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Hongkong Telegraph.

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FAR EAST SHIPPING OUTLOOK.

SHIPPING BOARD OFFICIAL'S VIEWS.

GENERAL ELECTION

IMMINENT.

- GOVERNMENT INSISTS ON COMMONS

DECISION.

PREMIER'S OUTSPOKEN COMMENT.

London, October 6.

"NOT A GANG OF FOOTPADS."

MACAO RACECOURSE.

ALTERNATIVE SITE FAVOURED.

It is reported from Macao that at a Council meeting held at Government House on Saturday, the question of the now Race course was dealt with.

for the purpose.

CANTON OFFICIALS.

ARRESTED IN MACAO,

On Saturday morning. four

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831 PUR ANDM

BALLOON TYRES..

„BALLOON TYRES

Essex Touring complete with diso whools and five (6) 31 x 5.25 BALLOON TYRES

.81,375

Bladson Touring complate with diso woools and five (5) 33 x 0.20 BALLOJN TYRES.

$34,000 Paige de Luxe Touring complate with dino whools and tivo (5) 33 x 5.75 BALLOON TYRES......................................... $5,200

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Tolophona Contral 1246 or 1247.

33 Wong Nel Chung Road.......................Happy Valley.

LANDLORD WINS.

IN POSSESSION CASE.

dofonded.

PIRATE'S VICTIM.

CLAIM AGAINST EMPLOYERS FAILS.

An or ler for possession was made by Mr Justice Dyer Ball,

The piratical parasiton" caso in the Summary Court this morn was concluded this inorning. ing, in the case in which Lai when Mr. Justice Dyor Dall held Siu-yuon, of 284, Queen's Road that plafatiff was not entitled to Central, sought to eject his his parquisites. It will be remem- tenants on the ground, second barod that the plaintiff, an oil shop

foki, was captured by piratör on. and third floors.

Mr. E.S.C. Books apponred for his way from Chaung Chau to the plaintiff and Mr. J. T. Prior Hongkong. He succeeded in making his esospe and he return- Hie Lordship said that notice ed to the shop. His claim was to quit was given under Section for 8203, which included wages 4 (1) (0) on Jan. 26th, of this and porquisites for the current year, and the main point at Chinese year:

was, whether the exact boen stated. Mr Prior argued the sum of $57.58 was paid to the His Lordship referred to the fact nature of roconstruction had

that he had already decided that that a wall holding up the road plaintiff in respect of the balanço at the back of the house was not of wages up to the end of the being pulled down and therefore tenth moon and in respect of when plaintiff stated that he was

Practically all the ocean-going vassola to arrive at Hongkong within the past twenty-four hour have reported typhoon weather, Capf. C. S. Brookwalter. Special those coming up from the south representative of the U. 8. ship- having had a particularly trying ping Board, arrived in Hongkong, imo. 1o no instance, however, yesterday, aboard the Pacific

In view of the unwillingness has any damage boon sufferad, Mail liner President Pierce. Mr.

of the public to give up property it is significant that Bir Patrick Hastings, the Attorney General, and the huge cost with which though in the case of two vessels, R. C. Morton, U.S.S.D. director the Andes Maru and the Nagato for the Far East, accompanied him who is not a member of the Cabluet, attended a monting of the the Government would he faced Mark, a rovere buffeting was ex-from Manila. Capt. Brookwalter Cabinet this afternoon which considered the Government's course it resuming house sites, the perienced.

is completing an inspection tour in the vital debate on Wednesday on the withdrawal of the Workers meeting decided that it would bo The most outstanding item in of the Far Eastern Offices of the Weekly prosecution. Reuter understands that the deliberations have proferahlo if the Racecourse wore shipping news to-day is the fact Shipping Board and will remain not changed the position, mentioned on October 2nd; namely that situated on the roulaimed ground that the s. Taiyo Maru, a vessel in Hongkong a fortnight or more, the Government will insist on a decision by a House of Commons on the outskirts of the city. This Accordi→ to Capt. Brook voto and not by enquiry, whothar by Select Committee or land is Government property and which is employed in carrying

itions in the shipping judicial enquiry: and that the Government will consequently he is said to be more than sufficient limestone from Tai Lay Bay, near Walter, co Haiphong, to Hongkong for the industry in the Far East are good. defeated and the dissolution follow. Green Island Cement Company. The outlook for future business in overdue. The vessel, which is is exceptionally promising, he Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, interviewed by Mr. Wickham Stoed aporated by Messrs. George said. He explained that, due to of the Rericip of Reviews, and referring to the Liberal amendment, (rimblo, should have boon hare the war in the interior, much dwelt on the unfairness of asking the Government to rubmit its CARO was morehandieo was being held in in advance to a Select Committee on which its political opponents

going to entirely pull down and bonus up to the ninth moon, It yesterday morning. She due to leave Tai Lay Bay with a godowns awaiting a stabilised would hold a majority. "The responsibility for complicating or

rebuild, he was not stating a fact. Was not donlod that ho had also load of limestone on Friday, and market and the removal of ex-preventing the work we are trying to do in the national interest

This wall formed the base of the received the sum of $22. He had back wall of the house. Mr. A.also hold that plaintiff was not a hor course would have taken cessive taxes, thus reducing for should be fairly and publicly assessed in the House of Commons

taken on again this year, al- itself. Though the Govornmont has no'majority in the Lobby, it is hor right through the track of the the present the export tonnage.

E. Wright (Building Authority) According to official reports, entitled to demand fairplay, typhoon fears are being enter-

We are not a gang of footpads." Mr.

was called for the plaintiff and though he was allowed to live on tained as to her safety. On a thore, has been considerablo in MacDonald continued that he would personally rejoics to be rellev officials from Canton, said to baho said the main purpose of the the firm's promises. He was not

wrongfully dismissed. previous trip the little vessel had crosse in the shipping of perished of the strain and worry of office, but from the national and inter- the Chief Commander of the wall was to hold up the road, and aptured by pirates when one

trying experience and it is able products between the finited national viewpoints he did not rejolae at the prospect of confusion River Defence Bureau and pro- if it were taken away the road hoildas, not while engaged in

of Dr. Sun's would fall into the kitchen. Mr. feared that if she was struck by States and Japan, China and the and frustrated achievement, which an attempt to eject the Labourminent members the full fores of the typhoon herPhilippines. It is pointed out invernment may entail.

Headquarters and Public Porco Wright also said that the wall his business, and the reason Pouco Bureau respectively, were must have been built by the Gov. that plaintiff was not to Tosunio his dutlos chances of coming through would that the President Pierce has her

Mr. Rumeny Maclonald has opened the Independent Labour arrested at Macao and taken toernment and therefore his Lord- not the concern of' the not be great. News is anxiously refrigerating compartments.com-

pletoly Allod for the entiro triji.

thio ship hold that

plaintiff l'arty's special effort fund in viow of a General Election by a dona- the Harbour Offico.

The offence with which they had

dofondants. They had on the Capt. Brookwalter will hold his ftion of £100,-- Reuter.

right to pull it whole treated him with con. LAKE GITANO GETS OFF. final conference with Far Eastern

were charged was refusal to allow down or reconstruct, and there gideration, though, his Lordship SOME LLOYD GEORGICH. olicials upon his arrival in

their buggage to be searched fore there Was The 6.8. Lake Gitane, which Shanghai and will proceed to

no necessity Mr. Lloyd George had an enthusiastic audience of ten thousand whilst on board a junk for Shoki, for him to mention it in his added, ho sympathised with the Wo reported yesterday Yokoliain with his wife and at Leicester, where he necused Mr.. MacDonald of abuse of his and also striking the detectivos.

notice to quit. Mr. Prior also plataliff in his misfortuno: Tho having gono ashoro on the daughter, who are returning to prerogative in putting the country to the expense sud inconven- Evidence was heard, that of urged that plaintiff was ente fide plaintiff's claim for wages for the north-east corner of Stone- cutter's Island during the blow return in Shanghai in time for Workers Weekly cuso.

the United States, and with them onco of an election instead of consenting to an enquiry into the the detectives was not considered because he tried to bribe one of current your failed, of courses The

sufficiently strong to warrant a tho tonants to leave.

only point left for him to dooldo un Sunday morning, succeeded in the conference of officials. wotting of under hor own steam

Ilia Lordalip thought that the was whether plaintiff was antitled Ho declared that a gang of extremists had bullied the Govern. conviction, and the mentinta interfering with justice in the Workers Week prosecution. were discharged with a caution by words bone fide, as used in the three months of the Chinese year. to his porquisitos for the last The same gang had bullled them into a guarantee to-Russit. He, the Harbour Master.

Ordinance, were confined to the Tho' two cases quoted by Mr. Russ intention of the landlord to re had no bearing on the case. The asked: "If the Government cannot restrain wild men now, when failure to restrain theme means defeat, what could the Government

construct. A third paint raised

caso in which "a de if it had a majority and was able to defy the Liberals, Conser

by Mr. Prior was that the notice first was a

was wrongfully dismissed vatives, and everybody elso Y-- Reuter,

was bad because It did not man exactly give three months' notice and the second was also ono in which the Company Was to quit. He argued that it was nt fault Nolthor of theso bad because it gave longer than features appoured in the present three months, but that argument case. He accepted the statomont did not impress his Lordship of the plaintiff that no work. There was nothing ambiguous meant no perquisites and be also

would vivo about it and he

Awaited.

at high tide yesterday afternoon. Another Shipping Bourd vessel. the Lake Faulk, was prepired to attempt pulling the Lake fiftand off, but the latter vessel, un which steain land been raised, manuged to free herself at 4.30 p.m.the hour of high water. She bar, apparently, suffered no damuge.

BAD WEATHER AT MACÃO,

Our Macaocorrespondent states that the effects of the type thero were not very marked,

MOTOR DRIVER IN

"TROUBLE.

SEQUEL TO RECENT ACCIDENT.

At the Kowloon Magistracy, before Mr. E. W. Hamitton, this erning. Pak Kam-wong was

LABOUR'S ELECTION FUND.

London, Octuber 6.

THE DISARMAMENT PROTOCOL.

IS BRITAIN HESITATING?

not

acoused

COURT MARTIAL.

SURREYS CORPORAL ON TRIAL.

no

He was

able

WAS

Corpi. Theodoro Thorn, 1st. Bu. The East Surrey Regt, was tried before a District Court Martial, at Murray Barracks this judgment for for the plaintiff with thought that the fokis should morning on two charges. Corp. coste,

Mr. Prior applied for a stay Thorn was accused of violating a standing garrison order in that he of execution for fourteen days, The Cupe Times, commenting on the Japanese amendments to failed to report to the commander pending appoal.

Genova, October 6. charged on remand with negligent Britain, have signed the disarmament Protocol--- Reuter.

Hitherto eleven States, including France and Belgium, but driving, driving with a learner's

There was high wind and much licence in a prohibitod area (Na rain, whilst the tide was preethan Road) and failing to produca damage to the Praia Grande. No!

so far been reported.

SHIP'S STEWARD ATTACKED.

SOUTH AFRICAN COMMENT.

Capo Town, October

Lionally high, doing considerable is licence when called upon. The the disarmament Protocol, refers to the observation by its Goneval of the guard wbson absonting hlin- damage to houses or jutuks has charges arose out of an accident correspondent that whereas the principal pre-occupation of the self from the barracks on the 26th Hear the To Hing Theatre on Dominions was to preserve the sovereignty of their jurisdiction, the of September last. He was also September 16th. Mr. J. M. Hali chief pre-occupation of the British delegates was to get the Protocol accused of failure to obey the defended and pleaded not guilty signed. It says the same criticism seems to apply to the compre-command of a superior non- to tho first and third charges.

mise. It is fortunate for the Dominions that the Protocol as amend-commissioned officer in that he Owing to the absence of the fed must be approved by their Parliaments, which are unlikely to failed to report to the R.S.M. Whihaiwei interpreter on leave, bet the present Government in making a window dressing display when told to do so by the sergeant a substitate interpreter was call for their own domestic end, without any real care for the welfare of the guard. ed, but he was unable to get any of the Dominion peoples, Kenter.

Corp. Thorn pleaded not guilty statement out of a Weihaiwei

to both charges, constable, and the case was ac-

The court martial was com- |cordingly adj mrud for a wook,

posed of the following officers :- his Worship saying he would tako into account the solicitor's fees consequent on the remand.

ROBBED OF $40 IN NOTES,

An attack on a ship'e toward by men belioved to be in league with thieving ricksha geolies was reported as occurring at a late hour last night, on the Central paid the man who was knockod Praya.

Mr. Jull said defendant had

down $70 as competation, and

GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE.

MUST

CONFORM TO THE RULES.

Paris, October 6,

Regt.

OBITUARY.

MR. C... RICHARDSON.

docido whathor a man who had boot away...was ontitled to his porquisition.

He would therefore give judg mont for the defendant on this point also.

He thought

in Chambore

to-

Continuing, his Lordship said that it had been agrood that an amount of $5 was wrongly dobited to plaintiff's wage account, but this amount was not specifically mentioned in the statement of It is with regret that we have claim, neithor was it clost in to record the death of Mr. Charles the particulars, Directly defond, ant knew of this sum they E. Kichardson, of MoESTO. Richardson and Co., of Prince's paid it Into Court, and he thought Buildings, which took place at that in fairness he should give President, Brevot-Major F. G.Swatow lato on Friday night. judgment for the defondants with Hyland, M.C, R. E; Capt L W. Mr. Richardson, who was the costs and should allow plaintiff Bennett, R.A, and Lieut. R. H. head of his firm with offices in to have the 83. Simpson, 1st. Bn. East Surrey Hongkong and Swatow, went to probably Mr. Huss would wish Swatow Homio time ago, and to say something in regard to Franco has sent a Noto to Gormany saying he does not object

ik From the evidence was although it was known that he the question of costs, but ho At a quarter to two this morn-had already been put to much to the principle of Germany's admission to the League of Nations or deduced that Corp. Thorn had had been in Indifferent health for thought it batter to discuss the ing. Martinue Ngisenton reported inconvenience. He would thore even the Council, subject to fiorman sut mission to all the rules, absented himself from barracks some time past, the first nowa qucation at the Police Station that whilst fore like his Worship to deal without exception, laid down by the Covenant. guing along in a ricksha near the leniently with the case, which It is belleved the British and Belgian Governments will similar-after retreat without reporting to that he was seriously ill reached morrow.

the sergeant of the guard, andhero on Friday by telogram, Mrs. Bank Wharf he was pulled out bad boon romanded from time to ly reply-Renter.

that on his return at 5:30 s..Richardson immediately left for by two men whe stole a sum of time and had cost the defendant

la considerable sum of money, M. Herriot has informed Borlin that France would not offer the following day he failed to Swatow, but her husband had $40 in notes from him. He was unable to give the number of the

Sorgeant Hallam interposed any opposition towards the principle of (ermany's almission to the comply with an order to report passed away within only a few hours of hor sailing from this rieksha,

and said the previous remands League of Nations, but Germany must conform to the common rule to the R.S.M.

port. wore in no way the fault of the concerning the entry of every Stato into the Languo, without

A wido oircle of friends in

A GANG ESCAPES. police, as the man who was privileges or oxception.-Haves.

Hongkong will have learned of knocked down had been in hos-

Mr. Richardson's domiso with genuine regret, for he was a very An armed robbory occurred at NOTICE TO MARINERS. popular resident. Of an extreme-No. 24 Morcer Strost, at ten

ly happy disposition he was well- o'clock this morning. liked by all who know him. Ho It was reported at Police Head- had boon a resident of Hongkong quarters that four mon ontored for over 15 years, and a few years an upper floor at this address ago started in business on his and held up the inmates with a own, being principally interested couple of rūvolvers, a dagger and in the flour import trade. He was a chopper.

"TREVESSA" TROUPY,pital and was unable to appear.

BATAVIA FOLLOWS

HONGKONG.

In recognition of the fact that the first raco for the Trevosen

His Worship said ho was will- ing to deal with the caso lonlent. ly, but if it were not fought out in Court dofendant would not be

given a licenou to drive.

Mr. Hall-Then I am preparedį Trophy in Hongkong was won by to fight the case out.

a boat of the J.C.JL. stoameri

Tjipenas, Mr. T. do Meester,

managing agent of the JC.J.L. NORTH CHINA WAR. has prosented a ohallange cup, the Jjipanas Cup, for similar races for marohant ships' lifo- bonto.

Any ship in the port of Tand- jong Priak (Batavia) on the day' of the race is eligible to enter two! bosts, which must be fitted out

REPORTED CAPTURE OF

CITY.

Mukdon, Oct. 0.

Paris. October 6.

AUSTRALIAN WARSHIP COMING.

II. M. A. S. BRISBANE FOR CHINA STATION,

Molbourne, October 6.

The Minister of Defence, Mr. Bowden, speaking in the Com- monwealth House of Representatives, stated that the light cruiser Concord would accompany the Australia warship Adelaide to Australia, under the exchange system, and became a unit of the Australian fleat for nine months.

The Australian warship Brisbane would join the China Squadron for six months.--Reuter,

AEROPLANE VULNERABILITY.

Following the capture of DUTCH FLIGHT HELD UP.

Amsterdam, Oct, G.

PERSIA MAKES

AMENDS.

The trial was still in progress at tifin-timo to-day, with several moro witnesses to be examined.

ARMED ROBBERY.

HYDRO-AEROPLANES AT CANTON. Notices have just boen posted at the Harbour Offee of interest to China Coast and rivera Christian Scientist, and both No particulars are yet avail- Captains.

he and Mrs. Richardson, have able of the extent of the look. The The Harbour Mastor of Shang-takon a loading part in the

gang all eaoaped. hal notifies that work is about to Christian. Bolence community of be commenced off the Interna- the Colony. tional Dock in Beotion 11 of Shanghai

Harbour.' Vossols

HOME "SOCCER.”

F. A. CHARITY SHIELD.

London, Cot 0.

should proooed “dead slow "past the spot:

The Harbour Master of Canton with standard, equipment and Linyuan, Chang Tao-lia's Hood-

Telioran, Oct. 6, notiles that a number of hydro- cash manned by one officer and quarters claim that General

According to the Press, the aeroplanos are stored on the bank six to eight-men according to the Chang Chung-chang, the Fong- The mschine flown by the Government has granted. the of the river in front of the Bureau length, 6-8 motres and over 8tion Chief of Staff, with three Dutch airmen on their way to widow of the murdered American of Aviation's factors, Kupor

In the Bootball Association matter. ARA

whole Java, has been tomporarily Consul, Mr. Imbrie, sixty Island. Masters of vessels are) battalions, engaged 2. The first race will be bold on Division of Chihli troops as disabled, proventing a restart thousand dollars compensation. warned to reduce spoed when Charity Shield gatob, the Pro- Sunday October 19th, and there- Chapong, capturing the city and from Phillipopolis. An expert is The soldier - involved in the passing the spot to prevent the feeslonals beat the Amateura by every year, in April completely routing the enemy hurrying thither from Rotterdam murder has been executed wash of ships” damaging the 3 goale to one, at Highbury, “

machines, Reuter

aerodroma Router

·Reuter

TO-DAY.

Closing Exchange 2x. 5. 5/16 Lighting Up-Time 405 p.m.

Barometer 2 p.m. 29.74 Temperature Humidity

High Water How Wats

2 pm. 81

2 p.p

~6.56 1.01.

10.36