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MRS. OTTO KONGSING.
Her many friends in the Colony will receive with genuine regret and sympathy, nows of the death of Mrs. Otto Kongsing, of No. 7, Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, which took place shortly after midday, at the ago of 44 years. The deceased
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1925.
RIOTING STRIKERS SHOT.
FURTHER TROUBLE IN TIENTSIN,
Tientsin, Aug. 12, The Chinese police and military yesterday wore compelled to fire on striking millworkers, wounding eight mostly in the lega
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several years ago, had suffered from heart trouble recently, which was the cause of her deccast.
The late Mrs. Otto Kongsing was well-known and much respect- ed in Kowloon. She has appeared at Kowloon Cricket Club concerts and has delighted audiences with her fine soprano voice, She was twice married, and leaves a son by her first husband, Mr. Eric Jorden, who is employed in the offico of Messrs. Carroll Brothers, in Ice House Street. Her second husband was Mr. Otto Kongsing, who came to Hongkong from Sydney and practised here as a lawyer and who passed away several years ago. Two brothers of the deceased lady! roside in Hongkong, Mr. Oscar R. Benson and Mr. A. E. Benson of the Douglas Steamship Company, and to them and to her son much sympathy will be extended in their bereavement
The Funeral
loved that A settlement had been reached in the strike of the millworkers, and the police were trouble broke out again yesterday, accordingly withdrawn. However, following the efforts of agitators from the native city, who were sent to the mills and the Russian Bund to endeavour to
cause a strike among the workers of the British- American Tobacco, Company, [C.
very reluctant to strike but were Some of the mill workers were. intimidated by strikers armed with sticks and stones.. Strong police guards were sent to the mills, and were later reinforced by a hundred Fengtien soldiers,
Processions Formed.
All the afternoon the strikers formed processions, making throats. Shortly after six o'clock the temper of the crowds became uglier and stones were thrown at the police. Attempts were made to rush the mills, culminating in an attempt to The funeral took place yesterday at the mill outside the Belgian rush the police and military cordon afternoon, there being a large atten- Concession. The guards then fired, dance of friends of the late Mrs. wounding eight. Kongsing. The Rev. G. R. Lindsay witness states that about two hun- A Foreign eye- officiated and there were present, dred shots were fired into the crowd Mr. Erie Jordan, Messrs, O. R. and
which dispersed immediately. The
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A. E. Benson (as chief mourners),tuation is at present quiet. Messrs. W. Goldenberg, F. E. Nash, F. Gourdin, D. D. Urquhart, A. Urquhart, A. W. Ramsey, D. S.
Still Futher Trouble. Green, and others, including killed and wounded and three Tientsin, August 12.—Many were number of the deceased lady's hundred arrested to-day when female friends.”
Floral tributes were sent by there on a very large crowd on the
Chinese guards were compelled to 87, Queen's Road, Central. following: Mother, Brothers and seene of yesterday's shooting. No Sisters, Erie. Bili and Solly, Ad details are at present available.- and Mickie, Tootsie and Connie, Reuter. Charlie, Loo und Doreen, Messrs. A. V. Young, A. Urquhart, D. 0.
WORK TO BE RESUMED,
Rassell, E. G. Woodger, A. C JAPANESE COTTON MILLS. Waller, F. P. Lenfestey, R. M. Alarakia, D. D. Urquhart, G. A. Lawrence, Young Hee, F. E. Nash, Miss Marie Kacker, Miss I Lee, Miss M. Mooney, Miss V. Macken- zie, Mrs. B. Christiansen, Mrs. R.
Shanghai, August 12. The Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. Dand, Mrs. Yada and the Chinese Commis Japanese Consul General, Mr. Braga and Marie, Mr. and Mrs. Fioner of Foreign Affairs, su Gonsalez, Mr. and Mrs. Yuan, on behalf of the millowners Gourdia, and family, Mrs. G. E. and strikera, signed an agreement Warren and family, Mr. and Mrs.at 6.12 this evening, after three E. A. Long, Mrs. Woolley and weeks of negotiations, which pro- family, Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Seyer, vides for the resumption of, work Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Robinson and the Japanese cotton mills, ia- Bonnie, Mr. and Mrs. W. Golden- volving nine companies owning berg, Mr. and Mrs. A. Mackenzie forty factories and employing over Mrs. Ramsey and family, Mr. and 50,000 people. Mrs. S. E. Green, Mr. and Mrs. E.
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W. White and family, Mr. and Mrs. which the riots started in the mid- G. Rapp, Mrs. Abraham and family, dle of May has offered the wound- Mr. A. Lee Yook-quan and family,ed and the relatives of the de- Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. J. R, Carroll and family,
ceased $10,000 which the Japanese Consul General will retain
settled.
the Rev. and Mrs. G. R. Lindsay, until the trouble is completely Mr. and Mrs. Abraham, Mr. and Mrs. J. Olson and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Olson, Mr. and Mrs.
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The Terms. Sanderson Smith, Mr and Mrs. Arstly the mill owners recognise By the terms of the agreement, Gibson, Canadian Section of the j
Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps,ganised according to Labour Union the operatives' unions when or Chinese Department of the
Canadian, Pacific Railway Co., W. laws which the Chinese Govern-
R. Loxley, Wah Cheung,
ment shall promulgate; secondly, Mr. J. E. Featherstone. !
no strike pay will be given, but as the reluctant strikers suffered The death occurred yesterday of through the loss of wages during a well known Canadian resident of long strike the mill owners will Hangkong, whose passing away will compassionately extend reasonable be regretted by very many people help to the workers; thirdly the In the Colony, The deceased is mills will increase wages accord- Mr. J. E. Featherstone who has ing to merit and also investigate. been carrying out the duties here the workers' living conditions and of Canadian Immigration Officer make necessary adjustments after for Hongkong and South China: consulting other mills. The Fourth Mr. Featherstone, who arrived in clause solves the question of pay- Hongkong early in February, 1924, ment in depreciated subsidiary was well known and very well liked coins. The fifth provides that Ja- by a large circle of people. Apanese foremen ordinarily will not native of Ontario he was about 45 be allowed to carry arms, and the years of age and a graduate of the sixth, that the mills will not dis-,
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many years. he had been in the will give due regard to their good services of the Canadian Govern- treatment. The mills with their ment in the Emigration Depurt-own power plant will resume Im- ment and was an expert in all mediately, others after the matters apportaining thereto and a sumption of the bulk of the power valued servant. When it was supply-Reuter. decided to establish an office here, Mr. Featherstone was offered the post and up till the time of the present trouble in China he was closely in touch with Canton and the Chinese hare on matters of emigration.
Mrs. Allis Castro.
We regret to record the death. of Mrs. A. P. Castro, which took. place at the St. Paul's Hospital | shortly before Ave o'clock yester day afternoon.
The aym-
He was a member of the long- kong Club and also took a great second daughter of Professor E. P. The late Mrs. Castro was the interest in sports. Last season he We often to be seen at Happy Danenborg, late of Hongkong, and Valley carrying out the duties of was 25 years of age. umpire in the newly established Pathy of his many friends will be gamo here, baseball..
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hospital at 5 p.m.
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