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LEAGUE APPEAL TO PAKHOI EVENTS.
FOUNDED, 1883
No 31.850
二拜禮 號六十月三英港香 TUESDAY, MARCH 16. 1926. 日三月二
SINGLE, COPY 19 DENTA
JE PER ANNOK
TO CHINA.
DISARMING OF CANTON PICKETS.
GOLD FIND.
THREE DAYS* TIME-LIMIT
GIVEN.
COMMENT ON STRAITS ACTIVITY.
BOYCOTT UNION NOT AFFECTED.
BIG VEIN DISCOVERED AT BENGUET
TAKU INCIDENT SEQUEL.
Peking, March 16.
OFFICIAL SILENCE.
The statement of Mr. Amery in
A RECENT ORDER:
A movement is on foot in Canton
FUTURE HOPES.
...
BRAZIL.
SITUATION NOW MORE HOPEFUL.
LATEST PROPOSAL
Geneva, March 15..
NOW CUT OFF FROM HONGKONG.
TRADE DEAD.
Anti-British and anti-Christian
Approximately 200 feet below the lowest level of the present
An informal" meeting of the feeling is growing in Pakhoi, ng- workings of the Benguet Conso-Council concluded without any 30-cording to the Telegraph corres-
According to information from the House of Commons that the for the abolition of the armed; turn 100% refund. Mr. Birkett the Legations, the Protocol Powers tailors strike in Singapore was picket system, excepting iu regard would not have concerned himself have instructed their naval com-economic has (says the Telegraph to the Hongkong and Canton Strikelidated mine near Bagulo, P.L, allution being found. The Council.
with the Lammert bankruptcy hart
he known at that time that he had Lecourse with a perfectly solvent firm, the Man Chuen Bank, Baid
Mr. P. C. Jenkin addressing his Lordship in the Supreme Court' this morning. when the Bank Loan Cass was texumed.
The documents all evidenced;" he said, that there was no quen- tion of Lammerts being other than principals until the week ending November 6th-9th.
selves.
was some
Sterner netlon was originally proposed, but there divergence of opinion between the Legations, the British being of opinion that a lenient policy was advisable unless foreign lives were actually threatened.-Reuter.
the armed
24. The drill hole which goes
date of the 8th instant, our corres- pondent says:
is re-meeting this afternoon. Sir pondent there, whilst steamer con- strike of gold ore has been made, Austen Chamberlain, after the munication with Hongkong has manders, at Tientsin to notify the correspondent) been received here Union. Taku port authorities that unless with incredulity. It may be reenil-
It appears that armed conflicts promising to give the mining com- Council said the situation was more been finally cut off: Writing under
lense of life. A hopeful-Reuter, within three days the mines are
ed that some time ago the muster between rival Labour Unions pave any a new
A DIRECT APPEAL TO RIO..."' removed from the channel and in-tailors of Singapore, who had had become so frequent of late, that diamond drill hole was sunk from the Police Department has made the bottom of the mine and rich
Later. recurrent trouble with their men representatives to the Government
On March 1st, the se. Hanoi terference with foreign shipping
Owing to Brazil's unwavering. ccases, they will reserve the right for several months, presented
a on the subject, urging that these are found at a depth of 170 fect. determination to veto any proposal came here from Hongkong with to take the necessary action them-petition to the Governor in which outbreaks threaten the peace and The level at the bottom of the that Germany become a permanent mails and passengers, but since
they prayed that certain agitators police officials advise that, with the
order of the city. Accordingly, the mine is 600 feet, making the depth member of the League Couneli un-she had come from a British port
who had engineered the strike exception: mentioned,
of the new strike approximately less Brazil is given a permanent
seat, it is understood that the no cargo of any description was should be deported. They gave the picket system be abolished and that 800 feet under the surface,
Council of the League is jointly worked. At Kwong Chaw Wan all arms issued to pickets by the The rich ore was struck February telegraphically appealing to Rio she took on about 60 Chinese pas- names of these men, the address Government be taken back
Janeiro-Reuter. of a house at which a meeting was held under their auspices, and the lines on which that meeting was conducted. They, also stated that theso agitators had come from Can- ton, and were attempting to create an organisation to stir up indus- which occurred between him and question time. Mr. Locker Lamp-
trial trouble. Presumably these the defendant bruk's "manager. Mr.
son outlined the situation arising were matters of common know- Tsang, after the July Settlement on out of the Chinese nationalist ledge within the clothing tra ic, the Stock Exchange, at which it commander of the forts at Taku but the information supplied to the was suggested, that the question closing the Tientsin River, and Colonial Office was that the mas- of Lammert's egoss-indebtedness aid that the full effect had not ter tallers had produced no evia- to the Man Chuen Bank was dis-yet been given to the demands ence in support of their allegations,
of Prutecul Powers. The Gov-and no deportations had
uently been effected...
Chan Wing-look, Monary, G. P. and H. A. Lammert's nuthorised melark, had been previously cross- ,examined by Mr. Jenkin with parti- cular reference to" interviews
QUESTIONS IN COMMONS.
London, March 15. In the House of Commons, at
eussedi
Me Jenkin: 1 put it to you, Mr. Chan Wing-fook, that Mr. Jernment was consulting His Tsang said, in effect, that if, the Majesty's Minister with regard to Bank had to pay up lammert's loan,
the situation-Renter, an arrangement would have to be made for the payment of Lam- mert's debt to the Man Chuen Bank; bhat the whole thing "could
be settled once and for all if that
„MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS
Tientsin, March 16.- With reference to the notice
arrangement was made? could served on the rival factions" at not remember.
i
conde-
The view, which has been strong-i iv expressed in the Colony's news- papers, is that the finding of the evidence required to kick the ugitators from Canton out of the country was a job for the Political Intelligence Department, the Chinese Protectorate and the De- Taku, it is now stated that should tective Department; all of whom this be enrried out, it will not be have secret agents at work in the. if Mr. Tang goes into the wit accompanied by threats of forei-city. Obviously the master tailors, ness box and he says that he did ble measures in the event of now who are a reasonable body ef have such a conversation with you, compliance, as the serving of the citizens, and who evidently are you prepared to say that It notice Was not unanimously legal advice, would not have was false? Well, I am not pre-agreed to by the Home Govern- taken the drastic step of appeal- pared to say it was false. I could not remember.
COULD NOT REMEMBER...
In reply to other questions, wit- ness said that he did not tell Tsang that the matter would be settled up at any time, nor did he raise the question of this trosh-indebtedness
not
remember
ments.
H. M. S. Foxglove is still at Tientsin, whilst the Carlisle ar- rived at Taku yesterday after-
noon.
hrd
ing direct to Sir Laurence Guil- lemard (having failed to get any satisfaction from the Government) departments concerned) if they were not sure of their case, nor would they have included in, so
sengers for Haiphong, being micat- It is stated that the mutter has
HOPES AGAIN REVIVED.
ly women, wives and rolatives of already como under the considera-down at an angle of 50 degrees passed through twelve feet of ore
Rugby, March 15. Prospects of agreement being the officers of Tang Poon-yan, who which is indicative of a thickness achieved were again revived in ruled these Southern districts to of eight assuming the vein is ver-Geneva to-day. tical, as it is considered most likely to be.
-
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
248 Killed in Railway
Smash.
New York, March 15. The casualty roll in the railway disaster near Sun Jaso, Costa Rica, is now stated to be 248 killed, and 93 injured. Three railway" coaches Wero demolished. one of which fell into the river from a bridge while othors hung from a 100-feet *precipice.
There were one thous people aboard the train the object of tho excurs was to raise funds for charitable purpose.
Three days' public mourn." ing have been ordered. - Reuter. ¿
Costa Rica is the most southerly of the Republics of Central America, occupying the entire breadth from sec. to sea between Nicaragua and. Colombia and having an aroa of over 21,000 miles. Its history has been chequer- ed by frequent revolutions. Independence was declared in 1821. San Jose, near which the disaster took place, is the capital of the Republic.]
י
Verified by other drilling. announcement of the strike
those connected with the mine
There was, this morning a fur-
fore the coming of the Canton
ther private meeting of the League Army, The military here had got Council, at which fresh sugges-word somehow that these people Continue Drilling.
tions were considered for over-were passing through and went The exact significance of the find coming the difficulties with which aboard the Hanoi to arrest Tang cannot be determined until the that body la faced. In view of the Poon-yan's wife, who was report- results of this drilling have been revived hopes of finding a solu-ed to be one of the sixty, but, tion, the meeting of League As being unable to find her, they de The acmbly, convened for to-morrow, cide to arrest the entire sixty and was was postponed until Wednesday, take them ashore. They succeded clothed in conservative terms as so that a little more time might in arresting 31 and would have be given to search for agreement. taken all had the captain of the On leaving the Council meeting ship not given orders to leave for Sir Austin Chamberlain said he Haiphong The 31 arrested were thought, the situation was more brought ashore and taken to the hopeful
polles station, searched and ex It is understood that the latest mined, but, not finding the wife of If the strike proves to be any-
proposal is based upon are General Tang, the police retensed think like as important as it might arrangement of the temporary them. On the night of the 3rd. appear now developments looking seats in the Council and avoide inst.. most of them continued to prompt mining of the ore will the creation during the present their journey to
Haiphong by be carried on immediately. Within League Session of any fresh seats, junk. two months it is thought the com- other than that to be given to Ger- Hanoi, direct steamer connection With the departure of the 3,8. pany will know just what the many. It is reported that among with Hongkong comes to an end. value of the new strike is. Unt: the nations at present on the It is reported she will call here Council opposition to the proposal no more because of the tightening
wish to avoid the possibility of over-optimism. Other holes will
he put down without delay,
either temporary Or permanent,
its significance is determined the is confined to Brazil, but earnest of the boycott rales. It is report. company officials decline to make hopes are being expressed amonged that the local Government in any estimates of what they really the other delegations that she will formed the agents here that she nave. The present equipment of be persuaded to depart from this would not be allowed to come in isolation, and will finally assist port again if coming from or go- the mine is sufficient to handle in a solution which, if not idea-ing to Hongkong. At present there large quantities of ore and if large listic, is at least acceptable to the are only three steamere calling deposits are found here the shaft other Council delegates.-British here, all French, and only one of
A Manila message states that formal a document-which they/ion of the Committee of Provincial only will have to be sunk deeper
Affairs, which has approved the to open it. recommendation, ordering
Wireless.
·M, HONCOUR'S' OPTIMISM. -
Geneva, March 15,
ייד
these has passenger accommoda- tion. They all run direct to Can- toa from Haiphong via Fakhoi, Hoi The League Assembly will meet how, Wongpao, but they carry very
In order to give time to settle the crisis in connection with Ger-
A DEAD PORT..
of Lammerts in the Bank at an the destroyers McCormick, Bul-knew would obtain wide publicity interview in Lammert's offers on mer, Edsall and Simpson left for statements which they did not Bureau of Labour to take note of company are in Manila and most on Wednesday and not to-morrow little cargo.
The head offices of the Benguet the the 6th October, He could Shanghai en route to Taku yes- believe to be true. What evidence.
the police proposal and to trans- it terday, and the Parrot and Me the Government expected the master mit the Committee's orders for the of the stock is owned here.» whether was Mr. George P: Lammert on Leish to-day. !
tailors to produce, is not know disarming of members of the The Benguet company. Is the many's entry, in which connection Since the coming of the Canton somelody else who signed the, de- livery order giving the custody of states that the capitalation of tioners would take the Director ment when the instruction has Philippines. The company started Reuter, opined "All will go well," the port is dead. The imports are Reuter's Hankow, correspondent They apparently thought the peti-Unions, reporting to the Govern-largest gold mining company in the M. Paul Boncour, interviewed by Army and the pickets, the trade of the share on which the loan was Sonyangehow seems finally ac of Political Intelligence by the been carried out.
secured,
THE DEFENCE OPENS.
complished, Hostilities On all hand and lead him to an office in fronts in Honan have concluded. Raffles Square with a brass plate
11, opening the case for the de--Router. fendants, Mr. Jenkin referred to
the events on June 5th and 6th
when the negotiations for the loan
were put through, saying that in
al
ARMS SEIZED.
the fuets diselased he found corroberation of his case that the SENTENCE OF FOUR YEARS.
Man Chuen Bank at no time during
these two days' came into contact
Before Mr. R. E: Lindaell and with Messrs. Moxon and Taylor os were aware that it was borrowing Major Willson, who sat together
entitled "Headquarters of Canton Reds" outside. At all events the employers have been told in effect, that their petition was a lot of nonsense which they could not prove, and if, similar trouble oc-1 eurs in any other local trade, the Government is not likely to receive assistance again from the persons affected.
BURGLARS BUSY
BRUNSWICK STUDIO THEFTS,
STRIKE AVERTED.
Ye-
operations in a small way in 1915 The League Council is expected only about 15 per cent. of former
to meet again on Thursday.-times. Customs receipts are and gradually extended its netivi-Reuter.
ported to be only one per cent, of ties until 1922 when a considerable
the amount collected before the
enlargement was made. In 1922
coming of the plekets. Your cor- respondent has interviewed many the capacity of the plant was)
of the merchants in town and all Several robberies are reported brought up to 300 tons of cre a
say that there is no hope under the as having accurred yesterday.
day. Last year the company pro-
present conditions. Some of the Miss O. Carvalho has reported
shops have only a fraction of the to the police that a phonograph
duced "three per cent. of all the
goods usually stocked. To import and records, valued at $350,, have gold produced under the American]
or export via Canton is both been stolen by burglars from the flag. The production for the year
troublesome and expensive, they Brunswick Studio, 17 Ice House
amounted to approximately
say, and runs the prices up so high P3,000,000.
as to be prohibitive.
COMMUNISTS IN MALAYA. There can be very little doubt Street. that ulterior, influences were at the
•
SHANGHAI POSTAL WORKERS' DECISION. (Our Own Correspondent).
Shanghai, March 16. The throatoned postal strika has boen avortod, the workers The military some time ago took agreeing to defer action until the charge of all kerosene ol in the 25th instant.
port, handling it as a monopoly. The eight-hour-day demand and fixed a selling price. Prices
Peking's approval.
the money from them, the Bank at the Central Police Court this having in view Lammert's cross morning, two Chinese were charg-
A basket containing clothing, indebtedness to them to an extent|
ed, one with possession of 100 back of this particular strike, al-money, and jewellery, has been exceeding the amount which now
taken from the cubicle of an formed the subject of the action. rounds of ammunition, and the though other minor strikes that This cross-indebtedness did not other with wo revolvers. The de- have occurred subsequently have amah, residing on the first floor July 28th, the question was raised fendants were arrested at the admittedly been purely economic of 89, Caine Road. The value of of ore was, running wat. It was has been granted, subject to jumped from $8.60 to $11.20 per
then fall due, but when it did; on
of the setting off of this, debt,
ed.
Two
both
EUROPEAN SUMMONED,
TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS.
case in one day. We have paid as much as $16 per case recently. We used to pay around $6. Since the 'coming of the Canton people they have imposed a heavy, sur- tax on kerosene oil and the oil Companies refuse to ship further orders here. The prices will pro- Small bably soar still higher.
Shutdown Averted. The company has faced a pos- sible shutdown because the supply
the goods is $107.50.
thought the available ore would be Not only did the tailors, who are A shopkeeper, residing at 115, worked out this year. The Hunghom ferry wharf, DII the notoriously rough class, ask for in-" On September 9th, Messrs. Lam Hongkong side.
Bonham Strand, entrusted his ac dwindling of the ore in sight was creases which amounted in some
countant with the sum of $763 responsible for the hunt which led mert filed a petition in bankruptcy
The second defendant said the cases to a hundred per cent, above to pay to another shop. The ac- to the most recent strike, and a receiving order was made on
the previous rates, but they had countant has not paid the money the 12th. At subsequent inter- first defendant asked him to carry the impertinence to demand the dis- and is reported to have abscond- smaller than the Benguet have
other companies views in the Official Receiver's
a basket to a house at West Point; solution of the Mastor Tailors' Aa- office, the question of the Man'
been developing actively for about Chuen's Indebtedness was again and he did not know it contained eociation, and those facts, coupled,
a year with very favourable results. raised, and with it Lammert's cross-arms. When the first, defendant readers to come out in the open
with the refusal of the men's j
BIG FRENCH FIRE.
Their properties are about four Among traffic prosecutions' dealt indebtedness to the Bank. Coun-j
miles from the Benguet plant. with by Major Willson, at the Cen- quantities of Russian oil are find sel referred to the letter of admis- admitted this, the charge was and negotiate with the employees
Bóth the companies are driving tral Police Court this morning, was ing their way here, but is of an in-
ferior grade. sion of the debt signed by the umended, the first defendant being representatives, indicated clearly MANY FIREMEN INJURED.
several tunnels and have found ore one in which Mr. A. J. Wheeldon, Bank in Lammert's office, and then called
Jenough that the strike was upon to answer both
Lille, March 15.
of high quality. In what appears to of the Public Works Department, ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANITY. being directed by the men them- went on to speak on a development
be paying quantities. These com-was summoned for driving a car The missions here are carrying charges.
selves.
A Serious fire at the Tourcoing panies are the Itogon Mining Com-without a driver's licence. He was on much as usual, but under which he termed as being an "entirely new phase" in the cuss."
Defendant said he brought the Another significant feature, was warehouses has destroyed enormi pany and the Balatec Mining Com-fined 35 te pas greater difficulties. A large poster By this counsel meant that on arms to the Colony to sell. He the apparent ability of the men to ous stocks of wool and cotton, the pang. Both belong principally to Admed Nemazen was charged in town advised the people to have the 18th September, a letter, was was sent to prison for four years, prolong the strike indefinitely. It damage being estimated at ve Manila business men. The Itogon with driving a car without a nothing to do with the foreign received by the Bank from Messrs. while the second defendant was is true that the imminence of the million francs. Two firemen were Company is preparing for the licence, and with dangerous driv- missionaries, saying that they were Johnson, Stokes and Maator, solici- discharged. The arms were. con- Christmas rush partly explained killed and 15 injured by the ool-erection of a mill now. Manila ing. He was fined $5 on the first all agents and spies of their res
fiscated. P (Continueon Pags 4,1/
(Continued on Page D., lapse of a roof.-Reutér.
Bulletin.
charge, and $10 on the second.
not
(Continued on Page 18).