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FRIDAY ~ JULY 25 1924

STRIKE SPREADS.

COXSWAINS AND ENGINEERS JOIN.

TAE AERO MOT

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE ROOT OF CHINA'S TROUBLE.

PICKLED PEPPER,

CARGO PILFERER SENT TO PRISON.

S$.

In my first letter I was careful is drifting into a condition of per- to lay stress upon the essentialpetual internecine strife far worse lack of a religious spirit among than anything that we have pickling from aboard the

"Forestealing pepper-corns for ATTEMPT TO TIE UP FOREIGN SHIPPING.don in the London "Daily Tele- The string that ind China sentenced to three weeks! hart the Chinese, writes Perceval Lan- experienced in Eastern Europe,Cheng It," a cargo coolie was graph." It is only another aspect together the cord that became a labour at the Kowloon Magistracy Agitators Receive Set-Back In Canton.

of the same deficiency that is wire rope in the hands of the this morning. revealed by their rudimentary farrots Dowager, and mere pack- A shop ecolic who want on board. the wool been more cynically and has been bosed, and for years to that he found the defendant help- sense of patriotism. Never has thread in those of her successors to take delivery of the goods said successfully pulled over the eyes come the Occidental habit of sending himself by means of a pointed of earnest and liberal sym-ing Ministers to Peking to dent which he stuck into the bag of

bamboo rad, the sharp end of

the steamers due to leave to-night borne little result. That intinids, pathisers with China than when with the Chinese Government witpeppercorns and the other into his

The Tucanns.

The defendant, stated that he picked up a handful of the pepper. corns which had fallen from the produced in Court, bag but not as much as the quantity

than an ordinary theft.

Mr. Hamilton said that he regard ed this as a more serious offence

On the Hongkong Praya this the agitators are stated to have re- morning there was no sign of any sorted to exhortations to intending impending stoppage of trade be passengers to refrain from sili tween this Colony ardi Canton, All on these vessels. This also has were taking in curgo, mostly flour, tion and propaganda is carried or the revolution which overthrew be a grateful fiction rather than o rice and sundries, for the upward openly is evident from the fact that the Manchu dynasty was repre-a help to European interests in the trip. That part of the "Lung harves on the Canton Bund

pickets are on duty near the sented to the world as the achieve. Celestial Republic.

ment of a people united in their shan's" lower-detik accommodation

n enquiry at the Commodore's determination to be free. It was reserved for-women-was-full-offer this morning it was learnt nothing of the kind. It is probable ruchums entirely without justi- "On the other hand, are the four.

Mr. Won Hay-tong, perhaps the eised from the commanders of the centage of the inland working contemn absolutely and altogether

that no specini news had her re-that to this day only a small per-fication? most influential of Hongkong British gunboats now at antall population of China realise that this Balkunisation of China. It is Une would he glad to Chinese engaged in river shipping, The naval witharitis are taking no they are living under a Republic at informed the "Mail" that to the spreial steps in the mutter, as one all. To represent it as the expres-result not only to foreign but to easy to point out the inevitable best of for Carton would be landed on soliefs are being sent up from time Sion of the will of the people was, Chinese interests of this tendency

his knowledge, cargo are pressing as gate. The usual

was to succeed upon the inter- to substitute a score of indepen- however, necessary if the scheme. the nature of routine work only.

It was fent this morning that national stage.

dent and unapproachable Govern The easy senti- struck were the coolies engaged in Stor to rarry out police desties, United States had to be enlisted that in the past has been able to author of intliates had arrived in ment of both Britain and the ments" for the central authority work at the shipping companies which has given tour to the gen by the conspirators, and once elency. But, on the other hand, godowns in the suburbs of Canton.eral belief that the municipal and again both Powers lent their supYen Hsi-han is an ideal despot in Another rinse of cargo voolie, ... consult authorities at Shameen port to a policy which, could only shan-si, and Chang Tse-lin, the those, employed by consignees in have no intention to overlook the succeed if the East had ceased to northern bogey, is an efficient Canton, were still at work, and it behaviour of the Chinese Police who be the East. We helped China to was expected that they would con- went over to the enemy when the sow mere wind, and she is now tinue to take delivery of shipments crisis cam. from alongside steamer or from

Mes Butterfeld and Swift reaping the whirlwind. We can- the wharves.

not escape responsibility.

arrival and there would be no need for the river steamers to tie up. Cargo coulies mentioned as having

Anti-Foreign Boycott. However, it appears that little er The Largo for non-Chinese firms is being shipped up as it is almost

Impossible to hire coolies for this class of work in Canton. What goes to Shameen is taken off the ziver-steumers and taken there by volunteers. It is not expected at the moment that all coolles will -strike in Canton Which means that

Chinese supplies will still be

tained.

"

to me as required, but this is in

informed the Chinn Mail" at noon

Re-

that there was little likelihood, cognition by the Great Powers has the boats under their control being despatched to Canton for the present, as confirmation lad been received that the cargo conlibs had

joined the strike.

More Men Out.

of

answer for, China with fair effì-

sadden extinction of either the administrator. Moreover, the Tuchuns or their troops would flood the country with tenfold the merely intensify the andreby and number of bandits that already infest it. It is quite impossible for the Powers to exert influence in any rebel inland province. The Tuchun, be it remembered, is not

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SALT PORK.

premature salting yesterday even ing when two carts collided near Six pig. carcases received" a

the sea wall of Kennedy Town carcases toppled over into the sea.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

played a part in the events of the last few years in China which, it seems, is "still only imperfectly realised by the Governments con- cerned, and it will be necessary later on to draw attention to the regarded in his own province as Praya. The cart containing the serious inconvenience that has the unmitigated evil that foreign Yesterday morning Messrs. Jar-been caused by the loyal manner dine, Matheson and to. 1 in which the various legations in ers agree to call him. From the but the coolies managed to ex- received cable from their

point of view of the labourer he is tricate themselves and swain to Shameen office requesting that consider any other source

Peking have steadily refused to only another form of the inevit shore. main-re steamers be sent up to authority than the phantom able tax-gatherer. Sometimes he

ton until farther notice. To view It is evident, however, that, which was

of this the sang Shing," Government in the capital. That is more aggressive than the col- agitators are trying to stir up North to Canton with a general do nothing else may be contended regime, sometimes more even than on her way from the they could have done and still canlestor of taxes under the Imperial anti-foreign feeling.

cargo of merchandise, was stopped. With some reason. Diplomacy but is the man in the field has long the former's Republican successor Instend she is proceeding to Swator does not admit of irregular liai- been accustomed to be shorn of where her cargo for Canton will be sons. But the effect which that landed. Other ships of the Conrecognition has hal upon the practically everything except the pany, due for Canton will also he recent history of China is as mani- bare necessities of life, he notes fest as is the certainty that had no real hardship under the rule of the beginning of the Republic the new Lords of China. Besides, chaos and executive impotence as Viceroy, antis gely accepted building yesterday afternoon from been marked by such internal say what you will, the Tuchun is delegate, formally took possession" the lineal representative of the old of the former 'Russian Consular exists to-day, recognition would never have been extended

by sheer tradition. It is not from the (Chinese) Bureau of Foreign the mass of Chinese that a move-

Affairs according to 1 Daily Bulletin" cable. ment of protest can be looked for. In other days 'the only unity The normal attitude of the

Propaganda. Fails.

Strike oficials in Caman ay acensed of heving attempted to influence the rqoning of the Steam boat Co. steamers on rennns of their Carrying supplies fo" Shameen.

stopped.

This morning Messrs. Jardie, It is reported the propagat nows that the coxswains and

Matheson and Co., Ltd., received among the crews had no affect and ginsera wire joining the strikers,

NEW RIVER BOATS.

FLOOD RELIEF.

IN

The Only Bond Of Unity.

Boy Scouts will celebrate their The 8th Hongkong Troop of third anniversary to-morrow,

The Rev. T. B. Powell, St. Paul's College Hostel, leaves for Japan on Friday next for a four weeks' visit. Mr. J. R. Ellader, the Soviet

ADDITIONS TO WUCHOW HUMANE WORK CONTINUES, that existed beyond vague ties of inhabitants, bred through hun- For storing four times the

RUN.

WIRELESS EQUIPPED SHIPS.

EP FROM ABROAD.

Subscriptions from Chinese According to the "Tsun Wan abroad are pouring in to the Tung Yat

Po," two additional Wah Hospital to assist flood relief river

in the interior. steamers are to be placed on the service shortly. Collections made locally are These are to augment the Hong-increasing and the unique stree: kong-Wuchow fleet and will be drives organised by the Chung ships specially designed for the Sing Benevolent Society also help

to swell the total.

trade.

The On Wo S.S. Co, owners of the s.s. Ving Ping" are to control the two new ships. Each of the boats is stated to steam 14 knots and to have a very shallow draft. Wireless will be installed as

part of the anti-piracy provisions. One boat, the "We Ping" will ply between Hongkong and Wuchow and the other, the "On Ping," wilkrun from Hongkong to Samshui.❤

SERIOUS CHARGE.

WANGHAI WOMAN

REMANDED.

Matt

TYPHOON SEASON.

GALE FILLS UP.

Fictions And Facts.

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blood and the possession of a com-dreds of years of servitude, is to amount of kersine oil that he was mon written language, wholly or accept the present evil lest a worse entitled to by his licence the largely uninteligible. to 99 per thing be cloaked beneath the garb master of the Tung. Sheung Lung cent. "of the population, was based of change. We are no doubt justi- shop, Battery Street, was fined upon the Chinese substitute for fied in demanding that an end shail $25 at the Kowloon Magistracy religion-veneration for ancestors. be put to the political chaos which this morning, Scanty as this would have been in has already rendered it impossible direct tie between each individual its nationals or to make its in- ed, the real truth is that Andro- any case, the fact that it was the for any foreign power to defend Chinese, and the Throne should fluence felt in China, however just meda has always liked the dragon, have been remembered before the its claim, and bids fair shortly to and in the eyes of an increasing deposition of the Emperor bring about the ruin of foreign number of students of the Chinese The Canton Navigation Co., Ltd. paralysed the sole nerve of union activities in the Republic, whether question it is only by restoring has offered the services of the ss. that the various provinces of commercial, educative, or religi- her to the dragon that any form "Pau! Bear" and "Charles Har China possessed." Although, as Tous. And we are within our rights of unity or government is possible douin" to carry, free of charge, have said, the man in the field in in insisting that the demands of for the next half-century. But flood relief supplies, etc.

China-300,000,000 of him his humanity shall not be persistently that, too, is too large a matter to Arrangements are proceeding not yet realised that his Emperor and cynically disregarded, especi- discuss at the close of this letter, apace for co-operation with the has been deposed no edicts are ally when they have been guar- which has for its object, rather, Merchants Militia in Canton and issued in his name, and to any anteed by the solemn undertak- the actual relations which exist the Village Volunteers up-country other names the simple man of ings of a Treaty.

between the real and nominal China lends the obedience of

Governments of China and her necessity and not of reverence.

inert multitudes. The latter seem, He obeys them with equal indiffer-instance of this cynicism,, there may the loss of that union which Last summer, to take a glaring however, to regard without dis- ence whether they appear above the signature of the local magis met at Geneva a Conference on the is a vital necessity if communiça- trate or of the provincial Tahun, opium question, The Americans tions are to be maintained in the His lack of vitriotism has indeed always to the fore in these future between China and the Hongkong is still in for bad saved him from any sense of works of philanthropy were foreign States whose interests weather although the typhoon humiliation, hut the cutting chiefly responsible for the meet-bulk so largely in the present A Wanchai woman, Chiu-hi, which was reported yesterday as through of the last common tie of ing, and they had there the grim account! was remanded until Tuesday at being within the 300 miles radius homage in the entire Empire hus pleasure of reading, as an accom But let us not forget that there the Central Magistracy this but unlikely to strike this Colony, not indirectly brought about its paniment to the instant and glib is one ugly chance of at least p

has since fed up morning when she appeared to

According to the latest Observa-present disintegration. And it is self, association of the sedate temporary unity-2 recrudescence! answer a charge of unlawfully procuring a girl under age of tory report, this typhoon has filled that disintegration that lies at the Chinese representative with the of the anti-foreign movement. up and gone inland to the north root of all the diffeulties which horror that was loudly expressed Only in the face of some such foreigners are now encountering in in some quarters at the continu- fomented prejudice can even the their dealings with China, whether ance of this traffic, the records semblance of common action be they have reference to diplomacy. The blunt, truth is that, in the patriotism in the common meaning of recent opium-growing in China, anticipated. This is in to sense trade, religion, or philanthropy.

What, in fact, is the present absence of more regular methods of the word. It does not in the position? In Felding there sits a of raising money, every Tuchun eye of the Celesial involve any President who is powerful only in not only permits, but enforces, the obligation to move to the defence the field of intrigue. It is rash growing of the poppy on every of any frontier; It does not call!! to assert at any moment that there available acre under his authority. him to run any, risk voluntarily, Minister and Cabinet; but it is in China is so enormous that the brave soldier when conscripted; is even the semblance of a Prime The amount of opium now grown though he makes a carelessly has been issued safe to say that the only influence Governor of Hongkong openly certainly there is not a trace in it any Chinené executive wields is admitted the inability of his of the glamour which alone made exerted in, and to a certain extent Government to cope with the the heroism of the Great War through, the foreign Chancelleries. Chinese supplies.

possible. But if properly handled Corruption is rampant, and the It is on such grounds as, this this cry can in the future, as i one and only attempt on the part that, were others wanting, the has in the past, result in terrible of any Finance Minister to put an Powers would perhaps be justified local brutality. In the north there end to graft led last year to Tung in a stern intervention in Chinese has not been any overt indication Kang's immediate downfall. Of affairs. But would it be wise? It of an awakening of the madness words theré is ever an abundance, is true that the work of the world which resulted in the Boxer but everyone knows that the is, to some extent, hung up while troubles and the siege of the Lega Chinese Parliament has no control executive China drifts from death tions in Peking. But the same over even the least of the many into decay, and any action that unfortunately is not equally true milltary forces in Chip the the Powers will find themselves of the south, sccording to the most more or less regular errules rewilling and able to take in unison recent information and a move Fot-cruited by every other Executive, may, unfortunately, be expected, ment of this kind is not likely to from the small hut workmanlike to err on the side of inadequacy leave the porth unaffected unless forces of Wa Pei-fu and the Chris. So we need not be afraid of taking it is at once and effectively crush tian General Feng, Yu-halang to Lection, the essential. howred out for the south/From this the armed robble of a western ever, is that It should be realised Tuchun The Central Government

"useful to rend start that Parseas will

anti

twenty-one.

Mr. R. A. C. North, of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, said that the woman was the second wife of the girl's father and When the man died the wäinan took the girl to several houses in Wanchat, Cheung Chau was the home of the girl's mother, to whom she eventually ran away." When

of Pakkoi.

TO MARINERS.

DERELICT REPORTED.

follows

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-the-girl-was-on & visit to be the Hongkong and Shanghai run, For the information of mariners grandmother at Wanchal, the defendant had, created a distur- a notice bance. In consequence of the "Derelict fishing vessel, 70 feet allegations made by the girl when a complaint was made at the long painted white, auxiliary Chinese Secretariat the woman

engine, sighted July 15 in Lat. 314 Chau Yau-hi, was arrested.'

N., Long.125.12 B.”

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On arrival here the master of the s.s."Takada," reported a death A Chinese youth appeared great on the ship, from heart failure, ly pleased with himself at the after leaving Calcutta. There was Central Magistracy this morning another death, this being due to when he was informed that he high fever and convulsion. would not be birched because the Prison Doctor had "centified that he was unit for corporal punish ment. He had been sentenced ito be birched and to be imprison ed for 48 hours for stealing from the person of a child.

Continuing his tour of the teries, the Prince of Wales was again accorded a wonderful recop tion on his visits to a number of factories Ex-Service men, wear Defendant's countenance chung lug their decorations wore ed when Mr. Medsell told him inspected in each case before his that the sentence would be in Royal Highness was shown round creased to 3 months hard labour. the works,

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