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UNIONS REGAINING

POWER?

STRIKE COMMITTEE STILL

FUNCTIONING.

RICE CROPS IN DANGER.

"RED" ATROCITIES IN COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. Į

SUMMER CRUISES.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,

BLUE FUNNEL"ENTERPRISE.

A MONTH'S ROUND TRIP.

SHANGHAI, TSINGTAO. WEI- HALWEI, PEKING AND DAIREN.

NATIONALIST AIMS.

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DR. C. C. WU'S STATE- MENT,

NO RESENTMENT AGAINST FOREIGNERS.

"A SIMPLE AND REASONABLE REQUEST."

PRISONER'S SUCCESSFUL

DEFENCE.

WOMAN COMPLAINANT'S ALLEGATIONS.

"HARD SWEARING" SOME- WHERE.

MAY 20th, 1927.

ROBBERS SENTENCED.

GAGGED VICTIMS WITH POTATOES.

FIVE YEARS' GAOL.

Two out of three Chinese who committed robbery at No. 8, Star At the Criminal Sessions, before Street, near Quren's Road Enst, at the early hour of 3 a.m., and de- the acting Puisne Judge (Mr. P. Jacks) yesterday afternoon a Chi. camped with numerous articles and nesa was charged with taking part815 in money, after gagging their in a robbery with other Chinese; women victims with potatoes, re- assisting in the gagging of

ceived punishment at the Criminal Sessions yesterday, when the neting Paisne Judge (Mr. P. Jacks) -en- threatening her with a

tenced them to five years' hard labour each, following their con- and also with hanging her up with MLİ a wire so that she was in danger

viction by the jury.

Dr. C. C. Wu, who has assumed offee as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Giover

The Blue Funnel Line have just announced that they have arranged special summer cruises for which four of their largest vessels will be employed the Surpedon, Patro- Troop guarding the headquarters eine, Autenor and Hector. The font at. Nanking, and in some woman, with an orange and wire.

are well and boots, of course, favourably known to all Hong Kong residents and it will be generally

of the Canton Strike Committe have been withdrawn, and the strike pickets are one more being allowed

to function.

respects, therefore, has taken the place of Mr. Eugene Chen, the Nationalist Foreign Minister

A

revolver

The Committee was Fonceded tlusk they provide all the Bankow, has just issued a state to strangulation.

ment outling the policy of the He entered " plea of not i Nationalist Government. Dr. Wa's guilty." statement, of course, must be taken

RM

There

not disbanded at the time of the Anti-Red Cotop Pone of the leaders were

"Rieds." not a rumour is Canton that is now

are still hold- some of the "Resis ing power as officials of the Canton Strike Committee. They are now advocating a scheme under which the $1,000,000, which, the merchants are raising with the idea of paying a handsome bonus to the afrikers and then disbamling them, should

be turned over to these officials. The

facilities required for a pleasant holiday at sea,

The cruise outlined is one which cupies approximately a month. The Norpedon will leave here next Thursday, (6th inst.), the L'atrodas June 23rd, the Antenor July 1st and the Beeter on August

th

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A call will be made at Shanghai, den on to Tsingtao and Weihniwei a from there to Taka Bar for Tientsin and Peking.

Approxim

of

the

From the story of the prosec

It was stated that prisoner was in the habit of borrowing money from a man living on the third floor of No. 241, Portland Street Mongkoktani.

Mr. H. K. Holmes prosecuted for the Crown, and the prisoner who pleaded guilty were not represent-

ed.

The two men were alleged to have stolen, in company with another ccnfederate, bangles, seyen head- dess rings, ten pearls, hairpin, car as representing General Chiang Kaition, as outlined by Mr. T. S. Shek's views. According to the Whyle Smith (Assistant Crown pick, eight pieces of clothing, nine

Solicitor) it appeared that a pairings, and $15 in money. correspondent of

of ear rings, a pair of bangles. Conton finzette it is as follows: Nanking

a finger ring and 825 in money were With the removal on Apr3 48th stolen.

Hent of the Nationalist Government to the historie capital of China, Nanking, another stage has been reached in the Chinese Nationalist movement. The, oppos

On March 26th, about 9 p.m., ing forces, Progress and Reaction. which came to grips in 1911, have it was alleged that prisoner cane to

present time, but there can be no wife of the man referred to remind- doubt as to the ultimate triumph of him that he had borrowed money the cause of Progress which has already bat had failed to repay it.

the Kuomintang.

tion, the wornan's husband came in and agreed with his wife's view. be the most northerly point of the

Prisoner was then slated to have It is said that when the Canton trip. The return voyage will be China, and the Government found- I left the house, remarking something | third man appeared to be guarding

the door. made by the same route but on thed on these principles has in the to the effect that he would "re

member this." Strike Committee is finally dis-j bandesi tlīose of its officials who are way back there will be a stay of approximately six days in Shang now in prison for irregular praat. The whole cruise wifi accupy tices in the administering of the

two days for the Month. organization will be gradually ře leased. One of the first, it is said will be Mr. Chui Kung Han,

Barber in the Chinese

In outlining the circumstances, Mr. Holmes said a married wonian | named Yu Yuk Kwong, living at 8. Star Street, was awakened at three o'clock on the morning of April, eth by a hand grasping her throat. She tried to n for help, but was

dagger, and who was with two others. Two of the men took in active part-in the robbery, while the

dea is that they should start a utely four days will be allowed for continued their struggle up to the the house to ask for a lonn, but the

a visit to China's capital and then factory in which the strikers will hut both merchants and pickers Dairen, which is some twenty miles been consistently championed by At this juncture of the conversa threatened by a roan who held a find work. It may sound pretty the cruise will be continued to:

know quite well what happens to by ad from Port Arthur and will money entrusted to labour leaders.

former

Craises of this nature have been organised by the Blue Funnel line from Shanghai in previous years and have proved exceedingly popu- This is the first time, however, that such trips have been arranged

"YMCA barber-shop at Hong Kong, but later a judge in the Strike Committee Court set up to from Hong Kong, Residents there "try" persons for breaking anti-fore who have been unable to make British boyrult rules.

up their aninds this year whether to go to Weihaiwei, or Tsingtao, or Peking or Port Arthur can compro- ise on the matter most satisfac corily by going to them all. And, orcover, they will be able to dance doth going and coming for, of course, these large Blue Funne liners carry hands and musical and other entertainments will be ar ranged on boarti.

The Chinese Seamen's Union in Canton is to be reorganized and its committee will be elected by its -members instead of being appointed by outside authorities. A number of leaders of this Union, who were prominent ornaments of the "Red"

Canton hastily arction, left mth ago in order to avoid arrest! and imprisonment. This has maele a new election of officials cossa

it

The search for "Reds in Can- ton is still going on busily and on the 18th of May, and a number of houses in the 18th Ward, the best known shopping district in the City are suspected of harbouring extremists.

grant. The Nanying Brothers have hera doing very little business in Canton siten the closing of their factories in Hong Kong and the British American Tobacco Company now enjoy practically a monopoly

i and around Canton.

WHAMPOÀ ACADEMY

OFFICIAL DETAINED.

CHARGE OF POSSESSING -

SEDITIOUS MATTER.

the documents seized could be fully translated. This was granted..

The principles of the Kuomintang have moulded the thought of new

Tuent

Gagged And Suspended.

short space of two years extended

The woman was gagged with a its jurisdiction from Canton to

sweet-potato, which was fixed into more than half of China including

her month of means of wire. On the richest, most populous,, and On the following day, about soon, most progressive cities and pro the woman in question opened the the same floor were living her vinces. The rest of Chima will indoor in response to a knock and grandmother and her small daugh- The men also secured the old the near future also be delivered three strange men entered the house. from militarist and mis-govern- They pushed her into the kitchen, woman, and removed a ring from and the woman alleged that she her finger, but they did not molest The presence in the party of saw prisoner who carried a revolver the daughter. Communist influences at variance

among them. He seized her by the

The men then proceeded to run- sack the plane, and the articles. with the precepts of the Kain throat and she was gagged with an

orange and wire and by means of mentioned in the charge-were after- tang has during the past few weeks another wire she was hung up towards found to be missing. They internal schism to an open split touching the ground, so that she the woman Yu freed herself with brought what hitherto bas been

a nail on the wall, her toes larely left about five o'clock, after which Nevertheless, as these fluences

difficulty and raised an alarm. are small, there is very confidence was in danger of strangulation. that they will very shortly be coin- According to this witness's evid pletely eliminated and that solience she was robbed of her jewellery darity will be re-established in the and money was taken from ranks of the followers of Dr. Sau wooden box. Yat Sen

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Sho also alleged that prisoner The installation of the Nationalist pushed the weaport he had against her and that the others kicked her. Government at Nanking affords an opportunity to make a public state- After thoir departure she freed The herself from her precarious position meat of its foreign policy. Government, guided by the teach and attracted the attention of a ings of Dr. Sun, considers it its neighbour by her cries for help. paramount duty, in accordance with This neighbour came in to find her the will of the entire Chinese spitting blood, people, to emancipate China from: her state of imernational bondage and to secure for her an equal status in the family of nations, a status to which her civilization, ¦ resources, and population entitle After evidence had been taken to umplete the case for the Crown, the prisoner made a long statement. Ia this he emphatically denied complicity in the robbery. He stat ed that he was not near the house

her.

ot

The prisoner was arrested on the same day, and complainant picked him out on an identification parade. Prisoner's Emphatic Demia).

the constable

The first prisoner was arrested ten days later, when he told the police that if they would wait a bit the second man would come. The police accordingly waited, and when the second man appeared he was also arrested.

Mr. Holmes said that was about the only evidence they had against the first prisoner, because the women were unable to identify him although the electric lights were on at the time. They were, however, able to identify the second man. Mr. Holmes remarked that as No. 2 seemed to be definitely one of the men who took part, the first man's remark seemed to show he was a confederate. The two men took the police to a pawn shop, where two articles of property were recovered, but the pawnbroker was unable to

remember who took the articles there.

When charged at the Police Court Court the first prisoner said he had nothing to say, and added that those who ran away took the articles. The second prisoner, in his state-

dagger. ment, denied that be carried a After hearing the evidence, and the statements of the prisoners, which tallied with those made when

His Lordship sen first charged. tenced each of them to five years' hard labour.

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China is fettered on every hand When the 6.5. Suchou arrived by treaties and conventions model here from up river on Tuesday, the led after those imposed upon her Police made their usual search of nearly a hundred years ago. There The 13 leading cigarette manu passengers, and seditious, matter are fcw agreements between at the time, having drunk so much was alleged to have been found on nations, even when concluded wine at a birth celebration that he facturers in Craton have been forced to close temporarily by himself as the areretary of thevived after the lapse of a century;

Ma Chuen Chin, who described terms of equality, which have aur slept it off during the morning, but later in the day he went to a tea shop. strike of their employees who are Whumpon Military Academy.

is it reasonable to insist on When taken before Mr. Schofield, China's observance of antingut He put the fact that he was a demanding an increase of wage, i which the employers refused to Kowloon Magistracy yester and unequal treaties when the policused of taking part in the rob- day, Mr. Ma said that he was 37tical, social, and economic condi-ery down to a grudge on the part years of age and a native of Che-tions of the country, affecting both of complainant because he had king. Sergt. Barniste, prosecuting, Chinesc and fore gners, have under-borrowed money from her husband and not paid it back, and because sked for a remand in order that gone fundamental changes?

These treaties have on the one he had quarrelled with him over it. hand seriously impeded the develop. He was not in the house on the day ment of the nation; on the other of the robbery at all. When arrest- ed while drinking tea at Gertain hand they have failed to accoun- plish the supposed object of protect-restaurant he told ing foreign interests and promoting that he had not committed the rob

"But I was taken to bery, foreign trade. Foreign interests are

Prisoner further The West River, and the East best protected and foreign trade police station."

plainant's husband, but this Was River are both rising, and reports best promoted by mutual good will. said he had been mployed by com- from Pokio state that this dia. and genuine goodwill cannot exist denied by the other side. trict, which was the heaviest suf. so long as anachronistic and humi tion of the title of Kuomintang ferer during the fight between the liating treaties are enforced. In Foreign Minister by Dr. C. C Wu, anti-Reds and the "Reds," is the Canton Office staff have decid- now being inundated is a num ed to forget Mr. Chen and use the ber of places. Hundreds of rice

patches aro being flooded to name of Dr. Wu. It is thought depth of from five to six inches. that Dr. Wu will make the present A failure of the crop is not im- offico

Bureau of possible, if this continues inuch Canton is

longer. Foreign Office Affairs with either Mr. Four Ping Sheung, ut Mr. Tanr Sbiy Wai in charge. Mr. Foo and Mr, Tam

The Kuomintang Foreign Office

is officially still in Canton, and was never formally transferred to any other place. Since the assump-

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are brothers-in-law of

Dr. C. C. Wu and until one or other takes up the job, Mr. Luke King For is carrying on.

EAST AND WEST RIVERS RISING.

The two Chinese who were arrest- Prisoner called several witnesses, ed and charged last week for hav- the common interest of Chinese and all of whom spoke as to his charing in their posse on seditious foreigners alike. a fundamental acter, and said that he had been a mattor were brought up on renand readjustment of the existing treaty fukt of the complainant's husband, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at relations is imperative.

and that he was not guilty of rob the Central Magistracy yesterday bery

morning,

Abrogating Of Treaties,

The Nationalist Government ad-

The jury eventually returned a

Hou Tang Fung who was arrest- verdict of "not guilty," and pried as, he landed from the 8.5. Past Boner was accordingly discharged.

Beau was dealt with first, he guilty" at the having pleaded" previous hearing."

dresses itself to the task of the abrogation of the unequal treaties, and will employ for that purpose THE "RED" TRAIL,

all legitimate means. It has taken note of the statements emanating lives. The Chinese object, not to

After reading the translation Reports from. Hoifung state that from authorised spokesmen of the the presence of the foreigner, but made at the Secretariat for Chinese the Reds" have now been driven foreign governments as to the in- to his position of privilege, They Affaira, Mr. Lindsell said:" This off, but that before they evacuapplicability of the existing treaties consider that the foreigner should hook containa. articles which are ated the seat of the district govern and their readiness to meet the he placed on a footing of equality practically anti-British. inent, they put to death a number wishes of the Chinese people

with the people among whom he has

Accused: That book is not mine. voluntarily chosen to live and trade. A friend put it in my box.

Privileges Of Foreigners, -

Magistrate: That is not what you said last week. You admitted possession, then.

of local officials, including the With every confidence in the good Magistrato and his staff. The On account of lack of business, Municipal Director of Swabus intention of the foreign goveru-

the Sunning Railway has decided to discharge about 300 workmen in the Szoyap district and the Yuck Han is getting rid of 150.

Red" tor was also a victim of rorism. He was abot either May 7th or 9th.

On

mente this Government earnestly hopes that negotiations with a view

The concession elaimed by the Cantonese to send their lettors for three cents instead of tour is to be abolished. Henceforth, domesticadence at Shiukwan, the Central

con and the foreign nations.

Accused: All my books bear my

naine.

three

In the forthcoming negotiations to the conclusion of new treaties for the abrogation of the special will immediately be opened. Tech- privileges of foreigners in China. When the "Reds" evacuated

nicalities should be discarded in the Nationalist Government trusts Shiukwan B fortnight ago they order to achieve, in the shortest that the foreign governments and

Magistrate: I don't care if it is or not. It was found in raided the Branch of the Kuonnin possible period, the aim of restoring peoples will display far-sighted

ΟΣ possession-8250 tang, Central Bank and took all harmonious relations between China statesmanship and practical wisdom yours available cash. To restore con-

in the solution of the outstanding your

mails will cost four oente a letter,

Bank head office at Canton bas

Meanwhile, the Nationalist Gov problems of the world to day. The months.

With regard to Chan Kai' Fung Chinese people, irrespective of geo- ernment will do all in its power to graphical situation and political who arrived here on the s.. Fat- The Shan Pa Pino lottery mono had to rush specio to that city poly in Canton has been granted in preparation for re-opening the protect foreign life and property to a lossl militarist at 8883,100 Branch and to meet possible de-according to the generally accepted creed, are all united in demanding shar, and who had pleaded not The internatonal justice and fairplay guilty" when originally charged, month. When the "Roda

In the interest of the peace and Mr. Lindsell said: "The 8.Č.A. had manda for redemption of the notes rules of international law.

resentment of the Chinose to the control of the Financial Ministry, now in circulation in that vicinity; foreigner is not to hin individually welfare of the world, such a simple suggest that the casc against you the monopoliste paid only about At least a million dollars are said

of the human race ought not to be a seditious nature in the books at 860,000 a month.

to be required to rehabilitate the but to the system under which he and reasonable request by a quarter be withdrawn. There is nothing of bank at Bhiukwan.

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