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THE KWANGTUNG GOVERNMENT.

REORGANISATION SCHEME

PUBLISHED.

LI TSAI HSIN AT HEAD.

FOUR DEPARTMENTS INSTEAD OF SIX.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, June 10th.

The long-talked-ol réorganisation of the Provincial Government of Kwangtung has now been officially decided upon. The whole adminis tration has been overhauled and reorganised in sccordance with the order of the Nationalist Govern- ment at Nanking. A new constitu tion for the Province, which had long been under contemplation, has finally been approved and publicb- ed. The new instrument of the Provincial Administration provides only four Departments and Secretariat. The old constitution provided six, so two departments will have to be closed.

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The setting up of the new Con- atitution will involve a thorough shifting of the personnel. While most of the members of the old Administration will serve with the now regime, there are not a few who will be left out altogether.

PRINCIPAL OFFICIALS. The members of the new provin cial regime are as follows: Marshal Li Teai Hain, Generals Chen Ming Shu, Hau King Tong, Mesers. Fang

Obo Man, Liu Trai Po, Wu Koon Ki, Wu Teh Shing, Li Luk Chiu, Ma Chiu Tsun, and Wong Teit, and Dr. Chao Hsin Chu, the Foreign Commissioner of Kwangtung. Both Messrs. Fung Cho Man and Lia Isoi Po will retain their port as

AMERICA AND CHINA.

CANTON PROFESSOR'S FRANK CRITICISM.

MORE DIPLOMACY THAN INVESTMENT,

TRIBUTE TO "OPEN DOOR " DOCTRINE.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 11th, 1928!

KENNEDY ROAD INCIDENT,

CHINESE SENTENCED TO ONE MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT.

AN APPEAL TO BE LODGED.

Before Lt. Col. F. Eaves, D.S.O. (Acting First Magistrate), Chung Yu Fan, the son of a wealthy Chinese, who is socused of having behaved in an indecent manner before two European ladies, was found guilty and sentenced to ohr

*[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDANT.]] month's imprisonment."

CANTON, June 10th.

Dr. S. H. Tan delivered a lecture before the members of the Arts and Science Slub of Lingnan University last Friday evening in Swasey Hall

the "Financial Policy of the Caited States in China.". The lecture was open to the public and was largely attended by, both Chinese and foreigners. The lecturer spoke in English for more than an hour.

Dr. Tan is an American return ed student, having obtained his doctor's degree in the University of Chicago. Before he went to America, he graduated from A

college in Shanghai. He is a keen studeat of international affairs and was for a time connected with the Georgetown Foreign Service in Washington, DC. He is a man of wide and varied experience, having travelled extensively both in China and abroad. He returned to Can ton some time ago and is in touch with the officials of the 'present regime.

The lecture was divided into four parts, the atroduction, the general anrial policy of the United States in China as enunciated from time to time by the American Government, the policy in its appli ention, and the results of the Ame rican financial policy in China. The lecturer pointed out that in the relations between the United States and China there was a constant and grave discrepancy between the theory of diplomacy as grandilo. quently announced in diplomatic notes and on domestic political plat- forms, and the practice as actually worked out on the battlefield of rival nationalistic interests. There was also a distinction, he said, be tween the general principles adopt ed by the United States Foreign Office and the temporafy decisions which meet with as much sagacity as possible certain specific incidents as they arise. The former are the inheritance of the Department, and do not come from any one man; while the latter are executive de cisions, specially made with refer- ence to specific questions and cir- cumstances.

first

was

Mr. F. H. Loseby" who appeared on behalf of the defendant asked for bail ponding an application for leave to appeal against the deci- axed bail at $1,000 cash. The two sion. The ingistrate, agreed but previous hearings

were before Major C. Willson.

defence laid stress on the fact that Mr. Loseby in his address for the the two ecmplainants had not point- ed out his client by his facial an- At the time of the alleged offence pearance but merely by his build.

it was too dark to see the offen-

Mr. Loseby con, der's features, tended that this was a most up- satisfactory identification for a case of the importance of this one for the accuced.

The complainants had stated that the cyclist wore a white shirt, mackintosh overalls and no hat. "My client, continued Mr. Lose- by, was wearing exactly the came clothes he has on now "(a gray suit and a khaki shirt) and both his wife and her antah who met. him. in Kennedy Road have given evi- dence on onth to this effect."

Alleged Parjury 1

Mr. Loseby aleo remarked that his client was a married man with children and it was incredible that a man of his standing should have committed such an act. A convic tion would mean that his wife, his relations and family would disown him, and, being Chinese, the seriousness

of the offence 14 doubled. It ecems to me," said Mr. Loschy, "that the complain- nats do not know who actually did the act and have blamed my client. They are deliberately committing

perjury,

Magistrate On Security.

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WEST RIVER DISASTER.

S.S. "KOCHOW" SUNK OFF WANGMOON."

TWO BRITISH WARSHIPS TO THE RESCUE.

MANY CASUALTIES FEARED.

News of the disaster which befall the British steamer Kochow was wirelessed to the Colony early yesterday, It was reported that the vessel had sunk at one o'clock on Sunday morning off Wangmoon White Light.

The full story of the disaster was gathered later in the day when the as Kong Ning arrived here with the survivors. It ap peared that the Kochow was proceeding to Kongmoon and on enter ing the ridge off Wangmoon, she went aground." This is always a dangerous place being shallow and a swift westerly current was running at the time of the accident...

Immediately the Kochow grounded, the passengers rushed to the port side of the ship. Their weight heeled the vessel and with the added force of the current which was running in that direc tion, the ship went right over on to her port side. Pandemonium reigned and most of the passengers completely lost their head. Several of them jumped into the water and were drowned.

BRITISH GUNBOATS TO THE RESCUE.

Captain Morgan, of the ill-fated Enchor, was able to fire a rocket as a signal of distress and two British warships, the Onslaught and Nessus, at once went to the rescue. They were ablo to take of the great number of the passengers and also picked up several from the water.

The Kochie was at this time sinking fast, and toward day- light, only her 'masta were showing.

The passengers were later transferred to the s.s. Kong Ning which was then returning to Hong Kong from Kongmoon. They arrived here yesterday at noon.

Our representative was at the wharf waiting for the survivors who presented a moat pathetic sight. They were mostly women and children. Some were weeping bitterly at the loss of their" husbands and children and nearly all had lost their personal be longings. The Tung Wah Hospital, always to the fore in charity work, sent a representative to the wharf to assist survivors who may be in need of food and shelter until they can obtain relief from friends or relatives.

A. Burvivor's Story.

mand. The last time that she fell

Kaval Wireless Report.

One of the survivors interviewed into the hands of the pirates re- by a Daily Preis reporter, was sulted in the death of, ber Chief The Magistrate decided that the defendant was guilty, and remark still auffering from the shock. He Officer, Mr. Black. ed that the offence was very seri-trembled as he spoke, and remarked ous, and in view of this fact he that the passengers were in such a would have to sentence the delen-state of pazio that it was hard to dant to go to jail for one month.

Mr. Loseby then asked for bail know what exactly had happened. pending an appeal, and asked if Just after midnight, he was not sure of the time, the ship suddenly it could be in a personal bond, as they had not got ready cash. The Magistrate agreed but remarked struck a sand-bank. There was a list to one side, and water began that he wanted $1,000 in cash as a

to enter the lower deck, security.

Mr. Loseby: "I"might remind your Worship of the words of the Chief Justice a good security better than cásb.'

His Worship: "I would rather have good cash."

Chinese Government and its ad- ministrative division. Most of these are only parchment. Among Ameri- can enterprises in China, railway projects seems to have been the

"The passengers were ordered to the other side of the vessel to balance the ship but the rice cargo, piled up amidships, prevented them, Then the stack of rice bags toppled over and a number of passengers were buried underneath and these probably all lost their lives.

The ship was, however, fast on

A report of the disaster received by the Naval Wireless Station read as follows:- The West River str Kochor, of British registry and owned by the Tai Hing S.S. Co., of No. 60, Koshing Street, was sunk at 1 am, on Sunday off Wang, moon White Light. All survivors, roughly about 30, have been taken off and are now in the Customs Hulk and some in junks. They will re- turn to Hong Kong by the first available ateamer. It is not known how many lives were lost, but it is thought that the number is small,"

300 Passengers On Board. From the owners of the Kochow we learned that the vessel left Hong Kong on Saturday at 5.30 p.m. with about three hundred passengers,.. 1,110 bags of rice and a miscellane-

Commissioner of Finance and as Commissioner of Civil Affaire re spectively. The heads of all the other departments have beca changed. Thus the portfolio of the "Department of Education has been given to Mr. Wong Tsit. Mr. Heu Chung Ching who, for many years has been Commissioner of Educa- tion, has not recoived any appoint meat in the Provincial Govern ment. Mr. Wu Teh Shing will no longer be the Commissioner of

The "Open Door." Reconstruction; the post having The speaker dwelt at length upon been given to Mr. Ms Obiu, Teun, the Open Door Doctrine who has been Commissioner of enunciated by John Hay, maintain- ing that that far-sighted doctrine Labour and Peasantry ever since of the American stateman the Chang Fat Fai regime was meant to counteract the forces ousted. Mr. Wu, however, will making for the disintegration of the

Chinese Empire."That doctrine,' continue to be a member of the he said, "warrants special recog Provincial Government. Mr. Linition. It was not only in harmony least. successful. If the Americans the bank and in no immediate Luk Chin, who has been Commis with the American traditional claims had availed themselves of the op- danger of sinking. The steam siren for equal commercial privileges in portunities offered to them and had sioner of Industries, has been made China, and with the growing inter-carried out the contracts for steel was blown continuously, and pre- Director-General of the department esta of the trading nations, but also rails, sleepers and freight cars, they sently two British warships came for opening up Whampoa as

had averted the probable dismem- would have financed and built alongside and took off passengers.

direct and almost continuous (ex- berment of the Chinese Empire."

Describing the wreck the man” ocean port.

Continuing, Dr. Tan sald that cept for a short distance from Chin said that after a while the current It is believed that about 10 or American financial activities in chow to Peking) line of communi. THE DEPARTMENTS.

China for the past 30 years cannot cation from Aigun on the Armur must have moved the ship into 80 persons have lost their, lives in River to Canton with a branch line deeper water for when he saw the the disaster. Of the 300 passengers, The Provincial Administration be said to have been successful

Many Opportunities. will consist of the Departments of

trunk lines branching into the in last of her only the funnel and masts excluding crew, the s.s. Kong Ning brought back about 160 not includ- "Americans have been given more terior provinces, and secured numer. were visible. Civil Affairs, Education, Recon-

ing the Chinese crew and Captain investment opportunities in China ous practical trade, financial and

The Iliated Vessel, struction, and Judiciary. Hereto- than the people of any other for other advantages incidental to rail-'

The as. Kocha was certainly an Morgan and two other European fore there have also been the eign nationality. China's policy has way development.

Many are the factors which ill-fated vessel. It will be remem- officers. There were other survivors Department of Labour and Pes-been to offer to Americans as special

sucecas of bered that she was pirated no less taken to Kongmoon by H.M.S. santry and the Department of In-trusts certain strategic railways, have minimized the

reform American finance in China. Espe than three times last year.

She Onslaught and it is understood that dustries. Their work will be tura-loans and development' works, be- cially significant is the opposition

there are a few more in the "Cus- was formerly commanded by "ed over respectively to the Depart-sides other contractual favours. But from other Powers who are immed ment

of Civil Affairs and the somehow before the negotiations iately interested in the concessions Chinese captain, and after the first toms' Hulk.

The ill-fated vessel was 504 tons) were concluded, American interest concerned. American investment in Department of Reconstruction, failed in face of the competition of China has been adversely affected attempt made on her by the pirates, The Department of Labour and other nationalities. There were in- by fortuitous international events, she changed her registry and Capgross and had a net tonnage of 301

international Peasantry has been, ascribed to stances where the Americans, after The

engagements tain Morgan was placed in com- appear to have limited Soviet origin and hence one reason having secured the contract, found which for its abolition. But according to some officials, the reason for its abolition ie mainly to save money. The Provincial Administration soes no need for the Department of Industries, as its work can be con- veniently taken up by the Depart ment of Reconstruction...

The new regime will be ushered in. by the 15th of this month by which date all the new officials and Commissioners wilt

have installed.

CANTON GENERAL'S

ROBBED.

been

83,000 REPORTED MISSING..

important political and

to Samshui, and several important

it impossible to execute it either American freedom of action fall because of foreign pressure, or be-under three classes: (a) treaties cause of financial inability without and agreements, both open and European support. There were also secret, entered into by certain cases in which Americans first at Powers relating particularly to tempted to carry out projects in- China, but without its participation dependently, but were later com- and even knowledge; (b) non-aliena pelled to relinquish or to share their tion declarations made by China to, interests with other nationals, and other agreements with, certain Powers; and (c) the so-called 'right of aid pledges given by the Chinese Government of its officials to certain legations at Peking.

Actual Investment Emall.

While there is a great deal of diplomacy, the actual investment is extremely small. The total figure of

American investments in China of the character of economic conces

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KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CHINA.

COMPETITION INAUGURATED BY U.S.A COMMERCIAL -ATTACHE » AT ·· SHANGHAI.

"What

ous cargo. De

tona

The Carnalties.

essays was the American School,

who handed 23 essays to the judges, - Messrs. George A. Fitch and Jabin Hsu together with Miss A. Viola Smith, the American Trade Com- missioner will act as judges, and the following points will be kept in mind when making awards:

1-The number and the value of the facts gathered together. 2-The general form and or- ganization of the paper. a-The excellence of the expres

sion.

#Provincialism.”

30 B.A.S. graduate "There is also a threefold dif HOME, ie, investments in Chinese ficulty waiting solution by Americans should know about China" is the Government securities issued for ad in regard to their foreign invest subject chosen by the Chinese His- ministrative and reform purposes, in vents: (1) financial unreadiness, tary Class of the Shanghai Ameri- railway construction, 'development particularly from 1898 to 1910; (2) works, river conservancies and insuficient development of the habit can School in a competitive essay other public utilities, is generally of foreign investment, and the dis; contest being held by the American estimated at $20,000,000 gold. If we position to make quick turn'; and Commercial Attaché, Mr. Julean

Arnold. are to include long-term credits by (3) the provincialiam of the New American companies to the. Chinese York bankers, Government railways and other communication enterprises and in vestments of American firms operat ing in China in lands, buildings and other equipment, the total figure is the secretaries of state are also to the winner of a prise essay con projects looking towards the pre- raised to $70,000,000 gold. At pro grave faults. In the field of Chinese test offered to various schools in paration of essays which will be sent American citizens have about investment the United States has

autumn term.-North China Daily 30 outstanding contracts with the made many mistakes and for these this district. The first to choose sent in at the beginning of the

their subject and to complete their News

The home of General Fan Shok Sang, Commander of the 16th Army at Tai Pek Street was visited by thieves who took away goods and jewelry valued at about $3,000, The police were unable to find out how the intruders could get in, as the general's house was well guarded. N

The servants were suspected of the crime, and several of them were placed under arkest

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