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LINKING UP HONG KONG. KONGMOON CHANGES. PERSONAL AFFAIR.

RAILWAY OUTLOOK.

GETTING AT CENTRAL CHINA..

THE CANTON LOOP.

REVIEW OF WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE.

Large Sums Entailed. From Changsha to Chuchow, 33 miles were built by Chinese. Temporary trestle bridges were used at first but permanent struc- Lures were completed in 1912. The railing stock was bad and the bed poorly constructed. But these 33 miles (road and

in-

Canton Controls Revenue The Trouble On H.M.S.

Office's.

BANKNOTE APPRECIATION. Fishmongers Strike A Protest Against Stall Tax,

"Royal Oak."

UNOFFICIAL VERSION.

Admiral Hauls Down Flag; Others Go Home,

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Hong Kong's Only European Optician.

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(Personal Attention).

PEKING VICTORY?

SET-BACK FOR " CHRISTIAN GENERAL.”

RIVERSIDE BATTLE.

Fengtien Troops Utilise Armoured Trains.

FENG'S THRUST FOR CAPITAL FRUSTRATED,

A heavy roverse on the "Christian General," an ally of the Nan- king Nationalists, is reliably reported to have been inflicted by units of the Peking Government armies. Details of the action are given in Chinese cables from Shanghai and Tientsin, and are substantiated in wireless intelligence.

Pakkal (Kongmoon), Thursday,

Malta, Yesterday. › All local revenue offices which An unofficial version of the suflicient rolling stock) cost close have hitherto been controlled "Royal Oak" affair is that it a formulated com- on to $10,000,000. A further sec- have been handed over to officials started with tion of about 10 miles from Chu-nominated by the (higher) Pro-plaint and culminated in personal chow to Lukow proved very ex-vincial Government at Canton. disagreements between Admiral Three Hundred Miles Of Line To Reach Hankow. pensive. Shareholders demanded This the result of the gradual | Collard, Capt. Dewar and Comdr.

full reimbursement when the centralisation of administration Daniel." Government took over the partly and the change in garrison where- The Commander-in-Chief, Sir by the 13th division under Gen- Roger Keyes, tried to pour oil on | completed' track in Murch, 1913.

The amount outstanding eral Chui King-tong is moving out troubled waters by suggesting us on to the East River to be replaced the only possible solution that Jan, 1, 1925 on the loan was by the 11th Army under Gen- Admiral Collard should transfer 14,722,636-4-., secured on "the salt, likin and tobacco taxes of ernl Chen Ming-chu.

his flag to the "Resolution" but Further units of the 11th this did not appeal to Admiral front lines-about 350 miles south of the capital, as the crow flies- It is made out that reinforcements reached the Peking army's Hunan and Hupch provinces.

Therefore Admirali Obligations on materials on that Army are expected here shortly. Collard. million dollars, Messrs. Jardine, ui, Mr. Mak Ying-cheong, has request for permission to haul pulsed. Armoured trains were used by the Peking troops, states an The district magistrate of San-Keyes granted Admiral Collard's from the north and a thrust by the "Christian General" was re- date were given at just over u Matheson & Co., Ltd., being the handed over to Mr. Wong Wai- down the flag.

yuk, taking instead the post of Capt. Dewar and Comdr. Daniel overnight cable, and after shelling the "Christian General's" sup- largest creditor in this respect.

officer in charge of the Pay Cornia have gone to England.

porting lines, the Peking counter-attackers crossed from the north attached to the 13th division. Mr. Mak' is going to Swatow to

to the south bank of the Chung River, assume office.

[ly “Li Chúng yin 1

About three hundred miles of railway have to be completed before Kowloon is directly linked up with Hankow. Five miles will be for the loop line around Canton, which IIE. the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) so strongly recommended in his address to the representative morchants of Canton. The remainder will be for the interior of South China, in Kwangtung and Hunin provinces.

Before going further into details, it may not be out of place tự, draw attention to an outlook which exceeds in scope that described į by the sponsors of the scheme now under discussion.

Plans to connect the "loop line system" with others huve been gone into years ago and the day may come when Hong| Kong and Canton are joined together with even larger areas Than at present contemplated.

in the interval, Hong Kong will be interested in a report from Canton which is claimed to be reliable. It cannot be said that it has the semblance of official origin. Nevertheless it provides one view of the question as Canton sees it.

ROUTES EXPLAINED.

Mr. Wu Te-chen is the present are (1), general repairs to exist. Commissioner for Construction ing lines and (2) completion of in the Kwangtung Provincial the line between Canton and Han Government. He is .well known kow.

Commissioner

From Chuchow southward down to the Kwangtung frontier, the Gov. ernment section has still more than 200 miles to build.

other section.

Tax Inconsistencies,

"FINER LATER."

North winds, moderate; over east at first, iner later, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.

Admiralty Communique. An Admiralty communique states:, "A court of inquiry was held at Malta by order of the

A COUNTER-ATTACK.

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From Shiukwan northward to the Hunan frontier, the Kwanglung (public company) section has less Nationalist banknotes have Commander-in-Chief of the Medi- than 70 miles to build to meet the risen to about 65 per cent, of face terranean Station to investigate

Owned by a Company.

value. In Canton, taxes are now certain disciplinary matters in The Kwangtung Mercantile paid as follow:-80 per cent. in which Rear-Admiral Collard, Cap. Reliable sources quoted by the Engraving in Peking, the paper and Commander British Naval wireless report that for them being specially import- Administration of the Canton silver, 40 per cent. in paper (mak-tain Dewar

Daniel were involved. As a re- the armies of the Peking Govern-ed from the United States.. Hankow Railway, a Chinese con-

Bult of the inquiry the three offi- ment have inflicted a severe re- cern with a nominal capital of

Increases in Salary. 10,000,000 of which only a por

cers concerned were suspended verse on the Kuominchun, the duty by the Commander-in-Chief, army of the "Christian General," degree of official supervision tion is paid up, works under a

During February altogether whose report has not yet been re- Feng Yu-hsiang (an ally of the $20,000,000 in new $10 notes are ceived by the Admiralty. Since Nationalists), presumably on the said to have been received in which has fluctuated in the past.

the First Lord made a statement Chihli-Honan front, In the vicin- Mukden, and further consign- Construction was begun by an

in the House of Commons to-day ity of the Yellow River and the ments of $50,000,000 in such notes American syndicate in January,

he had ascertained that Rear- Peking-Hankow Railway. 1904, but it abandoned the enter

are expected to arrive shortly. Admiral Collard's flag had not The "Christian General" is prise on receiving G$6,700,000

Further increases in wages and been transferred to another ship, stated to have telegraphed to the salaries have been necessitated compensation.

Ing a nominal surtax of 20 per as he had inferred from Whereas the 140 miles from cont.), plus another 20 per cent. earlier telegram, but had been asking for reinforcements.

an Nationalist Generals at Hankow, by the depreciation of the cur- Canton to Shiukwan cost over for charitable services. The local struck and that Rear-Admiral

[rency. According to the new $7,000,000, the remaining 70 consumption (of commodities) Collard, was still at Malta. It is terminus of the Peking-Hankow officers and men now receive fully Rolling stock at the Hankow scale granted to the police. both miles from Shiukwan Kwangtung-Hunan boundary is cent. in silver and 40 per cent. in judge this matter but await the Railway is being assembled by the 500 per cent, more than before,

to the tax office, however, levies 100 per hoped that the Press will not pre- estimated to cost at least notes,

Other offices follow the Admiralty's statement of the paration for the despatch of than better off prior to the slump military. This may indicate pre- and yet they are rather worse $3,000,000 !

system laid down in Canton.

In protest against a tax, on

Hankow Nationalist units north in January. for action. is them of $1.20 per stall per day,

10,000 Feet of Tunnels. The completed section,

in Hong Kong and highly respect- In the opinion of a civil engin- ed. His name was constantly be-eer, says the "Kung Sheung Yat fore the public when he was Po," the cost of the track between through comparatively easy coun- the fishmongers have gone

of Police a few Shiukwan and the Kwangtung-try. At Yingtak, where the pre-strike and no fish is sold.-Our years ago. In that capacity, he Hunan frontier will be greater sent line crosses the North River own correspondent. did good work for the Municipal than that of the present line from 90 miles from Canton), there is ity by carrying out his share Canton to Shiukwan,

a bridge of three spans of. 200

of the programme of building ! Explanation and a few details, feet each, one 60 feet, onc 50 feet, fine, wide thoroughfares in Can- such as are available, will be help-one 15 feet. ton city, which were so heartily ful at this stage.

praised by H.E. the

Governor

when replying to His Worship the Mayor's address of welcome.

Technical Knowledge.

Mr. Wu has the technical i knowledge required for work of

760 MILES.

453 on Canton-Hankow Line Completed.

But ten miles. north of Shiu- kwan, ie, on the uncompleted section, a bridge 750 feet long will be needed and, a further ten miles up, a tunnel of 1,000 feet long. Up on to the frontier, the ine has been surveyed and it will

The total distance (of the con- be necessary to construct some

IN BANKRUPTCY.

NOTICES BY OFFICIAL RECEIVER.

case."-Reuter.

BIG FINANCE. MORGANS PRIVATELY FUND

70 MILLIONS.

FRENCH GOVT. DEAL.

CUSTOMS INTRIGUE.

Peking to Test the Powers" Views?

Ironsides Reach Anhui, The units which set out from Canton on their march north- ward to

join Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (comprising a Tew thousands of Iron- sides New York, Yesterday.

and some ex-Wham- The largest funding operation pou Cadets) are

Peking, March 12. ed to have reached Anhui pro- ever undertaker in New York for vince. Some of them were scen Tariff Autonomy

The creation of the Customs Commission embarking on a river steamer at here is looked upon in Diplomatic Tatung, which is on the Yangtsze circles as a ballon d'essai design- River, 117 miles above Nanking led to discover whether the Powers

the nature which has aroused the structed and projected fine) be-sixty tunnels in all, aggregating ceiver in Bankruptcy in the balance of $100,000,000 French attention of people in Kwangtung tween Canton and Hankow is 10,000 feet in length! and Hong Kong, I knew him about 760 miles. This is divided when he was only a district magis-into five sections, with one ex- trate: Then he had charge of the tending into both Kwangtung and Heungshan district, which has Hunan.

been re-named Chungshan in hon- our of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen.:

He personally surveyed the 60 miles of road between Chinshan This and Shekki, the capital road begins practically from just outside the Barrier Gate of Macao and the first section is now open to motor traffic.

·

The Missing Link.

A syndicate is to run a bus ser- vice and Mr. Wu is to be present to-morrow at the official opening.

The Construction Bureau in Canton has appointed a council of delegates to advise and assist in

a foreign Government without a public sale of a new issue was DIVIDENDS DECLARED. carried out when Morgans, as fis- cal agents to the French Gov- Notifications by the Official Reernment, paid off $70,000,000, the

"Gazette" are as follow:-

eight per cent. loan issued in 1920. Public examination 10.30 a.m. The transaction was financed on March 31:-Lo Tse-lim, No. 66 by the sale of $76,000,000 French Wing Lok-street East; Chau Tsui-five per cent. bonds to the Swed- yin, otherwise Chau Kit-sam, No.ish Match Company of which From Canton, northward to Shiu-i

37. Eastern-street (2nd floor), $50,000,000 was taken over by kwan, 140 miles were completed in:

carrying on business as forward- the Match Company's American 1909.

From Shinkwan to Hengchow (in)

To return to the report from ing agent under names of Wui subsidiary company, the Interna- Hunan) is 210 miles, projected. (Of Canton. After referring to the Sun firm and Koon Wa firm, No. tional Match Corporation this section, about 70 helong to the high expenditure, it says (quite 94, Connaught-road Central (1st Reuter's American Service. Kwangtung side and 140 to south correctly) that the towns and

floor). Huran).

120 miles.

À CANTON VIEW.

"No Loss-But Increased Profits."

From Hengchow to Changsha is markets to be served are by ne Chau Kit-sam, notice of second Re Chau Tsui-yin otherwise

EMOTIONALISM.

report-

MONEY MUDDLE.

$200,000,000 in Notes One Month!

interpret the tentative agree- ment made at the Peking Confer- ence in 1924 for Tariff Autonomy in 1929 as a conditional or uneori- ditional promise.

The Japanese attitude is made Mukden, Mar, 10:

clear by the Premier's interview In spite of the lesson taught by and also by extensive Press com. the recent grave financial crisis, ment, but the loneliness of these which was brought about by the statements only elates the Chin- depreciation of the Fengpiao cur-ese who assume that they can rency, the authorities still seem to have tariff autonomy by cool as- persist in their former policy of asertion as they have already reckless issue of new unsecured illegally imposed the Washington notes, continually increasing the surtaxes and are also counting circulaton. These new again upon the moral support of notes are produced by the Gov- the British Government.

amount

(Of this section, 33 means big. But, it adds, once: miles from Changsha southward to the line is completed, there ought meeting of creditors: — at the Chuchow have been in operation not be any loss, and profits ought first meeting on Feb. 23, it was SINGING RADIO HYMNS FOR ernment Bureau of Printing and since 1911.)

From Changsha northward to Yo-to increase. chow is 120 miles, opened in Septem- ber, 1918.

From Yochow to Hankow is 160 miles, opened in September, 1917. Hunkow's Connection.

resolved by special resolution of

The view is also expressed that to the creditors present to entertain make the last 70 miles pay, It will a proposal for a composition, the

HINCHCLIFFE,

.:

Ottawa, Yesterday.

be necessary for the track from terms of which were all the assets Hankow to be pushed on down to disclosed in the debtor's statement cliffe may have reached land is A faint ray of hope that Hinch- the Kwangtung-Hunan boundary. With the south of funun and the of affairs be distributed to cre- contained in a report to the Minis- upper North River basin included, ditors, in addition Chau Tsoi-kam,

area.

APPOINTMENTS.

NOTIFICATIONS IN THE "GAZETTE."

The following appointments are

Treaty Violation. Throughout the Legation Quar- › ter the writer is assured that, technically, even the recognised the "reconditioning of Kwang-referred to in a general sense. The It should be noted that Hankow is

Chinese government would have no such right of assumption until tung's railroads,' states the terminus is at Wuchang city, on the the Canton-Hankow Railway will will pay $4,000 Hong Kong notes ter of Marine from Canadian

the Tariff Conference has been re- "Kung Sheung Yat Po."

southern bank of the Yangtze, op-

also, serve north Hunan and Hupch and $5,200 Canton coins, conting Johns, New Brunswick, that Pacific Railway Office at St.

convened and all the tariff ques- posite to Hankow on the northern province and the middle Yangtzo ent upon the approval of the com-three persons heard an aeroplane Mr. Wu is quoted as being very bank. A forry goes across to Han-

tions re-opened and settled, the desirous of completing the line be-kow (half way up the Yangtze River

position. Cessation of Hostilities. tween Canton and Hankow. It is and 000 miles from the sea), to Jain

The meeting for the purpose of early yesterday morning in the announced in the "Government likin question explored, the auto- The "Kung Sheung Yat PG"

nomy clause embodied in a treaty. agreed that Railway receipts and up with the railway running north-

deciding whether the above reso-sparsely wooded country 20 miles to Peking.

adds that it may be necessary to lution shall be confirmed will be north-west of Greenville, Maine, Mr. S. B. B. McElderry trade in the North River basin-The Industrielte do Chine avait cessation of hostilities in

to be ratified.

Under other conditions auto- and the south of Hunan province signed a contract with the Peking Gov- Hunan before work, can be done. held at the Official Receiver's which is 50 miles from the Cana-Secretary for Chinese Affairs and

a member of the Executive andomy is simply a treaty violation suffer because of the missing link. ernment in November, 1918, for a loan Then construction from Shiukwan office, on Thursday, April 12, at

of 150,000.000 francs of which a por-

The postmaster of a small ham- Legislative Councils during tenure because the promise of autonomy was not only conditional upon the fon was to be spent on a bridge be- should follow. But without this tween Wachang and Hankow, across (the report continues) the loop that the following dividends have plane early this morning, flying Clerk of Counells, as from March bodiment in the treaty.

Mr. S. Hampden Ross notifies let saw a brilliantly coloured of office, na from March 12.

Mr. T. W. Ainsworth to be Deputy abolition of likin but upon its em- the Yangtszo.]

line will not bring much benefit been declared:

in a north-westerly direction.- Reuter.

Mr. Wu's Approval.

WHAT IT COST.

Details of the Uncompleted Portions,

One of the advantages pointed out by H.E. the Governor when hé advocated the construction of

to the merchants of the North the loop line between the Canton

River, Canton and Hong Kong, termini of the Canton-Hankow

It is thought, therefore, that completion of the Kwangtung and the Canton-Kowloon lines is that further construction beyond

section ought not be difficult but Shlukwan

the same cannot be said of the litated by plant and materials kow Railway from Hankow to

That part of the Canton-Han-south Hunan section. being shipped up in bulk from Changsha, about 280 miles, was Kowloon to the railhead:

begun in 1914 but was not fully

will be faci-

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OTHER FACTORS. Information About Constructed Railways.

10.30 a.m.

G. P. and H. A. Lammert, first dividend of $1 per cent.

dian border.

Gazette":-

17.

Foint Ray of Hope. George P. Lammert, first and final dividend of $89.70 per cent.

New York, Yesterday. Prayers for Hinchcliffe and H. A. Lammert, first and final Miss Mackay were offered at a to be an dividend of $10.72 per cent. broadcast station and the unseen audience asked to join in the sing- ing of a hymn.-Reuter's Ameri- .can Service.

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WATCHMEN ORDINANCE. `.

The current issue of the "Gov- erument Gazette" contains the

Tacit Consent.

Mr. T. Megarry to be Assistant

One diplomat expressed the Head of Sanitary Department, as opinion, however, that before from March 16, `

January next the Chinese would- Mr. N. Garland, B. Sc., M.IN.A., exact the support of several of Assistant Government the Powers by holding up their Marine Surveyor, as from Feb. 22. tacit consent to the Washington surtaxes as a precedent, so that a bold attempt would be made to override those who correctly op pose it.

"CUTS" RESTORED.

INDIAN ASSEMBLY MEMBERS' EFFORTS NULLIFIED.

Delhi, Yesterday.

Mr. Wu Te-chen was present at opened to traffic until 1921. The all the publle functions held in honour of His Excellency, "The road and equipment cost nearly

A CORRECTION.

This play, like other Customs "China Mall" special correspondent $60,000,000. A sum of just under

adjustments is being staged by sat opposite him at the Chamber of £5,000,000 was lent by the. Old Other factors ought also be draft bill an Ordinance to pro- With regard to Commerce dinner and noticed bis Consortium under the Hukuang taken into consideration.

a Summary

Liang Shih-yi and the Chinotung hearty, applause

vide for the registration and re- Court case yesterday in which

Clique who are suspected by Clementi olucidated each point. Railway Loan to the Chinese Gov-1 There is another railway which gulation of watchmen in the Mr. Justice Wood was reported to The Governor-General-in-Coun- Chinest bankers ofattempting to

Two Prior Projects.

ernment. Construction was under runs out of Canton. This is the Colony. This was read a first time have stated that Mr. N. I. Brower cil has restored the four big cuts gain a predominant position in British supervision, The report referred to, how-

Canton-Samshui Railway which, on Oct. 27; 1927 and is now pub-had no right to appear before in the Budget curried in the Legis- Customs affairs so as eventually ever, says that two projects have mostly over flat country, needed an important line.

The route was not very difficult, although only thirty miles long, la lished as amended in committee at him save as an individual, it is lative Assembly, namely grants to rehabilitate themselves by priority over the loop line scheme, no funrels, and the waterways through a very rich part of the fliratt regulations.

It runs the second reading on March 15. understood that there was some for the Simon Commission, the securing on the Customs surplus

Hab-

a misunderst

"of State the Armvi, feir hip holdings in the information was sought.

tions.

that Mr. Brewer was not robed.

|Daily News,"!

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