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No. 25,776 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1928. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month,

NEARING PEKING.

ADVANCE OF FENGTIEN ENEMIES.

FENG AGAIN.

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FILM STORAGE.

Fined For Having No Permit.

Government Troops Withdrawing From Taming

A SURPRISE VISIT.

Statement Made On Behalf Of Hong Kong Amusements.

CRACKERS,

Many Chinese Charged This Morning.

MAGISTRATE'S SYMPATHY.

"ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.”

America Controls World Price.

GREAT GOLD STOCKS.

Mr. Lindsell Rules Against Police. The Real Determinant Of World

In Two Instances.

Movements.

BO great that she

* Your Eyes Are Safe With Us,”

N. LAZARUS

Hong Kong's Only European Optician.

(Established Over Forty Years), Manager:-RALPH A. COOPER, M.A.0.A., Registered Optometrist by Canadian Govt. Exam. (Personal Attention).

REDS FOUND.

FORTY DISCOVERED NEAR CANTON.

PROMPTLY EXECUTED.

Further Action By Government Against Unions.

A hundred of the Police Commissioner's, personal bodyguards

Mr. K. Lum, the manager of two

No fewer than 16 Chinese were

London, Yesterday. "The world to-day is on the Alm companies occupying premises this morning summoned before

Mr. Roger Edward Lindsell for dollar standard," declared Mr. on the fifth floor of the China firing crackers without permits, Reginald McKenna, Chairman, in SWATOW IN NO IMMEDIATE DANGER FROM IRONSIDES. REPORTED MURDER OF JAPANESE BY “BIG SWORD" MEMBERS. Building, was this morning fined or to the danger of the public presiding at the meeting of the

Four men who pleaded "guilty" Midland Bank in London to-day $25 by Mr. Roger Edward Lindsell

to the lesser offence were fined $1 America was able to control the Opponents of the Northern Government are said to have pushed for storing films on the premises each, while one who admitted fir- world price level because her gold effected the arrest of over forty Communists in an environ of Canton on till they are now only three hundred miles from Peking, the without a permit from the Honing crackers to the danger of the stocks were capital. However, the war reports which convey this intelligence Captain Superintendent of Police. public by throwing them into the could afford to lose large quan- city on China New Year Eve. Arms and ammunition were seized The defendant said that the films street from a verandah, was tities without any risk of her gold in the raid and, it is stated, the alleged Reds were promptly executed. may be subject to doubt and should be accepted with reserve in the

fined $2. One man was cautioned reserve falling below the legal were never stored over night in the and discharged.

minimum, and her central bank- Further action has been taken by the Canton Government absence of independent confirmation.

premises, they being taken there

Five defendants who failed to ing system was ao constituted against labour unions. Printers' headquarters has been dissolved The victors are the Kuominchun, the army under the "Christian for examination on arrival, and appear in Court had their bail of that, given her great wealth, she and four of their number punished. Shop workers have been pro- General," an ally of the Nanking Nationalists. Other allies are re-were the same day despatched to $2 each estreated whilst four could absorb large quantities of

other absentees forfeited bails of gold and at the same time deprive hibited from organising a union. ferred to as having won in another direction.

The Police statement was that $5 each.

it of its credit in creating the the films were being repaired when One man from Wanchai was powers of developinent of the the premises were vielted by Mr. charged with throwing crackers contral bank policy. Moss of the Fire Brigade.

into the. street from the pave

How China New Year was spent officially in Peking, the rumoured murder of Japanese nationals by the Big Sword Corps (bandits of Manchuria), and news about Peking's foreign loans, are subjects of news.

NEW YEAR IN CAPITAL.

Canton.

The defendant denied that the films were being repaired. On that occasion the films had come back in a damp state from the Theatre and they were being wiped dry.

any open

Mr. Lindsell, after some, discus. slon with Inspector Ellis as to the Positions mentioned in press ference of Military leaders and wording of the Ordinance, told the despatches as having been cap Cabinet members will begin in the defendant that he was guilty of an tured by the Kuominchun, which Chujentang building of the Win-offence as he had no right under is the army under Marshal Feng ter Palace, where the Tariff and the Ordinance to have Yu-hsiang, best known as the Extrality Conferences were held. alms in his possession at any time without a permit from the Hon. "Christian General," show that-Reuter.

C.S.P. the enemies of the Peking Gov- ernment are only 300 miles away

A Proper Room. from the capital.

KWANGSI PARTY,

Reported Capture of Yochow in Human.

LOAN OUTLOOK.

Salt Collectorate Dismal Failure.

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COMING TO CHINA. ·

Cruiser "Cumberland" Leaves To-morrow.

Rugby: Yesterday. The cruiser "Cumberland," the first of the county class, will leave Sheerness on Thursday to join the cruiser squadron on the China Station, British Wireless Service.

Dropped Into Cars.

Immediate anxiety as to the influence of military developments on Swatow seems to have been dispelled, but news about the Iron- sides is still vague.

QUIET NEW YEAR,

The United States had shown that gold, while it might be re- tained as a medium for making international payments, could be deprived of Its function as the ultimate standard value. The American price level was not. affected by gold movements, butį controlled by the policy of the retained by the city police in Canton ly forbidden as it is alleged that Special precautions were main-spective unions has been express serve banks in expanding or con- tracting credit, consequently it on China New Year Eve (Sun- these unions have previously been was not the value of gold in day), following the capture of associated with extremist move America which determined the more than forty men and a small ment. value of the dollar but the value arsenal in the environs of Canton of the dollar which determined city.

PAN-AMERICANISM.

POINTED REFERENCE TO JAPAN.

New York, Monday.

THE IRONSIDES.

No Sign of Their Attacking Swatow.

No sign of attacking Swatow

the value of gold. Although gold About a hundred of the Police was still the nominal basis of most Commissioner's bodyguards were In regard to the reference made ment. He said that he merely currencies, the real determinant despatched, states a report, to a One cable says that the army

to the Hong Kong Amusements, dropped into the drain.

of the movements of general village near the suburbs, where evidence was found substantiat- of the Peking Government, along

Ltd., at a previous hearing of the The Magistrate remarked that world level prices was the pur-ing the belief that Communists has been made by the Ironsides, the Peking-Hankow Railway, is

case, Mr. H. J. Armstrong was pre- he was not at all in sympathy! chasing power of the dollar.-

had plotted a second rising in the Cantonese army of between withdrawing from Taming, a city

Peking, Jan. 18.

sent in Court this morning to re- with such prosecutions, just be- Reuter's American Service.

Canton just before the (old calen- | 10,000 and 20,000 strong, opposed in the south of Chihli province. There is some prospect of im- present the Company.

cause a man, had thrown some;

dar) New Year. A large quantity to the Kwangsi faction now in It should be noted, however, provement in the Salt Revenue

In making a statement to his crackers into the street.

of arms and ammunition was power at Canton and Swatow. that the news emanates from Collectorate's position, since Nan Worship, Mr. Armstrong said that,

seized..

Uneasiness was felt during Shanghai sources under National-king now favours a resumption of he was relying on reporta in the A police Sergeant said that if

The arrested men were taken | China New Year because the Iron- ist control, and the Nationalists foreign supervision of the Yang-newspapers with regard to the recrackers thug throw bursted in

back to police headquarters in sides vanguard had reached an are allies of the "Christian taze Valley collections. Since marks made concerning his clients front of a motor car driver a very

the city and; continues the report, inland point 60 miles north-west General,"

foreigners have been ousted from who thought that it reflected on serious accident might happen.

shot at East parade ground the of Swatow. Yangtsze stations, the National- their good name and might effect He had seen several crackers drop-

same day,

Reliable sources state that no ists' efforts to operate their own the opinion of the public on whom ped into motor cars.

How New Year Began,

material change is evident in the Collectorate have been a dismal the Company relied for support in failure, the revenues reaching their business.

Mr. Lindsell said that in view At the Pan-American Confer- Emergency conditions prevail-position and it is still felt in of the Chinese New Year, every ence, a pointed reference to Japan ed for some time afterwards but Swatow that the fate of the port Nanking being insufficient to pay

made by Mr. H. L. the rising, if any, did not take is contingent on up-country de- overhead expenses. Revenues The Company therefore wished car driver would naturally take was amounting to millions annually that he (Mr. Armstrong) made an precautions to have their hoods Stimson, Governor-General Elect place as the authorities were well velopments. However, there is no authentic report unfavourable to have been absorbed by local "pa-explanation to the effect that the up. He himself had been through of the Philippines, who said he prepared.

believed in eventual self-govern- China New Year passed off the Kwangsi faction. On the Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd., have triots."

ment for the Philippines, but did quietly in Canton. Depression other hand, it is not established not favour absolute independence. prevailed up to Sunday evening, that the Ironsides are going away, He said the islands were over- but money became suddenly plen-northwards.

at its populated and the people were tiful and shopping was

by the enervated

langorous height on Sunday night, ushering climate, while neighbouring lands in a New Year with some degree, were populated by an energetic of confidence on Monday. and warlike people. If the Philippines secured absolute in- ex-dependence they would almost certainly be annexed by a more powerful neighbour. - Reuter's American Service.

Yochow,

a port in the mid- Yangtaze basin, is stated in Chin- ese cables to have been captured by.ationalist troops from Han-

kow.

At present a campaign is being waged between the Nationalists and the old Hunanese army which opposed Nanking.

One of the corps on the Nanking side is the 7th Kwangsi army which is friendly to Canton.

FAIR WEATHER.

North-east winds, moderate, fair, is the official weather fore cast until noon to-morrow.

An anticyclone is shown over South Manchuria. There may be a depression over South China. Moderate monsoon may be pected over the China Sea.

It is believed by the bankers a proper room in the Theatre where interested in service loans on Salt films were examined, cleaned, pack- They that the Nationalists are ready to ed, re-wound or repaired. return the administration to the only used the room in China Build- cld Collectorate if 70 per cent. is ing for the purpose of showing the made available for their govern- Gims to the censors and members ment, 30 per cent. being used for of the staff. The projector used in the service of foreign loans. Feuds this room was a Pathe projector of within the Kuomintang may dam-the sort that could by used in all The capture, if true, means are the chances of such an ad- houses without a permit, and no justment, but negotiations never-films other than those required for victory for Canton's allies.

However, the "Hong Kongtheless are progressing.

showing purposes were taken into Evening Post" maintains that the

Spring Payments.

the room."

Wanchai four or five times during Failing such an arrangement, Kwangsi army has been defeated i

This room was under the super-Chinese New Year and had had no by the Hunanese but this report

lacks confirmation.

THE BIG SWORDS.

Japanese Officials Said To Be Murdered.

Mukden, Jan. 16..

As the result of the uprisings

of members of the Big Sword ban- dits in various parts of the Tung- pientao district in Manchuria

with Tunghua as the centre, it is

rumoured here that officials of the Japanese Branch Consulate at Tunghua have been murdered by the bandits, and that Koreans of

bad characters are taking part in the uprisings,

Official reports und investiga- tions made so far indicate that these rumours are entirely groundless.

To Induce Help? As regards the source of these rumours, it is observed in some quarters that, in view of the in-

Anglo-French and Hukuang

the spring payments of the Crisp vision of a European, the opera- trouble. It was a different mat- Loans will be impossible, because tor was an experienced one, and ter if crackers were deliberately the reserve, which formerly was there were fire extinguishers, ready dropped into cars.

at hand.

seven millions, was exhausted in

Fire Proof.

The defendant was discharged.

Little Squibs.

was

meeting the autum payments,

A West Point Chinese while £24,000 still is due on last

Mr. Lindsell said that he had no September's amortization instal-doubt that there was a difference gummoned for firing crackers dur- ment of the Anglo-French Loan. between Mr. Armstrong's clients ing prohibited hours yesterday-

after 6 p.m. The present revenue available is and the defendant. limited to a pittance from the

Mr. Lindsell decided that there

adequate for the Administration's

of the pension

IDLE LIST.

DIG DECREASE REPORTED AT HOME.

LOWEST SINCE 1920

Rugly, Yesterday.

since 1920.

The

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FURTHER ACTION.

Government Deals With Labour Unions.

PEKING CONDITIONS.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. TO CLOSE.

HEAVY IMPOSITIONS.

Further action has been taken by the authorities following the

Feking, Jan. 17. undeclared policy of a strong hand It is understood that Messra. against labour unions. Part of Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., are the activities is attributable to closing their Peking branch in a suspicion of Communist infec- few months time. The present tion, and the other part can be manager, Mr. Mackenzie, will go on classified under "domestic labour leave in May, and it is believed that disputes."

he will not be replaced, the offices The printer's headquarters has being advertised for renting. been raided and dissolved and A number of big companies Beek-

Canton. A list of officials and a and Vickers withdrew their regu- four, arrests have been made ating contracts, such as Weetman some of the newspaper offices in Fearson's, Armstrong Whitworth's, "plan of action" against capital lar representatives two or three

years ago, while the Kailan Mining Administration closed their local

derstood that other ordinary trad-

Asked if he agreed with Mr. was Changlu district and is barely Armstrong's statement, Inspector charge was bad. He said that it 88,000 in the number of persons no such offence and thei A further reduction by over

Ellis said that he had since learn-had been held before that the Gov- unemployed is recorded by the expenses and the partial upkeep ed that a fire proof room was ernment notification relating to Ministry of Labour, for the week

ists was unearthed. Rise Inexplicable.

being erected by the Hong Kong the firing of crackers only covered ended January 16.

Shop Fokis Under Ban The number of men, women, and the firing of strings of crackers The spring payments falling Amusements, Ltd.

Two unions which, in the main, Mr. Armstrong said that the de- from houses, and not, the little boys unemployed was 1,193,000, due roughly are:-

Crisp Loan (March

come in for attention. These £114,000; Anglo-French (April was made long before the present the prohibited hours...

301 cision to build the fire proof room squibs, which did not come under which is the lowest recorded for affect shop employees, have also office in the autumn. It is now un- the corresponding date of any year were dealt with prior to China ing firms will follow Jardine's ex- 5) £62,000; Hukuang (June 8) proceedings against the defendant.

ample. New Year since when the Gov-

The reasons are that there have £200,000.

The point, he said, was brought up

Transference ernment's policy with regard to The general rise in Chinese] by a censor and the Company im-

Board,, which was recently appoint them has become more clearly been several years of bad trade bond values in European markets mediately communicated with the

ed to consider the question of defined. The men involved are owing to the civil wars, accompant- remains inexplicable in the Legn- C.S.P., as to what was best to be

finding work in other parts of the shop fokis and fokia of business ed by the heavy likin and other country and the Dominions for houses. Formation of their re-charges and especially very heavy tons and Banks here. The Lega- done. The latter suggested the

freight charges.-Reuter. unemployed workers, particularly tions deny all knowledge of any erecting of the fire proof room and

miners, in areas where unemploy change, of policy warranting op-it was immediately taken in hand.

ment is acute, are making thorough preliminary survey, before vialta are paid to these areas- British Wireless Service.

timism, while the bankers are re- fluence of the Big Sword Corps luctant even to guess. The com gradually extending and the situa tion assuming serious proportions monest surmise is that some Chinese authorities in Peking fatuous remark on a coming and Mukden are disseminating un-peace, or improved conditions, by founded reports in order to in- an alleged authority, has been duce Japanese troops to take part taken seriously by an ill-informed

public. in the campaign against the Big Sword Corps. Toho:

CALLING ON CHÁNG.

'China New Year Observed: in Peking.

STRIKE ENDED.

INDIAN RAILWAY WORKERS RETURN.

NAVAL OIL.

RESERVES SOLD TO FOREIGN

INTERESTS.

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY,

Washington, Yesterday..

WAR REPOR

U.S. NAVY YARD CHIEF'S

REMARKS.

LIGHT RECEPTION.

New York, Yesterday. The newspapers make light of the remarks on the subject of war attributed to Admiral Plunkett, Navy Yard Commandant,

The "New York World," in an RECEIVED BY KING. editorial, strongly endorses Sena- tor Borah's condemnation of naval |

jingoes as "his greatest service DUKE OF CONNAUGHT AT

NICE. to the cause of peace." Nothing

is more certain than that Borah

Rugby, Yesterday.

CANNOT PAY..

MEXICO AND SINKING FUND SERVICE:

COTTON INDUSTRY.

REORGANISATION FROM WITHIN.

New York, Yesterday.

BANKER'S VIEW. The Mexican Financial Agent

London, Yesterday: announced that the Mexican Gov. ernment informed the Inter-

Presiding at the annual meeting national Bankers' Committee that of Martin's Bank at Liverpool, Mr.-- it would be unable to resume, on Holland Martin reclared that the In consequence of a report of a speaks the real mind of the naval oll-inspector that the Hono-American on this subject. Super-During their brief stay at Nice January 1, the full service Sink suggestion that the banks should. lulu Consolidated Oil Company is Navy enthusiasts would lead us the King and Queen of Afghanistan ing Fund on the entire direct debt come to the assistance of the cotton selling oil from the naval reserve into a bitter feud with Great Bri- to-day received H. R. H. the Duke and invited the Committee to ap Industry, and take control by in- California, to, the Royal Dutch abell

wan Impracticable and entirely to examine the situation and fur- ers have arrived in Peking and The strike of East Indian Rall Interests, Mr. Wilbur has appointed tain, but they won't get away with of Connaught, who is staying at point experts to visit Mexico City resting in debentures and shares, against the traditions of British a commission to investigate and Cap Ferat, be called on Chang Tso-lin this morn-way workera has ended and the make recommedations with a view The "Herald Tribune says that Owing to his health the Duke nish, within the Government's banking. The banks were still pro ing with. New Year congratula workers have resumed on being to preventing the disposal of all Admiral Plunkett is more at home will be unable to return to Landon capacity, the basis for annual pay pared to make such advances as tions.

promised full pay for the two days from the United States naval re on the quarter-deck than in an in March when King Amanulla ments, interest and amortisation they deemed tafe, but reorganisa Chang Tsolin is fcasting them strike and no victimisation serves to foreign companies. Ren- armchair or anything else ashore. And his Queen will visit Britian on the external debt-Reuter's tion of the industry must comes *this evening, after which the con-Reater,

ter's American Service,"

Reuter's American Serviceer British Wireless Service..

American Service.

Peking, Yesterday.

All the Northern military lead-

NO VICTIMISATION.

Calcutta, Yesterday,

from within-Reuter.