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THE HỒNG KONG DAILY

HOW CAN WE TELL

PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 10th, 1927.

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BRITAIN

THE NEW WAY OF DEALING WITH COMMUNISTS

. AT HOME.

AN EXAMPLE FOR THE FAR EAST.

A GREAT AND URGENT NEED.

[BY A CORRESPONDENT.)

- PILGRIMAGE ARRANGED

FROM HONG KONG,

HISTORIC ASSOCIATION WITH ST. FRANCIS XAVIER.

The Roman Catholic Bishops of | Macao, Canton and Hong Kong (Bishops Jose de Costa Nunes, A. „Fourquet and Henry Valtorta' res- pectively) are to consecrate Mon- cise, but his big beard prevented igor James Edward Walls, the

Bishop-elect of Kongmoon, that as effectively as a goitre, `So he had to invent a system into Sancian laland (St. John's Island)

on Sunday, May 22nd. which his motes might be easily worked. Hence the capitalist aysong residents wishing to attend tem. This also is a comic picture:

Oriticism.

at

Home papers tell ne that Hydo Park Cornet, of a Sunday evening, is now resounding with the speeches of speakers against Communism. The territory of the Socialists is invaded by their enemies. Lords and working men are doing it. Conservative forces have at last become communicative. Old truths are being propagated with as much zest as now, theorice. It is at last realised that it is impossible to muzzle the orator; and futile to think that you can kit his omation society consists of two separate Sunday, will cost $12 Hong Kong]

hy contempt; but that the only way is to orate against him. there any such thing as answering hijgenceforall. He must be answered every time he speaks. The unanswered argument prevails by reiteration.

It gets beyond mere comedy, and approaches the critical standpoint of a cartoon, when Clissold goes on to indicate the fallacy underlying Das Kapital the fallacy of im. ngining that modern industrialised

Island,

currency.

menis,

nn

For the convenience of Hong

the ceremony, the 4.6. hinshan will leave Hong Kong on Saturday evening, May 21st, at 9 o'clock. On Sunday the steamer will leave Sancian Island at 3 p.m. and should arrived in Hong Kong about 10 o'clock in the evening. Passage to and from Saucinn including three breakfast, tiffin and dinner

Staterooms will be ve classes, those who own capital, and arrved for ladies without extra those who sell their labour. Clis charge. Other accommodations may sold reflects that this picture of meals, Sunday morning and even- in bad including passage and two modern meisty really leaves out the fing, at three dollare Removatiana | typical citizen of all Western coun-should be made at once, and names tries, who both sells his services of those intending to make the pilgrimage should be given to the for wages, and also owns capital, pastors of the Roman Catholic Most nisleading of metaphors is which goes to pay other people's churches. The Director of the the phrase "to demolish an argu-wages. The Marxinn interpretation Pilgrimage is the Rev. Father

Robert J. Cairna, You can't domolish of Western Europe is a very imper- argument, You may think you feet interpretation, in thus exclud- have. But your opponent knowsing the average citizen. better. An argument is bot like a How far Marx has misinterpret face which requires time for repair, ed the West must be demonstrated after it has been battered. Your opponent knows that he is still in possession of his argument; and can show it again, as fresh as ever, the moment your back is turned.

thent."

What About The East?

It is the realisation of this that

to China, so that Chinese may be Lalert to the misinterpretations of those who interpret. Marx. It is not enough to laugh at the founder of modern socialism, as is done in the two books above mentioned. A jest may cajole a man from enter-

The Bishop' Elect. Monsignor Walsh is very well- known in Hong Kong. He has been. in China for about eight years, and at one time was in charge of the St. Louis Industrial School at West Point,

The Maryknoll Kongmoon Mis sion invites the Catholic community to attend the consecration and to take part in the pilgrimage to Sancian Island,

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SUBSIDY TO MONGOLIAN BANDITS $9,000.

HONG KONG IMPORTS,

PRICE CURRENT AND MARKET REPORT.

BY HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The fortnightly price current and PEKING, April 21st. market report, published by the During the six months beginning Hong Kong General Chamber of October 1st, 1925, and ending Commerce, dealing with imports, March 31st, 1928, Boviet Russia assisted the Chinese Communist states:-

has led people to take up a new ing into combat. But once he way with the communists. The new starts to fight, a jest is as good asese people was planned by the Party, the first, second and third

way which has been taken up at home, must also be taken up here. But how many people are there in the Far East who are capable of carrying on an argument against communism?

Patron Saint Of China. This hallowed ground is dear to all Christians, because on Bancian Island the conversion of the Chi-

Cotton Piece Goods and Faney greatest missionary since the days of Auominchun under Marshal Feng Cotton Goods:-There has been the Apostles. In 1852, St. Francis Ya Hsiang, to the extent of $383,033 more enquiry since last reporting Xavier arrived at Sancian. While Gold, according to a translation of and sales of old chops in Spring trying to reach Canton, he was a paper seized in the office of the Fancies together with small lots of taken ill and died on December Military Attache of the Soviet Ex-new qualities of Brocades, Stripe 2nd, 1852, The remains of the great Calculated on the basis of the exist book. The rapid advance in the bassy just tasted by the focal police. Poplins and Mattings have come to Jesuit missionary. were buried

For The Communists.

(1) Salaries of the central organ, 811,700.

(2) Books and periodicals, $680. (3) Travelling expenses, $4,000, (4) Tuition fees for military officers who learn foreign languages, (5) Postages and telegraphic charges, 80,000.

$850.

(6) Social expenses, $6,000. (7) Salaries for Chinese political advisors, $6,000.

8.740,

the tone of the market being bullish" owing to the floods in the Mississippi Valley more than the amount of business booked.

Cotton Yarn --Market continued extremely dull and only anall busi- bess was transacted for immediate requiremonte.

Nominal quotations are as fol- lows:-

No. 10% $145/105. No. 128. $150/166. No. 168. 8160/158 No. 20s. $170/176. Arrivals 100 hales. Un- Shipments Nil. Sales Mil. sold stocks 14,000 bales. Bargains

11,000 bales.

Woollens:-There is no change to report. Market is dull and little doing. report.

Raw Cottons:-No business to

a blow for feeding his wrathr; and you may as well employ the latter as the former. It is not enough to point to Russia and say that there is an actual object lession in Are there half a the fallacy of communism: Kar where the memorial chapel nowing rate of exchange, the total Soviet cost of the raw material is now dlozen 7 Put the average young Marx tried out, fully and freely, stands, and this sacred shrine is the financial subsidy to the opponents making new business increasingly Chinese, educated abroad, to argue and found wanting. Possibly to a object of the pilgrimage.

of Marshal Chang Tao Lin amount difficult, the latest quotations

those of the 4th inst. against the average young educated Chinese, and in comparison with More than two months after the ed to $813,937.98 Mex.

Saint's death, his body was found The Budget was divided into three 15.85d. Mid, Amer. " Englishman in Hong Kong, pro Chinese chase, Russia appears as miraculously preserved from car-classes and provided for ordinary and contra communism. What an organised and well-run State, ruption, His remains were then and extraodinary expenditures for happens The Englishman is not Although to anybody accustomed to removed to Gou by the pious Portu- each. The first class, which was in interested, not informed, unable to the pleasant ways and easy govern his deep love for souls, his unfail Party, lists the following items:

guese people. His burning zeal, tended for the Chinese Communist compete, therefore beaten.

There ment of Britain, Soviet Russia is ing courage, and his "Da miki are thousands in the East capable merely a tragic demonstration of animas" are still the ideals for all of expounding Karl Marx for every the error of communism: the great- Xavier is the patron of China, an

Catholice. Moreover, St. Francis: one who is capable of confuting est economic experiment and most added reason, to wish to pray at him. Yet Marx is easy to confute. appalling failure in the history of his Sancian tomb. A visit to this Too many people think that the government. It is necessary to hallowed ground will deepen Faith

and stimulato zeal. only way to save China from Bol- answer Marx's account of modero-

This is not an ordinary excur- shevism is by the use of bombing Europe with another account; asion, but an extraordinary time of aeroplanes. And certainly that is truer and a better account.

grace. It is spiritual in character, and pilgrims are expected to keep a beautifully simple. way. A mili- How Is China To Be Disabused?

in mind the religious atmosphere. tary people with modern science

What efforts are made in China All are urged to receive Holy Com-

(8) Salaries for military advisora can easily do that. There are, how-to do this? Business men say that munion May 2nd and to remember of the central office of the Chinese

the spiritual needs of Monsignor Communist Party, 85,000. ever, many forces in the modern sentiment plays a great part in Walsh. Those who for some reason, world which postpone the use of business. If this means anything, cannot make the pilgrimage, are total is 886,330. In addition ten per (9) Motor car expenses, $300. The this sovereign remedy. These forces it means the great truth that you also urged to receive Holy Com

was provided for extraordinary demand that ideas be mot not by dislike buying and selling with a munion, and to be mindful of the west of this mounting to 36,633 American, 280,000 bags; Canadian,

same intention. An educ man unless you like him.

purposes. force, but by arguiment.

What This pilgrimage gives a rare op- ated people ought to be able to do pains do we take to make the Chi-portunity of witnessing an import-

ness like us? We certainly don't circles.

ant historical event in Catholic For there will be conse coquet with them. Some countries crated, on Chinese soil, the first do, and suffer the consequences of Maryknoll bishop, and the first undignified behaviour. Bolshevism American bishop to be consecrated tells the Chinese that the British in China. That the three conse are unlikeable, the ugly products crating-bishops are each of a dif- of a horrid woonomic system. When forent nationality, French, Portu- are we going to do something to guese and Italian, merely shows how show that we are not ugly, and catholic is the Catholic Church. that the economic system is a bogey The Portuguese authorities at parcut: that we are natives of Maco have taken official notice of land of just and old renown." this event and placed the Patria at Certainly we do a little in our the disposal of the four Bishops to business, and in our sport. But convey them to and from Sancian, ment. In the former book we see business

touches, example

and Teland, Karl Marx at the time of the Paris therefore can convert, only an in- proletariats revolution of 1848. Anitely small number of Chinese. Karl Marx, being in London, is It is a private affair. Nor do our visited by a messenger from the sports go much further. The great Italian Carbonari, in Paris, who mass of the Chinese people are en- ure co-operating with the Con- tirely devoid of that interest in NO USE LOCKING THINGS UE ||| $13,530, munists for the Judis barricades. and respect for games, which is so

that.

China' is seeing Western civilisa- tion through the eyes of Karl Marx, Who is going to prove to China that these were jaundiced

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Kari Marx Gets Into Fiction,

The Victorian attitude to Karl Marx is well shown in two recent books-The Madonna of the Bar ricades and William Clissold. It is an attitude of interested sause

The

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AMYSTERY MAN" AT THE QUEEN'S.

For Fang Yu Helang. In class B are listed items for the troops of Marchal Feng Yu Hsiang. They are:

(1) Salaries for the delegation of sixty, $70,200,

(2) 820,000 each for the military academy and the party school

(a) Social expenses for the Kuo- minchun Club, 86,000.

(4) Expenses for district party and labour unions, $3,000.

(5) Subsidy to bandits in Inner Mongolis, $9,000,

(8) Papers and periodicals, $1,000. 122 Travelling expenses, $23,400. (8)

Postage stamps and telegrams, $2,000,000

(9) Stationery, $400, (10) Motor car fees, $300. The total is $136,300. Extraordinary

expenditures,

For The Kuominchun,

Far East on Thursday at the Kuominchun.

Metals:-Market dull, very little

doing.

Flour market report:-Stock:

120,000 bags; Australian, 30,000 bags. Market: Steady without activity. Quotations: American Patent, 84.36-440 per sack; Ameri- can Straight, 83.25-3.50 per sack; American Cut off, $3.30-3.60 per sack; Australian No. 1, 8345-3,70 per sack; Canadian Cut off, 83.20- 3.25 per sack; Canadian Straight, 83.15-3.20 per sack; Canadian Mis ture, 88.10-3.25 per sack; Canadian 2nd Clear, 63.10-3.15 per sack.

Sugar:-Market dull. Saltpetre:-Stocks 18,000 bags. Nothing noteworthy to report since last circular.

"DYER" CHALLENGE CUP.

FOR COMPETITION BY SCOTTISH VOLUNTEER

COMPANY."

The "Dyer" Challenge Cup, presented to the Scottish Company of Marx is the picture sare an appeal to the masses in Raffles" the "Man of Mystery” of & writer in a temper at being Britain. Our newspapers can tell gives his arst performance in the Class C. for the second and third of the Hong Kong Volunteer De interrupted by a revolutionist, He Ching about Britain, because hard

fence Corps, for inter-platoon com complains bitterly that the police by any Chinese out of Hong Kong, Queen's Theatre."Baffles, like (1) Salaries for 50 members of the petition in musketry, and which is also open to the Scottish Section the Home office, the resources of and only a handful in Hong Kong, his namesake in populer Bction, is commission, $58,500. the British, Government in general, can read English newspapers. The master-burglar. He can, so ho

(2) Expenses for the military of the Reserve Company, is to be shot for at Stonecutters Rife do not afford him that protection film might show Britain, Britain' from intruders, which a communist beauty and Britain's

Bays, pick any lock your name, and academy and three party schools,

Range on Sunday, May 29th. gwood. Yales in the world to put him lu af (8) Social expenses for the club platoon will fire Part II of the

be challenger all the Chubbs and 20,000. alien has a right to expect is at present it showe

Teams of eight men from each London. That is a Victorian com-And to that China, in the lous vault or a safe from which he can of soldiers of two armies, $6,000. ception of Karl Marx. He is a mess of its great crisis, naturally not

(4) Expenses for local party also be an "attack

Musketry Course, and there will joko: an eccentric genius; but prefers Moscow,

compétition more pitiably eccentric than really

and a Lewis Gun Competition. genius.

But

crookdom he turns (b) Travelling expenses, $10,500. Far East who are studying China, his talent to the profitable and in- (6) Publications, "$8,000, Similarly in William Clissold. They profess to tell Britain about nocent channel of a really first rate (7) Postage stamps and tole To that typically Victorian gentle China. And this, to judge by the "turn." A mere escaping from grams, $4,000. man Karl Marx was an insuf- ignorance of China displayed in tight locked pisces may not sound (8) Stationery,

$400. Total ficiently aerated old man suffering the usual: home newspaper, it is exciting but according to the $128,400. from B. surfeit of note" He had very necessary to do. But it is American Press, Raffles is consider- Extraordinary expenditures, sat so long in that hugh gasomoter, even more necessary to tell China ed one of the best vaudeville attrae- $12,840. the library of the British Museum, about Britain. The more China tions in the U.S.-and what is good that he had collected more motes gets to understand the amenities of enough for Americs must be a reai than he could handle in a readable the British system, the lem is China treat for the rest of the world. book, He could not have done this likely to go red with enthusiam2. If he had taken more outdoor exer- for Russian crudition.

There are any Britishere in the

ATENther, imaginary hero organs, $12,000.

The budget for the Canton Gov. ernment was not made, the state. mont adds, as there had been no Associated with " Raffes” are reliable report on the finances of his wife and Miss Ollie Russel. the Government.-Kuo Wert.

WHAT ELSE COULD HE DO? What could he do but squat " asked Mr. B. E. Lindsell of a Chinese constable who yesterday charged a las hawker with squat ting.

His Worship remarked thất tha man should not have been brought into. Cours and discharged himu.

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