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No. 19,579

FIGHTING SOON? -| COMPOUND INTEREST

ULTIMATUM DEMAND

"EXPEL ALL RUSSIANS FROM CANTON SPLIT BECOMING

CANTON."

AMENDED RESOLUTION.

TO-MORROW'S THEATRE ROYAL

MASS MEETING.

The proposed draft of the tele. ram to the Prime Minister, to be ubmitted at. to-morrow's public meeting, has been amended and as a result of deliberation over ine couch the demands to the Home Government in respect of their policy regarding the Canton authorities in very much stronger

week-end it has been decided to

termis.

INTENSE.

LOCAL INTEREST.

MR. JUSTICE WOOD SETS A PROBLEM.

TAXI-DRIVER'S CASE.

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month..

SCARED.

IDLERS ANTICIPATE POLICE RAID.

VOLUNTARY SURRENDER.

AWARD UPHELD.

HON. "MR. H. W. BIRD'S ARBITRATION.

"UNFORTUNATE LETTER."

BUT "NO BIAS" FINDS CHIEF · JUSTICE.

Those who were in the Colony

dismissal Summary

without

The periodical raids on idlers" during the last seamen's. strike sufficient cause had been admitted may re-call Chan Ping-sung, who by the defendants (the Hongkong dens carried out by the Police on

The most serious and if it had achieved notoriety as one of the and Kowloon Taxi-cab Company) different areas almost every time. men's leaders and who

said Mr Justice Wood in the have brought back to work a large substantiated, fatal, allegation re- alleged to have murdered his wife course of a judgment this morn-number of those who would other-specting the Hon. Mr. H.-W. Bird's for infidelity, at Canton, but was plai iff a taxi-cab driver in

ing." The original claim of thewise be numbered amongst the pardoned by the late Dr. Sun their employ) had also failed,

strikers. Yat-sen.

was

continued His Honour, because of his own admission that he had not fulfilled the conditions of service through which alone he became

That the effect of such action had, the desired result may be. gauged from the fact that the idle hands in an area which was very much in the Police eye, and over

raid was which a

impending, voluntarily came out expressing a desire to work, according to a re- port furnished this morning.

Chan, it is stated by a reliable source, is now at Namtau, a town just beyond Deep Bay and not far The original demands were that from the New Territory frontier. "immediate and decisive action" From this port Hongkong receives be taken with a view to maintain fish and other foods, and a ferry entitled to the $100 paid by him ing treaty rights there but the runs regularly to and fro. Rete the defendants under his con- Amended ones call upon the British cently there has been violent tract. Government to deliver an ulti-intimidation at Namtau and anti-

Leave to amend the writ had matum at once to the Canton British propaganda, and Chan is

said to be the local head of the been granted, and $100 was now

The returning workers includ- military-cum-labour self-establish- claimed as damages for breach of ed a large number of house ser- ed pickets.

contract and wrongful dismissal. [vants and amaha,

authorities.

"(u) To restore Canton as an open treaty port fer trade between Chinese and the foreign treaty powers in full accordance with the provisions of the treaties between China and those

..powers.

(b) To expel all Russians from Canton and the Kwangtung province.

(e) To disarm and disband the so-called Whampoa College Cadets who are in reality Russian trained troops; and send bk to their native: places those who are .not Cantonese.

-(d). To cease boycott of British,

goods.

(e) To cease anti-British pro-

paganda.

Under threat of "complete Naval blockade by Britain of Canton and its neighbouring waters and such other action as may prove neces- sary."

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The resolution also demands that the ultimatum should state that a Chinese administration must be established at Canton which will observe to the full all existing treaties, between China and the foreign powers,

STREE

BARBARA

State Street,, Santa Bárbaro, following the earthquake. The main thoroughfare was choked with debris and fallen walls which claimed large portion of the loss of life.

WHERE IS HSU?

Anti-Red Activity Up-Country.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Canton, August 21.

The defendants had already paid plaintiff a month's salary which they considered enough compen sation for their breach of con- tract. The plaintiff had claimed the further sum as he held that be had been deprived as a result of his dismissal of the opportunity

'PLANE DISASTER.

NEWSLETTER FROM FAR

OFF YUNNAN,

MILITARISTS AND ACITATORS..

Again quoting the draft resolu- tion:"It is the unanimous opinion of this meeting that the above course is the only effective method of restoring communications and trade between Hongkong, Canton and South China and of prevent- That General Hsu Shung-chi, ing the economic destruction of who is considered the only man in of claiming at the end of what (From Our Own Correspondent.) Hongkong and of British interests the Kuomintang capable of offer would have been his three years in the Treaty Ports of Southing armed resistance to the Reds, service the refund of the money

Yunnanfu, August 8, China."

is moving away from Canton for be deposited

Three meu were killed and two fear of being enveloped, le the His Lordship assessed as the injured early, this morning owing belief of those who are well-amount to which he was entitled, to two seroplanes colliding in the

that sum which would with com-air.

The resolutions will be proposed from the chair by the Hon. Mr.

arbitration was that he had heard the parties separately, said Sir

Justice, in giving judgment this Henry Cowper Gollan, Chief

morning in the case in which ap-

plication was made for a motion to set aside Mr. Bird's arbitration on the grounds of misconduct and by reason of interest that he was not competent to act as arbitra- ter.

His Lordship found against this application but said that the contention of the applicants with Tegard to the alleged separate bearing had been strengthened by a letter written to their solicitors by Mr. Bird himself. In view of Mr. Bird's evidence at the Court and the corroboration of Mr. Ogilvie he (His Lordship) was satsified that the parties had in fact not been heard separately. At the same time Hia. Lordship. refmarked that. he thought this letter had a great deal to do with the initiation of the Court pro- ceedings and after he had found against, applicarita he would not allow costs. In reply to the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabuster. (for the Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird) His Lordship said that he had fully considered this question of costs and he could come to no other decision. Mr. Bird's letter had been "most un- fortunate."

The applicant in the case was Dong Toy and the defendants, Lam Tuck & Co., who had built houses in Kennedy Road to the order of the applicant. Owing

to a landslide the houses were seven months late in being com- pleted and applicant insisted that he was not entitled to pay the contractors extra for damage caused by typhoon: He also com- plained of bad workmanship and failure to construct a sullay drain mentioned in the specification.

As arbitrator Mr. Bird wrote: indicating that certain extras should be paid to the contractors and it was the contention in Court of the applicant that that by this letter Mr. Bird had shown that he finally and conclusively against had thus early made up his mind

him. It would thus, claimed the applicant, amount to a miscar riage of justice to allow the award to stand

His Lordship, however, found

P. H. Holyoak and Mr. W. S. posted. Bailey will second. Mr. D. General Hsu is supposed to be pound interest at 8 per cent. There has been unusual military that there was nothing in the let Macgown, of Swatow, will also leading a punitive expedition have amounted to $100 on the activity in this province of late. ter to show that Mr. Bird's mind address the meeting, a deputation against one or two of Chan Kwing- date when service would have Five large biplanes started off from was not open to argument. He is to be present from Canton and ming's satellites on the upper been completed. many others have indicated their reaches of the East River Such The answer to this arithmetic intention to speak.

was the gist of one of my former problem was not included in the In view of the great interest reports. I am now told that Hau judgment. which the meeting and its pro-is really taking his army away posals has aroused residents would from the capital as he believes be well advised to get to the that a Bolshevik v. Moderate crisis ALLEGED ROBBERS. Theatre Royal well before the is imminent. meeting is timed to commence (6,15 p.m.):

ON THE BORDER. ABOUT FORTY CADETS IN

VILLAGE

A

General Li Fook-lam; Governor

of Honam, is gradually bending to THREE MEN REMANDED IN the orders of General Cheung Kai-

CUSTODY anek, commander of the Whampoa Cadets. He has abolished the

A robbery was committed at 2

the aviation ground from hte Bouth, also found against the applicant's flying over the city towards the claim that Mr. Bird had not re- North Gate, two of the machines ferred to, the whole of the terms crushed into each other. They of the agreement between the both-fel, coming to the ground parties. Mr. Bird had told them between the North and West Gates that he had looked at all the plus are up and it is indicative hearing with the exception of one Nearly every morning military blauses mentioned to him at the

of the times fate campaign by the with which he was acquainted. in Tang Chi-voogdinst The parties had chosen their ||Generul Fan Shelt sang formerly | tribunal deliberately, said Hi *the strong man of Cinton,- |Lortship, and the Court was not

To Avenge Father's Death called upon to examine

fuller Whales that ing to a decision pro Rumoura dre current that Fan,eticulous care the methods

but he is still defying the Rede in 16 by a number of mers who gain oplum monopoly in his territory, Lablock in the morning of August hay award to avenge the death adopted by that tribunal im com

that, so it is reported, declared be will About 40 cadets were chserved"

gambling monsp yesterday to be encamped in a pays him village in Chinese territory about 1,000 yards from the border. The

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