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COLLEGE WITH FINE SHANGHAI PARKS

RECORD,

ST. STEPHEN'S REACHES ITS 25TH YEAR.

THE PAST AND FUTURE.

The laying of the foundation- " stone of the new school by His Excellency the Governor at Stan- ley Peninsula, on Friday, will mark the completion of twenty-five

QUESTION.

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DECISION TO ADMIT CHINESE.

SPEECHES AT MEETING OF RATEPAPERS.

years. In the life of St. Stephen's CONTROVERSY College.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1928.

CURRENCY FOR THE BIAS BAY PIRACY

OTHER WORLD.

CURIOUS NOTES PRODUCED IN COURT.

RECENT CANTON EDICT

MENACE.

OUTSPOKEN SHANGHAI

COMMENT.

GOVERNMENT.

PERMANENT EVİL?

"RED" ATROCITIES EXTENDING.

MURDER, FIRE & PILLAGE NEAR SHANGHAI.

TOWN BURNED DOWN.

Kalling, Apr. 19.

The Communist disturbance in Kading is growing from bad to worse, as their activities have been extending to the Southern and Northern sections of the city.

The town of Wooching has been entirely burned down by the Com-, Commenting on the Hain Walmanists and several poople ruth- piracy, Shipping and Engineeringlessly killed. (Shanghai) says:

A Chinese of the coolle type was CALL FOR ACTION BY CANTON fined $2 at the Central Magistracy this morning for the possession of one hundred imitation bank-notes. of-the-kind used for josa purposes. Mr. R. E. Lindsell who heard the ENDED.caac, expressed the view that steps should be taken to prevent the cir- The founders of the school in

Shanghai, Apr. 10,

culation of these notes, as it was 1903 were the late Sir Kai Ho Kai,

not fair that people, like, the defen- Sir Boshan Wel Yuk, Hon. Mr. Chinese will be admitted to the dant should be charged with pos Chau Slu-ki, together with Dr. S. parks and open spaces of Shang- session, W. Tso, LL.D., Mr. Lat Kwal-pui hal beginning on June 1, it was and other Chinese gentlemen, as-decided by a majority vote at the sociated with the then Bishop of annual meeting, of ratepayers' Victoria, Dr. Hoare and the late yesterday. Archdeacon Banister.

The decision of the ratepayers decides an issue which has long ankled with many Chinese of the Settlement and which, greatly unfavourable criticism of Shanghal Municipal Council by outsiders.

Until fuller details of the affair! The town of Lohtuchin was visit- formation, in English, that the cult to comment on the actual the morning of April 18. Anting, On the notes appeared the in-arrive from Hongkong, it is diffi-ed by a group of Communists on board two steam-launches early in Ming Tung Bank" was issuing this piracy, though the question that which is on the Shanghai-Nanking paper "currency for, the other naturally will arise in the mind of Railway, is likely to be affected by world."

anyone is why did not the gun- the Communists troubles in the The College Objects,”

The notes are identical with those boat, once it was established that immediate future. The object of the Foundation

which were the subject of an edict those fleeing from the ship were was to establish a school for Chin

issued by the Canton Government pirates, open fire before they had ese boys on the lines of the famous. misunderstood, has brought about the other day, forbidding the manu-liime to get clear of the shore? to General Chien Ta-chung asking

facture and circulation of Imitation The gunboat arrived in Bins Bay English Public Schools. A specin! fenture was to be the leaching of the

joss-notes.

The grounds on which the Canton left the ship, so that there could actually before the pirates had Chinese Classics side by side with

Government base the measure were English subjects, so that the an- |

that the notes were misleading to not have been much doubt as to elent culture and ideals of China

who and what they ignorant people, and were," in any

were, and should be included together with

ease, undesirable in view of the some well-directed gunfire might Public School ideals.

enlightenment of the people and conceivably have completely, pre-

vented their getting away at all.

the

"Dogs and Chinese," The prohibition of Chinese to the parks and open spacer long

OFFICE-BOY'S THEFT,

It was arranged that the Church ago gave rise to the old, much-dis-"the deeny of the divine right.” Missionary Society, London, cussed and wholly untruthful should supply a Warden and unfreport that signs at the entrances Assistant Muster. while ike to public parks stated that "Dogs College Council should engage and Chinese are not admitted." other British graduates and Chip- ese teachers to make up the staff.

The College Council in active body, which has recently held ita one hundredth meeling,

The Officials.

'Immediately after the decision

had been reached at the ratepay- STOLE $5 FROM EUROPEAN'S ers' meeting yesterday the greater portion of those present loft the

Adequate. Measures.

years.

POCKET.

A Serious Menade,

The main fact that emerges, however, and one which has little or nothing to do with the detalls |

An urgent telegram has been despatched by the anting gentry for troops to be sent at once to police.have recently been killed by cope with the situation. Several the Communists at Lohlichino, where the trouble proves to be. worst of all.

Despite the fact that four Com- munists were behended, at the above place in qublic, the distur bance continues as before. The present situation at Kading, there- fore, proves to be of a most critical nature--Kilo Wen.

of the piracy, is that the Bins Bay Kading is only a few miles dis- gang, despite the lesson which tant from the Shanghai Inter- they received from the L. laat Oc-national Settlement.] tober, still remain a serious power

HOME FOOTBALL.

RAITH SURPRISE GIVES

THEM SAFETY.

Some of the matches played in

Town Hall, which indicates that An office-boy employed at Ta-of evil and a menace to all ship- the majority of those in attend-koo Dockyard was charged before ping on the China Coast. The present Officials are as folce were greatly interested in Mr. R. E. Lindsell, this morning,

the matter.

It has been urged, and'urged lows:

with stealing 35 from Mr. F. Sagain and again, that the only College Council:-Rt. Rev. Ris- Mr. Fessenden, in moving the reMcLay, Marine Superintendent of complete cure for the evil is the hop Duppey D., Chairman, Hon solution, said, in parte prin- the Chinese Navigation Company destruction of the pirates' nest in Sir II. E. Pollock K.C., Dr. S. 'W.cipal argument and practically the The defendant pleaded guilty, the Bias Bay district. If such a THO LL.D., Dr. J. H. Sanders M.D., only one of any importance advanc-and said that he had lost money in course had been adopted years ago, Mesara. Mok Kang-anng, P. Lau-ed against the opening of the parks gambling. der, W. L. Pattenden, Li Hoi-tung, to the Chinese is the apprehensión

It was stated that defendant 35 800n as it was established de T. N. Chau, M.A., K. L. Chan, M.A., in some circles that the lower classes stole the money from Mr. Mclay's the pirates was at Bins Bay, it is yesterday have a very interesting finitely that the headquarters of the English and Scottish Leagues the three latter being Old Boys of Chinese would overrun the parks coat which was left hanging in B.O. Blaker A.C.A. (Treasurer) to the exclusion of foreigners, and his office. The defendant had probable that the pirates sub-bearing on the relegation and and Rev. E. Martin, M.A. (Acting the better class of Chinese alike.

been employed there for four sequent toll of China Coast vessels promotion of the teams; the most Raith Rovers' Warden).

would largely, if not entirely, have notable being

victory over Celtic in the Scottish His Worship Inflicted a sentence been avoided. of six weeks' hard labour.

But the Canton Government, un-League, which places the former der whose jurisdiction Bias Beyin a safe position.

Bo'ness and Dunfermline will exists, nominally if not actually, authorize the opening of the parks part. Your Council wishes to

has done nothing that would prove new return to the second Scottish the other to Chinese will adopt adequate mea-remedy this.

a real deterrent, and has consis-League. Celtic, on, aures to prevent these apprchen- The first Warden of the College ions from becoming realities. One section of the population toutly been against any action by hand, are deprived of the runners- After touching on various polata, pleasures already enjoyed by some the grounds that such action

in asking to be admitted to any foreign Power which would up position which a win would was Rev. E. J. Barnett M.A., after-

tend to exterminate the pirates, on have given them. wards Archdeacon of Hongkong. Mr. Fessenden

Walsall in the Southern Divi- Blon Improved their position Your Coun-rights." master from 1903-1914. The pre-situation is that we have been un- by the money of all.

criticized efl wishes to grant this simple

safe from relegation. sent Warden, Rev. W. H. Hewitt, justly maligned and

The full results M.A., B.D., now on leave, has held brond by what is sometimes called, request. office since 1915.

Reuter are as follows:

Division I,

Building Committee:-Chair-

man, Jon. Sir H. E. Pollock, K.C. You may rest assured that the Old Boys' Committee:-Chair Council has considered the qüestion man, Mr. Li Hoidung; Vice-most carefully, and in the event you Chairman, Messrs. T. N. Chau and Tang Shio-kin; Hon. Secretary, Mr. Li King-hong, B.A.

continued-An-

Archdeacon Barnett was Head-other and unfortunate factor in the and whfcli are only made possible would infringe China's "sovereign although they are not absolutely

Tenching Staff.

Those at present teaching at the College include three graduates of Cambridge, one of Oxford, three of Hongkong University; three ladies, and three teachers of the Chinese Classics i Literature-namely, Mr. A. Ling Hung-ming, BA, Chinese Headmaster, Rev. C. B.

in newspaper circles “a bad press,” and especially as regards the Park question.

Hongkong Example.

Canton's Inactivity.

The inactivity of the Chinese

British Policy. During the last eighteen months the British authorities have Fears have been expressed that While we need not attach undue the large influx of Chinese visitors British vessel is pirated puni

Laken the stand that ᎥᏝ importance to press criticism, on to the parks may render them of the other hand it is unwise to adopt no value to either Chinese or

tive measures will be taken an intolerant attitude or to regard foreigners. This has not been the against the pirates, and this stand ourselves as infallible where local case in Hongkong and I think, seems to have had an appreciable questions are concerned.

ladles and gentlemen, that we effect. The last three piracies Deep National Feeling

may trust our Council to enforce have been on Chinese-owned ships, prevent and it appears not improbable regulations that will Shann, M.A.. Mr. F.A., Britton, ternational community like Shang-We have trusted our Council with that while it is far too dangerous We must all realize that in an in- injury to our breathing spaces. that the pirates now take the viow M.A.. Rev. F. Martin, MA, Mr hai conflicting claims which na- our lives and property more than to attack British ships in view of Tang Ying-lam, B.Sc., Rev. E. K. turally arouse deep national feeling once in recent years may we not the precautions that are taken and Quick, M.A., Mr. Tam Cheung and especially on the part of the trust them now with some degree the moral certainty of retribution. huen, B.A., Mra. Martin, Mrs Chinese, are bound to arise with of our comfort?

no such fear need be felt in regard Shann, Miss Griffin; Mr. Li Hel-over-increasing frequency. nga, and Mr. Kwan Pak-kwal

You will observe that no date to Chinese ships. Professor Lai Tsai-Hel. Hon-lam, ly ignored and dismissed. They would suggest as an amendment These claims cannot be arbitrari-appears in the resolution and for twelve years Chinese Hend- must be met to some extent at least that the words "from June 1, master, Is now the Honorary Ad-in the spirit of sympathetic under 1928" be inserted after the word authorities at Canton during the standing, compromise and adjust "Chinese" and I am confident, occupied a well-known site and not continue its existence in that

From 1903 to 1924, the schoolment, otherwise the community can- Ladies and Gentlemen, that when last gix years, has been nothing| less than scandalous, for while buildings at the junction of West-state of peace and mutual good-will you have passed it one of the ern Street and Bonham Road, with which is so essential to its prosperi- been used to belitile Shanghai in of nation, they have done nothing principal arguments that have they have made repeated promises two tennis courts and a small ty and progress.

the eyes of the world will have that really amounts to action. football field. A thirty-thousand- The question of the parks in one disappeared for ever. dollar Hall, with accommodation of peculiar diflculty owing to the for hoarders and ataff, was added small area of the parks as against to the old building by the sub-the great number of Chinese scriptions of friends in 1908. In residents. The Council realizes 1924, a move was made into tem that the admission of Chinese will porary quarters, the old site, held to, some extent curtail the ameni on lease, having been taken over tics of the parks but for the sake for building development.

of the peace and prosperity of the Settlement the Council has no hesi- lation in appealing to you to make the sacrifice which the solution of this long standing difficulty In-

viser in Chinese studies,

Has 100 Students.

volves.

The "Diehards.”***

At present, the number of stu- dents is 160, of whom sixty are boarders at Pokfulum House. The school motor-bus carries the board- ers and resident masters to and from Prospect Place, near the University, where the class-TOOMS Mr. Marden, speaking on the are situated. The Science labora question, said, inter alia:--Unfor- tory is near St. Stephen's House, tunately the world's Press does not In the new School at Stanley, do Shanghai justice. The world is hoped to have increased board has been told that all we foreign- ing accommodation, while day-era of Shanghal are Dléhards-of boys will have to travel by car or the most virulent and bloodthirsty bus to school, a distance of 8 type; that we are all suffering miles, or half-an-hour's run, from from a chronte species of brain the city.

fever known as the Shanghai mind Appeal to Public.

and that we spend our time deli- In closing this account of St.borately Insulting our Chinese Stephen's College it should be friends, and our money on the up- mentioned that the school has been keep of huge orchestras to which successfully carried on for twenty-no one ever listens,

The fact of the exclusion of five years without application for any Government grant and with Chinese from our parks has caus- out any appeal to the generaled us to be very severely criticised public for financial ald. Now, in many otherwise sympathetic however, the Hongkong Govern-quarters and the resolution now ment has, generously granted a before us is considered by your fine site of 24.21 neros at Stanley Council to be of prime importance. Peninsula and simultaneously an With the abstract justice of the appeal to the public is necessary, case there can be no two opinions to give the College now buildings a large amount of money con- and extensive playing-fields, so tributed by ratepayers as a whole that it may develop on the lines is being spent or has been opent Inid down by its founders-on something in which the major- CONTRIBUTED,

ity of the ratepayers can have no

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HOW MUCH DO YOU] 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 were duskina?

Who wrote the famous "Unfinish

ed Symphony"!

3 What is mohair!

4 How do you say "hlo jacet” in

French!

6 What

myrrh?

are frankincense

and

What is the difference between ambiguous, and amphibious, ambidextrous!

7 Name the characteristic soil of: (a) Thanet; (b) the Peak district of England; (a) Snowdon; (d) London...

9 For what purpose is badger hair

tened?

? Who is Dana in Collie mythology?

10 What is plumbagot

11 From what does a crocus growt

1% What is a dixie?

The Jast attack calls for no retri- bution on the part of the Britial or any other Navy, and the pirates may congratulate themselves that they have once more "got away with it."

It is certain that unless and until the Canton Government takes the necessary military action against the whole of the Bins Bay district, piracy on Chinese ships still may be practised with more or less impunity. But nothing Beems calculated to arouse those at Cantos from their apathy, and there appears to be no course loft other than to accept the danger of piracy on the China Coast as a permanent evil, and the existence of the Blas Bay pirates as A permanent Chinese Institution.

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