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SENSATIONAL BORDER AFFAIR.
REPORTED PICKET OUTRAGE.
TWO EUROPEAN SERGEANTS MADE CAPTIVE.
1.
"TROOPS DESPATCHED.
News of a sensational Incident on the Chinese-British border of the New Territories is to hand to-day, this being the reported seizure of a motor boat belonging to the Hongkong Police Force to gether with the detention of two
European police officers, four Chinese members of the crow and
an Indian Gaardi
We are not at present, in a posi- tion to give an official version of the incident and, accordingly, the information given below must, at
the moment, be subject to possible várlation or amplification as further details come to light. ;
Whatever the exact facts may bo, the affair is regarded as sufß-. ciently serious to warrant the dispatch of an armed force to the border.
DONT ASHORE.
From reports which have reach ed us it appears that yesterday afternoon the motor boat, which is attached to the Lok Ma Chau police station for patrol, duty on the Shum Chun River, had the misfortune to go ashore on the Chinese bank. The rivor is in food and its true course is difficult to distinguish, this fact no doubt accounting for the mishap. Aboard the boat were
L/Sgt. Thomas H. Hughes, 'L/Sgt. William Rya
One Indian Guard, One Chinese.coxswain, One Chinese engineer,
Two Chinese seamen,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
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No. 21,91
三拜體 號一廿月七英港香
COURT BESEIGED IN LABOUR DISPUTE.
CANTON,
UNION MEN RESENT- DELAY.
A STIRRING INCIDENT.
A few days ago the Higher Court in Canton was surrounded by over 2,000 mon belonging to various Unions, clamouring for redress, go in or out of the Court. It is said that such a state of affairs has never happened beford in Canton."
In this case, it is stated that ex- actly a year ago, an open conflict Unions took place, with the result between the Flour and Restaurant that three of the Flour Union men were itilled and the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Restaurant Union were arrested. For one whole year these two men have not been tried, so on the day of the first anniversary of this incident, the Union men besieged the Higher Court, demanding that the two al leged murderers be tried and judg- ment passed within twenty-four hours.
with the result that no one could
The Procurator appeared on the scene and gave an explanation why the case had been delayed and pro- mised that it should be tried and settled within one month from date.
Owing to a certain romark in the speech of explanation by the Pro- curator, which was considered to be derogatory to the dignity of labour, the rowdy clements endeavoured to create an uproar, but the more rea. sonable men present prevailed over the minority, and the crowd dis- persed without further incident.
NEW TYPHOON.
WARNING SIGNÁL HOISTED.
CANTON LEADER KIDNAPPED.
LATEST WAR NEWS.
"
The labour dispute in Canton, to which we referred the other day, assumed a more serious aspect last Monday, when some 200 work
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1926, BTAX.
KOWLOON AND THE STORM.
MANY FALLS ON CASTLE PEAK ROAD.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.:
MONSTROUS REPORT
DENIED.
THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK.
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Kowloon is now looking more Ike its usual self. The work of for India, moving in Indian Office Sea Islands with 460 emigrants on cleaning-up has progrefeed rapid-Vote in the House of Commons, sald board, the s.a. Halching, which left ers belonging to the Workersly with good results. For some that the political history of India Hongkong yesterday afternoon, time yesterday a fire-engine was during the past nine months, since underwent a thorough search by engaged in pumping water out of the adjournment of, the Assembly Sergeant Barnicle and a party of new Peninsula in October, 1925, had been that of detectives. In various parts of the the basement of the
the progressive disintegration of steamer, concealed beneath planks Hotel.
the Swarajist Party. Throughout· Although it was not found posthe vicissitudes which had occurred, and other obstacles, the police able to travel for along the road personal, relations between Govern discovered 22 Chinese who were on
ment representatives and Non board without passage tickets. was to Castle Peak, a Telegraph repreOfficial Members, not excluding the
All the men appeared before Mr.
Magistracy charges of attempting to stow away. The defendants pleaded
having paid their faras. guilty to being, on board, without
BOYCOTT PARLEY SITTINGS.
REPORTED. CANTON
TERMS.
FOUR POSSIBLE POINTS OUTLINED
ki..
WILL MEET TO-DAY.
We have received the following communique with regard to the negotiations now proceeding in Canton between the representa tives of the Canton, Government and the Hongkong Government-
Conference of the Kuomintang ar rested one of the leaders of the Central Labour Unlon, an organt-
to the extremiste. Chan Sum, the sation not at all times favourable
Central Labour Union leader, was virtually kidnapped leaving a meeting called for the purpose of arranging a parade to sentative ventured-forth last oven-Swarajists, had been marked by the par farewell to General Chang Kaling and succeeded in reaching a cordiality which had increasingly. H: B. Nihill at the Kowloon The Conference at Canton shek before he left Canton for the spot about a mile past the Bri- characterised them during the last Hunan front.
as he
two years.
this morning on
"COMING ELECTIONS.
large number of falle had occurent centred in the general elec- For the immediate future, inter- red. Most of them were minor
tion of the Assembly and Provincial. ones.
told Sergeant Barnicle
the On the hill just past Lalchikok Councils, which will meet in the Prison, after passing several small autumn. Though it might be in- Coourt that the Hulching, which expedient to prophesy, it was per- had been chartered by Messrs. missible to hope for the emergenco Gibb, Livingstone and Co., was take of a strong and united party.
queting Company's site where the | The given reason by the work of reclamatione, In pro- Workers Conference for the argress, and even up to this point a rest of Mr. Chan was that he had already been reported as having assisted in murderous plots, that the police had not been able to take him into custody because of his influenco. His arrest by the pickets of the Workers' Conference was described as an act of assis- tance to the police.
The Central Labour Union. claims to control more than 190 units and has a working body numbering more than 100,000 strong, while their opponents have 172 Unions and about 170,000
men.
OPPOSED TO BORODIN.
Another report says that, the Union of which Chan Sum is the head was formed by working men who were opposed to the control of labour by, men who take their orders from M. Borodin, and ever since the split in the ranks of Following in the wake of the labour there have been typhoon which caused the terrific ous
fights between of the downpour of Sunday night, a new pickets and members
late factions. Of
the typhoon of unknown intensity is
feeling has bron even INOFG threatening the Colony, and short-intense, and almost daily memberg
two
open.
numer-
WORLD FLIGHT TRAGEDY.
De Pinedo Narrowly Escapes..'
Flea, July 20
A trial spin in preparation for the world flight planned by Major De Pineda, the... famous Italian aviator, endad tragically here to-day
A high waveenmaigad, the seaplane as sheas about to rise from the watu”.....
Major Da Pinedo was en tangled in the stays and nar- rowly escaped drowning, but Major Conti was killed.
Four others on board were injured.-Reuter.
Under what name it emerged mating a number of emigrants to the tered little, provided It was pre- South Sea Islands on a three years' pared, without surrendering any contract for work on a mine, All ultimate constitutional ideals, to work with the Government in carry the defendants had been rejected ing on the administration. The ad- and they attempted to stow away, ministration would be carried on but were arrested before the ship's whatever happened. That was a departure.. question for India herself "to All that could be done was to hope that the answer would be clear and definite
answer.
Sentences of three weeks labour each was imposed.
MIXED COURT.
THE TERMS OF ITS
RENDITION.
resumed its sitting on 19th July in the Canton Foreign Office when the British Delegates replied to the statement made by the Chinese Delegates on the origin of the anti-British boycott.
"The next sitting of the Con ference has been fixed for Wednes- day, 21st July."
P
REPORTED "TERMS”
There are various reports in circulation regarding the terms likely to be put forward by the Canton Government for a settle. nardment and It'ia stated that the four prinicipal points to be submitted deal with the following points:
the 1. The recognition of Nationalist Revolutionary Govern- mont (the Government of Canton).
Lord Winterton said the question of the Sikh shrines was for the time being practically settled. Tho Sikhs were discussing among themselves, with some velinëss, the best methods of controlling their own religion. In regard to the terrorist movement in Bengal, the
Shanghai, July 20. Government had made it perfectly As regards the Mixed Court clear to those who were seeking to terrorise
rendition the Sin Wan Pao states or by aзassination, attempted assassination, that the that the Ministry of Justice con- Government officials would be pre- siders it improper to allow Asses pared to take whatever steps they
ly after noon to-day, the No. 1 of one organisation or the cerfalls, a very bad one is reached on warning signal was hoisted.
have met their deaths in these
a dangerous corner, and there is street quarrela The latest information regard-
Chan Sum is now held at the just sufficient room between the Both the European Sergeantsing its position, places the typhoon office of the Department of Public edge of the fall, and the edge of enable them to strike swiftly and have been stationed at Lok Ma within 60 miles of Latitude 20. Safety, where word has been given the road for a car to get through. surely to that end. Chat for some time and we under stand that L/Sgt. Hughes speaks Chinese fluently,,
Apparently, after the boat went ashore, Chinese boycott pickets
N., and Longitude 120 E., moving W.N.W..
The establishment of + branch office of the Central Bank the banking institution of the Canton Government) in Hongkong with authority to issue bank
notes.
3.The issue of $5,000,000 worth of bonds for the construc tion of Whampoa as a commercial port, these bonds to be sold in Hongkong and treated as a rogerve for the issue of bank notes.
4.--The recognition by the
could to combat this terrorism and sors to continue to sit in Criminal that they possessed information to cases.
The provision allowing the local authorities to decide all criminal actions and to execute all such
to recent Ordinances promulgated, decisions is regarded as repugnant by the Central Government and Hongkong Government of all arms
the unification of the law. The Government. paper adds that the Ministry in conjunction with the foreign office, intends to submit a resolution to the Cabinet for the revision of the agreement. Rcutor.
The Hongkong rainfall, for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day was 0.71 fuck, making a total since appeared on the, scene. This was January 1st of 61.73, against an General Labourers Union, as it away, and just sufficient room is had been stondily increasing dar prejudicial to the movement for licences issued by the Canton
average of 47.05 inches.
at about six o'clock. Evidently, the boat was seized by the pickets who also took into custody the whole of the personnel on board. At any rate, no news has since been received of the party, whilst
no trace has been found of the motor boat.
News of the incident was receiv-
out that he will be sent to
One of the most serious falla ja
COMMUNAL TENSION, found on the way down the hill to Military Headquarters for trial. Tsin Wan, where a slide some The Government has not hinted twenty or more feet in length development of Bolshevik activity in There had not been any new whether or not it will force the blocked the whole of the road. India during the year, said Lord dissolution of the Kwangtung Part of this has been cleared Winterton. Communal tension
probably has a right to do, since
now left for a vehicle to pass.ing the past four years and it now The weather forecast up to noon it is understood that some of its
constituted the greatest menace to-morrow is:Light, winds, possibly increasing to a terad with the Peasunts and variable component Unions have, not regis
ROAD CAVES IN.
which confronted the Government. gale from the N. E. or N. W. fine Labburers Bureau. At the same
By far the most serious damage The friction between Hindus and at first, rain later.
was encountered at the Briqueting Mohammedans assumed "an acute time, this organisation is now pro- Company where more than half form, first in Punjab, early in 1925, bably stronger than the opposing the road has, collapsed in two or and since then with increasing body and the Government may try three places.
wus scarcely Apparently, the Intensity. It
ed in the Colony early this morning CHOLERA IN CANTON,
and has already gained wide cur rency, being the subject of muet. comment.
SURREY'S LEAVE.
At 12.30 p.m. to-day a detachment
"
A VIRULENT OUTBREAK.
J
оп
The mons
to settle the present controversy rain washed the earth, away from exaggeration, to say that at the without abolishing it.
the side of the road, and the present time no religious festival THE HUNAN WAR.
crust fell in under its own weight. of Hindus of Mohammedans could Trees collapsed with it, and also be carried out without the necessity According to Canton reports, truck lines. In all cases, the cot-of elaborate precautions being Cholera is reported to be increas- General Tang Seng-chi, the prolapses left huge "T" gape in the taken with a view to ensuring their ing in an alarming manner in Kuomintang commander whose road, and those have now been peaceful celebration. of over 100 officers and men of the Canton and especially in Honam, men on July 10th succeeded in fenced off, leaving just enough trous accusation that the British East Surrey Regiment entrained at where many deaths have been re-recapturing Changsha, the capital space to get through. Several members of the Government and Kowloon Railway Station for ported..
of Henan, is moving towards more slides were encountered dur British officials had refrained from Shumchun. Under the command
Yochow, and expects to take it ing the next mile, but at a place taking effective steps to prevent The Sanitary Department is of Major J. F. Drake and four other taking stringent measures
within the next few days.
where many rocks and stones bad communal riots, was devoid of all
foundation... offleers, together with a
General Chao Heng-ti and faller and blocked-the road it was. Staff combat the epidemic which is said Officer, the troops were fully equip to be of a virulent type, most General Yeh Kai-hsin, "anti-Red" deemed advisable to turn back.
It is officially notified" that this ped and provisioned. On the victims dying in a few hours. The commanders, still in Yochow, are platform prior to the train's well-known Fong Ben Hospital is said to have decided to plan a re-road is closed, but if the few miles a true departure, were the Acting General taxed to its utmost. This hospital turn in Changsha, operating along traversed last evening is Officer Commanding (Lieut.-Col. has always depended on annual three different routes. To, do idea of the general state of the F. S. Montague-Bates, D.S.O.), sev subscriptions for its upkeep, but this, they claim to have the sup- road it should not be very long eral military officers and Mr. since the strike and boycott it is port of three division of and before it will be again D. Eurlingham, A. 'S. P.
said that the subscriptions have 14 gunboats.
STORM LEGACIES. After investigations have henfallen off to à marked extent.
made and the facts fully establish ed, the Government will most likely issue an official communique,
LORD WILLINGDON.
FURTHER HONOURED BY
KING.
London, July 20. The Gazette announces that HM: the King has appointed Lord Will lingdon as Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George-Router...
HEAT WAVE.
TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS IN
CHICAGO.
to'
New York, July 20. The sporadic heat wave of the past fortnight hus
reached its apex and the Middle West is swel toring under cloudless skies and blazing sun. The temperature is over 100. Twenty-ave have died of heat stroke in Chicago. Reuters Americas Scrvice,
mon
opened.
SOUND FINANCES.
CALCUTTA RIOTS.
RAINS. CURTAIL SERIOUS OUTBREAKI
:
YOUTHFUL THIEVES.
RINGLEADER AND OTHERS SENTENCED.
While pickpockets picked and thleves stole, a man stood off at a "safe distance and came into the case only when there was a divi sion of the spolls.
So said the police in charging
Over twenty pawhtickets were
Calcutta, July 20. The Muharrat Procession has provoked a renewal of rioting and shooting has been a frequent oc- currence. So far one Mohammedan a Chinese at the Central Magis- has been killed, and nine seriously tracy this morning with being the wounded, while twenty-five others, ringleader of a gang of young. mostly Hindus have been sent to thieves, three of whom were also The finances were antisfactory. hospital. The Government of India, was and One of the latter had his fingers charged at the same time. of the first Governments to take the chopped off.
At about midnight a severe, step of drastic curtallment of ex- penditure to free hor finance of the rainstorm broke over the city, found in the course of investiga- disturbancea consequent upon the flooding the whole of North tions by Detective Sergeant Mc- war. The period of deficit was Calcutta and curtailing the dis- Ewen in the course of the case, Marshal Wu Pel-fu, under whom all, the "anti-Red" troops are now All the way there was ample closed in the year 1922-8, ained turbances. Reuter. acting, has again wired to Sun evidence to show that the storm which date satisfactory surpluses Chuan-fang, Tupan of Klangsu had been severely felt. Flooded had been replaced. The Budget for |1926-7 showed an estimated sur- and Chekiang and Tang Chi-yos. ground was to be seen everywhere,, Tupan of Yunnan, to take action and in places it appeared that the plus of five lakhs of rupees. The Hunan "anti-Red" in opposing the There were no signs of buildings associated with further remiasions at once to co-operate with the rice crop had been destroyed. presentation of a balanced Budget for the fourth year in succession,
Kuomintang in, Kwangtung.
having been swept away."
of taxation in favour of the Pro- vinces, could be recognised na an indication of the sound financial In the House of Representativos, could be traced so far. General Chang Kai-shek, the position which had been built up Mr. Bruce stated that it was un-The chief defendant was een- four aeroplanes with 100 bomba to Kuomintang Commader-in-Chief, by the Government of India during desirable that he should go to tenced to four montha' hard re-inforce them in their attack is still in Canton; and gaper the last four years. The Indian Great Britain unless the Imperial against the Kuomintang- wi
opinion, is that he may not leave Government credit on the London Conference was representative of According to Kuomintang re the city until the outcome of the market stood fully as high as that the whole Empire. If Canada was potis, Kwangtung will have 30,000 pngkong Banton conference to of the Dominions. It was only absent it would make the confer and Kwangsi 6,000 to 7,000 men intitle the anti-British boycott is second to that of His Majesty's ence one from which no great re- Hunun within the next few days. known.
Government-British Wireless. sults would flow.➡Router, i
Marshal Chang Tso-lin of Muk den. has informed the "anti-Red" in Hunan that he is despatching
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
AUSTRALIA'S RESERVATIONS.
Melbourno, July 20.
and, in reply to his Worship, tho officer said that the major defen- dant acted in the capacity of re- ceiver of goods atolon by this gang. The police had good reasons for as well and inspired many of the believing that He taught the boys.
robberies of which only a few.
labour
One of the three boys who had
a previous conviction was ordered
to receive twelve strokes; and the other two to eight strokes each, with the birch.