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The week end was without event-
Many wild rumours apart from the performance by circulating in the Colony, almost every European in the China Mail: learns that they are Colony of unusual duties in con-all entirely baseless, neetion, with servantless house- Yesterday it was stated that holds, but in spite of these a cheer- several people, had been killed in ful spirit was abroad and a larger various parts of the Colony. number than ever seemed to And Nothing of the sort has taken time for relaxation in the way of place. a game of golf or a dip in the Inquiry at the Colonial Secre- briny, Large crowds were talentary's Office this morning elicited to Repulse Bay by us, car and the fact that two people had died motor cycle.
but their deaths had no connec Throughout the gaiety theretion whatever with the strike.
An unknown street "charas would sometimes enter a note of
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Many Chinese businesses; even. [clubs," "have been affected, by the strike, 'the, latest absenteds being the servants 3.1. The Chinese Y.M.C.A.
The following regulation made At he Central Magistraey, a by the Governor in Council undër Horschulders with loyal bays Chinese youth was sentenced to section 2 of the Emergency Re-sand beware of blind Chinese one month's hard labour and gulations Ordinance, 1022, Ordin-siding in the locality - A number twelve strokes of the birch for ance No. 5 of 1922, on the 5th days werk end were found to be
singing intimidations, trying to force a servant hop put of July, 1925, is published in a of his employment at the Soldiers' Government Gazette Extra- Club, the servant was assaulted by the It transpired in evidence that
accused on his refusal to leave.
ordinary:
The majority of Chinese, burding of Police and any Police officer atble extent through "The Captain Superintendent houses and helets have been affected authorised by him. either gen- the stalls lowving. The tumber of A report was made to the liceerally or specially, shall have rests as also dropped... and the accused was arrested. power to arrest and detain any
Bumpers commented with the From official circles it was person who appears to him to have Sanitary Department were noticed learned that the reward of 250 no regular employment in the putting in heavy and sustained offered by the Captain Superin Colony, and the Captain Super-work this work end.
A good ser- formation leading to the arrest power to order any such person to of an agitator will in this case be leave the Colony forthwith.. paid to the informer.
discord, such as the week of extra ter" died opposite the Central tendent of Police for intendent of Police shall have vice has been maintained, all things!
wo and duties yet to come, but with the advent of this morning things were found to give less enuse for anxiety thin had been anticipated by some.
As regards numbers the most Inoteworthy absentiens this morn ing were Chinese employees at the Naval Yard. Some of these, had already been affected, but this morning the remainder came out to a man bringing the total of "Strikers" there to something like (2.00) They were all warned
before they left.
Kowloon bus drivers. left their work this morning, also a few taxi drivers on the Kowloon side only, } but the services are being main- tained.
Another Chinese was found dead! nt West Point. Actually he had died in a house from beri beri, but his body had been carried into the street and so placed as the appearance that intimidators to give
had been at work,
Almost every day in normal times, bodies Colony's streets, and the public are found in the would be well-advised to treat all stories of killings and woundings with the greatest reserve. stories are only spread. to create mischief,
SERIOUS CHARGE.
WHAT A EUROPEAN SAYS
HE HEARD....
considered.
"Any person failing to comply An unoficial" embargo on the with any such order may be deshipment of foodstuña to Rangkong parted by crder of the Governor."
15- rumoured to have been enforced theless fresh vegetables and frħil is still coming down in old lots..
NO COAL EXPORT.
GOVERNMENT ORDER
"Except under licence from the Colonial Sccreary the export of coal is prohibited."
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Three hundred thisand dollars a day is the estimate of legal Chinese mereunt. quoted by a
Aban a hundred passengers on an coming lemmer from "Canton wyr, où examination, refused ad- mithure to the Uniony and sont Mack Incase they could not give satisfactory reasons for, coming her, says Chinese paper.
Two Chinese were brought before Mr. S. B. B. McElderry at ing on a charge of intimidation. the Central Magistracy this moon- | A Government Gazette Extra-vartenkir paper, of the hiss il- ordinary publishes the followinged by the Colony's trade on There was only one witness-regulation made by the Governor want of the strike, Mr. A. W. Millar, clerk of works in Council under section 4 of the
and Such at Messrs. Leigh and range. Importation
Exportation Witness stated that he first Ordinance, 1915, Ordinance Nu 32 noticed the two accused standing of 1915, on July 5: near Messrs. Jardine. Matheson and Company's office building at Des Voeux Road at 8.30 o'clock on Friday morning, and saw still there when he passed several times during the day. At 8.15 p.m. witness saw the two men ap-
alighted from a tramcar, and he got close enough to overhear what was being said, at the sine time removing any suspicion by Bend ing down and pretending to rub
them
The notification of large re- wars to be mid for Information At 10.15 o'clork last night the leading to the arrest of intimida-armed robbery alarm was "Sounded tors is hating good effect and in at the Contral Policy Station. The the Court this morning some cases alarm me from Pottinger Street, were dealt with. Seamen refux- and on arrival at the, it wa-proaching a Chinese who had just found that the call was a false one. ing to work were this morning Wat opened was that a Chinese sentenced to four weeks' imprison-attenpted theft by putting his hands ment and two days' loss of pay.
An order has been gazetted through the bars of a window, but dealing with the unemployed. He exped before dhe arrival of the
The export of coal is prohibited except under licence.
police.
his foot.
Mr. Millar:
ILLICIT FIREWOOD,
"PLANTATIONS DAMAGED.
with the echoes of hatchets. A
Although inactivity in the maricels is on the increase, the position Deuter-bulatived by the additions to the ranks of temporary hawkers who are to be fond everywhere
With most of the forestry staffing all kinds of meat, vegetables being assigned to other duties, at competitive prices. considerable damage has been
The Station is generally quiet done to plantations with the
in Magog but food prices are slioot- speaks wholesale cutting down, of trees who Naval Employees.
Cantonese fluently, heard the first on the hillsides, mostly by women hortage of supplies, Macon is ing owing to the threatened accused tell the passenger that he earth coolies, for converting into her than Hongkong in respect That the Naval Authorities had swain came to him on Saturday would be stabbed if he travelled in fuc', anticipated the defection of further morning and told him that mem-a tramcar, again. The second
On Saturday afternoon the hill-jant to a fertile art. devoted to
of vegetable and fruit as it is ad- { ► men shown by the fact that over
bers of the crew wished to leave accused, then told the passenger side above the University rang agriculture. the week end notices were posted the ship. Permission was refs. You know us now; beware. nj in the workshops and me promined them, and on their refusal to et place at the yard inform work the master read out ther and one of them stated that he quickly sent a telephone message chinese-owned British flag) Hong- The accused denied the charge member of the University staff After stopping for firee days, the ang all men that any was absented articles to them explaining that was waiting there to meet a man to Divisional Inspector themselves from the yard withoint they had signed on for six from the Kwong Sang Company Grant, of the West Point Police Portuges Colony as usual this Peter kong-Mnero steamer came from the giving notieg were breaking their months.
who had offered him work at an Station, and this officer proceeded morning. This is taken as a sign (contract with the Admiralty and
American Hotel run by Chinese. to the scene with a few others. A that the threatened withdrawal of that after six consecutive days of
The other man said that he was large number of the woodcuttersprays of riert steamers still operat such absence they were by continet
there to meet a friend. automatically disclmrged.
-spied-the-approach-of-the-officers--ing-mas-not--mutevialised owing to His Worship adjourned the case and mude their escape, but by a the ark of unanimity in the for enquiries to be made at the persistent watch eighteen persons scuzen's ranks. addresses given by the accused: were arrested.
When charged before Mr. Me-
The Chince revenue workers Elderry at the Central Magistracy under Chief Preventive this morning, eleven women and S. J. Clarke were to be seen help four men were fined $10 each or up with a will in clearing refuse two weeks' imprisonment. An- from tlie Harbour Office-this mome other woman was fined $5 or one ing, Besides continuing with their week. One man failed to appear own work they are oven volunteer- A small boy was ordered four worked Sanitary department in re- and had hig bail of $5 estreated. ing to give a hand to the hard-
gard to the disposal of refuse.
The notice also pointed out that in the event of any whose six days absence had expired presenting themselves for re-employment the Admiralty had the poiver to reserve the right of saying whether or not seh men's previons servien should cum toward gratuity or pensions and whether or not such men would [bo`plevd on the minimum rate of pay for newcomers whatever their previous experience.
Kowloon Buses.
The master said that permis- sion was at first given some of the men who had asked for leave to go ashore, but Inter this had been withdrawn. The accused had then refused to work and after warning had been given of the consequences which would follow their action the police flag was hoisted and the men were taken into custody.
SUSPECTS.
WANDERING ON THE
PEAK...
Two Chinese were found wan-
In another case from the Wan-
hands of the police undergoing in- chai district, a boy was caught vestigation. The police suspect that the men came from. Yaumati sawing a large pine tree. He was for the purpose of ousting the re- maining workers at the Peak
given six strokes,
A.
also on behalf of the others, said One of the prisoners, speaking that they found they had no money and no food. Their re-dering on the Peak yesterday strokes of the birch. quest for shore leave was refused morning and are now in the and they were asked if they were Early this morning the 'buses going to work. They replied that on the Kowloon side were running they would, providing they were as usual but about the time that given food and pay. The pri- they would be in the greatest Boner was delightfully vague as dermand the drivers and conduc- to the actual conversation which houses. tora left their posts to
had taken place between the On Saturday, two others CANTON AFFAIR. The excellence of the arrange- ing note taken by the Harbour were detained by the police when SHOT FIRED AT GOVERNOR mester and the men as the follow-suspected of being intimidatora ments made by the police for any Master shows "it is not possible they were found on the Peak. such eventuality, may be gauged to get out of the accused what he Investigations showed that the from the fact that within a very actually replied as he evades a short time indeed Indians were direct statement." taking the place of the strikers and ranuing quite a good service. This will be extended in due
course,
a man.
The men were sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment and two days' deduction of pay.
men were ex-soldiers from Cantort and were strangers in the place.
follows:-
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WU...
ASSAILANT KILLED,
Reports have reached Hong-
*
Officer
of food-except that sold by the There is practically no commodity
|well-established firms which are really public institutions-which has not appreciated in value since the strike began on the night of
to a small extent by enterprising June 19. Profiteering there cer tainly is, but this has been checked
small traders who visit the markets in the New Territories and buy up produce for retail needs.
An instance of opportunists being
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OUT TO CHIN.
A correspondent who sign him-kong of the attempted assassina-atung when trying to exploit the self Anti-Striker (Sung: Yuk- tion of Governor Hu Han-min in Chinese community is forthcoming. Ships Cleared.
Empress Volunteers.
man) writes to tho," China Mul” as Canton. Fortunately, so the re- from the retailers of Chinese pre- Whether the prosecution of fire-
served foods known commonly s The Empress of Canada has
port goes, he was not seriously marine delicacies. Before the strike men refusing to obey orders, had arrived from Manila and ia dig
Chinese Strike Pickets have been wounded and is expected to re begen prices went up, old stocks METAL ROOFING anything to do with the matter charging cargo, taking on board very much in evidence to-day, in cover in a week.
ware cleared and the shops re- or not it would be difficult to any
Governor Wa was returning plenished their supplies by pur silk and other transhipped goods timidating Chinese sengere for with any degree of authority, but from South China, Stewards are ing the trum-cars.. Two men were from the inaugural ceremony in hace from wholesalers. The latter the Cheong Shing, one of the boats all that are required for the liner's stationed if each) of the following the Public Park. He was in Gen- also put up their prices and the re- of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & trip to Vancouver and volunteers Sugar -Renery, Percival Street, man opened fire at him in the quantities which they pro solling at
places :--Causeway Bay China eral Hau Shung-chi's ear when & tailers now Co., which has several times at have been tumbling over them-Tin Lok Street, No. 2 Police city. The Governor was wound-a loss as the demand its diminished have considerable temped to clear but returned, left selves at the Canadian Pacific Station, Spring Garden Lane, ed in the knee and the General after the first tide of boarding, again this morning. It was offices. Many more applications Seamen's Institute, Garden Rond, was slightly injured by glass learned that the number of fire have been received than there Le House Street; men had Been Supplemented con-are vacant posts. The Canada fe Hotel, and the Post Office. The guards returning the fire, the Hongkong splinters. On the General's body siderably and there was no ques- an oil burner and the engineers Puice should arrest all idlers at alleged assailant was wounded: tion of the ship returning. This are sufficient to attend to the these places for vagrancy and deport and captured is the third Jardine boat to be comparatively little work such them to Canton. Some strong Later reports state that the engines entail as compared with measures should be adopted to stop nian is accused of having been a coal burners.
this intimidation being carried on subordinate officer in the Yun- .....Docks At Work., any further by these Bolshevics -ganese army, and that he expired and three Chinese-seamen, all is have not been affected to anything P8.--Intimidation bas aled beef
The Colony's principal docta from Canton.
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Neither Governor Hu.nor. Gen. Butterfeld and Swire appeared at the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock
baieral Hou are any danger: the Marine Court this morning have lost more fitters and the latter charged with disobeying orders, more coppersmiths and boiler The prisoners all belonged to makers, but with European id the Chin Hus and evidence things are going on very mod
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