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THE HONG KONG DAILY
STUDENTS AND A COMMUNIST'S DILEMMA $50,000 FOR HONG KONG
POLITICS.
GENERAL, LI TSAI HSIN'S RECOMMENDATIONS.
RUMOURED FLIGHT OF CHANG FAT FII FROM 4th ARMY.
WAR NEWS SATISFACTORY.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT]
"General Li Tsai Hain, in his capacity as head of the politicni' instruction department of the Kuo mintang Political Party in Canton,
has written to the President and
Vice-President of the Sun Yat Sen University suggesting "that, hence- forth, the students shall no longer take active part in political affairs. He wishes to ser an end of partisan ship, propaganda, Agitation and speech minking by young men and women at the schools and colleges.
A movement is to be launched to give as many persons in the City a possible some knowledge of read. ing. A number of night schools will be started to help all would-be
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PROPERTY WORTH $500,000 TO BE SOLD.
-WILL-BE-ARRESTED IF HE CLAIMS IT.
UNIVERSITY,
MR: KWOK SIU LAU'S GENEROSITY,
H.E. THE GOVERNOR'S
THANKS.
SHANGHAI, Feb, 8th Property valued ab nearly $300,000 will be sold at public auc-
Mr. Kwok Siu Lau, of 49-51, tion to-morrow by police unless the Robinson Road," who has made a ewer appears to claim it. If the most generous gilt of 880,000 to owner does appear, he will be Hong Kong Univeraity, was former arrested and handed over to Chi-ly compradore of the Banque de nose military authorities.
The property, according to Chi nese authorities, is owned by an alleged Canipunist known by the zame of, Wang Gee. He is said to be the right-hand man of General Tang Seng Chi of Hankow.
Much In Request ! Recently the Chinese authorities visited the International Settlement police and requested permission to arrest Wang. They said he was a notorious Communist and much wanted. by Nanking authorities.
Settlement police demanded more specific information, which was given. The Chinese did not, how. evar, know the exact dwelling place of Wang. Once this was ascertain rd, a raid was conducted but by the time police had forced the heavily-barred door Wang had fled
T'Indo-Chine. He has for many years taken a keen interest in edu- cation in the Colony, and there is
it Kwok Siu Lau Hall ni St. Stephen's Girls' College, of which institution he is a governor.
The gift is made unconditionally and is to be used by the Chan cellor (H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi)" in such manner as may seem to you to be in the institution's best in
terests."
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PRESS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14th, 1928.
SENTENCE: 50 YEARS' IMPRISONMENT.
FILIPING WHO BROKE GAOL.
THEFT OF MOTOR TOOLS.
MANILA, Feb. 8th. Probably the stiffest prison sent- ence ever meted out to a criminal in the Philippine Islands fell to escaped from the Luneta Police the lot of Geneza Caring, who Station recently and was re-arrest cd Sunday afternoon. A total of 30 years, 4 months and 2 days imprisonment, or 20 years longer than a life sentence, was started by Carino yesterday when he began his
Bilibid continement.
On January 17th. Canina walked out of the Luneta Precinct station during the morning" line-up." Ec alleged thefts. In the blouse of was detained for investigation of
trusty, and carrying & station re- fuse can, Caring left the station nad disappeared.
It was subsequently learned that he had raided the water-hoas station in the ear of Fort Santiago and Furloined several articles of cloth
HONG KONG IMPORTS.
FORTNIGHTLY PRICE CUR-
RENT AND MARKET REPORT.
BY THE HONG KONG GENERAL - CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
The fortnightly price current and market report of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, dealing with imports, states:-----
COTTON PIECS GOODS AND FANCY
Cores Goons.-There is more en- quirs in the market for cotton goods than for some time past, and sales are reported of F.B.C. Vene tians, dyed warp satins and dyed cambrics. Clearances are good. The
latest quotations are those of the 7th inst. Eg. Sukel, 17.301. Mid. Anter. " Spot " 10.12d.
Another report states -Some business has been done in Japanese cotton - cashmeres (200/300 case 'nt 35 cts. per yard 29′′) and Chintz Prints (100 cases at 14/15 ets.). A small business in Black Cotton Venetians is reported, Practically no business is reported in White Shirt- ings. It is too early for the buying of cottons in any ergo seale Clearances have improved since the re-opening of the market. At pr Bent English and Japanese cargo is excluded from Kwangsi on account of boycott
students, and it is expected that out the ear way, leaving behind enough to accept the gift and to thiel was identified as Carino, the 8105. Arrivals 400 bales: shipments |
Tribute To The University. Mr. Kwok Siu Lau's letter wits as Last Sunday afternoon, a patrol follows:-...
man on duty near Nozaleda Park 49-31, Robinson Road, saw a suspicious daterer near the 11th February, 1929. line of parked automobiles. The
COTTON YARN.-Market is very Your Excellency-The good workman was carrying a set of motor which the University of Hong Kong
tools. Upon investigation it FA quiet with no business doing. Prices
Nomination quotations perty of A. E. D'Almeida of 904 is doing, in the face of financial learned that the tools are the pro-have inclined $4 to 85 per baje.
Are as difficulties, has impressed me.. I have therefore decaled to offer Indians. They had been removed follows:-No. 10s at 8183 to $180: Your Excellency a gift of $50,000 from his car while it was parked No. 12 at 8170 to $190: No. 16% at Would Your Excellency be goud Gral. Luna. At the station, the 8180 to $195; No. 90s at $100 to devote it to the University in such escaped prisoner.
Carino confessed the theft of the manner as may seem to you to be
automobile tools. In as much as be in the institution's best interests!
has a record of 8 prior convictions, It gives me particular pleasure to
he drew a sentence of 5 years, nake this gift, because I realize how months and one day far the charges much the University owes to Your upon which he was originally de Excellener. Your Excellency is obtained-one for trespassing and 2 only a scholar but a lover of scholar for theft.. The first sentence was ship, and the Chinese have always imposed on Monday.
jewellery and rich clothing valued in all at nearly $500,000.
they will learn how to rend 1,000 ha valuable paintings, curios, Chinese "characters within half a year. A secretary of the Chinese Y.3.C.A. in Canton is hending the movement under the auspices of a committee of prominent officials and
citizens.
All private and public schools in the City opened for the spring term this week. There have been a num.
A foreign police inspector made application to the Provisional Court for disposal of this property and the judge ruled that police
might sell it to-morrow' if the owner did not turn up..
Three Young Concubinas Raturned.
· To Parents.” . Three of Wang's concubines were
ber of changes in the mattingements found in the house. All three have lagen reraried to their parents. The of schools. Mrs. Chan Kung Pokaldest is sixteen years of age. au alleged Red," who has left the Chirat Pering City has been replaced as head of
the Normal College for Women by Miss Tang Wen Kung
The Canton Basket Bull League will open it has Spring season games before the end of the month.
The Political Council in Chaton havi formally appointed General Chen Ming Shu a member of the
Canton
Politicni Administrative
reverenced learning.
I enclose a cheque and beg to subscribe myself ns Your Excel leney's most dutiful servant,
(Sd) KWOK SIU LAU... H.F. The Governor's Thanks,
13th February, -1938. Dear Mr. Kwok Sia Lau-Both as Governor of this Colony and as Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, I am deeply grateful to you for your generous donation of $30,000 to the University. I gladly accept it on behalf of the Univer sity. Please also accept my thanks for the courteous and friendly, refer enco to myself in your letter of the
11th inst.
I very much hope that the
- Council-and-General–Li-Tari-Hsin Caplendid -example-which-you hire will probably resign the chairman-set may encourage others to help
The Mayor of Canton, Mr. Lin Wenship of the Administrative Council the University of Hong Kong to
Kak will offer a cup for the cham- pionships of the League.
in General Chen Ming Shu's favour 3. a sign of welcome to the new
overcome ita financial difficulties and to widen its sphere of usefulness,
When I have had an opportunity of consulting the Vice-Chancellor and the Aendomie Authorities, I will inform you of the purposes to which your very opportune gift will devoted.-Yours very sincerely,
appointee. Whether or not General POLÍTICAL OFFENDERS. Chen will take General Li's post re- mainis still to be seen. Meanwhile Some 15 alleged "Reds" were!
the loni Kuomintang are entertain-be executed the last week end on aing General Chen to a banquet, to- charge of trying to escape from the morrow, Wedneslay, at the Hotel
Axia. Reformatory at Nam Shek Tna. The
political situation is quiet for the present, but the large number of executions daily has not helped the work of peace and reconciliation.
A special court for dealing with political enses is being reorganized, the members to consist of nominees from the principal party committees of the Kusmingtang. The court, however, will be presided over by a salaried judge from the regular
courts.
ONLY GOOD NEWS FROM
THE WAR AREA.
Details of the 5th Army Corps, i
formerly commander by General Li Fook Lam, are being sent to their new station at Shiukwan, the north- ern terminus of the Kwangtung Section of the Canton-Kowloon
Railway. This transfer will divídu up what was once a púrely local | army organization into many parts
of the Province.
REVENUE COMING IN...
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nit; sales wil: unsold stock 3,700 bales; bargains 9,600 Bales,
WOOLLENS.-Sales are reported to be on the small ride. Conditions have not been satisfactory since the re-opening of the market. Some orders placed for wool, venetians and suitings
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Market prices for all kinds of woollen goods remained unchanged. Tuesday morning, Cariño again" Prices for fresh orders vary con faced the judge on the tool theftsiderably. In some cases business charge. Another 23 years, 2 months has been done on a cheaper basis und 1 day were added burden.
Since "lite" imprisonment, ac- cording to Philippine laws, means only 30 years, Carino takes the METALS, -The macket is firmer and prize for the longest "stretch" yet there is a certain amount of busi- given out to an inmate of the "bisness done. Stock are low, some house."-Manila Times.
prices show an advance.
WHAT CHINA GAVE TO
THE WEST."
PROF SOOTHILL'S ADDRESSES
AT MANCHESTER.
Continuing at the Manchester University on January 18th his course of lectures on China, Profes sur W. E. Soothill, who is Professor of Chinese at Oxford University spoke on China's contribution to the West." "Mr. W. E. Thompson, president of the Manchester Chain- ber of Commerce, was in the chair. and spoke of the Chamber's interest
in the lectures.
Professor Soothill remarked that his address might perhaps more attingly be entitled "Our delt te BLAZE IN TURKISH BATHS. China Anrong the things for
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RAW COTTONS.No business to re- port.
Sales have been reported of wire naila, wild steel bars and galvanized. wire at quotations, but the volume. of business is not' important.
FLOUR MARKET REPORT.-Stock: American, 600,000. bags: Canadian, 150.000 bags: Australian, 20,00 bugs. Market: Slow and weak, with very little anles. Quotations Ame rican Patent, 4.2 per sack; Ameri cun Straight, 2:10 to 23:15-per
suck; American Cut off. 87 to 83.3) per sack; Australian No. 1, 83.10 to 3.48 per sack; Canadian Cut off. 29.05 to 10 per sark; Canadian Straight, $2.00 to 23 per sack; Canadian Mixture, 89.86 per sack; Canadian, 2nd Clear, 82.75 per. Jack.
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Staaz-Market weak. SALTPETRE-Stocks 10,000 bags. Slight improvement since last re- port.
PICKPOCKETS SENT TO
PRISON.
PEDESTRIANS, AS VICTIMS.
Two Chinese were sentenced to two months' bard labour hy Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowicon Magis tracy yesterday for picking the pockets of pedestrians in Shanghai
Street, Yaumati.
which we were indebted to her he would first mention silk which had been cultivated in China from pre- historiq times, and which was essen. tially Chinese discovery, Then there was téa. But for that dis covery we should have had no Di. Johnson with his forty cups of tea a day, and consequently no Boswell ra "Dictionary of the English Language. It was not until the sixth century that we found evi
In the first case, the defendant dence of the use of tea in China,
was charged with the theft of a To the speaker, who could not think of a Chinese official or a Chinese pair of spectacles. In answer the man etated that he bought the teacher apart from fris pot or cup article for 33 cents. This state- of tea, it was difficult to imaginement was dieproved by the evidence how" Confucius or the scholars of old lived and wrote their books of a district watchman who saw the without it.
man extracting the article from pedestrian's pocket. The other inan was charged with the larceny of a pouch in eircumstances similar to the previous case,
Turkish and Russian Baths, alan chester, an attendant was trapped in the building and was rescued. partially clothed, by firemen, who gave him an exit by breaking the During the week ending January | door of a basement coal cellar.
the Financial, Bureau in 28th,
Another attendant and a Canton received in national revenue who had just completed his bath 81,502,843. As they only paid out marry mg, the rest of their clothes, had only time to don trousers and,
We were also indebted for china 88,206, they have a balance with they rushed into the freezing at
to the Chinese, who were the in- money brought forward from the mosphere of the street the latter
ventors of porcelain, and we were previous week, of
then proceeding in scanty attire to con moro
plebe bis toilet at an hotel close by. their debtors in the matter of art. Chinese pictorial art was very an- $1,000,000. The amount of local
The fire broke out in the chiro-cient, and there could be no doubt revenue in hand on the same date pody-room on the ground floor that their designs and drawings and quickly spread to the adjoin had had a remarkable influence in was $1,252,146,
The strength of ing hairdressing-room. Fortunately Western lands. there were only two patrons and Chiese pictorial art lay in its four members of the staff on the premises at the time and all with simplicity; it was suggested rather
than presented. the exception of Mr. Thomas-Neild. a shampooer, were able to effect un exit. They were in the dressing room, and had to pass the burning chiropody-room.
Guests in Canton hotels are no longer permitted to pay their war tax on hotel bills in Central Bank of China-notes-is-the-Authorities are refusing to accept the notes as legal tender for full value. They will be allowed to pay 20 per cent. of the tax in notes.
The new Commissioner for Civil Affairs_in_Chaton has appointed
The official reports of war news state that all rebels in the Eastern Districts have been anp. pressed and that the "Red" leaders, Chang Fat Fui and Wong Kie Cheong-have-fed from their command. Several of the leaders and their associates have gone to Hong Kong according to the use reports, Chen Ming Shu's 11th Army C_qa_has_been arriving in Canton to detachments, "under, regimentul more than 60 new district magis trates since, taking up office a fort commanders, during the last few night ago. There dro de districts in days from the campaign around Kwangtung Province. Swatow. The main part of the
Colonel Chang Wai Criaug, com- army is still nt Walchow, an immandant of the Canton Aviation portant stratégie point on the East School, is recommending the River. Its return certainly lends Authorities to set aside money for strong corroboration to the claims
more efficient observatory, to- victory.
especially in the matter of fore Cantonese troops, according to casting weather. At present the reports, are entering Western metereological section of a local Hunan with a view to checking the college and the Customs House advance of the Hunaneso forces observatory do the best they can under General--Tang Seng Chi. but it is hardly adequate for
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aviation purposes.
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With regard to literature, de could not any that our style of writing had been, or ever would affected by the telegraphic terseness of classical Chinese; but other brand Chinese poetry had been having a considerable in fiuence on some of our modern poets, who were imitating its illu "sivo, suggestiveness."
EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE.
SOLICITOR PLEADS FOR LENIENCY.
An employee of the Kwong Wah Cheong firm, of No. 30%. Den Vous Road, was charged before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday with the, theft by bailee Tumes And Flames.
of a sum of $3,000 belonging to the An attendant who ran to Albert
firm. Another man was charged Mr. M. K Lo, for the defence, Street Police Station near by and
with receiving a part of this money, raised the alur said to press
asked for leniency, pointing out representative bad with But it was paper and the print that the man charged with the theft back into the dressing room a customer from the Turkish hathing press that Professor Soothi had restored half of the amount below witen I heard a cry of are mentioned as, the chief things for stolen and there was the possibility which the world is indebted to of the remainder being adeo found. Both of us only had time to pus trousers on and dash through the China, It was in China that paper On behalf of the second defendant, smoke in the corridor and into the was invented, and in that country Mr. Lo said that apart from the in the sixth century AD. they had man haring received the recovered Kr. Neild said: "I was in the a primitive kind of morable type. $3,000 there was nothing suspicious
It was only necessary to reflect on about his conduct, bath below when I heard the alarm.
what the world would be hike with- I rushed upstairs and thought I had time to get a few clothes on, out these discoveries to realise how but the lights went out, and when rent was our debt to China. But whatever we had obtained from I opened the dressing-room door I was met by dense fumes and flames. that country we had had to fetch I searched about for a means of it for ourselves. The Chinese had never been propagandiste--they had escape, and eventually groped my way to the coal cellar from which never been sufficiently interested in the firemen releared me after their neighbours to propagate their smashing the door in. It was by own vibration. no means a pleasant experience.
street.
(Continued at foot of nezi column
A remand of two days in police; custody was given...
How did we propose to repay ou indebtedness to China? Our debt to her for material things could not be repaid in material things only. If we were to repay that debt it must be in the things of the mind and of the spirt.
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