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WEDNESDAY, JULY 4,

1928.

THE NATIONALIST.

CHIANG KAI-SHEK AT PEKING.

ese to recognise that wrongs are Nine cargo boat masters and best put to right by the wrong-mistresses were each fined $5 or, in fault 5 days imprisonment for doers. Sir Austen Chamberlain mooring their boats in Causeway informs his critics in the House Bay in the Typhoon Shelter with of Commons that "he is unable to out permission on the night. of the WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING..

3rd Inst.

This

fellow-countrymen

at the station all night in order to catch a glimpse of the National-- ist Generalissimo.

make any promises on behalf of the National Government."

The St. Andrew's Young Men's

Peking, Yesterday, Neither at home nor abroad do Club meeting will be held to-day Marshal Chiang Kai-shek into General Li Tsung-yen preceded the Church Hall. The club Peking, where a large body of expect in

will be open from 6 o'clock to 7.30. officials met Chiang Kai-shek's anything of the kind, but they then-again from 3 o'clock to 10, A

party. Crowds of Chinese waited certainly expect and, with a Gen- cordial invitation is extended to all |cral Election looming ahead, they who wish to become members.

will insist, that those responsible for British policy in China; will his fok! were each ordered to be by his wife, immediately left the

The master of a barber shop and bound over in a bond of $50 to be city for the Western Hills, where of good behaviour for one year, by they are staying in a Chinese re- Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon sidence in Hangshan, the form- Magistracy yesterday, on a chargoer Imperial hunting park, which of behaving in a disorderly manner is near Sun Yat-sen's burial. by fighting.

place at Piyunssu.

Députations.

see that in the negotiation and the settlement of such policy, that Britons in China are justly treated and that when, as was the case early last year, they are dealt with unfairly, the earliest opportunity must be taken have matters readjusted.

The "Kochow" Tragedy,

to

Chiang Kai-shek, áccompanied

Kwok Kau, coxswain of the steam launch "Seagull," was charged be-headquarters with General Pei Li Tsung-yen is making his fore Commander J. B. Newill.Chung-hsi. They with General D.S.O., R.N., at the Marine Court Yen Hal-shan left for the West- this morning, with failing to ex-ern Hills this afternoon for a hibit a regulation Hight at 9.15 p.m. conference with Chiang Kai-shek. on June 28. He was fined $25 or $ weeks' imprisonment.

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It is reported that the Nation- Walist Government intends to ap-

sent Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Canton) as Vice-For- eign Minister and to station him at Peking to carry on dealings with the Ministers of the Foreign

Deputations from the Peking Chambers of Commerce and other It is difficult at all times to get

public bodies also left for the the Government of Hong Kong to Properly in the Colony valued at Western Hills this afternoon. sit up and take notice but, des- $18,500 has been left by a Chinese Chiang Kai-shek saw pite its unsatisfactory record in married woman, who died intestate sonally and deputed subordinates some per- the past, we really think that the on April 20, 1928, at the Yueng to recommendation of the Court Wo Nursing Home. Letters of ad- Reuter.

interview other caflers.- which inquired into the loss of ministration have been granted to the 3.3. "Kochow" will not go her husband, Mr. Felix Young, of

Yen Hsi-shan, The Court, unheeded.

after No. 2, Staunton-street.

Peking. Yesterday. establishing that the vessel in

According to Chinese. reports General Yen Hsi-shan has order- question was overloaded and re-

Stated to have caused annoyance ed 20,000 of his (Shansi) troops cording its opinion that the state to passengers disembarking from to Taiyuanfu, this being taken as of ships engaged in the river the Star ferries after midnight by an indication that he also intends trade is generally unsatisfactory gathering around the wharf exit, to go there before long. suggests the appointment of Aseveral ricsha coolies ivere yes- Governmental commission to in- terday charged before Mr. quire into the general conditions Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis point Mr. Chu Chaohsin (at pre- under which British ships oper- tracy, with causing a "nuisance." before them, but to-day and, in ate in this trade. The ideal solu- Fines of $3 each were imposed.

tion to a great evil and an equal- fact, long ago, particularly sincely great scandal, of which the At the Central Magistracy this the Kuomintang Party has come Government, shipping circles and

Society for Prevention of Cruelty Powers.-Reuter. to its senses as to the infinite the man in the street have full Song, Inspector Fowler, of the harm that the adoption of cognisance, would be to introduce to Animals, summoned the holders

Those Salt Fands. hard-and-fast Board of Trade re- of poultry stalls Nos, 83 and 88 at Communism was certain to create gulations. Then, however, we the Central Market. for keeping

Peking, Yesterday. in China, it is a very different would be up against that old bug- fowls in crates without water. The posited with the Bank of China The amount of Salt funds de- excuse for bear and accepted

Magistrate (Major C. Willson, for the payment of loans secured inefficiency, "local conditions." We conclude, naturally, that he result of the deliberations of O.B.E.) imposed fine of $10 each. on the salt revenue and transfer- red by the Bank to the National- with the overthrow of the ruth-this Governmental commission-

At Kowloon Magistracy this ist Government was $173,000. doctrines of Bolshevism or any like body that may be in-morning, a Chinese who was de- The transfer was ordered by the responsible Chinese are willing to stituted-we cannot, of course, scribed as "a public nuisance" was Nationalist. Ministry of Finance, forecast, but we may, we trust, fined $10 and ordered to pay com- according to a statement given settle disputes in accordance with reasonably look forward to the plainant $10 compensation. In out by the British Legation yes-

Among time when local shipping regula addition he was bound over In a terday.-Reuter. international practice.

will be regularised and bond of $100 to be of good be- the very first subjects that call tions

modernised. Here was a ship for drastic revision, so far as the with a British captain and a Bri-haviour for a year. Complainant British are concerned, are the tish mate. But the cargo WAS settlement of the outrage at Han-stowed by a coolie, even without him for no apparent reason. kow and the so-called "settlement supervision from the deck officers, Also, the ship, at the time of tak-

matter.

less

J

had testifled that defendant struck

As the result of information re-

COLONY'S HEALTH.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASE LAST WEEK.

TYPHOID, FEVER CASES.

The return of notifiable disease in

reports to the Medical Officer of Health, was as follows:-

in full" that, the "Red" Eugene ing the ground, was being navig-ceived, a Chinese detective stopped Chen forced upon much too mild ated by an uncertificated Chinese a man in Pitt-street on the night British officials, who in no way pilot, the mate, whose watch it of June 24, and, searching him, Local soundings.

conditions! settlement in question. No won- Away with them if, as in this der the affair is frequently the case, human life has to be sacri

pleased Britons in China by the was, being occupied with taking found a loaded revolver or his per the Colony last week, according to

Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 4, 1928, subject of discussion in the House of Commons and we trust that until it is settled in a manner consistent with the honour and dignity of the Chinese as a re- sponsible nation and in accord- ance with British prestige in

BRITISH PROPERTY "IN'

CHINA.

ficed.

A box of cigarettes was reported stolen from 2 hawker's stall in Possession-street. yesterday.

+

Ron.

The man was charged at the

Magistracy Kowloon

yesterday and Major C. Willaon, O.B.E.. for afternoon, before Mr. W. Schofield being la unlawful possession of the weapon. Sentence of five years' hard labour was passed.

from the city district, 4 from Kow- Enteric (typhoid fever): 4 cases loon, 1 from Aberdeen and 2 from the New Territory-total li cases (of which 10 were Chinese and 1 British) 3 deaths during the week. It has been reported to the police that a daki, named Lai Lai-Kowloon; 4 deaths during the week. Small-pox: 1. Chinese case from shan, of No. 24, Sai-street, has

Diphtheria: 1 Chinese case from with $1,760. Another

the city.

་་

Mr. B. A... Geerlings, of the absconded

on the "Taft" Lai-chun, is alleged to have dis- case from the city: 1 death. Influ-

China and the Far East generally Shell Oil interests. in Burmah, left fokt of the same shop, named Pun Cerebro-spinal fever: 1 Chinese

arrest.

The property to which we wish to refer is the property that Bri-

for San Francisco tons until comparatively recently that it will continue to be dia-yesterday.

appeared with $1,720.74, while a held in China and of which they cussed by Members of Parlin-

man named Li Kang-yam, of the Eight American missionaries Yick Tung Yan Printing Shop, No. were dispossessed unjustly, ment, publicists and others. We from Canton sailed by the "Presi- 4. Wah Lane, is reported to have directly or indirectly, in conse: British cannot and must not re- dent Taft" yesterday for a vacation embezzled $92. Warrants have been quence of

China's protracted main acquiescent in the face of in the United States.

Issued by the police for their internecine wars. Now

that what happened early last year in

The chauffeur of car No. 210 there may be said to be a full in China, when the country was, as was fined $10 yesterday, by Major the fighting, perhaps it may soon we subsequently discovered, C. Willson, O.B.E., on a charge of be regarded as opportune that wholly committed to Soviet obstruction of the tram lines at those who now regard themselves domination and "Red" rotten- as masters of the situation in ness.. China should be made aware of We of course make no sugges- the fact that they have obliga- tion that we should immediately tions, in the name of their coun- lay down some sort of ultimatum try, which

a. sense of honour to the supposed powers-that-be, also prohibited. should make imperative that they now that they, the Kuomintang, settle as quickly as possible. seem to be in the ascendant. It Whatever the British Govern-is not the British way to harass ment or the British Foreign or embarrass any, individually or

Causeway Bay-road.

enza (not notifiable): 4 deaths.

VIOLENT CRIPPLE.

MAN WITH OVER A HUNDRÈD CONVICTIONS.

In giving evidence against the

Over 100 convictions for several driver of car No. 460, Professor kinds of offences were recorded K. H. Digby, told the Court yea against a cripple named Michael terday that on June 21, 25 he Kenny, a native of Kilmarnock, who was driving beyond the bridge at at Bow-street Police-court was By order of the Political Sub Repulse Bay, the defendant's car sentenced to four months' hard Council, the Canton Government suddenly appeared from the op- labour for committing damage. has notified that no gambling will posite direction on the wrong side to the amount of £20 at the Bucking- be allowed in private houses or of the road, where there was a ham Hotel, Buckingham-street shops. The playing of mah-jong is winding. Fortunately, witness was Strand.

not proceeding at more than 10 It. was stated that the prisoner miles per hour otherwise there entered the vestibule. of the hotel,. For soliciting passengers In Chater-road and refusing to show would have been a head-on collision. and smashed windows and farni

Defendant was fined $20.

ture with his crutéh. his licence, the driver of public car

Detect'vo Slyfield described. No. 300 was charged and fined $TO |

Estate in Hong Kong valued at Kenny as a man with an ungovern- Magistracy yesterday,

Mary Kathleen Liguouri Gambrano,ed he said, at 17 years of age, und

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2.

Office may have found it ex-collectively, when possibly they and $5, respectively, at the Central,$262,900 was left by the lafe Mrs, nble temper. He was first convict- pedient to do in their negotiations are doing their most to solidify with the so-called officials of the the State by bringing it to a Mr. Aida, of the Chinese Mari- widow, who died at No. 38, Court- his sentences included one of four. Nationalists at a time when, even sounder sort of equilibrium. But time Customs and late of Hoihow, field-gardens, Kensington, on April yeara', penal servitude for stabbing more clearly than actually ap-should the Nationalist persist in passed through. Hong Kong with 4, 1928. Property outside of the two warders in a Glasgow prison.

Mrs. Aida and family aboard the Colony is valued at £62,424-0-10 She formerly ved at No: peared, these officials were deeply their policy and all that it as "President Taft yesterday on gross.

41, Upper Richmond-road, East committed to the propagation of might easily mean of concen- his way to a Northern station.

'Putney. In her will she bequeaths

Communistic theories, with their trating, all their power at Nan- An 8-month-old Chinese male everything to her cousin, the Rev. Soviet masters or their agents at king instead of in the country's child died at the Kwong Wah C. L. H. Duchemin. Resealing of their elbow, it is certain that the recognised capital, Peking, it will Hospital yesterday afternoon, as probate has been, granted, to Mr. out the result of being badly scalded M. H. Turner of Messrs. Deacons result of these negotiations point be well to point

when a pot of hot tea was upset, attorney for the executor. conclusively to a reconsideration that,

Entries for the Tattoo, emblem

of the results then reached. Nanking

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seats are free.

TEASERS.

Answer The “China Mail" Questions.

TO-DAY'S POSERS,

particularly at nt No. 17, Pekin-road, Kowloon. than in Peking

readjustment At St. John's Cathedral Hall on competition close on July 10. It is From day to day a series of. Never at any time, to any Briton must there be n In this part of the world, has it of that policy, made by the Bertan, R.N., DSC will give a interesting to note that a number a dozen questions, not tremendou

D.B.C.^will give a of designs have already been re-difficult to answer but appeared that the settlement ar Soviet masters of Eugene Chen lecture on The Blocking of ceived by the Committee, of which simply spivad as may rived at with regard to British and his sort, that we British so Zeebrugge," Mustrated with spe a few show great merit. A number appear on this page. losses at Kinkiang was little short mildly acquiesced ja regarding cially prepared lantern alldes. All of the entrite are from Servicemen given on paga nina.

but it is regretted that the local AR PAA YAK of being farcical in the extreme! Hankow and Kiuklang. All this

Art Club and the art schools have (1) What is the highest moun A settlement in the sum of could be said much more strong-

Owing to the shortage of the sent in so few. The value of the tin in England $40,000 for the property involvedly but to Chinese, in their "sweet water supply at Tungshan, a suburb prize, and the honour of designing(2) And where is ILT might at the time have seemed reasonableness there is no need of Canton, where may foreigners an emblem chosen in open compati (3) What is Philately better than nothing plus a widen- for unnecessary

iden- for unnecessary pressure. The reside, the Provincial Government tion ought to be sufficient Induce (4) What are the lles du Salut!

KAPLANETEGA mora policy, it is to reservoir there. It i" estimated to Mr. J. H. Hunt, general secre world, under ing of the breach between our proper path selves and the Nationalists, who be hoped, may now merely be in that the reservoir will be completed tary, Grand Tattoo; e/o Y.M.C.A.; Elizabeth We

Kowloan were then carrying everything, dicated to lead responsible Chin- within six mon

of Ganton has decided to build a ment for more to send In entries (5) Who wro

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