MERCENARY TROOPS FOR KWANGTUNG.
LI TSAI HSIN'S NEW MOVE.
YUNNANESE FORCES
EMPLOYED.
STRENGTHENING THE PRE- SENT REGIME.
THE BOYCOTT.
APPROVAL OF LOCAL
AUTHORITIES.
LARGE QUANTITIES OF GOODS CONFISCATED.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 15th, 1927.
FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
The anti-Japanese boycott move. ment has finally secured the ap
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.) Proval of local authorities in Canton, The Chief of Police has
"FLYING THE PIGEON."
ELDERLY BRIDE'S WICKED LIES.
DENIES HER MARRIAGE.
BUT OUTWITTED BY HER HUSBAND.
Arrivals from Hankow express the agreed that all seized Japanese some ladies. A go-between with a;
opinion that the "Reds have no intention whatever of loosening their bold in Canton and agents, both military and political, at work
goods may be deposited in the headquarters of the Central Labour Inion, pending the establishment of a depot for contraband. Since
FRENCH NATIONAL DAY THE CHEUNG CHAU
AVIATION TRAGEDY.
COMMEMORATED.
THE CONSULAN "AT HOME."
H.E. THE GOVERNOR AND MANY OTHER GUESTS PRESENT.
Yesterday was naniversary of the Taking of the Bastille" and in Hong Kong French residents cele. brated the National Day of Frane with receptions, etc.
were
AH warships is harbour "dressed all over," and flew the French tricolour, in honour of the occasion. A salute was fired at
Flying the pigeon is a common enough practice among the Chinese, and it has been successfully employ ed with the help of young and hand- smooth tongue, will approach some
An official. reception was held at amorous old gentleman and offer him, the band of a young lady. The marriage is then quickly arranged the residence of the French Consul, and a substantial dowry bestowed M. G. Dufaure de la Prado, No.
NOON.
SEARCH ABANDONED.
SHIPBOARD FUNERAL SER- VICE HELD IN VICINITY.
The search for Flight-Lieut. L. W. H. Phillips, the young airman who was killed at Choung Chau on Tuesday, has now been definitely abandoned. H.M.S. Hermes re- turned yesterday morning after a thorough search of the supposed locality of the crash.
On Wednesday afternoon before H.M.8. Hermes returned to her buoy a burial servico with full honours was held over the spot benenth which the sunken plane and its pilot were thought to lib. Three volleys were fired and the
in Canton have reported that largeJuly 1st, four sessions of the "prize on the bride. A week or so after 1, Peak Hond, yesterday morning Last Post was sounded over the
numbers of students and workers are still accretly behind the move. ment directed by Moscow. In the rueantime, the Canton Authorities deny that there has been any con- flict on the northern borders, and
court" have been held, and in each the marriage, the man will wake case the confiscation of large quan-up one fine morning to find that his newly wed has disappeared with tities of Japanese gooila
whatever jewellery and money he might have given her.
ordered.
SURTAXES AND SQUEEZE.
A Shameen correspondent writes:
take pains to make it known that A new-Postal Commissioner ar
the defence there is adequate.
The 18th Kuomintang Army Divi- Hi, stationed at Waichow, is being recalled to Canton City in pre paration for active service on the Northern front. The Army for the Defence of the Northern Districts of Kwangtung will have its head quarters at Shikwan A branch office will be established at Nam-orn, just, un the outskirt of Canton City.
But it came as a surprise when tho. Court way told yesterday that an old dame of 58 summers had tried the same trick on a man of 68. The lady had little enough beauty to aid her but she world have carried it off had not the old man proved a bit more shrewd
rived last week and the gentlenen who collect the "surtaxes" wished to open all his personal baggage and levy duty, Protests were made j than she expected. and after some no hours delay the baggage was released.
The Marrying of Cheng Chun and
Tsang Taze.
Cheng Chun, who described him. The Superintendent of Customs self as a broker and lived at Shauki. wan succumbed to the charm of was asked to collect all surtaxes and place the proceeds in the Bank Tunng Tsze, and as they were both of China for the Authorities. But assed their heydays, the formalities of employing a go-between, the the Japanese Consul protested bridal ghair and the pair of red vigorously and eventually the matjoss candles were dispensed with. ter fell through. The surtaxes have now been handed over to a syn...
for collection and they diente squeeze the Chinese right and left. The Japanese boycott is in full
a
Old Cheng in his graff way handed small red envelope containing $3 to dame Tsang, This was the lucky anones, and he told the old lass to come home and be his This all spouse, which she did:
General Fan Shek Shang's mer cenary troops, first hired by the Inte Dr. Sun Yat Sen hat later dismissed by Chiang Kai Shek, will again be engaged for service in Kwangtung, this time under the patronage of General Li Tsai Hsin. With the extra support of the Yun-swing but it is nothing but a pre-happened on June 24th. The tables
panese morcenaries, General Li's position will be much strengthened in the Southern Capital.
tence to make money and feed the strikers. On every bale of Japan ese yarn removed from a Japanese The districts of Chiuling, Chao-
godown fifty cents is charged for a yang, Chinghoi, Poling, and other
Government Blamp and $2.30 is Swatow districts are still more or leas dominated by the "Reds" or charged--as-squeeze. These truly speaking, by bandits and un-
suns having been paid the goods scrupulons politicians misusing the
are allowed to pass without trouble. names of Borodin or Sun Fo. Re-
So much for the boycott." The mote districts from Canton are
from city is quiet but the merchants are suffering illegal taxation officials who are usually self-appoint- groaning, under the burden of taxa ed. Many Kuomintang clubs in these
KHÍ. places, it is said, are not probably authorized and their claim to be
NO ARREST YET:
waters.
The service was conducted
(Sir Cécil Clementi, and was attended by H.. the Governor K.C.M.G.), members of the Govern. Rev. F. Freeman, the ship's
chuplain. ment, representatives of the Ser
His Excellency the Governor, yes-- vices, and many prominent resid
terday reelived a invesage of sym- cats.
pally from H.E. the Governor of Macao in the following terins:
H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi replied
as follows: On behalf of Hong Kong I thank Your Excellency and the Colony of Macao for your kind masage of condolence.
II.E. the Governor arrived about 1.30, accompanied by Capt. C. H. Steele, A.D.C. Others present Deepest condolences with profound incinded the Hon. Mr. W. Tegres from myself and Colony Southern, C.M.G. (Colonial Secre- death aviation officer Phillips. tary), the Hop. Sir Joseph Kemp, KC. (Attorney-General), the Hon. Mr. Mol. Messer (Colonial Trea. surer), Major-General C. C. Latard, C.B., C.M.G., accompanied by
The Daily Press was informned Lieut. R. Q. F, Johnston, A.D.C., the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe yesterday that the dead airman had (CS.P.), the Han. Mr. D. G. M. not previously crashed into the sea Bernard, the. Hon. Mr. E. R. in 1926, as reported yesterday: The Hallilax, C.B.E, C.M.G. (Stere-pilot on that occasion was W. II. tary for Chinese Affairs), the Hon. Phillips, who has now Mr. W. F. L. Shenton, the Hon. R.A.F. Sir Shou-son Chow, the Hon. Dr. RH. Kotowall, C.M.G., the Hon. Mr. H. T. Jackman (acting D.P.W.). Commodore JL. Pearson, C.M.G.. accompanied by Pay Comdr --H. Rogers, O.B.E., Lt.-Comdr. G. F. Hole, RN. (Harbour Master), Bir Robert Ho Tung, the Rev. Father
of "chow" were ordered and a Spada and the following Consuls:--- few intimate friends were invited Mr. H. Schantz and Mr. L.-W. to the feast and witnessed the Franklin (America), Mr. J. T kowtowing by the bride Cheng's Bugram (Siam), Mr. M. J. Quist ancestral tablet. This ceremony, by (Holland), Mr. J. M. da Rochu the way, was to pacify the dead bnes (Costa Rica), Mr. A. L. C. de Albu so that they shall entertain no hos-querque e Castro (Portugual), Dr. W. Wagner (Germany), Mr. R. tility towards the interlopez. ______
Things what quite well, until one Vallerino (Panama), and Mr. G. bright morning when Cheng handed Botsias (Belgium). his wife $1 to pay the landlord. A few days after, the landlord erme for his rent and raised Cain." Cheng was puzzled and asked his wife why the rent had not been paid. Several days elapsed and rumours began to reach Cheng's ears that His wife was trying to fly the pigeon." That was enough for the shrewd old fellow who soon
The PILOT OF LEUNG KWONG "had his plan mapped out.
"Reds," or comrades of the son of late Dr. Sun Yat Sen and M. Dorlin, is entirely false. Canton Authorities are taking steps to weed out all these nuisances.
MISSING.
The Chinese pilot coxswain of Mr. Chu Chao Hsin, Chinese Minister at Rome and Delegate to the ill-fated Leung Kwong, which sank after collision with the Moon- the League of Nations, who is re- ported to have left Europe for hon shine in the Capsuimun Pass on will again join the Kuomintang. according to his friends in Canton, May 9th, has not yet been arrested Mr. Chu, a Cantonese, is a native on the warrant issued in connee of Fahyun, one of the Northern tion with the verdict of manslaugh. Kwangtung districts. He was a
ter returned against him by the followed of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen and was appointed a member special jury last Saturday when the of the Chinese, Parliament in 1912 inquiry concluded. He is believed by the Chinese in New York When to have left the Colony, and war the late President Yuan Shih Kaf not at his last known address, No. to whom he had offered himself as
15, Centro Street. a private secretary wished to be- come, Emperor of China," Mr. Chu was hie emissary to Centon to interent local support. Mr. Chu, however, deserted Yuan before the latter was crowned, and when there eamoan anti-monarebical move
On July 10th, when his spouse was out Cheng lost no time in breaking into her room and under- neath the bed he found his money intact-the $80 "lucky money" and the $15 rent all rolled up in a little box. This Cheng took and tucked them away in his girdle,
The toast of His Majesty the King was proposed" by "M, de la Prade, and that to the President of the French Republic by His Excellency the Governor.
The official reception was followed by an informal reception at which French residents were present in large numbers.
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squares probably near the Place its setting in one of the quict d'Jena." That is all there is of Paris, but these situations so hack neyed by repetition on the stage, are always capable of fresh trout, ment, and do sum up for the foreigner the delicious naughtiness of the French capital. The story has been handled lightly and skillfully; we are given the champagne of in- trigue with no hint of the headache that comes after. The Girauds and the Lailes are pleasant if naughty young people who seem to take precisely the same pleasure in hissing their proper partners as in. their intrigues. That is the story of "So this is Paris" lightly amus- ing, and neither very naughty nor very good. The interesting part of the film is the photography.
There is a scene at the "Artists Ball" which is perhaps the most skilful piece of cinematography ever achieved. There have been dance scenes in films since the old days when two couples danced back- wards and forwards in front of the the modern crushes
A small booklet has been issued camera, to
AT THE CAFE PARISIEN. The Café Restaurant Parisien is always to the fore when it comes to the celebration of any national day, whether it be a British, American or French, and yesterday in a gaily decorated interior of French and A Point for the Bride. When the old lady returned home other, national flags, with shaded and discovered her loss, she began lights and amid plants and floral a special to weep and called upon the god decorations, there was to avenge the cruel blow dealt her. When she colled down she called celebration tiffin and dinner. The menu was typical and the service, inn policeman and told the con- time that she was only a tenant in During the evening the orchestra, stable of her loss saying at the same as always, was excellent.
The likong made a soarch and found the money on the was at its best, and dancing took the house.
place. There were large attendances old man.
Cheng protested saying that the. money was his by right and that at both tiffin and dinner. the woman was his wife. This the old dame denied nd Cheng was arrested. He was brought up be fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy yesterday, and BOYCOTT CONTINUES.
left the telling of his love idyll and The boycott position, with regard the subsequent disillusionment in
"to Parents and Guardians from where four or five hundred supers the hands of Mr. C. A. S. Russ., -- to British steamers remains un-
Outmaneuvred.
the Headmaster" of the Diocesanog up and down' while the heroine changed. Yesterday afternoon, the
the fore- Madame Tsang gave evidence and Taishun brought down the emphatically denied having married Boys' School. It is quite a zodel atuiles at the hero in usual number of fish and vegetable the old man. Why, she said, I prospectus setting out details of ground, hut this is something en- coolics, but only four Chinese am too old to get married." The the school's surriculum and equip, tirely new. The hall is presented
money, she said, belonged to one The night bout, the of her relatives who had asked her ment with convincing moderation mentally rather than visually-the passengers.
passengers. to keep it until the weather cleared We like the candid good sense of spirit of Charicaton in a bubble of Kinahan, had three The rumour that the Tung On and up so that he could go and buy salt the little paragraph on Home champagne. Pictures of slender fish. Two other witnesses told a Work:-This is often badly done. legs twirling, of laughing flushed Many persous in Canton are Sui Ou, which have been bringing rambling story to support her. But wondering how the prosent Adminis- down large numbere of passengers, old Cheng still had one card up All home work should be well done, fnces, of swaying walls, and per tration will be able to carry out were going to be similarly boycott- his sleeve for all the banknotes he good writing and figures. All boys piring negro band melt into and
his truant wife were marked should do some Chinese home work
are superimposed one on top of its recent decision to construct aed, han proved to be false. The with his shop's stamp, and when every evening or early in the morn
Young boys should not be expectedence one hears the jazz band the system of public highways out of Fung On came in yesterday after the wife heard this, sho looked ing. All classes have home work, another. As one sits in the audi-
to do too much home work, rovenue. The militarists are insist noon with 437 Chinese passengers, stunned.
In discharging the old man and
Clothing instructions com- laughter and the chick of heels," ing that their requisition of 3000,000 and other steamers brought good giving him the right to retain the
How one "smells the perfumes and the suffered flowers and one's brain awims with monthly shall be met before other numbers, There is little trouble money, Mr. Landsell took the op, mendably brief and clear.
well meaning warrants for payment are paid. with the pickets. Three men and portunity to point out to the old many youngsters have
mamma has insisted on some pretty overmuch champagne and foolish. lies from the start to the finish. According to the opinion of the a woman sit at the entrance of the lady that she had told a tissue of much because a Kuomintang loaders, the thousands wharf and any Chinese would-be You intended to defraud your garment that has roused, not un- talk. An interpretation of this sort of unemployed workers may be passengers are told to travel on husband, for there is not a doubt justly, the ire of the school marks a great advance in film another boat, and they simply walk that you did marry him, and now guds? Hore, there is little room technique, and is a real triumph for
of ill-advised given work making public ronds.
get what you deserve," said the for the exercise
the producer. Magistrate.
ment, Mr. Chu was on the popular side. Mr. Chu was Chinese Consul General at San Francisco when Dr. Wellington Koo. naked him to be his secretary at the Chinese Legation in London.
(Continued on next Column.)
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