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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1928
THE SHANGHAI BOYCOTT.
there
The telegram received from our correspondent in Shanghai yester- de makes it very evident that the anti-Japanese movement still continues with unabatel vigour. So frequent have the seizures of Japanese goods become that the Cousal-General has been
TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1928.
DAY BY DAY.
YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND THOSE WHO THINK THEY KNOW YOUR DUTY BETTER THAN YOU KNOW IT.-Emer-
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The s.s. Cardiganshire, from London and Singapore, reports the loss of a propeller blade in the Mediterranean.
CORRESPONDENCE.
FERRY SERVICE.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
stail
The Very Idea!
vear a similar campaign was start- ed in China and that it at one time promised to assume gigantic dimensions, but the Nanking Gov- crament ordered its suppression
A fig tree which has been given and with remarkable rapidity : it i
to the Archbishop of Canterbury was a cutting from the tree in the went out of existence. The point Mr. T. W. Spenco has been op-
garden of Church House, West- of interest in the present boycott pointed second officer of s.a. Lung- Sir,-Had "Disgusted" been on minister, which in turn is a des- is whether the Nationaliat Govern-shan of the Steamboat Company, the Hongkong Ferry Wharf from cendant of the Abbey fig garden
as from to-day. ment will take steps to do what the
9.45 to 10.45 p.m. on Saturday, as of 1764. The tree has been plant- I was, he could hardly avoid being ed near the library wall in the Nanking authorities did last April.
impressed by the small margin of green square facing Lambeth The continuance of the boyentt
safety which the launches had in Palace. is certainly not justified, and so
hand, and, if he is anything like The gardens of the palace,. fair-minded, he will readily admit where the Primate spends his long as it lasts it is. likely to em-
that it was only by the skilful and few leisure moments, are among bitter the relations between Japan The Netherlands Harbour Works full-measured co-operation of the the most beautiful in London. and China. Moreover, it serves vessel Hankow, after working in
th adont and ashore that They used to be twice their pre- no useful purpose. If the Chinese local waters for a considerable actual accidents were avoided and sent size, but about terr acres have a limited service maintained. beca lent to the London County have a grievance against Japan, period, left for Macao yesterday..
The reason of the gap in the Council for public use. It is ap their remedy is to seck adjustment Mr. P. C. Fatts reports to the service of which ho complains was known ng "Trees of Honven," propriate that Sumnchs, commonly through proper and recogulsed police that nine fowls, valued at
Abound, channels. That the Chinese au- $24, were stolen between Saturday thorities can put a stop to the evening and Sunday morning from
his bungalow in Fanling. movement, if they desire, we have │ not the slightest doubt. If they da mot de so, they will lay them- selves open to the same charge that -WUB justifiably levelled against the Canton Government of 1925 by Great Britain—facil ac- quiescence in the movement, if not actual support thereof. For the sake of peace and harmony in the East, it is to be hoped that an end campaign, which is irritating in charneter and, so long as it con- Unues, liable to lead to further will soon be put to this foolish incidents of a regrettable nature,
British Communists.
If the moderation exercised by the lenders of the Labour Party both on the industrial and on the political side, is reflected in favourable returns when the country goes to the poll next year,
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Trials of a new vessel for tho Union Water Boat Company were this morning and are understood carried out from Kowloon Docks
to have proved satisfactory.
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Quarry Bay School is holding an "Open Day" to-morrow, when the scholars will prescat three plays and subsequently visitors will be invited to inspect the School work.
A loen notice to mariners can- cels a notice of July 7, which re- ferred to a sunken junk, dangerous to navigation 5% cables, East North of South-West Point. The wreck has now been removed.
The atcant launch Tung Hing was in collision with a junk tow off Stonecutters Island early this mory. ing. The junk Low was from Can- on to Hongkong and sustained No lives damage estimated at $30. were. Jost.
Mr. T. R. Wilson, local agent for
The ss. Hong Hwa, arriving from Rangoon with 1,015 deck pas- sengers, reports, the death of one
NERINGA
About Hong Kong.
Do you know that--
In the early days of the Colony the principal inhabl- tants found it necessary to employ private watchmen, who, in going their rounds, used to beat two pieces of bamboo together to Inform their employers that they were awake and watchful?
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These "bamboo-beatings," however, were in 1814 con- -sidered disturbing by the then General Officer Commanding . the Forces, Major General D'Aguilar. There was much correspondence in the Press on the subject when an Order- in-Council prohibited this custom, one writer saying that “because an elderly gentleman could not sleep soundly, with the bamboo sounding in his ear, the treasure and goods in the godowns, stores and houses of the inhabitants will be laid open to the de- predations of robbers."
In accordance with the pro- hibitory order, the police deprived the watchmen of their bamboos, but it is re- corded that rattles, gongs and bells were quickly substitu- ted therefor.
Bun
The garden at Church House, Great Smith-street, Westminister, has a singular history. It is shut in between high walls, and the It. Lady rarely reaches Farren, widow of General Sir Richard Farren, has done marvels. with it, however. It is now a blooming flower bed, with rich creeping vines, bounded by two borders, one of which is called "Drainpipe border," because it is composed of drainpipes used tubs.
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as
(Mrs. Walter Runciman has told us that comen are less dependent m buttons than they used to be,. but they are a prime neacssity to.
wwen.
Though in fashion'a endless
changes
Man may have but little say, And his wardrobe he arranges
Much the same as yesterday," He is fettered more securely To the buttons he must
wear
Than the fair ones, who, de-
murely,
Turn them down without a
care,
He may boast of brain and
vigour,
Show a front alert and bold, But he'd cut a sorry figure
Loosened from, the button-
hold.
North London husband (a sub- tenant): Every time we have a tiff my landlord raises my rent, Æbalf-a-crown.
Willesden magistrate: You are
moro
summon him---
route on July 15, from phthisis, while the Shui Chih from Saigon to give the crew a chance to re-not to knock your wife about. with 383 deck passengers, reports pair minor damages and get Husband: But suppose she knocks me about-Magistrate: Not even another casualty from consumption. few minutes much-needed rest.
A written warning as to irre- then. Two cases of typhoid and one ofgular service was posted up early Woman at Willesden: My hus-
in the evening and replaced by two band says I shall have no painted notices in conspicuous money until I places at 9.30 p.m. The staff were Magistrate: That's simple, then.
Summon him. all present and all speak English.
Except for the full-powered Kausing, on salvage duty, nothing but the Meridian Star moved in the harbour after dusk.
I submit that, in place of growlsa bit, and my third thought was and blame, praise and thanks are my first thought. indicated.-Yours, etc.,
Kowloon, July 17th, 1928.
three dentha
intiuenza front'
(non-actifiable) has to be recorded.
GRACEFUL.
Debtor's wife nt Bow County Court: I am not the only woman who has told the tale" for the sake of her husband.
Woman at Mansfield: I thought
Defendant at Lambeth County Court: These legul chaps twist you before you can wink.
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it will not be the fault of the the Dollar interests, returned to British Communist Party. Mr.the Colony this morning by the a.. MacDonald and Mr. Snowden have Telemachus, after an absence been pursaing a policy of sweet three weeks. Mr. Wilson has been reasonableness in the Commons, a business trip to Huaphong, while a still more bitter blow to Saigon and ajacent ports, the advocates of perpetual einss war is contained in the practical maxner in which the General Compefl of the Trades Union Congress carried through the negotiations with the Mond group of employers with such complete success. Peace in industry is anathema to the National Minority Movement, as will be anything not i sheerly destruelive in outlook and smallpox, all Chinese, were notified intention. Mr. Harry Pollitt's an-to the M.0.11. yesterday. During | constrained to lodge a strong pronouncement that the whole policy the week ended on Saturday, only test with the Chinese authorities, of the extremists is to be altered two cases of typhold and three of demanding restitution and the dis-will come as no surprise, though all-pox were reported, though the working man atd woman vater solution of the Boycott Committee. will not require it to be pointed out Coincident with this news is the to him or her that the prospect of
Banished from the Colony for further information that the Boy Communist candidates running in five years from 1926, a Chinese who cott Committee is showing in-opposition to the outstanding was found in Hongkong yesterday fires in the real Labour move-
was produced before Mr. R. E. ereased activity, its plans includ-ment Is spitefulness in a particu-Lindsell this morning and sentenced ing the calling of a National Anti-arly acute form. A split Labour to six months hard labour. The Japanese Convention, to which the vote will serve only the interests defendant's record showed that he of the Conservative and Liberal had been imprisoned in 1925 and various, provinces are to be asked parties, and this must be 'well 1926 for breach of the upium Or- to send delegates. In the cireum-known and understond even by Mr. dinance. stances, it is not surprising to read Politi, No reconciliation is pos sible; the Labour Party must now
The N.D.I. steamer Ilmar, ap-
"If you want to do any of your that complications are feared,
engage in a bitter fight with a
pearing in this morning's list of
FAMOUS MAGICIAN TO VISIT friends, people; if you want to do body of extremists, whose spirit at arrivals," is making her maided
HONGKONG,
any of your friends, people- one time they cultivated and trip under her present nume.
Immediately a crowd began to fostered. It is, however. probably She is however, old Vex- Long Tack Sam, the world collect around his rostrum. true to say that the Labour leaders sel, having been built famous Chinese magician is short- "Yes, people," he continued, "It' have already taken their measure the Bremen Valean in 1911 underly due to appear at the Queen's you want to do any of your friends and do not fear the Communist the name of Emir. After being Theatre, according to a special ad. a good turn, buy them a bottle of campaign. The cleavage should taken over by the British and revertisement in this issue. Long my wonderful mixture." not be confused with the outburst named Polladern, she received a Tack Sam himself is à magician, And then the crowd immediately died down in most places. Shang- of Mr. Cook and Mr. Maxton re-further change of name to Sunan nerobat, a comedian,, con melted away. hai, however, has proved the ex-cently. The viewpoint of the beath. She has now gone back to tortionist and a dozen other things. ception, and, thanks to profesillustrated by the statement issued She arrived
Communist Party can best be her original registry for the N.D.
from Hankow and sional agitators, the movement has subsequent to Mr. Cook's so-called Shanghai under the command of been kept very much alive manifesto, which was deserthed as Captain Oelrichs.
"a weak, sentimental statement in Canton during
which will be valaciess 'unless it the period of the anti-Bri-is promptly made concrete by tish boycott, corps of pickets specific proposals which clearly show the difference between Max- have been on the warpath. Theron and Cook on the one hand and have visited not only Chinese busi-MacDonald and Mond on the ness houses, but Japanese stores other. In other words, there is no half-way house; even the Cook as well, and from these places they type has to declare itself definite- have seized considerable quantily one way or other.
The present boycott arises out of the Tsinanfa incidents early in May last. For a time, it looked
as if the anti-Japanese rampaign would spread to most parts of the country, but after a few weeks it
there.
TRESPASS CHARGE.
CHINESE ON MILITARY GROUND,
SHANGHAI STEAMERS FIRED ON.
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LONG TACK SAM,
The quack in the market place stool on his rickety orange-box, and shouted out in.. · Jaucousi voiec:-
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the late Mr. Henry Michael: Collins, a prominent journalist in Reuter's News Agency.
His company is made up of several The story of the Centurion was: other Chinese artists who are told by a teacher in one of the tried entertainers having appeared Sunderland schools recently, and for many years in England and the class was asked to say what a America. The two outstanding centurion was. members of the supporting com- One little boy described him as a pany are the magician's two beau-man who was a hundred years old. tiful daughters who specialise in Another was of the opinion that ho acrobatic stunts and dance items. was a heavy scoring baisman like Most patrons of variety know of Jack Hobbs. A third gave his. Long Tack Sam and his particular opinion that a centurion is an HELD UP AT WOOSUNG
llac of entertainment, though few Insect with a lot of legs." FORTS.
could place him in any one class. He is a magician, clover and adept
An ingenious method of dealing Shanghai, July 12 at all sorts of illusions. He is with profiteers resorted to by one merit, but of the Shabs of Perala, Nasr-ed ties of goods of Japanese origin.
Two vessels on the Ningpo ran, also a' contortionist the C.N.S. Hsin Peking and the perhaps the outstanding feature of Din, is recorded in "From Pigeon I was hoped that long ere this
Ning-Shao, str. Hsin Ningsho, his performance is his faculty of Post to Wireless," the life story of the movement would have died
which arrived in Shanghai yester poking fire at others and clever down, especially as negotiations
day morning were, for some un-cross talk. The magician's two have been afoot for a settlement
known reason, stopped by sun and beautiful daughters Mi Na and rifle fire from the Woosung Foris. Noe Sa Long are included in the
Mr. Collins related that the of the Tsinan affair. But the
No signal was given beforehand supporting company, and will be
the townsfolk of profiteering, and Boycott Committee has continued
A fine of $15 or, in default, 14 and the fire was of an extremely seen to advantage in some clever butchers of Teheran, acensed by to take the law into its own hands days' hard labour, was imposed on sudden nature. Both vessels drop acrobatic stunts. The and has shown no intention of a Chinese who was charged before ped anchor about 300 yards from date will be announced soon when unable to justify themselves, re- officers, who seized each man in the turn, and placing them, to slackening its énerries. A stage Maior C. Willson, this morning, the Woosung Forts Hotel as soon advance booking facilities will be ceived a visit from the Shah's
with trespassing on Military ground as the firing began. The officers available at the Theatre, has apparently now been reached
number of twenty-two in all, out- anticipated visits from officials of at Murray Barracks.
side their own shops, drove a nail at which the Japanese authorities Evidence was given by Private either the Navy or the forts, but
This morning's Harbour Office through the right ear into their consider it higli time to intervened. Morrison who stated that at 7 none was made and no signal was
pm. yesterday he was on duty as a given allowing the vessels to pro reports gave 17 arrivals and 26 de respective doorposts, where the for the due and proper protection regimental policeman when he saw ceed. Realizing that there was partures, with British holding top offenders were kept in duratice of their trade. The illegality of defendant coming from the direc- nothing further to wait for, both place, registering seven and eight vile until the hour of closing at these seizures of Japanese goodson of the General's main door. vessels steamed into port at 450 respectively. Tonnage was good, night."
"Needless to add," stated Mr. When the defendant saw witness, a.m.' '
but fraights were generally low ls beyond question. They
a slump in con-he promptly changed his direction It la presumed that the officers inward, with better figures prevail Collins, "there was stitute an unwarranted interfer-and attempted to avoid witness: at the Torts had suddenly decided ing under the through heading. prices when business was mext little resumed, and so peace was onco The trespasser was, however, chased to enforce the regulations govern- British vessels camed a ence with Japan's commerce, and and arrested and later handed over ing martial law near the entrance more than 6,000 tons under each more restored to the community. Japan has a perfect right to call to the police authorities.
to the Harbour, viz., which do not division. The best inwards were The thought suggests itself whe The defendant claimed that ho upon the Chinese authorities to
permit vessels to enter or leave surpress the movement. It will military grounds when he was arise, hence the firing on the two there were 61 vessels in harbour, ed in other lands when prices are was walking on the road near the harbour between sunset and sun- British and the highest throughs ther the same system might not, Norwegian and Swedish, At' a.m. advantageously perhaps, be adopt- be recalled that in April of lastreated.
Trafsed, possibly with less excuse."
vessels concerned.
of which 24 were British.
opening
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