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- HONGKONG GARRISON FIELD
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INTERESTING MANŒUVRES AT SMUGGLERS PASS.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY,
SUN YAT SEN ARRIVES.
EXPRESSES INTENTION TO “PULL CANTON TOGETHER"
AND UNITE THE REPUBLIC.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen arrived from Shang- hai on Saturday, afternoon on the sa President Jefferion. It was well past
FAR EASTERN CABLE UPROAR IN THE JAPANESE DIET.
NEWS.
(THROUGH 20' ASKMOY.]
CANTON, AND
WORKING FOR A COMPROMISE.
Prxix, February 18th.
ATTACK ON THE LATE FOREIGN MINISTER.
Torto, February 1stb. In the course of a debate is the lower house this afternoon, Mr. Tokonami, de fending the Government against appost- tion charges of mistaken diplomacy, attacked the policy of Viscount Kato when
On Saturday last the Hongkong garri- Bon had a hard day. As anticipated in par issue of the 18th the Northern-in- vadars left "their" bivouacs at Tip Market early on the 17th, and the head pf their long column was seen, at about berthed, but for more than an hour expressed that an agreement between the be was foreign minister, and said that the
six o'clock when the vessel was finally In Government circles the opinion is
Northern and Southern leaders will Twenty One Demands were a serious It is reported that blew to Japan's prestigo abroad and materialise soon. Chen Chiung Ming has yielded to most of were also an attack on the sovereignty of Sun Yat Sen's demands and it is believed China. that Sun Yat Sen and Cheng Hsue Shui
Mr. Tokonami's remarks caused an are co-operating with a view to effecting uproar. He was unable to proceed. a, compromise with Peking.
When an opposition speaker attempted to speak the Government party created such a noise that he was unable to be heard.
The speaker ordered a recess of the House and made efforts to adjust the matter in order to resume, but the utmost confusion prevailed and Diet being unable to resume was adjourned until Saturday, A CHINA COAST DISASTER · RECALLED.
12 o'clock, pushing south through Fine beforehand a Turgy crowd of Chinowe, apple Pass. Shortly afterwards some 40 largely besprinkled with curious Euro or 50 turbaned figures were observed on peans and friends of those on board, had the steep southern slopes of Needle Hill, been waiting eagerly to catch a glimpse A strong cordon of when a dropping are from rifles and of Sun Yat Sen.
European and Chinese police, all fully machine-guns, soon opened.
Meanwhile the garrison had been post-armed, kept the crowd on the stono' quay,
"BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE: d to bar the approach of the enemy, and allowed no-one to pass on to the One company crowned the hills to the wharf until the Doctor was safely away. BRANCHES REOPENING SOON. right of Smugglers · Pass, looking across The boat had been berthed for fully an the deep ravine of the Shing-Mun river hour before, he left, however," and then
Paxso, February 15th. towards Needle Hill, and another ex-he came down, the main gangway and
The branches of the Societe Francaise tended the line to the left, occupying the was met by Canton's now Civil Governor, de Gerance de la Banque Industrielle de narrow Smugglers' "Ridge and overlooking Mr. Tau Shiu Tsing, Mr. Kou Ying Chine in Shanghai, Peking, Tientsin and the deep valley to the west of it. In Fung, the Civil Controller for Staff Bankow are opening on February 26th "the centre were the mule guns and Affairs at Canton, and Mrs. Chu Chap and the other branches are opening
shortly." machine guns, while the heavier artillery Sun An escort of polios formed a body. lay back on the main road near the re- guard around him, and he walked quick. servoir with observing officers pushed for-ly across to a steam launch waiting on ward to the hill tops. Two companies the opposite side of the wharf. The lay in reserye, behind the right flank.launch was crowded with Chinese friends The Northerners came on rapidly of Dr. Sun, and a police sergeant, was
PEKING, February 17th, Well trained in hill warfare, even the posted on the bridge. The boat cast off Despite the New Year holidays the dis precipitous slopes of the New Territory and was immediately followed by
cussion is proceeding as regards reuni checked them but little. Though their Police" launch crowded with armed policefcation. The leading Northern Generals china Sea. Josses must have been heavy on parts of which escorted it over the Harbour. Dr. Tsao Kun, Wu Pai Fu, Chih Such Yuan!
setting foot on land. The car went off in
·EXUNIFICATION OF CHINA.
SUGGESTIONS BY NORTHERN GENERALS,
"
CAPĖ, EVANS AGAIN DECORATED."
LONDON, February 18th. H.M. the King, at Buckingham Palace, bestowed the Board of Trade silver medal on": Captain Evans, läte of H.M.S.
Carlisle, for his bravery in assisting, the stranded steamer "Hong Hoh with eleven hundred Chinese coolies aboard in tha
Sun landed at Blake's Pier, walked the front, a number of them got to
and Lu Yung Hsiang are suggesting HONGKONG CHINESE SENTENCED within a few yards of the defenders of straight into a motor car, 'and YPM.Y
IN ENGLAND. written agreement between themselves, Smugglers' Ridge without being observed, whisked away within two minutes of his and then uniting with the southerneis
Loybox, February 16th. and after a sharp but short struggle
with the Premier's mediation, " The A Chinese, a native of Hongkong, was "succeeded in capturing that important
westerly direction, though this affords no clue as to his actual destinaPremier is intending to bring General sentenced to four months imprisonment point. From here, however, it WAB
Chang Tso Lin into the scheme. General at West Ham for importing half a pound) difficult to advance the narrow rizor.
Chang Tso Lin's Driegate, Yuan Chin Kai of raw opium. like ridge was swept by the fire of the
has arrived at Piking in order to discuss defenders from three directions and every
peace with the Government, also Red *altempt to push on was frustrated."
aggression against the railway..
WARNING BY THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS,
tion.
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Through the medium of I member of his staff, Dr. Sun intimated to Daily Press representative that it was Further to the West they made mora bis intention, to go up to Canton and progress and were soon pushing up the try to put affairs there on a firmer basis, northern slopes of Golden Hill with com- and generally to "pull the city, together,'' paratively little opposition from the de- When he had succeeded in this he would Fenders, whose attention
was largely continue his main plan. of campaign for directed towards "the struggle
for uniting the whole of the Chinese nation, More than this be refused to say.
- Smugglers' Ridge.
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ARSENIC IN CHINESE TEA.
LONDON, February 18th. The momentary alarm caused by a morning paper, giving prominence to the The Chiaotungpu (Ministry of
Com-discovery of arsenic in a recent consign munications) has, informed the Diploment of Chinese green tea has been matic Body that all telegraphs, telephone stilled by reassuring statemente from and wireless buildings and installations Mincing Lane. The discovery is stated Whether or not this dangerous attack We understand that a special train throughout the country are absolutely to have been made by Custom House would have succeeded cannot be known, had been ordered to take Dr. Sun'up to public property, and no-one is entitled to analysts and the tea organisations were for time had passed quickly, and the Canton that same night, but the order, sell og mortgage them. If the provincial said to be hastily investigating artificially " ceuke fire" had to be sounded to allow was cancelled for some reason or other, authorities and foreign interests enter coloured green tea, stocks being held up the troops to get home before, dark." and he spent the right in Hongkong into any such agreements the Government in the warehouses and their ble stopped.
It had been an interesting and instruc- He was unable to proceed by regular will not recognise their validity. » tive day, and those of the spectators who river steamer, as these were not running CHINA'S FINANCIAL POSITION... left the pathy, and scaled the hill sides, owing to the Chinese New Year holiday.
TIMES COMMENT. "must have appreciated the difficulties met | On board ship Dr. Sun Yat Sen kept: with by men loaded with rifles and very much to himself and little was seen
LONDON, February 10th machine guns. They will appreciate, too, of him by the other passengers. He was In a leading article on China's parlous the mountain gunners whose mules seem accompanied by small bodyguard com financial position, the Timer notes that ed to be able to go wherever a man posed of Chinese, though they did not the Government "graped through” the could climb, Their great difficulty was appear to be armed in any way, and New Year settlement, but says that,—us "not, as a matter of fact, in getting to these men followed him wherever he went. it still owes some tirenty-million sterling Colonial Minister declared bis intention In a statement in committee, the position, but in finding a piece of fat He also had with him his private secre en foreign loans and some ten-million to avoid all measures calculated to drive ground big enough to hold their gutary, Mr. Eugene Chan, two members when they got there. It was on this account that they seemed to expose them of his staff, T.. G. Chow and N. Y. Chow, sterling for goods, it might be imagined capital from the Dutch-Indies. Ho said selves more than would, perhaps, have and a Mr. Maaria A. Cohen, a Cana that lenders were despondent. The par he was of the opinion that it was not like been advisable in the real thing." dian, whose precise position excited per, however, rites, a statement by its
good deal of curiosity amongst the rest of Peking correspondent, that lenders arely that the Batavian Company's oil re- confident of eventual payment, seeing fineries would be, transferred to British
no casualties except those inßicted by the umpires, and the men looked remarkably regarded as a detective.
Dr. Sun also
The proportion of arsenio in the insignificant quantity of tea distributed is stated to be very small.
THE DUTCH INDIES,'
COLONIAL MINISTER DESIRES TO ENCOURAGE • CAPITAL.
THE HAGUE, February 17th.
In spite of the long day, we heard of the passengers, but who was generally that the whole debt of China is a trifle Borneo, owing to export duties to the fit as they swung home past the Kowloon had with him a private cook whose food compared with her capacity for payment, Dutch Indies,
while she has never made a default. Ed
mounted on a sure-footed mule.
MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
CHAUFFEUR STONED. "
He foreshadowed the reservoir. One man only was reported he could trust not to be poisned. Hows that how much longer the Govern- introduction of a Bill, exempting oil by- missing and he was last seen chasing his ever, when he found that the crew and ment can go on under the present system products obtained from "material import- cap which was failing towards Gin the kitchen staff assistants were Canton without falling into bankruptcy is doubted into the Dutch Indies since July, 1922, drinker's Bay. The cap was winning ese, be, abandoned the precaution and took ful, and urges the speedy adoption by the
Among the most active and busiest his meals in the dining saloon with the Treaty Powers of some such policy as from export duty, while oil imported and of those present was the General rest of the passengers, Most of his time approved by the Washington Conference refined in the Dutch Indies would be Officer Commanding (Sir John Fowler, was spent in the cabin reading."
as being the only way to save the Chinese exempt from the contemplated off duty- K.C.M.G.) who was to be seen climbing
The day after the boat had left Shang Government. The paper concludes that rough and rugged hills either on foot or hai, Shanghai newspaper appeared there is no risk of a Chinn collapse, but
DUTCH EAST INDIES BONDS. with a full account of "Dr. Sun's desassi-unless foreign creditors bestir themselves,
LONDON, February 18th. nation" on board the President Jefferson. the dissatisfaction and embarrassments The story alarmed his friends in Shang on their part will not seem likely to be hai, and on Friday night they sent an lessened. urgent wireless, messago asking" if" all was well
On Saturday morning a further message was received, rapenting the A Chinese chauffeur was stored by a query, and quoting portions of the article hostilo crowd at West Point on Friday which had credited the rumour to Shang morning, and the hood of his car was hal Customs House officials. Dr. Sua soaked in kerosene and set fire to because immediately wirelessed a denial. he ran over and injured a coolis.
Un his second. afternoon on board, Gen was No. 195, and apparently theeral Sun received all his fellow-presen shuffeur tried to avoid the man, but in Joing so ran up against a wall, putting gers in his own cabin, shaking hands the car out of action. A few of the nore riotous spirits in the crowd whichIt is rumoured that Dr, Sun has left gathered round urged their fellows on the Colony, but we are unable to obtain 30 violence, and hurled stones at the confirmation of the report from any driver till he was rescued by a Chinese source. existable who took him into custody.
car
The crowd then poured oil over the hood
of the car and set it on fire. The dango
mounted to about #180; Mga ka vaka
A number of other!-áreidents:i ocurred
in the same day, possibly as a result of
with each of them, t
ACCIDENT TO THE H.M.S. TITANIA
the carelessness of the merry making New The HM8 Lelania which left Hong-
Year crowds At Repulse Bay early kong for Manila on Wednesday accom
SOVIET-CHINESE NEGOTIATIONS: FRENCH NOTE TO PEKING.
BLIN, February 10th. A message from Moscow states that the head of the Chinese Mission has informed the Foreign Commissariat that a. Note has been received in Peking from Paris requesting that, the French Government be kept advised as to the progress of the Soviet Chinese negotiations. The Note was also stated to contain a demand that no agreements altering the status of the East Chinese Railway be signed without the sanction of France.
SINO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP
A VERY GRAVE INCIDENT."?
New Yox, February 15th. Owing to a desire not to offend the
A New York syndicate of bankers is affering twenty-five million dollars for Dutch East Indies Bonds, similar to the recent issue in London, at the price of eighty-eight."
NEW YORK, February 17th. The "Dutch Indies issue has been over subscribed.
JAPANESE LABOURERS FOR BRAZIL.
AN UNCONFIRMED REPORT
NEW YORK, February 17th. Several newspapers prints circum- stantial report to the effect that the Governments of Japan and Brazil have entered into an agreement for tift colonis- ing of 500,000 Japanese labourers in Brazil, etating that Japan is paying a thend tax of:86," Neither the Japaness nor the Brazilian Consul General has any information regarding the matter. Wash ington is said to be concerned.
WASHINGTON AGREEMENTS.
TO CHINA
in the aftenoon bad cars collided, ons of punied by the submarines, met with an guests at the banquet of the China which was driven by a Chinese student: accident outside and has been towed back Society, only a portion of the message It seems that one car was trying to over to port: We understand that the hip from Mr. Hughes: extending cordial take the other when the collision occur ran into a fog and when it lifted aho was greetings and beping for the maintenance TALY CONFIRME TWO RELATING" I
of the traditional Sino-American friend- The red Two women were injured in the sect to be heading for the rocks... foremost mat, and two men in the other order to raverse the engines was tele ship was read The deleted portion They were all removed to the French grapasd to the engine room and was a regretted that relations were: at present
zied out so mddenly that serious damage American citizen, the firing on
disturbed, through the killing of an Convent Hospital.
A Hunghom a barbera apprentice was was done to the ship. She had to be American Consul, and the failure of the knocked over by Mator Bus 614: when ho towed by the submarince and later she Chinese Government adequately to res was playing in the road. His right leg was brought into harbour by tuga. The pond to the American Government's re- was fractured, and he was taken to the submarines proceeded on to Manila, presentations with a view to the settle Kwong Wah Hospital Car No 212 knock where the Admiral (Bir Arthur Leveson) ment of this very grave incident. Mr ed a boy down as Morrison Hin whilst the H.M.S. Hawking is paying & Hughes added that he hoped China would motor car belonging to the Moos visit The HLM.B. Marazion has been soon make such a response as to remove Garage la reported to have been set on sent to Manila as a substitute for the the shadow from their mutually friendly with fire by the careless handling of crackera HMB Titome
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ROME, February 17th. an The Senate has ratified the Washington, Agreements, including the two relating to China.
JAPANESE MISSION IN TRANCE.
TOULON February 17th.
A Japanese Naval Minion has arrived
the object of studying sport
ations in the French navy,
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