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COMING BACK.
STRIKERS REALISING FOOLISHNESS OF ACTION.
A LONG WALK,
Daily there are to be observed fresh signs of a more general reulis- ation on the part of those who left work of the foolishness of their netion and their desire to make amonds by attempting to return to their former cecupations. In the ense of those who are near enough at hand to put their desire into prac ties they are finding, however, that their reinstatement at former wages is by no means an accepted thing; in fact, that in many cases they will have to begin all over again and that their action has discounted
many years' service.
Thosh at Canton find it even more difficult to return to the service which they so unthinkingly left, but such is their plight and their desire to obtain work that many have chosen a walk which in this weather must be far from pleasur- able. The "China Mail hus it from an authentic arce that 2,000 ex-strikers from Hongkong, en- deavoured to return to the Colony yesterday by thin and were turned back on the borders. Not to be defeated in their object and under the pretext of returning, large numbers of them went back to in termediate stations and by circuitous route eventually crossed
the boriter.
PAWNED HIS TROUBERS.
ESTA
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 35, 1925.
CANTON RUMOURS.
ICE
PRISONERS FOR WHAMPOA.
PLACED IN FOREFRONT IN NEXT BATTLE
THE "TUNG ON.”
NOW LEAVING FOR
It was probably one of these who made his way to the office of Dr. S. W. To, Assistant Controller of Labour, yesterday. Dr. Tro passed no opinion on the master hituself, but he certainly told
Ching Mail" representative this morning that of the many coming forward and asking for work bad | EX-FIREMAN FINED. been one man who was in
great pet of tes and the buk had to
LEFT WITHOUT GIVING pawn his trousers to get across the
NOTICE. harbour: However, he must have had another pair, for Dr. Tso
Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at assured the reporter that be the Kowloon Magistracy, this respectably, atared when he made morning, a Chinese ex-fireman of his application
so felt convinced that the the No. 2 fire float was charged tide and well turned as regarded with teaving without notice. the return of general labour and dent of the Fire Brigade, stated
Mr. H. G. Brooks, superinten ever since the issue of the proclama that the accused deserted on
July 2. tion dealing with idlers. Deck linds were among those now coming forward and asking for
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With the perversity which
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month..
A CHALLENGE.
STRAITS CHINESE PRESS
OPINION,
CONFIDENCE IN HONGKONG GOVERNMENT.
Commenting on the situation in Hongkong the "Straits Echo"
Bays'
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and
GIN. BEVEN.
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DOSSER CASE.
DENIAL OF SOVIET BRANCH IN SHANGHAI,
15 DEFENCE.
(Reuter's Service,).
Shanghai, July 14. The American Assessor and Magistrate Lob heard the Fortuna- toff case.
ulso
official.
Ho
As the only intermediary be Only a few weeks ago and the tween the city and Shameen is an fetching of the daily supply of American attache, it is naturally ice was looked upon as the work almost impossible authentically to merely of the household coolie
subjects, For British. detail events there but a rumour The Number One and even the of even greater insistence than house boy would look askance if especially for us in the Straits The British Assessor and Magis usual and in which credence is asked to include this journey in the centre of interest in China trate Shad are trying Dosher who being placed in many circles is his daily round and common task, has now shifted from Shanghai denied a branch of the Soviet Com that the occupants of the Canton and his reply would probably be the Yangfee ports and Peking to munist Party existed in Shangh prisons have been sent to Wham-in the nature of a protest that
all knowledge of the own Colony of Hongkong, our poa. there to be trained in con-that was "coolie, pidgeon." Then, where the strike, evidently foster Agitation Department in Shanghai, nection with the much talked of the drawing up of even e ricshared by the Kuomintang authorities adding he hire the certificate "attack on Shameen when, so at the door of the little store in in Canton, is spreading rapidly when the Police produced it. another rumour goes, they will be Pottinger Street must have been and business has been disorganisaid "It is a rough forgery, made by placed in the forefront.
somewhat of an event, but now its ed to such an extent that the man not familiar with Party very important function has been Stock Exchange has been closed documents. forced to the notice of all and and the June settlement indefinite-
EARLIER CABLE: sundry. During hours it 18ly postponed. The situation can-
Shanghai, July 14. favoured with an almost constant not fail to be a trying and un- Eugene. Fortnnstoff, the Soviet stream of cars, motor cycles and comfortable one for the local re-Consulate Doctor appeured in the
· KONGMOON.
other conveyances. One day, for sidents; but, with the ready Mixed Court this morning, charged instance, His Excellency's car was co-operation and a certain amount der Articles 14 and 149 of the Shameen being fully stocked noted side by side with a seem of self-sacrifice on the part of the Chinese Provisional Criminal Code with food supplies for the time ingly diminutive Austin Seven! being, the 8.8. Tung On, which
assistance of such bodies as the European population, the willing with offering to bribe a public the Government of Hongkong has characterises human mentality Boy Scouts and the Girl Guides, Evidence of arrest was given, and temporarily taken over, is to and actions, we seldom fully appre- and the priceless help of the the accneed remanded on bail.. leave to-morrow morning on the clate a thing until it has to be handy men of the, Navy, the $100) was offered, but has not Kongmoon run with mail and a obtained with difficulty and this certain amount of provisions, also certainly applies in the case of the doubtless be able to keep the expect to receive it this afternoon Colonial administration will yet been produced, but the Police for passengers, the fares for household ice, which we accepted who will be much above the without comment so long two essential public services going and Soviet Consult the
The Police nssert that accused usual. The Tang On will have were not required to participate the ultimate outcome. A numbe Kedrolivansky to witness for we need entertain no fears as to offered $10,000 to Municipal Con- the monopoly of this run also. in its conveyance. Now, however,
The 9. Tung On put in at many of us have had to think aber of emergency measures have the prosecution in the Dosser trial the Douglas wharf when it re-little about it with the result that already been proclaimed and we if he would sign & document staking turned from Canton this after-ice is being realised for what it may rest assured that the whole that he forged the Dosser certificate посл The Government have really is, a really wonderful and of the law-abiding community of on instructions from his - Bribah temporarily assumed contro of indispensable thing. How is it Hongkong will stand firm behind superiors, after which Kedrolivansky the wharf.
made? we query and even the the Governor,
Reginald was to leave: Shanghai assurance that it is just water Stubbs, who has postponed his Kedrolivansky states that he pre- with the air forced from it and departure for England and ex-iended to comply, but reported the encircled whilst in tin receptacles pressed his determination to see. matter to the Police authorities, with pipes containing ammonia the trouble through, with a signi- who arranged a trap, and arrested and brine does not destroy our ficant hint to the lawless elements Fortunatoff when the latter kept the conviction that the process which that his remaining on the spot tryst with $10,000, which the enables it to be sold so cheaply in does not betoken a settlement to police retain, as evidence. a climate like Hongkong's must their liking. The Government, in Dosser will reappear in the Mixed be rather remarkable. It is at a crists like the present one, can Court this afternoon, when evidence time like the present, too, that draw upon very extensive powers, will be taken regarding the certi one realizes the truth of the com- usualy held in reserve, and it is ficata which Doster's-connant last ment made on the occafion of the satisfactory to know that it will week asserted that he would be pole. the Dairy Farm at East Point. sary; for, however true it may be opening of the new ice plant of not hesitate to use them, if neces-to prove to he forgery. viz, that the occasion marked an to assert that the unrest in the PLEA FOR UNITY.
industrial important point in the develop first place had an ment of the Company:
Before origin and even of that, we
FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S the installation of the machinery have our doubts it has long there, Hongkong, was to a very passed from that stage. The large extent dependent on Canton movement throughout China to- for its ice supply, but now, with day is openly political and anti- eighty tons being turned out every foreign, more particularly anti- 24 hours, our independence of British, and in Shanghai and foreign sources la almost com Hongkong the issue has been ...Ambassador Fleuriau, receiving plete. When the full capacity of definitely joined between the the French Colony in London-on the East Point Works and the forces of anarchy and those of law the occasion of the National Fete,
order. In additions in view are brought to and
Hongkong referring to the situation in bear on the problem, we shall be especially bere can be no China, said the existing system able to say in all confidence that shadow of d excuse for the out-of treaties could not be touched the Colony's requirements in this break, for as regards labour con- without exposing foreigners in respect are fully and adequately ditions and the social welfare of China to the greatest dangers, taken care of for a number of the working classes generally, Regulations
Agitators who excited good that Colony has always been a Chinese against foreigners would years to come.
model for China and only a day not engage in deadly work unless or two ago we were able to record they were encouraged from out. the latest successful advance in side. legislation designed to protect the
He hoped all Governments con- labourer's interests. In such cerned would unite to defend circumstances there can be no their nationals, not merely now, thought of compromise. What by concerted measures for im- WASHINGTON SIGNATORIES.
ever the inconveniences and dis-mediate protection, but in future comfort and they may be very by retaining the guarantee of old (Reuter's American Service.)
unpleasant or the temporary treaties until China was able her- financial loss--and it may be very self completely to assure the
individuals heavy that Swampscott (Mass.),
or safety of lives and property of all corporations have to suffer, the residents in China. July 14.
M. Fleuriau concluded by say- President Coolidge has express community of Hongkong cannot at Portland Street, Yaumati, anded the hope that conditions, will afford to temporise with the ing that world peace depended on made off after snatching a quan-permit the holding of conference leaders of disorder, for the slight the Franco-British Entente. he said, been connected almost entity of jewellery from a woman.in the rear future to discuss est sign of weakness will bel The fugitive soon came under the extra-territoriality in China as seized upon at once as a pretext for. still more extravagant
nid that it had been noticeable
work.
TRADE CONDITIONS, Taken in conjunction with the fact that the police have кептел enough to man ships at present in the Imbour, this might be taken to main liat there is nothing pre- vent the ships here from leaving t once and for a complete return to be made to economie normality.
The accused pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $100, or, in the alternative, three months' hard labour.
COUNCIL MEETING.
AGENDA FOR THIS AFTERNOON-
A meeting of the Legislative Council will be held at 4 o'clock This, unfortunately, is far from this afternoon. The business in- being the case. The strikers includes the reading of a Bill in Capton may be anxious to return to tituled. An Ordinance to amend employment; strikers who remained
the Emergency may have been frightened even Ordinance, 1922, more of being deported than of reading of a. Bill intituled An being intimidated, thus expressing Ordinance relating to the post- a willingness to return to work; but the fact must be faced that trade ponement of the June Settlement' and to the facilitation of the here has been dislocated consider carrying out of the June and July ably.
Even crews to man the ships won't be much good unless there is the curgo to take" said u shipping mun to "China Mail" representa~ tive this morning. He added that as regards mercantile business there "simply nothing doing" and boosting at Amoy, Foochow and other ports would still further affect the position. Earlier activity had,
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tively with transhipped cargo.
NO INTIMIDATION.
PARTNERS MERELY
FALL OUT.
At the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, a partner of the Mow Ling restaurant, of 450 Shanghai Street, was charged with alleged Intimidation of a fellow-partner.
Settlements.
and the
Arat
EUROPEAN'S CHASE,
CHINESE TO GET TWO DOZEN STROKES.
A Chinese entered a dwelling |
At the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Mr. Hamilton sentenced the accused to six months' hard labour and 24 strokes of the birch.
INDIAN HELP.
CHINA'S STATUS.
U.S. PRESIDENT, MAKES STATEMENT.
The
:
SPEECH.
DANGER TO FOREIGNERS.
(Reuter's Service:)
London, July 14.
JAPAN'S VIEW.
THREE POWER SECRET
AGREEMENT.
attention of Mr. W. Morgan, of well as the Customs the P.W.D., and was caught after He asserted but America's demands. The worker, who a chase extending to the road efforts in this conflections were downs tools because he has a NO below Gun Club Hill,
confined to the attempt to secure in connection with his work may grievance, genuine or imaginary, the participation of the nine be ill-advised, but, provided he Washington signatories. The breaks no contract, he is well
LONDON CONFERENCE? President added that the United within his natural rights. States had not entered into any strike is recognised as a legitim-
(Reuter's Service,) agreement with Britain or Japan
Tokyo, July 14. regarding China,
ate weapon against excessive
Baron Shidehara states thatị hours of labour, unhealthy or the larger scale London Confer- At the previous hearing of the
It is explained that Mr. case it was stated by the com-! The Indian detachment of the Copiidge contemplates that the oppressive conditions, and harsh ence Was
But when It is Diplomata in Peking. Japan la the proposed by employers. plainant that the accused St. John's Ambulance Brigade are conference will consider all pro
Industrial willing to participate if it is held threatened to destroy the shop if working in co-operation with the blems covered by the Washington organleed, not on
Agreement. be (complainant) refused to join Fire Brigade and have had many
grounds,
political but it is unnecessary, in his the strike.
motives and in order to terrorise opinion, as the question will prob cases to contend with.
The State Department is now the community and embarrass the ably be settled by the negotiations In some communicating with the Wash
:
but from
•
The defence put forward by Mr. of these they have been required ington signatories with the object Government, it falls in a different proceeding between the Council Elsley Zeitlyn (instructed by to give assistance not only in get of arranging a conference in category altogether. And, ac and the Consular body of Shang- Messrs. d'Almada and Nephew) ting "cast" to the hospital but Peking shortly.
companied, as it is in Hongkong, hai was that there had been a dispute also, owing to defections of hospi- between the two partners in contal workers, to get them to bed.
by a boycott, it becomes a direct He denies the reported. British- challenge to constituted authority American Japanese secret agree nection with the purchase of They have not only responded Hitherto those lying at the which must be accepted and ment with reference to China, stores. The accused had no de- well but have been fully equal to Police Station for work (where it is fought as such, unicas the whole likewise the proposed British sire to close the shop, as he was the work and have received com- seen that if found ployment they basis of society is to be destroyed Japanese special understanding afraid of losing his money.
mendation.
These volunteers are manning work done) have been restricted to action of feeling that the oltua- following cable
***** are paid in socory Taco with the Meantime, we have the satis-
Published yesterday was the the new (Austin) motor am the coolie class. Iduded in their tien in Hongkong at any rate is Tokyo, July 18, Japanesë, bulance and their hours are long, ranks lately, however, bave been in sound, firm hands; and we have Press messages from London ru from 7 am to 7 pm, They are qualified men and wough seamen no doubt also, that the authorities port a conference has been pro- displaying as much eagerness and have now come food, it is said, in British. Malaya are fully alive posed between the Powers repre- promptitude, as are the firemen to man several vein. Enquiries to the possibility of some slight re-sentatives in London for discuss- in answering calla, a "China for their serviñan sinuld be made to percussion in this part of the Ing the China situation but the 28. Mail man was informed this the office of the Chief Detective world and quite prepared to meet Foreign Office states the reports,
morning..
Inspector af Police Headguarters it should it rise
ara exaggerated.]
His Worship held that there had been a partnership dispute and discharged the accused.
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