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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 23rd, 1927.

CANTON RUMOURS. PASSENGER'S STILL

GOVERNMENT TAKING NO CHANCES.

ALL POINTS WELL GUARDED.

MONEY FOR the strikers.

(PROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

There are many rumours floating around Canton these days which

Lend to create a certain amount of

HELD UP.

"LUNGSHAN" ARRIVES FROM CANTON WITH

2 PASSENGERS.

A SAMPAN PICKET AT WORK.

The British Canton and Macao Steamboats Co. was still under the

a yesterday. A cordon of pickets from the Chinese Seamen's Union at Canton stationed themselves out-

SIX-WHEEL ARMY

LORRIES.

REMARKABLE TESTS IN

NEW TERRITORIES,

H.E. THE GOVERNOR PRESENT.

UP PRECIPICES AND THROUGH

SWAMPS,

His Excellency the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.C.) saw a fleet of 15 six-wheeled lorries, the Army's newest form of transport, pass through a series of exhaustive and gruelling tests in the. Now The object Territories yesterday.

TAXES IN SWATOW. BROKEN TELEPHONE

IMPOSTS STEADILY

INCREASING.

PEOPLE THREATEN TROUBLE.

QUESTION OF JAPANESE BOYCOTT.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

SWATOW, June 17th. There are two factions here now, and they are fighting strenuously for the control of the revenue, Both are trying to secure the inland surtax of two and a half per cent

for

WIRES.

CONTACT WITH LIVE WIRES CAUSES DEATH.

CORONER'S OUTSPOKEN

CRITICISM.

BETTER SUPERVISION

NEEDED.

The inquest was continued before: Major C. Willson assisted by a jury, at the Central Magistraes yesterday on 20 Chinese, whose identity had not been established, and who met his death by electroen- tion on May 22nd at Mount Cameron Road.

auxiety among the public. One side the Company's wharves at to the effect, that the followers of Canton to prevent Chinese passen General Tang Seng Chi, the head

gers from embarking on the Com- militarist of the Hankow faction,.

pany's steamers for Hong Kong. will attack the supporters of Chiang

Among the pickets were several Kai Shek. Such talk has been

of the discharged crew of the heard ever since the split in the Lung Shon. These then, it may be Kuomintang, party and it probably remembered, were paid off in the Company are Reservists who have ed down, and to-morrow they begin workanan who had been told to

.

usual course last week after the

termination of their six month articles. New men had been en- gaged and several members of the

old crew were promoted.

means nothing, but the Canton Government officials are leaving nothing to chance and all import aat points in the City and the various entrances are well guarded. There is also a rumour that the "Prince" clique, by which name the friends of Mr. Sun Fo are known, are supporting Hankow and sought the assistance of the Sea are objecting to the anti-Japanese anovement. On Monday a numbermen's Union. Whether or no these

Those paid off considered them velves unfairly treated and have

of students, who were found des i want to be taken on has not troying anti-Japanese postera, were ben stated, but the Soumon's Jaken into custody by the Police. tion is hardly going about it in

Failing in their attempt to perhe best way. suade the merchanta voluntarily to contribute, the #3,500,000° required for the disbandment of the strikers' organisation, the Kuomintang Ministry of Finance are to collect the money by force, 1 car who refuse to pay may be fred or im prisoned.

The 84,000,000 worth of Central Bank of China (Kuomintang) notes issued by Mr. T. V. Soong, then Managing-Director for the Pro vinces of Kwangsi, Hunan · ánd —Kianggi-will-nu looger be rega cůrd.. as legal tender or redeemable in the head office of the Bank in Canton

According to a recent ruling of the Police, persons buying business in Canton are not now -compelled to employ the workers

The militarists made д de of the exercises was primarily to mand, on the Chamber of Com- instruct drivers in the handling of merce

24 million the now vehicles on the road and ostensibly to pay off the strikers. dollars.

across country, since the great The Chamber of Compteres majority of the nien in No. 39 M.Tsisted but, as always, finally climb.

had no experience of the type.

This Company was formed some months ago especially for service in China, and to test the suitability of the six-wheeled vehicle for heavy Army work in rough and roadless countries. A similar demonstration of the Army type of six-wheeler was recently given at Aldershot to the Dominion Premiers during their visit to England for the Empire Con- ference.

From the evidence of Mr. V. D.

Kong Electric Co., it appeared Sorby, Mains Engineer of the Hong

that death re-

the collection of me per cent. capital levy on all business in Swatow. The militarists also wast an extra quarter of a million to pay the expenses incurred in the sub- jugation of the Reds and to raise this there is to be a two-months house and property tax, half of the tax to be paid by the landlord and half by the tenant.

Note: The tax has been col lected in Canton for some time, but later advices from Swatow

way in a certain

measure due to the negligence of u

strip the insulating braid from a wire to be used us earth. At the | place where the deceased was found the electric wires ran parallel to the road and about 20 feet above it; the telephone wires crossed them. These telephone wires had been cut and were hanging over the efectric wires. In the line were five wires the top one an earth wite, the two lower ones also earth wires, and the two in the middle wero live wires.

It has also been decided to in pose a tax on all scaft in the bar. A convoy of 15 lorries containing bour, sampans, lighters, launches detachments of men from

the and fishing boats, but the people

The body, which was partly cover several regiments now in the Colony concerned and a number of Naval and Mili-strike if this tax is enforced,

threaten completed with a palm leaf rain coat, showed no wounds, but there was z tary officers, set off at 9.15 a.m.

red mark around the throat. The man had apparently been electro- Yesterday morning, two hours be for Shatin, half-an-hour's drive fore the Kinshon was dus, to leave away. I.E. the Governor accom

announce that the Swatow people ented. Wires were hanging from Canton, pickets took up their posi-panied by his private svcretary and

are protesting vigorously against overfiend, and about 200 or 300 tion outside the wharf, and all the Hon. Mr. Jackman, Director of

the impost.

yards from the body there were To-day's local papers announce some more wires on the road: Near intending Chinese passengers were Public Works, followed in a private

that the Government favours a boy. prevented from boarding the boat. | car,

cott of the Japanese and their the deceased was a pair of pliers, goods. The movement, will be two coils of wires and four porce. officially brought into force at nain insulators. Why he was there,

meeting to-morrow. mass

Mer-and who he was opposed to the proposal as many chants, large and small, are bitterly mystery. of them hold fairly large stocks of Japancae goods.

Gauze

through which the vehicle was to be driven as a demonstration of its ability to traverse shallow water,

They were told to travel by other At Chung Taw Ho, the secne of atumers, and those who demurred the first test, the chosen graund worn told to be off or something was a stretch of muddy sand flats drastic would happen to them. As a result, the Kinshan arrived here yesterday afternoon with only SIX European and four Chinese mud and loose sand. The lorry "Passengers," "These four Chinese was first fitted with a pair of over- without luggage and had all chairs that form a caterpiller hoarded the steamer from a junk. band, between the two wheels of The Police Authorities at Canton each set, thus providing the vehicle appear "so far to have made no at with a truck that enables it to negotiate country of a much more tempt to call off tho pickets and as a result vessels of other lines car-

severe nature than, would otherwise formerly attached to the premises. ried à empacity number of passen-

be possible. The other day the Police ejectedgers. The Tung On brought no.: from the Western Hotel all the less than 742 passengers down yes former employees who had refused

terday. to vacate the place to make room "for the employees of the new pro- prietors. The old employees had occupied the building for several mouths, making the transfer of the business impossible,

When the judicial system in

Canton was modified some months ago, a limited jury or a sort 'of assessorship was introduced, thus enabling the public to be represent

ed to a certain extent in crimina! and civil trials. The brother-in-law of Mr. Hu Han Min, a former Canton Governor, who has taken charge of the law couita in Canton, is, however, not in favour of the system and wishes to abolish it. The merchants, through the General- Chamber of Commerce, are asking that the system may be maintaini ed.

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To-day has boch declared Labour Holiday in Canton and the

Customs there will be closed.

Consequently no cargo will be ship-

red to that port to-day,

THE HOLD UP TIGHTENED.

ented

Hitherto a

H.E. The Governor Beside The

Driver..

-The Daily Press reporter was told that these chains can be fitted in a remarkably short time. At the Aldershot demonstration they were fitted in one minute 50 seconds, though this time the fitting occupied three minutes, When the chaina

had been placed in position, His Excellency, took a seat beside Capt. LATER. L. II. II. Gardner, who drove this The seamen's pickets have light vehicle throughout the exercises, their cordon around the and the car jolted down an almost Company's steamers at the wharf. vertical bank to the sands, ran

been able to smuggle themselves until the sea

few passengers: have smoothly along the muddy beach into the boat by taking a sampan, plunged in at a spot where the was reached, then

and picking her up-ja mid-stream water was some six inches deep chambering on board from the off over a bed of deep slime. Although side. This means has now boen tracks three inches in depth were inde impossible by a squad of left in the ooze there was no sign pickets patrolling all around the of either wheel-slip or skid, and ship in sampans.

after a short cruise through the The Lung Shan which left Canton shallow water the lorry made for yesterday at 3 p.m., arrived here the road again. The steep bank at last night with only two passen- the edge of the road was climbed at all anxious to see a seamen's strike and would have intervened sers. These two men gained the with the case of a heavy tank. This had anything occurred recently, sh by mingling with the coolies test was watched from the road by Now the seamen have decided not who were loading the ship. All in a large number of officers and men, to take action before the 25th of tending Chinese passengers had and also by three Chinese contrac June, when they are to have a therefore been successfully provent tocs who had been invited by the od from embarking, Sus Huk, or Director of Public Works to attend conférence of delegates from number of South and East China we had to accompany their a demonstration of the commercial porta. The Canton Government's cargo of fish and vegetables were, possibilities of this new type. hostility to any anti-British strike however, allowed to travel may account for the departure of vessels..

The prosent Canton regime is not

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Spectacular Lurches But No Mishaps.

After this His Excellency viewed the remaining testa from the top of

remained 21

sults of a post mortem examina Dr. A. Cannon said that the re

tion were all consistent with electrocution as the primary couga of death, and shock as secondary cause. The condition of the heart showed this and no other cause

Goroner Addresses Jury, After all the evidence had been a large hillock. Three lorries unheard, Major Willson addressed. then drove across equipped with caterpiller chains the jury as follows: It is quite the broken clear from the evidence that this ground, scrambling over paths re-unfortunate man died from an sembling undulating sheep tracks, electric shock received from certain floating down into deep hollows and telephone wires in the vicinity of gliding easily out again crashing Mount Cameron on May 22nd. I through bedges like heavy tanks, say telephone wires advisedly, but butting their way up almost vertical these telephone wires harmlosa hills and wallowing steadily through enough by themselves became, when oozy bogs. Our representative who severed and in contact with the rode in one of these, remarkable Hong Kong Electric Co.'s wires, vehicles found necessary to eling sufficiently charged with electricity tightly to an overhead bar to to cause the death of anyone com- maintain balance during the sickening into contact with them. ing and spectacular Jurches. To the We have heard the reason for bystandars the sight was extra this. Mr. Sorby has explained ordinary and they chuckled with de that owing to neglect on the part lighted amazement as the heavy but of the workmen in not braiding compact vehicles sagged and tilted certain of the Company's wires! dangerously, The occupant obtain when they were erected the current ed all that excitement, slightly would not be earthed but would be ride on the Wembley scene railway happened and this man-obviously tinged with apprehension, that a imparted to contact wires. So it used to give. This form of "roduo" out for stealing wires--met his was new to many of the men, but death and it is rather an alarming all managed to preserve a happy reflection that anyone of us might grin throughout the ordeal.

have shared the same fate if we had accidentally touched any telephone wires that may have been merely broken or brought down by a storm and were lying over the Hong Kong- Electric Co.'s wire.

His Excellency made another journey in one of the chain-fitted and through the paddy fields, in lorries, this time across a stream

which the lorry described a figure of eight almost up to the axles in Want Of Supervision, the same quaint antics mud. The machine went through

before, It appears to no that thore has. but the bystanders no longer ex- been a want of aupervision on the pected it to be overset, for the type part of some one. It is not, in hail now proved that it possessed a my opinion, enough to merely give stability and remarkable power over-orders but in cases of this import- rough country that used to be re-ence, it is essential to see that these orders are carried out. I also co- garded as peculiar to the tank.

His Excellency descended from sider that inspections should be the test vehicle smilingly at the made at regular and frequent in- conclusion of the trial, obviously tervals. Budden and violent storms deeply impressed by the Anny's such as occur in this Colony and latest acquisition. His Excellency the depredations of thieves make and Officers remained for tiffin at inspection and constant supervision the Fanling Golf Club.

of wires bearing current all the When His Excellency returned to more necessary. Hong Kong he was accompanied by Col.-Comdt. B. N. Sergison Brooke, C.M.Q., D.6.0.

A Morris Triumph. This vehicle the 16.9 h.p. Morris a development of the Renault that ton truck ddapted to Army-use-is

some time ago was bullt to attempt the crossing of the Sahara desert,

Your verdict can only be ac cidental, death or death by mis adventure, but I feel that some strong recommendation on the lines I have indicated should be recorded as a rider to your verdict.

After His Excellency had rejojued his car, the convoy made for Klung a number of alleged "Red" leaders NO GOVERNMENT ACTION where hill-climbing and cross-coun- Tung, near Kwan Ti race course,

from Canton for Shanghai the sug-

Jury's Recommendation. gestion being to direct, the boycott According to our Chinese cor- try tests were to be carried out,

The jury retired for about five Authorities at At Klung Tung His Excellency

minutes and when they re-assem respondent the Canton are certainly, not support was taken for a journey over a bog bogey was designed by the experi Worship, we find that the deceased The suspension of the four-wheel bied, the foreman said Your ing the boycott. On the other hand two feet deep, up and down mental branch of the R.A.S.C. met his death by miadventure,

from Shanghai with agencies at Swatow and Canton.

The anti-British demonstration on they are not preventing this hold-gradients of one in 1.6, across a Training College at Aldershot, and We would, however, like to add i

ing up of would-be passengers on stream and through ploughed holds

Juhe 23rd, the second anniversary

of the Shaki incident is to keep the British Canton-Hong Kong Both sets of rear wheels are se con- well clear of Skoki bý Kuomintang stemmera. orders. The foreign authorities in Shameen have, however, takon

special precautions.

Mr. Hu Han Min, ex-Governor of Canton, who dirceted for a time the anti-British boycott, is not return ing to Canton now as has been reported.

an order was then placed with rider that we consider that there Morris Motors, Limited, for a num was a considerable lack of super- ber of six-wheeler vehicles embody vision on the part of the Telephone structed that each clings to the ing this patent. Fifty of the lorries Co. We would suggest that regular ground over the worst obstacles, at present in Hong Kong are of inspections be made in future so B3

Morris manufacture,

to prevent a repetition of this no- and thus at the brink of the öne The maximum speed of the cars cident, and also recommend that in 1.6 hill the front wheels hung is from 35 to 40 miles an hour, but special precautions are taken at over the edge, waved in mid air, they can also follow infantry with such points where Telephone wires, out overheating. The average or other wires orosses live electrio The Committee begs to acknow, and descended gradually to the petrol consumption is 12 miles to wires. ledge, with very many thanks, re-ground while the rear ones balanced the gallon. Ten per cent, of the The Coroner:-I accept your ver

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