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MURDER TRIAL.
Shoulder-Blade Figures In Evidence.
EXHUMATION RESULTS.
Sequel to Guild Affray in Market.
SEED
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
FINAL MEETING.
Imperial Conference Closes.
ADDRESS TO THE KING.
The Crown As the Symbol of Unity.
The shoulder blade of a man killed in, the Western Market Affray of Sept. 5, when members of rival Guilds are alleged to have come into conflict. figured various committees,
Rugby, Nov. 23. The Imperial Conference, which
As
began on October 19. concluded to-day after holding sixteen plenary
scauiods and 146 meetings of the
CANTON PLANS.
General Chang Kai-shek Interviewed.
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STARTLING STATEMENTS.
Treaties Soon to Be instantly Abrogated.
CONSTRUCTIVE MEASURES.
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24, 1926, PRICE, $3.00 Per Month."
LOCAL SHARES,
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QUESTION OF LOCALITY.
One Association Expected to Move..
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ANOTHER PIRACY.
Soldiers And Officers Killed.
"WAI HOL" OUTRAGE.
Maryknoll Missioners Held in
"Captivity.
From the point of view of the
The news of yet another piracy. man in the street, interest in the has reached the Colony with the Hankow-Canton Ballway To Be so much what stocks will be in Maryknoll sisters
Hong Kong share market is not returi to Hong Kong of the seven who were Completed.
the near future, but rather what briefly reported this morning to will happen as regards the two have been held in captivity. It evidence in the trial at The final resolution of the con-
Peking, Nov. 24. Heading Exchanges--will one move now appears that they were held the Criminal Sessions this morn-ference expressed the considered General Chang Kai-shek, inter- nearer to the other again? under guard in a narrow state- ing of the prisoner charged with view of the delegates that not only viewed by a foreign correspon- Only quite recently the Stock room for more than sixty hours, murdering the man ir question,
the actual work done but the opdent at his headquarters during Exchange, popularly referred to Tho. sisters, in company with portunity which the Conference had the week-end stated that the pre-as the "first exchange," removed the Rev. W. A. Fletcher: Acting The shoulder blade was detach-afforded for intimate consultation sent revolution would pot cease from Ice House Street to Ex-Pastor of the Yeungkong Catho- ed from the body of the allegedly and the strengthening of friend until extrality, foreign concer-change Building. Some of its lic Mission and four Chinese ser
Buit. The vants, were on board the steamer murdered man after an exhuma ship will be of the greatest impor-sions and the "unequal treaties members followed
Sharebrokers' Association remain-"Wai, Hoi" at the time of their tion made at the request of the the Empire unity of thought and
tance in promoting in all parts of had all been abolished;
After the successful termina-ed at offices in Jce House Street,way from Kongmoon to Yeung- defence, conducted by Mr. H. S. co-operation in action.
For business convenience in kong. The "Wai Hot" is a former tion of the revolution, all the for- Fitzroy.
An address to the King on the eign treaties would instantly be the past, brokers and authorised Wuchow boat.
The steamer left Kongmoon Conference abrogated and foreign 'supervi- clerks used to stand in "Brokers' conclusion
Alley" and pot through their last Friday at about 1 p.m. and] stated:
transactions there. Now it means five hours later a dozen or more a walk of 50 yards or so and well dreaan Chinese who had em ascent or descent in a lift,
barked a passengers, suddenly Competitive Advantages. produced arms, and disclosed Advantages have been pointed themselves as pirates.
The soldier guting on the out for both localities. The argu- ment for fee House Street is that bridge were shot and killed, also clients need not enter buildings those in the monition room. where their movements would be The purser, Cashier and clerk so obvious. One can casually were also killed. stroll through "Brokers' Alley" without being associated with a All deck passengers were then shere deal, it is argued.
taken into the hold by the pirates
Referring to the exhumation in the course of his opening address to the jury this morning, Mr. A. Dyer Ball, acting for the Attorney-General, said that it had not taken them much further
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Minett was able to say was that the wound might have teen caus: ed with such a dagger as was in the possession of the accused when arrested. Dr. Minett was also of the opinion that the actual fasure of the bone was probably not in the same condition when. the exhumation: was carried out
of the
"We have found in all our de liberations a spirit of mutual) gopdwill and an earnest destro for co-operation in promoting the prosperity of the several parts of the Empire. The foundation of our work has been a sure know-T lodge that of each of us as to all your Majesty's subjects the Crown is an abiding symbol and emblem of the unity of the Bri tish Commonwealth of Nations." Premiera Speeches."
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The other side points to the con- and Father Fletcher and the sis- MACKINTOSH gestion of ricehas in the old place ters were placed in the stateroom
and the desirability of conducting where they were held under guard' business in up-to-date premises, for over sixty hours.
away from the public gaze.
Restricted Business,
The steamer was taken by the pirates to Chek Pei where it was
A leading broker said that the run into a narrow stream and volume of business for settlement as soon as low tide came the yesterday was very small boat was left high and dry. The hundreds and thousands and not pirates were then joined by others in millions of dollars as on bound and all the belonging of the pas times.
were rifled, threats of This was due to there being death being held out to any who very little forward business, tran refrained from disclosing valu-
ables. sactions being confined mostly to cash deals.
Cargo Looted. In forward business, contracts On Saturday, the whole day were now essentially between was devoted by the pirates to the brokers and client and it was not looting of the cargo which was Change of Capital.
every broker who made such removed frora the holds to the contracts. Before the slump a pirates' stronghold inland. The China would be removed to Wu-ment was between broker and cases, of kerosene, a large ship- Within a month the capital of substantial part of the settle-cargo consisted of five hundredi
of government would prevail. chang, and the committes form broker, but this did not exist toment of food supplies and articles
of furniture. day. General Chang Kai-shek ex
All of the passengers were pressed friendliness towards
Detailing the extent of the Mr Mackenzie King the Cena- wound in the left shoulder, as ob-dian Premier, and that throughout! served in the original post mor- the Conference there had been a tem examination, Mr. Dyer Ball striking "readiness to understand said that it had gone through the and appreciate one another's point sion of the: Customs, Post Office, flesh tissues and muscles and of view and special difficulties. and Salt Gabelle would be abolish penetrated right through to the the greatest achievement of the ed. He would not gree to grad bone. Dr. Gray it the vine had conference was the evidence it hadual abolition of extrality pending taken the dagger found on the afforded of common standards and the adjustment of the Chinese accused and fitted it into the fundamental unity of purpose and law courts. He declared that the aperture made by the implement ideals, and a desire to work out a revolution was not confined to used and it had fitted in exactly sound basis for" enduring co-opera-securing the downfall of Imper Another significant fact was that tion.
ialism in China alone but, was aim a piece of the bone had been! They carried away a friendshiped at securing a similar result in chipped off the shoulder blade and greatly strengthened between all other countries. the dagger found in the posses-parts of the British Empire through. sion of the accused had its point personal contact. and an enhanced turned as if by meeting, with appreciation of the greatness of the considerable force. something.common inheritance they shared which had resisted.
The Australian Premier said that Five Mortal Wounds.
in some directions it might perhaps The deceased, when the post have been impossible to go as far mortem examination was carried as individually delegates might out, was found to have sustained have liked, but in other directions ten wounds, any one of five of the Conference had which would have killed him. epoch-making advance. The medical evidence was to the effect that seven out of the ten could have been caused by the dagger in question.
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the main, were for the river bank and pirates armed ed that any country holding ter. quiries, in ritory outside its own natural small lots which buyers wanted to with huge knives mounted as borders was imperialistic.
lock up for short periods with a guard. "The night was bitterly view to making a working profit cold and no covering was given them.. In the opinion of the only, The Powers willing to abrogato
Asked why there self-governing nations, all former treaties and return material improvement in the now reached Hong Kong, the in-
no Maryknoll missioners who have Parisiana jealous of their autonomy, yet the concessions and offer recoglocal share market now that the tention of the pirates is to hold proud of their Imperial unity.nition in a friendly spirit would boycott had been settled, another these passengers to ransom. feel that our status as individual be considered friendly Powers, broker briefly explained several nations has been increased, while Those unwilling to recognise contributory causes,
Friendly Powers.
. Detailing the Incidents of the fight which décurred in the West- ern Market district about eight, o'clock on the morning of Sept. 6.. Mr. Dyer Ball said that the fight- ing centred mainly around New Market street. At a certain stage of the fight, those who were being attacked · blew, police whistles. The attackers turned in their
He thought the Conference might Government was to continue the tracks, and became the pursued well be proud of its mutorialrevolution until the entire coun- instead of the pursuers. The achievements which marked a very try was linked to the cause. two deceased were among those definite step forward on the road of who had originally been attacked and they, together with another, ran after their attackers.
at the same time the prestige of China on this basis were not.. the whole Empire has been con essential and were not wanted. siderably enhanced.".
One of the deceased did not get further than the corner of On Tai and New Market street, where he collapsed from wounds previ- ously received but the other do- censed, with whose murder the prisoner was charged, followed for
imperial progross.
General Hertzog, the South Afri can Premier.aald:
I shall certainly leave this conference with a feeling that do not think often happens in the
(Continued on Page 7.)
Boner
I
Was
Pirated. Again.
The missioners were allowed to
The exchange banks, he said, remain on the "Wai Hoi" with
The intention of the Cantonese are not inclined to finance shares. their servanta and the crew.
Drive Against Peking." Co-operation had already been afforded to General Feng Yu- hsiang for a drive against Peking in the near future..
As regards constructive mea. sures. General Chang Kai-shek stated that the Yangtse would be (Continued on Page 12.)
MORE MINERS BACK. ANOTHER TWENTY THOUSAND
YESTERDAY.
London, Nov. 26.. 410,502 miners are now working, increase to-day of 20,121,
Owners Meet Miners,
Rugby, Nov. 23.
A conference of coal owners and
Last Year's Entanglement. Late that night, the ship was The native banks can get betrefloated and allowed by the ter return from the property mar pirates to return to Kongmoon, ket; and some of them have still they in the meantime making in- to liquidate their holdings of last land with their captives Owing year. S to the Captain not knowing the
Loans were made in pre-strike locality, yet another disaster be times at inflated values so that fell the few remaining on board, Chinese bankers still have shares the ship running on to the mud- on their hands which they were flats the next morning and having forced by circumstances to carry to remain there until nightfall until a change set in. They can-when it refloated. ⠀⠀ not afford to sell out now as prices The missioners belongings and are too low comparatively. Ac-anything else on board left by any money in shares at the ma further gangs of robbers who cordingly, they are not putting the original pirates were taken by
boarded the helpless ship and ..." Should Still Walt, y ........... plundered. The Wai Hol' was Without the funds to manipu-again refloated on Sunday night late, clients cannot do forward and returned to Kongmoon business on any scale. Worse The seven missioners have now still, there are parties whose ob- arrived at the Maryknoll procure, ligations of the June, 1926 settle- unharmed, but naturally suffer. ment have yet to be meting from the reaction of the ter- The opinion is that until there rorising' experience through
a surplus of money in the which they have passed. Colony, it will be very difficult to
ment.
is.
put abares up in value. Once
some considerable distance along of a dagger blow aimed for his the south side of the market into stomach, the prisoner wa
was over. Morrison Street where
his come. strength failed him and he strug- Mr. Dyer Ball emphasised the gled on to the market steps and nature of the implement other collapsed. The police whistle he than the dagger which the pri had been blowing was found
was carrying. It was a elenched in his hand,
heavy iron file wrapped in paper i Straggle With Police.. and together with the dagger, an
Reuter was bloodstated. Witnesses who The chase was then taken up had been in the market when the by a Chinese constable who had fight started would depose to a been detailed for search duty and man answering to the description. was unarmed. Several times in of the prisoner and carrying auch miners to discuss district settle the course of the flight, which instrument having taken part ments began to-day in several of the stocks have recovered suffi lay along Connaught Road, Des in the earlier Incidents referred the larger coalfelds, including ciently, all the old complications Voux Road Central, the prisoner o
Lancashire, Durham, South Wales can be wiped out. Then a fresh turned and threatened the con- The prisoner had been wounded and Scotland.
start can be made, as in normal stable with an iron bur and dag- in the course of his struggle The Council of the Nottingham times, but nobody can way when ger which he held in his hands with the police and whilst in hos shire Miners Association hoe de those happy days will come. The daring the constable to come pital, in answer to questions, he olded that the continuanes of the only advice to holders of invest
had admitted that he was a stoppage serves no useful purpose, ment stocks is that since they have The constable waited each time member of the Ping Wo Guild, and has requested Association mem- waited w long they may as well and was eventually joined by but denied knowledge of the two bers to sign on immediately. a hold on until China New Year at other constables, the prisoner bo- deceased. His version was that In view of the miders":
fon least ing brought to bay outside No. he was leaving the market when of the Government peace" prop 297, Des Viaux Road Central he was attacked and became un the projected Bi where, after a straggle in the conscious. He denied the churge Nations course of which a constable was of murder
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