A
OBITUARY.
REAR-ADMIRAL G. J. TODD,
D.S.Ö...
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 14. 1927.
KUOMINTANG SPLIT,
SOME QUESTIONS TO CHIANG,
The following is a very illumi- The death is announced of Rear-nating extract from an articlo en- Litled: "What Is absolutism?",
FARMERS' BANK.
TO BE ESTABLISHED IN KWANGTUNG,
To aid the peasants and farmers productive efficiency, the of this province to Increnss their Pro- Vincial Government has taken de, finite steps to establish a' bank to facilitate farming transactions,;
be
will
Adiniral George James Todd, recently written by Mr. Hsu Chien, D.S.O., retired.
Entering the Minister of Justice of the Nation- Royal Navy in January, 1888, healist Government:- first went to sea two years later In the present movement for the in the Dreadnought in the Medi-preservation of the Kuomintang says the Canton Gazette. This ferranean. He was promoted to my remarks are only intended for bank is to be commercial and the interests of the Kuomintang.avings in character, and is to be Sub-Lievlenant in March, 1894,
33 the Peasants' and In spite of all differences of ap-known and to Lieutenant in June, 1894. ich, I esteem Comrade Chiang Farmers Bank. The bank will Later he took up destroyer work, Kai-shek as highly as formerly help the peasants and farmers commanding the Bruizer and the His military services for the party in every way possible. It Coquette. In 1905 he was given will forever he remembered in loan them money at the low rate command of the river gunboal History.
of interest of 5 per cent. per Woodcock, in China, and was pro-
anhum, so that they can proceed What is absolutism? When the with their agricultural work free moted to Commander at the end
power of the party is in the hand from financial anxiety. This will of 1907. From 1911 to 1914 he
of an individual and does not re- commanded the gun-vessel Sphinx
a great help to the poorer | In the Persian Gull, but at the main in the hand of the party, peasants and farmers. Then, to, thin constitutes absolutism. Com-the bank will help to regulate the mobilisation for war joined the rade Chiang declares, that he is circulation of money in the country cruiser Isis. He left her at the the chairman of the Central Com-districts so as to facilitate busi- end of 1914 to command the
mittee of the party and also of
Comprehensive plans for the
worked out by a government com- and Farmers' Bank have been
mittee consisting of represents- tives of the Departments of In- dustry, Peasantry and Labous, and the Treasury. This mittee, appointed by the Pro- vincial Government, has drawn up a set of regulations governing the establishment of the bank. May a chairman without the
Joint Enterprise. decision of the Central Committee The Peasants' and Farmers' send a head of a department to a Bank is" to be a joint enterprise foreign country and appoint an-between the Government and the other in his stend?
people. The capital has buen fix-. May a chairman without the de-ed at ten million dollars, At the cision of the party arbitrarily start one half of this sum, that change its plan in foreign affairs is." ve million dollars will be by sending a representative to sufficient. Part of this Ave America?
million dollars will be raised by
served at the Dardanelles.
He
cruiser Amethyst, in which the Political Committee, and this ness. was commended for service in ae together is the centralizing of the establishment of this Peasants'
sire to address a few questions to party power. In this case, I de-
the chairman
May a chairman send soldiers to Canton to suppress the city party committee?
tion, and was promoted to Captain on June 30, 1915. He later took command of the cruiser Bristol, i and commanded her in the action! May a chairman without authori- on May 15, 1917, when an Austy and decision of the Central trian force raided the Allied drif- Committee Issue" orders to the ter line in the Adriatic and sank party? 14 of the drifters. 'The Bristo and Dartmouth, assisted by French and Italian destroyers, chased the enemy off. Captain Todd was awarded the D.S.O.. for his services. The continued in the Bristol until the spring of 1919, and afterwards commanded the coastal motor beat base at Osen, retiring in 1922. He was advang ed to Rear-Admiral on the retired list in July, 1926.
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ordered?
Boni-
REFORMS WANTED.
PETITION TO PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT.
Captain W. II. Boys, RN.
May a chairman disregard the the people, and the rest will be AR Captain William Hendursat revolutinis adopted by the Central provided by the Government. Boys, R.N., retired, died on March Committees of the party, that the the public lands under the Pro- 8, at Southsen, aged 63. The Central Government and the Cen-vintial Government will be turned i second son of Admiral Henry Roys,tral Committee of the party shallover to the bank as part of its be entered the Royal Navy in July, have their seat in Wuhan and not assets. 1876, and as a Naval Cadet of thein Nanchang, as the chairman Boadic. Bagship of Commodore Frederick Richards at the Cap Comzule Chiang'insists further. served during the Zulu War of that the "oint Conference" i 1879, being awarded the Zula me- Hankow was avainst discipline dal. Three years later, he was a and illegal and that there is no į niidshipman of the Minotaur, dag difference between it and the Con- ship of Vice Admiral Dowell, dur-ference in si Shan, therefore the ing the gyptian War of 1882, ro- | work of the revolutionary "Joint
A petition has been presented to reiving the medaly and the Khe Conference" is anti-revolutionary the Provincial Government on Mou- dive's brenze star. He was made It is true, cause of the necessity
by representatives of the a Lieutenant in October, 1886, and of the revolutionary conditions. Peasants, Workers, Merchants, and qualified in gagnery, being after- Actur ling to the resolution, Educators Joint Unior, for the wards Gambery Licktenant of the transfer the Government and the realization of ten proposals passed battleship Hotspur, Agamemnon, Cement Committee for the parlyatra meeting of the Union, saya the Camperdown, Royal Sovereign and | Cron Cantova 10 Wahan, this pro- Canton Gazette. The delegation Nile, la Pod he was made by visionary Conference had to be was received by the Chief Secretary pecting Officer of Condguard at formel, in order to admit of no who promised to bring up the ten Greenock, and in February, 1908, interruption in the exercising, of measures at the next council meet- he retired with the rank of Com-power through the party and the ing of the Provincial Government mander. Recalled for the war heGiverment.
Comrade for consideration. Even
day
The ten measures are as follows:
1. To hold a Provincial Conven-
took command in September, 1914. Chiang recognized, this necessity of the cruiser Sirius, ia naval bom-orginally, for he himself sent a bardments of the Belgian coast. congratulatory felugram at The tion within two months. At the time of the raid on Sear-opening of the Confereure. borough, the Sirius was based uning his stay in Wuhan, he took taxes.
Dur-
12. Abolition of miscellaneous,
the fumber, as guardship, but in pari at the Conference. The work 3. Set aside a fund (must not the spring of 1915 she was order of the "Joint Ubalerenes"--among be less than $500,000 monthly) for the Cameronne. West Which are agreements concerning the purpose of developing industry. Afties. 1 March, 1918, with act-the British rosessions in Hanka
Both City and District peuple
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in ranks as Captain, he was as- und Klukiang-are most lapor ghould have a say in the pelities of pointed Senior Naval Officer at tant.
the province He as to realize
Loch Rwe, and Aulthen, and in the We consider. The prezent sit-democracy, one of Dr. Sur's three
fallowing September became Contien most, serious. The movement modore of Cruys. He was von- for the saving of the Kuomintang firmed in the rank 57 Captain from dare not be delayed. the date of the armistices
Capt. Murray Scott.
Whether Comrade Chiung will be amurry sin exercise his great power, we head have no fear. The Commander-in- Chief
only command not the party. He troops, Int a number of years in the service musi obey the orders of the party.
The death has decurred of Cap- Main Murray Scott, who was for
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of the Straits Steamship Com-Let Comradle Chiang look back.
pany.
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why the Kuomintang formerly suf fered misfortune again and again. A native of Scotland he enne The reason was, that the power to the Straits 40 years ago and in
was invested in individual men- the carly nineties he brought out bers and not in the party itself. the old steamer. Mary Austin,o-day we muxt reorganize the from China, and the Quorra from Kuomintang and remove its past Sierra Leone.
Captain Scott joined the Straits Steamship Co. 20 years ago and at the time of his retirement, on, account of ill-health, three years ago, was the master of the Hebe. The funeral, which took place last week, was largely attend- ed, those present al the graveside including members of Lodge Scotin, to which the late Captain Scott belonged.
LINGNAM STRIKE.
faults."
NANTAO TRAMS.
TAKEN OVER BY WORKERS.
principles.
5. Abolish Likin, 6. Revise the tariff.
7. The people should have ab- solute freedom of speech and to hold meetings:
3 Free competition in Salt trade industry.
more
9. Suppress opium and gum- bling
10.,. Devote
funds for education, pay higher salaries to teachers, and institute free eduen- tion on a wider scale..
FIREWOOD HUNTERS.
HEAVY FINES IMPOSED. Firewood hunters have been res- ponsible for great havoc wrought in Government plantations on the hillside at Stanley, and when a search was made at the hit of one of the villagers yesterday, police Since the taking of Shanghat officers found two 9-feet pine lngs, by the Cantonese troops and the several large pieces of similar tim- rise in power of the Shanghaiber which showed marks of having General Labour Union, à Com- been recently cut, and a huge pile munistic organization, the Em- of chopped wood. Three lbs. of ployees' Union of the Nantas dynamite, which were also discover- Tramways have taken over com-ed concealed in the hut, were in- plete control of the line and are cluded in the exhibits placed before How operating it on what they Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Polico think are Communist principles. Court this morning, when the vil Hopes of an carly settlement of turned into one common fund at
All the takings on the line are lager was charged.
On the first count of possessing the Labour strike at Lingnan Uni-the end of the business day an1 the two pine logs, the defendant versity were indiented on Tues then divided pre rata among the was fined $100, or six weeks. On day, says the Canton Gazeete when employees of the., Tramways another count in respect of the it was reported that the Depart-ccording to their status and share chopped wood, he was fined $250, ment of Peasantry and Labour of work in the operating of the or three months, while for being in had received an order from the line.
possession of the dynamite, defend- Canton branch of the Political Council to initiate negotiations the management of the Tram-
Not a conner is turned over to ant was further fined $75, or four-
teen days.
A Chinese woman also a villager
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The order of the Political Counto the employees. How the trams being in possession of nine sticks With the approval of the Gerghin law. cil instructed the Labour Departmanage to operate and whether or of dynamite, said that her nine man Government, a white woman ment to hasten the calling-off of not any funds are paid for up-year-old child picked up the expla-put up for auction at a public This man offered to marry her, the strike, as it was not fitting to keep, power, and repairs is a detail sive from the roadside and brought slave market on the border of but when she refused, he adver allow a strike to continue in the that could not be learned recently it home.
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