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Positive testimony linking, members of Legation, Peking (Mr. H. H. Fox), in the hooded Ku Klux Klan with the tor his recently issued report on the commerture and murder of Daniels and Richards. cial, industrial and economic funtion of at Merrongs, Louisiana, was given China, states that part of China's tardi Baatros on January 9th before State THE Undersigned, have received jastructions ness in developing industries on a large Attorney-General Coco, and as a result ** Klansmen ** will be schle is due to her. failure to utilise to the names of many the full her undoubted resources in coal presented to the grand jury for indict- ment in eoquection with the crime, which and iron.
hat shocked the State of Louisiana and the nation.
to sell by Public Auction,
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
the 6th, 7th and 8th MARCH 1993. at HM. Naral Yard, Hongkong, and at Kolonn Naval Depot, commencing each day at 9.30a.m.with an interval from 12 Noon to 1.30p.m OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL STORES,
Life Boats, Whalers, Cars, Colls sad Electrical Fittings Electric Cable, Cooking, Stoves, Ships Fittings, Iron Beds, Mattresses and Fittings, Life Rafts, Life Belts, Carpets, Rug, Mats, Table Covera, Blankets, Canvas, Leather and Metallic Hoses, Old Cordage Canvas Rags, Old India Rubber, Old Leather. Old Woollen Rags, Old Asbestos, Old Cork, Old Iran and Steel Old Brass, Copper, Lead and Gun Metal, Coal Sacks, Wood and Gaa Metal Blocks, Lamps, Gauges Steel Tubes, Stool Wire Rope, Oil Chain Cable, Drilling and Grinding Machines Finnace and Cutter. Engines, Tables, Chairs, Stools, Binnades, Companies, Clocks, Davits. Iron Drums, Wooden Cases, Fold n Lavatories, Old Pack ing Canes, &e."
It is true that recent investigatious, both by foreign experts and by Chinese engineer with Western training, bave tended to reverse the opinion that China is exceptionally rich in mineral deposits, and to show thas the country is on the whole below the average of mineralisa tion. There are, nevertheless, large and valuable coal and iron ore deposits in many provinces, to develop which no serious effort has yet been made.
The prosecutor's chief witness, J. §. Norswerthy, a fenner captahi of the Mer- rouge branch of the Klan, and a pros perous planter, who apparently is not afraid of vengeanes and Klan threats of assassination,
gave details involving Captain Skipwith (head of the local Klan), Larry Calhoun (Deputy Sheriff). A L. Smith (a plantation owner)," and Dr. MeKain (former Mayor of Mer rouge), Norsworthy said he left the Klan because he objected to the society's methods, and particularly to being order. An estimate of the production of coal ined to horsewhip certain men within an China for the year 1020 was given in isch of their lives and run them out of output of some 30.000,000, tons, of which him the Klan had marked six men for last year's report showing a possible the State. He swore that Skipwith told! pearly 13,000,000 tons were produced by death, and had already got Richards, the larger mines worked on modern lines and Daniels. To the packed court wit More recent estimated" of the annual pro-žese related the story of the kidnapping. duction made by various experts show of five men. on August 24th on the Bas * ALSO
figures ranging between 10 and IS million trop-Merrouge road, two of whom he be M QUANTITY of STRUCTURAL tons.
loved to be Daniels and Richards. The STEELWORK comprising Stanchions, Beams,
The country's coal reserves tre said captors, Norsworthy, said, were masked Struts, Gutters, &c., and sundry other Steel
to be probably between 40 and 50 billion with black hoods, which was the raiding work, and a large quantity of Fire Bar Iro
Lots may be inspected on MONDAY, the thors. While these reserves are very con- garb the local Klansmen used at night. siderable when compared with the present Witness described the Klansmen as hold- MARCH, 1923.
Also Bale of OLD AND SURPLUS VIC-consumption per head of the population.fing the laws of their organisation above TUALLING STORES at Kowloon on they would, of course, be small if the the laws of the Government, and re- FRIDAY, 9th MAnon, comprising:
consumption were on a level with that of Condemned Provisions for Poultry or Pign the people of Great Britain or America. Food. Remnants of Serge, Flannel, &c., Bed
According to China's leading mineral ding, Clothing, Mess Clear including Electro
expert, the proportion of anthracite Plate."
bituminous coal is no greater thân. 1.5, while that for the world generally is 1.8.
Terms of Sale-As detailed in Catalogas.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
By Appointment Auctioneers to the
Admiralty. Hongkong, 20th February, 1923. [491
PARTICULARS ·
of
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY
Situate
No 13, WING HING STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,
To be Bold by Order of the Mortgagee
By
PUBLIC AVOTION,
IN ONE LOT. Од MONDAY, The 12TH Day of MAR, 1953, at 3 D'CLOCK PM.
By Mesari. LAMMENT BROTHERS
A Thein Orion, Dundell STREET,
THE
THE Property consists of First ALL
to
accois-
cognising no laws except their own. He denounced the Kia as an organisation from which he shrank because of its law- lessness. Norsworthy declared that he we motoring, from Bastrop to Merrouge on August 24th with C. W. Andrews when he was stopped by a dozen booded, men, THE ANGLO-CHINESE EXTERPRISE. all armed with Winchester rifles, who While accurate figures of the output of demanded that Andrews should the majority of Chinese mines are difficult pany them. Andrews was blind-folded to obtain, those of the great Anglo- and led away, and Norswerthy was told Chinese joint mining enterprise in the to drive on. He learned later that An- Chihli Province, the Kailan Mining Ad.drews had been flogged. Norsworthy did ministration, are sufficiently remarkable not see Daniels and Richards captured, to merit mention here.
but he saw five men, blindfolded being In 1912, when the. Chincar and British driven away in a truck. Witness swore Skipwith was the Imperial mining companies were amalgamated, the that maximum output achieved by the latter Cyclops of the Morehouse Parish Klan
who directed, all its nefivities and ordered was some 1 million tons a year.
Today, the output of the joint concern members to the tasks of chastising and
punishing. is well over four million tong per utinum,
J. L. Daniels, father of one of the a figure which would be very greatly murdered men. testified that Skipwith increased if better transport facilities telephoned that he was going to were available and adequate rolling-stock were reserved for coal transportation on the Peking Mukden Railway.
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witness if he had to kill Daniels himself.
BANKING registerAND LOT NO-9166 together with million tons, sufficient, to maintain the nised Skipwith amongst the hooded gang!
4 of
Hing
Street nad
Capt. Skipwith, the "Exalted Cyclops" of the local Klan, was involved by prac Upwards of 11,500 tons must be removed tically every witness, who testified that from the mines daily to prevent accu Sheriff Fred Carpenter, who had sworn mulations at the pitheads, while, luring to uphold the law, was accused of per- the recent unrest and civil war, the committing his position as "Klabee" in the pany has often considered itself fortunate Klan to interfere with his duty, and that to be in a position to remove one or two instead of interfering when Daniel was thousand tons.
kidnapped, he calmly stood by and did no The known deposits of coal in the field thing. worked by this company exceed 1,000 Richards's widow said she had recog present output for nearly 260 years. If which first captured her husband and present plane for expatision mature, the threatened him. Her eyes flashed as she' 20,000 tons a day, or seven million tons the man she believes to be responsible for the brutal murder of her husband. "My Various other subsidiary industrial en husband called him Captain,'" she said.. terprises, such as the manufacture of" but I call him Mister when I con- glass, are contemplated by the company descend to speak to him." at its port of Chinwangtao; if these plans materialise, this company will become a great industrial undertaking, as well as the largest coal-produefhg contern in the
DUDDELL STREET, gives to all its Dépositors now known as No. 13, Wins and at therear outpat should before long reach nearly searched the court-room for a glimpse of
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Addie Hamilton. a 17-year-old girl, testified in apparent terror how she had been driven out of the State,as she alleg ed, by Dr. McKoin, then Mayor of Mer- rouge, and others, because, as they charg ed, she was immoral. She described how Public interest, has further been aroused masked mob forced their way into her in the proposal to link up the company's home,, how she was, threatened with tar coal resources with the iron-ore deposits and feathers, how her mother, en bended" of the Yangtze Valley for the manufacture knees, pleaded with the booded men not of sted in North China, though it is said to take her daughter from her, and how that, probably owing to the internal state the doctor struck her mother and SOUTH of the country, the project has not get threatened her with tar and feathers if she beyond the stage of preliminary investi-interfered. gation.
IRON RESOURCES. ·
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In most instances the Klansmen were] identified by the witnesses by their voices China's iron resources, like those of or manner of walking. her coal, have been consistently exagger-
The Attorney-General brought out ated. The iron reserves of the country, additional names of many prominent as based on six years of study of the citizens as being identified with the great question by the Geological Survey, are crime which has shocked the nation and given as G77 million tons, distributed threatens the future existence of the principally as follows:-1 million in Klan, Chilli Province, 387 million in South, Manchuria, 23 million in Shoatung, 160 million in the Yangtae Valley provinces, and 7 million in Fükiea. 4*
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An estate manager write to the Straits Times -
These figures represent only such known deposits as have been already studied by the survey, and "cannot be taken to be the total existing reserve, which may be
Either the newly-arrived Germans in possibly twice as much, or at a conserva this country, or their agents are selling Live estimate, 1,000 million tona..
The present production of iron ore in many thousands of mark notes at an China is some 1,500,000 tons, of which absurd price-cheating the ignorant na- about two-thirds is emelted in the country.tive, I find my colies and mandores 478 There are now night ironworks in the buying 1,000 Mark zotes at $10 a note. country constructed or under construe They have been told these will realise tion, with a total output equal to some $12.50 in a month's time!! It is obviously 1,000,000 tons, but progress in this direc- a swindle and notices in the variqua
marked.
the country, The Mahommedan shop- The exports of iron-ore decreased from keepers seem to be the culprite or vendors My store mandore 11,202,407 piculs in 1920 to 8,517,162 piculs in Central Johore.
Customer that their Orders for IOE wanticyclone is probably moving west- tion during the past year has not been languages should be posted throughout | WE hereby beg to remind our numerous
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A typhoon is shown to the north-eart of Hokkaido.
The Gulu depression or typhoon appears to be in about Lat. 16 der. N. and Long. 141 deg. E. maring N.W. Both position and direction uncertain.
Hongkong rainfall for the 14 tours coding st 10 am, 28th Feb, 0.10 inch. Total rinos January 1st, 0.62 ineber, against an average of 3.11 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon, Ist Mar., in na follows:--
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in 1921. Still more than in the case of bought 5,000 marks for 250, and came to her coal deposits, the development of me for information after the transaction. China's iron industry, is hindered by lack The size of the note the pretty effect, of the means of transportation for bulky and the figure 1,000 appeal to the un raw materials over long distances.
OTHER MINZIBALI. «
There is but little program to report in regard to the development of the other minerals produced in China, of which the most importantare tin, antimony, Hongkong to Gap Rock NE winds, fresh, tungsten, molybdenum, manganse, lend
and zinc.
Formosa Channel
tair.:
NE wind, strong
Bouth coast of China between ƒ The mme w *** Hongkong and Lamaoka No 1
South coast of China between The sam' AM -
Hongkong and Blizan
No. 1.
educated native. It is time they were salightened and from the right quarter."
There was, however, a notable advance in the export of lead ore from 34,534 piculs in 1020 to 102,110 picula in 1991, while zinc are increased from 150,729 The local consumption is not yet picule in 1920 to 197.222 piculs in 1921. Buffcient to render the working of these
The export of tin however, which mirçi profitable, and pricey have now comes almost entirely from the Pravisce of reached such a low level that there is Yanaan, dropped from 189,940 piculs in very light, remuneration for the business 1990 to 103,035 picula in 1921. Here, done, with the result that the majority
of the mines that have been working for again, the decline can be decribed to the deplorable internal conditions of the many years have been forced to close. province, which has been in an almost
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