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REDS AND TRADE UNIONS.

SUCCESS OF SUPPRESSION POLICY.

EULOGIES OF SUN YAT SEN.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE MOTORCYCLE RELI

ABILITY TRIAL.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG DAILY PEZSS."]

CANTON IN MOURNING. SIR, The Committee responsible for the recent motor cycle ren [TION OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. liability trial is indebted to so many local companies and residents.

Reports from the districts of Hoi- fung and Lakfung confirur most of what has been reported of the atrocities of the Reds. It ap pears that the situation is now under control thanks to the auccess of

General Chen Tsai Tong, who was charged with the special duty of clearing that territory of the Reds" and putting down opposition to the Kabyle present regime.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY,

THE IRONSIDE

REMNANTS.

CANTON PROTESTS TO NANKING.

SAYS THEY SHOULD NOT BE EMPLOYED.

COMMUNIST APPLICATIONS.

TRAM COMPANY'S EXPERIMENT

TO PREVENT OVER- CROWDING.

OPEN CARS TO GO SQON.

An experiment to check over- crowding was launched by the Hong Kong Tramways Company yester

gates were built on each side of the first class platforms to take the

for assistance in the trial that writ from oun CHINESE CORRESPONDENT] day. On car No. 3, two small iron ing personal letters of thanks is almost impossible. Some who took an active interest in the event aro unknown to us and in view of these circumstances the Committee is com-

pelled to ask the courtesy of your columne so express sincere thanks to all those who assisted in the organisation and successful run- ming of the trials

To facilitate brigandage suppres the names, of which have already To a number of local companies, sion and reconstructive measures in appeared in your columns, the Kwangtung, the territory will be Committee expresses its thansa for divided into four sections, each of donations to the award fund and also for facilities they generously which will be governed by a military provided to lighter considerably the official, who will also supervise the difficult task of marking the course.

The Committee also owes a ̈deep civil administration. The appoint ratitude to the numerous ment of these four officials will prob ably be announced to-day and it is understood that General Chen Ming Shu will be appointed to the South ern Section, including the island of Hainan, with Holbow as his head quarters. The others will probably have Shiukwan, Swatow, and Shiu- hing as their headquarters. INJURED „ INNOCENTS OFF

TO NANKING.

local gentleman who gave up their time to set as checkers, marshals, observers, etc., to local motorista who placed ears at this Committee's disposal, to the Police Department for its interest and very ready co operation, to the Fress for at sympathetic interest in this first event and to all those who so willingly offered their services and by whare, assistance the trial was carried through to a succesful con- cluston

The wide publicity which these thanks will receiva may convey to the many helpers the Committee's dep appreciation of their services,

Yours, etc.

G.SWINBURNE. (Trial Scoretary), ' Hong Kong, March 18th.

way to realize the principles of the Party.":

A manifesto setting forth in un equivocal terms reasons why those in charge of the Northern Punitive

MARCH 14th, 1928.

STELLA DALLAS

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BELLE BENNETT'S TRIUMPH,

[BY QUE FILM CRITIC

The name of Belle Bennett is not well known but she is an actress of really remarkable talent. As Stella Dalar she has to play a part which is not only difficult but calls) for considerable self-sacrifice, and

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pises of the chains which are used she makes of Stella a charnoter STANDARD KEYBOARD

which will live in your memory long

on other cars.

Mr. LC. F. Bellamy, General after the rest of the picture has Manager of the Company, when been forgotten. - Stella Dallas is o Military Expedition should not interviewed by a Daily Prear repre- very lovely girl of lowly origin with ploy the remnants of the forces sentative, said that he is experi- an ambition to marry a gentle under Generals Chang Fat Fui and menting with car No. 34 and if they man, She entangles Stephen Wong Kei Cheung (the Ironsides") proved a success, he would have Dallas (Ronald Coleman) and then her natural vulgarity and lack of Liang Kwang Provinces. The do-

He said that the first class com education cause disaster. Lovely has been issued in the name of the similar gates put on all cars. elaration was addressed to the Cen- partments, both on the bottom and blowsy Stella is bored by her hus tral Executive Committee of the top decks, are arranged in such a band but she loves her child Kuomintang at Nanking and was way that there was no proper stand Laurel, and when he suggests a signed by the following members of ing room and that anyone who did separation and allows her to keep the Canton Branch of the Political stand was a source of great incon- the baby she is only too glad.

From now Miss Bennett Council and of the Liang Kwang venience to the other passengers. begins to act, and, picture by pic Provincial Governments:-Marshal The Company had always done, their cure, to draw your sympathy away Li Tsai Hain; Generals Wong Shiu best to prevent standing on top from the handsome here to her. and more vulgar every year. For sed getting farther, more plowsy, Stella Joves her child with a, tenn- elty and seuf-sacrificing spirit which more than compensate for her lack consents to a divorce in order that of vision; and when at last she Laurel may have a chance socially, she rises to real heights. Lovely Alice Joyce plays Helen Morrison, the second Mire, Dallas; but in the

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Hung, Fan Shek Shang, Chen Hing decks, but in spite of their notices, Shu and Tang Yin Wa; Lieutenant the public did not always General Chiang Awang Nai; operate. Divisional-Commanders Chen Tani In order to prevent people from Tong, Hsu King Tong, Tsai Ting boarding a car whose seats are fill Kai, "Wong Tsik Shing, Wong Gooked, these gates are now brought Chu, Wu Ting Yang, Lu Fun Im and into use. The gate will be closed as soon as all the seats are filled, Liu Yat Fook.

The manifesto first calls attention and people: would thus be prevent interview between the two women;

to the intrigues of Chang Fat and Wong Kei Cheung who,

1

Fued from boarding. A chain did not in prevent people from getting ou be cause they could easily get under collusion with the Communists,

or step over it.There gates are prompted the "insurrection," of Ho

strongly built and anyone attempt Lung and Ip Ting about a year agoing to climb over would need very in Central China. In the ensuing battle the latter were defeated and retreated into Fukien and North-

gave

long legs.

The Central Labour Union in Canton, with which many other smaller unions are affiliated is send ing fire representatives to Nanking to interview leading officials of the Nationalist Government. The said

When asked whether the open representatives are taking exception

ears would remain in use much to some of the acts of General Li

longer, Mr. Bellamy told our repre- All the principal thoroughfares eastern Kwangtung. This Tea: Hair, whose vigorous suppree in Canton were decorated with Chang and Wong their opportunity sentative that there are at present sion of trade unionismi, has not, emblems of mourning. From Wing to return to Kwangtung, ostensibly. quite naturally, met with the Hop-Malco two gigantic and impos approval of the labour leaders, who ing pictures of Dr. Sun wore hung, to destroy the defeated" Ho-Ip only thirty cars of that type on the The portraits were in s frame of remnants, but in reality to controlsun. Workmen are busily engaged now declare that "quite a number white and black-edged cloth and * of unions have never been in any round them were maxims and sayings and exploit the province to their converting these cars into the way under Bolshevist influence and of the leader. Pailaus were also erect own advantage. An indication of closed ones which the general public ed and in addition to the long their object was given by the return that the white" unions should not blacked-edged paper strips inscribed route which they took Instead of be proscribed like the Red ones." with the words In Memoriam

3rd Anniversary of the Trang going to Fukien and Eastern Hwang

bad found very much more.

a particularly on rainy day The work will take a few months to

Canton, however, has suffered many which every merchant was required tung where the rebel troops of Ho-To complete but it was proposed entire.

things from trade unions and is not to post in front of his shop, funeral likely to care about auch distinc-lanterns bearing the same words tions. If a few innocent unions were seen hanging on every other

telephone post in Canton, suffer so much the worse for them for mixing in bad company, is the popular verdict.

Under a recent order of the pre- sent Administration, not only the labour unions still undissolved, but

ADMIRAL BRISTOL TO VISIT CANTON.

were

concentrated they approach ed Canton by Shiukwan and the Canton-Hankow Railway.

against another and caused, discord,

Is to abolish the open cars.

Buses To Aberdeen Before Long........

The scheme of running buses to When, Chang and Wong had firmly Aberdeen is still pending, said Mr. established themselves in Canton, Bellamy, Governmental sanction adds the manifesto, Wang Ching has not yet been obtained and until mander-in-Chief of the American

Admiral Mark L. Bristol, Com-Wei, Chen Kong Bok and other such permission is given, he could Asiatic Squadron, is expected to tools of the Chinese Communist aut say how many buses the Com- also Kuomintang clubs throughout spend two days in Canton later this Party were invited to join the Gov-peny would bring into operation. the Province of Kwangtung have month, when part of his fleet will ernment. These people set one class had to cease their usual activities be at Hong Kong. It is possible until they are purged of Bolshevist that some of the American destroy influence. It is alleged that many ers may also be seen at Canton Kuomintang clubs in the districts The programme has not yet been are still in the hands of Reds. decided upbu, but it will most likely Even the City Kuomintang in Can- include an official visit to Marshal ton has had to suspend functioning Li Tasi Hain.-* until reorganization by a committed of five appointed by the Branch Political Council in Canton. At pre- sent two rival factions are trying to

WANTED. get control of the organization."

Canton merchants are still pur Mr. Tai Chi Tao, president of the suing a very cautions business Sun Yat Sen University and a policy. When pressed for a reason member of the Political Council, they appear to be very dissatisied arrived in Canton last Sunday, with the recent announcement of after an absence of several months. General Chiang Kai-Shek at Nan His return is being taken as an indication that Canton is returning to normal and that educational work may now continue peacefully.

NO MORE

GLORY

hatred and animosity between the MONEYLENDERS AT LAW. labourers and the merchants, cul- minating in the Communist aprising in Canton on December 11th last when thousands of shops and houses were looted and burned and thou- sands of innocent people were killed in cold blood

THE POWER TO PAY,

CONFLICTING TALES AT THE

·SUMMARY COURT.

A Hong Kong Hotel barber had berrowed money from an Indian without apparently much prospect of paying it back. The barber offer ed to pay about 63 a month, while the money lender thought that 820 was nearer the amount that should

Summary Court split the difference and made an order for payment of $19 a month.

such being their deeds, states the declaration, the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang at Nanking should acquiesce in the king that the Northern Expedition: people's wish and place Chang and teas to go on. The merchants are asking What is the use of it Wong under arrest. The remnants all? They have faith, however, of their army which had escaped be paid. Mr. Justice Wood in the The Sun Yat Sen University will in the assurances made by Marshal from Kwangtung and marched North lead other schools in Canton in Li Tai Hoia and General Cheir observing Arbour Day, to-day and Ming Shu that they will not agnia to offer their services in the cam to morrow when trees will be plant involve Canton in any struggle be-paign against the Northern mill- ed on the Second Agricultural tween rival militarists. The general tarista could only amount to a few Experiment Station of the Univer opinion is that even if General thousand men very poorly equipped sity at Stekpieb

unng succeeds in reaching Peking, the baly result will be a triangular They should not have been ac ANNIVERSARY OF DR. SUN civil war among Yen Shib Shan cepted without being thoroughly YAT SEN'S DEATH. of Shansi, Feng Yu Hsiang and reorganised. The turbulent spirits

Chiang Kai Shek

Canton is in no financial position should have been sifted out and The vernacular press in Canton was flooded yesterday with re salaries in some of the Government

The punished. At present they besmirch to enter into another war. miniscences, eulogies, photographs and hand writing specimens of the offices are five months in arrears and the good name of the Nationalists. late Dr. Sun Yat Sen Special in some schools nothing has been articles appeared on her life and his paid to the teachers since the end forty years work or a revolutionary, on his Ban Min Principles, and on his antional policy. These lengthy.

of last year

ARBOUR DAY

HALLE

Another registered money leader said he had lent $200 to the two defendante, who were motor-car owners. The money had been lent in July, but up to the present ho had not received a cent for it. The first defendant had a very different story to tell. He did not borrow the The manifesto carefully refrains money at all, it was borrowed by a from indicting any one at Nanking, women, bat he signed the note" as But it is an indirect attack on the plaintiff said he would not have Chiang Kai Shek, who had been the signature of a woman on a docu instrumental in taking the remnante | ment.

it is to fat, vulgar, Stelia a her

drawn, not to the perfectly gowned outrageous clothes that you are Helen

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The love between mother and holds them together and yes makes child and the understanding which them so pitifully apart is excellent- ly worked out, and Miss Loit Moran, who certainly has a future before her, plays the part of Laurel beautifully, E

We enjoyed Stella Dalas be- cause although not a new film it

many pictures lack. Though the has a quality of veracity which very story in every detail may not per haps be convirting the emotion many Shas fail Stella Dallas

an unusually hae f'm which wer rings true and that is where so

It starts

very much recommend. directly after the overture

LAICHIKOK MURDER.

INDIAN WATCHMAN

CHARGED.

FORMAL EVIDENCE TAKEN

____YESTERDAY.____

The care in which Sandogar Singh, formerly a watchman at the Standard Oil Installation at Ldi- chikok, is charged with the murder. of a fellow watchman named Jets Singh was again, before Mr. W. Schofield: at the Kowloon Magie; tracych w PIAEA

The accused is being represented by Mr. F. & Chowdhury, and the case for the prosecution is being | conducted by Mr. T S Whyte Smith

The accused, it will be remember- ed, was alleged to have inflicted the fatal wounds with a chopper, The had been drinking and that while prosecution allege that both men they were carousing together they were on the best of terme Appar this fiendly feeling the crime is alleged to have happened into enmity after the debauch. The on February 18th at 9 pm

Evidence given at yesterday's pro- Mr. C. Lamb of the P.W.D. deposed ceedings was of a formal nature. to the various plans he had made of the locality and also to the farmi- cupied by the defendant and the ture contained in the quarters oc- murdered man

A Chinces înterpreter also gave evidence regarding the various

shops adjacent to the watclamen's quarters whoss owners appear as witnesses The case was again adjourned,

A FIGHT AFTER MOTOR COLLISION.

BODANCE INDIAN GETS THE WORST

articles in the native newspapers recall practically every outstanding. In preparation for Arbour Day: event in Dr. Sun's career. The on March 18th public meetings were of the Ironsides" for the Northern He further said that the amount story of the narrow escape from the held yesterday and others will take Expedition against Peking in spite received was only $100-upon which hands of the Manchu Minister in place to-day at the Sun Yat Sen of the warnings and protests from he had paid interest up to the end

University and in the hall of the Canton London some twenty years ago is related and also bow he hid first in Kuomintang Party Building. School

of the year. When he signed the one place and then in another to children, officials and the general The manifesto concluder with the note in Inly the paper was blank, avoid the vengeance of the Manchus public, were prged to take part and

He was anlogized as the model among the speakers were Marthal necessity for constructive work in but the plaintiff had. filled in the Li Tani Hain. According to Mr. Kwangtung and elsewhere. The wording by December when he said revolutionary worker. The alliance

Shet Pan Fei, dean of the Depart-annihilation of the Communists, the he was going to see offered to their conduct ment of Agrior tural and Forestry

of banditry assistance Pay $100 and interest from the be

Chicas chauffeur and on In dian who resorted to blows when they failed to settle the question of damages ar

a motor the parking wikice at common in Bad Road" appeared before Mr

Magistr "resterony to answer for with Russia, the acceptance of Com muniste into the Kuomintang, and of the Canton people are annually suppre

The Indian came to Court/with bloodstained handkerchief round the work for

the farmers and losing $10,000,000 or more owing to for people in distress, afforestation, ginning of the year,

his head and with thing face still labourers are discussed and reasons bad forestry and wanton felling of the construction of public highways, tained that the wintroduced to After being the evidence, both The second defendant also main bearing streaks of congealed blood. given why they had to be abander trees far firewood without replant

and the opening of factories are the plaintiff by the woman on behalf mass were bound overilm ed. But the principles of the Kuomintang once enunciate, re

16th many lending some of the constructive works which, of whom the note, was signed, but bonds of 5%, for their futu | officials and prominent merchants

toare to lay the money lender denied ever behaviour. according to

festo, are to having seen her or having had any dation fo Willville, Chaipei riot From: Toushan long the Canton Low

by the present dealings with her, there was some Manisti loon Railway, to plant treeK

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