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THE CANTON RUMOURS.
HOW THEY ORIGINATED,
TROOP MOVEMENTS AND MAR- SHAL LI'S ABSENCE.
CITY MORE - CALMŚ NOW.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, March 22nd. Rumours of another coup d'etat in Canton which were so rampant after Marshal, Li Tsai Hin's de parture for Nanking are seldont
WHAMPOA INCIDENT.
ASFIGHT BETWEEN RIVAL
CARGO COOLIES."
SHOTS FIRED AT HONG KONG SHIP.
[FROM OUR DRINESE CORRESPONDENE,
CANTON, March 22nd. The s... Berneg belonging to the Shun Tai Steamship Co. of Hong Kong was fired upon on Wednesday afternoon at about 5 o'clock when she was at anchor off Whampoa The trouble arose when a group of cookies from Canton went down to
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd, 1928
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.
MONEY "AND THE MOTHER-
IN-LAW.
SYMPATHETIC MAGISTRATE TO THINK ÏT OVER
That the course of true love seldom runs smooth is a common saying and a certain Chinese girl and her lover have good reason to believe in it.
When the young woman happened to meet the man for the first time love was mutual and instantaneous They plighted their troth and would man been blessed with a little money: to satisfy the avarice of the girl's
mother.
heard now. The city is quiet, unload the enrgo at Whampoa have been happily married had the although every now and then a state The coolies at Whampoa refused of emergency is declared in some to allow the Canton coolies to do Government building or soldier the unloading. A fierce brawl en- quarters. This has been particularly sued, which was followed with riße to at the Municipal Police Station shots from the coolies on the shore on Wai Sun Road where bandits, The shots were aimed at the cooles kidnappers and Communists are on the Bernen. When informed, jailed, awaiting trial and probable the soldiers at Dane Island im execution. When a state of emer-mediately stopped the fight by gency in declared in a certain firing at the Whampoa coolies. || street of the city, all pedestrians Meanwhile the British gunboat and vehicles passing through that street are searched and sometimes all traffic is stopped. But these states of emergency usually last only a few hours and so far nothing un toward has occurred.
THEFTS FROM LOCAL SHOPS
MAN WHO ELUDED THE
POLICE
CAUGHT WITH A CON.
FEDERATE.
HELENA MAY MUSICALE.
THE LIST OF THE SEASON
An extremely good convert, ars ranged by Mrs. Baloon, was given yesterday evening in the Helena May Institute,.... It was the last concert of the season, a Fact which Five Chinese are now serving will be very much regretted by all terms of imprisonment for a series those who heard it, for it is not of local robberies. Among the shops often that we get so good's pro- which suffered from this gang were gramme here. The hall was crowd. the Rwoug Tai firm of No. 8, ed and the audience very apprecia Queen's Road Central, the Kwong tive; so much so that it was not Sang Yuen firm of No. 37, Wing possible to give all the encores Lok Street, the Hop Kee firm of which were asked for, but Mr. No. 158, Queen's Road Central, and Gardiner whose voice is welk ked another Chinese firm in Fottinger gave an encore after his second
Street.
A sixth member of this gang
sluded the police for a long time, but was eventually caught. Ap The mother finding that her prosparently he formed another gang, pective son-in-law lacked a proper as a confederate was arrested at endowment of this world's goods the same time. · · forbade her daughter to have any thing to do with him. But the un. fortunate man never lost hope and often hung about near the house of the adored one on the off chance of Tarantula went down to Whampoa word with her. The girl touched to investigate. But before the by his faithfulness decided to go
to him. British ship reached there the trouble was over..
Both men appered before Major C. Willson at the Central Magis tracy yesterday to answer various charges of theft. They admitted the charges
The lender of the gang was sen- tenced to a total of seven months' hard labour and the other man re- ceived a term of six months.
H. C. BEDI'S APPEAL DISMISSED..
song.
A concert of this sort, where the
performers are recruited from among those of the residents who are kind enough to spare time to give others pleasure, is naturally more anequal than one which is arranged on a professional basis, but Hong Kong is to be congratulated on having so fine & performer as Mrs. Cashman Her playing is, of course, that of the professional, and indeed, of the true musical genius.
All musical performances fall inte one of three groups. There is the An elopement was duly arranged
hard working company, members of whom you can hear under the win- The gunboat stayed there, bow. after a series of clandestine meet-
dows of any school, who beat the ever, watching the Canton coolings under the stars and they fled
music form, unwilling instruments; The writer found on enquiry that unload the cargo and guarding to Ping Shan, where they lived for sometime, happy in each other's
allied to them are those few strange these rumours were due to Marshal against any further trouble.
love. Then, unfortunately, want of
players like, the violinist da Cruz, Li Tsai Hsin's departure for Nan- The Tarantula returned to White
money drove the man back to Hong | FRAUDULENT SHANGHAI MAN-¦ whom we heard here some months king. This created a state of appre-Goose Bay yesterday after-
AGER OF LOCAL FIRM...
ago, who seem to tear the notes hension which has been exploited noon. There was no casualties ong but he could not leave the girl alone by herself, so throwing
from their instruments. Then there by Communists and other opponents and 'no shota ·ware. fired
discretion to the winds, he brought
Messrs. Watanmal Boolchand, silk, is the gentler school to which most of the Government. Rumours from the Tarantula The 5.L
her back with him.
curio and general exporters of amateurs who love their art belong; spread from person to person. The Berneo will return to Canton to-
As ill luck would have it, the Hong Kong, inform us that the those who like Mrs. Balcan seem chief one was that the Communists. morrow.
mother spotted them and had the Shanghai Full Court composed of gently to persuade melody from bandits, disappointed politicians,
man placed under arrest for har. Sir Henry Gollan (Chief Justice of strings of ivory. But Mrs. Cashman and a certain contingent of the pro-
bouring a girl-under the age of 21. Hong Kong), Sir Peter Grain, and belongs to the third and greatest vincial Army, were planning to start
The unhappy lover was brought Mr. G. W. King, has dismissed the group. Those artists who possessing another uprising in Canton, even
before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow appeal of Mr. H. C. Bedi, the the music in themselves, imbue the more destructive and relentless than
loon Magistracy yesterday. Mr. E. former manager of their Shanghai dead instrument with melody. She that of December 11th. The Reds
Williams, Assistant Secretary for branch,
seemed as she played to be dropping would in fact massacre all the mer-
Chinese Affairs, when relating the Mr. H. C. Bedi was convicted dur. the notes from her angers rather chants and the middle class to say
story as given above, told his Wor-ing February of having fraudulent than forcing them out of the piano.. ship that he was most unwilling to ly converted monies to the use of Just as Kreisler, whose concert will bring the case before the Court. He S. G. Verma to the extent of Ts. remain fresh in the memory of all had spoken to the man and was 42,000, and cther goods, and with convinced that his intentions were intent to defraud by, making false entirely honourable. He wanted to entries in the weekly export re-
nothing of the officials and the in- tellectuals. The whole city was for a time in a state of fear, as the
result of these false reports."
Another cause of these rumonsi
THE "
HOL CHEUNG 'PIRACY.
FURTHER DETAILS.
„FORTY ARRESTS MADE..
with ber arrival in Hong Kong harbour last night further details are now available of the pirating of the as Hai Cheung, & river steamer, which recently fella
lay in the rapid and rather unexvictim of a pirate gang being looted of all her carga valued at about $70,000. She was finally rescued by
her back to Canton a Chinese gunboat which escorted
The Hui Cheung was on her way from Hong Kong to Walchow on the West Liver but early on the inorning of March 9th she was fired Pon by rates when near Tit Hau. Kok, in the Sam Shui distret. A stille of sampage put off from the shave and the pirates boarded the vessel and took control. They then brought her close in to the shore and half the cargo was loaded. The ship was taken two miles lower down to San Hui where the remain der of the cargo was beached.
marry the girl and the only obstacle in the way was money. The young lady herself was also very fond of the man,
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ports, purporting to show that he had received cash amounting to Tis. 9,031, Tls 3,401, Tls 735.67, and Tls. 4,028. The total amount in volved is Tis. 50,291.50
years' imprisonment.
The young man told his Worship that he truly loved the girl and had. Accused was sentenced to two promised her mother to pay the necessary money for the girl's hand. The unromantic mother was an moved. She turned a deaf ear to his pleadings, so out of desperation, defendant book the girl to Ping Shan
Mr. Schofield was also sym pathetic. He said that he would bind the defendant over to come
music lovers seemed with the passes he made with his hands to pass an electric stream of harmony into
the vibrating strings of his violin.
To turn to the programme. The thres violin trios with which the concern-opened, played by Mrs. Balean, Mrs. Aubrey and Miss Acheson, were very pleasing, espe- cially the second movement of Mr. Jones, in the appeal, which was heard on March 14th and 15th Ti Prego o Madre pia," in which argued for prisoner that the learned the three inatramenta blended with indge during the hearing in the a suggestion of singing voices Supreme Court had mis directed the which was particularly lovely. Mrs. jury, or insufficiently directed them
Mr. Jones raised a further similar Womack, who has a strong clear objection that the summing up by voice, anng two songs from Italian the trial Judge was so incomplete as
opera, of which the second, the to amount to misdirection.
The President said that the sum Miserere Scene from Il Trovatore, a ming up seemed to be favourable to duet with Mrs. Gardiner, was re- For the Crown Me Mossop said ceived with very particular plea- there was nothing in the summing sure. Mr. Gardiner's solo song, up to justify their Lordships in quashing the conviction.
up for judgment when called upon. the defendant
pected movements of troops from one place to another in Kwangtung. The troops of General Heu King Tong in Kongmicon and the West River districts were moved through Canton on their way to the East River districts. The 5th Army which had been in Honam, Fatshan and all along the Kwang-Sham Rail. way, was ordered to Walchow and the Hai-Luk Fung districts. General Fan Shek Shang and the troops of his: 16th · Army were.....ordered to evacuate Shiukwan and the North River districts and to move into the southern part of the province of
The Chinese gunboat Ang Tu Hunan. Divisional-Commander Ho appeared on the scene at about 4.30 Chun Fan, and his soldiers who had p.m. and at once opened fire on Mr. Williams while agreeing with been guarding the southern part of the pirates, who jumped into their the Court said that be was afraid rampans and made for the share that the decision would not satisfy Kwangtung, were ordered to move where they scattered and made off the mother of the girl, who had the into the Teland of Hainan **to] inland. *(a p exterminate the Communists and The Kong Tai escorted the pirst law on her side. other outlaws there." The troops of ed ship to Canton where the matter General Chen Ming Shu were orders reported to Admiral Chan ed to Canton, Honam, Fatshan, Kongmoon, and the southern portion of Kwangtung Divisional-Comman- der Lau Fun Im of the 7th Army under General Wong Shiu Hung was to move into Shiukwan and all along the North River districts vacated by General Fan Shek Shang. All the generals cheyed the commands was the property of Hong Kong explicitly but very little news of the firms. troops movements was given to the public.
A
Taat who informed the inland au-
thorities with the result that 10 arrests were effected.
The pirates kidnapped the ship's compradore Weng Lam, who has not been seen or heard of since and even other members of the com taken, pradore's department were also
The crgo valued 870,000 consiste rd of piece goods, dried fish, sugar sundries. The greater part
and
The Hoi Cheung in registered 44 Canton and flies the Chinese" flag, she is owned by the Chuen Yick Steamship Co., the local address being 25, Queen's Street, ground floor.
AN ART EXHIBITION,
This placed the Magistrate in quandary, and after further con sideration he decided to adjourn the case until Saturday and in the mean- time he hoped to consider the way out of the difficulty.
HOMES PILLAGED BY COMMUNISTS.
MERCANTILE BANK OF
INDIA."
„DIVIDEND OF SIXTEEN PER CENT,
Harlequin Serenade," was also very pleasing and he gavo na an encors in response to continued ap- plause So we go no more a rov- ing"
Mr. Glover sang two baritone songs, The Call" and "O Lovely Night which were much enjoyed; and Mrs. Balean played a violin solo, Adagio," with her usual skill and expression,
The Hong Kong branch of the Mercantile Bank of India have re- ceived a telegram from their London The programme which we give Office advising that at the annual below was very well devised by Mrs. general meeting of shareholders 4 Balean covering as it did so wide a final dividend of 8 per cent on the range of music, and her own charm end shares will ing performances on the violin did be declareil (making 16 per cent. much to contribute to its success. ELDERLY WOMEN'S STORY IN for the year 1927 less income tax); We hope to have other musicale of
that £25,000 will be carried to re- her arranging during next season. COURT.
serve fund and S181,000 carried for- ward.
MAGISTRATE'S SYMPATHY,
Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magistracy showed much sympathy for two elderly Chinese women when they were charged with gothering pine needles from Goy. ernment Plantations
"
VILLAGE FIGHTS A PANTHER.
BEAST STRANGLED WITH CREEPERS:
BOMBAY
The Programme Violin Trio: (a) Hearts-feel that love thee," Mendlessohn: (b) The Butterfly, Henry Smart; (c) To Prego o Madre Dia, F. Curchmenn. (Mrs. Balean, Mrs. Aubrey, Misa Acheson)
Consequently the people everywhere watched their hasty and unexplained movements with great anxiety, Thousands of troops marched in and out of Canton in a single night; gun boats packed
Song: Aria from Madame But with soldiers and military equip
terfly, Puccini (Mrs. Womack). ment steamed in and out of the
3.Song: The Call, Herbert
Oliver (Mr. H. Glover)Artis Canton harbour-all to the bewilder
4-Pianoforte Concert in A Minor ment of the great masses of people
Greig lat movement (Allegro This gave rise to all sorts of speculs
molto moderato) Mr. Cashman and Mr. Bowes-Smith); ? tions and rumours, although nothing exhibition will be held in eo recently they had been living is tacked astonished villager,5Vocal Dueti Miserere Scene unusual bad occurred.
Verdi (MFK from I. Trovatore, operation with the heads of schools, the Hoifung district. Their homes whose cries brought, an unarmed
Womkek and Mr. Gardiner), Everything is now all quict. The teachers, students and well known
crowd to the scene Scared by artists here. All these people have had been pillaged by the Reds, and their poise, the panther dashed 6-Song Ohl Lovely Night "
Bonald (Mr, ='H.
reason for Marshal Li Tear Hain's
The Executive Committee of the Women's Liberation Movement of the Kuomintang is planning to hold in art exhibition in the rezy Bear future. According to Mr. Fung
Chairman of the Committee, 1
bihition. WY
the art
The two women admitted their offence but said that they did not now the local regulations. Until
News of a desperate struggle between villagers and panther comes from Tiruvalla, in Travan sore State.ed into the
age in the early morning and at
The animal strayed into the
Glover)
departure has been explained to th. I been asked, to see as they arrived here quite friendless, a man and a wopran, meN BOVA satisfaction of every one. It has Among the things to be shown will es in seit betraktar de Bay 7820 Then one of the crowd brought 7-Violin Solo Adagio, Max, Bruch Amoy they were forced to flee the village, among the CTOR Chadiy, mauling ik Landeven the ne stated officially that the Marbe Chinese ane arts of every des and penniless, a gun and fired at the beast, which, ahal went at his own free will and was in no way forced to leave the /cription, ancient as well as modern, They were at their wits end to although wounded, set upon him. Mrs. Balean)
marble statues, silk embroidery know what to do for a living While man and panther rolled city as was the case last December work and selected sperimens of They could only wait for conditions the villagers threw stout creeper ried out continuity struggling on the ground several of Time han also proved that there WAS
short stories nothing behind the recent movement. The purpose of the art exhibition, to get better before returning..to | round the animal's neck and of troops. They all seem to be
strangled E their native bomen. 12 mRN antisfied with their new atations and according to Mr. W. F. Kwong, ons
250 WAS "DAraded round. and has occurred. of the organisers is to improve the Mr Schofield discharged them the vill adict of any
Four Injured villagers Acco artistic taste of the Chinese people (Continued on next Column). No admission fees will be charged, with a caution.
are in hospital.
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