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TRANSPORT WORK ALMOST NORMAL.
STRIKERS ANXIETY
A Union Secretary Sent to Prison.
TUESDAY, MAY 11,
MONEY COMING?
CHINESE MERCHANTE BANK DIVIDEND
CANTON KEEPS OUT.
Little has been heard of the Chinese Merchants Bank Ltd., which suddenly closed its doors some-time ago, it is now stated that order has been evolved and a first dividend may be paid. So much has been intimated sa credi their claims-by the end of this month!
"Well maintained" is the Government's description of the situation. The vast machinery set in motion, to safeguard the people's supplies of foods and necessaries of life is working martors have been asked to register vellously.
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TRAFFIC DAY.
WEEKLY POLICE COURT CASES:
BUROPEANS EVIDENCE,
A long list of traffic prosecations, mostly against Chinese, was dealt with by Mafer C Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning.
Mr. W. Brodie was charged with passing a stationary tram car, at the Junction of Queen's Road East and Arsenal Street, on April 19,
At Indian constable stated in evidence that when he pointed out the irregularity the accused said maskee" and continued to drive
y Many strikers are betraying anxiety lest they acted uncon-
According to rumours in bust stitutionally in coming out, and there is now a keen desire to re-ness circles, about 20 per cent. is
expected in the first dividend.away his car... establish the dispute on a purely industrial basis,
Anything further will depend on
HOUR TO HOUR POINTS.
Yesterday was the seventh 'duy
of the general strike, The weck opened with an appre- ciable all-round improvement in transport..
Three hundred Cambridge under- graduates went to Hull to assist in unloading at the docks Numerous Oxford undergraduates are working at the docks at Southampton, Food supplies and volunteer
labour are ample.
A
Accused claimed that he was the results of recovery from the standing there and was forced to strikers on the constitutional Bank's alleged debtors.
move on to allow the passengers to issue with a general desire to
It will be rocailled that the Bank fight from a tram.car which pull/ re-establish the dispute on a was interested Swainly in the rice ed up alongside. This plea being was dis purely industrial basis.
trade, with offices at Shanghai, Can-accepted, the summons
missed. Omnibus services in all countieston, Saigon and Singapore.
South of the Thames are run- ning punctually..
At Liverpool 26. ships were dock ed and undocked during the week-end and 30 yesterday Passengers at this and other ports are conveyed to their destinations without delay.
The Canton accounts have not been handed over to the quidator,
Dangerous Driving.
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NO EMBARRASSMENT."
Proof Of Criminal Agreement
Necessary..
In his summing up at this morning's hearing of the case as presented for and against the two prisoners charged with criminal conspiracy to defraud the Wing On Company of $60,000, His Lordship made mention first of the fact that the two had been called upon to answer jointly, ats least in regard to the first count. It may have seemed to the jury something in the nature of a hardship, said His Lordship, but
buti he thought he could assure them that in fact it had not caused either embarrassment in the pre- sentation of their case.
it is stated. Representatives of Civing evidence against à Chin depositors (or creditors) of that ese charged with dangerous driving
With regard to the first count branch, together with leading. mer- of a car Mr. Henry Humphreys chants are said to have been re- said that the accused shot round.
there was an element in the avid- cognised it to not known by what Statue Square at about 20 miles an process or autherty as a commit hour and arrowly missed a colence of alleged conspiracy peculiar The Ballarat, from Australia tee to wind up the affairs at Can-ision with his car Witness had to it via consisting in an alleged
and South Africa, reached Ply-top. Therefore that branch will just time to turn round and note
agreement between the alleged mouth with 460 passengers, not come into the general scheme the number whh left for London by special of liquidation 20,000
Accused estimated his speed at conspirators. As a general rule if a man was brought up on a strikers at Norwich was peace-
Popular opinion is that about 20 miles an hour, but oven this was fully conducted!
$25. [1 tors or rather by the Hongkong
demonstration
of
"Our front remains unbroken," declares a Trades Union Con- gress communique...
The Congress has received a
traini
Striking statements are issued
by the railway companies us. $800,000 owing to Hongkong credheld to be excessive. He was fined charge it was necessary to prove
trating the manner in which they are counteracting the strike.
The Stock Exchange was quiet,
with a favourable tendency, in- dustrials being harder.
A great milk, depot at Hyde Park is being supplied so well by the railways that lorries are being diverted to other uses: Two hundred vessels brought in
message from the Master of Balliol and the Master of Oxford University (sic) hop- ing that nothing will be allowed to stand in the way of an at- tempt to resume negotiations. Mrs. Marjorie Pollitt, wife of the Communist leader, Mr. Harry Pollitt, has been remanded at Bow Street on a charge of being in possession of docu- ments likely to use disaffec.The tion,
A seaman at Greenwich has re- ceived; three months' hard labour for urging the crowd to set about the Police. Three athers were sentenced to month and two months. The Danish Trades Union Con-1 gress has decided to send the British Unions 50,000 kroner weekly.
2,000 tons of fish yesterday Very reasonable prices are being maintained.
bunkering stations near Rotterdam are most active and the "men have completely dia- regarded the Trade Unions? appeal to refuse to bunker. Bri tish coal.
From Paris it is reported that the National Federation of Mari- time Labour and Port and Dock Labourers are forbidding un- employed seamen to serve on British ships.
office will rank for dividending
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.Some transport orkers. at out at private hour mills uppifed for work elsewhere, where they were uti known.
Bristol who were
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Dangerous driving and cous ing a nuisance by sounding his horn continuously in Chater Rond were charges against another Chinese driver, who tendered a plea of guilty on the second charge and denied the other.
"Some of you drivers seem to think that your horn is a kind of North Eastern Division toy remarked the Magistrate As Team Mop Bastern Division all is quiet at Leeds, Hull Sheffield, York, and other large towns.
Volunteers are freely respond
Ing.
Midland Division
In the Midland Division there are improved train services,
In the North Midland Division there are ample volunteer labour and road transport.-
Food ships are being unloaded" at Grimsby, and the contents being dispatched without difficulty.
when Mr H Brister gave evi dence of the continual tooting along Chater Road and also easti mated the speed of the ear at 25 miles an hour, &
Accused claimed that it was im possible to go at that speed owing to the road being congested with ricshaw and other traffic: Fines of 20 for dangerous driving, and $10, for sounding his horn annecessarily were imposed..
that he did certain criminal acts, in the case of stealing that he took and carried away an article with the intention of converting it to his own use. But the peculiarity of conspiracy was that an agree ment had to be proved between two or more to commit a criminal offence or anlawfully by criminal means. The first fact the jury had to bear in mind as necessary, for the proving of the constitution of an offence and for a verdict of guilty to be in their minds estab lished was that two persons should have been involved in the series of acts which went to make up the alleged offence:
The International Federation of French seamen refuse to work on the road transport workers have S. L. Yen, manager of the Dragon. I was all that was necessary to con-
Trade Unions has requested:
all centres. to open relief funds
for the British strikers. The
Dutch Federation has sent a first instalment of £50,000.
French coal ships bound for Great Britain and have order ed the dockers not to coal or victual British vessels.
On charges of falling to produce his driving licence when asked to do so and passing a moving vehicle "In the South. Midland Division on the wrong side of the road, Mr. remained at work on a considerable Garage, was fined $5 for each scale except at Southampton.offence.
Volunteers are coming in in such numbers that that the supply avail from Edinburgh is believed toable for electrical and mechanical
work exceeds the present needs.
Numerous Oxford undergradu- ates are working at the docks.
Eastern Division.
Several cases were heard at Lon-The derailment of an express
Chesterfield, and Newcastle of
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TRANSPORT IMPROVES:
don, Nuneaton, Middlesbrough, be due to foul play by strikers, rioting, impeding the Police,The Belfast Dockers have struck: and circulating false news. The sentences ranged from a month to three months' hard labour, Alexander Auld, local Secretary of the General Workers" Union at Shap, has gone to prison for three months for urging the workers not to join the Special: Constabulary,
Three railway accidents the first since the strike occurred yesterday......
An official communique by the
Government describes the situa
Detailed Review of the Position.
(Reuter's Service)
London, May 10
The week opened with an appre- ciable all-round improvement in transport as evidenced by Im- proved train schedules posted at the stations.
Motor buses are running on tion as well maintained. Ar-moat of the routes, and their capa rangements for the distribution city is in no way overtaxed.
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Agreement Necessary. For instance, supposing they found that the first prisoner had done the alleged forgeries they must bear in mind that the charge involved the agreement in a con- spiracy of others. Mere agreement
fact very rarely in which mere stitute the offence but it was in agreement alone, was proved. If people, for instance, were to enter for criminal purposes into a writ
the ten criminal agreement chances were that no evidence. other than the proving of the document and of the genuineness of the signatures, would be ad duced. As a general rule, how ever, facts going to prove crimin- al intentions were produced.
But persons acting with criminal Chefoo and has decreased moderate-intent did not as a rule enter into ly to alightly elsewhere. The a written partnership. What one Chinese depression is moving east." usually found in a case of this ward across Korea. Another de-kind was an allegation that con- pression is shown over Indo-China.
THE WEATHER
For the 24 hours ending at noon to-morrow the forecast is SE The Eastern Division ia all quiet.winds, moderate; fair." A demonstration of 20,000 The Observatory report issued at strikers at Norwich was peacefully 11 o'clock this morning states that conducted, there being no inflam-pressure has increased slightly at matory speeches,
"FRONT UNBROKEN."
Trade Union Congress Claims..
London, May 10
CANTONROW."
spiracy had been formed and a series of facts produced in evid- ence from which the jury were asked to judge whether or not the inference could be drawn that. the acts were committed in the pursuance of common criminal purposes. Such was the nature was stated that the prisoners formed an agreement and entered Into a conspiracy to defraud and that in pursuance of that agree- ment they did certain acts from which agreement itself could be inferred.
of milk, food, and petrol were Volunteers are arriving every decision to call them out. reported as a result of a fracas of the charges in this case
yesterday the most successful where in gratifying numbers.
London and Home Counties. Omcial announcements show
since the strike. The unloading and transportation of commodi- ties is approaching normality. that the situation in London and The position in regard to the sup-the Home Counties is unchanged. ply of light and power is satis-Ample transport is available at all
rub-centres. have Three hundred Cambridge under- railway services improved, and one-fifth of the graduates went to Hull yesterday regular staffs are working. to assist in unloading at the Disturbances are few, and the docks...
factory.
The
Police have complete control The London area is generally quiet, though a police, sergeant everywhere.SARMAZEN
A Trades Union Congress com munique states: "Our front remains unbroken" and the difficulty is to keep other men in pending any It quotes a message from the National Union of Railwaymen declaring that reports that some men have returned to work at different centres has been proved to be entirely without Toundation.
It also quotes a message from the Transport Workers Union that
F
all are solid and their spirit won derful Men
A Queer Message. The communique adds that the Trades Union Congress has re
Several serious, casualties are at Kwangtung University, Can ton, on May 7 (National Humilia tion Day). The Leftists of the Kuomintang assembled at the University and are alleged to have assualted a number of men sus pected of opposing political views The Rightists held their de
East Parade
monstration ground.
You He was
Another feature of the case of conspiracy to which His Lordship addressed the special attention of the jury was that: Dosing they were in fact satisfed that spiracy was proved
therance of criminal would be others. The same spiracy was proved and proved against 2 in criminal purpose. would be evidence the jury must first
In the Commons Mr. Lloyd George was struck with a hammer and a message from the Master Chinese boy received injuries ber 1 prisoner, sets by
ventilated a grievance that the special constable was stabbed in broadcasting authorities had the back at Nine Elma. refused to issue the peace North-Western Division. appeal of the Archbishop of The altuation in the North Canterbury, and that it was not Western Division is that transport published in the British la moving satisfactorily "Gazette." He was placated by There have been no developments Mr. Winston Churchill promis regarding the proposed strike of ing Insertion in the British lairages at the Birkenhead four Gazette at the earliest possible, mille, but on the whole the stun Tramway men have resumed work tion is nasier.
at several centres and at Bath Northern Divinlon railwaymen signed on as non- Unioniste. GOT
British wireless message says that no fresh development has
"Buywhere.
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of Balliol and the Master of Oxford to the
forehead. when University (sic!) earnestly hoping knocked down
Road Bast yeste for the future peace and unity the country and that nothing may to the Government Civil Hospi be allowed to stand in the way of but not detained.
attempt to rename the negotia
The senders state, this reg solution was signed by 68 Fellows and 130 other graduate
Linlawful
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