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TEACHERS' SALARIES IN

CANTON.

WHOLESALE RESIGNATIONS

EXPECTED,

THE

RESUMPTION OF TRADE. CANTON DELEGATES EXPECTED.

As was stated in the Daily Press Inst week, the four leading Chinese Commer cial Guilds elected a Committee to coa- sider the possibilities of re-establishing normal trade relations between Canton and Hongkong.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1925

SUMMARY COURT.

ALLEGED BREACH OF CONTRACT.

DAMAGES CLAIMED AGAINST A- BRITISH FIRM.

"WHO BROKE THE CONTRACT? "

YESTERDAY'S ARRIVALS. PASSENGERS FROM MANILA ON

PRESIDENT GRANT," Yesterday the "s. President Grant arrived from Manila Among her passen gors were the following:-

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.)

Mr. Robert S. Tapia, of San Franaised, who

will take the Dollar Line as Some 430 officers and teachers of the

President Cleveland to that port," Mr. Canton Municipal High and Lower Prim-

This Committee, as our readers aro

In the Summary Court yesterday Tapia was formerly employed by the ary Schools are expected to resign to-day aware, appointed Mr. Law Tung Ping to. Tuesday, on account of the failure of the come to Hongkong as their advance agent before Mr. Justice Wood, the Kung Shun Dollar Steamship Company in Manila re-enter the employ of Municipality to live up to its recent assur to enter into "conversations with leading Cheong Firm, of 76, Bonham Strand East, and will now ance gradually to reduce the arrears of merchants here. r. Lau Tung Ping was sued Messrs. W. A. Hannibal & Co., SA, the company in their San Francisco sxiaries sad in future to pay the salaries in Hongkong on Friday and saw the Des Voeux Road Central, for $348.50, office.

In October the officials of the Chinese Chamber of Com-as damages for breach of contract. Plain regularly cach month Reds dominating the city government paid merce; the Chinese members of the tifs also claimed the costs of the action, There was a counter claim by the de 3 per cent of the salaries due, and the Legislative Council; the Hon. Mr. P. H first year teachers who earn $21 a month Holyoak, the Hos. Mr. A. O. Lang ant

others. He then returned to Chaton and fondant firm for $300,73. only received 8:0.50. The janitors of the it is now reported that the members of schools, who earn $5 a month, received the Canton Committee themselves will så for Octobor, and they have been tell pay Hongkong a visit either to-morrow

ing the teachers that unless they receive more they will be too hungry to fix up the rooms for the classes.

OVERSEAS CHINESH

The Overseas Chinese Bolsheviks now

in Canton waiting for the National Con- vention met informally on Monday, and among the proposals it was decided to submit to the Kuomintang" was one for the organization of an Overseas Chinese Bolshevik division to be affiliated with the National Kuomintang in Cabton. It was also suggested that an agricultural and labour school should be founded as a

or Thursday.

Mr. A. el Arcali presented plaintiffs, and Mr. H. E. Dennys (Messrs. Hastings, Deanyi & Bowley) appeared for the de-

fondant firm.

Tain Hi Leung, the manager of the These delegates will be, it is expected, Messrs. Kan Kum Shek, Tae Chok Kai, plaintiff firm, stated in his evidence, that Loung Pui Kec, Kwong Chi Kwan, Cheuk he contracted with the 'defendant firm on Mow Yip, Chan Shau Mox, Chu Chak August 5th to deliver ton drums of Sang. Wu Chung Tong. Lam Lia Sang aniseed oil within a period of sixty Chan Yuen 'Fung, Wong Yuk Shing, Poon,

days. That torm would expire on Kam Hong. Itung Kung Wai, Tam Tai Chi, Shong Chun Tong and possibly October 4th. The oil was delivered as noon on September 25th, when defendanta others.

refused to accept it, claiming that it had not arrived in time to be shipped from Hongkong on the same day.

A meeting of the District Commercial Associations of Hongkong has been held, and a reception committee appointed to meet the Canton delegation.

According to the Wah T's: Yat Po, the Canton Chambers of Commerce met while!

Replying to Mr. Dennys, witness said that he was going to charge the defend- ants $129 a picul He did not know that

Mr. F. Vorstokt, who is a large sugar planter, at Iloilo has come to Hongkong to meet his family and take them back with him.

"

Miss D. Gray, who is on a general

tour of the Far Eae. She has been visiting in the Philipines for some sime. Miss Gray will spend a week in Hongkong and then proceed to Calentta. After a few months in India sho in tends to return to this part of the orient.

Mr. Hugh Hunter, who is manager ́ of the Canton Office of the Union Insurance Society, and is on his way back after a business and pleasure trip to Manila, where he was formerly stationed.

Mr. C. J. Kelly, of Getz Bros, who is on his way to Shanghai after a pleasure and business trip to Manila. Mr. Kolly is accompanied by his wife. They will stay in Hongkong for a few, daya

Mr. F. D. Stephens, the newly ap pointed manager of Getz Bros'. Shang- his way there from

Manila,

Mr. K. Maejima, is the agent for the largo Taikonsha Lul., of Tokyo, a publishing and advertising company, and is travelling through the Oriont and soliciting advertising. He will leave the Colony in about a week or tou days for Kobe.

memoria! to the late Mr. Liu Chung Ho, Mr. Lau Tung Ping was in Hongkong in the price of the oil had increased since hai office, is on chief of the Labour Division of the order to discuss the situation and it is the contract was made, but he knew that Kuomintang, who was assassinated last stated that they interviewed the Chair- August, and that the Central Executive man of the Kuomintang on the subject on October 11th it was priced from $129 to Commission of the Kuomintang should of trade resumption. It is generally be $129 a picul. He thought that the market price on September 8th was $140, and he approached to provide a building which Lieved that the Government will support

move towards disagreed with Mr. Denny's contention might be used as an Overseas Chinese the merchants in their club.

pence. Representatives of the Depart-that it was $150. MILITARY ACADEMY AT SWATOW. meat Stores in Cantor-Sincere's, Wing! The Reds have decided to establish a On and the Sun Co-will, it is said, be

to Hongkong. department of the Whampoa Military included in the delegation Academy at Swatow. It will be recalled that the militarists recently decided to enrol 10,000 me cadets for the Academy. Since then, nearly 4.000 have been re- eruited, including a number from Peking and other Northern Chinese cities,

20,000 HOMELESS.

Wuchow. authorities Red Kwangsi, have decided to suspend the rice embargo in the case of 1,500 piculi intended for the relief of the sufferers at

The

at

Kaukong, the West River town which was partly destroyed towards the end of Oct her during a conflict between the Reds and their opponents. As readers" of the

WU HON MAN IN MOSCOW.

WELCOME BY THE

HANDS OFF

CHINA" SOCIETY.

Man in Moscow,

SEQUEL TO NORTH POINT TRAGEDY.

A Chinese druggist who said that he resided on the premises of the plaintiff ärm at Bonham Strand East, stated that he knew the compradore of W. A Hannibal & Co. having often seen him

NINE MEN CHARGED. the plaintiff firm. visiting the offices The last occasion on which he saw him!" Two workmen in the employ of the was on September 28th, when he was ac-Netherlands Harbour Works appeared The com- before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central

yesterday, charged Magistracy murder, while seven more were charged with causing grievous bodily harm.

A Chinese gave evidence concerning the delivery of the oil at the offices of the defendant frm on September 25th."

A Chinese import and export merchant of 29. Percival Street, said that at the

with

The case is a sequel to the discovery made recently by the Police at North Paint, when they came upon two men tied of whom succumbed to injuries believed to have been caused by to poles, one

being beaten with sticka....

Detective Inspector T. Murphy said

Daily Preas are aware more than 2,000 Inluence was brought to bear to secure beginning of October he bought aniseed that from the examination of a rumber

persons were rendered bomescas,

oil at $129.50.

The Canton Gazette publishes an accompanied by a Europeaa. count, received through the Tass Agency, pradore asked Tsing Bi Leung, the of the reception accorded to Wu Honfanager, if he had any oil, and be res plied to the effect that it was expected Wu Hon. Man, it will be remembered, in a day or two. was formerly the head of the Kuomintang Party in Kwangtung and the Chief Officer of the Canton Government. Then be in surred the displeasure of General Chiang Kai Shek and was for some time virtually a prisoner at the Whampon Academy

of witnesses, the Police had learned that his release and he was set free on the

the beating was the result of an accusa- THE MILITARY SITUATION.

understanding that he would leave

Mr. Dennys said that the defence of tion made concerning the theft of a According to the latest reports South-Canton and pay a visit to Russia..

On October 17th" says the Tass the action was the counter claim. The money-box belonging to the inmates of em Kwangtung is gradually coming under the Red control. Recently the Canton Agetey message,n' recaption, in honour question was: Who brake. the contract?a mnished on the Company's premises. troops re-captured the district of Lim of General Wu Hon Man was given by Defendants had consistently taken up the The men were taken out and tied to the kong, which is within the Kaochow Pre- the "Hands Of China" Society. It was attitude in the correspondence that took posts about 2 a.m., and were not discover-

ed by the police until six o'clock. fecture, and also the district of Yeung-presided over by Mrs. Kamenev and at place that the plaintiff had promised to chun. Among the arms seized were more tended by representatives of the political deliver the oil in time for shipment on September 28th. It was delivered too than a thousand rifles. Two regiments economic and cultural organisations and pirrendered to them without fighting. Chinese citizens and students residing in late. One could not always get steamers, Murphy, was rather in the nature of

Moscow. Mr. Pavlovitch, representing the

manslaughter than of murder. No sharp The East, West, and Northern Kwang Scientific Institute of Orientalism and and if a certain time was allowed, the "tung districts are now practically free of

Anti-Reda.

The anti-Reds who retreated across the North-eastern Kwangtung borders to Kinngsi and Fukien are now taking re. fuge for the most part in Fukien. Thero are about 16,000 men left to General Chan Kwing Ming, who is expected to arrive at Amoy soon.

General Chiang Kai Shek, who is now in Swatow, has, however, no intention, it is' said, of allowing General Chan Kwing Ming to reorganise his army in Southern Fukien for another invasion of Eastern

Kwungtung.

EARTHQUAKE "SHOCKS. REGISTERED IN HONGKONG.

The medical view was that death re- sulted from concussion of the brain and shock. The case continued Inspector

and representatives of the Peasants In buyer always hoped to get his goods instruments were used, the injuries ap- ternationale, the All-Union Textile Syn- dicate and the Russian Eastern Chamber sooner. At the time when the defendantsparently being inflicted with fats and of Commerce greeted General Wy Hon wished to buy the oil there was a good sticks. Man not only as the revolutionary cham-

pion but also as the representative of supply in the market, but they trusted Chiness people ordained to break the the plaintiffa who guaranteed delivery in time. On the 27th September the plain- tifs had not received the cargo. In backbone of world imperialism."

order to have a shipment for next day, the defendant firm had to buy in the

His Worship formally remanded the case for a week.

DEFRAUDING THE REVENUE. SIX CHINESE CHARGED.

The case in which "rix Chinese were Kowloon Court, with defrauding the charged before Mr. E W. Hamilton as Reveaue, was continued yesterday. Mr.

SOVIET TRADE WITH CHINA.

Referring to the attempts of the im- perialists to bar the import, of "Soviet goods into China, the speakers pointed put that the economic rapproachment be open market at $150 a picul. Next day tween China and the Soviet Union was they were told by plaintiffs that the oil dictated not only by the community of political intertets but also by close neigh had arrived, and it was delivered at noon, bourhood of both countries as well as Before shipment, the ad, which had been The placed in kerosepe ting, had to be tested visits of the representatives of the and put in drums, and there was no time. D. Lloyd, Superintendent of Imports Chinese people to the U.S.S.R. must dis- perse all idle stories manufactured by to do that before the ship sailed.. bourgeoise concerning the Russian Re volution being destructive of power and convince them that the U.S.S.R. had ro stored her economy destroyed by war.

their mutual economic intereste

·

and Exports, prosecuted, Mr. Leo D'Almada represented three of the de- C. A: S. Buss fendants, and Mr. appeared for two of them.

The charges against "the men are that

mixing shellac with it, thus making it they procured pints of wine, which is dutiable liquid, and denatured it by undatiable. Then, when it was through the hands of the Revenue Department, they re-natured it by means of a-process of mixing alum with it, and sold it as Mr. E. A Lyne, Sanitary Inspector, wine, thus defrauding the Revenue. said that he visited No. 1, Dundas Street, at the beginning of October, prior to the raid carried out by the Revenue o cant- Complaints had been made to the Sani- tary Department of an awful smell coming from the house. When he visited the premises he found a number of barrels, two of which contained a milky liquid. The remainder were empty. He also found a number of broken jars, but there was nothing insanitary about the place.

analyst to the Department, gave evidence tendent, Imports and Exports, and also as to different kinds of Chinese wine, and His Worship, again adjourned the ease.

The compradore of the defendant firm stated that on September 27th plaintiff told him that the cargo of oil would not He informed General Wa Hon Man, in a speech, arrive for a day or two. A eable from: Manila on Friday reported pointed out that after his arrival in the that a heavy earthquake in the Pacife, U.S.S.R. he became convinced that the his manager, and since they wanted & "Hands Off China! Society is not only shipment next day they bought oil in the off the north-east end of Saman, was a pacifist organisation but also an active distinctly perceptible to Manila residents, revolutionary group. He further obser- open market at $150 apicul

Mr. W. A. Hannibal, proprietor of the The earthquake shocks were clearly ved that the Chinese people have been recorded in Hongkong also. A reading gradually convinced of the necessity of defendant firm, said that be contracted A close alliance between. Chinese people of the recorda at the Observatory showed and the revolutionary workers of the with the plaintiff firm on August 3th that the preliminary tremors began at world. The workers of China and of the for a supply of oil at $128.50 a picul He U.S.S.R., he said, must jointly organise asked for delivery before September 28th, 8 hrs. 18 mins. § sees, on Friday night, a united front against imperialism. The and this was promised. Subsequent to the the surface waves coming through at general stated that Canton, suffering

from material need, appealed to workers making of the contract the price increased. 8 hrs, 21 mins., and the long waves of the U.6.5.E to assist it not only On September 30th it was quoted of 8115 6 ára. 21 mins. 59 secs. The indications politically but economically.

September 8th, $143; September 21st, were that the earthquake occurred about General Wu Hon Man's speech was

8160: September 25th, 8150. Plaintiffs Abeartily applauded. The meeting car- 1,100 miles south-east of Hongkong ried a resolution that the Hands Off failed to deliver in time for the shipment very severe abock was indicated since the China Society will do its utmost to amplitude of the waves was 63 milli acquaint the U.S.S.R, public opinion with on September 28th, and he had to buy A. Taylor, Assistant Superin metres. The tremors from the first shock the national revolutionary movement "in in the market at a considerably increased China and further the growth of friendly lasted about four hours. Further shocks relations between these two great peo occurred on Saturday,

plea

price.

His Lordship reserved judgment.

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