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No 21.859
ELECTION FIASCO
PROTEST TO GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL,
APPEAL SENT IN
An appeal is being made by Dr. F. M. G. Ozorio, his proposer and
nd seconder, to the Governor-in- Council to declare Monday's Sani-
tary Board election void. This
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
ATTEMPTED CITY ROBBERY
1926. 日三初月三
三拜禮 號四十月四英港香: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14,
NEW RAILWAYS. CHINESE NEWSPAPER IN
TROUBLE
BANDIT EVIL.
MR. SUN FO OUTLINES SCHEME,
BREACH OF CENSORSHIP REGULATIONS.
TWO MEN ARRESTED IN CHINA BUILDING.
the
SIX LINES.
HUNDRED DOLLAR FINE.
A summons taken out against the
DRIGANDS IN CHARGE OF CITY.
TAXING PEOPLE
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Of considerable interest to alt
ACCOUNTANT'S CAPTURE.
Early this morning a daring
Mr. Sun Fo, the Commissioner robbery was attempted on
of the Bureau of Construction in Chinese pupor Tai Kwong Po, for that the city of Pok-lo, in the Waithe strike of the employees of the Canton, has been for some timej seventh floor of China Building, planning a system of railways to breach of the censorship regula-chow district, is so infested with medicine shops is called off. The Scottish residents in the Colony is where an accountant of the South be constructed in the province of tions, was heard by Mr. R. E. Lind- bandits that many people have left settlement was reached through the news, contained in Command China Restaurant, whe much is indicated in the following his office, woke up to find himself sity for the welfare and prosperity morning.
slept in he considers,
Kwangtung, the building of which, sell at the Central Magistracy this the city and "abandoned their the good
an absolute neces-
offices of Mr. Ho. Orders to-day, that the 2nd Batt Jetter which has been forwarded
homes. It is stated that the off-Special Deputy of the Labour and King's Own Scottish Borderers is to the Hon. Colonial Secretary by cord was being tightened round
in a very alarming situation. A of the people, and should be taken Mr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared for cials take no action against the Agriculture Department.
in. band as soon as circumstances the defence."
Each coming from Egypt to relieve the Messrs. Leo d'Almada and Nephew, his neck, and the man engaged in
permit.
bandita, who, in return for this, medicine shop is to pay compensa-East Surreys as the Hongkong copy of which is sent us by this, murderous act, was
Besides,the urgent necessity of
Suo-Detective Inspector Shaftain, do not molest Government Institution to the Labour" Union of garrison regiment during the forth. dis- completing the Canton-Hankow prosecuting for the Secretariat for tions.
twenty dollars, and those persons coming trooping season. Ozovlo
tinguishable in the half-light from Railway, work on which has been Chinese Affairs, said the article
who were wounded in the recent Hongkong, 14th April, 1926,
in abeyance since the Revolution,
The report further states that Court in the matter of compensa- sometime towards the end of the riots are to appeal to the Lower: The Borderers are expected here. Sir,-Acting on instructions
It is reported that Mr. Sun is about complained of was not submitted Without giving much heed toto propose, for the consideration for censorship to the Department, the bandits are in complete posses-ton. From Dr. F. M. G. Ozorio, and the possibility of his assailant be- of the Committee of Political He put in the official translation Bion of the city, and impose what- The strike of the employees of
present year, after which tho from Mesare. J. M. D'Almada ng armed, the accountant sprang Affairs, a system of six railways which read as follows:
ever taxes they please on the in-has also been settled by Mr. Ho. Though a large percentage of the
the fruit and vegetable markets Surreys will embark for Indla. Remedios and C. A. da Roza, the p from his bed, and closed with for early construction.
habitants. On market days, a tax The terms are that the Fruit and British population is Scottish, It is the man. He succeeded in felling; The first of the proposed rail- "A fat rich man, sitting in e
well-directed ways is the Canton-Macao line, to rocking chair with Spring wind all lia levied on every stall, ranging Vegetable Guild, as a body, is to something over nineteen years :-
important over his face (ie. with an affable from twenty cents to one dollar, pay to the strikers compensation such At the same time a second in-centres as Chun Chen and Kong/countenance), was in conversation according to its size. The oldest in-passionate compensation of $2,000 tle presence of a Scottish battalion of $4,900 with an additional com; eince Hongkong was fay ured by. habitants declare that this city from the Labour and Agricul- and on that occasion the 2nd Batt.
Horal
an open window.
the latter with
al
pass
through
candidate, proposer and seconder respectively at an election of
blow. member to serve on the Sanitary trader was seen to crouch against moon. Board which took place on Monday, a safe. He was recognised
The second suggested line is the The 12th. instant, pursuant to Noti-a coolie employed at the restaur. Nam Hung-Kuikiang Railway, start- ication No. 153 of the Governant and submitted quietly to aring at Shui Kwan connecting with
{ rest.
the Canton-Hankow Railway and
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Kent Gazette. of the 19th March The two men are being examin-branching off across the Nam Hung last, we have the honour to lodge cd by officials of the Criminal Pasa into Kwangs; to the Kaikiang an appeal to His Excellency the Investigation Department and will on the Yangtze River.
Governor-in-Council claiming, in-to-morrow morning.
be charged before the Magistrate
Or alia, for a Declaration by the Governor in Council that the id Nection was void at Common Law
or under Schedule C of Ordinance MATCH-MAKER SENT No 1 of 1908.
TO GAOL.
This appeal is made under Soc- Hon 285 of the sald Ordinance and FOR DEMANDING MONEY. the grounds of such appeal are briefly as follows:
1. The place selected by the Pro- Biding Officer for the purpose of Carrying out the election was ridi- chlously inadequate.
The third proposal is the Canton- Amoy Railway, starting from Kan- | lanhu, connecting with the Canton- Kowloon Railway, and passing through Waiehow, Ping Shan, Hoj
Fung, Luk Fang, Chao Chow, Yao Ping into Kukien, Chao-on, Chang
Pu to Amoy.
The fourth proposed line is the Canton-Hoiping Railway to run For his services in introduc- through the Pun Yu district on to sent husband, and saving her ing a Chinese woman to her pro. Huiping city, from a state of lonely widowhood tinuation of the Samshui Railway The proposed fifth line is a con- at the comparatively young age westward to Wuchow.
of 28, a Chinese man who oame The suggested sixth line is the 2. The staff provided by the Pre within police attention over the Canton-Yamehow Railway, to run Teiding Officer-namely, himself and week-end, exacted a big debt. through centres of the south sector he Deputy Registrar of the Su-dollars from the husband, and diverted into two branches, one to He had received thirteen as far as Kaochow, where it will be reme Court, assisted by three European Bailiffs was grossly in-then made his home amongst the Yunchow and the other through adequate to cope with about 4,000 couple, living at their expense Luichow to Chuman, the extreme persons who were undoubtedly en- until overstaying his welcome, he city of the peninsula. titled to vote at the election. The Now he sought to get more money would form the main trunk lines was ordored out of the house.
This proposed system of railways Jury list alone contains the names from the woman and in the at- for the network of branch roads to
about 3.000 persons.
tempt he was arrested by the
be determined ch later.
→
3. The time allowed for the elec-police. Fors to record or cast their
In evidence at the Police Court! rus- pective votes-one hour and a to-day it was alleged that he
alfis Insufficient.
brandished a knife, telling the woman that he would cut up her
4. At the hour of 5.30 pm. en husband if his demand was not the said 12th day of April, 1926. complied with. She was terrified,, when, according to the said notif-and handed to him her money-box cation, the ballot box should be from which he took forty-six closed. the Presiding Ofer cents.
VARIED GAMBLING.
יי
PEKING SITUATION,
Wu
Pei-fu to Consult Chang
Too-lin.
Poking, April 12. General Tion Wei-chun, a subordinate of Marshal Wu Pei-fu, arrived in Peking. from Lukouchao this after- noon and had a conference with General Lu Chup in who is arranging for com petent civil, military and police officials to take over the control of the city in the event of the Kuominchun evacuating. -
Marshal Wu Pei-fu has not get replied to the Kuominchun direct, but he bas informed the local ropre- sentatives that he must first discuss the changed situation' with Marshal Chang Tso-lin..
Meanwhile, the Kuomin chun is desperately retard- ing the advance of the other allies on the Tungchow and Fengtai fronts.--Reuter.
has never experienced such open.
Department. The em- lawlessness. -
ployees are to be sent back to The Queen's Own Cameron High- their homes under the protection landers were only stationed here The opinion is expressed that un-of the police, and the members of for some four months whilst wait- less the activities of the bandits to give the employees a send-off
the Fruit and Vegetable Guild are ing for weather conditions to per
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are checked and swift punishment and publish an apology in the mit continuance of the journey to meted out to them, this state of Papers of Shek-ki. The compen-
North China. It is, however, in- affairs will spread to adjacent dis-decided by the Lower Court.
sation to the wounded is to be
tricts, for the band chia has openly declared that "if the powers-
that be in Canton, with the might PROHIBITION PROBE.
RRIFY
PICTURE.
teresting to learn that the present Garrison Sergeant Major in Hong- kong was with that battalion,
The King's Own Scottish Borderers, is, as its name implies, aLowland Regiment, having its. depot at Berwick and its territory In the counties of Roxburghshire and Belkirkstite
OFFICERS
of their armies, can exercise arbi trary powers on the people of Kwangtung, you, my comrades, by the same process of reasoning, esn
Washington, April 13 Witnesses for the "Wets" appear and heire employ your powers to the
Baeed before the Senate Committee to- offect on the small district of Pok day, the most notable being Father in the particular battalion now
Napier and Ettrick, is i lo. It remains to be seen what Francis Kasaezun, of Sugar Notrh, destined for Hongkong effect the activities of these bau-sylvania. He painted a horrify-Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment)
in the anthracite region of Penn- Field Marshal Earl Halg Is the dits will have on the movements fying picture of his Diocese's open and the commanding officer of the of the 6th Army Corps, which is saloons, with wild carousals by 2nd Batt, is Lt. Col. J. C. W. being mobilised on the Northern
the young and drunkenness among Cornell, D.S.O., whilst under him. adults and even school-children are Major W. J. Wilkinson, 1.8.0., frontier, and whether any troops He declared:-"At summer resorts Major R, H. W. Worsley, D.S.0. will be despatched against the on the lakes, young boys took girls Major G. M. H. Ogilvy, Capt. B, C, from respectable homes for we.k-Renny, Capt. A. G. Dobble, Capt. end parties. I know.cases where A. N. Lewis (adjutant), Capt. C. good girls are ashamed of their H. R. Abbott, Capt.. C. J. D. parents' drunkenness, I have Church, Capt. J. B. M. Stanton, been in a home where a three-year N. 4. Thorp, R. A. H. Kappey, M.C., Capt. L. F. Machin, M.C., Lieuta. old child was crying for moonshiR. J. Sandeman, W. G. Mattingley, It would be a blessing if the law J. Y. F. Myrtle, L. M. Ker, the Hon.. were modified."
bandits.
AVIATION.
PROGRESS OF SPANISH
FLIGHT,
with a high-nosed gentleman sit- ting opposite him. They enjoyed their conversation very heartily, but to my regret I do not know the 'Chi Lo' language, and could not understand what they were POLICE RAID A MATSHED.
talking. Later the rich man made out a cheque for $10,000, and gave Police officers raided a large;
It to the high-nosed gentleman, matshed housing the coolies en- who showed a countenance of deep
London, April 13. Bhould, in view of the fact that Convicted on the charge of there were then about 400 persons being in possession of an offensive aged in the demolition of Mor- gratitude, bowed his head and left.
A message from Bushire, in the last Some time after this, I was told Persian Gulf, says that the two waiting In the Registry to receive weapon, the erstwhile match-rison Hill in Happy Valley their respective voting papers for maker was sentenced to
four night and found D gambling scribed $10,000 to the Authorities Spanish airmen Loriga and Gal- he purpose of recording their months' hard labour, and on the Votes, exercise the discretion which charge of stonding the money from school in full swing, a variety of of the X port to meet the expenses larza have arrived from Baghdad, adopted by: 30 votes to 21 & Bill
the woman he
games being played. There was for the construction of a certain and departed again, after a WAS given
a poker party, a fantan party and building..
is undoubtedly vested in him, under further term of three weeks.
Section 12 of the Rules of election,
an
FLIGHT TO POLE.
to extend the time for the closing of the sald Ballot Box until the sald persons had been given opportunity to record their respec- tivé votes...
HAZARDOUS VENTURE BEGUN,
THE NORGE. LEAVES' FULHAM.
London, April 13.
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that on that day the rich man sub-
W. F. C. J. H. Napier, J. G. Shil- oflington, D. V. Kennedy, W. A. H. Maxwell, C. R. Rennie, A. H, Mac- Laine, H. G. Walker, J. B. A. Han- key, J. Scott Elliot, 2nd Lt. F. M. V. Tregear, and Capt. Quarter Master S. Brocklehurst, M.C.
A woman probation officer New York declared that tenement houses were homes of stills. Reuter's American Service.
DEFINING LIQOUR
Albany, April 19. The New York State Senate has;
BATTLE HONOURS. The Regimert has a splendid war brief for holding a referendum in the record. Its battle honours, include
autumn on the question of memorí. "Namur, 1695,"
"Minden,"
a dieo party, but all the partici- "After the lapse of several days, interval, for Bunderabbas Realising Congress to amend the "Egmont-op-Zee," "Martinique
pants left their games and join the rich man was again found sit- ter. fed in a mad stampede when the ting in the same rocking chair, but
FATALITY IN PERU, police entered. Ostrich-like, some cpposite him was another man-2 got under quilts, and stayed there thin man in rags. The latter look-
Lima, April 13. until caught.
ed very distressful, standing in Flying officers Guillermo Protzel Eleven men caught in the raid silence with his head bent down and Juan Podesta, two of Peru's were charged with playing fan- The rich man, whose face was once best aviators, have been inciner- HISTORIC LIGHTHOUSE. cher," "Hill Go," "Gravenstafel," tan before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this full of Spring wind, nowated, owing to the machine catch- morning. There was not suin- wore a horrible look of angering fire during a forced landing in
clent, evidence and they were dis-and scolded the man in a harsh ja storm-Renter's American Ser
charged,
SLEEPY LUKONG.
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voice. "I don't care whether you vice.
have had a good crop or not, but you shall not fail to pay the rent
RUSSIA'S BUDGET.
of $30. If you fail to come with the sum within a week, you will The have to speak" in court."
Volstead Law so as to allow each 1809," "Afghanistan 1878-80," State to fix his own
defini-"Obitral," "Tirah," "Paardeberg,”- tion of intoxicating liquor. Reu."outh Africa 1900-02" "Mons," ter's American Service.
"Le Cateau," "Retreat from Mons," "Marne 1914-18," "Aigne 1914,” La Bassee," "Messines 1914," "Ypres 1914, 15, 17, 18," "Nonne Boss
"St. Julien," "Frezenberg," "Bel- levaarde," "Loos," "Somme '16, 18," "Morval," "Le Transloy," "Arras 17, 18, "Vimy" "Scarpe," Philadelphia, April 18.) "Arleux," Pilekem," "Langemarck,” The historic Cape Henlopen "Broodsiende," "Passchendaele," "Menin Rond," "Polygon Wood,” lighthouse, guarding the entrance "Cambrai," "St. Quentin," "Lys,"
BLOWN INTO THE SEA.
LF
to Delaware Bay, has been blown "Eataires," "Hazebrouck," "Kem-
The Airship Norge has left Pul- A NAP IN THE CHARGE ROOM. thin man, with tears in his eyes, HOW MONEY WILL BE SPENT. into the sen by a violent gale, thus mel," "Sioseonnais Ourcy,"
ham for Oslo-Reuter.
Found aleeping while
on
begged incessantly for an exten-
5. That in view of all the above reasons, about 400 persons who
Oslo, April 13. were legally entitled to oast their Amundsen and Ellsworth have Notes, being present in the Regis started from Spitzbergen. try within the appointed time, were The Aftenposten publishes the Deprived of their just legal rights. statement that Amundsen was It is respectfully submitted that charged by the Premier to annex In view of the above facts the the land discovered in the Polar election has been so conducted Night-Reuter, that His Excellency the Governor- In-Council should be satisfied, as a matter of fact and at Common Law, either that, there was no real electing at all, or that the election was not really conducted i under the subsisting election rules, that is, that the electors as a boly have not in fact had a fair and Free opportunity of cleoting the candidate which the majority) might prefer, or that there is rea- Bonable ground to believe that a
The dead bodies of a Chinese the defendant was found altting his head to look at him. After a majority of the electors were, by woman Tenson of the above mentioned ir child were found yesterday on the table, fast asleep. His service and drove the thin man out internal debt amounted to 440 and her four-year-old in a chair with his head on a while a strong servant came out cent, to defence and 30 per cent. to cultural requirements. The regularities in the mode of con- foreshore below Tamshuthang, record showed ten und reports. The opinion of the Secretariat million roubles, compared with ducting the election, actually pre-
in Shataukok district.
within six months. The man was that the article was ant! 290 millions Inat year M. Bruk- wanted from electing the candiate into the stream during the recent A fine of 350, with the alterna said he was instructed to suggest home credit operations in prefer 1
Apparently they had been swept joined a year ago...
foreign. Sub-Inspector Shaftain handt favoured the extension of they preferred rep
the sea. rains, and were carried towards tive of four week's hard labour, that the hidden meania
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
·MOTHER AND CHILD
DROWNED.
frustrating the Government's Inten-Canal du Nord," "Courtral," "Bapaume". "Hindenburg Line," sion of time, sollefting that he would show his kindness, consider
Moscow, April 13.
tions to protect the lighthouse by "Selle," "France and Flanders” charge-room duty at the Praya the humanity of Heaven, and M. Brukhanoff, Commissioner means of a number of hulks sunk 1914-18," "Italy 1917-8," "Helles," East Police Station, a lukong apallow in commiseration with him of Finance, in presenting the around it.
"Landing at Helles, Krittris," peared before-Mr. R. E. Lindeell the rent of $30 to be debited in his
The lighthouse was erected in "Suvla, deimitar, Hill" "Gal- account for the following year, Budget, of four milllard roublos, 1765 during the British colonial lipoli 1915-16,""Rumani," "Egypt this morning on a charge of mis-The rich man was too impatient to stated that 51 per cent. of the period, and was constantly used 1816, "Gaza," "El Maghar
listen to him, and went into an total expenditure would be devot- until two years ago, when a storms Nebi Sum-will, Jaffa," "Pales-
demeanour.
Captain Bloxham, A. S. P., said inner apartment without ranged to economic objects, 15 per potere American Serotes.
weakened Its foundations
TODAY
tine 1917-18."
REGIMENT'S HISTORY. There are
are two battalions King's Own Scottis 4 regiment which
bly ane historis caree