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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
1927.
AEROPLANES LAND ON FLOATING AERODROME.
This picture shows netoplanende phaition After landing on the deck of the U. S. acroplane
Currfer Langley near San Diogo,
'APPEAL COURT."
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mitted that that finding still fur-
GRAVE HANKOW A HAPPENINGS.
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res.
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SILVER OUTLOOK.
MESSRS. MONTAGU AND 'COMPANY'S REPORT.
C
Messrs. "Samuel Montagu and company's silver report, dated December 1st says:
ther influenced the case in favour authorities sent troops to of the Bank. He would submit that the Bank was entitled to sue-tore order and the mob eventually
dispersed British Wireless. cess, altogether apart from any
Since Saturday, Indian orders question of negligence, as his SERIOUS INCIDENTS AVERTED. for shipment to Bombay to-mor Lordship had, in fact, found that
row for the December settlement the obliteration of the number was
Hankow, Jan. 3. In connection with today's
In that city have been in evidence, enused by the plaintiff
incidents on the Bund, it transand prices have therefore been RESPONDENT AND APPEAL.
pires that at 5.16 the crowds closed inciined to sag. Today distinct Dealing with the points" in the in within two feet of the marines, signs of weakness set in from that: judgment he had cited as being in who displayed exemplary patience. quarter, probably as a consequence favour of the Bank, Mr Potter Agitators from points of vantage, of the disquieting state of affairs remarked that there was no appeal urged the crowds to rush the in China. Beside forward sales on behalf of the respondent marines, making the greatest ef-on Indian account, some of the against any of these findings.
forts to create an incident by fore-silver purchased for this week's shipment was resold and the The Chief Justice: It is very ng the sailors to fire.
About 6.30, Chinese military or premium on spot silver was re- dimcult to know how the respond-rived and took over the job of duced to 1/168. ent could appeal.
holding back the crowd in front of the barricade.
Mr. Potter: They have the same right as we have.
The Chief Justice:-But still, after all, the judgment is in his favour, and he doesn't want to appeal against that.
The situation at 7 o'clock was
The Consul General was then
3.
The question whether the critical situation at Hunkow has
Entertainments.
TO-DAY ONLY!
QUEEN'S
ALICE
LEWIS
TERRY STONE
CONFESSIONS OF A QUEEN.
WORLD
VIOLA DANA
THE SOCIAL CODE.
STAR
LON CHANEY
IN
THE ACE OF HEARTS.
MUTUAL FAULT FINDING.
T. U. C. AND MINER'S FEDERATION.
Rugby, Jan. 4.
FORGED NOTE
PRESENTED FOR CIRCU
SEATS,
The detection of a forged banknote, which was tander)
The long-postponed inquiry into a ticket-collector of Isako's
still very menacing, the crowd in a bearing upon the silver market the general strike of last May on Sunday night, led to th front of the Customs House show is necessarily a matter of interest. to be held on January 20th.pearance, before Mr. T. W This would depend largely upon It will be recalled that the coal worth, at the Kowloon Magi ing no signs of diminishing.
the gravity of affairs and upon any stoppage began on May 1st, and this morning, of a matshed Mr. Potter: That may be, in touch with the Chinese authori- extension that might take place to that a general strike was declared on charges of uttering a
other localities than Hankow.. by the General Council of theed note and of possession won't say anything against that.
At 7.15, Kuomintang officials He went on to say that they had made speeches from the British, fol and binne dead not fil-midnight, May 3rd. The general been forged
The Chinese people are peace-Trades' Union Congress as from note, knowing the same to
Mr. Leo d'Almada repres a respondent with most important barricade, and urged the crowd to disposed toward foreigners save strike was called off by the General findings against him. He thought, disperse. The crowds agreed if
matter of some importance.
I
ties,
"
Later.
however, he would satisfy their the British forces were retired. under what they may consider pro- Council of the Trades Unton Con the defendant.
Evidence was given to the Lordships sufficiently to get the It. was finally agreed that the Bri- vocation, so that, it is reasonable to gress on May 12th, and the coal that the defendant tenderet judgment, reversed, because everytish forces would fall back to Ewo infer that the area of disorder will stoppage continued until it col- one of the points taken in the Road, and they gave up the barri- be confined to the places where lapsed at the end of November. note at the Circus booking offi judgment were expressly taken on cades. There were no signs of the Chinese military operations have Shortly after the general strike the purchase of three tickets the Bank's pleadings which was al mob dispersing at. 7.30.
been in being, unless of course came to an end, the Miners' Federa- receiving the note, the cal umbrage be taken at any steps that tion and the more extreme sections immediately detected a diffe The vicinity is now peaceful, as
defendant and genuine He asked their Lordships to bear the crowd. retired from the bud may be necessary to protect the of the Labour movement demand-between the note uttered in mind those andings of the at eight to-night to the Faucheong life and property of foreigners, ed an inquiry with the object of The note was handed over judgment because they had a most Road, where for twenty minutes and unless the Chinese elsewhere arraigning the General Council on police and later sent to the important bearing
for examination. upon the there was a serious situation. The should consider such acts as an a charge of having betrayed the decision which should be given." Chinese chief of police atated it aggression. Hence, the question workers. The General Council Mr. J. B. Milne, of the,
Mr. Potter then proceeded to was impossible for the crowd to re- of the security of the stock of agreed to the holding of such an kong and Shanghai Bank, tel elaborate his opening submissions, tire owing to too much pressure silver at Shanghai does not nt inquiry by the responsible leaders to the note being a forgery the first being that a banknote was from behind, and asked the com- present appear to enter into con- of the Trades Unions.
in reply to Mr. d'Almada It is stated in Labour Circles, that it was quite a clever fo a negotiable instrument which mander of the marines to allow the sideration." fell within the provisions of masses to pass through the barri-
Arrest of upcountry trade, how however, that at the inquiry, the cades and up the side streets, he the Bills of Exchange Ordinance. guaranteeing there would be no in- ever, at a time when remittances General Council will not be found He said where a bill was materially cident. The masses were allowed would normally be required for standing on the defensive but will altered without the assent of both to pass under these conditions. Hankow is of more immediate on the contrary, deliver a long in a partner of the contractică parties Hable on the bill, the bill was The lantern procession demons- importance, as also is the pro-dictment of the leaders of the which erected the shed us vold, and he put it to their Lord- tration passed off peacefully. It bability of a further increase in Minors' Federation. It will at the circus. "The head of th ships that there was not a word in was attended by huge crowds. Shanghal stocks already const- forth in detall the repeated occa was away and the defendal that Section about accidental altera-Two were killed in the crush, and dered unduly large owing to sions on which the miners' leaders collected various debts, Iné
silver being sent in for safe rejected advice and ignored or part of the sum due from tion, or what was to happen if the many were injured.
demolished every bridge for Circus. The note in questio alteration was accidental. He would
custody. submit that if they considered the
The tendency therefore would settlement which the Trades Union received by the defendant word "without the assent of par-
appear to be for Shanghai stocks Congress leaders had laboured to ment of a debt. iles" that was the rule of the Common Law, because, granted there was an alteration in a bill or document of any material part, one could always prove one of two
Attempts by" agitators to obtain recruits to swell the masses on the British bund failed.
The Volunteers and marines are still standing by Reuter,
GENERAL GALENS.
Mr. d'Almada, in applying. remand to call witnesses f defence, said that bis ellerd
to lose some of their raison d'etre build, while at same time expect- The defendant was rent
namely the financing of trade. ing. the Cornell to be always ready until to-morrow. Though in such circumstances to take action in their interests.
silver might. not at first at any-British Wireless.
rate be exported to India or
things either that the alteration15 HE RUSSIAN OR AUSTRIAN elsewhere for reallaation, ship
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was not in existence before the
ments to China might be diverted document was actually signed, or Commenting on the respect to India and other centres, and it was altered subsequently with the shown by the Kuomintang leaders less disposition shown to make to General Galens, the N. C. Daily fresh purchases in London, and assent of Both parties.
Replying to the Chief Justice on News says: "A personality such the United States. the point, Mr. Potter said it was as this could not but arouse the Further, silver markots gencral- the duty of the holder to preserve curiosity of the White Russians y might preserve a bearish ten- the instrument intact, and, grant-who.naturally try to keep an eye dency so long as there was cause ing a material alteration, that seem-on the ascending or descending for anxiety as to the course ed to close the matter, unless they fortunes of the proletarians who events. could prove it was made before the have come into power in their instrument was signed, or it was country. And from this the in- assented to afterwards.
The case is proceeding.
LATEST PIRACY.
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NOT DISPERSED,
This is the first actual piracy.
in which a steamer has been taken
IN CANTON NOW.
of
BEGGAR ROUND-UP.
NEARLY SIXTY SENT AWAY,
MR. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL'S CONFESS
OPENS HIS SEALED MI
An Interesting confession So many complaints have been made by Mr. Augustine Birg received from residents regarding cently when presiding at lun the nuisance caused by the pre- in the Savoy Hotal to wish. sence of beggars in the streets of voyage" to Captain Osbert S the Colony, that it will be learned who is sailing for An with interest that fifty-nine men-Those present Included Mr. dicunts who were rounded up dur-wells, Mr. Arnold Bennett, teresting piece of information evolves that Comrade Galens is
ng the holidays were deported Wimborne, the Marquis of probably not a Russian at all, but
from the Colony this morning in brooke, Sir Edmund Gosse, in Austrian. No officer of the
one lot. A police launch took du Maurier, and Mr.. He dame of Galens seems to have
them-to Deep Bay, in Chinose Wolfeseipasanga figured in recent years in the Rus- Canton were terrorised by the territory.
At the age of 60, which I sinn. Army, either White or Red, tyranny of the soldiers; now they Sergeant Nolloth Informs used 16 years ago," said Mr. E but there is some record of an are living under the tyranny of that this large number of mend!-my mind was hermetically Austrian officer of that name hav- the workmen. The soldiers at cants was collected from all dis against the literary ment ing been taken prisoner during the least respected the heads of large tricts of the City as a result of coming era. I had my own war and who had a striking career commercial. concerns, but the special campaign organised by my own bookshelves, and di workmen delight over the depar- his department. For one day all care a damn for ang subsequently.
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to Bins Bay, since the Sunning outrage. It will be recalled that
"When the revolution took place ture of those who give employment activities against unlicensed howk-| (Laughter.) A subsequent to the latter piracy, efforts were made to secure co-in Russia certain cnptured officers to their fellow-meh. Such a state ora, which come within the every "After a bit, however, operation between the Canton organized Austrian and Polish of affairs portends no good, and day routine work of the sub colved that was folly. I un and Hongkong authorities for a contingents with the object of the if left to the unbridled passions ordinate police officers, were on my mind and listened to the joint expedition against the Bias overthrow of authority in their of the ignorant masses led by tirely suspended whilst all hands of the future, and I came Bay pirates, but that the Canton countries, and among them was unscrupulous agitators, serious set to in what has been described conclusion that perhaps them Government preferred to act on one. Galens. What his rank was trouble looms ahead. It was as a big clean-up. Busy thorough-something in it. Its own. Chinese troops are stat- then we do not know, but ap learned, however, from the respon fares in the central and outlying ed to have been sent to the dia-parently he was an outstanding Bibig authorities that adequate districts were scoured from end
trict, but it would appear from the ntan so far as military affairs were measures are soon being taken, to end, and in course of time the being confirmed offendere facto now reported that the pirates concerned, and it is suspected that and when everything is ready, a department's bag of beggars num- much so that in one case, still have their stronghold in the this is the same man who is now move will be made almultaneously bered just one short of sixty. turned no fewer than twenty. locality and that they have not or has been recently lording it at by the military, navy and the gen-Some of those were recognised as to the Colony.
been dispersed.'
Klakinng."
darmes.
corded that the offender