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The Telegraph
THURSDAY, SEPT. 23: 1926..
CANTON'S CONNIVANCE.
Following
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1926.
the Loytott movement; and it haturally follows that if that, sup port Is established, the Canton Government is also a participant in the schemes designed to ruin Hongkong For we have only to elto from recent declarations of the boycott lenders the statements that the boycott la designed to "strike a death-blow at Hongkong" and to ruin and shatter the econo- | mic" foundation of Hongkong."
Regarding the Canton :
Govern ment's connivance at an extension of the boycott to other parts of Chinn, we need only point out that the Central Political Department has appointed propagandists to operate in Central China, that pro- fessional agitators accompany the Southern Amy on its expedition and that the first thing the troops did when they reached Hankow was. to post up violently anti-British placards.
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FEW TILINGS ARE NEEDED TO MAKE A WISE MAN HAPPY, NOTHING CAN, MAKE A FOOL CONTENT; THAT IS WHY MOST MEN ARE MISERABLE.-- La Rochefoucauld.
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The death took place at the Go- vernment Civil Hospital yesterday of Mr. Cornelis Koster, late 4th engineer of the ss. Turbo.
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amount of $60,000.
CORRESPONDENCE.
CHINA PROVIDENT.
[To the Editor of the Hongkong
Telegraph.J
STATUE INCIDENT
WRECKER GETS. THREE
MONTHS.
Paris, Sept. 22
The man named Jarovenko, who Sir-Unfamiliarity with the wrecked an American war statue subject with which he was dealing in Paris, has been sentenced to or bad hearing on our part, pre-three months imprisonment vented us from grasping the pur-Reuter, port of the statement road by Mr. F. M., Crawford, at the meeting of sion to adjourn until the 12th of the China Provident Loan and November. Mortgage Co., Ltd.,' to-day, as re- ported in the evening papers.
We
Patience is my middle name, and
Probate of the will of the late Mra. Eliza Jano van Corbách has do not wish to be dragged into a since June, 1925, I have had forced been granted in the Supreme newspaper controversy on a mat- on me the necessity of "wait and Court. Deceased, who died inter which is still sub judice but, eec."
A discovery, however, was made. Tientsin on March 8 this year, nevertheless, there are points mea- left property in Hongkong to the toned by Mr. Crawford which we for, which I crave the publicity of feel it our duty, as Shareholder your columns. The investigator members of the Investigation Com- for me in future is Mr. Crawford, mittee present at the meeting, to A Chinese, sentenced to death controvert, in order, as oxpressed who, whilst diselaiming know- at the August Criminal Sessions by Mr. Crawford, to allay his fears ledge of the facts, does not heal- Aberdeen, was for the murder of his wife at as a Shareholder of the Company,tate to form conclusions. Truly
executed at
We do not feel justified, nora Daniel comes to judgment" Victoria Gaol yesterday morning. called upon to disclose the reason Never more will I rely on share- At the following inquest the usual for the delay in presenting the re- holders, nor in men learned in the port of the Committee of Investi- law, or in figures, who, after six. gation, but we assure shareholders
verdict was returned.
with a full knowledge of the facts months, keep us waiting yet: an- unlike Mr. Crawford, that the roa-other two.-Yours, etc., sons are the best, and will be dis-
PRE-BOYCOTT INVESTOR. closed at the proper time,
ed Nationalist Government as two Hongkong on board the s.s..Man-report to the shareholders the reLtd., held yesterday, puts Gilbert
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The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of the Rev. Henry Sydney Mr. Eugene Chen would doubt Frederick Rossiter, Minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, reald-
We think shareholders are fully Sir,-"Poo Bah was a versatile less like, for the purposes of hising at No. 12 Broadwood Road, aware that our mandate, as con- person, but the acrobatic mind of present argument, to represent the Happy Valley, to Miss Hilda Mary tained in the resolutions passed, Mr. F. M. Crawford, in-his role, of
was to continue the investigation Kuomintang Party and the so-call. Corley, who is due to arrive in of the Company's affairs, and to adviser at the meeting of the China Provident Loan & Mortgage Co., tua; also of Mr. Frank Reginald suit of such investigation when Fuggle, warder of the Victoria completed. This is a wide issue, & Sullivan's character entirely in Gaol, to Mrs. Ada Amy Mayor, but Mr. Crawford, deliberately or the shude,
otherwise, attempts to limit it by Mr. Crawford whets my appet- widow, of Preston, Lancs.
insinuating that the form of the ite; he is counsel for the work of the Investigation Com- plaintif in the first breath, and Three of the four leading rail-mittee was to try to attach blame whilst condemning some of the way lines in Kwangtung are now to the Consulting Committee. having trouble with their em We wish, however, to bring to Company for some degree of negli- ployers. The Chinese Section of the knowledge of shareholders, gence, in the next moment he deli- a learned judgment in an the Canton-Kowloon Railway, the and particularly Mr. Crawford, vers Kwangtung Section of the Canton- that our duty is not to attempt, off-hand manner, that they cannot Hankow Railway, and the Sunning "honestly" or otherwise, to assist be held liable financially for any Railway connecting Kongmoon and the Consulting Committee to bring loss. He omitted any reference to sion, whatever that expression management of the Company, and I Towshar are all receiving do thing to satisfactory conciu- the officers more concerned in the mands from their workers for an may mean. Our duty, as we see it,am, therefore, in the dark as to his increase in wages. So far the Sun is to bring before the share opinion on this point. ning line is the only one in which holders in an honest manner all the men are out on strike to force the facts of the case, and this will their demands."
be done in due course-Yours,
The British Note.. The case which has made out by the
etc.,
Č. A. DA ROZA, J.. M. ALVES.
Sir, I was present at yester day's meeting of the Provident Company, and confess to a feeling. of disappointment, with the deci
Was Mr. Crawford seeking in-. formation or was he creating an "atmosphere" on information, more solid than rumours, already known to him, but for which my compan- fons in misfortune are asked to wait until the 12th of November?
Enclosing my card-Yours, etc.,
* SHAREHOLDER. Hongkong, Sept. 23, 1926.
distinct entities. It is common knowledge, however, that to all in- tents they are one and the same, The Kuomintang is at the bottom of the boycott, which means, in other words, that the movement is backed by the Government. If Mr: Eugena Chen is really anxious to dispel these notions, then let him a recent extremely follow up his words by deeds and anti-British speech by Mr. Sun Fo, mash up the picket organtantion. one of the leading officials of the Then, and only then, shall we place Canton Government, Sir Cecil any faith in his denials. Clementi did well to seek a definite statement of policy from the Can- ton Administration regarding the
In the case of the suspected been murder committed at Shatin dur- boycott. The upshot of the on-
Britishing April last year, when the body quiries made, so far, is that Mr. Minister at Peking against of a murdered man was discovered Eugene Chen blithely passes over the high-handed action of in a nallah near the Water Works. Mr. Sun Fo's observations as being General Yang Sen is, it must be ad- Chan Hing-cheong, an unemploy
mitted by all, unanswerable, and ited Chinese, appeared on remand merely an expression of personal should only remain now for the before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, at the opinion, and then categorically dis- Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kowloon Magistracy thus morning, sociates his Government from sup- Peking to exert its very utmost en- on a charge of murder, but owing
deavours to secure the early return to the Police offering no evidence. port of the "Canton strikers," from
of the two illegally-detained Bri- to substantiate the indictment, the the policy of inflicting injury, on tish ships. The British Note, defendant was acquitted." Hongkong and from the movement which is justifiably couched in stern. to extend the boycott to other parts terms, makes it clear that His Ma- jesty's Government cannot tolerate of China.
In other words, Mr. the illegal seizure of British ship- Eugene Chen wants the world toping by Chinese military satraps, believe that the Canton Government and that if there are real or ima- is in no way whatever connected gined, grievances against the con- duct of British mercantile officers with the anti-British boycott... the remedy must be sought in the to the Party by failing to order 1st Golfer, facetiously, as he thing to talk about, and that will. Unhappily for Mr. Chen, how-proper way. Certain it is that the execution of one Shen Pao-chi,notices several mushrooms on the account in a considerable measure
Chinese military officers cannot be
a. Kwangtung University student fairway:Have a mushroom?" allowed to exact "retribution" at their own sweet will, ignoring all who pulled down posters displayed the rights of those against whom by Communists of that institution they take action. There is a limit the other day General Li Taal to procedure of this kind, and the hair will probably order the de-
portation of Shen. British Minister's Note ought to
and regrettable incident which took
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General Li Tsai-hsin, General Tan Yen-kai, Mr. Sun Fo, and other Kuomintang leaders in Canton Have been the objects of denuncia-
Overheard at Deep Water Bay Agreed if she kept on sawing tion by the Communists during the laat Sunday as two golfers were She'd have a vocal cord.
their after-tiffin last few days. They are being commencing accused of having been, unfaithful round:
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The modern generation is some-
for its vogue in current conversa-: 2nd Golfer, who has eaten a tion. The people do want to talk,
The
ever, the matter cannot be allowed to rest there. As to Mr. Sun Fo's status when he made the speech de-
hearty tiffin: "I'd love to, but I'm so badly and most of them ha
The real offense afraid I haven't mush room for nothing to say.
of the modern generation, as seen nouncing Hongkong and urging an
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through the eyes of its detractors, extension of the boycott, it is per-
express trains between is that it has purged, itself of a tinent to remark that his utterance make that abundantly clear. It is A Washington message of the Glasgow and Edinburgh used to lot of ridiculous inhibitions and was described by the vernacular rightly emphasised that the grave 16th inst. states:-The State De-stop at Larbert Junction for the has kicked a series of large round paper which published it as "Opin-place at Wanhsien arose all because portment announced that William collection tickets. In a full first holes in the conventionalities. The ions of our Party and Govern- of the arrogance and high-handed Alden Chapman, who is now being class compartment one of the modern generation is much wiser ment regarding the Sipo-British action of a Chinese military officer held in Seattle, would be returned passengere could not find his and franker than its predecessors immediately to Shanghai where he ticket; he searched his pockets and more human. We don't know who in face of the pleadings of a negotiations." It is quite clear, British Consular official, persisted must face trial on charge of em-back and fore, but no ticket was where it found out all it knows, At last the but it knows it and it discusses bezzlement. Chapman, was am-forthcoming, therefore, that the speech was rein thoroughly illegal conduct,
clerk in the United exasperated collector saw he had its knowledge in utter frankness garded by the newspaper, not as greatly humiliating to Britain.ployed as
he slammed the door saying, 'You'sciousness. It is not a surrepti- It July 10 when he disappeared. A and it amounted to no less. would seem that even now General shortage of $30,000 Mex. was dis- have it yer moo, ye fuel, keeping tious generation, as were some of When the 'those which preceded it. What it Yang Sen has not released the covered in his accounts and he was the train waiting!! steamers Wantung and Wanhsien located aboard a ship bound for train started, the passenger quiet- does it does and one may take it in spite of further demands that he Seattle. A considerable amount y remarked, to the astonishment or leave it. should, and the British Note in- of securities is also thought to of the others, Avra nae sic a fule sists that the return of the boats have been missing. must precede any negotiations to was formerly in the army and settle outstanding points. It is stationed in the Philippines.
conceivable that there will be any opposition to that demand.
a mere personal expression of opin- His action is described as "piracy" States court in Shanghai until it in his mouth, and; pulling it out, and without a trace of, self-con-
ion, but 18 the considered statement of a Government official. Coming to the points raised by Sir Cecil Clementi in his letter of en- quiry, the Canton "strikers" "will surely learn with very mixed feel- ings that the Government does not support their movement, and we imagine that when Mr. Eugene Chen's declaration reaches their ears be will be somewhat at a loss
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to explain precisely what he meant. Meanwhile, let us put one or two questions forward. If the Canton Brunnels
Paris Government does not support the
Amsterdam "strikers" why has it helped them Berlin financially? How comes It about, Copenhagen
Vienna furthermore, that the Strike Com Holzingofrs mitter Ilself recently issued a state- | Lisbon. ment which contained, amongst Buenos Aires
Shanghai other things, a statement to the Yokohama effect that "thanks to the protec- New York tion of the Nationalist Govern- Geneva mont...our sacrifice has not been
Stockholm in vain? Why, also, was it that Oslo: in the early days of the boycott Preguo the "permits" issued by the pickets were counter-signed by a Govern-Hombay ment department? We could go on Hongkong
Silver Spot) citing other facts to show the Can- | Silver (forward) ton Government's association with
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Chapman
PIRACY LAW.
JUDGE UPHOLDS CROWŃ.
Yesterday afternoon, at the Criminal Sessions, further argu- Rugby, Sept. 22
184ment was heard by Mr. Justice 174 Wood in regard to the point whe 12.11ther the Court had jurisdiction in 20.37 the case of three Chinese being 18.274 tried for piracy which took place
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His Lordship, replying to Mr. .2.17/32 Alabaster, said his view was that
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Mr. Alabaster asked, his Lord- 180% ship to reserve the point, but Mr. ...18.15 Justice Wood declined to do so. .22, 15 Replying to Mr. Sheldon, his ..163% Lordship said he thought" Ad- 81.70% miralty jurisdiction could be exer- *.7.17/32.
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Mr. Dyer Ball later addressed 27.18/10 the jury on behalf of the Crown, 27. 15/18 and the case was then adjourndd -British Wirelose until today.
as I look. Yon was an auld ticket,
an' I was jist sucking the date aff.
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Sebastian S. Kresge began as a poor boy salesman, poddler, store owner. He went into business with
A million and a half dollars less than $8,000 and multiplied annually in pennies, nickels and that until it became $100,000,000. dimes drop into the cups and cups Ah, but the first $8,000 is the of the 200 crippled and blind. hardest, beggars selling chewing gum and pencils on the streets of New Thus an American paper: Mr. York.
Carmi Thompson, who is visiting" The estimate was given by the the Philippines at some expense police department. Mr. Frank L. to the Government, has advised. Duan, secretary to Lieut. William the Filipinos to grow rubber. C. Whitley, commanding the men. That is a tolerably light lond con- dicants' bureau of the department, sidering the distance Mr. Thomp- estimated that the average cripple son travelled for it. There are at should pay an income tax of least 10,000,000. American citizens $7,000
A who could advise the Filipinos to The best districts for profes- grow rubber without either travel stonal beggars are Wall street and or expense, and many of them Fifth avenue. On a good day, un- already have done so... Wo disturbed by police, Mr. Dunn can offer the Filipinos a much belleves a mendicant clears $40 better suggestion and one which enally.
When you listen to her sing-
You haven't any choice But to think she must be
sawing
The timber of her voice.
As her voice it kept on ring-
We each with one accord
will involve them in no labour at all, ⠀⠀ Rubber-growing, as you know, is hard work. Let them/ Instead, strike the Government for a bonus. They can predicate their demand on the fact that averybody else la, doing it.
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