WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1926.
THIRD IN HISTORY.
LETTER.
"TIGER'S
THE CHINA MAIL.
APPEAL TO END WAR. MURDER CHARGE..
INDIANS JAILED.
FRENCH 'NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEETS.
ECHOES SENTIMENTS OF FRENCH PEOPLE.
CHINESE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE:
COILING WATER THROWN ON FIGHT; AT THE VOLUNTEER
SLEEPERS,
STABLES.
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SINKING FUND PROBLEM.
Paris August 10.
For only the third time history and the first time in 2 years the National Assembly met to-day to deal with the Constitutional "quer tion at the Palace of Versailles, namely, to embody the Sinking Fand statutes in the Constitution and thus remove the kernel of last week's legislation from the destrue-" tive hand of the legislator.
Renatek voto over Bills passed by the "Chamber.
AMERICAN ADMISSION.
New York, August 10. in a leader on M. Clemenceau's
toward the United States."
OUTLINE COUNTRY'S MISERIES MAN'S STRANGE CONDUCT.
1st.
HEAD GROOM ASSAULTED.
Peking. July 28.
A Chinese unlicensed hawker M. R. Kotewall, of, 18 Ice The Chinese National United | was charged at the Central House Street, and Mr. R. Yung letter to President Coolidge the Chambers of Commerce have sent Magistracy yesterday with the Hee, of 64 Kennedy Road, were New York Times" says that no- out the following telegram, printed murder of another man and caus- said to have made a timely ap body knows better than M. in the Shih Chich Ti Pao:
ing grievous bodily injuries to pearance to stop a desperate fight Clemenceau that his action in up-
To the Cabinet. Tupana, Civil three other persons by pouring between Indian grooms at the pealing to President Coolidge Governors, legal bodies, and news boiling water
Defence over them at 18 Hongkong Volunteer. most irregular. M. Clemenceau can- paper offices of the various pro- Rutter Street on July 13,
Corps stables at Causeway Bay, Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Assistant four of whom were charged be not be ignorant, not merely from vinces: Previously we sent a tele- a legal viewpalat, that he lays him-gram to Marshala Chang Teo-lin Crown Solicitor, in opening the fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the
Wa Pel-fu, Ganerals self open to n erushing refutation and
Sun case for the prosecution, said that Central Magistracy, this morn as regards promissory netes." Chuan-fang. Yen Hal-han, the the defendant and the victim with ing with assaulting their head The Palace and gardens arc
France gave them by order of M. commanders at the front. Generals, their families lived together. man. lowed to sight-seers during thei
Clemencenu himself.
Chiang Kai-shih, Tang Sheng-chih. After a few days of his marriage All the defendants pleaded sitting of the Assembly, which
The paper points out, however, Yeh Kai-shin, Chae Hengstf, and the in October, the defendant acted in guilty to the charge. The fourth the Government hopes will con- that what must be considered leaders of the Kaominchun, describa strange manner and beat hia defendant made a statement in elude in a single-day provided it is the fact that M. Clemenceau'sing the war-stricken-condition of wife until in May this year the which he alleged that threats of able to forestall the anticipated |
merchants and the people.woman left him. undoubtedly express the utterances aetion of the Socialists to preft by the prevailing sentiment
dismissal and abusive language of the We are the centre for all the enam- On the night of July 18, a used "by the complainant led to the orrasion to seek a zevision ef the Constitution and curtail the Kreat majority of the/French people bers of commerce of China, and we mother and her two sons were the fight. The reason for this, he feel that Wo represent public
wakened by a pan of boiling explained, was that all four of I concludes by asking, when pinion when we appeal for peace.
water thrown over them by the thêm had refused to pay a sum of France has ratlard the debt "In the south, the troops at Wa- defendant, who was seen to be $8 which the complainant was in The processlings opened by the settlement, ought not Americana chang and Hankow are going outstanding near the bed with a fan the habit of receiving wverwhelming defeat of Con-
tu open their ༤!!# to the to ight Tang Sheng-chik, and in the in his hand.
"squeeze from each man month- hunist motion designed to prevent
• Jk &tt for general reconsidera-north the troops of the Fengtien,
One of the injured persons died ly, the Government opposing amendy
tion of the readjustment of Chih and Shantung "parties at ments to the agenda. — Reuter,
two days later. Defendant was The complainant attributed the war debts before many years have Hankow, Shansi at Tatung, and then charged with murder, and ir attack on him to the fact thas he Communists Obstructivo, «
11)AH!': "That idea is evidently Jehol at Dolonor all are preparing reply he denied the charge, adding had dismissed the second man for Versailles, August 10. winning more acceptance in this to attack. Neither victory or de- The town and Palace are bath-leountry, among those who have fest is in sight, but the people can that his wife had been taken allowing a horse to get cut by barbed wire through neglect of ed in sunshine. Special trains con- given their minds to the real signi¡ no longer bear the dally suspense. Mr. Hazlerigg said, the evid his order to keep together while veyed from Paris Senators, Be-ficance in the long run of Wari "In Chekiang and, Hundh, there puties, and Pressmen, hut muay, in debts. There is no doubt that its are floods, the worst in a hundredence would be to the effect that out on exercise on Monday morn
neither the deceased noring. eluring 31. Boinenre, motored. spread will be hastened by the years. In Chili the war has left
his family had. anything C. S. M. Charles said that there Gendarmerie were much in eye-irregular but impressive words of empty nine houses out of den. to do. with the wife had been a long standing griev 'dende,
M. Clemenceau. Reuter.
Taxes have been collected for years White-hired" Deselves, as Presl- "Bit of French Politics.** In advance. Cual cannot be taken going away and that there had ance between the four men and tent of the Senate opened the pre-
New York, August 10,
from the coal-elds, fer the military been no quarrel between them. the head man and they had done Perdings at Dute. The issue of the Although the leader in the "New has taken over the railroads for. He did not propose to comment everything to make things an vote on constitutionalising ihe York Times is tactful and con- its own purposes. "Because fuel and the man's mental state, as picasant in an endeavour to get Sinking "Fund being assured, mear cillatory, the general opinion of food is a in Kalgan and Sulyuan, medical evidence would be called rid of him. He had not heard of
the alleged "squeeze" and hej here were in a hajiday mood, many the newspapers is that the United the people of the capital are facing later.
thought the real reason for the d them beth in holiday attire. States will ignore M. Clemencent's famine. A great deal depends on
attack was the dismissal of the The chief presccupation of all, letter and that the opinions Ap-the merchants, but the merchants
second man by the complainant, except the Socialists and Com-formally expressed by President also are hard-prossed. The mili-
who was responsible for the run-! mupists, who seemed bent an ab- Coolidge more or less represent the tary, authorities tax them without struction. was to get through with general feeling of the country.
ning of the stables and engage. mercy, little realising that it in as
ment of.groots. The business as quickly as possible" Even the Democratic paper, the though they hail drained a poñd'of tolay if possible, but the long New York World,” takes this view, water to more easily catch all the formalities absorbed the morning its special correspondent ini fish. And what happens to the and part of the afternoon.
Washington declaring that officials money which is lost by the people The Assembly began by adopting |éontemplate that no reply will be and the merchants? 11. goes to males which were identical with addressed to the letter, which they foreign countries, in return for those of the Assembly of 2871 with describe as a bit of French politics, munitions.
abstreperau.
100.
A Committee of both Houses are meanwhile preparing & report „on the B constitutionalising the Sinking Fund. --Reuter.
Socialists Outyoted,
Versailles. Later. The National Assembly by 671 votes Po 144 constitutionalised the
Sinking Fund when the Assembly
resumed in the afternoon.
SUNK SUBMARINE.
AN ADDITIONAL LIFE LOST.
London, August 10:
The bodies of the victims of the 1329 are still unrecovered. Night-
most advisable."
COUNCIL SUED BY MANUFACTURERS.
Away.
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The case was adjourned.
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OLD THEFTS.
DISHONEST HOUSE COOLIE JAILED.
EUROPEANS' LOSSES.
With the arrest of a Chinese
man
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His 'Worship diabchieved the story for the defence and sen- tenced each of the defendants to! seven days imprisonment. They were further ordered to sign bonds on $109 personal surely to keep the peace for twelve months. TRADE MARK CASE.
CHINESE SUMMONED FOR INFRINGEMENT,
the addition of an amendment limit-Sooner or later, the officials hop:| "Military affairs are without! ing the number and duration of the French people will learn that doubt important, And it is true who had previously worked as a speeches. This was adopted in the there is no hope that the United that they are not the affairs of the house coolie at European resid- teeth of Socialist and Communist States will revise the debt compact. merchant class. But it is for the ences, three old larcenies were opposition. The Communists, as The "New York World" sake of the people as well as for proved against the man when he usual, were noisily but harmlessly adds that the letter ia ourselves that we speak, asking that was brought before Mr. J. H B. only calculated. to. enhance we be allowed to suffer no mere Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy M. Poincare read the text of the the bitterness of the French against The people are weary of death. yesterday and charged with theft. "AJINOMOTO" POWDER. single Article to be added to the the United States, whilst it cannot Let the fighting stop at once. The charges against the Constitution and after further dis-affect the question to which it is Give the country a few years rest, and in connection with which Three Chinese firms were sum-¦ cussion on points of procedure the directed.--Reuter.
and then settle the military disputes evidence was given by the Euro-moned before Mr, R. E. Lindsell Assembly adjourned till the after-
in such a manner as then seems peans concerned were (1) steal at the Central Magistracy this ing $350 belonging to Mr A. morning for an infringement of a Thomson, of the Tai Tam Tuk trade mark by having in their FAILURE IN STRIKE. cigarette case, the property of Mr. favouring powder ("Ajinomoto") Reservoir; (2) stealing a silver possession for trade purposes a G. R. Haywood' a local solicitor, other than the genuine article. with the alternative charge of Mr. L. R. Andrewes, represent- receiving the case knowing the ing the complainant, Hachiji same to have been stolen or un- Imura, of Praya East, said that " London, July 22.
lawfully obtained and (3) steal- the trade mark was registered in Stratford Magistrates heard to tong pumping operations ceased day an unusual charge arising out ing a gold wristlet watch from 1922. He submitted that the in- this morning, owing to.the presence of the General Strike. >
Mr. Haywood's mother-in-law, fringements extended to the out- of other vessels in the basin. Two' A
number of manufacturing there also being an alternative side wrapper on the tins, a label feet of the conning tower are now firms, which are in the electricity charge of receiving.
on the lid, and a chop. Further visible, but the submarine is fasten-supply area of the Walthamstow been in the service of Mr. Thom- used for refilling with a faked Defendant denied that he had that the original tins had been ed to a wall,
Council summoned, the Couner for: The Admiralty announces that an failing and neglecting to supply son. Regarding the second and powder. additional life was lost on the H29, complainants with curent and third charges, he said he picked Mr. W. B. Hind appeared for namely, that of the engine fitter energy, which were cut of from up the cigarette case in one of the the defence of one of the firms ali who was aboard when the sub- May 6 to May 12, contrary to the lodgers' rooms, while the watch and Mr.. D. McCallum for the The National Assembly to en murine sunk. He must have been Electric Light Act.
was given to him by the owner other two. Possession was ad Torce the ruling of the President. killed.-Reuter.
The Council pleaded not gility.
(then Mrs. Searle), as a "eum mitted by Mr. Hind, who said that Their Engineer gave, evidence shaw" when she left..
his clients acted innocently in Rugby, August 10.
that all the Council employees hal Defendant was convicted on all offering for sale the goods which turnult. He was neveral times) The cause of the submarine diaas- given an ultimatum to the Connell three charges. On the first count had been bought from the Po Wo warned and finally the President, ter is unknown, and the Admiralty that they would go on strike unless he was sentenced to six months' compradore of Hing Loong Street. appealed to the Assembly to au announces that an official enquiry power supplies for commercial pur hard labour, four months on the Mr. McCallum said he was in the thorise M. Doriot's expulsion.will be held as soon as the vessel poses were discontinued. He ad-second and four months' on the same position. Assent was given, and the Socialists has been raised.
mitted that kinemas were supplied. third. The second term to run' Evidence of the purchase was and Communiats then rose and sang Salvage parties were at work The Court fined the Council, 20 consecutively with the first and given by the manager of the firm revolutionary songs, hooting and throughout the night by the light shillings in respect of each day the the third concurrently, making a represented by Mr. Hind. Under whistling. Finally at the Pro of fares and "searchlights, and supply was cut off and 25 gunens sentence of ten months' hard cross-examination. witness ad-
ident's request General Pelletier divers made many attempts to enter coste. Times of Ceylon." labour in all.
mitted that the complain- I one armed Veteran commanding her but in vain.
ant paid -several visits to Versailles, entered with four men After ten feet of water had been
his shop before he eame and corporal and tapped M. pumped out of the Dock basin, it?
on the last occasion with Sergennt Duriot on the shoulder and wis decided to attempt to raise the|
Brittain and seized his stock con- M. Dorios sunken aubmarine bodily, and the
sisting of three large and two yessel is being slung on wire haw
small tins..
The Socialists violently attacked the proposal, hurling insults at M. Poincare. A tumalt broke out and the sitting was suspended, being resume later.-Reuter.
Disgraceful Scene.
Versailles, August 11. Sakljers were called in
A notorious Communist, M. Doriol, was largely responsible for the
enested him to follow.
obeyed.--Reater.
MIXED COURT.
BRITISH ATTITUDE HONOURABLE.
NO BARTER FOR TRADE.
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A Secret Method,
sers. Offcials hope to raise her by
a secret method, which is to be
MARSHAL FENG.
SAID TO HAVE LEFT
MOSCOW..
Peking, July 20. Rumours of the impending re-
tried for the first time. British turn of Marshal Feng Yu-haiang to Wireless Service.
DUGGAN'S FLIGHT.
ARRIVES OVER THE RIVER PLATE.
Kalgan are again revived in the local Chinese press.. According to
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PEAK HOSPITAL:
ESTIMATED LOSS TO GOVERNMENT,
$13,640 FOR YEAR.
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COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN THE MAIL.”
Mr. Andrewes proposed to call the evidence of Sergeant. Brittain As to seizure of the goods...
Further hearing of the sum- the Shun Tlen Shih Pao.. Chinese When the Peak Hospital was mons was adjourned until Mon- diplomat has received a telegram taken over Anancially by the day afternoon. from Mr. Cheng Yen-hai, Chinese Government at the beginning of the Charge in Moscow, reporting the year it was thought possible to Shadows Before. Shanghai, Augurt 11.
departure of Marshal Feng for make payment of salaries and other Mr. Alexander Fishman, the well-
Kalgan via Urgh on the 21st instant expenditure out of receipts. known Russian barrister, in the
He is expected to make a brief stop has, however, been decided that course of an interview with a Rus-! Buenos Aires, August 10.
at Urga and to be able to reach gross receipts must be paid into sian journalist regarding the Mixed Duggan, the Argentinian airman, Pintichuan at the end of this month. revenue and expenditure must be Court, declared that rendition woule has arrived over the River Plate. Other press reports, allege that the charged against the votes for such
Entertainments.
give Russians an entirely new and Reuter,
Augude different status. In spite of the fact (The last news of Duggan was Christian veneral has already expenditure passed by the Finance
11-Queen's Theatre; Committee of the Legislative "Circe. The Enchantress." that the Russians had lost their contained in a Para cable of June reached Urga.
The Yi Shih Pao gives prominence | Council.
August 11-Star Theatre; "The- extrality, the Russians in Shanghai 20, which stated:-The Argentin- were at present under the authority an airman, Duggan, who has been to the report that General Li At their meeting to-morrow the Prodigal Judge":"Too of the Mixed Court, but after ret missing since June 13, has arrived Ming-chung. Tutang of Suiyuan, Finance Committee, will be asked Business,"
August 11-World dition he expected that they would safely at Vigla (a town in Brazil and General Liu Chi, former Mayor for a vote of $9,000. The estimated
District, expenditure of the Peak Hospital The Limited Mail" Lunder purely Chinese Courts suo on the bank of the River Tocantin) of the Metropolitan
arrived in Shanghai the other day for 1926 was $34,782, and it was
Auctions. ordinate to the Supreme Court in with his companion.]
from Moscow via Vladivostok, Inter-anticipated that the revenue would August 12-Miscellaneous goods viewed regarding their mission they amount to $25,000, thus showing 4 will be sold at the F.W.D. Store, declared it non-political Reports, deficit of 39,782 The result of the Bullock Lane, Wanchal, by Lam- however, perefst that they are try first six montba working shows that mert Bros.. 11 a
7
Peking..
Mr. Fishman declared that the
movement of the foreign Bar had
Leen entirely misconstrued. They had no selfish motives, but desired to 808-Courts established such as would bring justice and order.
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