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THE THREE PRINCIPLES: A NEW VERSION.
MOLESTATION! CONFISCATION! -D „VASTATION:
HOW AGITATIONS ARE WORKED UP IN AND
AROUND SHANGHAI,
ACTIVITIES_OF_RUSSIAN__TRAINED GUNMEN,
Bot be.
The above may
tha sloganised prínciples, but they are those which have been put into practice in the past by the so-called Nationalist party. Now, arrange ments are already in hand to put
assure
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 26th, 1927.
3,000 ready
Everything seemed to have been correctly prepared to
the desired end. There were the gun men, "Long Gowns," at their appointed stations. the unexpected happened, the ar-
Than
HOW THE REDS RUIN CHILDREN.
HOSTS OF THE YOUNG BRITISH COMMUNISTS.
THE FIRST GENERATION."
LONDON, June 28th. The six British children now on their way to Russia in defiance of the ban by the British Government will be the guests of the "Fioneer Movement," a pseudo-Scout or- ganisation formed by the Soviets in 1922, writes Dr. Edouard Lubo, a leading authority on Russia,
THE TYPHOON.
(Continued from page 5.)
THE RIVER STEAMERS.
INTERRUPTED-SAILINGS.-
As was to be expected the typhoon caused an interruption and slight disorganisation in the river steamer service.
LAWN TENNIS.
TILDEN. AGAIN WINS U.S..
CLAY COURT CHAM- PIONSHIP.
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In the final of the doubles, Hen- nessey and Williams beat Tilden
thom in force in Shanghai, and the rival of those 'rice supplies, and the gauisation the part played by the yesterday, soon after noon, none the and Wiener by 3 sebe, to 1.
Associa
ActitiousRatepayers Biona agitation against the in- crease in the Municipal rate is only a means to this end.
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still greater surprise, in the arrival of the troops, which not only saved the poor workmen from becoming the "tools of unscrupulous Nation When one reads the names of the alism, sold body and soul to their Chinese Ratepayers' Association Russina Bolshevik taskmasters, Committee and the little despite their present-day fictitious foundation there is for calling protestations to the contrary. It themselves ratepayers of these Set- was hoped that the rice shortage tlements, it becomes obvious there and its high price would create is a bigger game behind the scenes, such a condition amongst the work. To understand the significance being classes that they would become hind the move it is necessary to violent, "not against those who investigate regarding the income sources of some of the biggest agitators in the anti-tax move.
One together with a certain company he represented, recently became bankrupt, yet is living as expensive life as over in the -French Concession. Another is out of a political job, and has an ex- pensive family to maintain, and his daily life is such that it would take a long purse to cope with the There are several others who do not make the cost of their ex- travagances fit in with their pre- carious occupations.
'cost.
However, there is a special ac count 'in the Dalbank the entries in which would prove very in teresting reading, and at the same time might assist in revealing the reasons for the prosent anti-Tax: Agitation. A reference to quite revent local history will reveal the danger behind the present very ex- tansive and threatening plot.
It will be remembered that in the early part of this year rice wa put up in the vicinity of Shanghai to Actitiously high price, in the region of 819 and 890 per picul This was not due to any shortagé
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LOCAL GOLF..
OLUB. JUNIOR SECTION MATCH.
DETROIT, July sath. Tilden has won, for the sixth consecutive time, the National Clay Court Championship, by defeating The Taishan arrived in port on Saturday, and sought shelter atby 3 sets to love the Indianapolitan Stonecutters on Sunday morning, Hennessey, who had previously and therefore did not make the i eliminated Ohta, the Japanese Official Moscow reports bosss of
a.m. run yesterday to Canton. The a membership exceeding 3,000,000 Lungshan, which should have arriv. champion. in Rumia alone, and state thated here on Sunday night, had to other countries have their own or shelter at Tiger Island, as reported
rus en Soviet lines.
yesterday, and she came into part In Russia Pioneers" in the life of the worse for the trip. She later weat country and among its children is to the Wing Lok Street Wharf. à real menace to the future. The The Taishan went alongside the ever-growing number of criminal Steamboat Company's Wharf yes- children alone beare witness to the terday and sailed at I am. this insidious nature of the training morning for Canton, while the given to the young.
Lungshan makes the night trip in The results of this teaching can the early hours of to-moraow (Wed be gauged from an official descrip-nesday) morning. This really means tion which appeared in the Izvesty, that the Lungshan and Taishan As reported yesterday the match The writer, a leading Bolshevik, is have had to change places on the proud of the fact that
schedule, and that it has been put between the Royal Hong Kong The first generation in Soviet back one day. The Kinchas came | Gold Club and the Junior Section, Russia is free of all divine rot and down from Canton yesterday after played at Happy Valley on Sunday ideas of God.
They have noon, but was a little late in arriv. also lost all the folly of human ing due to weather conditions. She orping, resulted in a win for the feelings, and in their place they spent the week-end at Canton, but have developed class conscious received no damage. nead. Just as their brains refuse to accept the silly notions of God, so they also refuse to accept the idea of humanity outside their olass To-day it is not humanity While this hoped-for and mad that matters, but class.. and
class war is their highest ideal" frenzy of a starving people was in
His pride, however, does not pre- full swing, it was hoped to let
vent him from admitting that the loose the 3,000 long gowns in the children reared under the Bolshevik Chinese banking quarter of Shang.influence of revolution supply the hai to loot those banks of all their ever-growing ranks of hooligans "..they feed, the ranks of stored treasure, which was known neuroties, drug maniacs, and ex- as the time to exceed seventy mi tremiste lion taels bar silver, and an equal amount of silver dollars, besides
brought about the rice shortage and high prices, but against those em ployers of labour who were endea- vouring to give them the means to pay legitimate prices for their rice.
an enormous amount of merchants
paper securities, placed by some at several thousand million dollars, This was the National patriotism that drew the "civilian army" to Shanghai."
It will be remembered that, shortly after the taking of the Greater Shanghai District" by the Southern forens, certain shoot ings ok place of gun men civiliza army recruits, not officers or or ganisers in Chapel, Paoshan, and Chinese city, Nantao, Lunghwa, and that a great deal of face accordingly was attempted to be made out of the incidents by the
in last year's erop which was local Nationalist beads. The facts
per cent, above the average for the had-not, however, so much of the
and they are also evident among he youngsters who have given themselves over to sexual and other excesses,
that the British children will spend It is among uch boys and girls some weeks for å educational "pur- poses.
The Macao sailings have been uA- interrupted.
DE VALERA LOCKED OUT.
EXCITING SCENES IN DUBLIN. »
NEW DAIL MEETS BEHIND CLUSED DOORS.
Animased scenes marked the first meeting of the new Dail of the Irish Free State in Dublin, when Mr. Cosgrave was re-elected President of the Executive Council by 69 votes to 29, a majority of sa
Mr. de Falera, the head of the Republican Party, marched in melodramatic manner through the streets to the Dail with his two- score of Republican deputies. The approaches to the Dail were strongly guarded, but the Republican deputies were allowed to enter the building,
They refused, however, to take the oath of allegiance, and were consequently excluded from the meeting of the Dail. The doors were locked against them. They inade one or two fatile attempts to rush through, but failed.
Mr. Cosgrave's election was carried' with the votes of indepen dent groups, in addition to the Government Party, Labour standing out and forming the Opposition.
Mr. Cosgrave made a strong declamation that there would be no tampering with the treaty or the oath,"
Dually. Leinster House, where they were From an early hour the streets of shown into a committee room, by Dublin were filed with Mr. de the Clerk to the Dail They were They were all asked if they were prepared to take Valera's followers. young men, and had come up from the oath of allegiance. Mt. de various parta by train, Ganibus, and Valera refused, and, addressing his motor-lorry. Large numbers assem followers, asked if any of them senior Club by six to two.
bled near Fianus Fail headquar-wished to cake the oath. They all The full scores were as under:-quarters in Abbey-street, waiting amwered "No,"
X.É.K.0.0.
for the Republican march on Gov. The Cleric of the Dail then came ernment buildings to begin.
Soon after nine o'clock the police | all the doors leading into the Dail took possession of all the streets chamber were locked and guarded, around the Government buildings, and no one was allowed to pass
Like the Taishan, Kongmoon and other river ateamers in port on Sunday sought shelter in the har- bour, and the wharves on Sunday presented a desarted appearance. Those up the river laid up, and this caused an interruption of the ser vice. Those laid up hers resumed J. S. MacLaren yesterday, and those that sheltered up river later arrived, but none re ported damage.
W. Franks (1 up) jimeni.. J. de Rome (8 and 5) ...... A. Redmond (4 and 3) ...... D. Matthews........... S. Whyte-Smith (5 and 3)... D. G. Bruce (1 up).. A O. Brawn. (10 and 8)
OTHER INCIDENTS.
TWO TYPHOON VICTIMS.
A Police report states that Chinese woman, who was sleeping in a matshed near the breakwater Even if the British children are at Yaumati, was blown into the sen lucky enough to escape more ser-hen the wind was at its height ous results, they cannot and will The whole matabed, with the woman not be permitted to escape con-inside, was carried by the wind tamination as regards Red atheism into the sea. The woman was res and class hatred. They will learn cued by a friend in the Yaumati that parents and their prejudices Typhoon Shelter, and sent to the must be fought," that teachers Kwong Wah Hospital. are the lackeys of capitalism," that "bourgeois authority must neither be recognised nor respected, and that the only thing to do is to organise for revolution and to be
Always Ready." "Whether they will be shown the ex-members of the Pioneer move- ment who
are Dow
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R. C. Wallace in
P. Morrison (20th hole) G. McLeod
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W. Pryde (I up)
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mous donor to the individual win Spoons were given by an anony ners.
INTER-DEPARTMENTAL BOWLS.
through them except those who had business. Kildare-street and Moles Gį worn-street on one side were held by large bodies of police, and Mer orion-street and Merrion-row on the
other side..
Cheated by the Crowd, Roman Cathálie.membara, of the new Dail
Deute istenceu votive mass in ɔt. Anurew ́s taurea, Westland-row. The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Byrne, presided at the 10ASA. Alinisters sat behind Mr. Gosgrave, and members of the Dail Healy, the Governor-General and Senato behind Mr. Timothy
On the opposite sud of the church were aur. ue Yael and almost ali the members of 'lus, party.
out of the room, and at his order
tr. de Valera and his followers clined to leave the Government made unavailing protesta, and de- buildings.
They roamined there during the sitting of the Dail, abu- mary Valera and a few others attempted once or twice to rush into the Chamber when the door were opened to admit other per sons. They were, however, stopped.
Speaker Re-sisated, The Government Party, Labour, Independents," and the National League deputies were already in their places," After the Ulerk had read a line of the names of the newly-elected members the Speaker, Mr. Hayes, was re-elected.
The next business was the election of
the President of toc Executivė Obuncil. Mr. Cosgrave's re-election was proposed by air: Baemun Mur- As the leader of both parties phy, of Louth (Government Party), reached the street after mass they and seconded by Mr Peter Doyle, were cheered by crowds. Service North Dublin, another loverment was held in St. Patrick's Cathedral supporter.
Notwithstanding a warning issued
DRAW FOR FIRST ROUND OF for the Protestant members.
:
COMPETITION.
The draw in the inter-depart mental bowls competition has been made. This is the second year the
Mr. Cosgrave then, rose, and in the course of a long statement in- tumaced funt he was not at all will
by the police, crowds congregatcu in the vicinity of the Government. buildings, outside the police cor- accept the responsibility of dogs, and there was a good dealing on a Government in the circumstances. He was prepared, of excitement.
he said, to give an adjournment of in Leinster House there was much
opportunity of considering it they would form a Government. If they could not do so he saw no sound
Another victim was a Chinese who was blown from one of the upper storey of the Central Fire Station by a sudden powerful gust of wind in lunatice was picked up in the compound dead, and the body was taken to put to that height purely by the public were given to believe. .. avarice of the local dealers, though
tor perverts and drug manisca is, has the man was a relative of apartments has been held, and there the first fail meeting of the Govern they, according to their usual pratie nothing wrong with military or
In the mind of Nationalism there of course, doubtful, But nothing
ment Party since the elections bit on the edge of the high prices, civilian army murder, rape and thousanda. of youngsters of their known why he was in the refis every reason to expect a keen Armed muntary officers were in alternative but that he, should ac tice, were not averss to make a
can prevent them from seeing the Chinese revenue officer, but it is not "The Nationalist party in China, loot so long as the lootings of the own are roaming the streets of the station, as he was not employed competition as there was last year. some of the lobbies, and there was cept nomination, and he would not
previous seven years. It was motodeur of rosca about them as the asylums or in homes of detention the public mortuary. It is believed contest between Government De-activity; r. Cosgrave, presided at the House to allow ather groups an
cities" fantastically garbed and obviously suffering from disease."
If they do see them it is hardly to be expected that they will be told that these ragamuffins were once proud Pioneers" with red tier, and drums in their hands.
tortions of
contributions
there.
The man landed on his feet it appears, for when the body w picked up it was found that the head and kody did not show signs of serious external injury, but the feet and legs were badly smashed, the shin bones having been driven through the feet by the fares of the impact.
DAMAGE AT KOWLOON.
MILITARY PROPERTY.
These are days of more haste than less political speed. Eye-witnesses. have reported invasions of outside officials into the Western district in motor-care with armed men on either footboard at night and the early hours of the morning, and that the object of these incursions The roof of a range of sheds of are for the purpose of official ex-newly erected military property at to Chatham Road, Kowloon, was strip- Nationalist funds from the wealthy ped off, the corrugated iron plates merchants who live in our mida, being hurled many yards away. the extortion they matt informed forage and fodder for pack mules hoping for our protection. After The sheds are used as a store for
that if they divulge any informs being carried away the structure.
withstood the gale well. police or anyone else dire con- sequences will befall their families. The situation for law-abiding Chinese citizens and merchants is as critical to-day as it was in the Let no one be deceived. The gun months of February, March, and men of February, March, and April of this year, and no faith April are here but in increased can be placed in anything said by
representing the Slo
The draw was as under:--
P.W.D., bye..
Prison v. Sanitary.
strong body of plain clothes policemen and detectives. Addi sional policoman arrived in lorries from the depot in Phoenix Park,
Harbour Dept. Police, Revenue v. Stall Units Depts.
"No Oath." The march on Leinster House The first game will be played on Sunday, July 3let. Second game sands of people were in Abbey. began at two o'clock, Bome thou- on Sunday, August 7th, third game street. The Republicans wore on Sunday, August 14th. Top semi- photograph of air. de Valera print final on Sunday, August sist, bated on alk, with the words No
oath tom semi-final on Sunday, August 28th, and the final on Sunday, September 5th.
all games will start at 3.30 p.m. sharp.
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By permission of the Committee a green at the Police Recreation
games sach Sunday. In the event Club has been reserved for these
shirk it..
said that he could not support the Mr. Johnson, the Labour leader, proposal to elect Mr. Cosgrave; be- cause his Government tended to wards reducing wages.
A Promiss.
Mr. Baxter (Farmers) promised the support of, his party on all decisions when they believed the Government to be right. Captain Redmond, of the National League, also promised support to any Gov. ernment that would maintain peace and order.
On a division, Mr. Cosgrave's election was carried by 68 to 27, Labour voting against.
A whistle was sounded, and procession was formed, the men falling in four deep. Banners were unfurled, and thousands of Repub. lean lesfets were flung in the air above the spectators' heads.
Mr. de Valera and his Fianas Shortly before five o'clock, Mr. Fail deputies came out from the de Valera and the other Republican Republican headquarters and were deputies left Leinster House and waving of flugs. They took their where they held a meeting in the received with great cheering and marched back to their headquarters, places at the head of the proces-street to denounce the oath.
Cosgrave announced about five hundred men,
The procession passed along Sack The only changes from the former ville-street, Westmoreland-street, Ministry
that Mr. Kerin and Nassau-street into Kidare O'Higgins (sitice then assassinated)
becomes Minister street, where it first came in view
for Exteris! of the police who guarded the ap Affairs in addition to Justice, Mr. proaches to the Government build Desmond FitzGerald is transferred fram External Affairs to Defence, Mr. de Valera and his fellow Re- and General Mulcahy is Included publican' deputies were allowed to as Minister_for_Local Government
and to enter and Public Health.
civilian army were well trained for patient and silent merchants, under by the National official extorters and horses. Apart from the root of rain games will automatically be sion and marched off, followed by formation of his Ministry to-night"
put back a week. Other military matabeds, and wooden structures created on the piece of waste land at Middle Road Bere undamaged, except that the roof of the blacksmith's shop was carried away.
AS OTHERS SEE US.
A CHINESE VIEW.
inga.
Mr.
are
the
would be able to get as much numbers, in and around Shanghai.tes in Nanking ar Shanghai were. somewhat damaged. Thal In a letter to The Times Mr. J.: pass the cordon,
who pose as the friends of the lower ranks are turned in to the poor, and claim they are making a Nationalist military collectionalist night against militarism, capitalism ing the taking, by the and tigh, taxation, did not hesitate army and their allied gunmen, of to suit their owa cada by driving the Shanghai environs, there was up the staple food of the poor to much murder, loot and rape. How To whatever, the loot contrary to instrue- these Actitious prices. end? So that the high cost of rice, tions did not, in a great number made high by the Nationalist of cases find its way into Nation friends of the poor, might lead to alist military coffers, but into the demanda for increase in wages private accounts of the murdering meet the higher cost of the rice. It looters. The round-up took place was hoped that there would be re- of these individuals and groups fusals which would lead to strikes. of individuals, were shot out strikes to violence, and violencento of hanit, and where possible the a general state of disorder in which loot recovered, not to be restored the above interpretations of the to those who had suffered its less Three Principles could be more but to the Nationalist army coffers, easily worked. The plot was not or into the pockets of higher ranks. devised by Chinese, but by their At the present time in Shanghai much wore cunning Russian Bol- the Long Gowns," "Gun Men shevik sve drivers
or Civilian Army " Membe- of the Nationalists used for extorting from the ever- are being
the work in hand. They were threat, large sums of money for the sant up-country, with large sums coffers of these, Nationalists who tion of what has happened to the of money at their disposal, to the proclaim as their slogan "Govern regions which are the essentialment of the people, by the people, meanwhile work centres of Shanghai's rice supply for the people,' They pointed out to the up-coun-ing for "Molestation," Confisca try dealers in fice and grain that tion," "Devastation." .prices of rice were rapidly rising and that if they held up their sup plies for a couple of months they
825% per pícu). The up-country The Nationalist army and off- dealers protested, they had obligacials know it, but there is no at may not be generally known tions to meet, and must sell their tempt to round them up on the It rice supplies from time to time to part of the Nationalist authorities, that in the provinces of Kiangai, meet those obligations. Upon this for the simple reason there is the Chekieng, and Fukien at the pre- the Civilian Army" representa big game to be played in and sent time is being formed a cadet tives stated that they were rice-mer around Shanghai at very early corps similar in nearly every re- The large tent of Isako's circus chants themselves, and stood to lose date, the increased taxes being apect to the Whampoa Cadete at Wanchai had to be lowered so as a lot if the rice was not held up made the excuse for the trouble Those joining are mere boys of 12 to avoid damage by the wind, which for better prices, but that they were by those who have never paid to 15 years of age. In nearly all threatened to blow down the orce prepared to make loans to cover Shanghai Municipal tax in their centres where they have been enroll. tionemporary stables erected
lives. Those working the presented they are either under the direct The. trouble do not care one jot how instructions of Red Russians, or at the back of the circus were part-tain of light. No one who has lived It will be remembered, by those many ignorant striking labourers under Chinese who have themselves by blown away, as was part of the in Chins, as I have, can deny that who closely watched events in the or innocent coolies get into serious gone through the drastic and unfence surrounding the circusa considerable amount of zboczną
Spittoons no have got early spring of the year, that this nad, to say the least, dangerous scrupulous training of Russian Tha performing animals had to attend this method of dealing with side of the plot was frustrated by situations as a result of their agita Communian mins of be moved to other quarters about the inconvenience of a solar sclipes
He pointed out the paragraph in. "Tokyo, July 10th the timely arrival of large quantitions, since they have always police
Before they quit their drill three o'clock in the morning for but, as a forgotten poet has mid
the regulations which requires one ties of Saigon rice at the instance protection for their seemingly grounds these mere babies are shelter.
East is East and
Holy Trinity Church, Tokyo, just spittoon to be provided in any West is of foreign importers, with a con- respectable selves, meanwhile le taught to shout as a chorus, "Kill
West and I was much mus erected opposite one of the main public hall or gathering place for LITTLE ELSE. sequent considerable drop in the ting their civilian army of gun the foreigner, "Take his be
ed in reading lately in a Chi gates of the Imperial Palace where each 50 people the hall would hold price of the native product. The men get busy, in the disturbance, longings The looting of his
As well at the Kowloon nese newspaper An article on in live the Emperor and Empress, According to his reckoning there up-country dealers then got scared collecting all they can from the property will pay for our National Naval Yard was slightly damaged European superstitions in general had its dedication delayed because would have to be thirty spittoons up at the chance of missing-the-mar- Chinese banks in the name of Army. It does not take the by the pounding of beavy seas and English ones in particular; of a serious lack of observance of and down the aisles, to say nothing ket, with the result that although Nationalism
brightest of conceptions to realise while the Kowloon Ferry Wharf The Chinese are asked to believe the municipal rules and regulations of the couple needed for the choir prices remained unjustifiably high It would be well for the authori from whence emanate these teach also suffered to a certain extant that the English imagine that by dealing with buildings intended as stalik
public gathering places.":" ings, and- with what object they Otherwise there appears to be the blowing of horns, and emitting
Holy Trinity to-day has its ade upon which was set the heart of thes to investigate the long are taught. In the end, it is a little to record. There were, of similar noises, they can prevent The day and hour had been set, quate number of spittoons, but Nationalism, so that such a price gown" situation in and around
means of passing on the slogan course, various little minor in people from being run over by their the Bishop was about to proceed to after the dedication ceremony these would induce the wins of the people Shanghai-in connection with the contained in the Thres Principles-cidenta in various outlying parts, motor cars, and conclude with custhe new church, the choir had prac. have been placed away, in a closet, to pooms their tools in the process recent. almost complete withdrawal of Molestation "Confisca | but so far as can be gathered from acteristic Chinese callousness that ticed for the last time and the con: not to be brought out again unleas of Molestation, Confecation of the barbed wire defencen
tion! (Bad Devastation!!! official-quarters, nothing-of-couse these methoda "simp add to the gregation was gathering when one another building inspector drops ELIGH Devastationin-Shanghat (Construed on next Column;) "Shanghai Mercury:
quence happened.
horrors of death"
of the city building inspectors ap. in--Manila Vimes.
the up-country dealers' require ments for three ranaths.
they did not reach the 825 limi
The matsheds in which the 'planes of the Air Arm of H.M. Navy are housed at Kai; Tack reclamation
were affected and the matabeds damage was negligible; no plates have already been repaired. ISAKOS CIRCUS.
-The
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HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, TOKYO.
Turner Studice, Globe-place, Chel Kerr-Lawson, writing from 3,
sea, referring to the public interest in the eclipse of the aun, says:
"One is reminded of the quaint superstition of the Chinese, who imagine that by the blowing of WHY horns they can induce the Demon of Darkness to depart, so that his
wings no longer obscure the fout-
ITS DEDICATION WAS
DELAYED.
HASTY PURCHASE · ÖF. SPITTOONS..
proached' the chairman of the build- ing committee, bowed deeply and announced: Very sorry for you. but to-day, no can do.!!!
Explanations followed that made it clear that what could not be done was throwing open the building for public worship, and when an ex planation was demanded the ina pector explained by the