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"STRIKING TERROR."

H.K. University Honours Man "On Leave."

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

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MEDHURST COLLEGE IN TROUBLE.

MORE NONSENSE.

(Reuter's Service,)

Shanghai, June 4,

A CHINESE WOMAN'S BAG

OF TRICKS...

EXPOSED IN COURT.

MANY WILD RUMOURS IN CANTON.

PICKETS STONY SILENCE.

WUCHOW DOINGS.

US MISSION HOSPITAL LOOTED.

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Tried much too often and on a (From Our Own Correspondant.)} (From Our Own Correspondcrit.) man more watchful than her for- mer victims, a Chhede woman's

Canton, June 2,

Canton, June 2.. The students at Medhurst Col tricks on rice dealers were expon-

Many wild rumours are in The U.S.S. "Pampanga" has re- lege, which is a London missioned at the Central Magistracy this circulation here concerning and turned from a trip up river to ary institution, refused to attend morning when she charged early cancellation of the boycott Wuchow, acting as convey to 4 This morning at dawn Mr. Fao service on May 30. Later they before Mr. R. E. Lindell with the against Hongkong, but the pickets shipment of all for the Standard Ping-sheung. Commissioner- of placed a heavy roller outside the theft of 84-catties of rice from a land strikers maintain a surly Oil Ca Foreign Affairs for Kwanghing.principal bunces of the front door shop at Second Street in the west-silence. One absurd tale has it Conditions are reported as be. MAY 31st followed yesterday's, example of which they refused to move.

ern district.

that Hongkong is to loan Cantoning quiet at Wuchow, but the Mayor C. C. Wu, and boarded the The students also refused to

The evidence showed that she $40,000,000 as the price of peace. Wuchow Hospital, a missionary

The Japanese arrested on Mon-institution, has been looted, visited the shop and asked that steamer for Hongkong. his pre-move offensive notices from the the bag of rice costing $7 be sent day on Honam on charges, of aid. sumed destination being the inter-college notice board or apologise along with her to a certain ad-ing Chinese to reach Hongkong more than a month ago as a re- The hospital was closed a little national settlement at Shanghai. but instead a deputation made

Mr. Foo is the second prominent various demands.

dress where payment would be have been released upon represen- sult of strikers, picketing, and official of the Kuomintang Govern- As these were not granted, the made. The shopkeeper offered to tations of the Japanese Consul anti-foreign and anti-Christian ment to depart from Canton since students left the college which is make out a bill, but she told him General on Shameen. They were demonstrations. When it was Sunday when General Chang Kai- not expected to re-open this term.

this was not necessary. On the confined for nearly 24 hours in closed the property was sealed 1 with seals of the American Navy, the strikers' prison. shek strack terror into the hearts It is worthy of note that Med-way, however, she appeared to

Shameen awaits with interest, and the American Naval "Com- of the "moderates" by ordering the hurst College was not affected by have changed her mind and told military arrest of General Wulust year's disturbances; but is the coolie that he had better go the arrival here from Peking of mander paid the Wuchow chief Te-chen, former chief of police of the only college where there has back and fetch the bill.. Taking Councillor Mayer of the American of police $300 for a special the city.

been trouble this year.

advantage of the man's absence, Legation, who has been ordered, guard o er hospital buildings and she placed the bag of rice in a south to investigate the long property. cages are being made against she had not counted on a wary lean citizens and American pro- "Pampanga" found the seals on On this trip, however, the ricsha and was getting away, but series of outrages against Amer- him

by General Chang Kai-shek.foki from the shop, who who caused his arrest by soldiers watching her every move.

was perty in this part of China. He the dooTS broken. Blankets, renches Hongkong on June 10, pillows, electric fans, many small The on Sunday.

woman was promptly arrested and will come to Canton the next portable articles, and one heavy when the foki gave the alarm.

day.

and costly set of office furniture had been stolen.

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These charges; it is understood; Lam Chi-fung. an assistant in also involve Dr. C. C Wu late the Department of Foreign Affairs. mayor of Canton, and Mr. Foo has been named acting commis-Ping sheung, late Commissioner of sioner for the time being, and, as Foreign Affairs, both of whom in the case of Dr. C. C. Wu, when have gone to Hongkong. Both, in news of Mr. Foo's departure is public esteem, are held innocent. made public it will be officially said and the victims of plots, by the that he has gone to Shanghat for Communists

who sought their a month's vacation."

xile because of the clever manner fin which the Kuomintang was late. As yet Canton does not knew of fly swung into live against Com the, departure of either official, but munism. in Government circles and on Sha-

Vague Accusations. meen in the consulates, there is The charges against Wu Te-chen, are many include alleged great speculation as to whether or which not Chang Kai-anek will fill their misuse and improper accounting of funds when he was chief of places with Communists.

Unquestionably the arrest of Wu police, an office which he Te-chen, and the imment perillinquished under pressure from which made Dr. Wu and Mr: Foo General Chang Kai-shek only about

Canton In The Dark.

Even if

re-

go to Shanghai is traceable to Com- a month ago and also alleged manist influence.

the confiscation of arms belonging to Communists do not get the jobs. the police. they seem to be General Chang Kai-shek's ear, and to have his con- Adence in sutrient degree to en- able them to influence his mind against the anti-Communist Kuc mintang officials.

If Mr. Sun Fo should also leave, General Chang Kai-shek would pre-

Kal-shek More than that, it is considered

in the

It is also charged that since early in May, Wy, Te-chen has com- municated frequently with the army of General Lin Fu East River district, and

that be communicated with Wu Pef-fu's allies in Human and contributed to the defeat of Nationalist troops

there.

Moreover, the Chang Kai-shek

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thefts were mentioned as having COTTON SMUGGLING.

Three other, victims of similar

identified the woman. She was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.

Pawnbrokens' Methods, The keeper of a pawnshop in the central district was censured" by Mr. Lindsell for having taken gold-watch-and-chain or pawn for $4 when the articles found to be worth $55. "If any

were

"Patrols" tips for to-mor row's races will be found on page 9.

Stan Hill's cartoon, on the opening of the baseball season. will be published to-morrow, when the week's local pictures will also appear.

more cases like this come to court, I shall recommend the immediate cancellation of your licence," said His Worship in making order for the property to be restored to the

owner without payment.

A Chinese youth was charged with the theft of the articles and also a gold medal from a house at Wanchai. The pawn ticket found on hini proved his undoing. Defendant pleaded guilty and was Faent to prison for three months, Dressed in Others' Clothing.

covered their boxes containing clothing and other property stolen from a matshed at Jubilee Road under lucky circumstances.

bably find himself in an unenviable position, for if the lenders of "Sun Yat-senism" are forced out of office, people claim to have reports said the toynity of the people to Chang to implicate Wu Te-chen with hir- will be, qertionableng people to set of the explosion which wrecked the,,, Whampoa We certain that if the Kuomintang is powder works last Sunday. entirely unseated, and if General Techen has been succeeded

commander of the 17th Division Chang Kai-shek arrogates to him- of the Sixth Army by General Au- self the powers of military dictator.Yeung Kai Arma and munitions Two bean sprout dealers re most of the Nationalist generals confiscated when ni now commanding," Kwangtung raided are said to have been worth troops against Wu Pei-fu's alles $40,000, and in addition he has would revolt against the local lost more than $200,000, which he spent from his personal purse arming and equipping the 17th

warlord.

What Chang May Do.

In the latter event, Ceneral Division. Chang Kai-shek would hold only Canton and the immediate suburbs,

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MORE REVELATIONS IN CANADA.

CUSTOMS LOSSES.

(Reuter's American Service.)

Ottawa, June 3. committee of the House of Com- The report of the auditors for the

mona

which is examining the Customs, states that cotton goods valued at over a million doilara. were smuggled into Canada from the United States. in the past three years through Quebec...

THE WEATHER.

UNFAVOURABLE FORECAST FOR TO-MORROW.

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SALT TAX.

FOREIGN LOANS NOT YET MENACED.

QUESTION IN COMMONS.

(Reuter's Service.)

London, June 3. "The danger of the total dis- appearance of the machinery for the collection of the Chinese salt, tax, owing to the action of the militarist leaders" was brought to the attention of the House of Com- mons by Mr.. W. Foot Mitchell (Conservative, Saffron Walden) who suggested withdrawal from the tariff negotiations until China' With the damp state of the recognised her contracts in re- grounds and the indications point-spect of the salt tax. ing to no improvement in the weather, sporting fixtures are Secretary of State for Foreign Mr. G. Locker-Lampson, Under- likely to be interfered with to-Affairs, in reply, expressed the morrow. The forecast until noon opinion that Mr. Foot. Mitchell reads-Bast winds," moderate; was unduly alarmed... occasional rain.

He said that so far nothing had occurred A ruinfall of 0.25 inch was, re- to cause any fear that the foreign gistered for the 24 hours ending loans secured on the salt revenue at 10 a.m. to-day, bringing the were in danger of default or that total since January 1 to 31.10 the administration was about to against an average of 25.35 disappear. Therefore there was inches..

no reason to withdraw from the Tariff Conference on these grounds.

The report issued during the forenoon states that pressure has increased slightly over central Japan and decreased slightly from! the Loochoos to Indo-China. It is nearly atationary elsewhere. There is an area of low pressure over the China Sea.

A report was made at No. 7 Police Station at o'clock in the morning by one of the complain- ants and a detective went out with him to investigate. They met A tram car driver was, taken to for his 40,000 loyal troops are pracorders had been issued for the out as having worked at the mat- the "effects of a blow alleged to two men, one of whom was pointed hospital yesterday suffering from. tically all quartered here.,,.. arrest of Dr. C. C. Wu just before shed for

Additional manifestoes have been his departure and that Mr. Sun found to be wearing part of the soldier of the 1st Fack Battery, one day. They were have been inflicted by an Indian issued by the foreign office, follow-Fo may also go North on the prestolen clothing. They stoutly (during a dispute on the car,

It is now learned that secret

ing those concerning the ending of text that he must overses the build denied this at the Police Station, the Hongkong boycott and the ing of the tomb of his father, at abolition of the oil monopoly.

One of the mandates appropriates $500.000 for bandit extermination, promises the people that the pirates will be cleared off from the rivers within a month, and that the land

Nanking.

but later confessed that they hid

Mr. Sun Fo and Chiang Chiang the two boxes and the remainder kiang yesterday waited upon Gen of the property in a bush op the eral Chang Kai-shek to demand the release of Wu Te-chen, but are un- derstood to have met with a recep-

bandits will be killed or in hiding tion far from cordial. before the end of thirty days.

quently sent the rice to his aged mother in the country.

OPIUM TRAFFIC.

CULTIVATION-IN RUSSIAN.

TERRITORIES.

CHINESE DELEGATE ANXIOUS.

(Reuter's Servios.),

Geneva, June &

at a meeting of the League's *Advisory committee on the traffic in Two weeks' imprisonment with oplum Mr. Chur urged that the docu hard labour was the sentence on ments containing the alleged in- another Chinese on each of two aults to the Chinese Government charges of theft of a desk watch should not be circulated. He rais valued at $50, the property of ed the question of the cultivation Mr. P. Marks, of the Netherlands of the poppy in certain Russian Trading Society, and providing territories bordering on China. false information to the pawn-

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Pleading guilty to the charge of theft, both defendants were sent to prison for six weeks. General Gallent of Russia, whó | |- Stolen Typewriters. A fourth manifesto says:-"A | left Canton for "Moscow six months' A report recently made by Labourers and Capitalists' Arbitra- ago, returned here last Friday, and Messrs. Odell and Behar, of Asia tion Board shall be formed, com is now living in Tungshan. Histic Building, regarding the loss of pceed of an equal number of dele- purpose in returning to Canton is two typewriters, had a sequel in gates from each side, with a said to be to aid the soldiers of the Major Willson's Court when a Government delegate as chairman, Northern Expeditionary forces in Chinese was charged with the

A case is proceeding before Mr. and this board shall be vested with spreading the doctrines of Com-theft of the machines and ser Lindsell in which two brothers, a full power to settle all disputes." munism over the territories they tenced to one month's imprison house boy and cook, employed at A fifth mandate urged the people may conquer. He returne under ment. He had sold the type No. 67, Wong Nei Chong Road, to report cases of corrupt official-direct orders of the Central Ex writers to another man who, on are charged with assaulting the dom; & sixth demands reference to ecutive Committee of Soviet reading the report of the loss in wash amah of the house during COURT ORDERS AUCTION. the Government of all disputes be-Russia.

the newspaper, quickly dumped the absence of their employers. tween organisations; a

Naval officers from provinces one machine over the hill at Improper behaviour was alleged orders the arrest and trial by mar- other than Kwangtung are now Mount Davie,

A strange sight presents the tial law of all reactionaries, and vigorously attacking the record of The same, defendant was given the outlining of the case by Divi- House Hotel in Queen's Road against the first defendant during casual observer at the Astor rumour mongers, and a seventh Poon Man-chi, commissioner of the a similar term of imprisonment on slonal Inspector Ogg.

Central promises reforms in matters of Naval Department, and it is belle another charge of theft of rice. Mr. T. L. Knight, of the Ameri- Coolies and others are marching education and the carrying out ofed that he, cannot long retain hisIt appeared that he had gone to can Express Company, was called off with furniture and odd pieces. pians for road and harbour improve-position. Wa Hin, commander of the extent of having invitation to give evidence in the case. Be On an application by the Chinese the gunboat "Kong Koo, has final cards printed for a feast which said that he lives at an adjoining landlord for rent distress the ly been entirely exonerated of he was giving on account of his flat and on hearing a woman's Court ordered an auction. charges made before Commander entering into business and issued screams for assistance from the furniture, etc realised - nearly Li Chi-lung was ousted by Chang one to the accountant of the shop back portion of the house he went $4,000, part of which will pay for (From Our Own Correspondent.) | Kal-sheks early in the spring.

from which four bags of rice were there to investigate. Witness the back rest and the Crown rates. taken father, para came on the first defendant and Business is suspended and the Defendant claimed to have in- the complainant holding each half is now an idling place of formed the accountant of the shop other's clothing, the woman hav-furniture removers with their that He was obtaining the rice on ing a torn jacket and a bruised eye. knick-knacks. credit. He had no money to The circumstances palated to an start his new business and subse ordinary fight

mest.

LIFE IN DANGER.

seventh

– Canton, June 2,

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