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SATURDAY, OCTOBER [11, 1924.
GRAVE CANTON RIOTS
VOLUNTEERS AND LABOURERS CLASH.
HEAVY ~DEATH ROLL REPORTED. Many People Shot And Drowned.
Many people lost their lives in Canton yesterday when serious riots
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and there drowned.
The labourers refused to comply and in the dispute that followed high words soon led to blows.*
among
the
WELSH NOTES,
THE CHINA MAIET
MAR CHINA
A DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION, CELEBRATION OF REPUBLIC
ANNIVERSARY.
By Ap Rhys]
TWO SUCCESSFUL, CONCERTS.
THE WEATHER.
NO NEWS AVAILABLE OF TYPHOON.
PROSPECTS BRIGHT.
and
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the
One of the things which strick f me greatly when I left Wales' to Two very large gatherings 'assent
Hardly any definite information take up a post in England was the bied last night in the western regarding the typhoon was avail manner in which the Englishman district of the elty: in celebration of able, this morning at 10 am. broke out between the Merchant Volunteers and the labourers.
Some were shot down on the bund and others forced into the river movement in his country,
looks-upon the Sunday School the miversary of the foundation At the Harbour Office, where, Any of the Chinese Republic which wag it is presumed, all shipping men The trouble arose when the Merchant Volunteers, who had readers of these notes who are not made the crusion of concerts at go, the latest notices were dated
of Welsh nationality and know the University of Hongkong and at yesterday afternoon assembled to receive some of the "Hay" arms from the Government.little of Welsh institutions or the St. Stephen's College.
Friendsweather map bore yesterday requested a labour procession to take another route.
psychology of the Welsh people were invited and about six hundred morning's time 6 am. may be surprised at my writing on attended each entertainment.
As the noon weather report does such a topic in a secular news- At the conclusion of the concert not get over to this side before the Although Canton is now normal again, further serious trouble is paper but that is because they do in the rent Hall of the Univer-China Mall" goes to press, considered by many as being likely to break out in a short time.
not know what most Welsh peoplesity. Mr. W. W. Hornell, Viccan effort Was made to After containing their hostile they stood with only their heads owe to the instruction they obtain Chinerilor, welcomed the visitors communicate by telephone with ed. in Welsh Sunday School and referring to the Republie the the Observatory again this mom- inger for months, the two must bobbing up and down."
classes. Well might the Rev. Dr foundation of which they had beening, after several failures yester- important factions
After Intermittent firing had Gwylfa Roberts, who sounded a lasting, said that they wished day, but without result. Canton populaco have given vent lasted for about half an hour, note of warning recently in regard is a messint issues out of the dif- In consequence, we are unable; their feelings at last with the which to civilians imprisoned to some of the sinister perila that fenities with which it was roit-to give the latest news and the rong thất" riots broke out yester- inside adjoining buildings seemed are now threatening some of the fronted-in-the solution of which he forcecast for to-morrow. day, the üniverary of this in a lifetime, the fighting died down. leading religious institutions of hoped that University-would play However, it was gathered from augural of the Republic in which The Merchants had gained the the Principality, notably the its part.
shipping men that the signal was many were killed, wounded or niet day, thanks to the aid of General Sunday School, describe it as the The Hall owed its pleasing lowered at I am., last night and their death through being Li's regulars, Bodies were lying most influential and democratic of argement of festive decorations that the typhoon has turned off at stampeded into the river,
on the Bund and even a good Welsh institutions.
tom t'ommittee consisting of Mis almost a right-angle towards Our special correspondent hints distance up the Tai Ping Maloo.
I have often wondered why it is 1. Ho Tung, Miss E Thom. Mr. Swatow instead of coming straight at futher opens trouble is not al-This was due to some of the that Wales stands almost by itself Ng Bow-noo, Ms (. W. Lanu, Mr. for Horgkong.
It was last report together unlikely. In addition to Labourers trying to escape that the version he sends of the affairway and being mown down by the in the use of the Sunday School as B. H. Wong. Mr. H. S. Ter, Mr.ed to be stationary; and it was also an instrument of mental discipline S. L. Pan, Mr. H. K. Lung and stated that it has now gone Inland
and filled up.. below will be found further details regulars' Mausers.
and culture. Considering that it Mr. P. H. Leer from a Chinese merchant who, at
Taking courage because there has been the nursery of all our The concert arrangements' were) the time of the fighting was in the was no more firing in their
poets and hymnwriters and has carried out by Mr. Maung So Western Hotel, directly overlooking direction, about thirty Merchants contributed even more than the gvws, M., W.. Hong-sling, Mr. the place where the main strength Volunteers moved forward and Eisteddfod and the national Wong Hongkinh, Mỹ Liên Hệnh of merchant troops was assembled, began taking prisoner all the colleges to the formation and pre- thye and Mr. Bau Tezzing with Our special correspondent watched labourers left. Others followed servation of the remarkable cul-M. ( Z. M. Ma as Hon, Sere events from the other side, being suit and quite a platoon was ture of Wales, it is surprising tary.
as being within 60 miles of at the time as one of the Hote captured.
that Sunday School organisations The Refreshment Committee
117 Lat. 23 N., Long.
E., 'Asia windows.
Very inhuman treatment was in other countries, particularly consisted of Mr. C. C. Choah, Mr.meaning that it had shot up As already mentioned the fight-meted out to the workmen who had England, have be-atirred Lo Pong-las. Mr. Ho Sai-cheong. almost 2 degrees due North instead ing took place on that short and surrendered. Absolutely no mercy themselves more in the matter and Mr. Wu Th-pino and Mr. H. Y. of coming due west towards
was shown. So badly were each tried to make the movement a thin, and the unsic for the dance Hongkong. sticks, Mauser and rifle butts that and every one struck by fists, greater influence for good. which followed "The partaking of At 2 p.m. yesterday the
a Colony like this it the refreshments was supplied by is
Empress of Australia' also perhaps more desirable Prof. F. Gonzalez.
gave the same position. I
Apropos the latest typoon, which
Channel "felt before
rather marrow strip of the Bund
between these two hotels with the river on
one side and only avenue of escape on the other,
the Tai Ping Maton which leads towards the city.
In
not
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Harbour craft all emerged from shelter this morning.
Last Nigh's Position. Yesterday evening the typhoo0
signal was still up, but the weather weather report gave the position had been gradually clearing. The
of one of them could walk away, is the Yunnanese in the Western should confine their energies to kwok and Mr. Lani Shi-kwong had made its presence in the
This gentleman also heard that that the Sunday. Schools Mr. Kwok On, Mr. Wong Hong- Suburb, which opens out on to this giving religious instruction to opened the evening's entertainment Formosa The Hongkong authorities have part of the Bund, had marched out children, in any case the dificulty with a Cantonese Overture, Mr. coming this way, the report of received an account of the affair but this was not so. His estimate of in regard to getting teachers Peter Pau following with sotne Captain P. Miranda of the Spanish First reports gave the enamities as the casualties was 2 labourers renders any extension of the scope sleight of hund tricks and Mr.ship" C. Lopez Lopez" is interes about twenty-five all told, fifteen killed, 6 wounded, 2 merchants of the work in this Colony almost Alfred Tee with a song. shut and ten drowned. Later it wounded.and conveyed home by out of the question, but it is
ting: The rest of the programine WAS was found that a
"Left Hongkong on October 7 number of chair, about 10 passers-by shet and difficult to understand fully why as follows:
for Yokohama. passers-by had been shot and that wounded and another 10 drowned. in England a man should consider Astronomy Made Eusy, chanic weather in the Straits of Formosa, Owing to bad others had jumped into the river.
Cut Out His Heart.
it a thing to admit rather shameters being taken by Mr. N. Pput but back to Hongkong." The How The Trouble Began.-
facedly that he is taking a class Karanja, Mr. J. Banes and Mr.ship arrived yesterday at 7 p.m. Our special
in the Sunday School or why a lad W. H. Sling: Lecture on Golf,
Gone. Inland? The merchant whoni we infer writes:-
not long in his teens should con-Mr H. N. Balbatchet, Mr.
A cable from Manila received at view related his story in the follow- At 1 pm, the Western Bund was sider it no longer of any use to Cized Em Ma: Cantonese Music, last night by the American ing words....
crowded by Merchants Volunteers
him.
St. Jolinites Tri selections, Consulate gives the position as About 2.30 p.m. I was in the deputed to receive 5.000 Mausers
Children have their place] Piano, Dr. J. Fenton; Violin, Mr. [Lat. 24 N., Lông. 115 É., midaning ain dining-roon of the Western from the Canton Government, and Hotel attending a wedding. Home shortly afterwards the cases were in the Welsh Sunday School but V. F. Viccajor and Cello, Mr. that it has gone foland.
Comic Song. time earlier, detachments of Merlanded from the wharf opposite the majority of its members are N. U Botelho.
Lee "Koon-Jun: In men and women of all ages from Mr. Hotel. Fearing that the chunts
Prof. F.
the
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correspondent
Solos.. Volunteers, numbering Labourer were a vanguard of twenty to eighty and in view of strumental, overal hundred, with whom then General Wu Te-chen's Red Army the excellent results of the system lez; String Orchestra. Seles from General Li Fook-lum's (the despatched to take the windfall surely it is worth trying else.tions, Father Reganti-Conduc new Canton Mayor) command,
insisted that thewhere. I agree with Mr. Watkintor). by force were co-operating assembled at Labourers turn back. Fighting Davies, whose articles-in-the the entrance to the hotel and
started about 2.40 p.m.
Weekly Westminster on the Wales blocked all progress as far as the Tai Ping Maloo.
There is no doubt that a number
con-
COUNTERFEIT COIN.
ST. STEPHEN'S CONCERT, This also was contributed to By 320 fighting had subsided of To-day have been read nowhere chiefly by students but the picer de and before four o'clock an inspec- with more interest than by the resistance was the great Malini's tion of the casualties was possible. Welsh community here in Hong-conjuring performance, of cases, ostensibly containing half Forty "Reds" were killed and 18 kong, when he describes the the Volunteers, shipment of the Labourers lost their lives. Over Sunday "School"" 23 not so much a Havars wert landed on the 100 of the anti-Merchant
school in the ordinary sense of the- Band, as the Volunteers took postingent were taken prisoner, being word as a number of small debat- session of them in accordance with removed immediately by boat to ing societies or study circles in prevións aryangèrent.
General Li Fook-lam's head-each of which the "teacher" is only quarters on Honam Island.. Aprimus inter pares, a chairman man ΠΟΙ in uniform was rather than a preceptor. seen to cut open the back of a "The debates," he writes "are Labourer who had met his death. keen, ranging over the whole field The former extracted the heart and of life's problems. From the Sun-
At the time stated, a body of Farmers and Labourers Volun- teers, appeared on the Bind, from The direction of the 11oh Asia having a route-march in honour of the National Day. They were elallenged and asked to torn buck, but refused; whereupon the Mer chants opened' fire, though not to kill, as they bred mostly in the # The Tabourers, however, stood their ground. Firing then began in
The workmen returned fire and panic broke out among the throng.
all seriousness:
Merchants' Victory.
BUS CONDUCTOR FINED FIFTY DOLLARS,
LAST MONTH'S RAIN.
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The rainfall for the month of September at the Botanical Gardens was 10in._28_on_14 days. At the Matilda Hospital Mount Kellett, it was 10ins, or on 14 days and at the Police Station, Taipo, it
was gins. 55 on 10 days.
The lowest barometer at sea level was 29ins. 598 at 16th on the 7th.
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at
The maximum squall velocity, ลม recorded by the Diner- Baxendell anemograph, was the rate of 40 miles per hour at 3h. 27m. on the 12th.
=
WATER SUPPLY,
SHING MUN VALLEY SCHEME.
"
Motor Bus Company in giving back The practice of the Kowloon
flourished it in the face of the day School there was needed only coins or deducting the amount from to the conductors all suspected | prisoners. He is quoted as having a short step to the University their wages was described as a rot-1 promised to use the heart for a Tutorial Class. These classes memorial service for Volunteers have been in great demand, the ten one at the Kowloon Magistracy who "gave up their lives in the demand in-fact far surpassing the yesterday by Mr. C. A. S. Ruse,
who defended & conductor, The With a view to increasing the Merchants' service."
possible supply. The present A Soviet officer was, seem to writer, who has himself taught in man was charged with uttering a Colony's water supply, under the counterfeit piece and with being big scheme already published, the patrol the Bund and the Maloo, some of these classes, can bear in possession of ten other bad ten- Public Works Department is in- examining the wounded
and witness to the intense eagerness cent pieces. Mr. Russ said that it viting tenders for generally keeping order.
and real ability with which was putting a great temptation in
that it
constructing two masonry dams and contingent works in the lower Shek Lai Pui Valley. Tenders are also being invited for extending the Tyram Tuk
Pumping Station.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Prior to the arrival of the arms quarrymen, farmers, and shop their way and conductors would be cases from Whampoa, it had been keepers have approached not only justified in getting rid of them in Most of the shops already had rumoured that the cases might economic questions, but the pro- the way this man had attempted to their doors closed for the holiday, contain only rubbish, or old blems of history literature, and do The merchant insists that the weapons, or even bombs, hence philosophy. threatened general strike had not the need of General Li's men to This movement is one of the trate, in convicting, said.
Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Magie started as it had been decided to act as supervisors as it was most fruitful in Wales to-day was not an ordinary case of utter- walt if the authorities' promise to entirely due to his return the arins would be fulfilled. that half the arms shipment had captured by a political party and had received. If the man had been efforts The danger is that it should being, but one of passing off what he When the firing broke out pedes been handed back to the Mer used for propaganda purposes, and given the ten-cent pieces that trians dropped to the road, dived chants. The cases were brought that tutors should come to regard morning there would have been no the Sarvistan" is reported. for the shop entrances, or slid into into the Western Suburb before themselves as potential ALP.s. If case to answer. Hin Worship maid
economic and other utilitarian
"Cecilia of the Pink Roses" that he was inclined to be lenient subjects can be subordinated to and he would give defendant the the feature attraction at the the humanities then the tutorial option of a fine of $50 or a month's Queen's Theatre for the week and classes may save the country from hard labour. the worst bitterness of class
is an interpretation from the novel by Katherine popular Haviland Taylor and drew good houses when it was shown for the first time in Hongkong last night.
the river:
"Had one's feelings not been tempered by the sight of so many innocent people losing their lives, I would have looked upon the whole thing as a scene from comic opera," continued the merchant.
nightfall.
Latest Figures. Enquiries on board one of the river steamers which left Canton at 5 p.m., yesterday give the approximate casualties as a
strife." T
"Neither side · distinguished Labourers-15 killed, 13 drown- itself for pluck. Nearly everyone (ed, 4 wounded and 50 captured:~~-~~-~- made a bee-line for shelter or ran Merchants-t. killed, 2 wounded. DEFENCE OF SHANGHAI, down steps into the river where Passers-by--7 killed. 12 drowned.
LIVING LAMPS,
Thus a four-waft carbon glow lamp has a luminious efficiency of less than a half per cent, and the
MARSHAL LU TAKES
· PRECAUTIONS.
ATTACK THREATENED).
SAFTEY FIRST.
NEW REGULATIONS FOR MÓTORISTS.
་་
One death from beri-beri on
In connection with the typhoon | which passed by the last week-end, the s... "Produce" reports; ex- Motorists should note that new periencing a typhoon in Sama regulations have been passed Bay. There was slight damage to providing that
the bridge and the ship's motor (2) No person shall without the boat This ship left Sama Bay on What is the most efficient light most perfect artificial illuminant
(Reuter's Service.)
written permission of the Captain October 6, Holhow on October 9, Superintendent of Police make and arrived here this morning. in the world?
has an efficiency of only four per
Shanghai, October 11, any alteration or, addition to the Some people might vote at once
Science here compares badly Lu Yung-haiang's headquarters steering gear, ka supplied or for the last word" of science in with. Nature, for the luminous announce properations made to put fitted by the manufacturers, of any artificial Illumination, but they efficiency of the firefly is no less into a state of defence all an-public vehicle for the car jage of Mother: What do you mean would be Wrong. The most efficient light known to us was than 99.5 per cent, while the glow.trances to Shanghai on the South passengers, whereby the steering by putting your thumb to your of such vehicle, as designed by the nose and wriggling your fingers known in the days of pine torches worm's light ta eighty times more and South-easter e and rush-lights. It is that with efficient than a tungsten lamp
which Nature has endowed the glow-woren and the firefly,
cept.
Comfort for the Agedung
Old people really dad stand
Science bait so far falled taxolve the problem of the production of light without heat--a problem is much comfort in bestie of Chamber-
weakened by coughinges. For them there.
It is believed that Sun Chuan-feng manufacturers, is affected in any at those little boys?!
is resting his troope preparatory to way, with the exception of ordinary Willle: Don't making a second – onslaug
onadjustments to Sakura ma-they know what I mea
(27) In cases where, any, altera, 523682 Shanghai, by railway-
ties-or-addition to the steering goRE- S
General Ho Feng-lin le commanding re-inf
spe: them which is completel
-Fukien, for
which seems to have given Dame lalo's Cough Remnity, 16 stop those sent to positions near
Nature no difficulty. In all arti: Awake malte and wil
ficial light production an enormous wary and knowais amount of energy is lost In the Hornbosticatos. It fort ofóbaas “ravd and, chemical than of
1-Bold
and
of any such vehicle, for the purpose
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