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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1926.
No. 19,884
A BREAKDOWN.
COAL CONFERENCE DISPELS HOPES.
Both Sides Stubborn.
IMPORTANT MOVE BY NOTTS MINERS.
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STRIKE WEEK.
CANTON MASS PARADE NEXT WEEK,
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ALLEGED MURDER.
VICTIM "CARRIED IN A BASKET."
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CONDUCT QUESTIONED,·
Questions were asked at the continuation of the Aberdeen
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August 25, to be followed by a pro-reply to my original letter on hur alleged murder trial this morning The wal conference has broken down, both the owners and the Cess of "passing round the hat for bour silling, or rather in the Gov-as to the decensed woman having
funds.
been taken from the house in miners adhering to their previous positions,
ernment vidivas gathered on basket, whilst still alive, and This much 4 covered in a re-enquiry by one of your represen-afterwards sent back again. port from Canton,
The sponsors of the movement are stated to be members of the Kuomintang Party. Principally, the object of the demonstration is flo encourage the strikers,
In Notts the miners have accepted the owners' terms for 7% hours at the old wages, The Derbyshire and other Notte owners have decided to open the pits on the same terms,
JOINT MEETING.
tion in London.
London, Aug. 19. The Conference between the miners and the coal owners-the first for two months-was held at the offices of the Mining Associa
Industrial quarters he forehand were mildly optimistic. They drew encouragement from the fact that the Feleration had ce- cided to approach the owners direct.
coal owners.
A police constable who went to
to
take the wounded
tative The records of tides and certain depths which he was the scene in consequence of a re- informed had been taken since the port made at berdeen police issue of the Fitzmaurice report station said that he searched for were not, as he was given to be means Further Detalls of Pelicies. For six days afterward, & number lieve, part of the scheme of taking woman to the police station and Rugby, Aug. 19. of organisations (including also a general sa rey of the harbour, used the basket which he found in No progress was made at the proportion of the fair sex) will be a recommended by Sir William. the street. Asked why he did not meeting to-day between
the permitted to canvass the city for I have some knowledge of the ring up the police station for an subject and I assert that the only ambulance witness replied that Miners Executive and the Cen-donations." tral Committee of the Mining! Medals will be sold. together records taxen ware those in con- there was no telephone. The rea- Association, which represents the with door strips (of paper), each nection with works put in hand, son for taking her to the police It was the first time certifying that the possessor is records which would have to be stucion was in order that her that the two parties to the coal patriotic and has, nubscribed a ser- taken as they were a vital part of wounds might be dressed. dispute had met for two months, tain amount for keeping up the boy such werk.
In reply to further questions, of Hongkong. "Rates" of Why have a survey at all? Why witness said that it was about 150 and after an hour and a half att they separated without arranging subscriptions have been fixed as not get on with the dredging that yards from the house in question follow For a medal, 35; door requires to be done straight to the police station. Just as the for any further meeting.
Theve are Official statements were after-labels (big house) $1 and (small away?
questions party carrying the woman got to which rise to the mind of those the police station they met In The officials of the Federation ward issued by both sides.
unacquainted with this sort of spector James who instructed The owners' han previously conferred with the
statement recalls
work. But dredging done with-them to take the woman back to the men's request for the meeting Trades Unions Congress Com-
and continues:--
out proper data may-and prob- the house. They did so.. mittee on the subject of further Mr. Evan Williams, President
ably would-be waste of time and Acting Sub-Inspector James, in financial assistance for miners. The conference lasted an
of the Mining Association, invited
money. A record on the lines ad-charge of Aberdeen, "gave evid- vocated by the, Fitzwiliam report ence. When he met the party hour and a half. It is understood the workmen's side to indicate the
would show where that both sides adhered to their points which they desired to put
dredging carrying the woman, he said, old positions, the coal owners in-from Mr. Smith's reply that the!
before the owners. It appeared
would be attended by best results he felt the woman's pulse, looked sisting on the eight-hours day, only definite announcement which
and might obviate the necessity for signs of breath, and finding and the settlement of wages ache was in a position to make was
of dredging certain places if the none ordered her return to cording to the "economic position that the Miners' Federation ad-
report showed it possible to direct house,, of the industry," and districthered to their demand for a na-
certain currents to scour out such! A Material Question. places by means of proper chan-] agreements: the miners insisting tional agreement, for no extension
Questioned by Mr. Hing-shing FAT MAN'S DEATH. on a seven-hour day and a nain hours of work, for a discussion
nelling and maintain them. per-Lo, counsel for defence, as to why manently clear without incurring he ordered the woman to be taken tional agreement, refusing to
How chair coolies who, by de-further expense." on wages only after an inquiry!
buck, witness replied that the budge on the question of wages into re-organisation, and for an manding a higher fare, indirectly This might be possible in the question as to what position she until they had definite guarantees approach to the Government for caused the death of a fat man case of the shout off Kowloon was found in might have proved regarding the reorganisation of
a subsidy. Mr. Williams, in re during the heat wave in Canton, Clock Tower and certain other very material. the industry.Reuter
ply, explained why, in the view is related in a vernacular report. places where silting has been in
Broke Down.
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London, later.
the
house) 40 cents.
Another report states that the parade on August 25 is to celebrate the establishment of a Nationalist government in Hunan province.
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Inspector James also gave evide of the owners, it was economical-The victim live near the North progress for a number of years.ence of giving instructions to The conference between the
ly impracticable to resume work rate and had daily to the There are two shoals, however, have the woman removed to the on the hours or wages conditions West Bund. precluded which might be removed at, once Government Civil Hospital and miners and the coal owners has in operation before the stoppage from riding in fish by his without any great difficulty by of finding in the room the chisel broken down.Reuter.
which with which it is alleged that pri- or to make a national agreement stoutness. Ordinarily he took a means of dredging and Separate Statements.
which could meet the individual chair, and paid $1 for the journeed no harbour survey to in-soner attacked his wife. Wit "London, later.
necessities of the different coal ney. On Sunday the bearers dicate the way. These are the ness referred to the fact that Statements from the Mining fields. He further made it clear wanted $2, pointing to his bulk two, off North Point "Belcher's there was a lot of blood about, on 'AIR PRICES Association and the Miners' that the owners remained as and the oppressive heat. A Ear-Ridge" and "Ramblers Shoal." the walls, in the passage and Federation, respectively. were strongly opposed to a subsidy as gain was not struct when the The cost of removing these would underneath the bed.
“RESH STOCK issued this evening.
they Kad always been. In view of would-be passenger offered $1.60 be comparatively small and the Mr. Lo was questioning witness ed from Mr. Herbert Smith's reply workmen's
The former says that it appear the unchanged position of the and he decided to walk to his operation could be performed as to whether he could say by
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within a week or so. to an invitation to indicate the those fundamental issues, it was
At present what "mysterious process" bloodAITHFUL SERVICES His death, a little later, is at- they constitute a great danger to could have dripped in places miners wishes that the miners' clear that there was no purpose tributed to an epileptic At. shipping as any one who observés other than the pool to which wit-| position on fundamental issues is to be severed by carrying on the
From Fatshan city, it is gather- the manoeuvres ships have to ness had referred earlier in his Funchanged. Therefore no pur- pose can be served by carrying on appearance of negotiations which ed that the highest temperature adopt in passing between them evidence, when His Lordship in- (in the shade) on Sunday was 96 can well understand. It would be terrupted and said he did not the appearance of negotiation
degrees. Rain fell during the a comparatively simple operation think the Inspector could be ex- which has no real basis.
Men's Version.
night, and on Monday morning to remove According to the official state-the thermometer dropped to 88.
them and make the pected to give theories regarding ment of Miners' Association, Mr.
whole fairway navigable at this mysterious processes." point. Herbert Smith explained to the meeting that after 111 days of stoppage it was necessary to re- view situation to see how far an
Miners' Case.
had no real basis,
(Continued on Page 7.)
on
CASTLE PEAK.
ROAD CLEARED FOR WEEK-END.
The miners' statement says that Mr. Herbert Smith explain- ed that an extension of hours was unnecessary for the successful operation of the industry. A na- tional agreement on the wages question was regarded by the miners as essential. The Federa- tion was prepared, after coh- sideration of the measures for the reorganisation" of the industry, to consider what wages was possible. He intimated that consideration | LATEST TYPHOON NEWS AND the road to Castle Peak is to te If it is only a question of fuelling hearing of a charge of murder
of these things might lead to an application to the Government for "some assistance pending the com- pletion of the schemes of re organisation.
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"Owners' Policy. The Federation's statement adds that Mr. Evan Williams, for the coal owners, made it clear that it was useless to proceed, in- timating their intention to take full advantage of the Eight-| Hours Act recently passed and insisting on district wages agree. ments.
The Federation's statement concludes:-
THE WEATHER.
FORECAST.
Mr. Lo asked witness if he was At present, although the carry- not more expert on tracing these ing of pilots is not compulsory by sort of things than for instance law it is practically imperative in he (Mr. Lo) would be. the interests of ship-owners with Witness: No more, than the Vessels entering the harbour that average police officer.
Such they should engage pilots.
Husband's Conduct. a consideration makes all the dif-
Two Chinese women, who lived CAUTION REQUIRED. ference sometimes as to whether in the same house, spoke of hear- shipping owners direct their ves- ing the deceased woman cry But After having been closed siner sels to enter Hongkong harbour when examined yesterday after- the heavy rain-storm of July 19.or proceed past it on their voyage. noon at the Criminal Sessions re-opened from Saturday but care or replenishing water supplies, brought against the busband. must be exercised as several por- the cost of a pilot may-and often The prisoner disappeared, and a To-day's weather report gives notification to this effect appears in of omitting Hongkong whereas if woman was found in a state
tions are still under ropair-A does determine them in favour few minutes later the deceased the latest typhoon position our advertisement columns to-day. entry of the harbour without a collapse and bleeding profusely of In addition to several wash-out. pilot was a safe procedure they from a wound in her neck. 10:44 a.m-Typhoon of un- the road was inaccessible by rea- would direct the ship to enter here known intersity within. 60 son of embankments being washed and Hongkong would get the heard the deceased woman cry out The first witness said that she miles of Lat, 19 N. Leng. 110 away on either side of certain benefit of certain harbour dues save life." When she got to her, E., moving N.W.
bridges. This has involved cop which it has to do without in the prisoner was going down the 10.55 a.m.-Pressure has de-siderable work. creased slightly over S.W. The round-the-territories
many cases at present. rond
stairs. I followed him," she China and increased slightly will therefore be completely open finitely more in the future-inter-would run away." She asked him It is in the immediate and in-added, "because I was afraid he over Formosa and the Philip from Saturday.
ests of Hongkong that a survey to pines. It is nearly stationary i
return with her to help to elsewhere.
and improvements to the harbour stop the bleeding, but he refused are put in hand at the earliest to return. |possible moment.
thus
The typhoon appears to be "The coal owners clearly con-
crossing Hainan in a N.W. direction. sider themselves the victors.
It may be filling up. i [Note: The position indicated. They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing during the in this warning is almost directly stoppage. We have no alterna- over Hainan Island, off the coast tive except to urge on the mem-of Kwangtung. Instead of going bers of the Federation the North as indicated yesterday, the necessity of stiffening their re- depression has moved towards the sistance, to terms which mean West. The locality is still outside abject poverty to our people and the 300 miles radius.]
WAR SPREADING?
MAN KUANS ASSISTING · CANTON...
RISE IN FUKIEŃ.
Amoy, August 19. Man Kuane have risen in Fukloni
province,, against the local au- thorities and have captured several districts.
semi-irregulara" occasionally break-
Yours, etc.,
ENQUIRER. Hongkong, August 19, .
WUPEI-FU.
RETURN TO HANKOW
EXPECTED.
a scandalous lowering of the A cable warning received by standard of living for at least a the local American Consulate These are so-called "People's generation. We again appeal from Manila at 12.80 Pm Army of the south, who are now to the public for continued sup-stated :— . port of the minera, and their Typhoon in about 110 Longing out as guerilla fighters and
Shanghai, Aug. 18" wives and children, as it is now
E., 19 at N., moving NW more often as bandits.
To-day or to-morrow, Marahal Wu again clear that the coal owners
Cyclone or typhoon E.S.E. of Border Defence Commissioner Pei-fu is expected to leave for have no desire for a. negotiated ---Naha, moving NE or E.N.E, Chang is despatching troops in Paoting where he will stay four, or settlement, but only the resump
Till noon to-morrow the off Teal with the rising Kong five days tion of work on terms dictated cial forecast reads (Formosa Sheung Yat Po.” by themselved.
No More Parleys.
Replying to defending Counsel, witness said that she distinctly heard the deceased woman use the words "save life". It was point- ed out to her that other witnesses. had said the woman shouted aih yak. She replied that she did not hear that expression.
The other witness said that she lived in the same house, and was awakened early on the morning of June 21, by hearing a noise in another room, She called out. "what are you doing, are you fghting?" She had no reply, and on entering the room, she found the woman bleeding from wound in her throat.
The case was adjourned until
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