CHINA PROVIDENT -
MEETING.
TO AWAIT INVESTIGATORS'
REPORT.
ADJOURNED TILL SEPTEMBER.
The annual meeting of share- holders of the China Provident, Loan and Mortgage Company, Limited, was this morning ad- journed, awaiting the presentation of, the report of the Committee
which is investigating the affairs of the Company,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1926.
COLONY'S LUCKY TROUBLE AVERTED AT THE SMOKE NUISANCE.
ESCAPE.
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The ferry officials then "holated the blue flag.
A TRAGEDY.
A tragedy was brought to light near the stone pier at the bottom of Pottinger Street, where a Telegraph representative observed the body of a Chinese male. It was Boating face downwards but it was impossible to say how long it had
been in the water.
·ALONG THE PRAYA.
1
HUGE WATER SPRAYS.
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CANTON,
“ANTLRÈD” LABOUR LEADER
RELEASED. ¿
ROUGHLY HANDLED.
The Canton police wera on Sun- day last ablo so avert what looked like a possible labour war, when they succeeded in rescuing Chan Sum, an "anti-Red" Labour leader who was arreated and taken to the Kuomintang Headquarters.
-The "anti-Red" workers, as re- presented by the Central Labour' Union, on Sunday evening sent a rescue. party of more than a hun- dred armed men to the Kuomintang Labour Division but, upon the ar
Mr. Robert G. Shewan occupied the chair, and there were also present, Mr. II. P. White. Mr. T G. Weall, Mr. Lee Hysan (consult. Along the Praya no riska were rival of the party, the police had ing committee), Mr. D. L. King taken.. Every shop was closed!
already rescued Mr. Chan,, who (sceretary), Mr. II. C. Macnamara and barricaded, ropus and plarks later returned to his home," suffer- (soliciter), Messrs. I. Humphreys, being pressed into service as pro- ing much bodily pain, as he was A. L. Shields, W. Morley, C. A, da tection, additional to the normal said to have been assaulted and Roza, N. V. H. Croucher, J. II. bolts and burs. From one end to roughly handled while on his way Seth, D. W. Munton, Tse Tsan-tal, the other heavy seas were striking to and in custody of the F. M. Crawford, and 4..Coulthart the wall and shooting up to a Kuomintang Headquarters. (shareholders).
hblght in some cases of over thirty Mr. D. L. King read the notice | feet: When, caught by the wind convening the meeting, and the these sprays would be hurled auditors report.
:
The Chairman sala:-Gentle men: is necessary under the Ordinance to hold a general meet- Ing not later than the 27th instant, so we have called this meeting for to-day and now lay the accounts on the table before you, copies of same having been in your bands for the required period.
against the adjacent buildings and in some parts plaster work had been brought down.
Had the rescue party succeeded in entering the Kuomintang Head- quarters before the police had takes action, a street fight similar to that between the ríesha coolies In pier corners where the force
naturally more concentrated on May Day would have undoubt huge spouts were continually edly been repeated. shooting up strewing the road with flotsam.
The
The Central Labour Union is now demanding the punishment of the It so happens, hawever, that the Colony's first experience of any-Kuomintang Labour Division for To meet the wishes of the in-thing in the nature of typhoon having made illegal arrests."
weather this year, has been singu vestigation Committee, it is not · intended to do more than this torly free of untoward happening day, but to defer all other business Small craft in the Harbour had, of the annual meeting until, the cultied into safety long before Investigation Committee are able the sea had become dangerous, to present their report, which they and the Water Police had nothing expect to do by September 22nd, report when enquiries were 1926.
made late this morning.
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In accordance with their res quest, I therefore beg to propose that this meeting of shareholders stands adjourned until September 22nd, 1926. Will some-ane kindly second that?
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Mr. 6. A. da Roza seconded, and the proposal was unanimously adopted.
MORE WOMEN.
POSTS IN CANTON GOVERNMENT.
KOWLOON DAMAGE.
PENINSULA HOTEL
AFFECTED,
Reds" however, have, since this illegal action, been advancing the view that Chin Sum, should have been taken into custody by the police, as he had been under charge, and that they, in kidnapping him, were only assisting the police.
It appears that Chan Sum and olhers have been accused but so far the authorities have issued no writ for their appearance.
Bombay, June 24-It is under- Not a great deal of dange ap- atdod that Lieut. David Leslie pears to have been done, in. Kow-Crombier belonging to the Second loon, although most of the roads are littered with branches of trees and other debris, whilst there was some flooding in consequence of the heavy rains.
At about 9 o'clock, some, empty mouldings which were in readiness high up on the Peninsula Hotel
the building.
Through the offices of Mrs. Lino building to have concrete poured Chung-hei, Chief of the Women's Division of the Kuomintang, teninto them collapsed, but luckily more women will be given posts they fell inside the Kuomintang Headquarters, in There were a number of similar. addition to Mrs. Fah Chung-quan, falls of building material during Con the morning, whilst some of the who was recently made a fidential secretary of the Secret planks and poles on the top were Service Dapartment.
geen being blown about by the strong winds.
The last few days have also witnessed the employment of a number of girls at the Ministry of Finance in connection with the war bond issue, through which hundreds of documents will be handled....
The granting of employment' to women at the Headquarters of the Kuomintang is a vesponse to the
CANTON BONDS.
THE TRAM SERVICE.
SUSPENDED, AFTER RISKY TRIPS.
The force of the gale was not felt by the majority of the popu-
the
Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment. who recently was court-martialėd at Poona under Section 16 of the Army Act, has been acquitted of the charge of the misappropriation of funds belonging to the Overseas Depot, at Kirkee, of which he was in charge, but found him guilty. of conduct prejudical to good dis
Lieut. Crombie. [cipline.
severely reprimanded and lost two years' seniority.
WITH
ped. their passage through this point was attended with great dif- ficulty, not to mention danger.. Very wisely it was later dreided Tranis to suspend the service. were turned back to
the depot, I whilst others which had already got past this point on their way to Whitty Street were held up until a momentarily favourable Jull in the gale enabled one after the other to dash past the danger point.
recent demands of the Women'slation, who remained indoors, but
A hard task faced the Traffic Rights Association in Canton.
along the exposed, parts of
Inspector who braved wind and wave at this point to superinten- Praya an idea of the terrifiedent operations. Regardless of strength of wind and wave was successive drenchings and assisted guined by the first batch of office by a coolie--the latter roady with spado to clear the debris left by workers coming into the city by each successive wave across the tram early this morning. Combat-tracks, the official got all the ting prevailing circumstances, the trams safely back to the depot. Tramway Company did their best
By ten o'clock the tram route
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scribe $500,000; the Labour Unions and Trade Guilds to be responsible | to carry on with the usual resumed the same deserted appear-
for, the sale among their members
of $10,000 worth per cich unit; and district magistrates each to sell at least $3,000 worth of bonds "in their districts.
schedule of services, but signs be-ance as during the floods of Mon- came imminent as the morning wore on that a cessation of all day. activities would be compelled in spite of the offorts taken.
FEW LANDSLIDES.
SEVERAL MINOR SLIPS.
It was'n discouraging sight to RICE BUILD OPPOSITION.
sue the big mud puddles of the Among those contesting the flood reforming and the tracks Kuomintang's claim to the right again blocked by the dissolving of
Up to one o'clock the Public of foreing contributions from in- the banks of gilt heaped on either dividuals and business firms is the side of the lines. But this was Works Department had received Canton Rice Guild, The Guild is as nothing in comparison with the" no report of any serious landslides, refusing the demand of the Gov-risk presented at the corner of although several minor slips have ernment for, 100,000 piculs of rice Arsenal Street. At this point, ex- for the support of the Northern posed to the conditions from the occurred. Much of the work of Expedition In Hunan. The harbour, wind and waves set up a repairing the devastation cnused. grounds for refusing are that the barrier difficult to negotiate. The by Monday morning's atorm has, Kuomintang has failed to make gale at 8.30 in the morning was however, been undone, all of it has good the $80,000 for rice bought throwing columns of drenching been delayed, and the prospects of some time ago; that the Kuomin spray across the roadway at the clearing the main roads before the tang is detaining at the ware- Naval Yard end of the Praya East, end of the week are now regarded houses somo $1,000,000 worth of alternating at short intervals by as remote. rice belonging to the rice mer: waves which swept to the edge of
An official this morning express- chants, but claiming that it is the pavements.
ed a foar that at many points "enemy property; and that the
It was felt that oven though where Monday's storm had creat Kuomintang has imposeti on the equipped as the trams were fored a source of danger by overhang- Guild obligations not imposed on the worst conditions, with their ing rocks, the proaspect of ep!- others,
upper awnings and canvas atrip-lapses is somewhat serious.
(Extract Iron Leading article in 3.C.M. Poit.) "Occupants of the higher Building, have much reason for complaint of their neighbours. : A pall of smoke can be seen lying over Hongkong, pre vented by the Peak from dispersing. Public buildings are dirty. The Harbour is polluted. Offices and dwellings have a fine, smoky deposit. Ons finds evidence of smoke and soot on all hands.”
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