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CANTON EXPELS KWANGSI MEN.
FOUR JUNK LOADS SET OUT.
HOW CHEN MING SHÚ WORKED THE COUP
JAPANESE ART.
BI-ANNUAL EXHIBITION
prove
AT KOMOR'S.
(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.) within a few days of the opening
most of the paintings are soki. That which opens to-day should CANTON, April 1.
no exception to the rule. There is no new development in
There are, perhaps, two reasons the situation at Canton. The policy for this. One, that the pictures are of supporting Wuhan in its struggle none of them highly priced, and with Nanking has been reversed the other that the variety of subject and the city and capital has accept is so wide and the artistic merit so ed the change. People here took great that every visitor finds some the prospect of war philosophically, thing to his taste. but they are extremely relieved at the new turn of affairs..
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1929
KOWLOON POLICE THE INSCRUTABLE TROOP MOVEMENTS
COURT CASES.
ON YANGTSZE.
A DISHONEST AMAH.
FENG.
"HOW KWANGSÍ CLIQUE
WERE MISLED:
HANKOW HATRED OF NANKING.
SENT TO FRISON FOR TWO MONTHS.
The complainant in evidence, said that he missed the jewellery same time between January 7th and the
He must.
The bi-annual exhibitions of ple- tures by modern Japanese artista,
DOES HE SUPPORT RADICAL | LARGE FORCE AT KIUKIANG. which are held at Messrs. Komur
GROUP? and Komar's, St. George's Build-
A Chinese amah in the employ
A foreign visitor to Hankow who ing, always attract attention, and of Captain A. K. Menon, of the Feng Yu Hsiang has once more has just returned brought some Indian Medical Service, residing demonstrated his ability to "back very interesting information re at No. 17, Jordan Road, Kowloot the right horse." In spite of every Jative to the troop movements along was sent to prison for two months, rumour to the contrary he has the Yangisze, says a copy to hand by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the been a loyal Naaking man through of the North China Daily News, Kowloon Magistracy yesterday out the Wuhan crisis. morning. for stealing two gold however, have given the 'Nation-
Our contemporary adds: Our in- bangles and two gold ringa... alist Government many an anxious
formant left Shanghai, just at the moment lest his
* vers
Chris.
time the Nanking Government tina principles " might fozee were so indignantly repudiating him to declare for the other the alleged "rumours of war 15th. A few days ago his native side. No doubt the Kwangsi group preparations which had been pub- It by no means follows that the servant found a couple of Chinese are now, like many other Chinese lished in the North China Daily choice of the picture collector is pawn tickets in the defendant's leaders, ruefully considering that beers several days before, and was that of the man who buys to de-room Witness took these to two who relies on the help of the immediately struck by the advance General Chen Ming Shu was corate his home, and these ex-pawnshops where he found his "Christian" General bas only him- made in military movements which against intervention from the first
primarily for the missing jewellery. He questioned self to thank if things go wrong. and, though in Hong Kong at latter. The paintings are signed by the amah regarding the jewellery The way in which he misled this
and
A first she said that ber group-unintentionally no doubt is the time, sent a representative to one of some dozen names, but the brother took the articles away. contained in a United Press message Shanghai, whose urgent report pre modern Japanese artist, like the Later she broke down and said that describing how the Chinese public
much earlier age, brother.
she took the jewellery to help her in Peping was excited by the publi cipitated the return of Admiral Italian of B
She was very sorry and cation of manifestá denouncing Chen Chak and Generals Cher Tsai "fathers a great deal of work dane she offered to redeem the jewellery. the Nanking Government printed in Evidence of finding the pawn the Chinese newspaper Chao Pao, Tong and Hsu King Tong, who have by his pupils under his direction. taker the lead against the Kwangsi Thus you will find one picture marks toe given by the complain- which is openly subsidized by far.
ant's native servant and the Magis shal Feng Yu Hsiang... trate convicted the amah, imposing the above-mentioned sentence,
ATTEMPTED TO BRIBE A CONSTABLE.
clique,
KWANGSI INFLUENCE ENDS.
hibitions
arc
ed at 830, and. another at 83 ex hibited under the same name, with
wide difference
R
in their 45 artistic merits as in their cost. But
WES
brought before Mr. T. S. Whyte
A Chinese lorry driver Smith on charges of removing sand from the foreshore at Sung Wong Toi, Kowloon City, and attempting to bribe an Indian constable with so cents. The defendant pleaded strongly to the average person who guilty and the Magistrate imposed buys a painting either as a memento a fine of $es on the first charge of some place he has seen, or simply and a caution on the second offence. because it appeals to his sense of the beautiful.
The defection of Canton is con- when it comes to a question of their sidered a' death blow to the hopes marketable value the position is of the Kwangsi faction. General reversed, not because the buyer is Wong Shiu Hung, the Kwangi, unwilling to pay the larger sum, leader, declares that he will carry but because the simpler and less on the struggle without Kwangtung. intellectualised work appeals more He has moved the Headquarters of his commend, the 15th Army, to Wuchow, and large quantities of arms and munitions, documents and stores were placed on board four big junks on Sunday afternoon. Kwang si troops in Canton also boarded i
DUMPING RUBBISH.
Another lorry driver was fined $10 for dumping building waste on a vacant lot opposite the Police Training School in Prince Edward
representative that some several tone had already been dumped on the spot in question. However, the defendant was only seen to dump his lorry full. The Magistrate also made an order for the defendant to remove the rubbish which he had dumped there.
The manifesto is signed by the most prominent leaders of the Left Wing of the Kuomintang (Nation alist Party), headed by Wang Ching Wei, who is an exile in France, Koo Meng Yu and Chen Kung Po. attaching significance to everything, The Chinese public is fond of
often without cause, and in this case they point to the fact that Marshal Feng recently invited Wang Ching Wei to return to China, and regard the publication of this manifesto in Feng's own newspaper as evidence that his sympathies lie with the Left Wing,
showed most clearly how strict and rigid a censorship the National Government was placing on the posta and telegraphs and the Chinese press, to prevent Shanghai from knowing that China was on
the verge of another war.
them
filled with
On the journey up-river, said our. informant, the steamer on which he travelled went up parallel with a couple of Chinese steamers, both bound for Kiukiang. This was on of
troops,
March 13 or 14 On arriving at Kiukiang, he learned that 30,000 men of the Fourth. Division had landed that day and that more were due. The tension in Kiukiang was very high and there was a big dej mand for food supplies and coolies were being impressed into army ser- vice. Our informant was told that
Badicals Denounce Nanking. The Left Wing has been definitely opposed to the group, which has controlled the Nanking Government and the Left leaders have been the forces which had arrived would eliminated one by one from the probably be moved south towards
The Left leaders consider that Naa- king is not a real revolutionary he returned to Kiukiang, some government, but is supported by days later, he was told that 150,000 bankers and businessmen.
men had passed through the city, The manifesto printed here is very out-spokes in its denunciation of but this number, he thought, was the Nanking Government, It as exaggerated. At any rate, large serts that the present persons in bodies of troops passed through. and militarists fighting for their own power at Nanking are individualists
intèrèste and not for those of the people. It argues that there is little
It is this factor that makes these exhibitions at Komor and Komer's. Man in the so popular, The Street,
"the "Philistine,"
the Plain Man, are all terras for these junks which left later in the the man who is the real patron of Road. It was stated by a P.W.D. Party during the past few months. the Kinngai-Hunan borders. When
art,-who buys what pleases him. day. With the departure of this He is often frightened by a "high
brow little flotilla Kwangsi influence in tween the inclination to buy as an picture show, being torn be
Canton was considered at an end... investment, on the advice, of
General Wong Shiu Hung is sup- friend who professes to know, acme picture which does not appeal to posed to have arrived in Samahui him, or risking the ridicule of his by the gunboat Nan Keung intend-etre which he himself likes. So artistic friends by purchasing a ing to come or to Canton for the compromises by doing " the conference. Learning of the coup show, cautiously, letting fall some against his party be abandoned the non-committal remarks, and keeping rubbish there when he made his to choose between the present lead of years ago. They were packing }
his money in his pocket..
idea and returned to Wuchow.
For the Non-expert.
dumping house refuse in Portland A Chinese was also fined $5 for
Street. This defendant also claim ed that there was already a lot of
contribution.
ers and the former militarists.
Foreigners were very apprehen- sive of possible trouble, remember- ing what had happened a couple,
A million lives have been sacri-up and getting ready to leave in ficed in the revolution, and only a
the event of trouble. few individuals are deriving any sent to advantage from this tremendous
sacrifice, the manifesto asserts.
of their declarations favouring
that
HOUSE INTRUDER. A number of Kwangsi troops
But let such a man wander into
Another Chinese Was
Tension High at Hankow. under General Wa Ting, who one of these bi-annual exhibitions
and he comes out lighter in pocket, prison for four months for entering
At Hankow, the tension was very were excamped in Canton pending and satisfied. He has found no No. 108, Canton Road, and steal-The denunciation of the group in high indeed. It was two years their departure by the Canton-thing inside to alarm him; all the ing clothing containing 99 in money
power is more sweeping than the pictures are pretty and have mean and a gold watch. The defendant platform of any opposition political since our informant last "visited Hankow Railway have left hastily ing. He has not made a specula was arrested with pawn tickets on party in the west. The Left Wing Hankow and, at that time, the ten- for Kwanger. Other Kwangsi troops tive investment either of his money his possession for the stolen pro- leaders accuse Manking of encourag- sion was acute as anti-foreignism
man who perty.
ing the growth of opium, in spite and anti-British activities were still guarding Shiukwan and the North or of his reputation as
kaows something about pictures. River have moved into Southern If any one later turns up a too HOUSE BREAKING:
drastic measures to stop the use of at their strongest pitch. The Hunan for fear of "misunderstand sophisticated core at his purchase
the drug. They assert that Chine anti-foreign movement he can explain that he bought it Armed with a half inch iron rod is rapidly approaching bankruptcy but the tension remained. The WEB gode ings" with the Canton forces.
As a memento, not as a work of about three feet long, a Chinese and that the plight of the common The completeness of the Cantonese art, and when the superior person attempted to break into an empty rulte face is shown by the fact that has gone he can sit down in front bouse at No. 6, Lyeemoon Villas, People is worse than it has ever general Chinese view was
been before.
Wuhan would not allow itself to the Canton Political Council is, of it and thoroughly enjoy his pic Chatham Road. He was arrested
by an Indian constable and charged festo is devoted to the recent Kuo- Whilst foreigners on all sides Considerable space in the mani aubmit to the dictates of Nanking. after all, to be dissolved, according ture.
before Mr. T. 3. Whyte-Smith atmintang congress which met in to Nanking orders and the same Quality of Giving Enjoyment,
the Kowloon Magistracy. fate will befall the Headquarters of
There is not one of these pictures The defendant claimed that he Nanking The Left leaders as naturally supported the Central the-Military-Route.
oil water colour or pastel which had been asked to break down the presentative in any sense of the formant that the Chinese public sert that this congress was not re-Government, they told...our in- Martial law is being enforced in has not this quality of enjoyment house. Canton after nightfall, and large to give. They all appear to have
word, and violated the avowed prin opinion in Wuhan was altogether Magistrate (to defendant): "Do ciples of the Kuomintang. They areas where troops are stationed are been painted with pleasure both in you go about demolishing houses declare that the
opposing the Nanking group. guarded by cordon of sentries., the scene and the craftsmanship with that ron bar?”
Things were repeated to our in- " packed with adherents the which their production demanded. Defendant "Oh it is very easy
Shanghai about the ways in which cisions were in no way an expres. members of the Nanking Govern- sion of the voice of the people. and many of them, notably some bricks views of Fujiyama in mist, are
The group in power is accused of ment were filling their pockets and exquisite in feeling, and technique. słaborate story about a friend living having only selfish ends in view, large sums were mentioned as hav Aranng the pastels are some flower at the house who asked him to and their recent acts are declared ing been deposited in foreign banks atudies which make very charming come and help him break down
to be a direct attack upon the very by members of the Government.
Taxation was heavy in Wuhan, life of the party, which the Left but the Nanking Government was decorations for a room.
the house There he met the com. plainant and inding that he was leaders declare they are prepared to blamed for increasing the taxes
defend. not needed he threw away his rod
and causing a stagnation of trade. and was about to leave when he was arrested by the constable. He could not call any witnesses to car roborate his story,
congress
WIS
TANG SHIH TSANG RESIGNS. The water colours of Terrabuchi to demolish a house in Hong Kong group in power, and that its de. formant which he had heard in
A Fah Tai Tat Pao message from stand out on their artistic merits They are only built with lime and
Canton states that Marshal Li Tsa Hsin's right-hand man, General Tang Shih Tseng, Police Commis sioner and Chief of the Staff of the Military Headquarters, has resign ed and left Canton at four o'clock Ho Lok on Monday afternoon. Chua has been appointed to succeed General Tang.
Oil Palatings.
The defendant went on to tell an
The oils, of which there are quite a large number, this time, are inter- esting because this is a new mediam for Japanese artists. They show the qualities of perfection of com BURIED "GATE" MONEY. position and skill in obtaining a son for three weeks.
third dimensional effect which are characteristic of all modern Japan- CHINESE FORTUNE TELLER
INCIDENT AT SATURDAY'S EXTRA MEETING.
ese painting. With regard to the use of pure colour Japanese artists are not, as far as this exhibition is
The Magistrate seat him to pri-
IN TROUBLE.
At the Kowloon Magistracy on
men
Masces of Troops on Move.
In Feng's Own Newspaper. printed in Feng Yu Hsiang's own that he saw vast numbers of soldiers
The fact that this manifesto was
In Hankow, our informant said newspaper shows the divergence of opinion among powerful leaders of being moved across the Yangtsze to the Komintang:
Wachang and going south. These Although the Chinese Nationalists have only one
were evidenly natives of party at present, the evidence in Hapeh and it struck our informant dicates that the one party is split king forces, these men were not so that, as compared with the Nan- ting into factions which practically a guide, following the same line Saturday morning a Chinese for retain the title of Kuomintang.
make separate parties, although all well equipped and less smart. He did not know how much fight theze of development as their Western tune teller was charged with con- According to the latest informs was in them but they were carry- fellows, and, in their palettes cling spiracy with another Chinese to tion Feng, has won his cherished in their full kits picky and I did not know what to do with very closely to the tradition of obtain 83 from a Chinese woman object, big concessions in Shantung so much money, so I thought I their water colour work.
living at Canton Road. would bury it
as the price of his neutrality. If The paintings of Kondo show, was the explana
The complainant lost
a gold the Nationalist Party eliminate the tion given by a Chinese who was however,
exquisite tender watch and a lodger living on the charged at the Central Magistracy greens and a strong use of dark same floor offered to refer it for powerful Kwangsi group they will have done it by exalting the power yesterday with the theft of 8600 pigment which is interesting. The her. He suggested that she should belonging to the Hong Kong Jockey exhibition is one which should be pay 83 to a fortune teller who and prestige of Feng Yu Hsiang.
visited by everyone who has a love would tell her where the misplaced
THREE MONTHS" FOR THIEF.
Chub.
some
shovels to dig themselves in
The Nanking Government had, aur informant learned, sent repre sentatives up the Yangtze to the deposited with these sums of money different mission hospitals; they
so that hospital accommodation could be reserved to receive the wounded. Already, 5,000 reserva tions have been made.
All passengers arriving at Nan-
The money was stolen from the of pictures. For the artist it is in watch was The lodger had evi- entrance to the public enclosure of structive as showing how the East dently stolen the watch and hidden later visited the fortune teller and the Jockey Club's compound at is adopting and translating the it. The complainant went to the the reward money was divided. Happy Valley on Saturday, The technique of the West, and in the fortune teller who put her through The complainant later found out king from up-river places were sub- official on duty at the entrance gate leason it teaches of the value of Bu series of exercises--including that she had been tricked and injected to strict search and examina had only absented himself for a few composition and depth both of listening through a long tin funne formed the police. The fortune tion by soldiers. This was an emer- minutes when he discovered on his which are being sacrificed in Europe and writing down descriptions of teller was arrested, but the lodger,gency measure, to prevent arms return that, the money had been in a headlong rush after mental the watch Later the fortune teller although he has a wife and several from getting in, as well or enemy stolen.
images or primitive colour. For the went to the bouse, declined to children living at the flat, managed troops
plain manor his wife-it will come inside, but stood at the door to get them and himself away, offer an opportunity of buying for a way and gave the complainant, The fortune teller hung his head, few dollars pictures, which will be a directions where to find the watch, evidently feeling that he had dis constant joy on the walls of their Sure enough the watch was where graced a worthy profession. The rooms,
the fortune teller said. The lodger Magistrate rent him to prison for E.M.B. (Continued at foot of next column) six weeks.
An alarm was raised and the police came upon a Chinese at tempting to bury something in the sand near the public enclosure.
A sentence of three months' bard labour was passed.
Maralal Wu. Fei Fu's name was constantly brought up in Wahan and his virtues were frequently commented upon as compared with those of the present "Nanking government officials.
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