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SOMEONE ELSE-The "Bishop" of Lichfield. nogted with the incidents, in which ovont, as everybody knows There was a clean bill of health tho anti-foreign agitators begin in the Colony yesterday. thoir campaigns of calumny with.
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CHINA'S FIRST NEED.
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY
FENG YU-HBIANG..
A husty coat of whitewash is Marshal Feng Yu-bsieng's frat being applied to the goals to Pe- public statomant since his offer king in honour of the extraterri-to resign was made recently in toriality investigation now being response to a request from the conducted there. Mr. Liu Chi, Duity Express of London through
a virblonoe which strangely con from Kowloon, was reported on mayor of the metropolitan district, their Peking correspondent, and trasts with their silence on otherWednesday.
has decided that it is neccessary to is given in full below:- occasions.
introduce a few reforms in the "The root of China's evils-tho We luvé ovary sympathy with Passengers departing by the
President Madison included the frisons under his administration manufacturers of civil wars and internal disturbance in recent the movement for bettering the Rev. T. B. Powell and Mr. Eric and has therefore issued an order years may be charged entirely conditions undor which the mass | Rice.
to the lawless activities of the of the workers in China labour
militarists-men who hold the their mad strife for power and real power in this country--in
territory against one another. So we have a war in overy one of two years..
red from the second floor verandah The men why yesterday jump- of the Hoo Choong Wo firm has since died."
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but we are convinced that the need for raform is far more insist ent in the case of those employed in native concerns than it is in
Stan Hill's football cartoon, Foreign-controlled establishments. which appears to-morrow, will That' is a fact which we should deal with the Interport trial like to soe daly impressed on match at Kowloon.
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FRIDAY, JAN. 29, 1926.
CONTRASTS.
commoniaaltors Home.
A Chinese had his ankle bröken
when knocked down by a motor car, near the junction of Des Vooux Road and Pedder Street. He was later Laken to hospital..
saying that hereafter:--
1., Gaolers should" not inflict private punishment on prisoners.
2. Employees of the prison should not extort money from the inmates.
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to the culprits.
3. Sufficient food should be given
"How to save China from this was the solo abject of my 4. The cells should be kept as refused to participate, in the move for peace in 1924 when I' clean as possible.
meaningless war in my endeavor 5. Lectures on morality and the to work out a fundamental plan teaching of Chinese should be for the reconstruction of the delivered to the prisoners daily.country. I feel very sad to say Arms and the Law.
6. Vocational training should that my policy was not shared by Chang Teo-lin, the most powerful also be given.
militarist at that time, who learn- Not only is there much of public
7. Prisoners should be recom-ed nothing and forgot nothing. In interest but there is also much of real importance in the point which graduation of the Chung Hok leuse.
In connection with the fifth mended for joba after their respite of the urgent demand of the Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the First Class of St. Paul's College, Lady!
country, he still persisted in the Magistrate, is now called upon to Clementi will distribute certifi
These startling innovations are role of the militarist. He fought decide in connection with the cates at the Queen's Theatre on necessary, the mayor believes, be- for territory and not for the wel case which is before him, wherein Saturday, February 6th, at 10.30 cause the capital city of China sion upon, and occupation of fare of the people. His aggres- should have model prisons. Other Chihli, Shangtung, Kiangsu and wise it may not seem feasible to Anhui is the direct cause of the
a Chinese wholosile dealer is charged with selling a quantity
of toy pistole, the sale of which
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and wiser.
that the worst did not come to him. It is be hoped that he will come out of the disaster better
MILITĀRIST EXACTIONS..
"In Li Ching-lin of Chibli and
The body of M. Paul Kremer, the foreign judicial investigators recent war, from which he escap it is alleged is prohibited, except former French Consul General at to advise their governments to re-ed with his position all but shat- undor special licence, by a recent Hankow, who died there recently, linquish their extraterritoriality tered. It is fortunate for him Government regulation. We un- derstand that the particular point was placed aboard the French privileges. In the case has been referred to last week and will be taken to gunboat Doudart de Lagre "
Watchful Waiting. the Hon. Attorney General for
France for intorment.
Another sidelight of a different In view of the altogether opinion, and it is whether a wea
sort on the judicial' commission's oponing is that it provides work misleading impressions which in which does not discharge a have been circuiated at Home the Arms Ordinance. We do not panions in Caroline Road yoster who are on the Government's pay Chang Tsung-chang of Shantung
While playing with his com- again for the five young women nissile can rightly come under with regard to the conditions wish, and neither are we allowed, day, a small Chinese boy got in roll as official stenographers for we have oven worse exemples of under which Chinese operatives merits or facts of a case still sub knocked down. He received in-conclave has been noted more for their administration in these pro- to make any comment on the the way of a motor car and was the Tarif Conference. Since this lawlessness and cruelty. Under work in foreign-owned cotton Judice, but, curiously enough, a jurios to his legs and was re-its watchful waiting than for its vincos, no stone is unturned to mills in China, more than passing very interesting decision, was moved to hospital in the car.
sessions, these stenographic re-fleece the people and law is tramı- interest centres in the story Justice and Justices, Shearman recently made by the Lord Chief
porters of proceedings have been plod under foot. Woe to the which wo reprinted yesterday and Salter in the King's Bench those auspected of being connect-in twiddling their thumbs or in for the latter are given free leave The first stage of the trial of forced to put in most of their time people where their soldiers go, from a Northern paper regarding Division at Home. They decided od with, the assassination of the playing bridge.
to loot and destroy. In short, the incident which has just that a Wolley air pistol was late Lui Chung-hoi has been
a firearm. not
Three of the five stenographers catalogue of crimes committed by A nan named completed in Canton. It is stated nccurred in
Chinese mill at Hockley was charged before a that the case for the defonco will were imported from Shanghai those two men against the people Wuchang
From this it will magistrate with selling to a per-bo hoard in camera, and the trial specially for the Tariff Confer are too numerous to narrate. To have boen seun that the son other than rogistered arms of the first six suspects will not ence. They are Mrs. Esther Cal-suppress such lawlessness and der, and the Misses Mayelle Byrd cruelty is the duty of overy up- dealer, an air pistol and 117 pellets tako long- of ammunition without the pur-
and Maude Murray. No time limit right citizen. And I firmly be-
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employees at this establishment woro ordered to take their meals standing, in order to save time,
chaser producing a certificate The s.. Kiangchow, of the was set on their contract but it live that if I can do nothing I authorising him to purchase it. China Navigation Company's Was estimated that they would must deliver my people from their it being decreed that anyone had a rifle barrel.
The pistol weighed 28 ounces and fleet, is due some time to-day remain in Peking for approximate clutches. found sitting would be subjected weapon and effective up to 15 be able to clear up the mystery there now for almost four months is also at the end of his rope, as Now that Li Ching-lin is It was a lethal from Hoihow and her master may ly three months. They have been
erushed, and Chang Tsung-chang to a fine. When the workers yards, and would carry much concerning the delay of the s..and the end is not yet in sight, our armies are closing in on him further. On Hockley's behalf it Taming. The weather outside is particularly since they have now from three sides, and that Chang protested against what they
was contended that the weapon vory rough from all accounts and been assigned also to report the Teo-lin is "too impotent to be a correctly described As an was not a firearm within the the Kiungohow may be delayed. meetings of the Extraterritorial- real factor any more, this" ie the inhumane order, the management meaning of the Act, and the
ity Commission. sent for the police and a man Magistrate agreed with that con-
best opportunity we have had in Thus far the proceedings of this years for a thoroughgoing re- tantion. The Police appealed A small outbreak of fire which Commission,have consisted only organization and for the working considered to be the ringleader against that decision, but the occurred in the compound of the of the formalities attendant upon out of a fundamental solution of of the protesting group was Appeal Court dismissed the appeal Steam Laundry yesterday morn- the official opening. The next step the probleme of the country.
with costs, although the Lording was attended to by the WD is to be "paper investigations," an arrested and put into prison.
Chief Justice remarked that the engines of the Kowloon Fire
The point to be kept in mind, weapon was obviously a formida- Brigade. On receipt of the report inquiry into the theoretical nature
THE PROPER SPIRIT.
"In my opinion, we must ap-
of course, is that all this happen-ble one, capable of doing con-both engines were despatched to of the laws of China. For this od at a Chinese-owned hill. We siderable damage. So far as the scene, as it was feared that purpose the Chinese delegation, proach our problems in a spirit can well imagine what an outcry the point as to whether any par-light
Hongkong is concerned, of course, the clothes in the premises were has been requested to provide the of conservatism. We must try to The outbreak was ex-Commission with translations of put an end to the internal wars would have been raised had the ticular weapon is a firearm or not tinguished without any damage: the law_codes of the Republic, and by working long the line of law incident occurred in an establish.is governed by the local Ordin-
with descriptions of the judicial, and constitution, and to solve all ment under foreign control. The learn of the Attorney General's ance, and it will be interesting to
The many friends of Mrs. H. A. of the country.
administrative, and prison systems political questions by these means. It is no ure to seek peaco affair is illuminating as provid-ruling.
Jones, who met with a distressing
by political adjustment and the, accident in a motor bus when
Prepare Codes.
| balance of power, for no such ad- ing further proof of the oft-
returning to Kowloon from Hung- In an interview in the "Shun justment and equalization of repeated and certainly truthful
hom, will bo pleased to learn that Tien Shih, Puo," Mr. Chang Yuo- power could be so accurately statement that Chinese workers
an X-Ray examination has re- taung, chairman' of the Commis- made as to satisfy everybody, are subjected to far greater!
vealed that no bonos were broken,sion, is reported to have said that On the other hand, the proper although extensive bruising and the criminal law codes of China enforcement of the law accepted oppression in purely nutive es-
laceration of the legs was suffor-have, been completed and that the by the nation will put a stop tablishments than they ever are
od. Mrs. Jones returned to her civil and commercial codes are be- permanently to the evil of par home in Kowloon by motor aming prepared.. bulance from the French Hospital favourably upon the agreeable na-ed China during the last fourteen He commented petual warfare which has disrupt- after the examination was made.ture of the opening of the Com-years. It is therefore our first
mission and estimates that its and constitution established, s
object to have the sanctity of law work can be completed in aix that the decisions made thereby
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The "Yi Shih Pao," has come out may be respected and oboyed by with an article denouncing the
ono and all."
"At the same time due respect SUNDAY'S ARRANGEMENTS. whole purpose of the Extraterri- must be given to the opinion of toriality Commission. It asserts the majority of the people in the With reference to the Masonic that there is no reason why China determination of the policies of Service to be held in St. John's should throw open her judicial the nations so that the political, Cathedral on Sunday evening, weytem to foreign criticism and legal, financial and economical are informed that it will be open declared that the Government can policies shall be for the greatest
To-day's exchange rates are to members of the general public and should do away with consular good of the greatest number. It
The following vessels are expect in foreign mills or factories. Sed to be in wireless communication far as the oxploitation of native with Hongkong to-day: labour is concerned-whether it Atauta Maru, St. Albans, Presi- be of men, women or children-dent Jackson, Hakata Maru, Mau-
Yokohama sang, Fulda,
Mari, we make bold to say that com-Talamba, Glenfalloch, President parisons between Chinose and Madison, Van Cloon, Kanagawa foreign mills will he Tound Maru, Corby Castle, Tjisalak, aburdantly in favour of the lat-Kalgan, Shinnoh Maru, Kfungchow. tor. The same callous disregard of humanitarian feeling on the part of many Chinese is to be found in the ruthless atrocities which from time to time are reported from "ál över the country. Yosterday we pub lished natüry of the terrible plight in which the inhabitants of certain parts of Kwangtung now find themselves as the result of the depredations of robber gangs and disbanded troops; whilst all of us can recall the brutal and. cold-blooded manner in which Yunnanese soldiers word done to death by the mob in Canton SOVË- ral months ago. Wo cite those instances, which aro, but, fow
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Cathedral Hall for robing purposes. The.. "Chen Pao," another leadit prepared a definite plan for the All brethren other than District ing Chinese daily. of Peking, abolition of consular jurisdiction." Grand Lodge Officers for this year criticizes the Commission' in a dif- If the Power feel that an investi- and Lodge Officers for this year,ferent manner Instead of demand- gation is also necessary, the "Chen must be responsible for seeing that ing that the investigation be Pao" believes that such work can their own regaliu is at the Cathedropped altogether, it urges that proceed simultaneously with the dral Hall in time for robing. The an Inspection alone in a waste of proparation of a plan for the. Brethren will meet there at 6.30 time. It suggests that the Com-uitiniste cancellation of extrater British Wirolean. | p.m.
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