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ATTACKED BY LARGE FISH
The
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FUONDED 1881
H.. 21,850
CANALE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
ROBBERS JAILED.
THREE GET FIVE YEARS.
That the old woman's daughter- in-law had instigated the crime was the defence put forward by the " THREE VICTIMS.
second of three Chinese charged at Three people swimming off or the Criminal Scasions this morning near the Easma Beach at Stone-with robbery." cutter's Island yesterday after-
PEKING PARLEY.
BRITAIN TO DEMAND GUARANTEES.
DELEGATES ORDERS.
London, Sept. 20.
PORT ACTIVITY.
IMPROVED GENERAL...
CONDITIONS.
There has been a fair amount of shipping activity over the week-end, 23 vessels arriving yes terday and 16 vessels departing. The number of vossole in harbour this morning was 98 a higher figure than that recorded for some
As the result of that statement, bon vere attacked by a large Mr. Justice Wood subjected the old fish believed to have been a woman, her husband, and the Austen" Chamberlain enumerates time. outtle-fish, and badly hitton".
Station Hotel, Kowloon.
now in the Government Civil Hospital suffering from poison
21." 1925. 日四初月八
ANTI-REDS BUSY,
RECENT REVOLT OF CADETS:
YUNNAN TO HELP.
In regard to the report of n company of Cadets Corps, consist ng of 200 men, rapidly retreating the Sze Yap districts, in order to
SINGLE: DOPT 19 CENTS $38 PER ANNUM
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Sedan....
Present prious of the INGLE-SIX pas- be: ger PACKARD CARRIAGES are as
G. $2,5851
A. G. $2,585
Sedan-Limousine. G. $2,785
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BE WONG NHI CHUMBAD,
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MISSION TO SEAMEN. CANTON BOYCOTT.
TRIBUTE TO REV. NORMAN PEEL.
STRIKE COMMITTEE MORE ACTIVE."
Tributes to the work of the Rey. Norman Peel are contained in cor- respondence which has passed be- STRICTER MEASURES -out- Despite the signs of a better out- tween the St. Andrew's Church' Vestry, Kowloon, and the Head-look in other parts of China, quarters of the Mission to. Seamen advices from Carton indicate that the Strike Committee there has in London.
he in close touch with other anti Writing under date of June Soth resolved on tightening up the
in the first place, it was through
In a letter to the British Cus- toms tariff delegation to China, be fore the latter's departure, Mr. daughter-in-law, to a close cross-the objects of the conference,, "to As indicating the general and Red forces, a further report com-to the Secretary of the Mission to boycott of British goods.
It is stated that the strike Hon. Secretary of St leaders have made investigations Most seriously injured yester-examination on their relationship, prepare a way for the abolition of steady improvement of trading ing from a reliable source states Seamen, London. Mr. P. F. Pad- day was Mr. J. S. Smith, whose and the old woman exclaimed:-likín, fulfil other relevant condi-conditions, it has to be recorded that this sudden revolt was entirely bury, wife is the proprietress of the "It is likely that a mother-in-law tions laid down in the Washington that no fewer than eleven Sunday due to Gea. Chak Yan-ki's strong Andrew's Church Vestry, stated: which show that their polley is not would quarrel with a daughter-in-treaties, and determine the con- Cargo Working permits were is appeal to Lau Chong-lum, Com"I am requested by the Vestry of being respected to the extent to
sued for yesterday. The average He was awimming off the law when she had only been with ditions on which Customs surtax, pre-strike of such permits was mander of the Company, to free St. Andrew's Church to convey a which they wish it to be, and have up to two and a half per cent on round about 20, but during the himself and those under his commessage of deep indebtedness to come to the conclusion that the Easma Bonch when he was bitten her for one year."
your Society for the magnificent on the right arm and again on
The facts of the case, as outlined ordinary goods and five per cent height of the strike the number mand from, Russian domination work amongst seagoing men reader-Present situation calls for greater
foll practically to vanishing point. the right side of the body. He by Ir. H. K. Holmes for the Crown, on luxuries, may be levied pending There is a fair amount of cargo General Chak pointed out that Rused by your late assistant chaplain, vigilance and stricter measures to St prevent the importation of British the abolition of likin.
moving, the preponderance being sian control is having a demoralize the Rev. Norman Feel. was taken by special launch to was that the old woman, was sitting
Andrew's followed the Rev. Mr. inwards although native products
goods into the province. Hongkong unconscious and is on the steps of her house at Sai
Tau, Kowloon City, when four men. He points out that though the are now being got away in small ing effect on both officers and men, Peel's work with interest because,
As to the measures to be takán, suddenly appeared on the scene and conference will not deal with ex-quantities. The waterfront pre- will breed-dissatisfaction amongst two of them assaulted her while tra-territorial jurisdiction, it is de-sents a busy and animated ap- the military elements, and will generous gift by a member of the it is said that more labour picketa
She the others went inside.
pearance this morning, lots of
made possible; and, secondly, be managed to get out her police sirable that the delegates should cargo and produce coming over eventually spread throughout, the Church that his appointment. Was are to be engaged and the number A private in the East Surrey whistle to blow and the men ran know that the British Government the sea-wall from junks and entire army of the Reds. His cause most of the wives of seagoing of stations increased, several new
native craft.
arguments induced prompt action men live of this alde of the harbour, districts to come under their opéra- Regiment, a party of whom visit-away..
It remains to be recorded, how- ed Stonecutter's,
also One of the prisoners was arrested sympathise with the general trend
the Vestry to express their gratitude about three hundred yards from of Chinese aspirations, and desire ever, that the main commerofal by the commandant to haul down It, is a pleasure to the members of tions.
What Is even more interest attacked.
the scene and in his possession was that the Extra-territorial Commis.markets which interest foreign the Red Aag and hoist the five for the work accomplished by. Mr.
firms are still lifelose, and that coloured flag in its stead. The third victim was a lady found a dagger of precisely the
Peel during his stay here. His is the announcement that more violently protested genini personality and devoted so-called "revenue cruisers are to swimming about two, hundred same type as was dropped by one sion should begin work as early as there has been but little improve.
It possible. They will do ali in ment in the volume of business action was
against by the non-commissioned self-effacing labours not only en- be sent out to scout the coast for dono. yards from shore. She was bitten of the men inside the house
deared him to the men amongst on the wrist, but so far as can be was also indicative of his complicity their power to facilitate its task.
officers (all graduates of the Cadets whom he worked, but also to a wide vessels which are employed in ascertained is suffering no ill-that he resisted arrest.
The old woman was unable to
School at Whampoa) who were, circle of friends in the Church here, carrying banned goods. Although 7 Many people at the identify either of the men, effects.
however, soon overpowered by the who watched his work with admira-nothing is said on the point, it beach decided to give up their account of her weak eyes:
troops. It was not through mer- swim when the news got round.
cenary inducements, as reported, New York, Sept. 20.
that the commandant was won over According to a wireless mess-to the side of Chak Yan-ki, for the age from the liner Paris, in which
ing.
WOR
Many stories have been in cir- culation recently about large fish being seen, but usually they have boon ridiculed by sceptics.
CANTON "REDS."
TO TOUR RUSSIA. "
We learn that the question of organising a special party of dule. gates to tour Russia is minted by the Red Government of Canton. with the
of investigation purpose the economic condition, the ad- ministrativo systems and the con-
on
The remaining two men were arrested or Information given by the first prisoner.
In defence to-day the third prisoner denied that he was present at the robbery. He declared that a few days before he had had al fight with the first prisoner and his name was given in order to pay
off the score.
The jury unanimously found
After referring to the lack of an effective central Government in China, Mr. Chamberlain says it will be one of the delegates main con- cerns to. secure adequate guar- antees that reforms justifying the concessions they are authorised to make will actually be carried out: and while the delegates are left to determine the method of obtaining the guarantees, they should. If in
FRENCH DERT.
#
PROBABLE PROPOSALS,
is understood that M. Caillaux
This
a
tion."
Replying under date of July 27th, may also be assumed that these Mr. Stuart C. Knox, Secretary of cruisers will endeavour to prevent the Mission to Seamen in London, food-stuffs reaching such ports said: Thank you very much in deed for your most kind letter of the as Macao and Hongkong,
At the various picket stations,
to-day. It is a great delight to me, the strictest scrutiny is now made personally, as I am sure it will be
the French Debt Commission is reason that Chak was not in 80th June, which has reached me travelling to the United States, it financial position to give financial
to my colleagues and to our Com of all goods entering Chinese will propose to the American aid, having been driven out of his Debt Commission that France will Magistrate's post and branded as mittec, to receive such a delight territory, and consignees are pro
the Vestry of St. Andrew's Church on the principal of the debt with
Big Scheme Planned.
good News from another source into the work done by my
prisoners guilty and they were doubt, refer to His Majesty's Go. begin immediately her payments a rebel by the Canton Government. fully appreciative testimony from vanted from taking delivery of
severally sentenced to five years' vernment. hard labour,
A DAGGER FOUND.
"BUSINESS MAN'S
EXPERIENCES.
a substantial sum for 1926, rising later to much greater. amounts
cargo which has not been
"
Mr. Chamberlain considers that during the next twenty years.dicates that the anti-Reds have been friend, Norman Peel. I quite agrea thoroughly searched and passed by. the consolidation of unsecured It is also understood that the materially strengthening their posi-with all you say about his genial the strike pickets.
personality and his self-sacrificing debts, should be regarded as only French proposal will not be made tion in Yunnan and Kwangsi pro-labours for seamen, I always felt, conditional either upon the re- vinces. In this connection, Gene when he was here in London, that secondary part of the functions cuipt of reparations payments ral Lau Tsuri-wan has come to a
of the conference. He declares from Germany or the tentative complete understanding with Gene. when he paid us a visit it was like. the Government will not consider Churchill agreement.Renter's ral Tung Chi-yao, Tuchun of Yuna ray of sunshine with a bit of the the purpose of the Conference ful-American Service.
nan, whose troops recently inflicted sea breezes, and one felt all the bet- filled unless it results in the adop
such a heavy defeat on General ter for a look at his smiling face and a chat with him. I have only Fun Shek-sang's forces.
carnest
Lai Sang was a business man. tion of mensures promoting inter- duct of foreign affairs of the SB-He came from thirty miles over nal peace and secures reforms for
the border on August 19th to sell the permanent benefit of China. viet Government.
The qualification of the Dele- cows. Twice on that day he was
The letter concludes that it is for gates, it is said, is the command stopped when walking in British-
solve Three, men, not police, the Chinese themselves to of a good knowledge of one foreign territory. language at least, together with stopped him in Taipa and searched their internal problems, but so far Bolshevik inclinations, It is fur-him. They found nothing butas British assistance s practicable ther stated that the Red Govern- when, later on, he was arrested by and desirable. it is the ment intends to select from the police while on his way to Kam Tin, I wish of the Government to give all various Guilds and the Strike a dagger they produced was de-the help in their power.-Reuter Unions, those members who post cfared to be his property. BOBs the requirod qualifications to Such was the atory told by the represent the Government on the prisoner, Lai Sang, when at the tour. It is planned that the Do-Crimitial Sessions this morning he legates shall procood to Shanghai was charged with unlawful posses- by a Russian steamer and thence sion, of a dagger. by rail, visiting Tientsin, Harbin Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith conduct- and all'important cities and mared the case for the Crown and he kets along the trans-Siberian told the Court that the prisoner Railway. While in Russia, Mos- cow and Petrograd are to be the was stopped on the road from Taipo to Kam Tin. The dagger and an oiled hemp, for use as a torch, were found in his girdle.
oantres whore the party will chilefly stay,
CANTON CHANGES.
NEW APPOINTMENTS. GAZETTED.
STRIKE POLITICS.
AUSTRALIAN ELECTION »
ISSUE..
Melbourne, Sept. 20.
PRINCE LEAVES
CHILE.
TO CROSS THE ANDES.
Santiago, Sept: 20th. The Prince of Wales left Vina del Mar for Los Andes. whence he departed for Argon na. Ho does not expect furthe difficulty in crossing the frontier, as weat- her conditions bare considerably improved-Reuter.
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GERMAN ACTION.
FRENCH AIRMAN
DETAINED.
Paris, Sept. 20.
He has
SOVIET STEAMERS,
SERVICE BETWEEN'
CANTON AND VLADIVOSTOK.
secured the promise of valuable recently returned from a long military aid from the Tuchan and tour round the world, visiting A
An advertisement of the Soviet has also made arrangements where- good many of our stations In Africa. by help will be forthcoming from Australia, etc., and I was exceeding Steamship Company has appeared Kwangsi. Having accomplishedly sorry to hear that Peel had left in the Canton vernacular papers, 80 much, General Lau is now to Hongkong, though I am sure he will giving the sailing date of two confer with other leaders and with do equally good work for sallars at Soviet steamers from that port these he will work out a big scheme Bombay. I have been very sorry to Vladivostak via Swatow and aiming at the overthrow of the to hear that there was a possibilityShanghai as the 20th and 23rd
of the Kowloon Seamen's Institute inst., respectively.
The information secured by a Red elements in Kwangtung...
being given up again. This seems
MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
POLICE SERGEANT INJURED.
Lance Sergeant Harle, was some- what seriously injured on Saturday when, in an endeavour to avoid running into a Chinese woman who had got into his way on the Castle Peak Road, his motor cycle skidded
MOROCCO WAR
RIFF CHIEF REPORTED WOUNDED.
and
to me (without, of course, any correspondent from the office of difinite knowledge of the circum the Company at Ka Nam Tong stances) a great pity so soon after building, on South Taiping Street, it had been re-opened, and I still in Canton city, is that hitherto trust that there may be a chance of no regular steamers have been
Canton plying botwóon keeping the sailor work on that side Vladivostok, the vessels so far on of the harbour."
the run being only such as have carried cargo consigned direct to the Red Government, such as. arms, munitions and kerosene, It has now, howover, beon Mr. Bruce in a statement says
decided to operate four steamers. the elections will be the most im-
scheduled with. weekly sailings When charged he said that the portant in the history of Austra-!
between Vladivostok and Canton, The Echo de Paris states that and threw him to the ground. dagger was picked up on the road lia, and will involve the most
with Swatow and Shanghai as far-reaching issues ever submitt-the German authorities at Froi-Sergeant Harle was injured in the by the police.
Paris, Sopt. 20.
intermediate, ports of call, in Sir Henry Gollan said that thee to the country, which is called burg have been ordered to prevent right knee and both legs, hind he
A inpssage from Madrid says order that the dual objects of man told an extraordinary story on to decide whether it will be the French airman Coste, who had to be brought back to town in of a search by three men, total governed by Parliament or by crashed on September 13th, leav-a passing car. He was then taken Spanish newspaper reports that relieving the Chinese merchants ing Freiburg and returning to to the Government Civil Hospital, Abd of Krim was, wounded of the shipping stringency, and strangers and certainly not police.irrosponsible extremists.
France. The French Government where he will be confined for about seriously in the left leg in the of offering batter communication The jury bad only to decide, how- The Commonwealth electoral:
is dealing with the matter. The naveek!
fighting at Bilano, and is lying and facilities, to both of the ever, whether or not the police officer predicts there will be Germans have seized Coste's Whilst being towed along the with fever at Targuiz, attended Soviet and Canton Governments The Government at Canton has were telling the truth when they ninety per cent, poll in con-machine and dismantled the Kowloon City Road near the leather by two German surgeone, mam-, may be realised. undergone reconstruction, and the said they found the dagger in his sequence of the enactment of motor-Reuter
factory yesterday, a motor bus got bers of his general staff-Reuter Army has been reorganised con- girdle, or whether their story was compulsory voting. Every effort
out of control and ran into a drain AMERICAN AIRMEN WARNED. sequently the following appoint-pure fabricntion.
is being made to confine the
Washington, Sopt 20. at the side of the rond: A coolie, ments have boon gazetted. by the
sirike to the narrowest limits in
Statod to have been loft in the who was working on the drain, was The State Department has in SHIPPING DISASTER. Executive Council
viow of the elections, in order to allow the unions to concentrate custody of a friend, a small Chin- Injured by sustaining an abrasion structed Mr. Blake, the United States diplomatic agent at Gan. Chang Kal-shek,
ese girl, aged seven years, was on the political fight.
alleged to imvo boon cruelly as on his left hand.
collision occurred yesterday Tangier, to inform American STEAMER SINKS IN JAVA Meanwhile, though the ship-saulted by her guardian, 'who, as
French against the Riffs in owners have announced their re-a result of the ill-treatment, a between a Dairy Farm lorry, which airmen operating with the adiness to confer with the sea poared before Mr. E. W. Hamilton was left outside a branch shop at Moroccco that they are serving man's representatives, as sug at the Kowloon Magistracy this Tin Lok Lane, and a tram car in violation of the lawe of the gested by the labourite leader morning Mr. R. E. A. Webster which was turning Into Happy United States-Reitor Mr. Charlton, the executive of appeared for the defence and Valley from the Praya Enst. The the striking seaman has rejected made an application for the re-driver of the tram had applied the Mr. Charlton's proposal and reduction of the defendant's ball brakes and thus minimised the. fuses to negotiate until all the His Worship reduced the bail effects of the collision, with the Shanglial in the 20th inat at sank in forty minutos a: Daton imprisoned men are released from $1,000 to $750 and adjourned result that very little damage was 9 p.m. and is due at Nagasaki to steamor picked up 37 of the crow
marrow at 6am. Reuter
the case till Friday.
Commands. 1st. Div. Gen. Tan Yan-kal „ 2nd. "
Chu Pei-tak
Hau Sung-chi,
Li Fuk-lum:
Li Chai-qum
M
3rd
4th
1
The jury found 'prisoner guilty and his Lordship passed sentence of three years' hard labour..
BOMBAY STRIKE.
5th "UNEMPLOYED NOW 80,000. 6th Lin Sum to be the Secretary of
Bombay, Sept. 20. Foreign Affairs vice Wu Hon-min. Eighty thousand cotton opera- Chang Kung-bok to be chief of tives are now idle. It is expected the Labour' Department vice Lin the number will soon, increase- Sum
Reuter,
done to either vehicle.
The Empress of Russia" loft,
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SEA
Batavia, Sept. 20. The cargo bont, s.s. Leeds City, owned by the St. Just Steamship Company, bound for Japan, wont. nahore in the Ben of "Java" and
Reuter