THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH,
CANADA TO ENGLAND BY AIR.
CANTON'S FINANCIAL
CRISIS,
TWO PLANES START LONG
FLIGHTS.
FROM WINDSOR TO WINDSOR.
- Windsor, Ontario, Sept. 1. A Stinson monoplane, "Royal Windsor," piloted by Messrs. Schiller and Wood," started at nine o'clock this morning on a non-
vice.
Sk
VERY TENSE” SITUATION CREATED.
SHOPS AND BANKS CLOSE.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
VEHICULAR FERRY SERVICE
PROGRESS WITH THE NEW SCHEME.
FURTHER ENQUIRY.
Discussions with regard to the proposed now vehicular forry service across the harbour have reached a stage where a Sessional Paper is to be prepared and laid before the Council, it was learnt this morning.
Canton, Sept. 2. A tense situation has been creat- stop flight from Windsor toed on account of the acute financial England-Reuter's American Ser-crisis. Many stores have suspend. This paper will set out all the on ed business as they do not want. information already obtained Lon Sept. 1..
any more banknotes of the Central the various aspects of the project, Two more at pts to make Bank to be tendered for payment but further enquiry has yet to be the tastic flight from of their goods. Many privats made with regard to the cost of -west to
were started to-day banks have closed up but the Comtransfer of goods, and the direc Can Tully and Lieutenant missioner of Police when informedtion of the trafic.
calf, flying the aeroplane "Sir of this strike" immediately sent
So far a good Veal of guess John Carling," left London, On-out a large detachment of police to work has had to be used, a tarlo, for London, England, at a the banking districts ordering then it is hoped to obtain more de- Telegraph representative was told quarter to six this morning, banks and money changers to re-finite information with regard to Canadian time, at a quarter to sume business. eleven, British summer-time."
the likely amount of traffic from Hongkong to Kowloon and vice Tully and Medcalf will alight at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland,
versa. The question of the whar to refuel, before continuing the
yes and their positions have still fight. This is their second at-
to tempt. They started last Monday but were forced to turn back by bad weather.
A second attempt eastward is being made by the airmen Schil- ler and Wood, who left Windsor, Ontario, with Windsor, England, as their goal. at a quarter past two this afternoon, British sum- mer-time.-British Wireless.
GUARD CHARGED.
ALLEGED ASSAULT ON INSPECTOR.
A ship's guard of the s.s. Charles Hardouin named Mooran Singh was charged this morning with assaulting Sub-Inspector Nard Singh, Inspector of ship's guard at 4.15 pm. yesterday on board the ship.
Mr. M. K. La conducted the de-
fence.
The branch of a well-known Hongkong. bank ang
been approached by Treasury officials for a loan of $500,000 but it is not known what reply the bank has made.
Two prominent bankers, who are accused of being responsible for the "run" on the Contra! Bank, just escaped in time before they were arrested. Many other rich merchants are in hiding in order to evade their share
be decided, and this matter will haturally depend to a certain extent on the amount of traffic which will use such a service from both sides of the Harbour.
FRIDAY.
THE VARYING AGES OF MAN.
EVOLUTION FROM A BLOB OF JELLY
FUTURE OF WHITE RACES.
London, Sept. 1. Speaking at a meeting of the British Association, Doctor G. P. Bidder, in his presidential addreas to the zoology section on "The Ancient History of Sponges and Animals" traced man's origin to a stage more remote than that of Keith's anthropoids.
Dr. Bidder said, "If we had been higher animals, averaging. ten generations yearly for a thou- sand millions of years, then some tions may have brought us from ten thousand millions of genera-
jellyfish to men.
We owe Qur appreciation of dancing, poetry, music, and our sense of rhythm to actions we made when we were only tiny, blobs of jelly millions of years ago."
Power of Invention:
Sir J. B. Henderson, presiding over the engineering section, said Owing to the fact that the Gov- that with the aid of invention crnment is not in a financial posi- there were no limits to the power tion, to take over the scheme, it of man. The history of the past will be left to some private com-century showed that he was suc- pany to organise, Naturally such ereding beyond belief.
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His
to a company would expect return auccess had continued, and was. stabilize government finance. It on their outlay, so that the ques-bound markedly to affect the is reported that Mr. Koo Ying-funtion of costs, and likely profit future type of man... believes that unscrupulous mer- about which more information is chants are the cause of the present to be obtained, are important financial trouble and that they must be dealt with by "revolu- tionary" punishment.
A Proclamation.
The Government has issued a proclamation to the effect that all dealings that involve more than one dollar must be transacted in Central Bank notes. As the Cen- tral Bank and all its branches are closed against holders of its notes,
they have nowhere to dispose of
them. It is learned that the pre- Mr. W. le Bart Sparrow, A.S.P.sent panic will continge until the said that the Indian Inspector went Central Bank again accepts its on board to inspect the guarda, own issues,
factors.
Turning to the Poles,
SEPTEMBER 2, 1927.
EUROPE TO FAR EAST BY AIR.
PROPOSED HOLLAND- BATAVIA SERVICE.
PASSENGERS AND MAILS.
A Dutch contemporary coh tains some details of the proposals: that, have been put before the Duch Government by the Royal Dutch Air Force of Holland for the establishment of a weekly air service for passengers between Holland and Batavia.
It is proposed to use eight Fokker three-motor machines, and the proposal is based on the estimate that each flight will take ten days.
Each aeroplane will carry nine
100 guilders, this to include food passengers. The fare will be
and hotel charges.
It is definitely stated that Constantinople and Singapore will not be included in the route-the former owing to Customs difficul- ties, the latter owing presumably to the absence of suitable flying facilities.
A stop will be made at Medan. It is not known whether or not Rangoon will be included in the itinerary."
Mr. van Lear Black, Of interest is the fact that it! was in a machine of the Royal Dutch Air Service that Mr. van Lear Black, the American millión- aire with banking interests, re- to cently few from Holland Batavia and back, stopping at Singapore on the way out.
Dr. Rudmose Brown, presiding over the geography section, said that emigrants in the future MILITARY THREAT TO would be induced to settle in Polar
In the absence of a statement
regions. There was до KWANTUNG.
real as to whether there will be a stop evidence that the white races were at Rangoon, the proposed route, suited to a permanent transference with the exception that Constanti to the tropics. Long before they nople and Singapore will be left found sure footing in the tropics," out, will be substantially the same. the coloured races would have as that followed by the American effectively occupied the warmer millionaire, who was reported by Hence the whites must a Straits Times interviewer to have lands. turn to the Poles to search for new expressed the opinion, on alight- komes.
ing from his plane, that a Holland- Java passenger service
ADVANCE OF HOSTILE
FORCES.
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(Our Own Correanovdent.)
He forecasted a scattered pop-"every bit feasible." Canton, Sept. 1. General Headquafters has re-ation, composed of reindeer and
Mr. van Lear Black at the time ceived a report from the different musk ox farmers, in the "Aretic He found the defendant in the From political circles, it is con-military commanders in Waichow, regions of Canada, Siberia, Green- strongly disclaimed all interest in guards' cabin with a Chinese boy.fidentially learned that many high Swatow, and Iloi Luk Fung that i nd, and Spitzbergen, a hundredthe proposed service, regarding which it was rumoured at the He intervened and the youth ran allicials, both civil and military. their forecs are insufficient to cope years hence.-Reuter..
time that American banking in- away. The defendant then jump, are making preparations to resign with the present situation and that
terests had been approached. ed on the inspertor, struck him their posta and will make known more troops are requested. The slown and then attempted to seize their derision as soon as arrange-Government is unable to depatch the revolver which the Inspector ments are made.
more troops from the city or from carried. Eventually in the couran
the North River districts, but it is of the struggle, the revolver fell
understood that General Wong on the ground because the holster
An Earlier Review.
became undone. The cartridres Writing under date of Wednes-Shiu-hung has ordered Genera!
correspondent "special were strewn all over the place. It day, a
is alleged that the defending struck says:- the Inspector on the eye.
WIS over
The case was adjourned for hearing on, Thursday next at.2.15
CUTTING YOUNG
SAPLINGS.
THE SPOLIATION OF TREES.
Two men and one woman were charged before Mr. R. E.. Lindsell this morning with trespass on the Government Plantation at Bowen Road, Wanchai, and with cutting grass from the plantation.
POLICE RAIDS.
From the fact that "hotel accommodation" is included "in the charge of 2,100 guilders, it is presumed that flying will be only during the day, stops being made, Black flight, at a hotel each night. Another Dutch Fight.
the
Among the events in the topical gazette being screened at World Theatre to-day is the un- veiling ceremony of the memorial at the Menin Gate, a special Times copyright photograph of which appeared in the Hongkong Tele graph yesterday. The ceremony was performed by Field Marshal
Chin Ta-kwan, who is somewhere BUSY EVENING IN YAUMATI. as in the case of the van Lear in Kangsi, to lead all his men to Fukien.
The Chinese press states that When the news lenked out on All these military preparations six raids were carried out by the A Sergeant of the Guards, hear-Tuesday morning that the Canton are made in anticipation of the re-Police in Yaumati last night at
Lieut. Koppen, the Dutch flying Ing the commotion, went to the Government had seen fit to arrest Inspector's assistance and between 8:2 prontinent merchants and city-turn of Generals Yip Ting and Ho about 6 o'clock when foreign and officer, who, as stated in the Lung with their army, 20,000 | Chinese detectives, divided into Straits Times recently, is making them the defendant
men and had lodged them in prison, strong. These soldiers, according six groups, visited the following preparations for a Holland-Java powered and arrested.
people began to wonder what was to happen next. Never in the hi-to the latest report to hand, have houses: 161, first floor, Temple flight, hopes to make the attempt tory of this, or. I should imagine, already reached Kwangtung terri Street, Yaumati, 171, second floor, in October.
He proposes subsequently "to any other Government, has such a tory from the North-east. They Temple Street,; 345, Shanghai lagrant act of conspiracy and in-
have occupied important strategic | Street; a Chinese shop named fly from Holland to South Africa centres in Southern Fukien which Hun On in Woosung Street, and the Dutch West Indies. Jistice been perpetrated..
Yaumati; a house in Portland It was after partaking of tea at is their base, the house of
What embarrasses the Canton Street and a house in Shang- Mr. Koo Ying-Lan, Hend of the Treasury in this city, Government is that many farmers hai Street. It is learned that that these merchants were arrested and labourers in Walchow, Shek nothing of an implicating nature and cast into prison, orders for this lung, Hol Luk Fung and Chio was found in any of the houses move having been issued by their Chow are in aceret alliance with and with the exception of a host. And the price for their re- General Yip Ting. These peasants Chinese arrested in the Hung On lease? Ten million dollars in silare daily giving trouble to those shop no other arrest was made, ver has to be collected by the vari in authority. It is reliably learn- ous associations and handed to, apded that General Yip is assisted by for the financing of, the Govern a watch of "political directors," meat. In what country, other than China, would this rascality, the only term for it, be countenanced? And further news on the subject mukes this act on the part of the Government appeur in a much worse light than before, for, it is The defendants informed his Worship that they were employed now stated, the Government is hav- by a certain contractor to cat turfing revenge on the bankers, mer- and they were not aware that they chants' and people concerned who were in the Government plantatia, were responsible for the recent Mr. Lindsell said he believed scare in the money market. The that the defendants did not de-
onus has fallen on two men, liberately cut the saplings and most prominent of those arrested, discharged them with a caution. the remaining four having been re- leased on a sort of ticket-of-leave, presumably, for it is known that they are being watched almost hour-
The bullet struck the man on ly. Mr. Lei Chi-ping, head of the
Over 180 people perished in the his right thigh and wounded him money exchangers guild, and Mr. Wong Wui-man, managing directors and over 10,000 have been sufficiently to prevent his running
A forest guard informed the Magistrate that among the grass which had been cut by the defen- dants were young pine saplings.
Two other women who were charged with being in unlawf possession of a tree trunk were al- so discharged with a caution, the Magistrate being satisfied that the tree was blown down by the recat typhoon,
U.S. RIFLES FOR THE SOVIET.
GOVERNMENT PREVENTS
SALE.
the
of the Ng Wah Bank, are the twe gentleman being held, but arrange ments are being made to effect their speedy release. The plan put forward by the Government, is that the aum by them be divided into two parts. One part, six million, is to be paid by the Chamber of Commerce, the other four million to be furnished by the money ex- chargers guild. The Chamber has decided to pay their share of the sum, with the proviso that the peo- ple held in custody are almost im- mediately released, but they state that they cannot be expected to find such enormous sum at a few They agree to pay days notice, within a given period. But once their confreres are liberated and safely away it is thought that the Chamber of Commerce will wriggle The agent of the purchasers, out of this uncomfortable position who came to Washington with in- and possibly will only pay one quar-
New York, Sept. 1. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says that the negotiations with the agents of the Soviet Government, for the pur chase of 150,000 military rifles from the United States, have been blocked by the refusal of the State Department to permit the arms to be shipped abroad.
whose work is to stir up the popu- SHOT BY DETECTIVE. Lord Plumer in the presence of
lace in their favour just prior to the beginning of an attack, and who claim credit for the success of the campaign against the North- erners. There are also several Soviet staff officers in Yip Ting's
army,
WARSAW FLOODS.
A HEAVY TOLL.
Warsaw, Sept. 1.
CHINESE IGNORES
CHALLENGE,
A Chinese detective noticing a man climbing into the back of No. 101, Ap Liu Street, Sham Shui-po
the King of the Belgians. Other incidents shown in the topical; gazette at the World Theatro in-, clude the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace and the King of Egypt's visit to England.
at 2 o'clock this morning challeng- HOW MUCH DO YOU
ed the man and called upon him to stop. The man however ignored the challenge with the result that the detective drew his revolver and shot at the man.
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS,
The following general know-
rendered homeless. Heavy rain-away. He is now receiving at-ledge paper has been taken from fall continues. The small town tention at the Kowloon Hospital.
of Katy is practically destroyed.
Through the flooding of the river Czernosz, Prezmysl is also inundated. The damage to flood- ed areas is estimated at over £1,000,000. Aeroplanes have ren- dered assistance by directing the rescuers.--Reuter.
BANK OF FRANCE FUNDS.
REDUCTION OF ADVANCES. TO THE STATE.
London, Sept. 1. " The legal mit of advances by tcr of the sum they agree upon now. the Bank of France to the State, The Merchants' Association, an- have been reduced by 4,600,000,000 other name for the Chamber of franct, to 82 billions. Commerce, is indeed sorely tried,
formation that the contract for the sale of the arms was ready for
The total actual advances have signature, and that the rifles had been assembled in New York, was told by the State Department that for the sums of money already ex-been decreased to 24,650,000,000 they disapproved of the action. Pended by them for Government francs, thus leaving dvailable a purposes during the present year margin of 7,850,000,000 francs.- Reuter,
Havas. has run into millions of dollara.
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STOP PRESS.
CANTON BANKERS TO PAY UP.
Canton, Sept. 2.
It is understood that the Cuntón native bankers, whose shops were raided and block- aded by soldiers, and police this morning, have promised to meet the Government demand for part of the $10,000,000 loan,
The Native Bankers' Asso ciation have been required by
the Government to raise 40 per cent, of the loan-Nam Chuny Pao.
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