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BOYCOTT ANNOUNCEMENT

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Peace Prospects and Revival

In Tride.

No. 19,830

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1926.

CANTON'S WAR.

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IMPORTANT NEW ALLY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)'

Canton, June 16. The Canton Government to-day officially announces an important new ally in the campaign against Wu Pei-fu's croops in Hunan, and a third province is to come under Kuomintang rule.

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RENT CONTROL, DEFINITELY CEASES.

GARDEN ROAD INCIDENT

The Chinese who was knocked Lon to offer Kweichow's submls down by the car was taken to hos sion to the Nationalist Govern-[pital, but he succumbed to his p ment, and is already dispatching juries last night."

troops against Canton's enemies in the North.

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PETITIONS CONSIDERED.

Council.

12, Queen's Road Central

view of the petition of the Tenants' Protective Association and the result of the referendum of, members of the Kowloon Re silents' Association, which latter showed that 81 per cent, of replies were in favour of continuation of the control of rents.

Canton, June 16.

Although a definite announce- Trade unionism has finally be- ment had been gazetted that the come so bold and preflatory here Rents Ordinance, would expire that it has been given a sharp from June 30 of this year, some scoring by the Nationalist Gov-element of doubt still existed in ernment and the Kuomintang.

The Mechanics Union hero re- cently voted, merely because it needed money, to tax all factories using mechanical power at the rate of $1 monthy for every unit of horse power used. Some of the plants were terrorised into paying illegal tax, but others re- fused, and of the latter number nearly forty have repeatedly had their wires cut and have had pickets interfere with attempts to re-connect their plant with the lines.

Private A. D. Colina, of the (From Our Own Correspondent.) | Unanimous Decision By Executive 1/East Surrey Regiment, reported to the police on Wednesday that he sawa Chinese "motor driver Knock down a man it Garden Road outy side the entrance to the barvatns and drive away without stopping He, however, picked up the broken The oficial statement by the

part of a meter which fell of the Government, announcing the ap-

fear, and this has led to the cand pointment of Hongkong delegates, General Pang Han-chang, Goy-the driver being traced. He hid had a beneficial effect in the share ernor of Kweichow province, has been detained. market yesterday afternoon,sent his envoy. An Chien, to Can- when thefe were hardly any buyers. Quotations did not move up to any appreciable extent but the absence of sellers was taken to forecast a rise this morning. As a matter of fact, so one of the leading stockbrokers informed the "China Muil" a. very firm tone set in in the past investment stocks right away, such shares being those of the leading Banke, the insurance companies, Hong kong Electrica, Trams, "Star" Ferries, etc.

When approached this morning, another broker Raid:"You won't be able to walk through Ice House Street for half price much longer; we are getting back to business.

Beginning of the End.

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In native business circles it. is

also felt that the beginning of the end has come. A leading Nam Pak Hong merchant," however, ex- pressed the opinion that there would be little material improve.

Iment just now. but increased con- fidence in the future would make up for a great deal. He also pre- dicted that financiers would not be content to let their money carn"

his

General Ho Lung ia command- ing the vanguard of Kweichow's troops sent to reinforce General Tang Shang-chi, and other Kwei- chow forces have already overrun ten of the districts of western Hunar.

The Kweichow forces have captured Yuanchowfu and, Feng- hwanghsien, and will soon launch attacks on Lichow and Changteh.

This new alliance is likely to prove disastrous to the Hunanese forces, who now find themselves between the closing sides of a gigantic triangle and will have to break through one side or the cther, or retreat precipitately northward..

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The car concerned in the accident belongs to a Chincom

OPIUM TRAFFIC

CHARGE. AGAINST TWO CHINESE.

ALLEGED LOCAL RING.

The bearing of a case under the Opium Ordinance which was en- tioned before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy on Saturday began at noon to-day when Mr. J. D. Lloyd (Superin tendent of Imports and Experts) outlined for the prosecution.

Mr. M. K. Lo appears for the defendants in the case, Lau Yu- Yesterday morning Generalleung and Yu Yau-heung, who are Cheung Fat-fui left Canton for charged under a section of the Shikwan, where he has 4,000 Ordinance (when this law was troops. The General is under amended) with trafficking in orders to bring his men up to the opium. The amendment extends to all persons domiciled in the fighting front immediately.

Colony. irrespective of whether the alleged deals were in out of Hongkong.

The Nationalist Government has voted an appropriation of

2 per cent.. in

at current account, in: $3,000 a month to the Red Cross

the bank.

more

was easy to-day; when money was released for trade, property, shares, etc., the trade. recovery would make itself felt.

It has been felt that irrespec- tive of the "trike" issue, the Rents Ordinance would not be continued after June 30. An official announcement" appears elsewhere in the issue, confirming the expectations). A revival in the property market must set in, but the time of-a-boom is still in- the dim future.

Conference Prospects. Among the Chinese mercantile leaders, it is said that Canton may call off the pickets first, thereby restoring communications this step, to precede the conference proper. Inside information which some claim to have conveys the impression that Canton will do so to facilitate an early settlement..

On the other hand, some say that the Hongkong delegates- the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp and the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax--are like- ly to leave for Canton early next week, either on Monday or Tues- day.

Association, and nurses will be sent North this week. The Cen- tral Kuomintang will also make a monthly Red Cross appropriation, probably of $1,000.

ORIENTAL BANK. "LIQUIDATION" MEETING

TO-DAY.

....

This cutting off of power brought joint protests from the owners of idle factories, from several thousand workmen thrown out of employment, and from the Kwangtung Electric Company The Canten Motor Factories' Association also made a protest.

The Department of Agriculture and Labour. at the instance of various authorities, held an in- vestigation. To-day Mr. Chan

Commissioner "Kung-pok,

of

Labour, gave out a ruling that the tax is illegal, and forbidding the Union frem further cutting of wires or interference.

An official communique, issued this morning, puts the issue be- and all doubt. It runs as follows:-.

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Potitions for and against the renewal of the Rents Ordinance were consider ed by B Excellency the Governor in Executive Council on the 17th of June."

The Members of Legisintive Council were also present daring the discun- Kion. It was unanimously agreed that the Ordinance should not be renewed after the 30th of June, 1926, when it will therefore automatically expire.

No mention is made of a Fair Rents Board:

The Petitions.

The Tenants' petition referred. to submitted that a sudden dis. continuance of all existing control. over rents, would have far reach- ing results in an increase in the cost of living and in a tendency to overcrowd.

Row Over Teahouse "Tips."

Reductions in wages and in- To-day most of the tea houses creased cost of living was also of the city were closed by a strike stressed in the petition and com of employees, who maintain that parisons given between the high their employers are not being fair renta in Hongkong and those of in the division of the money from other places. It was claimed that the sale of "leave-overs." Some the system whereby all the busi- time ago the union workers de-ness Arms in a certain trade con- manded a third of this revenue in gregate in one locality has made addition to their pay.

it possible for landlords to exer. cise more than a fair control."--

Because many passage boats are being stopped near the Bocca The landlords, on the other! Tigris forts, and people are being hand, in their petition. eniphasis. forced ashore by bandits, the ed the building development which Canton police force has been has progressed and claimed that drawn upon to round up the out- economic, forces were working for laws. It is said that travelling fair rents. The supply was now labourers are often taken from equal and in the case of some the boats and sold into slavery, districts, in excess of the demand. and that young boys are frequent and a state of shortage which had ly taken and sold to childless led to the inception of the Ordin Explaining some of the docu- people in the interior.

ance could no longer be said to. ments seized, Mr. Lloyd said that The Commissioner of Agricul-apply. The dangers of restrict- capital investment were one invoice related to seven tins ture and Labour has ruled that ing of Yunnan goods, while another hereafter pickets may no longer stressed.

passenger launches

Whether or not the removal of related to superior white rice. board There were also letters relating to search except with written auth-restriction will lead to an increase the suppression of the Swatowority from the Strike Committee. of rents remains to be seen.

Several impostors have recently robbed passengers under pre- tence of examining cargo.

"

In his outlining of the case, Lloyd said No. 61, Woosung Street, Yaumati, was suspected to be a depot for raw opium and a raid was carried out, but nothing was found. A card, however, was found in the possession of a man an the promises which gave the address of the first defendant. Investigations were then made by Senior Revenue Officer Watt and both the first defendant and the second were found at a house An extraordinary general meet-where various accounts, books and ing of shareholders in the Orien- documents relating to business tal Commercial Bank, Ltd., was deals were found. held this afternoon for the pur- pose of considering, and if deemed expedient, passing the following extraordinary resolution: -

"That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this meet- ing that the Bank cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business and that it is advis able to wind up the same and accordingly that the Bank be wound up voluntarily." when this edition went to press.

The meeting had not terminated The Bank, as reported in the "China Mail," has its head office here. Payment was suspended

It will be recalled that' uri- official conversations between the Hon. Mr. Kemp and Dr. C. C. Wu about a week ago. were previously adjourned sine die, an opinion being expressed" that it would be expedient to re- sume same prior to an official con- ference.

The Attorney-General

WHITE STAR LINE.

then made it clear that the Hong-SALE TO BRITISH INTERESTS

would kong Government countenance strike pay.

CANTON ITEMS..

not

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Canton, June 16. News posters of an unknown origin appeared on the walle this morning against peace with Hongkong, and demanding that the Canton Government, instead

of calling off the boycott, spend millions on the development of Whampoa harbour and so give employment to the

Service.

APPROVED.

to

opium traffic and the possibility of obtaining a monopoly there. He (Mr. Lloyd) was unable to say how much of the opium came to Hongkong. The names of people. who were known as dealers in oplum were given all through the books. He said that the opium was bought in Tung Hing in the Kwangtung Province and then dis. MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION IN tributed to various places for sale.

Mr. Lloyd put in a list of the names cf fokis which he had taken from the books containing the alleged transactions over many years, as he said these names would come up during the hearing of the case.

Chief Revenue Officer Watt was then called as the first wit- ness and the case will be continued all this afternoon.

evening, d

PAPAL DELEGATE.

CHICAGO.

AN EXCITED CROWD.

IN PORTUGAL.

MILITARY LEADER BREAKS

WITH PREMIER.

TROOP MOVEMENTS."

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Lisbon, June 17. General Da Costa, the military leader of the recent revolution, and had at present War Minister, ordered revolutionary troops toʻ Chicago, June 17... occupy strategle polats in the city, Thousands of people braved the This step follows a disagreement threatening skies and assembled between General Da Costa and the

Senhor Cabecadas. all along the line as "the Red Premier. Special train, bearing Cardinal Reuter's Service.

New Ministry Bonzano, the Papal delegate to

Lisbon, Later. the Eucharistic Conference, and eight other Cardinale, moved into

General Da Costa has decided to the station. Church bells rang take over the Premiership himself. and whistles tooted.

He has requested the officials of the Cardinal O'Donnell was firat Prime Minister's othce to assist in escorted from the train and forming a Ministry. Reuter's Ser- greeted with uncovered heads, vice. many kneeling for the blessing.

Father Gordon, a full-blooded American Indian wearing feather-

THE WEATHER.

WARMER. **

ed head-dreas, was conspicuous GENERALLY OVERCAST, BUT cardinal Bonzano amongst those surrounding The distinguished visitors were

OVER £7,000,000 INVOLVED.

New York, June 17..

Seizure on a Ship.. Stockholders in the Internation.

Five firemen from the s.s. "Kin- al Mercantile Marine Company shan" were charged earlier in the have approved of the sale of the morning with possession of 419 White Star Line to Furness, taels of prepared (illicit) opium, Withy and Co., and other British valued at $5,028, seized by Det interests for between £7,000,000 Sergeant Tyler in the engine £7,500,000.- Reuter's American room of the vessel on Wednesday New York, Later, even Beaded not guilty, the first Mr. Franklin, President of the being legally represented by Mr. "jobless Company, informed stockholders, AJ. O'Donoghue.

that the International Mercantile Sergeant Tyler said that the escorted to the Cathedral of the this morning's Observatory fore- Canton students who have just Marine will act as general paasen first and afth defendants were returned from a period of study in fer agent and freight agent for the not in the engine room at the Japan are organising, an anti-White Star in the United States and time, but he charged them as the Japan and anti-Chang Tso-lin would withdraw from certain speci firemen were under their control, Pamphlets are being ned services now covered by the one being the leading stoker. Both White Star, whilet the cash nero in their case and the other three inga are being held at which would be available for the Acquis evidence for a conviction, al- Japan's policy in Manchuris, and tion of other property or for are though the three who were frund Chang Teo-lin's rule in that production of the Company's bonded there may have had guilty know vince, are being violently assailed. Indebtedness

ledge They were all discharged.

strikers."

society.

Better weather is indicated in

Holy Name

The cheering crowds become sa cast, which until noon to-morrow excited that they broke the Police reads:-East winds, moderate; cordon, temporarily bringing the generally overcast warmer. procession to a standstill Rainfall for the 24 hours and The Archbishop of Chicago-de-ing at 10 am to-day, 0.34 inch. livered an address. In the Cathe-Total since January 1 32.98

published, and many street meet-lable from the proceeds of the saleHis Worship held there was no dral. → Reuter's American Ser. Inches, against an average of 32:51 |

Yesterday's health returns show that one

case of enteric fever (Chinese) was reported.

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.

The closing rate of the dollar,

on demand, to-day was 2/8 1/16.

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Pressure has increased con According to a report made to moderately over N. Japan. It siderably over central Japan and the police, a Chinese woman was bas decreased slightly from a confederate in an attempted robShanghai to Formosa and Hong-

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