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CANTON A RICH PRIZE.
GOOD FOR A BIG REVENUE.
WHY IT IS THE MILITARISTS' OBJECTIVE.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
A triangular struggle.for Canton is in progress. The parties and their leaders are the Kwangsi group led by Generals Pei Tsung Tsi, Li Chung Jen, Li.Tani Hsin and Wong Shiu Hung; Kwangtung, with the Chiang Kai Shek-Wang Ching Wei alliance; and a new Kwangtung party with General Chen Ming Shu as the leader and General Li Fook Lam and others likely to join upon arrangement of terms satisfactory to all concerned. So far General Li Fook Lam is in the most favour able position and all cliques have assured his position in Honam.
Generals Fong Ting Ying and Man Pei Nam have been invited by the Political Council in Canton to be
come
of
the
presiding officers Military Commission. In reality, however, General. Li Fook Lam is now hond of the Military Commis- sion in Canton.,
The present Government in Can- ton will probably favour General Chen Ming Shu, but they will oppose General Chea Tsai Tong and, of course, the "Reds."
Pending a settlement as to who is to rule Canton, a subordinate and close follower of General Li Fook Lam will act as garrison commis- sioner of Canton City.
LOYALTY NEEDED.
Canton's wealth has not proved an undiluted blessing. Because of it militarists and political parties are perpetually fighting to control the City. Its own people show a
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24th, 1927.
JOSS BANKNOTES.
SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN
.CUSTOMS,
CANTONESE MORE SUPER STITIOUS.
(BY a L. C.]
Joss customs in China varied in different provinces, but, on the whole the Cantonese are more superstitous than their Northern brothers. In all Southern pro vinces, the people fear many gods and also worship the spirits of eminent mou departed from this world. The devils are also feared
Yesterday in the case in which tour Chinese wor¬ charged with the alleged forgery of the Central Bank of China notes (reported, else. where), Mr. G. S. Hugh-Jones, or the defence, produced a note which the Chinese used for "jose" pur poses. A Shanghai Chinese witness
ROUND THE POLICE
COURTS.
THROWING CORROSIVE
FLUID.
CASE FROM YAUMATI,
"THRIFTY AND INDUS- TRIOUS.""
CHINESE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER'S WILL
REWARD FOR A GOOD SON.
I have led the life of one who Some time ago a Chinese gold-"has been industrigift," thrify, Taith- smith, of Shanghai Street, Yau-tul and right-minded," states a mati, was charged with throwing Chinese in his will, probate of corrosive fluid upon a-Chinese girl which has just been granted. of a certain house, namely, No. 195, Temple Street, Yaumati
The case was committed to the Criminal Sessions, but yesterday it was again brought up before Mr. W... Schofield, at the Kowloon Magistracy, having been adjourned from the Monday.
Another girl at the same house. said that on November lath, shortly after 11 pm, she saw defendant come in, but later he left, and than returned within a short time, in company with two other men. They aid that he was
not acquainted entered the kitchen, as defendant with the customs in Hong Kong and had done on his first visit. This therefore could not say whether or was about midnight, and shortly no such notes were burnt to the afterwards defendant's companions gods or devils.
left the house. Defendant followed Having been a resident in Shang-complainant into a room with a hai for some years, I have always bottle wrapped in paper in his hand, found the Chinese there almost Witness saw him remove the oori devoid of superstitous beliefs from the bottle, and not long after, Throughout the year, they have when complainant and defendaus only very few Jeligious obeery had gone downstairs witness heard ances to perfona. They are quits ready to talk of funerals, sickness or death on a New Year day, but
to the Cantonese such conversation is strictly taboo. Nor are the Can- tonese women allowed to dress their bair on New Year's morning, for they believe that it will certainly bring bad luck to the household. in Shanghai, the women do not
believe this,
In Hong Kong, one is not allowed to sweep the fiver on New Year's way, but in Shaughan and all North ern provinces this is not observed. Where Southern. peop.e are not
THE WOMEN OF JAPAN.
A GREAT EMANCIPATION.
WHAT THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY ARE NOW..
CHANGES AFTER THE EARTH- QUAKE.
(ar c. L'aj
The estate is not very much, but the testator, Lau Po Son, alias The Japanese women have rer Lau Tuk Hing, a commercial travel-tainly changed very much since the ler, of Tung Kan district, Kwang- Great Earthquake. When I first tung Province, managed to save by his industry and thrift the sum of $1,500, which he deposited in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.
The testator was 50 years of age when he died on August 11th this year, and it appears that he made his will the day before he died. He states in" his will that he was dan gerously ill when making it and unable to write it himself.
Probate has been granted to his elder son, Lau, Shiu Fook, a school master, residing at No. 38 Queen's Road West.
saw into the land of cherry blossom and wisteria, about a decade ago. I found shy and demure maidens everywhere. Women were then not allowed to partake of food with men. A wife would stand quietly near the table serving her husband and would only take her meal after the master of the house had" finished. She was not allowed to speak until she was spoken to,
When out shopping or visiting with her husband, a wife would have to walk about five paces be hind him. Young unmarried wo- In his will testator states: "I men were rarely seen in the streets, have had two sons and two daugh and they certainly were not allow ters, but before these I bought aed to talk to men of their own age son, who stays in the country and Any woman defying this old tradi- does not attend to business or tional castoti, which had been any occupation, roaming about and handed down to the Japanese by Complainant addicted to licentiousness.""
the Chinese, would be classed as a geisha girl or worse.
old witness that defendant had complainant crying. sprinkled something over her end danniged her coat. . The cooe was adjourned until Friday next, at if a..
SEDITIOUS LITERATURE.
Was
Another charge of being in posses- sion of scuitious literature opened yesterday at the Kowloon Magistracy, before Mr. W. Scho- beid," when seven" Chinese, one Wouan and six men, were charged,
Sergt. Haywood prosecuted, and Mr. Hin Shing La, instructed by Mr. As el Arculli, defended the
Jack of loyalty to their province owed to eat meat or fish on third defendant, a man, but the f and are far less active than they year's day, Northerners treas the other defendants were unrepre
abould be in its defence. Also it is easier to raise money there than in most parts of China.
serves to a sumptuous feed.
In the South, various kinds of joss money are burat to devils. Some of them resembled a Mexican dollar, come, a sovereign and the Intest vegue is to offer banknotes to the needy inhabitants of the nether world. These bankuctes are very well produced, the manufac turer using copper plates and lithe- graphic stones for them.
sented.
All defendants entered pleas of not guilty."
sixth defendants, who
Testacor continues that the elder of his own two sons has been fiial in his duty to his father and mother,
But to-day everything has chang ed. The spirit of the new age, which crept in after the great dis- **I come of a poor family,"-con-{aster of 1923, has wrought such a tinues testator, "but through being change in Japanese women, that industrious and thrifty in life I have Japanese mer of the old school are saved $1,500, which I deposited beginning to wonder to what pass with the Hong Kong and Shanghai this great emancipation will bring Bank. I give this money to my Japan elder son as a token of my affection towards him.".
CHANGES IN THE POLICE FORCE.
PROMOTION FOR INSPECTOR
KENT..
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To-day young mishimi sans are walking the streets with their boys School boys go to and fro their schools with their feminine class nates.. Young women are natural and cheerful in the company of young nien Young couples in love saunter about the streets arm îa
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The Japanese orthodox morality has been totally discarded, the younger people simply defy eriti
eism and mock Aunt Grundy.
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According to the police evidence. In Canton the exact rent a pro-
Sergt. Haywood, acting on behalf of the Secretariat for Chinese perty owner receives monthly and
Affairs, paid a visit to No. 2, Was A number of changes will take the amount of capital a merchant
Ching Street, 3rd floor, Yaumati. place as from January 1st in the with a party of District" watchmen higher ranks of the Hong Kong possesses are always known and by exacting a certain part of the rent
to search the premises. Going up Police Force. the stairs, the party met on the
Chief Inspector W. Kent will be yearly or monthly or by asking for
In Shanghai, the people are either of, was on the way promoted to the rank of Assistant age. One
landing of the Arst floor, the third part of a man's invested capital, more hard-hearted or too hard ap dowry the militarists and politicians are to offer money to the departed
Superintendent of Police. Inspector something chic about it. The gait This man was takea upstairs, and able to gather in what they want. When a death occurs in a family he In September, the Government or she will be mourned for a short on the second floor were encoun- Peter Grant, in charge of the of the modern girls sets them off succeeded in getting more than time, and after that quite forgottered two other men, the fifth and Western Division, "will, in addition as distinct from the women of old were also to his own duties, be Acting Chief Japan. Their arrogant easy wałk- ten, No josa offerings are burnt..
On Inspector. With the increasing ing is a deliberate condemnation of "$6,000,000 by demanding $10,000,000,- Further North; in Peking and taken up to the third floor. Everything done on a large scale Tientsin, the people have different entering this floor, two men, the needs of the Kowloon district, In the humble and modest manner of
first and fourth defendanta were spector C. Aris will be promoted to
the older women. Their hair is Been sitting together, while aActing Chief Inspector (Kowloon). woman, the second defendant, was As a result of these appoint bobbed and they danco the Charles Been sitting with a child in her ments, Hong Kong and the main-ton. They are eager to display land will each have a Deputy Super- intendent, an Assistant Superinten. their beauty and their faces are painted and rouged. Their short dent and Chief Inspector.
legs, the chief defect in Japanese beauty are smartly camouflaged by Japanese dothes. Some of them dress in western garments and walk the streets with vanity bags in their bands.
is monopolized, from pulling a ricksha to selling aerated waters or the opening of a private school.
customs again.
A citizen can do nothing without THE LATE MR. C. KLINK.
paying something beyond regular | license fees.
APPLICATION FOR PROBATE
AT SHANGHAL
BIG HONG KONG ESTATE.
In the United States Court for
Any clique with say 85,000,000 to $10,000,000 can recruit ganga of outlaws into an army, and if Canton City is taken, this sum tan..be easily recouped by letting out on easy terms the various monopolies, F. J. Schull presented the Besides this there are the official will of the late Mr. Charles Klink revenues. The latest figures give
China, at Shanghai, on Monday,
arm..
When the first defendant saw the police, he ran to the verandah, and & watchman who followed him saw him put some papers into the drain- pipe. The watchman recovered these papers, and the Sergeant found other pamphlets on the floor.. The seven defendants were then
arrested and taken to the Police
Station.
The Translationg,
The alleged seditious documents
STOLEN TELEPHONE WIRE.
The workman of the Telephone Company who was charged with theft of wire from the installatioù at the Peaiusula Hotel was convict. ed at Kowloon yesterday.
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Even entirely proper young maidens, like French and English Addressing the defendant, Mr. sisters, wear an expression which
for probate, and informed Judge have been translated," and they are Schofield said there was no proof
the monthly receipts of Kwengtung M. D. Purdy that an estate of as over $8,000,000,
The Kuomintang are considering the. reloasing of all owners of des- troyed properties from arrears due on taxes.
of the usual character. They con- about Ta 200,000 had been left in Hong Kong, and about Tis. 15,000tain an elaborate account of the that he actually cut the wires. but seems to say that they are ready in Shanghai. Mr. R. T. Bryan, success of the "Reds" at Canton he had admitted that he was carry to be friendly with the other sex. Jr., represented a daughter of and the overthrow of the Nanking ing it away without any orders or They smile at boys and are as
Government by
and permission. It was clear that de- peasants deceased in Manila:
Judge Purdy ordered the usual Members of certain labour unioas
"Reds." One of the most interest fendant intended to dispose of the friendly and natural and self pos are still suspected of "Red" lean-publication of citations for three ing passages is an exhortation to wire for his own benefit. The sensessed as a Western, woman.
oppose the Hong Kong Government tenee would therefore be three ings and the search for participants weeks.
months' hard labour. in the “Red” uprising still con-
for their arrests of labourers. tinues, but a bearing is given before punishment is inflicted."
The first defendant said that the pamphlets were brought to the foar by the principal tenant.")
The
Mr. Schuhl requested the Court's permission to question Mr. S. H. Lewin, who drew up the will, as the latter intended leaving for Panang before the end of the year.
second defendant claimed THE RELIEF PROBLEM.
Permission being granted, Mr.that the pamphlets had nothing to
do with her. They were found on Except for making extra pro. Lewis said that he drew up the visions for free hospital treatment, will in January, this year, whilst the floor, but she knew nothing there appears to be no definite pro- deceased was confined in the Vic about them. gramme for Canton relief. Those toria Nursing Home. At all times in charge in Canton have been too his mind acemed clear, whilst wit busy the last few days to take up ness took instructions. the matter while those outside are Replying to his Honour, witness naturally withholding support until said that decensed died in Septem- they know what the relief prober, this year. gramme will be.
The other defendants all denied complicity.
As there was no evidence against the woman, his Worebip discharged her."
His Worship, adjourned the case Mr. Bryan elicited from witness until January 3rd, at 2.15 p.m. that deceased left hospital before
If everything is satisfactory, the he died, and that Captain Messer, native banks may resume business husband of one daughter, who in next Monday. The Government is asking everyone to accept the receive a large part of the in-
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This emancipation came about after the earthquake, but prior to that, there were Japanese girls warking in offices and in pro fessions, but their number
Was
The Chinese printer employed by very insignificant. These wome the Commercial Press, and three who had survived the havoc others who were arrested on a in bad near the city of Tokyo. charge of forging the Central Bank in 1923, at once assumed a positive of China, Canton, notes, appeared on remand before Mr. A. E. Lind attitude towards life and have sell at the Central Magistracy yes evolved their present mood. Their terday. The first accused charged with the actual forgery, and ideas for the liberation of women was defended by Mr. Horace Lo. at once took definite shape, The three others were, charged with The first thing they did was to aiding and abetting, and were re- presented by Mr, G. S. Hugh patronise dance halls, much to the Jones.
horror and disgust of the men folk, Evidence given yesterday was to who went so far as to appeal to proached an employee of the Com mercial Press to make a design of dancing just as once there was a movement in England to pass a law da a "copper
offered the Central Bank of Ching notes
against waltzing. This was done, for the job. And
The first defendant took on the and in some prefectures in Japan
Central Bank of China notes as come, naked witness to call on the, A veteran. Chinese who was move the effect that the three men BP the City Father to suppress public legal tender, but lack of confidence inte Mr. Chunles link. According tog about in Mongkok like many to the provisions of the will, a son honest men could not altogether in the Bank, though it is backed by the Authorities, has made business in America is to receive H. 812,000, deceive the police, and he was there is a trust fund of H 850,000, difficult. The notes in Canton have for a blind, or in Hong Kong, of taken for investigation and identis returned to 92, but in Hong Kong the residue counsel's client has a
fied as a persistent offender's
The man's record showed three áre quoted at only 68.
All the Left Wing lenders of the life interest in one-quarter, ber Kuomintang in Canton have tender son to have the principal on her previous convictions for theft. He od their resignation, but actually death; whilst Mr Messer is to re had been banished altogether seven they are stil, directing policy and ceive three-quarters of the residue. times with an order the last time affairs, though in the names of Witness also told the Court that never to return to the Colony, others. Mr. Kan Nei Kuang, the there had been a former wall, Acting Canton Mayor, is to go to which deceased, after adding a America to study. Mr. Kan was to codicil, destroyed. have gone to Germany soon after His Honour over-ruled Mrs the party cleaning campaign of Bryan's questions regarding the April 15th Inst, but he re-appeared provisions of the destroyed, docu-
ment and the case was adjourned. in Canton,
job and was said to have got the to-day public dancing is prohibit photographer of the Commercial ed. Men have made quite a strenu Press, to make a design for it ous fight to put the women back to In the afternoon Mr. Hugh-Jones their old place, but in the end, the This persistent disregard of the cross-examined the photographer fair sex wan law was seriously viewed by Mr as to how the deaign was made... A W. Schofield, the Kowloon Magis joss paper note was also produced taste, who in passing sentence of for the witness to say how it could are to-day shaking their heads at twelve months' hard labour ordered be made. The evidence was of a the thought of their wilful daugh- technical nature. The case was then ters. All they can do is to hops
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