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Today's Wah Tz Yat Po" re- Another step in the process of Canton has been treated to ports Bai Yuen Hn-kan, the former reverting to normal conditions is what was at first thought to be a bandit who Ims refused to obey marked by the increased "Star" bomb outrage in one of the
London, July 24. Canton's orders while at Shekling. Ferry service as from this morn-busiest parts of the eity. A reliable estimate to-day gives is still active in Bast River territory ing.
The Wah Taz Yat Po," a local
It is officially announced that the number of Hongkong strikers and that hetivities have been record. Since the stoppage began, the vernacular paper, states that a the coal owners and minors met this afternoon and who are registered by the Strike at the inland town of Trung company has maintained a 15-big explosion took place at the jointly Executive is 43,000. There we Shing,.
minute service till 8 p.m. each Western Creek, several large tow-adjourned till July 29. very few. women, if any at all, who Yen wis once a terror us an out-day. European coxswains have bouts caught fire, an immense It is learned that the miners' Mr. are in passession of "chow" law but was made a general by Chau now brought the new men on to conflagration on the River be representatives informed Lèkets. The total of workers who Kwing-ming, subsequently going such a stage that extension has came imminent and a number of W. G..Bridgeman (First Lord of have come up from Hongkong since over General Hsu Shung-chi's army. boen warranted.
people were seriously injured by the Admiralty), that they wanted This morning during the "rush explosions. the trouble began was at one time it is probably due to his movements.
a peaceful settlement if it could believed to be over 100,000 but this in defiance of Canton's instructions. | hours" (8.30 to 9.30) a ten-minute At 9.30 on Wednesday night, abe secured, but they meant to have figure has now dwindled down to that a detachment of Whampoa service was put on and this will loud explosion was heard and a living wage. They also hoped not more than 65,0. Of those Cadels has been sent to restore be repeated from 12.30 p.m. to traced to the Kowkong tow-bont that the owners' notices would be who lost heart and sneaked out
2 p.m. Another boon is the which was lying alongside the suspended. From Canton, the majority are those The vermicular paper also reports restoration of night ferries. The Bund. It appears that a quantity | The Chairman of the Trade who did not répert at the Strike the fact, that the three leading sub-last ferry will leave Kowloon of gunpowder and explosive, Union, Congress declared that the
COR- shift | ordinates of Clnun nye now demitories but jforred to
support to-night at 11.45 p.m. and the last maintained on the junk for anti- Congress would for themselves and incidentally to gregating their troops in the hinter from Hongkong will be at 12 mid-piracy defence, had become ignit-, miners and textile workers. provide their own food.
and of Swatow. A military council night. After 8 p.m. (Hongkong ed and exploded. As the explo- Funds pre nt a very low ebb.has been held but Chan Awing side) and 8.15pm (Kowloon sion was, in the bowels of the The Government hus dut down its ming has not left his retirement."
side) the ferries will leave at vessel, the whole vessel was soon intervals of 30 minutes.
ablaze and the fire threatened to first generosity, it is reported, and the Strike Bacentive, in its anxiety to procure funds have taken steps. which have led to animosity, if not antagonism, with the Municipal authorities, parteularly the Police, whose duties in many ways conflict with the Strike pickets.
order.
J
BY MISTAKE,
WUCHOW FOREIGNERS
RETURN.
STORES TAKEN UP
The stay of the residents of Wachow in Hongkong was very
I have already detailed the cash producing plans, such as half a month's rent contribution, a levy } For workers deporting from Canton,
the projected thentic and singing-short. Yesterday some thirty of giri entegrises, the flouting of voluntary loan, etc.
Thes
them arrived by the s.s. Tung On, having. so they said, received a wireless message that all British there were to vacate.
When they arrived here it was found that a mistake" had been made, no such order having been intended.
There has also been talk about the division of private property which specially favoured by the Communistic element of the Komintang. Party it is the murin plank of their platform. In
Yesterday their extremity the Executive has
evering the re- tramed to other means.
sidents left by an A.P.C. The first rent contribution was lighter which was commissioned paid, in all probability, by tenants.by the naval authorities and
labour manned by naval ratings. "professional bosses are pointing out that house, The food supplies had been
Now
the
owners live profited by the recent influx and that landforts should pay another half month's rent One leader
toward strike funds.
BACK TO NORMAL.
oil
running short in Wuchow, a boy- cott having been enforced by the Chinese in respect of all British, this referring also to H.M.S. has gone to the extent of suggest Moorhen and U.S.S. Pampanga. ing that the emburgo on produce The oil lighter accordingly took be lifted but that a lax be levied. up a considerable amount of
In spite of the difficulty of stores. financing the movement, the Strike Executive is determined not to let the rank and file slip away if pos sible. As long as the strike lusts, the bosses and the lesser off- cials, who invariably exhibit their badges, all stand to multe something even if it is only the taking of
With the opening of the market money off workers leaving Cantonstalls, the police are now taking However, each steamer leaving action against unlicensed hawkers Canton for Mueno is carrying pas- who have been carrying on their sengers to empacity.
work unmolested for nearly a month.
Ordinary people, by whom are meunt those who were not actiml
UNLICENSED HAWKERS
CHARGED
they were the first to be brought up, but remarked that any more caught selling without licences will be fined.
Permission is being sought from the Captain Superintendent of Police to remove the restriction on Chinese passengers, and it is hoped that there will be no neces- aity, shortly, for natives to apply at the City Hall for permission to travel on the ""Star" Ferries.
ABD EL KRIM,
ACTS LIKE CHINESE BANDIT.
TRYING TO GAIN TIME.
(Reuter's Service.)
Paris, July 24, The Moroccansituation is summed up by Abe, el. Krim losing ground both from the military and political standpoint.
to avoid the
The "Temps" says that the Riffan withdrawal to the North of Wergha indicates that Abd el Krim is anxious battle rendered imminent by the arrival of French reinforcements. He knows the difficulties of French pursuit into the moun- tains and thus hopes to gain time to open negotiations.
NAVAL TOURISTS.
AMERICAN FLEET IN AUSTRALIA.
(Reuter's Servies,)
Melbourne, July 24.
the
EARLIER CABLES.
London, July 24. The Miners' Executive has
decided to meet Mr. Bridgeman to discuss the question of re-opening negotiations.
There were important develop ments in the coal dispute to-day. Representatives of the owners and minera separately met Mr. Bridgeman, at the Ministry of Labour, to discuss obstacles to the opening of negotiations for a new agreement.
spread rapidly. Tied up close to the burning boat was a fleet of other tow-boats which could not get away as they had no power of Hundreds of sampang their own. and small craft were also in the vicinity. As all the boats are made of highly combustible material, it was feared that the outbreak, might involve a large part of the River However, the
Simultaneously a special con- burning vessel was ultimately cut adrift and the others squeezed out ference of representatives of all of the danger zone, but not before Trade Unions affiliated to the one or more of the tow-boats had Trade Union Congress was held at the Central Hall at West- also been involved in the fire.
About ten persons were injured minster to discuss unemployment on the Kowkong boat and these and also the mining and textile
disputes. were treated by Red Cross men, The Miners Executive, sub- and sent to hospital. A rumour mitted a statement to the confer- went abroad that pirates had caused the explosion as part of a scheme of blackmail to extort money but it became known that the ignition of the explosive was
due to an accident.
FUNDS WANTED.
PEKING URGED TO HELP STRIKERS.
A REPLY IN DETAIL.
(Router's Service.)
Peking, July, 24. Delegates of the Workers', Students' and Merchants' Asso- ciation interviewed Tuan Chi-jui (the Chief Executive) yesterday and urged the Government to re- mit funds to the strikers at Shanghai. Tuan replied that this might cause misunderstand- ing with the Powers but suggest-
ence declaring that the miners desired a peaceful settlement and possibly the lockout notices might be postponed or withdrawn, but the mine owners were perhaps
the most obstinats" set of em- ployers in the country and appar- ently resolved to force the lockout irrespective of the consequences. The statement concludes with an appeal to the whole Trade Union movement to support the miners.
TEXTILE TRADE.
BRADFORD STRIKERS RUSH MILL GATES.
FRAÇAS WITH POLICE.
(Reuter's Service.)
London," July 24, Fifty thousand wool and textile workers struck at Bradford
Before Mr. McElderry, at the workers but who left Hongkong Central Magistracy this morning, can naval force through enormous to the Chamber of Commerce in-cent, in wage
The march past of the Ameri-ed that the Government telegraph against the reduction of five per because of fear, are still being five men and two women were enthusiastic crowds was held up structing them to devise means to instructions to allow firms, where Strikers ignored the leaders' served with all kinds of wild stories, charged with hawking pork on the by a distressing accident. which are now considerably, dis streets without licences.
The support the needy. All verandah of a cinema in Bourke counted by the appearances of the pleaded guilty. His Worship dis- Street which was packed by that the Government promulgate the mill gates and forced opera- The delegates urged, secondly, wages were not reduced, to con- tinue working, but they rushed Ting On. Reliable newn ja ulso getting through, and the masses are charged them with a warning, as spectators, collapsed. At first it regulations dealing with theives to cease work.
was reported that fifteen were workers' associations.. Tuan beginning to realise the truth.
The Police frustrated several killed, but it was ascertained Chi-jui replied that there will be With the exception of rice, food
later that there were no fatalities, submitted to the Cabinet shortly windows were smashed and two Stones were thrown, attempts. is comparatively cheap in the city
but 131 were injured, some Thirdly, the delegates urged the police were slightly wounded. A food commission exists but has
seriously. accomplished little. Many of those
Government to negotiate on the There are two divisions of the basis of the thirteen demands.
Earlier Cable. now going to Hongkong via Macao
American Fleet, the battleship Tuan replied that the Government are from their native villages where
London, July 24. California flying the flag, of was doing its best as regards the Admiral Robison heading thirteen negotiations: they have given up trying to live in
The strike of wool and textile idleness with high prices.
Through having to go by devious
Coontz's squadron at Melbourne Shen Jui-lin who declared that has already begun. The opera operatives, referred to a the ships at Sydney, and Admiral The delegates then, interviewed House of Commons on. July 22, routes, it is conting each adult, on
consisting of four battleships, five discussions as regards negotiatives are resisting a five per cent. an average, as much as $30 if not
cruisers more, to get from up-country to
and twenty-eight tions were occurring daily and reduction in the cost of living Hongkong.
good progress was being made, bonus, which the employers declare is necessary in order to meet foreign competition.
Politically there is little to write. Neither of the opposing cliques in the Kuomintang feels strong enough to risk a struggle and politicians are now trying to win over all the adherents they can and convert the wavering ones to strengthen their respective causes. '
ROAD TO COMMEMORATE THE STRIKE?.
DESERTERS ILL-TREATED.
The China Mail" has it from authoritative source that none of the deportees from Hongkong aro boing allowed to stop in Canton but are being made to retum to their native villages the attitude of the Canton Goverment being that they should have left. Hongkong earlier
→ Strikers-from-Hongkong-at-pro- Bent in Canton and desirous of re- turning via Macao have been sub jected to 11-treatment whenever caught being handcuffed and take to prison.
The general body of strikers in Canton have petitioned the Kuomin. tang Government that a new rond should be constructed to commomor at die afrik
MORE IDLERS.
Raids on idlers' dena were con- tinued this morning when the inmates of a number of streets in Yaumati including Austin Road, Shanghai Street and Woosung Street, found their houses sur- rounded by troops from the Punjab Regiment. The police conducted a house to house search and arrested 40 persons, several daggers being also found in the course of their search.
destroyers.
(Reuters American Service.)
NURSES' COUNCIL."
LADY IN CHINA AS PRESIDENT.
Swampscott, July 24. President Coolidge is most The raid was carried out under pleased at the heartiness of the the direction of Mr. P. P. J. Wode- réception of the American fleet in house, C.LE (Captain Super Australia. He said that the wel- Intendent of Police), Mr. L. H. V. come was most gratifying, and Booth (Assistant Director of hoped that the visit of the Fleet Criminal Intelligence) and Mr. to the far Pacific would assist in France, Ireland and Cuba have W. R. Scott (Assistant Super-emphasising the cordial relations been admitted to the International intendent of Police for Kowloon). between the United States and Council of Nurses, the new prasi
NEW WAITRESSES.
CHINESE TEA-HOUSE
INNOVATION.
Colony have taken into that em: Many Chinese tea-houses in the
ploy a number of Chinese girls as waitresses,
An attempt to introduce female labour into tea-houses was made some time ago at which time the Hongkong Governmen etits face against the practice on the grounds of undesirability and it is unlikely that the practice will be allowed to continue Ban things return to normal,
other nations of the world.
(Reuters Service.)
Helsingfors, July 24. Nurses' organisations of Poland,
dent of which is Miss Nina Gage of China.
The Labour Department at The next congreas will be held Police Headquarters, which has at Peking. been responsible for the supply to employers of coolies and other
period of the strike, i to os closed part of the Café Wiseman manage workers at the most critical: A further return to normal on the
us from Monday next Another out is their decision to remain Indication of the return to normal open until 2 p.m, on Sunday, tiffins as regards labour conditions. being served. This takes effect
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COLLAPSE.
(Reuter's Servico.)
*Melbourne, July 24, Most of those injured in the verandah cells were not ari-
Only seventeen ware detaineil in hospital.
[As given in full In an earlier cable, the verandah of a Bourke
march past of the U.S. Fleet.]. Street cinema crashed during the
Melbourne July 24.—Anxiety na to the offorts of the shipping strike is deepening. U-kumployment is in The total output of the Kailan reading, The B. Hou, 8. M. Mining Adrainistration's mines Bruce has arged both mãen to BRIVO, for the week ended July 11 for an curly settlement as it is im- amounted to 84,971 tons, and the posable for the Government to con- sales during the period to 76,849. Complato such a state of things. tons. -
Beuter
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