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A› SATURDAY CAUSERIE.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1927.

locally, it was claimed that its in- MAN OF IRON WILL In that alty the Communist ols-

(roduction would be attended with

ment of the Committee would have had the support of the same" dan-

81 cater inconvenience than is the Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's rerous mob that was hounded on by

case at Home. Loss of business for Exchange banks would follow

Motives.

Borodin and Sun Fo to the attack upon the British Concession; and this might have intimidated the

any such move it was stated WHY HE OPPOSE THE "REDS" Moderates and prevented their

porta would make the change siraultaneously..

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owing to other Far Eastern ports

openly asserting their position.. adhering to standard time for the

[By "LF Chung-yin"}

Chiang Kaishek declined to at- From what la generally known of tend a meeting held in auch circum- 120 meridiam-the difficulty General Chiang Kai-shek, it may be stances, and since the Loft Wing does not seem insuperable if the taken that he will salze the first clae the whole arrangement fell to declined to attend one anywhere responsible authorities at such possible opportunity to beat down the ground.

the opposition-facing him in hin town Party. The same might be

Chiang's View on Communism said, to a lesser degree, of tile op-

Thers Hollowed immediately ponents, whose efforts are subject violent outburst of denunciation of There was even less to be said rely upona

|to the military backing they can Ohlang Kalshek on the part of the Hankow's Communist Extremists, who. Eeld the director for the attitude of certain race-politiciana may have other means of their own party's fighting effort horse owners who objected to any of furthering their policy, but up to execration as a traitor and as such measure owing to the early really counts:

actual "fighting strength is what a "militarist" no, better than their arch-enemy in the North. Chang hour which would be necessitated' That the Nationalist Commander-To-in.. for exercising! There are, of

in-Chief le a man of fron Willis The general, on his side, came, usually agreed. When he was only but with a definite and vehement course, difficulties in the matter a 2nd grade staff officer in the attack upon Communism in R of early rising of children to nt- Revolutionary Army under the late speech at Nanchang,, where he de- tend school, but it seems to be being then Commander-in-Chief aystem would be fatal to China.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen-Chan Kwing-mingclared that the adoption of that the concensus of opinion in coun-Chiang Kai-shek preferred separa- He has given point to this politi- ment. Yet. Labour extremists, tries that have adopted "daylight tion from. Dr. Sun Yat-sen to a cal utterance by crdering that for- who should be the first to assist saving" that the adaptation of which carried no executive power alderation by his troops; and he. comparatively insignificant position aigners must be treated with con- In the solution of this problem, the child's sleeping hours hea with it. More than once did he has, in fact, fulfilled the expectation are advocating partizanship in a proved beneficial rather than pre Kwangtung because his counsely to take sides with the Moderates of leave the Kuomintang fold in that he would be forced by events eivil war in China which is judicial to its health. The most were not accepted:

the Nationalist party against those increasing chaotic conditions and vital reason for a more general

Intrigue Worse Than. War? who have from the first made uя preventing the free play of the adaptation here of Summer Time

Not so when he held his own com.their watchwords the Commanist. mand: economic factors of supply and is the extra hour given to youths commandant of the Whampoa Cadat violence of the foreigner in China.

When he was nominally revolution and the expulsion by demand in respect of over four who, when not able to get away Academy, he "brought pressure to

Canton And Now, hundred million people who are from office in time to participate history may not be able to tell why was in the form.cr those elections bear" on" possible rivals. Even Hankow's first direct challenge. nomally the purchasers of enor in out-door recreation, drift.any-Dr. C. G Wa and Wang Ching-wal, at the Kuominatng conference. mous quantities of goods manu- where and everywhere in the in of the politicians, and General Hau which, in effect, transferred the factured in Europe and America. terval, often drinking far more forced to leave Canton.

Shung-chl of the army officers, were command of all the Nationalist forces from Ching Kai-shek to the than is good for their health or Two successive developments in Military Council. This, however, When the Prime Minister re for their pockets. There are the present Civil War lead one to has only been done."on paper."

think that 'General Chiang Kai-shek ceived a deputation last month a ready one or two firms whose attaches more importance

The General's answer has been to the come out, openly 'againat' the Com- urging him to give women the working hours are from 8.30 to Extremists" intrigue thin to the munists.. by forbidding their pro- Parliamentary vote at the age of 4.30, which is a measure of "Sum

danger from the Northern Armies: paganda in Shanghat under pain of Pirst of all we have the Fengtjenevere penalties, by curbing the twenty-one, Mr. Baldwin was re- rner Time." Unanswerable argy-(and Shantung) hordes hurriedly mischievous elements among the ported to have stated that he had ments have yet to be adduced vacating Shanghai, Nanking and Shanghai labour unions by disarm- hinterkind, without any show of a ing pickets, and by even shooting never heard the case so well againet extension to all firms by Aght. True, the Cantonese broke in down agitators. stated or from 'so many points of means of a Summer Time men- at one or more of the weak points Now that the strike and boycott view, and he promised to make sure.

in the line defended by Aarshal at Canton are over. It is interest- Sun. Chuan-fang: but that was not ing to recall that Chiang Kai-shek enough to bring about a wholesale did not take these risks then... retreat from Pukow, on the north. When the strike had peen inexist- bank of the Yangtse.

ence only a few months, an unoff Possible Coincidence.. " clul peace delegate of the mer- believe that an understanding had public meeting in the Chinese Mer- Observers were then prepared to chants declared emphatically (at a been arrived at between Chiang chants' Club, Hong Kong) that Kai-shek and Fengtien-or rather. General Chiang Kai-shek was not a Peking-by which the Yaratso Commualat. Reading between the River was to be observed as the lines of his speech to-day, one is natural dividing line.

tempted to think that Chiang Kai- The Nationalists stoutly deny anshek would have taken similar mea-.

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an announcement on the subject: before, Easter. We now learn that women are to receive adult franchise without reservation as to age or other qualifications ap- plying to them alone before. There will doubtless Be some who Hong Kong, Saturday, April 16, 1827.feel sensitive as to the electoral

"fitness" of young women, and in Certain Chinese loafers. this connection it is interesting Shanghai, witnessing the forms-alliance. The better to give the suzes then if he had the opportunity and somewhat ironic that almost elected to do a little unionising of

tion of this union and that union, lie to the gossips, they pursue the to do so and if there had been in- Northerners for acme distance parative necessity in his own In- If certain Labour leaders are to coincident with the Government's their own, remarks the "Shanghal across the great waterway. ...terests for such steps. be regarded as representative, change of policy regarding Timea.

Without making a preliminary there is still a section of the Bri- women's franchise,

The loafers decided on what they stand, the Northern forces drive This imponding trial of strength

Significance for Foreigners. the well-considered a master move when it

southward again, not even needing within the Nationalist Party is of tish public which considers the known Russian writer. Ludovict comes to unionising

to secure a foothold whence to supreme significance for all foreign despatch of troops to China as in-has published a somewhat scath-

They would form a union of spring off.

Still more unexpect-communities in China, It concerns Jedly, the Cantonese fall sing-aong girls. dienting a desire. on the part of ing indictment of modern woman

back their safety, and since it involves Forthwith representatives went rapidly-but only until they reach the triumph or the failure of, the the Government to precipitate a and her intellectual capacities. out and the word was passed in the Yangtan again.. crisis from which "Britain, pre-

attempt to fasten Communism upon. sing-song circles. Hundreds It may only be a coincidence, but China, it concerns also the future girls were invited to be present the cumulative result of all this is of Chinese commerces sumably, would be able to reap Ludovici claímis in the course of at the initial meeting. They were that with the exception of a strate

The agents of the Soviet make the some material advantage. Apart this indictment that women never told that it would be in their m-gical bridgehead extending up from expulsion of foreigners one of their from the many indications the really leave the child-stage of ful move would be made for right-central China). the Nationalists she will not give the Communists terest to be present; that a power. Hankow into Hupeh province (in main planks. Because Chiang Kai- Government has given" of its development-"they mature more ing wrongs, for the uplifting of have now confined themselves to the the licence they wish, the Red. friendly attitude, and the prec- quickly than men, but only 80 the seas, to say nothing of other Momentous Changes Foreshadowed cause the Communists are obstruc

oing-song girls and freedom of south of the Yangtse.

gauntlet a dung down at him. Be tical expression it has given of its half the distance!" To talk of well-sounding promises calculated his part of the alleged agreement,putting it no higher-Chiang If Chiang Kai-shek is carrying out Honists from his own point of view expressed willingness. co-a natural equality between men to inspire the sing-song girls. operate in any change or modifica- and women is, in his opinion, non-

The loafers begged and borrowed hale doing so at a sacrifice. And Kai-shek will oppose them as far GRÆCO EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE LTD. tions of status which will be to sense the sexes cannot go for rented chairs, announced the time cogent reason for this concession on he will be against: persecution of enough money to hire a hall. They only logical to look for a as he can. In principle, therefore, the ultimate benefit" of China, ward hand. in hand towards of the meeting and settled down to This part.

foreigners News about the inwait the coming of the girls, whose there are common sense and mutual salvation, one or the salvation was assured through the cleavage in the Kuomintang ranks.

Looking After Canton economic factors which show how other has got to lead and direct, noble efforts of the loafers.

consiste largely of unconfirmed re- Mr. Eugene Chen's position- ig absurd and unfounded are the And if that leader and director be but not the giris. An hour passed in both its political and military pointment mainly to General Chiang The time of the meeting arrived ports, conflicting rumours and con- different As aeting Minister for allegations of Labour leaders and a woman, beware of the downfall and two girls timidly

lectures but though the situation, Foreign Affairs, he owes his ap-

others who choose to construe the of that civilisation whose male Three more came a few minutes aspects and the "political is in- Kel-abek. Through the Nationalist Government's protective mea weakness has encouraged her to hundreds did not materialise and tary-is obscure, there are a few Wu-Hen (which has since became later. That was all. The visioned tentionally placed before the "mill- Government having been set up at sures taken as being indicative of leave her proper sphere." Few the meeting was a flap. The loafers facts which foreshadow the coming the Communist centre) his actions of us would go the whole way are sadder now-sadder and wiser about of momentous changes in the must be governed to a great extent with Mr. Ludovici. In the case

by the counsels, of those colleagues In One such common-serise factor of the franchise, the results of its

Canton, Chiang Kai-shek nearest him. tolerated the Labour agitators be- Boing closer to Hong Kong. was stressed by: Sir Laming extension to the restricted num-

cause he needed the Radicals then, Canton, looms largely fh the local' Worthington-Evans, Secretary ber of women who had the veté

to play them off" against the public are: Rumour has 16 that Conservatives and vice versa... for War, in en address at a Union before, certainly did not justify

General El Chat-eum commander- Man for Himself. " In-Chief of Kwangtune) went to ist women's delegate conference his dire forebodings. Once the

To-dav. his name is one to con- Shanghai expressly to obtain de at the Kingsway Hall when he franchise was reformed to in

jure with among the Chinese, finite-instructions from Chiang Kai- ahok with regard to dealing with anid: "We have not sent out clude women, there seems no rea-terday attended the return visit Rightist or an anti-Red in the as-In Shanghai has been followed by Large houses at the Queen's yes Never has he been a Moderate, a the Extremists. His consultations troops with the idea of conquer son why it should stop short in a of The Great Parade" the great cented form of these misnomers the repetition of orders to preserve ing China. Four hundred million greater degree than in the case of dealing with aspects of the Great for himari, firmly believing that he heen forbidden to use Shakee (fac- war-film produced in America and Essentially and always, be is a man thell peace. Demonstrators have spread out over a vast country men. If there are brought within War from the point of view of the alone can nut China on her feet, in ing Shameen) and strict vigilance like China are not conquered by a the wider franchise "ignorant" and all its horrors is the central ber, and with the assistance of Having "decentralised" the two

American troops. Although War the interests of the greatest num is to he maintained. division of British troops. We women voters, they will probably theme, considerable humour is pro subordinates who will subdue their Kwon princes to a staunch sup sent the troops out to give pro- neutralise

equally "ignorant vided by "Mike" and "lim tection to our nationals in voters among the men!

and personal ambitions to the one great porter at Canton. Fukien and Che Jirn the trio whese spheresi

en to other loyal subordinates, in normal times are we apart but As other observers have pointed Chiang Kaishek starts up-river Shanghai and I hope they will be

whom a common cause has thrown out, aven before, the Cantonese ad from Shanghel able to give that protection," The To the benefit of their health together. The devotion of Jim and vance to Hankow the Soviet leaders, Nanking the initial stro. to an at- Is his going to economic factor disproving the and their value as working reunion also serves as a relles from the danger, which threatened "the Hankow?

Mesilinde, their separation and final in Moscow were publicly discussing fennt to make himself master of suggestions of our militant inten-citizens, the energetic minded the fearfulness of war as it is Chinese, revolution from the quart tions in China is no less cbvious. amongst old and young alike in waged about the little French farm ter of the bourgeois element in Our interest in China. is to con- Great Britain this week have been

fhouse,

Patrons should remember that the They believed the bold of Boro

Chinese Nationalfam tinue the trade which is good for revelling in an extra hour for re-length of the film necessitates the din and his Bolshevik: associates China and good for ourselves creation, due to the commence-cancelling of the 7-16 performance upon the Left Wing of the party to good for us from the point of ment of "Summer Time, provide 6 and 1-15,

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