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KWANGTUNG.

LEAGUE PROBLEM MAY

BE ADJOURNED.

BIG VILLAGE SACKED AND BURNED..

AN "EXTRAORDINARY BUSINESS."

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A CRITICAL DAY.

Geneva, March 16. ̧

HUNDREDS KIDNAPPED.

Bandit activity is again reported

MANAGER "FORCED."

"Tell witness I don't think he'

GOVERNMENT.

CASE OF "BUREAUCRATIC

STUPIDITY.

Com-

SUN ANNIVERSARY CAUSE OF TROUBLE.

RAILWAY.

SUGGESTED RESUMPTION

́OF TRAFFIC. ¿

POLICE ATTACKED.

STRIKERS PROPOSALS, The anniversary of the death of

Reports are current in Canton Dr. Sun Yat-sen was very nearly

that the Bureau of Communications responsible for bloodshed in the

is contemplating the resumption Yangtazepoo district at Shanghai of the through train service to workers engaged in flatic combatį

munication with the Strike Union

&

TSUN WAN SCHEME" DELAYED

an-

HOPES FOR FUTURE. The postponement of the pro jected scheme for the building of

factory at Tsun Wan was nounced by Mr. R. G. Shewan, who presided at this morning's meeting jof shareholders of the 'Green Island Cement Company, Limited. There also present: Mr. Allan

OUTSPOKEN COMMENT:

At the conclusion of the confer- from various districts in Kwangs doing justice to himself. I am

Referring to recent criticisms, ence of representatives, of the Bri-tung, the onuse being, according to not a business man, but I know the Singapore correspondent of the tish Dominions, M. Briand saw Sir protection,

oome quarters, inadequate military

while from

other something of the ways of busi- Telegraph says that the Govern Austen Chamberlain and then told sources it is stated, that the bandita ness men, and it seems to me to ment there is having rather a bawhen several hundred patriotic milliKowloon, and that it is in com-1 pressmen that there were no mis-have had their numbers increased be. un extraordinary way of doing time just now. There are

by those thrown out of agricultural anderstandings between France, employment by the ravages of war.

business. Tell witness that, plaints of the lack of a strong and with several hundred others of Britain and Germany but that al

From districts on the western talking frankly, it seems to me confident personality at the head their more mercenary colleagues on the matter. horder, Lo Ting and Wat Nam. incredible."

were It is stated that the Strike Union. of affairs, and this is regarded as necessitating the presence serious element existed making, a

telegramna live been sent by the solution difficult of realization.

inagistrates to the Canton Govern-

So said the Chief Justice at this being unfortunate in a country squad of police from the Yang-

has submitted a proposal that the Cameron, Mr. J. Scott Harston, M. Briand is going to Paris to- ment for military assistance against morning's hearing

Mr. Li Tse-fong, Mr. C. A. da of the Bank where the civil servants work effi-tazepoo Police Station who, per- through train from Canton to Kow- morrow to present a ministerial attack the two cities. From the

Roza, Mr. Conrad F. Mendham the bandits, who are threatening Loan

case, in which Messrs. ciently enough, as a general rule, haps, when the whole situation is loon be required to stop at Shum-

(directors), Mr. Allan Keith (secre statement to Parliament. Some Szo Yap "region, where junks Moxon "and Taylor are suing the' There have been, says our car-weighed in the balance, came offchun for half an hour, and that tary), Mesars C. G. Alabaster, persons who were near him thought suspended operations before the Man Chuen Bank for the recovery respondent, a number of instances worse in the end than the willing the through train from Kowloon to

Tong Hok-ting, D. M. Goodall, Je hinted at the possibility of the are made upon the Governant to

Chinese New Year, urgent demands of a loan of $37,600. His Lord when prompt action was needed to combatants whom they had come to Canton, stop for an hour, in order postponement of the whole affair.clear but the bandits holesting the ship was commenting on certain overcome departmental torpidity, protect.

to give sufficient time for

has raison to very

level

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of a

the

M. A. Figutredo, I. W. Shewan,

Munton, J. Coulthart, W. J. Car-

brewing at the Ewo Cotton Mill at the regulations of the Strike Union, W. J. Stokes, J. M. Alves, A.H.M. the corner of Thorburn and Jansen For this purpose, the Railway Ad. da Silva, N. V. A. Croucher, A, A. Roads and to there the police pro-ministration is asked to erect an Alves, I. F. da Rocha, C. S. ceeded prepared for the worst.

Mr. J. S. Smit, who has gone to delta, as the price of foodstuffs evidence given by Mr. Tsang but it has not been forthcoming. Shortly after 7 o'clock in the pickets to examine permits and in-A. L. Shields, W. E. Van Epa, D. W. London on urgent business, has Reports from the higher Chun-son, Manager of the defend-For example, this country is on morning the first word was receiv-spect the luggage of the passengers confided the South African repre- state that bunditry has been sant Bank, and their witness-in- the list of the British Medical Ased at the Station that trouble was and thus prevent, the violation of roll, G. H. Potta, J. T. Bagram, sentation to the Canadian High prevalent of late that the inhabi-chief. Commissioner-Reuter,

lants have been, stripped clean of everything, and the Brigands how resurt After a three-hour meeting, the even delegates of Latin-American States, after hearing a full state-j ment of the case from "M. Franco,

PRESSTRE ON 'BRAZIL.

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Under cross-examination by Mr. wholesale kidnapping: Eldon Potger witness had sub- dermiling one dollar prmitted that in order to meet an. eatly by weight, as the price of rans for captives.

urgent need of the Bank, he sold

The chinf of the Local Cards of the 200 Wharf shares at a scri- the 18 allied villages in Shan Takice, in apite of the fact

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decided pressingly to request the pitiful unde of the complete anckiong

gone to Canton to report that, as shown in evidence he had latter lo full a means of restoring uut burning of the big village of just given, Lammert's had offered the unanimity of the Council in Hai Men, the kidnapping of ever

connection with

to give him the money without recourse to this measure. and the

two bundred pers le compositionrendering of over sui propte home.

Taking up the examination nt of the Council in the interests of the moral peace of, Europe.

frss by a large hand of lignods, the point where he left it last, Mr. nabering several hundreds, who Eldon Batter had asked the wit- view of the unanimity of the Latine in large junks tower by sixess it he still maintained that American delegates it is confident-Armel lanthes and completely the transaction which now formed ly expected that Brazil will now surrounded the village, giving the the subject of the action yield. Her Delegate, interviewed viliges na

and not a by Reuter opined that the difficulty assistance from attinent villages., loan, and got the reply from wit- was practically settled.-Router.

THE DAY REVIEWED.

Rugby, March 16: Although hopes were maintained that the situation would clarify itself within the next 24 hours, yesterday at Geneva was not free from anxieties.

times

signal for was

EXPORTING MONEY.

TUNG ON WHARF ARRESTS.

sale il

ness that it was "a sale and 'h pur- chase" with a difference of 4% points to his disadvantage at the same moment and on the same day. He adhered to this view whatever opinion, other persons might have of the transaction,"

POWERS' ULTIMATUM,

Armed Force As Last Resort.

London, March 16 In the House of Commons, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald ask- ed for an explanation of the reports and represervations the Protocol Powerilmede to China which might involve military operations within " two days.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin re- plied that His Majesty's re- prosentative in. Peking had been instructed to take no action except in co-operation with other Treaty Powers. and also that armed force should only be used in the last resort to safeguard the security of foreigners in the areas affected. Sir Ronald Macleay bad communicated these instructions to the British naval authorities on the spot. Reuter.

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examination ahed. It remains to Sub-Inspector Walker, who led be seen whether such plans will the squad found upon inquiries be put into effect. that the trouble

4 dis Owing to Increase traffic for miti- pute among

the mill workers,tary purposes on the Canton-Han half of them wanting

the

was

day off in

Remedios, P. M. N. da Silva, J, E. Joseph and S. Michael (share- holders).

CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH.

The Secretary having read the

to take

kow Railway, extra precautionary notice convening the meeting. measures have been taken against) The Chairman sald:-Gentle- honour attacks by bandits. All along the men:-A's the report and accounte of the deceded and notorious Can-line, temporary barracks have been for the year ending 31st Decem- tonese leader and the other halfments of soldiers are stationed, for some time past I will with erected, in which large detach.ber, 1925, have been in your hands wanting to continue work as usual. In addition, on every train there is your permission take them as Matters threatened to becomeja company of soldiers fully armed, read. The result of the year's sericus and reinforcements were to protect it against andden attacks. Work certainly compares unfav

At such places as Li Tung, Ying fourably with that of previous sent for. A Chinese detective was Tak, Do-shek and Ma-Pa, addi. years, but I need make no apology sent in the police car to bring back tional troops have been stationed. for this as you all know the un-

favourable some additional men und in order

business conditions with which we have had to con-

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Ito do so the car had to pass a crowd

tend since the beginning of the

of workmen who were engaged in MATTEOTTI'S MURDER strike of Chinese labour last June.

hot argument, beside a largo pile] of road metal belonging to the Public Works Department.

ACCUSED'S DRAMATIC

STORY.

The balance at credit of Proft and Loss Account is $601,453,06 A Chinese woman was fined $50 Mr. Potter: This is very clear.

us against $693,148.60 for 1924, by Mr. R E. Lindsell, at the Cen-This is your first transaction?-| Sir Austen Chamberlain and Mitral

and under all the circumstances Magistracy this morning. Yes.

The sight of the police car was Briand and the German delegates when she and her daughter were

not only as regards the lack of Chitei, March, 16, have been in close touch and the summoned for attempting to ex-tion, witness said that Lammert'ssociation, with the result that the

the signal for an attack from the

labour but also the reduced local At a later stage in the examina anxieties that will remain do not port $438 to Macao..

mill-men who immediately began

At the trial of five men, Dumini, demand and the difficulty of secur- Viola,

anding the usual shipping facilities Volpi Poveromo had promised to give him the money out of any difference of

burling large pieces of sharp edged Malacria. accused of the "wilful for export, I do not think much opinion existing between these From the evidence, il appeared but he did not make a decision greatest difficulty is experienced statesmen, who are in

complete was found in stitched pockets on were not disclosed.. There was no cers. Then, despite many pubile hood of the car, denting the sidest Dumini giving evidence, said he coming year, I hardly dare to that the girl, on whom the money then, because the terms thereof in getting competent health offroadmetal at the car and its nebet unpremeditated killing" of better could be expected.

cupants, cutting great holes in the Matteotti, the Socialist Deputy. agreement on the course to be adopted.

had concluded that Matteotti was

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an undergarment, told a Chinese mention of a loan, and he regarded woman searches that she was what passed on June 5th as a pro- protests, the Government will not

As for the prospects for the

States united to-day in urging said she was not going but went the money.. When the urgency forja Malayan Civil Servant as Direc-ing both the defective and the fascist, Bobservizi, and thereafter/seems to be a little more enquiry The delegates of South American going in Macao. She afterwards mise by Lammert's to "give" him change their policy of appointing of the body and in addition, strik- concerned in the murder of the/speak, but, if anything, there Brazil to abandon her intention of along to the Tung On Wharf to the money had passed away, on the tor of Education instead of a pro- driver of the car on the head, cut-he watched Matteotti's house. Helthe year and we can only hope vetoing, Germany's election unless see her mother off.

she also is granted a permanent Council seat, and, although it is The mother said her husband generally expected that this and was a painter at Macao, and left other appeals of the same kind will the money with her to pay. his

Tokis. have the result desired, no definite information to this effect has 80 far been received,"

HONGKONG HOTEL.

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now than there was at the end of saw him going out, when morning of the following day, he fessional educationalist, and conting them rather severely.

that this may continue... We are still permitted the negotiations for sequently the affairs of a compli-

Image of Bonseryizi immediately fortunate in having a good supply Seeing the state of affairs the entered his mind, and, acting on of Lime-stone as the work of the the sale of the shares to take their cated and very expensive depart- course, because he could not think ment are administered by a gentle- officer in charge gave an order, for the impulse of the moment, he contractors at Bins Bay was all of upsetting arrangement man whose intimate knowledge of the Station Warning Flag to be kidnapped Matteotti. He drove the put a stop to by the outbreak of motor car in which Matteotti was trouble there, the place appears which had already been made and educational problems has been brought. The Warning Flag is carried off and had proceeded to be in the hands of bandits and Thecause I thought that even then gained in the Land Office or the

at all police certain distance when his com the prospects of building the pro- Sir Austen Chamberlain, who has

the money, although it was not rural retreats in which the Forest white flag in use kept in constant touch with the

It carries an in-panions informed him that Mat-posed light railway and pier are urgently needed then, could be Service pursues its mysterious stations now.

He got out of the Dominion representatives on the SANITARY BOARD SUMMONS. (usefully and with more profit, beways. Only a few days ago afscription in large black letters to teotti was ill.

ear and did his best for the pri- indicated at last year's meeting [very indefinite at present. As Included in the list of Sanitary employed on other lines of busi- most beautiful, example of bureau- the effect that when it is hauled

died cratic stupidity was presented to

soner, who

five minutes, profusely bleeding from sold and the surplus of $1,114.44 the ground at Castle Peak.. was Regarding the letter which he the public in the shape of a ciren-down firing will commence. It has been provisionally arrang the Central Police Court this signed on behalf of the Man Chuen lar threatening pupils of Govern- The flag was brought and dis- the mouth, The party wandered ed that the League Assembly and morning, was one in which the Bank, and in which there was an ment schools with dismissal played to the full gaze of the buried the corpse after removing

a long way across the country and appears in the Profit and Lose

Account. Council will meet to-morrow. manager of the Hongkong and admission of liability by the Bank they joined, sports organization militant mill-workers. Then it was the clothes to conceal identifica at Tsun Wan, the necessary work As regards the proposed factory Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., 16 Des to Lammert's for the amount of other than those attached to their

Assembly, again held his usual daily conference "with them this morning.

British Wirclesa:

Paris. March 16..

ANOTHER "MISINTERPRÉTATION."

Board prosecutions, which were heard before Major Willson at

ness."

Voeux Road, Central, was sum-the loan plus accured interest, (the own schools, so that the Y.M.C.A. hauled down-with satisfactory re- moned for failing to maintain whole totalling $39,0, witness and the activities of the various suits; for the crowd, melted and Somewhat belatedly, M. Bri-water closets and urinals in a created somewhat of a sensation churches and associations are ta- disappeared. and's alleged statement regarding thoroughly effelent and cleanly by declaring that he was forced to booed.

ly indicated that, in becoming a Mr. R. A. Wadeaon appeared for member of the League, Germany the defence, and the case was ad- Would automatically enjoy the journed for a week.

right to which all the members of

it claimed to be entitled; namely,

to receive a Colonial mandate-if

tion.-Reuter,

within

NEW BARRISTER.

CHINESE ADMITTED TO PRACTICE..

of obtaining borings and soundings for the reclamation of the site has" been carried out, and much work has been done at home in obtaining estimates and information as to the a Colonial mandate for Germany condition, in that part of the sign the letter, while being left at Public opinion both in the F.M.S.

best and most economical type of is now declared to be inaccurately Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, the same time in ignorance of the and the Colony is solidly against reported and misinterpreted. It which is at present under re-can-plained to him as being an aumis- Laurence Guillemard, and if those from the necessary secrecy with contents. This having been ex- the Federal changes proposed by Sir aroused has been harmful, upart|

plant, but after careful considera tion of the position, your Direc is explained that M. Briand mere-struction.

sion of a lonn, he now denied it. proposals are forced upon

tors in face of the difficulty of ob- the which these proposals have cen

A new barrister for Hongkong, taining labour and the necessary Mr. Potter. (cross-examining) country, especially the abolition of enshrouded. In a recent speech, You were forced to do it? the executive head of the Federa-Sir Laurence-humorously remark-in the person of Mr. Hin Shing-lo, financial facilities, felt that there Witness: They drafted outition and the devolution of such ed that mares nested in this coun was admitted to practice by the was no course opon to them but the letter and said, "You must up-powers to the Malay Sultans

ustry rather more frequently than Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) to stop further proceedings and pend your signature to ft Wit-would enable them to hinder seri they did in colder climes; that may

at the Supreme Court this morning. postpone the whole matter until the ness added that this was subse-ously the industrial progress of be so, but this undermining of the Attorney General (Hon. Me normal conditions. This, of course, In moving Mr. Lo's 'admission, trade of the Colony returns to quent to a discussion on the cross- the country, it will be done in the political structure which has the J. H. Kemp) said that Mr. Lo was is very disappointing to all con debt owed by Lamhert's to his face of unanimous protests from complete confidence of the great born in Hongkong, was educated cerned, but on the other hand Bank, in which he was given to the great agricultural and mining] understand that the signing of the interests of the Federation, and commercial interests which here at Queen's College, where he be- we have done all we could dressing French journaliste re-ed to-day, H. M. S. Kent, at Chat- letter was an essential prelimin try the uncompromising condemnation grown up under its protection, and kong University, where he took his of the grinding machinery for the came Head Prefect; at the Hong-to push on the completion vealed that the allies recently pro- ham; and H. M. S. Cumberland, before this other question could be of the whole Malayan presa. For which unquestionably saved the B. A. degree; and at Cambridge rotary state dies which are now mised that Germany would be at Barrow. Both are of 10,000 arranged. eventually allocated a Colorinl

tanately those proposals were put mandate.

tons and will carry eight-inch guns, His Lordship: Why did you forward in so vague, a form that native States from annexation University, where he took his M. A.taking the place of four of the old. in conformity with the Washing-sign the letter when it was an ad- It will be possible to prevent off-twenty years ago, has aroused 26th June, 1928, and had practised results. Two more are under con

He was called to the Bar on the Aalborg kilns, at Hok Un with good ADJOURNMENT TALK. ton Naval Agreement. They will mission of a loan?

cialdom from "losing face" by genuine alarm, and if His Excel in England since that period. Mr. struction at Macao and should be Genova, later. |have a speed of thirty-five knota.

Witness: They never explained keeping the semblance of them and lency has his own way he way he Lo had filed an affidavit, while the finished and at work before the end When the Counell concluded, SirThey are, of course, part of the to me it was a loan.

sacrificing their substance, but the Austen Chamberlain hurried off to Admiralty's programme of ra- Witness also sald, in reply to feeling of restlessness and inse disagreeably remembered long after sled by Mr. Lo Chop-son, his some very great increase in the certificate of identity had been of this year. Unless, therefore, Continued on Page 18).

NEW CRUISERS.

LAUNCHINGS YESTERDAY,

A previous message stated that

and when the occasion arose. Reuter,

M. Briand, in the course of ad-

Rugby, March 16. Two new cruisers were launch-

placement-British Wireless.

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curity which the controversy has he has said good-bye to Malaya. brother.

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