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NOTES FROM

UP COUNTRY

By Our Own Correspondent -

The Fukien Revolt

Blenyu, Jan. 29.

It had been something over one year since the Nineteenth Route Army, famous for its brave resist- ance to the Japanese at Shanghal was sent to occupy Fuklen Province chaotic of and bring order out conditions. Their work. had only been accomplished to a small ex-

South Kiangsi

Klangsi, January 29. You will be interested to know that, thanks to the quickening up of the postal matters, your issue of 21st December reached me here

on the 24th Jan. In the former

times this route was generally around five days, in fact many times the Hongkong daily was in

HỌNG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1934. ›

HUMPHREYS

ESTATE

Annual Meeting Held

Yesterday

A satisfactory year's working was revealed by the Chairman at the annual meeting of the Hum phreys Estate & Finance Co., Ltd. held yesterday at the Hong Kong Hotel.

Mr. D. E. Clark presided and was supported by the Hon Mr. C. Gor. dan Mackle, Mr. J. Scott Harston, Mr. J. M. Alves Directors) and Mr.

OBITUARY

Mr. Johnstone and Mr. Winyard

It is with much regret that we the deaths have to announce

the Union

HYDROPHOBIA

Market Hand Succumbs

A market stall assistant at the Central Market died at the Govern- Bunday ment Civil Hospital on

few hours after he had yesterday of two well-known local

He was found to superintendent of residents, Mr. James Johnstone, night a Waterboat Company, and Mr. Fhe suffering from hydrophobia. W. Winyard, former Traffic Super-His condition upon admission at mtendent of the Kowloon-Canton the hospital was beyond human

Railway.

been admitted.

ald.

The late Mr. Johnstone, although

It is suspected that the man he had been alling for some time had been bitten three months ago died quite unexpectedly, for he was

either through ignorance or neg- He got up as usual yesterday tent when there were indications | Kanchow in four days. but now, we . L. Qule (Secretary). The follow in his office only the previous day. by a dog at Central Market, but that a new trouble was brewing. The I do not "expect.. any such speed, ing shareholders were also present morning but after having break-ligence he did not have the bite

"Some Messrs. G. E. Potts, W. C. Lee, C. fast he was found dead on his properly attended to. there is 'most certainly

rotten in the State of B. Brown, Frank Austen (as at bed by his houseboy. thing Denmark" as regards the postal torney for A. J. David), R. H. Wild. facilities, "I have things on the J. D. Humphries and J. E. Jupp.

first indications that we had of it was when an officer of the Army called all the students together here in a mass meeting reciting all the faults of Chiang Kai Shek and The the present government. speaker announced that another revolution must be carried out. He announced that plans were then being made to redistribute the land to cultivate and no one need to turn to banditry to make a living.

after It was just a few days this mass meeting that the Peo ple's Government was proclaimed at Foochaw. At once great activity sprang up everywhere. All the students were called out to lecture and make the farmers and common people acquainted with the new order of things. Mass meetings were the order of the day. An equitable redistribution of the land was to be made: All women under their hair forty-five must. bob Debts of long standing were to be rents cancelled and interest and need not be paid. Mep need not pay the usual large sums of money for wives. A small fee of five dollars to the government from winning the consent of the maiden would be all that necessary.

30 that all would have land

Chairman's Speech

and

way from Shanghai for over two montha, but still not Addressing the meeting Mr. Clark yet arrived. One good thing is, said: that past experiences causes us to never give up hope, and in such times patience is indeed a great virtue. In the good old days of long ago, we used to think of the far East as slow, and it seems as if she was in some things getting. well. at least no quicker.

"A Motor Car!

Gentlemen:-The Report Statement of Accounts with Audi- tors Report having been in your hands for the past 14 days, I pro- pose, subject to your approval, to take them as read.

The net profit for the year under review is $167,060.79. This is! $18.240.00 less than the previous We are promised to see the mo-year's Bgures, but taking into con tors in here on the Arst of Feb. if (breating of all former promises? this should be true. it will be a great day for this city, and many will be out to see the strange sight

Born at Stirling. Scotland in

1885 the late Mr. Johnstone re-er son of the deceased, was chief Others present were sided for over 50 years in India mourner. and the Far East, the last 34 years Messrs. J. P. Warren, S. E. and L deing spent in Hong Kong. When G. Dodwell, F. Syme Thomson, ▲ he came to the Colony in 1900 he L. Shields, M. A. Johnson, A C. L joined the China Light Company Bowker, A Lebert, Geo. P. Lam- as an engineer, and remained with mert, R. Hall, W. P. B. Muskett, that Company until he joined the W. Anderson, A. Humphreys. R. H. Union Waterboat Company at its Valentine, H. H. Mundy, M. Barton, H. Reg. Lathan, P. T. Farrell, H. R. inception

During his younger days, he Middleton, T. C. Watson, T. Base- participated in several branches of dale, C. Bond. D. Harvey. F. W. sporting activities in the Colony, James, D. A. Purves, J. R. King- and at one time was a well-known horn, W. MacFarlane, J. P. Barnett, sideration the prevailing depres Soccer player for the Hong Kong J. S. Howell, W. Wright, A. Hender- sion. I think, you will agree with Football Club. In later years, Mr. son, Staff Captain L. M. Goddard, me that these Agures are satisfac-Johnstone confined his activities R.N.E. of the Empress of Japan, tory. Rents in Hong Kong were to golding and until recently was and others."

Wreaths were sent by:-Mem- maintained at the old level during an active member of the Hong the year, but in Kowloon we found Kong Golf Club. He was also &bers of the family and other re- Some weeks ago there was an it necessary to make reductions

member of the Hong Kong Jockeylatives, Mr. and Mrs. W. "Anderson. You will notice a considerable Club, and of the Engineers and Mrs Aris and family.. Captain G. athletic meet staged here, in con-

Anderson and Mr. J. E. Anderson, nection with the primary and mid- increase under the heading of re- shipbuilders Institute.

A very large number of our

The late Mr. Johnstone, is sur-Mr. A. E. Ainsworth, Mr. B. Owen dle schools, it lasted for several pairs.

merit in fats changed hands during the vived by a widow and two daugh- Andersen, Ah Pang and Ah Hel days, showed up some the locals, and much that is cap-year and new tenants before, tak ters, who are at present in Eng- and Ah Chai; Mr. and Mrs. R. T. but there ing possession require colour-land, and by two sons, Mr. Allan Barrett, Mr. and Mrs. C. Bond, able of Improvement,

and painting done. Johnstone, Manager of the How-Miss Jenny Brown, Miss V. Black- was plathly absent the sportsman washing

the aside spirit. It was at

loon Service Station of Messrs Dodwell and Company, and Mr. James Johnston, the well-known Interport swimmer, who is at pre- sent in Shanghai. -

was

-a motor..

very least Special repairs are also a heavy item. viz, $15.822.32, and of this amount $10,813.50 was the cost of renewing electrical installations our May Road fats.

Improvements

Church.

The Funeral

burne, Mr. and Mrs. G. A Bond, Mr. E. Barros; Mr. and Mrs. Chan mercenary to the core, and every hair split to get my school boy or

Sing, and Mr. G. W. Cay; Mr. and girl to win, against yours, the

Mrs. Dennis and Mr. 8. H. Dod- well: Erna, and Mr. F. Edwards; A few days after the announce-jadging and the measuring being

Mr. F. T. Farrell; Mr. and Mrs. J. ment of the government in Foo-done by the teachers in the differ-

In order to bring some of our

There was a large attendance at Gibson and Loui Staff Captain Li chow it was announced here in ent schools, it was plain the way. Stenyu that a number of ex-gov- the tape was held. Yes, Sports- older fats and houses up to date, the funeral which took place at M. Goddard, R.NR.; Mr. and Mrs. we found it necessary to install, the the Protestant Cemetery last even-C. E. Holmes, Mr. Richard Han- ernment people who had oppressed manship was absent.

One wonders what the Arst flush system. and this accounts for Ing. It included members of the cock, Mr. William Ho Mr. C. Hait, the common people and other poll- tical parasites had been arrested globe trotters to visit this old city the drawing on our Building Im- Board of Directors and the Staffs Mr. A. Howe and Mr. T. D. B. Har

Account of $13,858. of the Union Waterboat Co. and man; Mr. and Mrs. M.. A. Johnson and their fate would be settled at will think of it.. If they want to provement the mass meeting on the morrow. see it in a gay mode they must Turning to the Balance Sheet you of Messrs. Doriwell & Co. The ser- and Mr. H. Reg. Lathan: Mr. and come soon, as very much of what will notice a considerable increase vice at the graveside was conduct- Mrs. A. H. Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. This of course created great ex-

When the meeting was has been done in the building line, under the heading Land and Builded by the Rev. E. G. Powell, Minis-H. Mills, Mr. W. H. B. Muskett, Mr. citement. called a young man who had been will not stand the test of weather. Ings. During the year we com-

Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Purves; Mr. and acting as one of the township and those who want photos will pleted 6 flats in Waterloo Roader of the Hong Kong Uhion H. H. Mundy and Mr. E, Mitford; Mr. Allan Johnstone, the young- Mrs J. Ormiston: Mr. T. G. Pater- son; Mr. and Mrs. J. S, Smith, Mr. officers was called to the platform needs get them ere the Spring and 10 dats in May Road All rains tries, much that looks like these flats are let at rentals giving from the audience and the chair-

us a fair return on the Capital in-

and Mrs. Syme-Thomson, Mr. and man at once began to read a list brick. but is in reality only a very

vested. We have also purchased aed the Nationalists back several Mrs. A. W. Salter, Mr. and Mra.. of his crimes. The list was almost thin coat of lime smeared on wood. finished before the man in question Many of the tall fronted shops are Lot in Argyle Street and it is our miles thus freeing the motor road 3. R. Suitor, Mr. S. G. Salter and realized that he was being accused. prepared for Are, but the consola-intention to develop a portion of for their retreat southward More Mr. George Stephen; Mr. and Mrs. this immediately. In spite of the Nationalists were arriving con- U. Sze-Wing: Miss Wolnizer, Miss As soon as the charges were read tlon given when I mentioned this number of new flats and houses stantly and pressing forward to the F. Woolley, Mr. J. F. Warren and he asked permission to speak but to some merchants some days ago.

battle line. The Nineteenth hele Mr. and Mrs. H. G." Williams and them back for three days.until the Mr. and in Kowloon, there still appears to

Mrs. Yvanovich. and was refused. He was hustied off was, that now it would only take which have recently been erected

the of the platform and shot in front one side of the street, as

be a demand for small flats at retreating forde from Foochow had others.

of the of the audience assembled in the seventy feet road-way, will make

passed by this point then they Investments public park The affair was after the other side practically free from reasonable rentals.

withdrew keeping up a rear guard be connected catching on.

action. wards disclosed to with a feud that has existed be- tween two secret parties here for some time: The new government unwittingly was used as a tool in the frame up and a man who at tended the meeting wholly unsus- pecting a plot was executed with- in a few minutes of the time he became aware of is.

4

This deed caused a strong reac- tion against the government. I happened that this victim was highly esteemed in his township and had been instrumental in cap- communists turing a number of and several notorious bandits, Sev- *eral hundred villagers together with the widow, presented them selves at the yamen to ask for the names of his accusers and to de- mand redress. The accusers had several fled. In the meantime notorious gentry and tax collectors whom the people hoped would be shot were set free.. Enthusiasm for the new regelme died down.

Soldiers As Barbers

are.

***

what since that date.

I do not think there are any further matters calling for special comment and I now formally beg to propose that the amount of $221,791,08 avaliable for appropria- tion be allocated as follows Pay a dividend of 8 per

You will note the market value Bandits are Uke the "poor. You have them always with you, and of our Investments at December. while the city is quiet and safe, 31, was $43,723 under the cost price. a few lee out is liable to evening are pleased to state, however, visits from these gents, who with that prices have recovered some their superb system of information, know exactly where troops whose they are, what they like, can they be bought, what men of money may have come back to the village, etc., and on this they swoop down take what they come for, and decamp, I was told a few days ago of a certain place where a messenger arrived to give

some

Jew the information that reds had made their appearance at a certain place how many? On only about a few hundred, so they sent out two ying, to surround and wipe these few hundred up; were with the result that there

a few thousand, and they' wiped up both Ying taking arms ammunition.

cent. on 200,000 shares $160,000.00 Transfer to Building Im-

13,858.00

provement A/C. ....................... Transfer to Special Re-

Consulting Committee Union Waterboat Co.; Messrs, Dod- well & Co. and General Managers The Nationalists had the ad- of the Union Waterboat Co.; Com- vantage of an air force which kept pradore Department Messrs. Ded- them informed of the movements well & Co.: Union Waterboat Co. of the Nineteenth besides creating and stan; Staff of the Motor considerable damage on the re-Dept, Dodwell & Co.; Morris Ber- treating forces by machine gun vice Station Kowloon and Russell are and by bombing. They were Street; Portuguese Star of Dod- at a disadvantage in the difficulty well & Co.; Coxswains and crew of the Union Waterboat Co, crew of of their supply train. All ammuní- tion had to be brought through the motor launch Diana; Ladies of the hills three days away from Messrs. Dodwell & Co.; Captain Foochow. The Nineteenth had am- and oficers of the steamship Heli-. munition in abundance and used kon; Institute of Shipbuilders and it without stint. For his reason Engineers of Hong Kong: Royal a much smaller forces of theirs Hong Kong Golf Club. was able to hold back the Nation- alists for three days. As they re-

pairs and Renewa 15,662.32 treated they barned quantities of

A/C.

And Carry forward the

balance, viz.

Total

present manned by a nurse's promoted Traffic Inspector. About

MR. F. W. WINYARD

arms and ammunition rather than

Mr. F. W. Winyard, who was 58- 32,270.76

let it fall into the hands of their years of age originally served in the Navy, and then joined the $221,791.08 pursuers.

A Quack

Hong Kong Police, in 1904, Four Several hundred wounded were

years later, he resigned and was carried into Blenyu City. Over aor a time in the service of local most seriously firms. In 1912, he rejoined the hundred of the

service, being ap- wounded were brought to the local Goverment Red Cross Hospital which is at pointed railway guard. This post a so-called he held until 1917, when he was doctor who has 'only training and who has two young a year ago, he was invalided from men under him studying nursing. the service of the Government, and The only western trained docto ever since had beef in indifferent in the City is Dr. Emma J. Batow health. He leaves a widow and of the Woman's Foreign Mission-entidren, with whom the deepest:

volunteered sympathy is extended. ary Society and she her services operating upon twenty-

The Funeral lasue from it'in about a week, we

At the offices of the Public one of the most pressing cases. who have got immured to the heat through years, are glad when the Works Department yesterday after-Different organizations here vo Protestant Cemetery last evening, wait the Rey, W. Walton. Rogers, pastor last blast of cold frosty wind noon, a plot of Crown Land at the lunteered their services to ceases, would far rather have the Repulse Bay Road, registered as upon the wounded doing what of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, ranging around 90 than down Rural Building Lot No. 377, was put they could to relieve their suffer- officiated. around 32. One of the great ad-up by públic auction, the upsetting. Among the wounded were s vances which are being made here, price being based at $2 a square

Mr. G. H. Potts seconded and the proposal was carried I need not say those were not

Messrs. Percy Smith Seth and Cantonese as no one in this dis-Fleming were re-elected auditors trict could visualize that number and the Hon. Mr. C. Gordon Mac- This decidedly "pink" beginning of Cantonese giving in to any kie. Mr. J. Scott. Harston and Mr. created considerable unrest. But number of reds. in fact the reds J. M. Alves were re-elected it seems that the local group had give them as wide a berth as pos- directors. exceeded authority from headquar-sible, and if it can be avoided ters. A milder attitude was as they will not fight them. sumed and activities simmered down to a campaign by the sold- iers in bobbing the hair of women who refused to do it them- gelves.

the

Attention was next directed to

wards Foochow. More

the troop movement northward to

宜 than

thousand of the Sienyu bandits

were organized under their leader

and recognized as a part of the army: They were given permis- sion to enlist Afteen hundred mors and assigned to garrison this and the adjacent county. This freed the regular Nineteenth troops to go to Foochow and assist in the military phase of the revolution.

Extreme Cold

We are in the midst DZ

CROWN LAND SALE .

greatest cold season and expect to Plot At Repulse Bay Road Sold

is the getting rid of all unburied foot. There was only one bidder, dead, many keep their friends in and he secured the lot at the upset their homes for years this is now price of $4,700. not allowed, and all must be buried in a few days from death.

The land has an area of about 23,500 square feet, and its annual rental is $270.

few of the Ninteenth.

The funeral took place at the

Among those present were the widow and younger sun Mr. James On the whole the troops of both winyard; Mr. R..Baker, manager sides were under good discipline and chief engineer of the Kow and the destruction of property loon-Canton Railway: "Mr. L B. was kept at a minimum. All en-Trevor, traffic manager; Mr. R. 8. gagements were fought out in the Bevan and Messrs F. Grant, R. hills away from the centres in this Shannon, R. H. Marks, J. Brenan, section. The retreating army won W. G. Fitz-Gibbons: A Morris, re- the praise of everyone by paying for everything they required.

During the fighting local bandits hung on the outskirts of the lines to pick up guns and ammunition. Stragglers of both sides were re All the shoes in the town lieved of their guns and ammunt We naturally thought that these feet. were the troops of the Nineteenth were purchased but still-some weretion. It is estimated that about reported to be retreating by the back without shoes and their clothes in one thousand rifles and consider

Rumours tatters. - · road through the hills.

We were told that the new owner Intends to erect a latest private residence of European type on the site, but the detalled plans are not.

later word came to us that the local soldiers were scrambling out at the City in disorder In every yet available. direction but the east where a large body of troops were approaching.

presenting the St. John's Am- bulance Brigade; Bze To Chung and Chan Wang Fat, representing the Chinese YMCA of the St.. John's Ambulance Brigade, and others.

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As the military campaigned pro- gressed the fear here was that in case of defeat the Nineteenth might turn "red:" But in all their movement of troops in our midst they exhibited the strictest

Wreaths were sent by Mr: R. .discipline paying for everything they requires and refraining from

'Baker; Mr. R.. 8. Bevan, Mr. M. impressing the villagers to carry

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hands of bandits in the che Mr. P. Grant, Mr. R. H. E. Marks; all fears along that line.

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was already It seems that the Nineteenth country alone. Most of these of Mr. Alfred Morris; MË. Odland; Upon the fall of Foochow word attacked. Darkness was telegraphed here that the settling down so folks waited for had planned to occupy Blenyu course, were from the Nineteenth Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Robinson and

purpose of pro-l as they were somtimes unable to itss Robinson; Rev. W. Walton | Nineteenth were retreating by the the morning Hight to ascertain the either" for the coast road and also by another truth, of the situation. Morning tecting the main road twelve miles completely destroy all their stores Hugers and Mre: Rogers, Mr. R. Shannon, Mr. B. Trevor: Mr. R. to the east or to keep the way as they retreated. route that leads through the hills revealed that several thousand Na-

through One hears a great deal of sym-F 8tott; Mr. and Mrs. Read;: coming down. Blenyu to either tionalist troops had come in dur open to the westward Join the main Frovincial roading the night. They had made a Yungchum. The Nationalists a few pathy, over the fate of the Nine-Messrs. R. H. and F. V. Wong

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