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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927.

SEAMEN'S UNION.

The Recent Hong Kong Raid.

COMMENT IN SHANGHAI,

BATHING TRAGEDY?

MYSTERY OF A STUDENT'S DISAPPEARANCE.

STONECUTTERS AGAIN.

PAKKAI BLAZE.

THE KONG CHÓW WHARF DESTROYED.

MORE BANDIT RAIDS,

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Pakkai; June 14.

A remarkable incident, not with- out its possible inner significance, occurred here yesterday. For the first time since the lifting of the boycott steamers from Hong Kong wharf, which is next to the Hong commenced to use the Kong Chow

Kong steamor wharf. The same evening the wharf was burnt down. It is said that the carelessness of a man who was drying silk cocoons; was to blame.

Found to be missing when the party reassembled on the launch Anyone who has had any experi- which takes the students for bi- ence whatever of the activities of weekly bathing off Stonecuttera, the Hong Kong branch of the Chi-Yue Kowk-kau, a student of St. Stephen's College, is believed to nese Seamen's Union, and especially have been drowned yesterday after. those who knew the branch first in noon. the shipping strike of 1922 and

In spite of the fact that there were some sixty studen" i in the afterwards in the prolonged strike party, many of whom were on shore! following the Shanghai May 30 and in the shallows at the time, no- affair and the Shameen June 5 one observed the disappearance of the lad in question. He was a non- affair of 1925, will have learnt with swimmer and, together with other, pleasure and approval of the de- had been taken off to the shore by finite closing by the Hong Kong sampan, the last that was seen of Government of the. Hong Kong of others on the shore.

him being playing in the company offices of the union, remarks “Ship- In accordance with the special ping and Engineering" (Shanghai). | regulations of the school in regard While there is no doubt that in to bathing, there was a master and tempted to blow up some junks on some quarters the action of the another strong swimmer on shore the Kungyick-Canton run because Hong Kong Government will be at the time. If any indication had their owners refused to be black-

example, been given "Imperialist oppression, it is proof bie, there that anyone was in trou-mailed have been caught and were able that even among the Chinese slightest dimeulty in effecting a themselves, and among the rank rescue. It is a remarkable thing and file of the seunen no less than that, with the numbers bathing and anyone else, the elimination of the playing in the comparatively alal- Hong Kong branch of the Union low water near the bench, no-one will he inoked upon with favour. appears to have noticed the dis- The Union in question is not ajappearance of the student in ques- trade union in the best sense of tion.

no

As a result of Japan's decision to land troops in Shantung, a number of protest demonstrations have been organised in various towns in the neighbourhood. A boycott of Jap

eneae goods is likely.

A number of bandits who at-|

station by order of Gen, Chu King- shot near the Kongmoon railway

camped to Nam Yeung (island ports tong. Many bandit chiefs have de- in the South China Sea) as the au- thorities are constantly conducting

raids.

The floods began to subside last last three days has given week, but the heavy rains of the siderable rise in water.

a con-

THEFTS ON STEAMERS.

The Chief Engineer of the 8.9. "Changte" reports that some one entered his cabin yesterday after- noon and stole a gold wrist watch worth $40.

NOTICE.

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SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS.

the term: it is a red. bolshevistic, The students have been given tyrannical, unreasonable and unstrict instructions that those who reasoning aggregation of commun- have not passed certain swimining istic extremists who banded, then- tests must not swim out from the selves together in such a manner shore, and those who were on shore that for a long time they were able at the time are confident that

and still are to some extent to such attempt was made by the miss- dietate to Chinese seamen exactly ing boy. No cry appears to have what they should do without any been heard and, even if the heat thought or consideration as to what was responsible for a collapse, it is the semen themselves

to ast preferred

astonishing that no-one should have do. The rank and file of the Union noticed the lnd in distress. were held in a bondage as tyranni- The first discovery that some-one cal as complete, and they had to was missing was made shortly after obes the belients of their dictators 4 p.m. (the launch arrived off Stone- whether they liked to or not, and eutters at 3.30) and an hour's search whether they agreed or disagree of the waters near the shore was with the policy of their dictators.carried out. No signa_of_the_mias- During the 1922 strike the Hong ing student were found, but owing Kong branch of the union became to the discolouration, it was so subvéralve of law and order as posible to see far into the water. to make its activities amount to There was Д current running of Subscribers to the above stark, undisguised sedition; and the parallel to the shore at the time. Hong Kong Government, on that oc- Yue Kwo-kau was seventeen years casion, took the obvious step of of age (Chinese reckoning) and DAY, 23rd June, 1927, at 5 p.m. Hongthen, it has been permitted to related to the well-known Chau family closing down the Union. Since was an only son. The fan.ily is re-

By Order, open (when is not exactly clear); (Mr. T. N. Chau, the barrister and

C. B. BROWN, but instead of prefiting from its the late Mr. Chau Siu-ki), He was

Secretary. former experience- and restricting a promising scholar and popular Hong Kong, 16th June, 1927. its activities within constitutional among his fellow students. bounds, it has; during recent It will be recalled that a lad from months, been more seditious thar St. Paul's College was drowned o Radio Telegraph Services are now in operation between Hong ever, though perhaps more surrep Stonecutters last year, in the course Kong and the following places:-French Indo-China, Province of titiously than formerly. Time and of a school bathing picnic. Yunnan, Canton, Swatow, Kongmoon, Macao, Kwongchowan, Fort again it has attempted to foster Bayard, Wuchow And Hoihow.

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Mr. A. E. Hall appeared before bring about a general shipping Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning strike the two successful occasions in 1922 Kam from Taikoo charged with in the Colony-apart from to defend a Chinese named Tai and 1925, and the wonder is not picking the pocket of another Chi- that the Hong Kong Government nese and stealing $11. Both the has definitely put a stop to its acti vities, but that it has tolerated complainant and a witness failed them for so long. The Union is to appear when the case no more popular in Chinese com- called, so the Magistrate dis- mercial circles than foreign, and it charged the accused.

is fairly certain that the action of}, Hong Kong will meet with more or leas general approval at Canton, where they seem definitely to boj taking measures to eliminate “red" activity. And the Seamen's Union! is vermillion. Its headquarters and most of its funds are now at Han-) kow, but it is doubtful whether the 19

majority of reasonable seamen will, Pyrrhus.

resent the loss of the money they 20

have been forced to subscribe to the Empress of Russia. Union now, that they have definite- 21

ly, been freed from the bondage of Angers.

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Major Willson had before him this morning a Chinese charged with returning from banishment after having been sent away for 10 years in 1928. According to 3.30 p.m. the police the prisoner served 4 p.m. three months in 1925 for steal- 5 p.m.

ing, and in 1926 received 12 strokes and did six months for a 8.30 a.m. similar offence. After serving

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Kalyan Sinklang Antung

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this sentence he was banished. He had been away from the Colony just about one year. Sen- tence of eight months' hard labour was passed.

The Police Recreation Club is holding its first open air whist drive of the season at 8.80 p.m.; to-night.

Mr. H. M. Wong, who described himself as manager of the. 6.5. "Nagazaki Maru” and resided on 10.30 am. board, has reported that a trunk 2.80 p.m. of his cabin was forced open and 5 p.m.

money, jewellery and clothing worth $236 stolen.

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