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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1919.

ranks of the Japanese guard, who thereupon. pushed them back with their handa. The Chinese troops then gave a sigan), in response to which some twenty flying constables (sic) made their appearance on AT THE WELCOME DINNER the scene and attacked the Japanese, troops

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30th and 26th August was delivered in Judge of H.M. Supreme Court, left Lagidon on the 17th September,

Mr. J. W. O. Davidson, of the British Legation at Peking, has been transferred

to the Consulate-Goners) at Canton.

A Chinese was fined 82,000 at the Magistracy yesterday. for being in unlawful possession of a quantity of opium,

Colonel C W. Brace, late Chief of the

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assuring the Japaneer troops that the wrong-doers would be punished. The Chinese version of the affair is given in the following report made by the Super intendent of Police of the Peking-Mukden Railway to the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs --

On the evening of September 11th, at 9.80. when the through train was about to reach the Changli station, a Japanese soldier bought fruit without paying for it, and the hawker quarrelled with him. Yang Tung- chi. raihray policeman, remonstrated with the Japanese soldier, who struck him. The latter immediately blow his whistle to Hummon assistance and the Japaucie soldier

FAN AWAY.

Yang Tung-chiu then went to the polico quarters to Poprad this matter to his chief. Before he had finished his report, the Japanese Captain and forty soldiers rushed into the office and demanded of the police chief to hand over Yang Tung-chin so that they could deal with him. Lin Changschung,

Shangha last week for Tientsin, where he iato hold a Court. There are four actions to be tried, three being on behalf of the Peking Syndicate and its employers against Mr. King. His Lordship will proceed to Harbin, where a case is down for hearing on October 13th, and is expected back in Shanghai a few days afterwards.

Glasgow the steamer Tottori-ware, which There has been launched at Port has been built to the order of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The vessel, which is of the following dimensions, length 423ft. Whilst engaged in the garden of No. ein., breadth baft, depth 31ft. 3in., Robinson Road cutting grass, with a gross tonnage of 1,800, will be Chinese gardener suddenly fell down and engined at Greenock. She has been built expired. to heart disease.

Death was certified to be due to the highest class at Lloyd's, and is intended for the general carrying trade The German Commission for arranging of the owners. the claims Lu be brought forward in conection with the former revolution, consisting of Herr Pieiffer, Dr. Hossler

and Dr. Hauer, has begun its work at Peking.

About 10 o'clock on Sunday night a thief entered the residence of Mr. A.

Weill, of No. 41, Bobinson Road, and by menus of a duplicate toy stole 24 pieces of jewellery, valued at $1,800, and 8130 in money, from a safe..

Several well-knowri indies in Peking hayo organized

!'anti - cigarette | society" the object of which is to dissnade women from smoking. The Society bas now more than eighty members who are holding meetings daily,

The Chinese Senate has passed "the

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JAPAN AND

CHINA.

THE SPECTACULAR EVENT AT

NANKING.

TORTO, September 29th. General Chang's apology was a great spectacular event. Early on Sunday the route to the Japanese Consulate at Nanking was crowded. Soldiers and police lined the streets.

General Chang in Manchu uniform, proceeded in an octagonal carriage, followed by 50 Cavalry

(THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY,]

MR LLOYD GEORGE AND THE.

GECH FAMILY.

CORRESPONDENCA WITH LORD "SELBØUNE.

LONDON, September 29th." The first letters of a correspondenius between Mr. Lloyd George: and. Lord Selborne shows that the Chancellor's

letter of the 22nd inst., in which he gave certain instances in which the įwivate interests of the Cecil family were alleged to have clashed with their public duty,

followed upon ↑ letter fruta Lord Selburno requesting Mr. Lloyd George, to formulate explicitly the criticisms of his

His Majesty the King has not been men. The gate to the Consulate(Lord Selborne's) public conduct. Lord advised to exercise his power of dis was guarded by armed Japanese allowance with respect to An Ordinance Marines General Chang, attended

to amend the Official Signatures Fees Ordinance, 1888; An Ordinance to pro- bit the importation and circulation of certain Foreign Coins; An Ordinance to. amend the New Territories Regulation Ordinance 1910; and An Ordinance to give effect to the change in the name and style of the office heretofore known ne that of the Registrar feneral

THE SOOKUN POO VALLEY MURDER.

FRESH EVIDENCE AUDUCED.

Mr. F. A. Hazeland re-opened the case

by his suite, was received by Mr. Funafsu, and presented a verbal apology. Afterwards, toasts exchanged,

were

and subsequently General Chang proceeded to the Consulates of Great Britain, America and Germany, and announced his appointment to the Tutubship.

In the afternoon a Regiment of 900 men, dressed in black, and led eccond and third reading of the Billin which a Chinese boy was recently by a Military Band, marched to the requesting the tiovernment not to institute committed to take his trial on a charge Consulate and lined up in the further investigations into the identity of the murder of a seven-year-old girl by of persons involved in the recent rebellion, hanging her on a tree at Sookun Poo as it has now been suppressed,

Valley. The case was reopened for the purpose of hearing additional evidence adduced for the prosecution.

M. G. A. Woodcock (Assistant Crown Solicitor) prosecuted.

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Puffing Billy, the familiar traction engine employed by the Hongkong Ice Company to convey iec, ran into a Chinese in Queen Victoria Street on Saturday, and knocked him down. The man was removed to the hospital with all expedition.

The uncle of the deceased girl, who described himself as a vegetable gardener,

the police chief, refused to hand over his man, as a result of which the Japanese Captain struck the right arm of the police chief with his sabre and ordered his soldiera to shunt. A volley was fired, and the police chief dropped down dead. Wang Hsnch-shu,

was first called. He remembered that on another policeman who stood behind his chief, was also killed.

the 14th August his nephew gave him Li Chin-ming,

A salesman and partner in the On Hingeriain information, as a result of which another policeman, in his attempt to hap mit of the window, was killed by a shot.

export and import firm, of No. 64,

he went to No. 54, Jardine's Bazaar, Two more policemen were severóly

Connaught Rond Central alleges that The

where be saw the defendant. Witness wounded They died next morning.

the police between the 18th and 19th inst one of the Japanese soldiers searched qunters and took away sore uniforms and partners in the firm stole 32,700 in money and 3,000 catfics of pig's bristica, valued at $5,000, and then absconded.

other articles.

Wang Chib-tien, Magistrate of the Changh district, arrived on the scene at 11 p.m. The Japanese Captain wrote a statement fixing the blame on the Chinese policemen, and coerced the magistrate hy physical force into signing the statement.

told him what his nephew had previously communicated to him

A mafeu nnned Chau Sang said the last witness gave him certain information, At the Magistracy yesterday Mr. and in conséquence he went to the hillside R. Wood fined a woman for selling near the coffee plantation to see if there

A small newspapers without a licence.

was a girl hanging on a tree. Witness

Our policemen did not return the track Boy, in answer to a similar charge, said did see a girl banging on to a braneb-of- and therefore none of the Japanese soldiers was wounded.

Wy have rescived a report from the Luan- chow police office stating that son after the above incident ocentred at Changli, the Japanese garrison increased the number of soldiers, and forbade the Chinese policemen appearing at the railway station, and that Japanese soldiers wore posted on important search every roads to question or passer-by.

to

I have instructed the chiefs of the various police stations to urge the policemen to be calm and await the action of our Govern. ment..

he had no lience, but possessed a badge with the name of the newspaper on it He was told to get a licence and was allowed to go,

The Hongkong Philharmonic Society on the 15th prox. commence vocal practices. of Planquette's "Las Cloches de Corne ville"

The annual general meeting of the Society, at which H.E. Mr. Claud Severn as kindly consented to preside, is fixed for the same evening, to precede the first practice,

The death of the Rev. J. R. Goddard, D.D., at Ningpo, where he had worked as a missionary for forty-five years, will be received with sorrow by many friends in China and elsewhere.

His father was

one of the pioneer missionaries in Ningpo, Dr. Goddard is survived by a widow, a son and two daughters, all of whom are cagageil in missionary work in China.

a tree. Witness crime down to the road. again, and met Chan On (a witness in the case), to whom he told what he had seen. The case was remanded until to-day.

THE RECENT SEIZURES OF KWANGTUNG NOTES.

At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. J. B. Wood, a Chinese was charged with being in unlawful possession of eighty So Kwangtung notes and thirty $2 notes. Mr. F. B. L Bowley of Messrs. Dennys & Bowley) prosecuted, and Mr. J. H. Gardiner was for the defence..

presence of Consul Funatsu and other Consular officials and Japanese residents. The Kimi-ga-yo Japa- nese National Anthem) was played the Chinese presented arms and their Commander apologised.

THROUGH SELTEN'S. ADENCY.} INTERNATIONAL BANKERS AND

CHINA.

DISSOLUTION OF AGREEMENTS.

PERING, September 29th. The bankers of the International Con sortium announce the dissolution of the Tripartite, Quadruple, and Quintuple Banking agreements, except the section in the Quintuple agreement relating to State loans for administrative purposes..

The effect of this change is to leave the Governments concerned free, to support any applications for concessions in

China,

TURKEY AND GREECE.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 20th.

A Council of Ministers has decided to despatch a special emissary this week to Athens with the Porte's counter proposals to Greece.

There is reason to believe that the attitude of the Porte kas stiffened, His Worship decided to discharge the defendant on the ground that he was not partly owing to an understanding with satisfied that the notes subject to the the Bulgarians. Consequently Greece charge were the property of the Canton may be confronted with a serious situa

Government,

Inspector Murison asked if the notes tion.

Selborne replied on the 25tà inst., declar ing that it is clear that the unnamed

relative of Lord Salisbury mentioned in the Chancellor's letter refers to him, and as the Chancellor's vaguetions appeurs to be due to the fact that he is not sure of his facts, he takes the liberty to acqmint him with them. His Lordship narrates that on his appointment as Under- Secretary for the Colonies in 1995 bo offered to resign from the directorate of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company, but Lord Salisbury declared it

WAS

unnecessary, as he was not a Cabinet Minister, and shipping contracts were not negotiated by the Colonial Office. Between 1895 and 1990 only one contract was made with the P. & 0. Company,

namely, in 1897, and that was after public not participate in the negotiations, and therefore this was not a case where polis duty and private interest ever conflicted. When he came to the Admiralty, in 1900 he resigned his seat on the Board of

seat on the Directors of the P. & O. and sold his shards. His Lordship concluded:- "Whether any Member of a Government, however subordinate, should hold Directorship in a public Company is a fair question for discussion, but it would be wholly different to that in respect of which the House of Commons recently accepted your expression of regret.” THE HOME BULE CONTROVERSY.

tonder. Lord Selborne states that he did

SPEECH BY ME. JOHN REDMOND.

LONDOS, September 29th. Mr. John Redmond, in the course of a

fighting speech at Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, said: We have won our fight, and the Ulsterites know that they have lost it. Their arguments bays failed throughout. the length and breadth of the Empire. I would do anything short of the betrayal of Home Rule to obtain the consent of these men, but we cannot be won by con sent.

The principle of Home Rale is being thrown into the melting pot after it has twice passed the House of Commons. The ship is at the Harbour's mouth, and

the orders are 'Full Steam Ahead."!!

Mr. Redmond's first ut torance since the publication of Lord Loreburn's letter has caused a freal discharge of the Party

were to be handed back to the defendant, NEGROES RUN AMOK IN AMERICA, artillery. The Press on both sides stick and his Worship replied in the affirmative.

KILL THIRTEEN PERSONS, AND ARE THEN

· LYNCHED.

Vory likely it is true that the Chinese Foreign Office has made demands on Japan on exactly the same lines as those made by Japan in regard to the Nacking Afair, though it strikes us as strange that so little has been heard from other som čes than the Chinese Press-which has no great reputation for accuracy,of an action on China's part so very interesting to the world

A coolie who was found lying at the at large. In any case we do not anticipate back of No. 18, Tai Hung Street in an that we shall have to record an imposing unconscious condition was removed to military ceremony at Mukden in which a

the hospital and expired shortly aftor.

The three men who had been similarly Japanese General at the head of 400 troops wards, the cause of death being at present charged for possession of notes to the

LONDON, September 29th. marches to the Chinese Police Station or unknown. A carpenter has laid informa face value of 867,000 before Mr. G. N.

Two negroes ran amok in the streets of the Turum's Yamen to tender au abjecttion that he saw a Chinese constable Orme, and discharged on a point of law, apology to Chinese officials. That is an strike the deceased during a gambling appeared before Mr. Wood, charged Fayette, Mississipi, shooting wildly the while. They were captured, and lynched, utterly inconceivable outcome of the dispute. raid, at No. 24, Tai Hung Street, under another Ordinance with unlaw- The information which reached Shanghai Enquiries are being made into the matter, fully receiving or conveying certain their bodies being afterwards hanged at Canton notes, knowing them to have been the Eailway Station. Altogether 13 from Peking last week was that the

At the Magistracy yesterday a private stolen ontside the Colony." Mr. F. B. Japar eso Legation, onder instructions from chair coolie was charged with behaving Bowley prosecuted, and Mr. G. H. persons

were killed, including the

ment that Japan was prepared to make Acting Inspector Garrod stated that the defended. apologised to the Japanese Consul at Nanking for the regrettable murder by the joint inquiry into the Changli affair, the defendant was drunk and very noisy. He troops of three Japanese subjects in that Japanese nominating two officials of the caught an Indian constable by the belt arrested at the back of a money-changer's city at the time the siege was niised, the Legation and the Chinese two belonging and tried to push him into the bushes, shop at Shanghai Street, Yauniati, on the to the Board of Communications. Con. The officer added that several complaints 24th ult. He was carrying a small hand sidering how diametrically opposed to each other are the two versions of the origin of the affair, & joint inquiry seems the only way of getting at the approximate truth. The Chinese official account as given above is manifestly absurd in its main particulars. Should an impartial inquiry show that Japanese soldiers were really the aggressors, Japan could not reasonably refuse to make amends so far as concerns the punishment of the aggressors, the payment of compensation to relatives.

HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1913. Now that General CHANG Haus, with a

representative body of his troops, has duly Tokyo, had notified the Chinese Govora in a disorderly manner at The Peak Hall Brutton (of Messrs. Brutton & Hett) Sherifi..

public will be awaiting with eager interest the result of the demands which the Government of China-according to recent Paking telegrams published in the local Chineso Press-his made upon Japan in regard to az affat which occurred at Chang li station in Manskuria, China is stated to have framed ber demands upon "exactly the same lines as those made by Japan in regard to the Nanking affair." The admitted facts about the Chang. affair are that three two Chinese soldiers were killed and wounded in a sort of battle royal between Chinese and Japanese soldiers. A difference of opinion exists over the question as to who was the aggressor. The Japanese version of the affair is that some sentinels

of the Chinese Railway Flying Guard attempted to force their way though the

had been received from residents in the

Peak district about the noisy behaviour of the coolies. He was fined $10.

In the early hours of yesterday morning a fire broke out at Nos, 29 and 34, Morrison Hill Road, which were used by

It will be recalled that the first man was

bag, containing $3,162.50 in Hongkong

Wore

Mours

to their previous arguments. The Unionist papera demand EL General Election, and declares that specches like Mr. Redmond's are anyway the reverse of helpful in effecting a settlement.

Mr.

The Liberal

organs endorse Redmond's view that a General Election is absolutely unthinkable, and that "it would mean the tearing up of the Parlia ment Act. Nevertheless, the door to a Conference on the question is apparently as wide open as ever.

SEVERE FIGHTING IN MOROCCO.

Much speculation has been aroused over TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER ON BOTH SIDES.

the meeting of the Cabinet Ministers at TANGIER, September 20th." Brodick Castle, but nothing tangible has Bevere, indecisive fighting between so far accrued. It is pointed out that and Spaniards at Larache, the meeting as arranged long ago for resulted in terrible slaughter on both the purpose of discussing Mr. Lloyd sides. It is reported that the Spaniards George's land campaign, but Lord Lore- fell into an ambush. Many of the shells burn's action naturelly changed the from the Spanish cruiser dropped among situation. a Spasish column, increasing the Spanish

money, and a partner at the money- changer's shop stated that the defendant had changed $4,000 odd in Kwangtung notes for the Hongkong money. The second and third defendants arrested later on the same day on the The Fire Yaumati ferry wharf. Esch had a small box in his charge, containing, in the case of the second moon, $40,000, and in the losses. ease of the other 922,500 is Canton notes.

a Chinese as a timber store. Brigade arrived on the scene in good a hold for their efforts to be successful, Mr. Bowley said he would endeavour time, but the fire had obtained too secure and the whole building was speedily to prove that these notes were the pro perty of the Canton Sovernment, all of gutted, the timber, bamboo poles, palm them being newly issued notes. He would leaves and other material inside being also endeavour to prove when they were they never reached the destination for

OBITUARY. LONDON, September 29th. The death is announced of Sir Alfred

Mr. Birrell, Secretary of State for Ireland, has gone to Balmoral to attend the King.

THE TURCO-BULGARIAN TREATY.

LONDON, September 29th.

of the deceased nien, and as apology, but we completely destroyed. The outbreak was issued, and their destination. and that East, A.R.A.. President of the Society The Turco-Bulgarian Treaty containe

cannot picture a Japanese General making apologies to Chinese officials in the same manner as General CHANG Heur and his

troops have apologised to the Japanese

Consul at Nanking.

caused, it is supposed, by sparks from which they were intended. He would ask the kitchen igniting some dry palm leaves his Worship to infer that the notes were close by. The property was insured for stolen in Canton during the riotous

two monthe

Evidence was then called, and the case $2,000, but the building was not insured.appenings in that city during the past

adjourned.

The total damage by fire and water is estimated at $6,000.

secret clauses referring to cases of forced

of British Artists, at the age of 64.

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Art. Societies.]

either sex.