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A long despatch has been issued from Canton on the subject of the incident at Wanhsier in Szechuan province. high up, the Yatigtau

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1926.

“SPIRITS” CASE.

[Continued from pays :)

the

RIVER POLLUTION.

PROTECTIVE SOCIETY TO BE FORMED.

"Unfair" Inference,

For some years past the necessity Mr. F X. Remedios; for

for a society that would have for plaintif briefly addrossod tha!

its object the preservation of Bri- court and tormed as unfair" the tiah rivers from pollution has been suggestion that the plaintiff had recognised by all riverside dwellers' been dishonest, in her trade, which and those devoted to river sport was merely that of a herbalist in and pleasures. In 1929 the cran corroborasion of which the court

As a newspaper, the "Chine Mail" had the evidenes of witnesses whoon of the Pure Rivers Society was definitely proposed, but was defor is open to the views of "both sides. had been cured by harmaans with red, in order to observe the effects The following fa the product of the out the introduction of auch super- of the Act passed in that year, and

"National for natural manifestations as had been the results of the negotiations. Kuomintang, the People's Party." which controls alleged in this case. With regard of the Government's "Volunteer of to the events of the marriage the Committee" with persons respon- the Nationalist Government

court had the evidence of the "kitable for pollution. In both casos South, China.

Under yesterday's date, it is fat wife of the defendant who had the results are regarded as disap- issued by the Canton Information stated that she wanted her husband pointing, and naa consoquence energetic efforts, are being made in Bureau La Government organisa-to marry the plaintiff,

In giving judgment, Mr. Justice interested and influential quarters. tion) through Reutor's. AA

Wood eald that a great quantity to establish a follow-

strong protective of evidence had been called na to

society)

Mr: F: W. Gomm, to whom, as

Hague Convention Quoted. The special Kuomintang Con-superstitious practies and other cress has issued a manifesto on the matters. He had not been able to president of the London Angling Wanhsten Massacre from which rule any of that out as irrelevant Association and president of the are extracted the following pasand was of the opinion that it was Federation of Sea. Anglers, the all properly called. He did not and math task of organisation has fal-

soges:-

The Second Hague Conference It necessary to express an opinionen, sketched briefly in an inter-

Naval as to what actually occurred be- view with categorically prohibited

a representative of The Dally Telegraph " the bombardment on undefended ports,tween the parties in this direction towns, villages, dwellings or other for of the form taken by the alleged character of the society that is buildinge under all circumstances superstitious practice and its in-about to be formed, and what it

"In all pro

feared, however, that the number/and conditions. This is laid down [fluence on the conduct of the, par hopes to accomplish.

life, beauty, and healthfulness" of our rivers at heart. Already, be- ¡fore the society is actively in being.. offers of support are pouring ira

13 OF..

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in Article 1, Convention IX. sign ties. He was not satisfied that the bability we shall conane ourselves of enthusiasts here is very limited by Great Britain and other plaintiff had made cut her claim to to a propaganda campaign for the ed-how limited, of course, we can Powers who preach sanctity and have lent, the $1,000 to the defen-first few months," he said: "and only surmise in the continued inviolability of international agree- dant and he therefore gave judg-rally to us everybody who has the

ment for the defendant with costs. ments and treaties. absence of a Statistics Branch of

This specific and written law of the Import and Export Depart-nations is cited in order to em- phasise the barbarity and in- ment..

humanity of the British Naval bom- SCOTTISH SABBATH. notonly from angling associations. There are other equally vital bardment of the undefended and

but from yachtamen, swimming and boating clubs, and private indivi- problems now before the Imperial unfortified Chinese city of Wan- murderous, British

duals, whose sole motive appears to Conference, such as Naval defence hsfen, where

be their love of river amenities. and commercial aviation, which flro which lasted nearly three hours

Many of these offers are resulted in the death of over 600 should concern us as a Colony, killed, over 1,000 wounded nearly

Glasgow-Sunday trading panied by substantial choques. We

recent but growing: ex havo had a meeting of the of even though our voice be only the 2.000 houses destroyed and the loss voice of the Colonial Office, of over $10,000,000 of property.

cresence on Scottish communal feganising committee. at which it The Chinese Argument, as evidenced by the latest statistica.was decided to issue a booklet des- Thanks, in part, to the local

There was absolutely no reason Perhaps this is not so noticeable cribing the needs and objects of branch of the Navy League, Hong or excuse for this crime. It can in the towns and country as in the the society, which is to be called the tendency, the Pure Rivers Society, and it is Kong realises full well her im- not be justified on secount of the cities. where mense dependence on the Navy seizure by a Chinese military com especially since the war, hau dave-proposed to hold a meeting of sup- mander of two British steamers inloped rapidly. Clasgow, which is porters on or about. October 5, at for her existence; and the day connection with the drowning of the largest and most cosmopolitan which a plan of campaign will be shall never come when indiffer-afty Chinese soldiers, due to the of the Scottish cities, provides a drawn up." ence BK to the

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Landon has often been reproach.

It was doubtful, Mr. Gomm de- another typical if rather extreme example strength culpable negligence of

British steamer, nor can justifica- for these fresh inroads of commerce (clared, if 10 per cent. of our rivera of the Navy will

tion be based on the death of seven upon the traditionally sacrosanct wore free from pollution. Among » dominate here: There is British officers and seamen who lost sabbath. . In 1916, 4,168 traders of other lamentable results, rivers too much, at stake for that. In their lives in an armed British at- all varieties, of which more than which had been producing salmon. regard to the "all-Red line" in the tempt to recapture, the steamers half were dairymen. confectioners, to the value of many thousands of

And the shadow of any excuse or and fruiterers, conducted places of pounds yearly were rapidly become.. field of aviation, we can regard justification is dissipated by the business in the city on Sunday.ing, fishless. In twenty-five years EMPIRE PROBLEMS.. with pleasure the prospects of the fact (admitted even by a British Last year, by a steady process of there would be no rivers left-only Anglera felt the Empire route being extended from news agency) that, four hours be increase not only in number, but in open sewers.

fore the bombardment, the Chinese kind, this seventh day trading composition' keenly, but they were not So far as the Imperial Confer Singapore and Australia to Hong military commander in question munity had been awollen to over the only; or, indeed, the worst, In numeroua instances ence has gone there is little of Kong and other parts of the Far (General Yang Sen) with his troops 8,000. The dairies, fruit shops, and sufferers. more than academic interest to East. There is no doubt that retired to a distance inland of the eating houses contributed a cattle had been poisoned, and about twenty miles, The premedi- few hundreds to the total but the farmers had had to move stock from In the progress in British aviation tated character of the deed is re-most remarkable fillip was given by riverside meadows. He hoped to fact, there is a super-abundance between the Imperial Conference vealed by later information which the rise in the number of new-enlist the co-operation of the Far- of questions in which, owing to of 1923 and that of 1926 will be shows that British and all foreign-agents and newsrooms, and the ng-mers' Union, with other influential the peculiar position of this accelerated during the next three ers were advised to leave before gregate figures of small shops bodies.

the British trained their guns on dealing in bread, provisions, hard- Terms of subscription to the so- Colony, it is quite impossible to years. It may be that in 1929, the hapless city,

ware, draperies, greengroceries, etety have been accommodated to act any role but that of a silent if not before, we may find Hong

Further Allegations.

and fish. On the average, these suit all classes of intending mem- though sympathetic spectator.

The shooting and killing of un-small businesses catering for Sun-bers, with particularly low subscrip. Kong "on the map" of Empire air It may be observed, however, ways. In the meantime we can armed Chinese is, of course, not an day trade have doubled their totals tions for societies and clubs. The unknown.or unusual proceeding on of a decade ago. Fresh recruits address of the offices of the Pure that attention is being given, by only be envious of those other the part, of the British in China. continue to enter the field as enter-Rivers Society is 1. Lincoln's Inn- the Imperial Conference to the portions of the Empire where the It has been done repeatedly ever prise and the demand dictate. Dur-felds, W.% aubject of statistics. We are told novelty of commercial flying has since the British opium ships forced ing the last five years, for instance: their entrance into our waters and thirty-eight barbers have found it that the need for the co-ordination already, irorn off.

led to British exaction of the first profitable to remain open on Sun- DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. of Empire statistics. and for

of the treaties of oppression on day, while several pleture framers, making these more readily acces-

which alien Imperialism is to-day cabinet makers, jewellers, &c., have bottomed. in China. The massacre elected to join the increasing sible to all parts of the Empire

of Wanhalan (equally with other minority. For some of this latter having been recognised, the

massacres of May 30 and June 23) Sunday, enterprise the Jewish: and Statistics Sub-Committee of the

la as necessary to the maintenance other foreign communities are, res-ed that she has had nothing in her Economic Committee is engaged

and duration of British Imperialism ponsible, but no such defence can buildings to compare with Parla ‘4 In China as the Amritsar Massacre be adduced for the regular opening her salon d'automobiles. No longer in endeavouring to work out a

and other little daily massacres of of a over a score of cycle shops, can the Metropolie bo se criticised, scheme for effecting such co-

villagers on the Indian frontier are which cater for the "back-to-the-as Devonshire House was opened"

ordination.

Letters of administration have vital to the health and strength of country" movement, which animates a palace of motors Ly Mesars. British Imperialism in India. Glasgow on summer Sundays. Rootes Ltd.. with spacious and There is, no doubt, an excellent been granted to the widow in re-

To-day in every stronghold of The bald truth to be inferred lofty showrooms which display a purpose to be served in the in-spect of the estate of the late Mr. foreign Imperialism in China, the from these figures, as from other vast concourse of cars of all des terests of the Empire as a whole Cecil Hynes Lyson, well known British Press has been demanding probably more potent symptoms. is crintions and prices.

local solicitor: by the co-ordination of statistics, The net value of the estate is the despatch of a second punitive that the spirit of the Scots sabbath while the Champs Elysees motor expedition for the avenging of the s gradually becoming more secular. salona usually only exhibit one make which are not always so dry as $22,000:

Mr. M. K. Lo and Mr. Ho seven British deaths at Wanhsien. Glasgow is perhaps more "advance of automobile at Devonshire House they look to the man in the street Leung, appointed, executora, have There is a daily cry for blooded" than the rest of the country, there is a variety of 'makes "of".

and the sabbatarlans there have chassis, adorned with. coachwork, But, then, Hong Kong is not a renounced all their right and title mora Chinese blood.

from the inexpensive car of Kuomintang Indiction.

more fuel added to their tres by lover of statistica. On the store to probate of the will

British Imperialism feeds, on the army of Sunday excursionists £150 to the most of "economy" the Government

blood the blood of oppressed and golfers. But even the town limousine, costing nearly £8,000. some 200 here closed down the Statistical

peoples-and as long as it con- and county districts are not with-Three floors contain Office of the Imports and Exports.

tinues entrenched on Chinese soil out evidence, dating back to the different cars, inished in

suitable there must be repeated acts of war period, of Impatience at the good taste, making Department last year, and there.

death like May 30 and June 25 and old restrictions of the Calvinist frame to the goods displayed. Lon. are no signs of it deciding that the

the massacre of Wanbeien. sabbath. The greatest change don here has a permanent motor time has come to re-open it..

The Kuomintang in a Special which has taken place in Scottish exhibition that will attract motor Congress assembled indicts the life but whieli is only another lata from all parts of the world. Whilst other parts of the Empire are concentrating in the co- Large congregatione attended British and their system of pri facet of the same new moodis in There were to be inspected in this the local Roman Catholic churchesvileged interests and force in the sabbath home life of Scotland, new addition to London's attrac ordination of

their statistics, yesterday, when the inauguration China, first and specifically, for a There are few homes in Scotland Lions many new models that in Hong Kong will be in the position of the Feast of the Regality of deliberate and flagrant violation of to-day where the picture of piety ordinary circumstances would not of unhappy isclation through hav- Jesus Christ was held,

Convention IX of the Becond Hague painted in the "Cotter's Saturday be seen by the public until a month- ing no statistics to present at Bishop Valtorts pontificated at Conference, as well as for a shame Night" is reproduced in its detail, later at the annual Olympia motor

the Solemn High Mass In the less act of barbarlem and in The erstwhile banishment of worldy mart

Visitors thronged these show- least so far as the trade, of the ↑ Cathedral, p

humanity and secondly and literature to the locked cupboard on rooms: from early morn to late afternoon. and membors Colony is concerned, And trade His Lordsidy also officiated at generally, for being the historical the sabbath day is no longer in statistics weigh far more with the Benediction, which was given oppressor of the Chinese people and general observance Nearly every of the principal motor clubs and the outstanding barrier to the pro household in the cities, and about organisations are inspect the from a temporary altar in the Empire than, say, dally or week Cathedral, compound following mess and modernisation of half of the rest of the population latest products of the motor fac

read the "Sunday Press, Church tories Messra Rootes Ltd., have attendance has suffered. Mixed with the old ideal of sabbath as a turnover of about £3,000,000

year, and are the largest dig. day of spiritual refreshment is a tributors of motor vehicles, in the new ideal of sabbath as a day of United Kingdom. physical restoration,

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ly returns of contagious diseases,

With another phase of the Im perial Conference's proceedings, Hong Kong should be expected to evince a little interest through the local Chambers of

REGALITY FEAST.

LOCAL CATHOLIC SERVICES YESTERDAY.

the procession in the afternoon.

Nationalist China.

As announced in Saturday's Canton Information Bureau China Mall, special music was arranged for the occasion by the Rev. Fr. Riganti. Tais ircinded a special setting to the hymn Tantum Ergo" written by Father Biganti himself.

that is the question of inter

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west 15 Donfu imagine: undoubtedly a field that could be tate a lopez explored with great advantage to for love of countr the cause of Empire. It is to be George, MF.

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