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FENG THE CHAME- LEON.

SOVIET DOUBTS OF HIS ** CHARACTER!"'-

HIS MAP OF NATIONAL-

·HUMILIATION,"

....

HOW TO CARRY GEMS,

SAFER IN POCKET THAN IN "POST","SÄYS LORD DARLING,

DIAMONDS LOST IN THE POST.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 21st, 1927.

Lord Darling, during an appeal"} argued before the Privy Council, said that if he had £13,000 worth of diamonds to remove from obe place to another he should carry them himself.

KAWASAKI DOCKYARD

FATE.

UTHORITIES ANXIOUS TO

SAVE VALUABLE UNDERTAKING.

-PARLOUS "CONDITION - OF

WORKMEN.

SOCIALISTS CALL, IN A BRIDGE BUILT IN 30 BIG PROGRAMME

CAPITALIST.

BANKING PROJECTS TO BE HANDED OVER?”

£13,000,000.

NEW YORK.

Failure of Socialist organisa

HOURS,

FEAT OF A HUNDRED

"HUSTLERS.

·RAIN-SOAKED CREW.

few

ROCHESTER, June 23rd. tions to conduct large financial ea- Thanet coast to do business in Lon- Those people who come from the Osaka, July 13th.

terprises at an adequate profit is don cffices every morning will not A Reuter message of the above date amplifies the short cable me posal made at the triennial conven- they cross the Medway, a

seen as the reason behind a pro know their journey to-morrow auce sages regarding the Kawasaki tion of the Brotherhood of Locomo yards beyond Rochester. The usual Dockyard crisis. It states:

tive Engineers in Cleveland, to noise of their clattering train will Since the Gevernment decided abandon the brotherhood's exten- momentarily take on a new and a not to extend financial aid to the sive banking business and turn bright rhythm sincs a hundred men Kawasaki Dockyard, financial exover the banks and other brother; have worked, through pouring rain parts are again pondering over the hood financial projects to Me and bitter cold, for thirty hours

The came of Feng Yu Hsiang, the Christian Goncral, has become, eTon in China, a breword for treachery and double dealing. Faithless to one ally after another Lord Haldane said that he should even the agents of Moscow fad in not. Lord Warrington asked why him one whose cunning and ua-they should not be safer in a wallet reliability equal their own.

in a man's pocket than in the post.

Lord Haldane answered by another Times has compiled from the docs. question: "Why are a woman's din-1 balance-sheet of that company to Thomas E. Mitten, the capitalistic without a break, taking to pieces ments seized by Chang Tao Lin's monds not safe when they are hung oficiale during the raid on the around her neck!"' Soviet Embassy some interesting records of the Bolshevista candid

The Peking correspondent of the

The Privy Council was heating an appeal from India relating to a parcel of diamonds said to have

opinion of this bewildering ally been lost in the post.

He writes:

A sum of £13,330 had been claim-

At one time the Soviet Governed by three Rangoon and Bassein ment were dubious about Feng Yu merchants from the Royal Insurance Hsiang. They were not sure of his Company Ltd., and the diamonds character and whether he was to be were said to have been posted to trusted as an instrument of their Bassein. policy. An updated letter, the signature of which is illegible, to a M. Nikolayeff and marked "Very confidential," shows how minutely the Bolshevista analyse their tools, and the subtlety of their reasoning. What King of a Man is Feng? The following are passages from the lester

Two of the merchants went to Bassein at the same time as the led Lord Darling to say that had posted parcel, and it was this that he been so travelling he should have carried the diamonds himself,

Lord Haldane: It is like taking your diamonds to Ascot and, sotnet. body finds out.

The three merchants appealed from a finding of the Appellate side of the High Court of Rangoon to the effect that they had failed to ing that the parcel, a cigarette tin discharge the onus on them of prov. As a poli-wrapped in paper, contained the

diamonds.

The hearing was adjourned:..

"It is essential, for our work to know exactly what kind of a man is Feng Yu Hsiang.

tical factor that works to our in- terest, Feng may be appraised in

two ways:-

(1) As a convinced partisan, and champion of the national liberating movement against Imperialism who, uy the course of events, has become connected with this movement, or,

(9) As a common militarist whom. circumstances and geographical position have compelled to act tem- porarily in favour of the U.S.S.R. as the country. which takes an in- terest in the weakening of the Imperialists, particularly of Japan In the Arst case we can strength en the armed forces of Feng with- out fearing any misunderstandings and unfavourable conséquences, ba-

cause, in this case, he will act to the beast of the Chinese and international revolutionary move. ment, and will make of China an ally of the U.S.S.R.

REDS' PLOTS IN INDIA.

TRAINING AGENTS AT

HANKOW.

(

Soviet Russia's now offensive in attcation from her temporary check in China, writes Sir A Phillips.in about to be made through Indian the Daily Mail. A serious attempt is agents trained in this country to undermine British authority.

India is more than a feint to divert

seo if it is at all possible to put the dockyard upon its own legs.

"shows

head of the Philadelphia City Traction Companies.

A Now Type,

total

The company's report

Ten banks are owned by the assets amounting to nearly Yen brotherhood in various parts of the 330,000,000, consisting of an up-to-country, in addition to a number of investment companies and real date ship-building and engineering estate enterprises, with a places, shares in companies in which plant, extensive land" in various capital of £13,000,000.

the dockyard is interested, stocka of ships already built and a con-management the enterprises will be If Mr. Mitten takes over active rua co-operatively-as at present, Mr. Mitten is one of the new type American capitalist lenders who are endeavouring to establish

causing labour to become the part better relations with labour by profit-sharing scheraes-that is, ner of capital.

siderable amount of material for

making them.

..

" อ

the whole bridge on the main Lon-

don line and erecting a new struc ture in its place.

The work began at midnight last

Se dis die rain. night. one clock the hundred men were Before wet through and through Rain spattered in the fierce flames of the acetylene fares by which they work- ed, and sizzled on the glowing the team of two great cranes whose guards of the-fres which kept alive gaunt arms took on grotesque shapes in the flickering light.

Numbed.

In case of liquidation however it

Hands became numbed with the could be realized would only be

and bands scarred. A smothered is estimated that the amount that

cold: Fingers slipped on the gir tening wet steel. Nails were torn about Yen 150,000,000 less than half

curse split the night air every now the book value; while the total

He has been successful in estab and then. Yet work went on. amount of the company's liabilities the capitalistic owners and workers with long service were cut and torn Girders that had become tired lishing excellent relations between

is estimated at over Yen 150,000,000 of Philadelphin's elevated and away by white-hot flame cutters to Therefore, if the

underground company

traction systems, disappear into the retirement of liquidated now not a cent will be taxicabs, sad motor-omnibuses the scrapheap. A forty feet gap There has been increasing in a double track of main railway left for the stock-holders.

evidence recently of complications line widened to fifty, sixty, and The whole nation, from the Pre-growing out of labour organisa-seventy feet, and then began to mier downwards, is anxious to save tions efforts to operate co-opera-narrow again as new steel, bright the company because it is a first-tive financial institutions because red in its coat of rustless paint,

of lack of skill.

filled the gap.

is

rate ship-building yard where big battleships; submarines, Ocern steamers, aeroplanes and rolling stock can be built.

The company has separate works for making blacksheets, the in "creased production of which, they had hoped, would obviate the neces aity of importing this material from Britain.

make

Increased Peace Business, Now-a-days orders to battleships and other kinds of men- Soon after the Borodin gang of ofwar are few and far between so agitators installed themselves" at Canton two renegade Sikhs were that the company can hardly ex- utilised for window-dressing pur-pect to maintain ita plant and man pressed Asiatics" appeared in only hope that may be held out is poses whenever a parade of op on naval construction orders. The mass demonstration against Great Britain. Others were added dur- an increased business on "peace- ing the rise of Communist in-

ful" lines. Unfortunately however fluence.

In the second case our method must be another, viz.: on one hand, we shall have to strengthen Feng's army to such a degree that it The Sikh temple at Hankow be the outlook is not bright here. No should be able to carry out the enme headquarters for the new mis- one has yet come forward with a task we will impose upon.it Lon the Msionary movement. Borodin him-business-like-plan-for-the-resucita- other--be must be deprived of these addressed mass meetings at possibility to act against our in-wi the liberation" of India tion of this important industry.

was principal feature.

terests.

Unsatisfactory Tendencies. There are no facts which would permit to class Feng among people of the first category; there are; on the contrary, many in favour of putting him in the second, such

-as;~

1. The fickleness of his political position in the past.

2. His vague disposition towards the Kuomintang.

...

3. Some symptoms of imperialis tic tendencies, such as:-(u) The character of the agitation in his armies. On bis map of National " such regions as the

In the meantime over

12,000

TA number of Indiatis now

workmen have to be paid fortnight under instruction by Russian pro- pagandists Hankow and other ly. Their total wages exceed Yen cities held by the Chinese Com: 1,000,000 a month. In the present munist army is steadily increasing circumstances this can only be done Other Indians who have passed through the Moscow training col-out of the sales of stocks in hand. legs have been brough, to China The company has 23 steamers with via the Trans-Siberian Railway.

a total tonnage of 223,000, most of Among them is At least оде notorious agitator whose travels in which could have been sold at Yen aid of the Bolshevik movement in 900 a ton in the boom days. But Mr. Matsukata, the President of Asia have taken him to Tibet a well as to the United States.

the dockyard, thought he could get more by waiting littel longer. Now, if sold, these ships would bring in only about Yen 70 a font

The Company has a large stock

To Make Feng Dependent, The letter concludes with the decision to make Feng completely

Transbakal and Amur provinces dependent on the support of the of ship plates which might be sold

in order to buy food for the work men. But the ship building indus- try in Japan, as elsewhere, is not flourishing and hence the demand for ship-plates is very slack. Na turally the workmen are getting very anxious "as their future em- ployment cannot be guaranteed.

Recent failures, especially in the Dawn came, grey and ominous, north-western States, have involved over the Medway. Clouds scurried farm labourers in losses. This by, promising more rain. Half inter movement of the Brotherhood the hundred men went to breakfast. of Locomotive Engineers, which is Their places were taken and a one of the strongest labour unions, great eighty-ton mass of steel which to recognise capitalistic ability in spans 40ft, began to slide inch by financial management, is a sign of inch into place from a temporary. the changing relationship between wooden scaffold, while hand-work-

at the strain.

at THE QUEEN'S

CHARLIE

in

CHAPLIN

Reissue of his Famous Comedy,

SHOULDER ARMS

ART ACORD

Fifty Minutes of Thrills

THE TERROR

also

By Request

at all Performances

TRUMPETER ALFRED GREEN

CORNET SOLOIST

WORLD

THOMAS MEIGHAN

TONGUES of FLAME

American employers and employees ed winches groaned and protested STAR

which is tending increasingly to

make American industry & partner- ship between workers and masters.

TRAFFIC IN GIRLS.

CHILDREN OF ELEVEN AND EIGHT RESCUED.

„_„Calcutta..

Extraordinary disclosures of the ramifications of the traffic in young girls in India were made in the Calcutta courts during the hearing of a case against four Kashmiri women named Azizo, Rahti, Farzi, and Mahbooban and a man named Hamzan, who were charged with immoral trafic.

i

Gap Breached.

The broad light of day, and the gap breached again. Forty minutes only to move eighty tons forty feet along the wooden staging into its place. Expansive grins on the faces of two engineers cajoling and bluffing their crew to the last ounce of effort; steaming cups of tea and the rat-tat-tat of the preumatic bammers ramming home glowing red-hot rivets

Gangsters followed with new bal- last and new track, and a bridge. that can carry the heaviest load had grown in a night and a day and a night, in-place of one that was built when the mighty King Arthur class engines were nothing more than a dream.

The work will be completed by last year Azizo and Bahti brought six o'clock to-morrow morning. a girl named Zebo from Srinagar, great achievement, and when the the capital of Kashmir, to Rawal Thanet express passes over the new She was then taken to bridge a hundred men will be aleep- Pindi. Benares and Gaya and ultimately ing the clock round.

The Public Prosecutor stated that

brought to Calcutta.

Farzi later imported two girls named Katzi and Zunni, sged eleven and eight years respectively, keeping them in the same house 13 the other girl under the care of Mahbooban and Ramzan, both of of the children. The police resqued whom were living on the earnings the girls, and removed them to home.

น

WOMEN CLAIM MILLIONS.

ROMANCE OF CHARLES II.

The petition of right brought against the Crown by the 'descen- dants of Maria L'Epine, of Ports In a separate case, Padam Prasad mouth, who died as a lunatic 134 was charged with selling Rajkuman years ago and left £83,000 was due Maya, a Nepali giri, for immoral to come before the British Courts was abducted and so months paper, one of the most remarkable purposes. The girl stated that she at the beginning of this month

confined in This will be, saya a London news-

Her screams were not heard by neighbours. Later she was sold.

From Trivandrum, Madras, come reports of many instances. of Hyderabad Brahmins stealing giris for immoral purposes. Several con- victions have taken place,

of lawsuits in the history of Eng- lish justice, and will mark the climax of a lifelong search by three women for a missing document which, besides establishing their fortune, would also. claim to prove to the world the legitimacy of an ancestor,

The claim is for the repayment by the Crown of the 293,000 with LABOUR REFUSES TO GO accrued interest, representing a

"DRY."

NO ENTHUSIASM FOR SIX MONTHS' ABSTINENCE PLAN.

THE WRONG

MR. WRIGHT

ANCHOR BRAND PURE MANILA ROPE

*THE CORDAGE. YOU CAN TRUST.".

MARINE BOPE

TRANSMISSION

OF-

POWER BOPE

UABLE LAID

HAWBERS

WELL -DRILLING

CABLES

ESTABLISHED 1854

YNCHAUST

ROPE

FACTORY

MANILA

ROPES OF 'ALL.

SIZES FOR ALL

PURPOSES

MADE FROM

PURE MANILA

HEMP

MANUFACTUR

ED BY THE

MOST MODERN. MACHINERY

STOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES ENQUIRIES SOLIQETED,

FACTORIES-MANILA PI HONG KONG OFFICE:

FILM OF FAMOUS BURGLARY.

KING'S BUILDING, TELEPHONE: '· OKNTRAL 2165,

jewellery. Their identity was only found out through;a" most extra- ordinary stroke of luck. They had hidden the diamond in an apple so

sum to-day of many millions. The chief claimants are Mim Amy Mason, Miss Jessie M. Mason, Knight Mason, Miss Ethel Marion three sisters living in a modest flat in the West End of London, and JUDGE AND JURY TO SEE IT. skilfully that it showed no trace of

Mr. Arthur Charles Mason, of within the Labour Party, who pro Mason, and Mrs. Emily Eliza Har- The little band of teetotal sealots Richmond, Mr. Alfred William pounded a plan of self-denial forrison, formerly a Miss Mason.

Early this year" the sisters dis the party as a protest against the Trade Unions Bill, has definitely covered an old document giving dropped the idea. They say that, them the clue as to the marriage,

being tampered with An inquisi- tor, in the shape of a chamber-maid, thought the apple looked tempting and-like her first mother took bito, at it. When she bit it she found the diamond and her mistress

and Vladivostock are marked as U.S.S.R. ones which must be returned-to- (a) By arming his army with our China, while there is no allusion to the fact that Japan possesses Man-weapons, which would make him churia and hat in Central China depend on our supplies. the Americans are dominating (b) By organizing large depois at economically.... (b) His refusal Urga and by establishing a motor- to recognize the independence of transport from Verkhne-Qudinak to Outer Mongolia,

Kalgan, which could supply the whole necessary quantity of arms Referring to a plan to start secret ment or stop the supplying at any political work in Feng's army, the moment.

***Exhortations to Directors, writer zoys

(c) By limiting the plan of in

The newspapers generally are There must exist & definite more atructing Feng's army by teaching ment in the maises based on cer- only the lower ranks of officers and opposed to state aid but they are tain economi and -political pre- the soldiers in order to make the taises; besides, under the masses any able to carry out the orders anxious to see the, affairs of the must be understood a definite class given according to our advices, company put on a sound footing. grouping, not a crowd of no-class leaving the higher commanding They urge the Board of Directors people who materially fully depend staff on such a level of prepared to put up their private money for, on their employer, the General. ncaa that without our help there Experience in the secret work in might be no skilful leading of the the papers say, they enriched them the Tsar's army shows that such army.

solves in past years by colossal work can be succemfui only when (d) By compromising Feng so bonuses. The Fress also urges the the revolutionary movement of the that the forces-bustile to us may stock-holders to pay up the unpaid as only commended itself to in and on Marching the marriago e At the Assize Court here to-morWhen the two mass of soldiers has its roots, in a. not come to an agreement with him

few, who were already teetotallers, corde at the Church of St. Marrow will be tried the two men, the burglary, fuey were taken to the revolutionary movement of the class

That this decision was put into portions of their shares. fo which the greater part of this operation is proved by the state-

Among the numerous creditors of it was not worth while carrying it tin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar-square. Kauffer and Bouter, who mass belongs; that in the provinces ment of munitions supplied to the Kawasaki Dockyard the firm off any further. The proposal was found the entry, which they believe charged with one of the most dar pot to re-enact the scene and 6:

that for six months there should will prove their case,

ing burglaries of recent times the cinema film record was taken One occupied by Feng, there is no pro Feng's army between July and Okurs & Co. is conspicuous for the be complete abstinence from ales Miss Jessie Mason said to a re- robbery of the famous diamond laid before the court an official re letariat, the peasant-population is December, 1925. In the footnote reason that litigation is pending hol and tobacco, in order to give porter that the and her sisters were known as the Grand Condé, est quest that the flan should be dis not dense, there is land for to that document a large consign-between them involving tens of mil- lend to the workers in calling descended from the Jane Lane whe mated to be worth £200,000, from played for the benefit of the judge. colonization, and the burden of the meat of ammunition was mentioned lions of yen. taxes is lighter than in the other as ordered to Urga, but not yet

attention to the iniquitous charac saved the life of Charles II after the chateau at Chantilly. It will be and jury, Another notable creditor is the ter of the Trade Unions Bill" the Battle of Worcester in 1651. remembered that the two men, ac However, M. Le Clerc, the pre- recorded that Charles 11. cording to the confession they made siding judge, 1 am-informed, has secret work in the army can have is its object only the army itself, ember Feng's army had gained as the Peers, Bank, which had for teetotallers would themselves have not the army as a reflection of thientsin, and water communication many years been at the back of the undertaken a vow to abstain from Jane Lane, rode before her to at night and, lashing two ladders he cannot consent to this. But to

ith Vladivostock became available, Dockyard, financing its ambitious tea and coffee.

Bristol, through several hands of together, managed to climb to a morrow evening a local cinema hall revolutionary frame of mind of the it is a reasonable assumption enterprises. The Fifteenth Bank suggestion to have a secret soldiers who were searching for window 40ft high. Here they cut will be cleared of its spectators anil peasantry or as a conductor of re that the ill-fated Oleg cargo was closed its doors on April 21st, thus ballot of the party, so as to save him.

their way through the shutters and when the court has adjourned it volutionary influenca on, the pea part of ther large consignment: mardiandy bringing 36ut the he fettngs of memberkasa hugh The Aitamey Genertinis opposing-enterta-the-treasure-room of the will-cake-casanoficial visits judge-

riginally intended for transmitrion présent dificulty of the Kawasaki have voted agains

proposal," "the" claim leading the Statute of chilleau Besides the great pink fund jury complete othe ontinued on next Columin.)—– | by The land route through Urga. Dockyard:

has also been rejected

Limitations and the Intestacy Act diamond they stole a mass of other where the Sim will be shown,

*

PINK DIAMOND TRIAL.

BEAUVAIS (Northern France), last June 28th. **

SIT

informed the men confessed-

of the barristers for the defence has

provinces In these conditions the delivered--But at the end-of-De- Fifteenth- Bank, otherwise "known'} Had the motion been passed, thesised as "the servant, of Miss when arrested, went to the château told the barrister that he regrets