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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
No. 22.073
FOUNDING #TA- SATURDAY, JANUARY
SERIOUS HANKOW RUMOUR. SALT GABELLE.
REPORTED EVACUATION OF
1,000 FOREIGNERS.
SERIOUS REVENUE
DECLINE.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY BRITISH in the Group of Banks, afte:
GOVERNMENT.
NO CHANGE IN POLICY.
According to a private telegram received in Peking, serious developments have occurred in Hankow, leading to the evacuation of one thousand British and American men. This message has. however, not been confirmed, and no news whatever has been received locally by the naval authorities from any Yangtze ports There is evidently a strict censorship prevailing in Hankow, in which connection we give to-day some news circulated by Router to Shanghai newspapers which had apparently been censored in Hankow.
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In consequence of the British Ministerial consultations on the China situation, Mr. Winston Churchill has abandoned a proposed visit to Egypt.
FORCIBLE RETENTIONS.'"
Rugby Jan: 21 The total Salt Revenue credited
deducting administrative expenses, amounted to $64,287,000, showing a deeroase of $9,347,000 as com- pared with 1925, and also a serious decrease as compared with former
years since 1915...
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION."
93 PER ANNUM
1927. HATA SINGLE OOPT 10 OUT
AN IMPORTANT TEST RUSSIAN SUICIDE.
ACTION.
USE OF TRADE UNION "FUNDS.
A test action of considerable im
Mr. Forster, brought an action:
STRANGE SHANGHAI
TRAGEDY.
SECRET PAPERS MISSING.
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A London newspaper believes Twelve thousand deptista are that China's extremists havo "lost meeting in Chicago this month for their heads." Unfortunately, this the purpose of forming a Unity ls incorrect,
Club, Evidently they all want to pull-together.
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Seeing is believing. This may
MEMBERS' VAIN PROTEST.
London, Jan.-21.
A L. Sokal, an official of the portance to Trades Unionism was Dalbank, and an emissary from the account for the rush to sco the According to the Telegraph, the decided in the Chancery, Court to- Far Eastern headquarters of the latest spatous in Fodder Street last "contular authorities" are taking day by Mr. Justice Eve.
Soviet Government in Harbin to
Wednesday morning.
precnations lu Shanghai. Evident 09.
ly, a job for William the Könk. ** against the Shop Assistante Union, Shanghai, banged himself yester- So much for good resolutions.
ៗ ជ. of which he is a member, to re-day, says the China Preas of the last Kowloon ferry said they would local little Red Riding Hood. If some of the travellers by the A jazzing donkey will assist our strain it from applying the gene-18th instant. ral funds of the Union to further worrying about the motive for the must have meant not any more for tips, will no doubt be present.
The police are not drink any more this year, they Many of the others, on the outlook: political objects and, in particu. hanging, but the Soviet Consulate than they used to. lar, from paying contributions to and the Dalbank are even more, Union Congress HD worried about the loss of certain
ព ព "Ads" on the S. C. M. Post Saturday's rowing, the Bank four. According to a report on last
the Trades
within the meaning of Trades Union law. Plaintiff deni
POLICE MYSTIFIED.
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were handicapped by reason of the fact that the end-of-the-year-
An official statement says that long as that body expended its secret official documents which A. blotter are sure to be read. the decrease is due to disorganisa- funds in furtherance of political L. Sokale the immaculately attired so absorbing. tion of railways and the com- objecta.e
Russian who methodically took two mandeering of other means of
Counsel for the plaintiff, stated straps from his suitcase, slung transport for military operations that the Registrar of Friendly So them over a hook in the celling and work "Think" as it slogan. The heir training. MacWhirter says. A Canadian city has adopted the balances seriously interfered with and military interference with the ciéties had been asked to give his then kicked a chair out from under rumour, that Wanchai has adopted that this is a most likely cause. Salt. Administration. in the decision on the issue. and the Re-him, at a local hotel, had brought the same, with the prefix "s" is, majority of the Provinees. Of the gistrar had given a judgment that, with him from Harbin, and which however, not to be thought of. It is pleasant to record that," above sum. 837,389.000 represents objects which were complained of fare now missing.
despite bad conditions, a bowld. forcible retentions, made by local as being political were; not pol!- authorities without the consent of tical
To be well acquainted with the match can still be arranged among the central Government and $10,-
fairer sex, one bus to remember a those who work. 283,000 fententions with th con cd the plea of the defendant Union so much the story of international dresses.
What mystifies the police is not girl over since she was in long
B sent of the Central Govern- that the decision of the Registrar intrigue which lies behind the sui ment. The amount of revenue having been sought and obtained cide of the Russian blinker, but "The British Foreign Office has Issued an official communique thus retained does not in in accordance with Trades Union why he should have done it. Mosenw
clude the revenue rethined law, the matter was res judicato Everything was in order.. He had Exhibition. explaining the object of the naval and military dispositions in
by the Kwangtung and Kanau. Mr. Justice Eve found for the 'connection with the Chinese situation, urging that sensational
authorities. The former not defendant Union.
He held that money in the bank, five letters addressed to various friends, two announcements should be deprecated and disregarded.
only prevented the re-opening the legislature contemplated that of whom were in the Consulate, in of the Canton and Swatow offices a matter of this kind should be structing them what to do with the Peking, Jan. 22. During the course of the pro- but caused the closure at Pakhoi. determined by the Registrar of remains, were arranged in a neat A private wire from Ilankow ceeding a missionary" stated that At the end of the year the whole Friendly Societies. It did not con row underneath the mirror on the says that the shuation has deve- there were many missionaries who of the revenue was being retained template that a member of a
that did not agree with the National by local authorities except part Trade Union, having failed to conceivable motive which was seized inadvisable to
top of his bureau. The only con-
As a matter of policy we think lend them a few of our boot-blacks. loped very seriously, and 1,000 British and American men Christian Council.-Reuter. from Shansi, Changlia and Shun-ince the Registrar, could resor upon last night is that of illness, present workers in the John Kerr
If it doesn't look out, the Radio are being evacuated.
tung.
to the Courts The legislature, as Sokal was an invalid. Since Hospital for the Insane.
Society, like lots of husbands, will a rule, discouraged interference by coming to Shanghai five days
be wrecked on a permanent wave,
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Up to the present there has been no oficial confirmation of this,-- Router.
AMERICAN FEARS,
WHY MINISTER WAS ORDERED BACK.
Washington, Jan. 211
OFFICIAL BRITISII
STATEMENT.
"NO CHANGE. IN POLICY.
London, Jan. 21.
be decided by the Registrar of Friendly Societies.
We have sympathy for the man who, in claiming a horse, lost his Carrying coals to Newcastle- suit as well,
opous an. Atrocity
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The peace movement in China has become a positive riot.
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Business may be bad but it cannot be said that hawkers in Wyndham Street are in any way One way of brightening up some
A stray but from the belfry: pessimistic.
of these Canton folk would be to
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A specialist recently stated that "Sea bathing is nature's greatest tonic." The rumour that the Hongkong Government now pro-
Judging by the hour some of poses to charge a dollar a bottle
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Which reminds us that it will
FOREIGN OBLIGATIONS.
a Court in the domestic adminis previously, he had been confined in The gentleman. who The actual amount released for trution of corporations and simi his room. His friends from the criticising the Central British the general purposes- of the lar bodies. It also recognised that Consulate had called frequently to School apparently had a pupil in Chinese Government amounted to the dividing line between social bring him code cablegrams and his eye. The Foreign Office in an officia! $8,868,000 as compared with $32, and political matters would be very wireless dispatches," but he never communique on the naval and 935,000 in 1925. $9,072,000
The distinction must left his room. was indistinct. military dispositions in connection paid on account of foreign obliga- The growing seriousness of the with the Chinese situation, says tions aceured on the Salt Adml-
He experienced difficulty in these young bloods leave office, for it, la, however, incorrect. anti-foreign demonstrations and they are precautionary and that nistration. The yearly service of
The result of the case was loud-walking, it was noticed, because they must use stop-watches. rioting in China,
time. been is the reason aensational announcements regard the Reorganisation Loan. of 1913 ly cheered by the Conference of his foot had at .one given for ordering Mr. MacMurraying them are to be deprecated and was paid by the Salt Gabelle and Trades Union Executives, who scalded by steam escaping from a The latest style for ladies hair soon be time to appoint another to return to Peking.-Reuter.
It has ita Bathing Beach Commission, with disregarded.
subsequently refunded by the were dealing with the action of burst pipe, and numerous vinils of is the "hedgehog cut."
callipers complete. The sole object is to enable the Customs. Owing to prevailing the General Council of the medicine were found in his room. points.
But that is not conclusive evidence, Government to fulfil its elemen-conditions the reserve in the Trades, Union Congress in tary duty of protecting the lives group of Banks could not be gard to the general strike.for a more satisfactory explana- in Hangkong looks like going on woman has developed a fine tenor Under date of the 17th insts in their charge, if such protec- but at the end of the year amount-
of. British subjects whose safety maintained at the usual $7,000,000, British Wireless, Reuter has sent the following re-tion proved necessary. Under-ed to $4,860,000,--Reuter. pärt to Shanghai newspapers:
"The following are extracts of takings to that effect were given in telegrams from Reuter's Hankow the last session of Parliament by
CENSORED NEWS.
RECENT HANKOW MESSAGES.
ties at Hankow pami
GERMAN POLITICS.
re-
and detectives are still searching· Lent isn't far off, but borrowing
tion of the suicide.
for ever.
DE. MARX AUTHORISED TO FORM CABINET
Berlin, Jan. 21. «
FRENCH FORERODING.
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This idea of a Pacific Union is What the Russian Consulate and acouted by most married men." the Dalbank are so greatly disturb.
"Pittsburg for China," says an ed about is an entirely different matter. Sokal, according to American headline. But it takes Dalbank official, had held a high more than smoke to fix them. position in the bank's branch, in
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voice" states a news item. the other hand, many a small bass has been ruined without seeing a doctor.
It looks as if the 'ponnica we used to subscribe at Sunday School to save the Chinese might now bo more usefully employed in saving the missionaries.
the Prime Minister and Foreign for sums up the present policy as, correspondent which appear to Secretary. There had been have been consored by the author-modification whatsoever of the the various armies engaged in the firstly, to avoid any conflict with' "It is felt that another crisis is conciliatory attitude towards the Chinese civi: war; secondly, to rely likely to work up in the course of legitimate aspirations of Chinese tentatively on Shanghai's ability a few days, when the economic Nationalism so clearly laid down to look after its own safety from
The Centre Party has nuthorised Harbin. He had been sent to If the peace-at-any-price folk effect of the closing down of the in the Memorandum pan, Chinese mob violence; and, thirdly, to have Dr. Marx to negotiate and form a Shanghai for a certain purpose, had their way, the Open Door in
0.0 British banks and hongs becomes pulicy issued by His Majesty's enough ships handy with landing non-Socialiat, Cabinet, lueluding and was bringing confidential China would be an exit.
According to the Daily Press, more acutely felt. The British Government last Christmas. On parties if the peril at Shanghai the German-Nationals-Reuter." papers. He had them when he
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"The First Cruiser Squadron has community appears to be deter the contrary, conversations were becomes worse than seems likely.
arrived, but they were never de-i Playing bowls without braces, arrived in Delhi for dry-docking." at Hankow and in the meantime, no doubt that
livered, and now Sokal, the only mined to sit light and not budge progressing
It's only right that a "far-flung ke little learning, is a
A if auccessful, further efforts will be made to con-
Paris, Jan. 21. an inch until permanent ameliora-Peking which,
man who might elucidate, is gone dangerous thing.
Empire" should have a far-flung tion of present conditions is forth-Would go far towards implement vince the Cantonese Government President Hindenburg's sharp They did not say what was con-
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ing the concessions, the govern of the simple truth that Britain is turn of the helm to the Right has tained in the five letters which he
The next thing after television
0.0 The majority of the Britishment was willing to make with anxious to go very far along the filled the French press with uneasy had written, and which the police will be telesmelling. This will Tuesday's China Mall thus de residents at Hankow are still the object of placing our relations road of conciliation, but cannot forebodings.
turned over to the Russian con-enable motorists to appreciate the scribes the sufferings of a Hankow housed at the Plaza, as the APC. With China upon an equitable and, give what it is ready to give it it The Tepips says that the advent sainto, beyond stating that heavour of our enlubrious suburbs, hero"The Chinese got off with
it was hoped, mutually profitable encounters violence without rea-of a Rightist Government
will wished his body to be forwarded to without leaving home. 'buliding is faceliously termed.
the rifle, but I managed to hold In this improvised citadel they are basis. The Government hopes son and intrigue..
really endangor the peace policy Harbin for burial and this, it is
raine until others came to my living under wartime conditions, that these conversations will lead
assumed, will be attended to short- The Saturday Review also refers of Locarno and Geneva.
Outstanding events of the week: assistance. Isill clung to it as subsisting on Navy rations and to a friendly settlement of all the to the British Memorandum opin- The Joural. Des Debats writes ly.
-Dr. Kotewall declines to address I was taken to the Catholic Hos sleeping wherever they find space. questions in dispute.-Benter.
a meeting and friend Rupchand pital. Here I was the Minister for
·Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist writes to the Press,
Government." We'd hate to
A privileged few have been given MORE CABINET MEETINGS permanent passes but the remain-
der are permitted to leave the building only for specified inter- vals.
"Foreigners arriving from Klu-
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL STAYS
HOME,
London, Jan. 21.
GRUESOME AFFAIR.
The suicide was one of the most
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From the Dally PressTwo
ing that the one mistake was that that Pres. Hindenburg's "action its issue was too long delayed, and places the question, of German that this is only remediable by un-disarmament, which is now be wavering fidelity to a policy of fore, the Conference of Ambassa gruesome that has been reported moderation-Renter.
dors, on a new plane and the con-in recent months. Sokal, cind in It is, after all, only a question qualify for the post of President. ference must decide accordingly. his best clothes, had taken the before watches and pedestrians
Sympathy will go out to the KWANGTUNG UNREST." Router.
fatal leap off the chair but before are run down.
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handful of British residentë at kiang statey that the mob there Mr. Winston Churchill is pro- MISSIONARIES REACH CANTON,
dying, apparently repented, and looted many foreign houses, in-ceeding to London as soon as pos-
tried to tear, the thongs from his The other evening we saw a lady Hankow, regarding whom a con- cluding that of the Deputy Com-sible in order to participate in Chinese reports from Canton FOND OF HONGKONG. throat.
The body, was found with a black patch on her neck, temporary says: "It is under- missioner of Customs, an Italian. Ministerial consultations being state that students in various parts
completely suspended the feet 1 this the latest fashion or the stood that they are adequately out-
fitted and operated on.” Soldiers finished the job." - beld next week in connection with of the province are stirring up anti-
sprawling grotesquely in the air.result of a hurried shave? the situation in China.
foreign and anti-Christian trou MANY BANISHEES RETURN. Underneath, all the coverings from
២ . . . Mr. Churchill intended to visit blos, but that the movement is at
the bed wore arranged, so that the A local insurance agent attended › When Egypt, but it is understood that present solely confined to extre-
a Chinese was charged body would repose comfortably on the lecture on "Are We Going Chinese who entered the Court the visit has been abandoned. mists.
with returning from banishment, the floor; in the case the noose West?". Can't afford to miss room of the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday morning were fined $1 -Reuter.
Recently,
chances these days. large number of before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the broke after death.
cach." Whawfor? foreign and Chinese missionaries, Central Magistracy this morning, The Soviet Consulate was partl MORE HOME COMMENT as well as educational workers, Sub-Inspector Vincent stated he cularly anxious to stress the im Shanghai is talking of closing
have arrived in Canton from North was the thirteenth that had repression that Sokal was merely down its cabarets at 2 s.m. This If China doesn't look lively and INSISTENCE ON POLICY OF
River districts, where there has turned this year, and a lot more Harbin, merchant. From other should rolleve the traffic conges- pay her League dues, she'll find MODELLATION.
herself scratched one of these been a good deal of anti-Christian were returning. The defendant, sources, however, it was gathered tion for the millworkers.
daya. London, Jan. 21.
Jagitation by Pensant Volunteers he said, was sent to prisom for that the "Harbin "merchant" in feronco to the situation in China.
Congratulating the Government and other organisations. In many three months and alx weeks. In reality bore a very close relation The trouble about the reckless Those presont were asked to take. stops to inform the people at Home on Its policy in China, as outlined casco, plundering of churches have 1925, and in 1926 he was banished both to the Soviet Government and motorist is that he doesn't usually of "the real state of affairs in the British Memorandum of De been reported. On Thursday there for ten years. He was arrested to its official bank China," the suggestion being that comber 18th the Spectator anya it was an unusually large influx of Vesterday
"Defendant was sentenced to-ek
BIG SHANGHAI MEETING.
SUGGESTED MESSAGE OF INFORMATION TO HOME.
Shanghai, Jan. 21.
A largely attended meeting of British subjects was held thia revening which fully supported a plea by Mr. Bruce Lockhart for propaganda In England with re- 4050373
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certain that the Government in missionaries from these districts,
leading residents of Shangha tenda, to continue along the present and there were busy scenes at the months' imprisonment and twenty should draw up a considered states, but it points out that the Yuet-Han Railway station as these strokes with the birch, ant M ment which should be sent to the froblem in Shanghai.is very, dif. people, with their families and bag-Lindaell ordered that he serve an Press and Members of Parliament forent from Hankow. The Specta Kage arrived.
and others.
TO-DAY
2/-1/16 €6,04 p.p
additional three months, 17 unfit-Jollar on demand (Continued on Page za.). to receive the birch.
lighting-up
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have a wreckless career.
It is computed that the average man has 66 lbs. of muscle and 3.8 lbs. of brain. That probably explains why so many folk want to go to war with China
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The Hulching was a bit top high for an enterprising reporter who jumped for her from the whiff the other evening, only to find himself a second later in the water.
Hongkong is about to suffer a dyerballical loss.