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THE BOYCOTT TROUBLE.

WORK OF A FEW AGITATORS.

NO SERIOUS DEVELOPMENT. SO FAR.

"LITTLE EVIDENCE OF OFFICIAL BACKING.

A naval wireless message from Canton, dated Thursday, an- nounced that an anti-British boycott was in force. It was stated that large numbers of uniformed pickets at the Customs House and.. steamer wharves were seizing British goods and searching Chinese passengers, but that the pickets had not at that time started operations on the river.

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As we have reported from day to day there have been isolated' cases of trouble with pickets for some time past, but the Chinese merchants do not regard the movement as particularly serious at' the moment. The danger, of course, lies in the movement spread- ing. This would scarcely be possible without the connivades of the Authorities, and it is hoped and believed that the present Ad- ministration in the City will avoid associating themselves in any way with the extremist element/

The agitators have been trying to make capital out of tho alleged shooting of a Chinese by à British soldier in Shanghai. The details of this unfortunate affair are given below.

UNRECOGNISED.

The exact situation regarding the anti-British boycott in Canton is difficult to determine" writes pi

correspondent of the. Daily Prest, It is said that the pickets posted at the wharves to prevent the im- portation of British goods are men who are not recognised by the Chinese Seamen's Union or by the Government. They belong to the rowdy class'nnd have banded the a- selves together with the idea of getting squeeze" by terrorising merchants.

The pickets wear a badge entire ly different to the one worn by the anti-Japanese pickets. The move, ment has not gained much ground so far but there is a danger of its spreading unless it is quickly sup pressed by the Authorities.

One of the Kwong boats had to return to Hong Kong a day or two ago without discharging her cargo, but this was not due to any nction of the pickets. The simple fact was that the wharf coolies were out on parade."

ATTEMPTED ARREST.

Three minutes before the Nui On -it Canton yesterday morning, a member of the Chinese Seamen's Union boarded the versel with a number of others to effect the arrest of the Chinese steward. Capt: Camp ell interfered, and asked by whose authority they came on board a British vessel to make an arrest without consulting the master of the vessel. He was told that the

steward was a "Red" and that the Chinese Seamen's Union had issued an order for the man's arrest. «

Capt. Campbell told his visitors tu no uncertain terms that they could not board a British steamer

at the last moment, without autho rity, to arrest a member of the The men then left the ship without the steward.

crew.

THE "CONTRABAND."

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.).

The Chinese merchants of Canton, four-afths of them at least, are opposed to the renewal of the boy- cuit; but the unemployed are pro- moting it as a means of getting a living

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in this business has offered to pay the Kuomintang in Canton City $72,000 a year for the next three years.

Dealers in firewood in Dick-boi and other towns in Toyshan believe that the best thing they can do to oppose the numerous and endless forme al petty officialdom and illegal imposts is to suspend busi- ness altogether.

Canton is to have a special cou mission to try all persons arrested tor political offences against the Kuomintang Party. In the commis sion, it is expected there will be representatives of the trading, labour, and farming classes.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 1927.

It appears, says the North-China

Daily News, that the two men met each other whilst patrolling, their respective beats and communicated by means of gestures · They began to compare rifles, sách "inspecting that of the other and comparing the mechanical parts. According to unconfirmed reports, the foreign soldier was trying to explain to the other certain parts of his ride when his finger touched the trigger and accidentally discharged it, the bullet penetrating the skull of the Chinese soldier above the left eye and coming out at the back, behind

the ear..

Hearing the report of the shot.

the wounded man's comrades ran

CHANG TSO LIN AGAINST DEATH OF MR. JAMES

DIVIDING CHINA.

WOULD INCREASE STRIFE.

SCATHING. COMMENT ON CHIANG KAI SHEK.

ORANGE.

THIRTY YEARS RESIDENT

IN HONG KONG.

FORMER HEAD OF MESSRS. LEIGH AND ORANGE.

CREMATION AT GOLDER'S

GREEN.

James Orange, M.I.ME., M.I.C.E., The unexpected death of Mr. in a London nursing home on September 27th, says the China shock to his friends in England, and will also be deplored by many residents of the Far East who enterprising head of Leigh and remember him as the energetic and Orange, a frm of architects, and civil engineers, which has been schemes of modernising and extend associated with most of the "big

ing Hong Kong during the last half-century.

PEKING, October 29th. Dictator Chang Tso Lin to-day" granted an important interview to

United Press representative. In the course of this interview thứ up and, thinking that he was dead, Generalissime emphatically declar they began to act in a decidedled that Senator Hiram Bingham's hostile manner. Members of the Municipal Police also went to the proposal favouring regional repress und Telegraph, came as a scene and they succeeded in ex-cognition by the United States plaining what had happened to the excited Chinese mob, which later Government of a number of Govern- prevailed upon to disperse. ments in China was not acceptable The injured man was rushed to the to him, because it would certainly Chi Sung Hospital, in Pacaban inorease strife and anarchy and de, Road, where ho fa undergoing treat- ment, the doctors saying that while y establishment of harmony and his condition is serious, they have creation of a unified China. every hope that he will grecover, This message was transmitted to Chang In Health. the soldiers, who were calmed down ars! who resumed their duties,

At the report of the explosion, the merchants in the vicinity, think- ng that serious trouble had broken out closed their doors, Fearing that the trouble-makers would take advantage of the situation, tiem ber of the 5th Chapel District Police Station and the Merchant Volunteers were called out and they together with the troops assisted in dispersing the crowd. Martial law was declared as soon as the news

of the shooting was received at the Divisional Headquarters..

THE CHINESE VERSION. The Shunpao published the. Chi- nese version of the affair, excerpts of which follow:-

The Dictator appeared to be en- joying excellent health. He secured thoroughly alert and vigorous.

Chang declared that sond foreign Powers made the mistake of grant Ling conditional recognition during the Tai Ping rebellion during the latter part of the Fineteenth Cen fury, but later her mistake. The same condition exists to-day, he said.

Chiang A Broken Teacup," possibility that General Chiang Dismissing contemptuously the Kai-She might Feturn and take command of a combined Southern army, Chang remarked with typical Chicesty love of a figure of speech. The teacup which has once been bren can be repaired, but it mother' be strong again." Owing to the increasing number Chiang Kai Shek and the South- of kidnapping affairs, recently, ecrethoremen: Have both been smash- There is still uneasiness in finan-side of the borders to nasit the impossible, according to the uk troops have been stationed on silbered so thoroughly that real repair is cial circles in Canton, and a num-police. At 8 p.m. yesterday (Satur den Warlord. ber of large rice firma, in order to lay), Private Chang. Ching Ming- realize their stock for cash, have was on duty in Fnoshan Road, had to dispose of their holdings at bordering the Settlement. There low figures, thus giving the public he met a foreign soldier who was few days of "cheap rice. The on patrol duty on the North on average grade was sold at less than side. They stood to close to each $8.50. a picul during the first few other that they tried to chat but, because they could not understand days of November.

each other's language, they com municated in gestures, when sud- denly, without reason, the foreign soldier fired a shot which struck Chang and wounded him. The merchants then closed their doors Additional Chinese troops were sent to the spot and numerous foreign soldiers lined up on the

Canton newspapers were not issued yesterday, as the printers spent Thursday in parades welcom- ing the return of Sir. Wang Ching Wel

Both Nanking and Canton are trying to form u qucrun of the Cential Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, but Canton denies the rumour that each member of Settlement side... the Committee attending the Can- ton ceting will be paid $10,000 for travelling expenses,

Canton Police have ordered that further use of the red flag by plicit orders. labour unions should be stopped,

"Chiang Kai Shek is a war pro- fiteer," continued Chang. He never was a patriot. He is report-

ed to have made $200,000,000 for

himself. This may be an exaggera tion, but the amount certainly was

enormous.

"

Nationalistic China. Chang declared that he believes in nationalism for China, but also believes that the Southern people desired peace, which must be restor ed as the first move in the direction of business

1o Chinas habilitation

Capt. Kung, a battalion com

Chang denied the reported. pos mander, arrived soon afterwards and issued an order to his men for-sibility of extension of Japanese bidding them to act without ex- railroad interests in Manchurin, A report was seat where Japan already has the pros- to headquarters and the wounded perous South Manchuria Railway to hospital and has built various branch lines removed Owing to loss of blood, he is un- conscious at the time of writing supposed to revert to Chinese hands

when paid for.

The Police are trying to destroy man all signs of Bolshevism in Canton, at least outwardly.

REASON FOR THE

BOYCOTT.

PROPAGANDA BY THE

'AGITATORS.

CHINESE SHOT BY BRITISH SOLDIER:

THE FACTS OF THE CASE.

Was

which serve as feeders" but are

years ago Mr. Orange lived in Since he retired about fifteen,

appointed fat at No. 3. Gray's London, and at his charmingly Innn-square, surrounded himself with the Oriental things he loved," and with friends who, like himself, had spent the best years of their lives in China. Although seventy years of age, he was most active to the end, and only recently was on a yachting trip in the Mediter.

September 25th had a heart attack tanca. Returning home, he seem- ed the picture of health, but од which necessitated his going into a nursing home, where the end came unexpectedly, as said, two days later. The esteem in which the late Mr. Orange was held was shown in the large attendance at the crema- tion at Golder's Green Cemetery oh September 30th. Among those

V. Robertson, Mr. C. A. Tomes, present were noticed Sir Newton J Stabb, Mr. A. G. Wood, Mr. H.

Mr. T. II. Reid, Mr. MacCallum, f R. T. Wright, Mr. W. A. C. Whittall, Mr. Forster, Mr. Chal- Cruickshank, Mr. A. Bryer; · Mr.

the Far East, and there were many ›mers, all old friends of deceased in

others.

"Americans must understand “ Work In The Far East, that Chiang Kai Shek is 110 Of the work of the late Mr. Abraham.

Orange in the East it is impossible to give more than a brief résumé. He lived and worked for over thirty years in Hong Kong, and, during his control of Leigh and Orange, ens responsible for many of the buildings which adorn the steep hillsides, and are such a striking feature of the Hong Kong Beauti- ful. In a more prosnic yet infinitely more practical way the firm was also associated with reclamations, which added great building areas to both sides of Hong Kong's famous har- bour and converted one-time un- sightly beaches, where junks and sampana were breamed, into exten- sive modern water-frontage, sup- porting the up-to-date wharves, godowns and bustores premizes, demanded by the rapidly expanding trade of the port. Among the Grm's constructional triumphs may be mentioned the great wharve and premises of the Hong Kong ad Kowloon Whart and Godown Ca almost the entire premises and docks of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., the wharves and godowns of Afred Hoit & Co, the piers and wharves of the Star Ferry Co, the huge installations of the Asiatic Petroleum and Standard Oil Co.'s, the Hong Kong Rope Works,

Cement Green Island

WOMEN'S LEAGUE.

and his condition is critical.

The Chinese crowd, arcing that I controi Maerburia, declared the foreign soldier shot the Chi-Chang. nese, without reason, was very in- dignant and, thinking that trouble! might arise, a large force of for eign soldiers from the Range Road camp was sent out. A state-of emergency was declared until the crowd was persuaded to disperse.

When an inspector from West Hangker Police Station arrived on | PROPOSED VISIT TO CANTON: the scene to investigate, he promis ed to report the matter to the com-

to lodge a vigorous protest with the Shanghai Municipal Council and the Consul of the foreign soldier concerned.

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DELEGATES FOR CHINA.

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mander of the force to which the Mias Ed Pře, who is well foreign soldier was attached, for known for the share she took in the firing without provocation, and Friends' relief work in France; promised that suitable steps would Austria, and Germany, is coming Works, and that lone The Society for the Extension of

be taken against him.

to China as one of three delegates elephant which first strikes the eye

the the anti-British Boycott in Canton

The matter having been report of Women's International on bearing Hong Kong, the Junk had received up to yesterday "con

Our Chinese correspondent, writed to the Garrison Commissioner, League. Mies Pye has just furn Bay Flour Mill, Marble Hall, the

of Commissioner traband including bags of ing on November 3rd, and referring the

Foreign ed from Genera, and hopes to leave late Sir Paul Chater's princely sugar, shipped by Messrs. Jardine, to the activity of profesional Affairs was instructed immediately for China this month and to be at residence overlooking the city and Matheson & Company: five junks agitators in trying to promote an

work there before Christmas: Mrs. harbour, was also the work of Leigh full of rattan from Singapore; more anti-British boycott, stated that the

Grover Clark, of the American and Orange, as well as St. Andrew's than 1,000 sacks of flour; 50 cases agitators were taking advantage of

branch of the W.LL, is already in Church and other ornate buildings the alleged recent shooting of a of gasoline; 5.000 pieces of cocon-

Peking, where her husband is editor too numerous to mention. Further aut; and various assortments of Chinear by a British soldier in

of a newspaper, and the French afield, they were responsible for the AMICABLE NEGOTIATIONS. other articles. A large consignment Shanghai as a subject of protest.

delegate is Mme. Drevet, who in Tai Shing Paper Mills and Reser LATER.

resigning her post as teacher to vair, the Swatow Waterworks, and of kerosene cil imported by the The campaign, he said, was direct Ying Kee Firm of Tung Hing Streeted towards persuading the Canton

Negotiations regarding the in- The delegation will fisit also work at Shanghai. The busi is also being held. The British labourers to join hands with the cident in which a Chinese soldier Shanghai, Peking, Canton, and ness, originally Danby and Leigh, American Tobacco Company agents Shanghai labourers in demanding was recidentally shot whilst he and other places in which women's in Canton, Chinese, have appealed that the British should punish the British soldier were talking to organisations have been formed. to the Company to do something, supposed offender, that the Com-gether, are proceeding amicably. The object of the visit is to estab- as the pickets bave threatened manding Officer should apologise, It is understood that the Chinese fish closer contact between Chinese them for distributing British made that the British should bear the have come to the conclusion that women and those of other coun- cort of medicnterment of the nothing antagonistic was intended tries. The delegation will also con cigarettes.

The British Consulate General on victim and give the Chinese Autho- by either man and that the dia fer with Chinese women on the Shameen has made a vigorous rities an assurance protest to the Bureau for Foreignof the sort should han nothing charge of the rifle was without ip-questions of autonomy and national Engineers, and it can truthfully be

'again." tent.

aspirations and will take note of the relation between industrial con ditions in China and the present

Affairs against the renewal of the anti-British boycott, but it is fear-

'that

THE FACTS.

ET

The Chinese prese, according to translations in hand, are adopting an anti-British attitude. They are making a mountain out of a mole- hill

ed that not much will be done

The facts of the unfortunate in- until the Military and the Police take a hand in protecting foreign cident are given with much detail

In military circles it is under- interests. The Bureau for Foreign in the North-China Daily News of

October 31st. A Chinese soldierstood that the British soldier was Affairs is sympathetic in guarding foreign interests but not blind to was shot by a member of the Shang- not armed, and that it was the the power still held by certain pro hai Defence Force, but the shooting Chinese rifle which was discharged. fessional agitators who have no was purely accidental and occurred The authorities -bave made an in- little political hacking behind them.during the course of a friendly convestigation and it is stated that

situation.

CONFECTIONERY SHOP RAIDED.

OCCUPANT BOUND AND BLINDFOLDED.

was changed in course of time to Danby, Leigh and Orange, and finally became Leigh and Orange.

Besides his membership of the Institutes of Mechanical and Civil Engineers, Mr Orange wi t inember of the American Society of said that he took a more than ordinary interest in the profession of which he was a zealous upholder. He was also collector" of some repute, and entered into the spirit of his hobby with the thoroughness which characterised all his profes sional work. A book of his on "Japanese Lacquer," and another on Bisenware, are valuable con- tributions to the study of these sub- jects. Always doing something, he veruation. Moreover, the Chinese officers could not find a dirty rifle,

is believed to have been engaged at soldier was not killed. He is being that is, one which had been fired.

the time of his death on another His recent publication, given-every attention and, although An unofficial opinion has it that his condition was reported grave, the two were talking together and

After binding and blindfolding a The Chater Collection," is a there were hopes that he would re- were examining the Chinese rifle Chinese widow, who was the only monumental work dealing histori- The Tommy saked questions about inmate in the shop at the time, cally and descriptively with China, the mechanism, but neither understood the other, he wished to three robbers, one of whom carried Hong Kong and Maceo from 1853 a knife, entered the Yee Lok Yuen to 1860. Involving a vast labour examine it. He wanted to take the Confectionery in Fung Fai Terrace, of research, with the reproduction rifle in hand to inspect it and took Village Road, Wongnechong. on of close on 300 of the collection of Whilst communicating with cach hold of it: The Chinese misunder Thursday night and took the shop's pictures and engravings (eince. The ing in which all the municipal de other by means of gestures and stood his motive, resisting the at- collections amounting to 831. queathed as a collection, repaul partments, except the Police, may examining each other rifles, atempt. In some inexplicable manner

This was the gist of a report Colony of Hong Kong by Sir Faul Chater), this work was dedicated be housed. Some people, however, Chinese soldier attached to the 61st the shot was fired. wish to have two entirely separate llegiment, 1st Division, 9th Army The bullet, entered the man's chin furnished to the police by the by Mr. Orange to Sir Paulin Vital woman. When she succeeded in remembrance of our friendship of buildings, one for the memorial and Corps, is alleged to have been ac and emerged under his ear.

over forty years; also in recogni- the other for purely practical pur cidently shot by a British, member apots were untouched, and it is freeing herself and tried to com

of the Shanghai Defence at the believed that, unless gangrene sets municate with the police, it was tion of the great pleasure the ac- Rather than be taxed individually boundary post between North in the wounded man will recover. found that the robbers had taken quisition of the pictures, etc., and as dealers in articles for idolatry Honan, Road and Pacalian Boad on The court of inquiry will conduct the further precaution of cutting the compilation of this book has worship, the trade guild engaged. October 29th,

a military investigation.

CANTON NOTES,

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

There is now a proposition under comideration in Canton to have a large Sun Yat Sen imemorial build-

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