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[in Kwangtung. The sooner it la accomplished, the better will it be for trade and general living con- ditions in South China.
We confess to surprise at the report reaching as to the effect that General Chan Kwing-ming has made somewhat dramatic re- appearance at Sheklung, with the intention, it stated, of making a
The Boycott.
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LIKE FRAGILE ICE, ANGER PASSES AWAY IN TIME.-Virgil.
The rate of the dollar on de- mand today is 28.3.15/168.
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There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
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The F. and O. liar Mantua is duo here from Shanghal at 7 a.m. to-morrow.
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the Canadian malls, is due here The Empress of Australia, with
on the 29th instant,
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ATTACK ON CUSTOMS OFFICIALS.
CHINESE SAILORS MEET
TROUBLE.
MOTOR SHIP IN TYPHOON.
STORY OF HONGKONG SALVAGE CHARGES.
Forty-four Chinese sailors of A glorious and ultimately s00- the freighter Gaello Prince will cossful strugglò for four days and probably be arrested for an attack nights without a break against apparently impassible odds shows on three customs agents who that neither steam nor motor raidod the vessel at the foot of Tenth strast, Long Island City, salzad seventy tins of opium valued at $15,000 and arrested two seamen.
power has succeeded in driving the Manila Bulletin of July 20. romance from the high sons, says.
While but a few dogress north of Luzon the engines of the Roose velt Steamship company's motor- ship Silverpiae went dead in the midst of a typhoon with torrific seas and winds...........
Edward Barnce, assistant sell citor for the Treasury Depart ment, said he had asked Ualted The Netherlanda India Com-States Attorney Greene in Brook-which were ultimately picked up
On reading a Reuter cable that the Shanghai Chinese Chamber of Commerce had decided in favour of the confiscation" of British and. Japanese goods in the possession of Chinese and had decided to conduct an Anglo-Japanean boy cott extending for the period of one year, one naturally thought| of the old adage about "cutting off one's nose to spite one's face." It was almost incredible that Chinese merchants-men who The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, have done business with British as Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, in short- importers almost ever since there ly. to call a public meeting for has been any foreign trade with the purposes of discussing the Chinn-would suddenly say that strite situation.
fresh onslaught on Canton. Ever respondent.
mercial Bank, has declared & dividend of 10% for the year ending 31st December, 1924.
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| dians, 4.30, p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
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yn to arrest the forty-four.
Radla. messages were broad- casted asking for help and a tow at Manila. and handed to bo The three agents-Bannon, Mo-gont of the line.
Thoro is no seagoing ing in Adams and Semsoy-were bruised Manila suitable to negotiate the and out from the chaire, pins and extremely heavy weather pre- other missiles tossed by the vailing at the time. Hongkong Chinese. :'
also listenod in and to show the About seven weeks ago Deputy extremely precarious state of af- Port Surveyor Sanders received fairs, the owners of the Hongkong Information that extensivo opium tug demanded $100,000; (gold) be- smuggling operations were being fore they would make a move and
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Gaelic Prince price asked for towage Captain
at
"LABOUR IN CHINA, against the builders.
ENGLISHMAN'S VIEWS;
She was outward bound from. New York via Panama in ballast and was to return to the Atlantio const via Suez, but will remain. some time in Manila for repairs,
for one whole year they were go- At the International Police carried on from ong Island City. e further $23,000 (gold) for towing ing to refuse to handle anything Conference, in New York, ra Thron sponts followed. athe vassal to port. British, were prepared to have cently, Sir Robert Peacock (Chief Now York Chinese and two Because of the extremely high" British goods in their possession Constable of Manchester) pleaded in Chinatow
in favour of nowspaper publicity from Chinatown to the ship's Morgan after being .com- confiscated and were even, propar-as a means of catching criminals. dock. The three Orientals went municated with thought that is to the pier in the limousine driven would be less expensive to pay el to go to the extent of Bning mer-i
by a white chauffeur, employed salvago but no assistance came chants who refused to participate The Hongkong Baseball League by the Chinese there..
and the weather conditions were in the movement. Yesterday
is taking up its schedule again, After hiding in the weeds for getting worse as a second typhoon the following two games to be half an hour they saw the two had crashed upon the helpless. afternoon (too late for insertion played on Saturday:-H.K.V.D.Osailors, Yon Heo and Lon Kowvessel. in our yesterday's edition) we re- versus Japanese, 2:30 pm. to 4.30 and the Now York Chinaman
For four days and nights with-- ceived a further telegram stating P. and Hongkong versus In-emerge from the boat carrying out a moment's sleep the whole. that the Chinese Chamber hafi
hoavy suit case. They pounced of the engineor force laboured to upan them, but the New York get the engine into shape and at THE CANTON OUTLOOK. denied the, report about the boy-
So far as can be ascertained, no man escaped, getting into the last these labours ware rewarded. cott decision, and this leaves one further news concerning the limousine and being driven off. and the vessel got under weigh,
The agonte tied up their pri-although slowly. wondering how the first report stranding of the s.s. Egremont
Castle in the region of Cabu, has sonera and went aboard the boat.
Captain Morgan states that no one if there were no truth in been received in the Colony, As soon as they were discovered praise can suffice for the way the Reuter has a reputation for though we understand efforts ope of the crow turned a switch man worked under such extremely that, extinguished the electric trying and dangerous conditions. have been made to re-float her. veracity and accuracy that pre-
lights and the rough and tumble The Silverpine arrived to with- cludes the possibility of pure
began. It continued for fifteen in a short distance of the break- Yesterday afternoon there was minutes until Bannon found the water imagination on the part of a cor partial collapse of the roof of switch and got the lights back on. morning but after the engines daylight yesterday At all events, whe-15, Wing Lok Street, which re- When the lights appeared. the were stopped they refused to start ther or not the Chinese Chamber sulted in a Chinese boy of 16, who Chinese were seen sitting around again and the vessel was towed since, owing to the defection of his
in Shanghai has been foolish being injured.. He was removed had happened.
was apparently the only occupant, as pancafully as though nothing inside the harbour by an Atlantic troops, he was compelled to quit the
enough to resolve as at first re-to the Government Civil Hospital.
Gulf and Pacific Company's tug. city in 1923, General Chan has been ported, the fact remains that there
None of them could be identified,
After the terrifio struggle the ao after a search which revealed crew was thoroughly played out rather under a cloud, and the is a general boycott in operation
The U.E.S. Asheville arrived several smoking sets the agents and to give them a chance to re- routing of his forces some four against British goods throughout from Canton last evening about left without making more arrests. cuperate Captain Morgan ra months ago resulted in a consider-the big horts of China,
ten o'clock. She experienced some i Mr. Barnes said he intended to lieved them from duty and they From difficulty in finding her buoy and libel the vessel for $30,000. It was fell into their bunks like logs." able lessening of confidence in his Amoy, Swatow, Canton and other the U.S.9. Bulmer directed har reported the Prince Line, opera- The Silverpine is a new motor- ability to again become a real centres in the south comes news with a powerful searchlight which tors of the vessel would post a ship of 8,085 tons net and was factor in the South China situation. of a very disquieting nature to along the Prays.
made pretty play on the buildings bond, for the amount of the libel built at Newcastle, England, and so that the 'freighter would gailis fitted with Vulcan-Diesel In March he suffered a very heavy British traders, and here in Hong-
as scheduled,
engines. As the year's guarantee. set-back and it would seem rather kong the effect of such a boycott An Associated Press massage
on the vessel has not expired the doubtful, whether he has since had would indeed be serious. It is from Denver says Lieutenant
claims will be made a charga., time to gather, sufficient troops in a matter like this where the killed on July 17, when the auto-
Colonel William S. Mapes wabl together to make any serious-move more educated and responsible mobile he was driving crashed on Canton. Moreover, seeing that elements among the Chinese ought head on into a trolley car. Colone) his movements would be fairly to take up a firm stand.
Mapas was widely known ini Such army circles in this country and closely watched, it would be rather men as the officials and members of in the Philippines where he surprising were he to be able to the Hongkong Chinese Chamber served recently. get down as far as Sheklung with- of Commerce have a duty towards
The Repulse Bay establishment given an opinion, based on nearly: ut the knowledge of the Canton British trade, and that duty should of the Hongkong and Shanghai thirty years's residence and authorities. It may be, of course, lead them to counteract this boy- Hotels, Ltd., might just now be business experience in one of (To the Editor of the "Hongkong that the latter are fully acquainted cott foolishness by strong action woll termed the "League of Ne China's Treaty Ports. Child
Telegraph."')". tions Hotel, Amongst the labour has been employed for with his movements and that they and judicious propaganda. Chin-residents the following nationaliages in China in the native carpet
THE RECENT FLOODS. have schemes in hand to circumvent ese merchants can do more than ties are represented:-British, and weaving industries long his plans, in which connection the any other class to kill the idea American, French, Italian, Ger-before foreign capital was intro-
man, Danish, Dutch and Russian, duced and under far
worge Sir, We are given to under- report of the departure of the "Red" that there is something so in- Included in these are the Consuls conditions than exist to-day stand that the impression existed. cadets from Whompos for 'Swatow herently antagonistic, about the for the United States in Hong- in the European factories, which in some quarters that the recent are mostly very modern and floods at Kowloon Tong affected may possibly be a factor in the British that their goods must not kong and for Italy in Canton,
up-to-date in construction. Of the houses on the new housing scheme situation: On these points, time be bought.
The marriage was to take place capital invested in the different of the Kowloon Tong and New will provide the necessary illumina-
industrial enterprises in Shanghai Territories Development, Com- at the Brompton Oratory, London, and other parts I go so far as to on May 16th. of Captain 8. Aay that, probably 40-50 per cent. tion,
The Latest "Frightfulness". Grehan, O.B.E., M.C., Royal is Chinese; but the Chinese share-quite pany. Whatever may be the truth in We can hardly believe that the Artillery, only son of Mr. Stephon holders are only too pleased to correctly, that Kowloon regard to General Chan's activities, latest form of anti-foreign "fright and Cecily, third daughter of Mr mills in foreign hands, knowing should like to make it clear, Gerhan, of Cloomeen, Co. Cork, leave the management of these engage was inundated and there can be no doubting the fact fulness" reported from Canton, J. C. Gainford St. Lawrence, JP that they will be organized and
houses washed away, but we that there is a growing force of namely the threat to disinter the DL of Howth Castle, Co. Dub run in the best interests of all through the medium of your opinion, both in military and co-dead at the Honam foreign come ford-St. Lawrence, M.C., MA. know on which side their broad is Estate was in no way damaged. lin, and sister of Mr. T.J.E. Gais- concerned. Chinsmen usually columns, that the Kowloon Tong mercial circles, against the extery, has official sanction. In his Private Secretary to His Excel-buttered and they would not leave This statement we make in order tremists now in power in Canton. letter of protest the British Con-lency Sir R. E. Stubbe, K.C.M.Gtheir agricultural purpults and to re-assure our clients Governor of Hongkong, Even in the ranks of the Kuomin- sul-General, Sir James Jamieson, tang Party itself very considerable refers to the fact that "comment dissension hay Iatterly been
on such threatened action, more country and fellows. apparent over the question of the especially from a Chinese point of to think that the threat of which subordination of the Party's view, is superfluous."
Sir James complains came from principles to Bolshevism pure and known reverence for the dead, fn-
irresponsible agitators, rather! simple. The Soviet has secured caleated in the Chness of a past than, even indirectly, from the re- something of a strangle-hold on the generation by the teachings of the presentatives of the Canton ad- norminal heads of that Party, and sages of old, would abhor auch de- ministration. However, it is a TWO HUNDRED CHINESE WALK BRITAIN AND JAPAN, is utilising it solely for its own secration. We say of a past gen-
sign of the times, and a disquiet- purposes, gulling the Kuomintang eration advisedly, for it would ap Ing one, for those who would still chiefs into the belief that its pear that in her striving to ad-attempt to believe that the Chin- nctions are wholly disinterested vance with the rest of the world ese situation is not influenced by
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The well-
We prefer
manifesto regarding the strikes The Independent Labour Party's
and riots in China should not go unchallenged, and I venture to
CORRESPONDENCE.
Your raport of the food stated,
flock to large cities like Shanghai. We may add that Kowloon Tong to work in these mills if condi- village is situated in the next tions were so distasteful to them. valley to the Estate, and is ac-
Mr. W. J. Warmsley in Times. tually some distance away-
Yours, etc.,
F. MUNFORD
Secretary. Hongkong, July 22, 1925.
EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA'S CREW.
OUT AT YOKOHAMA.
Replaced by apa.test.
Tokyo, July 22.—Two hundred of
COMPLETELY IN ACCORD, ON CHINESE POLICY.
Tokyo, July 22-Japan has re
and altogether altruistic. This China has lost a great deal of the the worst elements in the land the Chinese crew of the Empress plied favourably to the Washington fact is daily becoming more and fine characteristics of her people The British Consul's warning re of Australia struck on arrival at note, Britain and Japan are com moro apparent to the Baner which previously prevailed. It is calls the one he sent on the ve Yokohama yesterday, and were pletely in accord on points of elements amongst the Cantonese, the usurpers of power, the so- of the demonstration against the replaced by two hundred Japanese Chinese, policy and the Washington and it looks as if the time is called progressives and half-baked Shameen. Let us hope that it The rest of the Chinese are ex-proposals, Sir Charles Eliot having pected to walk out at Kobe, in notified the Foreign Office of Bri- approaching when there will be a "leaders of thought" who are will be better heeded than was which event more Japanese will be tish acceptance, according to the big
Foreign Office spokesman-Reuter,