1928-10-27 — Page 1

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Touring from $2,300 Sedan from $2,550.

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Pedder Building, 3rd floor.

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China Mail

No. 26,012

RAIDS RENEWED

POLICE AFTER LOCAL COMMUNISTS

A STRIKERS' REGISTER

LISHED

HONG KONG, SATURDAY; OCTOBER 27, 1928.

IMPORTANT TRAFFIC WORLD'S FASTEST

REFORMS

NEW REGULATIONS

LINER

FOR ATLANTIC

| MOTORISTS MUST NOT "ANNOY" CUNARD COMPANY AND THEIR

COMPETITORS WITH THEIR HORNS

800 Names on Black List: Canton's VigilanceMAKE ROOM FOR FIRE ENGINE

SEQUEL TO RED RIOTERS' DARING EXPLOIT

[By "Li Chung-yin"]

of considerable importance to

After inactivity. for two or three months, the Criminal Inves-mediately. tenec anti-Red campaign. And although there is no need for alarm as to extremism in the Colony, much of the sensational has to be

told about this sudden renewal of wholesale raiding.

It has no connection with the remittance of $450,000 from Moscow to Shanghai. It began with the surprise arrest of a woman by Police searchers on wharf at Kowloon and the discovery of ninè Communist messages on her.

fiends.

It and the German

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IS THAT SOP

Thoughts Terse, Perverse—and Worse,

Subscribers to the remainder of the Public Works Loan may rest assured that their money will be well spent.

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Despite the absence of Mr. Haynes the Press is in good hands, Twice during the week It has been told by outsiders what is and is not newa.

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A criminal has been invited to lecture to crimes club....Ho would speak as if he had real con

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SPEED AND LUXURY NEW CHEUNG CHAU LAUNCHES

This morning's 'London, Yesterday.

"Government trafe, certain regulations have! It is understood an announcement Gazette" deals with an unusually large number of branches of public been issued in the "Government will be made very shortly by the

life.

Certain tobacco licences are to be Gazette" and come into force im-Cunard Company regarding its

plans for building a new liner to increased as from the first of the sextette from "Lucia.”

Many names should not be pro-victions. been made to initiate a new Chinesenounced as they are spelt. There's tigation Department of Hong Kong has embarked on another in- One is taken to be calculated to meet the competition of the White year, the necessary legislation has

Is it in spite of or because of aim at the nuisanen caused by Star giant ship, now being built, ferry service, and hawkers have woman, for instance.

electrification that many railways horn and hooter

"Europa" their responsibilities more clearly

defined.

Local Newspaper Headings, "Two seem unable to pay current ex- and "Bremen." reads:- Y

Fees for tobacco licences are con- 'Small Fires. Both Due to Shear penses? "117-A driver shall not rise; The Cunard directors have de- aiderably increased, to come into

Carelessness.**: a horn, bell, or other form of tayed placing an order for a new effect on Jan. 1, 1929. - sound-signal unnecessarily or in

cause liner until they were in a position. Whereas importers had to pay $4 manner calculated to 'public annoyance."

to judge fully the competition they a year hitherto, they will have to

pay $60 in future.

There's this much consolation In Retailers' licences, which have also married life, anyway--women can't Priority is accorded the Fire will have to meet.

The "Mauretania" carinot be ex- been charged at $4 per annum since throw straight. Brigade vehicles, as witness:-

"26a-A driver shall immedi-pected to retain the Atlantic speed the Tobacco Ordinance ate draw in to the side of the record much longer and the Cunard force in 1916, are also to be dearer. roadway and stop clear of cross-, directors wished to be sure that Those in the city of Victoria east of inga when A fire-appliance their now ship will take her place Sands-street and the south-west por-waters? vehicle or motor ambulance ap-as the fastest liner in the world. The, tion of Kowloon Peninsula will have proaches."

new ship is likely to cost a re- to pay $20; these outside the districts cord sum, for speed without luxury specified (ie, in the "suburban" dis-is entitled to one pedestrian.". is useless on the Atlantic trade and, tricts will have to pay $10. she will also have to be largeį Monopoly or Tender probably about the same size as the Regulations under the Ferries Or-

Other factors with a bearing on the situation are the com- pilation of a register containing about eight hundred names of former strikers, intense vigilance by the Canton authorities, the tracing of events back to the spectacular hoisting of the banner of the "General Union of Printing Trades" on Canton's police headquarters during the Red Riots of last December, and the seizure of copies of the "Sharp as a Needle" weekly in Heng Kong.

WOMAN COURIER ARRESTED

Tell-Tale Photos

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C.S.P.8 Powers

LOCAL LOAN

Then there are new or amend rellable source,. Ied regulations giving the Captain learn that a register has been com piled, including about eight hundred names of men employed in Hong: Kong when the strike broke out in June, 1925. They are all alleged to have taken free meals (supplied by the Strike Committee) in the eating halls of Canton.

The "black list" is 'of quite recent origin. It is subsequent to the plot. From a very during the summer to initiate wide sprend disorder in Kwangtung pro- vince the plat which came to nought because the leaders dia. agreed as to whether a start was to be made before or after the harvest. This point has to be made clear

As photos were taken (for pur- because the revelation at that time,

poses of identification) of all per- in the "Sunday Herald," was extensons living under the auspices of sively reproduced in North China the Canton Strike Committee, it is and in Malaya.

natural that most of their "faces" Then followed the arrest of the should be known now, because the woman courier. Information in the strikers' books fell into the hands of

Jetters she carried was acted upon. Yesterday morning, while it was still dark, detachments of Police set

out on both sides of the harbour and were at work for four hours, but without result,

the Canton Government.

During 1925 and the first few months of 1926 (Le, until Marshal Chiang Kai-shek suddenly pounced on the Communist Party), people: joined the Chinese Bolshevik move- ment openly. In fact, every striker was expected to do so. Many ap

new White Star liner.

The problem which has presented most difficulty has been that of the enginee, since at the present time so That the balance of $2,000,000 many new discoveries in ship propul- sion are being tested: It is essen- in the $5,000,000 Public Works

tial that the system adopted should Loan of 1927 (lists for which

give absolute reliability. All these closed to-day) has been over-sub-questions have, it is stated, been solved satisfactorilyBritish Wire- scribed is indicated by an 'an- nouncement in to-day's "Gazette"less Service. appointing:-

The Hon Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.RE., KG. (Attorney-General) Messer, O.B.E. (Colonial Trea- chairman; the Hon. Mr. C. Mel. surer); and Mr. V. M. Grayburn of the Hong Kong and Shanghai

Bank

"to form a Board to consider applications and to allot the Bonds.", "Consideration" of applications

AFGHANISTAN

KING AMANULLAH, AS.

REFORMER WAY

ORGANISING FINANCE

Peshawar, Yesterday. A telegram from Kabul states that King Amanullah, in an ad- dress to the officials, outlined fur

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"HERALD" PICTURES

As usual, to-morrow's "Sunday Herald" will include a fine art supplement with pages of ple- tures, none of which has appear ed in any other paper.

Photos are from the ploneer service which also supplies the "China Mall." This week has been a bumper week and the "Horald" has had, for. to-morrow

Опе in the barber's and the other in the tallor's?

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"Chinese bid for oil market.” To smooth the troubled

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"Every motorist," says a writer,

Evidently a pedestrian himself, else why such carping limitation?

From a menu in a local hotel. "Roast Venu a la Grandmere.".... Nothing like frankness.

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Women are to be galtered,............ But do not they always gang their own galt?

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· · Our latest monopoly. firm of honorary debt collectors.

The Dockyard may lose its Saints and Cooks and ships may lose their machine guns, but the Navy say they are not going to lose the Lai Wah cup match this afternoon.

A new method has been invented for tracing stolen typewriters..... A sort of letters patent.

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Three thousand hats were sold In one day at one sale.....The hats must have gone to the women's

Sometimes a. "model husband" re-heads. sembles other models...and won't work.

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The Indian constable who asked for ten cents and was then asked Employees of the LG.O.C. held for a hundred dollars must be think- an angling competition. Meaning that police work is all bunk. while members of the public were catching 'buses.

The Dutch boat that went ashore

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A paper asks if we know the tem- perature of a glowworm.....At the moment that the worm turned?

to hold back a number of pictures.without permission the other day Among to-morrow's views of has been severely reprimanded.

The President of the Boot Federa- local interest are those of more prize-winners at the Grand Tattoo, Joy-riding on Rosslyn-hill, say the tion urges us to buy British boots." A distinguished visitor to the Hampstead Magistrates, de a "per. We shall respond to his soleful Diocesan Boys' School, the Chi-fect scandal.' Alas! nothing in this appeal. nese Recreation Club at Home," world Is ever perfect! Baron

Huenefeld (the Atlantic fifer) in the Far East,

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A SHver Suspender goes this A correspondent asks if à chorus week to Major Willson for display-

Japanese..

On Wednesday afternoon, the ship forms without a thought of the necessary if subscriptions did not eluding the appointment of a for- ing of the new Science Hall at apparently does not know that no

pended their signatures to member- prior to allotment would not be.ther important internal reforma in. A group photo taken at the open-girl is too old at 25. The silly fellowing in court practical knowledge of

Police also scoured the Colony, beginning about four o'clock and not finishing until two the next morning.

Three Men Detained

Six addresses were visited on Wednesday and a similar number yesterday. The majority were ver- nacular primary schools. Others included printeries, a barber's shop, a business house in Nam, Pak Hong (the Chinese commercial centre in the western part of the city), and Chinese tenemente.

consequences and without the slighest intention of really turning rod.

exceed $2,000,000.

Linguan University, Canton,

chorus girl ever is 25.

Owing to an escape of ammonia, eign adviser to organise the Fin- ance Department and the opening

"Marriage is a career," declares shoppers in town found themselves of a school where instruction will dinance of 1917 have been gazetted an anti-feminist....But the average tears..... This weeping reduction

business? That some of the men whose Superintendent of Police wide be given in Turkish to qualify whereby, in effect, the service be-girl wants to put the "car" in names are on this black list are powers to limit the number of students for admission to the Tur-tween Hong Kong and Cheung Chau career,”

"He being sought in Hong Kong now licences, for any clase

of public kish military academy In Constan- (Dumbbell) Island, maintaind for is known to the labour unions, vehicle; to give permission to tinople.--Reuter.

motorists to use roads in closed!

Young Printers Shot

For months the special detectives areas (in connection with which a; of Canton have waged ceaseless list of excepted thoroughfares is vigilance. Even the most remote drawn up); also permission to usek suburbs were visited at all hours. as a stand places set forth; and The hunt was relentless and té lay down a list of places where effective. Very few, if any, of the private motor vehicles may be left excommunicated eight hundred are unattended.

Places at which private motor who were with them either as co-vehicles may be left unattended members of labour unions or fellow- are:- Wanchal, Shaukiwan, Yaumati strikers (in the anti-Hong Kong and the central district received period) have become "Moderates" and are in close touch with the attention on Wednesday. Wanchai, authorities.

in Canton, to-day, because a number

central district, western district. At one time workers in the allied each supplied one address yesterday printing trades were paid particular and the other three were in attention. Yaumati.

Whereas yesterday's activities produced no definite result (so far

Apprentices in their 'teens were east in prison or shot as Red eonspirators.

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The referee' In a match at Southwick, Brighton, awarded a home penalty kick against a player for calling out "right" in order to deceive an opponent.

cried her name in the

years by the "kaifongs" of Cheung In spite of the alterations in Hong silence of his heart."Local serial.

Chau, will pass into other handa. Kong, we shall never have sky- In this connection. it is learned scrapers here....America will still that a Chinese, syndicate is being remain the land of tall stories. formed under Mr. Li Yau-tun

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(chairman of the Hong Kong Chin- This Week's Welleriam:-"I shall ese General Chamber of Commerce), be very much cut up," as the mis- with a capital of $250,000, which sionary said when the cannibals will build a fleet of new launches. told him that he was to be the

Under the new regulations, no li principal course at dinner.

A goal resulted, the match end-cence for ferry services will be grant- ing in a drown game.

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ed unless it is put to public ten- "Water Scarcity in Colony."

woman

. Too full for words.

"September is a fashionable month for weddings," anys writer... Other fashionable months for weddings are October, Novem- ber, December, January, February,

August. March, April, May June, July and

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An institution appeals for reading der (except where exclusive main- Many millonen were almost unable matter for the crews of ships at sea..But it's no good giving tenance is provided by the Legisla-to carry on?

the captain-he's novels to alcipper.

In the central district

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In the western district

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In the eastern district Kowloon

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The decision is the subject of much discussion in Sussex foot- ball circles.

ture),

Under another set of new regula-

tions, the grant without public ten-

It is stated that "women don't

tongues

Kowloon

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SINGAPORE' BASE

MASS MEETING SUPPORTS

OFFICIAL MEMBERS:

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der of a licence for the exclusive.rest. enough."....Their maintenance of ferries to points in don't, anyway, says Mr. N. Peck. the western part of the New Terri- UN-tories, has been authorised, presum- ably, to the $250,000 syndicate,

CONTRIBUTIONS ISSUE.

Singapore, Yesterday.

Car & Cab Stands Stande for private motor vehicles have been created as follow:-

Stands Cars For this there existed strong sus-Island of Hong Kong 10

Hawkers on Shipe 110. as is known), the C.ID. has picion, some direct proof and a H district

Changes in the law for. dealing 20

with hawkers are also announced in something to show for the night mass of circumstantial evidence.

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the "Gazette." long hard work of Wednesday.

Mainly because of the stigma re- Four stands for public motor-

A public mass meeting, held In effect, hawkers will be divided -One man

was taken up from àferred to, the union of "English" Shaukiwan school. He was brought compositors in Hong Kong, the men cars (other than taxie) are to accom.

Settlements Association passed a Itinerant, and those selling on na- to Nam Pak Hong at midnight and of which set type for the English modate.. in the Island of Hong under the auspices of the Straits Into four classes, as follow

Kong, a total 86 cars. A search was made there, lasting papers, has not been re-opened.

Stands for taxis are provided as resolution supporting the views of tive craft, whose licences will be $4 follow!---

the unofficial members of the a year; and stallholders and those Stands Cabe Legislative Council with regard to selling on steamships, whose licences

75 the contributions to the Singapore will be $24 a year.

|Base.-Reuter.

Conditions under which both classes of harbour hawkers hold their

two hours.

In a Yaumati tenement, copies of a weekly publication In Chin- ese, with the high-sounding name of "Sharp, as a Needle," were seized and two men arrested.

Nearly Alf the C.ID. Machinery, type, "furniture" and priated matter was minutely ex amined by detectives but without

result.

Mr. C. G. Perdue (acting Director of Criminal Intelligence), Mr. T. Murphy (acting Assistant Director

Race to Hoist Flag - The printers achieved notoriety during the three days' reign of Island of Hong Kong terror which began on Dec. 15, 1927. Kowloon

A Red uprising succeeded in over- throwing the Canton Government (then under the Ironsides who were in opposition-to-Marshal-Li-Chal-| aum). One of the first yamens to fall was the Finance Department. The printers who took part in rush- ing the building are alleged to have| claimed at the tline that they gained the distinction of being first to enter.

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-APPOINTMENTS

UNIVERSITY COURT: NEW MEMBERS

ASSISTANT TO S. C. A. :

Appointments gazetted to-day in

of Criminal Intelligence), acting A stubborn fight was waged at clude:-

and 6 am, hawking on water is for

Poster' we expected to see: "Gov- ernment's Gamble on Weather Water Consumers Left High and Dry."

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"Pickle Factory Fire. .Mixed grill

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"London Men Sentenced in France". Even as children we were always worried by French sentences.

The Bishop of Bradford hoasta

Cook-fighters when next caught that he can lay a carpet,.... Most are to go to prison.....After their bishop, can only lay foundation-releage there might be a little fight,

between gaol. birds.

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stones.

At

Y.M.C.A.. debate:-"Hong

A Welsh signalman has lost Kong..

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not actually a swarm of 10,000 beer.....W6. stagnate but it moved slowly."hope before going into the world

Is that so?

they put the signal at danger.

At a dinner at the National

A traveller, says that

the

FRENCH TEXTILES licences are set out. Between 8. Sporting Club it was said that W. G. Armenian is mean...Hence the

bidden, except on native craft in George's running record had be term "The Near East."

40,000-WORKERS ON STRIKE AT ROUEN

Rouen, Yesterday. 40,000 workers in the textile trade have struck locally-Reuter.

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Calcutta, Yesterday,⠀⠀⠀⠀

he junk anchorages-up to 11 p.m.

VON HUENEFELD

ABANDONS HIS PROPOSED PACIFIC FLIGHT:

Tokyo, Yesterday Baron von Huenefeld has aban

come almost a legend....Well,- a

myth is as good as a mile.

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The Prince of Wales flew to Grimsby, to visit the fishing fleet...

Wealth, the combination of the It must have been the fly-fishing

fleet.

wit of Shaw and Robey and the features of an Adonis, it is said, are required to make headway withi Hong Kong's feminine folk, we always thought we were lacking something.

Chief Detective Inspector W. Police Headquarters but the Com- To be members of, the Court of Shannon and Detective Inspector muniata ultimately broke in. And the University, for three years C. P. Fallon of Yaumati were all the first red flag to go up was that Mr. Wong Tak-kwong (of Messrs. The death is announced of the doned his trans-Pacific flight owing engaged in the series of raids, bearing the name of the "General Fung Tang), Mr. Sum Fak-ming Hon: Satlab Kanjan Das, Law Mem-to unfavourable weather cond! It is the restaurant band that dirketing an unusually large mum- Union of Allied Printing Trades." ber of European plain-clothes off-|-Men boasted during the brief rule (native agent of the Java-China ber of the Viceroy's Council. Following his forced landing 2 C cera and nearly all the senior of extremism that the Police citadel Japan Lijn, etc.), and Mr. D. J. Reuter, Chinese detectives, including the fell because of their valour and Lewis (principal of Messrs. John-

Detective Inspector and the two Principal Chinese Detectives (with rank of Sergeant Major). - One of each of the last named is attached to headquarters on either side of the harbour,

that they won the race to be first in, son, Stokes & Master,

Whether it was the type-setters, To be art Assistant to the Secret- printers, bookbinders, lithographar for Chinese Affairs:-Mr. J. B. men or others, who all have their MacLaren.

own union, is not known. It made To act as Deputy Registrar of the | little difference, however.

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR

The closing rate of the dollar on Supreme Court: Mr. E. P. H. Lang,¡demand, to day was 2/0 E/16.**//

puts the "din'' into dinner.

Apropos of the inquiry Into the value of seances, we suppose that communcation is now obtained, by means of a loud spooker.

Burglars who broke into a shop

at Walton-on-Thames book 10% in near Tokyo, Baron von Huenefeld

A doctor has been writing about Coppers. We didn't know they had was making preparations for a the "dangers of retiring." But in any use for coppers. flight across the Pacific to Seattle the new generation there vin_the_Aleutian - Islands _ _The mich sign of a retiring disposition.

Ator expected to of about

28thor. 29th of this mont

uter.

General Gaves a Swimmer. Was he in the Life Guardst