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THE 1931 SUMMER
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THREE months ago it seemed as if the summer campaigning in China this year was again to take the form of an alliance of the Conser- vative North with the turbulent South against the Nanking Govern- ment, and particularly against CHIANG KAI-SHEK. However, we aro nearing the end of July and so for little or no progress has been Dada in consolidating the Anti- GILANG coalition. Though Canton
and newspapers agencies proclaim that Fese Yu HSIANG and YEN HS1 SHAN. arc,
the
By Order of the Board of Directors, Arranged, with the initials as well mobilising huge armies, that the
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churina Governor and the alliance betweon. CativGKAL SEX nd CHANG HAVER LIANO saw a brief "praco, and the final elimination of the anti-Kuomintang party. In 1929 and 1030 came the struggles against tho Kwangsi clique FENG Yo Holang and Yes Her SHAN, ending again in CHIANG's complete victory. The new feature in the 1931 hoe tilitics has been the defection of Canton from Nanking. In 1020 a brief attempt to enlist the Southern Capital of Kwangs against Nan king was summarily stamped out by CHEN MING SHU and CHEN TSAI 'Towo, full allegiance with China KAI SHEK being maintained. But though the loss of Canton is a very serious matter for ORANG KAI Sex, the Nanking-Mukden alliance continues to dominate the Chinees situation, and the menace from the South has been negative rather
positive. The Kwangsi then Kwangtung coalition includes many discordant elements and has not
1931.
SENILITY'S AMUSEMENT?
News and Views ⋆
Sulta, Pyjamas and Okampagne.
Stock and jewellery were stolen during a weekend from the pre- maison of Madame. Idare, Limited court dress makers, Upper Gros-
"Tho
Lord Carson's Recovery:
Auona the various diseases which have been discovered by mankind, statistics are among the most in- sidious and dangerous. There is an epigram on the subject too well.
Lord Carson, the former "King" known to need reporting. Statis
made an almost completo recovery ties are a kind of mental measles,
of Ulster, and famous lawyer, has particularly common in the United
from his operation of six weeks ago, which considering it nature States. This plague flourished, in
doctors and a tribute to his own Germany before the war, but venor-street, Mayfair. A special and his age, is a triumph for hie America is now its playground.display of bench dresses was taken, constitution. He is taking life very easily in London and expects to bo Sir JAMES IRVINE, Vice-Chancellor i manageress stated: of the University of St. Andrew's, thieves appear to have had a gcodi able to go down to his country time. They helped themselves to house, at Minster near Canterbury, alarming
in July. recently developed an attack of the evil. His "post-bottles of champagno and mado a graduation address? showed that moal of provisions which were on suits fer those of a man who is he had been, more or less, afflicted the premises. They obanged their over, since he had discovered a roport which aimed at showing the staying in the house, and left their old ones behind. The men got in in agent which men are most " tellectually productive." Sir JAME by breaking the glass at the door handle. The stolen, drcent's in- indulged in a bout of the most clude a mink coat, two ermino meaningless statistics that Nordic coats and several chiffon frocka" brain could produce. His report
A Popular Pair. "head wens
There is no shadow of about that raid that "thinkers"
Miss Amy Johnson, explaining her absence from the Falkirk Air Amy Johnson's Narrow Escape:
one of the organisers, declared: Pageant in a letter received by I have had the narrowest escape I have yet had." Sho added that, her flight to Scotland and was she had left Staglane Aerodrome on making a turn to get on her course when the machine went into a flat spin. She took the machine straight back to Stag-lane having.
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shown sufficient strength and of the list" at the age of fifty-two the most popular of the whole 28 missed house tops by inches on her energy to win active support from Humourists, statesmen, and philo wins at Ascot was that of Sir return journey. the North. It has been ingeniously sophers followed helter-skelter in Harold Wernher's " darling," old argued that in the old days CHANGthis mysterious list-of mysterious Brown Jack, in the Queen Alexan-Trader Horn,
Rain was pelting Old Trader Horn, says a writer FAT FUI, EUGENE CHEN, WANG origin-whose main object appear-dra Stakes.
a quick way OHING WEI, CHEN TSAI TONG and ed to hs to attach greater import down as the old fellow plodged up to a London paper had inclined to the "Kwangai, militarists were loyal ance to intellectual work done at
the age of Bity or thereabouts than the straight after his tiring jour doubt the extent of his wanderings comrades-in-arms and fellow mem-
to youthful efforts. Sir. WILLIAMne of two miles and three quar and the perils of his adventures, In tors, but the crowds forgot then Londda hotel I once saw him
anawer a man who had declared, bers of the Kuomintang. They were temporarily divided-by CHIANG OSLER put man's best period bedrenching they were getting in that he had never seen a lion ex KAI SHEK. The summary cicction tween twenty-eight and forty. The their enthusiasm for the wonderful copt in captivity by proceeding to of the "pro-Russian" party, the report to which Sir James alluded veteran combination, Brown Jack pull his shirt off and bare his shoulders. The old man had ex- desperate attempts of the Kwangsi established, by methods of mensHTC and Steve Donoghue. Approach-traordinarily white skin. Across
P Was hugo dull-red ing the unsaddling enclosure the fit hero paused for a moment as "D'you see that scar Well, that wouldn't bite you. They draw the bough to remonstrate at all this was the bite of a lion. A lion fuss over n job he finds so easy. line at some meat," Experienced Then went he unconcernedly about travellers who talked with Horn knowledge of Afrion was uncannily his business and to receive Steve's have frequently told me that his, usual affectionate pate and whis full and exact. It was impossibin to catch him out in any geographi cal detail. I do not understand peringa.
why so many people should have been so anxious to try. He was n decent, gonial old soul.
armies to take Canton, the curious gyrations of allegiance by the "Ironsides" are forgotten. They are all friends one more! They may be; but does the rest of China, believe it1 The cautious war lords liko Ho CHIEN, HAN FU CEU and SHIA YU SAN are not convinced and still sit on the hedge. Since this year's trouble started with CHEN TBM TONG's coup at Canton the attitude of CHEX MINO Suu's 19th Army has caused anxiety to both aldea The two "crack divaions" (apart from a number of deserters) have refused to return to Canton and declare against Nanking. Ou the other hand, they have had quite enough of pulling CHIANG's chest
nuts out of the fire. Last year they bore the brunt of the fight- ing against the Northerners and neither leaders nor men got very adequate rewards. They are will ing to carry on with the anti-Red campaign, for that is a national matter, but they are not prepared to join in a uselcas struggle te tween Canton and Nanking. They are, in fact, behaving in a patriotic and sensible manner.
The real struggle this year is with the formidable and elusive "Rels" of Kiangsi. Several divi- sions of Nanking troops have been
badly beaten, but the tide appears news have turned, and the Communists are disintegrating into guerilla bands. Both Mukden and Nanking are reported to have made large purchases of acroplanes. Flying machines should proves a decisive factor in the war against "Reds." They enable attacks to be made mountain retreats, and their
"grey"generale ci Shantung aro definitely moving against CHANG KAY SHEK, and that CHANG HSUEH
LIANG of Manchuria will observe a doubtful neutrality and certainly not. help Nanking, nothing wems to happen. Manchurian troops have moved south to Peiping, and it seems that the anti-Nanking war lords are unwilling or unable to move. Thero is a suspicion that Yu HSIANO could not Fexo mobilise, even if he wished; that his power has been broken and, like Wu Per Fu, he will have to seek solace in books, perhaps com-. pleting the study of the Scriptures which hy began but apparently abandoned years ago.
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ment which must surely have been now order of kept. a secret, n idens. The real fun or poison of this kind of statistics, however, is their application to personalities. Enthusiastic supporters of the gold standard will delight in pointing out that Mr. Kexxzs finished his best work ten years ago, while Mr. MONTADU NORMAN flourishes in the twelfth year of his governorship.
Lady Astor has a new ambition. Liberals may be pardoned for She was the first woman ever-to arguing that Mr. LLOYD GEORGE be elected a member of the House never gets old, while it is obviously of Commons. She now intends to incredibly that Mr. BALDWIN was be the first woman to win the Par- over young. Statistics may be usedliamentary golf handicap. Early on either or any side; and statistics each morning, at a famous golding are always forthcoming from someschool, when the ducks are rising whero to prove anything.
final stages.
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A Pioneer of the Movies
scar.
The British Alm industry has suffered a real loss by the death The home of one of ita pioneers. papers report that Johnny Butl the well-known screen artiste, re- Alm cently passed away. Mr. Butt was actor, and possibly the firet actor Britain's first in the world to receive payment for appearing before the cinematograph camera. His first film performance
Drofessional
was given as far back as 1800 and it is interesting to note that at that time he was allotted the part of a bear. His salary for his work five shillings. Although Mr. Butt never nehieved in this film was great fame as a film actor at times
larks aro thing appears probable: that the from their watery bed, when
larking, sort of statisties which were quoted, the by Sir JAMES must be hatched either the rose unfolds its Arst blush in early infancy or at senility's to the rising sun, the lover of nature may observe a slim, deter mined figure studying rhythm, tightening up iron shots, acquiring Miss Greta Garbo is said to be that smooth and flowing follow. coming to Europe to marry a through which guides the painted Swedish sorrchant named Andersglobula to the putting green. It is son, according to a Swedish news Endly Astor practising under pre- paper. Miss Garho was born in fessional tuition for the semi-final die and for the victorious final which Sweden in 1906, and was covered" in a dramatic school in she hopes will follow in its train.
mail." the first British picture to be shown in the Colony... 1022 As a girl she worked in a Such American thoroughness' shoulded as having appeared in "Black-
bring its just reward. Stockholm barber's shop.
he was earning as much as, ton pounds a week for his work. A labour. His last part was in the change certainly from his first film talkic version of "A Sister to Assist 'er." He will be remember.
Local Notes and Events *
Two Chiness cases of typhoid fever were repoted on Sunday.
Normal working of telegrams with Shanghai and beyond has been re-established.
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The Governor of Hainan, Mr. Chan Chik, a brother of Adimal
Looking Back 25 Years,
A Chinese lineman in the employ
Yesterday morning Commodore of the Hong Kong Telephone Com Williams distributed the prizes won pany fell from a ladder, on which by pupils of the Kowloon Grammar he was working in Queen's Road School Notwithstanding the wet ance, and the school was decorat-. Central on Sunday and received in-weather there was a fair attend- juries to his back. He was removed ed for the occasion. Mr. H. W. to the Government Civil Hospital Ray, the principal, read the annual Ho said:-Commodore Williams, Ladies and Gentlemen,- in a serious condition.
pose.
report.
Senator Key Pittman and Mrs.
I have great pleasure in presenting Pittman arrived in Hong Kong from
That the task of repatriation of to you, my first annual report of Manila yesterday by the s.5. Preei-Chinese and Indian labourers from the progress of the Kowloon Gram- mar School, but before I do so I Malaya is costing the F.M.Should like to thank the friends dent McKinley.
Government an enormous amount who have braved the weather, and of money is shown by the fact that Commodore Williams for the hon- our he has conferred, op. us in ad- tending to distribute the prizes. This school was opened on. Septem July 13 to vote additional sums aggregating 8800,000 for this, pur-ber 1 with 20 pupils. Before the-
end of the month this number had increased to 30, and by the half- year there were 40 name on the On Sunday night, Chan Ngan, hooks. There are now 42.-Hong s seaman on the ferry Man Keung, Kong Daily Press, July 21, 1608 rescued a Chinese girl who is be-Looking Back 60 Years.
Last night, about a
a quarter past sight o'clock, the first bell rang out an alarm indienting a fire in tho Central District. A fire broke out, it appears, in a room behind Messrs Kelly & Walsh's store, Queen's Road. It was fortunately discovered before it had got any hold, and vigorous efforts were Before the Hon, Comdr. Hole made to extinguish it. Water was obtained from the main, and turned at the Marine Court, yesterday, on to it. A posse of police and a Capt. P. W. Grierson, master of body of men from the Regiment Master G. de Sousa, of 25, Granthe e. Hydrangea pleaded guilty on arrived on the scene, but their ville Rond, was injured on, Entur to the charges of failing to enter "services were not required as the No great damago, hiz say when the push-bicycle on which the ship at the Harbour Office with fire was by this time pretty well he was riding collided with a motor in a specified time and failing to subdued No lorry near the four-and-a-half mile deposit the ship's register in the been done, wo believe, and the little. was taken to the Kowloon Hospital time. He was fined $10 on each ing goods-Hong KongDaily.
Preis, July 21, 1887. count. stone on the Taipo Road. The boy Harbour Office within the specified effected was chiefly caused in mov for treatment.
Three Filipinos appeared before Mr. J. A. Fraser, at the Kowloon ex-Magistracy yesterday, charged with
lieved to have fallen from another ferry at the A.P.C. wharf. The girl was in the water only a short time and was taken to the Kowloon Hospital where she died shortly
scouting power conveys immense Chan Chick of Canton, was a visitor the Federal Council was eaked on advantage to the Government to Hong Kong over the week-end. forces. If the Reds of Kinngsi
The death has occurred at Bang- and the Kwangtung border can be kok from veronal poisoning, of exterminated a big advance towards Captain E. H. Lawes, O.R.E., pence in China will have been formerly in the employ of the Ford made." CHIANG's avowed intention Company nt. Singapore. is to deal with Canton after he hus settled with the Reds, but the Nan-
first king leader has from the pressed his wish for a peaceful settlement. The fact that hostilities have been delayed suggests that both sides realise that when civil war rages the Reds come into the their own. This forces of law and order must stop. fighting each other Hankow revolt and the northern Dictatorship of CHANG TSO LAN threatened the Nationalist pori-if pirates, bandits and Communists
Since 1927, when CHIANG KAI SHEX was driven out of Ching for a few months, the annual cam.. paign against this remarkable man hna varied greatly in its pro- tagonista. Allies and enemies have shuffled and reshuffled in sur prising manner. In 1998 the
tion. But the death of the Man-
are to be kept in check.
stowing away on the s.s. Shinyo after admission. Maru from Manila to Hong Kong. They were each fined: 860 after pleading guilty.