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NO "FUN"?
LOCAL VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE.
WHY THERE IS NONE.
Not Enough "Work" "To Do in Hongkong.
What about a local volunteer fre brigade
to
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1926.
HAINAN RISING?
PRO-CHAN GENERAL MOVES AGAINST CANTON.
CANTON ANXIETY.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
C.S.P. PROSECUTES.
OLD"WOMAN “A PIRATE AND ROVER."
HONGKONG CLUB DOOR.
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PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
CANTON CUSTOMS.
·100 MEN SAID TO HAVE "
JOINED UNION.
Newsvendor Who Wants To Be Run Over..
LABOUR PEACE MOVE,,
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
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CANTON.
SUN YAT-SEN'S TITLE.
Power to Make Him Axolute Dictator.
Canton, June 17... It was revealed to-day that (From Our Own Correspondent.) nearly a hundred of the employees of the Chinese Maritime Customs
Canton, June 13. »
Described by the local head of There is grave anxiety in Gov-
a "pirute," and by a ernment circles over reports frum | police as Hainan that a rebellion may break police magistrate as a "rover." an
Canton, June 17. ‚“vegulars" who are now short in out there at any time, headed by old woman who is licensed to hawk here have joined the new union! I numbers ?—usks a correspondent. | General Tang Pun-yan, formerly
To-day General Chang Kai- in spite of the announcement of Well, as mater of fact," none pro-Chan commander, on thenewspapers was prosecuted this Colonel F. Hayley Bell. Commis-shek spread consternation in the Both King Chow and morning for causing an obstruesioner of Customs, that men who calmly nunounced a new organisa franks of the Kuomintang. He exists in the Coleng of Hong-island. Kong As far as can be gathered, Ngai Chow are said to be general- tion in Jackson Road, near the join the unions will be dismissed. tion of Military Council Which there is still one survivor of disaffected, and the situation is Hongkong Club she was fined $3. lai Tong-ming, an old Customs will give him absolute and per- former volunteer force but it held to be fraught with peril.
employee, is said to be the head
sonal control of both the Army would not be incorrect to say that
of the new unioni. the Hongkong Volunteer Fire
and the Navy, and, moreover, he assumed the title of Generalis. Brigade is a thing of the past.
sime (once held by the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen).
The Canton Government seems to have blundered in removing nearly 4,000 of General Li Chai-
sum's troops from Hainan' to the Northern buttie front. This left less than 800 of Li's troops there to control the situation.
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The writer remembers the time turing the War when this Lody was formed. What WALS lacking in actud strength of num-
Pickets Excesses. hers was made up by enthusiasm. As that time, the regular Brigade Since so many troops have been had not been "reorganised." taken away, banditry and piraty consisted of port-time Europeang, have broken out with renewed all attached to the Police, under force, and the people in the towns a trained man, and assisted by a fand villages are both terrorised mere handful of Chinese Aremen and actively discontented. who did the manual work. When addition, strikers and pickets are the change came, the Police-fire- said to be greatly exceeding "detached" and the their authority on the island, and present establishment was form to fe oppressing the people in
Hardly anybody will ques various ways.. wed. tiny th+ assertion that the Brigade does not have an ade quate personnel, especially in trained Europeans to do the directing. I will adoo be recailed that the Commission recently re- commended a full-time Chief Officer,a position at present held by the Captain Superintendent of Police,
men were
The Hon. Mr. B. C. Wolfe, Captain Superintendent, told His Worship (Major" C. Willsonf that
it was his own case.
When asked to plead, the defen- dant made a statement to this effect: I was standing near the Club, door when a beckoned to me from the door of the Hongkong Cricket Club.
customer
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One unusual clause in the char. teh of the new union is one which prescribes that the organisation Shall fever enli a strike without permaission of the Nationalist Gov- ernment and the Central Kuomin-
tang,
I was crossing the road to, deliver a to go to Hongkong and confer with Advisers, and twelve subsidiary
paper when the C.S.P: came along in his car and told me that I was obstructing.
Mr. Wolfe. He was prepared to This statement he denied, said
go into the box and say that no customer was in sight.
Continuing, the CS.P. stated General Tang Pun-yan. eager, that the woman "persistently for a return to power, has not been sells in the middle of the road. slow to make capital out of the situation, and to fans the anti-Thursday was the second occasion in danger of being run over. On Government feeling.
on which his car, had practically run into her and he decided to bring her before the Court.
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officers,
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tion of army control provides Chang Kai-shek's reorganisa-
for "a strong "headquarters Political Department." which wil of Honam selected Kao Ping-po will also be a Central Bureau of The Central Union of Mechanics include a military court. There and Wong Woon-ting as delegates merchants over terms for calling
Plan in Detall of the boycott. Then an un- founded rumour reached. "the The scheme provides for a Union that Hongkong had refused secretariat for headquarters. to negotiate. so the appointment staff chief, a Bureau to handle all officially cancelled. To-affairs pertaining to captains and will be re-named as delegates. morrow; however, the same men lieutenants, a military stations. office, a conservation department, Kuomintang has notified all Gov- Navy office, an Aviation office, a The secretary of the Centrala military-legal-affairs bureau, a
meeting will be held to-morrow atment of munitions. ernment organisations that conscription board, and a depart the Kuomintang headquarters to General Chang has personally Arms Concealed There.
make detailed plans for memorial chosen the mer to fill all of these Additional uneasiness is caused to the Government here by a be-
services to be held on Shakee on positions. He will perfunctorily Mr. Wolfe remarks that theJune 28 in memory of the Chinese secure the approval of the lief that Geierul Tang Pun-yan's woman was a "pirate." (Laugh- killed there a year ago.
Political Committee, but that ap adherents can be quickly and ter). There were two others who If memory is aright, the effectively armed.
new Canton wireless proval is a foregone conclusion Volunteer Brigade was formed be- Paryan was finally defeated by door and were perfectly harmless, to handle messages to and from to oppose even this final move When: Tang sat at the entrance to the (Club) station is now equipped and ready for the Committee does not dare cause the Police were short of Cantonese troops less than 40 per Defendant's pitch was
at the Hongkong. men who had left fortactive sercent of his arms and munitions "Star Ferry wharf and she wan-director of the Wireless Telegraph commander and his friends from Feng Kwei-leung, which will place the Chekiang vice. As members were transfer were surrendered to the victors,dered over towards the Club. ret to other ports and conditions and it is known that he and his
Bureau, announces that the rate the North in complete control of changed, so the numbers davindled followers have large stores of a "rover."
His Worship: Oh: then she is for commercial messages to Hong the military" and naval forces of The only one left "on ser rifles, revolvers and munitions
kong will be '30 cents a word, Kwangtung. After explaining the matter, while 20 cents a word will pay for Vice" is it is believed, Mr. Rhidden on the island.
His Worship imposed the fine of messages to Shuichow, Wuchow,
· Mein Austin, who acts as an gffi-.
3 and told defendant that if she Kongmoon and Shiuhing. cer, with the "regulars." when
obstructed again, her licence may there is a "second" or "home"
be cancelled.. rall
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General Li Chai-sum has been urging the Government to let him return to Hainan with a portion of his soldiers, but consent to this So much for the European has not been given because his volunteers. Shortly after the
forces are needed at the front, strike began last year. Chinese (Note: Hainan is the large POLICE OPEN FIRE. force of volunteers was formed. island, to the south of Kwangtung Drill and training were taken up and is a part of the province. It seriously but the movement has
was the last pro-Chan territory to died a natural death. Most of fall into Kuomintang hands when the Chinese volunteers were General Chan Kwing-ming's fol- smart, young men. the majority lowers were routed last year.] being athlebes, but there was. something which did not constice to their sticking it out. It is said that on the ground, the volunteers proved themselves. efficient, but when it
came
to going up any height, the difficulty began. No insinuation is meant, but the matter was not a success.
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REV. MOTHER SUPERIOR FELICE.
FUNERAL TO-DAY.
Lo
LAUNCH PASSENGER
KILLED.
The
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"NEAR THE RAPIDS...
SHAKY POSITION OF GERMAN GOVERNMENT.
EXCITED CONJECTURE.
In Late Chief's Quarters.
Chang also announced to-day that he will at once remodel the Cement Works across the river from Canton, and move,his head- quarters staff there. This is the place which was for long the headquarters of the late Dr. Sun..
After a period of intensive military and political training the 20th division was reviewed yes- terday by General Chang Kai- shek and General Ho Yin-chin, and then left for the Northern front to-day, going by rail to Shiukwan.
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Berlin. June 18, Meagre details to hand indicate Whether the Governmental bar chat because a passenger steam-que will successfully negotiate the Jaurch failed to stop in response rapids in the next few days is at
Other Items. a challenge by the Water present the topic of anxious and
Permission of the Military Police, the vessel was fired at and excited conjecture with the ap- Council has been obtained by one man on board was killed. prouch of the referendum on Sun-Chief of Police Li Cheung-tat for The man's name is given as day on the subject of the dispro- the immediate formation of a Lam Cheung lan and he is de-priation of ex-Rulera' property. Peace Maintenance Corps, which scribed as a pig dealer. When Public ferment is ventilated by will really be a large auxiliary to the launch did not slow down, the monster demonstrations, in which the police force. The Military Police opened fire. He expired prominence in given to banners Council will supply arms and later and his body was removed to suggesting that the protagonists ammunition for the new corps the mortuary.
interpret the struggle as Monarchy which will be enlisted from regi- versus Republic.
ments of soldiers stationed in the North River districts. ,་"
RADIO-TELEGRAMS.
Notice is given that the rabe..for radio-telegrains exchanged between Indo-China and Hongkong is as follows:-
Expert opinion is that there is not enough to do, to keep a for- eign Volunteer Fire Brigide in
It is with regret that we have Hongkong. We do not get to announce the death of the Rev. enough fires--not that any more Mother Superior Felice, of the delicable. 1n Shanghai. French Convent. Causeway Bay, things are different. The Inter- who had a record of unselfish de- national Settlement depended to a votion and of tireless energy in great extent on the volunteers at fulfilling duties in connection with one time, when there were four the Convent which had earned her companies. Then there were the love and devotion of all who about 150 fires a year, and one came into contact with her. did get some "fun" by joining. News of her death came as a But round about 1917, the num-great shock to her many friends. ber of fires grew to such an "ex- and admirers among the Catholic tent that service became too heavy community and elsewhere for the a call on one's time,
deceased lady had been in the There was no hard and fast best of health yesterday morning, rule for attending calls. Nearly She succumbed to a sudden attack all the members lived in messes of "apoplexy, passing away about and were available together half past eight in the evening. During office hours, one resorted It was in 1891 that the Rev. to discretion. "If there was no Mother Felice came to Hongkong pressure of work, or a non-us Mother Superior and she has Volunteer could carry on....one ably and graciously Alled-thai-Till non-to-morrow the Observa- dashed out to respond to an position since, having had the tory's weather forecast readas---- alarm. But the increasing number pleasure of watching the growth East, or Variable winds, moderate; of fires necessitated attendance of the Institution, and of its generally overcast.
valued work. Since her time, the Convent removed from the pre- mises in Wanchai to the present commodious building.
Radio-telegraphic charge. Fr. 0.50 per word. Terminal charge.. Hongkong.charge
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WEATHER FORECAST.
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A memorial of re-entry by the The funeral is to take place this Crown on Kowloon Inland Lot No (Saturday) evening, passing the 1783 has been registered according Monument at 5.30.
to law.
Dr. Stresemann. interviewed by | Reuter, ridiculed such a contention,
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Dr. Stresemann.
The Red Cross has begun a canvass of medicine shops and dis- pensaries in Canton, asking for donations of medical and surgical supplies for use in hospitale at the Northern front;
LICENSING COURT,
A meeting of the Licensing Board
will be held in the Council Chan-
ber on Saturday, June 26, at noon,
for the purpose of considering the. following application under the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911-
From Joseph Louis Durand for publican's licence to retail in toxienting iquors at the premises situated at No. 12, Pedder Street (Pedder Building) under the sigh "Cafe Restaurant Parisien.".-
(but pointed out that whereas the plebiselte move by the Socialists and Communists favour disposses-
NAVAL YARD COLLISION. sion of the ex-Rulers without com. pensation, he declared that the
A collision between a motor-car Government had prepared a Com- and 4 public ricsha occurred yes- promise Bill making i distinct terday near the Naval Yard main difference between State and pri- gute. The car was driven by. vate property, leaving the ex-Rulers Mrs. Chater, wife of Surgeon. a certain amount of private pro- Captain Chater, R.N. The rich
tried to get across and Government circles are confident | damaged.
will not be obtained for confisca tion, though. ahculd these calcula tions. be falsified the consequences
on such a scale that the taipand stepped in.
Since then, the Shanghai (In ternational Settlement) regular brigade has been enlarged. But a volunteer body is rendering use. ful service at present in the French Settlement, where there are two companies-one being of French citizens.
Alterations In house numbers in'perty.. The name of Mr. Tsang Fuk-cho, Hongkong has a Volunteer De- M., B.S (Hongkong) has been Nathan Road (525 to 700), Jordan fence Corps to assist the Army, if added to the Register of Medical Road, and Ying Fai Terraco, that the requisite 19,800.0000 votes
the "Government necessary; the Police Reserve has Practitioners entitled to practise notified earned the gratitude of the com.medicine in this Colony, munity in two periods of stress:
Gazette,
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and a Volunteer Naval Reserve. His Excellency the Governor "in After falling 16 feet, a Taikoo | would ta most disastrous since the has been mooted and approved. Council has ordered that the for had the base of his skull Hindenburg Government would re- Then there are St. John Ambul Christian_Chinese Cemetery, Kowfractured and "was removed to sign and the Federal States, notably. ence Brigade, Boy Scouts, Girl loon City," known us New Kowloon hospital. He slipped while work- Bavaria, would refuse to carry out Guides, etc. Can the Volunteer Inland Lot No. 16, shall be closed ing on a wooden support on the confiscation, and the result Fire Brigade be re-established? from and after July 1.
board a ship.
would be chaos.
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