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15th INFANTRY
BRIGADE ARRIVE.
4,000 TROOPS NOW IN COLONY.
DISEMBARKATION
CONTINUING
Sir Victor Mackenzie, the officer commanding the Second Battalion, Scots Guards, was best man
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 17 th, 1927.
WHITE
NEGROES. ANTI-CHRISTIAN WAVE IN
GROSVENOR.'
Princess Mary's wedding. He is THE LOST WOMEN OF THE chiefly known in the sporting world for being owner of Glen Muick, in Aberdeenshire, the finest shoot in Scotland,
A. BUSY SCENE.
AN OLD SEA TRAGEDY.
RECALLED.
One of the most poignant trage.
CHINA.
ENDS LABOURS OF YEARS.
"MORAL DISASTER PRO- FOUND."
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OUSTING BRITISH REDS.
ATTACK BY THE TRADE UNIONS.
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NO COMMUNIST OFFICIALS.
Preparations are understood to be in progress for a combined drive British trade unions against the Communist stronghold in industry.
If the plan goes on it will be the biggest effort yet made to stop the
control of the trades anion machine.
The plight of many hundreds The wharves yesterday afternoon dies in the history of the sen is still of missionaries, mission doctors, presented a busy scene as perspirheing perpetuated among the native nurses and teachers gathering here ing but cheery troops, with typical, villages of Pondoland, in South-as result of the Cantonese Fast Africa, according to a Danish invasion is pitiable, writes Mr. Once more the Colony has a large and smiles, jeft the ship with ethnologist, Herr C. Rodsted Peder. Frederick Moore to the New For extremiet clement from obtaining [
SCENES AT THE WHARVES,
contingent of Service men. Alremuly two Brigades of the Shanghai De- fence Force have passed through to the "North; now we have the 18th Infantry Brigade here complete, with the exception of a fow details yet to come on transports already on the way from Home.
British Army grouses, grumbles,
full equipment, and afterwards ene back as fatigue" parties to Assist in aninading the stores equip- Brigade's equipment. ment which Ko to make up ሲ
How hot it is," was to be heard on every band, and snatches of What if Winter Comes" seemed a very applicable song, but after the voyage put the troops had be- sonewhat inured to the sun. jazingly gransing, they were nat and abhough freely perspiring and worried by the beat. Later A number were given leave, to make brief tour of inspection, and get their twarings in their new fem
son, who has been making investi-Times from Shanghai. Their phy- sical hardships are only temporary, gations there.
but the moral disaster is profound. China, it appears bere, promises Soviet Rus. to become Sovietized. sia permits no proselytizing, and is traching the Chinese to elimi ato the religious creed of the capitalis the nations.
He has found numbers of sad eyed, curiously aloof, pale-skinned negroes in the hinterland of the point on the rocky canst where. 145 years ago, the homebound East Indianan, Grose was wrecked, All the several English gentle women on board were seized by the fierce blacks and borne captive into the interior, when the men had been killed. Not one ever returned to vivilization. Colonel Gordon, trek king up the coast some years after ward, was told, by some natives, of a white laity with a black baby, yer which she frequently wept, living with a chief up-country. He sent a message that he would have her rescued should she so desire, but no reply came back, and the
Three more transports have ar rived since Sunday and altogether we have somnie 4,000 troops in the Colny.
Billeting arrangements have been made, and with his au- customed aptitude for adapting|porary
imself to new surroundings we Needless to any the men, one and shall see Tummy" settled within all, despite an extrency pleasant voyage, during which everything the next day or two and carrying possible had been done du pass the as if he had been here for her happily away, and keep months, instead of days. Although legs, even though it meant
Hem fit, were glad to stretch their some they only arrived on Sunday, the work in doing it. 2nd Battalion, the Welch Regi
From the time they had a stirring seut adf at Southampton, on April ment have already taken up theth, the troops on all three ships
quarters in the Peninsula have passed the time with concerts, authorities were unable to trave Hotel, and have got ship-shape anul dances, not forgetting the Char-hor.
leston, Ollicers and men alike have i again after their lung sea voyage.
The ships to arrive yesterday in the fighter side of ship of the ladies, some of whom belung-
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with troops were the Nccurst” und the City of Murseilles. Of these Lus Aerussa, bringing. Queen's Royal Regiment and two Companies of the 1st Northampton's was the Best to enter the harbour. She came at about 7 a.m., with ber khaki clas passengers for most pari framing over the sides catching their first admiring glimpse of the Peak, and Kowloon hills. She went to an Admiralty dog f Wanchai as the Derbyshire, which brought the 2nd Battalion, the Welch Regiment, Suth Peid Co. R., and other detals was still alongside Holts Wharf dis charging stures aws-engaprent-
work that had been going on since Sunday after the disembarka
on e. the troops.
Later in the way the city of dar settles arrived with the oth' In fantry ingade Headquarters, the zi attanon, the Scots titures, and the 10th Field Ambulance, and in other TWO companies DI Norimuunptony.
THE PRESENT POSITION.
The disembarkation work on the Bechgshor inating been completed, this Vessed mused into the stream,
and the City of Marseilles went to Holt's Wharf, where the Brigade
Headquarters and other units dia
embarked. The Acuss also went alongside, but her troops are re maining on board until to-day,
when disembarkation will be com- menced.
The present position is as fol. lows:-
weul
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board activity.
.......
Many reservists have been walleti up to bring battalions to Call strength
itiugh most of the younger teen are pleased poough with the change of scene, the older and married
Tommies are stili slightly wish ing for the Homeland.
Test drinks, were things "Tommy" went after yesterday when his work
The Dateb dreinred that, several ed to well-known. English county } families, could have obtained their freedom some years later, when Butch-rule-had raised-white pres- tige among the blacks, but that honds of affection for their growing children, and drend of the bumilia tion of re-appearing in the world of whites, deterred them..
The features, of these "white" negrons are watch more refined and
was huished, or when a break peri regular than those of their com mitted, and the Service Y.M.C.A. 'srades. Some of them are so pale worked overtime, as undoubtedly brown that they might be mistaken they will do for the next few montlis" for Arabs or South Europeans. to come daily.
Their manners are noticeably more restrained than those of the blacks Caming whom they dwell,..but they realise that the taint has gone too far for them to hape over to be percived back, as racial equals, even into the humblest community of whites.
HERE AND TO COME.
The troops now here are;
2nd Batt. Scots Guards. 2nd Batt, Welch Raginient. 1st Queen's, Rogal Ürgiment. 1st Northamptons. 58th Field Co., R.E.
th. Fielu Ambulance.
The Tragedy Of The Grosvenor." The Grosvenor sailed from India
China has been the special hope of Christian churebes which, for the past half century, have con- centrated on a greater efforts bere tha anywhere else. Now they are fading in many cases that even the students they rineated are turning to Moscow leadership. The tragedy of the missionaries is complete.
The blow is to be delivered nt. the must powerful of all the Com
unist societies in Britain-the National Minority Movement. This organisation was established by the Kod International of Labour
Unions, which from its offices in
Moscow directs units in every in dustrial country with the object of bringing the existing trades union
stem under the direct manage. ment of Mogeaw.
It secures its grip by placing ac- tive revolutionary workers in every branch of the organisation. These representatives exploit the apathy
of the rank and file of the unions Despite evidences of trouble and not only to obtain local control many warnings, Nanking mission but also to have themselves or their aries kept their wives and children nominees appointed delegates to with them through the battle, in district councils and national con- the belief that the incoming Nation-ferences. alists would bring peace and order.
and now Adberenta.
Growing Menace.
Acting on the instructions of Moscow, agents of the Minority Movement up and down the country have for the past fortnight been carrying on a campaign of unprece dented intensity to secure what they
call &
united front in opposi tion to the Government's Trades Union Bill. The responsible trade union leaders recognise that this is only a pretence, and the real no- tive is to bring the Minority Move- ment into the forefront and to keep it there.
Told They Are Unwelcome,
The Minority Movement has been Their hope apparently being growing since the general strike. father to the belief that China was
elima at least 1,000 on the high rond to unity, many missionaries were willing to con done a measure of Bolshevism in the Nationalist movement and Capitulate to the demand for a termination of the unequal treaties, in the expectation that a better and finer China would be the outcome.
The Nanking events alone might not have disillusioned them, for few were killed and only two or three attacks were made on woman, and these were committed by the lowest order of the soldiers. But now everywhere the missionarivs are told they are not wanted. While many of their converts secretly lament it, they dare not speak to the missionaries on the streets, and many of their own students openly display contumely, Street parades continue in which students always participate, carry ing hangers and denouncing the countries from which the mission-pices of the T.U.C. aries come and shouting "Out with the foreigners, not only not dis-
in 1782, with a valuable cargo ofriminating in favour of the mis
often sionaries, but There are to come in about a fort
directing bulkon and Eastern wares. She night's Cause the 52nd and 4th Field carried a number of passengers in where the missionaries see posters hostility towards them. Every Batteries. Royal Artillery and 38th atator Trasport Company on the shading tiovernment officials, wives anqualifiedly anti-Christian. One City of Pond, and the tinners! and children. She made a good nietures the figure on the eroas Hospital on the Neurulas,
erussing of the Indian Ocean, but being seythed down by gigantic The detachments for the Middle an into a burricane off the Cape.hinck, cloudlike figure, evidently Regiment, the Green Howards, changed her coarse, and sought ment; another shows the road to Failing to make headway, she representing the Moscow move. etc., which arrived on the shelter under the lea of the East Heaven empty, beside a crowded shire, will be sent to Shanghai as
red to worldly benefits; another as transports are available, and join their respective battalions
shows foreign soldiers and civilians there.
destroying Chinese lives. FULL STRENGTH OF SHANG
SERVI
HAI DEFENCES.
Coast of Africa, Five-and-twenty miles north of St. John, she crashed on to the rocks. No lives were lost, but the passengers and crew,
All Foreigners Being Eliminated, about 135 persons in all, found themselves in a serious prediennent. The Rev. T. Z. Koo, whom the They were very short of food and National Christian Council recent- water, and in wild country infestedly proposed sending to England The 10th Field Ambulaner dis-
With the arrival of the 15th with blood-thirsty savages.
and Aerien to explain Nation- embarked and
Infantry Brigade the total of the
the directing mission King's to
A council of war was held and alison to og and of over Rege Shaddai Defence Force will be plans acced upon. The men were boards, stated that "if any group D batalions, che field artillery | divided into two groups. One went of people are even suspected of the wolumpions, the 2nd Quem s (West Burrey) and the Srots brigade, que medium battery, four south alding the coast, to summon standing in the way of the onward Guards remain on board and they pack batteries, one sapper om help from the first white settlement progress of this Nationalist move
The other pay, a postal unit, three signal it should encounter. will disembark this aftertioon,
iment they will have their influence The arrangements previously un-
section, one armoured Car com conveyed the women and children and even their existence endan noutterd have tren slightly modified any, mechanical transportinlaud, in search of a defensible gered." and the Northampton a will go to company, a supply depit unit, three spot, where food and water should Partially capitulating, it was the Shamshuipo.
general hospitals, three field un- be obtainable.
intention of most of the missions balances, one R.A.M.C. company, Great hardships were encounter- to permit the Chinese to assume positions in the one hygiene section, one sanitary ed by the party that went down nominating
Raw shellfish and foetid Church, school and hospital work, section, medical mechanical trans the coast. port, one advanced medical depot nat hacked from the carcases of but then began the total elimina unit, ordnance base depot, mobile stranded whales formed most of ton of foreigners, which had its workshop, pay and police detach their food, and foul water from start at Changsha and spread like ments-total, 20,000,
stagnant pools and warm, muddy a mad wave over the Yangtze Val- rivers their drink. Several times ley, the missions,, schools and hos- they were attacked by the blacks, pitala being spared no more than Some were killed, and many died the business houses. of wounds and disease.
The Scots Guards will go to the Peninsula Botel, where the 2nd Batt. Welch Regiment are already accommodated...........
The Queen's Royal Regt. will be split up between Wellington Bar- racks, Victoria Barracks and Lye mun Barracks.
can move in.
Cate
KING'S BIRTHDAY CELE BRATION.
It is officially notified that л
the
Too Late,
The general council of the Trades Union Congress has taken the only course within its power to check the Communist offensive by ruling that trade councils affiliated to or asso- ciated with the Minority Movement will be not areorded official recog- nition nor allowed to participate in any work carried on under the aus
The First Move,
It is the permention and gradual seizing of the trade unions them- that is the greatest danger, and it selves by the Communist agents
is within the unions that the trade
anion leaders intend to develop their attack.
The first step likely to be taken every trade thionist explaining the is the issuing of a message to menace to the existence of the unions as industrial organisations and to the future of their funds. It is not thought that the general council of the T.U.C. should take this action as a body, and it is probable that the warning will be prepared of the executives of the important and issued by well-known members
unions.
Virtually, it is meant that the masage should be the signal for a wholesale and energetic clearance of the Red International representa- tives from the official posts in the unions.
The Sign of
THE
ADVERTISING and PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Alexandra Buildings.
The Advertising Agency
The Cameronians, are, of course, already at the Rope Factory, and the small guard of this Battalion
What Ten Years May Bring. which were at the Peninsula Hotel
The numbers of refugees here in have now rejoined the runin force. parade of the troops of the British One hundred and seventeen days the Shanghai Settlement are in- Similarly the K.0.8.8. contingent Shanghai Defence Force, under after the start from the scene of creasing daily, almost hourly. who have been quartered at Weil-
of Major General the wreck, four haggard survivors, There is an occasional ray of command ington Barracka vacated yesterday John Duncan, the General Officer in tattered rags of clothing, came light and hope in the disaster. so that the Queen's Royal Regiment. Commanding, will be held in staggering into the Dutch fort on One missionary, who is regarded honour of the birthday of H. M. the site of the modern city of Port by both his fellow-missionarics and The Artillery units will go to the King George on Friday, June 3rd, Elizabeth, and revealed the fate of business men as among the wisest,...that supplies Advertisers Rope Factory when they come here, on the Recreation Ground at the forener-all the rest were expressed to me the belief that ten with a Complete Service of and the Royal Engineers are at Shanghai. The parade will condend.
years' absence of all the mission- Shamshuipo.
sist of the ceremony of Trooping At once the Commandant sent
aries from China might be more Original Copy, Ideas, and the Colours by the 2nd Battalion riders off on the first stage of the wholesome than at present appears. Designs for Posters and THE SENIOR OFFICERS.. the Coldstrenin Guards, followed posting route to Capetown, with a A decade will give the Chinese
Blocks IL march past of detachments of issage to the Governor, who time to realize what they have lost, Arriving with the 15th Infantry all units & Military Torchlight speedily dispatched an expedition and Americans, British and othera Brigade Headquarters was Col Tattoo will be held by the British are force of 400 armed Dutchmen, will have a cooler, saner outlook that checks all insertions B. Sergison Brooke, M., Shanghai Defence Force on the Re-Englishinen, and Hottentots, to the
upon China:
in Foreign and Chinese D.S.O.. Commandant of the creation Ground on the evenings of rescue of the party guarding the If foreign military action were Brigade, and to whom the final Friday, June 3rd and Saturday women and children. Three months taken the missionaries would bepapers for its Clients, disposition of the troops has been June 4th.
the little army ranged to and fro divided in welcoining it. While a. Jeft.
Col. B. N. Sorgison-Brooke com- manded the 2nd Guards Brigade in France, during the war. After the
war he commanded the 1st Batt. The Grenadier Guards, being ap pointed Colonel of the Regiment of Grenadier Guards in 1923,
It has already been announced in difficult country, but without majority of the Nanking mission- ...that has an unrivalled that there will be a military parade being able to foste them. It did aries realize that their lives were and Extensive knowledge of it. Happy Valley on the King's and, however, a party of persons ared only by the shrapnel from the Birthday in the morning, but de had become separated from the British cruiser Emerald and high he best media for all classes tails of the programme have not main group before disastór over explosives from the American de of Advertisers, yet been made public. It would took the latter. Three of these por-stroyers, one woman brought hero certainly be of much interest to all sons were English sailors, two wereby the Preston protested to the residents, both European and of Indian " ayahs " and seven were other nationalities, if A similar Lascars,
Chinese,
officers that they were killing the...that being independent, Lieut. Col. R. G. Clarke com-
can place all this know manda the 1st Batt, Queen's Royal programme to the above could be With those aurvivors, the force Many missionaries atill hope that ledge and experience at the Regiment, Lieut.-Col. S.
H. J. carried out. Everyone here hopes returned to Capetown, to refit. It Chinese hostility will soon be dis- free disposal of its Clients, Thunder, the 1st Batt of the that something of this charneter returned in August, and managed sipated and permit them to return Northamptonshires and Lieut.-Col will be done, if conditions permit, to locate the sunken ship. The to their missions, but the hope ensuring that the money T. G. Mathias, the 2nd Batt. Welch at that time. Incidentally the only trace of the lost party of seems vain. Many own property they spend on Advertising Regiment. Before embarkation the Scots Guards could carry out the survivors, however, was the die in the interior which they hate to
Trooping of the Colours in the covery that one of the ship's cooks fose. For years these places have will bring them the best manner in which it will be done by had been captured by native tribes been their homes, and many intend possible return. the Coldstream Guards in Shang mon, and had died in captivityed that they should bo for most of
Queen's Royals were at Dover, the
Northamptonshires at Blackdown
and the Welch Regiment at Tid
&
wworth.
hai.
from small-pox.—Observer.
their lives.
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