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CHILDREN'S COTTON

SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1927.

SEAMEN'S UNION

RAIDED.

EARLY MORNING VISIT BY POLICE

CRICKET.

AUSTRALIAN TOUR OPENS IN MALAYA.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

하

Strong action to curb the acti vities of the Seamen's Union was taken by the local police in the

Singapore, May 27. early hours of this morning when Playing in the first match of the premises of the Union in Des the Australian tour in Malaya Voeux Road Central were raido! the Singapore Cricket Club were dismissed for sixty-eight runs, Shortly after one o'clock a body of police, numbering about fifty The "Australians had compiled and including European and Chin. 1382 for eight wickets at the close eso detectives, appeared in Des of the play, W. M. Woodfull con- Voeux Rond from several side tributing 140 and T. J. E. Andrews streets and made straight for the 74.. Union's headquarters. The police were accompanied by coolles who carried crow-bars, 10 doubt lu case there was difficulty in gaining in entrance, -

Little difficulty was encounter. ed, however, and when the police reached the top of a flight stairs the door leading into the Union's headquarters was opened

WES. by those inside. The raid curled out with extreme smooth- ness and those in the premises at

the time seemed little concerned with the police visitation.

No Arrests Intended.

About thirty people were

MUSIC AT KOWLOON CANADA'S FOLK SONGS.

DOCKS.

THE SCOTS GUARDS' PIPE

BAND...

THIS MONTH'S BIG FESTIVAL..

Quebec-A festival of Canadian

The efforts of the Kowloon folk-songs and handicrafts was to Docks United Services Club are bo hold at the Chateau Frontenac meeting with richly deserved suc- under the auspices of the Nation-. cess. For many wooks pust, men al Museum of Canada, May 20 to belonging to every branch of His 22. Dr. Marius Barbeau, of the Majesty's Service have been takNational Museum, was in charge ing advantage of the facilities of-of the arrangements. fered to bathe at the splendid

The songs were to be sung by beach east of Kowloon Docks. While at the water the men have professional musicians and by the use of a specially constructed local singers famous for their bathing shed and, after their dip knowledge of traditional aire; the In the sea, are catered for in the last include Mme. Leblond, of Ste. way of light refreshments in a Famille; Mme. Plante, of St. separato building. Already sever Pierre; Mmo. Napoleon Lachance, al service bands have contributed of St. Pierre; Mme. F. X. Cimon, existence of a Union headquarto make the visits of the men en of Bale St. Paul; Mme. Jeanne ters removed,

joyable but, in addition, we under- Bouchard, of Eboulements, and Despite the hour a large number stand that this afternoon the Pipe Mme. Napoleon Lord, of Ste. Mario of Chinese gathered in Des Hand of the Scots Guards will play Salomee. Francols Saint-Laurent This feature ehould and Joseph Ouellette, two famous Voeux Rond while the raid was selections. in progress, betraying a marked prova most enjoyable the more so shermen, travelled all the way as it will be accompanied by a from Ste. Anne des Monts to be Interest in the proceedings."

gymnastic display contributed by heard in the songs of the sea.

Communist Propaganda. The police action followed the publication in yesterday's Govern

mant Gazette of the fact that the

that

tho

Many of these songs are four or five centuries old and were

of old

party from H. M. S. Hermes. These two features will take place between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. and will no doubt brought to Canada by the early soldier settlers Chinese Seamen's Union had been prove a great draw. The staff and explorers and voyageurs

allied lady workers in connexion France. The proscribed. It is provided in the with this scheme of serving the handed down their ballad music Societies' Ordinance Governor-in-Council may order the services with clean and health-from generation to generation.. the two rooms used by the Union, dissolution of a society whenever giving enjoyment and excercise de-The lute and the viola disappeared, the majority being sleep when it appears to be used for an un-serve the hoarty thanks of all but the fiddle remained. This the police entered. In the malajlawful purpose, or for purpose tu the men appeared to be unem compatible with the peace or ployed seamen, but one man be-good order of the Colony or when or proceedings of lieved to be an official of the Uniou the actions

society are calculated to excise was also on the premises.

tumult or disorder in China.

Mr. T. H. King, Director of Crl-

in It is common knowledge that minat Investigation, was charge of the raiding police and the Chinese Scamen's Union has ho explained to the man believed been engaging in political Com to be an official that the Seamen'e munistic propaganda for a long

concerned.

LAWN TENNIS.

CHINESE TOO STRONG FOR INDIANS.

One of the most important matches

music is the first white man's music recorded and still sung, In North America. They are the same songs that were sung by Jacques Cartier's men on "the St. Lawrence in 1534; by Champlain on Lake Champlain In 1609; by Nicolet, when he reached Green Bay, Wis., in 1634; when La Salle discovered the Ohio River in 1670, and when Marquette and Jollet discovered the upper waters of tho

Union had been proscribed. The time, and has been behind much in the League was that played be-ississippi in 1679...

of the trouble which the Colony tween the Chineso R. C. anyl the in- man was handed copies of thehas had to face in recent years. Government Gazette containing the This is not the first occasion on notice. He was also told that which it has been proscribed. arrests would be made and that

din R. C. on the former's ground yes- These are only a few examples terday afternoon, the hosts proving of their early penetration. Four their superiority by a margin of 15 thousand melodies have been col- Iceted and recorded in the Nation-

games,

The fall scores were?'

"

rose on the premises would be at It will be remembered that dur- liberty to take away their paraoaaling the seamen's strike of 1922, Ng Sze-kwong and C. Choa hentai Museum at Ottawa. Mr. J. property after they had, bean the Government then took similar S. II. Ismail and J. A. Caseumb Murray Gibbon has selected and searched.

action but the order was later hoy, 8-3; heat H. D. Rumjahn and translated a number of these

and Canadian folk-songs. withdrawn in order that a peace, M. Razack, 8-3; beat S. A. Meanwhile police officers con- ful settlement might be arrived at. A. II. Rumjaha, 6-5.

M. W. Lo and Yow Man-kit, lost ducted a thorough examination of That a big mistake was made on to Ismail, and Cassumbhey, 5-6; lost the premises, interpreters taking that occasion was generally ad- to Rumjahn and Razack, 3-8; lost to the names and occupations of all mitted, for the Union has since Rumialm and Rumjahn, 5-6. found on the premises. After per been most active in attempting to sonal searches had been made be-roment strikes in the Colony, longings claimed by the scamen present were also examined.

Signs To Be Destroyed:

Leaders Disappear.

M. K. Lo and Ng Sze-cheong beat mail and Cassambhoy, 7-4; beat Run- jahn and Ratack, 7-4; beat Rumjah and Rumjahn, 8-3.

The settlers who came to Canada 300 and 400 years ago were from various French dis

tricts in the centre and northwest-- provinces of France. Most of thes gifted musician several centuries composed by góme

songa wera

Totals: Chinese R. C. 57. Indisago and have become the property. of the people through oral usage. The Union played a very im R. C, 12. portant part during the boycott

Club Championskip.

The scales naed in some of these An S. C. M. Post reporter pre and on two occasions attempted to

folk songs belong to the After a hard and fast game S. E. old

heat G..W.. Sewell sent at the time learned that bring about general strikes, which, Green

in the Dorian and myxolodyan modes. ter the personal searches all pro happily, did not succeed. More Championship of the Hongkong The church was instrumental in Inerty found in the Union's pre-recently, the Union was behind the Cricket Club yesterday afternoon in preserving interosting Noels and

the three sols. Although Sewell failed hymns. mines would be examined, nothing trouble in connexion with

to take a set he gave Green much to except personal property being al-Kinshan incident.

think about and took the match to nu lowed to be removed. Numerous. desks and cabinets. Indicated that there were a considerable number of documents on the premises and these will be examined at a lata

inte.

It

The score in favour of Green wafbilities of Canadian folk-songs

The leader of the Union at pre-less than 44 games, sent occupies a position in the lankow Government, and it was 13-11, 6-3, 6-0. announced in the S. C. M. Post

A series of recitals were also to be given to demonstrate the pos

for the concert platform. Rodol-, phe Plamondon, tenor, late of the Paris Opera; Mme. Jeanhe Dus-

a day or two ago that following Insistence by the Canton GovernA thousand boys and girls, each seau, soprano of the Chicago was also understood that ment that the Union be reorganis-armed with a long steel-tonned Opern Company; J. Campbell Mc- badges and certificates of member-ed, a circular had been distributed bamboo pole sunnlled by the Office Innes, baritone aoloist with the ship would be confiscated, those announcing that it was proposed of Works, mustered in Hyde Park Philadelphia, Chicago and Cleve

week and attacked the land orchestras; Mlle Juliette present. being warned that suen to transfer the headquarters to in mail tokons of membership in the pay-Hankow. A number of the loud-cocoons in which the qges of the Gaultier de la Verendry, formerly session of seamen rendered them ers have since left Canton, and it vapourer moth hatch out into un-of the Boston Opera, singer of liable to police attention.

is understood that several of those pleasant little grubs. There were Canadian and Eskimo folk-songs, who were prominently connected contingents of the Boys' Brigade, and Charles Marchand, chanson- For some hours the scene inside with the Hongkong branch have Boy Scouts, Church Lads' Brigade, nier, of Montreal, was to appear in was busy one, and It was ex-

Boys' Life Brigade, Girl Guides, varied programmes. "The Hagt and boys of Dr. Barnardo's Homes. House Quartet played arrange. pected that the preliminary work also disappeared. would last until a late hour this

It is rumoured that a reward of In future "Cocoon Day" will be onments of Canadian melodies. The morning. It is expected that the 18500 has been offered by Canton the first. Saturday in October, and choirs of St. Dominique of Quebec signs, which include a red one, outside the building will be des- for the arrest of the leader of the it is proposed to make the first were to be one of the features of

Sunday in May "Mosquito Day,” the festival. troyed and that all traces of the Union.

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