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Hongkong Telegraph
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FOUNDED 1881
No. $1,659
五拜禮 號五月二英港香
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1926. 日三十二月二十
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YEAR'S SHIPPING SERIOUS MOTOR CYCLE TRAFFIC PUZZLE THE SUPPRESSION OF LABOUR UNREST. THE CANTON BOYCOTT
SMASH.
. COLONY'S TOTAL FIGURES FOR 1925.
YOUTH RECEIVES FRACTURED SKULL.
TALK OF TUBES IN SHANGHAI
BANDITS.
DETAILS OF CANTON'S SCHEME.
'EXTENT OFDECLINE.
must havo materialised.
crease in the number of steamers is something over forty per cent., zhough the tonnage figures are not so conspicuously decreased, the decline being something under twenty per cent.
?
The aggregate totals are 15,009 Vessels with a tonnage of 29,561,- 767 in 1925 as against 22,109 ves- sels and 35,239,838 tons a year
TWO OTHERS INJURED,
was
...
damaged, the front lamp wheel being smashed.
NO MONEY.
EMPLOYEES PAID IN GOODS.
NEED · FOR ACTION.
Traffic problems have becoma
so soute in Shanghai that there
the
at
HOPES OF SUCCESS.
With regard to the prevention
Settlement, as a rapidly develop- tioned in the Sze Yap districts,
more than
QUESTION,
.$2000 Coach...
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$2000
BRITISH NAVY.
SHANGHAI AGITATORS HOME AUTHORITIES ON THE DEFENCE OF BUILDING
STILL ACTIVE.
ANOTHER STRIKE? Labour agitators in Shanghai
WAS
self-appointed
ALERT.
AWAITING OPPORTUNITY.
The Secretary of the Imperial Merchant Service Gulld, writing from London under date of Jan. 5th, Bays:
"In view of the nature of the reports which have been received of recent date from members, and.
THEFT OF $20.
MONEY HID IN SHOE.
POLICY.
HONGKONG'S GIFT.
The first Lord of the Admiralty,
London, Fab. 4.
the Rt. Hon. Mr. W. C. Bridge- man in a speech at the Constitu-" tional Club. said that the Navy must not be neglected even in
by the Washington agreement the Peace time. He pointed out that
aize of new cruisers was limited,
lia"
He declared that as they
with the full programme: laid
ensured not only of the capacity
In spite of the many months of
A serious motor cycle accident depression occasioned by the strike, which occurred near the Soldiers' is even talk of a tube system or and suppression of banditry by the are still busy endeavouring to which was responsible for the en- Club yesterday resulted in the an elevated railway, according to Canton military authorities, it is re-fatir up strife, and they have oven forced idleness of nearly a hundred admission of two Chinese youths to
Telegraph correspondent
ported that in the East River sector, gone to the length of shipping there, who writes: vessels for periods extending from hospital, one with a fractured skull.
In the list of problems peculiar all along the Canton-Kowloon Rail: one of the victims of the May # few weeks In some cases to three It appears that a motor cycle and to Shanghai it will be a fair guess, way, troops are stationed under the 30th -shooting incident to or four months in others, the port sidecar,"owned and driven by Au perhaps, to say that the hardest command of General Tar Shu-hing, Szechuan with the hope of shipping figures shortly to be issu-Ying-ming, 21, Morrison Hill Road, of all to solve is presented in the ed by the Harbour Department, was being driven along the road city's traffic situation, and this with headquarters at Sheklung; the influencing students to create from the China Coast Officers: whilst conforming to natural ex-with two passengers, one on the situation from one month to an- circuit of Walchow and Chao Chow further trouble. It is to be noted, Guild regarding the shipping post-
pillion seat; and the other in the other is growing increasingly is in command of General Ho Ying-however, that the chief military tion in China arising out of the but nevertheless he did not think pectations in showing decreases all sidecar, and whilst attempting to more difficult, as many a luckless round, fake it clear that the post-turn the corner near the Club, the motorist haled Into court on one yum: on the frontier of Kiangsi. commander in Shanghai is, keep.Canton boycott, the Imperial Mer-that the British had ever boen ing a firm hand on the activity of chant Service, Guild have again able to see why she should be re- General Ching Chim is in com- tion is not so bad as contemplated, sidecar wheel lifted from the charge or another, will testify.
ground, and the machine dashed' "Shanghai," remarked Mr. G. mand: and on the extreme north-extremists. The Telegraph cor- been in communication with the
garded in the same position as and that but for the unfortunate across the road and ran into a tree. W. King, British Magistrate, after
respondent, writing under date of Foreign Office on this matter. east frontier (Kiangai-Fukien)
"The Guild is assured in reply they made a very great fight to any other country, and therefore January 31st, says: · position in which the Colony, has The driver and passengers were all hearing a round of violations
While some improvement that constant communication has have up-to-date cruisers: "I am. been placed, another record year injured, and the machine damaged, charged against motorists, "will Generala Lo Yakwan, Chang Ching
A report later received by, the have to go underground or into and Fung Yat-pui. are made through the past fortnight is to been maintained with the Colonial glad to say we were nobly supported police states that the accident oc- the air to solve its traffic problem. responsible for peace and order.
be recorded
in Shanghai's vexed Office and with the British Diplo by the Commonwealth of Austra- In the year 1925, 9,679 ocean-curred as the machine "awerved And one or the other of these
In the North sector, Generals Tan to avoid a tram, which was over courses apparently will have to
about world, the forces of un-matic and Consular Authorities The contribution of a quar- going steamers arrived in the
taking it apposite the main gate be followed, for the Chief Ina- Yeni-kai and Chu Pui-tek have been
rest radiating from centres of in China with a view to taking tor of a million sterling from Colony, the aggregate tonnage being of the Naval Yard. Calliding pector of the Police Traffic. De detailed off to specific stations.
agitation continue to be active, advantage of any opportunity Hongkong had enabled a start to 23,658,774, as against 12,971 with the tree, the machine turned partment, who was in court In the West River sector, the whole
and if a strike is not being pro-which may arise for the allevia be made with floating docks in the steamers and 27,874,830 tons in over on its side, throwing out the the time, admitted that Shang-
occupants. The driver was in haf's traffic completely had out of the 2nd Independent Division,
moted, then some other efforts of tion of the situation. As it would. 1924. The decrease is just under jured in, the arm and right side, grown" its accommodations and under General Chan Chang-poo, is
appear that the Canton Govern vide for the docking of capital Straits which at least, would pro- 15.2 per cent.
while the occupant of the side car that some drastic action is be-assigned specially to deal with the the sort is being put forth. was rendered unconscious with a coming necessary.
bandits, with headquarters at Siul As one method of spreading the ment desire to reach a settlement, The river steamer figures of fractured skull, The boy seated In its internal geography Shang-Hing, while General Chan Chai- unreat into the remote ends of unofficial negotiations are pro proceeded, as he hoped they would
ships. He course show a more remarkable on the pllion saddle. was only hai, meaning the International tong, with his 11th Division, is sta- the country recently the body of ceeding with the object of pre- decline-5,324 vessels and a to. The injured persons were picking centre is slightly injured,
or-Yeung Chun and Young Kong, and one of those killed. in the May paring the way: for the resump down for the complete base at nagé of 5,907,993 for 1923, com-ed up by a European and taken dinarily unfortunate, for it has the 10th Division under General 30th street shooting of last year, tion of normal relations between Singapore. they would then be paring with 9,438 vessels and across the roadway, where they but a single major thoroughfare Chan Ming-shu, stationed at Ko 7,366,028 tons for 1924. The de- were given first-aid treatment and from east to west and but two Chow, Limehow and Yumcho was shipped from Shanghai into Hongkong and Canton.
inter taken to hospital. It was from south to north through whilst a small part of the 12th Di Szechuan province. This, it is "The Foreign Office requests of the fleet to defend trade in found necessary to detain only the which to transport huge popula-vision, under General Cha Ko-yak understood, is done to stimulate the Guild to reassure their mem those Waters, but also add to one who was seriously injured." tions inhabiting three separtes is at Lui Chow.
efficiency and economy. He would student activity in Szechuen. The machine
bers that everything possible is be glad to get further help from badly districts.
The far-flung western The first stage of the scheme is
Another enterprise that has its being done to facilitate the termi-other parts of the Empire and so and district of the city, given over now..completed, and the second
own significance lately aimoat wholly to residence, is to stage provides that the Magistrates launched by 2
nation of the boycott, and strike" would the taxpayers of Britain. be reached only through. Nanking of each district are to co-operate group who selected a tract of ten
But in any case he thought they were Road unless one goes to the with the Farmers' Militia and those more of land just beyond the ex-
right and that Australia was right southern boundary of the conces-Local Guards which have not yet treme northern boundary of the
in pushing on the construction of sion to Avenue Edward VII which come under the militia system, so International Settlement to be the
up-to-date cruisers because we also directly penetrates into the as to procure all information in burial place for victims of the
were getting very far behind. We were not leading in the race sad western areas. To gain entry into connection with the bandita in May 30th incident.
The group the great Yangtszepoo industrial particular districts. Various forms taking action has presented a re-
competition of other naval powers who began long before Britain' When 1} Chinese firm went district, which, in addition to have to be filled up stating whether port that $16,000 will have to be The disappearance of two $10 but, anyhow, it was very satisfac- bandits are divided, into raised to purchase the land, and notes, from a bundle of $50, the tory to know that Britain had got bankrupt, the master told two em- thickly populated zones, has also the
most of the city's industrial groups, names of the leaders; places Chinese commercial sixteen per cent. The decrease in lovecs that as he had no money plants, one must proceed from the of abode and nature of the sure through their Chamber of Com- property of Hashmatrar Pritham, a programme laid down covering
interests, vesaels is 7,406 and in tonnage with which to pay their wages, Garden Bridge which is like the roundings; places where bandits merce, are expected to supply the residing at On Hing Terrace, for eventually produce a fleet of the a number of years which would they could take some of the stack. neck of a bottle at the northern congregate, and whether they have funds.
ed the subject of a charge against most up-to-date cruisers possible. end of The Bund and on through any patiqulrar occupation when It is probably due to the un-- As a result, the men were arrested. Broadway. Access into the Hong-not employed in raids; nature and compromising stand of the Chi-a sixteen year old Chinese, before He added that in the event of If these statistics are further This morning, before, Major Will-kew district is to be gained quantity of arms, and how
they esc
military; kommander, Col. Major Willaon, at the Central general disarmament it would be a totally different question, but divided to show the extent of Brison, at the Central Police Court, through the single avenue, Sze-are procured, and how ammuni-Tsung-yang, against agitation In Police Court this morning,
When the rany form that trouble is kept
Sergt. McEwen said on the morn- while others kept a modern and tish shipping during the year, it they were charged with being in chuen Road,, on which to relieve tion is replenished. is found that 5,297 British vessels, articles of clothing.
unlawful possession of various congestion in some measure both turns are completed, the full developing. The fire-brand meeting of the 3rd, the complainant efficient navy it was still more bus lines and railless trams lately scheme will be put into operation, ings that usually mark the begin-went to his office, taking with him essential for Britain to do the with an aggregate tonnage of Major Willson said he under- have been brought into service. and an estimate of the time to com-ning of outbreaks continue to be $50 to pay over to another man. same-Reuter. 11,844,752, entered during the stood. proceedings
being. It follows therefore that through plete the rounding up is about prohibited by the Chinese authori- When he took the money from his taken in the Supreme Court, and most of the working day, and three months..
tics who are keeping closed and pocket, he found $20 missing, and
Rugby, Feb. 4. year 1924, which figures declined Sert. Britain, who was in charge particularly at tiffin time and
sealed the headquarters of the he suspected the defendant, who
Mr. Bridgeman, who spoke In in 1925 to 3,916 vessels with an of the case, said that was so, but in late afternoon, the three main
Shanghaf Labour. Union. To add had brushed his coat that morn defence of the Government's naval aggregate tonnage of 9,866,820, the liabilities had been paid off thoroughfares are filled with un-
U.S. MINE DISASTER.point to the efforts of the authori-ing. When the defendant was policy at the Constitutional Club, four days ago.
broken moving lines of traffic decrease of 1,881 in number of ves-
ties, patrols have been brought searched, the money, was found expressed satisfaction that the The wife of the master of the that may be interrupted for the
into service with the specific duty concealed in the toe of his left Admiralty had been able to secure sels and 1,977,932 in tonnage. Yee Fut shop, which carries, on lesser crossing streams only with, NINTEEN LIVES LOST. of nipping gatherings and shoe.
from the Government & programma. The foreign figures were:-1925, business in Kwai Wah Lane, said difficulty.
smothering the oratory of agita After the complainant had given of re-construction, covering a when the business went bankrupt The situation is one that has 5,769 vessels, tonnage 13,786,954;
Pittsburg, Feb. 4.
tora, and in addition to this, or evidence, the defendant denied period of years for the replace her husband deserted her and re- been lengthening the court dockets 1924, 7,674 vessels, tonnage turned to the country. It
Three men were killed and 20ders have been issued for the stealing the money, and said he ment of those ships that had be was of traffic law violations and pre-
arrest of a list of recently active found the notes by the door of come obsolete or were becoming 16,080,078. The decrease was true the defendants were told to sents a problem which will be entombed in a coal mine explosion labour leaders who are now in the complainant's room, and he obsolete. The value of that de 1,911 In the number of ships and
picked them up. He admitted con- cislon, he said, was very imper- solved only when Shanghai has which occurred while the miners hiding. In discharging the defendants, its tube system or its elevated
cealing them in his shoe, 2,243,124 in tonnage.
tant The Washington Agree were dealing with an outbreak of Major Willson remarked under the railways or both.
He was sent to prison for three ment on the dimensions of the fire.
weeks' with hard labour, and ornavies of the world had been circumstances he could not do
dered to receive eight strokes with faithfully observed by this coun the birch. The money was retry as by other countries. We turned to the complainant.
were, however, not in exactly the same position as other countries, because we were no longer ma Jsland power and because we had an enormous expanse of Empire trade to be protected, on which this country depended for its very existence. We, more than any other country, depended upon cruisers to protect our trade.. The Washington Agreement Inid Rugby, Feb. 4. down that the size of new cruiseys Colonel Moore Brabazon, the should not exceed 10,000 tons and BLIZZARD WEATHER. pleaded guilty to the charges, was Under Secretary for Transport, that armaments should not exceed bound over on a bond to come up stated in the House of Commons eight inch guna. Ce sequently, for judgment when called upon that the Committee of Civil Re-It was essential that our cruisers His Worship said he had given search had reported to the effect should be up-to-data and that we the case his careful consideration that a prima facie case had been should, in the construction, fa- and in view of defendant's youth established for undertaking for- clude those improvement which he was very reluctant to send him thor investigations with a view to the lessons of the war had taught,
ago, a difference, of something like!
5,678,071.
BRITISH FIGURES.
British river steamers 'entered
were
take the goods instead of wages.
anything else, but added that he
in 1925 totalled 4,058 with an 8-considered they had been proper-
gregate tonnage of 5,455,116, ly charged.
against 7,120 steamers
and
6,524,661 tous in 1924, the decrease
ANTI-PROHIBITION MOVE.
Ja
n
Later. All hope is abandoned of re- scuing any of the remaining en trapped miners, and the mine has accordingly been sealed up to
being 8,062 in steamers entered ROBBERS BOARD JUNK. INAUGURATED BY EPISCOPAL smother the fire. It appears that
POSE AS POLICE OFFICERS.
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night.
CHURCH.
New York,, Feb. 4.
SAVED FROM PRISON.
རྞྞ་
HARNASSING THE SEVERN.
FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS
SANCTIONED.
KEEPING UP-TO-DATE.
WIRELESS WATCHMAN BOUND OVER,
The case in which C. T. French, twenty-one miners were below at a native of Assam and formerly of the 8.8. and 1,069,546 in the aggregate ton-
the time of the explosion, and wireless watchman only two of the five brought to Delta, was charged on two counts nage. Foreign river steamers, principally Chinese, showed a do-
A movement aiming at the modi. the surface are alive, thus leav-of larceny of money and clothing from the cabins of two passen entombed. crease from 2,818 entrances and
A Chinese woman, mistress of fcation of Prohibition and legalis ing sixteen men
gera, was again before Mr. E. W. a licensed harbour junk, reports ing beer and light wines has been Reuter's American Service,
Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis-| 840,347 tons in 1924 to 1,266 en- to the Police that ber boat was inaugurated by the Church Tem-
tracy this morning, when the de- trances and an aggregate tonnage visited by armed robbers last perance Society which consists of
fendant, who had previously of 452,878 in 1925,
clergy and laymen belonging to The number
The report says the junk was the Episcopal Church, including of entrances dropped by over stationary near the shore, when, 21 Bishops among whom is Bishop forty por cont, or 1,062, and the at 8.30 p.m., she was awakened by Manning of New York. The FATAL NEW YORK STORM.
report says that tonnage by practically the same the noise made by a number of Society's
men who boarded the junk. They prohibition has increased, drink-wr
New York, Feb. 4. threatened her with knives, and ing among the young, discouraged The Capitaland eastern section The figures for January of this also carried torches. - Gaying they the consumption of wine and beer, of the country lathes. Exper was from someone and his rod determining whether the dificul- uath It was no que going to sen thavoro police officers, acting under and increased the demand for dis- ing blizzard weather. There was from imprisonment and his Wor- ties of constructing a barrage in against an enemy, with obsolete year, whilst not available in their a squrch. warrant, they stole tilled liquors which are mostly a heavy snowfall last night and ship trusted the defendant had the Hiver Severn for the purpose ships. It would be a deception pair of bangles, and various poisonous. Prohibition has also more is forecast for to-day Eight committed the thefis in a moment of developing electrical power against the British pubile to tell trinkets, belonging to her two resulted in disrespect for the laws were drowned off the Jersey coast of temptation could be surmounted. Thie
tha we could rely upon the old and is class legislation dis- owing to the sinding of two Defendant was ordered to sign commendation had been acc daughters, who were on board.
The total value of the haul le criminating in favour of the rich. barges-Reuters. American Sera bond of $250 to be of good $154.50,
—Router's "Avierican Servica,
percentage, or 387,169 tona:
entirety, chow a distinct Improve-
ment so far as ocean-going stea-
·TATE:' are concerned.
Behaviour for o
by the Government
Bite
had been knocked-about-
4.