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GIBSON HAZELAND. -- At

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on Saturday, July 20, 1929, by the

Rev. H. Copley Moyle, assisted by Prebendary P. N. Thicknesse, Edward Russell Gibson, Lieuten- ant Royal Navy, to Reta Frances Manning Hazeland, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Hazeland, Hồng Kong.

DEATH

REID Edgeworth Ussher Reid, at 1440, St. Patrick Street, Victoria, B.C., on June 18, 1929; late of China and Japan.

Hong Kong, Monday, July 22, 1929,

No cases of notifiacle disease were notified over the week end.

MONDAY,

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JULY 22, 1929,

NOT OPPORTUNE YET

1

TALK OF LI CHAI-SUNT'S RELEASE

Messrs Ellis and Edgar have issued their monthly "Figures and carving out Communistic activities quotations of local and other in North China. It further states CANTON LEADER'S PETITION stocks," which

are of incalculable that if their efforts were unsuccess- value to shore investors.

ful in this direction, the Chinese

Canton, Saturday. Eastern Railway must be atilised The present Chairman of the A congregational social will be for the formation of a Bouret Red Government Council of Kwangtung held in the St. Andrew's Church military organization, aiming at the province, General Chan Ming-shu, Hall on Wednesday at 8.30 p.m. to destruction of the Manchurian has cabled to Marshal Chiang Kai- bid farewell to Mr. P. Sands. Government.--Nan CHIE Kuoshek (head of the National Govern- M.A., who is leaving for Home on News Service. Saturday.

Prepared for Developments

ment) for the release of Li Chai- sum (who was at one time head of the Kwangtung Government and Commander-in-Chief at Canton).

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek replied as follows:-

Mr. Lalchand Watanmal, the

Shanghai, Yesterday. The Nanking authorities dis-, managing proprietor of Messrs. Watanal Boolchand, has cabled to credit the report that the Russians

"While I am heartily in agree- Mr. G. P. Daswani, head of Messrs. have launched an offensive en Lalchand & Gagandas, that he will China and have captured Manchu-ment with your wish, yet the time proceed from Singapore, to Javhli, alleging that this report is de-for such a question is, however, whonce he will probably come to liberately made by the Japanese. inopportune, but the matter will be Hong Kong.

A Nanking leader says that the taken up later." National Government is prepared The preacher in St. Andrew's for further developments as re- Church, Kowloon, on Sunday morn-gards the Chinese Eastern Rail ing will be the Rev. E. K. Quick., way problem, and will offer vigor- M.A., of St. Stephen's College. ous resistance to any offensive As Mr. Quick is leaving action on the part of the Russian the Colony for Shanghai, early in troops on the Manchurian borders. Ming-shu August it will, in all probability, However, he does not consider ordinate as a military officer and suc- be the last opportunity of hearing that Russia would be so unvise him preach.

as to take such a step in viola- tion of the Kellogg Pact-Nan Chung Kuo News Service.

New York Communists

New York, Yesterday.

Canton. News Agency. [Li Chai-sum, on going to Nanking to attend a congress, was forcibly de- tained by order of Chiang Kai-shek. Then the colleagues of Li Chai-sum in the Kwangsi faction were crushed General Chan by the Government.

was Li Chai-sum's sub-

ceeded him as Chairman,

Le., Civil Governor.]

MALARIA DANGER

WHAT THE ROSS INSTITUTE

IS DOING.

Mesars T. J. Price and E. C. Thomas have started off on a very interesting tour. Proceeding via Haiphong and Yunnanfu they hope to reach Chungking on the upper Yangtsze. They will then go down ist candidate for the Mayoralty of river with Shanghai' as their New York, who was arrested as the

London, Saturday. of the anti-Chinese de- destination. Provided that nothing lender

Mr. A. W. Still, of the Rubber at the Chinese Growers Association (formerly unforeseen occurs, these gentlemen monstration

has been released. are expected back in Kowloon in two Consulate,

Editor of the "Straits Times"), The other Communists arrested has been elected chairman of the months time.

have been sentenced to five days' Industrial and anti-Malarial Ad- detention.

visory Committee. of the Ross In- stitute.

William Weinstone, the Commun- CHANCE FOR MEN ON LEAVE

Mr. A. W. Hayward, principal in Hong Kong of Messrs. Alex Ross

A Fight Welcomed According to the Jewish Tele-

Speaking at a meeting of the Advisory Committee, Sir Malcolm

of the Ross

& Co., Ltd., who has played in Inter- port cricket both for Hong Kong graph agency, Russian, emigres and Shanghal na opening batsman, here would welcome a Soviet- weat Home on Saturday by the P. Chinese conflict as affording them Watson said that only one or two & O. s.s. "Khiva." Mr. Hayward is an opportunity to fight against the countries made use

Soviet. Every 'White Russian discovery. The remedy was to get also a teen Volunteer. Other pas- sengers included Mr. W. B. Latham, officer, it is reported, has received estate doctors, engineers, etc. to orders to be ready-Reuter's come to the Ross Institute, when of the R.N. Dockyard, Hong Kong,

American Service. and Mrs. Latham, the Rev. R. D. Lord, Captain and Mrs. R. E. Honray.

"White" Volunteers

Shanghai, Yesterday. A report from Peitaiho says that The Kowloon Cricket Club Enter some 30,000 "White" Russians will tainraent Committee are to bebe willing to volunteer for service congratulated on being able to pre-in case China goes to war with sant an entertainment which will Soviet Russia.

at Home on furlough, to learn what could be done to control malaria. Three men were already working in the Institute and others had arranged to come, Sir Malcolm added.

etc., he said.

Subsidy for Control Work Sir Malcolm also outlined the imaginative statement being to be entirely new to the Colony. The "White" Russians in Shang-practical course he proposed to the effect that thousands of The Light Bob Musical Company, hai are said also to have offered give in the Institute. It was de- Chinese (we refrain from men- who are to appear on Saturday next, their help to China against their sirable that men should bring will make their first public ap- own country. Nan Chung Kuo plans of their estates, statistica, tioning the figure stated) were pearance in a vaudeville programme News Service. "gassed" by the "Red" troops and will introduce their symphonic If it is at an rhythmic combination. who seemed to have made unusually smart trek eastward. the K.C.C. there is no more to be

said. As a matter of fact such state- ments are so obviously absurd! that it was even more absurd to Royal Navy

A large number of officers in the were on board the P. & O. ss. "Khiva" when she left

Japan's Neutrality

Tokyo, Yesterday. Mr. Wang Yung-pao, Chinese Minister to Japan, called on Baron Shidehara (Japan's Foreign Minis. ter) on July 19 and informed him about the problem of the Chinese

await their official confirmation Hong Kong on Saturday for Home Eastern Railway.

He said that

The Executive Committee had arranged a subsidy for certain men doing special malaria control work in the tropics. Sir Malcolm. Watson proposéd that the Com- its energies mittee would direct chiefly to industrial concerns,

He concluded by saying that

Ceylon, of which Colony two-

or denial. There has been no These included Lt. Comdr. G. R. B. the use of the Chinese Eastern Bengal would follow the way of fighting of a serious character on Back, R.N., Act. Sub-Lt. R. A./ Railway by the Soviet Government | thirds was now uninhabitable, if

communistie propaganda the Manchurian frontier or any- Ewing, R.N., Lt. H. L. Gilbert, R.N., for

Act. Sub-It. M. L. Hardie, RN, against the Chinese Government something were not done soon to

control malasia there.-Reuter, where else, and unless the Moscow 1.-Comdr. H. E. Heaton, R.N., Act. has given China justification for Soviet is totally devoid of inter-Sub-L. J. R. B. Longden, R.N.. Act. resorting to self-defensive mea-

COTTON DEADLOCK national decency, it is unlikely Sub-Lt. J. S. H. Lawrence, R.N.,

In reply to Mr. Wang's inquiry that there will be any. As for Act. Sub-Lt. J. C. Mason, R.N.,

Surg. Lt. E. E. Malone, R.N., Lt.as to Japan's attitude towards the the Nanking Government it may w. H. Roberts, R.N., Act. Sub-Lt. Chinese Eastern Railway trouble. Baron Shidehara said that Japan be regarded as certain that they R. Tyrwhitt, R.N.

would observe strict neutrality.

will do many things before actual-

gures.

The following appears in Over- However, the Japanese Govern- ly engaging in hostilities with the

seas Magazine: Our ships are an ment earnestly hoped that the Russians or any other nation. offshoot of the Standard Oil Co., Chinese Eastern Railway issue The Chinese are well aware of the of New York, but, being registered would be peacefully settled-Nan fact that it is one thing fighting in Hong Kong are manned by Bri-Chung Kuo News Service.

tish offcare, serving on three among themselves and quite years' engagements, as the ships another to clash seriously against never leave the China-Japan-Cali-

a foreign Power-even against fornia trade. We have already in

Chiang Kai-shek's Power

Canton, Yesterday. While patriotism may require all

the "Red" Russians whose mili- the company several enthusiastic Chinese to stand by the Central Members of the League, but there Government and present a united tary preparedness is unlikely to 13 no reason why we shouldn't have front in the conflict between

be very serious..

OBITUARY

more.-D. B. Peters, s.3. "Tamaha," China and Russia over the Chin- Obviously, the present dispute c/o Gen. Pet. Corpo., Terminal ese Eastern Railway, truth and

Island, Califorila, USA, calle loudly for mediation By a third party, and the sooner the better for all concerned that such mediation shall begin. It is un- thinkable that two nations should fly at each others' throats over auch a trumpery affair as the Chinese Eastern Railway-which

MRS. ALICE CHRISTIANSEN PASSES AWAY

HOME GOVERNMENT'S ATTENTION

NEW BASIS OF DISCUSSION

London, Saturday. Sir Horace Wilson (Permanent

Secretary to the Ministry of Labour) is devoting urgent attention to the

deadlock in the Lancashire cotton question with a view to finding a new basis of discussion.

Meanwhile, Miss Margaret Dondfeld (the Labour Minister of Labour) will

tion during the week-end.—Reuter be in close touch with the whole posi-

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wisdom will dictate serious thought over the latest announce- ment from Nanking that, in case

That the prohibited degrees of of war, the Chairman of the State Council; Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, still in operation, with only two marriage in the Prayer-Book are will exercise his prerogative as exceptions, is emphasised by the Commander-in-Chief of the army annulment in the Divorce Court of navy, and air forces, by which

& marriage ceremony which a wo- FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY

he would be able to pro- man petitioner went through with elaim China as being in a state of the former husband of her mother's On Saturday the death occurred of war.

deceased natural sister. The left wing of the Kuomin-mother's sister, being illegitimate, has long hat the reputation of Mrs. Alice Christiansen of No. 42 Humphreys Building, Kowloon. She being one of the most unsatisfac-retired as usual on Friday night and has issued a warning to the was not the petitioner's aunt in

people to guard against the return the usual sense. tory lines in the world. Un when she failed to appear next morn-

By the Prayer-Book a woman may ing, it was found that she had passed of the old system of government

in China. thinkable, in many respects, and away during the night,

not marry her mother's sister's hus RUSSIA AND CHINA

band, and the courts have held that not the least in that the present She was the widow of a former em- Dictation To Press

The provincial and city execu this applies to blood relations of ployee of the Canton-Kowloon Rail- squabble is in direct violation as way who afterwards became a con- tive committees of the Kuomin- the prohibited degrees, whether Even now It is difficult pre-to what is implied in the Kellogg cutting engineer at Canton, Mrs. tang in Canton have issued orders they are legitimate or not.

to the local. Press and Cariton cor- cisely to know what is taking Pact, which both Russia and Christiansen, was 45 years of age.

Attempts at Reform The Funeral

respondents for outside news- There has been a strong move- place as the outcome of the dis- China signed.

Yesterday morning the funeral took papers to observe their instruc-ment in late years to relax the nute that has arisen between Therefore it is devoutly to be place at the Protestant Cemetery. The tions in their propaganda against rigidity of the Prayer Book In Rev. C. B. Shana, M.A. Acting Russia. The majority of Chinese 1907 Parliament made it legal for Kussia and China.

The only hoped that the subsequent action Chaplain of St. Andrew's Church, point that is clear is that the of Moscow and Nanking in this Kowloon, conducted the service. The Freas men in Canton would side a man to marry his deceased wife's angelner mourner was Mrs Christian with the Central Government but sister, and in 1921 for a woman to Soviet, incensed by what they matter will be wisely

consen's daughter, Miss Betty Christian they have secretly expressed remarry her deceased husband's regard as high-handed action by sidered, and with a

view sen, and others attending included sentment against being dietated to brother

There it stopped; but for several the Chinese, with reference to to the elimination of further Miss Sawyer, Mr. R. T. Nelson, Miss regarding a controversy which

P. Nelson, Mrs. Passmore, Mr. Karsten may have, two sides to consider. years past a private Bill has been the Chinese Eastern Railway, Chauvinistic qutbursts — which Larssen, Mrs. W. F. Cary and Mr. Nan Chung Kuo News Service. introduced to allow people to marry have thought fit not only to sub are rarely more than mere hot Morris, pored

News during the week-end will others who are only relations by blood for instance, to let a man mit a rather premature ultima air emitted from empty heads Floral tributes were sent by the fol- be found on page 7.1

lowing: Relatives In Denmark, Sister

marry a niece, not of his own, but tum but to express their but that, in the absence of a third Lizzie (Scotland), Mr. Karsten

of his deceased wife. Every time, Farssen, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Robinson dissatisfaction with the reply. party willing to smooth out the Miss W. Robinson, Mr. F, G.

bowever, the Bill has been lost in Subsequent events are, so far, roughness that has led to the pre- Herridge, Mr. and Mrs. E. Abraham,

the annual massacre of the in- nocents more or less conjectural. There sent friction, both capitals will be Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Green, Mrs William, T. Cary, Mr. R T Nelson, Miss Pansy have, of course, been the usual able to show to the world that Nelson, Major G. W. D. Olivecrona,

Among those who are thanked In crop of rumqurs as to stirr tacy are well able to settle Mr Oliveerona, Mr. and Mrs H Formosa has tendered his resigna- the Overseas League magazine for deeds between the troops of the amicably this regrettable and ris, Mr. and Mrs. Morris, Capt. tion to Mr. Hamaguchi, the Pre-enrolling new members Is Captain adversaries one particularly unfortunate dispute.

and Mrk, W. C. Passmore, Mr. À, G. Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs W. Hansen.

FORMOSA'S GOVERNOR

Tokyo, Saturday, Governor-General Kawamura of

mer Heuter,

G. Walker, Hong Kong,