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remains, It is now no longer dangerous to the Police officer, and those exciting days are now a thing of the past.

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To Fight Or Not in. Fight?

SATURDAY, JUNE I. 1929,

For once Feng ROUND THE CINEMAS (the "Christian General(); has been caught. bendiago Chiang Kai-shek's

In the May issue resources of revenue turned the

A Generous of the

Offer Dragon,"

THE SLUM QIRL'S WONDER FUELERDAM

"A KISS FOR CINDERELLA”

"Yellow tide. General Ham Fuschun, who Directed by Herbert, Brenon the vigorously encouraged his super-thi film Kits for Cinderella," monthly journal for Feng, to declare war on which is adapted from Sir James Chiang Kai-shek, must have been, Barrie's famous play, will be of the Queen's College, which, as bought over beforehand dike, LU seen for the last time to-day at with all previous issues, is full of Ming-shps of Evangely but for a the World Theatred

The leading role is taken by interesting and instructive arti- much larger consideration

Hence Chiang Kai-shek's con- Betty Bronson, that of a kind- cles, there is reproduced a letter fidence all along. The net result hearted slum girl. Tom Moore from Mr. M. K. Lo, written on is that Feng has to retire. "Stakes the part of a police con- behalf of his father, Mr. Loing abroad to study is merely a stable. Cheung-shui, containing sugges-convenient name for dismissal, if How 'n slum girl dreamt of tions as to how his generous not total elimination. The marrying a Prince in Royal offer of $1,500 to found a scholar- Kwangsi faction has shot its bolt style, is told wonderfully on the ship should be administered. The after getting so near and yet so screen. Her dream came true as gift was the outcome of the fact far from Canton in a forlorn the Prince turned out to be

Moore that many promising scholars had hope to re-establish itself and

Others of note in the cast are abruptly to terminate their thereby divert Chiang Kai-shek's schooling for pecuniary reasons, attention from the North, Yen Esther Ralston, Henry Vibart. and it was in the realisation of Hsi-shan may also be leaving and. Dorothy Cumming. the poignancy of Gray's Lament, China as well. Hemmed in, on Hands that the rod of empire three sides he would have been

might have swayed; Or waked to

ectaay the living lyre." that the scholarship eridowed.

was

The conditions are The that the sum of Conditions money is to be kept and invested

hard put to maintain the neutral-

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FORGED CHEQUE

WITHDRAWN

ity which has been his creed since | POLICE PROCEEDINGS NOW 1912. He must have given offence to somebody or other by either fighting or not fighting.

Dictatorship For

Since the arrest of the two

Two men who have been de- tained by the Police in connection- None of the with the recent cheque fraud in major warlords which an attempt was made to remains in the cash a forget cheque for $1,000 at the Chartered Bank, have been China's Good 18 provinces of released. in the absolute discretion of the

China Proper. The cheque, it will be remen- head master for the time being of

Chiang Kai-shek is supreme.bered, was purported to have Queen's College without the inter-There is General Chang Hsueh- been drawn by Mr. Yung Pik-chi, ference of any person or body liang of Manchuria and a number interpreter to Messrs. Russ and The income is to be applied as a of lesser warlords all over the Co local solicitors. scholarship and to be paid to any country. Those who obey Chiang student of the College in the ab- Kai-shek unquestionably will re- suspected persons, Bank clerks: solute discretion of the head master Such payment can be main. Those who will not will be have been called to attend an encompassed even as greater identification parade, and it is made to the same long as he continues to be a will a dictatorship be to China's Therefore the Police have decided scholar (asones have been dealt with. And understood that the result of this

has not been satisfactory.. scholar of the College) for any benefit? For years the Powers It may be

number of years as the head that Shanghai-master, shall, in his absolute dis have prayed for the advent of a not to proceed against the two-

adds the corres- "strong man, landers are not a cretion, think fit. The scholar- water-drinking ship is to be in memory of the pondent. Chiang Kai-shek has many shortcomings but he has community; but most of the late Mrs. Lo Cheung-shui and the put himself at the very top to the the effects of opium poisoning,

scholarship shall be called by such disadvantage of all but his own alleged to have been self-adminis "Model Settlement" is certainly a name, in honour of such

clique. Mussolini flourishes in tered. kept attractively clean by means memory. Although the condi-

Italy but other dictators in of water swished on its thorough tions of the scholarship are as Europe-to seek no further

above stated, the donor enter- fares to an extent that seems com-tains the confident hope that, in have fallen by the wayside with out accomplishing much for their pletely to eclipse what is done in selecting the candidate for the Hong Kong. And the point is: scholarship, the head master for respective countries' welfare,

the time being will bear in mind "Has not the time arrived for this the fundamental object of the charming island of ours to be donor in preventing the pre- likewise swished with harbour mature ending of a. promising account of water, which requires no treat-scholastic career on

poverty. ment for sanitary purposes? We understand that a certain quan-

Hong Kong

Eclipsed

tity is used for street-cleansing purposes, but in these days, much more ought to be used.

partment is concerned.

Times of

Treachery A. Deciding Factor!

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in

the

CORRESPONDENCE

men.

Three armed men yesterday participated in a robbery at the Luten Yick Hing Chinese Tobacco Firm, No. 177, Des Voeux-road, West, and stole money and cloth- ing to the total value of $750.

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per head.

Unless cause

ernment Civil Hospital, suffering

THE WATER SUPPLY ITo the Editor of the "China Mail" Treachery has

Sir, Various methods have been the decidingbeen suggested for the best way factor

out of our water difficulties. It ap

A bathing picnic, under the series of civil pears to me that since there is not auspices of

the. St. Andrew's wars and political sufficient water available for Y.M.C., will be held on Monday, struggles in China which are keeping the whole population out (weather permitting), The of the terrible dangers of a water launch will leave the Kowloon If we wait for the

now culminating in the prover- Danger in occasional show bial". "landslide" for Marshal famine, viz., epidemies, diseases, Public Pier at 3 pm, for Island.

Delay

ers to act as our Chiang Kai-shek, who is head not great suffering and a threatening Bay, and the charge is 60 cents

only of the Nationalist Party of widespread unrest amongst the scavengers, it is

China and of the National (v-population. The only natural way Hong Kong, Saturday, June 1, 1923. not improbable that serious con- ernment in Nanking, but also of out of our difficulties would be to The name of Foreign Products under the supply, sufficient water from out- Distributors Forprodist, Ltd., has sequences might arise. And, of the fighting forces course, the use of potable water dual control of both Party and side..by chartered lighters, large been struck off the register af

steamers and junks, at any cost STILL WATERS

Government. Disheartening can

companies. for street-cleansing purposes is be the only phrase when one con- to the Government, without fur-shown to the contrary within at present unthinkable.. We de-siders that bribery played as im- the delay, the distribution to three months, the name of Hontsz "Water, water every-voutly hope that such also is the portant a part as in the heyday be done from a great number of & Co., Ltd., will be similarly

new tanks, to be erected rapidly struck off. of tuchunism or feudalism- Harbour where but never a case, so far as our Sanitary De-bribery which has been so much by workmen working day and

Water drop to drink." This

night in shifts to complete them condemned by the self-styled en-

While nearing No. 2. Police Sta tion at Wanchai, a tram car is the jingle, that

lightened leaders of to-day. No as soon as is humanly possible.

Water to the floating and the knocked down a Chinese, 19 wonder-Chiang Kai-shek persist-water front population could also years of age, yesterday, evening. comes to us. as we look over one

When Hunghomed in riding roughshod over his be distributed direct from the An ambulance was summoned, of the Star ferries. But will the

was quite young, closest rivals. The net result is time not come when Harbour

Long Ago when it was devil that the administration has be/water-carrying vessels by a suit-and. the lad was taken to the Gov-

able arrangement. water (if hardly up to the stay-

ish hard to main come as close to one of autocracy A new type of water taps should from severe injuries to the head: dard, no matter what may be done tain law and order, those were siderable time.

as China has seen, for some con-be introduced all over Hong Kong to it, for potable purposes)-may the days now forgotten by many

to close the water supply tightly

H.M. the King has not been. and automatically the moment advised to exercise his power of be much more extensively

Defeat of the and only remembered by a

the hand is withdrawn from it disallowance with respect to the used for a greater variety of few who had to be brought into

Prediction. Kwangsi faction It is the opinion of many that following new Ordinances in eleansing and drainage needs in

Which in the Yangtze such automatical self-closing Hong Kong-No. 3 of 1929 (to contact with the people that in- this Island of ours? If not why habited Hunghom in the every-..

Came True Valley was

water taps should have been in amend the law relating to the troduced in Hong Kong years ago, taxation of tobacco) and No. 4. of not? In other places where

sured by Chiang as there can be no doubt that 1929 (to amend the Watchmen... day course of life. Part of the water by no means presents so

Kai-shek's bribe of $200,000 to it would bring about a very Ordinance of 1928). shady characters fellows who serious a problem, sea water, or stole money, and even children after turning against his friends inelining the water consumer to Brigadier Li Ming-shui who, considerable saving of water by

Mr. W. Kay has received a letter water that is partly from the for a profession-a place that has, curiously, been sent by use the least possible amount of from Mr. A. H.. Crook, head housed vile murderers and the Chiang Kai-shek. to attack his water and to save his time requir-master of the Queen's College, sort. The place was situated on native province of Kwangsi. ed for keeping the self-losing tap who is representing Hong Kong

Payment of this bribe was exclu-open..

in the Pacific Congress at Batavia. the northern side of Hunghom, sively, disclosed in the "China All street fountains are to be im Mr. Crook said in his letter that Take the muddy and, happy to relate, is now no Mail a month ago. It is not cus-mediately provided with water he has paid a visit to Bali, but tape of a much bigger diameter, was not very impressed by the water of the slug-more, due in the main to the un- tomary for journalists to point to increase the speed with which bulbs or birds there. Whangpoo gish Whangpoo as tiring work of the Police sta- back to something predicted and the water could be served out

it meanders past tioned there, whose policy was to true." But (saya a political cor-

gay with pride "This has come through them to the endless Starting to-day, considerable Shanghai, Could anything be show no mercy. It was not unrespondent) I cannot refrain queues of tired children, servants, improvement is to be effected in housewives and unfortunate the motor 'bus service, run by the more uninviting either for domes- common for a European Police from quoting the "China Mail workers compelled to spend long. Aberdeen-Kaifong. Bus Co, be- tic or for any other purpose? It officer while patrolling those of May 4-before hostilities

out in weary hours awaiting their turn tween Eastern-street, West Point, is, mildly put, cocoa-coloured and streets, to be assaulted on the honorern the Twin Kwangs and at the water fountain, robbed of and Stanley already. The five old coagulated to such an extent that very slightest provocation by a eral" dreamt of cutting railways their scanty hours of rest and GMC, 'buses have been replaced 1 Į by up-to-date and comfortable it sometimes seems as though it large number of the shady "char--because it reveals to-day's posi-

Guy vehicles, with a sitting capa-/- The tion better.

A SERVÉR might bear any sort of strain, actere." This occurred many

city of 20. reads! though it badly needs times a week, if not actually

Having disposed of Feng's ally

Chinese flags are being flown straining.

is full of the every day, and the resentment (ie., the Kwangsi faction), Chiang

The trustee of the Yue Hong at half mast in Hong Kong to- most pernicious of impuri- against the Police, treasured by Kalsel spot while the

fight with Feng,

while the Bank (in bankruptcy) notifles day as a mark of respect to the ties, as is

water,

these people, was terrible. They Kwangsi leaders were caught on that a final dividend of $6 per State funeral of Dr. Sun Yat-sen,

The wrong foot. Feng has called a cont. has been declared.

the "Father of the Chinese Re where that flows near Chinese would, if it had ever been possi

masterly retreat. His men, have

volution." Canton will observe, habitations or trade premises.ble, have killed, any member of evacuated Shantung and his sup

"Official" local sunset to-day is says the Nan Chung Kuo News perters left Nanking in a night, And yet it is the only water that the force for which, luckily, a thereby escaping the detention 7,08 pm Sunrise to-morrow is Service, to-day as a public memor-

which Shanghai or,

the favourable opportunity never oc-

LI Chai-sum of Kwangs ex-6.38 am, and sunset 7,04 p.m. ial day it having been set aside rather,

perienced.

and the same times prevail on for State burial observances. "Shanghailanders has not only curred. Slowly and with great

Japanese

Are in closest Monday.

A few schools are making to- touch with events in Shantung are to make use of for street cleans. care, these “characters"

day a full instead of a half-holi convinced that Feng will trash ing, etc., but to drink. It is, of gradually rounded-up-mostly all course, scientifically treated and had served several months in thus made as palatable as water jail for larceny--until

to-day can possibly be made

hardly one of the old gang or type

ocean, is largely used - and with the very best of results.

The

every-

were

who

passage

sleep,

Yours, etc.,

ed, retreat into the far North-West A Chinese named Kwong Hoi-day, the same agency adds.

avoid

Meanwhile Chiang Kai-shek willed to the Government Civil Hos Sun was offered at the Chung war and bide his time, tung (24), was yesterday remoy Sacrifice to the portrait of Dr. have, strengthened, not the authoritals from No. 16, Well-shan guild in Hong Kong by in- ity of the Central Government, but the power of himself

ington street suffering from dividuals and organisations.