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SATURDAY, APRIL 9. "19:7.

THE ANTI-RED SWEEP.

SATURDAY,

90

APRIL 9, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

DAY DREAMS.

The Unborn ~Child.

ment in progress for the eradica- tion of all Russian influence movement which is directly in sup-

THE GREAT DIFFICULTY SURROUND port of Marshal Chiang Kal-shak,

ING MOST BOCIAL QUESTIONS 19 THAT who all along has been chary a".

THE GREAT MASS OF THE PÈOPLE ARE accepting Russian help. Marshal INDIFFERENT.-J. G. Simpson. Chang Tss-lin and Marshal Chang

There were two fresh Chinese Tsung-chang ate well-known anti-cases of small-pox reported yester- as my best friend, though I never and by the end of it, I knew that I suppose he would be described, my own voice. He talked all night Reds and with Marshal Chlag day, and also two cases of typhoid | thought of him as that. He secm- boy as well as my own little brat. Kai-sbok now coming out fever.

ed so unlike the other men I know, Ilis son was not morely a piece of whom I and the rest of the world imagination; he lived, and, if it had strongly against the Communists

It is notified in the Government call my friends. Ho was rertainly not been so late, we were going up it would seem that they have but Gazette that the name of the always a dreamer, and yet, not the to see him in his bed. little favour among the directors Hongkong Lumber Company, Ltd., conventional type of dreamer. For Next morning 1 realised what he never had a moment to spare fools we had been and went over of actual power-the militarists. has been struck off the Register.

and his life was spent at the rush. to tell him so. When I met him Thore will most assuredly be fur-

How he proposed has always on his doorstep. he told me The improvement in Sir Frede-

One can quite casually that Michael, that ther political shuffles and orient-rick Lugard's condition has been been a mystery to me. tions as a result of the latest move, well maintained, and he was in mail usually guess at the style of most was the name of his boy, had bump

He his head while trying to walk 1 week pronounced to be out of men's proposais-but not his. and it might well be that the danger.

felt things too strongly to have hope I did not show my surprise, passed it off casually, and I am but he was across the road before agents of Moscow will be driven

sure he would sooner have died than I could answer. into congregating with their poli-

Passengers arriving "yesterday express his real thoughts, even to A week later I saw him again as from Australian porta by 5.3. Margaret. And yet, I once heard he was leaving his club and he told tical friends at Hankow, which i Changte, included the Rev. My him address a public meeting and me that: Michael had passed suc at present the stronghold of "Red"Mequire, Colonel Pickwoad and the things he said, or rather the cessfully into Marlborough. I went influence. At any rate, there is a

Mr. Lyle.

way he said them, made me cry, after him but could not catch him and, Heaven knows, I am not before I lost him in Piccadilly." distinct grouping of forces int.|

given. to crying." I think he had The next day Michael had won: "Red" and "Anti-Red" camps with

not grown up, for boys are, as he the Mathematical prize at school the preponderance of power in the

was, very reserved about their and was working hard for the real feelings at one moment and Woolwich exam. He passed into hands of the latter. We think it

then, pouring them into a completo the "Shop" third and was playing would be foolishly premature to

in the first XI during the next few stranger's ear the next. Mrs. R. H. Kotewall has kindly base too much on this fact, for

consented to distribute the prizes some of the anti-Reds are not less to the successful competitors of the anti-foreign, or, as they would per- Sacred Heart College at the con- hape prefer to describe themselves,clusion of the third annual athle-wished me a Happy New Year, the

tic sports to-morrow at 4 p.m. not less pro-Chinese. It is com- forting to think, as present in Regarding the Hongkong dications warrant, that there is a Weather Reports published by the Royal Observatory, it is notified growing number of Chinese who for general information that the realise that the "Communist In-Royal Observatory Wireless Tele- fluence is a bad one, that its me-graph Station has been allotted

the permanent call sign G.O.W. thods and preachings are subaer- vient to good government and, in-

The Harbour Master's Depart ment is calling for tenders for the air of the No. 3 Fire Float and als for repairs to the Rescue Tug "Kau Sing."

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dine.

He was extraordinarily pleased days and in the following week with himself when I met him Michael joined the Indian Army. among the Greek sculpture at the Then I told his doctor-a brain. British Museum, of all places. He specialist,

He did not know what to do, sort of trite remark he never made, though he did not admit it and ad- and went dancing, it was nothing vised complete rest, in that wise less than that, out of the door bemanner, which has since got him fore I could say a word. Then, in into Harley Street. the midst of a complicated side-step,

We could not do that. I might he asked me, over his shoulder, to have known. We might as well have tried to atop the sun from I went. His tie was awry, his rising. hair was on end and one shoe lace was living his life in his father's And every day Michael

was untied when he greeted me. mind. The day after he had enfl- "Hullo! Hullo!" he shouted as 1ed for India his father was miser- entered "Aren't those statues won-able on account of some trouble he derful? Have a cocktail?"

had got into over debts at Simla... "Statues? gaired.

What statues?" I en- After, he married, whom I forget. "No thanks. You know Then he was sent to Egypt and the I'm T. T."

day before Margaret's child was That shut him up. He blushed, born, he was ordered, now a Major, stammered, fingered his tie and to the Sudan in command of native blushed again.

troops.

The annual inspection of the ternal peace and that the "Reds" Hongkong Police Force will take place on Thesday April 12 and must be eliminated as a directive not April 19 as previously report- fund executive force."We are coned, Medals, commendations and vinced that most of the turmoil prizes won in the Police shooting competitions will be presented at and ferment of the past few the Parade. months can be laid at the door of

"Oh...nothing...er...nothing." We succeeded in keeping him The split between the so-called the Communistá and for that rea- Reports have been made from He is the worst actor I know. away while it was happening and.

After n construined dinnor, dur-when it was all over I went into his Moderates and Reds of the Kuo-son we welcome the most recent time to time of thefts of fishing

nets from junks in the watersing which he behaved in a highly room to give him the news. mintang and the dramatic action development in the Chinese situa-outside the harbour. Investiga- ridiculous manner, I let him light which has been taken in Peking, tion.

his pipe before I tuckled him.

After several false starts, he got Tientsin and Shanghal against So-

away.. viet activities has, for the moment at any rate, diverted attention from the anti-British and anti-

tions were at once. made by the Police with the result that two men have been arrested at. Tai O in connexion with the series of larcenies.

He was looking out of the window and he seemed to have shrunk. Ho turned, when he heard me come in and he looked an old man

He was mad with excitement "Peter," he said. "He's, dend. about the child, which he told me, Those damned natives have nur and he blushed as he said it, Mar-dered him." And then he fainted.

It was going to be a boy; he was

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Margaret called the boy Michinel.

Aviation Mishaps.

Hongkong ba's a particular in-

The Offices terest in the mishaps which have Court will be open daily from 10

of the Supreme garet was going to have. foreign crisis which earlier in the occurred to two world-famous air- to 2 pm. during the Easter quite certain about that. He had He has been at Marlborough some week was the central feature of men, Marquis de Pinedo and Major Vacation, except on public and been admiring the Greek statues time now and has just lately won the Chinese sibuation. There is Sarmento Beires, both of whom general holidays, when the offices and thinking how poorly Pygmalion the Mathematics prizo. The rest

visited the Colony in the course of will no doubt about the seriousness of long-distance flights. Their aki Erister Vacation begins on the is imagination had run away go into the Army, but Margaret.

be entirely closed. The would have done justice to his boy has happened, too. He wants to the division in the ranks of the ad daring was then proved, and 15th day of April, and terminates with him and he was miles away will not let him. She is afraid it Kuomintang, for from Shanghai,they are now in the midst of fur on the 21st day of April. (both after it, hand in hand with his son, might all work out the same. Hankow and Canton comes news claims to international fame. That

ther efforts at establishing their days inclusive).

who was the most marvellous boy ever known.. of a definite breach. In Shanghai, both should have suffered mishaps

I was not bored. I was not even Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has is unfortunate, but everyone will observed in all

As usual Easter will be solemnly annoyed at the unusual absence of taken direct action against theerious injury suffered, and the Good Friday and Easter Sunday be glad that in neither case was throughout the Colony and on "Reds," firstly; against the tyranny airmen are able to continue onreint services will be conducted. HANKOW AND CHIANG. of the Labour Unions and, second-their venture. Both set out to At 9.15 pm, on Good Friday there

the Churches!

recital at St. John's Cathedral, will be a vocal and instrumental The soloists will include Mrs." Sangor (Soprano), Mrs. Aubrey (Violin) and Mr. A. P. Glanvilla

(Bass).

COMMUNISTS' ORDER OF

DISMISSAL.

A private message from Hankow

Michael thinks his father is dead and so he is--but for his body..

E. W. T.

MURDER CHARGE.

TWO MEN INVOLVED.

1g, against the propaganda of the to row stand only to the credit of accomplish world flights, which up Political Bureau. As regards the the American army aviators who latter, he has forhidden the encircled the globe about two year

Ago. De Pinedo has had to modify

The arrest of two men, who are Shanghai newspapers to print any-his effort, but the Portuguese filer thing supplied by the Bureau from still hopes to accomplish the feat

alleged to have been concerned in Hankow and, as it was from the It is interesting to note that ther fights are attracting very little in-

It is understood that the arrival to political circles in Shanghai the murder of a woman of Chuk Bureau that so much anti-foreign terest above the ordinary, ret it of the new Governor, of the FM.S, early this week stated that the Un Village, Kowloon City, has

Sir Hugh Clifford, has been as-order "dismissing General Chiang. material emanated, this should was but a few years back that celerated by the arrangement al-Kai-shek had been promulgated by been effected by the Police with have the effect of quelling the feats of this nature were "fe ready made that the Hon. Wm. the Political Bureau. The the result that they wore formally

tured" by the world's press. They anti-foreign feeling, at least to crossed the Atlantic successfully, Peel, who is to act following the charges against the general will charged before Mr. W. Schofield at some extent There is said to have thereby repeating what was at departure of Sir Laurence Guille-be that he has disobeyed the the Kowloon Magistracy this been the forceful closing of one accomplishment, The indication the first week in June.

one time considered a marvellousmard early in May, should go home resolutions of the Plenary Session morning.

He of the Central Executive Commit-

The murdor, according to the "Red" office up at Canton, and it is that in perhaps just a few years and High Commissioner, for one which, in order to destroy the last woman's dying depositions, was

will, therefore, act as Governor tee. the Communist members of no-one will think any more of month only and Sir Hugh Clifford yestiges of Kuomintang influence perpetrated on the night of April world fight than is thought now

man's ordinary passage will be due on or about June 6.

in the party, so disorganized and 4 in her hut in a lonely part of the reorganized government organs as district. It was gathered from ship. Iteverling to the mishaps to De Pinedo and Beires, one resur

How Chinese students in Moscow to leave all the power in the hands what she told the Police before rects the old query as

to what are taught Communism and are of small coterie of Communist succumbing to her numerous in- Kai-shek who are, at the moment,purpose is served by these ven- then sent back to China to spread under the control of Comrade juries that two men pald a visit Borodin. General Chiang Kai to the house and claiming intimacy in actual power at Canton. The lures. The pioneering work in the doctrines is explained in a tele- differences of opinion which have aviation has already been done. gram to the Matin from M. Sauer-shek has protested against these with her husband were welcomed. arisen make a serious threat to either about the mechanics of clude 680 students. The college was Shanghai has taken steps to were given' tea which they ripped Little more remains to be learned wein. The Chinese in Moscow in measures und since his arrival in in the usual Chinese custom. They The before they disclosed the actual Nationalist unity and for that rea-fight or the routes to be travers organised by Radek, the notorious counteract C. P. influence. son constitute a grave menace tocd. Men have flown across Asia, Red leader, and has a library of Hankow Government hopes to reason of their visit.

de effect his dismissal and to with! the future power of the party.

and Australia, 70.000 volumes. There is a and in the Polar regions. They partment which works day and draw the army from General "As regards the action which has have traversed the tropies of India,

night duplicating propaganda Chiang, so that there will be no

to Borodin's dictatorship, been taken by Marshal Chang Ts the deserts of Central Asia, and pamphlets, which are then sent in opposition within the Government

the wintry wilds of Siberia. Bu bales to China..

Kuomintang Wires to Hankow.

is not at all improbable that there will be a counter attempt by the extremist party to bust the loyal supporters of Marshal Chiang

Africa, America

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EXCHANGE RATES.

London, April 8.

121.014 .34.93% .12.14%

in in Pelding and Tientsin and by the urge to continue these luzar- the Shanghai Municipal Council dous efforts remains. In that we against the Soviet in China, it is perhaps sea the instinct of man- kind to exult in the ability to con- difficult to dissociate that from aquer the elements: AN instinct general anti-Communist move which may become an obsession. Paris throughout the country. There is the spirit which has spread Brussels

advancement the world over, and | Amsterdam may be no direct connexion be-raised vast territories to their pro- | Berlin

ween the Peking and Shanghaisent stage of productivity, and is Copenhagen.

Vionna happenings, and what the Shang- as old as the birth of man himself,

Helsingfors Lisbon bai Municipal Counell has done is

Rio probably out of consideration of

Tht Health Bulletin of Eastern Bombay

Hongkong knowledge that the Soviet Con- Ports for the week ending Satur-

New York sulate was being used for other day fast, issued by the Principal Geneva

Civil Medical Omcar, contains the Milan than legitimate Consular purposes. following cases: Plague, Alexan-Stockholm Later developments will make that dria 1, Bassein 9, Bombay 6, Ran-Oalo clear. But there is discernible a goon 1, Colombo 4; Cholera, Bas- Prague sein. 4, Calcutta 69, Ragoon 1, Madrid: general movement in favour of Bangkok 16, Saigon 3; Small-per. Athena ridding China of the Moscow yoke. Alexandria 1, Bombay 85, Calcutta Buenos Aires

Shanghai In Canton, which was the most-306, Karachi 5, Madras 26, Nega-

Yokohama patan 1, Rangoon 4B, Singapore 1, Silver (spot). favoured centre for the Com- | Bangkok 3, Saigon 1, Kobe 1, Osaka Silver (forward)

munists, there is a powerful movO. 1.

They grabbed the woman and attempted to strangle her but on

men produced a' chopper which meeting with resistance, one of the

was used to overcome the woman's struggles. When the men made

It is no secret that there have good their escape the woman was been meetings of military com-left in a precarious condition with Sho manders and, although it is denied her head partially severed.

at Route Ghisi, it is nevertheless died some time later. known to be true that actual pro-

Two men were subsequently ar testa have been telegraphed to rested and on their appearance be 20.40% Hankow by leading Kuomintang fore the Magistrate this morning 18.21 military men against the Hankow were remanded for one week for 34.511 effort to discredit General Chang further enquiries to be made by the

.162% With the presence in Shanghai of Police, -217/32 the Minister of Finance, Mr. T. ..6 13/10 V: Soung, who is on friendly terms 1/5.16/18 with General Chiang, there is no

26.25

/0% member of the Government in their international connexions and 4.65 11/16 Hankow who is not a Communist the fact that he is here to clear 100.52 or under the personal control et up a horrible mess of their making 18.13 Comrade Borodin. In Chinere for which he must assume respon 18.79% circles, no attempt is made to sibility. If General Chiang, it la 164 forecast victory. The N. C. Dai'y suggested in Chinese political General circles, initlated a frankly antl. 27.35 News remarks that 800.32% Chinng's strength Hes In his local Communist movement, he would 47-17/82-aiddle class and intellectual and crystallize support for himself, 2/036 the fact that most of the regular but his half-hearted, apologetic, 2/0.7/32 army is with him. His weakness attacks on the Communists still 20% lies in the superior political loaves uncertainty that the rift is 28/1/16 technique of the Communists, irrevocable.

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