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INTIMIDATION IN CANTON.

PASSENGERS DRIVEN OFF THE WHARF.

THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICIALLY APPOINTED

INSPECTION CORPS.

TO STOP

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**ILLEGAL ACTIVITY" AND TO PROTECT

MERCHANTS.

Intimidation on the waterfront in Canton yesterday was more pro- nounced than it has been on any other day this week. The agitators even went on to the wharf and drove off people who wished to travel by the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's steamer.

The result was that the Zungshan returned with less than a hundred passengers and no cargo except for the usual supplies of vegetables, etc.

As was pointed out yesterday this intimidation is being carried out by members of unions who apparently harbour a 'grievance against the Steamboat Company, but even so the results are the same as if the boycott was still in existence abil it is not only the Steamboat Company's vessels which are suffering.

Obviously, therefore, the Government cannot allow the movement to continue if their promises to end the boycott are to be realised.

Yesterday reference was made to the Bureau of Inspection established by the Ministry of Finance. The Oficial "regulations drawn up for this Burcau hare now come to hand and it will be seen that the Bureau is intended to put a stop to all for.ns of illegal activity." Surely the operations of the men now stationed on the Band, in Canton came under this heading and it would appear to be the first obvious duty of the Inspection Corps of the Barrau to drive them away.

THE INSPECTION

BUREAU.

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

The following letter was received by H.M. Consul-General' in Canton from Jr. Eugusne Chen, the Auting Minister for Foreign Affairs:

St8-1am-in-receipt of a letter from the Minister of Figanes readings

follows:-

With a view to protecting the sources of revenue and putting a stop to all forms of illegal activity, this Minister has established an Inspection Corps, for the examination of the goods of Passengers on all incoming and out- going trains and steamers, in Canton

and district. It is requested that you will inform all, Consular "representa. tives accordingly.

A copy of the Inspection, Corps examination regulations, is enclosed.

I have the honour to inform you ao

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, ŠATURDAY, OCTOBER 30TH, 1926.

Should the arcessity arise, additional examination offices may be established with the consult of the Ministry, of Finance.

VIII-The rules and expenses in cou nection with the examination offices will be determined fater by the Ministry of Finance..

IX. The oficials appointed as heads of the (subsidiary) inspection corps wil be under the orders of their respective superior officers for the carrying out of all duties in connection with their corps. X-In view of the fact that there will correspondence to write and various matters to deal with, the Inspection Corps may engage clerks, whose number shall be reported to the Department for the Pursuit of Smugglers and Protection of Merchants for approval.

XI. These regulations aball come into force from the date of promulgation. the foregoing regulations as the occasion The Ministry of Finance may revise

demands.

LABELLING BRITISH GOODS.

cordingly, and to transmit to you a copy THE COMMITTEE OF INSPECTION.

of the regulations in question.

I have, etc..

(sd.) CHEN YU-JEN...

THE REGULATIONS. -1.-With a view to protecting the sources of revenue and putting a stop to all forms of illegal activity, the Ministry of Finance of the Nationalist Government has established or Inspec. tion Corps for the examination of the goods of passengers on all outgoing and incoming trains and steamers in Canton. and districts. All duties in connection with the said examination will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.

II.The Inspection Corps will be under the direct control of the Ministry of Finance Department for the pursuit of smugglers and the protection of mer chants, and will be constituted, after the manner of the Merchants Protection Corps, into one main corps, with three secondary corps under it.

11. The duties of the Inspection Corps are set forth hereunder:

1. Matters connected with the search ing of outgoing and incoming

stomers.

2. Matters connected with the search- ing of "incoming and outgoing

trains.

GROUPS OF TWELVE TO VISIT.

THE SHOPS.

(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] ·

The Committee which has taken upon itself the duty of labelling British goods was to commence operations on October 25th. According to report the Canton Police and the Kuomintang Commission-

TRAFFIC IN OPIUM.

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SMUGGLING BETWEEN KWANG- TUNG AND "KWANGSI.

EXAMINATION OFFICES AT DOSINÒ AND HOHOW.

MEASURES TAKEN BY CANTON GOVERNMENT.

The following letter has been sent by Mr. Eugene Chen, the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Canton, to H.M.'s Consul Generali

October 3rd, 1926.

"Si-Ima in receipt of a letter from the Ministry of Finance stating that.a communication had been received from the Opium Suppression Bureau pointing out that the West River was an import ant artery of communication between Kwangtung and Kwangsi and a pivot of commercial intercourse. An examination

office had already been established at Dosing for the purpose of putting a stop to suiggling. Hohow, in the lower reaches of the West River, was also a plate of importance from the point of view of the transport of goods, and an additional examination office should be established there in order that by means of inspection all loopholes might be closed up. Mr. Lu Yi Fu had already heen appointed head of Hohow Examina tion Office and would shortly establish the office in question and commence examina- tion. An announcement to this effect had also been circulated.

A

TAXICAB COMPANY SUED.

AP.C. AS PLAINTIFF FIRM.

OIL AND PUMPS.

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Before Mr. Justice Wood, at the Sum mary Court yesterday, the Asiatic Petro- leum Company claimed from the Hong kong and Kowloon Taxicab Company $813 odd for oil supplied and for the hire of pumps.

Mr. M. M. Watson was for the plain- tiff firm, and Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask: for the defendants

Mr. Leask informed his Lordship, at the utset, that he had given a cheque for $800 to the plaintiffs on account. It was the best offer he could make.

Mr. W. A. Nowers is in charge of the Sales Department of the Company, said that the business was done for the Taxi- cab Company through Mr. A. H. Rowe.

Mr. Watson mentioned that Mr. Birkett, who is Chairman of the directors of the Taxicab Company, promised that interest would he paid on the money owed, if plaintiffs did not sue them.

Mr. Leask said he could not call any evidence, as Mr. Rowe was not returning to the Colony until next Wednesday. He asked that the case be taken as part beard until Mr. Rowe could give evidence. His Lordship gave judgment for the All steamers of whatever nationality plaintiff company with costs. He in- must. on arrival at the examinationtimated that he was prepared to review offices established by the Ministry of Finance, stop for examination before they the case within' the legal period if "Mr.. will be allowed to pass, and they must Rowe announced his intention to give not attempt to force their way past in evidence himself, but caly on condition contravention to this ruling. A notifica. tion to this effect had been circulated, that the money be paid into court. and this Ministry is requested to inform all Consular representatives accordingly with a view to the necessary instructions being issued to the merchant vessels of their respective nationalities.

I have the honour to observe that traf be in opium has been long regarded by all nations as a thing which should be stopped, and the examination at present carried out at the office established at Dosing in the interior is being done in accordance with the authority of the administration, I have accordingly the honour to request that you will instruct all foreign merchants (of your nationality) to comply with the above.

POSSESSION OF "OPIUM.

SEQUEL TO SEIZURE IN

JAPANESE STEAMER.

Two Chinese, a man and a woman, were charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, де the Central Magistracy yesterday morning, with having in their possession 205 taels of raw opium.

Mr. M. K. Lo, appeared for the defence. Giving evidence for the prosecution, Chinese searcher said thas he boarded the Kaijo Mars on Thursday just as she came alongside the wharf from Keelung and Swatow. His attention was drawn hand in a basket covered by joss papers. to the woman defendant, who had her He asked her what was in the basket and she immediately replied that opium was int. Near the

woman

was another

er of Education are to assist in the basket which contained two more pack-

investigations" but this aesistance, as far as the Police are concerned, will ages of opium.

His Worship asked the witness how consist in furnishing maps of the City the, male defendant was implicated. Wit and addresses of firms likely to stock ness replied that the woman claimed the British goods. The Commissioner of male defendant to be her brother. Education, it is said, is to instruct all His Worship But you cannot arrest a schools to grant leave of absence to

man just because he happened to be the students acting as inspectors. Groups brother of another person who posseses of twelve persocs will visit the firma to the opium? inspect had fabel British goods and will. Witness" But the woman asked him to order their disposal within three months of October 10th. Little importance, how give me some money and allow the opium ever, is attached to this movement by the

merchants.

to be dumped overboard.

PROPERTY SALE.

PEEL STREET HOUSE SOLD.

At the China Auction Rooins yester day afternoon, Mr. E. V. M. R. de Sousa sold, by order of the mortgagee, No. 64, Peel Street.

Bidding was brisk and the upset price was increased by 26,000, before the pro- perty went under the hammer.

The property in question is "registered at the Land Office as the remaining.por- tion of Section A of Inland Lot No. 190, together with No. 4, Peel Street. The property contains an area of 812 square feet, and is held under a Crown lease for the term of 200 years. The annual Crown

rent is DB cents.

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The upset price was $10,000, with bida of 8200 acceptable. Bidding progressed by various stages. The majority of the bids were of 8200, but there were several of $400; while one amounted to as much na 81,000. Eventually Mr. Li Chan Shi, of No. 63, Caine Road, bought the pro- perty for $16,000.

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CHINA IN PARLIAMENT.

QUESTIONS BY MR. LOOKER.

THE PRIME MINISTER'S REPLIES.

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Mr. Baldwin, replying, on September 29th, to a question by Mr. Looker (Essex, S.E., U.) as to the strength of the. British forces in China, said: In so far as the naval position is concerned, His Majesty's Government are satisfied that the rein- forcements now on their way to China,

which consist of H.M.S. Hermes and a His Worship Even that does not fotilla of one leader and eight destroy- justify you to arrest the man?

ers, together with the forces already in Anti-Red "Reporta.

Chief Preventive Officer S. J. Clarke | China, will be sufficient for the present Reports from anti-Red sources suggest explained that on Thursday morning, to secure adequate protection for British that General Chen Tsai Tong, a division Revenue Officer Ward and a party search subjects and interests. So far as the mili 3. Matters connected with the exami- commander of the 4th Kuomintang Corps, ed a house at Queen's Road West and tary forces are concerned, the situation male defendant lived up to date has not warranted any mili cr passengers their has forsaken the "Red" cause because he found that the

arrived in Canton last week from Pakhoi there. In his possession was a letter tary intervention, and no military, or air leaving his 4,000 troops to the command asking him to meet the woman on board reinforcements have been sent. of his subordinate officers. Other reports the Kaija Maru.

Mr. Lo asked for an adjournment till from the same quarters state that 3. Matters connected with the exami. General Ngai Bong Ping, the new leader Tuesday nest, and this was granted.

nation of all goods imported into of the anti-Reds in Kwangtung is plan-- and exported from Canton. 8. Matters connected with the examining another uprising in Southern Kwang.

nation of luggage.

4. Matters connected with the exami- nation of passengers documents

or passports.

tung districts.

These reports of prob-|

nation of all contraband goods. able anti-Red activities, however, do not IV. Should the Inspection Corps dis- cover any illegal documents or passports in the course of their examination of passengers, they should confiscate the

HEALTH BULLETIN.

Mr. Looker asked whether the Prime Minister was aware of the menace to the British and foreign communities at Shanghai if the Cantonese army arrived at the city, and whether he could say that the possibilities of such a menace had not been lost sight of by the Govern

cause the Canton Government any grave FOR WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 2320. ment. anxiety at the moment. All attempts by anti-Red to commence a revolt have been successfully crushed so far.

articles in question and report the matter The Whampoa Development scheme,

to the Department for the Pursuit of so much talked of by the Kuomintang Smugglers and the Protection of Mer-

chants.

leaders before the ending of the anti- British boycott, is to be dropped quietly, V. Should the Inspection Corps in the as no one is seriously interested in it. course of their examination of travellers At the beginning the Kuomintang were come across anyone whom they regard to appropriate #10,000,000 for the cater as suspicious character, they should prisebut afterwards it offered $10,000,000 detain bim and send him under escort in Kuomintang bonds a totally different to the judicial section of the Department thing.

for the Pursuit of Smugglera and the

The report that ex-Governor His Protection of Merchants, for examina. Chao, formerly of Chekiang, who re

cently failed in his coup d'état against tion.

General Sun Chaan Fong of "Nanking. has arrived at Canton has not yet been confirmed by Kuomintang leaders of the Southern Capital.

VI.-The Inspection Corps may, in the course of their examination, require travellers captains of ships and other responsible officials to answer every kind of question. The form of questions to be naked and the answers' required will be determined later.

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VII.-In view of the necessity of having somewhere to carry out their examina- tions, the Inspection Corps may establish examination offices which will be located

es under:

1. The Bund.

2. Honam (opposite Canton).

3. Bocoa Tigris,

4. Taishan (Kowloon).

5. Shumchun (Hongkong frontier).

J

PLAGUE.

} case at Tamatave.

2 cases at Mauritius.

I case at Rangçon.

CHOLERA

15 cases at Calcutta.

1 case at Bangkok"

3 cases at Amoy,

3 cares at Shanghai.

SMALL-POX.

2 cases at Alexandria. 4 cases at Calcutta.

7 cases at Bombay," cases at Madras.

4 cases at Padang.

1 case at Batavia.

2 cases at Bangkok.

3 cases at Vladivostock

I caso at Rangoon.

RIVER TRAFFIC.

The Taishan which has been on the

Mr. Baldwin: That is a very bypothe tical question, and. I do not think a situation has yet arisen in which it is necessary for me to make any announce. ment to the House.

Question of Joint Measures. Mr. Looker asked whether any steps were now being taken to confer with the Powers interested as to the situation which had arisen in China and as to any joint measures to be taken for the pro- tection of the foreign communities and otherwise.

Mr. Baldwin: No, Sir His Majesty's Government regard it as a matter for any individual Government concerned to de- cide for themselves what measures it is advisable or necessary to take-for-the pro- tection of their nationals or interests abroad, according to the circumstances arising in each case,

Canton Taxe3.2"

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Mr. MacDonald: Can the Prime Minis ter way whether the Government has taken notice of the fiscal conditions at

tached to the removal of the boycott by the Canton Government

Workers belonging to labour zaions in Wuchow may fill one another, if they like, but they will be punished for kill- ing others." This to all interests and purposea is the new policy of the mili- tarists dominating Wuchow who do not Canton night run this week will take wish to see labour. forming an imperium the place of the Fathan on Sunday and in imperio. Recently the Wuchow mili-will leave for Canton at 8 am This ·Mfr. Baldwin: I have not all these tarists shot down two workers for inter- is only a temporary arrangement in detaila in my mind, and I think all I can fering with non-union men who desired order that the Fatshan may have her, say, in the absence of the Foreign Secre- to earn a living as coelies. On October | boilers scraped. The Fatslinn will leave tary, who, I am glad to say, will be back 25th all union workers declared that they for Canton on Monday as usual and on in a few days, is that this is a matter would go on strike unless the troops who Tuesday the Taishan will resume the which is engaging our attention at killed the two Reds

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