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Progressive, Canton.
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1922,
DAY BY DAY.
“ANY KIND OF WORK IS UPLIFT-
LECTURE ON CHINESE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
LIFE.
IND AND INSPIRING IF IT IS DONS Descriptive Address At The 48 WELL 43 THE PERSON AT- TEMPTING IT CAN DO IT.—Mrs. Philip Snowden.
Helena May Institute.
To-Day's Meeting.
The splendid work which has been done by the Canton Man
Ameating of the Legislative Council over which H. E the cipality alace its establishment has often bean commented upon
Governor (Sir Edward Stubbs, At the Holena May Institute KC,M,0.) prasided, was held to by foreign observers, and it is again emphasised in an illustrated
Capt. and Mrs. R. Innes last this morning Mi. Hu Ji Hsiang, day, booklat which has just been issued by the Empire State for Sanfa last-year student of Hongkong There were also present;
University, delivered an enter- by the municipal authorities Francisco,
The Hon. Mr. Claud-Savern, taining lecture upon Chinese car, Colonial Secretary. ander the title of "Progressive
The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, Mr. Hu, a cative of the prov• | K‚C., C_Ę,Ż, Attorney-General.
[ditions in the interior of China | Director of Public Works.
MADS 2
of con-
The Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang. Hon. Mr E. V.D. Part. The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak. The Hon Mr. A: G. Stephen. The Hon. Mr. Chow Ston-sou, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, Clerk of Councils.
SHANGHAI NEWS.
Some Interesting Items.
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From Our Own Correspondent)
Shanghai, March 16. Women's Association shows a The annual report of the British membership of one thousand, There are comfortable quarters far serun sections, resenting diversa recreational and educational interests.
rap-
Robbers Kill Police. Armed robbers killed a second Chinese policeman this week. The funeral of the first takes officials plan a march in his place to-morrow, when foreiga Lonour.
Support for Sun Yat-sen. The Dab Tong News Agency" - forecasts a lengthy manifesto from Chang Jok-lin pledging suy port to Sun Yat-sen and expresa- ing disappointment at Wo Pei- fu's selfish military ambitions.
Jewish Ball.
The Purim Ball at the Astor House Hotel natted four thousand
Chinese Exchanges.
A police report shows that but $3,500 in aid of
the vote one-third of the Chinese Ex- Harbour Master's Department changes remain out of 93 existing personal emoluments. able Services, other charitable $1,180 in aid of the vote Charit
allowances.
in December, the report stating amalgamated to avert liquida that many have failed and others
tion.
Canton. From this source we Yesterday's health return shows Life." learn many interesting fists, three non-fatal cases of plaguo some of which are worthy of wide (ane Portuguese and two Ince of Anhui, described_con- The Hon. Mr. T. L. Parkins, publicity. For example, it is rec-
Chinase) orded that a littla over two years
as distinguished from the Chinese The Hon. Mr. C. Mel. Messer. ago, Canton was enclosed by a Members of the Kowloon life seen in this Colony with its O.B.E., Colonia! Treasurer. wall built in the 11th Century, Cricket Club are reminded that admixture of Westernism. Dealing The Hon. Mr. E. A. Irving, That wall has now been demolish the next dance will be-hald at The first with family-life traditionally | Director of Education. ed and its place taken by fine, Kowloon Theatre, on Friday.ja predominant feature of the The Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, wide. modern thoroughfares | March 24th at 9.00 p.m.-Adet.
Chinese system, the lecturer ex-] Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Before the demolition of the city
plained that it was common to wall, the only wide street in Wo bear that a maeting of the find the inhabitants of a village. Canton was that slong the Bund: Housebold Servants' Guild was or group of villages_all bearing there are cow 244 miles of held yesterday, when arrange the same surasms. These people modern roads. It is further put ments were discussed for securing were said to belong to one family, on record that motor-cars have employment for servants dis- but it was necessary to distinguish taken the place of sedan missed since the strike.
between a family and a home. Af "home" consisted of "parents. veyance; whilst three Public Officers and men who were children, and grandchildren, per- FINANCIAL VOTES. Gardens are planned, of which serving 00 the Depot ship bape totalling thirty or forty The following votes were re-dollars for Hebrew relief one is already in use. Here are "Titania" (now on the China)persons; a "family" consisted offerred to the Finance Committea one or two other facts-One-fifth station) in 1914 are not entitled to several hundreds, or several thou-and subsequently approved :- of the whole municipal budget is the 1914 metal, as she was not a sands, of homes. oder thei devoted to public education: a sea-going ship in the ordinary family system, there is a com- thousand labourers are daily am-sense.
mittee consisting of tea to twenty Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires the Fire Brigade hes personnel
persoas, who bave power to con- ployed in the cleansing of streets:
Mr. E. Molino has handed over trol the whole of their communis of 4.046 mer addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an captains. We could go on quoting Panama and Vice-Consulate for arbitrating upon disputes, super- and 224 police charge of the Consulato for They discharge such functions as
All communications intended for publication should be address-fors us, but we have cited sufficient Jose C. de Obaldia, who will be punishing
$3,560 in aid of the vote Crown extracts from the publication be the Argentine Republic to Mr. intending elementary education,
offenders for such Solicitor's Office, personal carolo. ad to the Editor.
to show the progressive lines on Acting Consul Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
during Mr. misdoings
opium-smoking ments. which the Canton Municipality Molino's leave of absence.
or theft, and acting 25 $850onsccount of Miscellaneous given by Mr Harry Ore on Mon is run. Incidentally, it is of in
B kiod of registry-office Services, transport and subsistence day has been postponed until terest to note some observations We have to acknowledge from for births, marriages, and deaths, of lunatics. Death.
in the booklet regarding the the Kwangtua, Postal Com the last named being of peculiar GILEB-In London on January 10th, from bronchitis, A. B. Population of Canton. Estimates missionar a magnificent postal importance on account of an-SCARCITY OF BARRISTERS. There was read a first time & are given varying from one and a map of China, published at the castor-worship. In the case of half to four millions, but accord Supply Department of the Direc-important people these records Bill intituled An Ordiosoce to ing to the Canton Police Depart-torate Genera: of Posts, Shang-are expanded into biographies. make temporary provision for the ment the total is put at something hai. It sells at $1 per copy. Describing the rural schools of appointment of solicitors, to ap- less than 300,000. However, à
The following will represen Chios, Mr. Hu said that many of pear in the Original Jurisdiction census is to be taken early next Surgeoh Lantanant R W. thom were still old fashioned, of the Supreme Court in certain owloon, 1st. I against Civil Servica in a League match at yeer, and the facts it reveals will Nesbitt has been appointed to the indiferently lighted and anti-mergencies be awaited with much interest.
gunboat "Tarantula” on the Chi-lated, but stlarge number of even
The Objects and Reasons state: Rabiason, B. D. Evans, 3. Stalker.
Kowloon on Saturday - P. Sun's Heroics.
cese rivers. Lient. H.H.T. Bayliss the elementary schools were being-There is at presect & scarcity R. Pestonjt. C. Dance, E. L joins the riverguaboat "Widgeon" reframed upon modern lines. of practising barristars in the Braga, C. 1. Stapleton, C. P- We see that Sun Yat-sen has at an early date Lieutenant These modern schools were not Colcay, and the recent death of James. I. J. Blackburn.. F. G- been indulging in beroics in con- Bayliss joined the Royal Navy very different from those to leader of the bar has reduced its Thompson and Capt. E. G. S picks. nection with the expedition in 1915, scd saw service in the be seen in this Colony, The number. It is desired in the cir- against the North. Addressing late war.
old-fashioned type were generally cumstance to empower the Chief the 1.R.C. in friendly match The following will zaprezent ANOTHER LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
some of the Southern troops at
held in a temple or similar place, Justice as necessity may require against the Navy on the latters' Kweilin, he told them that on this Senator McCumber's action in submitting to the venture rest the success or failure station, the "Durban," Capt. H.O. pupils (which goes to explain the to conduct cases in the Original Arculli (Captain), A.H. Rumjaho,
Of the cruisers on the China with often not more than twenty to appoint temporarily solicitors on Saturday, st 2.15 pm. United States Senate a measure in relation to the establish- of the work of the Revolution. Reinold, which arrived from statistics recently issued by the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.. Ismail, S.D. Ismail, usmcil, ment of an Association of Nations gives some tangible form the existence of China a England at Hongkong recently Chinese Ministry of Education). The Ordinance is introduced to D. Ruajshe, J.S. Correon, N.B. Book and the expire on the 3191. December, & A.H. Madar. Reserve F.H.
avidence of their bona fides.
Giles, formerly of Canton.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1922.
we fear they are
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Attorney General pointed out When man is born bis nature that the ranks of the bar bad is good, and humsa nature is been seriously reduced of late and very much alike; but owing to it was expected that other mem- to habits men become different.bers of the bar would be going
not
inter-
ience would be caused.
The concert which was to be
Monday, 27th.
Arcolli
CRICKET.
by
to a proposal that has been in the air since the Presidential desting of the Chinese people. ander orders to escort the battle-Good-Character
Republican nation and the after completing minor repairs, is the pupils begin with the Three deal with an emergency and will Kitchell, S.A.R. Iemail, O. Ismall, Election which carried Mr. Harding to the White House, fastly exhorting them to cruiser "Renbwn."Capt. the Hon. Thousand-Word Book. Mr. Ha 1922. In that campaigu the present President's opponent stood Advance and Triumph!" All Herbert Beads, D.S.O., during gave a free translation from the In moving the first reading the 83 & supporter of the League: while Mr. Harding, though this sounds very fine, but it the time that the Prince of Wales former, running be accepted the dictation of the Irreconcilables in re-appears to us to ignore hard, is in Far Eastern waters. jecting the existing organisation, announced that he practical facts. If Sen and bis
CANTON ITEMS. favoured an Association of Nations, and Senator MC Roing to conquer the whole of notorious bandits of Sham-shui soldiers imagine that they are Leung So and Li Stek-fo, two Cumber alludes to this plank in the Presidential “ plat-North China by force of arms and district, were arrested by the In Chinese the lines were on leara abortly and the
Bolshevik Propaganda. form. This revival of the subject, which had been super overthrpx the Peting Govern gendarmes the day before yaster-thymed, siding memory, which result would be a serious dearth of
Our Canton correspondent sedel by the Washington Conference, excites mixed feel-ment,
des in one of the botels on the was specially coltivated as a
practising barristers. If no steps states that many circulars, said for & disappointment. ings. General approbation will be felt iu so far as the task is a physical impossibility, bandits came from Sham-shui students passed on to the Four geacy solicitors would be unable kong.
The Bund at Canton
These two medium of instruction. Proficient were taken to meet that emer to have originated from Hong- proposal aims at promoting world-peace, accompanied by We have to particular love for several days ago intending to do Books.
have been distributed the city urging & certain dublety as to whether the method contemplated is the Northern Government, and some miscbiet in Canton. After added the lecturer, owing to the and considerable public inconven- the division of property and
At the present time, to bring on their cases for trials throughout judicious.
we believe the Southeroers have, the arrest, the bandita were trans-transition from the old to the new,
declaring that the general "America's chief objection to the League of Nations by their separate functioning for ferred to the Military Headquar the Chinese educational system ALIENS ON BRITISH SHIPS. of Bolshevism, but that it strike is the mildest form has centred around, Art. X., the text of which we reproduce claim for serious consideration of
a lengthy period. established some i ters for trial.
in very good
be followed The Council agreed to the first should for the benefit of non-Pelmanists :-~-~
their contentions regarding the
order, but the Chinese people reading of a Bill intituled An assassination, rioting and revolu. The new cruiser "Diomede" has were taking a keea The members of the League undertake to respect status of the Government estab-been commissioned at Devonport eat in the subject of adac Ordinance to restrict the employ- tion. The Government has or and preserve as against external aggression the ter-lished in Canton. But we regard for service on the Chine Station. ation, because they were mure meat of aliens and of former dered strict investigation of the ritorial integrity and existing political independence the North as a decided error in Chatian depor. As soon as the and also that it was no longer ships registered in the Colony of
this military expedition against Her crew will be drawn from the and more realising its importance, enemy. aliens on certain British source of these circulars. of all members of the League. In case of any such tactics. Toe best way for the "Diomede" arrives on the China possible for
Another item from our Centon aggression, the Council shall advise upon the means Canton Government to secure Station, the light cruiser, Cairo. content-they must get in touch
[correspondent is that, the rice Hoogkoog. ramain to by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.
recognition in to keep on working which has been on the station for with Western ideas.
The object of this Bill is to re-merchants businesses are still At the strict the employment of aliens closed, owing to the failure of the Many hold that upon a lower basis than that a quietly, to strengthen its control couple of years, will transfer to same time Chins must preserve on British ships of over sixty tons disputing parties to come to agree thoroughly effective world-organisation for the preserva-over we elements, and to the East Indies Station, whither the ideals handed down from her net register tonnage registered in ment. It is demanded, inter alia, tion of peace is impracticable. It is significant that Mr. mok for the general advance the light cruiser Colombo recently sages through the centuries.
ment of the territories and peo-proceeded from the China Station
the Colony, and to prohibit the that rice taken aboard jooks in George Barnes, MP, a Labour leader, was plaintively ples under its control. To indulge on relief by the Durban. The Referring to agriculture, which aliens on all British sbipe re the funk people, but that they employment of former enemy Hongkong must be weighed by asserting only the other day that the League has been more in military expeditions is merely "Diomedo" will take out a large as been practised in China forgiatered in the Colony. It is based will not be responsible for short- or less condemued to sterility because it has no armed to waste, energy (that might be number of ratings for distribution delauled the industrious life of Restriction (Amendment)
four thousand years, the lectureton sections 5 and 12 of the aliens ege caused in transit. The junk resources wherewith to enforce its decrees, the inter- better spplied) on
a frailles amongst the ships of the China the farmer. It was only the very, 1919, 9 and 10 Gec. 5, c. 92.
Act. People also demand the right to adventure.
take all rice sweepings. national police "apparently contemplated by the Covenant
large landowners who could live
Soldiers of the Namboj district. not having been called into existence. To the anti-Wilson An Indignant Earl. division of Americans, on the other hand, the League is
raided a large gambling house in arrests, mostly wealthy person. owners cultivated land them- unacceptable because, as they contend, the United States
& sam of over $10,000 was also Fatshan and made about 40 would be liable to aid in armed intervention in European
seized. It is said that the fines "affairs under Art. X.
to be imposed will be large, and will vary according to the wealth of those afrestad.
Station.
them
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
We are informed by the Stan-on their rents; all the other. THE OPIUM ORDINANCE. Lord Curzon's display of right-dard Oil Company in Canton (says selves. Long hours were worked titaled an Ordinance to amend eous indignation is the mous of the Canton Times) that colife was with faw holidays, but & rest was further the Opium Ordinance, The third reading of the Bill in- Lorde, at the tail end of it for lost at the fire accident which took indulged in after the crops had 1914, was then considered and handed Ibimself a bouquet for place in a boat anchored near been got in. There was no such agreed to.. being moderate (we coudn't help Parkhin-bork, as reported in our thing as leaving land fallow for a Supporters of the League probably consider it but wondering in what direction) yesterday's isses. The facts of the season in China, at any rate in reasonable that America should be prepared to render aid appears to have been designed to care, says the Company, were the part the lecturer came from. to that extent, but, from the viewpoint of the objectors, lead people off the track of the that one of their wooden lighters It yielded every year with suf- commemoration." Sacrifices were there was logic in their attitude while the Covenant re-essential points in the (not a tank bost) containing a few ficient manure.. mained in its original form. The Powers, however, have possibly dare wrong in the matter are. A small portion of the cargo tunate affair. Mr. Montagu has cases and tins of gasoline caught
made before the tombs of the intimated their willingness freely to discuss revision of procedure and he is deserving was destroyed and the only injury to the Chinese marriage system, the spirit in which they were Whilerecognising the objections departed, but the value was in having regard to this objection. What advantage, then, of some censure for it. The was suffered by the captain of the in which the parties immediately rendered rather than in the rich is to be gained by setting up a rival body to the League? Indian Government has also au- lighter who at once went to the concerned had little choice, Mr.ness of the offerings. Even assuming that jealousy did not arise, as it almost pored Lord Carzon by daring to Canton Hospital for medical Hu pointed out that it was to Finally, Mr. Bu described the England is the Right Hon. Bir. A recent important arrival in inevitably would, there would be the constant risk of comment's policy in connection with
suggest that the Imperial Govern- attention.
some extent a safeguard against festivals and recreations of Chins Joseph Cook, who is to represent fusing decisions. Senator McCamber contemplates the the Berres Treaty is all wrong.
impulsive sentiment. The parents dividing the latter into pastimes Australia as High Commissioner. inclusion of Germany and Russia in the comity of nations, We do not belleve for one mo- Foreign Secretary should have also desired suitable sons-in-law educated respectively, though down under has bren varied were prompted by deep love, and for the educated and the non-Sir Joseph's political career and this, ander appropriate conditions, is agreeable to the ment that the Indian Government been prepared to listen to that and daughters-in-law, so exercis there was some overlapping. The and brilliant. He has served as members of the ed care in approving fe-partners lecturer gave so account of lohen, Minister for the Australjan Ravy, policy of the League. His suggestion for a period of ever attempted to "dictate" to the advice. If investigation when war threatens is in consonance with Home Government, but we are Cabinet in London are going to for their children.
s diversion favoured among the convinced that it had every be so dictatorial as Lord Curzon Art. XII of the Corenant. Senator McCamber explains right to advise. The Hongkong has shown himself to be, then we the lecturer was the democratic broadly described as the forming country's representatives si the Another point referred to by peasantry, and which may be Cabinet, and as one of his ss Transurer of the Federsi. that his purpose is to extend the Four-Power Treaty to Government has a right to advise may as well scrap the idea of a side of the Chinese system. Under of human pyramid. The Parts Peace Conference, Imme world-wide scope, which runs largely on the lines of the the Home authorities on matters democratic Empire. Downing the last dynasty, said the lecturer, recreations of the educated.com-diately before the war he had held proposal that has been mooted for making the Washington India has an equal right to advise right to assume autocracy. The familles rose from the old-fashion- painting.
connected with Hongkong; Street and Whitehall have no IBDy men from the poorest prised chess, music, poetry and the Premiership for 15 months Conference a periodical assembly, or, in fact, an Associa ou matters affecting the loyalty Sevres Treaty is bad, unquestion- tion of Nations. The principle is commendable, but we or disloyalty of Moslem Indiam. ably bad, and we hope that the ed elementary schools to Frime At the conclusion of a very High Commissioners to the would ask its sponsors this one question: How will such And Mr. Montagu as Secretary Indian Government will go on
agreeable address the lecturer United Kingdom, and an organisation be an improvement upon the existing himself with that advice, 1 list Carzon does get a bot neck in of ancestor worship, which, he famous Chinese poetry with appointed to
for India bad a right to associate saying so, even though Lord Mr. Huexplained the character exhibited - several specimens of its former Prime : League of Nations} ~/
Lord Curzon as the Imperial consequence,
said, was rather ancestor illustratione. -
Minister
He the third of