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LABOUR UNIONS IN CANTON.

EACH INTRIGUING FOR CONTROL.

PRISONS FULL.

FORMER OFFICIAL TO BE SENT TO NANKING FOR TRIAL..

SEARCHLIGHT

DISPLAY.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 2nd, 1927.

MAGNIFICENT DEMONSTRA- TION LAST NIGHT.

Not an uncommon sight at Hom Naval ports, but, selkom seen in Hong Kong's harbour, the Beach aght display given last evening from a mumber of the warships in purt was witnessed by large crowds.

Chinese, especially assembled in

THE NEW

WORD.

WHAT "NAFFY" MEANS

TO SOLDIERS.

A GREAT ORGANISATION.

ST. PETER'S YOUNG MEN'S CLUB.

CLUB ACTIVITIES FOR THIS MONTH.

REMOVAL TO NEW PREMISES.

YOUNG WIFE'S

DEBTS.

AMAH ACCUSED OF TRAPPING HER.

ALLEGED GAMBLING DEN AT

SQUARE STREET.

Some twn months ago a strange

The St. Peter a Young Men's new word Wats introduced into

Club has now removed from 51, 1 Hong Kong-IN wurd that has been known for a

long time in Bonham Rond, to No. 1, Oakland's

Alleged gambling losses figared Malta, tiibraltar. Egypt and Irak-Path (East aide). This is a much in a case heard at the Summary

Jarger building with better grounds, | Court grsterdag before the acting wherever there is a British gar

It is even known to the hut the rental is about twice that Puisne Julge (Mr. P. Jacks). The an amah suPO of Ohe old quarters and the Club ease was one in whiep

a Chinese married woman for Bion Naffy" is the word- not the have Mr. Ho Kwong to thank for

cho ander a Chinese promissory name of a comedian or a race horse arranging this matter satisfactorily.

Sir Robert Be Tang has greu a Dune, dated January 28th, 1926, ut the soldiers' name for the

There wi

an interesting legal Navy, Army and Air Force 1 substantial sum for the purchase az i

【PROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT] hundreds along the Praya East. Re Army of Decupation on the Rhine

The ending lalar unions in Canton City are warh aying t dominate the other in order to con- trol the general federation which has yet to be formed. The tieneral Labour Chion of Kwinging. the

anti Hel

throughout, in enslenvatring to. lær come the controling factor in the Province, while the Workers' Dele cati 'outeriner, most of the further leaders of which were alleged to de be Corgnized. Minor conthets have indicated that there can i un goral bedri alion for sound fine. Not a few unions 114 Canton are still inclined to winds the Rankos taction of the Kimintang, and somer of the auti Chang Km. Sick enendure found on the antsu streets mught, it is statek, a traced to

Jag

The pro Chiang Rai Shok follow

clamation, the waterfront, and at vanboge points of the Kakonk Code. Every verandah along the sen

Front hati aceitpants.

I was about right o'clock, whenitudes. The official designation of Lilliard table, which will be in argument in the law of the Culony

de last of daylight had faded that the disply began. Sonic half-dozen searchinghts were focussed var

wonderfully wicette soarelslight drili was car

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the Institutes is the abbreviation X.A.A.F.I.

ase very shortly. The on Dr. R. H. Kotewail, Cal.ti. Patron of the Club), is presenting the Clubs with Championship Cup for billiards. A size nee and writing room is being fitted up and writing mate riats bearing the Club heading can

Until two months ago Naffy was unknown in Hong Kong. The Colony's garrison was the only one e out. doing through wide in the Empire to which it had not areas the searchlights swept the hur attached itself. Then,, seon after tsuz send showed up shipping with

the first battalions of the Shanghaie purchased at the Office at very bard darmettess, Then ther was Defence Force arrived came Major reasonable rates. Members are re concentrating of all the search-Hurford Tatlow and a large staff guested aut to allow mon menibers Eights on various intildings, on the from Singland to organise branches the use of this papers

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som hont and also in the Kowloon of the Corporation to enter far, the stde. The light played upon the targo indux of soldiers. Kowloon Nation eback tower showe

The aim of Naffy jobs perfect a tagit enn be bir

provyle the scalier in camp and tained by meates in searchlights | mrracks with ainost everything he Again there was a change of duties, is likely to require, to make him ļand the searchligin were trained comfortable and in provide him Tapwards, peeking worships and with a club. Its slogan is with

Thoms, Motating Argins the Sovices, for the Services, imained stationary for a short space!

The organisation, although it her

di kurss again.

No official intimation has been goven lant, possibly this display was

Its

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as regards gambling transactions,

Mr. C. A. S. Ross appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. D. L. Strellett

was for the defendant,

The plaintiff alleged that it was ense purely of money lent, but the | defence was that the money way a gambling debt, that the promis sory note is illegal ant that money The plaintiff cannot be rerovered.

stated in evidence that she had Sovinis for service men are being j never heard of either Mah Jongg run by Mrs. Griggs and Mira Mus or Pui Kau. Fang in conjunation with members of the RA.M.C. at King's College Hospital, There is

Queen's Pier.

גין!

Mr. Russ said he understood that

the fact of the ante being sigurd charge, was not in dispute, but Mr. Streliett

These Socials will be held every had given him petices of pleading special defences. The first was on st and 3rd Monslays in the month,

Efforts are being made to have the grounds of infancy. The second parematedginess on the roof jo the grounds that the promissory of the club. A lantern lecture has not was made in reapert, of a Osman or "Our Secret Enommes " already been promised by Dr. | gaming transaction and was, theru- Jore, illegal. The third special de to be held on Wednesday, June fence was that of duress. 29th, at 9:30 p.m.

Dealing with the first-defence of

knes infancy, Mr. Lordship to a judgment in the referred his

| Hong-Kang Law Reports and sub. mitted that the decision was bind. ing ou his Lordship. Mr. Russ referred to another ease which he said deal with the whole law of in. fancy, and made it impossible · for an fant in Hong Kong to raise the defence of infancy in the Som- mary Court.

With regard to duress, whether On June 20th there is to be a

in respect of a gaming transaction or hot, he would like aucial for Service Jacu and on his Lordship to hear the evidence, June with a Whist Drive at 8.30 and if he was against Mr. Russ on p.m. at the Cathedral alt.

ap in Canton are taking spevaljaj tine and then at a given signalings to the Army, is nade to pay perantions against any, inch by the Reds, Fanton Cny projer will defended by the 1th Army orps, the commanding office being General Li Tsai sin timsal while the districts of -Number, niya, and runtak ingrediately surrounding the City are to be 1e6- tected by details of the 5th Comps.

Socialist is a staly to le dis carded by all mulatary schools in Cantat as General Hsu Ching Tang, acting Garrison Comunis. sioner in Canton, bas yonderped socialism as a false doctrine. Some Predels Putsider THAL Shineral Isu is narrow minded, and doubt whether he himself has ever rend any books on the subject. In fan- Lot, however, General Hau's word goes to-day and siner May 25th. there have been no retures an socialism. When the Soviet Con mission supervised the Kuomintangoj "m military seburts, Bolshevisa was regularly taught.

its own way and thus there is no extra burden on the taxpayer. charges are low, yet it returns for at the tature of a rebearsal for to

Launch picnics are being held the benefit of the saldiers a fair every Saturday at 3.30 p.m. from morrow sigh In Shanghai there considerable percentage of all in the be torchlight tattoo F1 addi-takings. tion to the parade in the morning. So that Hong Kong might under- Here no such tattoo is being held

wurk stand the

done

for the but Following the pancade in the soldier's welfare, Daily Press morning, it would b a Etting reporter made yesterday a tour of wind up to the velederations to sew inspection. Ith seareblights in the evening with, The ad of Nafly perhaps, plates vireling overhead | supply the human touch.

Ou May Buh cirring an auti

dressed" to

Ships will all be mon row, but, there is an aunÇÜ ment as to whether mest of-war will lo, outding in ruloni electric lights 5 is often done at Home Naval ports on such occasions,

1s This was

nd thus providing an interesting apparent, when a visit was paid to demonstration of audi aireratt work the Peninsula Hotel. The canteen and night dying.

there has been made into a club- T There are bree large rooms 157) the ground floor-one for ser geants, one for corporals, and one į for mere privates. Here, despite concrete floors and plaster walls.

Naffy" has indeed achieved its ob ject. "Naffy" seats its patrons in easy wicker chairs. There is plenty of writing material, and also pianos for the anasically inclined. "Naffy" ells there buttons and bootlares, football boots, stationary, brillian

The eleven tobacco farteries in

hac Canation

just derided to organize a guild of their own. The British parade in Canton City,employers have had constant frie many circulars appeared denoune ing the action of the Hong Kong Government in proscribing the Chinese Seamen's Union. The Can

tion with labour organzations and how they want their own guihi for times andersen, braces, sweets, the praiser of taking up the

confectionary, minerals and good quarrels. Cigarette factories arr & comparatively new enterprise in the British beer. In word, it is a Southern Capital. For years the general store as well as an Institu-

garettes buys been the Nauyanık Brothers "Toinen Vohpany.

[ very busy at present, for it has to The Canton Municipal Depart water for nearly 2,000 Tuet.

The Crescendo Orchestra meets the every Thursday evening at Club at 9.00 for weekly practice.

thi June 6th there is to be a Whit Monday service for Service men.

On June 17th the annual meet-

ing of members will take place at

8.30 pan.

A STRIKE THREAT.

OFFICERS OF CHINA NAVIGA

TION CO., LTD.

A notice has been circulated among the officers and engineers of the China Navigation Co. Ltd., that if the Company refuses to cap. ret the ten per cent. reduction in wages which came into force two refund the

months ago and to

no only Chinese concern manufacturing on The Peninsula Branch is total amount already deducted; or

ton authorities who are 10% longer dominated by "Reds," have paid no attention to these profeats.

The

Some 21 employees of the Kwang. ment of Public Works have refased next largest branch is at Samshuipo

teng Arsenal were dismissed ourly the application of the Cunton Tram ditis week cat Shekeleng, near Can way Company to re-start their burrneks. There are two "Naffys " motor-bus service. The reason given herr-ne in the Hankow" bar- ton, on account of their former is that the buses the Company racks and one in the

Nankin," "Red" afiliations. The Carbon wistres to run are too heavy for Administratia have issued orders Canton roads. Bearing on this car.

which together contain about 1,700 to discharge all farmer members of ringes with iron tyres have been the Communists Party from Kuohibited on ('auton streets. miutang Party service and to guard against further admission of "Reds" into office.

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These branches are similar to the

the at

Peninsula

The headmistress and staff of the larger

Hidas Girls School, Canton,

China Inland Mission, reftand the who are under the auspices of the similar wicker chairs, well-stockeil store rooing and fat barrels of beer, request of son of the students to

Naffy opened on the stroke of 10.00 a.m. and from all diree! tions hurried, mumbers of "Thirsty

Mr. Li Shing Yi, until his revent arrest, Secretary fo the Ministry of Financy in Canton, will be sent to give holiday for the anniversary of Nanking for trial. According The Shanghai "incident." Chinese opinion Mr. Li, although he did the metal work of the Ministry, was only arting for Mr. Soong. Mr. Soong is now ill in Shanghai and is residing within the French Con- eession. Fur some reason, General' Chiang has decided not

motest

AN ANTI-BRITISH DEMON-soldiers until the room was crowd

rd. Nearly every 232022 bought STRATION.

iernonade and a hun or doughnut The Executive Committee of the and sat himself down in an easy ed to arrange an anti-British de

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alternatively to agree to a decision by a Court of Arbitration on the Batter under dispute, a strike wil be called at mid night on June 29th. Such a strike would mean that every ship of the C.N. Co.'s fleet would make for the nearest port and remain there until the settle- meat of the dispute.

The notice has been circulated by the China Coast Officers and Marine Engineers' Guild of China.

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it Was

that point, then such subtle points of law could be argued at a later

stage

So far as he knew, he said, there was my Ordinance in the Colony which made a gambling transaction illegal. The Acts of Parliament before the year 1843 never allowed a transaction of gaining to be illegal unless it was against the public interest. He referred to an instance of a wager on the life of Napoleon which was illegal because it might have induced someone to assassinate link.

His Lordship: We have a gam bling law.

Mr. Russ replied that he did wat think there was any law which & mult with private gambling.

Plaintin's Evidence. The plaintiff suid she Was an ash in the employ of a Chinese living at 19, Tai l'ak Terrace, first floor, The defendant in January, 1936, asked for a loan, and she lent $100 to the defendant, the latter impressing her thumb mark on the pronussory note,

In reply to Mr. Strellett plain-. tiff denied that she had ever been to 31, Square Street, and stated she did not know where the house was. She denied that she had been running a gambling des at that address since April, 1928.

M. Strellett put it to plaintiff. that she took the defendant out to dinner and then took her to 34, | Square Street, where a game of Mah

Jongg was

progress, and that

The next branch visited was that at the No. 3 General Hospital,

she received commission on the Bret Hunghow-where there are a num Ler of huts in course of erection for game. Plaintiff replied it was not the R.A.M.C. When the branch is true, and was invented. She fur- completed in about a fortnight the ther demed ever having heard of patients and staff of the hospital either Mah Jongg or Pai Kau. will be able to obtain, cigarettes Mr. Strellett: "Within 14 days the

him for the time being; but his Kwangting Kuomintang luis devitehair. This is proof of Nuffys and anything else, that is allowed defendant just $1,000 at the game monstration on the ground that the popularity. At that early hour to them. There is at present a British Naval Authorities made her was not obtainable and the temporary Naffy" actually in

Then had to be content with "pop"side the hospital. and buns.

secretary has to answer some of the charges relative to the past. inancial administration in Canton then under Red control.

nreasonable demands count of the sis. Inngshan incident By order frem Nanking, tired that British ariplanes from Ministry of Finance in Canton must Hong Kong have munde "unlawful remit $700,000 to the military com abservations "

over. Chinese

poly.

The Rope Factory where the

A

temporary, inside branch, more suitable building is in course of erection.

of Pai Kau-No, it is not true.

Mr. Strellett further put it to the plaintiff that the defendant There is another "Naffy" at paid $200 and later brought two Whitfield Barracks, and many more jade bangles and two gold bangles, Hong Kong. All these bright being credited with $100 for each clean, and comfortable canteens pair; also that, she (plaintiff) sug- have been installed within the apace gested to the defendant that she' of two mouth in some cases with should bring her clothes to Square brick kitchens and new ovens Street, and a few days, afterwards. remarkable achievement. There is she brought them in two trunks, similarity about the various and that she gave her credit for branches but Tommy does not minul 8500 for the clothes, that. All he wants is the service The plaintiff made a complete that "Nafty" gives him.

denial of this.

manders at the front. from the ritory. The Comittee has his Cameronians are stationed has now Opium Sale Bureau, Since the re decided to urge ance more upon the turn of the Kuomintang to power Provincial Administration and the in Canton nearly two years ago, Foreign Office at Nanking, that opium sale has been a party monocompensation be demanded for the Since the arrival of the Shanghai recent British expendition against

Defence Force 32 branches have Several thousands of workers and Bias Bay without the consent or A large number of students, includ knowledge of the Canton Autho-been organised in Shanghai. In ing some girls, are now in Canton rities. According to the Kuomin Hong Kong there are altogether 14 prisons on a charge of being "Reds tang version of the damage in Kwei- and they have no idea when their Village sne 60 houses were des branches. cases will be tried. For this and troyed and $50,000 worth of pro- other reasons, the demand has been perty lost; in Hoichow, more than made for the removal of Mr. Tang 80 house were destroyed, and Tin Hua, the Canton Chief of $93,000 worth of property while at Police. The Pulice Chief, however, auchow, 15 houses were razed the ery, a butcher was slicing a hind- the public will understand the you practically kept her a prisoner is not wholly responsible for the damage being 825,000. The junks quarter of beef. "Naffy" does present situation. He simply had destroyed by the British included to carry out his orders. But con- 18 sult transports, worth altogether not provide the men's regular meala finement in a Kuomintang prison $9,000; five tow-boats valued at but it provides them with an ex- in hot weather naturally creates 818,000; three small boats at 2000 cellent supper for 30 cents, or a mero sausage and mash for 20 cents. great dissatisfaction."

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and other bouts and junks valued at

several thousand dollars."

So Hong Kong has no cause to Mr. Streflett: After that she fear that its 4,000 soldiers are being played again and lost a further $500 noglected. As long as

Nally,

in your house in Square Street?-- At the Tannery in Kowloon City, has them under its wing they will No.

Now that that And by saying that you would get where about 100 men of the R.A. not grumble.

tious work has been described, if she (defendant) left the house live among great vata and machin-Nally's excellent but unostenta her into trouble with her husband meaning of those cryptic signs so for nearly three weeks.--That is not true. I don't know the place so stand the magnitude of the or how could I have detained her? often see, and they will under- gnalation that ministers from its The case was adjourned for fur Landes Headquarters to the needs ther hearing on Thursday, June world 18th, when the defence will be put

forward.

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