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SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1924,

"FIVE DRAGON TEMPLE.

GIANT BRASS IMAGE.

Kowloon City's New Place Of Worship.

(Special To The China Mail)

PIRACY EVIL...

KONGMOON MERCHANTS'

MEASURES.

THE CHINA MAIL.

ARMED PATROLS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Pakkai, Kongmoon, April 17. As reported earlier, local ship. ping-merchants-are-organising

Celebrated in the thorough-going, over 1,000 catties. At the left of Chinese style, the public opening its robe, are Inscribed the 18 of the "Five Dragon Temple" at characters, "Yam Chal Tuk Li their own armed vessels for pro- tection of the regular lines of Kowloon City took place on Kwong Tung Chu Chi Shi Polc launches, towed junks, etc., run- Sunday with the usual cannonade Kim Kun Im" (Imperial Inspector: ning in the river delta. of firecrackers and a dramatic dis- General of Canton Shipping and

Pirates are reported to be active Salt Commissioner), but the part in the vicinity of Shek-ki. play.

This temple is well-worth the beneath this has been torn away. trouble of visiting as it contairs At the right corner are found the many objects of interest to the 17 characters, "Tai Ming Man Lik European. Hanging on the wall Sam Shap Yat Nin Shui Chi Kwai is a scroll in English which gives Mau Kwai Chau Kat Yat Kin" the history of the giant Chun (manufactured on a lucky day in is known the 9th moon of the Kwai Mau Mo" or "Pak Tai" as in the vernacular, an image over year, i.e. the Thirty-First year of 500 years okl reposing on the Man Lik of the Great Ming Dynasty). On the back of the altar of honour,

Mr. Tsang Foo, the local continge there are 21 characters in merchant, is mainly responsible rows, which read thus:-"Pak for the temple's erection, having King Shun Tin Fu Tai Hing Yven purchased the brass idol from Cheung Chiu Wong Tso Kun To Canton and supervised the build-Chu Chi To Shi Tong To Chan"

ing outside his villa and school, (manufactured under the super

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It is confidently expected that the Coastal Defence Bureau (which controls all the smaller craft in the province and had its headquarters at Pakkai under Chan Chak's regime) will leave Whampoa and return to Pakkai ns Canton cannot foot the bill, making it necessary for the Bureau to draw on the Sze Yap exchequer.

In connection with the rumour

that open conflict is impending between the various factions out- wardly loyal to Sun but internally divided, it is interesting to note

SPECTACLES.

PIRACY DANGER.

CHINESE OWNER INSURES OFFICERS.

SETTING THE EXAMPLE,

CHARLES DEY

CELEBRATED

DRY

GIN

N. LAZARUS

12, Queen's Road HONGKONG'S ONLY EUROPEAN

OPTICIAN.

(DISTILLED IN CANADA)

per $280 bot,

THE BEACHED (STEAMER,

TO BE TOWED INTO DOCK THIS AFTERNOON.

STILL AT STONECUTTERS.

that General Cheung Kwok-ching, chief commander of the forces at the Southern peninsula front, bas

Mr. Soo Shou-nam, the well- loft for Shanghai, supposedly to known Hongkong merchant who The German cargo steamer meet Hsu Shung-chi. It owns the s.s. "San Nam Hoi," "R. A. Rickmers" which struck a thought that he has found the trading to Konigmoon, took rock in Lymeoon Pass when on political situation much too intri-the initiative on Wednesday her way to Shanghat early on cate for solution. Chan Kwing last in insuring the master Friday morning was successfully ming may have had something to and officers of his steamer beached at Yaumati, near Stone- do with his departure or again, all Britishers with the Union cutters and though she-is-taking in Dr. Sun may have a better man Assurance Society of Canton, Ltd. water through the hole in fier side ready should trouble break out.

against the effects of piracies, is lying on even keel and will be civil disorders and riots death, towed in Kowloon Dock for repairs total, partial or permanent dis- this afternoon. ablement and loss of their per- sonal effects.

:

Tsingtao, April 17-Tsou Wen Wei, ex-Director of General Affairs, who mysteriously left the city

Jast week during his examination with regard to a leak in the Treasury funds during the Hsiung regime, has been found by detectives at Tsinan. I He was forced to choose between arrest and immediate return here, He chose the latter alternative. The investigation into the dis-

With this example before them, the owners of other steamers flying the British or Chinese flags should take similar action and no doubt the secretaries of the Officers' & Engineers' Guilds will think the same.

The s... "San Nam Hoi" is the She was pirated

appearance of public funds old. "Tat On," amounting to Taels 3.000.000 may and burnt some few years ago. now continue-Reuter's Pacific Service.

following quotations:"Powerful

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JUNK LOOTED.

PIRATES ESCAPE.

The accident happened when the vessel had almost cleared the Pass. A junk got in her track and to prevent a collision the "Rickmers" was turned towards the shore. The junk turned in the same direction, and left the ship no room for further manoeuvring. She went uground and was badly -holed, her shell plates sustaining damage. Despite the fact that the vessel was taking water in two of the holds, the skipper managed to bring his vessel into port without assistance.

In harbour it was found that she was making more water then was at first thought, so much so that the pumps could not cope with the

Loot to the value of $3,820 is leakage. The distress signal "N H"

"TAI LEE" PIRACY.

immediate assistance") was hoisted and the siren blown continuously. The vessel was beached at Yau- mati not far from Stonecutters, where she lies in 21 feet of water. The water by this time had reached a height of 6 feet 8'inches in the Nós, 1 and 2 holds. She rested on the beach on a level keel and there was abundant opportunity for dis charging her cargo, which was commenced shortly after she had beached. When the vessel left por at daylight she was drawing 23 feet of water so that the depth of water in which she lies at pre- sent does not reach her Plimsoll mark.

The "R.C. Rickmers" was bullt in 1921 by the Nordd Geestemunde. for the Rickmers Rhederel A. G..

Hamburg. She has a gross tonnage

is Emperor Shing Tso. He is alleged to have been taken by a ¦ (“On fire or leaking, Want great, divine and awe-inspiring, gang of six pirates who tacked Under him peace prevailed at home a junk which left Shaukiwah some and abroad. All this was owing to | days ago. the help of Chan Mo, who came According to the vernacular down to guide the 6 Armies of papers, the junk met with foul the Emperor. To award his ser- weather while on its way to Wai- vices, great repairs were made to chow and the master lauded the his Temples. Then prosperity cargo of rice, flour, dil and pea- reigned throughout the Empire, nuts. After waiting till the wea- and the power of the Emperor was ther cleared he reloaded his junk extended to the farthest country and proceeded but met a small Indeed the different temples built junk in Chinese waters. The six in honour of Chan Mo were a pirates, all armed with revolvers, numerous as stars in the sky." boarded his junk, Bubdued the A typical example of foreign vision of Cheung Chin and Wong This shows that the worship of crew and made off with the cargo influence in Chinese life is notice-Tro of the Tai Hing District of the this god was more zealous in the and other property. able in Mr. Tsang's house which Shun Tin Prefecture, Peking and Sung Dynasty than in the reign of adjoins the temple. The groun't Tong To Chap, the Priest in Yuen, and therefore his temples contain buildings of strict! Charge). The image was the pro-could be found everywhere in the

QUESTION IN THE COMMONS. Chinese type and the semi-Euro-perty of the Sze Tsz Shim Lam Empire.

This brass image was manu- penn type while a Chinese pond Monastery, and that it fell into

of 5198, is 401 feet long, with a ordinary factured under the supervision of

Sir Kingsley Wood, in the beam of 53 feet. When she left bas two foreign-style rowing the hands of some boats in it and the garden has individuals after the political a native of Tai Hing of Shun Tin. House of Commons, asked the harbour she had a mean draft of a wind-driven water condenser change in the San Hoi year. On From this we can tell that it was Secretary of State for the Colonies 23 feet, and, carried a general reference to some Taoist Authori-made at Peking and during the whether he had yet received cargo of 60go tons, having dischar made in Illinois, US.A.

Not shown in the picture above, ties, it has been found that "Chan Dynasty of Wing Lok. The date official reports from Hongkong of ged only 1000 tons in this port. having been added at a later date, Mo" was born in the 3rd moon of Kwai Mau of the Emperor Man the circumstances attending an Captain R. P. H. Schivetmann is are images worked in brass of a the 3rd year of the Emperor Hoi Lik inscribed thereon is the date attack by Chinese pirates upon in command and he is considered He was of the erection of the Temple and the s.8. "Tai Lee," flying the to be the most able of the Captains tortoise and a snake which repre- of the Tsui Dynasty. sent the deities who carry out the born a divine sage. He took oath not the date of the manufacture British flag, which happened on in the Company's employ. The The Imperial January 20 last, when the captain, agents in this port are Messrs Carl 'god's benevolent orders. That to remove all evil spirits, and to of the image.

Inspector-General of Canton Captain James Willox, was mur- Bodeker and Co. the natives of Kowloon attach protect the people. He gave up

A wireless message was dés- much importance to the temple his secular life, and took up the Shipping and Salt Commissioner dered, together with one of the is evident from the large incense study of Taoism. After pursuing engraved on the image, was the Indian guards on the steamer: if patched from the ship at 9.15 am. containers bestowed in the place his study in Mo Tong Hill für 48 builder of the Temple, but unfor- so, whether he would see that shortly after she struck and was not received by the agents until of worship.

years, he succeeded in becoming tunately his name has been torn measures were taken to prevent 11,15 or roughly 20 minutes after Amateur actors from the Chung an immortal. He took the North off. However, during the Dyrsty the constant recurrence of these the Gedown Co. had sent a Sing Benevolent Society, of which under his protection. He showed of Shan Chung many servants of piratical attacks on vessels flying telephone message to say that the Mr. Tsang Foo is president, pre-his appearance on the solicitation the Imperial Household, were sent the British flag in Chinese waters; ship was close of with a distress sented the time-honoured shows of any man, and suppressed any out to make heavy levies on the or, if a report had not as yet been signakup.

"He income of merchants, and from received, whether he would re and in the evening a large num. evil spirit when asked to. ber of friends sat down in the came down among the people this we can deduce that the image quest that it be furnished without gardens to a Chinese banquet. A every Kang Sun or Kap Taz day was brought to Kwong Tung from delay for his consideration? number of Europeans accom- and every 3rd or 7th day, to Peking by one of such servants, panied by ladies were present at remove all causes of misfortune. and was enshrined in a temple at received any report on the attack It is stated in the Annals of the Canton after the name of the

for which I am calling, as stated Sitting below the image in the Mo Tong Hill that the place where manufacturer and the date of on the "Tai Lee," but the report picture are (from left to right) Chan Mo resided in retirement, manufacture had been engraved in my answer of March & to a similar question by the hon. mem- Mr. Tsang Foo, Mr. Li Fung-san was the Five Dragon Monastery. on it.

Alas! over 500 years have ber, will cover this case as well and Mr. Chan Pak-to who are During the Dynasties of the living examples of what the Emperora Tong Tai Chung and elapsed since the Wing Lok as that of the "Hydrangea." Chinese always aspire to become. Sung Chan Chung, he showed Dynasty.The image was removed This question was asked in the The perfections are depicted great divine prodigy on different from Peking to Canton, and again House by Sir Kingsley Wood on Shamsuipo station, has been in picturesque models which occasions, and much more in the from a Taoist Temple into a behalf of the Imperial Merchant "missing" since Tuesday after are for sale in the best China-Yuen and Ming Dynasties. When Buddhist Monastery, and Just Service Guild. Sir Kingsley Wood noon. He was armed with a police ware stores. Mr. Taang is the the Emperor Shai Tao of the Yuen some time ago it had a narrow is a member of the Guild's Farlig revolver and the usual rounds of ammunition and was seen by an model of "" Fook " (Blessing) Dynasty first established his cacape from being destroyed, Can mentary Committee.]

Indian sergeant at 5 o'clock in the in that be has been blessed with capital at Peking, he revealed the it be the caso that even a lifeless

afternoon. He was seen twice mpany song, Mr. Li, a nono-appearance of his Divine Tortoise object has its time of prosperity

after that, in company with 4 genarian, typifies "Sau" (Longe- and Snake on the Ko Leung river and misfortuno?

Chinese off of his beat. It is Now Mr. Tsang having obtained vity), and Mr. Chan Pak-to, the in the 12th moon of that year,

atated that he was noticed near scholar who wrote the history of prophesying the foundation of the the image, has erected a temple

A temple was for it at Kowloon under the name MACKINTOSH & CO., LTD 6 o'clock but-no-eign of him has the Kowloon waterworks" about the image, "Luk" (Prosperity) Sung Dynasty. probably on account of his success therefore built for his worship. of the Five Dragon Temple, the of the

been forthcoming since. in the Manchu examinations for Seventy-four years later, on a very original name

The eleventh annual meeting of which titles and rank were con- "Tin Shau" festival in the Yan Monastery from which it came.

Several theories have beeg ferred.

Churg Dynasty he again showed This history is written for the the Shareholders in Mackintosh & Below we give an interesting his appearance in Mo Tong Hill. advice of those who may worship Co., Ltd., was held on Thursday, advance for his disappearance April 17 when a dividend of $2.50 It is not thought that he deserted translation of the history written Therefore, the Kam Luk Temple the god and pray him to remove per share was declared for the year as his chance of escape would be and very remote. The most reason- by the man who appears at the was built, and the Five Dragon any cause of misfortune.

ending February 29. right of the photos

Monastery was renovated to make Written by the True. Retired The Company has shown steady able conjecture is that he has "History of the brass image of offerings to him every year. In Scholar of Kowloon on the 15th of progress since its formation in 1913 been decoyed away and met with the god "Chan Mo" in the Five tho years of the Emperor Wing the 12th moon of the Yam, Shut and with the recent addition of the foul play but the motive and who Dragon Monastery.

Lok of the Ming Dynasty, great year (31.1.28).

Tailoring Department it now ranks the supposed miscreants may be Mr. Tsang Shiu-wing alias development was again made to Chop of Chan Pak-to

as one of the leading stores in the can only be conjectured. The Teang Foo bought the image at this Temple and Monastery. In Chop of the True Retired Colony, providing under one roof police are continuing their efforts Canton for a sum of $1,200. It the record of the Mo Tong Hill by Scholar of Kowloon (nom-de-all the requirements of a man's to find the man or some definite

wardrobe,

clue as to his when measures 8 feet high, and weighs Wong To-kwan, will be found the plume of Chan Pak-to)"

the ceremony.

"

Mr. Thomas: I have not yet

COMPANY MEETING.

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'INDIAN CONSTABLE'S DISAPPEARANCE.

FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED.-

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