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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CHIANG NOT SECOND CHENGTU ADOPTS THE G.$10,000,000 TO SAVE

MUSSOLINI. :

·OUTLINE OF HIS POLICY AT NANKING.

BASED ON THE KUOMINTANG.

RICKSHA.

U.S. CROPS.

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927.

GHASTLY TRAGEDY IN ALLEGED, SEDITIOUS

AMERICA.

NEW ROAD'S MAKE VEHICLE POPULAR.

FIGHTING RAVAGES OF CORN BORER

MANY SCHOOL CHILDREN KILLED.

UNEMPLOYED RECRUITED.“

PEST THAT DEFIES FARMER.

An attempt to introduce rick- Shanghal, May 12. The Bureau of Foreign Affairs for Klangsu has issued the follow ing extract from a speech of General Chiang Kai-shek In re- gard to the establishment of the Nationalist Government at Nan-

king:

Three

EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.

Bath, Michigan, May 18.. At least 85 children were killed when the north wing of a four- storey school building was com pletely destroyed in an, explosion

To fight this pest which infested New England in 1917 and steadily spread south and westward the of dynamite: about Government, this year will spend $10,000,000. The campaign to

greatest ever eradicate the corn borer is probabi

undertaken against in agriculture pest. the

The school principal, a teacher, also and two passers-by, were

killed.

DOCUMENTS.

OFFICIAL FROM WHAMPAO ACADEMY,

DETAINED BY POLICE.

A prominent Canton military, man in the person of Ma. Cheung- chin, aged 37, of Chekiang, secre- tary of the Whampoa Military Academy, is being detained by the lawful possession of seditious books and documents, which wore found among the man's luggage. on his arrival from, the Chinese city on board the 8.8. Suchow on Tuesday morning.".

Police in connexion with the un-

The Academy secretary was for- Shortly prior to the explosion at mally charged before Mr. W. Scho- The corn borer attacks cars and the school, a farmhouse and barn field at the Kowloon Magistracy. stalks of corn from within the holonging to the school treasurer, this morning, and, on the applica- huske. They eat and eat until the Andrew Kehoe, were blown up and tion of Sergeant Barnicle, was re- The burned. Kehoe's body was found tanded until the documents were corn attacked is valueless." Department of Agriculture believes in front of the school building. fully examined by the Police. the borers' advance westward must The police have discovered in a be stopped to save farmers cellar in the school a huge RAID ON CHINESE SHOP. from ruin.

quantity of dynamito..

corn

Washington, April 29.-A little shas into Chengtu, Szechwan pro-worm one inch in length-the Euro- vince, was made in 1915, but the pean corn borer has caused farm venturo met with no success. In ers in the United States crop 1925 rickshas once more ap- losses totalling millions of dollars. peared after a portion of the cobble-paved streets of the city had been remodelled into ma- "The establishment of the Na- cadamized roads. From tionalist Government in Nanking seven or eight, the number of was in full accordance with the ricksha companies in operation a total Chinese people and also with the rapidly multiplied until now there resolution of the Central Execure aitogether 68 with tive Committee of the Kuomin- uumber of 4,416 public rickshas registered with the Chengtu tang. With its inauguration, the Hankow Government automatical-municipal authorities. The ac- tual number of rickshas, both ly ceases to function, The con- tinuation of its regimo is a revolt public and private in Chengtu is believed to be far more than this against the Kuomintang and con- figure. There are many newly sequently against the

built vehicles not yet registered People's Principle.

and also many private rickshas, which fall under another category. Of the 58 ricksha, companies, the Li Tung is the most important. The registered number of rickshas owned by the company is 500, but it is believed that it has actually, The Agriculture Department has about 700 in operation. Each of imported eight types of parasites the other companies has between known to be hostile to the borer. 100 and 200. Most of the com- Several of the parasites have panies are partnerships, while asuvagely attacked the pests in some few small ones are financed by sections. individuals, notwithstanding the Corn borers now infest more than fact that each one of them in- 500,000 square miles. They have variably assumes the name of eaten their way through New

rickshas "company" The

are York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana farmed out by the company direct and Michigan. The great cam- to the coolies or through agents.aign now is aimed to stop the In the latter case, An agent worms' advance before they reach usually obtains 10 or 20 rickshas; the heart of the corn belt. opens a ricksha shed, or garage, of his own, and sub-lets the vehicles to the coolies at a profit.

The policies of the Nationalist Government an laid down by the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen are three- fold;

Д Ovethrow of imperialism and militarism:

b. A friendly policy towards

Russia, and

e. Uplift of the status of farm ers and labourers.

The first and third policies are too evident to permit any misun- derstanding and are not to be al tored under any circumstances. All the loyal members of the Kuo mintang shoud give their fullest support to them.

A recent incident will prove the wilful motive that is behind all the actions of Borodin. During

Not only is corn attacked by the demon but entomologists say the borer eats as many as 200 different crops, including cotton and sugar enue. Drastic steps are being taken to curtail the infestation.

Difficult Task.

Local ofcials and the police are of opinion that Kohoe, who is believed to have been in financial difficulties, and was mentally un- balanced, caused the explosion by a box of ex- firing a ritte into plosives-Reuter's American Ser

vice.

CARE-FREE TROOPS.

LIFE NEAR PENINSULA HOTEL.

"We're here because we're here," Bung some of the troope now quar- tered in the Peninsula Hotel just before retiring last night, and, though the song might be described as a trifle enigmatic, it reflects the characteristic cure-free manner in which Tommy accepts things us they come.

EXCITEMENT IN QUEEN'S ROAD.

The public in Queen's Road Cen- tral were provided with a sonaa- tion this morning, when a large. druggist's store, and made a search force of police raided a Chinese

of the premises,

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It is reported that the pro- There is

prietor, a prominent man well- known both here and in Canton,. was placed under arrest.

No official confirmation of the arrest is at present obtainable.

BOY KILLED IN STREET.

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The administration of the Roman Catholic rite known as "Conditional Abaolution" over the body of a boy who had been killed in an accident, was witnessed by a large crowd in High Road, East Finchley. Iù mail week.

& tram line.

Policy Towards Russia. Regarding the second policy; it should be understood that so long as Russia co-operates with us on

Because borera attack corn and the basis of equality to fight

For each the agent is required other agriculture crops from with- against imperialism, we are not

Pay deposit varying from in, external applications of insee to change oor attitude towards

$10 to $30, according to the con- ticides aro almost useless.

The her. The purging of the Kuo-dition of the vehicle and a daily best control methods are ploughing mintang will not in any way of rent of from $0.30 (30 cents) to under all stubble and crop remnant The troops of the new brigade

The boy was cycling past the fect our policy towards Russia.

30.80 (80 cents.).

likely harbour, larvae, shredding have been completely disembarked, But what we are opposed to is

Chengtu ricksha companies di- to lago or burning all such and the Welch Regiment and the gates of St Pancras Cemetery, when the vicious actions. of Borodin, vide their vehicles into

He was thrown into two field refuge Lefore, moths emerge, Scots Guards, who have been allot- the wheel of his machine caught in the Russian representative, which classes. The pas che or those

ted quarters in the Peninsula Hotel, the road in front of a steam lorry, the Agriculture Department said. tend to be detrimental not only to hired for the exclusive use of pri- In the United States the es- are already settling down to rega-

and a wheel of the heavy vehicle the cause of the Party but also vate households are much better timated economic loss has reached lar routine. This morning, the of the Nation.

furnished than the ordinary pub a maximum of about 26 per cent.sergeant-major had his men on Passed over over his head.

Father William Joyce, of East lis rickshas. The daily rent of the in a few fields. The borers attack parade in Hankow Road at an Fitthley, chanced to be cycling! po che is twice as much as that sweet corn, field corn, pop corn, or alarmingly early hour, thought the along the road at the time on his for any other kind. When the fodder corn in the fields, and aeivil residents in the immediate General Chiang's visit to Hankow agent sub-iets.the rickshas to the variety of other plants, including vicinity, and he put them through way to a funeral. last January, Borodin at a dinner coolies, he also collects a deposit held crops. vegetables, flowers, their pacas for an hour.. -scurrilously attacked the Kuomioof $5-$10 from each coolie. The tang and its loyal leaders. daily rent paid by the coolie' to

Farmers in the infested areas have it was-also-evident that the band instruments had been unpacked, When General Chiang returned the agent was formerly $1.10 for

been enlisted by the Government to to Nanchang, he reported to the a pao che und $0.50 for an or-

war agains; the pests. The Gov-for, later in the morning a series Central Council of the unfound-dinary publle ricksha, in addition ernment will pay $2 an acre to att of raucous noises issued from the i ed charges brought up by Boro- to which 10 cents was also collect-

by the simple ceremony, the men din against the Party. The recalled from both the pac che una farmers, who clean out the pests building developing gradually into had assembled were greatly moved Judging by ferry comments, baring their heads in sympathetic of Borodin was at once telegraph- ordinary public ricksha alike if their land passes Federal inspec- the playing of chromatic scales.

tion. Half of the $10,000,000 ñp- ed to the Third International at the use of raincoat, the coolics'

Father Joyce explained that a Moscow. Later the Central Ex-uniform, bell and other such ar propriated by Congress will be used which one cannot help overhear- reverence.

Hongkong a change from Home Roman Catholic priest is empower- ecutive Committee also wrote to iicles. When the coolie obtained to reimburse farmers for their working, the "average Tommy finds

in the campaign. Borodin sugesting his voluntary the ricksha from the company

A great education campaign in conditions which he appreciates. ed to give "Conditional Absolution" return to. Russia. "Bui hoth of direct, the sume charges were col-connexion with the borer is also There are humourists amongst the in any case of andden death, where the communications were ignored,lected. But keen

One man, who had only the religion of the dead person is proving that Russia is not willing among the companies and the being undertaken by the Governmen too.

Farmers are told that the bean in the Peninsula Hotel for unknown to him, the assumption to treat the Kuomintang and rapid increase in the number of eradication of the pest is their 1 two days, and given a share of a being that he or she may have been...

problem, but that the Government room on the top floor remarked to a Roman Catholic.

"By the time you've had your breakfast and climbed to the top floor, it's time to come down again for dinner."

China on an equal basis.

competition

rickshus, which greatly affected the coolie's business, have

Com-

grasses and weeds.

ment.

Cause May Be Doomed. pelled the companies to cut down will aid in the war in every way a civilian friend:

If the Nationalist Government

the rent, which is now hot uniform possible.

is not awakened to the serious-mong the different companies. neas of the situation and does not place itself in such a position as to enable it to exercise its full sovereignity freely, the cause of the Kuomintang is doomed.

The Nationalist Government in Nanking is built on the true prin- ciples of the Kuomintang. Our chief task then is to consolidate the power of the Party so that is constitutes the supreme authority of the Government.

Some of them have reduced not only the amount of daily rent but also the deposit, while others have remitted the deposit.

The

Widespread Campaign.. Through the newspapers, motion pictures, and radio, the control work is being explained and urged. Circulars issued by the Agriculture Department concerning regulations and methods of clean up have been placed in every rural mailbox in the infested counties.

Uncle Sam has arranged to sup- ply stubble pulverizers and tractors to draw and operate, them to farmers whose places are badly in

A charge of $1 an acre will be made for the use of the equipment.

Careful Selection. The Chengtu municipal author- ities collect a monthly license fee of 60 cents for such public ricksha, to which a brass number plate is issued at a cost of 40 cents. authorities hold periodical inspec- There are not few who tions of the vehicles and forbid the criticised General Chiang for as- companies to farm out any ricksha fected.

Persons under 18 piring to be the Mussolini of unfit. for use. China and attempting to work for and above 50 years of age are u Fascist Government for this not allowed to work

as ricksha country. Such criticism is entire coolies, ly unfounded. The Nanking Gov- Most of the coolies are labourers ernment is not a personal Gov- who have been thrown out of em ernment of General Chiang but aployment owing to a general trade party government in the interest depression in that part of the pro-

vinco. of the entire Chinese people.

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"Out of the remainder of the hugo appropriation, several million dol lars will be used to hire supervisors and inspectors to direct the control work. The rest of the fund will be used to purchase machinery for Those who come from the eradication work. rural districts, forming only a small

Guards to prevent exportation of percentage, are always at a dis- all corn into fields yet untouched by advantage, because they do not the borers have been placed at the

HOW MUCH DO YOU know the city roads well. Three

KNOW?

TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.

The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Express,

Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14 of this issue.

1.What is a suffragan bishop?

2. Why are tubo wells called

artesian?

8-What is the origin of the word

Palladium?

4--Who invented the pianoforta?.

some

cats called

Cloth? 6-Why are "tabby?" 7-Whe were the first producers of

photographs?

STORING DANGEROUS

CYLINDERS.

FINE FOR UNLICENSED POSSESSOR.

Yu Kang, the master of the No. 29, Shantung Street, Yaumiati, Switzerland Oxy-Acetylene Co., of appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on charges of having in his possession dangerous goods, to wit, two cylinders of oxygen and one license from, the Cuplain Superin- cylinder of acetylene, without a tendent of Police.

Mr. L. R. Andrews appeared for the defendant, and entered a plen boundaries of infested sections, but of guilty, remarking, in extenua- despite the caution, the worms have tion, that the defendant had only spread southward into West Vir-recently purchased the goods, which he used in oxy-acetylene welding in gina and westward to Illinois.

connexion with his trade as an The cylinders wore Ironmonger. always kept in a shed erected in the timber yard at the rear of the foundry, and were no danger to other buildings if they should ever one of the worst catch fire.

has cver ngriculture

men generally share one ricksha, which is put to work for about 18 hours a day from 6 a.m. to 12 divided into three shifts of six hours each. The one taking the morning shift works from 6 to 12 a.m., that for the afternoon shift, from 12 to 6 p.m., and that for the night shift from 6 to 12 p.m. this way the charge of the daily corn borer is rent and the deposit can be shared enemies

In addition to the federal monet ary and scientific aid, States are spending sums approximately as great to speed up control work. The Federal Government and the In States both realize the European

The defendant, while realising

by three man equally, thus greatly known, and no effort will be spared the danger of the goods, was not reducing the burden. Sometimes to eliminate it from America.

if a coolie has enough money to pay

the deposit, he can rent a ricksha,

aware that a license was neccssary. Sub-Inspector Ellis said that the cylinders were actually being used in the front of the shop, and were not in the timber yard. The de- fendant bad applied for a license to

His worship imposed a fine of $20.

and, after pulling the vehicle for left. This sum, however, is gen- one shift, can sub-let it to the other crally spent in supporting a family two for the remaining hours of the or in personal expenses. Very few 5-What is the Board of Green day. The rent paid by the other of the coolies save anything out of store the goods in the timber yard? two is generally enough to cover their daily earnings. In fact, they and his application had since been

from approved. -money barrow the whole rent paid to the ricksha generally company, enabling the sub-lessor to money lenders at an exorbitantly have the free use of the ricksha for high rate of interest.

The total number of ricksha one shift. This system of sub-let- ting was formerly quite common coolics in Chengtu is

at 7,000-8,000. but is now seldom practised because ed.

ganisation

8.What is the difference between

stars and planeta? 9.-When were circuit judges first

appointed?..

10-Who are the Samurai? 11-Why are the redskins of America called Indians?.

12-What is Erastianism?

18.What planet has a moon only

ten miles in diameter?

the deposit has been reduced and ther has

in some cases entirely remitted.

estimat-

So far The "floating university" that not been any or left New York Inst September for

or union among an eight months' cruise around

The average daily takings of the coolies. A philanthropist has the world, and visited Hongkong, coolie working for one shift amount

organised a rickaha coolles' club will not be co-educational here- to about 300 coppers After pay in the Chengtu Y. M. C. A. bulld- aftor. The first college cruise is ing 100 coppers for ricksha rent and ing. The scope of this organisa-carrying 500 men and women, but about 80-90 coppers for his daily tion is confined to providing means hereafter it will be for men only,

for the ruling. 15.-What is (a) a stalactite, (b) a food and 10 coppers for lodging, of recreation-Chinese Economie No explanation has been offered

stalagmite?

14.-What is a lorinor?

the coolie has about 100 coppers Bulletin.

On learning what had happened, he at once dis- mounted, and, standing by the dead. boy, recited the Latin prayer which symbolises the giving of "Condi- tional Absolution."

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