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attention to the fact that the Gov- ernment of Macao, has decided to sink walls for its water supply, and
expected to arrivo shortly from
might be extended. This optimis an engineer named Mr. Santos isional Commanders Li Ming Shui
CANTON'S POWER STATION.
THE THREATENED STRIKE.
MONTH'S WAGES WANTED FOR BRAVERY 1"
[FROM OVE CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, June 25. The workmen of the Canton
| Dezain-On June 94, at Victoria, bas hardly been justified, and though America with the necessary up-to-❘ping on June 22, driving Wong Shiu Electric Light & Power Co. have
B.C WILLIAM DUNBAR. [5031 RAHMAN-On June 21, at Sandakan, British North Borneo, S. A RAKMAN, age Balk
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The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, JUNE 26, 1929.
NOTHING will be
date boring machery and plant.
Treek,
The
"the other hand the history of the making an application for leave Pei Chung Hsi 24 hours in which te 4t which the strike would begin.
Justice
leave Kwangsi !
KWANGSI LEADERS IN FLIGHT?
CANTON, June 25. Reports have come to hand that the Nanking troops under Divi-
and Yang Tang Fal captured Kwei. al the moment Anglo-American
Hung's troops towards Kehsien not as yet gone on strike. tension has appreciably eased out-
district. Pei Chung Hsi and Wong supply is still on, but the grievance a minor demon- standing differences have not been
The blessing of the 10th Hong Shiu Hung have been holding this remains and as
stration of displeasure they cut the settled. Rivalry has increased be tween the two leading MediterKong Group Catholic Cathedral important city for over 4 ranean Powers, and Germany has Boy Scouts Troop Flag, will take during which time severe fighting wires to the residence of Mr. Chow Ice House Street. Tel. Central re-entered the naval areas. The place at the Roman Cathedral, has taken place. The collapse of Tin Pong, the manager of the 12. Night Editor (Wanchai Office); political situation fluctuates, in Gaine Road, on Sunday the 30th the Kwangu line was due, accord- Company. Other leading members"
Tel. Central 4511. Londen
Bride Lane, fact, from day to day but, as anval inst., at 11 am. sharp. The cere-ing to the message, to disloyalty in of the staff were treated in the
experts point out, feets and ade-mony will be performed by His is own ranks. The surrender of same way,
The Union workers, having cut Fleet Street, E.C. 4.
quate bases take years to build. It Lordship Bishop H. Valtorta and Colonel Lui Woon Im, also a pro- may be argued that the Scan-after the ceremony, the gathering minent leader of the Kwangsi fac- Mr. Chow's wires with the one hand will adjourn to Headquarters for tion, has been confirmed. Colonel presented him with the other a dinavian countries and Holland do
Lui and his troops are now taking formidable document setting out without big armaments and that light refreshment.
orders from the Nanking troops. their demands and grievances and Holland has the most valuable
Mr. H. Cooper, formerly of the He has given Wong Shiu Hung and concluding with the day and hour Colonial Empire in the world. On
Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd., is
The representative of the long Kong Daily Press was told at the world might have been very dif- to appeal against Mr.
Company's offices that the trouble ferent had Belgian had an in Wood's decision dismissing his te
originated with a signed agreement pregnable frontier, and again, if
tion against the Newspaper Enter- THE SINGAPORE BASE.
Germany bad won an overwhelming prise, Ltd, for $1,000, wage in
between the Union and the Com- stand- victory the Pan-German notion of lieu of six months' notice. The
pany at more than 20 years more carefully absorbing Holland and her colonies application will be heard in cham- A Wah Ta Yat Pao message saying. This agreement states inter scrutinised by the British comight have become practical poli-bers by the Chief Justice and Mr. that according to latest telegraphic alin, that if there is a big poli- Justice Wood and Mr. F. C. Jenkinadvices reveived by the Canton tical upheaval and war is going on munities in the Far East and in tics.
Singapore is the natural point of (instructed by Messrs. Johnson, Military Headquarters yesterday in the vicinity of the plant of the the Australasian Continent than the naval policy of the Labour defence for Australia, the Dutch Stokes and Master), will appear (Tuesday), Wong Shiu Hung and Company, all workmen who bravely
Indies, and India. At presentdog plaintif.
Pei Chung Hi have fed to Nonstick to their jobs during the Government. Here in China we
ning en route to Indo-China and trouble shall receive a reward of i have good reason to know both the there is no danger of attack, but
Last week's record of zotifiable have placed all their troops under month's wages." The Company necessity for adequate policing who is to foretell the situation in
ten yearst For diseases was as follows: Small-pox, the control of Colonel, Lin Woon never liked the wording of this services of sloops and other light twenty or even craft and the value to the British purposes of aggression Singapore new casca, 1 fatality; diphtheria, Im as the Nanking troops have clause and got the Government to
On the 3 new cases (1 British) 2 deatha; captured Sunchow,
change it last year to " prestige of the presence of big ships would have little value.
shall receive double workmen... such as the five county" cruisers other hand, Singapore is a nearly enterid, 7new cases, 3 deaths;
pay." The Union, although dis- now on the station. These ships perfect pivot of defence, flanking meningitis, 2 new cases, 1 death.
satisfied, made no protest at the were provided for, it is well to any descent upon Australia from Two deaths from influenca were also
time. remember en passant, in the Naval the North and controlling would-reported. On Monday one Chinese Estimates presented by Mr. RAMSAY be raiders in the Indian Ocean. If (imported) MACDONALD's previous Administra disarmament and renunciation of notified. tion. They were to replace ships war becomes a reality armies and
A workman at the Kowloon Dock navies and all their appendages that had become obsolete, a process
serious injuries while absolutely necessary if the British will gradually wilt as they showed received
a ship in course of Navy were not to become gradually signs of doing in the Victoria era. working on as extinct as the great auk. War-But at the moment there are no such construction. Getting caught in a ships. wear out, and those who have signs, and in view of the present drilling machine, the man had his served in an elderly man-of-war, position it would be merely inviting right shoulder crushed and his whose hydraulic and other fittings trouble to leave cur possessions in right arm broken in several places are leaky at the joints, know what this Hemisphere defenceless againer before he was extricated. He was that means when guns are bred and menaces which may develop from removed to the Government Civil the ship is carrying out the pur many quarters. poses for which she was built.
There are, of course, disciples of the creed of the brotherhead of man who would disregard all signs and portents and scrap the three fight- ing services. But there is no reason to suppose that they carry more weight with the responsible Labour leaders than the ultra-marine
News and Views.
In future Peninsula Hotel tea dances, in the roof garden will be on Saturday afternoons only.
Quarantine restrictions recently patriots of the Conservative party imposed on arrivals from Swatow did with Mr. BALDWIN. The only on account of smallpox have been
rezzoved. naval matter over which there seem-
10
HUNANESE TROOPS HELD UP.
case of enteric was (Industrial & Commercial Daily
Hospital in a very critical con- dition".
Talking of Talkies.
army.
Presh.)
ECHO OF THE "NAVAL WAR."
the
Liuchow, one of the most im
An opportunity for dispute came portant cities and strategic points of Kwangri, is still in the hands. of the Kwangsi troops, and there on May 9 when a group of Cantor is no truth in the report that Liu-aeroplanes bombarded the squadron chow has fallen to Ho Chien's of gunboats of Shameen which had According to latest reports, the declared for Kwangai. The engage after several futile attacks upon nowhere near the Company's plant, Hunanese troops have withdrawn mont only lasted half a day, it was: the Kwangali forces, both aides having suffered considerable loss and none of their workmen were en- The principal cause of the failure dangered, but the Union seized the of the Hunanese troops is the opportunity to demand & mortb'e difficulty of maintaining the supply uges under the old agreement, and of ammunition and other, military stores in the mountainous regions their alternative is darkness for. of Northern Kwangri. It is report Canton. ed that He Chien's men will pro- bably retreat to Kweilin and that they will wait for the fall of Saz chow before making another attack on Liuchow.
very
One is always sorry to disappoins
The Government take people, but in point of fact the rumours about "talkies for Hong
serious view of the matter, and Kong" have apparently emanat-
General Chen Ming Shu's Chief ed from the brain of a clairvoyant.
According to another report, the Secretary, Mr. Sun Hai Wan, has At all events the Hong Kong Kwangri troops have erected strong been sent to arbitrate. He suggest- Amusements were astonished to read defensive works in Liuchew and ed, as a compromise, that ten days how soon they were going to offer have beaten the Hunanese troops, extra wages should be paid, and
a fair prospect of have, however been sent to the there seems talking pictures to their patrons. Large quantities of ammunition Upon enquiries made yesterday at
Huance troops vid Changsha by settlement on those lines. the Queen's, our representative was told, by the manager of the theatre, the Central Government and with this new supply another attack_is that no purchase of telephone or
installation had expected. Meanwhile, troops under to reinforce the Hunanese troops, been made or was being considered Fang Shih Seng and Wu Shang are at present. "We shall have an installation sometime, I suppose" making a total of over three he said, and added that it would divisions. not be, as far as he knew, before 1 the beginning of next year at the
carliest.//
ment
"
Looking Back 25 Years.
ANOTHER STRIKE.
SUNNING RAILWAY
EMPLOYEES. /
ed any serious cleavage of opinion
Leaning over a verandah between political parties was the gather clothing hung out to dry, a other "Lalkie Singapore base. In 1924, when come Chinese girl fell into the roadway £70,000 had been" spent on pre- from the first floor of a house in liminary work at Singapore, Mr. Reclamation Street, Yaumati, on MACDONALD Lanounced that his Monday. She received severe in-
{FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.], Government would not proceed with juries to the head and was taken the project. This decision roused to the Kwong Wah Hospital.
Last week the now "Star' built Bathing-Caps for "Live Wires."
CANTON, Jure 25. considerable protest in Australia
by the Hong Kong and Whampoa A visit to some of the big depart Dock Co., Ltd, started to run on The staff of the Sunning Railway and New Zealand, Lord JELLICOE,
At the meeting of the Sanitary the then Governor General of the Board yesterday several purely de-always interesting, and frequently Kong and Kowloon. The new ves-
stores in Hong Kong is the ferry service between Bong Company went on strike on June according to information latter Dominion, setting forth an partmental questions relating to not without humour. A local zeel excels the others in her fittings, 22, expert view on the need for the the installation of public latrines sident, bent on purchasing a bath and she has triple-expansion engines received here by the Department ing-costume for himself as one of instead of the compound engine of of Reconstruction to-day. Trouble Singapore base at the request of were discussed, and it was decided the leading shops, was shown a very her predecessors. Her name is the Mr. MASSEY, New Zealand's Prime to ask the Government to proceed juzzy affair, complete with a cap. Morning Star. The Northern Star started when the Company dismiss Minister. In Japan the popular with the work, and to install the The latter was of vivid red, with being relieved, has had an overed some of its employees, and the. Presa acclaimed the Labour Prime water apparatus when warranted an inscription large white bauling Hong Kong Daily Press, men's union at once demanded their
letters, calculated to attract atten- June 27, 1904. Minister's action, but Admiral by the water situation of the tium from the biggest crowd on the Baron BAKAMOTO ridiculed the idea
Colony. that Singapore was aimed at Japan, and declared that Britain would of
w
reinstatement which the Company refused. most popular bench. The words Looking Back 50 Years,
We notice that an enterprising. The strike has seriously tied up ingeniously designed to introduce
a the transportation of the Sie the wearer of the cap to others in Chinese barber has erected A most generous gift from Mr. the water read:"I'm a shick; punkah in his shop, a little to the Xap districts and is paralysing the necessity renew the development of G. A. Walker (the traffic manager look me over, kid!" We have not cast of the Man Mo Temple, in trade of this prosperous section of that strategic point. Lieut.-Comdr. of the Kowloon-Canton Railway) of yet heard of any local Romeo bold Hollywood Road, for the comfort Kwangtung Trade between Hong enough to appear on the beach and convenience of his fellow Cales Kong and Kongmoon and between KENWORTHY, who must know the a Radio set will be presented this wearing one of these caps, but you tials who undergo their tensorial Canton and the Sze Yap districts elements of naval strategy though evening to the Blind Home, Kow-never can tell!
operations in the establishment.has also decreased. Practically all We surmise that this attraction business among these commercial on by hot drawe he left the Service before he was loon City. The set has been built
wall, as we "frequently centres had been carried qualified to take the Senior Officers' by Mr. J., W. Brown of the Imports Sex Equality in Ireland.
When the Galway Hospital Con- notice the shop full. The patrone means of the Sunning Railway, and courses in that subject. urged and Exports Office, and will be mittee had to decide whether they of the "saloon appear to Juxuriate since the suspension of service, the the abandonment of the Singapure very much appreciated by inmates should ask Dr. Peter O'Malley or under this new arrangement. It merchants have used the much scheme in favour of a cruiser and of the Home.
Dr. Philomena Tubridy, who are may be in the recollection of our slower river junks and sampans to both resident medical officers, te re-readers that about three years ago transport their commodities.
The Railway anthorities became submarine base in either New
main an months 4 disturbance took place in a Guinea or North Australia. His On July 2, there will be a public for axira three the barber's shop; in Queen's Road alarmed when they learned that the suggestion has many objections, and auction of two lots of Crown Landployment had expired, a member West, which was fitted up in a union workers bad bought large has never been seriously considered. in Kowloon. The first is an area suggested that the lady should get similar manner, owing to the other quantities of fire-arme and ammuni the preference. Another member barbers in the Colony petitioning tions and despatched & wire to LARGE EDITION (WITH
But on the return to power of of 34,400 square feet at Prince said that as women claimed equality their Guild for the removal of the Military Headquarters in Canton, MAPS & TREATIES)... $12 the Conservative Party the Singa Edward Road at an upset price of with men no preference should be obnoxious in their eyes-appara requesting them to take the matter Upon receipt of the telegram the SMALL EDITION
pore base has been steadily develop. 817,500 and the second is a lot in given on account of sex Dr. tus, and the refusal of the then in band before it is too late.
Tubridy appeared before the meet offending barber to comply with ed for the last five years. The Tai Nam Street of about 4,186 ing and agreed that she should not the orders of the self-constituted Canten authorities at once instruct great floating dock, capable of square feet, the upset, price of have any privilege. She agreed to authority. A free fight was the ed the Department of Reconstruc toss a coin to ees which should have result, and the police on that tion to send a representative to pune prezesuakich, ik 37, 280. The sele will take him and Die Losion fettled the disputs before Sunning district to investigate the safely moored in the naval area, place at 3 pm. at the Crown Lands O'Malley lost he must remain in the magistrate Hong Kong Dutta
the hospital for three months. Press, June 26, 1870. and other works have also reached Office..
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