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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5th, 1928.
WAR ON OPIUM TRADE.
CORRUPT OFFICIAL
EXECUTED.
NANKING, Nov. 28th.
ANGLO-JAPANESE
RELATIONS..
BRITISH PRESS COMMENT.
LONDON, Nov. 24th.
concerning
While on his tour of Anhui for Yesterday's report the inspection of troops, General | Anglo-Japanese co-operation was Chiang Rai Sack issued stern authoritatively confirmed,
It is warring to all officials who defy further stated, nuthoritatively as the Government's, anti-epium' laws, | follows:- The warning was neither conveyed The British Government is very! in speech nor in writing, but meant the death penalty for the chief of the Salt Gabelle guards at Pengpu, Wai Fu Yung by name.
Upon arrival at Pengpu, General Chiang received "petitions from some public organisations to the effect that Wal had misused his authority for the protection of the opium frame. The General caused him to be tried by a military court, which after verificatión of the charge, sentenced him to death by shooting. The execution took place on the eard inst. at the Hengt Station.
Peking's $44,000,000 Orgy,
JUDICIAL REFORMS FOR CHINA.
NEW LEGISLATION TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.
TOO MANY APPEALS.
NANKINO, November 29th.. pleased with the satisfactory News Agency correspondent yester- Interviewed by the Kun Min operation between Japan and Eng.
and now going on, but this coday. Dr. Wang Chung Hui, Presi- operation is in no sense exclusive, dent of the Judicial Yuan, declared but is a reaffirmation of the prin that many important measures for ciple accepted at the Washington Conference by all the Powers in the reform of judicial adminis. terested in China.
tration in Chion were under con "We welcomed Count Webida's proposition Lecause we desired such templation by the Yan and would co-operation, and Count Uchida cer. be adopted in the near future. tainly held a similar conversation
As most of the existing codes Fat Washington-when-bo-visited- are obsolete and not adaptable to
there on his way home, ...
Chinese Exploitation Checked. present conditions in the country." "Such co-operation is of course Dr. Wang said, the Judicial Yuan A aarthing revelation has been no way directed against China, is now taking immediate measures! atle by the National Opium Sup. but rather is preventative in pur for their revision and improve- pression Committee as the result of Pose to check possible exploitationment; and several new laws. such
au.cxamination of the records of of the differences between the for-
eign Powers by the Chinese Gov- as the Commercial Law and the the former Opium Suppression
We should better make Law of Procedure in Administra Bureau in Peking. It has been
eroment.
idea
It is rather and will shortly be promulgated for
enforcement.
found, from the sale of stamps "br/quite clear that there is no such rive Cases are now being, drafted
the Anglo- of re-newing Japanese aliance. mischievous in the interests of Japan and England that such talk of revival of the alliance is made in Japan, as it will cause misunder- standings and suspicion in the United States and China.
the Bureau, that daily, consumption of opium in the metropolis amount- ed to over 30,000 Chinese ounces, or approximately 11.000.000 ounces a year. Taking the cost of opium ut 81 per Chinese ounce, the yearly cost of consumption is estimated a 10 less than 844,000,000.--N‚C'. Daily Fesen..
DUTCH TRADE WITH JAPAN.
TRADER INSPECTING JAPANESE MARKET.
3. A. H. Caufeld, general manager of the Borneo and Suma tro Trading Company, a large Dutch trading concern, who recent ly came to Japan to open direct trade with Japan, held a sample show on November 8th in Tokyo,
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To solve the problem of conges- tion of appeal cases in the Supreme Court."
Dr. Wang continued, "It should be clearly understood
"two more Divisions will be added once for all, for the sake of the to the Court"in order to cope with interests of both Japan and Eng the situation. However, many, land, that there will never be a
cases are appealed on insufficient revival of the alliance.
The Times editorially says:-grounds and this must be curbed Such co-operation is limited to in htture." fall and frank exchange of views between the two Governments, whenever either, is engaged in the negotiations with the Chinese Goy erament. It reaffirms the principle accepted by the Washington Con ference. There need be no fear that this understanding may lead to adoption of an uncompromising
Training School For Judges.
Discussing the present system whereby Magistrates of the various Districta function concurrently as judicial oicials. Dr. Wang said that such a system impaired the integrity and independence of the judiciary and must be abolished. in which samples of goods of attitude toward China. There is
In place of the existing system. various kinds, which are keenly and there can be no question of District Courts would be establish- demanded in the Dutch East renewal of the Anglo-Japanese "ed throughout the country to take
Indies, were displayed. Mr. Caufeld wishes to open up negotiation with Japanese stippliers of goods suitable for the Dutch.
Hitherto Japanese goods have been imported to Dutch Eust In- dies, through Chinese merchants and other middlemen, and, when ever anti-Japanese agitation start ed in Ching, this at once reacted on the Dutch. In view of this, Mr. Canfeld intends to import goods directly from Japan.
Mr. Caufeld will inspect several Japanese Factories in Nagoya and Osaka, and will try to open direct trade with Nagoya and Oraka
merchants.
JAPAN SUGAR MARKET.
FIRMS AGREE TO STOP
RECKLESS SELLING,
The sugar frms handling the pro- duct of the Dai-Nippon Sugar Co.. Meiji_Sugar Company, and Tai- Wan Sugar Company, have agreed not to sell refined sugar at prices under Y.1.50 for the time being, in order to check further declins, of refined sugar.
Recently the centrifugal sugar market has improved under the pressure of heavy buying back by the Taiwan and Dai-Nippon Sugar Manufacturing Companies, while the refined sugar market is still de- Fressed, despite the fact that the season for demand has arrived.
GERMANY'S IRON OUTPUT.
alliance. The understanding mere ly provides for common diplomatic actions on the part of Britain and Japan or any other Government, which may associate itself with them during the stage necessary for the liquidation of the past ja China."
charge of legal cases in order to relieve the Magistrates of their con current duties. For this reason,, Dr. Wang further stated. an in- stitute for the training of judicial officials in trink would be established next court procedure and
Need For International Solidarity.for two years and, after their year. They will undergo training The Daily Telegraph editorially graduation, they will be appointed
District deals with the break-down of the Judges to the varions Sino-Japanese negotiations in Nan- king,
saying: "If the treaty Powers could co-operate in nego tiafing with Nunking Nationalist rivalries would matter little. The Nationalist Ministry has been en- couraged to revert to the old Chi- nese practice of hard bargaining. Brat with this Power and then with the others. Japan is the sufferer to-day. It may turn out to be ourselves to-morrow, and that of France Fater."-Osaka Mainichi.
THE FIBRE SUBSTITUTE
Courts in the country.
Lastly Dr. Wang touched upon the question of foreign consular jurisdiction in China and stated that the National Government bad decided to declare its abolition at an opportune time in the futune-Ana Min.
HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
[ORDER BY THE RON. ME. . . C. WOLFE, 'COM.G., CAPTAIN SUPER- ISTENDENT OF POLICE.]
FOR COTTON.
FURTHER DETAILS OF ENG.-
LISH EXPERIMENT.
Police Training School. Mention was made" in a wireless
Classes for Police Reservists, will message from Rugby on November be held as usual on Tuesday. De- 25th of the discovery of a plant cember 4th and 11th, at 5 p.m. yielding a high percentage of fibre On the same dates at 5.30 p.m. calculated to provide an alternative sharp. instruction will be given in to cotton, and stating that the der the handling and aiming of revol mand for specimens of the fibre bave ver
The
far exceeded the limits of the im- mediately available material which is being cultivated in the Eastern counties of England. A London Iron production in Germany dur cable to the Osula Mainichi, dated ing September was 985,413 tons, the November 19th. gives some further smallest monthly output since the information on the subject. beginning of 1926. It compares message rends as follows:- with 1,104,059 in September of lastBesides the activities of the newly year and a 1937 monthly average organized Eastern Textile Associa of 1,002,000.
tion, which will back up the Lanca The report of the Vereinigte shire mills to compete with the Stahlwerke, the German steel trust, Japanese in China, the satisfactory for the business year ended Septem resalt of the test of the newly dis her 30th shows total sales of covered artificial cotton has proved 1,131,000,000. marks, as against that Lancashire has added another 1.417,000,000 in the preceding hus powerful weapon to compete with ness year. Proportion of foreign the Japanese cotton industry. sales to the total increased. The
Artificial cotton is being grown corporation's production of steel fa- in England to produce an annual gots during the year was 6,045,000 crop sufficient in quantity and tons, against 8,838,000 in the pre-quality to meet the demand of the ceding year, but orders in hand at Lancashire aid Yorkshire mills. the end of the period were 32 per The present crop of about 4,000,000 cent. less than a year ago.
pounds which is now being raised
THE WIDENED DISTRIBU- TION OF CAPITAL.
Squad Drill, etc.
All recruits of the Chinese and Indian Companies und of the Flying Squad will attend at Central for Squad Drill, etc., on Thursday, December 8th, at 5.30 p.m. under Sergt. P. Condon. Dress: Mufti.
Chinese Company.. The Signalling Squad will attend at the Company's Headquarters for instruction in morse and semaphore under Mr. R. C. Wilson on Friday. December 7th, at 6 p.m., and Mon. day, December 10th, at 6 p.m.
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Indian Company.
PARADE.
All ranks of the Indian Company are reminded of the parade to be held at the Central Police Station on Tuesday, December 4th, at 5.20
m, sharp,
Flying Squad.
The weekly instructional patrol in the southern part of England, will be available next July at a fixed of the Kowloon Section will take prise of six pence per ponad, which place on Tuesday, December 4th. Fall in at the Tsimtsatsui Fire means an immediate saving of four
At the recent meeting in London pence per pound for the cotton in Brigade Station at 5.30. p.m. sharp.
Dress Winter uniform..... of the Buenos Ayres and Pacific dustry.
The weekly instructional patrol Railway, the chairman (Lord St. The test proved that the yarn Davids took the opportuniy of enti be blended just as ordinary of the Hong Kong Section will take emphasizing the wide manner in cotton with artificial silk or wool, place on Thursday, December 8th. which the company's stacks are taking the most delicate dyes, and Fall in at the Central Police Sta spread amongst the people of Great absorbing less than one-third of the tien at 6.15 p.m. sharp. Dress: Britain. Taking the company's De amount of dyes employed in the Winter uniform.
Sharpshooters". Company, .
REVOLVER PRACTICE.
bentures and the stock as'a whole, i present process.
they are divided among 38,000 The discoverer is an English people. "That does not mean," chemist named Walters, who hap Members are reminded that re- said Lord St. Davids, "vast hold-pened to notice a bird making a volver practice will be carried out ings of rich men; we have got nest with cotton-like material in at Kennedy Road Kange on Sunday,
He brought back among our body lithographers, British Guinea. weavers, strap-makers, plate layers, the seed and root, and planted it December 9th at 10a.m.; they will assemble at the range at that hour printers, labourers, gardeners, tram successfully in England." -
with revolvers and belts. drivers, postmen, coachmen, brick-
--Equipment, etc. layers, carpenters, chauffeurs, and the country. There is no doubt that miners."
This fact, he added, the power wielded by the small in- The attention of members of the showed how capital was divided investor, which has lately provoked Chinese Company and of other Great Britain, and it showed that comment on the part of several units are drawn to G.O. No. 6s, what were regarded as big powerful public men-who as directors of dated November 6th, and instruc bodies, with big wealthy purses, railways, banks, and other large tions contained therein must be ad- wore rich and powerful becaues in corporations, have the fact brought hered to." their big purses there were all the prominently under their notice-bas little, purses of small people all overgrown very greatly since the War, ! (Continued at foot of fiezl column.) and is increasing from year to year.
(8gd.) D. L. K1xo, D.Š.P. (R),
Adjuthation Hong Kong, December 4th, 1928.
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