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六拜禮 號九十月六英港香
No. 21.08U
CLERIC DENOUNCES “JAZZ.”
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1926.
日十月伍
SING
PEIL ANNUMI
STUDENT. UNIONS, BANDIT STRONGHOLD THE HUNAN WAR.
Bulls and Inners
ATTACKED.
THE BANNED BOOK CRITICISED.
CANTON DISPUTÉ
MODERNISING CLASSICAL
DIFFICULT TASK IN THE MOUNTAINS.
ATTACK ON CHANGSHA BEGUN.
STATEMENTS CONTROVERTED.
We have received the following letter for publication:
MUSIC.
"DEVILISH" WORK.
Recently, a well-known prench- St-As an old "Macao sub-er dehounced in Hongkong the scriber to your widely read Tele-"sina" of modern society, and his graph, I would respect you to
views were the subject of mich kindly allow me some space in comment at the time., Equal in- your paper, for me to make knownterest will no doubt be found in. the following facts-
In your article about the second edition of the newly-printed book "Historic Macao," by C. Montalto de Jesus, it is therein mentioned that there are many so-called Portuguese who would like to see' the Portuguese Colony, of Macao, transformed into an international settlement. Let me here state
the opinions on "jazz" versus classical music by another cleric, who can well be described as a maestro and has to bfs credit se veral compositions of considerable merit.
SETTLED.
COMMITTEE CONTROL ISSUE,,
The Canton, Students' Dispût- Investigation Committee having investigated the troubles of the
Students'nions and decided,tni request the two Students, Union to dissolve voluntarily and having) stipulated that each delegate at the second meeting should', only! elect one representative to the Executive Committee, the 'troubles among the students seem to have
come to an end, says a Canton
paper.
prepara-
These mountains, are consered one of the beauty spots of Karang- tung, and are the seats of the largest Taoist temples. Prior to the The maestro told Telegraph
Revolution, annual pilgrimages ... reporter that he had heard jazz
made to the temples, and for soine at a local club during one of its
Recently Shao Yuan-chung, di-years past the hills have been the periodical dances and was very little impressed with it. It ap of the Central Kuomintang, ad-
rector of the Youth Department summer resort of missionaries and
VOTING ISSUE,
DEMAND FROM FUKIEN.
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Many persona and the Charles- ton easier to condemn than to learn.
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The Volunteers are going to hold a motor cycle Gymkhanh. That it will be a Triumph should B. S. Afe bet.
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An Irish centenarian says sho has never seen a motor car. That. is probably the explanation of her longevity.
The inquiries regarding the Say what you will about Cleo- absence of "Salesman' Sam" from patra; but nobody ever accused BRIGANDS FORM LEAGUE,
last Saturday's "issue, seem to her of indulging in a champagne In a military communique issued indicate that that gentleman is bath, After two months of
more popular in Hongkong than in Canton it is announced that the English and Australian tons, it seems that the long-pect Genital Tong Sang he has trans- ericketers put together. ed expedition has Beginning thei
O'C mitted to the Canton Government |
The father who told his son that bandits led by the torious chief whose nickname is rippled-effect that the
a telegram from the front to the the doctor told him to take cock- Revolutionary tails, is probably creating an heir Chung" and who have made the
of suspicion. Army is investing Changsha and
យ famous mountains of Lo-Fow their
the capture of that city is immin- For the first few weeks after the stronghold.
ent. In view of the success of honeymoon, most newly married Tong's forces, various units of the men seem to have an overwhelming
yawning for home, Canton Army are moving forward into Hunan. It is reported that a The Mount Everest climbers sentative agreement has been made have stated that peppermint and On a rainy Sunday, the best place onions lose their odour at, an to sit in church is where you can between Yeung Che-song Yeung altitude of 18,000 feet. Unfor- watch your umbrella. Yue-hin. Lai Shi-wony and the tunately, not all the people who
In a poultry farm at Home, farves belonging formerly to Fong cut there things are mountain
climbers.
they're treating hens with elec tricity. This may account for ment, that neither Amy will in
This waiting for better times some of the shocking eggs on sale. mitted and requested the directors on Christian College. of the City and Provincial. Kuo-
It is stated the mobilisation of vade the territories of the other. suggests that patience is often
considered a virtue when it is A perfect example of minority solve the dispute of the two Stu-week ago. It was not known for burden will be relieved to a great to do. mintang's Youth Department to the troops commenced some two If this is so, the strain of military meroly a case of not knowing what rule is à baby in the house..
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가 This re-naming of the Colony's what purpose these troops were extent, and that the plan of the
Many Hongkong girls, don't thoroughfares prompts the sugges- campaign may have to be changed mind a man with a past, provided tion, that Wyndham Street might despatched to localities surround-so that the intended attack on Wu-ho doesn't try to live up to it.
now very well become. Fleet ing the base of the mountains, but chang may be directed from Hu-
Street. when more troops' appeared on the nan.
ロロ scene, the bandits "smelt a rat" and have since been coming out of the mountains in bands in order to inform their fellow-bandits be- longing to other Tongs, of the in- tention" of the Government troups, and to solicit their es-operation in resisting the invasion.
that such is not the fuct; and that peared to him to be a volume othered to the decision of the Com the staff and students of the Can Poon-van and the Canton Govern-
during my uninterrupted stay in this Colony, for a great number of years, never have I heard such a wish expressed by any Portuguese, whether born in Portugal og i this Colony. The natural wish of every patriotic Portuguese bas ever been to develop Manis, as much as possible. by trade and commerce, so that, in course of time, it may do without the opium, fantan and lottery, revenues.
FORT HOPES.
noise from which, after listening carefully, one was made aware of all seeking to produce the required a number of different instrumente syncophated beat for the garenra That was all very well from the point of view for which jazz ap: peared to have been originally created, but whew jazz invaded the realm of "sacred music" (lo use the maestro's own terin) and attempted to incorporate it. then serious crime was perpetrated.
PETTY OFFICER HONOURED.
For Services in China.
London, June 18. The medal of the Military Division of the British Empire Order has been awarded to, Petty Officer R. M. Chalmers, of the warship Tarantula, in recognition of services on June 23rd list year during the dis- turbances in China.-Reuter.
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THE FUKIEN OUTLOOK.
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Some of our telephone operators have a lot to answer for.
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In the States just now, the pro- verb reads: "There's many a alip twixt the hip and the lip."
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On the Fukien frontier, the Over one hundred thousand appoint an umpire for the League The composers of jazz, had, he
forces of both provinces are shov-Fords have been imported into of Nations. said. fastened on to a number of
ing great activity: It is said Australia. A rattling good num- It was also with this end in well-known classical pieces in an
that the Fukien authorities are ber. view that the Portuguese inhabi- attempt to "modernise" them, with
demanding, the evacuation of the tants of this Colony have been results that spoke very little for
Revolutionary Army from Chaon Judging from conversation with animated with the sincere hope the musical tastes of those con-
and the return of that district to some of our returned Interporters. that the extensive new Harbour cerned, and which certainly did
Fukien, Should any further des Hill wind blew them no good
We understand that an Ameri- Works, costing about ten million not improve the work of the old
can tourist who specialises in pho- dollars, will greatly promote the masters. One's "nesthetic tast
No sooner had the bandits inademand be made, it will likely be in in Singapore.
tographs of statutary, snapped a trade and commerce of this was offended by the discordant
Prince Henry is said to be a number of workmen on a local their move than a general attack the form of an ultimatum. How- ever, it is reported from Swatow Colony; so that with the reclama-noise of the brass instruments-
from all directions, was made that General Ho Ying-yum is better horseman than the Prince building in mistake. tion, now going on, a larger are the "biting bluster" of the sax dents' Unious. Accordingly the against the stronghold; but with quite prepared for any eventuall of Wales. For all that, he's not may be available for the Colony's
far from the thrown.
A chemical process has been in- expansion, in order to be better phone and the baleful blare of the representatives of both Unions
meeting.
no appreciable result, the moun- that may arise, and that sufficient Li trombone. In between these "ey were invited, to a
vented to detect changes in automo able to cope with important pro-elones of noise," which were pro-Yuch-yi, representative of the tains being so large and the bve troops are on hand to meet the blems arising from the develop deed with great gusto by
Amundsen la quoted as saying bile licence plates. If this sort of 18 the general the Student Union which was Thapaths only known to the bandits opinion of the military experts that the only thrill left for him thing goes on, mankind will be de- ment of the part.
There is, absolutely, no cause jazzmen, the violin only occasion-gurated in the Kwangiang Nation
at University, however, opposed
so that the latter could easily make that the soldiers of the Canton is marriage. Somebody has been prived of every incentive to enter- whatever, for the Portuguese to ally made itself heard desire the internationalisation of
The maestro admitted that the the method of election adopted by their escape. introduction of a little classical this Colony.
music, might improve the syncs pation, but when a classical piece I must also take exception to was thoroughly "jazzified," with that part in the said article in the all-absorbing intent of inte which Mr. Jesugerepents that ac-ducing the required "pep." then cording to the Lappa Customs det completely passed out of recog cenial report for 1912-1921 "thore nition. The maestry had heard are but two or three genuine mermany well-known classical items he said. chants of Portuguese nationality mutilated in that way, This is not true and never was it In their misguided zeal, (or per the method of election decided THE FRENCH CRISIS. true, I will just quote a few of haps it was that they had fallen, pon, as they felt it ould prevent the long established Portuguese short of resourccu) the "jazz any party from securing predo-: firms, in order to substantiate my fiends" had even got hold of a minance. Thus future trouble! words. They are
Funeral March, and had spared would be avoided, and if the stu- Messrs. N. T. Fernandes e Fil-nobody's feelings when they at- dent movement is to be unified, hos, printers and publishers ete. tempted to transform Chopin's the decision of the Disputes Com- jazz mittee should be upheld. At the A. A. de Mello, merchant and immortal Dead March into
music commission agent.
This he considered to be meeting no conclusion was reach
ed. nothing short of "Devilish,"
PORTUGUESE MERCHANTS
L, A. da Silva,, merchant" and dealing in bicycles and motor cars.
F. S. Rodrigues, import and ex- port merchant.
J. V. Fernandes, ngent.
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insurance
A. Gomes, merchant and com- mission agent."
CANTON RED CROSS.
the Disputes Investigation Cont- The bandits are now said mittas, fearing that the vates may to be moving in conjunction with according to that method be een-bandits under another notorious tralized and that the Executive leader, and there are said to be Committee My thug not be other bandits also in league. The elected.
NO CONCLUSION.
On the other hand, the delegatad of the other rival Union approved
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bandits are entrenched in strong positions, and it will probably take a long time to dislodge them.
M. HERRIOT TO FÓRM
CABINET.
prise. Army are far superior in every kidding the eminent explorer... respect to the Fukien forces, and in the event of a war, they would
This is the season of the year A London writer claims that food overrun Fuxien in a short time: when you wear an overcoat one and sentiment go together. We day, a thin cont the second, a shall have to request Alphonse to porous plaster the third, and a tie a few love-knots in our next
spaghetti. doctor's bill the fourth.
PETITION TO CANTON.
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It is officially stated in Canton that in view of the recent destruc-
We know a man who has great tion of Hunan educational in- stitutions, by Yeh Kai-chin's sold-respect for youth and also old age iers, the director of General Af-when it's bottled. 0.0 fairs of the Hunan Students Uni-
on, Wu Ke-chang, has petitionel If Eve tempted Adam with an the Central Kuomintang, the Poli- apple, what could she do with a tical Council of the Canton Go-Grill Room dinner? vernment, the Military. Council,
DO and the Commander-in-Chief of) If we all knew everything about the Revolutionary Armics to others, none of us would associate Paris, June 18.
launch the Northern punitive ex-with the rest of us, President Doumergue has aura-pedition to punish the militarists
net.-Reuter.
Later. consented to
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A moth is said to have över 4,000. muscles.. Peakites who have walkt "ed down to town recently will; doubtless sympathise with the in sect.
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There's a fortune awaiting the man who can invent a tabloid to prevent boils and boycotts,
In view of the recent allegations. of holding a pistol at the head of
We hear of a Scotsman who bought a pair of canvas shoes, In preference to leather, as, he was told they give more freely.
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There seems to have been a lot of bobbery over Chinese girls going
to
in for bobbing,
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moned M. Herriot to form a Cabi-50 as to relieve the citizens of Hui- Supporters of the "Within-the- shipowners, we wonder if the nan from "hot fire and deep wa-Empire-Trade" movement assert China Coast Officers' Guild has an THE FINAL STAGE.
ter." In the petition the Union that the Dominions can supply arms licence? 4 describes how Yeh Kat-chin's more than enough flour for Great Later, Sun Fo, Chairman of the D. I. Committee, again invited the
M. Herriot has
soldiers destroyed the aduentional Britain. Perhaps we should call buildings and maltreated the them doughminions. delegates of botn sides to another form a Cabinet,
teachers and students. Beginning SERVICE AT THE FRONT.meeting, but still no result was ob
M. Briand, on leaving the Ely- from May 2 after Ych's soldiers tained. Then the chairman, ve- see, said M. Poincare had promis- were let loose to plunder and at-sure 16 inches each. And yet the A Manchurian giant's fect mea- Fernandes Carvalho Rocha &
The Kuomintang Red Cross parted the result to the Political ed to co-operate in the formation tack the teachers and students. two together are only two feet! Co., wine merchants.
Council. Alto Douro and the Macao Society in Canton has recently
of a large concentration Cabinet, they invaded the schools and des- It is reported that the students but as the Radical-Socialists re-troyed the properties. Dairy Farm, belonging to the mer-been busily preparing to organise
A Scottish sheep dog is said chants, Messrs. J Vaz and Sens, Red Cross party to serve at the of the various schools generally fused to allow their President, M.
On May 9, when the schools have travelled 21 miles in order to agree that the decision of the Dis- Herriot, to co-operate, M. Herriot, shipping firms belonging to Portu- guese citizens of Chinese origin, At a meeting of the Kuomintang pute Investigation Committee is obviusly should take over the task were holding an athletic meeting, find its master. Far fetched!
which was sanctioned by the ice merchants, a Portuguese mer C.E.C.. it was decided to request the only way to settle the troubles of Cabinet-making. M. Briand authorities, the soldiers broke in- Which remains us that the re- have to design reversible summer chant taylor, the Companhia Im- the Government to appropriate among students and to prevent rejoiced at realising his dearest to the grounds and injured or cently arrived Aberdeen terrier portadora and Exportadora, the the sum of $3,000 monthly for the any party from controlling the wish in recovering his liberty.killed a number of athletes and which refuses to ride in the Peak Lisbon and the Mucho dispen- Red Cross party. The members Union.. saries, wholesale and retail mer-of the Red Cross Society will also chants, druggists; the Macao Gar-ask the medicine shops and dis- age, motor and motor car business, pensaries in Canton to donate to. the Sociedade Tecnica Comercial, the Red Cross party supplies for etc. Suffice it to say also that medical and surgical use Mem-
are hero in Macao many bera will also be detailed to collect DISCOVERED JUST IN TIME. Portuguese merchants of Chinese funds from Shiuhing, Kongmoon, origin.
Sunning and Wuehow in 'the West River districts.
there
GOVERNMENT SERVICE.
I must also classify as untrue the following statement, namely, "that the fow Macao-born Portu- guese, who remain here in Macao, are despoiled oven of subordinate official positions." At the Macao Colonial Secretary General's
Office, barring the Colonial Secret ary, the Assistant-Secretary, a well as all the officers and clerks (Continued on Page 10;) -
Northern front.
ECHO OF THE WAR.
U. S. MONUMENTS ON
BATTLEFIELDS. ·
Paris, June 18. General Pershing has arrived to
THE SMYRNA PLOT.
Constantinople, June 18:
Renter.
RADIO RATES.
BETWEEN INDO-CHINA"AND
HONGKONG:
When a British politician returns to office, it's a fent; with M. Briand It's just a habit.
If we get much more of this changeable weather, somebody will and winter clothing.
visitors. Many are still under tram 'must still be thinking of medical treatment in the'. Hunan Home. Public Hospital: Over 30 school buildings, have been destroyed by the lawless seldiers. The May 7, May 30 and June 1 memorial meet inga could not be held. The whole eity of Changsha was in great terror and students were forced is escape to other places.
WHAMPOA COLLEGE...
Macaroni Yes. We certainly agree that Mussolini paid through the nose for his fame.
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Swell gatherings take up quite a
lot of a dentist's time.
DO. In Paris, it's now the fashion for Cons containing mummided men to wear clothes to match their horses have been discovered in thair." What about the bald- Egypt. We understand that the
hends?
rank smell indicates that they were cab horses.
D'O On the 16th instant, the Wham-
Many a pretty bathing beach " pon Political and Military Col-girl will mins being saved from
In connection with the plot Notice given that the rate for against Mustapha Kemal Pasha, radio telegrains exchanged bo discovered in Smyrnia, the plotters tweon Indo-China and. Hongkong were apparently awaiting Musta- is as follows:- pha's arrival at, Smyrna to carry Radio telegraphic. out their designs, but the plot charge...Fr. 0.50 per word. lege held a reception on the occa- drowning this summer because of pulse Bay for the sea and others, was discovered just before the Terminal charge President's arrival.
The police seized weapons and
Inspect, the sites of the American bombs, and the arrests include war monuments on the battlefields. several prominent personages.
Reuter's American Service, ^.
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sion of the second anniversary of being mistaken for a boy.. its reorganisation. Launches and other bosts were provided to con- The defendant in a case at We overheard a Fanling novica voy the officials and other guests. Home was named Smith and his remark that cheating at golf in Healdes, units of the 1st and 20th occupation locksmith. And that's inevitable. Of course, one can't
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always lay in the fal
what they did.