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STRIKE PICKETS. - THEIR ACTIVITES CURTAILED.

MR. EUGENE CHEN'S RECOM

MENDATION.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 19THL

TRUE TALE OF HONGKONG. THE TRAGEDY OF RENNIE'S MILLS. AN AMAZING PERSONALITY,

(Contributed.)

SUMMARY COURT. CHINESE WHO VOLUNTEERED TO PAY CLUB DEBTS.

LIFE AT HOME OR IN THE. FAR EAST.

WHICH IS PREFERABLE?

DEBATE AT THE YMCA. Before Mr. Justice Wood at the Sum- mary Court recently, a member of a

The members of the Y.M.C.A., Kow. Chinese club claimed from 12 other mem-loon, seriously debated on Thursday eveni ters, $987.94, which he had paid in reing the question whether life East of Hongkong from Canton yesterday was her the a.. Pingching-was coming into spect of the joint debts of the defendants Suez is preferable to that at Home,

The quantity of poultry brought to

4.4

of

in

larger than it has been on any day for many months past. There" was also exceptionally heavy consignment vegetables. This, of course, is not, itself, sufficient proof that the boycott is being lifted, but it appears to bear out the information coming from Canton that the Strike pickets are curtailing their

We

The old China conster-we will call

Hongkong harbour, in a fairly calm sea. and himself. Most of the money had been paid for the rent of the Club. Writa had, We were a couple of days late. had come down from the North and had however, only been served on the first struck a typhoon just off Swätow. We defendant, who was represented by Mr. lay under the shelter of na island for W. B. Hind. Mr. L. R. Andrewes was 30 hours while the devils whistled out for the plaintiff. on the deck and the bluish tinted St. Elmo's eletric fires clung around the hest heads. It was a terrifying experi- ence to a sadamen like myself, but the old skipper had constantly recommanded short gins as best method of insurance.

All that was a thing of the past as we entered Hongkong harbour-except The chief officer, the Our Chinese correspondent writes that the short gina.

chief engineer, the other passenger and Mr. Eugene Chen is said to have express-myself were sitting out on desk celebrat ed his approval of loosening the restric-ing the end, of the journey,

activities.

tions on Canton-Hongkong traße by the Canton Strike Committee. On June 7th some of the Strike patrois attempted to use force to prevent fish junks from taking their cargo to the Fatahan. The matter was brought to the notice of Mr. Chen and he took up the attitude as stated.

SUMMARY EXECUTION.

To prevent further highway robberies the Chief of Police in Canton announces

It was the Chief Engineer who said There's Rennie's Mills. Wonder will they over make any use of that place 7"

Now it so happened that I had often heard tell of Reanie but there was no really connected story that came to my mind. So, knowing that at about this hour of the day8.30, p..the old Chief was always good for a yarn, I said dad who was Rennie?"

That did the trick. The old Chief took his pipe out of his mouth, lifted his glass, took a gulp and commenced.

"He

wonderful chap, was Rennie. He built those mills and a

a 15

In delivering judgmen: yesterday, Mr. Justice Wood said that plaintiff claimed to have paid the rent in respect of tho club premises. A distress was levied by the landlord, and in order to obtain the release of the Club property, plaintiff himself paid the amount claimed. In so

A motion that life in the East is

mind.

preferable to that at Home, was pro- posed by Mr. W. L. Walker. After full discussion it was rejected--but only by the narrow margin of two votes. The voting was 20 for and 29 against. Several members, however, could not make up their minds to vote either way.

Mr. WALKER emphasised the monetary advantages which life in the East gave to many. He also argued that conditions were easier and there was more leisure. doing His Lordship found that plaintif He suggested that life in the hear was a volunteer and was not acting under atmosphere of the East broadened the any obligation, nor as an authorized agent

Mr. E R. PRICE asked his audience to for the Club. His status was therefore as consider whether conditions of ease" an ordinary creditor of the Club, and as such he might recover against the Club, were better in the long run than the conditions of keen competition at Home but not against any individual member.

Judgment with costs was therefore which tended to keep one mentally alert and to increase one's chances of rising given to the defendant.

to a good position when opportunity arose. He thought that the opportunities of rising to tigh positions were greater at Home than in the limited sphere of the East. He also dwelt upon the few opportunities proved for amusement and relaxation in Hongkong, compared with the unlimited opportunities in England. Mr. W. J. KEATES seconded Mr. Walker's motion, and Mr. H. BUXTON supported Mr. Price.

Mr. Andrewes asked that the judgment be reviewed, and His Lordship intimated that he would do so it Mr. Andrewes could state a case.

CONSTABLE DESERTS.

ARRESTED IN MACAO.

Before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, a Shan-

that he is considering bringing into force house on the Peak that had a swimming tung constable pleaded guilty to having eluded Messrs. P. D. Wilson, Willes,

again the law permitting the summary execution of all such robbers captured.

CHAIRMAN OF KUOMINTANG, Mr. Chang Ching Kiang, the acting Chairman of the Kuomintang, Las, it is said, expressed a desire to resign because of the unpleasant duty placed upon him by General Chiang Kai Shek - According

to report Generaf Chiang has requested Mr. Chang Ching Kiang to see that Mr. Sun Fo does not leave Canton without

the General's knowledge.

KWANGTUNG UNIVERSITY. The Kuomintang is inviting Mr. Tai Tien Chau, a returned student" from Japan, to become the President of Kwang. tung University when the schools, begin their new sessions..

The students of Kwong Wah Medical

College of Canton have gone on strike because of the failure of the Board of Directors of the College to dismiss the dean and other professors of the institu- tion whom the students opposed.

GAMBLING MONOPOLY. The Kuomintang will grant a gambling monopoly for the north section of Canton City for 88,500 a day as contribution to the war chest, and a daily gift of 81,000 to the upper and $500 to the lower off cials granting the privilege. The. Strike Committee will receive $30,000 as com pensation for vacating the fantan houses now being used as strikers lodgings.

come."

deserted, from the police force.

bath in it. They picked up his body

Mr. D. Burlingham, D.S.P., whe leastways his houseboy fished out his body-from Hongkong harbour. He was prosecuted, asked for a sentence of in- just like a meteor; one of the nine day prisonment without the option of a 50. wonders of Hongkong when the end The police, regarded the case as very serious in view of the fact that there The ship's boy came along and carried had been dre desertions from the Force away the empty glasses. The other pasuring the last month

In reply to the Magistrate, Mr. senger sail" He had a hundred different; suits of clothes had Rennie. Everything Burlingham said that the defendant had of the best.”

gone to Mago, and had been arrested

I signed the chit as the boy handed with the assistance of the Macho The old authorities.

round the tongue-loaseners, chief west on with his story.

"He was a clever feller, but he had hard juck He came out here to some job in the P.W.D., but that was no job

inan with his ideas. for a

He had made up his mind to do big things.

Hearted off with some sort of flour" agnicy and, as he was a worker, he very soon was making pots of money. Fellers like that are never satisfed."

The old Chief paused as if to assure us that, for all his grousings during the early part of the day, he was satised with his lot.

"He got the idea that it was better to import wheat than four. He argued that you could feed pigs on the husks and that you could always sell ham and bacon and pork in South China."

knack & making other people believe in him."

Sentence of six months' hard labour was imposed.

STABBING AFFRAY IN

SHANGHAI.

Others taking part in the debate in-

Petrie, H. J. Fountain, G. J. Harman, Ingram and H. G. Swinburne.

At the close of the discussion, the Rev. J. HORACE JOHNSTON complimented the speakers and said they had come through their ordeal with dying colours. object of the society was not to limit discussion to those experienced in public!

The

speaking but to give the members the opportunity for zelf expression

FORTUNE GIVEN AWAY. CHINESE GENEROSITY.

Y.MC.A. BENEFITS.

In view of the present effort of the to raise Shanghai Chinese Y.M.C.A

Ta. 160,000 for a new building in the AMERICAN FIREMAN WOUNDED.French Concession the following should

FELLOW SEAMAN ARRESTED.

Another affray in which American bluejackets were concerned occurred on Sunday evening when E. A. Maxwell, fireman on board the U.S.9. Huron, was stabbed by J. R. Ezli, another fireman from the same vessel.

be read with interest and may serve as an example to others, says the N.-C. Daily News-

All that I have belongs to society," said Mr. Lin Tae Ru, agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Co. for the whole of Szechuan, as he signed a deed transferring his property, worth $133,000,

ONLY $3 CASH

It appears that Maxwell arrived atto a board of trustees representing the Hongker Police station in a public local Chinese Independent Church, the ricsho, bleeding profusely from stab Changkiang Orphanage and the Young Now it says a lot for Rennie that, wounds in the chest and the right hand. Men's Christian Association. The pro- in spite of his rather humble beginnings He reported that he had been in aperty and Mr. Liu's business will be in Hongkong, he got the care of the big Japanese masseur's shop in Jukorg managed by this board and the yearly finance men. Mind you, be believed in his schemes. What was more he had the load, when a quarrel arose during the income will be divided among the three

course of which he was stabbed by a fel-organizations" low fireman named Ball.

Ball is alleged to have drawn a knife The other passenger, who was an agent and attacked Maxwell. The police took for a big firm of chemists in England up the case and sent Maxwell to the said "You can sell anything from a gold General Hospital, where he is being de brick to a company prospectus if only tained Bull was arrested by a naval you can get the big fasacial birds to patrol and taken on board the Huron, where he will be charged before a court believe in you?”

The old Chief. looked annoyed.

martial with the offence.. didn't like being interrupted and be Since the establishment of the oil didn't like the words company pro- monopoly in Kwangtung, fuel oil prices spectus". Some of us knew that he had a good business for 'em, but they weren't have risen 360 per cent., making the cost been caught that way and had leat some going to lose it without a struggle. In 8158 a ton in the Chao-Mei districts, of his savings in a Rotation scheme that the end they won." failed in Hongkong.

The other passenger said "Yes, Poor "Well," he said, "I wasn't big Chap. His houseboy fished out his dead There was the enough fish, for Rennie, but he booked body from the water. some of the big ones" He told us the inquest and the truth all came out. The We all make mills were shut down, the machinery mistakes, but we don't like to be remind-bold-some of it, they say, is in use in

Macao. A lot of money was lost."

The silent Chief Officer said "The high financiers never forgave him."

names of some of them.

He

a result, launches have been able to óperate only, at great cost, and lately many ferry launches have stopped run ning altogether Similar, complaints, are continually being received from othered of them. places. The Kuomintang have replaced the monopoly by a system of sales licences in expensive machinery, electric light, ice-making-goodness knows what he and stamp duties, but this represents a didn't buy. He worked like a slave. He change in name caly and does not hold used to say that he never saw his house out any prospect of a reduction in prices.

WAR REPORTS.

The Kuomintang claim that their troops. in Hazan have regained control of Yung.

feng and that the Northern forces are retreating after having suffered great loss. Reports from other sources announce

that the Kuomintang forces in Shao-an, Kwangtung-Fukien border, are being sur- rounded on all sides.

"He built those great mills and he put

on the Peak in daylight. He was away befor the sun was up and he never got

back until it was dark"

The silent Chief Officer said met him once, I liked the man."

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"only'

So did they all while he had the money," said the Chief, Engineer. He went on with the story.

♫

Well, the pigs began to die and the price of imported flour began 'to fall

and fall." The people over in America had been watching Rennie. He built up (Continued on next Colúmn).

"He was too much of an optimist," said the other passenger.

A fair weather" friends." said the Chief Engineer.

"Except the house-boy," I ventured to siiggest.

"You're right there," said the Chief Engineer with much vigour. "He'd have given his life to have saved his mästar,"

"That was the silver streak in the bank of black clouds. The man was a hero That speaks volumes for to his valet.

his memory.

As you pass in and out of the harbour on liners, coasters or launch pienice, if you talk about the empty mills in Junk Bay, remember that the builder was hero to kia valet.

Mr. Liu's ancestors for several genera- tions were farmers. His father became salt merchant but later sold all his property and, travelled about, teaching and preaching a native religion. Or phaned at the age of 18 Mr. Liu went to Chungking to make his fortune.' He had just 62 brass cash (less than six cop- per cents) in his pocket. After trying many things, including wood-carving, printing, soap selling," book-shop and newspaper work and, after failing in times in business, he at last got on to his feet at the age of 30 as agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Co..

For 32 years Mr. Liu bas abided by his decision to be a Christian, made at the age of 24. He is a leader in the local Chinese Independent Church, which, re- fusing foreign funds, now owns its own land and buildinga. This is one of the few churches in far-off Szechuan which is self-supporting,

GIVES HIS ALL,

After a trip around the world in 1924, Mr. Liu resolved to give all his property to the organizations in Chungking as he felt this would be of the largest ser- více to society.

Mr. Liu was one of the leading men in the organization of the YM.C.A. in Chungking three years ago and has been president since its establishment. Ee is a leader in the business circles of Chung- king, where his example may be an in- spiration to other wealthy business men to endow such work as these organiza tions are doing.

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