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PICKETS
PRIVILEGES.
TO BE CURTAILED.
RESIGNATIONS FROM EUOMIN
TANG COMMITTEE......,
DISAFFECTION IN THE ARMY.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
Since the Northern Expedition was årst mooted more than 7,000 coolies have been taken for war transportation service by the Kuomintang. Now a suggestion hos been made that a special commissioner -should be appointed by the Labour Unions to look after their interests and to see that the cookies are well treated
by the troops.
CANTON CUSTOMS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 10ra, 1926-
A BETTER ATMOSPHERE..
CHINESE STANDING FAST BY THE
SERVICE
A correspondent from Shameen, writing under date July 7th, states that there has
been a very much better atmosphere in the Canton Customs Service during the
past few days.
This is attributed to the strong line taken by the Commissioner of Customs with labour agitators.
As was reported in the Daily Press recently Colonel Hayley Bell took up his quarters in the Customs Building to encourage those employees who were living there because of fear of molesta tion by Strike pickets. He stayed with the men for a week and his action has
FUNERAL OF MR. P. 1
HOLYOAK
A WEALTH OF FLOWERS.
MANY HONGKONG PEOPLE
PRESENT.-
A correspondent who was present at the funeral Mr. P. H. Holyoak, which took place at Yardly Wood Church Moseley, on May 29th, states that the flowers sent by sorrowing friends, many ordered by cable from Hongkong, were so numerous and beautiful that they formed a carpet of colour for a wide space around the grave.
Mrs. Holyoak and the Misses Joyce and Dorothy Holyoak were present at the service. The interment was made in the grave of Mrs. Holyoak's parents, Mrs. Holyoak, who was before her marriage Miss Nellie Gertrude Cowper, being a Over a hundred employees of the Cus-daughter of the late Mr. William Cowper, It is understood that the Kuomintang toms Service, it is reported, have, entirely of Moseley. Mr. Holyoak's parents are will withdraw from the Labour Unions the rights of their pickets to make art their own accord, written to say they both living. He was their last surviving
More than 1,500 coolies have been ea listed through the Canton Strike Com-apparently had the desired effect.
mittee.
rests in connection with strike regula- tioas. The right of strike pickets to make arrests was first accorded only to those enforcing the strike and boycott, but later all pickets of the labour unions having trouble with their employers-or with one another also assumed "similar" privileges without interference by the Police. The Police, for time, even
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will never join the Union, such organisa-so tions, as is known, being prohibited to Customs men.
They also state that many of the em- ployees who were inveigled into joining the Union by threats of violence will shortly resign their membership
The attempt to form a spécial Customs Enion therefore may be said to have
assisted the pickets in their exercise of failed, and although the Strike Pickets may continue to storm and age little real danger is now apprehended from that quarter..
labour tyranny.
RESIGNATIONS:
The resignation of Mr Chan Kung Pok, Kuomintang-Commissioner of Agriculture and Labour, has been accepted, but the appointment of his successor has yet to
Public opinion is strongly against the Pickets on this particular question "and in view of this fact the Kuomintang will probably see to it that their activities are
be announced. Mr. Chan is one of the severely.curtailed. three Canton delegates nominated by the Kuomintang to negotiate with Hongkong
AT CANTON.
Government representatives for the settle-JULY 4TH" CELEBRATIONS ment of the boycott. Mr. Chan "is to become a staff officer under. General Chiang Kai-Shek in the General Head-
A correspondent #American" writes quarters of the Commander-in-Chief. As from Canton making a correction in our he is not leaving Conton immediately report of the July 4th celebrations there. for Hunsa, it is believed, that his attend It was stated that the celebrations took ance at the Canton-Hongkong negotia-place on Sunday.
tions will not be affected.
American writes:-"-Independence M. Borodin, the Soviet High Commis Day celebrations in Canton were held on sioner to South China, has been given a Monday, July 5th, and not on the day seat in the Central Executive Committee previous. Consul and Mrs. Jenkins kept meeting. He was invited to participate open house for their friends at the Con. -in-the special meetings of the Committee sulate-General on Shameen from 11.30 to
as an adviser.
12.30. The American community were at Mr. Yeh Cho Chang, secretary-general home to their friends at the Canton of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, has resigned and left Club from 12.30 to 1:30, while that after. Canton for Shanghai. His resignation is on the Standard Oil kindly enter said to be caused by further friction tained the crew of the U.S.S. Pampanga. within the party, Mr. Yeh not approving At. 4 p.D. the South China Branch of the of a militarist heading the Kuomintang,
Before General Chiang's election to "American Association held a patriotic and this important post, it was held by Mr. musical programme on the campus of the Wang Ching Wei and then for the last two months by Mr. Chang Ching Kiang, American Southern Baptist Mission, at practically an unknown man to the Dan-Tung Shan, at which time Rev. A. tonese, although he was at one time & Fisher, D.D., of the American Presby close associate of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen. As secretary-general of the Kaateriaa Mission delivered a patriotic mintang, Mr. "Yeh had a great deal of address." power, and his sudden departure from Canton has naturally aroused no little comment.
A CURIOUS REPORT.
SUMMARY COURT.
CLAIMS AGAINST EUROPEANS.
A report has appeared in a vernacular paper that M. Seminof, the former Rus- sian Naval Commander of the Kuomin. Two cases concerning Europeans were tang, had been convicted and executed down for hearing at the Summary Court by the Soviet Government in Moscow, yesterday morning, but settlement effect What basis this report haa, I do noted in respect of each know. I simply mention it to show the reports being circulated in the city.
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LAST ILLNESS."
THE WATER SUPPLY.
RESTRICTION AT-MIDSUMMER.
After two months of full-supply, the rider mains were brought into use again on July 7th and the City west of Garden Road reduced to a supply of swo hours a day. To have a restricted supply in the middle of the wet season points to the serious inadequacy of our present Waterworks, though the last two months have been dry still the year up to date shows a rainfall shortage of only 1 inches or 4 per cent, and though we have still a prospect of heavy rains and full reser voirs we have on the other hand the chance of a dry year with not more than 70 inches of rain, a figure which has been our limit no less than seven times in the last 40 years
The monthly water return gives the stor- age in the reservoirs supplying the City 45 1.172 million gallons on July 1st against 1,234 million on June 1st a "decrease of 32 million in the month with a rainfall of The consumption nearly seven inches. gallons or eight and a half million a day, during June amounted to 256 million this consumption is the same as in June last year, in that month, however, the supply was restricted while in Jufe 1920
constant supply was maintained from this it would appear that the population of the City is not yet quite up to, pre- strike level.
As is known, Mr. Holyoak was not in good health when he left the Colony. At Colombo he was seriously ill Special doctors were called in and they insisted that he should remain in bed for the
At Kowloon, the storage on July 1st remainder of the voyage. At Plymouth he was taken from the ship on a stretcher amounted to-336-million gallons against and put straight into the train and at 327 million a month ago and 329 million Paddington there was a motor ambulance on July 1st last year. The consumption waiting to convey him to the Nursing during June amounted to 72 million! Home: In London he was attended by gallons against 75 million during June Dr. Goodall, who said there was great fast year, there being a full supply during fear of the heart collapsing. This is what the month in both years. occurred.
Up to the end, however, his brain was active and he was constantly thinking of Hongkong. Only a week before his death he wrote to Mr. L. S. Amery, the Secre tary for the Dominions upon the commer cial and political situation in China, and made arrangements to see him as soon as he possibly could. That interview, of course, never took place...
The funeral service was conducted by the Archdeacon of Birmingham (Canon C. E. Hopton),
Among those present, in addition to Mrs. Holyoak and her daughters, were Miss Mary Holyoak (sister), Mr. Charles
Holyoak (cousin), Mr. and Mrs. J. Stert brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law), Mr. Cowper, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cowper 5. G. Cowper (nephew).
TRUCULENT WOMAN.
RIVALRY BETWEEN-DENTISTS.-
MAGISTRATE HAS THE LAST WORD..
A Chinese dentist was the complainant | in a charge of assault Against a woman of the same profession at the Central Magistracy yesterday.
Complainant said that he had engaged a house at No. 78, Queen's Road West, defendant While he was removing a which was formerly occupied by tha shelf whinh had been left on the wall, the defendant quarrelled with him, and struck him with a piece of wood.
An Indian constable gave corroborative. evidence.
Defendant was fined $10.
There also followed: Sir Newton Stabb (of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank), Colonel and Mrs. A. Reiss (London), Captain A. Lamplugh (Union Assurance Co. Canton), Mr. J. Hanbury Williams (Manchester), Mr. Leask and Mr. Graham i ost (representing the Freemasons of Hong kong), Mr. Bartholomew (Hongkong), Mr. and Mrs. T. Wallace Robinson, Mr. V. Hugo, and Mr. Wilfred Harris.
WREATHS.
TRUTH LACKING.
SOMETHING THAT HAD NOT BEEN DIVULGED.
defendant
The girl in her evidence yesterday admitted that her mother adopted defen dant from a young age, but totally denied her visits with the complainant to a tea house. She said the man was a stranger to her.
Wreaths were, sent by:Mrs. P. H. Holyoak, Joyce and Dorothy, Father and
FIREMAN DISCHARGED.. Mother, Marion and Frank, Stert and Pem, Stert and Nora, Billie and Dick,
Further evidence was taken before Mr. Alec. and Denis Shakespeare, Edward R. E Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy
Denise, Wallace and Kate, and Zulle Cragg, Captain C. D. Arm- yesterday on a charge of demanding strong, Nannie, P. W. Massey, Alec. money with menaces, preferred against ?
hearing At Thursday's Mackenzie, Miss V. Harrison, Mr. and fireman of the Central Station. Mrs. Brian Lewis, Mr. Mark, Mr. and Mre. AH. Barlow, Mr. and Mrs. denied the charge-and-alleged that the Bartholomew, Frank Graham, Wilfred, complainant's story was made up in order Sidney, Ernest and Reg. Harris, Mr. and to get him into trouble as he had remon Mrs. George Dodwell, Will and Ella strated with the complainant for going about with a girl-who-was-a-relative of Humphreys, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. and Mrs. the defendant. In adjourning the case Stanley Dodwell, Sir Claud and Lady for the pit to be brought to court, his Severn, Major-General Sir John Hanbury Worship remarked that the defence would Williams, Lady Hanbury Williams, John- stand or fall on the girl's evidence. nio Hanbury Williams, Fellow Strike Workers, President and Members of the St. George's Society of Hongkong Chinese Staff of Holyoak, Massey & Co., Ltd., Hongkong, Members of the Chinese Merchants Club, Board of Directors, General Manager and Staff of the Union Defendant then altered his statement Insurance Society of Canton, Lid, Mrs. by saying that he heard of the friend Grosvenor Cliff, Sir Newton and Lady hip from another man, and in regard to Stabb, Directors of Beiss Brothers (1923), the argyha said this was handed to Ltd., Fraser Syme Thomson, The Gas him voluntarily. Company, Board of Directors of the His Worship beld that both sides "had. Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat not told the truth and there was some. Co., Directors, Managers, and. Staff of thing which had not been divulged. the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Defendant was therefore discharged. Corporation; Staff of Holyoak, Massey Co., Ltd, Hongkong, Staff of Holyoak, Massey &Co., Ltd., Shanghai The New. Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd., Mr. J. H. Plummer, Mr., T. G. Weall, Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael, Mr. and Mrs. E. Armiston, Sir Shou Son Chow, Dr. Kotewall, Dora Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. C: H. P. Hay, Walter Sinclair, The Engineers Institute Colonel Brazier Craig, a "volunteer of Hongkong, Alfred and Marie Lam burglar, was badly bitten during the plugh, Colonel Alec. and Mrs. Heiss, Sir police dog trials at Ingatestone, near Eric and Lady Stuart Taylor, Charles Chelmsford
He endeavoured to recover an object UNREST IN THE ARMY.
Blason, Mr. and Mrs. Ormiston, Hong- Viszflection within the 6th Army Corps
kong, Mr. Concannon, Mr. and Mrs. John on the ground near a tethered dog, when McArthur, Mr. Bernard, Mr. G. the animal, which had defied & dozen under General Ching Chiem is reported
He informed the lukong on duty at Young, Directors of the YMCA of other volunteers, broke away from ite from the East River districts. This corps the Cenotaph that he had authority to Hongkong, Hermann Norden. Members fastenings and leaped at his throat. includes the 17th Division formerly com take down the fags. When the bowl of of the Hongkong Club, Mr. and Mrs. H.. manded by General Tu To Chen, the dismissed militarist now detained at the owers was broken, he was taken in Boccas Tigris Forts by order of General charge. Chiang Kai Shek Some of the men of It appears that the explanation he gave the 17th Division hava mutinied and are of the incident satisfied the Inspector in said to have joined opposing forces charge at the Police Station, as he was
not detained. near Waichow. Opinion in Kuomintang. circles is that something of this sort was "expected and that the authorities are not
unprepared,
Mr. Peter Maxwell consented to judz- ment in respect of a claim for $100 prin- There is another report that a ship ciple and 320 interest brought by an currying-a-large consignment of Russian Indian money lender, an order being arms and ammunition arrived at Lin-la-made accordingly with costs shan a day or two ago. It is stated that Mrs. E. O. Murphy, of 8, Mody Road, these arms have since been conveyed to Kowloon, was summoned by the Kwan Whampoa
Loong Laundry for $11.19 for work done.
It was stated on behalf of the plaintiff, that the money had been paid. The case was withdrawn.
NEWS" FROM THE FRONT. The reports from Hanan are still very conflicting The Kuomintang claim that General Tang Seng Chi's pro-Kuomintang troops have come within striking distance of Changsha, that the bombardment of the South Gate has begun, and that the fall of the city is imminent. Other informa- tion has it that General Tang's men have even evacuated Siantan again, a place which has changed hands several times.
THE CENOTAPH.
AN ALLEGED OUTRAGE.
A Chinese coolie, who is stated to have pulled down the fags at the Cenotaph and broken a bowl of flowers placed there, a day or two age was arrested and subsequently released
THE
CONNAUGHT ROAD:
MURDER.
VOLUNTEER THIEF" BITTEN. POLICE DOG THAT WON A FIRST
PRIZE
Officials rushed to the rescue, but
I. G. Jones, Mr. Knight, Mr. and Mrs. Colonel Brazier. Craig was badly bitten Leask, Hon. Mr. A. 0. Lang, M. Me on both arms in trying to ward off the Hutchon, Mr. and Mrs. Hugge, Fraser dog. He had to be medically attended. and Gracie Syme Thomson, Mrs. Main The dog secured a first prize. and Saidie, The Members of the Victoria Recreation Club, Hongkong, Mrs. W. Armstrong, Directors, Management and Staff of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank (London). ** ***
Victoria, Lodge, No. 1026; Perseverance -Lodge No. 1165; United Services Lodge, No. 1342; Corinthian Lodge of Amoy, No MASONIC TRIBUTES.,
1800Foochow Lodge, No. 1912; Lodge "POPULAR" DEMONSTRATIONS.
MABONIC LODGES: The Officers and Star of Southern China, 2013; University The League of the Kwangtung Workers,
At the Central Magistracy yesterday, Brethren of the District Grand Lodge of Lodge 2686 Swatow Lodge, No 3705; Farmers Students and Merchants, are arranging to give any large body of troops before Mr. R E Lindsell the fourth. Hongkong and South China; The Officers Cathay Lodge, No. 4373; The Officers and leaving Canton a hearty send off. Fat-office boy who was found to have and Brethren of St Mary Magdalene Companions of the Victoria Arch. Chap tory girls are asked to be present at the absconded when the discovery was made Chapter Bosc Croix No. 73 The Officers ter, No. 23; Cathay Royal Arch Chapter, station and it is announced that the face of the dead body of the office boy" in and Brethren of the Victoria Preceptory No. 1185; United Royal Arch Chapter, tories concerned will receive an allowance a room at the offices of the China Comand Priory No. 78 The Officers and Bre- No. 1241; Amey Royal Arch. Chapter, for the time spent by their employees in morcial Company, in the B.A.T. Build.thren of the District Grand Mark Lodge No. 1806 Jubilee Royal Arch Chapter, this way. The Women's Division of the ing, Connaught Road. Central, recently, of Hongkong and Bouth China; The No. 2013; University Royal Arch, Chap Kuomintang are not unwilling to help the appeared on remand on the charge of Officers and Companions of the District ter, No. 3888; The Officers and Brethren rhovement but apparently the times fixed murder of the office" boy. No evidence Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Hongkong of the Eathan Mark Lodge, No. 264; for departure of the troops is a stumbling was offered by the police, who applied and South China; The Officers and United Mark Lodge, No. 419; Concordia block. These times are, it seems, incos for another remand His Worship re Brethren of Zetland Lodge, No. 695; Mark Lodge, No. 721; Ararat Lodge
RoyalArk-Ma venient for "arranging demonstrations. manded the defendant until next Friday. (Continued at foot of near Columns
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