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Manager:-Ralph A. Onopor, Registered Optometrist (Canada)

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

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#OMETACAF MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1926,

TO RAID PIRATES. THE STEAMBOAT CO.

DETAILS OF CANTON SCHEME.

BIG DRIVE PLANNED.

It is reported from Canton, that.

BOYCOTT.

UNION'S UNJUST DEMANDS REFUSED.

POSITION EXPLAINED.

IT IS A NOTE. »

JUDGMENT AGAINST

BANK,

WOMAN'S CLAIM SUCCEEDS.

Holding that the note was not

$36 PER AKKUM

BABINOLE COPY TO CENTE

RIVER COLLISIONS AT HELD BY BANDITS.

SHANGHAI.

SEVERAL LIVES BELIEVED LOST.

N.Y.K. WHARF DAMAGED.

Not a little excitement was

C. M. S. MISSIONARY'S EXPERIENCE.

THREE DAYS A CAPTIVE.

The Telegraph. correspondent at Foochow reports the capture by

the scheme for pirate and bandit boycotting of the Hongkongvold, Mr. Justice Wood gave judgcaused in Shanghal harbour last bandits of the Rev. B. G. Parsons,

auppression which has been drawn up by General Li Chal-sum "has been approved by the body special

Latest reports in regard to the.

Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's vessels on arrival at ́ Canton discount the reports that

ly appointed to consider this mat-this is due to the Company hav-"

Affairs.

whenever the need arises.

AEROPLANES TO BE USED.

Moreover, two aeroplance are to be set aside for the purpose of bombing auch pirates' strongholds are inaccessible to troops and marines. A period of three months is mentioned as being necessary for this work.

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The

of the Church Missionary Society. and his subsequent release after being held three days in captivity bound with ropes.

CHURCH OCCUPIED,

The motul life of this DOUBLE ROW TYPE New Departure Ball Boaring is still unspent after every other moving part in the Motor Car is worn out

and his without adjustment. 58 differont sizes and types in slook,

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd. Telephone Central 1246 or 1247. Wong Hai Chung Road. Happy Valley.

AMERICA'S SURPLUS HEAVY FIGHTING.

FUNDS.

"NOT FOR REDUCTION OF TAXES.

ALIEN PROPERTY BILL,

OPERATIONS NEAR FOOCHOW.

STAND BY NAVAL FORCES.

Our Foochow correspondent,, Washington, Dec. 12.

writing under date of the 8th "The Ways and Means Com-

inst,, saya-During the last few mitter of the House of Represen days severe fighting has been re tatives, which is controlled by วิธ

ported from the south bank of the republicans, has voted in favour Min, near the Yunfu River. There of making no diaposition of the are said to have been heavy losses

25 per cent., it being thus hoped the basis of a settlement and put the plaintiff and Mr. Eidon Potter securing a hold upon the river- went out to see if they were still mediate. part payment of each Foochow. He certainly seems, to

ter.

TRAINING SCHOOLS.

in

GENUINE PORTIONS.

di

SMART WORK.

ment against the Hongkong and Tuesday afternoon as a result of the Shanghai Banking Corporation, in

the efforts of the Dollar liner Pre- the Summary Court this morning,

sident McKinley to leave por in a case in which a Chinese mr-

under extremely difficult condi- ter by the Committee for Political ing refused to re-instate the mem:ment of a $500 note from which strong wind which, despite the ut

ried woman sued the Bank for pay-

tions due to the high tide and the Writing

under date of the 8th surplus, which is estimated at on both sides, and many innocent that villagers have suffered. The naval forces have held their own, The report states that two divi-bers of the crews who went on the numbers were missing.

moat efforts of the helmsman to instant, our correspondent states: $388,000,000. This means sions of troops are to be assigned strike in June of last year.

The plaintiff received two combat, finally took posacasion of On December 3rd, the news the surplus will probably be and the remants of the Northern to the task of rounding up the Enquiries made show that about $500 notes from her

hus. the grout liner, throw it off its reached Foochow of the capture applied to the reduction of the strong, cannot hold out much brigands and that a small squadron a month ago the Seamen's Union band and placed them in course and against the NYK

RELEASED FROM PRISON. of gunboats will be detached to at Canton Informed the Company jacket pocket, which she after-Mail Wharf pontoons, several of by bandits of the Rev. B. G. public debt at the end of the longer. co-operate with the land forces year on June and that there

On Sunday, 5th December, a employees, who had acted as removing the notes: During the addition to a considerable quantity neighbourhood of Shanyang, east will be no immediate revision of strike-breakers, by members of process of ironing, she felt a lump of cargo stored thereon being of Kutlen. The same afternoon,taxes. The Democrats allege that large meeting was held in the

further letter came: telling that he crews who wore formerly, in the in the pocket and discovered the thrown into the river.

would be releasd on December 3rd, the republicians intend to stage West Park to welcome Mr. Huang Company's service. Subsequent notes. One of the notes was,iden- ly, a meeting was arranged betified by the numbers and was left the Dollar Wharf in the early actually set free on that date.

The 5.8 President McKinley and to-day I hear that he was a big tax reduction just before Tieng-hung who was released

from prison last week. He came : the Presidential election in 1928, to Foochow to start a school last tween the officials of the Seamen's paid by the Bank but the other afternoon and proceeded down-

The Committee has approved of year, but was arrested and im Union and representatives of the was a mere lump of wet paper stream on a high tide, success. Company, this taking place in The pieces were sorted out. but fully as far as the Customs Jetty

the final draft of an Aliens Pro-prisoned for conspiracy in the in- terests of the Kuomintang. At Canton. At that meeting, en as the numbers were missing, and are where, in negotiating the sharp It appears that Mr Parsons" surance was given to the Union believed to have adhered to the bend at the Public Gardens, the was in Shanyang when he heard party Bill which will be introduc- the meeting yesterday Gen. Li In connection with the scheme, it that the Steamboat Company rough lining of the pocket.

he spoke of the is said that the conditions under would re-instate, former members

woman requested payment from strong tide carried the vessel that the church in a village some ed in the House of Representatives, was the chief speaker and almost

against the NY.K. pontoons. The distance out had been occupied on Dec. 15. It is understood shed tears as

difficulties that beset him in his which the agricultural population of their crews' as soon as vacan- the Bank on this note, but it was starboard anchor was immediately by some of the "Student Army" that it provides for the mcfforts to avoid disturbance in lives are to be improved by requir-cies occurred. The Union, how refused. ing landlords to reduce rentals by ever, refused to consider this as

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy was for dropped but found difficulty in and he and two Chinese workers

of the awards and pro-be doing his best in this direction; bed. The liner Arst hit a steel in possession or not, and to do to lessen unemployment which often forward a demand that every Chi-KC, for the Bank.

lighter loaded with several hun what they could to encourage the poses the creation of a Commis-I understand that he is responsi causes "pensants to join bandit or nese member of the Company's

wireless! dred tons of beans and thus miss-Christians thus deprived of their son to determine the value of the ble for the arrest within the last

and stations, abipa,

few days of twenty or thirty ganisations. This proposal, how present crews, old servants and

ed colliding with two Japanese place of worship, They found ever, is only temporary in charac- temporary assistants alike, should In delivering the judgment, his steamers berthed at the wharf. that it was still occupied by the patents seized from Germany. "students" for illegal possession An appropriation to cover this of fire-arms. Whether any of be dismissed and their plates fill-Lordship said it was conceded Great thick wooden beams con- students, and in course of time amount, estimated slightly to ex-them were among those involved ed by men supplied by the Uinon. that the portions of the note pro- necting the pntoon with the went on their way,

ceed $100,000,000 will be authoris in the barbarous treatment of These demands by the Union are,duced in Court were pieces of ashore were smashed to matchwood

At a rather lonely part of the cd. This appropriation, plus Chang Kwo-hwa, described before,, Another move in connection with naturally, refused by the Company, genuine, $500 banknote. After by the force of the impact while road they were overtaken by a funds held by the Alien Property I do not know. At all events the scheme is the proposed estab- on the grounds that they are wholly consideration of authorities, he several sampans, moored between party of six or seven bandits who Custodian, will be used to meet there seem to have been no fur- lishment of a military training unjust and unreasonable had arrived at the conclusion that the pontoons and the wharf, were searched them all, but only took the immediate payments, while ther outrages of that sort. school, the students from which, character, especially in view of the the serial number was, in law, capsized, the owners being thrown Mr. Parsons, driving the others money, due to the United States The Y.M.C.A. School near the after graduation, will be given com-fact that about one half of the material and essential part of the into the water and, it is believed, away. They bound his hands and under the Dawes Plain will be Long Bridge disbanded last weak, missions in a new organisation to former employees have already re- note. The established doctrine drowned.

hurried him off in an easterly used to cover the balance and the M. F. M. Anglo-Chinese be known as the Provicial Defence turned to work on the Company's of Common Law, illustrated by

Router's American Service. Guards. It is Intended to train at steamers,

Staunch-looking concrete piles direction.

College closed on 7th December for leading casca, was to the effect.

Soon after leaving the others,

a week. As far as I know, the least 1,000, men at first, but the

that a material alteration of an which formed part of the pontoon

other Mission, schools are going numbers will be gradually increased

instrument without the assent of moorings were smashed and twist they fired, two shots in the air,

on as usual, and have not been Las occasion demands. There is also

OPIUM IN FURNACE, the party sought to be charged ed in the collision and the Meand his friends did not know Kinley passed on leaving a trail whether he had been shot or not.

molested in any way, though some to be a technical school established

upon it, even if made by a

of those in the city have diminish- for training officers and detectives

The journey continued far into stranger and without the privity of wreckage in her wake.

ed numbers owing to the exodus for secret service, these to be poli-

Several tuge were hastily sum-the night, with a brief halt for of either party, rendered an in-

of many well-to-do families to the tically and militurily employed.. It

strument void,, inoperative to en- moned to the aid of the helpless supper, but about midnight they

quieter atmosphere of Nantai, is expected that at least three yours

force any right based upon it. It liner and these eventually succeed-took possession of an empty house, will be devoted to this scheme.

was applied in a case against theed in setting her on the right where Mr. Farsons shared a room

Some smart work was put in

SOUTHERNERS IN CONTROL? The discovery of 2,170 tnels of Bank of England where a serial track once more. By some strange with several of them for two days. PEASANT SLAVES,

by the Kowloon police when they A Chinese news agency reports. raw opium, valued at $6,510, and number had been fraudulently al-chance the McKinley 'was undara- Persant slaves. still exist in 800 taels of prepared opium, valu tened and that note was held. to aged and was able to proceed on

raided two houses in Canton Road that the city of Focchow:le now in complete control of the Kuc- places along Shapu, it is learned as ed at $9,600, on board the China be void.

her way to Hongkong without fur It appeared that their purpose and arrested seven Chinese men mintang, whose members have, a result of an investigation made Navigation Co.'s steamer, Luchow,

ther delay..

was simply and solely to get a by the members of the Political resulted in three men being

A second collision decurred, yes- Section of the 13th Division of the charged with, possession, at the

The fundamental difficulty was terday when a Dollár tag, hssist-large ransom for him: they hoped and one woman in connection with established the Government on to get about $20,000; But not the presence on the premises of the committee system, with Mr. 4th Army, which has been engaged Central Magistracy on Saturday. to interpret the words "material ing the inward bound liner Preal-time was lost by the Christians in rolls of cloth which have been Wang Chin-wan as its chairident in, bandit suppression, anys the Ravenue Officer Ward said he alteration" as used in the doc-dent Taft to berth, crashed into Shanyang, who speedily sent to the identified as being stolen by cargo. The latter is one of thationery Canton Gazette.. These peasant went on board the Luchow when trine of the, Common Law. A the beam of a E. & O. tug engag-head, bandit, who is quite well pilferers from the Bhie Funnel members of the revolutionary slaves 'ure the property, of land-she came into port on Friday material alteration would appeared in a similar occupation with a town to them, and succeeded in Oaufa, on Friday, as the steamer movement, having been-and- lords, it is stated, and are deprived (evening. and climbed into the to be an act that converted a P & O boat.. No serious dam-making it clear to him that there was lying alongside Holt Wharf.ciated with the late Dr. Sun Yat- was no hope whatever of getting The police action was taken sen from the inception of the

ransom at all, and that before a report, notifying them of Tung Ming-hui.

It is stated that the Foochow nothing would be gained by keep the theft, was received from the as the result of the proposals of loose. All the firemen, with the result. Though most of the re-

the result above mentioned, that The alleged connection of the the Kuomintang through the In- Mr. Sün Ping-wen, Chief of the exception of No. 1, who was miss- ported cases were concerned with

he was released unconditionally arrested Chinese with the loss of strumentality of General Fong General Political Department. The ing, were mustered, and witness active alteration through, human

BIG SCARE IN NEW YORK. on Bra December.

the goods, which were taken from Sing-to who was recently appoint" Political Section of the division learned that the three defendants agency, the doctrine covered na- making the report has been in-were working in the stokehold on tural causes also. Deliberate and

Mr. Parsons professes to be four cases broached open in onsed by the Nationalist Government of the holds, was it is said, then as the Civil Administrator, of structed to make a more careful in- Friday afternoon when

Now York, Dec. 12. none the worse for his unpleasant established. The men will be Fukien. It is also reported that the fire negligent conduct would · have vestigation of the matter,

was out.

similar legal conséquences in A series of loud detonations in experience.

brought up before the Kowloon the clash between the vanguards

of General Chang Y and the: FIGHT NEAR" LIMGHOW,

They said No. 1. fireman gave avoiding the instrument. But not New York Harbour caused

Magistrate in due course.

Marines came about through the them the opium to put in the fur-every change, even in a material panic among the hundreds of families living in waterfront tone-

mistake of the commander of the The Telegraph's Limchow corres-nace. It was stated that all three matter would constitute &

vanguards, in. not changing his pondent states that on the return firemen had aduilted putting the material alteration. When the ments who fled from their homes

units colours for those of the Journey of a recent trip to Ling opium there.

effect of an het or process was fearing another munitione disa

Nationalist revolutionary Army Shaan, the sound of machine-guns Major C. Willson postponed his considered the pertinent question Įter.

Windows were broken for a

thus giving the idea that General. in operation was heard at intervals decision" In the case until this was: What is the Instrument

Chang Yi was attempting to take" during the whole day's travel from morning, when he imposed a fine now?" If the only fitting descrip- radius of half a mile. The the first case in Kukien of a

Foochow and make himself Tu- "Mo Li to Cheung, Lok, It later $1,000, with the alternative of tion was " portion of the original plosions occurred aboard an ollc.M.S. missionary being taken by

There is now on exhibition in pan. The matter is now cleared transpired that troops were beseig three months hard labour, on each instrument, no new character tanker, anchored off Brooklyn, bandits; and one cannot help Wanchai a most unusual freak of up and his remaining forces have ing the stronghold of Lau Chi-wan, of the defendants.

had supervened. What had hap, which sank one hour later. None thinking that the "Student. Army" pened would then be recognised of the crew was seriously injured, had something to do with it. nature. This is a Chinese boy whe been incorporated in the 2nd Divi to be not an alteration but a Reuter's American Service

Owing to the cutting of telewas born with three lower limbs. graphie and postal communication Beyond this, the lad is normal in ing and are being despatched to

the Cheklang frontier. for several days, Foochow heard of mind and body.

A handbill distributed gives the his release on the same day as the information that the boy was one naws of his' capture, and was thus saved the long days of anxiety of a set of triplets born of Chinese which fell to the lot of those parente. The other two children

are normal in all respects. nearer the spot.

יז

"LUCHOW'S" FIREMEN

CONVICTED.

J

A VITAL POINT...

of property and the right to marry. stokehold through the furnace.thing into something else so that age was doṇa,

Steps for the abolition of this He took two bags from the first its original character was replac condition are being considered by furnace, one of these being opened by a new character. It might

any

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RANSOM WANTED..

THEFT OF CLOTH FROM STEAMER.

Central Kuomintang Headquarters and tins of opium found lying also be a process with the same HARBOUR EXPLOSIONS.ing their captive any longer, with officers of the steamer concerned. Squadron came to be allied with

a brigand chief. Victory was gain-,

“SUNNING” ENQUIRY.damage. "Following this dick.

WAITS ON CRIMINAL TRIAL.

trine, continued his Lordship, "I

ed at the expense of several lives, although the bandit chief himself escaped. An imposing monument has been erected on the Pukhoi

hold that the document, produced CHEMICAL DISCOVERY. motor road, about ten minutes' walk

by the plaintiff to the Bank is from the gate of Limchow city, in

merely damaged note and not a memory of 25 of the rank and file

materially altered one. It la HAILED AS GREAT ADVANCE, The Secretary of the Sunning therefore, in my opinion, of the 83rd Division, including Ave officers, who were killed during the Piracy Commission informs us that attack. The memorial has a dome the examination of witnesses from

Continued on Page 7). and is painted blue, with a white the a.s. Sunning will not be under- star, and is surrounded by a coment taken by the Commission until ad wall with looped chain pillars. after the completion of the crimin- Trees are planted roar, and a rest al proceedings on the piracy AMBASSADOR ROBBED. of the University College Hospital, house fa in course of erection. charge...

void."

not

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Rugby. Dec. 12. The London Observer's scientific correspondent states that two British professeors, Dr. Harington,

and Mr. Barger, of Edinburgh, have produced synthsis of thy- Our correspondent states that Letters have meanwhile bean ad-

BUSY BERLIN BURGLARS.

roxin, the hormons produced by since the Kuomintang took posses dressed to the authorities at China

Berlin, Dec. 12.. the thyroid gland. sion of Limehow in November last Coast ports, add in Hongkong, to year, many improvements have the Chambers of Commerce, China Burglare entered the Japanese The Observer says thu dia been made the streets are cleuner Coast Officers' Guild; Marine En Embassy and stole from the Amcovery marks a great advance in and in better condition, whilst rob gineers Guild of China and com-bassador's bedroom, Mr. Nogoa bio-chemistry for which chemists bar bands have been kept in check, panies concerned, requesting Inka's passport, a gold cigarette throughout the world have search this being a great boon to farmers formation which will enable the cast, a fur coat, 1,600 marks and ed for many years. British Wire

Losa and village people

Commission to resume ita alttings. other valuables. Reuter.

WORK OF STUDENTE? Whether the occurrence had anything to do with the present THREE-LEGGED BOY. state of unrest owing to the change of Government, is hard to decide. As far as I know, this is

CHARLIE CHAPLIN,

ON SHOW IN WANCHAI

sion under General Tan

Shün-

TROOP MOVEMENTS. General Ho Ying-yum, having @ received the appointment of Com mandor-in-Chief of the armies operating against Cheklang, is pro- ceeding thither to direct operat HOME SECRETARY, ILL. tions. The arruies,under Generals Lut Teh-ping and Lai Sal-wong: have passed Chuchow Fu and are adyancing on Kin Hwa and Yong chow, meeting, with no opposition 2. thus far, while the 2nd and 14th Sir Auston Chamberlain will Divisions are making forced Mrs. Charlie Chaplin having this week take over the duties of marchen od parallel lines to the failed to negotiate a matrimonial Home Secretary from Sir William const. It is expected that Won- settlement out of court, in filing & Joynson-Hicks, whose illness will chow will fall into the hands of uit of divorce against Charlie, probably prevent him resuming the Nationalists soon, for ad-

the road to Tatchow to be clear. with the custody of the children, work until early next year vance reconnoitring parties report Reutera American Bervices

WIFE SUES FOR DIVORCE.

Los Angeles, Dec. 12.

HIS DUTIES TAKEN OVER.

British Wireless.

Rugby. Dec. 12.