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BLISHED

83 Wang Nei Chung Bosd, Happy Valley.

No. 25,970

FAMILY FEUDS.

KWANGTUNG FACTION - FIGHTS.

OFFICIAL ACTION.

Special Significance in Canton Govt. Restrictions. MEN OF THE SOUTH ALWAYS INVOLVED.

[By "Li Chung-yin."]

Action has not often been taken by the authorities to prevent or stop clan fights in the adjacent province of Kwangtung, probably because it is nearly always futile, so that this week's report of the exemplary penalties meted out by the Canton Government can be taken to convey special significance.

Family, feuds are not uncommon among the 30,000,000 in habitants of Kwangtung province. In fact, it might be true to say that Kwangtung is worse off than any other province for petty, local civil wars.

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1928.

A NEW BOWLING HIGH RENTS STIGMA IN

RECORD.

"TICH" FREEMAN,

HONG KONG.

INCREASES IN 1928.

291 WICKETS IN SEASON, BEAT-"A MANNER OF LEGISLATION"

ING OLD TOM RICHARDSON,

GENTS. AND PLAYERS. Season-end cricket has enabled "Tich" Freeman, the popular Kent bowler, to beat a record which has stood for 35 years:

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Thoughts Terse, Perverse--and Worse.

A Golden Garter is this week awarded to Inspector Jock" Clark of West Point for effective ly spiriting away the "murdered"

Shanghai, Sept. 3. man's body.

A Nationalist naval detach-

According to the S. C. M. Post, a motion before the Sanitary Board- was carried by four votes to five.

Our contemporary seems unconsciously to have realised that Government institutions like to do things that way.

We are all against these child mar An Indian alleged to be 140 has a wife aged 110.

riages.

....

Another swimmer has falled to swim the Straits from Tarifa. Have the Straits begun to Gib?.

Sandwich-men are ⠀ demanding an increase in wages.. well as their board?

This matter of high rents! merit under command of Captain There is to be what is described

human kindness? Playing for his county against Much has been said and written Lin Shu-kou, according to an- as a Dairy League of Nations the M.C.C. Freeman took ten concerning it during the past nouncement of Admiral Yang With a chance for the milk of wickets, thus bringing his total few weeks. Bag-full of letters, Shuch-wang to-day, landed a for the season up to 291, beating ranging from bitter, Indignant ac- large force of Chinese marines Man may have conquered the Tom Richardson's record total of cusations to commiserative ab and mixed brigade troops on the air but we still think there are a 290 wickets in one season.

The Gentlemen gained a nar-peals, have been received by the coast of Hing Hwa Bay, located number of concert singers in row victory over the Players and Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Fukien province, midway be- Hong Kong who haven't.. a scratch eleven drew with the from people in all walks of life.twcen Foochow and Amoy and,

Gold for a London bank was The columns of the newspapers Test team going to Australia.

London, Yesterday. have not been immune from the after heavy fighting, aucceeded in

carrying beef. The Gentlemen beat the Play- controversy.

The indignant spinster who (found its way into the blissful pirates. The pirates had been know what is meant by to meat

jan overdraft..

writes in to say that some of the The origin might be traced to the Triad Society movement buters by one wicket.

Players 204 (Hill 5 for 88) and precincts of Mr. Smith's second- terrorising the South China coast

Repulse Bay bathing belles "ought door flat, and Mrs. Brown may for several years. this organisation's ramifications extend to other parts of China as 367 (Mead 117).

Gentlernen 270 and 802 for 9. also be on the verge of approach-

Among the captives taken by Sir James Barrie, addressing to be exposed" is reminded that well. In America; clan wars have puzzled the Police of more than

Thornton's XI drew with the ing the broadcasting committee one city and the men involved were Cantonese every time.

Australian Test team.

of the Radio Society with a view the naval detachment was the Rhodes scholars on what they it would hardly do to expose them. Tourists 416 and 236 for 5 de- to giving the subject an airing notorious Bandit-pirate Yang may become, spoke of "the little any further,

A Territorial wants to know clared.

"over the air." And after all Teh-shing, the brains of the ont- speck within you. But it Thornton's XI 293 (Tate 5 for this fuss--have the landlords re- fit, who has planned the capture is only when they're older that

of dozens of merchantmen which they'll need specks, 71) and 189.for 3.

have been conducted to Blas Bay

POLICE AND PUBLIC PUZZLED.

is worth money.

lives.

..

M.C.C. beat Kent by four wickets.

. We now It has probably routing a large band of Chinese sent by a van ordinarily used for

SAILOR DIES

'Scarab" - Man Buried

at Ichang

Ichang, Yesterday Leading Supply Assistant Frank West of H.M.S. #Scarab died here to-day and was buried ashore B.N.W.W

Deceased was married and a native of Hosyth.

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and there looted and their passen- No matter what Mr. Claxton gers held as captives for ransom. may say, we are convinced that

In a Dense Forest.

the heat is a sign of unsettled The report states that the ban- whether. dit headquarters were located in the middle of a dense forest in the The League of Nations is to centre of an island off the coast, legislate to protect birds. which was surrounded by a high Through the International wall wherein the bandit castle was Ministry? situated.

why the day on which relatives

visit camp is known as "Friends' Day." We hate to think of his domestic life.

We

We are promised $100 saloon cars. If everybody has one the world will be turned into a race of saloonatics.

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bootblacks. And we have al ways admired Spaniards for their

Air Madrid has decreed a ban on

Fruit crops have been destroy-polish! The castle consisted of 180 | rooms containing mediaeval in-ed by hailstorms in Holland. struments of torture for use upon The fruit now feels hall rather the victims. The Admiral's re- than hearty. port stated that the place resem-

No wonder we've been so hot these last few days, dow Even the calendar, has been at 6's and 7's.

"Rubber for railways.

The younger Perhaps the so often talked new tong, started.

Kent 270 (Woolley 125) and about enterprise of the Cantonese organisation fought tooth and is to blame, or the get-together nail to remove the conditions akin 894 (J. Bryan 140)...

M.C.C. 876 (Bettington 114 Hundreds of spirit. Suffice it to say that to a monopoly. no matter how long ill-feeling has Chinese, some not members of (Freeman 6 for 147) and 289 for (Freeman 4 for 117)-Reuter. existed, each fresh outbreak is either body, were rutheasly slain., nearly always due to a dispute In more recent

Test Team Secrets. years, the about money or something which "squeeze" exacted from fantan Addressing the English cricket saloons and Chinese lottery estab-team which is going to Australia Such a minor affair as the lishments constituted another at Scarborough Lord Harris told diversion of a small stream, source of trouble. Ultimately the how players had been selected by The committee - either for irrigation purposes or, authorities arranged a confer- the committee.

on the other hand, for food pre-ence, threatened all the leaders consisted of Lord Harris and vention, has been known to have with deportation, and a peace Messrs. Douglas, Gilligan, Law

These led to the loss of hundreds of puct was signed.

son-Gower and Mann.

bled a Buddhist's conception of A story is current in Police ROOT OF THE EVIL

selectors co-operated the services! Or, again, two clans or two On the Pacific Coast there are of Messrs. Warner and Carr and duced the rents? I am reliably hell since the stone pillars and villages may have quarrelled about ten tonge of real power but Hobbs, At their meeting each informed that not altigle one of walls were blood stained. It is circles that a Sergeant who is several centuries ago over a trifi- the mercenary: aspect is the member wrote down his ideal them has the slightest Intention estimated that more than 1,000 studying Chinese said that he

ed with him. ing matter. Yet the enmity is same. Which all goes to show selection for the team to go to of obliging their tenants to such victims most of whom were saw a female ghost who conversAre they getting tyred?? sustained and the present gen- that the Cantonese are fond of Australia. There was unanimity an-oh, dear abnormal extent! Chinese, have lost their lives guage as she is spook, we, sup The night sky in September." eration will resort to arms on getting together but not hesitatas ta nine players and the remain- The walls of the populace go on: there

When Captafa Lin Shu-kuo cap the slightest provocation. ing to use the strength of num-der of the 17 players were deter the song of the landlorde creeps

Judge Crawford says that POTENTIAL SKYSCRAPER. bers whenever income is at stake, mined by vote British Wireless a note higher. Such in Hong tured the castle he found forty

Kong.

victims, some of whom were Judges sometimes think. Fung Shui enters largely into The strength of numbers Service.

MUCH PROMISED... hanging by chains from the walls Think what? Themselves funny clan fights. One village may that is the root of the whole

But considering the matter while others were bound upon build a house higher than any trouble!

with all sobriety, nothing can be tables for the purpose of being thought of to extenuate the fact subjected to torture. It is stated are high beyond reasonable carrying off twenty of the that rents of houses in the Colony that the bandits succeeded in imagination. We can all under wealthier victims. stand the landlords asking for small increases at certain inter- vals, but when conditions reach

THE FIGHTING. NATIONALISTS DRIVE ON

NORTHERNERS,

MORE U.S. TROOPS.

Peking, Yesterday.

OPIUM ENQUIRY.

CHINA SUPPORTS BRITISH PROPOSAL.

WHAT CHINA WANTS.

Geneva, Yesterday.

S

The lan

"Booming Tramways." Fare trade.

7

A social climber wants to know why he can't buy a Peak season ticket.

Enough to make anybody

sce stars, AR BRAN

A London man left his gramo phone to his valet accompanied by a record of his esteem.

At the National Sweet Pea Society a acarlet bloom won the gold medal for being the sweet- est pea.

Mr. Justice Hill says that in

Ramsay MacDonald says that hot weather wigs are torture. They are, in fact, enough the Bolshevists ought to be re to make Justice ill. cognised.

Well, we know

them when we see them.

A crow has been stealing chickens in Hertfordshire,

Dr. Temple is not without a In America It is the job of an- sense of humour, says an ad- other sort of black, mírer. Therefore, he must

be an arch Bishop.

There is no truth in the rumour that the Government has proscribed the Hong Kong Shroffe Co-operative Association following representations by the S.P.CASES A

in Its neighbour. Its presence is. It is common to hear in the resented on the ground that it interior how two will bully one, obstructs the elements which cast five will tyrannise three, a more favourable influence over the robust division, of one branch net locality. If the owner of the unfairly towards another, and a potential skyscraper is sufficient-clan ill-treat a branch. ly powerful in his own sphere, his In some cases, clans of 10,000 clansmen or fellow-villagers join strong have pitted themselves him in shouting defiance to the against others just as powerful.

Japanese troops hitherto sta. the stage when increases of 60 people who object.

To preserve the balance of power,

or 70 per cent, are coolly demand- Still, money is at the bottom neighbouring clans join in and a tioned along the Peking-Mukdened, the time is ripe for some of the trouble. The neighbours minor war commences with call- Railway, in the zone of hostilities action to be taken to mitigate the object because they fear that ous bombardment, sacking of between the Nationalists and the

Some advocate approach to the their crops or possessions will be villages and inhuman slaughter Northerners, are leaving Chin-evil

wangtao to-day, with the excep question from the standpoint of imperilled by this interference of men, women and children.

tion of a small maintenance party, the house-owner. Very well! It CLASSIC INSTANCE. with fung shui.

An American relief battalion must be borne in mind that the It is the same with grazing. A Then, of course, the authorities local tyrant might send his cattle have to sit up and take notice.

of troops, however, arrived at subject of this discussion is the Mr. Wang King-ky, at a luncheon Chinwangtao on Thursday, A

In the Summary Court, Mr. to pastures belonging to some- There was the classic instance of

To a body else. The offended party five or six clans in the Sze Yap Latest Chinese military unwarranted increases of rents of of international pressmen an- forbids and a feud commences. having engaged in bloodshed for movements indicate that the premises which are already being nounced that China supported, the

COMMUNAL PROPERTY.

over a month and then learning Northerners are being pressed occupied, and does not concern British proposal for an cpfum en-M. K. Lo "My friend is really

up another Crusade, Only last week, an outlook in that the then Governor of Can castward, towards the red new buildings. The landlords quiry in the Far East on condition re-cross-examining.

are a smart bunch; they promise that this extended to derivatives of layman this sounds like getting a village near the Canton-Kowloon ton was sending two, brigades of Wall, and that the Nationalists much to tenants before they come opinm and there would be a

are consolidating their suc forth with their schemes.

Chinese delegate on the Commission Railway, about 80 miles from the troops to suppress the fighting. frontier, was narrowly averted. Against the regulars (who had cesses. REASONABLE PROFIT. of enquiry. China had two things The dispute concerned three superior equipment and a pre- The Northern Generals, Chu

man who puts up a house at heart, namely, her re-election to branches of one family living ponderance in munitions), the un-Yu-pu. and Ho Feng-lin, went to around a large fish pond shaped disciplined village, braves had no Kaiping on Sept. 6 to visit for rent must be certain, before he a seat on the Council and the aboll like a triangle, one branch on chance. Inducement was held the Northern commander-in-admits occupants, that he gets a tion of unequal treaties. Reuter. each shore. A disused watch out to the soldiers and, before chief, General Chang Tsung-return which will cover the usual interest on the cost plus a reason. tower was the basis of conter they reached the centre of tur chang. tion. As long as it remained in moll, the two brigades were fight On the other hand, Li Tsao-linable profit. And any increase dlause, everybody was satisfied; ing each other in the game of (who is, on behalf of the Nation which he imposes after that but as soon as one branch entered taking sides. After another alists advising the Northerners to would probably be only occasion- "CHRISTIAN GENERAL" CLAIMS into possession, the others be month, a stronger expedition was surrender), accompanied by two ed by a rise in the value of the came anxious lest it should obtain Atted out, supported by a flotilla Japanese, have arrived at Chin property. There should be no e strategic advantage which, one of armed launches. When the re wangtao, and are proceeding to other reason. Considering, there would think, ought to work for presentatives of law and order ar Kalping to advise the North-fore, that the value of property in mutual benefit against robbers.rived, they found that the war era commander-in-chief, General Hong Kong has been more or less It is reported from Kaifeng that

Quarrels between clansmen are was over, each side having suf- Chang Tsung-cheng, to give in to constant for the last three years, Feng Yu-hsiang (the Christian But we have often seen beauty in by no meana rare, That is to fered too many casualties and the the Nationalists, landlords can have no just cause General") claims that his Kuomin-tears-_-_-__~)-- say, members of a community good offices of neutrals having In the interval, General Chang for raising the rentals of houses chun General, An Heu-teh, with his

Tsung-chang's transport, the to the extent that they have been "Dare-to-Die Corps, stormed Feng Further to the sports writer in descended from the same ances prevailed

Japanese 6.5. "Matsura Maru," doing ever since the beginning of slang in western, Shenal on Sept. a contemporary who said that tor, whose names are all recorded AUTHORITIES" VIEW.

8, after a bloody fight, the local cricket season is about

Thirteen Balloons to Race." IL in the principal ancestral hall, From the administrative point has left Chinwangtan for an un- this year.

Feng Yu-halang claims that this to start, we respectfully point divide themselves into opposing of view, the danger of clan fights known destination.

means the final overthrow of the out that Christmas is only 3 le all up with this unlucky num→

iber. sections. Such fights are usually lay in the losing side being de Armoured Trains.

reactionaries in Sheast Reuter months and 17, days ahead. confined to clans blessed with prived of their homes and livel! A Nationalist armoured train, est regard for the welf an abundance of communal pro hood and, as the only alternative, with 600 troops on board, under They seem to

perty but with little good sense.

Needless to say, the rivals strive

-for control of the common wealth

TONG WARS IN USA

Every

In their pursuit of we Landlords have hot pale

swelling the hardes of bandits General Fang Chen-wu, has arriv-keepers and robbers. The psychological ed at Lutal, which was captured effect of allowing communities to from the Northerners, take the law into their own hands A Northern armoured train

The horrors of long wars in was not considered until very re- still patroling sa far westward

Americs are known all over the cently

world. On the Atlantic seaboard, Enlisting the services of out-

the Chinese formerly had only laws to

one tong. By becoming a mem- often

ber of it and, of course, pa

tribute-a lau!

nan coul

peal to the long forcibly

or ring

pressure to bear

starting business in

to not

Hau-ko-chuang

General Hsu Kum of

ern Army, has

the encat being done

eing turned ist advance.

I'main'

the

WAR IN SHANSI.

"A SUCCESS.

Peking, Yesterday.

Only 81 out of 1,100 candidates for Fleet examinations got first- class honours. The men were evidently at sea all the time.

What, against lawyers?

upon" by the authorities. Never Flat. We should hope so.

A river-girl complains that bathing dresses are "frowned A headline reads "Home Rails mind, they make other people laugh.

A sporting writer announces that "Tennis champions must be young." They must also be able to play tennis,

"Beauty Spot Flooded."

"There is to be held an exhibi- tion for chauffeurs. Of the art of wheel and whon tuge

Senorita de Alvarez made a- sensation by playing tennis in orange. B

was her oppon-," Tents who got the pip

The Mayor of Gravesend, dress-

ed as a pearly king, collected for the local hospital. It was a case of gay as well as Gravesend,

Fur Robbery.

CHIANG KAI-SHEK.

We are told how we can get Söu Ice cream without ice. We skinn Afrost

as if somebody has been

Bedroom

terday

Chian

every do

men

Arrests

Being Mary asleep the wanted men took it

lying down t

and persons have

to see how the

danchurian

the Great WI