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SPLENDID YMCA, PROGRESS|| IN AMOY.

AUDITORIUM OPENED.

(From Our Own Correspondent.

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A splendid ceremony was cele brated on April 24 at the Amoy YMCA auditorium in honour of the completion of a magnificent new Y.M.CA. home,

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Space does not permit a long story of the evolution of this building from an old Chinese gar den to one of the most splendid' atructures in Amoy.

CHINESE REPUBLIC.

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1926.

NOW WITHOUT SEMBLANCE OF A GOVERNMENT.

The Pelting correspondent of the "Poking and Tiontain Times" on April 21 writes:

BONNIE BABIES,"

SINGAPORE YOUNGSTERSĮ AT

MEMORIAL HALL, "

Sp

Babies Agured rather more pro minently in the scheme of things. on April 28 than they ordinarily Never before in the history of do, proud mothers bringing a largo the Chinese Republic has there number of bonny youngsters up the been so much political uncertainty Victoria Memorial Hall to compete and confusion as at present. Then the Baby Show which is arrang- departure of the Provisional Chief)

Executive for Tientsin and the ed annually by the Child Welfare consequent collapse of his pro-

Association, an organisation which visional rogime have loft Peking is doing very valuable work in without even the semblance of a Singapore. Babies of all nationall- government. The Chief Executive ties were submitted to the scrutiny sought to avert this dilemma by

A nancial campaign in 1923 made such a building possible. A refusing to accept the resignation of the judges and a "Free Press” grand total of Mex, $98,465 was of the Chia Toh-yas Cabinet: en raportor was authoritatively in- collected from people in Amoy, bloc The 'several Mandates issued formed that the standard reached The Straits, and the South Sea before his departure accepted the

At all

Islands.. Of this sum Gold resignations of the Premier who by the youngsters" this year is $10,000 was donated by the was concurrently Minister for War, higher than what it was on a simi- Y.M.C.A. organisation in the Minister of Communications Minlalar occasion" a year ago.. United States.

ter of Finance; vico-Minister for events. provided for the hundreds of General of the Wine and Tobacco appearances are not deceptive, were

An excellent programme was Foreign Affairs, and Director

one's Impressions, friends who joined in the festive Bureau. Mr. Bu Wai-teh, Minister that the Singapore climate is not occasion which was carried out of Foreign Affairs and the ranking nearly so detrimental to the health, on three successive days.

member in the Cabinet, was apaven of youngsters, as it is reputed pointed to serve as Acting Premier

tongued oratory of Moscow's satellites, and they are too prone to accept as gospel what at other times and in saner moments they would unhesitatingly repudiata,

The programme included: Opening Ceremony (lat. Day). It is quite evident that Genaral

ad interim, upon whose shoulder to be.. General report of the work and now fall the duties of the Pro- Lee Bullard and his fellow plan of the building: the chair-visional Chief Executive. But as into two periods, youngsters 'be- The proceedings were divided up members of the National Security man (Dr. Tan Tien-woon), far as can be learned from au- tween the ages of year and 5% Address: Mr. Chen L-ting, of thoritative sources, Minister Hubeing required to submit themselves League in America fear that the the National Y.M.C.A., Shanghai has declined to take up the onerous to the ordeal of weighing and mea present industrial upheaval in

First Night.

duty, with the result that there is suring and the serutiny of the Great Britain may be the golden Speech: Dr. Lim Boon-keng, no one in Feking who can be really experienced eyes of the judges- opportunity for which the Com-president, University of Amoy held responsible for the conduct Mrs. Dr. Ferguson-Davie, Mrs. Dr. munists have so long been-wait- (represented by Dr. Sun Kwel of the Government.

Dexter Allen, and Dr. Kelly-before- ting).

The Committee for Maintenance nine o'clock ing. It is just this same fear on

in the morning. Second Day...

Thus repeatedly announced, thas it. These competitors were divided the part of Britons overseas that

Scripture and Prayer: Rev.limits its own activities within its into two classes, Clasa `À· for makes it impossible, or at least Chew Chee-tek.

well-defined sphere. It seeks to children between 2%, and 5, and impolitic to attempt to forecast. Presentation of new

audimaintain peace and order in the Class B for children between 1 and capital and further than that it will 2%. In each class there were 21 the duration of the general strike.torium Rev. Fiu Huai-tek,

Benediction: Rev. Lim Woon- not tread a single step. It will not entries. Polats were awarded for With the loyal section of the

interfere with the political affairs. general appearance, cleanliness, working classes at Home the Gov-

Even in the absence, of the Pro- general nutrition, Second Evening, p

teeth, ents, ernment can safely, deal, even with those who may be among the | strikers. But it is the extrem-

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Opening: Rev. Chew Siu-keng, visional Government, therefore, the height and weight for age, and for

Third Day. [For ladies only]. Dramatic

ists and the igitators behind the performance: Amey Dramatic sceres who are most to be dread-Club. ed by reason of their corrupting Sinfluence.

MAY-On May 7, at No.

Mountain View, No. 105,, The Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. G. May, a daughter.

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Hongkong, Friday, May 7, 1998.

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The Goverment has done well. so far in its measures to cope with the strike situation, but it will assuredly bring victory for law and order much nearer by launching a systematic.campaign FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM. against Communists. and Com-

munist Societies whose boast, it is! to trample under foot the very flag that gives them greater free-a dom than any other flag in the world..

Whatever views may be held at Home or in other parts of the Empire in regard to the general strike it is refreshing to see that in America there is no, delusion.. Reuter tells us today that at the close of a National Security League meeting in New York, General Lee Bullard cabled to Mr. Baldwin:

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"All who believe in democra

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WASH BILLS.

LAUNDRYMEN ASK FOR MORE PAY.

• RATES TO GO UP?

tic and constitutional Gov-by native laundrymen are report- Increases in the rates charged ernment "and oppose theed to have been fixed, as the re- destructive policy of Revolusult of the workmen asking for tionary Conimunism. in ita better pay. The rates are given attempt on the present social: order are with you in your fight/

That outspoken denunciation of Communism and its effects, taken in conjunction with the threats of some of the Labour members of Parliament in the House of Com- mong yesterday, ought to make the so-called friends of labour at

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Third Evening. Comedy: Y.M.CA. staff

A FINE FILM.

"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS"

SECURED."

of feet.-S. F. P."

Committee for Maintenance Peace does not undertake to do anything which properly falls among the political duties of the Government. It is expected, how or possibility 13 Hittle more than," ever, that the Committee will cut-mere guesswork. live its own announced term of life of five days in view of the absence of a responsible Government.

It is learned that Mr. Hu Wei- teh, to whom Marshal Tuan Chi- jus entrusted administrative power According to all available in- before his departure to Tientsin, formation, Marshal Wu Felfy is refuses to take upon himself the expected to reach Paoting some grave responsibility, saying that time to-day. Marshal Chang Tao-he will only look after diplomatie in is also expected to come to affairs. It is reported that he pro Tientsin shortly. The two leaders ceeded to the Peace Committee and will have a conference Anally to placed in its custody the official decide upon the form of the next meals of the Chief Executive, re- government and procedure of politi|questing General Wang Shih-chen Yesterday, a British film from cal reorganisation. There has been to look after the administration. British novel dealing with a good deal of talk about Dr. W. W. General Wang, however, is learned typically English scenes was the Yen coming out to organine to be unwilling to comply with the subject of review in these columns"governing cabinet," and the con-request, although he would strain in view of its showing next week vocation of the old Parliament to his efforts for the preservation of He at the Queen's Theatre..

elect a new President in the mean- pence and order in Peking.

founda further undertook to send a cir-

in

A MODERN ANALOGY,

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A film of an entirely different time. There is no more type calling for lavish expendituretion for this assertion than in say-cular despatch to Marahal Chang the production and with ing Marshal Tsao Kun may be re- Tso-lin, Marahal Wã Pei-fu, Gen- scenes from Biblical times and stored to the Presidency Until eral Sun Chuan-fang and General. modern days from which an and , unless Marahal Wu and Yen Hal-shan to hold a conference analogy is drawn is the "Ten Marshal Chang have definitely an-without any loss of time, and select

thaiz Commandments" which has also nounced

political pro- a person to take over the govern- beep secured by the Queen's grammes, every talk and reportment, so that order can be estab Hongkong in the near future. Theatre for showing locally in about this or that political changelished out of the chaos.

The old story of the captivity

FIRST WOMAN - JOURNALIST.

It is

of the children of Israel in the land of Egypt,, the championship of their cause by Moses, the man who refused the lot of princes. to share in the trials of his own Properly speaking, Madame de and value to journaliam, people in order that they might Sévigné, born in Paris, in the there whether she be speaking of eventually be Jed to their month of February, just 300 years the reactions of the Netherlandish Town "country, is pictured in & ago, is the first woman journalist.war, or of the death of Turenne, most interesting form Even Most of her letters were indeed or of the sensitive gentleman who those who from childhood have immediately addressed to a narrow committed suicide when he failed been familiar with the story will public, her married daughter, but to supply the king with enough And points which in the constant they had at quce a considerable roast meat and fresh fish, or of reiteration of the bare narrative circulation among "that daughter's the country dinner party at which may have escaped their attention. acquaintance, and they were pre- the music of the "vlolina, hautboys, The simple language and the served with a care which assured and trumpets" was drowned by the depiction of scenes of captivity them more permanence than any crashing fall of "s" pyramid of

Home pause and think. For years ploying over three hundred men la Egypt, the escape, pursuit, daily press could have done. Nor fruit on twenty porcelain dishes."""" the Communists have been en-between them; Two washermen crossing of the Red Sea, over-are they so intimate that to repro- deavouring to obtain a footing in guilds are in existence, both men whelming of Pharaoh's hosts, duce them in print. for a public Sévigne had already taken posses- In the 17th century Madame de the inner circles of Trade and masters belonging to either scenes in the desert and of the in-large as the number of those who ston of that journalistie sphere Unionism both at Home and in man is over $10 a month, and the draughtsmanship of the ten com-to read French has been a deseera ed to women. In spite of her of them. The average pay of each spiration of the leader in his for three centuries have been able which commun consent has assign- Australia by a species of pro- employees' request for higher remandments are presented in such tion. These letters do not lay allusions to great events, she is no paganda and a form of machina-muneration has been granted by a form that one sees as never be bare the deeper, more fundamental publicist. Her point of view is tion that is nothing if not subtle the employers.

fore the story which words alone, passions as do some other publish-Invariably personal, and contem- and wily. They have set out to vernacular paper to the women not entirely do justice to.

Reference is also made by this however beautifully parased, can ed correspondence for instance porary history interests her only displace Trade Union officials and girls who go out, canvass, and Three thousand years separate Nun. Madame de Sévigné ta the (says the "Glasgow Herald.") the Letters of a Portuguesens It affects personal relations, themselves with the one view of do washing at home at very com- the prologue and the modern plot most decorous, the politest of The controlling the whole Trade Union petitive rates. There are over which follows the Biblical scene epistolary artiste.

standpoint is one which Listen to her allows wearisome title tattle and- three hundred females who do yet the central thought of both a disposing of the ultimate things less impertinence, nauseous vul machinery. That they have fail this kind of work, delivery by unchanged, without age, and as of existence "My position em garity Eht Madame de Sévigné ed in most of their objectives is a them being made in quicker time applicable to-day as then. As the barrasses me without my own proves that it is unnecessary to matter for gratification. But, one than by the laundry shops, ains of Pharaoh and his horde of consent I was embarked upon life lapse from it to any of these faults. or even a dozen failures is nothing

horsemen are avenged by the down I have to leave it, and the fact Spontaneously, easily, and charm to the Communist! He is under

crashing waves to let the children plagues me."

ingly, she treats, tragedy, comedy, orders from Moscow and Moscow

..

It would probably not be correct

Let us talk of something else, inclined, in her unconfessed

Smoking in an opium divan, pass through, so does an emotional tion, she discusses the alternatives seemed to a woman of the world of Israel with their clear faith Rapidly, with humorous Irrita and pure routine merely as they possession of oplum and miscon Red Sea engulf Dan McTavish must be obeyed, for the very duct as a polle officer formed who has attempted to raise his presented to her by eternity, con: who delighted in the plays of simple reason that Moscow aup charges against a Chinese con puny voice against immutable nurse's arms would have saved degree to which it amused, con

cludes that to have died in her destiny, found it important in the plies the money for his insidious stable, Cheong Shing (P.C. 9) LzWk propaganda..

at the Kowloon Magistracy yes. As Moses visited the wrath of her much worry, and adds, finally, ventenced or incommoded her, and terday. He was convicted on all God upon the thousands of Thus she remains witty, superficial, thoughts, to doubt whether it had charges, fines of $1, $25 and $10 Israelites engaged in false worship and courageous, conforming to her any further significance.. to say that the Trade Union move- respectively being imposed of the calf of gold, so do we find ment at Home is honeycombed

ideal of breeding. punishment inevitably visited

To-day her work lives aiore truly with Communists or Communist The annual membership and upon those who presume to set She is a journalist because her than that of her contemporaries influences. But a general strike

financial campaign of the Chinese up substitute idols of wealth, matter is nearly always topical who commented on peasing events is undoubtedly playing into the evening.

YMCA closed on Wednesday, money or power in this modern the happenings in Paris under the with a sense of - respónai

The campaign netted day, Rol Bolet, the poems and plays She is more widely read than they hands of the Communist intimida 1,600 members and $10,960, which The film is a Cecil B. de Mille which averyone was reading, talk and read tors and agitators. The working is considerably in excess of what Paramount production, the story about gardens and Berkuring kkum surpassing them classes with a grievance, real or

the workers aimed at. Eight teams being by Jeanie MacPherson The the months in walah Of members were organized to caste includes well kno Imaginary, against Capital fall a too easy prey to the silver

carry out the cinimign, the win such as Theodore Robe ning team mettin 66,318

fx and Rod La Roc

were

the two, conditions

veitin after ril, the pér« point of view which is never