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Hongkong Telegraph.
YOUNDED 1881. No. 91,880
STRIKE IN FULL SWING.
四拜體 號六月五英港香 :
THURSDAY,
ROWDIES WELL HANDLED BY POLICE.
GOOD TEMPERED PUBLIC.
Router sunds us to-day voinminous, telegrams regarding the unprecedented karike situation in Britain, and our rouders; will learn from the columns below fully as much, and possibly more, than is known by newspaper readers at Home, where only attenuated and limited editions d're possibly.
There are, numerous reports from the larger centres, of clashes between the police and strikers interfering with volun teur transport services, but there has been no serious incident, and there is general praise for the manner in which the, country is calmly facing a tremendous upheavak
COUNTRYWIDE NEWS.
ITEMS FROM ALL CENTRES.
London, May 5.
RUSSIANS BACK.
MUCH SPECULATION IN CANTON.
REPORTS ON SITUATION.
frewshire district had to be with- The correspondent also reports.
MAY
1926. 日五十二月三
WING ON CASE.
CAPT. ́LORIGA REACHES MACAO
ALL-NIGHT TRAMP THROUGH MUD.;
WITNESS CHIVED FOR
'NASTY NOISES.”
..
SINGLE DOFT 20 CENTS"
138 PER ANNUK
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THE CANTON STRIKE PICKETS.
FIVE PER CENT. BECOMING MILLION AIRES.
TO-DAY'S HEARING SOME POINTED COMMENT.
• Witnesses came forward tha
WARMLY WELCOMED.
Captain' Lorign, the Spanish ~ avialor, arrived, in Macao aboard morning to give testimony on' be- half of the second defendant in the Portuguese gunboat Patria at
the case in which Au Kim-luf and two o'clock yesterday afternoon and was given a most onthusiastic welcome.
TOOK BOOKS AWAY.
A
the
THE DRAGON MOTON CAR CO., Lyn....
SI WONSUNS' CHUNK RD, HAPPY VALLDY
LADY'S CLAIM.
SEQUEL TO KOWLOON ́ ACCIDENT:
1
J.
ARMS FOR TROOPS.
BUS CO. SUED. The return of M. Borodin and
"Mrs. Jones will never again da In the course of an article deal- General Gallent to Canton is arous-
ing with the Canton boycott, which able to walk downstairs or down ing considerable speculation ac-
a hill with security," "suld à doctor cording to a correspondent there.
he had an opportunity to investi
giving evidence, this moralng in Lum Fook-chu are charged with te during a recent visit to Hong-Summary Court action in which Reports are in circulation to the
conspiracy to defraud the Wing Onkong and Canton, Mr. George E.
Mrs. H. A. Jones, wife of the effect that forty Russian officers
Sukolsky, writing In accompanied General Gallent, and
It appears that when his machine Bank. They were in turn coN. C. Daily Newa, gays:
manager of Messrs. S. Moutrie and that the Russian steamer by whith
fronted with Tam Lal, (a chief)
I Co., sued the Kai Tack Motor Bus the party travelled carried large descended at Tinpak, it was badly
Even in Canton, there is no witness for the prosecution who
Company "for $1,000, special and quantities of arms and ammunt damaged and doubts are expressed
claim that the strikers are all had testified that he had handled
general damages for Injuries tion. In this connection, it is thought that special efforts may be as to whether repairs can be effect-
honest. One man put it: 80 per
caused in an accident allegedly due. Food stocks, arg said to be ample, distributing services are made to take up the proposal for an ed to enable the resumption of the the forged pages of the deposit
cent. are "dumn fools 15 per to the negligence of the Company's wall- rganised, and "there is no cause for undue fear or alarm. expedition to the North. Wu Pei-fight. Chinese swarmed over the book "Emma" in the course of the The Trades Union Congress has issued an appeal for orderliness. fu's forces are said to be making machine when it came to earth. printing) and the first of these en ure patriots; 5 per cent, are
renvants. in unan. The
becoming millionaires. On the The House of Commons has approved of various emergency rapid progress
whose evidence was
Mrs. Jones was travelling in ont For two days, Captain Loriga witresses regulations especially directed against incitement to muting and latest report is that Tong Sang-che
bout which took me fruin Carrion to of the Company's buses from Kow- disaffection. The feature of the speeches in the Itse was the has retired from Changsha and that endeavoured to communicate with taken this morning, Chan Kau, Hongkong, there were 200 Chinese loon City to Kowloon on January unanimity among both Conservatives and Liberals in denouncing forces from Kiangsi have been de- Macao, and eventually he managed denied that Tam Lay was over con- passengers (3rd class), each or 27th, when the Bus overturned and the general strike. Plens wore made for the re-opening of spatched to cut off his retreat.
to despatch a telegram to the temporaneously employed with whom, learned, parte picket pinned the unfortunate lady down. negotiations..
French Consul at Canton to which, them in Lam Fook-chu's photo-en.pis to be permitted to get on the by her legs. In evidence this drawn after a number had been that at the last meeting of the however, no reply was made. graving and printing shop at Can-ongkong boat. No one is sup- morning. it was stated that Mrs. posen to leave Canton without a Jones was confined to her bed for forced to speed up to escape pur- Committee of Politlent Affairs. Eventually, Captain Loriga walkton in the year 1921-1922.
pass. The pont waich brougat Sira period of six weeks as the result suing assailants. Reports of cars with General Tan Yen-kai in the ed all night through the mud, when
James Jamieson to Hongkong of the accident, and to-day it was
necessary for her to use a stick. have chair, If a revolution is in progress in having been
Chan Kau, who occupied the posi-several days later had 330 passen-
Mr. T. J. Andrews appeared for received from Ren- Eugene Chen, Tan Ping-shan and he managed to get aboard a big Britain it is being carried out been hitherto with traditional British frow and from Nottingham, while Koo Mang-you attended. Mr. Wa passenger junk hound for Macao, tie of accountant, was shown cer- gers, each of who probably paid the plaintiff and Mr. D. L. Strel-
tain account books, and, ques- a similar amount.
lett, of Messrs. Hall Brutton and The most striking out at Dundee, where the manager of Hon man reported the result of his Whilst this boat was off Kukok, toned with regard to entries de phlegm.
GOVERNMENT LOOKS ON.
Co., appeared for the defence. Ward evidence of that has been the the Tramways tried to run a car, mission to Moscow, Mr. Eugene
The Government makes no at- amazing manifestation the the strikers blacked the line and Chen spoke on the defeat of the it was, hailed by the Patria and made. therein, stated, in reply to
MUSCLES TORN... and the political Captain Loriga was taken aboard defending counsel, Mr. C. G. Ala-tempt to stop the boycott, because enormous increase in motor traffic the car had to be abandoned. At Kaominehun
baster, that on a visit he recently no settlement has been reached be!
The first witnesses called were and Hongkong Dr. M. Nicolson deposed that he doctors who treated Mrs. Jones: the printing shop at Canton and The boycott must be regarded as On enquiry at the Naval Yard, took away three books on the ina war on Hongkong and Great was called to see Mrs. Jones on Britain and the pickets as the Roverely bruised, and suffering the day of the accident. She was or foot. Unusually crowded tea- ing reports last night of disordersing was prolonged, ou account of we were informed that the Bri-ructions
tish naval officer and two tors.
soldiers in that war. There is no from shock. The most serious of shops are supplying breakfasts, at Poplar, some minimising and the length of the speeches.
mechanics who went up to Macao Invited by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, in other possible interpretation ΟΙ and there is an increase in certain others intensifying the gravity of food commodities, notably fish. the happenings.
to assist in repairing Captain cross-examination, to scrutinize the completeness and ruthlessness
her injuries was that on the right News is also to hand of a series Gallarza's machine returned yes- the impress of a chop on one of with which it is carried out.
thigh. The muscles were torn which has doabled. Milk is 25
A crowd of 6,000 at Stoke-on-of police raids in Canton. Ita terday. They report that the the exhibits, witness said he
and there was. symptoms of a per cent. dearer to-day.
THE GOVERNMENT'S DANGER Both sides are satisfied with the Trent to-day stoned anomalbears that the police, en receiving aeroplane is now fit for flying. could observe no difference except
fracture, but an X-ray proved the There is to be a dinner to-morrow that the space within the limits of As long as the pickets are able fear to be unfounded, pa to may broadcast that the post-breaking the windows. The police structed detectives to engage car-night in honour of the two airman the chop appeared to him to be to control the points of entrance patient was in great pain and on position. The Government spokes- which the police were protecting, certain secret tion of the country was satisfac- charged with batons, injuring a tain rooms in the Oriental Hotel, and a ball on Saturday night. So thinner than the rest of the page. into Canton, as long as they are four occasions he considered It tory. There was no sign of panic number. Five arrests were made, and on the evening of the 2nd in-far, there is no definite informa-1
able to arrogate to themselves necessary to infect morphine. lant, large bodies of police took on as to when Captain Gallarza the jury for their individual insc-ment is always faced with the pos- bed for six weeks, though the leg The same exhibit was handed to police duties, the Canton Govern- The lady was confined to her up stations so as to invest the will resume his fight, hotel..
At a prearranged hour, Yesterday, the Portuguese Consul Chief Justice, who, after holding Taking the small figure of 5 per night, and afterwards she
tion and in turn handed up to the sibility of disruption from within. was tested after the first fort- 12,450 ating in Edinburgh, worked mostly the hotel was suddenly raided by in Hongkong received a cable from the page against the light, remark-cent. for the crooked pickets as able to get about the house
Fifty per cent. of the tramway had previously engaged rooms, In the Governor of Macao stating ed that all he could make of it was being correct, there is always dan crutches.
of
overturned
Messrs. Wu
Hon-ma,
as compared with the last indus- Nottingham sirikers seized the situation in Peking, and Mr. Kool the warship, by which he completed made to the countre he called at tween Canton
telal unheaval. It has enforced the carburetters, and poured out the Mang-yue gave an account of the earlier rising of people anxious to petrol in omnibuses worked by various interviews with Feng the trip to Macno. ** reach business in the city by motor volunteers. There were confiet. Yu-hsiang at Kalgan. The meet-
or even of great excitement, and It is estimated that one hundred
no serious disturbance anywhere. Food supplies were normal.
tramcars and omnibuses are opor
by students. :
volunteers have hitherto enrolled in London, and volunteers are flowing in all over the country.
POLICE RAIDS.
information,
of defendant's solici-
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Atl
twol
that there was a possibility of the that the ink ran and the part, was
kong, in which event further news
.
4
The
Was
on
The weakness of the
the police and the detectives who employees at Portsmouth resumed all, four arrests were made.
er that they will use their newly. muscles would always remain, . popular restaurant, two airmen coming down to. Hong- thinner than the rest of the page, acquired funds for political pur- and it was likely that the use when they were threatened with a dismissal.
more were arrested, while one es-
Witness described the arrange poses. Their connection with the of a stick would be required for Extra police drafted into New-caped, fighting his way out by fir- the departure for this portment of the printing shop and Communiste, I have discussed in a the rest of the present year. castle soon quelled ablacks on ming right and left. On the same would be cabled.
Up to the pre-cross-examining counsel by re- previous article. In any negotia- has been to keep men at work in tor buses. Destroyers have arrive day, four others were arrested in sent, however, no further advices seated questions sought to learntions with Hongkong, their dismis-
The announcement is made by the Trades Union Congress that response of workers to the strike call has surpased expectations, 'and the difficulty of the General Council
trades which are "in the second at Newcastic and Middlesbrough the hotel on the Wing Hon Street. line of defence." Everywhere and the battleship Hood and the All these arrested are said to be- there is order and good temper, craisers Warspite and Comus have long to a notorious gang of swin- and the Council is confident of arrived on the Clyde. The Comus dlers, counterfeiters, burglars and securing an honourable settlement.is proceeding up the river from kidnappers. They were taken to
NEWSPAPER RETALIATION.
Greenock.
the Police Station, where, after a brief examination and identifica- Apart from an attenuated Times, Reports from the mining area in tion, they were ordered to be shot. the British Gazette, financial South Wales depict that life is papers and the Daily Mirror, the mormal. Miners are working on
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their Gardens or playing football, calls and wires must be reduced cricket and-quoits.
HOSPITAL AFFECTED.
to a minimum.
have been received.
KOWLOON LADY ROBBED.
WHEEL CAME OFF Opening the case, Mr. Andrewa from him a reason for the handing sal 'is the sine qua non of peace; said that the accident occurred. over of his work to the second de- yet will they allow themselves to between 11' a.m. and 11.80 am. fendant at a certain period men- be dismissed?. For even the just past. Bailey's Yard, when ap tioned.
larger, let us say, patriotic body,parently the left rear-wheel came are having a good thing of it off and the bus swerved across food, clothes, lodging, no work and the road and overturned. plenty of fun from the strike fund, Hla Lordship: Where which is augmented by fine's arsi Mrs. Jones sitting? of whom are still in Moscow, contributions from friends, some
Mr. Andrews:-On one of the seats.
"THINKING OUT "LECTURES.”
When
at this algo lectured
EXPLOSIVES?
WAS
W28
Ho replied that Lam Fook-chu in that period spent the
major METER READER STEALS ·
part of his time in Canton. Iris help relieved witness from a part WATCH. last of which succeeded in dis-
of his duties and enabled him to tributing a London news bulletin,
Giving evidence, the plaintiff During the period that, he was spend more time at photo-engrav whose five-line leading article ex-
An extraordinary pall of dark-left alone at the door" of the ing. Another reason was tut
aid that she was returning from horted its readers to stand fast in
the Kowloon Golf Club accompant- support of the Government, Owing to the Stepney Boroughness, like midnight, spread over house, a meter reader, employed Awak Man-fong, the other partner
ed by her aint. She occupied tha the concern, Was call- papers have been published in Council (Labour) calling out the London at noon, intensifying the by the China Light and Power Co., in
extreme left sont in the front row. London to-day. The T.U.C. Coun-day employees in the Municipal traffic congestion. Fortunately, took advantage of the absence of ed away to teach at the Normal
Mrs. Webb, who had gone into the School at Canton.
nat ORDNANCE CLERK CHARGED She noticed that the bus all announce their intention of res-Electric, Works the London Hos. it soon lifted:
a teacher
travelling at a fast pace all the ponding to the Government's Bri-pital was deprived of light und Blails between
WITH POSSESSION. the Free State kitchen, and before leaving the engaged as tish Gazette by publishing from the power yesterday. X-ray work and and Great Britain are suspended where he found an 18-zarat goidon photo-engraving at another
way, and when in the vicinity of. premises entered the bed room, school, Kwok
After being remanded, Mohamn lose control., The bus turned to Bailey's Yard the driver appeared Daily Herald office a newspaper electrical treatment was conse-and sailings from Holyhead and
watch lying on the dressing table establishment; and the remainder ed Rajab Salleh, a clerk in the the right and overturned on its left called The British Worker.
quently suspended. Power faci- Dublin are cancelled.
The cross-
The reader had gone to No. 28, of his time was spent in the shop A characteristic British touch to lities were restored in the event, channel Dover-Calais service is
Ordnance Department, living at side. She was pinned down by her the "revolution" is the delivery of the ban, apparently, applying to functioning with one-steamer cach Carnarvon Road, to read the me-thinking out these lectures.
ter, and this being at n consider-
"NABTY NO19ES,”
11 Heard Street, again appeared legs." piles of telegrams to the T.U.C. the day-shift only.
Mrs, Jones volunteered the headquarters in London by Govern-
able height above the door, Mrs.
In the course of his evidence, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the statement that she thought the arriving there sist him in his work.
a rather discon-Central Mugistracy this morning, driver was half asleep.. Leaving
Mr. Strollett: You remember other was chided by the Chief Justice,
what the bus was like?-Very old. Was the arrangement of the. who ordered him not to make charges would be added. He was
charged with feloniously having seats like this? (handing witness "those nasty noises."
The case is proceeding.
in his possession an explosive a photograph of a bus)-No, I substance, sulphate of arsenic would not say so.
In what way was it different?
way..
and passengers
news
The Daily Maif appeared in the No trains are moving at Carlisle Webb gave the man a chair to as witness emitted Also American afternoon in the shape of a penny from London are taken to Edin- the man alone, she had gone into certing noise from his throat, and when it was stated that
1.
ment employees. mails are conveyed by moters from photographed typewritten Southampton by volunteers whom sheet, printed on both sides.
Itburgh in charabanics.
the kitchen, when shortly after- the T.U.C. designate as blacklegs. includes Monday's leading article Coventry is flooded with orders wards the reader took the chair Also the Government telephones "For King and Country" the rafu- for bleycles" from London which it into the kitchen. are working normally at Labour aal of the workers to print which, is unable to fulfil. Burenus, and it is noteworthy that led to the non-publication of Mon-
Mrs. Webb was suspicious of It appears as regards the dia-
the man's actions and on going)
had sappeared.
and potassium chlorate, on April
strikers cut off the Daily Mirror day's Daily Mail. A column edi orders at Newcastle, that a crowd into the bedroom, found her watch SPECULATORS SHOT. 23rd and 27th. Mr. A. el Arculli The front seats were nearer to the
GLABGOW DISORDERS. "
defended.
Detective-Inspector --
driver.
Murphy Jaaid he had seen Mr. King about the case, and hé. asked for a day
telephone exchange and persuaded torial to-day headed "Looking to stoned motor buses at Wallsend- the cleaning staff to leave the Baldwin to Act" says, that the on-Tyno last evening. Two work- building in retaliaion for the lawful Government must
Was the bus fairly full?—Yes. act men were medically treated. The the loss was at once reported to
The man having left the house,.
BY ORDER OF THE
GOING FART. publication of the news bulletin. strongly and its opponents will omnibuses drove on knocking down the police, resulting in the watch
СНЕКА.
You stated that the bus Was collapse very quickly. It refers to two or three strikers.
to be fixed after next Wednesday, going at a fast paco?--Yes, it being recovered in a-pawnshop. According to unofficial reports Italy as an example of verile Wes- unusual feature in London where it had been pledged for $0. Three officials of the Currency known, and other charges would Did you observe the road?--Yes
Moscow, May.5. The result of the analysis was started fast and it went fast. from the provinces, the most dis-tern Government, e
is that electric trains are being The police at once had the rea- Administration of the Peoples he made under the Pharmacy it was dry. orderly place hitherto has beon A new feature in London is the driven by men
attired in plus dor arrested, and, on his ap-Commissariat of Finance have Ordinance, and possibly under Glasgow, where mounted police appearance of a flood of little job-fours and golf caps.
Are you certain of that? Yes. pearance before Mr. J. H. Bbeen shot by order of the Cheka the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, have been called out in the Park-printed handbill newspapers sell-
You agree that if a watercart. Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy They were charged with heading Mr. Arculll said he was not had passed over the road it would head district to repel attacks on Ing lika hot cakes for threepence There was a humorous incident this morning, he admitted taking group of persons engaged in aware of the nature of the now have been wet? Yes, but I saw no tramcara and motor busos, One each. The news is mostly stale at Eccleston Square, where ex- the watch from the house. malicious spéculation on the charges, and Mr. Lindeell told watercart tramway inspector was hauled off and a repetition of broadcast bal-service men's band entered on the His Worship imposed sentence Exchange."-Reuter, " a car and assaulted so badly that leting and the Chaster racing re- North side playing "Land of of one month's hard labour and
him he would be supplied with
would
Were you talking to your aunt he had to be sent to hospital. sulta
Hope and Glor" and proceeded further ordered the defendant to
copies
Of course Did you hear whi The windows of another car were The Postal Authorities announce to the west side where the T. U. d. pay Mra. Webb 39 or undergo a
Mr. Lindsell fired the hearing mashed, but the passengers on that telephones and telephones and Handgun
AN INOVA three weeks imprisonment in ed.
GOOD HUMOut.
Warsaw May 7