Price considered, ESSEX given the utmost in transportation value. By all mean learn the facta. Ask ESSEX owners. Tako a ride. Note this amooth performance, not surpassed by any car, How simply handles. How luxurious its riding esso. Then think of its price. Two of every thro ESSEX buyers como to it from those who formerly owned cars bought chiefly for their low first cost. ESSEX has all the ndvantages of the famous and exclusive HUDSON patents. It is the finest ESSEX ever built. ESSEX holds its own in any Company -In any Service. Touring...
..G$1,150 Coach'
.......G$1,150
Sedan (4 Door) ..G$1,250 Including completo special equipment.
THE DRAGON. MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
33, Wong Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley.
ChinaTMTM Mail
EST
WHITEAWAYS
WEAR
AERTEX
THE ORIGINAL CELLULAR
UNDERWEAR
WORK IN AERTEX PLAY IN AERTEX SLEEP IN AERTEX
On the hottest day wearers of AERTEX are cool. On the coolest day wearers of AER- TEX are comfortable. In all weathers they have an extra margin of comfort denied to others.
AERTEX provides an qver foil against the effective vagaries of all climates. It is the one form of apparel which fits the weather as admirably
as it fits the wearer.
UNDERWEAR
SHIRTS
PYJAMAS
Lowest Possible Prices.
WHITEAWAY,
LAIDLAW
& CO., LTD.,
HONG KONG.
CAMPBELL MOORE
LADIES' HAIR DRESSERS.
BOBBING SHINGLING
WAVING
By Expert
Barbers.
19, Queen's Road C. Tel. C. 151
HONGKONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY.
Full particulars for the
1928 DIRECTORY
can be sent in Now.
UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS
•
Small 3-Bank Portable Model New 4-Bank Portable Model and Standard Office Machines
Every Size always in stock Suitable for all requirements. SOLE AGENTS.
Queen's Building.
DODWELL & CO. LTD.
Ground Floor. Opposite Ferry Wharf. Tel1080 Central
HONG KONG, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1927.
No. 25,591
HANKOW LOSSES..
Japanese Demands for Damages Accepted.
COMPENSATION PROMISED.
Guarantees To Be Given Regarding the Future.
KIUKIANG GENERAL JOINS COMMUNISTS.
Nanking Government's Foreign Minister Now Visiting Chinking.
79 WOUNDS!
Woman's Face And Head Hacked.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
COMPLEX PROBLEM.
Britain and the Naval
Conference.
OUR VITAL TRADE ROUTES.
HARD LUCK.
N. LAZARUS: Hong Kong's Only European Optician- Established Over Forty Years Manager:—Ralph A. Cooper, M.A.0.A.
Registered Optometrist (Canada).
Non-Stop Flight Again Fails.
OILING SYSTEM LEAK. *
The graphlory of a Chinese
Rugby, June 19.
Rugby, June 19, woman being drought into the
The conference on Naval The second British attempt to Tung. Wah spital with 79
limitations opens at Geneva make a non-stop flight to India un- wounds over
ace and hands
to-morrow and its proceedings are fortunately failed owing to a lenk was told in minal Court awaited here with great interest. in the oiling system of the machine this morn
Ku Tsoi, a
Mr. Walter Bridgeman, First of Flight Lieutenants Carr and youthful
Awas charged Lord of the Admiralty is head of Macworth, wha left Cranwell before the fog Chief Justice
the British delegation.
Aerodrome yesterday and had to According to the Hankow Japanese Consul-General who is now his Hon. J. Rods and jury
He will be assisted by the naval come down at Martlesham aero- visiting Shanghai, the Wuhan Government has accepted the Japan- said to be the concubige of Ku's New Zealand.
with the murdy tile woman, experts of Australia, Canada, and drome in Suffolk.
The landing was difficult in view Admiral of the ese demands in connection with the attack on the Japanese Conces-brother-in-law.'
of the immense weight of fuel and Fleet, Lord Jellicoe, represents stores on the aeroplane, but the en- Mr. F. C. Jankin represented the latter Dominion.. sion at Hankow in April last.
accused,
gine did not falter' and the descent and Mr Somerset Mr. Hugh Gibson and Admiral was perfectly accomplished. Fitzroy appeared for the Crown. Saito, head respectively.
The alleged crime took place on
There is little change in the situation generally and there ap- pears to be a lull which may be followed soon by a storm. General Chu Pei-teh has announced his allegiance to Hankow and the Com. munists are returning to Kiukiang where he is in control.
Other items in the news relate to the occupying of British property at Ichang and a visit by the Nanking Foreign Minister to Chinkiang which is the scene of much activity among the troops of General Chiang Kai-shek's command.
HANKOW LOSSES.
Government Accepts Japanese Demands.
Shanghai, June 20. The Japanese Consul-General at Hankow, interviewed in Shanghai, stated that the Wuhan Govern- ment had accepted the Japanese demands relating to compensation for the damages sustained by Japanese in the attack on the Concession on April 3, also the
STILL THEY COME.
Hong Kong's Population Steadily lncreasing.
to be Hong Kong continues considered a nice place in which to stay, according to the official- return for Chinese passengers.
During the week ended June 12 were 34,944. Chinese there rivals against 26,958 departures. 21.479 came by river steamers and junks and the rest by ucean- going steamers,
дг-
20,952 went away by river steamers and junks, and the re- mainder of the departures by ocean-going vessels..
formation of a joint enquiry com- mission and guarantees for the future regarding the residence, commerce and industry of Japan- ese in the region under the con- trol of the Wuhan Government. Reuter.
YANG SEN'S TROOPS.
B.A.T. Premises at Ichang Taken Over.
Ichang, June 19. Gen. Liu Hsiang has arrived and is reported to be supporting Gen. Yang Sen. Liu's troops have been observed moving down the river.
The military are still in occupa
tion of various godowns, etc., but the only British property they
Dr. C. C. Wu, the Nanking Gov. ernment's Foreign Minister, who le visiting Chinkiang, where there la much activity among General Chiang Kai-shek's trobps.
have taken over is that belonging to the British-American Tobacco Co. British Naval Wireless.
Shanghai Quiet.
Shanghai, June 19.
There is no change to report
in the situation here. British Naval Wireless.
Troops on the Move...
Chenglin, June 19. Most of the troops have left
here for Kienli, only 100 remain- ing. British Naval Wireless.
Hankow, June 19. Local troops are now on the move. Otherwise there is nothing to report.
Communists and Kiukiang.
Kiukiang, June 19... The local Communists are re- turning.
General Chu Pei-teh has an- nounced his allegiance to the Wuhan party.
Troops for the Front.
Chinkiang, June 19. There has been some activity amongst the troops locally owing, it is believed, to the release of certain divisions at the front.
Dr. C. C. Wu has arrived.-Bri- tish Naval Wireless..
Chang Wants $20,000,000.
Shanghai, June 19. Marshal Chang Tso-lin has ordered Leung Shi-yu to obtain a levy of $20,000,000 for the pur- pose of attacking the south. "Hong Kong Evening Post."
MARTIAL LAW.
Rice Shortage and Possible
Rioting.
Shanghai, June 15.
OUR $SO PRIZE.
Another New X-Word Puzzle To-day:
The eighth Cross-Word Puzzle of the "Ching, Mall's” new series is published to-day and will be found on page three of this issue. The result of last week's puzzle will be announce
on Thursday.
April 6 at Kowloon City: * Two choppers, covered with blood and hair, were pain as exhibits.
The first witness was Dr. E. P. Minnet, Government bacteriolog- ist, who said he had examined the choppers and found bloodstrains on them; also on a pair of trou- sers and a coste
The medical officer in charge of the Tung Wal Hospital, said the woman was brought in on the morning-of April 7 by Inspector Dorling. She had wounds as fol- lows:
40 on head and neck.
18 on face
9 on Jeft Handles,
8 on fight hand.
2.0* *ch Syrista
There was also a bruise on the right aboulder. The wounds were all such as could have been made with such choppers as were ex- hibited.
UNITAWIND & UNISAWDER, JT,
the
Mr. Walter Bridgeman,
American and Japanese delega- tions.
An expert will now examine the machine to ascertain the cause of the trouble and report to the Air Ministry. Meanwhile Flight Lieutenant Carr will await the Air Ministry's instructions.-British Wireless Service.
Earlier Messages.
London, June 19. Flight Lieutenant Carr hos hop- ped off at Cranwell for Karachi on a second effort to break the world's long distance non-stop record.
Flight Lieutenant Mackworth is accompanying Carr na Navigator.
The distance to Karachi is 4,100 miles. The machine carries four
GREAT WELCOME.
Atlantic Airmen Visit Austrian Capital.
Vienna, June 20. Chamberlin and Levine, the Atlantic airmen, received a voci- ferous reception on the arrival from Berlin on board the trans- Atlantic aeroplane "Columbia." -Reuter.
near-
tons of petrol, sufficient for ly 5,000 miles.
The non-stop record is at present held by the American Chamberlin, 3,905 miles. Reuter.
While the Washington Confer- ence dealt only with capital ships,
Forced to Descend. the present conference will dis-
London June 18. cuss every class of naval craft. Carr and Mackworth, the R.A.F.: The newspapers here generally Alers, were forced to descend at The woman, went on the medi- reiterate the opinions which were the Martlesham Heath Aerodrome, cal officer, was in a very weak expressed when President owing to the development of a
condition, but conscious, and it Coolidge first proposed this new did not seem likely that she would naval conference. live.
Wong's Discovery.
The Great Sen Lanes.
minor defect.
The oiling system refused to function properly shortly after the machine took the air, and as they
It is understood that no attempt
In reply to his Lordship the These may be summed up in found it impossible to ascertain Martial law is now in force at doctor said the woman died in the statement that with an im-ight, Carr decided that it was in- the nature of the trouble while in Wuchang, according to reports hospital. She wrote out a state-mense and scattered Empire, the d received here yesterday, and all ment before she succumbed.
advisable to leave the English centre of which cannot be sup- const. gates to the city are heavily There were no wounds on the body ported, even with the means of The plane made a most skilful guarded and shut at night. It is or legs. No operation was con-bare subsistence, unless trade landing without jolt or jar in spite generally understood at Hankow ducted as the doctor did not think routes are kept open, is the pro- of the immense weight of the ma- that a number of Chiang Kai- it possible to save the woman's blem confronted by Great Britain chine. shek's soldiers in plain clothes are life.
and this problem is infinitely being executed daily and the situation in general remains a pre-
Wong Pun, who said he was the more complex than that of any will be made to continue the flight
to-day. Reuter. other member of the conference. carious one. The results of the proprietor of a dairy, gave evid-
It is on auxiliary naval craft, Chengchow conference are believ-ence to the effect that he had a the limitation of which is propos ed to have been unfavourable to wife and did have a concubine, ed, that Britain relies for protec- It is announced that the United the Wuhan authorities and the who was the woman who died in tion of her seaborne foodstuffs States army will attempt the first continued rice shortage, combined hospital. About three years ago and raw materials, whereas for flight not later than July 16 in a San Francisco-Hawaii non-stop with the return of large numbers Wong took her
in America and Japan such a conglant Fokker monoplane using pre- of troops, is thought to have in it a matshed near the dairy, cern hardly arises.
liminary tests that are being made the possibilities of a few clashes which
Interviewed on his arrival at at San Diego.-Reuter's American, in the near future.
cow shed in which the police Geneva, Mr. Walter Bridgeman Service. Reports from Ichang state that found the wounded woman.
to
live
was also close to the
Yang Sen arrived there on June On the afternoon of April 6 (the said that he hoped for good re- sults. He had certain definite!
..
Frisco to Hawail.
San Antonio, June 18.
Lindbergh in Home Town.
St. Louis, June 18. 14 with a large number of troops day of the crime) Wong, who was
Lindbergh gave a spectacular ex- in steamers and junke. From the working in the cow shed, received proposals to lay before the Con- looks of things and current re- a message by his foki from his ference which he hoped might hibition in "the spirit of St. Louis" Icad to agreement. He added on his arrival in his home town ports it is believed that Yang Sen wife and Ku Choi asking him to that Britain and her Dominions from New York. Hundreds of will make Ichang his headquar-go home to his kit fat wife's would present a united front in soldiers, surrounded him ters. Further units of his army house. Later on he went, and
ав hie
are reported below Ichang moving saw there the whole family and the discussions.-British Wireless landed in order to keep off the
up river on the north bank.
As recreation parties are being landed at Chenglin, the situation there is apparently quiet.
the fokis. Prisoner was sitting amongst the fokis. He was em- ployed as a labourer in the veget-
Service.
Carller Messages,
London, June 19.
cheering crowds-Reuter's Ameri- can Service.
with Britain hereon,
able garden. After the evening On the eve of the assembly of The restriction regarding ves meal the prisoner went with the the Naval Limitation Conference sels entering and leaving after other fokis to the house in which at Geneva, the Sunday journals it is an open secret that Japan dark at the port of Chinkiang has they slept.N
dwell upon the high importance accords been removed, yesterday's des Wong then went to bed. It was of the occasion and offer con- Geneva may yield fruitful results
in a very practical form. patches state. No procession took then about nine o'clock. Prisoner siderable comment..
The British delegates may also place on Wednesday as had been had left the house an hour earlier.
The Observer's naval cor. urge restriction and the opinion anticipated, but u large anti- After he (witness) had been Jupanese demonstration was asleep for some while, a foki woke respondent reviews, the develop-is that the American response to staged,
him up and told him to go to the ments of the situation since the these proposals may be awaited Desultory rifle fire was reported cow shed. Here he found the Washington Gathering of 1921-2 without misgiving. Reuter.
Talented Delegations. from Wuhu during Wednesday concubine lying bleeding on a bed. and expresses the opinion that
London, June 19. the British-Empire, the United morning. A division of troops Near her were two choppera. States and Japan may conceivably The British, American and has been disarmed there by the Wong at once went to the police devise a method of pari passu Japanese delegations to the Three 7th and 27th Divisions,, but the station, and reported the matter.
limitation, satisfactory as be-Power Naval Conference casualties are unknown.
(Case proceeding).
tween themselves; but such an Geneva, opening on Monday are. agreement must perforce he con- respectively headed by the First. ditional; and of precarious Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. and Bridgeman; the American Minis- "South winds, moderate; fair to Validity as long as France
to Belgium, Mr. Hugh showery" is the official weather Italy remain outside the scope of ter
Gibson; the Governor of Korea forecast for Hong Kong, the For- it. mosa Channel and the nearby coast It may therefore be taken as and ex-minister for Marine, Vis- for the next 24 hours.
certain that any proposals ex-count Saito.
The situation at Nanking is reported generally quiet, with small troop movements going on from down river and also at Pukow.
FENG YU-HSIANG, :
Hankow and the Christian General
WEATHER: NO CHANGE.
at
י'
Pressure has decreased moderate-tending the Washington ratios: Vice-Admiral Sir F. L. Field ly at Shanghai, and slightly at to non-capital tonnage on the for the Admiralty and Lord Quamit has increased slightly to Three Power basis only will not Jellicoe for New Zealand are the Hankow, June 14.
thoderately elsewhere, and is high- appeal to the British or Domin- British naval experts, while the New posters appeared in Han-eat over central Japan. Depres-fon Governments. United States have sent three
sions are Indicated over Tongking
The writer understands that Admirals and four other naval kow this morning indicating that and to the north of Shantung An Hunan is strongly opposed to area of relatively low pressure ex- the British Empire strongly experte.
Japan has a very strong array communism and. also that tends from Formoen to the Lad- favours a reduction in size of
(Continued on Page 7:) ||rones s
future warships and says that asof professional talent. Reuter
PYJAMAS
FOR
SUMMER WEAR.
We have now a wide range of Cloths in stock in fancy stripes
or plain colours-ready-to-wear or we make to your individual measures at the same price.
You will do well to inspect our samples without obli- gation to purchase.
POWELL LTD.
The Tailors and Outfitters.
-12, Des Voeux Road
F/4.5
To be sure of sharpness and crisp definition
in your pictures, use the
COOKE
AVIAR
LENS
perfected for the exacting needs of
Aerial photography.
Still used by the R.A.F. because they give more brilliance and defil tion
than any other lens of equal aperture.
Ask your dealer.
TAYLOR Honsos (OOKE ENSES
A. SEK & CO. 26A, Des Vœux Road Central
· Tel. No. C. 3459.
PHOTO SUPPLIES
Kodak, Cameras and Films &c.
LATEST STYLE, Developing, Printing and Enlarging. ZIESS FIELD GLASSES. Price Moderate,
A Trial Order is Solicited.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.