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TO-DAY'S, NEWS FROM CANTON.
news
REDS' POLICY.
The
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THE MAN WHO OWNS
Hongkong Telegraph. V
FOU NORD 1001
No 21.800
HOSPITAL SISTER.
六拜禮
AUGUST 29,
1925.日一十月七
SHIPPING STRIKE.
·號九十二月八英港香 SATURDAY,
WU HON-MIN
AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW.PRESERVING AUSTRALIAN
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PEACE,
COLONY'S FINANCES.
INTERESTING FIGURES FOR MAY.
According to the financial state- ment for the month of May, which is published in the latest Govern ment Gazette, there was a higher
ROBBED BY SNATCHER.
Miss Sutton, a sister at the Peak
The Shameen Incident
Melbourne, Aug. 28." Hospital, was yesterday after-
After a vigorous debate which noon the victim in a daring rob In view of the arrest of Wu lasted two hours, the House of bery. Whilst walking in May Hon-min (Canton's Foreign Min-Representatives, by 35 votos, to 22, permitted Mr. Bruce to intro- The difficulties of communication Road, near Magazine Gap Road,ister) by the Reds, more duce the Bill mentioned earlier, between Canton and Hongkong a Chinese came up from behind usual interest attaches to an in which the Specials are do- expenditure than revenue, with the make it difficult to obtain exact and snatched a handbag, which interview which he accorded to scribed as "Peace Officers." The result that the Colony's credit Attorney General is empowered balance. Was ⚫ reduced from and Chit-man of the actual situation in the she was carrying. The man then Messrs. Weng
to appoint as many as he considers former city. The naval author-made his escape by running down Cheung Li-tok, described as re-necessary for the preservation of $11,972,210 to $11,516,769." "The
presentatives of ties, questioned to-day, state that the hillside.
the Chinese puace throughout Australia actual figures for May
Revenue $1,916,476, Expenditure Students' Association of Japan, they have received no further
$2,871,916. information regarding the fighting.
and an account of which appears Inter advices, received here by
in the Canton Gazette of Monday cable this morning by the Kin Yar Pa, confirm that Honam has not yet fallen to the Reds. The telegram roads -
"Honam and General Li Roak- lum safo.General Loung Hung-kai and Gonimander Young Kam-long are stil! being held."
Wu's Brother Leuves. Wu Ching-sul, who fed to Hong kong, the other" dr as a result of the detention in Canton of his ber, Wu Hon-min, by the Reds,
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has had to move again, this time to Macao, to which place he went this morning. We understand that the Government here is averse to his making the Colony a9, A place of refuge; the result being | that after a brief sojourn of twe days with a doctor friend; he has now to seek another pinee of residence.
In reporting the occurrence to the police, Miss Sutton said there was a small sum in the big, as well as a number of personal articles.
BORDER QUIET.
AN AEROPLANE'S VISIT,
last.
we
we have protested to the British We learn from the police consul at Shameen. First, anthorities that there have been asked the fulfilment of five no further incidents on the border mands and also reprimand in the New Territories later thund the attack on a police station Consul for the firing on reported yesterday,
Yesterday, one of the aerop lanes from H. M. S. Berines flew to the Now Territories and for a time patrolled the border on the
Britial side, but n unusual occurrences were witnessed.
LAWN TENNIS.
Reuter,
Melbourne, Aug, 28.- According to the Herald, de portation proceedings are being taken only against leaders Mr. Walsh and Mr. Johanssen.— Reuter.
were:
SINGLE: COPT IS CENTS. 986 PER ANNUINE
THE DRASON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
33 WONG NEI CHUNK AD. HAPPY VALLEY
Bulls and Inners
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We are authorised to contradict It is not true that a local com. he rumour that future speeches pany is being formed for the moetings purpose of making briquettes at Hongkong mags
in the vicinity of the top Poak will be broadcasted direct to St. from the coal dust to be collected Stephen's.'»
Tram Station. Motor car horns are "supposed
-0.0 to make people get out of the A small dog, in Queen's Road way. They seem to make some Central, risked ita ifo chasing Peak residents get out of bed, “ "a ten cent" piece, which WAS
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dropped, and ran under a moving When one local wag heard that tram. Must have boon. Robert Tuesday's telogram cost over a MacWhirter's Aberdeen terrier. thousand dollars, he exclaimed. "What, à lakh of cents?"
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Just now Mondays are not so bad, because most of us can look forward to a whole week in- which to do nothing.
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May's revenue, this year was over a quarter-of-a-million dollara tess If brevity is the. soul of wit, about things in other parts of the- than that for May last year, where-that telegram was.well above the world.
joko line. Asked what negotiations had
Capetown, Aug. 28.
as the revenue for the first five taken place regarding the Shakee
The position as regards the shooting incident of June 23rd Mi.sermen's strike is more serious months of the year was nearly two Wu Hon-min said. "Three times Meetings of British seamen are million dollars less than for the
being held in favour of a strike corresponding period last year. | year's.
tho unless
are grievances
The falling off was most marked
Lots of motorists drive as if remedied.
If a men kicks you in the eye they were going for the doctor. The seems a prospect that all under the headings of Licences after you slap him on the back, And some of them really don't de-South African ports will be rapid and Internal Revenue (over ons you can bet he's sunburned... the ly affected. The steamship Bal
Sales Castle are hold up.--- Heatur.
(also over one million our fare and une ind i Arandel million dollars down) and Land
Melbourne, Aug. 28.
down). Slight increnses were re- In the House of Representatives:
On the expenditure side there Bruce, noring the second read-corded in other departments, the attitude of the New South was no very outstanding feature, first. Wales Labourite Premier, Mr. Lang. Third, we announced that if they He said the Labourites could stop did not accept our demands, and the trouble among the overseas did not cancel martial law in seamen if they had the courage to Shameen, our Government would tell them that they were being not be responsible for any inci-dragged at the heels of the dents that may happen." Though extremists.
Chinese
people. Second, WD questioned the British Consul as to his purpose in supporting falee reports that state that our Chin-
ese had fired at Shameen
ing of the Police Bill, condemned |
An etiquette book says you may Personally we think it's all eat chicken with your fingers. right to drink coffee out of ɑ- You need to with some of the saucer if you aren't too nervous. Canadian variety, at present in
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the figure for May this year being MacWhirter says it's about but slightly in excess of the figure time some of these whisky mer for May last year. During the chants held a dollar-day sale. first five months of 1925 there had been over one-and-threequarter. Too many Hongkong men who millions more spent than during can't dance, do. the first five months of last year,
The Bill was read the main increase being on Public
KINSEY BROTHERS BEATEN. the American, German and Japan-second time. Reuter.
Brooklines, Aug. 28.
In the National Doubles Cham- pionships, Richards and Williams defeated the Kinsey brothers by A telegram received in Hongkong 6-1, 8-6, 6-2 and thes qualify to
Hawkes at noon yesterday indicated that a meet
#nd Patterson brigade of General Hsu Sung-chi's (Australia) in the final to-morrow.
-Reuter.
forces had begun' to advance on Horam for the purpose of driving out General Li Fook-lum from the island, it being indicated that the! attack was being made from two directione, the western route from Shekwaitong and the eastern route, from Whampoa,
A later message indicated that fighting" actually began on Friday morning, and one report says that General Li's forces have suffered a heavy defeat. This, however, is not yet confirmed.
JURIST'S TERCENTENARY.
ese consuls have tried to mediate, there have been no results."
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Abortive Conferences.
leaders
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A study of our strikers seems Work Extraordinary (about one-to suggest that there may be and-a-quarter millions Increase).
something in the Sumerian theory that nun's ancestry can be traced to sheep.
The story that a box of matches which exploded and burned an editor's hips is probably an oxaggeration. No-one over BAW an editor with matches.
Monday used to be wash-day, but nowadays it's the day when parents see if all their children have survived the week-end.
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The Hongkong public's demand. draft mut with no serious cheque in its transfer to London. We only hope it will be duly taken We understand that it isn't true into account. that the Bolshevik sharing system
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If you've enough money, you can easily get into Hongkong society; otherwise, it's difficult to look bored onough.
Cape Town, Aug. 28.- The rest of the interview is re-
The day has been one of abortive ported in the following manner:
Representative: "How is the conferences to settle the strike. THE YUE YING WAH. Nationalist Government to carry. Both the authorities and the ship-. out its foreign policy?"
ping companies are in a dilemma,
is to be applied to Canton officials' The worst thing about living to Mr. Wa: "Our policy in foreign as there does not appear to be a PRESUMED LOSS OF VESSEL.
squeeze."
a good old age in Hongkong is affairs is very simple. First, to local way of dealing with the
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that is hard to make your credit the Imperialista oppose
and, situation. The strike
Although, as far as can be ascer-
The ratio of teachers to students last. second, to co-operate with those admit that they signed an agree-tained, no official account has been is expected to be largely increa-
O O nations which treat us equally ment in Bagland, and say they did made, it is reliably stated that deaded in the immediate futuro. and support our fight for the abo-so in order to get away to Dominion cattle and pigs were observed lition of the unequal treaties," porta, where they would have the floating in the vicinity of Kwang
Representative: "What is the whip hand and enforce their case. policy of the Nationalist Govern- They add that the only way out is ment in dealing with massacres to pay the old rate until they reach all over China?"
England, and release without a Mr. Wu: "All massacres in stain on their character the two China will be settled directly by men sentenced at Durhan. The tercentenary of the publica-the National Citizens' Conference: The only development in, the tion of Grotius fumous treatise for they are questions concerning situation is that the stewards on on international law, "Do" Jure the whole nation." -. Pacis Ac Belli," has, beon com- Representative: "What are the memorated at Nieuwekirk, where Nationalist Government's plana the jurist is buried. Those present for destroying Militarismu, and the included the Queen Mother, dereorganization of China?”
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Delft, Aug. 28.
the steamer Ballarat have persuaded the steward of the Arundel Castle to join the strike.
Premier Hertzog has cabled to Mr. Havelock Wilson stating that
It is stated that owing to the Hear Schokking, Minister of Mr. Wu: "The plans of the Na-the British seamen are taking unusual conditions prevalling, the Justice, and representatives of the tionalist Government are the plans action on their own volition and vigilance of the strike plekets has Permanent Court of Justice, and laid down by De, Sun Yat-sen are not being Incited by anyone in been released, with the result that a number of League of Nations (1) To awaken the people of South Africa-Reuter. numbers of Hongkong strikers have socletics, including ' British.China to destroy Militarism (2) managed to get away from Canton.
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HELPING POLAND.
To co-operate with nations which treat us equally in overcoming Imperialists."
Representative: "What is the attitude of the Nationalist Govern- ment toward the revision of the unequal treaties proposed by Tuan Chi-Jui?"
re-
OPIUM PROBLEM.
MACAO'S RE-EXPORTS.
Chinese Government.
. . Some recent visitors to one of Chow Wan by the master of the our beaches evidently didn't care 9.a. Hanoi while the vessel was last
a wrap for onlookers. on her way to Hongkong.
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The Hanol arrived in Hongkong on August 22nd and it was then that her master conveyed the in- formation related above.
This would seem to clear up the mystery of the disappearance of the ss. Yue Ying Wah, and it is now presumed that she sank with all hands as the indirect result of the typhoon on August 9th.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
CHINESE CYCLIST KILLED.
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Some girls would sooner help This sooms to be the hottest men to mend their ways than summer since back in 1924, their socks.
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Some of Tuesday's audience recent public utterances, wo seem to be throat were given fitz. But they gave ened with Bolshevism, Com- bim Best. munism, Socialism, and Anar- chism. What about our old friend. The Soviet is to spend a hugo Rheumatism?
sum on bringing the Russian telephone aystem up-to-date. In American tourists spent more other words, putting the "" in than $600,000,000 abroad last year, front of roubles. This figure would be nearly dou
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Two for ico water. the mainland.
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"Time will cure everything," Hau village were both riding on
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Speaking of what is familiarly known as Brokers' Alloy,
An American has built a bun. galow with 25,000 old newspapers. Suppose the cross-word section was used for the kitchen.
Our faith is still Anchored' in the Premier, and we believe thera is a chance of our appeal being Crowned with success--but we wouldn't gamble on it.
married him.
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the outlook still remains far told her I wouldn't hurt a bit. local contemporary states that patient was fined £10 Bet he from promising". We agree that
The Coup Foreshadowed. The action of the ultra-Reds In Canton in arresting those whose allegiance to the cause of Com- munism appeared doubtful seems to
AN AMERICAN LOAN.
6. Geneva, Aug. 28.
the same bicycle down the slope say those who would leave have been foreshadowed - by article whel appeared in the
New York, Aug. 28.
Mr. Wu: "The Kuomintang will This morning's private. sitting on the Taun Wan-Shamsulpo Road, matters to Peking. So would a The Federal Reserve Bank has not protest against Tuan Chi-joi's
of the Advisory Committee on Canton Gazette of Monday last,
near the Kan To Kang village, when good dose of carbolic acid. from which we quote the follow-granted the Bank of Poland, a action in demanding revision of Opium dealt with confidential the one who was pedalling the
illicit machine lost control, causing the Some folk are lucky, right matters connected with ing extracts:
credit of ten million dollars. The the unequal treaties, but will lot
They're always being traffic. The Germun delegate machine to swerve to one side of enough. The nesuesination of Mr. Liao credit is given for one year, 4% him proceed and await the
misunderstood. declared that his Government would the road. The consequence was
口口 Chung-kai indicates that counter-per cent, being charged on the sumsults."
Bachelor motorists should drive restrict the export of drugs to that it overturned, and threw both You can always tell a Bolahe- with particular care. A Brigh revolutionary"Influence is still in actually used.-Reuters. American Representative: "Can the Pre-
China, In agreement with the riders heavily to the ground. Avik but you can't tell him much ton man ran over a girl and sho existence and supported by foreign Service:
liminary Conference be called
Cheung Mel Garage car which pass- Imperialism, and if it is not weed-
Boon?"
The afternoon's public sitting ed the spot a few minutes later Mr. Wu: "It depends upon whe- not be firmly established and the ambitions despite the will of the ther the citizens of China are will-dealt with the situation at Macao, brought the two Injured boys to national revolution will not be ac people, and to precipitate the nning to support it or
where, according to the Portuguese: the Kwong Wah Hospital, but not. The complished speedily. mass meating recently held by the the counter-revolutionists, or origin sibility of leading the people so negligible.
At the great tion into a dangerous position, are Kuomintang will bear the respon delegate, Senhor Ferreira, the con- before arrival one of them had
sumption of opium is relatively succumbed to his injuries. various classes of the people it and cause of the counter-revolu- as to have the Preliminary Con-
Sir Malcolm Delivingne drew was strongly advocated that all tionary influence. Therefore if forence convened as soon as possie
attention to certain inaccuracies in counter-revolutionary - influence those creatures are not overthrown ble.". must be weeded out. But the origin there will be до hope of the
Representative: "Dr. Sun Yat-tho Portuguese report concerning and cause of it is still obscure to counter-revolutionary influence been once decided to create an re-exports of oplum from Macao.
After deciding to hold the annual
· many of our people. Counter-revoluing completely eradicated." Alliance between China, Russia, tionary Influence is apparent to us, but it is difficult for our people perialism" le supporting assassina 1s the Kuomintang taking up this the report will be considered and The suggestion that "foreign Im Germany, Austria, and Turkey. session in January, the Committee adjourned until August 31st, when to perceive its origin or its cause tion movements in Canton is, of matter at present?" which la concealed. The remain-course, & figment of the imagina-
Mr. Wa: "We will continue our approved-Reuter. ing rebel troops together with their tion, whilst the idea of Red con- campaign for the alliance when it truculent commanders in the East trol of Canton being in accordance is advisable." Rivor district and in the South with "the will of the people" is a Representative: "Some members possible, but our party has made region, are the factors which can foolish distortion of the actual of the Kuomintang decided to co no material proposal towards the be pointed out and soon by us. But facts.
Still, the above example operate with the Asiatic oppress- forming of a new International this is only the influence utilized of Red propaganda is not withouted peoples so as to form a new movement.", by the counter-revolutionists, and its interest as showing the absurd International Movement. Can not the counter-revolutionists them attempts being made to hoodwink that be carried out?" selves. Those who wish to snatch the public in regard to what is Mr. Wa: "Co-operation with the power to satisfy their own selfish actually happening,
weaker Aalatke nations is quite
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WEMBLEY'S FUTURE.
the view from either end is not exactly impressive.
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Manya Hongkong woman finds it easy to laugh at her own exponse until the bills come in.
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COMMITTEE APPOINTED. announces that Di Pindo is com- bars for filling stations.
Too many motorists mistaka ing here on a return fight, London, Aug. 28. The Wembley Authorities are The world could bo
This morning the South China appointing immediately a body to much worse. Think of the speed Morning Post referred to the pos examine the question of the of gossips if their tooth were made sibilites of Indiarubber Glass... realisation of the exhibition of rubber and bounced!
While this invention would make bottles safer for democracy, it Tor Sale, case of musical tops" would be a bit annoying when Mr. J. H. Thomas has accepted says a local auction advertise. One punotured one's monocle. the chairmanship of the Wembley mont: If they are the old tops" Realisation Committee which who sometimes break out on local The fear that her husband will deal with the question of the roof gardens, we trust the pur- doesn't understand her seld assets and the future of the chaser will not take them away troubles a woman with a big
from the Colony.
family
The conversation, ended on the arrival of several guests who had come to see Minister, Wu Hon min on important matters:
Samen Exhibition.Reuter.
Lator.
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