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SOUTHERN
WAR
TRADE LOAN.
REDS MOBILISING
TROOPS.
BANDITS BUSY.
一拜望 號九月一十英港香
FIRST BATCH OF APPROVALS READY.
Upoù enquiry to-day we legen that in connection with the Trade Loan the first batch of recommendu- tions by the investigating Commit- Now that the war in the Easttep are now almost ready for sub. mission to His Excellency - the
fitiver sector has been brough
overnor for his formal sanction.
TOWN LOOTED.
FIGHTING OVER THE BORDER.
日三十二月九
1925. MONDAY, NOVEMBER
OPEN LETTER.
NAVAL
TO TRADE LOAN COMMITTEE.
We have received the following: "Open Letter" addressed to the members of the Committee of the Trade Loan:
the
FIGHT.
CANTON SQUADRON DEFEATED,
SINGLE: CUPY 10 GENTE
#36 PEP. ANNUM
F
OUR TRADE.
Packard
Prosest prices of the SINGLE-SIX 7-passenger PACKARD MOTOR CAR- RIAGES are as follows :
Sedun
Touring
G. $2,785
G. $2,785
Sedan-Limousine.. G. $2,885 * Domonstration, descriptive literature
and complete information on request. THE DRAGON MOTOR EAR CO., LTD.
OFFICIAL FIGURES
REVEAL BIG DROP.
33 WOND NOI CHUNG NA. HAPPY VALLMY
$5,200 FINE.
MARINE CONVICTION
QUASHED,
Hongkong's trade for the third quarter of this year was, accord- 50 MARINES KILLED.ing to a detailed comparison just TO-DAY'S JUDGMENT REFUGEFS HERE.
Gentlemen: offer no apology
issued by the Imports and Exports
A three months' old conviction Reports are current in the Colony Office, vory much below the An attack by three hundred for addressing you anonymously!
trade in the corresponding quar-registered by Liqut. Comdr. G. F. through the medium of the Press,
have
ters of 1924 and 1923, though Cantonese military cadets on the on the subject of the Trade Loan of an engagement said to
Marine Magistrate, practically to a cluse, there remains
Organisation in connection with Chinese town of Sa U Chung, just for this subject vitally concerns taken place yesterday in the Heung- neither of these years was thought Hole, the
against the Japanese master of the The principal articles are sot Chinese s.s. Kia Lee, and on which only the work of rounding up those the loan las proceeded steadily of over the British border, a brief the public, and I feel that you will shan waterways between Northern to bo good.
be interested to hear about the gunboats and Canton cruft under remnants of the anti-Red forrests and a considerable proportion
out in table form, and under the of the sum to be loaned out is though bitter struggle and the sub- hopes and expectations of
tommand of Commander heading of Imports it is to be noted he imposed a fine of $5,200, the which have been scattered about available in the Colony, satisfactory sequent wholesale looting of the Chinese regarding this matter: the while being pursued by the "Red arrangements having been made place was reported in Hongkong about their anxieties and disap-Seminoff, with the result that one that there was a tremendous fall- maximum. penalty, was quashed pointments. But I do offer you myof, the latter was sunk, with theng off in rice, raw sugar, cotton this morning when the Court of army. The Canton Government is The big batch of applications wh'en now directing its attention to the were received have been very care-
fully investigated by the Committee) Southern and West River sectors, which should now be renumed the that the first batch of recommends-
members of the Maritimes Custom tions to His - Excellency the South-West sector, as war opera.
Governor, whose approval to all Service, whò, robbed of practically
for submission almost at once.
tions carried on in either of the grants Is necessary, will be ready all they possessed, fled the city and situation of the Colony prior to the Wing Kien, belonging to the Nor-proceeding years.
two sectors must necessarily bring
into action forces which are operate
ing in the other.
Consideration of the remaining arrived in Hongkong with nothing
but what they stood up in.
I
the
yurn and woollens. Most of the yesterday
assurance that I am not being actu- The news was received through ated by any ulterior motive: that loss of fifty marines, and three specified articles in the list Appeal (Mr. Justice Gompertz and" show reductions. As regards Ex- Mr. Justice Wood) delivered judg- grind:" I have no "axe to and, as stated above, it is expected the agency of a number of Chinese that, personally, I am in no way
at others damaged.
parts, rice again shows the largest It appears that the two light-falling off as compared with the ment. interested in the Loun.
draft gunboats Wong Chih and corresponding quarters of the two The appeal against the conviction
Refined sugar Now, what was the financin
was conducted by Mr. F. C, Jenkin: was also tremendously down, and big drops have to be recorded in and Sir Henry Pollock, KC, ap- announcement of the Loan? It is, thern fleet, were guarding
think, no exaggeration to say that waters. of Suntak and Heungahan. cotton yarn, woollen and cotton peared for the respondent. it was grave. The Banks-doubt whilst the Canton craft, described goods.
The judgment was read by Mr. The quarter's imports totalled Sa U Chung has throughout all less for good reasons, which I do
not profess to know--refused to as the "West Sea Squadron." were £11,122,880, as compared with Justice Wood, who outlined the the recent trouble been violentilend one money, irrespective of the on patroi duty from Kum Chook to £15,114,449 for the corresponding facts, stating that it was agreed
period of 1923, and £20,094,135 for anti-Red in its sentiments and this amount or quality of the securities Ying Go Chui, in the Heungshan
Creditors were pressing district. debtors for
The repayment.
The Canton boats comprised some The quarter's exports totalled] Cash vitality of credit was gone.
to Whampoa and that she anchored £7,573,826, as compared with The Cadets arrived on the out-appeared to have completely vanish- tea Vessels. mostly" revenut
$15,850,342 for the corresponding in the waters of the Colony on the decided that Chu Pui-lek, Road East, on Saturday, a taxieh skirts of the town towards the ered from the market. The Chineas launches, the two largest being the period of 1933, and £16,241,848 for right of Aug. 9th-10th, for the pur- d-Marshal directing operations came into collision with a moter
af last week and quickly disarmed were driven to appeal to the GC Kong Tah and the Kong Ku. They the corresponding period of last pose of taking a pilot on board for wis emerging he south-west Sector, is to mo-ear which se his entire unit, now stationed Tal Yuen Street. Some damage the garrison, which appears, how Chinese Delegation, headed by the were passing Tso Hai Chow (an year.
was caused to the taxi.
ever, to have put up a good fight the against superior numbers.
applications is still proceeding.
At a military council, composed
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MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
u Pui-tek, Loo Dek-ping. Wong Wu Tek-sing and "Fg-mow,
Wang Ching-wai, Ku Ying-fan,
2, gers, held on the 4th inst.. t
FOUR WEEK-END CASES. While proceeding along Queen's
the Little North River districts In avoiding a boy who had got on he front, to be the main strength to the roadway in front of
of the centre body of the Canton
y now in the field. Besites, Dek-ping is to mobilise four .ments of the, Hunanese unit, 19 Lake up positions on the right wing
is not the first time that the offered. Reds have occupied the place.
Following their occupation
vernment for assistance.
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the corresponding period of last that the vessel was on her way with 97 passengers from Shanghai
year.
the
the further stage of the voyage.
She did so and paid light dues, and later was boarded and detained.
the
was
Chinese members on the Legistative isiet between Heungshan and Shuni
DEBT ADMITTED. Council, waited on the Govern Tak) where the Northern gunboat?! ment, and the whole outlook was
impressively were on guard, when the Kong Tah, SUMMARY COURT JUDGMENT. After a case, with which the Court of exhaustively and machine, on Saturday, a motor car swerved sharply against the left
In the Summary Court this were not concerned, was heard, side of the road and can into the the city, the Cadets indulged in an stated by their spokesman. Thanks said to be the flagship, opened fire
to his masterly presentation of the on the gunboats. The latter remorning, before Mr. Justica Wood, the ship again proceeded and wa Oce orgy of looting, their officers case, and to the sympathy of Sir plied, and firing lasted for wall of the Wanchai Market.
son Chinese firm brought an action wheel was damaged.
parently making no attempt to Edward Stubbs, the Goverpauent
course of which against another Chinese firm for again detained with 52 of her ori An Indian pedestrian Was knirked down and injured by a
check their depredations. The was, within the space of only a few time, in the
the the launch Fai Wan is stated to balance due for goods sold and having been put ashore on
sum of $341.41, being the ginal passengers, the remainder duys, able to announce that and Chan Ming-shu is to mobilise public car in Queen's Read yester-Customis men appear to have been Home Government would at once have been sunk, fifty marines killed delivered. There werk three decrders of the Marine Magistrate. one division of the 4th Army Corp day. Although the man was some the subjects of specially bad treat-place at the disposal of the
On the 12th, the muster and three other launches more or fondants, Mr. E. S. C. Brookes act- what severely injured, he refused ment and those arriving in thelonial Government a sum not ex to operate on the left wing.
to, go to hospital, and was taken to
McCallum appearing for the plain-charged with unlawfully carrying his home.
Colony on Saturday seemed to tajceeding £3,000,000, which was the less damaged, these latter including ing on behalf of two, and Mr. D.
Sigure suggested by the Chinese the Kong Tah.
tiffs. Only one of the defendants 52 passengers on the Kia Lee with- After the engagement, the Can-
out having a passenger certificate have appeared.
Mr. McCallum explained that in the waters of the Colony. The The effect of this announcement ton squadron is, slated to
fled back to Kum Chook.
there had been disputes among absence of the certificate was ad- was marvellous and instantaneous.
financial! The whole tone of the
the partners of the defendant firm mitted and on the facts set out he and he believed an action had was convicted. situation at once improved. Faith in the Colony immediately revived. All hoped that with £3,000,000 | available to be lent good were SEQUEL TO DISTURBANCE. securities, of which there
ample, the nightmare of enforced
CAPTURE OF LING SHAN.
POCKET PICKED,
U. S. SAILOR FINED.
The
FRENCH FINANCES.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
OBJECTIONS.
Paris, Nov. 8: According to Le Journal the Cartel members of the Finance Committee, with only one dissen- tient, have unanimously rejected the Government's financial proposals, Reuter.
FURTHER DISAGREEMENT.
bean instituted" in Original Juris-
The question arising for deel- diction as between the partners.sion was whether the Kia Lee was The goods had been ordered and delivered before any question as to partnership disagreements
arose.
The defendant who appeared said he was a partner in the firm, and admitted the debt.
Judgment was given against all the defendants.
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a passenger ship within the mean- ing of the Ordinance, where a passenger ship
defined 25 "every ship exceeding 60 tons regis- ter carrying passengers from, to or between places in the waters of the Colony." If the vessel came with
conviction in that definition the must be confirmed but otherwise it must be reversed.
In addition to these plans, Worg Mow-kung. the acting Garrison A Chinese shopkeeper was ad-more or less content to have escaped Delegation. Commandant, is to have 20,000 mitted to the Government Civil. with their lives." troops as reserves in readiness to Hospital yesterday with an injured, take the field at any moment. The foot, caused through being knock- field of operation of the right winged down in Matheson Street by a is to be from Loting, in a south-motor car, In a report made to westerly direction, including all the police the victim says that the districts west of Loting; its objec-car did not stop after the accident. tive being Shun Yee; the right wing embraces, in a south-westerly direction, all districts south-east off Yan Ping and Young Chun, the ob-|
At the Central Magistracy to-sales and wholesale insolvencies jective being Young Kong. The
day, L. A. Hisinger, a sailor from would exist no more. Surely the entre and main body will cover all. S. SEAMEN'S EXPERIENCE. the U. S. S. Sacramento, was order money would be forthcoming with stricts lying between Loting and H. Lesser, a seaman from the ed to pay a fine of $10 on charges in one week? Two weeks? Three Shun Yee on the west, and Hoiping. U.S.S. Helena, charged a Chiness of creating a disturbance and of weeks? One month?
Then as the weeks passed and! Yan Ping and Yeung Chun on the at the Central Magistracy to-day, damaging a cel in which he was
at the No. 2 Police still not one dollar came out from east, the objectives being Yeung with picking his pocket and steal-detained
Station by ripping up the floor the Loan to relieve the financial
NOISY CHICKEN. Chun and Koochow.
It was contended on behalf of ing $2.
the respondent that the widest In evidence, the sailor said that hoards and breaking the lock of the tension, people begun to get uneasy. anxious and even incredulous. As
Later.
STORY OF A BUNDLE. possible interpretation should be As regards Tang Poon-yan, he was walking along Queen's gate.
nsual, rumour succeeded rumour. since the retirement of his forces to Road in the direction of the Ilang- defendant's arrest was The Government could lend only to
adopted. The learned Attorney The Finance Committee of the
A Chinese carrying a bundle of General had argued that the words Yeung Kong and Knochow, he has kong Hotel, when a Chinese brought about through the receipt of Anance business: not to ward Chamber, by 17 voles to 14, has what appeared to be clothing. Leen in the defensive, and no new bumped into him, and the nature a telephonic message at the Station, off depreciative and ruinous sales, resolved urging the Government to wrapped up in a handkerchief, were correctly paraphrased in the charge, as allowed to include any development is reported from th of the bump was such as to give informing the Inspector on duty
In any case, the ridiculous mar- avoid inflation specifying came under the watchful eye of a quarter. A report comes from Pak. rise to a suspicion in his mind that a foreign seaman was creat gins demanded by the Government various points on which they dis-lukong in Wanchai yesterday. Carrying of passengers in hoi stating that what was at one He felt for the money which ing a big noise in Tai Yuen Street, would render the Loan.commer- agree with the Government's As, he failed to get a satisfactory waters of the Colony for however
breast where he had invaded one of the! time the Peoples Army under should have been in h
claily useless. Indeed, was the financial proposals. Though they explanation from the man as to short a distance and without re Wong Ming-tong, in the early stages pocket, but it was not there. He houses. There was a large crowd
subsequently turned down a Com- the nature of the bundle, the conference to any voyage or destina- of the revolution, as well as roving immediately chased and caught up of curious spectators gathered money really available at all?""
And so, as the rumours increas-munist motion for the definite stable gave it a squeeze, and was
For the appellant it was claimed bandits in the Yamchow and Lim-with the accused after running around the sailor when the police ed, the situation gradually drifted rejection of the proposals, the startled to bear a clucking sound chow districts, have suddenly made a few yards. The money had been came on the scene to take him into back to the old days of despon- Radical and Socialists voted against issuing from the depths of the that the language of the section
eap dropped on the ground, by the custody. At the station, Hisinger dency and financial stagnation. in the Committee in order to bundle. He thereupon undid it, could only be referable tured the city. It is said that these accused, during the pursuit, was much annoyed, which fact hel Gentlemen, believe me, every emphasise their desire to make the to discover a live chicken within. terminal points of the voyage. bandits, having resumed their old fact being attested to by Mr showed by rattling the gate of the one appreciates that the task im-Government's scheme the basis of Questioned by the Magistrate This latter, said Mr. Wood, wag, title of "Peoples' Army" are now. A. P. Meik, who gave corrobora-cell, which caused the lock to posed upon you is staggering in
to-day, the prisoner said he had in the Court's opinion, the right a. discussion-Reuter. co-operating with other sections of tive evidence.
break. Eventually peace was re its dificulty, and that the Govern- The committee agreed to the paid for the chicken, but on the construction. If the legislators had
when an escort arrived ment could not have found a body necessity of creating a the Peoples Army, and, with the
sinking Inspector stating that not a cent intended to impose the onerous re- troops under Tang Kwok-leung, al the nerused to three months' hard from the warship to take him of men more qualified than your fund, but raised serious objections was found on the man after he quirements of the section upon all aelves to discharge this well-nigh regarding the scope of the fund had been taken into custody, Mr. ships, carrying passengers in the superhuman task. I do not there and expressed, a desire to hear. E. Lindsell registered a convic-waters of the Colony, ant words fore presume to offer you any ad- | M. Painleve before deciding. tion for uninwful possession and were available which would have vice. But I hope it is not pre-Hence a few days! further delay passed sentence of fourteen days' expressed the intention without
hard labour.. sumptuous on my part if I were is inevitable-Reuter. to give utterance to what I believe to be the views generally held in the Colony concerning this matter. I take it that the fundamental object of the Loan is, in the words
a descent on Ling Shan and
Mr. R. A. D. Forrest sentenced stored
brother of Tang Sing-shuen, who labour.
was shot by Tang Poon-yan, are ad- vancing through Limehow. Their
object is said to be to cross the CHAUFFEUR FINED.".
straits and take possession of Hai-
nan island while Tang Poon-yan is at the front,
IN DAMASCUS NOW.
back on board.
DE PINEDO FETED.
FAILURE TO REPORT
ACCIDENT.
¿
"TYPE OF NEW ITALIAN."
Rome, Nov. 8.
Whilst returning from the New Territories some little time ago,
and
THE ITALIAN PLOT.
tion,
ambiguity.
the
to the
His Honour the acting Chief 1Justice, concurred.
MARINE COURT.
CAPTAIN FINED $100.
EXPORTING MÓNEY.
CHINESE WOMAN FINED. a Chinese motor-driver met with In response to shouts by the of the Secretary of State for the
A well-dressed Chinese woman, an accident whilst rounding the crowd in the Pizza Colonna, Signor Colonics, for the restoration of POLICE ACTIVITY CONTINUES.
the wife of a shopkeeper of Sama- PEOPLE DAZED AND SULLEN. Corner near the Laichikok Prison, Mussolini, Com. de Pinedo and his the financial credit of Hongkong.
Rome, Nov. 8. rang, was fined $50 to-day at the! with the result that the car over-mechanic Campanelli appeared To enable owners of properties Damascus Nov. 8. turned and a passenger was injur-on the balcony."
to pay off their incumbrances, and The police in practically the Magistracy for attempting to export The town itself is now quiet, ed.
Capt. C. K. Jones, master of the but the situation is still serious.
Signor Mussolini in a speech thus, to save such properties from whole of Italy are engaged in money to Macao. She was arrest- Immediately after the accident, described de Pinedo as a type of being dumped into the existing domiciliary searches and arrests, ed yesterday at the Macno wharf remain a menace. The people of seen again until he was arrested Fascismo hoped to create.
cise object of the loan.And, evidence of a great revolutionary steamer, and, when questioned in the Marine Court this morning fer regard to a sum of $600 found on (1) falling to proceed to quaran the Muslim quarter appear to be in Pakhoi Street on Saturday."
similarly, to enable a business to plot. dazod and sullen. North of
All those arrested in Genoa her, admitted that she was taking tine anchorage having come from On appearing before Mr. E, W. De Pinedo said that everywhere be continued which otherwise Damascus the French jurisdiction Hamilton, at the Kowloon Mugla he had flown he had found eviden- will fall for lack of cash is with yesterday have been released, but the money to Macno, but being an infected port, and (2) allowing outside the towns is practically tracy this morning, the driver co of admiration for Italy. in Buch object. Indeed, the the searches continue in Genoa and only a newcomer to the Colony, 860 passengers to land without the non-existent.
The defendant pleaded that bin pleaded guilty to a charge of fall- The streets were illuminated in ramifications of finance are so elsewhere. Numerous arrests she was Ignorant of the local customary medical examination. French reinforcements are hourly ing to report the accident and he the evening, bands playing every-wonderous and intricate that I have occurred in Leghorn follow-regulations, Mr R. E. Lindsell Home and add Me having was inde205ed in teams and where and coner leiding was that event that the souches of afty dwellings, ordered that the fine was to be owners ordered him to go to
Organised bands around Damascus the driver absconded and was not the new Italian generation which dead market, does fulfil the pro- They are reported to be accuring prior to boarding the morning 5.8. Liangchow, was fined $100 at
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