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LOAN CASE ENDS. TROUBLE BREWING FRENCH “SCENE.

ASPERSIONS ON BROKER

RESENTED.

FINAL ADDRESS.

In his address this morning. Mr. Eldon Potter, counsel for the plaintiffs in the action brought by

the stockbroking firm of Messrs.

Moxon and Taylor, for the recovery

of an alleged loan of $97,600 from

AT SHEKKI..

YOUNDED 1801

No 23.640

五拜雞 九十月三英港香

RESENTMENT AT OFFICIAL ORDER....

SENSATIONAL INCIDENT- IN CHAMBER.

FRIDAY, MARCH

TRAGIC BOMB OUTRAGE.

TWENTY HILLED AND MANY INJURED.

19, 1926, 日六初月二

LEAGUE TANGLE.

U. S. ATTITUDE ON WORLD COURT-

MINISTER FAINTS.

Paris, March 18.

MORE REFUGEES,

Hundreds of refugees still pour

into Macho from the hitherto peace-

BANDITS' REVENGE.

A tragic commentary on the

A ministerial statement by the existing chaos in Kwangtung is

NEW TURN.

Brussels, March 18. Speaking to pressmen after his

ful township of Shokki, according now Briand Government has been contained in the news that twenty return to-day from Geneva, M. to reports to hand this morning, read in the Senate and Chamber. Chinese were killed and over fifty Vandervelde, in recalling which indicate that serious trouble

WINDLE; CORY JE OENTS

$36 PER ANNUM

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO, LTD..

23 WaNW NOVCHUNERD, HARRY VALLEY

WHISKY THEFT ON PAKHOI'S PLIGHT.

PEAK

STOLEN FOR EMBROCATION PURPOSES.

THE LATEST EXOUSE,

The disappearance of a bottle of whisky land half a pound of butter,

of house entering and stealing st

sent by Chan Kung-pok, the Chief anxious finally to settle Inter-the refusal of the elders of a village aion of the constitution of the is brewing as the result of an order it stated that the Government, was seriously wounded as the result of Briand's remark about the rev.of Mr. E. A. Leggatt, led to a charge the Man Chuen Bank, dwelt at of the Labour Departreont, to the Allied indebtednes and would in Hok Shan district to meet a de-League pointed out that there some length on what he described effect that the businossos of the

three principal vegetable dealers pursue the negotiations, which at mand for five thousand dollars were provisions in the Covenant as the improbability, firstly, of the

are to be closed down forthwith. present were in a promising condi-"Immunity foe" by a gang of ban-which it would be difficult if not defendant's wish not to break | Shekki, of course, is the biggest tion; and it would strive to end the dits headed by the notorious impossible to revise. He contend- faith as being the motive for his marketing centre in the Heungan antagonisms of Europe as it did at pursuance of the arrangements for District, and her merchants control

brigand leader, Ho Pak. Geneva the export of vegetables to Macao

within the framework of the loan through Messrs. Lam and Hongkong, The public are re-the League of Nations. The fact mert's; and, secondly, of Lam-sentful. it is stated, at the total that Germany's entry into the mert's coming into Court to de-injustice of the prder, which was League had been adjourned was not

graphically a few days ago,

such a step served nu conceivable.

second, counset

trist

structure in the centre

dent.

Exc

He then puti

BRITISH HOUSE AS SOLDIERS' CLUB.

STRICT BOYCOTT.

Further news from Pakhoi in dicates that the situation there is

tisher, Mr. G. E. Bell, thrned into a Soldiers' Club on being seized by the authorities. So much is In- dicated in a letter from the Tele

I think I can truthfully say the

people were glad. For just one

M. from 970, The Peak, the residence worse than it ever has been. The

boycott is being rigorously enfore ed, foreign goods confiscated and the Central Magistracy before Mr.e residence of a well-known. B-i- R. E. Lindsell, this morning..

Sergt. Walsh explained that the defendant had been farmerly om- ployed as a market coolle at the ed that permanent seats should be A travelling troupe of actors were held by the Powers with general

house, but was dismissed at the graph correspondent, dated 18th giving perforthanges in a bamboo interests and if the idea of giving terday morning, the defendant went end of January. About 3.15 yes-

instant, which reade as follows:

'When the old so-called army of liberately commit perjury, when conveyed to tho Magistrate tele the fault of the Locarno signa-village, and the first night's per-were admitted, it would be impos admittance through an unlocked (fled from Pakhoi a few months ago of the permanent seats to lesser Powers to the house and gained partial Tang Poon-yau marched, or, rather Our currespondent points out that tories. France's financial problem formanou passed off without inci-sible to know where to stop. He purpose. As regards the first of the trouble arose through illegal still awaited solution, and the

door. He then went to a pantry declared that the result of the where he took a key; with which he picket activity, followed by the these points, there had been shown capricions demands of the strikers, Government was in duty bound to

At midnight exactly, on the Geneva crisis was a check and the urgency of the Bank's need and the public opinion is that the secure

following night, a loud explosion not a catastrophe. The resigna-main part of the building.

opened a door giving access to the

year the long-suffering merchanta B completely and 1111-

had been forced to feed and clothe for the loan, and, as. regards the carrying out of such an order would equivocally balanced budget. The occurred in the middle of the nu-tion of Belgium was unthinkable.plaining how the arrest was effect-

constituto nothing less than condona. asked:-What tion of their various offences against Government demanded a prompt taneously by six other explosions permanent seats to the Council dience, followed almost simuland if the qucation of additional

them, not to mention the filling of. motive could induce Lammert's to the pence and good order of the dis vote on the Bill restoring single-

ed, Sergt. Walsh said Indian con-

the greedy General's pockets with

say that he had the money to lend

menrber Constituencies... Its para-

in other parts of the building came up again he would give full

stable saw the defendant in Plantas col, and had received in return The Magistrate up to the present

There appears to have been a mad weight to

nothing for their trouble. Bandita to Tsang, when, according to me taken in step to carry out the mount aim was "achievement," for

tion Road, walking in the direction Belgium's numerous Tsung's own evidence, Lammert order, and the police are said to the country had suffered to long scramble for the exits and over claims for

of Barker Road.

were reaping 'a great harvest, in The constable a permanent sept had to threaten to fire before the had said that he could not lend closing down of the premises,

have frankly refused to enforce the from discord and crises, and want-hundred were more or less injured-Reuter.

many cases actually assisted by the

the money himself? Would Chan,

defendant stopped.

rabble army of General Tapy Poon- The deputy sent by the Departed to feel itself governed-Reuter. In the panic which their authorised clerk. havement of Labour and Agriculture has taken this responsibility on him- been making every endeavour to

the bottle of whisky down by the yan and others, villages were loot- Later. Twenty people had been killed eelf by going to Tsang to say that bring about a settlement of the gen of confidence in M. Briaud's new and fifty were seriously wounded." League of Nations Union has un-in his chest, and he wanted the lessness undreamt and unheard of

The Chamber has passed a vote outright by the bomb explosions

side of the road and turned backed; the simple, plain, honest. hearted villagers murdered. and Lammert's had the money! Chan eral strike, but the strikers are un-

The defendant said he felt a pain their homes burned with a heart- would have then placed himself easonable and so far his efforts Ministry by. 361 vote to 164-

The terrible to as exacted animously in a most unfortunate position. have come to nought.

Reuter. Counsel next dealt with Mr.} Nissim's evidence and alluded to Mr. Jenkin's complete silence on this in his address, when in fnet) Mr. Nissim's evidence furnished a very important point in the case ne showing that although no actua! contact was established on June) 6th between Mr. Nissim and the defendant, yet what passed when Of the motor mishaps that oc- Mr. Chun acted as intermediary carred yesterday, one had fatal between them in lee House Street, results. A Chinese girl, seven must had made the fact aware to years of age, living in the mar defendant that in the negotiationsried quarters at Mong Kok Police Mr. Chan and Mesars. Lammert's Station, was knocked down by were acting only as agents. motor car No. 1119, in Coronation

The question of defendant being Road, Kowloon. ignorant of Moxon and Taylor's She was removed to the Kwong vital interest in the loan was next Wah Hospital, but her parents soon feverishly excited by a RD- referred to by Mr. Potter, who took her home after she had been yulist Deputy's criticism of M. quoted from Lammert's letter to attended to. She died during the Malvy (the new, Minister of the the Stock Exchange on 14th Sep-night. tember as establishing that, at all

A Chinese boy received in Interior) whom M. Briand stoutly

MOTOR FATALITY.

CHINESE GIRL DIES AFTER

ACCIDENT.

A NOISY SITTING.

Later. After M. Briand had read the above Ministerial Declaration, he said that the Government, owing to the necessity of rosuming) the financial debate as Hoon as possible, only accepted for im- medlate discussion an interpella-) tion on the constitution of the Cabinet.

This was accepted without division, but the Chumber

1

Was

resume his seat.-

material stages of the arrange-juries to his head, when he ran defended till a din of protests from ments, the position of the defen-across Queen's Road East, near the Right obliged the Premier toj dant vis-a-vis Messrs, Moxon and the Grand Theatre, and WAS Taylor was clearly fixed and under-struck by a mudguard of car No. stood. It was fantastic, sald 1910. He was taken to the Tung counsel, for the other side to raise Wah Hospital, but was not de- the question that Lammert's were tained.

Subsequently, as the result of

followed.

BRITISH REGRET.

London, March 18. The Executive of the British

munity. Nightly, not only did the He by the oldest people in the com

poor village people come into Pak- hoi and sleep in the streets for

resolved regretting whisky to rub on his chest. after the elders and taken every that Germany was not immediate was sent to prison for three months, possible precaution. Having ignored the demand for immediate payment, which came a few days

OLD WAR CLAIMS.

lv admitted to the League, and expressing astonishment and in- dignation that Germany's admis- VOLUNTEER DINNER. safety but brought with them their

sion was made the subject' 'of secret bargains, pledges and even

cattle and more valuable things as well. In some cases they prayed

threats utterly at variance with the PRESENTATIONS TO SCOTTISH to be allowed to bring their cattle

methods and spirit of the League," The resolution draws attention

to the extreme danger involved

by the creation of any permanent

OFFICERS.

into mission compounds, hoping they would be safe there. To the writer's personal knowledge, scores

3,000 Filed in Washington.

At a dinner held at the Volunteer of these simple people were mur, London, March 18.. The Morning Post cor-soever, except a few Great Powers night, the results of the Quarry out or revealed their meagre be- and irremoveable members what- Defence Corps Headquarters last dered in cold blood, their only sin being that they had not.. brought respondent at Washington whose continuous presence is says three thousand claims

necessary to give strength and Bay Cup Competition in connection ongings as quickly as the bandits have been filed in the State

authority to the Council"

with the Scottish Company were bad. desired, Department against Britain

General Tang's for violation of neutral rights

GERMANY NOT PROMISED MANDATES announced. The total points. se-things, even allowing people to bo soldiers took little notice of those in wartime, many of these

cured were

as follows: No. 7 robbed and murdered in the strebts being frivolous.

In the House of Commons, Capt. Platoon, 500; No. 5 Platoon, 388; of Pakhol. There was, therefore,

The correspondent recalls decisions by the United States Supreine Court against, Eng- lish shippers during the Civil War to show that a Court, in pursuance of those rulings, would be compelled to reject the present claims, -Reáter's American Service,"

M. Herriot's appeal to the Cham- ber, M. Briand proceeded. He before

London, March 18.

Waiter Shaw (Cons.) declared that

a provisional promise was givan to No. 6 Platoon, 238. The cup will something akin to rejoicing when Germany at Locarno to the effect be presented at the annual meet-their belongings, never, it was they were seen to be leaving with that if she entered the Leagua she

hoped, to return...

SILENT MERCHANTS

might ultimately obtain a Colonial ing to be held at Hallow'een. Mandate, and he asked whether the During the evening, opportunity Dominions approved of such an was also taken to make presenta We had heard many reports of undertaking.

tions to three officers who are go-the good conduct and efficiency of Mr. Locker Lampson replied that ing on Home leave, these being the "Red" Army and the local it was indicated to the German Captain J. E. Ross, Lieut. H. E. D. people had been made to believe only dealing with, Dastur, and not The driver of motor lorry 1443'

delegation at Locarno that Ger- Adams and Lieut. K. S. Morrison.that, now at last, salvation had. the performance. was many, as a member of the League, Lieut. D. C. Logan, M. C., who come or was about to come. For with Messrs. Mcxon and Taylor has reported to the police that claimed, that an agreement had scheduled to begin, a considerable would be a possible candidate for was in the chair, made the pro-this they had longed and prayed.. when driving along Queen's Road been achieved at Geneva and number of extra local Guarda were Colonial mandates like all other sentations, which were in the On every wall were stuck up great Later, Mr. Potter, in referring Central, he stopped to avoid a urged the necessity of voting enrolled, and other means were em-members, but it was incorrect to form of silver cigarette cascs; and posters declaring that the "Red" to the absence of the defendant's collision with a hand truck, which funds. He concluded by saying: ployed to obtain warning of any suggest that any promise or under the recipients suitably replied, name in the account books of was coming from Jubilee Street. "If you intend to overthrow tho Messrs. Moxon and Taylor, said The lorry skidded, and knocked Government, do it immediately." that it was the normal and ordin-down Chinese girl, aged nry way of entering the tran-years. She was bruised on the saction in the case of the undis- forehead, but refused to ro to closed principal, and in the pre-hospital.

ás a firm.

sent instance it met all practical

purposes, for the time being, to

ten

Army had come for no other pur Tikely attack.

taking was given to the Gorman Despite the inclement weather, pose but to save Southern Kwang- The merciless vengeance taken Covernment.--Reuter.

there was a goodly attendance at tung and begging the people to fall by Ho Pak came in an unexpected After loud applause. from the direction.

AUSTRALIA'S ATTITUDE. Left and the Centre, M. Barillet,

the dinner, those present including in line and help them to save the

a Member of the Right, re-attacked troops be sent from Canton to clear recent at the commen: sword dances, etc., and a thorough-Shun Po-fan, and Chan King-ming, many guests. The evening's pro-nation. The sins of Tang Poon- The elders are demanding that

Melbourne, March 18. In the House of Representatives, ceedings were enlivened by songs, yan, as well as those of Generai

M. Malvy, whom he charged with the district of the bandits. having on his hands the blood of

enter the item under the heading CHARGE WITHDRAWN. and who had been led astray by M.

of Lammert's.

It was also the

normal and ordinary way on the Stock Exchange for brokers not to endorse cheques which passed between then, and in the present instance, as in others, Lammert's gave their own cheque to the de- fendunt.

SEQUEL TO ATTEMPTED MURDER.

men shot for indiscipline in 1917)

Malvy's defeatist campaign.

M. Malvy sprang to his feet and passionately protested. He ap

AMERICA'S POPULATION.

pealed to M. Briand to allow him ELEVEN MILLIONS, GROWTH to resign if he would be a hind- Owing to the prosecution's witrance to the Cabinot. nesses having absconded, a charge "I am not a coward," interjected

IN SIX YEARS.

1.

New York, March 18.

wealth Government instructed its ly enjoyable time was spent representatives at Geneva that it did not favour an increase in the permanent members of the League Council apart from: Germany, Reuter.

'AMERICA'S WORLD COURT

RESERVATIONS.

Geneva, March 18.

A public sitting of the Council)

BRITAIN'S SAVINGS.

WIDE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.

were placarded with the greatest pains and these Generals, together. and Hongkong with the English must be wiped out at once. There was a lot of schoolboy chatter and almost everything possible was döne to make the life of the" foreigner, unpleasant and uncom fortable. But there was one class which was notably quiet and was Rugby, March 18. not heard to commit itself the The answer to a criticism by of attempted murder preferred lapsed and fainted, and had to be States on August 1st will be 117.- attention of all Governments, given in an address by Mr. Walter taking place at Canton.

M. Briand, and M. Malvy then col- that the population of the United Austen Chamberlain to draw the ing small investors in Britain were before, and they knew what was The Census Bureau estimates has agreed to a mation by Sir Some remarkable figures regard- merchants. They had been fooled his learned friend was as that against a young Chinese, before carried out of the Chamber amid 135,317, which is an increase of which have received from the Runelman, who said they showed "Let us admit that the new Army given by Mr. Lammert. It was Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon intense excitement. obvious whether Lammert's were agents or principals, it was im- Magistracy this morning, was

over eleven million since 1920-- Government of the United States that there was to-day a wider dis-was better than the old. We have The sitting was temporarily Router's American Service.". material in this argument that withdrawn by the Crown and the suspended. Lammert's should have taken on defendant was accordingly dis- a loss of $100 in taking the shares charged.

When the Chamber resumed, M. from the defendant bank at 196

Briand defended M. Malvy's, and turning them over to Moxon connection with the

The defendant was arrested in honour... After the yote of and Taylor at 100%.

attemptedfidence had been taken, the House murder of a money-changer of adjourned until Monday-Reuter, Proceeding, Mr. Potter said: Laichikok.

A

con-

Is

PRINCE'S HOLIDAY. TO VISIT THE

CONTINENT.

Rughy, March 18,

a copy of the American Senate's tribution of wealth in Britain than noticed with great satisfaction the resolution embodying the reserva-ever before. There were now orderly way things are conducted tions governing the adherence of about 16,000,000 capitalists In this and how well under control the the United States to the World country, he said, and the total soldiers are. We are glad to admit Court of Justice, to the difficulty amount of their savings was not also that some progress seems to of proceeding by a mere exchange far short of $2,000,000,000,000 Of have been made in the field of edu of Notes and the consequent need this immense sum, 4285,000,000 was cation, and there is less looting As regards this attack on Mr. that on the night of February 25, Government

It will be recalled The Socialists, voted with the of Wales intends to visit the Con- all the Governmente concerned, in- tional Savings Certificates, $196, came. The many golden promises It is announced that the Prince cil. The motion also proposed that Ings Bank, $228,000,000 in Na- going on much as before the "Reds" for general agreement of the Coun-deposited in the Post Office Say than before. Otherwise things are Birkett, in which, of course, Mr. whilst the complainant was in sympathy with M. Malvy, but inent at Easter pr early in April, cluding the United States, should 000,000 in small Government hold have not, as usual; been fulfilled. Lammert is involved with him, un- his shop, an unknown person have declared that they reserve fortunately, when you remember approached the premises, produ- full liberty of future action, among other aces. The period the discussion of the reservations industrial Safe Assurance Funds,

He may posibly visit Biarritz, appoint delegates to participate in ings, 2470,000,000' In ordinary and To speak the plain trath, the It for the nice things which my ced a revolver and fired at the particularly as regards the Gov- of his stay orbed is not likely to and frame a new agreement at the #140,000,000 in Building Societies, learned friend says of him, it is money-changer, inflicting an ab-ernment's financial measures, exceed ten days or fortnight meeting of the Assembly of the and 1900 900,000 in other ved

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British Wireleas

Reuter,

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