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MILITARY COUNCIL IN CANTON.

THE PROPOSED SCHEME.

REPORTS FROM SWATOW.

QUARRELS AMONG THE MILITARY LEADERS.

(FROM OUR CHINLIK CORRESPONDENT.]

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The proposed Military Council in Canton, when finally organised, will have control over the ith Army Corps commanded by General Li Tsai Hein, the 20th division of the Ist Corps; the 19th division of the Cth Carps; the 8th Army Corps: the 16th Army Corps and various troops in Kwangsi, Yunnan and Kweichow.

The Connell will be more or less an alliance of militarista with con trol over certain districts including, of course, General Tsai Hain, who intimates that he must be Chairman, General Chang Fat Fui, Wong Shiu Hung, Li Fuh Lin and about eight others. An early or

nisation of the Military Council will, it is said, save General Li Fuh| Lin's men from being attacked again.

·BOMB EXPLOSION.

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A bomb exploded in No. 8. Cheung, Lok Street, Canton, yes- terday morning, injuring che per son seriously, several slightly. It is suspected that the third Boor was occupied by Reda," tenancy having changed a few days

ago.

the

The extremist section of the Kuomintang, operating under the

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15th, 1927.

SEAMEN'S UNION

EXTREMISTS.

ELECTED TO OFFICIAL -

POSTS.

YESTERDAY'S MEETING IN

CANTON.

KOWLOON RESIDENTS'

ASSOCIATION.

QUESTIONS OF, LIGHTING AND TRAFFIC CONTROL.

PROTEST AGAINST ARVER- TISEMENT HOARDINGS.

CONSTABLES AND

HAWKERS.

LUKONGS ALSO STAND BAIL FOR HAWKERS ?

STORY OF HOW LICENCES. WERE OBTAINED.

The usual monthly meeting of

Further evidence with regard to was held in St. Andrew's Church,the, passwords said to have beca

name of anti-British Boycott Ex-WHY THE BOATS WERE LATE, the Kowloon Residents' Association tension Society in Canton, yester day decided to renew inspection of "contraband" within the next ten days.

Contraband means British goods. The public is not enthusias- tic and only few outside the paid agitatora participated in the pro- ceedings.

TROOPS AND MACHINEGUN LANDED AT SWATOW,

(NAVAL WIRELESS.]

On Thursday night only one boat, Hall, Kowloon, on Monday even-issued to licensed hawkers by the ing. The President, Mr. W. J. seven constables who are now facing Stokes was in the Chair.

a serious charge of cbtaining bribe districts, was heard yesterday at from various hawkers in different |

the defendants were brought up on Mr. B. E. Lindsell's Court when

remand.

the Taikan," came down from Canton. The Pad Bean, Kwony", Canton by the crews having left tuny nad Zung On were held up at to attend a meeting of the Chinese Seamen's Union yesterday after- No boat arrived from Can- ton yesterday afterncion, but they all turned up last night.

noon,

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on Mater Bus Co., stating that A letter was read from the Kow-

the Police to allow empty buses to arrangements had been made with

turn at Argyle Street, Mangkok, and return to the Star Ferry dur- ing the rush hours. This special service would be known as Route Ne. 9.

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The Secretary stated that better had been received from the Hong Kong Automobile Association thanking, the Association for copies of correspondence referring to the

was once arrested for no reason One licensed hawker said that he

whatsoever, by one of the defen dants, and when near the entrance constable gave him 3 to pay ball. to the Central Police Station, the This was done in fullment of the pact made between the hawkers and the constables. Hawkers who

The incident marks the culmina tion of a long brewing trouble in the Chinese Seamen's Union and at a meeting beit yesterday the extremist element turned out the "moderates who have held the loaded with Union official posts for the last two dinning of motor car lights in paid, their weekly toll, would bel

Swarow, Oct. 13th. A panty of troops and machine guns were landed from the Can- tonete steamer Hra lai, Another Cantonese steamer troops and machine guns is waiting

to leave Swatow.

RAGGED "RED " TROOPS

RETURNED.

ALL BACK AT CANTON.

months.

The officials in power until yes terday hat asked the captains of the ships in question to keep their men on board, for they saw pretty clearly" what was likely to happen, This proved impossible and the men duly left the ships and attende rd the meeting.

THE OLD PÁRTY RE- INSTATED.

The 110 Red" soldiers who, as reviously reported, were taken into custody by the police when they. The meeting was held yesterday landed at Shaukiwan from a junk, morning at 10 o'clock and, as stated,

Nathan Rond. It appeared that the present unsatisfactory street light ing in Nathan Road had already been the subject of correspondence between the Captain Superinton- dent of Poker and the Automobile Association.

The Government had replied to the Association stating that it bad iren found necessary, owing to the argent need for economy, to omit From the 1928 Estimates any pro- vision for improvements to Kow doen Bathing Beaches: Requisite existing bathing Facilities had, however, duly been made. provision for the upkeep of the

protected and in case of an arrest by other constables, the defendants' gang would be responsible for the bail and fine.

One hawker, in the witness-box, boasted that be bad been hawking for three years without a license, and had only been arrested vace, and that was by an Indian constable. He had regularly paid his eighty cents a week and had Leen furnished with "the passwords from time to time. Whenever he was approached by a.lukany, all be

nave been deported from the Colony i the old party, which belongs to the In the matter of better traffic had to do was to repeat the pass-

Reports reaching Capton state that the militarists there are now fighting one another for the possES- sion of the Port. It is stated that Shib Ao has imprisoned Wang Chun. Shih and Wang were both while the second batch went up on sunt from Canton to oust the the Sai en Thursday.

two batches. The first batch were sent away from here on the 9.5. Tung On on Wednesday night,

FURTHER DEMANDS BY DOSING UNIONS.

Red element was re-elected to office. The Red elements had been

nnd any instances of disobedience agitating for a considerable time on the part of members and branch unions had been carefully recorded and the blame laid on the adminis tering officials.

"At yesterday's meeting these were rend det. The recent

affair in

and Nathan Roads, the Captain control at the corner of Salisbury Superintendent of Police had writ-

of white lines along the centre of ten to the effect that it was not ad- visable to proceed with the drawing the road at this junction as the to float and would be a constant tuz sacadam surfacing was able source of trouble

word to be free from arrest.

the defendants, in the matter of $30 Bribe For A Licence. The alleged power exercised by procuring a license for hawking, was testified to by another man, who' without a license at Gough Street said that he was one day hawking' when the 5fth defendant accosted him and asked him for his license.

"Reds."" The "Reds bave now gone and it would seem that the Kuomintang lenders there have now "started to quarrel. The third of the

three Generals sent to Swatow-!" General Shiu Hung-is now report

d to be returning to Wucbow.

when the ..ing Hung arrived Frequent labour conflicts in Ona in the Colony on Thursday from ton have resulted in the deaths of Wurhow, it was given out that the of the vessel had a good many workers. The public management BIG TO care little about this so

signed an agreement with the Jong as the fighting is confined to

Chinese authorities at Dosing, con- the labor unions. It becomes a tag to search by the Chinese different matter, however, when the Customs there. This was the only was also attributed to the incompet- unsightly advertisements in Row-fee of. 84. From then on he "paid! lives of ssers-by, are involved. demand of the Dosing authorities, they of the party in power. For the first time on record two fighting union men were fined on Thursday in Canton for causing in- jury to a third party-a woman.

not possess oae, whereupon the defendant told him that he would secure one fur him for the sum of 850. This was bargained down to 800. Witness paid the money and supplied two photographs, and a license ca payment of the regular few days later he received his

his eighty cents a week for pro-

The Sub-Committee on Lighting in Kowloon presented a report, in the course of which it was stated that there was considerable room According to the vernacular press, Hong Kong when the periodical fur improvement in street lighting He told the defendant that he did changes of crew were being mad The subcommittee had gone to con- in the roads south of Austin Road. on the ss. Hei Ning, which result-siderable trouble in the matter, ed in a serious fight, was cited. going so far afield as Stubbs' Road, The open defiance of the Kongmoonparison.

Hong Kong, for the sake of com- branch when one of the members

After a long discussion it was of the crew of the Son Naw Hidded to write to the Government

on the fires of the report. was dismissed about a week ago,

Attention was drawn to the many loon which were not considered in any way desirable and likely to destroy the amenity of the district. Considerable discussion followed

Similar evidence was given by structed to write to the Colonial V. Booth, Assistant Super- and the Hon. Secretary was in three more hawkers, and when Mr. Secretary possible protest against Advertise ducting the prosecution, said that ment Hoardings being erected sear

making the strongest intendent of Police, who is con-

ing allowed at the Ferry approach. the Kowloon Railway Station and

Particular reference was made pe- the any other similar disfigurement be-

garding the hoarding now under construction alongside the Railway Station.

after "signing the agreement etters to the Shipping natho- ities requesting the latter to cease boycotting the Wuchow steamers ving the British flag. It is said that the union of cargo fonding coalies at Shiuhing demands that the.., Wuchow steamers pay them a monthly allowance of 8100, before they will agree to start loading and unloading the vessels, and it is be- lieved this may cause more trouble.

ARMED ROBBERY AT

LAICHIKOK ROAD,

The first benefit for the farmers since the recent charges in the Canton regime is the enforcement of the reduction of 3 per cent. in the farm land rents charged by land- lords to their tenants. The farmers receiving the benefit of the 25 per cent, reduction, however, have to contribute 12 per cent. towards the capital of a proposed Farmers Bank the Kuomintang are about to open. It is reported in Canton that Mr. Sun Fo and Dr. C. C. Wu have quietly negotiated an agreement with Hankow without the know- ledge of the leaders in Shanghai, the terms for the proposed re- unification of the Kuomintang Party, said to have been concluded "between Nanking and Hankow are

as follows:-1, The, power privilege of the Supervisory Com Inspector Fallon, for the prose mittee of the Kuomintang, shall be tion, said that on the night in ques. restored: There shall be clear tion the occupants of the house,

and

PICKETS CLASH.

Pickets were posted at all the wharves on Thursday and yesterday morning by the Seamen's Union to prevent the crew from attending the meeting. The rowdy elements also had their pickets

wharves urging the crew to take a day of and support them at the meeting.

tive efforts of the two pickets was The natural result of the respec- a fight, and, according to an tyc- witness, about a dozen men were killed. The meeting was stormy in the extreme. The rowdyism was largely responsible for the manner in which the reigning officials gave in to extremists.

The party now back in office is DEFENDANT SHOT DOWN BY practically the same as that reapon.

CONSTABLE.

sible for the 1025 strike.

The three Chinese who attempted armed robbery at No. 185, Laichi- kok Road on September 13th, were charged at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon before Mr. W. Schofield

*BOATS RETURNED." As stated above all, the hoats which were held up had returned to the Colony last night. The inthau will leave here at 8 am. to-day, and the Langshan will go

to Macao at 9 a.m.

TROUBLE THAT HAS BEEN EXPECTED,

DIFFICULTIES OF VISITING

MEXICO.

BUSY CONSUL AND A FRIEND'S ALLEGED

TRICK.

tection.

he had seven

Tuesday next call, the case was then adjourned more witnesses to until 11.30 am. and 2.15 p.m. o

Solicitors engaged for the de- fence are Mears. C. A. S. Rass, E. Davidson and A. E. Hall.

RICKSHA OBSTRUCTION.

A SUMMONS AGAINST BROKERS' FIRM.

A summons for obstruction by parking a ricksha in the lane be- tween the Exchange Building and Powell's Building was brought at the Central Magistracy yesterday against Mears. Hoxon and Taylor. Mr. C. A. Fulcher, for the Arm, sent there was no proper parking said that as matters stood at pre- place for broken rickshas except in the lane.

He understood that Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd. ob jected to vehicles being left there as it obstructed their lorries,

cut defbition of the powers of the husband wife and three children, [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.) knew in Mexico. So asked him if rangement for the accommodation

Resident and the special members

went to sleep after closing up their

of the Committees of the Party; 3, hp atp.a. They had been

The Central Executive Committee.

of the Kuomintang shall be re-CON-

seamen in banta

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CAUGHT IN A COCKLOET.

ALLEGED BOBBERS INSIDE A SHOP.

Ma Fui, a gardener in Mexico, returned to Hong Kong last Murch, and went back to his native village. He holds

passport from the Mexican Government. 20th be left the village with the On August intention of going back to Mexico. He called at the Mexican Ces Bulate to have his passport vised that the Consul was busy. In the but on cach occasion he was told course of his calls at the Con The Magistrate adjourned the sulate, according to complainant'a sunumons on Mr. Fulcher stating atory, he mot So Keung, whom he that he would come to some ar

The Chinese

he wanted to have his passport of his firm's rickshaa plying between Canton, Hong

vised and if so he could get it done asleep about an hour when the Kong, Swatow, Kongmoon, and

quickly. husband was awakened by the noise in Canton yesterday morning and he could do it for $180. Ma Pui Macao met at the Taiping Theatre usual endorsement fee was 3200 but He further told a Pui, that the stituted 4, The recently created caused by his wife struggling afternoon and passed resolutions agreed and on October 6th he gave, Special Committee in Nanking shall with someone. Then to was seized by denouncing the owners of the st.

recognized.

the throat, but had time to cry out for alleged i treatment of their to wait, while he went up to see fai Miny and the & Sun Nam uiso he says, the 8188 and his pass- port to So Kethg, who told Ma "save life," According to a Tientsin report,

crews. The Union are demanding the Consul A lukong passing outside the that vessels should only employ and a who had, waited for about Road, were formally brought up

He never

Three Chinese, including a shop however, Madame Sun Yat Sen and house heard him and blew his their registered members.

returned, employee at No. 134, Laichikok Eugene Chen have jointly virculat whistle which drew another lukon and number wounded in the fist enquiries. Here he was told that charge.

Four Chinese senmen were killed went into the Consulate to make yesterday on

two hours because suspicious, and before the ed the North that neither Wuching to the spot. They guarded both on-

Kowloon Magistrate

an' armed Hankow nor Necking groups trances and soon after one of the ters of the Seamen's Union in Can-

and bamboo fight at the headquar-no

robbery one had come for such a former followers of Sun Yat Sen defendants ran out of the back ton yesterday, when the retiring consulted a solicitor, who reported and hid in the cockloft, until they On October 10th Mamen from outside entered the shop, According to the police, the two have any right to claim themselves door. The lukong, called to him to hand over control of the union busi warrant was issued for the arrest of the favourable moment to subdue committee refused to be forced to this matter to the police and a seized upon what they considered representatives of the Kuomintang stop, but he padd no attention to Party,

the command and was shot by the officers of the Union were accused So in Burd Street, and took him ed by one of the inmates, the police ness, It may be recalled that the So. Keung, Last Monday he met the inmates. An alarm being rais- constable. The wounded man was of being" Reds" and that a new to Up to October 14th, the Canton taken to hospital, after his co-batch calling themselves "moderates" Major Willson this afternoon So

the Police Station. Before captured one man by wounding him Authorities had falled to dissolve cockloft had been arrested. The liave been trying to obtain manage Keung was charged with larceny man was captured in the cockloft.

panion who was hiding in the

with revolver shots while the other the Political Council as instructed third man was arrested on informa- ment of the Union. The dispute by a trick.

On the information of the arrest- ed me, the employes was later taken into custody on a charge of

me. conspiracy, it being alleged that he admitted the men to the pre

by Naoking. It may, therefore, be tion supplied by the other two. over the control of the Union has

accepted that Nanking's authority bas no recognition whatever in Canton.

Corroborative evidence was given which the case was adjourned un by the tenants of the house, after til next Thursday afternoon.

purpose.

Mr. Loseby represented the com- Plainnut Ma. Pui and Mr. Hin Shing Lo appeared for the defence. The

been going on for some time, and the fight yesterday was the result of spate is likely to spread to other many months' controversy.

ports in South China,

his evidence his Worship adjourned After the complainant had given

the case until 11.30 am to-day.

The case was adjourned.

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