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HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL;' REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL:
MAJESTIC HOTEL..
Telegraphic Address:
"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
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In association with the Grand Hotel
Dea Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.
All Trams pass in front of Hotel.
Most Moderate Rates in the Colony.
Hotel launch meets all steamer's.
Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public,
($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above Hotel).
TEA DANCES
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS
Tel. Add, Victoria.
6 to 7 p.m.
J. H. WITCHELL,
Telephone C.373.
Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
The Navy
FIL Hoppkast
the dataLanding Hotel
wind turist Cher Auert
spposted in Mith Chins
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Leo House Street.
Macao.
UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON
A FIRST CLASS HOTEL WITH ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES.
High Class Cuisine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Station. Drawing Room, Saloon Bar and Billiard Room.
Very moderate rates
on application to-
Tel. Nos.. K608 & K609. Cables, 'KOWLOTEL,'
Hongkong.
PALACE HOTEL.
C
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H. J. WHITE,
Manager.
Tel. Address "PALACE." Tel Kowloon No. B
Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Extirely, under English Management Electric Light and Fans throughout, Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Termi moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
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HAS SHANSI BEEN BETRAYED?
(Continued from Pays 1.)
culties attendant on the confin- ment of a large body of troops within a small space in a town like Shanghai, Dysentory has been almost entirely absent, and no case of cholera has occurred among
the troops.
There have been a number of cases of malaria, but the majority
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2
ALLEGED INTIMIDA-
TION.
AN UNUSUAL REPORT. A remarkable story is to hand concerning the doings of three Chi- neso belonging to 21 waterfront, organization, who are stated to have hold up a medicine dealer, and at the point of a revolver, forced him to sign a promissory note for 865.
of these were relapsed cases con- that on Saturday at one o'clock, According to report, it is alleged tracted in India,
Cases of pneumonia have con-three men called at No. 3, Chung tinued to occur through the sum-ling Street, whore, on the third floor, they found a man named Pun mor months.
There has been a small outbreak Chin, whom they handcuffed. "They of enteric fever among the men took him away and, subsequently, of the 1st Battalion Middlesex it in alleged, forced him to sign a Régiment, at Wei-hai-Wei. The promissory note for 885, holding first case occurred on July 14, and a revolver against his hend to com by July 29 fifteen cases had been pel him to do this. admitted to hospital; but no fur- Pun Hing the younger brother ther cases have since been notified. of the threatened man, then wont The source of infection in uncerto the Secretariat for Chinos0 tain.
Affairs, and made a report with the result that the police intervened, freed the man, and took the three alleged intimidators into custody.
Veneral disease has been a di- fficult problem from the time of arrival of the troops in the Far East, but the incidence appears to
During the week-end, the matter be declining. Ample hospital ac- commodation exists, both in North was closely investigated by the and South China, and a convales-police, and a police court sequel la cent depot of 400 beds has been expected to eventuate. established at Wei-hni-Wel for
troops from Shanghai and Hong- kong during the hot weather. The local modical and public health authorities have rendered much valuable assistance."
The Canadian Department of Soldier's Civil Re-establishment has very kindly provided accom- modation in its hospital at Van- couver, BC, and patients requir ing long convalescence or sub- sequent evacuation to Eng land are being sent there. Thus the journey home through the mon- soon during the hot weather is avcided.
INTERVENTION NOW OR WAR.
(Continued from Page 1.)
A BIG BLAZE AT PESHAWAR.
ONE THOUSAND BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
Peshawar, Oct. 9. Owing to the congested mass of lofty houses, firemen were practi- cally powerless in fighting an out- break of Ere in the densest quar ter of the city.
Over 1,000 houses and shops were gutted, and three people were killed, including a fireman, under a collapsed building.
Heavier casualties were avert- ed by the valiant efforts of police and troops, who were assisted by members of the local Hindu Ser-
ally, and the security of the geuer-vice League-Reuter's American ations yet to come, depend upon the Service. correct solution of this problem. This Bolshevik influence in China expressing itself in the desire for "self-determination," appeals strongly to certain of the political, the flosophical, and ethical idealists in America and Europe, that many of them are now openly
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JAPAN'S FINANCE. ·
and frankly communistic and anti-GOOD SECURITY NEEDED EOR
foreign without appreciating where
their sentiments and their emotion- ally inspired thoughts are leading and in fact have led them.
LOANS.
Tokyo, Oct. 8. Mr. Thomas Lamont, the New The entire world is personally in- terested and deeply concerned. York banker, the nature of whose The world is involved ethically, visit with Mr. "Jeremiah Smith is morally, religiously and least of all the subject of much speculation, commercially, Great Britain, Japan, Speaking at the Japan-America Society's dinner, stated that France, Holland, Italy, and the
Morgan's were United States are obviously, seri- though Messrs. ously and vitally involved. What always ready to do their best to these countries will decide to do is facilitate the flotation of Japanese not embraced within this interview loans on the American market, Japan, she wishes to raise or in any opinion here expressed.
money in America, must first Intervention or War. adopt modern and more effective industrial methods to improve her
4
10,
1927.
SHANGHAI FASCISTI
MOVEMENT.
(Continued from Page 7.) mediately, while others pertain more to the future, it might be as well have two programmes, one an immediate and minor programme, and the other a future and major programme, as follows:
"B"
"A" Immediate and Minor Programme.
(1)
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To co-operate with the Chinese people
as far possible.
(2) To bring about 3 united policy amongst all residents of Shanghai regardless of nationality.
(3) To extend the movement to every treaty port in China, and, if necessary, to send delegates out to explain the movement and its working.
better (4) To bring about
working of the judiciary. system now in existence in Shanghai,
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(5) To insist on the proper ful- and filment of treaties treaty obligations as re- gards Shanghai, pending treaty revision.
(6) To oppose with every avail- ahle means the imposition of illegal taxes of any des- cription in Shanghai.
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(7) To work for the elimination of armed robbers and kid- nappers.
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(8) To insist on and assist in the maintenance of law and order in the Settlement. (9) To assist the Shanghai Municipal Council in every possible way in the adminis- tration of the Settlement.
Future and Major Programme. (1) To create a reserve force' in Shanghai of members of the Fascisti, pledged to turn out when called upon, strong enough to obviate the necessity of home govern-t ments sending troops for the protection of the Settle- ment in time of disturbance. (2) To work towards making Shanghai a free city and port, whose government shall be in the hands of its citizens, and whose inte- grity shall be guaranteed by the Powers, including the Chinese.government. (3) To co-operate, with the
French Concession and the, districts of Nantao, Chapel, Pootung and Woosung in maintaining a neutral zone round Shanghai.
(4) To work for the binding i together of these areas in} the form of a Federation called "Greater Shanghai," each area to be governed by its own municipal council in matters affecting it alone," and each area to elect and send a given number of re- presentatives to form a Supreme Council to legis- late for and control matters affecting the interests of the whole..".
Of course details of organiza-
to
These nations are confronted industries; and, secondly, offer at-tion and rules governing the move- with the necessity of chopsing be-tractive securities. With refer-ments as well as methods of pro- tween friendly, immediate, inexence to the latter, which is a sine cedure in carrying out its aims, pensive intervention or a future qua non, Mr. Lamont emphasised will have
be care- costly devastating horrible war that "the security which would be fully drawn up and thought These nations to-day are drifting welcome to the British investor is out; but these are better not dis- timidly and consciously along the not always welcome to the Ameri-cussed in public. One or two sug line of least resistance. These can."Reuter.
gestions with regard to this may nations to-day are knowingly fol-
not, however, be out of place. lowing and advocating the policy of negativity. These nations, like the hermit crab, are living in the shell of "watchful waiting," seem- ingly oblivious to the fact that logically, negativity always achieves the every converse of the object scurt...
Many say that intervention is
as impossible as it is impracticable.
allowed to work out her own des-
RED ANNIVERSARY.
PRISONERS GRANTED AN AMNESTY.
Moscow, Oct. 8.
One is that a pledge of strict obedience to the leader and the rules Inid down be insisted upon from each member, and that the breaking of this plodge will call for expulsion from the organization.' Another is that in order to incense as much and as rapidly as possible the mombership, each existing mom ber shall make it his or her busi
ness to secure ten new members.
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Many say that China should be Workers undergoing sentences of tiny. Those who so argue, suffer imprisonment not exceeding a year By this means the movement should from and are enmeshed in the fal- for the less serious offences will grow very rapidly and in short time amnesty become made tentatively and lacy of reasoning by analogy, China be liberated under an has tried for 10 years to find which it is proposed to grant on its programme. a George Washington to lead her the occasion of the forthcoming out of a wilderness of howling, tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik effective looting, bribing, chaos, and neither revolution, intensive preparations entirely by night ar by day, in answer to her for which are being made through w pathetic cry, "Come over into Mace-out the Soviet Union. donia and help us out," has there ever been an answering voice or an echo to her cry?
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National and Racial Suicide. Is China to go on slowly commit- ting national and racial suicide?
The above suggestions have been onough to Carry out
unofficially, with on the one hand, of assisting the
leadera in the forming their plane, and on The amnesty does not apply to other of tasting out the feeling of counter-revolutionaries, bandita or the general pable in the mattor, persons convicted of embezzle and the writer would like to suggest ment or accepting bribes-Reuter, that all who can should write in to the acting honorary secretary, Mr. H. P. King,, Room 51%, Glen Line Building, expressing their approval or disapproval of these suggestions, or adding anything The following are the replies to further that they think might be to-day's questions:-
Is civilization doing its duty when HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? it atands placidly by and sees a great people helplessly, hopelessly and supinely rushing to its ruin? Does civilization answer the test when it does not step in for the sake of humanity and aid those who cannot help themselves?
included in the programme of the Shanghai Fascisti for the common
1. Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, weal. and the small republie of San Marino, and Andorra. 2 Malta is an island in the These suggestions are not intend- Mediterranean; It, was taken from Napoleon
These are among the questions which the Chinese problem includes, by the British in 1880 and voluntary codeded to replace the original aims of by the Malteses, it is the as a place of the Shanghai Fascisti as published and upon their correct answer lies arms, and is the headquarters of the British in the North China Daily News of the immediate salvation and the Navy and Army in the Mediterranean. 8 future welfare of more than a bil-Dr. Samuel Johnson, 4. Because the Los August 12, last, but to augment
thong or bridle), are the makers of bear them and bring the whole para, and metal moanings for bridles and within a definite formula as a pro-i
lion human souls, and the peace and prosperity and the continued liberty and happiness of the entire world
to-day,
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