SHANGHAI ITEMS.
INDIAN AGITATOR'S ACTIVITIES.
"WHAT'S RIGHT WITH CHINA."
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Nov. 5.
The Anvage'attack made by a discharged servant on Mra. E. T. Forestier has administered a pro- found shock to local residents,
The murderous affair recalls to mind the vigorous campaign that! was instituted some years ago by the British Women's Association for the formation of a Servants' Registry Bureau under the control of the Municipal Council, which) was to have served as a sort of elearing house for the engagement of Chinese servanta for foreign households. For some mysterious reasons, the movement received those luke-warm support from whom it was designed primarily to benefit the general body of the public-and the local press actual- ly threw cold water on the scheme. Small wonder that the project dled.of, sheer inanition.
The community" has now been, to the vital sharply awakened
off necessity for the imposition some sort of control on the gagement of servants. I in. track that there are still in the employ of a few favoured ones the "old type" Chinese servant who will re- unto main loyal to his master death, if need be, but it is a fast dwinding elaks, and thore are fari too many meniuls who have drift-j ed into the Settlements from the
backwash of political turmoil and disorder whose untecedents need examining.
The Joyous Adventures of Rajah! Pratap.
The Pan-Asiatic Conference' in Shanghai, after a series of preli- minary mishaps, has commenced
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ONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
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The above group photograph, taken in Manila, shows the Hongkong and Manila inter- Manila won by a big margin. port golf teams which compated in the recent match.
ARGUING OVER WAR LORDS IN CHINA...
PRINCIPAL INDOOR GAME OF PEKING.
ita deliberations. In the first THE "TRUTH" ABOUT CHINA.
place, Rajah Pratap, the cynosure
of all eyes by reason of the fact
gates.
Peking, Nov, D.
SINGAPORE MALAY SETTLEMENT.
6,200 ACRE SCHEME ANNOUNCED,
A BIG RESERVATION.
The Straits Settlements Govern-
THE KUOMINTANG CONFERENCE.
INTRIGUES BEHIND THE CANTON IDEA.
12, 1927.
ROBBERS TRAPPED AT SINGAPORE.
SENSATIONAL POLICE CAPTURE.
A party of armed robbers who raided a Bukit Timah residence on Friday evening last, walked into the arms of a party of waiting Police.
Three of their gumber were captured after a short and sharp scuffle in the course of which the only shot ared by them passed harmlessly over Inspector Smith's herd.
The house is that of Mr. C. 0. Tan, at 309, Bukit Timah Rond, Acting on information received Mr. MacMillan, assistant-Super- intendent of Police, and Inspector Smith and a party of police went to the house,
Mr. MacMillan and a"number of his men took up position surround- ing the house," while. Inspector Smith and the others of the party stationed themselves inside the house.
This was at about 6 p.m. The front door, whs left invitingly open, and at 6.40 in marched the expected visitors.
They crossed the verandah into an inner hall. Inspector Smith and his men, from the bedrooms on either side rushed out.
The robbers turned and made for the front entrance, only to find a number of Mr. MacMillan's party. coming up the front stairs.
As stated, the scuffle was short and sharp, the shot that was fired being appareatly that of one of the escaping men as he leapt over the verandah rails.
The men were produced before M. N. D. Mudie, sitting as Second Police Magistrate: the following morning and were remanded.
Robbery Frustrated.
Mr. Yong Fook, of the Police Department, on emerging from his lab in Pagoda Street on Friday night. noticed five men, as lie thought in conversation.
On getting nearer, however, he' saw that theor of them were hold- ing the fourth, while the fifth was going through the held man's packets.
GENERAL LI OPPOSED.
The arrival from Shanghai at}]] He pluckily went to the victim's Foreigners resident in China, ment Gazette contains a notifica Canton on Wednesday of some assistance and was successful, that he is one of the outstanding two principal indoor amuse-lon that 6,200 acres of land in the Kuomintang "Leftist" politicians not only in preventing the allege figures in the conference. was somewhat tardy in keeping his ments, talking politics and writ-mukims of Payar Lebar and Ulu including.", Mesars. Ku Man-yu, robbers getting away with any money, but also in seizing one of appointent, subjecting the doing letters to various publications. Bedak are to be acquired for the Wang Fa-ken and a few others,
And the two often go hand in purpose of a housing scheme for caused the sceptics to conjecture their number,
Malays of the poorer classes in that the proposal of Mr. Wang gates already assembled to
Singapore.
Ching-wal, the new. Chairman of The Green Room Club, of which. tedious waft; and in the second hand.
This is the culmination of an inthe Canton Political Council, to practically all the leading actors place, when the parley did get un- A dianer party In Hongkong, der way, it did so minus the repre- Shanghai and Harbin, or any cistent agitation for the establish call.# fourth session of the Kuore members, is 50 years old. The Malay settlement in mintang Conference, would soon jubilee will be celebrated by a sentatives of three important re other city of China where foreign- ment of a
dinner at the May Fair Hotel, at gions of Asia, neither the Philipers foresather, usually is as re-Singapore, where, it is said. the materialise.
Since the number of attendants which about 400 people are expect- pine Islands nor French Indo-China plete with political gossip as with Malay kampongs are gradually be- sending delegates and the so-call-to-and the average foreignering driven farther and farther out required by the Kuomintang rules,ed to be present. Sir, Gerald du into the country owing to rising for the holding of such a Confor- Maurier will preside. The club ed Provisional Korean Government in China eats well. established in Shangha; being
Diplomats, missionaries, busirents and land values, and local ence, must be at least nineteen was started in 1877 in one room in
Malays experience great, diflenity Commissioners of elther the Kuo- the Adelphi, W. C. Mr. J. R. denied entrance, due to the remon- strances of the Japanese dele noss men and adventurers all talk in finding housing accommodation mintang Central Executive Com- Crauford, now in his 78th year is politics or near-palities incessant within their means. Re ently amittee or of the Supervisory Com the one original member left. The Rajah came to Shanghai byly, and the new-comer in China committee was appointed to con-mittee, and since at present in Dame Madge Kendal, next to Dame a tortuous route. Instead of ar finds himself hopelessly confused sider the problem, and this acquisi-Canton there are no fewer than Ellen Terry-there is one year be riving here direct from Japan with a rattle-fire of names, dates, tion of fund presumably follows tep Kuomintang Commissioners, tween them-the senior actress of aboard an N.Y.K. vessel, as had generals, bandits, cities and ware upon its recommendations to Go- there is 4, likelihood of the neces- the English stage, will be the guest
xty number being prezent before of honour. been anticipated, the Rajah slip and threats of war which blen|vernment.
The area of the new reservation long. 24 cross-word puzzle
defined as follows:-All that
Kuomintang ped over quietly to Taingins on into
on the who are in Canton are Messrs. Nearly every foreigner in portion of land bounded on a launch before the vessel dock-China has a positive opinion on south by the Changi Rond and the Wang Ching-wai, Chan Kung-pah. ed. What transpired Intor at the thousand and one serious pro-southern boundaries of the mukim Ku Man-yu, Kam Nai-kwong, Nantao, where the conference was icns which confront this problem of Paya Lebar and Ulu Bedok; on General L Chai-sum, General inaugurated, made it clear why ridden country and it any other the west by a line starting at a Wang Shao-hung, General Li Fuk this surreptitious Brocedure was guest at my dinner party dis-point at the 4 mile on the Changi lam, Mesars, Chan Shu-jen and agrees with him, he lets off steam Road and thence northwards to Wang Fa-ken, and Mrs. Lino
Lebar mukim. On the cast by a According to No sooner was the conference as soon as he gets home by writ-the northern boundary of Paya Chung-ki..
Canton report in full swing than the Fajah re-ing a letter to the Press. -*
line starting at the seventh mile on Messrs. Chi Min-yi and Tai Chi- ghled his audience with an ejarn
the Changi Road and thence north-tau, the president of the Chung
from Shanghai also said to be coming back to Canton They are both Commissioners of the Kuomintang, and the likeli- hood is that they, may attend the proposed Conference.
a diminutive craft, and on reach-understandable jabber. · ing these shores was taken ashore!
considered necessary.
denounced Great Britain and in-
Chuin of Argument.
Tea-l is at
sword.
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Commissioners HOW MUCH DO YOU
BOON.
Another Commissioner who is good terms with Mr. Wang
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 18
1 What is a lirripipet of this issus.
Who was the first rich father to endow sous and daughters, alike? 3 Where is the Longship light-
house?
4 What are the usual names for a pink, a dunnock, a bubbly-jock, "the Attic bird"?
6 Which Shakespearian heroine
was a good cook?
0
What grand constellation is visible at some time of the year in every part of the British Empire!
7 What is a weapentake?
8 What A. the correct acnag of
"confection" applied to clothes?
? What year in the fast century Tugs marked by the appearancó of the most splendid known Comet?
10
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Name the Englishman who was ropresented as a saint in the chapel of Coucy-le-Chateau!
What are the Cumbrues?
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reviled rhymes, and reverted to What great, poet, wrote rhymes,
rhymes?
Intion in which he" vehemently The result, of course, is an end-wards to the northern boundary of Shan University in Canton, are eidentally invited · France, Ger- lesa hain of argument. Debate the mukim of Ulu Bedok; on the north by the northern boundaries many, Italy and Spain to join starts in the newspapers or at of the mukims of Paya Lebar and forces with the peoples of Asia in dinner party, is continued at the Ulu Bedok. dethroning British imperialism."ext dinner party and in the next
"Malay Council. Member's
Views. The meeting degenerated into newspaper, and so ón continually. has his plain vituperation.
Every Chinese, leader
The Hon. Inche Eanus, the Malay One "wonders if, at the end of champions and his detractors and this conference. the affairs of one may hear in any given week unofficial member of he Legislative China, Japan, Turkestan, Turkey, that Peng Yu-hsiang is a true Council, told a Straits Times repre- Ching-wai, and consequently may Ceylon, Afghanistan, Formosa and Christian and a real gentleman,sentative that the land to be ac-consent to attend the Conference, Arabia will have been advanced. era whiskered Bolshevand pro-quired was very suitable for as Mr. Hyang Shih, who is now However,,, the holding of this planted with coconuts, and well- The conference frankly has been ven traitor Generalissimo Chang Malay reservation. It was mostly in Kiangsi.
enes the hope of drained.. Access to it was afforded Conference depends a good deal a fiasco.
Ching and the protector of for by buses along the Changi Road, upon the attitude of General Li Breaking in the Brokers.
cigners and a blood-thirsty and the roads that were to be made Chat-sum, who, it is said, is on Things move slowly in this coun- bandit who maintains his power through the settlement would also good terms with the Nanking Kuo- mintang politicians and mill- > the buses try; sometimes they don't move at "virtue of the executioner's be used
The settlement would be run on tarists. As most of the Kuomin- all; but occasionally a spurt sets
There are literäily scores of the same lines as the Malay reser lang members of the Nanking in and action takes the place of inortin. Even the Shanghai Mani- foreigners in China who can tellation at Kampong Bahru, near Laction objected to the holding of cipal Council, stolid and conserva on the truth about China" but Kuala Lumpur, Malaya would be such a conference at Canton, the tive to the point of making people strangely these truths are nearly given specified small areas of land arguments of the Canton Commie- despair at times. would seem to be always contradictory if not diament a monthly rental, schools, mos- sioners of the "Leftist faction re- ques, roads, and other amenities garding this conference may very coming under the influence of the trically opposed,
would be provided gradually, and likely fall on the deaf ears of
General: Li, universal demand for progress, for Letters To Newspapers. the development of the settlement
An "Impossibility."
the expedition, as it is generally the fiat has gone forth that that
The confusion is such that even would be regulated by proper sani- juggernaut of the business dis
According to another Chinese known that he not only is on the tricts-the broker's trap-shall be the writers of letters to the news,tary and spacing arrangements,
It was not expected that the report, which refers to the many side of the Nanking militarists bridled so that life and limb may papers at time are in doubt, A
Pol Chung-hai, but that he and the no longer be endangered by gal correspondent of one newspaper, whole 6,200 acres would he re-impossibilities of the holding, of like Generals Liz Chung-yan and loping brakers' steeds carcering for example, was worried about quired immediately. They expect-such a, Kupmintang session in madly up and down the road at the fate of a Chinese friend anded to start with 1,000 families, but Canton, it is stated that the motive two latter generals are strong
there were about 50,000 Malays,in of the Canton Leftists, who, are allies.
Javanese, sponsors of the Hankow faction, The two generals were once not breakneck speed in the most con- wrote-the editor:
"Some time ago we rend in your Singapore, including
The trio are gested areas so that our friend the broker may the more easily chase paper that General Chin Yun-ao Boyanese, Bugis and so on, and it for the holding of a Canton, can only supporters, but subordinates
of Kikungshan has been invited by was likely that the whole of the ference, is that they desire to of Li Chai-sum. the nimble dollar.
area would be required eventually provent General L Chai-sum's known as leaders of the famous For years the local traffic regu- Marshal Feng to a dinner
As an example of the difficulties, sending an. expedition to Hankow "Kwangsi clique."
However, much depends upon lations have been rigorously en- afterwards executed. Now
one except the learn from the same paper that met with by Malays owing to rising on the one hand, and on the other
tioned the Malays who were diving Nanking Kuomintang Special between Nanking and Hankow, brokers, who have naturally come General Chin is leading his army property values Inche Eunus men hand, they wish to repudiate the the turn of events in the war to regard themselves as a privi- before under Marshal Feng on the land around the trolley bus Committee, by the calling of such and since the latest information leged class: beyond the reach of If that is so he surely can't have terminus at.Geylang, which landa Kuomintang meeting in Canton. tenda to show that Nanking is on. the law. Their well-fed and sleek boen killed by him. Will you was becoming steadily of more In connexion with this, it ex- the winning side, and that some plains why Wang Ching was, the of the latter's troops are making trapponles have carorted and kindly inform us the real truth value,
The Malay community are very "Leftist" leader, showed his attacks on Hunan, the probable pranced about the Wall Street of about the matter?" Shanghai-Kiukiang Road-while In reply the editor admitted "it grateful to the Government for strong disapproval of General Li's outcome will be that General Li to Hunan, and the holding of a traffic policemen have looked the is hard to estimate the reliability creating this settlement." Incheorganising an attack on Tang Chal-sum will.send an expedition other way. But all this de to be of the Chinese news agency dint Eunus addad, and it will help very. Sengohet
(Continued on Pape 16.) patches alleging the execution of greatly to improve the lot of the But General Li has good reasons Kuomintang, Conference in Cana
(Continued on Page 15.) Malaya in Singapore."
for taking such a move regardington will be an unfulfilled dream.
forced on every
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