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HUNAN'S "PLIGHT.
TROOPS POUR INTO PROVINCE.
CONFLICTING REPORTS. Conflicting reports on the mill- tury situation in Hunan are cir
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1881.
NO.21,056
二拜禮號五十二月伍英港香
SERIOUS TROUBLE IN PHILIPPINES.
POLICEMEN CHARGED WITH MURDER.
WAR ON THE MOROS.
BANK'S AFFAIRS.
BANKRUPTCY COURT EXAMINATION.
OBJECTION OVER-RULED.
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Mr. B. M. Watson, objected to
cil.
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1926. `日四十月四:
MISUSE OF STRAITS SCHOOLS.
CHECKING POLITICAL
PROPAGANDA. :
NEW POWERS SUSURED.
-
NEW CHARTER.
LOK SUN FOR BORNEO TRADE.
VESSEL'S HISTORY.
The British steamer Lok Sun,..
·SINGLE ODPY 10 CENTS #85 PER ANNUM
You own changeover your 1924 Chevro- let, 1024 Eesox, Ford, Gray, 1920-1934 Overland, Star, etc., to Balloon Whools: and Tyres complete for.
8205. This includes five 29 x 4,40 Firestone Tubes, five 29 x 440 Tirestone Tyres, four wheels, five rims, and necOssary bolts, nuts, clamps. This price is for the complete set of wheels and Tyros fitted on the car.
BERLIN COMMUNISTS DEMONSTRATE,
EVERYBODY & EVERYTHING DENOUNCED.
A BRITISH BETRAYAL"
Berlin, May 24.
THE DRABON MOTOR CAR CO.,LTE),
13 WOND NA CHUNR
HAPPY VALLEYS,
EMPIRE TALKS.
TO-DAY'S CATHEDRAL
SERVICES.
ADDRESSES TO SCHOLARS. Owing to Empire Day and Whit Monday both falling on the same day, yesterday, the customary E- pire Day special services the St. John's and Catholic Cathedrals were postponed until
at
to-day. There were large con- The Communists were estimat-gregations at both places of wor-
ed at 30,000 and the Stahlhelmites
at
50,000. Large forces of ship, and stirring addresses were delivered. School children. at- police, including mounted mon
The proceedings tended in large number. were present. were orderly.
SON CLOSELY QUESTIONED.
A certificate of einergency hav While admitting that he signed ing been granted on the ground that certain schools are being used Manila, May 25.
cheques on behalf of the Bank, for the purpose of political pro belonging to Messrs. Carmichael The German Communist Party Twenty-eight members of the that he had custody of the key of paganda and that additional & Clarke, of which Mr. T. G. D. and the extreme Nationalist or culating in Canton, but the official Constabulary at San Fernando, the safe, and that he checked the powers are required at once in Brayfield is the Managing Direcganisation Stahlhelm (or Steel view is the one to which the Pampanga, who were involved in rash every afternoon, Ng Sui-sau, order to remedy this evil, the cter, was chartered out to-day Helmets) held reviews of their
gistration of Schools (Amend-
respective "armlas," yesterday, community gives most credence, killing civillans and members of examined by Mr. Eldos Potter, ment) Bill was carried through through the agency of Malm & the former in Berlin, and the lat This states that Tong Sang-che the Municipal Police, have been K. C, in the Bankruptcy Court all stages at the last meeting of Company, local shipbrokers, for ter at Duesseldorf. has reported that Ye Chook-ho disarined and lodged in gaol, being this morning, before Sir Henry the Singapore Legislative Coun
a period of nine months, delivery Gollar, in connection with the and Siang Tan have been recap charged with murder.
In introducing the Bill the At-to be made on or about 5th June. tured, and that his forces are ad- A detachment of twenty mem- affairs of the Yue Hong Bank. torney General stated that under The steamer is classed 100 AL vancing in the direction of bers of the Constabulary from denied that he had any interest in the Registration of Schools Ordin Lloyds, and has a Hongkong pas-
ance 1920 power is given to the Changsha Siang Tan is less Malolos has been sent to, San the business.
Governor in Council to declared a senger licence for carrying 13 preserve order. than thirty miles from the capital Fernando
school to be an unlawful school first-class, 14 second class and It appears, that two native of Hunan. It would appear from
if it is used for political pro-1,004 tween deck passengers, the paganda detrimental to the in-. this report that it would be pos-officers commanding the detach- alble for Tong Sang-che to re-ment involved in the riot were ab- occupy Changsha in a short time, sent attending dances in other provided he met with no strong towns when the shooting began. resistance from Wu Pei-fu's
MORO FORTE TAKEN.
Forty Moros have been killed But another report, emanating and two förts taken by the Con- from merchants who have direct business connections in Hunan, states that they are in receipt of Instructions to stop sending cargo overland or by sca, as Heng Chow is said to be in the process of] being gradually hemmed in, and that troops from Szechner and Hüpeh are pouring into Hunan by thousands daily.
forces.
MILITÁRISM EVERYWHERE.
It further stated that never was the atmosphere of Hunan impreg- nated with so much militarism. There
is heard the continual tramping of soldiers and the rumbling of artillery on the high- ways throughout the whole pro- vince, Even in the worst days through which Hunan
"MOTOR SMASH.
Two Europeans Killed.
four Own Correspondent.j
Singapore, May 25. Whit-Monday was marred here yesterday by a most dis- tressing motor accident as the result of which two well- known Singapore residents have lost their lives.
The victims are Mr. H. W. Kernick, of the Singapore Traction Company, and Mr. Percy Lowndes, a Consulting Engineer.
The affair has cast a gloom over the whole community, as both men were widely known and respected.
com-
INTERESTING HISTORY,
the examination, on the ground terests of the Colony or the public. passenger lincence being lasued notice should be given to the that a partnership issue was pend- It was necessary, however, that for 1,031 passengers in all. ing in which another party was manager of the school before, such toncerted. He suggested that a declaration can be made. If he The chartering of this steamer examination of the witness was could not be found and the notice is rather interesting, as she is | likely to prejudice the case.
could not be given to him the Mr. Fotter quoted many authori-Powers of the Governor in Coun-de of the first British steamers cil could not be exercised. The to be chartered out from here ties, and Sir Henry Gollan, remark- ing that Mr. Justice Cave was the new Bill remedied this by provid-since, the commencement of the ing for service of the notice by
The boycott. best bankruptcy authority, held fixing it to the school premises in that he could not order postpone cases in which the manager can Messrs. W. Watt & Co, a Arm not be found. The existing. Or which is an amalgamation of Ng Sui-sau, admitted that he dinance did not provide that upon Borneo lumber merchants, with went under the alias Ng Yu- the declaration being made that head offices in Sandakan, Borneo, cheung, but, although pressed by school is an unlawful school the
ment.
charterers are
Mr. Potter, did not agree that the registration of the school and the and at this pott, and of which Mr. tong name of his deceased father manager and the committee of William L. Hang Song is the (Ng Min-sau) was the Ng Cheung Sin Teng,
Mr. Potter was endeavouring to
establish the connection of wit- neas's father with the Bank; but witness declared that his brother, Ng Yiu-sai, was the sole proprl- etor, and afterwards said that per- haps in the first two years of the Bank his father was his elder son's manager.
Mr. Potter-Do you know that on the premises of the Bank the chop of the Ng Cheung" Sin Tong was found?-It might have been some-une's nume.
FOUND ON PREMISES.
passed stabulary at Tuguya, Lanao. One after the revolution, there was member of the Constabulary was
Mr. Potter:--One of the docu- nothing like the situation to-day, killed, and wine wounded........
ments found on the Bank premises The Constabulary was when troops from the north, east, Bouth and west are concentrating manded by Colonel Stevens and was a letter which suggest was written by your father which ask- Provincial Governor Johnson. on the province, all bent on al
Five other Moro forts are stilled a man named Lo Yiu-tin to pay $2,000 for shares 'on behalf... of struggle for power.
holding out, and the lighting is
your father, and adding that they Serious-Reuter..
were to be deposited in the name of the Ng Cheung Sin Tong. Can you explain that?
The order for the mobilisation of many troops fins been issued in! Canton and the transportation of several units has commenced in reul earnest. Following the order for mobilisation, another order was issued to the Strike Union to
AFTER THE PASTRY.
THIEF SENT TO GAOL
Pastry and various other delica
further 550 transport coolies forcies have for some past been
Witness:No, my father had a deposit account at the Bank.
This Bank was started ten years ayo, your brother would have been" 24 years old at that time 7-Yes..
Can you tell us where he got the money to start the Bank?-He in-
adopted father). ·
management shall be cancelled; nor did it give power to any public
officer to enter the premises of
VOLCANO DISASTER.
120 Missing in Japanese Eruption
Tokyo, May 25. With a tremendous roar which was heard over twenty miles away, Mount Tokachi,
a volcano in Hokkaido, which had for a long time been dor- mant, suddenly erupted yes- terday afternoon. according to despatches received to-day. from Sapporo,
It is reported that over sixty houses were buried in the lava. One hundred and twenty person are missing, mainly miners who were working in the local sulphur mines.
The inhabitants of Miye, a town at the base of the moun- tain, are fleeing in confusion,.„... as the place is seriously-epdan- gered, whilst the train service has been suspended-Router.
Managing Director.
The ship was formerly owned by the Rickmers Co., of Hamburg, under the name of Gross Herzog, and was trading for that Company. between the Atlantic Coast of the. U. S. A. and the West, Indies at the commencement of the Great War, when she was laid up in Philadelphia, awaiting develop- ments. However, when the United States entared the war, she was automatically confiscated
The Communist revlow was held in a large park in Berlin in the presence of thousands of curious rayed in semi-military uniform spectators. The "Army" was ar and performed railitary evolutions with commendable celerity, while the bands played revolutionary airs.
Many speeches were made de Bouncing everything and every body, including the British Trade
WU FOR PEKING.
To Meet Chang Teo-lin.
Hankow, May 25. Marshal Wu Pei-fu is leav ing for Peking to-morrow, with General Chi Haleh-yuen, for a conference with Marshal Chang Teo-li
Headquarters report that. two Cantonese, Divisions are: already moving on to Hunan,“ and that preparations are being made here to defend the. Hunan and Kiangsi fronts. -Reutor..
by the U. S. Government, which Union leaders for their "betrayal"
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
BISHOP ON EMPIRE BUILDERS.. At St. John's Cathedral the ser- vice was commenced with proces sional hymns. Special prayers were offered for the Empire, tho Forces, for peace, colleges and and schools, absent friends, thanks giving for mercies re ceived. The service concluded
with the National Anthem and the Benediction..
The Right Reverend the Bishop of Victoria (Dr. Duppuy) deliver- ed a powerful address, and em phasised the necessity of setting oneself a hard task to do, and the beneficial results accruing from team work. He began by dealing. with the splendid spirit shown by those hardy men who had attempti
ed to
climb Mount Everest, and gave an illuminating outling of the terrible hardships and pris vations they suffered, and how their courage and spirit enabled them to press onwards.
EVEREST CLIMBERS.
He said when he was asked to speak at that service his mind at once turned to those Mount Ever est climbers; those men who two years ago tried to conquer that. unconquered mountain "The story of Mallory and Irvine, who got so near the tdp, if not actually had her repaired, refitted and of the workers.
After this, the assembly dis- to the top, suggested to him two altered in various respects, and also had her renamed the Compersed, with hands playing and thoughts for Empire Day. They banners flying, and the singing of were: everyone of them had got mercial Scout.
songs, Including, the Communists' to set himself a hard task in life. latest favourite, "mother the to do; and 2, they must play for.
their side and not for themselv.1. Policeman killed your child."
Two police aeroplanes circled Those climbers knew very well overhead during the proceedings. that they had set themselves a
BROUGHT OUT EAST.
--Reuter.:
During the shipping slump of 1921, the ship, was again laid up in America, and Messrs. Carral- chaol & Clarke had her bought and brought over to the China Coast by Mr. J. Hill, a well-known China Coast Captain. After the OPIUM ON "TILAMBA" They knew attempts to reach the
vessel arrived here, command was taken by Captain W. Macall, who, we are sorry to say, is at present ill in the Government Civil Hospi tal with rehumatic fever, but is
BIGGEST HAUL IN FENANG.
A record haul of opium was now progressing favourably made by a search party from the While Captain Macall is still con-
hard task to do, for since man had been on the earth no-one had ever reached the summit of Everest.
top had been made and had not succeeded, but, in spite of that, they went on their way to have another try, undeunted. Before they got some distance from the mountain top, they found that everything nemed to be against
service in the North River sector. disappearing overnight from the herited the estato of his uncle (his such a school and remove the sign-valescent it is stated that Captain Government Monopolies on board them, and the most experienced
Chinese life.
KUOMINTANG. CONFERENCE.
an end.
Victoria Bakery. The other night the proprietor resolved to keep an | all-night vigil with his fokis, and at one o'clock in the morning they were rewarded by hearing a sus picious clatter in the backyard, in the region of the oven:
nominal.
KEPT SAFE KEY.
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HEROIO MEN.
They had no doubt read the as- count of how Norton and Somer-
| ville made the frat push to get to the top. They could imagine the latter staggering along with a hacking cough, dragging himself along until he got within a thou- sand yards from the top, and how he had to remain there himself and - urge Norton to go on. Norton: set himself to go twenty paces without a rest, but he found he could only do thirteon.". He was panting for breath; was waist-deep in snow, with sheer precipices on each side of him. He had to give
The wages account shows you signia and any documents con- dent of Carmichael & Clarke, will rival at Penang from China ports fierce storms and difficulties of all boards, seals, banner and other in. G. Arthur, Marine Superinten the Tilamba on the vessel's ar climbers never had such a hard time. It was bitterly. cold, with received $50 per month?—Yes.
|talning political propaganda. The temporarily take command Your brother, whom you' say
via Singapore on May 17th
sorts. All of them were more or The convention of the Committes
was the sole proprietor, also drew new Bill sought to supply these
SOME DETAILS.
Under some matting in the lens' sick, and when it looked al of the Kuomintang is approaching
$50 per month? That was merely was amended in these particulars remedies. Unless the Ordinance The 6th Session met on
The Lok Sun, was built in Ger match store was found approxi-most certain death to go further "At once the watchers ran into Other employees received more? it would fail to attain one of its many before the Great War, and mately 6,000 tabile of non-Govern- they did not give up. They wont the 21st instant, with General the yard and they pounced on a-Some of them.
principal objects. There was was last surveyed here in June, ment opium valued at about forward and pressed
854,000. Chang Kai-shek in the chair, man who had safely negotiated You drew cheques on accounts nothing in the Bill, which need 1925, er registered net tonnage
after reading the reports, the the spiked rear wall of the yard, opened by the Yue Hong at cause the least anxiety to the is 1,041, and her registered gross A Cantonese passenger and a the foreign banks 7-Yes, I was management of any legitimate tonnage 1,781 tons. Her total cook were arrested in connection Chairman submitted a draft of and was on his way to
school. kitchen. He had an iron instru- authorised to, do that,
cubic cargo capacity is 141,281 with the seizure. an instructional circular intendment, which warranted the sus- You knew everything about the When the Bill was being concubic feet, and her deadweight In-
A further search of the vessel sidered in Committee the Attor-clusive of bunkers 2,820 tons, was made and an additional 259 ed to be sent out to "all members picion that the man had got into transactions of the Bunk?-No.
I put it to you that your father ney: General stated that these her bunkers containing 167 tons. tahils, valued at $2,331, was found. of the Kuomintang. It was de- the yard for an unlawful purpose.
the sole proprietor?—No, amendments were only a portion It is known by local Chinese ship-
This is the largest seizure of To-day, on appearance before wid cided to refer this to a committes Mr. R. C. Lindsell on a charge of what are your reasona?
of those which the departments pers that she fe able to carry more non-Government, oplum over made for report.
having been found on a felonious
concerned desired, but as this than 41,000 Chinese piculs of in Penang, This circular is really an in-enterprise, the marauder was gen- In further examination, witness Bill would be repealed by the new cargo. Her draft fully loaded is tenced to two weeks' imprison-admitted that he kept the key of edition of the Laws of the Colony, 19 9" whereas her draft in hal- struction issued to all members
the safe, and gave as a reason the matter would come up again last la 8.0, She makes a speed of the 'Kuomintang to lay aside
that he was the only folti not in about two months, and it was of more than 11 knots per hour all differences and forget. what
living at the Bank promises, and probable that there would be ex- on a fuel consumption of 20 tons further that he lived very close tonsive amendments to the Schools of coal per 24 hours. Her length has happened in the past, and to
to the Police Station.
Ordinance. Cold it cover all is 254 feet, length between accept all the reform measures for
The Bill was passed with minor perpendiculars 288 feet, and ex- A new charge, the nature of in also. When they dragged them- treme breadth 87 feet 2 inches which is not stated, now figures solves down to their rough camp proventing future splits, at the
while her depth of hold is 119′ 6′′ along with the count of obtain that night, Norton became blind, same tima urging individual mem-
London, May 24. Her tween decks are 76 height, Ing money by false pretences in and when they descended, steps bera to give more attention" and
was often going to and fro, Apparently a new pence move and the lower hold is 12 6 In the case against the owner or had to be cut in the fee for hum. time to the interests of the revolu-
For $50 per month, you did is being made in rocco, as off-height.
money-express business On Mallory and Irving had gen The House of Representatives practically all the work in the Tuc cial quarters in Faris confirm the The steamer is arranged with Lan Street. This was according Norton blind, and Somerville drag tionary cause.
Ways and Means Committee has Hong Bank?At the end of the roport that a parent member of air scuttles, a ten top refrigerat to the amended prosecution sheet ging himself in with his hacking Other questions, relating to approved of the French war debt year I always had a bonus.
the Red Cross Mission to the Riffing chamber, and three rice steam banded up to the Magistrate by cough, and yet they sald they such matters as the organisation settlement.
Mr. Potter then put to witness of the Women's Equality and The Chairman expects the Bill pass-books at various banks all has arrived at Faz with a letter boilors for deck passengers, whilst the Central Police Court this would attempt the tank their Freedom Society and the Young to pass the House with little op addressed to the Yuo Hong Bank from Abd al Krim for M. Steeg, electric fans are fitted In every
the French-resident. Peoples Association, were also position, but there will be a long premises.
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ment, with hard labour."
FRENCH WAR DEBT.
FIGHT EXPECTED IN U. 8.-
SENATE.
Washington, May 24.
Mr. Potter: If your brother was the solo proprietor, why did he not keep it7 He had several families, some in Canton, and he
amendments.
room of the ship She has tween.
FALSE PRETENCES.
AND ANOTHER CHARGE
morning
friends had falled to acept
deal
The meeting them and bitter ight in the Senate and battusin Sharkukant