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LIBEL ACTION.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

UNDPD 1881 Bc. 21,359

TRAM WORKERS.

- ETA MONDAY, AUGUST

YESTERDAY'S DISBANDMENT OF VOLUNTEERS.

17,1925.日八十二月六

SINGLE COPY 10 CENTA $36 PEB ANNUM

THE HAP

Prosent prices of the

SINGLE-SIX 5-pas- senger PACKARD MOTOR CARRIAGES

are as shown below

ว

Touring ....... G: $2,585 Sedan

G. $2,585

Sedan-Limousine.. G. $2,785

Fosoriptive literature and complota information on request.

ALLEGED WRONGFUL DYNAMITE FIND. SHOTS AT SHATAUKOK. SHANGHAI TROUBLE

DISMISSAL.

$5,000 DAMAGES AND FULL APOLOGY,

CHAUFFEUR'S ACCUSATIONS.

That he paid Mr. A. H. Rowe, There was a very interesting function yesterday morning at managing director of the H: K. & K.

BIG SEIZURE IN TAXICA B.

Newspaper Retraction.

lian this morning.

CHINESE TROOPS RAID BRITISH AREA.

POSTAL EMPLOYEES ON

STRIKE.

THE DRABON MOTOR. CAR CO., LTà,

13 WONE HAI CHONS NO,

HARRÝ VALLEY,

The most serious of the raids Our Own Correspondent.) carried out by Chinese troops and

Shanghal, Aug, 17. Twenty-two hundred of four Instances of which we have reported thousand postal employees have A libellous article in a vernacu- the Hongkong Tramway Com-Taxicab Company $50 for obtaining ABERDEEN ARRESTS. pickets at the border, several

A taxicab

was stopped by during the past week,occurred on struck, demanding increase of Har paper, the Tai Kwong Po, was 'pany's depot, Bowrington, when him a situation was a statement, the subject of an action in the the formal disbandment took emphatically denied by Mr. Rowe,

Strikers attacked a Chinese Supreme Court before Sir Ifenry Place of the volunteer team car made by Bucshi Singh, a' chauffeur.Sergeant James whilst proceed. 'Friday, and culminated on Satur-Iwages and shorter hours.

drivers and conductors who have who commenced an action in the along the road at Aberdeen last day evening in the, intervention of

a naval landing party from II.M.S. constable guarding the Post Office made of the interior, a number of

Foxglove. Fortunately for the chasing and beating him through carried on the running of the ser-Summary Court this morning for night, and, on a research being vice during the strike period. Adamages for wrongful dismissal,

sacks were found containing no less than 400 sticks of dynamite, Chinese, the British sallors were the building, whereupon he fired.

unmolested, as every preparation wounding one of his assailants. group photograph was first of all

The passengers, a Chinese man

had been made to open fire on the and an old Chinese woman were Arrested and taken to the Abor-troops had it been necessary. However, there had been consider- deen Police Station. On being.

able shooting earlier, when British police officer had attempted to Intervene.

The plaintiff, Ching Pik-kar, Mr. Elsley

The plaintiff was represented by & represented by tlyn, instructed by Mr. G. K. Il Brutton, and for the defen- taken, the group being made u Mr. H. S. Fitzroy and Mr. D. Mas wit, Lai Ki-nam, appeared Mr. of the volunteers and the Tram-Callum appeared for Mr. Shewarat, Mok, Instructed by Messrs. Lo and way Company's officials. Lo.

the defendant.

Plaintiff said that he was sum- without any

After the photograph, the Gen Mr. 'Zeitlyn' said that the plain- eral Manager, Mr. I. C. F. Bel-marily dismissed

short speech, reason being given on July 23rd, tlf was the assistant manager of lamy, delivered a the South Kwangtung Industrial in the course of which he said in the morning of that day he certain parts of the Bank, Holbow, and, the directors that the Company was sorry to cleaned

fine mechanism of the car, and was having decided to form a branch in fore the services of such a

nints.

was stopped by Mr. Rowe and told that he had no business to take the car out..

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It will be recalled that Shataukok lies, at the head of Starling Inlet,

...Hongkong, the plaintiff was sent body of men-men whose loyal testing it on Stubbs Road when he antecedents to be enquired into./at the end of Mirs. Bay, and is

make the necessary arrange- co-operation had not only enabled On June 18th, the follow the Company to run a service of article appeared in the Ta curs during "the strike but who

Cross-examined, he said that two wang, Po: "Since Tang Puu-yan had contributed in no small mea. had the intention of carrying into sure towards training the new men other Indian chauffeurs were in the ect the great eight districts of the permanent staff. It was ear with him. He was not instruct with mixed feelings that the Eoned that he was not to touch the 'pany was saying "good-bye" t

mechanism.. He had returned the the volunteers and, although they all hoped that enditions would not again become such that the Company would need their" ser- vices again, he thought it woul be more appropriate to say "au revoir." Having paid a high tri- bute to the manner in which the volunteers had carried out their Bellamy concluded

icy, he is making a display of ae influence of the eight districts Recently he has ery actively. rganised the King. Ngai Bank as well. Banking is in fact a busi nos for the benefit of the people, 'ut to the eyes of the militarists serves only as a means to suck e marrow of the people. More-duties, Mr.

uniforms and cap which were sup- plied to him by his employer.

Re-examined, he said that he paid Mr. Rowe a.commission of $50 for providing him with a situation.

Other Indian witnesses gave evidence to the effect that plaintiff

VISITING FAR EAST AND HONGKONG.

er, the chief manager of the bank his remarks amid much applause. was engaged for about three hours Wednesday next, August 19th,'

A Volunteer," "who sends t

ointed by Tang, is a fickle young an account of the above, gathering, in cleaning the engine of the car,

RS

seut each of the volunteer drivers

adds that he understands that the a 1925 seven-seater Buick, and that Trumway Company intends to pre- he took it out of the Hongkong and conductors with an autograph Hotel garage for a test at about copy of the group photo. "I think noon and returned in about ten

voice the sentiments of all ve minutes.

Deliveries are now suspended.

HANKOW

CANTON NEWS.

FIGHTING PRACTICALLY

"CERTAIN.

Reds v. Anti-Rede.

Although things are still very quiet in Canton, the clash between Général Li Fuk-lum's forces and the troops on the Canton side of

the river not having yet come off, there is almost bound to be fighting during the course of the next two

or three days. This is the opinion of passengers who have just come down from Canton and it is verified by report from our Canton cor-

DEFENCES.respondent, received to-day.

BRITISH AND CHINESE DISAGREE.

Hankow, Aug. 17.

between

ITALIAN FLIER.

EXPERIENCES BAD WEATHER.

Ho reports that to-day, August 17th., is being generally rumoured charged before Mr. 9. B. B. McElderry this morning, they

as the day on which the battle be- pleaded guilty to possession of,

tween Li Fuklum (anti-Red)_and_ the explosives and were remanded

the Government's Red forces is ta' in police custody for their

A further discussion the British Consul General and the take place, the Government, accord- The malo defendant said he reached by a picturseque little rall Chinese Commissioner of Foreigning to popular belief, having sent

way branching off from the main Affairs regarding the defence of was a stone-maton.

line at Fanling. A representative the Concession, has had no result General Li an ultimatum.

The According to the forces known to and has been adjourned. of this paper described a visit he Chinese proposed that Chinese be at the disposal of each side, made to the border last May, when soldiers should act as the only there would seem but little doubt the inhabitants of Chinese territory armed force in Hankow and should proved to be very friendly. Since patrol the Concession. This was that General Li's men would be not acceptable from the foreign overwhelmed by the Reds unless then, they have been overridden by viewpoint and the Consul General L's' reserves, which are not yet troops, Including some of the suggested that in an emergency! notorious Whampoa endets, who are the Volunteers should take up within striking distance of the City, positions in the inner defence were to come to his rescue. If all stopping all traffic across the lines, leaving the boundary roads the anti-Red forces were to operate

The latter has Mr. Roy W. Howard, Chairman frontier, even to the extent of con- to the Chinese.

simultaneously, the issue would be of the Board of the United Press Ascating foodstuffs in the British not agreed. Reuter.

in doubt until after the clash. It is. Associations and one of the

Last Thursday two junks

this knowledge which is said to best known newspaper mon in area.

have kept General Li from attack- Americs, will sail from Seattle anchored in Starling Inlet, within on the se. President Grant on British waters, to unload a cargo

ing the Red forces, in the hope that of sundries, aerated waters and

Cho anti-Red forces outside Canton for the Far East.

Mr. Howard, besides being groceries consigned to a shop in

will be able to come up and assist. Rome, Aug. 16. Α'

Amboyna from message.. United Press, is also Chairman Chairman of the Board of the the British section of Shataukok.

(Molucca Islands) says that. De of the Board of the Scripps On Friday, about noon, whilst a Howard Newspapers, comprising number of the shop "fokis" were Pinedo has arrived. He is staying about 50 daily newspapers in the employed in taking the goods off there three days, owing to bad. United States and the Newspaper,

Association. for Enterprise

The the junks, about twenty of the weather.--Reuter. the defence, said that shortly Scripps-Howard newspapers in- Chinese cadets and strike pickets Baw the clude such influential journals as boarded the vessel and ordered the

As stated in another column, the after eleven o'clock he

This promised

latest reports from Canton show And his mechanic, defendant driving the car at a fast the Cleveland Press, the Cincinatti cargo to be taken ashore to Chinese

The dri- Past, the Pittsburgh Press, the territory for examination. ver had to apply his brakes sud- Columbus Citizen, the Baltimore, was done, the "okis" taking part Pinedo speed and dangerously.

November 11th the date the boycott is definitely shaping to denly and skid about twelve feet Post, the Washington News and of the goods for examination, The Campanell, if they rauch Rome nothing untoward, outwardly, but

reason given by the raiders was by

One of the oc- a motor-cycle.

Mr. Howard has had a meteoric that they had information "that the of the armistice on the Italian front,

No in the same machine in which he wards a concentrated attack on all

British trade interests. in order to avoid a collision with others, cupants was sitting on the doors career and is known as one of food had been poisoned." astride. He had definitely ins- the most brilliantly successful report, of the matter was made to flew to Australia.-Reuter." tracted the driver that he was not of American journalists and, the police at the border, for feat to touch the mechanism of the car. publishers. He is still com-of the consequences to those The car was provided with a paratively young. From Japan, reporting. guarantee of six months and the Mr. Howard plans to visit Peking! Taxi-cab Company were responsible going by way of Korea, and later

Early on the following morn-

Saturday, and Manila. His visit to the Far!

# purty of during that period for all adjust-continuing to Sbanghai, Hongkong

East will be one of the most im-ng,

the cadets, some ten in Cross-examined, he denied most portant, from a journalistic point

territory armed with rifles and sional cycling championships meet sum as commission for obtaining Lord Northcliffe.

automatic guns, and opened fire on lng was held here to-day. The one the driver his situation.

Mr. Howard began his nows-the junks, apparently out of sheer thousand metres sprint resulted as

The crew jumped wantonness. Mr. Fitzroy asked whether it paper career as a reporter on the follows:-

would not be a normal procedure Indianapolis News, later going to overboard and swam for the shore, for a man to stand on the running the Indianapolis Star and then to board to listen for knocking. the St Louis Post Dispatch, of taking their arms with them.

He became associated later with the nearby police station, and Mr. Rowe: Only a man who which he was telegraph editor. sound of the ring was heard at knew nothing about ears would the Scripps organisation and Sergeant Knowles proceeded to the suggest such a thing.

Was made New York oorres-apot in a pinnace with two Chinese The case is proceeding.

pondent of the Scripps-MoRae police in plain clothes and some League of newspapers in 1906. boatmen.

f13

a, Ching Pik-kam. Ching had en a private secretary to Li Lit- kwan and is a favourite of Yeung Yanping. In the second year of the Republic, 1913, through the

hunteers when I say that we shall recommendation of Yeung, he was cherish the same a memento -proof reader of an unusual incident. On be mployed

Kwok Man Yat Po half of my fellow volunteers," I In the

As Ching was beg to tender to the Tramway Singapore. Idicted to the cup and woman he officials our very hearty thinks ole over $1,000 from the funds of for the gentlemanly and kindly ie said newspaper and absconded treatment accorded us during our to Hongkong with a prostitute. term of service," adds.the writer,

the newspaper For this renson nearly stopped publication. Tang has appainted this man chief manager of the bank and it y be inferred that they will help

Now

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ch other in the commission of

ls by defrauding the people and

At

CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Amsterdam, Aug. 16,

in evidence Mr." Rowe,

ments.

Ji

Police Under Fire.

num-

A Munificent Offer, "

Melbourne, Aug. 16.

A prominent Italian resident has De each £500

to

TO-DAY'S SHIPPING

NEWS.

CANTON'S BOYCOTT.

CONCENTRATING ON BRITAIN.

The world's amateur and profes-emphatically that he was paid any of view, since that of the late, ber, crossed over into.. British and Sicilia are due here on the that armed intervention was called

using a moss to the money ONE THOUSAND MÈTRE RACE. arket of the eight districts.- Yesent on hearing the nows the Cerseas Chinese residents who are atives of the eight districts are roposing to lodge a protest by tending telegrams To Tang."

Subsequently when proceedings were taken, the manager of the "ewspaper sent an apology in the llowing terms: "Dear Sir,-You ive commenced an action against i de printer and publisher of the at Kwong newspaper claiming tamages for libel contained in an

Amateurs-1, Moyer (Holland); 2, Mazairac (Holland).

Professionals. — 1, Kaufmann

(Switzerland): 2, Schilles (France).

DEPARTS FOR BUEÑOS

ATRES.

Monte Video, Aug. 16. H. R.H, the Prince of Wales has departed for Buenos Aires aboard H.M.8. Curlow, escorted by an Uruguayan naval squadron.- Reuter

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FLOODS IN JAPAN.

The

A very prominent British mer- chant of Hongkong, who was seen by a representative of the Tela. graph this morning, expressed the opinion that the only remedy for the present state of affairs is early action by the Powers, before mat The P. & O. steamers Narkunda ters grow worse. He considered Beginning with a genorat: anti-foreign movement, the boycott 19th_inst. The former is bring-for. ing Englieb inails.

The West Jena will sail for at Canton has developed into an Manila, Iloilo and Cebu on the intense campaign against British advertised, 21st. instead of the 19th. as interests, which is growing more

The Korea Maru is due here to-morrow morning.

The President Lincoln will now sail on the 20tb. last. at 5 p...

When they arrived on ton in charge, and made prepara His next post was New York the scene, near Im Tin, they tions for the rescue. of the con- manager of the Publishers' Proes observed the cadets poling the fiscated junks, in consultation with Association and when that orgs-junks away, making for the shore. the District Officer, Mr. Wynns nisation was merged into the Sergeant Knowles fired a shot Jones," and the district A. S. P. United Press Association he was from his rifle across the junks' Mr. W. G. Gerrard, who put off made New York Manager of the bows, in order to stop them, after from the shore to the slip as soon SERIOUS REPORT, FROM enlarged organisation. In Jana verbal command had been ignor- as she came in sight.

Two boats were manned by arm uary, 1912, Mr. Howard became ed. The Chinese troops on board President and General Manager Immediately replied with a heavy ed bluejackets, whilst those aboard of the United Press Association are from their rifles and machine the warship stood by the guns in A message from Nagoya says which became one of the greatest guns, at a range of just under 800 ease of need. A number of in- the floods have caused serious news gathering organisation in yards, but luckily their shooting tercated spectators were observed damage. Many buildings have the world under his management

NAGOYA.

Tokyo Aug. 16.

been destroyed and the damage is and took on an International was most erratic.

There a

pronounced every day. no doubt, said our informant, that the aim of those at the head of the movement is the total déstruction of the Shameen and Hongkong an Far Eastern entities. The absence of action to check this is resulting in an intolerable position.

U. S. FLEET IN NEW ZEALAND.

·A·

ticle published by the said Tai PRINCE OF WALES- wong newspaper on June 10th, hich article is set out in your tatement of claim. I now confess that the statements relating to yourself contained in the said article are absolutely untrue and vithout the slightest substance in

ONE MAN DIES. fact. I hereby unreservedly with draw every word in that article

Wellington, Aug, 16. which in any way reflects on your

After a spell of wintry weather. character. I admit that there never was any foundation for any

The pinnace in Chinese territory, but they of the sun has again shone out. of the charges contained in the Partleie. I deeply regret that they

were ever made and I tender to immediately preceding the leading estimated at ton million yon. scope with distribution of its was headed away, the Sergeant re-fored no opposition; and not a motor launch, belonging to the It smashed on the rocks, and a launch on my aincerc apologies, therefor, article and to cause the same to be There are believed to be numerous nows to leading journals in many plying to the fire with his rifle, shot was fized. The naval parties U.S.S. Pennsylvania broke away

casualtios-Reuter.

foreign countries. In January possibly with some effect, especi- boarded the junks and found about in a storm on Friday night and was "

away from the 1921, Mr. Howard became Chair ally among those on shore, who had two-thirds of the cargo intact. agree to pay the sum of $5,000 Inserted for the like period as an

man of the Board of the United joined in the shooting at the police being impossible to refloat them, which broke damages and in addition your advertisement in two English and

owing to an ebb tide at the time, U.S.S. Oklahoma, was damaged. Press and was made Chairman of party.

guards, were placed aboard until A member of the crew of U.S.8. osts as between solicitor and client two Chinese newspapers published

Seattle has died on a hospital ship nd consent to judgment being in the Colony, the advertisement

For the first time in the history the board and director of the

Sunday morning. entered, and to this apology being to be inserted in the Hongkong

A wireless mesenge was despatch- About four o'clock yesterday relief attached to the visiting fleat rend in open Court and embodied Daily Proes and the South Ching of Canada 3.000 Indians from the Sorippe newspapers, which chang-

ed later, when the news reached morning the tide permitted of get. from injuries received in 4 clash tana bave journeyed into Macleod Howard Newspapers.

It will be Mr. Howard's Brst headquarters, to H. M. B. Foxglove, ting the junks away, and they were with a shore patrol on Thursday to publish this apology in the Tei Wah Tee Yat Po and Taun Wan Yat to hold an all-Indian celebration

And to form a league of plains trip to the Orient, and follows the which was on its way to Hongkong towed into safety by a police night. A brawl occurred, and Kwong Ro newspaper on three con-Po in Chinese." secutive days commencing on Mr. Mok consented to judgment Indians. Numerous celebrations visit to Far Eastern countries by from Amoy, and the warship divert-launch, still without any incident developed in an ugly manner. A August 18th on the first page of the for $5,000 and costs and said that were hold by the Indians and it is Mr. K. A. Bickel, present Presied her course to Starling Inlet a remarkable tribute to the repatrolman resorted to forcibla bald newspaper in the space known his client had regretted the publica- estimated that over 5,000 visitors dent of the United Press Associa- She arrived about five o'clock on spect in which the Chinese trouble measures to defend himself.

tions, about two years ago. Saturday evening, Commander Wot makers hold our Silent Service. Reuter, witnessed the events. In Chinese as Lun Chin Kwong Ko tion of the libel:

"..

In the judgment. I also undertake | Morning Post in English and in the four Western Proviuces and Mon.ed thol name to the Scripps M. S. Foxglove Arrives,