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The

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No. 21.059

FOUNDED 1861

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THURSDAY APRIL

8, 1926. 日六十二月二

THE BOYCOTT.-

CHINA PROVIDENT AFFAIRS

SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES AT

TO-DAY'S MEETING.

$2.000.000 ESTIMATED LOSS.

TRAIN SMASH.

HONGKONG MAN'S LUCKY

· ESCAPE..

NEARLY 30 KILLED.

A well-known Hongkong resident, in the person of Mr. T. Orton, formerly with the Dollar!

SERIOUS INDIAN RIOTS

EUROPEAN LADY INJURED.

CANTON UNIONS DISCUSS SETTLEMENT.

RECENT MEETING.

BIG MILL STRIKE

Calcutta, April 7.

A report From Canton statee' A very grave situation has arisen that, at the instance of the Canton- at Gouripore, 25 miles from Cal- cutta, where thousands of mill Hongkong Strike Union, a meeting of representatives of all the Labour Unions was held on the 4th instant for the purpose of discuss- ing the terms of the strike and

Estimating that, losses totalling two million dollars and a reorganisation of the Company might have to be fhead, Mr. T.G. Steamship Company, but now re-workers have strict as a sequel to Weall, on behalf of the Consulting Committee of the China Provident, Loan and Mortgage Co., made disquieting disclosures at presenting Messrs. H. K. Mulford

an extraordinary meeting of shareholders this morning.

Mr. R. G. Shewan replied to the allogations, expressing the hope that fuller investigations would s 'wo brighter position. than that indicated by Mr. Waall.

and Co., manufacturing chemists of

Philadelphia, had a narrow escape

from death on March 23rd, when

Amongst resolutions passed was one appointing six share-a serious railway smash occurred holders to assist in further investigations,

a European's alleged assault on a coelie 'who bas. died. The situa tion became warge in the evening, Europeans being assaultra. Four were injured. Armed poles have!

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ATTEMPT ON MUSSOLINI.

ENGLISHWOMAN FIRES REVOLVER POINT BLANK.

FACIAL WOUND INFLICTED.

A sensation has been caused in Italy by the attempted asoaer- ination of the Premier, Signor Mussolini, by a titled English- woman who fired point-blank at him with a revolver as he was leaving a meeting of the International Congress of Surgeons, hald in Rome.

Signor Mussolini was wounded in the nose, but his injury is . not serious.

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His assaillant is the Hon. Violet Albing Gibson, sister of the present Lord Ashbourne. as is a spinster, 50 years of age. of eccentric habits.

While the

Rome, April 7. Premier, Signor

PUBLIC INDIGNATION.

Rome, April 7. The news of the attempt on the

It was stated at the meeting that on the main Haiphong-Yunnanfu

both the Hongkong and Canton Governments, had selected 'dele- The meeting was, largely at-

ENGLISH LADY, INJURED. An examination of the books line, resulting in the death of 28 Zended, and Mr. R. G. Shewan shows that from March. 15th up passengers and more or less serious

Calcutta, April 7.

gates to negotiate the settlement, occupied the chair. The follow-to the end of the year, the General injury to about a hundred others.

The arrival of armed police following which a discussion took ing members of the Consulting Managers proceeded to issue these! The train comprised five from Barrackpore quieted the place on the subject. It is report-Mussolini was leaving the Interna- Committeo were present: The shares at par to certain sharehol-carriages and a big 90-ton locomo rioters at Gouripore, though the ed that the debate was not marked tional Congress of Surgery, an life of Signor Mussolint spread Rev. Father L, Robert, Mr. T. G. ders whose acceptances they re-tive, and Mr. Orton was the only coolies have not returned to work by any bad feeling and that even-unknown elderly woman shot at rapidly throughout the city and Weall, Mr. H. P. White, Mr. J. H. ceived after March 15th. They European amongst the passengers The European mentioned earlier tually a resolution was adopted to him with a revolver, almost point caused profound indignation among Takgart, and Mr. T. de Meester, pald dividends upon shares so is-It left Ami Tchen for Pi Shi Chas

the effect that the meeting was

of the populace, The Secretary, Mr. D. L. King, sued as though they had been at 6.20 am, on the date named and

convinced of the necessity of call-blank, wounding him slightly in all sections read the notice convening the taken up and the allotment money whilst travelling at about forty

ing off the strike and boycott, and the nose.

especially in the Central district. meeting, and the Chairman said: paid upon March 15th. In many miles an hour the locomotive jump-

that the settlement be left in the The first business is a statement cases, they failed to charge theed the rails at a hairpin bend. by the Consulting Committee as the appropriate rate of interest upon landing in

a ditch about nine result of investigations made by the neceptances. We believe that metres from the line. This occur- them. I understand that Mr. Wenll these methods resulted in a less red at 8 a.m., at a spot some two la to read it.

to the Company of about $100,000, and a half miles from the station THE COMMITTEE'S " Not only did the General Mana- of Tachuang, on the main line..

xers thus fall in their duty to the When the engino. jumped tha STATEMENT. Mr. Well then said:-The Gen-Company, but at the General Meet-rails, it became uncoupled and the ing held on April 30th, 1924, your carriages continued their career eral Managers bare called this Committee and the shareholders along the line, with the result tha meeting at the request of your were led to believe that at that the first four telescoped, but the

Consulting Committee, who have date the whole of the 400,000 fifth, in which Mr. Orton was ásked me to make a statement to shares had in fact been taken up, travelling, fortunately kept to that you regarding what we consider and the allotment money paid. rails and was. In no way damaged.

contains.

MORTGAGES.

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COLOSSAL DIL BLAZE. Lightning Striker Huge Tanks.

New York, April 7. The largest fire in the his- tory of the oil industry is reported in a message from San Luis Obispo, California, which states that, the con- . flagration involved four, huge tanks belonging to the Union Oil Comparadontaining nearly four in barrels of th

The tanks were fired by lightning and the following explosion broke hundreds of windows in the vicinity and and shook the whole city.

Hundreds of men 'arò frantically constructing dykes to provent the dames from spreading to fify smaller

which are nearby. Renter's American. Service,

hands of the Canton Government.

Signor Mussolini was most calm

Feelings ran high and a number

of young people marched to the

offices of the Opposition newspaper

In connection with the illness of and immediately gave directions Mr. Wang Ching-wai, a Canton re- with a view to preventing a dis port says that the Committee meet-turbance. The woman was with Monde, where they violently pro- ings which were formerly held the utmost difficulty rescued from tested and damaged the plant. either at Government House or at

strict orders to excesses.-Reuter.

suppress all

Mr. Wang's private residence, are an incensed crowd and taken to The authorities immediately issued now taking place at the private prison.-Reuter. residence of General Chang Kai-shek Members of the Seclely of .Sun Yat-seniem are keeping a strict watch over

FULL DETAILS

Later.

In a speech at the International

POPULAR SYMPATHY.

Rome, April 7.

the activities of the Communists Congress of Surgery, which gas Flags are flying throughout the

A further report states that attended by 600 delegates, Signor city in celebration of General Chang Kai-shek is devot

tho ing much of his time to the de-Mussolini praised surgeons for Premier's escape. An enormous fence and fortification of the their heroic fight against death, throng is stationed in front of Bocca Tigris and other forts on mentioning "myself, who experi-Mussolini's residence and two re- adjacent islands and in the Tung enced your marvellous skill as agisters in the Porter's Lodge have koon district. This is taken to

been completely filled with the

indicate that General Chang is soldier in the great war.”

making preparations against a Later, on leaving the Capitol ac- signatures of well-wishers, in- possible attack from sea by the companted by a number of doctors cluding the Diplomatic Corps.. fleet under Admira! Too Shik-Signor. Mussolin! was kwai, which is working for Wa

RAILWAY SCHEMA.

of Construction for the right to

loudly

SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN 8:

to

to be the very unsatisfactory posi-

It soon became. apparent that flon of the Company's financial

there were many casualties, and it affairs, to advise you of the steps) A large number of loans against was heartrending to hear the the Committee have already taken properly have been found to be moans and cries of the injured and to put before you certain pro-insufficiently secured. In some many of whom were pinned down | posals for the future.

deeds had not by the wreckage. cases, mortgage

Unfortunately. certain been completed and in many cases there was no first-aid equipment on In October last year, facts came to our knowledge and proper valuations Hnd "not been the train, and consequently it war we at once requested the General obtained of property against some time before the injured out Managers to call in Messrs. Lowe, which money had been lont. So be extricated and given treatment Mr. Orton managed to get down Bingham and Matthews as inde-far back as November, 1925, your

'Signor Mussolini has telegraph-i pendent accountants to carry out Committee insisted and the Gene- to the station at Tachuang and

and AC- ed to the King informing Hia Pel-fu, who is reported to be mobi-cheered by the crowd a thorough investigation, and after ral Managers undertook to have from this spot a relief train was denies the allegations made. a period of three

Religious ferment in Calcutta lising in four directions to attack knowledged the tributes by the Majesty of the attempted a months, the legal mortgages executed in res- despatched to the scene of the

aination and, re-assuring him as length of which period was partly pect of all loans made on landed accident. No doctor was sent up itself has not yet subsided, being Hunan in order to effect a junc-Roman salute. necessitated by the position of the securities.

on the relief train, and consequent nurtured by false rumours of ture with Tang Chi-yao.

The Duke. As he crossed the square to- regards his health. Company's recorda, a report was An illuminating instance of the Mr. Orton had to superintend the assaults and desecrations of tem- A Moham- presented to us. This report, in methods pursued by the Gener treatment of the injured and see ples and mosques.

The Director of the Canton wards his motor, an elderly woman and the Attorney General were epite of the time of necessity ex-Managers is that of Mr., Tong Hok-to their removal to the relief train. medan was killed in the street Samshui Railway, Mr. Li Chok- in dark clothes, dashed from the among the Premier's visitors.

Some of the victims were vary to-day and an English lady in- pended in its preparation, is mere ting, compradore and partner of badly injured, and these, with the jured. A number of Hindus and wing, has petitioned the Bureau crowd, whipped out a revolver and ly a preliminary statement. It Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Co. others, were taken on to Pi Shi Moslems have been sent to hos-construct a branch line from fired, wounding Mussolini In the

MESSAGE. does not in any way purport to to whom approximately 4 lakhs Chai, where they arrived at 3 pm pital suffering from lathi blows Fatshan, passing through the im- lower part of the nose. Three give us a definite and complete of the Company's money was ad- and were, attended to by a doctor, and stabs.

Rome, April 7. analysis of the affairs of the vanced on title deeds, which we being later sent on by the same

portant markets and large vil-officers immediately seized the Sir Austen Chamberlain has Sir Hugh Stevenson ia touring Company, but it nevertheless re-are now informed by the General train to Mentsse, by which Mr. the area,

lages of the districts of Nam-Hoi, woman and prevented further sent a message to Signor Mus- conferring with the veals such disquieting matters that Managers are valueless

Shun Tak and Sun-wul, to con": we felt it was obviously necessary for this loan.. This information investigations were completed, it Reuter,

security Orton also travelled. When the leaders of both communities. nect with the Sunning Railway at shots, and protected her from the solini, saying: "Horrified to lay before you at the earliest was given us for the first time on was found that 28 of the passengers

Kongmoon. The petition states fury of the crowd which tried to learn of abominable attempt on opportunity the information which March 28th. We understand now had been killed and at least #

that this branch line has been lynch her."

your life. My wife joins me in that the General Managers were hundred injured. Both Mr. Orton

under comtemplation by his pre-

When hit, Signor Mussolini put congratulating you on escape. We aware of it two months earlier.

decessora for some years, but

his hand to his nose and withdrew trust your wound is not serious." owing to the militarists' having seized the management of the rail-it, dripping with blood. The cele--Reuter.

brated surgeon, Dr. Bastanielli way) way and appropriated its earnings accompanying him and he imme- for the payment of troops, the diately pressed a handkerchief to what I have to say, that a com- shares, the result in many cases ed for the accident. One is that

undertaking had to be set aside the Premier's nose to check the The Fascist press unitedly laye plete Investigation of the Com- being disastrous. Loans were the train was travelling too fast to

for the time being. Now that bleeding. Signor Mussolini return the blame on anti-Fascist cam- pany's affairs will be necessary, made on shares carrying liabili- take the bend, but another is that upon the advice of his doctors, the civil and military administra ed to the Capitol, where surgeons paigns and "ginister foreign in- and such complete investigation, tias for further calls and apparent name of the rails had been torn uy left London to-day to apend the tions are confined to their proper applied first-aid dressings, and terest." It opines that criminal when made, may in many cases ty the prudent policy of requiring by the caravan people, who have first stage of his convalescence spheres of activity, the construc-Mussolini immediately ordered that anti-Italian propaganda should no amplify or limit the conclusions a margin of safety was not pur-long resented the fact that they are at Sandwich, where he has taken tion of this branch line should nó reprisale be taken against his longer be tolerated by civilised reached by the accountants in this sued,

charged taxes on transport of mera house for short period-be taken up without further delay. assallant. He was most compose nations.--Reuter, " preliminary report, but with your I do not intend to trouble youjchandise, whilst the railway is ex-British Wireless..

An estimate submitted by Mr. and reassured hia anxious

A FREVIOUS. ATTEMPT. pormission I will enumerate some with a long-list of specific items, empt therefrom. Yet another stowy|

Li shows not only that the line entourage that the wound was It will be remembered that on of the principal items so far dis but, as. an example, there are is that the whole thing centres

would be a remunerative proposi-nothing. He then motored to his

loat the day "closed.

two loans to Messrs. G. P. & H. A. around a dispute between the soldi-

tion, but also stresses the neces-residence, to which various distin- November 5th Lammert on the security of shares ers and the local people as to who]

sity of linking up these produc-guished personages hastened to when Italy was officially celebrat which, according to the report, onjshall get the taxes on loads carried!

tive and populous towns in order condole with him. Dr. Bastantelli ing her victory in the Great War. valuation of December 31st, by caravan.

to bring prosperity to the people, issued a bulletin, saying Thoa sensation was caused by the 1926, show, an approximate excess There was another alight railway] A mah-jongg party held by a Once the railway is completed, it wound is due to gunshot, which diacovery and exposure of a plot ary 14th, 1924, and confirmed on of loan over security of $181,000 mishap on March 28th, when the Chinese broker, named Tamis believed that various industrial perforated the nostrils; but it is to assassinate Signor Mussolini, January 20th, 1924, a new issue of and $22,500 respectively on that train from Hakow went off the Chung, at his home in No. 20, enterprises will follow. Five not serious."-Reuter. capital Whs authorised,

and date,

Unfortunately there are track on the Namti river

near Kennedy Street last night, was copies of the estimate, together many other similar cases.

Wantang, the passengers having to interrupted by the audden op with a full report of the places Interest on loans is in a large be transferred and arriving at Pipentance of armed robbers who through which the railway would these number of instances in default. Shi Chal at three o'clock on the made a terrifying show with a pass, are forwarded with the peti to be taken up by share-Such items have in many cases following morning.

revolver and three. daggers. tlan.. Nevertheless the wife of the broker screamed "Save life!" and

My statement, therefore, will not attempt to give you an exhaus

tive survey of the report, because!

I think you will agree with your

LOANS ON SHARES, ETC. Very large sums of money have

Committee, when you have heard been advanced on the security of

NEW JESUE, OF CAPITAL

You will remember that by a special resolution passed on Janu

· 400,000

new shares created.

A specific date, March 16th,

1924, was fixed for

holders whose dress

registered ad-been credited to revenue and

and his interprétér had a miracul- rus escape from death, the carriago

In which they were travelling never ever leaving the rails.

There are various reasons ascrib

Was within Hongkong, merely added on to the amount

After that date, of the loan and General Managers EGYPTIAN MUSEUM.

China of Japan.

New York, April 7.

PRINCE CONVALESCENT.

GOES TO SANDWICH.

Rugby, April 7.

The Prince of Wales, acting

MAH JONGG PARTY.

DISTURBED BY ROBBERS.

was immediately stabbed in the left shoulder. The broker and

THE ASSAILANT

FASCIST PRESS INDIGNANT.

Rome, April 7.

the ex-Socialist Deputy Zanibont being arrested. A special riffe with a telescopic sight of a type Rome, April 7 used by sharpshooters in war-time Mussolini's nesailant was found in position in a sort of Signor gave the name of Violet Albina loophole cut in window shutters of Gibson, aged 50, a British subject. a near-by hotel and trained on the

London, April 7

balcony of Chigi Palace, where: In connection with the attack Signor Mussolini was due to view on Signor Mussolini, Reuter is

The shutters of the a parade. BIG IMPROVEMENT IN RATE. Informed by a member of Lord windows, which almost face the Ashbourne's family that his sis Palace, were so arranged as to London, April 7ter, the Honourable Violet Albino permit the shooting to be done There has been a remarkable Gibson, who is a lady of some without observation. The culprit,

BELGIAN FRANCS..

the remainder of the unissued commission has been charged THE ROCKEFELLER OFFER shares was to be disposed of by thereon. It is impossible to cati-

his wife were then bundled into the General Managers. Now, as mate the sum involved at present,] these shares on March 15th, 1924, but this is a matter for the ac by Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, Junior, during which the unwelcome improvement in the rate of Belgian what eccentric temperament, Zarlboni wore his uniform as a

The pross publishes a statement the back room, where they were confined for about 20 minutes, wore standing at a high premium countants to go into more fully that he has authorised his in the market, it appeare to us that Needless to say, the inclusion of

· TODTE--

It was the plain duty of the Gene such debts in the balance sheet sentative in Egypt to withdraw his/vialtora madain search of the francs in London. They opened at present in Rome--Reuter,

major of the Alpini and had sha Latered of his moustache to disr

function equipped for a long journey

Fascist in waiting when the pol

Ised on the scene, rooms havin

yet complet taken at diag

offer to establish an Egyptian premison. Their efforts were at 180. and closed at 124.6 ral Managera either to offer the as good assets tends to create an museum, if necessary in order to awarded with only a small haut This is a sequel to the Belgian remaining uniesued shares to all altogether false impression of the end the controversy among of money.KUNG

Finance Minister, 24. Janähen, Mussolini'e injury did not pre-his Identity. A motor car the shareholders or to have dis- Company's standing, and I am Egyptians whether it is acceptable. When the police arrived after visiting the Treasury, the result of vent his attendan posed of them in the market and afraid that a large portion of Meanwhile, a revised offer, based the departure of the robbers, which is that all exterior debts by for installing Obtained the premia for the bene- these sums will need to be written on suggestions of Ziwar Pesha is they had the injured woman re- Belgium and the Belgian Congo to Directory at At of the Company, In fact they off entirely

baing forwarded to Egypt moved to the Government Ofyll Britain have been defnitely settled, that Fasc did neith

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