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No. 81,053

一拜愛 號四十月二十英港香

ON PIRATES' TRAIL.

BRITISH CRUISERS TAKE UP

CHASE

IN THE SOUTH.

HAINAN STRAITS MAY

BE MINED.

MERCHANTS' PARTY.

ARRANGEMENTS. FOR

CANTON VISIT.

It is stated that the party of Hongkong Chinese merchants to

wecks.

NO OIL.

A.P.C. WITHDRAW FROM WUCHOW.

SERIOUS OUTLOOK,

We are in receipt of mail news

14, 1925.日九十二月十

TRAIN OUTRAGE.

FOREIGN PASSENGERS TAKE REFUGE.

MINOLE COPY 10 GISTE

IN FER ANNUM,

Before you purchass ANY, Motor Vehicle;; nas what it will do

on the HILLS · In HIGH GEAR.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, LIMITED.

Tok C. 1246 or 1247.

33, Wong Nei Chong Rd, Happy Valley

CUBICLE DISPUTE.

CLAIM FOR DAMAGE FAILS.

A Chinese lumber merchant was the plaintiff in an action for NATIVE PHOW LOOTED.

damage to property heard before TWO LEGATION PROTEST. Mr. Justice Wood in the Summary Bombay, Dec. 13. The British cruisers Colombo and

Peking. Dec. 13,

Was

were nine

Court this morning.

LOCAL FIRE.

OUTBREAK IN MODERN BUILDING.

$5,000 DAMAGE.

Shortly after midnight, a fire

fin. a

The plaintiff claimed that whilst he was away in the country, some brore put at No. 86 First Street, of his property was taken from

three-storeyed concrete eubicle which he rented from structure of recent construction

As was the case in the-disastrous the defendant. He stated that the

outbreak of last week, the firs landlord was left in charge.

commenced in a store of tea.

Mr. C. A. S. Russ appeared for

SURRENDERED MEN. visit Canton will be limited to two hundred and fifty, and that the list A report from Hoihow states that of names has been handed to Mr. Yeung Sai-ngam, who will now General Tang Poon-yan has arrived proceed to secure the necessary from our own correspondent at Wu- Cairo are proceeding full speed to With regard to the international at that port, leaving the command passes, enabling the visitors to chow which states that on Thursday Cochin, on the trail of pirates who train which was caught in the bat- of Llachow to Generals Chan He-return to Hongkong within two last the Asiatic Petroleum Com- looted a native dhow a few days the at. Yangtsun, and which fung and Chang Ng-Jau.

170. This is the first case of reported carlier, the passengers, It is also said that Mesars. Choy any closed down its offices and "The city of Luichow is said to be Chang. Wong, Lui and Leong, who installation, presumably as a pro-piracy in these waters wititin living including women and children, had strongly fortified and capable of have received special passes for test against the oil monopoly which memory,

to take refuge under the carriages. holding for at least three months. two weeks duration, have been has been conducted by the military busy making arrangements to pave

The warships are receiving wire-Op board the train

the defence, and he stated that leaves, probably from a lighted This is considered one of the rea-the way for the coming conference. authorities. Seven or eight A.P.C.icas messages from the Naval Britishers, Including Colonel and

when plaintiff went away he left cigarette stub, carelessly thrown son why the Canton Army is not The Strike Union in reported to lighters, loaded with the remaining Intelligence Officer at Colombo-Mrs. Haslehurst; twenty Ameri-{ a man in charge of the cubicle. by a fokl, and soon worked itself making a direct attack on the city, have decided to issue one hun-stock of kerosene and crude oil, Reuter.

eans, some prominent Japanese and This man also left, and ho hand-up into a fair blaze. The proprie dred passes dally to those who but favours a process of gradual in- wish to come to Hongkong whilet together with the Company's motor

The above message refers to thej also four League of Nation Com-led the key over to a woman, who tor of the store, who, with his

took possession of the cubicle. vestment. At the present there are the Canton Government has es-boats, left port at about noon on

The only time he bad enter fokis, slept in the premises, has three British gunboats at Hoihow, tablished at the Walchow Guild Thursday, accompanied by H. M. S.

ed the cubicle Was in res-stated that they were taken en- whilat an American man-cf-war is Bureau of Inquiry to give in- Cicala as a corivey, and, in consc-

ponse to an order from the Sani-tirely unawares, and probably formation to the Hongkong

tary Board who had ordered him would have burnt to death had visitors in conection with Govern-

to make the cubicle larger. Ha It is reported that in view of the ment affairs, which are not clearly coming attack by the Canton Navy, understood. It is emphasised that personal inquiries will be welcom- Tang Poon-yan has given orders toed at the Bureau, while letters of have everything in readiness to lay inquiry will be replied to in fullest detail. The party will probably mines in the Hainan Straits at 1

leave for Canton at the end of this moment's notice, thus countermand-week. ing the previous order to iramedi- ately lay mines, which would cause much inconvenience to shipping.

also standing by.

APPOINTMENTS.

quence, Wuchow is left stranded with scarcely any oil.

prevention.

uproar and heat. They quickly got down to the atreet and gave the alarm. A few minutes later, the appliances were brought from tho

report of a piracy made by the missioners who are visiting Man captain of the German steamer churia in connection with plague Nordmark on arriving at Colombo) a few days ago. The Captain stated that when four hours out It appears that a Kuominchun of Cochin, he saw two vessels, one armoured train followed the inter-lengthened the partition and dur-they not been awakened by the Our correspondent explains that of which appeared to be frantically

The national train to Yangtsun where it ing the course of the work a small in distress and signalling.

glass was broken. This was re- there have been many weeks of other speeded off when he approach-landed a thousand infantry, while placed. negotiation between the Asiatic led. The crew of the first vegael artillery began shelling Gen. Li Petroleum

His Lordship non-suited, the Company the stated that they had been attacked Ching-lin's forces"

and Government over the question of They anxiously sought safe escort river.

the plaintiff across

after hearing by pirates, and were terrified.

evideo. the oil monopoly. The merchants to Cochin. The German crew)

The Legations have vigorously have repeatedly petitioned the stated that the pirate vessel was protested against this breach of the

Boxer Protocal. It is understood| that arrangements are being made to despatch a relief train from Tientsin.

CANTON AND HUNAN. |Government for the cancellation of a smart craft of British design.}

An official communique announces NO EXPEDITION AT PRESENT. the appointment of Chan Chang-lok

as Commissioner of Foreign Affairaj

in the hands of Chu Pui-tek, with power, thus unifying the

pro-

the monopoly but without result. When the monopoly was instituted, the A. P. C. agreed to sell to Gen-

SERVANTS' CLAIM.

The Japanese on board the train include Mr. Mochizuki, the leader!

SYRIAN UNREST.

M. DE JOUVENEL'S HEAD IN DANGER.

three fire stations on the island, and these got to work with tho conflagration which by now had set the top storey well glight.

Compared with previous cases, the tank which the fire-fighters were called upon to perform was relatively easy, as the building in.

Beirut, Dec. 19. In a speech at a banquet in his volved was one structurally des honour, given at Aleppo, M. Designed to resist fire. of the Kensekai party and Mr. Jouvenel said that Syria was calm

As ene Inauye, Parliamentary Under except for the districts of Danian. member of the Brigade remarked, cus and Jebel Druse, where the it was a relief to and that the minority warring was not against house had not burnt up like a France, but against Syria. Since

NEWCHWANG INVESTED,

Tokyo, Dec. 13.

It is reported from Canton that eral Wong Shiu-hung crude oil in and the Superintendent of Maritime at a meeting of the Military Coun-!

KOWLOON LADY SUMMONED. Customs of Hoihow and Pakhoi, cil, General Tan Yen-kai proposed large quantities and after that ar- both appointments to take effect to send an expeditionary force to rangement the motor boat owners At the Kowloon Magistracy, this join hands with Tong Sang-che, the largest consumers of oil-morning, a cool and a wash omah concurrently.

It is stated that at a meeting of who controls the south-western could not apply direct to the A.P.C. claimed a month's wages from Mrs. Secretary for the Navy.—Router. the Military Council in Canton, it part of Hunan, in order to make a tras decided to place the garrison direct attack on Chang-sha and for delivery in the usual way, 5. McKim, of Humphreys' flats, command in the North River sector drive out Chuo Hong-te from but had to get an.A. P. C. delivery

Chung Lak, the coolie stated that

his arrival at Aleppo he had heard bonfire by the time they were Li Chai-sum in entire command of vince of Hunan. Tan Yen-kai is form "chopped" by one of Gen. he and the amah were dismissed by

persistent demands for the separa-onabled to get on the scene, and the south-west Sector. An official said to have contended that the Wong's bureaux, and it was not un- the defendant on November 27.)

An Asahi message from Mukden tion of Aleppo from Damascus. that there was still left the means, announcement is expected to be is time is ripe for such a move, so the form had been 30 "chopped prior to her leaving the premises states that Gen. Kuo Sung-ling's This was the result of the fratri-

that the Canton Government may that the A. P. C. manager would to live ut a'hotel. Witness was forces have entered Newchwane/cidal war.

not always available in the usual counter-sign it. in addition to informed to apply at No. 3, Han-

type of Chinese house in Hong- and keep an eye on any designs this, the strike Union has collected kow Road for his salary, but when without fighting. Japanese police Hassan Kharrat, the Moslem Since the report of the fall of on Kwangsi by. Wu Pei-fu. After anything from $10 to $15 on every he called the defendant refused to have been despatched for the pro- Chagour quarter of Damascus, has and fighting the fire at the closest Limehow and Yumehow, there is a prolonged discussion, the Coun- ton of oil taken delivery of, and it again a lull in the military opera-ell is said to have come to the is quite openly stated that the Wa-pay the sorvants, saying that she tection of residents.-Reuter..

had not the ready money with her. tions in southern Kwangtung, owing decision that such an expedition

Light Company to the fact that the shifting of the could not he undertaken until, the had to make their purchases of oil He had not been given notice to leave at the beginning of the 3rd Army Corps back to the North south and west sectors are clear- through Gen, Wong.

month. River sector at their original sta-ed of the rebellious elements. tions and the transportation of

'sued soon.

LULL IN OPERATIONS.

troops of the 4th Army Corps to fill

be in touch with Fung Yu-haiang

chow

Electric

But the arrangement between the

In reply to questions asked by the A. P. C. and General Wong, has,

defendant, witness denied that he apparently been broken off, because had been given $20 and told. the Company has now withdrawn

the vacancies, are now being carri-MONEY-LENDING CASE its stocks and closed its offices, through the interpretation of Mr.

Apart from this, much

ed out.

MANILA DEATH SENTENCE.

River

RECEIPTS WHICH WERE

30

NOT STAMPED.

traffic its There enormously.

motor boats tween Wuchow. and

suffering

are

plying

ovor bc.

Mackintosh's houseboy, that his services would be dispensed with from November 26.

APPROVED BY PRESIDENT COOLIDGE.

Nanning

The amah gave corroborative It will be recalled that a Bensa- evidence,

bandit leader operating in the kong, of going up the staircase

sent letter to A local paper possible "quarters. Whereas in stating that he has detailed forty

MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

run 1

werd

men to cut of M. Do Jouvenel's most cases operations had to be head, adding: "Here is our reply directed at a respectable distance to his speeches."Reuter.

outside the house, the fremen. in the present instance able to

hese up the stairs on the third floor where the fire originated, and, pressure being satisfactory, the flames were soon stifled by the heavy volume of water brought into play. Within less than twenty minutes, the fire was got under control and the

extra work has been added to the many and arduous duties of the

A COOLIE KILLED. officers on active service, in the examination and re-enlistment of

A fatal accident occurred on the In the course of an Indian and Luichow, and as 90 per cent. of "surrendered troops. A conserva-

Mrs. McKim said the two servantstion was caused in Manila come Tsun Wan Road near its junction tive estimate gives, in round num-money-lending case which was these use crude oil the withdrawat bers, a total of twenty thousand heard before Mr. Justice Wood in of supplies will force them into were engaged during the strike months ago, when an army officer with Laishikok Road yesterday, surrendered men. In view of the the Summary Court this morning idleness. The bouts plying. be- and on November 15th, witness in the U. S. service, Lieut. J.

it transpired that the defendant's tween Nanning and Poseh and decided to leave the house.

when an earth coolie was knocked

admixture of many elements in the receipts for payments on account Lungchow must also tie up. Prac- the 23rd, the complainants were

On Thompson, shot a young girl who down by a motor car, receiving "stop" signal was shortly after- different units which have surrenhad not been' stamped, and his bically all the trade with the up- told that they would not be wanted Apparently refused his offer. of dered, General La Chai-sum, now Lordship mentioned that he was river ports will be cut off. General after the 20th.

The coolle had marriage. Lieut. Thompson was the Field Marshal of the south-west furnishing the Colonial Treasurer Wong Shui-hung is, himself at pre-been given $20 and the amah $10. subsequently courtmartialled and eactor, has given orders to his with the facts of the case for the sent in Nanning and it is his subor- officers rigidly to carry out the ex-purpose of allowing him to take dinates with whom the A, P. C, has Mackintosh's boy to be called.

The case was adjourned for Mr.

Rentenced to death. The Manila amination of men fit for active whatever netion he thought fit. been unable to keep in agreement.

Bulletin of December 10th reports: service, and not to allow any menf

Mr. MacCallum, appeared for The vernacular newspaper here,

to be re-enlisted who are not found the defendant, and, after some dis- reporting on the A. P. C's action to be up to standard. Besides this, cussion, he consented to judgment says that the Oll Monopoly Bureau General 14 has placed all the re- for $220 and costs, the figure has made a contract with a Chinese venue-collecting centres of the being approximately double the firm, whose head offices arë „in southern sector under the control amount defendant actually

re- Hongkong, for the early delivery of

of the Canton Government in the ceived in cash. An order for in- kerosene at $7 per case which the same way as he did with those of stalments of $20 a month was Bureau will retail at $8.50 per case. the western sector. The unification made.

The oil is supposedly coming from Shanghai.

of Kwangtung ds therefore practi- cally realised, inasmuch as both military and financial affairs are now centralised in the Canton Government.

FAMOUS LIBRARY.

AMERICAN RESTORATION

WORK.

FRENCH FINANCES.

COUNTRYWIDE UNEASINESS.

London, Dec. 13. The uneasiness in France owing] to the fall of the Franc is reflected not only in Le Matin's support of the suggestion for the formation'of}

ITALIAN PATRIOTS.

SUBSCRIBE TO NATIONAL

DEBT.

Rome, Dec. 13. Voluntary subscriptiona raised

THE NEW SHAH.

FROM PRIVATE TO ARMY COMMANDER.

wards sent out. serious injuries which led to his death at the Kwong Wah Hospital,

The damage was confined to the where he was taken after the third floor, where all the contents, which comprised for the most part accident.

In connection with the accident, stocks of ten, were destroyed.

The Bulletin learns from what it the driver of the car has reported The loss is covered by insurance

considers unimpeachable sources.

.

to the police that it occurred while in a sum of $5,000. The ground

Tin village. The man

that the countmartial sentence of

he was driving from Yaumati to floor was used as an eating house, hanging for Lieutenant John S.

while the floor in between thes Thompson, murderer of 16-year-old Kam Audrey Burleigh, has been approved endeavoured to cross the road in two storeys was occupied as dwell- by President Coolidgo and that the front of the approaching car, but ing quarters. The eating house sentence will be carried out at Fort hesitated when he was half way received very little damage, and across and started to run back. was able to carry on business as McKinley soon.

London, Dec. 13. The new Shah of Persia, Reza Khan, at forty-nine has had a re- markable career, He was born of The finding, with the presiden-Before he could get clear he waa

OBITUARY.

EX-PREMIER "MAURA.

Madrid, Dec. 13.

The death has occurred of the

a middle-class family, and entered tal ok, are understood to have caught by the right front wheel usual this morning. the army as, a private at the age of been received here from the war of the car and knocked down.) fifteen, rising to be one, of the department at Washington on the Injuries were caused to his head The victim was then senior officers in the Cossack divi- last mail. Oficial confirmation of add body. slon by 1921, when he marched on the foregoing so far has been re-taken in the car back to Yaumati, and captured Theran.

fused, however,

where he was admitted. Into, the He became Commander-in-Chief. The guard kept ever: Lieutenant Kwong Wah Hospital. He died and War Minister, and assumed the Thompson at Fort McKinley, where some hours later." premiership in 1928, when he de- he has been incarcerated since tho

OTHER ACCIDENTS. a Committee of Public Safety to

Bired to establish a Republic, but night of April 5, when the fatal steer the country through the

Near the Wanchai Market; at was opposed by the clergy, whose shooting took place, has beon Queen's Road East, an East Point present crisis, but in signs that by Italians to pay the debt to support he has now apparently strengthened since receipt of the Garage car knocked down a little former Premier, Senor Mauro. France will possibly follow the America have passed 90,000,000 gained. He proceeded to subjug-papore from Washington. The committen for the restora- example of Italy by raising volun-ire-Reuter.

Chinese girl. She did not appear] Har ate the insurgent tribes, from Lieutenant Thompson underwent} tion of Louvain library, of which taty subscriptions. There Bro

whom he exacted taxes for the first a severe physical and mental to be much injured, for she Imme Mr. Herbert Hoover is chairman, indications that the peasants and

time in half a century. He also examination Tuesday morning at diately got up again and ran away. [Senor Antonio Maura had workmen of Franeo aro willing to announces the completion of a mil-save the franc, even at a personal

dismissed all the foreign army in-the Fort McKinley hospital, which While depositing fare, at the short term as the Prime Minister structors, but, engaged foreigners lasted nearly three hours. He also Star Ferry Wharf on Saturday of a Spanish (Cabinet which he Mon dollar fund. Instructions sacriftes provided that someone will

to reorganies the legal, postal and was quartered alone nearly an hour morning, a ricksha was run into by formed on the fall of Premier Al- have been cabled to resume the undertake to organise the ma-

Anancial systema. Reza Khon be-with one of the ranking officers of a motor car from behind, and the rebuilding of the library.

came head of the provisional McKinley post, discussing his won-passenger, an Europesu lady, was lendesalazar, due to reversen sufe government on the recent depositance and is reported the death chroga to the round, sustaining fored by the Spanish forces In "Reuters American Service.

New York, Dec. 13.

ARBITRATION LAW.

L...

Paris, Dec. 13. chinery. The newspapers are being] The Chamber, by 262 votes to 9, asked to open subscription lists for has adopted the law for compulsory

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