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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 5th, 1927.
SINGAPORE TRAM.
WAY BOYCOTT.
DISORDERLY SCENES IN PEOPLE'S PARK.
FIRE HOSE TURNED ON TRUCULENT CROWD..
A COMMUNE SET UP
ITS OBJECT TO HAMPER MILITARY AND WRECK ORDER
SOMERSET - MAUGHAM FAR EAST PLAY.
MISS GLADYS COOPER'S TRIUMPH.
STRAITS SETTLEMENT
SETTING.
Mr. Somerset Maugham, in his new play, The Letter," at the Playhouse has written very nearly) the perfect crook drama,
APPROVED BY HANKOW.
The organization of the municipal administration in the Chinese ter ritory adjacent to Shangbai is be coming the most serious politien! problem here. A Commune, in the) It jumps off without an instant form of a Provisional Counci, has of besitation or explanation: as
The boycott of the Singapore Tramways took a serious aspect in the neighbourhood of People's Park,
I been organized, mostly of unknown the curtain goes up. Miss Gladys | Singapore, last Sunday night for unimportant persons, which has Cooper is seen to be busy firing six (March 7th), wys the Straits been recognized by the Hankow shots of a revolver into the body of Tünes, Crowds of people gathered
Government. The local military a Kentleman. As the sinake of and evinced hostility to the trolley authorities dislike the Commune be-
uses, and the effective method
enuse it is dominated by the C.P. of hose pipes was employed by the and interferes with their efforts to Fire Brigade who were called outpacity Chapel and Nantao. The to disperse them. The powerful jets of water drove the people back
wards but stones. Bottles and crockery were thrown by some with the result that, sone of the firemen were hurt.
Mobs gathered round the trolley buses at New Bridge Road and the service was discontinued frora-nine o'clock onwards.
Commune is naturally being sup ported by the armed civilians, the counterpart of the armed pickets of Canton and Hankow, -
battle dies away and the din sub- sides, we recognise from the Far Eastern surroundings, that this is going to be at dramatisation of th short story that appearal in., Mr. Maugham's recent collection, "The Casnavina Tree." The curtain goes down immediately, and rises im- "The Provisional Government is to mediately, and Miss Cooper is organize. Citizens' Convention giving an explanation to her hus which will nominate 22 persons to hand and some officials of exactly | be submitted to the Hankow Gov. how and why the shooting happen- ernment, which in turn will selected. The man she has killed is, n who are to constitute the Council distant acquaintance, a neighbour- Squads of police were held in for the Government of Shanghai. ing planter, whom she scarcely! readiness in some of the side streets The purpose of the intricate process knew. He caine in, found her for the establishment of a muni-alone, got a little drunk on her nearby, and when afairs began to ripal authority is to embarrass the take a more serious turn European military and to keep the control of husband's whisky, and offered her police officers, including the C.P..tivities here in the handed him. The company agree that he She thereupon despatch
and a number of A.S.P's, came on there are many important Chinese i deserved all six cartridges, to be scene, backed up by the
Mr. Maugham and Miss Cooper in Chapei and Nantao, the list of between them have done a remark- presence of a fire engine from the names does not include any of those table thing in this act. Almost the usually known to foreigners except whole net is occupied with a narra Mr. Francis Zia, editor of the
China Courier and Miss Sourai ti of something that has happen- was placed in Cheng, a French trained lawyer, Narrations, on the whole, are link- ed before the curtain went up. The fire engine
has been made Chief Judge of the ed down on these days as being position in the opposite the
Shanghai District Court. Southern Hotel, and hoses, were connected up in readiness to quell Any further outbreak. "
"Central Station and a number of
firentes.
Hose Jets at Work..
In spite of these preparations the crowd still threatened danger, and suddenly they surrounded the trol ley bases again and had to be aten off by the palice. Sc far from.hecoming quieter the crowd still persisted in its attempt to de damage and became so threatening that the fire engine had to be em ployed.
The shower of water directed Trom the boses with considerable Foree compelled many to seek safety in fight. The result was that a good deal of confusion took place and the temper of the crowd ran high Eventually a counter attack was launched by the crowd, which collected any sort of missible that hands could be laid on, and threw them at the firetaen. They seized crockery from the stalls near at hand, and soon there was a scene of confusion and excitement. The yuad was strewn with broken pot- ters and other articles.
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Police Charge,
The police charged, using their batons, with those who were fractory, and succeeded in some
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KING AND QUEEN' AT VICTORIA PALACE.
Last night,
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the C. P. In spite of the fact that
All day yesterday, March 25th disturbances took place in Chapel, where General Pet Chung Hsi has only, stationed 3.000 troops. The atred givilians are still looting. The entire police organization has broken down, the old police in most instances having disappeared and the merchant volunteers being in adéquate to handle the armed labourers and rowdies,whe infest the streets, in spite of the volun- eers inest determined efforts.
violence.
andramatic and to be avoided if possible. Mr. Maugham and Miss Cooper quietly demonstrated that this is nonsense by making the re citation as dramatic as any actual representation "of events could have beef.
In the next net Miss Cooper is
awaiting rin in a Singapore prison. Popular opinion holds that the trial will be a mere formality, that she is so clearly inaocrat that the jury will not even leave the box.
The Institution of the Holy
But in the menntine Mis Family, it is reported, has been tooted, no one being left to protees Cooper's defending counsel has it..
made a discovery on his own: therg “At West Gate. considerable is an intimate letter in existencë trouble is developing between C. P. Miss Cooper's handwriting to students and the Kiangsu Educn- the murdered rann, written on the tional Association over the posses day he died, hidding him with all sion of the Association's property, urgency come to see her that night. Aeroplanes Hew over Shanghai If the letter is brought into Court
the afternoon, and it was widely rumoured in Chinese circles that Comrade Boredin had come down from Hankow by aeroplane and had reached Lunghun, but this rumour must be discounted in view of the extremely unfriendly relations be
woen fieneral Pei Chung Hsi and Comrade Borodin.North China Daily News."
in the
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1,000,000 LEPERS IN CHINA.
NEW EFFORT BY CHINESE SOCIETY,
S20,000 NEEDED.
the jury will not have as simple a task ahead of it as is supposed.
Up to this point the play has hen everything that a crook-plag should be. It has not sacrifend character or probability, and yet it has moved with steady speed
From on dramatic climax to an- other. There has not been a super. Creus "word, nor a moment of len- eion unhell
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Of 2,000,000 lepers in the world, China is credited with having one half or one leper out of every 400 Some idea of the persistency of people in this country," said then actress. It might have come off. Rev. T. C. Wu, general secretary the mob can be gathered from, the of the Chinese Mission to Lepers fact that one fireman was severely in a speech at the St. John's Club, ent on one of his legs, a missile Shanghai. going right through the heavy
leather boot.
Alter this comparative" "quiet
In the third act the play falls off a little. When it comes to the point to Miss Cooper explaining what actually did happen-her first recitation has been an elaborately conceived lie-Mr. Maugham does not risk trusting to the narrative' method again. This is a pity. A second version of the story, from a quite new angle, would have been a wonderful test bath for himself as dramatist and for Miss Cooper as
Cooper, who was in great form, Last night I would rather that Miss should have told the thing as a narrative. Nevertheless, "The Prior to the organization of the Letter" remains one of the best Chinese Mission to Lepers there crook plays there has been in Lon-
don. was very little or nothing being
Mr. Leslie Faber is as good as be done by the Chinese in the matter
defending counsel. Mr. Nigel of the lepers in this country," said Bruce was only fairly good as the Mr. W.,,What bad been done husband. Mr. George Carr did an heretofore was done in a very small astonishing piece of acting in the seale under the auspices of different important part of the Chinese missionary bodies.
clerk. Most of the house took him for a genuine Chinee-all of them, that is, who had not seen him a few weeks ago in an equally fine impersonation of a British navyy. seemed to have got surprisingly Miss Cooper's frocks, by the by, quickly to a distant Malaya planta- tion from the rue Royale.
MAKING THEMSELVES ELIG Palace, the King and Queen were reigned. Sikh policemen patrolled of eradication of leprosy and relief always is in the long part of the
IBLE FOR POOR RELIEF."
When the Edmonton Board of Guardians were discussing the rise of 31. in the pound in the Poor Rate. it was stated that the increas ing cost of out relief was the chief
reason..
ebviously enjoying themselves to
A Dicult situation. We understand, continues our contemporary, that no arrests have been made and that quiet has been restored. Beyond the injuries mea
operating for some years
the full, says a copy to hard of in the neighbourhood and prevented English newspaper. Although the crowds collecting. rest of the nudience kept their eyes on their Majesties rather than on the ange, there was a pleasant inck of formality about the proceedings, and even a suggestion that advan Lage had
Leen taken of the cars. Rothwell, an Enfield Guard- proximity of Buckingham Palace inn, said she knew of twenty or in the Vittoria Palace and that the thirty single young men who, Eeing loyal party bid merely dropped tioned above no one was hurt and cial aid to maintain the work of unemployed and unable to get rein for an hour or two at a music the authorities are to be congratu- lief, had married and thus became hall." efigible for relief..
This could hardly have happened lated upon having dealt so efficient Mrs. Barrass, of Edmonton, said in the days when the latter build-ly with what was a very difficult
ing was the Standard, Pimlico situation. (with an entrance through a public house), and a monarch reigned who did not hesitate to say, not amused."
she had advised single young men who were unemployed to get mar ried and se otuain relief. They had either to do this or starve.
Mr. Knight, a Hornsey meraber, stated that if Guardians gave such advice to single people he would thank God that Guardians were to be abolished.
Mrs.
Exhausted the Dole."
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ral
"We are
VIENNA'S LEMONADE
Sikh policemen endeavoured to arrest a Chinese in Pepples' Park but his friends attacked the con- stables with crockery, battles and the like with the result that the Chinese managed to evade capture, Heavy oss must habe veen Aus
Canton's Example. With the exception of the Canton with Government, which has been co Christian missions in giving ban Sheklung and Tungkun Lepers Hospitals, and of the Fukien Pro- virsial Government, which has been maintaining two leper villages In Foochow, the Chinese nation, a whole, had practically done nothing
to rid herself of leprosy. Hence this most dreadful disease has been allowed to increase and spread it- welf throughout the country until, today, China is estimated by von Vloton to have as many as 1,000,000 lepers!
DEATH WHILE DANCING.
GIRL'S COLLAPSE IN
PARTNER'S ARMS.
"I've never enjoyed a dance so much as this," said Miss Ruby Irene Lambert, a Grimsby girl of 16, to her partner as the music coased at ndance they were attending.
CARNIVAL.
A Medical and Christian Mission. Though there were more ball and
She joined in the clapping to de- A group of carnest Christian and an encore, and when the music other festivities" this year during | tined by Chinese stall holders in the Weymart, of Tottenham,
Vienna's Carnival, called
Fas vicinity, and this appears to be the men and women and socially-mind- asked what singlé unemployed men,
Chinese people in Shanghai, was resumed the again began to were to do in such circumstances ching," than ever before, the gene only damage done.
dance, but collapsed in her part- feeling their moral obligation toner's arms and died. impecuniasity completely alter. She knew of one young single man i
The mob, therefore, succeeded wards" their most unfortunate bre who had exhausted his dole, and. ed the character of most of them.
At the inquest Dr. Barroman anid had no one to
Caterera complained that few of only in hurting those of their own thren, the lepera, got together and that her death was due to valvular keep him. Officials
organized the Chinese Mission to disease of the heart. The girl of the Labour Exchange had called the guests would drink nothing.
Lepers, just dae year ago, with the should not have undertaken any Thim
beenusebe Eut lemonade or raspberry soda, as race. nuisance ** Д
It appears that eleven trolley object of Christianising the lepers, exertion and ought not to have been was always there, and the first one, the prices changed for wine, to 'cover the municipal taxes on turn. every morning after a job."
badly stoned and relieving their physical sufferings, dancing.
and eradicating leprosy in China "It is solemn and pitiful She had been with him to several over, were prohibitive, and even at arms, but he could not get work. the largest balls many people damaged to the extent of about She suppored it was because he brought their own
sandwiches, 3750.
The Mission is now conduoting corded a verdict of Death from poked too respectable. He always But it was also noticeable that more The services are being maintained a membership and financial cam-Natural Causes, "that a bright girl, ore a clean collar and tic, and prople danced, and the gaiety; to-day as usual, although the boy-paign to raise $20,000 in order to bordering on womanhood, should be
ployers did not think he would though perhaps Icas uproarious,
mect "most urgent needs.-Worth atruck down on a festive occasion suitable for their work." was more general than formerly.
China Daily News.
while enjoying life to the full."
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