THE HONG KONG 'DAILY
THE EVE OF BATTLE. THE TRAIN AND THE
IRONSIDES" STILL
ADVANCING.
KWANGTUNG ARMY: WAITING
AT KWEILIN.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
CANTON, November 3.
SOLDIERS.
KOWLOON-CANTON
EXPRESS ENDANGERED.
MILITARY NECESSITY KNOWS
NO LAWI
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
CANTON, November 5.
A serious collision on the Canton
HISTORY OF THE WORD "TEA.”
H.E.'S LECTURE TO THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION.
A SUGGESTION FOR DRY
PALATES.
His Excellency the Governor (Siz Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) gave yesterday in St. John's Cathedral Hall the first of a series of lectures which have been arranged by the
PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1929.
CHINESE CONCERT
AT D.B.S.
LARGE ATTENDANCE AT "
"AT HOME.”
The final celebration of the aix- tieth anniversary of the founding of Diocesin Boys' School took the form of a Chinese concert and a
LOOTING OF A LIKIN STATION.
ARMED BANDS ACTIVE IN
HANKOW
TWO" PEOPLE KILLED.
Hankow, Oct.198.—The week-end; has been marked by serious bap gymastic display föllowed by danc-penings in the neighbourhood of Hankow Among these the first. ing in, the school hall.
place must be given to the attack (on the likia and dyke-repair. stations at Pingfang at midnight on Saturday. The attack was made
The concert was very well at- tended, large crowds arriving at the
The main body of the "Ironsides" has now passed Linkai and Lung- 23 or 30 miles from Kweilin their averted last Monday. The, militation. Sir Cecil chose as his subject hool grounds long before p... by a band of about 100 armed rob shing, in Northern Kwangal, some
Kowloon Railway was narrowly
hend DA, into the express from
first objective. It is believed that in the East River district embarked they will rench Kweilin either to- troops and munitions on a train morrow (Wednesday) or the next which they ordered to proceed to day, unicas, their advance is check- | Canton at once. The driver pro- ed. Heavy fighting between the tested, and pointed out that they "Ironsides and the Kwangtung~ į would run, Kwangai forces under Chen Tsui ordinary afternoon Tong is expected on the outskirts Canton to Kowloon. But the soldiers of Kweilln as the main body of would not be denied. They were Government troops is concentrated needed in Canton, the, need was in at this point, and along the Kwei argent, and to Canton they must Elzer between Kwellin and Wago Ordinary civil traffic must make
way for them
chow.
RUMOURS!
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The train set out, the driver pressing on all he knew to try and get to Canton before the express started.
named Yang and six others were kiled. After securing a sum of about $20,000 fron the two stations, the robbers set the likin station on Ero and left. The fire spread until forty houses and shops had been destroyed."
The buildings were Iriglthybers, who commenced by firing a illuminated and everything that volley of shots. A likin inspector
fort of the visitors was provided. could add to the pleasure and com-
Chinese music formed the major portion of the concert programme, the members of the Confucian Woo Association" Association, "Chin and Chung Sing Association giving tone excellent selections.
local branch of the English Amocin- The History and Meaning of the Word Tea."
In looking far's theme for the he had aimed at finding a point of first lecture. said His Excellency, contact between the English and Chinese languages as well as a subject which would be of special interest in Hong Kong. He had chosen the word tea because in the early days of the Colony 60 per modits, a witness to this fuct being the tea chest which was incorporat- A short comedy by students of the ed in the badge of the Colony school, and fireworks display, Tea was really a Chinese word, supervised by Mr. Leung Shiu On, but even scholars had not as yet added much to the success of the solved all the puzzles which it pre-programme, which was wound up by a Chinese dance by Miss Lau ented. There was no word for tea 17th century, and the first English- in the English language before the Pui Lan
After the concort, the students man who wrotect it called it gave gymnastic display on the ten- Many curious questionsuis courts of the school.
cent of the trade was in that com-
Only Found In Monsoon Area.
There were more than 200 couples when dancing commenced shortly after 9.30 p.m. after tea had been served in the Board Room, Locker "Room, Dining Room and Covered playground. The band of the Somerset Light Infantry supplied the music and the merriment con- tinued to a very late hour.
The news of the next disaster
was brought by batches of pas scagers who arrived back by road.
this launch
They had started in the passenger- lameh Hankang and had been stopped steady firing from the bank of the river. The pirates acted with great brutality and deprived the passengers and crew of almost all their clothing as well as of their valuables and baggage.
Two of the passengers and one of the stokers, who attempted re. sistance, were shot. The atoker was only wounded, but the Lwo passengers were killed. Following
the recent attacks on launches three armed launches have been placed on patrol duty on the Han
this will only make the pirates As far as Taitien, but it looks as
operate further up the river.
Rumours are current in Canton to-day that Wong Shiu Hong and Pei Chung Hai, two of the Big Fortunately the railway author- "chaw." Four" of the Kwangsi clique, who ities managed to get a phone were defeated and driven out of message through to Canton inform-arase when the origin of the word Kwangs by General Chen Taaiing the terminus of the situation. tea was studied, the first of which was Where was the original home Tong's forces last March, have re- The Kowloon express had left and
of the tea plant ! " turned to Kwangai and are march- was about at Tungshan when L ing at the head of a big army further message set the signals. against the pro-Nanking. forces against it and it hurried back, as
This question had aroused. con- No further details were available fast as it could, to Tai Sha Tau.siderable controversy. A Russian but it was rumoured that two pro- The military train came in shortly professor who hail, in order to an- minent general, formerly of the afterwards and the troops and stores wer it, visited all the tea, growing
The school staff, prefects and Kwangsi clique, but who were disembarked.
areas. held that the tea plant was entertaining committee are to be bought over by General Chen After a forty minutes delay the indigenous in all the monsoon re- congratulated on the thoroughness Tani Tong were wavering. There humble expres grept quietly out gion of Eastern Asia, and that thereof the arrangement which they had is, however, ao official or well of the station and reached Kowloon had always been the two varieties,made to ensure the success of the authenticated news of such. defee-in due course.
Indian and China tea. It was only evening's programme. Every even- tions. Naturally great secrecy is
two thousand years ago that the tuality had been provided for, and, preserved and the situation in.
Chinese discovered the properties. it is learned, even if the electrices without stopping. The villagers Kwangsi is shrouded in obscurity..
of the plant and the Assam tea lights had failed, there, were suf. plant was unknown until a cpn-frent torches and flares all ready WHERE THE TROOPS ARE
paratively recent date.
to provide' illumination and carry on the programme" without a break.
Mr. Chan Tan Sheung, one of the school profects, was chairman of the organising committee and he was ably assisted by Yeung Kwon Leung, Senior Boarders Prefect and Kwan Wing Hong, Senior School prefect.
STATIONED.
Are now
HONG KONG WATER SUPPLY.
1,699 MILLION GALLONS.
The total storage in the island reservoirs on the morning of Mon- day, November 4, amounted to 1,039.58 million gallons shewing 4 decrease of 30.01 million gallons during the past week: the amount collected from streams being 4.21 million gallons.
The Higher Command in Canton is taking no chances. Of the five dizisions in Kwangtung, four are taking an active part in the cam- paign against the Ironsides." About two and a half Cantonese divisions
concentrated along the Kwei River, and about one and a hall are guarding the North River districts. The remain ing Division is in the East River district fighting the Communists. The southern portion of the Pro- vince in garrisoned by independented units and the local authorities are heing kept informed na to the developments in Kwangsi. Generals are still in Warhow directing opera-land Chen Tsai Tang and Chen Hing Shu
tions..
The two bombing 'planes from the Conton Aviation Department, which few. to Wuchow a few days ago started in the direction of Kweilin this morning to make observations
LITY.
The week's consumption amount-
to 54.22 million gallons."
The
негедве
The lecturer then went on to ex- plain: the baning of the monsoon area, the significance of monsoons, their origin and climate effect, adding that the China Coast from Shanghai to Canton was particularly subject to their influence.
Early History.
The earliest mention of tea was,
he continued, in a Chinese, dic-. tionary compiled by a man who lived between 270 and 324 A.D. He describes it as "a small ever
and adds that green tree " beverage can be made from the leaves by boiling." In the 8th cen- tury A.D. a tiratise on tea was written by a Chinese who referred to an earlier writer on the subject AD. who had lived from 53 B.C. to 18
"RED"
PROPAGANDA.
· BOLSHEVISTIC LEAFLETS FOUND IN COLONY,
Traf: Adventures. There have been three motor accidents, two of them of a serious nature. A car driven by a Chinese out to the International Race Course ran over a child and went
followed the ear and caled on the
police there for help. The police found a car parked outside the grounds from which the number plate had been removed, and the driver of this car was later found and charged with causing the death of the child. A heavily laden motor lorry passing the Goddess of Mercy corrier knocked down a boy of nine years and killed him. The driver of the lorry was arrested and the lorry and its load detained by the police. The third accident happen- ed when a lorry tried to go Church, but only succeeded knocking down some railings...
During the week-end the police
seizures have effected three
.of
£0
arms, but in each of the cases their discovery has been of parts of weapons rather than of complete ones. All three seizures were mode
The Police are keeping a lookout KOWLOON SUPPLY,
for persons who are attempting to spread commuristic, propaganda in reservoirs on the morning of total storage in the main.
Hong Kong.
Yesterday morning some leaflets as the result of information given Monday, November 4, amounted to
There followed an interesting were found posted on the Peak to the palice. In no case were the 511.64 million gallons shewing an account of the manner in which the Tramway Stations. Murray owners of the arms caught, only during the past week,
of .03 million gallons Chinese, who in the dawn of their Road, Murray Barrack's walls, the women being found on the pre history were confined to the "basin | rickshaw stand at Kowloon andmises. The first seizure was made of the Yellow River, spread east other places.
in a firewood store in the Hankow and south-west conquering or ab- The papers are specially address. City, the nert near the Tungyo sorbing the aburiginal races who ed to the sailors and soldiers gar- Temple at Hanyang, and the third Chi then inhabited Szechuan and risoned here and contained the Hankow. Parts of over two hun near the Golden Orchid Temple in Fakien: The China Confusions, be usual communistic rubbish, They Munsaid, was nheut 1/10 of the present are signed by the Kwangtung dred weapons were seized. week Republic in area, it lay outside the branch of the Young Communistic Agitation Against. Annumites,
mons-ion region and its people had Party" and probably reached the Owing to the presence of so many no knowledge of tea. When the Colony from Canton, where abad characters in Harlow in this Chinese in the Chin And Han Soviet-managed organisation is be-time of unrest, armed patrols are dynasties extended their Empire lieved to be at work.
The week's consumption amount- ed to 26.81 million gallons not in of the position of Chang Fat Fai's cloding 57 million gallons sup:
A special honorarium ofplied to water boats at Lai $4000 has been given to the pilots! Kok. and mechanics, who are expected to play a most important role in the
conflict.
General Chen Ming Shu is report- ed to be returning to Canton as the city was nervous since his de-
parture.
가
WELL-BEHAVED NANKING
TROOPS..
A FOREIGNER'S, TRIBUTE. The following tribute to the Nan-
The yield from the Shing River and streams during the
is 29.41 million gallons.
ARMED ROBBERY AT SHUM and penetrated the monsoon region,
SHUI PO.
FIVE MEN HOLD UP A WIDOW !
they learnt the use of tea and as they had no word of their own for the present incorporated the worda of the aborigines which were quite different in these two widely separated are31. Later an ideo
graph was made to which was
"king troops who advanced from the curred at No. 180, Nam Chong given the phonetic sound "ebar."
Capital to Kwangtung to reinforce the Southern armies is contained in an article by a .-C. Daily Nexx correspondent in S. Kiangsi. He writes:
and the cultivation of tea was intro-
An early morning armed robbery Strect, Shum Shui Po, yesterday, when five men gained admittance luced into the old kingdom. Ten, to a flat and held up the principal tenant, a widow, and the other in- however, did not at once become mates, by threatening them with popular in China, though a treatise knives. The robbers ransacked the written on the subject proved it to We have had large numbers of premises and took away with them have been in use in the 6th century troops passing through en route to
money and property to the total A.D. Kwangtung to reckon accounts, we
value of $118.
From China the seed was carried hear, with Kwangai, and to meet
The police have taken the matter to Japan in the 9th century and or intercept Chang. Fat Fui and his in hand and reports have been cir the Japanese adopted the word
Ironsides." We have to recordculated to all police stations. Until
into their language, that these troops have been very
a late hour last night no arrest has well-behaved, they have done credit been made.
In Europe. There was no reference to tea in European literature prior to 1550
to their leaders, there have been very few complaints about them,
and their heliaviour goes a long
way towards recommending the HEALTH OF THE COLONY.
administration Talking
present
with several of the officers they are
"char
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JUNK CAPSIZES IN MIRS BAY.
TWO DROWNED AND ONE SAVED.
constantly marching through the streets. While one of these patrols was passing along the Hwangpei Street the weapon. of one of the men went off, and the bullet in ficted serious injuries on a passer. by. The man was taken to the nearest hospital, while the soldier was taken to the police-station, But the case was evidently one of A report was made to the police accident rather than carelessness. at Taipo by Chang Ping, a foki of It is interesting to note that at the scarga junk, stating that a cargo
time when the authorities deem is boat left Chung Chang with 127 necessary to send out armed patrols piculs of salt for Shee Ki, Chinese even in the ex-concession areas, an Territory, last Saturday afternoon, agitation is being commenced in The master and two fokia were on the Chinese papers for the-with- board.
drawal of the Annamese troops At 9 p.m. the same day, they which guard the French Concession, encountered bears seas and the The Whampoa Cadeir who have boat capsized. All three men were arrived bere carried out a parade thrown into the sea, but Chang yesterday, Sunday, in good style. Ping managed to grasp a wooden They distributed a good many plank on which he kept afcat. He handbills stating that they had and it seems to have reached Eng-hours and was then rescued by of the city while the Kuominchun was in the water for over three come here to look after the peace land first vid the Dutch in the fishing junk. No trace has been me being defeated. There is Laid 17th century: The earliest mention found of the master and the other to be a strong feeling among the of tea by an Englishman was in a letter written in 1815 by a merchant and it is assumed that both regular troops that these young
were drowned. of the East India Company who
men ought to be at the front referred to As chaw." Pepys
demonstrating their military skill, while tired regulars take turns at in the latter part of the 17th ren- to occupy the Misaion premises; the reports of notifiable and seri- tury speaks of having drunk it as
garrison duty.-N.-C. Daily News. they came a few times, and asked ous discase in the Colony, which an experiment for the first time, if we could oblige them with room are issued by the Medical Officer of and Pope in the early 18th century for a few days, but when we point- Health daily and weekly, add makes several references to it, from ed out to them that orders from statistics of consumption and which it was clear that the word headquarters were such that they malaria, This is a useful innova- was pronounced "tay." In exactly were not supposed to occupy such tion, enabling the public to keep the same way as the Chinese had premises, they were all obedient to track of the inroads of those very done, by exterding their empire. the proclamation of the comman-serious and far too prevalent forms the English thousand years later der-in-chief,
of discase,
discovered tea in Assam. In 1834 As set forth in the behaviour of Last week 2 Chinese deaths from the fact that the tea plant was a these units, he has a very high tuberculosis (all forms) were re-native of English territory in place in their estimation; may it ported, and is deaths from malaria, Assam was proved, and its culture remain so, is our heartfelt desire.it Chinese and 1 British.
was soon after introduced in India. They have had a difficulty in get Apart from this the number of England and the Word Beer. ting enough money, as they had cases reported was satisfactorily with them paper money from other low, details being as follow:- "A discussion followed. Sir Henry places, the banks were at first un- Typhoid: 2 Chinese, 1 American; Gollan, R.C., G.B.E., said that cellency for his lecture and he gained access by breaking a wis were all very grateful to His Ex-P.. yesterday, by a burglar who willing to let them have what they small pox: 4 Chinese (3 Cata)); as being fossilised poetry, fir Cool tristed that his suggestion : with down pane on the first floor. He wanted silver, in exchange for diphtheria: 1 British Cecil regard to the word would entered the rooms on the first floor but eventually it was all arranged. | fata}).
had shown that it was fossilised
not fall on dry palates. Several and stole a small blue enamel nad they got all they required, and day by day started on their journey of small-pox and 1 of diphtheria, learn how much of the history of Clementi contributing an amusing ivary Bhuddh (sitting) valued at
On Monday 1 case of typhoid, 3 history, he would be interested to
further points were raised, Lady Day clock valued at 850, a amall
south.
all Chinese were notified.
(Continued at food of next column.) story.
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$4, and a felt hat.
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FATALITIES.
and all loyal to the Govern- TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA ment and seemingly anxious to help their country,as much as possible. They have not been very anxious
The new official forms setting out
ST. ANDREW'S VICARAGE BURGLED.
England might be found in the word "beer" His Excellency had not referred to the expression dish of tea" The explanation had been given to him that when tea was first introduced into England we barbarians had thrown away the CLOCK AND SITTING BUDDHA infusion and eaten the leaves with sugar. In the letters of Madame de Sevigny he had noticed that she
Flight Lieut. J. S. Browne, made the first mention of the habit of drinking milk with tea, the
I.A.F., living at the Vicarage, St. fashion spread quickly and we had fowloon, has reported to the police
Andrew's Church, Nathan Road gone on to this day murdering the
that the Vi.arage was broken into exquisite beverage of the East by between the hours of 3 am. and
They adulterating it with milk.
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