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HONGKONG, 5th June, 1923.
CANTON TERRORISM.
Can
ABOUT NOTHING.MocWhirter.
operator
THE HOUSING CRIBIS,
Thousand of Tenants in Distress.
ing phrases about "liberty" and
Police Force. the rights of the people." But
The housing ortals, caused by The health return for yester- their lip-service to these ideals is day shows eight cases of small- Chinese Inspector in the Police
The death of Han Hang, Senior blocks of old property in various the proposed demolition of big being heavily discounted by pre-po, six of plague and ons of Fores, occurred suddenly at his Parts of Hongkong, grown in seru entaria fever. All were Chinese residence at No.Hollywood stated that about 6,000 more sent happenings in Canton, not
iousness as time goes on. It is only in regard to this comman-
Road this morning. On seecunt of insufficient evid-midnight be was still active, tween July and August as a cons Up Chinese are liable to eviction be-- deering of labour but the forcible once the man charged with in-being then" engaged in invest seizure of other people's pro-
timidating a Coronet Theatre igations that followed a distur down of property which they naw sequence of the intended pulling perty. No cause
was discharged this bancs at Shaukiwan reported fourish morning but he is still being held elsewhere in this issue. There occupy. Besides housse, several which has its basis in wrong- under suspicion of being im was nothing out of the ordinary Chinese shops are affooled and doing. And the altogether auto-plicated in another affair. cratic methods now being employ-] ed in Canton, spart from the now contrast which they presant to Considering these records are asleep. the parrot-cries of Dr. Sun Yat. Daly issued to the American By his death the Force has lost pay. sen, are bound to react in thepublio in New York on June 1st, fits oldest and perhaps most valued jose are affected by the present" How many thousands of Chin- it will be realised that Hongkong, Chipere member. Han Hane's extensive palling-down activities long run against the regime now in getting them on June 6th, is connection with the Force dated it is Impossible to say, but it is in power. Any party is in a bad not far behind the times. Quick back as far as 1886 when as an certain that a very considerable way when it Practices the service is evidently the Victor organization the Force had not proportion of the working-class reached anything like the strength population of the Colony are in Today is the anniversary of fact it may be said that the houses..
or efficiency it enjoys to-day, Indistrees through inability to find the day in 1918 when the Ger-experience of the Force in its men armies were the nearest most critical stage was also his intervened in one instance, pre- The Government, we hear, bas they ever got to Paria in the late experience, for with his record of venting the demolition of oue
doctrine of the ends justifying the means.
lines. We hold
poticeable in b ́s condition when some of the people say they will be returned horra, and death have to go back into the cona- Victor records for June are appears to have been due to heart as it is impossible to secure available Moutrie's failure. He passed away in bialike the rentals they are stie-to now accommodation at anything
motto.
vading armies of 1918.
TYPHOON WARNING,
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.
is
have
Boycott Folly,
Patriotism is a fine thing. We war. It was the supreme effort 37 years' service he could lay block of buildings because the can sympathise with those whof their mighty drive, made at claim to the distinction of being new block intended to be erected perform acts of heroism for what great cost. Today, five years its oldest member they hope is the good of their occupation of atrategic points on of Shakong Town, in the Yan
later, we read of further French The deceased officer, a native donal accommodation.
on the site would give no addi- country. However misguided a man might be, none can fail to effort to obtain some reparation joined the Police Force at the age seriousness, and Chinese tenants
the German Ruhr railway, in an Ping district
The situation generally of Kwangtung, undoubtedly admire his deeds if they are based for the damage done by the in-of 20 years, as a second-class are looking to the Government GUS of marked jon proper motives. For this
reason, one can have
a most
police constable, gradually work-for further protection by means respectful regard for a German
ing his way up the ranks, by dint of fresh emergency legislation. nowadays even though he fought
of energy, intelligence and cour- against us, and comes of a race
age in his work, until with the re-the
According to an estimate by that did not always find use for
organisation of the Force undar Commerce,
Chinese Chamber of chivalry. One can have a sneak-
Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe in 1920 thousand
more that ope ing sympathy for the Irish ex-
official recognition come
houses are at tremists who think they are The telegram quoted below was his elevation to the then newly the Colony. Complaints
opraeent being demolished in ggling against the yoke of received by the American Con-created position of Chinese In bead received which speak of reat oppression even though one sulate-General, Hongkong, from spector. Very much before the extortion and profiteering not only pities them for their blindness to the Manila Observatory at 9.30 public aya by reason of the con-by landlords but by certain tenants what really means their country's m. to-day :-
spicuous services he rendered in who sub let the premises leuaed good. But very faw observers, we 5.20 p.m. June 5.-Typhoon in almost all notable Think, will sympathise with the about 125 deg. Long. E, 19 deg. events, of which the rotor bandit are out of all proportion to criminal ont to them at prices which originators of the present anti-Lat. N., recurving north-eastward. case of 1921 is an outstanding these fixed by the landlords.": The Japanese boycott campaign in
instance, the deceased was per-matter will come to the notice of China, and none at all with
haps the best known of the native the Chamber at a meeting this the individuals who have under-
Police officers. He was one of afternoon. Cases occur in which a taken the self-appointed task
the contingent of Police officers shopkeeper holding a lease for say of stopping Chinese trade in goods
sont Home is 1897 to represent $60 a month from the landlord trom Japse. The messages we
the Force at the Diamond Jubilee will by a mutual understanding published yesterday relating to
celebration of Queen Victoria. this campaign, particularly the No Further Development. services
A record of the meritorious his shop to the latter for $100- with another, move out and let These are unusual days in report of Pakhoi events from our
Tendered. by Canton, and for that reason, we leave but one opinion in the minds local Government has had no that of the late Hau Hang is finding the arrangement cut short
Ispecial correspondent there, must
each without the landlord We learn on onquiry that the kept at Police
member of the Force
being suppose, unusual things are being of foregn reader-that the whole further communication recently particularly interesting, for the by the threatened demolition of 15 aware of the change. Some of Headquarters.these sub-tenant shopkeepera, sa done. One development, however, thing was a mistake, and is now from the Secretary of State for facts it gets out illustrating the the premises. appeal to the which has arisen out of the folly of the moet glaring type from ter of Constitutional Reform in of the Force have to discharge and other matters connected with being grossly overdone. It is the Colonies as regards the mat-dangerous work which members Chamber for help. Such cases troubled conditions is deserving national point of view. of the utmost reprobation.
We Are Hongkong, concerning which here. The serious wave of armed the problem will occupy the We unbiased observers of the situa- refer to the seizure of ordinary tion. We deeply sympathise with Petition was sent in by the Con-crime through which the Colony meeting for some hours it is citizens by the military and their
China in her present position, and about two years ago.
stitutional Reform Association has passed from time to time was expected. being drafted into transport ser- the majority of foreigners when consideration of the matter has, chants at Wingick Street were Chinese houses at Seiyingpan is
we merely reflect the desires of
particularly noticeable towards The main cause of delay in the end of the 1894, when mer-morning that a farther block of vice for the carrying of supplies we state that we would like to we understand, been the fact that kept under terrorization by to be demolished, rendering 500 A report is current in town this and equipment to the troops at see a movement for reform in the the petition was sent direct to gang of armed men, the inves more people homeless in the near the fighting centres. Canton is ational
country along sensible, constitu- the Secretary of State instead of figations into the murders.com future." good place to keep away from brief for Japan. Yet we can meat, with the result that it had episode finally culminating in no through the Hongkong Governmitted in connection with this just now. Yesterday's story read not designate these
boycott to be referred back to the local the arrest of the culprits for which
A Rent Question. outbreaks as anything but silly authorities. There is no indica- Hau Hang, being responsible letter for publication:- mare like the bappenings in Russia under Bolshevik dictator-sible persons.
attempts, carried out by irrespon-tion yet as to when a decision on to a large extent, was awarded a
We have received the following ship than anything else of which
the whole question will be reached. substantial sum by the author Safferer," has now written to me. Sir, Your correspondent "A we can think. So great a power
ities. The work be put in whilst fully explaining the facts. What have the military been given that China will, if no check be placed The name of "student" in
holding the rank of Sergeant in he really wants is not a Fair they go into the streets, literally on present doings by this class of
1897 is best remembered in con- Rents Board, but a copy of the nection with the case of the Rents Ordinance, 1922. rope pedestrians together, bundle modernised Chinese, become a by-
kidnapping of a child, for which them off to a concentration camp brace any young Chinese attend- word. The term appears to em-
he received a high commendation used wholly or in part for bawan The lessor of an old building which has been specially preparing a school, of either aex, and of Discussion by the Sanitary of the case which saw the convic any tenant, whether on old or new from the Magistrate at the close habitation, has no right to charge ed, and then draft them into ages ranging from ten years to service. Old and young, male twenty or more." Our Pakhoi. and female, we
correspondent refers to deliberate- At the Sanitary Board meeting medal was also awarded him for the rent which was recoverable are told, gat ly lawless acts by schoolboys aged yesterday the Chairman, Mr. G. this service in the same year from the tenst in actual occupa caught within the net, and twelve to fourteen. Besides bring- R. Sayer, originated & discussion Six years later, he was personally tion on although some are released on ing ruination on the foreign trade, of food licences for Wong-Nei-commended by the then Governor 1920 (see Section 2 (f) and sect- the 31st. December, payment of ransom, thousands and damaging the credit, of their Chong village. He pointed out for energy shown in a
case of loa 3 of the said Ordinance), even district by interfering with the that the Board had previously kidnapping, and given another though the tenant may have are sent off to carry baggage for merchants, these youths have per ruled that each licences should monetary reward. the troops. A correspondent says formed such senseless acts as not be granted, but the matter
agreed, either verbally or in writ that the scenes, when relatives breaking into shops and de-was to be reconsidered at the disastrous typhoon visited the ard rent, (see Section 3).
When in November of 1906 aling, to pay more than the stand- of these "slaves" (for that is as well as Japanese, and have Chinese Affairs, the Hon. Mr. many police officers engaged in Ordinance empowers the tenant liberately destroying British goods request of the Secretary, for Colony the deceased was one of Moreover Section 17 of the same what they really become) gather even gone so far as to make a E. R. Hallifax. Mr. Sayer added the rescue work, and his conduct to to see them off, are heartredding. prisoner of a well-known Chinese that his own opinion was not in on this occasion was such as to by
any rept paid And we can well believe it.
trader. Their lawlessness can favour of granting the licences. be brought to the notice of the of
temant only bring ridicule on them, and The area under consideration was Governor. during the annual any rent payable by him to tre standard rent from only needs a moment's thought it it leads to further retaliation becoming & better-class residen- inspection, Hau Hang was then lessor, or to recover such excess to picture the homes broken up by the Japanese, such as has been tial suburb, and the type of person awarded the Third Class medal, bis reut from the lessor by action.. as a result of this unwarranted experienced at Changsha, no-one now living there would send into Excellency highly commending commandeering of labour.
will be to blame except the young town for foodstuffa
him on his conduct. On two other fools themselves. As we have What we want to know is previously pointed out,
H. E. POLLOCK. Mr. Hallifax supported the occasions he was commended by these issue of these food licences, which the Magistrate for intelligent and Hoogkong, June 6th, 1923. whether Dr. Sun and his followers youngsters would be far better be considered would meet a need efficient work displayed, in one have authorised this unpardon-clean, administration of their
engaged in working for a unified, in the district
case resulting in the sirest and
BIG HAUL OF "UCCAINE. able interference with the liberty native land.
Mr. B. W. Tso also endorsed the conviction of seven men impli- They are mostly need for these food stalls, and cated in an arms case at Belat half a million dollars (£100,00), Halifax (NB): Cocaine valued unruly, ignorant lade knowing Mr. Wong Kwong-tin supported. chers Street. He was given the which had been sent out from the responsible authorities they "rag." Their ideas of Western that applications for food licences this decoration being followed Canads and the States, has been little of politics, but out for a. Eventually, Mr. Hallifex moved Second Class medal in 1910, Germany for distribution in must be regarded as tacitly ragging, however, have become in the Wong-Nei-Chong area by the First Class decoration in seized bers on instructions from acquiescing in it by not ordering very badly distorted. Perhaps should be approved, provided the 1916 when Hau Hang completed Scotland Yard." the immediate cessation of the
their school system is partly to Sanitary Inspectors considered his thirty years' service with the blame also movement., Every now and again, activities of their teachere, who
the propagandist the premises suitable.
Force. Mr. Tao seconded this, and was. Не bad before this been attempts are made to resesure make the scholars their cate' pawe, supported by Mr. C. G. Alabaster, transferred to the Detective In-any member of the Force other the public by the issuing of state. The Chinese student drills, wears and the motion was carried. ments to the effect that this work (band composed of his fellows. No uniform, and marches behind a
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vestigation Department, and bethau a European. Though due to came Principal Chinese Detective ga on retirement many years ago, in 1911. Continuing to render be kept to his post and was active meritorious services, he received until the last, in spite of his ere serving light sentences, or deal. In Western lands this con- Mrs. Homeleagh "Your bus from time to time other com- advance in years. that a scheme is being evolved it would be effectually cured band in at his lab a good deal mendations, until, with the re- for recruiting a special corps for rattan in
by the application of a birch or isn't he?" Lady Gadabout-Yes organization of the Force in and large family to whom the The deceased à leaves widow the time-honoured the poor boy hates being at home 1920, he became an Inspector, sympathy of the pubife will be the work. But these declarations feebion.
alone, you know,
Ja rank not hitherte reached by extended