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SHAMEEN BAN.
MAY SHORTLY BE
LIFTED.
THE COMING CONFÉRENCE.
There is a report current in Canton, to which the merchants seem to give much credence, that the ban against Shameen will soon be lifted, and the former business
connections will be resumed. It is stated that the banks will be the first to open for the transaction
of business, prior to the final set tlement of the strike and boycott, and that passes will be issued by the Shameen police to Chinese em ployees of the foreign firms and
to other bona fide Chinese mor-
chants.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1881 五拜禮
Nu. 21,000
A STRANGE CASE OF TELEPATHY.
RECENT MURDER OF
A.P.C. MAN.
FATHER'S VIVID DREAM,
Those who believe in mental telepathy may be interested in the following story for the accuracy of which I can certainly vouch, says, the Canton correspondent of the N. C. Daily Neies. On June
་
號九月七英港香
CANTON UNIONS..
PROBLEM FOR THE
GOVERNMENT. -
A MINISTER'S PROPOSALS.
Labour troubles have boon fro- quent in Canton of late, and this, fact has been the cause of con- siderable anxiety on the part of the authorities.
.
A statement has now been
8 the following talegrum appeared made on the subject by Mr. Chan Kung-pok, Minister of Agricul in the British papers :~~
"Hongkong, Jane 7.-The bedyre and Labour, who is to be one of Mr. J. M. Philips, the Manager of the delegates at the forthcom-
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1926,
AMAZING CENOTAPH
INCIDENT.
BOWL SMASHED AND FLAGS"
PULLED DOWN;
PLAUSIBLE STORY!
日十三月伍
HUNAN WAR.
CANTON'S ALLIES REPULSED.
V
WAR BOND ISSUE.
Judging from Chinese reports, it would appear that General Tong A somewhat amazing story cordes Sang-cho has suffered some severe to hand this morning, of an incid-reverans, for General Loo Teh-ping ent which occurred the day before is seld to have been Field Marshal yesterday in connection with Hong of the Northern campaign, thus Kong's Cenotaph in front of the superseding Tong Sang-cha. The Hongkong Club.
The whole story is not available,
date.
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TUMULT IN HOUSE OF LORDS.
ди
MINERS' BILL RECEIVES
ROYAL ASSENT.
BLOWS IN THE COMMONS"
London, July 8.
third time in the House of Lords, The Eight Hours Bill was read a and afterwards received the Royal Assont.Reuter,
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PAKHOI TROUBLE.
ACUTE ANTI-FOREIGN FEELING.
the miners towards the new offers particularly noticeable in the field
WORSE THAN EVER BEFORE.
Telegraph's Pakhot correspondent) Some months ago (says the
I was able to report that since the ATTITUDE OF MINERS.
coming of the Nationalist Army Rugby, July 8.
and
the taking over of the affairs With the prospect of the Coal of the southern districts by the. entire 2nd Army Corps at Canton Mines Bill receiving the Royal Canton Government, considerablo is ordered to the front, besiles Assent to-night, much interest is but it appears that a Chinese out-which the 2nd and 29th Divisions being displayed in the attitude of Progress was apparent. This was. of the Asialle Petroleum Companying conference for a suttlement fraged Hongkong's tribute to her the crack Divisions of the Re-by the owners of pre-strike wages of education, in the modernizing at Nanning, has been found in the the strike and boycott. In thi: Glorious Dead by smashing a bowl volutionary Army, which are un- for a longer day's work,
that although the of flowers, and pulling down the 'der the personal command of Gen-
of the towns, the awakening river. Mr. Philips was captured he states
Reports indicate that at present among certain classes of an intel- flags before he could be stopped.
little inclination for a return to by bandits last week near TaipingKuomintang, has a labour, pro
eral Chung Kai-shok-are ordered (70 miles up the West River from gramme, it has not yet been found Motives for the act are unex- to take up stations in the North but it will be impossible to gauge but, most of all in the progres work is shown in the coalfields, ligent interest, in national affairs, Nanning), and apparently was possible to unify the movement. plainable; the offender is not in River sector. murdered when soldiers attempted At present, most of the labour custads, but the police are pursuing dicates that General Chang Kai- ment for some days. Newspaper and robbers who infested the dis This movement in the full effect of the new develop made in cleaning out the bandits to rescue him."
an active investigation into the in
state that the opposition. voiced leaders are members of the Party, cident.
shek will proceed to his field head by the miners is directed against tricts. To the credit of General but they do not all obey the Party
quarters at Shiukwan at no distant the fact that the offers are made Chan Ming-ku, who was in chargo by districts and not nationally, of these districts. It can be said rather than against an increase of working hours.
that he had the welfare of the The First Lord of the Admiralty, people at heart and that he held.
closely associated with the coal
rigid discipline. pressed the view in a speech to- day, however, that it was only by district settlements and possibly. only by pit settlements that a fair Should Mr. T. V. 'Soong, of the consideration for the local difficul- Canton Treasury, succeed in float-ties which played a very large ing a war bond issue of $10,000,000 part in the coal Industry could by requiring every household to be secured. In further outrage, it is said, the subscribe a certain amount in In answer to a question in Pár- Chinese then forcibly broke the pul- proportion to its ability, it will be liament as to the present position leys by which the flags are hoisted the first time that the whole pro-in the coalfields, it was stated that and judging from their strength vince of Kwangtung has been ask some 400 mines, employing about It is evident that considerable efed to support an expedition -11,000
men were at work allies. Brirandage and robbery. mittee, Chang 'Ching-kong tender- gram set out above appeared in Labour Department to correct th. fort was employed-and pulled against Peking by way of Hunan. British Wireless.
the flags down.
are once more, the order of the day and no-one is safe travelling in these districts. I have just
of Lords that the Royal Assent travel over the country roads or received word from certain inland The announcement in the House districts saying that no-one dares had been given to the Coal Mines leave the town for more than a Eight Hour Bill, was marked by few miles.
NO SAFETY.
"OFFICIAL OPTIMISM.
About a week before this: date, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs the father of Mr. Philips called at
The facts as related to a Tele- is busy making preparations for the London Offices of the Asiaticles, and it is this fact which graph representative are that a the coming conference of the de- Petroleum Company and inquired as caused the recent conflicts. Chinese of the coolfe class ap legates to settle the strike and whether any news had been recely. Mention is made of the rivalry proached the luksong on duty at the A report is received at Canton
the community, various opinions informed that so far, as the Com- Labour Union and the Kwangtungto be a person empowered to take igents,. under Tung Kowk-chan, Mr. Bridgeman, who has been his soldiers in check and under boycott. In different sections of ed with regard to his son. He was between the Kwangtung General Cenotaph, and representing himself which states that the Honan con- are being expressed and there is pany knew he was in good health, Workers' Delegate Conference, the flags away to be washed, was have been despatched to further much speculation as to its results. In response to an inquiry as to and it is stated that many Labour allowed to go up to the Monument. reinforce the Northern armies negotiations from the outset, ex-
Precise details as to what fellow operating in Hunan, "and that Li But it would seem that the high why he asked, he admitted that he Unions only regard their ow: officials are optimlatie, most of felt very uneasy.
interests and not the interests of ed are not available, but the story Che-son is appointed Commander them realising the futility of the He said he had had
goes that the unknown offender im-in-Chief of the Army on the 1 vivid continuance of the present condi- dream, in which he saw his son
mediately seized the bowl, contain- Hunan-Hupeh frontiers. tion. It is also felt, now that being shot and then thrown into
ing flowers, which is the property General Chang Kai-shek has both the water, and the impression left
The former Governors of the of the Ex-Active Service Men's As- civil end military power in his
on him was so strong that he felt province, says Mr. Chan, did not ociation, and deliberately smushed hands, that there will be no dilly-compelled to call at the offices of understand anything about the it on the ground. dallying over the question.
the Company and inquire. The labour movement. When workers Company, however, reassured him
of the same industry demanded to to the best of their ability and he organise two separate unions, the Governors always approved both went away.
Several days afterwards the tele-
NEW CHAIRMAN,
At the third session of the meet- ing of the Central Executive Jom-
ed his resignation as the Chair- mun of the Committee, which was accepted. This necessitated the immediate election of a Chairman, The result was that General Chang Kai-shek was appointed and it is stated that on his assuming the Chairmanship, all questions on the agenda were passed without the least opposition.
Meanwhile it is interesting to note that the Ministry of Publicity has issued an order to the Police Department to place a censorship on all news in connection with the negotiations for the settlement of the strike and boycott, unless such news is from the Ministry of Pub-
licity. Recently certain nows which the Ministry of Foreigu Affairs sent to the newspapers for publication was censored, and the newspaper people were called to
account by the Ministry of For- eign Affairs, but on showing the order of the Ministry of Publicity, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took up the matter with the Minis- try of Publicity.
CEN. CHANG'S Towels.
General, Chang Kai-shek, the newly-appointed Commander-in- Chief of the Kuamingting Army
the papers and the information was reported by telegraph to the Asiatic Petroleum Company in London, who had to notify the father,
Jabour as a whole.
RIVAL UNIONS.
and it is very difficult for the
sec
with
SCENES OF TUMULT.
Later.
But with the coming of the Northern campaign conditions in these districts have changed. General Chan has gone and the trained troops with which he con quered the South have gone with him." Their place has been taken by second-rate troops who are no better than, the old rabble under General Tang Poon-yan and his
existing order in the labour
The Kuomintang is anxious to Before the man had an oppor- help its allies in Hunan, and the 'unions.
tunity of continuing any further circulation of another series of Conflicts are often started by acts of descration, if he so intend- bonds, this time totalling $10,000,- the minority of corrupt laboured, he was taken into custody by poo, has been decided upon, the leaders, who utilize the unions for the police constable and then to the subscriptions to begin in August. It would seem that the dream Chan. They even used force 10 quiries. For some reason, which sued has not yet been fully aub- their personal purpose, adds Mr. Central Police Station for en-The $5,000,000 series already is was undoubtedly at the very time oppress the workers instead of at present has not been disclosed, scribed to.
scenes of tumult. when the man was murdered al-defending them.
It is reported from Yamchow: Labour Members crowded the that hundreds of people have left. though of course as the precise
he was allowed to go. Some merchants, being afra: the Angs he had pulled down in his scribe to the war bonds, it has and "It's a Murderer's Bill" ·
Bar of the Hodse and shouted pro- there because of the danger to lito moment is not known, it is not pos- to
To induce all Cantonese to sub-testa! There were cries of "Shame" and property. sible to say it was simultaneous. financed factions of workers to
the workers organised, possession, it is stated.
Many of the No communication of any sort ap-organise fake unions, in order that light concerning either the man proceeds will be reserved for the
farmers have returned their rent parently reached the father from they may utilize them, forgetting or the flags.
Sirice then, nothing has come to been announced that part of the
Subsequently a Conservative and ed fields to the land owners bo a Labourite came a blows in the cause their live stock has been the son and he was quite unaware that a small number of workers.
development of the port of Wham Commons, but they were that his son had ever been captur- cannot oppose the whole body of enquiry into the whole matter, and
later taken away by bandits, and hun- reconciled-Router. ed by bandits. When he had the conscious workers. In 50% of the therefore decline to make any told that the development of
The police are engaged in a full | 0.
dreds of the population have left Workers in Canton have been
for other regions to deck a living, dream he could not possibly have had any suspicion of his son's fate.icts we may find the bosses statement in connection with th Whampoa will have the support of. The official Tass Agency an farmers cannot be described as The condition: of these poor behind them, he adds.
fair, except to admit that an in- Russians, Germans, and Ameri-nounces that the Central Council anything but tragie. Given peace cident of the nature did occur. It cans, particularly the Germans, of the Russian Labour Unions they ask no more and render due The bonus question is also the, of the Chinese lakons include the tribute part of the capital.
was also explained that the duties who are said to be willing to con-have resolved by eight votes to respect to. those over them, but question whatever as to the oc-chan's opinion. Before the bosses well as of the Cenotaph, and that origin of many conflicts, in" Mr. patrol of the Stipreme Court as
seven to transfer to the British under the present circumstances, GEN. CHANG'S TELEGRAM. Miners Federation 370,000 rou- their lot is an impossible one. used to give the workers what perit was while the particular con-
bles, collected from members of A telegram has been despatched the cent. of bunus they pleased. Now stable on duty was at the back of by General Chang Kai-shek to Router.
Soviet Labour Unions.- the workers want to have their tite Supreme Court that the out- Chao Hong-ti of Hunan advising share increased or fixed. The rage occurred.
him to reform and co-operate with
have been recorded, but few rest Of course dreams of this nature
on incontrovertible facts, but in this particular case there is no
currence of the event under the circumstances indicated.
SEPOY'S STORY.
REPORTED ATTACK ON
LAUNCH.
to the
THE BONUS QUESTION.
MONEY FROM RUSSIA.
Moscow, July 8.
יי
MR COOK IN BERLIN.
Berlin, July 8.
DABING ROBBERY.
A few days ago a most daring daylight robbery was perpetrated in the streets of Pukhol. Five or right to introduce workers or When enquiry was made of the the South to fight the Northern Mr. A. J Cook has arrived here six men dressed as soldiers went employees is another confjeting Easma Club officials this morning, Militarists. The message reads: with the object of persuading the into one of the big shops on the problem. Chinese" merchants are nothing was known of any in- "Your telegram teached me the German Trade Unionists to sup- main street and said that they still using the patriarchal custom.cident, hut later to-day it was con- day before yesterday and I am port the British miners to prevent were searching for opium and When they open a shop, they want firmed that the bowl was missing. glad to know of your arrival at the export of coal to England. robbers. They held up the shop, to employ all their children or re- Mohamed Ali, a sepoy of thelatives. If the right to introduce thint for some time no flaga were to tang and Hunan were the revolu- that the payment of Russian dollars and made away with it. Tho Taegliche Rundschau states keepers and took one thousand It was noticed by many people Changshi. Originally both Kwang- employees proes to the labour be seen in their customary positionary bases, but since Kwang money to the British miners will The merchants were very disturb- unions, it will prejudice the mor- tion, but yesterday they were retung and Hunan were unable to cease on July 15th because the ed over this matter and after a chants. If it remains with the placed.
co-operate, there have been hostil- Soviet haa forbidden the compul-meeting a delegation was sent to merchants, it is a prejudicial for
ities among the South-western pro-sory collection of money from call upon the General in charge
of Pakhol and it is reported "that". organised labour.
vinces, thus giving the Northern workmen Reuter.
they told him that if the money militarists a chance to lay their claws upon us. During the past
was not returned, they would all several years, fighting has oc
close their doors. Ha promised: redress, but nothing has been curred year after year, causing
donc. Thereafter the merchants much minery and calamity to the
paraded the streets for two days, people of the South-western Pro GERMAN JOURNALIST FOUND but now the incident seems to have
GOVERNMENT PLANS.
These are the main causes of conflicts, snys Mr. Chan, who Was thinks the following methods wik
have good results:
of
HAWKER JAILED.“
KICKED POLICE SERGEANT.
on B
vinces.
I
EUROPEAN SUICIDE,
HANGING.
A grim discovery was made at
been closed.
ANTI-FOREIGNISM.
and Navy, will be supreme ruler Punjabi Regiment, came of Kwangtung, for the next police yesterday with a strange few months at least, from the story of how he was induced by power formally invested in him Home companions to make a trip by a Kuomintang order of July across the harbour from Yaumail 7th.
The Commander-in-Chief will attack, in the course of which he "and of a subsequent unexpected have under him the Army, the
was thrown into the barbour whilst Navy, and the Aviation Corps. the launch was in midstream. He He will be responsible direct to alleges, further, that a sum the Kuomintang for the proper $60. contained in a purse, command of all forces and he is stolen from him before he was to be concurrently Chairman of thrown overboard,
An exemplary sentence of 14 Hia subae- The Labour Department of the days' hard labour, without the op- the War Council. For his assis-quent rescue from the harbour party organise a special com- tion of a fine, was imposed by Mr.
"The theory of Fedoral Au- "ance and advice, there will be u was accomplished from another mittee, responsible for the unifica-J. H. B. Nihill, at the Kowloon tonomy can only deceive the peo-
Chief of Staff and a Military launch.
tion of the labour movement. It Magistracy this morning, Advisory Council,
ple for awhile, but cannot 95-1, Thomson Road, Singapore, a For a week or so, the students The General Considered as being, of a doubt will establish rigid rules. Any hawker, who was charged with bring about permanent peace. fow days ago, when the body of a here, ausfated by the pickets, Headquarters of the Commander- ful naturo, the story is being in part member leaders of labour unlawfully resisting arrest. in-Chief will be at the same place vestigated by the police.
The present war in Hunan was European, named Richter, was soldiers, and representives from unions who disobey thom will be On a charge of hawking without based on the instigation of Yeh found hanging by a strap from the both Shanghai and Canton, have as the War Council., He will have
severely dealth with. direct control over the school to
a licence, defendant was fined $5 Kai-chin by Warlord Wu Pel-fu. expanded metal of the window of been holding a series of theatricals give
or, in default, a further soven Warlord Wu, whose aim is to his room, instruction in political
days hard labour,
on the open field at the back of unify China by means of armed" science to military men of all
The house was occupied is a the French Conpulate, impersonat- ranks, the naval stations, the
The defendant was sold to have force, only cares and thinks of his mess by two other Europeans. In ing the shooting affairs at Canton Arsenal, the Aviation Bureau, and
heen seen solling at the doorway own interest. He looks upon the addition to the deceased. and Shanghai last year. The other military organisations.
of a shop in Shamshiupo and when generals of the South-western pri
Mr. Richter, who was 56 years gunfire le licord plainly on the time of war, the civil and financial administrations of the Kuomintang will be subject to the supervision of the Commander-in-Chief, while during his absence from Canton while in the field, local affairs will (Continued on Page 18).
ANTWERP DISPUTE.
Antwerp, July 8, As the result of intervention by the Governor of the Provinco and
the Burgemaster of Antwerp, the employers have decided that in the interests of the country it is necessary to resume work at 'all- costs without delay. Work is ac- cordingly resuming to-day.—Rou- ter.
"
The party will exercise all its Influence and power to unify the Kwangtung General Labour Union'
gates Conference into one. and the Kwangtung Workers Dele
All Inbour traitors will severely dealt with.
be
he saw Sergeant Hargreaves apvinces as the Imperialiste look of age and of German nationality, ridge where the foreign residents proaching he attempted to escape upon the Native Chiefs of their came from Batavia several months live. These shows are largely by running into the shop. Whon colonies by using them to fight age, seeking journalistic employ attended, there being from four to
The Government will 'dy theight, the resisted and struggled, each other. Even though we consiment, but had been unsuccessful. Bix hundred people on the
minimum wage standard.
The theatricals have been
organise unemployment insurance scule, Sergeant Hargreaves was Shangchi and Toh Kai-chin is war work as a translator.
The merchants will be urged to but was overpowered. During the dor that the fighting between Tang although he had obtained some rounds at each performance. Bonus porcentages will be kicked on the leg and was also between brothers of the same He was in the East before the arranged for the purpose of fixed.
scratched by the defondant,
(Continued on Pogo 19). war as a merchant: s
Continued on Page 12).