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HOTELS.
THE
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AND
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NAVAL MEN IN WUHU CLASH.
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sailors while in ricshas yesterday were attacked by a mob of coolies. One of them was stabbed twice. -Router.
́NANKING GOVERNMENT,
Appointment for C. C. Wu.
Shanghai, April 22. A report from Nanking dated the 21st states that the Nunking Government has appointed C. C. Wu as Minister of Foreign Affairs but that Eugene Chan rotsins the post until the Nanking affair acttled with the Powers. The post was first offered to Hu Han- min who refused it.
Ku Yin-fan Waa appolited Minister of Finance.-Reuter.
TROUBLE IN YUNNAN.
Partial French Evacuation.
Paris, April 22.
Le Petit Parisien announces that French residents have evacuated that part of Yunnan which is over- run by bandits.-Reuter.
CANTON COMMUNIST PLOT.
Nipped in the Bud.
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1927.
Entertainments.
OUR TELEPHONES.
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| defaulting subscribers, 1. *m pleased to state, however, that the system of deposit accounts which we have since Institated minimises to a very large extent the risk of similar losses being sustained In the future.
Improved Service.
During the year under review, as the result of re-organisation it the Main Exchange, the service has been materially improved— this being reflected by the dimini tion in the number of complaints recorded; furthermore, the number of Subscribers has been increased by the addition of 463 Exchange Lines and 33 Extension Lines, which I venture to think you can- not but regard as very satisfac tory.
The Balance Sheet.
On the Liabilities side of the Balance Sheet you will observe that the issued Capital of tile Company now stands at $1,922,600 and the Share Premium Account The discovery by the Canton at $209,040. The General Reserve authorities on Thursday night that the Communists were plan- shows a credit of $25,000 which ning a general strike in a final Account at the last Annual General Was the amount voted to that attempt to secure control of the Meeting; therefore, in the event situation resulted in partial can-of your adoption of the Board's cellation of the anti-fed victory recommendation for the appropria celebrations which were to have
Lign now before you in respect of taken place in Canton yesterday.
the profits for the year ended 31st The police chief and General December, 1926, this account will Chai-sum inmediately pro- stand 18 credit to the extent of claimed m.rtial law, and raids $75,000.00, were made in different parts of the city, resulting in the arrest of over a hundred Red agitators. Suditions pamphlets had been circulated attacking the Moder- ates, demanding the release of the men arrested during the coup, and ealling a general strike for Friday.
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Turning to the Assets side of the Balance Sheet, two items up- pear to call for particular com- ment, namely, the expenditure of $268,042.36 in respect of additions to Plant, and $36,613.68-which you will find under the heading "Automatic Plant-Preliminary Expenses,"
Underground Cables.
A number of labour unionists responded to the strike call, in- cluding the seamen of the Hong-
The major portion of the expen- kong, Canton and Macno Steam- boat Company's ships. They diture in respect of the first of were unable to leave on scheduled these two items covers matters of time, but the police prevailed upon
permanent nature, and WAS the Seamen's Union to order its necessitated by virtue of the terms members to resume work, and they our franchise from the Govern- did so shortly before eleven ment, which, inter alia, calls for o'clock yesterday. The first vessel the substitution of underground from Canton reached the Hong-cables for overhead wires. In this Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Hailway Station,kong wharf shortly after eight connexion 2623.68 circuit miles of Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. o'clock last night. Every Room. with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billard-Rueras. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Torma moderato. Special terms to families d'h application to:
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EUROPE
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and Saturday.
Tol Address "PALACE."
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Cables :-
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SINGAPORE.
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Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
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underground cables, 25.895 cir- cuit miles of covered distribution The celebration of the anti-Redenbles were laid during the year; victory was coined to a brief furthermore, in the month of May meeting held yesterday morning, last, a new submarine cable was and the processions have been laid across the Harbour between cancelled.
Hongkong and Kowloon which not only permitted us to recover the BUREAU OF PUBLIC SAFETY, then existing faulty cable, but also provided an additional 37 lines for junction working between these points. While on this subject, I
Precautions at Canton.
At the first meeting of the Mili-would incidentally add. that not- tary Supervision Committee held withstanding the fact that much at the Bureau of Public Safety the progress with this transfer-over
has following resolutions were
already been made, pass-
stil ed-
further considerable expenditure must necessarily be incurred in giving effect to the requirements stipulated for in the Hongkong Telephone Ordinance.
1-This committee is an organ of investigation and executive ac- tion. All important affairs relat- ing to the detection and punish- ment of extremists shall be managed by this Committee with the assistance of the military and administrative authorities.
vation of documents.
Proposed Automatic Service.
The expenditure under the second of the two items with which I am dealing was incurred in re- Intion to preliminary investiga- 2.-A secretary shall be ap- lion in connexion with the pro- pointed by this committee to take posal to instal an automatic tele- charge of the records, and preser-phone service-a subject referred to by my predecessor in the Chair 3-Communist elements of a when he addressed you last year. peaceful nature should give them-After mature consideration, your selves up before the a rovincial Board was of the opinion that it or City Kuomintang within ten would be in the best interests of days. They should submit a state subscribers that expert advice ment of repentance and make a de- should be obtained in order that claration in the local press. They communication in the
the whole question of telephonic Colony shall then be exempted from any might be investigated. With this punishment and will be protected in mind, your Directors approach- by law.
4. People who have communist refugees in their premises should report to this committee or to the nearest military or police stations. Otherwise they will be charged
with sheltering rebels upon being detected.
6.-Information should he sec- retly given to this committee or through any police, military or Kuomintang quarters of the pre- sence af communist elements. False accusers, however, will be liable to punishment.
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Question Of Initial Outlay.
Your Directors. do not pro-j ed the Government with a request pose at this juncture to offer!
opinion as to the respec- that an independent expert aliould an be nominated with a view to his tive merits of
the two systems, submitting a report regarding the other than to indicate that it ap Tost efficient and satisfactory sys- pears to them in the main to re- tem suitable to the requirementssolve itself into a question of ini- tial outlay, return on investment,
of the community.
As a result, Mr. R. W. Weight-and consequent subscription rates man, of the firm of Mesars to be charged. I will, therefore, Preece, Cardew and' Rider, confine myself to stating that your Consulting Engineers to the Board possesses an open mind on was appointed the subject, and, is inspired sole- Crown Agents, the Colony at the expense of your the most efficient service possible by the Government, and visitedly by a strong desire to render Company in December, 1925.
commensurate with such a return Mr. Weightman's report advocat-to the Company as is contemplated fed the installation of an automatic by the Ordinance under which the 6-Rewards will be given to system. Your Board has, there-Company's undertaking operates. those persons who discover regis- fore, authorised the Company's I now beg to formally propose tors of names, ammunition, or Consulting Engineers in London that the report and accounts, as other proofs of acdition of the to embark upon the preparation presented, be adopted, and that communists or their private dens, of preliminary specifications with the following appropriations be and report the same to this cama view to calling for tenders, and confirmed: mittee.
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when these have been obtained, It
Payment of a Final Dividend of is the intention in your Board to place the whole matter before the 56, making 8% for the year. Chambers of Commerce and the $36,180; transfer to General Re- Government with a view to a de- serve, $50,000; bonus to European The Associated Daimler Com-finite decision being arrived at Staff, $5,947.21; carry forward to pany, of Walthamstow, dave by an impartial tribunal na to the next account, $2,857,86, received an order for 70 omnibus suitability or otherwise-so far I shall be much obliged if some chassis from the Anglo-Argentine as the community, and more par-shareholder will kindly second Tramways Company for use In Licularly, the subscribers, are con- such proposal, whereupon ques Avellaneda, a suburb of Buenos cerned of the automatic syntemtions as to the report and accounts
as against the manual system. may be raised,
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SUNDAY, APRIL 24TH.
THE MORROW OF
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2nd BN., THE KING'S OWN SCOTTISH
BORDERERS
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