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SUN GLARE!
the best protection for the tropics is the totod-SIR WILLIAM OROOKES LENS
We have the GENUINE lonsgs and can make them up without optioal power or to your own prescription.
LAZARUS
The oaly European Optician in the Colony.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
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四拜禮
SWATOW CHANGE SHIPPING STRIKE.
"RED" TROOPS, MOVË OUT.
INCIDENT SETTLED That matters are fast coming to a head in Swatos, and that there are likely to be some important deve
ppments there soon, is plainly in news which has dicated by the been received in the Colony during the past 24 hours.
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MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS.
London, Sept. 16. A Duran message says tho steamer Port Curno has returned to port, this crew having mutinod.
-Renter..
HAVING A GOOD TIME.
Cape Town, Sept. 16. Though, two maize steamerg
SEPTEMBER 號七十月九英港香 THURSDAY,
TAXI-DRIVER AWARD.
STRIKE RULES.
LEAVE TO APPEAL GRANTED.
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DIRECTED AT BRITISH TRADE.
17,
1925.日十三月七
FRENCH DEBTS..
BRITAIN'S OFFER
ACCEPTED.
SINGLE: COPY' 18 CENTS 136 PER ANNCH
TWENTY-ONE GAMBLERS.
Packard
POLICE RAID A DEN..
At the Central Police Court to-day,
TO PAY £12,500,000 ANNUALLY. the ordinary routine was brighten- ed by the inclusion of a case of gambling, in which no fewer than twenty-one Chinese were charged with playing pai-kiau at
The
London Sept. 16. fact that the French
Government has agreed to accept £12,500,000 as her annual' obliga.
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an
hour
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"ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE"
THE DRABON MOTOR
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* WOND NOT CHUN 19, HAMMY VALERY
CANTON TRADE.
MEETING OF FOREIGN CONSULS.
PROBLEM DISCUSSED In view of the solution passed by the Strike Committee concerning
the continuance of the strike and
offices 'in'
STATUTE OF FRAUDS.
That the taxi-driver could not
UNION'S CLAIMS, recover damages on an agreement
The following rules regulatinis which was unforceable, because there was no
written contract the engagement of employees by which would satisfy the Statute of foreign shipowners, merchants and have sailed, and the Dutch vessel Frauds, was the basis of an applica, traders at Canton were published tion to Britain was divulged by when other peaceful citizens were the boycott of British goods only,
in bed.
and the intimation that generous Rietfontein is taking rails and tion made in the Supreme Court on the 14th inst., and put into Mr. Winston Churchill in
The story of the prosecution, treatment will be accorded foreign' gold bullion from the Rand, the
speech at Birmingham, though! strike situation
this morning before the Full Court immediate effect:- is worsening.
1. In the case of foreign ship he said the agreement was subject conducted by Detective-Sergeant merchants other than British, as There are now two thousand sea- (Sir Henry Gollan and Mr. Justice
merchants and traders to further discussion of points, O'Donovan, was to the effect that reported by us some days ago, we We are informed by the "Naval mon ashore in South Afrien, hun- Wood) for leave to appeal against, owners,
dreds enjoying the beautifil eò-
desiring to engage employees it is some of which were of consider in a police raid executed at 10 are informed that merchants who
o'clock last night a crowd of gain have their business quthorities that they are in receipt vironment of Table Mountain, and a judgment of the Puisne Judge.
The caso
was one in which decided that if application is notable importance.-Renter. of message from Swatow this playing football and cricko. The
local Labourities are publicly ap-judgment was given against the made through the medium of the [In the recent negotiations, it blers were surprised in the second shameen have Interviewed their morning which states that the Can-pealing for more playing outfits.
Consula 43 to the The school was in The fruit congestion the Hongkong and Kowloon Taxi-Cab Strike Committee, or If the terms was shown that France proposed floor of a house in Bowrington respective tonese forces (the "Red" troops
advisability of removing their docks is very serious. The ers Company in respect of a claim for and conditions between employer a settlement on the basis of 62 Canal Street.
full swing, and sq engrossed were have left the town. The message
exporting season has just arrived.
The captain of the steamor damages for wrongful termination and employee are not arranged by annual payments of ten million the participants in the game, that offices to the Chinese city and does not state from what direct
time the Strike Committee, or if the sterling, but that Britain demand they had no
to escape, outaining the necessary protection cause or under what circumstances Athefoam has committed suicide of a contract of service.
from the Government. The plaintiff, Chan Sul-hol, was engagement of employees is done ed annual payments of twice that Twenty-one were taken into the troops moved out:
in the Court this morning. The
It is now. reported that lan It appears the Port Curno, men awarded such a sum as would, in-privately, the said foreigners shall figure. Lutor, it was officially tedy, of whom only three appeared other information received in the tioned cirlier, was taken out by vested now at 8%, realise $100 at be treated as breakers of the strike.announced that the Government remainder had paid in their bails Informal meeting of all the Consula
2. Strikers formerly employed had authorised Mr. Churchill to her officers, but the firemen refus the period when he would have Colony, all points to the fact thated to work except back in Durban.
by foreign shipowners, merchants accept a settlement on a basis of an anti-led force, (part of Gen. where the strikers are now accom. completed his three years' service and traders, who re-enter the ser-62 annual payments of twelve and odatod ju, public halls and the Mr. F., C. Jenkin, making the vice of their former employers, “Chan "Kwing-ming's forces) is police station-Reuter.... application, said that although the without the consent of the Strike a half million with a governing proaching Swalow, and that the
The above news, together with
Red" troops have moved out, while Je strike leaders seem to be losing their power.
There is no news of the general strike having finished; as rumour had it here yesterday.
The Hongkong office of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha is in receipt of a telegraphic message from. Swatow stating that the situation remains the same as daring the past few weeks, whilst the Master of the Kaijo Maru, which came into Hongkong yesterday from Satow. report that, although a change is expected, the situation was the same when he left that port on Tuesday.
Lazer information from a most
At Durban, allegedly through be ing worried by the strike.
Committee shall be treated as condition of proportionate equal TO FEED STRIKERS.
brunkers of the strike, Melbourne, Spot, 16.
terms by France to her, croditors. 3. Foreign shipowners, mer- Thirty-three overseas. vessels,
It is noteworthy that the. figure of a tonnage of a third of a mil- lion, are idle in Australian ports, -Reuter.
fore not inconsiderable.
"
cus-
of $6 each to the Charge Room In-ut. Shameen, except the British spector, and did what they thought would be best under the circum- Consul-General, took place on the Court, forfeiting their balls to hold regarding the resumption of trade
stances, stayed away from the 13th inst., to discuss questiona
further trouble' and inconvenience,
in South China, and more parti- attendant on a hearing.
One of the three defendants cularly in Canton. During a dis
being the keeper find with collecting
amount appeared to be a small one, about forty or fifty others depended upon it and the amount was there-chants and traders, if found con-
laid down by the Strike Committee, at two per cent. on the French The driver's evidence, said Mr. or acting as agents for British debt, compared with three and a Jenkin, was that he entered the commercial interests, or going t service of the applicant upon the and fra between Hongkong, Macao half per cent, which America has conditions appearing in an adver-and Shameen, shall be treated as exacted from her debtors.] tisement in the native press. There breakers of the strike.'. was no contract in writing sufficient 4. Foreign shipowners, mer
travening the terms and conditions now agreed on represents interest present in Court was charged with cussion of ways and means for the commission, and it was, said of him resumption of trade with the Consul- that at the moment of the raid Chinese, the Japanese
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Cape Town, Sept. 16.*** The liner Trafford Hall has left for England with a Lascar crow, carrying a full complement of eighty-six passengere and eight
COMMISSION TO AMERICA. hundred thousand pounds sterling
Paris, Sept. 15 of specie.-Router..
to satisfy the Statute of Frauds.chants and traders shall re-employ
M. Caillaux and members of Durban, Sept. 16.
Mr. Justice Woods held that not-former employees, now on strike, in the Debt Funding Commission the police have informed the cap-years service had not been com-salary as before the strike.
Acting on official instructions, withstanding the fact that three the same position and at the same departed for the United States
to-day.Reuter. tains of vessels that it is illegal to
5. All wagel-earners shall con- refuse to feed the strikers, and pleted, the plaintiff was entitled to the Government holds the ship recover damages because the contribute one-tenth of their salary to the the coffers of the Strike Committee owners reponsible for expenditure tract
He relied for the maintenance of the whole incurred in fooding the inen forced Statute of Frauds.
the House of Lords case body of strikers. ashore. Reuter.
Hanau v. Eahileh, but he would sub-|
and 6. Merchants
MORE SEAMEN SENTENCED.
Sydney, Sept; 16.
on
outside was.
traders
retinue. M.
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demonstrate the traditional
Reuter
ing the winnings for the fortunate
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he had his back to the wall, collect General made a suggestion that the players, at the same time taking a merchants should remove their small rake off as commission which offices to, or open branch offices in, he put into a box placed on the the Chinese city, of course, with an, table near him.
tedious hours.
Against the mass of evidence assurance that adequate protection arrayed against him, the alleged be given by the local authorities. keeper declared that the winnings The suggestion was favourably Later.
were to have been devoted to paying received,
Consul but another Four Sonators and four Deputies off the cost of a grand feast to be expressed the view that the ques- and three financial experts are partaken of by all those present. tion of the removal of offices was among M. Caillaux's, numerous The Court was further asked to of secondary importance; he believe that all the players were thought that the first step to take Caiulaux interviewed, employees' of the Nanyang Brothers was to make satisfactory arrange- mit before a Court of Appeal, that having offices in Hongkong or was sanguine of getting an equit Tobacco Company, and that, hav-ments with the Strike Committee reliable source is to the effect that' A sensation has been caused in the decision in that case was the Shameen, shall remove such officesable settlement which would ing nothing to do and as time was before requesting the Government the "Red" General having left shipping and canmmercial circles other way, and that the contract from these places before obtaining enable the United States again to hanging heavily on their hands, for full protection,
they thought of a game of pai kan The meeting, lasted two hours, Swatow with his troops, the tiryhero by cables from England stat-on this account must satisfy the consent to trade in Canton.
7. Against any merchants or Anglo-Saxon spirit of fairplay with which to while away the and it was resolved that merchants should take the Initintivo" In is now under control of a Generaling that liners might cease coming Statute of Frauds..
to Australia while the strike lasts. Had the case of Hanau v. Eahlich traders found violating the rules
SENATOR BORAH'S ATTITUDE. - The Magistrate (Mr. S. B. B. Mc approaching the Striko Committee Hung. It is presumed that the The owners' representatives have been the first to be heard the "House laid down, by the Committee, the
"Washington, Sept. 16. Elderry) was sceptical especially for a satisfactory, solution of the General Hang mentioned is Hung made a statement that they are of Lords would probably have held strike will again be imposed with
Senator Borch is conferring when Sergeant O'Donovan remark question, and when that is accom- Shao-lin, one of General Chan fighting for the principul of col- the same way as His Honour the greater rigour.
fective bargaining and demand Paisne Judge, but in view of the
with President Coolidge and is op-ed that the floor was properly plished, their respective Consuls King-ming's chief commanders, the unconditional return of the fact that there was a long line of
posed to France being granted equipped as a gambling den, it have should request the Government for who, in conjunction with General strikers.
Another hundred and eigliteon cases going back for a hundred yeara to call off the strike, all parties more liberal terms than were ing a large lamp with. a big wide the necessary protection. Yip Kue, is known to have been somen have been sentenced to on the point, they were bound to concerned shall conform to the given to Britain. He is reported shade suspended from the ceiling
terms and conditions of the final to have stated that the French over a large table.
Only an old- have a capacity to pay greater woman lived in the premises and Preparing for some days to launch a week's imprisonment.
agreement. Mr. Atkin in his argument before{
than the British. Renter' she apparently was the caretaker. In the Legislative Assembly,
9. Merchants and tradera on Swntow. If this an attack
American Service, replying to a question, the Attor- Mr. Justice Lawrence, before three
His Worship, in registering con- victions for the three defendants, presumption is correct, the newsney General said that the prosecu-judges of the Court of Appeal and having offices and trading in the
fined the keeper $75 and two other implies that the anti-Reds are now tions of British seamen instituted four judges of the House of city shall come under the laws of
the Government, by the local representatives of Lords, pressed the point that either] in control at Swątow.
10. All grievances and differ
men $2 oach. An order was also shipowners were under the Bri- of the parties might terminate the
and
given for the confiscation of a sum ences between employers tish Merchant Shipping Act which contract and that termination was
employees shall be brought before with sympathetic treatment by the the Strike Committee, and shall be Courts, but they felt that the cases settled by mutual consent between the three parties. Such decision were against him..
shall, be embodied in the Employ- ment Agreement.
AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT.
hold otherwise..
If this movement of anti-Redno dominion has been authorised! performance. His argument met
PEKING.. CONFERENCE.
troops near Swatow eventuates suc- to amend.-Reuter. ecssfully it will be of tremendous importance in the general South China situation, because it means: the beginning of the fight against the Bolsheviks in power in Canton, Should Swatow be occupied by anti-Reds, is is now expected; the port will doubtless be made the basis of operations against the forces at present' in power. It is likely that important developments will be witnessed during the course of the next few days.
DUTCH BOYCOTT SETTLED. We are also informed by Mr. M. J. Quist, the Consul-General for the Netherlands that he received a telegram yesterday afternoon
trouble with the Netherlands In
ALL THE POWERS TO
PARTICIPATE.
Leave to appeal was granted, the plaintiff not being represented.
GOAL SMUGGLING.
STORY OF A DOLLAR NOTE,
8. In the event of a satisfactory arrangement having been reached
MOROCCAN WAR.
BRILLIANT FRENCH
VICTORY.
Paris, Sept. 16. French troops have to-day 11. All members of the Strike brilliantly ro-captured tho Bibane Union must take cognizanco of the heights, midway between Taunat necessity of obeying all orders of and Wozzan.-Router: the Union, which has the power to order a strike at any time.
LORRY DRIVER FINED.
IMPORTANT POLITICAL GAIN, ‹
--Later.
MOTOR MISHAPS.
TWO CASES YESTERDAY.
Mr. Gonzales, who lives at No.
of $22.05 which the police seized on 71, Austin Road, was involved in a the gaming table.
SHARE
ENQUIRY
PROGRESS OF COMMISSION'S WORK,
A motor lorry skidded whilst go-
imotor cycle accident which occur- red In Morrison Hill Gap Road yesterday. Shortly after noon, he was cycling along this road when blasting charges were being carried- out. On the approach of the machine, three coolies, who were watching the blasting, hastily got out of the way, when a charge was about to be fired, and in doing so Thore is to be a further meat they got in front of Mr. Gonzales" The capture of Bibane and ing this afternoon of the Com-machine. One of them was run Washington, Sopt. 16.
Massif is not only a military mission of Enquiry which is lato and knocked over. He got up The announcement of the con- vocation of the Peking Coufer-
success but a political gain. The investigating the manner in as quickly and it appears that he French now occupy the territory which share transactions are car-was not injured, Mr. Gonzales sus- ence is construed as indicating that virtually all the Powers
DOING 38 MILES AN HOUR.of the Beniourighels, whose ried out in the Colony."
tained a slight injury to his hand defection had undermined: tho
We understand that the Comin endeavouring to prevent the la a case before Mr. R. A. D. communicated with have agreed'
A Chinese lorry driver appeared French political front along the mission has already held four accident. to the proposal-Reuter's American Forrest, at the Central Magis-
tracy this morning, in which a before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Wergha. The occupation facili meetings and that at least a Service.
Stockholm, Sept. 16. Chinese named Lum Loung was Kowloon Magistracy this morning tates the organisation of a further two meetings will have to along Queen's Road, near Tal-
uninterrupted chain of strong-be held before the onquiry is from Swatow stating that the The Swedish Government has charged with smuggling a dollar on a charge of dangerous driving holds on the right bank of the completed and a report formulat-wong Street, resterday morning,
decided to subscribe to the Wash-note to a prisoner in Victoria on the Castle Peak Road early
river-Reuter. dische Handlesbank had been settledington Treaty regarding the re-Gaol, it was stated by the Super- yesterday morning.
Sergt. Hallam, who visited Ching and that all was now progressing vision of the Chinese Customs,intendent, Captain Bloxham, that a large number of unauthorised smoothly.
articles had lately been passed Loong Tau, where an accident was reported to have occurred, said over to the inmates of the gaol, in that he found a motor lorry lying in consequence of which he had to ask for exemplary punishment a paddy field. Witness examined In the present case. The defen the road and found that the defen-
Brisbane, Sept. 16. REORGANISATION SCHEME, dart was seen by a warder, when dant, on turning a left-hand bend, permitted to interview a prisoner, had travelled on the wrong side of
The Empire press delegates have New York, Sept. 16.
to throw a dollar note towards tho the road. After turning the corner, Holders of one hundred and latter. It hit against the grating there was a aldid mark measuring arrived here and have been most Lin Sum, reoontly appointed sixty-eight million dollars of and dropped to the ground. He 129 feet in length. Reckoning by warmly welcomed, after a three Oyster Bay, Long Island, Sept. 14. Triad Society, on his arrival in In the second series of the races Hongkong, on the 7th, instant, Head of the Canton Labour Do- Milwaukoo-St Paul, Railroad was seized in stooping to recover the marke, which took a zig-zag days journey, mostly by motor car
course, the car, prior to the ncel from Sydney.
for six-metre yachts, Dauphin was charged at the Contral partment in place of the late stock have assented to the re-
In a speech at Lismore, Sir (America) crossed the line first. Magistracy yesterday son- gazetted organisation of railroad, The Magistrate inflicted a fine dent, was travelling at about 38 Bearstory, for Foreign Affairs of which is at prosent in the bonds of $50 on the defendant. The miles per hour.
Emeloy Carr said that the Austra- Amerion also gained second third tonged to earder and hous the Government, conjointly with of a receiver. Reuter's American alternative was a sentence of two The defendant, who had a clean lian Immigration Act had, net and sixth places Reuter's Ame with the option of a fine of 2300
encouraged Immigration Reuter.rican Service.
Mr. C. A. 8. Husa defended... rocord, was aned 815, months' hard labour. other posted
The Hongkong,office of the Bank has also received a telegram to the same effect, stating that the boy- cott of the Bank had been settled without any concessions having been made to the strikers.
Reuter.
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U. S. RAILWAYS.
Bervice.
the note.
“AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION.
ed
AMERICAN YACHTING.
SUCCESS IN SECOND SERIES.
The vehicle swerved against a verandah pillar, and was put out of commission, considerable damage. being done to the radiator and Ifront wheels. The driver escaped unhurt.
A Chinese visitor from Macao, who was arrested in possession of a document relating to tho