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No. 19,575
END IN SIGHT?
FOREIGNERS IN CANTON AGAIN.
SHAMEEN'S GATES.
ESTABLISHE
1348
HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1925. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
CANTON WARFARE. TRAMWAY COMPANY.
OFFENSIVE AGAINST
WAICHOW.
TROOPS MOVING RAPIDLY.
News reached Hongkong on (From Our Own Correspondent.) Saturday that Shameen's Fates had been re-opened and that intercourse between the French and British Concessions and Can- ton city had been resumed.
Shameen is, of course, connect-
ed to the mainland by two bridges. The "east" bridge is that leading into the French Concession and the "west" bridge links up the It was stated that the decision had been arrived at to allow Chinese whe had, at the time of the Yunnanese siege, deposited valuables and other property in Shameen for safe keeping, to withdraw whatever they wished. Another part of the report to hand was that domestic and other Chinese employees, formerly of Shameen, had indirectly signified their intention to return 28 opportunity occurred.
British Concession with Shukee.
Canton, August 14. (Received via 3hekki junk and Mucao).
Canton is despatching a strong expedition to quell Waichow. The force which is to carry out the consists partly .of offensive Whampoa Cadets and partly of General Hsu Shung-chi's divi- sions. This punitive army might have been greater had not the necessity arisen of keeping an eye on recalcitrant generals nearer to
Cunton.
command.
LIBEL ACTION."
SOCIAL GATHERING AT THE DEPOT.
CHINESE PAPER TO PAY $5,000.
VOLUNTEERS THANKED.
UNRESERVED WITHDRAWAL.
A volunteer worker of the Allegations against the morals. Chinese Tramway Company during the und honesty of the strike writes as follows:
manager of the Kwangtung In- Eleven o'clock yesterday morn-dustrial Bank are contained in an local ing saw the disbandment of the artile appearing. in a volunteer car drivers and con- Chinese newspaper on June 10, In ductors wher, group photograph respect of which legal proceedings was taken, including the tramway were instituted this morning.
officials.
an order to be made
he has held Waichow, nominally to say "Au revoir" than "Good- "Since Tang Pun-yan has had
Sho Wham
an O.P.C Brfax Shell
JAPAN FLOODS.,
DISASTER CAUSES SERIOUS DAMAGE.
ESTIMATED AT Y10,000,000.
(Reuter's Service.)
Tokyo, August 16. A report from Nagoya saya that floods have caused serious damage. May batildings were destroyse che The damage is estimated at Yen 10,000,000..
It is believed that the casualties: are numerous.
WHO SHOULD CARRY OUT IT'S DEFENCE?
ANOTHER FRUITLESS TALE,
was adjourned.
to defence was offered, but the In a short speech, just after the printer-and publisher of the photograph was taken, Mr. newspaper had already submitted L. C. F. Bellamy, the Generala withdrawal and apology and Manager, on behalf of the Tram- agreed to pay $3,000 and costs, HANKOW'S POSITION. way Company, said that they and this morning's proceedings were very sorry to lose such a fine were for body of men whose loyal co-opera-along those lines by the Chief tion helped them to see the strike Justice. Waichow city, far up the East through thick and thin, besides Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn (instructed River, is in the hands of Com- contributing in no small measure by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton) was
(Reuter'a Service,) mander Yeung Kwan-yu who has towards organising and training for the plaintiff (Ching Pike several thousand bayonets in his new men to undertake permanent kam), and Mr. Y. K. Mok (in- Owing to the com- work. It was, he said, with mix-structed by Messra. Lo and Lo)
Hankow, August 16. A further discussion between the plexity of Cantonese politics heed feelings that he parted with the for the defendants (Lai Ki-nam).
The newspaper in question was British Consul-General and the has, within the last year, been a volunteers, and he thought- Subordinate of Chan Kwing-ming, although he hoped nothing un- the "Tai Kwong Po," and follow-Chinese Commissioner for Foreign On inquiry from the best in the Yunnanese and Hsu Shung- toward will happen to have re-ing is the article in question, Affairs, regarding the defence of formed source in the Colony, iti chi, three factions which are course to their services again-it which appeared in the issue of the Concession has had no result and was learned by the "China Mail" opposed to one another. Latterly would be much more appropriate June 10: this morning that Shameen's under the Kuomintang. But when bye." He also paid a tribute to gates are still closed. Their re- opening had not even been dis- Canton sent a delegate to control the very efficient manner in which his actions he rebelled. It is with the volunteers carried out their cussed, nor would such a step be
Mr. Bellamy's speech contemplated until adequate pro-Yeung to reason, or disarming his was received with much applause
the object. either of bringing duties. tection was given by the Chinese following, that the punitive force and hand clapping, after which authorities on the spot. Shameen has been sent. This force, it is the gathering dispersed. was still, virtually, in a state of
stated, has reached Sheklung, siege. Nothing had been done to
En route, the Canton army may change conditions.
encounter the guerilla troops of Yuen Ha-kau "Coffin Sampan" Yuen) now roaming the hills near Tsang Shing and a fugitive from the Whampoa Cadets.
Should Canton take Waichow, as they did in the last campaign. when they bought over a Lieut.- General and Commander Yeung fled, then the other leaders of Chan Kwing-ming's army, in and around Swatow, may also be em- broiled but it is safe to assume that they will not take to the field unless they are threatened.
However, Canton's "gates," meaning the right of entry into the city, were opened on Saturday: It is surmised that the report referred to mistook Shameen for Carton. Foreigners, with the exception of British, are
now allowed in Canton for purposes of ordinary intercourse. The sup- position is that a beginning has
TROUBLE AT SHEKKI. News has reached Canton that disorder has broker. out at three important villages near Shekki,
Whampoa Cadets who were sent there, so it is stated, as the nucleus of the "nationalisation of property" (Soviet) experiment have fallen foul of the local "Man Tuen," which are really civil guards.
the intention of carrying into effect the great eight districts policy he is making a display of the influence of the eight districts very actively.
The Chinese proposed that Chin-
armed force in Hankow and patrol soldiers should not as the only the Concession.
This was un- acceptable from the foreign view- Recently he has point. The Cousul-General sug- organised the King Nga Bank Gested that in an emergency the as well. Banking is, in fact, a Volunteers should take up posi- business for the benefit of the ions in the inner defence lines, people, but to the eyes of the mili- leaving the boundary roads to the tarists it only serves as a means Chinese. The latter did not agree. to suck the marrow of the people. think I voice the sentiments of all Moreover, the chief manager of
I understand that the Tramway Company intends to present the with autographed copies of the group photo, and I
volunteere
the volunteers when I say that we the Bank appointed by Tang is à HIS MASTER'S CAR.
shall cherish the same as a fickle young man, Ching Pik- memento of an unusual and extra-kam. Ching had been a private secretary to Li Lit-kwan (Li ordinary incident in our lives.
In closing, I beg, on behalf of Lieb-chun) and is a favourite of my co-workers, to tender the Yeung Yan-ping. In the second tramway officials qur very hearty year of the Chinese Republic, gallant treatmem necorded to us tion of Yeung, he was employed thanks for the gentlemanly and 1913, through the recommenda during our term of service.
WEDDING.
SATURDAY'S NUPTIALS
KOWLOON.
TINSON-PILE
AT
St.
The wedding took place at Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on Saturday afterncan, with the Rev. G. R. Lindsay officiating, of Arthur Cecil Tinson, son of Mr. James Tinson and the late Mrs.
WAS HE JOY RIDING OR
TESTING IT?.
INDIAN CHAUFFEUR'S CASE.
Taking his master's car out with as a proof reader in the "Kwok his own friends in it and without Man Yat Po" at Singapore: As
permission was the reuson given in Ching was addicted to the cup the Summary Court this morning and woman he stole over $1,000 for the dismissal of in Indian from the funds of the said news chauffeur who claimed his wages paper and absconded to Hong for July up to the 23rd., the day kong with a female. For this
on which he was dismissed, and reason the said newspaper nearly month's wages in lieu of notice stopped publication. Now Tang ($106 in all).
has appointed this man as chief The car was a 1925 model Buick manager to the Bank and it may seven seater, supplied to the plain. be inferred that they will help til muster (Mr. Shewaran) by Mr. cach other in the commission of A. H, Rowe, managing director of and Kowloon evils by defrauding the people the Hongkong and causing a mess to the money Taxicab Company. It was the lat market of the eight districts. Atter who had seen the chauffeur present on hearing the news the nut with the car, and had informed overseas Chinese residents who the owner accordingly.
been made to restore trade.
Trustworthy Chinese business circles express the opinion that the trouble, as far as Canton was concerned, would "blow over" in less than three weeks from to-day. A Chinese merchant with large interests in Canton predicted to a "China Mail" reporter yesterday that most of the Chinese-owned river steamers, if no others, would be running between Canton and Hongkong again, by the 15th of the 7th moon if not earlier, the equivalent of that date being September 2. He had reason to think that the huge army of un-
The Cadeta were fired at first, employed in Canton were getting when they lost over thirty men in restless, that the "professional casualties through trying to over- Tinson, and Violet Nora Pile are natives of the eight districts The plaintiff said that he had had l
were becoming un-some padi-fields. They took daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G labour bosses" alarmed as to the outcome, and
instant revenge or the civil | Pile.
are proposing to lodge a protest to make minor adjustments in the The bride, who was given away?
by sending telegrams to Tang.” mechanism of the car and had gone that negotiations had been made guards and the situation is now
THE APOLOGY. by those indirectly interested but tense.
by her father, was attired in white
out on the occasion in question to satin trimmed
submitting defendant's test whether they held good or not. with not directly concerned, for river
orange apology and the conditions con- The man whom Mr. Rowe bad told shipping to move again, with the
blossoms, and carried a bouquet of tained in it which met with the the Court he had seen sitting on the object of facilitating a gradual
white Honolulu creeper flowers, plaintiff's requirements,. Mr. door of the car was there because he return to normalcy.
The matron of honour. was Mrs. Zeitlyn said that the stipulation did not wish to dirty the car with Dorothy Wheeler (sister of the with regard to publication in two his clothes. bride).
English Hongkong papera was Mr. Rowe, in evidence, said that Mies Lilian Spanten acted as made because the Bank in respect the car being a new one with a six bridesmaid and was dressed in of which the plaintiff was mana-month's guarantee, he had told the mauve crepe satin trimmed with ger made its appeal to both chauffeur, whom he had personally silver roses and ribbon, her European and Chinese clients. introduced to the owner, that he bouquet of white Honolulu, flowers Following is the apology, sign was to come to him (witness) if being entwined with
mauve led by defendant and addressed to anything was wrong and not to Mr. John Tinson was the best ribbon..
plaintiff :-
attempt to make repairs on his own
Macao Steamer Back. This afternoon, the s.s. Chuen. Chow (Captain Jones) put in at Hongkong again after having tied up at Macao for the second or third time aince the strike began. For a reason which has not been given, the crew have not made the voyage, lying up and then making a fresh start again.
NO BOYCOTT.
HOTHOW SHIPPING
UNFETTERED.
RESIDENT'S REPORT.
man.
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The reports as to a trade boy- cott of British and Japanese goods being prosecuted with Poultry and Livestock, vigour at Hoihow would appear to Housewives were pleasantly be without foundation for a re-
After a receptish held at the surprised yesterday morning when sident of Haihow who arrived in Kowloon Hotel, the happy couple hawke s offered fowls in the street Hongkong by the Talkwa Maru left for Macao, where the honey- at 65 cents per catty, which is (leaving Hoihow on Friday morn-moon will be spent. The bride's about equal to 50 cents per pound, ing), reports that fun cargo travelling dress was of white crepe for live chickena, and capons at a was brought to Hongkong, this de chine trimmed with chocolate slightly lower figure. Later in the consisting of 280 head of cows, palace crepe. day the price went down to 58| over 200 hogs and large numbers cents per catty which is about the of chickens,
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LARGE QUANTITY FOUND
IN CAR
In
"You have commenced an account. This was done in coord action against me, as printer and ance with the wishes of the owner. publisher of the Tal-Kwong" Mr. Howe further said that the Newspaper, claiming damages for car was being driven very fast
distance.
contained in an article pub when he saw it in Stubbs Road on bed by the said "Tal Kwong the day in question. It had to pull Newspaper on June 10, 1926, up near the Bowen Road turn and which article is set out in your the back wheels skidded for some statement of claim in the above Mr. H. 8. Fitzroy, for the chauf action. I now confess that the feur, suggested that the man on the statements relating to yourself footboard or sitting on the doos METAL ROOFING figure in ordinary times. This This resident reports that there
contained in the said article are might have been listening for sudden drop is attributed to a very is absolutely no attempt on the large shipment having arrived. part of the students to prevent
absolutely untrue and without me slight defect in the engine, the slightest substance in fist but witness said that no one who The source has not been divulged, shipment of freight either to
I hereby unreservedly with know anything about motoring but the Chinese are particularly Hongkong or Holhow and states
draw every word in that article would suggest euch a thing. The grateful for this bit of enterprise. that when the boat left shipments
which in any way reflects on your wind would be whistling past the Arrivals of cattle, piga and were arriving, reglarly, from
"SEQUEL IN COURT *** | character. I admit that there ears of a person in that potion, other livestock have also been Haiphong, Hongkong and Bang- reported, but the market prices kok
A strange discovery was made never was any foundation for any On being-informed that the There had by a talk of a boy last night by Sergeant F. T. Janes of the charges contained in the chauffent had said that he paid
I deeply regret that they witness commission for introdu cott: but Governor Tang, of Hai when he stopped a motor car in were ever made, and i tender you in to the buyer of the car nan Island, according to our in the Aberdeen district for investi my sincere apologies therefor Rave at that this was formant, is determined that none station,
ágree to pay the sum of $5,000 as absolute fabric shall occur. He has arrested and mummy bag and other pack executed four or five students who ages which belonged to the pas were known to be Beds from Canton and were attempting to stir up trouble,
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