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ONLY LOVE, STRONG AND SUB- BRING LIME, CAN
HELP TO EUROPE-JA. Duhamel,
FIGHTING NEAR SHEKLUNG.
KOWLOON FLAT DISPUTE.
WOUNDED SENT TO CLAIM AGAINST NATHAN
CANTON.
According to the latest reports
ROAD TENANT.
A claim by Mr. Chan Shun-sze
thair aid- there is always a The Kowloon Dock Ball is to be received here, fighting has been against Mr. R. A. Clark for pos danger of setting forces in motion held on the 28th instant.
which cannot be controlled.
arrears
taking place between Chan King-session of the first floor of No. 33, ming's troops and the "Constitu- Nathan Road. Kowloon, occupied We shall be surprised if the Amongst the passengers who tionalist" forces a few miles from Mr. Justice Gomperts, in the labouring class in particular left by the Empress of Australia Shet Tan and Shek Lung. It Summary Court, the greater part should really join in any strikere Dr. G. H. L Fitzwilliams was particularly heary on the of this morning.
(and Mr. G. S. Archbutt,
18th and 19th. and about 500 Plaintiff was represented by Mr. movement just to support Dr.
wounded soldiers have been sent M. M. Watson, while the defence Sun on a political issue. What
back to hospitals in Canton for was conducted by Mr. F. G. Vaux. There will be a special Christ-treatment. A large number of will they have 10 gain, anyhow?
Mr. Watson, outlining the facts, mas Carol Service in St. reinforcements have been sent said the flat was let to a Mr. And have they already forgotten Andrew's Church. Kowloca, on from Canton.
Boulderson sometime aga. The the shameful scenes in Canton Sunday evening, when soles will
be sung by Mrs. Clements,
It is reported that at a meeting and September was in
tent for June, July, August, produced by the commandeering
of the military commanders, held and on Nov. 17th. the landlord of many of their own class for
at the Cement Works a few days Specifications on Applicamilitary transport work? Thesmallpox notified during the 24 that he hoped to have $10,000,000 Defendant claimed that he went There were 1 fresh cases of agu, Dr. Sun Yat-sen intimated obtained an order fur possession, bave had precious little liberty hours ending yesterday. Fourteen in hand very soon to meet the ber as a sub-tenant, and the rent into the flat sometime in Septem- in Canton during the past year of those cases came
from the expenses of the proposed north of $70 a month from September to (if they should lake an active City. There was also one British ern expedition. MUSTARD & Co. part in the dispute, then we may
case of diphtheria.
date had been paid into Court. attribute the derelopment either] to fear of the consequences of
In the Sucamany Court, before [Mr. Justice Gompertz, this morn | refusal, as to the movement being, judgment for $16 was entered ing skilfully engineered by glib-in favour of the Hongkong Cigar tongued leaders, must of whom Store Co., L against S. would be serving their country delivered.
Moustleen." for goods sold and better if they dit a hard day's, work now and then. Unhappily.
After the run of Fools and past experience has shown us Riches" inishes at the Grand that to the professional agitater | 1ro-night, the big Griffith picture the Chinese worker is as clay in Christmas Day, Constance Tal- "Way Down East" is due on the potter's hand. That fact isntage in "Wedding Bells" and', DOUGLAS. At the Freach well-known . Canton official Harold Lloyd in "Now or Never" Hospital. December 21st. to Mr.dom, and quite possibly they are
is the attraction announced. and Mr. W. E Douglas, a son
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LEE CURTIS. On the 1s]
The Telegraph.
relying on it now.
Greek Affairs.
came
A highway robbery is reported to have occurred in the New Territory on Tuesday. Wong Ki, an ex-soldier, living at 7. Shang- a Street, Yaumati, informed the police that at 11.30 Tues
The Public Peace Bureau of On Oct. 6th a letter was received Canton has received an order from Mr. Clark, stating that he asking it to request all owners of was looking after the flat for Mr. wharves to subscribe three Bouldersonand would the landlord months' rent in advance to the collect the rent. The shroff Government, It is stated that called. He was offered the rent the receipt for such a payment for September, but as rent was could be used to pay any Govern-owing for four months, he refus- ment taxes falling due during ed to accept it.. the coming year.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the Hangkong ** Telegraph.")
The Customs Dispute.
fol-
soa.
Mr. Watson submitted that he was entitled to possession, be cause the defondant said he was Joaly occupying the flat and was paying the rent for Mr. Boulder-
If defendant was not caretaker but a tenant, then Mr. Watson contended that defen- dant Was not protected by the Rents Ordinance. The tenancy of Mr. Boulderson bay- ing, expired. ipes facte the sub- tenancy of Mr. Clark went with it. Sin-1 should like to advise
Mr. Clark, a clerk in the Royal Dr. Sun-Yat-sen to leave the Naval Yard, giving evidence, said For several years there has December, at the Rosary Church, been a continual tamalt in Greece,
Customs Surplus alone, not dare he took possession on Sept. 23rd. Spads. Egbert A. Lees, son of the administration of the country bas bits on the railway lines Bear should mind bis Kween by the Rev. Father and one wonders how the ordinary day morning three men stopped to think about taking it or start Hearing through an advertise- any of his absurd capers. Hement in the newspapers that the late J.E.F. Lees. J.P., M.R.C.M., continued through the vicissitudes Sheungshui village. He broke
own business fat was to let, he got in touch of Bury, England, Durothea it has had to experience. There away and bolted. but was inter-
and not interfere with Peking's with Mr. Boulderson and came to Emily Curtis. daughter of Mr. was at one period a revolt against cepted by eight other men. two enough suffering for the people at and to purchase the furniture
affairs.
He has already made an agreement to take over the and Mrs. Walter Vaughan Curtis, King Constantiae, and he left. of them brandishing daggers. of Hongkong.
somewhat burriedly. M. Venize. The robbers relieved him of $15 of Kwangtung by drastic law for 400, including fixtures and
without making
Etrings. He was informed that any more. los, the Cretan statesinan, becom-and a gold finger ring.
The farmers, merchants
the rent fo: September had not and ing the temporary idol of the
others should rise
been paid He, therefore, obtain- populare. Then "Tino
up Convicted of stealing and kill-against hin back, and the Allies were takening a cat belonging to the Chinese lowers,
ed $70 from Mr. Boulderson and his and acd drive them on Oct. 10th offered it to the to task for permitting the return Engineers Institute, in Connaught our of Kwangtung, which would shroff, who refused to accept of a pro-German monarch. But
il. Road Central, a Chinese cook was be a great blessing to the people.
When Mrs. Boulderson the King had to depart not very sentenced to one month's hard
banded over the kera to long afterwards. The militan labour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton agitating to help him to accom-the
Regarding the Labour Party witness she told him that policy of the court at Athens led this morning. Another man was
rent was two months in the campaign against the also charged, but the case against Plish his threats. I think they arrears: Mr. Boulderson
was Turk which developed into a hini was dismissed on the cook's ought to be ashamed of them then not in the Colony, but he Gavek disaster. For this, soldier admission that the man was help same as the Soviet has done to landlord.
selves. They will ruin China the would pay this money to the (and politicians paid the penalty, ing him at
Mr. Clark admitted being savagely executed after evidence showed that the cook. his request. The
poor Russia.
that his letter was somewhat what was described as a farcical who lives a few doors from the
misleading, but he contended that trial. Britain's representative Institute, was seen by a member Party to think twice before leap-Boulderson.
I would advise the Labour he
was a sub-tenant of Mr. was withdrawn from Athens, and of the Institute scraping the drading into so silly and babyish a for while Greece Was in disgrace. Memories. however, are to cooking the carcase.
cat's hair on the roof preparatory method. What they should think
Cross-examining on a letter about is to find a method or way Bouldersen when defendant took given to Mr. Clark by Mr. necessarily short in international. diplomary, and it was not long
(to get rid before everything was as before.
of the tyrants of Kwangtung. An interesting page of pictures god-send to the subdued people
This would be The present King of Greece ap-will appear in tomorrow's Tele- and also for China as a whole. peared to have a big following graph, Photos of the football and the Revolutionary regime was teams. South China and "The too anomalous to last. With the Rest:" a group of the Chinese discovery of Royalist plots, which Y.M.CA. English very nearly meant another series Class: the whaler crew of H.M.S. Hongkong, Dec. 21st., 1923.
Debating of executions, the popular vote Despatch which won the Whaler We find M. Venizelos back in view of the Library of Nanking has turned in favour of a republic. Class in the 1923 Regatta: a favour, and the King ditting to a University. recently destroged
HOYOKONG, 2: Dec 1923.
CANTON LABOUR
THREATS.
Whether the threat of Canton labour organisations to call a general strike of all Chinese employed on foreign ships if the Customs dispute is not settled according to the wishes of the Sun Yat-sen regime is a piere of bluff designed to Care the Powers, or whether there is a real danger of labour unrest resulting, That the Labour time will teil. element is active and that it is not being re-trained in its activity
by the Canton Government there
can ir an douby. Their leader.
to
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tenant during Mr. Boulderson's over, Mr. Watson asked defendant what he meant by becoming &
absence? When Mr. Boulderson returned
the Colony, was Mr. Clark Koing to him? give the fat back to
Mr. Clark replied that he was a sub-tenant.
Mr. Watson suggested that defendant Esd taken over the flat
and that had been written down. When Mr. Boulderson returned defendant was going to stand on his rights under the Rents Ordinance..
neighbouring State, after refusing by far a picture of an antique ROAD IMPROVEMENT. While Mr. Boulderson was AWBY Tse Ying-pus, declare that two republic, with M. Venizelos as presented to the Hongkong and a demand to abdicate. A Greek seven-storeyed pagoda recently hundred and Sity Guilds under President.might beagood idea, but Shanghai Bank in Shanghai and his control are solidly behind the there will always be the Royalista
group of Shanghai woollen Government, and he has inform-lement, and M. Venizelos cannot piece goods merchants goes to
last forever. We do not want a make up the page.
erl
a Telegraph representativesecoad Mexico, in Europe. It that these bodies are now work nok at if the Greek baby is ing out chemes by which they going to be a very troublesome may throw their weight into the infant. and its foster parents musta be getting rather "fel up" by scales.
now, especially with their many other anxieties.
In the past when Dr. Sun bas been in difficulties. he has relied
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necessary to alter the road levels seemed clear that while negotia- at the top of Pedder Street and tions were on. Mr. Boulderson to a very considerable extent for
Manila. Dec. 21. A quake last-the Queen's Road corner. Work-made a better bargain by sub- ing few seconds occurred at 4men 8FC ΠΟΥ busy on this letting the flat to Mr. Clark: As support by his followers amongst
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height of the road is going to be his statement in the letter to the lowered seven inches, whilst landlord that he was paying for along Queen's Road, opposite the Mr. Boulderson...
these factions before him and arch platters of Bolshevism weep Butter in the hearts of the "Red" new theatre. it has to be raised His Honour reserved - -hia authorised another big publicing" bitter crocodile's tears at the leaders is the realisation that nearly 18 inches. The bottom decision. demonstration for Sunday next bought that the last buffer Britain bas 'tumbled to their few yards of Wyndham Street It is worthy of notice that last and the British wolves might longer going to take things lying now, and it was at one time"
State between the Soviet lambs game in Afghanistan. and is no will have a steeper gradient than week's demonstrations, although cease to exercise its fanction as a down. The only way to convince proposed to put a flight of steps JAPANS FASCISTI, * described as public mass meet barricada. It is unfortunate for the jackals who snap at the lion's there, but that project has been Signor Mussolini received on the Moscow hypocrites that the danks that the pastime is abandoned. Later on, the dip in Nov. 5, in Rome, Mr. Marato ings, were for the most part whole intelligent world knows dangerous une is for the lion to Pedder Street will be taken out Sometant, who has been sent by attended by the labouring and them too well to take them seri rouse itself and if necessary and a uniform gradient inade Mr. Sanjo Mato, the founder of student classes-lhe stormy ele casly. Britain's great anxiety pose painful correction on its right from Des Voeux Road to the Japanese Fascista movement
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for several decades has been to tormentors. This is what appears Queen's Road. It is also pro-Yitsugyo Doshikai, as it is much
have a neutral and truly inde- to be happening, hence the frenzi-posed to raise the level of called in Japan. Mr. Sometani more profitably employed in pendent Afghanistan separating ed yelping in the jackal pack. Queen's Road, from Pedder Street was presented to the Premier by working and studying than in the Indian dominions from Rus-The Afghans would be far more to Ico House Street, so that from Mr. Shimoi, Profossor of Japan- interfering in political questions sian territory. Now that Tsarism inclined in co-operate in subdu-the bottom of Battery Fathess at the Oriental Institute, of with which they are in no sense Russia have given place to the the
and the militarist aims of olding the murder: gangs on there will be one level road right Naples. Signor Mussoliri. was competent to deal. These noisy aggressive malice of Bolshevism, for the poisonous whispers from This latter improvement will only political conditions and moral not along to the Central Market. greatly interested to hear of the agitators can always be relied the British Governmant is the North: and the fear that these be possible when re-buildings problema of Japan. The Premier - apos to join in any movement anxious to prevent the Soviet de volleys of propaganda might have allowed floor levels to be promised to send a message of signs on India coming to fruition missfire can be discerned at rained, as has been done in the greeting and good wishes to the which appears to give them a through the North-West frontier, the bottom of the Soviet opcase of the new Bark of China now Japanese Fascista move sense of being important; they What must really be causings prehensions and calumnies. building.
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