RAID ON SEAMEN'S UNION.
END OF THE HONG KONG BRANCH.
SIGNBOARD REMOVED,
PREMISES GUARDED BY THE POLICE.
During the early hours of this morning a posse of police raided the premises of the Seamen's Union at 17, Des Voeux Road, Central, removed the mun sign hard and took possession of papers and other documents found in the rooms.
Full offein details of the raid are not yet available but it is understood that the chief objective of the Police was not to make arrests but simply to close the building is Union, quarters, to seize any seditions literature thn might be found and to put un end once and for all to an organisation in Hong Kong which has admittedly political associations and is now directed by Communist leaders who have Bed from Canton to Hunkow.
The prescription of the Union was gazetted by the Govern ment late last evening and the Polie äeted as promptly as possible after this antitheement was made. They proceeded under the authority of the Societies Ordinance,
The Government have for some time pas had under con sideration the closing of the Seamen's Union in Hong Kong but the step, it is believed, was only definitely decled upon al the weeting of die Exerntive Connell on Thursday. The question wa submitted to the District Watchmen's Committee and the men- -bers of this influential Chinese body were unanimous that it would be in the interests of the Calary and of the Seimen themselves if this Urion, which has long erased to represent the men and has become a purely political association, were disbanded.
As in known, the majority of the Union officials have been driven from their headquarters in Canted by the present Canton They took the Faion funds with them and now Administration. rewards are being offered for their arrest. Recently, however, they issued a circular from Hankow defying, the Chiang Kai-Shek Govrimment and ordering all l'aign members to obey instructions, 2 received hom the Central Office m-Hankow only. To bave per Initted the Hong Kong branch to fauction, in such circumstances as these, would surely have been aiding and abetting the enemies of the Canton Administration. This aspect of the question is dealt with more fully in our lending article thus morning.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 28th, 1927.
15th BRIGADE
COMPLETE.
"CITY OF POONA" ARRIVES.
THE ARMY'S FIRST FULLY MECHANISED COMPANY."
15th Infantry Brigade has now
CORRESPONDENCE.
PEAK RESIDENTS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."}
Sin,--May I through the courtesy of your columns draw the atten tion of all residents in the Penk nira to the fact that the Inspector
O.S.K. SUED.
COUNSEL'S ARGUMENTS FOR DEFENCE.
COMMENTS BY THE JUDGE
JUDGMENT RESERVED.
heeu completed by the arrival of all in Charge of the Gough Hill Polic, two Chinese Lam Kau Mow and
its attendant auxiliary units.
The s.s. City of Fuona came into port yesterday and went alongside Hoh's Wharf. She had on board the 52nd and the 88th Fold Bat- teries, Royal Artillery, the 50th Field Company, Royal Engineers, and details of various infantry units already out here.
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The cargo carried was an in- teresting one, it consisted of transport vehicles belonging to the Army's first fully anechanised com- "pany, namely, that of No. 8 Com pany, 31.T.R.A.S.C., the personnel of which unit sailed on the Yo ralia and arrived here earlier this
Station intends, early next month, to make a house to house visit with a view to ascertaining the names of the residents living in every cupied house in the Peak district. Several complaints have recently been received regarding the un- reliability of the Address Boards at Barker Road and the top Tram Station and it chiefly with a view to bringing these. Address Hoards up to date that such house to house
visit has been decided upon.
Repeated requests have in the past been made by the Peak Resid ents Association ta residents an
werk. This included about fifty the Peak to place cards in the
six wheeled 30-cwt. lorries. In ad dition, there was the motor trans- port of the 52nd and 88th Field Batteries, RA, which consists of "P-pounder guns, limbers, and trae- tors, with a considerable quantity of ammunition. Horses and mules to the number of 150 for the in- board. fantry Battalions were ou Captain
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R:A.S.C.. 1 [! comniand uf
troops, who were given a rousing send-off when they sailed from Hoque.
boxes which ar situated inned. iately under the Address Boards and provided for the purpose of notifying the Volice of any change of address, but this request is rarely. if ever complied with.
The hearing of the ease in which
Chan Tong, sued the Osaka Shosen Kausha in respect of a lease of pre- mises in Hong Kong was eonehaled before the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) at the Supreme Curt yesterday.
Araments for the defendants were continued during which his Lordships commeated adversely on the defendants' pleadings and their One clause be gition in law, characterised as "rubbish.”
The plaintiffs alleged that the lease was for a term of six years, with option of "an additional four.
and that the defendants exercised the option. The defence claimed on the other hand that the lense was signed by a Mr. Yamasaki, ex-! annager of the O.S.K., for himself, and not for the firm, and there.
fore Mr. Yamasaki is the lessut.
Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., with Mr. F. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. I therefore append to all Peak. E. Nash, was for the plaintiffs. Residents to afford the Juspector and the defence was conducted by in Charge at Gough Hall Police Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Gardiner, Station every assistance in the work Mr. G. 5. Hugh-Jones.
thee is undertaking next month, and,When the case opened yesterday future, to notify any change in Mr. Sheldon wished to put in 11 address which can be done either copy of a bill sent by Messes. through the medium of the boxes Wilkinson and Grist to Mr. Yana- already referred to or by notifying saki which bore on the question as to who was the lessee, Recording the Police or the Hon. Secretary of the Peak Residents Association to the lease in question. The bill, by letter or even by telephone,
stated counsel, proved the exist ence of a document executed by Mr. Yamasaki and the O.S.K. It was a declaration of trust by Mr. Yamasaki in which he assigned the lense from himself to the Company.
GUARDING AGAINST gentry and merchant volun-being accommodated in the Hope
THE REDS.
ferts for raise funds for the par
KINE
General Li Tan Isia, Oficer; INCREASING PRECAUTIONS Commanding the Troops in Kwang.
IN CANTON.
BANDET GANGS AN SECRET
SERVICE AGENTS,
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Big warns printers that he has
titree occasions issued orders forbidding the printing and dis senopatinas of circulars unfavourable to the present regime in the South- Bern Capital and yet such girculars are still eing, found on the streets. The assumption is that anyone now caught having anything to do with the publication of seditious litera FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ture will be very severely dealt
STUDENTS SUPPORT LOCAL
AUTHORITIES.
with. The Canton Police have been exceptionally vigdant the last few days, and inspectors have been visiting all book shops and stands to gather in publications of extra on radical character.
A new reign of terror is feared in! Canton, many people being alarm ed at the proposed legalization of Mack-mailers and highway robbers who have been presing upon the
The students of the Sun Yat Sen inhaietants in the neighbourhood of the Cuty. After every coup d'etat University in Canton, once regards effected in Canton during the pasted as a hotbed of Bolshevism and eight or ten years some junior milias a school for the training of! alicers possessing arms and a Red" propagandists, have them. tary
have inevitably¦ arives now issnéd a manifesto sup- sta following been left out of consideration u porting the original Kuomintang the reorganization that followed platfonn government of the people, These men invariably into! by the people, and for the people - bandits and the kidnapping and į nud advising all past "Red" fellow robbery so often reported in Can students to free themselves from ten and vicinity are the work of further relationship with agents of these gangs. Now it a proposed the Soviet Mission still secretly at to ask some of these gangs to sur render to the Administration in order that they may be assigned - the duty of konurary scuret service el Jur the hunting down of Reds, or any person opposed lo the present regime.
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and it is not
turn
work.
The Field Batteries, ILA., are
Factory, and the Mechanical Traus port Company at Shamshaipo with the Field Company of the Royal Engineers.
The complete military forces now in the Colony apart from the 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Punjabis and other military units, of the ordinary garrison, comprise :
The 15th Infantry Brigade: 2nd Ball Seeds Ginards, 2nd Batt. Welch Begiment, 1st Queen's Royal Regiment. ist Northamptons. " The other units include:
56th Field Company, R.E. 520d Field Battery, R.A. 29th Vield Battery, R.A. 38th M.T.Co. A.5.C. 10th Field Ambulance. General Hospita
BRUTAL HARBOUR
MURDER.
DEAD BODY OF VICTIM FOUND.
An Address Board which is not kept up to date is absolutely worth- less and most misleading to visitors who rely upon obtaining the neres. say
information of the where abouts of any particular resident from these Address Boards.-- Yours faithfully.
E. B. C. HORNELL,
Hon, Secretary. Hong Kong, May 27th, 1927.
"THE RELIGIAO E PATRIA."
PROPOSED GIFT TO OUR LADY'S CHURCH AT FATIMA.
Mr. Eldon Potter argued that no statement between Messrs. Wilkin- son and Grist and Mr. Yamasaki or between them and the defendants euld be put in against plaintiffs, in the absence of the actual docu- ment itself, the existence of which enld not be proved. The bill by itself proved nothing.
Mr. Sheldon commented that the demment was executed by Mr. Yamasaki as beneficiary of the lease and as such was evidence that he was the lessee.
Rejected.
His Lordship said that in the absence of the actual documents, he would have to reject the bill as evidence.
The Roman Catholic monthly | Mr. Sheldon argued that having. periodical Religiao Patrin, this regard to the absence in the exeru
tion of the lease of the corporate. mouth celebrates the completion of seal of the Company or of my its fourteenth year of existence, evidence that Mr. Yamasaki signed and is able to claim a stendily this deed under power of attorney, it was clear that he signed it on his j-own behalf.
The mystery surrounding the growing field of influence, In disappearance of two sampan, giris | honour of this occasion it is pro- was partly solved when the Police posed to open a subscription among Inund the dead body of one of the the Portuguese community in the giris floating around Green Island, Far East towards a fund for a lamp on Thursday. She had three atab in honour of Our Lady, to be wounds on her forehend, and the placed in the great basilica which body was yesterday identified by the mother.
-
! Unable themselves to collect the I will be remembered that the assessments from the merchante in two girls were on a sampan near Canton for the payment of unem Wing Lok Street Wharf on Monday ployed Canton-Hong Kong strikers night, when two men hired the as directed by the military authori- craft to go across the harbour. What took place in midstream is ties in power, the General Caraber still a mystery, but the sampan was of Commerce at Canton are asking found drifting about the next day, Practically all points of entry to Canton City are now well-guarded, the Police to enfures contributions. without the two girls and on in- vestigation, blood stains were found believed that the The Canton merchants are
sup on board and the anchor was misz "Red" will find it easy to make posed to contribute $1.500,000 to ing. The boat appeared to have Been ransacked. This coupled with their way in Generai Li Tsai Hsin wards the $3,700,000 required to
the fact that the girls wore jewel- has appointed Colonel Wang Weu disband the unemployed, but up till ery to the value of about $199. Kan's forces to protect the north how only some $300,000 has been made the Police think that robbery castern section of Canton City in raised for this purpose. The main. was the motive.
The body of the other girl has not order to check any possible inva- tennice of the strikers is costing been found so far. sion of "Reds" by way of Bo Taithe authorities about $10,000 daily. The steady rise of water in dif Sze and Yuan Ngan Tung of the Panyu District. The Chamber of ference sections of the principali Commerce at Konque, Shiuhing, rivers in Kwangtung is exacting its has reported to Canton that the toll of the lives of farmers, many "Reds" in the Seven Star Cave of whose homes have been destroy- ace raising a force of peasants' ed. A breach in the dykes at corps and bandits in order to cause Chao-an has caused no little suffer. further trouble,
aeven
ing among the people of the low- land districts, according to in- formation reaching Canton.
MILITARY ACTIVITY IN SIBERIA.
On information from the Chinese National Federation of Railway Workers at Canton, the Canton Police yesterday arrested "Red" suspects on the Canton.
Travellers from Siberie, writes Samshui railway. The Magistrate Daily News correspondent, are un- of Loting District, West River, is animous in stating that there is offering rewards up to $400 for the intense military activity all along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Troop capture of cach "Red" still at and munition trains follow onch large within his jurisdiction. The other in an easterly, direction. The Magistrate, however, is not taking south of Russia has been combed for rolling stock and three
the money for these rewarda from «quadrons of aeroplanes have been the local treasury but is forcing the sent to the Far East.
RIVER LEVELS.
KWANGTUNG CONSERVANCY
BULLETIN.
His Lordship commented that Mr. Potter's claim was that the defendants were estopped from denying that they executed an option under the lease. Supposing the defendants had exercised an option under the lease, the defend.
ants' case was that the lease was is shortly to be built at Fatima, to Mr. Yamasaki and him only. At Pretugal. The fund is specially the time the letter had been written for Portuguese but subscriptions in respect of which it was alleged from Catholics of all untionalities by the plaintiffs that there hand are welcomed and Bishop Valtorta been an estoppel, the lease to Me. has given it his patronage and ex. Yamasaki had expired. There was no allegation that Mr. Yamasaki pressed his desire to become a sub- Siber.
had at any time exercised this The Religio e Patria" refer-option Could it be argued that ring to the pilgrimage to Sanchoan what the defendants did when they (St. John's Ishand) and the con wrate the letter in question would secration of Mons. Walsh, Viear constitute them tenants under the Apostolic of Kongripen, says: "We lease?
Mr. Sheldon replied that it could do not know whether any previous
not because they had had no option to exercise. The defendants were sacerdotal ordination or first mass has ever taken place to Sanchoan. Many years ago, at the time of either holding over at the expira- the Bishop Raimondi, a pilgrimage tion of Mr. Yamasaki's lease or to Sanchonn was organised when the else when they entered the premsics first mass, of an American priest was they were in some kind of tenancy to be celebrated. We do not re- which had to be determined from collect his name; he came from the circumstances of the case but America with the late Bishop, when which it was the defendants, caNO he was a student and was ordained was a monthly tenancy and had here, but a few hours after the been from the very beginning.". steamer left Macno, the sea became His Lordship commented that he s violent, that the Captain thought would understand the argument of is prudent return to Macao where the defendants in this regard if it the mass was celebrated in St. was maintained that Mr.. Yamasaki Joseph's Church.
was their trustee and that in the absince of exercise of option by him, then and for the first time the defendants became tenants on new terms by the entering into the pre- mises and the payment of rent. But. the effect of paragraph 7 of the de- fendants' pleadings was rubbish " It could not be supported in law The two very enjoyable dances that if as was argued, the plaintiffs were held last night. One was at
as landlords had had twe tenants the Peak Club, where members and of the premises they were bound by The music was proved by the band subscribers spent a happy time. inconsistent liabilities. of H.M.8. Titania.
LAST NIGHT'S DANCES.
D.O.G.A. AND PEAK CLUB.
West River at Shiuhing, rising. May 20th Amount not re- corded highest level on re- cord 1 feet; lowest on record oin. North River at Taingyuen, rising May 20th: Amount not re- corded; highest level on re cord 28ft. 7in.; lowest in. North River at Samehui: May
Mr. Sheldon said he was sorry 24th, 10ft. 5ins.; May 25th, 1oft 9in.; May 28th, rising;
he could not explain it any better, The other successful function was but what he had urged was accord highest level on record 27ft. 3ins. lowest aft. gins.
the dance given by the Diocesan ing to his instruction. East River at Sheklung: Maya good stendance and for those who
Judgment Reserved.
Old Girls' Association. There was
24th, 12ft. ginn.; May 25th, did not want the exertion of danc Mr. Jenkin briefly replied and the 1aft. Bina.; May 20th, stilling u warm night and preferred case concluded when the Court rone rising: highest 15ft. gins. comparative coolnes there was for the tiffin adjournment, judg
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