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THE RECURRENCE OF TROUBLE AT-
1,
SWATOW.
INTIMIDATION OF" DEALERS.
SEVERAL SHIPPING FIXTURES CANCELLED.
DRASTIC ACTION URGENTLY NEEDED BY CANTON GOVERNMENT.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
SWATOW, Monday. A telegram from our Swatow Correspondent yesterday shows that the trade situation in, that port has taken a sudden turn for the worst, and it is suggested that unless the Canton Government takes immediate and drustic action against the agitators, who are fomenting trouble, there is every likelihood of a return of the boycott in its most severe form.,
Our Correspondent.wires:-
The import, oll and pisca-goods dealers are being intimidated, and the Union is kaaping a list of all taking deliveries of British goods. Heavy penalties are threatened."
As regards shipping the Talon of Charterers are preventing shippers' employees from receiving and handling cargo from British steamers. The consequence is that several fixtures baya already bean cancelled
The opinion of British Arms is that unless drastic action is taken by the Canton Government about the movement, it must lead to a return of the boycott in its severest form.
THE FIRE AT TUNG
YUAN
NO OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH,” 192.
CANTON TRADE.
ATTITUDE OF CARGO COOLIES.
ENDANGERING THEIR LICENCES.
INVESTITURE BY PRINCE
GEORGE.
HE. THE GOVERNOR RECEIVES
ST. JOHN'S" ORDER.
SMART BEARING OF THE CORPS.
CORRESPONDENCE.
APPRECIATION OF THE PRESS.
[TO THE EDITORS OF THE HONGKONG PAPERS.}
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DEAR SIR-On the departure of the Battalion under my command from the There was large and distinguished Colony of Hongkong I wish to voice the gathering on the Murray Parade Ground sentiments of all ranks of the 1st Batta yesterday evening when His Royal Highlion The East Surrey Regiment in regard ness Prince George, K.G., invested H.Eto the Hongkong Press. theGovernar (Sir Cacil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) with the insignia of "Knight of Grace of the Fenerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem." The ceremony was timed for 5.15 p.m., but long before that;
We greatly appreciate the interest you the members of the St. John's Ambulance | bare taken in our doings both at work Corps carried through a final rehearsal, | and play. an effort rewarded by the efficient
movements.
After a stay of three years in the Colony we look back with gratitude for the courtesy and encouragement we have always experienced at your hands.
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Our three years' service in Hoogkong amoothness subsequently shown in all has been an extraordinary instructive and happy one for which we have a very great deal to thank all departments of the Hongkong Preis.-Yours faithfully.
F. 5. MONTAGUE-BATES, Brevet-Colonel,
Commanding, 1st Battalion The East Surrey Regiment. H.T. Neuralia, nt Sea, November 1st, 1926.
KWONG CHOW HOTEL.
APPLICATION FOR WINDING-UP GRANTED.
Among those present were Lady Clementi, Admiral Sir Edwyn Alexander Sinclair, K. C. B., M.V.O. (Commander-in- Chief of the China Station), attended by Flag-Lieut. E Dangerfeld, Culone! C Russell Brown, D.S.O., R.E. (Acting GO.C.), and Mrs. Russell Brown, Col L. C. Comyn, C.M.G., D.S.O. (Oce={~ Commanding the 1st Battalion, the King's Own Scottish Borderers), and Mrs. Comyn, Lady Ho Tung, Mr Ho Kom Tong. Sir Henry Golian (the Chief Justice), Mr. Justice J. R. Wood (Puisne Judge), the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn Probably the chief obstacle to the (Colonial Secretary), the Hon. Mr. T. H.. return of normal trade conditions in Creasy (Director of Public Works), Mr. Canton is the inexplicable attitude C. D. Melbourne, Mr. T. H. King (Direc
An application was made in the adopted by the Cargo Boat Transportator of Criminal Intelligence), the Hon. tion Guild. For some time they have Dr. R. H. Kotewall and Mrs. Kotewall, Supreme Court yesterday for the wind- refused to handle cargo for British Mr. R. C. Tredwall (United States Coning-up of the Kwong Chow Hotel Co., vessels and there seems at the moment sul-General in Hongkong), the Senior Ltd., of 578, Queen's Road West.
Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C. (instructed no sign of any change in their policy. United States Naval Officer, and many Yuan was the result of an accident, but They will put cargo on board Chinese others, including sicers of warships.in by G. K. Hall Button & Co.), made according to members of the Strike Com-owned vessels even though it is intended port, officers of the K.O.S.B's and mem- the application, which was on the debtor ruittee the whole matter is to be carefully for a British port and for transhipment hers of the Councils, Government officers company's own petition,
The petition, said Mr. Alabaster, investigated. In the meantime the work elsewhere by British steamer, but they and many local residenta, ladies, perhaps
RUMOURS IN CIRCULATION.
(FROM CER CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.)
it is generally believed that the fire which destroyed the greater part of the
Strike Commitee's headquarters at Tung
of the Committee, which is now concero- ed chiefly with the relief of strikers still unable to obtain employment, will be car- ried on at the several bearding houses of the organisation with head offices at the Waichow Guildhall.
There are rumours that there was a loss of lives of people imprisoned at Tung Yuan and that the facts are being care. fully hidden from the public. Such re- parts, however, were perhaps to be antici- pated and it is very difficult to know how much basis there is for them. It is said that the Canton Police, who endeavoured to set everyone free, could not reach some of the prisoners in time, and the charge is levelled against the pickets that they did not lift a hand to rescue the
victims.
No official report on the fire has been issued and loss of life is neither officially denied or admitted. Pickets of the Striko Committee are still guarding the rudas and no outsiders are allowed to approach in order to ascertain the facts.
Government and the Strikers..
LATER
THE SUPREME COURT.
will not load directly on to British preponderating. Hundreds of Chinese stated that the Company was incorporat-
the situation.
thronged Garden Road and the banks of the parade ground.
ed in May, 1929, with its registered in Canton. steamers
office at 378, Queer's Road West, and a Naturally the cargo boats in Canton harbour come under the jurisdiction of
There were about 150 members of the capital of 8100,000 divided into 1,000 In the course of carrying on the Commissioner of Customs and the Corps on parade, the brigade being shares. Commissioner has now threatened to drawn up in four platoons facing the restaurant and hotel business debts had cancel their licences if discrimination is matshed. On the left of the matshed been contracted to the extent of $2,500, continued, but so far this threat has were the thirteen nurses, in charge of all of which were overdue and the Co- brought about ng particular change in Surgeons Mrs. Hickling and Mrs Minett,pany was unable to meet them.
the railwaymen's detachment, and behind Two meetings of shareholders had been The Committee formed to promote the these a fleet of ambulance cars, their called but owing to insufficiency of extension of the boycott is still active, drivers in neat uniforms, and the two are numbers it had been found impossible to this is the committee which is busy brigade ambulances, the last named in labelling British goods in the shops in charge of Station Officer Moss. order that all British stocks may be His Excellency," who was accompanied cleared by a certain date, the intention by his A.D.C. (Capt. C. H. Steele), was being not to renew them but the pro-et at the entrance to the ground by paganda engineered by this organisation Commissioner E. Ralphs, and the Chinese has never been regarded very seriously
Corps'
pass a resolution in favour of a volun- tary winding-up order being made." The Company was unable to continue busi ness and although an offer had been made for the purchase of the business as a going concern which would amount Supt Ho Kom Tong The to considerably more than that of the by the merchants, and if this was the Prince, on his arrival, with his A.D.C. debts, this offer would be withdrawn if only body interfering with trade resump-}
(Lieut. Halsey, R.N.), was welcomed by the goods were sold in execution. The tion the hopes for the future would be His Excellency who presented to him the bailiff was already in possession in con- bright. Twenty members were chosen
two brigade officers mentioned. The nection with a judgment debt for $7,000. - from the merchant class to serve on this Royal Salute was given, an inspection of The winding-up application order was all units by the Prince followed and then granted with the conti uance of the Committee but, so far, only eleven have;
hollow square was formed: attended the meetings.
special manager already provisionally
ALL FOR ONE CENT.
A SQUABLE BETWEEN TWO WOMEN.
His Royal Highness received the in-appointed. Recently a third organisation has come signia of the order, a collar and white Rumour is persistent in Chinese circles into existence, the object of which is to enamel cross, from Supt. Ho. Kom Tony, that the strikers themselves were respon secure the abolition of treaties. It was and placed it round His Excellency's sible for burning down their own quar formed largely through the efforts of neck. The other officers of the Corps ters. It is reported that the Government student returned from Belgium and were then presented. They were Corps' required them to produce certain docu- naturally chief attention is now being Supt. Ralston, who was in charge of the ments and to give an account of the goods paid to the controversy over the treaty parade, Surgeons Mrs. Hickling and Mrs. they had is hand. It is said that there with Belgium. This Committee is not Minett, Dist."Surgean Moore, Dist. Supt.
After repeated adjournments, a čase în were empty cases at the headquarters, directly concerned with the trade of Morria, Corps' Officer Barnett, Surgeon which a Chinese woman was charged by but no goods, as the goods had been dis- Cunton but, of course, all agitation work. Lee Shiu Fun, Surgeon Ma Chiu Ei and another with assault, and in which both posed of and the proceeds pocketeded up against foreign powers, whatever Divisional Supt. A el Arculli. Subse. Parties enlisted legal aid in the proceed- Placed in a dilemma the strike lenders the cause, must re-act to some extent quently the ranks were reformed, and, ings that developed from an argument conceived the idea of extricating them unfavourably on the general trade posi- headed by the cars the whole parade was over one cent, was concluded before Mr. selves by setting-fire to the premises. It tion is also rumoured that lives, were lost in
played off the ground by the band of the R. E. Lindsell at the Central Police
earlier proceedings, K.O.S.B. who also played during the Court yesterday.
the fire, a number of persons being left
to their fate. If this is established, the
Canton Government is supporting, direct There is no sign or suggestion that the
y or indirectly, the Cargo Coolies Guild strike leaders will, it is said, be held in their boycott of British steamers. On responsible, and the Government are ex the contrary, the Canton Foreign Office pected to take stern measures against has again directed the Chief of Police them. There is a general feeling that the to protect all persons having business and the organisation throughout was a strictest investigation into the whole with British steamers on the Bund. But credit to all concerned.
the action so far taken-by-the Police
affair is required, and the Kuomintang have, it is reported, decided that one does not appear to have been sufficiently
shall be made.
GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.
HIS, POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR:
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[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.}
distic to make the workers realise that i they are not entitled either by intimida- tion, or even by discrimination, to inter- fere with the legitimate course of trade. Certain labour elements have been in control for so long that it is difficult now to dislodge them. That appears to be the cure of the whole business.
The name of General Chiang Kai Shek. is receding farther, and farther into the It is most likely that General Li Tsai background, and his Chief of Staß, Hsin will eventually control the Canton General Li Tsai Hsin, the officer coin- situation. He is not considered an manding Headquarters in Canton, has ultra-red" by the Chinese. commenced to strengthen his own posi- General Li Lieh Chun, a former Mili- tion General Li, who also commands tary Governor of Kiangs, and lately a the 4th Army Corps, is moving his own member of the staff of the Kuominchun divisions from Southern Kwangtung into Army, who is now a guest of the Kuomin- Canton City and is asking the Kwangsi tang in Canton, is, according to the troops to move down the West River. general belief, endeavouring to enlist "Opntinued at foot of next Colums.) support for General Feng Yu Hsiang.
The anartress of the Corps' bearing, especially at this anal stage elicited general commendation not only from the many naval and military officers present, crowd but from the expert eyes of the
A POLICE DESERTER.
SHANTUNG MAN WHO WENT"
HOME.
It transpires from the evidence that, paying her customary morning call for pig-wash at a dwelling house, one of the women in the case paid two cents that she needed another cent to pay for for two buckets of pig-wash, but found
a bucket of scorched rice. She borrowed the coin from the other woman and this led to an argument in which; it was alleged, the pig-wash woman received a push which sent her into the harbour.
From very small beginnings, the case A Shantung constable was sentenced assumed more serious dimensions when to four months' hard labour at the both parties, determined to settle their Central Police Court yesterday on con- dispute in Court, secured legal aid. Mr. viction of a charge of desertion from the Armstrong, of Messrs. Deacons, was in- Hongkong Police Force.
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In proeccuting, Captain Bloxham, structed for the prosecution, while Mr. J. A.S.P., said that within almost one year M. d'Almada Remedios appeared for the of service, the sccused deserted on the defence.
14th December, 1925, after being granted
leave on his own application to go into The case was dismissed." hospital. He was then attached to the outlying station of Bheungahui, in the New Territorica,
Subsequently, it was discovered that
- WEATHER REPORT. the accused had returned to Shantung,
Last night's weather report, forecast, and his wife, whom he left behind in Hongkong, had to be given a passage and remarks, issued from the Royal Ob to return to Weibaiwei. Information servatory, at 5.57, stated:- reached the authorities here that the The typhoon entered the Coast at about accused had again enlisted as a constable 150 miles N.E. of Cape, St. James, at under another name in the Northern | about noon and is travelling westward. port, and he was arrested and brought Local foreenst-East winds, fresh to back to Hongkong.
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