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THE LIGHTER SIDE OF THE
STRIKE.
WHEN LONDON ROSE TO DEFEAT INTIMIDATION.
A SHANGHAI GIRL'S EXPERIENCES.
The following exceedingly graphic account of what the Great Strike weens to the average Indaner is taken from a girl student's letter to her father in Shanghai.
London is in a state of intense excite ment, for the "grest strike" is ON! will begin at the beginning and try to give you some idea of the state of affairs hare. Ep till the last moment, of course, everyone hoped for a settlement. Against every wall were posters with the latest bulletins. Miners' leaders meet at Downing Street"; "Hope for Peace," etc, etc., but the Government wouldn't yield, and the strike commenced at mid- sight on Monday, May 3rd. On Sunday Marian and "queued up" outside St. Martin's in the Field and managed to get i in after about a quarter of an hour's wait The church was packed, and the service was most impressive-all, of course, dealing with prayers and hopes for industrial pence. The service ended by the whole congregation singing "Our God our help in ages past.””
A
FOOD AND MILK CENTRE.
As we came out of the church a motor loud of Fascists, in their black shirts," with a large Union Jack, passed by. On Monday, as it was a lovely day, we went out early, planning to get out of the bus at lyde Park Corner and walk through the Park. We found, however, that the Park gates were locked, police men were on guard, and tents and huts were being erected. The Park is now a "food and milk" centre, and the public
are not admitted. On Tuesday morning two girls (Dutch) were leaving here and returning to Holland. They have been here on a short holiday. The busrpen, of course, were pil forced to strike, as were
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HONGKONG SPRING.
When comes the rain The island long has sought, We count the gain- Which in her train The April showers breught.
Here sweetly glows
Azalia's tumbling blush In still repose,
Lost breathing blows
Away her fragrance-hush ! -
Sweet violets bring
Home woodlands 'over' near- Where thrushes sing; And everything Familiar and dear,
The failed lawn Renews it's lease on life- | And shrubberies shorn
Of leaf-reborn- The will to live is rife.
And comes the rise Which England calls in June- And on tip-toes The sweet pea knows That summer's coming, sooo-
. C. II. S.
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There were large attendances at the Queen's Theatre yesterday to see the alm Barbara Frietchie," which is based upon a story woven around the well known poem by Whittier on the trouble between North and South America.
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| ALLEGED "MAKING OF CANNON, CHINESE ENGINEERS CHARGED
BRITISH FREEDOM.
THE ÄTTACK ON THE LIBERTY
OF THE PRESS.
"DAILY MAIL'S" REPLY..
As will be remembered, the printers, before the General Strike was declared, endeavoured to prevent the publication of the Daily Mail because they disagreed with the views expressed in an editorial article. The paper deals with the sub-
AT KOWLOON.
Parts of what are stated to be cannons lays in the precincts of the Kowloon, Magistracy yesterday afternoon, when Lai Tak, the master of the Tia Lee engineering shop, at No. 359, Rertama Flarence Vidor and Edmund Lowe, re- sion Street, Mongkok, was charged with present the principal characters, Florence possession of six dismantled cannon and Vidor appearing in the title role. This spare parts. The prosecution also alleged ject in a short article entitled British picture will be shown again at all per- that the guns were made at his shop. formances to-day.
From to-morrow until Saturday, the principal attraction will be a comedy by Paramount entitled "The Night Club," which stars Raymond Griffith.
STAR THEATRE.
At the Star Theatre, a First National
tubes, etc., so the Ave girls (including picture, Serenade," was shown ister. myself) all shared the Dutch girls taxi day. This film was given at the World to Hyde Park Cornar-seven girls inside Theatre last week and is being produced one taxi The motor traffic is tremend in Kowloon by request.
A SERIOUS. CASE."
Freedom. It writes:
"A newspaper in the United States has Inspector Pincett said that the charge said of the attack on British liberty which was originally made under Section 4 of was dictated by a small knot of conspira the Arms Ordinance and the Emergency tors on Sunday evening (when they at- Regulations, which provides for the trial tempted to interfere with the expression offender by two magistrates. of opinion in newspapers), 'It is an act Since then the Captain Superintendent without precedent and parallel in the of Police had been in communication with history of a vigorous freedom-loving
Western nation,' the Attorney-General, and the latter was
"It says further that the whole world-
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ous you car. be in a traffic block for half A notable success of last year" is of opinion, that the Emergency Regulis looking to England to meet this attack
an hour without moving. The taxis are not "out" and are doing a roaring trade, but there are thousands who can't
afford a taxi, and these were all walking, We got out at Hyde Park corner, and spent ages trying to cross. it.
People, starring Rudolph Schildkraut will be the big attraction on the pro- grammo from to-morrow until Saturday.
in a proper way.
"That attack will be met and defeat.
tiens only applied to arms which could be used in the "Colony. As it was obvious that the cannon were not intended. And as the secret committes which ed for use in the Colony, the C.S.P. dictated this attempt to suppress free- thought that the case was not sufficiently dom of expression in the home of liberty serious to ask for defendant's committal appeared most to fear the undying appeal and desired that he should be dealt with which the greatest of English poets and thinkers makes to the English mind, so to-day once more we quote from William Wordsworth:
The Inspector then spoke of fading the cannon in defendant's shop and timber yard. When charged defendant had said he was making machines for getting oil from. pea-nuts.
· His Worship: referring to the question of dealing summarily with defendant, said that if the whole case turned on intricate questions of fact, and a jury might be better able to deal with it.
Mr. Somerset-Fitzroy, who defended,
'Tis well! From this day forward. "we shall know, *.
That in ourselves our safely muit be, sought:
That by our own right"hands it must be wrought,
That we must stand unpropped or he laid law,
, dastard, whom such foretaste doth not cheer!
ANYTHING WITH WHEELS.
for the Square which is quite near South Molton Street. It seems that at 1 p.m. No one has seen anything like the the Government appealed' (over the won- traffic there charabanca, lorries, cars, derful wireless) for private owners to summarily. As the Hongkong Govern motor bikes. push bikes, anything with lend their cars, and to bave them atment had nothing to do with the various wheels, and thousands of foot paasen certain given places from p.m. on factions in China, the offence,, if proved, gors. As we were very early we walked warda. The response was splendid. The down
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Piccadilly Circus cars stretched half round the Square and
merited the maximum penalty, imprison- Everyone is amazingly cheerful,, seeing three men were in charge with note-
ment and a fine. the funny side of it all-but I don't | books. know how long that state of mind will We told them where we wanted to go last. The printers refuse to print any and were able to say that we had been thing anti-strike so there are no
at business all day-that was the con- propèr newspapers. They are selling dition. We had to wait some time there, small typewritten sheets, which people but eventually a gentleman came up, are asked to share. The Government gave his name and address to one of the have taken over the broadcasting stamen in charge and tock Marian and me tions Only about a third of the Trian and a girl, who had been teaching all gle College people turned up and vary day at a school near by, off in his car little, work is done, everyone is too ex- cited..
a topping little car. We three sat in the back, so a sent was left empty beside Soon after p.m. yesterday Marian him. Marian held up abage notice and I started home and got here at about "Passengers taken to Kingston," and 5.20 p.m., a long walk over crowded we went off down Oxford Street. At said he, had no objection to defendant pavements all the way. There are a few Marble Arch a man jumped on to the independent buses, run by voluntary running board and asked the driver if being tried summarily. workers, but it is quite impossible to get the front seat and we took the notice he could take him on. So he hopped into en them, they are so packed with people, and the Triangle is not near a starting down. The little teacher wanted to ge point where there might be a chance. Of to Hammersmith, which was rather outed by the prosecution, said that on May present the same spirit of all the ages course that was the first day of the of our way-but still it was all in the
8th be visited the Yauzati Police Station, of our history. We must be worthy of strike and everything was higgledy day's fun!" piggledy," but the Government are
and was shown a jointed gun. It was the past. We must be faithful to the gradually getting things in hand-there" MORE FRIENDS IN NEED.
itted with a breach holder, a screw, & dead who died in the war that England We had to go through Shepherd's Bush carrier and a lever of similar pattern to might be free. where the people lined the streets and
And we must be free... lorry loads of police were arriving. At an 18 pound service gun. There was no whether from the despotism of alien Hammersmith we got out and the last fire mechanism. For firing purposes the tyrants or from the rule of secret com- we saw of our exceedingly kind and gun was fitted with a radical bent. By mittees who have usurped authority and polite friend he was alling up his car
challenged the just and lawful Govern- meat."
are thousands of voluntary workers, a few trains are running, a few buses and everything is being organized." (The Dutch girls, by the way, were not able to leave London and are hack here).
CADGING A LIFT,
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"To the people of England and to their earnest and strenuous efforts is commit. ted the defeat of this assault which has been delivered on the citadel of freedom' by what. Mr. Baldwin describes "truly us an "alternative government," and which in his sober and restrained words has brought the nation to the verge of civil war, or indeed has actually declared civil Major A. R. Stanford, R.A.O.C., call war. With this generation of to-day is
EXPERT EVIDENCE.
The life of a gun depended on the. amount of charge used. With these guns a three and a half pound ball would be used. Such a gun might last about 2,000 to "3,000 rounds.
EXTRACTS FROM ORDER BOOK. Inspector Pincott said that on May 7th he went with a party of police to the Defendant came forward as the master. Tin Lee Engineering Shop at Mongkok. On being challenged with manufacturing. cannon, he said they were machines to. extract oil, from pea-nuts.
Replying to Mr. Fitzroy, the Inspector timber yard was partly covered with said that one of the guns found in a
with more stranded folk! A policeman means of this the gun could be fired. Now, for what happened to-day. We directed us to the road for Earl's Court Witness also visited a workshop at had had quite enough of a walk yester-Road, and we pushed our way, through Mongkok and saw similar guns in process day, so decided to try to "cadge "a lift the crowds and get on to quieter of manufacture. to-day. Everybody is doing it! Mar stretch of road, keeping our eyes open garet got a lift in a private car yester for empty cars. Soon a lovely limousine Inspector Pincott informed His Wor- day. The Government, over the wireless, came along with just a chauffeur in. He ship that the pieces were not brought to asked all owners of private cars who stopped. How far are you going?'
Court. He said there were six guns. were willing, to put up a notice on their Earl's Court Road, please." "Right windscreen, "Please signal if you deaire O, hop in," so we rode in style for a Continuing, Major Stanford said that a lift." So this morning Marian, Mar- good way!
at the workshop there were two large. garet and I started off on the tramp." We left the good man at Earls Court lathes suitable for the making of guns. We turned and smiled sweetly at every Road and walked some distance along In another part of the shop he saw a car that passed, but no good, until, after it and having only about 10 minutes we had walked for about 10 minutes or walk we still did not refuse when a jolly completed breach end, and another in quarter of an hour, to our surprise an little car with a lady and gentleman in the process of being made. He also saw enormous lorry slowed up and the man it stopped and offered us a lift and they four completed trunnion bands, and some sitting by the driver shouted "Going took us to the top of this road-and we our way!" Marian called out "Yes," kot in, safe and sound, at 5.20 p.m. My so they stopped and said they were going Some day! The latest thing announced to Piccadilly. That suited us fine, 30 few moments age is that the electric Marian hopped in by the driver, Marlight men have struck, so Miss Fitch has garet sat on her knee and then came the gone out to buy candies. other man, so I vat half on him, and half on Margaret! It really was awfully
A WONDERFUL SPIRIT.
On being handed a plan, witness said amusing. The lorry belonged to a brewery
that the Chinese characters written on and was full of barrels of beer,
The whole thing is of course terribly
it were translated by one of the police The men were quite nice, gave us their so fine through it all. Everyone is help serious, but the spirit of the people is
interpreters as water-power oil crush- Or being shown a drawing, he said that ing machine." The plan was hanging up opinions on the strike, said they were ing and carrying on." Boon every it was a rough sketch of a gun similar the office. "Defendant helped the police glad they were not driving buses, etc., thing will be run by voluntary workers to the big gun. Another sketch was in their investigations, but did not point and set us down at Bond Street. taking and perhaps in a little while the strikere similar to that of a gun carriage. Wit-out the small gun nor the elevating gear. Margaret to Russell Square We each or the Government will "eave in andness thought that the guns were in two Defendant handed over an order book. gave them fd. How's that for an they will come to some settlement. So pieces so as to facilitate transportation.extracts from which had been translated, experience T
rauch for that! A new adventure to- Replying to Mr. Fitzroy witness said These extracts were to the effect that FREE RIDES FOR BUSINESS FOLK morrow. There is no knowing when you that by putting a piece of fuse down two men had ordered four sets of water- About half past three Misa Thompson it over to Siberis. However, when you He was of opinion that the guns were paid as order money. When the defend- will get this as it may be difficult to get the touch hole the gun could be fired. pumping oil pressing machines at a cost of $1,200. Of this amount, $320 had been came in to tell us that she had received get it everything will be over-and don't strong enough to stand high explosives a telephone messago saying that there worry!! There is a good deal of excite
ant was asked where these men were, was to be a fleet of cars in Grosvenor ment-but no need for anxiety. Electric
Questioned in regard to the shafts be he had stated that they were in Macan Square after 4 p.m. to take people home light still on, so am taking advantage saw, he agreed that they might be old but did not know their address.
so at 4 p.m. Marian and I made tracks of it to write this long screed-W-0. propellor shafts.
At this stage the case was adjourned 4 (Continued on next Oolumn).
until this afternoon.
Daily News.
steel shafts, suitable for the manufacture of several more similar guns. visited the house next door, and there He then
saw two more completed portions of guns, and a pattern. Describing another gun, he had seen, witness said that it was fitted with an elevating gear.
(Continued on next Column).
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