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ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS.
PLANS FOR CANTON AND DISTRICTS.
SOME OF THE OFFICIALS AND THEIR PROBLEMS.;
THE MISCHIEF MAKERS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28th, 1927.
The left wing in Canton are doing their very best to persuade Mr. Wang Ching Wei, once the Chair man of the Kuomintang Central Executive, to return to the Southern capital. "Mr. Wang may come back to Canton later on, but at present |
INDIAN WATCHMEN. KOWLOON MOTOR
PROPOSED LEGISLATION..
NEW BILL PASSES FIRST READING.
bo is in one of the foreign conces MR. F. C. JENKIN BRIEFED TO
lops in Shanghai It is rather exc pected that he will leave secretly
(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] for French Indo-Chine. Mr. Wang'a
friends in Hong Kong hope that he
"element" and "cutЯadrift from the brief visit to Canton.
commands an important unit of the
ENTER PROTĖST,
The Ordinance to provide for
become-law-without-a-protest
on behalf of a number of Indian
Wang Ching Wet welcoming him to watchmen in the Colony to present Cunton for a visit.
'BUSES.
SMALL TYPE- CREVICISED.
COLLISION, CASE AT THE SUMMARY: COURT.
top heavy.
OBSTRUCTION BY FI
DEALERS.
TEST CASE DECISION,
POWERS OF SHOP OWNERS.
that one street for the purpose of
molestadióneme
When a number of salt-ish deal- In the course of a motor collisioners were summoned recently for causing obstraction by placing their. ease, heard yesterday, at the Sum-goods in Mui Fong Street, in the mary Court, before Mr. Justice western district Mr M. E. Lo sub- will visit them for a few days and the registration and regulation of R. Wood the question was briefly mitted on their behalf that they had Now that the Government has that perhaps General Li Tssi Hain Watchmen, which passed its first raised as to whether the small Ford lawful permission, given by private reading at the Legislative Council type of motor buses are safe and authority, to place their goods there, effectively routed the extremist will raise no objection to an equally yesterday, is not to be allowed to suitable for their work. Inspector inasmuch as the salt-fish proprietors
Mason of the Traffic Department. inilitary complications of the North General Wong Kie. Cheung, who}-- MF~F. C. Jenkin has-been-brief: thought they were not dery suitable had bought most of the shops in era expedition 's real attempt ap- Cantonese Army, has wired to fed, through- Messrs. Lee and Buss, for their purpose and inclined to be carrying on their trade without pears to be afoot to undertake many administrative" reforms long overdue in Canton and Kwangtung. Prominent among those settling down to very useful work Mr. T. T. Lee, retiring managing former supposed "Red" Mr. Chan director of the Yueh Han Railroad, Kung Pok, the new Commissioner was arrested in Canton yesterday.
The advisory board of the Line have! of Civil Affairs. Mr. Chan, once accused Mr. Lee of malpractices regarded as a dangerous extremist, and corruption while in office
of his subordinates are neeting representative Some executives from nearly 13 districts said to be implicated and their arrested has been ordered. Mr. and cities near Canton City proper Lee was a school-mate of Mr. Sun men, but it is understood that they
is
now
ANOTHER OFFICIAL
ARRESTED.
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pointment dates back to the tin when Mr. Sun Fo was Commissioner
of Reconstruction in, Canton,
to consider measures to promote. Fo' in America. His present -ap- reforms for the benefit of the people and the suppression of brigandage, official corruption and military ex-
The latest labour union to be tortion. It is hoped that Mr. Chan proscribed by the Canton Authori- will be loyally and energetically ties is that of workers in the tobacco supported and that responsible shops and stands. Workers of the Salt Fish, Vegetable, and Fruit people will come forward and
Unions who attempted to hold A participate in public affairs. Mr. joint meeting yesterday were for- Chan recently said that he would bidden to do so by the Authorities. These three unions have total try and see that 82,000,000 of the
membership of nearly 4,000. $1,000,000 no longer going to sup- port the Northern Expedition, is in future used to promote local indus- tries." Commissioner Chad Kung
ROBBER ATTACKS WITH
SCISSORS. !
ROBBERY.
Po in his move for a more pro THE SHAMSHUIPO ARMED sperous Cauton is "supported by Commissioner Chen Shih Jen of the Bureau of Reconstruction, who is promoting a $10,000,000 scheme to establish a line of steamers to handle all the local products of the West, North, and the East Rivera Mr. Chen and Mr. Kung Pok are
both secking to begin by restoring peace and order in Canton.
RIVER CONSERVANCY. BOARD.
Mr.
The case was 000 in which
The decision, which was then re- their objections to the Bill. the Kowloon Motor Bus Co. were served b Major C. Willsun, before Jenkin will apply to H.E. The plaintiffs and claimed against Mr. whom the summonses were beard Officer Administering the Goveru Henry Leung, assistant Compras a test case, was given yesterday ment to appear before the Council.dore of Jardine, Matheson & Co, when his Worship said and it permission is granted he will Ltd., for $710, the driver of a car, attend the meeting of the Council the alleged driving of which was next Thursday afternoon and wilitated to have forced one of plain
when the Bill comes up then for its othsion with a tree give the watchmen's point of viewtiff company's motor buses into a
second reading.
M. C. A. S. Russ was for plain. As far as is known there is no tiff and Mr. H. J. Armstrong for recognised · organisation of watch- | the defence....
object strongly to the proposed measure ugil a number of them have banded together to arrange for the full presentation of their case.
First Reading Of The Bill.
"I take the view that lawful
authority quited for the purpose of Section Sub-section 3 of Or-
dinance No. 1 of 1313, may be given by a private person, and that, there- fore, the owners of shops in Mui Fong Street enn lawfully give per- mission to their tenants to obstruct the streets to the degree that at present exists. The summonses are dismissed."
IMPERSONATING A POLICE CONSTABLE.
In the course of his evidence Inspector Mason, of the Trafie Department, in reply to a ques tion as to whether the small Ford car type of bus, was inclined to be top-heavy with a full load he re- In moving the first reading of theplied that in his opinion the type CHARGE AGAINST A CHINESE.
the Legislative Council of bus was certainly not suitable Bill at
Attorney-General for the work.
Charges of impersonating a police caterday, "the
His Lordship pointed out in view constable on three different occa said: Ten years ago the Captain Superintendent of Police inaugur-of what Inspector Mason had statsions were made against a Chinese ated a system of supplying watched that the buses were passed by before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow men for private players. The the traffic department for passenger toon Magistracy yesterday," "The scheme had very small beginnings. service and if thy were top-heavy man admitted two of the charges, It began with 20 men. The unit was a serious thing to allow but denied the third. hers are now increased so that at them on the road at all.
According to the police, defend the present time over 600 watch Witness said that he did not deant represented himself às & mêm- men are employed.". It is true that finitely my they were top-heavy.ber of the hawkers' staff," recent- some of these "are" employed as He merely expressed his own perly transferred to Taumati, and ships guards and very soon the easonal opinion that this type of bus threatened to arrest a woman who ployment of ships' guards under the "was not suitable. There had been was taking some clothing into her evention of piracy regulations severnt cases of them having been house at Reclamation Street. He will cease to be compulsory, and it blown over in typhoon weather, took the woman's name and address may be that some of these guards This only applied to the smaller
but she evidently suspected his will no longer be employed as such, buses and not to the new larger hond files and she gave information. but there will still be a great mum-type
which led to the defendant being traced to the Tai Yat Theatre and handed over to the police.
The case in which three Chinese are charged with committing an aimed robbery at Shamauipo, in the course of which one man was ber apparently who will be required His Lordship said that witness shot by a lukong, again came be as "guards on shore, and there may had been perfectly frank and he fore Mr. W. Schoßeld at the Kow-be many required also as ships' (His Lordship) maintained that it lopu Magistracy, yesterday.
guards. The growth of the scheme was a very serious matter. It was shows that it has fulfilled a need clearly not in the public interests and that it was found useful by that an Inspector should be called employers of labour. It has grown on to pass out cars of a type which to such dimensions that now it seems desirable to regulate it" by
Evidence was given to the effect that one of the robbers' attacked the mistress of the house with a pair of scissors. Another Chinese witness stated that the third defen dant occupied a cubicle in his house and that a few days before the rice was cominitted, the third
statule.
be considered not suitable.
Opening the case Mr. Kuss said that about 4.45 p.m. on September
Witnesses called testified to the fact that the defendant represented himself to be a policeman, one wit ness Baying that he demanded a dollar."
Defendant still denied the charge, and the case was adjourned until this morning to enable a witness to Exceptions To Existing Practice. The present Bill, and the regula11th Bus No.--102 was coming from he called to give evidence on bis tions proposed to be nunde under it Laichikok to Tsimtsatsui at a ces behalf. of Mr. Sun Fo and a son-in-law of defendant introduced the 2nd de which have also been published, are sonable speed, from ten to twelve the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen, is to re.fenant into the house also obtaining intended on the whole to embody miles an hour, when a private. car!
Dr. Tai En Sai, a brother-in-law
a bed space for him in the sume house.
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The case was again adjourned.
WINTER. CONCERTS. SECOND SERIES AT HELENA
the existing practice. But there
are certain important exceptions to driven by the defendant, came up | "wobbly."-Witness replied that that statement. In the first place from behind, passed the bus and the bus had only come up for its annual try-out six days previous to when the Bill and Regulations be burned in so sharply that the rear come law the employment of any wheel of the defendant's car struck the accident and steering trouble, unregistered perron as a watchman off the front wheel of the bus caus- he thought, could not possibly have will be prohibited. There is one ing it to swerve and dash into a developed within that time.. exception again to that statement, tree at the side of the road. The Asked what a reasonable price namely that the prohibition will not bus was overturned, four of the for the bus would have been at the apply to watchmen of Chinese race, sixteen occupants were injured and time of the annual try-out, witness but it will apply to watchmen of taken to hospital and, the bus said he was not an expert on prices any other race than Chinese. That badly damaged.
The question of top-heaviness was then raised by the judge as
turn to his post as director-general' of the Kwangtung River Conser- vancy Board. Dr. Tai is a former law student and not an engineer, but his political influence and con- siderable capacity may help him to
MAY INSTITUTE. do retain this job long enough to
ANOTHER ENJOYABLE is the chief point on which the Bill The bus was in the repair shop but he thought the bus then would have been worth something like some real work towards lessening |
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will vary existing practice. At for a considerable period after the 8800. present, of course, the employment accident and the claim for damages the distress caused by the annual
of watchmen through the Police is was made up of the bill for repairs flooding of the principal rivers in Another enjoyable the Canton Delta which destroys was given yesterday evening at the purely voluntary. Anyone who now and the amount which the Company already reported.
Helena May. Institute when the wishes to employ a watchman from considered a fair average for the
The defendant 3r. Henry Leung, a great deal of rice and silk. Of second-series-of-the-winter-couvert elsewhere has not got to see that loss of the days takings during assistant compradore of Jardine, late years, the job which Dr. Tai was held. There was a good attend the watchman is registered with the the period in which the bus was Matheson & Co., Ltd., stated that holds has been little more than a ance and several of the items were police. In, future he will have to out of commission. The average he tried to pass the bus, several had been made out on a 840 a day times but owing to the narrowness loudly encored. government has
basis, the car not having return to
of the road he could not. Control Of Ships” Guards, The special feature of the pro- this gramme
service until September 22nd. was that all. the music taoney towards
Regarding the control of ships
It was indicated for the defenen they came to a wider section he dated back to the 18th century and
guards I may say that watchmen that $100, had been paid inte Court again attempted to pass the car, accelerating for this purpose.' At money allowed has done no more earlier. The items were as follows: employed us ships' guards will also The amount of the repair bill, lost the same time a coolie woman step. a large staff, which Unaccompanied Trio: Madrigal have to be registered and it will be of daily takings, etc, was queried ped out from the side of the road How Merrily we live, Michael an offence to employ any person as and other questions raised involve towards the car and he had to East; Messrs. Gardner, Barrow a ship's guard unless he is on the ing the suitability of this type of
swerve to the left to avoid knocking and Hargreaves Browne. watchmen's register. The control
sinecure as no voted Dy urgently needed work. The little
than to keep
has bad practically nothing to do. The public roads in Canton and vicinity are also under able manage- ment at present. Mr. Albert E 8. Chucky Commissioner of Public Highways for the Province of Kwangtung: Mr. Henry Aki Pan- hoe, Cominissioner of Public Ronds in Canton City, and manager of the three large railways terininating in Canton, are all men trained in Westem engineering science, having
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Piano Solos: (a) Pastorale; of the police, however, over ships bus for road work
His Lordship asked if the amount (b) Copriccis: Mrs. Hargreaves, guards will be quite different from paid into Court did not satisfe, collision with the bus as a result of that over other watchmen. Speak nd Mr. Russ replied: "Very fur the swerve. Owing to the sudden- ness with which the woman stepped 3-Songs: (a) I attempt from ing generally once a ship's guard from it. Set. Baysting, of the out from the side of the rond be
love's sickness to fly, Purcell is employed he will be entirely Trafie Department, who arrived (b) Nymphs and Shepherd; under the control of the ship-owner on the scene of the accident shortly could not have stopped his car in Surgeon Lieut. Bradfisid, N.
who employs him and the police afterwards, said that the near skid time to avoid her. 4.-Song: Bergerette, Weckerlin: will have no control over his actions miter of the bus was 18. The off. Mr. Ruas suggested that if every- one adopted auch tactics in swerv on board the ship on which he is side sad mark of the bus was 23 Mr. Sanger." 6-Quartette: Sarabande, Viola: employed. That meets one of the feet 5 inches in length, about the ing right out to avoid an accident there would be many more accidents Miss Jean Braga,
nusin objections to the present centre of the road.. Vaje Trio: 3-Unaccompanied
Come piracy prevention regulations.
Inspector, A. H. Mason, stated happening on the roads. He con- Sirrah Jack Ho, Thomas Weel-
Other. Restrictions,
that he had examined the bus on tended. that this did not affect the kes; Messrs. Gardner, Barrow
The defendant's evidence and Hargreaves Browne.
There are certain other restric-the day following the accident and question of liability, Gavotte tions which the Ordinance proposes had made a list of the damage sus America. They now hope with en-7-Piano Solos: (a)
Varice, Handel; (b) Sonata, to impose and one is against watch-tained. Shown the bill put in by corroborated by Mr. Leung Iu couragement. from Commissioners
acting Dr. Arnes Mrs. Hargreaves iden
money-lenders; the repair shop, witness said it ap- kwan, a director of the Sun Com like Chan Kunk Pok and Chen Shih-
Browne.
another is against watchmen under peared to him a fairly reasonable any, who was a passenger in the His Lordship then went into the 8-Trios: (a) Largo, Back; (b) taking duties from two employers bill if all the work bid been done, at the time.
Sarabande, Le Clair: Violins: Obviously that is undesirablebo Cross-examined Ty Mr. Arm-claim of the plaintiff and reduced Mrs. Aubrey and Mr. John cause the result from that is that strong witness agreed that this type the amount claimed to 8181 His Braga; Piano: Lise Caroline neither set of duties is properly of bus was inclined to be top-heavy Lordship then said he would not Braga.
performed. It is hoped, Sir, as when fully loaded. A bus of this
liability. He would hear solictors Songs: (a) My Sweet Sweeting, this Ordinance and the regulations type would turn over more easily as yet decide the question of Frederick Keel; (b) When from, endeavour to keep to the existing than an adding car or bus of hea for both sides, if they so desired,
at a later hearing and would hit- my love I looke; Burg-Lient. practice, that the scheme which has vier type if it struck against
pared to successfully, hitherto will thing strong suggested that a elf consider the authorities regard Bradfield, R.N.
Mr. Armstrong when it is regulated by Ordinance..
Jen, to carry out schemes for the construction of public works on "scale.
Being assured that the extremists
in the Kuomintang are not likely
to hold power for long in Canton,
President Tai Chi Tao of Sun Yat
:
1
Sen University, who is now in 10.Aria: Cease thy weeping, Han be equally successful, and more so, bus might turnover if through 10g the position when a car which
Shanghai, may return some time
next November.
del; Mrs. Sanger with violin obligato, played by Mr. John Braga.
The Colonial Secretary seconded some cause the steering became and, the Bill was read a first time. (Continsed on next Column.)
be unsuitable for road traffic was was stated by expert evidence to involved in a collision.
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