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ARSENAL EXPLOSION.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR IN

CANTON.

BOYCOTT COMMITTEE

RESOLUTIONS.

ACTION BY FUKIEN AND

AMOY MERCHANTS,

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, May 27th. The causes of the explosion at the Government arsenal at Shek Chiang, last Thursday afternoon in which

CANTON COMMUNISTS.

CAPTURED

AN "EARLY MORNING RAID."

CONFESSION OF ARRESTED COUPLE.

A party of special service detec tives raided a house in Tao "Fu

Street, Canton, on the morning of the 2nd. They had information that this house was the lair of a communist lender, and that plot- ting was being carried on

there. "On entering the premises the officers found only a woman in the house. She was the wife of the man they were after, and said that her husband had left a few days

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 28th, 1928.

LEPROSY IN SOUTH CHINA.

PREVALENT IN HONG KONG?

BISHOP TO BE CONSECRATED IN A LEPER SETTLEMENT,

THE FATHER DAMIEN TRADITION.

move about went out and begged or stole. Those who could not move who gave them a cup of tea or a were fleeced by their fellow lepers drop of water to wash their sores only on payment of exorbitant den can better be imagined than described. Needless to say, auicides were frequent.

"THAT'S MY DADDY."

DELIGHTFUL COMEDY AT THE QUEEN'S.

REGINALD DENNY AND A

BABY STAR

PICTURES SHEWING THIS WEEK.

[BY OUR FILM CRITIC]

That's my

You will enjoy,

"Shek-lung, the island of death and hope. Many heard of it for the first time when they read the appeal recently made by the lepera to His Holiness; the Pope, begging him not to take from them their prices. The conditions in this foul. Daddy" at the Queen's' to-day. It father and friend, Father (now gr.) Deswazieres who is to leave Shik-lung to become bishop of the vicariate of Fakhoi, still in the Province, although not in the vicariate of Canton in which the leper island is situated. But even

friend, the lepers of Shek-lung are to be honoured in a way that is perhaps unique in the history of the church. On June 24th of this year, Mgr. Deswazieres is to be con- secrated bishop, and the place chosen by him for his consecration is the chapel on the leper island of Shek-lung.

VALUE AND PRICE

ABE VERY DIFFERENT THINGS. IT IS EASY TO GET THE PRICE OF AN

ARTICLE

· DIFFERENT -- BUT QUITE A MATTER TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT Irs VALUE.

WE DO NOT SUGGEST THAT NO NOTICE BE TAKEN OF PRICE, BUT IT IS CERTAINLY UNWISE TO TAKE NOTICE OF IT AT THE EXPENSE OF QUALITY.

you like comedies, and there

can be. very few people who do not, you these poor wretches. The hope was

Nat until 1907 did hope come for will find in it a fresh and delightful the arrival in Canton of Father outlook and singularly few of Louis Lambert Conrardy. Born in the recognised stunts." Reginald twelve years sa a missioner in Pondicherry. Then he joined Charlie's book and written his own Damien in Molokai, helped him in his work for lepers and closed his story, and he has also found a very eyes when he died. He studied charming co-star in the person of UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE

seven workmen were injured, are ago for Waichow. The table was though they loss their father and Lege in July 1941, he first spent Denny has taken a leat out of

inåd for the morning meal, and the appartennaces indicated a meal for two. They therefore secured the woman, and secreted themselves in the house to await visitore,

still a mystery. The theory that the explosion was due to overheating has been abandoned and Mr. Chu Chung Wo, Managing Director of the Government Arsenal, is now making a searching investigation " Vigilance Rewarded. into the matter. He said that several After a wait of about half an hundreds of barrels of explosives | hour, their man walked in, but were recently bought and placed in turned and bolted the moment the Several separate rooms. Only thone police disclosed their presence. A in the first and the second rooms sharp sprint developed, and the oxploded, the rest being unaffected.police oficials drew their weapons All the explosives in the other and fired a few rounds to the air rooms, however, have been remov as a warning. The man halted, ed. Contrary to earlier reports no and in due course was taken to the fatalities occurred. All the seven Station, whither his better half had also been brought. From thence they were taken to the Bureau of

injured workmen will recover, ac- cording to the medical report.

FUKIEN AND CANTON MERCHANTS.

Public Safety.

Under examination

기

the

Bureau, the couple 'confessed nad Fukien and "Amoy merchants in committed their history to paper.

-Father Conrardy.

medicine and took a medical de gree, and in 1907 this old warrior, 68 years of age, frail in body "and suffering from asthma, arrived in Canton to begin a work which Is is the height of rashness to would task all the vitality of youth trust statistics where China is con- and health. He did not know a gerned. At best they are intel-word of the Chinese language, ligent guesswork. Yet when one is told that Yon Vloten estimated that there were one million lepers in China, when one sees that the new Chinese Mission to Lepers (of which later) accepts this as a work. ing estimate, when one hears that (in the opinion of Sir Leonard Rogers) one-third of the lepers of the world are in China, one readily assents to the proposition that, at least, leprosy is widespread, very widespread in China.

South China,

Canton have stopped sending Chi-Tas man is about 20 years of age, Lee, of the Pakhoi Christian nese goods to Japan and have re- and a native of Waishow.

It is reported that a quantity of documents were seized in the house.

This article is dealing with South China and here the statistics given are still more alarming. Mr. Mission Leper Hospital, himself a leper and an indefatigable worker in the cause of the lepers, estimates that one per cent, of the popula tion of the provinces of Kwang tung and Kwangsi are lepers and that in some districts the number is as high as 3 per cent. ur per cent of the population. He con

probably two-thirds

fused to order further goods from Japan. This step will have con "siderable affvet upon the Japanese i

traders in Canton, whose principal GIRL COMMUNISTS CAUGHT. business has been in those goods. This action was in answer to a letter from the Chamber of Com-RED LEAFLETS UNEARTHED. | siders that merce of Foochow which states that all transhipments of Chinese mer- chandise, ores, and raw materials for the manufacture of explosivea are being stopped.

RESOLUTIONS.

The

little Jane La Verne.

Verne is a wealthy, young man on the eve of marriage with a young woman who proposes to use his money at the firit opportunity to procure a divorce. Why he has got engaged to her is not. explained, It is tempting to delay on the but probably she landed him in muck early efforts of this remarkable the same way as the baby did.

A thousand pictures come man.

Then " Pudge" appears with her before the mind at once. We see him setting off in the early morning tager ery of "That's my Daddy." for the settlement at the east of and despite Denny's attempts to the city, taking with him a crust keep his word to his fiancée she of bread and a hard-boiled egg as his day's provision. He walks the sets the marriage. for the most revolting cases, baptis-biful; not over, sophisticated or strects of the city, cares on the spot Pudge, Jane la Verne, is de ing many in articulo mortis. We see him burying the leper dead over pretty, but a clever little whom no one else would dare to

actress; and despite £14 hint of touch.

Finally, he brought a part of overty and cruelty, sentiment is an island on the East River, not never allowed to swamp the joyous far from the market town of Shek comedy or the very much engaged lung, about half-way in the train from Hong Kong to Canton. Heng man and the baby who adopts set up a pavilion for men and one him. for women, a house for the re- igious who were to come and help him and a shelter for himself.

dozens of kepera. He was at once There he began work with some

father, doctor, consoler, priest, liv- of China's lapers are in Kwang.ing and eating as the poorest of tung, Kwangs and Fukien." He his lepers without even a servant The police raided another Com-plates the number for Kwangtung cooking and re-cooking his own alove at 200.000 lepers! I may add food-for six years, wearing such munist den in No. 8, Sui Shek that Mgr. Deswazieres, with whom clothes as his benefactors gave him, For six years, by the most rigid Street where four big boxes of I discussed this matter of statistics, Bolshevik propaganda terature, gave me as his opinion that no economy in the use of his resources, one can give anything approach.he housed 60 lepers Then came re- and a printing outfit were found.

ing an accurate estimate of the cognition from the Canton Govern- The anti-Japanese boycott com. The premises were occupied by number of lopers in China. Hement. An agreement was entered mittee of Kwangtung, whose for four girls who were playing" Mah himself quotes a much more con into, They would put no mation was proposed after the anti-,

servative estimate, placing the buildings and provide 10 cents a Japanese, demonstration in Canton Jong" when the police arrived.

number of lepers in the province day for each leper. In turn, Father Conrardy would bind him- of Kwangtung "at 50,000. some weeks ago, held its initial They were all taken to the Bureau

self to receive all lepers sent to meeting yesterday morning at the of Public Safety for examination figure is quite appalling enough in

him by the Government. City Kuomintang headquarters and detention

conscience. Plans for the boycott of Japanese goods have been drawn up and ap. proved and a formal declaration of the aim and work of the Committee will be issued in the near future.

The meeting was presided over by Mr. Ma Chiu Tacon, Commissioner of Labour and Peasantry, and re presentatives of some 15 organiza tions, including the General Labour Union, the Canton Students' Asso- ciation, the Provincial and "City Kuomintangs, and the Canton Chamber of Commerch were there, the delegates numbering over 60. Resolutions have passed embodying

It is learned that the owner of the house is a young woman aus- pected to be the leader of a gang of Communists. A warrant for her arrest has been issued.-Conton Guzette.

EAST RIVER REGION REHABILITATION.

a

New buildings went up, a neigh- In Hong Kong.

boring island was secured for the As to the Hong Kong colony women lepers and on September British territory. officially there are no lepers in the 20th, 1913 the first government con-

The moment a tingent of lepers arrived. By Oc case of leprosy is discovered, the tober the new settlement had 700

in ) lepers, men and women. unfortunate victim is taken charge by the police, put on the

Moral Transformation. Canton boat in charge of a detec-

What a revolution it has been in tive and set free again on Chinese soil, being forbidden to return to the life of the leper! Father Con- the Colony. Nevertheless, those best Tardy took these

outcasts of

Reginald Deany has made some excellent comedies and That's my

wreath. We hope he will give us Daddy "adds another laurel to hia

more of his own stories and that they will continue to show the same freshness and originality, PROGRAMMES FOR THE WEEK.

Queen'sTMTM

To-day-" That's my Daddy." To-morrow and Wednesday:- "Simon the Jester," a well-known W. J. Locke novel with Eugene O'Brien and Lillian Rich

Thursday to Saturday :-Laura' lo Flante inFinder's Keepers."

World.

To-day :-"Three Weeks in Paris," another "Innocents abroad" story with plenty of good fun in it.

To-morrow, and Wednesday::-" IẠ Zat So," the comedy of a prize fighter..

Thursday to Saturday: The Heart of Salome."

Star.

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To-day "Man of the Forest,"

Tuesday and Wednesday: "You'd be Surprised," a burlesque mystery comedy.

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the spirit of the anti-Japanese meet RELIEF WORK PROCEEDING, than the police and medical "au-But more, he made of these out Preferred," the amusing story of a

ing of some weeks ago and in favour of a thorough investigation for Japanese goods. The search, it was suggested, should be entrusted to the labour and merchants guilds which act jointly. Reports will sub-sufferers of the late disturbances. This state of things still more ap-

mitted to the Committee in due

course.

Y.M.C.A. MEMBERSHIP

CAMPAIGN.

dition of there outcasts of

Thursday to Saturday" Ankles

working girl whose legs got her into difficulties.

SING SONG GIRL.

AGAIN REMANDED.

- The Chinese who describes him- scl as broker employed at

qualised to know pour scorn on Bumanity, so often regarded by Jack Holt in a Zane Grey story, this claim to immunity. High au- their countrymen, as pests to be

exterminated, And recreated thorities have assured me that there is far more leprosy in the Colony human society of those whom human society had vomited forth. thorities suspect. One reliable xu thority assured me the trained eye tian colony.

casts of a pagan province, a Chris can discover lepers among the The Relief Bureau has been doing passers-by on the streets of Hong a volunteer was called for by the But Father Coarardy, was old, ry good relief work among Kong itself.

Bishop of Canton and Father Gus Northern France (of Flemish In the East River region, the palling when one considers the con- Worth Deswazieres of Tourcoing THE "BROKER AND THE countryside has been pacified and humanity. The leper is an outcast. Parents) came forward and at the age of 32 he made the sacrifice of the "red" influences cleaned out. He is excommunicated by society his life for the lepers. The future and even by his own family. He is Conditions are becoming peaceful deprived of all rights. Even to cite bishop of Pakhoi had all the zeal of Damien or Conrardy. and normal. Inhabitants of the re- his name it a dishonour to the

“Here I am,” he said in 1925, "a The Canton Chinese FM.C.Agion who were forced to flee for family. It is common

invite the

leper amongst the lepers, banished opened its annual membership cam-

leper even to end his own life in paign last night (Saturday) with their lives soms months ago, are order to save the family name from as they are, but am I not happy! Messrs. Kitting & Company was

Do you know my dearest wish! I foreign dinner at the T.M.C.A. now slowly returning to their disgrace. building on the Bund. The cam houses. The Relief Bureau plans Is it any wonder that moral de- would like above all to form here again at the Central Magistracy on the charge of demanding monies a leper clergy drawn from this paign is under the direction of Mr.

make pravity generally goes with lep- Poon Trui Tung, Manager of the to uarist all these refugees

number of chosen ones the rudi-song girl at the Empress Hotel.

It was alleged at the previous Taishing Textile Factory in Sai- new start. Transportation faci rosy Hounded from society, the settlement, and I intend to teach with renaces from a Chinese sing leper becomes a thief, a beggar, a the Y.M.C.A. Co-operating closely assistance given where necessary sciver to prostitution in their young

Canton, and President of lities are being furnished, monetary ambler; women lepers give them ments of Latin and the essentials hearing that the defendant 'made'a |

of theology that they may help us with the various secretaries of the and cow special officers are to be days when the disease has not ye to civilize and christianise the practice of extracting money from

these girls by means of threats. Y.M.C.A. are a score or so of despatched to ascertain the number disfigured them, and so spread the

others."

The case for the defence is that This same heroism is shared by Government officials and other proof people who have lost their all, foul disease..

and are now hömeless and penniless. minent men in the city.

Lepers are to be seen begging on Father Chow. This Chinese priest the girl was an old lover of the defendant who "throw him over," The membership drive is under It is planned to afford every assist the roadside from passers-by. They remains an enigms to his pagan the direction of 14 groups, each

ance to these people, and stepa are

touch him, to dress his wounds, ed up a story that he threatened with a captain appointed directly under way to provide free land be in little sampans on the rivers compatriots. To receive a leper, to and when remonstrated with trump-

to kill her. -holding out a long "pole with a for the victims to cultivate.parsa on the end of it for the alms speak with him and treat him as

a man these things pass the com-interest amongst the Chinese com- of passing boats.. They attend funerals and threaten that the prehension of the pagan.

The women's island is under the manity and the Court has been ghost of lepers will haunt the dead man in the other world unless the direction of French-Canadian Sis packed at every hearing, many Bura specified is paid by theters of the Immaculate Concep professional colleagues of the com- relatives. They have even been tion. A Chinese Sister orks with plainant being present.

them and was of invaluable help: known, in revenge, deliberately to spread the disease amongst those as an interpreter while the Cana dian Sisters were learning the who have incurred their dis-

fanguage. pleasure...

by the Y.M.U.A. Among these captains are Dr. Chao Hain Chu, Commissioner for Foreign Affairs of Ewinztung; Mr Tung Cho Man, Commissioner of Finance;

Canton Gazette.

A CANTON PROJECT.

Mr. Cheuk Suk Wo, Managing TSINAN MEMORIAL BELLS. Director of the Canton Sincere Company Ltd., General Wa Teh Ching, Commissioner of Recon- struction; Dr Paul Todd, a well known American Physician and Surgeon in Canton; Admiral Chen

Danton.

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The case has aroused considerable

The case was further remanded

until Thursday the 31st instant.

The leper settlement of Bhek-lang Father Conrardy died at Hong According to the Canton Gazette chief of the Canton Nary; the local Councils have jointly pro-

Kong on August 24th, 1924 after has cared for a total of between Yet, until Shek-lung came into eight days illness. On his death-3,000 and 4,000 lepers. It is for Mr. Poon Trui Tung, Mr. Tam posed that three huge bells be cast Tai Chi, Manager of the Canton and mounted in Yuet Shou Public existence, little or nothing was bed he blessed, his successor and all practical purposes, the pioneer done to relieve their awful lot. It helper, Mgr. Desvazieres. His one in leper work. It is true that the Waterworks: Mr. Chiu You Tze; Park, as a perpetual reminder of is true that the Canton Government regret was to die at a distance small leper settlement of Ban Tam, Professor of Chemistry in Lingnan the lives lost at Tainan.

had founded a settlement on the from his lepers; his one desire, about three miles from the city of University and General Gaston K.

Another ten or more bells, of east side of the city and some often expressed, that he should be Tungkun, and run by German Wong Tranquilization Commis smaller size are also to be cast and three miles distant from it. But, buried without coffin, rolled in a Protestant missioners, was founded sioner of South Kwangtung..

Mr. Lam Pak Kwan, a secretary hung at all important centres and it was not from any desire to simple mat, between two lepers some years before it; the number

schools, and all these bells are to alleviate the leper's lot. of the .M.C.A., told our reprebe rung twice every day, at 6 XD.

His remains still in Hong for was about twenty; it women and children were housed Kong, waiting their solemn trang ceived Government recognition only sentative that of the $18,000, need- ed 87,600 has already been promis and. 6 p.m. in memory of the there promiscuously. The Govern-fer to the settlement at Shek-lung, as a consequence of Shek-lung's re- ed. At the dinner last night all Tsinan casualtica.

The three bg bells are each to hement provided them with twenty where he will reat among his becognition, and today it cares for

cente a day and left them to loved lepers. their lot. Those who could (Continued at foot of next column.)

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of the objects of the Y.M.C.A.

some tons in weight.

about 150 lepers..

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