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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1927.

FOUND ON ROOF!

$4,500 Worth of Optical Goods.

STEALING CHARGE FOLLOWS.

CHINA FACTS.

Mr. Lloyd George Trounced.

BITING LONDON COMMENT.

Mr. Lloyd George's speech at Bradford upon the Chinese situation cannot have beer in

THE CHINA MAIL.

which it is accompanied to-day, and to the conditions of brigand- age and tyranny which, apart frein that movamant, haves, no often in the past afflicted the wretched millions of China. Mr. Lloyd George speaks in moving terms of "a vast community de prived of rights enjoyed by some of the smallest nations in the world." So far as this refers to the position formerly secured for themselves by

SUDDEN DEATH.

MUTINY AND CRIME IN MEXICO.

BANDITS NEAR CAPITAL.

Mexico City, Jan. 4. According to advices. received here, the attack of 200 rebels on foreigners in the military barracks at Leon in

EXPLOSION.

DARING PIRACY.

CUSTOMS GIG RAIDED ON LITTLE TOTS RECORDS

RIVER

NIGHT OPFUM SEIZURE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.J "Samshui, Jan., 3.

Half way across, the gig was

met by a sampan, the occupants of which pointed pistols at the crew's heads and took away the contraband Now a military guard accompanies the night gig from the Customs.

The 2nd. Magistrate's Court at the Central Magistracy, resem-]

It is learned here that a small bled an up-to-date American

gang of pirates have committed a optometrical establishment yes- terday afternoon when a some, tended to add to the difficulties China, and not to the savage des- the State of Guanajuato early daring robbery on a big of the what unusual case was called for which the British Government potism exercised by self-seeking this morning was defeated. Ten Chinese Maritime Customs, fordi- bly removing therefrom a quan- heuring before Mr. W. Schofield. and its diplomatic representative militarists in recent years, it rebels were killed.

The city authorities subsetity of seized opium. Eyesight-testing instruments, in China have to face in dealing leaves out of account the fact

that the special status of foreign-quently arrested and summarily

Opium was found on board. a lens-making machinery, cllumond with a dangerous anti-foreigners has been created by Treaties executed pieven residents, includ steamer by the Customs one glass-cutters and & varied assort agitation, aimed especially at our

night and the drug was, accord- ment of optometrical impedi- own countrymen, says the "Daily negotiated with Chinese Governing six prominent citizens.

A large gang of bandits is ingly, placed on the night officer's citors' table, whilst enses of fenses impossible to doubt that the re- Landon points out the whole pro- operating at present in the boat. The steamer then departed menta were displayed on the soli-Telegraph (London). But it is ments, and that, as Mr. Perceval

and, the gig made for the Custom figured prominently on the reports of that speech will be taken blot of China at the present vicinity of Mexico City.

Fifty armed men held up a House on the river bank. by she zealots of Chinese Nation moment is that "there is no Gov- porters' tables.

The case involved the alleged aliar as a direct encouragement ernment of or in China, and what number of motor carn a few miles theft of the optometrical equip of them in their efforts to drive pretended to be a Government has south of the capital yesterday ment, said to be worth $4,500,out the foreigner by economic just vanished." Mr. Lloyd George and robbed the passengers

"He will be paints a lurid picture of "Your Reuter's American Service. from the Queen's Road premises pressure or worse.

understood as confirming all the hundred millions of civilised of the National Optical Company, wild charges brought against the people" deprived of "the elemen- Ltd. the defendants being a shareholder in the company, who European in that campaign of tary and fundamental rights of

Swedes Fired On. was charged with the theft of the ferocious incitement in which, the every free and self-respecting na-

Swedish engineers employed by goods, and two boarding-house triumphant extremists of the tion" by the action of foreigners instigated by "greed" That is a

the River Conservancy Board of employees who were charged with South have taken the lead.

the whole speech we find not one baseless and ludicrous presenta

Kwangtung were fired on from! "receiving."

the banks when going through word of sympathy for Mr. Lloyd tion of the case; but it is easy to

Shiuhing Gorge in a motor- Interest in the case which at. George's own compatriots in the foresee with what enthusiasm it

launch on New Year's Eve. They tracted a large crowd of specta- misfortumes, the losses, and the will be welcomed by those in

Baltimore, Jan. 4..were going down river from a perils to which they are exposed, China from whom, for reasons tors was intensified when it was

At least three cadets of the staff residence on the right `bank} dant, who, at the formal hearing Chinese have derived from their George has chosen to borrow his French training ship "Richelleu" of the West River, just above the announced that the first defen- not one word to suggest that the difficult to divine, Mr. Lloyd

were killed and several were in-gorge. on Friday last, had been released dealings with British merchants, ideas and his language.

others the missionaries, and

Dangers to Britons. jured through an explosion at the. on $500 bail, had failed to put in smallest benefit or anything, in

About seventy rounds were He had nothing at all to say at Curtis Bay colliery wharf, A fra tred from rifles but, none took an appearance.

In reply to his Worship. Mr. deed, but ruinous disadvantage, Bradford of the dangers to which followed and the vessel is burning. effect.

On New Year's morning about" both moral and material. For British and other foreign com--Reuter's American Service. Dungun McCullum (defending)

Later. a hundred Chinese soldiers, left said that he could offer no ex-eigners in China to-day, he de-munities are exposed to-day in

All the cadets are enfe, but sev-Samshui on an armed reconnais- clares, are "suffering from the re- China, or of the grave' problem "planation for his client's non-

crow. are missing.sanee of the Gorge district. appearance. The man had called sults of their own greed." That presented by the necessity of giveral of the At his (counsel's) office since is an astounding statement. to ing them protection, against the Twenty-three workmen were in- being builed out by his brother cume from one who has borne the "civilised" mob in Hankow and jured. and had given him full instrue responsibilities of the Premier-other cities. He had nothing to tions with regard to the defence.

Bail Estrented. "

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Has Worship ordered the $500

bail to barestreated.

Det. Sgt. Carey, prosecuting for the Police, called a Chinese boy employed by the complainant ...company. Witness said that on!

the evening of December 29 he was ordered by the 1st, defendant? to take a camp bed and a rattan basket to the Bai Mun boarding- house in Connaught Rond Cen- tral. Upon returning to the shop, witness found that a number of the instruments and two mirrorsi were missing.

In reply to the Magistrate, wit- ness said that the shop was usual, ly closed at 7.30 p.m., but the shutters were not put up until 9 o'clock.

Continuing, witness went on to say that upon discovering the ab- sence of the instruments, he went in search of the acting managing director of the firm whom he sub- sequently accompanied to the "Police Station.

In reply to further questions, witness said that he had never seen the two defendants before the case was brought into Court. Found on Roof, Continuing his story, witness Baid that he accompanied Polite officers to the boardinghouse where they found the 1st, defen- dant asleep. In reply to ques- tions the 1st, defendant told the Police officers that the instru-

the roof.

In

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The explosion occurred at one of the hatchets while the vessel was loading pitch for orient, France.

The dockera cucaped before.. the| explosion: The captain, who Was in his cabin was floored by the rush of air. He immediately serambled Fto his feet. dashed on deck and Fordered everybody off-Reuter's

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Rugby, Jan. 4.·

THE NEW FLAG.”

'MEMORIES OF SIK ROBERT HART.

CUSTOMS & NATIONALISTS.

With regard to the hoisting of the Nationalist Government flag over the Chinese Maritime Customs building at Canton on New Year's Day-as reported in Monday's [“China Mail"—and old China Coast:

hand writes tuus:-

Not only in Canton but at other. parth along Kwangtung: waterways. and the coast as the Kuomintang flag gone up, I believe, under in- Inspector- atructions from the General at Feking, until further notice.!

The Nationalist flag is a red en-

The Prince of Wales, speaking at the General Wolfe bicentenary commemoration, dinner last night, regretted the absence of the Mar- quia de Montcalm, but added that his presence was unneccssary remind them of his famous ances- previously flew the five-barred en- tor.

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The

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BRITISH REGISTRY.

A local product in the .s.Tai Hing" was launched at the To-kwa- wan shipyard of Messra. Kwong Tak Cheong yesterday, this new steam! boat being intended for the West River trade.

ments were on board a Shekki skip and cannot be in ignorance say of the rigid boycott threaten-comprehension had begun. steamer. They proceeded to the of the facts. There must be mered in Hankow, with the express constitution of the Empire depend- LOCAL LAUNCHING. steamer but the instruments chants in Bradford who are ask purpose of ruining and expelling ed henceforward solely upon gond were not on board the vessel ing themselves why that which is foreigners carrying on a peaceful sense good will and loyalty to the "TAI HING" FOR HONG KONG They returned to the Sai Mun legitimate commercial enterprise commerce by which the Chinese Imperial Crown.-British Wireless boarding house where they saw in any other connection becpines have hitherto been glad to bene-Service the 2nd. defendant who after "greed" when the exchange of it. It is to be hoped that the new -wards took them to a shop where commodities takes place between British Minister; whose decision the instruments were found on Europeans and Chinese. Mr. to visit Hankow in person has Lloyd George must have heard of aroused so much interest, will be Cross-examined by Mr. Me the incalculable advantages secur- able to find means of improving Callum, witness said that he dided to Chinese Governments in the the situation there without enter- not know whether anyone ever past by the foreign organisation ing upon diplomatic commitments took things out of the shop. Wit- and control of the Maritime Cusof more than dubious expediency; ness did not know whether the toms and other services; but he

Rugby, Jan. 4. The owners are the Kwong Wing 1st, defendant was's shareholder merely says that they are ad- but Mr. Lampoon will hardly be in the firms, but knew a shop in ministered by foreigners," as if cussions of the Bradford speech. potamia by the joint Britlah who already own

assisted in his task by the reper- Further discoveries, in Meso, S.S. Co. of Des Voeux Road West, the B.B. "Tal Hing Loong. Street to which he the bare fact carried its own con- What, for instance, is likely to be Museum and, Pennsylvania Univer. Ming," one of the best known ahipa had been sent by the 1st defen demnation. He must have heard the effect in China of Mr. Lloyd sity Expedition, throw light on, the on the Hong Kong-Wuchow run. dant with letters and money. of the boundless opportunities of George's statement that there are domestic life four thousand years

Misa Wong, the daughter of the those in this country "anxious to go at Ur of the Chaldeas, Abra- mangging partner, performed the ed for the Chinese mercantile

naming ceremony before a large class, and of which the fullest ad- work up another war," and that ham's birthplace.

excavated, attendance of friends and suppor- vantage has been taken, by the great pressure is being brought A large mound was development of commercial facit to bear upon the Government to and twenty feet below the surfaca ters of the line.

do something impulsive and pro- well-preserved batidings were un The "Taf Hing" is 185 feet in Mr. McCallum: I suggest that ties in the Treaty Ports. He pre-vocative All the mechanism earthed. The houses were built length. She will be completely fit you know perfectly well that a annady knows that the various of war is being burried to China, with burnt brick externally, only ted in shout a month. After rub Supreme Court watchman was once tre of European residence. the premises.A man was look- have been the customary refuge he declares; not a word of the the internal walls being of mud ning her speed trials she will be ing after the place for a few days. of Chinese threatened with rob- Cheming of naval forces in the Far similar to that of modern Baghdad Macao, prior to joining the "Tal compelling. reason for the streng-brick. All followed a uniform plan sent on an invitation excursion to I do not know who he was, bery and oppression at the hands East, which he must know to be houses.

"Seized by Bailiffs.

Mr. McCallum: Recently the premises of the National Optical Company were seized by bailiffs?

I do not know.

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prosperity which have been creat

anywhere else. Mr. Lampson, in derad, an important series of that speech at Shanghai of which tablets, some bearing hymus and Mr. Lloyd George may or may not others educational writings, were have read the cabled reports be secured British Wireless Service: fore he addressed his Bradford audience, gave the answer to that utterance in advance.Talk of

ARTIST'S DEATH.

Mr. McCallum: I don't want of their own countrymen. But all totally unconnected with any pur- The families lived upstairs, and you to speak against your wish. Mr. Lloyd George can find to say pose of aggressive action. There the dead were buried beneath their It is common knowledge all the on the subject is a horrified and is not a soul in this country who houses. Although the graves, and documents are in the Supreme quite inaccurate statement that wants "another war, in China or buildings had evidently been plun- Court, you know and watchmen the ports are "occupied and gov- don't keep quiet when they have erned by foreigners. an opportunity for exercising a

A-Lurid Picture, little authority. I suggest that you are perfectly aware of the It is one thing to take note of, state of affairs-I am only a poor and to welcome in a liberal spirit, boy.

the uprising of Chinese national In reply to further questions aspiration in the present century: from the defending solicitor, wit it is quite another to pro- British Imperiallam in China," he ness said that he did not know feas to be shocked at anid, was all moonshine whether other instruments had that extension of foreign in- only thing the British wants been removed during recent fluence which during past decades to be allowed to live and weeks.

has done for China so much that peaceably there." Over this Mr. McCallum informed his she was unable to do for herself. ple and unanswar Worship that it was not denied And it is still another and a yet Lloyd George has chosen to thr that the instruments and other more questionable thing for a veil of passionate, unjust and impedimentsin Court were re British statesman, in commend mischievous Thete moved from the shop under fning the Chinese national move- affect the Chinese structions from the 1st defen- ment as such, to shut his eyes way whatsoever dant.

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EFFECT OF BETTER TAX PLANS.

Rugby, Jan. 4.

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