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Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927,

SPREAD OF BOLSHEVISM.

Evidence

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ix accumulating to prove that Bolshevism is spreading its tentacles throughout the whole

TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927.

tenant-farmora strike often. Is led by, the chief of the local polico atà- tion, as a token, of his sympathy with the proletariat against the wealthy classes." The Public Pro curator further reports * case where a landowner. told his tegant to evacuate the farm, because the latter persistently had rafneed to pay his dues. The accused was} summoned to the local yourt of justice. That same evening, when it was very late, people stole Into the landlord's mulberry garden and tore up all the young sprouts. Land- lords in that part of the coun- try have since put high rein forced concrete walls around their property and homes, to be safe from | both the attacks and the depreda-

tions of the tenant-farmers.

The

DAY BY DAY.

WHAT ARE YOU WORTH TO-DAY? NOT IN MONEY, BUT IN BRAINS, HEART, TURPOSE, OHARACTER 7 George H. Hepworth.

at Vancouver last Sunday.

The Empress of Canada arrived

| LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

NEXT THURSDAY'S MEETING.

A meeting of the Legislative Council is due to be held on Thursday afternoon.

The Very Idea!

up for Inspection.

A certain battalion wete. Ulried. Ing them was their mascot,

Accompany-

Great Dane. During the proceed-. Among the business on the ings, something annoyed the dog agenda paper la the moving, by the and it uttered a loud "bow-wow1" Hon. Colonial Secretary, of a The .. Chungchow in future resolution authorising the Hong-whole battalion formed fours,

The effect was magical-tho will leave Macao at 3 pm, on Sun-kong Tramways to construct an days, instead of at 5 p.m..

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The s.s. Empress of Russia loft Yokohama yesterday afternoon and la due here on Monday next.

Jowellery and money to the value of $704 has been stolen from a cabin on board the s.. President Taft, while lying alongside the wharf.

This morning's Harbour Offee Reports gave 15 arrivals and 19 departures, of which nine and four respectively were British.

territory practically is in a state of war, and there are said to be at least 30,000 Communists, either in

A nineteen years old Chinese the two districts affected or in the girl attempted to commit suicide immediate vicinity, who have taken by jumping into the harbour from the Mongkok Ferry launch yester- ouths to convert the people to Bol-day, but she was rescued and taken shevism.

to the Government Civil Hospital.

The

Queen's College magazine, for May. "Yellow Dragon." the

is to hand, and contains a number of interesting articles and notes, being well up to the standard set in previous issuca.

The methods adopted by the radi- cal combinations in Japan are not dissimilar to those of the Russian Communists, with this one differ- ence, that generally they manage Lo keep within the letter of the law, although violating its spirit. Rural labour disputes are quite different from those in turban districts: Ten- ant-farmera work on ຄ con mission basis, agreeing to pay the rate at the end of every year. When crops are bad, they refused. to make any payment, but land-

The B.I. vessel Takliwa arriving lords, on the contrary, are bound to from Calcutta and Singapore with pay the heavy taxes just the same.1,448 deck passengers, reports five Thus, when the tenant-farmers re-deaths en route. The causes are fuse to pay their rates, the landlard two from consumption and one by stated to be two from beri-beri,

sustains a heavy blow.

drowning, the latter person having jumped overboard 'and not seon again.

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additional 145 yards of single Bow landlady: My woman track in Percival Street and the tenant. is a modern wife-two. provision of an additional curve rooms and a two-seater. from Morrison Street into Connaught Road Central.

Other business includes the second reading of An Ordinance to amend the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903;

The second reading of an Ordinance to provide for the in- fapanese Residents' Association of corporation of the Directors of the Hongkong;

The first reading of an Ördio-. ance to authorise the appropria-" tion of a supplementary sum of $1,083,892.42 to defray the charges

Tramp in Sussex: 1 may look a dangerous man, sir, but I am only a sheop in wolf's clothing.

Wife at Willesden: I want my husband, to give me proper meals. I am fed up with eggs and bacon. Solicitor, without looking up from his papera at Bow County

Are

married?- you Woman: That is a nice thing to Court

say to a woman with a baby in her arms. The aolfeltor apolo glagd.

Marylebone magistrato I. can- at understand why you should have stolen, a bicycle with a of the year, 1026; and

tradesman's name, on it--Old The first reading of an Ordin-criminal. Well, the plate can be ance to protect the revenue of the taken off. Colony.

Nottingham man: What guilty man would walk up to a policeman with a tin of coffee under his arm?

MARINE COURT.

CLEANLINESS OF MOTOR BOATS.

As the result of having been as- saulted with an iron bar, a Chinese, employed at the Lee Yik matshed, North Point, has been taken to the At the Marine Court this Government Civil Hospital, suffer-morning before Lieut. Commdr. ing from severe internal injuries. G. F. Hole, the coxswain of the The man who is alleged to have com-motor boat Tak Lee, plying for mitted the assault has been arrest-hire in the harbour, was charged at the instance of Mr. Hillyer, of Harbour Department, for keeping his boat in a filthy cordi tion. The accused pleaded guilty and was fined $10 with the after- native of 10 days' imprisonment.

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the

were charged with making fast The masters of three cargo boats outside five. others alongsido ships secured to buoys and pleading guilty, were severally fined $6 cach, with the usual alternative..

The master of a passenger boat

An extraordinary deal during a game of auction bridge is reported from Redford. Four people- Messrs. Robinson, Ledward, and Harper and a. Mrs. E. Mettam- were taking part in a game. at a local hotel, and on the third: rubber each player was dealt a complete suit. Mrs. Mettam, the dealer, with a full hand of hearte, called "four hearts." Mr. Harper called "seven spades, and, follow- ing a "pass" by the other players, he disclosed thirteen spades. was then found that all four players had complete suits.

It

An amusing list of "things the Putney Parish Magazine. clergyught to know" appears in It

runs:-

A clergyman bught to know- of measles and how many gallons How long it takes to cure a child

of hot water are needed to heat three churches for a year.

The order of all the teams in

of Cantou pleaded guilty to moor- ing. his boat in the Naval An- the football Leagues and the chornge, within the prescribed averages of last season's best distance of vessels and was fined cricketers.

SALVAGED IRON.

How to make a drunkard give up drinking, a cigarette fiend give up smoking, and a swearer give up swearing.

How to be youthful with kiddies and dignified among business men and holders of official positions.

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A very small böy went into a public library and asked for a book...

"What sort of book?" they said to him.

A Reform Needed.

It is proposed, says a vernacu- We referred not long ago to the lar paper, by the Chinese seamen of the Far East. We have seen need for reforms now that the bus who work on the Hongkong and that the authorities of the Philip-service is being developed beyond Kongmoon river boats to form a pines, the Dutch East Indies, Japan the experimental to a really prac union among themselves. This tical state, with big up-to-date union, which will be on a very and China have of late been called vehicles, regular time-tables, and small scale, will be formed in $5 with the alternative of five upon to take drastic action against prescribed routes, as well as regu-Kongmoon in connexion with the days imprisonment. the disciples. of Moscow and there larised recognition of employees, Kongmoon Chinese Seamen's is ample proof that the doctrines who have to wear uniforms and Union.

badges. Give the conductor a uni- of Moscow are being "pumped" into form and badge, we urged, but also the proletariat of every Far East- give him a better chance of carry case recently in which Mr. S. G. Shanghai papers reported ä ern country, India not excepted. bures it is possible for a man to gued for Tia. 44,841.50 in respect

ing out his duties. In the big Verma, an Indian merchant, was LAWFUL POSSESSION BY In a recent article, the Tokyo pass along the vehicle in the in- of bills of exchange. It is now

COOLIE. correspondent of the North China terior, by means of the central pus-

that reported

the plaintiffs, Daily News told a story illustra-still a large number of the older have completely withdrawn from prosecuted befo. Mr. P. E. Lind-

There are, however, tage-way.

Messra. Watarmal Boolchand Inspector Grant this morning tive of the rise of Bolshevism in type buses, the converted Ford or the action, and discontinued pro-sell, a Chinese who was charged replied, "Oh, something about He looked round, sighed, and, Japan and said that startling re-ries, which oblige the men

with being in unlawful possession life."" hang on and stand on the footboards ceedings unconditionally. velations had been made by the while the vehicle is in motion, or to

of a block of cast iron weighing Public Procurator concerning an clamber past, the rows of seats Mr. J. E. Grant, Manila con-

nearly, two hundredweight..

Mme. Lubaud, aged twenty-one, acute dispute which broke out in risk of falling off or being actually tract to construct new nurses' noticed that whilst a jurk was dis- the Paris Zoo by a keeper, who when collecting fares, in imminent | tractor, has been awarded the con- "The defendant said that he was shot dead in the grounds of two districts near Osaka between swept off by passing traffic. How quarters and two sets of officers charging a cargo of cast iron ear-mistook a group of wedding guests some tenant farmers and their land- there have not been many accidents quarters at the Naval Hospital, lier in the day, a couple of pieces for burglare. lords. Such disputes are far from of this nature is little short of Caumao. A recent dispatch from fall overboard. With the junk had When she walked out of the uncommon in Japan but this parti-conductors are an agile race of in Washington, D.C., announced that he, with the assistance of a few the wedding banquet, was given, a wonder, and it suggests that the the Secretary of the navy at finished discharging and had left restaurant in the grounds where cular one has been characterised dividuals, With their improved Mr. Grant was the lowest bidder friends, managed to raise the fren shot rang out, and she attered a with much bitterness, and the Pre-status. however, that should be a for the work.

His bid was to the surface.

plereing shriek and fell dead. feature of which We should are $115,000 (Gold). mier asked for first-hand in-nothing further.

Mr. Lindsell remarked that the The next moment Daniel Etienne, In yesterday's

the formation. The report of the issue there appeared a report of

story was quite plausible and that keeper, emerged from A visitor to the Colony these the cast iron seemed to have been revolver. The keeper stated that obscurity holding 3 smoking Public Procurator contained the an accident in which a foki of the

company operating a bus service last few days has been Mr. Li abandoned by the junk people.ho was awakened by a noise, and startling statement that "these two between Aberdeen and Hongkong Sing-yik, the right-hand man

of Addressing defendant he said: in the darkness mistook the party important rural districts, are threa-fell off the footboard of a vehicle Mr. T. V. Soong, who has done "You may go, and if you still want for burglars. He was

which he attempted to board while all the financial planning for the the iron you may take it away with under arrest. tened with Bolshevization" and

it was in motion. The unfortunate Nationalist Government during you." it further stated that the poison man fell under one of the backpast years. Mr. Li was arrested of Communism was spreading over wheels of the bus, which passed in Canton during the anti-"Red"

over his botly. the neighbourhood and threatening buses are not allowed to bourd while Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the nu

Passengers of coup and, under instructions from

to bring about the communal dis- the vehicle is in motion, and a thorities are sending him to Nun- cord that has followed Bolsheviksimilar regulation should apply to king for trial. Escorted by two

So the employees.

fax doctrines wherever. introduced.

officers of the Army Headquarters, the conductors are concerned, they Mr. Li is virtually a prisoner. The dispute commenced, as have should not be obliged to risk their He arrived from "Canton a couple In saving a Chinese woman from most tenant-landlord disputes in lives on a narrow footboard, on a of days ago, and left for Shang being knocked down by a motor

swaying and jolting bus, Japan, with

demand

while hai early this morning by the car, Dr. R. E. Tottenham, of the carrying out their duties. If the President Taft, travelling under University, broke his left arm yes-not mow much about this holy the reduction of tenant rates. In bus companies are unable to pro- the name of "Cheung," states the terday, this particular case, a reduction of vide a type of vehicle that has a Nam Chung Pao."

central passage, then it should be GO per cent. was demanded. The made compulsory that, fares only | landlords refused, saying that such ́ be collected when bases of the old

a reduction would ruin them and type are stationary, bring them to the verge of penury. The reply of the tenant- farmers was to organize themselves into a federation which styled it self the Japan Federation of Non-. Paying Tenant-Farmera.”

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for

The report gathered by the Pro- curator and his staff declared that all the young men and women in these regions have been contamin- ated by Bolshevism, that "Red" songs are freely sung and that denial of the private ownership of land is openly propagandized. "No

as

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DOCTOR INJURED.

BROKEN ARM SUSTAINED.

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placed.

Most subtly entertaining are the inventions,

de- evasions, and licacies of the more advanced pupils who have perforce accepted the burden of concealing their Ignorance rather than displaying their knowledgo. This class is naturally less numerous.

The best-known specimen is the answer to the question "What do you know about Elijah?""We do

man, but we do know that he once

It appears that Dr. Tottenham wont for a cruise with a widow." was riding as a passenger in motorWolsey's fate was attributed to Two armed highway robberies car No. 2262 along Queon's Road his having shot at the Pppe" (text and two robberies at dwelling-Wanchal Market, a woman ran Papary.")

East yesterday, and, when near book reading-"almed at houses in the Settlement took place into the read. To prevent her be

the

at Shanghai on Thursday night anding knocked down by the car Dr. Dentist (extricating nail from a Friday morning, As he was re-

Having proved to the satisfac-turning from a wedding feast, at Tottenham leaned out of the car tyre of his car) "Quiet now. tion of the prosecution that his 8.30 a.m. on Friday, a Chinese was and pushed her off with his left You won't even feel this." story was correct, a Chinese stoker held up outside his house in Kiu-arm. The strain on the arm prov

of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, kiang Road, near Hupek Road, and ed too much, and a fracture was who was charged before Mr. W. stripped of his clothing and jewel-sustained. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistraeylery valued at $90. At 708 Avenue The woman was uninjured. yesterday with. travelling from Road, two men held up the 22 oc- Shumchun without a ticket, was dis-cupants of a dwelling-house late charged on Mr. F. Winyard, traffic on Thursday night and got away THE COLONY'S HEALTH. Inspector of the Kowloon Canton with $400 worth of money, clothing Railway, withdrawing the charge. and jewellery, Defendant said he was a stoker on pants of a house in Singkepang the Chinese section, and was coming Road, Yangtazepou, were held up

Seventeen occu-

ENTERIC FEVER CASES.

HOUSE COLLAPSE.

FIRE BRIGADE'S EARLY MORNING CALL.

In the early hours of yesterday to Hongkong when he met an en- at about the same hour and relieved

Torning, three fire appliances gine driver of the British section of $300 worth of money, clothing The health report for last week were rushed to the scene of s at Shumchun. The local driver and jewellery. The fourth instance gives one fatal Chinese caso of house collapse in Des Voeux Road said that as the other was a fellow was that of a Chinese pedestrian, amall-pox, one Dutch case, of West, reported to the Central youth belonging to the proletariat worker he would make the neces-who was held up on Chihli Rond, diphtheria, and one Chinese caso Fire Station. Join the local military training aary arrangements with the ticket near Fokien Road, by two armed of scarlet fever.

On arrival it was discovered station," the report further states. stoker would not have to pay for hind. When they had stripped him favor (one British

collectors on the train, and the men, who attacked him from be- There were six cases of enteric that three floors at the back of and five Non. 810 and 812, unoccupied, "Ancestor-worship, which is the his passage. Mr. Winyard said of jewellery worth $14, he raised an Chinese) with five deaths. Four houses, near the Taiping Theatre, State religion, is treated with dis-tnt since the defendant's arrest has alarm and, with the aid of a Chinese cases were in the city arce and had collapsed, but that no

was injured. dain., Every conventional rite is story had been verified. Ho was watchman, succeeded in catching two In Kowloon..

The houses are very old pre- newly employed as a stoker in the one of the men, who was found to Yesterday's health return gives called old-fashioned. A popular place of the recently discharged on in possession of the jewellery and a further Chinose ease of enteric mines, and the work of demolition, demonstration in favour of the "Reda."

a fully loaded automatic pistol. from the city.

It is understood, was in progress.

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