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THE STRIKE.
WHAT CANTON IS THINKING.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1001
No. #1,060
COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS..
XD WLTAT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19,
A CANTON PROPOSAL.
The City Chamber of Com- merce in (says the Canton Gazette) aponzoring a proposal that steps¦ Interesting statements are forth-should be taken to have all com- coming from a Canton correspon-mercial transactions, and
CHANGED VIEWS?
COB-
AT BAY.
ULSTER SPECIALS"
REVOLT.
IN
BARRACKS SEIZED.
London, Dec. 18.
CURIOUS ACCIDENT.
CABLE DRUM HITS MOTOR CAR.
was crashed into, sustaining com-
the drum..
ANOTHER MISHAP
1925.
日四初月一十
SWATOW NEWS.
IRREGULARITIES BY
· THE PICKETS.
TROOPS PARADE.
BIRGLE; OOPT 18 ORITE
$50 PER AMIFUM
Bulls
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Before you buy ANY Motor
Vehicle, inspect the DEAL-
ER'S stock of ACCESSORIES
and SPARE PARTS.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, LIMITED.
Tol. U. 1246 or 1247.
33, Wong Not Chung Bd. Happy Valley
and Inners
From the Office Butts.
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An electric cable drum rolling
On Tuesday last an Abordonian Whonover tho parsons start to down Mount Kellett Road waa
was observed to tip a Hongkong, tell us about the standards of our the cause of an unusual aeckiont
Hotel boy. Next morning he Puritan fathers somehow or other. yesterday. The drum was doing:
wont into hospital with dengue. we think of witches. rolled down the hill when is got
A report from Swatow states that,
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0.0 MacWhirter Protesting against their disban and sped, towards Stubbs And Chow Yan-ioi, the Administrator
intimates that. dent in regard to the nttitude of tracts between Chinese and forment as a result of the Irish Boun Progress at Stables Road was of Civil Affairs, previously report of the last wedding reception, shouldn't it be called Malingering Judging from the loak of some having recovered from the effects people when supposed to be sick, the Canton Government and vari-eign merchants set forth in
dary Agreement, men of a class of stopped by Dr. Black's caf which ed as arrested by order of the he is open for future engage- Malaria ? aus organizations concerning the the Chinese language for legal Ulster Special Constabulary, in-age to both front and rra tud. Canton. Government, has left for ments. settlement of the strike and buy-and official purposes,
cluding a number of British ex-guards. No-one was injured. Canton by a Russian Soviet Volun-
The Peak tiger has been soort omcers, at three of the five special police, blamed the wind us boing teer steamer, and that Chang Wo Reator hasn't told us about the
The coolie, in a report to tho
So far this hunting season, pgsiu.
ม นี Belfast barrucks, have struck and the cause of his losing hold of and Yu Ying-yeang, lately liberat-Heir to the Throne being thrown
MacWhiiter feels he could fi seized the barracks, refusing no-
this Canton business provided he' cd, have also sailed for Canton.in the air.
could get advanco information as comers. They have cess to all
Fan Kee-mou, the newly appointed]
to the mannor in which it will be A motor car which was driven Mayor of Swatow, arrived
Christmas makes turkeys mad. ultimately settled. sent an ultimatum so the Premier,
at Lots of them even lose their by a learner under the suporvi- Sir James Craig demanding £200 bonus for each, in default volved in an accident yesterday, will take over mayornlly in a day
Asion of its proper driver, was in-Swatow by a Japanese steamor and beads over it.
Near the sanitary offices, in which they will refuse to surren- Queen's Road East, it ran down
Kowloon pedestrians are feel ing a bit more chirpy now that der the arms and equipment in bar-a pedestrian, and the learner It is also reported that the hospital is about to be
bolted from the scone of the ac-Chang Kai-shek witnessed grand opened. cident. The injured man was
00 taken to the Government Civil manoeuvres, by the 1st Division off
"Buffaloes Dance" reads à the 1st Army Corps at a place near newspaper headlino. It should presents have slumped. severely. Hospital.
the Foo Yeung, railway station. be distinctly understood that this The troops included infantry,
doge not refer to the wator specios. cavalry, artillery and engineers. It is said that General Chang was)
cott as" between that port and Pointing out that Chinese mer Hongkong, According to this abchants have been placed hitherto Berver, a distinct change is to be in a very unfavourable position noticed of late in the conversation | since the beginning of commercial of the merchant classes and other intercourse with, foreigners owing. responsible personages in Canton to different ws and business on the subject, with the result that practices, the proposal draws at attention is now turned rather tention to the particular disadvan- more to the question of the develop tage suffered by Chinese contracts ment of Whampoa as a commercial with foreigners made in a foreign port than to the general problem innguage. of the strike settlement. In this
racks
of
The Ulster Home Minister says During the first stage of our foreign trade says the Gazette) that the Government's final terms our merchants were obliged to fare that the men will be given two
connection it is stated that ever the comments of the vernacular rely upon a translator to explain months' leave and full pay. If papery in Canton on the coming the terms of a contract. Being visit of the Hongkong merchants ignorant of the foreign language they remain insubordinate they are: and on account of the unsatis-hable to immediate dismissal and
are to the effect that the object of factory translation in Chinese, the forfeiture of these benefits. the visit is not so much to see what our merchants have put their
The Ulster Cabinet has held a
KIDNAPPED STUDENT.
SHOT BY BANDITS,
or two.
The mystery of the moment is highly satisfied with the rapid the identity of the party that is One of the Pui Ying School execution of all the movements going to laugh last. ᄆᄆ
the latter last week, it is reported.
Have you soon, Captain Blood? Yes, and we saw a broker shiver last Thursday.
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Sympathy is entirely wasted on husbands at this time of year.
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Couldn't the University think out a scheme for awarding travel- ling scholarships to local saIO- .. phone pluyera }
Isn't it about time some-one got out a report on the deleterious
is being done in Canton, as to take chops to contracts rashly if not note of the possibilities of Wham.lindly. Frequent disputes over special meeting and has authorised students kidnapped by bandits and complimented the officers and If this deadlock continues, the offacts of pedestrians on bumpers
business transactions have arisen the Inspector General to issue and held in captivity was shot by men on their fine performance. It public will begin to think in and radiators? pa as a commercial port and to in consequence of the different in-
at Hongkong merchants interestedterpretations of the stipulations ultimatum natifying that any dis-The body of the victim, whose is reported that two Regiments will terms of padlocks. in the scheme for the development aid downs in the contract written affected Specials not returning to name was Chan Chung-yin, was now be sent back to Canton, leaving
in the foreign language. Under duty and not obeying their lawr thrown into the river and was one regiment to garrison Swatcw pocketless uniforms
of that port.
such circumstances,
suffer losses.
our mer-
subsequently picked up by the
be
water police as the corps was under General Ho Ying-yum. discovered floating down the
PICKETS ARRESTED,
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Courtship by Mail Leads to" What China needs most is Marriage," says nowspaper head- for her Ing. But we imagine the fomalo soldiers. chants have been compeited to commands by December 19, will
also had something to do with it. dismissed, forfeiting all claims to
00 The City Chamber of Commerce pay and allowance as from Decem- was found on the corpee stating river near Fatshan. A notioo)
There is a limit to kindness. These motor mishaps remind us It is reported that in consequence The other day a Kowloon lady that there is no arrest for the propose that our Government under the control of a committee, should notify, through their re-ber 19. The men, however, de-that if the other captivo students of serious complaints of the gave her neighbour's child a wary. with the infusion of Cadela inte spective coneu's, all nations trad-felare that they will stand fast till were not ransomed at an early irregularities of the pickets at trumpet as a birthday present.
STRIKE UNION'S ATTITUDE. Since the organization of the pickets has been changed and is
the picket body, the perquisites which formerly amounted to a large sum have been reduced to a mini- mum, and most of the pickets, see- ing that the prospect of enriching „themselves are gone, are desirous
of an early settlement of the strike and a return to work. But they re prevented by the rigid regula tions of the Pickel Corps from making protests against the con-
MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.
ing in our country that the Chinese they are turned out,-Reuter. language is to be the recognized version in any contract concluded within our territory between Chinese
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Later. and foreign merchants. The version in the foreign lan- Though barbed wire entangle- gaage, even if attached to the ments have been erected and the Chinese versien, will not be con- guards doubled at hostel,
sidered as binding in the event of
one
a lawsuit. Only the Chinese text namely, the Derry headquarters of shall prevail in case of disputes one of the disaffected platoon of a business Ulster Specials, it is generally be-i in connection with
lieved that the Londonderry mea transaction.
will finally accept the Government's) terms, while the Belfast men seam to be anxious for negotiating on
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dato, they would also be shot.
Talking of Christmas, atout The mattor has been reported to Swatow; an order was sent to the the Bureau of Public Safety at Police Department to raid the downs, as the Volunteer said last stockings than they care for.
We all have our ups and ladies always have more in their Canton and the Pui Ying School quarters of the pickets and to Sunday when chasing across the
authorities.
RUSSIA'S AIMS.
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Judging by the number of bad debts, many men are a credit to their town.
arrest all the inmates. This was
paddy fields.
carried out with the result that ten
We are authorised to contradict of the pickets were, arrested. the rumour that, in view of the Women are not extravagant. Furthermore, it is said that one stigma attached to red, Mr. They cut their clothes down to
Green is endeavouring to cult- the bare necessities. PEACE IN THE EAST.
hundred and twenty pickets have ivate a white poiselle. been sent from Canton to Swatow Moscow, Dec. 18,
The Telephone Company's pro- The Tass Agency says it is au- for the purpose of putting into An ideal Christmas gift:- spectus found its way on to the thorised to deny the reports in operation system
Death certificate of the shroff sports page of a local contem- recently the English press according to
who always calls on Monday porary. Possibly the connection which the Soviet is making mili-augurated in Canton,
morning.
relates to the endurance tests which users of the system aro tary preparations on the Man
IN THE SOUTH-WEST. churian borders. It adds that
In connection with the previous:
This week we have received frequently called upon to carry Russia, although sympathetic report that the city of Laichow seen before; some we have not
several bulls. Some we have out. to China's aims, is resolved is being gradually invested, a to maintain pouce, and is parti- report now comes to hand stating Afer a three hours' secret con-cularly interested in pacific re-that the defenders have sent a ference of specials from all dis-lations with her noighbours in the
tinuance of the strike, and in the U. S. BANDIT OUTRAGE. ugreement with the Inspector Gene-
same way the strikers themselves are being kept in silence. As to the Strike Unionlits attitude may- be said to be in consonance with
th of the Government.
THE COMMERCIAL UNIONS,
HAUL OF NEARLY MILLION.
DOLLARS.
New, York, Dec. 18.
A report from
It can be said with truth that
the merchants, no mutter from
what section or locality, are the
ones meat desirous of an early
solution.
STUDENTS' UNION.
ral-Reuter.
Londonderry, Dec. 18.
GOVERNMENT TERMS ACCEPTED.
to
CITY OF LONDON,
seen yet.
If this grupo-filling trick of the French bootleggers over becomes 'popular in America, we tremble to Ford claims to put a car toge- think of a man's condition after
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it is stated that the terms were re- terms of conditional surrender. Road this week.
fused and that nothing less than an Among the many objections to unconditional surrender will be Christmas presents, the greatest accepted. The general belief is is that they are contagious. that the white flag will be soon hoisted on the city walls,
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There are plenty of people only too willing to cook Hongkong's goose this Christmas.
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The franc has now 'reached a very low mack.
the town of affected platoons throughout Ul-Far East, chiefly Japan, The special representative to L Chai- Dowse, Iowa, says that after mak-ster, it is understood that the men facestia publishes an editorial en sum, who has arrived at Fa Chewther in seven minutes. It must buying a marrow. ing prisoners of the town Marshal, agreed to accept the Government's the subject, concluding with the on his tour of inspection, offering have been the one seon in Nathan the telephone operators, and rail terms, but appointed a deputation hope that Japan will not place warmen, and severing the wires to proceed to Belfast to interview any faith in false, reportsIndor communicating with other towns, the Inspector General with a view pacific. half a dozen bandits made an in-to including the Government The members of this Union are road to the village, wrecked the grant three months, "pay and allow- not students in the ordinary safe of the Bank and carried of ances. Meanwhile the barricades
They are cash and securities valued sense of the word.
at are being removed and the guards instructors, $810,000.-Renter's American Ser-on the stores and equipment are mostly professors. teachers and under-graduates of vice.
As to the the higher classes. student boys and girls parading the streets, they are not members of the Union but are instruments of it. With regard to the settle. ment of the strike, this Union has been all along silent in the matter. Its object in sentimental and not materialistic. So long us discus-
U. S. BANKS SUSPEND.
A DENVER SENSATION.
Denver, Dee. 18. Four comparatively small banks
sion of a settlement of the strike and one trust company have sus- is confined to the economic side pended business during the past of the question, leaving the politi- two days. This is attributed to
being withdrawn. Men throughout; Ulster outside of Belfast are re-i porting to their officers to-night, i so that matters are now normal- Reuter,
NEW AMBASSADOR.
FREEDOM FOR SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. Londou, Doc. 18. Sir Austen Chamberlain bas had conferred on him the Freedom of the City of London in recognition of his works Locarno-Indopacifi.
IRAQ'S FUTURE.
MR. BALDWIN'S VIEW.
at
The only food lasting really In the course of an interview, well in this climate is Roquefort General Chu Pui-tek, on his return cheese.
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A contemporary speaks of Kouminehun's troops."
Lod by to Cantor, said there are three
General Anfu, possibly.
០ matters which the Government
Note of Warning:-Members of must take in hand at once in the the Scottish Company, white on wage is always what wo think Talking about H. C. L., a living south-west sector, the dismissal field duty, are reminded that the the other fellow should live on. of ali corrupt officials in both the ant is no sluggard. civil and military services, the
GO Wild life isn't disappearing
suppression of banditry, and the
On payment of a penny, the after all. It is just affecting a Construction of highways and roads. correct time can be learned from merger with domestic life. The ravages of war, coupled with telephone exchanges in England.
☐ ☐ privation and destitution of the The system would work hore if The latest whoczo is that poison poor country people caused by we could be sure of getting an gas will cure cancer. raids on the villages by the bandits, janswer the same day.
decapitation. and by secking and losting of their
UD homes by the defeated soldiers
"Garlic Aids Long Life," says Russin. We thought the Bolshie Wolves are on the increase în
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So will
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U. S. CHOICE FOR SPAIN. cal aide untouched-that is to say "frozen paper" representing lives leaving political questions to the stock loans. One man was Pre-
Washington, Dec. 18. respective Governments to settle aident of two of the embarrassed
Mr. Ogden Hammond, the Pre-i
of the enemy, are matters which an advertisement. Our office there will be no opposition from hanks and his wife President of an-sident of the Broadway Improve-
London, Dec. 19. demand attention, and the Govern- coolio at prosent looks like living had abolished competition. this quarter. This Students'
In the House of Commons, Mr.ment must immediately endeavour for over. other. Reuter's American Service. ment Company has been nomin- Union drawa n fine distinction on
ated as Ambassador to Spain. Baldwin declared that he boliovod to relieve the sufferings of these. the different issues of this ques-
-Router's American Service. the period of the British mandate unfortunate people. tion. The members are consider
of Iraq would be loss than 25 [Mr. Ogden Haggerty Ham- mond, who was born at Louisville years, as the British hoped to be in 1869, was educated at Yale Government. Indoparifti
able to give Iraq an acceptable) and began in the real estato busi- nuss in 1907. He was a member
ed the thinkers of the new school
of political thought. They are taking a very active part in shap-
'ITALY'S DEBT.
ing, guiding and developing a new ] WASHINGTON ARRANGEMENT
government, and now ideals in
the minds of the people. It must! be admitted that their task is a
very difficult one, but there is a
APPROVED.
of the New House of Represents- tives in 1914 and 1917, has Rome, Dec. 18. been Chairman of the State, Board. The Chamber by 287 to 1 has of Charities and Corrections of wide spread opinion that the meadopted a Bill embodying the New Jersey, member of the Re- chants should be in closer touch Washington agreemónt of Novem-publican State Committee for New with them and make their views ber 14th for consolidation of Jersey, and was a delegate to the Daggatannyin order to win the 1777
AMERICAN TAXES.
TAXE
Washington, Dec. 18,
The House..
a
ITALY'S QUEEN MOTHER.
A chess tournament is often you got bald, then you've got to indistinguishable from G works.
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Wax
wear one to hide it,
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Local club members abould
Some Hongkong people have note with alarm that there have
the courage of their convictions. been 511 deaths from alcoholic
ROYAL PATIENTS' CONDITION,Othere are satisfied with peace polsoning in New York City this
and.quiétude.
Romié, Dec. 18. :
The Queen Mother spent a quiet! While you were reading this. night. The local symptoms are the Colony lost at least $7.32.
[year.
Just think, if every car were ♣ Things could be much warm.
motor cyole.