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GREEN--On October 17th., at No. 1 Poak Road, to Mr. and Mrs. H. Groen, a son.
-The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 17th Oct., 1924.
have
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1924.
far-reaching
DAY BY DAY.
THE LEADER 18 ALONE
CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph.")
CHINA, WAH
DETERMINED, FIGHTING.
probable offects wherever religious feelinge pravail, and our chomies of all dogroos would find a potent BECAUSE HE 18 A. LEADER.
Mukden, Oct. 16. weapon ready to baud. Already THE MASS WHO FOLLOW ARE Dorby Sweep Ticket Case, A-communique states that, rein. the victims of persistent pro- NOT ON THE BAME TLANE OF
forcing the loft wing with the THINKING OR FEELING AS paganda, we can ill afford to lay THIS PIONEER WHO TREADS IN
Third Division, Wu Poi-fu mado ourselves open to further thrusts FRONT WITH ONLY THE STARS
Sir-It has como to my a determined attempt to recap. from unsorupulous foon. At the AND THE INNER VOICES TO knowledge that it is ballevod that turo Shahoobla at day break the Chinese Club has paid to Mrs. to-day. After the soverest fight- same time, we cannot permit GUIDE HIMF. Brierley.
V. Chan, the owner of ticket No.ing the Chihli forces retired. considerations of caution to be-
03066 in the Chinese Club Bwoop Simultaneously they attempted a como exooraivo and overrido our
Altogether 151
stroot on the Hongkong Derby, 1923, the surprise flank attack through the natural solf-respect. That is lampa wore erected during last value of the first prize. I shall be hills, which was reported by the why, whether (as alleged) the your in Hongkong, of which 125 much obliged if you will kindly Fengtien aaroplanes and repulso... allow space in your paper to make The Chill foreos made a dotor- Government's sharp hint to Tur- were gas and 26 electric.
it known that such is not the case. mined stand when pursued, but
The Chinese Club, through they were driven back.. koy be a political move or not. wo cannot but endorse the action Miss M. Tyrrell, living at the Lo, wrote on the 22nd ult. in The Fongtion forces captured takon and the attitude adopted, Carlton Hotel, has reported to reply to a latter demanding pay- Shihunonchal-mon and Santaokan. for the dividing line between worth of jewellery from hot bobalf of Mrs. Chan, stating that
the Police the theft of $200ment of the prize money made on-Daily Bulletin. easygolog tolosanoo and abject | room. indulgence has just about beon reached.
Cantou's Travail.
Wodnosday's tragic happenings)
in Canton must of a suroty spoll.
now
The mastor of the s.a. Sciston reports, having seen junk in
Latitude
Longitudo 109.02
a dorelict 10.43. N. It is
'I
dangerous to navigation.
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thoir Solicitors Mosare. Lo and
the Chairman and Committee of the Chinese Club "do not admit
FENGTIEN FORCES CAPTURE SHIMENCHAI. Mukden, Oct. 15.
that Mrs. Chan has any right to claim payment of the sum of It is officially claimed that the 650,400.00, the first prize in the Fongtion forces captured Shimon- Swoop."
chai fort, and that the capture of
It may be of interest to your Chaio-abashi le expected to bo roadare to read the following made without dimoulty. lottor writton by any firm to CHIHLI GENERAL KILLED. Messrs. Lo and Lo, the Solieltors for the Chinese Club, on the 23rd} September 1924-
Later. The communique states that Shimonchal
was completely Hongkong 23rd Sept. 1924. occupied yesterday afternoon by Messrs. Lo and Lo,
tho Sixtconth Brigade after four Dear Sire,
days and nights' hard fighting. Mr. Sydnoy Ng Quinn has
Local reports state that tho handed to us your letter dated Chihli General Chang Chih-kow the 22nd instant, written on the was killed.-Daily Bulletin. instructions of the Chairman and
ond to the already over- An unemployed ship's officer, prolonged regime of Sun Yat-named Vick, was admitted to the Bon. No person, not even Dr. Government Civil Hospital Sun. could hope to continuo to yos tordus after being found lying govern a city in which the more in an unconscious condition in responsible elements are solidly the struct, against him and against whom: he has had recourse to the power of firearms and incendiary auts. The premia paid into the local For the moment the superiority Trosury from land sales, leases, of his trained soldiers may succeed and so forth amounted to just the Committee of the Chinese: POSITION AT CHIUMEN. in thwarting the wishes of the over $1,600,000 in 1921, about Club, in reply to his luttor··· governed, but
Poking, Oot. 16.- can $2,700,000 in 1922, and nearly to them of the 20th instant, in allonate the sympathies of a $3,500,000 last year.
which you state that your clients the Fengtion forcee captured Forolgn tolograms state that do not admit that Mre, Chan bas Chifeng on October 6, but were any right to claim payment of driven out by the Government
A Chinoso offivial tologram re-
no inan
people and hope to continue in powor. There have been many
sad and tragle opisodes in the A motor accident occurred in the sum of $50.400.00, the first forces on Oct. 14th. bistory of Canton, but wo cap Queen's Road yesterday, as a prize in the Oninone Club Sweep imagino nothing sadder than the result of which a middle-aged on the Hongkong Derby 1923. THE TURKISH TRIAL. employment by a Cantonoso of Chinese
Relations between the British
merconary troops from another hospital. Province in order to subject and detained by the polios. torrorise the pooplo of Canton
of dollars
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to
Bulletin.
to Shanhaikuan,
Was udmitted
Ju reply, we beg to inform you ports that the Fengtion force The driver was that our client will, as stated in have been driven out beyond the his lotter of the 20th instant, Great Wall at Chiumen, where attond with Mrs. Chan at the fighting is still proceeding, and Turkish Govoraments have into submission to his arbitrary
offices of the Secretary of the and callous authority. Wodnee- A Chinoso scaman aboard the Chinesa Club on the 24th instant Large Government forces ara. for quite a long time
boen day was a veritable day of terror; s.s. Lake Gitano was injured at 12 noon in order to comply
being Bent strained, and it has really boon in which streets were deserted yesterday by falling into one of with condition 1 of the Sweep where the Fengtion forces are amatter for surprise that there save of soldiers, in which property the holds. Ho received injuries Regulations. This, notwithstand being strengthened, and the opin- has not been an outbreak of hos-to the value of many millions in the head and joga and was ing the fact that the Committed ion is gaining ground that a was destroyed by removed to the Kwong Wab of the Club have failed to observe heavy battle will occur on that tilities before this. The Turke fire, and in which the lives of Hospital.
cach and every condition of such front in the near futura.-Daily have givon Britain every excuse volunteer defenders of the City
Regulation except condition 2.
The Committee of the Club! for a conflict, and only the were lost. Sun was somewhere
OCCUPATION OF in the vicinity of the City, some The Director of Public Works have broken condition1 by pay-
SHANHAIKUAN, auxioty on our part to avoid bosay at the Arsonal and others reports that, owing to shortage of ing to Chik Sung Ling the value coming involved in a new war can say at the Comout Works, and it staff and abnormal increase of of the first prize without the in-
Tókyð, Oct. 16. is reported that it was by his or work, it was not possible last year tervention of the Sweep Loader
A nitesago from Mukden, account for our long forbearancoders that the soldiers carried out to give us much attention to the or Sweep Member and without dated yesterday, officially stated The position of Turkey to day the attack on the Volunteers in tasting of mortar, in, building the production of the ticket or that Shanhaikuan was completely compared with that she found an attempt to disarin thom, operations, as was desired.
the endorsement of the ticket. osoupied this morning and that horself in after the lato war is so nithaugh it was only a few days
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They have broken condition 4 in the Fourth Brigade are entoring altored that it is hard to realise previous that General Li Fook
lum had willingly banded over
that they have paid out to Chik the city.-Daily Bulletin. the sacrifices which were made 4,000 arms in accordance with the handsome trophy given by Swoop Member
The final motor cycle trials for Sung Ling without proof by the who sold the to overthrow this pernicious the arrangement previously the Harley Davidson Motor ticket that he sold ticket No.
The Merchants Cycle Company take place to-03066 to Chik Sung Ling, and in Rule 4 of the Swoop Regula power in the Near East. One arrived
Volunteers had boon, promised sooms to have a faint recollec-all the arts, and when that to meet at Statue Square at money without any adequate drawn with a view to the lost. morrow. Compatitors aro roquest-they have paid out the prize tions of the Chinese Club and tion of utterances by public mon promise was unfulfilled they 2.30 p.m. whore full instructions indemnity. The indemnity, or ticket being produced for payment, and leaders of various countrios decided to exorcise the ecomomic will be given to each rider. rolating to Constantinople. This power of the strike weapon and force Sun into compliance. The
at..
was to be internationalised, the contingency
of $ fight. was
EXPERT TUITION BY WELL-KNOWN TEACHER.
guarantee given is merely a pro- as asked for in my firm's letter tection for the guarantors and no of the 21st July 1923, it would one else, and was prepared with have protected the owner of the entire disregard for the rights of tickot in case the tiukat was
withstanding our loster of the money could have been obtained 21st July 1923, which is usby the Chineso Club from follows:-
the Tabaqueria Filipins, the Hongkong, 21st July, 1923. Guarantors, and paid to Mrs. Chan. The Hon. Secretary,
Your readers are doubtloss The Chinose Club,
aware that gambling dabta can-
Turke wore to be driven finally always recognised, but it W NEW DANCING SCHOOL, any other person, and this not found, as it has been, and the out of Europe, and so forth. never contemplated that the city would be set on fire and that Perhaps the defection of Rusein the houses and shops of ponce- has had most to do with the fol inhabitants would bò destroy- change of policy, but whatever ód. Small wonder that the concessions had to be given they of a continuance of the struggle Volunteers gave in, for the price. were only in the nature of bow would have been the further de- Ing to intimidation. That has to struction of the city, be admitted. In those faraway
years before 1914 it would not Sun Must Go.... havo required half the provoca-
ін
With the dancing season upon us, it bohovos those of us who might have grown "rusty "in tho | art, or who have not kopt quite :
66 Queen's Road Contral. not be recovered in a Court of Dear Sir,--Wo understand that Law (an uopaid prize in s
the
up to date, to bothink ourselves at the General Meeting of the swoop is a gambling debt.) By of getting into proper training Club this afternoon the question the indemnity as drawn the guar- Local residents will be glad to of the payment of the first prize antors agree to refmburao the No-one can imagine that the learn of an opportunity now pre- in the Derby Sweep is to be dis-Club if the Club bo by Law com- tion which the Turks have given prosent lull spells the end of the sented of acquiring perfection, cussed.
polled to pay the 850,400 00 to in the last twolvemonth to have struggle, and it is our confirmed and, so far as beginners are con- We beg to point out to you that some other person." This, 48 mount an ultimatum and sub-belief that peace will not come corned, of learning from one although Mrs. Chan has been un-I have stated, is an impossibility, best teachers available up to the presont to and hor This indemnity is a worth- sequent clash of arms. But now to Canton until Dr. Sun has the of the
good sense to realise that his pro-able. Mmo, Kolvoy, the wall-ticket No. 03066, the same may lose document for in the way a form of blackmall is beingsence is undesirable and that known professional dancing still be found, having regard to the in which it is framed it imposes exorcised by the Turkish Nation-jhis regime doomed. It instructor, hag arrived in circumstances under which It no liability whatever on alist Government; growing worse put * few wooks age Hongkong, and is commencing was lost, namely, owing to re- guarantors. This indoninity was since he loft Canton and classes in all branches of the art, moval trom No. 5-Arbuthnot Road prepared by Mr M. K. Lo, the with every indulgence.
journeyed to Shiukwan in tho for both children and adulte. Anto No. 9 Robinson Road.
Solicitor not only for the Chinese We notice that by Clause 4 of Club but also for the guarantors, So far as Britain is concorn-boast that he was taking an advertisement elsowhore in this
to help the issue givos particulars. army up north
the Sweep Regulations paymont regardless of the fact that the Mme. od, it is
a case of keeping Chokiang forces in their fight Kolvoy can be communicated can only be made in the case of a ticket might be produced and a religious considerations in the against the Peking Government. with daily at the Kowloon Hotel lost ticket on substantial security claim for the prize mado in the forefront of our foreign policy in He found it impőßsible
being given. We suggest that ordinary way. Ho also received tobotween 12.30 and 2 p.m.
The nawspaper press of other should the meeting decide to pay the prize money from the Com. the East. The rise of nation-continua that journey, and ho
has returned to Canton to play cities whore Mmo. Kelvoy has out the money to Chik Sung Ling, mitteo of the Chinese Club and allem amongst Araba, Egyptians, the War Lord over the people bold classes speak very highly of substantial beourity for repay-paid it away on the instructions and Indian Mohammedens, has who loss than two years ago gavo her dancing instruction. From ment should be given in case the of Chik, Sung Ling. This prizo money was paid out within 3 given events a turn towards him a tumultuous welcome back Australia to China, people have ticket is afterwards produced.
to his native provipoo. The boon perfected in ordinary and
We shall be glad if you will months of the award, although position of real gravity, and our follier of his own administration fancy dances, and the children cause the contents of this letter to the Club had made it a condiljon hands are practically tied when in the interim have brought him who have been Mme, Kelvey's be brought to the notice of the" that the Club will not be bound
Comes to dealing with the reverse of honours, until pupils have subsequently given moeting.
Yours faithfully, rocalcitrante. Unfortunatoly, one to-day there is scarcely a loss delightful performances on the
loved man in southern China. stage, Regent entertainments (Bd.) Goo. K. Hall Brutton & Co. bit of lonlonoy leads to another, The iniquitous taxation, the arranged by pupils 'at Shanghai
Yours faithfully, as advantage is taken of our wholesale confiscation of private have boon of a remarkably high (88.) Goo. K. Hall Brutton & Co. comparative impotency, and the and public property, and the look order, and have called forth
of enlightened governance which unstinted praiso, practice of twisting the lion's has marked Sun's administration, tail, once so dangerous, grows in make a hollow. mookery of popularity. We sincerely trust, his scomingly righteous and with our knowledge of the under indignant outpouringe regard-dieprove it than he has during the time stated and found payment by law, but ledipendent ing the principles of the the past two yaaro. bun must the office in charge of a entirely on the honour of the ourronta Lowing across Britain's Revolution. Sun has had 80. That is the desire of the clerk Later, Mr. M. K. Lo, the Members of the Committee of the destiny as a world power, that more than ono. chanoo to merchants of Canton and of the Club Solicitor,attended no serious trouble will result disprove the allegation that he Province, and it is the desire of stated (inter alia) that the Club is either a bungling drosmer or all who wish to sed mottled, had not get the money care from the present difference with an unscrupulous opportunist, but peaceful and prosperous condHad the indemnity boen an a GIO-E Turkey, An actual breach would he has never failed more to tions return again to Kwangtung, dequate Indemnity, as provided, Hong
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to aut according to the award of the arbitrators and that the Club reserved 'all its; rights, and that the position of the Olub in law shall be deemed to be absolutely the same as if do such arbitration In accordance with this letter I had taken place." attended at the Booretary's offles It will be appreciated therefore of the Chinese Club with Mrs, that Mrs. Chan as the owner of Chan and Mr. Ng Quinnat the winning Hoket cannot obtain.
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