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PEKING NOTES.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] GLOOM PERVADES THE OUTLOOK.
PixiNG, January 21st. Depression is very visible in Peking The politico-Military situatina offers no to normalcy. hope of an early return.
and while discomforts 133/
inzon. veniences, not to speak of the soaring prices of commodities due to restricted supplies, are experienced, most people realise that bad is present conditions are they will shortly be much worse. Gloom pervades the general outlook, and the
CANTON NEWS.
[PRON QUE CHINESE CORRESPONDENT-]
COMPANY MEETING THE STAR" FERRY COMPANY. LIMITED
MORE NEW BOATS TO CORE WITH INCREASING TRAFFIC..
DISTRICT ASSEMBLES. The Union of District Assemblies: the Province of Kwaings will tweet fas
Delegates The 2715 Ordinney Annual Meeting, an Wuchow on February 18th. from every district, or "Haica, will attend.Extraordinary General Meeting, and a Among the items in the proposed agenda.dinary General Meeting" of the "Star" are the bills for a provincial constitutionFerry Co., Ltd., took plaer yesterday and local governments; questions of noon, in the Board Room at the offices local currency, provincial banks, public of Mesars. Jardine, Matheson & Co. highways, aril West River communication Mr. B. D. F. Beith_presided.
The industrial
The CHAIRMAN said:Gentlenen.As. and conservancy service. topies to be discussed will include those
it is now past the hear for which the
PRINCE GEORGE.
APPOINTED TO JOIN H.M.S. **HAWKINS."
Sub-Lieutenaut His Royal Highness Prince George, K.G., K.QY.D., has been appointed to H.M.S. akius,, với date January 18th The Hawkins, which was recently refitted here is to stay some time at Singapore for the conference of Admirals.
Prince George's service on the China Station will be for the normal period of two years. His Royal Highness, in com
star of hope seems to have disappeared of cotton growing, paper manufacturing Best of the three meetings. was convened Pany with other young officers in his
mining reforms.
from vision, except perhaps in the case of some ambitious militarists. With a populace facing food shortage, scarcity of coal, interrupted communications, and business at a complete standstill. it is not surprising that there should be a striking absence of that eagerness, hope and joy with which the Chinese New be allotted Year is greeted, but when we have fucar
Customs procedures.
EXPERIMENTAL STATION."
Agriculture And The College of Forestry of the University of Kwang tung, governmicat institution, will
9,000.
land of #414318!
Canton- Shek-pei along the
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The profit on working for the period under review shows & satisfactory in crease in proportion to the same period the balance the previous year. for
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His appointment to the China Station will give the Colony the opportunity of. seeing one of the King's sons without the surroundings of official formality.
HONGKONG BOY SCOUTS' -ASSOCIATION..
maiority, resumes duty afloat after about and the improv.nient of the hemp, sugneto-day, I will call upon. the Secretary to
read the notice convening the first of two years study at the naval establish- such meetings. being the Twenty-seventh ment," on shore at Portsmouth and Greenwich. As a midshipman he served and other industries.
Ordinary Annual Meeting.
The SECURTARY rend the notice, and the in the battleship Iron Duke, in the Mediterranean, and in the Queen Eliza birman then addressed the meeting us
beth, in the Atlantic Fleet, and from Lollows:-Gentlemen,-With: your permission, 1 propose as usual to take the latter was lent in August, 1994, to ence of destroyer work. He entered the Royal Naval College at Osborne superimposed on all this a military krip Kowloon Hailroad, for an experimental the report and accounts as read. You the Botilla leader Markny to gain experi- eadet" in September, 1918, after being. ou the country which has no regard for station Th fababitants of Shek-pei will observe that the period covered is the commen weal the sad plight of the have been trying to withhold the land only eight months, ie, from 1st May to
the ground 31st December, 1924, the reason being prepared at St Peter's Court. Broad- TAKE A PEG pation generally will be appreciated. from the Government on
00 the 31st December 20th. Just to illustrate the state of affairs, that they require them for their cemetery, that your Directors consider it advistairs. The Prince was 20 years old on may be mentioned that in Peking alone bus the objections have been lately over-able to close the books it is estimated that over one thousand come, and development of this site for December, instead of 30th. April, as shops will not re-open their doors after
a" experimental station will proceed hitherto, in order to bring the end of our financial year more in line with other the Chinese New Year (January 24th), immediately.
Companies. owing to the inability of owners to meet
CEMETERY RESTORED. their New Year settlements. As this mia-
Upon vigorous Protest by the Ma- Rart fortune will be duplicated in
Mr. Ma throughout the cities of North China ithammedags in Canton, under the tender Wen Ting, the calls for little imagization to realise ship of
Bolshevista have finally decided to restore that what should be. a period of joy
to them their cemetery at Jou-mukang available for appropriation including for the entire nation will prove a very Recently some 578 nor of Momahmedan 827,252.71 brought forward from last NEW ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER.. and time indeed.
lands, were 'confiscated in accordanceFear being $311,415.08, and your Direc ANOTHER WAR IN SPRINGL
with the Kuomintang nationalization tors recommend dealing with this amount as follows:-To pay a dividend of $1.50
Mr. C. Champkin, who, ia che absence. per share, to pay bonus of $1 per share,
of the Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, has been The severe cold in Canton the last and carry forward to new
[$211,415.08, Of this latter amount, as Acting Commissioner of the Boy Scouts. two days in January forced homeless people to seek shelter in front mentioned by me at our Extraordinary movement in Hongkong, in the course of of shops and along side walks having Meeting of the 14th utt., 2200,000 has been the
of the Boy. cover, the lowest temperature on the transferred to reserve fund for the pur-current issue of the Silver Wolf, the
admirable official organ Many of the sufferers pose which I then explained. 30th being 44. were discharged mercenaries of Dr. Sua
With regard to our feet, the two new Scouts' Association of Hongkong, writes: Yat Sen's army.
boats referred to by me at our last annual Meanwhile Peking seems to be resign-
VISITORS FOR DR. SUN.
meeting were completed after consider- ing itself to the prospect of another
Dr. Sun Yat Sen president of the able unavoidable delay, and have been coup d'état and another civil war in the
is now seriously ill at Kuomintang who Spring For that reason little in Peking, has summand to his bed-side in commission since the beginning of the portance is attached by the community Mr. Chau Lu, president of Kwangtung current year. They are proving satis University, Mr. T..V. Soong..managing- to the actions, some of them very director of the Central Bad, and factory in every way from the passengers' mysterious, of militarists. These are re-ban Stu Pak, a former commissioner point of view, but being more com- of jural affairs of Kwangtung, who modious "and" more powerful than the are all on their way northward from older boats, are more expensive to ope
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the moment is Shanghai, from which it is expected here that Marshal Chi Hsieh "Yoan will be forced to fee and which the authority of Peking, backed by Mukden. will be restored. On this sub
ject I will make no further remark as the situation is susceptible of sadden and unexpected change.
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HOMELESS 'SOLDIERS.
miny
UNPOPULAR PAPER MONEY.
account
garded as attempts to bluff which, how ever, deceive few. For some reason of
rate. They are, however; necessary to other Sum Yueh, am the Governor
Lope with the larger numbers, travelling of Chibli declikes to have at Paotinglu.
Although $5,000.cno worth of puper to which post he had been appointed,
money has been printed by the Central on our ferries, and the continued increase, in the volume of traffic renders imper- comes into the French Hospital as a
Back at Canton, only $500,000 is in patient and unexpectedly takes his decirculation, according to lol press re-
ports.
The Central Bank bas decidedative the construction of further boats, parture at one o'clock yesterday morn-
branch at Kingmoon to
and we are, therefore, considering plans ing, bound for Paotingfu It is incidents to open a of this kind that keep the populare of promote the circulation of these notes for two more boats of approximately the 1bė "jump."
The reports of p
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Canton by the anti-bolshevists, and the same capacity as the Gokien Star and possible fall of the Kuomintang in the Meridian Star. event of the death of Dr. Sun Yat Sen are working detrimentally to the, po- pularity of the notes.
I do not think there is anything that calls for further comment from me at MR. TANG SHAO YI. the meeting, and I now beg to propose The latest Cantonese leader mentioned the adoption of the, report and accounts. to succeed Dr Sun Yat Sen as presi- After this has been seconded, I shall be dent of the Kuomintang Political Party
to ask.
THE COAL SITUATION. The coal situation, ne already remark ed, is acute. The Ministry of Com- muckcations thought it had completed arrangements for moving coal along the line, but a# Burns Peking Hankow wrote the best laid schemes of mice an
The ministry aft men gang had reckoned with a General who is Lavish in promises, but they had not 19 Mr. Taug Shao Yi an ex-Premier glad to answer to the best of my ability of the Republic of China Mr. Tang Any questions the shareholders may wish calculated upon soldiers who have ac
train is now in Shanghai and was recently quired the instinct that when
in sight it should be
And appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs comes
the
There were no questions, and the adop Peking present
Provisonal sezed it is. In thean circumsthope the in Chaiatungpu (Communications Dept.) Government, but he has refused to assume tion of the report and accounts was
Ap- the office are naturally at their wits end. parently Chang Ts Lin has assisted to the extent of clearing the Peking Mukden. line and returning a quantity of rolling stock, but his troops have now succeeded in putting the Tlentein-Pukow railway out of business so far as regular trafic is concerned. ·
as the proferential rights reserved to seconded by Mr. A. A. ALVES.
The re-election of the retiring Directar, NATIONAL CONFERENCE PLAN
have had improvement tenants who made on the property of their landlords Mr. C. Gordon Mackie was then pro- Notwithstanding the with of the and the bike. In order to expedite Chief Executive to open the National rebuilding of the port and the settle posed by Mr. E. H. WEAVE, and seconded Coalorence at an early date, it is mani ment of these cases, it has been proposed by Mr. L. S. GREENHILL, and carried
judicial courts to have -the local
Mr. C. Bernard Brown, ACA, was
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that he will not support it unless
the
BUILDING DISPUTES
seconded by the Hev. Father ROBERT GBJ' carried unanimously.
A TROOPS OF SCOTTISH SCOUTS,
"Commissioner's Letter in the
1 am very glad to announce that H.E. the Governor, Chief. Scout Hang- kong, has been pleased to appoint Lieut-Colonel T. A. Robertson, J.B.E., Assistant Commissioner, pending con- frmation by Imperial Headquarters.
Now it you will stop cheuring for a moment I will only add that C. Robertsen is. a Serut in sense of the world. He has scouted with the Chief Scout in. Africa and he has scouted with the Boy Scouts.in England, and in between he has scout- ed more curious corners of the world than I can remember, We are proud to have him as Assistant Commissioner and we give him a rousing, and hearty welcome as a brother Scout..
1 would like now to refer to the kilted troop of Scottish Scouts that we are forming in the near future. Mr. R. M. Dyer suggested this excellent idea the Troop and is generously equipping with kilts and sporrans. He bas, com- municated much of his enthusiasm to me and I expect great things from the Scottish Troop when, formed. Already, I understand, four boys are struggling Ramely with bagpipes, but we CD'L Arrangements are being help thut!
in instruction
Scottish made for Dances and Highland games, but firsti and foremost will coine Scouting. Wo cannot too strongly emphasise that If we can bring to the Scout Spirit a national sentiment that will strengthea it, as I believe we can, then the success of the Scottish Troop will be assured
The big fire in Wuchow last year "The appointment of Mr. B. D. F. which involved hundreds of buildings scattered over maty strebts has been Beith, as a Director, was confirmed, bermation, as a special resolution, of the followed by many cases of propertying proposed by Mr. J. T. BARGAM, and Fights peculiar to Chinese customs, such
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Commerce,
the
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The CHAIRMAN then proposed the con
Father ROBERT and carried unanimous resolution which was secvaded the Rev.
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The Ordinary General Meeting of the Company then took place, and after the Secretary had read the notice convening
the meeting, the CHAIRMAN said:-This meeting is for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing ordinary re-
fest that the declaration of Sun Yat Sen bal commission to try all these cases, re-elected auditor, being proposed by Mr. solutions increasing the Company's people are represented thereat will and opision from the lend Chamber W. J. CARROLL, and seconded by Mr. J. {rapilaj to $1,000,000; the capitalisation have a disturbing effect, and many cane tions pace, and others regarding the HYDE. the postponement of the Conference. When it is recollected that public opinion asserts that Marsbal Feng Yu- Hsiang, General Hu Ching Yee, General Sun, Yueh, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, and the Soviet Embassy are in collusion, some idea will be gained as to what Peking fears in the near future...
CINEMA, FOTES,,-
of $400,000 standing to the credit of the reserve fund, and the issue of bonus of such an action is being The CHAIRMAN then said that concludes shares, At the extraordinary general In many cases contracts for have been let but work has to the business of the first meeting, and meeting held on January 14th last, I be suspended owing to the sudden in that dividend warrants may be obtained explained the reasons why your Direc terference of parties having connections on application on and after Tuesday, the tors thought it essential to bring forward
3rd inst.
these ordinary resolations. I do not with the properties" concerned
The Extraordinary Meeting was then think there in anything further which I held, and the Chairman called upon the need any respecting them, but if any Secretary to read the notice convening shareholders would like to ask any ques tions or seek any explanation,, I shall that meeting.
ANOTHER TOURIST SHIP.
The CHAIRMAN said: The object of this be pleased to endeavour to answer quch The Canarder Franconia left Liverpool QUEEN'S THEATRE.
on January 3rd for New York, to com- meeting is for the purpose of receiving questions and give auch explanations to There were no questions, and the "The Master Mind," Lionel Barry-mence her second round the world cruise a report of the proceedings at the first the best of my ability. more's latest photoplay, will be exhibited The Franconia has been specially designed Extraordinary General Meeting held on at the Queen's Theatre to-day. Until the for voyages of this kind, and although January 14th, 1925, and of confirming, CHAIRMAN proposed the resolutions. advent of the ailversbeet as a mediuza
ber accommodation is for about 2,000 if thought fit, as a special resolution, These were seconded by the Rev. Father" passengers, the number on this trip has the resolution which was passed at such Rouent and were carried unanimously. for imparting entertaining knowledge of been restricted to 400. In the course first meeting. That resolution, as you This concluded the business of the meet- life, the study of the histrionic art was of her cruise the ship will call at nearly will remember, concerned the insertionings
Those present were: Mx, B. D. F truly considerably limited, for it encom passed only the things which could be 30 ports and cover a distance of about in the Articles of Association of a new
The itinerary includes Article respecting the capitalination of Beith, the Hon. Sir Paul Chater Mr. Madeira, done on a stage of comparatively small 30.000 miles.
Spaís, Fract
Italy, Egypt, profits, and at the before mentioned first C. Gordon Mackie (Dirkers), Mr. W dimensions. Now, thanks to the motion India Ceylon, China, picture camers, the locale of a dramatic and he won in Japan, Panama meeting, I shortly explained the accessity E. L. Shenton (Bolicitar), Mr. W. 9. of the ports for it. I do nct, therefore, consider it Brown (Secretary), and the following or comedy situation is almost unlimited at which she will call will be Taku for necessary to deal. further therewith, ex shareholders: The Rer. Father Robert. and simultaneously is thus provided pos- Peking, and it is interesting to note it cent to add that at the meating in ques Messrs. L S. Creephill, J. T. Bagram, sibilities of expanded action that goes a will be the first occasion upon which a tion the new Article was unanimously Felix M. Ellis, J Hooper, W. Hyde, A.
cruise
has called there. ance of make-believe.
passengers
In order to comply with the Companies E. H. Neare. E. B. Ford, E. Badick, B. The Manila Vaudeville Co. is the added various ports two large motor boats, Ordinance, it is accessary that such re. Edgar, F. Ribeiro, A HLM. un attraction at this theatre and during the which will be slang each de of the run of the picture The Master Mind" upper deck of the ship. The Franconia solution, shall be confirmed at A special Souza, A. J. Cox, F. H. Crapnell, Choa they will give an entirely new programme will take over four and a-half months
(Continued on next Columa). of songs and comedy..
to do the cruise..
The
long distance is augmenting the imports have for use at the parsed as an extraordinary resolution. A. Alves, W. J, Carroll, J. P. Braga,
resolution.
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