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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL.

FINANCE COMMITTER.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2ND,

A weeting of the Finance. Committee was afterwards hell, the CoLOSIAL SCORE- TARY presiding.

A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber yesterday. Present:-- His Excellency the inverner (Sir R. Evil

Seves, K.C.M.G.).

The Officer Commanding the Troops (Colonel CAVER RUNNEL BROWN, D.5.0.)

The Colonial Secretary (Hen Sir Crazo

SEVERN, K. B.E, CHU),

The Attorney-General (Han. Mr. J. FL

KEMP, KO, CRE).

HARMOUR OFFICK VOTE.

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The Governor recommended the Coun to vote a sum of $13.950 in aid of the vote Harbour Master's Department. Per sonal Emoluments,

The CHAIRMAN: This sust of $13,250 is made up, chiefly of the following items: Salary of Lient-Commander "Conway Hake, for acting as Harbour Master from year, this being the difference between

THE SITUATION AT CANTON. STARTLING RUMOURS,

THE ARMS SEIZURE The Commission appointed by Dr. San Yat-sen to investigate the legality of the There were startling rumours in Hong-shipment of arms consigned to the mer kong yesterday afternoon that on the chants volunteers consists of Dr. C. C. previous night there had been heavyWu, Secretary of Foreign Affairs Mr. fighting in the city of Canton between Lee Hingyuan. Procurator-General of Sun's mercenaries and the merchants' the Supreme Court of South China; Gov. volunteers. Up to yesterday evening weernor Lisa Chung-hoi, of Kwangtungs were unable to obtain any verification and Mr. Fco Ping-sheung Commissioner

for Foreign Affairs at Canton.. of this; though there appears to be no doubt that the situation is indeed very grave and that fighting is likely to break

The Colonial Treasurer (Mon. Mr. D. 1 January 29th to July 3rd at sa day night large numbers of Yunanese be equipped with arms recently seized

THATMAN).

soldiers were kept busy marching and countermarching through the main streets

1. T. CRISY (Director of £983 and £760 ($1,338): and the salary of The Bund wes crowded with soldiers.

Public Works). "Hon. Mr. A. E. Woon (Secretary

Chinese Alairs). Hof. Mr. E. D. C. Kyura Superintendent of Police).

Hon. Mr. P. H. Hogya

Hon. Mr. H. W. BIRD

Hon. Mr. H. KOTEWALL

Hon. Mr. CRAC SIT-KL

for

(Captain)

Lieut R. Beauchamp. who was lent as

Assistant Harbour Master from 16th April to 30th June, being the difference between £700 and £50 (3875), and from 1st July to 14th August at £700 a year ($1,018), Then we had to provide the salaries of two Additional assistant Government marine surveyors from 1st July to 1st December of this year at £460 a year each. The sum required for this is $4,900. There are various salaries of clerks, which Mr. S. B. B. McElozany (Clerk of make up the balance to $12,137. In addi- tion to that the Government has arranged Councils).

with the Crown Agents to the Colonies The aiuntes of the last meeting of the for the loan of an officer to start and Council were approved and signed.

Hon. Mr. C. MONTAers EDE

Ilma Mr. CG. ALABASTRAL. R.C.,

D.B.E

MINUTES.

FINANCE

maintain an accounts cffice and get a general office Assistant for the Harbour Olice at a salary of $750 a month in- clusive, The Harbour Office has to deal with very large aunts of money and in order to enable the Harbour Master and his Assistant to devote themselves to

The ColoxisL SECRETARY, by command of H.3. the (lovernor, ind on the table Financial Minutes No G. 68 and & and moved that they be referred to the Finance Comittee

The COLONIAL TREASTEER secondeil and their duties in connection with shipping the-nustion was agreed ti

The COLONIAL SECRETs, by command of H.E the Governor, laid upon the table the Report of the Finance Committee (No. 6) and moved that it he adopted.

The COLONIAL TRECKER seconded and the motion was agreed to, SOPIVY AMENDMENT ORDINANCE.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first

and the Harbour generally it has been found necessary to have some official who will always be in the offer to deal with and accounts The correspondence amount required for his salary from the time he leaves England, this month, until the end of the year, is about $3,000

Approved.

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ICELASED PRISON STAFF. "The Governor recommended the Coup-

to vote a sum of $2,000 in aid of the levote Prison Department, Other Charges,

Clothing and Shoes Fur Staff.

reading of a Bill intituled an Ordinance to attend the Opium Ordinance 10 said: The principal object of this Bill, Sir, is to make it more clear and more stringent in regard u dealings in raw opium. In the first place the Bill makes it clear that all unlicensed dealings in raw opium are illegal, whether the raw opium le ascertained to be in existence in the

Colony or not. The Bill provides that no dealings in raw opinn shall be legal unless they are under license from the

Governer.

The Charman: This sum is necessary owing to the increase in the staff of the Prison Department.

Approved.

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TYTROOS MOORINGS.

DR. SUN'S RED ARMY. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Red Army, to bo out at any moment. Throughout Wedhes-known as the Canton Labour Corps, to from the Canton Merchants Vchatcers has now an enrolment of more than 1,300, Many in Canton fear that the favouritisin The populace is in a state of panic and shown towards the working class by the those who cannot leave Canton and who Kuomintang Government will proveke have any influence at all are trying to further ill-feeling between the comployers make arrangements to take sholter on and the employés in Canton, an unsutis. Shameen where French marines are still factory relationship wrought at the bes keeping patrol. In view of the danger|ginning by too much government support of locting and the firing of godenws into the labourers in wage disputes and the city many merchants have made other matters. arrangements to have valuable stocks, MR. CHAN-LIM PAK'S DENIAL OF lying in godowns transferred to godowns en Shamcen and it is stated that "on" $3,000,000 Wednesday something like worth of silk was secretly transported to the godowns on Shumeen.

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All the steamers from Canton yester- day were packed with refugees, prin cipally better class Chinese.

Incidentally trade, with Canton is paralysed and little or no cargo was sent up to that city last night. -

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DR. SUN'S ALLEGATIONS. Mr. Chan Lim Pak. Commandant of the Canton Merchants Volunteer Corps, when communiented with regarding the charge of Dr. Sun Yat Sen that he was intriguing to overthrow bis Goreraniene ia Canton, becogne" Governor hindself, and cancel the independence of Kwang-

by General Wa Rei Fu, with whom Dre tung in favour of the North, as suggested

Sun has been accusing Mr. Chan of main- taining's connection, strongly denied the insinuation.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. } WOUNDED SOLDIERS ARRIVING AT WONGSHA.

Mr. Chan Lim Pak said he was a The arrival of wounded soldiers at business man pare and simple and never Wengsha, Canton, daily since the 15th of had dreamed of going into politics. August suggests that all is not well in That he has many business connections thstricts north of Canton, but strict cen of importance in South China is well- AD1005 Chinese and foreign sorship of the press, telegrams, and mail known in Canton makes no acws available, circles. Mr. Chan has been mentioned except official communiques from Dr. more than once in Canton for the office Sun Yat-sen's press bureaux and sabot Civil Governor, but he himself had sidized "news" agencies. Since August never entertained the idea, as his busi- 4th, Dr. Sun has called in many outside neas is too valuable to give up. More- troops, and some people in Canton have over, according to himself, he is markëd concluded therefrom that General Chen out as good only for a business, as he Chiung-ming and his followers are

likes commercial enterprises. more than. turning to Canton from the East River

anything else.. districts to dust Dr. Yat-sen and bis Kuomintung Party.

re-

Mr. Chan Lim Pak has taken a leading It is not believed in well-informed part in the merchants volunteer move. circies however, that General Chen willment simply because of the fact that its The Governor recommended the Coun-be able to return to Canton so early as object and purpose is for self-protection some have hoped for. The truth appears among the business community, and local to be that Dr. Sun Yat-sen bas become defence against outside interference. As restless under an illusion. He ordered Mr. Chan is a leading business man, the confiscation of a lawfully imported haping been engaging in banking, silk. consignment of arms belonging to the mining shipping and other lines for the People's volunteers on the 12th, the tried last 20 years, and bas many interests to prevent the volunteers amalgamating protect, naturally he would take an im on the 13th, and feared an uprising of portant part in the volunteer movement. As to his connection with Wa Pei Fu, the people on the 14th of August-a fear he denied it Hatly. which proved to be unwarranted.

el to vote a sum of $120,000 on account of Harbour Master's Department, Special Expenditure, Renewal of Moorings, and provisions of New Typhoon Moorings. I should like to explain that the pro- The CHAIRMAN: This is made up of the hibition of importation of raw epium ap-cost of "chain bought from the Crown plies not only to the firin or person ar-

Agents (to the zoount of $58,963); then ranging for the importation, but it is also there is a sum which has already been a prohibition that applies to the shipper, submitted to the Finance. Committee for and the captain of a ship on which it is re-arranging the existing buoys (84,000);

According to information from Well- carried. "It is an offence for all those special typhoon moorings have been laid informed sources, the recent return of persons to import raw opium without as the harbour at a cost of $3,000 each. so many troops from the "front" us Sixteen sets of moarings have been laid; not been actuated by a desire to suppprt In the

second place I should like to

that makes 880,000. There is further a Dr. Sun Yat-sen in his arms dispute with point out that in future every importa- tender" from the Taikos Dockyard for the volunteers but for the purpose of tion of raw opium, into the Colony or material for special typhoon moorings reorganing the Yunnanese Army in Can "Exportation from the Colony will require mounting to $34.000. It had been in ton and to enforce the shipping impests a permit not only for it to be landed here tended by the Harbour Master to include levied by the Hunanese, Yuznanese, and or transhipped but for through cargo this sum in the Estimates for 1925, but the Kwangsi-lfes on the Canton boat popu daly and of being drunk on July 25th.

license.

which never leaves the ship: in either ease a permit will be required as well as a license from the Government.

Clauses 3, 4 and 5 contain cousequential amendments of the amendments made by

• Clause (2.

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Clause C of the Bii amends section. 1) of the principal ordinance in accord ance with recommendations made by the Chamber of Commerce.

the making of the material necessitates lation. the use of the largest machinery in, the Taikoo Dockyard at, to

ensure that there should be do delay in relaying these moorings he recommended that the work

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"MILITARY ACCOUNTANT

COURT MARTIALLED. DRUNK AND UNFIT FOR DUTY. Stall-Sergeant Arthur Percy Allen of the Corps of Military Accountants, was Court Martialled yesterday and found Guilty." of rendering himself unfit for Major W. P. A. Hattersley-Smith presided, other members of the Court were: Capt. Swinton and Lieut. J H Smith. Capt. E. Hall prosecuted, and pris- Lieut. P. A. Brockman acted as

COLLECTING WAR IMPOSTS. The officials in Canton are pressing the inhabitants for their contributions. The oner's friend.

Evidence showed that prisoner was fourth cionthly rent contribution levied touud lying across a table in a drunken

be put in hand at once. A sum of $34,000 on the Canton landlord this year has to state.

On previous occasions. it was

bighly nervous condition.

is required now; the total of these items be paid to the Police before the end of admitted prisoner had been found in a.

$173,165 The total amount of the August. The military impost on land itenis for the current year is: Crown deeds inspection it a fee of three per

In Clause 7, which corrects certain Agents, $58,263; Taikoo Dockyard, cent, of the property value involved must

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A written statement was handed in

by accused in which he said that the con- dition on which the prosecution had based also be paid before "August 24th. In the their opinion that he was caused through dorafting errors is the principal ardi.

was in. It was an old-standing trouble, nance, opportunity is taken to make some

Hup. Mr. HOLYDAE: Could not the interval every informant succeeding in the debilitated and nervous condition he slight changes in the penalties; for exam-

fetching a land-owner to the deeds, ex ple the maximum penalty for refusal of thains, be got locally, and save time? -

revenue officer to produce his badge is The CHAIRMAN: They have alrendy ar.amination office will be awarded with 10 caused through war service and con. and the informants, the deeds examin- joined the Army in 1914 he held two made 8). It seems unnecessary to give rived. I don't think there has been any per cent of the fees to be collected. To siderable worry in early life. Before he power of imprisonment. The special delay. The necessary chain cables were ad

lot or building with the sign. This bag responsibility and these hall greatly penalties for obstructing searchers have enlered from England on October goth, tiun office is placarding every delinquant positions with London arms of great Leen omitted; they will be dealt with 1923 and arrived in the Colony April not received an inspectica certificate, afliccted his health. His joined the Arms 11th, 1924. The concrete blocks, as 1 thus causing no Little annoyance to those in September, 1914, and, although offer. under the general clauses.

The COLONIAL THEASURER seconded and explained at a previous meeting of the who would not otherwise have paid the ed Home service, preferred to see active

Finance Committee take a month to

corporal in four months and sergeant the Bill was read a first time.

harden, and a month afterwards they will three per cent. impost exacted by the service with the battalion. He was made

military authorities.

land owners eleven months later. He was gouztied in is hastening THE SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIA be examined by a diver to see if they are

While Sun Fo, is sufficiently embedded to stand the strain

shore to pay their latest imposts, the February, 1910. He was considered unfit TION BILL

of typhoon weather. Chains of the size joint financial Commission of the Yunnan for further active service and did work The COLONIAL SECRETAR Sir, I beg to and weight needed cannot be very readily ess,Hunanese, and Kwangsi-ites, mers at Home in connection with War Savings. troops is exacting another con Certificates, for which he received a then tion from the boat population of letter of thanks from the report to your Excellency that the Bill got in the Colony. intituled An Ordinance to authorize the Hon. Mr. HOLYOK: I was only wander imbution

the mininum of which not

He underwent medical treat. Appropriation of a Supplementary Suming whether there had been any delay Kwangtung by samopod best pay a Prime Minister, Mr. Did y of Two million and twenty-eight thousand through ordering from home.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY referred to a to be less than three dollars, while the ment for his nerves at that time. Soon and thirty-eight Dollars and, three Cents to defray the Charges of the year 1923 minute by Lieut. Commander fake, put larger craft have to pay more in accord after he arrived in the Colony, he spent has been considered by the Finance Com- ting forward the scheme for the special ance with published schedule. The five weeks in hospital, during which time zuittee and the various items were passed typhoon moorings. It was dated 25th excuse for this latest post is that his work accumulated greatly and since since the 7th of July, the mercenary then it had been done continuous effort

have not been without amendment. I beg now to move March.

given any regular .that. the Bill be read a third time.

he took a small quantity of wine. He The COLONIAL TREASURED having aceond-ordered in October last?

The CHAIRMAN replied that when the the enemy, General Chen Chung-ming, hoped the Court would consider bis

the people cannot afford to position in all its aspects, ed the motion the third reading of the

S/S. M. Dunnett, R.A.P.C., Kaid have heavy blocks with the usual lender the protection these troops will be nhi nccused was very temperate man, or of chain but later Lieut-Commander

give Hake designed a" special type of moor- That the reply of Dr. Bun Yat-sen he had never en bin worse for liquor. H.E. TR GOVERNOR: It is desired to in "with ahanging five-ton block, August 10th to the Canton Merchants pass the Opium Ordinance early, for shortening the length of the chain, and Volunteer Corps regarding the arms dis Pearce. reasons into which I need not go at the no doubt a good many fathoms of chain pute was unsatisfactory to the latter present moment, and I therefore think had been saved by adopting this scheme vo must have another ineeting next week. He did not think there had been any I propose therefore that the Council undue delay. Ladyburn till this day week at 2:30.

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Hou. Mr. BIRD: Yet the chain was by Dr. Sun Tal-sen and with to catch up. On the morning of the 99th |

. Bill was agreed to and the Bill passed chains was ordered it was intended to∙proaching, and they must pay,

into law, accordingly.

THE ADJOURNMENT.

"Approved

to

for

This was corroborated by Staff-Sergt."

There were no previous convictions could be seen by the tasty withdrawls of against accused.

The Court foued accused “Guilty important citizens and valuable goods from Canton, which is evidence of fear Sentence will be promulgated in de that something unpleasant ma bappen."

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