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THE FINAL ORDER.
WILL IT BE ENFORCED IN CANTON?
POWER VESTED IN THE POLICE AND MILITARY.
ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES OF WORKERS TO BE STOPPED.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.)...
On Tuesday the Kuomintang General Headquarters in Canton issued an order prohibiting Labour Unions to arrest per sons contrary to law, and gave the Police and the Military authorities power to prevent further unlawful activities on the part of the workers. The Kuomintang leaders responsible for this much-haped- for order have left, or are about to leave, Canton, and local authorities will take up the duty of enforcing it. Whether or not the order will be abeyed by the Labour Union leadera remains to be seen. If it is not, it is hoped by the Cantonese generally that the local authorities will take stern measures. In this way lies some hope, in their opinion, of "order being restored in the City,
THR HONGKONG-DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY DECEMBER 9г, 1926,
CONFERENCE AT WUCHANG.
MILITARY POLICY TO BE- DISCUSSED.
M. BORODIN TO BE PRESENT
As already announced the Nationalist leaders are to hold a conference at Wa chang on December 18th to discuss quee tions concerned with military operations, The conference has been called by General Chiang Kai Shek and the Canton Garette states that among those present will be Borodin.
It is reported that, besitles having wired to the leaders in various provinces, and those at the Front, to get ready their proposals, General Chiang has sent telegram to the Military Headquarters in Cantona to prepare proposals, and for- ward them to Wachang for discussion at the conference.
CORRESPONDENCE.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONG YONG DAILY FRESS]
A FORGED ORDER.
BRUNNER MOND & GO. As
PLAINTIFFS
DEFENDANTS WIN.
SIR-After perusing your report off In a case at the Summary Court the address delivered by Mr. Dyan in yesterday, in which Brunner Mond & the City Ilall last night, the conclusion Ca, were the plaintiffs, it was agreed I reached was that whatever genuine by the solicitors on both sides that a Christianity there may be in the subject delivery order had been forged. The de- he discussed, there seemed to be very fendants were Mesra Cheung Wa, of little science.
133. Des Faux Road Central And Christian Scienes seems to be quite Plaintiffs, represented by Mr. E J. a useful sort of religion too Just con- Armstrong, claimed 367,81 being balance aider how it cured the ailly young fellow of the price of goods sold and delivered from whose lips were puffed the smoke to the defendants, represented by Mr. of a hundred cigarettes per day. But LD. Turner. may I venture to suggest that his cure (which I hops it was) was psychological in connection with 100 lengths of iron Mr. Armstrong said that the deal was and had nothing whatever to do with piping. Defendants had dealt with religion, revealed or otherwise. The plaintiffs for many years Following an After the receipt of the telegram, the foundation of Christian Science is avi-order by telephone, which was the usual Military Headquarters instructed all sos-dently Faith, which, of course, is a good procedure, the goods were delivered on. tions under its control to draw up their thing, a useful thing; for does it not June 26th on prescutation of the chopped respective proposals, to be set by sero enable one to dispose of the weari- delivery order. planë.
someness and the worry of such thought as is essential when one ponders over the marvels of Nature, of Life, of Death 1 Yours sincerely,
RESIDENT.
A UNIFIED CHINA.
DR. C. T. WANG'S HOPE.
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Dr. C. T. Wang, who passed through. Hong Kong a week or so. ago on his way to the Philippines, has given his view on the political situation in China to a newspaper representative.
Two important, Kuomintang, leaders- CHINA, GREAT BRITAIN AND U.S.A. General Tan Yen Kai, Officer Command- ing the 2nd Army Corps, and Mr. Chang Ching Kisng, acting Chairman of the Kuomintang in Canton during the absence of General Chiang Kai Shek, and other officials of the Kuomintang will leave Canton, by overland route, for Wuchang, to-day (Tuesday). "A party of nearly 300 Icft Canton on Tuesday.
A whole China is nearer now than it has seemed for years” he said. "Out of the warfare which has been going on approved of the suggestion of making has emerged which has as its ideal M. Borodin is understood to have dis- unceasingly for so long, a strong power
General Li Teni Hain, Officer Command-establishment of a stable government.” ing the 4th Army Corps in Canton, the Dr. Wang referred to the Kuomintang, Commander-in-Chief of Kwangtung, of which he has been a member for 20 position similar to that of Military Gover-years. In that time, however, he has General Li, therefore, will simply acted in the service of the Peking Govern occupy the position of one of the heads ment as Minister. of Foreign Affairs, of Government departments and a mom Premier, head of the delegation to the ber of the Provincial Political Commis-Versailles Conference, and in many other sion in Cantor, after the departure of
important posts. the Kuomintang Central Executive Com mittee for Wuchacg.
He feels that in capturing the Central China strongholds the Cantonese bave put themselves in a position of vantage which means eventual victory. Wu Pei Coming winter and the removal of Fu and Sura, Chuan Fang he regards as Kuomintang Headquarters to Wuchang out of the picture. In the China United will bring hardships upon the strikers which he envisions, Manchuria will be a under the protection of the Canton Strike Fart, with or without Marshal Chang
Iso Lin." Committee, it is feared. Despite all The attitude of China toward the efforts, employment has not been pro-ly plain," he remarked.There is very
British and Japanese should be sufficient cared for all who need work, had there bitter feeling toward the Britiah." are still some 7,000 to 8,000 depending Are the twenty-one demands forgot on the free lodging houses, in addition to ten te was asked. Between 3,000 and 4,000 woman and
children.
"The Bank Clerks' Strike.
The managers of the banks affected by the strike of bank employees in Canton held a meeting yesterday in conjunction with the managers of the Chinese banks in Hong Kong. The Canton managers are returning to Canton today.
It is generally agreed that the interven-" tion of the Kuomintang is needed to settle the dispute,
General Wu Te Chen, General Wu Te Chen, a former Chief of Police of Canton who has been re- leased after many months of imprison
duty at the front."
We
We may submit for a time, but our day China never forgets," was the reply
always comes. Then we remember."
Toward the United States we have no feeling. Dr. Wang continued. know the American people, as a people, are friendly. But we also know that the American nation has no policy toward China. So we have no teeung'
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A BIG HAUL OF ARMS..
CONCEALED IN A JUNK.
Hong Kong, December 7th, 1920.
HONG KONG": ORIGIN OF
THE NAME.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG
DAILY PRIŠA"}
Br-In connection with Mr. R. E.
Mr. Turner held that do lengths only were delivered.
Replying to Mr. Turner, an employee of the plaintiff Company denied that he had only delivered 63 length Witness was handed a delivery order, and Mr. Turner said that both be and Mr. Turner agreed that the signature, dabei und figures were a forgery. Witness agreed that there were sometimes mistakes on the orders.
Mr. B. F. Westlake,» assistant to the Lindsell's highly interesting lecture re plaintiff firm, said that he was doubtful garding local Chinese place names, and
as to the gennidess of the signature on the mysterious origin of Hongkong's the order produced, and that there bad
your readers to know that before the wrote it... nomenclature, perhaps it will interest certainly been other alterations since be
Mr. Justice Wood gave judgment for Island of Hongkong became a British Possession, its hays were the rendezvous defendants, and remarked that he was of of fishermen and pirates, the bays most opinion that the delivery order was a frequently visited in those early days forgery. being Causeway Bay, Shaukiwan, Aber-
deen and Stanley.
ROAD CONSTRUCTION.
LECTURE AT THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS.
At Causeway Bay, then the "Centre" of the Island, there was crested a small temple on the present site of the Tin Hau Temple, which was styled the "Huns Heung Loo" (4) Temple, c.,
THE VALUE OF ASPHALT.. the Temple of the Hed Incense Tripod, where the fishermen and pirates went to worship and burn incense tr), when- Before large attendance at the Ia- ever they returned from their roving extitution of Engineers and Shipbuilders peditions. Even at the present day the Tin Hau Temple is styled the Temple of yesterday evening, Mr. Frank D. Van the Red-Incense Tripod, and Hongkong Horn (late Superintendent of Highways, as its emblem. may yet adopt the Red Incense Tripod New York City, U.S.A.) lectured on Road
Constraction.
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This little temple originally contained a red incense tripod in which the wor-
"Top of the Tree." shippers inserted their incense and big Mr. J. Ormiston (the President of the place became to be known as Hung the lecturer said he was sure that those sticks of sandal-wood. Consequently, the Lasutation) presided, and, in introducing Heung Loo," just as Kellet Island is present would enjoy M. Van Horn's styled "Tang, Loong Chau (Lantern paper as he was at the top of the tree" of worshipping and the fragrant smell wide experience extending over 33 years Island), and doubtless owing to the act in his profession, and had had a very (Heung) from the burning incense and in many parts of the world, in addition sandal-wood, the locality and its neigh to the important work he supervised in bourhood subsequently derived its name the New York City.
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of Heung (Kong:)(Hong Kong, The Hon. Mr. Creasy, the Director of Les Fragrant Harbour)--the place for Public Works, said Mr. Ormiston, had burning incense (he., worshipping). written expressing his inability to attend, Many writers have represented the owing to a previous engagement which he Chinese characters "Heung" and "Kong, could not postpone. They were, bow- as meaningFragrant Streams," but 1 ever, glad to welcome Mr. Goldsmith, the venture to suggest that a more appro- Assistant Director, who was an extremely priate translation, would be "Fragrant well-known authority on Road Construc Harbour."
tion. (Applause.)"
NINE MEN IN CUSTODY,
Farther details were gleaned yester- day with regard to the big haul of arms
"Kong" () means a barbour or a which was made on a junk, No. 3324, by bay suitable for anchoring ships sad the Water Police on Tuesday evening,
It appears that when the police search-junks, and it is difficult to reconcile the
Mr. Van Horn prefaced his lecture with analysing briefly the value and necessity of roadways. Before the advent of the
ment, has been ordered to report for the junk, which is of the type which wordsStreams" or "Lagoon" as a automobile, he said, roads were construct has two eyes painted on the bow, and suitable equivalent or translation of this
Chinese character.-Yours truly which was lying in Saiwan Bay, prior
TSE TSAN TAL to sailing from Chiuchow (Swatow), they
Hong Kong, December 7th, 1926. discovered the arms cleverly hidden under about two feet of coal.
THE BANK CLERKS' STRIKE.
When the police boarded the junk they found it louded with coal, rattan and general cargo. Concealed in thirty bags was a large collection of arms, mostly Mauser pistols and ammunition. The
EARL HAIG'S POPPY FUND.
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ed in the old fashioned way, and were known as Macadam Boads. They were, "however, rapidly disintegrated owing to the use of heavy traffic. The motor car and lorry had come to stay, and it had been realized for some time that the motor truck industry had always been one step ahead of the Road Engineer. Had not legislation limited the loads which motor vehicles should carry, there would never have been an end to the race be tween the Road Engineer and the Motor Lorry Industry
FULL LIST OF DEMANDS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONG KONO The demands made by the bank clerks
DAILY PRESE."}" in Canton, who have affiliated with the Shop Employees' Union, are as follows:
1. Except the first and second man-haul comprised eighteen Mauser and S12-Since my letter of the 8th inst., agers, who are appointed by the Banks, 21,000 rounds of ammunition. A search have received a draft in aid of the all other bank employees must be hired of the crew's quarters revealed two load-above land for £25 7s. 5d. from Mr. A from the Union:
ed pistols hidden under the floor of the E. Claytou, Secretary and Treasurer of Engineers Searching the World."
the "Sons of Britain Society" in Referring to Mr. H. E. Goldamith's Chofoo. This sum represents the collec(Assistant Director of the Hong Kong tion taken at the Church Service and the W.D.) latest work on "Practical Road proceeds of sale of " makeshift poppies Exgineering, Mr. Van Horn said engin made by the British ladies in Chefoo.cers had been searching the world for a Yours faithfully,
material with which to construct roads that would met the requirements specified by Mr. Goldsmith,
2. No dismissal without reason; no junk's small jous altar. transfer of employees from one place to
It was at fist thought that this haul another; no ill-treatment.
of 23 cases of saltpetre and about 30 cases 3. If any Bank stop business, it must of sulphur, on board indicates that it pay 19 months salary to the employees, was a struggling deal. Nice men were pla 20 dollars extra for each employee. found on board; and they spoke the Chiu
4. It any employees fall sick while in chow dialect Seven of these men were service, the employers shall pay the hos members of the crew, and two other men pitals' expenses. A compensation of are alleged to be supercargoes. They 2,000 dolars shall be paid to any en were all taken into custody, and will be ployee permanently disabled, and 3,000 brought the before the Magistrate in due for any employee who dies while in ser- course The junk was towed to the Yau-
mati refuge by the Water Felice launch
5. The employers shall not prevent the employees from participating in demon- strations or meetings ordered by the Union. If any officials of the Union (who get no salary from it) are on leave their 8. Salary to be increased to the follow- ing standard:
salary must not be reduced,
100% to salary from 10 to 20 dollars
*21 to 30**
17
31 to 40
41 to 80
61 to 80
Lover 80
7. Double salary for New Tosť
A PAIR OF BANGLES. TENNIS COOLIE BENTENCED FOR
THEFT, Z
At the conclusion of a tennis party at the Peak Club on Tuesday afternoon, Hrs. L. D. Joll missed a pair of silver bangles
J. A. GORDON LEASK, Hon. Secretary, Poppy Day Sub-Committee. Hong Kong, December 8tir, 1929:
UNLICENSED DENTIST.
PATIENT SUPPLIED BY THE
-POLICE
Many materials had been tried, and with the exception of asphalt all had beeg found wanting in one respect or another. Many claims had been put forward for cement, but the lecturer cited the argu ments of some American authorities, proving that cement concrete roads had not proved durable, around NA
Asphalt, continued Mr. Van Horn, was elements. The first recorded use of the not affected either by moisture or the
tizing as a dentist without a licence from material was as far back as 3000 B.0. the Principal Civil Medical Officer when it was used by the Pre-Babylonian Sub-Inspector Fallon, who prosecuted, inhabitants of the Euphrates Valley. It said that the matter had come to the was also used by the Ancient Egyptians knowledge of the Police, and a detective and the Greeks. It was first used in Was sent to defendant's address.
London in 1838, and in 1839 the first
day, a Chinese was charged with pras At the · Centrál - Magistracy: yester-
The bangles were later discovered by Defendant said that he was registered | modern, asphalt pavement was laid on the Police in the servants quarters at the as a dentist in Canton. Be had not Threadneedle Street, near Finch Lane. Club, and a tennir coolie was arrested. brought his papers to Hong Kong, be- It was introduced into America in 1878. 8. 24 days' holidays each year for the Charged at the Central Magistrate cause at Brst be had no intention of prac. During 1925 more than two million employées.
yesterday, the coolie said that Mr. Joll tiring in the Colony, tons of asphalt was sold.. Records show- Salary to be paid during strike | bad put the bangles on the tennis ground Sub-Inspector Fallon informed the ed- that asphalt roads laid over thirty
and left without taking them. He picked Magistrate that the prosecution did not years ago, were still in excellent condi 16. "The present demands to be anawer-up and intended looking for the lady, in allege that the defendant had inflicted tion. ed within two days.
order to return them to her. - A
any harm. ONE MANA
At the conclusion-Mr. Van Horn was On being, fined $100, defendant said, be warmly applauded, and a vote of thanks could only pay 125. The alternative was, was tendered to him for hiq very able two months' imprisonment.
address
period.
As is now, the demands were not complied with and the strike was de clared.
Mr. Lindsell did not believe defend- ant's story, and sentenced him to four weeks' imprisonment with hard labour,
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