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W+ƑÆT SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1926.
KUOMINTANG PARTY DECISIONS
日八十二月二
OFFICERS SHOT.
GREEK REVOLT.
MILITARY OFFICERS LEAD MUTINY.
SUN YAT-SEN BOCIETY
DENOUNCED.
MILITARY CHANGES IN KWANGSI.
400 INSURGENTS.
Athens, April 9.
and
COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS.
"BANDITS BUSY.
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From the Office Butts.
There is no truth-in the rumour- After the Portuguese Interport that the Dairy Farm Company is matoh, the Shanghai team were inviting local golfors to visit the heard to sing "Yea, we have Pokfulum pastures and attempt some, Gosanos; we have some "A smart piece of work, I think
Since the name of the Society of
It will be recalled that when the to emulate the Royal example of Gesinos who play!” Ing to the United States Shipping it was," said Major C. Willson, at
It is officially announced that
Sun Yat-senion of Shanghai and remnants of the defented forces holing out in one in a cow's ear, Contral Magistracy Board originally sent out. to China the
this Majors Bakirdji, Karakoufa.
To ensure a dog's life these Nanking does not appear on the which belonged to General Lak
Judging from the high registra days, it's policy to keep him well during the years 1919, 1920 and morning, in commenting on the Zefas led a mutiny among a small manner in which Mr. Frederick
records of the Kuomintang, the at- Wing-ting were finally rounded up, tion numbers on our motor cars, covered at home. "1921, namely the Lake Farrar and Schnepel chased and run down a number of troops and occupied tention of the Central Party Com a battle took place which result- it would appear that pedestrians are now buying in self-defence. : the Lake Onawa, have now been snatcher in the central district Karabournu, in the Gulf of Salo-mittee has been called to the red in the complete defeat of the
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We agree with Dr. Kooh that Bold, both of them to a Japanese yesterday evening.
Karabournu was surround-solution passed at the second meet forces and the capture of Mong Major Franco, the Spanish air- some of the affaire seen on our A young Chinese was in the! concern at Nagasaki, which, it is
a charge of stealing a led and the fleet ordered to Salo-
Yan-chim and others. Mong Yan-man, has just received a Huelva bathing beaches are frightfully dock on
ehooking. stated, is associated to some ex-bandbag belonging to Mrs. Lim, nika. Subsequently it was a
chim was then ordered to be shot tant with the Kailan Mining Ad- and to this he unhesitatingly renounced that the mutineers bad
Fon the spot, and his officers were turned a plea of guilty. ministration.
The prosecuting police officer, aurrendered.-Reuter, The ships have a very interest-Inspector Watt, said that Mrs. AGAINST \ SUPERIOR OFFICERS. ing history, and they are amongst Lim Was standing under the
Athens, April 9. the most efficient boats for hand-verandah outside Jardine, Mathe-
The telegraph wires were Bet
son's in Des Voeux Road Central,
nika.
welcome.
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It's very upsetting to have one's
ing of the representatives of the Party, that no members of the party are permitted to organise
sent to Nanning under armed would merely suggest that the yacht turn turtle. societies, unions, etc., without the approval of the Central Party Com mittee.
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Wo don't wish ́ him harm, but
person responsible for magisterial. musings be given a synthetic poke
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Food will keep longer in the hot
escort.:
It is now reported from Nan-in the ear. It is now reported that at the ning that the two principal lieu- ling cargo quickly that have ever engaged in conversation with two buzzing by military and naval or 15th meeting of the Central Party tenants of Mong Yan-chim-Lar weather if you put a lock on the been sent out to the China Const. other ladies, when the defendant ders, and the whole country was Committee in Canton, a unanimous Kum-wah and Soo Yuct-po-were ice box.
leaving the strap in her hand.
They were originally sent out came up and snatched the basin feceipt of the news of the out-decision was reached that a strict tried by court martial and foundi
by the Admiral Oriental Line to
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DA Our office boy is ambitious. He is at present receiving vocational training as a sleeping partner,
Apropos nolsy motor cara, & London lawyer recently argued that a loud noise is not neces- If this sort of thing continues, sarily an objectionable one. The He ran up the lane between break by midnight. Troops from order be issued to all members of guilty of treason, and condemned our commercial men will be so popping of corks for example. act as feeders for all the large Whiteaway, Laidlaw's and Jar- Athens were immediately entrain- the Kuomintang, that, without the to be shot, and the other officers, busy investigating each other that
ជ ២ being found guilty of aiding and business.
they'll have no time left for
"Interested."-We do not think steamers that the Shipping Board dine's building, and was eventual- at that time had trading between y caught while doubling backed for Salonika and other garri- approval of the Central Party Com-
abetting, were sentenced to im-
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that a departing friend who sent into, Des Voeux Road, in Chisons were instructed to be pre-mittee, no member is permitted to "America and the Far East. Some-Loeng Lane, with the bag stili on pared. The fleet sailed at five in organise any society having a name
prisonment for terms ranging from We trust that no American you a P.P.O. card really meant one to three years.
newspaper headed the story of the you to Please Pay Chits. how it seems to have been over-him.
Mussolini attempt on
thus: ***
门口 The witness responsible for the the morning, with orders to shell imitating that of any society of the looked that these ships, 'whose
'Benito's Baozer Bust.”
The China Mail market report draft fully loaded was about 24 defendant's arrest, Mr. F. Schne-the insurgents, if necessary. All Kuomintang, nor be permitted to
quotes sucking pige as 25 cents feet, were altogether too deep to pel, in reply to a question from the malcontents and surrendered become a member of such society,
"The depreciation of the cher- each. We are given to under- be engaged efficiently in the ser- the Bench, told his Worship
It was further decided that here. Yuet-pao was carried out on March vontes is causing alarm in Soviet stand that this price does not in- vice for which they were intend- that he had anticipated that by 11.45 in the morning, and the ed. The Admiral Oriental Line, the defendant would turn into ringlenders despatched to Athens after no member of the Party wil 28th outside the north gate of the commercial circles" says a con- clude apple sauce.
temporary. Enough to make ank therefore, did the best they could Pedder Street, instead of which for Court Martial.
be permitted to make use of the city. Thus the flower of the them write off their balance. A reader complains that too with the ships, and ran them aethe man ran up the other alley-
A communique says the insur Society. of Sun Yat-senism or to Kwangsi Army, at one time led by
many people are given licences Amateur bull writers ara to carry revolvers, but it's com Independent cargo carriers between way past the Queen's Theatre into
mau turned into Chi Loong Lane cers are reported to have declared elsewhere, as opponents of the has come to an inglorious end. ate de trop. There's nothing in who have them couldn't hit the and was caught by witness and a that the movement was not nimed Party are now making use of this It is further reported that them.
other half if they tried..
.. he was a plain-clothes policeman: at the Government but at the heads Society to further their own ends,
Commending the part perform of the army at Salonika.—Inter.)
It is stated that the sentence of death on Lau Kum-wah and 500
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Hongkong, Indo China, Singapore, Queen's Road Central. Here the gents do not exceed 400. The off-organise a branch of that the powerful War Lord Lak Wing reminded that corsets nowadays forting to feel that half the folk:
Sumatra, Java and Borneo.
The dimensions of each of the
ships are 261 ft. long, 43 ft. 6 inches broad, moulded depth 28 ft. 2 inches. Their nett registered
Chinese who had shouted out that |
tonnage is 1,588 tons, and their Aajor Willson sentenced the de- ed by Mr. Schnepel in the ease, i gross tonnage 2,671 tons, with a fendant to six months' hard labour deadweight carrying capacity of and fifteen strokes with the birch. 4,150 tons.
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The agents who effected the Bale of these ships, which for the last year have been owned by the Robert Dollar Company, Messre. Sato & Company, of Hong- kong. The selling price was in!
the neighbourhood of
(Mex) each.
FRENCH DRUG TRAFFIC.
PREVIOUS INDICATIONS.
The Greek censorship has pre
London, April, 9.
vented an accurate appraisement
BANK RETURNS.
FIGURES FOR MARCH.
The returns of the
Average
General, Wong. Shia-hung has re- We trust that the Director of
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About the only thing a Scots- man pays for is expérience.
The lady who was overheard to make the record faux pas by de-, claring that the "really had not Why confine this muzzling noticed the fox pass" might have order only to dogs?
got away with it bad she been
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speaking to a Fanling huntsman. We never thought canvas cost
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sumed hia official duties after a the Royal Observatory "will lengthy absence on official bust-arrange this year's typhoons during week-ends, so they may ness in Canton, and that General not interfere too much with Li Chung-yan has communicated business... with the Canton Government that of the situation, which, however,
he expects to be ih Canton in the is reflected in the latest mails, anticipating excitement on the amount of bank notes in circula-middle of this month, when he will occasion of the Presidential tion and of specie in reserve in formally assume the membership Bo much until we noticed an election, alleging that Goa. Hongkong, during the month end of the Committee of Political advertisement offering a motor weather or simply because of a Plastiras, who was the leader ed 31st March, 1926, as certified Affairs and the Central Executive car and a tent for $400. $120,000 PARISIAN ACTRESS A VICTIM. of the revolution of 1922 and by the Managers of the respective Committee of the Kuomintang.
who last year was expoll Banks are: od from the country, .has clandestinely re-crossed the fron- with tier and crediting him engineering a soditious move- ment for the end of March.
are
"Paris, April 9. The shipping Board. in 1919 had many so-called "Lake" steamers Determined efforts by the Paris of the same length and breadth police to obliterate the increasing as the Lake Farrar and Lake illegal traffic in drugs have result- Onawa, and with a lagded drafted in numerous arrests recently,
It was announced on April 7th, of only about 17 ft. Unfortu- for instance, an arrest in connee that the Government had offered nately nobody in authority in the tion with the death yesterday fa reward of half a million dract- Shipping Board ever seemed to the well-known actress, Vandi mae for the arrest of Plastiras think of sending these ships out Sylvano, who was found dead at but apparently the latter has East.
Courbevoie, following an overdose lived up to his reputation of The only Lake boat now left on of heroin, with a lady barrister elusiveness.-Reuter, the China Coast is the Confucius, stretched senseless alongside her. ex-Lake Fielding, which is of Other arrests. involve a newsven- practically the same dimensions dor who was seen slipping small as the two above-named "steamers. Packets into the folds of his news-! She is now owned by the Kwong papers. The packets were found Hang Hing Co. of Hongkong and to contain cocainu.
is mostly engaged in carrying rice, between Saigon and this port.
SHIPPING TRAGEDY.
TERRIBLE ORDEAL OF
TANKER'S CREW.
CONTROL OF DOGS.
A REGULATION SUSPENDED,
Two Corsicans in Marseilles. were found in possession of three- It is notified in the Gazette that pounds of oplum, while a man who the regulation dealing with atray was arrested in connection with dogs at night which was made on the death of a girl from an over June 18th, 1925, is to be suspended dose of morphine, cut his throat from the 12th instant until further rather than face the charge.notice. This regulation gave power Reuter
MOROCCO PARLEY,
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TO OPEN.
to police officers to destroy dogs found ut liberty between the hours p 10 p.m., and 6 a.m.
Average Specie Amount. In Reserve.
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We don't know whether it's the
dearth of American tourista, but there aren't so many swallows Even the Peak Tramway Com- about. Banks."
Another report states that the pany refuses to take ita patrons defeated forces of Sun Pao-fan, who at face value those days.
Of all sad words of tongue or Chartered Bank
1 D of Indin, Aus-
sought shelter in the mountains,
pon, the saddest are "Where have tralia, and
We don't think much of the you been?" from your wife, China Hongkong and
15,455,517 5,300,000* have joined themselves with the ideo for a Pedestrians' Club.. It S'hai Banking
notorious bandit chief, Wong Pat- would probably degenerate into a Economy Note.-Blankets insy Corporation 47,154,061 10,000,0001 sun, and have captured the large filling station with free (hot) air. now be made into posh tennis. Mercantile Bank
villages Lok Ma, Kle Ling, Na,00 We notice there's a "Water- 560,0003 of India, Ltd. 1,132,504
Scott" in and Na-Heong market centres, and cooled
Hongkong.
Some of these young lads may Total .$65,042,088 45,850,000
bave made these villages into Looks as if local option is spread- not know it, but when they con- In addition Sterling Securities de-
ing to the Colonies. posited with the Crown Agent: strongholds from which they sally valued at £1,177,000.
forth on their depredatory excur- An Amorican millionaire is husband also. In addition Securities deposited sions. It is said that they are now said to have adopted the Mor- with the Crown Agents valued at a terror to the surrounding dis-mon Faith." £3,108,097.
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overcoats.
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fide in a married woman they are
most probably confiding in her
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Mormony than
Lots of old China hands find it
difficult to keep on their feet,
In addition Securities, deposited tricts, owing to the fnet that the sonse, we presume, syma
with the Crown Agents valued at brigands number over four thou-l £280,000.
sand and are well equipped with arms and ammunition.
BAGHDAD FLOODED.
SAFETY OF CITY
THREATENED...
H
COAL PROBLEM.
Baghdad, April 9.
DECISION.
The safety of Baghdad is threat MINERS REACH NO DEFINITE ened by unprecedented floods' of This regulation has now been the Tigris. The banks have been replaced by one requiring all dogs breached near the Royal Palace, to be either placed on a lead or which has been evacuated as it muzzled as from Monday next, fail is surrounded by a fiercely flowing ing which they are liable to be shot, | torrent.-Reuter. It is now notified that this regula- tion shall only apply to the island of Hongkong, Kowloon and New Kowloon.
New Orleans, April 9. Fifteen members of the crew of the Dutch oil steamer Silvanus, on which there was a serious ex- plosion following a collision with i
Paris, April 9. the U. S. Tanker Thomas. W. Following Abd-el-Krim's sending Whoelar, have now been brought an omissary to the French authori- ties in Morocco, negotiations are in. One Chinaman, who is badly opening immediately at Ujda ANGLO-FRENCH DEBTS, burnt, said that the Silvanus, with Morocco, between representatives a cargo of enzine, was nearly of the recalcitrant RI tribes and
ATTEMPT ON. MUSSOLINI.
KING GEORGE CONVEYS REGRETS.
London, April 9. the Franco-Spanish authorities. VISIT OF M. PERÈT DELAYED. bisected by the collision.. Sho The French delegation has been
The British Ambassador to Rome lator collided with the bank and appointed.-Reuter.
has been commanded to convey is was thrown back into the stream)
Paris, April 9. Majesty's regrets for the attempt and carried off by the current.
Following a Cabinet meeting, on the life of Signor 'Mussolini: M. Raoul Peret stated that he Reuter. only twelve out of the $5 Chinese drinking "Iysol" disinfectant, a end of next week. It la believed Attempting to take her life by would not go to London before the aboard, wore powerful enough to Chinese woman was taken to the he is awaiting certain Information dive and remain under the water Government Civil Hospital yes-from Washington with regard to until they passed the burning ofl.terday in a serious condition.
She burnt to the water's edge, and
The others who jumped perished. This act is reported to have the negotiations at present. - pro- All stripped before diving in followed on a domestic diasgroe-ceeding with the United States Router American Service.
Treasury Reuter.
ment:
TO-DAY
Dollar on demand
London, April 9. The Miners' Delegate Conference has not reached a definite declafon, but has unanimously adopted the Executive's recommendations as given yesterday.
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Australia has not entered for
We wish this United States the Davis Cup this year on ao Senator would borah a few sound count of the heavy expenses
ideas from somebody, which would be incurred. Upon learning this, MacWhirter re- marked that You Kangaroond the worrild for nothing these days."
"Buffaloes Moot," says a news paper heading. It's oocasionally. spolt differently and called
mutton:"
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The Postmaster Gonoral is to be given authority to delay trans- mission of mail matter, We hope he'll exercise it on some of our bills.
Hongkong is determined not to become a Half-Orown Colony,
According to the Telegraph, Bir
Compared to a bus, these taxis Hesketh Bell "in 1914 resigned have their good points. You can the Governorship of Mauritius, sit and hold handa without, which he had held from 1915." attracting attention. We don't favour these short-term
Another Delegate Conferenca 18. being called to arrive at a final appointmonts.
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You only need to go steeple decision. The Executive has, suc Countoss
Cathcart Calls chasing at Fanling to realise how ceeded in carrying a moderate Cravon Coward," says a New Prince of Wales.
hard it is not to look like the polley and has avoided for the York papor. So does our office moment a decision which would dictionary. have the effect of rejecting the
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The gentleman who occasionally owners proposals out right, thus If all the waste paper in an takes tiffin near us, really should creating a deadlock. It is probaditorial department were thrown remember that a bird in the hand able that the minors leaders will on the floor, it would continue to is awfully bad manners at table.. confer with the Government before make the office coolie angry. meeting the owners. The Miners DON
Perhaps one of these beauty
Executive is acting on the advice What is urgently required now shoppes can tell us where the of the Industrial Committee of the is a certain cure for Hongkong Indien dats goog Trades Union Congress that the mouth
Appropriately.
negotiations should be continued in mas
order that the points of difference It le rather unfortunato that skirts are the heigh
ween the partioa shall be. reduc- so many of the best
smallest dimensions leaving the Co
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