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MONDAY,
OCTOBER 5.
POSSESSION DISPUTE.
NO SETTLEMENT THE GOVERNORSHIP.
STRIKE UNION STILL INSISTENT.
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A UNIQUE POSITION. »..
A very pecullar-and so far as
KNOTTY POINT OF LAW
That the defendant forcibly took we know, an unprecedented post-possession of No. 57, Main Street. tion arises in connection with the Aberdeen, and occupied it, wak the claim of landlord who sought
at the Summary Court this morn- ing to obtain possession of his premises.
Mr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. D. MacCallum defended. ̧·
RED MENACE.
CHANG TSO-LIN DENOUNCES MOSCOW.
CHINA'S PERIL.
1925. 日八十月八
CHINESE UNREST.
HONGKONG BISHOP'S VIEWS.
The following message from the Bishop of Victoria (Dr. C. R. Dup puy) appears in St. John's Cathe- dral Notes:
BINGLE: COPY 15 OFNTS" 136 DER ANFITY/
Packard
Present prices of the SINGLE Ix. 7-passenger PACKARD MOTOR CAR. RIAGES as follows:
Sedan
Tourläg
G. $2,785
G $2,785
Sedan Limousine.. G. $2,885.
Demonstration, descrip ive literature, and complete information on request.
MOROCCAN WAR.
ALLIES CONTINUE TO ADVANCE.
London, Oct. 4.
The Spanish Embassy in London has received a telegram from The Manila Bulletin publishes the As is generally known, the Madrid stating that the Spanish following very interesting. Inter- diocese of which I am Bishop ex-troops continue to occupy territory view granted by Marshal Chang: tends over a very wide area. I am around Ajdir, and the Bay of Al without resistance Tso-lin to Mr. Roy W. Howard, at both a colonial Bishop and a Bishop kucerias, and Mr. Justice Wood, before hear. Mukden, on September 28th. Mr. within the Chinese Church-the They have reached the banks of the river Nekor and captured four more ing argument so far as luw was Howard asked the Mukden War Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hul that the concerned, said that he found the
GOVERNMENT VIEWS departure of His Excellency the Some of the Hongkong delegates, Governor and the arrival of Hong who went to Canton with the kong's Governor-Elect at the end
of this month. object of endeavouring to arrange a settlement of the "strike," have now returned to the Colony, these including Mr. Tre Shue-tong, the the und O. ... Khiva en chief delegate. Six others still October 31st and
Present arrangements are that Sir Edward Stobbs sails for Home
Conflicting evidence was given,
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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
23 WONG NI CHUNI AD. NAPPY VALLEY
THE STRIKERS.
OVER 1,000 COME"
BACK.
A LONG WALK More workers from Hongkong who went out on strike in June are returning to the Colony, ways and meana having been discovered of evading the picket stations.
Police reports to-day disclose
than a thousand passengers came
remain in Canton. So far, the Hon. Mr. Cecil Clémenti will facts to be that, the Kwong Falord for an expression of opinion According to my custom I have guns and a great quantity of war the fact that yesterday, no fewer
prospects of
Deen
pears to be "insistent on demands it has put forward.
which
mum-
C. Wo and Gen. Wu Teh-ching
away on the East River sector in specting the lines of defence.
At the conclusion of the dinner,
rose and in a brief speech, said:
arrive on the P. and 0.
anid
material.
!
present stress there is an underly and are now holding points on the
'Any-
were
ed to Wuichow, whence they reach-.
roundabout ed Sa-U-Chung by a route. This latter place is near. the border, in anti-Red territory,
Colony.
Lang, tenants of the premises, on the forthcoming tariff confer been visiting during the past weeks
the more remote parts of the diocese This means that practically the in from Macao by ateamer, in ad an agreement being Kalyan on the previous day made an agreement with the deference at Peking.
"While Europe and America are-Pakhof, Limchow and Yunnan-fu, whole bay is now in Spanlah hands dition to a further two hundred by
at each of which places Confirma except, the promontory of Caro-
other routes. reached do not appear particularly Detober 30th, the outgoing anddant firm, which was reduced to
Quinantes to the east.-Renter
Madrid. Oct. 4, risy, for, despite the fact that the the incoming Governors being due waiting and had been produced.
Many of the returning workers). to confer on the local situation The question would be whether Itcriticizing the drama the theatre is tions were held.
When we left Hongkong in June. Marshal Chang. delegates have
lavishly before the handing over of the was a legal document; it might be affre","
days were imminent-days of so and Spanish troops in Morocco These, it appears; had managed entertained, the Strike Union ap-Freins of offler. This will be the assignment of the premises and Nobody seems in the least aware" we little thought that such criticalA communique shys that French came here. via Sa-U-Chung,
of the danger. Customs autonomy great stress and anxiety, personul carried out combined operation In the first time in the history of the it might be an agreement to assign
# Colony, we think that new them,
1 should like to ex- the vicinity of Loikos after an into walk from Canton to Sheklung The defenitant firm paid to the und extraterritoriality are engaging and general. Governor has arrived before the de-
of all the loss, the strains and and Spanish artillery, The delegates of the Hongkong parture of the old Governor and Kwong Fat Lung firm $50 bargain the attention of the great powers press my keen sympathy on account tensive bombardment. by French and from this point they proveed- merchapts were "entertained to af the situation raises a very interest. money under the contract and they while Bolshevism is stealthily pene- dislocation of work that has result- The French troops occupied Saf. many centres, and Spanish airmen co-operated with mises Exactly what happened rating China. In spite of the ed at so dinner by the Canton Governmenting point in connection with the were actually admitted to the pres
reception of the new Governor.
It has been the usual custom fo: during the next few days was not fact that innumerable small blazes earnestly trust better days for all the French-Reuter.
Foz, Oct. 4. on Septeniber 30th, to
to Soviet incendiarism, foreigners As one who had the privilege The French forces operating and from this point the workers bers of the Merchants Guilds, the Otteer Administering the quite clear, but the Kwong Fat have sprung up here and there due may soon be in store.
Government to meet the new Lung had a foki on the premises Labour and Strike Unions were
on off and on. The main point was fare apparently blind to the menace during five years of moving about against the rebels at the Taza had no. difficulty in reaching the Governor, to introduce him also invited. There were about landing to the members of the two that the defendants were actually of a world-wide conflagration of freely both among Chinese and Bri-"pocket" have gained all their ob-| 100 guests: present. The Govern- Councils and for the gathering given possession of the premises anarchy and destruction that lurks tish I believe that in spite of the jectives with Insignificant losses,
There is widespread evidence of "It is imperative that the coming ing basis of goodwill. And here Jebel-Boulblane line, preventing the desire of strikers to return to ment was represented by Wang then to repair to the City Hall and he would accept the defen- in the Chinese situation. Ching-wal, Chan Kung-bok, Dr. C. delivered. Inasmuch, as Mr. Cecil the balance of the sum specifiid conference agree on some definite) cannot forbear from referring to the any enemy movement in that dis-Hongkong, and it is now clear that
where addresses of welcome are dant's evidence that he did not pay
Clementi will not land
ast in the contract because it was as faction and the results must be im loss that has been sustained by the trict.-Reuter,
by degrees the workers are finding Fez, Oct. 4. General Chang Kai-shek was ab- Governor, but only as Governor- a matter of fact verbally revised,mediately obvious to all of China. death of Sir John Jordan.
A three-cornered dispute then Evolutionary reforms are natural- one who knew him must have been
Ninety-eight separate air raids out means by which to reach the
carried out by French Colony. sent, the reason being that he was Elect, that usual procedure will
not be possible. The Colony can-arose and negotiations undoubtedly most desirable; and revolutionary conscious that he stood for all that The defendant de reforms will not be necessary was best in the relationship be not have to Governors, and Sirly went on.
What immachines last night, and heralded Edward Stubbs remains Governor cided to force his assumed legal unless the conferees fail to act and tween the two nations. of longkong, until he leaves it on rights and went to the police sta-spend their time quibbling instead pressed me about him was his undy. A general action in the French the following day. There will, tion with the balance of the con- of revising the Chinese, castoms ing devotion to China, he never centre sector just before dawn. dim light and reached the formid- Wang Ching-wal, as Chairman, after Sir Edward's departure.. be tract price. He also paid the land-arrangement. This must belldone slackened In his interest or his Several columns advanced in the
To me he stood
able Senhidja masalf. The tribes- the usual ceremony of swearing-in lord of his old premises a month's sanely and in accordance with the efforts to the end.
for the type of friendship which wel "I, in the name of the National at the Council Chamber. It is rent in lieu of notice. He took requirements of the present day.
"It is very vital that there be no all desire to see restored friend- men were apparently numbed and doubtful whether there can, in the possession of the Main Street shop Government, tender its hearty special and anique circumstances, with the consent of the Kwong deadlock because this would be ship based on goodwill and right disconcerted by the aerial bombard welcome to the delegates of be the public presentation of the Fal Lung but without, the consent equally dangerous to all partici-understanding. Sir John Jordan ment which was the first important
A new form of gambling has the Hongkong merchants. The customary addresses of welcome of the landlord, the plaintiff, puts in the negotiations. It would was a Vice-President of the Victorin night operation by aeroplanes in The farewelt address to Sir Ed-though he must have, known what play directly into the hands of Diocesan Association and regularly Morocco. The French advance Is
developing very favourably.
broken out, in the streets, this bo- gathering tonight in this hall ward Stubbs has already been was going on since the change every interest that is opposed to attended the V.D.A. Re-union meet- French occupation of the heights ing nothing less than Chinese of the Safdahar front, on four conception of the roulette wheel. and at this juncture, is a notable published and very widely signed, was advertised in newspapers and China-foreign co-operation, and it ings in London.
posters were exhibited outside the would furnish the Bolshevists with
One consequence of the present kilometres of the western sector. An enterprising merchant had pro- one, in view of the fact that the
dangerous propaganda for urging uncertainty has been the postpone has resulted in the capture of large vided himself with an outfit which shop. present strike has run its course that every day the strike continu-
It looked likely, said Mr. Justice revolutionary tactics.
ment of the Mission of Help which for over three months, and that it ed, meant so much additional loss Wood, that the notice given by the "The Moscow regime, thwarted was to have visited as this winter quantities of munitions.-Reuter, drew a very large number of Fez, Oct. 4. gamers when he set himself up in has created, between the two parto both parties. They also hoped Kwang Fat Lung to the landlord in its efforts to overturn European I have been throughout in close
Two French aviators were forced business in Cross Street on Satur Ulus concerned, a chasm which no that the Strike Union would see on September 2nd was the result governments, is directing its entire touch with the Missioners, Canon
Amongst the crowd was'a one has come forward to bridge. its way to confine its demands to of consultation between them and strength in China. The leaders of E. S. Woods and the Bishop of Bar to land in the Riff, but refused to day.
who made himself On this account, the strike is be matters concerning the Hongkong with the idea of giving plaintiff an Soviet Russia are very anxious to row, as well as with the different surrender and died. fighting. Abd detective,
only. Later, brief ing intensified from day to day, merchanta
the see a deadlock in the conference centres in China which would have el-Krim wished them captured alive, thoroughly conversant with the Happily the delegation from the speeches were delivered by Dr. opportunity of applying for
order for possession.
They are preaching all over China been visited by the Missioners this consequently he shot six Rifi res chance before he staked one ceat Hongkong merchants, at the, in- .C. C. Wu, Mr. Hu Chung-tong and
He did not think that defendant that Russia successfully repudiated winter. All arrangements. bad ponsible for the aviators' death on what he hoped was the winning: .vitation of the Strike, Union, have members of Merchants' Guilds forcibly entered the premises on her foreign debts and treaties, and been completed by the Missioners at Reuter.
boldly come, forward and taken and Labour Unions in which they August 31st because he had been that it would be equally simple for the cost I know of no small trouble, upon themselves the burden in an all wished early success to the given possession prior to that date: the Chinese to do the same, Con- and I had received from them a endeavour to find a satisfactory present negotiations..
The door was barred in an attempt sequently a deadlock menaces all solution of the unhappy situation. i
Archbishop of Canterbury as weli Therefore it is proper that, as In direct contradiction to the to regain possession by trickery, governments as well as China..
perhaps
The Moscow Tlague.
as one from themselves addressed. wheOnce you inoculate more than to those whom they were looking. 400,000,000 Chinese "with the Rus-forward to meeting. We hope that alan political plague, no nation in the Missioners may be able to visit the world will be able successfully us next year, but nothing as yet
has been definitely settled. to quarantine."
C. R. VICTORIA HONGKONG
Strike Union Adamant,
the
ارم
but not otherwise,
*J
"
Chang added that although Bol- shevism was normally incompatible with Chinese psychology, "present
The
ROULETTE WHEEL
A PERSISTENT "BANKER" CHARGED.
letter commendatory from the RUSSIAN CITIZENSHIP. ing a packet of cigareettes, as a
LATEST DECREE FROM MOSCOW.
Moscow, Oct. 4. The Council of Commissaries has issued a decree that ex-prisoners of war and the interned men of the
number. The venture brought him luck. He was paid five-fald,, and also had the option of accept-
prize. With this damaging evidence in his hands, he revealed bis identity and arrested the banker." Brought before Mr. S. B. B. McElderry later in the day, the čase concluded with the mulcting of the prisoner in a fine of $5, but no order was made in respect of the gambling apparatus, which was returned to the defendant.
Now it is alleged that hardly had
representative of the Natoinal sentiments expressed at this On those facts, he asked, Government, should express ap dinner by the representatives of was entitled to judgment. preciation of the efforts of the the Canton Government, there has Ilangkong delegation, and hope now come to hand the following the defendant undoubtedly was.
Mr. MacCallum submitted. that that both parties concerned willcircular notice issued by the
Mr. Brooks sald that the ques- its branches view the situation in the sume light, Strike Union to
tien depended upon the document. with the one object of an early throughout
province of
If that was an assignment, judg restoration, of communication be- Kwang-tung to tighten up the ment must be for the defendant, tween the two ports in order that strike: . both merchants and workmen may "The Strike Union, having given
also the participants in the risings His Lordship questioned, "whe-times are not normal and it is an flammable material for reckless old Imperial and Red armies, and
The chief problem for not suffer further hardships and careful deliberation to the present!
of the White armies who come un- the defendant got back to the 1bybus. In the present negotia- situation of the strike, considers ther conduct did not constitute indisputable fact that certain Chi-leaders. tons, the Government can only that the time has come to form assignment, and, after brief dis-nese leaders who are willing to be foreigners is what are they doing der the conditions of the amnesty street with the roulette table, when which be shall loss their citizenship if they he resumed business, and was ar
rested a second time by the same. act in the capacity of advisors, late the terms and conditions for cursion the case was adjourned used as instruments, are now work to remedy a situation and will not interfere with any presentation to the parties con until Wednestiny, to afford oppor-ing directly with Moscow and re- comes worse and more menacing have neglected to apply for
restoration of citizenship within detective yesterday. "In spite of the application of the period laid down. The decree In Court, this morning, It was terms and conditions for the set-cerned in order to show them the tunity of looking up the point. tlement of the strike, which either objects of the strike, the attain-
He stated that some Chinese mili- the torch of political incendiarism does not apply to persons who have stated that the defendant attempt tary leaders are now sending their at countless points in China, there not renewed their citizenship owing ed to bribe the detective and in- bring forward for discussion. But with untiring effort, until the full ment, with full support of the best young officers to Russia for is no conflagration yet, and if to lack of Soviet representatives fluence his conduct as public sor- it should be barne well in mind realization of ali objects is attain people. Then, and not until then, Trotzkyizing and that certain prompt action is taken, the flames country of their realdence. ait with the gift of a packet of
cigarettes. that neither party should advance ed. The rumour now gaining shall wo be in a position to dictate northern highways are closed for can be stamped out entirely. Wit-Ruter. any terms and conditions which credence that the strike is to be our terms and to force their ac- the secret transportation of muni- ness Manchuria. There is no sign are considered intolerable to the called off anon is but the work of ceptance. This is the only way to
tlons from Russia.
of the parties concerned may ment of which must be prosecuted
ceiving "assistance from the Soviet daily.. Government.”....?...
of Bolshevism in any of my three provinces. My Manchurian army is competent to deal with the situa tion there and possibly in the whole
"We might still require foreign of Chion.
I hope financial,--but I regret that in support, certainly moral and per-
F
MOSCOW INFAMY.
MORE UNDERHAND WORK.
Warsaw, Oct. 4..
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the
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As a witness, the defendant brought forward a friend, who was other. Otherwise not only will, Imperialistic propagandists. In combat Imperialism, like a "CRM- "Moreover, Tuan Chu-jui has
to have testified as to his character. Instead he smiled in a fatuous no good results be obtained, but order that the strikers may not be paign in warfare. The time has.
way on the interpreter when an at- It may serve the purpose of inten- carried away by such rumours, not come to call off the strike, nor been permitting radical disorders to sifying the issue".
evidence can be shown that the is it time to waver in our activities. take place in the heart of Peking."
tempt was made to load him through the form of taking the One of the Hongkong delegates siuntior in Hongkong is growing But rather let us be united into he went on, "I am partly at fault In reply, said that on behalf of the from bad to worse. As the result one brotherhood of fellow-workers for these conditions because it is
onth. The Court Interpreter took delegation from Hongkong ha of the strike the substantial loss to prosecute the strike with all our my support which is enabling Tuan
a hand in reprimanding him for his thanked Mr. Wang Ching-wal for to Hongkong aggregates about right and not to relax the grip to occupy his present position. the hearty welcome accorded to $400,000,000 with a financial panic we hold. As long as the Hong- have been somewhat disappointed the past, the Powers failed to hup The Political police have arrested unseemly conduct, saying: You them by the representatives of the at its doors and trade absolutely kong merchants will not accept in his rule recently, because it port my own, efforts and those of at Volynia, near the Soviet frontier, have not come here to play Canton Government. Their com- at standstill. On the other our demands, so long will the seems to have no results except others who are interested in effect eighty parsons belonging to a wide-As the man could not be made ing centralization of the govern spread spying organization, who to understand what was required ing to Canton at this juncture, had hand the situation of the strike is strike continue to operate aguinat breeding radical agitation."
I Asked whether the removal of ment.
are alleged to be acting, on behalf of him, the task was given up as only one object in vlow and that getting stronger every day, in that them.
"However it might be well for all of the Soviet, including Governa hopeless one and he was 'order- was to find a solution of the pro- we have the unity of the people at "Strikers are enjoined not to lis Tuan was an early possibility, blem relating to the merchants our back. The financial position ten to such rumours, which are Chang smilingly evaded the ques foreign support of particular Indi-ment ofkials and soldiers. Mach ed to go away, which he did, "étill and workmen of Hongkong, with of the Strike Union is strengthen bong circulated, through imperia- tion, Indicating that Tunn was viduals to cesse; then let the Chi- correspondence from Moscow, larve smiling out any political motives what ed by contributions from outside latic motives, by anti-revolution- easily made and is just ns easily ever. Therefore the Hongkong sources. Mary agencies, and by enemies to unmade. delegation hoped that the Canton. It only remains for the National our cause. Any striker found to "Extraterritoriality and customs Government would render them Government to clear out all rebel be alding, and betting such are unimportant to the masses gene- to obtain her just part of the world's offices have been confiscated. The Magistrate, said that the roulette all be severely dealt rally," said Chang returning to his prosperity, and work out her own nowspapers contrasts there dis wheel would have to be continentad such assistanco as would facilitate lous elements In the districts on tumour
theme, but vital at the present salvation along lines of Justice to covertes with M. Chicherin's as if the defendant awerma Guccessful accomplishment of the East
D
nose unite upon a leader strong sums of American currency, many The defendant was remanded un- enough to deal with the altuation false passports and plans and ill to-morrow, do
and wise enough to enable China documents stolen from military Inspector Ogg in reply to the