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TERRIBLE UP-RIVER COLLISION.

S.S. "LEUNG KWONG" SUNK IN CAPSUIMUN PASS.

OVER 80 REPORTED DROWNED.

TWO EUROPEAN OFFICERS MISSING.

A graphic story was told by a survivor who reached Hong Kong yesterday of the collision between the steam launch Hoon Shine and the na. Lung. Kwong on Monday night at 7.30° at Capauimun Pass, The Leung Kwong was struck on the bow and Bank within ten minutes. Two of her European Officers are re- ported to be missing, and about eighty Chinese passengers were. probably drowned. Gallant rekene work was done by two other steamers on the same run which came on the scene about half an hour later. Capt James Wilson, master of the ill-fated vessel, was reported to have been in the water for over an hour before he was picked up.

The 5.4. - Leung Kwong left here on Monday at 6.30 p.m. on her usual trip to Kongmoon, and while in Capauimun Pass, at 7.30 p.m., she collided with the steam launch Moon Shine. The Leung Kwong was badly damaged in the bow and she Bank within ten minutes of the accident, the head of the vessel subaerging first.

The Collision,

It appears from the report made by the coxswain of the Moon Shine, that the s.s. Leung Kwony was pro- reeding along the centre channel and suddenly swerved across the Lews of the Moon Shine.

This resu? was returning to Hong Kong from Lin Tang having left there at 5.30 p.m. When she reached the approaches to Capsui- mun at 7.30 p.m., she sighted the port and starboard lights of an approaching steamer. As she was

the middle of the channel, she therefore blew two long blasts and altered her course to 'starboard, but the Leung Kwong swerved also to the inshore, thus meeting the bow of the Moon Shine with her star- board bow. A collision resulted and serious damages were done to the Leung Kyung,

·Realising that the vessel would sink, the Captain of the Leung Kung made an attempt to bench ber, but before the steamer could! gain any headway, she sank rapidly by the head.

Around The Wreck, Confusion reigned around the wreck. On board the 5.6 Leung Kwong were some 200 souls includ ing crew and passengers, and every, one was trying to reach a place of safety. Suine were so frantic that they threw themselves into the river. Meanwhile the Joon Shine, after having regained control, went alongside aft of the wreek and took off fifty to sixty passengers, and some were fished out of the river.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11th, 1927.

that the launch had not altered her The Leung Kwong, there- course. fere, swerved to starboard, but the Moon Shine instead of keeping on to her course, altered to starboard and struck the Leung Kwong on the starboard bow.

A Survivor's Story.

CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE..

ANNUAL MEETING.

ELECTION Of officers.

!

OPEN LETTER TO MR. CORRESPONDENCE.

WANG CHING WEI.

ADVICE OF THE MILITARY

CADETS.

A WARNING TO THE SUN FAMILY.

The 14th annual meeting of the Hong Kong Chinese General Cham- ber of Cominerce was held in the Chamber of Commerce roons, Con- [ROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] naught Road, yesterday afternoon. The general meeting was followed by a meeting of the Committee.

Mr. Li Yau Tsun, the Chairman, presided and was supported by Mr. Lee Yick Mui and Mr. Ip Lan Chuan, general secretary.

The officers of the Chamber last year were: Mr. Li Yau Tsun, Chuir man; Mr. James Morris Wong, Vice- Chairman; Mr. Ip Lau Chuan, General Secretary; and Mr. Chau Yu Ting, Hon. Treasurer. With the exception of Mr. Wong, who de were re-elected. Mr. Lee Yick 3ui lined further service, these officers replaces Mr. Wong as Vice-Chair- man.

In addition to the foregoing the Chamber has as honorary members of its committee: Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotowall, Mr. Weng Kwong Tin, and Dr. S. W. TRO.

Some 18 merchants are on the One of the survivors, an engies. executive committee, and 96 on the from hand of the ill-fated vessel general committee. Mr. M. K. Lo who had returned to the Colony legal adviser to the Chamber and minus four toes and with a broken Mr. T. N. Chau, the lion. English head told a graphic story to a Daily Prian representative. Asked as to the number drowned, the man riplied in a low tone that the deck passengers were "all boiled in one kettle." This is a Chinese idiom for all perishing together without any manng of saving them.

Since the beginning of the "anti- Red" campaign in Canton, many labour unions formerly belonging to the Kuomintang Workers' Delegate Conference ("Red") have decided to join the Central Labour Union, which has been against the ex- tremists throughout. Tho Central now comprises 267 Labour Union

members. branch unions with a total of 780,000

DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."]

Russia.

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cornmen

SIR, Anyone who has had any real experience of popular move- mente, political or industrial, knows that the rank and file never do anything but listen and cheer and vote. All the real work is in- ) variably done by a few energetic Icnders and a handful of workers, The great mass of the people never take an active part in the conduct of public affairs. If this is truc in China to-day, one is inclined to think it is even more true in The great mass of the

Jabour, people. resent the

the and the trouble. They The cadets of Whampoa Military effort Academy have addressed an open must have leaders. They always

Do a helpless mob. letter to Mr. Wang Ching Wei ask-dil have leaders. Without leaders

expect to be ing him to sever his connection they with the Hankow faction in Chinese the Communists politics. It is likely that Mr. Wang able to dispense with leaders! Do will take this opportunity to leave they expect the whole mass of the Hankow provided, of course, that proletariat to develop a

will, a common purpose an: E he is free to do so.

common discipline They do not expect anything of the kind. They intend the proletariat to have leaders and masters, and they in- tend to secure those posts for them. selves. To put the whole thing in a nutshell, the advocates of the dictatorship of the proletariat do not mean to allow the proletariat to dictate. No, they are to be dictated to in China as in Romia.

In trade, in politics, in agricul- ture, in the Army and Navy, in manufacture, in education and in law, the Russian Communista pro- DOB to supercede the fit by the unft. All the trained, experienced and capable directors, organisers, Sun Yat Sen and her step-son, Mr. managers, salesnien, architects and Sue Fo. Madasne Sun has been engineers, and all the educated professional men are to be murder- requested to leave Hankow and toed or exiled that their places may go to Nanking at once, while Mr. be filled by the rag-tag and bob- -tail-of-the-elus-men-ignorant, An inquest opened by Mr. R. E. Sun is being accused of having unskilled, unjust and violent. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy destroyed the merit his late father yesterday on young Chinese woman who died at the Government took 10 years to achieve. In Can Civil Hospital was adjourned until ton, Mr. Li Shing Yi, formerly chief next Tuesday.

secretary to Mr. T. V. Soong, has

secretary,

Altogether 18 District Chambers of Commerce and 38 Trade Guilds are represented in

Chamber of Commerce.

the General

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The Superintendent of the Can- ton Wireless Service is desirous, it is reported, of preventing foreign warships in Canton waters from The cash receipts of the Cham-communicating with other stations or ships. It is understood that he her last year were $20,726.09. and the total income Was put 831,023.02. The payments amounts taken up the question with the It appeared from bis story thated to 996,844.15. The Chamber, in Foreign Consule on Shameen. the grille leading to the upper addition to its property in build. deck from the stecṛnge was lock-ings and ground, has now assets of ed at the time, and therefore $23.800.76. The ground and build those who were down below were ing of the Chamber are valued at munkie to get out. They were 189,035.47. shut in a death trap and drown- ed.

Those who were saved, he de- clured, were first class passengers. He was in the engine room at the time of the collision and on hearing a loud crash and a scurry and hurrying of feet above him he came on deck. There he found the ship's head rapidly submerging. What followed he was unable to say. "Everything. went wild." was how he described the barn The cries of the worden, he said, were most heart rending.

Visits To The Wreck,

Dr. Sun Yat Sen's family star appears to be waning. The South- ern Chinese Press are featuring a warning formally telegraphed from Shanghai by the senior secretary of

CHINESE WOMAN'S DEATH General Headquarters to Madame

MYSTERY.

POLICE AND DOCTORS BAFFLED

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Mr. M. K. Lo, who represented

the dead woman's family, in apply-been transferred from the Canton ing for the adjournment, said that Polico Headquarters to the Military the family was not satisfied as re- Prison at Whampoa.

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Such is the plan, such the hope of the apostles of revolution.

Now, apart from the criminal lunacy of the suggested means, let us consider the political idiocy of the end. As exemplified in Russia to-day, the dictatorship of the proletariat means the rule of the But that peasants and soldiers.

form of political government. It would imply also the confiscation of all public and private property and the control of all industrial concerns by the and commercia! proletariat. Once they have abolish- ed law and order, and discipline and business and commonsense, and have successfully blown out the brains of the commonwealth, will they be able to wave the Red Flag and live happily ever after?

garde the cause of death. He The trial of Mr. Kan Kum Shek, rule must surely be more than a should like to say, without prejudic. ¡ ing the finding or the issue of the who was at one time well-known in cass, that the relatives of the de- Hong Kong and Canton as a mer were censed were most anxious that the

circumstances should be thoroughly chant and politician, has been investigated by a jury. For that opened in Shanghai. The charge reason alone, he would ask his Wor- against. Mr. Kan is that he is ship to grant him an adjournment

"Red" but little evidence has so in order that he might fully pre-

far been produced in support of the pare to represent the family. died in the Government Civil Hos. charge. Mr. Kan was for a time a member of the Kwangtung Pro pital on April 22nd, the cause an- cording to the medical authorities vincial Assembly. being opium poisoning. No one had been able to ascribe a reason for the presence of opium in the body.

A visit to the scene of the disaster was paid by the Deputy Harbour Master yesterday morning at about ten o'clock on the launch Fictoria, but only part of the funnel and

mast of the sunken vessel showing above water, Two hats belonging to her were picked up and taken back to Hong Kong.

Divers and surveyors were also While the launch was doing all

kent out by the owners of the Leung sh: could in the way of rescue work, two other steamers--the s.s. On Lee rang yesterday. They found three and the Kwong Fuck Cheongdead bodica flouting near the wreck and poap, bridge and saloon parti also on the same ran, came up. They were, however, unable to tions were drifting about. These anchor owing to the strong current had either been torn away by the running at the time. They did impact or by the wash of the cur- what they could and several of the rent. A Chinese liver went down but came up after half an hour. passengers were picked up by them. The Moon Shin found she was He found two rifles, five revolvers making water by the bowe and she and one automatic pistol, which to the therefore transferred the survivors were later handed over aboard her to the two steamers. The Police. Kwong Fook Cheong continued her journey to Kongmoon with about

Soundings were also taken around twenty survivors, and the s.a. On Lee returned to Hong Kong with the wreck. At the derpest part about eighty. She reach Laichikok there were 17 fathoms of water, at about 10.30 p.in. on Monday shallowing down to 131 fathoms. night, and as she was unable to get According to another report it was n launch to take off the survivors stated that there were 20 fathoms she had picked up, she took them at the deepest point, shelving to 6 10 Kongmoon arriving at about 2 fathoms with a sudden shallowing a.m. yesterday..

to and 1 fathom.

About three feet of the

main mast was showing above above water,

Chief Officer And Captain. Another survivor said that he saw at least the Chief Officer, Mr.

F.

G.

Eighty Drowned. According to the coxewain of the Moon Shine, there were eighty person drowned. He was Martin, alruggling in the water for unable to give many details, as he over an hour. He appeared to be had been busily engaged in rescue in a state of exhaustion and had work. Among the passengers he apparently swallowed a lot of had picked up, was Capt. James water. A life line was thrown out Wilson. He said that the launch to him, but he was unable to get had cleared Lin Ting Customs at hold of it. A sudden turn of the 6 p.m., and the collision took place boat in which this survivor was, at a position approximately half made him lose sight of Mr. Martin

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The case concerned a woman who

The B.S. "Leung Kwong."!

Never before, neither under the Czar, nor Bismarck, nor Napolcon, After an interruption of nearly have the commonplaces of political four weeks, trains on the Kwang freedom been so completely repress- tung Section of the Canton-Hankowed, nor have the agencies for creat- line are again running between the ing political opinion favourable to the Government been so highly The ruling class in The 8.8. Leveng Kwang was built Wongsha, southera, and the Shiu organised.

Russia to-day is not a monarchy and engined by the Kwong Fat kwan, northern, terminus. Shipbuilding Co. and was par During the absence of General and & coterie of feudal lords. It is an aggressive party professing chased by her present owner-The Chien Ta Chun, the Garrison Com-political convictions with the inten- Chiat Wo 8.8. Co. for 880.000 about five years ago. She had been missioner, who is now directing the sity usually associated with a creed. We may, perhaps, discount regularly on the Kongmoon ran pursuit of the "Reds" in North religious rather than a politica! for the last four years. She has a Kwangtung, General Hau Ching a great number of the stories of gross tonnage of 398 tone and a length of 135 fect. Further parti Tang is responsible for the defence culars of the vessel could not be of the Southern Capital. obtained as she is not in. Lloyd's It has been decided by the mili- register. The Leung Kwong was not insured and was not equipped tary authorities in Canton to push "anti-Red" campaign into with wireless apparatus. When she their left here on Monday, she had a Hunan Province, and the Police cargo of rice and four valued at have been recruiting labour corps about $10,000. Captain Wilson has been master of the vessel for four for the transportation service. or five years. Chief Officer Martin only joined the ship recently.

The Moon Shine.”- The Moon Shine was built by Jehn Lewis of Aberdeen. She was

a mile west of the Red Light at and what has become of him was an oid Admiralty trawler, having Capsuimun, off Ma Wun. Prior not known up to late last night." a length of 85 foot, beam 18 lect

the weather was clear and calm.

Police To The Scens.

Capt. Wilson

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The Canton City Bank, 4 new municipal enterprise, is to open ou May 20th, with Mr. Chen Yi Chung

to day as being the propaganda atrocity which we hear from day of the " White emigres. But the fundamental fact of the absolute despotism of the Communists is undeniable. Did ever a party, go more falacious. forward with n battle hymn than those who shout from the house-tops Dictatorship of the Proletariat?"-Yours, etc.,

IONIDES.. Hong Kong, May 10th, 1927.

as manager, and Mr. Chen Luke HEALTH OF THE COLONY. Fung as assistant manager.

Mr. Lee Tsok Wing, managing. and depth 9 feet. She is a 97 tons director of the Kwangtung Section. craft and was employed as & tug during pre-strike time plying be of the Canton-Hankow Railway, haa tween Hong Kong and River delta. resigned, owing to health Mr.

Her present owners are the Lee Wing Company, and she is under British registry. When she return ed to Hong Kong after the collision she had to be beached at Laichikok.

Enquiry To Be Held,

Lee was originally appointed by Mr. Sun Fo.

to the collision the lights of both

also seen vessels were burning brightly, and struggling in the water and it was stated that he must have been in the water. for over an hour before The Arat report of the collision he was picked up by the Moon was received by the Water Police Shine. He had received a slight at about 11 p.m., when a telephonic injury to his hand.

The Chief Engineer, Mr. A. message was sent through by Capt. Wilson, who had returned to Hong Donaldson, is also missing. Hope Kong by the Moon Shine. The is, however, expressed that the two Harbour Ofoe tug Kau Sing was missing officers might have bean

An enquiry into the circumstances unable to proceed to the scene of picked up by either the e.s. On Lee the wreck as she was in dock, and or the wong Fook Cheong, and of the collision; will be held at the Inspector Brown, of the Water until these steamere returned to Matitie Court in due course. The Police, went to Capauimun Paas Hong Kong, nothing could be survivors, it is reported, have sentterod and it would be difficult on & Taikoo tug. Inspector Brown learned as to their fate.

The six Indian guards on the ill-to get them to testify at the was unable to And any survivors

Both parties are doing in the vicinity although search fated vessel were picked up by the enquiry. lights were brought into play. Hess. On her and carried to Hong all they can to locate as many de Bouss sold, by order of the

passengers as they can to give evidence..

returned about 9 s.m.

The Leung Kwong's " Version,

moon.

The Casualtián. Interviewed by our representative

'PROPERTY. SALE.

NO. 32, BONHAM STRAND WEET.

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At. the China Auction Rooms yesterday afternoon, Mr. E. V. M.

leasehold owners, No. 39, Bonham Strand West. Official Position Of The Wreck.

This property has su annual The story of the collision as given yesterday, the owner of the Leung The official position of the wreck Crown rent of 850, and is held on by the Chinese pilot of the s.5.

was given resterday in a notice to term of 990 years. Leung Kwong as that as the Awang said that the umber of

The upact price was 896,000, with veel approached Capsaimun Pass, person drowned amounted to over mariners fed by the Harbour the lights of an on-coming vessel 80. There were over 130 passengers Authorities. It states In Hong bids of 300 scceptable. Bidding of about Kobg waters, west of Dapsuimun, progremed very briskly, and the wete sighted, and an intimation on board and a crew was sent by the siren that the Leung eighty mob. As far as can be the wreck of the sa, Leung Kwong upast we increased by $12,000 be Axong would go by the outer side certain about 130 passengers and li ih approximate position for the property went to

270 deg. (Welt magnetic), 800 yards Kai, who purchased it on behalf of

the Luen fick Hong for $107,000 of the channel. When she came crew had been rescued.

from Cap Bing Jaland Light. near to the Moun Shine, the found

(Continued on next column).

NOTIFIABLE DISEASE FOR LAST WEEK.

EUROPEAN CASE OF ENTERIC

During the week ending last Saturday the returns of hotifiable diseases for that period were as under:

Small-pox:-Six cases (one Chi- nese imported). Two cason were from the City and four from Kow loon, and of these four died,

Diphtheria:-Four deatba: siz esses in all (four from the City, two from Kowloon). 'All Chinese

Enteric fever (typhoid):-Five deaths; ton casca in all (sight from the City, one from Kowloon, dne from Shaukiwan). Nine cases were among Chinese and the other a Portuguese,

Last week's return showed eleven checs of typhoid, of which ten osses proved fatal. There is only half his number of deaths in respect of this disease this week, although only one bem case notified,

For the 24 hours ended yesterday here wis notifed from Kowloon one Gerrota case of enterio féver.·

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