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NO MORE ARBITRA-
TION.
"WORKERS PREFER OTHER
METHODS.
THE MONOTONOUS TALE OF STRIKES.
DEMONSTRATIONS AND PETITIONS,
[ROM OVE CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ]
The Canton workers apparently take the promise of the Euomin.
"SUNNING" PIRÀTES
HANGED.
TWO PAID LAST PENALTY
YESTERDAY.
ANOTHER EXECUTION
TO-DAY.
At the Tictoria Gaol early yester. day morning, two of the six men who were condemned to death at the January Criminal Sessions ia connection with the piracy of the 1. Sunning paid the full - penalty of the law,
The two 10:00 hanged were amongst the four who made the desperate attempt to break jail early on Tuesday morning.
The execution took place at two
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 3rd, 1927.
TROOP MOVEMENTS. It is understood that the sind
MORE BATTALIONS ARRIV
ING TO-DAY.
GREEN HOWARDS, MIDDLE- SEX AND BORDERERS.
“At the time of writing local mili- tary authorities had no informa tion sa to the ultimate destination of the and Coldstream Guards and the lat Devonshire Regiment, whose arrival in the Colony has already been recorded.
The Kinfauns Castle, has now left
Coldstream were brought up to strength for Colonial service “.
(about 300 strong) by taking over
volunteers from the 3rd Battalion.
TITLED "OFFICERS. Amongst the officers of the 2nd Battalion of the Eoldstream Guards are several titled, personages, some details concerning whom are given below:
TOOK THE WRONG STEAMBOAT.
VAGRANTS PLAUSIBLE TALE.
POLICE PROVE THEM OLD' OFFENDERS."
Vagrants have been coming into the Colony almost daily for the past month or so. Another two Euro- peans were brought h ́ore Major-C. Major the Viscount Marsham Willson yesterday at the Central was born in 1902, and is the eldest | Magistracy on charges of being in son and heir of the 5th Earl of the Colony without visible means Romney. Educated at Eton he of support and with entering hera served in the Great War being without proper passports wounded. We married a daughter of Sir Colin Keppel
The two accused, Petro Schom chadzę, a Georgian, and Constan- Captain the Lord Charles Bing- tine Shebelim, a Serbian, said that bam was born in 1806 and is the they were unwilling visitors to the Canton where prospects of employ- eldest son and heir of the 5th Earl Colony. They wanted to go on to how decided that they will not/incident at the hanging. The op. in the harbour. Both the Cold of Lucan. He joined the Cold-ent were good, "but owing to an
stream Guards iná 1017 had attain-
tang to protect labour interests to minutes past five, and was carried Holt's Wharf, and like the 1 mean that the Party will protect out according to Home prison redonon Castle, which brought the labour and no one else. They have gulations. There was no untoward Devonshires Battalion, is at a buoy
attend any more meetings of the recently organised Board of, Arbi- tration.
The Canton-Samshui railway is now being affected by labour trouble. The transportation coolies at Samshui have gone on strike like
leare.
portunity for religious consolation stream Guards and the Devonshires is given prisoners before they are are, however, being given shore taken to the scaffold, and it is un- derstood that, in the present in- stance, the condemned men naked for a Roman Catholic priest who attended them in the cell...
Meanwhile work at the Canteens
ed his present rank in 1926 He error due to their not understand- was A.D.C. to the Governor Generaling either English or Chinese, they
took the wrong steamer.
of South Africa in 1924-25.
Lieutenant the Baron Stratheden and Campbell is the eldest son of the late Hon. John Beresford Camp bet and the Hen. Alice Susan_ Hamilton, daughter of the lat
Sergeant Elston, prosecuting, said that both of the defendants were hardened offenders, having entered the Colony on three occasions with- out passports i Colony in January, they
sentenced to a term of imprison ment. They threatened when re- leased to go on a hunger strike, bat
On their last appearance in the
were
those at Shiukwan, the northern more will probably be taken to the which was the time first fixed for was born in 1899 and educated at brought before the Court and wore
terminus of the Kwangtung section of the Canton-Hankow Railway.
The outdoor staff of the Canton Telephone. Exchange are also
threatening. to strike unless the de- mands for higher wages are grant
ed.
The merchants in Canton Monday surprised all concerned by the "bold" declaration that meals would not be served to workers who had been dismissed from emploj- ment but refused to leave and were still enjoying the board and lodging of their former masters. To any one familiar with conditions in Canton this, of course," appears a perfectly reasonable stand to take but in the Southern Capital things generally are upside down and the question being asked is which merchant is going to bell the cat."
The Kuomintang Administrative Council, membership, of which is confned wholly to party leaders, is by no means a representative as sembly. Now-a-days, it is a very
The two men were hanged simul- taneously yesterday morning. Two
scaffold this morning, and the re maining two pirates. to-morrow at the same early hour.
which are being organised both on the Hong Kong side and on the Peninsula, is proceeding apace, and they will be ready for use be fore the middle of this month Baron Hamilton of Dalzell. He
their formal opening. Work is
Eton and Sandhurst Be succeeded being speeded up on these canteens his grandfather in 1918. Baran and a regards the entertainment Stratheden married a daughter of of the troops, religious bodies and Colonel W. Anstruther Grey.
it was never known if the threat At noon yesterday, "the formal other local organisations are taking
Lieutenant Sir Terence Falkiner is had been carried out, as the Police enquiry was held at the Centrala keen interest, and, working in Magistracy before Mr. R. E. Lind friendly rivalry are doing what they sell sitting as Coroner with a jury can to arrange concerts and other
The usual verdict that the exec-entertainments for the soldiers. tion was carried out in accordance with the process of law was return ed by the jury.
The Enquest.
Injured Warders,....
More Troops To-day.
the 8th Baronet of Annmount, Cork. He was born in 1003 and educated
at St. Anthony's, Eastbourne and the Oratory School, Edgbaston. He succeeded his father in 1917, and married last year a daughter of Sir John Cotterell.
lost no time in sending them away from the Colony,
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Their method of taking a long journey was to stow away at the various stages, and they had donë Sergeant that trick this time. Elston asked for an imprisonment Lieutenant Sir Walter Barttelot sentence. Howards and half of a General Bart was born in 1904. Educated Major C. Wilson sentenced the Hospital, will arriva in port this at Eton and Sandhurst, he succeed-men to one month's, imprisonment, afternoon, at about four o'clocked his father, in 1818. Sir Walter to be followed by expulsion from
comes of perhaps the oldest Sussex the Colony. As" in, the "case of the other two Battalions here, the Green Howards
county family. He traces his will remain in Hong Kong for the descent to the times of the Conquest time being at any rate.
More troops are due to-day. The latest information is that the as The three warders who were Ardye, bringing the 1st Green wounded during the attempted escape of four of the four con- demned men are progressing favour- ably in the Government Civil. Hos pital No operation has been neces sary and they will be put of Hospital shortly.
than the Assaye. These Battalions will not be proceeding to Shang- hai direct, as was at first thought likely, but their future movements are uncertain. The Green Howards are under the command of Lt. Col. McCall
The P.&O. Karmala with the 1st Headquarters and half of Worrying the Chinese-French Hospital.
the 3th Armoured Car Company; Supporters of the anti-Christian Headquarters of the 13th Infantry and anti-foreign movements among Brigade; 1st Border Regiment and workers and students in Canton the 1st Middlesex Regiment are also will, on Friday, hold a demonstra-due to arrive to-day, a little inter
the stration and demand that Chinese-French Hospital, and Medic al College on the West Bund be made to register as a Chinese in stitution. The French Consulate General at Canton informed the Kuomintang Foreign Office some common occurrence to find people time ago that the College would parading belore public offices in prefer to be exempt from Kuomin- order to submit petitions. larger the parades the more quick-Kuomintang Foreign Office has minius with the let Cameronians; ly the petitions are likely to the asked the Educational Commission Headquarters of the 4th Fack "Took into the conditions Brigade, R.A.; the 91st Pack Bat- governing these institutions, and ter; and the remaining half of the has expressed the view that they General Hospital and a Field Am- should be made to identify them-bulance Corpe leit Singapore on
Tuesday. selves with the Kuomintang,
A Reuter cable received seater
and his country seat, Stopham TAINTED PIG'S CARCASS. House, Palborough, Sussex, has be longed to his people for hundreds of years.
SHOP COOLIE HEAVILY FINED.
CONCERTS FOR TROOPS Charged with the possession of the carcass of a pig which was badly tainted, a shop coolie and a lighter E. Lindsell, yesterday morning at faki were brought before Mr. R.
the Central Magistracy.
As mentioned yesterday the Wan chai Wesleyan Church are among the local organisation who have
readily come forward in providing entertainments for the troops.
Last evening the first concert for the newly arrived forces was given
The lighter foki was arrested in Des Voeux Road West on Tuesday. afternoon carrying the carcass in some matting He told the police
at the Soldiers and Sailors' Home, he was instructed by the shop Arsenal Street, under the auspices coolie to take it to the slaughter.
The tang rules and regulations but the day stated that the transport H&T of the above named Church. There house to be burned, but as he was
granted for if the group is sufficient ly numerous it simply surrounds the offices and keeps the poor officials ia custody until the petitioners are satisfied. Scarcely a day passes without a parade of some sort but one on Friday last organised as a protest against the Imperialist invasion"
more impressive than usual. As I announced, there was a stoppage of work for an hour, Even the waiters in the tea houses, the restaurants and noodle rooms stopped service, leaving the cus tomers to help themselves. After-
to
Some eleven women's labour or
Chinese constable doubted his state- a good attendance of men in going in an easterly direction, the
ment and arrested him.
khaki and blue at the concert and
vided by local artistes,
excellent programme was pro-
Recital For Service Funds: This evening, at 3.30, there wil From present information, it be a recital by Mi Nora Moon, ganizations in Canton have an seems probable that the three Bat-the distinguished English soprano, nounced their intention of parti- talions mentioned, with the other at the Helena May Taititute, and cipating in the Women's Day de details, will disembark at Hong the entire proceeds from the ber- monstrations for women's rights on Kong, at any rate for the time formance will go to the Y.M.CA March 8th. There will be a mass being. If so the infantry and de Services Fund. meeting of Chinese women at Tai- tails will go to the camps allotted ping Theatre that day, and Chinese to them, particulars of which have nurses, dress makers and others already appeared in the Daily
Prest. have promised to turn up in force.
The Canton Strike Committee
wards there was a large gathering pickets are again active. They are
Hospital Ship To-day.
In court the man said he was going first to the shop to get a chit to take the carcass to the slaughter house,
The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. Mr. McKenzie, pointed out that no chits were required to take dead animals to be bized.
The shop coolie said he knew no chit was required and told the other Miss Nora Moon won the King's accused to take the carcass direct! Scholarship and the Courtney to the laughter house but the latter Scholarship at the Royal College misunderstood him, of Music, where she became the The Magistrate convicted the favourite protegee of Sir Charles shop coole and discharged the Stanford and also studied under other man. eminent musicians like Porry, Mr. McKenzie asked that a seri
The British naval hospital ship in the streets and much spouting being reorganized for service but of Down with. Imperialism." whether will will be ordered out is Maine, of 6,763 tona grom, arrived
A section of the workers in not known. The number being got at Singapore over the week-end. Bridge and Parratt... She made her ous view be taken of the case as Canton are being urged to demon-ready for picket duty is put at 979 The medical section is commanded debut at an early age and on her the pig had died of disease. In strate as soon as possible for the During the last strike, more than by Surgeon Captain W. W. Kerr appearance in London received the state in which it was carried rendition of Shameen.
4,000 were used for the job, but C.M.G., who is assisted by Surgeon since last October, nearly 1,500 have Commanders F. G. Gowans and H. been employed by the Kuomintang P. Padwick, D.8.0. Ministry of Finance in the task of checking opium smuggling.
The bouseholders and landed pro- prietors in the West River districts are opposed to the Kuomintang's anti- proposal to undertake an bandit campaign. They do not oppose the idea of suppressing the bandits but apparently it is a case of the devil we know being per
The Maine is also duo in Hong Kong to-day.
Officers As Mascot.
kind of "pet.” --
الله
anthrax Animous acclamation from the about it was able to spread The convicted man was fined $100. critics, not only as a singer bat na an artist of reat promise and ver- satility.
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST AUSTRALIAN AGAIN ADJOURNED.
After appearance in leading roles with the British National GLENEALY HOTEL THEFTS, Vaccination Popular.
Opera Co., she accepted an engage. According to a recent report of
To the 2nd Batt, the Coldstream ment to sing arine at the Moss the Canton Municipal Department Guards belongs the distinction of Stoll Empires throughout Great of Public Health, nearly 60,000 per having an officer as the regimental Britain, during the War, and Bons in Canton have, during the last ferable to the devil that is unknown two months, taken advantage of the ascot instead of the more usual though, as she says, she was frankly
Ernest Trevor, an Australian, and it is feared that an invasion free vaccination offered. Taking
scared to follow a red-nosed come.
who is charged with the theft of The 2nd Coldstreams mascot is dian who warbled Why did the certain articles from Mr. L. E. of the towns and villages by the the Canton population as 870,000 Kuomintang troops would be
the of
the great arias written, she had
of whom are living at the Glenealy one out of 15 persons has applied MC, who served throughout the
Hotel, appeared on remand before the audience at the London Coli- Major C. Willson, at the Central Major
Gibbe, whose service seam to its leet
Magistracy yesterday morning, Miss Moon will be assisted at her Mr. N. I Brewer appeared for Fetshan is now facing a serious throughout had been with the 3rd unemployment problem. Many fac Battalion, was transferred to the recital by Miss Yera Gudson, a the defence, and, in asking for a tories have decided to close, down 2nd Battalion as second-in-command talented, violinist, who is also makremand, applied for bail. for the time being owing to high only a few hours before the Cold-ing a short stay in the Colony, and The case was adjourned until next cost of Inbour and the conditions streams were detailed for service will appear twice at this evening's Monday, bail being allowed in the imposed by the unions.
with the Shanghai Defence Forca.
sum of 8500 cash
worse infliction than any. suffered Permanent residents, it means that Major Lancelot Gibbs, D.S.Q., sausage-bark at father" with some Haynes and Mademia Gauchier, both
at the hands of the professional for vaccination. Last year one out Great War unseated from start to an outstanding success and brought marauders and robbers.
of every 25 persons in Canton was vaccinated.
The offer of a syndicate to par- chase the ground at Tai-sha-tao for race course has been rejected by the Military authorities who refuse
the remove the aviation station now focated there.
(Continued on next column.)
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