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LOCAL BEQUESTS.

BY LATE SIR PAUL CHATER.

$50,000 FOR JOCKEY CLUB.

We have been favoured with the following information dealing with the contents of the will of the Honourable Sir Catchick Paul Chater so far as local interests are concerned.

It appears his Executors and Trustees are Lady Chater, Mr, W.

E. L. Shenton, K. F. Mattingly and Mr. A. H. Barlow,

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SOME LEGACIES. After giving his personal effects to Lady Chater, "he bequeaths, among others, the following lega.

cles and annuities: Annuity to Lady

Chater Legacy to Lady

Chaler Legacy to Dr. J. C.

McGown" Legacy to Mr. E.

Sadick

Legacy to Dr. Fred

Kew

Legacy to Hongkong..

‚£10.000.

C 5,00

$50,000N,

1$25,000.

Jockey Club 12.1.850.000...

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1801

Nu. 21,872

二拜禮 號一月六英港香

TUESDAY, JUNE

1926.

日一十二月四

THE COAL STRIKE OUTLOOK,

NEGOTIATIONS NOT YET

RESUMED.

OFFER WHICH EXPIRED.

Rugby, May 31. No open moves had taken place up to this evening to bring about fresh coul negotiations... At mid- night, the Government's offer of a" subsidy of £3,000,000 expires. The Premier was back in town to-day.

WAR THREATS.

NAVAL ATTACK ON KWANGTUNG?

THE LATEST RUMOURS,

7

BOYCOTT SETTLEMENT DUAL TRAGEDY.

REPORT.

MANDATE BY CANTON GOVERNMENT.

EARLY SOLUTION DESIRED.

According to a report from Cán- ton, the Government yesterday is-

SINGAPORE

EUROPEANS KILLED.

HOLIDAY MOTOR SMASH.

SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS 135 PER ANNUM

You can changeover your 1924 Chevro- let, 1921 Essex, Ford, Gray, 1920-1924 Overland, Star, etc., to Balloon Wheels and Tyres complete for

$205. This includos fivo 29 x 4.40 Firestone Tubos, five 29 x 4.40 Firestone. Tyres, four wheels, five rims, and necessary. bolts, nuts, clumps. This price is for the complete set of wheels and Tyres fitted on the car..

STRAITS SHIPPING DISASTER.

ENQUIRY INTO LOSS OF

· “PENANG"

MASTER EXONERATED

The loss of the Straits Steam-

THE DRAGON MOTON:

CAR CO., LTD

HAPPY VALLEY

WORLD PEACE.

U.S. "COMMON SENSE” POLICY.

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.

Washington, May 31. "Common sense should be

As briefly reported by cable at the time, two well-known and ship Company's steamer Penang America's contribution to world

sued a long mandate to the affect popular members of the Europeah by fire on the night of April 22 peace, declared President Coolidge

that the Hongkong-Canton strike and boycott should be settled at an

A report from Swatow states that since a part of the 1st Army Corps was despatched to Canton, five regiments of the 6th Army Corps have now received orders to leave for the same destination. In consequence of these move- ments, wild rumours that Kwang- The evening journal, Startung is to be invaded from Hunan, states that while Mr. Baldwin Kiangki and Fukien are being cir- has been spending the Whitsun.culated and the inhabitants are in solution of the impasse. ⠀⠀

tide holiday at his country resi a state of consternation. dence, the 'Chequers, he has not

been inactive and has been in in direct touch with representative of both the owners and miners. The Star hints that as a result

Rumours are also circulating to

the effect that a couple of politi- cal agents have been caught, who have revealed an extensive not work of intrigue throughout the

of these preliminaries, there are districts of the East River sector, likely to be important develop-The movements of the troops, the arrest of the political agents, and Intents in the situation.

·SUPPLIES" FROM ABROAD,

In the event of the coal stop-

the urgent demand for money

made on the Chamber of Com- merec, have intensified public un-

community

were of Singapore

was the subject of investigation in the course of his Memorial the victims of a motor accident by a Marine Court of Enquiry at which occurred on the Keppel Singapore last week.

Day address at the Arligton Na- early date and that the acting Rond on Empire Day. The do-

tional Cemetery. He said Ameri Minister of Foreign Affaäa, Mr. |

"The findings of the Court, in cans believed that other nations censed are

Mr. P. N. Lowndes reply to the questions put, were: Eugene Chen, has been instructéd |

and 'Mr. H. W. Kernick, both of

ought to join them in laying uaide to bring together all parties con-

Was the Penang properly found, suspicions and hatreds sufficiently equipped and in seaworthy condito agree among themselves upon cerned, with a view to satisfactory

tion RB regards ber

hull, methods of mutual relief from the machinery, and fire extinguishing necessity of maintaining great. apparatus? Yes.

land and sea armaments. This What caused the outbreak...of would be impossible if they don fire on April 22, 19267-There is stantly had in mind resort to war no evidence as to the cause of the for the redress of wrongs and

enforcement of rights.. outbreak of fire.

The mandate further says that in consideration of the protest of

the people against the sale of kere-

sene under Government control, It is now rescinded.

whom had resided in Singapore for a number of years and were

of friends. very popular among a wide circle

A MYSTERY,

There were no actual eyewitness of the accident, although a number

to the prevalence of banditry of people were on the scone very the Government orders that all wa- shortly, after it happened. " Thus, terways are to be cleared of all the nunner in which the accident pirates within one month and ban-occurred must, remain something ditry suppressed throughout the of a mystery. The accident oc- province in two months.

|

Were all adequate and neces- aary-measures taken to extinguish the fire? Yes.

AMERICA AND EUROPE. The League of Nations ought to be able to provide those countries with a certain political guarantee After the vessel caught fire which the United States did not were proper steps taken to on-require; also the World Court deavour to save her and thecould "certainly be used for the

curred ut about half past eight in The Government further prohi the evening and at the time, at- page continuing, it is stated that xiety. It is said that the Cham-bits all civil organisations from cering to the statement of a large quantities of foreign coulber of Commerce is only able to using armed force, and permits police officer who was on the scene Argo?—Yes, are at the command of British raise one-third of the sunt de the people to petition the Cen-almost immediately there was no Yuarters, who will receive assis-randed-namely, about two hun-tral Censorate Committee for re- other traffic on the road for agence (if any) was the fire

tance from Government if that dred thousand dollars. Legacy to his office boy $100,"should be necessary. These sup

TO ARMENIAN CITURGH.

plies are understood to be availa-

ble from the Saar Basin and France.

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Negotiations with the United States are well advanced also.

The residuary estate, after making very substantial, pro- 'visions for his nephews and their

The Government has been dis- children, is given to the Armenian

sured that no obstacle in the Holy Church of Nazareth." Cal-handling of coal imported from foreign countries will be raised by the railwaymėn.—British Wireless.

cutia.

Lady Chater has the right of occupying Marble Hall as long as she wishes, and, on her desiring not to further occupy the house, then it is given unconditionally to the Hongkong Government.

As

LAND INVESTMENT CO.

regards the Permanent

INVASION, ORDERS."

officials.

dress in case of illegal conduct by considerable distance.

General reforation of Mr. Kernick and Mr. Lowndes the system of educatiofis also were in an Essex car, on their way A further report · states that

ordered.

from.

m. town to Pasir Panjang, and, Chow Yum-yan, Typan of Fukien, has received orders to mobilise take the most stringent measures from the fact that the driving

the Kwangtung against all enemies of the Govern-wheel was still clutched f

Lastly, the police alred to

ment.

WORLD AFFAIRS.

"

By whose wrongful act or negli

caused? There is no evidence to enable, the Court to answer this question.

What is the loss

lay of Life-Eight Chinese members of erary on hands after the accident, it is ap-to have been drowned.

accounted for and are presumed

parent that Mr. Kernick was driv- ing. Just before Gate No. 4 the road takes a sharp bend to the

determination of all Justiciable disputes. Americans should not under-estimate the difficulties of tend to them the highest degree European nations, nor fail to ex- of patience and sympathy. But we cannot fail to assert our con- viction that they are in great need of further limitations of armaments."

THE COMING CONFERENCE. lited States entered the preliminary Dinament Confer ence with the utmost good faith, in the sincere belief that it repre- Were boats lowered in a sea-sented the utmost good faith on manlike manner? If not who (if the part of the other participants,

(b). Ship?-Total Loss. (c) Cargo?-Total loss.

his forces on frontier for active service, and to invade the territory as soon as all military preparations are ready, It is also stated that much amuni- tion has arrived at Amoy, and PRINCE ADDRESSES BRITISH that instead of taking the bed lower No. 1 and No. 2 boats fail- technicalities and solved in a way left and marks on the road shew anybody) was at fault? There They wanted to see the problems troops are said to be on the way

by transports.

Another story is that Wu Pei-

INSTITUTE.

drain.

INSTANTANEOUS DEATH.

were four boats, Attempts to there presented stripped of all

DUTCH TRADE BENEFITS,

Rotterdam, May 31.

the car ran almost directly acressed owing to the smoke and the that would secure practical re- The effect of the British strike

No. 3 boat sults. Rugby, May 31...to the right hand side of the road, heat of the fire:

They were ready to sup- un the Dutch coal trade is shown by the fact that from the 1st to fus as soon as he has had a con-livered an address at the Institue

When the Prince of Wales de- the off wheels running into the appears to have been lowered in port every effort in that direction.

a seamanlike manner. No. 4 boat,

WAR DEUTS. the 29th inst., 329 vessels left ference with Chang Tso-lin, will of International Affairs to-day, he

which had been swung out 'before

President leaving Singapore, was apparently

Coolidge declared here with cargoes of over 1,500,- dispatch the Northern Squadron announced that the King had com- Managing Directorship of the 000 tons of coal, compared with

handled. without orders, by that foreign war debts should be Hongkong Land Investment & the usual monthly average of to attack Kwangtung by a should be added to the title of the manded that the word "Royal"" Agency Co. Ltd., Sir Paul Chater, 700,000 tons, while for the same making Amoy as

"It appears that the cur travelled Chinese coolies and others with liquidated on a broad moral and the result that number of humanitarian basis: He added has subject to certain specific period 383 vessels bunkered at the

the base Institute in the future. The in this way for short distance persons were thrown into the sea. that he believed the adjustments terms, nominated Messrs. E. Dew waterway, compared with

operation.

Prince opened the Institute two until the rear axle came into such What caused the loss of eight made would be mutually benefi- Sassoon & Co. Ltd., and should 84 for the corresponding period of

year ago and to-day he" opened a

lives The loss of life was cial to the trade relations of the lecture hall. they not accept the office then Sir

a concreteenused by the improper handling countries involved, and out of 1925.--Router. Robert Ho Tung, and should he

An order by the Military Coun- In his speech, the Prince explain-stone, at the side of the road that of boat No. 4.

these economic benefits would be not accept the office, then Mr. J.

eil has been issued which states ed the origin and object of the both motorists were thrown out of

Decision of the Court The derived additional guarantees for that banditry is to be suppressed Institute. He recalled how antil re- the

cause of the casualty was a sud- stability and the peace of the London, May 31.

ear. They sustained such den outbreak of fire, the origin of world.-Reuter's America Service. and all bandits 'rounded up with-cently, there had been recognised | *** "The coal subsidy has

How

T. Bagram for the benefit of the estale.

SCOPES CASE REVIVED.

APPEAL AGAINST ANTI-EVOLUTION LAW,

Nashville (Tenn.), May 31. The Scopes evolution case has been revived with an appeal before the State Supreme Court, in Which Scopea' counsel in a care-

TO-DAY'S HOPE'S.

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR.

to-

DIFFERENCES OF OPINION

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SUPPRESSING HANDITS.

Publicity Ministry

of

recent

re-

of

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AT GENEVA...

Geneva, May 31."

the Central Executive Committee,

3

violent contact with

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AFTER 150 YEARS,

U. S. INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION.

The Will contains special dis-lupsed and the Cabinet met late plan for

in two months. It is said that the or chartered Societies devoted to severe injuries that death must which is not known. No blame simultaneous netion the study of nearly every import-have occurred almost immediately. attaches to the master or officers cretionery powers as to the post- to-night, the main object being throughout the province is now ant subject except international re- The police constable on duty at of the ship with respect to the loos ponement of realisation of the for Ministers to be accessible in completed, and is to be put into lations. This Institute was Gate No. 4, his attention attracted of the vessel or of life. estate and for the allotment of case of a last-minute approach by force within ten days,

brought into being to fill that gap. by the noise of the accident, and The Court directed that the the estate in specie.

either owners or miners. There

The It is reported that at the last

Prince are hopes of further moves.

continued: "For number of other people, were costs of the enquiry should be paid

оп the sport.

"Mr. by the Attorney General. morrow,-Reuter.

meeting of the Central Executive public men, who have always to quickly. Committee of the Kuomintang the work against time, it is most dif-Lowndes, whose body was found in Communists who had joined the ficult to frame accurate and con- the drain, was considerably in-

Philadelphia, May 81. Party sent in their resignations neeted accounts of recent events. jured about the head and had ROBBERY PREVENTED.

Showers of rain did not damp of office, in accordance with the Directors of banks and concerns also sustained a fracture of the resolution passed at the

Mr. Kernick's skull was which do business abroad, are cons- akull.

the enthusiasm of thousands who special meeting of the Committee. tantly faced with the problems of also fractured.

ARRESTED MEN CHARGED;attended the Besqui-centenial cole- Mo Jack-tong tendered his

international relations.

bration of America's independ- No less

Information was immediately signation as a member of the need facilitics for studying facts. Meeton arrived from Sepoy Lines Kowloon City detectives prevented Kellogg and Mr. Hoover made

than men in public life do they given to the police and Inspector

The timely intervention of the ence. The proceedings opened

with a salate of 150 guns.

Mr. Committee, Lum Taoo-hum as a member A flourishing branch of the Ins- Police Station and removed the the occurrence of a highway rob speeches, Mr. Kellogg assuring his

titute has already been catablished bodies to the General Hospital fully prepared argument attacks In a debate at the Labour Con- and also as a Treasurer of the in Australia to perform a similar The car was left lying at tan side bery which had been planned to heurers that the spirit animating

And it is hoped purpose there. the ground that it ference on the report of the Direc-Kuomintang, and Tan Ping-shan that, in time, members in other of the road, where, by some means be committed in Prince Edward alive to-day, but America's reluc........

the founders of the Republic was violates the Tennessee and United tor of the Labour Office, notably a Private Secretary and member parts of the British Commonwealth or another, it caught fire about Road, early on Saturday night. tance to participate in war had

of the Central Party Committee. may also combine to form a branch

half an hour later and was 20m- which with regard to the non-atification Constitutions,

As opinions were divided at the Institute.

On receipt of information of had often been shown, both by guarantee liberty of conscience, of the Hours Convention, the

The Institute is also pletely gutted, South African delegate was most meeting, a final decision of the attempting the more casential and religion and speech.

An additionally distressing fea-

the intentions of two men, a party her participation in international arma conferences and other ways eulogistic as regards the report question was adjourned to the difficult task of creating a human lure of the fatality is the fact that of detectives waited on the alde in which she had encouraged the and generally the work of the flowing meeting, but the appoint-library of information which has Mr. Kernick leaves a wife and of the road, and, on the arrival of cause of peace. Router's American. Labour Office. .On the contrary, ment of a Chief Private Secretary not been written. It is endeavour four children in England. Mrs. two Chinese, the officers made Service. Mr. Beasley, the workers' delegate on the Central Executive. Coming to keep itself in touch with per- Kernick went home a few months from Australia, was more critical mittee to assist the chairman in sons of every point of view who ago. Both Mr. Lowndes and Mr.

their presence known. On the per- and felt that the report lacks the is administration was agreed to have recent and special informa- Kernick were formerly in the son of one of the men were found direction necessary even to give

An official communique an- tion on each country and cach pro- employ of the Singapore Tramway two daggers, but a search of his effect to the ratification already Sur Fo as the Chairman pro tem relations, and to secure for its death Mr. Kernick was power sta Hounces the appointment of Mr.blem in the field of international Company, At the time of his agreed to by this Conference and of the Committee of Provincial members facilities for free and in tlon superintendent at the depot

friend proved fruitless. acks doing something tangibla

Both men were charged with whereby social conditions might Affairs, vice Koo Ying-fum, on timate discussion with such people of the Singapore Traction Co. unlawful possession of the dag-

the law on

States

On the other hand, Mr. William

Jennings. Bryan, Junior, has sub-

mitted a written argument in sup- port of the Anti-Evolution Law. Reuters. American. Service.

KIEFF TRIAL.

POLICE OFFICIALS

SENTENCED.

meet the terms of the Treaty of Peace. Mr. Bouäley was dissatis. fted with the work accomplished Riga, May 31. at Geneva, and added that for this The trial at Kieff of 105 police reason it had been decided to call officials, charged with bribery and a conference at Honolula of all the abuse of power, has eded. Four workers, of the Pacific to discuss woro sentenced to detth and the matter, because of the probabl seventy-one, to various terms of lity of the next war occurring in

that region-Router.

imprisonment-Reuter.

leave of absence;

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand 26.2.13/16d.. Lighting-up

7.03 F.,.

so as to enable them to arrive at Mr. Lowndes, who was unmarried, gors and the first defendant was conclusions for themselves. Groups left the Tramway Company four

BALLOON RACE:

AMERICAN WINS GORDAN BENNETT CUP,

Brussels, May 81,

The American, Van Orman,

of members already exist for the years ago in order to go to Mexico. sentenced, by the Kowloon Magia- whose balloon landed at Soelves special study of subjects like the Upon hin return to Malaya ho trate, to twelve months' hard borg, Sweden," won the Gordan Balkans, the Near East, China and spent six months in Borneo, and labour. The charge against the Bennett balloon race. A Belgian the Pacific, disarmament repara joined Mr. L T. Wakeford as a second defendant was withdrawn

was the runner-up tions, otc, bringing together people partner in the business of cou

who approach these questions sulting engineers here twelve and the man was accordingly dis from entirely different angles."

charged. British Wireless.

months ago.

The weather generally was very bad and many forced landings

were necessary Reuter.