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disbandment of the Royal Irish Constabulary to double the number at men from, this force the Colony now possesses.

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Bail was allowed in the sum of $1,000. The case will be beard on Friday.

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FUKIEN POSITION.

COMPLICATED SITUATION

EXPLAINED.

The situation la Fakien in more question and hongirable members could "rest assured that where Hamilton this morning, with the uninterested to know something of this unsettled conditions in Kwangs been brought in and new factions was oberged. Before fr. E. W. of our teaders will probably becomes from Wachów. Owing to the complex than ever. Side izquez hava risk their lives and are killed in the lawful possession, on October 11, of art as practised in ancient and modern province abipment have been fewer have been filtroduced: Originelly, perisimance of their duties the four revolvers, one automatic pistationes. Ce following account has been and irregular. The applies that have the trouble started becasan Hau Government recognises that their and 2,112 x 2nds of ammunition with supplied by a local Chinese scholar of arrived during the last two months Shungchi the commander of Dr.

bays come from points on the Wist families should not suffer by their out permit from the Captain Superin- no mean repate.

Sun's Northern Expedition, persistedin tendent of Police. He was further The art of "Kei Kik" which to River below Wuchow. The amount deaths." Answering the Hon. Mr. charged with having aided and abetted clades doxterity in wielding word, of poultry has not been too plentiful invading the province to forman expe- Chow Shou-son's observations on the one William Fists, to import into the spear anil knife, as well as still in the and there was a scarcity of real last dition to attack Kwangtung. A Fukion danger from smuggling arms and Colony 51 revolvers, 9 Mausers, 2 use of fate and feet, this peculiarly mander of the let Kwangsi Division, chuen, sympathised with Hex and week, General Lan. Tean-wan, com division: commander, Weng Wing sufmunition, the Colonial Secretary Savage rifles, and 2,380 rounds of am- Ohinese form of what we may call has izaugurated a system of convoys this culminated in the Tachon, Li Chinese boring and fencing, basa bis- emphasized the Government's difficulty, faced, on the one hand by

Warring States", some three cent be sent to Wuchow by land routes, taken refuge on a Japanese warship. tory dating back to the patiod of the for traffic between Wuchow and How ki, being driven from Toochow

Nanning. Hitherto live-stock had to At fint, it was reported thät Li had "an insistent demand on the part of

tories before the Christian era. It The owners had to pay levics to the It is authoritatively stated that this the shipping companies for less

was developed in the succeeding robbers for protection, and on reachin not so. Li boarded the Cruiser dynastics of Ta'un and Hon. A cer rigorous measures against their abipa

tain Ta'ai Man is commemorated in ing Wushow, the military "Chookwan," the flagship of Admiral and on the other by similarly insistent In connection with the seizure of the bistory of the Hon Dynasty as anthorities collected another tax Shah Chea-ping and is now virtually demands frequently made in this arma at the. Palace Hotel, Kowloon, being a famous exponent of the art: prior to shipment. The present a prisoner on the ship. Significance is chamber and elsewhere on the part of a Chinese named Kwong Chui, who and the men of the To'ai state launches convor the junks between wisa "Little Hsu," joining the pro- arrangement is that armed attached to Hsu Shu-chang, other was dimsed in European costume, are said to have greatly esteemed the Chinese representatives that less was charged before Mr. R.E. Lindsell such skill. In the province of Ho Wuchow and Nanning. Each junk Sun camp.. Hau is the right hand rigorous measures should

be this morning, on a charge of having Nam is an ancient temple called Shiu bas to pay $100 for a trip and there man of Tuan Chi-jat, the chief of the enforced

as. regards the search imported into the Colony one revclver Lam Ter, whose priests and acolytes junks in each convey. The motor that Dr. Sun came to an under- |are-sa-many-as-from-thirty-to forty Anfnites. It will be remembered of-property, persons and bouses and 300 rounds of ammunition within days gone by were continually launches plying on the West River-standing-with-Tuan-before he (Tuan) Referring to the police force general out-a-permit from the Captain engaged in exercises of this nature. ly, the Hon, Mr. A.G.3. Fistcher said Superintendent of Police.

Thirteen of them won fams as boxere alto carry passengers who have to was crushed by Wu Pei-fu. Admi Mr. Leo d'Almada, who apeared for and fencers" when they helped the pay $1,000 a trip for the same kind Shah has been appoints d Governor of be considered that "uuder, its ab'e the defence, abjected to another emperor T'ai Teung, of the Tong of protection. The merchants, have the province by the Peking Goren Ltd and efficient officers our police force remand. He said that the polico dynasty, to subdue the rebellions readily agreed to the scheme as they ment Although he, occupies the maintains a standard of seal and had already had five days in which to Wong Shai chung in the early part militorists and all the robber bands. the Hous. Shah has all along adopt- previously had to pay both the Yamen he has made no effort to obst efficiency second to none," adding: Prepare their case. That was of the 7th Century, and established a It previously cost a motor-launched a conservative policy and it is

As regards its present conditions of ample time.

traditional "school" of the art known nearly $2,000 per trip in levies. Now difficult to say. whether his sympathies Sergt. Andrew said the police as the "Shiu Lam P'ai." service, in pay, leave and pension, expected to get another man in the theso, I venture to think, compare conre: of the next couple of days. favourably with thosd of any other police force in any other part of the world." Several suggestions were made that the European strength of the | police forceshould be furtherincreased, and answering them Mr. Flecther was very cautious. It is a matter which

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alien to its rulers, it knows this per. centage will be proportionately higher. LITTLE. On October 23, 1922, at In fighting orime, Hongkong's police

Shaoghal, the wife of H. Martin Tittle, of a 800: SUTHERLAND —On October 21,

1022, at Bhanghai, to the wife of Mr. A. P. Satherland, a daughter. HONNIBALL-On October 21, 1922,

at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. George Honniball, a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

authorities have special difficulties which local conditions make it in possible over entirely to remove. However, it requires no catrful an

requires careful consideration. It in volves largo expense, not only. in salary but also in housing accom mudation which cannot be provided in a day and the Government think it adviesble to hasten slowly,"

It is clear that in those days a real it remains to be seen whether General are with the North or Bonth. He military value was attached to skill in Lam's protection will be sufficiently controls the warships in Fukiea bat Mr. d'Almada said that the de-Koi Kik," but later with the develop effective to nader the convoys fendant was given bail in the sum of ment of firearms the att became immune from the rabbers' attacks. $500. He was merely paseing neglected as a practical field of through the Colony, and it was not martial endeavour, Transplanted to fair to detaia him here so long. Japan, however, it doubtless became The Magistrate decided to remand the historics! parent of Judo or the case until Friday, and if by then Jnjatsu.

PACKING UP THEÍR TROUBLES.

the polise were not prepared to But although, the Chinese expert SATURDAY'S ANCIENT CHINESE

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CEREMONY.

has no land foreca. Meanwhile, General Chen Chiuog-ming ia viewing with considerable alarm, the develop- meats in the neighbouring province. Any success on Hau's part will not Augur well for bin. Reports from Canton state that he is'desirous of per- Heu, but the unsettled conditions in ronally leailing an expedition againat

Kwangtung will probably occupy all his attention, "over

The fighting at Foochow seems to Saturday, was the 9th day of the have ceased temporarily although and partly 28 a pastime for 9th moon. This is known as the business is still at a standstill. boys and mea, In very recent Be-Chung Yeung Festival and is Apparently, there is trouble around publican days, indeed, there are not observed by the majority of Chinese Amoy. The U.8.8. "Helena" bas wanting signs that the practice has here by making an oating to the brea sent there to protect foreign in- The problem in very difficult and the

been deliberately recognised as tending Peak. The festival's origin is more tereste. It seems that one of Li How- solution does not lie in one remedy

to stimulate a militaristic spirit, but or less obscure, but a few thousand ki's subordinates, Koo Chun-jang, Increased police strength, sterner To the Editor of the China Mofi. this is not the place to touch on car years ago, a very learned man, Chai retired from Amy on the spproach tain modern-aspects of Chinese social Win Eung, was beret by many of Hiu's socps and the local bandits Fentonces, better lighting, cheaper

Sir-The oxtarödinary statements life. cheques, stronger public opinion (or cuttings) provided by your pre-

troubles and on the Sth day of the have been activo. An unconfirmed The writer has pleasant recollection 9th moon ascended a manntain and report has reached Cantou to the these and other forces will each help sumibly clerical correspondent each of many a spirited exhibition of devoted himself to worship. His effect that Hen's troops are in to combat crime, but not one alone Saturday, have ere this been the sub-boxing" given by village boys in example has bean banded down and occupation of Amoy. Another report can hope to have any marked effect. the logic of his remarks regarding the Lages there, between the 10th day of Dong Go" as it is called by the have made an strangement with the ject of some comment. I pass over the New Territories. In certain vil the express object of the outing, or as that Chen Cliung pting and Koo Concerted action in neceamry. Let the alleged bacterinlogical dangers of the the 7th moon and the 9th day of the Chinese, is to get rid of one's Kiang Taohua to attack Foochow Government carefully mature its plans Communion Cup which can probably 9th moon, performances of "Stupe troubles. As the Chinese graves are simultaneously. Koo's troops will and then let it launch an organized bo answered by a medical man. Iying the Toad" take place. Three almost invariably en hill-sides, the form the vanguard and Chen will send campaign against crime, using every the Clerical ons, aright, on the ground while others sit 'round them tunity to pay their respects to their second line, while two divisions of If I read the meanderings of or four boys lia facedownward on the more devent observers us the oppor 12 000 Hwangtung troops to form the means within its power to the utmost. degmatic assertions he makes, I take and chant the refrain Let it but once strike terror into the them to mean he is a believer in the

Baturday witnessed the usual visits west,

Klangel-troops will attabk from the heart of the criminal here and it will superstitions notion of what is called

to the Peak. Moet of the women find it comparatively easy thereafter Transubstantiation. If that is `so,

There also seems to be some dia- carried joss worshipping parapher-agreement in the pro-Son camp. to "keep him guessing," fearful of and again assuming your correspon

nalia while the younger folk carried Wong Wing-chuen the Fukin loader, dent is an ordained Prisst of the

kites to be flown away. They believ-who went over to the Heus, hos, the next move and fearful of his fate Church of England, will he kindly say

ed that all sorrows and worries depart called a meeting of the influential should he be caught.

how he reconcilee such beliefs with

with the kite. Article 38 of his Church?

men of Foodbow and announced to During the last fewyears, the them that he would support "Admiral Yours, etc.,

schools in Hongkong and Canton have Shah who is a native of the province. ENQUIRER.

What the meaning of this nursary observed the day as Parent's Day rhyme is, the writer cannot say, but The scholars wear two red flowers if supremacy, it is difficult to anticipate With several factions struggling for. the chant invokes the spirits of both parents arealive, one red and one the trend events will take. However, ancient fighting-men, ancient masteis white if one parent is living and two the results will not be confined to of boxing and fencing, and it must be white flowers if both parents are dead. Fokien. The neighbouring provinces kept up till the boys lying face down-

will be affected and all parts of the country are eagerly awaiting develop- ments.

LOUAL AND GENERAL.

"Sunshine Alloy," which reveals Kae Marsh in a particularly charming role, is to-day's attraction at the Coronet.

dent Jefferson" will play at to The jazz band of the a.s." Pre- Dorow night's special dance at the Kowloon Theatre.

The Russian Follies gave

a

alyse of the Colony's crime returna successful performance at the Kow to show that the rate here is, too loon Theatre last night and are high-much too high.

appearing again this afternoon and Coneequently, it i gratifying to evening. learn from Thursday's budget debats

|Hongkong, October 30.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Little Toads and King Teads Wiggledy Pigglody Into the Lotus-Pond In they go.

Break the branches, break the reede; There come the toads I don't

know...

Jumping on the toad-throne to con

their books...

A clean bill of health was returned wards become as it were mesmerized. for Saturday and Sunday,

down in Nathan Road, Kowloon, yes A Chinese woman was knocked

terday by a pair of horas driven by a Sepoy of the K. E. O. Grenadiers, hospital treatment, She received injuries which required

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LOCAL WEDDING.

WILSON-HUNE,

Their "heart goes," and passes beneath the earth by way of the gone, the invoked spirit enters, the Fairy Bridge. When the heart has

symptom being a coldness of the fest

Mr. Norval Charles Wilson, acting and a violent trembling of the body manager of the Mercantile Bank of The master of the ceremonies there- India in Hongkong, was married at проп cries out "Master, up the Peak Church, on Saturday, to Miss and perform "If he did not call Dorothy Angelon Hume, daughter of

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CANTON NEWS:

FOREIGN LOAN'S PROSPECT DOUBTFUL

Mai Lan Fang, "the King of the this out, no medium would ever got Mr. Mrs. H. D. Hame, of Van- Chiness stage, now performing op. He must en no account utter couver, BC. The bride was given although the Provincial Assembly has The Tai. Kuong Postales that nightly at the Taiping Theatre has the boys' real names as this would at away by Mr. Harry Hancock, Miss ratified the draft agreement, the loan WILSON-HUME At the Peak in the Legislative Council that un- November 11, there will be a special ing $50,001 Special protection has The assumption throughout is that flower girl and Mr. J. B. -Bo fularisen in American quarter. The On Armistice Day, Saturday received a threatening letter demand once restore them to consciousness. Nancy Homell attended the bride as will not go through as oppontion kis Church on 28th October by The official members appreciate the neces-service at St. John's Cathedral at been accorded him by the Folice Ravd. H. Copley Moyle, Norval Charles, second son of the Varysity for stricter measures if crime in 10:40 ... when the Bishop-will

each medium becomes mung" or filled the duties of best, mau." The anthorities, are disappointed as the Revd. John Skinner Wilson D.D. the Colony is to be reduced or oveá preach and His Excellency the Officer To-day is the anniversary of the when in this stato are involuntary, ing clergyman. After the ceremony Another drop has bont registered in stupefied and that all his actions Rev. H. Copley Moyle was the officiat financial shortage is very acute, and Mrs. Wilson, Strathtay, held in check. The Senior Chinesa. Un Administering the Government will be entry of the Kwangtung Army into dictated by the spiris of the dead a reception was held at No. 109, The Perthshire, to Dorothy Angelna,

présent,

Canton after the Kwangai militarista master. Jumping up, then they pro. Peak, official Member, the Hon. Mr. Chow

had been expelled by Chan: Ohlung-ceed to box with fists and feet. After Shou-son, urged the Government to The two balls" above Higano-ming. The Canton public ofhios are minute of this tlicy are told to sit, increase the number of Chineas shits were very active on Saturday is not observing the holiday. --

closed bat the mercantile Community and then they may smoke but on no detectives, and the Hon. Mr. Ng Hon last, says the Japan Chronicle, and the

socount drink tea. Then, still sisting. tze suggested more patrols. The smell of alphur was very realistio.

they sing a song, soins auclent The arms seed in the Palace song that their dead Thers was such a violent ebullition

third daughter of H. D. Hume

Eeg and Mrs, Hume, Vancouver

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The China Mail,

“TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVIOR"

HONGEONO, MONDAY, OCT. 39, '1928,

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MARTIAL LAW.

permitted outside the Commander in Chief's Yames. The following di tricta Bave been specially marked out for increased vigilance, and in them |ally abips,janku, trainävder will be searched, vis-Nam Kọng, Bak Yin Tong. Bai Chuen, Fong Chuen

Hon. Mr. A. & Lowe and the Hon. that some of the public baths wera Hotel on Friday were int found in used to sing and then they to date by the Selection Committee Assaltof tho-distúrbal condit- Mr. Chow Shou son both emphanaged, and for a time there was were discovered by a room boy who exercits with long thin bamboo poles, cock, T. E. Pearce, Capt Davies, Capt martial law has been declared to persuade the Government to graut ulmest & pazio among the bath house informed, the proprietor, Mr. Oxberry. On one occasion one boy accidentally Oliver, E.-B. Reed, L. J. Davies, Canton. No vehicles or pedlare are consequorice of a police raid. They performa kind of sword stick to represent Hongkong R. Han ions and the recent bomb outrage, adequate compensation to dependants interests. However, all was reported A telephone message from Mr. banged another on the head, and the GR.. Sayer and CJ. Stapleton, of Chinese detectives and constables quiet later on, and the hot springs are Ozberry brought the police to the instant reproach sound d extremely murdered while performing their duty.

nat overdoing it any longer..

like an everyday cardamation of 46lied after past Satur, sy's game.

The remaining three places will be Cheaper cheques, advocated by the

Yang Thai of the Old Market, and Hos. Mr. Lowe, and better public May Institute will begin its Winter Regiment was charged before Mr. E. an audient boxing matter.

The Reading Circle of the Helena Q.M 8. Ashwell, of the King's not at all like the grave utterance of

The Interport match will be played on November 10, 11 and 13. Lang, both have important bearing at 10.50 am. when Professor Simsison Chinese named Leong Esm, with in a loud volcs, and the mesmerized lighting, urged by the Hon. Mr. A. O Couris on Thursday, November 2nd W. Hamilton this morning, by Finally, their real names are cried on the crime question. The Hon will read a paper on The Plays of sarault. In view of the confinting boys awake. The role of medium is Mr. E.V.D. Parr queried whether the Jolin Galsworthy." On the following nature of the evidence; the Magistrate said to be very exhausting and only sentences imposed by our magistrates Thursday the members will read decided he could not convict possible for those with yaas ngan ssion Subdna passion and there are inficient and asked if more other meetings. Will be held on Hamilton said I don't know what of passivity. But what exactly is Galsworthy's play Justice," and Discharging the defendant. Hr. oyas expressive of traumale principle Remove opportunity frequent use of the "Cat" would not. November 10th, 23rd, 30th, and sort of a fool you made of yourself this fencing and boringy you wila, still depravity

deter cowardly crimes like December 7th at the same hour. You know better than I what did exclaim. The writer kur po soewar knows it must expecke

from women. He alto Anyone who is interested in the work happen, but I am not antinfiled with make, except to say Go to percentage of crime.:/ When

ght the Government should seize of the Reading Circle la cordially in the evidence of these people, therefore Ministering Children's bassar nea

rtunity procented by the rited to attend any of its mockings, you can go,

Baturday and soe for yourself.

Crime is as old as civilization itself; dever will it entirely disappear while human nature remains-human nature. Eliminate necrenity and there is

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