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THURSDAY JULY 9 1924

STEAMER COLLISION.

ACTION FOR DAMAGES CONTINUED.

A QUESTION OF

RACING.

from the Indo-China

GRAFT.

U.S. OFFICIALS IMPRISONED.

CONSPIRACY WITH BOOTLEGGERS,

(Reuter's American Service.)

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NEW YORK, July 2..

THE CHINA MAIL.

BEHIND THE SCENES. LOCAL MOULDERS' STRIKE,

UNDUE INFLUENCE USLD?

Allegations of attempts to exer- cise undue influence behind the scenes hava bean made in connec-1 tion with the local strike of

SUB-LETTING EVIL.

'A WICKED THI" SAYS SOLICITOR

A SUMMARY COUR CASE.

Summary Court this narning pro Mr. C. A. S R, at the tested against the etraordinary

COMING HERE AGAIN.

PORTUGUESE

PLANS.

AVIATORS'

VISIT TO CANTON.

From inquiries 'made, by the At the resumed hearing in Admiralty Jurisdiction to-day of G. B. Means, formerly an agent moulders at shipyard and engineer-

Hongkong, it is gathered that the China Mail at the office of the Consul General for Portugal, the claim of the Lai Hing Stear-of the Department of Justice, and ing establishments. It is not hinted ship Company Lid, for damages his Secretary, Elmer Jamecke, that there has been opón intimida manner in which ceria tenants from Lisbon to the Far East, three Portuguese airmen who flew have been convicted of con- tion but rumours have got around are trying to take advatage of the namely Major Brito Paes, Major Steam spiring with bootleggers 10 with that some of the workmen were not Rents Ordinance by pteering at Sarmento de Beires and Lieut. Navigation Co in respect of a draw whiskey from distilleries. willing to force a "strike and they the expense of the landord." The Manoel Souveia, will be back in. collision between their steamer They were sentenced to 2 years had to be reasoned with" bofore contemplated that the fest would Hongkong again on Monday next.

Legislature, sald Mr. tuss, never "Apoey and the "Tai Sang imprisonment and fines of $5,000, they would down tools,

From inquiries made to-day at small rents, should oftear in they are to be entertained by their be that monthly tents, paying make a trip to Canton where It is expected that the aviators does not appear as if either the such an unconscionate manner European or Chinese employers on as they" were by sub-letting compatriots. According to the the one hand, and the several hun- and demanding a hup premium latest arrangements, the fiers will dred workmen, on the other, have for the privilege of king over return to Hongkong from Carton, mado any advances. Also there is the premises.

Mr. Eldon Potter K.C. (for the plaintiffs) dealt with the allegation of racing brought against them. by defendunts. The allegation was based on the fact that when the "Tai Sang" passed the Apoey" and got half a mile

ahead, the "Apoay" „began to overtake it and got to within 耀你 or three lengthsasters

of the starboard port. There was nothing

wrong In overtaking a ship, said Mr.

Potter, it just "what the *Tai Sang" had done.

and $10,000 respectively.

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HUNGARY.

SCHEME TO ASSIST REHABILITATION.

BOND' ISSUE IN LONDON,

Plans have already been com- picted for the reception by the An official presentation is in the Hongkong Portuguese community. hands of a committee of which Mr. C. A. da Roza, is secretary, and the date of the ceremony will be Thursday, July 10.

WHEN I SAY NO."

MAGISTRATE AND A/

STUBBORN WITNESS.

uo indication at present that the In the cases in whih he was atrike will spread. In this connee-appearing that morning the chief tion it is interesting to recall the tenant, paying a rent if only $35 fact that the local Chinese north, had attemptedto sell his "right" to the premies for $700 (Reuter's Service.). gineers' Institute, which claims to although they did not belong to have been registered in London, him and he had not bent a cent LONDON, July 2.

embraces only four of the ten on them. "And this," said Mr. The London portion of the big branches of the engineering trades. Russ, "was after he is under CAPTAIN FRASER'S EVIDENCE. loan to assist, in the rehabilitaHowever, all the sibsidiary guilds notice to quit. It is a wilked thing The evidence of Captain Frasertion of Hungary, amounting to are affiliated to the Engineers In-that tenants should be in the posi- of the "Apoey" (given in Cham-£7,000,000, bearing 74 per cent. stitute in Canton with headquar-tion of making money oft of their hers prior to his being invalided interest on sterling bonds, at the tors on Hoaam Island. "

landlords property like this and home) was read. This stated that issue price of 88, redeemable When the demands were first yet it is being done both when the ships got close together between 1934-1944, was Issued

presented, it was announced that at home and in this Colony." off Amhurst Point witness went to-day.

some of the associated sub-guilds tu the bridge with the in-. The lists closed this morning. tention of slowing. speed

had promised moral support but This is about 70 per cent of; and allowing the "Tai Sang" the loan, the balance of which is declared that they would not strike to get ahead, When the "Tai divided between

because they were not prepared." various other Sang" began to swing to star-countries.

One or two of the Chinese estab-may be, it has been değded, any previous convictions. board her engines were put astern The New York portion, lishments are reported as having think, that it is not a contratention and this had the effect of making $7,500,000, issued simul express willingness to give the of the Ordinance. ter swing more rapidly.

with taneously

the London increases asked for but deadlock

Mr. Russ: I am aware of that, was reached on the question of a tenant has no case on the grounds but I mention it to show that-the nine-hour day and double pay for of sympathy. Sunday work. The European establishments' counter-offer of bonus scheme has been rejected.

The Apoey was then put portion.

astern and hard a port. She was

on the mud before the Tai Sang"

hit her. The starboard bow of

the "Tai Sang" came into collision

was

RENTS IN CANTON:

with the port bow of the "Appey." TENANTS SEEK PROTECTION.

In eiss-examination, Captain.

Fraser had said that it did not (From Our Special Correspondent.) matter to him whether the "Tai Sang" or the "Apocy" got to Canton first. If there was any alteration in the speed of the ships it was by the "Tai Sang." The Apoey was going full speed all

(ENQUIRY PROCEEDING.)

the time.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.

CHINESE AND FRENCH ·

BANKS IN TROUBLE.

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OBITUARY,

PRINCE MATSUKATA.

NOT A CONTRAVENTION. His Honour (Justice Dyr Ball): However morally indefensible it

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Wong Shun Yu-tong claimed The case was one in which

possession of the first floor of 7 On Lan Street from the chief tenant (Lau Kal-to.)

"Mr. Russ said that the arrears of

any

The Canton authorities may not

rent ($140) originally claimed had sanction the formation by the

been paid into court when the writ rent-payers in Canton of the pro-i

was served. No attempt had been A telègram from Tokyo an-made to pay this rent (which was posed Tenants Protective Associa-nounces that Prince Matsukata for four months) although the tion. The object of the proposed died there last evening.

rent collector had called" several organization, as formally stated to The late Prince, a former Lord times When the arrears were paid the public, is to consider the rights Keeper of the Seal 1917-1922, and into court no plea of tender was of tenants and protect them from one of the Genro, (elder states- made and nothing said of costs. unreasonable encroachments by men), was born at Kagoshima in

Mr. W. 5. Hind (for defendant) the landlords. It now appears that 1840. He was connected with the denied that the allegations re- the landlords are dominating the Treasury soon after the advent of garding subsetting had provisional organization and the the Meiji era. From 1881-1891 he relevance to the case. He put his real purpose of the promoters is to was Minister of Finance. In the client in the witness box and he oppose further appropriation by latter year. he formed a Cabinet denied that he had told the landlord the government of rent proceeds and during the war with China that he was trying to get $700 The affairs of the Chinese Mer-due to the landlords. It may be (1894) was again Minister of Fin-premises. He also denied that he premium for his right to the chants Bank Ltd. came before His recalled, that since the return of ance. His second Ministry 1896- had made, any endeavour to do Honour, Acting Chief Justice Dr. Sun Yat-sen to power in Can-1897 was inemorable for the estabo. H. H. J. Gompertz, sitting in ton, he has collected four months' lishment of a gold mono-metallic

His Honour found judgment for Bankruptcy Legislation this morn-rent which properly belonged to standard. ing, when a petition was presented the landlords. There is now a talk sukata travelled in Europe and a fortnight in which to get out.

In 1902 Prince Mat- the plaintiff and allowed the tenant for the winding up of the Bank in of Dr. Sun trying to do a similar America. He was President of the the name of Tong Set-kwong of thing the fifth time, and some Japan Red Cross Society from 180 Queen's Road Central. The landlords hope that they may be 1908 to 1912. He is succeeded by petition showed that the Bank was able to oppose the measure in the Iwao, his eldest son, who is Presi- indebted to the petitioner for names of tenants, instead of land-dent of the Fifteenth, Bank, and $973.11, balance standing to his lords. As the tenants in Canton Vice-President account, and interest.

are never friendly to the landlords, Bankers' Association. Mr. Campbell. Prosser, in pre-who have been accused of exces-born in 1862. senting the petition and asking for sive charge in their rates, it will.

a winding up order, asked for the not be hard for Dr. Sun to say to continuance of the Official Receiver as Liquidator and of Mr. them, "Pay your rents to me, and John Flemming, chartered ac. take my receipt to your landlords." countant of Messrs Lowe, Bingham

and Matthews, as the special

manager.

CHINA'S ROBBERS...

The bank, he said, had a nominal capital of a million SOLDIERS ROB TOWN OF dollars consisting of 40,000 shares of $25 each, which had been increased later.

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The Bank had carried business here and also at branches

KAUKONG.

ACID ASSAULT.,

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When a Chinese woman was charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with hawking without a licence she was asked if she had

Her first answer was "No," she [had not, and she was sure about

the negative and she was positive

Her second answer was also in

about it..

chance to rekindle her memory Mr. Hamilton gave the woman a and asked her again.

This time the woman replied. When I say "no." it is "no".

Mr. Hamilton stared at the

interpreter with amazement.

been proved to be an old offender, Addressing the woman, who had the Magistrate said: "When I say $5 for contempt of Court, It is $5."

conviction this time. It cost her The woman will not forget her $10 for the hawking offence and $5 for contempt of Court.

PALMISTRY.

WHERE QUICKNESS OF THE HAND FAILED.

In a case in which a hawker was charged at the Central Magistracy this morning with failling to close his stall at the proper hour and also with offering a ten-cent bribe to an Indian constable,

it was stated that on the way to the Police station the hawker offered the policeman more money if he would let him go.

The constable said that the

of the Tokyo MAN ATTACKED IN STREET. hawker asked him to open his

SCARED OFF.

He was

ROBBERS DISAPPEAR ON

SOUND OF WHISTLE. ·

.....

Two

strong arm of the law grasped the culprit tighter.

Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine of $9 and ordered the ten cents, bribe money to go to the Poor Box.

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palm in order that he could put Shortly after eight o'clock on

thirty or forty more cents in it, The palm Was opened and Monday night some Europeans the original, tea cents disclosed. 1000 heard police whistles being blown The hawker then made a grab for in a street behind Leys Buildings, the ten cents, but missed and the Kowloon. Promptly making in quiries they found on the first floor of one of the houses a man with a Two would-be robbers who walk-cut face who said that he had been Jed into a shop at 12, Queen's Road assaulted by half a dozen men in East at six o'clock this morning the street. The men set upon made a hurried exit when the him, he said, in consequence of | (From Our Special Correspondent.) shopkeeper, Ching Sheung, blew some trouble over a woman, and his police whistle. One of the men they throw a corrosive liquid into his face.. The matter has been The well-known West River entered first and asked for some at Canton, Saigor, Shanghai and town Kaukong, one of the few cigarettes. He was admitted by reported to the police. other places. In accordance with inland ports in Kwangtung having the shopkeeper's wife after tap- instructions cabled from New direct steamship service with ping lightly at the door. York, the Bank had closed its Hongkong and other cities in the minutes later his accomplice walk- doors.

South, closed its shops on June 29 ed in and without ceremony pro- The application was granted.

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE. to avoid military interference, duced a butcher's knife, the leader There was an echo of the Banque Only a few months ago the mer-at the same time drawing a re- Industrielle de Chine scandal when chants volunteers corps of that volver. They threatened the an application was made for a town were disarmed by Yunnanese wonjan and demanded the keys to further adjournment for six months mercenaries stationed there who the safe. She replied that she had of the hearing of the winding-up stole a large quantity of public not the keys and the robbers pro- An eighteen years-old boy, Foo petition.

property, and set fire to the ceeded to shut the door' and make Kung-chan, living at 37 Upper Mr. Campbell Prosser, in making villagers homes after robbing preparations for a thorough loot. Larcar Row drowned at the application, said that the credi- them. Apparently they were not ing of the store. The old shop- Kennedy Town yesterday after ters had approved a scheme in satisfied and now are occupying keeper sized up the situation im. noou. December of last year by which private premises and exacting new mediately and blew loud and long bonds were to be issued on the taxes, including an assessment of on his police whistle. security of a portion of the Boxer $6.50 or more on silk cocoons intruders made a quick disappear Indemnity, but the Bank had not exported from this town.

ance without stealing anything nobean able, through some unforeseen difficulties, to issue

those bonds. They were, therefore,

not able to apply to the Court for sanction.

He applied for an adjournment until Jan. 5, 1925 and this was granted.

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MORE STOWAWAYS.

FILIPINOS GO TO JAIL FOR

6 WEEKS..

Three more Filipino stowaways appeared before Mr. E. W. Hamil- ton at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. It was alleged that

What must be regarded as a during their passage from Manila unique lawn bowls match. was in the "President Grant" they

A Reuter despatch states that played off on the Civil Service damaged some of the cargo in the Epinard, the French crack Cricket Club's grean yesterday hatch. racehorse, embarks at Southampton afternoon when Mr. Mill of the Mr. A. Briddon, Harbour Super- on July 4, for America, where the CS.C.C. beat Mr., Lee of Craigen-intondent for the Admiral Libe French champion will compete in gower C.C., in the first round of pressed for a heavy sentence.

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The game only lasted a few tranship the men to Manila. minutes and only a low heads were Copies of the newspapers the The personal roommendations of played-nine it is believed before inspector added, would be sent by poople who bave been, cored by Cham the score was run up. Mr Milldid the company to the authorities in berlin's Cough Remedy, have done mom not have any extraordinary, luck Manila in order to show that pro et than all oles to increase the salo sud use and it was his skill more than any-ceedings had been taken against

of this preparation, until there are nothing else which gave him his the stowaways. pore bottles fit sold each your than

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DROWNING ACCIDENT.

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CHINESE YOUTH GETS OUT OF HIS DEPTH.

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According to a Police report he entered the water at the public beach and though he could not disappeared. swim, went out of his depths and

Playing at home yesterday, in the second division of the Tennis League, the Indian. A. team beat the Netherlands Tennis Club by 66 games to 33. Scores -

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A. H. Nada and J. A. Razack (I. R. C.), beat Groot & Bonnerman 6-5, beat De Leeuw and Van Egmard Frd, beat Nikkels and Heinzen 7-4. (20-13),

Y. A. Wahab and S. A. Hussain (LR.C.), beat Groot and Bonnerman

beat De Leeuw and Van Egmard 8.3, beat Nikkels and Heinzen 9-2. (26-7).

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The Filipinos were sent to jail A Reuter cable from London this for six weeks.

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