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MISHAP TO DANISH SHIP "DANMARK,"
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Steen Caught And Current. Does Rest.
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CANTON STRIKERS.
·COMMANDING GENERAL,
SAYS "MUST STOP."
A VAGUE REPORT.
Disobedience to National-
Government:
Announcement
NEW STOCK OF
HENRY HEATH
that FELT HATS
intenus to deal drastically with strikers on the ground that
ONE ROUGH-HANDLED,
In prosecuting an employee of
The driver and passengers.on un Whilst passing through-Kwong ). a motor garage at Caine Road enat-blund wam car had a mirrow Hoi, in the san Wui district, on for unlawfully wasting water, Mr. escape when a motor truck belong-a tour of the missions in the Ferry passengers crossing the T. Ewing, overseer of the ing to thủ Luen. Yh... Bl... Transbal media tanasi
A de received by the "Wah Waterworks Department, inform-portation Cocoany crashed into the priests find themselves in harbour after nine o'clock this ed the Magistrate this morning vehicle at Queen's Road East, near midst of a bandit attack and Yat Po" makes the rather
startling morning were amazed to find an that the man had connected a hose the Naval at 100 yearveday were not allowed to leave the Canton's present military chief prean-going vessel apparently at to the service pipe at the garage
bandits Who Accessfully stormed and was straying the water on Apparently he delay of the the city. rust with, bows, pointing in the
truck, which was heavily loaded. They were eventually released. direction of the shore and only a; This, he pointed out, was done lost, cotrol his vehicle in over-on giving an undertaking that strikes contravene the rules of
the Revolutionary. Government, short distance from the Clock at a time when every effort wasting the, tru car, and ran into they would bear a message to the
the front portion of the car, taking soldiers who had been seat against leaving for the Northern, front. On General Chang Kai-shek being made to conserve the water tower. Ferries were able to pass supply especially on the higher the hand rail and a portion of the thon and were on the way.
woodwork aw?"
General Li Chai-sum was appoint! without difficulty.
levels.
undertaking also included a return commander of home defence. The extent of the damage done to the captured city bearing an The "Brief statement to the tram bar has been assessed answer to the message but they is not say whether General Li
as cabled! $100,
were dissumhed from carrying out refers to strikers Strictly of Can- the latter part of the agreement by the soldiers with whom they bag, or the so-called "Hongkong. [střikers." The message is "clear eventually got into Loudh.
The bandit chief, into whose will be dyed in putting down to the extent that military force hands they had fallen had been
strikes. responsible, for the capture and!! hokiing to
of other
Post and Press Strike, priests and the two in question Advice from Canton is that the! were nesured that they would postal strike continues and that: either be killed or held to ransom ju (native, subordinate?) em- if they resurned to the city. 1 la ported from Barcelona
ployees were to have come out The troubles of the two priests during the week-end. being the that an attempt was made to as-were not ended with their release end of the month. sassinate General Primo de Rivern. from the city. Whilst there they The Commissioner is quoted as had acted as intermediaries behaving stated, in reply to a re- tween the bandits and the Chinese quest from the employees' tulion,| guarding the fort and this fact, that the demand for an increase | taken into conjunction with coin. of pay must go to the chief com
cidence of their arrival and that missioner in Peking.
The ship hardly had the appear ance of being aground and it was only by the sight of the anchors [still abrogu " that it was to be
gathered that such in fact was the)
cuse.
The ship is the ss. "Danmark" of the East Asiatic Co., Ltd., ofi which John Manners and Co. are the local agents. It was entering!' the harbour at nine o'clock with.
of course, a pilot aboard when the stern guught on the sandbank which stretches some distance Trom the shore. The set of the current turned the ship until she g came to rest in the position now
occupied.
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should do such a thing, defendant Asked by Major Willson why he explained that he wished to make the roadside cool, as the sun had! been too hot on Saturday after
noon:
A fine of $20 was irnposed.
THE WEATHER.
OVERCAST AND SOME
RAIN."
"TYPHOON FILLING UP!
Not very favourable weather is predicted by the Observatory although its reported that the typhoon, since gones northwards, has been ing
Til noon to-morrow, the official forecast for Hongkong, adpoining Const and Formos. Channel reads:-Modérate south-east winds: generally overrast, some vain."
reported --
At 11,1 am, the Observatorý
:
Sandbank Silted Um The sandbank in question was dredgent some time ago to a depth! Pressure has increased möderales of over thirty feet ut is con-ly over N.E. Japan. Changes else tinua ilting up, this being where ape slight since yesterday.
the fact A depression covers China and "plainly apparent from
Indo-China; and feeble anti- that the mean draft of the "Dan-exclone is central between the mark is 28. feet. 11 inches.----- Lonchons and the Bonins.
Ne damage was sustained by
The vessel which came to rest NO CHURCHES gently and is only on soft mud. |
MEXICO.
The grounding took place two CATHOLICS" CLOSE DOWN IN hours or so before lowwater and) at the time of writing it was thought that she would be float- big shortly after one o'clock.
WHIPS AND CANES.
The "Danmark" is a compara-
Mexico City, July 31. All the Catholic Churches close; tively new vessel this being her at noon to-day and all the priests second... run from Europe to the will withdraw as decreed by the Far East and the second time of Mexican Episcopate as a protest against the new Mexican religious laws.
entry into Hongkong | harbour.{ Her gross tonnage is 8,391 and! In order to maintain peace and nett. 3.3-12.41. She has 760 tons of cargo for Hongkong.
SPANISH PLOT.
ATTEMPT ON PRESIDENT'S
**** LIFE.
DAGGER HURÐLUN AT CAR.
Paris, August t
Primo de Rivera.
Paris, later.
Fansom
of the bandits was taken by the "It is interesting to note that refugees from Kwong Hoi who had mails which were expected here: escaped to surrounding districts from Canton on Saturday and as meaning that the bandits and yesterdny have not come to hånd, priests were in collusion. Therustensibly through delay in the had the greatest difficulty in espost. |tablishing their innocence and an- The end of the hewspaper | other Maryknoll priest who ar strike has not been reported. On rived in the district shortly after the other hand. It is believed that their departure was taken from "propósnis have been advanced for his chair at the point of a rifera settlement and these... it is! Land treated mughly,berne stated, are being discussed;
made to march thrbuch the streets, with three captured bang dite..
The matter has beeil reported to the American Consul in Canton,
ANOTHER SHOW.
PROP: LANGSNER TO GIVE MATINEE.
NOTE DATE AND TIME.
In response to many requests for another public demonstration. Professor Maximilian Langsner,
Hero Welcomed.
Detail accounts have reached Canton about the arriyat ve Gén- eral Chang Kalshek in Shikwan and Lokcheong, on his way to the ?battle front.
Four Ruasian advisers, a hig staff and several aeroplanes are with the commander-in-chief. The people of the various towus accorded General Chang a very cordial reception.
One report is that the mere fact of his personal arrival "has caused order, to be restored and outlaws.to disappear from haunts where they exacted toll from the populace.
General Tang Sang-chee, the
"Serious Accusations.".
order a cordon of Police surround but the Premier ascaped unhurt M.L.L.C. has consented to appear Mexico City Cathedral.
and proceeded to Madrid.---Router.at the Theatre Royal for
Assistant Arrested.
matinee on Thursday, August 5 has announced that another ad- pro-Canton commander in Hunan, at 5.33 p.m. prompt.
vance will be made immediately. It is reported from "Barcelona! The Professor's powers i'm that, the Premier's assailant hurled occult science are too well known
from Changsha, into Wu Pei-fu's territory. Ping-kiang is stated in which Primo de Rivera wa were unable to be present on the a dagger at a closed · motor `ear to need repetition. Those who to be his first objective. driving. Nobody was injured, but occasion of the first show will to have been remodelled on the the assailant was arrested-Reu-welcome this opportunity, while
many will want to go again.
Booking
opens at Mogars. Moutrie's to-morrow,
Deportation orders were served Although it is not likely that on the Papal Envoy yesterday damage has been done in view of evening. the fact that the ship. rests only The Government is closing. sealing, and guarding "all struc- on the surf mud surface of the tures containing Church property, bank, it is interesting to note which will be handed over to Citi- that cables are on this bank and zens' Committees. that communication has been in-
Some disturbances occurred last night. terrupted in the past as a result of similar mishaps.
Rains Act Adversely?
A few months
ago "the MV,
People surrounding the Churches were dispersed by streams of water and firemen's hosepipes.
The crowds stoned the At-
and torney-General
judicial
Tonkin. belonging to the same, line. officials whilst they were closing a was ground on the same spit of Church and annexe. The Band. Other vessels have also been lofficials took refuge in the build- in that position. It is thought that ing and the crowd were kept off by whips and canes, finally being the recent heavy rains may have scattered by the firemen. had an adverse effect.
Reuter.
ter.
...
SYRIAN WAR.
TEN DAYS' BATTLE INDECISIVE.
FRENCH DIFFICULTIES.
London, AugustTM 1. The stubborn nature of tho Syrian insurrection is indiented by messages from Egypt, from, which
1.O.U. £4,000,000.
DEBT OF HUGO STINNES'S FIRM.
BRITAIN AS "UNCLE,"
Berlin, July 31.
The Hunan Government is said
style of the Kwangtung provincial government, with General Tang as chairman of the military de- partment.
The Hunan Provincial Assem- [bly is reported to "have denounced General Tang, One accusation against him is that he has levied from the wealthy classes, 50 per cent, of property and 20 per cent. on rental of fields. Non-payment will be severely punished, states the report,
";
BAIL FOR MRS. EDWARD HALL.
ALLEGED DOUBLE MURDER.
Alleged Plot. 'In addition to the 760 tons of
Mexico City, August 1. it appears that the movement cargo for Hongkong there
is spreading Hugo Stinner's firm, which owes SOCIETY SENSATION, are The Police arrested
against the French geven 11.000 tons of general cargo for women and two men, who, it is The Cairo newspaper Le Spoir the German Banks about £4,000,- further ports. From this it will be alleged, are connected with a plot publishes a report from Beirut 000 as the result of the winding to assassinate President Calles, which describes a ten-day battle up of the late Herr Hugo seen that the Dunmark was fairly Those arrested said that they be sinee July 18 in the gardena sur-Stinnes's affairs, intends to pay heavily loaded.
long to a League for the Defence rounding Damascus, in which the off the amount, for which it will. "While waiting for the ship to flont of Religious Liberty.
French troops have been engaged raise a foreign loan,
The Volks Zeitung (Cologne) The Police are searching for hitherto without a decisive victory. off the agents are discharging some the alleged ringleader, Senorita The French razed several villages says that negotiations have been of the cargo (for thin port). The Dolores Lemus, a beautiful steno- and bombarded the Kurdish quar proceeding for some time with a
British group of financers object of this is to save time rather
grant the loan.-Reuter. than because lightening of the ves sel is absolutely necessary to free her from her position.
The report of the Danmark to the Harbour Office gives the follow- ing additional particular- "grounded in 25 feet of water at 91 a.m." Crew of 39 Europeans, 81 passengers.
grapher, and other suspects.
'Hitherto there have been noi serious disturbances in the city as the result of the new religious | regulations-Reuter.
ARMS SEIZURE,
An application was made by the police before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill
ter at Damascus.-Reuter.
U.S. INDUSTRY.
BRITISH COMMISSION IN SEPTEMBER.
A' PRESS REPORT.
at the Kowloon Magistracy this
London, July 31. morning for the confiscation of a The Daily Mail says that the pistol, two revolvers, and 384 Government has decided to send a
COBHAM'S FLIGHT.
ARRIVAL REPORTED -AT MUNTOK
to
Point Pleasant, NJ., July 31, On the ground that "there was no great presumption of guilt," bail applied for at Chief, Justice Gummeres's summer residence, on behalf of Mrs. Edward Hall hua been granted in CWO sureties of $7,500 ench-Router's American Service.,
The
Mrs. Hall was arrested on 24 charge of the double murder of her | husband: (the 'rector of the fashion. [From Ost, Own Correspondent.abie church of St. John's, New Singapore, July 31. Brunswick)' and a 'beautiful mem- Mr. Alan Cobham has left here ber of the church choir.
murder occurred over three yearu ega, and the present proceedings follow allegations concerning on ex-mäld to Mrs. Hall who is said] to have received $5,000 for silence in connection with the murder.
The agents consider that there will be no damage: nor material rounds of ammunition found in small Commission composed of for Muntok on his way to Aus delay in the departure for Shang- the quarters of the Chinese crew leading employers and labour tralia
hul The Danmark was to have
gone to number & Wharf at Kow-
Joon.
on the s.t. "President Jackson." workers' representatives in Sep- No arrests having been made, tember to study industrial re- a formal order was made for the lationship in the United States. confiscation of the arms.
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