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RED TACTICS.
MORE ABOUT CANTON DETENTIONS.
PLEAS FOR LIBERTY.
The Reds in Canton are still vigorously pursuing their policy of
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TRADE UNION CONGRESS.
WANLAT TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 8, 1925. 日一十二月七
SEVERE TYPHOON.
二拜禮
AMOY
AWAKE?
"EMPRESS" BOATS DELAYED.
MERCHANTS ATTACK
BIG LABOUR ALLIANCE PLANNED.
SYMPATHY WITH CHINA.
London, Sept. 7.
AGITATORS.
THROWN, INTO" SEA.
INTERFERENCE WITH SCHEDULES.
The typhoon which, on Saturday That merchants In Amoy are was reported to be neng Naha head- Proposals for a gigantic labour beginning to see light and resenting towards Shangh has inter- placing under detention prominent alliance, coupled with shadows the interference and control which fered with the schedules of some are threatening to becloud the relation-emissaries of the Canton "Reds" of the bigger shipping companies, Generals and others who suspected of not being heart and ships of several big industries, attempt to exercise over their according to reports received here
liberties is shown by news to hand to-day. to-day from an occasional corres- pondent.
soul in the cause.
Further reports regarding the détention of General Li Fook-lum have reached Hongkong this; mor ning from a reliable source, these showing that General Li is still
affairs and leaves Canton im- mediately. Genera? Chang, however,
has refused this request. fearing that if General Li is given his freedom he will join the ant-Rest
movement..
Hsu Sung-Chi Held.
promise to provide a momentous session of the Trade Union Con- greas which has opened at Sear- borough,
SOVIET PLANES.
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Present prices of the. "SINGLE-SIX §-pas- senger PACKARD MOTOR CARRIAGES
are as shown below
Touring
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33 WOND NHL-CHINA PEXT.
HAPPY VALLEY
OUR FOOD SUPPLIES. PEKING PARLEY,
GRADUALLY REACHING
"NORMALITY.
KOWLOON PRICE COMPLAINTS.
That the food supply of the
was confirmed by Mr. Ni L. Smith, Colony is all but back to normal
the Food Controller, when seen by a Telegraph representative this morning.
NAMES OF BRITISH 'DELEGATES.
SIX EXPERTS.
TWO EXPECTED, Two Soviet aeroplanes may
London, Sept. 7 Britain will be represented at the shortly arrive in Canton, accord-
Customa Tariff Revision Conference to be held in Péking, by, Sir Ronald ing to advices reaching this Co- "lony from Japan.
It will be remembered that some
Macleay, assisted by Lieut-Gol. ime ago the Russian Government
Sidney Peel, as financial adviser: Mr. Smith said that matters had
Mr. K. D. Stewart, a Director of The Empress of Russia was sent a special aerial squadron con-
now become so normal that he was the Manchester Chamber of Com- originally due to arrive at Shanghai sisting of five aeroplanes to the
no longer receiving daily reports as merce and Hon. Secretary of the During the handling of some from Nagasaki yesterday, but later Far East, but that only two of the
to stock. It was true that the China and Far Eastern Section of Pacific Steamships, Ltd., here stato Moscow to Shanghai, the other wood and also that it was watching of the Foreign Office; Mr. H. H. 'ber of strikers and agitators ap that the liner was caught in the
Mr. Swales, in his, presidential cargo on the Bund recently, a num-messages received by the Canadian machines completed the flight from Government was still selling fire- \ that 'Chamber; Mr. Hasil Nawton,
address, referred to the increasing
urged employers who think that prise of all eye-witnesses threw organised workers can still be them into the sea. One of the further driven back to take warn delinquents was drowned. ing therefrom. He declared that:
Since that incident there have been the demonstration of the solidarity' of the Trade Union movement in fewer attempts to interfere, though connection with · the miners' cargo is still moving very slowly, struggle had given hope to the The Harbour presents a much whole movement, Mr! Swales
The place is very quiet and the authorities have the situation very. well in hand. A number of
four hours late. She leaves Shang-
Amongst other steamers reported
to have been delayed on account of the bad weather is the Blue Funnel 8.8. Perseus, which should have reached Hongkong to-day from the North.
reached.
mence exports was given only on Mr. E. Teichman, Acting Chinese
Who's Who of Delegation.
Ho
tonfined in the Agricultural Ex-seriousness of economie and social peared on the scene and endeavour-typhoon and is not now due to three being disabled on account of the stocks of rice. As regards the Fox, Commercial Counsellor at the..
ed to prevent the coolies from work-arrive at Shanghai until this after- adverse weather conditions. Later, latter, the permission to recomBritish Legation in Peking;" and perimental Station. It is stated conditions during the past year, that General Li has made a request dwelt on the soundness with which The interested merchants, non at three o'clock-over twenty-the successful aviators were invit- to General Chang Kai-shek to set the Trade Union movement had who happened to be on the spot, hai to-night and is dus here one, to Japan, which they safely condition that Hongkong stocks
were maintained and it was the Secretary at the British Legation in him free on condition that he emerged from a period of un-hesitated but little, proceeded to Friday at daylight.
The Empress of Canada, which A report from Kobe, just recei-Government's duty to watch that Peking. Reuter. gives up all interest in military paralleled crisis since 1920, and seize the agitators and to the sur left Hongkong on Friday, should ved in Hongkong, states that Dr,matter,
have reached Shanghai by yester-
The price of pork was still a little- Sir James William Ronald day mid-day, but, encountering a Borodin, of Canton Soviet fame, higher than the pre-strike price, severe storm south of Tongting, was has wired to the aviators asking said Mr. Sraith, but it had to be Macleay, K.C.M.G., has been British delayed and did not reach Woosung them to fly to Canton, for the pur-remembered that the dealers had Minister to China since 1922. until late yesterday afternoon.
possibly also, something in the way She left the latter place at 10 p.m. pose of strengthening the aerial to pay more for their pigs and was educated at Charterhouse and yesterday and is due at Kobe corps there. It is stated that the of "squeeze" to those getting the Oxford and was appolated Attache to-morrow at 6 p.m.
invitation has been accepted and pigs through." There were ample In the Diplomatic Service in 1895
on slaughter. There was a de- that the aeroplanes will shortly ar-stocks and there was no restriction He has served in different capacities
in Washington, crease in the number of pigs being
Copenhagen, rive at Cinton.
killed, this being due to the smaller Brussels, Madrid, Constantinople, population and the lessened demand Belgrade, Mexico and the Foreign for pork. Prices would no doubt
Office. Hé find their own level. There was
represented His the Majesty's Government at also plenty of beef.
Mr. Smith added that there had Second Conference for the Unifica been some complaints regarding tion of Commercial Statistics, and the fact that the prices for beef
WIB appointed Counsellor of and pork in the Kowloon market were higher than the prices being Embassy to H.M. Legation, Peking, He served as Envoy charged on the Hongkong side, in 1914. without any apparent reason for Extraordinary and Minister Plenl
He had already potentiary such difference.
the Argentine interviewed the pork dealers of that Republic. from 1919 to 1922, since market and he was secing the beef when he has been Minister, at At the present moment dealers to-day, and as a consequence Peking. he, anticipated that prices would he is on his way to Peking from. return to their proper level. England where he has been spend-
A number of the workers at the ing a holiday." slaughter houses, who have been Lieut. Col. the Hon. Sidney away since the beginning of the Cornwallia Peel, D.SO., T.D., fa strike, found their way back to the Member of Parliament for the They had Uxbridge Division. He is the Colony "yesterday. succeeded in evading the labour third son of the first Viscount Peol pickets, and reported that lots of and was educated at Eton and other workers were waiting to come Oxford. He served with distinction back when conditions permitted,
News confirming the detention drew attention to the trend towards brisker scene these days says, our of General Hsu Sung-Chi is also to amalgamation shown by the fact enrrespondent, but copidence has
of fifteen per cent. reduction in yet to be fully restored. hand this morning. The report the number of separate Unions in says that all General Hau's letters five years. He demanded, exten- and telegrams are being investigat- sion of trade with Russia, expressed, sympathy with. the workers' ed by General Chang Kai-shek, struggles in India and China and under whose command General regretted that An Hsu's brigade generals Mok Hung, Hsu Chai and Chan Ming-shu have been placed. Russian officers are to replace scne of General Ha Sung-chi's subordinates.
international
front had not yet been secured, though the differences between Amsterdam and Moscow were small. He concluded by declaring that a new phase of development, which was world-wide, had been entered upon, and the next would probably Wu Hon-min's, Position.
be the Inst stage of revolt. With regard to Wo "Hon-min, it appealed to the workers to solidify | is now stated that he is being kept their movements and be prepared under surveitange at the Agricul with the machinery and men for tural Experimental Station. He is the final struggle to destroy wage for from well at present and a | šlavery.
Fe
soldiers have replaced the police on the Bond and outside the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank, and so far they have been functioning exceedingly well,
J.
The ss. Seistan arrived from Amoy yesterday with fourteen tons of general cargo.
INDIAN POLITICS.
SELF-GOVERNMENT URGED BY SWARAJIST.
MOROCCO WAR
AEROPLANES DROP BOMBS,
Madrid, Sept. 7th.
A communique states that the enemy pressure on the western front continues without success, A. Paris message' says sixteen aeroplanes have bombarded Adjir, dropping 1,920 kilos of projectiles on houses in enomy, centres of uctivity.-Reuter.
NO KONGMOON FIGHTING.
RETREAT OF TROOPS.
Despite reports to the contrary, it is now stated that there has been no fighting between the forces of General Liang Hung-kai and the Whampoa Cadets at Kongmoon.
It is said that General Liang's troops retreated into the Sze Yap district before the arrival of the Cadets, for the purpose of consoli- dating their position with the for- BIG ATTACK PENDING. ces of Brigadier General Chak
Paris, Sept. 7.
Hung-kai, the latter of whom hag Simla, Sept. 7. A communique from Fez says been reported to have been as india's fitness to govern herself large bodies of French troops are sassinated, but so far the news of was urged by Motilal Nehru when moving up to appointed soctors his murder has not been confirmed. A further report says that the the Legislative Assembly discussed on the line, and the movement is Sir Muddiman's resolution propos- approaching when a combined "Command of General Liang's for ing the acceptance of the majority Franco-Spanish attack will be ces has now fallen to his brother, THE MACAO BORDER.report of the Reforms Enquiry Com-launched at points selected by Liang Hung-lam.
mittee, in which connection Sir roads are being constructed in High Command. Special Muddiman advised the House to the northern sector permitting follow the Viceroy's advice, urging rapid movement of guns and 'co-operation to solve "one of the military traffic. greatest problems of the humani The French Air Force is carry- race."
STRONGLY PICKETED BY STRIKERS.
the
PRISONER ESCAPES.
German doctor is permitted to Mr. Swales said the General attend him daily. Owing to his Council had started an enquiry into] failing health, it is said that Wu the labour conditions of Eastern Hon-min's wife has pleaded with countries, including China. Wang Ching-wai and General Chang|| Reuter. Kai-shek for her husband's release, offering Wu's aged another 13 hostage for his future conduct and. retirement from political affairs. General Chan, however, was not in any way moved by the wife's plea, intimating that Wa Hon- min's detention was not due to association with the murder of Liao Chung-kai, but to the fact that
ing out a series of attacks on She- ha la the head of the anti-Red
Motilal Nehru moved an amend-shuan. A number af squadrons AT LARGE WITH HANDCUFFS. the Macao- ment whereby the constitution and are now located on the front line, movement. He added that it would not be just to take Wa's aged Kwangtung border, but seemingly, administration should be funda- whence a flight of a fow minutes mother as hostage, and that, accord- this slackness has been due to the mentally changed, declaring, that traverses the enemy positions.
Marshall Potain has arrived at ingly, Wu cannot be given his transition from lukewarm troops Indians looked for a place in the liberty just now. However, as he to ultra-Red forces, and the latest sun for themselves. He strongly Foz-Reuter is an old member of the Kuomin- news from Macao; sent by a cor-jurged that 4 Convention represent- tang and has acted as Generalia-Fespondent, is to the effect that ing all interests should frame a simo of the Government, his life pickets of strikers have been very scheme for the approval of the will be spared.
active again, of late, on the bor- Legislature to be submitted to the ders of Chinese terrritory, pre- British Parliament to be embodied
CANTON AGITATORS.
THE TRAINING OF PROPAGANDISTS.
The strikers are doing their .utmost to oppose Imperialism,
There had recently been some slackening of the vigilance of strike pickets on
MOTOR MISHAPS.
A prisoner from Singapore is now at large in the Colony, hav- ing escaped from the custody of the police escort on arrival here on board the 'Tilawa.
to
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in the South African War and the European War, and was appointed Financial Adviser to the Foreign
COMING ATTRACTION. Office in 1918. He was a member
NOTABLE ARTISTES TO APPEAR.
of the British Delegation to the Peace Conference at Paris in 1919. Mr. Basil C. Newton, is one of the First Secretaries of the Foreign" Office.
Little is known locally of. Mr, A welcome break from the re-K. D. Stewart, who is a Director of cent serious aspect of life in Hongkong will he provided by the the Manchester Chamber of Com- forthcoming season of "The Brand-merce and Hon. Secretary of the
China and Far Eastern section of
Mr. Harry Halton Fox, C.-M. G.,
casters", an excellent Company The man's name is given as Yap under the direction of Walling that body.
ford Tate and Jack Crichton. Al- Chiu-sion, and he is a native of though but four in number, these F. R. G. S., has been Commercial Fukien. Whilst the Tilawa was artistes have won high favour dur Counsellor to the British Legation lying alongside the Kowloon
ing the lust eighteen months dur-at Peking since 1918. He was Wharf yesterday he made a sudden
aignal success in India, Burma, was appointed Student Interpreter handcuffed, A hue and cry was
Conqul at Ichang in 1905, Consul-. of course. Shanghai,
venting as much as possible the in a Statute. He declared that the FORTUNE-TELLER KILLED. dash for liberty, although he wasg which they have appeared with educated at Dulwich College and '
transportation of vegetables to the Portuguese colony. They are
night, along the frontier.
Swarajists were unable to accept Lord Birkenhead's views and said
A motor car, driven by Surgeon- now observed to be on guard all that Indians were kept down for-1Commander Adshead, collided raised, but the man succeeded in F.M.S., Japan, Java, Sumatra, and in China In 1890. He was British
cibly and that unless the Govern- with a tram car at the tram handcuffs still secured to his left
making good his escape, with the At the present time they are General, at Chengtu In 1918, and Our correspondent also statesment showed a change of heart, crossing at Quaury Bay yestor- wrist.
en route to India, where return was officiating as Consul-General at that these plekets have exhibited the Swarajists would not
co-day. In a report which the officer great brutality towards villagers operate.-Reuter
seasons have been requested for Hankow in 1914-16. He was ap subsequently made to the police, who have been detected transport-
the Empire Theatre, Calcutta, and pointed Commercial Attache for The Excelalor Theatre, Bombay. Chins in 1917 and since 1918 has It is a tribute to their entertain been Commercial Counsellor, He ing their produce to Macao." A
ing abilities that neither of these holds the Coronation Medal of 1911. few of the Chinese peasants, how
well known theatres had previous- Mr. Eric Teichman, C. I. E., has.
aays the Canton Gazette. Pickets ever, still manage, to evade the have been sent to various districts pickets by means of small boats, to prevent breaches of the strike in which they sometimes travel
In addition, the Kuomintang is-long distances.-.
tends to despatch propagandists to
the interior to extend the Anti-Im-!
perialist movement, among
the
DAVIS CUP-
to
peasants. A propaganda school has been specially instituted train propagandists for this purpose.
There are already fifty students graduated; thoy have been separated into ten groups and are despatched to various districts with two members from the Provincial Peasants Association as guides to each group.
Report forms have been given to them to fill up and are to be sub mitted weekly to the Provincial
Peasants Association.
FRANCE ENTERS CHAL LENGE ROUND.
11
CURIOUS FATALITY,
KICKED BY MAD BULL.
A fatal accident, attended by nusual circumstances, occurred at the Dairy Farm premises at Pokfulum caterday.
The various police stations have he stated that damage was done been circularised to keep a look to the hood and one of the mud out for the fugitive. guarda of the car.
A Chinese fortune-teller was
run over by a motor-lorry bolong-
ing to Messrs. A. S. Watson and EXTENSION GRANTED. ly engaged so small a company: been Acting Chinese Secretary at Company, yesterday. The in- juries which the man sustained to his legs proved fatal, and, he died the same evening after being taken to the Government Civil Hospital.
DER A WING APPLICATION.
The return season is therefore all Peking since 1928. He was the more worthy tribute.s educated at Charterhouse and Cam-.
Mies Bella Lucini, one of the bridge, and was appointed a lady members, appeared with suc- Student Interpreter in China in coss with the "Dolly Sistera" in 1907. He was pro- Consul at Tient At the Supreme Court this morn-Paris, and is an artiste of out-ain in 1913 and was attached to ing before Sir Henry Gollan, Mr. standing charm and versatility, the Legation at Peking from 1013 Tao Tsing-tseng, 86, employed Chan Hi; a driver of the Chak T. Addia, instructed by Messrs. Miss Broadhurst, Mr, Wallingford to 1917. He was sent on spécial on the farm, was kicked in the On-Garage, has reported to the Wilkinson and Grist, applied on Tate and Mr. Jack Crichton were service in Kansu Province in 1915. best by a mad bull yesterday, police that his car was damaged behalf of Messra. Der A. Wing, and all original members of the "Globe In Shensi Province in 1917, and on sustaining a number of broken when a tramcar backed into it on Co, (1828), Ltd., for an extension Trotters" who enjoyed a memor special service on the Tibetian New York, Sept. 7. ribs and other injuries, from the Fraya East nour the Bowring of the period for the filing of ahare able geason here. Mr. Crichton frantior in 1917-19. He was Borotra boat Patterson 4/6, 6/4, which he died after being taken ton Canal yesterday.
not injured. 6/1, 6/3. Franco has won the to the Government Civil Hospital interzone final and meets the A report was later received at United States in the challenge Police. Headquarters from the Go-
Sidney Louis Ahern, a stoker round of the Davis Cup Reuter vernment Civil Hospital, stating
Lacoste resigned the final that the case occurred at 2.10 p.m. of HMS Carlisle aged, 25, is singles against Anderson, owing and that the unfortunate man died reported to have been missing to unfavourable weather condi- in the hospital at 9.25 pm.
since the 4th instant. The police tions-Reuter's American Service.
are making enquirios.
He was
Allotments.NO
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will also be remembered as a Taad- assistant Chinese Becretary at the Mr. Addis said that the omissioning member of the Bandman Com Legation in Peking, from 1919-20," to do so at the right time was due, pany, which played here some and was given the local rank of not to any intent to deceive, but to few years ago. of the lawer
cessful visit, end in view of the he was employed at the Foreign inadvertence and misunderstanding Booking already indicates a suc
His Lordship granted an exten-short season, seats should be Office. Hd has written several sion until September 16th,
books of travel.":
secured early.
Second Secretary, in the Diplomatic
Service in 1820. In 1921 and 1922