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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST

DR. CHAO HSIN CHU. COLONY'S FINANCES. REVOLVER DUEL IN

HIS DIPLOMATIC IDEALS,

AVOIDING PEKING'S OLD MISTAKES.

TRIBUTE TO WESTERN EFFICIENCY.

from our chinESE CORRESPONDENT. ]

Casros, August 18th The Capton Foreign Office today received a despatch from the private

that ofics

FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF

PRESENT YEAR.

INCREASE OF $1,000,000 IN REVENUE.

EXPENDITURE UP BY THREE LAKHS.

The Colony's financial statement for the month of April showed a balance of assets over liabilities of $3,380,492.09.

On March 31st the balance was secretary of Dr. Chao Hsin Chu, 15,490,157.00, but during April the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs expenditure was slightly in excess of the Nationalist. Government of the revenue, the expenditure and Commissioner for Foreign being $2.089,917.33 and the revenue, Affairs of Kwangtung, stating | 01,997,249.15.

he bas formally assumed

For the Arst four months of the the third from

of the year the revenue, exclusive of land present month. The inaugural cereales, was 87,189,908.86 as compared monies were brief but imposing with $6,745,537.74 for the same Many high Government officials period in 1997. This year up till were present including Dr. C. Tthe end of April the land anies had Wang, the Minister of Foreign realised $317,588.32 as compared Adairs and Mr. T.-Y. Soung. the with 803,488.61 last year, the total Minister of Finance. After the revenue up to April 30th, there oath "was taken and following the fore, being $7,737,497.18 against usual recitation of the late Dr. Sun 88,779,024.33 in 1926. Yat Ben's political will and testa-" ment and the obeisance before his picture, Vice-Minister Chu made a apeech which was in part. follows:

1.8

The expenditure from January to April this year was 80,411,768.33 as compared with $6,103,02.06 for the same period last year.

"In conclusion I wish to stress the importance of rectifying dip- lomatic errors and bad habits of the past and of following Minister Wang in his work for the welfare and enlightenment of the people of China."

Diplomatic Etiquette:

Vice Minister Chu delivered an other speech at a memorial meeting held at the Waichaopu, "Nan- Etiquette" and said that when king. He spoke on "Diplomatic

TEMPLE STREET.

CHINESE DETECTIVE'S

BRAVERY.

ARMED ADVERSARY WING- ED" AND ARRESTED.

20th, 1928.

KRISHNAMURTI ON PEEL STREET PROCURING

MOTHER INDIA."

INDIA AND SEX

AN IMPRESSION OF THE THEOSOPHIST-WORLD TEACHER.

CASE.

TROUBLESOME GIRL OF 15.

PARENTS CRITICISED.

After a further lengthy bearing before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy on Saturday

aly

An account of Krishnamurti, the There was a thrilling duel in Theosophist " World Tescher, morning the case against a Chinese Temple Street, Yaumati, on Saturwhich appeared recently in the woman

for keeping. day night between a Chinese de British paper Eisance-and-Com- brothel and procuring a girl tective and an armed man. The merce of Tokyo has been sent us under the age of it was again-ad- detective showed very great courage by Mr. Herbert Lagepart of the journed. and commendable initiative in the Hong Kong Theosophist Society.

Mr. 7. H. Williams for the pro-

The true

face of real danger of his life. He The young teacher has some in secution in reply to Mr. Hin succeeded in rounding his adverteresting comments to make on Shing La's contention for the de sary and securing his arrest

Miss Mayo's book "Mother India" fence that corroboration of the "The detective in question is Leung and on Western and Eastern ideas sirl's evidence was needed at all Fun-He had recently been station- the question of sex

points, said that that was not the ed in the Yaumati district and was

Our Tokyo contemporary states: law. Further Mr. Williama said on duty in Temple Street. While walking to and fro on his beat he who has been called the Voice of charge of procaring whether the Krishnamurti the young, Hiqqu that a person was liable to a saw a man behaving in a buspicious the World Teacher manner. He called out to the pan

***India morti- girl procured" way of immoral to stop with the intention of search. Westerners exalt it.

Bes the body," he says. "You character or not. ing him, but when he got near his philosophy lies between." He conference to the parents, who, he With regard to Mr. Lo's re- man, he found himself confronted aidera the great interest in the said took no with an ugly looking pistol.

interest in their recept marriage of Naney Miller to daughter's welfare, Mr. Williams Nothing daunted, the detective the ex-Maharajah of Indore referred to instances whare the grasped hold of the revolver with little silly. It is all so unimport father had commented on the man- one hand, and with the other pulled ant. It is one case, out his own revolver. They strug universal significance. Do I believe the daughter for staying out late. It has no Aer in which the mother scolded. gied furiously but the detective it can be successful! Who knows! Ending that his adversary was a

It is perhaps doubtful, The mar man of unusual strength and that rage of a Jew and a Gentile is to overcome him by physical force often failure. It is hard to was impossible, fired two shots in bridge such a different background the other matt's leg. rendering him of race and creed.

kors de combat.

The wounded man was removed to

the Kowloon Hospital, and the sequel to this dual will probably be heard at the Kowloon Magistracy.

PUBLIC MONEY.

CONTROLLING BOARD IN

HOIHOW..

&

India Has Too Little Bar. - Krishnamurti has no strident age to proclaim. His face is brown and sensitive, his eyes large, very dark. He has one trick of the #pellbinder-be insists upon looking fall into the exce of the person to Thom he is talking. If the eyes wander he stops speaking, politely, until they return.

.

Dealing again with the question of corroboration Mr. Lo asked why the prosecution has not seen fit to call the decoy who had been em- played by the uncle to get the girl out of the defendant's house? Counsel also asked why the pro- ecurion had delayed the arrest the girl had been called to visit the house of this "mythics! man."

"I am glad to be here and to join hands with you in the work for the salvation of our country, in spite of the great distance which had to be traveled to get here. The greatest piece of work before us now, as has been eloquently pointed out by Minister C. T. Wang and was formerly laid down

Mr. Lo also spoke of the procur by our tungli is "the abrogation

Ing charge and said that it should of all the obsolete and unilateral trenties." I have always cham.

not have been made against his pioned this principle. When I w

client or anyone else. The girl's behaviour had been connived at by China's chief delegato to the League

Krishnamurti's comment of Nations at Geneva three years located in Peking, bad habits China'a Foreign Ministry was

upon her parents who had not taken Catherine Mayo's book "Mother propór steps to restrain her." They 939, I often argued with the dele-

and bad precedents ia

India" is not controversial." Ia-had laid no information against gates of other lands on the pecessity lomatic dealings had "been formed. Headquarters has issued Instruc devils haven't enough of it. It is uncle to do so. They were subse

dip" The Southern Rehabilitation

dia hasn't too much sex. The poor the defendant, but left it to an of sbrogating all such unequal in Each succeeding Minister of For- tions to Mayor Liao Kwok Hee of the last thing in their lives." He quently dragged into the case only struments and the conclusion of new eign Affairs was compelled by the the municipality of Hoihow to makes a way face when the word when he (Mr. Lo) wanted to ques- gnes based on justice and environment to follow these bad organise a Committee to supervise sex" is baldly mentioned. "Ition them. ciprocity.

habits and precedents. But these the handling and disposal of the hate to talk about sex. Must we As a diplomat I am duty-bound to fettering rules were. now no more, various public funds that have been do it 1 But I enppose so. You FRt 498 why an uncle could not Mr. Wilson said that he could Aght for China's rights. I did not as the Walthaopu is now at Nan- collected in Hoihow, and to draw alwaye insist on speaking about sex care a snap of the fingers about the king. The offices here are crowded up regulations to govern the collee in

take the initiative in a case like dying the Peking Government, and and the buildings are small as

this country."

this. its orders; I went about and did compared with those formerly pe funds in the future. The Committee erners grovel in sex," he exclaims of material use to the prosecution.

tion and distribution of public... Miss Mayo Is Unfair.

Mr. Williams said that he did things according to the dictates of

Sometimes I think you West-pot call the parents because he did cupied by the Waichaopu at

not think their evidence could be my conscience guided of course by Peking. Moreover, the equipment hers, one each to be nominated by he is concerned.

is to be composed of seven mera with sharp distaste. Immediately One became ill after the girl's dis- public opinion. When Chang Tso is not altogether good. But in spite the Southern Rehabilitation Head-think of me as ad outsider criticis,active part in the tracing of the

"Excuse me. do not mean to criticise.

appearance and did not take an Do not Lia was making himself Generalis of all these handicaps, we proceed quarters, the Hoihow Municipality, ing your civilization. I have no Birl and the other did not live

simo a year ago at Peking, I was with our work with refreshed advised to send him a congratula vigour and derive a great deal of tory message, but I would not do mental alacrity therefrom.

man of the hour.

secretaries and emissaries to the

The Committee will have autho rity to audit and take over control

of all funds that have been collected growing and imaginative alertness

We

"I

the City Kuomintang Headquac home. I am of no country. I am did not know anything about the ters; the Bureau of Civil Affairs, of all countries. One cannot judge matter. Mr. Williams wanted to with the girl and her mother and

it, for to do so would be contrary | « Peking's Muddle And Corruption.

the General Chamber of Commerce, Eastern point of view, just as it attempt on the part of the 8.0.A.

of Western civilization from an make it clear that there was no to the principles which I had been Continuing, Dr. Chu said that the Merchants" "Joint Federation, was impossible of Mias Mayo to to keep the girl's parents out of vindicating.

the diplomatic atmosphere

and the Overseas Chinese Joint judge of our civilization through &t

Western eyes."

the case. Tribute To Dr. Wang,

Union. Peking had been so rotten and con-

India's is have "Mr. Lo having replied on cer- been attributed to various causes, in points the case was adjourned. "I have the greatest confidence taninated that no single person

Hitherto thero has been no central Krishnamurti points out, Some in Dr. C. T. Wang as Foreign could hope to make it and keep supervision over the collection of Bhave found her trouble to be nor till next Friday afternoon. Minister of the Nationalist Govern. it clean. Many of the oficers of funds for public charitable purists in the main, bave declared that religion. Others, British Imperial- the ancient Waichaopu tried in poses, consequently degenerate cle- India's difficulties lay in her in- Why? ment. He is a natural leader vain to extricate themselves from ments have not been elow to seize the hility to rule herself. Miss Mayo whole system of thinking make Because our religion, our When he and I were studying to the obnoxious atmosphere. Не gether in the United States, he was then compared the newly establish opportunity of cariching their own found the root of her trouble in sex play a very small" part

leader among the students ed Foreign Ministry of Nanking pockets, while public charitable whole pyramid of the Indiana woes, to dismiss it from our minds. You sex. There are her words: "The accept it as necessary and then try to a newly opened shop. It is services do not receive the attention material and When he returned to China, he be not an easy job to make business

spiritual-poverty, exalt it in your country, we de came the speaker of the Parliament flourish and work smoothly at that they deserve.

sickness, ignorance, political minor grade it Neither is right. India and was a leader in parliamentary prietor has his business at heart first," he said. But if the pro

ity, melancholy, ineffectiveness, not has made the mistake of denying forgetting that subconscious cops the physical for the spiritual. afairs. He is now Minister of and keeps pegging at it day and

viction of inferiority which he hope she won't do it any more. forever bares and advertises by hie Foreign Affairs and is upquestion night, he is bound to succeed."

Aim Of Life Is Serene Happiness. ably the leader of China's diple cording to the new Vice-Minister, The main thing to watch for oc

by the various bodies under the for socul affronts-rests on a rock you choose to ask. Please do not "I will answer any question that mady. I should be glad to Co- is to avoid the pitfals of the de cloak of charity, and will adminis-bottom physical base This base fear that you will be impertinent. operate with him and help him in funct Peking Waichaopu. Alter these funds to the best advan-into the world and his sex life

is, simply, his manner of getting I recognise no impertinence," he though I have never worked in the every way in the realization of the Peking Watchaopu," he continued, tage. Hereafter an drives for funds bence forward."Miss Mayo's "I have no country, I have no

said with a smile. established policy of the Nation yet I was told time and again for charitable purposes will be per Krishnamurti declared. You could have no fear that the desire for

book is exaggerated and unfair," alist Government, Dr. Wang is the that it constantly sent out its mitted unless the sanction of this go to any city in the world, Ber- these things will ever limit me, 1

home,"

says Krishnamurti. various foreign Legations to Committee is first obtained Canin, Vienna, Paris, and you could wish to be free. If you want to

ton Gazette.

had whatever you were looking for go to New York, a ship going in Miss Mayo spent a few months in the opposite direction offers Do India. Her point of view is that temptation. You know your des of the tourist Miss Mayo says timacion.

Nothing else attracts. sick? Foreigners come to India. know our destination in life. The They say,By Jove, this is a yot-aim of life is to be happy We ten country. We meet help her. She needs to be educated, enlight deay it. We must fulfill the needs must not mortify the flesh, nor ened' It all depends upon what of the body as simple as possible. The cinemas in Canton all closed you means by enlightenment. Do and then forget them." When I was China's Envoy Ex-down about two months ago owing you is similarly returning to us its old traordinary and Minister Plenipo-

mean having automobiles, 'His religion," Krishnamurti ex- Consulate in Canton. The two Con- tentiary to Rome, and Minister to

to trouble with the employees guild | bombs, bathrooms, a super-exag plained, "does not exist in any and also to a demand from the tax seration of the physical India's present creed. There is not enough sulate premises are very spacious England, I saw the orderly and

collector for a very heavy increase denial of the physical, a purifica the churches and too many dogmas. religion, our philosophy teach religion and too much property in and situated in the centre of Can-business-like way in which the dip-

lomacy of those countries in the tax Rather than submit to tion of the body. I do not smoke. To have true religion, one must ton. These things gave ape pleasure carried on. If there is a caller these demands, the proprietors of do not drink, I do not touch have thought. and encouragement in my manage and if his business is very im-

When you have he would

the these houses decided to close down,

group religion, you lose thought.” ment of the foreign affairs of the portant,

Mad About Sex.

Krishnamurti lives no ascetic, Foreign Minister, and if his they claiming that it cost them less "Here you are mad about sex. mystic's life. His body, though province.

business was not so important, lose not to operate than to run the gop shall I make myself altra ful. He enjoys tennis and golf,

•~~~~I~ an "a"native of Kwangtung he would ace the Vice Foreign

Your magazines are full of it, light, is well developed and grace and love to serve my province. down the list. But in the old

Minister, the secretary," or so on shows.

tive to men? Beauty Hinta, which he plays above par. He Though in a distant corner of Peking Waichaopu everything as Canton Gazette, that some compreis wrong ith your personality 1 does not care greatly about social Rumour is now current, says the Advice to the Lovelorn, What likes to read and to travel. He China, yet the foreign affairs of all mixed up. There was no order. mies has been arrived at and that Have you ever noticed in your life.

Krishnamurti has gone to my province are by no means un What we must do now is to rectify be opened again. It has not been enters a restaurant! There is an the Theosophists there.

There was no diplomatic etiquette all the picture houses will shortly country when an attractive woman Los Angeles to attend meetings of important. They are in part as im these mistakes and conduct all the possible to learn more definite de instant reaction from every man in will return to India, where he Boon-he portant as those of any province diplomatic, dealings with foreiga fails, but the general expectation is the room. They stare. Their faces hopes to spread sanitation and throughout the length and breadth countries on the same basis as that very soon one will be able to express their thoughts. That would some knowledge of the material the Westerners themselves conduct forget one's worries and enjoy a be impossible in our country comforts of life along with his

ouple hours diversion.

(Continued _on_nezt Column), message.

Ewangtung Importance,

negotiate things or to get news' The senders may not have been ashamed of themselves and the and eminaries who

"I have been in charge of the foreign affairs of Kwangtung for about a

The thing which thus went may have considered CANTON CINEMA HOUSES. India is sick. Ien't every country you. It is necessary for us all to gave me the greatest pleasure was auch missions correct and dignifi- the unconditional way in which ed but such actions were certainly

a year now.

secretaries

disgusting and degrading to any Great Britain returned the old Can-one who had any knowledge of ton Consulate to us in February of them."

In London And Rome.. this year. The French Governament

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