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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930.
MISSION HOSPITAL CLOSES DOWN.
LABOUR UNION'S IMPOS- SIBLE DEMANDS.
A PRO-NATIONALIST INSTITUTION.
[United Press.)
The only charity hospital and clinic in Tsinan, capital of Shantung prevince, a city of 300,000 persons, has been compelled to close down because of a strike organized by the Shantung General Labour Union, supported by the Kuomintang. The hospital is operated by the Shan. tung Cbristian University, од American mission college. At the same time, the university closed its college of liberal arts and sciences because union picketers compelled employees to quit.
CHINESE AIRMEN IN AMERICA,
HOPE TO RETURN TO PRO-
MOTE AVIATION,
To go to China, to teach aviation, build airplane factories, and develop air lines that is, the ultimate goal toward which 14 Chinese youths of San Francisco have turned their
eyes.
They are all members of the Chinese Aeronautical Association of America, said to be the only or ganization of its kind in the United States. Even their club rooms at 825, Sacramento Street, are air- minded. Drawings of planes, avia- tion magazines, pictures of pilots and model ships give the atmos phere of the hanger. Any afternoon. A group of futuro airmen may be found there poring over periodicals and discussing their plans.
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Six of the members have been chosen by a representative of the Chinese Government to become sta- dents at the Adeox School of Avia- American missionaries and tea- tion at Portland, Ore. Only one of chers employed in the University the boys is American born. These had to operate the electric lighting six students will be among 100 and power plants, owned by the youths of their race who will receive school, in order to heat the quarters training there at the expense of the in which Chinese charity patients Nationalist Government. The boys were kept until they could be dis-selected, using their adopted Ameri- charged. Teachers who had never can first names, are: Ralph Chang, handled shovels worked on short Peter Lee, Edward Wong, Herbert Willie Lew and George Leong: shifts before the furnaces."
The union presented five demands Dong. to the University, calling for a uniform increase in wages of 83 for each employee, $80 a month for the local union, provision of a club-room for workers, employment of a union secretary to be paid by the school, and signature of an agreement that to employees would be hired or fired without consent of the union. The university agreed to meet some of these demands, but declined to accept others. The union refused to compromise. While many of the employees were unwilling to leave, strike pickets persuaded them all to quit.
Most of the members have had more than nine months' instruction BA student pilots. There has been no opposition on the part of their" parents, the boys say, indicating that the older generations of Chi- nese are keeping up with the times.
Asked how he likes flying. George Dong, one of the charter members, smiled happily and using the pilot's vernacular, replied, “Ah, it is great. fun upstairs.
And they all nodded with vigorous enthusiasm.
COTTON CORPORATION.
"ABSORPTION OF MORE COMPANIES.
Shantung University has been" the centre of mission education in the province where Confucius was born for a quarter of a century. Some of the "American missionaries in the school sided vigorously with the Chinese in the dispute at Taigan with the Japanese in 1028, And have been known as pronoun- cedly pro-nationalist." When the Nationalists occupied Tsinan, the university staged a royal welcome for the Nationalist troops, and pre dicted a new era in the province.vide
Some of the American teachers, in
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Feb. 4.
The Lancashire Cotton Corpora tion les authorised a further in- crease of capital by £538,000 to over £4,000,000.
The increase is intended to pro- for the absorption of eight
the university at the time of the more companies, controlling ap Japanese bombardment in 1929 pub-proximately 950,000 spindles." listed a pamphlet alleging a number.
of Japanese outrages,
The university bas accepted almost completely the demands of the Chinese that roligious teaching be subordinated to a very small place in the curriculum.,. It has re- gistered with the Nanking Govern ment, under stipulations that re- ligious courses of any kind shall be purely voluntary, and that no chapel attendance shall be made compul sory. Recently, however, some Chi- nese organizations have demanded that religious courses be given up altogether. The university has not accepted such demands, as the money given to the school was pro- vided primarily for the purpose of affording a Christian education to the Chinese.
HALF A MILLION WASTED?
SEARCH FOR OIL TO BE GIVEN UP.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:).
LONDON, Feb. 4. After the expenditure of approxi mately half a million sterling in a vain search for oil in New Guinea, the Commonwealth Government has decided to abandon the object.
The search had been carried on for some time past in conjunction with the Persian Oil Company!
University authorities are hopeful that the labour trouble in the school will be settled in the near future. It was announced to-day that Missionaries declare that their em- the British delegates have been su ployees are satisfied, but that out-thorised to sign the draft agree side interference has been reapon- I ment regarding the Shanghai High sible for the strike.
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Court.
JAPAN'S DESTROYER
· FLEET,
FUTURE OF NEW UNITS.
[United Pross.)
"Naval experts in Tokyo ate con- siderably interested ភេន to the attitude the American and British delegates in the Five Power Con- ference now sitting in London in an effort to agree on additional limitation of naval armaments, will take towards Japan's imposing deet of 1,700-ton destroyers.
The Imperial Navy has 10 or 11. of these powerful ships, according to the latest reports, and foreign experts consider them probably the most efficient destroyers in the world-virtually light cruisers. They are referred to an destroyer lead- ers." "All of them have been com- pleted within the last two years. four were completed 1029.
These vessels include the Isonami, 'Fukubi, Shinonome, Usugumo, Shirakurt and Shirayuki, complet ed in 1923 and the Hatauyuki, Miyaki. Murakumi and Uranami. They displace 1,700 tons each and have a designed speed of 34 knots- among the fastest war vessels afloat.
They carry six 4.7-inch guns and nine torpedo tubes cach, and have proved unusually efficient in service.
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