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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1927.
COST OF THE STRIKE FATE OF THE "FEIYING." THE ANTI-JAPANESE
COMMITTEE.
FIFTEEN MILLION
DOLLARS.
WILFUL DAMAGE TO FORMER QUARTERS.
END OF AN UNFORTUNATE MOVEMENT.
CANTON FLAGSHIP
AGROUND!
BOYCOTT COM- MITTEE.
[FROM OUR SWATOW CORRESPONDENT.] CANTON MERCHANTS DEMAND
A number of tow-boats and junks left Canton Harbour on Friday on hearing that the Kwangtung Army had regained control of Shishing and Kongmoon from the Kwangsi
ITS DISSOLUTION.
MILITARISTS AND SWATOW.
DA CANTON'S WORKLESS.
الرحم
PRESS REGULA- TIONS.
PROPOSED NEW ORDINANCE,
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS:
It is proposed to introduce at the next meeting of the Legislative Counella Bin intituled An Ordin- ance to regulate the printing of
of priating presnes.
(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT] Porces. The Kwangsi militarists [ROM OR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.1 newspapers and the keeping and use
have secured the adhesion of part
years
After living for two and a half of the Kwangtung-Flotilla, inclúd-
**charity." on funds
the flagship Feiging, which is ing. raised from the public in the first now said to be in touch with place through the sale of goods Kwangsi Army Authorities in suited by the pickets and later. Swatow. through surtaxes on the Customs,
The leading merchants in Canton.
through their four principal trade guilds, met at the General Cham ber of Commerce last Saturday afternoon, and decided to request According to another report the the Authorities to dissolve the Anti-Japanese Boycott Committee, an organisation whom they alleged had degenerated into pirates who had been robbing in- coming passengers under the pre- text of searching for "low grade "
the 66,000 registered strikers asso-Feiging is aground near Вод clated with the 1925 anti-British Tigris and is now being watched hoycott were on November 25th by the s.s. Kong Koo and s.s. Kongy Anally disbanded and discharged.. Tui. The other side claim that it Those who have watched the is the Feiging, which is watching movement from the beginning to the two gunboats to prevent them the end estimate roughly that it returning to Canton Harbour and has cost the Canton public at least will try and force them to join Li $15,000,000 to feed and arm "the Tent Hsin's forces.” strikers and pickets. This sum
-The Committee of Public Charity
The draft, of the Ordinance is published ia the Government Gazette" for general information." but the Bill, which is a long use, deals largely with technical matters and it is unlikely that many mem- bars of the general public will in terest themselves suficivatly to read it.
1 gang of The Objects and Reasons" given for the new measure include the following explanations:-
11
"Editor" is defined as menning or Japanese goods. The bayearts than one, and as including the chief editor if there are more
pickets had in many cases simply
an acting chief editor. taken what they liked from those too weak to resist them. Lately, several cases of cigarettes had been seized, as "low grade" goods, when it was well-known that the
include
The definition of "newspaper has been widened to periodicals published at intervals of a month.--
It is intended to appoint the Secretary for Chinese Affairs
"BULLDOG. DRUMMOND.
THE FINAL PERFORMANCE.
MAJOR MACREÁDY APPEALS. FOR MORE MEMBERS FOR A.D.C.
·O*
There was a packed house, for the final performance of “Bulldog Drummond " by... the Amateur Dramatic Society at the Thestre Royal
Saturday evening. Possibly this was 'n stimulus for the members of the cast. At any rate the play, "went splendidly frour start to finish, better even, it was generally admitted, than on any previous "evening, and, there word scenes of the greatest enthusiaszn at the fall of the curtain.
The principals were the recipients of many foral and "other", tri- bates and there were repeated calls for Majer Macready, in reply to which he appeared and made 11 short speech. With natural modesty he refrained from referring to the important part he had taken in ensuring the success of the pro-
duction. but spoke chiefly of the great help that had been rendered by many willing workers behind the A high compliment was scenes. paid to those who had shifted the scenery with a celerity which could
does not include the loss caused to in Canton City is to be abolished, Japanese never export tobacco to Registrar and the Registrar of the not "have been surpassed in Lon-
Inndlords through strikers occupy- ing their premises Without paying
rent!
and a Bureau of Public Charity is to be organized.
At a recent meeting of the Canton
*
Before the unemployed strikers Provincial Council 300,000 was were turned out from their free voted for road construction. boarding houses, the Canton Au- thorities granted them each a bonus of 8100 in banknotes and bonds, openedi ап employment bureau on their behalf and gave them free tickets to return to their
homes. In addition those who wanted them were permitted to
trade take out
and hawker's licences at half of the ordinary fees and many were allowed sa extra gratuity of 86.50 as a con tribution to the cost of their first
month's board elsewhere.
"Canton.
port for two months it will mean a life fortune.
News from Swatow shows that at least three sections of militarists are trying to secure control of that port, which has an income of some $900,000 monthly, Whether Wang Ching Wei, Chiang Kai Shek, or Li Tsai Hsin will win finally is HONG KONG'S GAIN.
another question, but to any con- The blackwood furniture indusmand able to retain control of that try in Canton is gradually being
A group of Japanese teachers and transferred to Hong Kong owing to the labour tyranny in the students is visiting Canton for Smitherr capital_Singe_the_trou.educational purposes. They in kle began in Canton two years ago, spected the schools in Canton more than 10 black wool work were guests of the Canton officials in charge of education at the shops, according to the vernacular Bureau of Education last Friday prces, bave removed to Yaumati, afternoon. Mongkok, and Shamsuipo in Hong Kong, where rents are reasonable and the labour problem less diffi-
The strikers showed their grati-cult tude on Friday by setting fire to
A group of Japanese salesnen,
Supreme Court as Deputy Regi don itself. As the scene-shifter in trar under this Ordinance. The chief Mr. Wynne Jones then up- Secretary for Chinese Affairs will peared and bowed his acknowledg-
отег the registration of take Chinese newspapers, and the Regis ment of the rounds of applause trar of the Supreme Court will with which he was greeted, continue to be the Registrar for English newspapers.
Major Macready, in conclusion, made an appeal for new talent for the Society, and asked those who would like to take part in future productions to send in their names to Mr. H. Davenport Browne, the Society's very capable "business manager.
The new bill makes it an offence to furnish incorrect particulars unless the informant cap show (i) that he believed the information to be correct and (ii) that he could not with reasonable diligence have discovered its incorrectness. Under the Ordinance of 1886 the furnish- ing of incorrect particulars is an offence only if it is done kook. ingly and wilfully," The framers of the new Bill think it is not too SERIES OF SMALL THEFTS. much to ask the informant-to-make- reasonable inquiries.
Several Canton officials, including Commissioner Chen Shih Jen of the Reconstruction Bureau, are to leave Canton to-day for Shanghai to attend the preliminary meeting of ment.
SATURDAY'S POLICE REPORTS.
A series of small thefts were notified in Saturday morning's police reports.
Another section of the new Or dimane provides that the pro prietor, printer, publisher and editor of any newspaper "shall be liab eminally for any illegal matter ertained in any issue of the newspaper, and that the prin
In one instance it was stated ter of any other document shall similarly be able for any illegal matter contained in euch docu- that a suit case containing a The accused will not be camera and clothing, valued at Hable under this section if he 8173, the property of a passenger, was printed without his authority, On Lee while she was lying at the consent or knowledge and that the Ping On Wharf on Friday, printing thereof did not arisc from want of due care or caution on his part.
their old quarters in 6ve different who arrived at Canton last week the Kuomintang Central Executive proves that the master in question was stolen from the river, steamer
places, destroying altogether some 20 buildings. A number of the cul-
príts have been arrested.
Tho Strike Committee will now I ordered by the Administration to wind up their business without further delay.
Mr. Chu Chao Hsin, the former Chinese Minister at Rome, assured office as Commissioner. for Foreign
with the intention of showing their samples in the native city, did not do so in view of the disturbed local conditions. They gave a private exhibition instead of making a public display as at first desired.
"The Hong Kong Evening Post has been granted permission to circulate
in Canton...
Coininittee.
Money and jewellery to the value of $178 was stolen from No. 25, Cochrane Street. A houre-No. 3,
The proprietor of the Chuan Chong Paper Company at Canton was arrested yesterday for trying to discount Canton notes. Canton It is required that a copy of Tung Wah Lane-was entered dur every edition of every newspaper,ing the owner's absence and jewel- signed by the printer or publisher,lery to the value of 8550 was stolen. Mr. C. Sara of the P.W.D., re- shall be divered to the Registrar of Newspapers. The copy so deported that while his motor car livered is to be evidence in any was parked in Statue Square, come the persona stole the car's tools, a against legal proceedings printer, publisher, proprietor and purap and a jack, valued roughly editor of the newspaper,
exchange shops would not accept further notes last Saturday on bear ing that Hong Kong banks are refusing Canton' notës.
The Ordinance finally provides for a general maximum penalty of with or without hard labour,
Affairs in Canton on Saturday; re Hai, widow of the late Mr. Lino of the Hong Kong Chinese Inbour $1,000 or six months', imprisonment
lieving Mr. C. L. Tan, who enter, ed office soon after April 13th last. The present Administration in Canton is in urgent need of a larger revenue from the city in order to make up for the loss of revenue from those districts which are still in the hands of the Kwang "group. It has been de-
THE KUOMINTANG. According to Mrs. Liao Chung
who was assassinated in August, 1925, the Kuomintang, Party really began to degenerate from the time that her husband was put to death. Her husband, Mr. Liao Chung Hoi was the founder of the Peuannis and Labour movements in South China."
The many branch 'unions in Can- ton, with head offices in Hong Kong, "are to be closed by order unions, as all workmen who went to Canton during the strike of 1925 have been disbanded as a body, and those still remaining there are now regarded more or less as undesir- ables.
Unemployed workmen are now heing closely watched, and they are to be prevented from doing further evil. The fires of the last two days at Honam and other places are attributed to some of then.
In the opinion of Mr. Chen Shih cided, therefore, that those paying Jen, Commissioner of Reconstruc land and transfer taxes before tion in Canton, several members of January 1st, will be given a dis the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee now in the Southern As a means of raising 850,000 for Capital may be able to get away to attend the proposed Party Confer- the apkeep of public highways enec at Shanghai suggested for De within the district of Fongshing,cember. There are only six mem- a very poor district in Kwangtung bers of the Central Excentive and and the subsequent outrages.
count of 50 per cent.
-
The Police Authorities of Canton took into custody many "percona during the last few days in connec tion with the fires of lust Friday
the Authorities there are, issuing one of the Supervisory Committee Practically all the free boarding regulations for tolls to be collect Conton. In Shanghai there ars and lodging houses for workmen ed from persons using the roads.23; in Nanking, 3; Moscow, G; and connected with the 1995 anti-British strike were closed during the week Certain officials in Cantor made six in other parts of China:
end, and those who could not find the unwelcome suggestion of set-
GENERAL LI TSAI HSIN
quarters had to sleep on side-walks ting up a department for auditing
with policemen watching over thera. 'public accounts. This proposal has
The latest reports from Swatow been vetoed
sate that the s.s. Feiying and other craft of the Canton Navy arrived at Swatow on November 25th. The gunboat, it may be re- called, deserted the present Kwang tung régime and rejoined the Kwangsi military party.
Police Yesterday the Canton gain, searched the Canton Chinese Seamen's Union.
WANTED BACK. Reports in the vernicular press The prospect of an abundant state that General Chen Trai Tang harvest in the Eastern Districts of has wired from Swatow asking Kwangtung has caused a number of General Li Tsai Hsin to return im local authorities to adnounce that mediately to the South and direct the Canten the embargo on the export of rice operations against will be abolished.
rebula."- Canton's political independence Natives of Kwangai, who have of Nanking and withholding of been in the civil and military service further military contributions to of Canton do not care to stay now Kwangst will afford a saving of that General Li Tsai Hain has left
arc in Hong Kong. The buildings at Yitak" Maloo, in more than $3,000,000 a month to the and many public treasury. It is being sug Others have made their way back Canton City, are to be returned to gested that a part of this monthly to Kwangsi by the Hong Kong- the French Catholic Mission, the aving should be spent on the im- Wachów boats; and there has been unemployed workers of, the Strike provement of the telegraph service.n big exodus during the last few Committee having been ordered to
(Continued on next Column.)
I days.
vacate them.
THE RETURN OF THE
QUAINTS."
"
THEATRE ROYAL ON THURS-
DAY AND FRIDAY.
"THE BLUE TRAIN."
at $40.
THE SHARE MARKET.
LITTLE ACTIVITY.
HONG KONG LOAN AT THREE
พบ
PER CENT. PREMIUM.
In their review of the local share Market for the pinst week Mesars Benjamin & Potts state that there
little
doubt activity-no partly due to the distraction of the interport cricket and only a limited volume of business was Prices abowed no fluctua tons of any magnitude.
donc.
The Quaints, who have had a very successful season in Shanghai, are returning to Hong Kong this
The Singapore market for rub- week and will appear at the Thea tre Royal on Thursday and Friday. ber shares ruled firm, and there
They will only play for these two
was a good enquiry for the princ evenings and on each occasion they pal counters, with few sellers in will present the musical comedy evidence. The same remarks ap-
The Blue Train."
ply to Shanghai.
The Quaints have had packed: Hong Kong and Shanghai Danks houses at Shanghai and their two were dealt in at $1,130/81,132) and most popular presentations there more could be placed at the former were The Blue Train" and "One rate. Unions were placed at the outset at $282, but closed with Dam Thing After Another."
buyers at $283. Hong Kong Fires continue in demand at $590.
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.
||
The following appointments and, Test Issue of the Government promotions are notifed in the cur- Gazette:
Hong Kong, Canton and Macro Steamboats were booked at 8181. Star Ferries crept up to a buying quotation of $543, and probably a little more would be paid. Water- boats were put through at 817.
at 81201. Kowloon Wharves. remained steady
Hong Kong and Shangbai Hotels Bong Mr. William James Carrie to act changed hands at 86.35, as Head of the Sanitary Depart Kong Lands are in demand at 886. ment and Registrar of Births and Realtys bavo risen to 88.90. Hong Deaths, and Mr. George Stacy Kong Trams, were negotinted at Kennedy-Skipton to act as Assist $20.20. Hong Kong Electrics are ant Assessor of Rates, both with Telephones have takera at 83.75. ant Colonial Treasurer and Assist firm at $341 after sales at the rate. effect from November 19th,
Hong Kong Government Loans Second
Maurice have daroved and have buyers at Lieutenant George Noll of the Hong Kong 3 per cent. premium.
Ewo were done at Tix. 7.20 and Honkow Volunteer Defence Corps to be
continue in request. Lieutenant
Company Sergt. Major Archie Wharves closed appreciably higher Shanghai Lands promoted to the rank of Second strengthened and are wanted at Cyril Groves of the same corps is at Tis. 157.
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