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A PROSCRIBED UNION.
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NEVER DID ANY SOUL DO GOOD BUT IT CAME READIER TO DO THE SAME
AGAIN, WITH MORE ENJOYMENT. Shaftesbury.
One Chinese casp of ontoric fover is reported during the 24 hours onded May 27
It tried to organise a general walk- out among Chinese labour at Chin- ese New Year, last year; in Decem- ber it temporarily boycotted the Steamboat Company, last March it boycotted the Douglas Company, and it made an effort to bring about another big strike, hero, at the bo- ginning of this spring. In fact, the Seamen's. Union was a constant thorn in the sido of the local ad-
Mr. Ralphs, Inspector of English Schools, has reported to ministration, working always the Police that someone stale an against constituted authority. If electric fan from bla ofice desk there were
yesterday. any doubts as to itsalms, these must been removed recently, It had the temerity to
circular In Hongkong claring that it was opposed to the present Canton authorities, and had its "spiritual home" in Hankow, or words to that effect. Its passing removes a blot from the South China Inndscape,
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have
Tonders are being called for when the construction of a new Hospital issue at Victoria Gool. The work con- sists of demolishing certain build- de-ings, and erecting a new hospital.
ONE OF OUR NEIGHBOURS. A Trip To French Indo-China.
Indo-China can be one of the rough- villages here and thoro In large The voyage from Hongkong,to rice fields were in vivid green, with
est on earth, and the calm waters belts of trees. and groon banks of the Haiphong river then prove a welcome sight to seasick passengers. But in calm weather the whole trip may only take 44 hours.
The Customs provide many stories of hair-raising experiences, and the nervous traveller may be told that he can expect to see his precious possessions strewn on the ground of the Customs' House, while his boxes are being ransack ed for dutiäble articles. We have H. E. the Governor has appoint-landed four times at this port, how ed Mr. Benjamin Wylie to be, a over, and have been treated only Member of the Board of Education, with invariable kindness and consi- vice the Rev. George Reginald deration by the offelals. Lindsay, resigned, with effect from 20th May, 1927,
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My fellow passengers were better class Annumesc. (the poor travel fourth classy, well-to-do Chinese, and Indian merchants. A friendly group of the latter entored into con- veraation, and informed me in per fect English that they wore "Frenchmen from Pondicherry".
The most interesting part of a French colonial train le the fourth class, These are little more than covered trucks. The fares are ab surdly low, and the passengers are allowed to take in anything they like, from stacks of merchandise to live pigs.
Pneumatic tyred rleshna, with
Stroll By the Lake. springs, wait to carry you to your I arrived in Hanoi, and after a hotel, along flat, well-made, ronds, wash and rest at my hotel, I sot out H. E. the Governor has appoint-between uvenors of beautiful rub to see the sights. A ricksha-man bor trees, Flame-of-the-Forest, and soon saw that all I wanted was a Another ricksha car-pleasure drive, and he took, me ries your luggage. Tamarind.
round. The avenues are finer thari those in Haiphong, but the park was pure joy. The sun was setting and the moon rising, and the mini- ture lakes were a blazo of colour----- a sight not easily forgotten.
One must not confuse this pro- scribed union, definitely a Bolsheviked the officer who, from time to organisation, with the other union forming the duties of Harbour
time, for the time being is per of seamon which exists in Hong Muster, to be the Registrar of Bri- kong, and is n peaceful body having tish Ships for the purpose of sec- the legitimate object of advance- tion 4 of the Merchant Shipping
ment of its interests by constitu- tional means. The body that hus been done away with was, in effect, un undesirable 300loty, and the action taken by the Hongkong Gov. ernment is authorised under the Societies Ordinance, whereby any specifically seditious organisation is
Act, 1891.
At the hotel you are shown into a large, airy room, where there is running water, electric light and a
fan.
The charge may be no more than $2 a day, and $1.50 for each meal. There are only two meals a day.
18.
Thieves gained entrance to the
After dinner a stroll by the con- tral lake, in the centre of the town Shui Heung Yuen Godown, Elston
The chief hotels are on the wide itself, ended a "perfect day." Street, Yaumati, between one and six o'clock yesterday morning, shopping street. It is quite un- The Chinese morchants are the and got away with bales of dark necessary to bring a lot of stuff commercial backbene
of Indo- Hongkong, for China. A great deal of the wealth tarpaulin worth $1,200. They en- with you from tered by means of a side door, everything can be bought here and is in their hands.
A men can.. which was shut but not locked.
generally much cheaper than with accumulate a fortune here without I had forgotten my sun-hat, the ever-present dread of grasping A Chinese living at No. 1 Ying and so went out to purchase one. Chinese officials or devastating la- liable to immediate proscription. Fai Street reports to the Police was only charged $3.40 for à cork bour unions.
that he handed the sum
helmet, the lightest and most com- of $280
The Cantonese here hold the to a foki with instructions to take fortable topee I have ever possessed. French in much greater respect it to the Colonial Treasury for flower stall, where 20 cents mado Singapore.
I paused at a strawberry and than they do us in Hongkong and The strictness of the payment of rent. The foki has disappeared, and enquires have delicious strawberries, and for an-der on the passport that they are mo possessor of a large basket of authorities, and the constant remin- elicited the fact that the money other ten cents I was given a good visitors, has a very calming effect. was not paid.
bunch of fragrant and many-colour Boycotts, such as the tramcar boy- ed carnations. When I got back to colt in Singapure, and a similar The Public Works Department my room I took the precaution of attempt in Hongkong 15 years ago, is calling for tenders for the con-dipping the strawberries into boil would be absolutely unthinkable struction of a reinforced concrete ing water, for cholera is raging in under the French. Knowing that And brickwork House, eight reinforced concrete preduced on a methylated "spirit nonsense,
Administration Tonkin. The boiling water was the French will not tolerate any not even for an hour, rapid gravity Filter Beds and two stove in an aluminium saucepan. breeds respect for them, and respect reinforced concrete Bridges in The whole compact outfit, all the makes for some sort of liking. connexion with the Shing Mun pieces fitting into one another, was Kindness only breeds contempt, and Valley Water Scheme,
bought at a French hardware store there is anything but contempt for $1.75.
here for the ruling power.
inbouring conditions: but societies of the nature of the late Seamen's Union call for immediate destrue
The Health Bulletin of Eastern
cases:
If you are feeling. homesick" in ports for the week ending May 21, Haiphong, you must make an oc
casion to change, money, and visit contains the following Plague, "Bombay 23, Colombo 3, one of the two British banks where Rangoon 2; Cholera, Haiphong the English managers and assist. 157, Calcutta 49, Negapatum 10, ants will greet you Saigon 16, Bangkok 6; Small-pox, friend, and put themselves out on Calcutta 61, Bombay 61, Rungeon your behalf,» 17, Canton 10, Karachi 4, Singa- pare, Bangkok and Dairen 1each,
It is notfiled for the information of masters of all vessels that on and after 1st June, 1927, and until further notice, dredging operations will be carried out in the vicinity of Penguin Shoal. Three timber
Refugees have been pouring into Haiphong from Yunnan and other Chinese provinces. At dne time, to make it easy for foreign like an old ladies to leave, the French gave them free passes on the railway. You have only to breathe the word "refugee," and the French authori- ties will extend very practical sympathy and help, whatever your nationality may be.
A few of these poor refugees
It is a power that was conferred many years ago, and exists in the GRIEVE. (Nee Connie Hansen)-statute books of all the Crown
On the 27th May, at Nara-
Colonies. Under its provisions, corte, South Australia, to Mr.the notorious Trind societies have and Mrs. Aitchison Grieve, a been subdued, and are still proceed- daughter.
ed against wherever they rear fleir heads. So far as the 'members of the now defunct Chinese Seamen's Union are concerned, they no doubt will be better off with the elimina- tion of the axe-grinding agitators who had obtained control of their affairs. It is to be hoped that the men will reorganise their union' from within, forming a new body of unquestionable bona fides, which would be welcomed by employers generally in place of the band of intimidatora who have previously There is nothing to' The action of the Hongkong Gov. held sway.
For Motorists. ernment in proscribing the notori-prevent the organisation of bodies
Indo-China is the land for motors. ous local branch of the Chinese of local workmen for legitimate pur-
You can travel for thousands of Seamen's Union, reported elsewhere poses of bettering their living and
miles on well-made roads, (there in this issue, is sure to meet with
ure exceptions). There are a few had heart-reading storion to tell the commendation of all who desire
American and several Italian cars, of attacks by brigands on the way. to see the elimination from the
but not one of British make did A lady was pointed out to me at gee. The duty is heavy. The fa- the hotel, whose child had been Colony of every source of anarchy tion.
dolphins marked by red flags by vourite French car seems to be the killed in her arms by a bullet.
A friend took us for a Renault.
Many people were quite safe and sedition. The Union has gone
day and red fixed lights by night drive after dinner in a five-seater where they were, for in some for ever, and its demise will be ac-
will be constructed in the naviga- car, beautifully upholstered and cities the natives were perfectly Naval Limitation.
tion channel and wil! form claimed. Its subversive activities
fitted up, which cost him £255, in- friendly, and the local officials danger to navigation. Masters of cluding freight and everything. ready to do anything on behalf of have been apparent. for some con-
During the past two days there all vessels are warned to proceed gine is very powerful, and he the foreigners. Their leaving by siderable time, and as an organisa-have been announcements by Great dead, slow when approaching and can do 50 miles per hour without Consuls orders, under these clr- tion which had adopted a pro
Britain and New Zealand regard-passing this area.
effort,
cumstances, made a painful. Im- If you can't rise to a motor car, pression on their Chinese friends, gramme aimed at the illegal coer-ing the personnel of their delega-
Owing to the hoisting of typ-call a ricksha, especially one belong The refugees who had to leave cion of its members, the spread of tions to the Three-Power Confer-"
hoon signals, the scavenginging to a French firm, where you are their inland homes in such a des- Communism of the worst form, and ence which is to be held at Geneva boats did not come alongside the sure of good springs. An evening perate hurry, are still wondering
next month
between Britain, sea wall last night. As a result run by the river, to watch the sun-what the inside information could generally the undermining of or-
America and Japan on the subject scavenging coalies were at a loa set and see the ocean liners, only have been that made their exit so
We derly conditions in this British of aval limitation-reminders what to do and one of them was costs you 25 cents an hour. imperative. They also wonder Colony, it could no longer he toler- that the great task of cutting down brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell have no ricshas in Hongkong to ated. On the occasion of the cour proceeding. Whether this Three to the Harbour. The Magis in them is a real luxury.
competitive armaments is still this morning for dumping rubbish compare with these, and travelling what their reception will be like when they eventually return to.
at Canton on Good Friday last. Power Conference will be able to trate realised the man's difficult
Having occasion to visit Hanoi, their stations.
I wish I could write more about this Union was among the "Red" achleve much or little, there can position but stated that he had no the capital, I took the afternoon ex-
little-known neighbour, its organisations which came under surely be nothing but good eman right under any circumstance to press, and it being a comparatively our
He dis- short journey tried the third class. glorious waterways, its mountain ale. The Preparatory Commis- dump into the Harbour. the ban of the "moderates," and, sion on Disarmament recently con- charged the man, however, taking The return ticket was a little over settlements, its forests and big Tenderless (for its prime movers cluded its session, having prepared into consideration the fact that he $3. It took three and a half hours game, the strange races and re- had been locked up for the night. to get there, and the journey had lies of old times, and ancient have fled for their lives), it has a preliminary draft of the conven-
not a dull moment. The oceans of civilisations. tion, and has provisionally fixed Fought reorganisation, but without November 1st for its next sitting. · Commenting on the recent pil- anccess. Canter's present regline, This interval before the second grimage to St. John's Island, tho reading of the draft will not be Religião e Patria saya that it is not no doubt, will welcome the Hong- too long, if it is used by the res-known whether any sacerdotal con-
or first kong action, for it removes from pective Governments for a genuine sebration quite nearby a body of malcontents attempt to find a way round the took place there, but many years points on which no agreement has ago, at the time of the late Bishop that threatened always to breed yet been reached. It is no matter Raimondi, a pilgrimage to St. sedition against all with whom itdld for surprise that several Important John's was organized for the first not agree. We know that the Hong-questions are still outstanding. mass of an American priest to be The nearer the Commission gets celebrated. The priest, whose and is not known, came from he was a student, being ordained here." A few hours after the steamer left Macao a storm came on, and the trip was not continued. Returning to Macao, the new mass was celebrated in St. Joseph's Church.
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Paris Now York Brussels Goneva Amsterdam Milan Berlin Sir, The announcement pub- Stockholm fished in the Telegraph this even- Copenhagen ing, regarding the Government's Oslo intention of erecting a public hire Vienna
Helsingfors welcome news. matshed at Repulse Bay, is indeed, Prague Having written to you'previous Madrid
Lisbon ly complaining of lack of facilities Athons at Repulse Bay, I feel that a brief Bucharest letter of appreciation and thanks Rio is due, both to the Government for Buenos Aires aympathetic action, and to you, Bombay Sir, for championing the cause, Shanghai thus supporting your readers' lot ters-Yours, etc.
long viewed this Seamen's Union draft, the keener the Governments America with the late Bishop when will become on safeguarding what with the greatest enmity. Its own they regard as their special inter- members have in the majority been ests. What is remarkable, is the intimidated into following its de-number of instances in which re- crees, desiring nothing more them-servations and objections have al- ready been withdraw, for the selves than the opportunity peace- sake of progress. Only the other fully to carry on their avocations.day, Japan gave a fine example by and thereby earn a livelihood for withdrawing altogether her ob- jection to the Inclusion of aircraft themselves and their familles. Yet carried in ships among the cate they have from time to time been gories to be limited, and with jockoyed into strikes and threats drawing, subject to certain tech- nical provison, her objection to the of strikes, beginning with the big limitation of naval personnel. affair of 1922, when the Union was The work of the Commission has temporarily and it is to be shown clearly that limitation of armaments is a practical preposi- gretted not then permanently-re- tion, and that the differing points moved from the list of authorfaed of view of the technical experte and, seizing some nearby sand, Calgary, Alberta-Production societies. It was a big factor in are capable of reconciliation or throw it on the flames. The Cap- of natural gasoline in the Turner dollar company, with headquarters
compromise. It is for public tain Superintendent of Police, Mr. Valloy from
on at Calgary, has been lucorporated the boycott and strike of June, 1925, opinion in all countries to insist D. C. Wolfe, who happened to separators now amounts to appro-as the Elk River Coal and Deve-.
The lopment Company, Limited. and later, when that had been set-that the prospects of an effective be passing, also assisted, and the ximately 850 barrels a day. tled, attempted further aggression convention shall not be wrecked outbreak was eventually subdued market price of this product is $4 and gas exploration are included by any obstinacy in haggling over with water which was supplied by per barrel,, so that the present with other mining ventures in its against local peace and good order. the problems still unsolved.
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