Columbia Batteries
LAST CONSER
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED PERI
PROMINENT ULSTERITES KIDNAPPED.
Fighting Starts Over Boundary Question.
{Reuter's Service.)
四拜禮 號九月弍英港書 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
Landon, February 8, Simultaneous raids over a forty-mile area early in the morning resulted in the kidnapping at their residences, sometimes after resistance, of a number of prominent Unionists in Tyrone and Fermanagh All were carried over the bordare of Ulster.
THE PRINCE'S ENTRY INTO GWALIOR. Reminiscent of Moghal Splendour.
LATEST STRIKE NEWS.
CLEARING THE GROUND FOR A SETTLEMENT.
A MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.
Governor's Query to Strike Leaders
to
9, 1922. 日三十月正
SINGLE, COPY: 10 CTS.
$30 PER ARRUM
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANT,
EARLIER SPECIAL
TELEGRAMS.
the foreign banks. The silver in idue course arrived, then the strike same oo, and, placed in the [dificult position of having to
the farsign banks, and being was recently exhibited at the socept delivery of the bullion from The 300 guinea orchid which k(From Our Own Correspondent.) cable to ship it to Canton, the Royal Horticultural Society is far
WAR MEMORIAL native banks are losing a great from being a record in orchid
Shanghai, Feb. 8, deal on interest on these for-prices. The public record is held The war memorial tablet, in me- ward commitment A lot of by the Odontoglossum Crispum, mary àf thirty-seven members`uf mone is being locked up so a for which Mr. B. T. Pitt, outbid-the Shanghai Club who were Special constables in motor cars pursued the raiders and brisk
result.
It Is fighting ensued at a number of points. One party of police was
reported that ding Baron Schroder, paid 1,500 led In action, was dedicated to American banks,consaznad.in the grindas. But the Bee odontogios-day. Sir Everard Fraser was the ambushed, resulting in casualties on both sides. Altogether eleven police were kidospped and fifteen raiders captured, at Enniskillen.
The strike situation has taken | travelled by train from Canton transaction have been able to um must not be forgotten. When chief speaker. Great excitement prevails ia both counties, where slight aru, bat a more hopeful and, on leaving the train at shum effect shipment of their part of Baron Schroder died be directed in his will that his gardener feeling is already high over the boundary dispute. Unionist re-tum. The representatives of the Chun, openly stated that they had the silver at Canton.
SHANGRAI RACES, prisals are feared. Capt. Craig questioned the Secretary for Ireland boarding-house keepers who went been sent from Canton to prevent Another Seaman In Trouble. should have first choice of the
supplies coming 'from
collection, be selected the Bee,
Shanghai, Feb. 8. in the House of Commons on the subject, but the Spasker disallowed to Canton to negotista with the food
strikers, if that were possible, Canton Hongkong. But Another unemployed seaman and the £1,000 for which he soon the question, because Parliament has transferred responsibility to hare returned and last evening | considering that the strikers who ran counter to the law found sold it was the tribute paid to his scheduled for 1922 by the Shang
Thirty-three days of racing, are the Northern Parliament. Mr. Chamberlain concurred.
and this morning were in consult- are effectively preventing hiusalfin the Marine Court this judgment.
hai Race Club, the International ation with the Hon. Mr. E, R. any food from leaving Canton the morning before Commander C.
Recreation Club and the Paper Hallifax. While they are not step taken seems a rather useless W. Beckwith, R. N., ebarged
Canadians are just now dis-Chase Club. The Spring Meeting charged by the Seamen's Union one. However & party of soldi-with being unlawfully on board cassing the sustitution of a of the Shanghai Race Club will Gwalior, February 8.
to make terms of any kind thesers and police left Hongkong for the Tjikini without the permission specially designed national flag be held on May 1st, 2nd, 3rd and The Prince of Wales made & State entry into Gwalior City their feeling that arbitration some of the soldiers have since charge.
understand. indicated the frontier yesterday and though of the master or the officer in a place of, the Union Jack and 6th, and the Autumn Meeting an yesterday morning, riding in elephant procession reminiscent of the would be brought a stage nearer returned the situation at Shum
the Red Ensign, the latter of November 6th, 7th, 8th and 11th.. barbane grandeur of Moghul days,
The second engineer, Mr. J. A which, with the addition of the His Royal Highness was met at the station on arrival by the arbitrators were announced. They
if the names of the proposed | Chun is being watched.
arn der Klaster, stated that while (Canadian Arms, serves for the RUGBY INTERPORT. Maharaja of Scindia, his little daughter. Mary, and his tiny son, do not say so, but it is a fairly.
A Business Man's Views.
the ship was lying in harbour | Mercantile Marine. Among many Grorge. The Prince, after a formal greeting, mounted the century safe presumption that they do not
about 5 p.m. on the 7th inst, with suggested designs are the seven
*Shanghai, Fab: 8. In conversation with a Tele-a Cantonese crew on board which stars of the Plough (known to
Shanghai rugby men start prac.. elephant called Hiragaz, which, nearly eleven feet up to the aske this suggestion without graph representative shoulder, is said to be the tallest of the species in India.
yeater was willing to stay with the ship. Canadians as "The Dipper "tice to-morrow in preparation for A pageant was then formed a mile and quarter sug comprising of the strikers. In any case, the mentioned an item which bas on the firemen to turn to as the the Polar Star could be differen-kung Fractices will take place. having fully sounded the feeling days Chinese business man hawent to the forecastleand called and the Polar Star. Exarlly how the interpart match with Hong- nineteen elephants. All these were grotesquely painted to choosing of the arbitrators will since bean confirmed by the ship was to sail that evening. tiated from any other of the hosts at tiffin time twice weekly. magnificently caparisoned, bearing gold and silver howdaha cay be proceeded with immediately morning papers, that the striker Defendant was in the forecastle of stars is not quite clear, but ing the Prince's staff and the State nobles. To the frenzied music and the names promptly com are making efforts to stop the talking to the men who refused there would be no difficulty in of tomtom bands, the procession proceeded slowly along the League municated to Canton. Iindow of food supplies over the to turn to and who left the ship recognising the on the long route to the Palace through lines of troops, who appear
characteristic is good to be able ed to have been mainly recruited for their fierce looks, harmonising quote Mr. Halifax assaying that along the line.
to border by posting pickets all next dayas the result of the de-shape of the Dipper, the adoption
at Sumchuo, fendant's visit. with their garishly picturesque uniforms. The whole spectacle was the boarding-house keepers seem
of which would give Canada a Shekki. Kongmoon, and other one of impressive Oriental splendour and rich colouring, blending sincerely desirous of effecting a
Defendant said he went on national flag similar to that of points. The fact that these pickets with quaint humour, as in the case of a fins elephant named Sahib Nobat, whose dignified mien was sadly impaired by a monocle paint-to that end.
settlement and are working hard are being connived at by the board to get people to come Australia, which consists of the brightest stars of the Jonthera Canton authorities he pointed out ashore in a sampan. ed around the right eye.
Cross as another instance of the political Sentence of two months* im- significance with which the prisonment with bard labour situation has come to be regarded was imposed.
The Prince of Wales attended a great durbar at Jai Bilas Falace in the ball, which is approached by a crystal staircase, ręceiving the! customary offerings of mazar garlands, pan and ir.
In the afternoon the Prince formally opened the new King George's Park at Lashkar, As the Prince unlocked the main gate with a golden key, all the other entrances were automatically ope ed to the crowds waiting without. The grand old fort looking aser this pleasure domain was wonderfully decorated for the occasion. Scindia proposing the health of the Prince of Wales, who replied in In the evening the Prince attended a state banquet, the Maharaja of a speech eulogising the splendid loyalty of Gwalior in the pas; and reviewing its great services during the war-From Renter's special
respondent with the Prince's party.
THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE.
Senate Commission Critical.
London, February 8.
hare, wo
Important News From Canton.
arrest.
and
quess the 1_ct by looking at him.
News in To-day's New Advertisements.
Gaby Delys and Harry Pilcar are being featured in "Gaby,” a special picture being showns: the World Theatre.-Page 2. The news that Senator G. F. Pearce, of the Australian Federal,
A list of now Columbis English give the latest developments in the Chinese commercial com-
The following two telegrams by himself and other members of Strikers' Latest Terms.
Parliament, has been appointed records is advertised by the the strike situation in Cantonmunity. He also said that a As a general meeting of the member of the Privy Council will Anderson Music Company.-Page General, Canton to Governor of from Canton have sported to on Tuesday, the President of the
Telegram from H. M. Consul number of friends wh returned striking seamed held at Canto be of interest to many people in this country where, although
The O.S. advise consignmen
ary 7th, 1922- Hongkong dated Canton Febru- being interfered with by the Seamen's Strike Headquarters erba ne known personally by of cargo that the Malay Haru ia
pickets at the railway station at stated that a telegram should a wide circle, his name la associat. "and discharging cargo.—. My Dispatch of Feruary 45. Canton and deprived of a small be sent to the Hongkong with strong fedinjal, views, Page 3.
The uk Lake Fielding has Leaders of movement through quantity of foodstuffs which they Government
and clear this dogs depolitical that after Commissioner for Foreign Affairs were bringing down to the Colony the receipt of a reply, four
re-subjects, states & Hame jouras arrived from Calcotta and is dis- charging cargo into the Kennedy Senator Pearce started life as a inform me that they are prepared for their personal use.
presentatives with full powers! to proceed to Hongkonz to confer In a discussion as to the would be sent to Hongkong to dis- carpenter, ut von would rat Town godowns.--Page 5.
Smar: bats for the Races are with owners on condition of the methods taken by the Govero-cuss a settlement. The following is voice is admirably suited for advertised by Wm. Powell-Page union office being opened again meat to facilitate the unloading terms were submitted and anani Parliamentary speaking, and has 7., and a guarantee of freedom from of essential cargo, eur informantmrusly approved:
little trace of the Australian The Dairy Farm advertise the pointed out that a large number fecial message from the Times Paris correspondent says that,
(1) The reinstatement of the "note" in it. He is tall and price of newly-arrived cheeses.~- They state that they are not of junks were lying idle at the et of M. Jean Neney in regard to the Banque Industrielle responsible for intimidation in the Wanchai and Yatimati anchor- Seamen's Union and other closed upright, bas silver grey hair, and Page 7.
The drawing of the Indiap ages, and that
labour guilds, together with theja carefully-trimmed short beard. de was read before the Senate Finance Commission. It is Colony and to appear at a con- ibed as a very severe and searching.
ference as members of an outlawed might be persuaded, in the release of their detained officials and toring his visit to England Recreation Club's Derby sweep- society would place them in a same way that the other trans- (2.) 20% increase of wages of in the summer learned a good stake will take place on Sunday Sunday, false position. Please telegraph port workers were persuaded, to above $25, 30% of wages between deal of our methods of managing next instead of
19th, as formerly stated.-Page 4.. reply.
take their share in the revival of $25 and $15 and 40% for those our domestic affairs.
On Monday next the sale will the activities of the harbour. The below $15.
take place at the P.W.D. of land According to the Martin, a number of members of the commission
From Hongkong.
necessity of ships having to go (3.) That all striking workmen Thus a London writer:-The a: Shamsuipo and North Point- opined that they should refuse to have anything to do with the busi. Your telegram of 7th February.
alongside the wharves, as is now shall be reinstated.
King had opened yesterday's mo Page 4. ness, which properly should remain in the hands of justice. It con
Delegates will be given safe the case, could be this dispansed)
(4.) That the increase shall mentous Parliament. Across the: The feature at the Kowloon sidered that the Boxer indemnity would not be sufficient to repay all conduct but the Union cannot be with, and the congestion tha
to-night is "Toby's depositors, since it does not exceed £7,000,000, while the reopened. Point in the 1st sea-results when & large number of apply to all ships at anchor in Green Park came the streaming Theatre liabilities are estimated at nearly £14,000,000. If therefore, the teace need not arise if delegates ships wait to be unloaded at the pagkong and running between crowds which had witnessed the Bow." Page 12,
the various ports.
procession, returning to their own Members of the Hongkong Senate, after bearing M. Poincare, insists on modification of the come as the representatives of same time, could be avoided. He
(5) That all shipowners shall more or less imperative affairs. Automobile Association are re- project in order that priority for reimbursement must be established, seamen in Canton and not of offerred this as a suggestion that it seems generally agreed that the Chinese depositors will come first, union. Intimidation is undoubted-raight with good resuits be acted employ seamen directly through the edge of the pavement in minded that the annual meeting
the Seamen's Union, in order to Piccadilly, where the traffic was takes place to-morrow evening then colonial civil servants.
1y rife here and in Canton and at upon by the Government. Sheklung. Are the union author- Canton's Rice Shortage.
prevent deduction of wages by most congested, stood a tall, lithe Page 4.
girl in a fawn costume, with a Mr. A. S. MacKichan bas been ities in view of their statement
ship labour contractors. prepared to issue public repudia-supplies from Hongkong, the rice employment of seamen
Owing to the cessation of rice (6.) That all agreements for the shaggy Scoteb terrier tucked admitted a pariner of Messrs.
onder either arm, while ten other Leigh and Orange-Page. tion of intimidation and to make merchants in Canton are endea-witnessed by a representative of (including a stately Newfound ready and has been published by shall be dogs of various breed and size The 1922 Race Book is now With an eye to Genoa, the Federal Reserve Board has ugned an return to work need not fear thavouring to secure supplies from the Seamen's Union before they land) were grouped around her Messrs. Noronha and Cx-Page 4.
It seems that the Senate is not as favourably disposed as the amber to the reflotation of the Bank, and may be disposed merely saaction Government reimbursement to the depositors, from the Boxer indemnity.
WORLD FINANCE.
U.S. Banking Board Advocates Return to Gold Basis.
Washington, February 8.
official statement argoing in favour of a return to a gold basis as constituting a nexus between price-levels in the various countries and affording strong protection against expansion of credit. in international Trade.
THE WASHINGTON TREATIES.
Congress Committees Reassure the President.
Washington, February 8...
JAMIESON.
it clear that men who wish to
consequences?
their
Crewe
the North River districts. As a
ties have been rising, and one
ment.
BLU
of. Arbitration.
1
To-Day's Exchange.
The Weather.
2 p.m. Barometer: 29.90 Tem- perature69. Humidity 60,
Lighting-Up Time. Lighting-up time to-day 6.16
can have effect
feat She bided her time, until result, the prices in these locali- STUBES.
(7.) That no seamen's represent last the policeman held up a Unfair Comment.
dollar will only now purchase 12tatives or their officials in Hong-staying hand. Then with all her A representative of the owners catties, and there are indications kong shall be sentenced to banish charges trooping obediently after British Government Expecting Invitation from Washington. this morning commented on aug- of a further rise.
her, for all the world like the London, February 8. gestions, made in various qusr-
(8.) That the increase of wages papils of a girls' school, Diaos
The closing rate of the dollar Keuter learns that the British Government expects shortly to ters, that pressure should be
Seamen's Offer to Canton
shall be reckoned as from 1st crossed. And Piccadilly seemed on demand to-day was 2a, 371⁄2d. receive an invitation to send fasncial experts to Washington to [brought to bear on both sides to
Government.
January, 1922, and
ac-to permit itself something nearly discuss the funding of the British debts. Negotiations will probably effect a settlement. But why on Car Canton correspondent count shall deduction be made for approaching a cheer.. open at the end of the month.
the owners? he asked. They have stares that the Committee of the the time lost through the strike. offered to arbitrate, have all Seamen's Goild has suggested to (9.) That after resumption of It is not bighly probable that lo slong been willing to submit the the Municipal Department that their duties, all seamen shall be jeunesse doree of London's West question to arbitration and will as there are some 7,000 or 8,000 treated with equality and no 1-end concerns itself over much be
glad only to
with the gilded youth of such a to meetsesmen idle in Canton, they are treatment be given them, the men at any time, They willing to construct a new road
far-off place na Salzburg, even if It is stated that at a dinner at the White House at which Presid-want settlement abora all for the Government free of charge Constitution of Proposed Board it has ever heard of the place.
as a remembrance of the oc- ent Harding entertained the steering committees of the Senate and the things, but they cannot do more
Salzburg, where Mozart was born, ] PLIIL House of Representatives, it was agreed that the treaties signed at than they have done and it is casion." But as the surveying We are officially informed by the Austria, and a highly original tax lies on the borders of Bavaria and the Washington Conference be given precedence in the Senate until unfair to suggest that they have work and the demolition of houses Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Secretary which the municipality there has! the report on the Tariff Bill has been received, when it is proposed been at all unwilling to meet the would take a considerable time, for Chinese Affairs, that in the thought of should win for its The Church of St. Helen's' to deal with the treaties and the Bill alternately. It is stated that men.
the Government has not seen its erent of arbitration being accepted citizens who have "something Bishopsgate, where Field-Marshal President Harding is assured that there will be little, if any." opposi-¡ It is worth remarking that the way to accept the offer. It has, by both sides, His Excellenes the wrong with one eye" the sympathy Sir William Robertson unveiled a tionto the treaties.
prohibition of the export of rice however, expressed thanks to the Governor is prepared to nominate a of Piccadilly. The City Father, war memorial the other day, is and flour is likely to hit Canton seamen for their "patriotism.” Board constituted as follows: hard. It is an open secret that
Chinese Banks Hit. Two European and two Chinese Casting about for means to raise reputed to have been founded by big quantities of flour bave been
money, have bit upon the "ides the Emperor Constantine in me. going by train of late days and In one direction the effect of Members unconnected
with the of taxing the monoclei If you mory of bis British mother, St. ate ever in Salzburg, which Helens, but whatever the truth of the order, in fact, was issued in the strike has been keenly felt Government or with shipping, to be presided over by a Government Ottawa, February &.
is certainly worth a visit, and that tradition, it has an indis... time to prevent the despatch of locally. It will be remembered
find it nECESSITY to buy pitable claim to rank among the Contrary to the report regarding the British Columbia statute fair number of truck-loads of that a abortage was recently felt Officer with judicial experience.
flour.
in Cantonese subsidiary coins,
a monocle to see the sights oldest churches in the kingdom, telegraphed (see Estlier Cablas), which was based on an erroneous
and the Canton Government Mint
properly, your optician will add The present church, dikus. Teenus official summary, it appears that the Supreme Court declared that
The Shum Chun affair.
placed an order with the Chinese the statute is ultra nires, and therefore contrary to the obligations of
to your bill a tax of 17 per cent. 1213, being one of the few Meanwhile a curious little affair banks of the city for the purchase,
And if you ask him why he does churches that scaped the Japanese Treaty of 1913 and the British North America Act. at Shum Chan presents some on a commission basis, of several Before leaving for Indis an that, he will tell you that the in the Great Fire, and the
APPREHENSIONS RESPECTING BRITISH VESSEL.
peculiar features. A branch of million dollars' worth of bax eliver Aldershot women took a picture (monocle is a luxury). If you and agaificance the Seamen's Union has been for minting purposes. This order, of a sooty chimney sweep posed have something wrong with both ments of the City. Port Louis (Mauritius), February 8, oposed there and two nights ago we now leazu, was turned over to with a black cat at his feet. She eyes and need spectacles or pince- within its walls Fears are felt for the safety of the British brig Dersingham from a party of strikers from Cubton, Chinese banks in Hongkong, which thinks the photograph will bring nez, you will be exempt from tiles ontari Simaspore to Mauritius, which has bèéä 111 days out,
some of them armed with rifles, la turn placed the order through her good luck during her voyage. taxation,
1%
EMPLOYMENT OF ORIENTALS IN CANADA. Corrected Judgment Declares British Columbia
Statute ultra vires.
CHIMNEY SWEEP LUCKY.