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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1926.
EUROPEANS ROBBED. PICKET "PIRATES."
RENTS POSITION.
RESIDENT SPEAKS AGAINST CAT BURGLAR AT KENNEDY
DECONTROL.
ROAD."
EVENTS AFTER OUR NAVAL MOVES.
HIGH PERCENTAGE.
BATHING BEACH THEFT,
"THINGS MOVING."
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To the Editor of the "China. Mail") A "eat" burglar entered the re-! "Things are moving as expected." Sir. Since the Renta Ordin sidence of Staff Sergeant Kennel?" remarked one who should know, ance has been rescinded by the of the Royal Artillery, who lives at when approached for information Government of Hongkong, land-military quarters at Kennedy Road.
lords have practically driven the Marks wore Jeft on a water pipe as to the fatest activities of the
In
public out of their homes.. some cases they have raised the rent as much as 200 per cent.
Viewing the present state of affairs the following conditions exist in the Colony:-all business practically at a standstill, clerks in offices receiving reduced wages; and then you have increased cost
ending to the verandah outside the pickets following the bedroom which showed that the against them. thief climbed along it in the early morning yesterday.
Articles missing from the bed room were jewellery to the valuo
brass bowl valued at $2. of $61, a sum of $17 in money, and
a
At North Point, Another theft took place yester of living, and from 100, 150, today afternoon at the North Peint 200 per cent. rise in rents.
bathing beagh.
In my opinion this state of Mr. B. White, of the Royal Naval affairs new existing is driving the Hospital, went there with two com- public into debt. There are fami-panions and left their clothing in lies that could in ordinary times. one of the sheds. When they re when conditions were normal. Just turned one gentleman's silver watch manage to make ends meet. But had gone and between them they the present state of affairs has lost $13 in money. and they are practically starving. driven them out of their homes;
ל,
three families are living in one TRESPASS CHARGE.
to manage to exist. house so us ditions are deplorable. As regards the Chinese the con-
.
Pel-fu's minions. It is easy demand the head of General Yang Sen on the proverbial charger, but not so easy to see that that de-There are instances where two or mind is carried out either by the British Navy or by Wu Pei-fu, whose "orders" would be treated by Yang Sen us even of less valuu! In the interest of the public of than scraps of paper. Were this Colony, this state of affairs
ought to be looked into. Yang Sen himself disposed to consure the public do not mind paying cede any demands made by then reasonable increase of rent, but British-which is not at all likely when there are instances of 100, it is questionable whether his 150 and 200 per cent. additions,
this ought to be stopped.
own life would be worth a moment's purchase, knowing the barbarie nature of the rabble, under him. In any event the British will not allow the outrage.
Yours, etc.,
Iarı
ONE OF THE SUNDERERS. Hong Kong. September 8,
CLAIM FOR GOODS
CANTON.
י.
JAPANESE WOMAN AT
MURRAY BARRACKS.
PROSECUTORS ABSENT.
tary authorities, a Japanese woman was taken into custody pollee on Tuesday evening.
On a complaint made by the mili-
by the
decision
In addition so the landing at the Steamboat. Co.'s two wharves on the West Bund, and the "removal" of" the anti-British examination shed, it appears that a move was made lelsewhere.
Near Macao Fort, on the back rench of the approach to Canton harbour, a picket bout was "eap- tured." The Chinese name of the beat is the "Asia." One of the four of H.M.'s armed launches in Can- ton (formerly used for anti-piracy. renvoya from Hongkong) was sent to this boat.
Arms Left By Pickets. About Afteen bluejackets, armed and with a machine-gun it is stated, weat over to the boat and met with no opposition. The pickets on the "Asia". immediately cvacuated, making a report is headquarters. In a search of their patrol boat it is rumoured that arms were found. presumably left behind by the pickets.
On Tuesday one of H.M.'s gun-
The name of the pickes bout
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From Sha-u-chung, the small port on the boundary of the New Ter- ritories, half of which is on. Chinese
GUARANTEED DELIVERY IN YANGTSE INCIDENT, so comes an unconfirmed report of the seizure of two cargo boats (Continued from Page 1)
by ruffians, "Unreliable native troops are also in that vicinity so that it is not possible to say whe- All attempts at parley having ther the culprits were guerrillas or
UNFULFILLED TRUST.
boats, anchored off the Bund, weng out into the stream, cruised round Fang Chuen (the jumping off point- The woman was found walking for passengers and cargo for about Inside Murray Barracks and Hongkong). A small bont was she was placed on the charge sheet, lowered going inside the creek, For trespass.
The motor-boam of the pickets were **Misbehaviour of Rich"
When the case came for henring nowhere to be found. Accusing the wealthy of mis-before Mr. R. E. Lindsel at the Naval aards are still reported so go unpunished. The Chinese behaviour, Mr. Chan Kwok-sang, Central Magistracy yesterday, "ne to be on duty at the Steamboat Cole war lords have to be taught ala dentist writes also to the "China military representative was present wharf but as yet no step seems co lesson as much, as the pickets in Mail" but refused to disclose the to give evidence for the prosecution have been taken towards ejecting Canton.
name of the landlord "to preserve His Worship considered this in the pickets said to be in the Steam- righteousness."
difference on the part of the mili-Boat Co.'s godown on the Bund, just Coming to our own zone of in-
Mr. Chan mentions a house at tary authorities te amount to across the roadway. terest-Canton--there is nothing the corner of Graham Street, in luck of coursesy to the court. It was the military people, he said,
Still Seizing Boats? ALAN-James Cyril Dalmahoy to add in regard to the situation the central district.
Including the verandah, he who inatibuted the prosecution, and "Ailan, M. D. on September 8th, since the bluejackets, caused the says, the house is 50 feet deep, they had failed to appear or send taken at Swatow is given a the 1926, at No. 386, the Peak, Hong sudden "fade out" of the pickets,12% feet wide, and of three in some explanation in writing. He "Shansh” Kong. The funeral will pass All that is now required is cor-storeys.
directed that the matter should be There are now no tickets on the, the Monument, to-day, at 6 pm.
Adence
Exclusive of $10 "shoe money," brought to the notice of the Captain waterways in either port. Intimi on the part of the mer-the rental per month was $125 Superintendent of Police.
dation ashore's confined mostly to chants of Canton in the gradual An increase of $100, alleges Mr dant woman stated in answer to cases without arms.
Speaking in English, the defen-pickets in plain clothes, and in some Hongkong, Thursday, Sept. 9. 1926. but steady resumption of trade Chan, has been levied.
The Swatow with Hong Kong..
Mr. Chan refers to bad trade the charge that she was invited to strike executive has also asked Can- By their
the Barracks by a soldier who pro-ton to protest... conditions and emphatically in- scamper from the British wharves sists that rents should be restrict- TURNING OF THE TIDE.
mised to give her a book.
At other places like Kongmoon, the pickets have already "osted in the Colony.
In the absence of the com- there is no report as to whether face" and they are not likely to go
plainants in the case, the defendant similar measures have been adopt- Events in Chine are moving;
was discharged."
ed. very far now in imposing on the rapidly, and public interest is not centred merely on one phase of whom trade with Hong Kong is as legitimate traders of Canton to the recent dramatic and startling vital as Hong Kong trade The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. developments. Before the Canton
with Canton. Altogether, the Generalissimo began his long and
prospect 19 fatal
cheerier than trek to the North
it hus prolonged
for many
路 period of Was nothing if not irritating to the advocates of
Bolshe-Hing Loong for the cost of goods Naval forces and it became clear has been an immediate effect on methoda more forceful than the
fentrusted to them for delivery in emission of harmless vapor-
Canton and not so delivered that that the chances of releasing the trade. On Tuesday, as reported in miscalled negotiations for the set-
the defendants had alleged that theessels, without suffering very yesterday's
"China Mail," the tlement of the boycott. It was felt
goods had been seized by pickets heavy losses were nil
"Langabah" brought down a large Canton.
Rescue Imperative.
number of passengers and plenty of that with that question out of the Treachery among Chinese mili. The defendant company werel Nevertheless the Naval men cargo. way the public of this Colony at tary officers has once again been either present nor represented at were determined not to leave the Yesterday the "Fatshan" was not east could regard with equani-the central China war will ad-
in evidence. Those interested in the hearing.
six officers of the captive vessels, 80 crowded. Fish and produce The plaintiffs were represented in the winds of the Chinese." coolits seem to be the first to bene- mity the clash of arins in the mire the determined defence put by Mr. W. B. Hind.
Although 300 Chinese soldiers fit from the British Naval patrols. North. It is one thing to advance up by Wu Pei-fu, at the same time The claim was for $554.11, the had been stationed on the vessels, Knowing where the warships and on an enemy with rapidity and giving credit to the Nationalists cost of three cases of woollen the British sailors boarded them their auxiliaries are at a precise. effect a series of coups. It is an
for their series of masterly ad-sooda, and $136 which was stated and released all the officers. vances. Chinese reports, and to have been paid to the defendants other thing to consolidate these even Canton, said two weeks ago',
The captain, mate and engineer goods in comparative safety instead for freight.
of the "Wanhsien" and the of running the gauntlet as hitherto. successes and pave the way for that General Liu Tec-lung would
It was stated for plaintiffs that captain of the "Wantung were
On the other hand there has been the eventual linking up of thej
divert from Wu Pet-fu's ranks delivery in Canton had been guar rescued by men of the 3.5. Kiawo an improvement in the cargo going whole of China with the. Canton Then again there is the instanceonour, the manager of plaintif
when the opportunity
on which most of the British goods and manufactures are being
to Canton from Hongkong. In reply to questions by His casualties occurred. regime and its Bolshevist advisers of the Fukien vanguard being firm stated that he believed the do- "Wantung,"
The mate and engineer of the shipped away and the presumption and Generals, The Southern bought over. A formidable task;
is that there are now opportunities which was under troops. have succeeded in takingese politics who attempts to re-write was entered with 'costs. it will be to any student of Chin-fundant firm were swindlers.
Judgment for plaintiffs on both French gunboat near by.
heavy fire, attempted to swini to a to take delivery, Wachang and Hankow. But it is cord the number of instances in very problematical if they will which bribery or other induce ever enter Peking in the role of ment has won a war. The late
Dr. Sun Yat-sen tasted the bitter! victors, and still more problema- dregs of the cup of disloyalty by tical, whether their beloved Can- trusted. subordinates, Then ton will ever hear the tramp of came the return of the present their feet any more.
Kuomintang party to Canton;) Still, in Chinese civil warfare we have to tenure of office was ended by the General Chan Kwing-ming's brief
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It wass stated in the course of failed, heavy field-gun and rifle long month. The tide has turned, yesterday in which the White Star forces on the banks and on reigh- hearing of a Summary Court case fire was opened by the Chinese Fand that in favour of the Colony Company claimed from the Kwong bouring vessels upon the British which the pickets and the vists set out to ruin.
S
Chinese Treachery.
came.
anteed.
POLICE HOLD UP.
INDIAN ASSAULTED AND DISARMED.
REVOLVER STOLEN.
The mate escaped successfully but the engineer named Johnson was wounded and is" believed to have been drowned--British Wire- less Service.
U.S. Gunboats Under Fire.
Washington, Sept. 4. The American Consulate-Gen-
pickets.
How Cargo is Moving.
It is incorrect to say that there
moment, the traders bring all their
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Piece:
THE TYPHOON.
LOCAL NO. 1 SIGNAL HOISTED.
At 6 a.m.
this morning the
eral in Hankow informed the typhoon was in about Lat. 20 N.
The loss of a police revolver State, Department that Chinese Long. 119 E., moving apparently be prepared for anything, and same cause, his men going over to was one of the main points in a troops had fired deliberately at W.NW. The local No. I signal was particularly treachery of the kind the mercenaries who had unfurl-esse at the Kowloon Magistracy the American Church hospital in hoisted at 8.45 m. that led to the capture of Han- West River,
ed Dr. Sun's standard along the yesterday when a Chinese was Wuchang and upon, the gunboat Pressure is reported to have in- When Wu Pei-fu charged with highway robbery "El Cano" in the river bélow Han-creased moderately at Cheloo and yung through the defection of one last fought Marshal Chang Teo-and an alternative charge of kow.
alightly from the Bonins to N.E: of Wu Pei-fu's Generals. Even lin of Fangtien, he was "bitten in assault.
Twenty bullets struck the hos-Japan and over Luzon. It has de so, it is difficult to believe that the back." Leaving Peking to In his evidence an Indian pital, says the report, and the "Ecreased moderately from Prutas to Feng Yu-haiang, the Christian sergeant said that he was on duty Cano" was subjected to sporadic Formosa and from Hong Kong to Chinese RS
nation general, Wu Pel-fu had gone out at 4 p.m. on August 10 at Water-rifle fire from the shore. No Foochow would ever permit the Bol- to meet the Manchu warlord in loo Road when defendant and an-deaths in either instance are re- The forecast for Hong Kong and shevist-ridden Cantonese to the field.
Suddenly Feng Yu-lother man entered into a conver-parted.
const till noon to-morrow is N.W rule the roost and subordinate the Wu Fei-fu had to
hsiang declared for the enemy and sation with him. Suddenly he The State Department announc-winds, freshening to a gale; fine whole country to the wishes of himself, on the toleration of a sub-the men and in the struggle marines had arrived in Wuchang Manila, September 8, 9.45 a.m.:
re-establish was seized from behind by one of ed that detachments of American at first, overcast, with rain later. Moscow. It is unthinkable, to ordinate, at Hankow. Batween his revolver was taken away from and Hankow where they are Typhoon in about Lat. 18 N., say the least of it.
two and three years ago, the hold-him and he was felled to the guarding American business Long, 124 E., moving N.N.W. In regard to the unfortunate in-for forces to the North.
er of Shanghal held at bay super-ground. The unknown assailant houses and missionary compounds.
When escaped with the weapon, while The situation is said to be quiet The Colony had a clean bill of cident on the Yangtze, leading to foreigners had just begun to ad- defendant was arrested with the but battles between the northern health for the 24 hours ending yes the loss of valuable British lives,mire his tenacity, his chief of help of a coxswain of the Water and southern armies appear im-terday. including the Commander
police in a town far away from the Police...
minent and the foreign colonies in of war zone let in Sun Chuan-fang It was stated that the ser- the affected areas H.M.S. Despatch, it is too soon to from the south. That incidentally geant had to be detained in hos-awaiting developments.
are nervously An unknown Chinese, about 42 hazard the exact policy to be fol-was one of the first steps towards pital for 8 days, one of his in-
The Department is advised that by the neck in the kitchen of No. years of age, was found hanging lowed by the British Navy in it is only another chapter in the
Marshal Sun's present power. But Juries being a lost tooth.
the American gunboats "Palaos 213, Queen's Road West, at pre- exacting satisfaction for that history of treachery among given by the coxswain and the ed to Halike to protect American apparently committed
Corroborative. evidence was and "Portara", have been dispatch-sent under construction. The man despicable outrage by one of Wu Chita's warlords.
suicide case was adjourned.
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