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STRIKE" AND BOYCOTT. REQUEST FROM WORKERS AND MERCHANTS.

MORE OPTIMISTIC FEELING.

(PROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

The Workers and. Merchants' League Canton, D Kuomintang subsidiary or ganisation, are asking the Kuquintang through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MILITARY POSITION.

CHIANG'S HEADQUARTERS

ORGANISATION."

THREAT FROM YUNNAN.

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(JCOM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

of Genaral. Yeh Kai Hain..

THE HONGKONG DAILY

RENTAL RESTRICTION. LETTER ISSUED TO CHINESE

LANDLORDS.

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TUESDAY, JUNE

A POISONOUS BREW.

WOMAN'S DEATH AFTER DRINK- ING POTION OF HERBS.

KID'S BLOOD AS POISON. ANTIDOTE.

QUARRELS WITH HUSBAND ALLEGED: FOUL PLAY

NOT SUSPECTED,

The drinking by a Chinese woman of a common, but poisonous brew obtained from & locally grown shrub known by the botanical name of del Semium Biegani (or, in Chinese, as the Ho Min Tong plant), and the giving of kid's blood as an antidote, were referred to at an in quest, held at the Central Magistracy afternoon, by Mr. R. E. Lind

BB Coroner. The inquest concerned a

Sir Shou Son Chow and Dr. H. H. Kotawall, Chinese members of the Hong- Reports of the continued progress of kong Legislative Council, have jointly the Kuomintang forces are still coming to issued a letter to the Chinese landlords band, but up till June 10th Canton had in the Colony advising them to be fair not been officially advised of the re-cap-to their tenants, in view of the decision ture of Changsha, the Human capital of the Hongkong Government on the 17th to allow traffic between Canton and Hong-which General Tang Song Chi captured finally making it known that the Ordin kong to be resumed without interference and thon had to evacuate upon the arrival ance restricting rentals would be per mitted automatically to lapse on Jung from the pickets pending the flual sottlo

According to reports current the Canton 30th." ment of the strike and boycott

te-inforcements are not arriving rapidly Mr. Wong Kam Ying, chairman of the It is Hongkong Tenanta Protective Associa enough to sult the Hunanesa. stated, however, that the staff of General tion, when seen on the failure of the yesterday Headquarters under General Chiang Kai Association to obtain a continuation of well, sifting Shek, the newly appointed Commander the Ordinance, said that he did not know in-Chief, will be thoroughly organised by what other step to take, but he was pro-woman, aged 37 years, who lived at June 25th and that more progresa will pared to watch the outcome arising from then be made with the Northerm expedithe decision of the Government. tion. Assisting Goheral Chiang Kai Shok will be thirteen departmental chiefs. The departments which they will control will be those of political instruction, chief-al- staff, adjutant-general, aides-de-camp, commissariat-general, army transporta tion, recruiting, telegraphs, courts-mar- tial, manufacture of ammunition, military affairs generally, naval affairs and avia-

The Canton Stock Exchange, the busi- ness, of which, has been suspended for some time, is considering the possibility of re-opening. The talk of the settlement of the Canton-Hongkong difficulties is ap- parently making a revival of stock and sharo transactions practicable.

HONGKONG AND CANTON. Mr. J. F. Brenan, His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Canton, has officially advised Mr. Eugene Ches, Acting Kuomintang Minister of Foreign Affairs, that he has been requested by the Governor of Hongkong to acknow-

ledge the receipt of Mr. Chen's letter of June 5th advising him of the appoint- ment of three delegates to represent Canton in the settlement of the difficul- ties now existing between the two ports. The Governor of Hongkong, according to Mr. Brenan, considers the question of the labour strike as a thing of the past but he (H.E. the Governor) is commis- sioning the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp and the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax to repfe Bent Hongkong with regard to the boycott of, British goods.

THE ARRESTED PICKETS. The two Canton Striko Committee pichotne who were taken into custody in Canton and, fator, turned over to the beeen British authorities for having interfered with the godowns and for Trespassing on the premises on June 16th have been released from Shameen and handed over to the Chinese authorities through the 9th Police District Station.

VARIOUS ITEMS.

The ten houses in Canton will not oloso their doors as was at one time feared. The dispute between the om- ployers and employees is to go to arbitra-

small

tion

General Li Chung Jen, the oucer com- manding the 7th Army Corps, has now left Canton for Nanning in order to re-inforce the Hunan troops from the direction of Kwangsi. Before ho left he was given a part of the cash, and the arms and ammunition promised him and his men before they pledged their alliance to the Kuomintang early this year.

ACTIVITY IN YUNNAN.

The troops of General Tang Chi Yao

RADIO TELEGRAMS.

SERVICE BETWEEN HONGKONG AND CANTON RESUMED.

Chinese

peared that while the police do not sus- Stanley, and from the evidence it ap- pect any foul play In connection with her death, there had been, it was alleged, frequent quarrels between her and ber husband, who, since his wife's death on May 23rd, has disappeared. His disap- pearance is put down by the police to be due to fright only. The woman's daugh The wireless telegraph service between ter, whose evidence would have been Hongkong and Canton has been resumed.patorial, was stated to have gone to the

Radio telegrams should be handed in at the radio counter on the ground floor of the G.P.O. during office hours, and at all other times at the counter of the Radio Telegraph Office, 3rd floor, Government Building.

country.

SIGNS OF POISONING.

Dr. Craig, officer in charge of the mortuaries, said that on May 24th he carried out a post-mortem examination Rates to Canton 30 cents per word at the Victoria Mortuary on the woman. Hongkong charge, and 30 cents per word He found the organs congested, and this could be taken as signs of poisoning. Canton charge,

The lungs were particularly congested and there were signs that respiration was somewhat lnden at the end. This also pointed to poisoning.

The Hongkong charge will be collected from the sender or the addresses as the Tase may bo.

of Yunnan are said to have commenced CHINESE MISSION TO LEPERS action along the Kwangsi.Yunnan border.

Their activities are associated with Mar HONGKONG AUXILIARY FORMED. shal Wu Fei Fu's general plan of cam- niga. The Kusinintang has been ad vised that the Yubannese expect to enter Kwangai by way of Kwangtung. The die trict magistrate at Lingshan has already wired Canton that the Yunnanese have

arrived at Posak.

To guard against a possible invasion from Fukion, the Kuomintang in sending 1,800 men to re-inforce the garrisons in the Swatow districts.

Troops in Shinkwan, the northern terminal of the Canton-Hankow railway, while waiting for orders to proceed to Hunan, are forcing the local inhabitants to contribute to their support. They are requiring each household or firm to pay Plans are being made to push forward six months' rent to them instead of to the development of Taishatmo, a

their landlords. island off the East bund opposite the Canton-Kowloon railway. Mr. T V.

It is stated in Canton that Mrs. Liao Soong, Mr. Sun Fo and Mr. Chon Toung Foo have boon requested by the Kuomin-Chung Hoi and Mrs Chan Kunk Pok, tang to form themselves into a committee well-known leaders of the women's rights to suggest methods for improving this movement in South China, will head the

Kuomintang Red Cross in Hunan. locality.

The latest reports concerning Geners! Wu To Chen, the former Canton Chiet of Police, are to the effect that he will be set at liberty if his family contribute at least $500,000 towards the cost of the Northorn expedition.

STAR FERRY MISHAP, BOAT CRASHES INTO PRAYA

WALL.

WOMEN RED CROSS WORKERS.

ALLEGED PIRATE ARRESTED. JUNKMASTER TRACES ROBBER TO MACAO.

SEQUEL TO RAID ON CARGO BOAT.

Mr. E. H. Dovey (Government Analyst) said that on May 25th he received for examination certain organs of a Chiness woman. The stomach organs showed A meeting of the temporary committed traces of alkaloid. There was a shrub in Hongkong known as the Gel Seinium was held on Sunday at the residence of

It was common Chinese drug and tho Mr. Li Chor Chi, Robinson Road, to dis Elegans (in Chinose Ho Min Tong plant),, cuss further arrangements for the or

drinking of a brew made from the leaves ganisation of a local auxiliary, in response of this shrub would probably cause death. to the appeal by the Rev. T. C. W witness said that ho also received from General Secretary of the Chinese Mission to Lopers, Shanghai.

Sergeant Langloy a broken bowl and some Chinese herbs. In one of the pieces of the bowl was a leaf which he identi- "fied as belonging to the Gel Semium shrub. The herbs were of tho Elegans same plant.

The committee is composed of the fol. lowing: Aleesrs. Li Chor Chi (Chairman), Lo Po Yin (Vice-Chairman), Mrs. Wong Kwok: Shuen, Andrew Ling (Secretary), Mrs. Ma Wing Chan (Treasurer), Wong

NOT TREATED WELL. Hin Chiu (Publicity Agent), Miss Shin, Mrs. Wong Sea Koo, Mas Wong Shuet Sergeant Langley told the Coroner that Hing, Dr. Arthur Woo, Andrew Cheung, the husband of the woman had disap. Cheung Wing Kue, James Y. Lee and Mr.peared and that the daughter, whoso evidence in the case would have been John Goldart as Honorary Adviser.

material, could not be found."

As stated by Mr. Wu, the objective was

The Coroner: There is no suggestion fourfold: (1) Christian, (8) Philanthropic, (3) Preventative, (4) Medical. A curo for of foul play, but it would appear from leprosy, in its early stages, was discover statements made to the Coroner that the ed some years ago in chaulmooigra oil, bushand did not treat his wife at all well. A Chinese who had been employed by and several cases of the disease are known to have been entirely cured the husband of the deceased, a mason through its agency. The Mission in contractor, to mix earth and carry stones, Shanghai, which was founded a few said his master had always treated him months ago is in great need of funds to well. Ho knew nothing about his .em. carry on this important work of provent-ployer's privato affairs..

On the evening of May. 23rd he was ing the spread and effecting the cure, whenever possible, of this terrible disome sent.for by his master and on arriving at For instance, there are two leper settle the house saw his employer's wife lying ments not so very far from Hongkong, at on a bed in a cubicle. She appeared to Sheklung and Tungkun, which are under be ill and her husband went out and ro- The sequel to a recent raid by a num the direct charge of Catholic and Cor-turned with a kid, which witness helped ber of pirates, on a cargo boat in Chinese man missionaries, respectively, who to kill. They gave the woman a bowl of ceive a small monthly allowance from the waters, near Tai O has taken place Canton authorities to look after the im- blood, of which she drank a small quan

AN ANTIDOTE through the arrest at Macao of one of mediate needs of the suffernze at these tity, At 5.46 yesterday evening, as the Star the gang. He was traced there by his two places, but the funds are quite in- Ferry boat, the Solar Star was approach victim, the master of the cargo boat, who sufficient to provide for the medical treat a reply to a question, witness said he

ment of the lepers.

The local auxiliary's object will be to had never heard of kid's blood being ing the wharf on the Hongkong side, had followed the robbers to Macao in an

collect funds which are to be remitted to used as an antidote to poison. When to the engineer failed to pull up in time, effort to obtain their capture.

the head organisation in Shanghai, who with the result that the boat ran into the In his report to the Water Polics of will undertake to supply free of charge left the house the woman was still alive, Praya wall, and settled down in the the piracy, Fan Kwai Wing, the master treatment to the various lopor settlements but would not speak. silt. There was the usual large number of the cargo boat, states that his junk loft, throughout China, and thus commence

hor husband told him that she had taken of passengers on board, but excepting fan King Sha in the Tung Kun district the first step towards restricting

spread and ultimately of wiping out the for the sudden jult, all escaped un for. Tai O at six am on June 12th. About scourge in China, where the sufferers leaves from a tree that was poisonous. injured

two o'clock in the afternoon, when about estimated to number one million.

Prevalence of the disease is attributed Witness learned that the man and his Slight damage estimated at 850, was five miles south-west of Tai O in Chinese to lack of the necessary precautions of wife had quarrelled on the previous day done to the bows of the boat. She was waters, an unknown junk, apparently a segregation and care of these parishs of to her death, and also that they had been eventually towed to the wharf at Koy thing junk, came alongside and foar mankind Through the medium of this in the habit of frequently quarrelling. now organisation, it is expected that the He was also told that the husband "had loon by one of the Company's tugs I men, armed with rifles and revolvers. lot of the sufferers will not be as full of a ght" with his wife on the day pre- is hoped to have the Solar Star back hoarded. Four other men romained on hopeless misery as it has been heretofore, vious to be death. The daughter of the board the pirate craft. The cargo, valued and that with the lately developed in women had gone to the country, disap on the run to-day.

people, they may find their existence more had also left the district.

E MERELY FRIGHTENED... A facade of piles was, many years ago, at $250, was transferred from the cargo terest in their welfare by sympathetic pearing on June 16th, and the husband placed some distance from the Praya boat to the other junk, and the pirates tolerable.

Further proliminary arrangements, aro -.. wall near the wharf, and in sufficient also stolo a quantity of clothing being carried out before the local auzill Bergeant Langloy said that he found no depth of water, to check the course of pirates then sailed away in the directionary will be in full working order, and it is algas of violence on the woman. Her hus to be hoped that the movement will re band who was a bricklayer, had left Stanley, but he thought he was merely a boat, if, as it happened yesterday of Macao.

Mr. Wn addressed many boys' and girls frightened and would return in due courso, evening, it should get out of control. The cargo boat master and his crew.ceive universal support. There was then no danger of the boat rowed for two days and reached Tai O schools during the past week, and at oach Witness said that he did not suspect grounding in the silt. But of late years on June 14th. He did not report to the institution subscriptions were generously foul play in the caso, and, in reply to the spoke in eulogistic terms of the sympathe-bours to come and give evidence as they the facade has been allowed to rat, and police, but prooseded to Macao to carry donated for this deserving work. Mr. Wu Coroner, said that he could get no neigh- it is now useless. It served its purpose out investigations on his own behalf. In tie attitude of all clasacs in regard to the were very reluctant to speak of the affair. The Coronor adjourned the inquest, well, and now that the Star Forry Con- the Portuguese Colony. he recognised one cause, especially amongst the students

officer in charge at Stanley should notify pany have brought into uso larger hoals, of the men who had taken part in the everywhere, who expressed the utmost sind die, and instructed that the police Mr. Wu leaves for Amoy to-day by the him as soon as the woman's husband such a contrivance is oridently again piracy, and had him arrested by the eagerness to help the now organisation.

Macao police

Sinkiang for Amay en route to Shanghai. Ireturncu,

necossary.

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Chinese detective said that he went to the house after the woman's death and

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