered tou hage of 12,534, has been arranged,, into dormitories, and the usual student dis- cipline prevails.
Judging from the cargoes yesterday and their friends, for there are altogether Yesterday the students, girls and men, the position in Canton is the same as it 550 passengers on board, were to be seen was last week. The Fatshan came down sauntering through the City, sight-seeing with more passengers than usual and and shopping, They were deeply im large quantity of vegetables but with pressed with all they saw, and the weatures, folk dancing, handicraft, together little general freight. The Sai On was ther was ideal for looking xpund Hong fully loaded with passengers.
THE SUNNING " PIRATES.
TWENTE PRISONERS BEFORE THE COURT.
THREE MEN FROM HONG KONG.
Twenty of the men arrested in connec tion with the Sunning piracy appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday. A large number of Chinese was present in Court.
Mr. T. E. King, Director of Criminal Intelligence, on behalf of the "Crown, asked for a remand until next Monday, when the Crown Solicitor would open the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Lindsell said that he understood that there was a move, to get the case through for the December Sessions.
The adjournment was granted.
Various Dialects. Prisoners were all men between 23 and 26, 3nd with the exception of one, who as a Formosan, they were all Chinese. Most of them spoke Cantonese, two spoke the Tenchow dialect, one that" of, Amoy, and one that of Ningpo. Formosan speaks Japanese. Their em
was a seaman, one a tinsmith and another ployment varied. One of the accused
The
stone-
disbanded soldier from the North. Hong Kong or the mainland close by. Three of the accused gave addresses in
One gave his occupation as a
Street, Aberdeen. Another said he lived breaker, his address being in Main
third said he came from Jardine's in Shanghai Street, Yaumati, and the
Bazaar.
The theft of $12,100 from one Wo Pak
races, creeds and classes, and I shall Guides are a happy family" of all look forward to the time when we shall number our Hong Kong and Kowloon Guides by thousands instead of hundreds. An Officers' Training Class is held ment House by kind permission of His every Monday at 4.15 p.m. at Govern
Excellency the Governor Clementi. Cooking classes, nature study and Lady
rambles, first aid and sick nursing leg. with many social micetings will be among Song (the compradore of the ship) and Kong. Foreign Once Oficials.
the varied fare set before the Guides money, jewellery and other property According to a recent decision of the ordinary undergraduate
There are a number of students taking during the next four months.
from the officers, crew and passengers Foreign Office in Canton all Foreign several engaged on post graduate work. feel there are many girls in the Colony the charge.
courses and "Once a Guide always a Guide." I were some of the items that appeared in Office officials in the Provinces of Hunan, Some 15 per cent. are still at school. Hupeh, Kiangsi, and Fukien, as with
who would like to renew their Guide The accused seemed very subdued and those in Kwangtung and Kwangsi, will sea, and the exceptionally good weather in the movement and learn to enjoy the who now and again muttered and shook Classes and lectures are held while at days, and others who would like to join had nothing to say, except the Formosan, be replaced as soon as possible by Kuo-which has prevailed during the trip, has good fellowship, the varied interests and his head. mintang appointees. These foreign office enabled much of the instruction to take the opportunity for useful work that this officials will be divided into three grades; place up on deck. those in the first and second grades
international sisterhood offers. We are will be appointed especially by the on board for the students' physical wall compartments, a thoroughly unwholesome Ample provision has also been made all apt to find ourselves. in watertight Central Kuomintang Authorities while being, and they have a well equipped and unsatisfactory form of dwelling. others belonging to the third grade will
gymnasium, be appointed on the recommendation of every sort of athletic and physical train-ficial barriers and brings us into friendly two awimming pools and The Guide Movement breaks down arti- the Foreign Office. The Kuomintang reing exercises. cently appointed Mr. Chan Kung Pa,
contact with all the world.-Yours, etc., Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at been cordially received by the educational At every port of call the students have
BELLA SOUTHORN, Hankow, and Mr. Loh Tcheng, Commis authorities, and by residents generally.
Colony Commissioner. sioner at Changsha.
The Eyrie,
November glat, 1928.
M. Borodin has advised the appoint- ment of Mr. Junkee Choy, as director- general of Railways; and Mr. B. Y. Wu, as the director-general of Posts, in the newly created Ministry of Communica tions of the Kuomintang. Mr. Choy is a graduate of Columbia University, and Mr. Wu is also an American returned student.
The Local Programine."
The time in Hong Kong is being chiefly
the students
the
ANOTHER PIRACY INCIDENT WOUNDED PIRATE WHO
OVERBOARD.
JUMPED
MR. LAPSLEY STILL MISSING.
AMAH'S DEATH.
EMPLOYERS SAID TO HAVE "LOCKED HER UP.”
During the resumed enquiry into the death of an amah in the employ of Mrs. Wm. Shaw, of the Government Flats at Park Road, The Peak, certain allegations were made by Chinese wit- sesses against deceased's employers. Mr.
E. Lindsell sat as Coroner with a jury. Mr. D. McCallum was present on
behalf of the deceased's relatives...
At the previous hearing Mr. Shaw in his evidenes denied that be demanded the return of the woman's wages when she wanted to leave, but admitted having locked her in her room..
Will all who would like to join the spent in trips round the Island, and Officers' Training Class or to assist the visits to places of interest, including the movement in any way communicate with University, where the Vice-Chancellor the Hon. Secretary, Mrs. W. B. A. Moore, (Mr. W. W. Hordell, C.L.E.) and the 463, The Peak i students have made arrangements to receive the visitors. "As already stated
Allegations Against the Mistress, The Postal Commissioner of the were divided into four groups. Yester-
At yesterday's hearing a nephew of the Chinese Post Office at Canton, which day Group "A" motored around
deceased said that a week before her serves also as the head-office of the Island in the forenoon, arriving at the
death deceased told him that after re- Province of Kwangtung, has been having University, at 10.30 am and leaving there
ceiving; her wages at the end of Novem ber, he intended leaving her employ. considerable difficulty with his employees for the ship at 11-30. The afternoon and
ment. She had also said that her mis- lately. The other day Mr. Chu Tak to-day were left for "free-time." The
tress had scolded her, Witness spoke Another incident of the piracy has now with the deceased when she was ad Ming, a postal inspector assigned to
same programme WES carried
out by transpired. When the boatload of pirmitted to hospital on November 1st. She Tsingyun for duty, was arrested by the Group "B" in the afternoon. They ates was captured by H.M.S. Bluebell, said that her mistress had locked her up postal union there and delivered over to arrived at the University at 3 p.m. and one of the men was found to be wounded the Postmen's Union in Canton, for left at 4 pm. Groups "C" and "D" and was helped aboard He, however, said that she had not made any com Replying to Mr. McCallum, witness having attempted to dismiss a postman were free yesterday, but to-day they will immediately jumped overboard and plaints against her employers previously, from service. About the same time a carry out the programme already de-although a line was thrown out he re but had spoken of a former amah who mail sorter at Fatahan was driven from scribed.
told her that she had been beaten and fused to take hold of it and was drowned. threatened when she wanted to leave Mrs. his job by the staff of the parcel mail
No news has as yet been received of Shaw's employment Mr. Lapsley. The Customs keeping a kecz lookout and planes From the Hermes are being used in the search. Inquiry will be held into the piracy.
It is understood that a Marine Court
Kong have paid a visit to the Ryndam, Students from the University of Hong being shown over the vessel by a special
A
and beaten her."
Was
A Clangwoman's Story, An amah employed next door, said she 4. clanswoman of the deceased. disputes between deceased and her mis- During the first month she heard of no
tress, but there waaiome trouble on October 31st Decessed told, witness that, her mistress had found fault with her.
section.
The Wa Ying College, at Fatahan,reception.committee. which belongs to the Wesleyan Mission, Athletic competitions were held at the but has been closed since the commence University yesterday afternoon, the pro- ment of the boycott and anti-Christian gramme including basketball, tennis and
soccer." agitation, may be occupied temporarily A football match which had been ar by the Fatsban educational authorities ranged to take place at Sookunpoo who are considering the opening of a students of the Byndam and team noon the 1.3. Fyndam will call at witness said that she heard Mrs. Shaw yesterday afternoon between a team of After leaving Hong Kong this after Beferring to the day of deceased's death, middle school but, for the time being selected from the CAA, had to be Mania, Bangkok, Singapore, Batavia, taxing her with wanting to leave and the are unable to erect their own buildings cancelled.
Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Saez, Port smak denying it. t It will be recalled that some time ago and is called The Binnacle. News ra-
A daily paper is produced on board, Said, Haifa, Constantinople, Piraeus, Mr. Lindsell: Do you mean to tell me a feud between two rival unions in the ceived by radio, the day's programme Monaco, Alfers, Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lis Chinese 1-I did not bear Mrs. Shaw Gravosa, Venice, Malta, Naples, Rome, that you heard Mrs. Shaw, speaking: druggists trade resulted in the death of and articles on the customs and bos, Havro, Antwerp, Botterdam, Ham- speaking, but I heard deceased say "I a drug-shop foki or assistant, and that life of the natives of the countries burg, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Orio, am not leaving."
visited are printed. Sunday's issue, for Leith, London, and New York, arriving comrades of the deceased put the body instance contained some interesting in in the latter place on May 2nd, 1927.
Continuing, witness said that she later saw Mr. and Mrs. Shaw outside the door into the premises of a firm supposed to formation on China and the Chinese. From Port Said, trips will be made into of deceased's room, and they appeared be in sympathy with a rival union, and The editor of The Binnacle is Mr. Henry the interior, with visits to Cairo and the to be pushing her back into the room. J. Allen, ex-Governor of Kansas, who is Pyramids, and a good deal will be seen intimated that it would not be removed one of the "outside" passengers on of India and Europe. This is considered, withdrew the key and went away with Mira. Shaw pushed the door to, locked it,
being to complete the students, educa-Witness heard a quarter of an hour tion by showing them something of actual later that the deceased had jumped out conditions of life all over the world. of the window, and found her lying on The Byndam carries a faculty and staff the ground. Deceased told her that Mes. of 70, with 490 travellers of whom 450 Shaw asked her if the wanted to are students, the remainder being rela Icave, but the denied wanting to go. Her tives and friends of students
mistress, she complained, beat her and The cruise director is Mr. A. J. Phelps. she was frightened at being locked in The acting president of the floating She also said that her mistress demand- acadamy is Professor. 3. E. Love of Newed back her wages, but this the refused.
Heckel of the University of Missouri and the flat, and there was no doubt that York University, with a committee of Replying to Mr, McCallum, Mr. Lind Deans, among whom are Professor &. X. sell said that he and the jury had visited Professor George E. Howes of Williams deceased had jumped out of the window. College. Dr. William E. Haigh of Mr. Lindsell (to witness) In report London, England, is the medical officer.
to the Palice you said in regard to the Among the passengers there are repre- interview with the deceased on October sentatives of 40 states, some 50 are 31st, that she had said: I am ladies, with several wives and daughters up my job" --No. of the staff and relatives of the students.
until fall reparation was made." The board.
Bield trips have been arranged the leading feature of the trip, the rod in her the key an
firm has appealed to the Kuomintang authorities who have given more than students interested in geology, for this one order to the Police to have the body morning removed so that, business may con Testerday evening a dimer was given tinue, but the opposition from the union on board the Ryndam, at which local involved has prevented the order from educational authorities and Hong Kong being carried out.
Government officials attended. This is the only function arranged during the vessel's stay in port,
a commission to administer lik affairs.
The General Chamber of Commerce of Canton, formerly the leading or ganization of trade guilds in the city,
The Fast and Future Urlis, will be, dissolved before the end of this year, when the Kuomintang will appoint and before coming to Hong Kong the New York was left on September 18th, As a piracy prevention measure, the ship has called at Havana, Colon, Bal Kuomintang in Canton is willing to hoa, Los Angeles, Hilo, Honolulu, Yoko- grant, the fishermen, in Centon waters the hama, Kobe, Moji, and Shanghai. Trips same status as farmers on land that inland were made in Japan, but visits they will have the privilege of to Peking and Canton were cancelled organising themselves with arms for owing to the disturbed conditions. mutual protection against outlaws
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