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SATURDAY

CORRESPONDENCE.

NOVEMBER 26, 1921.

CANADIAN PROTEST TO

CANTON.

[To the Editor of the "China Mall."}

Sir, I am the person referred to in your editorial last night re Canton Government and the kwongtung Tramway Company as the Visitor. I can assure you that I have not at any time made a statement or even given a hint to the Hongkong Daily Press as to the subject matter of that editorial. Bar your Adversarian 'I have not the honor of acquaintance with any Hongkong journalists, and I have not publicly disclosed any documents concerning the controversy between the Canton Government and the Tramway Company. Neither had 1 anything to do with publication of your news item in connection there with. But now that the threat against our company is made public in the European and Chinese press of the Colony it becomes an unwelcome duty to give publicity to the protests which I have personally addressed to the acting authorities of Canton. The letter to Dr. Wu Ting-fang was registered at Hongkong nigh a mouth ago, and the letter to Genorul Chan Kwing-ining was delivered by hand at the Civil Governor's Office in

Hongkong Currency. This payment by was made by the company to the very Canton Municipal Council as follows: Aug, 12th, 1919. .HK S 100,000 Nov. 6th,

Dec. 3rd,

Jan. 17th, 1920,

10,000 30,000 60,000

Feb. 10th,

100,000

Feb. 15th,

Mar. 16th.

Mar. 23rd,

Apr. 24th,

Apr. 30th,

100,000 100,000 100,000 40,000 60,000

Total.....HK $1,000,000

In addition to the above payment the company has, at the request of the Canton Municipal Council, made loans to it at various times as follows: June 22nd 1920 in Canton

silver currency

$100,000 July 22nd 1920 in Canton

silver currency.. August 31st 1920 in Canton

silver currency January 28th 1921 in Canton

silver currency .. February 5th 1921 in Canton

silver currency..

Total.

. $420,000

None of thess loans have yet been repaid to the company, nor has any interest been paid on them. Interest overdue to date amounts to over $10,000.

I'

Sum

THE CHINA MAIL.

foreign capitalists, will be venienos of Your Excellency I will SPECIAL CABLE.

near la saying this have a translation of this letter made without into Chinese, and will encloso same

herewith.

not doing BO authority: I am repeating what was recently said to me by a friend of Mr. Lamone, the American financier who visited Peking last year in connection with the Bankera' Consortium. This friend will arrive here before the now year, with a purpose of investigating opportunities for investment. Ameri- can capitalists now stand ready to invest on fair terms in all kinds of construction work in Bouth China,

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The

Respectfully, submitted

7. R. E. MACINNES Director, Kwongtung Tramway Company Ltd.

Hongkong, 29th October, 1921. His Excellency

Dr. Wu Ting-fang Aoting President and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Canton Government,

Canton

TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.

SHANGHAI COUNCIL APPEALS TO FULL COURT,

[China Mail SPECIAL. ].

SHANGHAI, Nov. 26. The Municipal Council is appealing. to the Full Court against Magistrate King's recent decision dismissing a police summons against Charlesworth | Rakusen. This the Council's first appeal to the Full Court in connection with traffic regulations and affects For your information I beg to en-motorists driving on roads outside the close herowith copy of a letter of settlement. It is important in con- this date which I have addressed to nection with the land laws applying His Excellency the Civil Governor, to traffic regulations. The appeal will General Chan Kwing-ming.

be heard on December 5.

China.

Your Excellency,

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especially in making roads, dredg ing rivera and harbors, and open- if the Canton ing mines. Bat Government is to be swayed by men of auch mind and disposition as shown by Wong Pei-chuen and his followers then there is small chance of any American financier lending or invest ing a dollar in South China. 100,000

Just one word more. I would say

The letter will speak for itself, and regarding the attitude taken by Wong I know that in

your савс 30,000 Pei-chuen. He seems to consider it a there

no need of having disgrace to the Cantonese that there & translation made into 170,000 should be any foreign interest or Chinese. But I would tell Your direction in the running of a tramway Excellency that it was a profound 20,000 in Canton. He does not appear to shock to me when I was informed of realize that among civilized nations the demand made upon the Kwong- 'capital is international. It does not tung Tramway Company by the know race or country; it is concerned Civil Governor, and when I realized with efficiency and profit.

what was intended by the resolution against the company which railways of the United States were at i first largely built by British capital. passed by the Provincial General the thrilling story of crime and But Americans did not feel disgraced, Assembly. It was all so utterly love, danger and death, courage and fear showing at the Coronet nor ride less easy, because of that. at variance with the honorable

Theatre. this The greatest railway manager in the

Based evening. Yet, Your Excellency, in spite of United States, Mr. James Hill, was as to the sanctity of contracts that tradition ainong the Chinese

the famous book by E. W. the company faithfully observing its

taken over from Canada. The greatest when I first heard of the demand in Hornung, this Vitagraph masterpiece agreement to pay one million dollars railway manager in Canada, now Lord Vancouver last summer I could not powerful with mystery and suspense for the tramway concession, and in Shaughnessy, was taken over from believe that it was seriousle meant., transposes to the screen all the vivid spite of the Canton Authorities con- the United States.

It was money Since my return to China, and since qualities, quick action, dramatic skill, tinually applying to the company for from Holland that went largely to the reading the translation given me of and scenic charm which have made loans of money to carry out ioun cipal building of the Canadian Pacific Rail: the resolution passed by the Assembly the novel so popular with millions of improvements, and receiving same as way, Hongkong was not disgraced at

readers. The plot is enthralling. Canton, I perceive that not above detailed, and in spite of the i- because Americane first promoted its only is the demand seriously made, Having planned to steal a shipment provements which, to the admiration of all, are making a clean, prosperous nowadays will try

No intelligent people but that much more is intend of Australian gold at sea on the way

to bar out ed than

to England a pirate gang under a city of Canton, and which directly foreign capital or foreign talent. of our company and reorganization of forcible dissolution His Excellency

fiendish leader descended from resulted from the promotion of the Chan Kwing Ming

As to thu Civil Governor of Kwongtung Pro- tramway, and the consequent con- the unfortunate accidents by which by the Assembly says nothing, of with gunpowder and riddle the life- point it at Canton. The resolution passed Spanish buccaneers destroy the vessel struction of the maloos-in spite of some citizens of Canton were killed by reorganizing the company, but boldly boats. All must perish as dead men tell all this a member of the Kwongtung the company's omnibuses well, that demands that the contract made by no tales. One man, however, escapes, Provincial Assembly, one Wong Pei-

and after untold suffering on a drift-

Cantos.

Neither letter has so for been officially acknowledge de 1 en- close copies of sine herewith for publication. In there letters f think you will find sufficiently plain charges, such as are demanded in your editorial. Now then for the fair play.

T. R. E. MACINNER. Hongkong November 26, 1921.

vince

Canton-China,

October 29, 1921,

Your Excellency :----

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tramway.

other

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was

first obvious step in so doing is to

remove any foreign protection and

Canton Government.

on

Matching his wits against the culprits watil they are all brought to justice. he remorselessly hounds them down

brave girl. The abip explosion, the

I received a notice from the secretary/public opinon and annul the said to stand before the world for a policy prestige and good faith of the Canton dous story and a stupendous film.

of the company, informing me that agreement. After debate this resolu

thus created, and the interests threatened, arranged to return to

therefore, present the said resolution,

Governor to act accordingly to annul

company.

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a sequences have been foreseen. I do not a believe that the Civil Governor

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city life, and Canton can no more pany be annulled. The. Ass-mbly Kwongtung Tramway Company i beg su dishonest, as to move a resolution hope to escape from it than Shanghai plainly intends confiscation. The to address you in connection with the the Assembly to the following effect, or New York. If the company's buses demand made through your office that according to the translation given me. were to be stopped for such a reason the company be.wound up as a Hong- The Assembly maintains that the then all automobiles and auto-trucks kong-China Company, and that it be agreement with the tramway com- should be stopped also, and the put the company at the mercy of the As a reward he wins the love of al nere company at your office in Can- and disgracing the nation. The public built. Whenever the accident is the the world, long and honorably con- the sinister shadowing incidents are all reorganized and registered as a Chi-pany is truly impairing the power of maloos might as well never have been Now, Your Excellency, as a man of raft ordeal, the wild fight at Hattray Hall, the mysterious cave scenes, and ton, under threat, in case of the com- dislike the said tramway company fault of the company. then due com- nected with matters affecting inter- pany refusing so to do of having its whose agreement impaired our power, pensation will be paid, as in other national relations, and versed in faithfully portrayed in this fascinating and disgraced our nation, therefore cities, However, Your Excellency, international law, you know what a tramway concession cancelled.

picture. Costing over $500,000 and this Government should consider Last summer, while in Vancouver,

if the Canton Government is prepared smashing blow this would be to the taking many months to make, **Dead Men Tell No Tales," offers a tremen- and prejudiced that Government; and at what a critical such a demand had been made last lion was passed by a majority. We, it will not have any foreign registered period in its existence.

For years I have assured Americans March. In view of the situation requesting Your Excellency the Civil company help to develop a new era

in South China, or have any part and Canadians of the honesty and OUR GOVERNOR whatever in the provincial or reliability of the Chinese in all

HONOURED. China as soon as possible. I arrived at the agreement with the suid tramway municipal affairs thereof, then let it

the matters affecting

fulfilment Hongkong on the 17th inst. On the

offer to pay back the $1,000,000 of

contracts Well, Your Excellency, if the advice which the tramway company paid And, as a direct result of recent,

obligations. JAPANESE ORDER CONFERRED. following day, from your office, a second written demand upon the of this Wong Pei-cheen and bis to it for the tramway concession, representations made by me, there The Japanese Consulate General is

$420,000 company, referring to the first, and followers be taken and acted apou 19

which the is a prominent American engineer and in receipt of the following informa- stating that if we did not comply then every responsible Gnancial journ company loaned to the city mining expert coming to Canton in tion:- within twenty daya our concessional in the United States and the of Canton for municipal improve- December to investigate opportunities would be cancelled by you without British Empire will know of it, and ments, together with the fair value of for investment in South China. He services rendered during the visit to In recognition of the valuable further notice, caused us to summon the financial world will ery shame and our equipment in Canton and reasonha: strong financial connections, and Hongkong last Spring of H.H. the au immediate meeting of directors. contempt upon the dishonesty of the able compensation for what we have is in position to make industrial in Crown Prince of Japan on his way to The meeting took place on Satur- Canton Government.

done in this affair during the last two vestments and to recommend loans. Great Britain, H.M. the Emperor of day. the 22nd inst., ist the

The Canton Government wishes to years, and I, for one, will advise the Batwhat can now say to him as to the Japan has been pleased to confer up- head office of the company be considered the model government company to acrept such offer! and security of any such investment? If the on H.E. Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs, in Hongkong, At that meeting at present functioning in China, and Wong Fei-chuen and his followers may threat against the tramway company KCMG., Governor of Hongkong, moved a resolution, which was is appealing for recognition to foreign then have the opportunity to work bearried out I must contradict all I the First Class of the Order of the unanimously adopted, pointing out powers. But such action as proposed by out another tramway system for have hitherto said in regard to Chinese Rising Sun, the Insignia of which is that we cannot be justly asked to Wong Pei-chuen and his followers in themselves.

integrity. And that is why I say expected to arrive shortly." comply with such a demand, and that the Assembly would put the Canton In conclusion I wish to say to Your that this threat has come as a pro- to do so would be unfair to our share Government in the Bolshevik class, Excellency that for over twenty found shock to me. I do not believe holders who invested their money with which no financial foreign group years I have had good relations with that the moral and political con- because of the constitution of the could safely or honorably have any Cantonese in Canada, both as company and the concession which dealings. For I can assure Your lawyer, and occasionally as had been granted to it by the Canton Excellency that the story of the special agent of the Government of has had the matter put to him Goverment. That resolution is the promotion of the Canton tramway is Canada in adjusting difficulties arising in its true light. I do not base of the company's reply to the new known to the financial groups of in regard to Chinese and Chinese believe that he would Banction demand made through you.

the United States and Cariada, and claims, such as the amount of damages any such

Removed by Sergeant Dick from dishonest and dis- the first floor of No. 34 Koshing But I desire to submit personally, the tramway is taken as a symbol of paid to the Chinese who suffered graceful action as is now being Street, the remains of a Chinese, aged and in my own right, for Your the new Canton spirit, and of the great during the anti Oiiental riots in attempted by the General Assembly about 20 years, were yesterday taken Excellency's consideration, the reasons commercial and industrial develop. Vancouver in September, 1907. against the company through the to the public mortuary. The man why the demand should be recon-ment which may take place suon. During these twenty years I have medium of the Civil Governor's office. was found dead in his cubicle with sidered and withdrawn. Permit me throughout South China. The come to admire and respect the I therefore request that Your Ex- two stab wounds, one below the left moved to the Government Civil

In Indian Assistant Warder of the first to recall the circumstances under success and fair treatment of the Chinese character, and so far as I was cellency will take suol action in the shoulder and another on the left hip. Hospital from the e.s. "Laisang" Victoria Jail was charged before which the tramway was promoted Kwongtung Tramway Company will in position to do so, I studied the proper quartera as may cause this The wounds could not have been suffering from knife wounds alleged Magistrate Lindsell this morning with and the concession for it granted. be pointed to as proof of the good conditions and problems of China as threat against the company to be self-inflicted, and it appears that the to have been received in a stabbing misdemeanour and refusing duty.

At Shanghai in 1916 I had the opportunities for investment of a friend would do. Moreover my reconsidered and withdrawn. privilege of several interviews with Dr. capital in new, and hitherto untried father, while a senator of Canada, I trust that you remain in as good while he was asleep. He apparently runner has been arrested on a charge deceased was stabbed by someone affray on board. A Boarding House

Chief Warder McLeod said that the Bua Yat-sen, and be it was who projects in South China. For in- and while Lt. Governor of British health as you were on the S. S. bled to death. There is no clue as to of having inflicted the wounds. De defendant neglected duty at 5.65 suggested to me the possibility of stance, I have had reposentatives of Columbia, did much kindness to "Monteagle" when we travelled toget the identity of the man's murderer. obtaining a coucession to take down capital ask me if I thought it would the old settlera among the Chinese, her from Shanghai to Japan in June,

tails of the affair are not yet available. a.m. He also ate prisoners the old walls of Canton and construct now bo possible to obtain a concession for which he is still gratefully reaiem 1920, and I take this opportunity of

food. The defendant was taken a tramway in the place of them. to build an automobile road from bered by them. Because of that, and assuring Your Excellency of my

LOADED REVOLVERS,

before the Superintendant, Mr. Following Dr. Sun's auggestion I Canton into Yunan-fu taking, tells at because of reasons already given, and continued esteem and respecti

U. A. C team have yet to went to Canton in January, 1917, regular stations from all vehicles, but because of what I have heard and

learn to go through a

Yesterday afternoon Magistrate Franks, who recommended that and submitted a proposal for a tram- not from foot passengers. But in read of your own character and

game

from the rank. way, and other municipal improve.ternational credit is a delicate flower. career, I cannot bring myself to be-

under adverse conditions in Lindsell heard evidence in a remand he be reduced

case in which three Chinese were of assistant warder to that of guard, manner. In sportsmanlike ments, to the then Civil Governor, It will droop and wither under any love. that Your Excellency will

the

charged with having in thoit second match I referred to, the teams Chu Ching-lan. My proposal was suspicion of bad faith. What then sanction the uncivilized aud. favorably received, and the terms of would be thought abroad of a govern dishonest course of action with

were called together and warned by possession three loaded revolvers. When the decision, was interpreted to The men were arrested during the defendant, he took off his belt the Referee, and as far as the man B concession were agreed to, ment which would be guilty of break-which Wong Pei Chuen and but, owing to political changes in ing its contract and dishonoring its his followers now threaten our To the Editor of the China Mutt." and the Referen's subsequent admis. of the Hongkong and Shanghai. Rank unbuttoned his tunic, and refused

who was ordered off is concerned, a raid on the servant's quarters and threw it on the floor. He then, Canton during 1917 and 1918, the solemnly entered into obligat one, a company. I must think that all the project was temporarily abandoned. now proposed by Wong Pei-chuen and, facts of the case bave not been

sion of making a mistake (as stated in Stanley Street. Mr. Leo d'Almada

any moro duty.

In 1919, however, it was successfully his followers 1

two of them. The other was not brought 16 Your Excel'ebey's atten- Sir-Referring to the letter of by "Hon. Sec.") it is extremely curious and Mr. A. E. Hall appeared to defend revived, and the tramway concession The Cantonese merchants have a tion, and that in the stress of military Hon: Seo:" in your last night's that the ague Committee suspended represented by a solicitor. All thres justice through the interpretation:

Magistrate (to Mr. McLeod): You was granted to Messrs. Wu Tsio-pun, reputation in foreign countries for operations in which you have recently issue, the first thing that strikes me Sam Kes and myself (T. R. E. always keeping their contracts and been engaged you have not had time is that the irritation under correction Now it may interest Hon: Bes:" pleaded not guilty.

After evidence had been given, Four weeks.

ask for imprisonment 7-Yes, AlacInnes). Inmediately afterwards promises in commercial matters. With to perceive, the real meaning of the is not confined to the players of the to know the I have had a long ex Detective Inspector James Watt the Kwongtung Tramway Company the great political maroh onward notion threatened against tho com UA.C., that is if the writer, bim perience of football both at home and Limited was incorporated as a Hong which the Cantonese have now begun pany, nor to appreciate the interpreta self is not one of the playem. If in Hongkong and know that of what addmitted that the case for the pro

TYPHOON WARNING, kong China Company, and Wu Teic it need not be long before the sume tion, which would be put therean by is, by the tone of his letter, he, to

the informer, who was the sort of secution depended on the evidence of

pun, Bam Kee and myself, as confidence may be fell by foreign the political and financial powers certain extent, gives himself away. syndicate holding the concession, trans governments and financiers in the with whom it is most imptant that A definite question is asked to

a who would come to the police ferred it to the company. This wo did i political konor of the Canton Govern- ! the Canton Government, for its own whether I saw the Sookampos match him to understand that I am not to and sell information for the sake of a ho telegram quoted below was

T. R. E. MacINNES, Director Kwongtung Tramway

Company, Ltd.

FOOTBALL - MATTERS.

with the formal written consent of the ment as is now felt in the commercial sake, skould appear in the best pos- and I can positively say I did. Canton Government, The consider honor of the Cantonese merchants, siblo light. I tilereford ask Your also saw the game v, South Chinn ation for the tramway concession was Then the day of recognition by lizcellency to take this matter into "All and I further maintain that the to be a payment of one million dollars-foreign governments, as well as careful reconsideration. For the con- majority of the players of the

!

SLEEPING MAN MURDERED.

him for 4 weeks,

make is in the best interest of the I speak. Any comment that I may sport on the whole, and I would like

be drawn into any hested controversy. ~~ Your contributor,

Hongkong, Nov. 20, 1921,

SHIPBOARD FIGHT,

·STABBING AFFRAY ON THE "LAISANG.”

Two Chinese were yesterday re

JAILER JAILED.

WARDER WHO ATE PRISONERS' CHOW.

Defendant I have suffered i

few cente. Between received by the local American Con

The Magistrate discharged Mrsulate General, from the Maula Hall's client and the man not repreObservatory at 9 am. to day; sented but romanded the third until Typhoon in about 12 deg Loug Monday

E. 12 dog. Lat. N. moving W