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NEW CHIEF JUSTICE ARRIVES.

Sir Henry Gollan Here.

SUN'S THREAT.

FIGHTING IN CANTON PREDICTED,

We are in receipt of news to- day from Canton to the effect that Dr. Sun Yat-son has made the

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CONSERVATIVES & LIBERALS.

MR. MACDONALD CONDEMNS PARTY

METHODS.

EXPERTS VIEW OF "CRUEL MISREPRESENTATION."

Although the Governor-in- Council made an order, publishod Arsonal his temporary headquart. Thief Caught and Sentenced.in the Gazette on May 30th, exempting Nov. 66, 68 and 70, ore, and that a meeting has

Queen's Road-East-from-the

London, Outober-14. already been hekl thoro on the Yot another case of bag snat-provisions of Section 4 (1) (f) of

The Premior had an enthusiastic sond-off from Glasgow this question of the general strikejeling from a European lady took the Roots Ordinanco, Mr. Justics

His car was hold up by which is still continuing. It le place on Battery Fail last night. Dyer Ball in the Summary Court morning on a motor electioneering tour. reported that Sun has mado a Mr. P. W. Grean, architect, this morning, in his judgment the density of the crowd. declaration that if all the shop sof

Mr. MacDonald mado a speech referring to the Conservative Мовнога. Little, Adams in the claim for possessiod, hold do not open their doora In two and Wood, was walking in that such order did not apply and Liboral agreements, at Glasgow and numerous other places, not. daya for general business he will company with his wifo past St. retrospectively, and made to run candidates against each other. He said the other aldo seemed. forcibly disarm the Volunteer John's Cathedral, Battery Path, order for possession.

to be funking. "We have so frightened them that they are laying Corps and will-order the soldiers last avoning, when a thief crept' When the case was heard last their heads together leat wo soraps in between them. It is not good, lof the various forcos to up unobserved and sistched Mrs. week, Mr. Eldon Potter, K. O. old-fashioned politics. The more united they are against us, tho break into any and ovary shop Groon's hand bag before either Mr. appeared for the landlord and groater will be our victory."

The oxecutive of the National Union of Railwaymon is sub- and help themselves......f what or Mr. Croon coalised the man's Mr. O. A.S. Russ defended.

to bombard the western suburb of the City at any moment.

an

LIBERALS OPEN CAMPAIGN.

OLDER PARTIES' PACT..

they might fancy. The two purpose. The man bolted, round His Lordship, in his judgment,scribing five thousand pounds sterling to the Labour party's election Yunnanese Generals, who pre- the back of the Cathedral with said that the order appeared in fund.-Routor, viously neted as poace makers, Mr. Green in hot pursuit. Mean- the Gazette one day before the have now been instructed by Sunwhile, Mrs. Groen had hurried to notice to quit expired. The

London, October 14. - to hold their forces in readiness the Garden Road end of Battery tonante argued that the ordar

Path and bore informed a soldier, provonted the Court from mak The Liberal campaign was opened by Mr. Asquith. Mr. Lloyd who joined in the hunt. After ing an order and Mr. Potter for George and Sir John Simon at Queons Hall, in London. Meanwhile, the morchants are some searching, the miscreant the landlord argued that Section Mr. Asquith said the pretext for the election was the most- Ignoring these throats and a was found hiding in the shade of 24 was never intended to give flimsy and insincere on which any responsible Minister for a contury force of about 3,000 volunteers, the trees and bushes at the back power to make exemptions in had presumed to invoke the prerogative of the Crown. The truth was recruited from 138 market towns of the Cathedral. He was prompt favour of the tenant but only in that Mr. MacDonald and his colleagues were suffering from a bad in tho province, has assembled at ly arrested, the bag, which con-favour of landlords, Mr. Potter attack of morbid solf-esteem. The real cause of the precipitate Fatshan. It is pradicted that iftained money, being recovered, argued that the power could appeal was not the Workers Weekly ones, but the Russian treaty, Sun attempts to carry out his When the esme on at the reduce the Ordinance to a farce. which was a unique example of political recklessness and businose thrents there will be fighting both Central Magistracy this morning. He said that the Governor could incapacity, and almost infantile simplicity. The sole considerable inside and outside the City.

tho.man ploaded "guilty" to the exempt inter alia a tenant from legislative achievement of the Government was Mr. Snowden's Another report, from a different charge of larceny.

the provisions of Section Liberal froo trade Budgot.-Reuter. - source, statos that the Govern- It was stated by Inspector 4 (1) (a) and that thereafter the ment has promised to hand over Spear, who was in charge of the tonunt nood not pay ront. Look- 1,000 ritos if the shops are opened case, that nothing was known od at in that way the rarults

London, October 14. for business but that the offer about the man, but that quite awero, sufficiently startling but

Hitherto over a dozen local Conservative and Liberal anti- has been refused, The Volun-number of snatching cases in exemptions in favour of the land- toors are asking for all the arms.which European ladies had been land could in some instances Labour pacts have boon arranged with a view to not splitting the An unconfirmed report from victimised had occurred recently make equally absurd positions, anti-Labour vote in the constituepalos where the last clpotion was Slicking states that General in which the perpetrators had not and he thought that Mr. Ruse a triangular contest and resulted in the return of a Labourite often Chan King-ining's forces have been caught.

was right when he said that when on a minority vote. Many more pacts are being negotiated. His Worship rightly took a powers were dalogated it was only

Conservative and Liberal headquarters are not countenancing Thus it is likely that by The Colony's

and that the garrison is return-serious view of the case, and natural to assume that those such pacts, but are not opposing them. Chiet consolidating their footing in captured the Banca Tigris forts

would bo exercised October 29th a substantial number of the seventy triangular contesta' Justice, Sir Henry Cowper Africa, and the young official ing to Canton. It is known, sentenced the prisones to nine powers Gollan, C.B.F... K.C., until lately was soon tried, and not found however, that Chan's foreas are months' hard labour and also reasonably. His Lordship said he of the last election will have been avoided. Hitherto the Liberals

Mr. ordered him to receive twolve thought that

Potter's have been roadier than the Conservatives to agree to make such the Attorney-General of Ceylon. wanting. His service there was now on the move.

strokes with the birch. arrived this morning on the P. a record of

"absurditios" were not really ab pacis. For example, the Liverpool Conservatives have declined any "Malwa". He was justly be proud, and in the

surdities, they were unreasonable arrangement. and s met on board by Capt. R. Neville,short space of a year and o A.D.C., representing the Gover-month be raised himself from nor; the prosont acting Chief the position of Private Secretary Justice, Mr. H. H. J. Gomportz:to the Commissionor to that Pro- Registrar. Mr. H. A. Nisbet;[of Chief Justice in

HONGKONG'S TEAM. id Mr. A. B. Suffiul, the Chieftectorate with about ten million One of the first alice's Clerk. For the time inhabitants.

Tho following have been boing, Sir Henry will stay at tasks sot him was the pre- Government House, and it is paration of a Criminal Code for selected to represent Hongkong| likely that he will be "sworn in" the Protectorate, and this he ac-against Manila on Oct. 18th and at to-morrow's moeting of complished so ably that it met 19th :- the Legislative Council. As with the special thanks of the

new

which ho can

INTERPORT GOLF.

big

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and unjust use of the power of ex- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald had a great reception at a meeting of omption. Mr. Potter also urged five thousand in Edinburgh. In a speech he appealed to the country that Section 24 was ultra vires to send Labour back in sufficient numbers to defy both the other STOP PRESS.

but he did not take that view, parties. Reuter.

London, Qctober 14, He was also unable to take Mr. Potter's "royal road" through... The Conservatives of the Carnarvon boroughs have decided not FIGHTING IN CANTON. [the Section. The plaintiffs to run any candidate against Mr. Lloyd Georgs-Reuter.

argument was that the word provision in the Section could

FINANCIAL EXPERT'S OPINION.

London, October 14. Fighting broke out in Canton only apply to a whole section and not to a portion of a section. His A. B. Stewart, (Captain); L, Wat five o'clock this morning. Last Lordship was of opinion that

It is announced that the well-known financial authority Bir Leoi there waa ". hiof Justice he will mako then Socratary of State for the Showan, A. H. Ferguson, R. A.evening

provision could mean any part of Chiozza Money has refused to become a Labour candidate at this of troops, tho

election, as ho considers the Government is seriously misleading the jis first appearance on the Bench Colonies, who later found ronson Camidge, Capt. L. W. Bonnet and movement

oven a paragraph. · further E. J. R. Mitchell. Reserve, W. whole city being pekated On Monday, when he will preside for commanding some

by Sun's soldiers. The Volun-forred to Mr.

Continuing His Lordship ro-Labour Party, and its defeat is as certain as it is deserved.

Potter's state- He expresses the opinion that argument that the Russian loan at the October Criminal Sessions, work of Sir Henry's in establish-Galloway.

Play commonces at 9.15 a.m. toora throw barricades across

ment that the Governor will be a romody for unemployment is a cruel misrepresentation.— His past

career shows Sirling a Supremo and Provincial

had mado tho order to Henter. leory to be an official of wide. Court of Justice and framing im- each day. The 8.35 train will run the streets and prepared for

defonsivo struggle. on Saturday as well as Sunday.a and experience

considerable portant local legislation.

supply the want of a desirability became Mr. A. B. Stewart cannot go Bund

deserted and ability, and his appointment to Sir Henry Gallan left Nigeria' longkong is looked upon as a in 1904, to become the Chief to Shanghai for the match on the all shipping moved out into the corlificato. It was not necessary it. The point to be decidod was distinct acquisition to the legal Justice of Bermuda, where he 30th, and 31st instant. Mr. A. H. stream, the Shamson gales being to consider that but he doubted to finally closed at 11 p.m. in an-whether the order made by the ministration of the Colony, served for Bevon

The Ferguson has been asked years.

Governor was, or was not, ro- The now Chief Justice, whose years 1911 to 1918 he spent in captain the side, and N. L. Smith ticipation of trouble.

the latter has been asked to complete the Firing actually began at day-trospective and after caraful con- and in portrait is given above, was born!Trinidad,

and from light to-day. he At Coquimbo. Chile, on January year was appointed to Hongkong six.

sidoration, ho had come to the [City could be heard the 8th, 1868, the son of the lato Sir Ceylon as Attorney Goneral Alexander Gollan, K.C.M.G. During the past six years he has

sound of heavy firing. The Volun- conclusion that the order did not

interfere with oxisting rights. The non-political character of the Federation of British In- teare, behind their barricades, He was of opinion that Section dustries is likely to focus attention on the outspoken speech of At the age of six years Slr Henry done a great deal of legislativo

were sniping at Sun's soldiers as 4 was put in in order to exempt the President, Sir Eric Geddes, at Sheffield, to-night. was sent home to England, where work in the sister Colony, and

they darted across roadways he later proceeded to Charter on his departure he was showered

He urged that the personal foolings and party intorests should to tako up botter positions, houses which came within the house for his education, which on all sides with expressions of

had several scope of the Ordinance and suffer have been subordinated to the country's needs, and a dissolution as completed at Edinburgh Un-appreciation. His Knighthood, ON HONGKONG AND MIRS whilst Suh's mon.

ed unjustly thereby. The landlord machine guns at work. ersity. He took up the study received in 1921, was the occasion

had done everything the law avoided, in view of the urgent issues requiring the Government's a bringing up mero soldiers, of Law, and was called to the for early congratulations on

about

2,000 men being land required in regard to the house undivided attention. He omphatically condamnad the Russian Bar in 1891, practising for a time this rocognition of long and able,

in question and he would make treaties, particularly the loan guarantee. declaring that if further to bo demanded from the taxpayer, the money sacrifices wore Pirates with beadquarters, it ised on the Bund lant night on the Northern Circuit ere go work in the Colonial service.

an order for possession, with should at least be spent on the encouragement of develop others are moving up ng to London, where, it is in- In the course of a lengthy balioved, somewhere along the whilst

Bocca Tigris. Sun 26 teresting to note, he was a contribute to Sir Henry Gollan, the coast between Nam Au aud Mirs from temporary of Sir Skinner Turner Sunday of Shanghai.

JUNK PIRATED.

BAY KUN.

1

the

Sun

costs.

THREAT TO BRITISH INDUSTRY.

WHAT LABOUR POLICY MIGHT MEAN.

London, October 14.

Mustrated (Colombo) Buy, stopped a trading, junk at apparantly carrying out his throat was given and Mr. Russ intimat.shaklost and least principled of our debtors for a further loan. He

MECCA ISOLATED.

KING ALI EXPLAINS HIS

DEPARTURE..

London, Oct. 14.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the Hongkong

Tolegraph."). Volunteer Teams.

J

PECULIAR ACCIDENT. U. S. FREIGHTERS.

DEATH.

A stay of execution for 14 days ment in Britain and the Dominions, instead of picking out the finally said he doubted whether the Federation could stand aloof if said: "It is strange how little the Sau Si Moon Pase, on Monday, to stop the gonorn! strike by force. od the possibility of an appoal.

the nationalisation suggestions of the Labour manifesto involved Sir Henry's service in the wo in Ceylon know of the lives whilst it was proceeding from

adoption of revolutionary proposals, threatening the efficiency and Cotonios commenced in 1899, of each other, and it is as well, Hongkong to Nam An with a

ovon the existence of national industries.-Router. when he was appointed Privalo perhap", that somo little light cargo of rice and other mor- Secretary to Sir Frederick (then should be thrown upon the career chandles.

A quantity of the cargo was Colonel)

British of one of the most able and Lugard, the Commissioner In Northern most popular Attorneys-General removed by the pirates to their Nigeria, and later Governor of Coylon has ever had, before own vessel, which then sailed Hongkong, so that the new Chief he passes from us perhaps, away.

Preliminary roports received of Justice may be said to have howover, one day to return as

A tologram from King All of

Sir. There have been several already formed a link with this Chief Justico-to a new sphere the affair here are bare of any

communication the Hadjaz, received in Londoni, referonous lately to matches, in NAVAL YARD EMPLOYEES TWO "LAKE" BOATS TO BE

LAID UP. of Colony. Thoso days in Nigeria of activity. Hongkong is to be dotalis: but a

local boarding announces his arrival at Jeddah different branches

sport, Vero exacting onus, a period congratulated, but congratula-roovived by a

The United States Shipping outo political tension when the tions from Ceylon will be given house statos that the vessel was to-day. It says he loft Moces between "The Volunteers" and

not detained, and will return to with his forces in order to avoid somebody else, but when the Loung Fo, a Chinese Attor fferent European nations were grudgingly."

Hongkong in the course of a day bloodshed.. Joddah has boun names of the Voluntoor teams are employed at the Naval Yard, mot Board freighter Lake Fault" established as a provisional centre published they are enlightoning. with an unfortunate experience left for Manila this morning. of the Hedjaz Govornmont.- Apparently the idea of Volun-yesterday, which resulted in his where she will be laid up. according to officials at the toer teams was to encourage death later in hospital.

of the Board Jeddah, Oct. 14.

The man was on the hillside local offico esprit de corps, and camaraderie

The "Lake Ex-King Hussain departed at amongst the mombora of the behind the military offices on this morning, dawn on the Hodjaz Government H.V.D.O., but it is obvious that Queen's Road, whou the overhead Gitano," now loading cargo, steamer, accompanied by his only cortain mon havo the trolley from the Royal Naval will love to-day othe harom. It is reported ho la pro-"privilogo" to represent the Ordnanos Depot was passing first thing to-morrow for Manila, coeding to Akaba. The departure Corpe. Why not drop the idea above him. A billet of timbor where after unloading sho̟ sivo has considerably, relieved tho altogether, instead of making up fell from the trolley carriago, will be laid up.

The discontinuance of the inhabitants.

tonins from certain slabs only, and struck the fitter, knooking

GERMAN LOAN. Gorman loan exoocdad five-

hundred million dollars.

PROVES POPULAR.

It is announced that an Àmo- rican and Continental corporation Now York, Oct. 14," will be organised with an initial' The first salo of the now Gor-subscribed capital of ton million man bonds was held to-day. The dollars under the auspices of the price was 9496 Books for the International Acceptance Bank Joan closed at 10-18 this morning and Mesars Kuba, Loeb and indicating that it was over Company and other important subscribed.—Reuter.

financial interests for, the purpose New York, Oct. 14. of financing European Industrion, Wà fu learned, that subscriptions particularly German companies.

or two.

TO-DAY.

Closing Exchange 2s. 5. 3/16. Lighting Up-Time 5.59.p.m. Barometer Temperaturo Humidity High Water

2 p.m. 29.86

3 p.m.

84

67

2 pins.

10.38...

Reuter.

The oltuation at Mecca-is and labelling them as represent him over the edge of the nullah "feeder service which has been obscureTolographlo com-ative of the Volunteers as a body? which runs below the trolloy maintained by the Shipping Board- munication in out off, and it is

Youre, oto.

not known whether the Wahabis!

TIME SERVER.

have entered the olfy –Rquier, Hongkong, Cot, 14, 1924 var

cable. The man received fatal for the past three years, – is re- injuries, and died not long after sponsible for the laying up of the being removed to hospitales,quibus