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Hong Kong, Friday, April 13, 1928.

tion

FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1928.

seized but has been replaced, ship: TOBACCO SEIZURE. ped to Shanghai and sold! Here we have a typical example of Chinese lawlessness, but the

point which is deserving of em-$3,000,000 TAKEN FROM B.C.C.

phasis to that innumerable emall holders and peasantry around Isuchow and parts of

GODOWN.

HSUCHOW FELONY.

Details of the confiscation of a

SPURIOUS COINS. SIX MONTHS' JAIL FOR CAR

CONDUCTOR.

AN ALERT INSPECTOR.

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A tram conductor employed by the Company,

other. Honan be the ultimate sufferers, sis the growing of this tobacco leaf provides their sole means of exist. large quantity of foreign tobacco Hong Kong Tramway ence. The loss to the Company is, by Chinese authorities at Hau- was this morning charged before of course, to small one, but is one chow on the Peking-Hankow Rail- Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central which the B.A.T., with its world-way, referred to in Parliament re- Magistracy, with the unlawful wide ramifications, can. stand.cently, have become available possession of 37 counterfeit 1- The same cannot be said for the through dispatches from Hankow. cent pieces. small tobacco farmers and thus, The British Cigarette Company is A Chinese Inspector employed by ewing to this act of military ban- the foreign concern being victim-the Company, deposed that ditry, the never too-well-off Chin-ised, and the loss incurred is boarded the car at Wanchai so04 ese farmers of Honan are left estimated in the

vicinity of after 10 o'clock yesterday morning, without means of livelihood if the $3,000,000. Negotiations over the and in the course of his duty he Company is compelled to confine incident are in the hands of the Inspected the contents of the de- ita stocks to the Treaty Ports: British Congul-General at Han-fendant's bag. In the inner con- It would be difficult to discover a

partment he discovered the counter- more pathetic illustration of that.

Hsuchow has for many years feit coina. old adage about killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.

REALTY CO.

(Continued from Page 1.)

kow.

he

witness

Bo

been one of the experimental cen- When questioned about the coing, tres owned by the British Ameri-the defendant told the can Tobacco Company in suitable that a man had boarded the car op- parts of China. The company posite the Wing Lok, wharf, and supplies American tobacco seed to handed the money Chinese farmers free of cost, in fendani also told the witness to

to him. order to improve the quality of overlook the matter and he would the leaf grown locally. The to- resign from the service of the bacco is purchased from the far- Company. The witness removed mers by the company in the open the defendant from the car when it market, competition from other stopped outside the No. 2 Police tobacco concerns being faced and Station and took him inside, lodging an open price paid.

The Appropriations. The profit for the period under review. including the sum of

In charge against him, $8,777.84 brought forward from In order to dry, the leaves pre- June 30, 1927, and after setting paratory to transporting them to witness said that the coins were Replying to the Magistrate, the aside $8,584.09' for depreciation centres of manufacture the com-1.

not good fakes. which pany has erected extensive drying bad, and he could see at amounts to $76,027.66 amount your Board recommends plants and godowns where large they were counterfeits.

be apportioned as follows:- Transfer to General

Reserve Carry forward to a

new_account

quantities of the leaf have been i allowed to accumulate within re-

Their colour was a glance

The defendant denied that he had

coins from

the

He maintained

$50,000.00 cent years, owing to the break- told the Inspector that he got the

a man opposite down of the railway facilities. 26.027.66 Approximately $4,000,000 worth Wing Lok wharf.

of tobacco has been stored in that he had collected the bad coina in fares that morning, and as soon $76,027.66 Hsuchow. About $1,000,000 and I trust that this alloca- worth of this was destroyed by as he discovered subsequently that tion, which for the purpose of fire which gutted part of the com- they were counterfeits, he placed Sun elucidation has been incorporated pound buildings a short while ago. them separately from other colus, in the accounts, will meet with The remainder of the stored to-so that he should not pass them your approval.

bacco has been safe until recently to other passengers. when the local military comman- The Magistrate remarked that it der, who is, it is understood, a was unbelievable that the defen- subordinate of General Feng Yu-dant collected 37 bad coins from

during halang, commenced to take over passengers

four hours the tobacco and sell it,

work, from 6 a.m., to the time he was found out.

The defendant was convicted and four months' hard

scale.

rect.

These

two

MR. O. A. SMITH.

LEAVES TO-DAY ON HOME LEAVE.

Hie many friends will with Mr.

will and testament of Dr. Yat-sen must be discarded. The question at once arises: Is this strictly correct? We'think not.

"Reducing Interest.

One of the last acts of Dr. Sun

From a perusal of the report, you will observe that the sum of Yat-sen was to go to Peking and $200,000 was retired from the enter into a compact for cessation mortgage indebtedness of the

Occupy Compound, of hostilities with several leaders Company on December 31. 1927,

Soldiers occupied the B.C.C.sentenced to and a further $50,000 has since there, one of whom is Marshal been paid off, leaving the balance compound at Hsuchow last year, labour. Chang Tso-lin, the head of the under this heading at five lakhs; the tobacco packed and shipped Godowns were broken into and Ankuochun Government. As to in this connection arrangements to other parts of the interior for the political will and testament of have been effected with the Com- sale. Two foreign members of Dr. Sun, we are reluctant to des- mortgage will be retired on April Hankow last month to investigate pany's bankers whereby this the company were sent from cribe it as a creation of one or 30, 1928, and carried as an over-reports of this looting, and, after more Nationalist politicians who draft with the Bank-thus reduc- capitalised the document for theiring the rate of interest payable encountering every form of 90-10. A. Smith, general manager of

struction in their inquiries, were thereon.

Whiteaway, Laidlaw Limited, A own personal benefit. This docu- During the period under review able to verify the report as cor-

pleasant holiday on his absence ment has now been incorporated the Company's office premises

have been fully occupied, as also Messrs. S. W. Newsome

from the Colony for six months. 'investigators, into the text books of Nationalist have been the residential proper Roggett, found the B.C.C. com- 8.8. "Change" for

and Mr. and Mrs. Smith left by the Australia this China and will have far-reaching ties at Repulse Bay, and I am pound held by soldiers of the 15th, morning on Home leave and will effect on the rising generation. pleased to say that our rental Division, and were refused admit return in October next. Mr. Smith

revenue has materially improved, Yet it does not insist on conquest and that there will gradually be During their stay in Hsuchow Ltd., for twenty-five years and with tance by the local magistrate, has been with Whiteway, Laidlaw, as an essential feature of unifica- an increase under this heading. they were watched by two sol- the Hong Kong branch for ten

as the leases entered into provide diers from

¡years. the magistrate's

During their residence The real will of Dr. Sun had for,

rentals upon a graduated

yamen. Application to the local bere, Mr. and Mrs. Smith have peaceful intentions, intentions

General for assistance was also made numerous friends and they Architectural Business, which have been superseded by a

refused on the grounds that the will be greatly missed. Mr. Smith bellicose policy in force at Nan-under

The volume of business placed matter was a civil one and did not is a keen Mason in which move-

the supervision of our concern the military. The Chin-ment he holds high office. king. There are several grounds Architectural Department has ese who accompanied the two in- During Mr. Smith's absence, Mr. Consistent propaganda has told on which North and South are in been as satisfactory as could vestigators was retained by the J. V. Panizzi is in charge of the us that the Chinese Nationalist sympathy. Each capital is still have been expected in the cir- local authorities and the foreign business in Hong Kong.

cumstances of the prevailing con- ers had to leave him behind. He Party is fighting to gain control steadfastly opposed to Commun-ditions in the Colony, but your has subsequently been released of the whole country and to unify ism. Each ministry: broadcasts Roard decided, that having re- and has reached" Hankow safely, it under one party government the fact that it is working for the gard to the fact that the con- it is learned.

tracts in respect of our own con- Other reports of the incident At this stage of affairs, we are revision of the Treaties. Each structional work had drawn to a state that the chief mover has again tempted to ask: Is it worth general promises suppression of close, it would be prudent to sep-been a certain Ma Hsi-an, sent fighting any longer? There is banditry and piracy. Latterly, arate the business of this depart- specially to confiscate the goods Bankers, brokers, bond-owners, always the problematical side of attempts have been made to bring ment from the Company's other from Kaifeng, the headquarters bootleggers and burglars are the activities particularly as the of the "Christian General" It is only people in the United States the question. According to a about unity and agreement in the success of an architectural prac- contested, according to these re-making money to-day, according number of experts, no faction is | Customs, Salt and Postal administice can be developed only by ports, that the foreign company to "General" Coxey, the venerable [strong enough at present to ad-trations. Unofficial emissaries

efforts of a personal nature and has no right to own or lease pro-leader of the unemployed... an agreement was accordingly en-perty within Chinese territory, |--Addressing a mass meeting of minister the coup de grace to any have passed to and fro. And just tered into, as a result of which that the B.C.C. has no titles or the workless to-day, he declared or all of its opponents. If this at a time when an armistice seem- Mr. G. W. Grey and Mr. J. Bent deeds for the property, and that that he had received an assurance is so, the most we can expect from ed barely possible, reports come ley Hawker took over the business its claims of ownership of the to-jof employment as "General of the the campaign is that one side will through to the effect that fighting 1st instant on terms. which were grounds the Chinese claim the

of this department as from the bacco are illegal. On these Jobless," as Coxey is dubbed.

If Government failed to provide gain a temporary advantage; but has broken out on the Shansi and satisfactory to your Company. right to confiscate the goods and work, he would lead the army of as a permanent cure to China's Honan fronts, and that the Na-This Company will, therefore, dispose of them as they see fit. workless to Washington, and

ls, then, the war serves no real tionalists have struck-and, in-nature with the firm in question-ply to questions, stated that doing."

p'ace its work of an architectural Officials of the company, in re- "this time there will be something purpose. The suggestion is that cidentally, are believed to have with which arrangement our clien- the rival armies, after having lost on the Kiangsu sector, tele are in complete agreement. been at grips on and off for two Some of the emissaries are still

IS IT WORTH FIGHTING?

that no faction has the resources to

Formal Proposal.

these claims by the Chinese have

U.S. JOBLESS.

UNEMPLOYED LEADER'S

::

THREAT.

New York, March 20. ·

foundation. Foreign companies The Carnogia Foundation, hos are permitted to own and to oper- donated to Eathonia a scientific years, are too tired. Another is working. In that event, it seems calling for particular comment, I Shimonoseki. In the past the history, and civilization.

There being no further matters chow by virtue of the Treaty of dealing principally with American ate plants such as the one in Hou-library of about 1,000 volumes, us that nobody is sincere, now beg to formally propose that BAT. has received government- for, keeping up a large enough either for peace or for war, and the report and accounts for the al encouragement for its experi- army to crush the opposition, we ask again: "Is it worth fight financial year ending December mental farms, it being realised Yet another is that the country ing any longer?”

31, 1927, as presented, be adopted, and that the appropria, them accrues to the Chinese far- that the chief benefit coming from tions recommended by the Direc=" tors be confirmed, and I shall be cribed as the first known opposi mers. This confiscation is des much obliged if some sharehold-tion to the scheine of experimen er will kindly second such pro tal farins in the interior.

is too big for just one leader or

general te rule. Superficially, at

Other Business,

THE TAIPO TRAGEDY.

MOTHER DIES IN HOSPITAL.

DO YOU KNOW?

To-day's List of

Little Posers.

least, it can be said that the Na-Killing the Goose. tionalists are the aggressors. Instances of the atter imposposal, whereupon questions as to There has been a lull through sibility of China doing anything to the report and accounts may

for herself or of anybody else be raised. moet of the winter. It is true doing anything for her whilst the that the Peking Government at present chaos reigns come to hand No question was put and the pro- Mr. W. J. Hawker seconded.

From day to day in the "Chína tacked, or counter-attacked the daily, thus tending to maintain posal was carried unanimously. Nationalist allies

Mail" appear half a dozen questions in Shansi; the feeling of hopelessness which must at times overcome the moat

of a geral nature, for which but it is admitted that the 'Naardent friends of the country. A Other business transacted by

acknowledgment is due to the tionalists at Nanking, under particularly remarkable example the meeting comprised

Confirmation of appointment was yesterday reported to have 1: Who introduced the game of

The young Chinese woman who found on page 9 of this issue.

"Daily Sketch" Answers will be Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, is reported in our news columns have been actively preparing dur-$3,600,000 worth of leaf tobacco Dunbar as directors and re-electer and then swallowed a quan2. What a minimum thermome

to-day. It concerns the seizure of of Sir Elly Kadoorie and Mr. Le poisoned her G-months-old daugh-bridge into England? ing the last two months for re- seized by military subordinates tion of Mr. P. K. Kwok and Muty of opiam and lysol, died at 4 newal of hostilities against the of Feng Yu-batang, the so-called John Fleming, the retiring dire o'clock yesterday morning in the 8. After whom is. Camden Town,

"Christian General at Hsuchow: tor-proposed by Mr. W. E. Van Kwong Wah Hospital,

North,

The Nationalists maintain that

The leaf was and is for that Epa, seconded by Mr. A. W. matter the property of the Bri Smith

the Northern Expedition cannot

London, named?

4. Who Invented the political term Conservative" 7

tish Cigarette Company, a manu Re-election of Messrs, Linstead The Pentuguese Company of the be abandoned until Peking is cap facturing concern associated and Davis as auditors at a fee of H.K.V.D.F Corps are holding 6. Who was the model for the

with the British Am

3500 proposed by Mr. PH. their first dinner at

Leer tured and the northern militar- Ibacco Company.Itlayı

ackling, seconded" by Mr. R. Headquarters to-morro

figure of Britannia on our pennies?

The original meaning