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CANTON BONDS. BANK COMBINE STORY KOWLOON DANGER CANTON POSTMEN ON EMPIRE AFFAIRS. WATER RESTRICTIONS HUNAN'S PLIGHT.

DENIED.

TROUBLE OVER THEIR TWO CONCERNS MENTIONED

SALE.

MANY ARRESTS REPORTED.

Chinese reports from Canton state that in connection with the first Internal War Loan of $5,000,000, the Municipality of Fat- shun was allotted $160,000. The greater part of this allotment was delivered to the Chamber of Com- merce, to be apportioned off among the Trade Guilds according to the

DO NOT EXIST.

ABSURD STATEMENTS.

PUBLIC MORTUARY. SCANDAL.

HOUSEHOLDERS' PROTEST.

We have received the following

Up to the time of writing, the only things a Telegraph represen-letter for publication: · talive has found to be wrong about

few days ago in a Shanghai paper

Sir, I shall be grateful if you

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the remarkable report published 4 will indly afford a little space in to the effect that three American your valuable columns banking concerns were combining matter of great importance con to establish a banking corporation cerning public health. in this Colony with the avowed intention monopolising banking

STRIKE?

REPORTED, STOPPAGE FROM YESTERDAY.

A' COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY.

MR. AMERY'S HOPES. ·

Rugby, July 29..

In the course of a debate on Dominions' affaire in the House of Commons, Mr. Amery, Secretary

REFUSAL OF DEMANDS.

The fact that no Chinese mail from Canton has been recolved in. the Colony to-day is taken to In- dlonte. that the strike of postal |

begun as from yesterday, workers in that city has already for the Dominions, said that un-

EXPLAINED."

FILTER BEDS CHOKED WITH DIET,

FULL SUPPLY 'SOON,

Further letters of complaint at. the fact that there is only an in- termittent supply of water in the Rider Main districts of the

CHANGSHA CITY FLOODED:

ATTACKS ON SHIPS."

For two weeks this city has been in danger of two disastrous ine fluences, and unfortunately, both have materialized, says the Chang- sha correspondent of the Shanghai

doubtedly we should have gradual Colony, although all the storage Mercury, writing under date of It is stated that on the 26thly to build up a more special reservoirs are full to overflowing. the 14th instant. One is flood.. nets of the Par Past tre tuary, which, although when built in Canton definitely advised the problems. The Government want respondent describes the position

1: refer to the Kowloon Mor

instant the Postal Commissioner organisation to deal with Empire

postmen employed at the Chinese

have reached us to-day. One cor-

and as the water, now slowly re

extent of their business, and the first, that two of the banks named years ago, was on an isolated site. Post Office that the Director-Gene-ed to bring the office in Londonas being "unjustly paradoxical" been one of the worst in the his

balance was handed to the police to distribute among the miscellance ous trades, and in house-to-house sules.

DOCTORS ARRESTED.

It is stated that when the police called on the medical practitioners to take up their share of the bonds, not a single one responded. The next day the police arrested, seven of the doctors and detained them at the Police Station.

are not in existence, and, second, that if the figure given as capital

and complaing that the Chinese is now in the very centre of a ral of Posts had rejected, the de-into closer and more direct inter-

districts of the City are being la correct, it will be the biggest residential district and a

Union, mands of the Postman's source

course with the Dominions and commercial bank in the world.

and, moreover, had intimated

neglected. that any unlawful action on the Colonies. A great deal had been part of the postmen would involve done in recent years, but we ought them in the loss of seniority and pensions.

THE STORY.

The report under the heading "New Bank in Hongkong" is dated Peking. July 14th, and says:

"According to advlees from

Hongkong, three American banks, crisisting of the London and Paris National Banking Corpration, the Anglo-California Trust Company, and the Equitable Bank of New York, will jointly establish a This caused resentment among backing corporation in Hongkong, the medical practitioners and dentenpitalized at Gold $140,000,000, isia, who gathered" in ដ body with a view to monopolizing the and proceeded to the Mayor's office banking business in China the to protest akuinst the action of the police. The Mayor was, how ever, able to appease the excited crówd by promising them the re- lenise of the arrested men, but exact- od their consent to take a certain

of great annoyance and even danger in the occupants of ad- jacent buildings.

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To take only one instance, last evening (July 29th) at about 9

loo Road and deposited ap p.m a police van drove Into Water- proximately twenty un-nailed soffins by the roadside in front of the Mortuary. These contained bodies in a very advanced stage of decay and the smell therefrom was so intolerable that a number of nearby residents naserabled at the Yaumati Police Station with n complaint and request for the immediate removal of the hodies. They were surprised, however, by the information that these boilies had been deposited under police orders and, were the remains of Sampan people who perished in the typhoon of a week ago. Sub- sequently, the coffins were remov need only read the supposed deed from the roadway and taken -tails to place it in the category of inside the Mortuary, although tha

the improbable.

stenel continued unabated, und the fact remains that under present conditions the Kowloon Mortuary constitutes, a very grave public danger.

Stmits Settlements, and South Sea Telands. The scheme is being pushed on secretly by influential members of the syndicates con- Perned

An American Consul interview amount of these bonds, to be paider this morning, dismissed the into the Treasury not later than matter with the remark that one the 27th instant. The terms being satisfactory, the crowd retired.

It is also stated that force. Is being employed in the house-to- house sales by the police, and every student is required to buy from $1 to $5 worth of the bonds.

POLICE IN TROUBLE.

ABSURD.

The manager of the Equitable Eastern Banking Corporation, which is connected with the

table Trust Company of New York; characterised the report as absurd.

Another report states that the war bond drive, under the auspices of the police, has resulted in a num- ber of district police officials There is no such thing," he being sent to goal. It appears that sil, as an Equitable Bank of under police pressure householders New York, and there is no London

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to go much further. He had laid

PIPE DAMAGED.

We have made enquiries at the

it down as one of the conditions office of the Water Authority to

Following this, the Postmen's Union met and decided that they of entry into the Dominions and day in order to ascertain the rea- would declare a strike of their Colonial Office in future, that no son for this short supply and the members as from August 1st candidate should be accepted un-following are the facts:-

The Police Department and, the

The heavy storia of Monday,

Bureau of Reconstruction have less he was prepared to spend, say, since been asked by the Postal two years of service outside this July 19th., carried away a big Commissioner to assist in the pre-country. servation of order during the period of the strike,

Attempts have been made by, the Canton authorities to mediate in the dispute, but it would appear that these have been without re-

sult.

The general belief now is that the strike has already actually commenced.

AMERICAN SOCIETY

SENSATION.

WEALTHY WIDOW CHARGED WITH MURDER.

New York July 20.

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OVERMEAS SETTLEMENT.

leagth of the supply pipe which feeds the eastern filter beds, and

it

was inevitable that' a short In connection with Overseas

supply had to be given in the settlement, he hoped to follow the example set by the Labour Party, castern district, pending the re- which had appointed a Commis- pair of the pipe.

The pipe has sion to go into the question of now been repaired... developing the Colonial Empire. Such a Commission would contri-

Lengths of the supply pipe to

bute freshness and would dot as the Elliott, filter beds, Conduff a stimulus for the development of Road, were carried away by the trade.

huge boulder which crashed into Pokfułum Road pumping

Dealing with the problem. of the Indians in South Africa, Mr. Amery pointed out that, without station, and this also made it in any intervention on the part of the evitable that a short supply had British Government, the Govern- to be given to the western dis- ments of South Africa and India, tricts of the City, pending the re- had been in correspondence on this

The work of

ubject, as a result of which dis- pair of the pipe.

codes it is realized that it has

tory of Hunan,, certainly one of the most disastrous in the memory of living men.

Two years ago the Siang River rose to n height that it has not reached in years, and that was considered the worst for years back. The water has now rison almost three feet higher than in 1924, and inundated large sections of the city hitherto unreached by flood. Numerous houses of weak construction along the river front collapsed, and it will never be known in its totality just how many lives have been sacrificed.

SHIPPING IMPOSSIBLE.

Shipping has been rendered practically impossible for two weeks, since the steamers could neither load nor unload. Several anchored amidstream, and left. without attempting to load cargo. The railroad track was rendered, unsafe by the end of June, so that treins had ceased running more than two weeks ago.

Reports from cities along tho

river elsewhere, and from many indicate that the 1926 flood must

sections berdering smaller streams

go down in the records as 'one of the worst that Hunan has ever experienced. All crops in districts touched by the flood have been destroyed, and it is certain that famine conditions will soon pre- vail,

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COMING OF REDS

have been made to pay in full for and Paris Banking Corporation. the Widgrlos Road or its vicinity is New Brunswick, has been arrested I was in the common interest of the wo cases mentioned above, a full ing been forced to buy one or pasy" is quite a small bank in Sangiluation for a public morgue, and husland and Mrs. Eleanor Mlindin should get into closer. touch owing to the rapid choking of the their hands.

The Anglo California Trust Com,

Francisco'

With so much apparent concern for the health of the people it is very astonishing that the Govern.

By reports from Somerville, New cussions would take place in South repair has just been completed.

HASTENING MATTERS, ment can have overlooked a conti-Jersey, a sensation has been creat-Africa at a Conference to be held tion so grievously inimical to the ed among American society by the at the end of the year. The whole

In spite of the fact that the general welfare.

nows that Mrs. Edward Hall, the atmosphere was now a better one wealthy widow of the Rector of a because the British Government repairs have been made in the. fashionable church at St. Johns, had avoided all intereference. It

and supply has not been possible

sand filter beds by the mud and dirt which is still being carried Turning to the question of the into them by the raw water from The re-opening of the case, in Imperial Conference, Mr. "Amery the reservoirs. Every effort is which a Grand Jury after investi-raid that this, was the one per- rations in 1922 took no action, is manent 'inter-Imperial Conference being made to clean the "beds as the sequel to a divorce suit by the which helped to frame the common rapidly as possible, extra labour husband of an ex-maid to Mrs. policy of the Empire. It had having been engaged. It is hoped

duccived him and concealed from modified, and undoubtedly they

Qus.

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

The second disaster that has overtaken Hunan is the incoming of the Reds. Changsha Is now in Reinforced by the south, Tang Sheng-chi was able to force Yeh Kai-hsing out of the capital, and it remains to be seen" whether he can hold the province. Yeh pressed Tang back to Heng- "chow nearly two months ago, but' the forces at his command were' not sufficient to hold out against heavy reinforcement on Tang's side. Tang came with the flood,

influence is as bad

Surely it is obvious to all that the bonds purchased, but that, hay-

no longer a desirable or suitable on a charge of the murder of her Empire that South Africa more of these bonds, mostly of the

Mr. D. M. Biggar said he would that it should be removed to some, a beautiful choir singer, in Sep with each other five-dollar denomination, they, have

foss, populous district,

tember, 1922. "The prisoner de- been disposing of them at exchange very much like the story to be shops or native banks at a discount dealed, it was entirely without Having sold or leased ground for clares that the charge le ridicul- of about 75 per cent. Then, ac foundation. and it might be liable the erection of dwelling houses, is cording to current report, policen cause bad feeling. The Equit it not up to the Government to see officials would collect bonds from able Trust Company of New York that these buildings, are fit for the exchange shops at about 26 or might be confused with the fictit-healthy occupation and act subject 30 and sell them at 163.

inus bank named, and therefore to incessant bad smells? Indeed, the Equitable Eastern Banking the public has every right to de. ND CHECK..

Corporation.

Story was mand that the Gaernment see that all, who allege that his wife grown and developed and had been tà.be able to filter enough water and it is felt in, many quarters. ridiculous.

him her relations with the dead were bounst, at, each Conference, to give a full supply in all is that one Rector. He declares that his wife to consider how far its mechan-tricts in two or three days' time. in its effects as the other.. received $5,000 for silence in con-am could be improved. Referring Meanwhile, the water authorities nection with. the Reuter's American Service,

The Ministry of Finance some time ago allotted $500,000 worth of these bonds to the police for Syle anong the inhabitants of the city, whereupon the Chief of Police

district charged the

lieutenants and the residents

The

It is laughable, he added, or suge gest that, Americans are trying to establish a monopoly of banking in the East, or any other.national- captains ity for that matter. canvass Where the alleged advices of their dis- emanated from it has been im- tricts. Accounts were kept of possible to discover,

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the mount of bonds issued to each police district and all that was required was that the district officials should turn in the amount of cash within a specified time- limit; but there appears to have been no means of checking the num ber of bonds one might sell.

RUNAWAY · TRUCK.

locality they have ganctioned as residential district is made safe, sanitary, and healthy, by the re- moval of the Mortuary from the midst of dwelling houses,

Thanking you for your courtesy in publishing this.-Yours, etc.,

DISGUSTED. Hongkong July 30th, 1926.

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ANOTHER PROTEST.

Another correspondent writes ns follows:

murder to the suggestion that members.

MODERN CRUSADE.

of Opposition parties of the var- are sparing no pains to hasten ious Governments should be in matters along.

cluded in the representation, he

said it was an attractive idea bus

it did not commend itself to the NEW YORK FATALIT” Governments of the Dominions.

SHIPS FIRED ON.

Since Tang's arrival foreign steamers bave been fired upon con- stantly, one undergoing a bullet bombardment for almost ten minutes. The steamers come and go with heavy iron plates na pro- tection to the wheel house and decks, and it is a question as to. whether they may not have to Bus pend coming unless some restraint is put upon irresponsible soldiers. Some of the steamers have a huge sign, "Merchant Ship-no soldiers". on their sides, but even this pre-

An immediate effect of the ar

WORLD TOUR OF BISHOP OF There was a very reni difficulty

FLOOD OF POISONOUS jabout it. A great part of the LONDON.

deliberations of these Imperial

LIQUOR SMUGGLED IN. MISHAP IN BROADWOOD.

Conferencea dealt with the

· ROAD

Sir-Kindly, allow me a little

London, July 29, Executive policy which was being

Rochester, N. Y. July 29. Bearing a special message to the carried on space in your valuable columns, to Empire churches, given him by the in

from day to day,

Prohibition Headquarters to of respect An empty truck, which got out bring to the notice of the so-called Archbishop of Canterbury, the the

which only The Kuomintang is issuing a

Government of the day day announced that, a flood of caution has not afforded immunity total of $30,000,000 worth of war of control in Breadwood Road

The cost of Fusterday, ran into and injured a Sanitary Department of ours the Bishop of London started to-day could undertake responsibility, poisonous liquor has reached New from bullets, bonds to meet

on what he has described as and on which it could not divide or the Northern, expedition, and Chinese, who was taken to the insanitary manner in which they modern crusade to promote the share responsibility. It was, how. York, and in the course of the rival of the Reds is that the

series of $5,000,000 Government Civil Hospital. This are conducting the transportation work of the church and its coever, true that there was a great past few days has affected, in has been practically sold, or morning, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell,

second two coolies were charged with of dead bodies to the the Kowloon operation in Empire Hottlement deal elee that could be discussed at some cases fatally, nearly Afty subscribed to. The

He visits Canada, the United these Conferences which for its suc- people living in the Western dis Beries, for $10,000,000, is to be is diving the truck without a Mortuary.

States, Japan, China, and

negligent with

Malaya, cess depended on the co-operation Being one of the many residents Australia and Ceylon-Reuter. sued on August 1st. At first thence,

Inspector Blackman staying in the vicinity of this intention of the Kuomintang was driving,

We in charge of the case.

| Mortuary, I think you could eer- The coolies, who are Shantung tainly imagine the position, wive nection with the boycott settlement, men, are employed at the Nether-were all in last night, when two TROPICAL HURRICANE. getting general assent as well as the seized, but the remainder is un- but this plan has since been, aban-lands Harbour Works. Three of vans carrying about twenty partly- doned..

the first

to ask the Chinese in Hongkong to subscribe part of this sum in con-

SHIPPING DISASTER.

THREE SCHOONERS SINK..

New York, July 29.

them were managing the truck at covered collins from Gap Rock, the time but one ran away.

containing decomposed dead.

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of future Parliaments and in restrict of New York.

pect of which it would be valuable Half a carload, some 4,100 If one could and some method of gallons, of wood alcohol has been

assent of the Government immedi-accounted for... ately responsible. Continuity

Two men were suddenly taken DISASTER REPORTED FROM characterised our foreign policy and It is alleged that the truck was bodies of the recent typhoon dis-

he hoped a similar characteristic ill after drinking at a local "speak- NASSAU. fitted with brakes which were in aster, arrived at the place. These

would be increasingly true of Im easy," which is the American, working order, but they were not coffins were landed and left by the Miami (Florida); July 29,

perial affairs. Possibly the deve- torm for a special kind of illicit

drinking place. uned.

The first. defendant admitted he roadside unattended for over half

Prohibition officials are appeal- A wireless message from the pment of the Inter-Parliamentary Captain of the steamer Munamar, Delegation, which was being car was in charge of the truck, and an hour. A message from San Domingo hint he had no licence as the 1 hope Dr. Kech of those persons which is lying at Nanana, indicates icd out in an informal waying to the people to refrain from under the auspices of the Empire liquor until the present serious says that three, schooners, bound works did not issue one. to them. responsible for the sanitary condi- that aight persons, were killed in Parliamentary Association, might situation is cleared up. They for the Windward Islands, sank in The bocond defendant was dis- tions of this Colony will look into a tropical hurricand at Nassau op in time meet the need of inter-em-urge that this is not Prohibition a storm off Saona Island, and that charged, and the case was adjourn this matter, to prevent such an July 27th. There was damage to pire consultation not on a purely propaganda so much as an en- 64 hodien have been washaded for the injured, man to come occurrence from happening again, property to the extent of $4,000, basis. AshareReuter,

"(Continued on Pugo 121. 000.-Reutor's American Servico

Continued on Paĝo 18).

to Court.

deavour to save lives.-Roudor's American Service, Puls

students have come out of their

summer quarters, and are again strongly in evidence: The city is once more placarded as before. The new Government is reported to be busy organizing, but fear and trembling exist in many quarters

as to what effect this new group" may have on Changsha and all of Hunan brought under their away.

MINERS' MISSION.";

DELEGATION TO AMERICAN

London, July 20 The Miners' Executive han ap- pointed a delegation to go to America on July 1, 20-inform American Trade Unionists of the minera' ease and to raise funds.- Router.