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THE TRADE OUTLOOK,
FEELING OF OPTIMISM
EVERYTHING IN READINESS FOR RETURN TO NORMAL BUSINESS.
The defnite statement by Mr. Eugene Chen, published in the Daily Press Fes- terday, has created a feeling of optimism in business circles. During the past fort night there has been doubt and specula tion regarding the termination of the boycott but the general opinion now that the Canton Government mean to raake a sincere attempt to bring about a resumption of trade and that Mr. Eugeno Chen would not have spoken in the way he did unless he was absolutely assured that he had the power to carry the new policy into effect..
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STANDARD 'RENT.
ASSESSOR'S AID SOUGHT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,
CASE, FURTHER ADJOURNED..
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The case was continued at the Sam- mary Court yesterday involving the posi- tion of a mortgagee who, in default of interest payment by the mortgagor, took over control of the premises in respect of which the mortgage was made only to find that rent in excess of standard rent had been paid to the mortagagor and that the tenants claimed to be entitled to refrain from paying further reat until the excess
had been met.
her attorney, Ip Li Xong) from the Mak Tung Shi claimed 81,000 (through
National Optical Company, tenants of the premises in question, in respect of
rent.
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As the matter is viewed by the British
Mr. M. K. Lo was for plaintiffs and merchants, the Canton Government have, Mr. L. D. Turner for defendants.. in effect, stated their reputation openly Mr. Turner said that he had no fur- upon the issue and as they cannot seether evidence to call as to what the rent that there is any object to be gained by the Kuomintang ic raising false hopes they are prepared to accept the Foreign Minister's declaration without question and to await expectantly for the "turn ing of the tide" on Monday next.
Steamers are ready and there will be no delay in resuming business when once it is apparent that business may be con
ducted under normal conditions.
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M. Karakbar.
It is now reported that Y. Karakhan is not visiting Canton for the time being. It was announced from Shanghai that he had started on his way South and in Canton it was stated that he was on board the Sandviken. This latter in formation appears to have been correct, 5: the Sundriker has gone to Vladivo
stok.
The American Minister,
The following letter addressed, to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs by the American Consul has been issued by
the Canton Information Bureau :
was on the occasion of the first letting of the domestic tenements as & separate letting after December 31st, 1920. At the last hearing His Honour had forced him (Mr. Turner) into an "adjournment by holding that under section 3 of the Rents Ordinance, 1929, sub-section (g), this clause was not the proper one for him to use to satisfy his Honour as to what the standard fent of these pre
mises was..
A Misunderstanding. This holding, said Mr. Turner, was contrary to a previous judgment which his Honour himself had giveä.
His Honour replied that he had read this" judgment again and was prepared to adint that his interpretation at the last hearing had been at fault. The misun- derstanding arose out of his taking the worda."actually let" as meaning "bo cupied. His views were still in accord ance with the previous judgment,
Mr. Turner quoted referred to powers conferred in the event of the domestic "My dear Mr. Chen, In view of state tenement not being let at the time but ments recently published in several news having been let at some previous date papers alleging that the American Minis- and held that the assessor's certificate ter had made a speech or speeches while which he had put in previously was some in Canton, it seems proper for me to evidence that the tenement in question | inform you that Mr. MacMurray made no had been let on some previous date. It speeches of any sort on any subject while was some evidence of the standard rent he was in Canton, nor did he authorize and as it was all that the court had to any public-statement of any sort.-Very go on he (Mr. Turner) claimed that it sincerely yours,
was sufficient, "DOUGLAS JENKINS."
CANTON ITEMS. -
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT:]
General Chiang Kai Shek, Commander- in-Chief of the Kuomintang Army, and Chairman of the Kuomintang, is now at Shek-kiang and will proceed to Taing kiang to direct military operations: It is not believed in Canton that he will retura from the field in order to preside over the full session of the Central Executive Com- mittee, which will meet in extra session in Canton on October 10th.
His Honour indicated that he was not in agreement and Mr. Turner asked for an order for, the production by the assessor of relevant documents, a series of books containing returns for each
year.
THE PIRACY OF THE CUSTOMS
LAUNCH.
MISS SCARLETT'S ORDEAL.
MR. POULTER BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN SHOT.
Miss
A detailed report of the piracy of the Customs' launch, Kungmoon Chal, was received in the Colony yesterday. Leanone Scarlett, the Canadian lady missionary, was for six days imprisoned in the engine room. It is now feared that Mr. Poulter, the European Customs Officer, and the three members of the crew were shot when the pirates captured the launch. The engineer and the fire men of the launch escaped, and the in formation received is their story.
Three members of the crew, were in stigators of the well-planned attack, and before leaving Kongmoon they had smug- gled two members of the gang on beard.
Surprise Attack.
deck were heard, and it is feared that Soon after leaving Kongmoon shots on
Mr. Poulter and the three loyal seamen were murdered out of hand in order that
of possession the launch could be. secured.
Miss Scarlett was taken from her cabin
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and placed in the cagine-room with the engineer and fireman. Miss Scarlett was not badly treated, being provided with proper meals, but naturally her health has suffered from the anxious period whilst she was more or less imprisoned.
The launch was afterwards steered to- wards shore where the remainder of the pirate gang were picked up.
OCTOBER' 7TH, 1926
CIGARETTES FOR PRISONER.
CHINESE WOMAN'S PLAN TO CHEER HUSBAND,
CASE FAILS.
A case for which no provision is mado, before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, at the Kow. in the local Ordinances, was brought
|foon" Magistracy yesterday, when L Chinese woman was charged with it tempting to smuggle to her husband, who
was detained in the cells of the Sham-
shuipo Police Station, cigarettes, matches
and a letter.
It was stated by Sub-Inspector Me Walter that the defendant asked per. mission to take to her husband, who was detained by the police on a charge of theft, sotae cakes. Before granting the woman permission, ber parcel was ex amined and the cigarettes, matches and letter were found concealed inside the
cates.
His Worship pointed out that the sec. tion read :-* Did attempt to introduce into a properly constituted prison." The Shamshuipo, cells, his Worship ruled, did not come within the meaning of that Ordinance.
cartion.
The woman was discharged with a
TRAFFIC MISHAPS.
SEVERAL CHINESE INJURED..
The following traffic accidents, which
had occurred on the previous day were contained in police reports yesterday -
As tram car travelling in an easterly direction knocked down a Chinese, who received injuries to his face, hands, and legs. He was taken to the Government Civil Hospital.
Another Chinese was slightly injured when he was knocked down by tram ear No. 27 near the Western Market. refused to go to hospital.
He
In an effort to disguise the vessel, it A Chinese motor driver has reported was painted black from stem to stern, that while be was driving his motor car and two or three days afterwards a large, 3441 along the Praya East, near the trading junk was pirated.
Fire Station, w, public ricksha driter ran into the road from underneath a He verandah and was knocked down. was picked up unconscious and takeń'to' the Coverament Civil Hospital.
Driven Ashorn by Typhoon.. The vessel was caught by the typhoon on September 27th and driven ashore at Kwang Mi. The real intenticos of the gang, therefore, can never be known.
The pirates were then attacked by the Militia of a village just outside Kwang Mi, and after a brief fight were driven off. Miss Scarlett, was taken by the villagers to the home of some Chris. tian Chinese, where she was made com- fortable until the arrival of H.M.S. Robin"
Launch Damaged,
Before evacuating the launch, the of value, and when she was towed off by pirate gang stripped her of everything the Robin, she was badly damaged. She is expected to reach Hongkong to-day. Miss Scarlett is still at Kongmoon, re- covering from the effects of her terrible experience. She has spent many years in China. Before the war she was engaged in missionary work at Wuchow. Miss Scarlett is able to speka the Chinese language. Buently.
Asn motor lorry was being drivec along Canton Road, Kowloon, a smali boy walked across the road, and was knocked down. He received injuries to his head and was treated at the Kwong Wah Hospital, but it was not necessary to detain him.'
YESTERDAY'S ARRIVALS.
"PRESIDENT
PASSENGERS" ON
JACKSON." TRAVELLERS LEAVING TO-DAY.
The Admiral Oriental liner 8.8. Presi dent Jackson arrived in port yesterday morning from Manila. The liner will leave Hongkong to-day at 3p.m. for Seattle vid ports.
Among the passengers arriving by the vessel was Colonel Carmi A. Thompson, special investigator for the President of the United States, who arrived in Manila on July 9th last for the purpose of making a general survey of the economic conditions of the Philippines. Mrs. Thompson, Miss Grace Jones, the Mr. investigator's private.
"Undesirable Precedent." His Honour was about to "make the
It will be recalled that "a previous re order when Mr. Lo said that he would port stated that Mr. Poulter and six like to be heard on the point. in a members of the crew were taken away by case of this kind oa had to bear in the pirates when the launch was aban mind that the principle of the Ordinance doned. Nothing, however, has been heard was to keep the roof over the head of the of him since, and owing to the length of tenant. On the day of the mortgage, the time which has elapsed, and in con- the mortgagee,
secretary, before advancing the sideration of the present information, it money, went to the tenants to find out in now feared that the worst has hap- what they were paying in reat. It was peaed. on the strength of this total that he had made the advance to the mortgagor.
There was no question here of keeping The Kuomintang Army Headquarters in Caston has since October 1st been rush a roof over the head of the tenant, said Mr. Lo. Mr. Turner had already had ing troops to Sheklung, Shekki, and four or five days to procure evidence an other important cities in the vicinity of to standard rent. Mr. Lo submitted that his Honour would be creating an un- Canton proper. A careful survey of the desirable precedent in making an order politico-military situation in these com such that asked for. The proper terms munities does not warrant the statement of the application should have been for an adjournment in order that Mr. that the Kuomintang" is at present in Turner might produce this further danger of being ousted by the anti-evidence.
His Honour agreed and granted an The growing influence of the adjournment on the question of standard Reds." "anti-Reds" in Kwangtung, however, is rent. requiring attention of the Kuomintang.
The Kuomintang is going to pay its army 80 per cent of the regular wage, reserving the balance as "savings the credit of the officers and men don- cerned.
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Kuomintang. leaders have assured the mon and pickets of the Canton Strike Committee that they will direct the Kuo- | mintang Ministry of Finance to appro priate 89,000,000 for the relief of the étiikers.
The Kuomintang is asking all tax-payers who have not paid their 1927 rates in advance to do so immediately.
The Opium Monopoly Administration of the Kuomintang in Kwangtung and Kwangst will now cone under one chief, who will supervise the sale of this drug in the two provinces.
As previously reported, Dr. Lin Tzo Fung, Director-General of the Kuomia. tang Department of Revenue, will be com missioned Special Collector of the Canton Port in charge of the collection of the surtaxes on Customs duties,
On October sth the Kuomintang secret service in Canton arrested nine political suspects and also discovered at a place in Hoda aquantity of bombs and
daggers.
THE "HSINFUNG" PIRACY.
James L. E. Jappe, his executive secre tary, and Mr. Russell B. Porter, corre apendent of the New York Times.
Col. Thompson and his party leave President Hongkong to-day by the Jackson for Bhanghai, where they will remain for a few days, and, if condi- tions are favourable, they will viit
ceed to Yokohama, and, after a brief stay there, they will proceed to the United States by the ss. Prezident Jefferson.
CARGO HAUL OF OVER $45,000.
EUROPEAN PASSENGER'S STORY.Peking. From Shanghai they will pro-
It was ascertained yesterday that the Bias Bay pirates' cargo haul on the China Merchants vessel, Hinjung, was valued at over $15,000. The value of the property stolen from the passengers can only be approximately estimated. It is said to be about $20,000.
The European passenger on board was Mr. W. H. Kimberley, a Chinese Mari There was further argument as to whe-time Customs Officer, who was on transfer ther the tenant was entitled to deduct from Shanghai to Lungkow, near Cheloo.
the amount of excess paid in the past over standard rent from the rent payable to the mortgagee in possession:
The case was adjourned.
Strikers Dissatished.
Mr. Kimberley stated that he was not harshly treated by the pirates when they knew he was a passenger. At first they thought he was a ship's official, owing to his uniform. He was kept in his cabin, with an armed guard posted outside the door for the whole of the time the pirates wore on board. Before going on the
Among other passengers on the liner la Miss Louise B. Wood, daughter of Governor-General Leonard Wood, of the Philippines, on her way home to the "States."
Mr. RM. Johnson, of the United States Shipping Board, is also a passen- ger to Yokohama.
Among the passengers embarking from Hongkong by the President Jackson, and leaving by her this afternoon are the following.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Schwartz, for Beattle. Mr. Schwartz is manager for Marshall, Field & Company.
Mr. and Mrs. R. 8. Rogers for Seattle. Mr. Rogers is the Manila"man-
Mr. J. W. Hutch, general agent in the Orient for the Great Northern Railroad, who is going to Shanghai.
Mr. Graham Kearney, manager for Anderson, Myer & Co., Hongkong, going to Seattle on holiday.
Strikers in Canton have been holding ship he had only just come out of bos-ager of Liggett, and Myers Tobacco Co. group meetings during the last few days,pital, and his nerves were all broken up, accretly deciding to oppose the restora He added that although there was no tion of the Canton Hongkong trafic and loss of life, the pirates were very stern to continue the anti-British boycott. The and rough. They cruelly intimated the reason for this change of attitude,-for Chinese passengers, many of whom were at one time it was thought that they almost continuously screaming, making would follow the Kuomintang change of sleep impossible. The pirates actually policy is attributed to the failure of the poured kerosene over some and threaten Kuomintang to do something for the imed to set them on fire unless they dis mediate relief of the strikers and pickets. closed the whereabouts of their valuables.
Mr. Eugene Chen and other leaders, They also threatened with knives. however, are determined to enforce their. The Heinfung left for the North at new policy; and a clash between the noon yesterday. Kuomintang leaders and some Labour Union agitators may be expected, accord- ing to Chinese opinion.
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PERJURY CHARGE. Kuomintang Leaders Anxious. General Tan Yan Kai, Mr. Chang Ching CASE AFTER FIVE YEARS. Kiang, and other Kuomintang leaders are very anxious regarding the development Having sworn before a commissioner and have wired to General Chiang of saths as long ago as December 17th, During the last few weeks the special for instructions. They even suggest that 1921, a Chinese named Chan Chung Ming committee of the Chamber of Commerce be should return to Canton in connection of Messrs. Hoo Cheong Wo (shipchand a: Wuchow and other trade guilds there with the question of terminating the boy lers) was charged with perjury at the have taken in more than £2,000,000 worthcott, as it was at General Chiang's ex-Magistracy yesterday, and a remand was of twenty-cent pieces, spurious coins mint pressed wish at the beginning that, the ordered. ed by previous administrations of mill-Kuomintang leaders took up the initiative Defendant is alleged to have told the tarist. The merchants have been willing of ending the picket nuisance. to stand some losses in order that the
An effort is being made to calm the had money shall be withdrawn, and the dissatisfied agitätort, and the merchant Kuomintang militarists have agreed not class in Canton is also working, assure to force the public to circulata low grade the strikers that everything will be done for their benent after the dificulty, is (Oontinued on next Column.)
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Mr. V. Crowe, the Far Eastern Agent for the Heary Ford Motor Co., going to Shanghai.
SHIPPING BOARD CHANGES.
MR VICTOR SMITH ARRIVES FROM MANILA.
There are to be changes in the manage- ment in the Orient of the United States Shipping Board,
Mr. Victor Emith who is the Assistant. Director of the Shipping Board in the Orient arrived yesterday morning on the President Jackson from Manila, where Mr. Smith had his headgharters.
Mr. R. M. Johnson who is the local representative of the Shipping Board will Colonial Treasurer that certain property be relieved by Mr. Smith until Mr. A. F. was left by Chan Sik To bat omitted Henry, arrives from America to assuZO deceased's share of $10,000 in the Yik the duties of Mr. Johnson. Cheong firm
Mr. Johnson, will leave for Yokohama
Mr. W. B. Hind is for the defence where he will have his headquarters as and Det.-Sub Inspector C. P. Fallon for the district engineer of the Shipping the prosecution. Bail was fixed at $2,500, 'Board.
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