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BOYCOTT ISSUE.
"ARE TERMS BEING
REVISED?,
DESIRE FOR SETTLEMENT.
The latest reports from Cunton regarding the activities. of the strike and boycott pickets show that numerous complaints have been made concerning the illegal activi- ties of these men, especially at Shurichun, Chinshan and Namtow. The result is stated to be that the Strike Committee has ordered the pickets at these places to change. stations with those doing duty in the neighbourhood of Canton, in order that they may be under the direct survillance of the Committeo. It is stated, however, that even
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 100t
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MONDA
JUNE 21, 1926. 日二十月伍
No. 21,889
THREE $500 NOTES BURNED.
THIEF'S STRANGE STORY. DOUBTED.
SENTENCE OF SIX MONTHS.
The extraordinary statement that he burnt $1,500, composed of three $500-notes, was made by
a
Chinese when he was arrested and
charged with the larceny of the
money.
CANTON CHANGES.
נד
SHOOTING AFFAIR RECALLED.
MILITARY MINISTRY
CRIMINAL
SCHEME.
CHANG KAI-SHEK AS" HEAD.
נו .יו
It is reported that the Central
Executive Committee of the Kuo- mintang is now to carry out the resolution passed at the second gen- eral meeting of its delegates to create the Ministry of Military Affairs in addition to the seven- The case came before Major 0. Willson, at the Central Magistracy Ministries now functioning and this morning, when. Sub-Inspector that General Chang Kai-shek
is the Wait said the defendant was em-likely candidate for the post. played by the complainant as" is also stated that the creation of cook. One night, while the com; plainant was asleep, the defendant this Ministry will take place as soon took from under his pillow a key, as General Chang Kai-shek has de- with which he opened a safe, and Having been successful in. obtain-
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LATEST MILITARY MOVES. A FOKI COMMENDED. The last stil the sensational circulating in Canton to the effect Recently there have been reports
are which did 375,000 Pesos dam- Five minutes before the start of affair of May an armed rob that a mutiny has broken out in bers broke intet Connaught the ranks of the 10th and 11th
age to the bodegas of the Johnson proposing to effect a settlement Pickett Ropa Company early on Road West in the rly morning Divisions of the Army, this taking
with the Powers of the contro Friday morning, June 18th, the and, in escaping were pursued and
versy which still wages over the the form of a refusal to proceed fired at by the police as reached.
to the front until an advance of basis of a farge foreign loan for incidents of May 30, 1925, on the by the arrraignments three men
three months' pay had been made his Government has aroused before Mr. Justiceod at the
It is now stated that there is no much feeling among Shanghai Criminal Besstops.
morning on
truth in this story, which is at ; charges of armed ry, and of
Chinese, says the Telegraph's being in unlawat leession of a
tributed to mischief-mongers. correspondent. .“ loaded revolver.
It appears that owing to a
cided upon the date for the assump-Pui-ying and Ngu, returned a patching the regiment of General The accused Tang Ngam, Ng change in the programme; by des
this scheme does not meet with ing the money, he was apparently in-Chief of the National Revolution. armed robbery, and the first-named commodation was left for these local students and all the Chinese his regular inspection trip, he tion of the office of the Commander- plea of guilts the charges of Chang Fat-fui first, no further ac-
two Divisions and their departure The Acting Attorney-General had to be postponed. There was (Mr. Dyer Ballstated, in reply to a slight confusion in getting suff a question from he Lordship, that cicct space for their temporary he thought, from the depositions,
Reports are current to the effect that the terms and conditions for a ecttlement of the atrike and boy cott are being revised, and that they may be presented to the various parties concerned in order that a basis may be renched for a full dis- cussion by the Hongkong and Can ton delegates.
STRIKE DECLARATION.
took from it the money mentioned.
ary Army.
ر ائیر
THE NEW SYSTEM.
לי
also made an admission as regards the arma indictmen
OFF TO THE FRONT,
night watchman, A. N. Peterson was attacked by two Filipinos, one farmed with a knife, the other with
a club.
Paterson evaded two" knife thrusta, but was felled by the man with the club. The two No settlement of the tragic men then ran off. The bodega
made and it is still a fruitful las. affair of last year has yet been was at Valderrans and San Nico
theme of discussion among the About 2.25 in the morning, 48
ณ
Peterson was walking around on popular approval, as it does not suddenly assailed with fear that
societies. Compensation for the noticed two Filipinos standing strike at the root of the evil. The he might be arrested while he was taking the money away. This de-
families of those who were killed near one of the office doors, He whole question is said to have been cided him not to complete the rob-
when the mob in Nanking Road did not question them, but walk- brought to the notice of Mr. Eugene bery, and, according to his state-
A Canton paper says that a few
May 30th, of last year, has been 20 feet, he was hurled to the was fired upon on the afternoon of "ed past: When he had gone about Chen, the Minister for Foreign ment, he burnt the notes. He days ago the system of organisation Affairs,
who has in consequence would burn such a sum in paper mander-in-Chief of the National one witness spoken there being ten taken up by incoming troops. that this demand will ultimately cognised his assailants as the could not understand how a man of the Headquarters of the Com-that there were least five men encampment, on account of their repeatedly demanded by Shanghai ground from behind... Robroe concerned in the rubbery, although former encampment having been Chinese; and there is a feeling loose, regained his fest, and re- again urged the necessity of open-notes. A child would hardly do Revolutionary Army was submitted men concerned. One of the men But the difficulty has now been be met. ing the conference for a settlement such a thing. of the strike and boycott at the Sergt. Wheelan handed to the to the Government by General reared to have arranged the whole have been no justification for in order to bolster up his uncer with a knife, the other with a
was employed in the shop. He ap-overcome and there appears to But the story now is that. Yen, they rushed upon him, the one-
two men he had just seen. Then earliest possible moment..
Magistrate a small fragment of Chang Kai-shek. It is to be com- thing; had two of them to sleep the rumours of a mutiny. paper, which, he said, might be a
fain Cabinet, pay salaries and club. Two knife thrusts ripped part of one of the mutes. It was posed of a Political Department, with him, for the night, and admit-
wages long in arrears, and estab-his coat and trousers, but falled found among burnt paper in a Councillor sub-department and 12ted others into the shop during the
lish himself upon some sort of to reach a vital organ. A blow of chatty in the kitchen.
night.
It is reported in Canton that definite basis generally, is secret the club, however, knocked him bureaux, namely, Secretariat, Stat,
In particular, the acting Attorney urgent telegrams have been re-ly negotinting with Europe for a Major Willson said he did. not think that could be a part of one tary Law, Military Supply, tion of the Court to the commend Yip Hoi-kum has been reinforced he will compensate the families away. of the notes, as it was more like Military Affairs, Telegraph, Re-able conduct of a foki of the shop, by the 17th Brigade of the Hupeh of the 1925 victims, and then, so HEARS CALL OF FIRE
by the name of So Lin-hau, and if forces, which has already arrived
far as the foreigners are con- ordinary paper, and was not thick eruiting, Naval Affairs, Aeroplanes his Lordship would see fit to com-at Changsha, and that other unita cerned, call the incident closed. enough.
A few minutes later as he was When questioned in Court, the and Military Implements. It is mend this man action he (the At are on their way. The receipt of Chinese that they have sent a dressing his injuries, Paterson This appeals so little to local sitting in the doorway of the office In contrast to these reports comes defendant insisted that he burnt probable that the Military Law torney General) Dought it would this news occasioned the hasty message to Yen "begging to heard another watchman, employ- a declaration by the Strike Com-the notes at about 9 a.m. yester-Bureau may be affiliated with the
have a good effect,
departure of several Generals. mittce dealing with the anniversary day.
It was this man, who, after the General Chang Fat-fui, the victor this rumoured purpose he will be shouting that the hemp bodega assure" him that if he carries out ed by the bureau of public works, of the declaration of the strike. He was sent to prison for six tors of the different bureaux, it is pursued the gang. He came out of Canton-Hankow Railway for the Political Department. The direc- commission of the armed robbery, of Hainan, left on the 16th by the This refers to the continuance of months, with hard labour...
"dealt with in a relentless was on fire. the strike for a year, and "states
said, have already been named but the shop very shortly afterwards, front with his crack regiment.
Peterson ran over and found that the decision by the Committee
and found five ruen who he thought His departure was the occasion of
the bodega a sheet of flame. The the system will be formally an- were the robbers, in the street. a great send-off. All prominent
other watchman turned In a fire
chase, notwithstanding that the were at the station. On the 15th,
several drums of heavy oll used robbers were armed, and, as a re- Generals Ho Ying-yum and Li
in making rope exploded and turn- eult of this, the first and second Chung-yan took their departure,
ed the bodega into a furnace. prisoners now appearing before the the former by steamer to Swatow,
All the fire stations responded Court were arrested.
while the latter
Shortly after the Empress of to the alarm, and their prompt entrained for The case was adjourned until Samshui and thence by gunboat to Australia salled from Hongkong 375,000 Posos. Late in the after- work kept the loss down to this afternoon, for the attendance Wuchow. It is said that General at daylight on the 11th instant, noon fireman were still drenching of the doctor.
Chan Ming-shu is now to leave trouble developed in one of the the smouldering hemp. for the front, together with Lew
Secret service men attach little Mun-der, the representative of turbines which necessitated her General Tong Sung-che, who will slowing down and proceeding to watchman, and Mr. Pickett denies Importance to the attack on the return to be attached to Tong's Shanghai on one engine.. army as the Political Agent of the
On arrival at Woosung, there packed tight enough to cause that the hemp in the bodega was Kuomintang.
were symptoms that there was further trouble in the interior of spontaneous combustion.
About six weeks ago, however, the turbine, and it was decided to 250 employees of the Johnson-Fic-
After examining the paper, Aide-de-Camp, Commissariat, Mili- General wished to draw the atten-ceived to the effect that Generatoan of $6,000,000, out of whichdown again and the two men ran
10
manner."
to observe the anniversary is "to KOWLOON SNATCHERS. [nounced after it has been approved With a policeman he took up the officials, together with their wives. "EMPRESS" DELAYED alarm, but almost as he did it,
examine our strength and prepare
for prolonged fight." Mention is made of the talk of a settlement, but it is added that "our 200,000 workers shall maintain our original terms and shall not give up until we achieve a real victory."
GETS LIGHT SENTENCE. ́
by the Political Council.
CHAN KUNG-POK RESIGNS. The same journal states that after the inauguration of the Government, the military thorities paid attention to the political training of the soldiers.
au-
The snatching of, hand-bags from ladies has become quite pre-. The opinion is expressed in sume valent of late, and another case quarters that this declaration is came before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, very largely in the nature of a "face-saving" pronouncement, and at the Kowloon Magistracy this that, in spite of its seeming to be a morning, when he imposed sen- With this purpose in mind a Politi- THE COAL PROBLEM. serious rally-call to continue the tence of one month's hard labour cai Training Department was struggle, the negotiations for a
on a juvenile, thief who pleaded formed and Mr. Chan Kung-pok settlement will soon open, as the guilty to snatching a purse from bulk of the Chinese in Canton are Mias Mand White on Saturday was appointed director of the De- „anxious for an end to be put to the evening. The defendant,
artificial interference with trade also ordered to receive eight fice, he put all his energy into the between Hongkong and Canton,
task and once tendered his re OTHER ITEMS,
A Canton paper contains reports
was partment. After he assumed of-
strokes of the birch.
Sergeant Hargreaves, who con-
THE GOVERNMENT PASSING LEGISLATION.
Rugby, June 20
A new Bill enabling a return ducted the case, informed the signation of other posts, such as to the eight-hours working day
THE FUKIEN OUTLOOK.
175 va
TROUBLE WITH TURBINES.
A further report concerning the send the Empress of Australia to kett Rope Company went on strike movements of the Fukien, troops Nagasaki, where she arrived on is received from Amoy. This the 19th instant. After examina
and a number were discharged states that the People's Army, un- tion by the Mitsubishi Dock Com-after the strike was settled. der Chan Kwok-fai were attacked pany, the injury to the turbine This fact and the attack on the
of happenings concerning the picking outside Orient Buildings on and Labour Department and the formally introduced in the House with the result that the People's that repairs will take about two suspicion that: the fire was start I Court that Miss White was stand the directorate of the Peasant in the coal industry will be by the Fukien troops at. On Kai,was confirmed and it is estimated Watchman, has given rise to the effect that five men were arrested fendant snatched her purse con- Presidency of the Kwang-tung of Commons to-morrow, and the Army was defeated and retreated weeks.
nts, one, of which is to the Saturday evening when the de-
ed in revenge...
it
FIRE GAINS HEADWAY.
was discovered, as the drums of
by the pickets whilst attempting to taining 86 cents and other per- University, so as to put all his Government intend to paas, it to Dor Hang, where they were Passengers will be transferred board a Hongkong steamer from asonal articles. The defendant efforts into the ninnagement of through all its parliamentary again driven back to Kao Ping to the Empress of Asia or other sampan, and that they were taken wat seen running away by the Department. But he was only stages as rapidly as possible. The It is stated that this defent of the Apportunity, but those wishing to The blaze must have been start back to Tungyuen "to be dealt watchman, who, in response to
measure does not repeal the Seven People's Army was due to the lack remain with the Empress of Aused at least half an hour before. with."
Miss White's shouts for assistance allowed to resign the post as Pre Hours Act but merely suspends it of ammunition, and that their retralia will have the option of doing gave chase and caught the thief. sident of the Kwangtung Univer for a period which has not yet treat to Kao Ping was made to be 40.
Bity. For the past half year he has been defined but which will be nearer in touch with the Nation- been 16:
announced to-morrow. It will list Revolutionary Army and the CRIMINAL SESSIONS. het very energetic and worked le probably be from three to five other units of the People's Army,
work, he is now in bad health. years
which has a strength of 6,000 ratik Sometime' ago he asked for over 10
The Government also intend to and file. It is further stated that the People's Army is now in a strong position. M. BRIAND'S CHANCE OF
On the other hand, the Fukien troops, having, obtained their | object of recovering the Revenue Collecting Station at Dor Hang
"With regard to the events of June 23rd last year, the Youths' Depart- ment of the Canton Kuomintang is stated to be preparing to observe the anniversary. Various lecturers are to be sent out and a declaration
I
FRENCH POLITICS.
SUCCESS.
Paris, Juns 20. After consulting with M. Briand
oll, exploded so soon afterwards. Those drums were inflammable and were stored in a part of the bodega protected by a fire wall. Intense heat must have been necessary to make them explode.
Peterson, the watchman, denied that he had been asleep at the time of the fire. Mr. Pickett does not believe that he could have been. Peterson has been in the employ of the firm for about five
The entire loss is covered by
will also be issued. A big demons MURDER CHARGE HELD OVER. days leave as ill-health had been pass into law before the recess, tration is also planned for Wednes day, the aniversary of the Shameen
troubling him again and his doctor second bill incorporating measures One case of murder, two of advised him to take a rest. But as
of re-organisation in the industry, incidents,"
armed robberies, and one of mak- the work of the Political Training'
-British Wireless. The work on the "June 28 fug statements in connection with Department is becoming heavier Maloo," at Shakee, is said to be bankruptcy proceedings, compris because of the Northern Expedi nearing completion, and it is ex-ed the calendar for the Junction, he tendered his resignation as NEW YORK SENSATION. and On Kal, which yield a consi- M. Fainlove spoke optimfatically years.
pected that the formal opening will Criminal Sessions, which were director to the Nationalist Govern take place early next month. opened before His Honour Mr. ment. The Nationalist Government f
Justice Wood at the Supreme has accepted his resignation. Court this morning,
The Political Training Depart In the case of a prisoner named ment will now be put under the Li Hau, charged with murder, the Headquarters of the Commander-in-
AVIATOR FOUND..
AFTER A WEEK'S ABSENCE.
Acting Attorney General, Mr. Dyer Chief of the National Revolution- Ball, applied for a respite of two ary Army,
TO INVITE M, POINCARS
Later. That the idea of forming a
MILITARY TATTOO.
ATTENDED BY THEIR MAJESTIES.
dorable revenue monthly, are not likely to advance any further for of Briand's chances of success, insurance DETENTION OF EUCHARISTIC position against further attacks would not be completed till to- the present. Though in a strong but thought that the Cabinet
CONFERENCE DELEGATES. |from the Fukien troops, this will
morrow-Reutor." not satisfy the People's Army, as New York, June 20. the loss of revenue would be
disastrous. It is obvious that Sixty-four of the seventy-seven when a full supply of am- months, following a statement Accordingly the Political Train-Jugo-Slavian delegates to the Eu-munition has been obtained, and from the Surgeon, of the Governing. Department has issued a not-charistic Conference have been the support of the Revolutionary ment. Civil Hospital that the uccus Acation to the various armies re-detained and ordered to proceed to Army is asuured; an endeavour to Cabinet of the National Union is institution, has had both lega am- partment, that they should write to Ellis Island for exordination recapture the lost places will be abandoned an impossible was men-
made. It is generally considered toned by M. Brland in an inter Their Majesties the King and says that the Argentine aviator putated and that there is no hope the Commander-in-Chief Hend It is officially stated that the that Chow Yum-yan has now view, though he Intimated the de- Queen Inst night attended the Duggan, who has been missing of his appearing before the quarters for instructions regarding authorities are not satisfied that thrown down the challenge, and sire of giving the new Cabinet the Aldershot Miltary Tat
August Sessions
political training mattore, Tang the delegates, all of whom are lay that this movement of his troops broadest possible basis. He in- is this year again proving a since June 18, has arrived safoly: The case was therefore adjourn Yen-ta has been appointed director men; tave come to the United against the People's Army is the tends, firstly, to invite the support success, and received et Vigla, with his om, anion. — ed. Other cases are reported of the Political Department of the States solely to the Con- .commencement of hostilities in of the Bloo National by offering ovation from 60,000 apoc Rextor's American Service,
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