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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, JULY

INCESSANT NOISES OF NORTH PREPARED. SOLDIERS HELP TO LAY HANGCHOW WOES.

KOWLOON.

76 PER CENT. OF THEM ARE PREVENTIBLE.

A RESIDENT'S, COMPLAINT.

1:

SUN'S MEN ARE WEL

EQUIPPED.

CONCENTRATION AT TSINAN.

TRAP.

BEER SOLD WITHOUT À LICENSE?

JAPANESE WOMAN CHARGED.

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning, a Japanese woman, re- siding at No. 18, Praya East, second floor, was charged with selling Intoxicants without a 1- Acting-Inspector Bloor

FOREIGN PROPERTY

OCCUPIED.

GIRLS' SCHOOL TAKEN OVER.

29,- 1927;

CANTON OFFICIALS

CAUTIOUS.

́FEAR THAT NANKING WILL LOSE POWER.

COMMUNISTS ARE ACTIVE.

".. Tainanfu, July 15. All day long they march past windows of Talagtao's only foreign hotel-boots, boots, boots, boots. The hotel is known to all respect able riesha coolies by the singular but not inappropriate name of cense. Niuro-fang, or Beef-Ment Hotel, prosecuted. min with that knowledge once The defendant claimed that she nequired, the traveller can easily was asleep and did not know what find the place. It overlooks the the servants might have been de-shops. One hardly dares to von-ed to accept the appointments bo- main street in which is situateding. the western terminus of the Kino- chi railway, which thousands of soldiers daily

The prominent thing abost We have today" received the fol-

Hangchow these days is that it

Canton, July 28. lowing letter for publication:

is hot. Ninety our degrees in After several weeks of hesita- Sir-As a householder in that

the house at 10 p.m. is no joke. tion, the new commissioners of part of Kowloon which is mainly

The. Chinese are sleeping all over Kwangtung Province have decid devoted to European residence,

the streets and bridges. Where- od to assume office early next would ask permission to give pub-

ever a plánk can be placed on two month. All these gentlemen are licity, through the medium of your

benéhes there you find a sleeper appointed by the Nanking Govern- columns, to the woes of those whose

and many down on the stone slabs ment, which is daily losing power nerves are Jangled and struined by

beside the streets in front of in Canton. They at first hesitat Incessant noises.

ture out except in the early morn- cause General Li Taai-hain, the No reasonable being will com-

In giving evidence, Inspectoring and evening, writes a corres- Canton military chief, had not plain of the sounds of traille and

is emptying Bloor said that at 10.30 last night | pondent under date July 22. signified his approval. other ordinary noises, which are

into he went to No. 18, Praya East. Apparently conditions in Hang- His objection is to the appoint- the inevitable concomitant of re-

idence in an urban area, but fully Tinant from the Weisien dis-Previous to that he had made ar- chow are satisfactory with cer- ment of General Chon Hoyuk to

rangements with two andiera to tain prominent execptions. Thobe Commissioner Boventy-five per cent. of the noises trict.

of Military thut day and night add their quota

Boots, beats, boots, but they are ment him there, and had supplied communists have been put down | Affairs. The present incumbent to wearing out the nerves of Kow-cloth shoes, pattering lightly, two the soldiers with a $1 note, the and dare not show up, though no of that office is Li's right-hand- loou residents are preventible. They pairs abreast, on the macadam road number of which was recorded. doubt they are doing things on the man. are largely the outcome of thought for splashing 'nonchalantly through The Inspector went later to the quiet and would be prepared to Now General Chen declines the lessness and lack of consideration the puddles. It has been raining house, to a rear cubicle where he rise up if occasion occurred. job, and has decided to leave for for the feelings, of others....

all day.

Baw the two soldiers, with a bottle

The talk about "taking over"Nanking to secure another-ap- The boots are those of Sun of Asahi beer before each. They the Hungchow College and the pointment. The other prospective Community Centra commissionera are busily prepar- Chun-fang's army, known better were sitting at a form which sery Lakeland

acoms to have died down. The ing for the assumption of their by their hats than their footwear. ed as a table, The defendant was "Whose troops are these?" I ask present, and the Inspector seized hospital is running along with oficial positions. Numbers of yapping dogs" are ed a hatonsheng in the street, the bottles and asked the defen- more or less satisfaction. Theré kept. No properly trained doghese with the huts? They are dant for the money paid for the is talk of moving the lepers from Doctors May Strike, yaps. The owners should either Marshal Sun's," he replied, "Whose drinks. She then produced the their nice home to some out-of-

Strikes are becoming so popular take the trouble to train their pets are all these regiments coming into note with the recorded number, ́ ́ way temple and some say that the or, for the sake of others, should the city?" asked one of its very few

At this stage his Worship notic. government is, finding the hospital that even medical men utilize it get rid of them.

foreign residents. "Those with ed that the Japanese interpreter so expensive that they may close as a weapon to gain their ends, the hats?" he replied, "They are was not telling the defendant down the leper home entirely. This The police arrested a foreign- Sun Chuan-fangs." May 1, there what the inspector was saying, may be only idle humour: let us trained, doctor for having com- fore, well for a moment on the The Interpreter did not seem to hope so, for it would be a dis-mitted an alleged outrage on a

grace to the authorities,

Let me mention some of the mis cellany of noises which assail our cars and suggest some remedies,

Countless cats conduct by night their affairs of love and war, to the usund hideous accompaniment.

If it is essential to keep these car-hats? They are not Boy Scout understand the Magistrate, which riers of disease their owners hats, nor the hats of the American caused the Magistrate to remark: should keep them in their own Marthes, nor those of the Austra"I must adjourn this case. What houses at nights and not loose them finns in the great war, nor those of is the good of calling an Inter- to be a pest to the neighbourhood. the street-sweepers of the West-preter like this. It is obviously At all hours of the day the chopminster City Council, but they re-not fair to the woman if she does ping of fire-wood can be heard, and semble all these-broad-brimmed, not know what is going on." the elang of iron choppers on con- full in the crown, serving imparti crete flours is provocative of homi- ally as sunshade or as anbrella, and cidal desires. Some folk buy their capable of Sokling three poùn ts of fire-wood already chopped and it is potatoes. high time that all followed suit. there be any who grudge the few extra cents let them, arrange to have

If

the whole day's supply chopped The

tween mid-day and 1 p.m.

ters.

An Eye For Colour.

puse, some magenta,

The

men

carry.

THE C.N.C. STRIKE.

AN ARBITRATION RUMOUR.

Property Occupied. Proclamations to the contrary notwithstanding, only yesterday the authorities moved into foreign property without the consent directly and in the face of the refusal of the owners. This time it is the Union Girls' School. The Government appointees to open a school for training propa: gandists went to the Chinese prin cipal of the Girls' School and re- quested the loan of the buildings until the end of August. principal referred the request to the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, which is com- posed of Chinese and foreign members,

The

woman patient. The prisoner's wife, also a doctor, has presented her grievance to the Association These learned of Physicians. men are of opinion that the charge against their imprisoned colleague is impossible, and a meeting has been called with a view to request- ing the police to set the defendant

free,

However, the women's branch of the Kuomintang has also taken action, and asked the police to pro- hibit this meeting. It was even-

tually convened, and the doctors'

demand is that unless the defen- dant is set free they will go on strike. A speedy investigation of the case is also demanded.

Politics and Geology.

The case was accordingly ad- journed until 10 a.m. to-morrow. In connexion with this case, the regular court interpreter for Japanese WAR not obtainablo. The man who acted as Japanese They are not all of one shade. interpreter was provided by the Same are grey some ash-white, No. 2 Police Station. Or being and other asked to read the charge to the It appears to be the common prae-art shades, evidently the output of defendant, he told the magistrate tice for householders to wink at some Shanghai factory with a de-that he could not read English. their servants keeping their wives liente taste, in, enlours; and they und children in the servants' quar-stamp Sun's forces as the Hatled

Also Apart from the fact that Army.

The committee, declined to ac-. Mr. Chu Chia-hua, who was this leads to overcrowding and to rifes and umbrellas, both of which

eade to the request as a summer appointed to be Commissioner of added risk of the importation of have their value in the hell, but!

school of some..50 students la go- Education, has refused to accept infectious disease, the practice the hats are the real feature. If

ing on and repairs were about to, that post, as he prefers to take up leads to a great increase in the a war can be won with hats, Sun amount of noise. The children have Chuan-fang will be triumphant. An official of the Company was begin on some of the buildings. duties as vice-president of Chug piercing voices and use the pave hat which holds three pounds of approached by a Telegraph repor Yesterday the propagandists mov- Shan University.

They Mr. Chu is a student of geo- ments of the neighbourhood as potatoes, raw, boiled or roasted, ter this morning in connexion with ed in bag and luggage. playgrounds-and they do not play seems to be of mere practical the report that is current that in compelled the school to give up logy and cares Ettle for poli- quietly. In what should be one of utility in the hour of trial than structions have been received from to them the entire administratien tical and social sciences. While 23 Commissioner of the quietest residential quarters, the Three Principles.

Home that the Company was to and class room building and them-acting the noises from this cause tre na

The reply selves move into a dormitory Civil Affairs, he subjected himself bad as one would find in Wanchai. The city and environs of Shan-agree to arbitration."

received

that the Com building. Beside the gate is an

to much ridicule by urdering women . that announcement tung's capital are dominated by

three not to wear certain forms of dress. The pany knew nothing of the report months School for training pro- The lasy prohibits the intrusion San Chuan-fang's army.

Postponed and that they could not say any-

once On account of strangers, into servants' 'quar-"

endless in number;

The of pagandists is established. thing.

storm and rain, the ters without the sanction of the fresh, well-feil, well-equipped and

The altitude of the Company request for be buildings to the celebration of the first anni householder, therefore one word cheerful. They are said by com throughout the strike was explain-, end of August! Rather to the versary of the Northern Expedi- from the householder to the No. 1 patent observers to be much bettered, it being stated that no informa cad of October. It remains to be tion is to be held to-day in the Boy will suffice to abate the on Chang Tsung-cbang's men, nuisance, and I would suggest that The Shantung tupan makes no obtion had been given to the Press seen whether the mission schoul East Parade Ground, High mili-

and that there was no likelihood can open at all. the householder might also cau-jection to their presence.

Far tion the Boy against allowing un- from it. He announces that the of a change of that attitude at the present. It was further explain- necessary noise in the servants'

forces of his own anded that the Company had issued quarters, and warn his servants Sun's armies will knock the Nan-one statement,, generally that they should walkking regime to pieces and recap- Asked the event of a deve quietly through the streets when

lure Shanghai. There are somelopment in the situation a further homeward bound at the end of the who say that Sun and Chang are statement would he issued, we day.

watching each other like cut and were informed that this had not The district seems to be the dog, Chang being apprehensivej hern decided. happy hunting ground of hawkers that Son will dust him out of) Mr. W. J. Stokes of the Marine and petty tradesmen, who patrolį Shantung; but there is no sign of Engineers' Guild of China, was the roads and passages at the rear it in their conduct,

asked if the report could be con- of buildings, and disturb the

Both are here, occupying the firmed or denied. He said: "It is Leighbourhood with, their cries. same headquarters, dining at the entirely a rumour. I have heard The gentry who conduct per- formances with trained animals same table, entertaining the same it myself."

friends, and they are evidently on

mun, seem

united

wan

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tary and civil officials will attend this function. More than 50,000 people are to participate in this celebration:

Communism Rife.

Law to Themselves. No department seems to pay altention to authorities higher than itself. Each unit is a law to itself. This scrt of behaviour

An agent of M. Borodin was may yet proy a boomerang. Let arrested near the Canton-Kowloon us hope that will. It may help, Railway Station. He is charged too, te disillusion some people who with holding a conspiracy meet- are for nationalism at any costing with other Communists at the

Another instance of failure to foot of Kwun Yam Mountain. ohey higher authorities is the case of the Y.M.C.A. building. spite of orders to the contrary it is still fully occupied by the gov erament. People are weary of

and Punch and Judy shows also the best of terms at present. Each It was a wise step, taken at the hearing them say that they are

favour the loendity. Surely, this is a matter in which our somewhat supine police might have a say.

The householders might also do something to put a stop to the wearing of wooden clogs.

I would mention finally, the noises made by the military al the Peninsula Hotel: From Re- veille onwards we hear bugle calls

is necessary to the other, and have they not made good their word? The Southern army has been thrown back, Chen's mutiny has been crushed out, and Shantifng is beginning to be itself again.

City Composed.

right moment.

going to evacuate when no move- ment is made in that direction.

Communists. are very active spreading seditions propaganda in public places, such as restaurants and parks. They stir up the crews on passenger junks,, to rise up against the Government.

The police are on the look-out for these agents, travelling up and down the river.

News came yesterday of a de-

That the government would like cisive victory by Chang Tsung chang's forces ander General Fan to close all mission schools, is Southera force which attacked the Education has yielded to the pres- Yung-chang at lchowfu, over a plain, but the Commissioner of dity and was completely repulsed. sure from Nanking and will al-

Tsung-chang, and goes to show that of Directors of certain mission Certainly Tsinanfu has recover-it is not merely a case of the | institutions. Although yielding and the wailing of bagpipes. Ited its composure, since the arrival Shantung troops advancing as the this point there are 30 many other is difficult for the mere civilian to of the Japanese force and the stid-Southerners retreat.

It is already believed by some say whether these noises are den collapse of the Southern front, necessary. If they are necessary Business is as usual, except that that it is possible to get through then I make no complaint, but I the foreign firms, such as Brunner from here to Shanghai. A small would mention, for the considera-Mond, and the Standard Oil, and party of newspaper correspondents,

The people are groaning under tion of those in authority that it Ching Import and Export Lumber British and American, loft Tsinan was not found necessary to sound remain closed, their agents having yesterday at 7.am, by ordinary the burden of taxation forced on bugles during the conduct of our been withdrawn by order of the train for the south," with the aim them and it may yet wear out of pushing through to Shanghai their characteristic patience. campaign in Flanders and that it Consulate, after

the Nanking if possible. They took their own Many people came to me to know There is however, no might be possible to dispense with affair.

provisions and bedding, and will what news is being published in their strains when the troops are anti-foreign animus perceptible to concentrated in a single billet in the naked eye. It might be found be all right so long as the train the foreign papers as this they

makes progress. After that, if a residential district.

This greatly cheered Marshal Chang low foreigners to serve on Boards HOW MUCH DO YOU

with a microscope.

obstacles put in the way that it is doubtful whether such a scheme can carry on even with Chinese principals and a majority of the board members Chinese,

People both in and out of the church are most friendly towards our families should return to live.

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 12 of this issue.

1-What was the pon-name of

Samuel Clemons? 2.-What are the scenes depicted the bronze roliof at the base of the Nelson menu- meniti

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s-What did the Romans call

Walce?

-What relation were Sohrab and Rustum to each other?- 5-What were the Houyhnhnms? -What famous person was rEx cently admitted a member of the Order that has as its matto "Quiz separabit"?" -What to nutmeg? 8-Who were the Three Graces? To what magazine was the perion of papers knoICH DA "The Book of Snoba" con tributed?

they happen to stray into the consider reliable. It is hard for I may be accused of making à Dr. Wheeler of the Shantung Southern lines they are able to them to believe that the foreign papers state frankly their doubts fass about nothing, but I honestly Christian University Hospital be mistaken for Russians and may

Is to the reliability of cortun bellove that any amelioration of hangs out alone at the hospital, be dealt with as such; but if the

news that appears in their conditions would be of real bene-but there are one or two Ameri Southern lines have melted away,

.columns. fit to the health of the community. can forget whether one or two the adventurous correspondents In a climate like ours no man can in the University, though the may get through with nothing effectively perform the duties of institution and its renowned worse than a wetting-heavy rains and think that his business unless he can secure Whitewright Museum have been is pouring to-day but may cease rest, and this it is impossible to foreigners are mentioned as faw, week ago that his men had occupi in London, Dr. R. de Marees van an adequate amount of unbroken handed over to the Chinese. When before the party takes to the open. Chang Tsung-chang clalmed n

While the Netherlands Minister sacure under existing conditions. that means western foreigners,

ed. Hsuchow, and he persists in his Yours, &c.,

for there are many Russians, a statement, but it is not believed ac- Swinderen, was crossing Hart- SLEEPLESS.

few Germans, and about 1,700 of

curate. It is at least premature. trect, Bloomsbury, W.C., on June Kowloon, July 28, 1927.

the Japanese colony at Tsinan, The Shantung forces do not appear 30, he was knocked down by a He was taken to men, women, and children. The to have crossed their provincial motor-omnibus.

10-How the University College Hospital, Japanese community normally boundary southward. It is advertised that all depart numbers 2,000, but about 300 left 'The region between the Tsinanfu where it was found that his right ments of Mosers. A S. Watson & during the recent alarms. The ar railway line and Ichowia is full leg was fractured in threo, places, Co., Ltd., will be closed on Monday, rival of the Japanese force of of brigands who attack the North- and that he had received other in- August 1. The Dispensing depart about 1,600 under General Gody orn troops at every opportunity and juries. mont will be open for disponsing has certainly had a steadying occasionally cut off and annihilate removed to his residence, 82, Grean- prescriptions from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. effect on the whole city, whatever small parties, and capturo supplies, street, Park-lang, W., where last night The Daily Mall was informed and from 0 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. the Chinese politlelane may, any.Shanghai Times correspondent.

that he was a little better.

After treatment he was

big is an anchovy? 11-What is the ceremony of

marking river means called? 12-Where is the Rubicon? 23 Who was Stentor?

-What is the longest tunnel in

England! 15-How many joints are thore

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