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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1932,

Kuomintang propaganda Indeod, manTNERAMBARINE MATTERETNES penstrated the province, but, no

DAY BY DAY army remaining to back it, never became really dominant. Mean- while the west of the province caught the contagion of Com-

LAWS, CONTRACTS, AND OTHER IMPEDIMENTS OF ALL KINDS ARE munism from the neighbouring ONLY MADE non ROCUES. Mass province of Klangal, and for O'Reil several years its countryside bas become increasingly red, and its district cities been subject to raids | from the organised Communist armies of Generals Tau and Mo.

SCHOOLGIRLS WITH A BRIDE'S TROUSSEAU

Yesterday, Li Chau, a bricklayer was injured in a fall from scaffolding on the level of the first floor of 611, conveyed to the Kowloon Hospital. Shanghal Street, Yaumati, and was stand.”

By MONTAGUE SMITH

MATHER has written to the uniform of discipline and parade. bank for a new cheque book. Homo is the place for mufti and The China Light and Power Re-really la.very awkward.

Mother says: "You know, it freedom. creation Club dance for Saturday, take Jane to Messrs. X. and Y. for school authorities provide parents I have to: It is true that in most cases the October 20 has been cancelled.

hor new school outfit, and she with a quite reasonable "estimate" Passengers arriving by the Asama knows perfectly well I cannot of the cost of the specified outfit. (Maru to-day Included Mr. J. D. afford to get all my own things In the case cited above it la stated

there."

that the whole outfit could be Such was the state of things Humphreys and Mrs. R. Leach.

Father anys: "Well, of course, It obtained for £47 10s. until the sudden Communist ad- Mr. A. Ackl, Japanese Minister to would never do for Jane to go to As things actually are this is vance further into the province and Rome, is passing through the Colony school and find that the other giris unattainable

by the 8.x. Hakozaki Marn to-day.

advice. Parents had got better outfits than who know that, and head mistress the capture of the cities of Chang-

has, but why on earth, she wants ought to. So I will tell them why. chow and Changpu in the spring.

all those djibbahs, or whatever you Almost all public schools specify General Chang Chen at Chang-

call them, I simply cannot under-with their lists the names of und chow failed to stem the advance.

jor two frins of outfittors at which Mother says: "Well, it was not pareata are requested to make General Chen Kuo-ful, who ad-

like it in my young days, and I their purchases. In fact, parents vanced from Chuanchow to Tung- intervals from forts at Stonecutters to teach the girls something of the shops alone can they be sure of Blank ammunition will be fired at think it is about time they began have to go there because at such on and held the enemy, made a Belchers and Lyemun between noon need for economy. Thank good- obtaining the regulatios colours much better showing. He could de November 1st and 3 nm. November ness, Jane has got her head and uniform of the particuler

3rd. Scarehlights will be employed) no more, however, than protect his during hours of darkness.

screwed on the right way, but school. what it is going to be like in the! Let us suppore that many of the own area. For these, and probably

Ho Su, an elderly woman, was ad- future for some of those girls with specified firms-and I am sure also other reasons, the 19th Army,mitted to the Government Civil the extravagant notions the head- that this is true of many of the fresh from its long stand against Hospital yesterday with an injury mistress puts into their minds, I great London stores-do not forco

to her face, received in an accident at do not know." the Japanese at Shanghai, was Queen's Road West, when she was

Those "Extras" drafted into Fukica. It had be-knocked down by a goods lorry, come of the first importance to rid

The wedding will shortly take place This sort of converantion has Let us suppose all nis, and the batween Mr. Thomas Charles Hards, been going on in thousands of fact still remains that parents merchant, of 38, Whitworth Street, homes. It follows days of buying must buy the most expensive ar- Government which the Red dd- Manchenter, at present residing at in the stores and shops which is ticles, they must buy everything vance presented. It had also be Strain Hotel, and Miss Kathleen the necessary prelude nowadaya that is on the most extravagant comes important that if, as at that the whole en toute for the Colony to sending a girl for the first time school lists simply because their

Ito a public school or time was widely feared, and as is

arat-class children can never be put to the Jahame of having anything less or still n possibility, the Japanese ex-efforts of Mr. Li Yau-taun, C.D.E.,

It is understood that through the convent.

Only those parents who have anything less costly than the other tended operations, the province and other prominent Chinese directors had this experience will know to girls they will meet.

of the Handicraft Free

in the full what it means; others may School which figured so prominently in the Aberdeen, many substantial contribu-learn

Jane may not be a snob, but she in time. Or, they may, is terribly self-conscious, and there Twenty-one Demands, owing to tions have been obtained and cons- indeed, learn to their sorrow that is no girl living of school age whe truction of the school will be started the cost is prohibitive, and that can suffer without a pang the in- its proximity to Formosa, should in the near future.

Jane, or Doris, or Katie must be lovitable comparisons class be held firmly, and as a unit, for the

from room, living room, sports field, and Central Government. The

Getting into the way of a fire ap. sent to a different school

· 19th

dormitory unless fortified pliance in Queen's Road West, a little their elder sisters'.

with This is a matter to which the the knowledge that her kit is un- Army wore no longer needed in girl, named Chau Kwan, 8 years of Shanghai. It had Indeed been per-ge, was rendered unconscious with great majority of girls school, assallable. Honce for her parents a fractured kull received through who are really trying to bring thero is only one standard of pur- sistently rumoured that they were being struck down. Hier condition is down their costs to modern condi- chase, the best; and only never in favour with Nanking, be regarded as critical at the hospital tions, should apply attention. standard of cost, the dearcat,

Such schools have done a great This is the difficulty that some- ing adherents of the Canton faction, though they were nationalist in feeling in the same way that Wang Ching-wer was nationalist.

They

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1932,

THE XIXTH ARMY IN

FUKIEN: 1

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Elgear,

8.8. Comorin.

to which she has been admitted.

the highest priced articles on parents, but even advise them that cheaper goods are excellent value.

one

to

Sub-calibre gan practice for the deal in the last year or two in thehow or other the public schools for week ending November 6th will take way of reducing school fees and girls must meet if they are place as follows:-Nov. 1nt, Devil's eliminating "extras," Neverthe-retain the confidence of parents. Peak, at 10 am, area affected, Tai-loss at the average good public It is for them to inculcate in the thone Channel; Nov. 2nd., Pakshawan, school for girls to-day the year's girls of to-day a pride in wine at 5.30 p.m., area affected, Junk Bay; account will amount generally to spending and in economy. Nov. 3rd., Bt. Davis, nt 10.30 am.., this: nres affected, S.W. of Mt. Davis,

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Inclusive fco Extras Gamea subscription Pocket money ....

Total

£195 0 o 15 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0

£219 0 0

On top of this is the cast of the

One suggestion has been that

parents should be required to pay a fixed sum of money out of which the school authorities themselves should provide the outats. This would undoubtedly be cheaper in the end, but parents themselves object to it owing to suspicion. that some schools may make undue profit on the transaction.

were moved to what might be the next point of attack in China Pro- of the per. The immediate task

The first of the monthly dances: Army on arrival in the province

arranged by the Y.M.C.A., to be held was to move against the Com-throughout the winter was enjoyed munista. This they gradually did, last night In the West Lounge, and was a big success. Dancing to the the main body falling back before strains of Mickey's Melody Makers, them voluntarily from both Chang- the couple enjoyed themselves until

the early hours. The programme_in-joutfit. chow and Changpu. More recently eluded several novelty dances. Mr. Bills mount up, and those who' A more practical way would be the army has advanced into what S. A. Gray was M.C.

have had the experience will for the headmistresses to practise Com- The news that Cornmunist forces for sonte time has been a

Ruth Chatterton and Paul Lukas testify that the cost of the new oconomy in the maintenance of the aro again advancing in north-west munist preserve, the city of Liung- are paired in "To-morrow and To- outfit demanded to-day for a girl go- 'girls' clothes, Many of them will morrow," now showing at the King's ing for the first time to a public tell proteating parents that their Fukien serves to illustrate the fact ngam and the surrounding country. Theatre. The film is admirably pro-school is certainly £100, and may school outfit lists are maximum Hists, that pupils must not exceed They have still, however, if they duced and marked by fine emotional well be £120, do-

neting on the part of the leads, while Future "renewals" will cost at them, but may bring less. This minates large parts of this pro-are to clear the province of the Ted Alexander is remarkably good least another £20 a torm.

la itself, an admission that the llats Reds, to take and occupy Tingchow, as a child neter. The theme is one vince, authough the 19th Route

many can be cut down. which la not likely to appeal to Shanghang Army has been successful in win-

and Yungtin, with everyone, while there is far too much items which parents simply have other district cities on the Kiangai anb stuff" to make it satisfying en- to provide if their daughters are Economy Needed

tertainment. As a study, however, to hold up their heads in their new: border. This may provo thore many will no doubt find it a distinct world-lawn tennis formidable a task, for the people

that the Red influence still

Chinese

In addition there

are

change from the ordinary run of hockey sticks, golf clubs, pictures.

ning back some areas. Although

The principal excesses are in It is a conatal province, Fukien has

racquets, the number of school uniforms and, and of boots and shoes required→ for same years been a backwater of

maybe, dance frocks. are by now imbued with Com-

fespeefally of boots and shoes. Many schools, indeed, now In-Demands for different varieties of politics. Tho Central

munist ideas, and the organised

¡clude two non-uniform dance sports kit are also in many canda Government has left it nominally forces of the Reds in Kiangel may when a semi-civil-Government in in frocks in the list of essentials, and quite unreasonable, in the hands of the Navy, an make more offort to hold what has office. Considerations of

jexcuse it on the ground that the By providing on anomalous arrangement,

the premises space girls will be able to wear these for quick and proper repairs of Inbeen specifically their territory,preclude us at the moment from at home. But whoever heard of clothes and footwear, most schools although they have not held it con-dealing farther with the problems an ordinary healthy girl who did could reduce the demand outfits stantly.

ahead, but we hope to return to not simply hate the idea of wear-iof such by half. They might

but

point of fact the rule of the

Navy has not extended much be- yond the two ports of Foochow and Amoy, Inland the province has At the same time that the Army these to-morrow. been divided between a number of has made its graduni advance into military lenders, each of whom has the Communist country, it has had carved out a piece for himself, held the further problem of dealing with it against bandits and neighbours, the local military leaders though- and governed autocratically. The out the province. This was not Three Principles have been given auch a clear Issue. The loadors a lip-service, but beyond that have have had at least the tacit recogni- exercised little influence on the tion of Nanking, the Government rulers.

being only too glad to receive a Presumably this state of appatrs (nominal adhesion from them. Some has been due to the fact that the like Chang Chin, received definite province has not been on the high-mandates from the Central Govern- - way of the Nationalist armies, and ment to conduct the anti-Com- It was more urgent for them to munist campaign. It has how- consolidate their position along the ever become clear if the pro- interior line from Canton to the vince is to have a definite' rela- Yangtaze, and down that river.tion to the Government, and in When Chiang Kai-shek's armies particular to bear its part in the moved north from Canton in 1925-7, present urgent national issues, it they made cartdin Arst of their must be unified under a new pro own province, securing the country vinelai authority. Tho local along the East River and the rulers are being 'eliminated, and a Chaochowfu-Swałow area, as well, now Government with General as moving in the more direct line (Chiang Kwong-nal at its head, sot up the North River; but when once up in Foochow. The administra- their hold of that province was tion is not confined to military men. socure, they went through Klangai Mr. Fan Khl-mu, who was at the on to Hankow, and down from head of the finance department in there, leaving behind them a trail Canton when Genoral Chen Ming- of Communism which is now so shu, the original head of the 19th vigorous that it threatens the Route Army, waa there, la now with State, although the parent body his old colleagues in Foochow; but when it reached Hankow disowned the administration is founded Communism and "purged" the the power of the army, while the Party. In the whole of that move- |ulvil problems which now face the ment Fuklen was largely left aside. army will be more easily dealt with

on

ing any of her school dresses Jholiday? For her they are

"Yer wastin yer timo ar ound here, sonny. You oughta

go to college and study footba¡},"

on agree that one dresa could be the made suitable for more than one

Joccasion.

They might give parents [greater latitude of choice of shops when purchasing. They might commend service-ability rather than cost and style. They might Inculcata the idea that a stocking darned by its wearer is not neces Isarily a dishonourable badge.

They must, in short, inculcate the virtues of economy.

|FIXING TH' WIFESH

By Edward Kelly, Misogynist We met Pote down the street last night. Pete, had been cole- [brating.

Ho leered at us triumphantly. "I fixed her," he said.

We waited for him to continue. "Told her off properly," he said after a pausa.

Told who off?" we asked. "Th' wife, of course," said Pete. "Good man," we said, and shook This hand.

Told her what I thought of her."

We congratulated him again "Didn't give her chanah get a word in eggewaysh!"

"That's the iden," we said, encouragingly

Pato

"Told her what I thought of her' mother ash well," said proudly, "Lot her shoe who wash bosh, an' told her she'd worn the trousersh long enough.”.

"Nothing like putting them in. their place," we said.

"An when I'd finished telling her thingsh I've wanted to shay (Continued on Page 9.)