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UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT
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via Suez Canal
vin Suez Canal
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SERVICES TO
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From Hongkong
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ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE 5th August.
Loading for Mauritius, Delagna Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeta), Masrel Bay and
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DEPTH ON CENTRE OF
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TUESDAY, JULY 19,`` 1927.
CANTON REDS.
PRISONERS TO BE RELEASED SOON.
Canton, July 17. The Government will soon re- Jenae the Communistic prisoners from the Nam' Shek Tau prison. The programme is to send a party to the prison to read the Three People Principies to the prison- crs. Upon profession of his faith in these principles and ment of repentance for his past misdeings, each prisoner will be released. If he does not ace fit to give these assurances of future good behaviour, a longer detention nwalts him.
a state-
MILLION DOLLAR PROPERTY.
111 HOUSES REALISE $1,780,000.
One of the biggest property at public deals evor transacted auction was the sale of 111 houses at Yaumati, offered at the "China Auction Room yesterday after- noon by Mr. E. V. M. R. de Sousa, the auctioneer.
The sale attracted a large at tendance and the bidding was houses brisk throughout. The were all sold in one lót and realis ed over one and three quarter million dollars the eventual pur chaser being Mr. N. V. A. Crouch- er, of Messrs. Benjamin and Potts.
Store Employees' Split..
The property consists of Section The eternal straggle between the Communist and anti-Communist A and B, the Remaining Portion of Section C and the Remaining Por- is found to exist within every or ganization of the city. The two tlon of Scetion D of Kowloon elements are represented among Marino Lot No. 19. The total area the employees of the Sincere Com-18 338,556 square feet or there- pany. A fight occurred between abouts of which the area of 88,085, theae two factions a year ago. A square feet or thereabouts has holiday of two days' duration, the been bullt upon and is covered by 17th and 18th, was insisted upon 111 houses the rest consisting of in commemoration of the occasion. vacant land.
Moscow Students.
The Government has decided to stop the subsidies to the Chinesa students studying in the Sun Yat- sen University in Moscow. Army Headquarters have given orders to the effect that great care should be taken in Watching the return of these students to China.
It is said that the Moscow Com- munists are sending two hundred of these students back to help in Communistic activities in China Headquarters instruct the Shang- hai and Canton authorities that steamers arriving from Russia should be carefully watched and
The,,111 houses orected on the property are all newly built four- storied Chinese shops or dwelling i houses and are known as Nos. 501 to 561 (odd numbers) Canton Road and Nos. 1 to 80 Wai Ching Street, Yaumati.
The vacant land consists. of 'Ave pieces of ground one abutting on the Harbour with a frontage of 660 feet and an area of 213,810 square feet or thereabouts, two abutting on a new street with arcas ap- proximately of 12,738 square feet. and, 17,400 square feet or there abouts respectively and the re-
abutting on Wail maining two Ching Street with areas approxi-
if there are any such students on mately of 3,219 square feet and board they should be taken to the 3,219 square feet or thereabouts Military Headquarters and sub-respectively. ject to careful examination.
Anti-Communists.
The Government has just issued
The lease is for 75 years, and the proportion of Crown Rent payable in respect of the property
a notification cancelling all pre-ls $8,965.30 per annum;
The bidding was started at vious orders for the arrest" of anti-Communists. This is in ac- $1,750,000 with bids of $500 each. cordance with a recent decision at acceptable. After an opening bid the Nanking Central Political of $1,000, the up-sct price was In- Council, which is to the effect creased by half a thousand dollars that anti-Communiats should no each time until ten thousand had
been bid. the as longer be considered Government's enemies.
CANTON FINANCE.
GOVERNMENT APPROVES- PUBLIC GAMBLING.
Canton, July 17. As the authorities have decided that the revenue is needed by the Government, operation of public gambling houses is to be permitted and the proprietors will pay a tax from and after July 21st.
noon.
At $1,760,000, bids were doubled and at $1,780,000 Mr. N. V. A. Croucher was successful..
WAGE DISPUTE.
COOLIES FOR SALVAGE WORK.
who were en-
Three Chinese gaged in Hongkong to go to Indo- China in connexion with certain salvage work which is now being carried out there appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell as complainants It was the original intention to against their employer whom they have a restricted area and permit prosecuted for eleven days' wages. It seems that a batch of eleven gambling in one section of the city
men were engaged here to work only. However, according to a re- solution passed on Saturday after-in Indo-China and that the condi- gambling houses may tion was that they would receive operate throughout the city, which $1.10 aa pay per day from the time for the purposes of tax collection they sailed. When they arrived will be divided into eight districts. In Indo-China, through some mis- According to a schedule which understanding, they were not cm- has been worked out, $1,371,614 ployed and were sent back. They will be derived from this source are claiming wages for the whole during the first month and the of the eleven days whereas the amount will increase with each defendant states that they should subsequent month due to an, ad-only be paid for the days they vance in the rate of taxation. had worked and not for the trip.. This move is meeting with great The cost of providing the men opposition on the part of the gene- with meals during the voyage was ral public as it is thought this vice 25 cents per day. The men had will be practised to a greater ex- actually only worked four days tent than ever before and a hard-and they were returned to Hong- ship will be imposed upon the kong. families of men gambling habit.
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addicted to the Mr. Lindsell eventually decided that the men should be paid in full for working days and only half pay during the voyage. From
Plans are being formulated for the institution of a public school system for the City of Canton this sum is to be deducted, the cost which will provide a means for of food supplied and passage the education of the poor. Some money. The actual amount due to $3,000,000 a year will be required the three men, after making the to carry out the programme, which deductions are $2.85, $3.35 and is being worked out by an officer $3.65. In the Y.M.C.A..at the instance of the Government.
STEAMER BOYCOTT::
CHINESE PASSENGER'S FRUITLESS RUSE.
Canton, July 17,
Mr. Lindsell added that if any other of the eleven coolles engaged to go to Indo-China, wished to make any claim their pay would he adjusted on the same basis.
RUBBER INDUSTRY.
BRITAIN AND AUSTRALASIA JOIN HANDS. Yesterday two Chinese women
Melbourne, July 18. passengers appeared to embark on the British ateamer for Hongkong,
The Dunlop Rubber Company of which is their home. They had Australasia has announced that succeeded in getting their luggage it has entered into carried aboard before going on themselves. When they reached agreement with the Dunlop Rub- ber Company of England provid- the entrance to the wharf, theying for financial association and| were stopped by the pickets. One the closest technical and com- of the women said she was going
a provisional
Com-
aboard to see a friend.. The picketmercial alliance of the two
panies. insisted if such were the case, she must leave some item of personal. The arrangement involves the property with him as a guarantee sale to the English company of of her return. She gave him half a million shares at twenty-
five shillings with a call on
her umbrella.
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No sooner had she done so and additional half million during a retreated a few steps than she period of four years for thirty
shillings-Reuter. produced a whistle and called a policeman. She accused the picket
of robbing her of the umbrella he which was hidden in a fold of his was holding. The picket, upon trousers, str
being taken, was searched by the
It is not believed that serious
police and found to be carrying consequences will result to the pic- a concealed weapon, a dagger, ket from this discovery.
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