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LABOUR UNIONS.

COMPLAINT OF CHIEF OF POLICE.

REPORT TO CHIANG KAI SHEK.

UNEMPLOYED TO BE SENT TO

WHAMPOA.

NEW TAXES.

NANKING GOVERNMENT'S

PROPOSALS.

WILL THEY BE CARRIED INTO EFFECT?

·UTTER DISREGARD OF TREATIES,

Advice frosa Shanghai give - a full list of the taxes which the Nationalists, with their headquar (FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]ters at Nanking, propose to intro-

duces or have afrendy introduerd, in the provinces under their control Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Fukion, Kiangsu, Anhui and Chekiang. In minking these proposals it is an- nounced that Fikin will be abolish

There have been suspicions that supporters of the flankow group of politiciana, who are opposed to the Chiang Kai Shek régitae, have had designs on the Military Academy at Whampoa, It is also reported | edi now that an attempt was made The new taxes, which in some to rescue the hundreds of Red cases it is proposed to collect prisoners who are confined in the through the machinery of the Mari- reformatory at Nam-shek-tao. A tim: Customs, rug entirely counter a consequener the movements of all to the rights established by Treaty those believed to be in sympathy The Treaty stipulations appear to with Hankow in pofities are being have been totally disregarded and very closely watched,

Af-the taxes are permitted it will

1-2 per cent, surtax on existing Customs import duties on ordinary goods.

It is stated that the unemployedmenu that another shrewd blow has strikers concerned with the anti-been successfully struck at the Cus British boycott of 1925 are to be toms authority and organisation, removed from the city to Whampoa The schedule of the new taxes ig where camps are to be erected for as follows:→ their accommodation. The strikera are by no means pleased with this proposed arrangement and it is thought that many of them will ask for their $100 bonus and take them- selves, off, The Kuomintang are anxious to see the organisation dis- banded and the more who refuse to go to Whampoa the better they will

be pleased.

The Kuomintang in Canton have announced that labour unions will not be allowed to interfere with

2.- per cent on existing Cus toms export duties on all goods as from July 1st.

3-5 per cent. surtax-on existing Cusiomis import duties on luxury goods as from July 4th.

The luxury list in the same as that drawn up by the Tariff Con- ference.]

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4.--30 per cent, surtax on existing Customs tonnage duca as from July

11th:

per

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 12th, 1927.

CHINESE CINEMA

DISPUTE.

FILM THAT THE CHINESE DISLIKED?

$1,000 DEPOSIT MONEY TO BE RETURNED.

Further evidence, was taken yes terday at the Summary Court, before Mr. P. Jacks (Puigne Judge) in the case in which Ng Shun Fat claimed from Tam Fung Shek the return of $1,000 alleged to have heen paid for a consideration which failed.

The cusc concerned the leasing of a cinema at Hunghom by the plaintiff from the defendaut

Plaintiff's case, as outlined at the last hearing, was

that the money had been paid as a deposit whilst he took the cinema on trial for a few days." If the receipts were satisfactory he was to curry on with the cinema, if not he was entitled under the agreement. he claimed, to the return of his money within six days of the commence

ment of the trial.

TRAFFIC CON- STABLES' POWERS.

RIGHT TO ARREST CHALLENGED.

A FRACAS AT REPULSE BAY.

THE BETTER

HALF.”

CRIPPLED "TJILEBOET” IN THE HARBOUR.

ONE OF HONG KONG'S ODDEST CRAFT..

An interesting point was raised

Yesterday morning one of the yesterday by Mr. Gen. K. Hail Brutton as to whether traffie constrangest craft that Hong Kong bay stables have the right to make ever seen crawled laboriously úp arrests. He was defending two Chi- | the harbour in tow of a fussy little nese motorists who were charged tug. She was a lame deg, the half before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the of a ship-but the better half. And; Central Magistracy, by Inspector | she had been made to suffer an ever. worse ignominy than the mere loss Grant on various counts.

The first defendant, Chang Hin of a few score feet of her once- Shm, residing at Fung Fei Terrace, handsome length, for she was mov- is charged with: (1), passing aing backward, stern first!

And 80 the unlucky Tjilebnet moving vehicle in a control aren; (2), failing to produce his driver's limped painfully out from the a buoy near licence; (3), resisting Inspector Taikon Dockyard to Grant in the execution of his duty; Stonecutter's Island, where she will The remain until the new bow is ready anil (4), reckless driving.

to be joined on to her. A lonely other defendant, Li Shiu Pai, resid- ing at No. 64, Robinson Road, is retreat has been chosen for the charged with obstructing the Insper. maimed vessel; perhaps because she tor in the execution of his duty.

An Indian sergeant of the guardfox that lost his brush. employel at the Repulse Bay Hotel, said in evidence that he was called

to the scene of the trouble, by an-

In his evidence at the previous other Indian. On arrival he found hearing, plaintiff said he tried a the Inspector had one foot on the good Chinese picture, and on the running board of the motor car and first day collected $16.50, the another inside the car. He was alun second day $17.40, the third day holding the wheel with one hand, and the first defendant also held 811.00, and on the fourth day 85. The film cost him $100, and on the the wheel. Inspector Grant asked deal he lost about $200. He com him to assist him in getting the municated with his solicitora, in-first defendant out of the structing them to discontinue the Witness stretebed out a hand to do contract and demand his money so, but before he could touch the first defendant, four other Chinese held him by his belt from behind. The second defendant who was

back.

car.

In support of plaintiff's case qu agreement was produced which was alleged to have been signed bystanding on the right hand side of both parties, but defendant denied the ear, went to the left side and

desires to hide her abanic, like the

To the landlubber it must have" sected that the bowless hulk was all the time on the verge of a long plange into the depths of the sea. Yet her officers walked about on the ridge as confidently as if they had been logging 12 knots in a sea- worthy ship; but beneath the bridge, instead of & solid-looking hatch, was a dizzy void.

A Daily Press reporter was in- formed yesterday that the Tjilcbuet will lie at the buoy until her new forepart is ready, and she will then be returned to Taikoo Dock to have Work on the now it joined up. section. has already begun, and it is expected that it will be finished in out-two-months. The vessel will probably be ready for sea again early in November. A number of the ship's original staff are to re- main on board' to look after her while she is awaiting her new half.

The above four taxes are to be Politics in the future. Their ac- collected by the Surtax Revenue De- partment with the aid of the Mari- time Customs machinery. 1

5.-50

nant. rature

ad special rolled tobacco consolidated tax as from July 1st, to be collected by the Kiangsu Central Rolled Tobaces Consolidated Tax Bureau

Her crew with the aid in the case of import

tivities are to be confined to the promotion of ·labour intereste. General Tang Yin. Hun. Chief of Police of Canton City, in his report to General Chiang Kai Shek bitterly denounces the policy of labour of- ganisations. He says that banditsed goods of the Maritime Customs, and pirates, under the clonk of! union organisation, have been taken advantage-of-the-aid afforded to labour by the Authorities, and have committed all manner of evils. He makes a list of crimes traceable to

labor unions.

The boycott of the British steam era continues. Tho Taishan ar- rived yesterday with only a few Europeans and several Cargo

odlies. The night boat was better circumstanced.

no

RIVER LEVELS.

KWANGTUNG CONSERVANCY

BULLETIN.

West River at Shiuhing: July 9th, 24ft. 9ins.; July 10th, rising; highest level on re- cord 41 feet; lowest on re- cord Din.

G-Six cents per picul, which is rquivalent to 81.03 per ton irrespec- tive of quality on all coal imported into Kiangsu ns from July 1st.

(This is to be collected by the.. Kiangsu Special Coal Tax Bureau. The machinery of collection is not

clearly specified.)

7-$1.00 per ten gallons special tax on all kerosine imported, as from July 16th

that the agreement produced' was the one he signed, and contested the genuineness of the signature.

Giving evidence yesterday, defen- dant said plaintiff went to him on contract to be April 23rd for a arranged.

Twenty Years Experience of Cinema.

Mr D. McCallum, for defendant, produced the draft of a contract

at present numbers six Europeans and 23 natives. Captain de Graaf is in command.

struck the Inspector on the back.

Opening the case for the defence, Mr. Brutton said that it was per fectly true that the first defendant had passed the Inspector's car while in the controlled area. The defend. ant had sounded his horn. when he got to the straight part of the

The Tjilebet us she lay when our road, and the Inspector had steer- ed his ear to the side of the road representative went on board yes- and pulled down for the defendant térday looked quite the most grotes- to pass. After going over theque ship that ever put to sea. Her bridge, the defendant did increase solitary maet stood like a huge his speed, but he had never been true; the steel plates at her bow going at a speed of 40 m.p.h. Mr. projected in serrated rows;, her Bratton contended that it was ab-emptiness caused her to stand un- solutely impossible to do so owing usually high out of the water, and to the turnings. The defendant did with a faint spiral of sinoke and not know that the Inspector was steam at her funnel she looked as chasing him until he had stopped if, despite her ludicrous appear- had had twenty years' experience his car at Repulse Bay when the anes, she were about to put to sea

Inspector went up to him from be-like any perfectly normal vessel. bind and said, "Why, you thought. A Novel Diving Board.

and Mr. C. A. S. Buss, for plain tiff, objected to the document going in on the ground that there had been no previous bint that there was such a draft in existence. It was admitted that the draft was

[This is to be collected by the Special Oil Tax Bureau. The machinery of collection is not clear- not signed, however. ly specified.]

Continuing, defendant said he

.

While imposing these new taxes, the Nanking Government proposes

in the cinema business. It was not to abolish all likin offices in Kwang-

usual to give a lessee three or four tang, Kwangsi, Kiangsu, Fokien, days to determine what returns the Aubai and Cheklang.

were dependent on the weather, the quality of the film and several other

you were very smart, eh?" and

All wines and tobaccos, bath theatre was making. The returne Where is your licence."

tutive and foreign, will be subject to a uniform tax of 60 per cent. ad valorem.

IN CANTON.

Our Chinese correspondent writes: North River at Taingyuen: July

9th, 14ft 5ins.; July 10tli. The Chinese merchants are strongly rising highest level on re- protesting against the attempt to cord 28ft 7ins. lowest in.- North River at Samshui: July impose the so-called luxury tax 9th, 15ft. 3ins; July 10th, which, as far as Canton, is concern- rising; highest level on re-ed, includes practically every kind cord 27ft. Bins.; lowest ft. of merchandise. East River at Sheklung: July

According to a ruling of the Canton 9th, 5ft 8ins.; July 10th, Tit. 9ins. highest 15ft. gins.; Ministry of Finance British as well lowest 3ft.

as other vesseis calling at Canton will be called upon to pay the "ship's value tax." It is under- stood that the British Consul pro- tested against such a levy pointing out that it was contrary to treaty

ALLEGED CONFIDENCE

TRICK.

things.

In

Witness received a deposit of 81,200 together with $200 bargain money. He had personally run the cinema and at times had made a proft and at others a loss. dull owing to the fact that many 1920, during the crisis, trade was Chinese went to Canton Plaintiff was to pay him $150 per month for the theatre.

Mr. McCallum: Do you consider that a reasonable and fair rent i

Witness: I let it to Hong Kong Amusements without the apparatus

for $250.

Mr. McCallum: In his evidence and that the reply was made that plaintiff says he took $16.60 on the the Kuomintang. Administration hadarat day. Would that represent a no agreement with the British Gov-fair day's takings? ernment.

820 FOR A LICENCE,

Playing on the, credulity of Chinese girl, a Chinese youth. whose only asset appears to be a certain amount of plausibility, told her that he could obtain a licence" for hor from the Secretariat for Chinose Affairs, if she would give $20 for it. She readily handed over the money, but failed to get the licence.

Witness: It should have been more than that.

Mr. McCallum: He also says he took 17 on the second day and 811.50 on the third-

Witness: I don't think those are correct amounts.

Captain De Graaf-a big, fair- haired Netherlander-was prepar- The defendant, Mr. Brutton said, ing for a bathe alongside, but was had driven a car in America and willing to explain the mysteries of at Shanghai, and had never been his strange command. He led the warned by the local Police although way to the bridge, boneath which he has had bis license for a pretty was a sheer drop of 40 feet into long time. Defendant told the In- the sea. Fourteen feel below the spector that his licence was at surface of the water could be scen home, add when the Inspector said the projecting plates the ship's The Captain went down

bottom.

that he would take the defendant to the Station, the defendant was from the bridge and stepped on to a quite willing to go, but in his own steel plate that overhung the void car. The reason was that he had like a spring-board. It leapt re- no one to look after it. Further-siliently beneath his weight in an more; it was impossible for defend- alarming manner. ant to leave the steering wheel, as he was at a turn of a sloping road. Defendant had his foot on the brake and if he had let go, the car would have been in danger.

The allegation against the Inspec- tor was that be had seized defend ant's wrist and twisted his arm. back.

The defondant had to call out for Lee, the second defendant, to put on the emergency brake. The Inspector also hit the first defend ant on the shoulder and aimed a blow at Lee's jaw,

Amputated.

At the stern of the ship-now bereft of screw and rudder-two enormous chains tied round each of the two uprights of the mast droop. ed towards the buoy. Two moro had been run round the deck house, to be let down later on. This mass of gigantic cables is to prevent the Tilebuet from getting out of hand again should a typhoon strike. For she must not be allowed to run any

A BEACHCOMBER.

mere risks. Down in the gloomy hold it is possible to see bow the vessel has been neatly sliced into two pieces with the oxy-acetylene. ROES BATHERS AT NORTH

blow-pipe and afterwards sealed up, POINT.

Mr. Brutton then pointed out that in much the same manner is a limb and surgeon amputates a Bathore who go for a swim at

at the Police Station, the charge applics ligatures to prevent loss of North Point will be pleased to learn The trickster was charged in that the beachcomber who has Mr. McCallum: He further says of reckless and dangerous driving blood. In the stokehold the donkey- Court yesterday before Mr. R. E.

maintain steam for the pumps and Lindeell. He admitted taking the combed away a good deal of cloth

ant. This was done subsequently, dynamo, which have for long been money, but added that it was hia ng from the matshed will be pre- that he was showing a first class was not framed against the defend man was keeping his fires up, to

He (solicitor) now wished to raise

in disuse. original intention to get the licence vented from plying his trade for Chinese picture.

weeks to come.

Before her accident the Tjileboot for the girl. He thought he was

brought up before. Mr. Was

"Everyone Cursed that Film,"

was a fine ship, and when the

TC- able to manage it, because ber- R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis Witness: Everyone in the audi-as to whether traffic constables had the right to arrest., Mr. Brutton tain Mr. Loung, employed at the tracy yesterday on scharge of 6.0.A., was a relative of his. But stealing four pieces of clothing ence cursed that picture because it contended that they had not, and pair is finished she will be so again. before he had time to approaon is from one of the bathers at North was a very bad one as regards the if that were so the whole case would She is of 6,000 tons, built at Rot- crew are proud of her, and grateful advised a friend he was Point. Of course, he did not say Chinese community. It deals with have to be dropped. He also subterdam. in 1918. Her officers and

mitted that the Ordinance did not

that although she left part of her. by a that it was inhe

allow private car drivers to be a self to be battered to pieces by the possible, so he left the matter there, he was a beachcomber. He said ho robbing a bride after marriage.. was a teacher and that he had Suc- He would be pleased to refund the umbed to sudden temptation. There was further evidence, and prehended for minor road offences. waves, the most important part is The case was adjourned until this left to them. They will soon have The Magistrate remarked that it The case was remanded until this appeared to him that defondant / after much argument on fact and afternoon for Mr. Brutton, to pro- their Titleboet again,

money,

nce Bie

morning for Mr. Loung to appear had deliberately gone to the beach law, his Lordship gave judgment duce authorities in support his con in Court to testify.

r plaintiff. to steal.

tention.

Oh yes, she is a fue abip, echood

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