"SAVE YOUR BY83 F2)M
SUN GLARE!
the best protection for the tropios is the tinted-SIR WILLIAM CROOKES LENS
We have the GENUINE lonsos and can make them up. without optioal power or to your own prescription.
LAZARUS
The only Earopena Optiolag In the Colony..
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
UNDED 1861
No. 21,850
四拜禮號十二月八英港香"THURSDAY,
IRONY
OF FATE.
MAH-JONGG PARTY INTERRUPTED.
יך
ECHO OF YUE YING WA CONSTABLE TRIES TO EXTORT
'MYSTERY.
HEIR TO FORTUNE ? Arising out of the feared loss
MONEY.
AUGUST 20, 1925. 日二初月七
STUDENT AGITATORS. A CANTON "RED" ANTI-BRITISH MENACE.
A WIDESPREAD EVIL.
In his speech at the annual din- ner of the Central Asian Society In London, Lord Birkenhead said that throughout the world the prin- A Yunnanese General, a high elpal enemies of the British nation
Sent to Prison.
ALLEGATION AGAINST UKRANIAN. '.
PASSPORT CHARGE.
A case of great interest to the
WHY WAIT FOR OUTSIDE ASSISTANCE?
We have received the following letter for publication:--
Sir, The letter from the Hon. Mr. Holyoak in to-day's issue of your paper tells the public plainly.
going to act in the Canton matter unless and until other Powers join in the movement. One can under-
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BIG ARMS HAUL,
SEIZURE ON BENVRACKI
Two Men at Criminal Sessions.
A fireman, on board the Ben! steamer Benvracki, showing keen- Interest in two bags in one of the upper bunkers, was surprised on
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CANTON'S ACT.
SHIPPING EMBARGO
RESENTED.
ADMIRAL'S VISIT.
London, Aug, 19. Reuter's correspondent at Hong.
of the 8.8. Yub Ying Wa, a very civil dignitury, a merchant, and a wore the student classes." There public of Hongkong at the pr that the Home Government is not June 21st by the appearance of Kong cables that Vice-Admiral Sin-
1.
interesting story, tragic perhaps man who describes himself
in the telling, now comes to light "Clerk to the Yunnanese Com- concerning Mr. Mackintosh, hermand," made up the four hands in Chief Officer.
a mah-jongg party at the Great Although we have been unable Eastern Hotel, yesterday and they
its to trace the information, to
were well absorbed in the game original source, we understand, on when an interruption came from reliable authority, that had the the direction of the door. 15 vessel arrived here at due date,'
Mr. Mackintosh would have been the recipient of glad tidings.
It would appear that Mr: Mackintosh has been out of touch
with, his brother in Scotland for the last thirtyyears, but the brother knowing that Mr. Mackintosh was In the Far East, recently communi- ented with Hongkong asking for news as to his brother's where abouts, mentioning that they had become co-heirs, to a "considerable 'fortune. This letter from Home; was received just after the Yus
A man who suddenly entered said that he wanted money for the relief left stranded in the Colony, and he demanded Sio from each of the players.
of certain Northerners who were
is unmistakeable and conclusive sent' juncture came up for hearing evidence to prove the correctness before Mr. S. B. B. McElderry, at of this observation, Wherever the Central Magistracy this morn- there has been agitation, against ing, when Joseph L. Tiplitehi, who the British, It has been found that described. himself as a Rumanian young men, very often mere boys, subject, was charged under the have been employed as convenient passport regulations, with not tools by designing men for the having a proper.passport, achievement of their nefurious
aims. One of the most distressing charge from the dock, stated that features of the Indian situation he possessed a document answer to-day is the attitude of misguided ing the purpose of a passport. youths, made to throw in their let This had been examined by the with rapid political agitators who police authorities, and found to are heading for disaster.. It is bear the endorsement of the now well known that the bulk of French Consul at Shameen to the the Bengal revolutionaries are effect that the document had been students whose minds, saturated, "seen."
administered severe. lessons to
Revenue Officers,
He was challenged and
to the Canton
elair has left for Canton aboard he H.M.S. Petersfold,
It is learned in London In this stand the hesitation in a matter dropped one of the bags, pushed the where wide interests of an interna-officer aside and made a dash to connection that the visit la u
Warning was given and doubtedly due tional character are involved, but escape.
the man was subsequently arrested Government's embargo on British it is patent that the attack on British interest in South China is in another part of the vessel, which shipping. Admiral Sinclair has not The prisoner, replying to the directed from the Communistie was at that time alongside No. 3been specifically instructed to make representations to the Chinese headquarters a few miles away wharf at Kowloon. from us, and it is now a question Investigation in a lower bunker authorities, but as Commander-in- pointed out in a leader recently. directly affecting Britain-as you revealed another man endeavouring Chief of the China Station he will Therefore there is no reason why to conceal himself on top of a heap take such immediate steps to pro we should wait for help from others. of coals and just underneath the tect British shipping as he thinks We have previously stepped in and manhole communicating with the fit, without; first consulting the
British Government-Reuter.. those who have tried the pastime of bunker above.
The two sacks in the upper Expected to Return, twisting the British lion's tail, and we can do it again, without worry bunker were found to contain tep
A Telegraph representative, who ing about anybody else, squatters Mauser pistols and two Lager called on the local naval authorities with fantastic ideas, are so prévert- Prosecuting in
on fences or others. In this case, ed. as to be incapable of dis-Acting Captain Superintendent of I think it very likely that Japan will pistols, 1,000 rounds of ammunition to-day, received confirmation of the criminating between right and Police (Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, come in before long. But, we are fitting the pistols, and 1,800 rounds above Reuter's telegram that the ammunition. Admiral went to Canton yesterday, The wanton and dastardly C. I. E.), said the defendant; who the most menaced, and we' cannot
afford to wait until others, less of French pistol
In the lower bunker were found crimes committed in the name of was born in Ukranian territory affected, combine with us, patriotism by these youthful moral which had since passed under
It is known that the local Govern- three more bags and these contained it being added that it was expected the Home authorities pointing out rounds of Mauser ammunition, and
ammunition. petuousity and their unreasoning subsequent to the late war, was but they are more concerned at the
avoiding "complications," magic word which covers ordinary powers, he declared, and for the welfare of India.
It was stated at the Police Court this morning when the case came up for investigation, that the Yun- nanese carefully looked over the int truder, and Insisted on his produc- ing his credentials before they would consider his demand.
He produced a police whistle, and a wooden seal, with his number
wrong.
person,
the
Ying Wa had left on her last trip inscribed on it, to prove that he degenerates show how fur they the control of Rumania as a re- ment has made representations to twenty-two French pistols, 1,000 he would return to-day. for Hoihow, and a reply was im was a policeman in the Hongkong have forgotten the elementary prin-sult of the dispositions of lands how serious the position here is, 1,692 rounds of 7 mill, revolver]
mediately sent stating that Mr. Mackintosh was still hale
the British Government," he was at ciple of right conduct in their im- pains to add.
Police Force.
"In the employ of
and
the
hearty but was "away from ̧. Colony in his capacity as Chief
'Officer of the steamer.
seen
adrift
At the Criminal Sessions to-day,
He was possessed of extra-hatred of those who have worked known to have been very actively London centres of government with the ease came before Mr. Justica
that
concerned in "Red" activities in
a
ing, and forms an excuse for & con-
if they did not yield he would riaffairs in China is "directly at. /Canton. The authorities here had multitude of instances of blunder- up headquarters by telephone and bring down policemen.
dis
we want to do here is to wake the
doing the very serious harm.
Wood for trial.
STEAMER DISASTER.
HUGE DEATH. ROLL.
Newport, August 19. The death roll in the excursion
The case of the second man, Chol The present deplorable state of tributed to the agitation of irres-received certain information con-
Sui, was taken first, and Mr. T By the irony of fate it was but
The case for the prosecution was students who, coming cerning him, in consequence of tinued laissez faire policy. What Addis appeared on his behalf. a few days later that the distress-
His audience was reluctant, still possible
under the sinister influence of a ing story came through of life- unconvinced and showed no
position to give in, and he went foreign Power that stands dis- which a watch had been kept in nathorities at Home to a realisation conducted by Mr. T. S. Whyte-steamier disaster is hourly growing
of the initial discovery, said that It boats having been
out of the room with the ostensible credited in the eyes of the world.the Colony and defendant..was of the harm that this policy. fe/Smith who, after giving the facts At present over thirty are dead and and their feared connection, with | object of carrying out his threat.
have deluded themselves into the arrested after two days" search.opens too much to expect an: the prisoner was found crouching the condition of an equal number of Returning, an hour later, he be-belief that their present ills would He was identified by a French-other Dr. Jamieson to lead a raid on top of a heap of coals. the Yue Ying Wa.
came desperate to the extent of vanish if they rid their country of lowering his figure. A few dollars those very Powers who have guard-man, who had seen him actively over the Kowloon border and preci- would be a bargain, he explained, ed their interests against the covet-directing labour pickets during pitate matters! But we can send auch a strong public protest to the ous designs of those who even now the Shameen servants' trouble of timid men in Whitehalf, etc., that and payment of would be a means
are eagerly waiting. to overrun a of saving their face.
last year, and since then had possibly a better perspective of the been closely associated with the position out here will be obtained.
Therefore let everyone British Bolshevik movement in Canton. attend the indignation meeting at
POLICE PATROL'S ESCAPE.
A seeming willingness to fail in with his demands was utilised as a cover for prompt action on SERIOUS ACCIDENT AVERTED.the part of the Manager of the Hotel. He sent 'for a policeman
of mobile patrols detailed for search
work in respect of the motor buses
and taxis plying at night on the mainland. The men were return
ing in a car belonging, to the
Railway Department, when, on a
stiff slope just before the junction
of Laichikok Road with Taipo Rond,
the driver had occasion to dlm his
benighted country and exploit it for their own advantage.
British Patience.
0
Buch
The scalded persons is very grave. Crown's case would be that Rhode Island officials have prom although the present prisoner was
dot holding the ammunition as the mised a stern enquiry in view of first prisoner was, he was assisting reports that the boilers were leak-
the upper bunker and was equally
Many passengers on the dec's ow the fireman to holst the bags into ing and had been patched up. culpable.
their lives to the fact that they leaps When charged the prisoner de-overboard at the first warning hisa Few of those in
COAL CRISIS.
[An earlier message reported that
WAR DEBTS.
FRENCH DESIRE FOR AGREEMENT.
The remarkable patience exhibit. The passport charge, Mr. Wode- the Theatre Royal next week, and clared "these things have nothing from the boilers. Members of a police patrol hail and the intimidator was arresteded by British in the face of a most house continued, was simply being everyone also who would rather to do with me. The No. 1 Fireman the cabins or engine room survived
see British influence, and all that carried them for some way and he to tell of their experiences.
Reuters American Service. a narrow escape from serious before he could escape from the provoking series of hostile acts by used as a weapon to rid the Colony it stands for in the way of justice, asked me to help him."
The defendant may have thought, injuries when the car in which they room.
the Chinese has, although misinter of a very undesirable character, equity and prosperity, instead of
cross between Russian, Bol- said Mr. Whyte-Smith, that this were proceeding along the Laichi- The prisoner, who is one of the preted in some quarters, evoked and on this charge they were en- kok Road last night shot over an Welhaiwei contingent in the the admiration of those who know titled to proceed under the regula-shevism and Chinese brigandags. was an exculpating statement but more than a score were killed and embankment on one side of the road. Force, was charged before Mr. what is really wrong with China. tions requiring that persons en- Perhaps, the latest manifesto from he would submit that it was the nearly 80 injured through a boiler A telephone pole stayed further S. B. B. McElderry at the Central The young party in China have tering the Colony must possess a Canton about our shipping will reverse. If the jury found on the explosion on a pleasure steamer.]
one duly stir the gentlemen in charge of evidence that the prisoner before descent of the car, and wedged it Magistracy this morning with beep chafing for a long time under proper passport, and against the embankment at the very misconduct and demanding money the disabilities placed on them by visaed in accordance with all re-affairs of States to a proper. grasp them was assisting the fireman, of the situation. But we can also then he must be deemed to have brink of a twenty-foot drop.".. byunlawful means: Prisoner the confusion caused by the antics|quirements.
His Worship asked if these help things on: or in any case had control over the arms according The party was one of a number gave fresh interest to the case of rival generals who have been
Arms and Ammunition not register, for future generations to the when he said that he knew one of striving for the overlordship of the passport regulations had his accusers. Last year this man country. This 'young party', com-been somewhat, relaxed under a note, our protest against the Ordinance.
policy which allows things to Case proceeding. recruited him for service in the posed chiefly of students, have gazetted proclamation last year:
After a brief absence from the slide. Until Canton is rid of the The case against the first prisoner Yunnanese Army in Canton, and been carefully handled by the when that army was defeated he Bolsheviks whose pernicious doc-Court to look up this point the present element in control, pro- will be taken this afternoon.
The C. S. P. returned to any that there perly credited men placed at the. led to Hongkong to join up with trines they have imbibed. the Hongkong Police Force. He anti-foreign feeling which was was in existence an arrangement, head of affairs, and the adininis-
up to first directed against all which might be described as a tration controlled was still owed several months' at military pay. It was with the Powers with an equal Intensity friendly one, between the British time as the forces of occupation lights. Through some cause which object of getting this overdue pay Auddenly
concentrated and Japanese Governments and can evacuate the city, there will is not yet clear, the driver lost that he called at the Great Eastern against the British, thus proving between the British and French bo no peace in this part of the control of the car and it swerved Hotel to interview his late officer. beyond any doubt the identity of Governments under which their world, and, for us especially, a over to the side.
respective subjects might enter constantly growing peril.--Yours, Fortunately, In reply to the Magistrate, Mr. those behind the scenes. further progress was stopped by a J. Kerr, A, S. P., said that he had In Egypt, Turkey and Persia too, territories under their respective etc., telephone pole, and the car was heard that the defendant was with similar anti-British outbursts have jurisdictions without being
A delegate conference of the must get together and preserva passports firmly held against the embank- the Army in Canton before he taken place from time to time, inquired to have their
Miners' Federation, held in London, harmony between our countries for on arrival. Such ment. The only occupant injured joined the Hongkong Police Force every instance students taking a yisaed
has agreed with the Executive's the world's good."-Reuter. was Sergeant Clark, who was in last year.
prominent part. The reason why arrangement did not apply to charge of the patrol, He received The Magistrate remarked that students take so readily to agita-Rumania from which country the was of such a character as to view that, despite the Government's Belgium's "Fair Play" Agreement alight injuries to his face.. defendant had no right as a police tion of any form or kind is not far defendant claimed to have come. lead them to keep a sharp look refusal to accede to the Executive's
Brussels, Aug. 19. - officer to demand money from
to seek. In the hands of grown-up] The certificate of nationality out for him and he was event-request for the representation of the miners on the Commission of
The Finance Minister in an other people, and he sentenced the men with perverted morals, the which the defendant
ally taken into custody after two Enquiry, the Federation should
interview. described the Beigo defendant to two months' hard minds of young men are like clay serve the purpose of a passport days' search. The defendant had
participate in the enquiry. American debt settlement as "a in the hands of the potter. They was written in the Rumanian made a statement, but this was
Accordingly the Conference not on path, the C. S. P. explain instructed the Executive to present Belgium would make every effort to fair play agreement” which could be moulded into any shape language. It bore no visaed. and the impression made off them Defendant stated that he had
His Worship to the defendant: Do you know anyone in the the Miners' case to the Commission: full. The annual charge to the Colony who can speak as to your good character?
INDIAN WOMEN- GET FRANCHISE.
Calcutta, August 19. The Bengal Legislative Council has granted the franchise to women. ---Routor,
labour.
POLAR FLIGHT ABANDONED.
SNOWSTORMS HAMPER
became
re-
· ACTION RIGHT.
Hongkong, August 19th., 1925.
ал
used to
་་་
MINERS' CONFERENCE ON “ENQUIRY,
~Reuter."
London, Aug. 19.
ANOTHER 'QUAKE,
remains indelible and exercises a had a proper passport, which he strong influence on their lives. The lost whilst serving as one of the responsibility of those who delibera-crew of the Empress of Asia.
Defendant declared that he had tely mislead the young in great. His Worship: Dld you roport
quite a number of friends here, and Socrates had to go to his death this to the police on arrival? PROJECT.
draining a cup of hemlock on a Defendant: I reported, to the was allowed a remand of two days. charge that he had corrupted the Second Engineer of the Empress in which to locate them. Washington, August 19. youth of the country. We will not of Asia;
His Worship explained that do INSTRUMENTS DAMAGED. Mr. Wodehouse: He did not fendant was convicted on the Lt. Com. Donald B. MacMillan hero concern ourselves with the
Faonza, Aug. 19. An accident occurred in Caa- has abandoned his project to fly question whether that charge was report to the Police as he should charge of not having a proper pass-
Bendandi Observatory has re- naught Road' yesterday, when a motor lorry came into opilision over the Polar Son, owing to the justified or not, we mention it only have done had he lost the passport, but it was reasonable to give
Chim an opportunity to find persons gistered a very violont earthquake with a rickeha which was being unfeasibility of establishing an to show how the Greeks regarded port.
an offence which is to-day being Mr. Wodehouse, again referring who could speak as to his good at a distance of six thousand miles, lasting four hours. The vibrations pulled along on the wrong side of advance base, due to snowstorms..
Other explorations are planned perpetrated In many countries by to the defendant's connection with character. the road. No one was injured.
Defendant was accordingly re- broke some Indicators of the The rickebs goolio, absconded im instead-Router's American Ser- men of light and leading with im "Red" activities in Canton, said
selamographReuter. that Information given the police manded in police custody. punity-Rangoon Times.. mediately after the accident.
vice.
Paris, Aug. 19. M. Caillaux, entertained to luncheon by Anglo-American press. men, enld that he was going to England sincerely desiring to reach an agreement on war debts, which WAB particularly important at present, since the fate of civilis- tion depended on an understanding between civilised nations. "Wo
5
with U..S.
country would not appreciably affect the balance of the budget or, the public debt-Reuter
Effect on Exchange,
New York, Aug, 19. The Belgian franc gained eight points overnight as a result of the debt funding agreement-Reuter'a American Service.
To-day's weather forecast: ta "E. or variable winds, moderate fair to showery".