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CHINA'S HEALTH CAMPAIGN.

CANTON TO BE CLEANED "UP.

ANOTHER VISIT TO NANKING.

· MARSHAL LI TSAI HSIN'S PLANS.

PAMPHLETS SHOWERED FROM frxox oua CHINE CORRESPONDENT.]

THE AIR

[FROW OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. }

CANTON. December 26th.

Carros, Dec. 96th.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27th, 1928.

BANDITS ROUND SWATOW.

GOOD PROGRESS TOWARDS SUPPRESSION.

DIFFICULTIES OF THE TASK.

SWITOW.

In upcountry districts bandit-

time is up.

In many instances..

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON SHAULIWAN ROAD.

COLLISION BETWEEN CAR

·AND MOTOR-CYCLE.

HOW IT IS DONE!

PICKPOCKET SEEN IN ACTION.

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Limited-collided-with-2--motor- tenta of the pockets of a number

ele, a Harley Davidson, driven by of Chinese who were listening to The defendant Mr. Tong, who had, as a pillon a fortune teller. passenger a Mr. Leung. When pushed himself against the com- the Police first saw the wrecked plainant and using his right arm

A Chinese was before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis TWO CHINESE BADLY HURT charge of steaking foot rule from. tracy yesterday morning on a

the pocket of another Chinese near A serious motor accident took Public Square Street. Faumati, on place on Christmas Day at 5 p.m. Christine Day, A. Chinese District Marshal Li Tsai Hain is probably

when a private motor car drives | Watchman who made the arrest in- taking another trip to Nanking to suppression has been very systema by Mr. Carl H. Shank, Director of formed the Magistrate that he participate in the Army Reduction tically carried out by the military, the Hong Kong Excavation Pile noticed that the defendant seemed In compliance with the National Conference opening on January 11, says the Canton Gazette, and only Driving & Construction Company, to be "over interested in the con Movement for Better Health Can The Conference was supposed to fow isolated areas are still infest- ed by these desperadoes. Even toq is to-day holding & big ex- open to-day and a preliminary hibition in the Y.M.C.A. The ex-session was held at the capital last there their position is precarious hibition will open at one o'clock Monday. But owing to the absence and that they realize that their sharp and is to last for two days of the Canton Marshal and other whole bands have been wiped out and other exhibits intended to teach postponed to January 1st. It is not pitched battles have been fought henith lessons are on display in the known when the Marshal will leave with disastrous results to the bun gymnasium. The principal rooms are Canton but it is expected that he dits who hare fortified also plastered with slogana of the 'will start in the course of the next exhibition. Trained nurses stand few days. In conversation with a behind the display counters explain high official our correspondent bas ing to the public the uses of the learned that the Marshal should various articles Special emphasis have gone to Nanking some weeks has been given to vaccination and ago. The reason why he had to anyone can be vaccinated by a com-delay was because several matters petent surse absolutely free of of first importance to the Liang charge at the Y.M.C.A. The Muni- Kwang Pros ces required his per- cipal Government is also urging the sonal supervision and attention. benefits of vaccination.

Mr. Hau Chung Ching, a member the Provincial Government, has been appointed Commissioner of Civil Affairs of Kwangtung by the Canton Political Council. The ag- pointment was the result of the

Health charts, cartoons. pictures. promirent national leaders, it was through surprise attacks, in others cycle beside a wall on the Shau ostensibly to make, more room, he

A large pallau has been erected in front of the Y.M.C.A. in the centre of which are inscribed the four Chinese characters Hoog King Chi Moon. meaning "the door to

Belves in

caps,

wan-Stanier Road near the june extracted the rule from the com stains were found on the wall em- tion of the Shek-O Road, blood- f plainant's pocket with his left hand, The defendant moved off, and the them-bankment, and two "Boret

of the type usually worn by motor witness arrested him. cyolista were picked up. The vic- inppeared to have been thrown against te wall.

villages while they have resorted to the process of asing civilians as a screen. And, of course, they have never hesitated to carry away village elders as hostages until some statisfactory bargain could be struck.

Guerilla Warfare.

People who are wont to criticize the prevalence of bandits in this Province, seldom bear in mind the face in the business of suppressing difficulties the military have to bandits and communist despera does. It is a different matter alto- gether to fighting a foreign edémy but when it

comes to

་.

The defendant said that he found the rule on the ground.

Later it was ascertained that they had been taken in the ear by Mr.labour was imposed. Shank to the Freach Hospital," who subsequently reported the accident to Na. Police Station, Wanchai.

A sentence of six weeks'. hard

Mr. Shank appears to have escaped without serious injury," but the two motor-cyclists were badly hurt and are still confined in the French Hospital.

An Accident At The Same Spot In 1929.

the

Bogging.

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An elderly and disreputable look. ing Chinese was also charged with begging in Argyle Street on Christ. mua Day. It was stated that the defendant had been sent away from the Colony three weeks ago. The defendant was fined $5 with the The collision occurred at

alternative of seven days hard place where there was an accident labour... zr-

in 1992 through a party of sailors interfering with the driver of a motor car, causing it to swerve and run over the embankment. It was because of that accident that the against which the motor-cyclists authorities built the protecting wall

were thrown. However, had" the all not been there the two young Chinese might very well have been

health" The sign is festooned with recommendation of General Chen' wis the legal position or ser

electric lights and the whole city is plastered with slogans, cartoons, etc., all about health.

of one's own countryman, the Ming Shu. It will be remembered Proposition assumes the nature of a problem all its own. The mere that Mr. Li Man. Fan, a close ad.fact that bandits often operate in berent of Mr. Hu Haa Min, was lightly makes it extremely difficult small numbers and are equipped General Chen Ming Shu is to de-appointed to the post. But he was

for heavily equipped and large liver an address in the auditorium so busy with his work in Nanking bodies of troops to catch them. of the Y.M.C.A. on Citizens and that he "could not come to Canton

General Pershing who showed so. Health." Dr. Hoh Cai Chang, chief | Mr. Li is at present the chief secre-

much military ability in the Great War, often found himself check- of the Bureau of Health,,aad Dr. tary of the Legislative Yuan, of mated when engaging in guerilla Cara Pok' So will also speak on which Mr. Hu is the chief. No warfare with the Mexicans under The Work of the Bureau of Health definite date has been set for his of bandits must not be confused Pancho Villa, and the suppression this Year" and "How to Prevent induction.

with ordinary warfare. Sickness-respectively: Two-sd- dresses of similar nature will be given in Control Park, the speakers being Mr. Wong Kai Ming and Mr. Po Leung To

FLOURISHING CEMENT

FACTORY.

The Kwangtung Cement Factory, evar since it was turned over to a "SPRING CLEANING.".

private firm a few months ago, has been producing daily some sixty The Canton Municipal Bureau of tons of good cement. The Factory Health has ordered a general clean- was built thirty years ago by the ing of all the stores, buildings and farsighted Chang Chi Tung, then houses in the city, beginning to-day. Viceroy of Kwangtung, and is situ The Police have been instructed to ated on the Pearl River in Honam. see that this order is carried out. directly opposite Canton proper This health and general cleaning It has eight kilns but only eix are campaign is being all over China in use, the other two being out of and the Provincial Government order. Its business is so good that ordered yesterday the Aviation the proprietors are thinking of re Department to distribute health pairing the two kilos so as to in- pamphlets to the people of the Pro- crease the output. When the eight The Aviation Department despite kilas are in running order, the

despatch- ed the aeroplane Kwang chau, which daily output of the Factory will hast just returned from its long in the neighbourhood of 80 tons of trip to North China, for the mis

cement. It has branches and Bion. In an interview with the aviator, Chang Tze Suen, our cor- agencies at present all over respondent told that the leading towns and cities of the Kwang-chau remained in the air interior of Kwangtung. The Fac for more than four hours and 'dis- tributed upwards of a hundred tory is managed and capitalized by thousand handbills and pamphleta on health to the various outlying cities of the Province.

WDA

PROTEST AGAINST “BEN HUR."

the

private individuale but is under Government supervision. Me Wong Yuk Shing is the Government re- presentative, and also superinten- dent of the Factory

Points To Be Studied, In guerilla warfare, the follow-, ing points must be studied:

1.-Haw mobile is the enemy' -If he is at large, does be

hold any hostage? -If he is ensconced in a vil lage, how best to dislodge him without hurting the vil Lagers.

killed.

SIAM ROYAL ELEPHANTS AMOK.

TWO VICIOUS ANIMALS KILLED.

BANGKOK, Dec. 12th. been the drowning of one of Bangkok's sensation of the week the Royal elephants, the poisoning of another and, incidentally, the death of one of the keepers of the animals It seems that on the It is or account of all these diff-morning of the 6th 'instant two of culties that bandit-suppression in this province has seemed to be slow. less, have been experienced by the And the same difficulties, more or military in routing out the com- munists from up-country districts.

Much Progress Made, months, much progress has been However, during the past three make Districts which until three or four months ago were infested The military, with the experience have now been completely cleared. gained from past campaigns, are antisfactorily clearing up the re- maining bandit areas and it will not be long before the traveller may go from one end of the pro- vince to the other without fear of molestation..'

AVIATION IN CANTON.

NEW FLYING GROUND TO BE

MADE.

CHIANG KAI SHEK'S PRESTIGE.

THE

COMING STRUGGLE.

Shanghai, Dec. 19th (U.P.)— without a doubt Marshal Chiang Kai Shek is the outstanding figurë in Chins to-day, and enjoys a greater masure of esteem than any other Chinese, yet it is also acknow- ledged that Marshal Chiang, in his rold of President of the State Coun- cil and head of the Government will in the near future bo called upon to utilize his personal in- fluence and power to, the full if the proper course of government is to be followed.

As head of the new Government, backed by a political system which probably will be followed in every respect, he attracts, to himself all the responsibility and authority. which the subsidiary organs are Chiong's prestige is perhaps even able to render. Abroad, President

higher.

broke their hobbles and fought. the animals went musth. They The victorious one then made of time, and evidently either frighten- and after careering about for some Promise Not Tot Fulfilled. ed or enraged by the shouts of some

As heir to the political heritage thousands of spectators, it made of the late Dr. Sun. Yat Sen, his for the river, A landing on which appointment to the executive pasi- lapsed and the poor brute went gave promise that China was at last it was foolish enough to step col- tion in the National Government head downwards into the river emerging from a state of political with its hind legs still on the anarchy under a form of govern other elephants and a motor car wrecked landing. Ropes, to which ment which endeavoured sincerely to remedy the evils of maladminia- were attached, were got round it. tration and national chaos, and between some piles and after strug of the system or rule so ably de- W35 jammed enable an unobstructed development gling vainly for two or three hours monstrated in the family and it died.

village administrations which have successfully stood the test of cen- turies.

but

the animal

A Pound Of Strychnine. Elephant No. 12 was kept from straying away from the big stable in which the King's elephants are kept, and on Saturday morning its head keeper was trying to pacify it when it attacked him and killed him with blows from its trunk. It was then regarded too dan- gerous to approach and was given about a pound of strychnine en cased within a stick of sugar cane. This settled its business within a

Of course, this hope was focussed on an optimistic background of a satisfactory readjustment of for eign relations, as outlined by those embers of the Government who derived their ideas and training from the West. The last few months crete to convince the observer that hare not produced anything con-i these hopes will shortly be THE RICE CROP.

realized. The recent long-distance flight by

The reason is not hard to find. Canton aviators has aroused great! The price of rice in Canton is interest in aviation, Marshal few minutes, and I hear, that its The transitional period between the now declining again, thanks to the Tsai Hsin being reported to be very had taken the poison were terrible period of same reconstruction has contortions and screams after it period of military conquest and the big supply from outlying districts favourably impressed with the Owing to the long drought in the achievement of the local fliers, 50 that these elephants are popular which leaders have been finding to witness. It may be mentioned been a sort of interregnum during East River districts and the South much so that he has approved the with most visitors to Bangkok, who their feet, and forces and influences POPULAR WELCOME TO THE be gathered from the winter sowing Canton.

orn Region, little or no rice rould formation of another aerodrome for are usually told by the guides that have been seeking their proper FILM.

but in other regions of the Pro-Aying-field is needed to permit the which this land is famed

It is felt that a new they are the White Elephants for balance. vince where river water could be free development of aviation.

They had the crop is fairly good. The

are nothing of the sort, but are A possible location" for a flying (FROM OUR CHINELE DOREERPONDENT.] rice from these places is now gradu- ground is and to be found at just big tuskers which are used, in ally being shipped to Canton, thus foot of the Shou Kon Hill, in the killed had huge tusks and were of certain processions. Both those lowering the prices However the prices are not expect tain, where there is ample level that perhaps they are safer out of somewhat vicinity of the White Cloud Moan- decidedly uncertain temper, 50 ed to fluctuate very much, for the ground for this purpose, with plenty the way, although one could have supply of native rice from these of room for expansion in the future. wished them less painful deaths Chiang, fer, no matter how opposi districts is limited.

The Canton Gazette says Mr. Ma Straits Times,

CANTON KUOMINTANG'S SILLY ACTION.

CANTON, Dec. 28th.

In

The Canton Municipal Kuomia tang has sent & protest to the Bureau of Education, demanding that it should stop the film of "Ben Har," now being filmed at the Pearl Theatre. The Municipal, Kuomintang argue that the picture But inspite of the Municipal "is nothing but Christian pro- Kuomintang the people in Canton, paganda decoying the people to both foreigners and Chinese Wel auperstition which must not be comed the picture extremely well. tolerated in this present age, o

of re- The seating capacity has been tax- volutionary enlightenment." It ed to its very limit during each states that the whole story is un-performance. fact several true and complains that the cinema scores of canvas stools had to be houses in the city would do any put on the aisles to accommodate thing to get money. A free trans- the incoming throng. Even then lation of the protest to the Bureau many had to stand and were glad of Education is, in part, as fol- to do so. In addition hundreds of lows:

people had to be refused tickets. The picture "Ben" Hur "

now Our correspondent and his family being shown at the Pearl Theatre went to see the famous, picture is entirely Christian propaganda, yesterday afternoon. They reached and therefore tends to aid the Ims the Theatre fully half an hour be perialists in their literary agres fore the performance started and aion in Chian. The whole picture barely got seats.

a travesty of truth and reason. It is absurd and, fictitious and can easily lead people to superstition. Such a picture in a big obstacle to social education. You are there fore earnestly requested to examine the matter and put a stop to the showing at once."...

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Yap Wan, of the Aviation Depart ment, has been detailed to make

a survey of the ground in this

locality, and working in conjune- all over China to tackle long-dis tion with him are experts from the tance fights, and it is freely Bureau of Public Highways. rumoured that several trips are

Critical Congress In March. The next few months, and especial- the weeks leading up to the be held next March, will constitute National. Kuomintang Congress to

affect the new Administration, but it will also involve President & critical period. Not only will it

tion groups may deride his au- thority, the foreign Powers, who are now embarked on a series of read- justments of their relations with China, must look to him for a per soos desdonstration of the fact that It has been decided to make the under consideration in different in any action they may take on new field approximately 1,000 yards quarters. Rumours are somewhat Nanking's promises their confidence square, the cost of construction difficult to confirm, but from a re- and trust will not be displaced,

In this respect it is no use hiding being estimated at $100,000. The liable source of information it is exact rite of the held has not yet learned that three flights are de the facta. China is striving for been thosen, but when Mr. Ma com- Buitely being considered. One is a tariff autonomy, and several nations pistes his survey his report will non-stop flight from Canton to have already expressed recognition probably enable a decision on this Mukdeu, requiring from eighteeen of the principle. This recognition matter to be arrived at

to twenty hours flying, the second is a flight to the Straits Settle ments, stopping at points en route, The Aviation Department are while the third is a journey over working on plans for another long- the China Sea to Manila, distance flight. Particulaes of this The last-mentioned trip will prob new "venture have not been fully ably be the most risky of all since prepared, and for the time being no it will be over the open sea, and details of the plans will be releas this particular tract of the Pacific Ocean is well-known for the fre

More Long Flights.

of course, is based on the hope and promise that likin and other forme of illegal taxation will be abolished when the new tariff is introduced. la the wider field of extra- territorial relations, Belgium and Italy have agreed, subject to certain provisions, to relinquish consular. jurisdiction in Chins and the Norwegian Treaty hints at it.

It is not known what sort of ac- tion the Bureau of Education will take. Should the Bureau complyed... with the Kuomintang demand, it The successful completion of quent incidence of boisterous wear Other Pawers will undoubtedly is feared that other pictures deal- General Cheung's light and the five ther. However, with the assistance follow, although their action will be ing with the Christian story will progress being made by General of the weather bureaux along the taken conditional upon, the "most be banned in Canton, however Chan Hing Wan in the "Chú | coast and in the Philippines the favoured nation clause to furnish popular they may have been in the Kiang" seaplane have fired airmen hazard of encountering bad weather, o guarantea that there will be no

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