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21,000
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'WATAZANO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16,
1926.
RUBBER OUTLOOK THEFT AT THE PEAK
AMERICAN CAPITAL · FOR MALAYA.
POSITION ANALYSED.
Some extremely interesting com- ment in regard to the possibility of American capital being attracted to Malaya, Java and Sumatra in connection with rubber-growing and other industries is made by the Telegraph correspondent.
riting under date of the 5th
ustant, says:
CLUB,
日四月一
NEW RED EFFORT DEATH OF MR. D. H. BLAIR “WANTED" EARL,
IN LONDON
SERVANT GETS THREE MONTHS.
MOSCOW'S PLANS IN CHINA.
LADY VICTIMISED.
WOMAN LEADER Writing from Peking to the
N. C. Daily News under duto
There was considerable excito. ment at the Peak Club yesterday when members engaged in a hunt the 3rd inst., Mr. Rodney Gilbert for a clrarette case and a powder says: box. These articles, which were
EX-SECRETARY OF CHAMBER SEQUEL TO CATHCART
OF COMMERCE
CAREER IN HONGKONG..
CASE.
LAND OF FREE."
Washington, Feb. 15.
The Department of Labour has
́HINGLE: DOPY TO CENTS
950 PER ANNUM
Prior sendered, E88MX rium
How simply it handies. How luxurious th sts. Then think of ita pries. Twa of syery ESSEX buyers come to it from those who former oward cars bought chiefly for their low fat oca), ESSEX her all the advantages of the famous and exclusive RUDSON patents. It is the finess ESSEX ever buile, E88EX holds its own in way Company in any Service,
TERRIBLE AUSTRALIAN
DISASTER.
BUSH PIRES DESTROY TOWNS.
MANY LIVES LOST.
Melbourne, Feb. 15.
$2000 Coach.
THE DRÁGON MOTOR
CAR CO. LT 33.WOHN HEICHUN. W 1921, "HARPY VALLEY
$2000
STEAMBOAT CO.
HOPE OF GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE-
BOYCOTT EFFECTS.
The one hundred and sixth or
Painful surprise and genuine
In a temperature exceeding 100 dinary meeting of shareholders of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao regret will be felt throughout the Colony generally at the news of issued a warrant for the Earl of degrees and fanned by a northerly Steamboat Company, Limited, was the death in Londen of Mr. D. K Craven's arrest-Reuter's Ameri.gale, bush fires occurred exten- held at the offices of the Company As a result of Moscow's decision Blair, for many years. Socretary can Service. !
sively throughout Victoria yester this morning, when the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak occupied the chair dey. Twenty-three people, have and there were also present: the the property of Mrs. W. E. that the product of all Bolshevik of the Hongkong General Cham-
ARRIVES IN CANADA"
been burned and many are missing. Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang, Mr. W. E. who Shenton, had been left on an ad- expenditure and efforts in China ber of Commerce. The sad in-
Montreal, Feb. 15. joining table while Mrs. Shenton during the past year is trining formation came to hand in a cable The Earl of Craven has arrived Considerable damage has been done Clarke, Mr. T. G. Weall, Mr. J. M. Alves, Mr. H. Staples Smith, and was absent from the room, On Comrade Krotkovsky, the extremist this morning, there being no de- here and is staying at the Ritz to homes, and farms and timber Mr. R. M. Austin (Directors), Mr. The John Arnold (Secretary); Mesars. her return the articles had dis-agent, has been recalled and his tails hayond the fact that the Carlton Hotel.
He has refused mills have been destroyed, appeared. Suspicion fell on the place is now taken by a prominent deceased gentleman passed away an interview-Rester's American small townships of Erica and Noo-G. S. Zimmern, S. H. Michael, L S. Greenhill, Cheng Ching-po, S. servants. and, as a precaution, woman agent, who arrived som yesterday. It was in April, 1924,
jee, in Gippsland have been prac-anenberg, J. Owen Hughes, Paul while the police were being sent
tically wiped out. The State Lauder and G. E. Towns. that the late Mr. Blair left the for, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, the weeks ago.
Government has rent, relief to the homeless-Reuter.
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now frequent regarding American
panies are seriously embarking
At present, the only two Ameri-
terer opponent of any form of con-
trol than the manufacturer with
Jay
A VARIED CABEER.
Service.
COUNTESS STILL DETERMINED.
... New York, Feb. 15.
THE EARL'S SURPRISE.
AT LEAST 28 LIVES LOST.
Melbourne, Feb. 15. Latest reports of the bush fires
SOUTH AUSTRALIA ALSO SUFFERS. Adelaide, Feb, 15.. Disastrous bush Ares have also
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CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH. The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting,
before you a good balance sheet. The year has been marked by the strike in June and the subsequent boycott of British shipping in South China. Our Macao service was suspended from 18th Juna-45 27th
It seems that one unexpected re- Bult of restriction has been to awaken the American capitalist to the possibilities of the Malay Archi- pelago. There is, of course,
Secretary of the Club, had every She has called a conference of Colony on resigning the post of The Countess of Cathcart, pale good deal of American money here exit closed.
The presence of a the Soviet Consuls and other agent Secretary to the Chamber of Con- and nervous, interviewed by already one way and another, but lagistrate, in the person of Mr.
The Chairman said Gentle it is generally true to say that the W. Hamilton, was helpful in in China to explain the new policy.merce on account of ill-health. pressmen on Ellis Island, declar
men, The Directors Report and that the necessary warrant was Comrade Kurakhan. the Red An-He was a very sick man whened that she would see her case did not intend through She United States have not hitherto immediately forthcoming for the bassador, will. henceforward
be he went Home, and it appears under any circumstances to ask
Auditors' Statements having been in your hands for some days, I proj realised the rich field for the em-search.
pose with your consent to follow the Every servant in the Club had limited to diplomacy; while the from news to hand since that he permission to return to England in Victoria show that the damage is
She had been enormous, and that at least 28 lives usual custom of taking them as. ployment of capital provided by
been searched. before attention work of propaganda and creating had never really regained his voluntarily. Malaya and the Dutch Indies, hav was given
but have been lost Including, nineteen read. For obvious reasons, gentle- to their belongings. agitation will be controlled by an health, being an acute sufferer through a terrible ordeal,
It there was a lot of fight left in her at Powell Town where out of men, you will, I am sure, realise ing confined themselves to the tro- and in a clothes basket in the ser-independent branch of the Third from bronchitis and asthma
that it is difficult, and indeed seventeen persons trapped in a nar-would be unwigs, for me to dwell pical and sub-tropicul regions of vants' quarters the missing arti- International, which will have fhad been his intention to revisit yet. Reuter's American Service.
cles were at length located. The nancial support, but will not be Hongkong during winter seasona,
Montreal, Feb. 15,
row tramline, six escaped and 11 at length on the Incidents of the Cuba, South America, and the Phi-owner of the basket, a boy who required to refer to Moscow for in- but he had been unable to do so,
arc was serving at the tableg during structiona.
and the probability is that the lippines. However, rumours
The Earl of Craven, in an inter- perished. The Acting Premier, past seven months and which are. the evening, was taken into cus- This woman's position is tem-rigors of the winter at Home view, expressed surprise to learn Mr. Peacock, says that the fires common knowledge to you all. Under all the circumstances, the tody by Sub-Inspector Shannon, porary, as a very important func-aggravated his sickness and led that a warrant had been issued rank as the most disastrous in the balance sheet may be considered enquiries in this part of the world, who, had gone there from the tionary is now on his way to China to his death. Shortly after his against him by the United States.
The State satisfactory. For the first six. and it seems, clear that the Ameri-Peak Police Station with a num-to found the new organ of unrest. arrival at Home, Mr. Blair be- He added that he was glad to be history of the State.
ber of his subordinates. Moscow says that its work is not came interested in the Eastbury on Canadian soll, away from the pine plantations at Port Campbell months of the year, our trading cap rubber manufacturing cam-
results compared very favourably When the prisoner was charged making progress in the Occident, House Hotel, at Northwood, Mid-Land of the Free. He was suit before Mr. R. B. Lindsel), at the go that the China movement must dlesex, a private residential hotel ing from Halifax for Bermuda have been destroyed. Hundreds of with the average figures of preced- upon a policy of growing their own Central Magistracy this morning, be pushed, but it urges that Red formed by a number of people at the earliest opportunity, while volunteer settlers and townsmening years, and, given normal times, Mrs. Shenton gave evidence of agents should discontinue making who had lived in the Far East. his wife would sail from New are making most heroic efforts to we feel certain we could, have set rubby".
the ownership of the articles use of all politicians and militar Of this project, Mr. Blair became York for Bermuda on Saturday-save life and properly. Reuter.
The prisoner was asked by his fists, since they are so unreliable, the Secretary, with Mre. Blair Reuter's American Service.
The Earl of Craven's case has can plantation companies are the Worship: "You had decent em- and advises them to work under as Manageress, but owing to Mr.
Blair's ill-health this connection arisen, because of the exclusion of United States Rubber Company, ployment, why did you do this?" ground through the lower classes. which has 60,000 acres of planted and, replying, he said: "I had The local Chinese Chamber of was severed some few months ago the Countess of Catheart, under the rubber in Sumatra, and the God-thought that these things had Commerce is preparing for heavy The deceased leaves a widow, son U.S. Immigration laws which prohi
the Red and two daughters, with whom bit the entry into the United States occurred in South Australia. Ten July when one boat was put on the year Tyre people, with 20,000 been abandoned." The reply from
propaganda against
In protesting equare miles of country have been run. Less than a month later, the acres. It is not likely that much the Bench to this remark was:-
through its various affiliations. the sympahty of the whole Colony of divorced aliens, of the American capital to be put "What is the use of making it while high Chinese officials will go out in the bereavement against her exclusion, the Countess swept in the Mount Pleasant dis-22nd August, the full servire to
which they have been called upon said that the Earl of Craven had trict where one owner has lost Macao, was resumed. into rubber will come our way, worse by telling lies"?
em- that all except the Soviet
been admitted, and this has drawn 2,500 sheep. The damage is estim- to bear. The attitude of the Dunlop interests| The prisoner was sentenced to
ployees are now determined to re-
the notice of the authorities to his ated at £140,000.-Reuter. bit-three months hard Inbour, taught us that there is no
cover full control of the Chinese! Eastern Railway, and to reject the Mr. Blair, who was a native of presence in America, and his de- inportation is now sought. The Earl resided Reds by cancelling the preliminary Irvine, Ayrshire, his own estates, and the new plan- STRANDED STEAMERS. agreements between the Soviet on Hongkong for
than a of Craven, who only succeeded to tations will probably be situated in
one side and Peking and Mukden, quarter of a century, and his the title in 1921 and who is 28 Dutch territory, although British
FEARS FOR ALTAF MARU respectively, on the other, which duties in connection" with the years age, married, in 1916, Miss North Borneo and Sarawak may be
agreements are still not embod ́ed Chamber of Commerce and other Mary Wilhelmina George, daughter chosen on account of the wonderful Rough weather is developing
in a treaty. They strenuously institutions caused him to becom of the Town Clerk of Invergordon. richness of the soil in those terri-outside, and it is feared that thera tories. A man over from Sarawak is a possibility of the breaking up deny the rumours that the Japanese one of the best known members of There is one son of the marriage. the other day was telling stories of the s.s. Altai Maru, which has promised to Gen. Yang Yu-ting the community here. He original which has since been annulled by about fifteen feet of black humus been stranded for over a week in (Marshal Chang Tso-lin's rightly came out East in the service of divorce proceedings against the Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central ton and our flag upon the river. I hand man) support in this enter the Eastern Extension Telegraph Earl. It is this "crime" of having Police Court this morning, with have reason to believe that we
¡Company, having served
in been divorced which makes his en-sing a private motor car for shall receive financial support Shanghai and North China, as try into the United States
from the Government in meeting Western farmer. She is firmly on by the bows and prise at Dairen a fortnight ago.
well as Hongkong. He was for a desirable,"
public hire, and with driving the the loss which has been involved in green.with envy, if he believed the a rock has penetrated five feet intol
her No. 1 hold. She has thirty feat
time accountant of the Company
car without two efficient brakes In giving vital and essential service, yarn at all.
As far as Malaya is concerned. of water under her stern and her
here, whilst during his service in.
Queen's Road West, yesterday. whch is not likely to be forgotten we shall get all the capital we position therefore is considered very
the North he went through to The transfer of her
maintain telegraph services atj
Inspector Grant said that the by our loyal supporters, Chness as well as foreign, when times aro want from London, for the. British dangerous.
Tientain and the Taku Forts. It
defendant took five persons from once more normal and our fleet is in investor is only too anxious to get cargo is not yet completed and his money into an industry which every effort is now being made to
STRANGE LOCAL SOCIETY, was principally because of his
close association with the Hong- THE TENDENCY IN SHIPPING. Lee Gardens to Possession Street full, operation. It is fitting here the I should record is pot dominated by the Trade refloat her.
for $1.50, after which he under that Union bogey, but any fears that
One of the queerest organiza-kong General Chamber of Com
Rugby, Feb. 15. merce, however, that he was best
took to drive the same people tors of the services of the floating
high appreciation of your Direc the American capitalist may enter-O.S.K line, which went ashore on
The annual report of the Brit-round the island for $7. tain about restriction in the future the Good Hope Gape, is not off yet, tions formed in "connection with known locally and throughout the
staff under especially the trying are probably groundless, for it is she was very badly boled and made the present situation in China East. After leaving the telegraph ish Chamber of Shipping states service, he dolid. Masers. Lowe, that the past year has seen a fur-
Two of the fares gave evidence conditions which have prevailed, very far from certain that when the water rapidly. The passengers, came under the notice of the site and Matthews, and, the ther development, in the construc and stated that after they had and I may say that on restarting
some sixty Japanese students, were next slump comes the British will taken off by the Taikwa Maru and Hongkong Police the other day. Chamber of Commerce, of which tion of motor tonnage, notwithstarted to tour the island the car Honam and when satisfactory in- control fifty percent, of the world's conveyed to Swatow. We under- The headquarters of this society latter body he was ita Secretary standing the decrease in coal knocked down an old Chinese, insurance on the lives of the officers plantation rubber, or indeed a large stand the Taikwa Maru is
His work with the Chambar was prices and increase and uncertain- enough percentage to make restric-standing by.
and crew had not yet been com- was raided by officers from themarked with that thoroughness ty in the cost of all fuel. Of thapuring him on the head tion practicable or possible. Ma- The Kwelyang, the re-floating Criminal Investigation Depart and painstaking care which was tonnage launched in Breat Britain The case was temporarily ad-pleted, to a man, from the captain downwards the officers volunteer- layan planters are agitating for the of which we reported yesterday, mont inst week, when a man was characteristic of the matted and Ireland in 1923, about 18% journed for the owner of the car to sail without.
ma arrived during the day. Her mas arrested consequent on the dis- Blair was also closely indentified per cent. was motor tonnage. The to be obtained, and when he ap Our fleet has been added to chinery, and they will probably get ter reports that it was found neces- dovery and seizure of a set of with the Association of Exporters proportion rose in 1924 to 161⁄2 what they want, but they overlook sary to Jettison 150 tons of her printing machinery used for the and Dealers of Hongkong, the fact that when the inevitable cargo and 60 tons were taken off turning out of inflammatory litera- In his capacity as Secretary of per cent, and the tonnage under peared, he said he told the defen- since last we met by the new Tal- effect of over-planting begins to be by the as. Taming,
ture. From the documents seized the Chamber of Commerce and in construction at the end of that year dant to take a friend out, but did than, which promises to be the felt some years hence, conditions
as she will unquestionably be tho, There is no further news in re-it would appear that the Society other ways also, Mr. Blair on was 24 per cent. the proportion not authorise him to take any most popular boat on the river,
exists for the purpose of numerous occasions rendered had risen by the end of December, body else. "eliminating war-lords and trai-valued and much appreciated 1925, to more than one-third. The defendant said his master in most beautiful and best equir ped.
The report adds If the cost structed him to take the passen-.
She is being worked in" tem- tora" from the country and that service to the Government. In the members had bound them this connection may be mentioned of raising steam by coal be taken gers. Later, he said the passen-porarily on the Macao run and we solves to the "most extreme form the excellent work which he did as 100, the corresponding cost gers themselves told him to take hope the general public will take the opportunity of visiting Macao whilst they can do so under the of torture" if they failed in their as Secretary of the Advisory where all is used under boilers, on them.
Mr. Landsell sold if the defen- comfortable, not to say luxurious Three points behind after yes-
Stoicism and its accom-Committee during the Seamen's the basis of present prices, is 258, thanks of the Government, his many natural advantages, pos-
along one of the large rivers which the Fo Tau Man Pays. would make a
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retention of the restriction
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The Suma Maru, also of the
INTERPORT GOLF.
in the rubber industry may have|ference to the Hunan. changed so much that restriction by any one country will be out of the question. The increasing con- sumption of North America, Great Britain, and Europe will have to be met by very considerable extensions
now
FOURSOME THIS MORNING.
off the foursomes to-day.
ELIMINATING WAR LORDS.
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OIL V. COAL
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HIS MASTER'S CAR.
CHINESE DRIVER FINED,
A Chinese was charged before
In September, at the request of the authorities, and in confuitation with the Government, the Honam reopened the Canton salling and we have maintained our Canton sail- ings continuously ever since. "It was obvious that the boats could not earn a profit, but it was Telt by your Directors that it was in the interests of all to maintain com munication with Shameen and Can-
the Canton service with the
to the planted areas of several dif- terday's singles,. Hongkong, in the panying virtue of self control Strike, for which he received the but this does not allow for the ant kept on telling Hea, he would conditions which this vessel afford. She re-placed our old ferent countries, and it is quite triangular interport, are playing after, and on the whole It appear lodged as being" "of great ads- tated by the use of oil. Genorally! Inspector Grant said the defen- friend the Honum, which, after
were amongst the ideals striven services, being officially acknow- sessed and the economies facil. impose a heavier sentance.
dant had been licensed since 48 years very faithful service, At the end of the first eighteen ed to be a very "live" organiza stance in condicing to the smooth it may be considered that where March last year, and he had been was sold for breaking up purposes holes
running of the various servicos, ver oil is economically obtainable, A. H. Ferguson and I. W. Hopes are entertained of the dis Aa. Honorary Secretary of the the first-class passenger liner employed by three people since last December. Her passleg re Shewan were three down to M. covery leading to further develop Peak Hospital. he rendered much trade has been lost to con! as ro For using the car without moves one of the oldest "land- W. Budd, and A. R. Blinko. ments, and on this account, the help in placing the Hospital'a, garde motor power. But all is not authority the defendant was fined, marke" on the river and to the R. M. Smith and W. Douglas Magistrato (Major C. Willson) finances on a sound basis, whilst likely wholly to supplent, coal as $50 or four weeks, and $25 or end, her machinery and engines were one down to J. B. Ferrier was asked to-day to put the case be also renderod vainable as a steam raiser, unless coal prices fourteen days on the second wore a tribute to the integrity and and H. R. Malcolm.
over for a few days when the man stance in connection with the on-increase or oil prices, diminish. The charge. He was ordered to pay superiority of British engineering already arrested in the case was tertainment of officers and men of question of conversion turns large the injured man 45 compensation and shipbuildogr Pendered were one up on J. F. produced by Detective Sergeant, visiting foreign naval squadrons, upon the relative price of coal or go to prison for a further seven Turning now, to the scroun
day Pilcher and Parbury.
Whelan at the Central Magistracy,
Continued on Po
likely that the producing side of the industry will take on a more cosmopolitan character than 'it har at present. British Malaya ought to get its full share of the new planting, for the Federal Govern- ment is fully alive to the Importance! of communications, and important] road and rail schemes are opening up the vast jungle areas of the east coast of the peninsula. It is likely (Continued on Page 7)
A. K. Mackenzie and T. D. E.