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MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1926.
CANTON CUSTOMS.
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.FATAL FIRE.
BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA,
MOSCOW PERSEVERES IN MISCHIEF MAKING.
PICKETS CONTINUE TO INTERFERE
TWO HOUSES GUTTED IN KWAI WAH LANE.
Four lives Lost,
Undiscouraged by Failure.
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Riga Feb. 27. The Bolshevista are apparently in no way discouraged by the fallure of their attempts to provoke revolutions in Germany. Baigeria
Worthless Government
Proclamation.
The "Independent Government of Canton" has issued a proclama- tion to the effect that the Chinese
Kwai Wah Lane, a narrow alloy. way between Queen's Road West and Jervois Street, and running into Cleverly Street, was the scene of a serious outbreak which, oc and Esthonia, according to M. Maritime Customs is the only au- 1 curred early yesterday morning Zinovioff. Addressing the sixth thority for the collection of duties involving the loss of four lives, congress of the Communist Inter- for the Chinese Government. three men and one woman.
The
FRENCH FINANCES.
ENTIRE BILL ADOPTED,
PHANTOM GOLD,
THE LURE OF HIDDEN TREASURE
The lure of pistoles, doubloong, and pieces of eight has led to the wastd of a tremendous amount of human quergy, Treasure-hunt-
A Thankless Task.
Paris, Feb. 28. Just after midnight the Senate adopted by, 270 votes to 21, the entire Finance Bill, which now re-ing, regarded even as Lipsatime, w
was considered by the late Mr. E F. Knight, who liked real adven turns to the Chamber-Reuter.
ture," to be over-rated; and as a way to riches it is a share and delusion..
Later.
Both Houses passed the provi- slonal credits for March, amount: ing to some three milliard francs, voting the Budget Reuter,
two houses concerned were Nos. 16/national at Moscow, he said that The public. is therefore asked to necessitated owing to the delay in saye a Home writer, of a trea-
and 11 and both were almost com- pletely gutted., „Considerable dam- ago was caused by the fire but the actual amount of loss sustained is
Although the situation in the Balkans is apparently stabilised, he still hopefully regarded them as
note that there is to be no inter ference with the import and ex- port of cargo.
reward. a21 the financial project for yield-gather to last the
There is-only one oase, I think,
aure-hunting expedition being Paris, Feb. 28. completely successful and then The Senate has voted by 288 to the man did the work did not a source pregnant with sudden Duty has been paid on happenings, which might be fatal quantity of cargo previously ing new sources of taxation, in
Within the
three years. to capitalism., Europe held first seized by boycott pickets, but the cluding an increase in the tobacco plana have been made for salving The outbreak occurred at 3.25 place in the International's plans pickets continue to seize cargo tax and tax on exports.-Haves.
the bullion in the frigate Lutine, a.m. in the ground floor of No. 10 for a world revolution, the East before it has left the custody of
sunk off the Dutch coast about but it was not till it had got a second and America third.-Reuter, the Customs, thereby opening up
100 years ago, and for lifting the further grave issues with regard
alleged) gold-laden Turkish fleet sunk at Navarino in 1827. But to responsibility for such action.
nothing has been achieved.
still unknown.
Arm hold, that the occupants were aware of the danger. Aroused from their sleep, the inmates rais-
Arrests in Latvia.
Paris, Feb. 28. After the Sannte had passed the financial proposals, M. Briand in a Riga, Feb. 28.
speech referred to the thankless Among the eleven Communists the local Government is unable to for new sources
It is therefore evident that Iftaak of the Government searching arrested by the Latvian police, it is
of taxation, and alleged that two were specially prevent such depredations, they the campaign against increased xiven suflicient warning and found sent by the Communist Interna-amount to piracy of foreign goods burdens He doprecated talk of a has been diligently sought for by
ed the alarm, and scrambled to safety. The tenants of the upper floors were not in some Casca
difficulty in escaping..
tional from Moscow for the purpose of reorganising the revolution<ry| activities. Besides forged pass ports, correspondence with the International was allegedly feand in their possession-Reuter.
OBITUARY.
The fire spread quickly to the adjoining house, No. 11. and the tenants of the first and second floors soon found exit by the tair-way an almost impossible task. Of the seven persons who were on the top floor, two altempt- ed the more dangerous way out, while the others made for the roof. Most of the first floor residents
MR. LEUNG KAM LUN. also ascended the stair in pre- ference to going direct into, the
Deep regret is expressed at the street. One man, however, jump-sudden passing away of a ed into the lane and when picked minent member of the Chinese up later was found to be dead.
community in the person of Mr. Those who had gone to the up- Leung Kam Lun, who died at 4 per floor were still in great danger. yesterday at his residence in as that part of the premises had also caught alight, and overcome by the smoke two men and one woman were suffocated. Their bodies were later found by the Fire Brigade and taken to the public mortuary,
were more
The occupants of the first floor of No. 10
fortunate than their neighbours of No. 11 and managed to escape by the stairway during the early part of the outbreak. Though the stairs were alight, a bucket of water thrown over the flames opened up a means of escape,
On arrival, the Fire Brigade fought strenuously but it was not
ed.
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
LAW.
THE LUCK OF THE NATIVE BORN.
Kowloon.
pro-
The deceased had a Jong con-
of all nationalities in Canton. Reuter.
YOUNG CHINA.
WOMAN TEACHER WITH THE RIGHT IDEA.
The League Spirit.
Paris, Féb, 27. Chinese officials were at the station The Chinese Minister and other to bid farewell to Miss Soume Tcheng, who left for China, via Marseilles.
Miss Tcheng, who is a fervent protagonist of the. League of Na- nection with the Hongkong and tions, proposes to reorganise girls Kowloon Wharf and Gedown Co., schools in China on international Ltd., having served a period of lines, especially to inculcate in 84 years in the capacity of assis-pupils the spirit of the Lengue. tant compradore. For the last-Reuter. fortnight he was not feeling fit, and a rather severe cold set in. During the past few days he was improving, but had a sudden re- lapse yesterday afternoon, and passed away peacefully, from heart failure,
· THE LEAGUE CRISIS.
CHINA'S ATTITUDE...
London, Feb. 28.
catastrophe, and declared that France would overcome her diff culties.-Reuter.
During the same period the Armada galleon which lies some- where in Tobermory Bay, Mull,
divers and diviners. About 100 efforts have been made altogether to fod this galleon, though it has never definitely established that the bulk is indeed that of the CHINA'S GREAT NEED, Florencia, the pay ship of the
·A STRONG MAN,,
WANTED,
*
Armada, reputed to have contain- od the equivalent of £30,000,000.
The Cocos Island treasure, to find which a company has been asking for money, has been. sought again and again. But a pirate's chart, even one on a tellow-stained piece of canTAS,"
has never yet led to the finding of gold.
Staff-Coptain Hal Bookett, a pioneer of the Salvation Army's eight years mission work in
turned to England, spoke of life Northern China, who recently re- and conditions in China in an in. It was a chart which led Mr. tarview.
Knight to the Tale of Trinidad a few "People talk of China," he years ago, but he did not ask the said, "as a country of disorder, public for money, each of the ten but it was always a chaotic coun-members of his company, city try in many senses, Christianity men, subscribing £100 for ex- is represented by people of many penses, Knight was inspired by nationalities, but with annual & chart in the possession of an old Newcastle sea captain, drawn, it ware, famines, and appalling con ditions of life in the vast interior,
was said, by the only survivor of there is always much to be done." a slaughtered pirate crew, a Fin- nish quartermaster with a scarred Feng. the Christian face. · General, really a Christian ?" Mr. Beckett was asked, and he replied without hesitation, "Feng
"Is
But the chart lied. The adven- turers found that the ravine
is really a Christian." Continu- which it indicated had been filled ing, he said: "The General In-in by boulders. For three months vited the Salvation Army to hold they laboured, in a climate like He was 55 years of age, and was
A restatement of China's atti- service in his camp once a sulphur steam, and then they dug esteemed by all who came in con- League Council was made by Mr. part in the meetings, singing
man of sterling character, highly rade towards enlargement of the month: Fang's Chief of staff is and found-nothing,
an ardent Christian, and he took tact with him. He leaves & Chao Hsin-chu in a farewell speech
a
deepest sympathy is extended.
morrow, at the Chinese Protestant
GERMAN WAR DEAD.
that on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Another classic lost treasure,
till after, some considerable labour, widow, a son and two daughters at the Press Club prior to his hymns and joining in the prayers." has oluded repeated search, water that the outbreak was extinguish-to mourn his loss, to whom the departure to assume the post of
The first of the meetings was always flooding the deep shaft Minister to Rome. He said he had held in a hall large enough to which the treasure is supposed The shop where the fire broke
The funeral will take place to received instructions to go to hold four hundred, but the Salva. to lie.
English, French, Spanish, and out was occupied by a Chinese
permanent tionists were surprised to see how Geneva and daim a toy merchant and as a storage for Cemetery, Pokfulum, the cortege of Germany was to be considered was explained that there was no- have tried to retrieve the world's seat, but if merely the admittance small a number attended until it American syndicates by the score Japanese curios and toys.
halting in the vicinity of the China did not wish to spoil the body present under the rank of greatest lost treasure, the three University cricket ground, about harmony of the gathering..
She major in Feng's army. Immedi- years' output of the gold mines 12 o'clock to enable friends to pay was willing to withdraw her claim there was another on the drill Spanish ships, was sunk in Vigo ately following that meeting of Peru, which, contained in -30 their last respects to the deceased. provided her position and privileges
when five thousand Bay by the British Fleat in 1702. were equitably recognised in the ground,
soldiers were presont. To teat Once, as a result of 50 years in- next election of non-permanent whether or not the soldiers were termittent work by an American members of the Council-Reuter. Christiane, a passage from the syndicate, one of the hulks was
Spain Still Optimistic
Soriptures was read, and the men lifted to the surface, but it broke Madrid, Feb. 27, wore asked to follow it. There-up immediately. A DAY OF MOURNING.
De Rivera, conversing with the upon every soldier took out & The only person who met with
any success with this treasure" New York, Feb. 27.
Foreign Minister, "expressed op- copy of the New Testament. Berlin, Feb. 28.
timism following a report from the China is in need of a strong was a Scotsman, who in 1821 re- Mrs. Peggy Hull Kinley, news-
said Spanish ambassador at Paris re- man,'
Captain Beckett. covered £80,000 worth of silver. paper war correspondent, despite over Germany as a day of mourn-garding Spain's chance of secur- "Yuan Shih Kai, their first As the Government inspectors. the fact that she was born in Kansas ing for the War dead:
ing a permanent seat on the President, who committed sui- who had been watching him de- and is a descendant of four genera.
President Hindenburg and the League of Nations' Council cide, was the only man since the manded a big proportion of his tions of Americans, must leave the
entertained them United States by May 1st., be- Government issued a joint mani- "owing to the favourable attitude days of the Emperors who has "find," he cause the Immigration law excludes fosto declaring that the German of the majority of the members of really handled the situation in rather well, and was able to sail He added that the country. I have had a letter away before they realised what American women who married people cannot be destroyed pro- the Council." foreigners prior to September, 1922,vided they remain united and loyal. Spain was determined to persevere from one of our leaders, who is was happening. He built a man-
All Rags on She was married in Shanghai four
Government and in her efforts to that end. Reuter. till in China, and he writes: Ision in Perth called
still believe that General Feng is House." perfectly straight, and one, if not years ago to John Kinley, a Bri- public buildings were at half-mast: tish ship's captain. When she ap-Theatres and places of amusement
the chief, of China's great were closed. Memorial services. plied to the American Consul at
hopes.
i Shanghai for a visa for her pass-were held all over the country. port, she was informed she could The Socialists and Democrats: only be admitted into the United simultaneously observed the anni- States E a visitor. Reutera versary of the death of Dr. Ebert, American Service.
the late President.-Reuter. ·
Sunday was
commemorated all
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Captain Beckett said - that: Roldiers were to-day the curse of] China. The average Chinese was a good fellow, but it spoiled him to put him into, uniform.
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