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POLITICAL LEADERS

IN CANTON

CROUP OF INTERESTING VISITORS

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, Nov. 21,

The City of Canton is at the pre- sett monent the meeting place of many political agents, if all reports are to be taken at the face value.

Sometime ago, two envoys arrivėd from Kweichow. Ono ba since

gone back but two more are stated to be coming. A member of the South West Political Council in in turn on his way to that province. There seems to be a closer union between Kweichow and Canton,

A representative of the Yunnan Government is now reported in the city on a mission of goodwill. He is calling on local leaders, but the exnet naturo of his visit has not been divulged.

From Shantung 7 There is again the rather surpris. ing report that three envoys from Shantung province are also in the eity. Newspapermen tried to inter- view these supposed representatives of the Northern province, but one of them denied being such, stating that they are visitors from Shang thai and that their only connection with Shamitang is that they happen to be natives of that province,

R. L. STEVENSON'S RESTING PLACE

PICTURESQUE DESCRIPTION OF A TRIP TO SAMOA

PROFESSOR BROWN'S INTERESTING ADDRESS AT ROTARY CLUB

An interesting address was delivered by Professor W. Brown, M.A., B.Se, at the Rotary Club yesterday, the subject being "A trip to Samos."

There was a very large attendance present, Mr. P. S. Cassidy occupying the Chair. Among the guests 'welcomed by the Chair- man, wore, Mr: R. A. C. North, Mr. Eric Grimble, Mr. A. C. Jef- freys, Mr. Eric Wong. Tape, Lt. Col. H. L.. Murrow, Dr. F. Guldby of Hong Kong, Lieut D. A. .. Harnell, RN., of H. M. S. Kent, Captain Kerr, of Vancouver and Mr. H. A. Schooner of New York.

Professor Brown gave a very picturesque description of a voyage which he undertook in 1920 and described many of the Islands which he passed on his way from Hong Kong to Samoa on the .. Haiching, which was making a special trip on that o

casion.

SEA FISH FOUND IN FRESH WATER

Professor Brown said in part: It was the glamour of the "Coral Islands" and the South Seas" that drew me into this venture, but the reality, though I never for a moment regretted it, was in many ways prosaic enough.

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p.m. on Monday August" curious half light, the watery sun spilling a yellow dye on the restless sea and scowling squalla draggink black curtains here and there in the background as if some fastidious celestial photographer was experi menting with the distribution of light and shade. Sinister lines of white streaked the heaving main, far out from the true shore line, where the growing reef showed its newest teeth, and the "Haiching eased off five points to port. The long well broke in siler spray round the feet of the palm groves,

slumbered in peaceful disregard, but the sheltered Ingoon behind

with the sleek imperturbality of burnished steel,

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Professor Brown described "in eune detail the vessel on which he General Hung Hak Mo. In General Hung Hak Mo, Canton made the trip in detail, and stated that both forward and after-well- has at the moment a really dis

decks and the lower decks tinguished visitor. Once a leading

thronged with coolies, and the military commander of Szechuan, General Hung is a member of the Jabble-babble which they generated, all day and woll into the night Kuomintang. C.E.C. He has for some time been out of polities and quite passed belief and beggared living in retirement at Shanghai description. Anyone familiar with their ways would suppose that blue where he is generally associated with the moderate Kuomintang lead-urder was imminent, but most of the time they were merely engaged ers thero. He states that bis visit

A Fascinating Spectacle, in animated conversation. here is of a private character, but

Scarcely had we put these islands in view of the present developments course there were rows too, real,

wicked, penny-dreadful. movio well down to our port-quarter when in Szechuen province, much signi

a spiteful squall thrashed across us, ficance is being attached to his drame jamborees, ending in the use

of bamboos, bludgeons and crow blotting out sky and sea and shrink- bars, among the combatants and of ing land in one black riot, and life-preservers and handeuffs on the chasing sodden coolies go the shelter part of the captain and officers of the ween-decks, In & fow Several valiant borserkers, were minutes it had passed two miles to laid out in their gore and left to the north of us, and the anquen recover their dismantled wits be chable sun gilded anew the crests side my cabin door, and some spent of the staking palms, and in the weary hours cooling their tocs, and wake of the retreating storm, be- revising their political opinions, hold, a full grown well developed. mahooled to the adjacent railings. water spout,to me rare and I do not wish to convey, the im- fascinating spectacle, and you may pression that these collies were a be sure I had eyes for nothing else specially vicious lot, Very likely till after some twenty minutes it an equal number of men of any shrivelled and wobbled and lost colour or nationality, buddled heart, and vanished into thin air. not muscle, and they fall ensy vicwater environment. together day after day on ship- board would have generated quite

visit.

MANUFACTURE OF UMBRELLAS

A GROWING CHINESE INDUSTRY

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Canion, Nov. 21. The insaufacture of paper um-] brellas is one of the country's in- dustries that have been benefitted hy the movement for the support of native products..

na many rows

Nauru, Nauru,

Iv'e taken advantage of every good thing advertised and I've got all my Christmas parcels for Home packed up ready. My family are going to get their presents at Christ- mas not at New Year or Easter!

Christmas shopping is done earlier than ever. If you have Christmas Goods to well get your advertisements into the Hong Kong Daily Press without delay.

They keep

tims to imparted measles, influenza, them in tubs of sea-water and Tares more days of "interwoven tuberculosis, as well as their home- gradually add more and more fresh swells that kept the Hatching writh-grown diseases. Here's a theine for water, and finally when their educa- some tragic, poet to work on-the tion is complete the still youthful ing and wriggling, before we were

time seems not far distant when fish aro let loose in the lagoon. HEL our first stopping place, Nauru, Nauru, of Pleasant Island, the natives will die out, and the Thus the riparian natives can have is a roughly circular island about last survivors will be the saddest first class fresh fish whenever they

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Despite the cheapness of these paper umbrellas. preference has hitherto been given by the public to

A Good Washermant the most costly foreign umbrelina. Both owing to the increasing cost of

Our clothes, mainly whites, need-· imported articles and because of the growing spirit of nationalism, theed washing en route, and the first home-mude umbrellas have now be attempt at washing may amuse you come greatly in demand..

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A certain apalpeen among the 12 miles in circumference, slightly men and women on earth, conscious, have the fancy.

Ocean Island, There are but fow of these fac

coolice was declared to be a pro domed, and densely covered with ly waiting for extermination-and tories in the city of Canton itself.

Ocean Island resembles Nauru in In the rural district in the vicinity fossional washerman and to be tidy, coconut palms. This tiny islet is

Before the War, Nauru was owned all physical respects. It is bow- of Fatshan, however, the manufae smart, and efficient. He was given the more crest of a mighty peak ture of paper umbrellas is becom soup, a basin and a supply of that rises alone from the depths of by the Germans, who were clearing ever no step-child of a young Co- ing a thriving industry. The aum-

lony, but is a centre of Imperial ber of people engaged in it in that clean bot-water, and permitted to the occas, 180 miles from its near- out the phosphate at a great rate;

and had created a super-wireless Government being in area is roughly estimated at about tackle a washing, consisting main-eat neighbour, Ocean Island. 5,000, the greater proportion being ty of my own undies. He was consists solely of coral rock, old station, capable of direct com G.H.Q of the widely senttered Gil- womenfolk. The lalter require a

found later to have washed his own and weathered, and every crack munication with Berlin. It is now bert Islands and Ellico Islands, comparatively lower scale of wages

and nook is filled with calcium- and the development of this rural greasy duds in the clean water and phosphate, believed to have had its under Australian Mandate, and which together form a Crown. Co- industry is therefore very bright.

then rinsed out my-garments in origin in guano, at some primeval the Governor is an ex-General of

lony. the foul residue! (laughter), period when myriads of sea-birds the Anzace.

The present administrator is a As far as the south end of the made it their home. The oils of

Mr. Arthur Grimble, who has an Philippines the route was familiar Australia are, for the same reason to me, but when Mindanao Island lost in the fogs of geographical his had slipped

The navy-work of digging out uncle and cousin in Hong Kong. over the western tory, aingularly deficient in phos- horizon all was now sąd we enter phorus, and hence for Australian the phosphate deposite is done by This Mr. Grimble is n ed that long empty lane of the agriculture these phosphates from indentured Chinese coolies, sad strong character and exceptional Western Pacific that lies between the islets of the Pacific are of the "Haiching's" business was to ability, of great energy of body the Carolines and New Guinea. aupreme value. To the native pro-- For six days we ploughed tho de prietors as well as the mining com- bring a gang of soms 200 freeb work, and mind, with a forkable record serted and almost uncharted main, mission they bring immense wealth men from South China, and to at Cambridge, and his writings on In accordance with the Provinseng nothing but a few lost reefs. Cidling the island is a bolt of liv take on board, for repatriation, an the bistory and folk-lore of the

All the way from Mindanao, backing coral, the outer growing edge

CANTON INDUSTRIAL ENVOYS

OFF FOR SHANGHAI

CANTON, Nov. 29.

cial Government's decision to carry out a constructive industrial devo

Bureau of Reconstruction is plan ning the establishment of a num

Indentured Chinese Labour.

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man of

to Mindanao except of course while of which is never more than a approximately equal number of South Bes Telands and general lopment for the province, the actually moored at one of our ports, hundred yards from the actual time-oxpired men. All the activi- ethnology are held in high repute. we had a distinctly far-away and shore. Beyond this fringe the sea- ties of the island are directly or He is so a firm and successful lost feeling, and were at times floor drops to abysmal depths, and acutely conscious of our insiguide there is no such thing as a barbour, indirectly controlled by the "Bri-administrator, and immensely re ber of factories, including thoseance, the ship with all its animal The "Haiching was lucky as tish Phosphate Commission" which apeeted by the entire community. for the manufacture of silk, woollen and human freight being a more regards weather, but rocked ner has its own houses, shops, electric A few years ago he earned the ad- and other piece goods in the im-bobbing atom on a waste of uncom vously at her anchorage

oredisco future.

In order to study the existing manufacturing conditions in Shang- hai the country's chief Industrial centre, the Bureau has delegated

passionate sene.

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A Rare Sight.

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Nativer Prone to Disease.

light plant, refrigerators, hospitals miration of all by an act of rare couraga A westerly gale put an and miniature railways besiden T

anchored vessel into sudden danger, The natives are copper-coloure wireless telephone for quick com- and it became necessary to take Our first objective, not as a port Polynesians, mostly of scoming!munication with Ocean Island, the crew off before she became a wreck Grimble ardored his own landmark of exactly known post manners. They are taken collec One of them. Mr. Li Kui Tortion, was Greenwich Island, a real tively, very wealthy, for the British business in mining phosphate de crew af Kanaka boys, to attempt vice-director of the Silk Testing Bureau, will concern himself with typical atoll, consisting of a great Government, ordains that fixed and posits.

the resque, and insisted on going! the study of all manufactory con plesid lagoon within a reef of high prices are paid for every Nauru contains a lagoon of fresh himself just to make it quite alear ditions, while the other, Mr Tong irregular otline and some 15 miles palm-tres felled and every ton of water, but it is stocked with sea that he was not asking othere to Pai Yin, bead of the 3rd depart perimeter, Broken up into 18 palm phosphate removed. But the people fish. The natives catch the young face risks, he would not take him- |"ment "in" "the" Bureau,

starty | Clas ielote. A rare eight sedzed as are not so robust as they Inak, fry of a kind of gold Ach, and as self. The whole hont made its way general conditions.

we drew alongaido about three much of their figurs-being fat climates them, by stages to a fresh F...... – (Continued an Paat 1.)."

two-representatives 10 that port of call, but merely as a convenient fine physique, and frank in thewhere-they have an exactly similar official whaleboat, with its splèndid ̈ ̈