A
THREAT TO FOREIGN SHIPPING ON YANGTSZE.
CONCERTED EFFORT TO OUST INTRUDER,
ALL-POWERFUL COOLIE UNIONS.
The following article, by Alfred Batson.' appeared in the North China Daily News of May 3, and we reproduce it in order to give our readers an idea of the trend of events on the Yangtze, and the difficulties, with which foreign shipping is faced.
STORY OF A MAIDEN VOYAGE.
The Pilot's Pirate Pals,.. The pilot also has other functions.
was not so long ago that oas guided a boat flying an American Hng to a safe anchorage just below the Gorges, with the added informa- WAS the tion that over the hill
The concentrated attack that is now being made upriver against the foreigner and his fag has been commented upon before by this writer. No one can travel above Nanking without having visible vidences of it thrust upon him and no one can spend a moment with village from which he cane. foreign residents along the Yang-night evidently his friends decided tsze without its cropping up in the Conversation, however brief it may
1.
That the foreigner will be driven tom the Yangtze, is the forecast of all and nue returns from a trip to Chungking with the feeling trongly imprinted on his con- sciousness that the old hand up
river is correct.
One comes back alsd with a feel ing that after all there is more to the foreigner in China than Shang- hai, and no matter how secure he may feel here in his grasp of the
That
to be hospitable and kill the fatted call for five junks came down, sur- reunded that boat and, as might he expected, the, pilot was the most surprised man on the ship.
The upshot was that though the gentry didn't touch the cargo (gun- boats are moving up and down, all the time) they did "take over" the
reign passengers and after they had been stripped of valuables an additional $1,000 was demanded.
political situation and things Chi | Finally the pilot came to the rescue nese, he gets an undercurrent of
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1930.
SNAPSHOTS OF A BOY AND THE FRONT DOGA
By GLUYAS WILLIA
JOLUVAS
WILLIAMS
GOES OUT TO PLAY
JUST AS FRONT DOOR. SHUIS, HEARS MOTHER "CALL SOMETHINS
STARTS TO EXPLAIN "THAT HE DID SHUT IT, WHEN FATHER SHOUTS SOME BODYS LEFT THE DOOR OPEN AGAIN
13-24
ARSUES HE DIDN'T LEAVE IT OPEN, HE SHUT IT, BUT HAD TO OPEN IT AGAIN WHILE MOTHER REMIND-
ED HIM TO SHUT IT
suspicion that there are more things with the story that he could obtain pilot might have cramps in his hand
in heaven and earth, Shanghai lander, than are dreained of in Jour philosophy.
the money at the village of his forefathers, and sure enough he did, and for the exertion the price be charged was just 80 per cent, 2000. What is more, he got it, and though the captains picked the anchorages after that, the pilot in said to be still on duty and all efforts to have him ousted from the pilot's union have failed dis:
Some Further Scenes.
at a bad spot in the river, Even- tually the 844 was acaled down and the ship went up. But it was a pretty scene while it lasted.
A Barefaced Demand. And the ship was not yet out of its difficulties.
In the Hsin rapid, the Hsin Tan, the charuel is partly obstructed by the wreck of the Hsu Huo which was a total loas in December 1929 There she lies a pile of rusting iran, totally denuded of anything that could be taken away, this happened before her passengers
were off, and the attraction for a
GOES BACK IN AND
UNITED
ARTISTS PICTURE
Ronald
COLMAN
SHOUTS WHAT DID SHE SAY?
MOTHER CALLS SHE WAS JUST REMINDING HIM TO SHUT THE FRONT DOOR
ALL
TALKING
DZASONTED BY: SAMUEL GOLDWYN:
FATHER GRUMBLES WELL SHUT IT WHILE HE'S ARGUING AND AWWAY HE LEFT IT OPEN YESTERDAY
(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
TERRIBLE SHANGHAI
TRAGEDY.
SIX PERSONS TRAPPED BY
FIRE.
A tragic fire occurred in Nantao, Shanghai, on May 4, when six peo ple were burned to death and nine houses either gutted damaged by the flames Four of the deceased were children.
IL 207
F badly
The firse broke out at 3.30 ..
Garden" Alleyway, Great. East Gate, in a barber's shop. So rapid was the spread of the fames
that several houses were alight
GOES OUT SO ENGROSSED WITH THE UNREASONABLE" NESS OF PARENTS THAT HE FAILS TO LATCH DOOR. WHICH PRESENTLY BLOWS
OPEN
THEATRE SUICIDE. REVOLVER SHOT DURING WAR SCENE.
Unaware that a tragedy had hap- pened in their midst, the audience at the Wood Green Empire, Wood Green, N., listened to war-time songs from the stage while a dying
man who had shot himself was be-
ing carried from the theatre.
Mr. Richard Barton, aged 38, of Harold Road, Hornsey, N., was at the theatre with bis wife. While
Ambulance men who had been
Writing or the Wall. An old resident of Hankow sum med it up thus: "You people in Shanghai are so secure in that you have the political situation, la a nutshell, and that what happened to its can never, never, happen tomally. Such a man, is a valuable you, that we know, when the fall, adjunct. comes, it will be doubly hard for you to bear. You people in the Settlement know everything. You But let me dispel the thought
they were watching, a war-time know just what is happening be that lehang is the beginning and
sketch, Mr. Barton seized his wife's tween (Nanking and Peping and end of the good things for the
arm and pushed her aside. He vet reemingly each month sus ane aliyes against the foreigners on small village of woodies who moved before he fire brigade arrived then took a revolver from bis pocket other little hit chipped away. By the Yangtze. It is merely the is waiting for another ship" to go No. 205, a fuel shop in which coal and shot himself through the head. and by there will be only Shang-place
where the innovations are down. Now comes the magistrate and wood are sold, added materialled gave first aid to Mr. Barton, hai left and that will go easier than tried first and it successful ure
of the village who demands 8190ally to the conflagration, as did you expect. British prestige up-adopted elsewhere.
for the new ship to go through, one
who had been laid on the floor. He river is finished. And the 'force In passing let me say that Ichang half of which he tells you goes to
No. 201, a grocery. that finished it is creeping down was translated to me as meaning defray his expenses in coming the
The occupants of all the houses was then carried out of the theatre on a stretcher and taken to the were asleep at the time the fire North Middlesex Hospital, Edmon prosperity" which the town cer-
20 odd feet out from the shore, and troke out. Those at No. 207 were river each day, but you in Shang- hai are so sure and so smug in tainly, is, but not for foreigners. the other half of which will go to It happened that i went thoughthe local military. The reason for
the family of a member of the crew
ton, N. He died shortly after ad- your leadership of things that you can't see it. None are so blind as the Gorges on the maiden voyage the charge is not without interest. of the str. Dahwoo, one of them mission. His wife, who had accoin- those that can't see and you of a vessel fresh from the builders'
Because the wreck is dangerous is believed that when she realiz-give any account of what had oc the mother of a two weeks old baby. Panied him to the hospital, was so Consequently under the and if you go through you mighted the house was on fire she woke urred.
overocano that she could scarcely Shanghailanders are blinder than hands. the proverbial bats. "What is said rules of the Coolie's Union, she
Tan on the rocks and completely the rest of the family and tried to ir Shanghai. is one thing, and was allowed to carry a cargo direct block the channel. Then where:
Describing the occurrence to`s re- what is said and done in Peping through from Shanghai to Chung would we be with all commerce lead them out of the building.
With the house fall of smoke she said.
porter, a nember of the audience. is something very different, as we king without transhipment at the stopped?" have found out to our sorrow." town of prosperity."
soop lost all sense of direction, as But, because she was a new ship
"The party on the stage were sup- is often the case under these cir-posed to be soldiers singing songs This plaint is typical of what
cumstances, and suffocated before in a wartime billet. They had one. hears all along whether the there were farther complications.
she could find her port is Hankow, chang or Chung- She was not to get away lightly,
way to the just started There's a Long, Long street, and as a result the whole Trail & Winding' when I heard a An innovation had been tried at king.
family perished. There were two As the foreigner's premier strong-ishang and approved of farther
women, one of 38 years and one of port close behind me. hold up river is in shipping and up. ichang was not to have all the its affiliated commercial intercourse,
25, and the two week-old girl, and man in the third row of the balcony it is but natural that the tentacles
three boys, of 13, ten
and right had collapsed. Attendants rushed of this feeling against the white
years respectively.
to him and carried him to a small man should first be fastened on the
room at the back of the balcony where he lay unconscious. Eis boats that ply the Yangtze.
wife was with him.
The Opium Equipment.
i
So in some mysterious way the 8100 is going to make it all right for you with the villagers to pile up and block the channel
A Friend in Need.
But the magistrate didn't get the $100. Instand he got a strong sug: gestion from an irute captain; and then came an ending like a cinema thriller. There was a whistle from up-river. A boat was coming down and the magistrate shudied from one foot to another... Well, he
should.
At the inquest at the mortuary of the District Court, Nantao, the coroner gave his verdict that the deceased had been burnt to death but that the cause of the fire was unknown. Inquiries into the cause are being made.
"....
"I looked round and saw that a
There was no commotion, and except for those immediately around him, few people knew what had happened. Many of them pro- tably thought that the shot had been fired on the stage."
AT THE
CONDEMNED! ANN HARDING
& LOUIS
QUEEN'S
AT THE
STAR
WOLHEIM
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.80, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
JOHN GILBERT AND GRETA GARBO
IN
"LOVE"
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 280, 5.30 & 9.20,
Lon Chaney
THE BIG CITY
AT THE
WORLD
FINAL "SHOWINGS TO-DAY
at 5.15 & 9.20.
At. 2.80 & 7.15" THE FENG YANG TIGER!!
CONGRESSMEN AND DRINK HABIT.
ELDERLY MEMBERS DESERVE SYMPATHY,
good things to itself. At the Yeh Rapid, better known as the Yeh Tan, it is customary for the boats to "heave" over the difficult stretch ot water, in times when the water is especially low or
troublesome. It happened that this was one of I have already pointed out a few the times. The thing is compara of the glazing instances one sees tively simple. The end of a line at Ichaug. The forced tranship sent ashore in a sampan and a sight. ment of cargo and its attendant illa crowd of coolies haul a steel wire to the foreigner's pocketbook, is hut out and make it fast well up the one. The result is that two of the beach beyond the swirl of water. major British shipping firms have The other end of the wire is then eased to attempt the upper river
wrapped around the winch on the and rather than give in to the Low of the ship and the ship liter-trate shifted back to the other foot SEQUEL TO A COMMUNIST'S home she did not geam able to coolies union at Ichang, their boats anchored in the river. No innger does one see the lordly pilot come aboard with his retinue of The stunt is about as difficult for the magistrate melted into the bush servants, on these ships. But his demanda have been met in part by coolie does more actual labour in wheel house and telegraphed his turier, has just taken a singular with me for about two years," said the Methodist Board of Prohibition,
are
other boats and the "scene is one not to be forgotten.
First he comes alone in a sampan. Then fallow the two quartermasters he takes with him in another, sam- pan and still a third carries his own special cook, his servant, his multiple rolls of bedding and ac coutrements and if you are fort. unate, as was this writer, to be hanging over the gangplank when a dull witted-servant, drops a bed ding roll and it flies open, what a revelation is before you.
In this instance most conspicuous among the things that fell out was smoke, stained pipe with a long shank and a little glass bottle, 'out ot which tumbled a lamp. Con- sidering that the pilot travels with
n companion who shares the ardours
ally hauls itself up over the rapid. 1hen the line is cast off on shore and the vessel proceeds on her way. the coolies as it sounds. A ricas hauling one from the Bund to the Race Course.
: New Ship, New Charge.
Nevertheless a thriving village has grown up around the Yeh Tan and the principal source of revenue for the residents is hauling a line once or twice a day when the water
bad. They make enough on two trips to keep them in times when the water is good. The charge for a vessel of the same size as the one in hand is 8160. And this charge the captain was willing to pay.
After a moment the boat hove in She was white with buff stacks. She was long and speedy- looking. From her stern floated an American flag and along her star-" board side were seen a battery of mounted Lewis guns. The imagis
And gathered ag his long gown.
Then the U.S. gunboat slowed down to see what the discussion was,
and the irate captain re-entered his
engines full ahead.
The Hsu Hao wreck did not get a companion and the conmmerce of Chungking was not interrupted. A good time was had by ally
MORE HIP SLAPPING IN
NEW YORK.
OBJECTIONS TO “PERSONAL SEARCH.
{UNITED PRESS.]
QUEER REVENGE.
IMPRISONMENT.
The landlady at the house where Mr. and Mrs. Barton ludged said. that when Mrs. Barton returned
describe what happened. She recalled sitting with her husband,
(UNITED PRESS.”-
the drinking habits of Congressmen Washington, May 4.-Discussing The well-known French Com-watching the show, then the bang, in the course of his weekly broad- "Mr. and Mrs, Barton have been True Wilson, general secretary of munsit leader, M. Vaillant-Cou-and little more.
side publication, Dr. Clarence
kind of revenge upon the state of
society which some time ago put him into prison on account of his
Communist activities.
the landlady. "They seemed Temperance and Fublic Morals, de: jelly couple, but Mr. Barton has clared that the vast majority of been suffering terribly from in-
¦" dry* Congressmco arc total M. Vaillant-Couturier is not
somnia. He is an ex-soldier, and
abstainers, Communist of the "knife betweened on his mind. His wife told me I believe his war experience play." the teeth" type for he is & man
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men..
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Dr. Wilson brought the subject of wide culture and an able lawyer, that during the last few days he pin connection with last week's testimony before the Senate lob He discovered during his sojourn had hardly slept at all.
byist committee” an allegedly dry- "The war scene might have worri-voting but wet drin in prison that he was also SUD
wet-drinking Congress. artist, and in his cell began to ed Mr. Barton, who was a clerk paint in order to while away weary employed by the London County There are some elderly men,” | hourg
Council. There are no children. continued Dr. Wilson, who became accustomed to alcoholic liquors back in the days of saloons and the Capitol bar, who would find it dificult to refrain entirely from drinking.
"Such raen deserve a measure of sympathy."
IMPORTANT NITROGEN
SYNDICATE.
He has now advanced so far with his hobby that he is holding an ex- But he reckoned too soon. The
hibition of his own. The number of his canvas shows that his ship was duly hauled over by its own power and there came a bill
Washington, May 3-Dr, James brush has recently been as busy as
PRACTICAL CONTROL OF from the head coolie for 8280. The M. Doran, Commissioner of Pro-his pen. His first picture was sold
WORLD'S SUPPLIES. a new ship. The bibition, ordered immediate investe M. Albert Sarraut, formerly reason, it was line was still a steel spring and tigation to-day into reports that Minister of the Interior, and he of the trip with him, and that they as heavy as before but it was a new prohibition enforcement agents had has other proofs that be now. be-
Berlin, May 4.The negotiations work from after san up until the ship and therefore the charge went slapped hips and otherwise searched tongs to that fortunate band of by the world's nitrogen producers anchorage is reached af about six up 75 per cent.
members of a crowd of 7,000 per artists who sell their works. which have been conducted under It is very doubtful, however, that the presidency of the German is- in the evening, it can be under- After much wrangling the im-sons on New York piera."
Thone said to have been searched. Paul Painleve" will ever add dustrial leader, Herr Caro, and stood that a soothing influence is position was reduced, not wholly needed. For this they receive a but to a great extent, and then were congregated where the record steady remuneration that would came the matter of a junk going breaking German liner Bremen was make a Bins Bay piraté green with out from the shore to get the moored. envy and yet they are agitating for money, a distance of perhaps 100 By & previous order in the pro more money and a steady contribu-feet if that, and in calm water, hibition enforcement department, more money adorous outfit, Etting and for this bil of Bit was Tonsents had been told to cause the
"Ichang Coolie'sdered.
practice of personal search" yo have paid internet And considering that the pilot by heen easy but unwise. There are report. Newspapermen returning a turn of the hand can pile a for a variety of reasons why. The from the Far East some months ago eigner's boat up on the rocks with military are always near they have were subjected to what they con- Absolutely no redress on the been known to turn field pieces on idered humiliating examination of part of the foreigner, the business boats, the bout is coming down in this type, and their vehement pro- takes on an aspect of "heads I win, a few days, and lastly it is not tests caused the issuance of the
impossible that the aforementioned order stopping the practice. tails you lose," for the pilot.
Union.
SERVICE TO READERS...
HONG KONG DAILY.
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When asked why he had concan-although it is provided that it may
or telephone to the above address, tated so much on M. Painleve, the be terminated before the end of that they will receive the utmost assist artist politician said, "It was period. All countries requiring Painleve who had me sent to gaol, nitrogen shall receive their supplies ance and the latest available infor
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The
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a Garanoicit
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