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Thannie Buraysan Optician in the Colony

WANCHAL MONUMENT.

WHY THE SAILORS CLEANED IT UP.

Not Dune for Notoriety."

thereof →→

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

JUNE

2+

1924

FRENCH CABINET RESIGNS.

BADAH

PIRATES EXECUTED.

YUÛNORD ÍS

No. 12.490

位拜禮

MONDAY 魏弍月六英港賽

$8,000,000

WILL.

ESTATE OF LATE MR.”

HECTOR W. SASSOON.

FIERCE OPPOSITION TO THE PRESIDENT.

IN PRESENCE OF HONG- KONG POLICE OFFICERS.

SOCIALISTS HOLD MEETINGS,

(Reuler's Service.}

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WUCHOW OUTRAGE.

RELEASED MISSIONARIES

REACH WUCHOW..........

FORMER HONGKONG MAN'S LUCK.

WINS 825,000 IN SWEEP. As reported oleowhere in our

A former Hongkong man has columnis the bandits who rocont-won half share in the Champions How They Met Death.

ly kidnapped British and Bebop at the Tientsin mags, the With the trial and execution of American missionarios whilst on total amount of the prize g

route to Kwailin aboard the $50,000. This lucky individual là Yung Fook and Lee Sang, two

Roanoke MW. R. Gilos, who was regi- members of a notorious gang of Jospital motor-boat pirates to whose activitios have have released the Rev. R. A montal schoolmaster with the been traced many of the success. Jaffray and Dr. H. G. Millor in Northumberland Fusiliers whon ful coups carried out on ships order that they might arrange they were stationed in Hongkong

for ransom. from Hongkong, there has closed

some years ago, and of which tho another chapter in the series of

News to-day reaches us from late Brigadier General Pereira investigations into recent piracies, our Wuchow correspondent was an officer. Mr. Gilos left the Other men had boon marked stating that the motor boat regiment later in Tientsin and down and executed before this, Roanoke returned to that port after some yours as a merchant and gradually the nots are hoing on May 30th, with the two ho became the Poking corres- Peking and drawn round the survivors whose released missionaries on board. pondent of the liberty will be of only short Messrs. Ray and Carne are still Tientsin Times, which post ba duration, according to nowe hold in captivity.

has held for about six yours. brought down to Hongkong the

Old residents of Hongkong will other day.

Our correspondent says Mr. recall him as a very fino centro- Groves, tho British Consul at forward at "soccer" and a hard- their arrost were identical when Consul from Canton (Mr. Cham- was Instrumental somo years ago Whilst the circumstances of Wuchow, and the Amorionn Vice-hitting batsman at cricket. Ho the long-sought for olue was at berlain) have the matter in hand in showing up cortain irregulari- longth provided which enabled and they are reported to have tins regarding wholesale captures to be made, interviewed General Wong Shiu-sweeps were drawn in a Northern the case of Yung Fook and Lee hung to ascertain what stops ho racing centre. Sang stands out pro-ominontly is taking to have the captives

The joint winner with Mr. that it shows that our local released.

Ciles of this. $50,000 prizo is Mr. Fox, an American We were informed this morn-Chifford police had not spared themselves when the problem of the piracy evil became one which required ing that the U. S. S. Pampanga journalist who first came out Hongkong. for W. East for the China Press, and orious attention. From, very small beginnings the clues were chow in connection with this who for some time has been, the Poking correspondont of tho gradually dovoloped, and when matter, the aid of the Chinose authorities

Shanghai Times and a number of American journals. was forthcoming, it became, only nocessary for bands of soldiers' to visit the places indicated, and arrests followed,

With regard to the action of The late Mr. Hector William

Parts, June 1. British and American bluejackets Sassoon, who died in London in in cleaning up the Wanghai | November last, loft property The dead set against M. Millorand by the Loft parties is con- monument, we have received the within the Jurisdiction of the siderably aggravating the political crisis and is likely to render the following letter in explanation Hongkong Court, yaluod at formation of a now Cabinet most difficult, as several sections oppose $8,133,779.60, probute for which collaboration with the Provident in the slightest degree. The radical Dear Mr. Editor,-May wo

and Radical-Socialist Federation yesterday demanded M. Miller thank you for your splendid co- The executors and trusteosand's immediate resignation, while to-day the Radical-Socialist operation in assisting us to draw under the will are Mr. Arthur deputies, of whom the leador, M. Herriot, is a prospective Premier, attention to the disgraceful stato | Humphreys Owen (deceased's unanimously passed a resolution that the now majority in the of the Wanchal Memorial, and brother-in-law) and Mr. Charios Chamber is unable to accord M. Millorand confidence because "he Only the intervention of M. may we (the squad) give you our Spring-lice, bath of London. exceeded his constitutional role". reasons for the action taken on Practically the whole of deceasHerriot, who explained that he desired to retain freedom of action the night of the 30th intant? od's fortune is distributed botwoon if summoned to form a Cabinet, provented 'the mosting adopting a Owing to duties of some of the his wife, children and relatives, proposal forbidding any Left party member accopiing the Premier members, it was regretted that it large sums being mentioned for hip from M. Millorand, could not be dano on Empire various members of the family.

Moan while the Socialist party congress, also the Republican, Day, as was originally intended. The only charitable bequest is Socialist and Independent Socialist deputies, at a meeting presided but the next best day was chosen, made in a Codicil to the will over by the ex-Premier M. Painleve, were uncompromising in the It was done, not for. notoriety, and is of an unusual character.attitude, the former instructing their Parliamentary repiqgentativos but in sulonin respect to early The Trustees are instructed to set to fight any Clovernment formed under M. Millerand's arzis and the campaigners who laid down usids out of the residuary estate, lattor declaring that the least collaboration with M. Millorand their lives in the duty of thair and to invest separately. five would be inconceivable prior to M. Poincare's resignation becoming countries in helping to solve the lakhs of rupurs and to distribute effective. question that is still the out the incomo derived therofram in The Council of Stato has ratified the decree laws, which were standing problem in China, viz. such manner and in such coun-forced through the last Parliament in the teeth of strong opposition, piracy. This

was tries, at such times and upon such reducing the departmental expenses by four hundred million francs, erected to men who gave all conditions as the Trusteos shall M. Millorand subsequently countersigned the ratification. Surely the Government of this in their absolute discretion deem Unanimous votes carried a plenary meeting of the Left bloc, Colony can respect their memory advisable, in assisting persons, attended by all sympathetic parties endorsing the Radical-Socialist by keeping the monument and males and females, who have been motion, adopting M. Painleve as a candidate for the Presidency, on site in a docent state of proser-found guilty for the first time of the proposal of M. Herriot, and expressing unconditional confidence

an offence or offences against the in M. Herriat. The topic

M. Poincare Resigns. of the Empiro law of the land where such person

Paris, June 1. today is Wombley. We won-is convicted: also in assisting der if the Hongkong section anasarried mothers and bastardly

The Poincare Cabinet has resigned. of this grost

Paris, June 1. Exhibition com-{childrop, and also generally in

M. Millerand has signed the decrees effecting a reduction of fourering tains a replica of the Wanchai] assisting and providing for thoj

Memorial to fallen British and | welfare of children.

hundred million francs in the Budget. M. Poincare has resigned. American sailors in the state it

The crowd gave him a shout when he was leaving the Elysco. Tho Socialists and Rudical Socialists of the Chamber adopted the motions against M. Milloränd, –Havas,

vation.

monument

was on the night that "the squad”.

did their small bitin án ondos vouri

to make il worthy of its erection;) and, if so, what British, and the rubbish there, and, after American visitors to the washing the Monument, placed Exhibition would think of the wreaths on it. patriotis of this Colony?

M. Herriot's Policy:.

事

Paris, June 1.

date.

Some

sixty

up

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hand loft

heels, hat stood off at a respon- to table distance when arrived at the |place of execution. This was on a little hill by the side of a temple. . Yung Fook, as our readers will Two trenches, with the earth. recall, was arrosted by the long-freshly thrown up, had bren dug kong Police on the 25th of last in the ground, but the con. month at the Hung Fung tea domned "men. did not flinch. house in Peo Ho Street, Sham- They had not spokea In a spoorh, M. Herriot declared that if he did not secure the shuipo. There was nothing on one word since the concluding support he asked from the Socialists, he would not consout to ashim of an incriminating nature sontonce of their trial,' and The authorities paid no hood sume office. He anticipated that the external difficulties would not except that he had a wound, appeared to accept their fate in We now appeal to the P: W. D. to the disgraceful misuse of the be so many as suggested, for a Democratic Europe had confidence apparently only recently healed, a most philosophical way, to issue an order that their Mounmont and left it to the in him. The aim of his Government would he European peace. He roolios will refrain from using sailors themselves to remember would take all measures to maintain the equilibrium of the Budget, this site as a dumping ground, their departed mates by doing even recourse to the Courts, if needed, put an end to certain and to the Government to placo a[the spadework as no-one else manoeuvres. notice, in Chinese; on the site would. It was a most notable roguasting-that-it-tm-kuptelaar of faction_and_the_sailor_deserve. all obstruction. We sincerely the thanks of all those who have hope that the suggestion that it protested against the nisuso off

is our intention to keep this four monuments. monument rospectable will not

on as

Yours at

LOYALTY.

in Hongkong, June‍2, 1924

cause the Government to impaso this responsibility connection withi all other monuments.

Yours faithfully.

THE SQUAD,

Hongkong, Jure: 181., 1920,

AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR SHOT.

WOULD-BE ASSASSIN WOUNDED.

Vienna, June L. Chancellor Seipel has been shot and seriously, but not fatally Sir, I was pleased to read the wounded. letters published in your paper in | His would-be assassin was also shot, and seriously wounded, reference to the space occupied during his arrost.

in his right log. There was rouse

tho manner

· DEATH OF MR. ARCHIBALD KERR.

CAME. TO HONGKONG THIRTY YEARS AGO.

His many friends out here will Mr. Archibald Kerr, who was for learn with ragrot of the death of

a long period a Chief Engineer of

to suppose that this was received The execution took place at Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's in the "Sui An" piracy and the 10.30 o'clock. There was no ships. Telegraphic nows of bis following day Yung was returned dolay, un formality over this demise has been received by his to Tamsui, which was his native ceremony, The prisoners were nephew, Mr. A. K. Henderson, village, to-be-tried-by-the-Chinese forced on their knees, and shot managor

Hongkong of the authorities. At this time three from several revolvers as thoy Tramways, Ltd, to whom we ox other pirates were also on their wore in that position. A groan tend our sympathy. The cable hands, One of them was Lee came from one of the wretched states that Mr. Kerr, who was 68 Sang, arrested at Waichow, and, men, whose death had not boon years of age, passed away on May case being satisfactorily instantanous, but a pistol placed 31st. at Kilmun. Argyllshire. provod, he was condemned to be against his head soon ended his The deceased was born at shot at the same time au Yung misery. Immediately afterwards, Greenock, and served his ap Fook..

rolatives of the dead man Yung prenticeship with Messrs. Caird Fook filled in the grave over hie and Co. of that place. Betore IN THE COURT.

body.

coming to Hongkong, ho was

his

whoso

| by the Cenotaph, which, I under- Chancellor Seipel was returning from Wienormoustadt, and

stand, has become a Chinese and just alighted at the southern station when a man who had, At daylight on Wednesday last

It soems that all those re-for many years a chief engineor Wo have received the following place of rest and a recreation travelled on the same train made an attack. The shot penetrated the condemned men were brought sponsible for the pirating of the on the mailboats of the Royal further fetters for publication: ground for their young, I agree one lung, inflicting a serious wound, but it is not thought that down from Pingshan to Tamsui, ateam launch Kwong Tak, from Dutch Mail Steam Packet Co., Sir, feel that the splendid to the suggestion of an iron fence it will prove fatal. The assailant thou turned the weapon on him- arriving at the same time that Hongkong, have paid the ex- sailing between Amsterdam and example set hy British and being erected as a protection to self when about to be arrested. Fie refused to disclose his identi-representatives from the Hong treme penalty for their orime, Java.

women kong Police assembled to witness excepting two American sailors on Friday last the Monument. I am quite sure y

When the Royal Dutch Mail should not be allowed to pass it would put a stop to the Chineso The Chancellor was immediately removed to hospitul. -Renter. the execution. Chained and sentence has been commuted to dooided not to employ foreign without some expression of appre-using the steps as a place of rest. A Vienna message says Soipol was loaving the station to enter manacled by both arms and logs, imprisonment for ten years and nationals any longer, the late Mr. riation from the public of the and a gallery from which to a motor car when a young man approached and fired three revolver the men, according to the are now at a Canton prison. It will Kerr, along with other Boottish Colony. In the first place, thanks which hair children mako sport shots. The Chancellor foll on the ground unconscious. His assailant observation of an age-witness, bo rogalled that after the oncoun- engineers, was dismissed, and ho aro due to the Telegraph for draw-on

grass around the shot himself in the head and his condition is desperate. An opera appeared to be completely dazed, ter with the Customs cruiser came to Hongkong in 1894 and ing attention to the disgraceful Cenotaph.

{tion was subsoquently porformed on the Chancellor, whose life the even to the point of being unable Pakkau, in which the pirated joined the China Navigation 9.9. condition of a monument sot up With regard to troops when ductors hope to save.

to articulate when their sentencos vessel was sunk, three of the Co. (Mossrs. Butterfield and in memory of mon who gave their marching past the Cenotaph, the The Chief of Polico, in a statement, says the crime was political. were read out to them. The pirates wore taken from the water. Swire). He brought out for this lives in the service of their salute is only given, I beliovo. The assullant is a railway worker, supposed to be of Communist. officer prosiding at this function and were later returned to Canton firm, from the builders, the Bo rospective countries, and, second when the banners are flying Another Vionna message says the Chancellor was wounded was Wong King-sam, brothor of from Macao for trial. It has not Singan. He was for a long time ly, to the gentlemen of the two thereon. But that is no reason twice, the first wound being slight and the second thore serious. The the military commander who hitherto been known that, before chief engineor of the B. and S. services concerned, who carried why the civilian should not assailant has been identified as a weaver named Jaworek, of Pot-carried out thoir arrest; and his execution, one of them mado a vessel Chingts, on the Australian out the work which should have raise his hat when passing the tendorf, near Wionorneustadt. heen done by whichever Govern-Canotaph in acknowledgement of mont department may be our Glorious Dead.

concerned.

It is to hoped that when the incident is brought to the notice

thu

Yours elr..

TRUTH. Hongkong, May 31, 1924..

Day the

INTERESTING SHIP. ARRIVES.

ARMED ROBBER.

FORMERLY A KING'S TACHT.

SHATIN GAP INCIDENT.

tho scene WAS laid in A full confession, which revealed run, and became vory well known', long room inside a

samen- that the same gang had been on the Australian coast. He like building wblch is an edifice concerned in many of the other retired in 1920.

of some importance in Tamsul. piracies, notably the Sai-án, The late Mr. Archibald Kerr Wong was seated at a long table, Chuchau and Hydranges out was married, but his wife pro- covered with a

white cloth, rages." He also gave the nomes deceased him, and they leave no and seated on either side of him of the other members of the gang, children.

wero

waited outsida.

THE EXECUTIONS.

OLYMPIC “SOCCER,"

of the Colonial Authorities in London, instructions will bo Str.-On Empire

the European detective with the result that the whole Kiven to the Hongkong Govern flags were once again placed on

officer and the Chief Chinega gang, with the exception of thirty, ment which will ensure that, in the Canotaph, only to be removed

detective who had come to soo wore arrested. This was accom At the Kowloon Magistracy, that justice was meted out. Aplished by a surprise visit to Bias future, due attontion will be later. Why is it that, with tho paid to the matter of proserving. Joxeption of Duo or two days in

this morning, a young. Chinese gong somewhore in the building Bay and Mira Bay. Those places A vory interesting vessel camo was charged, before, Mr. E. W. was.sounded and the result of the have now been cleaned up. :' in decent condition, such national the year the Cenotaph should into,pert over the week-end, this Hamilton with robbing a Chinese trial was thus made known to tho memorials as the Couotaph and be without the flags which form being the Norwegian ship, s.8. named Te Koo on the Shatin crowd of fully a thousand who THE PIRATES SCATTERED. Uruguay Team Wins Again. similar remindors, orected byjan integral part of the momorial? Elly, of-under 200 tons.

Gap Road on the 29th May. public subscription in sacred Without the fluge tho Bulit 6 years ago of nickel It appears that at about 5 pan

When Pong Chau, an işleti

Paris, June 1. memory to the heroes of the Conotaph appears incompleto, stool, the boat was for many on the date-named, complainant,

situated within these watora, In the third round of the past. Yours.btc.-

and from the many expressions yours the private yacht of the a enke dollsofor, was on his way

which in the hoy-day, ofthe Olymplo association football. GRATEFUL. of opinion which I have King of Spain, and was later sold from Shatin to Kowloon City, The average Chinese crowd piratas constituted their headqu- Sweden boat Egypt by-5 goals, to Hongkong, June, 1st., 1624.

heard I am convinced that the to a company which oporated hor whon he was set upon by two men, very rarely displays its emotions artors, was visited by a Hongkong nil, and Uruguay boat France by general fouling is that the flags under the name of "Dora." She is one of whom produced doggor, and there were very little mani police officer the other day, its goals to ono.-Rouler. Sir,-As one

who le de- should remain on the Cenotaph now owned by a Norwegian firm, and stabbed him sovoral imos. fastation of either disappointmont presented a doserted appearance, sirous of seeing events properly the whole time, as is the case in and is engaged on a trip from Complainant fought with the men or satisfaction at the sentence. There used to be floots of junks observed and the memory of those London. The flags would have Norway to Nowohwang, carrying but was eventally overpowered. Perhaps executions in, those anchored round here when it was who have departed duly respected, to be renewed from time to time, over 50 tons of gunpowder. She The two mon escaped with 30 but days have become a common the point from which the pirates I heartily appreciate the action but the cost would be very small, is anchored in the dangerous complainant managed to obtain occurrence; at- any: aate, directed their operations, but such of the British and American and if the Coyornment considered goode anchorage, off Stonecutters the daggor and went to the Police the predominating fooling was has been the impression created sailors who, on the day of the the expense too great to be borne She has been since March 29th. Station in a ricksha. In his one of curiosity as the crowd by recout events that when the Americati commemoration

of by the public exchequer it should on the journey, and has had to roport he stated that one of the followed the procession on Itu police officer visited it, there were

Closing Exchange 2s, 4, 15/16, their dead, went to the Wanchal be perfectly easy to raise a special make fairly long stops at Perim mon was a bean curd seller atway to the execution grounde, no men-folk on it, but only woman Barometer Monument (orooted to the fund for the purpose.

and Singapore for the cleaning of Kowloon City. On information. Whilst the wretched men were engaged in cleaning fishing, nots, ka momory of sonis. British and

boilors.It is for similar received, the man was arrested being led away, closely marshall. Their husbands had fled, or wore: Temperature American-sailors-who-were killed

purpose-that-sho-has- put into on Saturday.ƒ——————

ad between: soldiers who were to amungst the forty-one-prisoners Humidity == Lo -during-an-ancounter with-pirates.

Hongkongated spacts=to-be —— Defendant wie zeinauded for brdome_the_ELévationors, the Captured as a result of the Kwang --- many years ago), and cleared Talli

There abopbtbroedarme vandethe one weeken

their Tok pinoys

Yours oto,

"LANDAIR.“ "Hongkong, May 30tky:1024*

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