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"Black Jack" Pershing Off To England Again.
The following are available at OLD friends will meet when captain. In September of that when he stepped ashore at cellency Dr. H. H. Kung, Vice- the Executive our Garages and Service General John Joseph Per- 'year, us a reward for his gallant Boulogne on June 13, symbolz- President of Stations:-
shing goes to England as part campaigns against the Moros, ing the millions of America's Yuan, and Finance Minister, has of the US. delegation to the President Roosevelt.jumped him sons who would follow. In been chosen to head the delega- LONDON COACIL WAX
Coronation ceremony.
over the heads of 862 officers Paris next day "Vive l'Ameri- tion' representing China at the LONDON COACH
Thousands of English Tom- who had seniority claims, and quel" roared the greeting as the Coronation ceremony in May, CLEANER
mies will see, again the broad made him a brigadier general bands played, thousands cheer No more worthy man could and upright-figure. whose entry Immediately the how went up ett and all Paris recled with joy, have been chosen for the assign- into France was the portent of in Congress that President As the highest honour that ment which will be a purposeful the Roosevelt had played politics be France could bestow upon him, as well as a pleasurable one. Only victory for the Allies in greatest battle in history. cause Pershing was Senator they permitted him to kiss the in January the Minister was the WHEEL BEARING LUBRICANT Upon this four-starred shoul- Warren's son-in-law. Pershing sword of Napoleon, which had recipient of the Grand Cross of UNIVERSAL JOINT LUBRICANT Įders once rested the lives of kept grimly silent.
lain in its case, untouched by the Order of the Crown of Bel- GEAR LUBRICANT
4,000,000 American soldiers and Fate was unkind to him, but human hands, since the days of gium, bestowed by King Leopold AUTO OIL SOAP
millions more, had the need long years in the army had en- Louis Philippe. They took him through Baron Delveaux de abled him to hide his sorrows next to the tomb of Lafayette, Fenffe, Charge d'Affaires in In all American history, only under the stoicism that is mill- and upon that tomb he laid a Shanghai.
Mr. Kung is a native of three men except Washington tary. His troop was mounted wreath of American Beauty
Taiku, Shansi and is 56 years of has ever worn those four gold and he himself was on his horse roses in silence.
His namo is actually stars before-Grant, Sherman ready to depart on one of his
In those hectic days when the "ge. and Sheridan. Thoy denoted expeditions against the Moros the full rank of General of the when one day an orderly brought developments of a single hour K'ung Hsiang-hsi but he prefers Stubbs Road armies, the highest honour with him a message that his mother might have turned the course of the English rendering. The the world, Pershing was fight- 75th descendant of Confucius in the gift of the far-flung ser-
ing with his back to the wall was educated in America-B.A. vice.
not against the Germans, but (Oberlin), M.A. (Yale), he re- He was the only one of the der service in 1915, he went to against the British and French turned to his native country to great military leaders of the El Paso to make arrangements, commands, who wanted to rush engage in politics and is now one world war who retained his con- for a home, temporarily leaving the raw oncoming American of the strong men of the new and throughout the struggle. Mrs. Pershing and their four divisions almost straight into administration. Incidentally, his wife is one of the Soong sisters His military career dates back children in the Presidio at San their armies. He stood
which makes the minister to 1886, the year he was gradu- Francisco. Agaln orderly firmly for a distinct American brother-in-law of Madame ateil from West Point.Com came to him with a message army of his own making; never, missioned as a second lieutenant
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in the cavalry, he served in this rank for six years, fighting in Indian wars and later serv-
Hongkong Telegraphing as military instructor at the
SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1937.
MAKING HONGKONG
IMPREGNABLE
The decision of the Imperial
University of Nebraska. The Spanish-American War found him afield in Cuba, but few had ever heard of him until August, 1899, when he was sent to the Philippines to put down the Moro insurrection.
He was still only a captain,
was dend.
Transferred to Mexican bor-
an
out
he said, would, he send Ameri. Chiang Kai-shek.
Since becoming Finance Min- can boys into that slaughter without first giving them the ister, Dr. Kung has brought benefit of all the training he about considerable improvements could. Pershing held his ground and a gist of China's great re- organisation scheme may be and won.
gauged from the following ex- cerpt of a recent article by Dr. Kung himself.
On March 28, 1918, General Pershing made history when he went to General Foch and put all of America's resources at the latter'a disposil.
"Crities are not wanting who are prone to harp on the Gov- ernment's failure to perform all What General Pershing said
its promises or to blame the to Foch that day you may read Government for the lack of more in the Library of Congress at rapid progress. But impartial Washington, for a copy of his observers cannot deny the fact offer written in the General's that despite the unusual and Own handwriting, is framed manifold difficulties confronting it, the Government has made
there:
S. . MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. part and parcel of the Imperial Then, at the age of 57, Presi a mesange telling him that the aviation-all that we have-are tion. (3) reorganization of the
York Building
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Government to spend approxim. but he quickly won fame by his ately ten millions sterling on the Moros, a fierce and reative tribe. stirring campaigns against the
defences of Hongkong, with a of Mohammedians that had de- possible substantial addition to |fied Spanish rule for centuries. this total in certain eventuali-President Roosevelt compliment-
"I have come to say to you much headway in recent years. ties, will be welcomed locally as fed him in a message to Con-
that the American people would Concrete progress has been gresa. indicating a determination to
hold it a great honour for our achieved in (1) extension and He went to Russia as a mili- safeguard British interests Intary observer for the United
troops were they engaged in the centralization of national finan the Pacific. Whilst the primary States in the Russo-Japanese Dr. H. H. Kung, Chinese Minister present battle. I ask it of you cial control and development of and that of the revenue sources, (2) improve- object may not be to make war; he served on the Mexican of Finance, who has announced new in my name
ment of budgetary control in- Hongkong safe from aggression, border; he led the expeditionary measures to assure the permanency American people. ·
of an independent currency system, "There is at this moment no cluding increased expenditures the plans devised will have that forces that chased Villa into the Bot linked with any foreign monetary other question than that of towards educational dovelop- effect. They are, in reality.
interior after the Columbus raid, unit.
Infantry, artillery, ment and economic reconstruc- Government's programme" which man to lead the nation's armies Presidio had been destroyed by yours to dispose of-as-you-will-national taxation system,(4). cover the whole Pacific basin, in the greatest war of all time. fire during the night and that Others are coming who will be readjustment of local, finances, and Hongkong naturally comes The son of a village, store his wife and three of his chil- as numerous as may be neces- (5) improvement of the national sary. I have come to say to you credit through consolidation of into the scheme by reason of its keeper, who later became the dren were dend.
But fate, seemingly trying to that the American people would internal debts and settlement of geographical position vis-a-vis postmaster, Pershing was born Singapore. Complementary to 1860.
at Laclede, Mo., on Sept. 13, atone for her cruelty toward him be proud to be engaged in the debts in arrears, and (6) uni- fication and strengthening of the He wanted to be a law in the past, gave him in 1917 the greatest battle of history." AANASTASAARAKAWAQARAZER these general plans is a recogni-yer, but when burglars robbed opportunity to inscribe his name Pershing had found Foch in banking and currency system.
In the first place, through tion of Hongkong's importance the post office and the family beside those of Washington and the latter's headquarters in a as the centre of British trading savings had to be given over to Grant and other famous gener. little. house screened by the repeated successes in arms, the interests in the Far East. The make up the loss, he got an apnis in the nation's history. How trees near Clermont. The lines National authority as a whole well he mastered that oppor. faded from the grizzled old, has been enabled steadily and abrogation by Japan of the pointment to West Paint.
"Guess there won't be another tunity when President Wilson Frenchman's worried face as the impressively to extend the area
offer fell Washington Treaty has, so far
from of its control, and the unifica- the unexpected command as Hongkong is concerned, freed shot fired for the next 100 sent this Colony of the restrictions in years," he said, "but I'll get an American Expeditionary Forces Pershing's lips and, so the story tion of finances though not com education at the academy, any- in France is a matter of history, goes, he threw both arms around pletely realized has been carried regard to increasing its
The war in Europe had drag him and kissed him time and into effect to a far greater degree de-
than it had been in any previous fences which were contained in
ged on for nearly three years, again. The army was his life.
Pershing came home in 1919, period. More and more the Germans were beating at the that document. A further fac-gave it everything he had and loors of France. Before him with the last division to leave provinces have come under the tor is the known fact that Japan it gave him everything he got was a mission that would try the France. New York received him financial control of the Central contemplates large-scale naval, education, fame and, strangely soul of any man.
that day like a returning Caesar, Government, which fact has military and air expansion in enough, a bride.
On June 8, 1917, General Per. But it didn't turn his head one made it possible to reorganise Formosa, which is only two His belated romance he was shing and his staff arrived in bit. He was still the same the finances of the former and hours' flying distance from this then 44 years old-began ond England. A British band was modest "Black Jack" Pershing to transform the latter into a Colony. Obviously, Britain can- day in June, 1904, when Miss playing "The Star Spangled of the cavalry.
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Valuable lessons were Senator Warren of Wyoming, Liverpool, and in London he was learned from the recent com- was reading in the newspapers feted by King George. France, bined exercises here, particular- of Captain Pershing's gallant too received him almost, as a A lineal descendant of the ther measures of financial uni- ly in regard to the vulnerability exploits in the far-away Philip blessing straight from heaven great ange Confucius, His Ex- fication of Hongkong so far as aerial at pines. She expressed a desire tack is concerned, and, as a con- to meet the hero, although she sequence of the experience thus gained, steps are to be taken to
The opportunity came that copa with all contingencies. The extent to which Hongkong will winter when Captain Pershing returned to Washington. After be fortified largely depends on Japan's future policics. Britain an introduction by her father, he took her to a dance at Fort
15
anxious that a new pact
was only half his age.
saould be devised to replace, the Myer, and that night they danced every dance together.
BULLS AND INNERS
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From the Office Butts
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national administration. The recent consolidation of National control in. Kwangtung and Kwangsi paves the way for fur-
and reconstruction. Compared with the early days of the National Government when only two and half pro- vinces contributed anything to the national treasury, the pre sent state of affairs shows marked improvement in nation- al control. And, whereas dur-' ing the Peking regime-China had no central authority that could command support, to-day
Washington Treaty, and it is In January they were married, A local golfer was recently- Some of these tourists. cer- Chinn does have a government now largely in Japan's hands President and Mrs. Roosevelt described as being in "paralysing tainly illustrate the fact that that enjoys much greater re- whether this objective can be attending the ceremony. Four form. Sort of chap who's able travel, has a broadening effect.spect and confidence both at achieved. If not, there will be children, three girls and a boy, to give anybody a stroke.
home and abroad. Local stocks are higher, and
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taxation borne by those who al taxation system, revenue sources have been steadily des veloped. At the same time, the assuring to Hongkong to know tion, financially, to meet the "You're driving me crazy.” A tourist was overheard to budget has grown considerably, that there is a ready compre necessities of the case and is] =
remark that Hongkong was both in its size and character, hension by the Imperial Govern-animated by a determination to Those men who stole the hos quite unlike any other place he indicating the widening require ment of the importance of safeguard her interests in this pital pay-roll evidently have had ever visited. We're still ments of the national admini Britain's castermost Colony. It part of the world, cost what it very decided views on anlury wondering whether this was instration.". -is-oven - more comforting to "may..
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