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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH, 1926.

LIKIN CHARGES TO BE A GRAND OLD MAN.

REDUCED.

BETTER PROSPECTS FOR CANTON INLAND TRADE.

RESPECT FOR MEMORY OF LATE DR SUN YAT SEN.

SILK SHIPMENTS.

GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH IN

HONG KONG

THE INFLUENCE OF THE SALVATION ARMY.

CHINESE MERCHANTS"

APPRECIATION.

RECOGNITION OF "SUNNING

OFFICERS GALLANTRY.

FUND OPENED.

SHANGHAI MERCHANTS TO BE ASKED TO CO-OPERATE.

A TALK WITH PRESSMEN.

General W. Bramwell Booth, Com- mander-in-Chief of the International Salvation Army, who is making his

At the meeting of the Chinese Chamber second tour around the world arrived Chamber of Commerce yesterday after The Lungthen brought down over a

in Hong Kong yesterday by the sis. noon it was unanimously decided to hundred passengers from Canton yester Devanah. He was accompanied by his recognise in some tangible way the day and a large supply of vegetables eldest son, Brigadier Bernard Booth, gallantry displayed by the officers of the The Tung On had between 800 and 500 Commissioner John Cunningham, secre- Sunning during the recent attack passengers and nearly 200 tons of general tary for the East (acting on this occupon the vessel by pirates.

It was suggested that a fund should be cargo. There is a fair amount of freight sion), Brigadier J. Evan Smith, private.

secretary, and Capt. A. J. Gilliard, who opened. This was immediately agreed now offering in Canton and the Japanese represents all Salvation Army periodicals to. All the Hong Kong Chinese mer- and Norwegian steamers are bringing | throughout the world.

chants expressed their willingness to con- tribute materially and an invitation is Iair quantities. Within the past fortnight

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He was met by Mr. D. O. do Siva and

A NOTORIOUS BURGLAR.

CHINESE DOCTOR COMMENDED.

SENTENCE OF NINE MONTHS.

The solicitors' table

* Major C Willson's Court, in the Central Magis- tracy yesterday, was covered with gold cigarotte cases, bracelets, rings, ear- rings, and articles of clothing. In the dock was an unemployed Chinese, con- cerned in the theft of the arhibited pro- perty. Most of the articles were stolen in the recent burglaries on the Feak and the Mid-Levels.

perty were present in Court. Prisoner Several ladies who claimed the pro- admitted six of the nine charges pro- ferred against him. other three charges he said he had only In regard to the stolen a portion of the property stated

to have been taken.

trate, said that practically all the stolen Sergh Carey, replying to the Magis

the Tung On has brought down 800 bales escorted to the Hong Kong Hotel, where also being extended to the Chinese Cham- property had been recovered.

of silk for re-shipment abroad.

Our Chinese corresponden writes: There seems some chance now that the inland trade from Canton will revive, because it is understood there is to be a return to the former likiz charges at any rate for, the time being. Merchants

and shippers have been protesting atrongly against the exorbitant rates levied reeeatly and freight junks have refused to carry taxable oxigo. Finally, the Inland Shipping Guild took up the matter with the Kuomintang and intim- ated that all traffic would be suspended.

Their argument was that the new rates, if insisted thon, would kill trade. "Ap parently they have won the day.

The Late Dr. Sun Yet Sen. At every cinema the photograph of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen is shown upon the screen at the beginning of each perform ance, and persons failing to stand as a mark of respect will henceforth be

he is staying. Later, he was visited byber of Commerce, as a corporate body, to Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., and in the co-operate. afternoon went for a motor car ride around the island.

Fine Personality.

In the evening he gare an audience to a party of Pressmen, and spoke to them for about half-an-hour.

The first thing one notices in this "grand old man" is a warm and en- dearing personality. He is aid, and his looks do not, belie his age, which is seventy-one. His face is furrowed and pensive. But he is still vigorous, force- ful in his speech, and fall of spirit.

Japan and Korea,

Early Morning Struggio. Sergt. Carey said that early on the The subject was introduced for discus-morning of November 13th Dr. Y. S. sion by in lotter to the Chamber from Mr. Wao, of St. Paul's Hostel, found accused Ho lu. Mr. Ho eulogised the conduct of on his premises and following a struggle the Sunning officers and expressed the overpowered him. opinion that their gallantry should not quantity of jewellery belonging to Dr. When searched a be allowed to pass without some solid re- Wan and Mrs. Beecher, the treasurer of cognition. He thought the merchants at St. Paul's Hostel, was found on his per- Shanghai, who had so much at stake, son. would wish to co-operate.

Next day prisoner took witness to the Mr. Ho held the view that the heroism Pumping Station in Garden Road, where of the Sensing officers, in fighting as he had been fiv g for some time. Some they did against such overwhelming odds, jewellery, stolen from the residence of had dealt a staggering blow to the ao Mr. Georgo Grimble was found concealed tivies of the pirates and he considered in a pair of white boots. Prisoner then that the commercial community, who took the Police to a small retaining wall would ultimately reap the benefit, should in the garden and pulled out a brick be. mark their appreciation of the bravery hind which was found more property and

He thought that their gratitude ten pawn tickets. was also due to the officers and men of

He spoke of his visits to Japan and Korea, and said that he had found that the Salvation Army had thers become really of the soil. He was amazed at shown. the influence it had acquired, and he was certain that its permanence was estab- lished in those countries. The original sap of a thing.

was the same everywhere, he added, and it was possible to have it adapted in different places. Whether in Lapland or Uganda, in the East or in the big cities of Germany, the Salvation Army Had been taken there and carried on with the same motive, with the same

ving, vital force, imposing itself in different ways, but with the same har- mony of thought and feeling.

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punished, according to an order of the Police issued at the instance of the local Kuomintang Executive Committed. It has been found that many persons, in-

A World Movement." The Salvation Army was giving evi cluding members of the Kuomintang dence of being really a world movement, Party, have not been paying much atten- not only because it proclaimed as its tion to the daily ceremony and, according chief purpose the World Saviour, but also to complaints heard, the women have because it was in touch with the deepest things in human life. Of course it was a been principal offenders, some talking new movement; 50 years was nothing in and continuing to bite water-melon seeds, the life of such a movement. It was a when the late Dr. Sun's picture has been new life born into the Work, a new spirit shown. To enforce the new order of human experience. It was quite true policeman will be on duty before each that the Salvation Arary was of Anglo Saxon origin. He considered that the performance and will stand before the Anglo-Saxons had raised more leaders screen facing the audience. "At his word, in the moral sphere than any other race everybody—"Red" or "anti-Red —will for nearly 2,000 years. But it seemed to him that the Army went back further, and its original note was sounded by Christ himself.

have to rise.

General Li Lich Chus, the former Tatuh or Military Governor of Kiangai,

"Not Respectabls." who recently returned to Canton at the We do feel, and we do claim," he invitation of the Kuomintang to assume

continued, "that our movement is a manifestation of practical Christianity, the post of officer commanding the troops Nobody can accuse Jesus Christ of being in Kiangel, is still postponing his depar-respectable. He consorted with the When General Li was invited to most unhappy sections of life in which he Canton, it was understood that General moved. No-one will accuse Him of being He was possessed Chiang Kai Shek was indisposed and the of the emotional idea, and his teachings success of the Kuomintang in Kiangsi were saturated with the tenderest and was regarded as doubtful. Now the most buman emotionalism Nobody will

ture.

merely intellectual

the British gunboats for their ready as sistance at. ali time in making the coast of China safe for shipping and thereby making trade possible.

The appeal was promptly seconded by Mr. Li Yau Ts, Chairman of the Chamber, and the details, as given above, were quickly settled.

Work in Europe. Continuing, General Booth said that he was then going to Europe to carry on the work begun in the big cities, where beggars had increased enormously since the War. Last year in Paris he opened a place to lodge about 1,000 men and from 500 to 800 women; in Berlin a place for over 400 men and over 600 women and also a similar institution in Rome. The same thing was being done id Copen- Money was needed. In London, he had hagen, Oslo, Stockholm and other places. opened night homes, and got men under cover without pauperising them."

he said he was amazed at the number of Referring again to his visit to Japan converts who had abandoned their old

faiths.

Carey said that the question of defendant Replying to the Magistrate, Sergt. having lived in Government Quarters was being dealt with departmentally.

except that he was formerly employed at Nothing was known about the prisoner the Waterworks, but had been dismissed for riding a bicycle when he should have been on duty.

Prisoner was sentenced to nine months' hard labour:

The Magistrate commended Dr. Wan for his conduct. He also ordered that a watch which had been pawned should be returned to its owner.

CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

SEVERE CRITICISM OF CHINESE SEARCHERS.

At the monthly meeting of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce held

was made of the practice, declared to be yesterday afternoon, outspoken complaint prevalent, of extorting bribes from Future of the Army.

shipa' passengers by Chinese searchers. to the future of the Salvation Army. Its which it was suggested that representa-

General Booth was sanguine in regard

A letter from a member was read ja greatest need was men, real leaders.

tion abould be made to That was why no work was being done in

the Captain Hong Kong and Shanghai-they hadn't Superintendent of Police, The latter the men. About 2,000 men were trained stated that in order to get some "tes annually. In fact they had 5,000 ap money," the searchers harass the passen- plicants last year, and it was certainly such enthusiasm amongst their own searching the luggage of a passenger, very hopeful for the future as there was gers in a most systematic way. After people. Truly, an ofcer's life was a poor they would allow him to embark, and and melancholy, affair, spending his life when he is on the steamer, they would as he did amongst the miserable and ask him to take part of his effects to the. broken. It was a gloomy business. But wharf again and there subunit to another that enthusiasm was significant of a search. A passenger, it was stated, can- future of advance.

not attend to a portion of his belongings left behind on the steamer and also the second search, and by this practice accompany the searchers to the wharf for much property had been lost.

"I Am Poo1."

tion Army raised most of the money used A promising factor was that the Salva in keeping up, its vast organisation.

year they had spent £340,000. they were spending about £80,000. This

situation is entirely in favour of thecuse Him of being a mere theoriser Twelve years ago when his father died should be asked to. formulate a new zo-

Not only is His teaching very beautiful Kuomintang and as General Chiang is and full of wisdom and of the highest practically the dictator General Li has to wait further instructions. Before his return to Canton General Li was a mem-

ber of the staff of the Christian General

protest by the workmen

Following

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philosophy, but it was also practical"

General Booth went on to illustrate, Christ's admonishments, in regard to the needy. It was on those lines that the Salvation Army was working.

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The letter suggested that the C.S.P gulation that, once luggage has been Eighty per cent. of our revenue," he searched, a mark should be made, and continued, is raised by ourselves. The marked luggage be looked at again It then under no circumstances could the finding of the other 20 per cent. is a big problem. I am poor, very poor. I have was also stated by another member that no money which is not car-marked. I be had known cases where searchers have been very cordially naked to come who suffered most from this malpractice. weal to batels to collect bribes. Those to Hong Kong. To get going in Hong were asid to be returned emigrants from Kong would cost a lot of money, £1,000, Australia perhaps £10,000. The first step in Hong

Mr. M K. Lo, said that if such sug-

the Canton Municipal Commission has being respectable-at any rate, not very hong would be to get the money. But gestions were to be made to the C.S.P

The Salvation Army was not accused of

decided to postpone its investigation much They certainly were neither intel- into the condition of the plant of the lectuada nor thecrisers. They strove as true disciples of Christ, and made it their Canton Water Works. It is feared by boast that they had set themselves up by the workmen that an investigation would the test of their own sincerity by chang provide excuses for the introduction of ing bad character into good. réfqums, and new men into the service,,

To Visit the Lapers.

thus compelling some of the present staff. He was going, he said, from Hong Kong to resign. At the Municipal Commission to Sumatra to look into the Salvation is unable to face a atrika on the part of Army's Leper Colony there, with a view the water works' labour union, the pro- to its extension. He would find exactly poted reforms have to be delayed.

the same spirit there, amidst that human Rice Shipments.

anguish and desolation and there was The shipment of rice from Saigon and nothing, he added with emotion, nothing mere pathetic and hopeless than the life other ports to Canton, which was of a leper. He was going afterwards to pended for a time owing to difficulties Colombo, and he would find the same with the Lightermen's Union in Canton spirit there. They had taken care of al

the beggars of Colombo-there were no is being resumed, as an understanding more beggars there, and it was formerly has been reached regarding wages and a beggar infeated city.

other conditions of 'service:

(Continued on next Column.)

we want men, the spirit counts most...

The Common People," General Booth, continuing, spoke of the work, of the Salvation Army for the com- mon people. It was their principle that they wanted the common people to save the common people.

they would undoubtedly be rejected ns, they would amount to granting, a licence for smuggling, for there would be nothing to prevent a man from slipping some- thing into his luggage after it had been searched, and the wharf was only a few yards away from the road where another The Army only had some 24 or 25 off-man could easily slip something to the cers who were doctors of divinity and one who had already been searched.... it was drawing towards it more intellee way to check this practice was by co- only about 50 were gradosten. However, Mr. Lo said that the only practicable tual people, because they saw that its operation. Ils searcher persecuted a influence was great. If the movement passenger, the only proper course was hoped it would die and be buried. ever lost its original impulse, then he to make a report to the Inspector. Vic tims mast not be afraid to testify against The Salvation Army wanted nurses, the offender. Mr. Lo added-that a few doctors and teachers General Booth weeks ago, there was trouble of that sort journalists. I have to find editors," made a complaint to the agents of the concluded by saying that he also wanted on a certain steamer, Some passengers he said. "I have 104 papers. The pay vessel that they were being bullied by ferred to be paid by and by." is good, but a large portion of it is de-searchers. The "agents at once got in touch with the police and a squad of

to say anything against the offender. detectives were sent down to the steamer, but on arrival no passenger was willing The police, having no evidence, were anable to prosecute.

He sailed and so did the Pressmen. ning &t 5.30, General Booth will speak on At the City Hall this evening, begin "The Spirit and Purpose of the Salvation Army.

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