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REFORMING THE COUNTRYSIDE.
SPECIAL COURTS FOR "LOCAL BOSSES" AND "CORRUPT GENTRY."
AMATEUR DETECTIVES FOR CANTON.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,
KING'S BIRTHDAY AT SHANGHAI
TROOPING OF THE COLOURS BY THE COLDSTREAMS.
IMMENSE INTEREST OF POPULACE.
The Assembly" while the Guards Across the parade to marched "Flag and Empire," and officers fell in as the assembly began. The Guardsmen were called to atten- tion, ordered to fix bayonets and
DRUG-SMUGGLING.
OPIUM SOLD AT $90 A TIN IN CANADA.
VANCOUVER A DISTRIBUTING
POINT.
Opium valued at $10,000 (£2,000} was grized in the Cando Pacific liner Empress of Asia during her Such a inst visit to Vancouver.
JUNE 7th, 1927.
JAPANESE STEEL
PRODUCTION.
PROPOSAL TO ABOLISH DUTY ON IRON.
MR. ASANO'S VIEWS.
Mr. Asano Soichiro, President of the Asano Steel Works, who
strongly advocates placing the man- agement of the Japanese Govern meal Ironworks under private
The exceptional ceremonies with which, owing to the presence of the British Shanghai Defence Force, The Settlement was able to celebrate the anniversary of the birthday of H.M. King George V. commenced The Kuomintang Administration af 99 a.m., with the unique ceremony slope arms, at which junction the of the drug seized was larger than capital, is reported to have made
FROM OUR CRINESE CORRESPONDENT,]
in Nanking are evidently deter-of-the Trooping of the Colours at 2nd mined to take in hand the reforma- the Race Course, by the tion of such as the countryside as
is NOW
under their countrol. They are declaring themselves anxious to wipt out official corruption and to suppress abusés of power by the gentry.
one which It is a big job
tarkled think should be IRNY gradually by an attempt to sprendi education and enlightenment among the massrs. As that would ad mittedly take a long time Sanking has taken a more direct step to wards their objective and advised Chaton of the recent promulgation of a low to wip saut all oral "bosses" and corrupt aiembers of the gentry. The Kuomintang ex press their intention of setting up speel units to try all undesirable local leaders, enemies of the party; following the pudicy of the late Th. Sum Fat Sen, opponents
of the
Battalion f tho Coldstream Guards. Even amongst the British residents, it seemed that compara tively few ever had witnessed the It WAH B most ceremony before.
persive spectacle, and on every and one heard non British freely admitted that not only the Guards bat the Line regiments also every way were deserving of the credit which their fellow cuutitry 540122 are never tired of lavishing upon them.
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Following the parade, Sir Sidney Barton, 1.M. Coasûl General. held,
reception at the Consulate, at a which there was a record attend sare, Service, official and civilinn Titons and representatives of a i
bust of other untionalities attend- ing to pay their respects.
Decorations and illuminations. 1921 L far more lavish sende
were
Kuating in general, and any Thank in any previous year. Not
officer in command of the parade took charge.
After various formal movements **Scipio" the band then took up and the Regimental Sergeant Major took the colours and handed it to ensign,
the
The escort presented arios, four surgants on the flanks turn- ing outwards and porting arts.
After this the escort sloped arins, formed to the left and moved off to the line with magnificent pre- cision
while "The Grenadiers'
Three
size is not rare; but the amount
suggestions to Mr. Nakahashi, Minister of Commerce and Indus.
State foundry:
He desires the
usual, and the number of the seizure affords a glimpse of the great difficulties in the way of, for the reorganisation of the checking the sanggling of narcoties joint management of the business into Canada by Chinese,
by Government and industrialists as a preliminary step, but before that is done he recommends that every effort should be made by the State foundry to secure a plentiful supply of raw materials, so that private foundries may have a share in the materials thus obtained.
Emphasis should be laid on hasie products such as pig iron, steel,
The Federal Department of 'us torns maintains in Vancouver staff of preventive officers, whose duties are concerned solely with the detection of smuggled narcotics There is to means of estimating the amount of smuggled drugs which enters Vancouver, but it is on re- gord that sinee 1013 drugs valued
ventive oflicers.
March "echoed over the fickl The $254,000 have been sized is inzols and billets, a surplus of Colours were then trooped along the vessels in the harbour by these pre-which should be offered to private line while the Guardamen presented arms, and ordered arms. ehrers for His Majesty the King, followed this mid spectators were conscious of a very real emotion as they listened to the stirring ery three times from the big field.
The March Past. Afterwards, as a finish to the performace, the Linards formed into company column and marched
In addition there foundries to utilise in their produc have been seizures by harbour tion. It is important, says Mr. From Asano, that K list of products officials and by local police. these figures it may be conjectured should be drawn up for the State that, in spite of the best efforts of works, in which those available for the authorities, not much less than | private industries should not be ike $1,000,000 £20,000] worth of mar-
cluded. A selling agency should be cotics has found its way to this con-
formed jointly by Government and tinent through the part of Vauhosiness men to handle the 170.0033 couver in the last 10 years.
tons of stock lying idle in the store The recent ærízure in the Etpress ↑ rooms of the Government foundry, past in slow and quick time to the of doin was the result of clever and the proceeds thus secured work on the part of one of the should be utilised for purchasing preventive officers. Across the ceil or and selling goods manufactured ing of a lower deck, above one of by. Government and private foun the bailers, ran a wide girder. To dries. It is essential that the Gov absorb the heat, cotton packing was ernment foundry should leave to
duction in Japan. The duty on pig whole was encased in All iron stuffed round the girder and the private manufacturers serap pro irom, ste ingots and billets must be done away with. If this is covering about 12in. wide. The in-
found inadequate concludes Mr. Asano, to deal with the situation, then the tariff on steel should be increased.
regimental marches. When their ceremony was over, all detachments marched past the official group, composed of Sir Miles Lampson,
the British Minister, who took the
personɛ, who may condemn thest special courts or describe them asly were all the foreign men-of- an aged to extort Funds from the War in the harbour dressed," but rich and unpopular by branding a number of the larger bongs, be them as isral bosses" or exrruptides flying British flags, added Listing and devorative devices, gentry. Enemies of the Kaou lang are already describing theiving the Central District a very present work of suppressing the Ray aspect. After dark, all 1.M.
Beils "*
as a political perscration, ships, with the exception of II.M.S.sainte, Vice-Admirai Sir Reginaki Argus, were brilliantly illuminated Tyrwhitt, senior naval officer, and Courts to deal with loval "bo÷ses"
and, T addition, played their | Colonel Martelli, acting as senior and corrupt gentry are to be of searchlights over the harbour and army officer during General Dunvestigator noticed that aunt was three grades, central, provinmal,eity, whilst the Hong Kong & jean's absener, and diplomatie re and district, Persons, having, any Shanghai Bank, the Shanghai Club presentatives of various suntries. charge against a kral "boss" or
and several other of the larger
THE TORCHLIGHT TATTOO. corrupt member of the gentry are
houses also rande a display of elve-
Shanghai
Bas Sred that
expected to file a complaint with frie lights, the dome of the big species of entertainment which of¡ removed the man-hole covering and suggested disposal of idle stock,
the nearest Kuomintang headquat bank, as usual or such occasions, ters, which will art as prosecutor
persending JL strikingly beautiful Lamal before the special court.
appearance. ollicials will have the job of arrest
Guards Trooping Of The Colours. ing the aecused on the instructions
An hour before the time set for of a Kuomintang organization, but no accused person may he held the trooping of the Colours, the longer than three days witheat public and members' stands at the being brought before the proper Rare Course gave signs of filling of toral. On the tick of the hour they court. The definition
were crammed to overflowing, with +6043
every railing also supporting husa dreds of onlookers who showed what was even for Shanghai unprecedent
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ur corrupt gentry follow Any person using the influence of his clas, family, or him self to control village affairs to the detriment of the community, included enthusiasin. ing harm to life and property of fellow clansmen or villages."
The chief thing which stood out ile about the performance as a whole is to be punished to the extent of was the remarkable smoothness with death or life imprisonment. Other which it went as far as the penalties are fines, confiscation of handling of the large gathering was As far as the military property and imprisonment of vari-couverned
iate years has come into such re- markable favour FLÍ Home the Military Torchlight Tattoo--and the thousands who were present in the Race Club's enclosures and stands last night should be well satisfied with what they saw.
Clever Scenic Work.
programme, brought
be
missing from a man-hole which gave acceHR to the stuffing, its absener being "camouflaged by
The Commerce Department is re- blackened groter. His suspicions were aroused, and while a dozen ported to be in favour of Mr. But the bland-faced Chinamen tooked on he Asano's plan in the maits. found, in place of the cotton pack which, whet effected, will improve ing which had been removed a race the condition for manufacturers, of 9 lbs. of cocaine and morphine will take time before it can and 38 five-tael (b) tins of anok-worked out. The proposed removal of the duty also would he strongly pig-iron producers. ing opium.
opposed by The question has often been raised by members of the Iron Steel Coun ril, but it remains unsolved owing to opposition from the section which represents the pig-iron interests.— The Japan Chronicle.
For instance,
to
AS
A
cable, was a long narrow tube, which was found to contain 300 five tael tins of opium, worth $25,000 [£5,000].
The chief obstacle in the way of checking this traffic is the great profit to be made. cocaine, which comes chiefly from Germany, can be purchased whole It scarcely is possible to estimate sale, through legitimate channels, It is how many people were present: for $12.74 2 18. an ounce.
sold here by underground methods possibly 10,000, or even more. at from 350 12001 to $100 [520] per
Fangtually at 0.30, a gun baomedoner. Morphine (made from crude It is an everyday sight to see a over the ground, lighte broke out opium), also imported chiefly from number of Chinese fishing in the from all quarters and the buglers Germany, can be purchased, legiti harbour from the lower decks of
mately, wholesale for $7.75 an liners. On one occasion a preven of the 2nd Durham Light Infantry ounce. Dope snugglers sell it at
tive officer became interested in a fishing line protruding from a port sounding as though on one giant the rate of 85 to 800 ui ounce,
hole. With the help of a boat and bugle, blew the First Post," fol. The dope pediar, who sells
boathook he managed to grab the addicts tiny packets known
obtains three or four line without disturbing the sher. lowed by the stirring hugle march,
times more than the bulk price.
man within. In a moment, how- Egypt."
Smoking opium, in which Chinese ever, the line was hurted out of the The officer hauled in snugglers are chiefly interested, is porthole. Tschaikowsky's "Overture 1812," | bought in China at about 335 a many yards of line, the end of Tattoo five-tael tin. It is sold here at which, attached to a fine steel ous terms and degrees. Any local part of the spectacle was concerned, seldom absent from any
FL pleasant present for $90 a tin. "boss" or corrupt gentry found it is doubtful whether those taking
Rings And Oorporations. guilty of note of a counter-revolu part could realize the thrilled at surprise. When the massed barde
There is evidence that three or tionary" nature will be punished as tention which was given. Columnus of all the battalions taking part in
Recently detectives traced a ship- a traitor to the Kuomintang, the of soldiers moving with flawless pre- the tattoo, under Bandmaster J. E. four powerful Chinese corporations, backed by almost unlimited wealth,
ment of opium from a ship to a cision is an unknown spectacle in S. Vince, were playing the earlier
are regularly financing contraband
house in the Chinese quarter. penalty for which is death.
Shanghai and the audience evidene-passages, the Cathedral and other shipments through the port of Van Minute examination of the wood In Vancouver itself there shed brought to light two large Reports From the Northern Dised this through futters of applause buildings were illuminated as they
are several subsidiary rings which slabs of wood, apparently thrown tricts of Kwanglung state that the
conduct a wholesale narcotic buscarelessly on a pile. They had been troops recently sent from Canton for its fauty, was caught beyond its would be, then, as
ness on a small scale, besides their hollowed out and were stuffed with Kungsi have arrived at Kumehow power of repression. That the day broke and the guns boomed, a dull
was overcast did not apparently red glow suggested the beginning of pedlar business.
In the Chinese drug-smuggling the drug, the top of the slab being
replaced. cleverly make any difference to the public's the conflagration as the Russians
fraternity, preventive officers have Aeroplanca now escort into port enthusiasm and it had, no doubt, a
set fire to their adored city. Then, to deal with men whose equals in This appears to show that somewhat better effect on the per- with the hymn of thanks-giving, the craft and guile are hardly to be most of the largo liners from thei
in the habit of throwing overboard tivity, It has been found that the Nunking faction whole hearted, formers, in that a cool day is Hames died down and pale yellow 1 found in any other aphere of ae. Orient, because: dope-runners were buoys, to be picked up by follow- ing launches." Aeroplanes have ruine of a building after a fire. has among its Chinese crew one man who is known as "the opium lights gave the effect of the gaunt almost every liner from the Orient packets of drugs, attached to small
Indian Dancing. · ·
This person, though prob-practically put an end
method of smuggling. Nearing the end came another ably occupying some menial capa-
In Face Of Penalties. The drug traffic continues in the Popular turn-the Kuttack Sword city on the ship, in a highly intel Dance by men of the 3rd Batt. 14th ligent, and often wealthy, Chinese,
who makes huge profits as general face of heavy penalties and fre- and druine caught the fancy of Punjab. Regiment (arranged by transportation agent for the ring quent convictions, Vancouver being onlookers, not only in motivating Capt. C. F. S. Landridge). Build. which he serves. Under him work used to some extent as a distribut
the "
carriers," who anuggle the ing point, not only for all Western In order to give the "Reds" in the drill and parade, but in their ing a huge bonfire in front of the
drugs ashore. They receive from 4 Canada, but for the United States. Canton no chance to re-organise individual performance when the Grand Stand, the men
to 35 for each tin of opium deliver-There are, of course, white men of low caste who engage in the traffic,
"anti-
to co-operate with other Red" forces of the Nanking fac
Lion.
the Canton regime is supporting
ly and that there do not appear to
always less trying on those whose be any grounds for the fear that mental and budily discipline make a performance as yesterday's
the troops now in Kwangtung and Kwangsi may be organizing into a separatist
movement, Cantonese seeking independence from both Nanking and Hankow.
such
The Massed Bands.
possible.
The work of the massed bands
the battle
whirled
couver.
man."
or make themselves a nuisance in drums and fifes marched across the about it, flashing their swords and ed safely at its destination. aby way the Political Departament field; passed through the massed
to
this
It is a regulation that every Chi but the bulk of the trade is in the
of the General Headquarters is band standing at attention at the uttering weird cries whilst keeps nese leaving a ship in harbour must hands of Chinese. The Canadian-|
the
with
left of the ground, reversed and time to the beat of tom-toms and be searched by officers of the Cus born Chinese population is increas toms Department, but many clevering rapidly, and, with not enough organizing a corps of volunteer passed through again, this time the wail of pipes.
em- work for thera to do, there is evi- detectives to hunt down all sus-joining up with the waiting band
To wind up, the massed bands tricks to evade detection and drums returned again to the ployed by the Chinese. A favourite dence that many young Chinese tako pected opponents, of the present for a fine march together across the
freid.
of sweaters, some with hidden lucrative means of livelihood. regime. Mr. Chen Hai Tseng, Chief
Punjabi troops added an especial en flanked and backed by all trick is the wearing of several layers to dops-peddling as an easy and
who had taken part in the Tattoo,
Apart from opium, in which there of the Politicsi Department, will
ly picturesque bit to per the bands playing
"Land of Hope pockets. For wearing next the skin
Germany, have charge of these amateur do
formance, as did some of their and Glory," in which many of the they have designed a sleeveless vent is the largest traffic, cocaine and teotiver. Some peaceful and chari. countrymen, wearing the Sikh uni audience joined, then the evening containing 20 or more pockets, each morphine from
A Chinaman was caught vicious drug of all, are the greatest tibly minded persons in Cauton, in form of the Shanghai Municipal hyun, Abide With Me," after of which will take a five-tael tin of small quantities of heroin, the most
Police.
which the Durhamns' buglers blew opium.
Shipments from Great the hope of saving talkative people
The programme began with the the Last Pont" and Lights recently, acting as a tally clerk, menace.
Chat."
"God Bless the Prince of wearing a coat of this description Britain and the United States have from getting into trouble with the formation in line of the four
carried altogether countries took steps to restrict ex- military or police, have distributed guards, of the Coldstream Guards, Wales" and anally, the National and also underdrawers full of been greatly reduced since these
each of 32 Ales, conducting the Anthean brought a long but most pockets; he anali circulars in tea houses warn-Regimental Colours in charge of entertaining and splendidly or nearly 20 thn. of opium on his per- port. Exports from Germany, how- ever, seem to be on the increase.- ing everyone of the danger of dis sergeant and two sentries, at the ganized programme to an end.-son, worth over $5,000 £1,000).
(Continued on next Volumn.)
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