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MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1923.
DAY BY DAY.
CANTON DISGRACE,
sible for the Lincheng affair, and their dismissal is demanded. The Diplomatic body are firmly determined to guard and closely STANDING ON HIS DIGNITY US
THE MAN WHO IS GIVEN TO Terrible Tales of the Press maintain, by all measures in UALLY HAS VERY LITTLE ELSE their power.
ver, the defence of their UPON WHICH TO STAND. rights and the application of
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Gangs.
We have received the following letter for publication :
Sir-Old Timer, under the heading "Canton Conscription." has cited only one out of many
trestion which were solemnly Mr. S. Berg, the Consul for confirmed at the time of the final Norway in Hongkong base establishment of the Republic of turned from his business trip to such heartless and beartrending
China by declaration .com- municated to the Legations on October 6, 1913"
"
Java..
Information has been recaived that quarantine against arrivals from Hongkong bas peen with drawn by Amoy,
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disgusting and maddening." A ease or two of this nature will be enough for your readers to form an idea of how things are progres- sing in this city.
cases now being enacted in that streets of Canton. He only cited one case of a coolie being shot in cold blood in the Shaki Street, All these impositions and de.
opposite Watson's, which roused hia ire, but such cruelities are mands appear very thorough,
row quite oordmon. Sights and have
of men dragged and roped in a great face valus, i
The silk which left here by the pitoously orying, are daily scenes What we should like to know is p. and O. Malws on the 11tb. in the streets. If one goes out |what degree of sotual value the July was delivered in Marcoliles into the city or along the Bund
Note can have in its effect on on the 11th. August.
there can be seen firstly, the burry-scurry stampeding of the China and the Chinese. It has been presented to the nomina! A Chinese was taken to hospital people being chaard; the catching rulers of the country-men who yesterday following an accident by the nape of the neck; and then in which he was knocked down the poor fellows prostrate, begging not only have little authority and injured by a motor bus near for dear freedom. Oh! it is simply around Peking at present, but the Pobing Theatre. aiso are powerless to enforce their orders in a number of the With regard to the change of provinces. Their authority in electric voltage on the Peak on
August 22qd, we' understand that The writer, about four weeks the South is absolutely it. We the conversion on that date will ago, was passing on the Sha-Ki quite soe the predicament the only apply to those houses inside, about one hundred yarde Powers are in. They have had cospect of which notices have from the Shameen Bridge, when been served on the occupiers. people were seen flying in groat to present their demands to the
excitement. A poar coolls woman, body that they themselves have
Nows from Macao states that a who appeared to be a mother, was recognised as the Government of small Chinese gunboat which bad seen struggling with a policeman. Chin. Perhaps, like ourselves, violated the regulations of the he threw away the bamboo pole they hope for the best; and inner barbour has been detained and two baskets she was carrying possibly, like ourselves, they are by the Portuguese Goverment, and tried hard to get away from which refuses to hand it over to the man. She ran and fell a few not sure whether their Note will any party, pending the receipt of yards from where I was the man bave the required effect, and an official communication from immediately following and catch- ing her, the poor prostrate whether it will not become the Canton Government,
creature all the while low towing. necessary to make a move
and saying "Yam koong^. lo, HONGKONG, 13th August, 1923, their own initiative before long.
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The Telegraph.
AFTER LINCHENG.
1
"Get Together."
on
on arrival hero yesterday. They
the
whereupon the officer, thinking discretion the better part of
IN THE NEW?,
Dr. Cuno,
who hae resigned the Pre- miership of Germany.
Romeo Maciel,
who failed in his attempt to swim the Channel:
а police officer with The old shouted outI am seventy ye ra of ego
A report from the East River cha'u tesi" ("Oh, pity. I bave district says Chan King-ming's a babe to feed"). This was farcos have secured further enough for any human being, and successes. It is said that a former I lost my temper and raised my commander of Sham Hung-ying, hard to strike. The man stood This heading has no reference with 2,000 troops, has gone over to defiant when another came wear- We at last know the full extent to Chinese politics. It relates to Chan
and that when when ing black Chinese trousers and of the demands made by the the forthcoming motor car and detachments from Lum Foo's saved the situation by saying "Yau Diplomatic body at Feking as an cycle trials in Hongkong. The command have arrived a maroh kin, yau kiu" ("Let her go, Ob let her go"). In the twinkling of object of these contests is to get will be made on Canton. outcome of the Lincheng outrage- the motoriste of the Colony toge-
an aye, the poor wretched wontan Whether or not naval or other ther-whatever their race or their
was nowhere 1 A equabble over money matters. Only a few days back there was demonstrations are to be con- social standing. It is felt that
there is need in this Colony for between two brothers so worked almost a riot in Honam over this sidered, ip addition, has yet to be the arranging of a series of events up their feelings that fraterna wicked public scandal. They seen: for the prosent we are which shall arouse the internet of considerations were thrown to rounded up and roped in among concerned with the terms of the the motoring fraternity, which is the winds and they exchanged other poor victims, a young lad of Note presented to the representa growing in numbers with every blows. One gut a black eye and about fifteen yeare. Hearing of
passing year. These contests will the other a stab in the chest. The this, his mother went to tives of the Government of Chins serve that purpose, and, at the fight occurred at their home at station and begged the officer in as recognised by the foreign same time they will have an oven No. 12 Shiaking Street, West charge to let her boy go. The Both were taken to woman was a widow, who had Powers. The demand for mone- greater value in the closer inter-Point.
only recently lost her, bread! tary compensation was foreshad-course which will result between hospital.
sections of the community." No
winner. Her supplications were owed some time ago; also the "get togethor" movement can
was per. Michel Coulon, Gabirch Sen. unheeded and she matter of a strengthened railway succeed unless there is some equin and Joseph Ravine, three emptorily told to leave. Then police force under foreign officers. common meeting ground. In this Mauritiane, who gave themselves came an old man of over seventy The damages to be paid to the quisite, and we feel certain that after the vessel bad been forty but no notice was taken of him,
case, motoring supplies that re-up as stowaways on the 8.8. Haldin seara and beggod, an' his knees!
that his grand-child be left to him, former captives seem generous the Bories of contear's "that| enough in fact it will mean is contemplated for the future eight hours at sea from Mauritius, Then, in a sbrill voice he poured
were turned over to the Police in Hongkong will have excellent
cursos upon all concerned and quite a nice little sum for those results in this direction. There said they were looking for jobs began to dash is head on the who were obliged to stay on as will also be encouraged a healthy and were remanded on being the mob arcund tegan to be threshold of the station. At this, "guests of the brigands to the spirit of friendly rivalry and theen charged before Mr. J. R. Wood at demonstrative and threatening. very last. The endorsement of we take part in the contests the Police Court to-day.
Charles Toth, will gain much valuable informa- the separate demands for com-regarding their care and cycles.
who also failed in the Chan- penextion made by individual Lost there should be motorists
nel swim. When eleven men were charged valour, gave the lad back to his Legations in connection with the who are hesitating to enter be with obtaining money by menaces, grandfather.
cause of a dislike of "racing," we before Mr. J. R. Wood, st the Wa all koow full well the diffi Honan banditry of about a year would once again emphasise that Palice Court this morning, it was culties of the present regime to
go, emphasises the attitude of there will be nothing of this char-stated that they entrapped the form a good Government. When whilst the Powers towards this evil-acter about the coming contests complainant, a boatman, to a Dr. Sun was in Hongkong last, he sword followed on. ene ci determination that it shall Safety first" in the motto kept house at Chaiwan and forced him asked the British Government, man
in view.
to pay blackmail money. A sum the Press and the public, to bear over be suppressed by the Chinese
of $10 was actually got from his with him; and, be it said to the and my hair is covered, with Authorities to the very best of
wife, but subsequent complaints credit of these, that his request white hair, how can I bave the their ability, also they must be We were glad to read the tele- lodged with the police resulted in has been granted, and a sympa- strength to do your labour?" held responsible for their failure.gram the other day stating that the immediate arrest of the whole thetic attitude maintained. When The onlookers could do nothing the British Empire Producers gang. The case was remanded, things come to auch a pass, bow-to save the old man, though they The exclusion of foreigners from Organisation had memorialised
evar, that men are torn away looked on him with pity, certain districts on account of the Secretary of State for the
from their families-simply spirit- The other extract says that a The annual report of the Alice ed away, in fact-it is time for number of European tourists with the region being considered un- Colonies urging him to invite to
the Imperial Economic: Con Memorial and affiliated Hospitale somebody in the name of humani-cameras met troops marching in safe for them is rightly opposed, farence two representatives of the states that the parents of the late ty to call a halt
the street, from whom pedes- When fret and the authorities are plainly Crown Coloates-not officiale, but Dr. Eric. Arthur Wooda visited
the Hongkong trians ran away. With the were couljon . who told now that it is their duty to representatives of the producing the Colony during the early Telegraph exposed this forcible troops
as well as the had been commandeered to make these provinces safe, it
interests. That would be a very part of the year, and, amongst conscription
of the transport heavy baggage. The sensible plan, because, as the other bequesta, gave the medical arbitrary confiscation being recalled that they had memorialists point out, the future library of their son, a special Sunning Railway. Mr. Eugene coolies who were weak and could already been warned that their of British industry is bound set of ese instruments, and Chen triod very hard to explain not keep up with the troops were exclusion policy would only be up with the tropical and sub other surgical instrumente, and matters away, but his reply was beaton with bayonets, and fists,
cot too thin and could be seen whilst kicks were freely adminis tropical resources of the Em also founded the Woods considered a temporary measure. pire. The Crown Colonies, of for patients with eye diseases through. The reply by the tered. After the troops had pass This seems to us to be an indica- which Hongkong is one, have The cot was purchased by them, directors and shareholders of this ed, one of the Euvoreans who tion that no subterfuge for deny-often been described as "the and, for the present, they are ill-fated railway, published in could speak a little Chinese told the people that according to Cinderellas of Empire," and, so sending annual subscriptions to your paper, ailenced him. ing the right of entry of foreign-far as Imperial solicitude goes, assist the patients.
We at times have admired the Western-law if a man overworked era into any district will be of they are generally treated as
pon of Mr. Chen, and we now ask an animal he would be liable to a [avail.
auch. They may be small and
him to take up the case of smell fine and imprisonment, and he unimportant, in comparison with
Decapitating a rooster in the traders and coolies whose families asked them whether the people of Then comes the demand for the larger Dominions of the an oath, and so rent is the acts, so that he may earn their animals. Soon afterwards, a large favourits. Chinese formula for are torn asunder by such inbuman Kwangtung were no better than guaranted. In several ways the British Commonwealth, but we events of the last year or so have believe their resources have never importance attached to it that blessings by pleading their cause number of women with their chill. dren, orying in a distrissful dan the police authorites yesterday of liberty. bean fully exploited. We ramem despatched Sub-Inspector Field been held to be reminiscent of ber the pains with which Hong to the Man Mo Temple at
ner, followed up the troops. One the state of affairs preceding the kong's Economic Resources Com-
of the onlookere asid There. Hollywood Road . tom act g in
goes a mather to rescue her son, Boxer outbreak, and there hayo mittee went about its .work
and there goes a wile to resou6- the capacity of a refores whilst some few years ago. But what been warnings of dire happenings has been the result to date? Nil the ceremony was being carried Another Canton render sends her husband," A representative: in the near future. We now have Are the labours of that Com-dispute were mistress and Sun Awok Wah Po dealing with did not like to hear his country The parties in this us two extracts from the of the press who saw these things the Powerz Insisting that mittee' to be for nought? Weber smeh. The former is under this subiect.
held up to diagnace by there foreignors. be protected by hope that the investigations then
The fret of these states that at remarks, and he beckoned to the the proper authority, in cou-ledge of the Imperial Economic savings of her servant whilst she 7 o'clock in the morning of the 11th speaker not to comment on what formity with the clauses of the Conference, and, most of all, we was away in the country. Indenial instant & yell was heard in the was happening, but the Europeans Protocol of 1901, else further do-trust that this won't merely be of this the mistress agreed to take vipinity of Po Hing Fong and said they know all about it. The
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part in the ceremony. The cock residents, opened their doors to nowepaner mean then quickly left ganctions will be decided og and
officials who know little about was not dispatched at the first see what was happening. They the spot and had these facts presumably onforced. Various the subjects which are to be stroke, and it took thiroo attempts saw an old man, with white hair, published for the information of
Ito completely decapitate it; lia custody of two, policemen the people of Kwangtung, erring officials are held respon discussed.
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Empire Resources.
made will be brought to the know-suspicion of having purloined the
of
Yours etc, ANOTHER OLD TIMER.
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