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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1925.
LEFT IN THE COLD.
CANTON STRIKERS DEBACLE.
MISCHIEVOUS POLITICIANS.
Guild Professionals Lay Down The Law.
Throwing considerable light on the present outlook in Canton Mall," which arrived via Macao" and is given for what it is worth.
In effect writes
CANTON HARÐ UP.
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OUR FLOGGING LAW.
QUESTION RAISED AT HOME.
HONGKONG'S NECESSITY.
SUFFICIENT DETERRENT.
(Reufer's "Service.)
London, July 20 In the House of Commons,
have
Both Chinese and Europeans. approved of the Ordinance to deal with terrorism whigh was being organised from outside for purely political motives.
STRIKE EXECUTIVE PEEVED.
MOJANA (From Our Own Correspondent.)
"We Do The Same Thing In England Cantonuly 20,1 wfkrit shot. Mark va An indication of the stringency:
As presumably it must, Hongkong has beer, M1-to is a communication by an occasional correspondent to the "Ching of money in Canting is forth again at Home, and the mensures taken by
coming from the proposed issue been endorsed. of bonds to the value of $180,000 | the correspondent Hongkong were permitted the for the Municipality. The issue majority of the strikers would be is to be at 90, making the pro-
if ceeds,
fully subscribed, It is now an open secret that back again in a week. The poll $162,000: The odd $2,000, will be both the Conservative and the ticians certainly like to make a "Leftist" parties in the Kuomin- big army out of them. As neither used, it is stated, for, printing, Bre regretting having side has the wherewithal to pay it and the remainder will provide espoused the "professional" strike is preferable that they be out of the exact sum required to carry
Canton to prevent all or a part of on.. Shortly after the Yunnanese them falling into the hands of From the "San Kwok Wa Po, were expelled the "Leftists" be those who might conscript them one of the organs of the Kuomin- tang Party and the self-appointed gan to assert their newly-found into an army.
Malicious rumours as to what is mouthpiece of the strikers, I see strength. The Left party, by the
that the compradore department way, is that which is said to have happening in Hongkong are not of a ship which was to have Communistic tendencies. As was now believed so readily as Hong the case in the campaign with the kong Chinese papers have reached brought buck a cargo of rice for mercenaries, labour assistance Canton by roundabout routes and the hungry strikers, is accused of assaulting strike officials who went on board! Negotiations are pending. Meanwhile the crew of the ship has struck and the steamer has not sailed.
leaders' cause.
part
even purchased by strikers fancy prices."
At
Even in the Seamen's Union
discord.
One
Mr. Morrison suggested the replying to Mr. Robert Morrison promulgation of the Ordinance Labour member for Tottenham, would very seriously affect anti N.) in regard to the Hongkong British recling in China. Mr. Ordinance authorising the flug-Ormsby Gore replied that the ging of intimidators, the Hon. Governer of Hongkong's first duty Mr. W. G. Ormsby Gore, (Under- was to protect the lives of inno- Secretary for the Colonies), said cant people the Governor had reported by terrorism and bomb-throwing and threatened by telegraph that no such punish- Ifmergency threatened, they ment had had to be inflicted, the must have emergency measures to effect of such a penalty being sufficient deterrent.
There had been two murders prior to the issue of this regula tion and cases of bomb-throwing
DISASTER VICTIMS.
NINE MORE BODIES TAKEN OUT,
prevent outrages on innocent people. He was sure the Governor had considered the matter from the viewpoint of its effect in China and he was supported by the Chinese members of the Legislative Council,
Mr. Will Thorne (Lab.) asked were there not other forms of perialty than flogging. The Hon. Mr. Ormsby-Gore pointed out that we did the same thing in England in cases of personal violence and he did not think it would be proper for the Colonial Secretary or the House of Commons to interfere with the discretion of a Colonial Governor and Colonial Legislature in the face of such an Six emergency,
- PROULESS OF CLEARING.
Other nine bodies of the victims of the Po Hing Fong disaster have been recovered from the ruins up to this moming, which brings the total number of dead to 58.
was very helpful. Accordingly the Conservatives made it their policy to be friendly with the guild officials as well. In this itself there is way the labour "professionals" official orders one line to cease
The Strike Executive has also were given certain powers to running and another cancels run foul of the Police Department. organise the strike. Monetary immediately. It is impossible to
Commissioner Techen Wu, chief Help had also to be forthcoming prove "squeeze." But I (writes of police. has, apparently, refused und in this the politicians had to the correspondent) have known play a large, but now unwilling people pay "tea money" for the to hand over a number of men "arrested" by strike pickets as privilege of shipping away veget. spies and the Executive is not in After three or four weeks the ables even though the strike good humour. Then, again, the politicians have found the policy leaders have placed their own Police have issued an order for unremunerative both practically embargo on export.
bidding strike pickats from and theoretically. The Conser- Requests it is stated, have been searching business establishments vatives are too busy locking after addressed by Canton to the boats for Hongkong notes, the Police their own affairs and the Leftists now on the Macao-Hongkong run maintaining that it is a duty for are hard put to in finding means asking the men on the ships to the law. to provide 50,000 idle men with make sure that strikers are not food. While the opposing cliques taken back to Hongkong. have been thus engaged, the request, needless to say. carries SWATOW POSITION, of the bodies were those of women atrike leaders have more or less not the least weight. taken the law into their own Since Saturday there has been hands by sending out their own a persistent rumour that shipping police in uniform, collecting levies communication between Canton and even administering the civil and Hongkong will be, re-estab power in their own weal. Neither lished. Once this is a fact, it will side wishes to antagonise the be safe to assume that the rank strikers but to a greater extent, and file will leave Canton in nobody wishes to shoulder the ship-loads. burden
of providing for them. To get rid of so many hungry vernacular papers-of-Hongkong Europeans, was the statement of a mouths it will first be necessary this morning all refer to the pos to clip the wings of the leaders sibility of the steamers being back who are preventing the rank and on the run.-Ed. "China Mail."] file getting away so that present
♦ conditions will continue and their aources of revenue will be main- tained which is also for their own benefit.
This
REGISTRATION OF SERVANTS.
AMPLE SUPPLIES FROM HONGKONG.
RESIDENTERVIEWED,
arrival.
Anti-foreign feeling. is limited to
of advanced years.
of the work done by the coolies, and
INTIMIDATION.
**MOTOR: SMASHES.
TRAMCAR DAMAGED BY MOTOR LORRY.
Was
not
Owing to the decomposed state of the bodies, identification has been' difficult, and in three cases the victims have not been identified..
Considerable progress has been That the Hongkong (ipwerment made with the clearing work. is Keeping Swutow well supplied need in securing coolies for this
although difficulty is being experi with food now that Chinese shops
A serious accident occurred at work, [By a curious coincidence the in Swatow are no longer supplying H.V.D.C. worked very hard yes yesterday when a tramcar driven The Engineers of the Praya Bast. shortly after noon" well-known Swatow resident who terday and got away a large quantity by a Japanese volunteer collided arrived in Hongkong yesterday and of the heavy timber to the scrap with a motor lorry belonging to with whom a Chine Mail repre-heap, besides helping in getting the Sang, Lee Company. Fortun- sentative chatted shortly after his there is an appreciable difference in the tramear came in for the away other material. Although ately no persons were injured, but
the height of the mounds, there is The food is being taken up still work for very many days, and greater portion of the damage. Japanese Tchiefly those of the
The glass screens were shattered O.S.K.) and has to be inloaded by more bodies should come to light. and the damage is estimated at During the last day or two,
the foreigners themselves. Because lending Chinese firms in the Colony The management of the three A PRIVATE BUREAU.
$100. strikers have left Canton on a
of this, plenty of supplies were in the Sincere Company, Sun Com-the ignorance of the Chinese in The accident is attributed to pretence of wanting to go up
-In-view-of-the-increasing de hand, said the China Mail in country on some urgent private mand for a system of registration format, and so long as this source pany, and the Wing On Company control of the motor lorry, who business. As they do not "de- or control of servants, it may be continued, the situation would give have recognised the difficult cature held only a learner's licence and clare" for Hongkong as their of interest to residents to note no canse for anxiety.
conversant with the destination no poll-tax of $25 is that a private concern the Following are interesting facts, have each supplied for their use.
gears. The man was moving his collectable; to disencourage deser. Domestic Servants Employment also emanating from the same 2,000 cigarettes free of charge.
vehicle up and down in order to ters a new rule has been put into and Registration, Bureau has source:-
get it into the garage and fouled effect, namely, that of obtaining a been opened at 15-17, Queen's
the tramway track as soon as the a small section of the Chinese com- guarantee, by a well-established Road Central.
tramcar came quite close. Every- firm, of return within a certain
This Bureau was established 'munity, and the proclamations of
thing possible was done by the period.
Just prior to the strike, and natur. the Chinese military generals.call-
driver of the tramcar to provent Even with pickets, levies and ally, with the servants flying to ing for moderation are believed in
a collision by applying his brakes other impositions, strikers are Canton, its activities were stop, official circles to he gemine ex- A Chinese watchman employed the man in the other vehicle running away from the fold, the ped. At the termination of the pressions of opinion and in fact, at the Kowloon Docks, who was started to fumble with his gears majority being from the batches strike, however, it hopes to sup. to represent the wishes of the found guilty at the Kowloon and could not get the lorry clear. which have been put through ply servants of all kinds for a greater number of Chinese re- Magistracy last week on a charge of the track.
sidents.
of intimidating a servant in the their paces in physical drill and nominal fee,
The Swatow Chamber of Com-employment
A charge has been framed. of Mr. "Kid" military training on two scanty plies a registration card for a
against the lorry man for driving this meals a day!
merce is actively oppose to the Marriott, was sentenced dollar, giving name, photograph, boycott in operation against British morning by Mr. E. W. Hamilton will appear at the Central Magis- without a proper licence, and he Were it not for the strict look and finger print of the servant. out in Hongkong and the rumours
In the absence of any official and Japanese goods, and doing its to six months hard labour.
tracy to-morrow. best to defeat it.
In passing. sentence, His Wor circulated in Canton of numerous scheme of registration of ser The restriction against foreigners smp said that he would not impose deportations a
At 12.80 p.m. yesterday, ☎ debacle would vants-upon which a pronounce is not supposed to apply to the case flogging in addition, as he con- have started already in Canton no ment is most desirable, by the of Amerionus, but ne Cinese find sidered that the accused had been motor car which was proceeding matter what regulations had been way-there ought to be room for difficulty fi differentiating between in the Colony for some time and along Wanchai Road in a westerly imposed. If a free return to a private Bureau, which deserves degrees of nationality, they are in was, 10 one of those people who direction came into collision with
every possible support from the many cases suffering the inoon-ame from Canton to
make private riesha travelling in the many who have reason to be im-veniences of others, particularly in trouble.
opposite direction. patient with "the voxed servant regard to street conveyance, ricsba,
The ricahe puller was on the Boys Charged. problem." If some of the larger pullers, refusing to take, muy för- employers of domestic servants, eigners for fear of incurring the employment of Mr. A.-P. Glover, get to the other side right in Two Chinese houseboys in the wrong side of the road and was knocked down in attempting to such as the Hongkong Hotels, pleasure of those who have of the Tramway Company, and front of the motor cat: Both the were to support the Bureau, it engineered the present state of Mr. A. Kirk, of the F.W... were shafts of the richs were broken. would give the rest of the com- affairs. munity a much desired lead. Mission doctors are allowed to charged at the Kowloon Magis-
CHINA FLEET.
ÁDMIRALTY KEPT FULLY INFORMED: -
DIOMEDE AND CONCORD,
(Reuter's Service:)
The Bureau sup.
...
.
NO FLOGGING FOR A WATCHMAN.
•
CAR V. RICHHA.
THOSE DUTIES.
MEETING TO-NIGHT. rotain the services of one boy and tracy this morning with intimi and the driver sustained." slight
injuries. The matter of registration of a cock each, they and the Americans dating a 'bus inspector at Shem- servants is also to be dealt with at being the only ones so privileged." shuipo,
The evidence of the inspector a meeting this evening of the That no great alarm is fell es tu London, July 20. ... In the House of Commona Sir newly formed. Mid-Levels Re- the situation is shown the fact was to the effect that he was
sidents Association.
that no residente have lift other stopped at Shamabulpo and told Cyril Cobb (Conservative) "sug- Beyond expressing it as the than one or two of the ladies, and by the first accused that he would Samples and particulars on application gested, in view of the situation in opinion of the meeting that such a few children. Unless there is be killed if he continued in his
China, the Government should a scheme is desirable, it is un- trouble in Capton, we shall be all work. order His Majesty's ships, the likely that any further action will right," was how the Chipe Mail Diomede and Concord, to remain be taken for the present nearly informant put it. on the China Station for the all of the members are said to be better protection of British lives in favour of such a scheme, how- and property, Instead of the ever).rep
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Pressure of work combined with duties in connection with the Hongkong Volunteer Defenco that the second accused applied at eion. being brought to notice in Mr. Glover stated in evidence Corps which prevented the omis- the tramway depôt for work as an time was one of the reasons-fled emergency conductor, but there on the affidavit in connection with being no vacancy he was offered a technical summona of the work as a houseboy, which he Australian Oriental Line, Ltd., at Mr. Davison, replying, pointed ciations will be sought and the
Jeft accepted. Later the first accused the Supreme Court this morning. July 19, visited his House to see his ser- The affidavit was that of Mr. out that the Diomede had already desire has been expressed that the Singapore for this port been relieved by the Concord and registration should be through at 8 am with the alitward vant, and was suspected of being Archibald Bitchie and concerned
Son July an intiluddarar but an unding trit the fatture to file in time the was an route for Homer oficial channels. Failing this leh male and to due The Admiralty was kept fully is probable that members will ens 20, at about &am
he was also looking for work he turn of allotments of the Co The CIPS. R.MS, Entrem was passed on to lur. Kirk. The pany, An extension until Jul
upset was granted on the application of Almost to the Mr. F.Ch Jenkin, e
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