HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1931.
CORRESPONDENCE, and altogether about 200 men pass-plain how it was that the Tor ed through the Cyclist Scouts in ritorial units were able to take the and six months, though its effective field in September, 1914,
valuable service, very [All lettera intended for publica- strength was never more than fifty, vender tion must be accompanied by the
On 18th February, 1918, about whereas the bulk of the New Army name and address of the writer,
word not unt for publication, unless to desir.twelve of the original metubers were (¿e, untrained men) ed, but as evidence of goud faith-left, those having been absorbéd qualified to proceed an active ser
ED.]
into the Volanteurs when this do vice until the Spring of 1915? It struction of the Emden" made was not for lack of an adequate
of normal thoir coast patrols no longer neces-supply Bary. These, being the Tow British majors "I trained meu available, were printo his viewa, even cipally occupied in guarding pri- right is wrong, and whilst your soners of war when hundreds of correspondent may have his own wild-eyed fends swept down upon reasons for withholding his services them, firing as they came, their from the Volunteers, it fe scarcaly bayonets dripping with the blood cricket to go to the extreme of of murdered Lai Toes and their endeavouring to influence others wives
THIS VOLUNTEER RACKET, (TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG
DAILY PRESA."]
St-Defore the last echoes fade of what has been cuphoniously and not fanppropriately termed the Volunteer Racket
with I may
Were
not to enrol-Yours, etc.,
"RESPICE FINEM." Hong Kong, April 11, 1931. ITO.THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG
DAILY. FRESH."
WEDDING AT ROSARY· CHURCH...
REMEDIOS-RIBEIRO,
KIANGSI ANTI-RED
CAMPAIGN.
[TRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
CANTON, April 12."
At the Rosary Church, Kowloon, The anti-Communist campaign in yesterday, the Very Rev. G, M. Kinngsi is progressing most satis Spada officiated at the marriage of factorily, according to an official sergeant Miss Carolina Maria Vieira Ribeiro report received here to-days
These Communists and bandits Every man is entitied and Mr. Evaristo Euzebio due
to prove that Remedios. The bride is the daugh-are being hemmed in from avers ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. V direction by vastly superior Govern- Ribeire, while the bridegroom is ment forces.
A big part of the Reda is retreat. the son of Mr. G. U. dos Remedios,
diven away by her father, the ing into Frkien and Lung Chuen in bridg's dress was of white, batin north-eastern Kwangtung and is possible proft, add some gleanings
with silver lace. She wore a vell causing considerable apprehension (which belonged to her great-to the inhabitants there. of a vetentive memory to replica
The Provincial Government of grandmother) senrly a century old, Something bad happened and
dr. that have been made to the views
and carried a sheaf of arum lilica.
Kwangtung has dispatched a so ably put forward of: Lili Tee.", nobody had given the five days
The bridesmaids, Miss Carmen tachment of the Pence Maintenance Those views are, to me, richly notice or provided the sergeant- Jeminiscent of those expressive, major the Lal Teen require for the
Silva and Miss Beatrix V. Ribeire, Corps to Lung Chuen to cope with sister of the bride, were dressed in the situation. not quite so ably perhaps, but: no mobilisation, equipment, training
Their Follow colour: georgette. leas boldly, by the protagonists of the disposition of protective troops, theNo Volunteer Movement" in! Most of the faithful few
SII rond with interest Laihouquets were of sweet peas. Singapore as far back as the early shot dend as they stood. Their Tee's protest against H.E. the
Mr. L. A. Colinco of Macao) officer was bayoneted at the tele-General's implication that all those and Mr. J. A. C. V. Ribeiro were At that time na riquiring en-phone in the guard room.
eligible men who have not joined the "best men," while the flower thusiast, na the roarit of some repitiful remainder withdrew in good the Volunteer Corps are evading girls were the Misses Thelina da benruh, was able to estimate that order, cursing no doubt the Lai
their obligations to the British Lux and Coleste Azevedo,
ΟΥ Already one
two there werd about 800, untrained men Tees who nt the same mouent were
Empire."
The bride's mother wore a dress and of military age in the Colony and streaming from their Clubs the bright iden took shape of rais offices and making their muddled volunteers have taken up the cud- gels on the General's behalf and ing two companies of British In
administered a severe rebuke to Lai fantry Volunteers to supplement
Tee for not joining the Corps. Be the two companies of Chinese and
fure we go any further with this Malay Volunteers who were patrio- tically bearing the white man's
discussion I think we should be burden with quiet efficiency.
quite clear as to which members of the community are supposed to be the ahirkers. Exactly who are the eligible young inen" of the Colony who are thus being, upbraided? | Wint is the definition of a "young 3282512" 7
Spring of 1914.
Then came the Indignant Sub- scribers," the Mothers of Eight"
thePro bono Publicns" and the rest of the Lai Tees, with their buckets of cold water and their: sperious arguments against the folly and faluity of amateur soldering.
Possibly also, about this time, that little rat-faced hawk-eyes mer
The
way to Volunteer Headquarters where they clamoured for armis to protect themselves and their women fuik.
Above the din could his heard the hellowing voies of the perspiring sergeant-major Now, don't go tryin' to load them rifles till you've
been told 'ow.!!
Bring Followed by a shower of glass from the roof, and the first Lai Tee had discovered the mean? ing a safety eatch!
Why
go on Why tell the tale of this gallant and utterly
Would the General consider ex- *ervicemen of from 33 to 45, who
have already given two, three or
four years of their lives to training
of saxe hiae georgette with hat to match.
a reception After the ceremony was held at 16, Carnarvon Road, Tho honeymoon is being spent in Macao and Canton.
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BIG JEWEL THEFT ON TAKADA.
PASSENGER AND OFFICEN VICTIMISED.
い
According to a report made to
CANTON EXCHANGE SHOPS.
GOVERNMENT PROMULGATES
NEW REGULATIONS.
[YROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, April 12, In order to eliminate a certain undesirable tendency in the ex- change markot and to make more sceuro the money of the people deposited in the various banks, the Provincial Government of Kwang- Bet of tung has promulgated regulations governing the banking and exchange business. All the banks and money-changing shops in Canton are required to comply with these regulations after this month. Exch bank must have a working capital of at least 850,000, and ench money-changer must submit proof that his capital is at least 25,000. New licences will not be issued unless these requirements are met.
Hitherto there has been no re- striction in regard to the amount of capital of the small banks and
chant, who was later hanged by. thv | useless rabble, termed the Armednder war conditions, as ovading the police, a theft of nearly 810,000 money-changing shops, Cansequent
neck till he was dead, began his Civilian Force, streaming across furtive conversation with his co- fanities in that little bungalow off country in the darkness, carrying
the East Const Road,
Be that as it may, a somewhat discouraged but still hopeful band
of workers convened a public meet- ing at the Town Hall with the local Unoffeiat Member presiding over a
crowded assembly.
their rifles liko umtrellus under their arms while the Volunteers edged to the rear to avoid being! shut in the hack 1
Why go on with the sickening aud heart-reading narrative of blood-
shed, relieved by the gallantry of
their obligations to the British Em-worth of jewellery was successfully while others had practically noue. pire," because they have no into perpetrated on
tion of continuing their parade- ground evolutions in peace-time 7
I think that someone should make it perfectly clear, on behalf of the the Volunteer Government Corps, as to their attitude towards those men who fought in the War,
or
Takada.
board the
ly some had a large working capital, 8.5. The latter were not infrequently in debt and had to close up, thus in- flicting hage losses. on depositora. It is with a view to rendering the deposits of the people safe and sound that these regulations have been promulgated.
The victim was 'Mr. E. F. Cap. hell, a passenger on the boat travel ling from Calcutta to Shanghai. The theft is believed to have oc- curred in Hong Kong harbour on Friday night, the jewellery being
The Chairman, having opened the shall efficient units of the Malay who understand discipline, drill stolen from a suitense in Mr. business before the end of this
proceedings by announcing that he
Status Volunteer Riucs from Kuala Lumpur, that happened fortuitous-
On the same ship on Thursday night, according to another report made to the Felice, Mr. Harwood, the second officer of the bont, lost
and the use of a rifle, and who form Campbell's cabin. very reluctantly cousented to pre-ly to be in training at the timend a potential reserve in the very re- mote likelihood of an emergency. I side and did to merely from a sense the ordered operations of the Chi-do not consider they should be to public duty, the Singapore Lai
121:30 and Malay Volunteers, till
lectured for evading obligations Tees reiterated their mouldy views
towards "joining up again is merely that they have already had a surfeit of military training and probably kuow, a great deal more about real war than some of those
in much the same strains as that help came from the Navy and from when the truth of their antipathy 430 in money from his cabin.
rehashed to us by your recent cor- respondent. There was one excep- tion. an elderly journalist, who having been a Volunterr in his -younger days, tackled the question from another angle. He told us something-of-Imperial strategy and local tactics and assured us that
Malay troops rushed from Johore ?
Let the dead bury their dead. It was all pver in less than this five days Lai Too needs to train his
troops.
beneath whom they would have, to serve in the Volunteers.
more
Having, however, spent years of my life in Regular Army and Volunteer Units (Oh. Yes! I have been a Volunteer, strangely enough!) than a normal nen-pro- fessional soldier luts" any right to statexpect, I take the strongest possible objection to the manner in which men are exempt from these asper- stand up in public and slang me for evading my obligations to the
A civilian enquiry was held and duly thanked God that such a thing would not happen -again-The-Lai Tees formed their If-such-an-authoritative
Volunteers too laze to be of use:
from all the lessons of military his. two companies of British Infantryment, is made and piikka ex-service successive G.0.C.'s of this Command |
event of war.
1
of the Tt is certain that many native banks and money-changing shops in Canton will have to quit month, Moreover, two money- changers representing two separate companies are often located in one single shop. Hereafter, one will have to quit, as the Government has prohibited two money-changing companies to occupy one shop.
All the new native banks and money-changing shops organised after this month will have to possess a working capital at least twice the amount formerly required, or at least $100,000 and $10,0m, respectively.
HONG KONG LAWYERS.
ORDINANCE TO BE AMENDED.
I
Practitioners Ordinance,
tory we could sleep soundly in our What a tragedy!
play The Gazette contains the draft When the War Office got to hear sions, I shall adopt the vile of pas Empire because I will not beds ns we had a British regiment and an Indian regiment to proof it they sent a bard-faced brigadier ive spectator during this argt at soldiers" in my spare time, of au Ordinance to amend the
ment; if, on the other hand, we are And that, Hir, was what prompied Legal told that it is, our duty to go on
me to write my original letter.-I 1871.. am, etc., forging fours and studying the art,
LAI TEE: of killing until we reach retirement
Hong Kong, April 12, 1931. age, i am afraid I shall have to: therosch on your spice again, and
tect us in the exceedingly unlikely from Mosspot to clean things up He was a great man and he had Notwithstanding these dismal
a sense of the Gtness of things for jeraniads, some 300 men volunteer he had a batch of mutineers public. ed their services and a mildly in-
ly shot to death by Lai Tees. terested Government requested the
Even the great, however, are not
It is explained that under seei tion 21 of the principal Ordinance the court is empowered to approve, admit, and enrol such persons sa have been admitted as attorneys, courts of London, Dublin or Edin. as proctora in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, to practise as solicitors in the contt, and the expression "writer" is to [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG Kosa be deemed to include "law agents' As defined in soction 1 of the Act, DAILY FRESH"]
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Staff Officer to Local Forces to ga immune from criticism and the shall not be alone in ropudiating THE HONG KONG SOCIETY solicitors, or writers in one of the into the question of immediate and are those who still think he would such a strictly military view of FOR THE PREVENTION OF urgh, or rocurting costs. As a result it was have boon, a better and brighter ono's Imperial obligations.-Yours, intimated that the Government did Brigadier if he had had a intch of etc., not consider that the hypothetical Lai Tees shot to death by Volun advantage of a couple of companies teers: Yours, etc.,
of British Volunteers would be ade- quately balanced by the boodle! needed to equip and support theru.
War.
I
DAILY PRESS."}
1914-1910.
Hong Kong, April 1, 1931.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG SI,-May 1, through the medium
DAILY PRESS,"
81,- am afraid I have not the time to Carry on A protracted correspondence on this subject, though I thank the various people who have taken the trouble to write pointing out the error of my ways.
33 and 37 Victoria, chapter 63.
It is felt that the limitation to named cities is too restrictive, Tho rights and duties of Law Agents in Scotland are regulated by the Law' Agents (Scotland) Acts, 1873 and 1601..
C. CHAMPKİN.
of your paper, draw the attention Hong Kong, April 11, 1931.
of your readers to the fact that the annant general meeting of the So-
The term "Law. Agent" Time rolled on, six months to be
eiety for Prevention of Cruelty to weeise, and War was declared, [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG
Animals will be held in the Board (equivalent to "solicitor in Eng- Room of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe land) is defined by the former Act "The British regiment left for
"Law Agents, shall include on & Co., on Wednesday, the 22nd a France and the General asked for
Sin.-Your worrespondent. "Lai
inat., at 5.15 p.m. We have an in- Writers to the Signet, Solicitors in fifty cyclist volunteers. for outpost
fluential list of Patrons, a large the Supreme Court, Procurators in ituties. Four hundred responded and Teo" has expounded his views on
Committed and many who help in any Sheriff Court, and every per this good work, but attendances at son entitled to practise as an Agent fifty keen and experienced motor Volunteering at very considerable
I have no objection in principle these, annual meetings have been in a court of Law in Scotland,"
The Secretary of State, in a re tyclists were selected. The Chinoss length but when stripped of its
might attend and help by their cent eircular Despatch (dated the and Malay companies were mobilis-barron verbiago, the pith of his to Volunteering of such, and I have marked by the absence of many who Fil for duty-and-the-British-com-letter in his view that a Volunteer a wish for it to be thought that presences the work of the Society. January 8, 1931) forwarding an ex- munity lanked on, and discussed the Defence Pores is unnecessary in I am wanking say criticism of the A report given to empty seats, to tract from a momomndum of the much as that he considers the train individuals who constitute the an attendants of those who faith- Council of the Scottish Law Agents fully attend Committee meetings, Society regarding admission to The Lai Teo taipans wrote in-ing given cannot result in the pro- Hong Kong Volunteer Corps. The does not give that encouragement practise in the Colonies, states that the same privilege should be con- dignant letters to headquarters and duction of an effective militaristic point is, however, that the Corps' necessary to a Committee serving he is sure that the intention is that „demanded' the release of members unit and that, in the event of a is a voluntary one after all, and in a public duty. While we are
ne upon solicitors in England and corded us during the past year, an of their staffs, who could not be crisis calling for the defence of the if it isn't sufficiently stirnctive to very grateful for the support ac ferred upon solicitare in Scotland expected to deal effectively with Colony, "any normal sergeant-major draw the right kind of mon in attendance commensurate with our that therefore the reference, so far mittco to carry on and work hard "law agents admitted to practise rubber shipments in their offices will be able to knock into the average larger numbers, then the remedy work will greatly help a new Cinas Scotland is concerned, should be
for the benefit of stray animals that io Scotland" and nothing more... if they had to put in three hours man's head in five days as much as lica in its own hands.
Section 21 of the principal Or I tried to show, in a fairly mild frequent our streets, etc. Please, if night guard twice a week, arriving the Volunteer Corns could in five
ance our annual mooting on Wed-and- sections 29 and 3 are made dead tired after motor-cyling yours." The training given in the manner, why I did not consider you can support by your attend: dinance is amended accordingly Sections 2, 22 and 23A of the fifteen or twenty miles from their | Volunteer Corps is na good no, if that the Corps as at present or
Yours, etc.,
дра also J. RUSSELL,
principal Ordinanco tion in the Colony, and I atteinpt- posts. As each demand was made not better than that given in the ganised whe fulfilling its real func-rosay, the 22nd inat, at 5.15 p.m.- uniform therewith.
amended so as to give the Inoor- it was acceded to. You cannot fight average Territorial unit at home ed to make a constructive proposal,
President.
perated Law Society of Hong Kong its correct title. the-taipans. Each man released bofore the war. Sucle being the More than that, I cannot do. from duty wxplawd_by_another, case, can your correspondent ex: .......(Continued on ntze Column.).
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