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After a search which lasted several hours, Revenue Officers effected an arms seizure last night. the third of this year's and approximating in volume to the haul by the Water Police in Kowloon Bay last month.
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Publicity has not been given for some time to the efforts of those working for a more popular form of Government in Hongkong, but in a few weeks' time the subject.is likely to become a live one again.
RETREATING IGNOMINIOUSLY.
Signal accesses have been gained by the Allied" troops under Dr. Sun Yat-sen's banner. Not only has the danger by river Sir Henry Pollock, KC, who is The Society had written for an Six rifes, about twenty-seven confirmed, that one of the senior to the Bocca Tigri Forts and by prominently associated with the explanation as to how the petition revolvers and several thousand officers of the Imports and Ex-land to Canton, been removed, but work of the Constitutional Re- stood which had been sent to the rounds of ammunition were found ports Department, who was in the Canton forcer are now in oe- on board the river .. "Shing, charge of the searches, was un-cupation of the whole of the form Association, informed ago, said Sir Henry, and the reply | On.”
fortunately injured in the search, Canton-Kowloon Bhilway (Chin- "China Mail" reporter this morn-was due to arrive very shortly. About 9p.m. last night, then heavy hatch dropping on hieese section) from Canton to Sam-ine that a reply was shortly to beIt was not known whether the search-party from the Imports hand, almost crushing the top of chun, the market town füst expected from official quarters at petition was a live document or and Exports Department proceed one fingers
beyond the British frontiers Home which would influence the not, owing to the changes in Gov- ed to the steamer which was lying
This morning, news renched Society in its future policy. off West Point. in the stream.
Coal from the bunkers was heaped up on the 'tween decks: impeding progress. Nothing! daunted the officers' burrowed | their way into the ship's bowels. Near the stoke-room, they came apon a compartment in whiel, the coal was.Biled up against the entrance, But the interior of which was partly empty. A few! tons of coal had to be shifted, before the prize was found The extensiveness of the search can! be gathered from the fact that the i Revenue Officers did not leave the ship til well after midnight.
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CLAIM FOR TRESPASS CHIEF TENANT HELD TO BE SUB-TENANT.
A chief tenant who went away and left a sub-ienant to pay the rent to the landlord was found by His Lordship in the Summary Court this morning to have con- stituted himself as the sub-tenant and his claim for trespass was dismissed.
The Ming Chun firm of lamp. makers were the plaintiffs and the Wing Shing golds ith firm the defendants. They occupied adja cent premises in Wn Nem road, Aberdeen, for which $14 was paid as rent each month, the origina! chief tenants paying $6 of this and Įthe original sub-tenants $18.
It was contended for the plaintiffs tha due Influence had been brought, to bear on the son of the head of the Ming Chun firm whilst he was away.
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that the arms were to be smag. gled away as the s.s. "Shing On" was due to leave for Kongmoon this evening.
The weapons and the ammuni- tion comprised all kinds of
makes.
Hongkong that as the result of dicted "pincers" movement has Cynton's offensive, the anti-Sun come to naught. détachments under General Chan Surprise has been expressed at Kwing-ming beat an ignominious the ease with which the pro-Sun retreat, vacating their hold on the forces advanced. On the other railway and retiring on the East hand, the anti-Sun element pro- River in the direction of mise an enveloping movement Waichow,
once they have withdrawn their line to "strategical points" pre viously decided upon.
Confirmation of this important
MOTOR CAR CLUB OPENS WITH GREAT capture was forthcoming in a
·ECLAT.
Interest in the "China Mail" eager to help them do so in every and "Sunday Herald" Campaign possible way!
From an eyewitness, who has come in from Sheklung, I learn that disaster for the anti-Sun camp at Sheklung was narrowly averted on the morning hostilities began.
certain
Home Government some years
ernment which had taken place since it had first been presented through Col. John Ward, M.P., but as soon as the position was clearly defined there would be a, meeting of the Society at which several resolutions would be sub- mitted. He could not indicate the nature of the resolutions, said Sir Henry, as they would be in- fluenced to a certain extent by the nature of the reply. Colonel Ward, he added, had been in in- of different health for some time."
The petition referred to was circulated in the Colony in 1921 and was sent Home with 1,509 signatures appended. Gopies of it and other information about the Colony were sent to every member of the House of Com-
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turians known to be specially interested in this part of the. Empire were communicated with. Through some technical defect it was referred back, but, before it could come up again, the Coalition Government was dissolved,
The exact nature of the desired changes in constitutioh have not yet been formulated owing to the special difficulties which would be experienced here (such as, for instance, the methode by which it would be possible to ascertain" who out of the vast floating popu- lation of the Chinese could be classed as British subjects and who as not), but the object of the petition was to ensure that Par- liament should be better acquaint- ed with the position in Hongkong, It is the bellef of many that the authorities at Home are genuinely in sympathy with the claims of our community and that, if a practicable scheme of reform can be found, they will find it.
DR. SUN YAT SEN.
(Reuter's Service.)
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telegraphic message received by the Hongkong office of the Chin- ese Telegraph Administration, from their Sheklung office. How
PEKING, February 6. ever, the service over the land-
The Peking Union Medical to find the most popular people in i One way these friends and lines from Hongkong to Swatow the Colony was intensified yester- acquaintances of the candidates has been interrupted, this indicat An adjutant of infantry "regi- College bulletin, Issued to day, day by the announcement of the can help is to clip the daily ing fighting in the neighbourhood ment was returning to battalion says Dr. Sun Yat-sen's condition is unchanged. His temperature is names of those so far nominated coupons good for 50 votes printed of Walchow which is Chau's headquarters from a
house when he observed the pro-
normal, puise 100. and voted for to receive the great in. the "China Mail," and the stronghold on the East River. honour and the prizes. This in- "Sunday Herald." These coupons As is common with the majori-Sun scouts in the distance. These terest will become further intensi- are worth tens of thousands Mty of Kwangtung campaigns, big had moved up before sunrise and hed from day to day as the can-votes in the aggregate daily, objectives Have been attained with got behind the anti-Sun outposts. didates receive further votes and Another and faster way of ac little fighting. At the beginning The adjutant is stated to have will reach a fever heat in a few cumulating votes is for the can of this last campaign, Dr. Sun's rushed back to the house, dis- the pro-Sun army will make any up the East weeks, when the race "tightens" didates themselves to interest army at the Eastern front com, guised himself as an amah, and determined move as first one contestant and then their friends and acquaintances in prised, mainly, his Kwangsi army "doubled" back to headquarters. River towards Walchow. another forges ahead. The votes the "China Mail" and "Sunday These have been reinforced by a to run away in time.
and some Cantonese detachments. where he awoke the sleeping staff Two or three of the scouting aeroplanes are reported to have are counted again to-day and Herald" with a view to inducing part of the Yunnanese army. Until the arrival at Sheklung of been despatched to the front, but many changes in the list have them to enter a subscription for Chan's men made very little at the necessary junks and other war no intelligence has been received
'ready taken place.
the paper. Remember, for each Notice that we say above "so yearly subscription obtained to tempt to hold their lines, retreat material, it is not expected that of their having gone into action. far nominated." This qualifica- the "China Mail," a total of 15,000. ing from, Sheklung, (forty miles tion we wish to make very clear, votes will be placed to the credit by rail from Canton) as 2000, as as it is desired that nobody get of the candidate and for the first koon, the capital of the war-area, the first shots were fired. Tung- the impression that the entry list of these yearly Bubscriptions was in Dr, Sun's hands on Satur- is closed. Un the contrary, this (one for each candidate), an day and the capture of Samchun is an "open" race. Open to all additional "total of 50,000 votes Market means that the Canton from the day it starts until a few will be given, which in addition to forces are now in the same posi- days before it ends. Nominations the 5,000 nomination votes will tion se, a few months ago before may be made and new contestants make a grand total of 70,000 votes the Chinese Black Douglas" may enter at any time by simply for the candidate for the first swooped down on the New Terri- filling in the nominatior coupon | $36.00 subscription obtained.
́tories porder, as is his occasional
into the hills,
A VANISHED LEFT WING.
printed on another pag of this Now is the time to get busy in wont In spite of the ability paper, or by clipping the vote obtaining subscriptions as the ascribed to his men in guerilla coupon which appears on this younger the Campaign the leag page, filling in the name of who the field has been exploited." Warfare, he has had to retreat ever it is desired to vote for and Getting subscriptions just now is forwarding to the Campaign tantamount to exercising the pri Manager.
vileges of a monopoly, as there íð | †, Those who have already been very little competition, owing to nominated or who have nominated the Campaign having only just, (From Our Own Correspondent.) themselves (either is permissible) started. Be first to organize your have already started in earnest to friends." win one of the fine prizes offered, and although the Campaign of actual yote getting is only two ddya old; reports are already com compensation. Think of a first East River front to direct opera- ing in progress made and of prize like the one offered by the tions,
Cantón, February 8, Keep in mind the big reward General Hsu Shung-chi, com- and remember that for your mander-in-chief of Dr. Sun's efforts there will be a handsome Cantonese Army, has left for the
the enthusiasm thus far mani-Cluba beautiful $8,150.00 Buick Yesterday and to-day saw a fested. Many of the candidates Touring Car, as handsome and serpage in the number of trans- were assured by the friends dependable and worthy a car frem i ports, leaving with reinforcements yesterday of every possible assist any standpoint as any In Hong for ti wanguard now advancing. ance in winning a prize.no kong, and think of the second and In a south and south-westerly ....... There is going to be plenty of third and fourth prizes of scarce-direct) 1,41 TAN KOSON "friend" plögin". In this race, as ly less value, and other prizes of They such vaunted offensive by naturally the friends and acquain- the greatest attractiveness! Chan Kwing-ming's left wing on tances of those nominated will Surely these things are worth the Bocca-Tigris Forts has van- want to see them win and will be striving for!.
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