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FALSE RUMOUR.
REGARDING BOYCOTT
CONFERENCE.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
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SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1926. 日一初月六
AMAZING STORY.
BINGLY OOPY 10 CENT S
NEW PRECEDENT FOR HONGKONG.
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LOCAL RADIO.
CHINESE ON EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
·THE PROPOSED NEW »
LAW.
SIR SHOUSON CHOW CHOSEN.
は
NO POSTPONEMENT.
News from Canton states that
It is announced in the Gazette a few days ago a rumour was in
to-day that His Excellency the circulation to the effect that the Governor has, with the approval date fixed by the Ministry of For- of the Secretary of State for the eign Affairs for the conference in Colonies, appointed, provisionally regard to the strike and boycott and subject to His Majesty's had been postponed.
pleasure, Sir Shouson Chow to be Considerable disappointment. Unofficial Member of the was created by this rumour, but Executive Council in the place of on enquiry it was learned that the the late Sir Paul Chater. Ministry of Foreign Affairs know nothing of the origin of the report. On the contrary, the Ministry is said to be busily engaged making preparations for the opening of the Conference on the date arrang ed, and there are optimistic opinions held in official circles as
This is the first time in the his. tory of the Colony that a Chinese has been appointed a member of the Executive Counell, and the any Criends of Sir Shousch Chow will congratulate him on honour which he has secured.
new member who
The
WAS
FOREIGNERS BEING SHADOWED,
SEQUEL TO THE SIBLEY
MURDER..
LICENCES, FOR SETS.
MOLESTERS THREATENED. The Gazette contains the draft of an Ordinance to amend the law
Extraordinary measures have relating to wireless telegraphy.
been adopted by the Chinese
principal objects of this Bill is to province, for the protection of It is explained that one of the authorities at Chengtu, Szechuan make it necessary fon receiving foreigners since the savage sets to be licensed. This is ac- murder of Mrs. Sibley, a mission- complished by amending the deary, whose head was hacked off finition of the term "telegraph" by a man believed to have been celving as well as apparatus for an as to include apparatus for re-
sending.
NEW DEFINITION,
a
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SHANGHAI OPIUM SCHEME.
INVENTOR'S NEW PROCESS.
The story is often told of how some confidence man tries to soll the proverbial gold brick to an
one to try and sell a secret formula unsuspecting individual, but for
for making synthetic opium to a business mun, is quite unusual. However, that is what happened to
ness
ESSEX won a great recognitión on the loss of finest quality, performances and utility without inless size, weight or cost. And with its low firab coat and operating economies, you get qualitiem »|| of. long, lasting, reliable performance, smoothnos and riding so, ESSEX requires little attention: to keep in top condition. Its maintainence cont, we hallovo, in the lowest of any car in the world, ESSEX is nimble of action. It is easily handled In crowded traffic, responsive to every call for power or speed. And with it you know all the Batisfastion that comen will ita distinction ay « Bay and beautiful car.
Touring $2145 Coach.. MAT $1995 Including complete special equipment,
THE DRAGON MOTON
CAR CO., WTH. S.
BS WONG NHI CHUND WI
HAFFY VALLEY
Bulls and Inners
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From the Office Butts.
Motor number plates must be This is time of the year when we
painted in black and white, statos feel we should like to be in some
a trafic regulation. McWhirter shady business. is sure to deplore such a waste of guid stuff.
that.
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When a man's heirs are on, good' torms with each other, you can The Wuchow Seamen's Union wager he didn't leave much in the
per week was based on the fact recently explained
the way of a fortune. demand that pilota be paid $1,600
The complaint is made that local that whereas $600 per week had barbers don't bob well. Anyhow, been previously paid, "the cost of they get more out of a bob than the We understand that the increase living had practically doubled." Banku give us.
calculated on
system..
one of Shanghai's prominent busi-is
men yesterday, says the N. C. D. News of July 2nd. As a result-two foreigners are in police
According to private messages, received in Shanghai, the authori- ties have issued proclamations for the protection of foreigners; custody in connection with the and foreigners are now being shadowed through the streets either by uniformed polies or plain clothes men.
inse.
The story runs, that about a week ago, a man of uncertain ex-
the motrick
It would be a good idea if we could broadcast some of this hot weather, so that somebody elsć to rent for the season, broidery.
From the Telegraph:-"Wanted could pick it up. ladies' Hunderchiefs, Statues of Saints and Baby Shoes. Stating eral Costa, is dispensing with The Portuguese Premier,, Gen- terma and site of matshed." The. the services of three Ministors. rate of the dollar and lighting-up Cutting the costa salaries, we sup- time were unfortunately omitted. pose?
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A statistician estimates that
H
to the outcome of the negotiations. knighted in the early part of this noticed that the term "wireless crs on the streets will be shot on was short of money he had come his car engine executed 34 million 6,000 specimens of mosquitoes to
ANOTHER PICKET INCIDENT.
year, has been for some time senior Chinese unofficial member of the Legislative Council, on which he has had a scat since 1921,
"The other principal object of the Bill is to make it an offence to maintain, or possess, a wireless telegraph station without licence. The present Ordinance themakes it an offence only to es- One of the proclamations issued traction came to his office and told tablish a station, or work appara- by the authorities threatens that him that he had known him for a tus, without a licence. It will be anybody found molesting foreign-long while and that because he
Dr. A. G. M. Severn has sent over to him with a proposition which, revolutions last year, according to the British Museum. We'd love to telegraph station" is defined in the the spot. Bill as including any apparatus
Messages from: Chengtu state with a few hundred dollar invest a Home newspaper.
It sounds have him as a boarder.__"*". which have been installed for the that the body of the madman who ed, would net them between just the sort of thing for the In violation of police regulations,
៦ ៨ a number of pickets a few days
purpose of being used for wire killed Mrs. Sibley, and who claim $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 a year. Chinese market.
ed to be a messenger from hell, Of course the businesa man, had
Lophoceratomppia minutissima. ago entered a, hardware shop on
whilst he has also served on the
Thee and Culex tritaeniorhynchus West Wai Fuk Road, Canton, and Sanitary Board and is a member
The opportunity has been taken was let unprotected in the street never seen nor heard of the inter- According to a report, there has Giles are the pet names of rela alight decrease in the the specimens of mosquitoes aent fused to go with them, and cried sity. He was formerly, in Chinese rangement of the present Ordin- When they arrived the body had to how this substantial income export of American motor cars to the British Museum. Although · arrested the proprietor, who re- of the Court of Hongkong Univer, to shorten and simplify the ar- until it was found by foreigners. viewer, but was willing to listen been a
ance. For example, the whole sub-been robbed of all valuables, in- could be made.
Business in American novels, on they both sing for a living, we the other hand, shows a huge understand that their strong points cluding a ring, locket and chain, and wrist watch of gold, and even
increase. Looks as if the pen is are most paticeable when silent. the shoes had been taken from
mightier than the Ford. from
"Is the Bacon Billa hint?" asks The leader of a New York the South China Morning Post. orchestra has committed suicide. It's certainly not Probably tired of a hum-drum life. when it comes from the compra
a billet doun
less telegraphy.
out for help. The police answer-Government servien, but for many ed his call, but the pickets men years past has resided in Hong-ject of the licensing authority and
were unwilling to take the shop-kong and taken a leading part in keeper to the Police Station, and the social and business life of the
it was only after other policemen Chinese community.
arrived that they reluctantly con-
sented to do so. The shop pro- prietor was necused of having
violated certain Union regulations, but what has happened to him is not know.
The owners of the ferryboat Fai Chow, which runs between Fungchuen and, Eat, claim to have suffered a great loss since the commencement of the boycott, for most of the strikers and even Union men who are not on strike refuse to pay their passages... The company has petitioned the Go- vernment asking that orders be given to all Union men to pay their fares when taking passage on the Fai Chow.
NO RIGHT TO MEALS. ..... A couple of days ago, a number of persons were arrested by pic kets on the charge that they were taking meals at various "rice' halls maintained by the strikers, where- as they had no right to do so.
The Health Department has is- sued an order that all sweepers mast become members of the Kuomintang Party. The order) goes so far as to state that any-
CANTON LABOUR.
TALK OF BIG STRIKE.
Workers in some thirty linda of business in Canton, involving mora. than 100,000 persons, are said to have threatened to call a general strike, unless the Commission of Agriculture and Labour will regis- ter non-Communistic and non-Kuo mintang Labour Unions.
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It appears that these Labour Unions have not been registered with the Kuomintang, in accord- anée with the recent order re- quiring all Unions to be registered once more. It has been alleged that the recent. order was made to check up the number of Unions in and which are not sympathetic to Canton and to ascertain which are
the Kuomintang movement.
YOUTHS QUARREL
BOY FIRES REVOLVER.
PORTUGUESE POLITICS.
President Da Costa Imprisoned.
Paris, July 9
A message from Lisbon says that the army is demanding the resignation of the Presid- ent, General Da Costu. It is. reported that a Committee of three Generals and two Ad- mirals is being organised" charged with forming ณ Cabinet, including civilians. Reuter.
GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN.
Lisbon, July 9, General Da Costa's Govern- ment has been overthrown and Gen. Da Costa is a prisoner in the Belem Palace."'
A New Cabinet has been formed, with General Carmona, Premier; Major Joao Bello, Minister for Colonies; and M. Bettencourt Rodrigous; Minis- ter for Foreign Affairs. Reuter.
the feet.
Going into considerable detail, the confidence man told the follow- ing story. He had come It is not known whether the Dairen where he was employed by a Japanese and h German Chinese looking like a student, chemist, who had worked out a who attacked. Miss Manley, has formula for making synthetic been tried.
correspondent
oplum. He had obtained the for- doubts it.
mula, but had no money to oper- ate: He said that he was pre- pared to give a demonstration and accordingly one was arranged for the next day in a private room th.. the office building.
SUBMARINE VICTIMS.
INDENTIFIED BY FINGERPRINTS.
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0.0 Three things modern woman doesn't doput up her hair, lift When you have something to say her skirt when crossing the streets to a "bad egg"" and laugh up her sleeve.
break it. gently.
The originator of the ivver At the appointed time the man says before he attained success he turned up for the demonstration. had to cross many streams. Prob- He produced three paper packets ably he forded across. Alled with white powder. Also a distilling apparatus and a lamp.
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He placed one packet of the pow-strike acon, foreign concerns may If they don't settle the miners'
Now
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A medical journal says that con. trary to general belief, corsets are not dangerous" No, not unless there happens to be something in side them.
A reader thinks that "it mug-
smugglers who tried topaz precious.
An English girl born in China, stones into Russia, hidden in
New York, July 9. The removal of the bodies of the men trapped in submarine S1 began at Brooklyn navy yard. The der in an opium jar and held it have to carry coala to Newcastle. sapphired the imagination of the bodies were carried to the Navy to a steam line with the steam Hospital, where the. identification playing on it. He then added the procesa is being carried out by a contents of the second packet of finger print expert. The press is powder, and then the third, at the most interested-Reuter.
same time stirring them with a Later. rod. He showed his vicitm, the
Steve Donoghue and the Chineso- woman bandit with the felt hat are The body of Lieutenant Foster result. He next produced a small was first identified. Eight bodies bottle of brown liquid and poured The best way for a motorlat to running a heck-and-neck race for have been recovered and four more it into the oplum pot with the prevent the police from thinking pride of place in frequency of ap are known to be in the wreckage, rest of the chemicals. Then, wet-that he's a speed fiend is to pearance in a contemporary's pie- while the torpedo room has not ting his fingers, he smeared the prosecute somebody else for the torial columas. yet been enterad-Reuter.
mixture around them and placed offence.
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the
P. AND O. BANK,”
the top on the pot. This the victim noticed, was dong with difficulty.
the form and conditions of Chinese youths had an altercations to be made under the Ordin- It is reported that a number of licences is relegated to regula- tion amongst themselves when out ance.
In the present Ordinance LORD INCHCAPE ON INDIAN cycling in Nathan. Road early this matter is scattered over four
CURRENCY. this morning.
sections.
DOUBTFUL PROVISO."
Landon, July 9..
at Home, doesn't drink, chickens. smoke, or bob her hair. She must have come from Shanghai.
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A man's business shows where: An optimist is a man whole he stands, and his golf and fishing
where he lies. never been out of luck.
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The next operation was to place the whole in a basin of warm The modern girl may have her. water. After allowing it to defects, but nobody can say she's stand for a few minutes, he took effeminate.
the pot out and from the insido produced a substance, which later tests showed to be a ligh grade
one who renders service to the Government should be a member of the Kuomintang.
Several men dressed in uniform tried to smuggle seven baskets of
The quarrel occurred near the opium on board of the Shiukwan
If some Hongkong men were to truin on the morning of the 3th Po Hing Theatre and it is stated instant.
The definition of the term "wire- Speaking at the annual meeting of Indian opium, well prepared. think as hard in the office as they The conductor insisted that one of them who possessed that the baskets be opened for a revolver fired a shot into the lesa telegraphy" in the present of the Peninsular and Oriental It is the opinion of our informant de on the golf links, they'd be
millionaires. examination, but the uniformed with a view to keeping his Ordinance contains a provise to Banking Corporation, Lord Inch-that, when the man was having assailants off. One result was to the effect that nothing in the Orcape anticipated that the result top one opium pot, he changed so much dimeulty in placing the men refused to do this, claiming bring a number of policemen on
dinance shall prevent any person tary supplies. The conductor went out to get other men to help boys were arrosted and taken to apparatus for actuating machinery
the Pollee Station.
or for any purpose other than the transmission of messages. This
ᄆᄆ Wouldn't a good name for
that the baskets contained mill the scene, and the whole of the from making or using an electrical of the deliberations of the Royal his concoction for a pot contain-drunkards be saloonatica?
him, and in the meanwhile the smugglers fled, abandoning their baskets, which were found to eon- tain 10,000 taels of opium, valued at about $30,000-
"
NEW YORK MISHAP.
TRAIN JUMPS THE RAILS,
New York, July 9, The first serious neeldent in the
No-one was
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ing tie Indian opium.
SOME STATISTICS.
OD.
The New York Poultry Trust has just opened a big social club. It's likely to be popular with her
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Commission on Indian currency would be to stabilise the rupee ät eighteen ponte. He was of opt- proviso was inserted in the Wire- nion that with ecttled conditions the profit could be made. The said pecked husbands.
The man next explained how less Telegraphy Act of 1904 while of labour, they might be optimistic that the cost per pound for the the Bill was in committee, the with regard to the future.-Reuter. ingredients of the synthetic opium. mover of the amendment urging that its addition was necessary to protect enterprise and scientific exploration from interference. COBHAM'S The proviso was accepted without
and it has been omitted from this BUL.
י,
SOME PROVISION, From the actual Bill wo take the following provisions:
A fashion paper says, a man may Wuld be $23.60 while the selling wear plus fours and yet not be a Price would be about 390, He golfer. Hongkong has known MECHANIC.ad that he could make 36 pounds that for years.
an hour with the proper apparatus
A NEW MAN APPOINTED.
Rugby, July 9. Mr W. Moore.has accepted the offer of the De Haviland Aircraft Company to take the place of Elliott, the mechanic of Alan Cobliam's flight to Australia who was killed by an Arab aniper's bullet.
ANOTHER CHEKIANG OFFICIAL With the removal of Mr. "Hoh Hol-ping, Chief of Detectives, the subway strike occurred when a last important official of the Police train driven by a striker-breaker discussion, but it seems to have Department appointed by General rounded a curve too quickly and been of very doubtful necessity, Wu Te-chen has been replaced by jumped the rails. adherents of Chang Kai-shek. injured but the service was stop- Mr. Hoh received notice of his ped for four hours.-Reuters dismissal whilst in Macao on an American Service. important mission for his depart- ment. His successor will be Mr. Lee Yuen-chu, formerly a Seere
No person shall establish, main tary of, the Bureau of Public
tain, or have in his possession ony Safety. The new, Chief of Detec
wireless telegraph station. In any tives comes from the Province of
place in the Colony, or on board Mooro is an expert on air-cooled Cheklang, as do General. Chang
any British ship registered in the engines and is the chief teator at Kai-shek and the Chief of Police, Two people were killed and Colony; except under and in ac Coventry of the Armstrong-Side- Mr. Loe Cheung-tat
several seriously injured in a tor-cordance with a licence granted ley Jaguar engines with which steamer of the Soviet Volunteer bour, causing destruction in parts
to is reported that another nado which swept Benton Har- under this Ordinance.Cobham's seaplane is fitted,
If a magistrate is antifled by | took part in the King's Cup Race Fleet has arrived at Lin Far Shan, of Indiana and razing buildings information on oath that there is three years ago, which Captain Just below Whampoa, with a loud and orchards. Reuter's American reasonable ground for believing Courtnoy, who on that occasion
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U. S. TORNADO:
TWO PEOPLE KILLED,
Service.
Chicago, July 9.
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aid could make the produce weak! The "Best Man" may kiss the strong to conform to the taste bride' after the ceremony, as long
as it is not too long after. the consumer.
He informed the business man
at the ingredients of the synthe-
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Judging from the way some. Hongkong people dance, the only steps they know are those leading to the front door.
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We hear of a Hongkong lady who
the crude oil business because it won't let her husband go into isn't refined.
Latour Motto: A little earning. is a dangerous thing.
A big bale of cloth has been found in the harbour. Despite hopes to the contrary, it was not intended for the G, C, H, ⠀
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The Australian cricketers only, made 197 in their first innings against, Worcester: We under- atard that each of the visitors is be presented with a bottle of Worcester sauce as an appropriate memento of the occasion.
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There is no truth in the rumour - If the Peak Hotel 'nocturnal
e product whs horoin, morphin that members of the Mothers' hymn singers are hoping to convert nd several other chemicals which Union have offered to equip the Re- the other residents, we don't think
e would not divulge, but which pulse Bay bathing tents with the much of their chants. puld be purchased easily from buttons found in local Church col-
y chemist. In order to start opera-lections. ona one pound of morphia and
phe kilo of heroin, the whole
British Labourites are complain costing $1,750, would be needed, ing at "sweating." So are we The other chemicals would also
From the Daily Press :—“A bene- fit performance for Miss Mura Shipoff is to be given at Mount Austin- Barracks... The display will be held at Mount Austin Bar
cost a few hundred dollars. This From this morning's Morning racks Cinema Houso, and will be would be sumelent to manufacture Post Vacant large it held at Mount Austin Barracks 100 pounds of opium. tting Room with small bedroom at Cinema House, and commences at The confidence man then sug- tached Sult two gentleman or 9pm. We understand that it las gested that the gentleman got in married couple. Terms: full board now been definitely established that touch with his Chinese staff and and washing two persons $220 the display was held at Mount Aus
tin Barracks Cinoma, House, (Continued on Pago 0);
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