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TRADE HOPES.

LOCAL CONFIDENCE INCREASING.

MERCHANTS ARRIVE FROM CANTON,

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Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1881 METATA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1926.

BANK ACCOUNTANT SENTENCED.

END OF SENSATIONAL BOMBAY TRIAL

IMPRISONMENT TERMS.

Bombay, Oct. 12.

In the High Court, Llewellyn FURTHER EXTRACTS.

Evans, former Chief accountant of With the lifting of the ban on the Bombay branch of the Hong- Hongkong-Canton shipping there kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- is a strong hope entertained local-poration, was found guilty on two ly that Hongkong's import and charges of criminal of breach trust,

LABOUR POLICY.

MORE CONFERENCE SCENES.

OUTSPOKEN SPEECHES.

There were

Rugby, Oct. 12.

moro "animated

scence when the annual conference of the Labour Party was continued at Margate to-day,

Mr. Rhys Davies, Member of Parliament, moved a resolution.pro- testing against the manner in which

KWANGTUNG “ANTI- `RED” MOVEMENT.

NGAI BONG-PING ACCEPTS LEADERSHIP.

ANTI-RUSSIAN AIMS..

日七月九

MALARIA WAR.

BIG SCHEME FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

campaign for the control of malarial diseases. I

in the Islands. Such a campaign has been decla- ed upon following the discovery

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ANTI-BRITISH MOVE ·

IN HUNAN.

PROPERTY & EMPLOYEES INTERFERED WITH.

TROOPS ON THE MOVE

A naval wireless message from Hankow, dated yesterday, states that the local situation is an changed.

THE DRAGON MOTOR

CAR CO., Erot

BANNED SWEEP.

MR. HAYTOR" SUED BY

PRINTERS

DEFENDANT SUCCEEDS ON MAIN ISSUE

"LAUDABLE OBJECT.”

Anti-British. Agitation is, how sweepstake which was stop- ever, reported at Chang Teh, in ped by the police was mentioned Hunan, where the property and in a claim which was heard before employees of some British firms

Justice Wood, in the Summary have been interfered with.

avo on valerengage further Court this morning. The plata-

vessels arrived at Chungking with

EFFECTIVE ANTIDOTE.

Vice-Governor Gilmore of the According to Chinese reports, Philippines, has announced that General Ngal Bong-ping, formerly the Bureau of Health is soon to a commander in the Cantonese launch an extensive and vigorous Army, has formally accepted the leadership of the anti-Bolshevlet or "anti-Red" movement in Kwangtung. He was formally

by the anti-Bolshevik Association respect of Government securities coul crisis and expressing the opin in the South, and his acceptance elde, the result of four years of valued at 510,000 rupees.

ion that the deep-rooted and urgent was given in a reply to that experimental work by the Rocke-out Interference, and that move printers, of 47, Queen's Road, ments of troops down the river Central, and they sued Mr. Frank what natural in view of the long Evans pleaded not guilty, but problems of the mining industry organisation which has appeared feller Foundation in co-operation from Wanhsien and Ichang, and Haytor, otherwise known

ag E." period of stagnation caused by was sentenced to terms of four, could only be settled by the adop-In Chinese press.

un the river from Kiukiang, have Broadberry, assistant at Mesare. im-tion of a scheme of nationalisation

Wm. Powell, Ltd., for $569.15, be This resolution was strongly at Other charges in respect of tacked by a number of speakers on

export trade will soon show and the falsification of accounts in the Government had handled the invited to do so on October 6th of Paris green as a cheap larvae states that two: British merchant tiffs were the Yue 'Shing firm.

marked "revival.

At the moment there is still a feeling of uncertainty, as is some-

the 15-months embargo, but pro-

minent business men see every one and two years rigorous,

"reason to hope for an early revival prisonment,

of inter-tradal activity....

Signs are apparent of growing

"General Ngnt Bong-ping was born in Kwangtung, but received his military education in Japan, where his father is a merchant.

Kwing-ming, was originally A

with the Bureau of Health.

A DIG VOTE

The legislature already has been

confidence in shipping circles. sums of R.10,000 and R.20,000 will the ground that it gave no praec. General Ngal, like General Chan asked to appropriate Pesos 100,000,

The s.s. Fatahan brought over 900 be taken up.

A

NOMINAL SENTENCES.

Later.

tical support to the miners.

MORE "KICK.›

been observed..

¿

THE FUKIEN FRONT. From the Fukien frontier, it is

ing the balance for goods sold,

reported that the activities which work done, and materials suppli- were noticeable a week ago have|ed: slacked somewhat. Whether this

Kuomintang leader. He partici- to prosecute an effective cam pated in the First Revolution and paign in all localities which are is due to the news of the capitulo- plaintiffs, and Mr. L D. Turner Mr. Leo d'Almada was for the passengers from Canton, yesterday afternoon, a large number being

for a number of years, afterward most likely to need control work.tion of Wuchang and the absence of defended. of the merchant class, evidently

Mr. Kirkwood, a prominent mem-occupied important 'positions, in

further news from the Klangai bat- visiting Hongkong with a view to

her of the Labour Party's left wing, the Canton Government. He took Portions of the Pesos 25,000 ap Evans pleaded guilty to the wanted a resolution with some part in busting from power in propriated last year by the legls- resumption of, business relations with local firms. On leaving charges of criminal breach of "kick" in it, which would encour Canton General Lung Chai-kwang lature for investigation still are again this morning, there were a trust in respect of the amounts of age the brave men and women in and later General Mu Yung-hsin, available for experiments this few more passengers than has R.10,000 and R.20,000, but the coalfields. What the minera been the case for several months.

now required, he said, was money. guilty to the charge of falsifying He asked for a levy on all affiliated The Chinese shipping companies

Unions. are preparing to resume services the accounts.

as soon as possible.

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not

The latter charges were with- Mr. Horner, Delegate of the South Wales miners, declared: "We don't want your empty resolu-

Passenger's and shippers are drawn by the representative of the advised by the Hongkong, Canton Crown, who stated that he would tion. If you would help us, let us and Macao Steamboat Company not press the charges on which the have money and an embargo." that, commencing on Thursday,

and until further notice, the accused pleaded guilty if the

PLAIN TRUTHS.

steamer Lungshan will berth for sentences thereon would not be. Mr. J. H. Thomas, Rallwaymen's a short period at the Company's concurrent with the sentence Leader, who was. Colonial Secretary wharf in Canton. ·

in the late Labour, Government,

KUOMINTANG STATEMENT...

The communique issued yester- day by the Canton" Information Bureau contained some extracts

already passed.

Judge thereupon sentenced the accused to one day's simple im prisonment on each charge of

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FOOTBALL FORECASTS.

Date for Claims.

To-morrow is the last day for claims to the prize offered in our last week's Football Forecast Competition.

The award will ba announced on Friday.

A new coupon for the cur- rent week's matches appears on Page 9 to-day.

year, it was declared..

In outlining the case, Mr, d'Al- the frost, or to the non-arrival of the expected men-of-war at Amoy mada said the plaintiffs bad car for the purpose of co-operating ried on business for over forty with the Fukion units in their in-ren's, and they had been printers tended attack on Kwangtung, it is and institutions in the Colony for some very well-known firms at present difficult to say.

Realising that Pesos 100,000 Is Judging from the appearance of He understood that the defendant, barely sufficient to push the in the troops that have arrived to rear. Broadberry was a tailor in Inforce Chow Yum-yan's armies, it the employ of Messrs. Powell's, tended campaign in a few sec would seem that they would hardly and on previous occasions had been tions, health officials plan to re-be a match for the disciplined and connected with the Turf under the quire provincial and municipal as well-armed forces under General of Mr. Frank Haytor as a bookmaker. That was why the well as private entities to bear

defendant had two names, and he half of the expenses where insular

was not suggesting any impro- priety as to that. health aid is sought in exterminat Co-operation would ing insects.

Ho Ying-yum.:

A liberal estimats says there are about 40,000 troops in the South western part of Fukion,

YANG-SEN'S POST.

LAUDABLE SCHEME. A Kuomintang bulletin an-

Sometime in the month of June, nounces the creation of the 20th a gentleman named Mr. Wheeldon. Army Corps and the appointment who, he believed, was employed in of General Yang Sen, who caused the P.W.D., together with the de the Wanhsien incident, as General fendant conceived the brilliant. It is sald and laudable idea of starting a that the Commander-in-Chief has sweepstake for the purpose of ordered him to attack' General Lubenefitting the Hongkong Bene- Chin-shan who is still a menaco to volent Society and the Society of Ichäng.

from the declarations made by the criminal breach of trust.-Reuter railwaymen who had never gone and, more recently, "Generals Lauquently in pest extermination on Officer Commanding..

Kuomintang and the Strike Comi- mittee in regard to the calling off of the boycott. The full text of these have now been published.

The Kuomintang's declaration contains the following observa- tions, which are of sufficient in- terest to reproduce

LIVELY POLITICS.

BATTLE OF INKWELLS:

PARIS GREEN SUCCESSFUL

bo the basis of the campaign, it' said he would tell the Conference why a levy on other Trades Unions to help the miners was impossible.

was pointed out. The Bureau of Health would extend aid in the At this moment there were 45,000.

control of malaria and conse- back to work since the general strike of last May. In addition Chen-wan and Yang Hsi-rain, non- the offer of local officials and cor- 200,000 railwaymen were only Cantonese militarista,

poration or private entities, to working three days a week. The General Ngal's part in the "anti-shoulder part of the expenses. Engineers Union was now taking Red" movement is not, it is said, a levy for its own men. In the against the Kuomintang, but a Boilermakers' Union 15 por cent. direct attack, by publicity and by of the men were unemployed. As force, if necessary, against the Berlin, Oct. 12.

to an embargo on 'foreign coal, Mr. extremists within the Party. The "To-day we are lifting the anti- The debate on the Hohenzollern Thomas declared that the resolu- movement aims at the ousting of British Boycott.. From to-day on Settlement Bill provoked un- tion recently passed by the Inter-Russians from Cantón. we shall use the proceeds of a paralleled Communist fury in the national Miners' Federation at Special Tax on import and export Prussian Diet.

Brussels favouring the prevention South China are saying, that for the purpose of relieving you The sitting was suspended five of the export of coal to Great Bri-

General Tang Seng-chi and from your economic suffering and times

and tain was only a piece of paper. It

Northern militarists but now with the Kuomintang Army, after having deserted the ranks of Marshal Wu Pei-fu, are untrust the Kuomintang is concerned According to the "anti-Reds,"

owing to uproar

way

"Anti-Red" propagandists in

to enable you within à reasonable opprobrious epithets and was no use to deceive the miners General Blu Tso-lung, formerly period of time to find employment. finally closed in disorder, neccs-by talk about an embargo which

"Why are we giving up the sitating police supervision, after could not be realised. policy of a direct boycott and display of fisticuffs, in which ink-

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Mr. Thomas's plain truths were

NEW BUSES.

SATISFACTORY TRIAL RUN.

St. Vincent de Paul, two very well- known institutions. In connec tion with that, Mr. Wheeldon ap proached the plaintiffs and dis- cussod matters with the manager. of the plaintiff frm for the pur- pose of printing 50,000 sweepstake tickets, in connection with the English, St. Leger, to be run on September 8th.

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50,000 TICKETS.

In report to the department of public instruction," Mr. Jerome J. Meldazes, Philippine represen- tative of the Rockefeller Founda tion, discloses that Paris green, a cheap poisonous powder, may be

One of the two new blue buses used effectively as a mosquito lar-

accide. The Rockefeller Founda- imported by the Hongkong Hotel ing experiment and demonstration. service underwent Its first official tion since 1922 has been conduct Company for their Repulse Bay

The first arrangement was made work in malaria control in Pam-trial under Traffic Department panga, Laguna and Rizal, and officials this morning. With Ser by Mr. Wheeldon, who visited the other localities. It has been as geant Mason at the wheel, the v plaintiffs' premises in Queen's surements that the control work from the Central Police Station something like 50,000 sweepstake and it successfully stood the rigid tickets printed, and he wanted to has been successful.

test that was imposed on it. Very know how much they would cost. the braking system which was tried Wheeldon again visited the office favourable comment was passed on. He believed that the next day Mr.

over the most difficult gradients of with certain proofs of the tickets, the route.

which were in the writing of Details of the new buses are either Mr. Wheeldon or the defer- given elsewhere in this issue.

blockade of Hongkong? And does Wella, books, tables, and chairs received with angry shouts and worthy as far as their loyalty to certained by means of blood mea-hicle was taken out for a short spin Road Central, and said he wanted

Three members "It mean that from to-day on, the were hurled."

were injured, including the Vice anti-imperialist struggle ceases? These are the two questions which President, Herr Garnich, who was

must be clearly answered so that every revolutionary patriot in China and every revolutionary friend abroad will understand.

"The giving up of the policy of direct boycott and blockade of Hongkong does not arily nat mean the stopping of the anti-imperialist struggle, but it means ita intensi-

hit with an inkwell and spattered from head to foot. Ten Com munists were forcibly ejected.

Reuter.

COAL STRIKE.

fication on a national scale, until MEN STILL DRIFTING BACK. the independence of China is com- pletely secured.

!!!

London, Oct. 12.

much interruption by the extrem ist section of the conference.

Mr. Ben Tillett, leader of the Transport Workers, reinforced Mr. Thomas's arguments. He said the transport workers could do nothing They had spent already £1,000,000 in the miners interest. They were £500,000 in debt. Eighty thousand men in the Transport Workers' Union were unemployed and 100,000 were under-employed.ja

some of the Northerners who have

south have taken hold of the shows, breed in running streams recently sold themselves to the Malaria mosquitoes, the report aituntion at the front and are fol- and rivers almost as much as in lowing a policy not wholly com-standing bodies of water. Sani- plying with the desire of the party tary engineers and inspectors have administrators in Canton.

been employed in the work. The

The inauguration of the "anti-Bureau of Health also has con- Red" military movement Inducted independent demonstration Kwangtung is said to have sup- work recently in Palawan, it was LEVY IMPOSSIBLE.

port of some of the older leaders learned, and indications there Mr. Kameny MacDonald, Leader of the Kuomintang now resident were that Paris green is a suc- The acceleration of the drift of the Labour Party emphasised in Shanghai, besides the whole-cessful larvaecide. "In the active anti-imperialist back of miners to work was in the impossibility of a Trude Union Pei-fu, Marshal Sun Chuan-fang: hearted sympathy of Marshal Wu struggle, Kwangtung has been the dicated in to-day's returns, show-levy. He said the situation was not and other military commanders in Vanguard for 15 months, but al-Ing that 217,000 miners were work- adequately realised. There had North and Central China. though we have inflicted tremen- Ing, an increase of 19, 474 as rom-been dous losses upon the enemy, it is Impossible for Kwangtung alone pared with yesterday-Reuter

to defeat the enemy completely. SAFETYMEN'S DECISION.

To secure complete success, all the

WORK AIDED.

SERIOUS CHARGE.

BANK CLERK IN TROUBLE.

dant. There were certain ́ender- sements also in their handwriting, and his Lordship would notice that that was the ticket which they in- tended to print.

On the production of that draft, torms were arranged, and, accord- ing to the plaintiffs, they were to A clerk of the Banque de l'Indo-print 50,000 tickets, and the price Perhaps the best evidence of chine, named E. V. Hyndman, was was to be $750. According to the the efficiency of control work was charged before Major C. Willson, plaintiffs, the defendant wanted demonstrated in Novaliches when at the Central Police Court this the tickets as quickly as possible, labourers working in the Metro morning, with enibezzlement to enable them, not only to sell SOVIET CONDEMNED.politan Water project were enabl Mr. L-D, Turner, who appeared them in Hongkong, but to dis

ed to continue their work by the to prosecute applied for a week's tribute them in Shanghaf and axtermination of mosquito larvae remand, stating that this was for other places..

the purpose of adding further same results have been obtained charges of a similar nature, så k

& consultation of "Union Leaders as to the best means of helping the miners and he had been perfectly appalled at the unemploy London, Oct 12: ment in each Union. The indus-- The Delegate Conference of trial situation had to be faced. This means that the Anti-imperia- Safetymen held in London has The resolution before the Confer AMERICAN LABOURS STRONG by means of Paris green. The list front must be extended unanimously reaffirmed the deci- once definitely committed the Par throughout China. Until now sion to remain at work-Reuter. liamentary Labour Party to the

provinces must participate equally.

our country, with the exception of

Kwangtung has been under the domination of the militarists. How then could we oxtend the active anti-imperialist front? It was Impossible.

AMBASSADORIAL CHANGES.

LORD D'ABERNON'S SUCCESSOR.

Several provinces has now been freed from the yoke of, the hun- ting dogs of imperialism; still most of the provinces remain, un-i der the domination of militarists, and it will take sometime before It is expected that Sir Ronald

Rugby, Oct. 12,

nationalisation of mines and he hoped the Conference would pass

ATTITUDE.

Detroit, Oct. 12. ⠀⠀

in several sugar centrals. Mr. Leo d'Almada appeared for

THE FRIES.

The Rockofeller Foundation the defence, and the case was formt Hle, Lordship would notice with The Convention of the Ameri- bore all the expenditures incurred ally remanded for a week, dofond-regard to the tickets that they it and thus give some encourage enn Federation of Labour has in the demonstration work for two ant being allowed bail in the sum of stated the first prize would be $40, ment to the miners. It was the denounced the Soviet regime in years, amounting to Pesos 40,000. | $6,000... best thing that the conference could the strongest possible terms and In co-operation, the Philippine do now. The miners' fight would described it as an assassin stand-legislature appropriated various only begin on a new plane, when ing over the prostrato body of sums. Last year it set aside PeBos the present crisis was over. That Freedom. It has renewed its 25,000. This year it is expected new plane was the House of Compledge to give no quarter to Boviet to allot to the Bureau of Health. mons and the new polley was na Fussia and, endorsed President the Pesos 100,000 requested to re- tionalisation of the industry. Coolidge's standpoint that Amerface to lowest possible limits the

can principles are not to be ravages of malaria bartered. The resolution denied

Mr. MacDonald's statements these militarists are overthrown, Lindsay, who is succeeding Lord evoked some booing. But oven the newly freed pro-D'Abernon a British Ambassador Eventually, the resolution was vinces are not yet completely In in Berlin, will take up that post, adopted by an overwhelming major the hands of the Revolution: the early next month British Wirely of 8,315,000 votes against

(Continued On Pajo: 12.)

210,000 British Wirclesa.

Teg.:

the Soviet regime as the must

RUSSIA AND CHINA.

BT. KARAKHAN VISITS MOSCOW.

000, the second $16,000, and the third $7,000, and it was significant. that on the back it was indicated that there were 50,000 tickets at $2 each His Lordship would see. from the tickets themselves that 50,000 of them were certainly re quired, and they were to consist of ten serice, from the letterÄ" to the letter "3" inclusive, 12The printer's proof was sub-

Moscow, Oct. 12.

unscrupulous, most anti-Social, The 7. and O. liner Morea, which

M. Karakhau has arrived in mitted to the defendant, and was approved and there was a sug- and most modacing institution in left Shanghal yesterday at 4.80 order to consult the Government gestion made by either Mr. Wheel" the world to-day-Reuter.

p.m., la due here on Friday at 7 a.m. on the Chinese situation. Reuter, 75 Continued on Para 7).