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LBLISHED
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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
33 Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley.
No. 25,985
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1928.
CONTRACTORS? CASE- LARGE BANDIT FORCE
AT WUSHAN JUDGMENT
WHERE REMEDY LAY SHIPPING ATTACKED
WHEN POLICE WERE CALLED IN, YANG SEN SENDING TROOPS TO
FOR PROTECTION
"MEMORANDUM IN WRITING"
RESTORE ORDER
UPPER YANGTSZE CHAOS
WILLS OF THREE MILLIONAIRES
DEATH DUTIES
·LARGE SUMS TO GO TO THE TREASURY
..
NANKING TO RESTORE
HER CREDIT
$10,000,000 A YEAR HOW CHINA WILL MEET HER
SALT LOANS
ALL PROVINCES MUST PAY
Shanghai, Todays
HAMBLEDEN'S ESTATE
London, Yesterday. Probate was granted to-day of It is understood that a scheme River must be sorely handicapped the wills of three millionaires. has been worked out for obratil at the moment as considerable
Shipping both under foreign and native flags, on the Upper Yangtsze
ch
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
A REVOLUTION IN MOTOR CARS
NEW INVENTION
AN AUTOMATIC GEAR CHANGE EVOLVED
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BRITISH FIRM'S WORK
London, Yesterday.
Your Eyes Are Safe With Us." LAZARUS.
Hong Kong's Only European Optician. (Established Over Forty Years) ACCURACY SERVICE QUALITY. Manager:
RALPH A. COOPER, Registered Optometrist (Canada) FLO. (London),
FATAL ROADSIDE ACCIDENTS
TWO KILLED.
PORTUGUESE. YOUTH'S MOTOR CYCLE & ABERDEEN BUS
WARP AND WOOF OF EAST AND WEST SIMON COMMISSION
'SIR JOHN'S SPEECH AT FAREWELL DINNER.
MORE CO-OPERATION
London Yesterday.
Sir John Simon, in a speech at a luncheon in the Aldwych Club,
A CHILD'S DEATH.
Two motor accidents, both of
That It is best to have the terme
After five years of secret expert- which ended fatally, occurred yes. mentioned in writing was the advice
mental work, British Arm has terday. given by the Pulsne Judge (Mr. Jus-
evolved a method of automatic A Portuguese youth named referred to the work of his commis- tice P. Jacks) In delivering judgment
gear change for motor cars. The in the Supreme Court this morning. forces of bandits have appeared in Major Hugh Gretton, Director of funds from the Salt revenue to
The case was that in which Tsang the vicinity of Wushan and have Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton, Ltd., the service of loans secured or mechanism, which has been adopt Botelho living at No. 93, Wongnet sibn which is leaving for India on
with rifle are passing
ed, after 50,000 miles test by the chong-road was concerned to the Thursday on a second visit. He Shing, stone labourer sub-contrac-attacked
It is stated that all provinces Armstrong, Siddeley Motors', Ltd., first accident which occurred at emphasised the immense respon tor of No. 14, Fook Say-lane, sued vessels, states a British Naval wire brewers, who died last July, left revenue.
unsettled estate valued for probate
about 2.80 p.m., yesterday. Botelho sibilities of the British Parliament the Wing Hing Lung firm of còn-!
Wushan is in the extreme east of at £1,474,000 with net personalty have agreed to the scheme which manufacturers, for their
powered models, will be on exhibi- tractors for $861.30. Defendanta
the tion at the Olympia motor show was riding motor cycle No. 278 in to the peoples of India and sald counter-claimed for $1,000. During Szechuan province, between Ichang of £1,402,000. His fortune which, has also been approved by
Queen's-road East when near the that in spite of the initial boycott. to his Budget Committee and the DT- which opens on October 11. the hearing, it was alleged that de- and Wanhalen, in a sort of no man's
There is no gear lever; the driv-Junction of Lee Tupgreat he ran eight out of nine provinces had de fendants had to hire Pollee guards and left to freebooters because in the main, is left rivals are on either side.
brother, Colonel Gretton, M.P., is
er marely depresses the pedal and into an 8-year-old Che girl named cided to co-operate with the Com- to protect other workmen from
British ships are among those disposed of 'in a will of 90 words.
adjusts the indicator, mounted on Chen Lai-fong, living on the third mission, the ninth not having yet plaintiff's men.
fired at but, the report continues, The duty on the estate will exceed
the steering wheel, as required. General Yang Sen (one of the
£500,000. belligerents) has despatched some troops to deal with the outlaws,
Mr. A. el Arculli was far plain- tiff and Mr. M. K. Lo for defen- dants. Judgment in the sum of $800 and costs, and on the counter-claim also with costs was given for Mr. Arculli's client. His Lordship read the judgment as follows:-
The Facts
plaintiff, who is a labour contrac-
less message.
The estate of the late James Oxley, banker of Leeds, was pro-
find that it is verbal, unless the visionally proved at £2,774,000. The memoranda made in the books duties on the property of this of the respective purtles can be re-valuation and, according to dis- garded as a written contract, but
This is an action in which the these memoranda contain nothing be. positions of the will, are estimated) tor, seeks to recover from the defen- yond a statement of the price agreed to amount to £1,126,000. dant, who is a building contractor, on which is not disputed. The defen-
A further grant of probate of the the sum of $861.18, being the bal- dants have endeavoured to incorpor-will of the late Viscount Hambleden ance due on a verbal agreement to ate the terms of their contract with respecting settled land, provisional- supply masons for the masonry work the building owner, and the specifica-ly valued at £200,000, has been in connection with the erection of six tion, in their agreement with the issued: Hie unsettled estate had divelling houses on Inland Lot No. Plaintiff, on the ground that these already been provisionally sworn 694 situate in Western-street, Vic- were shown to him before he dellat £2,600,000 British Wireless
vered his tender. He stoutly denied Service.
toria.
this and said that he only saw the
The defendant claims damages for, breach of the agreement which plan from which alone he made his "FLAMING YOUTH” they have limited to $1,000 in order calculations. Much of what is con-
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"RED" YOUNGSTERS OF ENGLAND & CHINA
Mr.T. V. Soong, the Nationalist Minister of Fin-
ance.
high
A feature of the new invention is floor of No. 55, Quen's-road East. finally decided. the silence with which the gear. The child who was knocked down changes and may be effected.-Bri-heavily, received severe injuries tinh Wireless Service.
SHIPPING STRIKE
WATERSIDE WORKERS TO BE REGISTERED
SEAMEN'S ATTITUDE
Melbourne, Yesterday.
Negotiations for the settlement
A Central Indian Committee had which resulted in her death at the been chosen partly by the Council Government Civil Hospital some of State and partly nominated from hours after admission.
the the central legislature by Bus Driver.
Viceroy and was expected to accom- The other accident was reported to pany the Commission through the the police by Lau Fu, the Chinese provinces. driver of Aberdeen motor bus No. 1804.
Sir John Simon mentioned that Acording to Lau; at about 7.40 about 500 memoranda had been re- yesterday, whilst the bus was ceived by the Commission from all
of the strike are still proceeding, proceeding along Pokfulam-road in sorts of bodies in India and else
Sir John 'Simon stressed the point
but the position is most compli- the direction of Hong Kong, the driv
er had suddenly to swerve the vehi-where giving their views on the cated.
Melbourne seamen had decided cle in order to avoid a motor car. existing Indian constitution. to support the waterside workers As a result of the sudden swerving, and refuse to work with the volun-the bus went temporarily out of that the greatest unanimity existed teers. On the other. hand steve-control and it ran into two Chin- within the Commission-Reuter. dores at Port Philip obeyed the ese employees of the Dairy Farm who
Britain's Responsibility transport conference instructions to wore walking along the road in the present themselves for engagement; opposite direction.
A British official wireless report. states:-
Commission on
The Statutory
but none was engaged as the ship- One of the pedestrians, Chan Tong owners want a resumption of work) (80) 928 so severely injured that in the other states before deciding he died in the ambulance whilst on Indian reform" is due to leave Lon- on future plans. Meanwhile, the the way to the hospital. The other don on Thursday for a tour of The tour, during which engagement of volunteers is pro- man, Pau Kam (54) received head India. ceeding space, and 650 are working injuries and is at present in a seri-evidence will be taken by the Com- at Melbourne and 1.122 at Brisbane. ous condition in the Government misalon at various centres, will
The owners declare that the Civil Hospital. volunteers are doing from fifty to
to bring their counter-claim within tained in the defendants' contract with the building owners and the the jurisdiction of this Court.
The facts are as follows:The specification would not concern the
CALL TO RALLY defendant entered into a contract plaintiff at all, other parts might with the building owners on March or might not apply to him, and even
Riga, Yesterday. 2 1927 to contract six houses on those portions which might apply, Inland Lot No. 699 in accordance ought not, I think, to be applied un-
The English and Chinese dele- with a plan and specification, the less specifically mentioned. On the date for the completion of the houses whole I am of opinion that, in the ab- gates at the Congress of the Inter- being Nov. 30, 1927. Some four or sence of express agreement, no part nationale of Communist Youth, in matic Committee of the Nationalist
a separate confer- Government at Nanking. five months later the defendants en- of the defendanta' building contract Moscow, held
Under this scheme, orders will be
hundred per cent. more work tered into an agreement with the and specification applies to their ence to evolve plans of common
sent to all stations under the Salt than the regular dockers. plaintiff, under which the plaintiff their agreement with the plaintiff action with regards to China.
The conference issued a mant-Gabelle for them to pay a certain agred to supply labour for all the to supply masons for the work which masonry work on the six houses for in a contract of a different nature. festo calling on the youth of Eng-percentage of their revenue-month-
A stormy meeting of dock labour- Should Have Finished land and China to rally round they into banks designated by the Naers at Adelaide howled down A the sum of $8,400.
We are acordingly left with no Communist Internationale in order tionalist Minister of Finance.
proposal to resume work. The Date in Dispute
express provisions with regard to to achieve a Bolshevist revolution The date of this agreement la dia. (a) time within which the work in China. puted, but the defendants' manager was to be completed; (b) how and admitted that the plaintiff's men when the plaintiff was to be paid, could not commence work until Oct. and (c) the method in which any
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the defendants said they were satis pleased. It is obvious he could not fied with the progress of the work up complete by Nov. 30, and there is no to that date.
'evidence that any other date was What happened on or about that communicated to him.. date! The plaintiff's men ceased
THE HURRICANE
REGION
West Palm Beach, Florida,
Yesterday.
·H.M. The King's Sympathy
London, Yesterday.
H.M. the King has sent the fol lowing telegram to the President
Stormy Meeting
MISS TOBIN
H.M.S. "SEAMEW" JOINS QUEST
COUNTRYSIDE ROUSED
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last seven months, and Sir John Simon, head of the Commnisaion, was to-day entertained-at-a-fare: well luncheon in London under the chairmanship of the Marquis of Reading, late Viceroy.
Sir John Simon said the British Parliament had immense respon- The total of the annual sum to waterside labourers at Brisbane
sibility to the peoples of India and. be thus secured will be $10,000,- decided to resume work but the!
That H.M.S. "Seamew," one of the it seemed to the Commission that 000 which will meet all Loan re-seamen at Fremantle are supports quirements, namely:-
ing the dockers. The Government new British gunboats on the West they could best act as interpreters The Anglo-German Loan of 1898, is determined to stand by the volun- River has proceeded up in connec to the British Parliament of Indian needs and aspirations if these were The Anglo-French Loan of 1908, teers and is drafting regulations tion with the capture by bandits associated with them in their en- The Hukuang Loan of 1911; whereby all waterside workers must
The Chinese Government Birch be registered, and if they fail to of Miss Tobin of the Church Mis quiry in every province. An in- carry out the conditions their regie- sionary Society, also that the whole alan committee, elected by the Pro Crisp Loan.of '1912.
RAIN"
N.E. winds, fresh, cloudy, oc-
cast until noon to-morrow.
crs.
་་
had
Council, which at first. had résolv-
te first decision and had appoint-
ed its committee. Sir John Simon added: "Our duty is not to enact
7, as the defendants had not laid dispute between the parties was to OVER 2,300 KILLED IN FLORIDA the concrete before then. At this be settled or who was to decide date, seven months of the defendants' when the work had been satisfac- contract time for building the houses, torily completed so far as the plain- had elapsed and less than two months tiff was concerned.
It should be noted that the Retration will be cancelled and they countryside is roused, causing vil vincial Legislature, would art as remained. During the ensuing fivej With regard to the time limit the
Red Cross estimates of the death organisation Loan is not included in will be unable to secure employ-lagers to join in the hunt, and that their colleagues and assist in their two parties of troops are in pursuit investigations. It was a. deep months, that is, until March 7, the plaintiff has denied that be ever
of the captors, constitutes the latest He refused to be roll in the Florida hurricane place the scheme as it is covered by meat on the waterfront. work apparently proceeded amooth- agreed to any.
Brisbane, Yesterday. the number at over 2,300-Reu-Customs revenue.-Reuter.
There was a very important de news to hand concerning the in-satisfaction to know that this plan been generally, approved. ly. The plaintiff said he had no bound by any but he could not be ber's American Service. complaint as regards payments and allowed to take
Eight out of nine provinces had re- velopment in the waterside strike cident. A special "China Mail" such time as he
solved to adopt it and the ninth- yesterday when seamen in the inter- newsletter appears below,
Wuehow Sept. 23. state trade decided to supply.steam
In had not yet finally decided. for volunteer workers.
On Sept. 20, telegrams were remore than one case the Provincial Canberra, Yesterday. ceived here from Chiuping relative The Federal Executive Council to the kidnapping of the Misses the registration of waterside work- Missionary Society, when en route
to Kwellin. All must apply for a licence at a
Capture Described cost of one shilling. It will be From the most accurate sources or decide but to bring home to the valid till June 30, 1929, and there- available, it is learned that these British people the realities of the after may be renewed. The licence missionaries were proceeding up Indian problem and to act as in- may be cancelled if the holder falls the Fu River in a small boat return terpreters, to the British Parila to comply with any lawful order. ing to their station Kweilin. Sailment of the wishes and nepirations Employers are forbidden to engage ing with them were three other of the peoples of India. This In- non-holders of a licence.--Reuter. boats, two filled with passengers dian question, in the years now and one with cargo. Somewhere coming, is likely to become the near Chiuping, three to four days' greatest of all cases in which you journey from Wachow, bandits have to reconcile authority with swooped down on the boats, making freedom. Let us never forget that short work of the passengers and while Britain has confered on India. cargo.
blessings of order and settled gov The passengers were robbed of ernment, a sense of unity and an At the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Capt. Brown of the Royal all their possesaton and all the cargo experience of disinterested ad
ministration ft. has, also roused; fu Artillery, was summoned by the was removed. General Post Office for sending by None of the Chinese passengers the leaders of the Indians the de- was kidnapped, which is signifi-sire for constitutional development letter a number of coins to Singa cant. Only the two British ladies and a ballet, in the virtues of self- were taken by the banditti, who
We can only fall back on what of the United States of America: casional rain, is the official fore has approved of the regulations for Tobin and Watkins, of the Church ed not to co-operate had reversed: work and although he appears to was a reasonable time. The de- "I desire to express to you and have had men there until late in fendants have admitted that the through your kind intermediary, to The depression has passed into April, he himself said that he visit plaintiff could not commence work the American people, my sincere the Pacific and the anticyclones ed the site every day from March until Oct. 7. Mr. Hail, an arch condolences upon the disaster have marged Into a belt of high 7 to April 28 and saw no work 80-tect of some years' experience, has which has recently overwhelmed pressure, extending from north ing on. The evidence of the defen- stated that six months would be Porto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the China across Japan with a maxi- dants' witnesses confirm this. The ample time. I agree that this is State of Florida as the result of mum over the Yellow Sea. The defendants eventually got another reasonable and am of opinion that the hurricane and my sympathy trough of relatively low pressure contractor to finish the work and in the absence of agreement the with all those that have suffered now extends from Indo-China now counter-claim for the expense plaintiff should have finished his from its effects. British Wireless across Luzon to the Ladrones. Incurred thereby, damages for breach work, on or before April 7.
of contract and the cost of protect-1 Sub-Conractor's Position ing the men employed to finish the! With regard to the second point
work.
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Refused to Pay
Service.
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to how payment was to be made. This usually varies accord-
CHINA'S TREATIES
What was the real cause of the dis-ing to the terms of the contract, RATIFICATION WITH GERMANY
LIKELY pute which arose between the parties but the contract here made no pro-
on March 7 Neither side contend vision for payment. It has been
that it was a question of whether laid down that where the contract ITALY & NANKING INCIDENT the work was finished or not. It does not make completion a condi- resolves itself into this, I think. The tion précedent to payment thera
Shanghai, Yesterday.
Fresh Moonsoon will continue along the S.E. coast of China and over the N China Sea.
The following telegram was re- ceived from the Mailla Observa tory at 9.20 a.m. to-day:—
Manila 25th, 7.p.m.-Typhoon in about 181deg. Long. E, and 22deg. Lat. N., moving W.N.W.
BARCO. DISPUTE
THE ARGENTINE SUPPORTS
A COLOMBO
AMERICA'S FAILURE"
Buenos Aires, Yesterday,
MONEY IN POST.
pore.
ARTILLERY CAPTAIN
'CAUTIONED.
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If Indiana should be eager to sp--
work was practically finished-Mr. may be an implied stipulation on The reports regarding the prob W. Hall confirms this, and the defen- the part of the employer to payable rejection of the new China- dante bill for completing the work from time to time a reasonable sum and-Germany Treaty by the Na- left undone by plaintif did not to the contractor during the pro- tionalist Government Council are officially denied. The ratification amount to more than $330, and this gress of the work, is probably more than it would have A contract for the supply of by Chins is considered certain cost had the plaintiff continued. The labour seemis pre-eminently one in Reuter. plaintiff said that he was satisfied which reasonable payments should Nanking, Yesterday." with what he was paid up to that be made from time to time. It is The Nanking Incident as between date, but I find that his own a very different from a building con- Italy and China has been settled counts show that he received, more tract. A labour contractor has to and the documents are now en route during the five weeks which follow pay his men dally or almost daily to Shanghal. A formal exchange Colombia's rejection of ed than the five weeks which pre- if he is to keep them satisfied and of Notes will take place here when States intervention over the Barge taining a money order. It was only Tobin. coded that date, and yet he was not at work. They expect to be paid the Italian Consul-General arrives concession They satisfied; He apparently did no mere in fall for work done frrespective Reuter. work until his men were driven of of the progress of the work. The the site on April 28. No evidence plaintif was paying away cash in has been given as to what payment wages all the time. He got no the plaintiff, asked for on March 11⁄2 long credits: building material but it seems clear that the defer" and the like. such as a building dants refused to pay him more than contractor could get. 70 per cent, no be- ceased work,
In pleading guilty, defendant ex-started to the bills with them government, which are the inevit plained that the offence had been Later, Miss Watkins was releasable consequence of western edu- committed without knowledge. He
ed and the returned to Chiuping cation and of Parliamentary experi had occasion to pay a small bill in whence she telegraphed her newe. nce. No Briton should complain Singapore, and had given another
Steps Taken person some money and Instructions The Commissioner of Foreign ply the lesson which our Imperial, to do so. It appears that the per- Affairs for Kwangsl, Mr. Kung history has taught. British people son had just simply placed the paper Chich-yuan, was promptly notified have to lend their aid as sym Argentine newspapers support notes together with 2 copper cent of the outrage and immediately took pathisers and as friends in what, United pieces in the letter instead of obsteps to secure the release of Miss le perhaps the greatest external question: laid upon the statesman- when the summons arrived at his The magistrate at Chiuping was ship of today--the tremendous describe the
bouse that Mr. Brown knew anything ordered to despatch soldiers to the weaving together of the warp and as a fallure about the matter.
scene of the attack and to chase woof of the East and West. mbia's sover- The prosecution said that as it was the bandits and endeavour to cap-
the Arst case of this nature in Kow- ture them, loan they would not press the A force was also sent from Wu-
Vho Was Wrong?
pronge ti
Precedent Notwithstanding
would appear that on March
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A later telegram from Chluping stated that the whole cou meet the had been roused and that the
worship added," It | lagers erg Joining the soldiers in
the public noted the hi
Ford concerning the
Tobinghasi
Yet Miss