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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 0- 1924

SHAMEEN

STRIKE.

CORRESPONDENCE. !

SHAMEEN STRIKE,

WORDS PUT INTO MOUTH OF BRITISH [To the Editor of the Chia Mail."}

CONSUL-GENERAL

BY FICTION- MONGER.

ACTUAL SITUATION EXPLAINED. EMPLOYEES HAVING ROUGH TIME AT HANDS OF BOSSES; POOR FOOD. AND NO PAY.

Under yesterday's date, i Canton correspondent sends the following to the "Daily Bulletin "

The statement published in one of the morning papers on August 4, that the British Consul-General `thought it practicable to follow the suggestion of the compradores that the lukongs should be employed by foreign firms, but that if any disturbance occurs within one year, everyone who has occasion to leave Shameen after midnight shall provide photographs of himself for Inspection by the guard, is absolutely without any foundation whatever. No such suggestion has eựr been made, and the latter part of the statement is pure invention."

Unemployed The "Bosses,"

It is interesting to note that the

strike party is entirely in the

Who Suffers Most?

:

THE CHINA MAIL.

know, but I want to say, "Until you get some backbone and either.

cept your government or make u now one. These things are not as of old and I leave my friend Feeling like a noden-tunes grill.

TENNIS CHAMPIONS,

JAPANESE VICTORIES IN

MALAYA,

(6) But who are the lenders? (From Our Own Correspondent.) Everyone knows. Why are they Sir-As a disinterested party the lenders? No one knows. I have watched this curious battle ask for the names of the Guilds and

SINGAPORE, August 5. . Asano, a Japanese resident of the Sharmeen residentges a full reply but when between and un apparently nebulous 'usten the delegates of the alleged cou-championship

usk for Singapore, won the singles tennis hudy, with considerable neamedical plaining workers I am told, "Oh, partnership

of Malaya. with Koizumi' be interest: My sojourn in China has they aren't on the committee helped to carry off the doubles been comparatively short, only show could they be?"

championship also. years and therefore I lay no chin I have been into Shameen. The draw for the Malayan to understanding Chinese affairs: There 1 see the real workers every Tennis Championships is nevertheless I have only just rear his own boy, cool, nurket follows: covered from the shock of this new olie, and clerk and his own. Singles: Perak, a bye, First experience. May be permitted cheerful soul. He is also his own round-Selangor VS. Malacca, to indulge in expressing a few policeman and public servant. Ilis Penang vs. Negri Sembilan. thoughts which may be helpful to business is open if it does not buzz Singapore, a bye. both sides...

and everywhere there is

& smile Doubles; Malacca, a bye. First (1) I notice chat the Hongkonglous knowing the Chinese suffer Perak

and a joke. Why? Are they round-Penang vs. Singapore, press publish in juxtaposition news. Are they smiling because Selangor, a bye.

V5. Negri Sembilan. from the "Canton Gazette ande Chinese forgot the great war from their own correspondents.

The first round of the doublés, They seem to give them equal though they couldn't do it? and Selangor vs. Malacca in the weight but proceed to write leaders is it because they feel that the singles will be played on August 1, not based on their newer and liable, whole thing is childish and the if indeed not subjected, to effective children will return in time daly uling at the hands of rival peniten-and expectant of the

usual spoonful of jam? P3 [>L+ 2°34_ It would seen wiser to knows?

Who leave alone these red-herring views. and laying verified the factsolicitor friend of the "Canton (8) I do not want to labour my which they could" conceivably do;

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hands of Canton's unemployed. (Front Our Special Correspondent.) their correspondents, or (ikette but when he preaches he

At one meeting which the real clerks of Shameen endeavoured to hold, there were some 40 men armed" with revolvers waiting'lo auack anyone who sald anything that the strikers' committee did not approve of One Shameen employee was appointed by the committee as a detective and given alpass to the strike headquarters. When he found, however, that he was not to be allowed to open his mooth at the strikers meeting, he refused to go to headquarters.

The strikers are entitled to two "menis" a day, but the food is of the poorest possible quality, and 10 pay is given at all.

CANTON CRISIS?

SUN YAT-SEN IN GRAVE

DANGER.

MANY TROOPS DESERT.

IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS

EXPECTED.

The stevedore of Canton, in their sympathetic strike with the Chinese employees of Shameen. by leaving the large foreign godowns in Canton without work- ers, are really hurting their own provincials more

than foreign

and

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by perhaps, applying to those whooines near to my realm. He sug

the JUSTNESS know) proceed to write their lead- ing articles on really send datu,|

310RALITY of reinstating the However, this is only a thought, police. Yes, but he omite the (2) I also notice that in the oneness? and morality? of claim- English printed newspaper pub- dane. He fails to see the obvious House of Commons, Mr. Sidney ing pay for work that has not been

In reply to questions, in the BIRKENNDAMENTE 194420 Jished in Canton, the 'Canton Gazette," a wonderful series, of fatuity of reinstating men in work Webb (President of the Board, of articles called "What Kind of a which their adopted betters aver Trade) said he was aware many settlement, following on some dis- they willingly left because of a contracts for forward delivery of merchants having offices in the closures of which the paper, seems sense of deep humiliation. Is it British: Manufactured goods had concession. The rice guilds in justly proud, Bright breezy little possible that the Peepshow raen been cancelled by Japanese buyers Canton now have a large consign- articles they are, and as I read who pull his wires wish their down as a result of the new Japanese ment of goods stored in foreign them I wonder who wrote them. lightenment shed by the glitter of tions had already elicited a con trodden brethren to reflect the en-Luxury Tariff. British representa godowns, which they

They read to me like the newly minted strike, pay?

Percession and the Government were obtain. Their appeals to the

ments of some struggling solicitor strikers for special arrangements

in charge of a failing case. I ad- laps the answer is in the negative. endeavouring to obtain further Perhaps this is also "different," mitigation of the adverse effects have so far brought them to reliefire his English but weep to see

the obvious shallowness of his legal Perhaps the farseeing commercial of the Introduction of new duties attoluments. At one time sympathisers, who voluntarily aub- at such short notice.

scribed, desire some small return thought the writer was some for for their generosity. ign educated petty official seek!

g for cheap popularity in ques of Shameen think of it all.

(0) And what does the council Ton tionable. qunters but enquiry led minutes of Shameen told me, thut ne from this false track. I was this composite sphynx site and reminded of the excellent logic of

cannot

MURDER IN CANTON,

MATINEE IDOL SEIZED OUTSIDE THEATRE.

||

REX BULLETS IN BODY.

Yet another Cantonese "matinea idol has been shot in the public Writing to the "China Mail" Street, the latest one, being forcibly from Canton under yesterday's taken for some distance in a motor- date, a correspondent makes some cur in Canton on Monday night stariling statements regarding the and. then slot, in a deserted political and military situation in corner. the province. He says:..

Large numbers of those in the shooting it is interesting to recall Before going into details of the Walchow and Pingshan districts are joining. up with General Chan, the number of victims that the Kwing-ming (Chen Chiung-ming) | Chinese stage. Las provided for and Important developments are shooting tragedies in the last few The latest is that years, Firstly there was the Wo expected. whole divisions are turning over Ping theatre affair in Hongkong to his side and that more are when the alleged assailant was expected to follow suit with their found not guilty after a sensu field officers.

tional trial. The actor on this oc- casion was shot whilst performing

the stage.

"

Successes in the East River region for General Chan and his allies have been confirmed and li is felt that an offensive will follow.

CHINESE FESTIVAL.

Not long afterwards, the best- know of all the ladies' favourites was murdered whilst walking on "the Taiping Maloo at Canton about midnight. After his deatli 'came that of another hero who had achieved fome,. He was sbot SEVEN HEAVENLY VIRGINS. Whilst in a housebout in which his troupe lived, but it was mentioned that it was the result of an ac TO-NIGHT'S CELEBRATIONS. cident Only lust year another young man was murdered in Hong- Tomorrow beinglihe'seventhiday kong at the junction of Queen's of the seventh moon, is the festival Road West and Queep's Street. of the Seven Heavenly Virgins He was riding in a ricsha and a who are believed to meet the pot-shot found its mark. In this young Cowherd on the Silver case a local Pressman materially Stream (Milky Way) that night.assisted the Police in proving that This is observed by nearly all here was another instance of Chinese girls and also Chinese cherchez la jeme. As recently ladies.

as a month or so ago, another etage Half of the shops in Lyndhurst idol was "killed" in Yaumati ac- Terrace are purveyors of haber cording to an account in a vernacu dashery and other articles whichlar paper but he "survived" and is only interest the weaker sex. A playing to bumper liouses in Hong week before the festival, they kong to-day. display tableaux made of ricc The actor killed on Monday

and paper

tissue

paper in atarted as a female impersonator which allegorical references are but deserted those rôles for male made to the Seven Sisters and the characters. It is stated that us hero Cowherd. These shops are was leaving the Sai Kwa Un thea-" full of girls in their 'teens who buy tre when he was dragged away and these pieces for the ceremony ultimately fired at despite a hue Tomorrow night. The jose paper and cry raised by his colleagues. shops make large seven-cornered When examined "he was found to trays of paper with paper boudoir be mortally wounded by one of requisites which are burnt as three bullets which had entered offerings to the Heavenly Maidens. his body. The murderers are 'be- Families vie with one another lieved to have emptied the con in getting up elaborate displays in tents of a revolver magazine from which wild and catable fruit, distance of less than a foot away. com grown in small dishes with minute lantern in the stalks, form the major part of the decorations, A common greeting To-morrow will be How many tables have you set up?", numbers being a sign of affluence,

R. H. K. G. C.

SUMMER COMPETITION,

The Royal Hongkong Golf Club Mr. Snowden (Chancellor of the will hold its Summer Competition, Exchequer) Moved the Thoney weather permitting, on Saturday resolution on which to base the and Sunday, 9th, and Tot, inst., or proposals of the Government the following week end if an involving inferased expenditure on other postponement is necessary. ld-age pensions. He hoped in Particulars are published on the time to deal with mothers' pen-usuut notice boards. sions, and to reduce the pension- THEY CAPTAIN'S CUP, ANAL able age to, say, 85 years. The The Captain's Cup Competition resolution was agreed to. The for August, played at Fanling on, second reading of the Pan 2nd 4th lost was won by JL alons Increase Bill, which raises. Strellshear, D. 5. Ó. 30–13779. the amount of pre-war pensions The same player, wins, the pool. and removes the disqualification of Other returas were J. Smith, residence outside England was 98-18-80D CA)Brice; *94- agreed to.

"We

BATHING TRAGEDY.

WARRANT OFICER'S DEATH.

There was a tragic ending to the daily launch picnic to Stonecutters from H.M.S. Ambrose" yester day when one of the members who

the Chinese Government which guits, (perhaps meats and drinks) prompted the summary banish at the situation it has produced. ment and subsequent trial of the However, it doesn't matter,"

"We know Editor who was accused of pub-the residents say. lishing the untimely end of Doctor Sun No-member of his Govern ment would be so unwise.

(3) I love the effulgence of the halos round the Lukonge (who in a lot of amateurs but they repre- cidentally I see

Sent US." That's what they say call their own society The Police Guild and in Shameen. So let the Counci

police" in the latest ul official sit and think or merely sit. characters) in the matter of their (10) The strike leader: yes, "Don't bother reinstatement. Was it not some that's the job! months ago that great stress was about principles." he says, "you He laid on the rectitude of a police- get down to hard facts."

The deceased, Warrant Engineer man in the city who met his death nows if he is to be a leader the John Fraser, was a very popular at the hands of four soldiers. war ery is, "Reinstatement and member of the ship's company and think he was accorded acclamation strike-pay "That's the stuff to will be greatly missed by his com

a military funeral of great give 'ein or rather for them to rades. He was 34 years of age state, no doubt to serve as an ex- give you." "You stick up for and had served in the Ambrose ample to all policemen and other your rights and we will stick you for some considerable time. Much public servants. Wasn't there up for what you get. But per sympathy will be felt for the widow also the case of the two Shameen haps I misjudge. Perhaps it is the who is at Home. police who nearly caught the would-be assassin of Mr. Merlin had it not been that they found theinselves confronting a revolver

Please Mr. Editor, forgive my empty. But perhaps they didn't know that. And now we find trespass on, your valuable space. colonins devoted to condoning the I will do so no more. My apology the lurch, for the sake of their own to divert the thoughts of your Police leaving their employers in is my inveterate and senile desire skins, after 15 to 20 years faithful readers from prosy official inets to work and good and regular pay poetic unofficial fancies-or with pickings. The threats must they half-trutha? have been indeed terriblė.

Believe me,

Yours étc..

What's behind it all and it we going to come, anyhow."!.

__is_thought_to... have had a sudden can go on for a long time without heart attack, was found lying in "The council may be about four feet of watter in a worrying."

critical condition. He was taken On board the Jaunch which returned at full speed to the 'Ambrose" in order that medical attention could be secured but death took place shortly after the ship was reached.

and

(4) I see that the Canton Gor- ernment talls of taking over these police, to all their vani. On the

"If thy Christian principle. neighbour smite thee on the right check offer unto him the left pocket,"

August 4, 1924.

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ner and I see the strikers lead Shi Chino, Kwangtong, ing nway their recalcitrant brethren in hains under the nose of the City Police, beating them the while with sticks. I hear that blacklegs suffer the most 'dire threats and 'ore indeed locked up in the lair of the strike leaders, I sometimes fear that the Govern- inent is lotting its heart run away with its head. For should not these etalwart

of supporters Justice be the ones to be enrolled in the city police or perhape Shameen.

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(5) As I wander through city in the ecurse of my avocations of 28 years”. I fud complete apathy as TB. gards the strike, its causes and conduct. I read the characters referring to obnoxious insults and ask my friends to point out what are theso insults, but they do not However, even know the tort, they tell me that there is to, bo complete re-instatement-so the leaders say. "Complete," I say.

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"What about the bad ones who misbehaved when they left, they reinstated?" "Ah," they reply, that's different." Then I ask about the Lukongs and the reply is omphatic. "Well," I say, "supposing you and a watchman who had rung his gong for 20 Years and in the 21st ran at the i sight of a lurking man-perhaps a thief. What would you do?** Ali, is the reply "that's differ ent. Thien T. say: "But surely this Government, if they think the terms offered are fair, can make the leaders accept them?"": "*'Oh, they couldn't do that is the answer. And then I think :'*TË: they couldn't do that what could they do? Then my friend, says confidentially, "How, long twilll 1. last and I answer, I don't

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