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HONGKONG, 4th May, 1923.
SLAVERY.
A
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1923.
DAY BY DAY.
ΤΟΥ
NORTH RIVER
FIGHTING.
now march averywhere with those of the civilised Powers." Thase Pawars are all members of} the League of Nations, and one NOTHING CAN BRING wondars whether they can spare CAN BRING YOU PRACE BUT THE Heavy Blow to Kwangsi PEACE BUT YOURSELF. NOTHING a thought even in the midst of TRIUMPH their other interests, personal Emerson. ones for the most part-for the; pogr wretches across the frontiers
OP
PRINCIPLES -
Forces.
DEATH OF MR. CHARLES WORKMAN.
Believed to Have Had Ptomaine Poisoning.
If the information given in a Members of the J.C. William Capt. W. B. Moorhead is grant day is correct, Dr. Sun Yat-sen's hoog a fortnight of Gilbert and lattor reaching Hongkong yester-son Company, that gave Hong- of their Aftioso territories. ed leave of absences to proceed to troops have inflicted a big defeat Sullivan plays last February
left out of world affairs.
Honour to Whom--
the United Kingdom.
A District Court Martial is to
the
Modera diplomacy is a great in.
on the Kwangai troops in the brought the sad news yesterday atitation, and modern civilis-
North River district. The letter af the death at sen, between Kabe Mr. Temple Bevan is to act as states- fation is rated as being quite as organist and choirmaster at St.
and this port, of Mr. Charles great, but there are some modern John's Cathdral until a new apa decisive victory in the North the company who fell ill just after "Dr. San's forces have gained Workman, the leading member of truths that make one ponder pointment is made,
River region. On the afternoon the tour in Japan had been com whether hypocrisy is entirely
of April 29 Dr. Sun's forces Ipleted. made a general attack on the Mr. Workman attended the St. be held on May 8th. for the trial emy, who had two northern George's Day ball at Kobe on of Pte. Cyril Row and Pte. Stanley by Kwangsi forces on the wing dishes be partook of was crab, brigades in the centre supported April 24th, where one of the Williams, of the King's Battalion. They were stationed on the hills and this is believed to have caused
around Yintsinhong сп The Italian Consulate in Hong-Canton-Hackow railway. The unveiling of a statue to the
ptomaine poisoning. He fell ill the next day. late Sir Henry May yesterday was song has received the following
"On the morning of 1st May, to be helped on board the E. and and had an outward manifestation of the telegram from Shanghai flanking force, personally con- A. liner St. Albans. He grew high esteem and regard in which "H.R.H. the Duke of Spaleta is ducted by General Tsiang Kwong-worse, but it was hoped to have the Colony held a former Gov-now out of danger and his health liang, succeed.d in getting to the him attended ernor. The name of Sir Henry is getting better day by day."
rear of the saemy, who then arrival at Hongkong. However, in hospital on became utterly disorganised and he passed away on May 1st, and bere, because he gave practically For using drags, grappling suffered a loss of 1,300 casualties, among other members of the fled in great disorder. The enemy was buried at Sea. With him, the whole of his life to Hongkong irons and other means for the of whom six hundred were killed. company, was his young son, and died before he could enjoy purpose of lifting articles from besides 1,000 prisoners captured. fr. Boy Workman, with whom what would have been a well-the bed of the harbour, the master The Commander-in-Chief of the much sympathy will be felt, earned rest from years of hard toil. of a fishing boat was fined $5 at northern forces was indentified especially as Mrs. Workman He came here as a young cadet the Marine Court this morning. and eventually rose to the highest
among the dead by prisoners of died about six months position which the Colony had to offer. His career was a record The appeal by the Nanyang
while the company Large captures of ammunition Calcutta. of conscientious and unremitting Bras, Tobacco Co. against a deci were also made, among them service to Hongkong. He was a sign given in favour of the Pro- being a dozen machine guns, well-known Savoyard, and had The late Mr. Workman wis a strong man."a vory hard worker cureur General in Hongkong for battery of Krupp 7.5 centimetre and an official of marked adminis. the Society des
Missions cuns and over one and a half mil- both Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir been personally acquainted with trative genius. Outspoken in his Etrangeres was concluded yester- lion rounds of ammunition, as well Arthur Sullivan, and some of the utterances, firm in big convict day afternoon. Judgment was as three train loads of supplies. ions and always prepared to follow reserved. to the bitter and any course which
May will long be remembered
"
war.
enemy,
News from Other Fronts.
sgo
Was A
OUR BLUEJACKETS.
"A competent military observer anecdotes he had to tell about expressed the opinion that noth- these famous collaborators were he considered right, it was per- Mariners are warned that there ying, in order to save his forces, last February. He was a very haps inevitable that he should is the floating wreckage of than to best a hasty retreat. In popular member of the company, ing is left for General Shun Kung published in the Telegraph when Mr.Workman was appearing here make enemies. That is an exjunk in Lat. 22.45 north, Long-the course of a week or ten days and his death at the untimely age perience common to all men of 116.14 east, which 15 dea- the temperament of our late gerous to navigation. A water will be completely cleared of the of forty-nine is keenly regretted
he believes the North River region Governor. But even his biggest logged fishing junk, just awash, opponents never for a moment is reported in lat. 22.40 north,
by all. Saven members of the questioned his sincerty of purpose long. 115.59 east.
company, following its disband- To many it must seem surpris-or his integrity of character.
ment in Japan, were travelling on A further report reaching us the s. s. Karmals, which left ing that the slave trade still These were undoubted. On the exists in the third decade of the ing tributes were paid to his Co. disbanded in Japan, some of May 2nd. near Ngan Chan Ho, was seat them by wireless, their states that a counter-attack was Hongkong last Wednesday, and Occasion of his retirement, glow. The Gilbert and Sullivan Opere made by the Kwangsi troops on the news of Mr. Workman's death twentieth century.
The aboli-services to this Colony. And the members learing by the P. & but they were repulsed with condolences being received on tion of slavery in British territor- we can do no better in closing than O. s. Karmala for Home." Mr. heavy losses and the loss of the St. Albans on Wednesday ing Was completed nearly
to recall what Sir Paul Chater Roy Smith leaves for Australia aumorous guns: then said of him"Undeterred to-morrow, and he is to form thei
evening. hundred years ago, and the name by criticism and undaunted by new
News from the East River Williamson Comedy Co. district states that a battle com-booked his passage to Sydney. The late Mr. Workman had of Wilberforce will always be obstacles, he pressed unflinching. which will appear here next year. menced on April 30th. between with his 300. associated with the agitationly forwand to the end he had in
the independent force and the leaves to-morrow for Australian The St. Albans view- end which he rare that resulted in the emancipationly failed to achieve." Such was will include photographs of Sir of Cheung Mok Tau station. members of the company.
Our Picture Page to-morrow Cantonese troops in the vicinity ports, with the majority of the of the wretches who were bred the man, such bis tenacity of William Brunyate, who is shortly The latter were defeated, owing, and sold like cattle for the labour purpose. Hongkong does well to to retire as Vice Chancellor of the it is said, to spies within their markets, and then flogged like ing a lasting monument
keep his memory green by erect longkong University, and of ranks. Dr. Sun has ordered part cattle until they veritably died in in the very heart of the city torious Yunnanese leader now to strengthen the Cantonese in to him General Young Hi-man, the vic of the force on the West River harness. The events leading up which he loved and served so well. operating in and around Canton; this area. to the abolition of slavery in An Organised Lie.”
a group taken at the dinner given A report from Samehui states America are also well known.
to Mr. J. McCubbin: a snapshot that the Cantonese troops and the of the mixed doubles final in the fleet of gunboats commanded by
Hongkong Chaplain's The inheritance those Southern
H.K.C.C. tennis tournament: and Chan Chak have, in consequence
Appeal to Residents. planters have left their country is
a photograph of Mr. O. Rumjahn, of the largely increased strength An appeal to residents to help
promising the Negro element, increasing in
young of the Kwangsi forces, moved brighten the lives of British numbers, and one of the domestic
down as far as Kwonglee and have bluejackets on the China Station made problems that the United States
an urgent request for was made by the Rev. Reginald There was a large exodus by
ammunition. will probably never be able to journal states that the demons-the s.s. Empress of Australia to-
Churchill, RN, (who bas recently It is reported that General Ngai come out to Hongkong sa Cha- solve satisfactorily. Virtual, iftrators were a group of allena-day.
bas Those departing included Bong-ping
refused Bolshevik agents in
the plain to H. M. S. Carlisle) in a not actual, slavery has persisted adding that the British work and airs. E. L. Sim, Mr. and Mrs. Chief in the West River district, Mr. Churchill said:
London, Sir Paul and Lady Chater, Mr. appointment as Commander-in-sermon at St. John's Cathedral. until to-day in partions of Africa ing man knows and and Asia, but it is still something nothing about the queation at Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. River district, has resigned for Hongkong, I want you to remem
cares H. L. Dannys, Mr. and Mrs. H.S. and that General Yin Yu-ping, the
Commander-in-Chief in the East gregation to the
"In speaking in this con- residenta of We are quite prepared to Dyer, Mr. and Mrs F. R. Marsh, of a shock to read of recent believe all that our contemporary Mr. and Mrs. Ho Kom-tong, Mr. some unknown reason and left for ber that the men of the British events in Abyssinia, where says. We are certain that the and Mrs. E. Howard, Mrs. Petrie,|
Hongkong. flourishing trade. recalling the British working man is not in the Mrs. G. M. Shaw, Dr. J. C. Allan
According to a report from the and alt home atmosphere and
Navy are far away from home- blackest days of barter and sale least degree interested in the ques Mr. E. des Voeux. Col. Alex divisional commander has collect-consider if at least one
Sua Wui district, 2 tion whether the Japanese troops Reiss, Mr. P. W. Massey, Mr. Med his old troops as well as pirates
former comforts. I would, ask you to of tuman beings, is in existence. remain in Saghalien or not-he S. Sassoon, Mr. R. F. Mattingly,
In a letter to the Timex &
probably wouldn't even be able to Mr. J. E. Joseph, Mr. Ho Fook.
week, bandits, the
those of pronounce the word if he were Mr. Ng Ste-kwong, Mr. T. E numbering 5,000 and has seized luxury of home life, might not living in all the cath ago, Major Henry Darley, asked to, much less would he be Pearce, and Mr. T. G. Wesll.
the three districte of Yeung consider it an act of well doing, if who was formerly a frontier likely to know where the place is.
Kwong. Yeung Chub and Tin Pak, you gave the opportunity one agent in South-West Abyssinia, The whole thing is a very tran-
in the south-western part of the evening of a few men coming to mada sensational allegations as interested wirepullers. It is in-brilliant star whose fine perform- marching from three directions to of seeing again out here the re-
Clara Kimball wangle"--the work of sparent
province, and that the force is your homes, and having the cheer to this modern slave traffic. He tended to impress the Japanese ance in "The Cheaters" local Hoi Ping and Toi Shan districts. finement of a real home. I should declared that an area in southern Government, no doubt.
cinema-goers will still remember, A party of Cantonese troops near indeed be grateful for such invita But wo Abyssinia. three hundred miles can trust our former Allies to see heroine of "The Forbidden Wo-in attempting to stop the advance I bave always found people only has an equally big part as the the latter place has been defeated tions for men of H.M.S. Carlisle.
square had been depopulated and devastated by slave traders, and since the Emperor Menelik's death a million people had been killed
This was the description which the London Morning Post gave to the socalled British Labour demonstration at the Japanese Hongkong's the withdrawal of the Japanese Embassy in London to demand tennis player. troops from Saghalien. The asme
issue.
through the whole business..
DEATH OF MIL HOWARD PALMER.
Young, the
and
man," which the management of of this force.
the Star Theatre, Kowloon, are screening to-day. Ás Diane Sarel, the beautiful Parisian
total
Charged with Mah Jongg Theft.
force who are
day you
too ready to help provided they are fulfilling some real need. If refinement and the influence of actress who becomes an outcast POLICE LAUNCHMEN. home is altogether removed from or carried into bondage; and that
Mr. T. C. Woo, of the local of society for something that she
the lives of our splendid sailors, those engaged in the business agcacy of Messrs. Huntley and had no hand in doing, the popular
we cannot but blame ourselves Palmer, informe us that he is in actress has a role which furnishes were turning to fields afresh and receipt of an advice to the effect her with wide opportunities to
when perhaps they do things we would rather not have them do. pasturen new in neighbouring that Mr. W. Howard Palmer, display her very rich store of
As Christians, remember, we are territories, including areas under J.P., chairman of the well-known histrionic talent. The superb eet
members one of another. We are biscuit manufacturing firm, of tings of the film are one of its and a seaman of the police patrol cast stones at each other. I would The coxswaio, the engineer here to help one another, not to Britain's sway. Apparently in Reading, died on March 17th., outstanding features. reply to this, we now have a after a long illness, Mr. Palmer
launch No. 9 were to-day the de- ask you, then, in your kind White Paper issued by the Home was a man of high character and
fendants in a case in which they thoughts and actions for one Government containing the re-death is widely regretted. He Colony's most familiar figures, came on before Mr. B.E. Lindsell, enables you to receive with such By the Empress of Australis, were charged with the larceny of another not to forget the British great business ability, and his Mr. Silas Sassoon, one of the a set of mah jangg. The case Sailor, who guards the sea, and port of the British Legation at had intended, shortly before he left for good to-day, after a Adis Abeba, drawn up more than was taken ill, to pay a business residence extending over 43 years, plaint lodged by the proprietor of friends at home. I know that The arrest resulted from a com-regularity the news of your year ago (if the cabled date is visit to China.
He is to break his journey at a sampen which had been search-there are clubs and institutes, correct), "which denies that the
Shanghai and will later leaveed. It is alleged that the defen-but there is all the difference alave trade in Abyssinia has in-
there by the Empress of Canada dants, on leaving the boat, took between a real act of personal A number of friends met on for England, where he intends away the set, which was later kindness shown in a home, and creased "but does not deny it Blake Pier this morning to bid settling down. Mr. Sassoon, who found in the engine room of the any institution, Buch personal exists-"and points out that the bon voyage to Sir Paul and Lady has been an exchange broker police launch. slave-producing districts are be
acts as I ask for are just "these Chater, who sailed for England here for the past 20 years, has on the 8.8. Empress of Australia. made numerous friends in the blamed the seaman, the seaman ness and love. But believe me, When questioned, the coxswain little unremembered acts of kind- ing gradually depopulated "a Messrs. E. H. Wilson. L. D. Colony, who say good-bye to bim blamed the engineer, and the you will remember them, for as coolly-stated confirmation of the Martyn and N. T. MacReynolds with real regret. He has been engineer in his turn blamed the you get to know the British abominable traffic. The cream were
оп present behalf of very closely identified with the coxswain. EAS.MA, Mr. Wilson present-Jockey Club, and for many years
|Bailor you will learn to love him, of the report is in the statement ing Lady Chater with a beautiful has been official time-keeper at until the 9th, inset. bail being fixed with gratitude the people of The case has been remanded, and be in turn will remember that "the frontiers of Abyssinial bouquet of dahlias,
the Race Meetings.
- at $200 each.
Hongkong."