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SHIP SEIZURE.

WAH SHAN SKIPPER'S STORY.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

DONDED 1881

No. 21,659

四拜禮· 號十月九英港香 THURSDAY,

SEPTEMBER

HONGKONG SCHOOLS.

FEWER STUDENTS IN ATTENDANCE..

1

The effect of the general strike and also of the Government's deci MAPHIC DETAILS.

sion to exclude the senior boys who The surprise occasioned by the actually went on strike before the report of the interception and schools were closed down, has been capture by Canton Government revealed this week with the re-open river gunboats of the local steainering of all the schools.

A Telegraph representative called this morning on Mr. G. N. Orme, the Directr of Education, came back

Wah Shan whilst carrying a cargo

of livestock from the French port of Kwang Chow Wan to Hongkong, has scarcely had time to subside before à further item is added to

the sensation by the sudden return of her Chinese skipper to the Colony.

He arrived here from Macao yes terday and he brings with him the full story of the attack on the With Shan, mentions that volleys were fired at the vessel in order to force her to heave-to, and tells of almost unexampled ferocity displayed by the officers controlling the gunbonts which committed such a serious offence against the law of the high

sear.

It had

be. to

CANTON POLICY.

MOROCCO FIGHTING.

OFFENSIVE....

10, 1925. 日三十二月七

CANTON

SPLIT.

EXPECTED FRANCO-SPANISH

SEEKING TO THROTTLE HONGKONG.

NEW LABOUR LEADER CHOSEN.

OFFICIAL'S

SPEECH

vestigation Commission had come to the unanimous decision that the first. shot was fired from the Bri- As the British

to harass the Alhucemas littoral.

the

MODERATES ANGRY.

over the

SINGLE: COPY 16 CRNTA..

936 PER ANNEN

Packard

POLAR FLIGHT,

AMUNDSEN GETS ITALIAN AIRSHIP.

"

Rome, Sapt. 9.

Oslo, Sept. 9.

of Amundsen's

"ASK" THE MAN

THE DRABON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

ES WONG NEI CHUNG KD, HAPPY VALLEY

BRITISH

NOTE.

CHINA MUST SUPPRESS. ANTI-FOREIGNISM.

LANDING IN ALHUCEMAS BAY.

Signor Mussolini has signed an POWERS ATTITUDE, Paris, Sept. 9.

agreement with the explorer News reaches us from Canton to

The Washington Treaty Powers, That the Canton Government is The launching of a combined

Amundsen, granting him an offensive In the effect that the Government has Italian airship for a Polar oxpedi- replying in identical Notes to the officially associating Itself with the Franco-Spanish. attempted blockade of Hongkong Morocco is only a question of hours, appointed Lin Sum to succeed the tion in 1926, manned by Italians. Peking Government regarding the is fully proved by a speech which according to a despatch from Fez. Inte Lino Chung-kal, who was It is proposed to fly from Spitz-Chinese Government's Note of Mr. Wang Ching-wai, Chairman of The first objectives will be relative- recently assassinated, as Head of borgen over the Pole to Alaska-June 24th, urging revision of the so-called unequal trestles, stress the Executive Committee of the ly near the present line and it is the Labour Department. Formerly Reuter who Government, delivered last week understood that the Spaniards will Civil Governor of Fukien and

Detalls of Amundsen's Polar the necessity for judicial reform. to the Colony from.holi- at a reception given to representa-attack south of Tetuan, where the Speaker of the Senate of the night in

1926 are given by before extra-territoriality can be. day on Monday last, and was tives of the vernacular newspapers. enemy has lately been must active, Southern Government, the newly-Lieutenant Riiser Larsen, second relinquished. The need for a informed that although the senior

stable government In the country ciasses were practically empty the

After referring to the general and that the French will simul-appointed official is not regarded in command

Expedition this summer. He Bald junior classes were fairly full. A situation in strong terms, Mr. Wang taneously attack north, of Wezzan as being ultra-Red, although it is Amundsen had bought for £15,000 is pointed out, and the Chinese good many of the boys away at pre-spoke of the Shameen incident of in order to clear the territory in the said that he has been forced by the semi-rigid airship from the Government is urged to suppress sent were not strikers but were June 28re, stating that the In-direction of Sheshuan. Thus the Bolsheviks-to-accept their terms Italian Government. It has three internal disorders and the anti- simply unable to get back from

Riffs will be between two fires. before assuming office.

engines capable of doing 115 kilo- Canton to which they went during

Possibly the same tactics will be

metres an hour, with a cruising foreign agitation, which tend to The Labour Party is known to be speed of eighty miles. The crew create a situation unfavourable the early days, and he thought that

applied farther east, the French when travelling facilities improved,

advancing north of Taza towards split into two groups, the extremists will consist of sixteen, including to the suggested negotiations. the attendance would improve also."

A Reuter's Pacific Service mes-" Ajdir and the Spaniards continuing and the moderates, and the latter Amundsen and Ellsworth, who had secured half the capital from

Italian Colonel sage of Sept. 4th reports: The combined forces are estimated are said to be greatly dissatisfied America, the

The Washington Treaty Powers at 150,000.-Reuter

new appointment. Nobile, Lieut. Riiser Larsen and Feeble Riff Resistance Opinion generally is that important other Italians and Norwegians. It handed in separate but identical was planned to start from King's Notes to the Waichiaopu this Tangiers, Sept. 9. developments will arise from this Bay and fly acro's the North Pole Following a landing in the boy

The airship would be morning. The Notes are dated heights round of Cebadilla and the seizure of the appointment, as it is expected that to Alaska.

will in ready by Christmas and begin its September 4. bay of preferential treatment.

trials in the New Year-Reuter. Alhucemas, the Spanish troops are future be accorded to the pro- continuing the offensive and have Bolshevik labourers. In this con-

"With reference to my Note of before a number of officials in a

of Ajdir, the Riff headquarters, nection, it is stated that whereas begun to advance in the direction

June 26 I have the honour to house near Shek-ki, in the course

Operations are developing favour other strikers are at present only

inform Your Excellency that the Important questions raised in of which blows were constantly

Mr: Orme pointed out that in the

ably, and the Riffs hitherto have given two meals a day, those who

your Nate of June 24 have been struck in efforts, he said, to dis-

resisted feebly-Reuter.. case of the grant-in-nid schools,

the associate themselves with

carefully considered by His cover the plans of the Colony in such as St. Paul's College, St.

Graphic Description of Landing.

Britannic Majesty's Government, regard to the supply of foodstuffs. Stephen's College, St. Joseph's Col

Madrid, Sept. 9.Bolshevik movement will be given i

who have been for some timo Diocesan Boys School,

Detailed accounts of the landing twenty cents each per day extra.

aware of the growing feeling in Further details were discovered lege and

etc., the attendance at the last: this industry may not suffer severe at Alhucemas Bay and the pre- The members of the Strike Com- this morning in the course of two named was substantially higher losses we have arranged with the liminary operations do not mention

The Commander-in-Chief, Sir China in favour of readjustment majority of the others enquiries by a Telegraph' represen-than the

China Merchants Steam Navigation the repulse described in a French mittee are all Bolshevik extremisto, Wm. Birdwood, in his first speech of Chinese Treaty relations with tative, in connection with the story owing to the fact that the scholars Company to transport the raw silk newspaper yesterday, but on the and they have absolute control of in the Logislative Assembly, op-foreign Powers. It is believed

were largely non-Chinese and un- and cocoons to Shanghal.

posed a Bill introduced by the In-that the Chinese Government do A1 contrary declare that everything the finances. of threatening letters received by affected by the strike.

dian, Mr. Ranga Chariar, to re- not require to be reminded of the It is further stated that no anti-gulate the use of firearms in dis-concrete evidence of this interest the skipper of the Wah Shan and schools had nearly a full comple of the approximate value of eight under most efficient leadership. Bolshevik striker is permitted to persing unlawful assemblies. Sir which has been made manifest

ready shipments have been made worked with mathematical precision by the officers of other boats trading ment of scholars, but the grant-le-million dollars." We are convinced The sea was calm, and the bay between here and Kwang Chow faid schools whose stalents were that the only way to combat Im-resembled an immense lake, when bo n-picket, as the stations where Wm. Birdwood emphasied" the on each occasion when'a question the pickets work are fruitful soldiers' ropugnance to being call-of treaty revision has occupied tha practically all Chinese hau, in com- perialism is by piopaganda, and 112 warships, including a number sources for the obtaining of money.ed upon to assist civil authorities, attention of the two countries Wan. These epistles were always "mon with the Government schools, a

"My Government are now pre- we are now training a body of of French, arrived at noon on unsigned, but their contents left much lessened attendance since the

man to carry on this work through- Monday from Ceuta and Melilla. Moreover, the Reds think that anti-and said the officers had a sense out the whole province."

The warships immediately bombard Bolshevik pickets would deal too of personal responsibility, which pared to consider the Chinese little room for doubt as to the re-opening.

"Soviet Russia," said Mr. Wang, ed the mountains of the hinterland leniently with people wishing to was the best safeguard for ensur-Government's propseal for medi- return to Hongkong or Macao.ing the proper execution of duties fication of existing treaties in a reception with, which those who did

"is China's true friend. She has and fifty Spanish aeroplanes, Very soon, the cold weather willin aid of the civil power; and he measure as the Chinese authorities not see their way to fall in with

not only cancelled all the unequal assisted by the orders would be met were they

treaties, extra-territorial rights and bombed the rebel positions. The be here, and this will mean the deprecated anything which would given up the Boxer Indernity, enemy replied most ineffectively. provision of big sums of money for tie the officers hands and make and ability to fulfil their obliga

a difficult situation more arduous to fall into the hands of the writers.

but is now giving a helping hand The wireless of one warship was clothing for the strikers.

Many of the strikers are now or more complicatod:-Reuter. to the Chinese people to extricate slightly damaged by a shell, but

being examined under the orders themselves from the grasp of was quickly repaired. Otherwise, We need profes no vessel was bit. Imperialism.

The Cinin himself underwent an inquisitor. cross-examination flied for

Consequently, narrated the cap tain of the Wah Shan "to UD interested circle of hearers who met

Z

The attendance at the Govern- tish Concession. ment English Schools so far had Consul had seen fit to deny respon- been a little over 50 per cent, of the sibility for the incident, "there pre-strike figures, and the boys were displaying keenness in their is no other alternative left us to: desire to take up their new term vinilicate our right than to throttle studjes. membered that the senior classes munication with that Colony until re-Hongkong by cutting off all com- would, most probably, not be

some time us the the British people reallae, that the places of those debarred from re-day of the mailed fist and the turning would have to be taken by over-bearing attitude of their re- the younger boys as class promotion

presentatives in China has passed. went on.

Then we can treat with the British Government with magnanimity."

Continuing his speech, Mr. Wang said: "Silk export is our most valuable trade, and in order that

These two

EUROPEAN FINED.

FOR STRIKING BUS DRIVER, '

At the Kowloon Magistracy, be fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton, this morn

pany.

ྋ -

French

seaplanes,

of General Chang Kai-sbak, and

INDIAN STATE SUBSIDY.

UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES.

QUESTION OF USING

TROOPS....

Simla, Sopt 9.

EVASION OF OPIUM TRAFFIC QUERY, -

Geneva, Sept. 9,

The British Note is as follows: "Sir:

demonstrate their

willingness

tons and assume the protection of foreign rights and interests now safeguarded by the exceptional provisions of those treaties.

"It is because of a very earnest. ing, Mr. R. J. Dixon, of the Kow-sional experts, and we are very

Orders to land were issued at those who pass the medical and THE PERSIAN POPPY,

desire to meet the aspirations of a the Chinese Government that His him on his return yesterday, the Toon Docks, was charged with grateful to our Russian friends for eleven o'clock on Monday evening military tests are to be drafted into treatment accorded him and his assaulting a bus driver employed helping its to reorganise our mill- and General Saro's column, consist the Kuomintang Army,

Majesty's Government desire to. principal subordinates could by no by the Kal Tack Motor Bus. Com-tary forces. When our troops are ing of ten tanks, two battalions of

Impress upon the Chinese Govern-" manner of means be described as

ment the necessity of giving con- Mr. H. J. Armstrong apwell trained, and our Government, the Foreign Legion, three battalions gentle. He was taken off the Wah peared for the Company.

has become strong, we shall be able of Spanish riflemen, three battalions

crete evidence of their ability and Shan and when on board the gun- The driver, in evidence, stated to treat with the Powers on the of natives, one field battery, two

Prince Arfa Ed Dowloh, of willingness to enforce respect for Dont was severely knocked about that the bus left the Kowloon Ferry give-and-take basis. We shall be mountain batteries, a park of

Persla, being invited to furnish the safety of foreign lives and nd abused. The blows were at 12.30 on August 30th, and was able to sweep the whole of China ammunition, four companies of

explanations regarding the alleg-property and to suppress disorders accompanied by demands for an proceeding along Chatham Road, with 100,000 Cadets and troops of sappers, and three wireless detach-

AID FOR TATA STEEL ed illict traffic in opium in the and anti-foreign agitations which, explanation of his persistence in when, near the football ground, & the Kuomintang."

merte, had assembled by dawr!

Persian Gulf, at the League Coun- embitter fealing and tend to WORKERS.

cil, merely stated that Persia create conditions unfavourable assisting the "Imperialists," and European waved for the bus to stop. In the course of farther remarks, without mishap except for a not

would welcome a European com- for the carrying on of negotiations, rendering abortive the blockade Witness signalled to him thut the Mr. Wang said: "We shall soon serios.collision between a gunboat

Simla, Sept. 9..

mission of enquiry into opium with regard to the desires which which they were endeavouring to bus was full, but the European got change the name of the Kuomintang and a destroyer owing to the

A Government resolution pro- set up against Hongkong.

into the middle of the road, held to that of the Kapmingtang (the crowding of the warships. The

When Revolutionary Party}.

that as soon as conditions permitt- The chief Officer and Compra- the bus up and boarded it.

The late bombardment, both naval and posing the payment of a bounty cultivation in Persia. He added the Chinese Government have pre dore were similarly badly treated the bus was restarling, the Euro- Dr. Sun, in his will, said:

"Our acril, re-opened at five o'clock in to the Tata Steaf Company for

Tho cultivation. curtail the pean struck him in his side. and they have been detained.

Revolution has not been a success. the corning and continued for four the eighteen months ending ed, Fersin would take stops to sentod for consideration by the

March, 1927, subject to Prince's silence as to alleged Corroborative evidence was given You, my comrades, must put forth hours, Boats, laden with troops, In his official report of the cap-by a conductor and a passenger. your energies to accomplish our started for the shore at ten o'clock maximum of sixty lakhs of rupees, illicit traffe unfavourably im the feeling of the Chinese Govern-

was carried in the Council of ture,, the master, Chan Man-san, Defendant, in a statement, said aima

The government of China and landing began at noon. The Stato. Criticisms of the bounty Fressed the Council. Prince Arfa ment that the tariff schedules at- framed up, as if to hit complainant, the Tsing Dynasty. and if he really hit him it

Without and advanced immediately towards European nombors. Mr. Chad of a loan to enable Persia to cur WRA another Revolution, China will the enemy positions. The enemy wick, Secretary for Commerce, tail or abolish the growth of the merely a touch.

hovor be strong.

What we want res'sted but were caught in the said the bounty would help Tatas poppy-Reuter, His Worship found that defen- to do now is to change the name fire from the warships and with- to turn the corner, and if the cost dant did strike the drives and of the Kuomintang to Kapmingtang drew rapidly. The objective was of producation were reduced a imposed a fine of $10.

I am drafting the Constitution soon occupied, and the whole profit was likely-Reuter. of the new party, and hope you column was established in bivouncs Journalists, will do your best to at Morronuevo by sunset and guide public opinion."

a

Powers.**

"My Government sympathize with

says that it took place about mid-when he boarded the bus he merely to-day Is worse than it was under native regulars were first. ashore system wore voiced by the did not mention again the matter tached to various treaties between

night on the 4th-6th instant. A prize-crew was placed on board, the three principal members of the crew including himself were trans-

ferred to one of the gunboats, which proceeded In the direction of the shore. He was then put on a junk which landed him somewhere near Shekki and he was kept in custody In a small house for two or three days, being released on the afternoon of the eighth. He reached Macao by rickeha and re- turned to the Colony by the first available boat.

The gunboats were partly man ned, it is stated, by a number of men who appeared to be labour plekets, but no Russian officers were observed.

·CANTON AVIATION,

MACHINES FROM HOLLAND.

HUGE ONTARIO BLAZE.

TWO MILLION DOLLARS

DAMAGE. Hawkesbury, Sept. 10,

The Canton Gazette states that the Government is extending its aviation enterprise, and accord-

A great fre at Hawkesbury, ingly Messrs. Fan Mon-lam, Wai Shing and Chen Chuk-lam have been despatched to Holland with Ontario, destroyed millions of feet The agents have received in- $200,000 for the purpose of pur- of timber and caused damage run- formation that a sum of $8,500 shasing machines, -- | ning into two million gold dollars will secure the release of the com- In connection with this project Huge blazing planks ware sent pradore and chief officer, but so it is added that a remittance of high into the sky by the terrific far no mention of the steamer has 880,000 has been received from draught cut of the Inferno. been made, and to date no know- Chinose in the Philippines to The property is covered by

Tedge of her present whereabouts assist the Government in the surance-Router's American

movement.

vice,

namolested. In the course of the CANADIAN TARIFFS. oporation an aeroplane was hit by shellfire and sank in the bay. The crow was rescued. Reuter.

SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

ROMAN STAR" GETS

AWAY.

Cape Town, Sopt, 9.:

China and other. Powers become a of China to adjust its import tarif severe handicap upon the ability to meet the domestic and economia needs of the country. It must not be forgotten, however, that these tariffs were first inaugurat ed in 1842 and were the modus operandi originally devised to mect and remedy a condition which had been a fertile source of. friction in relations between China

REDUCTIONS CONDEMNED.

The 8.9, Roman Star, with and the Powers due to the uncer full cargo of fruit, which obtained tainties connected with the rates Ottawa Sept. 9. The conservative leader, Mr. has sailed for England.Reuter, tariffs were seldom avaliable for a orow by special arrangement and methods of levying tariff then existing. The schedules of thosa SYRIAN UNREST.

Meighon, oponing the electorals Cape Town, Sept. 9. campaign, made fiscal policy the The Union Castle Line, on the information of the merchant, MOTOR TRANSPORT

chief issue. He strongly favoured behalf of the shipowners, has do- who was bampered in his business ATTACKED.

protection, drawing comparisons clined to agree to the suggested by the Irregular, arbitrary and Bagdad, Sept. 9. between the multiplication of the basis of settlement (n six months varying methods in the assessment, Brigands attacked four Mairn tariff of the United States and postponement of the reduction of and collection of duties. It i cross-desert cars, not carrying pas premier's reduction of the wages) in view of the Maritime the belief of my Government that miles from Canadian tariff Canada would Board agreement. Router, the conventional tariff was wel

Sydney, Bopt. 9. comed not alone by the Powers sangers eighty

drivers were have no chance whatever in a Damascus. The

strong, traditional pro- decided to pool the available solution of what had proved a stripped of their clothing, but were race with the United States. The local shipowners have but also by China as a diplomatie not wounded. The cars were badly active polloy was pursued, if she | manpower, and the a.a. Orama is most vexatious question! damaged Reiter

wavered timidlyRouter

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expected to sail shortly Reuter