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LI CHAI-SUM.

China" Mail

BLISHED

No. 25,824. ¡ONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928.

TO GO TO NANKING PERMANENTLY.

STATEMENT AT SHANGHAI.

Canton Not To Help In Northern Expedition ?

CASTIGATED.

Soviet Peace Plans At Geneva.

BRITAIN'S STAND. Awkward Questions Asked About Civil War.

He

SINGAPORE BASE.

Labour Questions In Parliament.

"DISGRACE TO BRITAIN."

Allegations Concerning Workers' Living Conditions,

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

QUEUE CUT OFF.

Outrage On Manila Chinese.

CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.

Sequel To Sun Yat-sen Birthday Celebrations.

Manila, March 14.

conversa-

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HOME SPINNERS.

Mills Being Closed Down.

MACHINERY EXPORTED.

President Of Board of Trade Replies To Labour Member.

London, Yesterday.

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CO.

CEMENT

Up-to-Date Factory Needed.

THE ANNUAL REVIEW.

Directors On Hok Un Works Proposal.

Macao

During the report stage of the

A marked improvement during Geneva. Yesterday.

Is it a crime to cut a Chinaman's In the House of Commons, Mr. the year was reported at the an- The eagerly awaited debate on Army Estimates Mr. W. T. Kelly' the Soviet proposals of complete (Labour) referred to the very un-queue? If so, what's the penalty T. Johnston (Labour) drew at-nual meeting this morning of the tention to the Globe. Mill, at Old Green Island Cement Company, DENIAL OF LOAN AND LOOP-LINE RAILWAY RUMOURS. disarmament was opened by Gen- settling rumours of the conditions provided by law

Ltd. The closing down of the eral Di Marínia (Italy), who said under which employees in the These are but specimens of many ham, which was the plan was neither acceptable, War Department at Singapore similar questions officials of the break-up price and the machinery Deep Water Bay works and the nor rejectable as a whole. lived which, he asserted, were a municipal court find themselves up shipped to the Far East to be desirability of bringing the Hok against as a result of a complaint operated by cheaper labour for Un Works more up to date was Marshal Li Chai-sum, his senior subordinate General Chen

M. Clause! (France) followed disgrace to Britain.

Four hundred referred to and it was indicated "We ought to set a standard as filed by a local Celestial against two longer hours. Min-chu, and his colleague, General Li Tsung-jen, have made im-on the same lines.

an example to the people of that of his own countrymen.

workers were thus unemployed in that the Board was investigating The speech of the day, however,!

He asked whether the matter with a view to putting Po Cong-sul, a Manchu by poli-England. portant announcements at Shanghai. Marshak Li says that he ex-

Mr. Mardy Jones (Labour) also tical affiliation, residing on Calle other similar sales of machinery proposals before the sharehold

were projected to Indian and (Britain) who spoke for an hour asked what proportion of the Santon Cristo, got into peets to stay North for only a week or so, after which he will return was delivered by Lord Cushenden part of the world," he said.

org. The new works to Canton; but surprise is caused by his statement that on the com-before the adjournment. pletion of certain matters in Kwangtung, he will go to Nanking severely criticised the Soviet plan, money was being spent at Singa- tion with Lao Hoc and Ang Lao, Japanese capitalists and what were working satisfactoril

staunch followers of Sun Yat-sen, steps the Board of Trade proposed was stated. and argued that some of these

on March 12, a Chinese holiday to take in the matter.

Profit for the year, after pro- permanently to carry out the duties of Chief of General Staff of the proposals were quite impossible.

commemorating Dr. Sun's birthday. Lister (President of the Board of tion. amounts to $121,523.36.

The Rt. Hon. Sir P. Cunliffe viding $79,650.50 for deprecia- Nationalist Armies, a post to which he was recently appointed by He was particularly severe on the

The conversation soon took a per-Trade) replied that he was un-Mr. R. G. Shewan presided at lomission to mention the Lougue,

sonal tinge, so much so that Lao Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek..

notwithstanding that the Soviet

aware of this particular case, but the meeting, supported by Messrs. Hoc and Ang Lao insisted that Po it was a fact that a number of J. H. Taggart, Allan Cameron, J Cong-siu didn't look nice with his cotton spinning mills were being Scott Harston, Li Tse-fong and queue on. Of course, Po answer closed down and the machinery C. F. Mendham (Directors), Mr. ed that it was his own affair.

sold. Some portion of such ma- Allan Keith (Secretary) and the Somehow, Lao and Ang didn't re-chinery might be shipped abroad following shareholders: Mesars. lieb Po's answer, so that night when but he had no power to prohibit F. M. Ellis, E. M. Raymond, G. H. Po was in bed they deftly removed such export; but it was much Potts. A. L. Shields. N. V. A. the, to them, offending queue. They more important that there should, Croucher, I. W. Shewan, P. F. C. placed it beneath Po's bed where be an amalgamation and recon-, Prata, E. L. Sim, D. M. Goodall, he found it the next morning. struction of the Lancashire cotton 3. Coulthart, A. H. M. da Silva, Po went to the courts to seek re-trade (which must come from J. W. Kew and H. A. Figueiredo. dreas of grievances. But court within) so that new machinery | The Chairman's Speech. officials so far haven't found any might be installed.-Reuter.

Chairman addressed the provision in the penal code penaliz- Ing one who cuts a man's hair.

General Li Tsung-jen has shown which way the wind is blow-representatives went to Geneva to ing by stating that he does not think it will be possible for Canton to discuss disarmament under the take part in the campaign against the North.

PRESENT VISIT'S OBJECTS.

Among the objects of his visit

to Nanking, said Marshal Li Chai-

sum, were:-

Lengne auspices.

Lord Cushenden agreed, how- ever, that a small committee should examine the plan.

Lord Cushenden declared that the League had never received any support from Russia, where Nor had he heard anything Geneva and all its works had The Soviet dele- about the return (to Canton) of been reviler,

the former Nanking ministers gates had come to Geneva only in now on a mission abroad, includ-order to unmask the capitalist states and sabotage the League.

To discuss with several mem-ing afr. Hu Han-min, Dr. C. C. bers of the Nationalist Govern- ment at Nanking the question Wu, Mr. Sun Fo and others. of Canton's participation in the Northern Expedition,

To report on rehabilitation progress after the Red riots in Canton,

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To discuss reorganisation of the Kwangtung armies, also questions incidental, to same, such as funds required and the plans to be adopted.

Wait Three Months.

General Chen Min-chu.

He pointed out that if the article

SIR WORTHINGTON-EVANY

Employers Meet.

The

the current year we shall be in a

The position arising from the meeting as follows: I am pleased There is a penalty for cutting a recent break-down of the cotton to state that the result for the in the Russian scheme disallow-pore this year on the causeway woman's hair. Po was advised to conference was discussed at a year under review shows a mark- Ing sanctious against the offen-linking up the mainland and the file a civil complaint and ask for meeting of representatives of the ed improvement on that of, the General Chen Min-chu, com- der were accepted it would be island, and asked if a number of damages. He said he would, claim- Master Cotton Spinners' Associa preceding year, and with the more under of the 11th Nationalist necessary to repeal the Covenant Japanese planters had brought ing that he could no longer do busi- tions and the Manufacturers settled conditions prevailing in up large tracts of land which, ness with his own nationals who Association at Manchester. It South China, it is to be hoped that Army in Canton, stated that it of the League. was necessary to confer with The Soviet proposal must be militarily, were very important are

followers of the Manchu is not considered probable that the such mprovement will not only be Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek submitted to the Governments re- from the standpoint of Singapore dynasty. The queue, he said, is a Employers' federation will force! maintained, but that in respect of prior to his departure for the presented on the Commission as as defences. He expressed strong good business asset, as with it he an issue with the operatives on position to present you with a more front, on certain matters of im- they would necessarily wish to doubts whether local opinion in could trade with or borrow money the proposal to reduce wages and

confer with their technical ex-Singapore was very strong in from other Manchus in the city.

satisfactory showing. Jengthen hours, but there is a portance.

Court officials told Po to estimate strong feeling in the trade that' The profit for the year after pro- He also expected-and in this perts. Consequently full discus-support of the scheme. connection he may have been ze sion could not occur this session. Sir Worthington Evans, (Secrethe exact damages he has sustaio- there should be a 48-hour produc-viding $79,650.50 for depreciation In his statement to Shanghai ferring also to Marshal Li-to! He believed disarmament would tary for War) said discussion of ed as the result of the loss of his tion week not inclutling, as af pré- jamounts to $121,528.36, and „after · pressmen, Marshal Li also said visit Hankow, 400 miles up the be reached much easier by per- the Base was outside his sphere.

Yangtsze from Nanking.

The total expenditure incurred queue. He is still calculating, it is sent, the time needed to clean

machinery. Reuter." under stood. that, in future, in all matters of

Lord Cushenden's speech casti- was £685,000 and this year In General Chen's opinion, importance concerning the two

Communism and banditry in gating the Soviets created a sen- £22,000 would be spent.

The general instructions were Kwang provinces, he will consult

Kwangtung ought to be sup-sation in the Assembly, particu- the Central Nationalist Govern-

pressed in six months, larly when he declared there were that labour should be employed in TALE OF TWO CARS. ment (at Nanking).

two kinds of war and civil war accordance with fair local rates. "Are the He had no doubt that the carry- as the worse kind. Soviets against civil war?" he ing out of the report stage was asked.

concluded. Reuter.

As to whether Canton will be able to send troops for the at- tack on the North, Marshal Li is quoted by the "Kung Sheung

MERRY HILLEA MARIS SA 10

General Tang Seng-chl, once the autocrat of Nationalist Hankow, who is reported to have reached Nanking after Eeeking asylum in Japan.

:

Yat Po" as having expressed the view that it would be neces- sary to wait three months.

When He Will Return. Marshal Li added that urgent matters in Canton required his at- tention: Accordingly, he was only staying for a week or so in Nan- king and Shanghai.

General Li Tsung-jen. General Li Tsung-jen had gone to Shanghai specifically to meet Marshal Li. He also thinks that after visiting Nanking, a trip to Hankow will be made.

severance and patience.

COLLISION AND A FACTION

.QUARREL

YOUTH FUNCTURES TYRES.

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NO MUZZLE.

deducting from this sum the debit balance brought forward from the previous year amounting to $29,562.65, there remains a credit balance of $91,960.71 which your Directors recommend be dealt with

DOG SEEKS PROTECTION OF as follows:

THE LAW!

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To Transfer to a Con- tingency Reserve against Deep Water Bay Sales

To Carry forward

$20,000.00 71,960.71

$91,960.71

He declared they were creating| such wars in other countries. As IBSEN CENTENARY.

Mr. A. E. Hall, solicitor, was this regards naval disarmament the

Wong Tat-sang is a young Chi- morning summoned before Major C. nese boy who works as a motor car Willson at the Central Magistracy As regards the possibility of British were prepared to abolish FUNCTIONS IN NORWAY

washer in a garage in Queen's-road for allowing a dog to be at large Canton assigning troops to join submarines if the others did the

AND ENGLAND.

West. What time he is not wash- without a muzzle.

and I trust such recommendation the Northern Expedition, Gen- same and were prepared to go eral Li Tsung-jen says that he even further in the reduction of

An Indian constable who brought will meet with the approval of Oslo, Yesterday..

ing cars, young Wong la to be found believes it unlikely.

battleships. Admiral Sato A salute of 21 guns will be fired day or night in the vicinity of the the summons against Mr. Hall, told shareholders. General Li also spoke on his (Japan) pronounced that the at all Norwegian fortresses to-day Chinese restaurants at Shek-tong- the Magistrate that he saw a "red" suggestion of reducing the num-Commission was incompetent to in connection with the centenary tsui touting for fare for his em- dog jump over a wall ber of troops in Nationalist ter- deal with the Russian proposals of Losen, which is being celebrat-ployer's care.

without the consent of the Coun-

ritory.

Military Competition.

He said that he suggested the project to Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Kweichow and Yunnan first.

cil. The Assembly nevertheless hoped the Soviet representatives would continue their co-opera- ilon.-Reuter..

"At present, the Revolutionary: (Le.. Nationalist) Aray need not be concerned as to whether Peking will of

Pointed Questions,

A British official wireless report the proceedings. at Geneva

be taken or not; or whether cartupt states:- militarism will be overthrown; but,

the main concern is whether if the

Li.

LI CHAI-SUM.

Turning to Litvinoff, Lard

countries?

Views on Canton's Marshal and they would recognise themselves

His Colleagues.

their attitude was one of the greatest obstacles to the far- Not only was Hong Kong un-renching disarmament proposals willing to believe that Marshal Li which they themselves had made, Chai-sum was unlikely to go to Nanking, but opinion in Shanghai (prior to his actual departure

RAIN LATER?

To-day's Official Weather Forecast.

N.E. winds, moderate; cloudy, some rain later, is the forecast for the twenty-four hours ending

at noon to-morrow.

The anticyclone has weakened.

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at No. 61,

Trade Conditions,

Trade during the year under re- Conduft-road and he chased it. The view was, as 'you are aware, far Another person who is always to animal ran into house No. 45, and from normal, but taking into con- be found in the same vicinity is concluding that the owner of the sideration the vicissitudes through Atta Mohamed. Atta is an elder- dog lived there, he took out the which we have, passed and more ty Indian who works at a watch-❘ summons.

particularly the stagnation in gen-

man at the Nam Wah restaurant, Mr. Hall whilst admitting that he eral construction work-with and being a thrifty man he had owned many dogs, submitted that it which the sale of our products is sayed' enough to become the proud had not been proved that the dog so intimately identified-coupled owner of a motor car (No. 171) the Indian suw belonged to him. with the severity of competition for

owner.

gummons.

we may

which. driven by a compatriot, also The fact that the dog ran to his such busness as has been passing, plies in Shek-tong-tsui for hire as a house did not show that he was its I venture to think that public vehicle.

regard ourselves as fortunate in The Magistrate dismissed the being enabled to show a small pro- An Eye to Business.

fit on the year's working. It is now central over the Bonina.

Always with an eye for business]

The two new kilns at our Macao Another has. formed over N.

Atta was able to keep his car son- The Public Works Department works are now working satisfac- China. The depression has deep-stantly busy carrying visitors from calls for tenders for permission to torily and, together with the two ened and is central over Hok-

the Nam Wah restaurant, and thus obtain clay from Crown Land at Buhler kline which were transfer- kaido. The monsoon will set in again along the China Coast,

plenty of extra dollars rolled into' Cha-kwo-ling. Details are given in red from Hong Kong and are in his pocket. Being the watchman, an advertisement on page 3. wa mama tunaten it was Atta's business to get cars)

ed

ald mittarism is overthrown, there Cushendun said there were two will be several new militaris in kinds of peace as there were two the Nationalist camp," said General, kinds of war. There was inter- national war and civil war and At present each province is in-civil war was the more horrible, creasing its military quota, added Were the Soviet really going to General Li, and the problem may change their policy? Had they become too big to be solved. If now decided against civil war as demobilisation is not begun he well as against international war?

course of erection, should, on com- predicts no end" to the competi- Where they rio longer going to In-ed throughout Norway and also in for the visitors, and what is more

plation, place us in a position to meet the demand from Canton and live system of extension,

terfere with the affairs of other England. Oslo is beflagged and a whenever it was not engaged?

the West River districts when His Chinese rivals envied Atta, Atta and his driver to poke the two trade becomes normal, thus cone British representative is among. Unless they were ready to the speakers at the ceremony at whose position they considered un-right tyres with something. forming with our policy to con- make such a change he was sure the cemetery where the poet is fair in competition, but Atta head. As soon as Wong got past the contrate our Macao output on that

buried.-Reuter,

them not until his driver, car, Atta heard the sound of air particular, market. quarrelled 'with a driver from aescaping from his car's tyres, and |

Bok Un Works. SUMMER TIME. Chinese garage over the amount. of immediately realised that Wong

damage to be paid arising out of a had punctured them. He imme- Turning to our Hok Un works, FRANCE FIXES A NEW

collision.

diately chased the little imp, but owing to the plant in use there' DATE.

failed to catch him. Atta's Driver the Aggressor.

becoming gradually obsolete, the When Atta got back to his car, 'cost of manufacture there is in- Atta's driver appeared before Paris, Yesterday.

he found both right tyres were flat, "creasing and we have found it from Canton) was that he "had One is from General Pei Chung-

Mr. Lindaell last week and W2.8 Summertime will begin at mid- fined $6 because the Magistrate was the door of the restaurant, Atta's cement to Hong Kong in order to

and when the visitors arrived at necessary to ro intention of coming to Nan-hei in which he states that the

transport Macao king."

province of Hunan has been paci- night on April 14 instead of April of the opinion that he was the ag car was unable to proceed, and a full the local and export demand: When reorganisation vf the Kwangtung armies had been con- four of the so-called Kwangsi Northern expedition.

Marshal Li is one of the big fed and that he will assist in the 21 as agreed by Britain, Belgium gressor.

and Holland in order to avoid mis-

Chinese owned car got the busi-but transportation costs are too pleted, he said, when Communism

Matters should have ended there,ness. had been eradicated, and when re-, military faction which holds sway The other is from Marshal Li understandings over the closing but, as Inspector Clark suggested,

... high to enable us to compote suc- constitution of the Canton Govern in South China and is also one of Chai-sum of Canton to the effect of the polls in the parliamen- the Chinese were not satisfied with Wong Gets The Birch,

cessfully with other brands in ment had been accomplished, he will the most important groups in the that he expects to visit Nanking tary election, on April 22-Reu- their victory, and early on Tuesday and yesterday afternoon took a de- connection, we

Atta went to the police about it, these particular markets. In this cannot anticipate Nationalist Party. General Wong in the near future to report on ter.

morning more trouble came. Atta's tective to the garage in Queen's any improvement in the prevailing Shiu-hung, now in charge at Can: progress in the South. It is under- ton, is another. The other two stood that should he come. Gen-|

read West where young Wong was state of affairs until such time as At about 2 o'clock that morning arrested.

we are able to instal an entirely are General Pei Chung-hsi and eral Chen Min-chu, the Cantonese

Atta secured some" passengers' for Marshal Li also expressed sym-General Li Tsung-jen, both of goneral in Kwangtung, will come

This morning the boy appeared new factory capable of turning his car, and signalled it to come to before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the out the high grade product which pathy with the wholesale demobil-whom are referred to in the fol- with him.

the entrance of the restaurant. isation proposed by his colleague, bowing from the North China General Li Teung-jen

return to Nanking to assume duty

Nationalist Armies. ::

na Chief of the General Staff of the

Loan and Loop Line,

Daily News.".

Maintaining Fiction.

In Chinese political circles, it

RETALIATION.

SOVIET ENGINEERS IN GERMANY.

Berlin, Yesterday. Permission to a number of Rus-

way.

Unsuccessful Chase.

Central Magistracy charged with we have hitherto maintained, and damaging the tyres of Atta's car. ensuring its being marketed at a

· Marahoi Li strongly denied the Political Speculation.

Whilst it was waiting there, He strenuously denied the offence, materially lower price. The cost: “outside” - rumoura that. Canton was Two telegrams have been sent was suggested that General-Pei stan engineers to inspect Rhenish young Wong suddenly dashed past but as both Indians identified him, of an up-to-date factory would, we 1. are loan and that the loop to the Nationalist Government at Chung-hal has no intention of Industrial works has been with the car on its right side. He pass the Magistrate found the youngster bellove, approximate to: $8,000,000, and Canton-Kowloon Hailways had Nanking which have given rise to participating in the Northern ex-drawn owing to the recent arrested very near the car, and as he guilty and ordered him to receive and its installation would

-¿Continuadoor Pose 7) of German engineers Reuters did so, he was observed by both ten strokes of the rattan,

line between the Canton-Hankow

considerable-nalitionl-apocnlation.

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