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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 31ST, 1924

SALE OF SHOES

Commencing Monday, July 28th to Saturday, Aug, 2nd.

- A few odd pairs of

HANAN BOOTS.

$15.00

PATENT PUMPS

$ 6.00

WHITE BUCKSKIN

TENNIS SHOES... $ 7.50

CANVAS

WHITE

SHOES

Wholesale only:

ALL ONE PRICE

$15.00 Per pair

(Usual Prices $18.50. $21.00)

Black and Tan Calf White. Buckskin and Patent Leather in all sizes.

Yon will want & pair later-get them now,

Mackintosh

& CO. LTD.

$ 6.00

MEN'S WEAR SPECIALISTS Alexandra Building: Des Yeux Road.

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As good as really good cigarettes can be."

Obtainable at

Lane. Crawford, Ltd.. Tabaqueria Filipina,

Graeco Egyptian Tobacco Store,

and all high class Tobacconists.

At 95 cents per tiu of 50.

"Your Kensitas Cigarettes Sir

DONNELLY

& WHYTE,

Distributors for Hongkong and, South China.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

Best Portland Cement

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

GENERAL MANAGERS,

HONGKONG

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NOW

SALE

Exceptional Reductions in All Departments.

THE WING ON CO., LTD.

HONGKONG.

BACK from the MARKET SALE

IN FULL SWING,

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A Purchasing Trip Abroad has equiped Our Store with the Best and Newest Goods. We are offering them at Bargain Prices.

YEE SANG FAT CO.

ANTI-FOREIGNISM.

KUOMINTANG EXEQUTIVE DECLINES REACTIONARY

PROPOSALS

PROPOSED GENERAL STRIKE IN

SHANGHAI TURNED DOWN,

THE DEANSHIP OF THE PLANS FOR ENDING THE THE. MAKING OF AERATED

LEGATIONS.

DR. SCHURMAN NOW SENIOR

MINISTER.

WATERS

HOW ABSOLUTË PURITY 15-

GUARANTEED.

WAR IN KWANGTUNG.

FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. | Dr. Chas S. Hok, a graduate of the

In view of certain aspects of the dis- Dr. Schurman, the U.S. Minister, will Columbia University in the City of New leave Shanghai où August 16th for the York, and Chief Justice of the Southcussion which took place at the meeting Probably be China Supreme Court until his forced of the Sanitary Board in regard to the The following translation of an order United States on leave.

means by which infectious disease is issued by the Central Executive Commit-will not return to Peking before the end departure from Canton recently for re tee of the Kuomintang to its members at of the year. "As regards the Denoship, fusing to subordinate the Chinese Cor spread, a representative of the Daily Shanghai has been forwarded by Renter's the position is that, before having stitution and Laws to the principles of ress was invited yesterday to inspect Peking. M. Chutendijk informed Dr. the Kuomintang Political Party, has just Measra A. S. Watson & Co.'s up-to-date Agency:

A report has been received from the Wellington Koo that he was going to put forward plans for ending the war in facrated water story at North Point. Shanghai members of the Kuomintang Japan and would be away about four Kyangtung and asks for criticism and No one needs tu he told that from this factory enormes quantities of bottled that the letter, dated, June 20th, of the weeks The Netherlands Minister then support of his scheme.

Dr Hak's programme first calls for a nerated waters are issued daily not only Chairman of the Municipal Council of the suggested that in the event of any in

well as for consumption in Hongkong but, in International Settlement at Shanghai. in portant question arising which would resociety of foreign friends as reply to the Senior Consul, indicates an quire the attention of the Diplomatic Chinese to promote peace along a definite various parts of the Far East. At a time to શત an when the public of Hongkong are being intention on the part of the Council, at Body Dr. Kou should communicate with chem. He would like the instigation of the illegal Government the Senior Minister then, in Peking. Administrative Council of leading Can-advised to beil their milk and their water at Peking, to take action detrimental to Meanwhile the archives of the Decantonese, including General Chen Chiung before use. Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co. the Party. Local members being highly remain at the Netherlands Legation, and Ming and Dr. Sun Yat Sen, or his son, are justly proclaiming the absolute purity if the Generalissimo wishes to have a of their mineral waters, as certified this inerised thereby, have submitted pro routine matters are being attraded to by rest, to replace the present rival govern- weck by the Government Bacteriologist. posals that the Kuomintang, rescind it the Staff of the Netherlands Legation. ments in this province. The Council An inspection of the processes of manu- standing orders prohibiting, unti-foreign who are familiar with the regular rog would terminate upon the final restora facture as this factory will quaily satisfy ism and refrain from interfering with the time of the Deanship. Dr. Schurman is

tion of Kwangtung to peace.

anyone, that the guarantees against im- activities, as in the days before the Boxer now, the Senior Minister in Peking.

Ets principal duty would be the re-purities which form a meniace to health rising of the secret societies, the Green This practical ärrangement made by thehabilitation of Kwangtung. During its are complete. ani Red Sections of the Kolao Hai Netherlands Minister was due, Reuter tenure, all civil and military officials Everything from bottle-washing to re- Other members advocate the encourage says, to the fact that his abrace from and administrations should be sub Alling the sterilisation of containers and |ment of a general, strike in the Foreign China would be so short that it was not jected to its direction and authority. the filtration of the ingredients-is done,

worth while transferring the. Diennat. "The Kuomintang deelines to entertain particularly in view of the absence from The Conseil will take proper steps entirely by modern machinery, and any to end the dispute between the facone witnessing the process will have no such reactionary proposals and the fol. Peking of several of the Senior Ministions of Dr. Sun Yat Sen and General difficulty in sharing the confidence of the lowing order is hereby issued:

Settlement

It is the duty of this Party, to make China a really independent and sovereign

state no the basis of the Party's Three Principles. it regats di narrow and violent anto-foreign sentiments as harm- ful to society and the world at large and detrimental to the complete independence and equality of the Chinese state and race. For this reason the Party has "always strongly exerted itself in suppress

ing such tendencies

LMTA.

necessary

to

guarantee

י

future peace,

It was a sight to see the big bottle-

Chen Chinng Ming and provide for the manager that it is impossible" for any welfare of those to be disbanded, expe- infections gerne to survive the process, OPIUM ÎN BRITISH COLONIES. cially the mercenaries sow in Kwang REVENUE FROM THIS SOURCE in aldition to other measures washing maching, known to the employees. as Big Bertha," at work. Returned Some months ago, a member iskrit in Should any one faction decline to accept bottles, dusty and still-labelled, are pass- the British Parliament for details of the the will of the Council, which must be fed through one end of the machine and

monnt of revenue received by various treated as coming from the 20,000,000 turned out at the other end thoroughly. Colonies from the sales of opium, and the Cantonese who are really the masters and cleansed at the rate of 100 to the mïante. Colonial Officer has now supplied these owners of Kwangtung, it will be classi Whilst in the machine the bottles "are figures:-

fied as the common enemy of the Cau- subjected to fire separate machine-brushi tonese people; During the meantime, all washings at varinis degrees of heat range - the" work of organizing volunteer move-ing from 120 degrees to 160 degrees and ments" among the prople and the anal in the first two or three rinsings caustic gamation of the village, town, and city sols is used with the water. From this guards will be pushed, so that the people machine the bottles are passed. hy may have the desired power to enforce machinery, to the filling plant where the their will on the militarists and poli-

-syrup gas and water which has been ticians now misgoverning Kwaungtungspecially filtered," pass through silver- Dr. Bok, since his retirement from the plated pipes into the bottles before scal- Canton judiciary, has been visitinging. In the bottling factory, which is Beking, Shanghai and other cities where

In 1900 while the Manchu Empress Dowager and mobility were encouraging. the Boxers in their insane movement to Uphold the Manchu and "Destroy the Foreigner," the Kuomintang, which had i started a revolution in the same year at Walchow, atcorded protection to foreign life and property within the affected area in accordance with International law, thus showing its opposition to the anti- foreign policy of the Manchu Government.

1

Per cent.

92.4

45.5

Hongkong. Straits Settlements Federated Malay States. 16, 8 Sarawak Ceylon

Johore

Kedah

Perlis

Kelantan

Trengganu

Brunei North Borneo

K. O

0.73

34.95

38. 3

41. 3

23. 5

37. 7

14. 9

12, 3

that, several well-known foreigners in China will lend their support to the scheme. if i will help and not retard the interest of the peace movement.

many Cantourse have influence, in the coal, airy, and extremely clean, are to Since then whenever the Revolutionists relations owing to their anti-foreign ten-interest of his scheme. So far, he is he seen hugh compressors for mixing and deney. Wherever the inthience of the meeting response from the impartial and took up armas they never failed to take Kuemintang extends, such beliefs are non-partisan of his fellow provincials. Pumping the gas and water." Our repre- special care to give adequate protection automatically eradicated on the other but the controlling the affairs of the sentative was informed by the Manager foreigners. During the 1911 Revolu- hand, where it does not prevail, such mis- two rival factions have not yet come out that the largest of these compressors was tion there was not a single case of viola-chievous belieis take rout, and spread to accept or decline the offer which, of also the largest of its type in the world; For instance, in Anhui which is outaide course, had not been officially made to tion of foreign life and property, although the influence of the Party, thero, is a the two leading figures of the struggle in fact, there were only ten such machines. Revolutionary troops were spread"Ta Tao Hai" (Grent Sword Society) up to the end of July. It is understood in use at the present time." throughout the country. This was due and in portions of Szechone recently to the fact that the Party's policy has wrested from the Kuomintang there exists "Shen Ta Hui" what is known ne kad salutary influence on the minds of (Divine Fighting Society). the people, and has been obeyed by the members. When the President of our The Kuomintang should Party, Dr. Sun Yat-sch took up office 18

realize that its historic mission is to lead | FLOOD DISASTERS IN CHINA. Provisional President of the Republic on ment and should not throw off the re- the country in the Revolutionary move-

PEKING OFFICIALS' PERSONAL January 1st, 1912, hè declared that China | stints hitherto iniposed on the Revolu

HELP. should observe all the obligations of a rivilised state in order to enjoy all the ́privileges of a civilised state. Thus the Party's policy and attitude have always heen clear and known to the world.

BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.

therefore

The water used is subjected to a very striet process of filtration. It is first. passed through a quartz filter and then through Berfield filters. Four of the latter type of filters are used in rotation for periods of two hours, at the end of which time the filtering Calidles`ure taken out of the machine and subjected to a special cleansing process under a pressûre PERING, July 25th.

of steam. The water is then tested by Following instructions from President Tsao Kun for all high officials in Peking the firm's chemists who introduce into to contribute personally to food relief, the already chlorinated water as it comes a spreial Chiorse flood Relief Committee from the réservoir a further treatment for the Metropolitan Area and certain other parts of Chibli province has been of chlorine. The water then passes into formed Mr. Kao Ling Wei, Director hagh tanks line with glass, thus avoid- of the Shuiwuchu, has been appointeding any metallic contumination. Copper Chairman of the Committee and Admiral pipes are used to convey the water into Wa Yu Lin, Minister of Communications, Vice-Chairman. Mesars. Chang Yao Kuei, the refrigerators.. President of the National Conservancy Bareau, Chang Ting Ao, Salt Commis The proposal to encourage a generalsioner at Hotung, and several other strike in the Foreign Settlement likewise Government officials are members of the cannot be considered, as it is too alrastie Comuniture-Beuter.

tionary armies. It should continue to discountenance ali barbarous anti-foreign acts. All the members should be guided by this policy and set an example to the People so that they may not be led astray Even should foreigners mit uodecstasid clearly our policy and go so far as to help the Peking Government trust our Party, treating it as their enemy when it is their friend, and supporting Peking, which is their enemy, as their friend, perhaps compelling it, when necessary, to adopt measures of self-protection, it will, nevertheless, continue to maintain its past policy of international friendliness,

a measure.

· BANKRUPTCY FRAUDS. PLAN TO STRENGTHEN THE LAW

Immediate action is to be taken to strengthen the bankruptcy laws, with a view to putting an end to the number of fraudulent bankruptcies..

The Board of Trade has appointed a com- t consider and report what amendments of the Bazkruptcy Act, 1914,

able, more particularly in regard to the. Provisions for the discovery and punish- ment of offenders.

The manufacture of syrup is carried out in an equally large and airy room where there are many large, mixing tanks, all glass lined. A small electrically-driven mixer is used. After mixing in these tanks, which are hermetically scaled, the syrup passes from the tanks through tubes to filtering machines which are so ar ranged that all the syrup passes through specially prepared filtering paper. The syrup then passes through special tubes to the bottling room below.

..

It will be gathered from this brief de- scription that consumers of Watson's acrated waters many drink them with the most complete assurance of their purity.

WHERE ARE THE PATRIOTIC SONGS?

"LE SHEN-YANG.”. During the last thirteen years the Northern militarists, having usarped the Peking Government, have not hesitated to work in league with the Imperialistic Powers and to sell the country in order to further their selfish aims. Our people have often denounced their slavishness towards Foreign Powers, but the minds of the reactionaries and militarists are

Marcover the Municipal Council's reply really suffused with medieval and mon-

to the Senior Consul, while referring to nrebical notions and superstitions which persous secretly or otherwing platting are closely associated with anti-foreign against the security or well-being of the sentiments. While in their conduct they Chinese Government,” does not neces are servile, in their mentality they are earily apply to members of the Party. really hostile to foreigners, This is It is true that the Party has always proved. by the wide-spread growth in strenuously opposed the illegal Peking recent years of secret societies in the Governinent from first to innt. But since North among the leading militarists and Tsao Kun usurped the power of the reactionaries, which worship such gods as Peking

Lai. Shu yang, whose orders are issued ret ng Government through corruption through the medium of the planchette, been aroused throughout the whole coun- recent experience has shown to be desir and who is believed to be able to destroy try, excepting only in such areas 18 are an enemy by the use of the "flying immediately under his despotic influence sword."

where personn dare not give utterance to

The textile industries have been very. Sir Edward Lucas, Agent-General "for [Translator's note: Lu Shun yang, or their indignation. Besides the South- Lu Tung-pin, who lived during the Tang Western provinces, Manchuria and Che badly hit by what are described as suspi- South Australia, writing to the Daily

cicus bankruptcies, and it is estimated Mail mys -- Dynasty, was a Tacist student, who was king, even the Shanghai-Wong region that the losses under this head between canonized as a god after his death. Two has also clearly expressed repudiation July 1920 and September 1923 amounted important influence on the national life, The songs of a country exercise an foreigners, was in the Peking Government ment, as evidenced by the declaration of Appeared

tairs, inspiring the higher qualities of heart concerned in

of these many Gazette in which a banking corporating the General Chamber of Comincrce and Losses to industry have been so great formed by prominent Feking oficials the attitude of the Military Governor of that the Association of British Chambers day, filial love, brile of race, and the petitioned for registration with this Shanghai. The Municipal authorities in of Commerce and other bodies have for fike, ghd it is greatly to be deplored. Taoist God Lu fhun yang as its Presi the International Settlement cannot be long been urging the Government to that songs of this character are not found dent. The application for registration blind to the real sentiments of the people take petion with a view to strengthening in the repertoire of present-day British was granted by the Ministry of Agricul and side with the Peking Government to the lawn. ture and Commerce). There is also, it oppose Right and Popular Opinion. Even is reported, a society in Peking organized if they should do so, they could not re- by prominent military and civit officials verse the policy of neutrality hitherto with Lu Shun-yang" as its President, observed by civilized Powers without the Tsao Kun as its Vice-President, and Wang approval of the Consular and Diplomatic Huni-ching and others as directora,'}

bodies and the Foreign Governments, We The aims and character of such socie do not believe that such approval would ties are really similar to those of the

be given Baker movement. The Kuomintaux plans to exterminate such rocieties because they are identified or canociated with medieval and monarchical beliefs to the detriment of the States bs well as of International (Continuind an nert column.)

years ago an official document actually of an opposition to the Peking Govern- | to £25,000;000. "A" gang krupice and mind such as patriotism, devotion to

CINEMA

NOTES,

vocalisti.

There has long been a dearth of good patriotic songs, Land of Hope of (Hory" bring the only one of note which has emerged in more recent years, while THE CORONET.

such songs as "The Denth of Nelson, Hongkong cinema-goers have their last The Sailor's Grave," The British opportunity this evening of seeing Lion, and the Veteran's Song" have

Judith of Bethulia," D. W. Griffith's fallen into despetado. Therefore it behoves the members of first big picture, which has been drawing British people overywhere would greate the Party to maintain an attitude of interested audiences. the Coronetly apprecinte new, robust, many songs calmness and patience, to refrain from Theatre all the week. As-has already which strike "a lofty note and others precipitate action, and to await further been explained for these columns, Judith which appeal to the gentler side of our instructions.";

of Bethulia" is a picture which is in utture. Will not Mr Kipling and Big some respects unique.

| Edward Elgar come to the rescue!

Canton, July 21st, 1924.

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