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THE

EVIDENCE OF GENERAL STRIKERS' ORGANISA-

DISORDER.

TION IN CANTON.

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TROUBLE IN MANY PARTS OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE ENFORC-

ING THE BOYCOTT. KWANGTUNG.

SO-CALLED " ANTI-RED " ACTIVITIES.

ALLEGED PLOTTING ON FRENCH TERRITORY:

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[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.}

So-called "anti-Red" activities, in one form or another, are still being reported from many districts in Kwangtung. As I have said before, however, many of these disturbances are doubtless due to the general state of disorder and have little or no political significance.

As already "reported

Kuomintang magistrate has been taken prisoner a Sunfung. Trouble has arisen at Woping, Linping, Lulung and Hoyun, and it is stated that Kaukong, a town on the West River; is in danger of being invaded by "anti-Reds.”

An uprising of "anti-Reds" in Kwong Nam, a district bordering Kwangsi and Yunnan, has been reported and martial law has been declared at Nancing,, the capital of Kwangsi. The district of Posch is also being invaded by Yunnanoso anti-Reds who are making" Nanning and Kweilin their goals.

The Headquarters of the Kuomintang in Cantor are sending 200,000 rounds of ammunitions to Kwangsi.

Mr. Wei luk, a departmental chief of the Kuomintang Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Canton, is proceeding to Kwang chow-wan an official business. It is said that he is going there to consult the French authorities of the port about oasting certain" anti-Red" organizations alleged to be plotting against the Canton Kuomintang from that direction.

Portuguese Gun-boats. According to complaints of Strike Com. mittee pickets at Chinshan, near Macao, Portuguese gunboats en August 22nd and 4th interfered with the petivities of the pickets and arrested six of them.

Pirates Capture Ferry.

A SMALL ARMY IN ITSELF.

INVESTIGATION ORDERED BY THE KUOMINTANG.

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[AY OCE CHINESE CORLESPONDENT.]

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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS," THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND,

SWATOW SITUATION.

THE. CUSTOMS AND THE PICKETS.

COMMISSIONER WINS.

CANTUN GOVERNMENT ON THE SIDE OF ORDER.

[YROM OUR OWN COBRESPONDENT.).

This

Swirow, August 30th. The Commissioner won, "hands down," The Kuomintang are appointing af and the pickets were thoroughly routed. special commission to investigate the The threat to close the Port was effective present organisation of the Strike "Com and during the week-end the Strike Com mitte. It is said that the abject of mittec acknowledged their guilt.

The Commissioner insisted that the the Commission is to promote economy and efficiency through a process of re-packages of B.A.T. cigarettes should be organisation, but no one seems to know returned and stowed in the ship exactly what exactly this means. There seems as they were before the seizure. little reason to make the Strike "Com afternoon I had the pleasure of seeing "efficient" for carrying on the cargo being carried along the Bund and loaded into lighters and taken off to The body known as the Strike Com-the steamer. But there was not a picket mittee comprises some 3,130 persons nor a striker to be seen-"have lose too including pickets. It includes repre- muchee face." I think.

from Isentatives

allabour unions participating in the strike, but naturally the Canton representatives are the con- trolling influence in the organisation.

mittee mere the boycots,

Fiva Sub-Committees.

Political Affairs,

There is increasing nervousness amongst the few remaining officials concerning the operations of enemy forces on the Fukien border. The local "Red" army The Strike Committee's business is is said to have been defeated round Hing done through five aub-committees-Ning and Kiayingchow, in the Hakka Bance, pickets, judgments, prizes and country, and to have fallen back on Ung appraising.

Kung and Chaochowfu Many well-in When the pickts have arrested persons formed Chinese are prophesying the for seized goods, the prisoners are taken capture of Swatow by the Northern forces before the sub-committee for "judgment" within two weeks. Foreigners are scep while the goods go to the Prizes Com-tical having had previous experience of mittee to be sold. No goods, however, these so-called anti-Red rabbles. can be sold until an upset price has been fed by the Appraising Committee. There is a depot for the sale of con- fiscated goods.

A persistent rumour is going round amongst Chinese that Ho Eng Khim, the Military Governor of this district, and his younger brother, the Chief of Police, left Apart from thess sub-committees, the for Shanghai a few days ago. There' is General Committee is divided into eix no definite conñrmation of the report but sections for various forms of activity-it is not unlikely because General Ho preventing traffic with the enemy," Eng Khim has long been suspected of entertaining strikers, looking after cor- anti-Red leanings. respondence, social gatherings, investi- gations and propaganda,

The Pickets.

Of the Lve sub-committees the "pickets sub-committee is the one which has been most carefully organised. It is a small Pirates on August 27th captured the army in itself with all details and de- ferry plying between the Canton-Samahui partments complete. The members are Railway Wharf at Hohow and the op- fully armed with weapons approved by posite bank, killed one railway guard and the Kuomintang and they are permitted wounded another, and took more than a by the same authority, to arrest and hundred passengers as captives for ran- search persons in conjunction with the som. The ferry was afterward released Police and to, seize goods suspected of by the pirates.

hiving came from boycotted territory or of being of British origin.

It was onnounced that beginning on August 26th, passenger and freight tarifa on vessels plying in Canton waters would be increased by 20 per cent. The addi- tional charges are to go to the Canton Preventive Bureau to help cover the expenses of the. Wate: Police.

August 31st.

Mr. Sim Kye. Lim,

It is reported this morning that the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Can- ton has cabled to the Bureau of Foreign Affairs here ordering them to instruct the Strike Committee to release Mr. Kye Lim immediately. Whether they will re- they do not lease him is doubtful, but there seems. Hittle reason why H.M. Government should not take drastic There is action to effect his release. nobody in charge here at the moment except the Strike Committee.

CONSULAR BODY AT AMOY. ADMINISTERING MUNICIPAL

AFFAIRS:

The sub-committee has a department of military affairs which commands five divisions of pickets, five divisions of reserve pickets, an inspection or super- vising division, a cort-martial, a secre; ORDER FROM PEKING LEGATIONS. tariat, a commisariat, a shipping or water-picketing department, a

[JROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] portation department, a school for train. ing pickets and a secret service depart ment.".

trans-

A New Volunteer Corps, According to Kuomintang journal, the Workers' Delegate Conference is to organize a volunteer corps to supplement the regular Kuomintang Army; and the

Mr. Wong Kum Yuan, formerly a Conference is asking each of its 175 labour unions to select ten men at least butcher in Hongkong, is now chairman as members of the corps. The school for of the sub-committee on picketa.

The Chairman,

AMOY, August 30th. In accordance with an order received from the Diplomatic Corps at Peking. municipal affairs in Kutangst are now

This change was brought about by the being administered by the Consular Body, resignation of the Chairman and Coun-

̈AMAZING · SCENE ON FRENCH LINER.

POLICE AND REVENUE OFFICERS DEFIED BY CREW.

SEQUEL TO ARRESTS OF, FRENCH. MEN FOR POSSESSION

OF ARMS. a

$300,000 HAUL OF HEROIN: JAPANESE TO BE CHARGED.

The two members of the crew of the

Messageries Maritimes B. Angers, who were arrested yesterday morning on this steamer by the police, following the dis covery of arms and 'ammunition, were each fined $200 for possessión of arms and ammunition when they appeared before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon.

An order for the confiscation of the arms and ammunition was made by the Magistrate.

The arrests of these men on board the Angers led to an unpleasant and unusual scene taking place. Defiance was shown by member of the crew of the liner to party of Police and some Revenua icers, who were on board in the course of their duty carrying out a search for arms, ammunition and illicit drugs, and serious consequences were only averted by the extreme patience and coolness shown by the local authorities, was held out until reinforcements arrived and order was restored.

The amazing story is shown by the fol- lowing details gathered. It appears that following the arrival of the Angers from Marseilles and Saigon, a party of officers of the Imports and Experts Department left for the vessel in charge of Chief Pre- ventive Officer S. J. Clarke and Senior also four Eupropean officers in the party, Revenue Officer G. Watt. There were including R.O.'s Ward and Beattie.. While this party was searching for con traband drugs, a small party from the Water Police under Detective Sub.-Ins- rector K. Andrews, with two European: Sergeants were carrying out a routine

search for arms.

ACTION OF CREW.

About eight o'clock the police, having discovered arms and ammunition, were in the act of leaving the Angers together with two members of the crew, whom they had arrested on a charge of possession of At the same instant the contraband. about Afty French members of the crew of the liner, assuming an ugly and threatening attitude, pulled up the gang- way, despite the captain's orders for. bidding it to be drawn up. The gang. way was kept up for a matter of three hours, and it was not until about eleven o'clock that it was lowered.

In the interval between the raising and Perdue, Assistant Director of Criminal lowering of the gangway, Mr. G. Intelligence, arrived on board the Angers, as did also re-inforcements of police, who arrived in the remainder of the Water Police launches.

ATMOSPHERE CLEARED.

The French Consul, to whom a report had been made, also arrived on the scene, and upon his appearance the misunder- standing which had led to the attitude adopted by the members of the crew was made clear. It appears that the ship had some time ago, been involved in similar trouble at Shanghai where, acting in accordance with the extraterritorial rights, applicable there, the French au thorities had taken the matter in hand and arrested the members of the crew in

question.

the training of this corpe has been openbarber in Hongkong, was until a fecillors, who were discouraged by the lack equally to Hongkong as to Shanghai, not |

ed, and a course of three mouths in- struction has beca mapped out for the

volunteers..

Gederal Chiang Kai Shek, the Com. mander-in-Chief of the Kuomintang Army, has, by proclamation, made the bank notes of the Kuomintang Central Bank in Canton legal tender in the provinces of Kwangi, Kiangsi, and Hunan. Those persons refusing to negotiate the paper money will be punished.

EXPORTING MONEY.

Mr. Chui Kung Hap, formerly a weeks ago chairman of the sub-com- of support from both the ratepayers and

the Consular Body. zittee on judgments but he was dismissed on a charge of receiving bribes.

The Canton Strike Committee is asking permission from the Kuomintang to arm 4,050 more pickets.

FAMILY SQUABBLE.

A QUARREL OVER A WOMAN.

INDIANS AND MALAYS,

The story of a domestic tangle between Malays was related before Major C. OLD REGULATIONS RE-INSTATED. Willson, at the Centeral Magistracy yes.

From yesterday the emergency regula tion concerning carrying money out of the Colony ceased to take effect.

The crew were under the impression that such extraterritorial laws applied being aware that in a British port mat the province of the British authorities. ters appertaining to law and order are In view of the fact that a French gun- -It is hard to predict how long this new

boat was in harbour, the crew believed regine will last, but one may safely say that they were within their rights in that there will be, some dissatisfaction demanding that any action taken in re- spect of the members of the crew found shown at the next annual meeting by a with arms in their possession should be few ratepayers who are advocating the by the French authorities. As soon as abolition of extra-territoriality. One of the position was explained to them by them has even gone as far as to voice his opinion through the medium of the Press that the best thing that could hap- pen to Kulasgau, is to hand it over to China. Luckily for our peace of mind auch men are in the minority and their

influence is not great..

Cholera. terday, when Hashim, unemployed, and Uscof, a chauffeur, were charged with Two fatal cases

were reported in assaulting one Abdul Hamed at Wanchai

Kulangsu, and the Council are taking on Saturday night.

Another man named Yashim, who every proventive measure to spread the should have been the chief defendant, growth of the disease. When the strike began an embargo wax was absent, as he had left on the 5.3.

In Amoy City the death toll averaged placed on persons taking with them more and where he was employed as a deck about 20, not taking into consideration than 85 in coin or notes, on leaving ant's step-sister ten years ago, but de- the number of hidden cases. The Chinese Hongkong. This regulation is now deem-serted her two years later. The woman Authorities do not seem to be doing much

lived in a boarding house: A feeling of to fight against this epidemic. jealousy was stated to have sprung up

ed unnecessary.

hard. This man married the complain-

between the errant husband and the com- plainant, which was the motive for the assault.

Long before the strike began, there were orders in force which remain to-day. One is not allowed to take more,,than

Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask, who appeared $50 of the Colony's coinage away, and for the complainant, gave these facts and not more than one Hongkong (or Mexi-pressed the case against the first defen- dant, who, being without work, was a can) silver dollat.

frequent visitor at the boarding house.

the Consul the arrest of the two men was effected without further trouble, and, they were taken from the ship by the police officials,

The two prisoners were taken to Yau- mati, and, as stated above, they were charged at the Kowloon Magistracy in the afternoon and convicted.

It was decided not to proceed further with anything in the nature of obstruct- ing the police or attempting to evade ar.... rests, etc..

A RECORD HAUL} Apart from the result of the police search, the Revenue Officers secured a haul of roughly 8,000 ounces of heroin. This was concealed in seven large luggage cases (trunks and satchels) found in the estimated that it is worth about $500,000, baggage room of the Angers, and it is This is only a rough estimate, as the authorities had not fully investigated the haul last evening.

WEATHER REPORT."

In consequence of this seizure, a Japanese passenger was arrested. He is Last night's weather report, forecast believed to have boarded the ship at Mar- and remarks, issued from the Royal seilles, At the time of the seizure the Observatory at 5 o'clock, itated: keys of the packages could not be found. The seizure seems to be a record one, There are indications of a depression and the Japanese arrested is to appear Of copper cash one can bring any His Worship fined the Erst defendant B.E. of Naha. A shallow depression at the Central Magistracy this morning to answer a charge in connection with the amount to a Chinese destination. For 825 and ordered the payment of $10 to covers Indo-China and a feeble anti-

In cyclone east and N.E. China,

haul, which it is thought was to be smug- other places, a permit is required from the complainant as compensation.

Local forecast:-8.E: winds, moderate, gled through to Japan if possible. the Superintendent of Imports and addition he was bound over to keep the

peace. The second defendant was also overcast showery, probably improving committal to the Sessions will probably

i later.

be asked for." Exports

bound over for future good behaviour.

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