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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 24,
HANKOW TROUBLE.
Mobs Get Twice Out of Hand Again,
TROOPS ON MOVE.
British General and Staff For Shanghai.
There has been further trouble at Hankow, where mobs have again got out of hand on two occasions.
The British troops now on the way or under orders will com
Shanghai
Admiral Tyrwhitt, Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron, arrived in Hong Kong early this morning from Hankow.
HANKOW INCIDENTS.
Mob Gels Out of Hand..
Rugby, Jan. 23,
According to the latest official information from Hankow, nego- tiations continue between, Mr. O'Malley, the British representa- tive, and Mr Eugene Chen, the Cantonese leader.
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BRITAIN'S FORCES.
A General for Shanghai.
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AMOY LEOPARDS.
University Compound Invaded.
SHOT BY A LONG BOW.
1927.
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PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
FOOCHOW RIOTS.
Refugees Arrive In Hong Kong.
BLIND HOME OUTRAGE,
Details of extensive lootings at ing "leopard" story vouched for Christian institutions and of cruel
From Amoy comes an interest-
arrived in Hong Kong yesterday.
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LIBEL CASE.
N. LAZARUS.
Hong Kong's Only European Optician- "Established Över Forty Years. Manager:-Ralph A Cooper, Registered Optometrist (Canada))
H.K. Electric Co. Sued By Clients.
METER ALLEGATIONS.
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A fiber case the first that hel had had to try for many years, sald Sir H. C. Gollan-was heard at the Supreme Court, this morning.
by two University tachers who acts of mob violence were given
Damages were claimed from the appears that on Wednesday to a "China, Mail representative Hong Kong Electric Company Ltd. general alarm and consternation last night by members of the staff by the Hoo Sing Arm (of 48, was caused by the report of of the Fukien Christian Univer-Lyndhurst Terrace) for statements made as to the Grin having defraud- prise a Division and a British general with full staff is proceeding to worker at the big dam which is sity arriving in Hong Kong qed the Company by tampering with being constructed in the valley their way Home to America. They a meter. Damages were also claime near the Amoy University com- are the forerunners of other re-ed in respect of the removal of # pound that he had sighted three fugees from Foochow and district meter without reason. leopards. .:
comprising foreigners adminis Plaintiffs claimed $1,000, this His report was not generally trating institutions which have being made up of claimed damages. believed until parties from the been looted and the homes of the for alleged libel and for breach of University who beat the hills foreign staff broken up by the contract, it being held that it, yes located one of the animals which mob.
fan implied term of the contract was killed" near the compound.
that the current should not be cut The latest incidents of all took off except after reasonable notice Mr. Farley, of the University Three brigades of troops--one staff, whose hobby is that of place on Friday, the Y.M.C.A. at had been given.
Nantal being looted. Details of Mr. M. K. Lo was for plaintiff's from Home, one from the Medi-mastering the art of the old Eng this are lacking, the "China Mail and Mr. Eldon Potter, K., for the terranean and one from India-lish long bow and other bows, informants only having heard of defendant Company making a division, are. on the caused much amusement by potit by cable as they were on their way or are under orders to pro- ting at it with one of his specimen way from Foochow to Hong Kong. ceed to Cnat
bows Amusement was turned A General of the British Army into amazed appreciation when According to their information payments being made regularly at with full staff is also going direct the professor managed to trans-the two foreigners supervising the beginning of each month for the occurred there.
to Shanghai. The name of the Ax the animal with a couple of the Y.M.C.A. (Messrs. Leek and previous month. Yesterday the Inspector-Gen-general has not yet been made arrows at a considerable distance Munsen) have beer warned that eral of the Customs was discuss public..
A few revolver and gun shots they are on the "black list" of the ing the surtax question with Mr. Other reinforcements include which went home completed the Students' Union there and that their lives are in danger if they T. V. Soong, the Cantonese Minis- the First Cruiser Squadron and a work.
remain.. ter of Finance, when a violent thousand marines,
Another of the leoparda was mob of railway employees at- An understanding has been also killed further off the com-
Student Agitation. tempted to break into the Minis reached among the Powers that pound after all-night vigila by a It is significant that the stud try of Finance where the inter- Shanghai is to be defended, and party of enthusiasts. One brave ents of the Y.M.C.A. School at view was taking place. The doors each of the interested Govern-spirit followed the wounded Nantal (which is separated from of the Ministry were locked be- ments is sending troops to make animal into a cave and there Foochow and the mainland by meter and went away without re- fore more than a few of the mob
despatched it. had entered, but. Mr. Soong's bodyguard were overcome, and several of them were beaten. The mob was eventually dis- persed by troops.
Two disquieting incidents have
a joint force of four thousand.
Admiral Returns. Admiral Tyrwhitt, Commander in-Chief of the China Squadron, arrived in Hong Kong early this morning from: Hankow.
On Friday the British Commis- As H.M.S. "Despatch." on aioner of the Post Office and a Bri- which he came back, entered the tish assistant were confined in harbour, salutes were fired. Ad- their office in the British Conces-miral Tyrwhitt has joined H.M.S. sion for five hours by postal union Hawkins" where his fag has
been hoisted.
NEW SURTAX.
Advice to British Merchants.
Shanghai, Jan. 24.
The British Government having unconditionally agree to the levy ing of the Washington surtaxes, the British Legation advises British merchants to pay the 2% per cent. surtax how being levied in Stang- hai and the 5 per cent. Fuxury sur- tax when imposed!
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pickets who demanded the imme- diate payment of wages for Feb ruary. Their demand had to be granted to secure the release of the British officials.
Home Military Moves.
Meanwhile in pursuance of its policy of taking precautionary measure to defend British lives and interests in China, the War Office has announced that four battalion of troops have been put under ofders to proceed from England to China. They are to be brought up. to colonial estab- ishment by the addition of cer tain mer from section A of the army reserve.
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No naval wireless messages from the Yangtse were received over the week-end.
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Mr. Lay outlining the dacts; ex- plained that the Hoo. Sing had been consumers of electricity aince 1922
A "Low Consumption."
It was on February 23 of last!
year that a Chinese meter reader
had read the meter and commented to an employee that it was register- ing a low consumption, and that it might be necessary to have a look at it. The employee in question thought nothing more of the matter: quent occasions, had a look at the Two Europeans came on subse
bridge) did not go out on strike" porting. On February 26 two One leopard was still at large in the course of the troubles there Chinese workmen went to the firm's when the "China Mail" inform- ants left Amoy.
Tigers have been seen at Amoy before but these are the first leopards to have been seen there.
SECOND $50 PRIZE.
WAS
year or so ago. The Students premises and began to remove the Union which famented the trou-moter. In reply to the manager ble have taken an active part they and that they knew nothing as
As the firm' since in stirring up public feel-to the reason ing against the Y.MC.A. there in the firm's accountant to the Elec- without ourrent, the manager sent consequence. Feeling is all the tric Company's office," and he was more bitter in view of the arrest (reported fully at the time) there would have been no Dr. Sun of one of the student agitators Yat-sen, and if there had been no by one of the Chinese Generals to British hospital at Peking there whom complaint was made when would
Feng Yu-Student Union agitators attempt- been no
ed to take the Y.M.C.A, School: hsiany. Punjabis Leave.
Pror, Soothill concludes: "One by force. This student was shot Part of the 5/2nd · Punjab Regiment, stationed in Hong blushes to have to write these by the general in question as an Kong, left the Colony yesterday things about the British contri- example. The man who actually for Shanghai, and it is under-bution to China's well-being, for made the arrest (a stood that the remainder will they ought to have been written teacher) afterwards committed lasue. leave Hong Kong during this by a Chinese, not an Englishman, suicide and his body was dragged week and may go to Shanghai on Happily there is a large number through the streets. the "Empress of Canada" when of thoughtful Chinese who would she sails on Wednesday,
gladly concur in all I have said."
Mandarin
The "China Mail's" second $50 cross-word puzzle competition is Fublished to-day Full details.
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Details were also given to the told that the firm would be informed China Mail representative yes- by letter of the reason,
"Stolen Curreat. The local detachment of Pun-Reuter..
terday of acts of mob violence
No letter arriving, the manager committed at Foochow a few days Disheartening Ignorance. jabis has the following British
after the incidents which led to of the firm had an interview with London, Jan. 23. officers serving: Commandant, Col. V. Coates: Second in Com-
the Spanish the Manager of the Electric Com- the Professor Soothill has written the looting of
pany, the latter stating to. mand, Major C. TM. Smith; an article to the "Sunday Times Dominican Mission.
plaintiff "you have stolen our wires, Captains, M. Middleton, J. M. on work done in and for China Turned On Streets.
or electricity." The manager of the Hunt, R. A: Slater, M.C., (Ad-by British effort, "in view as he
plaintiff frm vigorously denied this, Between 1.80 and 4 p.m. on stating that the only reason for" & jutant), F. G. Bevis, M.G.O." puts it, "of the disheartening | Leary, M. M. E., H. J. Hawthorn, ignorance and misunderstanding Sunday afternoon Tooting on an decrease in the consumption was.. VR Wright-Neville; Lleuts, existing among the people of Bri- extensive scale was carried out that there was a decrease in busi- G. M. S. Webb (Quartermaster), tain" on the subject. The Pro- Christian educational and ness.
G. D. Upson. and
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TROOPS UNDER ORDERS.
Ready to Leave at Short Notice.
In further correspondence read fessor first pays tribute to the charitable institutions. The most enterprise and honour of British cruel act was the looting of the to the Court allegations were made by the defendant Company that the traders, whose development of Blind School and the turning of wires of the Company had been China's foreign commerce has the blind pupils out into the tampered with, disconnected and re- been more valuable to the Chin-streets. The school buildings versed and that the Company had ese worker and merchant than were rendered untenable and Mr. thereby been defrauded of money
and Mrs. Woods, who were forced! A auggestion made by the Com-: any other interests,
Malta, Jan. 23. He points out that there would to flee in haste, also lost every-pany that $200 compensation be The first Bedfords and Hert- have been no proletariat for thing they had. The fate of the riven and an explanation and under- fords and the first Border Regi- Borodin to mislead and incite bat blind. pupils is unknown. Mr. and taking given by the Hoo Shing Section A consists merely of ments have been ordered to stand for the British, because it is Mrs. Woods are now on their way legal proceedings by the Electric men who accept liability to reby for embarkation, at short around, the British-made treaty to Hong Kong. turn to the Colours during the notice, to China. first two years of their reserve service in circumstances which
The officers at present abroad do not render general mobilisa-have been ordered to rejoin their
battalions-Reuter.
tion necessary.-British Wireless Service.
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"TEST CASE.”
Events at Hankow.
London, Jan. 23. Late to-night official telegram's from China do not show any de- finite change in the situation.
London, Jan. 23. The First Devons is one of the four battalions ordered to China. -Reuter.
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BRITISH EFFORT.
Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen.
London, Jan. 23. Professor Soothill, in his article in the "Sunday Times" on work done in and for China by British effort, points out that the Conces- sions so unjustly inveighed against were meant to be ghettoes
without the pale."
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was not neted upon. The threat of
on by the Company was... acted All the Christian churches in manager of the Hoo Sing who said ports that the proletariat gather- ed, glad to be able to earn even a Foochow were looted on this same that he would be only too pleased Legal argument ensued as to the meagre living, than starvo else day with the exception of a small to have the matter cleared up. where.
Methodist church which the stud- Professor Soothill, shows, the ent and other rioters evidently meaning of the Electric Company'a bye-laws and as to whether they could cut off the supply without! ample benefits conferred not only overlooked.
notice. by British commerce in China, Foreigners Robbed.
His Lordship held the view that but by British introduction of The big Institutional Church communications in cities, as well run by the American Methodiats current could he cut off without
notice. as the conspicuously honest" was smashed up by the mob and services rendered by the Maritime the home of Mr. Gould, the Foo Legal argument also ensued sk to: Customs, particularly in connec-chow city, Y.M.C.A. Secretary, was what constituted libel, whether the tion with charting the coasts, and looted, furniture being taken into sending of a latter by sue firm to a the similar work of the wonder-the streets and burned. For solicitor or agent containing accusa- ful postal service. Reuter..
eigners were dragged from their tions was sufficient publication to homes in the American board Warrant a charge of ilbel.
A practical demonstration was compound and their houses loot- ed: There was no personal viol-gives in Court by an export as to the method by which it was possible Three Missionaries! Plight." ence other than the theft from for the Electric Company to be de- the persons of some of victims. frauded the reversing of wires, Three foreign women, mem-From Dr. Campbell's wife was which made the registering hand go "He describes the amazing bers of the China Inland Mission, taken a new fur coat and a valu-backward instead of forward...
The plaintiff firm's manager gave transformation of these formerly are cooped up in the interior town able watch. Others who suffered unattractive sites.
of Kian, Klangai Province, un-similarly were Dr, and Mrs. evidence and was cross-examined by Meanwhile, with the re-opening After a reference to the de- able to obey the order to get to Beard and Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Mr. Fotter In reply to questions he admitted that, having regard to of business there to-morrow,velopment of industry in Hong pinces of safety on account of the and others.)
the demonstration given and the the Hankown test case" is still in Kong and Shanghai, Prof. Soot-edict issued by the local South-The Fukien Christian Univer-state of the meter when the Elec progress. It is necessary to dia-hill casts light on educational arn commander that any boatman cover how far the Cantonese lead- development.
carrying foreigners without Kuo Bity has as yet not been touched. tric Company had it testad, it look-Januar er is in a position to carry out He says that while we have not mintang passports will be put to The women and children of for-ed on the surface of things, that his promises, and precautionary done all we might, or ought to death, says the Shanghai eigners there have all been the Electric Company were justified Trouble was anti-in coming to the conclusion that measures are being taken only in have done, we have ventured to Times."
One of the woman is evacuated. case of things going wrong. trespass on China's sovereign British, another American, and cipated at the dedication services they did.
As regards further precaution. duties by rendering some not in- the third Russian. Placards have of the new Edwin C. Jones ary measures announced during considerable aid.
been, pasted up in the town warn memorial but 30 Chinese marings the week-end it is re-affirmed He refers to other services, such ing anyone providing them with were sent from vessels in the har that Britial policy is mainly in as famine relief and hospitals. food that he will be severely punbour to protect the property in the direction of negotiation" there, had been no British Téuter.
The many messages from Sir Miles Lampson at Peking dealing with and explaining the course of the negotiations being conducted by Mr. O'Malley at Hankow do not indicate that any dofinite stage has yet boen reached, but the conversations are proceeding normally.
medical work in Hong Kong....
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(Continued on Paso 7.3
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG KONG FOR JAN., 1927.
(Standard Time of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich)
Data
Sunrise Sunset
D.I 7.05. 6.06 7.05 8.06
7.04.
$7.04 6.08
The case is proceeding.
„TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.
7.04
6.09
7.04
the event of trouble.
Continued on rage 12.)
The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 2/0.1/16.
80:
7.08
8.10
81
7.08