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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25th, 1927.
SHANGHAI.
THE STRIKES ON.
ANOTHER LIKELY.
ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT'S
DEMANDS.
SUN CHUAN FANG'S TROOPS UNION WATERBOAT CO.,
CAT HUANGYEN.
ON THE WHOLE WELL CONDUCTED.
NEW RIFLES, FIELD PIECES AND MACHINE GUNS,
LIMITED.
THE REPORT OF THE GENERAL MANAGERS.
The twenty-second ordinary an nual meeting of the Union Water- boat Co., Ltd., is to be held at the offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., LL, on Monday next at 11 am.
The following is the report of the On the end instant the Brat batch General Managers which will be The tram strike sitnation remains of troops, part of the 13th. Division submitted to the shareholders-
The prost for the year, after about the same, there being no ser of Marshal Sun Chuan Fang's vice on age lines, neither have the Fakien forces under General Chow writing off depreciation and includ Yin Jen, former Tuchun of Fukioning balance brought forward from men been demonstrative or violent, province, arrived in Huangyen, last account, amounts to $61,252-39 says the M.-C. Daily News of Janu-Che, says a Forth-China Daily which the Consulting Committee re commend applying as follows:...
Transfer to insurance
ary 20th.
The company issued the follow- ing statement yesterday":"A de putation of the men called on the General Manager during the after. noon, and, after a long interview, they promised to hold a meeting at midday to-day to reconsider the terms offered."
News correspondent..
For the last four days, batches of 3,000 or 4,000 have arrived daily, spent one night in this city and quickly passed on in the direction of Taichowfu next day,
Well Equipped,
I understand that these men have. not recently done any fighting but they bear the marks of hard march- ing; many are footsore and some are almost broken down. Some of the first spoke northern Chekiang dialect, but the later ones are from north Kiangsu and Shantung. They
In the meanwhile motorists are, offering, to take anywhere from one to four passengers toward the Bund in the morning hours for the dura-seem to be well armed, some of them with new rilles, and they have a tion of the strike.
fair number of small field pieces and machine guns.
The Wing On Striks.
At Messrs Wing On's, several hundred share-holding employees are carrying on as best possible and the strikers have not agreed to the terms offered by the manage
meat.
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$51,299.39
"CONSULTING COMMITIE:- Since last meeting Mr. T. de Meester has resigned and Mr. C. F. J. Quarles van Ufford has been invited to join the Committee.
review have been audited by Messra.
AUDITORS :-The accounts under
TA-
The city authorities have had Linstead & Davis, Chartered Ac- ample notice of the arrival of these countants, who retire and being scldiers, and deserve erery praise eligible offer themselves for for the business like way they have election. handled the matter. This city is not poor. The district has had a succession of good seasons, with freedom from military and briganda Putting aside any poli- tical bias they may have, arrange
ments
Fifty fitters at the Chinese Tele graph Administration's Godown,
vere made by the Chamber who had been on strike for about of Commerce for the reception of 43 hours, because they were dissatis- the troops. Strawbedding was. fied with a new superintendent, re-supplied in abundance, also rice, sumed work on Tuesday afternoon vegetables and pork, besides at least
$20,000 in cash. inconditionally, the oficial remain- ing at his post.
PHILIPPINE RUBBER. WHY FARMERS LOSE INTEREST IN PLANTING.
The average Philippine farmer bas given up the idea of growing rubber on small land holdings, judging from the utter lack of de mand for rubber seedlings for some Press Gang, Busy
time, according to Dr. Stanton They have had their reward; the Youngberg, Director of the Bureau The clerks of the Chinese Cotton soldiers, being well cared for, have of Agriculture He states that in Goods Exchange situated at 80 not needed to help themselves. I proportion as interest in rubber Avenue Edward VII, struck work have heard very few complaints growing wanes the production of on Tuesday afternoon at 2.30 from the people of misappropria copra attracts attention and that o'clock. They are demanding a Ctions of any kind. The most dif- the increased acreage planted to per cent increase for employees cult part to arrange for has been coconuts bear out this statement. receiving $100 or more and a 50 percoolies to carry baggage. The prea
The tiresoma process of tapping cent. increase for those receiving gang has combed the city and the rubber trees for the latex day in $20 or less, and other increases country for about 30 li radius. and day out 365 days a year does according to the wage paid.
Men are not anxious to give their not appeal to the average Philip- addition they demand a yearly increase of 83 in their monthly vices and many have gone into pine farmer," declared.Dr. Young "Besides, a rubber planter hiding.
berg. salary, no deductions while ill and medical expenses, double pay dur busily at work, there is no questioning the fact that the average age That the Kuomintang agents are cannot begin to tap his trees until they are five years old. Consider- ing months when accounts
Are They are finding a fruitful field settled and one year's compensation.
of a rubber tres is 25 years, and
to their families, ahould they die in among the pirates along the coast that in the 20th year the produc
service of the Exchange.
The writer is reliably informed that tivity of a tree begins to decline, the pirates, professional-gamblers-
and all the sum of the district are it is easy to see why a small farmer being given identifiantion tickets as does not take well to rubber members of the Kuomintang with growing." orders to rise at the given signal and overturn the constituted autho- rities.
A Change Of Manner.
January 8th.
ALICE MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL.
Electricty Department Agitation
According to the Shanghai Jour nal of Commerce, the employees, although they were granted five centa rite money when the price of the necessity rose, are demanding a 20 cent increase in pay, that Sun- days should be considered as holi- days for which they are to be paid,
The last of our soldier friends The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice that they should receive one extra" month's salary at Chinese New Year, have left us and the city is not Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals that the Department should provide sorry. About 1,500, lingered on for begs to acknowledge with thanks the employees at the old plant with a couple of days longer than was the following donations to the dub facilities and a club allowance, expected, and gave the city a taste funds of the Hospitals: and that labourers' savings accounts of what soldiers can be like. should be closed and paid every five years, whether employees are on the roster or have been dismissed.
THE SURTAX
SUN CHUAN FANG'S. ARRANGEMENTS.
A BIG REVENUE.
Business was at a standstill and pilfering and molesting women were common towards the end of the soldiers' sty
LABOUR'S WAR OF ASSASSINATION.
Two men were murdered on the 18th inst. and a third severely wounded as a result of factional labour troubles in Shanghai. One of the victims was accused of being A traitor to the labour union and hot before he knew what the alter-
To-day the surtax of two and a hall percent. over the normal. Customs duty will be levied in cation was about.
Detectives and uniformed men
BEAUTY, COMBINED Shanghai, says the NC. Daily went to the scene of the trouble, Nesse of January 20th. Following Robinson Road, and, during their the precedent established elsewhere, investigations, they 'ascertained Marshal Sun Chuan Fang has-de- cide to carry out the collection of that four men, one of whom carried the duty, and he has made all the calibre pistol and one a .25 necessary arrangements so that the Pistol, entered the dwelling and machinery of collection will proceed accused Woo Zay Meu, a dismissed notwithstanding that the Inspector employee from Naigai Wata Kaisha Genera
Customs has ordered his Mills, of being a traitor to the of Commissionere not to collect it. As cause. The assassins opened fire at & matter of fact the Commissioner once and all three tenants fell to of Customs here wil in no way be the floor, one dead. The others concerned with reference to the were removed, to hospital, where collection. Marshal Sua has ar another ancenmbed. The third is. ranged for a special department to wounded severely: attend to the matter.
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The importance of this amount to
on January 18th that General L Tr. Yang, one of the Marahal's chief advisers, had been appointed to succeed General Yen here.
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SIAM VISITS NORTHERN TERRITORY.
Bccompanied by the Queen is visit His Majesty the King of Siam, ing the northern portions of his The Bangkok Times Kingdom. As an administrator, General Ten rays this is the first time in the has proved to be first class. Ee is history of the Chakkri Dynasty that well liked by the local community the Sovereign, has visited Chieng
olt times called the northern
Marshal Sun may be gauged from and the members of the. Shanghai m1, or travelled to the Sinmose
the Customs statistics of last year, which showed that the import duty
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and Wcosung Police force. During
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for Shanghai amounted to over Hat and confidence by his attempts to Chiengsen.
My stay in Chiangmai, as well as on to see into things and matters kuan Tl. 23,000,000. This means introduce an honest administration The tour has been spoken about in their visits to old and new rities in affecting bis Kingdom "in" pezson that the surtax will bring in ap- and to enforce reforms.
the North for months, and Their the former Lao Kingdom, have been will have the happierf consequences Majcstics are assured of a truly planned on a scale commensurile for the many races which, living
ments for the King and Queen's and there can be no doubt that this of the south, are generally called
(Continued on next Column). latest example of the King's desire Lao..
HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS Co., Ltd. monthy to the authority imposing aioners in a native of Bacchuan who Northern welnome. The arrange with the importance of the tout in the north under the beniga rule
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