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TUESDAY JULY 22 1924

SHAMEEN STRIKE.

SETTLEMENT NEARLY

REACHED.

EXPECTED ANY MOMENT.

Will The Police Be Taken Back?

*M.V.

GLENSHIEL."

A GLEN ACQUISITION.

MOTOR VESSEL PIONEERS.

The

THE CHINA MAIL.

HARD AGROUND A MOULDERS STRIKE!

AMERICAN. DESTROYER'S

ADVENTURE.

BRITISH NAVY'S HELP.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

WORKMEN STILL FIRM.

The motor vessel Glenshiel," built by Messrs. Harland & Wolff, Ltd. of Belfast, arrived here on Lalest news from Canton Indling made the journey from London her maiden trip last evening, hav- cates that although no settlement to Hongkong in 96 days. has yet been reached in the vessel is lying at Kowloon wharf ran aground on the North Easting jobs, has been rejected. Shameen strike, indications are and is expected to sail for the As regards North to-morrow morning Cap tain J. McGregor, the senior clerks, there is little cause for master of the Glen Line fleet, is besitation as employers realize in command. that the Guilds are more to blame than the individuals.

that it soon will be. the reinstatement of servants and

U.S. S. "Black

Hawk"

The

SHIPPING PROFITS.

SHANGHAI PAPER'S TECHO COMMENT. -

REJECT EMPLOYERS' OFFER.

The Crown Colony of Hongkong There seems little likelihood of an early settlement being reached appears to be in an extremely in the strike among local moulders flourishing condition, if we take as The compromise proposed by the a criterion the Treasury financial CHEFOO, July 11.

employere, of a bonus of 50 per staternent for the month of March The U.S.S. Destroyer Noa cent of profils accruing from cast which has just made its appearance Promontory, near here.

Delegates of the Moulders' Guild in the "Government Gazette," Bittern," with two destroyers, panies' compromise. They retum-

went to Canton on Saturday.to ip- and which shows the balance and form the workers of the Dock Com- of assets over Habilities to went to her assistance, but were ed on Sunday night only to infome $8,443,853.65. We are not so unable to Tug. "St. Breock from Wei-hai-terms suggested.

move her. H.M.the Secretary for Chiness Affairs much concerned with 'that state- Minesweeper ** Marazion" and that the men did not, agree the |ment, however, as by the revelation wei, then arrived on the scene,

that the sum of $2,220,493.9.is, Yesterday morning representa- still shown under the heading of and with their combined efforts, tives of the Moulders' Guild called Shipping Control Account," says Description Of Vessel. the "Noa" The Glen Line, Ltd.. may be afloat. Fortunately the destroyer Affairs and gave him the strikers the N.C. "Daily News."

was finally pulled upon the Secretary for Chiness regarded as a pioneer amongst was neither badly damaged nor answer, which he in turn will forseers no doubt that these are the the Chinese, so it is stated, are British concerns in the employ-leaking, and was able to return ward to the various. Dock Com-two million or so dollars which were becoming more importunate; if ment of large ocean-going motor- to Chefeo, this attilinde continues, the settleships, and has had a considerable ment may be delayed.

The one difficulty outstanding is the question of overlooking the Behaviour of the police in desert- ing their posts. In the meantime

ARMED ROBBERY.

BELCHER ST. ÁFFAIR,

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struction of the vessel and during During the con- her trials. in Belfast Lough. he represented the owners.

FINANCIAL CHAOS.

GLOOMY CANTON OUTLOOK.

OUTLAWING "SILVER COINS.

(From Our Special Correspondent.

arenghunts

on strike

panies.

[

There

The Colony apparently indefinitely.

It will be remembered that at one

a

responsible for the passing of the now famous Indemnity Ordinance; number of these vessels built at Harland and Wolff's Govan Works,

POLICE ATTACKED ?

for the Higation "brought by a number of shipowners to recover MARINER'S DEATH. but the "Glenshiel' is the first

some of the money from the Hong | motorship built for them at Bel-

CONFLICTING EVIDENCE. kong Government, and for the FALL FROM VERANDAH.

fast. The new vessel, which is

statement made in the British 485ft. by 62ft. by 80ft. 6in.. has

Allegations of an attack upon Supreme Court for China. recently FUNERAL TO-MORROW.

three complete steel decks, toge

them with a shovel and piece of by the unfortunate Mr Moller that wood were made by two Wei-hai his bankruptcy was largely attri❤ ther with poop, bridge, and fore- The dead body of Mr. Eric castle. There are seven water-

wet constables at the Kowloon butable to the action of Hongkong Alexander Thompson, ship's deck tight bulkheads, and the double

Magistracy. this morning when a in keeping all the profits made officer, was found at the Des Voeux bottom, which extends foreand

Chinese man and woman, both while the ships were operated for Road entrance to the Sailors aft, is arranged to carry water disturbed at present day the reckless assaulting them and obstructing that litigation or the justice or The citizens of Canton are much Timber Co., were charged with our intention again to comment on employees of the Chak Tai Shing the Shipping Controller" It is not Home West Point, at 9.30 last hallest and oil fuel as well as fresh financial measures of Dr. Sun Yat-them in the performance of their otherwise of the Hongkong Gov- night by a room boy at the water. piston cooling water and s'erigime promulgated at duty. Owing to the conflicting ernment's attitude in passing the Home. The only injuries found lubricating oil. Accommodation is time when the were to the legs had the Police are provided for passengers in a steel giving their attention to foal for the magistrate to examineexpress wonderment that so farge a of the opinion that deceased ell house on the boat deck forward defence and flood relief and the the place where the disturbance suns can be carried on the books of are evidence, the case was adjourned Indemnity Ordinance, but rather to from one of the verandahs, the The dining saloon, is on the bridge labourers. their assistance to the occurred. lowest of which is 30 feet from deck, and the walls are finished Shareen employees the ground.

with mahogany dado with enrich-Jagainst what

One of the constables said in Mr. Thompson's home is in Aus-ments above. The smokeroom on to be discriminating

they.. believe evidence that he was talking to time there was a serious Govern- tralia and until recently he had the boat deck is finished in polish-tions.

regula-hawker when the male defendant ment project afoot in Hongkong to been on the s.s. "Derwent." Since ed oak and, is provided with card not think that they should be hawker's part. The woman then ing shortage, or to build hospitals. The Cantonese came up and began to take the use the money to remedy the hous It was sold he had not been in em- and writing tables. The comfort inken advantage of in their present appeared suddenly from behind but the scheme seems to have fallen ployment and he had been in the of the passengers has been further plight by Dr. Shu Yatsen, Home for ten days.

him and hit him on the shoulder through. As, since that scheme The funeral will take place to- cabin and ego all 20-rent subsidiary coins of plece of wood also assumed a it only operated the ships under

Dr. Sun Yat-sen is going to out- with a shovel. provided for by the belaflation of

The man with the was mooted,Hongkong has said that morrow, the cortege passing the electric radio achout the 1923. All coins minted previously blew his police, whistle. The other miralty, and that any claim the Kwangtung made previous to threatening attitude so witness orders from, and for the A& Monument al 5.30 p.m.

staterooms and onber. The fema

must be exchanged for new unes police constable trical installation consists of within a month. Failure, to sub-assistance and the male defendant against the Imperial Government, came to his shipowners might have would be Diesel engine driven generatorsmit the old coins for exeinunge struck him with the piece of wood the doubt arises as to whether there each having a capacity of 200 kw within a month will subject them when he tried to place him under is not another rift in the lite and The ship is well illuminated in the to discount turut of 10 per arrest. machinery spuces and passenger cent. for every ten days or to illegal.

whether the Home Government. accommodation, as well as on the tender altogether after a hundred for the defendants and said, that eyes on

Mr. R. E. A. Webster appeared itself is not casting covetous

the decks. For working cargo at night days. Coins submitted for ex-his case was that there was a row tainlyseums

money. It cer there are eighteen 8-light clusters.change will be analyzed as to their outside the timber yard and kong has disclaimed responsibility strange: Hong. Voo 7 o'clock, this merming. in addition to a large number of fineness and discounted accordingly the male defendant went out from Tone welders gained

16 Watt langs for the general then found to be below: the fixed the office and told the constible got the profits and refuses to hand for requisitioning the ships: has room are the second floor at No. 59 lighting of the decks.

slundurd. Belcher St., which is orpied by a

to go to the police station.. The them over to the owners of the The machinery throughout the

Understandings among the police constable then struck him vessels; and does not itself use the well-to-do Chinese, who returned vessel is electrically-driven, includ-people appear that the real purpose three times with truncheon. money on any of the many :ex. from America last year. his wife ing the steering gear, and in addi-el Dr. Sun Yat-sen for going to all Regarding the woman she had been is absent on business in funtion to the large electrically this trouble is to collect all old but knocked over by the constable as a but his wife and children were at driven windlass forward there are his new ones which are lower and

higher standard coins in return for he was rushing about. home when the rubbers gained 16 winches, some of which have a thus to make a profit out of the

The case will be heard to-morrow meless in the mom by climbing up lifting capacity of seven tons over difference. Dr. Sun is nut 1121- sate peaflobling siveted ara single pulley. The auxiliaries in aware of the present flood condi Adeje pipe in the back yard.

the engine-room are also electrition and the prevalence of piracy cally-driven. and include an air which make transportation compressor, driven by a 180 b.h.p. silver impossible, which will delay motor. The refrigerating plant is matters, and give him a greater driven by two 92 h.h.p. motors, in chance to discount the old coins. addition to three smaller motors foreves, some merchants do not for the brine and circulating believe thai Dr. Sun's authority

A complete system of go very" fur and all these me wireless telegraphy has been insures will simply bring chaos to of Kwang stalled, and there is a complete bell the firis märket installation throughout. The pro- tung. pelling machinery of the "Glen- sbiel' consists of two sets of The abil pluckily tried to make Diesel engines of the well-known het, escape and raise the alarm, Burmeister and Wain-Harland and, in retaliation, one of the role and Wolf type. Each engine ders viciously studded the wonati | develops 3.000 i.h.p. when running in the left side. The unfortunate at 115 r.p.m., and has eight woman ayns subsequently removed cylinders 740 mm, bore and 1,150 to hospiful, where she lies in 'n mm, stroke. precious condition.

AMAR 18 RTÅRNED.

al servants, The owner himself

THREE MEN ARMED,

Wine of the men are said to dave been armed with clasp-knives A brand new one was found in the un after the robbers departure

A PLUCKY AMAITU

The tomates were 3 women and A vildren and those with the ex- ception of an anah, were soon justed and kept quiet, while the "prdiakses were buusucked and Jewellery to the value of $120 was Sarted off

mir auxiety

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the immense amount of time proof of their-good faith and Questions are being asked as to Soviets give ample and tested alleged to be saved by sending honesty, it may well make a big mails to the East by Siberia difference to the Eastern mali instead of by the ordinary route time. This is officially between via the Suez Canal, and the thirty and thirty-two days, but in answer that was given in the practice it is apt to be rather House some time ago has not longer, pacified the advocates of the When the P. and O. Oriental Russian route in the least. They service is able to rely on the suggest a saving of a fortnight 18-knot M ships which were for- or so, and they want all our mails merly on the Australian run it sent that way, says the Journal will probably be cut down con- of Commerce." Some people siderably, but for the moment it might be willing to run the risk, is maintained principally by and others may not, for, if the 16-knotters, which are among the P. and O. route is occasionally most comfortable ships in the |(From Our Special Correspondent,) | slower, it is at least sure, and East. The west-about route may anybody entrusting their mails to be left out, as it is not yet suf- them are certain of getting them ficiently used to make any big delivered.

difference to the question anyhow.

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in

PROBLEM OF SUN.

CANTONESE PUZZLED.

RELIEF WORK.

Chaotic Organisation. The train starts from Moscow at three o'clock every Thursday, afternoon or at least it is sup posed to, and the authorities make all the efforts within the limits of

Before leaving the house, the robbers bound and sugged the un- Corunate pecupants of the flat with

Ninety-nine leading firms of the wire which they had brought with

Canton Bugar Guild have issued a thein. They made good their

joint statenint denying that any The Bolshevists are running a escape by the way they had en-

one of them has voluntarily com- weekly train over the Trans- tered. Neighbours eventually

plied with the recent order of, the Siberian Railway, but there is no found the victims, released them Showing at the Star Theatre present Canton régime to pay very valuable guarantee that it ad warned the pilier who had the to-day mat oorrow is a delightfurther war tax of 2 per cent, on will ever arrive at its destination, injured amal: reinaved to the Gor- comedy with, Tivacious Congr. It appears that certain and still less that foreign property ertinent Civil Hospital, where, as stance Talmadge playing the merchants, friendly to the present will do so. They still retain their stated, her condition is cunse for tending rule: The Primitive government or scenting a food pro ideas or the meaning of individual their chaotic organisation to get

Lawer is really delicious burit have been importing sugar lesque, poking fun as it does at the during the suspension by the guild property, and British commercial it off to time. Getting to Moscow soleum norsense of the typical members und paying the war tax, mail would be a very tempting is apt to be a troublesome busi- inaan and his mate" story. "On July 18, the Commissioner bait for them. If it were of no ness; five or six days to Riga, and Besides this, however, it also offers of Finance of Kwangtung isaned direct value to them, it would at then some forty hours to Moscow

first rate plot in which humour order raising all tax rates by least be quite saleable to some of and adventure are Skilfully one fifth to one-half of the present our rivals on the Continent, and It is it a very pleasant ex-mingied. There are one or two existing rates. Through this boost there are plenty of commissaries perience to bave one's clothes serious moments but they are over in rates, some items nee twice or who are not above eking out then sfoten while one is in one's bath almost before they are noticed, and thrice affected since the renewal of salaries in this manner. To write, and a defendant at the Kotelom anyway they serve to give here the internecine war carly in 1928, the letters in code would be no Magistray this morning could be and there a note of contrast to the upon the retin of Dr, Sun to protection, for, according to excused for being indignant about prevailing high spirits of the pic-Canton. it for he told the Magistrate that ture. Constance Talmadge is very At present the Canton people Soviet ethics, that is a very he had to run after the thief ably supported by Harrison Fordure too busy with the flood, serious offence, and renders the clothed in nothing but a jacket.

as the husband who resorts to cave and mercenary troop problems to Writer, addressee, and everybody The complainant and the defenman, tactics, and by Kenneth both much with Dr. Sun Yat-sen, else who might advantageously dant were Chinese deporters from farinn as the novelist whose who himself has long become be victimised by Moscow liable to a Dutch colony and the theft took raunted courage and resource sadly problem to his fellow countrymen, all sorts of pains and penalties place at the deportee shed at You-wilt when they are put to the test according to a

ati, The defendant was also under the very conditions which he charged with assaulting complain has so often described in his best

sellers.

COMPLAINANT WHO WAS HAVING A BATH.

Ant.

Evidence was given by the Chinese constable in churge of the

hrd who said that the complainant i

did not identify the defendant as

OBITUARY.

the man who took his clothes until some Dutch guilders were found on

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Security First..

relief work

in a train which may or may not be in time to catch the trans continental connection. The time taken by the journey to Shanghai by way of Chita, Harbin, and Dalny is a little uncertain, but it is generally in the neighbourhood of fifteen or sixteen days, so that there certainly is an appreciable saving on the all-aca route.

But the question of reliability remains, and is likely to remain, and, quite apart from the matter of ordinary honesty, there is the fact that the Bolshevists hardly on the relief committee. The To say that this has not hap-shine as engineers, and there are Canton is now under-pened yet is useless; most of the many things that are more im- taken, chiefly by the Merchants outrages committed by the probable than a complete break- Volunteer Corps, who are no Bolshevists on the commerce of down. The breakdown of a liner sending their third relief expedition the civilised nations have been running on one of the ordinary to the inundated districts on the innovations, generally apparently trade lanes is not likely to cause upper West River and oiler the happy inspiration of the a very great delay nowadays, even of Kwangtung The Nanyang Brothers

moment. Haste is a very great should it happen, but the stoppage Company

him and then the complainant soid that they were in the pockets of thehe many friends of Mr. H. J. through its many agencies in the thing in modern business, but of a train in the middle of Siberia stalen clothing. When the com: B Norton, late manager of the districts, in-undering, great assist most people regard security as is a very different matter, and plainant and the Honey Belonged-Hongkong Hotel Xill learn once to the volunteers, whose being of much greater import might be very awkward to over. to him the defendant struck him with regret of his death Jender, Mr: Chu-Lin-pak, is ako fance, and the present moment is come. Such people as may wish "

Micomesenteric fever i at a director of the company. The scarcely one in which it is politle may send their mails by this route Mr. Hamilton said that there was Colombo yesterday. Mr. Norton Yunnanese mercentrips along the to preach complete trust in if they care to take the trouble, not sufficient evidence to convict left here for Home by the West River "luro agreed to re- Russia. At the same time it put for ourselves we would far the defendant, of theft, but, huwa Mara on July 2 and was frain frim, exacling tribute) frap must be admitted that the Trans Father trust the companies rufa) pa would have to pay, coldplainant in his nsual good health at the relief junks, carrying food, to the Siberian Railway has made big pins under, the Red Ensign and $5 for the assault.

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