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LAND DISPUTE AT CANTON.

RETROCESSION OF FRENCH PROPERTY DEMANDED.

FRENCH CATHEDRAL

INVOLVED.

[rnom our OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, June 4. Sharp disagreement has arisen between the French Cathedral of Yatack Road and the Canton Muni- cipal Government over the latter's demand for the retrocession of a part of the French property.

It will be remembered that the Canton Government had charged the French Cathedral with viola tion of its original agreement with the Government in that it bad turn ed a part of the leased land into a cominercial enterprise. The Can- ion Government argued that it is therefore justified in its demand It is prepared to pay back to the French the money it had expended on the buildings and houses in dis- pute, but only according to its own

estimate.

Monsigneur A. Fourqu, repre- senting the French Cathedral, said that he would accede to a part of the demands of the Canton Govern

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930.

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NANYANG BROTHERS LOYALISTS RETREAT CHINESE ON TRIAL

LABOUR FEUD.

TROUBLE. EXPECTED TO

END AMICABLY.

ECONOMIC PRESSURE DUE TO BUSINESS DEPRESSION.,

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ON BOTH FRONTS.

FOREIGNERS IN TSINAN-

FEEL ALARM.

RELATIVES OF OFFICIALDOM FLOCK TO TSINGTAO.

www.

FOR MURDER.

SHOOTING AFFRAY IN SINGAPORE,

ROBBERS' DESPERATE BID AT ESCAPE.

The trouble among the workers

A story of a desperato bid for The Nationalist troops both on in the local factory of the Nan the Lunghai and Peping Hankow freedom by two armed robbers was yang Brothers' Tobacco Company Railway lines have retreated fur-related at the Singapore Assizes remains unsettled, but nothingther, it is reported from a Japanese last week, before the Chief Justice (Sir William Murison) and a special, serious has developed.

jury, when three Chinese stood their trial or various charges.

It will be remembered "that"the factory dismissed 29 male workers some tinie ago, resulting in an uproar, among the other workers, who demanded the reinstatement of the dismissed men. Mr. Ma Wing Chung, manager of the factory, wired the head office in Shanghai asking for instructions in this con- nection...

origin in Shanghai.

Chinese cables from Shanghai state that the attitude of Han Fa Chu remains obscure. His troops are reported to have fallen back on the south bank of the Yellow River in Shantung

Han is said to have reached an'

understanding with Fu Tso Yi, the Shansi commander on this sector. Han entertained the foreign Consuls at Tainan on Monday and said. in the course of the proceedings, that he did not wish to involve Tsinan city in the fighting. These words

are held to mean that he is not will ing to fight. Foreign residents are still panic-stricken and they as welt as

the families of high Chinese officials are flocking to Tsingtao in large numbers daily.

In да interview with local Chinese pressmen, Mr. Chen Lin Pak, superintendent of the Com- pany, who has just returned to the Colony from Shanghai, said that due to the business depression, ment, provided it will pay the caused by shortage of demand for actually expended on the buildings, which was a little over 10,000 the Company's products, the high Hong Kong currency. This, Mon geld exchange rate and Beavy signeur Fourqui continued, equivalent to about 81,100,000 Can-taxation, it was decided at a diree ton money at the present rate of tors' meeting to dismiss a number

On the Peping-Hankow Railway the interests of line, the Nationalists attacking exchange. But in order to show his of workers in goodwill and friendship towards the Chinese Government, he would economy. Some of the men mis-suchang are reported to have with be willing to deduet $100,000 from understood the situation, being drawn on the arrival of Kuomin. the grand total" and accept only under the impression that the Com-chun reinforcements who have now $1,000,000 Canton money:

But even this reduced figure is pany was going to adopt the labour recaptured Fikou. well over double the amount the contracting system. Mr. Chen con- Canton Government wanted to pay, tinued, The Company used to

ig

Ho Cheng Churi, commanding the Nanking troops on this line, recent its exact estimate being 83,301.63 treat its, workers with great kindly dispatched a delegate to persuade Canton money. The discrepancy is too great to admit of a settlemens ness but could not help dismissing Fen Chung Hsin, an ally of the right off hand, and the Canton some of its workers due to the busi Kuominthin, to turn over to the Municipality appointed a committee consisting of representatives of the ness, alump. Upon receipt of the Government. The request was re- Bureaus of Finance, Public Works wire from the local factory," Ijected by Fen. and of Lands to talk the matter brought up the workers' demand for over with Monsigneur Fodrqui with a view to persuading hina to lower discussion at the directors' meeting his figures to the estimate of the Shanghai, when it was decided Government. But he refused to

According to a wire from Muk den, the city was en fete on Turs day on the occasion of the birthday anniversary of Chang Hsueh Liang Flags were flying all over the city, Many high officials, both civil and military, arrived in honour of the the gathering of military comman- occasion. Taking advantage of ders of Manchuria, Chang held an important military conference on What transpired there has not beca that day to discuss the situation.

There have been brisk military movements on the southern section of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway line. Passenger services have been that the demands could not be ac-stopped for the time being." accept anything less than $1,000,000, cepted. I am now explaining the Eve this, he maintained, would mena a loss of $10,000. No agree-matter. to the workers, and I am ment was reached.

convinced that the trouble will end The property demanded, by the amicably before long." Cautan Government consists of 304

dwelling houses Questioned as to the factory in -buildings and

grouped as follows:-On Yatack Shanghai which suspended work Road. 2; on Sacred Heart Road, 17: cu Taing Sen Street, 9; on Saisome time, ago, Mr. Chen said that Sen Street, 18; on Mei Ma Street, the Central Government, realizing 0 on Tong Yuen Alley, 1on Pei the handicaps of the Company, has Mei Alley, 3 on Yuk Tze Alley, instructed the Ministry of Labour 15; on Tai Sun Street, 44: on Yuk

and Commerce to take relief divulged.. Yan Lane, 51; on Lung Yan Lane,

measures. Mr. Chen continued, 33: and op On Yan Way, 27. these Monsigneur Fourqui was will.

"We have taken steps to resume ing to return only those buildings on Yntack Road, Sacred Heart work partially for the time being. Road, Tung Sen Street, Sai Sen We shall manufacture a smaller Street, Tung Yuen Alley and Mei quantity of cigarettes at first and, Ma Street. These are rented to merchants and may be given up pending the volume of consumption without difficulty, according to in the North, the whole factory But there will resume. The Shanghai factory Monsigneur Fourqui. mininder are used either as dormi- tories to students or housed by the is expected to reopen within this

a nominal "rental. They month."

Of

EDOT AS cannot, therefore, be given back to

the Canton Government as demand-

ed.

WIFE AND HUSBAND..

UNEXPECTED ENDING TO

LOCAL LITIGATION,

The case in which Chan Ki Luen was summoned by his wife Chan Wai Man, alios Chau Chan Sze, care to an unexpected conclusion after the lawyers for both parties had consulted Mr. A. W. G. E

Magistracy.

"It is learned that the Canton ROBBERS ACTIVE" IN NEW Grantham in Chambers at Central

Government has decided not to press its demands too hard. It is willing to receive what the French wanted to give up.

TERRITORIES.

SIX ROBBERS TAKE PART.

A WORSHIPPER DISTURBED.

Several suggestiona have been made in the way of disposing of these buildings which the French are willing to return. One is to auctioa them off, land and all, one by one. A robbery, in which six men took The money thus realized from the part, but only a small haul was sales should be equally divided be-effected, occurred on Tuesday night tween the Government and the French Cathedral, whatever it may at a rest house in An Tau, New be. The upset price for each build-1 Territories.

ing and lot should be named by In a report made to the Police suggestion presented to the Govern- it was stated that shortly after 10-

the French themselves. Another.

ment is that the French Cathedral p.m. on Tuesday,, six men entered should give back $500,000 to the Canton Government and keep the the rest-house, Che Chuk Lam Chai "est for itself, whatever it may be, Tong, which is situated on a hill from the sales of the buildings and called the Koon Yam Shan. At the lots. But in either case the sale must be made through the Govern ment.

SHAMEEN CELEBRATES KING'S BIRTHDAY.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CANTON, June 4. The birthday anniversary of His Majesty the King was celebrated by the British nationals in Canton yesterday,

The accused were Yip Lam, Chan Long and Mak Siow. Kant. The

first and third accused claimed

DOLLAR DOWN AGAIN.

ALARMING QUOTATIONS

YESTERDAY.

RATE PEGGED

"AT 15. 3d.

The Hong Kong dollar seems to be doing nothing lately but toneh- ing new low records. Some alarm was created in business and bank- ing eireles yesterday when' quotu- tions opened at 9.50 a.m. at 1/33d., and inside half an hour fell to 1/3d.

The drop was the topic of con- trial on indictments of murder, at-versation everywhere, and all sorts Tempted murder and armed robbery, of rumours began to circulate. and Chan Long. pleaded not guilty One was to the effect that business to a charge of armed robbery

had been done at 1/2ld, but no The Deputy Public Prosecutor Mr. J. H. Pedlow) appeared for confirmation of this report was Forthcoming yesterday, although several bankers informed a Daily press reporter that, actual business was done at 1/24

the defcare.

The D.P.P. said three men held up a Chinese woman at the point of pistols at the junction of McPher son Rond and Serangoon Road, on March 13, and, after searching her,

made off. The woman raised an alarm. There was a police con- stable on duty nearby, and hearing the cries he went to see what was the matter, and he saw three men running and saw they were armed with revolvers. He was suspicious and gave chase, and a number of natives, Tamils and Malays, joined in the chase,"

took away $200. The men then

The men left the main road and went off down a cart-track. The

second accused tried to go away across some swampy land, and was caught by a couple to people who were pursuing him. He had in his possession a revolver which was fully loaded.

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The other two men proceeded into Serangoon Road. Here two men were just coming out of their houses when they saw these two men running and they attempted to stop them. One of the men tried to catch bold of the third accused, but the fugitive fired at him.

Mortally Wounded."

5;

Was

At, this time No. 3 accused was slightly ahead of the first accused and when they got to the entrance of the Alter beds in Serangoon an Indian, named Pillai, was going to enter a troiter-bus which had stopped. The first accused approaching the spot, and, probab- ly thinking that Pillai was going to cut him of, turned and shot him. There was a little doubt as to who actually fired the shot, the witnesses disagreeing, slightly on had revolvers, but there was no this point, because both the men

doubt whatever that Pillai was shot at that time."

*)

The bullet struck him in the body, but did not apparently put him out of action immediately, for he boarded the bus, and it went on ita way. One of the passengers, however, noticed the man had been wounded, and drew his attention to it. He got off the bus and went back to the station, and was later sent to hospital, where he died next day.

The same day as the robbery o dying deposition was taken by a

also police magistrate, and identification parade was held, and

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The rapid drop has had the effect of paralysing business, it being. generally felt that buying or sell- ing at present quotations-1/3d. nominal-would be extremely in- judicious and certainly highly. speculative. -

The official quotations issued yes- terday in Hong Kong did not show the usual difference of 1/18d. be- tween the TT. and demand rate. This, a prominent local banker ex- plained, showed the tone of the market. The rate, he said, was

pegged" at 173d. for the moment, but business could be done under this figure...

Yesterday afternoon it was learn-" ed that forward business at 15. 2d." had been definitely declined.

It is generally felt in Hong Kong that quotations will show further decline to-day.

BANDITS THREATEN

KULANG.

FOREIGNERS AVOIDING SUMMER RESORT.

(UNITED PRESS. ]

With efficial announcement that Communist and bandit bands in Kiangsi Province are actually menacing the districts surrounding Kuling and Lushan, the famous Summer resorts of Central China, considerable anxiety bos been caused there, many foreigners as well as Chinese having cancelled their plans for spending their Summer holidays on the mountain

top.

Although assurances have been given by the authorities that Government troops bave been dis- patched to towns in the neighbour- hood of Kuling and that the moun- tains are being adequately protect- ed, fear persists that the wave of Pillai pointed out the first accus-

Communism will spread to that re Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for theed as the man who shot him. It

gion. wife, and Mr. F. X. d'Almada, was not absolutely important to

In a statement given "to the Sar.. was for the husband." " find which of the two fired the United Press, Colonel Li Fang, shot which wounded Pillai-al-representative of the Ministry of though it was just as well to get Foreign Affairs for Hunan, Hupek, it perfectly clear.

$10 per month to the complainant. If the jury came to the conclu-Kiangsi,Anhui and Szechuen, de

After consulting both parties, Mr. Grantham made an order that the defendant should pay a sum of Permission was also given to the tomplainant to apply for variations of this amount, the first payment

of which was to commence as from June 1. The order further stated

that the wife need not cohabit with her husband, who was to pay $50 towards the complainant's costs.

ALLEGED SEDITIOUS

PAPERS ON PEAK...

H

OF PAMPHLETS.

time, the premises were occupied COOLIE DENIES OWNERSHIP by only two women. One of them, Lai Mioa Sur, aged 60, was wor- shipping when the intruders broke When charged with possession of

seditious literature, before Mr. B made into the house, and

E. Lindsell at the Central Magia thorough search of its contents. tracy yesterday, a Chinese, employ The robbers did not discover any-ed at a residence on the Peak, em thing valuable, sad their haul con- phatically denied ownership of the

pamphlets in question. sisted only of $4.30 in money and acveral articles of clothing valued at a few dollars.

The robbers, apparently, were The celebration took place in the well acquainted with the more British Consulate at Shameen, the ments of the inmates of the rest function being presided over by Mr. Herbert Phillips, the British house, and the neighbourhood as well, for they, did not trouble to

sion that the firing took place, and that deceased lost his life from the concerted action of the two secue

the cd-the first and third-in furtherance of their common in tention to resist arrest by force of arms, it did not really matter which man actually fired the shot which caused Pillai's death, because according to law their common i tention was to resist arrest, and in order to resist arrest they both fired several times, and, therefore, ther were equally guilty of murder...

After the shooting of Pillai the men continued running up the road. A police constable, who was travelling on a trolley-bus, saw what was going on and, stopping the bus, foined in the chase, an also did a detective police.con-

table. The latter was armed..

The first accused turned round and fired at his pursuers, The A. Shantung constable said that shot struck the detective on the he was on patrol duty along fourth finger, but did not injure Barker Road, near Peak Road, on him seriously. The detective To Saturday, when he observed the turned round and tried to fire defendant take out a bundle of again, but his pistol misfired, and papers from his pocket and throw he was then caught and disarmed. It on the ground. On a search be. He was sent back to the police

7 ing made of the man; three farther station. pamphlets were found.

ernment troops under the command cares that three brigades of Gov- of General Kuo Ju Tung have been dispatched to Kiangsi from Hwang, chow. One brigade of these troops have already reached the foot of Lushan, while the ather two brigades are taking up their posts in the surrounding districts.

The Foreign Office representative says that the Kiangsi Red Army, acting upon instructions from the Third Internationale, plotted to create a reign of terror throughout the province and to carry out whole- aald kidnapping of foreigners in Kuling and Lushan in order to em- barrass the National Government. This plat, he says, was disclosed in documents seized during the raid on one of the Communist headquar ters by the provincial troops of General Lu Ti Ping and also in -statements made by Communists

caught by the soldiers...

It was on account of this plot, he anid, that Colonel Li sent an urgent telegram to Nanking, asking for the immediate dispatch of troops for the protection of the Summer resorts where nearly 100 are residing and many more were going. The towns surrounding. Kuling.were actually in danger when Colonel La sent bis The third man had got a good telegram to Nanking but with the The defendant told the Magistrate lend by then, and eventually fan arrival of troops, the situation has

into a plantation and got away. dome paperg lying.on' the ground, cluding General Chen Ming. Shu,

Before the plunderers made, their the Shantung constable suddenly by an Asiatic inspector coming Meanwhile a serious effort in being Admiral Chen Chak and Police

from Johore in a motor car under made by the military authorities to Commissioner Au Yang Kui, were departure, they tied the two help-appeared and accused him of he cordially, invited

less women with wire and then ing the owner of the pamphlets, circumstances which were suspici prevent the Communist bands from The defendant also stated that no out. All the men were picked out advancing further in Hunan, Hupeh The friendliest atmosphere pre-

papers had been found on him. by witnesses at identification and Kiangsi. Three full divisions, vailed throughout, and the commis. escaped.

the 22nd, 31st and 18th, respectively, sioned representatives of the Can- The women were not able to free The Magistrate commented on the parades held later.

When accused was taken to the under General Lo Lin, Genoral Taoi

Consul General: here NYERERE insport that he wweve Tuys jurer no was liffeavers proved greatly and Kuling is ab

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Consul General Phillips and other ingat. 8 o'clock, immediately after day, in order that further copies found to contain two live car-are heing employed in the campaige British nationals herein wishing King George V. unbroken happiness which the outrage was reported to of translations might be carried bridges, two misfires and two which and they are believed to be sul-

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