NEWS FROM CHINA
NEW DELEGATES WANTED
Canton, Oct. 13. Insisting that the four proposals of the South-west circular tele- gram of September 18. be included in the agenda of the Fifth Kuo- mintang National Congress, South- West members of the Central Committees in another telegram to Nanking yesterday stated that the spirit of the Congress, would be undermined if it considers only resolutions submitted before Aug- ust 18, 1934,
"Delegates
the to
Congress should be elected anew." the tele- gram contended. "In pc circum- stances should delegates elected two years ago be acceptable now. "All resolutions to the Fifth Congress should be submitted three months before it opens in November 12. It is unreasonable: to say tha: resolutions should be received before: Agust 18, 1934 when according to Kuomintang principles all resolutions can he
Introduced three months before convocation."
The telegram welcomes Nan- king's suggestion of co-operation for nationa sa vation but not co- operation in the sense of conniy ing the surrender.of rights.
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The four South-west proposals are in substance punishment of traitors and terroists, and forming positive foreign policy and inter- nal reforms. for the welfare the people.-
tuinn News,
FLOOD RELIEF
Canton, Oct. 13
Postal employees 'In 'Canton are required to give a libera; part of the salaries as contributions for circular flood relief according to Instructions received here to-day from the Ministry of Communica- tions.
Those drawing a salary under $54 will contribute 20. per cent. of their remuneration. payable in two instalments. Those given a salary from $55 to $210 are re- quired to contribute one half 1 their salaries in two instalments. Omcials drawing more than $210 are required to give one half of their salaries in two instal- ments. All the payments
are to
be cleared between October and December.
As the ruling is made by the Ministry of Communications. for- eign staff in the postal service is
share accordingly.- Union News,
WAR ZONE RENAMED
Tlents.n, Oct. 13.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1935.
COURT MARTIAL FULL GLORY OF CHINESE
Soldier Acquitted
Tried by a court martial com- urised of Major W. L Eastwick-
Field R.A.. President; Capt. R. L
de Brissay, Lincolnshire Regt, and
stealing a
A further step to increase Jap- anese activities in North China as seen to-day by a proposal o Colonel Chiku Shita director of the Specia; Organ of Japanese Lt. J. P. Williams. East Lancashire troops In Shanhalkwan, - that the war zone be renamed is Eust Pel-Rest, on August 9, on a charge of ping Special Area. whose territory:
go.d watch, the pro should be extended from eighteen perty of Eddy Harkness, musician counties to twenty two counties.
Culone Shita propises that Mr. Yin Yu-kang. welt known pro- Japanese
official be appointed administratur I the enlarged area, which is to be placed under the direct control of the Executive Yuan and not the Hopi Provin- clal Government.
At a meeting of Japanese mill- tary commanders in Tentsin over the week-end, 2 decision Was reached whereby this "suggestion"" is to be communicated to the Exe- estive Yuan through Mr. Y. Suma Japanese consu; general in king
Man-
it is reported that the Japan- ese are very firm in this stand.- Enion News.
- COMPULSORY LABOUR
at
shok.
Kal-
Hankow, Oct. 13. Following the example of other provinces, the Hupen" Provincial Government has mapped Out concrète measures for the enforce- ment of the Compulsory Labour as is required by the recent order
Generalissimo Chiang
The measures
provide Compulsory Labour will be forced from next November March, 1936. During a period of ave months, all able-bodied citi- zens in the province, from 18 to 45 years of age, are required to do
that
en-
of the President Coolidge, Private
L. Ogden, of the East Lancashire Regiment was yesterday acquitted on the charge at a re-assembly of the same District Court Martial. Pte. Ogden was released in open
court.
The soldier was alleged to have taken the watch from a cabin in which he was being entertained. but he maintained that a member and of the
crew gave it to him that he accepted it in the genuine bellet that it was a gift for "old thmes sake."
H.K. POLICE RESERVES
ORDERS BY MR.' D.` BURLING- HAM, INSPECTOR GENERAL, OF POLICE,
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CHINESE COMPANY
Training Course-Pars --Ail recruits of the Chinese Company] who have not yet passed Part Il of Training Course will attend at the Chinese "Company Headquar-, ters on Tuesday. October 15th at 17.30 hours for instruction.
Inspector Parade-All ranks of the Chinese Company will parade at Central Police Station on Thursday, October 17th at 17.30 their sharp of work. Various re-
hours under Sub Inspector R. J. construction projects will be car Hunt, for a general inspection of ried out. in districts, where there
equipment etc.. by the Company are many rivers, dykes construc-
Commander. Dress-White Uni- tion ard dykes reinforcement.
form, Cap with White Cover, Bett be under- work with first of al
with Brace. Truncheon, "Pocket taken, while in hstens where Policeman" and, note-book to be there are not many rivers, special carried. The Equipment Officer emphasis will be laid upon the
point of being construction of highways and the planting of trees.- Central News Agency..
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CANTON'S CINEMAS
Canton. Oct. 13.
will make. present.
INDIAN COMPANY
1st Ald. Classes-All members taking this course will report at the Indian Company Headquarters.
30 Ice House Street on Tuesday, October 15th at 18.30 hours Xor instruction.
Course-Part II-All
As there are prospects of ex-Training likewise, obliged to contribute their biting American films in Canton recruits of the Indian Company owing to the refusal of the eight will attend Indian Company Head- leading companies in paying the quarters. 20 Ice House Street on censorship fees to the police au- Thursday, October. 17th at 17.30 thorities, local motion threates will hours for instruction. submit a petition to the Cinema
Shah Leave Constable R277 Censorship Board to-morrow ask-Kada Khan has been granted ing that certain banned Chinese teave of absence from the Colony, pictures be permitted for local ex- from 12th October, 1935 to 11th hibition.
April, 1936. There are not suficient Chinese
TO WÉLCOME VETERAN
Canton, Oct. 13. Mayer Liu Chl-wen, Mr. Chen Yung, Secretary General of the South-west Political Council, and
FLYING SQUAD
Special Duty-Members who are
other high offdials left here last pictures for local demand. and Saturday a ternoon for Ilong those in mandarin dialogué pro detated for Special Duty will Kong to welcome Mr., Hsiao Fu-duced in Shanghat are not chen, veteran Kuomintang leader. Who Is due to arrive there this afternoon.
Mr. Chlas heads all the circular telegrams addressed to Nanking
suit- parade at Central Police Station able for Cantos audience, who dot 14.15 hours on Saturday, Octo- not understand such dialect.- Faion News,
insisting that the four South-west the Monany meeting of the South-
resolutions should be included 121 west Executive Committee of the the agenda for the Fifth National | Kuomintang.— Congress, Mr. Hsiao will attend Union News,
The Trailer Race at the Mà chiné Gun Troop Gymkhana
ROYAL AIR FORCE
Wing Commander Archer
Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 25. Wing Commander. J. O,Archer. C.B.E has been placed on the retired 11st on reaching the age limit for his rank 48 years. Since March, 1931, he has been on per- sonnel staff duties at the Air Ministry.
Wing Commander Archer WIS educated at Folated and London University, where he took hts B.Sc., engineering. with honours.
ber 19th, 1035. Dress-White Uniform, and Cap with White Cover.
Instructional Patrol.-The In- structional patrol for the members of the Flying Squad will take place on Friday, October 25th at 17.30 hours sharp. All members wilt fall in at Central Police Station at that time. Dress White Uniform, and Сар with White Cover.
EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE Defendu-Defendu Instructions will take place at the basement of the, Sallors' Home and Seamen's Institute on Friday, October 18th, 1935. All members are requested
V
ARTISTRY
The International Exhibition
CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY
SILK PICTURES
Among the exquisite minor arts of China to be displayed are twenty-nine examples of k'o ssu (silk pictures); some as early as Sung times. The finely-carved red acquer of Peking, made in the Im- pertal workshops, is included; also coisonne and painted enamels, many pieces being enameled on pur: gold.
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The premier Chinese art is re- ; and noted as a scholar and patron or art. The list ends with the presented by more than one hun- dred and seventy fine paintings Work of "Lang Shih-ning" and examples of calligraphy, ! (Gulseppe Castiglione), an Italian Jesuit who worked in China under these being closely allied arts in
e Chinese mind. The earliest the patronage of the Emperor
the Ch'len-iung. examples are attributed to Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-908), but (with une or two possible excap- tions to the rule) it is hardly con- ceded that any fully-authenticated Tang paintings exist other than the Buddhistic paintings found by treasure Sir Aurel Stein in the cave of the Thousand Buddhas at Tun-huang in Chinese Turkestan. In the productions of the Sung period critics are on surer ground, and fifty-five Sung paintings are included, among which are two by the Emperor Hui Tsung (reigned A.D. 11011:25). "This unfortunate monarch was one of the most en- thusiastic patrons of the arts China has ever known. In 1125 he
captive by the was taken Tartars; his brilliant Academy of Painting was dispersed and a large part of his great collection of pic tures des royed. Probably the most spectacular of the paintings is the
famous scroll "A Myriad Miles, of the Yangtze," by Hsla Kuel (c. 1180-1230 AD.). This great picture, a narrow horizontal scroll of thirty-eight feet in length. the convolutions of the shows river in a manner impressively contemptuous of what we consider the laws of perspective. This plc- ture forms one of the National Treasures of China, and is certai ly noteworthy even in such
compan?.
INTERESTING ITEM A very in.eresting item group of throne-room furniture. This includes a teakwood throne with cloisonne enamel decorationa and withea gold lacquer footstool,,
and a a writing table of teak superb peace screen, The desk furniture includes a famous in- scribed ink-stone almost a thou- sand years old, three white jade Imperial seals, a water container and a seal vermion box of the sam: material, a writing brush with jade holder, an arm-rest of a tablet of Imperial rare wood, ink and a flower vase of exquisite Sung porcelain.
This unique collection has been selected by an International com- mittee from among the many treasures of the Peking Palace, and is made available for the Ex- exalt.hibition through the courtesy of the Chinese Government as a step in the desired closer understanding between
and Europe
China, Since Europę bas been pro- foundly influenced by Chinese de- signs and methods since the XVIIth century. It is likely that the present. Exhibition, the largest and most important of its kind to be held, will give a new impetus to the use of motives and calour schemes from China in decoration, furniture and fabrics.
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YUAN SECTION -Yuan and Ming pictures num- ber eighty-four, and those of the Ch'ing dynasty twenty-nine. ,he Yuan section is shown album of pictures of the Mongol Emperors, including the formid- able visage of Genghiz Khan. A companion world conqueror. book of Yuan. empresses is inter- as the esting for the fact that artists were na: permitted to see the ladies, a representative as5071- ment of plc ured eyes, noses and for" ap- mouths were submitted proval. the "portraits" being later built up from the acceptable fea- cures!
The Ming and Ching sections includ:
many names great in Chinese art, worthily represented by outstanding works. Among the latest artis s is the Emperor Chien-lung CA.D. 1738-1795); him- self one of China's greatest rulers
PRIVATE COLLECTORS
HELP
Space does not a low mention of the other ind ́vidually-remarkable. objects o a total of more than two thousand to be lent by, museums and private collectors, but
the visitor to London between Novem- ber and March may be assured of seeing what is probably to be the most comprehensive and valuable. collection of Chinese Art ever as- sembled beneath one roof.
Tent-pegging at the Gymkhana
be twelve 18in guns and sixteen,
to be present at the above men- U.S. NAVY TO BE Sin. guns, the latter equally avail-
tioned place at 17.20 hours.
D. L. KING.
D. S. P. (R) Hong Kong, October 14th, 1935.
FREEMASONRY
(Special Air Mail Service).
London, Sept. 25. The intent official list of Lodges working under the United Grand Lodge of England gives the num ber 4,815. Of these.719 Lodges are Fituated outside England and Wales, 663 work in District Grand
STRENGTHENED
Floating Fortresses
(Special "Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 23. Irrespective of what other Pow- exs may do, the United States will lay down in January, 1837, the first of seven new battleships of the maximum size.
and ́ definitely rejected
able against surface targets and aircraft.
OIL STORAGE CAPACITY The ships will be massively armoured to resist gunnre and air bombs, but their special reature will be an immense capacity for stowing oli-fuel to secure a wide radius of action. The largest US. battleship now afloat carries 4,570 | tons of oil, but the new ships will stow 7.000 tons. This will give them a steaming range of at least 18,000 miles.
The cost of each unit, complete Only an extension of the battle- with guns and equipment, is in 1909. When the War began he Lodges, and 68 directly under: the art
** truce" by international estimated at £9,500,000. Britain's enlisted in The Seaforth High-headquarters of the craft in Len- treaty would delay this plan, and largest capital ships, the Hood. landers, was commissioned to the don.
auch a development is regarded as of 42,100 tons, and the Rodney," of | Royal Field Artillery, and trans- The Grand Secretary, Sir Col-next to impossible.
133,900 tons, each carries 4,000 tons ferred to the R.F.C. He saw active ville Smith, and other Grand Offi- This means that the U.8 has¦ of oil fuel. service in France, the Middle East, cers, are now in Brazil, assisting finally
For the past eight years the and South Russia, and was made in the formation of a new District British proposals to reduce the British Government has used its
be named South C.B.E, in 1920. Bince the War he to
America
tonnage and armament of future ¦ utmost endeavours, to establish an has commanded No. 18 (Army Co- (Northern Division), starting with
warships.
international maximum of 25,700 operation) Squadron at, home and 12 Lodges.
The new battleships wit be dé- ¦ tons and 12ín, guns for battleships, No. 3 (Indian). Wing-at Quetta,
signed as" Boating fortresses," to and 7000 tons and Bin guns for serve as mobile bases for opera-cruisers. American naval onion tions in distant waters, such as the has remained firmly wedded to Far East..
large dimensións. The last hope Each will be of 35.000 tons dis- of effecting a reduction in size and placement and have a speed of 22 | armament has now apparently to 23 knota. The armament is to vanished.
INDIAN STAFF COLLEGE Squadron Leader F. F. Fullard, i ́mand. of No. 5 (Army Co- D.8.O., M.C., AFC has completed operation) Squadron at Risalpur satisfactorily a course at the Staff Squadron Leader Fullard graduat- College. Quetta, which ended on ed at the RALF. Stan College in July 11. He has since taken com- 1924-25.
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