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N. LAZARUS
ongkong's Only European Optician,
Hongkong Telegraph
1926.
SM'PENTAKNUM
BETINGELSCOPE IT ONTS
GAP ROCK'S THRILLING MINERS DECISION. KWANGTUNG ANTI-RED POSTAL THEFTS.
ORDEAL.
POUNDED 1851.
NG. 81,070
伍拜禮 號一月十英港香 FRIDAY, OCTOBER
OYCOTT ISSU
JES
MOVEMENT.
ING
LABBLE REGARD
COMPENSATION
WAVES, BREAK RIGHT OVER LIGHTHOUSE.
TO CONSULT THE DISTRICTS.
GATHERING FORCE IN THE SOUTH:
TWO CLERKS IN
TROUBLE G
INTON'S BID FOR OFFI
CIAL
ANCONTACT,
JS.
on
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE.
The story of Gap Rock's typhoon | experience, which comes to hand
TROOPS DEFEATED."
CINEMA PICTURES ATTRACT.
When the one against two clerks, of the Post Office one Chrzuse and of the Post C
one Indian who were charged with the theft of postal matter, came before Mr. F. E. Lindsell at the
standing the fact that he had dir-
Ming pane.
The lowest maintainance co.,
eat in the world,"
Eres Touring
Including com
TURF SENSATION AT NEWMARKET.
SOLARIO DEFEATED AND DISQUALIFIED.
BATTLES BEGIN
SOUTHERN TROOPS
ATTACKED-
EXTENSIVE OPERATIO
IN
FINE CAREER BROKEN.
London, Sept: 80,
the Jockey Club THREAT
New
'defent
Solar
the
THE END NOT FAR OFFT
Rugby, Sept. 90--
The anti-Red movement in The decision of the Miners Southern Kwangtung. appears now THOSE SURTAXF
this morning, gives Hongkong Delegato Conference to refer the to be developing on a large scale, for a report is to hand to the further cause for congratulation situation that it missed the full force of the Government's proposals to the effact that, following the capture Up to the present, thation of the blow
tank and file in the coalfields, of Yamchow and Limehow by Gon
Central Magistracy, yesterday, Mr.ng its stable compani regard to the termia, no intima
Situate sixty miles south of means that another wook must erals Sun Pao and Lum Chen-ting D. McCallum, for the Chinese de the favourite at 80
a big compact has been entered Varcott is unchangeing, of any Hongkong, Gap Rock, Its only. In elapse before any further actionato in the eight districts compria fendant stated that his client had neck, with Tollation, at 7 to 1 thire
being forthee in regard to habitants. being the European is taken by the minors. Lodge ing the Kring-Ngal circuit.
grao to Macao and that notwith-There was an obje alproclamatio which the lighthouse-keepers and their staff, meetings will be held in all theIt is stated that most of the Genacted a message to be sent winner and the accond by the actual date.
la a bleak and desolate spot difconlfields, at which the Govern erals of the Yuct Kwan have on- cott will end. states that all ficult of approach at the best ofment's proposals will be submitted tered the compact, whilst many to him to comeback to rider of Foliation, which resulted
Canton reby the 12th instant times. rikers whound employment must
for acceptance or rejection, and elders and gentry have been ap On Sunday evening the sea was the delegates will return to Lon-pointed for the purpose of or register with the Strike Cam- lashed into a boiling ferment by don and report the results to tee before being permitted to the squalls which presaged the their adjourned Conference next
ganising a Publicity Bureau to itinus, living in boarding houses approach of the typhoon, but the Thursday.
counteract Bolshevik propaganda vided by the strike organisa-Mild night was but a mild in-
from funds which are partly alcation of what was to follow. rofer to the coalfields, the officials agencies to ferret out the Reds defendant be estreated lear
In announcing their decision to and establishing secret, service plied by the Government. It In the early morning the storm of the Miners Federation added:
their districts: added that the number of free
broke in its full
Following the completion of this violence, The districts may, of course,
come forward with their own pro- understanding, the Independence
arding houses te to be gradually duced, and will be finally folished by about the end of the
COMPENSATION QUESTION.
it would appear that the ques-
the vortex passing only a few miles to the South.
Tremendous wavee best ceaseless ly all round the rock, the spray shouting hundreds of feet into the
air. Waves broke clean over, the
top of the lighthouse, the light of
fosals apart. altogether from those of the Miners' Executive and of the Government."
STILL DRIFTING BACK.
While, however, there is to be
of Yamchaw and Limchow has been cancelled, the anti-Red stabs dard has been raised and war virtually declared on the Reds
Later reports states that actual hostilities have broken out, near
stand his trial, he had not re- turned.. - Mr. McCollum therefore
In Solatio being disqualified. The left the case entirely in his Wor objection to cox Law was over. ship's hands
His Worship then directed that the bail of $100 left by the Chinese
SOLICITOR'S PLEA.
As regards the case against the
ruled
This is Solario's first defeat since it finished fourth to Manna in the 1926 Derby "It won the St. Leger readily enough, day
turning the tables its por
Indian, defendant, for whom Me\).
Almada appeared, the latter conqueror. Its port
reatest four pleaded strongly for mitigation of year, show it is the
the country And entence on entering a pleat of year-old gulity
He said that the postal was expected that today's race defendant was charged, consisted would be Solario's last, but it the covers of which was marked defeat he will not of two unregistered packages on understood that Bylow of the
Cinema Pictures.
Immediate His Worship was aware Mr. D'Almada said, that these pic in the Cha
Fion of compensation to Hongkong which is 140 feet above high water this further week's delay, the drift Limehow, with the result that the matter in respect of which the
trikers, now in Canton; awaiting fabandment by the Strike Com- ifter, is causing some trouble. Strikers who are hot
members were
mem-
inch thick.
bers of the Kuomintang Party Huge doors, necessary to such an ard asking for the same treat-exposed lighthouse, were forced in dent as members. It was orginal by the combined action of the wind
proposed that Kuomintang. and waves, the quarters were con
to be given pletely flooded, and seawater get hohase of $200, with only $10 for into the machinery of the light, hon-members, but later a scheme causing it to work erratically. was pronounded by which strikers'
Coping stones were washed com- who had joined the Party were to pletely away, and a newly erected get $150 and those who had joined steel jib was twisted amazingly, aince were to receive, whilst a
It was reported to-day that many corpses have been washed ashore at Gap Rock.
Kniform relief grant of $10 each was to be given to every non-Kuo- mintang striker. The latter are not pleased at this proposed ar- rangement, and are demanding. engl treatment with Kuomintang strikers,
$
TYPHOON DAMAGE.
a
the temptation and he admitted
will be eng
ion: Stakes and the
New
Oct 28
tha
this as an „E EXCUBO pleading for what he did because he now US, AND WORLD COURT. realised fully that what he did was a criminal act.
**YOUTHFUL PLANE,
WITHDRAWAL OFFICALLY
level, and with such force that,
fented. In their retreat, the Reds one by one, eight of the lenses were back to work is undoubtedly Government troops have been smashed. The lenses are half an gathering momentum. Figures met with oppositio
everywhere received from eight districts alone
and finally had to lay down their show that 568 mon returned to work to-day, making a total for arms and surrender,
The anti-Red movement is Bad turon were now a great temp-Jockey Club Gup to be the last four days of 85:148. It is authentically stated that the to have spread to Kochow, Station to youths and maidens market on number of persons employed in Chuen, Mow Ming, Tin Fak, all the world over and respecti pits producing coal is now 156,162. Yuen, and Fachow, which merus this's defendant, who was only It vir bo
its prominent development has that practically the whole of South 177, and who had been in the Past Sir John Rutherford's colt Sol occurred at Treorchy, in the Kwangtung is in a state of insuffice for only two months, tell
rection. Me??
WAN LONG Rhondda Valley, where, after ·
At the same time serious deaving taken these two with mass meeting of minore yesterday. a deputation waited on the owners Velopments are occurring in the the and asked them to postpone the East River district, in which con- the pictures. He was hot resumption of work until news nection the results of the offen- was received of today's Delegates sive by the Fultien forces is being Conference in London, The keenly awaited.
Magistrates in many districts deputation pledged itself, on be half of the mass meeting, that of Kwangtung are Bonding urgent when the results of the Conference telegrams to Canton appealing for WAB known, there would be no The latest news from the war
interference by local leaders with Front is shattering the hopes of
the men who wished to start work many strike pickets who had hoped
Further reports of loss of life.
The anti-Rede" in Tungkun, Megers. Herbert Smith, J. to be enlisted for service in Hupeh owing to the recent typhoon are Richardson and A. J. Cook, three Eastern Hwangtung, who were and Hunan and to take part in the at hand from Macao. It is stated of the chief officials of the Miners' defeated by the Kuomintang suggested extension of the anti-Bri- that a junk heavily laden with Federation were not present at troops several days ago, are tish movement.
a donse cargo, and with seventy passengers to-day's. Delegate Conference not yet down and out, according grace by being dismissed from His It is pointed out that much ac chary in quence, these pickets are making aboard, arrived off Lappa last. They left carly by aeroplane for to latest reports to hand. Some Majesty's service, and he was intlon la impossible without the con- fresh demands on the boycott or Sunday evening too late to
pass Ostend, to attend the Miners of their forces are still intact and disgrace also in the eyes of his own dent of the Senate. Actually, the ganisation, and it la doubtful whethe Customs examination, and on International Federation, at which they have succeeded in getting the community He came of a good United States is maintaining the ther they will be disbanded as the following morning she was proposals are to be discussed for help of several local Volunteer units family in Hongkong and it would status quo, as Mr. Kellogg has not
struck by the typhoon whilst lying assisting the British miners. early as was at first thought.
to assist them. The "anti-Rede, be difficult for him to find employ yet received replies from all the at anchor.
when last heard from at Tungkan,ment in the future. Mr. D'Almade, addressees of the United States The junk foundered on the spot,
descri were marching towards the district in conclusion, asked his Worship to driginal questionnaire.—Reuter e
cign and of the passengers only about
seat of government
deal as leniently na possible with | American Sørvice, *** fifteen were saved.
In the battle between "Reds" and the "anti-Reda on September 24th, at Tad-kau, it may be recalled, the "anti-Reds" suffered a reverse, the "Acds" killing nearly 40 of their enemies, besides burning down
As
MORE LIVES LOST:
RECOGNITION,....
LOW EXCHEQUER RETURNS. Questions related to the bigger
The effect of the prolonged coal problem of the political status of Canton are in the eye of the From Sheklung it is reported stoppage is reflected in the Ex- Fowers, says the Peking corres- that the typhoon did very consider chequer returns for the first half pondent of the N. C. Daily News, able damage to houses and other of the year, ending September writing under date, of September property. Two huge trees more 30th. "The receipts amounted to 26th. The correspondent adds than fifty years old were uprooted 2322,250,000, as against an expen house diture of £384,000,000, showing Ever since negotiations were and crashed on top of a
a deficit of £81,750,000. For started between Hongkong and which was completely destroyed.
the corresponding half of the Canton, Britain, it is suggested,
previous financial year, the Hafforded the Canton Govern
receipts totalled £844,000,000.- ment some measure of de facto re-
British Wireless. ognition which is growing with the extension of its influence. There has been little formality in these relations, but now Canton has apparently seen fit to make a bid for much broader and more official contact.
ARGENTINE'S NAVY.
A TEN YEARS' PROGRAMME.
Buenos Aires, Sept. 30.
MEN BREAK AWAY,
London, Sept. 30:"
The continued drift back of men the coal mines, which is gather
(Continued on Page 15,)
THE TYPHOON,
ENTERS COAST NEAR TOURAND.
4 Bill has been approved by to Parliament, authorising-h naval ex- The announcement of the ter mination of the boycott on Octo-penditure of 75,000,000 gold pokos her 10 appears to be contingent over a period of ten years.
It provides for three light crui- Pepon the acquiescence in the,
cheme of taxation on foreign Hors, "six destroyers. and six sub- goods which is tantamount to im marines, partly replacing obsolete plementing the Washington Con-craft, though the programme con- ference surtaxes for the Canton templates re-conditioning old ves- zone. The Nationalists expect to sels, and the replacement of au- force Britain's good offices by xiliary craft devoted to instruc-To-day's report of the Royal
tion, exploration, and patrol, It Observatory, states that brandishing the boycott weapon also provides for the construction typhoon, which was reported us They are already making promises and, it is said here, have already of a navy yard at Mard El Blata, being near the Macclesfield Bank tivo days ago and which was of put ont footers to the British Con- and the enlargement of the ship severe intensity, entered the const sül-General looking towards the yards at River Platz and Puert north of Tourane last evening. Resuruptia of the responsibilities Belgranoteuter's American Sor- An anticyclone has formed over belonging to Peking. So many factors are involved that the Powers will probably keep clear
vice.
the
China and moderate to fresh non- soon may be expected along the,
officially for some time to come SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL Cont of China and over the North
COUNCIL.
China Seal
rain"
from this sea of complications.
The local forecast, until to Some drift of foreign opinion,
morrow at noon is-East winds However, may be gathered from NEW SECRETARY APPOINTED, moderate: overcast, occasional the contrasts now made in com-
Shanghai, Oct. 1 versation by persons in authority"
There were nearly 21⁄2 inches of between the Canton taxation pro Mr. S.-M. Edwards, who has rain recorded during the 24 hours And the spread of hapten Acting Secretary to the ending at 10 am. this morning, hazard taxation even under the Shanghar Municipal Council since bringing the year's total up to mose of the Tarift Conference in April Tat; "has been appointed 03.23 Inches, as against an average. Poking itselt í
of 75.87 Inches.
military assistance.
IN THE EAST.
some 600 homes.
A FEUD,
DENIED
Guilde
deeds.
Mr. D'Almada said he reallged, that the case was a seriona. one, but as the defendant was young, he
Washington, Sept. 30, buy $650,000. naked his Worship not to deal
Reports that the United States adding this am harshly with him on several has decided to withdraw from the grounds, the principal one of which World Court are officially con was that he was already in dis-tradicted,
BOUND OVER
contribution
of therme
Army
steam
unt
have
the defendant, and, under no cir President Coolidge has appoint lette cumstance, to send him to prisoned the ex- Secretary of State, Mr., for what, after all, was only a Charles Hughes, as the United warsh youthful prank.
States member of the Permanen Court of Arbitration at the Hegde for a term of six years. Router's His Worship, in sentencing the American Service, defendant, told him that he had * been very stupid in taking things which did not belong to him. Ho earnestly hoped that the defendant would not have to appear before him again. He would allow him
wer
HOARDED GOLD.
Holt
The Red and anti-Red" factions of the Butchers Union in Sunwul City, near Kongmoon, had a feud on September 24th, when hearly 30 persons frere wounded his liberty this time by binding ATTRACTED OUT IN FRANCE As the Union butchers fought only him over in a sum of $100 to come with their hands, sticks and bam-up for judgment whongver called boo poles, none of those engaged upon to do so.
In the light were fatally wounded.
STOP PRESS,
BORDER PICKETS ACTIVE.
We learn from an authentic source that the pickets did not leave the border at Shumachun yesterday ne reported earlier. The No. 1 in charge of the
A HELPFUL CLUE.
THIGE USES OWN NAME
How a thief, facilitated his own arrest by giving his name to pawnbroker when disposing of stolen watch was related in Mr. R. E. Lindsell's Court the morning.
In charging a man with the theft. of watch and chain, valued ut
Paris, Sept. 805
ance of the item in
The re-ap the Banque of sheet bought sh francs have been Paris alone, subs the scenes outsid Therente dal
and a greatly augme queues exchangin
staff is so busy seen cash that num of gold are turn There is a sm provinces, some necessitated extra:
pickets informed the detec$20, Inspector Blackman and that trol the queue3 Rez
tive of the Assistant Supor intendent of Police (New Territories) yesterday that he
is waiting for fresh Insbuc tlons from Canton and that the pickets will bo withdrawn by the 10th of October at the Intest
Two pickets were on duty; at Lowu yesterday afternoon and
this They
been goods and pass before. No DEK sean elsewhere:
the defendant gave his own name to the pawnbroker, and this was how he was traced and arrested by the police,
Two dollars were found on tho man when be was arrested, and this was
rate
to be turned
the watch to help him
article
The defendant
Lour weeks har
documetit
have!
thatche
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