1928-01-14 — Page 15

The Very Idea!

Finding his patient in a very pessimistic mood one morning re- garding his chances of recovery,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928.

GEN FENG'S ORDER RESERVE BANK FOR | AGAINST "REDS.”

COMMUNISTS TO BE

SUPPRESSED.

the young doctor started to chuff: NO LENIENCY TO "REDS."

him in an endeavour to put him

in a more cheerful frame. of mind, but without success.

In view of the attempts of Com-j

"I don't know why it is, doc-munists to upset the Kuomintang, tor," said the patient, "but I feel I shall never pull through."

"Nonsense, nonsense!" replied the doctor. "Why, your ense is absolutely the same as an illness I had year's go, yet Took at me, strong and hearty as ever."

"Yes," retorted the other in a hopeless, tone, "but then I expect you had good doctor.".

"I bet I beat that traiu,"

Bald ho

Quito boastful to his wife. And when he shortly lost the

bet.

He also lost his life.

The health authorities in New York have solicited the aid of the Park Commissioners in eliminnt- ing pollen-nroducing grassca an effort to combat hay fever, the rayages of which are described as serious, aflicting and disabling "tens of thousands of citizens."

The announcement has called forth some amusing comments in the press. the issue is to be made a political question, it is said it will be decided at the "pollen booths," while those fa- youring drastic legislation urge should be muzzled or only allowed to enter the park on a lead.

that the sneezers

Goneral Feng Yu-hsiang (the "Christian General") has ordered that any Communist who is caught and convleted hereafter shall be and any summarily executed, member of the Kuominchun who does not observe the Three Peo- ples Principles will be dismissed from the Party, according to tele- grami received in Shanghai from General Feng's headquarters at Chengchow.

General Feng in addressing his staff has warned them against partisanship and discrimination, declaring that anyone who is now sincerely working for the "Nation

list cause is a friend. General Feng further declared that China miast learn science and arts from foreigners in order to be indepen- dent.

INDIA.

SHARE CAPITAL BASIS OF CONSTITUTION.

TWENTY-ONE DIRECTORS.

New Delhi, Jan. 15.. The revised Gold Standard and Reserve Bank Bill is now published in the gazette in order to ensure ample opportunity to study its pro- posals with a view to their being enacted during the forthcoming session of the Legislature.

HANKOW GENERAL'S

ORDERS.

END OF ARMED PICKETS.

HERE AND THERE.

Oriental Stoicism-An Educat. ell Conductor

Escaping Generals.

[RY "ARGUS."]

It has been said that the Chin. The following are proclamations ese are lacking in courage. But Issued on January 4th by General those who have lived long enough Hu Tsung-tu, the Garrison Com-In China and have come into con- tact with Its, many facets of life, mander at Hankows

will have admitted that this con ception is rather astray, and that

"All Labour Unions, in Wuhan,

nt those moments in which are hereby ordered to surrender all arms in their possession and to re- port those of others within one supreme courage is called for the week from date to the Wuhan Chinese have their points which Sir Basil Blackett has issued a Garrison Headquarters. When the must compel the admiration of statement saying that the Govern Communists were in occupation of all. Thus it was that while chat- ment is convinced share capital Wuhan last year, they utilized the ting with a Gaol oficial the other must be the basis for the constitu- Unions as their tools, supplied them day, on the subject of the "Treno" tion of a Reserve Bank in India with arms thereby organizing arm pirates, I gleaned the interesting but in order to ensure the interests ed pickets. They pretended that information that within his long of India as a whole it had been the formation of armed plekets experience of prison affairs, he a Chinese con decided not to give the Imperial were for their protection; but in had never seen Bank of India the option of sub-truth these were the weapons with demned man quail before the scribing thirty per cent of the which they harmed the people and sight of the scaffold. His precise shares.

in general disturbed the peace of words were: "I have never seen this district. Although theso arm-a Chinese cry when he was being Seeing that Gool On the contrary they have baseded pickets have been disarmed and led to the scaffold."

adisbanded once, they still have con his connexion with local

over ammunitions matters has extended

媳 the distribution of shares on broad basis by giving the pre-cealed arms and

the period of two decades, the com- ference in the allotment to those which are a great menace applying for one share (one hundred safety and peace of the public. Asment is worth noting. rupees), while nobody will be al- the Garrison Hoadquarters are case of the "Irene" pirates, each lowed to hold shares worth over 20,-keeping an eye on the welfare of and every one of them met their deaths bravely. "They marched the workers there is therefore no reason whatever for them to keep to the scaffold like soldiers," Every shareholder will have one arms. Besides during this period stated one who was present at the "The aim and object of the Com- vote. There will safeguards of Martial Law the keeping of arms carrying out of the death penalty munists in China is to institute a

external capital. It has is strictly prohibited. So from on all seven men. Is this not reign of terror and anarchy in the been arranged that the total divi-this day of promulgation to with courage? Or is it that so-called seven per in a week all Labour Unions are Oriental stoicism which makes a whole country and to subvert so dend shall not exceed

in order through murder, and cent. The head office will be in ordered to hand over their arma to man resign himself to the inevit arsen. Their campaign of carn-Bombay with four Indian branches the Garrison Headquarters, failure aute and which enables him to when face death, unflinchingly age and destruction knows 010

there is no prospect of escane there- from? bounds.

The question is. best left

General Feng also addressed a circular telegram to his sub- ordinate generals on January 2.000 fupecs. A translation of it follows:

against

ZALDILIANŲJŲ MUZIE

and one in London-Reuter.

Large Directorate.

!!

Later,

to do which will render delinquents liable to severe punishment."

Advice to Labour Unions.

One sarcastic suestion is that vegetation should be wiped out en-

Canton Disaster, tirely from coast to coast and

The first Board of Directors of. "Order is hereby given that the the United States paved with "On December 11 last, Yeh asphalt for the benent of hay Ting, Teng Yen-ta. and Su Chae- the Bank will be entirely neminat-principle of the Kuomintang in or- fever sufferings. Another punscheng, three notorious leaders of ed, but afterwards shareholders,ganizing the Labour Unions is for ter contends that sneezing is the Communists, with two. bat- through an Electoral College, will a two-fold purpose. The first is merely forcible breathing, and talions of matinous troops and elect eleven Directors, the Cham-to encourage the workers to parti- protest against his "Inalienable" several thousand bandits and rowers of Commerce and the Provin- cipate in the Nationalist Revolution rights being taken away from dies suddenly started trouble in cial Co-Operative Banks will elect him. The right to breathe, it is Canton and occupied all Govern-five others, while the Guvernor- urged, is guaranteed by the con- went buildings, setting fire to. 37 General will nominate four. One Government streets and thousands of shops. Director will be a They took to raping and looting in official, but he will not have a vote. the most wanton manner and few persons escaped their ravages. The thoroughfares and alleys.

Btitution.

"Birth control for grass" is an- other characterisation of this in hocent health measure,.

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wure

Willesden woman: I want a

strewn with upwards of summons against a neighbour for 2,000 dead and wounded, male and hitting me with a knife, anil slashing my door where she miss-female, and conditions were the

ed me.

Another Willesden woman: A summuns, please, against a woman fur deformation of character.

horrible to rechint.

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"Here in Kaifeng various kinds of printed matter of the Commun- ists have been discovered, includ- Hackney woman: I am the wifeing a concrete plan for an upris- of my husband, and as, such aming in this city. Such cold- entitled to swear if he swears. blooded homicide and, incendiar

Haggerston landlord, of his

iam is without parallel in the lodger,, at Shoreditch County world all because a number of Court: The gentlemanly part misguided youngsters ignorant of the real conditions of the country have been leil into evil paths.

about him is negligible.

Some schooling howlera:

The Duke of Marlborough was a great general. He always

fought to win or lose.

To keep milk from turning sour you should keep in the cow..

On one side of a penny is the King's head, on the ether a young Indy riding a bleyele They call her Ruby, anger,

Contralto is a low sort of music, which only ladies sing.

Simon de Montfort formed what was known as the Mad Parlia ment. 1: was something the same as it is at the present dny.

The name of Causer's wife was Caesarea. She was above super- stitution.

Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock,

In our arens at first they spread all sorts of absurd and in- Axidious doctrines but had not gone to the limit of criminal actions.

in our order fast summer we refrained from applying the utmost severity of the law. Those apprehended were kept in iustody and their lives were spareți.

No Leniency Now,

Reuter..

RESIGNED.

Dr. Gessler, the German Defence Minister, who has just resigned.

In the

to the paychologist to answer.

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He was an educated tram con- ductor. It was also obvious that he was new to the job, as he wore only his conductor's cap and did fovement; and the second is to not yet have his uniform. Paus- enable them to be strongly uniteding before an office-worker on a to protect their own privileges and Happy Valley car on Monday, he rights. But since the Communists demanded to see the passenger's were in control of the Party, they ticket, saying, painfully, in his utilized the Labour Unions as their best English: "Lemme see your was shown tools for making propaganda" to as-ticket, please." It sist in an Anti-Nationalist Re- and seen. Next, he stopped be- valution. What they were doing fore "a sweet young thing all is on an opposite track from the wrapped in furs, and said:- right principle of Kuomintang. "Lemme see your ticket, Lady." Labour Unions cheat the ignorant A titter went round the tram. workers, and make fools of them, The lady blushed, it may be from besides depriving them of all their confusion. At any rate, it was former privileges The Communist pleasant to the passengers to be leaders like the former Emperors addressed so gently, performed their Divine Rights and too few of these polite conduc- gave orders which nobody could tora, and this one deserves to get possibly dare to disobey. All kinds on, and be given his uniform im- of contributions either monthly

mediately. association fee or other special charges have been asked, which they put in their own private These are times when, out here pockets;, if not for their own ex-in China, most things appear to be travagant expenses, then such topsy-turvey and their natural

to engage des order

money was used

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There are

reversed or otherwise

perate rascals to make Anti- shaken out of joint. Thus it Nationalist Revolution propaganda

and encourage reactionary affairs, came about that at a recent wed- Constantly, they would compel the ding in Hongkong of the daughter of a former Canton official, labourers to join the processions amongst those prestnt" were and demonstrations under all cir-. cumstances, and those who did not many well-known figures in Catt participate were subject to punish-ton politics, whose political lean- ment. But on the other hand,ings are as hard to discover as it is to keep, track with the when the workers have neither work todo nor anything to eat, they ephemereal regimes that come and have never thought of their suffer in China. We had thus two ings but just neglected them. Generals who were supposed to be What they did was merely to con- bitterly opposed to each other but having been ounted in found the workers' sense

with who, specious and sweet words, and to their turn by yet a third 'General,

were now meeting. at the benefit themselves at others' ex-

function on terms of the most pense.

ardent friendship. Rumour hus it that yet another political alien- ment is in process of formation as a consequence of this auspi ious meeting.

Only Suffering.

"Back up the Labour Unions".

"We had intended to afford them an opportunity for repen- tance with the hope that they. might be brought back to the fold

the i

Nationalist revolution. But much to our disappointment they have grown too lltorrigible for reform. In mung provinces

A bankruptcy notification states It is generally agreed that any they have gone so fartas to openly attempt to stop greyhound racing renounce the Three Principles that a first dividend of $4 per and "Protect the rights of the with the malicious intention of cent. has been declared in the case workers" are the two chief slogans. .would have disastrous effects on

in-undermining the the electric-hare breeding

Nationalist of Merwanji Pallonji Talati (dis-But besides paying regular fees,

charged), merchant, of 18, Ice dustry, on which as much of our cause.

(Continued on Page 18.) "They do not hesitate to invoke House Street. national prosperity depends.

the aid of bandits in their work Two more stories from "Behind of burning and killing. The out- the Scenes with Cyr Maude."

"I am one of the few people,"ges they perpetrated are too

for description. Their missi ghastly he writes. "who have heard Melba purpose is to foment anarchy and sing in her bath, and I can assure precipitate national ruin. . In the world that it is then above all view of such a dangerous situa- times in her life, that she has tion I feel it my belinden duty to perfectly. It was the country to adopt the severest aung most wonderful. Directly I heard her measures to bring these evil ele- go to the bathroom I used to standments to justice."

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In the passage and listen in amazement to the lovely voice,"

done

"Unless this is speedily there would be disastrous conse.

Mr. Maude tells how William quences. It is hereby ordered Terriss relieved a difficult situa-" tion one evening when a number that the commanders of all army of the company in which Terriss corps, divisions, brigades, regi- ments and battalions organize and Maude were acting were sent without delay a special secret ser- for by King Edward.

We stood in a row in front of vice to detect and apprehend all him (King Edward) and Princess Communist conspirators within the territory where our troops are Maud, now Queen of Norway, Conversation was rather dull and stationed so that none shall escape stiffed. My wife and I were the aim of the law.

nervous.

.

Will Be Executed.

Suddenly Terriss, looking the King straight in the eye, said "You are further instructed that referring to the King's horse, beginning from January 1, 1928, which was to race for the Gold any person thus arrested and Cup at Ascot the following day found guilty shall be sent to this "We all hope Persimmon is going headquarters to be executed. to win the Gold Cup, to-morrow. Anyone who has knowledge of Oh yes, sir, we've all put our these eriinipals but fails to report shirts on it."

to the authorities shall be punish- ed as the criminal himself.

"As this is of vital concern to the future of the country, and the to exert your Party you are utmost to track down these evil- docrs without mercy no that the foot of future trouble 'be remov ed. You are to instruct all your Bub-ordinates duly to observe and. carry out this order,"

At which the King roared with laughter and the ice was properly" broken.

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English Guide (showing places of interest)"It was in this very room that Nelson received, his first commission."

American Tourist "That so? How much did he make?"

HONGKONG CHAFF.

By B. R.-B.

At Deepwater Bay

You spend the day

Shouting. "Fore!"

But what a bore!!

same.

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Talking of Chinesa Generals, it is interesting to record that General Li Fuk-lum, who Bur- passed the diplomacy of his con- temporaries to such an extent as to retain power for 16 years the "Uncrowned. King of Honam Island," has now apparently gone, the way of the others and is liv ing in exile from his former domain. He successfully outlined the various vicissitudes which fol- lowed the Chinese Revolution of 1911, chiefly by the exercise of diplomacy of the most unique kind, but the day came when he in his turn was forced to flee from Canton. Many a peasant "homeward plodding his weary way" will no doubt have pointed to alone bungalow guarded by an equally lone watchman, where the General, is now living, and moralised on the transient naturs of temporal greatness,

Pietures showing in the local cinemas for the last time to-day are the exciting fire melodrama, "The Fire Brigade," with May McAvoy and Charles Ray at the Queen's Theatre; a romance of the bright lights, "The Taxi Dancer," with Joan Crawford and Owen Moore, at the World Thea- tre; and a drama of Paris before the War, "Satan in Sables," with Lowell Sherman, at the Star Theatre. Cinema-goers should note that the movie programme at the Star Theatre ends at 9.30, the "Globe Trotters" presenting their entertaining revue, "Scenes and Screama" at 9.15.

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