CHINA UNITY.
Orders to Wind Up Canton Government?
SOUTH'S OPTIMISM.
of success
the
Anticipating Nanking negotiations for peace, making preparations for the dis- solution of the Canton Govern- ment on November 1.
Canton officials are said to be
THE DRUG TRAFFIC.
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.
China Makes New Plans for Suppression.
Nanking, Oct. 14.
Government organs for the con- trol of narcotic drugs are to be established by the Ministry of In- terior, according to a resolution adopted at yesterday's meeting of the Kuo-Wa-Hui-I (State Council) pursuant to a recommendation from the National Opium-Suppression Commission.
The Wah Kiu Yat Po, which The establishment of the proposed publishes a message to this effect new organs, it will be noted. is ex- from Shanghai, says that Canton pressly provided for by Regula- Government departmental heads! tions governing the Control of have been instructed to proceed, Narcotic Drugs recently prom-lated with the work of winding up their by the National Government. The departments within
weeks main function of these new time.
two
The unfinished work of these departments will be transferred to Nanking, where it is expected that several of the high officials of the Southern Government will be invited to administer departments in the new ment.
Southern Optimism.
similar Govern-
organs will be to see that narcotic drugs are limited to scientific and medical nses and that the sale of narcotic drugs devoted to purposes other than the authorized ones is strictly suppressed.-Kua Min.
SCIENCE
CONGRESS.
Scientists to be Invited to China.
THE TSANG FOO VILLAS MURDER TRIAL.
DISCHARGE OF TWO DEFENDANTS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
VICTIM'S
TERRIBLE
INJURIES.
Two of the twelve defendants in the Tsang Foo Villas murder trial were discharged in the course of yesterday's proceedings before Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy. The evidence given against these two men was such, his Worship said, that no jury would convict.
Evidence given of the injuries received by the Japanese showed that the bodies in all cases were mutilated. The injuries received by the amah of sixteen were particularly brutal.
FURTHER DECISIONS TO-DAY?
RACIAL VIRILITY.
Sir L. Hill on Birth Control.
SURNAMES.
Our Own and Other Peoples.
DOWNFALL OF EMPIRES. CURIOSITIES OF ORIGIN
At the annual conference of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association at Bridlington, Sir Leonard Hill, in his presidential address, said that the birth rate was now the subject of intensive proparanda among the masses of the people, and the no-child or one-child home was becoming the rule. Although the unskilled continued as yet to breed more than the skilled, birth- control was practised in every class of society. In consequence, between 1921-31 the population of Great Britain had increased hard- ly more than in the 10 years 1911- asked for Richard
(By Walter G. Bell, in the Daily Telegraph).
"John ate chyldren." So he did, did he? A husbandman was this John; one goes out to the Fen country around Huntingdon for "Richard ate Forty"-a ferocious monster when at table. Reading old documents from days when villeinage flourished in England, one experiences shocks like these not infrequently.
21, which included the War, when
Then consciousness comes that all that is meant is "at" or "off," and the ogre is really the quite inoffensive John at Chiltern. The other is of Ford-to find him you
at the
ford.
Spelling was apt to vary with each
ac-
clerk who wrote, and much cor-
how ruption crept in. But en-count by geography alone for "Thomas atte Hell," a Suffolk man? He was the man at the hill.
15
BARONET WITH A
WHIP.
Fined for Striking Two "Noisy" Young Men.
ROADSIDE GATHERING.
Sir Christopher Furness, Bart., of Netherbyres, Ayton, Berwick- shire, was fined 10s. at Eyemonth on a charge of assaulting two young men by striking them with a whip.
Mr. A. Carnegie, prosecuting, said that on August 14. at night, a band of young men were con- gregated on the road between Eyemonth and Ayton. One start- ed to play a mouthorgan and the others started to dance, and no doubt they were a bit hilarious.
Sir Christopher approached them and struck George Todd
Dougal, of Eyemonth, across the
back with a whip. The others, with the exception of George Collin, also of Eyemonth ran away, and Sir Christopher struck Collin across the face with a whip.
For the defence it was submit- was ill The
about a million young men were killed and several millions listed and were taken away from family life. The infant mortality rate had fallen :rom 167 per 1,000 Our forenames are mostly much births at the end of last century older than our surnames. When The reported Canton decision
The first witness called yester-, rived at Tsang Foo Villas at about
to 60 in 1930, but the saving so populations were thin and scattered seems to confirm the belief that
day was Dr. J. Smalley, who testi- 10.30 p.m. Between 11 p.m. and effected compensated very little the Domesday Book accounts for ted that Lady Furness the Southern leaders are most
fied that certain Japanese were midnight, witness was in a search for the enormous drop in the birth some 283,000 inhabitants in all of and had been ordered rest. optimistic as to the outcome of the
admitted to the Kowloon Hospital party of Police and military, rate. The annual increase of births England that was surveyed-it suf-noise had so upset Sir Christopher peace negotiations with General
on the night of September 26. The which made enquiries at the Po over deaths per 1,000 living was ficed to indicate John by his place that he had impulsively sought Chiang Kai-shek.
first to be admitted entered the Kong Village, which was just be- 12 at the end of last century, and of residence, or as John the son
his own remedy. Nanking, Oct 14. An independent
hospital at about 11 p.m. and the side Tsang Foo Villas. Witness in 1929 it was under three, so of Richard, or very frequently report from
A report submitted to the National last one at about 12.45 a.m. In all was present when the eighth, very shortly the population would John the servant of his named Canton, however, states that the extraordinary Kuomintang
Government by the Central Research cases, the Police brought in the ninth and tenth defendants were be stationary; the proportion of master; often, too, as John Ses-
the arrested. The eighth was arrest older persons increasing as chil- smith, distinguished by his trade. sion yesterday decided that while Institute state that at the Fifth wounded. the peace negotiations
ed in a hut in Po Kong Village at dren became scarcer. Three chil- are going Convention of the Pacific Conference
Witness examined Shiro Yama- about midnight. He had a wound dren per family were required to
History Published. on h tween Nanking and Canton te he held next May in Canada,
Since names of persons are of
mission mitigated very much the The chairman said that this sub-
seriousness of the offence, but there was no excuse for Sir Chris- topher taking the law into his own hands.
all commissioners of the Southern China will formally present an in-shita, the boy of four, whose skull on his head, which he said he had make good the losses and keep up Government and members of the vitation to the conference to hold was fractured. There were mul-received from the military. The the population. One-child fami- first importance, and their indica- second
Since the institute has been de- was conscious, he was obviously ninth defendant was arrested in lies meant halving the population- tion is no longer so simple as this, whom he succeeded in 1914, was
Kuomintang Executive Committee of the Canton Extraordinary Ses- sion will be requested to remain
at Canton to participate in the Government work there pending information of a new National Government in the North.
Conditional Dissolution.
Canton, Oct. 22. Interviewed as to the reliability of the report that the Canton Government will be wound up with- in two weeks' time, a certain mem- ber of the Council has remarked that this is premature. The Gov- ernment is still uncertain whether the overthrow of dictatorial gov errment will be effected, and the Canton Government must remain until this end, has bee attained.
First Issue of New Quar- terly in London.
tiple injuries, and although he
London, Oct. 14. The frat number of a new quarter ly entitled the China Reriau hat Feen issued and deals with a number [RECEIVERS Sof varied charac She
ter in interesting fashion. The review s attractively got up and intersper
Canton Army Changes. Gen. Yen Yin-nai, Commander of the 1st New Division has tender-sed with illustrations. Reuter.
ed his resignation, and asked for kig troops to be disbanded. The Government has decided to comply. Gen. Ye will be reappointed as a be freedom and equality of China staff officer-
'n the family of nations, and pre-
Gen. Chan Chatong has decided servation of her territorial
to enlarge the Peace Preservation sovereignty. Corps into a brigade with Mr. Chan Chang-po as commander.- Rensha.
Mr. Eugene Chen.
Canton, Oct. 22. An extraordinary session of the Kuomintang C.E.C. to-day formal- ly appointed Mr. Eugene Chen as delegate to the Shanghai peace parley.
Mr. Chen will take a leading
part in discussing Sino-Foreign relations, particularly Manchurian affairs.-Central Press.
All the Talents.
Shanghai, Oct. 22. Good progress is being made by
was
Factory, which
At this junctur, Mr. White-
women
year,
govern
Life Lengthened.
Sir Christopher is 31, and the baronet. His father,
Wilson Furness, Sir Stephen Chairman of Furness, Withy and Co., Ltd., and Liberal M.P. for Hartlepool 1910-14.
assume
that came before him, by a half- dozen names of each man strung together by "aps," he directed that jurors empanelled should their last name only or that of their residence.
So Thomas ap Richard ap Howel ap Jevan Vychan became simple Mostyn. "Take ten," he said, "and call them
Rice; Take other ten, and call them Price; others, Take fifty
call them
Pughes; A hundred more, I'll dub them
Hughes;
tones,
other
80
every
its Seventh Convention in China.
the cocklot of his house, the On signated to represent China at the dying. Nothing could be done for
Cheung Noodle
The Japanese, Sir Leonard Hill a science, complete in itself, of the fifth convention, a preparatory com- him and he never recovered. He was about 60 feet from the gate said, were increasing at the rate investigation of names has grown mittee of 11 experts has been ap- died at 5.15 a.m. The wounds, in of Tsang Foo Villas. This man of a million a year. They were up pointed to attend to all preliminary Dr. Smalley's opinion, were inflic-was arrested about ten
They are onomatologists minutes multiplying just as we did with
wh matters, it further adds.
ted by a sharp weapon.
after the eighth defendant was the coming of the industrial re- pursue it for its own sake, labori-
He had fresh wounds volution, and with a birth rate Niyoji Yamashita, the boy of arrested.
ous men, public benefactors, for 1 nine, had multiple injuries, his in his hand and chest, which were continuing to rise at the present am sure there can be no money in skull and let thigh bone being bleeding. Witness could see blood rate would, in 30 years time, it. It was brought home to me THE CHINA REVIEW. fractured. His condition was very on the floor. This man also said number 100,000,000, and be the how widely that science has spread
bad. He was given medical treat he had been wounded by the mili-third largest Great Power. The when I conned the almost devastat tary. The tenth defendant was Japanese had great organizing ing bibliography attached to a ment, but passed away at 1 a.m.
also arrested at the On Cheung ability, military and naval power, notable book published to-day, "A Sumiko Yamaguchi, the Japan-Noodle Factory. He was lying on high artistic sense, coupled with History of Surnames" (Kegan ese amah of 16, had multiple in a bed on the ground floor, and a modern industrial system, and Paul, 25s). And Mr. C. L'Estrange juries including a scalp wound, stated that his wound on the right there were 27,000,000 agricultural Ewen, the author, gives assurance while her skull was fractured. upper lip had been inflicted by a workers to keep up the virility of that these many pages constitute She had many bruises all over her soldier with a bayonet. All three the race. The Dominions and a short bibliography! body. Dr. Smalley then described defendants were put in a van and Colonies occupied one-fourth of One can believe that the matter her oth injuries. Her wounds taken back to the Kon City the best land of the world, and has attracted the attention of very were but she died at 30 Police Station.
we ought to send thither 250,000 many; for where else is there a semi-conscious
emigrants a
and these field to garner so richly cropped hould be young when examined by Dr. Smalley,
people who with the romance of humanity? but she also obviously dying. Smith said that trat was all the should breed. The alternative was Ever since man became herded into The injuries on her body were in- evidence against the eighth, ninth to leave our vast Dominions un-
un- a tribe he must have carried some Now Roberts name some hundred flicted by blunt weapons such as and tenth defendants. If his Wor-occupied, or to be colonized by name to mark his individuality score; poles.
ship thought that there was not other nations. How could
the among his associates. Very many And Williams name a legion more; Miyo Yamashita, the old lady, enough evidence to detain them. teeming millions of a most go of the proudest names borne to-day And call," he moaned in languid had a fractured skull, while two they would be discharged.
ahead race such as the Japanese have their origin in nicknames, would His Worship said he ran
thousands- irregular lacerated wounds
be withheld by an all-white policy perpetutating abnormality in some "Call all the round her forehead. She was un- have to detain these three until in Australia if the British
and remote ancestor.
Jones." conscious and died at 1 a.m. Her this afternoon.
Australians ceased to breed
Around other names grew such In nomenclature, as in other
that Martial law was imposed on the injuries were not inflicted with a
Alleged Street Incident. enough virile colonists to till and unpleasant associations
a things, distinctive simplicity re- day of the leaders' arrival as the sharp instrument, but would be
defend that vast country? Trou- change was sought. Was it not mains the best taste, but a desire Carrison Commander had been consistent with
those inflicted Regarding the twelfth defend- bles such as faced us now in India Mr. Bugg who became a Norfolk for greater resonance has led many
Howard? Always unt, an Indian constable, B632, were growing up in Africa with informed of nlans by Communists with sticks or poles,
meticulously to make double surnames, and pride to create disturbances.-Renska.
Continuing, Dr. Smalley said said he was on duty between 6 education of the native races. We careful to give chapter and verse, of lineage is accountable for vari- the next morning the bodies were a.m. and 10 a.m. outside Tsang needed young people to
Mr. Ewen cites the case, in the ous instances of three or four sur- A Satisfactory Conclave, identified by a Japanese gentle Foo Villas on September 27. and develop the Empire and make year 1857, of a Mr. Bedbug who names strung together, which when
man named M. Yamashita, who Whilst he was on duty, he
changed his name to Bowditch. saw markets for British goods there.
met with constitute a very great Shanghai, Oct. 22. identified the old lady as his step-three men, of whom defendant
nuisance. A Chancellor of the Ex- Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and mother, the two boys as the sons was one, talking near the wall of
Downfall of Empires.
| chequer might feel justified in sur- Messrs. Hu Han-min, Ware Ching of his step-brother, and the girl Tsang Foo Villas. Two
ai, Sun Fo. Li Chi-sen. Li Shih-Sumiko Yamaguchi as
In mediæval and Tudor England taxing these rentiers in nomencla- the chi went up to them, and asked why ten", Tsai Yuan-pei, C. C. Wa dren's nurse. Sergeant Doig was policemen had been posted there. big cities, limitation of breeding, the prospect of rearing a large a due dividend.
Luxury and decay of virility in life was much shorter than to-dav: ture, who draw from it more than Envene Chen. Yu Yu-jen. Chen there at the identification, Ming-shu. Chang Ching-kiang, Liidentified the bodies as those of said, "Don't you know? I killed ment of mercenaries, had preced-remote. Then many a father gave and Defendant was alleged to have abnormal sexuality, doles, employ- family of children to maturity was
Legal Attitude. Odd that while names are Wen-fan Chen D-lei and Chow the people who were taken to hos- some Japanese last night." Wit- ed the downfall of empires in the his own forename to two of his supremely important in Lu (Western Hills clique) con-pital from the roof of Tsang Fooness overheard this conversation past, and yet if kept vorsed for two hours this after-Villas the previous evening.
within offspring, hoping that thereby it transaction of life, the law has paid on Mr Sun Fo's residence in
and rang up the Kowloon City bounds who could deny that limi- might survive to be carried on by them little or no head. It will de- Statements of Defendants. Police Station. He was given ins-tation of breeding was an excel-one or the other. Thus the will offend a man's title to his own name Rue Moliere.
tructions to arrest that man and lent thing? Britain at the no- John Parnell, of Gyrton (1545). when there has been fraudulent Tsang Man-kwai, an interpreter, accordingly did so.
ment was dangerously over-popu- reads:
misuse, but in nothing else. Men said that at about 2.45 p.m. On. Asked to repeat the exact words lated, depending as it did almost "Alice, my wife, and Old John, and women may call themselves just
he September 28, separately used by the defendant, witness wholly on imported food bought my son, to occupy my farm together what they please, change their charged the 12 defendants at the did so, but his Worship said it was by the sale of its manufactures. till Old John marries.... Young names as often as they like; the Shanghai, Oct. 22. Kowloon City Police Station in very unlikely that a Chinese would The loss of power to sell and of John, my son, shall have Brenlay's law is not concerned. Custom or-
the presence
sowed of Mr. Calthrop, use those words in an ordinary credit and the non-arrival of the land plowed and
at Old dains, that on marriage a woman At Chiang Kai-shek's meeting
shall adopt her husband's surname, with the peace delegates, the Can-A.S.P., and Sub-Inspector Murphy. conversation.
food ships would quickly send us John's cost." tonese explained the purpose
Mr. Whyte-Smith. That is all toppling into the abyss of anarchy
signing her patronymic at birth They made various statements to of
Shakespeare, now glorified as a for the last time on the marriage 'heir movement which aims at the him, and after he had read each the evidence against this defen- and ruin. They could realize in name by a single possessor, was in register, but there is no legal en-
over to them, they intimated that dant, your Worship.
that association how revolution the fifteenth century held in such forcement of it. establishment of a rule of
the statements, as witness took His Worship. The way the wit-and disorder, if it were to paralyse low repute that Hugo Shakespere mocracy instead of dictatorial gov-
ness said those words in Chinese the social services, the cleaning, assumed the name of Sawndare, law, or by common law, there has them, were correct. rnment and Chiang replied that he
All the defendants denied the rather destroys the value of his the water and sewage and medical because his family name, according arisen a belief that a sanction of, was willing to accept their de-
health system, etc., would, to- to Merton College Register (1487), or veto upon, assumed names is a mands and expressed a hope that charge against them. The fourth evidence, I am afraid.
defendant said he went so near to Mr. Whyte-Smith. In any case, gether with semi-starvation o similar error may occur in the Tsang Foo Villas because he saw there is no corroborative evidence, misery, quickly lead to appalling Shakespeare in the year 1513 pre-manded,'
and vile reputatum est. Yet another Royal right. "The King has com- near future.
After the preliminary
his brother had been injured and your Worship.
epidemics. In
or "has approved"—that Russia millions ferred to call himself Saunders. A Wang Ching-wei held a lengthy ons, two important decisions were fifth defendant, a boy of 15, said such as no jury would convict. He paralysis of these services after sources of origin arrives nowhere, out. the Crown has been very care-
he was there to pick him up. The His Worship.--The evidence is died as the result of the partial critical
may be read in a few individual conversation alone with Mr. Husen, namely, that all diplomatic
discussion of possible cases, but as a critic has pointed Han-min.
Cairs be decided by both govern- he went inside the house to see must be discharged.
the War. If the white men were but the name appears to have had ful not to submit this supposed pre- To Leave for Nanking. ments, and that a few delegates sixth defendant, another boy of cordingly discharged,
what was going on, while
The twelfth defendant was ac- going to lessen rapidly their little or nothing to do with either rogative to a test. Mr. Wang Ching-wel and the hete from the Nanking 15, said he had nothing
breeding they must see to it that "shake" (verb) or "spear." peace delegates will leave for nd Canton delegation for the pre-
the coloured races were
The Appeal Court decided in the taught A Bandaged Arm.
How many called O'Neill know Cowley marriage suit of 1901 that Nanking immediately after a meet-minary study of various party a man named Wong who was ask- The seventh defendant referred to
the methods of doing so. At pre- their peril? An Act of Elizabeth the law gave no power to prevent ing with General Chiang Kai-shek,and political questions at Shanghai, ing a crowd, of whom defendant said he made certain inquiries into the level of the food supply by taking of it high treason. punish
Choi Yee, a Chinese constable, sent such races were kept down abolished the surname and made the the use by a wife, after divorce, of There will possibly be no pre-and when an agreement of opinion was one, to go to Tsang Foo Villas Po Kong Village, and as a result very liminary conference, as the Shang-has been reached the whole delega-
high infant mortality, able by death and forfeiture, and hai meetings will be merely anion will proceed to Nanking for
to strike the Japanese.
of information he received, he famines, and epidemic. diseases. the Act has not been repealed. exchange of unofficial views.
The eighth de endant, who was
by suffers any injury of which the formal conference.
went to Diamond Hill, near the The population of the world was No great prescience is needed to the law can take notice. Interviewed at the wharf unon
A wrong arrested in his hut that night, Yuen Kee Dairy Farm, and ar- at present increasing by some 12,- guess the most popular surname to- returned Chiang Kai-shek
to said he had never been out of his rested the
name given does not invalidate Ho 000,000 a year; this could not con- day (to say "common" might give marriage, unless there is fraud the President Madison's arrival, Nanking by plane at 4 p.m.. and hut that evening. The ninth de Tim-yau, of boy of 15, who was tinue. A far less cruel world offence). They are, as you would
sixth defendant Mr. Wang Ching-wei said that his the other members of the confer- fendant, who was represented by described as a coolie. This defen- could only be brought about by a expect: mission centred on a strong desire once continued their discussions. Mr. F. X. D'Almada. Sr., said he dant had a bandaged arm.
upon the other party to the con- tract. for the completion of constitu- the meeting closing at 6 p.m. with knew absolutely nothing
He rational limitation of the birth England Smith; very strong
One rises and bows in reverence tional reform. The policy of the highly satisfactory
be said he received the injury by a rate, but this must
lead. Wales Jones; great pre- before the learning displayed in new National Government should Rensha.
murder. The same statement was fall from a buffalo. When charged, with realization of the duty of made by the tenth, eleventh and defendant said, "I have nothing to keeping up a virile race and the
ponderance. Ireland Murphy; a this book, of which these rambling twelfth defendants.
good first. application of science to the pre-
remarks must give a very imperfect say." Confronted with their
This state-
But perhaps it does surprise a idea. It is an epitome of a vast was all the evidence
vention of disease, to warding off little to learn that in the land of subject, fascinating in itself, tell- ments yesterday, the first, second
natural disasters, and to securing mountain and tarn, the home of in- ing step by step how the surname and third defendants alleged that against this defendant. they made those statements under charged also.
His Worship. Must be dis- the necessities and comforts of memorial "Macs," the favourite is life. The proportion of mental Smith. In Scotland one person in
from its inception to its present compulsion.
form has developed. Mr. L'- Just before the Court rose, Mr. defectives in the population had every seventy is a Smith. His Worship said that Police Whyte-Smith said that that was increased from 4 to 8 per 1,000 in
Estrange Ewen is a very human officers would later give evidence, the case against the sixth, eighth, 25 years. This was partly due to
Named by Bishop.
person, who can both inform, and and the defendants who made that
in places, amuse. ninth, tenth and twelfth defen better notification, but as birth allegation could challenge them ondants. The sixth and twelfth control was at a minimum among If there be truth in tradition, it In his great index of names, the point.
were discharged yesterday, and those with a tendency to mental Lee of Lichfield, who named Welsh- Maggott, Hatecrist
was an English bishop, Rowland passing by such as Pigges fleshe. (given to a a decision may be given to-day re-
defect, and a bad environment
men as we know them. Lee. be-Jew), Ditchborne, and Strongi'th'- garding the other three.
told most on their children, there side being bishop. was President arm, I turn to Bell. to find its A Chinese detective, Liu Sang,; The hearing was adjourned un-
was some danger of an increase of the Marches in Wales from 1534 derivation in le Bel, "the hand- said that on September 26, he ar-til this afternoon.
in inferior types.
to 1543. Wearied, in the litigation some." That obviously is correct.
leaders representing the various
It is stated that the conversa-| factions of the Kuomintang for the tions were satisfactory.-Reuter.
formation of the new National Government at Nanking repre- sentative of "all the talents."
In this connexion, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the Kuomintang Leftist leader, who is heading the Canton peace mission of five members Shanghai, conferred yesterday morning for two hours with Mr. Hu Han-min, the leader of the Nanking Conservatives. The en- tire peace mission proceeded to the residence of Mr. Hu Han-min immediately upon
their arrival and it was while there that Mr.
MASSAGE.
MR. & MRS. Y. MORI,
Certificate.
Holder of Japanese Government Cores Sprained Ankle and Wrist opp. "South China Morning Post." 4, Wyndham Street. (1st floor). Telephone 26051.
Canton's Reservations.
THE
de-
discus-
results.-
"SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST" is always on sale at SELFRIDGE'S London, W. 1.
the
to say.
of the
Arrested Men's Wounds.
coupled
In lack of any control by statute
her husband's name and title, al-
ways provided that no one there-
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