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SHANGHAI COURT SENSATION.

NORTHERN PLANS.

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PIRATE GUNBOAT.

Brought Back to Canton.

Canton, July 5.

SHANGHAI FEARS.

NATIONALIST POLICY

OF GRAB.

GRADUAL STRANGLE-HOLD.

Those scandalous attacks upon the Court were published by the North-China Daily News, no doubt, on its appreciation of the fact that, as against this Court, it could shelter itself behind extraterri-cently became a pirate and com-article hended "Shanghai at the toriality at

Need for Quick Action.

The Gunboat Kongkoo, which re- -

ANHUI BANDITS.

Thirteen, Men Executed.

In the course of a leading

Cross Roads" the North China | Daily News declares:

how

and

mitted a number of piracles on the West River, as reported on pago As the offence of contempt lles, has been recaptured by other

When the "Nationalists" came in the obstruction to public justice Government gunboats, the Kongtai here, heralded by their Soviet organization and and the punishment is for the pur- and Konghong, tn Linfashan, and propaganda pose of protecting the public from has now been escorted bitck to still directed in their military

Canton. the mischief they will incur, if

operations, they were confident of taking over Shanghai as they the authority of the tribunal be

The Kongkoo was seen berthing had taken over the British Con- undermined or impaired, the police alongside the Goverment Piercession in Hankow and of sweep- and the Crown Advocate may per last night, but most of the officers ing the place clean of foreigners haps see fit to set the machinery of and sailors of the ship had escap as they swept Nanking. All will the British Court in motion in ored.--Nam Chung Pasi.

shocked remember der to bring the offender to justice,

grieved they were when they be it the paper itself, or its edi

Found the barricades up, the car- tor, or hoth. Unless something

Tew in fored and the Settlement is done and soon, there would pro-

adequately patrolled by military bably be such a monstrous state

and Baval forces whom their of affairs in Shanghai that the

rubble could not be counted upon people of different nationalities

to face. Profoundly annoyed, would daily indulge in scandaliz cumulation of soldiers of two they retired to Nanking to think ing the Courts of one another with weeks ago having largely moved it over and assembled there ex absolute Immunity because of the on. The authorities are dealing perts in trouble making, financial system of extrateritoriality in this sternly with the banditry that s jugglery and mendacious propa- country. I am afraid that, for everywhere rife, on a compara-ganda. Having laid their plans that matter, some of the Chinese tively small seale. Bandits get they declared war papers could be, if they chose, as no mercy when caught. Thirteen Settlement by reviving and inten- were executed yesterday, Consi apt in the propensity of scanda dering the merciless charactor of plastering the environs

mifying Anti-foreign lization as their British contemthe bandits themselves, this is not Settlement with gruesome post! porary. So, you see where it too severe; provided those caught cra, stimulating meetings at which would lead us to, if the practice are really the guilty ones." Manager.

were not stopped at once."

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Chengyuarkuan, June 16. All is quiet here, the great ac-

This Court is, however, in a more After a very wet autumn, win- fortunate position than other ter and spring, we have had 4 Courts in a matter of the sort under very dry early. nummer. This discussion. If we ourselves can- facilitated the maturing and har not yet at the principal offender vesting of the wheat, and now which is behind.the shelter of extra- that the wheat harvest is over we territoriality, we can perhaps deal have had three days of good rain. with such of its accomplices as may making possible the sowing of the he under the jurisdiction of this beans and the planting of the Court. The offence lies in the pub-rice, and also, saving the kaoliang fication of the scandalizing state- from being drought killed. This ments against this Court and every weather is providential. God for- person such as the typesetter, bid that there should be famine publication is also liable to punish with civil war. printer, etc., whe takes part in the or food scarcity at the same time ment. We have been waiting to nes the principal offender to be dealt with by the proper quarters; and if something remains to inipose it- self between it and justice for any length of time, this Court will have to nove against the accomplices.

We cannot give any relief to the North-China Daily News, while it comes here recking with the blood of its own ofence against this Court--no, not until it is purged.

A copy of my remarks today shall be forwarded by the Chief Clerk of this Court to the Cominis- Lioner of Police and Crown Adve- cate, oficially calling their attention

to the matter.

Mr. Preston: May I be heard on behalf of the real plaintiffs, Messrs. Lester, Johns and Morris? The North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd. have practically nothing to do with this case. There is no one here representing them.

Newspaper Called Criminal.

HANKOW'S NEWSPAPER,

the

upon the

feeling, of the

most outrageous Shanghai, many of them so nithy upon the foreign soldiery in

that they could not even be produced in their most scurrilous English-language organs.

"Against this form of attack

army of defence, however large, while confined to the bounds. of the of the Settlement, is slightest service. No organ but the Municipal Council can plan and execute a counter-attack and, so far as we know, the Council's only acknowledgement of a de- claration of war has been the The Workmen Return.

license to operate issued to the The workmen of the Central Publicity Bureau. The announce- China Post, the only British news-

ment by the Nanking publicity paper at Hankow, returned to agents of meddlesome measures work on June 21 after their contemplated and esigned to "strike" of 94 days. They return ruin Shanghai We there- to work on the same terms as they fore come thick and fast.

The

Whungpoo

Conservancy

were employed before the cessa- tion and will not be paid by their Board is to be reorganized, the employers for the time they were telegraphs are to be tampered absent from work. They state, with, the Post Office continues to however, that they have been paid operate fifty per cent, below effl- in full for this period by the clency, the Chung Yang Bank Labour Union.

(Central Bank of China), now es tablished in the Russo-Asintie Bank building, is to issue notes on the local market, while the Chinese commercial population is inspired to clamour against the barbed wire and the curfew 80 that subversive influences may more easily be introduced into the Settlement and blackmail agents can operate without check.

SHANGHAI FIRES.

MÁY A RECORD MONTH

previous highest being in Decem- the big thinga." her, 1925. On the 29th instant alone. there were nine calls.

Genuine Fires in the Settle-

ment Genuine Fires in the Special-rated Area Genuine Fires' outside the

Settlement

Chimney Fires inside the

Settlement

False Alarms in the Settle- ment 8 Good Intent 1 Malicious

1

Illegal Taxes.

The Customs surtaxes, con- 43tributions of civil war and the cost of anti-foreign propagande, 7 pronounced illegal in the protest by all the Protocol Powers and 17 still subject to protest, have been collected on imports within the 6 Settlement for some months and &re now to be collected on ex- ports. A loan, which is suppos 9ed to yield between thirty and forty million dollars, is forced

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Judge, Ziar:-I will not hear you. The total number of calla re- because the beneficial owners are coived during the month of May These are the little things, which the North-China Daily News & by the Shanghai Fire Brigade was when ignored, pave the way for Herald, Ltd. If the plaintiff 87, which constitutes a record, the succeeded in this action, the benefit would be for the North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd., who are criminals in the eyes of this court. Mr. Preston continued to argue that the only reason that the Court knew that the North-China Daily Newa were interested in the matter at all, was because of the wording of the lenso followed in the petition Mesars, Leator, John- son & Morriss were the principals to this contract. The ease, was similar to the rent agency cases in which agents appeared ay plaintiffs in actions for recovery of rent when the real owner's nume Mr. might not be disclosed. Preston went on to say that the compradore of the plaintiff firm

The damage on assessed pro-been as easy to intimidate firms. community are going to meet had already advanced, part of the money, to the North-China Daily Perty within the Settlement was under our protection into sub with complete success within the

The following are the replies to News and, therefore, if the judge estimated at Tla. 15,942 (Foreign scribing heavily as to blackmail

1. Creansted Church, in, Essex, bedit na a would hear him, he would be acting Tis. 1,000-Chinese Tls. 14,882), those under purely Chinese juris-next few weeks and, when they to-day's questions:

When a Chinese com- do, we shall find ourselves living cemporary wring for the bods of St Edmond. for the benefit of one of the and, in the Special-rated Area Tls. diction.

1707, when French trönpå (Foreign Tls. 4,000-manity under foreign protection Judge's own nationals and not for 4,590 the benefit of the North-China Daily Chinese Tls. 590). The value of can be sufficiently brow-oesten to in the midst of 800,000 contemplanded at Fishguard troop ander wate News.

property at risk in the Settlement part with the capital that it has tuous and hostile people. The Napoleon. 8. Until 1848, 6. Mag- Judge:-Those who engage them was estimated at Tis. 1,014,400 hoarded under foreign flags for "Nationalist" Government is alder in the Arabian Night. 8. Jand Ser selves to criminals, must take the Foreign Tls. 531,200-Chinese safe keeping, that Chinese coming to collect two months rent consequences. The compradore has Tls. 483,200) and in the Special-munity can be made to commit his own legal remedy against the North-China Daily News.

开

As

False Alarhis in the Special-rated Area

Special calls

Total

3 upon Kiangsu and, because no

2 adequate measures have been

taken to protect the Chinese resi-

87 dents of the Settlement, it has ternational administration of this

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

dalene College, Cambridge. 7. Short commons. From the imaginary feast given by the Bar

mour. wife of

ospe IV: Original inhabitants of Mexico.

George II.

10. Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, son of

11. Lori Eldon. 13. The calm part of the ocean near the Equatar. 13. Tha Mohammedan place of pilgrimago, at Mecca.

Miscarriage of instice in the case of Adelf Beck, who was twice wrongfully ponvicted. assist at the harvest.

15, Clowing the courts to allow all people to

rated Area Tls. 119,000 (Foreign any conceivable folly and our from Chinese tenants and land-Rider Haggard. In "Monlesbina's Daughter." Tls. 95,000-Chinese Tls, 24,000). "Nationalist" neighbours propose lords and it is going, to organize Mr. Preston:-It is no part of

One life was lost as the result to see that our Chinese residents almost perfect resistance to the my functions to criticize your judg of a fire at a dwelling in Kwel- are goaded into a state of open collection of the two per cent, in- ment or the editorial policy of the chow Road, a native woman dying rebellion against us. Security la crease in rates. The Provisional North-China Daily News. in hospital from injuries sustained the secret of Shanghai's success Court, the establishment: of which suming that the compradore, to use by falling from the verandah us a commercial port and the one has served the one and only pur-

Mr. C. Leonard Huskins, gradu- your own words, bas "engaged him before the arrival of the Brigade. inducement to the Chinese who pose of rendering ineffective the self to criminals" they were not Injuries to Firemen during the have crowded into the Settlement best efforts of the police to pro- criminals in the eyes of this court month numbered 7, including one to assist in the maintenance of tect the Chinese population from ate of the Alberta University, en- at the time when the sumpradore in the Special-rated area, and to order and to abide by the regula outside meddling and from off-gaged in research work at King's engaged himself or whey, as it hap. other persons 8, all inside the tions designed for their better-cial blackmail, is going to be the College, London, hae made a dis-

pens, he paid this money.

Judge:The bonefit, if the plain-

tiff succeeds in this action, would

be for the North-China Daily News

court, and I will not hear you.

Settlement.

The out

ment. When we do nothing to handiest possible medium for covery which will save the world. protect them against the Impool-making a complete success of the millions of dollars through elimin- tions and misgovernment from two proposed encroachments upon ating certain weeds which devalop which they have taken refuge our rights as administrators of through reversion of cereals to the Miss Aileen Dee, one of the popu- with us, security is gone and with this land which we leased eighty co-called wild type. Professor Hus- who are in contempt of this iur members of Calgary's younger it has gone our only claim upon odd years ago and have devoted kins found that irregularities In

Bet, broke into the movics Mr. Preston: I respectfully beg

their loyalty. If they are not to China's enormous proft; and the chromosomes were responsible 24 hours after her arrival you to note my protest.

safe under our administration, if if we have not the courage to upor deterioration; for example, of in Los Angeles and was given The marriage took place on Fri. part in "Slave of Bennty they are to be looted in the midstroot that travesty upon a court oats, back to wild cats.

production of varieties in which day afternoor, at H. M. Consulate-by Nino Wilcox Putnam. Miss Dee of a well equipped defence force of justice, the wise ones among us come of his investigation will be the General, Shanghai, of Mrs. Mar. has been prominent in Calgary's and a police system which therwill sell out while our assets are only the normal type of chromosome will exist. The value of the saving joric Weeks Wheelor, to Mr. Wil-social circles and in amateur then-support with taxes, they are, go-negotiable and pack our bags."

ing to be ruined as certainly as

thus, accomplished is almost incal- though they lived In Wusih, or Firm Lyons. Both the bride and triesls.

culable, so grain men state. Pro- groom are well known in Shanghai

At the Marine Court this morn-rian, served with the British air

fessor Huskins is a native Calga "I am quite finished with explora-Hangchow, and there is no rea- where the former has resided for about six years and where Mr.tion pow. My work has been ac-son why they should turn a denf Lyons has been resident on various complished,” said Roald Amund fear to alluring anti-foreign pro- ing, before Lieut. Commer. G. Force and studied after the war at Hole, the mistress of a cargo boat the University of Alberta. Hia "Unless there is a radical change pleaded guilty to securing her wife, Margaret Huskins, is engaged years. The groom is a member ofsen, when visiting Calgary. "Now paganda, the staff of the British-American that we have seen what before had Printed and Published for the Proprietor, by FREDERICK | Tobacco Company, and has travell not been seen in the region of the of attitude towards this campaign boot outsida five others, alongside in writing a series of articles for a North Pole, there is nothing more of encroachment two schemes, the s.s. Laidang, and was flued 83, group of Canadian papers, dealing to be done Our work is finished." ruinous to the prestige of the in-with the usual alternative.

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