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Hongkong Telegraph
FOUNDED 1881
No. 31,000
五拜禮·號二月七英港香
FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1926.
CHINESE FEMINISM. RAID ON A WOMEN'S SEIZED STEAMER.
NEW MOVEMENT IN HONGKONG.
CLUB,
WEALTHY GAMBLERS GET
"SURPRISE.
HEADS UNDER SOFA.
STRIKE UNION. RELEASES SHIP.
ON PAYMENT OF $3,000
It is reported that the steamer A women's club, where rich men's wives meet together for the Epo Cheong; which formerly plied sole purpose of gambling, has been between Macao and Canton, and
SAMPAN SINKS OFF APLICHAU
MASTER BROWNED AS RESULT.
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日三十月伍。
MINING HOURS.
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* HAPPY VALLEY
A.P.O. MAN'S RECENT DEATH.
HOUSE OF COMMONS SCENES.
OFFICIALS DOUBT MURDER STORY.
LABOUR OBSTRUCTION.
London, July 1. In the House of Commons, the
CANTON INVESTIGATIONS.
As the result of sampan being
Regarding the recent death in swamped, the master was drowned final stage of the Coal Mines Kwangsl of Mr. John Maitland
who with him managed to swim
PUBLIC MONEY.
VOTES BEFORE THE COUNCIL,
COTT
A considerable number of finan
EMANCIPATION WANTED.
A movement to advance the cause of Chinese feminism has been set disclosed in the district of Kau | was scized by the strike pickots and near Abeilees, although a coolle Hours' Bill opened in a menacing Philips, of the Asiatic Petroleum clal votes relating to the years afoot in Hongkong by certain Chinese ladies whose names, so far, have not been disclosed. A mani- festo in connection with the sub Ject has been issued, from which, it
U Fong through a raid which was carried out by officials of the Criminal Investigation · Office on a gambling warrant,
has been detained in Canton for some months, has been released on payment, it is said, for $3,000 to the Strike Union.
ashore.
at
Ankeг.,
is noted that a Women's Society is appointments of the Club, which repairs, and is expected to who lives in the same vicinity, lowed to speak. UN
shortly to be formed locally and support is asked from all who are interested in the question of
"women's emancipation" in China,
reported to 1925 and 1926 will be considered Company, who was ́ have been killed by bandits whilst by the Legislative Connell at a travelling on business for his meeting this, afternoon, which be company, Kwangsi officials have gins at 4.30 p.m. Amongst theas
are the following: not yet admitted the murder,«
According to Kwangsi officials,
in their account of the case, the
· FOG SIGNALS. A sum of $1,619, cost of gun".
The Labourite, Mr. J. Batoy, ask- It appears that the coplic, living ed the Speaker, not to preas for the Evidence of ith nature, and the
Aplichau, went out in third reading, declaring that if he class of the people who frequent-
The steamer is now in dock, for the sampan with his master; did, no Ministerialist would be al- ed it, was indicated in the rich was located in the first floor of placed on the Macao-Canton run yesterday, and when about ten The Speaker said it was his duty late Mr. Philips was travelling cotton charges and electric te No. 6 Kau Ụ Fong The police again, pending the final signing of yards from the eastern end to conduct the business of the first on a motor launch but later tonator for fog signals. It is stat visit occurred as a complete sur-the compact for the concession of of the island, the vessel was House and he intended to do so. prise and in the ensuing stampede running steamers for passenger some of the women pulled the service only between the two ports.swamped, and sunk in 'ten or twelve
Mr. Bridgeman then moved the engaged a small junk of his own.ed that owing to revision in the method of determining when It table cloths over their cars, while
It will be remembered that feet of water."
They say he had not applied to the was necessary to fire fog signals. third reading but was repeatedly others put their heads under the at the time of the seizure
The coolic swam ashore, but did interrupted by Labourites who ae-authorities for protection and, at Waglan, the number of charges of the Ateamer, and " Bola.
also not see his master, although he cused him of provocation. Mr. therefore, the presence of foreign fired in 1925 exceeded the estimat since, many appeals have been searched for him for a quarter of Bridgeman said he was defending travellers within the district was ed number, and the reserve stock made to the Canton Government for an hour. Shortly afterwards, a the leader of his party, when he not recorded.
A further 5,000 Shortly after, how was drawn upon. the release of the steamer, "but all party of police vfeited the scene, was called a murderor and a liar.
ever two bodies were recovered charges were bought this being have hitherto been to no pur-but although every effort was made,
the number considered necessary. Mr. Jack Jones Interrupted: from the river, but whether or pose. Even at this time, when the they failed to discover any signs of "You are a murderer." Government has approved of the
He re not one of them was the body of to make the reserve stock auff- fused to withdraw and left the the late Mr. Philips could not be clently large to provide for pos concession for resuming the Macao-
House, and as he did so he turned ascertained, owing to disfigure $1,619 is the cost of the 5,000 dible contingencies. This sum of Canton service, the owners of the
towards the Ministerialista, shout-ment, a steamer have had to pay for her re-
ing, "The whole gang of you are The Ministry of Foreign Affairs charges and is additional to the murderers."
in Canton is making an investiga-sum of $2,000 provided in the 1925 Estimate. When authority for in. tion into the case. The British naval authorities have also been curring the additional expenditure interested in the matter, and since was given, it was anticipated that the report of the death of Mrt would be met from savings under Philips, gunboats in Canton and other sub-heads. Under the new vicinity bave made several trips arrangements such adjustment is no longer permitted and a vote for to. Wuchow and neighbourhood in
21,619 is therefore requested. connection with the matter."
of the
The manifesto commences with a review of the position of Chinese women. It says that hitherto
Of eleven women arrested in women in China have been wrongly the raid and subsequently taken supposed to be bereft of intell- to the Police Station, only one, Kence, and this, so far from being charged with being one
keepers of this gambling saloon, regarded as a disadvantage, has appeared before Major C. Willson been placed in the light of a virtue, when the case was, called this
morning. She was fined $50...
One of the abuent defendants forfeited bail of $200, whilst the nine others, who were charged only with gambling, likewise. had their bail of $5 each confiscated by the Magistrate.
TREATED AS SERVANTS,
lense.
INSPECTION OF STEAMERS. A. Canton paper
Bays the Bureau of the Merchant Protection and Smuggling Suppression Com-
and indulge in plundering, and has launches ofton frequent the rivers decided upon suppressing them.
In this way, an undesirable situa- tion “hng . been reached, in which women as a factor for good in domestic and public affairs have been completely effaced, and Nearly $150 which was aban- treated as servants and dependents:doned on the gambling table dur-mittee has discovered that pirate
The manifesto points out that lug the scamper and seized by the officers on their entry, was like- the overthrow of the Ching Dynas-wise confiscated by the Court, ty and the establishment of
"the Republic represent an achieve- ment in which Chinese women may claim to have had a share. But, having done their bit, they have
CUSTOMS. TROUBLE.
CANTON PORT MAY BE CLOSED.
been deprived of the advantages which should be the nattiral out- come in the era of modern civilisa- A United Press message fram tion since initiated. This ia at- Canton states that the trouble be tributed largely to the withholding tween Labour extremists and em- of the necessary opportunities, and ployees of the Customs service continues, tonsequent on, pickets it is pointed out in the manifesto having arrested some of the latter that Chinese women in honourable
The Navy Department has been instructed to despatch gunboats to patrol the waters, and the Director, of the Bureau has also ordered the gunboat Cho Klang to anchor off the Haur Ching Fort so as to inspect Incoming streamers and boats, thereby preventing pirate launches from entering the river.
All mercantile steamers will be
inspected before, being allowed to come up to Whampoa or Canton.
r
NOTORIOUS BANDIT CAPTURED.
Information has reached the de- tective service of the Canton Police
dit, Ho Chai, who had been carry
JULY 15.
THE BOYCOTT PARLEY
DATE....
12.
The Canton Government has replied to the communication of the Hongkong Government, which gave the names of the delegates appointed to conduct the
negotia
tions, and asked for a date to be fixed on which the representatives of both sides could come together. The Hongkong Government this morning issued a communique sa follows: In
accordance
nce with arrange- ments made between the Hong. kong Government, His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton and the Acting, Foreign Minister of the Canton Government it is hoped that "negotiations with regard to iko Boycett will be commenced in Canton on the 15th July,"
tor.
Mr. Bridgeman proceeded to make his speech in comparative silence.
MORE OPPOSITION.
Mr. Batey, falling to prevent Mr. Bridgeman to speak, left the
House.
The Speaker was compelled to: rebuke a number of Labourites, declaring that both sides should- ROWDY CAPTAIN, be heard
Mr. Bridgeman resumed with the remark" "I really do not knów) what all the fuss is about"—(loud laughter) and concluded by ask- ing the House to pass the bill which gave a free choice to free
mén.
"RESULT OF "GLASS OF
BRANDY
and useful occupations in their for declining. to join the proposed Department that the notorious ban-search when the tide was low, and mining industry. It would de nuence of liquor
FRISON STAFF.
Another vote is for $2,579 for supply of extra stam to the Prison Department
Owing to congestion in the gaols, it became necessary early in 1925 to open three new halle t Lalchikok and to provide addi- A native of one of the Portu- tional staff at an estimated cost guese settlements in South Africa, of $29,154 for a complete year and named Francisco Lima, who des- $25,000 for the year 1925. The The Labourite, Mr. Hartshorn, cribed himself to the police as Finance Committee was consulted said the Bill was a dastardly at the captain of the 9.5. Hoi Tak in February, 1925, and agreed to tack on the miners and its passage was charged, at the Kowloon Magis the expenditure but no formal the sampar or the unfortunate mas would raise the most awful situa-tracy this morning, with disorder vote was taken. There were sull It was decided to make another tion there had ever been in the ly conduct whilst under the in-cient savings on personal emola
ments to pay most of the extra press the standard of life of
The defendant was stated to expenditure actually incurred dure. two in every thousand of the popu-bearers are now eating and sleep 3 on-depredatory raids in the this proved successful, the body of miners all over the world and all have been seen in Kansu Streeting 1925, leaving an excess o
this man being found lying across ing in the Customs House, ined down by his fellow countrymen
Sanshui district and is being hunt the sampain in six feet of water, the workers in the country would last night throwing stones at $2,579 for which a supplementary view of further possible molesta for having committed the murders Public Mortuary.
consider Mr. Baldwin the greatest pedestrians and later using a The body has been takon to the enemy of workers, the last genera bamboo and striding a tion, as pickets are still on guard of twenty-three persons, has made "Men are like birds with
tion had produced-(Prolonged of passers by.
number Timits to their powers of soaring
Labourite cheers). into the heavens, whilst, on.
The Commissioner of Customs his escape to Canton, and is in hid- the other hand, women are just mere Government that if the interfer- is stated to have intimated to the hens, "earth-bound by custom for the term of their natural lives?ence continues, he may again have
to close the port. enys. the manifesto, "Women in China have come to this-that they
country now scarcely comprise
lation.
WOMEN "JUST HENS."
DO
Are mere hangers-on, mere goods
A
Union.
The office staffs and message.
outside,
and chattels which can be bought SINGAPORE" BASE.
QUESTIONS ON MALAYA'S CONTRIBUTION.
ing at a certain shop there. Detec- quently sent to surround the pre- lives and armed police were conse TRAFFIC COLLISIONS. mises, but the bandit, on seeing the detectives enter; fired his revolver nt them. Both detectives and arm- ed police rushed into the shop and overpowered the bandit, who, under
PREMIER'S ARGUMENT, Mr. Baldwin, at the outset, hoped shortly to announce the PASSENGERS THROWN FROM personnel of certain most impor- tunt Committees to considor auch subjects as selling agencies and Two traffic accidents occurred large trucks, which were dealt heavy chains and a guard, was led yesterday and the day before, one with in the Coal Commission's re- to the headquarters of the police, of which might have resulted seri- port. He declared that the
It is said that, this bandit has, been a terror in the Samshui district, having led men who have sacked and burnt down several villages and
'committed acts of the most atroci- ous and revolting nature.
RICSHA.
vole. is now requested...
SERVICE
In reply to his Worship, de-On a vote of $1,052, expenses fendant admitted having taken a of Dr. McKenny for special course alleged disorderly conduct. glass of brandy, but denied the in radiology and electrology. It is
A fine of $5 was imposed.
COBHAM'S FLIGHT.
AN UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE.
Rugby, July 1. Allan Cobham left Naples at
or sold, the petted playthings of meh, relegated to the position of concubine or mui-teni according to whim. There is no real security
ously when a car collided with a Miners' Federation had refused to in the sense of being given orna-
tiesha, and two people who were bridge the gap between the selling ments and made much of, for this
price of coal and the cost of pro-, 'dding in it were thrown out, is a subterfuge to lull us, into a
London, July 1.
Yesterday a Chinese was driving duction or to produce a policy for noon for, Athens. In a special false sense of security and of foring from a question, by Com." In the House of Commons, arig-
lorry No. 1064 In Queen's Road the interim period required for telegram to the Evening News he getfulness of our mothers' teach
East, and when near the Grand the reorganisation. This had describes yesterday's flight from inga!"
Kenworthy, Mr. Ormsby-Gore was
Theatre, motor car No. 2081, driven driven the Government to see if Rochester as an unusual ex- It is contended that women are, in contribution to the base:
heckled on the subject of Malaya's The Salt Industry Bureau con- by another Chinese, and travelling progress was possible by modifica-perience in that he was flying a position which is hardly different
He pointed out. from that of slaves. "A thousand
He said that the gift originated Vened a meeting of the delegates in the same direction, tried to pass. tion of hours. "yeara' custom and tradition
from the Rulers and Unofficial of all Unions at its offices on the In doing so the cara came into con- that the coal industry had been in over land in a seaplane. It would, however, have been possible, he Members of the Federated Malay 28th June, where the questions of tact with each other causing the one the process of transition for some
The journey from Marseilles the result that it collided with a modern working methods there cussed. The Director-General." по difficulty in judging the
ecross the Mediterranean was a
Arc
1,000,000 catties. Even those who can think for themselves cannot
THE SALT INDUSTRY.
explained that it was considered essential that there should be an expert in radiology and electrofogy in the medical service of the Colony, Dr. C. W. McKenny: was asked to make a special study of this branch of work while on leave in England. The course of study has now been completed by Dr. Kenny and the above amount represents spenditure which be refunded to the Government cone ders should
him.
KOWLOON TONG. MAINE, A vote of $40,000 is saked for water mains to the Rowion Estate. It is explained that necessary to consider the provisions of water mains, etc., to the Kow loon Tong Eatato. It was then too
bearing us down with the weight of States and no doubt the Rulers had reform of the industry were din front to swerve to the left, with time and that between the old-and/says, to descend on various rivers autumn of last year extricate themselves from this posiattitude of their subjects. Pay. Cheng Taze-sheung was, in the private ricaha, owned by a Chinese, were some pits which no stimulant long one and, he says "We were late to include, a sum in the 1926 tion, much as they would like to doment would come from the general chair. The speech of the Chairman in which two passengers were rid- could make profitable "and theyglad when we sighted the Italian, Estimates and consequently
BO."
THE NEW SCHEME.
revenue of the country, and it was anticipated that no additional taxation would be required
Benter.
K .C .C. CONCERT.
POSTPONED EVENT. TO-MORROW.
.....
coast."-British Wirclese: --
At Athens.
Athons, July 1. Alan Coblara bas arrived here
provision has been made for penditure this year.
The sum required is for the purchase and laying of water
ing. - The · passengers", were would have to close down. In was entirely on the present sys thrown out to the ground, but were any settlement one of the pro- tem of production and sale of salt
not injured. The ricsha was badly blems would be the settlement. of which he characterised as being
damaged.
displaced mon. The present res- out-of-date, unjust and basically wrong and in which, the middle. Mr. A. Keith, secretary of the triction of enlistment of men into men, the sult merchant, made all Green Island Cement Company, re mining, who were not previously and continues to-morrow-Remains, hydrante, etc., to the Estate the profits at the expense of the siding at 172, Tae Peak, has report therein would help but would not producers and consumera. In the ed to the police that the day before meet the whole.case. course of his speech, ho said yesterday Mr. Blakley, Ilving at the
OFFER. "The salt industry itself and the same address, was driving private! prevention of the existing exten- motor car No. 2049 from east to Mr. Baldwin declared that ́un- sive smuggling require radical re-west In Jubilee Street; and when less, the negotiations which he had forms. In order to institute these near the Chinese cemetery, public frufticasly endeavoured to arrange
ANOTHER
CLOTHING WORKERS
STRIKE.
as part of the scheme for provid- ing water as arranged with the Kowloon Tong Development Co.
The total cost of the work is es timated at $90,000, and it is pro posed to include provision for the balance of $50,000 in the Estimates
To enable women to achieve emancipation and to educate others into a sense of their prerogatives, it is proposed, in the manifesto, to form a Chinesa Women's Society in Hongkong. It is intended to es- tablish libraries, and reading rooms wherein instructive reading and research work in connection with women's social advancement may be
A will be noticed from our reforms, it is necessary to abolish motor car No. 1650, driven by a between the contending parties BIG STOPPAGE IN NEW YORK for 1927 available, whilst lectures by pro advertising columns, the K. C.C. the middle man system and in order Chinese, collided with his car while were possible, there appeared very
New York July 1. minent women are contemplated concert which wna postponed on to uproot this system, it is neces they were passing. The left-hand Httle hope of anything being done. on the same lines ne in Furope and accrunt of bad weather, will be try to have the entire support of mudguard of the car was damaged He asked if the Labourites were Forty-thousand clothing workers Amerien. After pointing out the held to-morrow evening."
the people, as such changes would to the extent of about $5. The
absolutely satisfied in their own hove struck. great bonefits to be derived from Imperial Concert Party are per-
meet with very strong opposition.”
hearts as to the wisdom of the They demand increases of wages Co-operation and mutual help, the fect in every detail and the chef After a prolonged discussion, it was
Miners Federation policy. (Some manifesto concludes with the ex-who is purveying hot dogs at half decided to support the Government. time, has his staff tuned up toin, all measures of reform which would bo boneficial to all parties
hortations
Slaters, let us act promptly on such a pitch that his numerous concerned. The meeting was ad this and secure the emancipation of patrons will be served with light journed sine dio. our slaterhood [??
ning celerity.
TO-DAY
Dollar on demand 2s. 2.15/16. Lighting-up re
7.11 p.m..
Labour cries of "Yes"). If the and a guaranteed minimum of 86 Federation even now could accept weeks employment yearly. Sixteen the report and all that it implied, hundred shops are affected, which is what they struggled for |
(Continued on Page 7),
Reuter'a American Service.
MARKET EXTENSION. The explanation given for a vote of 84,500 for extensions to Hung hom Market is that the original estimate for building an extension to the Market was $12,000 but this
inclusion of now fish tanks, > A was raised to $15,000 to allow the aum of $4,918 was extended in (Continued on Page 12),