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THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1928.

AMERICANS OUT.

UNDER THE SOVIETS. "REDS" APPEAL.

BRITISH AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

A SURVEY OF MARRIAGE AND HOME LIFE.

SHIFTING THE BLAME IN CHINA.

THIRD ROUND RESULTS.

Prestwick, Yesterday.

THE CHINA MAIL,

SO-CALLED RUSSIAN UTOPIA, ASKING INDIA TO REVOLT.

[By A. Wanderer in Russia.] The International of Red Trade The old Orthodox Church did Unions has issued two appeals. In the second round of the Bri- tish amateur golf championship not allow divorce, Marriage be- The first addressed to the "work-

men of all countries, states:-- Str Holderness beat John McHugh tween two persons belonging to

"The Congress of Froßntern, (San Francisco) two and one different confessions was difficult comprising the representative of and J. Henderson DunDonald bent or impossible. Civil marriages 45 countries of Europe, Asiap, America, Africa, and Australia, Harry Brower (America) three were unknown.

informs the labour classes of all After the Revolution the wine the world that a bloody, unpre- and one. The American challenge! is thus extinguished. Other pro-heads, and

of freedom mounted into many cedented terror continues in excesses were com China. Thousands and tens of minent scores matches were:mitted by young people, especial- thousands of its best song are be J. Lang of Erskine beat Hozlet ly Communists. But all that is ing killed and mutilated. 1-0.

over now, and excesses,

The

if they cruel militarists and the Chinese to the bourgeoisis, acting in a fit of mad- work- ness, are trying with sword and

TEASERS.

Answers to To-day's Questions.

1. The term arose from a quaint)

assertion. of a Preston working man (member of the first Eng- glish Temperance Society) when the question of partial or total abstinence wan dis- cussed. He declared that no- thing but "te-Te-to-tal" would do.

2. Nemesis, goddess of vengeance.

3. Leonardo da Vinci's "La

Gloconda."

4. January 1, 1894.

5. Sir Edwin Landseer.

6. St. Paul's Cathedral.

PUBLIC MEMORY PROVERBI-

ALLY SHORT.

In the third round the Anglo-exist at all, are confined American, Douglas. Grant of St. Soviet bureaucracy. The

ing class look upon the problem fire to eradicate the Chinese la- George's, beat Gordon Simpson, of love, marriage, and family as bour and peasant movement. In the Royal and Ancient, three and one of those "infernal, insoluble the vast territory of China, mass two. A. MacCullum beat Stout, problems" that torment the com- executions are taking place with "MADAME SPEAKER,” the English champion, 1-0. Fmon consciousness without ever the direct assistance of Britain, Rankin, of Sunningdale, bent finding a solution. One thing is France, America, and Japan. The Storey, of Newmarket, 1-0. certain marriage of the old object of these mass executions is Beaumont Pease, of Alnmouth, type, arranged by the parents and to suppress and to destroy labour beat Holderness 1-0. Wethered

semi-patriarchal, has gone never movements, and to throw Chin- beat Colin Aylmer. of Ranelagh to return. The great majority of ese proletariat and peasantry back seven and six. Lang beat Robert town marriages are civil. If into a state of poverty. Harris six and four-Reuter.

there is a subsequent ceremony in "While all vast China is over- church it is usually because the flowing with the blood of innocent 'parents of the wife press for it, martyrs (workers and peasants); and very often It only takes place while a mad terror is annihilating when children arrive. Until they thousands and tens of thousands have children a man and his wife of workmen, peasants, and do not feel that they are rigorous women; while hecatombs of vic- ly bound together by the "ras tims in China prove the exlatence pisatsya" that is to say the of a bloc between Chinese re- "signing one's name" or "under- actionaries and world imperial- writing." as the civil marriage is ism; the official leaders of the la- The Hong Kong Cricket Club called. (Divorce is called "ot- bour movement in imperialistic M.B.K. in the "A" Division of the pisatsya" or writing off"). When countries continue to be silent Tennis League by 29 games. they have children they are not upon the Chinese events, as if the

bound, as they used to be, by the life there is quite normal.

LEAGUE TENNIS.

H.K.C.C. DEFEAT THE

M.B.K..

Score:-

29 GAMES.

has

庭

The temporary occupation a short time ago of the Speaker's. Chair in the British Columbia Legislature by Mre. Ellen Smith, M.P, when members, speaking in the Badget debate, addressed her да "Madame Speaker," been reported in the press as

British "new precedent for any Legislature." The public memory, however, is proverbially short, and it has evidently been forgotten that some years ago "Our Mary Ellen," as Mrs. Smith is affectionately termed in the Dominion, might| have permanently occupied that particular position if she had been so minded. In 1912 she was offer-

G. W. Sewell and A. D. Ilum-mere fact that they are married, Neither the Labour Party or the phreys (H.K.C.C.);

but by the home and their.com- General Council in Great Britain, mon life and purpose. Women the American Federation of La-ed the Speakership of the House at

晕

beat T. Honda and T. Aki-

yuma

beat Mizobe and Inagaki beat T. Yamada and

Yoshida

H.

.whims of

6- 6 are more self-confident now and bour, the Reformist Confedera- 8- less inclined to put up with the tion of Labour in France, or the

their husbands.

A Japanese Reformists

have done 7. 4 kind of mutual adaptation due to anything to help the toiling necessity, circumstance, and a masses in China. Not the slight- 21-12 common bond keeps them to. est effort has been made to show gether and not the legal or religi and to prove the part of imperial- tous form. The husband is far istic governments of counter- less able to act the tyrant than revolutionaries. If Reformiste

E. D. Lawrence and Me Eachran (IL.E.C.C.) :—

lost to T. Honda and T. Aki-

Yama

beat Mizobe and Inagaki lost to T. Yamada and H.

Yoshida

of old, for the wife can now easi-'are silent, the labour classes of 47ly obtain protection against him, all the world- must speak. It is 11- She also has no difficulty in mak- time to raise our voices against jing him pay for the upkeep of the the Chinese counter-revolution- G-G children if he should desert her, aries and against the unheard-of On the other hand, a man and a cruelties and the execution of 20-13 woman may live together with workmen and peasants. It is Major W. D. Stevenson and Rey, 'out having gone through any for time to declare a protest against F. P. W. Alexander (H.K.G.C.) mality of marriage whether re- that unheard-of cruelty and the beat T. Honda and T. Aki- ¡ligious or civil and incur not the execution of workmen and pea- 7- 4 slightest dishonour or disgrace. ¡sants. It is time to organise .yama

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leverywhere-in every town, and The Condition of Women.

in every factory and to held de- Nevertheless, the situation of monstrations against the Chinese the Russian woman is lamentable. counter-revolutionaries and their 24-9 Even before the Revolution, espe- allies, the capitalists. Total: H.K.C.C., 65; M.B.K., 4. cially during the Great War, vast The second appeal is addressed

bent Mizobe and Inagaki beat T. Yamada and H.

Yoshida

8-3

It

multitudes of woman went into to the Indian labour class. industry. The Revolution only states:- intensified this movement, and "The Congress of Profintern, in AUTOMATIC PHONE. "War Communism" did all that which the representatives of 45 remained to deprive women of countries are participating, senda

'AMERICAN ENGINEER IN

CANTON.

WORK PUSHED ON RAPIDLY.

the United request of the Govern- ment and the Opposition, but de- clined the honour because she pre- | ferred to remain on the floor of the House, where she could speak for herself. Later she resigned her position in the Cabinet for 'the

order same reason-viz in secure freedom for public critic- ism of courges of which she could

to

not approve. Mrs. Smith has been

a member of the British Columbin

be the

Legislature almost continuously since 1918, and has had the satis- faction of, seeing every one of the measures she has advocated 'come law. Thess include

establishment of a Juvenile Court with the appointment of a woman judge, Mrs. M'Gill;'a Minimum wage Act for women and girls; u Mothers' Pensions Act; a Deserted wives' Maintenance Act; sure which ensured the proper adoption of children; an Equal Guardianship Act; a Testators' Family Maintenance Act;

and raising the age of marriage from 12 to 14 for girls, and from 14 to 16 for boys.

A mea-

"household duties." The vast greetings and expressions of its majority of the population has a sympathy to the Indian proletar-

A Woman Deputy Speaker. wretched income and prices are ist and regrets that there are no very high, so that women are representatives of their trade The only other woman in the compelled to look for work out- unions in the present Congress, world, to occupy a corresponding Consequent upon the conclusion side the home. At the same time whose chief object is that organ-position to that lately occupied by of an agreement by the Canton the protection accorded to women isation of the toiling masses Mrs. Smith is a cultivated Hindu Municipal Government with the as mothers and housewives is ex- against world imperialism. The lady doctor, Dr. Muthulakshmi | China Electric Co. for the installa- tremely meagre. Children's Congress believes that the labour- Ammal, a well-known medical wo- tion of an automatic telephone-sys- homes, public nurseries, and ing class of India must stand on

.man in Madras, who, in 1926; was tem, work is being pushed forward creches are all too few. And as the side of those who are fighting nominated by the Government of rapidly, says the "Gazette." most women have no chance to against imperialism for indepen- Madres as the first woman

has ar- care for their children and do not dence of colonial and semi- rived from Shanghai to supervise know what to do with them, many colonial peoples. The Congress is ber of the Madras Legislature. So all the constructional work neces- children are simply "thrown out." hopeful that Indian trade unions much impressed were her col- sary, and with him are a corps of That is to say the mothers leave will enter into close relation with leagues by her outstanding ability Chinese assistants, Routes for the them in railway trains, on the sta- the Red Trade Unions Interna-88 legislator that in her first underground

have been tions, in front of police headquar- tional, cables

with the object

session she was unanimously elect-

President, which corresponds with

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mapped out, plans for the central ters, in the reception rooms of co-operating against Imperial-ed to the difficult post of Deputy the Deputy Speaker in the House exchange station completed, and hospitals. This expedient has ism." altogether considerable energy is reached menacing dimensions and being displayed in getting through is one of the reasons why child the preliminary spadework.

Concrete Building.

The vagrancy is not abolished. jarmy of homeless children is re- 'cruited not only from orphans but Tendera have been invited for far more from the children of the construction of the central ex- working mothers or even of change building, the tenders clos- mothers who cannot afford a ing on May 23. The building will nurse or a servant. be erected in Sai-kwa-yuen, in And so, in spite of the great front of the Tai Ping theatre, and spiritual liberation of women and the total land available is of an the remarkable development of area of approximately two mowa. their self-confidence, and in spite The building itself will occupy but of the recognition men give them one mow or so, and will be of re as their equals, the "woman ques- inforced concrete throughout, but tion" is probably more acute in the floors will be covered with hard- Russia than in any other country. wood.

Prostitution has taken on, new Long Distance Service. forms. According to officiali There will be three storeys al- statistics there are tens of thou together, providing accommodation aands of professional prostitutes] for all the machinery, batteries, in every big town. But the chief switchboards, etc, besides room for reason is that in Russia the divid- five suites of offices. A long dis ing line between prostitution a tance telephone service is also pro- a regular profession and prostitu vided for.

Ition as a temporary refuge from

It is expected that the exchange unemployment has disappeared, building will be completely built and in this respect prostitution in within five months, while the Iny- Russia differs from prostitution ing of underground leads will prob in other countries, The prosti ably be commenced some time next, tutes themselves look at it in this month.

way: "If the Government will get us work we shall be very happy to work." There is one terrible

The Police have been notified of fact to be mentioned in this con- sn aceldent that occurred yester nection (it is stated by Dr., Fried- day afternoon, to the effect that land in his "Diary of a Venerolog Mr. J. J. Brock, riding motor-cycle list"); whereas before the war No. 280, knocked down a Chinese the percentage of married persons boy aged 8 years in Bonham-road, amongst those suffering from fuflicting a rather serious wound venereal disease was very small to the lad's head. He at once took (about 8 per cent.), nowadays the him to the Nethersole Hospital. majority (about 75 per cent.) of The rider's address is given as No. affiliated persons are married JA, Dragon Terrace, Wanchal Manchester Guardian,

Cinton, China-Before, the Russian Communist, army was driven from the city by Nationalis forces under command of Gen La Kai Sum

Hegenant of Den., Chiang Kai Shek they dynamited the principal bulidings and pillaged without restraint, Photo shows the ruins of the buildings on the main street in! Cântón alin the Russians tad departed.

of Commons. When only 21 years old, Dr. Ammal gained A State Scholarship to the Madras Medical college, where she took her medical

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LINKING-UP.

THE TWO KWANGS" RAILWAY SYSTEM.

[PROJECTED ROAD TO HUNAN.

The Cantón Government has re- (ceived a telegram from the Kwang- al authorities, requesting assist- jance and advice on a proposal to build a railroad to connect up with Hunan province.

It was pointed out that there are but poor means of communication with Hunan province, and trade with that province is severely han- dicapped. As is known, the West River forms the main means of communication, but this waterway runs in an easterly and westerly direction, and offers no facilities. for communicating with the terri- tory to the north..

Passengers and Goods. degrees with such distinction that

Although roads and highways she obtained the coveted post of

help to develop a country, still the House Surgeon at the government

transport facilities offered by such Maternity Hospital. After some Mr. Chen Tse-ho, Misa. Eileen Chen motor vehicles are of limited capa- Mr. Chan Ho, Mrs. Chan Wun, means are comparatively limited years of experience there she took Miss Nell E. Elliott, Mr. Samuel B. elty, says the "Canton Gazette." up private practice, and rapidly Ellis, Mr. Fan Chieun, Mr. H. E. H. became one of the foremost women. Goel, Mr. Hoo Cheun-man, Mr. full development of any territory as Railways are essential, for the doctors in Madras. In 1925, she John R. Hooley, Mr. Ip Kwan, Mrs. both passenger and cargo can be was selected by the Government of Kan Tong-po, Mrs. Koo Ying-fan, transported at a minimum of cost. India to come to England for a Mr. J. C. Kwok, Mr. J. C. Kwok,

year to study the diseases of wo- Miss Kwok Ah-lo, Mr. K. F. Lal, built between Yamchow in Kwang- It is considered that a railway men and children in that country Mrs. Lam Ngai-pak, Mr. Lam Ping-si and Chuchow fa Hunan will be at Government expense..

A Financial Sacrifice.

in, Mr. Lau Hop, Mr. S. K. Lee, richly repaid in that it will tap a Mr. Thomas Lin, Mr. George very fertile and productive country Dr. Ammal is making a great Lynott, Mr. Roy F. McNair, Hr whose products at present are hin- financial sacrifice in taking up poli- Ernest K. Moy, Mr. W. Hdered from coming down to the tical work.. Members of the Legis Ribeiro, Mr. Thaddeus Sendzimir, tity through the lack of easy and Pann, Mr. and Mrs. Antonio two Kwang provinces in any quan lative Council get paid by the Gov- ernment just to cover their ex Mra. Sum Lee-she, Mra. Dora cheap transport. penses while the session is on. The Tang-lin, Mr. and Mrs. Thio Sing-long, Mr. Tng Kst, post of Deputy Speaker, also has a

The projected route of this rafl- small salary attached, but neither Mrs. Tong Loo-shes, Miss Tanu Tal-way is through Nanning and Tain- of these sums represents anything Mr. Wong Yuen-shee, Miss Wong ned to run so as to serve a vast chien, Mrs. G. A. Van Steenberger, kong, and the route, has been plan-

like the substantial fees which a

Mr. Wong Kin, Mr. Au Mew Sla,

Projected: Ronte.

popular and efficient medical wo- Sam-mol, Miss Wong Yock-chan district of great productive power. man could command in private ra. Yung Tsai-sheo, Miss L. Y. will mean increased prosperity for The realisation of. this project practice in Madras. Dr. Ammal, ung, Miss Clare M. Aragon, Capt, the two Kwangs and therefore however, made the sacrifice gladly, Edward H. Brooks, Mr. & Mrs. A. under the circumstances, the because she has always maintained Butler, Major Clifford L Corbin, Kwangel authorities have sp that she could serve the Indian wo Mrs. Par N de Guaman, Mr. Myron proached the Kwangtung Adminis- men better by volcing their needs E. Ferry, Mr. Aimee Kahn, Miss tration for advice, help and co- In the Council than by attending Marie Andre Kahn, Mrs. Leopold operation In this matter them personally in illness. The Kahn, Jr, Master Gilbert C. Kahn, cause of temperance in India like Mr. and Mrs. George Milne, Miss

wise finds in her a valuable alles. Jane H Milne, Master Sidney R. Epielberger, Master Robert E. Dr. Ambal for many years has Mine, Mr. Jose D. Orobla, Lisit. Spielberger, Ms Lucille B. Spiel- been an active temperance worker J. Q. Owaloy, Madame Eleanor H. berger, Mas Bentrico, E. Spiel- in Madras, and is a member of the Peacock, Miss Maria - P! Sandejas, borger, Mr. Gerald Violett, Mins Executive Committee of the Pro- | Miss/Rosa P. Sanpsjas Rev. Albert Margaret, K. Williamson, Mr. T. hibition League. P. Norther K Spielberger, Mr. Albert K. Yamaki, Mrs Yamnaki