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SHAMEEN STRIKE
THE UNION'S LATEST, DEMANDS.
AMENDED LIST.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
¡OUNDED 1801
·F'he $1,359
THE "SUI YICK."
MORE AMMUNITION
二拜禮
FOUND.
Information was received by the police, authorities" yesterday that 160 Chinese soldiers, who taken off the Sui Yick and escort.
were
魏六月十英港香
SHIPS SEIZED.
TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 6, 1925日九十月八
SHANGHAI ENQUIRY. THE DEADLOCK.
NORWAY AND SWATOW EMBARGO.
CHINESE ATTITUDE OUTLINED:
Non-Co-Operation Maintained.
Peking, Oct. 5. The Chinese Foreign Ministry, in a Note to the Senior Minister, given out this evening and dated Oct, 2nd, states:-
ed across the border, have been MINISTER PROTESTS. The list of demands made by the despatched to Canton from Shum,
International issues are raised chun by train. What has been Strikers at Canton as regards redone with these men after arrival as a result of the seizure by the sumption of work on the Shameen. at their destination is not known, Swatow authorities of two Nor has undergone amendment in cernor is it a matter of great interest weglan vessels, concerning which for the Hongkong authorities, who' tain of the articles. The amended
are relieved to have these unwek protests have been made by the draft of article three now reads come visitors off their hands.Norwegian Minister at Peking.. "Chinese workmen in foreign em- On enquiries this morning it It will be recalled that, having ploy at Shameen and Canton shall was learned that not be required to work more than search of the Sui Yick, some wrested Swalow from the Reds,
30,000 rounds of ammunition, of a the anti-Red authorities recently would only further complicate the "8 hours' day and in case of over more or less serviceable nature, seized some foreign vessels which
time, compensation shall be paid were found in the hold of the according to the scale of their steamer, which has now been re- had put in there, these including turned to the original owners, a two Norwegian boats and at least wages. There shall be an improve local company, from whose pos-
fone Russian vessel. ment of treatment and working session it was stolen whilst sailing conditions for women and child- on the high seas.
ren."
subsequent
Regarding the loaded arms sub- sequently found on some of the
Diplomatic action has now been taken in regard to the Norwegian
HONGKONG DELEGATES
BLAMED.
SINGLE: COPY 10 CERTO. 136 PER ANNUM.
Packard
THE CANTON RUN.
DAILY SERVICE RESUMED.
THE MAN
WHO OWNS
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. *13 WANİLƏNDI CHUNG RÁŽ
HAPPY VALLEY.
With the Sailing of the 8.8. Fatshan to Canton this morning there has been started a daily service between the two ports, for
the first time since the boats were taken off the run. There will be A boat every morning at eight
CANTON UNEASY.
ARREST OF SZECHUAN GENERAL.
COMING BATTLE
UNION'S COMPLAINT.
The military situation in Canton With reference to the fruitless negotations in Canton between 'clock from Hongkong and also still remains in a very unsettled the Strike Union and the Hong boat from Canton at the same state, for news has been received kong merchants delegation, as time, excepting that there will be in the Colony to-day that the The Chinese Government' inform- previously reported in our col no boat from Hongkong to Canton
on Sunday mornings and, conse-Szechuan General, Yun Hak-mo, has been arrested there by order of ed the British Charge D'Affaires o umns, a further report now comer quently, no boat from Canton on
The service General Chang. Kal-shek, presum- that a judicial to hand in which it is stated that Monday mornings. September 1st
ably on account of suspicions re- its report of this conferences to Fatahan and the s.s. Honam..
fair number afgarding his attitude towards the enquiry into the Shanghai incident the Strike Union, in submitting is being maintained by the s.s..
the Executive Council, places the! There were
passengers on board the 8.5. Fat- Government. General Yung, whose issue and involve a waste of time.
forces were recently defeated in The Union says the Hongkong morning, and much interest is be-, The Chinese Government does not entire blame on the delegation.shan when it left for Canton this waver from this attitude.
The Note reiterates the view that delegates did not act upon the ing evinced in this her first trip. Szechuan, only arrived in Canton the lapse of time has changed the Union's suggestion that the de- The .. Honam is due to arrive a week or so ago, and he was given eircumstances. Most of the legates should present their coun- afternoon and it will be enlighten- very warm welcome" by officials. Coincident with this nowa is a requisite evidence has become un-tar-terms and conditions in order, ing to know whether the passengers
she took up yesterday morning were report that General Chang Kai-shek states that after the Shanghai
It is "being" passengers of late.
'here at about three o'clock this
Artfele five has been altered to deported men, it is surmised that ships, as the following Reuter's obtainable or has disappeared. It to indicate what was meant by able to land, as have been other has left for the East River front
the following: "The British and
- French Bridges of Shameen shall
over
be daily closed at 12 o'clock mid-when the men learned that they
escorted
into night; they may be opened in case would be
Chinese territory. Otherwise, it of exceptional happenings; no
is not known how these arms special permit shall be required for could have escaped the attention. agress and ingress through these of the police officers when the pri- !
soners underwent gates."
search.
'
Article six has now assumed the following form:"Chinese people shall have the privilege of freely walking, or sitting on the benches,"
J
their first
THE "O. M. S.”
along the Bund of the Shameen, and HOME SECRETARY EXPLAINS,
shall also have the privilege to make use of the jetty for the pur- pose of embarkation and disembar
a
Afterwards,
on
CANTON'S REVENUF.
these had been stowed away in message from Peking, which rench incident and the Chinese Govern delegation in its request for "min-
ment's protest in that connection, imum terms." me out-of-the-way place in theed us this morning, indicates:
It is further stated that the steamer, and were taken out only
"Two Norwegian steamers the Powers sent diplomatic re- to Shanghai and
Union has suspended negotiations recently put in at Swatow en presentatives
these representatives investigated! route to Canton with cargo. the case. Though the negotiations until the punitive expedition on through the the East River sector shall have General Chan King-ming detain-brought suspense, ed the vessels at Swatow, declar- diplomatic representatives' lack of come to an end, for the reason authority to settle the case, yet no that information is said to have ing an embargo against Canton,
question arose in respect of the
when the been received that the Hongkong "The Norwegian Minister has facts. twice protested to the Waichiaopu British Government proposed re-merchants are giving material investigation by judicial procedure, assistance to Chan King-ming to (Ministry for Foreign Affairs), the Chinese Government instructed
warlike operations carry but so far without result, though
its Charge D'Affaires in London to the Waichiaopu is making efforts inform the British Government that against the Canton Government. to obtain the release of the re-investigation was unnecessary. vessels." London, Oct. 5.
It should be explained, of course, This view was also made known on several occasions to the representa- Lord Derby prusided at that the seizure is not the personal tives of the interested Powers. luncheon given by the Liverpool act of General Chan King-ming. The Chinese Govern rent has not Conservative Club in honour of Sir who is not at present in Swatowwavered from the atti-ide original. Wm. Joynson-Hicks. Lord Derby which is, however, in control of A ninth and Inst article is
ly maintained-Reuter. declared that the Government when his troops. follows Foreigners or. foreign it was elected had a mandate to Arms desiring, to engage Chinese workmen in their employ, whether mush Communism, and not to st be residential or the company's remain twenty-five years in Iraq. service, must apply to the Foreign He said the Conservatives were Business Union, through whose re-somewhat uneasy as to this.
Sir Wm. Joynson-Hicks, referring tommendation only secret engage to the partial blessing he gave to ments are permitted."
the Organisation for the Mainten- Articles 1, 2, 4, 7 and 8 remainance of Supplies, and the criticisms, hirst issued. These demand free- notably Mr. Ramsay Macdonald's, dom of meetings, associations, thereof, said he told the O.M.S. speech-making, publications, and as he told other organisations that story behind the three new short the right to strike; reinstatement they will not be allowed any mili without victimisation; an entirely
tary status whatever, but if any regulations which have just re Chinese police force on the Sha-organisation is prepared to hand cently boen made, by the Hong- Imeen; compensation for losses him classified lists of names. for kong
Government under the white on strike; and abolition of all discrimination against Chinese in the concession.
kation."
AMERICAN-DUTCH DISPUTE.
SWISS ARBITRATOR
APPOINTED.
as
transport drivers he would be a focl
OPIUM LAW.
REASON FOR NEW HONGKONG RULES:
There
is a very interesting
special constables, engineers and Opium Ordinance, and which were not to accept them on behalf of published in the latest Govern- the Government-Reuter-
ment Gazette.
IMPERIAL SOCIAL HYGIENE.
PROBLEM OR
VENEREAL
DISEASE.
At the First Opium Conference
held at Geneva earlier in the year
Chinese Opposition.
Shanghai, October 6, The Shanghai Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, in a full- page advertisement published in the foreign newspapers, declares that all Chinese citizens will under no circumstances be identified or associated with the Judicial Enquiry, Reuter:
MAMMOTH AIRPLANE
CARRIER.
THE U.S.S. LEXINGTON LAUNCHED.
Quincy, Mass., Oct. 5.
OPIUM IMPORTS LEGALISED.
said in Hongkong to-day that the together with General Wu Teh- boycott is to be tightened up again,ching, in order to direct military, and that there will be a re-imposi-operations in the coming fight with tion of the restrictions against pas-
Theming. It is and that General sengers from Hangkong landing the forces of General Chan King- when they arrive at Canton. experience of the Honam's passen-Chang has established the first line gers will clear up any doubts on
of defence at Sheklung, the second this point.
line at Shekpal and the third line in the suburbs of Canton.
PEACE PACT CONFERENCE.
With regard to the position of General Chan King-ming's troops,,. It is said that they are now at VERY PROMISING BEGINNING. HO Then, near Waichow, the main forces being under the com3 Locurno,, Oct. 5. The Security Pact Conference mand of General Lau Chi-luk pend-" has opened. The Mayor welcomed ing the arrival of General Chan the delegates; and Mr. Austen himself. Telegraphic news has Chamberlain an inaugural
in
address said he hoped the conversa- been received to the effect that tions would be kept free and General Hung Shao-lun, who has informal, all meeting on a footing been resting in his native district of perfect equality without any in Hunan, is coming down to take
formal president..
}}}
The smuggling of opium into Kwangtung Province, and the illicit trade in the prepared state of the drug that is being carried on by unscrupulous persons, can-
The conference decided to waive part in the pending hostilities.
There is a general belief that not be suppressed by the Canton Government with the means at any discussion of a general nature its command, in spite of the many in order immediately to consider fighting between the Reds and measures that have been put into the articles of the draft security anti-Reds will shortly break out, operation.
pact, drawn up by the legal experts although the local naval authorities In view of this fact, and also of the Powers in London recently. have to-day received no news of that instead of having to expend An agreement was immediately developments in this connection." large sums of money to carry out reached as regards certain articles, the measure adopted for the sup- whilst amendments were proposed pression of this traffic it can be to other articles, which were turned into a source of revenue reserved for fuller examination by for the Government, the Bureau legal experts. Other articles were for the Suppression of Opium has reserved for later examination by received sanction from the Minthe conference. All were delighted istry of Finance to legalise the with the celerity with which the prepared-opium traffic by levying conference began its discussions a stamp duty on its sale. The
the session
HOME FOOTBALL.
OPIUM SMUGGLING,
A CHINESE SKIPPER CHARGED.
A large amount of opium(at
The U.S.S. Lexington, which is following proclamation in respect and the progress already made. least $40,000 worth) is said to be as auguring Anal Chinese skipper of the coaster Po (and which was attended by Mr. America's second mammoth aero- of the tariff rate of the stamp duty The Germans themselves regard involved in the case in which the
plane carrier has been launched, to be levied on the sale of pre-
Sang, is being held in connection'. with the alleged discovery of pri-: A. G. M. Fletcher on behalf of She has a clear landing space of pared opium has been issued by success. Reuter.
the Bureau. the local Government) an agree over five acrea" on her decks, and
vate papers relative to the smug-- "Notice is hereby given that the ment was come to between all the is able to accommodate seventy-two following tariff of the stamp duty
gling of oplum between the Co lony and Kwang Chow Wan. The Powers attending by which the machines. She has a displacement to be levied on prepared opium, signatories to
that
agreement of 33,000 tons, a length of 880 feet, which has received the sanction
precise amount of the drug which London, Oct. 5. bound themselves to adopt certain and a beam of 105 feet. She is of the Ministry of Finance, comes
has been smuggled thus far The Hon. Mr. Amery, Secretary measures for the control of the electrically, driven and has eight into force immediately, Opium
has not been ascertained, accord- Ing to the Superintendent of Im- ports, and Exports, but a search of the ship and the Company's offices has yielded important results.
Chan Chou, the skipper of the
1
Washington, Oct. 5.
An agreement has been reached
15 Articles turbine engines, developing 180,000 coming from Wuchow and de-
YESTERDAY'S LEAGUE
RESULTS:
London, Oct. 6.
First Division, Aston Villa 4, Sunderland 2.. West Ham 0, Arsenal 4.
Second Division. Fulham 1, Wolves 2. Southampton 4, Darlington
Scottish.
between the United States and of State for the Colonies, in open-traffic. There were Holland to appoint M. Max Huber,ing the Imperial Social Hygiene in the Agreement, but so thorough-horse-power, and is capable of a clared bona fide before the 10th of Switzerland, the President of the Congress at Wembley, and dealing ly does the Hongkong Government speed of forty miles per hour. Octobor, 1925, a stamp duty of 20 The following are the results of Court of International Justice at with the yenereal diseases problem, govern and control the sale of She was originally designed as the cents per tack. Opium imported matches played in the English the Hague, to be arbiter in the dis-spid it was beginning to be more opium here that there was only battle cruiser Lexington, sistership by the Tung Hing Company, do League to-day: pute over the sovereignty of the and more realised that the adminis-one Article in the Geneva agree of the U.9.3. Saratoga, but was clared as bona fide before 10th- island of Palmas, in the Philip tration of the whole Empire must ment, which was not covered by changed to an aeroplane carrier October, 1925, a stamp duty of 50 Opium coming pines. Mr. Frederiek Nielson will be based on a sound health policy. Hongkong's law on the matter under the Washington Treaty, cents por teel. be special counsel to represent the They were beginning to see in That Article had reference to The Lexington carries eight eight- from foreign countries and de United States. Reuter's American Africa that tropical disease was not sale of opium to minors, and su inch guns besides anti-aircraft and clarodas bona fide before the Service.
something inherent in the climate the Government has now added the machine guns.--Reuter... |sa, much as it was due to neglect regulation that "No person shall. [Palmas island lies within the and preventable. Although Africa sell or offer for sale any opium line fixed by the treaty between chiefly needed attention the need to any person under 21 years of Spain and the United States as existed on a smaller scale in mary age." It is, of course, not usual forming a part of the Philippine other parts of the Empire. The for young persons to smoke opium archipelago. The Dutch Govern-problem of venereal disease was but there has hitherto been no ment has always questioned Spain's most serious but he was hopeful law in Hongkong forbidding the right to cede it to the United
because no disease was more purchase of opium by a junior on States because of the historical
behalf of somebody else. status of the island. They claim capable of eure-Reuter
Opportunity has also been taken
that it has always been recognized as under Dutch rufe in the East Andies. The Inhabitants are un- derstood to have given their allegi- ance to the Netherlands but the question was held in abeyance until 1906. It was then agreed that neither country should assert
FINNISH NAVAL DISASTER.
OVER FIFTY, LIVES LOST. Helsingfors, Oct. 5.
to make the control of dross opium. more strict. The sale of dross has always been controlled, but
GERMAN DYEWORKS
COMBINE.
INTERESTING CHANGE OF
NAME.
Berlin, Oct. 5.
It is authoritatively announced
the two new regulations on this that the leading German dyeworks, matter are better worded than the including the Badische Aniline, will
Po Sang, appeared in the dock at the Central Magistracy this morn ing, when an application for a remand was made. The charge was one of allowing the vessel, 10th October, 1925, a stamp duty
which has traded regularly be of 40 cents per taet. Opium com-1
tween Hongkong and Kwang ing from Wuchów and declared
Chow Wan, to be used for the after the 10th October, 1925; will
Dundee, Motherwell 2. Playing in the Charity Shield, the transportation of oplum, and on require a stamp duty of ton cents per tael, and in addition a special Amateurs beat the Professionals by this charge the defendant was re- Burtax of 20 cents per taol
six goals to two, at Tottenham, manded until Friday, Any opium found and sold. The professionals team was entirely without have the required stamp composed of the members of the duty affixed to it will be do team that toured Australia, cinrod as contraband and con- Reuter fiscated, "All persons having pre- pared opium, in their possession before the 10th October 1925 are required to make a declaration of the nature and quantity of opium
MOROCCO. 'APPOINTMENT:
"NEW RESIDENT GENERAL
Paris, Oct. B
Mr. G. R. Haywood later ap Feared in the Court to state that he was appearing for the defen dant, and was informed that the defendant had been remanded on- a bail of $5,000,00
The Po Bang is a small Chinese coaster of over 700 tons, She is managed by the Teon Sang Com- pany.
old regulations and make the in- amalgamate soon. The amalgamat at the office of the Tung King tention of the Government muching firms will be merged into the Company without delay; and all clearer.
Badische Company which, after opium imported by special license, sovereignty until the question had The Finnish torpedo boat 52; ran It is worthy of special note that increasing its capital by the capital after the 10th October 1925, is to
It is authoritatively stated that been definitely settled. It is under-aground and capsized in a violent Hongkong's control of the sale of of the other companies amalgamat be declared at the aforesaid office stood that the terms of the present storm during manoeuvres in the opium is so strict as to conforming with it will change its name opium will be examined and the Minister of Justice M. Steeg agreement provide that each Gulf of Bothnia. It is understood so very closely with the ideas of to Interessen Gemeinschaft Fuer weighed by the inspectors who former Governor General of guvernment may submit a case in that the whole crow, of three those who framed the agreement Farben Industrid Aktien Gesell will appraise the amount of Algarin, will Auce legal form to Dr. Huber, who will officers and 50 men have been at Geneva. Only one new reg schaft with headquarters at stamp duty to bo levied agcord Lyauterie Realdent General of mor We make a final decision.
drowned Reuter
on the day of ita arrival. The
Mome
Marsha