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Hongkong Telegraph.
No. 21,000
FOUNDED 1801 一拜禮
PAKHOI UNREST. THE SHARË MARKET.
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JAPANESE MERCHANT'S TERRIBLE ORDEAL.
LYING RUMOURS.
ہو
CONFUSION WORSE
CONFOUNDED.
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The fact that to-morrow is the July Settlement Day promises to make the confusion on the local A Pakhof correspondent, writing stuck exchange worse confounded. to the Telegraph ander date of the Only a limited proportion of the 20th instant, states that the anti-June business has been put through foreign movement there has been and it is obvious that many of the especially directed against the contracts made for to-morrow will British and Japanese, official pro- have to be added to the long list of
#LTZALAT MONDAY, JULY 27,
HAWKERS ARRESTED.
SELLING IN MARKET
LIMITS.
offencos waro admitted.
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF FAMOUS AMERICAN:
New York, July 26. The death occurred of Mr. Wil-|
Sixty hawkere, all arrested within market limits selling such things as pork, chicken and veget- ablos, were charged before Mr. liam Jennings Bryan-Reutor's B. B. B. McElderry at the Central American Service. Magistracy this morning. The Mr. William Jennings Bryon, His Worship said that the poo- former American Secretary of ple before him had been of some State, was born at Salem, IL, in considerable service to the com. consity during the period, wille 1860. Admitted to the Bar in 1885, the markets were closed and he he entered politics as a Democrat
done.
not think that they had bean ade- referring to the people of these two
quately warned that they were early campaign for a seat in the In the words of one well-known now committing an offence, and Senate nationalities as "dogs." Giving broker this morning, "this business he sugested that an advertisement
1925. 日七初月六
MOROCCO WAR
LARGE SCALE OPERATIONS EXPECTED,
"BINGLE; COPY 10 CENTA
35 PER ANNUM
ROYAL ENFIELD MODEL 331.
Model 351,
.255.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, LTD.
Tolophona Contral 1246 or 1247)
88, Wong Nol Chung Road... Happy Valley
STRIKE POSITION.
.LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.
2
FOR FOUR HOURS.
HONGKONG MAN DETAINED BY CHINESE.
The general strike situation Marid July 26. seems to be but little changed The Franco-Spanish confor- ence, which has just concluded an
to-day. The Kowloon ferry ser-
BORDER INCIDENT. agreement with regard to Moroc-vices have been extended over the 00, has also agreed on reciprocal week-end, there are undeniable in- Through unknowingly crossing in and flight over both the French and provisional flights of pursuit dientlons that all desire to
be the Chinese, border at Shum Chun and Spanish zones-Reuter. on atrike has vanished among yesterday, Mr. O. A. Smith, the local workers and, excepting for Manager of Messrs. Whiteaway;
Paris, July 26. · A Matin message from Madrid
"
clamations posted up in the town those upon which nothing has been would not like to convict. He did in 1801, but was unsuccessful in his Morocco, immediately after the promise that we have passd|reated by Chinese soldiers and de-
an account of recent happenings, is going to see a lot of us go out. should be placed in the Chinese World Herald from 1894 to 1896, tempted at Ajdir and several co-obviously, take many days to sec
Wis
of this route that many of the strikers were returning to Hong the afternoon in the country, re- kong. Just before the service caught the 2.20 p.m. train from stopped a strict vigilance
Shum Chun. being maintained by Guild pickets
They detrained at.
turning. There was no bar put walk to the bridge across the Shum on women, however, and when Chun river. Mr. Smith did not this became known some of the
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT order to prevent men from re- Low halt and then proceeded to
Takes NJ ICE,
Washington, July 26, Mr. Kellogg has cabled to Am- bassador Houghton in London, describing "for his information".
cordon of pickets by saying that border and he and his wife crossed men managed to slip" through the know that the bridge was the actual
says it is reliably learned that the action of the Seamen's Union, Laidlaw and Co., who was accom large scale operations will be un-which prevents a full resumption panied by his wife, had a very dertaken in the Spanish zone into the normal, there is every unpleasant experiencs, being ar return of Gen. De Rivers to Te-through the labour crisis. of He edited the Omaha an. After an intensive "bom-
tained for over four hours alto- bardment a landing will be at-tion of trade as yet and it will, gether.
course, there is very littlo resump-
he states:
Mr. Smith, who was seen by a There are some brokers and opern- newspapers and warning notices and was later nominated for the lumas will assomble in the upper tors who ought to be paying out issued. Defendants would be dia- Presidency, losing to Mr. Wm. valley of the Wadkert in order to a fulfilment of the catch phrase Telegraph representative this morn The situation become so alarming money, who are apparently shelter-charged with the warning that if
invade the territory of the Gug-
"business as usual,"
that he and his wife that the foreign community, coming behind the present position and again caught they would be fined. McKinley. He notably lectured on znays tribe, and take the Riff The steamers running between Ing, stated
bi-metallism in 1897-8; and after-arka, operating in the Wargha stopped by the action of the Sea- Kowloon, booking through to Shum Macno and Canton have been caught the 2,20 p.m. train from prising some fifty men, women and refusing to pay over anything: KOWLOON TINES.
They plead shortage of credit even. children, took refuge on the French when it is believed that they could by Mr. E. W. Hamilton, meat the Spanish-American war was
Following the warning issued wards raised a Volunteer init for valley, in the rear.--Reuter.
men's Union, as it was by means Chun. It was their object to spend gunboat Inconstant at midnight on issue cheques. On the other hand, June 29th, the Roman Catholic there are clients who are due to and pork hawkers who appeared again nominated for President in PRICE OF RUBBER.
at the Kowloon Magistracy this receive cheques and who will not morning were each mulcted in 1900, and again defeated by Mr. Fathers and nuns, however, remain listen to any suggestion of a com-fines of $10, with the alternative McKinley, He travelled round the Ging on shore, as also did two promise but are demanding the full of 14 days' hard labour in world in 1906, and a year after his
Britishers, father and son who are completion of the contracts. The dafault. In the case of two men
share-dealing circles of the Colony engaged on the one stall, the return had a third nomination for engaged in business here. "The
are utterly demoralised and there is fines wore divided between them. the Presidency, being defeated 'in next morning at daybreak, when the a widespread 'don't-care' spirit.) A number of hawkers solling terror-mongers discovered what had The prospect of legal proceedings wares other than pork and beef 1903 by Mr. Taft happened, they turned the ven-
is being viewed, in some cases, with without +
licence were! a light-heartedness bordering on cautioned and informed that geance of the town against these Hippancy. In the case two unfortunates, blaming them for rather big Chinese operator, he is inflicted. the fight of the foreigners, and refusing to have anything to do this report circulated all day 30th with his June and July, contracts,' June. On 1st July, a new item saying that people can sue him if wns put into circulation, that the they like. Meanwhile, much con- father had been taken and executed sequential settlement of business and the family had followed him is being held up. One European to the execution ground weeping. operator stood to make a few This item appears to have been hundred dollars on his Jund con more attractive and It was allowed tracts. He had sold through some
London, July 26. to circulate for two days, during brakers and bought through others, The Promier, Mr. Stanley. which time no less than fifty and he now finds himself Baldwin, had a one hour confor Chinese friends called to offer their being called upon to settle once with Mr. W. C. Bridgomän sympathy and comfort to the his buying contracts. with and Lord Stamfordham bereaved family, some of them little or no hope of seeing his Downing Street this morning weeping bitterly, these were proh-selling contracts honoured. To with regard to the coal dispute. ably the only people in the town, such a man--and there are many in It is persistently reported that except the terror-mongers, who like predicament-the present, the Government will consider the knew the thing was a lie. This lack of morality in share dealing lie did not have the effect the circles is à catastrophe which may terror-mongers expected it would easily drive him to default out of have, their "objekt being to frighten sheer self-preservation."
all
As Secretary for State in the
of one from to-morrow finos, would be Cabinet of Mr. Woodrow Wilson, the difficulties facing American they were escorting a woman on the bridge and went along a few
COAL CRISIS.
SUBSIDY OF INDUSTRY SUGGESTED.
et
question of a temporary subsidy of the coal industry to tide over the present difficulties. A court. of enquiry is said to have made a
the two off on board the gunboat. Our informant added that recommendation to this effect.
and could not leave, and intended
to stay, at the same time' warning
are
the
peo- and
Mr. Cook, the Miners Secretary,
Promise by the miners.
manufacturers owing to the rise board. Quite a number have the late Mr. Bryan came into great in the price of rubber. Similar come down through adopting such yards on the other side for the purs prominence in 1916 when he resign-representations have, it is report-a ruse.
pose of taking a photograph. There ed, been forwarded through the
There a still, however, ample were no guards on the bridge, or ed after a "split" on peace, ques British Embassy at Washington.
then One commentator wrote of him!.........
tions.
-Reuter.
CANTON NEWS.
communication between Macao nothing to indicate that any tres- and Hongkong. This morning pass was being committed. Two six steamers left the Portuguese or three Chinese soldiers then ap- port for Hongkong between proached, and Mrs. Smith was So'clock and 8 o'clock, these being taken hold of, Mr. Smith protested. the Kochow, Sanning, Chuenchow, and made the mon release their, Sui Tal, Sai On and Paul Beau in hold of Mrs. Smith, telling her to the order named. News' brought get back over the bridge. This down by these steamers was to Mrs. Smith did without being the effect that the new Macas molested in any way, but Mr. Smith docks ware formally opened on was then detained and made to A Canton correspondent informs Saturday by the 3,000-ton Nor-march off in the direction of Shum us that for four or five days now wegian steamer, Hero entering Chun village, Meanwhile, Mrs. a rumour has been current to the with coal for the Netherlands Smith went back and reported the effect that steamer communication Harbour Works. The occasion matter to Sheung Shui polica. between Canton and Macan would was marked by the firing of many station.. end on Sunday. In this connec-guns and blasting charges.
MACAO STEAMER SERVICE
".. INTERRUPTED.
Mr. Smith narrated how he was
This was
tion, the boat bringing the mails We learn to-day that the Chin-taken to. Shum Chun village, to a from. Macao on Saturday arrived in ese on the land border are exer- temple or joss house in the market. due course, but she only remained cising a very much closer scru- The people did not seem hostile, The next morning they changed the.. brokers
for less than an hour, hurriedly tiny over the people who
wish but only curious as all Chinese are. their programme by sending an ple most hardly hit,
in an interview, pessimistically
discharging her passengers and re-to come into British territory. The temple is the headquarters of turning again to Macao without There are quite a lot of labour the General in command of the dis- official dispatch to the French that many of them are valiantly opined that there is very little Consul authorizing him to deport striving to clear up their accounts, hope of a peaceful settlement as
even landing her mails. It is be pickets among those in Shum trict, and it was explained to Mr. lieved that this was due to the fact Chun and other border villages Smith, through an interpreter, that the two immediately, the French Until money is made to flow a little statesmen seemed to bave nothing Consul being of shore with a strong more normally, in other words, batter to suggest than a com-
"Mr. Bryan has enjoyed for many that the emergency Chinese crew and strict questions are being put martial law had been declared in guard of French marines with until many operators are imbued
Mr. Stephen Walsh in a spooch years n peculing position in Ameri-feared being forced to stop work to all who attempt to cross the the district and that it was wrong machine guns and field pieces, there with
and becoming stranded in Canton. border. a higher regard for the at Wigan, characterised the can politics. He is described as 'a
Everything is quiet, for a foreigner to cross the border. being no British Consul in this port sanctity of a contract and come coatowners' proposals as infernal "hot gospeller" of politics, a John No baat arrived from Macao yester- however.
Mr. Smith was searched, his camera This dispatch described the two from out the shelter of an un- and said that the miners' claims Bright in moral passion without day morning, and this strengthens. The local markets to-day were was opened and he was made to Britishers as the two greatest paralleled combination of circum are not impossible. It was for Bright's intellectual force. His the belief that communication be-again well stocked with fish, declare his nationality. On tell- villains inexistence. The stances, the share market of this the Government to sea that they principal characteristic seems to be tween the two ports has been sus-fruit and vegetables. The essen- ing the Chinese that he was an Britishers reply was to the effect Colony will inevitably remain in the were granted. Renter.
the gift of a kind of oratory which pended.
tial services of the Sanitary De- Australian, the General said that that they were peaceful and honest slough of despond and discredit.
is peculiarly telling in such row Regarding conditions, in Canton subjects protecting their property
communities as are found in some city, certain street-corner orators Partment, Post Office, etc., are he could be released. GRAND PRIX MOTOR parts of the American West and who have spoken against the strike working smoothly and there is a about six o'clock, but whilst on his Middle West. His name will have been roughly handled by the very evident spirit of returning way back to the bridge in the care normality. The Police Labour of soldiers, Mr. Smith was re- be for ever associated, in connec-authorities' orders. As regards the Department has closed down, and arrested by two young Chinese tion with the bimetallism con- Shameen shooting affair, however, there is plenty of labour to be officers who had their headquarters troversy, with the phrase "crucified the feeling amongst the better had through the usual channels, in a railway carriage. Here Mr. WINS..
on a cross of gold." He also re- clase Chinesete undergoing a
Smith was taken and was detained" these two were left alone, nothing The attention of golfers is
presents an extreme section of the change, for these have now come
for over two hours. He was told openly being circulated against directed to an advertisement ap-
Paris, July 26.
American equivalent of what used around to the belief that the actual pearing olowhore relating to the The Grand Prix Motor Race to be called the "Nonconformist shooting was, started by the HARBOUR resumption of normal service at was won by Benoist (France) on conscience."
His apologists and Chinese..
The defence creek between Shp- the Deep Water Bay clubhouse Dolage car in 8 hours, 57 many Americans do not feel parti era transferred from the French and the closing of the clubhouse minutes, 41.2/5 seconds. Wagner cularly proud of him just now--are meen and Canton is still deserted,
at Fanling.
(France) on a Delage was second, saying that he is honest, and it is whilst the Shaki Bund continues to gunboat to a phasing steamer and We are informed that the Fan- and Manetti (Britain) on a Sun- true of such characters that they present a busy appearance. went to Haiphong or Hongkong, ling Old Course is in very good beam third. with the exception of the Rev. condition just now. The top dress-
are frequently sincere and self- The Italian motorist, Ascari, Loader and Dr. Watson," of the ing has all worked in. and the died from injuries owing to the believing. In any case he is in- augurating in a public manner and C. M. S., the Rev. Turner, of the course is all out. If m mbors overturning of his car in the on a large scale à campaign in American Mission, Mr. Daniels, the use the Club, every effort will be twentieth lap. Salt Commissioner, a Japanese mer made to reatoro a normal.servios. The race took place at Month-favour of peace." chant and the following Customs offefuls, all of whom returned to
the Chinese not to molest them ori
their property: if they did, very, serious consequences were sure to
happen, From this time onward
them.
Japanese Merchant's Fate..
In the meantime, all the foreign-
LOOAL GOLF...
THE FANLING COÚ
COURSE:
shora: Messrs. Hartshorn (Com Dr. Gouillon, who within a few
missioner), Surh (Assistant Com-hours had him liberated.
RACE.
*་”
FRENCH COMPETITOR
The s.s. Empress of Asia left Vancouver for Hongkong, via Japan ports and Shanghai, on the July 23rd and is due bero on August 10th...
lery, consisting of eighty circuita His publications included The of the Autodromo," a distance Menace of Darwinism", and "The the only British competitor, ab- and it is significant that he was the 24 hours ending at noon on of about 621 miles. Seagrave, Bible and Its Enemies," in 1921;|
The Observatory forecast for
fourth circuit-Reuter, andoned the race in the thirty-the prosecuting counsel in the the 28th instant is south-west or recently concluded action against a variable winds, moderate; fair teacher named Scopes for impart generally, some showers. ing what were considered treasons able theories of evolution. An
The wedding took place at St. Idealist, even if a mistaken one, the John's Cathedral this afternoon late William Jennings Bryan was of Mr. W. J. Burling, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Burling, and an enthusiast to the last.
Miss Gwendoline. Fill, daughter of Mr. and Mra, C. 8. Hill...
WAR DEBTS.
TRENCH MISSION TO LONDON:
-|
INCIDENT.that as the Hongkong authorities were arresting Chinese In Hong- kong, it was only right that foreign- ers should be arrested in China. However, soon after eight o'clock, Mr. Smith was told that he could go and he was escorted over the He Was
ALLEGED OBSCENE
EXPRESSION.
A man standing In the stern of bridge by two soldiers. 'junk in mid-harbour is alleged to able to get a railway employee to have shouted an obscene expres- escort him with a lantern back to sion as a Star, Ferry passed yester Sheung Shul police station, where day afternoon. On arrival at the he spent the night. A message was Hongkong side, Mr. E. D, Stainfield got through to Kowloon late In- and another gentleman hired a the evening that Mr. Smith was at motor-boat, gave chase and caught Sheung Shut and quito all right.
The culprit, seeing that trouble nothing to complain of regarding the junk near Arsenal Street.
Mr. Smith said that he had was in store, jumped into the har- his treatment. He did not know. bour, but he was picked up by the he was in Chinese territory until motor-boat and taken to No. 2 after bis arrest. Police Station,
Charged before Mr. S. B. B. McElderry, at the Central Magis-
A publio bathhouse exclusive- tracy this morning, the defendant ly for dogs has been-opened at denied the charge, and, when asked Munich. It is open daily from why he jumped into harbour, de 8:30 am to 7 pm,, and dogs, are clared that Mr. Stainfield struck bathed for b small fee.
missioner), Hardy (Harbour Astounding Stories of Hongkong. Master), Ward (Examiner) and The most astounding lies are Slevewright (Tidewalter). On being circulated hero regarding) July 10th, a strong band of armed conditions in China and Hongkong. Chinese soldiers went to the pre- These include atgries that all the mises of this Japanese and took him foreigners at Shameon and in the r by force, bound him with ropes and vicinity of Canton had been dis- dragged him a mile through the armed, that the British were pre- atréot, hatless, shirtless and bareventing the Chinese from leaving footed. He was subjected to the Hongkong and were starving them most obscene. railings and actions, to death, that a large Chinese 'army
The French financial mission DIPINEDO DELAYED. G
There were 91 vessels in har-him on boarding the junk, causing dirt being rubbed into his mouth by, was, in tho, vicinity of Yaumati, proceeding to London to day to
bour this morning, fifty-three of him to fall into the harbour the mob, and was very shamefully Hongkong, and that forty foreign negotiate with regard to a settle
which were British. During the The case was adjourned until to To counterset the pilotless air- handled. He was taken to a place warships wore stranded at Shanghal ment of war debts, is headed by
week and and up to 9 a.m. this morrow morning, Mr. McElderry ex- plane, an serial torpedo has been where auch criminals as those con- without coal and were being sunk M. Noret, of the Ministry of Major Di Pinedo hae returned morning the arrivals totalled pressing a wish to hear the evid- favented.". It is claimed that the demned to death are confined by the Chinese: These and many finance, and includes M. Thion owing to engine trouble. He will twelve and the departures thir-lence of Mr. Anderson, the gentle- torpedo could be made to pursue These happenings were brought to other lies were circulated in expert do a-Chaume, manager of the be unable to re-start for several teen. Five British vessels are man who accompanied the com- and destroy the pilotless airplans the notice of the French Consul, fashion.
| Bank of Indo-Chlas—Rester | days.—Reuter-
rived end eight departed
through wireless control,
Paris, July 26,9
Sydney, July 26.
plainant,