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CHIANG KAI SHEK'S ROMANCE.
"NO POLITICAL SIGNIFIC- ANCE."
THE MATCH WITH MME. SUN'S SISTER.
(BY GEORGE BOXOLSXY.]
In view of the many rumours and tales which, have gone the rounds in-Shanghai cancerning the more ments of General Chiang Kai Shek, I called on, General Chiang and re- quested him to authorize a state ment of his purposes and plans
General Chiang said:
I
My present visit to Shanghai bas no political significance. have come to this city on purely private business, to arrange, if pos- sible for my marriage with Miss Soong May Ling."
Miss Soong May Ling is the po- pular sister of Mme. Sun Yat Sea, Mr. T. V. Soong former Minister of Finance and Mrs. H. E. Kuug, wife of the former Minister of In- dustries of the Nationalist Govern ment. She is a graduate of Welles ley College in the United States and is prominent in Shanghai society.
·
IN WENCHOW TO-DAY.
NO ANTI-FOREIGN BITTER. NESS.
EFFECT OF BRITISH EVACUATION.
400-
RACING NOTES.
(By RAPIER)''
Micao Race Club.
I have just received word that the Fourth Extra Race Meeting of the above Club, which was to have
Very little first-hand news has been held this week end, has been been possible from this outport dur-postponed and that it has not yet! ing the past seven months owing to been decided when it will take) the withdrawal of most of the for- place.
Polo Interport, North eign residents, writes a
The Shanghai Team's ponies have China Daily News correspondent arrived and are being exercised in who has recently returned from the early morning at the Rac visit to Wenchow. For one siderable portion of this time, apart Course. They are exceedingly fit and from a few Japanese it may be, very much superior in every way to there were no foreigners in Wen the Hong Kong ponies Shanghai chow, Missionaries, merchants, and will be represented by Messrs, H. Customs staff, all had left the port. The wisdom of leaving this place for a time cannot be questioned as it has made possible return with eut bitterness, and without any very serious incident to liquidate. De- spite all the propaganda of tremists--and Wenchow had more than its fair share of their incite ments-the bona fide inhabitants of the city were
CX-
nat won over to
rubid anti-foreignism. It can justly he said of them that they main tained the good name they have had for many years.
The Black Months,
March and April were the black Official authority. was "It would be advisable, Gemmen! | months." Chiang," I said, " to explain to the usurped by various committees and public through the medium of our unions: Then followed a period of newspaper, exactly what your regradual auppression of "wiid men." lationships are, for although such Some were shot; others were im a matter is strictly your own affair, prisoned; and many sought safety your prominence and Miss Soong Ningpo and Shanghai. Churches connections, have given rise to which had been sealed or taken Inaay accounts, which if untrue, possession of by unions or muah room schools, were banded back to ought to be conreated'
the missions and services were once more regularly held,
"I Was Daly Divorced."" General Chiang Rai Shek re- plied:
G. Robinson, F. S. Gibbings, Judge Franklin and Major Gibbs of the Coldstream Guards. They will Probably be opposed by a team con- sisting of K.O.S. B. Officers led by Colonel Comyn, but the team has not yet been definitely chosen. I have a pretty shrewd idea what it is but I will wait to hear its com- position officially before venturing to discuss the prospects of the. match. Meanwhile those desiring of seeing the game should make a note that it takes place at Cause way Bay next Thursday, the 6th October, at 4 p.m. (vide"advt.). On Saturday, October 8th, there will be an Interport, Pole Dinner ati the Hong Kong Hotel and Mr. W. Starton, the Hon. Secretary of the Club, would like the names of members and their gues's, propos- ing to attend, sent to him not later than Monday, October 3rd..
Fanling Hunt.
a few others supply
Dr. Pierce Grove is back in the Colony and has quickly made his The inc middle school of the United Methodist Church Mission presence felt in hunting circles. He "During the 10th moon of the is, however, still occupied by a rival is principally responsible for the 10th year of the Republic (1021) I school whose main reason for such existence of Kwanti Race Course was duly divorced, in accordance occupation is that if they do not and he and with Chinese customs, from my first take possession of the buildings wife, who is now living at Fenhua some cther school will! This school the driving power to keep it going. Here is a document of divorce was raided last June by troops He tells me a Meeting will be held which has been registered with the seeking evidences of Bolshevik pro at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Room Several teachers and in Chater Road at 6.30 p.m. on Wed- proper judicial authorities at Fen-paganda.
were students were arrested, and after nesday next, October 5th, to arrange hua According to it, we
one. student was details for the forthcoming season. diverced for incompatibility. All investigation.
executed. Despite this, the same It is hoped that there will be a the details are in this document.
lot of teachers are in possession of good attendance and that those the college buildings and the Frin- present will be able to furnish de- cipal's house. Tas latter has been finite information regarding the practically footed by these so-called number of ponies available for educationists. Many non-Christian hunting and steeplechasing. Chinese regret this blot on the city's presentatives from the Services will od name, for none of the mission be especially welcomed and the compounds have been occupied Mecting is, of course, open to any or the houses looted.
"Since that divorce, my life has been away from Fenhua, mostly in the battlefield of the revolutionary cäuse. Five years ago in Canton at the home of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, I met Miss Soong. I felt that in her I would find the companionship which a man seeks in a wife. Missary Soong, at that time," however, w not interested. Since then I have been corresponding with her eon.
aut stantly, pressing my
Res cently, or romance culminated in her agreeing to a marriage subject to the consent of her family, which we now hope to obtain. We shall be married in Shanghai, in the event of the usual Chinese family arrangements being satisfactorily made and then we shall spend a year in travel abroad."
Outwardly Peaceful. Conditions in the city these days are outwardly peaceful. The coun try people come in freely with their produce, and all the shops are open and seem to be doing a fair buat- ness. Reports of the rice crops are not good. The prospects for the autumns crop being up to average are poor. Already rice has had to be imported, and prices have ‘ad- vanced.
Local banditti are having an in- I then asked General Chiang about the lady who is travelling innings. Almost every haien is suf fering from this pest. The people America. "Foreigners Do Not Understand." from the bill-districts say the rob- bers are local men "and not ex. "Foreigners perhaps do not soldiers. understand all the intricacies of Very few troops are stationed in the Chinese family system," he the city. At the present time, three said. "That lady has been divore parties are recognized as having ed in accordance with Chinese cus-authority in the city and district, tems. I am at present married to The local Nationalist Com- no one and am free to marry inmittee the Feasants' Union; and accordance with the host mono- the Workers' Union. Misa Boong gamous practices.
If conditions continue to im- would not consent to & marriage prove, it is hoped that Consular in any other circumstances and I
the port. should not dare ask a lady of her permission will be given to live in
character to marry me in any other circumstances.
Both Parties Bay "Hot A Political Match."
DIVER'S FIGHT WITH OCTOPUS.
CORPSE RESCUED AFTER"
HOUR'S BATTLE.
止
"Please make it clear that this marriage is in no wise a political marriage. It is accidental that we are all so prominent in politics, but not all of us are in the same camp and curiously enough, the Boong family has mot yet given its consent. I have been courting Miss Soong these many years without a thought of the political bearing of such a marriage and any sugges Townsend with a diver named tion in that direction is unfair to Hook. me and unjust to all the members of the Soong family.
A buge octopus bearing in its tentacles a human body was forced to disgorge ita prise after an hour' battle 80ft. under the water at Port
Re-
one who is interested. The Hunt is by no means expensive and I ex. pect it will be more popular than ever this season.
Engagements.
1
The following dates should be "diarised" by all turf and field enthusiasts, namely:
October 3rd:-Names for Inter-!
port Dinner to be sent to Mr. W. Starton. October 5th-Meeting at Hong Kong Jockey Club Room in Chater Road at 5.30 of those. interested in Fanling Hunt October 6th:-Polo Interport match at Causeway Bay at 4 p.m. October 8th:-Race Meeting at
Happy Valley
Ditto. October 19th:-
BOMBAY POLICE RAID Y.M.C.A.
COMMUNIST LITERATURE
SEIZED.
BOMBAY, Sept. 7th. The police raided the Central Y.M.C.A., at Wodehouse Road, Bombay, last night and recovered from a room occupied by a Euro- pean named Pratt (previously tele- graphed Pratt) a quantity of pro- scribed Communist literature relat ing to China,
Spratt was forthwith turned out of the Y.M.C.A. by the Secretary.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police, armed with a warrant issued by the Chief Presidency Magistrate, raided the room, accompanied by a C.I.D. Inspector and Sergeant, and took charge of certain literature proscribed by Government,
Hook had been repairing a fish net when he saw the devil fish mak Miss Song's mother is illining its way along the bottom of
The literature is believed to con- Japan and as soon as I am inform the sound with a body in its ed that I may wait upon her at clutches. The diver, who was arm sist of copies of a pamphlet entitled Kobe, I shall go there to inquire ed with a pike-pole, forthwith at "India and China," in connection after her health and to ask for her tacked the monster. For many with which the office of the Indian daughter's band. I have no other minutes the gallant diver thrust National, Herald was raided re business sin Japan then that. And and lunged at the monster, which cently. whether I go to Japan or not is savagely gave battle, but grimly Spratt's activities in Bombay
Mrs.
the
entirely contingent upon what in-held on its prey...
have been closely followed by the formation we obtain from there Time after time, the fish warded C.LD. He arrived here about a with regard to Soong's off the spear-thrusts and tried to year ago, as delegate of the Labour health."
seize its assailant in its serpentlike Research Institute, London, and became the professed object of his visit was When interviewed, Miss Scong armis, while the water told me that she was quite surprised cloudy with the "dust" of battle. to organize labour in this country that so much interest was evidenced At last, concentrating his thrusts and open an Institute and branches. Since his arrival he has worked in her personal affairs, but ahs upon creature's spiderlike hoped that her friends would body, the diver literally tore it to with the local Communist organiza realize that in marriage there was ribbons before it shrunk back ap- tion known as the Workers' and
Peasants' Party. no explaining why, one takes the parently mortally wounded, and step but that sentiment alone must the diver was able to prise its ten be the guide. Shg vidiculed the tacle loose from the corpss. idea of a political marriage and The body was later identified as said that she only hoped that the that of the cook of a tugboat which political members of her family tank in the harbour, when fong would place no impediments in the others were drowned, none of whose way of her choice.
bodies have been recovered.
and
He recently visited Lahore stayed with the Diwan Chamanlal, champion of Labour in the North
The Y.M.C.A Committee held an urgent meeting last night and de- cided to eject Bpratt from the pre- misen,
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