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7 a.m. to 11 a.m.
2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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2 a.m. to 12 noon,
p.m. to 4 p.m.
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THE SUPPL
The news from ferday was the situation loss partially doenin day)."
AM TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1925′′
TENSE
stoms.
STION
hameen yes-
| OUTWARDLY QUIET Strike at Canton Continues
➡NO FIRING”"
thing quiet,. The following statement of the ise, Customs | latest developments at Canton and today (Mom Shameen is issued by the Col-
onial Secretary:—
Sharybai, un 20. Dossier and Nsite vere charged at the Mixed fourt toon with possession of literntarb
The food liable to cause a brach of the
little anxiet
tuation there gives Since the firing at Canton and naval a peace, and with beng undesir
for the present. The the attack on Shameen on Tues- ables and a menace to the ence
have
Horkong day June 23, in which hunc nced the services of British wore wounded, 1 French-- and good order of the settlement, the accused as pants of the distal and men here at the man killed, 1 Frenchman wound-
The police proseculondescrib
osal of firms such as Lane, ed, 9 Japanese wounded, 87 · Soviet Governmenumerawford, Ltd. and the Dairy Chinese killed, and 70 wounded, Farm for the transhipment of Canton has been outwardly quiet, found on the accused included one supplies for Canton to the boats. and no firing of any sort has from Russia Strikes at Canton Testerday the Tung On was ly taken place. excellent for Russian trade with ing off the Naval Yard and
Canton." Another cable “ack-
aboard.
knowledged the receipt of sixty supplies were still being taken toysand gold roubles for the
The Navy is, however, not ras- purpose of "tirginyerial-ponsible for running the boats 19m,"
N
The strike continues and all Chinaso have left Shameen.
A number of Indian soldiers: have been sent to Shameen to protect the foreigners from fur-
Dossier alleged the inflammatory papers were given to him in a scaled page for delivery to certain person. He accused the police of having been actuated by motives of vengeance against him, the alleged his wife knew nothing Sf the documents. Dossier strict, it is reported, being in a HM. Consul General at Canton
their respective owners. to. Canton, this being done by ther molestation. No soldiers were present when the attack Most of the Chinese owners are took place. now anticipating regular runs The following British gunboats again to Canton although some are present at Canton, H. M of the boats are still lying idle Ships Tarantula, Cicala, Moth through the fears of their owners and Robin, beside several foreign of Kongmoon pirating, that dis- gunboats
released on bail of $20,000. His wife was made to sign, a bond guaranteeing her further appear ance on Friday.
STRONG PROTEST
(Reuter's Service.)
Peking, June 29. The British Note to the Chinese Government on the Kiukiang riot of June 13 protests in the strogest terms against the outrage and! reserves the right to demand full reparation for all damage done i and an apology for the insult to
in evidence. Rubour predicts the British flag.
The China Mail" that pay day, or the early days of
(Every Veping except Sunday. Annual subscription, excluding postago abroad, HK. $38, payable in advance. Local delivery free.)
Overland China Mail
(The weakly edition of the "China Mail." Annual subscription, exolud- ing postage abroad, H.K. $12, payable in advance.)
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Hongkong, Tuesday, June 30, 1925.
next month may cas another com- plexion on affairs. But this is meeting trouble hat way. Out- ward evidence is wholly favour- able and points to the fact that there are workers willing to carry out their allotted tasks.
The topic of conversation con- tinues to be the document said
JAPAN AND CHINA
(Reuters Service.)
Tokyo. June 29.
It is authoritatively felt that Japan is not likely to intervene in China. The general tone is sympathetic and it is believed the situation will calm slowly.
STUDENT
DEMANDS
(Beater'e Service
Peking, June 29.
A students' meeting yesterday. decided to hold demonstration and parade tomorrow regarding the Shameen affair,
and the Cantonese Commissioner
in
very disturbed condition.
The s. 8. Paul Beau did not for Foreign Affairs are leave for Canton on Sunday as communication concerning the It was due, owing to the defection incident certain of which of the crew. Another crew is correspondence has already been being signed on and it is ant:- published. cipated that the boat will leave All is now quiet in Canton and shortly.
there is nothing further to report,
Two Macao boats have left over the week-end in spite of the difficulties that have been encoun tered in landing there.
APPEAL TO LORDS.
U.S. MILLIONAIRE AND SUPER-TAX.
MR. COOLIDGE, SENR.
(Routers American Service.)
Plymouth (Vt.), June 29, Mr. Coolidge senior has been successfully operated on and his condition is satisfactory.
1
JOCKEY'S CRASH (Reuter's Service.),
Paris, June 29.
Raised for the first time in the House of Lords, questions relative to the position of absentee share- holders in British companies in respect of super-tax were further argued in the case Harry Payne Whitney v. The Commissionera of Inland Revenue, Mr. Whitney, a New York millionaire, and bis wife, a daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, held shares in a com
Steve Donoghue is resting puny carrying on business in the quietly. He is expected to be United Kingdom. The dividendy able to get up in a few days and were assessed to income tax, and to proceed to London at the week- form was sent by registered end. The fractured bone has post to Mr. Whitney in New York been satisfactorily set and no requiring a return of income for fever is present. super-taxa demand with which he did not comply.
T
SİLK SHIPMENT
to have been signed by seventeen members of the staff of the Canton Christian College, the retrac-|
In the absence of a return the tion made by the Rev. A. Baxter.
Special Commissioners made assessments for super-tax of It is the manner ofthe document
The Silk which left here by £90,000 for each of the years 1918 the P. & O. s. s. Moren on the to which strong exeption is taken.
to 1921. Notices of assessment 30th May was delivered in Mar- There is general aeement with
were sent to Mr. Whitney in New sellles on the 27th June, a transit the words of a corespondent to
York; on appeal the Special Com- of 28 days. The meeting missioners confirmed them, and our senior morning contemporary also passed a resolution thanking later they were affirmed by Mr. "that it casta serios reflection the Russian students for their Justice Rowlatt and by the Court telegram of sympathy, also decid- upon the standard of ability and ing to lodge a protest with the of Appeal. Mr. Whitney then Market Day in Florence, intelligence of the general body of French Minister regarding the appealed to the House of Lords. missionaries, and can be used by expulsion of Chinese students Simon, K.C., said he was a non-
His leading counsel, Sir John In the Piazza Signoria they found from France, to ask Dr. C. C. Wu resident in the United Kingdom jostled and swore and laughed. themselves jammed in a huge, gesti- opponents to belittle mission for his version of the Shameen in the most absolute sense, and Farmers in heavy red homespan
culating, heaving throug, who: aries," And, it may be added, affair and to wire the Talian maintained that he was not liable coate, with yellow fur collar turn Significant indeed is the fact of the running this morning of the
The matter which | Government enquiring its attitude
to be charged or assessed to ed up to their noses; women with g lower level trams. The moral ef has caused so much unfavourable to the Shanghai affair.
super-tax. fect on the Chinese community comment can only be regarded as cannot be denied. It is acting as an anti-British feeling on the part
a tonic. Little knots of people at of those who, by the nature of FORCES" FOR MACAO ed to super-tax only--if at all-in children scrambling in and out o
OUR TRAMS
street corners watch the success-
1
their work.
their calling, should be above any:
ful running of the cars with keen semblance of what may be termed
interest. The Manager of politics, and should actuated at least by charitable feelings. The the Tramway Company, who
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was noticed in charge of one of the absence of disclaimers from the cars, and those who are assisting other signatories to the document in this most effective measure of is disturbing.
counteracting the action of tho men who, of the workers, were the first to "down tools," are to
(Reuter's Service)
Lisbon, June 29. Owing to the anti-foreign agitation in China, two warships and a transport with troops and munitions will be sent to Macao from Portugal..
loudly-protesting chickens tocked NO POWER OR JURISDICTION. Sir John submitted that a non-
oway under their arms; business men vainly trying to pass, pushing resident could be lawfully assess and thrusting with their shoulders;
the name of a trustee, guardian, lodging in front of the slowly. committee, factor, or agent, and moving horses. not in his own name; that the Crack
*E-ee yup!" Crack "Eee yup Special Commissioners had no Eee yup." from the impatient. power or jurisdiction to serve drivers. The dusk, when it fell, notices to Mr. Whitney out of the was a thing of beauty, calm_and United Kingdom; and that he was very transinicent. It came to Flor- not bound to comply.
Lord Dunedin said he did not the still more distant mountains, A ence from the outlying bills, from see how they could get a tax from tinge of afterglow lingered round it, It is reported that a force of an absentee except that which like a smile on a thoughtful face. Quietly and methodically, meri-native troops may also be sent was tapped at the source.
It cast its spell over people and be heartily congratulated on what torious work is being done by
from Moambique.
Sir John Simon said he did not buildings, mellowing, blending, they are doing. With reasonable such men as Dr. T'so Let it not
dispute that the Act might affect welding together, melting them ino care there should be no break be forgotten that this is no spec-
a person carrying on business its lovely whole, making them, part through an agent here. Such a of itself. The huge crowd still pock downs. Those who live in the tacular effort, but a natural conse-
OUTPORT NEWS person, though not resident, was ed from side to side, but its tough Eastern portion of the city have quence of years of hard work in t
represented by his agent.
ter seemed to have grown softer now no possible sort of complaint the best interests of all classes in just been received:
The following reports have Lord Carson said the question. It was lowly dispersing down the on the ground of effective trans- the Colony, paricularly Chinese.
was whether he was within the darkening, abverandering i CANTON Tension in Can-jurisdiction, and soilable to toe and threes into the port arrangements. In this res: Dr. Tao ere this has not been slow ton is relaxing and situation is
pefghiering Traitorie. Farmers bect the iniative of the Hotel Co to venture opinions of the uplift- generally quiet. Nothing further Attorney-General) opened the carts, with crates of fowls bocket **** Sir** Douglas Hogg, K.C. and their wives climbed fato ancient with its bus service, should not ing work of the Bilish Govern
to report.
case for the Crown with submis- Cracks! Crack! Avanti E-
away under their seats.. "Avanti l' pate without recognition,
ment and his firm. Belief in the KONGMUN
sions that the assessments to "best that is to be found in British
auper-tax were rightly made upon yup
The spell of the education and custom His works WUCHOW Situation un-person to whom profits accrued freedom. A child began to wil Ma Whitney. The fact that dusk had lifted. Dogs, long im
prisoned in the crowd, harked their Whilst the centre of the town for so many years educational changed.
was pot resident in the United Some girls, arm in arm strolled may suggest an air of unreality, and other matters bars this out
Kingdom did not affect the along the Plazza, bareheaded It is in other parts that "Business His contribution towards what is SWATOW
chargeability of the profits. Non- Piazza van gradually finding troll as Usual" may be said to be very tending to a return to reason and
changed.
resident persons were expressly again, stretching its arms in relief. much in evidence, This morning charity is beyond aprile: It
brought within the scope of in- A star came out over the Palazzo HOIHOW Situation much come tax in respect of profits Vecchio. It looked like a point of coolles were noticed cleaning the denotes the continuance of a spirit improved.
arising from sources within the very light steel pricking the evening tram-lines to make progress of the of optimist which is most re
United Kingdom, as was shown in sky. Some clouds, still faintly Cars more easy. The motor break freshing. Dr. Tso is being upheld
Dand of Section 41 of the Income Chind the open arches of the lowes "the language of both Schedule tinged with pink, sailed slowly ba down equipment was seen to be by colleagues who-in-their-differ
Tax Act, 1842. in charge of Chinare, But per ent spheres; have followed such
From A Baturday Life b haps best of all, was the sight of a good example.
the reclamation workers
about their lawful occasions
INDIA
June 29:
report,
Situation
un-
Mr. G. Duclos has received the following t
Siram directed" to acknowledge the receipt of the
assessment
letter signed by the members-You can't afford to take chances
considers his
off for the day, and then
of the American Community There are too many others doing brakes of chied Importance before In this Colony and to convey to it for your own safety as mafters them through you, an exy and pression of the thinks of this Government fork helr action fire:
SEVERN
forgets them.. Vice versă for the favorira.
dom give you ear any speeding
Contrary to the“
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