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CANTON PRO- PAGANDA.

CELEBRATING THE "CAP- TURE” OF SHANGHAL."

"MILITARY PRECAUTIONS IN

KWANGSL

DÜLL HOLIDAY TRADE.

[FROM OUR CHINEKS CUBARSPONDENT-1

To equater-act the rumour that anti-Reds in Yunnan ahd Kwangsi tad started to march on

PROTECTION OF BRITISH MISSIONS.

EDICT BY CANTON AUTHORITIES.

LAND TAX PROTESTS.

(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.}

The Canton Authorities have formally proclaimed an order at the instance of the Central Exseu tive Committee forbidding the molestation of Churches and schools

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY,

THE BELGENLAND:

SOME. INTERESTING PASSENGERS.

LEADERS OF ULS.A, BUSINESS

AND PROFESSIONS.

With 300 passengers of whom $33 belonging to the fairer sex, the Red Star Liner Belgenland, the largest ship to cross the Pacific and is now in Hong Kong on her third to traverse the Panama Canal,

cruise round the world. The tourista lized the upper decks and watched the picturesque approach to the harbour on Friday and state

HARBOUR COLLISION.

SHAMSHUIPO FERRY BOATS BUNK

COXSWAINS, DISAPPEAR.

There was a collision between two Shamshuipo ferry boats near the Cosmopolitan. Dockat Saturday. Both craft sank and the coxswaine have since disappeared. an On, both of the same Com The boats were the Man Kat and

pany..

FEBRUARY 7th, 1927.

GRATITUDE AND LEAVE TAKING.

THANKS OF BEFUGEE SISTERS.

THEIR DEPARTURE FOR MANILA,

The twelve. Spanish Sisters, who nazrived froth Foochow following the riots by the student and coolie mob and the looting of religious

on the sa President Taft for institutions, left here on Friday Manila, to which place they have

The Man Eat was the more baillybean called by the Superior of their damaged and a transfer to her pas order. sengers to the Man On was affectedPrior to their departure the

Canton, the Kuomintang depart conducted by British Missionaries that it made up a good deal for only just in time, the boat sinking Sisters left a letter expressing their (

ment on "Friday announced the cap- į ture of Shanghai by the Cantonese forces. The extremist labour unions fired strings of crackers and all Kuomintang clubs kept open house" in celebration of the im- portant event. So far, however, the

capture of Shanghai has not been confrmed from any neutral

-source.

[A message from Hankow on Saturday states that placards were posted in that City announc ing the capture of Shanghai.]

The detailing of the ath" Euomin tang Army for service in Kwangs by order of General Chiang Kai Shek, is causing much commant. It is generally understood that Kwangai will be the scene of erte sive military operations should the ** anti-Reds" decide to invade Kwangtung from Yunnan by way of Kwangai A number of

"anti-

and instructing all authorities con- cerned to give British interests full protection. The proclamation was decided upon at & meeting of the Provincial Administrative Council of Kwangtung on January 29th upon instruction from the Kuomintang Headquarters.

The reformed land tax in Canton City, despite strong opposition from the land owners, will be enforced soon after the Chinese New Year holidays. Nominally the tax was to have come into effect on January esth. The new land commissioner of Canton City, Mr. E. Y. Wu, was formerly vice-president of the China Commercial Company of Hong Kang.

THE TROUBLE OVER THE "SAI ON!"

STEAMER RETURNS TO

HONG KONG

Red" loaders have recently gone to Yunnanfu and it is reported that they are trying to make it a base of operaticas against Canton. The Canton "Reds" are asking General Fin' Shek Shaag to guard against Any possible rising in Kwangsi" in The Sai On, the sister ship of the support of the movement from Tux- Tung Un, which was detained in nan. The Chinese generally, how Canton on Friday, returned to "ever, appear to have very little faith Hong Kong yesterday afternoon.

in the 5th Kuomintang Army as an

The trouble "with the Seamen's efficient fighting unit, and one Press Union therefore has presumably agency has expressed the view that been settled. No details regarding its departure is due simply to the the reason of the vessel's delay desire of the more efficient military were available other than those leaders to zid Kwangtung, of published in the Daily Prest on trained and undisciplined troops.

Saturday. Then it will be remem Despite the Kuomintang assurance bered the origin of the dispute was to Chinesa merchants that they attributed to the complaints of one might exercise their time honoured of the stewards. He informed his prerogative and re-organise their Union that he had been ill-treated staffs on the second day of the first and the Union championed his moon after the Chinese New Year, cause?

there have been many complaints

that such liberty of action has not

been possible. Workers refused to

leave their places of employment if |

MARRIAGE.

they were not granted the union MR. H. J. PEARCE AND MISS demands of eight months' pay with |

MARY LECKIE. board money in addition. Unless

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their disappointment at not goingsoon after, this was completed. to Peking or Shanghai. Several of

"The Man On managed to reach the tourists are now at the Repulse the Cosmopolitan Dock and shortly bay Hotel.

after discharging her passengers she also sank.

The Belgenland is wanded by Capt. Thomas Howell, commodore of the Red Star Line, who has spent 44 years of his life at sea and is making his Brst visit to Hong Kong a place it has always been so he says his ambition to see. Capt. Howell has been 27 years in command and has never had a mishap. Eleven years of his career afloat were spent in slipper ships trading round the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn.

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The Passengers. Among the passengers are many interesting men social professional or business pro- minence representing 33 states in

and women of

gratitude for sympathy shown that. and help given while they were in Hong Kong.

A copy of this letter has been handed to us for publication by Father F. R. Noval, Procurator of The Police and Harbour satho-tion for Missions, Hong Kong.

the Spanish Dominican Procura rities have been unable so far to get in touch with the coxswaing, who decamped immediately after the accident.

'KO CHOW" ARMS

SEIZURE.

A FURTHER REMAND GRANTED.

WA

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- The Letter. -- Hoxe KONG, February 4th Dear Mr. Editor-Having been recalled to Manila by our Superior. feel that cannot leave these shores without writing to ex- prea to our many benefactors our heartfelt gratitude for the inaumer- able, kindnesses. received during our short stay.

We arrived in Hong Kong a fort night ago terribly scared and upset by the horrors of our enforced flight from the violent and the Red hordes in Foochow, and by the total destruction of the labours to which The twenty-one Chineso, who are we had dedicated our lives, our ing from the sensational discovery held by the Police on charges aris-hearts and our souls,

The welcome necorded to us in of arms on the sa. Ko Chow prior

Hong Kong, and the many kind nesses shown to us have to a great extent helped us to overcome the

the Union and a foreign countries There are several millionaires and to her departure for Wuchow about shock of cur sudden flight.

many pretty girls among them.

Retired financiers, active bankers and brokers, real estate operators, oilmen, shoe manufacturers, scale makers and other industrial

magnates head the list of business passengers Lawyers and doctors are the lenders in the professional men on board. "

& fortnight ago, were again brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Police Court on Saturday morning.

In applying for a further remand Mr. T. H. King, Director of Criminal Intelligence, said that in quiries were proceeding. He said he would be able to make a definite atatement to-morrow (Tuesday) a number of the men might whea be discharged.

His Worship remarked that from what he understood of the case there

was little evidence except against the first of the defendants.

HOME MAILS:

Samael Untermeyer the noted New York lawyer, is á passenger on the World Cruise of the Belgen- land and is realizing a life long ambition to visit Hong Kong. In his leisure time on the cruise Mr. Lintermeyer is reading 12,000 sheets of a report on the problems that beset the New York transit commis siou, on which he as chief counsel has been retained to give his opinion. Count and Countess I. de Jasika-Herzecq, are in his party. Louis Arlington who boarded"the" The Home mail vid Siberia is due Belgenland at Honolulu, is return-here to-day by the Dollar liner ing to China, where he has spent resident McKinley. The ship is 47 years in the service of also bringing mails from the United government of that much trouble States, Canada, Japan and Shang country.

hai. A mail from Australia and Manila is due to-day by the Tanda

Financial men include Henry W. Banks, Jr., C. E. Johnson, F. E. Tufts, and H. H. Winthrop, all

DUE HERE TO-DAY.

"

The outward mail for Home via

of New York, Julian M., Livingston Siberia leaves to-day by the N.Y.K. and his brother Max. L Livingston Haruna Maru The next mail

H. Cornell, Parsers John A Lock and Richard S. Richards, the Chief Steward W. T. Heath.

A Menagerie.

We crave the courtesy, of your columns to express to Captain Stewart and the officers of the L Haiching our sincere and heartfelt gratitude for all their care and solicitude for

our welfare, hown and for

the prudence and during our terrifying journey from Foochow. The loving reception and many kindnesses received from the Sisters of the French Convent dur- ing our stay with them can only be repaid by our prayers and We are deeply grateful to the our deep sense of obligation. Italian and the Maryknoll Sisters, and for the generous accommoda tion they offered us, together with the moral support we received from their words of consolation and the different manifestations of 4yR

thank mosi sincerely the Exench Con Georges Dufaure de la Prade; Mr. Choa. Po Sica, and Mr. Leong for all they did in getting up subscriptions and other ways of helping us. Our heartfelt thanks to all those who generously came forward with donations to clothing, or who sent us much re purchase much needed articles of quired clothing for our immediate requirements, and to the ladies and young ladies who devoted much of their time to helping us with our sowing

To the Press, last, but not least, we express our gratitude for their kind expressions of sympathy and for the help which we received.

took interest in cur sudden fight, through the appeals made by you.

To one and all who in any way

thank you heart and soul. Never and contributed to our comfort and well-being we would say that we can we forget their goodness and we will ever remember you in' our prayers and ask that God" reward you for all that you have done. :

From the most grateful Domini- can Sisters of Foochow

the Kuomintang are able to support | The wedding took place very their promises to the employers quietly in Shanghai at the British with some show of force any trouble Consulate on February lat, of Mr. and Col R. H. Morse of Chicago, Home vid Suer leaves on Wednes between masters and men in future H. J. Pearce, MC, of Hong Kong, C. S. Kennerly of St. Louis, day by the Blue Fannel Serpeton, will be very diffeult to settle.and Miss Mary Leckie, of Habkow. Ralph O. Lahr of Lincoln, Nobras reaching Marseille on March 9th. Ötherwise, as already reported, Mr. Pearce is an executive en-ko, John T. Sullivan of Water- Canton was esim and peaceful gineer in the Public Works Depart bury, Conn., W. K. White of San during the New Year holidays. meat of Hong Kong and has Francisco, Ġ. B. Williams of Bos- There are now only four strikes charge of the Buildings Ordinance ton, and. E. G. Rill of Louisville,

American Fathers' ‚„Thanks, which still remain unsettled. Now Office. He is a keen yachtsman, Ky., The medical service is headed

Four of the American Fathers the merchants are threatening owning the yacht Argulia II. in by Dr. C. A. K. Reed of Cin

who arrived in Hong Kong last not to resume business unless the the Handicap Class which be re- cinatti, Con,, president of the In- The Red Star Line is represented Sunday with other refugees from Kuomintang leaders restrain their gularly, sails in the R.H.K.V.C. ternational Executive Committee by R. H. Sutcliffe, and the shore Foochow and the interior of Fu- kien, left for Seattle on Friday on comrades from further interference: races. He is also well-known in of the Pan American Medical Con-excursions are directed by A. Lthe $3. President Jackson. These How many shope in Canton will not connection with the Ex-Active Ser gress, Diplomats include. H.L. Mass, of the American Express Co., Fathers of the Dominican Mission at Fukien, together with Fathers reopen will not be known until the vicemen's Club, of which he was a Fenba, Vies Consul for Brazil at who is making his with cause of the Mission still in Hong Kong 15th day of the first moon (February founder and is at the present time, Curacao, and D.. H. L. Maduro, around the world:

write that they wish to asociate 18th) the last day of the Chinese one of the Vice-Presidents. He Vice Consal for Portugal at

themselves with the Sisters in their expressions of gratitude to those New Year festivel

On the after deck there are is members of the Hong Kong com- served in the War and was award- Curacao, The United States Army Holiday trade generally was dulled the Military Croms. He is, a is represented by Col Steven S. small but interesting managerie munity who so kindly responded to For one thing a number of the bet son of the late Mr. Edward Pearce Slocum of Washington D.C., who owned by G. Bistany, big game the appeal for aid. They arrived

here destitute of all.

except the ter class hotels were closed owing and Mrs. Pearce, of Weymouth, has a good war record and has hunter and animal collector of clothes they stood up in, having to the strike of employees, and England.

served as Military Attache at New York. One of the most in- been forced by the soldiers to leave there were tower visitors than Mise Leckie, who has been living various embassies, and the judiciary telligent animals on board is all they possessed and it was

sual as travelling in these days in in Bankow for some eighteen by Judge G. A Padway of Milchimpanzee named Jimmie bound Kwangtung is by no means easy or months, is the daughter of the Intewaukee, Wis. Mrs. W. R. Hushaw from the Upper Congo, vid New pleasant. There are a number of Mr. Alexander Leckie and Mr. of Windfall, Ind. is making the York to Bombay, where the simian traffic taxes enforced; to escape Leckie, of London.

cruise which she won in a contest will pass the remainder of its days which a person has to walk. A Mr. E. G. Jamieson, Acting organized by the "motion picture in the Zoological Gardens. There good many of the residents in near- British Consul, performed the cere. producers and distributors of are two fine specimens of the Gib by towns and villages, who have many. A few friends of the parties America and is accompanied by her bon bear, which are rather rare in been accustomed to spend the New were present among them being

captivity, two Japanese apes and Year in Canton, decided on this Lieut. Col. V. Coates of the Punjabi

a moon faced monkey from Central Afzien called Toto bound for Cey- ocension, therefore, to remain at Regiment, now stationed in Shang-

The 390 tourista on the Belgen lon. Toto acts as a valet to Jimmie home.

bai, Eng. Commander Rampling, of land are all well and happy. They and feels that he is very much in It is learned that their are about H.MB Hawkins, Miss Somerville, have been entertained by balls, con- ferior to the intelligent chimpanzee 15 to 20 Sisters and Fathers still crait four divisions of local troops Mr. A. Hanson and Mr. F. Oliver, certs, games, movies and lectures who accepts the little monkey's in the interior of Fakien for the suppression of brigandage Afterwards a rearstion was held ever since leaving New York on homage in a dignified manner. and piracy has aroused considerable at the Astor House Hotel where December 14th. The personel of

Mr. Bistony expects to take back interest among the pirates them- friends of Mr. and Mrs Pearce the ship includes, in addition to four giraffes with him to New York selves. Many of them, it is said, from Hong Kong, Shanghai and the Capt. Thomas Howell, the Chief and also some pigmy elephants from are thinking of enlisting so that Hankow gathered to offer their Officera V. L Making and Th. they may prey upon the civil felicitations. Later in the day Mr. Hughes, the Chief Engineer J. R. "The Belgenland has encountered population as soldiers instead of as and Mrs. Pearce left for Peking, Mackay, Doctors F. Daseo and E. sunny weather ever since leaving

where the honeymoon is being spent. (Continued on nez! C'olumn), New York, December 14th,

The Kadinatag decision to re.

qutiewe.

husband::

Wall And Happy.

India

not long after their arrival in Hong Kong that they were provid- ed with much of what they re quired."

While expressing their thanks to all who generously helped them with money or clothes, the Fathers ask those who have not already come forward to extend their gener ous help to the many Fathers who are yet to come from the interior, and, who, like themselves are sure. what they stand in. to arrive destitute of all except

More Refugees Expected.

Douglas steamer is due to arrive this morning from Foochow and Amoy, and it is possible that fur- ther refugees will arrive by this Fathers loft at Foochow to notify vensel but as there are now po

the local missionary organisations of the pending arrival of mission. fries, it is not known whether any refugees will arrive patil the steamer bertha.

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