THE DANGEROUS RAYS OF SUNLIGHT.
The ultra-violet and infra red raya oro ospecially presont in Hongkong sun- light. The best protection is the Sir William Crookos (British) lene, which absorbs. the dungerous rays. Wo have. the genuino (there are many imitations), mado by Chance Brós, Birmingham, Enpland If you prefer, an almost colourless tons, with high absorptive qualities, wo recommad tho Vitrex - British lons backed by British solentists!
AN. LAZARUS Songkong's Only European Optlèlan. Manager-Ralph A Cooper, Registered Optometrist (Canada)..
BOYCOTT END.
THE NEW CANTON TAXES.
GOVERNMENT'S PLANS."
The following obviously inspired article appears in the Canton Gazette:
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
O VLDALANT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1926.
No. 31,974
CANTON VIEWS ON BOYCOTT.
RELIEF FELT AT NEW DECISION."
RECOGNITION PRELUDE?
WHAT IS SUN DOING
ATTITUDE REGARDED AS DOUBTFUL.
WANHSIEN OUTRAGE®
INCIDENTS.
"KIAWO" OFFICER IN HONGKONG:
日九十月八
THE VOLUNTEERS.
POWER TO CALL OUT EXTENDED.
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What are we coming to? Paris "Some are born great, some fashion artists declare that ladies' achieve greatness" anys a provison dressen will be even more scanty, clrcular locally circulated.
"
We and the Hongkong Mothers' Union might add-und some take the bis- announces short addresses for Its cuitt members!
口口 There's a fortune awaiting the the Botticelli Bob" states a London whisky..
"The Eton Crop is giving way to man who invents a waterproof
We think the new
style should be spelt with a "W." Four prominent. Hongkongites
have been mountaineering in Scot Spatters"--the latest leg-wear for ed that they missed walking up In order to popularise "Highland land. Suppose they were annoy" ladies-a recaption was held at the and down the Peak. Savoy Hotel, London, when a nym-
FIGHTING NEAR SHASI.
CAMP PAY QUESTION, A TERRIBLE ORDEAL. Although Marshal Syn: Chuan-
The Gazette contains the draft Chinese reports from Canton fang has been into the war, zone,
Mr. H. Kingswood, the Chief of an Ordinance
to amend the state that the announcement of the
he is still dallying, and a wireless Engineer of the s.a. Klawo, the Volunteer Ordinance, 1980. decision to lift embargo 'on com-.
Jardine river
steamer which The main object of this Bill is The projected sudden termina-munication with Hongkong came message received from the North tion of the Anti-British Boycott is as big surprise, but, on the whole yesterday, courteously supplied to became famous in the naval action to provide for the discipline and newspaper
the news has been recived with
us by the local Naval Authorities at Wanhalen, has just arrived in pay of the Volunteer Corps dur in a way as dramatic as its gory feelings of the utmost relief.
The opportunity is beginning. What had precisely Various opinions are being ex-this morning, states that Sun's Hongkong for a much-needed rest. ing camp.
Interviewed by a representative taken to make some other amend pressed as for the reasons of the attitude is now regarded as doubt- moved the powers that be to take Government's decision, but the one ful.
of the Telegraph at the Peak Hotel
ments also. the course, will always be subject generally favoured is that the
this morning, where he is staying. for conjectures.. Doubtless had Goverment intends to seek re- they an desired they could have cognition and will soon send out
Mr. Kingswood remarked that he envoys to the various foreign
had just enjoyed the nearest obtained various concessions from Courts with that end in view.
semblance to a night's sleep since Hongkong, as it is no secret that
A well-known Chinese merchant
the action. when the last Hongkong delega-in Canton states that the General)
Marshal Wu Pei-fu has sent cer- tion came up they offered conces Chamber of Commerce there has tain units of his troops down the alons for a. negotiated settlement never officially identified itself river, and they have landed at It, In acting as they did without the with the newly-formed or- below Ichang, and already fighting least reference to Hongkong our ganisation to discourage use of against Southern people may well have been para- British products, and that the use near Shasi has been reported. phrasing Dumas' Athos: For our of the Chamber room for meetings selves we want nothing, for China we have too much to ask!
RIGHT CLAIMED.
Meanwhile it is reported from the same source that some of the Southern adherents have been transferred from the Northern front to Kiangai..
detachments
was simply a matter of courtesy.chant ships in this vicinity has oc- The few members of the General curred but so far no casualties Chamber who had participated at have been reported. the meetings had done so merely. as private individuala.
The conclusion of the fifteen months long boycott, however, The 200 strike leaders who have cannot be satisfactorily and last been heading the anti-British boy- ingly secured without sufcient cott, and who were guests at funds for the 'return to normalcy dinner of the Kuomintang some and for this purpose our Govern- evenings ago, when they were in- ment will levy a temporary con- formed of the proposal to end the sumption tax of 21⁄2 on ordinary strike and boycott, strongly deny
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"There is nothing I can add to the reports already published," he said, in reply to an enquiry, but a chat revealed the terrible ordeal and narrow escapes from death which he experienced. One parti-
· ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT.
ber of titled guests were presented There's one motor-car to every with a pair. Guess that's one way seven persons in the United States, of making a fashion come sure!...
but if accidents continue on their present scale, there'll only be one
"Car Hurts Royal Russian," says in six, newspaper headline. The motor car is certainly a great leveller..
The effect of the interpretation clause of the principal Ordinance, as it stands at present, is that. the Administrative Commandant must be a Volunteer officer. The present intention is that he should continue to be a Volunteer officer, but during the war the adminis- "Lots of Mexican mines-are clos correspondent. trative commandant, was at one ing down. Which confirms the sus
"Motorists act as if they owned the whole earth," says an irate We understand, however, that they would be cpa-
pedestrians would only stick to the sidewalks:
Further firing at passing mercular instance occurring as ho time a regular officer, and it is picion that the trouble there fa not tent, with just the roads, if the
was proceeding along an alley- Just possible that a similar arall on the surface.
rangement might be desirable at way, when a hurried warning from some time in the future. Clause The more Red China gets, the A British sailor who, at the 2 of the Bill, therefore, aments bluer is the outlook. moment was guarding wounded in Section 2 of the principal Ordin the sick bay, caused Mr. Kingeance by providing in' effect that the administrative commandant may be a regular officer.
RETURN OF BRITISH STEAMERS,
The official despatch states fur- ther that the return of the B. & L. steamers Wantung and Wanhsien is expected to-day. General Yang Sen has promised to deliver them at Ichang to-day, Saturday.
imports, and 5% on luxuries. On the accusation of the so-called The situation at Hankow has not exports a flat rate of 22% will "Prince Clique" that they have changed, but the Chinese authorl- be charged. The right of our been bribed to agree to a settle ties have now asked the Customs Government to levy a consumption ment. They say they were merely to organfae inspection of all mer- tax is unquestioned, and it has on informed that, as far as the Gov-chant, ships outside the Hankow numerous occasions throughout ernment was concerned, the boy harbour limits.
the country successfully maintain-cott must end, but that the
The regulations recently enforc-
ed its position. Likewise on a workers would not be restrained ed, restricting the movements of production tax on its own citizens in labouring for the boycott of men-of-war In and out of Hankow the foreign nations cannot raise British goods or for enforcing the have now been removed." the bugbear of infringing "the integrity of the sacrosanct Mari-non-cooperation policy.
What then,
CUSTOMS CO-OPERATION."
YUNNAN THREAT.^
Tang Chi-yno. The telegram further states that with the fall
BRITISH LADIES ROBBED.
Southern Chinese
Troops.
Shanghai, Sept. 25. The Shanghai, Timeg learna from a reliable source that two British lady missionaries were severely handled and robbed of valuables at Yünn chow by Southern soldiers when the latter were advanc
Nanchang,
in of the ladies had her
One
wedding ring torn from her hand, and the other had her wrist watch wrenched away, her house also being partially. looted. Reuter.
LOCAL EMERGENCIES.
O D
A naturalist says old-fashioned courtship still persists among the.
According to latest fashion news, lower animals. So that's where it hair is to be bobbed on the bins. has gone! Should be popular with bowlers,
口口
Indian Maharajah Hires River
It is reliably reported that same for Fishing and Forest for Hunt of the speakers at the recent Dental ing, anys, a newspaper heading. Congress in New York said a Let him try to hire a seat on the
5 p.m. ferry. S
mouthful
Thief Regreta Career," says In Australia they have grama- newspaper heading. So did his phone record circulating libraries. victims-long before he did..
Some Kowloon flat dwellers would' probably be only too pleased to There's a new "Youths" Move, present their neighbours with a ment" in Paris. But it mustn't be subscriber'a ticket If such an confused with the Charleston Institution opened hero,
wire gauze mosquito-proof A London jazz band player's" room which was recently built at baby was christened "Valencia." Stonecutters, was broken into by a Bet it howled throughout the cere deg. Perhaps it was a wire-haired mony. terrier lodging a protest!
00
0:0 Natives of a certain district in
easy to slip on.
The British Navy seems to have A scientist says mosquitoes that cruising feeling at the moment spend their entire lives within a
ㄖㄖ、
-few hundred yards of their birth--
Clothes may not make the man, place. All that now seems neces- but they certainly make the woman eary is to arrange that they are born as near the North Pole as poagible.
Under section 12 of the prin cipal Oliuance As it stands at present, the three cases in which the Volunteers may be called out for actual military service are (a) great national emergency, (b) ne- tual or apprehended invasion of or attack on the Colony, and (e) serious local disturbance. These. three cases do not seem to exhaust all possible cases in which it might be desirable to call out the Volun teers. For example, a-local emer gency is perhaps more probable time Customs.
than a national emergency. Again, Some of the workers, are trying} `-
A circular telegram from Gen- journalese Hongkong asks, has the lo combine against being driven
it should not be necessary to de his new taxes to do with the ending from the free quarters still being eral Fan "Shek-sung and
lay, the call out of the Volunteers until serious local disturbances of the anti-British boycott? upkept by the Strike Committee, officers announces that his forces
but which are soon to be closed. under the plea of the subjugation-
had actually broken out. Accord- of Yunnan, are now ready to
ingly, Clause 3 of the Bill gives The Government is offering to
power to call out the Volunteers Although everything else seems Borneo wear garments made from. The Maritime Customs, what-assist the strikers still unable to advance on Yunnan to drive out ever its defects, is an institution get work by recommending" thein
wood to duck his head, thereby in case of great local emergency, to be going up, wages never take banana aking. Suppose they are of many years' standing, with a to the Northern Expeditionary
missing a bullet from a sniper's and in case it is desirable to take a sharp rise. developed organization and well- Army as transportation coolies and of Hankow and with conquest of rifle. At the same moment, the precautions against the possibility
Klangsi near at hand, the time sailor accounted for the sniper.
of serious local disturbance. recognized traditional standards to the railways.
has arrived for him to take his of, lovying.
Section 12 of the principal Or For the Nationalist
The work in the engine room The Government has made a part in the prearranged plan laid itself called for the greatest dinance, as it stands at present, Government to organize a comrangements with police to check down by the Commander-in-chief courage and coolness, although leaves open
to question the: plete apparatus anew there would
any attempt on undoubtedly ensue a period of con: workers to revolt against the au- begun.
the part of the and that the advance has already Mr. Kingswood modestly refrained legality of any given proclama- fusion during which trade would
from referring to his own work tion under it, and the occurrence thorities suffer It is to obviate this
The fact that machine gun fire" of the facts which are a condition: necessity that the Government
was "perforating the ship and precedent to any proclamation. desire's the co-operation of thei
Reports from West River dis- that parts of the boiler were shot Such uncertainty might be very foreign-controlled Maritime Cus-
away, calling for immediate repair disturbing and very embarrassing toms in the collection of the new
tricts state that local disturbances in order to be ready to get the Accordingly, Clause 8 of the B tax, although it could create its
have taken place almost daily, ship away, indicate the nervous proposes to add to section 12 a sub-section which makes the own entirely independent organ of
The Farmers Association, having strain suffered. collection if necessary. With the
Mr. Kingswood spoke feelingly Gazette containing the proclama- conclusion of the boycott when a NAVAL SEARCH SO FAR been gradually won over to the of the unfaltering courage, shown tion conclusive evidence that the trade boom is on the offing, it
UNAVAILING
anti-Reds, are taking part in these by every member of the small Proclamation was lawfully issued. uprisings. The Revenue Collec- naval party who carried out their would spom natural that foreign Powers, and particularly Britain, The search by H.M.S. Moth for tors' offices have been singled out duty successfully against such whose trade interests. In South the Chinese Maritimes Customs for special attention, and reports overwhelming odds. China are larger than that of any launch, which was seized by of looting and burning of these other nation, would be desirous of pirates on its way from Kong-offices, together with requests for sceing that the new taxes be levied moon to Macao, with Miss Scarlett military assistance are reaching with the least, disturbance to of the South Baptist Mission on the head-quarters of the Com-
from board, has so far proved unavail mander-in-Chief ing,
plaçes. It is said that these local disturbances are but ́a prélude to The launch draws about seven what is likely to happen. It fur- The implications are greater even feet of water and there are many ther reported that Chu Tung-hoi, a than those. The Nationalist Gov- creeks in, the district where the former general of the Yuct Kuun, crnment is anxious to abolish
piracy took place, in which it has occupied the district of Mow. likin and the other obnoxious could be concealed. The Moth multiple taxes that harass trade. draws only four feet, but her
Ming. As soon as the new taxes prove suc-length is against navigation in the cessful, it intends to immediately majority of these particular wa
commerce.
ABOLITION OF LIKİN.
cüncel likin and the various harm-
ful taxes, and substitute them by n,
PIRATED CUSTOMS
terways.
LAUNCH.
41
LOCAL RISINGS.
many
HAKKA FIGHT."
...decidedly expensive!
There's no excuse for a golfer
An American cynic says that, being late for dinner. He can al- ways take his club home with him. considering the surprising number DO of persons who chew gum and According to a local journal, the really enjoy it, it's curious that British lady who made such a ga there's no law in the States lant attempt to swim the Channel against its use, sale or manufac is, in reality; "Mise Dorothy (?)" ture: We're glad she's so clearly identi
fied.
When burglars go the length of robbing a pawnshop, it would The Observatory report on Tues appear that they're beyond re- day stated that a depression had
demption. formed over the Yangtaze Valley, We.understand that General Yang Sen is, as a result, very much under the weather.
:
You can drive a car while hug-, ging a girl, and possibly keep your mind on your business, but not on if either Dempsey or Tunney had Your driving. *-*
ranged to have their fight, by get A Detroit woman who failed at heen a woman, they could have or
ting married.
suicide three times should visit. Hongkong and step out on to the Most women are only at a loss road at the Peak tram station for words when they begin telling without looking, the barber precisely how they want their hair sut.
PAY AND ALLOWANCES,
Section 13 of the principal Or dinance provides that when the Volunteers are on actual military service they are entitled to pay and allowances and billeting in the same way as His Majesty'a regular forces, so far as the regulations TROUBLE AT TEA-HOUSE.
relating to the regular forces are, red at a tea-house at No. 287, ed applicable to the Volunteers A fight between Hakkas occur by the Governor in Council deem Queen's Road West, last night..
Nothing, is aaid about comp, and The affair attained serious pro- It is obvious that the circum- portions but on the police arriving stances of the Volunteers and of at the tenhouse the Hakkas fled, the regular forces might often bo leaving one of their number in the very different. Clause 4 of the *** HONOURING VISITORS. hands of the constables. Thila Bill, therefore, proposes to sub- man had a wound in his neck and stitute a section providing that the
Crocodiles are said to fraterniso was removed to hospital. So far, Volunteers, when called out on ac-
Now that an Englishman has with the natives of the Gold it is not known what caused the tual military service, and when in swam from France to England we Const. That's all right so long as fight..
camp, shall be entitled to such pay suppose we can call the Channel our the supply of natives holds out.. and allowances as may be pre own, after all. scribed by the Governor in Coun cil. A proviso is added that no
A special forco has been appoint An English girl has broken all Volunteer is, to be entitled to any ed to put down bootlegging in records by jumping 5 feet 3% pay or allowance for more than Chicage. Taking the hic out of inches. Must have been a mouse 7 days in nay one year in respect Chicagol of camp.
further imposition of 2%, thus This is the first time "a Customs making a total of 6% on ordinary launch has been attacked by goods. We desire to emphasize pirates.
here that what is aimed at is not larger receipts, but the replace ment of an antiquated tax' by a superior form of taxation. As a matter of fact the additional 2% impost would almost certainly bring In less than the likin.
RELIGION IN MEXICO,
CHAMBER SUPPORTS
Likin, has been synonymous with
PRESIDENT. official corruption, tyranny and In competence. But so far it, could not be replaced because, in the first
Mexico City, Sept. 24, place, no effective substitute has The Chamber of Deputies, by been found, and what is perhaps 171 votes to one, has again reject more important, vested Interests ed a petition by the Roman Catho throughout the country have been lie Episcopate to amend or repeal too strong to permit of its aboll some of the religious clauses of tion. Whon it is known that for the Moxlean Constitution,
(Continued on Page 15.)" | Router'a 'American Servsco.
THE DOMINION PREMIERS
Rugby, Sept. 24 The Corporation of the City of London has unanimously, decidod to present the freedom of the City', to General Hertzog, Mr. Gordon | Coates and Mr. Walter Monroe, the Premiers of South Africa New Zealand and Newfoundland on the occasion of their approaching visit to this country for the Imperial Conference. The Freedom of the City has already been bestowed upon Mr. Mackenzie King, Promier designate of Canada, and Mr. Bruce of Australia, when they previously visited England. British Wireless.
BULLION EXPORTS,
RESTRICTIONS REMOVED The Gazotté notifies that regula- Hons made in 1922 In regard to prohibited exports have been re- scinded in certain respects.
CAMP. DISCIPLINE
DO
about.
Penk residents should be easy The Grand Duke Cyril may be winnera in a water jump, taking recognised by Hungary 'as "Czar. into consideration the practice they Ho's hoping, however, that he won't get every day upon leaving the top won't be recognised by any stray
Communists station.
Clause 5 of the Bill provides The rescinded paragraphs are that Volunteers, while in a Volun- those which required, with certain teer camp, are to be subject to exceptions the permission of the the same control, discipline and
"Damage to Chefoo Cometry, natio^D, Superintendent of Imports and Ex-punishments as are provided In ports for the exportation of silver the Army Act, in the case of mem- Visitors Disappolated ran hSo far as we understand the dollars and for the exportation of bere of His Majesty's regular China Mail honding during the situation, most Americans regard week Hope they were not prohibition as better than no (Continued on Page 18.) Chinese cash, except to Chian
thinking of stopping there. liquor at all.