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COTTON MILL STRIKE.
POLICE FREVENT DAMAGE TO
MACHINERY
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926.
COMPANY REPORT
- VILLIAGERS' FRIGHT.
A VIOLENT STORM.
THE HONGKONG TUG & LIGHTER CO LTD.
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Maheb al for the year ended sist of the kai-fong or village organises fighters have been sunk.
After providing for Depreciation tion. In case of trouble, assist The loss of life is extensive. and writing off the balance of Pro-ance is summoned from the neigh. Damage shore is also reported, liminary Expenses and $15,000 off bouring Police Stations by meansReuter's American Service. Underwriting Commission, there is a of rockets. small profit for the year of $10.48. reduces the amount standing to
On this occasion it appears that debit of Profit and Loss Account to $22,727.40, which amount it is pro- posed CUTTY Consulting
was something amiss. The signals has been divided between diplo Brooke served in belles of Associa. Lokmachan and Antau and tele- brilliant career at Oxford
his place. In' were noticed by the authorities in macy and scholarship. cordance
FUR WORKERS' STRIKE:
WORK TO BE RE-STARTED ON MONDAY?
Lator.
has occurred in the fur workers strike, owing to the union's insist ing that workers who returned to work during the strike should be "disciplined." Reuter's American Service
ROCKETS CAUSE EXCITEMENT CHILEAN COAST STREWN
IN THE TERRITORIES.
WITH WRECKS. Considerable labour agitatlan, in shareholders of the Hongkong Tug
The report, for presentation to the Lam
The erroneous firing of rockets.
Valparaiso, June 11, the course of which several hum & Lighter Co., Ltd., at the second in the New Territories early yes- A violent storm last night
Now York, June 11, dreds of persons have been thrown ordinary yearly mopting to be held terday morning gave rise to constrowed the const with debris,lasting oightoon weeks, has been out of work, occurred on the 4th at the office of the Company on aiderable anxiety in the neigh Four ships are ashore, totally settled, and work is being resumed
wrought havoc on shipping, a
The strike of 10,000 fur workers, and nst. in Shanghai, although the situ- Thursday, June 24, at 11.30 am, hourhood of Un Long, a small mar-recur or high freiously on Monday.
atates: ation on the 6th was much easier, Annoxod we have the pleas
pleasure to kat town, where there la no police sank. Four tugs have been datang- and some of the workers were rosy before shareholders atatement station, the place being in charge ed, and thres others and many At the last moment a deadlock THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY ing back, it is still somewhat tenen March, 1920.
in the mill districts, particularly in the Naigal Wats Kaisha mills, the Tao Juto factory and other smaller "Japanese mill. Most of the trouble arose over the dismissal of a boy in the weaving department of the Naigai Wata Kaisha mill No. 9.
At 6 am. on the 5th, 907 mate and 562 female workers of the mill struck as
protest against the
W. J. Carroll, C. P. discharged for wearing clogs in the fong and M. M. Tackey (in place of established between the local served in various capacities in weaving room. As soon as the
H. M. H. Nemazes, absent), re-headquarters and the rural stations Russia, Turkey, Morocco, Bulgaria, workers went out negotiations be tire. Messra, W. J. Carroll, CP which were warned.
Marcel and Li Tse-fong are eligible
Serbia, the United States, Samos,,
London, June 11. tween the strikers and the mill for re-election, and
Police reports which subsequent and East Africa. He was appoint-ernment has sent the Soviet Gov- It is understood the British Gov- Mr. Ahmed management were started and pro- Nemazen is recommended for elec- Fly arrived, stated that the trouble ed in 1905 Vice-Chancellor of the ernment a note protesting against" pressed satisfactorily until 3 p.m.
was a false alarm.
University of Sheffield and in 1912 the Soviet Government offering the on Saturday when the management
Principal of Hongknog University. Trade Union, Congress money dur- agreed to reinstate the boy.
He served as H.M: Commissionering the general strike, which is re- in Siberia in 1918, and from 1919garded as an unjustifiable interfer to the present year as British Amence in the Internal affairs of bassador at Tokio:
Sir Charles Britain.-Reitor
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• forwarDuring the
somebody in the town heard a of the event, a correspondent of the "bang" and immediately fired Shefeld Independent says: rifles and rockets, thinking there The life of Sir Charles Ellot
After a he
STRIKE FUNDS.
dismissal of a boy. The boy was tion, the present. Con Messrs-thonie communication was at onca entered the diplomatic service and OFFICIAL BRITISH PROTEST.
LI Tee-
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tion in the place of Mr. M. M. Tac- key.
Auditors. The accounts have been audited by Messrs. Perey Smith, Seth and Fleming. Mesars. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming are eligible for election,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers.
Police, who had been called in to guard the mill compound, were in- fermed at 3.80 that the workers were daranging the machinery and they immediately entered the weay- ing room to quell the trouble. No zooner had they entered than they MR. GILBERT FALKNER, were met by a volley of iron mis- siles. They were forced to use their pistols after every means had proved futile.
M.C.
WELL KNOWN P W.
OFFICER.
Mr. Falkner had not been ill very
"Anger the Foreigners." After the workers had been ejected from the room several pieces of iron resembling batons "It is with regret that we have to were picked up. There were also record the death of Mr. Gilbert found three pieces of sacking with Evelyn Falkner, M. C., which occur. the following inscription in Chin-fed yesterday afternoon at the ese: "Bent the ranning dogs and Government Civil Hospital: restore the International Settle- ment." There were also two pieces of brown paper with the following inscription written in Chinese characters in chalk: "Anger the foreigners and commemorate the death of Koo Tsung-ong," who was killed in No. 7 mill Naigal Wata Kaisha, on May 13, 1925."
Twelve men were arrested subse quent to the disturbance, but were released after being cautioned.
The mill management places the amount of damage done to the machinery at about Tls. 760.
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About 600 employes of No. 13 mil Naigai Wata Kaisha, who struck at 2 a.m. on Friday, are still cut The day shift, numbering about the same, resumed on Satur "day morning. A pamphlet with the following demands was sent to the mil authorities: (1) That all dis- missed workers be reinstated; (2) That no more workers be dismissed without sufficient cause; (3) That The police shall not be allowed to intimidate workers; (4) That full wages be paid for the period of the strike.
THE TACNA-ARICA DISPUTE.
NO GUARANTEES FOR PERUVIAN VOTERS.
long and his passing comes as a shock to his many friends. Last wok-end he was still about, but later he became ill and was taken plications ensued and he #pidly be to hospital with influenza. Com-
about 2 pm, yesterday, came worse and passed away at
An
Mr. Falkner was well-known is the Colony, and a very popular mao. Ho Was engineer in the Buildings Ordinance Office of the F.W.D., having arrived in the Colony in 1923. He would have been 30 years old next month..
During the War Mr. Fallmer had ed the Military Cross. His inter- a distinguished carcer, being award- cat in military matters continued after domobilization and he was an enthusiastic member of the Houg. kong Volunteer Defence Corps, be ing Company Sergeant Major of the Reserve, Company. Deceased was married and had two young children, His family recently left the Colony. for England and they will have the sympathy of all in their very sad bereavement,
STEAM LAUNCH BURMA.
SOLD TO THE PHILIPPINES.
The steam launch "Burma," late owner Mr. H. M. H. Nemazee, has been recently sold to the Gavern- ment of the Philippine Islands for Washington, June 11. the Bureau of Health Department. The Tacna-Arica dispute may be The vessel was thoroughly over- brought up for settlement, Fresi-hauled and put in first-class con- dent' Coolidge arbitrating, as the dition and sailed for Manlia on result of a report of the American, the evening of June 8th, in charge representative that a plebiscite is of Captain Munzie. Cable advice impossible, owing to Chile's failure has been received that the vessel to provide guarantees for the trrived safely in Manila on the Peruvian voters.
morning of the 9th instant.
It is understood that the State Department is still negotiating on a basis of the partition of the dis- puted area between Chile, Peru and Bolivia. Reuter's American Ser- vice.
The deal was put through by Messrs. the Anglo-American Steve- doring Co, and the vessel was in- sured for the voyage to Manila by the Commercial Union Assurance Co. and the Canton Insurance Co."
SIR CHARLES ELIOT,
"
HONOURED BY SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY.
Eliot has to his credit many impor Sir Charles Eliot has received philosophical study, and
tant contributions to linguistic and
versity of Sheffield., With Lord post at Tokio was elected a mero in a fried fish shop involved the an honorary degree from the Uni-months before he relinquished his a few
A fire at Okehampton recently Dorby, Lord Dewar, Sir Austen ber of the Imperial Japanese fire brigade station and destroyed Chamberlain and others he was Academy, being the first foreign the new fire engine and "equip made a Doctor of Laws. Writing, scholar to attain this honour."
ment.
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