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CANTON

REDS.

RUSSIANS GET FIRMER "CONTROL.

GEN. HSU DETAINED?

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 108 40. 21,859

PATENTS LAW.

·六拜禮 號五月九英港香 SATURDAY,

REGISTRATION IN HONGKONG.

PRACTICAL AND AUTOMATIC,

The Gazette contains the draft of an Ordinance to provide for the Nows receivad to-day from a registration in Hongkong of letters Canton correspondent indicates patent granted in the United that the Russians are taking Kingdom. overy possible precaution to atrengthen their position. This is particularly apparent in regard to the treatment of General Li Fook-lum's forcos. Since General Li's capitulation to the Reds, General Chang Kai-shek has sent sixteen Russian officers to Ho- nam island to reorganise the

engaged on this work.

about 1,500 Russians now station-

Bocca Tigris

und forts have been placed entirely under Russian control. In short, all power (political, military, naval, aerial and financial are under absolute control of the Russians, Wang Ching-wai and Chang Kai-shek being mere figureheads,

SHENANDOAH.

THEORIES OF DISASTER CAUSES,

OFFICIAL FINDING.

Now York, Sept. 4.

SEPTEMBER

SHIPPING STRIKE.

DISPLAY OF FIRMNESS

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WRIT FOR SLANDER.

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5, 1925.

日八十月七

BOY SNATCHERS.

purse.

ATTEMPT ON

EUROPEAN ·LADY,

SINGLE: COPY IS OUNTS

936 PER ANHŮM

"Prosent" prions" of the STRAIGHT EIGHT 5-passenger PACKARD "MOTOR CARRIAGES

aro as shown below

Touring

G. $3,750

Sedan .................. G.. $4,750 Sedan-Limousine.. G. $1,850 Fescriptive literature and complete Information on request.

THE DRAGON MOTOR

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HAPPY VALLBY.

Bulls and Inners

From the Office Batts 00

The O. B. I. is this weak Americaji newspapers SEVERAL ARRESTS. awarded to the absinthe-minded boosting the fact that President gentleman who, by falling asleep Coolidge shook hands with 46,100 A case of attempted snatching in what he thought was the last people last year. All the same, Sydney, Sept. 4. from an European lady on Thurs- Peak tram, discovered how to we calculate that he lost the The strike leaders Messrs. Walsh day afternoon had its sequel in the get a night's accommodation in championship title to the Prince

Police Court this morning, when Hongkong for nothing.

of Wales by at least three shakes. While donying that she criticise and Johannsen have each issued a Mra. J. Walsh charged a 15-year- od Mr. Wilbur, the Secretary of writ against Mr. Bavin, the old boy, before Mr R. A. D. Forrest,

It only remains now for the Many Hongkong couples are the Navy, in connexion with the ex-Attorney General, claiming with attempting to snatch her P. T. C. to take the hint and fast dancers, often finishing neck Shenandoah disaster, the widow £5,000 damages for alleged slander. of Commander Landsowne, who

Mrs. Walsh, in evidence, said that facilities.

provide sleeping, and breakfast and neck. The Arbitrator has failed in a just after 2 p.m. on Thursday,

Hongkong may need a refuse- porished, asserts that her husband last minute attempt to settle the whilst she was walking in Kennedy In the words of the baseball destructor, but not so much as

Road, on the way down to Battery fan, a third strike will put us out. Canton dogs. seamen's strike. This morning the Path, she saw a group of two men

DO strikers Secretary, "Mr. Lyddell, and a small boy talking.

According to our Angling Club, Advocates of peace-at-any-

Kowloon le a good place for small the declared, that

were approached, them, the small boy price still believe that faith will the prepared for

darted in front of her and made smove a mountain, but they are bass. Just the food to make baby prosecutions

..stout. grab at her purse, but as she held becoming to be uneasy about its threatened by the shipowners. it tightly, the boy did not manage effect on a deficit.

The boy then turned

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It is explained that this Bill is introduced in order to carry out the recommendations of the British Empire Patent Conferencë, 1922, and of the Imperial Economic Con ended in the disaster, and advised was opposed to the flight which ference, 1999. The bill has been

the Navy Department according adapted. with slight alterations, from a draft model Ordinance pre-y-Renter's American Service.

The SURMISES. AS 'TO CAUSE. pared by the Board of Trade. Serretary of State lays great stress.

Lakehurst, Sept. 4.

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About the only nation that is doing anything these days in the matter of China, is procrasti- nation.

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In view of the heavy respon- aibility placed on headmasters

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in connection with the return of According to the acting student strikers, what about Director of Education, Hongkong arranging a course of study in intends to go one better than jurisprudence for the former? Scotland. But

always

we

and Canton Reds should be al-

forces there, and these are now on the necessity for the simplest The survivors of the Shenan. Moreover, the strikers demanded to get it..

round and ran in the direction of It is hard that the Branos understand is how a mosquito. It is estimated that there are desirability of the greatest possible doah-disaster opine that the Australian rates of pay and other Garden Road, in cutting across tribesmen, and the Jebels, and can get along without any sleep. uniformity in the legislation re breaking of a gas bag over one of fresh concessions. He added that which he was seen by a sapper of Druses, should have come into quired to give effect to the scheme, the power cars during the storm over 200 strikers had found work the Royal Engineers, who heard prominence just when cross-word ed in Canton, Whampoa and

The general intention of the, other near-by districts. The scheme is to provide for a practical was a possible cause of the disasin Sydney and were not likely to Mrs. Walsh's cries and chased him. puzzles are passing away.

return to their ships even if a A few minutes later, Mrs. Walsh reached. A saw the boy in the, custody, of "an were

Now that ladies have invaded otherly automatic registration in the tor. Another surmise is that the settlement

our barber shops, the cry is :- various Crown Colonies and Pro- newly installed water recovery private meeting of strikers at the Indian sergeant.

Questioned by the magistrate. Necks please !" Lectorates, upon application, at

Communist Hall decided not to system, for which two wings were pafents granted in the United

suspicion of the boy's intention;' granted.-Reuter, Kingdom. Broadly speaking, this gut noar the centre of the dirigiresume until their demands are witness said she did not have any sher gripped her purse tightly be 'Differences in South Africa, is the intention of our present ble, may have weakened the

cause a week previously she had Capetown, Sept. 4. Patents Ordinance, but the proce-structure, although those were dure under the bil is somewhat afterwards riveted. Survivors re-

The latest development in con- lost another purse..

A sapper of the Royal Engineers thought Hongkong was a part of Home Note-Tientsin Pears simpler. It will also be cheaper.

nection with the projected confer- Section 11 of the present Ordie late that the whole of the gas begsence on the shipping dispute is the gave corroborrative evidence, say-t ance, 1892, provides for a certain spun and rocked in the galo. They announcement that the men willing he arrested the boy and hand- provisional protection in the Colony worked their way nearly a hun- KEEPING INDOPRA,

pending the grant of Letters

dred feet, to near the bottom of

witness, Queen's College depends on the Since the assassination of Liao Patent in the United Kingdom, Chung-kai. Both General Chang This provision will disappear from the wreckage, sometimes tearing decline the assistance of local but the latter only made matters size of his family. Kai-sliek Jand. Wang Ching-wat our statute book, but it appears to the envelope of the gasbugs to Unions or mediators, who are worse by saying that the defendant,

In Canton they're apparently have been of very little practical get a handhold, and hung there astonished at this attitude. Mean-for some unknown reason, rashed refrain from going so meetings.

willing to try anything except until they saw an

while, the congestion of shipping out in front of the, complainant apportunity to They use their residences as The Secretary of State has

at Capetown and Durban is be when he saw her coming.

The prosecuting police officer the Reds. offices and their Chinoso body-emphasised the necessity for keep drop 10 or 15 feat to safety.coming awkward. Fourteen vessels

are expected to arrive at Capetown said the defendant had a previous conviction, being recently given guard have been replaced bying the fee for registration to Reuter.

approximately £1. Rule 4.of the

un Monday. Reuter.

twelve strokes for larceny. Russians.

draft of the rules to be made by

wished to add, however, that the the Registrar under the Ordinance

defendant had given the police contains the Lable of fees. The

valuable information which had re- sulted in the arrest and detention of five other boys, who were alleg journalists must be getting back ed to belong to one gang, whose to normal, for we notice that the activities were mostly concerned Daily Press refers to a sleepy Chinese constable as "Slave of with larcenies, and it was also

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not attend unless the Durban ed him over to the sergeant.

The defendant brought forward

strikers are directly represented or Fully consulted: The strikers another small boy as

cases..

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Those labour leaders remind us of the ostrich; they see very little, but, on the other hand, swallow everything.

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lowed to stew in their own juice. Constant Reador: No: "Foot- loose" is not a complaint of the pedal extremities, although they do say it's calculated to tickle

your toos..

Some wonien keep their youth by consistently refusing to in troduce him to anyone.

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To judge from their manner, those Whampoa cadets are shock troops.

Soviet lies have made Russia'à. word as good as her bond.

☐ ☐ - Skooters are like children. When they stop making a noise In one or two recent snatching!

It looks as if His Excellency, you know they are getting into when he gots to Jamaica, will something.

口口 The magistrate ordered the boy have peaceful times with its to be given ten strakes with a light Board of Education, which, we cane, outside. the precincts of the notice, includes no fewer than gool.

nine clergymen.

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Seoing a man smoking yoster day reminds us that it's a long

time since we had news of a Turkish atrocity.

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Many men get the reputation We cannot recognise the Bol- of being strong, silent Empire- shovik so long as he refuses to builders simply because they ahavo...

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ANOTHER THEORY."

Other Unions to Meet. Toms Rivers N. V.). Sept. 4. All available bouts and

Melbourne, Sept. 4. launches at Tai Sha Tau have

Anton Heinen, a former Ger- Representatives of key industry been commandoered for thefee on registration of a patent will man dirigible pilot, and one of the Unions will meet next week in with the British purpose of transporting 4,000

$5, and as $3. stamp duty will American advisers for the 'build- connection troops to Kongmoon under the payable on the statutory declara command of Colonel Fedorovaky tion which must accompany the ing of the Shenandoah, declares seamen's strike.-Router.

Wu Hon-min, the formor Secretary for Foreign Affairs, is application for registration, the that the disaster was due to the coat of obtaining registration of a removal of eight of the eighteen still under detention. He was

patent will be $8. In addition the safety valves on the gas bags THE IRAQ BOUNDARY-suspected that they were concerned Morpheus." taken sick a few days ago and a German doctor was called in. applicant will have to bear the cost with the result that the craft rose

COL AMERY REPLIES TO of advertising in the Gazette the too fast in the storm for the 'but his condition is not serious..

remaining valves to release suffi-

TURKEY. cruiser Chung Shan, issac. of the certificate of registra-cient gas. As a consequence, the The

The expense of this will rapid expansion of the gas bugs formerly the Wing Fung, left tion. Canton a few days ago for an an. depend on the length of the adverbroke the shell of the ship in

Geneva, Sept. 4. known destination. It is widely tisement, the average cost being the middle-Reuter's America A masterly retort to the Turkish reported that she has gone to probably about $7 to $12. The cost Sprefer..

case was delivered by Col. Amery.

MOTOR MISHAPS. ↑ Hainan to join General Tang of getting any assignment or trans-

He spoke for an hour resenting the OFFICAL FINDING. Poon-yan. Since her departure, mission of interest, entered on the

Tarkish conclusions, which, he THREE CASES YESTERDAY. Caldwell, Sept. 6th no news concerning hur has come register will be $5+ $8 = 88. In

"Three motor accidents came to to hand, and the vernacular this case no advertisement will be reached the conclusion that air sions of the League commissioners. The official investigators have pointed out, were not the conclu-

It is suggested that an appro papers are prohibited from nien-required, but of course in the case rushing into the holes torn in the While the

Turkish arguments the notice of the police yesterday.

In the first case, a driver of the AB an effective motor car priate song for the Premier these" tioning her movements;

of an assignment stamp duty, Shenandoah,, in consequence of regarding the wishes of the popula

states that silencer, Tytam Tuk takes a lot days would be "Somewhere a Nows has beert received to the c, 510, will have to be paid one wireless and control cabins tion in the disputed territory are Cheong Mei Garage

Voice is Calling." effect that an attempt has been'

the assignment,

口口 Searches and being twisted of, caused the based on the reports of Djerad whilst attempting to pass a motor of beating. mode to assinate Genorul

It is not true, however, that the The Soviet news agency is now Chan Yan-ki, a, subordinate of

certified copies will cost the same buckling of the airship-Reuter. Pasha, the Turkish Assessor on the lorry, on the Talpo Road, his car Commission, Col. Amery emphasised came into collision with another General Liang Hung-kai. The 4s under the existing law.

Clause 14 of the Bill postpones

that Britain was most desirous of lorry, whose approach from the op- car which sank in Hongkong's known as "Tass". Probably tha attempt was made by one of his

a satisfactory settlement of the posite direction he had not noticed. famous reservoir mistook that initials of The Associated Simul- bodyguards, General Chak is the commencement of the Ordinance

considerable damage place for its home in Happy ation Syndicate. frontier question in the interests of There was the magistrato of the Toishan until the 1st January, 1926,

It is gonerally agreed that who- the population as well as those done to the fronts of both vehicles, Valley. district,

Beer tablets are the latest in ever founded 'Canton didn't locate building up the young Iraq state. but no one was injured.

An Indian soldier was knocked He repeated the assurance that

O D Britnin would respect the Council's down by a taxi-cab in the second thirst-quenchers in Europe. We it near enough Shanghai, decision, but he remarked that he case, which occurred at Queen's hope that Uncle Sam will beater a

The Indian sustained whisky flavour that lasts, With regard to the reports that, NO UNTOWARD INCIDENT Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Sept. 3. Gecin, but there bilar Road, near the Murray Barracks, this with chewing gum with a

The death has occurred of Mr-assurance on the part of Turkey.yesterday. Reginald C. Vanderbilt.-Renter's

slight injuries to both knees:

The attitude of some of our American Service.

rofused the invitation extended by headmasters towards the Board session of a special permit from ing made the trip up and back was born in 1880, was a son of the At this afternoon's sitting of the the driver to proceed in the same of Education seeme to suggest We attach as much importance.

Council taxi to the Government Civil Hos-that they haven't enough pupils the Strike Committee are allowed without untoward incident of any late Cornelius Vanderbilt and a League of

at present. to board sampans for this purpose: kind. On reaching Canton, she younger member of the family of Tewik Rushdi further stated the pit In the third case, it is reported otherwise, they are driven back anchored off Shampon, and al-fanciers of whom Cornelius III Turkish case, chiefly explaining the

the that a motor lorry, belonging to the No wonder the French and by labour pickets. Good cause though passongors were permit-is the present head. Reginald Turkish interpretation of

It looks as if airships are a ted to come and go, no lighters Vanderbilt, had interests in Enquiry Commission's conclusions. Nanyang Tobacco Company, was Spaniards are

is the turnover." came alongeide, with the result several railway and transporta after this the Council sat in slightly damaged in an accident difficult in Morocco. They are commercial failure. The troubla that hor cargo could not be dis-tion companios, and found time private, at which the Turkish which resulted when a tram ran up against Branes. by responsible individuals or charged.

In Kowloon you don't need to to take an active part in port and representatives were also present into the rear of the vehicle whilst

A London motorist recently ran be a spiritualist to hear unearthly On the return trip, the passen-was a keen supporter of horse

M. Briand, in declaring the dis-It was proceeding along the Frays Tho Canton Christian College gers included about thirty and konnel shows:

cussion closed, warmly tributed the East, near Percival Street, yester into a new building which was singing at night, work of the Enquiry Commission. day. The front of the tramcar going up. Bet he swore it was Vessol algo

that General Hsu Sung-chi is "HONAM" RETURNS.

A report is current in Canton

now being detained by the Reds.

PERMITS TO LEAVE,

strikers may now obtain permiss="

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The s.a. Honam returned from

OBITUARY.

MR. REGINALD VANDERBILT.

ion to leave Canton for Hongkong It is stated that only those in pos- Canton yesterday afternoon, hav- Mr. Reginald Vanderbilt, who

must be shown before permits are

ing for me must be sous apply

ing for same must be guaranteed

firms,

is to reopen on the 7th instant. Chinoso, 15. Russians and 16 It was at first reported that the Japanego. The Canton Government would take brought down some mail matter over the College, and run it as a and a fow bales of silk ship-| Government institution, but after ped by a Japanese firm.

The Honam again left for Canton this morning.

a protest by the American Consul

this plan was abandoned.

We are informed by the police that amongst the passengers who

SILVER MARKET

AMERICA NOW BUYING.

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Now York, Sept. 4th.

A Royal Warrant is published came down by the Honam were The Treasury entered the in the Government Gazette by five returning strikers, and invos-sliver market to-day för the first, which it is ordained that 'thetigation of their cases, showed time in several months, purchas Colonial Auxillary Forces Off- that they were formerly employing a quarter of million ounces 'at cers Decoration shall not confor od at the Kowloon Docks. They 72.625 cents per ounce, and 100- any individual procedence but had managed to evade the strike 000 ounces at 70.75. It is un- shall entitle the roolplant to the plokets and get on board the Hoderstood that the silver is re- addition after his name of the nam before she left on her return quired for subsidiary coinage.--

Reuter's American Service, & lettere, V. D.

trip.

Reuter.

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Nows item! "Rockefeller has $7 for every person in America" Next time we're there we'll call on him and got it.

Geneva, Sept. 3.

Nations'

to a Canton Government dental

as we do to our office-boy's story"

of his absence during the strike.

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The Council later appointed a was also damaged by the collision going the wrong way. sub-committee, consisting of the representatives of Spain, Sweden and Uruguay, to report on tho Mosul question to the Council and recommend decision. Router ·

AUSTRALIAN

MaoWhirter is & firm advocate

of mobilisation; ho has just re- Jerusalem, Sept. 4. It does not require the weather coived his July, pay, report to assure us that a depres sion exists over South China

Let's hope in the case of Shang hai that many a truce word is spoken in jest.

It is persistently reported from Druse quarters that Suelda has fallen after a bombardment on September 2nd, in which the wall

The Telegraph refers to Foot- of the citadel, was destroyed, anil there was severe hand-to-hand loose as a fine example of fox- fighting. It is added that a huntret Lucky they didn't, say

"foot-rot. dred and fifty French troops were taken prisoner, and quantities of A British inventor has produc ammunition and supplies, three ed a machine which he says will A reader suggests that Canton armoured cars, a battery of guns send anybody to sloop. Perhaps should tax its labour leaders. The striking railwaymen will and numerous machine gums cap we shall now be able to win a But surely Canton doesn't need

so much money as all that ? resume work at midnight Reuter tured.Reuter

boxing championship/

RAILWAYS RESUME:

Brisbane, Sept. 4.

At times it's hard to tell which will got hero first, prosperity or posterity,twin