NEWS AND COMMENTS FROM THE NORTH
Magnate's Munificent
Gift
Relief For Returned Emigres
(From Our Own Correspondent)
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1934.
THE WOUNDED
GENERALS
Request For Their Release
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, Nov. 27. The Kuomintang South-west Executive Committee is investigat- ing the report that Generals Chi Hung Chang and Jen Ying Chi who took part in Aghting the Communists at Charhar two years Bgo were executed by the, Peiping authorities. The two generals were wounded by unknown
SEQUEL TO COLLISION
Heavy Claims Before The Chief Justice
HOW TO SECURE WORLD PEACE®
Interesting Lecture By Mr. G. She
Justice, Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor. Before His Honour the Chief yesterday, a claim for $100,000 by
the owners of the s.8. Michael Jebsen against the owners of the 55. Chian Lee, was heard. There was a counter claim for $70,000.
delivered by Mr. George She at the A very stimulating lecture was Cathedral Hall last evening, under the auspices of Nations Society on "How T Secure the League of World Peace."
In the absence of the Right Rev. Bishop Hall, Mr. R. C. H. Lim, chairman of the executive, com-
Rhederal M. Jebsen Aktieselskat are owners of the Michael Jebsen and The Ching Kee Steam Navi-mittee took the chair, gation Co., Ltd., are owners of the In introducing the speaker Mr. Chian Lee. The claims are a sequel Lim said that they were fortunate. to a collision in Hong Kong Hai-enough to have Mr. She with them to discourse on a vital question Counsel's Outline of Events of the day. Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., and Mr.
bour.
lar or legation authorities is ellgi-assassins while they were having ble to the possession of stead in one of the two villages hotel. They were admitted to a a home-a msh jong game in a Tientsin which will be known as the "Over- hospital for treatment "but later. seas Happy Colony," (Ch'lao Lo extradited to Peiping
Shanghai. Nov. 23. After one of his periodical visits to Shanghai and the Capital, Mr. Hu Wen-hu. or. Aw Boon Haw. as he is known in the Straits, the noted Singapore industrial mag-ch'un). nate and philanthropist. returned last week to his Malayan domicile, having arrived in the early part "of this month alter
passing
in
through Amoy and Hong Kong, His philanthropy during the past years has won for him a reputa- tion that is possibly greater China than even in Malaya, for he was the recipient of a personal invitation from President Warg Ching-wel to visit Nanking-where he was shown the enormous amount o! reconstruction and public work, to which he himself has been such a generous contri- butor and was literally feted everywhere he went, including a magnificent reception by 78 local public and business bodies at the Shanghal Chamber of Commerce. ir a way seldom seen
in recep- tions for unofficial" personages. On that occasion. 2 noteworthy in- cident was a long and tremendous burst of cheering when Mr. Au spoke of his plans to establish a hospital for the poor in each pro- vince throughout the country within the next five or ter gears, since social welfare work is one of the best ways of spending money. which might otherwise be inore harmful than beneficial to society. 1 misapplied.
A
Half A Milan for Charity
the
C. Jenkin. K.C.. instructed by Messrs. Hu, Han Min. Teng Tse Mr. O. E. C. Marton, of Messrs. No one, however, is allowed to Ju. Hsla Fu Chen and Chow Lu have more then 50 mow of land South-west Party leaders, sent a M Jebsen Aktieselskak, while Mr. Deacons. represented the Rhederal each and the lease will be set for joint telegram to Nanking asking H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. a period of 50 years, the tenants being exempt from paying rentals generals because of
release of the wounded G S. Hugh-Jones, of Messrs. Wil during the first three years. From record
their fine kinson and Grist, was for the and insisting on the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Co. the 4th to the 10th year, an an- punishment of the murderers who Commdr. J. B. Newill D.S.O., ed for each mow of land, and 30 shooting. nual rental of 20 cts will be charg-killed one man during the hotel Deputy Harbour Master, sat with
the Chief Justice. " cents for each mow of land from the 11th to the 20th; 40 cents from
Film Censorshly
the 21st to the 30th year; 50 cents from the 31st to the 40th year. and 80 cents for the last ten years. "Colonization" will be of three
kinds: that with private funds; that with credit loans; and that with capital-labour co-operation As regards organization, the regu- lations provide for an administra- tion office, a co-operative society. an agricultural experimental sta-
tion and a granary.
successful salo
'all
A
In the course of his lecture Mr.
most
the
the and
She mentioned that one of the important problems
problem of war and peace world is facing to-day is
until this is solved there solution to the thousand and one other problems.
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NAZARETH
11
HOUSE
(Continued from Pare 7)
the atmosphere of prayer These two thoughts sum up, the
thesis to an impatience too prone years of existence. It is the anti- history of "Nazareth in Its fifty
to substitute overmuch outward. instead of the inward communion activity visible to the eyes of men
apostle. with God, the real strength of the
The roll call of those who have shared, in this life now musters 1 - 028. The have gathered together from afar: 301 from South China: 159, from Tonkin: from Cochin. Western Indo-China 88; the china 146; from Japan 58; from mainder from various parts.
-
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(Acts, 8. v.4)--but that the best ¡nouncement by the Superior of fruits of scholarship would mature 20
Nazareth, Monsg. Deswazlere, that His Holiness the Pope, with his spe-
Cross "Pro Ecclesia et Fontifice.” elal congratulations to FT. Monnier, had sent for the old servant Luw & Tsoung the decoration of the
of paint, and it is getting t an equivalent more or less of our D.S.O. Nazareth merits a new cost
for such a house Guardiant
A PIONEER IN HONG KONG We cannot close without signa- sing the pioneer work of Fr. Monnier in printing, activities of Hong Kong. He was the first to. use the collotype and engraving. methods. His process work was the first of its kind, too. More than that as there were no exit- LITERARY ACTIVITY
ing characters for the Cambodian, From 1884 to the present year had to make the matrixes. Under Lolo, and Laotian languages, he the total number of copies turned his direction, 60,000 such matrixes off the Nazareth printing-presses is 3,106,780, giving a rough average
were made. A reader would of aver 62,000 coples and
naturally conclude that he started editions a year. For a big printing ing. The fact to that when, 57
as an expert in the art of prin establishment the figures would br small; but
we must remember
years ago, he left his native France that the works tarned, put do not for India, he has not revisited it include ephemeral novels or school since, he was innocent of the art texts. They are
of printing but to India". he scholars grappling with the dim- brought the faith and courage of culties of an
a true missionary. Transferred to allen tongue - and obliged to weigh the force of each China he transferred these virtues,
many as 33 editions of the Bible reth printing press grown. word before leaves the pen. I from the mission Aeld, to the Con- have mentioned dictionaries.
printing press: so has the Naza-.. with commentaries languages have been published. to do so, I cannot help feeling that Various Though I have no commission
works have appeared. Studies in now that it knows of the quietly Of History and Geography 41I have Hong Kong's permission linguistics and literature total 83, celebrated Jubilee, to end by tell- educational works 83. Many othering Bishop Deswaxlere and his fields have been explored: Philo-noble band of workers that Hong sophy, Theology. Liturgy. Apolo-Kong sends them its most cordial works, 41 works have run into as getics, Hagiography, Devotional congratulations on the occasion of
the.. Jubilee," with the many as ten editions. The pro- that Hong Kong is proud of the assurance
portional division. according to Work that has been done. languages is interesting: 28% are Chinese: 21.9% Annamite: 174% Latin; 11.9% French; the remain- ing 20.8% are spread over a num English claims the biggest Des- ber of other languages, of which
centage.
In order to have the 'means of maintaining war the economic problem is inextricably bound. He sald the resort to force is justined it is social and not justified if is anti social. The speaker came to the con- clusion that the basis of World Peace that there is should abstain from wat.
no such
cillatory methods should be adopt- thing as neutrality, all parties
ed in order to avoid war,
Outlining the case. Mr. Potter The motion pics are. censorship sald that on the evening of Angustit committee requires cinema 7. the Michael Jebsen was ap theatres to submit all "shorts" and proaching Hong Kong after comedies to be censored in the voyage from Bangkok She enter- same manner as feature films. Ifed by Sulphur Channel and cleared the shorts are found to be ob- Green Island about 7,46 p.m. After jectionable they will be cut out in passing Green Island, the captam whole or in part,
changed the ship's course slightly The committee is under the westward, with the intention of Municipal Bureau of Social Affairs. tying up his ship to Buoy No. 12. Even trailers must be
censored He picked up a sampan hear Green before they can be projected on Island for the purpose of assisting the 'screen The authorities re-him to tie up his ship. Entering has a the harbour, he noticed that Buoy No. 12 was occupied and he decided
cognize that the cinema
deeper impression and wider in
of different
Young Cantonese Aviatrix With all the glory of 38 highly flights officially
Huence on the public than ordin- credited to her, and carefully en-ry shows, hence the censorship
on film is more strict. tered in her log-book, Miss Joan waung, a
pretty and vivacious Cantonese, girl, who arrived a few States, was promptly. interviewed days ago from Paris via the United by reporters from the local press. Miss Watng has just completed an Intensive course of study in a French governmental aviation head of her class, which included school and was graduated, at the 45 European students. Reward for her flying ability and studiousness while at the French school came in the form of a regulation pilot's license, which the proudly cairles Although Misa Waung is definite- ly of the opinion that there "are new worlds to conquer in the Far East," she said that she was not exactly sure just where
Sum approximately half a million dollars has been left Mr. Hu for various charitable pur- poses in Shanghal and other cities In China, and his directions for the distribution of such funds are being carried out by a group of prominent Chinese Eusiness men in Shanghai. The Drought Relief Organization is one of a number of philanthropic societies which received a sum of $5,000. Mr. Hu donated $120,000 for the building of the Shanghal Civic Centre H-5- much, however, to follow her new Jike very pital building, quarters Leper Hospital, and a reformatory Shanghai with a view to this end vocation and is now visiting in $100,000 for the Hangchow Muni-before returning to her native Can- cipal Hospital building; $10,000 for
for the
a Maternity Hospital and School in Sian: $10,000 for the repair of the Six Harmony Pagoda China's most famous beauty spot.
iri
the lake-side city of Hangchow; and among other contributions
to re-
constructive work in the country
Jarge
the cost of constructing a reservoir in Nanking, on a alte near the Purple Mountain.
Public-Spirited Overseas Chinese "The overseas Chinese have al- ways been the solid foundation on which rests to a large extent the success of the national-revolution- ary movement of the past three decades. The family of the late Java "Sugar king," Oel Tlong Ham, is opening up large-scale enter- prises In this country-such their huge alcohol distillery in Pootung-and doing its bit in the national industrialization program-
'me'
2.5,
The large and modern Cen- tral Hospital in Nanking, and the other charitable institutions which his munificence has made possible, will stand as a lasting memoria! to the public spirit of Mr. Hu Wen- hu, that will endure beyond this
*ge. The philanthropy of Mr. Chen Chia-ken. or Tan Kah Kee.
In either
to take Buoy No. 10. case, the course of the ship would be the same and the Central Fair way would be used.
At the conclusion of the lecture a lively discussion took place. Members of the audience asked Mr. She many questions.. accorded to the speaker.
A hearty vote of thanks
WAS
view, the captain of the Michael Jebsen put his helm hard to star- Cantoy's Census
board. The Chian Lee, sald Mr. Canton has a population of
Chian Lee Sighted 978,320 Orach 559,994 are male
Potter. Still persisted on her course.
figures are based on the reports the Second Officer were on the blasts and 418,335 are female.
At 7.54, & collision being im- These
At 7.48 p.m. the ship's speed was minent, the Michael Jebsen engines reduced to half. The Captain and
were put full astern and three throughout the city. Each police bridge and the Chief Officer was ships were in collision, the bows of
police stations
were blown. At 7.56, the station keeps a record of persons
at the forecastle. The Chian Lee the Michael Jebsen striking the however, not always correct: in a house, and this report is.
was "sighted over a mile away. Chian Lee about amidships and at being five to six points on the port an angle of about 80 degrees from bow of the Michael Jebsen. She the stern of the Chian Lee. was apparently ons voyage from Mr. Potter would say that the Canton to Hong Kong and was place of the collision was 250 yards proceeding at considerable speed. from the south-west of the south
At 7.50, the Michael Jebsen gave buoy of the Central
long blast of five or six Alter
collision, seconds' duration and "stopped her cleared and the Chian Lee con-
the engines. The captain would tell tinued her course at a considerable the Court that he did neither of speed in the direction of Buoy No. these things because he was afraid, 13.
over a millior.
years ago, and the number was A census was taken over three
The present de- crease is due to the fact that many women and children have moved back to the country; where they con live cheaper.
the start. She would to make VALOUR OF THE
ton.
TROOPS
During the seven months that Commended By The
she
received intensive training.
both in flying and in ground classes, she chalked up a total of 15 solo flying hours to her credit, using several types of Forman
Generalissimo
one
a collision with the Chian Lee.
the
Question of Speed
the work
in
of
As
"
AUSTRIA'S. NEW STATE MACHINERY
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright.)]
that no Institute in Hong Kong Is it an exaggeration to Lay
has, hiring there 50 years, 30 justified its existence amongst us as a centre of enlightenment? No other corporate body can point to
Vienna, Nov. 25, The new machinery of the cor- Fairway. intellectual work on the same porative Austrian State will be set
Nazareth so ships scale as the work accomplished at in motion in the course of this ostentatiously on the hill of silent that the Federal Diet which is quietly and so un-week, it having now been decided contemplation.
under the new corporative consti- tution will have to vote on all bus SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
from the Darwinian catchword on
introduced by the Government
the celebration day:
My mind could not get away which will assemble for the first
the Fittest! Fr. Monnier, the round Economie Council, the Cultural next Friday. The four Survival of Chambers-the State Council, the
At that time there was no danger. At the time of the collision, the He blew a long hiast because the Chian Lee was going at a consider- Chian Lee had been in sight for.able speed. If she did reduce her about two minutes and she was speed at all, as her officers said proceeding at a considerable speed she did, she did not do so enough in the direction of the Central and certainly not
Fairway, and had not indicated in enough.
The
w
time
er and installer of the Nazareth Council and the Council of Pro- effectively printing works, is still at Nazareth vinces-from whose ranks 59 mem- any way that she had seen the Michael Jebsen said, they saw no milestone of life, still hale, he was chosen will meet on Wednesday to officers of the On Sunday he passed the 81st bers of the Federal Diet are to be Michael Jebsen The captain of stem-way on the Chian Lee and always hearty! with the Chian Lee might have had his the officers of the Chlan Lee said have photographed the two planes. Chinese women truly give (From Our Special Correspondent) araw his attention to the Michael shipa got closer and closer, the cook's assistant, room boy, now in December 10 and 20. The Diet will him-we elect these members. After due attention focussed on the Central she had been put hard astern. Fairway, and the long blast would
to deliberation on the pending bis Mr. Potter alleged that as the ter
gether-is the first servant to ex-the new "Diet will probably take promise of catching up with their
Nazereth: bottle-was-her,first decisions some time between Western sisters before very long..
Canton, Nov 27. In a telegram to General Chen Potter, was not a recognised pre-collision would have taken place positors, one
Although a long blast, said Mr. her helm. If she had done so, no house." Two of his sons are com- must, accept or reject the bille Chian Lee made no attempt to use the evening of life he "minds the preside over sittings in public but Tsat Tong. General Chiang Kal vention of collision at sea, it was The fact that she had altered her grandson are printers. Shek, Chairman of the Military the most usual method adopted on
of his sons and a without debate with the exception: course by one point was of no use the most touching event
Perhaps of the annual budget which can be
at the both debated and amended- Jubiice Celebrations was the an- Transocean Kuo Min.
Jebsen.
SWATOW NOTES fare Commission, highly com- ships to draw the attention of at all.
British Minister's Visit
Thursday Nov. 23. Twentyfour hours of crowded entertainment was the lot of HE Sir Alexander Cadogan, Theodosia Cadogan and three daughters, during that short period in Swatow.
Lady their
"Invariable Custom
mended the valour of the Kwang-other ships. tung troops in pursuing the Corn- munists in Southern Hunan,' and donated $10,000 national currency for the relief and comfort of the
soldiers.
Klangwah, a town in Western Hunan, has been evacuated by the Communists and is occupied by the vanguard of the Third Inde- pendent Division.
The majority of the Reds have proceeded north- ward and are located at Wing- ming.
As regards the stopping of the gines, it was the invariable cus tom of the Michael Jebsen on reduce her speed. entering the harbour at night to
The fact that the Michael Jebsen went to starboard was the right course to adopt because it left open the Chian Lee three courses. The Chian Lee then could go hard to port, hard to starboard or hard blast at 7.50 and in answer the collision.
The Michael Jebsen blew a long sures would have prevented the astern. Any of these three mea-
Chian Lee blew a short one and a In conclusion, Mr. Potter, sub- long one of 15 to 20 seconds dura-putted that the fault of the colli tion, followed by two short ones.
not, with the Michael Jebsen. sion lay with the Chian Lee and
dence of the master of the Michael The Court then heard the evi
was adjourned nutil this morning. Jebsen, after which the hearing
At this point, Mr. Potter men- tioned that there was a difference
of seven minutes betwen the two ships.
The Hunanese troops are having Their arrival on Tuesday after-munists at Taoyuan, Chiaboo and sharp encounters with the Com- noon, was signalled as the HMS. Ningyuan The Communists in Falmouth came up the river, by
At 7.52, the Michael Jebsen's their advance are commanded by course was altered slightly to starboard, and she blew one long
in the cause of education has also salutes from a Chinese Destroyer General Chu Teh, but according inst. The alteration was made to
carved a niche for him in modern
China's records, and there is Uttle doubt that other overseas Chinese will not hesitate to emulate the good work of their leading fellow- countrymen and assist the rebuild ing of their country.
(sent specially for the occasion), the US. Tulsa and the French Des-
pyer Regulus.
From 4.00 to 6.00 p.m. there was a reception at the Swatow Club by Mr R. Pratt (British Conaul), and MIs, Pratt, at which the dis- tinguished visitors met some 200 of the local foreign and Chinese residents.
Relief for Returned Unemployed
Active measures for the rellet of unemployed overseas Chinese who have been forced to return to His Excellency, and Lady Cade China by immigration restrictions gan were dinner guests at the Bri- or economic depression abroad tlah Consulate in the evening. were brought one step nearer "to
Wednesday morning was taken success on November 17, when the up by the local officiali (Civil and Overseas Affairs Commission pass-Military), in showing the visitors ed a set of regulations governing around Bwatow. their "colonization" scheme in the This was followed by a "rimin" villages of Hauencheng and Sui in their honour, given by the yuang, in Antwei Province..
Mayor of Swatow and other off It is stipulated that any over-cials, in the Municipal Badiding seas Chinese between 17 and 8 The visitors left there and boarded years old who can prove himself the Falmouth, leaving the Port at a member of the jobless army: by about 3.30 p.m. for Hong Kong and showing certificates issued by comau- Canton.
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FRANCO-TURKISH PACT
to reports from Changsha the Red advance is checked with heavy bring the south fairway buoy close casualties to their side. These to her starboard bow so that she, Lanshan, which has been in the way on the starboard side thereon. [Special to the "Hong Kong Daly three towns are just north of could turn into the Central Fair-
since last Saturday. hands of the Kwangtung troops At the same time, her engines
Presa" (Copyright.)3 ́- were put slow ahead. the Hunan Provincial Government, Jebsen then perceived that the son of the Franco-Turkish pact of
General Ho Chlen, Chairman of
The captain of the Michael The negotiations for the conclu
Paris, Nov 26.
his provincial detachments, four course. At any rate, as far as he be conducted by the Turkish For- is directing the campaign. Besides Chian Lee had not changed her security and mutual assistance will Nanking divisions are placed and his officers could see, there was eign Minister, Rushdy Bey during Ho Chien, under the command of General no appreciable change of course his eight day visit to Paris, accord- on the Chian Lee, although it was ing to the Geneva correspondent also encroached on the Kwangs Les that they changed their course claims that Rushdy Bey will pro In the meantime, the Reds have stated by the officers of the Chian of the newspaper "Tempa," who
sistance of the Kwangel forces. borders but are meeting the res by 14 points.
pose to M. Laval a pact coinciding Genera) Pai Hsung Hel, executive The Chian Lee was proceeding of the Little Entente States, thus Still Fornixted
as much as possible with the pact officer of the Fourth Group Ariny, right across the bows of the providing for a preliminary con- has arrived at Pinglok to direct Michael Jebsen, continued Mr. sultation on all foreign political the defence of the province. The Potter. The ships were getting so questions as well as for represent Reds are now attacking Yungen close that it was essential that ing common standpoint at the. Kwanching and Shirkwan in both ships should act if a collision League of Nations. Kwangst
was to be avoided. With that in Transocean Kun Min.
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