By
Special Appointment
to
H.M. King George V.
PRÁVE CUVÉE CHAMPAGNE
Chaty
BRUT
HONG KONG LADIES' HOCKEY CLUB.
PROSPEROUS CONDITION.
NEW MEMBERS WILL BE WELCOMED.
The second annual general meet- ing of the above Club was held at the Helena May Institute, at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, Miss E. J. Coppin being in the chair.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13th, 1928.
CHINA'S "FUTURE CAPITAL.
SHANSI TUCHUN URGES PEKING.
SOUTHERNERS LEADERS FAVOUR NANKING,
A BREAK WITH THE PAST IMPERATIVE.
Of club members, the following were present:-Mrs. H. IL Andrews, Misses E. Baker, E. Dell. I. Bell, E. J. Coppin, B. Franklin. P. Goodall, M. Hanson, E. Laign, N. question of where the permanent Meneillie, E. O'Hagen, M. Pope. E.
seat of the Central Government of J Russell, D. Stanion, W. Wallace,
China should be established has Whyte.
up for serious con- Officers for the ensuing year were again come elected as follows-Captain: Mrs.sideration, says the Any Wen Yewa H. R. Andrews; Hon. Secretary: Miss E. J. Coppin: Assistant Hon. Agency. Secretary: Miss P. Goodall: Hon. Treasurer: Miss E. R. Bell.
CHINESE FOR U.S.A.
AGENCY.
REPAIRING MEN'S LIVES.
SINGAPORE SMUGGLING
"SHOP" CATERING FOR THE UNHAPPY.
DISCOVERY BY LOCAL POLICE:
has
ANTI-SUICIDE BUREAU,
thousand
GOOD ROADS FOR CHINA.
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AMERICAN EXPERT'S VIEW.
ADDRESS TO TIENTSIN ROTARY CLUB.
THE END.
MAHARANEE'S FAIRY' PALACE.
FOUNTAINS IN HER PRIVATE ROOM.
£300,000 HONEYMOON,"
PARIS, May 13th.
A vast throng of curious resi. dents and visitors in the euburb of St. Germain spent. today peering through the gates of the magni. Mr. Walton Schimidt, field repreficent estate of the Maharajah ol
American bride, the former Sanes Indore, in an attempt to see his
Anne Miller, of Seattle, now known by the Hindu name of Sita Dovi.
Chamber of Commerce, New York. sentative of National Automobile in addressing the Tientsin. Rotary Club said: I Arti in China at the invitation of your motoring organizations but I am not here to try to tell you how to run your city or your country. However. with an ever increasing number of motor vehicles, you are now facing
been working for 20 years. Our problems upon which America has only object is to tell you what wo
Broken Hearta Mended.-Was GOOD TRANSPORT CHEAP IN SINGAPORE, June 6th.
Affections Revived.-Suicides ing A sensational discovery, and pae Prevented. Crime Nipped in the that will be very welcome to the Bud."" What would be your impres- U.S. immigration authorities, haasion if you saw the above inscrip- With the capture of Peking, the been made by the Singapore police, tions on a sign-board over a shop
who have unearthed what appears You would probably regard the to have been A
well-organised.whole thing as nonsense, says a agency for smuggling Chinese from Daily Axpress correspondent. Yet this port into America. The fee it is the truth that those statements charged was $9,300 gold, and it is has been justified a believed that the agency
times in connection with the human repair shop-officially described as flourished for a number of years. General Yen Shi Shan has tele-
Remarkable documents have been the reconciliation bureau, which," anti-suicide a China-beginning with the graphed to Nanking proposing to found during, a reid on move the seat of the Nationalist town house. The raid was the Lovernment of China to Peking,equel to a discovery at Fort Said. urging that the Government build-On the arrival there from Singa- three st, and one drawn. In adings have already been built there pore of an American bound vessel dition "to matches weekly practise and that Peking is in closer touch, games were played at Happy Valley, with Manchuria, Mongolia and the on the ground provided by the Hon. Mr. H. T. Jackman, Director of various foreign Powers with the Public Works, to whom the Club's Diplomatic Body there. thanks are extended, as also to the Royal Naval Recreation Club, whose
The accounts were road and pass ed, showing a balance in hand of 221.10.
"It was announced that during the year eight matches were played,
of which four were won by the Club,
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As regards subscription, on the Club's formation it was decided that
entrance fee). At this meeting. however, it was decided that on account of increased membership a subscription of 21 per annum, and $1 entrance fee would be safeient.
The Club will welcome still further regular playing members, and ap- plications should be sent to the Hon. Secretary, c/o Messrs. Butterfield & Spire,
number of Chinese stowaways were found on board. The men anid they had boarded the vessel
Mr. Chang Ching Chiang, Chair man of the National Central Execu.cordingly transferred to a Singa tive Committee, is very strong on pore bound vessel. Apparently at making Nanking the permanent seat that stage there was no suspicion
bureau, has been conducted for many years by Colonel Chapman, of the Salvation Army.
Reconciliation Office. "The reconciliation bureauı," said Colonel Chapman, "ilor, not displace the much older anti-suicide bureau, which has dealt with over thirty thousand cases in the last
at Singapore. and they were ue-twenty-five years.. It was inaugurat ed in the summer of 1928, so that I have already, bad, a quod tal of experience in dealing with hur wives, and so reducing the number dreds of recalcitrant husbands and
"But before touching on that. I should like to tell you of a matter which I dealt with quite recently, where the interest is commercial, where the matter came to the as
this should be 25 per annum (not the Nationalist Government of that the men were anything but of cases which come into court.
Ching. This was the cherished wish stowaways in the ordinary way. of the late Dr, Sun Yat, Sen, and The circumstances of their return the remains of the founder of the to Singapore, however led to their Kuomintang are to be moved from being closely questioned by the Peking to Nanking to be buried local police, who had begun to there. Mr. Chang Ching Chiang suspect that something was wrong. believes that the Nationalist prin. The men, however, would ciple of reconstruction demands anothing," and they were released. clean break with the old officialdom"
LADIES' RECREATION CLUB. AMERICAN MIXED DOUBLES'
TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
Entries for above Tournament! for prizes kindly presented by Mrs. R. Hancock, Mrs. Tottenham and Mrs. Doyle close to-morrow Play is to commence at 3 o'clock.
An Exhibition Match will be played at o'clock-Lieut. Haie and Mr. McEachrany. Dr. R. E
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Tottenham and Professor -F. Redmond,
COUNTY CRICKET.
9 WICKETS WIN FOR SOMESET.
A.
[THROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.} Somerset defeated Worcestershire Stombridge by a wickets in a low scoring game.
Worcestershire 117 (White & for 57) and 118 (Hills for 36).
Somerset 131 (Tarbox 6 for 34) and 102 for one wicket.
Notta. Leicestershire.
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as suggested by the Imperial Palace of Peking.
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Confession To Police.
say
Having failed in their objective these Chinese went to their agency Nearness To Shanghai. friend and demanded the return General Li Lich Chun, Chairman of their money, but this man re- of the Nationalist Central Military fused to pay. Foiled in their at Council, supports Mr. Chang Ching tempt to get back their money, they Chiang in this respect. He points went to the police officer who had out that Nanking is near to the previously questioned them, and largest scaport in Asia, Shanghai, declared their willingness to speak. They had been put on board this which is virtually the commercial metropolis of China and connected ship, they explained, by persona -to Nanking by one of the best who, for the sum of $2,300 gold, reilways of the country. With the to be paid by each of them, pro facilities on the Yangtze River, the mised to land them in the United coast shipping lines and the rail-States. They were hidden in the way's built and to be built, Nan hold of the vessel at Singapore, king is within much better reach of and were later transferred to more all parts of China and the principal confined quarters in another part of the vessel. There they remained world ports than Peking.
General "Li believes that, with all the time they were on board. the Nationalist Central Government. It was deep down in the ship, and permanently established at Nanking, the danger of fire precluded the
LI
result of attempted suicide, and yet where what may well be called reconciliation pinyed its part, in remedying an undesirable state of affairs.
During the better part of bis life this man had been employed in an important position by a big firm, which, of course, I must not directorate identify. When the found that, owing to age and ill- health, he was not up to his work, they diminished his powers and had finally aide-tracked him.
Acute Depression. "The new work was light, but X., as I will call him, found that it was too much for him, and his depression became so acute that he attempted suicide as the way out.
"When X. spoke to me he seemed
to think that everything was his own fault, but when I got all the facts from him I took a different view of the matter.
have found out about taking motor cars, about building good roads and controlling traffic, trusting it will bë helpful.
P
Motor Cars Not A Luxury.
North China has in operation about 3,000 motor vehicles. I have heard it said that because she is adding many a year to that number too much money on motor cars. abe is extravagant and is spending
It has not worked out that way in America, which spends more money on motor cars than any other country, and I am sure it will mot wark out that way in your country, It is not extravagant to spend money on motor cars, because they
earn their keep and leave something over for profit.
We have over 23,000,000 notor vehicles in America. Last year our citizens were so convinced of neces sity of economical individual trans- portation that they spent over
three billion dollars for motor cars, trucks and buses.
The maharajah and the maha- rance, who have jeet arrived there from India on their honeymoon, had, apparently locked themselves in their Francois I. castle, which has been fitted out in luxurious
rahee's grandmother, sat under a stye, but Mrs. Schoeffer, the maha-
large red sunshade on the lawn, her high Victorian face collar forin- ing a strange contrast with the scarlet veil and long golden ear rings of a young Indian woman at her side.
Indian Costuma,
A number of servante in Indian costume appeared at the windows there was little to suggest that from time to time, but otherwise
£300,000 for a maharajah's honey. bit of the picturesques Last had been ransplanted here at a cost of
moon,
Mrs. Schoeffer, who has enthu siastically sponsored the romance, stated in an interview at Maraeilles that she would like to take her grand-daughter's husband to Seattle this summer to present him to the home folks.
boos.
The telegraph office at St. Ger main has been kept busy with cabled invitations from America, including one from a local ters association.
The maharajah's arrival at St. Germain has caused a wave of Hundreds 'prosperity in the town. And yet America is prosperous of painters, plasterers, carpenters, She does not have these millions of 1 and decoratore have been working on the castle during the past yest, motor cars because she is prosper- ous. It is rather the other way and, in addition, the maharajah round-she is prosperous because has employed thirty gardeners and
seventy house, servants. she has millions of motor cars.
Ther you must remember that a large investment in motor vehicles by any country without adequate provision in the way of good roads
- Notta gained a very easy victory Chinese merchants and financiers use of a light. In the Red Sea, the time I had finished. I have been making to reduce the cost per tan
Agent In America.
gave
over Leicestershire, scoring the big will soon invest in Nanking and the heat became unbearable and rather total of 487 for 8, and winning by cities along the, Shanghai-Nanking than remain any longer in their an innings and 12 runs.
Notts 487 for 8 wickets, innings Railway. They have already invest cramped quarters the men declared closed (Carr 150, Whysalled hundreds of millions of dollars themselves up. 127, Payton 100 not out).
in the French and International Leicestershire 103 and 901,
Settlements of Shanghai and there BIG FOOTBALL TRANSFER is no reason why they should not be encouraged to invest their money "C. JONES GOES TO THE
in Nanking. ARSENAL
The most important transfer since the close of the football season was arranged when the Ar senal club signed on Charles Jones, the Nottingham forward.
Jones, who can play either in side or outside left, is one of the gieverest forwards in the game He made a meteoric appearance in the Welsh team against England on the Crystal Palace ground two seasons age, and since then there
It is said that the police raid has produced evidence that supports the men's story, and that the plan included the co-operation, of a per- son or persons on board the select ed vessel, whose business it would have been to baffle the vigilance of the United States immigration au- thorities when the ship arrived in
The chairman seemed a hard man, but he was much moved by the weak,' he replied, and thoughtless, too, but I will assert myself at the It is desirable that he should next hoard meeting. attend and speak for himself. Do you think be will be able to do so!
Our tests
Land Values Pay Costs. General Li declared that, once the Nationalist Central Government is recognized by the foreign Powers and the foreign Legations have been moved down from Peking, and an American port. The sum of values in Nanking will surely in $2,300 gold was to be paid in cash
if possible. If by instalments,round sam down, and an adequate sums of money in motor cars, you grease considerably, beyond what ever it may cast the Government to put up new modern Government
then as high a first payment was the individual was demanded a
The maharajah has apparently to make the done everything castle, which overlooks Paris, 20 miles away, as charming as pos
rible. In one, sunny corner he has installed a private apartment for the maharanee, fisted in the most gorgeous style with tiny fountains, rich silk hangings, hundreds of beautiful cushions, and all kinds of strange string instruments for his bride to play on.
He has also given his bride rubý, emerald, diamond and pearl neck laces that are priceless, as well as much other family jewellery.
ELOPEMENT PLANS FAIL.
MAN SENDS THE WRONG LETTER TO HIS WIFE.
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Thomas Henry Cavanagh, laundry manager, of Cheltenham
wife at Maidstone Police Court, Spa, who was summoned by his was stated to have planned to leave her and run away with, another It was alleged that he wrote two to the 24 other letters. One was
"making arrangements to meet her on the Continent, and the other was to his wife.
woman.
woman,
.
い
He put the letters in the wrong envelopes, and bis wife received The Bench granted a separation that intended for the other woman
his wife 26. a week. order and ordered Cavanagh to pay
for these motor vehicles to ran upon, will mean such high operat ing costs, that you will be paying for good roads whether you have them or not I am going to prove During the this to you by our experience in time that the doctor was putting in America. his good work I interviewed the It is evident that North China chairman of the company, and re- has decided to buy motor cars and minded him that in the beginning that you ar preciate the advantages he and X. had worked together of motor transport over other forms abroad, when all that the company of transportation. Your registra owned was a few sheds, wberena it
tian figures show this. now owned a fleet of ships.
Economists tell us thap the pro- greas of any country can be men sured by the effort that country is
mile of transportation. show that on a dirt road you will get about 14 ton miles to the gallon of gasoline, on a good gravel road about 21 too miles and on a paved road 31 ton miles. A ton mile is All Deeply Impressed.
the movement of one ton one mile. "I replied that I thought that Remember in considering these he could-and, he did. He turned figures that a one ton truck, loaded up in better health than he had with another ton of goods means enjoyed for a long time,, and one that two tons are moving over the of the other directors told me that bighway. So if you get seven miles he spoke so well and so modestly to the gallon with such a load you We have also proved that your and the chairman became so un-i that they were all deeply impressed, are getting fourteen ton miles.
a concrete. or paved road as on a said: There is no need for our happy that he rose to his feet and tires will last six times as long en friend to say any more. He was gravel road, and of course, as you my loyal and invaluable colleague reduce wear and tear on the car in the long ago when this firm began you reduce the need of repairs and So since you are investing large have reaped. He must have a good operations. Where he sowed we the car lasts longer,
want to operate these cars as
Therefore, in order to get all the pension for life. We will vote on
The motion was agreed cheaply as possible, especially in a
country where the initial cost is so benefits of motor transportation to with but one dissentient.
In other cases, as in this," Col. high and where you pay so much and the benefits of low, operating be paid in instalments in the Chapman continued, "I have found for fuel. By building good roads costs which come with good roads, United States. The payment of that the disinterested and detached you can reduce the cost of apera.we believe in America that thero That is what every other should be general taxation for the instalments in the United view of a third party, combined tion.
taxation of the motor vehicle and with imperturbable persistence and country is doing in its efforts to highway construction and special States, it was disclosed by the tact, will work wonders. Human compete with other countries.
gasoline, for maintenance. police raid, was arranged for in nature is good, but sometimes has
Bond Issues. The Arsenal have paid substan-
written agreements to which the
Now we come to the important, to be brought to its bearings. In
·Bond issues should always be the tially less now for Jones's transfer
As indications of the unanimous individual's photograph was affix fact, we have succeeded in at least point of paying for the construction
ed, and the money was to be col-
of new roads and maintaining and means employed for financing high- despite the fact that they had to meet be competition of Liverpool. decision of the Nationalist central lected at the other end by an au-
Not Many Peacemakers. improving those already in, exist way construction, and our experi
ence has always been that where this Jones left London with Mr. Her-authorities of China to make Nan-thorised and named agent of the
"In the adjustment of matrience.
The first thought is "Tax the is done, the increase in wealth and bert Chaprann for Copenhagen to
The police found in the raided monial differences we have been join the Arsenal team, who are to king the permanent seat of Govern- Singapore agency. play there on Sunday. He is ment of China, the various Nation-premises eleven more Chinese wait, very successful, provided that motor vehicle which uses the roads." the lowering of operating costs re- neither of the partice has resorted That is a good theory, but a coun- turned dividends more than ade years of age. Before going to Not-alist Government Ministries have ing to be shipped. One of the two
to litigation. The chill of publicity try in an initial state of road de- quate to defray the entire cost of arrested men is said to be the prin tingham he was three seasons with
sent their representatives to Peking cipal, and the other his clerk.
and the attitude of the opposing velopment cannot afford to wait for the development. Oldham Athletic
to tako over the official documents
Police Court Proceedings. solicitors seem to kill all kindly feel-good roads until taxation from motor vehicles provides enough of the various Northern Govern-
Wong Ting Boo and Jeong Tang
Apart from that, our enemies money to build roads.
It is a mistake to. consider im ment Ministries and sub-organiza-
Loy were produced before the are the relatives, who, in so many tions.
Second Palice Magistrate (Mr. W cases, foment trouble for the sake proved roads luxuries to be enjoyed Paking A Branch District. N. Gourlay) on a charge of falsely of a thrill and something to talk if they can be afforded, but notes J. Harrington, outside right, who
It is likely that Peking will be representing that they could smug about, like the slanderous gossip of sential to the economie health of has been with Wolverhampton made the seat of a branch Nationgle into the United States one Koh Wanderers for five seasons, has been transferred to Northampton alist Political Council to administer Eng Hin, and thereby inducing a village. I wish I could say that Town. Northampton have also the former Metropolital Distiret him to pay them the sum of 8300. Peacemakers are in the majority.
of Peking and the provinces of Acting Chief Det. Insp. Johnson They are not."- PILLS,tured the transfer of Nottingham Chinli and Shantung. General Li said; he opposed hail, but it the
left back, from
that substantial Forest. Before joining the Forest Lich Chun has been mentioned for magistrate decided to allow bail, Hicks was with Preston North the post of Chairman of the Peking he would mak
Branch of the Nationalist Political security be required. End.
The magistrate pointed out that Southend United have secured Council, while General Yen Har the transfers of D. Rchinson, full- Shan will continue to be Chairman the offence was a bailable one. He back, from Leeds United, and R. of the Taiyuanfu Branch of the fixed bail for the first accused in Woodhouse, wing forward, from Nationalist Political Council, to ad the sum of 82,000 and for the second
minister the province of Shansi and accused in the sum of 81,000. Birmingham.
No bailors came forward and the the three Special Administrative
a week-Straite Times. Districts of Buiyuan, Chahar and men were removed in custody for Jehol
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his transfer.
Among the clubs who tried to paraunde the Forest to release him last season were Everton and Mid dlesbrough, and as much as £7,000 was-offered.
Roberts For Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur have secured the transfer of Tom Roberts, the international centre forward, from Preston North End.
William Haines, the Portiquth F.C. centre forward, has been transferred to Southampton.
provements in that city.
General Chiang Kai Shek and I share the view General Tan Yen of Mr. Changing Chiang and General Li Lieh Chun,
that now.'
90 per cent. of our efforts.
Taxation
We believe, in a low registration fee and a gasoline tax which is, of course, a tax based on highway use. The heavy truck uses more gasoline than the light truck and thus pays for the extra wear and tear on the highway. The man who does not we Jose more by failing to improve less than the man who uses his con- our pain highways that it costs to stantly. Forty-six out of our 48 the community. The fact is that use his motor car very much pays
States in America now have a gaso improve them,
For, whether we build and main-ip tax which runs from one cant The recent increase in the zum to in adequate highways or not, such a gallon to five sente a gallon.
We believe very earnestly that ber of private aeroplane owners in highways as we have are used daily England-there are now more than by an increasing number of motor all money collected from motor 100-has led to a certain amount of vehicles. As I have mentioned be- vehicles should be devoted to high- buying and selling of second-hand fore for the movement of every way use and kept separata from being advertised in the technical cost which is less if the rond be im-system of the Government Wa be- machines. Second-hand aircraft are vehicle there is a certain costa other revenue in the accounting pended under centralized State papers, and a market similar to the proved than if it be left in a state lieve it should be collected and ex-
control.-NC: Daily Mail. gradually growing up, second-hand motor-car market, is of nature.
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