THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE WEST RIVER OF TO-DAY SHANGHAI H.C.L.
IMPRESSIONS OF A RETURNED
RESIDENT.
KWANGSI
ابد
RE-VISITED.
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UNITED ACTION BY HOUSEHOLDERS.
A "PURCHASING SOCIETY."
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1927.
IN CANTON FROM DAY TRAIN DISASTER.
TO DAY.
RUSSIAN AEROPLANES DUE TO ARRIVE
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.
(Our Own Correspondent.) In connexion with the payment of the balance of the $10,000,000
THE DERAILMENT IN KENT.
FULL CASUALTY LIST.
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London, Aug. 26. (Our Own Correspondant.)
Not until late yesterday was the body of the last victim re- Shanghai housewiyes are up in
covered from the wreckage of the arma against the soaring prices
Southern express at River-head of provisiona, foodstuffs and
Bridge, near Sevenoaks. The The general feeling among travel realised it only too well. At an household commodities generally lers on the West River is that, how-intermediate port, called Toh Loh, and they are lending. the whole loan, the Department of Finance official death-roll of this shocking catastrophe, as announced last ever Ustimable the shipping it was necessary again to pass the weight of their moral and material has, after careful investigation, night, was twelve. The serious support to the movement which found out that it will cause great casualties, numbered twenty-eight, has just been started for the for- hardship to small stores to contri- made up ng follows: mation of a Purchasing Society bute their part of the loan. In the Killed outright for Ilousehold Supplies. The rise light of these circumstances, Gen-Died in hospital in prices is a singular phenome eral Fung Chuk-man, head of the In critical condition non and, in the public mind, is in Department, has ordered that small Still detained
stores of less than $100 capital are some way connected with the re-
announcement. that heavy exempt from paying any part of cent
This measure has come taxation was to be imposed on for the loan. eign goods in accordance with the as great relief to shops of small movement for tariff autonomy for capital, and last night they fired China. The Nationalist Govern-crackers to show their appreciation ment subsequently rescinded the of the Government's action. proposed taxation, but the addi- At the same the Canton Merchant tional prices have remnined. In Association has notified all delin- point of fact, some of the storequent merchants to pay their share keepers hastened to put up prices of the levy." long before the new taxation, could be put into effect.
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fraternity may be as Individuals, native Customs.. They kept us from they are collectively liars, where the early hours till 10 o'clock, and dates of sailings are concerned we were tied up close the high bank оп Nobody, now, pays any attention, tota
The advertised days and hours. Chinese sunny side of the river? motor boat time-tables would have crew had many grievous tales to "broken Bradshaw's heart. Bontstell of similar delays; and as the leave when sufficient cargo is pay roll of the boat amounts to $100 aboard; when all schemes of smug day they could calculate to a cent gling have been arranged; and when how much the boat was losing each the native customs can rouse them-hour! selves to go and make inspection { The Chinese are the best fellow travellers I know; and if it hadn't I bought a ticket on a boat leav-been for the fact that I had no ser- ing for Nanning. This entitled me viut, and was too lazy to cook my to an upper bunk on the open deck, own meals properly, on my spirit and cost $5, local currency, which lamp, I would not have objected, worked out at 60 miles for a dollar then, to a prolonged voyage. · in Hongkong money. I was moch
The anti-foreljan feeling which cceler and more corafortable than I has been foisted on this long suffer- would have been in a cobin at four ing people by the Moscow clique, times that price.
and the Canton Kuomintang, has to The office un shore, said I should be continually fed with lies or it go on leard on Wednesday evening would die a natural death. There as the vessel would leave without was not a trace of it on board in fail at dawn on Thursday, The spite of "Ilorn Rim's" gesture. The had been two postponements a war on the Yangtaze never once ready. The Compradore, a personal heard mentioned in all the conver- friend of Mr. G., said 8 o'clock onations among the passengers. If Thursday, would be safe. It was it was really a National aTair, it did is extraordinary that fifty to sixty actually move. The boat struck me as re-men, drawn from all ranks of so- markably clean. A brilliant color-ciety, and thrown so intimately to ed mat was on my bunk. Still, gether, day and night, could tock the precaution of spreading entre so little as apparently never to newspapers between the mat, etc..allmte to it!'
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Shanghai Trade.
are well illustrated in the Report: of the Chinese Maritime Customs
The engine of the derailed train was re-railed at 7,41 p.m., and was hauled to a siding near by. It is anticipated that the up and down lines will be available for normal working from six o'clock this morning.
Side by side with the work of clearing the wreckage and repair- ing the track, with which rapid progress was made, preliminary The police will shortly set free investigations were carried out Mr. Tum Tal-chre, prouident of the yesterday. Into the origin of the Association, and Chief Manager of disaster. Until the official in- the Canton Water Supply Company, quiry is held by Colonel Sir John It will be remembered that the rea- Pringle it will be impossible to son for his arrest was due to his make any definite pronouncement. fallure to pay the levy on the Com-regarding the cause, but three pany, but it is now stated that the facts emerged yesterday: Company has handed over $157,500 as its contribution to the loan..
cles
Traffle Regulations.
purchasing agent being sent to Moscow to secure these machines. The agent has returned to Canton and requested- the Government to make necessary arrangements to
and the machines.
Mission Schools.
That subsidence of the track was not the cause of the disaster.
That the appearance of the track suggests that one of the wheels was not working properly. and dropped off the metais.
That the heavy casualties were almost certainly due to the fact that the train left the line in the proximity of the railway bridge. At any other part of the line the derailed engine and coaches might have been brought to a standstill without loss of life.
The tragic part played in the entastrophe by
the Riverhead Bridge was emphasised by an official of the railway, who said: "If there had not been a bridge at the cutting probably no lives would have been lost. The train' would have been derailed in any case, but the smash occurred when. work of the bridge, and it was the coaches brashed into the stond-
there nearly all the bodies were found."
The Killed.
Cheeseman, Mr. F.W. Scott's Res taurant, Haymarket, and Balkars. Welson-road, Folkestone; hus- band of Mrs. Cheeseman, one of the injured.
Eldridge, Mias Dorothy, 27 Arden-road. Finchley, She had re- turned with her sister, Miss Jessie Eldridge, from a fortnight's holi- day in Switzerland. Miss Jessic was seriously injured.
It is worth recalling, at this point, that during the War this Settlement also suffered, as it is suffering now, from an epidemic of high prices. The excuse then 'hdvanced was the plea of un- favourable exchange. Exchange subsequently veered in favour of the storekeepers, but the prices did not come down, in accordance
remained at the The lack of traffic regulations in therewith, but same high level. The cumulative the congested streets has often re- effect of these continuous high sulted in many deaths of pedes- trians through being run over by prices is that the cost of living, is
The fatalities have be- becoming almost prohibitive for motor cars. the family of the ordinary salaried.come more numerous in the newly- man, hence the movement to estab-opened streets, which are narrow. and the rolls of blanket that I laid At different places, on the river lish a co-operative society, which To remedy this, the Public Utility down to act as a mattress. The banks, where I was able to get is, receiving a fillip The promo- Burent has proclaimed a set of passengers and crew watched and ashore to stretch my legs, the vilters of the movement are striving tale regulations regulating motor cars. Briedy, the rules are that in commented on every movement, and lagers were as polite and friendly with earnestnesa to Cable the
scheme to materialise at no dis- crowded thoroughfares, motor vehi- ented this interest throughout as I have always known them to be. the voyage.
are not allowed to travel Nanning tant date, and if their plan fructi-at more than ten miles per hour. We arrived Those papers, you spread so Upper Native Customs at 7 o'clock fies, as it is likely to do. it will Drivers must steer their cars close widely, are a wise proceeding." said in the evening. Before I was at administer a crushing blow to the to left side of the street and lights
liberty to take my luggage away
shown after dark. "Why! There are no bugs on had to be put on the Customs Profiteers. The latter, in fuet, are must be
This is the first time that traffle re- board" exclaimed.
rai, and the contents examined. afrendy showing signs of alarm.
gulations have made their appear "Not many, but there are some.
The examiners, however, made Just before we started several short work of it and were very The resiliency and recuperative have been running in the city for ance in Canton, although motor nars more passengers came on board polite and considerate when they power of trade, despite the pro-many years. One was a young man obviously of heard my name. Still, this is an found dorangement brought about the "student" class. He ha indignity that we foreigners used
conditions,
Russian Aeroplanes. pleasant face, not improved by to be exempt from. Now that all adverse political
About twenty land aeroplanes are, pair of spectacles with horn rims. our prestige has been destroyed by His face soomed a little familiar, the Red riff-raff, from Russia, who
The names of those who were and I looked pointedly at him to in late years have wandered every-on the trade of Shanghai for 1926 Experted to arrive here from Soviet Russia in the next few days and make sure. He gave not the sligh-where in this country, in rags and just issued by the Statistical De-will be used for military purposes.killed outright, or who succumbed est sign of recognition: in fact filth, spying out the land, and pos- partment. One feels not a little might have been, to him, part only ing as "White" refugees, is it any thankful to Mr. F. W. Maze, Con- They were ordered during the pro-to their injuries, are:
gress of the Northern Expedition, of the atmosphere. However, some wonder that foreigners, as a class, missioner of Customs, who is the time later, he passed at my side and are no longer respected?
author of the document in ques- said something which showed that Some of the boatwomen, who tion, for letting in a ray of sub- we had been intimately acquainted crowded round, recognised me, shine into an atmosphere which at one time. My memory is shock-and one soon had my stuff on her as been charged, in all con ing, and it would have been imsampan. The river being high, science, with far too much gloom polite, at that stage, to ask his the current carried us swiftly past within recent months. It may name. So I can only think of him the brilliantly lighted hotels until sound paradoxical, but it is none as "Horn Rims."
we stopped at the Lower Custom's the less pleasant to relate, that Whatever fears possessed him, at barrier. The boatwoman hailed first, passed off and he chatted free the official who looked out, but be ly enough. One of the papers, ping told who it was he waved his tecting my blankets from the bunk, happened to be an old number of band, and smilingly declared that the North Chim Herald. He caught examination of my luggage was
unnecessary! sight of an illustration and asked to.
Stili further down stream, the see it.
The illustration depicted boat tied up at the bottom of a long gome mannenyses of Chinese troos night of stone steps, very familiar
1 an admittedly bad year can ncur Shanghai, Very innocent.
to me. I climbed up and went yield such a result--every mer but, of course, the photos are not as well reproduced as, say, in Then the dark street to my old chant proclaimed the fact that it was a bad year what might we Mustrated London Ners. Holding back door. The way was blocked the paper out for inspection, the with string of wet clothes hung
not expect, given settled political youth addressed the ship in general, across the entry, and there were and exclaimed, "See how they have also slippers airing on the door conditions, which would bring distorted this picture in order to step. I tore the clothes down just about that flow of currency form make people laugh at the Chinese as one has to tear down creepera ing the very life, blood of com- quired now, since the present ad aged 51, of 6, Trinity-crescent, į
"That's a lie!" I replied warmly. of ivy from a door in a wall, that meree? Though Customs statis ministration has removed all radical "Anyway, it is of no importance" has not been opened for a long tics, it is true, taken by them-politicians.
Classes in Lingnam University while. At the same time i protest-selves, are not a thoroughly re- he added loftily,
"It is of tremendous importance, ed in a loud voice at these ob- llable index to what actually hap- and Chung Shan University re- I answered, "when lies are altered structions to my own entrance! pened in the period of time cover-sumed last week, and the middle
crowd gathered including ed by the Report, there are de schools are following auit. Chup hürst-garders, Hampstead. She to bring discord between nations!A That paper's only interest is to several policemen in undress, and finite signs of improvement, dis- Shun College will re-open on the spread the truth. It has no inten-gazed at me in a dazed surprise. cernible in the adverse conditions. Ist. October when its new buildings was staying at Folkestone, and tion of laughing at another nation." found out afterwards that the The good results shown by Shang in Tung Shan will be completed. had been to London on business. It recently received an endowment Her sister and brother-in-law "Yes, the Kuomintang is bad," he Buddhist Nunnery, opposite, had hai industrial concerns were the
of $200,000 from Chinese in the were to have accompanied her; then said, I suppose by way of apo-been converted into the Police most, encouraging feature of the United States and is enid to be the but they missed the train.
whole period, Station of the district, and it was logy: but I had no intention
best financed institution in Canton. (Continued on Page 11.) of dierussing politics, and we be- the policemen's garments which I mills and silk flatures being the had forcibly removed; but they most successful. All those enter- came better friends tlian before.
Several things struck me on this bore me no li will
prises, however, were fortunate in It was nice to be in the old com: having certain unusually favour- hoat aa peculiar. There was no gambling with Ma Jong. There pound again-to
be "at home" able circumstances, without which were no prostitutes among the pas-among friends. They had just their year's working would have sengers. Some men smoked opium, been having a meeting at the other presented an altogether different but not many. Some of the smokers end of the compound, and this ex-complexion. challenged me, asking if opium was plained why it was so long before
This sign of anthey heard my repeated knockings. Peace, trade revival will be auto- not a "tonic?* uneasy conscience is unusual in The men suggested there and then that I should come and give them these days:
So all a talk: the women, with more A move in the right direction The programme of winter con- The river was very high. high that the awe inspiring cliffs, imagination, advised that
the has been made by the Municipal certs for the Helena May Institute rising perpendicular and sheer out talk" wait, and that a hot bath be Council in deciding on the ap- has now been arranged by the of the water, were not striking, prepared and some supper! pointment of a Board of Film Social Committee The concerts, To go upstairs and look round Censors for the control of cine-all of which commence at 5.30 These extraordinary lime stone formations riddled with immense the desolate, dismantled rooms, matograph films intended for ex- p.m., will be as follows:- caves, and covered with forest, are gave a mingled feeling of reality hibition in the Settlement. In October 13th, Glibert and Sullivan. worth going a long way. se and unroulity: No pictures, no accordance with this decision, no October 27th, 16th Century Music. Monkeys and other wild animals treasured books, nor any of the film which has not been certified November 10th, Folk Music. abound, but I didn't see any. Per-dear little odds and ends just a by the Board of Film Censors for haps the noise of the motor boats skeleton of table and chairs and public exhibition will be allowed November 24th, Romanticist 晶 has been driving them more inland. empty shelves!
Down in the Hospital wards, the to be screened without the ex- At one place some prehistoric man
to
Most of the schools and colleges the net value of Shanghai's trade have resumed their classes after the in one of the worst years, from long summer holidays, or, to be the standpoint of external dis-xact, after a period of anxiety os orders, not alone contrived to pre-pecially for the missionary schools. serve its equilibrium but actually Before the radical officials were re- increased from 755 million tacle moved from office, they passed a to 972 millions, a gain of nearly regulation that all missionary and 20 per cent.
private schools must be supervised by Kuon intant representatives. veral missionary schools declared that they would rather close than be superintended by these represen
atives because religious instruction was placed under ban. Apparently, these representatives are not re-
matic.
cotton and four
With an tra of
Movie Censorship.
HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.
PROGRAMME FOR" WINTER SEASON.
Music.
1928. The Council, in this instance, cannot justly be twitted with the January 12th, Music from reproach of looking at the movie business with the eyes of Mrs. January 26th, French Modern Grundy, a charge which scoffers
Shakespearo.
Music.
land." Music.and Short Play: has carved Chinese characters deep wooden beds (only made to be-tem-press sanction in writing of the December 15th, "Alice in Wonder
Council, into the face of the rock. Nobody porary were piled together in has ever heard of a time when the orderly and melancholy heaps. It writing was not there; but who it was a beurtrending contrast to the was, and how the wonderful task time when every space was oc- was accomplished, no one can guess. cupied by sick and wounded men, The country was looking lovely and a when general atmosphere of in ita brilliant green summer coat busyness and service pervaded the ing. As long as we were moving compound! the cool breeze made it difficult to In the morning, I gazed down realise that it was the scorching on the garden. It had become an
Next morning we
(Continued on Page S.), summer time,
Hnisell, Police Constable, F. H., of "O" Division (Vinc-street), Metropolitan Police.
His wife was stated to be travelling with him, and as she has not been found it was feared that hers was the body which, could not be Identified.
!!!
Hatton, Miss Holen, 4, Ren-
chester-road, Dover, is director of Messrs. G. Hatton Ltd., of Biggin- street. Dever, drapers and milli-
ners.
Hatch, Miss Jessie Christina,
Folkestone.
Higginson. Mr. B. G. F., 166, Sandgate-road, Folkestone, £ stockbroker.
Norton, Mrs. Hannah, 89, Brand-
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Express.
Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14 of this issue.
I Who was Mics, Pross?
2 Who wrote the "Oda to an Ex-
piring Frog!?.
J Who was Diogenes, and in whom
did he find a friend?
Who was Krook? How did he meet his end?
5 Who was Mrs. Jarley?
a Who was Jonny Wren? What'
was her real name?
7 Who was Grip, and what was his
famous accomplishment?··
8 Who was the Artful Dodger?
What was his trade?. Where do we meat is L Creevy! Whom did she marryl 10 Who was Chufey?
may be tempted to level at the February 9th, Musle-of-Childhood... Council There is a genuine need | February 23rd, Modern Music. for the more effective regulation March 8th, Chapin. and control of cinematograph March 22nd, Miscellaneous
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11 Who was Julia Millay Hors do
wot meet her?
12 Who was Marloy? What was his
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