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TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1930.

CHIANG AND THE

CIVIL WAR.

Having become accustomed to take the partisan views of Chinese militarists with the proverbial grain of salt, we can hardly bring ourselves to believe that the civil situation in the North is quite so rosy for the Nationalists

wer

as Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has stated in his interview with foreign

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1930.

the unification of China step by step after the war is over, but it would have been much better had action along these lines been taken long ago. A serious attempt to bring about unification would at any rate have prevented the pre- sent uprising.

DAY BY DAY.

THE TRUTH IS THAT MODERN WO-

MAN WANTS ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF A WOMAN PLUS THE ADVANTAGES OF A MAN.-Annesley Konnealy.

The P, and O. 8.s. Khiva, from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on the 6th July at 6 a.m...

The Swedish East Aslatic Com pany's motor vessel Agra is due bere from Hamburg on the 28th in- stant.

Amongst the passengers who left for Shanghai by the as. President Madison wero Capt. S. E. G. Pon- der, R.A., and Mr. B. L. Stock, of the Asiatic Petroleum Company

The

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Hongkong Herticultural Society advertise that the Schedule for 1931 Flower and Vegetable show is now ready and may be had application to the Hon. Secre-

Unhappily, the war is not over yet, and we fear that the position of the Nationalist Government is not so strong as Marshal Chiang indicates. He declares that he has sufficient forces to subjugate the of enemy without the assistance the young Mukden ruler. Time will prove whether that is the case. The significance of his statement lies in the fact that General Chang Hsueh-liang has not yet seen fit to come to the aid of the Govera- ment to which he is supposed to owe allegiance. Much may in fact depend upon his eventual decision. Until the situation is much clearer "Child Slavery in Hongkong" by than it is at present, the Nank-L-Comdr. and Mrs. H. L. Hasle

wood is the title of a book pub-. ing regime wil find it increasingly lished by the Sheldon Press in difficult to convince the outside London which is shortly expected world that it really controls China, to arrive in the Colons.

nations and foreign

cannot be blamed if they wait to see how things pan out before concluding agreements on questions of any

considerable importance."

V

tary, 11, Queen's Road Central.

Sentence of eight months' hard labour was imposed, on a Chinese who appeared before Mr. Whyte this morning, on a charge of re Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy

turning from a term of five years' banishment dating from Novem- ber last,

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The body

unknown Chinese woman, about 25 years of age, was found yesterday floating in the harbour off Water Street, by the police. Both her ankles were tied together with a piece of cloth. It is presumed to be a case of suicide.

A Chinese single woman, named Chap Sze-mui, (20), residing at 35 Shantung Street, was removed to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday, suffering from a fractured skull, caused by having been knocked down by motor bus, No. 655. Her condition is serious..

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TO PAY COMPENSATION TO

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The Very Idea!

The justice of the peace in e town in Ohio, in pursuance of his duties, had to hear and judge Seven Chinese were brought be cases that were brought before fore Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow loon Magistracy this morning him, and also perform occasional charged with stowing away on marriage ceremonies. He found it board the Empress of Canada to difficult to dissociate the various. Manila.

functions of his office.

Everything had gone smoothly until he had asked

bride, "Do you take this man to be your husband?"

The defendants denied stuwing away and intimated that they had gone on board to see a friend, the ship sailing before they were aware that she had left from the

wharf.

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The bride nodded emphatically.. "And you," said the justice, According to Mr. T. King, masturning to the bridegroom, "what ter at arms on the vessel, three have you to say in your own de of the men attempted to land at

fence?" Manila, but were prevented by the Immigration Customs, while the other. four were found on the ship's return voyage to Hongkong All the men had apparently been

locked in one of the cabins.

"Do things usually turn out as you expect them to ?"

"Yes, with the exception of the car ahead of me. }

(The common aim seems to be to

The defendants; when question- their friend ed remarked that had invited them to Manila, He had told them to wait in the look like everybody else rather than steerage.

looking conspicuously like ourselves,. says Mr. John Burton.)

Personality's extinction gives no hope of self-distinction In these days of mass produc-.

tion and conventional at- tire.

Each defendant was ordered to pay the agents of the vessel $25 compensation and were further fined $25, the alternatives being three weeks' hard labour in each instance. Any money that was company. paid would go to the shipping

WOMAN'S SUICIDE IN HOSPITAL.

ENQUIRY HELD TO-DAY AT·

THE MAGISTRACY.

The death of a Chinese woman, named Ng Sze-mui (58), the wife of a fitter, who was found dead in a lavatory at the Tung Wah Hospital where she was a con- sumptive cage, on June 23, was in vestigated by the Coroner (Mr. Grantham) at the Central Police Court this morning.

Medical tertimony was to the

Since we look like one another, jockey looks like voet'a brother,

And the navey might be taken. for an influential squire. Then, the literary giant, uncon-

concerned and self-reliant, In the manner of a neat com-

mercial traveller is dres sed,

Whe, in turn, resembles greatly an M.P. urbane and stately, Who to look like something, else has always done his level best,

Barber (having sold a battle of

hair oil to customer): "Excuse me, sir, do you happen to play. bil- finds

Customer: "Yes, why?"

warn

effect that the woman. suffered They were visiting friends one from tuberculosis and a weakened evening. Presently their 3-year- hear Death was due to hanging. old son became restless. The

The "Tote" Vindicated. While controversy still rages. at Home on the merits and demerits of the totalisator there is no doubt that its introduction to a number of English racecourses has given a fillip to racing of which it stood in real need and that it has resulted in a marked increase in attendance at the vari- ous meetings. We are told that "experts" declare the totalisator to be in grave danger of going bankrupt, but no such, fear is entertained by the officials of the

The evidence of witnesses from Barber: "Then I must Control Board, who believe that, when their arrangements are com-

the Hospital was to the effect that you, sir, after using this lotion to the woman was found hanging by be sure and wash your hands be- plete, the "tote" will be worked

Ng Pui-lam, manager Kwong the neck, death having occurred fore so much as touching a hil at a profit and will provide an Shun Hang Company, coal mer-before discovery of her condition.liard ball.” increasing source of revenue. It chants, 254 Reclamation Street, must not be overlooked

that has reported to the police that scarcely a year has passed since salesman on June 27th obtained the first totalisator installations sum of $250 from the Yik On shop were operated in England. So in Wing Lok Street, by means of

a forged chop, and absconded. far, only one course possesses a followed the course of events in the fully-equipped electrical plant, latest war with any degree of in- and it is generally agreed that the telligence must have become im-installation at the Rowley Mile fully pressed by the fact that the pre- standa at Newmarket has sent Nanking Administration is justified itself. A point is made of the fact that on Derby Day fighting for its existence, wich is the totalisator receipts totalled seriously jeopardised. Nothing only £17,000, but at Epsom the is therefore to be gained by sug facilities for betting on the "tote" gesting, as Marshal Chiang does, were available for only members Charged with stealing an iron. that, from the Nationalist stand of the club stand, and people in shackle from the Kowloon Dock, a Infinite-casual worker, who appeared before. point, everything is going accord- the paddock-almost an

of the huge Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowicon ing to programme and the shatter-simal proportion

crowd present. The real test of Magistracy this morning, was sen-

Brussels ing of the enemy forces merely a the totalisator will come when the The defendant, who had been em Berlin

tenced to three weeks' hard labour.

Amsterdam matter of time. The position is chief courses of the country are ployed in the Dock for the past four Copenhagen not quite so clear-cut as all that.

fitted with the proper equipment years, was arrested leaving the Vicans until then, it is the merest guess yard with the shackle. work to declare that it cannot pay its way. The somewhat humor- ous statement has been made that

journalists. Anyone who has

In some of his statements, Mar- shal Chiang adopted a braggadocio attitude, as, for example, when he declares his belief that whenever

only the bookmakers can now the enemy see the blue and white save the totalisator. The truth is Nationalist emblem they will re- that its future depends entirely fuse to advance. We suggest, how on the racing public, who have ever, that if the opposing armies already had enough experience of fail to make any further advance the machine to know that it re- it will not be because they are turns odds with mathematical scared of the Nationalists; shortage fairness. One of its great ad- vantages so far has been that it

The deceased's husband said she hostess, noticing this, gave him a had been in a weak condition for soft rubber ball to play with... the last five or six years, and During the course of his play having effected the first payment had never said anything which port, and the little fellow crawled The Chinese Maritime Customs while she had appeared depressed, the ball rolled under the daven- for the year 1930 on the Boxer In- might lead him to suspect that in after it. Presently the hostess demnity, coupons No. 11 of the 5% she had designs on her life. asked him if he saw the ball. He Gold Loan 1926 will be redeemable:

"Death by Suicide" was the ver- from the 15th instant through the Agencies of the Banque Franco diet returned by the jury. Chinoise Pour le Commerce 1'Industria

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EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris

Helsingfors Lisbon Mr. Ralph C. Wells, Chairman Buenos Aires

Bucharest of the China Council of the Presby- Shanghaf terian Church in America, left on Yokohama a trip to the North by the 8.3. Pre- New York sident Madison. Proceeding to the Geneva U.S.A. on furlough by the same boat Milan were Dr. Marguerite Everham, of Stockholm the American Presbyterian Mis-Oslo sion in Swatow, and Misses E. G. Madrid Prague Miller and A. B. Sanderson, of the Athens American Presbyterian Mission in Rio Foochow

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The Amateur Golf Champion- ship was well into its final stages. A hreathless crowd was watch- ing Bobby Jones addressing his ball for a three-yard putt.

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CHILDREN FALL OFF VERANDAH.

of funds or new alignments brought has exposed the inadequacy of the The Shaukiwan police received a Silver (spot) about by bribery are more likely prices formerly returned by the telephone message from the Gov- to be the cause. However, it is bookmakers, especially in the case ernment Civil Hospital wasting words to talk of eventuali- of horses other than the P.. yesterday, to the effect that a Chinese woman named Ip Yee- ties which may never occur, in favourites. The Jockey Club took mui, (53), living in a hut on the which connexion Marshal Chiang the first steps leading to the hillside at Shaukiwan west, who should be reminded of the folly of legalisation of the totalisator be- was admitted to the hospital on cause they wore continced that the night of June 5th, died yester- predicting future happenings; It

its introduction would be for the day afternoon. The cause of death will be time enough to talk when benefit of racing and of the rac-was suspected to be mushroom

poisoning. the enemy has been beaten. In ing public. Nothing has occurred writing thus, we have no desire to to alter the official view that it see the Nationalists overthrown, be has been a move in the right cause we know from past experi-direction.

ence that nothing will be gained by

a triumph for the rebels, whose protestations of wishing to serve the nation can hardly be taken at face value. What is needed in China

WATER LEVELS.

ON WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS. {

SEASON OPENED AT THE

BOY KILLED INSTANTLY: A GIRL INJURED.

Two children, a Chinese boy of six and a Chinese girl of five, fell NICOLA SCORES BIG from the second floor verandah of

SUCCESS.

462 Queen's Road West into the yard at the back. The boy, Au Sung, was killed instantaneously. The girl Lan Tai-fai, received in STAR THEATRE,

ternal injuries for which ake is now being treated in the Govern- Nicola, the master magician,ment Civil Hospital, well-known here by reason of The body of the boy has been is the removal of the causes which The following table, issued by. produce civil war; mere changes of the Kwangtung River Conservancy many previous visits, opened his removed to the Mortuary. Government will do little or nothing Commission, shows in English feet week's season at the Star Theatre. the water levels on the West Kowloon, last night, when he was in this direction, In any event, it River, North River and East welcomed by a packed house. He A hurricane of terrific force put on a wonderful show, which swept over a part of the Tokay dis- is far better that constituted au- River, on the dates named:

July 7. was an instant hit. His present trict in Hungary being preceded thority should remain in power,

Company is the biggest he has by an enormous black, spindle- profiting by experience, than that

68ever brought East, and everything shaped cloud which came down In the show is entirely new. until it nearly swept the ground. there should be these recurring up-

6.0 The audience last night was Houses collapsed, many trees were heavals which really lead nowhere.

amazed by the mystifying per- uprooted, and telephone and tele- The highest levels on record are: formances given by Nicola and his graph cables were torn down. Looking back over the activities of Shishing, 41 foet; Taingyuen, assistants, and there is every Ohe village of 50 houses was the present regime, it must be con- 29.2 feet; Samsbul, 27.8 feet; promise of the season being a entirely demolished. Whole, roofs coded that it has falled to put first Sheklung west level on record at

huge success,

were carried in the air for over We hope to give a fuller ac a mile. A hailstorm followed, things first. Marshal Chiang now Samshul is minne 5 feet and at count of Nicola's programme in causing great damage to vine- Italka of planning to proceed with Sheklung minus 2.7 fest.

our issue of to-morrow.

Shlubing Teingyuen Samshui Sheklung

July 6.

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JUDE

THE OBSCURE.

Of all the novels which 'tell of defeat and frustration- "Jude the Obscure," by Tho- mas Hardy, is surely the sad- deat.

Jude, though poor, was ■. boy of more than ordinary in- telligence, and from early youth be cherished the in- bition to enter the University of Christminster. He studied. hard, but had the bad luck to get entangled with a coarse girl, who tricked him into marriage. Before very long.. his wife deserted him, and. Jude resumed his studles.

But his plans were again wrecked when he fell in love with his young married éou- sin Sue. Although her hus-. band divorced her, Sue would. not marry Jude, having the foolish notion that free love was better, for her at: any. rate, than marriage. Their life was not easy. Jude could not obtain a post on account. of the irregularity of their union. His eldest son mur- dered his two younger chil- dren.

Sue, heart-broken, looked on this as a punishment for leav ing her husband, and as a command to return to him. She did ao, leaving. Jude deso late and forlora. In his des-: pair, and loneliness; he drifted into re-marriage. with his worthless first wife, but his heart was with his beloved Sue. He died, neglected and alone, of a chill caught while attempting to see her.