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SWATOW NEWS.

CANTON NEWS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15TH, 1925

PLANS TO SUPPRESS BRIGANDAGE.

(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT, ]

THE SHAMEEN-SHAKEE AFFAIR.

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AÑALYSIS OF CASUALTIES.

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT. ]

GOLF NOTES.

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The annual meeting of the Golf Club An analysis of occupations of Chinese ding's Board Rom at 3.30, and in view of takes place this afternoon. 15th, in Jar-

shot or injured in the Shameen- Shakee affair of June 3rd, 1993, cou

the many difficulties which have to be piled from the official list of the Commisborne nowadays by the Tommittee, it is sien of Investigation appointed by the to all members to attend the meet ing, and assist in giving a representative local Chinese Government shows:-

opinion on the various problems which are to be discussed, including extensions or

pairs to the Club House at Fanling. Few of the old Committee will be avail- able to serve another term, and fresh blood will have to be introduced to carry on the work of the men who have brought the Club to its present healthy state.

TOTAL CASUALTIES:-130, classified 03

fallows: Soldiers, mostly of the Wham- pon Army 53, or 4 per cent; Students

JAPANESE 'STEAMERS BANNED,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

According to the vernacular Press the People's League of Diplomatic Sup-

To suppress brigandage and piracy in port has issilèd 'a circular announcing

Kwangtung Province, the Canton Govern. that a relation was passed at a meeting of the Executive Committee held on ment has decided to divide the territory December 2nd that Japanese steamers into six sections, to each of which will coming from Keelung or Anioy to be assigned a brigade of troops and a Swatch, as well as ships of any other Kuomintang commissar. The stations of nationality having occasion to touch the commissars and their brigades will Hongkong, shall be prevented from load-be Kongmoon,, Shishing. Waichow, Tai-29, or 17 per cent.; Unknown 20; pr. 12 ing or unloading if they are known to be ping, and other places. To provide the percent.: Labourers 18, or 11 per cent; Bound for Hongkong after their clear, necessary funds, the rise farm owners Merchants 11, or 7 per cent.; Peddiers, auce from Swatow,

within the sections of operation will be or 3 per cent.; Miscellaneous. 7. ordered to pay a special assessment of

KILLED-Shot by bullets, 4; Tram- Soldiers pied. 1: Cause not specified, 7. 20 cents per mine of land they hold.

The Navy will be required to detail patrol launches for the protection of shipping on the rivers throughout the province.

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CARGO FOR HONGKONG, It is reported in a vernacular paper that at a meeting of the Executive Cqm- mittee of the "People's League of Diplo matic, Support." held on December 5th, Japanese merchants submitted a

state ment that the makuna" Hurn which entered Swatow lately from Formosa left for Hongkong before December 3rd on which date the League resolved not to permit landing or loading of stenmers on their way to or from Hongkong. They for the service will be $190, $100, 850, 3, or 10 per cent.; Occupations unknown dengue fever, and should not hare played

the ship should be allowed to load or dis charge upon her return from Hongkong, promising, not to apply for the same per mission hereafter.

It is intended to assign marines to steamers and junks willing to pay for the service. When a number of vessels leave port together, a special convoy of armed launches will be provided. Fees

26. or 80 per cent; Unknown 9, or 17 per cent.; Merchants 8, or 15 per cent Labourers 3, or 6 per cent.; Students & or 6 per ceat; Professor, 1; Seaman, Policeman. 1: Fortune-teller, 1.

WOUNDED:-Shot, 62: Trampled by crowd, 37.

WOUNDED BY BULLETS:-77, of whom Ce or 75 per cent. were military; Labourers

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suggested that under the circumstances $40 a month, according to the number 5 or 6 per cent: Merchants 3, or 4 per of marines needed on beard the vessel cent.: Peddlers 3, or 4 per cent: Stud- desiring protection. The Shipping Pro- cats or 3 per cent. Some of the sol diers were shot through the axilla, tective Service Bureau was opened on

was raised in December 12th. It is in charge of Teng evidently while the arm Fuk Kui, supervisor; Tang Shib, bureau After careful consideration, it was chief; and Commander Kao Chung Yu,

INJURED BY FALL, COLLISION OF TRAM PLED UPON BY ChowD:-For the most part roinmanding the marines on service.

not seriously hurt: Total 40. Students 24, or 65 per cent Labourers 5, or 13 per cent.; Soldiers 3, or 8 per cent. Un known, or s per cent.; Policeman, 1; Seaman, 1; Peddler.. 1 Fortune-teller. 1; Woman, 1.

resolved that the ship should not be allow- ed to load or discharge at Swatow on her expected arrival from the Colony, so that there might be no deviation from the resolution passed by the League on December 3rd.

WHAMPOA DOCKS TO BE REOPENED.

To strengthen the Navy, the thirty or more small steamers and patrol boats ying around Henam-mei are to be rz- conditioned and, according to the an bouncement. the Canton Government

WOUNDED ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL..

Of 25 cases admitted and requiring pro- longed treatment, 14-took part in the procession. Of these 10 were military,

The Club Championship has now reach. ed its final stage, and the result is still open. Everyone is sorry that the Presi dent, A. H. Ferguson, is not one of the finalists. He has been the most consist- ent golfer of the year, but, even the best of players cannot be on the top of their game all the time. Our sympathy must also go out to R. M. Smith, who was obviously suffering from a bad attack, of

at all,

W. Douglas generously offered to postpone the gume."

The finalists are HU. Ireland, and W. Douglas, and it is hard to prophecy which of the two will gain the honour of being this year's Champion Ireland is the.. more, experienced player, and his victory over Ferguson gives him an additional "pall," but Douglas, who, I understand, played really well in the Manila Inter- port, has been playing steady golf all season, and will take a lot of beating.

They are well matched. If Ireland can keep up his form he may win, but Dou- glas is dour, and hard to beat, and it would not surprise me to see him come out on top, if only because of his untail- ing optimism.

civilians and 2 who were students were trampled "apon by the crowd. Eleven

We are glad to welcome back I. W.. were not in the procession. Of these Shewan, last year's runner-up in the were spectators, 4 were passing along the Championship. During his three months' street and 3 were peddlers selling their sojourn in Japan, he actually won the wares and accidentally shot.

Championship of that country, but was disqualified on a technicality, which I venture to submit is not provided for in the Rules of Golf. He went into the

The Dutch Consul, Mr. von Dobben, wrote saying that he was sending a repre- sentative to call upon the League and apply for permission for the departure dockyards in Whampoa, abandoned some of the Yau Cloon. As the ship was to ten years ago during the Kwangsi mili leave for Hongkong on her way to Singa-tary administration of Kwangtung, will pore exactly contrary to the resolution be rebuilt under the auspices of the local of the League, it was resolved that the Nayel authoritica. A Mr. Wu King Ying, agents and the consignees be told to a naval architect and shipbuilder educ return all their goods that had been

ated in England, who has been in the loaded on her, the discharge to be done Chittese Government service in Nanking under the supervision of the Students for some years. has been commissioned Alliance and be confined only to freight

to reconstruct the Whampoa docks. loaded from Swatow, or that other in. ward cargoes might not be taken ashore According to estimates submitted, only a

little more than 3300,000 is required to Army. Very few of the civilians who took Club House during his round, for a scor by mistake or intentionally.

refit the docks for service. Most of the part in the procession seem to have been ing pencil, and the punishment appears plant removed from the docks some years shot, most of the civilians so injured were

to me to be most drastic. The Executive Committee -of the ago is still in Canton in the hands of apparently spectators, people passing by "People's League of Diplomatic Support private dockyards which are now already at the time or those engaged in business at a recent meeting resolved that the doing some overhauling work for the in that vicinity and accidentally shot,

That Shameen authorities tried to pre- Clerks Union and the Strike Committee Government. The large amount of work should be charged with the duty of in- to be done is moving the naval antherirent hostilities seems evident from such vestigating if certain White Russians ties to reât their own docks. were in Swatow at the instigation of Imperialism.

WHITE RUSSIANS IN SWATOW.

REDS AND MISSION SCHOOLS

PORT DEVELOPMENT AT WHAMPOA.

At a meeting of the Committee for Nine organizations in Canton, headed "the recovery of educational control by the Chinese National Labour Union, from foreigners, resolutions were passed afe organizing a Whampoa Port Develop. requiring the Nazchiang College tomment Association. The preliminary state. register with the local Government with-ment says they propose to procure the in a fortnight, that it shall be required support of local and overseas Chinese to issue a second sworn declaration, in to make Whampoa a trade port so as terms to be approved by the Committee, to promote Chinese trade" and economic announcing that it wil have no further independence. A general commitee con- connection with the British or their reprising two representatives from each igion, and that missionaries shall not organization participating will be formed, be permitted to reside on the premises but the actual work of promotion will be Furthermore, that through the student in the hands of an executive committee body it shall be declared that the build- of 1p members,

ing is "the property of the Education Authority and not that of any English Mission, or Chinese individuals or public. bodies.

INTERFERENCE OF STRIKE

PICKETS

The growing assertion of governmental

It would appear that the great majority, of those killed and wounded by bullets were soldiers mostly of the Whampoa

facts as: The British ConsubGeneral in the Church the Sunday previous urged his nationals to refrain from any provoca tive act on the occasion of the anti-

A. B. Stewart, a former Hongkong Champion, is due back shortly but I kear he will be stationed in Shanghai.

THE OIL CONTROVERSY AT WUCHOW.

A.P.C. WITHDRAW FROM THE 'PORT.

"THE ALLEGED REASON.

foreign demonstration and also to keep away from the Shaker side of Shameen. He urged that the Chinese Government

The Asiatic Petroleum Company have call off the proposed strike and demon- stration, that the canal be, cleared of closed their offices at Wuchow; the staff boats on which soldiers might cross and have evacuated, and the remaining stocks that the procession should not pass along of oil were brought away in a number Shakee. He and the Senior Naval Officer of lighters, and motor boats, conveyed were standing in the forefront. No order by H.M.S. Cienta. This withdrawal is stated to be an account of the oil mono- was given to are from Shamcen.

poly created by the military authorities, and interference with trade by the Strike Union, which tazed every ton of oil de livered

TROUBLE AT KWANGTUNG

"UNIVERSITY. ·

For some time the A.P.C. supplied the 'military, but this arrangement made it difficult for the owners of motor-boats and Chinese merchants to procure oil, except with the sanction of the Military, or from the Military itself. In

spite of numerous petitions mads to the Govern ment, the monopoly was continued.

The Standard Oil Company's staff are still in Wuchow, but enquiries at the that no business is being done in the sale Hoogkong offices, elicited the information

Wuchow is, therefore, a port without

The collegiate department of the Kwangtung University in Canton is still unable to resume instruction because of the resignation of its faculty. Seme 49 The Gospel School and the Boys'-

of its 56 professors have already left the Brigade School are also required to power by the strike pickets has

institution, and of those who resigned, sever their connection with the British become a nuisance and a problem to those 38 are now in Shanghai where they are Mission, register with the local govern who first supported or at least tolerated vigorously protesting against the replace ment within two weeks, not allow mission.

a red hot Brics to reside at the schools nor tolerate it. Following the complaints of the ment of a moderate by

Bolshevik "as President of the Univer-f oil.

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the reading of the Bible or the holding Chinese Post Office in Canton, the Cus-alty The new president. Mr. Chan Kung oil. Vinety per cent of the motor-bonts of religious services.

The Committee was informed that the toms Authorities in Wuchow are now pro. Pok, is concurrently acting chief of the which number over thirty, plying between |

Labour and Young People's division of Theological College had ceased to be car-testing against the interference of strike the Kuoniintang Party and Labour com Nanning and Luichow use crude oil, and ried on so that it was classed as "be pickets who are now claiming the right of missar of the Canton Government. Mr. Will now have to remain idle. Most of yond consideration for the present."

the trade with up river ports will also The E.P.M. Women's School is to be

be brought to a standstill. the subject of further investigation.

A FOOT-FAUT ""QUERY,

search.

Chan, who was appointed Head of the University on December 4th, has no in tention of giving up his new post. Mr. Chau Lu. the dismissed President, on the Soviet Russians, in return for posed the acceptance of conditions from

A Hongkong vernacular newspaper re- ferring to the A.P.C.'s withdrawal. states that the Oil Monopoly Bureau has contracted with a Chinese firm, whose

STRIKE PICKET REORGANISATION. The reorganized strike pickets now num- ber more than 3,000. They are grouped ary aid, that graduates of the Kwang-head offices are in Hongkong for delivery tung University should be sent to Moscow of kezosins at 37 a case, which the bureau fürther courses of instruction, thus will retail at 88.50 a case. It is presumed virtually subordinating the Canton to the that the oil is coming from Shanghai. Moscow institution to be known as the Chungshan or Dr. Sun Yat Sen University, Mr. Chau Lu is now in Peking:

A Swatow correspondent coquires if into nine bastalions of about 350 men the following is a foot-fault:in

each, including leaders and clerks in The ball is hit with the server's left charge. Two battalions are to be station- foot on the ground behind the base-line. The right foot is in the air but over the ed at Canton City proper, and one batta base lide. After the ball is hit the right lion each at Shumchun, Shekki, Chinshan, foot comes to the ground inside the base Wanchai, and Bo-an. The rest are to be line,

The whole movement is a step towards despatched to Kongmoon, Yeungkong,

the ball has left the racket:

AEROPLANES FOR CANTON. ‘-

ANTI-CHRISTIAN CAMPAIGN.... The Canton Gazette states that on the The Canton anti-Christian movement arrival of "the U.S.8. maji steamer."

the net but is not completed until after Pakbo, and districts in Southern Kwang organized to trente demonstrations at Canton last Thursday several aero- [Below is the rule governing the ques, tung. There is special company of against the Churches during the Christ-planen. were unloaded. Our contemporary mas holidays, claims that it has the sup- explains that the Government sent Holland with tion, which clearly proves that our pickets fog service afloat to prevent un-

port of more than 50 labour and student special officials over to correspondent has given an excellent authorised persons from leaving Canton unions of the city. In a circular it says funds amounting to 3600,000 for the pur. example of a foot-fault.

for Canton civil

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Immediately before commencing to for Hongkong or Macao. The strike com- the General League against Christianity of aeroplanes

aviation. of the Young People's Revolutionary feet at rest behind (.e., further from the only 100 permits a day for persons to go its meeting place, terve, the shall stand both mitten in Canton has decided now to issue wabung hat Christians net than), the base-line, and within the to Hongkong. According to

that Christian MORE PICKETS FOR SHUM CHUN. continuation of the centre

recent ity is curtailing freedom thought and

The Canton Gazette of the 12th inst mark and side-line, and thereafter until announcement of the strike commities, speech and a general appeal for support

made for a movement which aims at states: With a view to carry out offed- the service has been delivered the server all persons accused of violating strike ending this intellectual hondage." tively the boycott of Hongkong and as a shall (a) Not change his position by rules and regulations are to be tried lishing a paper called The Bell to explain strike movement, the Strike. Committes The Canton, Christian Council is pub precaution, against people infringing the walking or running; (b) Maintain contact with the ground (c) Keep both his feetly by the "court" set up by the strike the Christian attitude towards science fics, sent more than 200, pickets to Sham behind the base-line.

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Chun for this purpose.

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