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HANKOW POLITICIANS EXPLOITING
THE WOUNDED:
MONEY PLENTIFUL-BUT OFFICIALS SPEND IT ON EXPENSES" AND PROPAGANDA.
MEDICAL SERVICES THE URGENT NEED.
WO
The Hankow politicans are asking for fanids on behalf of their wounded. According to a correspondent to the Shanghai Times they have plenty of money-for propaganda and their purposes. The need is to reconstruct the foreign medical services that the moly at the instigation of these same politicinus 'drove opt of the city.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15th, 1927.
CONTINUED ADVANCE OF REPTILE FARMING. BRITAIN'S LONELIEST ISLE. WHAT I THINK OF YOUNG young man nowadays does sone-
NATIONALISTS,
SOUTHERN FORCES ACROSS KIANGSU-SHANTUNG BORDER.
NORTHERNERS RETREATING,"
of one
scored a tremendous victory over the
· Kingdom ritjes, the Nationalists
Shantung aring, which is said to have lasted a day and a half but during much of this time, the Shantung army was engaged in to the Nationalists than in fighting them.
rather going over.
It is a strange and difficult prob lem which is presented to thought. Army Staff would have had plans ful friends of China when they read laid for transporting wounded by the terrible story that comes from steamer and rail in Kiukiang and Hankow and consider the appeal¦ Changsha instead of closing down based on that story which has been the splendid missionary institutions cabled to the United Staica and there. It will be extremely un- Great Britainy a group of mis pleasant for the Red Cross workers sionaries. For whilst no man with if they have to spend time in arguThere are many Shantung troops a real heart can readily turn asideng with Nurses Unions as to the from considering the terrible facts, conditions under which the wound yet no man with a clear brain caufed may be treated. Avoid analysing the grounds on! which, the appeal is huned.
There seems
no possibility of exaggerating the facts. At the
Appeals For Money.
But when instead of lasuing aa appeal for doctors and nurses and
who belonged to the Anfit Party and the Chilli Party and who have been taken into General Chang Tung Chang's armies to swell: his ranks. These troops hale Chang Tsung Chang even
worse than the
WHY NOT BREED CROCODILLES?
WOMEN WANT THEIR SKINS:
NG
MAY HAVE TO BE EVACUATED.
STURDY BUT DIMINISHING
POPULATION.
MEN.
[HY & MODERN SUCIETY DINE]
stand a hit about books and music, All the same, he must under and naturally he must be terribly in love.
thing, and if he doca not enter the oldd careers of the Army, the Navy, or the Bar, he strikes out a line for himself and becomes a journalist, a stockleaker, a motordesigner.
influence of the war and the strait- At this is probaby due to the ened circumstances of most of the hitherto leisured classes." it has become the fashion to respect But those who are doing a jeb of work and doing it competently.
most unfortunately the im
generalise successfully on such a Naturally it is impossible to Bubject na the youth of the present "Rich? Well, not very. In fact, į day. But one thing it is interesting work. rather poor. Of course, he must to note, and that in the great differ nothing. And he must earn enough; through the war and those who did Thate, a man who does Fence between those who went
would be nice to have in laws with indefinable way. Whether it is that and perhaps have expectations. It not. One can always tell in some
send the children. And he must more understanding, and have lost a big country place where one could the former are more courteous, have the same sense of humour and their youthful crudeness, whether like the same things and the same it is that they have touched reality. jokes. And, of course, I'd rather do not know.. But the difference he role and shot well and drove a, is there and we feel it. The evacuation of the island ear and so on. would be a matter for regret, as
There are, of course, compara- from time inanemorial a sturdy in-
and tively few from whom we can judge, dependent people have fived a life
mense gay makes itself felt. The preserving from the past a tradi- cut off from the rest of the world, tion of legends, superstitions and
young men about five years older girls of 23 to 28, who should be
north Atlantic, lashed by the full
talking to and going about with folklore.. A solitary rock in the
rely on men of their own age, which than themselves, very often have to fury of the gale, the Island of Foule can be approached only in fie
in turn, of course, leaves, their weather by a 27 mile voyage in an with a few alterations, any average open boat from the mainland from girl of the present day. It is the they are inclined not exactly to So, to her most intimate friend, younger sisters only their own con
temporaries to fall back on. And Shetland. Although only 3 miles
as a girl is always older than a boy, long by gf miles wide, it has several ession of an ideal, practically the highest rising steeply to 1,37%
unattainable, a are most ideals, slightly superior
lespine but 10 feel themselves
feet. The highest cliff of Great
to the average
220 feet to the scn, or thres tunes the nineteenth century, but there that is said by the modern novelists,
Probably the average girl's ambi-which is good for neither side.
young an. A dangerous attitude. Britain is here, sheer drop oftions have not wholly changed since
of the finest rock sculpture in the have put into the mouth of the and maid than there were during In conclusion, and in spite of all the height of Beachy Head. Around Chief among them is the phrase world. There are several wonder modern, girl: "I hate a man who the Victorian Era. They can he the precipitous coast there is some
are one or two notable differences.
I think that there are no
ful stacks or natural arches in the does nothing."
platonic friendships between man
sea. The wind is too strong for trees to grow and the peaty soil is Guardsmen of "Ouida's" novels, Friendship where there is not or has
Clone are
and often are jolly good comrades. the muck quoted but it is very rare to find a real covered heather.
with coarse grass and the mashers, the swells, the gilded not been love on one side or the
youth of other days. Nearly every other.-Daily Mail.
minster, I think, and Lohengrin, know about the bridesmaids.".
"Oh, St. Margaret's, West- not Mengelasalin, I don't quite
vory least four thousand woundoit guaranteeing them free passages Nationalists do. He has never whatever to increase their output, hills, which make it seem larger, but interesting as a point of view.
men have been rushed into Ifankow from various battlefields. They have made the journey in trucks which have not been in any way prepared for the accommodation of wounded. During the journey they have had the most primitive help, if they have had any help at all Such staff of Red Cross workers as went with the armies was largely untrained, and such supplies of lint and handages as were taken were
The
for Chiang Kai Shek's armies to pass through Shantung up to the Yellow Hiver like lemonade through
1 strów.
A Paradise Of Birds,
The
commoner include
NOW
"Well, first of all he must be presentable-the sort of thing one worldn't mind introduc.ng to one's girl friends. Tall, and with a good There is, we know, nothing like
figure. I don't really und if he's leather, says the Daily Telegraph.
Foula, which, with the possible plain. One can't have everything, The Nationalist advance acros But whenever the experts begin to loneliest inhabited island, is faced liant, you know, but able to under exception of St. Kilda, is Britain's must be fairly clever—not bril- the Kingsu-Shantung border con-
talk about it, they reveal that a with the serious problem of uninstand everything one snya. tinues. The Shantung-Chihli army great deal of leather is not whataining a rapidly decreasing popu is retreating to Lincheng, the sentit claims to be. Russia leather were over three hundred people. lation. Twenty-five years ago there of the most interesting comes from anywhere but the land To-day there are only a hundred bandit organizations in China. At of the Bolsheviks. It is long since decimated by the influenza epi- and fifty. The people have been strikes, and any normally trained, one of the old Three the world discovered that there is denies, the young men and women
morocco. Now
need of a Moor to produce have been emigrating, while there makes shoes has been announcing practically no
a gentleman who has been no marriage on the island that when the fat believe them children.
since the war, and there are now
selves to be putting on their feet
young people or
lizard or crocodile skin they are more likely than not to be still in debted to their old friend the calf huumaa incapacity for rising to the The reptile race has shown a quite occasion: To the passibilities of the feminine fancy for lizard shoes capturing now markets offered by the reptiles have remained as in manufacturer. different as the most old-fashioned They seem to be quite content with their small trade in crocodile-skin bags, purses, and ao forth. They have made no effort and adequate facilities for their given them a chance to fight out and the inevitable result is that work, the Hankow Government apside their own province which has more enterprising traders, like the peals to the public of Great Britain placed them at a disadvantage, the field. But it is an ill wind and the United States to send They are now making it possible which blows nobody good.
calf, have captured a great part of $100,000 Mex. to a group of well
crocodiles and lizards to the state intentioned but powerless mission
of British agriculture is perhaps The relation of the deficiency of aries, linked on to the Chinese
not immediately apparent, and we Y.M.C.A.. which is itself in diffi- culties, we feel hound to enter a
doubt whether our farmers will be protest. Men capable of caring for
very grateful for the news that More Secure Feeling At Hankow.
somebody else has discovered how the wounded may be needed in
A report from Haukow states they ought to tun their farms Hankow, but why is money needing to pour into the city from the He assures us that the difficulty Foula is a perfect paradise of that wounded, soldiers are continuat a certain Mr. Fairweather's scheme ought to be widely known. ed? We venture to say that if the Honan front, large numbers having experienced, by farmers in making birds.
crocodiles in this country." would start rearing lizards or wakes, and stormy petrels, while
modern lizard, though an abundant great ska, or banxi, which now autong the rarer are fulmars and Consider the possibilities. The cormorants, and, rarest of all, the
only kind of reptile which is still The bouxi is an unsociable-creature. creature (they, that it is the breed only on Fouls and Fair Isle. multiplying its species), is in gen No other bird dare approach their skilled breeding to remedy this. sparrows and no rats on the island, eral small. Much might be done by particular haunt. There are to There is no reason in the nature but swarins of rabbits, while Foula of things why lizards should not he bonsts of a variety of field-mouse
their hand with the reptiles, and of their pedigree stock might try is found nowhere else in the world. produce such vast saurians as walk- tion, and although inevitably there The people are of Norse extrae- ed the earth in its youth: A good has been close inter-marrying, they Indies want lizard skin on their The skipper of the mail boat that -herd of gigantosaurs, so long are a healthy, long-lived people. feet, would be very profitable.
But perhaps the crocodile offers
plies to the Shetland mainland is need to improve the size of vigorous-man of aver eighty. species. He grows
The chief industries are fishing to a dozen,
farm is the business for anyone who form the chief means of subsistence and sheep-rearing. Deep-sea fishing it is. A well-managed crocodile shoal. The fish are salted down and wants to get rich quickly. The during the long, dark, attention whatever. There should creatures are said to require no months.
winter
he no trouble about their food, for
There are the ruined foundations they will eat anything they can of what is reputed to be the swallow. The only difficulty seems Columba. Foula has been describ
monastery of some followers of to be that before you can skin youred as the long of the North, be crocodile you must first catch it. This is proverbially a highly-skilled cause it was the monks of Foula
Canet thou
who preached Christianity, to the draw
out Shetlands, the Orkneys, and the Leviathan with a hook? Or bis North of Scotland. tongue with a cord which thou oldest superstitions refers to the One of the lettrat down?" We have read, but Lum of Ljørotjeld, of, which Scots have not personally verified, the makes hare mention in statement that a crocodile will Pirate." The Lum is an enormous- "The swimming, so ruther hide than attack man
suspicious
ly deep chimney going down to the creature's nature. Whether an ac puted to exhale poisonous vapours centre of, the island, which is re- tion for damages would lie against from the nether regions which will the crocodile farmer in the sad kill or drive mad those who breath event of this being proved untrue them. should be referred to his solicitor: The sporting nature of the creature Voula men will never mention while must, however, attract many to the at sea, such as light," "woman," new industry. Why should not "minister," "eat," crocodile river be as valuable as a 1f necessary. they
almon river?
We have only to cumlocution such as
A certain amount of captured war material the last batch of wounded arrived. noticed also, when
Wiks
doubtless exhausted long fiefore the Government has not the money arrived on Monday and Tuesday, ends meet would disappear if they black-backed galle, puffins, kitti- irst thousand men bad been collected it is because it has been ed at the railway stations. weather is hot, the line is congest ed. Altogether one can visualize a need which is so great that it eng "not be adequately met
Money Abounds.
squandered on far less worthy work. And if the Government can not collect a paltry hundred thou The situation there is described as sand dollars from the Chinese quiet otherwise, and local officials merchants of Hankow for the al-all left Hankow, to go to a conter Jesjalion-of-the-sufferings of their ence at Chengehow, the capture of But why tus this situation arisen i
own fellow-countrymen, then it is which by Feng Yu Hsiang was con- Who is to blame for this black dis-vious that this same Government firmed in reliable quarters As the enormous. Farmers who are proud! which is named after the island and grner and this wicked callousness I There can only die one answer, for
has driven all wealth away from the aday started from the capital have bei auch princely donors in Hankow and ruined the men who of the Hankow Coverminent and the! funds of that army are handled the past. Nor can we forget the stories which every Chinear believes
presens Iecting is one of quietness, pensed with in Hankow.. accommodation ships are being dis
A despatch from Kiukiang -des- cribes the local military as all
there. And those funds are abu-about the wealth of the various turning over to Chiang Kai Shek quicker returns. There will be no merry-eyed, high-spirited, and
dnot, as is evident from the luxuri- j
FROM LIVERPOOL TOWN,jol.
oun atele in which the heads of theers of the family of Dr. Sun, as rapidly as they can. Troops Gove, went are able to live and told he true that family could, con- have now reached Poyang Lake and twenty, men do say, thirty, feet as for cod is carried on at the Foula.
and if even a fraction of the tales belonging to Chiang's 1st army from the vast amounts which are tribut all that is needed without with their approach various Labour available for propaganda-purposes. How those funds have been acquir
difficulty.
Unions in Kiukiang were suppres ed, one need not stop to ask. More
Government's Indifference, ed. The remnant of the 6th Army than sufficient evidence was found
Two or three missionaries who and civilians are reported leaving in Peking that a large part was
have arrived from Hankow during the port for the north bank of the provided through Soviet channels, the last few days being somewhat river going up." and the telegrams which have come strange information. They rightly hand from Hankow it show emphasize the terible state of that every possible source of wealth. affairs among the wounded, and has been tapped there. From the point out that it will be a serious conlie who carries cotton and the thing for the health of the whole woman who picks it as well as from Port if this situation is not altered the landlord and the compradore,speedy. But they do not deny money has been collected for agitathat the military authorities up tion and parades and the Northern the line seem to have discriminated campaign. There is no denying
against the enemy wounded, an act the fact that money abounds some-
which is contrary to the basic prin- where.
ciples of the Red Cross. Nor can they hide the fact that the Inkow not backed up those who are already trying to alleviate the sufferings of the men.
Government Ins
SEAMAN ON THE ROCKS.
Robert Lawler (36) of Liverpool, appeared at the Kowloon Magis asman in the s.8. City of Tuki, tracy yesterday on a charge of assaulting two Indian constables
and a coolie.
gaged a rickaba coolie at about
I was stated that defendant en- p.m. to take him to the Palace Hotel.
He ordered the coolie to wait, and when he left the Hotel at midnight he refused to pay the coolie. Defendant appeared to be
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Seeing that the money is in hand, we should understand how the Han- kow Government could without any loss of face approach the mission aries and ask them to secure the If it be true that there is difficulty returning to his ship at Holt's overwme ignorant local prejudices į guides by night" for "the moon," pervious of missionary doctors and getting even the money needed murses to aid the Chinese doctors in to pay for the food needed by the their task of caring for the wound wounded, then one cannot but ask ed. And we do not doubt that bothy, in this day when even in mis doctors and nurses will be found ionary matters as well as in muni- who will join the units that are cipal matters the Chinese are nak being formed by the Peking Unioning for equal rights, the burden of Medical College for this very pur-caring for the wounded in Hankow
pose.
If we venture a word of caution
in this connection, we shall not be accused of uttempting to delay & anission of charity such as all right- minded mich can approve. We can not but feel that any workers who some will wish to share in the work to pay $3 compensation to the start from here for Hankow should subscribing, yet we cannot ace first have definite assurance that that any appeal for a large sum of
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It was alleged that defendant struck the coolie in the eye, and that he also struck an Indian con- the coolie's shout. Another Indian
COURAGE OF THE MALE stable who arrived in response to
DEER. constable came, and defendant was GAOL taken to the police station, where
HOW HE RISKS LIFE TO he struck at the second constable.
SAVE MATE. He shouted and caused an uproar in his cell for a considerable time.
BERLIN.
One of the most courageous should be thrown on foreigners.
It was stated that defendant was "You have on your conscience animals in creation is the male To sum up, while we sympathize though he had had some drink.
aware of what he was doing al the death of Marietta Wolf," said deer. fully with all efforts that are being not remember striking the police; forced him to four months impri- Mr. Mark Robinson, a forest ranger,
Defendant stated that he could chemist, Friedrich Fischer, and sen-
This fact was fascinatingly-illus- the judge in the Berlin court to a trated in a lecture delivered by made to sand doctors and nurses to if he did so it was in retaliation and whilst we can understand that assaulting the police, and ordered actresses with cocaine. the help of the Hankow wounded, Defendant was
Rooment for illegally supplying one before the National Science Section fined 820 for of the most brilliant of German of an Ontario Education Conter
ence, says the Central Newe- Marietta Wolff was found dead in
When danger from the cruel and. cookie.
a bath room filled with gas, and it rapacious wolf of Canada's wooded was thought she had committed sui regions threatens his doe and cide.
It was afterwards realised fawn, Mr. Deer does not leave them that she had turned on the gas for to their own devices.
Instead he lures the wolf away the influence of cocaine. She was which emanates from a gland in much fuller information is placed time in recent months wo krive
then suffocated by the gas. chronicled instances of this sort of before the public as to the funds
Her friends had seen with dis his hoof. His wife and children. interference, and specially cases.
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become the band of the the front door where he saw a man impeded. ed. The most elementary foresight this inerousing heat there will be been mado despite the fact that the lein Wolfl. would have led the Hankow Govern-much to do for the sick among the instruments provided by the Corps nent to maintain intact the splen men who have come to our help cannot arrive before the end of aroused and he opened the packet for the male wolf, the unfortunate
superior turn of speed. The friend's suspicions did stalls which the missionaries from across the seas, as well as for August. The K.0.8.B. has tempor- and found it contained cocaine, door in pinned to
wore If the storm chase ends in victory have trained in Hankow and Wu- the provision of the comforts which arily supplied the deficiency from The man at the door was Friedrich while the female wolf sucka the chang instead of stirring up all the men need..
the ground, its own stock of instruments. Fischer.
blood of the victim.
thoir work will not be hindered by money from foreign sources should BAND FOR THE DEFENCE her bath and had collapsed under by means of a very strong scent,
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