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WARNING BY KUOMINTANG.

SUGGESTED NEW FOREIGN MINISTER.

[FADM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ]

EXONERATED.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19TE,

CHIANG KAI SHER'S ACTION ON MARCH 20TH.

IMPROPER BUT NECESSARY.

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(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. }

The Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang in Canton, now holding The Workers Conference of the Kuo- its semi-annual session, exonerated The mintang have warned all labour unions General Chiang Kai Shek from blame for having taken the action he dhi on March within its sphere of influence against fur 20th to prevent a feared Red revolt.

This was the occasion, it may be re- ther participation in parades and demon-' strations net previously approved by the called, "when General Chiang took over Executive Committee of the Conference. the Navy and caused a search to be made of the Soviet Club, the Cauton Strike The labour unions are not all of one Committee, and other pro-Bolshevist or faction and, in order to prevent the reganizations and individuals, including petition of the incidents of May 3rd and Mr. Wang Ching Wei, the Chairman of 4, when rival anions--anti-Reds and the Kuomintang who, since that date,

Nas never reappeared in Canton affairs. Reds-came into a conflict resulting in deaths and more than 200 wounded, the Kintang have thought it advisable tortail the number of mass meetings.

FOREIGN MINISTER.

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Dr. C. C. We, officially Chief Com missioner of Canton Municipality but generally regarded as head q the For- eign Office as well, is being urged by General Chiang Kai Shek to resume the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, the! position formerly occupied by Mr. Hu Han Min, who has not been in Canton siner last August except for a few days between April 29th and May 8th.

At the time considerable exception was taken to General Chiang'w strong act and Mr. Wang resigned in protest against the usurpation of his power. General Chiang soon afterward tendered an apology and an explanation, but nothing further was date.

FOOD PRICES IN HONGKONG.

STALLHOLDERS ALLEGED TO BE MONOPOLISTS.

DR. KOCH DENOUNCES THEIR "RAPACITY."

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

FIVE YEARS' HARD LABOUR AND THE BIRCH.

There were only two CASES at the Criminal Sessions yesterday, both de which were over within a few minutes, Both the prisoners pleaded guilty. enses were taken by Mr. Justice Wood,|| the Puiane Judge.

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At a meeting of the Sanitary Board Cheung Chui,, a waiter at the South yesterday. Dr. W. V. M. Koch strongly China Restaurant. Chias Building, and denounced the rapacity of stall-holders. Chan Wu, an unemployed Chinese, who he said were making excessive pro- | pleaded guilty to having assaulted a Ats in the sale of commodities. He held | Chinese accountant with intent to rob that they were monopolists, and

were hi

The accountant, who was employed at: enabled to profiteer with impunity owing to the fact that they had formed" rings," the South China Restaurant was asleep. He urged that the Board should devise in his bed at 4 am, on April 14th when some scheme whereby the profiteering he awoke to find the first prisoner draw. should be prevented.

ing à piece of string taut around his neck. He, struggled with his assailant, and overpowered him. The second pri soner. Arried with a knife, was also in the room, but ran away when he saw his cunipanion in difficulties. He was, how- every arrested before he reached the

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It was decided that a committee should be formed to look inte the matter..

PRESIDENT'S CONTENTION, Dr. W. V. M. Kock, pursuant to notice,

asked :-

street.

"When stalls in the Public Markets are pet up for tender can some arrange- ment be made "before they arg. leti Both prisoners were sentenced to five whereby the Head of the Sanitary years' "imprisonment with hard labour, Department can exercise effective con- trol on the prices of commodities, so as and ordered to reaire 24 strokes with to keep them within reasonable limits the birch. and prevent the profiteering that now) goes en apparently without hindrance." 3. N. E. Sur (the President) in reply said.

At the meeting of the Central Executive Committee on Sinnday, General Chiang was formally exonerated. It was explain- ed that the steps he took were necessary, Although strictly speaking improper as they were taken without the knowledge i of Mr. Wang, Chairman of both the 2 Political Commission and the Military letting shall be by sealed tender, and

do not consider it advisable to recom Council.

mend that the law is so, altered as to

The resolution of the Committed is understood to mean that General Chinng has the support of the majority of the As a matter of fact, Dr. Wu has been Kuomintang leaders and it is generally Reting Minister, na u important sul-regarded as a vote of want of confluence ject of international concern has been in Mr. Wang Ching Wei considered without his advice.

COMMUNIST PARTY. Since the intention of the leading mili- turists to curtail the activities of Bol-

sheviks in Canton has beere made public, a number of the well-known numbers of the Communists Party have resigned.. Captain Li Chi Lung, one time acting Chief of the Kuomintang Naval Bureau daring the absence of Comrade Seminoff but under arrest since March 20th, has withdrawn from Bolshevism. He will be freed from custody soon.

Me Wang. who is now absent from Canton, is not expected to return, and it is thought that his Bolshevist followers may as well be ready, to face further

defrat.

KUOMINTANG CONFERENCE

IN CANTON.

CANTON GAZETTE'S REPORT. In its report of the Kuomintang Con- ference held in Canton on Saturday, "the Canton Gazette says, an important de claration was unanimously agreed to by the leaders of the Kuomintang defining more definitely its attitude and prin ciples of co-operation with the Chinese Tumours are still current in Canton Communist Party. The definitive terms and vicinity that the Communists and of the declaration and proposals have not the Third International in Canton will yet been officially issued, but the follow not dissolve themselves as informally ading is a free rendering of the de- vised by leaders of the Kuomintang. It claration:

is reported that, unless the Kuomintang In order to secure the centralization will allow the Communists & free hand of the Revolutionary Forces and to make as before, the latter will act separately, the National Revolution complete, we affirm our profound belief that it is an

PORT PMPROVEMENT.

imperative necessity for all classes of The Cantor Port Conservancy Commis-revolutionary forces in the Nation to sion net for the first time since its or work together. garization by the loëni authorities last week-end. Among those present were Mr.

The only condition imposed by law in the letting of market stalls is that this

JAPANESE SENTENCED. Kareyoshi Shimada, a Japanese, plead. ed guilty to charges of snatching a hand- bag, and with robbing a Chincur.

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On April 28th, armed with a knife, he held up a Chinese cook, and stole

from hini 63 cents.

The next day, he snatched a handbag, include any condition as to prices. Maxi-containing 3 in moneg, from a Chinese mwn prices for foodstuffs of all kinds lady teacher. He was chased and ar were imposed on the outbreak of war in rested. When charged at the Central | Magistracy, he said that he had done it. because he had no money to buy food.

1914 under special emergency legislation, but before long it was found almost im possible to effect any real control on the fluctuations of fresh food priers, and the Food Committee for the last two years of the War confined its activities to such commodities as rice, flour and tinned food.

It is true that ranrket stall holders have what is practically a monopoly of, certain food stuffs, but the most effective method of maintaining prices ni their proper economic level, would appear to he ample competition within the mono poly!

With this end in view the Board bas, i connection with the 1947 Estimates, recom. mended to Government the building of a number of newy

markets as B000 1% economic conditions permit. There are at present 20 markets with a total of over 1,800 atalis.

The high prices of fresh food during the past 11 months have been largely due to abnormal conditions.

A LIST OF PRICES.

Mr. Justice Wood sentenced him to

two years, hard labour on rach charge, the sentences to run concurrently..

Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg appeared for the Crown in both cases. ... '

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control in the matter, it should adopt He felt that as the Board had some

measures to break the monopoly. Other wise there would be demands for increases in wages which would be a serious matter for the Government and private. Grms: As it was, a large proportion of the peopl had to scrape and save in order to get the money to purchase necessary food-

"RINGS" IN THE MARKETS.

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Dr. S. W, Tso.supported all that Dr. Koch, had said. There yras. however, inuch difculty in taking effective steps to get at the rings" in the markets, un- to publish their less they forced them market prices. Dr. Koch had not sug- gested any means to get over the dif culty. le suggested that a committee should be formed to look into the inatter. The Sanitary Department had certain power over licenced meat vendarz

NO GREAT PROFITS The PRESIDENT adid thất the list. which Dr. Koch had was produced by one of the local papers from time to time: The actual figures were secured by a market overseer. on the staff of the Central | Department. He merely secured them from the stall-holders. He had a pretty good idea of the prices prevailing.

Dr. Koca said that he had a list of prices which were published every week By local paper. The list was not. signed; and he did not know, on whose authority the prices were published. The list which he had set out the prices for 1914, 1919, and 1926. He considered pre- the facts, and our experiences in

In the past year or two, we learn from sent prices to be altogether out of pro- operation have taught us, that in the meat in 1914 was eight cents a pound, and tion had been made as to how prices coul portion to what they ought to he.. Soup

As regards control no definite sugges- Sun Fo, Kuomintang Commissioner of

course of our work-if there is no basis it was now 34 cents, an increase of over be kept down. They would all like to Reconstruction; Dr. C. C. Wu, acting of mutual confidence and no proper safe-

300" per cent. A sirloin of beef was control prices, from moter-ears down. Mayor of Canton; Mr. Foo Ping Sheung guards for mutual cepperation founded formerly 37 cents, and it was.now 43s Dr. Koch suggested, to abolish market wards, but he did not think it feasible Commissioner for Foreign Affairs; Dr. on moral principles and the spirit of: cents. Mutton chops had been increased lists and have the bawking of meat un- Tai En Sai, Director-General of the loyalty as the condition for co-operation, from 20 cents to 35 cents per pound; pork controlled. It had been very much "River Conservancy Board; and Major and some rule in common,-frequent mis- from 2 cents to on cents, lard and fat through the strike, but as

against the policy of the Board right the sale of Oliveerona, Chief Engineer to the Con-understandings are bound to aride, with from 21 cents to 10 cents, wholesale. He fresh meat bad to be kept up, there was the result, in the Erst place, of internal felt that in spite of the difficulties they

no, other way out of it. He had been in servancy Board.

close touch with the markets ever since uneasiness, thereby lessening our revolu had recently had, the enormous rise in the strike, and he did not think that the The proposed improvement of Canton tionary effectiveness; and, in conse prices was not justifed. The stall-holders. profit, to the retailer was very great he Harbour was reviewed and, it was quence, we shall both be overthrown by had formed themselves into a ring. That present. The high prices were due to the stated that in accordance with previous the enemy. And we painfully recollect

wholesalers. There was still a shortage" was at the bottom of it. When pork was of pork and beef in the Colony, and he estimates, something like. 540,000 was re-that the aim of the co-operation which hawked outside the market during the felt that it would be so as long as the quired for the work,

our late leader (Dr. Sun Yat Ben) in-strike it was sold at a very reasonable present difficulties remained in China. stituted, could not have been to this end. price. The result was that the prices in

SCANT HOPE. The Communist Party of China is the markets also came down. There was Revolutionary party, so also is the Kuo need of more competition; for the mar mintang. Recognising the fact that the ket now bad a monopoly. There was no country must undergo a National Reneed to alter the law, but he felt that volution, the Communist Party decided gentle hint given to the raonopolists to join the Kuomintang-

Major Olivecrona, it is understood, will make informal enquiry among the consular representatives in Canton to see

what assistance may be possible in the way of surtax on imports, in addition to getting the co-operation of the Commis

sioner of Customs at Canton.

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In regard to the suggestion of break- ing down the rings." he thought that ring's would always exist as far as Chinese salesmen were concerned. He could pot see how they could be broken down effce- tively. It was, however, a very important matter, and the Board should appoint a committee to look into it.

"Dr. Koen said that there was no need to rush matters. The thing would take

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The PRESIDENT said that a committee would be appointed at the next meeting of the Board.

Dr. Koca further stated that it was, of good quality of meat supplies. If hawkers course, the policy of the Board to ensure

Believing that the members of the Com-

PRESERVING A MONOPOLY. GET RICH QUICK SCHEME.

munist Party could add their efforts to the National Revolution the Kuomintang the Fishmongers' Guild, some time agu Continuing. Dr. KocH cited the case of It is alleged that a firm in Honam, welcomed their participation. To co Canton, has opened eight brunches, since operate in such an open and honourable when a frozen fish factory was set up in September, taken in goods on credit, to spirit, there should have been no occasion because, they thought that they could not

the Colony. They had the wind up the value of more than 850,000 and con- for misunderstanding, but in reality in keep up their prices. As a matter of tracted loans amounting to $50,000. The the past two years it has not been so fact, their prices had gone up by 150 to were allowed to sell meat, they would proprietor after operating for about nine

250 per cent. They protested because buy it from the slaughter house, and months, on these lines has now absconded

their competitors had lowered the prices without reference to the rings." Cus would get their profit for themselves with something like 8170,000. The al-

What they wanted to do was to preserve tomers could be assured of getting meat leged swindler, it is said, denit chiefly

their monopoly and keep up their prices of good quality. The Board was in a The prices which they set out in their lists difficulty at present, but he did not doubt were purely fetitious. He did not know that some means could be found of solving on whose authority they were published.

the problem. He thought that H hawkers INFERIOR STUFF..

were allowed to sell meat, it would be a very good scheme.

in rice...

PAPER MONEY

This is not the fault of co-operation but rather because co-operation was not wisely conducted

Deploring that the good intention of our late leader (Dr. Sun) for co-opera- tion might be thus frustrated, and the centralizations of the revolutionary

To Aleverage the depreciation of the forces might be thus split, we therefore Konmintang Central Bank notes in Can make the following proposals for the im- for a certain commodity at the price set If anyone went to the market and asked: tos and vicinity, orders have been given provement of Party conditions. Then out in the list, they were promptly re to the Polioc to arrest all persons un Chiang Kai Shek, which have alredy ap stuff."

follows the proposals made by General fased, or else they were given very interios willing to accept the paper money at par.peared in the Daily Press.""

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strike bawkers did not get their pork The PRESIDENT said that during the from the slaughter houses, Pigs were then killed all over the Colony. It was permitted because people had to be fed

The discussion then closed.

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