SWATOW NOTES
Commemoration of 72 Martyrs
· CONSTRUCTION OF MALOOS PROCEEDS
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Swirow, April 7. The 9th March was a públic holiday to commemorate the event 11, in Canton, when 72 heroes lala own their lives for the cause of the Revolution. All the govern- ment offices were closed, including the Chistoms House, and everywhere the national flag was flown at half mast. The whools likewise wore slosed for the day. A commemora tion meeting was held in the head quarters, of the Kuomintang Party und pariotic speeches made.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933.
CRACKERS BY POST STARTLING FIND BY MALAYAN CUSTOMS UNION
Dealer Heavily Fined
A fine of $900 was imposed By
Wynne Jories at Mr.
Centrai Magistracy yesterday on Chan Chap Chung, the manager of the Great Eastern Trading Company, who was summoned for sending firecrackers through the post on November 1 last year.
SHANGHAI POLICE
Secrets of Red Records Discovered
IN INVISIBLE INK
PROPOSAL
ADVANTAGES NOT SUCH AS TO BE
OF CONSIDERABLE BENEFIT “
FINDINGS OF COMMITTEE OF
ENQUIRY
Singapore, March 30th.-The Committee appointed by H.E, the Governor, Sir Cécil Clementi, K.0.M.G., to report on the practic ability and desirability of a Customs Union in Malays bas" now ised its findings. They state that "we conclude, after weigh- Ing the advantages of a Custoine. Union against the difficulties that we have set out, that these advantages are not such that either form of Customs Union would be of any considerable beneft to the trade or to the customs administration of the peninsula."'-
ECONOMY EFFECT DOUBTFUL
Commenting on the Report the Singapore Free Press says:-
Strong Objectiona.
Efforts by the Special Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Police to unearth secret stores of Communist Mr. J. A. Fraser, assistant attor-recorda to the Settlement have at ney general. who prosecuted on tehalf of the Postmaster General, length met with success, following said the postal packet was sent a raid made on a Chinese building through the local Post Office" at where vast quantities of subversive dressed to Joseph J. Fagury, Morocco, and for some reason of documents wars discovered. "All the other it was returned. At the time the writings were invisible ink; but of sending, the parcel was in good the application of a process which condition, and, the only explanation that he (Mr. Fraser) could seek for the Special Branch has had, in its return from the Port Said, Post readiness has revealed in full de- Office was that the sender's name tail what appears to be the com A Great Nuisance.
was in the same place as the re- plote archives of the National ceiver's address. The parcel was Labour Federation, the central
Having examined the case for a What is called a great nuisance examined and found to contain
The report of the committee ap- union, the report goes on to a dis-" passengers and returned emi-samples of fire-crackers. Mr. T organisation of the Communist
pointed by H.E. the Governor to cussion of the objections. Foremost grants has been going on for some Hynes, assistant Superintendent of Party of China.
examine the practicability and de- among these is the problem of time now along the Prays front. Posts, then went to the defendant's.
For some considerable time the sirability of a customs union of the division of the pooled revenues. Outside the Customs Examination shop and he addutted sending the Shed are hordes of so-called detac- article,
Settlement police have been aware Malay States or of the States sad. The fiscal fashion would be that tives and inspectors of the Boycott
of the existence of sthree of Comthose parts of the Straits Settle-set by the poorest member of the Association, Sugar Tax Offoe, Sea-Without in any way to prossing
Continuing, Mr. Fraser said:
the munis records, but this is the first ments on the peninsula finds that union, and goods Tax Office, and the like, They pounce on the passengers and case, I am instructed by the Post-time that, the invisible ink process auch n union is practicable but not
desirable. master General, Mr. Breen, that has placed them u possession Di their luggage immediately after this is one of the most serious such valuable information,
The original proposed for an all- passing the Customs House. A rigid offences that can be committed raid took place about midnight on Malayan custome union was submit scrutiny is exercised. More often
ted to the Customs Duties Com than not passengers have to under- Tour Worship will realise the March 24 on a three-storey build go three or four kinds of examina- get of sending a packet containing ing at 20, Myburgh Road, the mittee which reported early last tion. Goods on which a tax is obligation not to allow this sort of
ground floor of whith is ostensibly year and arrived at the conclusion levied are at once confiscated, and thing, by the Post Office Conven- used is a Chinese cigarette and that such a union would be inimical often foreign goods are mistakention of 1929. I ask your Worhip exchange shop and general store. to the interests of the Colony. An for Japanese origin and an accord to take these circumstances in mind Action was taken on information amended proposal was for a union ingly sized. Appeal? Not much and to inflict an adequate penalty: given by the Chinese Burosu of of the Malay States excluding the chance! These inspectors appear, to. Mr. Fraser then referred to the Public Safety, officers of which Straits Settlements or a union of have a free hand and do as they recent fires abroad. French Liners, had obtained their facts from a the peninsula excluding only the like. Besides blocking traffic along and said that in the present case Communist arrested by Settlement islands of Singapore and Penang. The band the passengers are con- the danger lay in the probability of police in the Medhurst Road raid siderably delayed after landing.combustion as the panel was kept about two months ago, and handed More distressful is the plight of the in a hot room, taken through a hot over to them. returned emigrants, who, are suregion and in an enclosed space. prized and annoyed at the way they it was not always possible to are handled by their compatriots examine every parcel hy post, and and at the various taxes called consequently the articles that in- non to pay. This unsatisfactory fringed the law were extremely state of affairs has been brought to the notice of the Overseas Chinese Association, which is an induential body, and I hear the 0.0.A. is ap pealing to the different inspectors. who are also accused of removing from the passengers luggage articles which appeal to them, under the pretext of being Japanese goods,
Maicos,
inflammables,
rare.
We are under an
Defendant pleaded guilty but said that he was unaware of the Post Ofee regulations. His Worship told him that there was a book on #le for 50 cents which gave all the information required. Anything further could be obtained from Post
Office officialé,
Vast Store of Documents.
The
Might Prevent Smuggling. In the present instance, the re- port does not fail to recognise the benefits which might be expected to accrue from the creation of
,while the public throughout the peningain would suffer, a position might arise in {which one or more individual mem- bera of the union would have re venue in excess of their require- munts; revenue which could not be passed back to the confliters. Ind which might very possibly be made the excuse for expensive under- takings which themselves might speedily have the effect of making those individual members the most beedy. The dangers in this direc tion cannot be ignored,
Johore and the Eastern ih- federated states trade with Singa 'pore and the northern states and part of the F.M.S. trade with Pe- nang, so the creation of any union
Two other occupants of the either form of union, but upon excluding the colony ports would house, a man whom the prisoner examination these advantages are not benefit the foreign trade of the As things are Zung Loh Ying described as her found either to be of limited extent states mentioned. brother, and his wife, who lived in or to be outweighed by other dis-to-day, the bulk of goods entering room adjoining hers, succeeded advantages which would be suffer the Malay States pass but one cus in absconding, and have so far noted. Among the benefits, the Comtoms barrier. A particular point is yet been traced. In the woman's mittee stresses the disappearance made of the difficultie, which would of interstate snuggling and the | arise at Penang, in close propin- room, however, we found an enor mous number of lengths of striped creation of a free Malayan, marketquity to the densely populated cotton such as is used for shirting, for Malayan produce. But the dit mainland on the Province, Special as well as many papers. After the foulties which the Unfederated opportunities would exist for cargo the raid a handkerchief taken from the States would be called upon to face running, and control, if it were to In imposing the fae, His Wor-room was subjected to the Special. would neutralise these advantages, be effective, would be exceptionally ship pointed out to the defendant Branch's chemical treatment, and The northem stages are entirely costly. No mention is made in klima, that the maximum penalty was there at once emerged from the dependant upon colony ports for report, but the Committee probably fine of $500 with additional impri-
their foreign trade, while their did not overlook the existence of a sonment for not more than six
interstate trade is not of great heavy volume of purely local traffic volume. In general, says the Fe between Penang and the mainland port, union would confer limit immediately opposite. The popula
tion of the Province shops in benefits.
Penang and the facilities for smuggling on a scale which in the aggregate would be very extensive could never be eradicted
The Chamber of Commercs is being reminded that 80,000 is still out standing from that body arising from ité contribution for maloo con- struction. Great difficulty is ex-months "perienced in the collection of the sum of ten thousand dollars requir- +d. It would appear that the Chamber of Commerce is always paying the piper" without any rewards for its labour.
CALIFORNIANS DUE AT HONG KONG
EN ROUTE AROUND THE WORLD
DARING ROBBERY
IN TOWN
OLD MAN ROBBED OF $3,000
apparently blank staff secret writ ing of a Communist nature in the Chinese language, referring to the principles of Communist propa- ganda among Kuomintang troops.
In view of the success, edicured in the treatment of the handkerch.ei, lengths of the cloth sound in same room were treated with ine
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A system of local. preference under existing fiscal arrangements would, however, help to foster same process. This resulted in the interstate trade. The advantages
of concentration are admitted, but Friefly put, the report of the com- discovery that the cloth ɔncuned manuscript of Communist cir-it is pointed out that in any formmittee shows that either form of result in notifications, handbills, of union in which Singapore and customs union would culars, books, and also instructions for Penang-the two main portals of serious loss to Singapore and Pe- machine-gun practice and bombing Malayan trade-are excluded, the Inang, and it concludes with a de- Forty-three pieces advantages of concentration dis finite expression of opinion against A daring robbery occurred in the from the air.
the desirability of any union. firet floor of 91, Connaught Road of cloth, ach twenty-seven inches appear. West at three o'clock yesterday wide, and with a combined total afternoon when an old man length of about 430 feet were Chan seized during the raid, and there
robbed of about $3,200.
WALA
Under the direction of the D. F. Chung Chuen, 72, & remittance is little doubt that the whole will Robertson Travel Bureau, Los An- geles, California, a party of twen-gent and merchant was on the prove to be of a similar nature to
premises at the time when two men that already treated..
ty-two Californians arrived Hong Kong yesterday by the M.V Chichibu Maru.
This party is personally con- ducted by Mrs. Glenn C. Bur- bank who has made five tours Around the World.
Included in the party are Mr. and Mrs. L. Beverley Scott, ratired millionaire, Real Estate opera tur of Beverley Hills Dr, and Mrs. E. E. Helms Pastor of the First Methodist Church, one of the largest churches in California.
, catered and asked for a remittance from Tau San Village, Ban Ning District,
Thousands of Characters,
KACHEK NOTES
TROOPS LEAVE FOR THE MAINLAND
(From Our Own Correspondent}
students and by the alumnae in the evening, for which tickets had been sold by the girls, and some- thing over 8000.00 local currency w2a raised towards J library building.
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A conservative célimste of the Chan knew .one of the robbers number of characters appearing OP who had collected money on two or each linear foot of the cloth is up three previous occasions, in the proximately 3,750. It is therefore name of Chan On and believing believed that the forty-three him, went to the safe to get the lengths of cloth will show a grand money. As he did so, however, the total of no fewer than 1.012,500 two men seized him from behind Chinese charactors. At the foot of and blind-folded him with a towel, each sheet is an index of its con while partially strangled him with tents. With the exception of a few another. The old man became un- circulars and handbills on the sub- conscious but recovered after a few jest or local anniversaries and the minutes and found that both men Shanghai Bino-apanese incident of part at least of the men are to be had gone, and that about $3,200 January 28, 1932, the majority of sent to the mainland and thence was taken froin the safe
the documents relate to communist to fight Japan. Patriotic meet activities in Manchuria Eunan,ings are the order of the day. Kingai, Chekiang, Anhui, Chile,
Summer Approaching. Fukien, Shendi, and Honab. Thirty-
The weather has been hot and eight copica of the Red Flag" weekly, representing twenty-fout dry, (90-919 at mid-day) for separate issue, the earliest of week or ten days, with a strong which dates back to Decembers southeast monsoon blowing, until 1931, and the latest is as recent as this morning the wind shifted to CHILDREN'S DAY March 8, were seized during the the north, a fine drizzle is coming in Boxer year, that to Haiphong.
raick
The party will visit China, Phi- lippines, Celches, Bali, Java, Su- matra, Malaya, India, Ceylon, Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, the It is believed by the Police that Holy Land, Byris, Turkey, Gree: leper is connected with the robe and on arrival at Naples, ery as he came into the premises Italy, they will make an extended at the time of the crime but loft
immediately. automobile tour through Europe..
ce.
SMALL-POX
SI IGHTLY ON THE WANE
The official smallpox record last.
week showed 30 cases (14 from Vic toria, 3 from Shaukiwan and 10
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FINAL ARRANGEMENTS
COMPLETED
4.
KACHER; April 1. The past few days great nur-
▲ Veteran Missionary Retirés. bere of troops of the Second divi- sion of Chen Han Kong's men Mra. J C. Melrose, the sealor are being sent out fromi Kachel member of the American Presby- towards Hoihow, and all traffic, 18terian Mission in Hainan, is re- interrupted except for the trans tiring from active service March portation of the military. It may91st, and earing for USA early be merely the routine change of in April. Mrs. Melrose came to divisions, but rumour has it that Hainan with her husband, the Rev. J. C. Melrose, in 1890 and they were soon assigned to Nodos station. Mr. Melrose and their in- fant daughter passed away in Nodea in 1897, before their first furlough was due. Mrs. Melrose took her two young sons, aged six and three, to America, and left them there, returning to Hainan and carrying on her work here. She shared the exile to Hong Kong
down, and the mercury is falling. in 1925, and the long months of The shoots
The farmers were hoping for a waiting in Hong Kong in 1927, are understood
northwest wind and thundershow-never faltering in ber determina- cover all the main transactions of the National Inbour Federation or the crops are beginning to tion to return to her station. She for a couple of years. A number feel the effects of dry weather, and learned Haka som after going to water must be lifted into the rice Nodos, in order to work with the of sheets of blank white and brown fields by dragon-bone wheels or the Haks people there, by whom she paper found among the seized pro- swinging
8000p. The advance is greatly beloved, and she also.
Final arrangements in connection from Kowloon), and 30 deaths with the forthiming Children's Porty also responded to the treat- guard of the cicadas began their ↑ speaks, Limko and understands This compares with 37 cases and Diy Exhibition and Health Cortement, and a quantity of blank Chi-concerts March 22nd, which seems market. Mandarin and soma Dam: 20 deaths the previous week, Onat Hep Yat Church, Bonham Road
nesa exercise books and other rather early in the season certain chow Loi, so that Nodos station Tuesday another four cases were 1eported.
ly it dosa not portend six weeks will greatly miss her as a linguist On April 18, 20, 21 and 29, have papers have yet to be examined. now efft completed. It is report-
The masoner in the case, who till" frost, as the saying gom in Her elder son is the Rev. Fr 1 C. Other cases of notifiable disease ed that many gritries have been re: apcnks Ilusaian, when interrogated some parts of America. They tune Melrose, a missionary in Nodba, 3, 2 deaths: enteric 8; deaths
werd: p.m., son in the in- typhoid I meningitis 14, 3 deather There were 70 deaths from tuber. culosis,
The Slang of It.
Somebody titta remarked that Mr de Valera takes a large dito if collars. People have been noticing lately that he certainly has a neck
paraphernaliamolzed
maith, the rigularity of the clock, Lautare brainssa in USA, MU
and will continue all summer Melrose plans to make her home in Los Angeles and will care for. Har A School Anniversary.
four older grandchildren, the On March 22nd the A. J. Pitkin children of Mr. and Mrs. Paul School for Girls, Kiungehow, held Melrose, while the parents are, an a programme commemorating their the field The Hainan M400 thirtieth anniversary as a school. will greatly miss MMA A good number of graduates, and her Chinese callerguesa | former studente and guests were so fool the loss of a warm present. Plays were given by the and devoted
the Chinese YMCA And The
Uhina Athletic Association, had been left in her room by a The Committee also announced man named Xoong, WHO WAS * that not a few firms and individual friend of her father, have responded geileronly to the appéel for donations towards It is calculated that the mies of prize money and expeneck of the writing unveiled by the police pro Exhibition. Donations towards the cess would fill more than 180 solid und may be forwarded to Mr pages of the North China Daily Peter H. Bin, Hor. Treasurer, Asia News, taking each character as Life Hulding.
representing one word.
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