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TUESDAY JULY 29. 1924 TROUBLE EXTENDS.
SHAMEEN STRIKERS' MOVE.
EFFORT TO BOYCOTT STEAMBOAT CO.
Result Of Propaganda.
To-day another phase has be- come evident and this phase can only be indirectly attributed to the original bone of contention!
Propaganda by word and print was quite possible that cheques in Canton has had the effect of may have been presented for pay. extending the scope of the mant, but as it is the usual custom Shameen strike.
of banks to have the identities of Chinese payecs established by the compradore's verification, pay ment could not be made as the identities could not be ascertained. It was also stated that if a payee had papers, whereby his identity could be established beyond doubt, there was a chance that payment would be effected but the banks had to be very careful.
Shippers Scared Off? Up to twelve o'clock to-day practically no cargo had been put on board the Steamboat Co.'s steamer "Lungshan" which is due to leave for Canton to-night.
NO LIGHT.
MOTORIST FINED.
FOLIOS PROTECTION ASKED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Whon Mr... R. Earnshaw Kai Tak Motor Bus Company, up- peared at the Kowloon Magistracy thie morning in anawer to a sum- mons for riding a motor cycle without a front light at 2 a.m. on Sunday, ho asked Mr B. W Hamilton whether the police cold not provide more protection for machines left at the Star Ferry.. Cars were being continually in torfered with thore, said Mr. Earnshaw, and On this occasion when he returned from a visit to Hougkong he found that his lamp was not in working order.. did not wish to push his machine or leave it and take a rickshaw so he rode it lightless. He added that not only lights but carburet- ters ind other parts were being continually interfered with at the ferry.
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Mr. Hamilton said that it was nice point, bat he did not think that motorists who left their cars in the open street were entitled to
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Hitherto cargo had been plenti- Mediation Behind Scenes. ful since the atrike commericed.
A correspondent in Shameen Shipments for European concerns reports little or no change in the had to be brought back to Hong- situation. Outwardly, both sides kong because the wharf coolies are "sitting tight" but the names had been persuaded to join the of the American and Japanese special polied protection "boycott." A most flagrant Consuls and that of Mr. C. C. Wu, only a concession on the part of instance was the return of several Canton Foreign Minister, are con- the police, that they were allowed cases of medicines and comforts tinually mentioned as mediators. to remain there at all. Mr. Earn- for a mission hospital in Canton Whatever has been done behind which has done much for the the scenes seems to have been of Chinese. Nevertheless, the up-little avail. river shipments were nearly all for Chinese and these were invariably Undler yesterday's date, Ianded.
Canton correspondent sends the "Daily Bulletin" the following report on the position Shameén:-
Workers Returning?
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sbne should get into touch with the Automobile Association or the C.S.P. As a magistrate he was only concerned with the adininis- tration of the law.
Sergt. MacWalter said that two or three days before he had secr defendant, and he had no battery in his lamp. He was vaing a band There was a recent con- torch. vietion against him for exceeding
speed limit. Fined $3.
Last week the strike leaders directed their hostility against the Steamboat Co. because the "shan" boats carried Dairy Furm supplies" Canton is still quiet and nothing for Shumeen, I now seems further has been published regard-the apparent that the wharf cooliesing forward movement of negotin- have yielded to the persuasion of tions. It is understood, however, the labour chiefs and it is reported") that the matter is not stagnant. that they will not touch cargo Signs are not lacking that some shipped by the Steainbout Cu's of the strikers have been dis-, Yessels,
ODDS AND ENDS.
CHARITY DRIVE RESULT.
| MIBOHLLANEOUS LOOT.
Money and trinkets ranging from gold cans to Hongkong currency and copper cash to jewellery were collected by the members of the Chung Sing Benevolent Society in their food relief drives through the Colony last week.
abused as regards the promises No surprise is occasioned, there- nude by the strike teaders. Two fore, at the number of telegrams ineala a day are provided for the; which have been received by individual striker, without p- Hongkong shippers instructing vision for his family. No strike them not to ship by the Steamboat pay is issued unless in return for Co. Accordingly, local Chinese work, when the payment is small. firms have no option but to send Cases have occurred where men their merchandise by the "out-have voluntarily returned, and side" lines.
done work for their employers. It need hardly be added that No further sections but Jardine's this effort to interfere with the and Butterfield's stevedores' staff's Muny Europeans-probably-woh- "Langshan" and "Fatshun" is and part of the A.P.C. installation dered what a long procession of e brass primarily to stop supplies getting men have come out. Many bell-ringers, headed by into Shumeen as these vessels can Chinese came into Shameen on hand. dared by banner-bearers hardly continue running without strike leaders' passes yesterday to and followed by men carrying long Cargo.
cash bearer cheques. Unfor- poles with butterfly-nets at the A rumour is also current that tunately, the absence of com-Hongkong and Kowloon,
and, were doing in the streets of -luggage coolies-on-the-Ganton pradores stuffs rendered-it-im- Flage were exhibited stressing wharves have joined the move-practicable to cash these cheques the need of relief and asking for ment by refusing to carry personal and bearers had to return empty-"no matter how small an amount effects of passengers arriving handed.
may be. Altogether over $10,000) there by the Steamboat Co.'s meeting of Chinese office was collected in this way, a nuni- ships.
staffs was held on July 26. It is bar of subscriptions from understood that this section of the dividuals being paid over to the strike has dissociated itself from society responsible for the drive. the strike movement.
The collections of one day, in detail, make interesting reading, d the collectors; On the first received.:-
$2,05-1.
"Lungshan" Will Sail. This morning it was persistently rumoured in town that the "Lung shan" would not sail to-night. On inquiry from the bread office of the Steamboat Co., the "China, Mail" learns that the "Lungshan" will leave as usual at ten o'clock to night for Canton."
From the Hongkong office of the Dairy Farm Co. it was gathered that, despite all rumours, supplies for Shameen were still being sent up daily.
No change can be found in Shameen in the attitude towards the issue of the strike.
Hongkong banknotes Foreign, notes
On Saturday, several coolies re- turned to a certain, firm volun- Hongkong 10-cent pieces tarily and did some necessary | Hongkong. Dcent pieces .... work.
Silver dollurs
Fifty-cent pieces
Rupees.....
$7.
$2.017.
$150,
$10.
$23.
4.
$104.
$60.
2,250.
1,300.
2.
Officials Must Obey.
Hongkong 5-cent pieces Canton 20-cent pieces .............. (From Our Special Correspondent.)
H.K. Copper cents Even Chinese officials in Canton Copper cash
Gold braerlets"
On another day, in a different have to submit to the will of the committee in charge of the strike. locality, the collectors took According to the "Sun Kwok Wa Hongkong.banknotes News," the Canton Government Foreign banknotes
$1,720.
$10.
Getting Round The Strikers. In connection with the stoppage of work at the Canton godowns of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire and Messre. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., it is reported that Chinese merchants are getting round the
Mint had to apply to the com-Hongkong 20-cent pieces... $113. difficulty. They are mentioned as attempting to divert to Hongkong,mittee for a pass before its agents Hongkong 10-cent pieces ..$1,575. merchandise shipped from Shang- could enter Shameen to take Hongkong 5-cent pieces ... hai by steamers operated by these delivery of silver bars from the Silver dollars two firm; the lots to be subse-Taiwan Bank on July 25.
quently transhipped from Hong- kong to Canton by an "outside" steamer.
Fifty-cent pieces
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$82.
33.
45.
$65.
2.
1.
1.
2,416.
1,640.
2.
1.
The number of strikers has in- Canton 20-crnt pieces..... creased since the walk-out of American 50-cent pieces Chinese employees from the icad-Rupee
Unknown coin ing shipping companies in Canton, Bank Rumour Explained.
Copper Cash ****** To-day a rumour came down to and the committee in charge has Hongkong Centa
Half-Sovereigns Hongkong from Chinese sources in decided to re-group the men now
New badges are being Gold-mounted mitan bangle Canton that Chinese, who had idle.
A feature of the drives was the deposits (or accounts) with Euro-issued. Complaints have reached pean Banks in Shameen, had the office of the committee that assistance rendered by members obtained permission from the some clerke in Shameen, who of Boy Scout Troops and a number strike leaders to go through the should have joined in the strike of Chinese schoolgirls who said atrikers' pickets and enter and taken out badges, have not rosettes,
The committee has Shameen to draw cash but had not done so. been able to obtain payment on issued a warning that all should register as required under the 'presentation of cheques, etc.
A message to the "Bulletin" present arrangements.
To finance the strike, aside from explains the origin of this rumour. From local inquiries the "China contributions from high officials Mail" learns that as the com- and military commanders, theatri- pradore staffs of the banking cal performances are given for the offices in Shameen were away, it benefit of the strikers.
MOTOR REGULATIONS..
GARAGE. PROPRIETOR
ARGUES POINT.
FERRY PICKPOCKET.
WILL. MISS BOAT FOR SIX WEEKS
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For stealing $20 from the person of a rice dealer at the, Yaumati ferry entrance, a Chinese was sen tenced to six weeks' hard labour at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
ter). His house was in Kimberly Road near Observatory Hill and the rond was double the ordinary Complainant stated that defen- length there. He had plenty of dant put his hand into his pocket accommodation at his garage but he and took out two $10 notes. took his car home with him in cl of Defendant said that he did not
It should be needed at any time; take the money, but only bumped On the grounds that neither in
Sogt MacWalter said that the Into complainant. There were s his licence nor in the regulations new regulations under which Mr. lot of people in a hurry to catch was it stated that be was not Komer took out his licence laid the ferry and
Mr. Hamilton (Magistrate): Do allowed to leave his car. In the it down clearly that cars should street at night, Mr. H. Komor, not be parked to the street you mean to suggest that the prophetor of the Motor Exchange Me Kuper contradict that complainant being in a hurry to Garage, contended at the Kowloon They do not say anything about catch the ferry, would have missed Magistracy this gorging that the Kowloon at all. If that is so the it to bring the charge against you. Police were not, lustled in police Would have to prosecute bil if he had not found you with the summoning binti for so doing, motorists who leave thelegcars at
Mr Komor, said that he had left the furry.)
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his car outaide nearly every night Mr. Hamilton asid that he would ferry too
the
for four years and, had not been have to adjourn the case forn wook Mr. Famillion You will, 'n dia prosecuted, in fact, the Chinese if Mr. Kamar was going to argue it for the next 6 weeks. met, constables often slept in it (laugh, the poin
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SOCIAL EVIL IN THE EAST.
UNOFFICIAL COUNCIL MEMBERS RESENT INCLUSION OF HONGKONG IN COMING' ENQUIRY.
MALICIOUS AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS MADE TO HOME GOVERNMENT.
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Hon. Mr. Holyoak To Raise Question On Thursday.
At the meeting of the Legislative Council on Thursday, the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak will propose the following.motion:
That the following resolution be forwarded to the Secretary of State:-
That having regard to the announcement by the Press that an "Advisory Body" has been appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to advise and enquire into the "Maisons tolerees”. and Social Hygiene" in Hongkong amongst other places, the Unofficial Members of this Council welcome any enquiry which has the object of improving the conditions of life in and upholding the good name of the British Empire and Colonial Possessions, but resent the fact that the inclusion of Hongkong in this enquiry **should have resulted from malicious, misleading and exaggerated representations to the Government which have been widely eirculated in England for some time past.
CORRESPONDENCE.
'WANTED—A SEWAGE
SYSTEM.
To the Editor of the China Mail.]
WEDDING. [:
WILSON-SHERET.
MARRIAGE IN LONDON.
The marriage took place at St. Columba's Church of Scotland, „Sir,—I wonder if in the present Pont-street, London, S.W, on epidemic of typhoid fever our June 17, of Mr. George L. Wilson, medical men have considered the of Messrs. Palmer and Turner, state of the bathing beaches?
Hongkong and Shanghai, and Miss Stonecutters and North Point Kathleen Lumsden Sheret, of beaches are usually too filthy to Dundee, Scotland. The bride was VAR. And is the discharge from given away by her mother, and was the Peak and other water closets attended by her sister, Miss Wini- carried in pipes through the bar-fred Sheret. Mr. C. A. McLellan bour to sea, or simply allowed to was best man. A reception was Row into the harbour continuously held subsequently at the Hyde Park, and carried to and fro by the tides? Hotel, the health of the bride and Then again where do the refuse bridegroom being proposed by Sir boats discharge their cargo? James H. Stewart Lockhart, Evidently where the best part of K.C.M.G.
it washes back into the harbour, Among those present were :' and to every beuchi within easy Mrs. Bulatrodo (sister of the reach of Hongkong, for it is at bride), Mrs. and the Misses Wilson, times visible on every beach, and; Mr. and Mrs. W. Arnold, Brig great stretches of this refuse are Gen. Beatty, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, Very often to be seen between Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Clark, Mr. and Green Island and Kennedy Town. | Mrs. Warburton, Mr. and Mrs. G. * I think the residente of this A. Johnson, Mr. L. Marston, Mr. Colony and more especially the and Mrs. Hide, Mr. and Mrs. bathing portion would feel much Ripley, Mrs. Chadwick, Dr. and safer, if they had some reliable | Mrs. Faber, Dr. and Mrs. Billing, i assurance that the Colony's sewage! hurst, Sir James and Lady Stewart was being dealt with in a scientific Lockhart, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. manner, which at present is not Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Croen- being done, there being instead the ley, Mr. and Mrs. Hinton, Mrs. antiquated system of taking it out W Bird, Mr. and Mrs. Moss to sea amongst numerous islands ley, Dr. J.W. Jackson, Col. Mur- and inviting it to come back.
ray, Mrs. H. D. C. Jones, Mr. and And even this cannot be done Mr. F. O. Reynolds, Mre. D. in typhoon weather, but the de- Morris, Miss Macgregor, Mr. and cumulation-of-perhaps two or three Mrs. Sandford-Freeman Mr.-and- the Mre. Stokes, Mr. and Mrs. Pirie, days' refuse is standing on praya waiting for extra large waves Mr. and Miss Ramsey, Mr. and to wash it into the harbour, and Mrs. Friend; Mrs. S. John, Mr. J. thus save the labour of taking itn. F. Van Rees, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. few miles further. A perfect Simae, Mrs. A. P. Wood, Mr. and sewage system which would benefit Mrs. Elliot, Mr. A. Hoare, Mr. everybody, would cost less.han the and Mrs. Macnamara, Mr. Cornell,. motor roads which benefits a very Mr. A. Ramsey and Mr. H. Roule. small proportion of the population.
It is possible that the original purchasers of building sites a Bhak-0, seeing that they are not building there, will jointly pay the cost of the new road built for their special naa. With the two and a quarter millión Shipping Control Account added to this, an up-to- date sewage
system could be started..
KOWLOON BUSES...
[To the Editor of the China Mail.]
Sir-In the interest of the travelling public allow me to seek the courtesy of your valuable paper to suggest that a Traffic Official might, preferably on a wet
FOOTBALL.
POLICE LEAGUE PLANS.
UNITY IS STRENGTH.
A meeting of members of the Police Recreation Club interested in football was held yesterday at the, Water Police Station, at 5 p.m.
Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, D.S.P, presided. After, some discussion it was unanimously decided to anter a team for the 1st league this coming season. The following officers were elected: President: Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse; Secretary, Set. E. G. Post: Treasurer, Sgt. W. G. Stewart: Captain, Sgt. J. day, take a ride in one of the Johnson; vice Captain, Sgt. P. "modern" Kowloon motor buses, Wynne. Selection Committee: newly provided with what seems a Mr. P. P. F. Wodehouse, full-screen, breadthwise, from ceil- Insp..J. Ogg. Sub-Insp. J. ing to floor, Immediately behind Clark, Sub-Insp. A. Hutchins. the driver. When the ride is accomplished, let it be reported to his superior whether he had been able to breathe freely these hot trying days. Apart from this, let
Last year the Police entered a him express candidly an opinion as team in each division, which result. to whether the partition does noted in the weakening of both almost entirely obstruct the view, elevens. With only one team, it is making it impossible for pas- confidently expected that the sengers to see the approach of any Police will prove a team to be the coming danger, and in the case of an reckoned with in accident appearing imminent, agile season. travellers will not have an oppor
tunity to jump off, simply because
The Police are confident of putting as strong a team as any in. the field this season. Amongst the recent arrivals some excellent talent has been discovered.
they have been prevented from obstruction to pure air and free looking ahead. And in the event sight; otherwise let me sincerely of an accident, as the driver will hope abier pens will advance rea- 'be the only person able to see any-sons that would convince the thing, his evidence only will be authorities that the ugly board is worth taking and hearing; but can not a necessity but a nuisance, he be relied upon to tell the truth even if it is there to stop and nothing but it? Consideration
of the foregoing should induce the incorrigible drivers from engaging powers-that-be to order the im-themselves in idle chatter, seeing this could be prevented in another mediate removal of the unsightly form if only the brainy, onca in officialdom will, think an easy way out. The prospect of a smart fine, for instance, and disadasal da second offence would methinks Diiombre of the bowels are extremely dausapan, particularis during the bot go a long way towards making wo then of the summer months and to drivers sit and drive, instead of order to protect ourself and family gossiping ainat a ruddan struck, mas a bott's Chamberlain'folio Land Darbo
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