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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13th, 1927.
OUSTING THE COMMUNISTS.
SUPPORT FOR CHIANG KAI. SHEK.
'
STRONG ACTION IN FUKIEN.
RED LEADERS ARRESTED IN AMOY.
ALL QUIET IN CANTON.
Chiness reports yesterday all tended to show that a fairly widespread effort is being made to oust the Communists from their positions of authority,
Recent arrivals from Shanghai at Canton have brought the information that the elder Kuomintang leaders, popularly known as the Right Wing or Conservative section of the Party, will co-operate with Chiang Kai Shek in getting rid of the Bolsheviks.
AMOY AND FOOCHOW.
Telegrams from Shanghai announce that the Kuomintang officials in the Fukien Province have issued an order to arrest all Communist agitatora. It is said that Fooghow has been cleared of Commutat infuence and that the two Red leaders Tai Yin and Li Ki Hung have fed
Many Red leaders at the Headquarters of the General Labour Union at Amoy were arrested by the Palice on the 9th inst. The Union demanded their release and threatened a general strike but the Authorities turned a deal ear and even placed the Union under the control of the City Kuomintang,
It is reported, but the report has not been confirmed, that Mr. Chen Tu Shu, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, has been captured in the French Concession in Shanghai by seme members of a Chinese secret society.
CANTON,
Everything is quiet in Canton. Most foreigners kept to Shameen yesterday and the Police and Military were on the alert, but there was no demonstration. It is now stated that two demonstrations will be held simultaneously on Saturday one "will be to celebrate the victory at Shanghai and the other to mourn the loss of Chinese lives at Nanking. The Canton committee of the Hong Kong Chinese General Labour Federation met again on Monday and the usual threats of a general strike were made if the Hong Kong Government persists in its refusal to allow the It will be re-opening of the Federation's Hong Kong office. recalled that the Federation in Hong Kong was dissolved by the Authorities about a fortnight ago.
NO GRAVE TROUBLE ANTICIPATED.
MODERATES STILL IN THE
· ASCENDANT.
RUSSIAN WOMEN THINKING OF LEAVING,
IDEAL RED PROPOSALS.
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(8) All people shall have the free dom of tasting salt without interference from the mono- polist (8) No further protection shall be
extended to those dealing in opium or engaged in gambling under the pretext of party" monopoly.
of
CORRESPONDENCE.
NO FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
ENGINEER'S CLAIM FOR DAMAGES FAILS.
PEAK RESIDENTS' SUMMARY COURT JUDGMENT,
ASSOCIATION.
DAILY PRESS."]
At the Summary Court yesterday [TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG morning the acting Puisne Judge (Mr. P. Jacks) delivered judgment in a case which he recently heard concerning the claim of a Chinese engineer, pamed Cheung Cho Yan, of Waterloo Road, Yaumati, and also a partner in A firm, for $1,000, damages from a fellow partner in A Chinese rope factory, on the ground that he had been arrested at his fellow partner's instigation, wrongfully and maliciously accused of larceny, taken into custody, charged at the Kowloon Magistracy and wrongfully detained for three hours.
Sia-May I through the courtesy your columns request all Peak residents who wish to renew their subscription for the current year or become Members of the Association to forward to me their names and Peak address with $1 for an indivi- dual subscription or $9 for a mar- ried couple as the casa may be, for which receipts will immediately be issued
It will save a lot of clerical work in sending out circulars if the re- quest I have made meets with the ready response from Peak residente which I feel I may confidently rely an.-Yours faithfully,
E. B. C. HORNELL, Hon. Secretary, Peak Residente' Association. Hong Kong, April 19th, 1997.
The plaintiff claimed to be a part mer in the. Yu Hing Company and the Hop Kro Company, whilst the defendant, Man Wang Sang, also of Taumati, is managing partner of the two above named companies.
At the Kowloon Magistracy, the plaintiff was charged with the larceny of certain rubber rings and rollers which were found in his HEALTH OF THE COLONY, rom when the police made a search. "The plaintiff stated at the Summary Court when the case was heard that the articles were in his room for the purpose of being sterilised by a secret process, which could not be carried out at the
FIGURES FOR THE WEEK.
EIGHT DEATHS FROM
SMALL-POX,
During the past week eight deaths have occurred in the Colony from small-pox. Five fresh cases have teen notified-three in Victoria and two in Kowloon.
Three cases of diphtheria were reported, one of which proved fatal. Out of five cases of typhoid
INTELLIGENCE "AND- ENVIRONMENT.
LAST NIGHT'S · INTERESTİNG DEBATE.
*That' Intelligence is the Result of Environment" was the theme of a debafe at St. Peter'a Young Men's Club last night, Professor HL G Earle,. of Hong Kong University, presiding..
The motion" was proposed by Mr. A E. Les and seconded by Mr. Gec. Zimmern (both of St. Peter's Y.M.C.). Messrs. E. A. A. Talk and G. E. Taeng (University) op- posed the motion.
Air. Les said that "intelligence"" as it was lo be understood in the
debate, was that superior mental power which enabled a child, what- ever its walk of life, to be outstand- ing to be something more than normal. By environment "was meant the surroundings in which s man moved or walked, and the in- fluences which came to him through those surroundings. Science show- ed that man had reached his pre sent stage through a long process of very evolution commencing at a
It should be lowly form of life. admitted that no form of life could transmit to its successor a greater degree of intelligence than it possessed itself. The infuence that had made men strike out was en vironment and in the depth of tro- pical jungles or at the bottom of the sea, life would be found to be a striving to conform to the conditions in which it found itself.
A mighty power WAS always working, its influence was always there. Consider two children of a backward race living in a native His Lordship in the course of de village-children of the same parent. livering his judgment said that on
Take one of those children in in- February 1st the defendant laid in fancy and bring it to a civilised formation against the plaintiff on a
state; give it the beneft of educa- And in charge of larceny, whereuponation and environment. warrant was issued by the Kowloon Magistrata for the arrest of the plaintiff. Defendant accompanied the police officer charged with the execution of the warrant to the
works.
(10) Compulsory education shall among the Chinese, two proved plaintiff's house and pointed out
tories. died from
fifteen years compare it with the remaining thild.
There was a desire to abolish slums in order that the "beautiful" might develop the child's intellig- ence. There were many great men the plaintiff to that officer. Plain who came of humble stock—one had be enforced and teachers serv fatal. A man from the New Territi, after being kept in custody at only to think of such men as Mr. ing the public shall be ade- quately paid,
paratyphoid. Yaumati Police Station for a few Lloyd George or Mr. Rambay. Mac- There was one death from cerebro-hours, was released on bail, and Donald-hoth men of humble origin spinal fever and one from influenza called on for hearing defendant was positions in the State because of week later when the case was who had attained" to the highest
Yesterday three Chinese cases of allowed to withdraw the charge, natural intellect. Parents realised all-pox were notified in Kowloon and the plaintif was thereupon dis: the value of environment and sent and Victoria..
charged,
their sons to Universities, not so mach that they might receive merely the benefits of the educa tional system, but that they might His Lordship proceeded to quote have the benefit of miversity en Halsbury, on actions for false imvironment, which stood for all that prisonment as under:-"The in-is manly, good, and noble in men's prisonment for which an action for live false imprisonment les must be the
Critics of these high-sounding pro- positions suggest jokingly that every person, irrespective of party affilia- tion, should be punished when (FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] proved guilty of a crime. It is thought then that Kwangtung would indeed be an ideal province, The much talked of pending con-
Since the ascendancy of the fict between the extremists and moderates in Canton, the Courts moderates has not developed up to
It is not appear to be more willing to re- the time of writing. generally believed that any serious ceive petitions from the poorer
peopic. The other day a little girl, Chinese, who described himsel! trouble will occur for the Reds a daughter of a railway employee, as a former mandarin, was arrested realise that both popular feeling was able to petition the Authorities on board the as. Sinking when the
for the release of her mother sad vessel returned from Canton on direct act or the result of the oration. Täs Prime Minister of Great
their departure.
Are
now
- SEDITIOUS MATTERS,
4
four brothers and sisters who had Monday. Seditions literature was
Possession of Arms,
of
The plaintiff now claimed $1,000 damages by reason of his detention at Yaumati Police Station.
No who
of the person sued, or of someone fur whose act he is liable. action lies against a person takes proceedings before, magis trate or judge in respect of an im- prisonment which is caused by the orders of the magistrate or judge:
He should like to put a ques
Britain, Mr. Baldwin, was respected for his integrity. He had carried
and official authority against them. As a matter of pre- caution, bowever, most of the
been arrested because the bead of
found in his possession.
the affairs of State for several years. American and British women and the family had been accused of
He had a son who had been coving children have left Canton and other)
embezzlement. The press censors The arrested man is a native
round the world in general" and in Canton were liberal enough to Szechuan and about 40 years of age
Great Britain in particular, study- nationals are beginning to follow their example. It is said that even allow the publication of the petition He will be charged to-day.
ing social conditions. Mr. Baldwin's the score or so of Russian women which presumably is to be granted.
son was absolutely opposed to his entertainers who frequent the po-
The 4,000 or more idle workers in pular hotels are thinking of taking Canton who have been occupying A junk man was arrested in the the remedy of the person imprison father a regard social legislation and international legislation. Was private residences without paying Taumati harbour early yesterdayed in mach a case is an action for Canton polities are very curious. any rent since June, 1925, do not in- morning, for being in unlawful malicious prosecution against the that display of intelligence by Mr. Now the Reds, in order to cause tend to vacate their present hold-possession_of arms He will be Person who instituted the proceedBaldwin's son due to the environ- embarrassment to their political inge, despite the protest from the brought before opponents, are submitting to the property owners. Many of these un to-day. Party-Executive Committee ten pro-employed left Hong Kong more posals which they know quite well than a year ago during the anti- are not practicable. The proposals British boycott. They refuse to dre in many ways excellent and vacate their present lodging places presumably the idea the Beds have on the ground that they have not in bringing them forward is to been compensated as promised by secure favour with the public. The the Kuomintang. proposals are:-
(1) A provincial assembly com
ing representatives of the people shall be constituted within two months.
SEAMAN ARRESTED.
The Canton Gazette refers to the arrest in Hong Kong of one of the Chinese crew of the Fatihan.
the Magistrate
ings."
..:
ment in which he had spent ⠀ the In the case before me, con- last few year! tinued his Lordship, it is true that Our parents, concluded Mr. Les the action of the defendant in could bequeath us wealth and pro- EVACUATION CONTINUES. laying the information led to the perty, but they could not bequeath
Among the passengers arriving plaintiff's arrest, but it was not intelligence. here on Sunday by the a& Faulet the direct cause. The direct cause were fifteen American missionaries was a warrant issued by the magis-
:
Mr. Tolt said that there were men
who felt themselves not inferior be- trate.
cance of humble position, whose who had come from the country inland from Swatow. They were
After dealing with authorites on feelings of egoism vers injured pirated on the way to Swatow on previous cases, his Lordship went by the knowledge of the inferior the river, and had been robbed of on to deal with the defendant's position they occupied. They claim- most of their possessions.
participation in the arrest and the ed that they were as good as My The river steamers continue to question of malice, and said that the one else, and that they should be (3) At least 8500,000 of the According to this paper the arrest bring down missionaries of various evidence in the case before him did given the same chance and educa lang ago a well-known German the Province should be reser in the seaman's room copies of the all foreigners are being evacuated malice on the part of the defend scientist, who had done a lot of 87,000,000 monthly revenue of was made because the police found denominations daily. Practically not satisfy him that there was any tion; in fact, equal rights. Not ved for the promotion of local Chinese Seamen", a semi-monthly from Canton and districta. The ant, although there did not appear pioneer work on the problem of
evolution, to be much justification for the the evolution of characteristics. He
theory propounded
(2) All illegal and obnoxious taxes
be repealed.
to
industries.
be abolished.
(4) All likin, or transit taxes, to publication of the Chinese Seamen's remaining missionaries, from Kong action ho took. The part he took weld that every organism was so
(3) All citizens of the districts
and crticipate in local Gorg ment through the exercise of universal suffrage.»
to Govern-
(6) The present tax system to be revised so that there shall be justice in its enforcement. (7) All people shall have freedom of assembly, speech, and pub- licntion, which rights must not be denied without due pro
cess of law.
Union. A charge of sedition, it is moon were due in Hong Kong re- said, is being brought against be tarday (Tuesday). The only for in the arrest was small, and the seaman and it is reported that the eigners now remaining at Bong- plaintiff would have been, arrested Chinese Seamen's Union have issued moon are the Customs officers. The on the warrant, sooner or later with declaration with regard to this stalls of the A.P.C. and the Stan- out any assistance from the defend.
dard Oil Company have already
case.
The seaman was brought before left. Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday and was formally remanded for a week
(Contínued on next Column),
ant,
His Lordship therefore held that The night steamer from Canton there was no false imprisonment usually brings between 600 and 800 for which defendant was liable, and passengers. On Monday night this gave judgment for the defendant member included 24 Europeans. with costa.
affected that it acquired certain characteristics which were develop ed in successive generations until they gave the world a new species.
Mr. Geo Zimmern, replying for the opposition, observed that a Lin coln farmer had given Isaac New ton to the world; a Scottish passant fell in love," and the result was Robert Burns. (Applause)
The subject was then declared open for debate. The motion was lost by 23 votes to 1.
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