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No 21,059

一拜 號八十二月二十英港行

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1925, A=+A-†

BINGLE: COPT 19 CENTS

THE PER ANNUM

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Fox Canchar. Touring...

$3,000.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

DO WONG NI CHUNG MD. HARRY VALLEY

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CANTON AFFAIR. MOTOR CYCLE STOLEN. MURDER TRIAL. HOW TIENTSIN FELL, JAPAN'S PROMISE. THE ANTI-CHRISTIANS. “

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ATTEMPT ON GENERAL CHU PEI-TAK.

TWICE TAKEN BY SAME

THIEF.

曲

A man who could steal a motor

FOUR EXECUTED.

cycle and side-car twice within 24 hours, was at the Kowloon Magis-

WOMAN COMPLAINS OF COUNSEL'S VOICE.

MADE HER ILL!

BITTER BAYONET.

FIGHTING.

Shanghai, Dec. 29. Reuter's correspondent at:Pek- ing, under date of the 24tiinst., anays that capture of Tientsin by

A report from Canton tells of antracy to-day described by Mr. E The trial of Shing Wai-tat,

a charge -unsuccessful attempt on the life of W. Hamilton as one fully deserving elderly Chinese, on

General Chu Pei-tak. It is said to retain custody of the machine. murder of an Indian constable from

that while in his private office stThe vehicle involved belonged to whose custody he is alleged the headquarters at Ta Sha Tau. Mr. P. Vickers, who appeared to have escaped after arrest for ent-

NEUTRALITY IN CHINESE WAR.

de-

CANTON GOVERNMENT ACTS.

In view of an anti-Christian movement on the part of the labour and student anions which was to have come to a head in Canton during Christmas, the Government

HONAM'S "

END.

NOTED VESSEL TO BE BROKEN UP.

FINE RECORD.

Flying a fine paying-off pennant

conversing with his Chief of Staff, prosecute a young Chinese on twoting trees, at Ngan Shi Wan, on/morning, and, after sanguinaryspatch of Japanese troops to Man-ison guards were detailed to patrol river service, came into Hongkong

was

is said to have confessed that his

surname was Li, that he was an

bayonet fighting, gained Li

but he rallied them and establish-

TRIBUTE TO JAPAN.

London, Dec. 27.

In a leading article on the

In connection with the foregoing, she has been sold for $20,000 for the bureau of Public Safety issued breaking-up purposes. She came in a notification on the 21st inst. in proudly from her last trip, with the following terms:

"The public is hereby notified paying-off pennant streaming be

wei, Chairman of the Political

A steal paddle steamer, the old

AN EXPLANATION.

The Japanese Governmont Just took extra precautionary measures of General Feng's troops was pre-week instructed Minister Yoshizawa to cope with any eventuality that provided, by the Senior Naval

might arise In course of the de-. ceded by very heavy fighting and Consul-General Yoshida at monstrations. Extra police were Officer of the West River, the old to On the 22nd, the Kuominchun Makden, to fully explain to the called on duty to guard Christians.e. Honam, which for over 40 years churches, chapels, schools, and the has been on the Hongkong-Canton forcos attacked early in the Chinese authorities that the

| Y.M.C.A., whilst police and Garri-j

an assassin rushed into the oflice, charges of larceny of a Triumph the 8th July last, entered upon an

churia is simply for the purpose of the streets. Armed motor curs harbour for the last time on Satur- on interesting stage at the Crimin. Ching-lin's defence system near protecting the lives and property were also ordered out for service. day. This fine old beat has had to go and point blank fred at the Gent motor cycle and side-car

Peitsang. Li Ching-lin counter-

Although there was a great con- ral, but missed him. Arona Christmas Day and Boxing Day Sessions this morning, when Mr. attacked that afternoon and roof the Japanese residents and that course of students and labourers, the way of all things, and yesterday round also misfired, and immedi-respectively. The defendant was Elsley" Zeitlyn, (for the defence) gained some of the lost ground. Japan is not going to assist any Christmas Day passed off quietly, she was towed to Kowloon Bay, and Christians were able to hold from where she will be taken to ately the body guards seized the as-further arraigned on twe charges of resumed his cross-examinatio of Eyo-witnesses state that hund-party in China.

their services, and celebrations as a Chinese shipbreaker's yard, for Gasgin.

obtaining meals on the same daye a Chinese woman who was instru-reds were lying in the tronches

The Foreign Office authorities usun!. and 1,200 Kuominchun wounded

The man

mental for the arrest of the re- had already been brought in to declare that Japan does not intend Immediately with intent to defraud. brought before Chu Pei-tak and he

The circumstances surrounding cused,

Poking by the 23rd inst. from the to check or impede the advance of the theft of the machine were told This witness told how she was previous day's fighting.

There was further fighting on General Kuo Sang-lin's troops by the Court by Sergeant Rozeskwy, approached by the wife of the 23rd, as a result of which Li the increase of Japanese troops in officer of one of the regiments of It was stated that the combination accused with a view to the sale of Ching-lin's Fourth Division broke, Manchuria. So far the Govern-that this Bureau has received an hind, and with the Company's flag the 3rd Army Corps and that there was left unattended in Cameron a house which was already heavilyed a line three miles from ment considered that the present instruction from Mr. Wong Chine-up at the must. were three other officers belonging Road on the afternoon of Desum- mortgaged, and how, on learning Tientsin Central Station. As the Japanese forces in Manchuria were Bureau, to the following effect: to the same Army Corps who were ber 25th. The machine was later that the accused was in hiding in result of further heavy fighting sufficient for the protection of It was decided by this Burea 5.5. Honam was built by Messrs next morning; Li Ching-lin's hia accomplices. Orders were in-discovered to have been stolen and Chinese territory, she enticed him troops scattered in disordor Japanese residents, but the situat a meeting held some days ago A. and J. Inglis, of Glasgow, as far that towards the question of re'ig back as 1882, and had been in re- mediately issued for the arrest of the matter was reported to the to return on the pretence that his Router.

tion has undergone a radical on, although the Christians and

gular commission by her owners, the alleged accomplices, who were Water Police Station.

signature was absolutely necessary

change by the occupation of Ying- the Anti-Christians might be al- later apprehended and made a ron- In the meantime the master off to the proper transference of the

how by Geréral Kuo's forces, and lowed to indulge in free discus- the Hongkong, Canton and Macao fession of the intended crime,

a restaurant made a report to the titled-deeds. As soon as he hol

opinious, nevertheless they years. All four officers were later shot Yaumati Police Station to the crossed over the bridge leading in Chinese war, the Daily Telegraph the Japanese residents in Man-, and to express their respec- Steamboat Company, for, over 40

Japanese churia are now exposed to danger should not be allowed to do such to Lowu, in British territory, he Government, which has shown The Government is obliged to send osts as to disturb or to threaten 2,462 tons, with not given as 1,399 effect that a certain Chinese had was pounced upon by two detectives real statesmanship in trying

tons, and registered tonnage as 980 It is stated that the affair was obtained a meal at the teahouse, who had set this trap in co-opera- situation, has acted fromptly troops as the present forces are in-each other by force.

In this connection, letters were tons. She was 270 feet long, had nows of hushed up for a time, as all our leaving a motor cycle as deposit, tion with the witness. She was in-on the

Chang's sufficent to cope with the situation. written to the Young Mon's Sec a beam of 38 feet and was 18.1 lension of the accused by the offer from Mukden and with-

The most unique command of Chu Pei-tak, and fu- time. The man had left the shop of the $1,000 reward and the fact drawing the order

relating cerning the use of the South Mancation, but we have learned that part of the ship was her engines, sume persons have attempted to which were compound, with cylin ther investigation was necessary and had not returned. The police that prisoner had "done something to the six-mile zone, in which churia Railway, but if its use by hold a demonstration movement on ders' 40" and 72" by 10 feet stroke. Lefore making a report to the Com-took possession of the vehicle gainst the Government."

Under severe cross-examination that neither Britainnor the United either of the belligerents assist one the Christmas days, and to cause Hor nominal horse-power was 479.

to the mittee of Military Affairs.

which was returned to the com-y the defence, she admitted that States in similar circumstances party, Japan will refuse the use of disturbances

various Her boam engine, of a type that churches. In this way auch con- is no more seen nowadays, was General Chu Pei-lak, who is plainant on Boxing Day morning. on the train journey into Chinese could have remained indifferent the railway by both parties.

the risks. facing their

duct would in effect disturb the one of the famous pioneer engines native of Yunnan, has recently

Later on Boxing Day, whilst left territory she was perompanied br to

the nationals. It opines that but

public peace.

of the kind, and was built by the been in command of the Third by its owner outside his residence former of whom paid her fare for for

You are therefore instructed to Messrs. Inglis. The s.a. Hankow, Army Corps, and has been working at Cambay Building, the machine her. She also gre four soldiers, small disciplined Japanese forceing statement concerning the de-reinstruct the troops under your which was owned and operated by command to patrol and make in the Hongkong, Canton and Macao in close convert with the Hunnan-was again stolen and deposited at members of a Labour Picket to Mukden might have been sacked

pection strictly, and, to energeti- Steamboat Company until she was ese troops now in Kwangture another restaurant, where the decort the accused and her to the last week and incalculable dam-spatch of troops from Japan:

bridge-head, ostensibly for the pur-age done. "Japan has shown

"The Japanese troops in Man-cally put a stop lo all movements burned to the water's edge while During the recent operations, che fendant was identified as having pose

once again that though she is of guarding themselves against possible robbers and kid-most anxious about the future of churia have maintained strict neu- which may lead to disturbance and lying alongside her wher larger part of his forees bas keer had a meal.

Hongkong many years ago, and the her trade with China, she can trality in the disturbances, going

Upon receipt of the above

Kiung Teen, operated in In answer to the charges, the nappers, but really to see that the exercise patience and prefers to on there and have been doing their struction, this Bureau has thought Shanghai by the China Merchants tion of the province. He was some defendant admitted obtaining the anceps before being handed employ diplomacy rather than utmost to protect the lives and pro-it necessary to take action Record Steam Navigation Company, were time ago reported to have been meal on the second occasion, but over to the detectives waiting on

denied all the other three charges the other side of the bridge.

perty of the Japanese residents ingly, and besides having instructed the other two paddle boats in the the various Police Stations to send Far East of the Honam type, and captured by Szechuan troops After hearing the evidence,, his

A question put to witness by Mr.

there. The impending conflict be- the police to strictly patrol and built by the same builders. whilst on his way from Shiukwan Worship convicted on all four Zeitlyn was whether she told the

Peking, Dec. 27.

tween the belligerents, however, stop any movement such as refer

Thore was a suggestion made was counts and imposed, terms of imccused's wife and son, who were A Mandate has been issued threatens the zones in proximity to red to above, from taking place, we some few days ago that the as. have issued this notification. Honam's engines should be pre- later shown to be incorrect. Ap- prisonment amounting to four accompanying him, that the soldi-appointing Gen. Feng Yu-asiang's the Japanese railway territory, a

months' hard labour.

All citizens are to take note, nad served here as a marine engineer- ers were meant for their protec-supporter, General Sun Yuch as tion or for her own protection. Military and Civil Governor of vast area stretching from Yingkow to net accordingly without disobe-ing relic, but, apparently, the sug

Witness said that when they Chilli' province in, placo of the to Mukden and Tiehling being in-dience." erossed the bridge she proceeded defeated General LChing-lin,volved.

at the headquarters.

declare

that the

Her gross tonnage waa

men were officers under the direct as he had no money on him at the duced to take a hand in the appre-recovery, recalling the troops There is no treaty stipulations con-ftion, and the Department of Edu- feet In depth.

stationed in the north-western sec-

to Canton, but this report

pointed to the command of the troops in the North River sector, he was later said to have been ge- lected for the position of Garrison Commandant at Canton. but no

official announcement of his aceep- tance of the post has been made public as yet.

the accused's wife and son,

accused did not change his mind

connection the journal is sure

of a presence

force."-Renter,

NEW CHIHLI GOVERNOR

I

APPOINED.

BRANDY POSSESSION. he prisoner in order to bring word whosd whereabouts is unknown.

CHINESE WHO WAS CHASED

War Office Statement.

The War Office issued the follow-

t: the detectives of, his coming. Railway and telegraphic communi- "The Commandant of the Japan- and, to give the necessary time for cation has been restored between ese garrison forces in Kuantung re- the officers to act, she'engaged bra Tientsin and Peking-Reuter. for some minutes in arranging for A Chinese was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindse, at the Central the affixing of his signature to a document. Of the woman who Pallee Court, this morning, with followed the accused over the being in unlawful possession of

bridge, witness did not know her! FRATERNITY PARTY, two bottles of brandy.

nor anything about her. It was stated that the defendant

When Mr. Zeitlyn was somewhat

it need from a sampan at a wharf pressing in his cross-examination

A revenue officer man and

BOLSHEVIK SPLIT.

COMMUNISTS AT

LOGGERHEADS.

Moscow, Dec. 26. The Bolshevik Congress has end-

cently issued a warning to the bel- ligerents, but there is a likelihood of the Japanese special zche being. endangered. The Japanese troops whose terms of service in Manchu-i

menaces."

By Order,

BUREAU OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

REVOLVER POSSESSION.

RETURNED CHINESE FINED.

3.5.

far

comme to

gestion has so nought,

The vessel, apart from doing special duty several times on the. Macau run, has been on the Hong- kong-Canton run and has made 13,840 trips, which gives her a mileage run of well over 1,254,000 miles.

V

THE STRIKE.

MERCHANTS TO VISIT CANTON.

With regard to the question of

An elderly Chinese, who came to ria expired in the middle part of the Colony by the President Jeffer- November-have returned home, and son on Saturday, appeared before CANTON'S HEARTY WELCOME.pposite the Western market ven-concerning the identity of the wo-

the replacement has not been carri. Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Kow- a contradictory state- The latest news concerning the terday. welcome to the fraternity party of proached to search him, but the ment she had made at the lasted, as the result of divergences ed out yet. In view of the situa-loon Magistracy this morning, on a chargo of unlawful possession of Hongkong merchants is that the defendant dropped the

bottles, sitting on this point, witness om between the Communists organi-tion it is necessary for Japan to re- portion of a revolver.

a settlement of the strike and ordered Canton Government

which were wrapped in mats, and plained that Mr. Zeitlyn possessedzations in Leningrad and Moscow. inforce the troops at once, and Mr. J. T. Prior defended and boycott as between Hongkong military band to meet the visitors ran way. One of the bottles was such a loud voice that she had been The Leningrad delegation insisted therefore the War Office has decid-pleaded guilty. He made a state- and Canton, pourperiors have re- and that representatives of the broken, but the other was scared, and the effect of this fright that the report made by M. Zin] Canton merchants, labour and found to be intact. The defen-was such that she had been ill for vier should be opposed by the re-ed to send 1,000 troops from Man-ment in extenuation to the effect cently been taking place with that the defendant brought the the result of bringing discussion the last few days, and was not yet port of M. Staline. The Pravia churia immediately and at the revolver with him for his own of the terms within manageable He was fined $10 and the brandy recovered from it. Consequently say this is the biggest split in same time and 2,500 troops from safety, having heard in America of bounds. was confiscated.

she did not remember clearly what the annals of the party. she said.

M. Zinovief and M. Kamenoff as-Japan Proper. The troops sent danger from piracies and armed Mr. Zeltyln, looking around the sert that the Union of Soviet Re-from Chosen will be sent back

A fine of $250 was imposed. Court, observed that he hope? his ublics is incapable of surmours after the arrival of the troops from voice had not this effect on anyone ing internal difficulties unless an Japan."

one

strike unious were to be at thedant was pursued and caught. landing stage when the steamer arrived on Saturday afternoon.

It is further reported that the party will attend a memorial ser- vice at Wong Fa Kong in memory of the seventy-two heroes who uncrificed their lives for the cause of the Revolution.

MOTOR MISHAP.

international revolution occurs and The case is proceeding. It was comes to its aid-Indopacifi slated to-day that in all likelihood

RAW MATERIALS.

else

U.S. AND FOREIGN MONOPOLIES.

Chicago, Dec. 26.

to the Chicago!

According BUS AND CAR COLLISION

At a motor bus, owned by the Tribune, at the next.economic con- China Motor Bus Company, was ference of the Lengue of Nations, being driven along Lai Chi Kok the American delegates will cp- road, yesterday, a collision occur- pose the foreign monopolies of red with a motor car, at the junc-rubber, quinine, pulp and other tion of Lai Chi Kok road and raw materials, in which they will! Shanghai Street. The front part have the support of many nations, of the bus, and the rear part of Britain, says the journal, should the car were damaged, but no one agree to a consideration of this

t will be extended until Wednes- day.

REPARATIONS ENQUIRY.

U.S. DELEGATE IN FRANCE.

AFGHAN TROUBLE.

AN ALLEGED RUSSIAN

ATTACK.

Allahabad, Deo. 27. Newspapora at Kabul raport

EARTHQUAKE, IN- ITALY.

NO DAMAGE DONE.

Rome, Dec. 27,

robberies.

GERMAN AIMS.

TRADE WITH BRITAIN.

Berlin, Dec. 26.

Horr Streseman, in the course of

an article on the economic situa-

In this connection, a delegation of Hongkong Chinose merchants will shortly join with the Canton Chinoso merchants in negotia- tions with the Striko Committee.

ATHERLEY CASE.

ADJOURNED UNTIL NEXT MONDAY,

Owing to the fact that the

tion in Europe, declares the neces-Indian murder trial will be ex- sity for Germany to become rich tonded until Wednesday; the agalu, and especially to become Atherloy case, previously fixed A message from Terni reports again an important ellent. of to open on this day, has again to that Russian troops suddenly and that Professor Edwin Kemmerer, the unprovokedly attacked and cap-

short but severo carth-British. He says a selfish policy bo adjourned until after the holi- is impossible for the Reich, and The jury called for this caso American delegato to the Repara-tured the Afghan post of Darkad quake shock was felt in the oven-all the men of the State must try are to note that they will now tion Commission, has arrived in Badakehan and gcoupled the ins. There was no damage interdependence amongst all the have to attend on Monday at

{ countries of Eurong mikadovicit.

Printer

Cherbourg, Dec. 27.

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days.

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