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ALL AT SIXES AND CORRESPONDENCE.
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PRESENT POSITION IN CANTON.
RESULT OF RUSSIAN POLICY.
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KWANGTUNG · ARSENAL TO WORK OVERTIME.
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[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
In Canton and elsewhere under Kuomintang control even the "Red"
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 22nd, 1927.
THË SHANGHAI DEFENCE THE A.P.C. THEFTS. RAID ON A WONGTM NEI
RELIGION IN MODERN LIFE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE '* HONG XONO DAILY PRESS.'']
Sta--It generally conceded that the highest known standard of the art of peaceful living was reached during the Victorian Era, and that since these days the onrush of science and mechanism has made sich drastic changes in our physics! lives that it is just as well that we should stand aside and take a lock at what is happening to our spiritual lives. Those who think that reli-
they look Beneath the surface, that all that has been lost to the world
FORCE.
LAST OF TROOPSHIPS ARRIVES.
ENTERTAINING "THE SERVICES.
FORMER CLERK ON TRIAL AT SESSIONS.
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SENT TO PRISON ON TWO CHARGES.
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During the week-end, the Blue Funnel &s. Calchar, the last of the Petroleum Company last month, The thefts from the Asiatic British troopships, arrived with had a sequel at the Criminal about 500 troops on board. Some 200 are additional units for the Choucester Regiment, and they will, of course, go on to Shanghai to join their battalion. The Cafchas also brought further armoured car de
CHONG MATSHED.
HELD UP BY A CHOPPER
TWO MEN CHARGED.
A mud stained shot, socks, a
ery formed the exhibits in Court chopper and a few pieces of jewel- yesterday when the two Chinese with the armed robbery committed who were arrested, in connection
at a matabed in Wong Nei Chong Village DA March 14th, were
neting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Sessions yesterday, when before the J. R. Wood) a Chinese, formerly a clerk of the A.P.C.. was charged with the larceny of a revolver, am- brought before Mr. B. E. Lindsell munition and two blank cheque at the Central Police Court
workers are now divided. The mor- gion is on the decline will find, itachments, and it is likely that these forms, the property of Mr. W. A.
chants also are divided into two camps-those wishing" to organizo and to style themselves
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daring the last decade or so is the nullifying atmosphere of the reli tionists" and those who do not.gious hypocrite; and the loss is due The professional labour leaders are endeavouring to concentrate all workers in atlied trades in the same union. The Chik-shi or Committoo- men of the old-time guilds are en deavouring a continue thair former organisations under the name of
will also go North.
Gangs of coolies have been busy in Kowloon during the last few days clearing the ground on the Salisbury Road side of the railway From Holt's Wharf to the Fire Brigade forecourt. It is to be used as a parade ground for the troops in the Peninsula Hotel.
Among the organisations helping to look after the welfare, recrea tion and entertainment of H.M.
Butterfield, of the A.P.C., on the nights of either, February 9th or 10th. He was further charged with uttering a forged cheque of Mr. W. A. Butterfield', on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- tion.
Sergt. Rozeskwy conducted the case for the Police.
She
uniors only. According to general are not convinced, it is far better Force is the Wesleyan Sailors and the Asiatic Petroleum Company was relieved of hor pair of ear-
Chinese opinion, the present situa tion where all classes and all parties appear to se divided against each ather has been brought about by Russian influence and agitation and exactly suits the Russian policy...
The Kwangtung Arsenal at Shek- cheng, near Canten City, is to re- sume night work in order to increase the output. It is intended to equip and arm a number of new infantry battalions for the defence of Kwang teng and Kwangsi. . "
The People's Volunteers, a militia organisation for local defence, at
Soldier's Hoole.
A strong committee has been elect-
entirely to the gradual transition from suffocating conventionality. to the freedom of sincerity. The vitality And conviction of the modern religious enthusiast is it is so essentially voluntary. On inspiring and amazing thing because the other hand, amongst those who to find an honest man who is quite frank about his disbelief rather than one who professes a religion which he does not feel. The only regreted from the members of the Wan- honesty is that so many are con table thing about this modern tent to be merely bouest-and negative. Such men, it will gener- ally be found, spend much time and energy on the cultivation of their physical and mental qualities, realiz ing, quite rightly, that a man who deserves success must work for it. Se also the man who desires reli- gious conviction must search for it.
Prisoner denied both charges. The Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C., (Attorney-General) prosecuted for the Crown, and outlining the case said the prisoner was employed in
from some time at the end of last year until February 7th, as a fling clerk. On February 7th, he was dismissed by Mr. Butterfeld. On February 10th, when Mr. Butter field arrived at his office, he found that a certain drawer of his desk had been cut open and an auto- matic pistol, ten rounds of ammuni- tion, and his cheque book were mise lantern lecture on given by the Rev, J. C. Knight the police. Later, he discovered his "Glimpses of Indian Life" was ing. He informed the Bank and Anstey, the pastor of the Wanchai cheque book under Church Musical items were ren-.
some other
chai Wesleyan Church and are arranging weekly entertainments. Good shows have been provided already and the attendance, is on
the increase.
Up to the present two social Friday evenings have been held and on
for man is made up of three Jifferent parts. the spiritual, the inental and the physical; and he can less he cultivates all three in equal and Mr. Hagger. not expect to be really efficient undered by Mr. Grenham's quartette papers, and on examining it, found proportion. It should not be diffi
that two blank cheques had been cult for human nature to cultivate
boro
B certain
of every man is amount of desire for religious ex- pression just as in every human
Next Friday evening a social taken. the following Friday there will be lantern. lecture on Japan" by Mr. A. H. Crook, M., Head master of Queen's College,
ono, time very popular and icfiuca sp`ritual qualities, for in, the heart and concert will be held and on: tial in Kwangtung until pat down by Dr. Sun Yat Sen, is not to ba superseded altogether by the Pea
heart there is a desire for affection sants Corps. The moderates now and understanding; and it is just in military power in Canton have as one-sided to attempt to stifle intimated that they will not sup-
the former desire an it is to attempt press the People's Volunteer movo-humanity.
to stifle any other attribute of
ment at once. The Peasants' Corps is the armed-section of the Farmers' League. They are largely under the control of the Communists and in outlying districts are apt to por scente other organised bodies
The Kwangtung Commissioner of Education has advised the Canton Chief of Police that, according to instructions from the Provincial Administrative Council, no British managed school or mission should
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Cheque Presented. Ietween ten and eleven o'clock on February 10th, a cheque was presented for payment at the Bank which bore the number of one of the two blank forms that had been taken from Mr. Butterfield's book. The accused, who was in the Bank, was detained, and Mr. Butterfeld was seat for. When he arrived, he pronounced the cheque, which pur-
The General Secretary of the Committee for the entertainments is Mr. A. May and he would be glad if any person desirous of as sisting in the work, financially or The Free-thinkers, Rationalists otherwise, would communicate with and Agnostics will eventually be him, care of the Wesleyan Sailora! bearen in the
Васе Great Humanity even though they may
of hnd Soldiers' Home, Arsenal Street. win several hents-because they are breaking one of the inevitable laws SPANISH SAILORS LANDED. ported to bear his signature, a
FIFTY MEN TO SHARE IN DEFENCE WITH BRITISH
AND ITALIANS.
An old Chinese woman said that she and her son, daughter and daughter-in-law were the occupants of the hut. At about 1 am on March 14th, she was awakened by hard rapping at her door. She did not open and the robbers climbed: into the but by the window. There were four men and two of them weat into her room, flashing an electric torch to dazzle her.
rings, and 823 in notes were also taken from her pocket. She then sheated out for help and was seized by one of the robbers, who held her throat and pushed her head down to the bed. Another robber held her daughter and tore three bangies from her wrist. Two bangles were of gold and one of jade. Her daughter also had her earrings her daughter called out Save stolen,
Life" the robbers bolted.
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Witness added that when
The value of the things taken was Corroborative evidener was also given by the daughter and daugh ter-in-law.
Chan Pui. the son, said that when the robbers entered his room and robbed his wife of her ring and her assistance because he was held earrings, he was not able to go to up by the robbers belted he gave chase, man with a chopper. When and two of the men were eventually caught by villagers.
adjourned tilr!
The
Friday.
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casa Was
Hidden Weapon. prisoner having pointed out
Sergt. A. V. Baker spoke to the
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forgery, and identified the prisoner as having been formerly employed in the A.P.C. The prisoner pointling cabinet on the seventh floor ed out a place in the A.P.C. build-
of the A.P.C. building and telling ing where the pistol was found, tion inside. When charged; the pri· him there was a pistol and ammuni loaded with the ammunition. It soner wrote his own statements and was significant that when Mr. But signed them: terfield last saw the pistol it was not loaded.
of nature and are trying by an exag- gerated idea of their own mentality and a complete lack of humility to upon the Infinite Mind by means of prove explain away or improve the cultivated faculties of the Finite Mind. Modern Science has proved The Spanish cruiser Blas de of the existence of immaterial things, jackets, who are to take part in well enough how little we yet know a yesterday anded 50 blue and what appears to be the super- defending the Settlement boun be interfered with by unauthorised | natural of today will probably be daries with the British, French and
why should we be so ready and New of last Wednesday. the natural of tomorrow. So Italian forces. says the NC. Daily The prisoner, said Sir Joseph, willing to place 4 "limit" upon the The Blas de Lera arrived in was first charged with larceny of powers of the Creator of all things? Shanghai waters some three weeks the pistol, ammunition, two blank Surely the least we can do is to ago, but swing to the congestion of cheques, and a key, and he made walk humbly and each one, indivi- the harbour she has had to anchor dusty, endeavour to prove that, same four miles up river. Natural a statement to the effect that he took contrary to the superficial onlooker, ly her commander. Captain Gonzalo only the two cheque forms and the true religion is more than ever a de la Puerta, wished to
"show the reality and a very vital force in the flag to his nationals and others key away. As for the pistol and world of to-day. Yours sincerely, in Shanghai, but, with every ammunition, he left them in the M. D. effort that could be made, it was office In answer to the charge of impossible to find him a berth in uttering a forged cheque for $500, the harbour. Except the Harkins, other British ships have been accom- he replied "I did." modated by the kindness of owners of private wharves.
individuals. As far as is known the only British institutions now work ing in Canton are St. Hilda's school for girls and primary school under the Wesleyan Mission on the Southern Bund. All the others were closed some months ago.
The Canton-Faishan telephone service, monopolized by the mili tarists and party leaders for the last two years, will soon be restored to the public, and private subscribers, it is hoped, will again have the privilege of communication so long
denied them.
The members of the commercial class in Canter City have so far refused to join the labeuters in forming a Workers and Merchants' Council to consider matters relating to their mutual interests. The mer chants, it is understood, feel that at present, the workers can contribute nothing towards the well-being of trade. They have been constantly asking for privileges which, toà great extent, have been granted. Now, it is contended, there is little the workers can do to relieve the
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Hong Kong, March 21st, 1927.
-stated.
It was true that the pistol and
The students of the Sacred Heart College, the French Catholic Mis gion in Canton, went on strike on
It these circumstances Captain ammunition were left in the build- March 21st,, as a protest against the Gonzalo de la Puerta decided to dining, but counsel submitted there unwillingness of the school authori what he could to prove his active would be no point in taking them ties to register under Kuomintang co-operation in the defence of at all unless the intention was to rule. On Sunday, the College was Shanghai and accordingly the so
sailors "lecturers" invaded by Kuomintang
were landed yesterday as sten! them The man who took who tried to incite the studcats to
For the moment it has not them might have later thought it strike. The staff of the Christian been decided where they will be College apart from the teachers
was too great a risk, or he might stutioned. have demanded an increase of
This spirited proof of loyalty have hidden them intending to re- and active co-operation by thetrieve them later. In spite of the salary, under threats of a strike.
Spaniards will be much welcomed. fact that they were left in the office, that did not disprove the natural assumption that the man who took them intended to steal them.
Chinese masters and engineers of small steamers and launches plying between Canton and Hong Kong. salaries as decided upon a have formally demanded higher week ago.
Canton-Kowloon Railway Trouble Settled.
FRENCH TROOPS FOR SHANGHAI
1,000 MEN OF COLONIAL
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The strike of transportation" It is generally reported, saya the coolies along the Chinese Section of Y.-C. Daily News, that the defences the Canton-Kowloon Railway was of the French Concession are short
The Evidence, Mr. W. A. Butterfield, superin- tendent engineer of the A.P.C., Hong Kong, gave evidence corro borating the Attorney General's
present sad plight of the commercial settled yesterday as advised by the ly to be reinforced by 1,00 French opening. Replying to, a question Kuomintang leaders on March 19th. troope-a battalion of the Colonial from the jury, he said the signature Infantry With -reference to the! number, however, nothing definite is on the cheque was an attempt to yet known, but probably these men forge his signature, but it was a will arrive, from Indo-China.
For the accommodation of these very bad imitation.
The Cantón General Chamber of Commerce has protested against the tax of three and a half months' zant before permission is given to rebuild or renew a lease for a building,"
The fire principal trade guilds in Canton, at their lust joint meeting
The Express Companies, the large employers of coolies, have agreed to raise the wages, although not to the amount at first asked for.
AT LAST.
CANTON, CELEBRATES FALL OF SHANGHAI
men huts are being erected in Pare Mr. N. H. Proctor, an assistant Edan off Avenue Petain, and these at the Hong Kong and Shanghai will be ready for occupation by the time the troops arrive.
The British Forces.
Asked if he wished to ask the witness any question, the prisoner meats, because he was badly beaten said he was forced to sign the state- the police. He added that he the palice, as his leg was injured, could prove he was assaulted by When arrested, he had a handker thief on him which was marked with bloodstains
Sergt. Baker said when prisoner was searched, a blood-stained hand. prisoner's right leg was injured on kerchief was found on him. The the shin bone.
In reply to his Lordship, witness said there was no truth in the pri soner's allegations that he beaten by the police.
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Answering the jury, Sergt. Baker. said when a man was arrested it was with which he might attempt to commit suicide, such as handker thiefs and bootlaces.
usual to take from him all articles
Central Police Station said he was The sergeant interpreter. at the
Present when the prisoner made and signed his statements. He did not see anyone strike the prisoner.
The Defence.
gard to the first charge, the pri
In making a statement with re- soner admitted it was his intention to steal the pistol and ammunition, but when he got as far as the filing cabinet, it struck him that it was a great risk. He became frighten- ed, so he put the arms inside the charge, he said the witness from the cabinet. With regard to the second Bank could not prove that he was the man who presented the cheque. through the Bank to take a short He added that he was just walking eut to his destination.
The jury; without retiring, re- turned a unanimous verdict of "Guilty" on both counts.
The Santenca. Bank, anid when the cheque was against the prisoner was very clear. His Lordship said the evidence presented he went to the telephone He was a young man's otherwise, a The news of the capture of Shang-
much more severe sentence would on Sunday afternoon, failed to draft
No change in the disposition of to call Mr. Butterfield. On return-be imposed. It seemsed that be had any rules regarding the sale of received at Canton at 8 a.m. yester- at present taking place. The head walking through the Bank towards done. It was a deliberate criminal hai by the Cantonese troops was the British forces in Shanghai is ing to his desk, he saw the prisoner no excuse to offer for what he had British goods: The Society for the day, All" Red" labour unions and quarters of the 14th Brigade are the Des Voeux Road entrance. both to himself and his family, Extension of the anti-British Boy student organizations held special still in the Chartered Bank build
act, and prisoner was a disgrace parades in the afternoon, and it cott has demanded that the Canton understood that emergency meeting ing along with those of the 20th Witness asked the prisoner if he On the first charge he would have Brigade, and will remain had presented a cheque, and bore hard labour, and on the second merchants shall cease trading with were to have been held last even-
to go to prison for one year with there until arrangements are complied in the negative. "imperialists" altogether,
buting to stage more cinberate celebra pleted for moving lato Mr. Hayim's however, felt sure he was the man, count he would be sent to prison
Witness, Southern Chinese business men have Shanghai have assured those in and, Great Western Roads Hero
Labour union leaders in garden at the function of Tileng and detained him in the office. for two years," the sentences to run so far taken no active step to sever Canton that they will co-operate buts are being put up for the BC-
In reply to the prisoner, witness concurrently. their trade relationship with "the with the incoming Cantonese troops, commodation of brigade headquar said he had no proof that he and have asked their comrades inters and an infantry battalion, but (prisoner) was the man who pre- foreign interests.
Canton to be ready to offer aid, in it has not yet bon announced which sented the cheque., (Continued on next Column). case it is norded.
battalion will occupy them.
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proceedings which were to be taken Sir Joseph Kemp mentioned other against the prisoner, and his Lord. ship said he would deal with thos inter, before a different jury.
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