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No. 19,829
HONGKONG,
THE
BOYCOTT.
CANTON CUSTOMS.
CANTON AFFAIRS:
AUTHORITIES v. UNION. MOVEMENT.
EXPLOSION ON CANTON · WARSHIP.
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"CELEBRATING" STRIKE.
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HONGKONG DELEGATES, APPOINTED.
NEARING END.
Date of Departure Not Fixed.
The Hongkong Government has appointed the Honourable Mr. J. H. Kemp, KC, CBE.. (Attorney-General); and the Honourable Mr. B. R. Hallifax. C.M.G., C.B.E., (Secretary for Chinese Affairs), to net as delegates to negotiate with the Canton Government for a
settlement of the boycott.
His Majesty's Consul-General. Canton, (Mr. J. F. Brenan), has been authorised to act as delegate in conjunction with the representa- tives of the Hongkong Government.
4TH
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DIFFICULT POSITION.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Canton, June 15.
DAMAGE CONSIDERABLE.
An explosion on board a Canton (From Our Own Correspondent.) warship is reported, to have oc- curred on Tuesday evening but the affair is wrapped in mystery.
.
Canton, June 15. The Foreign Office is starting a
The possibility of serious com-
A small gunboat was lying off mined; effort has made to plications as a result of the deter-
the East Bund, in Canton harbour, Foreign Propaganda Department. unionise the Chinese Maritime It is thought that a bomb, secret-under the direction of Dr. Wui Yuk Customs native employees here ed or thrown amidships, caused his department will not handh political propaganda, but will the explosion. The damage is specialise on publicity favourable increases every day.
The unions insist that Carton said to have been considerable but to Canton for foreign newspapers..
shall be used as the starting place In China of a movement to union- ise the Customs' employees, both
details are lacking..
Other small non-Government craft were ignited in places, con- tinues the report, but the Fire
these ships.
The date on which the delegates will proceed to Canton will be fixed as soon as a reply has been received from the Canton Govern- clerks and labourers. They Brigade put matters right on United States which will be calcu
ment to the letter notifying the appointment of these delegates...
OBITUARIES.
DOCK COMPANY'S, SALVAGE ENGINEER.
LATE MR, BOLTON.
RN-
The death of.a.well-known figure in local shipping circles is nounced in a cable which reached Hongkong this morning, viz., that of Mr. A. Bolton, for twenty years
the Atlantic, on bla
way
that when Canton is "organised" the moverment will be extended to other ports....................
Colonel Hayley Bell, on the other
ANOTHER SNATCHER. | hand, is said to have set his face
CAUGHT BY DISTRICT WATCHMAN.
PLEADS GUILTY..
against the movement as con- trary to all principles of the Cuatoms organisation. He will discharge every man who joins the union, even if the force is thereby crippled.
The Government, outwardly, is taking ho hand in the matter, but
CANNON AGAIN.
·POLICE SEIZE ONE ON A JUNK.
MASTER'S EXPLANATION.
United States. A special effort will particularly those published in the be made to secure the publication: cf newspaper articles in the
lated to attract American capital to investments in Kwangtung.. province.
Now that the Strike Committee has decided to join with the Hongkong Students Union in cele | bruting the first anniversary of the strike and boycott against Hong- kong, the parade and celebration has been deferred from June 18 to June 18.
1:
On June 19 the new city park on
The
Association of former American
A raid carried out by the police A Chinese pleaded guilty be.
is always sympathetic to their the harbour yesterday resulted the little island of Dutch Folly Central Magistracy this morning tion is that a sympathetic gen-was stated to be similar to the [fore Major C. Wilson at the unions. The danger in the situn-in the seizure of a cannon which will be formally dedicated
to a charge of stealing a handbag. eral strike may be called, ones which formed the subject of University students will be in
Defendant was stated to have then the only possible retaliation a charge in the case against the charge of the affair.
master of a Mongkok foundry students from the United States in now nearly 300 of these returned. which concluded yesterday.
Kuomintang and civic officer.
fureman engineer with the Hong snatched the bag from Wong Sau kong and Whampen Dock Companyon, a school-mistress, of No. 5
Mr. Bolton was at the time on Tung On Street, while she was at Home, the Western Market: yesterday having left Hongkong for Home afternoon. A police whistle blown leave by the 9.8. "Empress of by the complainant drew the at Canada. He was not in the best tention of a district watchman of health when he left here but the and he caught the defendant after
news of his death came as a shock to his many friends.
Mr. Bolton, who was about 56 years of age, was, engineerin charge of all salvage work in con- nection with the Dock Company, ba- dertaking practicnlly all such work when the "Henry Keswick" was call- ed out for salvage. Among the many difficult tasks which ha g30- cessfully accomplished was the salvaging, of the 8.a. "Wisley" which Went ashore at Vungro Bay with a load of motor curs and supplies of munitions for Russia.
This was accomplished under peculiarly trying conditions, the salvage party having to camp out
a chase.
Sentence of six months' hard labour with twelve strokes of the birch was imposed.
NO LICENCE. ***
CRUDE NUMBER PLATE ON
SERAMA CYCLES GL
GIVES RIDER AWAY.
With a piece of cardboard sery -
ing as a number plate," Chinese"
and
would be to close the port until a new and anti-union force can be set up.
"Farticularly Unfortunate." .
This new dispute is considered particularly unfortunate at just the time when negotiations for calling off the Hongkong-Canton boycott are beginning to get under
жну.
There are
War & the Red Cross.
To-day the Labour Delegates Union held their second provincial
meeting.
There were 1,350 dele-
Defendant, a funk master, wag charged at the Kowloon Magis tracy this morning with posses sion. It was stated that he had a permit to keep four pieces of can- gates present, representing 162 non on board the junk, but he had unions, and the sessions will be one in excess. Defendant explain-continued to-morrow. ed that one of them was useless and had not been taken into act count. He was, however, fined $100.
In well-informed quarters it is believed that this particular time was chosen to begin the union campaign against the Customs in the belief that principle in the Customs service might be sacri ST STEPHEN'S BOYS' ficed traxer the boycott, peace. conference, and thus open the way for the unionisation of the service in China's treaty ports."
GIVING NEXT SATURDAY.
BY SIR SHOU-SON CHOW.
On Saturday next at 11.30 am.
The 12th division of the Canton Army left this morning, by train for Shtukwan, for the Northern
front.
The local Red Cross Association la now making preparations for service at the Northern front and
['to attend to the wounded: who may be brought here. The Red Cross is buying medicine and supplies, and is sending delegates to Wuchow and other centres to collect money. for the work......
The Central Executive Committee
driving motor cycle combination NO RECOLLECTION. the prizes for 1925 are to be given has decided to increase the seven
No. 802 was stopped by a traffic officer at Tin Lok Lane yesterday.
on the bench-with-swempo-around-The man was before the Magis-
and tigers etc., roaming in the background. On this occasion many of the Chinese engaged on the work died as the result of fever and Mr. Bolton had an attack from which he was never entirely free.
Prior to his engagement with the Dock Company Mr. Bolton hud Reen service at sea. He was at one Lime engaged on the. Tyne, working together with the late Mr. Neave who was later to become Superin- tendent of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company.
Mr. Bolton, who had been a keen Volunteer at Home, early associated
formed.
rate this morning on charges of having no driving licence and carry- ing. a number plate not necording to regulation. 4
SEAMAN WHO IS ALWAYS DRUNK..
out by Sir Shou-son Chow. On ac- departments of its organisation- to. -count-of-the-illness-of-the-Warden, eight-by-adding a Political-Depart the Rev. W, H. Hewitt and Sir Shou-ment. Great interest attaches to son Chow's absence in Shanghai, it the choice of a man for the head has been necessary to arrange this of this department, both the radi- prize giving at short notice. It is cals and the moderates hoping to
Both charges were admitted and CRAVING LEADS TO THEFT. therefore to take place informallyland one of their own number. were met by a total fine of $15.
THE WEATHER.
MORE RAIN.
Persisting in the habit of get ting drunk, a seaman named James Ronan, who was fined. on Saturday, found himself before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning on a The forecast for the 24 hours more serious charge of stealing ending at noon to-morrow is East Chinese wine from a store at winds, fresh to moderate; general-Wanchai yesterday afternoon.
I overcast, some rain.
"A Chinese woman from the wine shop stated in evidence that she motioned to the defendant to go away when he indicated by signs that he wanted liquor. She conditions of her licence to sell
Hympathy will be; felt, was with her slightly over N. Formosa, and is Laid-this- as it was against-the
in 6. Prospect Place at the end of the morning school. Through lack of time invitations have not been sent out to the function, but it is hoped that the members of the Col- lege Council may be able to be pre- sent.
"PEKING CABINET.
WELLINGTON KOO FUTURE PREMIER.
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himself with the Hongkong Volun
Pressore has increased consider teer Defence Corps and with the ably from N.E. Japan to S. Man Scottish Company when it waschurin, and slightly over central and S.W. Japan. It has decreased
SIGNIFICANT STEP. Mrs. Bolton with whom much
nearly stationary elsewhere.
(Reuter's Servios,) husband when 'death took place on
A trough of low pressure extends the a.s. "Montclare."
He is also from N Indo-China, to the east of walked to the inner part of the to foreigners. Defendant then.
Peking, June 17. survived by a married daughter at N. Luzon, with a depression at its shop and helped himself to a bot-office at Finance Minister this Dr. Wellington Hoo assumed Home and a son who is Engineerwestora extremity on the 8.8. "Mau Sing" now in Hongkong rainfall for the 21 of wine. He got out with an-
port...
WELL KNOWN HONGKONG SOLICITOR
hours ending at 10 am. to-day *0.39 inch. Total since January 1, 32.59 inches, against an average
of 31.99 inches,
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other bottle to the street and kept on drinking from it regardless of police whistle blown by the complainant. A
Defendant: I don't remember anything about it. I was drunk. His Worship: That is no excuse. You went there to "steal the wine without having a penny
LATE MR. DENNYS.
Messrs. Hastings and Hastings; Mr. Bulmer Johnson, nephew of News has bean "received in the Mr. A. E. Johnson, whom Mr. to pay for it.
A fine of $25 was imposed, Colony of the death at Thames Dennys succeeded Crown
the alternative being fourteen Ditton on the 10th inst. of Mr. Solicitor and Mr. H. L. Dennys, Henry Lardner Dennys. formerly In more recent times, the post-days hard labour. On Divisional principal in the well-known firm tion or Crown Solicitar has justi Inspector Blackman stating that of solicitors, Hastings, Dennys fied the appointment of a full time the defendant's ship would be and Bowley, and a former Crown Government employee, the last leaving in ten days, the term of Solicitor.
solicitor in private practice to imprisonment for default was re- The late Mr. Dennys, who is the hold the position being Mr. duced accordingly, His Worship father of Mr. H. L. Denrys, pre- F. B. L. Bowley, who succeeded to remarking that it would keep de- sent junior partner in the firm, the position when the late Mr. fendant out of harm's way for retired in 1912 after a record of H. L. Dennys went Home in 1900 the time being if he could not service here as solicitor dating for a considerable period. The pay. back to January, 1874.
latter returned to the Colony for
TWO THEFTS.
After some twenty years of a few years, retiring, as stated, in practica here, in the course of 1912, which he was made a notary The late Mr. Dennys, who was Public, he succeeded Mr. A. B. twice married, is survived by his Johnson, of Mears. Johnson, widow and her daughter and by The theft of a wrist watch Stokes and Master, as Crown one son and daughter by his first valued at 850 from the bedroom on Solicitor of Hongkong,
wife, Two other som by the first board HMB "Pame early this It was a few years previous to marriage are dead, one being week has been reported to the this that Mr. Dennys had been killed in the war and the other police by Mr. B. Prestles, engine Joined by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley and Mr A Dennys, who was with room artificer on the vesseltran the firm of Dennys and Bowley the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank In another report from Possen formed, a firm which has pro-in Amoy, dying a few monthson Street where it or aressed and at the prosent day ago The daughter was married ther into hous consists of the following pringlin Hongkong to Lt. Col. Parton morni Pals: Mr Davidson, formerly of (then a Lieut. In the Engineers
ENLARGED CLUB.
FORMAL OPENING BY GOVERNOR..
INSTITUTE INITIATÏVE...
The recently enlarged premises of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders (including the adjoining premises of the now defunct Phoenix Chib) will be honoured to-day at 5.80 pim by the presence of His Excellency the Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., on the occasion of the formal opening.
that the Institute has had the This will not be the first time
afternoon...
honour of welcoming its honorary informed quarters as indicating on the occasion of the annual din- This is taken in some well- President, Sir Cecil Clementi, for that he is destined eventually toner in February, His Excellency become Premier, possibly with was the guest of honour and Wang Keh-min as Minister of spoke warmly of the work of en- Finance.
CHINESE PORK.
NOT
A CAUSE OF FOOT AND
MOUTH DISEASE.
EMBARGO ON DUTCH.
(Reuters Service.)
London, June 16,
gineers and shipbuilders, the former having "made the level land on the harbour front and developed the wonderful industry of cutting down hills and throw- ing them into the sea whilst the shipbuilding industry had given to Hongkong its wealth and im portance. He was glad to find: himself in the company of men whose craft had made Hongkong what it was to-day "
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