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FORCIBLY TAKEN,
KIDNAPPING IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
ARMED ROBBERS' HAUL,
BAT
ISHED
SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1926,
BROKER'S LOSS.
$600 DRESS MATERIAL MISSING.
NCE THE STRIKE? GONE SINCE THE
WORKING DAY.
4:
On Thursday night, he and his family had retired as usual Three robbers, who had a revolver and e dagger between them, broke through the front door. After ransacking the place they took away property valued at $688 The nine-year-old son of Chung: Tung-kwong (the owner) was INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE kidnapped.
A SUCCESS.
AGREEMENT REACHED.
(British Wireless Service)
From Chung's son's house, |about $100 was taken, as well as another boy (who is a grandson of Chung).
PEKING INCIDENT.
EXCITEMENT STILL PREVAILS
COMMUNISTS ARRESTED..
(Routers Service.)
Fuffer Story!
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LOCAL INDUSTRY.
GROWING GINGER IN NEW TERRITORIES“
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The.."China Mail has benn courteously supplied with an ad- vance proof of the annual report | for 1925, of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, which to to be issued to members on Monday
A chapter on "Ginger cultivation in the Colony" reads:
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"ILLEGAL TAX."
CANTON AND KEROSENE
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PROTESTS UNSUCCESSFUL.
The following: chapter on "Tho.. kérosene monopoly in South China” la taken from an advance proof of the Hongkong, General Chamber of Commerce annual report for 1925 (which will be issued to members on Monday) ->
A matter of great interest to all. Importers of foreign goods into China is the petion taken by the Canton Government during 1926 in taxing Petroleum products and Government later declaring a Monopply for Kerosene, Motor Spirit and Liquid Fuel
How his son and a grandson Inability to fix a date rather con- were forcibly taken from homefuses the facts of a report made! is relased by a man in Mar-sh- to the Police by Mr. W. J. Carroll,
Peking, March 19... pin vilage, New Territories, in the well-known sharebroker, of
A mandate has been issued report to the Police,
Messrs. Carroll Brothers, who has
worth ordering the arrest of five alleged His home is naar Sta-kok lost some dress material w
* Ocennozamnist leaders... the "township on the Britiafa=|| 36001" Chinese border, the main street. The material was in a case at Mr. It asserts that they led the of which is the boundary,
Carroll's Ice House Street address.tudent demonstrators yesterday, The members of the Shun Shau Mr. Carroll in of the opinion that and otherwise made use of the Toug the Preserved Ginger Asso the theft pust have occurred some Communist doctrin to, disturb ciation, addressed a circular to the time between June 19 last and yes.the peas and angin wide-Chamber and all Export. Firma on terday when the discovery was spread intrigues caleated to un-August 20 stating that the new
balance the TEKSSON
seasón preserved ginger," of the made..
currant year-both wet and dry, Shanghai, March 20, and both packed in casks and in When, in April 1925, the Cantor. With reference to the shootings cases-contracted for with foreign Government imposed tax of fin Peking delayed talegrams from firtris, could not be delivered dur40 ets. sc. per unit of 10 gallons Peking, state that a group of stuing the months of August and on Kerosene, the British and Amort dents visited the Chinese Foreign September, as unfortunately, owing ean Consul Generale in Canton) Office on Wednesday evening for to the Strike in Hongkong, many entered strong protesta at Cantón the purpose of presenting an un-workers had stopped work and left and Peking, claiming that the tax compromising reply to the Powers the Colony.. "Moreover, the was contrary to the intention and ultimatum en the Taku incident writers added, the Canton Au-spirit of various Treaties, and in which they wanted the Government thorities have prohibited the Ex-particular to Article No. 28 of the tp adopt..
portation of goods to Hongkong Treaty of Tiantain, 1858 and have also stopped all steamer- As these protests were unsUCCUBA.. trafic between Canton and Hong-full each of the three principal kong. As you are aware, though distributing Companies decided to preserved in Hongkong, all ginger withhold suppiles of their products. is imported from Canton Though to the area in which, the Cantoy conditions in this Colony are Government levied the tax, decline gradually becoming normal the ing to have their products taxed importation of raw ginger from in this illegal manner.... Canton is still impossible Under It is obvious that, if this tax was these circumstances. we are unable to deliver the goods at the above mentioned times and hape you will inform buyers and consumers abroad to this effect. As soon as conditions improve, every effort will be made to make deliveries under contrasts as early as pos- sible."
It is presumed that the robbers' object iw to obtain ransom as is done with impunity every day | up-country... -
Three water buffaloes, valued at $200, have been stolen from Tan Shadi Hung village, says an other report.
BOMB CASE.
HEARING FIXED FOR MONDAY.
ALLEGED POSSESSION.
Hearing was fixed for 215 1.m. on Monday of the case in
Yesterday morning nearly 1,000 students paraded the streets and finally reached the Cabinet hend quarters in the afternoon, where they intended to demand the dis- missal of those responsible for the official, reply, a forecast of which the vernacular morning papers published
Prevented in the attempt to enter the students attempted to force their way, when the guard used Bayonets and fully fred point
Rugby, March 19. The Conference of Ministers of Labour on hours of industry, which opened last Monday in London, concluded its sittings at 230 oelock this morning. "Sir Arthur Steel Maitland, British Secretary of State for Labour, in closing the Conference, said: The British Government decided to convene this Confer
auccessfully imposed, though it ence because it desired for see how
might begin at 40 cts.. s... there far it was possible to secure an
was no limit to the amount to which agreement amongst the principal
it could subsequently be increased. industrial Statee as to the prin-blank.
As events have shown, the tax was ciples upon which there could be Eye-witnesses: state that three or
in fact speedily increased, until it based an international agreement four volleys were fired, after which
the end of 1925 It stood at. sc. $4 for the regulation of hours of the crowd scattered in all directions
per unit, which is the figure outside labour.. This was without pre- the soldiers continuing to shoot as
importers now have to pay to the judice to other nations: It is no the students fled; STA
In this connection the Export Monopoly which has been promul hich a Chinese man and two doubt desirable to obtain on agree. It appears that there had been a Sub-Committee discussed the prac-gated Chinese women were detained in ment among others than those in certain amount of, bad blood be leability of promoting the grow-arthermore, though the tax wa benection with the alleged dis-
vited, but the possibility of antween the students and the bodying of ginger in the New Terri- only introduced first in Canton, it cherry of bombs in a Fraya
arding house (price to the agreement among the four nations guard owing to a cash on Wednes- tories, and as a result a letter was was obvious that it would speedily
present with us is indispensable if dat aveming
added, to the Government, on spread to other places, and event. Hunghom incident).
High indigon prevails among September 25, stating that the fually be introduced all over China Mr. T H. King (Direction of a wider measure of agreement is
to be obtained. In particular, the the students; against whom the Chamber had recently had under being extended,, in all probability, Criminal Intelligence) was in charge of the Police case when ittish Government feit it neces Government is said to contemplate consideration, information from the to other products besides Fetro-
the difficulties further drastic measures including Chinese Preserved Ginger Dealers, leum. sary to examine
By the end of 1925, the ce up before Mr. R. E. Lind surrounding the Washington Con-the arrest of a well-known quar-stating that no raw ginger, was Menepoly had been introduced by self at the Magistracy this mornvention, and to ascertain to what tette who are regarded as the ring- available for this market owing to the Canton Government throughout!! ing. on remand. Accused will be
extent it would be practicable to leaders of a Communist agitation. the non-urrival of supplies, due to the Kwangtung Province, and an Begally represented.
ensure uniformity of interpreta- It is thought that this will be the the strike, boycott and generally office for Kwangai was actually) Notices have now been posted tion, combined with assurances as prelude to wholesale arrests of disturbed conditions. in South opened at Wuchow, though, it neverj up in all places announcing that to effective operation and enforce suspected Communist agitators. a reward of $1,000 will be paidment. I am sure that we all agree
China, and it was 4.matter of com- became really operative. for arrest and conviction of per- that the Conference has been able
Measures Against Communists. mon knowledge that large stocks
Peking, March 19. sons with bombs and/or who have greatly to advance the considera-
were lying rotting in the Interior Canton Government has been that, The total casualties are now for the same reasons. The Trade in spite of their efforts to import thrown bombs, and $250 for the tion of the whole question of hours estimated it. 120, including two Returns for 1924, showed that the Kerosene from Russia or to obtain discovery of a live bomb or of labour from an international giria and a woman bomba.
value of the exports of ginger from American Oils from California, standpoint, and I acknowledge with The Chief Executive called an Hongkong in that year amounted they have been unable to keep ARMS TRAFFIC..
ecrdiality, and gratitude the co-emergency meeting of the Cabinet to 2314,023, of which 2189,570 went Kwangtung supplied with its needs operation of my colleagues to that following the shooting, at which it to the United Kingdom: £53,10% of Kerosene, so that following the was said that the Communist move-to Australia £10:130 to New law of supply and demand prices. The record of the agreements ment seriously affected the prestige Zealand: £30,002, to the United have been forced up to a prohibi reached by the Conference was of China, the Government of which States of America: 143,969, to tive figure, and the already im- afterward alghed.
is charged with being Bolshevik, Holland, and £10,878, to Germany.poverished people have been The representatives of the Gov-which it is not... Strong measures It was understood that increas-mulcted, first by the $4 fee o ernments participating in the Con- are necessary to suppress the Coming quantities of ginger were charged by the Government Mono- ference undertook to report these munist movement.
Alleged to have in his posses sion two automatic pistole and two magazines,, a Japanese donkeyman" of the s **Mito Marut has been arrested in the Colony,
MOTOR TRAFFIC.
WHERE PARKING IS NOT PERMITTED..
IN BROKERS' ALLEY,
Elsewhere in to-day's issue the Captain Superintendent of Poles notifies that motor cars will not be allowed to park below the former main entrance to the Hongkong Hotel in Pedder Street).
Cars are not allowed, it is also notified, to remain in Ice House Street longer than is absolutely necessary.
JUMPING FERRIES.
Through falling between the wharf and the Yaumati ferry, yes
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agreements: to their respective Governments so that those Govern
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by the British Government, which
Who Gave the Order?
Peking, March 19
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The result of this, action by the TABAQUERIA FILIPINA
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grown in the New Territories, poly, and then by the high profits where the soil had proved suitable. demanded by those who imported. The Chamber, therefore, ventured with this object. In spite of the ments who have not ratified the The killed in yesterday's into suggest to the Government that fact that Kerosene prices in Hong- Washington Convention may be incident when, Chinese guarde fired enquiries should be made as to the kong remained unchanged through- a position to "proceed with their on student demonstrators, in- possibility of developing this valu-out the year, the prices current in consideration of the question of the cluded a coolie who was passing able industry in the New Terri Canton in December were ratification of the Washington Con- Altogether twenty of the woundedtories, where cultivators would be $12 per unit against a price in
reached the PU.M.C. Hospitalworking under very favourable con- Hongkong of Hk.$4.45. The conclusiona of the Confer-Two of them have since died dition ав
The action of the Canton Gov- compared with the ence will also be reported formally Order has been restored, but Interior of China, as they would ernment in imposing, first an illegal☀ to the International Labour Offee the greatest excitement prevail have a considerable market at their tax, and later declaring a Mono- took the initiative in summoning and trams are not running.
Shops in the vicinity are closed doors and enjoy freedom from the poly, a one that obviously must continual interference with their come under consideration at the the Conference.
General La Ming-Chung, the operations which so unhappily per- Tariff Conference which opened its Commandant of the Peking Gar-sisted in China. At the same time, sessions in Peking in the late hastened to the scene soon the ginger preserving industry in Autumn, and if the Canton Govern- after the firing and from there Hongkong and Kowloon would gain ment are to be allowed to maintain went to see the Premier who was the advantage of more regular sup this Monopoly it is clear that the unable to explain who gave the plies, and the export trade in the consumers of Kerosene will have to order to fire, c
commodity would not suffer the pay very much more for their re- damage which must ensue. when quirements in the future, with the the demand of Overseas Markets result that there must be a very was entirely disappointed at a serious diminution in the volume of period when supplies were expect trade. ed. It is hoped that, at a con venient opportunity, the Govern- meat" will, thoroughly investigate this question.
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Rugby, March. 18 Some remarkable Agures regard- terday, a Chinese, postmaster hasing small investors in Britain were received Injuries in his right leg
He is now being treated in the
Government. Glivil Hospital, DE
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"Wholesomealm." As the letter referred to by you appeared in Another newspaper your letter should be inserted in that news
paper,
1 Ming-chung then called on HE. Tuan hi jul (Chief Execu tive) with whom he is still dis. cussing the matter
The Casualties
1 Peking, March 19. Runciman, who said that they show was 50 and there were given. In an address by Mr. Walter,
The number of persons killed ed that there was to-day a wider injured.. distribution of wealth in Britain than ever before.
There were now about 18,000,000
capitalista in this country; he said, and the total amount of their sav- Inge was not far short of £2,000,000,000
FRENCH FINANCE. NEW MINI
NEW MINISTER ADDRESSES CHAMBER COMMITTEE.
HARBOUR COLLISION.
PO LEUNG KUK.
The new directorate of the Po Leung Kuk includes Mr. Wong Ping-suren (compradore to Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Co.) Seven persons got off with no and Mr. T. N. Chair (Chau Ta harbour yesterday afternoon worse than a ducking" in the nia), the Orinese barrister
The Po Leung Kuk is the local. when the sampun they were in semi-official institution which The street off Kwong Fung Lane
Of this Immense sum, £285,000,-.
collided with the ferry launch deals with Chinese social ques«, between Queen's Road West and000 was deposited in the Post Office
"Man On," from Shanshulpo to, tions, particularly in matters re Third Street running in an easterly
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lating to the fair sex. Paris, March 19. report to the Harbour direction on Inland Lot No. 788 and National Savings Certificates The Finance Minister, M. Raoul Office details are given of the parallel to Third Street is hence ₤198,000,000 in small Government Peret, addressing the Chamber navigation steps taken. The forth to be known as Kwong Fangholdings, 2470,000,000 in ordinary Finance Committee estimated launch rescued the sampan folk
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national. Petroleum Company, Ltd. will unless enuse is shown to the
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approved" and by fresh taxation,
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he estimated the pro edal Hospitads will be held on Famount to three milliárd at 4pm. In the Chamber of
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