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CANTON MILITARY

HEADQUARTERS.

NEW ORGANISATION" FOR LOCAL AFFAIRS..

THE PIRACY PROBLEM.

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·SUSPENSION OF SAILINGS AGAIN THREATENED.

{FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. Į

General Li Tsai Hain, Officer Commanding the Troops of Kwang- tung, expects to open headquarters on February 1st to deal exclusively with local military affairs under a separate staff. Hitherto, both local and national army adairs have been transacted at the General Head quarters of the Kuomintang Ariny.

CONDITIONS IN

HANKOW.

STATEMENT FROM

CANTON.

REUTER'S REPORT CHARAC-.

TERISED AS ABSURD.

“A CONTEMPTIBLE LIE.”

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY JANUARY 31st, 1927.

The following message has been received through Reuter's from the Canton Information Bureau :-

CANTON, Jan 29th

PROPAGANDA “IN SWATOW.

CRUELTY OF THE MOB.

LOCAL PRECAU-

TIONS.

TOWN PLACARDED WITH. FOUL LIES.

INOFFENSIVE COOLIES

EMERGENCY REGULATIONS

PASSED.

FAKED PHOTOGRAPHS OF MURDERED CHILDREN.

ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE

MISSIONARIES.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. }'

SWATOW, January 27th,

nese Press in Swatow:-

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BEATEN

RECENT INCIDENT IN SWATOW.

ACCOUNT BY AN EYE WITNESS.

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But the continued alarmist re- ports from Reuter's office at Feking concerning Hankow led the spokes- man of the Nationalist Government Brigandage and piracy continue to state on January 26th that it compelled to close down owing to af with their poles, and rushed out

appears that the Bureau of the British news agency is being used as a broadcasting office for anti- Nationalist propaganda.

able order of the union to which

POWERS GIVEN TO POLICE.

..

· FOR PREVENTION OF STRIKE OR SPREAD OF SEDITION.

Emergency, regulations made by the Governor-in-Council on Thurs day, under the Emergency Regula tions Ordiganes, of 1000, are pub lished in the Government Gazette. These regulations empower the police to disperse processions and crowds, and the regulations also provide measures for the prevention of strikes and disorders, or of the spread of sedition.

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any procession, crowd of assembly, 2. Every person taking part in

any police officer to do so. shall disperse when called upon by

A British resident in Swałow, writing on January 97th to a friend in Hong Kong, encloses the follow. In Memorandum No. 13 publishing account of the manner in which Refter's report from Peking thated by the Tientsin British Com-angs of ruffians are allowed to get conditions in Hankow are so seri-mittee of Information there appears out of hand and wreak their venge. ous that a thousand American and the following comment on the Chiance upon their helpless and in offensive fellow countrymen. Be British evacuated is looked upon in Hankow as so shard as hardly

**The Chinese press in Swatow says — . to merit correction. 2.

is unexpressibly vile and combines At 10.30 this morning while I unique incompetence with a pas-was writing the enclosed letter to sionate seal for lying and distor you about twenty coolies esch

Processions and Assemblies, tion."

armed with a pole, led by ans, carry-

The regulations dealing with pro- Since these words were written ining a big stone, rushed into a shop August last year practically all the posite to my office and merciless cessions and assemblies local Chinese newspapers have been belaboured a cuole in the shop | under :-

1. It shall be lawful for any long drawn out strike of printers to go to another shop to re- police officer to stop, divert, divide

pest the process and typesetters.

or disperse any procession whatso- Of the one or two remaining of their brutality are perfectly in divide or disperse any crowd or The men who are the object ever, or any part thereof, or to dailies the Eua in Pao, being the official subsidised organ of the local cent creatures who have only assembly whatsoever, or any part department of the Nationalist Gov-failed to carry out some unreason thereof.

rament, is the chief and most in they belong. What causes the blood It is, therefore, most important, in enough to be an eye-witness of auch fiuential--and the most widely read.

of a foreigner, who is unfortunate view of this journal's official con-

a scene, to boil is not so much that

is explained that under 1 gang of miserable and ignorant Section 3 of the Emergency Re taken of the matter which It pre- rufians should get out of hand, but gulations Ordinance, 1929 ་་ seats to the public and the way in

that such scenes could take place amended: by Ordinance No. 10 of which that matter is presented.

In its issue of January 20thin a so-called civilized country in 1925, every person who contravenes the wo in Pae devotes several the centre of a busy city in broad any regulation made under that columns, both news and editorial, daylight without a finger being stir. Ordinance (No. 5 of 1990) shall, to "a relation of recent, events in There were plenty of people about ment is provided by such regula red in defence of the poor creatures where no other penalty or punish Foochow which led to the exodus of nearly all the foreign missionaries posite shop, but they all kept out liable to a fine not exceeding 81,000, when this took place in the option, upon summary conviction be There is 110 distortion in the of the way only to appear again and to imprisonment for any term narrative given by the Auo Min found by the authors of Memoran-callously on the half-dead victim dum No. 12 There is nothing at when he was removed to hospital all in the parrative except a long by the proprietor of the shop.. succession of the foulest lies, lies "I want out to the crowd and that are deliberately provocative, told them that those who committed Governor in Council, in these re- lies that are carefully calculated to this crime were dogs and swine and gulations or by subsequent order, touch off the spark of inter-racial rats and that when they tolerated to prescribe within the Colony, for hatred, Of such is the official Kuo such a thing they were no better the purposes of these regulations, in lao, the spokesman of the than these criminals and deserved any organization whatsoever, whe readers shail judge for themselves. meted out to the poor fellow, and or without the Colony, which in Under the heading Foreign what did they do --they simply the opinion of the Governor. in Missionary Outrages in Foochow smiled!" the paper writes:

to be a great problem for the Can- ton Administration which still bas to bear a burden of six or seven million dollars monthly to support the Northern expedition. It was The best proof of the conditions decided some months ago to or at Hankow is the resumption of ganize four divisions of local troops British business houses and banks for the purpose of suppressing out-on Monday.' laws throughout the Province, but Conditions at Hankow are pracnection, that careful note should be the Kuomintang Minister of Finically normal. The London Daily ance, who is supervising the local legraph's statesmocht that the diplomatie correspondence of the income, has diverted the Canton British Authorities in China has revenue to purposes foreign to Can-been tampered with in Hankow is characterised by the spokesman as tonese interests, and there is very contemptible lice."Canton In little, if any, money for local de- furmation Bureau. fence. Without an adequate army

to fight the outlaws in the interior, the Administration is helpless. It ELLIS KADOORIE SCHOOL. L'au, no such exaggeration as was after the brutes had gone to look not exceeding one year."

ANNUAL PRIZE DAY.

AWARDS DISTRIBUTED BY

Prevention of Disordar....

The regalations for the preven-| tion of disorder are as follows:-

1. It shall be lawful for the

is levying a tax on all boats on Can- ton waters and it is expected that a considerable sum will be raised in this way. But in the meantime, the pirates are as active as ever, and many tow-boat and other shipping masters are threatening to suspend Bailings altogether, unless the Ad. and the awards gained by the pupils Kuomintang in Swatow. But your the same treatment which had been ther such organization be within:

MR. A. E. WOOD. The annual prize day of the Ellis Kadoorie School was held in the school hal on Saturday morning, during the year were presented by ministration do something to pre- J. A. Wood (Director of Educa vent the outrages. Moreover, shoption). owners are likely to oppose further taxation. They complain that they hey

Are carrying enough burdens,

Canton merchants are not to be deprived altogether of their privi leges. They hold that they should not be denied their right to en- gage new or to dismiss old fokis or shop assistants on the second day of the first, moon, according to the Chinese calendar, and this con- tention has been supported by the

"A programme consisting of dia, logues and an exhibition of physical drill" were ably carried out by the

The Headmaster, Mr. F.. J. de Rome read the annual report, of the school, mentioning the good pro

ress made in all departments, and the health of the students that during the year had been excellent. Sports were keenly supported by all the classes, and discipline had been exceptionally good.

The Director of Education, before distributing the awards, congrats lated the staff and the boys on the

results shown, and said that he was Administration who, it is under-always pleased to visit the school, stood, will defend the merchants, in as it always appealed to him as á case fobia refuse to leave their em-large and happy family. ployment when requested to do so on the customary day for appoint- ments or dismissals. The labour unions state that no foki should be discharged without cause, unless the employer gives eight months' wages and board as compensation,

Prizes and Scholarships, The following are the awards: Lan Chu Pak Scholarship:-LI Chung Hon (2nd Instalment).

Tai Yau Scholarship:-Ip Chiu Soen (2nd Instalment).

- SCHOLARSHIP8, 1926. Lugard Scholar:-Chau Kok Sik.

College:--Lau Tak Cheuk.

Full Free Scholarships to Queen's College--Tong Hok Wing and Kee Chun Ting.

Half Free Scholarship to Queen's College-Lau Ping Kwong

Tai Yau Scholarship:Lui Hok Hoi (lat Instalment).

Since the loss of control over its postmen who may work or not at will, the Chinese Post Office at Can toa is being put into a very embar rassing position The frequent at sence of postmen from duty in order to join the almost daily demonstra- Lau Chu Pak Scholarship:-Poon tions of one kind or another is caus-Ming Cho (1st Instalment).

Scholarship Ho Kam Tong ing considerable delay in the local (Senior):-Chan Chiu. delivery service. In the Toyshan Chan Kai Ming Scholarship Post Office, the postmen have gone (Senior):-Fok Po Keung as far as to take the censorship into their own hands, and they have

"Where are the police in the meantime? They are on duty as usual, but they have no orders to interfere with what they class as

a labour dispute

"A deputation of our fellow countrymen has just arrived from Foochow with details of yet an other, the most recent, outrage on our race by foreign barbarians.I hear another rush in the This time it is the foreign mia street. It is now three quarters sionaries, the Roman Catholics of of an hour after the murderous at- the French and Spanish Missions. tack in the opposite shop. Let me

Some of our student fellow investigate. workers in Foochow happened to be walking near the Roman Catholic Mission when they met

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mad with

Back over hia

shoulder coming out of the Mission gate. By good fortune the students auspected this man and made him surrender the sack for examina- tion. To their horror and con- sternation they found it con- tained the cut-up remains of "Chinese babies.

Council is an organization which has among its aims, or is being used for, the promotion of a general strike, or of disorder of any kind, or of the spread of sedition, within the Colony.

No person shall do any act in such proscribed organisation. furtherance of the objects of any

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3. No person shall without law. ful authority or excuse have in his possession any badge, ticket or "The ruffians are rushing back document, or any other thing what- quicker than when they come and souver, which purports to have are dropping their poles. They been, or which appears to have ave probably met with some re- been, issued by any such prescribed. shows that these cowards could be sistance somewhere. This clearly organization, whether before or checked if only the people had 'the guta' to stand up against them.

I sympathize in a way with the aspirations of the more intelligent Chinese to assert themselves and "The students then took the claim equality for China among man into custody and, after inter- other civilized nations, but the rogation, he confessed that it was method's they have adopted to at an occupation he had followed tain their ends are such that they daily, all his life. It was his re-can only bring dishonour to their gular employment.

cwn country. The lawlessness which "Enraged by this discovery the the leaders are encouraging in not

horrors in the Mission which came

after such prescription, or which purports to be, or which appears. to be, or which appears to be in- tended as, evidence of membership of, or any authority from, or any association with, any proscrib ed organization.

such

4. No person, shall do any act in fartherance of the promotion of a general strike, or of disorder of any ind, or of the spread of sedition, within the Colony.

5. No person shall utter BDY containing any matter which is seditious matter sa defined in the Seditious Publications Ordinance, 1914, and no person shall, say any thing which if reduced to writing would be seditions matter as, 50. defined.

Fall Free Scholarships to King's students determined, to carry out ofly" a 'crime against their own newspaper," book or other document an investigation of the Mission countrymen, but a crime against premises.

humanity. It has gone so far that, Chief amongst many other in my opinion, there is only one cure for it, and that is: physical to light in the course of the stu- force applied from without." deata visit was a room which "As this incident is of public emitted an abominable stench.interest, I intend sending a copy When the door was opened the of this letter to the Hong Kong room was still-dark. Lights were papers-Yours sincerely, brought and it was seen that the room was packed to the ceiling with the decomposing bodies, some cut up into pieces, of in- numerable Chinese babies. All the missionaries (Mok_Bu is used, rarely applied to Boman Catho lica) in Foochow when they knew they were found out, took to Bight and have escaped."

:

Mrs Lau Chu Pak Scholarship (Senior):-Wu Ki Lim. Ho Kam Tong

Kani

decided not to deliver papers or Wong King Wolarship

Tong Scholarship (for

mail matter commenting unfavour Class 8): Pang Yuk Chuen ably on the postal service.

To the 450 or more labour unions

Chan Kai Ming Scholarship (Junior):-Lau Tin Chack.

Mrs. Leu Chu Pak Scholarship

in Canton has just been added | (Junior):-Chia Fat. another that of Stage Hands. The stage hands, although few in n- ber, hold an important position in the theatres.

GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP).. -Class 5 to Class 4:-Chau Nai Chung.

Class 6 to Class 3:-Chu Koea Ip. Southern Chinese, who form the Class 7 to Class 6:-Mak Cheuk

Hon majority of the overseas Chinese

Class 8 to Class 7:-Yee King population in the Philippines, are Chuen.

PREFECTS MEDALE. greatly concerned over the abolition of the Chinese Department in the Funk Shiu Lok, Chan Nai Chung, Fok Po Keung, Chau Pak Hoi, Fung University of the Philippines. Chi-Chun Wing and Wong King Wei, asse in Canton are urging their fol low countrymen in the Philippines

In the course of editorial.com tent on these extraordinary autop tic exercises it is observed that

**These bloody outrages must be avenged.

We on our part might observe that these lies must be refuted.

MIA.

“ABUSIVE RICKSHA

COOLIES.

FINED FOR DEMANDING MORE THAN LEGAL FARE.

VICAR OF ST. ANDREW'S LEAVING.

REV. G. R. “LINDSAY GOES HOME IN APRIL.

St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, will suffer a savere loss at the end of April when the Rev. G. R Lindsay, Vicar, leaves for Home.

The Rev. G. R. Lindsay, who has been Vicar of this Church for the past seven years, has announced that owing to circumstances which have arisen in England, and over which he has no control, he will be unable to return to this Colony at the end of his furlough.

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CHINESE NEW YEAR

Mr.^_Li | Chor:- Chi of the Il¢ Hong Bank, prosecuted two rickaha coolies before Mr. B. Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy on Saturday morning, for demanding more than the legal fare, and also for abusing passengers.

Mr. Li said that at 3 p.m. on To complete this highly imagine- Friday ha engaged four rickshar

In St. Andrew's Monthly Messen- tive ghoulish picture the local for himself and some tourist per, the Vicar speaks with high authorities allowed the walls and friends, at the Upper Peak tram appreciation of the assistance he streets of Swatow to be plastered station, and they went for has received during his work here. with yesterday's edition of the Kuo circular ride vid Harlech "Road. Jin Pao together with a series The coolies started to poster his of about Efty, faked photographs friends for "cumshaw" despite the of the mangled remains of Chinese fact that each coolie had been paid twenty centa, which amounted to infants.

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. This morning another newspaper forty cents for each ricka. Com improves on the ghastly licence of plainant remonstrated and they re-

The following are the postal ar its official contemporary and ac plied that forty cents was not rangements made in connection

with Chinese New Year holidays: sionaries of anthropophagous bakitą. Just as complainant was sitting On Wednesday, February 2nd, the and declares that they boiled the down in a Prak tram, the wo General Post Office and Branch Post infants alive that they might be the coolies approached and started to Offices will be entirely closed, and The exhibition "of paintings by more tender and toothsome. understood that the abolition of the Miss H. M. Gordon, the well-known

swear at him, and they were sup-on Thursday, February 3rd, they This hellish accusation is also ported by about fifteen other will be open from 8's.m. to 9am. study of Chinese has been caused artist at Lane, Crawford's Replacarded all over Swalow, side by coolies. One remark was You On Thursday, February 3rd, there more by coonomic than any other staurant yesterday will close to side with Eugene C's latest think you are very important tak will be one collection from the

aight

warning that foreignei and their ing foreignern round."

pillar-boxes, and one delivery of reasons. Should this be the case,

Miss Gardon specialises in East property have not to be molested.

ason Both defendants said the co-ordinary correspondence the Chinese Department at that ern scenes and her pictures are So far there has been no disorder plainant struck them, and No, 1 Sundays, and also ous delivery of University, it is said, should be mostly impressions of Oriental as a result of this deliberate pro called a witness who corroborated. registered correspondence from the

countries and peoples. These are vocation to violence but that is not An Indian constable said he saw General Post Office at 9 am, endowed by the Chinese in the delightfully portrayed in water the fault of the Kuomintang. They Philippines

colours,

I have tried hard enough,

to see that the study of Chinese MISS H. M. GORDON'S ART the French and Spanish mis enough history and literature in that University is preserved. It is

EXHIBITION.

no blows struck,"

Both defendants were fined

The Money Order Offee will be entirely, closed during the holidays.

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