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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES, THROUGH LECTER'S AGENCY.] CAMPAIGN IN MOROCCO. FINE WORK BY FRENCH INFANTRY.
Pass, August 4th." A communiqué frog 2 hat states that -extensive operations were undertaken by mobila enlumas, on August 2nd, ju the north and worth western districts, where the enemy had recently penetrated in large numbers. The result was the ejec tion of the enemy from their stronghold in the Aajen Mountains. The enemy fled
u disorder, leaving sixky dend.'"
Sewspaper despatches, describing the Sperations, state that the French infantry fought must vigorously and tenaciously, elespite the intense heat.
DUTCH RETRENCHMENT. RESULT OF AMALGAMATION OF WAR AND MARISE PORTFOLIOS,
AMSTERDAM, August 4th.
THE
FAR EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
"HOSPITAL RAIDED. "MISSION NURSES RECEIVE ROUGH TREATMENT.
CHINESE POLICE TO RESCUE
PEXING, August 4th. A message from Chekiang states that Chinese mob, yesterday, raided the Church Missionary Sucisty's hospital at
Rangchow.
The raiders captured two male nurses, who were somewhat ill-trented. However, eventually they were rescued, without serious injury. by a party of Chinese Police, who have now promised to protect the hospital
CHINA AND RUSSIA. PEKING APPOINTS AMBASSADOR
"TO MOSCOW.
PEXING, August 4th.
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5ru
VALLEY FLOOD SEQUEL.. ENQUIRY INTO P.W.D. COOLIE'S
DEATH.
ACCIDENTAL DEATH. VERDICT IN CASE OF INDIAN MULETEER.
after
་་
1925.
TREATIES AS "BLESSINGS." BENEFIT CHINESE AS MUCH AS
FOREIGNERS.
Cabling to his paper nu June 29th, the Time Peking correspondrat gave the following admirable exposition of the present problem in China :-
As a sequel to the cgllapse of a wall. The death of an Indian, named Gulam' at the corner of Happy Valley by Koon Din, aged 30 years, a driver in the Hong Ma Terrace on June 18th, owing to the kong Mule Corps, through drowning in food, an inquest took place yesterday the naval camber. Hobgkong, was the
The only redëywing feature of the very afternoon before Mr. S. R. B. McElderry cause of an inquest conducted by Mr. at the Central Magistracy, to enquire E. W. Hamilton, sitting as coroner, at the serious situation in China is that the Diplomatic Body is holding well together into the circumstances surrounding the Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday
and showing an increasingly Erm fout death of a coolie named Tong Fat, who noon.
The evidence, given by a number of in dealing with the Peking Government was guarding a P.W.D. steam-roller at the time, and whose body was found in witnesses, showed that the deceased It should clearly be understood that the the early hours of the next morning.
either in ignorance or otherwise, contrary The Jury comprised': Messrs. L. Teuto Command Orders, went swimming in perley (foreman), C. J. Joseph and A. D. the camber on July 9th, and apparently got into difficulties and was drowned, Elis body was not recovered until eight days later.
Rüssell
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ROUND THE WORLD ON £10. YOUNG AUSTRALIAN'S VENTURE.
In an effort to demonstrate, in order to win a bet, that it is possible to travel round the world on a capital of £10 Mr. J. W. Wright, an adventurous Australian of has completed half the journey by arriving on June with it the Aus- tralian Pavilion, Wembley,
Three moifths ago," he said to Muening Post representative, I was living comfortably at my father's home unfortunate Shanghai incident and the in Sydney, but some of the fellows who others following it are being used by pro were with me at Sydney Grammar School fessional agitators as an excuse for turn got up an argument about the expense of ing, the country upside down. Public travelling the globe. I bet thêm I could The Coroner said that this enquiry was
sympathy, has been enlisted by a can-do it on a capital of £10. They took the Įpaign of bareface! misrepresentation, bet. On March 19th I embarked for Van-. a man who was killed at Happy
I arrived there" on April 3rd. In recording a verdict of accidental which has established the belief that couver. Valley in the recent landslide there. It would appear that the man was killed death. Mr. Hamilton remarked that; "he monumental wrong is being done to Since then I have been stial groom, owing to the collapse of a wall, and found that Gulam Din met his death China by foreigners, particularly the steward, limberman, dres hand, rousi-
The cause could British. There is no foundation what. therefore, there was the question of res-through an accident,
about. labourer at Ford's factory, 1 ponsibility. Today he proposed to take unt be definitely established.
ever for this assumption, either, as vis
troit, fur-bugrys, store-packer," a Chinesa the medical evidence and also the various either deliberately, or through ignorance gards the series of incidents or in con- photographs and plans submitted.
disobeyed the Command Orders, and if it nection with the Treaties, A settlement guide, lecturer, shop assistant, and a gen- had not been for this the accident would of the Shanghai, affair might easily have theman, ona walking tour. not have taken place. No blame was at. been achieved if it had not been malic- MISHAP WITH DONKEY ENGINË,
iously exaggerated from the very begin-1. tached to anyone else."
A Vancouver I walked into the Hud ning.
son's Bay Company's office and got a job
Mr. M. W. Lo appeared on behalf of the directors of the Yeung Wo Nursing Home, and Mr. F. C. Brook represented
A mandate, issued last night, appoints Following the recent announcement by Mr. Sun Pao Chi as the first Chinese Dr. Leung Cheung Man, of No. 1, Man
Premier Colyn in regard to the amal- gamation of the Ministries of War, and Marine, it is stated that the new Minister of War. Herr Lahbooy, will be given assistance as Director-General in all matieru vinnerted with the Navy..
MELBOURNE'S VISITORS.
FOR HOBART,
Arabassador to Moscow.
.
FUTURE OF WEI-HAI WEL DELAY IN RETROCESSION IS
EXPLAINED...
Lovboy, August 3rd.
Chun Fong-
The map
The treaties are instruments which any hart the amour proper of the with them as hyer of fur'at Wrangel Chinese people, but they were appro- Island. I made enough money to move priate in the circumstances when they
POLICE COURT ITEMS. The Corner asked the solicitors to re- member that this was a death enquiry
At the Kowloon Magistracy yester-" only, and to refrain from asking ques-day before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, several
were contracted, and to this day they on, but before the boat wrat I had spent operate as much for the benefit of the it and had to pass three days in working tions which were not concerned with the Chinese were sentenced for stealing wood.
One man who was previously fined was Chinese as for that of the foreigners.
a guy-rope, with the aid of a donkey- enquiry as a death enquiry.
sentenced to three months' hard labour. Dr. Minett was the first to give evid-The other sentences ranged from seven Nevertheless the foreign Powers at Wash In the House of Commons, replying to
nee, and said that on June 17th, he con. Bays to one month. A number of baskersington, as is especially worthy of renum,enging, in a lumber camp. I bought at who were charged with selling foodstuffs brance at this time, agreed to afford this brst it was a splendid game. But when Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Ronald ducted a post-mortem examination on the within market limits were finel Si rach.
country the fulloss and most unguibar on the third day. I nearly succeeded in rassed opportunity to stabilize its Gov-killing myself by jerking the rope at the ernment without foreign interference, wrong moment, I quit. There was so AMERICAN FLEET IS LEAVING McNeill said the question of the return body of what was then described us an
As a sequel to an incident that oceur while they promised to take immediate mener coming to me, as the notes were of Wei-hai-wei to Chipa was suspended at unknown Chinese, whose age was about i
This man was later identified, as red on the ss. Nii On a coolie appeared steps towards treaty revision to meet the distributed monthly. the moment owing to the provisionil char. 30.
So I worked my way to Seattle as a Kong Fat. He had died of multiple in before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the aspirations of the Chinese people.
Has China done anything on her side steward. There at a hotel I put in four Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, acter of the Chinese Government.
The third, fourth, fifth, sixth when police gave evidence to the effect to stabilize her fiovernment or to re-days as a rouseabout, cleaning the yard juries. and seventh ribs on the right side were that the man had refused to allow move the reproach of inflated armies and and beating the carpets and taking the broken, and the liver, and spleen were Chinese merchant to have some goods a bankrupt Treasury The Powers are heats up in the morning. That was
takra" on board the vessel except by dejust us ready as ever to discuss the good wheezr. Tips of ten cents, twenty-" fendans, and other coolies at an exorbitant Treaties, but how can they do so with a five, and fifty cents gave me enough rate of payment. The merchant had Government admittedly only provisional money to push an to San Francisco, I brough: his own coolies to loud his cargo and dependent on the precarious support paid my way to Denver, and got a lift of salt fish, but another gang of coofies the militarists, whose rivalries are so" on a MISTRZ to Salt Lake City. Four near by refused to let them work. Chinese detective in the vicinity arrested defendant. He was fried 890, in default, two months imprisonment with hard
MELBOURNE, Angust 4th.
The first departures of the American Fleet began this morning, when the light
manter Kenworthy asked was it but the uriginal arrangement that we hand inck raisers beft for Hobart.
this territory when the Japanese evacuat- The main Beet, including the .5.8 certain territories in Shantung, and Seuttir, flagship of Admiral Coontz, and how had the present position leen prach-| three older battleships will leave oned?
Thursday,
HOMEWARD BOUND. ENGLAND'S SOCCER TEAM LEAVÉS AUSTRALIA.
PERTH, August 4th. The sheer players, who have been re- prenting England in a tour in Aus tralia, have sailed for home,
Mr. McNeill reiterated that it was owing to the provisional nature of the Government of China.
ruptured.
"The Coroner: Was there any evidence to show that the body had beru in water
could not say. I did not notice. Mr. Temperley: There was nothing to show that he had been drowned-The injuries were tog severe. They must has killed him instantly. FRANCE AND CHINA.
Chinese Constable 308 said that on the GIVES ADVICE TO morning of June 16th, about 4.30 am- he LE JOURNAL
Freeived a report that a teashed at Wong POWERS.
neichong had been washed away by the flood. He immediately went there to inves rigate, and found a man lying dead across the mullah on the racecourse. The body was lying in water, and the arms were pinioned with stones.
PARIS, August 4th After emphasizing Chinese respect for the correct and reserved attitude of Frenchmen, Le Journal states that the Powers should modify their attitude to
In the final match, the visits defeated) the West Australia team by five goals towards China.
· one.
:
EARLIER CABLES. RUBBER RESTRICTION. STEVENSON SCHEME DISCUSSED IN COMMONS
Losos, August 3rd."
In the House of Commons, replying o Mr. Robert Hudson, Mr. Amery said "he was well aware that in oven, out of the eleven quarterly periods in which the Stevenson restriction scheme had operat- ed the average price of rubber was below 1x. 30. per pound. Over the decade before the war he understood the yearly average price varial between 7. 78. in 1910 and 28. ad on 1914.
Mr. Garro Jones asked was there any truth in the report that Americk hat com. municated with the Government hintide that unless the Sterehson rubber scheme were dropped they would take similar measures "with regard to cotton.
The Speaker intervened and said the question should be addressed to the For- sign Offer.
THE COTTON MARKET. UPWARD TREND OF PRICES
NEW YORK.
LONDON, August 3rd.
In the House of Commone, replying to Mr. Robert Hudson, Mr. A. M. Samuel said That the mean prices in New York for middling upland cotton in April, 1014, and April, 1994, respectively were 12 cents per pound and 22.0 cents per pound. The spot pride in New York on April 1st, this year was 24.05 cents per pound.
DUTCH CABINET,
East.
•
He had it sent to
the No. 2 Polie Station, "and half an hour later he found another body about
labour.
collapse.
PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
A
ESCORTING CHINESE.
incalculable that it can be said with my days as man-el-all-work at a hotel truth that siner the Washington Confer-give me enough cash to buy food as E
ne China has leru perpetually involved walked back to Vancouver. in civil war, that her armies are Migger than ever, that brigandage is unparallel-!
, and that the State is suffering every
1 got away from Vancouver by agree- possible evil resulting from misgovern- ment: The Treaties, at their worst interns to shepherd a party of Mr Chinese When did yon take over the construc-
across Canada, on the Canadian National tion of this wall in January this year.pretation, are absolute blessings in com-
Had you finished before the accident prison with the self-inflicted injuries Railway. The remuneration was a free pass on the CNR for three months, happened -The accident occurred thren from which China is now groaning.
In such circurustances, for agitators to Returning on part of my tracks to Ed- days after its completion. The mortar had
The and at his invitation joined him that not get dry and that was the cause of the attempt to attribute China's troubles to mouton, I met a New Zealand lecturer,
foreign oppression is intolerable. strikes, the agitation, and the malicious tight in his show. I lectured on Aus- propaganda could be immediately qua talia for which I obtained nearly 35 A week before you completed the walled by those who stand behind the Guvern dollars, a
At Winnipeg, whither I proceeded, how much was there left to he donment, and, if the unanimity among this That part of the wait which collapsed Diplomatic Body is a reflection of unity went absolutely broke. I bad to 'pop' among the Powers, the question of mak-Bly evening suit, and garn enough money Did you not build the wall in layers ing, forcible representations to this effect to redeem it. I got it at Sudbury June- Each side was done first and the sion to its military supporters should days, I went on to Niagara Falls and present no difficulty. Signs are not want-thenee to Ford's factory, where in three The part that collapsed was the highest to the Chinese Government for transmis tion by acting as stud kroom for a few i
1other put in.
ing that a united foreign demand for and a half days, working as a labourer Mr. Temperley: If he talks like that stern measures would be welcomed by screwing bolts on car wheels, I mad he is talking nonsense.
The wall must those, capable of taking them as providearing 15 dollars Then I managed to have been built in Invers, y
ing a good excuse for pursuing an un- get to New York, where I joined the Witness said that three days before the popular policy. It is certainly not to the Scythia as a deck hand, I took my dis- manders, to let alone the preponderatinged Ginagow, Edinburgh, Isle of Man, accident, Mr. Rayon, the architect, in.interest of the powerful military com. charge at Liverpool, and have since visit- spected the wall.
Mr. Temperley. We should like to mercantile and other interests, to have Belfast, Manchester, Stockport, and Now I have got to get another job know if the wooden hut on the lower side extremist Chinees and Bolshevist in-
to take me on to the next section. I a324 of Stubbs Road was occupied by any of fluence grow beyond control, as it is grow-
The British Government has the parti-going to work my way through the Harz the contractor's men That hut was used ing low.
entar duty in this juncture to me that Canal and so home again." Mr. Temperley, Was the wall-backed all possible precautions are inkru to
store only.
ensure the protection of its nationals. with rabble Yes.
was the last to be done.
part.
As far as the matter copeens France, she eught to create a High Commissioner. yards away. This body also was taken ship, the holder of which post would de- to the Police Station and later to the end for instructions upon the Ministry mortuary, where relatives identified it.“ of Foreign Affairs for the Colonies. A relative of the deceased gave evidencu
To the High Commissioner, French of identification, and said Tong diplomats in the Far Hast and the was a plus. round said that fond fat.
invernor-General of French Indo-China steam roller at night." would look for instructions,
Dr. Chan Wai Cheung, managing. Such an institution, in the opinion of director of the Yeung Wo Nursing Home, La Journal, would roabir France to said that on the night in question about follow a ̈methodies" policy in the Fara a... he received a reporí, to the effect [Ed. Note: The above cable arrived in that a disaster had occurred near the a partially mutilated condition. In view Home, and he made straight for Happy Valley. When he arrived, he found that of the statement, issued by the Count de hoth entrances to the Home were blocked Martel (French Minister to China) and by earth and rocks. Water was flowing | published yesterdays readers should bear,
over the ground in alt-direction. in mind that if the cable has been cor-
• Asked by the foreman of the Jufy why rectly extended."«it is, merely an ex- pression of opinion of the Editor of Zrther he had any idea when the water first Loreal and not necessarily the view of rushed down, witness said he had no
French Government nor of the French idea when the accident actually happen-up Yation.]
Le Shan Chi, contractor's foreman for the Tung San Co., owners of the site was the next witness, and said that on the night of June 15th he was in a matched above the site. I did not natier any thing unusual happening, but heavy rain was failing.
ble.
EVACUATION OF "RUHR.
WITHDRAWAL TAKES PLACE WITHOUT INCIDENT,
SHIPPING STRIKE.
TRUIBLE IN AUSTRALIA IS ENDED.
12
rd.
1:
The Coroner: How high-15 feet high The Canton affair aptly illustrates pro- Mr. Temperley: Did you ever see seat possibilities, and a grave respon- water coming out of the weep boles in sibility rests on the authorities who neg. the wall 7-Thefe was always water oozing lecz to increase the present inadequate
naval and military forces. out of the weep holes.
I think that is non- The Coroner: sense, except at times of flood.
Mr. Temperies: Of course, Sir, there ANTI-MISSIONARY MOVEMENT. is a certain amount of water held all the
The Coroner: Did you notice anything on the road noticed water rushing time. down the road.
..
NEW UNIVERSITY OPENED IN
PEKING.
Bradford.
WAR DEBTS.
A BRITISH REMINDER.
Notes were recently sent, at the request. of the British Treasury, to the Goveru- ments of the States which have not yet. arranged to discuss the "question of the repayment to Great Britain of the debts The they contracted during the war. British Government does not press for payment, bat exffrets the Governments of the debtor States to name a dato when negotiations for a settlement may be
BERLIN, August 3ri, Reports from all parts show that the
Mr. Temperley: Did he rver find Franco-Belgian gracuation of the Rubr.
Did you we where it was going to -1 water collecting at the base of the wall except in the three sabction" towns of
An Asiatic News Service communica Duesseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort havs saw water rushing down Stubbs Road Fund, if so, to what bright did it rise 1-
In time of heavy rain it or to about tion, sent from Peking on July 27thy begun,
that the Chinese educational Mr. Churchill, answering a question in INverywhere been carried out without in towards the Indian Mosque.
eident, the inhabitants refraining from. Continuing, witness said that he was in 12 inches. In heavy rain the water was staten
leaders have opened a new university, the House on June 30th, said that the any demonstrations, likely to cause trou-charge of the building of the wall. Heo or three feet deep behind the wall..
Mr. Lo: Was there any chrth put at called the Limin University in Peking Italian Government had formally notified was provided with a plan and construct
the wall strictly in accordance with the back of the retaining wall when you and its chief object is to accommodate its willingness to open negotiations for The plan was given to him finished -We were not permitted by the those students of the St. John's Univera settlement of its war debt to Great the plan.
sity at Shanghai and those of the British Britain,
The conversations between French and by his architect, Mr. Raven. His instrue.PW.B. to pack earth behind the wall..
The owners of the let are Tong Saa University at Tientsin who do not wish Itions wiku to construct the wall with ons
To that the name of the Company or is it to return to the two institutions for fur-British experts for a settlement in re part of cenient and six parts of sund,
gard to the French test which were pro- the owner's name --It is syndicate of ther learning.
For similar purposes. the names of exceeding at the Treasury were broken off The Coroner: What sort of sand 7 Sea 14 members who own the Lite. MELBOURNE August 3rd. Branches of the Seamen's Union in and-Sand taken from the hillside.
1. Mr. B. T. B. Boothby; engineer in Premier Tang"Shao Yi, and ex-Premier after the fall of the Herriot Government In fact it was red earth? was ebief, Canton-Kowloon Railway, who had Hsiung Hsi Lin have been inserted in and had not he renewed since.
The Joans to Allies at March 31st, 192 Queensland, South Australia and Victoria have unanimously endorsed the agreement swept down by the water. It was not been called in by the Government, hand-advertisements as promoters of the Chifu
Thered over his report to the Coroner, stating and Tungfung Universities and the Chin- stood as follows:- cabled on July 31st, and the recommissand from across the harbour
esc educationists claim that this is con-
the movement for tho "Frater sinning of vessels will begin immediately. were also bands of cement concrete run that he had carefully inspected the site.
ning through the wall.
Mr. II. A. Goldwaith, engineer in nected with PRINCE OF WALES.
What was the cement ennerete tunde charge "of roads, P.W.D., gave evidence gradual suppression of foreign missionary Furthermore, Marshal Feng Yu Haiang H.M.S.REPULSE ARRIVES AT up of 1-One part cement, three parts to drainage on Stubbs Road, and said educational institutions in Chias..
sand, and six parts stone.
that at the point in question there were What about the height of the wall the usual channels and catchpite for tak is reported to be favourably inclined to wards the organization of a north-western It was an feet higb, including the base ing the rain over the road. of cement concrete. It was 20 feet above-
university at Kalgan for the reception of the level of the ground, and there was a
all Chinese students who do not wish to continue their studies in foreign educi. tional institutions. nige feet base.
HEER WELTER ACCEPTS POST FOR COLONIES.
AMSTERDAM, August 3rd.
It is believed that Feet Welter, mem- ber of the Council in the Dutch East Indies, has accepted the post of Minister of the Colonies. He is leaving for Home as soon as possible.
ST. HELENA.
ST. HELENA, August 3rd. 11.M.8. Repular with the Prince of Wales on board, has arrived here on the way to South America.
(Continued on neci Column),
The Coroner at this, stage adjourned the enquiry until this afternoon at 2.15, and the Court later made an inspection of the site...
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