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WUCHOW UNREST
BRITISH CONSUL'S HOUSE RANSACKED.
SERIOUS INCIDENTS.
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Very interesting news comes to hand to-day, from Wuchow, a
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SFOUNDED JESI
No. 21,530
STRIKE SITUATION.
RUMOURS FROM CANTON.
一拜禮
Brighter Trade Outlook. /'
To-day being a Bank Holiday and with practically all business houses and offices closed it has not been possible, to judge of the pro-
MONDAY, 辦三月八英港香
STRIKE WAGES.
A CORRESPONDENT'S VIEWS.
We have received the following letter for publication :--
Sir, The present strike was caused by the Bolshevik in Can ton. Threatening letters and the direct agitator drove all labourers in Hongkong erasy. As we all know, death is a torrible thing!
1925. AUGUST 3,
日四十月六
ANGLO-FRENCH DEBT. FRANCE IN CHINA.
BIG DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
.:
Press Attack on British Official.
London, Aug, 2.
The Sunday Timea suys there is
BRITISH PRESS- CHARGES RESENTED.
MINISTER REPLIES,
Peking, Aug. 2.
M. Martel has issued a state-
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A correspondent in a 'contom rod-and-line who has been privi” porary has asked the question legod to gaze upon them.
visitor to arrive here from this gress of Hongkong's return to nor-and everyone dreads it. There considerable gulf between the ment to the Press saying that part why June is such a popular
West River port, reporting that the residence of the British Consul General there was forcibly enter ed by Chinese a few nights ago and ransacked of all valuables, in-
cluding even the furniture. En trance by the thieves was effected by breaking the glass of the doors and then the unfastening of the
bolts, etc., and the iniscreants appear to have got enfely away with their booty, for there has been no subsequent report of any arrests,
mality. The public services, such fore, the workers had to leave offer of the French financial experts as ferries and trams, ara being their jobs.
who visited: London last week and As soon as the Government maintained in an efficient manner
stopped intimidation and took the British Treasury requirements. by, the newly-recruited staffs, and strong action against undesirable as regards debt settlement. The a noticeable feature of the past people, the labourers felt that former proposed an annual payment they had protection and many few days has been the very largely have returned to their work, computed at between six and soven increased use to which the Chinese hoping to receive mercy from the million sterling but the Treasury are putting the tramcar service. employees and trusting that refuses to consider anything not everyone realises that it was not There is scarcely a vestige of the the desire of the men to strike. approximating to twenty milions
Unfortunately when thoy year, which it holds France is well prejudice against the trams which
returned, Some found their marked the earlier days of their posillons were taken (of course
able to pay. The French debt to WIB 620 resumption and the cars this morn-that do not matter), but some who Britain on March 31 ing were noticed to be doing ex-returned to their jobs found their million.
pay have been reduced, and their tremely good business.
treatment was different from
a
of the English Press is endeavour-month for weddings. None of the
A boy bathing in the river Won aumi near Norwich has beon bitten Ing to create an impression that the answers which I have road peenis to offer a thoroughly satisfactory French are playing their own game, oxplanation, and consequently on the a kle by a pike. As this He says it is said, inter alia, that feel constrained to suggest that was believed to be the pike's firet
taken. French Consula have been instruct the true reason lies in the fact bite no legal proceedings will be that it is far less troublesome to ed to refrain from farther entertain guests in the summer
I looked into the Opera one dayə solidarity with their colleagues. then at other periods of the year. this past week, and was very glad You can, for instance, turn them. The statement emphasises that loose in your garden and, without to see so many bright, clean faces around mo. We Londoners may French Marines were not sent to exerting yourself in the slightest, not be musical at heart, but, by the foreign Settlement at Shang-afford them untold pleasure by
Jove we do try to behave as if this opportunity to compare your hai because their first duty is to attempts at horticulture adversely we were. On every side of me I defend the French Concession, with their own. Then, too, straw could hear snatches of highbrow The French Navy at Chungking took berries and cream are usually musical talk. There was the Hon procurable fairly cheaply, and Mrs. Ginuand-Ffranch eagerly charge of revictualling British re- those of themasives form ade- discussing with Lady Haver An amazing attack is published fugees on British gunboats at the quate entertainment, provided auther bow many minime went Over the week-end there have what they had before. Others in what is understood to be M. risk of provoking a hostile move you supply enough of them to the half-pint: Lord Binger
Guests will remain happy and earnestly enquiring
"waa "Rigoletto had to forfeit privileges to which
Cailloux's mouthpiece, Erement against the French. A contented for hours masticating they were entitled.
One should understand who to Nouvelle, on Sir Otto Niemeyer, the Canton the French Navy is patroll- strawberries a result which you Parlour game or a People have to ask them- by the arrival of some of General nounced some time ago that August blame and whom to blame. principal Treasury expert-Reutering the river together with British could not hape to achieve at 60-
selves what, if they were in the position of those poor labourera, they could do in case they were threatened right and left. At that BOLSHEVISM IN CHINA. critical moment when one has to choose between life and death. who would prefer the latter? Would not everyone choose the former at any cost? Again, it is not everyone of as has the courage to fight against the agitators.
Since these labourers are will
During the same night an at- tempt was made to force open the British Consulate, but in this in- stance the thieves were disturbed
gang.
been. one or two interesting rumours regarding Canton. It was an-
RHYMES WITHOUT REASON.
A whiskerless fellow named
Brougham Determined one day that
he'd grougham
1.10
the evening and I came away with the fixed conviction that the sESO for National Opers had been firmly established.
whether доп kind of marcaroni; MrMoses MacCohan seeking "enlightenment as to other time of year with bananas or gunboats and the naval and con- stewed prunes. How different in- whether Wagner's Ring" was Wong's guards, who were able to st. was going to mark the formal
sular authorities of both countries dead, from a winter wedding when fifteen or twenty-carat; and the beat you can do is to sit your many couples asking the way to effect the capture of six of the inauguration of a Soviet form of
French
the buffet to study the problem of are keeping close contact.
guests round the drawing room A strong guard has since government so that Canton would
Consuls eleswhere have never re-in a solemn row, and ply them two in a bar. Frequent Inter been placed in the vicinity of the become one of the Union of Soviet Governments. For about a month
ceived other instructions than to with a montonous succession of ruptions to the general flow of hard-boiled egg sandwiches, and this instructive talk came from a Consulate and the Consular re
assume an attitude commanded by leave them to extract such enter person on the stage who would Prior to this date the past there has been a Commission sidence.
BRITISH PUBLIC-DO NOT
the situation in which foreign tainment as they may from tryinsist upon singing, but apart British Consul had removed his form of Government composed of
REALISE DANGER. colonies are placed. M. Martel de-ing to spot which of the "guests" from this there was no other- office to the B.A.T. Building at the seven Commissioners, and it is now
clares that the reproach of breaking is the detective hired to watch the disturbance to the enjoyment of Yee Fa Tong (foreign residential stated that that Government has de-
Mr. J. L. Garvin, editor of the solidarity comes from the same sec-presonte... yuarter) and he also resided there. finitely elected to become one of ing to return (they oven still con- {
August ist. was the sider there is a certain amount of Observer (London), in his weekly tion of the Press which recently The students, who have been the Union.
risk to take at present) therefore, political notes on June 27th, says: stated that the Minister, by active demonstrating more or less ever date given for the formal declara- employees who have merciful "What has now been concentrat participation in negotiations, was since the trouble broke out, re- tion, and there have been rumours hearts should pardon those who ed into an anti-British agitation unjustifiably interfering with a caso
cipally concerned. cently seized some hundreds of in Hongkong that the Kwangtung really did the wrong and give seethes from end to end of China. in which British interests were prin- cases of A.P.C. kerosene oil from Electric Light Works, which sup-them back the privileges and pay There has been fighting at Canton. Chinese dealers and, in order to plies the City of Canton as well as as before, so that the labourers Hongkong la like a place in a state "For the sake of solidarity as cer- tain people understand it, shall we raise funds, have advertised that Shamcen with electricity, have been may feel the generosity of Hong of siege. The Bolshevist instigators this oil is now for sale at $5 per seized and put under direct govern-kong employers. Everyone has of the strikes, boycotting, and riots set the French Concession at
Shanghai afire?-Reuter. Whether this is a heart, and all feel grateful for are aiming an open challenge at tin (small coins). In face of the ment control. boycott against British goods this true and whether it will mean the the mercies extended to them. British authority." scems a rather peculiar and in cutting off of light from the Sha- There is a saying which we hear consistent procedure.
meen remains for later news to re- almost every day:If you for are concerned it is an unproclaim- The general boycott is, however, yeal. News brought down by mail give others their trespasses, youred war which they would like to THE MOROCCO WAR. found in still being strictly observed. Aby H.M.S. Tung On, which came Heavenly Father will forgive poster has recently been display into Hongkong yesterday, is to the your trespasses,"
Thanking you in advance for ed on the B.A.T. buildinga appeal effect that all is quiet.
inserting this latter. ing to all true Chinese patriots not have been some new import and
Yours etc., to purchase either British or export regulations published by the
A SYMPATHIZER. Japanese goodн.
Canton Government, but the exact Hongkong, August 1st, 1925. General Wong Shiu-hung is now nature of these is not yet known at Nanning in consultation with
There is still no normai here. Generdi Li Chung-yan on the ques-communication between the Sha- tion of the reorganisation of the
meen and the City. Provincial Government.
A BAD RECORD.
MOTOR CYCLIST HEAVILY FINED.
There
strict picketing of the exits, quite
ANTI-BRITISH CIRCULAR.
So far as they
He concludes:
SPANISH COLUMN ROUTS ENEMY CONCENTRATION.
Madrid, Aug. 2,
A communique says that
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But slae and alack! One was red, one was black, And in public he's frightened
to shougham.
Twenty sovereigns have been the stomach of a crocodile shot near Assouan. It's this selfish kind of hoarding that's preventing a universal re- tura to gold currency.
*
"Should Lawyers Lie?” has been the subject of a debate sta recent congreas of French
barristers. This question doesn't Beem to need debate. Why on
change into something worse. The convinced belief of the extremists in Moscow is that Britain and the British Empiro
chief are the obstacles to the world-revolution. They will shrink from no mischief
The coming week will use the earth shouldn't the poor, lawyers they can commit in the endeavour to undermine the position of this Spanish column routed an enemy opening of the coarse fishing sas-enjoy the same business facilities country in Asia.
particularly devoted. Few people The shrewder concentration between Bulharil 800, & pastime to which I am as other people?
My poetical experiment of last men in Moscow like Krassin know and Tauriat, after brisk fighting. are aware that during my last The Spanish casualties were year at Cambridge I earned the that this conception of foreign
measure of acceptance I have policy is as deluded as the original fifty, mostly natives. The security coveted distinction of becoming week having met with so wide a economic visions of the Bolshevist of the lines of communication in Benior Angler, and
for your instruction further speci. madness in Russia. But the spirit the western sector is now assured. since those distant days fishing very kindly undertaken to write
has formed my staple amusement. of Zinovieff dominates, and it may-Router.
My study walls are covered with mens of a similar character. This force matters before long to a very
the trophies I have from time to week's poem, then reflects my idea of how Longfellow would ugly issue.
time wrasted from the waters have written Browning's "The The minnow I caught in one year's at the Spring" of the fountain-basing in Tra- falgar Square (1895) röposen in ite
ALLEGED GERMAN
OBSTRUCTIONISM.
A DENIED REPORT.
Paris, Aug. 2,
that, ever
fined $100 following convictions and shipping, as it is becoming | Russ, hated the strike like poison conciliatory statesmanship must be The Ministry of War denies the/captured after a three-hours'
Under the spreading goose-
*barry-bush
The snail is on a thorn-.. A tiny baby gasteropod
That can't have long been
born;
And reference to my Ingersoll
Assures me it is morn. With feathers crisp and black
t and long, th
The lark is on the wing-- A curious phenomenon
When the year's just at the
aprioghal While pearls of daw, are on
the bill
A well-known local business man, with whom a Telegraph represen- tative chatted over the week-end;
SERVED AS PASSPORT. IN said that the trade situation was
CHINESE TERRITORY. undoubtedly becoming a little! casier. It was true that there was Before Mr. 8. B. B. McElderry, practically no cargoes moving up at the Central Magistracy this
"We see no sign oven yet that into Canton, but there had been morning, a "Chinese named. Les some small arrivals of exports and Hang-chung was charged with the magnitude and gravity of the
No! Caught driving a motor-cycle on there was a growing inclination being in possession of a seditious Chinese question are in the least the Shaukiwan Road yesterday, among the seamen to get boats un-oircular. Sub-Inspector Shannon realised by public opinion.
question for years has required." In spite of the prosecuted. despite the fact that his driving der way again,
After formal evidence had been more discriminating thought or licence was recently suspended
The movement, for two years, Chung Chat-san a number of seamen had managed to given for the prosecution, Mr. C. cooler hardling. (20), was charged at the Central reach Hongkong from Carton and A. S. Russ, who defended, stated though exploited by Moscow, 1s The Petit Parisien's Berlin cor- President of the Magistracy this morning with shippers knew that there was plenty that dofondant was a broker to itself not, in the least Bolshevist respondent states that General driving without a licence and was of cargo from Chinese merchants Chinese merchant who was at A Chinese Nationalist movement Walch, the
awaiting any departing steamer. one time a client of Mr. Ruse, and smouldering for years has burst Allied Military Control Commis- fined $250.
Inspector
Alexander, trame It is possible that the coming week for that reason he (Mr. Russ) could into flames. Our existing interests sion, has left Borlin, having re- assure his Worship as to defend-must be defended against violence signed owing to obstructionism officer, said that defendant had a will witness a rather substantial ant's position. The Chinese mer to the Inst. But at the same time by German delegates.Reuter glass case between the tadpole I vary bad record. Recently, he was increase in the movement of trade chants of Hongkong, said Mr.
a great work of constructive and
the Serpentine struggle in on several charges including that more and more obvious that all and would naturally do all undertaken. Sooner or later the Petit Parisien's report that Gen. (1897) and the skelton of a of driving in a reckless manner is not well with the strikers up in they could to stop it. In
cat which I draw from the bosom of the Regent Canal (1901). On and that of falling to report an Canton. Lots have already got this case, the defendant had Powers, with America at their head, Walch. has resigned.-Reuter. accident in which he was involved. back here and more are expected.
been to Kongmoon, and the cir-will have to meet China half way.
my mantelpiece resta, a boot cular served as a sort of passport The present treaty arrangements in Chinese territory, without are utterly out of date.
was trying to jump the weir at Molesey; while on the shelf above which he would have been unablo could be more ruinous to our com- to return to Hongkong. It was, mercial interests than that this
are displayed my very ine and as a reading of it showed, very country of all others should even
uaique collection of rusty kettles appear to stand in a position of anti-British.
and disused saucepans, which are His Worship fined the defen- peculiar antagonism to the Chinose
the envy of overy brother of the dant $85.
people. We ought to promote by every means in our power the pro-
A soientific expeditionis. fect of an International Conference
leaving Holland on October 31st FRENCH IN SYRIA. SOUTH AMERICAN at Peking or Shanghai..We ought aboard the Rotterdam-Lloyd to show meanwhile, and beyond all liner Insulinde for the Dutch PLEBISCITE.
doubt, that it is our genuine desire, Indies for the purpose of observ Bantiago de Chile, Aug. 2.7 as it is our true interest, to relieve ing the total eclipse of the sun,, The Swiss Consul for South The plebiscite commission.com China from unreasonable and which will be visible at
General Serrall is in full agrees, ment with the British, who have Fining defendant $250, Mr. Mc-Ching, at prosent in Hongkong, sisting of a Chilian and a Poro obsolete foreign restrictions and to Palangbetoetoo, Sumatra, Elderry, before whom the case gathored around him at noca vian delegato, headed by General help all we can towards the restora- January 14th was heard, warned him that ona^out a dozen of bis countrymen,!
Pershing, has arrived at Arlos, to Hon of a more united Government. It will include Doctors further conviction, he would be when toasts were drunk to the preside over the plebiscita over the That we are prepared to go at Vanderbilt and Fannekeek, who A morsage from Beirut saya arranged to repel; by means of sent to prison. An endorsement Old Folks at Hongkong" and disputed territory botwood Chile east as far in this sense as any are the astronomers, of Utrecht that the French operations at armoured cars, y murkont to that effect was placed on the the further prosperity of the and Peru, as arranged last March other Power whatever, ought to be and Amsterdam Universities, re Jobel Druse, in Syria, are describe penetrating Trans-Jozdania
Router's American Service,
dia spectively, Reuter,
On the present occasion defendant was observed driving a motor- cycle combination with one pas- senger In the sidecar and an other on the pillion seat.
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SWISS REPUBLIC.
A HONGKONG GATHERING.
Defendant mentioned that his driving licence had been suspend- ed and said that he was therefore
Saturday was the 634th in- anxious to sell his minchine,
niversary of the establishment of With that in view, he was taking the Swiss Republic. Very at- out a prospective purchaser. He
tractivo badges of the occasion experienced - carburettor trouble and had only been driving were sent from the Home country for a few minutes after putting it to Swiss citizens all over the right, A
had
defendant's record.
world, including Hongkong.
country.
made plain without delay
Nothing DUTCH EXPEDITION. which I caught last year as it
TO OBSERVE SUN'S EOLIPSE
Amsterdam, Aug 2.
on
OPERATIONS AGAINST
INSURGENTS,
Paris, Aug, 2
od as satisfactory. For instance,
A most unusual thing, Snailing larking-pearling,
Onward through life they go, Starting pack more at bevon":
0.139.
With measures best and slow. And in the whole wide world
there's naught
Amias, I'd have you know,
sighteën: insurgents were killed: by an aorial bomb in operations which were a sequel to agitation on July 20th near Bonetda, when French column bivousöking was attacked.