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BIG DEFICIT.

BANK TO BE WOUND UP.

INVESTIGATION NEEDED.

A creditors' petition for the winding up by the Court of the Oriental Commercial Bank. Ltd.. whose registered office is at 25, Des Voeux Road Central, and for the removal of four" Chinese

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liquidators, was made to the Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, in the Supreme Court this morning. Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. D. II. Blake, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, appcured for the croditors, and there was no coun- sel in court for the Bank. The Bark is in voluntary liquidation in it was stated that there whs an estimated deficiency of over $900,000.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED DETAITEWF WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1926. ~++

22,942

WANESIEN INCIDENT CURBING LABOUR. BETTER CONDITIONS IN

REPORTS.

IMPATIENCE IN HOUSE OF CANTON UNIONS MUCH

COMMONS.

QUESTION OF URGENCY.

London, Dec. 14..

In the House of Commons, in reply to Mr. Clynes, Sir Austen Chamberlain said he hoped to lay the papers with regard to the Wanhsien

PERTURBED.

PROTESTS TO GOVERNMENT.

domination became most marked,

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THE SINO-BELGIAN DISPUTE.

TO BE TAKEN TO HAGUE COURT.

NO POLITICAL AMBITIONS.

Brussels, Dec. 14. M. Vandervelde, Interviewed on his return from Goneval stated

9,000 MORE UNEMPLOYED. COMMITTEE GOVERNMENT. Labour organisations in Canton

The long succession of difficul- are greatly perturbed over the

With regard to conditions in

tics with which the China reported intention of the Govern- Foochow, it is reported that sinca

Merchants Steam' Navigation me to deal severely with picket the arrival of the Kuomintang Company has had to contend with that he had discussed the Belgo- Jawlessness and labour fouds.

It will be recalled that during troops conditions have begun to during the past few years of civil Chinese dispute and also, the incident before the the regime of Li Chang-tat as Com- improve and are now rapidly re-wat in and around those provinces House very shortly; and said the missioner of Public Safety, labour turning to normality.

and in Central China culminated Admiralty had promised to send

The defeated remnants of Gon- last week in the Company making to the Foreign Office the Naval a Police and Labour Frater eral Chow. Yam-yan's forces have a public announcement to the report this week, and the report however, that General Chien Tal- has been decided, to assign all longer, continue to operate its nity Party being formed. "Now, rotrented into Cheklang, and it effect that the Company would no of the British Consul at Chungking chun has succeeded to the post, it political and administrative mat-vessels while others, belonging to left Peking on Nov. 16.

is said that a decision has been ters to a newly-organised Political the Company remain in the hands Mr. Clynes asked whether any taken not to tolerate picket law-Committee, in accordance with the of China militarists. steps had been taken to expedite lessness and that the rights of Kuomintang system. the receipt of this information, the propertied and monied classes and suggested that in view of the are to be safeguarded. epeated questions on the subicct during the past few weeks, the House was entitled to this infor muation before rising.

· LABOUR MEETING:

SHAREHOLDERS UNITED,

EMPIRE AIRWAYS.

PROIN AIRSHIP.

DEVELOPMENT.

IMPORTANCE OF MASTS.

The Air Ministry's memoran dum to the Imperial Conference, dealing comprehensively with In perial air communications is now" published.

After surveying the substantial progress made regarding aeroplane: services and their auggested de-

General situation with Sir Austen Chamberlain and M. Briand."

tions in China, and she could not velopment in co-operation with the

Belgium had no political ambi-

agree to accept i Modus Vivendi Dominions, it indicates the great of nine months instead of the advances made as the result of re- Treaty of 1865, because, if she search experiment and trial in air- did, she might at the end of nine So far, the naval forces have

ship development. Hitherto, the months, find herself without not wholly taken up the Kuomin- At a meeting of most of the either a Modes Fivendi or a new ship flying, has been the difficulty chief cause of irregularity of air- tang cause, and those are said to shareholders in the Company, are Treaty. Therefore, she was going of handling ships on the ground be demanding that General Fang solution favouring the proposal of Sing-tao should be appointed in the directors to suspend all ser- to the Hague Court in order to and the risk involved in taking control of all military matters, at vices (const and Yangtsze) pend- obtain a declaration that China least for the time being. It is re-ing the return of its steamers, was alone could not abrogate the them in and out of sheda except all outstanding issues will not be and a telegram to this effect was side with those desiring to abolish result of the development of a ported that a final settlement of carried without a dissentient vote Treaty. Belgium would always in favourable weather. As the reached until the arrival of Gen-framed and circulated throughout institutions forcibly imposed on system of mooring at masts, air- der of the Kuomintang 1st Army eral Ho Ying-yam, the Comman- the country.

China which were bound to be Corps..

Following this, the resolution carried away by a revolt of ships dan now be moored to the was formally carried into effect national sentiment, which it mest by a mast crow of ton and. next day when all steamers of the would be more and more im-it should be possible in the Company were summoned to re- possible to suppress. HARBOUR COLLISION. turn to Shanghai and those in

Sir Austen Chamberlain was for

future to operate from a mast- port received erders to remain at considering common action on the

long periods, refuel- their berths.

part of the Powers concerned, ling and changing engines and whereby was meant not the des- even gasbags, while so moored. patch of troops to China but the An airship shod should then be adoption of a liberal and pacific more analogous to the dry dock. policy in face of the Chinese of a surface ship than to its or ject could not fail to have the national movement. Such a pro-dinary harbour. sympathy of Belgium/which was

VOYAGES TO INDIA. always given to the national. In connection with the experi aspirations of a grapplemental voyages to India and back;

Reuter.

In view of these reports, the Workers' Representative 'Confer. Sir Austen Chamberlain replied ence, which claims to have ever The petitioner is Mr. D. M. House the information as soon as trol, recently called a meeting to that he was anxious to give the 200 Labour Unions under its con- Biggar, attorney of the Super- he was able to get it himself. He consider the position, it being intendent of Banks for the State believed the report of the Consul asserted of California, and trustee in at Chungking was coming by the action would practically put an that the Government charge of the liquidation of the shortest route and not awaiting end to Trade Unionism in Canton. Canton Bank of San Francisco, the the usual bags.

At this meeting, a resolution was Anglo-California Trust Company Mr. Garro Jones asked why these passed to the effect that the and the Anglo-California Securi- vital and urgent reports should Unions would be willing to obey ties Company, all of San Francisco.not have been cabled, and Sir the Government provided in case The Canton Bank is.a creditor to Austen Chamberlain replied that of strikes the employers did not the extent of $1,000,000 for movies if the Foreign Office, had to con- commit any acts against the strike deposited to cover foreign drafts, duct all its business by cable, he regulations. With regard to the and the latter two are creditors was afraid that Mr. Garre Jones labour feuds, the view was ex- for the sum of $245,000 for moni's would soon find fault with their pressed that these were largely

During the foggy weather that paid in respect. of a loan pending

estimates.

due to the capitalist class, the prevailed early this morning, a the completion of a sale.

Mr. Gurro Jones contended that members of which were often collision took place in the harbour this was

a case of exceptional engineering trouble when strikes between two la scheda a result importance, involving the ques-occurred. Moreover, much of the Mr. Sheldon said the nomination of peace or war.

trouble was due, according to the of which the steam launch Gret capital of the Bank was $5,000,000,

To thishore was no answer meeting, to the fact that rival chen, belonging to the Asiatic Unions existed amongst men of the Petroleum Company, now lies sunk same calling, but this was inevit-off the Yaumati typhoon shelter. able during the present period of

UNABLE TO CONTINUE.

divided into 200,000 shares of $25 Reuter. each. The amount of capital-paid up, or credited as paid up, was $174,125.

On June 18th of this" year, an extraordinary general meeting

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of shareholders was held, when u resolution was passed to the effect that it had been proved to the satisfaction of the meeting that the Bank could not, by reason-t of its liabilities, continue its busi- ness,and that, it was advisable

HABITUAL SMUGGLER.ansition.

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INGENIOUS PLACE OF CONCEALMENT.

Alleged by Revenue Officers to be an habitual opium smuggler, a

Kwonrsal man, who arrived in the Colony on the .s. Mingsang, was fined $2,000, or six months' hard

IN THE BALANCE,

WELL-KNOWN LAUNCH SUNK.

CONSTANT INTERFERENCE. Constant interference with the operations of the Company was Chairman at the meeting for the reason given by the resolution being put to sharehol dars for their approval.

the main

There are at present about nine of the riverboats bolonging to the Company in the hands of the Northern militarists, while several The collision took place at about coasters have been seized in South seven o'clock, the launches involv- China, the principal ones being ed being one belonging to those which sailed from Shanghai On behalf of the Unions, pro Gretchen, belonging to the A.P.C. recruited locally to

the Standard Oll Company and the weekt or two ago with new crews tests have been sent to the Canton It appears that the latter was strike caused by the activities of break the Government regarding the pro-struck by the lows of the former the Seamen's Union and Red posed new regulations, which are and was so seriously damaged that agitators. described as being very unexpect she eventually sank. The bows ed in view of the fact that the of the Standard Oil Company's sent to the Nanking, Swatow and Government is looked upon 38 being favourable to labour aspira launch were also badly damaged. tions. So far, however, the Government has not replied "to these, and our Canton correspond-

that the Bank should be volun- tarily wound up. It was also re- solved that Mesars. Lai Hin-man, Kwok Tal-son, Ip Pik-chuen,, and Lui Mui-sang be appointed liquida- labour in default, at the Central ent states that much anxiety tors for the purpose of windingMagistracy this morning where he exists in labour circles as, to the up, and that their remuneration was charged with possession of outcome of the representations. during the winding up should be 19 taels of prepared oplum.

Armed pickets are not so much in $300 each per month. Those re- The drug was ingeniously cor- evidence, and the public is solutions were confirmed at a cealed in a thin tray secreted in-anxiously waiting to see whether meeting held on July 5th.

side the lining of a large suitease, the Government really intends to The liquidator, Lai Hin-man, and it was stated that the dis-disperse the picket' organisations. was a director of the Company every would not have been made Merchants generally are hailing and had withdrawn the sum of $16,089.60 on the day that the

cumstances that required investi-

WEATHER OUTLOOK.

two airships have been designed and are in the first stages of pro-. duction. Masts at Cardington and Ismalia have been completed and a shed at Karachi, on the site presented with a grant-in-aid by FOG LIKELY TO DISAPPEAR. the Indian Government, has been begun, As the result of know- Hongkong has had another logical investigations of the route, ledge accumulated during meteoro- warm and muggy day, with a deal the experimental fights will be Although petitions had been of fog, but according to Observa- made with a greater prospect of Canton authorities; no assurance tory predictions there are pros- safety than would otherwise have been possible. It remains to build. wis forthcoming from them that pects of an improvement in the vessels would be returned. weather conditions.

the airship, to overcome

the mechanical difficulties of the All that the Company asked was

The temperature recorded by heavy oil engine, to establish freedom to operate their vessels

the Observatory at 6'a.m, to-dny meteorological and wireless or no matter who was in power and

was 71, with the. humidity 96. ganisation, to carry out home ruled the country, and that its. ships would not in future be com- The Yangtsze Valley depression trials and to fly the two airships. mandeered or interfered with and has deepened and moved to south to India and back. When this New York. Dec. 14.

that full protection would be west Japan whilst a strong anti-experimental programme A strike, which has closed for afforded to the offers, crews and cyclone covers south-east Mongolia been successfully completed, says

and south. Manchuria.

the Memorandum, airship design eleven months two of the largest vessels. textile mille in northern New

MILL STRIKE ENDS.

LARGE TEXTILE WORKS RESUME.

but for information received. with gratification the appointment Jersey, dqdad yesterday, the mill-

Revenue officers raided the Kung

MANY AFFECTED.

has

The coast for, says the Observa and construction will have been tory, will probably disperse within placed upon an entirely now and

of General' Chien Tai-chun as owners and employes both An estimate places the number 24 hours, and the local forecast more practical basis, and the way Company closed its doors in cir-Wo Boarding-house yesterday, and Commissioner of Public Safety, accepting the same. terms as of shipping hands who will be up to noon to-morrow is:Light will be clear for carrying out arrested the prisoner in a room especially in view of the reports were agreed to in the Passaic affected by the suspension of sall-north-east winds, freshening; fog

that he is determined to take mills a month strong action against labour American Service. agitators.

there.

gation.. Kwok Tat-son was 'junior clerk in the Bank, and was the registered holder of two hun- dred shares. On August 3rd" of this year, ip Pik-chuen wrote SENNET FRERES CASE.

through his solicitors to the Re- gistrar of Companies, informing him that owing to ill-health he did not propose to take an active part in the liquidation. With re- gard to Lui Mui-sang, he stated, at the first meeting of the credi-

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ALLEGED SHOPLIFTERS..

PLEAD NOT GUILTY.

LI

STRIKE CONTINUE.

The strike of rice workers still continues, but there are hopes of

a settlement in view of the fact

ago Reutera ings, aa 3,000.

OBITUARY.

An additional at first, clearing later, 6,000 shore men will also be thrown out of work by the Company's ac- tion. The Company has no less. than" 28 vessels, with about 180, foreign officers and engineers.

FORGED BANKNOTE,

CHINESE CHARGED WITH

UTTERING..

further experiments which are re- quired to establish the practicabi-: Ilty of regalar airship operation. throughout the Empire.

WEST INDIES SERVICE, -

Dealing with aeroplane transport developments in various parts of In past civil wars the China

the empire, the Memorandum refers Merchant's Company was badly hit that the Government has stepped DEATH OF MRS. JOHN WARD. by the wholesale commandeering of

to the investigations conducted by in to mediate and also because of

the Air Ministry Committee into the vessels and on each occasion when the growing impatience of the

London, Dec. 14.

An application for formal re-opportunities for the operation of The two men who were arrested public on account of the increased

the Company had revived its ser- yesterday morning in connection prices now being charged for this John Ward, wife of Colonel John outbreak of war disrupted the sor-Pak-san was charged with possess-states that, consisting as they do

The death is announced of Mrs. vices on, a normal basis another mand was made at the Central Ma-civil air transport in the neigh

gistracy this morning when Cheung bourhood of the West Indies. It with an alleged attempt to vic-necessity of life.

Ward, M.P., who was in Hongkong vice again. Being a Chinese com- timise Messra. Sennet Frorce, the still remains unsettled. The Kuo Command of the 25th.

The bank employees' strike also for a while during the war, in pany it is the first upon which the ing and uttering a forged $10 of a group of islands extending

banknote. Middle-warring factions cast cyce when re-

over, roughly, 1,800 miles, and Pedder Street jewellers, pleaded not mintang Labour Department has sex whe. Inter saw service in quiring transport for their troops. prisoner's behalf, and pleaded not

Mr. D. McCallum appeared on separated by considérable distances, guilty when charged at the Cen-called together the bankers and Siberia-Reuter,

Sometimes wages are paid to the tral Police Court to-day with theft their employees, with a viow to

crews operating the vessels, and guilty. He applied for bail and Messrs. Percy Smith Seth and

Evidence of arrest was given, discussing the terms of a slig

sometimes they are not. The fact offered $500, but the police object Fleming, Incorporated accoun- and both defendants were remand-gested compromise, but no agres- CHLORINE EXPLOSION. remains that the Company which ctl, and defendant was remanded in

tors, that he had resigned from the position of liquidator. Neither don, had taken an active part in the liquidation,

of the latter two, said Mr. Shel-

NEED FOR INVESTIGATION.

fants prepared a preliminary ed in custody until Friday.

statement of the affairs on June

9th, 1926. This report stated.

inter alia that on June 9th, when

the Company closed its doors, a second mortgage of $10,000 on

COAL INDUSTRY.

security of the. Bank PLAST EMPLOYMENT FIGURES.

mises

was

granted

to Wo

Cho-tai and Leung Yee-koo, against a payment, according to

Rugby, Dec. 14.

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ment had been reached on Monday,

The discussions were, however, to be resumed yesterday. It is said that the strike is causing much inconvenience to the Central Bank.

PROUD VIENNA.

HUGE CASUALTY LIST.

Paria, Dec. 14. ́. The death roll in the chlorine explosion disaster at Samtauban is now 20, while 30 have been seriously gassed, five of whom are STOPS SALVATION ARMY'S in pprecarious condition. Forty

WORK.

Vienna, Doc. 14

the cash book, of $10,000. The Colonel Lane Fox, Secretary for sum of $1,000 was repaid to Loo Mines, stated in the House of Fu, against a fixed deposit receipt Commons that the number of which was not due until Novem-miners working on the now basis The Municipal authorities, have ber 2nd of this year. The report of eight hours a day is 456,164, prohibited the Salvation Army's also stated that on June 9th, suit whilst 266,550 are working seven work in Vienna on the ground that amounting to $16,039.60 wefe paid and a half hours daily. At pits the City has developed such n to the liquidator, Lai Hin-man, in various districts a seven-hours comprehensive system of com- and that on the same day $16,- day is still in force-British munal relief that private relief is

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superfluous. Router.

others have boon less seriously gassed. The cause of the accident fa not yet known.--Router.

TO-DAY

Doller on demand. ~1/11 3/16 Lighting-up

5.41 pm.

owns the vessels Ideses heavily custody until Friday. while the vessels are in the hands of the militarists and the decision now taken was the last resort.

IRISH TROUBLES.

AERIAL TROPHY.

the West Indies are in a position to

desire the maximum benefit from

the rapid transport facilities afford-

ed by air services. The Commit

tee's report is not yet complete, but It recognises that a service through- out the West Indies is impractic- able "at present," owing to the com- paratively small volume of traffic likely to be forthcoming, and the

WON BY LONDON SQUADRON. necessity of a largo subsidy.

It, therefore, considers that local services should first be established THE ARRESTED PERSONS-

Rugby, Dec. 14.

on those sections which offer the RELEASED,

The Air Ministry announces that best chance of early commercial Viscount Eshor has presented a success, with gradual extensions London, Dec. 14.

handsome trophy to be awarded subsequently. The Committee pro- It is officially announced that annually to the squadron of the pages that these initial services all persons detained by the Irish Auxillary Air Force adjudged to should include a service in British Free State under the Emergency be the best all-round squadron of Guiana, a service from British Act, recently passed by the Free the year. One of the London Guiana to Trinidad a coastal ser- State Parliament following raids squadrons, commanded by Lord vices from Trinidad to Curacoa and on barracks, have been released by Edward Grosvenor, wind the Maracaibo and a service from an Order of the Executive Council. trophy this year-British Wire Trinidad to the Barbados, British

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