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Hongkong Telegraph.
POUNDED 1891
No. 21,960
四拜禮 十二月伍英港香
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1926 AL
CHANG'S, COUP. BOYCOTT SETTLEMENT COAL DEADLOCK. EXPERT TRICKSTERS
ENDORSED BY CANTON COMMITTEE.
INTERESTING DEBATE,
HOPES.
CURBING POWER OF THE
PICKETS.
LATEST CANTON REPORTS,
Although he asked for punish-The belief is gaining ground in
strike and boycott.
OBJECTION TO WAGE REVISION.
STILL SOME HOPE.
London, May 19.
It is understood that the Exe--
Canton, according to a correspon- ment for having engineered the dent there, that the Government coup on March 20th without ducis making strong efforts in thecutive of the Miners Federa authority, the Central Executive direction of a settlement of Committee of the Kuomintang. Aitting in Canton, has passed unanimous vote of enpfidence General Kai-shek, in connection
with the dont. •.
The latest report is that the Government. has issued an order
the tion will recommend the Dele
inte Conference on May 20, (to-dny) fo endorse the rcor- into the Captain Superintendent of gunisalion proposals of the Re- Police to prevent strike pickets port of the Royal Commission but from arresting people unless there to reject the iminediate wage re- Pare palice in company with the
pickets, whilst it is further saiduction implications contained in Addr; sing the Committee, Gene that orders have been given to the the Government's proposals and the
Strike Union to hand over all per Commission's report. ral Chang, referring to the top, sons still held under detention by
The polley of the Executive is tion of his proposals relating to the special Strike Court for the based on reports from the coal Communists, said "Whilst thank-purposes of undergoing further fields indicating a fairly general
arial. ing you, gentlemen, for having
resistance to any departure from Es an
CHANG'S ADDRESS.
DEPORTED.
CAUSE OF BIG LOSS EXPOSED.
MAGNETISED DIGE.
RIFFIAN WAR
BIG FRANCO-SPANISH OFFENSIVE.
www
OBJECTIVES REALISED.
Paris, May is.
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ANOTHER CANTON RIVER PIRACY.
A HUNDRED PASSENGERS
KIDNAPPED.
FUTILE POLICE SEARCH.
For the fifth time within a
THE DRAGON MOTOR.
CAR CO., kra. WONEN CHUNG M23.
HANNY VALLEY
BUILDING LOSSES
TERRITORIAL ESTATES
LOSE $200,000.
THE NEW CAPITAL ISSUE.
Forty-five thousand new shares
A message from Fez says that period of two weeks pirney in chave been issued by the Hongkong
On this occasion
a lurge offensive has started in ported as having occurred in Can- the enstern sector. The Frenchton waters. are progressing favourably every
where.
HIG ADVANCE MADE.
Fez, May 19,
and Territorial Estates, Limited,
accordance with resolutions ro-
those victimised were passengers-cently passed, and, with the help from the steamer Fook Sing, of the new capital, the Company which had arrived in the Canton will be able to tide over until River from Shanghai.
better timea return, said Mr, R. G. Shewan at the annual meeting this
on the year's working of nearly morning, after announcing'a pas
$200,000.
It appears that when the vessel A Franco-Spanish attack on the arrived at her destination, she an- Riffs' eastern Jank resulted in a chored of Pu Chow, when the passengers, numbering, over a ten-kilemetre advance on a thirty-hundred, were transferred to two Jarge junka, These junks wuris kilometro front..
being towed up the river
你
An amazing stor concerning the existence of a ring of expert card- sharpers in Hongkong has come to light with the expulsion from the Colony of two Chinese consequent" on investigations into changes of cheating at cards anu ... games on a large and organised scale.
One the two, mon is stated to have formerly been fairman of a a gambling syndicate holding monopoly in Canton and he was arrested under instructions from the Secretariat . Chinese Alfairs heights, forty miles cast of the launches appeared on the seane The French have orcupied the Canton when a fleet of pirate
There has of late been growing
inveterate, card-sharper Rif stronghold at Targuist, and and intercepted the tow launch. passed these resolutions, I desire opposition to the arbitrary powers the existing wage standard, at The other man concerned, who is pranco-Spahish troops are now The pirates then took possession
esorcised by the Strike Union, and
of the industry. It is believed that stated to have been well-known in command of the valley of the of the tow launch and the junks, particularly the pickets, and the the Delegates will accept the recor-amongst smart young Chinese of Nkor, up which the Spaniards are the former craft.
forcing the passengers to board. opinion is expressed in Canton that-
It would ap actuated by no other motive than action on the lines indicated abovmendation practically unanimous the Colony, is said to have been advancing from Ajdir. The junc-pear that the pirates then became I. W. Shewan, H. Dreyer, and L. to save the critical situation of would meet with widespread public the situation will change shortly. quate wealing, owning considerable tion of the two feries is expect scared, for they at once made off H. King (shareholders). the Kuomintang, which, if neglect-approval and also materially, as it is regarded as significant that blocks of property in Hongkong.
ast in the gelulement of the strike the Executive will propose to the ed, would result in surions conse-
and bogott. quence to the 500,000 members of
These reppets, following on the Delegate Conference that after e- dorsing; the recommendation, they
to say in all sincerity and solemntik
that in these resolutions. I was
r
least pending the re-organisation
ly, but there is still some hope that
!
RING OF SIX.
with the launch and the passen
1
our party, and, at the same time, news that the Kyomintang Party | shall adjourn till Friday to inable deported last night as being un-Spanish cast front to be straighter, the kidnapped pasqungers all
COMMUNISTS SENTENCED.
ed shortly and this will lead toers, leaving behind the two junks, the submission of tribes east, of which had about two hundred The two men were arrested and Ajdir and enable the Franco. pieces of baggage on board. How- we would bring disgrace upon the has ordered the Labour, Farmers the Executive to conduct any fur desirable characters, and it ia lened out till it follows a direct with them.
and considerable personal proper- fair name of the Kuomintang, ind Students' Unions to appoint a the spirits of those who have sugri comitice for the purpose of facilither negotiations possible-Ren-leged that they were members of ficed their lives for the revolution- tating the settlement of the boy- fer. ary, caure, could but look low cost. have hail the effect of cons upon our actions. Painful as it bring the impression that the is to me and to every true sun of whole issues will soon be denit; #e revolutiomey
those who, and as the Kuomintang Party men zures are taken in order toen nog in sessing in Canton, it solidate bod: the offensive and do fensive strength of ige Kuum-ins tang, abd nove pan frularly to show to the world that wo anfalteringly uphold the Three People Doetrine of our late Chief. Thus we shall strengthen the Pinundation of our "party.".
Continuing, Gopbrid Chene said A-1 now come before this an ad assembly to ask for Julkinent, CHI nn enndyed on the 20th of March I can make, Splanning and,! offer no hpology: 1 simple ask} you to paw your judgment."
MATTER OF EXPEDÍENCY.
thought By that farther evidence with forthcoming of the Party's desire to see the matter finally disposed of.
U. S. POLITICAL SENSATION.
STORY OF HUGE ELECTION EXPENDIDTÜRE,
Washington, May 19. Senator J. A. Reed. Demerat,
London, May 10.. Mrs. Margery Pollitt, wife of a pruralert Communist, and who was arrested during the strike, has been fined at Bow Street £50 and five guiacas costs, with the alternative of three months impri-
*sonment.
HEMMING IN THE RIFFS.
London, May 19. Like a wild bear defending its
Or
Up to yesterday, however, no whereabouts of the launch news had been received of the kidnapped passengers,
Later in the day, the affair was a gambling ring of six, which has line from Ajdir to Taza, blocking won vast sums of money from the Abd el Krim in the mountains-reported to the police, who took possession of the baggage left in song of rich Chinese residents of
Reuter.
the junks, and also sent out the Colony. Their uncanny luck, which survived even the vast suns
launches in an endeavour to track running to many thousands of
down the pirates. dollars staked on a turn of the card or diee in ganihiling games, had been a matter for muct commountain home to the last rock is ment, and although there wore
the description applied in Paris Mr. Stewart, Acting General Se- few who had not gathered cretary of the Communist Party, wisdom from this, if only too. to Abd el Krim's position in face has been fined $100 and five late, yet the mentality of the of the joint Franco-Spanish offen- guineas costs dr three months, and greater number WAS such that
sive now launched in Morocco. two sisters named Spaß have been they could not be convinced of be- hand over for twelve months.
Whereas the pressure last year ing tricked oxcept by an ocuları All were charged with possessing demonstration."
was practically entirely from the documents contravening the Emer
South to the "North, and during gency Regulations-Beater,
the Riff offensive from the north to the south the Franco-Spanish.
"FANTAM KING."
some
A complaint was recently made against the members of the ging
has in question, and soon after the forces are now active on. four
ESPIONAGE SENTENCES.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S DISCLAIMER.
Rugby, May 19. Replying to a question in the
·RUSSIAN HELP FOR MINERS.
London, May 19, The Miner Execunive General Taï, Yenskai pavolit go of Missouri, has given efrrency formally accepted a contribution of arrest of the wealthy individual sides of a huge parallelogram, the House of Commons, Sir Austen his opinion that as the finident add a senational story that anything £260,000 from Russian miners to who admitted to the police that two longer sides of which are re Chamberlain, said that Lord been decided day the Committee of between $2,000,00 and $5,000,000 help the British rainers. it is re- was a one-time "Fantan King" presented by the Mediterranean Crewe, the British Ambassador in Political Affairs and the Military were spent in the recent Senatorial ported that assistance is coming af Canton, three dice used in a coast and the French frontier and Paris, had informed him of the Council to have been a matter of primary election in Pennsylvania, from all directions at home and favourite Chinese game reedived the two shorter sides from north sentences passed upon British expendiher, the aftale should be when he moved the Senate to abroad and, if necessary, the due attention. Whilst being can south by lines drawn from subjects for alleged captonage. regarded as closed, if juignathorise an invastigation into the minors will be able to carry on the corted to the Police Station this Tetuan te Larache and from Mel-He then read the dementi issued were passed on General Chang Kat senatorial campaign expenses. struggle for weeks.—Reuter, - mai was forestalled in the act of illa to the south along the Wed by Lord Crewe, last December, shek by the assembly, then all gire Senator 1. A. Roed, Republican,
London, May 19: throwing away the dice. Seeing kert The interior of the paral- when the men were arrested, sent must be called to account, of Pennsylvania, in opposing the
Owing to the latest announce that he had some six other dice lelogram is traversed, by wild declaring that no department of since responsibility rested upon motion, disbelieved sich extraor-ment of the Jockey Club. the Stew-in his pocket, the fact that "he mountain gorges and ranges the British Government had any their shoulders equally.
dinary stories about the corrupt ards at Ayr have reconsidered their should choose to get rid of unly from which last your Abd el Krim connection with or knowledge of Yu Sho-tek, a Communist; re-use of money.
decision, and the meeting will take these particular three
· marked :---“We who “have come Other Republicans, supported place.-Reuter.
was sent down his harkas to harry the the activities of the British wire considered to merit special attacking forcees.
less firm in whose service the men here from the North to attend this him, but, on a roll call, there was
attention. Proceeding on the The first Franco-Spanish move were. Sir Austen. Chamberlain convention, do not know all the laughter when it was found that
Rugby, May 19. assumption that the three ments
are directed at closing added that he had not seen the circumstunees which led up to the the Republican Senators up for The effect of the recent general pieces were loaded, the officers eastern exits from the parallela report of the trial but he had no coup It is necessary to have all re-election generally joined the strike is reflected in the latest un made a careful examination and gram and their troops are now reason to suppose that the judg evidences and facts laid before us Democrats and insurgent' "Re- in order to decide whether this as publicans in support of the mo-mployment returns issued by the also conducted many experiments, advancing with a view to effect-ment of the tribunal indicated any
Ministry of Labour.
bus to no purpose. Patience and ing a permanent junction, which doubt of the truth of the state. sembly ought to pass a judgment tion, which was carried by 59
On May 10th, the total fumber diligence, however, were at last will separate two blocks of tribes- British or not.
to 31-Reuter's American.
of persons registered as unemploy-rewarded in a very startling dis- ed was 1,576,000.. Just previous covery. The dice were found 10 to the strike, the total had fallen ba magnetised,
General Chang Kai-shok opposed | Service. this, on the ground that a disclo- sure of all the evidence and facts
would be detrimental to the party MUSSOLINI CONFIDENT
and the Nationalist Government.
General Tan Yon-kai then, said: "It is my conviction that this assembly should not only not pass any judgment on Chang Kai-shek, but it is my firm belief that the whole affair should be shelved for the time."
FASCIST EXPERIMENT
EXTOLLED."
Rome, May 19..
UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES.
to below one million. In addition
to these, 1,576,000 notices of claims
to benefit had been given in respect
FAKĖ DICE..
men.
The Spaniards in the Ajdír sector have occupied Tamasint, Abd el Krim's winter residence. Targuiat has been his recent head-
A Telegraph reporter was in-quarters.-Reuter. of about 325,000 workers not at formed that it took two hours for work in the mining industry on the officer concerned to arrive at account of the dispute, and about this discovery. He was shown 200,000 on strike in other indue-how, with careful practice and tries-British "Wireless.
| deft manipulation with the fingers, the dice could be thrown to con-
RUBBISH AND RATS.
Wireless.
Government-British
KHALIF PROBLEM.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
REPORTED ON.
form to the results desired by the ADVICE TO SANITARY BOARD cussed the report of the Committee COOLIE
The hitherto-undiscovered cause
Mr. H. G. Shewan occupied the chair, and there were also pre- sent: Mr. T. G. Weall,.. Mr. J.
Scott Harston, Mr. E. M. Raymond (directors), Mr. A. Braun (Secre- try), Messrs. A. Keith, D. W.
Munton, J. Toppin, A. A. Botelho,
J
CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH.
The Secretary having read the notion convening the meeting
and the auditors' report.
The Chairman said: Gontle- men, The total loss for 1925 amounts to $199,826.48, and I can only regret the very unsatisfactory result of the year's work, owing greatly to the abnormal conditions which have prevailed in the Colony since last June. For our Chinese dwelling houses at Kennedy Town, which were finally completed last
ly, it was impossible for us to secure anything like sufficient oc- cupants and at the end of the yeas out of 148 flats available only. 13 fats were occupied. The Yaumati property has just about held its qwn with the previous year's earn ing, but these are falling off
by. month by month' and are
no
menus commensurate with the Interest on the pur- chase money, and unless this site can be properly developed, which means, of course, further capital, it must continue to leave a loss until the real estate market shows an improvement on the pro-: sent position.
I am glad to say that for our Chiucae houses there is now a slightly better enquiry, and I can but hope that the demand may continue to improve. As to that am sure that our friends at Can- ton are feeling the pressure of the boycott as much as, if not more than we, for trade is like Mercy, which both blesseth him that gives and him that takes, and it is only a question of how long the trad ing community of Centon will put up with this foolish interference of the strikers, which is destroying their former flourishing business with Hongkong.
"St. George's" "Building, I am glad to say, shows a good improve. ment and more than covers the Interest on its cost.
You will notice that there was some. $300,000 due from unpaid calls. We are pressing share- holders for payment, but, have not yet actually forfeited the share, Cairo, May 19
as we have the right to do, as, of The Khalifat Congress has dia-
extreme measures with share- course, we do not want to go to on, the definition and necessity of holders if we can avoid it. In ace the Khalifat. The report defined
resolutione. cordance with the the Khalifat as the office of the spiritual and temporal chief of Passed at the Extraordinary meet the Moslems and declared that theBg of the shareholders held on the Khalifat must embody spiritual 21st January, 1926, the capital of Police Court to-day the comment and temporal powers, both of which the Company was increased by the that in future the defendant had went together. The Khalifat must creation of 50,000 seven per cent. better look after rubbish and rats be paramount and free, capable of
cumulative preference shares at and leave rice alone. The case defending Islem and applying, the was one in which & Sanitary Board projects of the Koram, etc. coolic was charged with unlawful Khalifat must always exist but possession of a sack of rice.
The defendant said while he who could be appointed by his pre- to tide over our troubles till bet was on his way to work, he met cedecessor; that is, he could suc- ter daya return.h New York, May 19.a man carrying the sack near Wa-ceed as heir of the Khalifat. He the books on the 31st December,
Summit, ter Street. He was acting very could also be nominated by high
for the loss of many big sumis on An ingenious explanation to ac- the gambling table within the last count for the possession of a bag of three years, has thus been drama-rice drew from Mr. Lindsell at the Įtically exposed..
AVIATION DISASTER.
The
10 each paid up, of which on far
45,000 shares have been issued... With the help of this fresh capi- tal we shall, I trust, be now able
VJTE OF CONFIDENCE.
On the occasion of the adoption RUSSIAN FATALITIES, banker. "Mr. Sun Fo supported General of the labour law prohibiting Tan Yen-kaj, and Mr. Ching Ching-strikes Signór Mussolini made a kong said:"If it is A ques-statement to Fascists, declaring
OVER THIRTY PEOPLE tion-whether this assembly ought that for the first time in the his-
KILLED. to pass judgment on Chang Kai-tory of the world a constructive *ahek, then justice. demands revolution had been accomplished
Moscow, May 19. first an investigation regarding peacefully. For the first time a
Three mishaps, attended by the arch-perpetrator of the plot powerful system of fifteen great At present on no account can this associations had been created fatalities, are reported
Fifteen men were electrocuted assembly permit Chang Kai-shek on an equal footing, all recognised to ask for judgment. Further and guaranteed in their legitimate owing to a piece of machinery in more, ho is one of the trustees to interests by the State. Fascists some works near Moscow fouling whom our late Chief has commit- were certain that 'the new system an overhead high-tension cable.. ted all affairs of our Party and inaugurated to-day would with- Nineteen persons were drowned of the country, which is a heavy stand the test of experience. The through the sinking of a forry responsibility, for upon him the nation fortified by the Fascist boat on the river Sulak, future of our Party depends. If spirit of discipline would become Petrovak,
Monde Filinois, says that the airman, Ross,euspiciously, so defendant ques-representatives of Ialem such ng 1925, instead of 16th January: as anything is needed of this assem a solid indivisible unit of political, Two passengers (one on the Kirkpatrick, who participated in tloned him. When he asked what the Princes of Ulemas and other last year, as the latter date was bly, I declare that it is this--that economic and moral energy. staff of Pravda) were killed, and the pioneer flight from New York was in the bag, the man dropped notables. Finally, the Khalif could, Inconvenient in regard to pay a vote of confidence be given him "Blackshirts forward! Show by a mechanic seriously injured, by to Alaska in 1920, was killed yes-it and away. The defendant without fulfilling the other condiments due at the end of the year and our whole-hearted support of goodwill and loyalty that ours is the crashing of an airship on the terday in a forced landing in a chased him but failed to catch tions, reach the supreme office by and rents due at the end of the his policy,"
one of the most glorious rayolu Moscow-Tiflis line near Kharkov, mail aeroplano owing to a storm-- him.
conquest or victory, always pro-, Router's American Servico, do
Defendant was fined $5,4% tiona. Reuter,
« (Continued on Pape 18),
---Reuter
near
· AMERICAN "ACE" KILLED.
A message from
Islem must have only one Khalifat,
I might explain that we closed
month