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SHRINKING TRADE OF CANTON.

LIKIN IMPOSITIONS · BLAMED.

DIRECT SHIPMENTS FROM

HỒNG KONG

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CANTON, December 7th.

-Business-in-Canton is declining

AN INNOCENT COUNTRY GIRL?

ALLEGED HARBOURING.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8th, 1928.

CORRESPONDENCE. THE MOSLEM REVOLT IN KANSU.

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A CORRECTION "BY MR. HUSSEY-FREKE.

ESCAPE FROM UNSATISFAC. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG

DAILY FRESA,”] TORY HUSBAND.

A Chinese woman was before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon (FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.) Magistracy yesterday afternoon on two charges of harbouring with in- tent to persuade a young Chinese girl under the age of 21 to become a prostitute, and attempting to sell her to a man in Fanling. Mr. A. D. Forrest prosecuted on behalf of the Secretariat of Chinese Affairs, the defendant being unre presented.

-day by day, as seen from the vast number of shops that have been closed. Even in those that are open the present voluine of business is far from want it was previously. Many proprietors in conversation, with our correspondent said that they are doing only from one-third to one-half of what they did a year and a half or two years ago. They

pointed out that over 45 of the wholesale fruit stores have been forced to close during the past month, and more are likely to follow the same fate before the end of the present lunar year. The hand embroidery works are squally bad. Hitherto this has been a most flourishing enterprise and Canton has long been noted for its beauti- ful hand embroideries.

Si, am indebted to a cor- respondent of the North China Standard for pointing out

in. correctness of the statement còn. tained in my published memoran- dum of November 20th, 1923, to the effect that "the Inspectorate has with such loans nor even possesses never been connected in any way

any record of their flotation or existence. [Note: Loan secured on Salt Revenue Surplus] The

facts are as follows: "

DETAILS OF APPALLING MASSACRE AND CRUELTIES COMBINED WITH FAMINE.

A PROVINCE DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION.

The following terrible report, contributed to the "North China Daily News) is the first detailed and authentic account of the Mohanimedan rebellion which has been raging in Eansu. The correspondent, Mr. W. W. Simpson thinks, the estimate of 200,000 Chinese dead a conservatice one.

placed in charge of one of the eight Military Districts of Kansu with headquarters at Liangchow. He surrounded himself with young ambitious Moslems who held the same

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MINcrow, Kansa, Nov. 5th. ↑ day for months to feed the garri The rebellion began in April. son. Hundreds of children entire- satisfaction of the Mohammedans relatives having either been killed The underlying cause was the dis-ly uncared for, their parents and with the ambition of one of their in the massacre, separated in the chiefs, Ma Ting Siang, third son fight or died in the pestilence, of the famous Ma An Liang, who were in such misery that I strang- In outlining the case Mr. For

The Inspectorate has on its files has long wished to make Kaasu a

ed to take as many as we can house rest said that the complainant was certain information concerning Moslem State since years ago he was into our buildings and feed and first brought to the notice of the loansnet, it appears, a complete

clothe them. How long we can list-raised by the Minister of department when she was arrested Finance on the security of the Salt

care for them depends on the offer- for creating a disturbance in Yau-Surplus prior to 1923. Up to that

ings of "money, clothing, bedding, mati. The girl was eventually time it was the practice for the

etc. we receive from others." But brought to the Secretariat where Chief Inspectors to release the

there are thousands, of such chil she said that she was married and form of payments to such of the Surplus in whole or in part in the

views Ku himself and dren: We can house only 30! had left her husband with bia con- | Minister's creditors as he should trained a big Moslem army. The

She came to Hong Kong direct from time to time and pay, young Moslems of Kansu are very!

ments in respect of a number of with the defendant who had prouch loans were made. In August, numerous, powerful and impatient mised to assist her in obtaining 1993, the Minister instructed the of restraint, were his devoted fol- work. When they arrived in Hong Chief Inspectors that henceforth lowers.

An Sal: Surplus should be released Kong the girl was taken to Sha

to him in one lump sum and this Tau Kok where the defendant at principle has been strictly carried tempted to sell her, to a man who out from that time on. lived there. The girl then realiz ed what the defendant was doing

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and refused to go with the man. She was brought back to Yaumati where she was kept for several days during which time the defendant urged her to enter a "house" at West Point. The girl made up an

FOREIGN TRADERS HIT. The business decline in Canton is not only confined to the Chinese merchants; the foreign traders here are equally hard hit. Former ly the shops on Shameen were all occupied, but now as our correspon-excuse to leave the house for a dent walked through the Island, he saw many shops closed with signs to be let" hung on the front door. These foreign traders either have entirely closed their "business and left Canton or reduced their business to a much smaller scale so as to save overhead expenses. This is in particular true of the foreign exporters, whose business for the past year or so has been only about one half of what it was previously-

LIKIN EXACTIONS.

The priminary cause for this general and appalling decline in business in Canton the Chinese mer

chants attribute to the likin taxa- tions. They say that when their goods are imported from Hong Kong, a free port, to Caaton to their way to the interior, they have to pay likin upon arrival in Can- ton, and when they leave Canton on their way to their final destina- tion, they have to pay more likins. Because of these conditions the merchants have found it cheaper to ship their goods from Hong Kong direct to their destination without passing through Canton, thus avoiding double payment of Vikin.

- At present, the only ports which have to depend upon Canton for goods bought at Hong Kong are those of the North River districts

where there are no vessels plying directly from Hong Kong, but the merchants point out that they too will not have to depend upon Can- ton when the railroad loop from Wongsha and Tai Sha Tau is con- veeted. If this is done the Canton- proceed Kowloon Railway. caa directly to Shinkwan through the North River districts."

little while and hurried to a letter writer with the intention of com municating with her mother. The husband of the defendant followed her, there was a scene, a crowd col- lected and the defendant was sub- sequently arrested.

The girl. Yeung Kuen, aged 16, said that she was married in Kong. moon but as she could not get on cided to leave him and fnd work. with her husband's parents she' de- Her husband consented to the separation and the defendant came forward with an offer to bring her to Hong Kong where she could ob

thin work.

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A few days after their arrival in the Colony the defendant took her to a place in Fanling where a go- between came

She see her. heard the woman bargain with the defendant for a sum of $230. The go-between asked her if she would consent to live with the man but witness refused. They returned to Yaumati where the defendant aug. gested that as she would not con- sent to be a secondary wife, she must become one of the girls in

West Point. This, witness also re- fused, and the defendant became angry.

Later, witness left the house but defendant's husband fol lowed her, stopped her, and threatened to beat her. A crowd surrounded them and she was even tually taken to the Police Station where she told her story.

I much regret the inaccuracy of the statement above referred to, which was made through inadvert ence. Yours faithfully,

F. HUSSEY-FREKE, Associate Chief Inspector of Salt Revenues. Peking, Nov. 26th, 1899.

THE HONG KONG ART

CLUB..

INTERESTING EXHIBITION BY LOCAL ARTISTS.

PICTURES TO KEEP AND

TO SEND HOME,

The annual exhibition of the Hong Kong Art Olub will be held this year on Wednesday and Thurs- day next on the top floor of Pedder Building which has been kindly lent to the Club for the occasion. The exhibition will be open between 10.30a.m. and 7 pm on either day and nearly 200 pictures will be on view. These are for the great part water colours, but pencil work, pastel and oil paintings are also included.

The Hong Kong Art Club is a membership of local, min and women who are united by a common love of art. Some among them are painters of considerable merit, othera amateurs, but they all paint because they love it, and their work reflects this and every picture has charm whatever its merits may be

as a work of art.

The greater number of the ex- hibits are local scenes, views such as we pass every day, and which have made Hong Kong one of the The mother of the girl said that beauty spots of the world. When the defendant had offered to take you wander round the exhibition her married daughter to Hong you will see many familiar scenes Kong and get her work. There which will recall outings, walks and had been no quarrel between the those moments when you have been girl and her husband, but husband held spell bound by a sunset or not being well off, allowed her to the fame of a pornsinetta against come to Hong Kong in search of a mass of sombre foliage. work.

The defendant in her statement

said that the girl and her mother Were out to harm her. She had taken the girl to "Fanling because she did not like her husband and wanted a better one. The Magis trate adjourned the hearing re- marking that he had an idea that the girl had run away from her husband.

THE MANILA SHOWS. OPENING TONIGHT ON PRAYA

Letters are but poor things, at best, for few of us are gifted with the power to describe something which the reader has never seen, but almost any one of these sketches would show those at Home what your surroundings are here in the distant East. They would picture you walking along that narrow Peak Road, and stand beside you as you look again and again at the wonders of the harbour. And for

Last spring, when General Liu Yu Fang, Chief of the Provincial Government, was 'throwing all the strength of his army into the war against Chang Teo Lin, General Ma, encouraged by emissaries of Chang Tao Lin who promised to aid him with men and munitions, gave the signal for rebellion.

At first the object was simply to overthrow the Provincial Govern- ment, drive the Kuominchan out of Kansu, and set up a new Govern ment composed only of native Kansu men, Moslems of course, which Chang Tao Lin had pledged to recognize as the legal governi ment of Kanan. But the Moslems of Kansu are very fanatical and began their rebellion by brutal butcheries of Chinese. The Mos lems of Kansu are different from the Chinese in race and religion and frequent wars have made them inveterate enemies,

Give Us Your Girls,"

In many villages the Chinese and Moslems were living side by side. When rumours of trouble disturbed the Chinese their Moslem neighbours assured them of effec- tual protection. But when the set time cams their protectors rose en masae, surrounded the homes of the

Chinese, and killed all with the most cruel tortures except the young married women and bigger girls whom they forced into their hares. On that day the Govern- ment troops stationed at Sintienpu joined the Mintuan and drove the Moslema back. From the west side of the river they are constantly deriding the Chinese, shouting across, Give us your big girla."

200,000 A Low Estimate.

I have met men from Ningho, a ̈ large walled town so i south af Hochow, and they told me at least 70,000 Chinese including those who dwell there, were shut in during the five months siege. Of these only about half now lives, the re- mainder having perished in the siege. OF died of hunger and pestilence. That means another big massacre of 35,000 men, women and children!

Ambitions Young Moslems. These initial butcheries stirred the Chinese to retaliate, therefore The estimate of 900,000 having the rebellion soon became a mas perished in this rebellion, given some three months ago, I think sacre. Though the older Moham-

very conservative. Reports say the medan leader held aloof their entire Chinese population from soldiers practically all joined the Pingfan to Lingehow, three dia- rebels, bringing all their arms and tricts, either fled to the mountains. ammunition. The Chinese civilians or were alain by the Moslema, were practically unarmed and the Practically no quarter is given Kuominchun so few that the Mos- now by either side and non- lem armian quickly took possession sideration. given to non-com- of all West Kansu except Hochow batants. Merciless wAI, gaunt city and Ningho, a large town 90 famine, unchecked pestilence, these south. Three times the Moslems three horrors have already destroy have fiercely assaulted Hochow, for

ed more than half a million people days at a time and had been driven in Kansu and the worst is yet to back with the greatest difficulty,

voine! Of course you fortunate ones luxuriating in palatial re- Ningho has been besieged about five months and is now practically sidences, fattening on the produce given up as lost, the Kuominchun of all nations brought to "your being unable to send relief. Fing doors, and protected by the armies fan, Kulang and Liangchow have and navies your inexhaustible been taken and lost and retaken by riches have created, you can't be the Kuominchun, undergoing long lieve such horrors possible in this. sieges and fierce assaults. Prac Twentieth Century But I have tion living west of a line drawn tically the entire Moslem popula-seen with my own eyes, heard with north and south through Lanchow has joined the rebellion.

my own ears and felt with my own agonised heart the grinding to death of a sentient people..

The Doad Lie In Heaps, The Moslems have taken all the roads entering Hochow except the one from Lanchow west of Yellow River to point 50 li north of Hochow, thence south to the city. This is the road I took. On Octo ber 2nd I crossed the Yellow River an a crude ferry a few li from the town of Lienhua. The ferry-men yourself, especially if you are going told me that last summer the Mos Home and leaving Hong Kong for lems came in force, captured the good, such sketch would hold me town, pursued the fleeing inhabi- had just arrived from Honso. The merchants finally point that

mories which enn never fade, and you will look at it again and agam the only way to revive trade in

and show the children the picture of Canton and to restore its former

the land where they were born. commercial splendour and activities" The Manila Shows are opening Because the Club is composed is for the Canton Government to to-night on the Praya East and it mainly of amateurs, who seek no abolish the tikin, so that merchants is expected that a large number of material gain from their art, the people will take advantage of pictures are all cheap, and for a in the interior of Kwangtung yould; their season to enjoy themselves on very small sum you can become the wolves, dogs and vultures, not have to resort to importing swings and roundabouts.

possessor of a painting which will indeed prove a thing of beauty goods from Hong Kong as they are

and a joy for ever." now doing.

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Ma Fu Hsiang Stands Loyal. Not all the Moslem"lenders have joined the rebellion. General Ma Ft Hsiang and his officers with their armies have loyally support- ed Marshal Feng in his strenuous fight against Fengtien and are now auling General Liu against their co-religionists in rebellion. In Lanchow, September 30th, I

met General Ma Hong Ping, a nephew of General Ma Fu Hsiang, who tants to the bank of the Yellow After some days' consultation with River just where it is joined by the Provincial Government he left the Haia River from the south, and for Hochow about October 10th to there massacred over 5,000 men, try his best to persuade as many πόμερ "and children. Several of the rebels as possible to desert heaps of stones near the ferry land- Ma Ting Hsiang and surrender ing marks the places where bodies the Government forces. Just what lay in stacks until devoured by success he is having I do not know, Marshal Feng met General Lin on From Lienhus 1 went south 40 his recent trip to Shensi and after li to Hochow.

learning the particulars about the It has been announced by the

The city is filled with Chinese rebellion, famine, etc issued a management of the Shows that a

refugees who fled from their homes long proclamation exhorting the children's day is to be held next Quite apart, however, from this, on the approach of the rebels and rebel Moslems to surrender and week when the poor children of the possibly, sentimental value the ex-

are now cooped in the city or camp-threatening death to all who per- towo will be given a full measure hibition is well worth secing from ed just outside the wall under the ist in supporting Ma Ting of enjoyment Tree. Some 1,800 to the point of view of the artist or protection of the garrison on the Hsiang. THE ROSS INSTITUTE.

2,000 children will be admitted, and art lover. The artist will recapture walls and, in the fort they have Three Million. In Misery. will be given rides on the sea- some of his young enthusiasm as erected just north of the city.

The population of the entire re- THANKS FOR HONG KONG'S planes, merry-go-rounds, etcetera, he looks at these sketches which

Blaughter And Pestilence. They will also be entertained by a speak of love and faithful care,

gion affected by the rebellion must HELP.

Filipino circus, and a couple of sketches which it is very easy to see

The Magistrate, himself a Mo-be about 3,000,000.

Numerous bands of robbers roam child members of the troupe will with the eyes of the artist, for hammedan from Chibli, told me The following telegram has been be deputed as hosts and will show getting the faults in the realization that in the vicinity of Hochow almost at will in other parts of received by Mrs. Southern from their guests how to dance the of the vision and enthusiasm which 10,000 Chinese civilians were mas Kansu, their nuclei being chiefly. Tango, Black Bottom, and the Char- created them. For the amateur sacred and, more than that number Moslem soldiers, well armed and the Secretary of the Ross Institute, leston. Jesse Adams, the tall boy there is much to be learnt, especial had perished in the pestilence mounted. The rogues and rascals on receipt of the cheque for £140, from Kokome has promised to ly for one who has followed the consequent on the unsanitary con- and starving refugees join them in the result of the Bridge and Mah shake hands with every child, while work of the exhibitors through dition in the city, 300 to 400 looting villages, towns and, occa

sionally, walled cities. No place Joe Peters is to give special out several exhibitions. He will see how corpses daily being carried. Jong party at the Helena May door act for their benefit. ? faults have been overcome, and thrown out of the city for four in Kansu is safe! Taken alto- Institute on October 17th-

The offer on the part of the how certain effects have been arriv-months Cooler weather has now gether I think I am correct in call-

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