1921-11-22 — Page 7

ON THE WATERFRONT. EUROPEAN INJURED.

A Big Number of Vessels In Port.

British

Chinese

Japanese

17 14

American

Norwegian

Franch

Dutch

Siamese

Portuguese

A Nasty Fall.

An accident which resulted in serious injuries to European

NORMAN

PASSENGERS ARRIVED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

CHINA'S INTERNAL

PROBLEM.

How the Tuchans have Reintroduced Feudalism.

Continuing his series of articles Mr. W. P. Simms, the American correspondent, who his mađe a journey to the interior of Chios. writes as follows:

What is close to a recard nama-

occurred aboard the ber of deep-sea going vessels lay Knight Campanion yesterday, ig the harbour this forenoon. The man whilst at work aloft There are no fewer than lost hold of a mast stay to which which though not a record must he was clinging and fall to the be very closs to being one. The dock. He was brought ashore tonnage figures are also very and removed in an ambulance to

A sullen storm of popular in- large, though they have been the Government Civil Hospital dignation is slowly piling up over slightly exceeded in the past. Wej

China and unless the improbable give the figures in tabular form:-

happens a reign of terror ultim- Nationality Number Tonnage.

ately will sweep this country 64,749)

from Mongolia's sandy wastes to

Chichan Fer 9.3. Nanking.--Mr. W. Althe 13.038

mountains ol 28,144 Andson, Mr. Chew Ming, Mr. and Hainan.

The military aristocracy, or 14,380 Mrs. Chong Tan, Mrs. Chan Kai Ming

reia- 3726 and init. Miss Chan, Mr. S. 6. Tuchumate, which bas 2.833 Constantino, Mr. A. Constantinoff, troduced into China the worst 7,177 Mr. Y. K. Chow, Mr. J. O. Chesi strally growing more bzazan;

features of mediaeval feudalism, $,092 Evert. Mr. Dong Toy, Mr. and Mrs while the struggling people they Fo Mr. R. Francisco, Mr. G have fastened themselves upon Khek thee, Mr. Hom Yung, Mr. are just as steadily growing more 137,304 In addition, there

and Mrs. Ho Shai Ki Mrs. Hung desperate. were ten river steamers. Seven of these Kan Shing. Mr. L. Junginger, Mr. were British and three Chinesa Doo Jackson, Miss L M. Johnson, and the tonnage figures were: Mrs. Y. K. Kan, Mrs. C. N. Kan, British 3,457, Chinese 1,264. This Mr. Lo Tai Soon, Mr. Lee Bew, gives a grand total of 88. vessel | Mrs. F. R. Lowe, Mr. Luis Chen, MURMURS EVERYWHERE. and 142, 025 tons,

Mr. Loo Min Chin, Mr. Leung Su

If some means of casting of Former Resident's Visit. Tung, Mr. Toy Cheng, Mr. and Mrs. this burden of independant wat A one-time Hongkong resident, Liu Yin Dan, Mr. and Mrs. Marlords and military dictators who Mr. Peter Mathieson, who was Chong and init, Mrs. Marie L formerly with the Anglo-Nestle | Mercier, Mr. and Mrs. J. McCarthy, Co. here, and later in Singapore. tirig Gen Nae Naughton, Mr. and is at present in Hongkong with Mrs. J. N. Mordey, Mr. V. Morgan, his bride. He was married eight Mika M. Morgan, Mr. C. E. Patton days ago to Miss Dorothea Mrs. L. Protogapa, Mr. L Ram Dalton, daughter of the Rev. W. E. Dalton, of Lewes, Sussex. 95. Mr. Deming See, Mr. Shou

Total

The well-known camel's back of Chinese patience is sagging! dangerously and the final straw may be added at any time.

scoff at Peking is not found soon within China, or suggested to them from without, a goaded aw into their own hands one day population will surely take the and build pyramids of severed heads.

ANAID Dr.

heard them

CLios where

WAS prepar

Months ago I heard murmurs Mr. Mathieson, who is located an, Mr. T. H. Symington, Mr. and of dissatisfactoin, in all the treaty in Shanghai, represents Messrs Mrs. H. E. Smith, Mr. F. Taylor, ports. William Jacks & Co. (London.) | Mr. Wong Gur Young. Mr. Wong in South He and his bride are spending Tee Chin and Mr. Zum Hoh Che. Sun thair honeymoon in Hongkong, Mr. T. Bucknall. Capt. Wming his campaign against Kuangsi though Mr. Mathieson's visit is Farrell, Mr. J. Hansen. Mr. P. and the northern military clique. not unconnected with business.

In all the river capitals along

Lighter Sunk.

Hathirumani, Mr. V. Jones, Mr. L

Yat-sen

H. Kilalain, Mr. T. Kongebin, Mrs.the lower Yangtze there was the

same unmistakable rumble, which

TRAVEL BY DONKEY.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 ́ 1921.

DAIRY FARM

NEWS.

J

T

MADE DAILY AND ALWAYS IN STOCK.

TO

Beel Sausages Pork Bologne Liver Oxford

·

+

30 cents per id.

...45 ...60 ...60 .70

"

" *

**

*

J

17

+

M

**

Pressed Beef, ready for the table 60 cents per lb. Frawn Pork Pies Cooked Ham

Smoked Beel to order

+1

23

60 ...25 & 50 cents each. $1.40

per lb.

.75 cents per lb.

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO. LTD.

"PHILIPS"

APHILIPS LAMP

IS A PERMANENT

ECONOMY

SOLE AGENTS

Holland-China Trading Co. Hong Kong

We hear that a Green Island F. G. Leach, Mrs. E. G. Lowder, grew louder and loader the closer Company's lighter has been suuk Mr. H. Nobik. Mr. W. Nicholas. Mr. I came to the cradle of revolu in Hokun Bay, 90 feet from the F. Trevelyan and Miss Trevelyan,tions in the upper Yangtze coun- praya wall and 70 feet east of Per Nellore Mr. and Mrs. try about Wachang and Hankow. the Green Island Company's J. G. Disk. Mr. J. P. Keith, Mrs.

I was not entirely prepared.; jetty.

Gourlay and a children, Mr. T. J. however, to had rouch the same Overdue Vessel Arrives. Wien, Mrs. H. F. Campbell and conditions in this part of China idols and before he was through The Kwai Wah which we ment-infant. Mr. and Mrs. J. Stewart. Within & donkey-stage or two of two-thirds of China was in his ADVANCE FROM CUSTOMS

PEKING ASKS FOR tioned as much overdus the other Mr and Mrs. Prans-ld and si

Péking itself. day, on her vos age from Tourace, children, Miss A. D. Gray. Mr. and

power and the Manchu throne

SURPLUS. was tottering. stved in port this morning. Hl. Mr. and Mrs. W. Elsewhere I have stuck pretty But for the aid of the Ameri She left Tourane on October 23rd. Hardyside and infant. Misa M. close to the lines of communica- cans-Ward and Burgevine-and struck very heavy weather and ran for shelter til the weather. B. Calder, Mrs. E. Baker, tion to the navigable rivers, the an Englishman, later on knowa moderated.

ukilda infant. Mrs. E. D. Wolfe chit coast or to the railords. There, as Chinese Gordon, Peking and niant, Miss C. Brown and news travels fast people ate more would have fallen, with the rest urse. Mrs G. Sobings and Miss.up-to-date and newspaper readers of China and the dynasty along 31. de Flenteau, the rew

are the rule rather than the ex-wich i Mr. Estes, French Minister

Peking. *

ception.

There is scarcely a city or towa passed through on the Pasta. Mr. Siew Yong Su, Mrs. See

But out here between Peking along the Yangize but which to Lecat. He arrived at Saigon on Tai ani child Mr. and and the Great Wall, even din this day shows the marks of the Amazone and sp-n: somes. Van den Blink, Mr J. Saler, roads are few and far between. Hung three weeks as the guest of the Mrs. D. F. Humphries and child. Transportation is by trail. Mao- Governor of Indo-China.

Passengers.

Me.

Mra

Y

M.

IS CHINA HELPLESS? Cap nad Mr. F. Newcomb and darin chairs, donkeys with Today the Chinase are more, Madame Claudel and children Mika, Mr. W. S. Phillips, Rev. and powerful braya, or vicious

enlightened than they were 70 were also passengers on the Paul Mr. N. Paga, child and 2 infants. Manchurian ponies whose growth years ago, but in precisely the Lecal. Madame Claudel is the Me and

Kiripple and

has gone mostly to mane and tall,ame measure they are the more wife of the French Ambassadoren, Mr. L. D. Lemaire, Mare the principal means of getting likely to rebel against political in Japan.

and Mrs. J. O'Malley Irwin, Mr. F. anywhere-unless one counts the

uppression. Chinese Stowaway. George. Mrs. Carde, Ms. A cart modeled after the vehicle other, but more righteous, Hung eornetimes-impracticable Peking. The people may produce an- Forty-six Chinese who hadley, Mrs. W. Collins, Mr. G. Noah rode in to and from his job any day, who will preach less been smuggled into Britain at Hall, Mr. Shilwell, Mr. W. G. Mc-on the ark. Various ports arrived on the Dormit, Mr. W. Bowden, Mrs.

fanaticism and more of the Popular movements

their Agamemnon to-day, Concerains Lovell and infant. Mr. S. G. N.jspread in such a country like wrongs inflicted by

op thees & Hume paper sage that

Birkenhead.

Bailey, Mr. W. H. Biggs, Mr. G. } wild-fire, whatever may be their they left

It is just possible that the Chia- had been Mesing, Miss G. 1. Williams, Mrs. merit. Few of the population canse themselves may bring aboa: Dajority of them rounded up from Chinese laund-} G. M. Bassett, infant Mr. read, and "soap-box spellbinders" reform before disaster overtakes ries in Liverpool, and other

Mare totally lacking.

The

Cosmo-Gordoa,

batches from centres a wide Lust Mr. A. Jenkins and Miss K.

apart as London, Manchester, O'Toole,

Birmingham, Cardiff, Newport,)

and Cheltenham. All bad boen before the police courts at these places on charges of landing in the United Kingdom without thei permission of the immigration

-WORLD WIDE SPORT.

B. G. D. Rudd, just bome from

cannot

pressore.

them. I have talked with some PEOPLE HELPLESS.

Chinese and a few-a very few "When China's four-hundred-foreigners who profess such a millions get sore over something, belief. it means that pretty much the China, in danger of foreign in- same conditions exist throughout tervention, has been known to the land.

clean house, at least partially- Such is the case in this parti. enough to forestall intervention. She may do SO DOW. To this end cular instance.

influential Chinese are trying to cring about a compromise of China's difficulties.

Practically every province has

.

Request Refused.

A frantic run on the Bank of China and the Bank of Communi- cations took place to-day, writes Mr. Rodney Gilbert to the N. G. Dady Nec, under date Peking, Nov. 16, the misiaze being de- played.

The Bank of Chics is paying depositors 10 per cent., but the Cabinet is fearful of the run ex- teading to the smaller political banks and leading to a general collaps?.

The Legations say that this is

opinion the beginning of the end, which

Chinese,

is shared by maoy

There is much rejoicing among the Philistines.

Yesterday evening the Wai- four chizopuy approached the Consortion Ministers (American, British, French and Japanese)) individually and asked them to induce Sir Francis Agles. Inspec- tor-General of Customs, to release: an advance on the Customs su:-)

plus of several million taels.

The four Ministers refused, ex- pressing the opinion that it was useless to throw good money into the vortex.

A telegram to the Chine80 Bankers' Associations and Cham- bera of Commerce throughout the country was sent by the Shanghai Bankers Association on the 17th, inst, as follows:

**Sensational rumours de- liberately circulatedin Peking and Tientsin are possibly of political nature, Shanghai being quiet. No runs ou the two Government Banks here to-day. Kindly inform all concerned.”

L+

authorities, and the Home Secret-America, says the standard of ary bad made orders for their athletics there is very high jas! its Tuchun, or military governor, deportation. It is expected that now. Exchanges between British who carries on as te likes, bas later other Chinese who, possess and American University atble-his own army which generally CHINA AND THE TOWERS. ing no proper documents entitlings were, he said, now established lives off the people, since it is But even if north and south them to reside in Britain, are at on a permanent basis. Princeton otherwise virtually unpaid, and were to unite, the abolition of the pre ent evading arrest will be and Cornell would visit England every conceivable way plays Tuchung and the evils that go similarly repatriated.

with them,can scarcely be accom- next year, and Vale and Harvard the despot The Liverpool main bridewell

Whather wanted by the people plisbed. in 1923. served as a collection station for Mr. John A. Chapman, secre-

of the province or not makes In which case the big powers the departees from Liverpool and tary and manager of Airdrieonians little difference. Though nomia may find it necessary to take the other centres. On October 16 FC. has resigned that office on ally a republic and a democracy, action. For the sake of the peace the precincts of the prison

being appointed manager of the China is in the hands of a little of the Pacific, the Tuchon system presented an unusual appearance Manchester United Football Club. group of care who allow the-at least as now practised-must with numbers of Chinese fitting to Mr. Chapman will have so under people no more voice in govern- go. and fro, bringing the baggage and manager to assist him in his new ment than Catherine of Russia)

There is no telling where an- other personal belongings of their

appointment.

gave to her subjects.

other general upheaval in China compatriots who were awaiting

THE METHOD OF Silvino Jamito (a Filipino) at

Only a leader is lacking for an like that of the Taiping rebellion deportation. Early in the morn- Melbournedefeated Tommy Noble pheaval Circumstances may would lead.

MOUNTING To intervention, ing the 46 deportees were convey-(England) on points, after a furnish bim at any time. The surely, but after that? ed in prison vans from the bridewell to the landing-stage twenty rounds.

strenuous battle lasting the full people-on & programme of cust-

ing the Tuchune, self-government the abuses of the Tachonale: Hartridge, F.R.C.S., Ophthalmic The Chinese people are against spectacle glasses is of the great- est importance" writes Dr. C. when they wore received by an Androw Wilson, the famous and peace would surely follow. With this as their car, the great Surgeon and Lecturer Ophthal escort of uniformed police, about Scottish international player and foreign critics who claim the powers, acting tactfully with 20 strong, drawn from the City Middlesbrough

centre-forward, Chinese are too apathetic to com. China herself, can take steps Hospital, they must be ‘ac- mic Surgery to the Westminster Police Force. The prisoners were was suspended for a month, in plain notwithstanding.

which will be very far-reaching. conveyed ACTORS the water to connection with the incident|

curately centred in frames that! Birkenhead on a ferry boat, and arising out of the Middlesbrough

are light; strong and fit well, In the past spring there was an later marched to the docks and v. Tottenham Hotspur match at uprising of the peasants near

otherwise the good effect of the placed on board the Blue Fannel Middlesbrough.

Wanhsien, province of Szechuan,! Chinese pawn-shops have been most carefully chosen correction liner Agamemnon, which sailed shortly afterwarde for the East. At a meeting of the Ladies against the soldiery. There have unsuccessful in their appeal to may be entirely frustrated by a Golf Union, held in Manchester been others, these being but the the Peking Government, to have faulty position of the glasses, or In Wireless Communication. yesterday, was arranged to hold forerunners of what may happen the pawn ticket stamp tax laws even a fresh source of eyestrain The following vesasla weza ia the next British Ladies' cham- on a nation-wide scale later on. rescinded. The Government, in may be introduced." The Hong- wiless communication with the pionship on the Prince's Course, The Taiping rebellion of the its reply, states that the financial kong Optical Co., Buccessors to port to-day at 2.30 pm-Tanda, Sandwich, on May 15 and follow fifties also shows what the Chin- condition of the country is at Clark & Co., Retracting and Cadaretta, Bombay Maru, City of ing days. It was arranged to ese are capable of doing when very low ebb and money is need Manufacturing Opticians, located Delhi, Yokohama Maru, Nyanzs, hold the English Ladies" close roused.

ed. The new regulation requiresiu 53, Queen's Road Central, have Nagano Maru, Shidzuoka Maru, championship next autumn, the Hung Hsio-chuan, a half-baked that stamp tax shall be levied the equipment and instruments Tjana Maru, Kansas, Nansang venue and date to be arranged Christian convert in South Chins, upon all pawn tickets of the to adjust your spectacle to a

nicety, -ALIos Maru, Tjimanoek.

later.

organized a society to 'destroy value of one dollar or more, ***

A BLOODY LESSON.

CHINESE PAWNSHOIS.

NOTICES.

SHAW· `

TEL. 692

KNOX HATS

NEW YORK

SHAW

- SOLE AGENT ---

HONGKONO.

ONE CAN ALWAYS BE SURE OF THAT TOUCH WHICH VISTINGUISHES THE MAN WHO IS REALLY WELL DRES-ED; THE CLEANLINE, THE LOVE OF BEING FIT, SMARTLY SET UP, IF HE IS WEARING

A KNOX. HAT.

NEXT

TAILOR AND OUTFITTER.

DOOR

HONGKONG

T.

HOTEL.

Powell

Wm

TELEPHONE 3146

IMMACULATE EVENING

DRESS WEAR

FOR GENTLEMEN.

Great care is taken with our Evening Wear and we supply only the most up-to-date and exclusive

SHIRTS

COLLARS

goods on the market.

NEW STOCKS OF

TIES

-Socks

Ltd

GLOVES ! FOOTWEAR

SCARVES WISTCOATS

JUST RECEIVED.

DRESS SUITS

a speciality.———

NEWEST MATERIALS, STYLE, FIT & WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED.

GINS.

Caldbeck's Old Tom and Dry

Jas, Coutts & Co., Old. Tom and Dry Boord & Son Old Tom and Dry Booth's No. Old Tom

Plymouth (Coates & Co.) Bols Dry Gin (London Style)

GALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

15, Queen's Road Central.

¿Telepkans Rv. 18,

FRENCH LESSONS.

G. MOUSSION, 15, Morrison Hill Koad.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO., MAKERS, EXPERT TUNERS & REPAIRERS.

942. Wanchai Road. Telephone 2127.

WHEN YOU THINK OF BETTER SOUP & PUDDINGS

THINK OF

THE HING WAH PASTE MFG. CO., LTD. (No. 47-43 Connaught Road Central, Hongkong)

MANUFACTURERS

OF MACARONI, VERMICELLI,

STARS, EGG NOODLES &c. RING UP 2330.

JAMES STEER.

PASTE

2. JOE HOUSE STREET. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER.

CHRONOMETERS, CLOCKS, WATCHES AND NAUTICAL, INSTRUMENTS REPAIRED UNDER MY PERSONAL SUPERVISION,

TEL 2877