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FOUND BADA-TRUF SATURDAY. NOVEMBER

ORDINANCES. "RED" TERRORISM IN

NEW

LOCAL

DRAFTS PUBLISHED INFORMATION.

FOR

PRINTING PRESSES.

- KWANGTUNG.

HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE

MASSACRED.

CONFISCATION OF LAND.

According to Chinese reports,

PRISON MUTINY.

SENSATIONAL CASE IN AMERICA.

26,

1927. 日三月一十

DISASTROUS CANTON

FIRES.

OVER SIXTY HOUSES DESTROYED.

STRIKERS SUSPECTED.

More than aixty houses were

broke out in Canton simultanasly

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SINGLE OOPY 12 CENTE

BUICK

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Get-Away and the offortless spead of flying Birds Buick for 1928-Early inspection is, cordially invited.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

33, Wang Hel Chung Road.

Happy Valley.

Bulls and Inners

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From the Office Butts.

We are reminded that a glanca

Taipo Urban Council at its Inst-

to Irg has frequently bowled a meeting considered a grave case man out.

of mosquito breeding by the Rall- way on a garbage heap adjacent

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In view of the warm weather, to the station. Otherwise crime' fur coats won't be worn so long in the district is normal. this year,

JO Be they ever so humble, there's troopa, transporta no statys at home.

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Returning

are situate in south-east Kwang-militiamen were besieging the last evening, according to Chinese of joy.

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☐☐ Now that George Washington A German seaplane which hoped has been proved a bon viveur, we to cross the Atlantic was found to shall voice our "Cherry O" with be overloaded. It carried an greater respect for the truth.. Austrian prima donna,

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A number of Chinese business.

Be-Trayed

A THOUSAND MEN INVOLVED.

San Francisco, Nov. 25. A thousand convicts of the REGULATIONS FOR NEWSPAPERS & devastation prevails in the Hai-State prison at Folsom hayo destroyed by five big fires which

fung and Lukfung districts, which mutinied.

Earlier messagee stated that 500 tung, as a result of the "Red" Farmers' Corps having confiscated place, and that there were seven reports.

The fires started at the 1925 and destroyed much property, dead, including two of the prison houses and fields there after they guards, and 22 wounded. It is strikers' boarding houses, in the had succeeded in occupying the now reported that there were at East Bund, Hoi Chu, Tung Man

score and Shin Kee districts. POWERS OF MAGISTRATES. place at the beginning of the least nine killed and a

month.

Iwounded.

Considering the number of fast It will be recalled that the Can folk in the Colony, how about the men are of the opinion that Hong- Hundreds of refugees arrived at i

Revolt Well Planned..

tón Government recently dispersed police advertising the controlled kong has floated a Hongkong recently and told a

these 1925 strikers and that from The outbreak began on Thanks- yesterday all their boarding houses story of how in some villages all the houses and huts. had been giving Day, at a cinema entertain-and dining halls were closed up by burnt to the ground, and how vil-ment. when at a signal given by the Government. The latters action, laying ceremony is over, those com- point" this week. lagers by the hundred were the ringleaders of the convicts, it is said, has been resented by keeper who was supposed to have some of the dispersed labours who massacred by the "Reds."

The reports add that in the vil- the key of the cell-house door was seem to have an inclination to live lages in these districts there are hustled out of the crowd. When idly at the expense of the Govern

wealthy families. two

whose he declared that he had not got ment rather than to go to work glan names are loam and Ho the key, which had been trans-again. Opinion in Canton is that When the "Reds" first invaded the ferred to another warder, he was yesterday's fire were due to in- place they declared that all "capi-shot and stabbed to death.

cendiarism on the part of some of talists" should be massacred and The head warder, who had these strikers.

vigilant search was made for practically been imprisoned in his

In the current issue of the Government Gazette is published the drafts of three new Bills which it is proposed to introduce at the "next meeting of the Legislative Council.

A proposed Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordinarice of 1890 inakes provision for an increase of fines for various. forms of drunkenness and also, contains a definition of the forms of drunken ness which are considered criminal, such as. being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle or while in possession of loaded Erearms. Many minor amendments of the existing Ordinance are also made.

A proposed Ordluance for the formation, establishment and regulation of the Hongkong Police Reserve re-enacts with variations the old Ordinance of 1914 and makes some important, amendments... A proposed Ordinance to regulate the printing of newspapers and the keeping of printing presses supercedes the old Ordinance and There are many important provides for, the registration of summe. new provisions.

ESTABLISHING POLICE RESERVE.

recovered for libel published in the REGULATING NEWSPAPERS.

newspaper. So far as civil actions Registration of Printing Presses. for libel are concerned the amount It is announced in the Govern- of the bond is quite inadequate and in many cases it would be ment Gazette that at the next meet suicient to pay only a portion of

in criminal"etees,

ちど case

Another objace

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areas?

Now that the Wanchai stone- mittees have got a load off their minds.

this week:.

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A heading we might have seen "Wesleyans' Great Effert: Three Stones Laid."

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Reference by a contemporary to "The Four Horseemen," suggests that it is somebody's "pidgin" to next race meeting.

Loan.

Business has been at "silly

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If you wish to see your name

in the paper, pay no attention to that motor horn.

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It was as well that Hongkong had someone to Brace them up.

00 "Reader:" Save up your story about the sampan and the City

members of these two families. office, telephoned to. the prison loader of the "Ironsides" now invite their co-operation at the Hall steps until the evening of:

It is said that scores of the mem-.. bers were later killed.

During the reign of terrorism, all houses were ransacked and the inmates robbed, resistance often resulting in death. Moreover, the occupants of houses and the tillers of fields were forced by the "Reds" to supply the names of all land- owners. The latter were then searched for and the deeds of their fields and houses were taken away from them and burnt by the "Reds" who declared that hence- forth all fields and property would be regarded as to belonging to the all Government. Moreover, boundary lines of the fields were removed, the "Reds" stating that in future farmers were to till their

land and thirty per cent. of the

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- INTERPORT CRICKET.

Malaya v. Hongkong Match

To-Day.

The Interport cricket match : between Hongkong and Malaya

opened this morning.

Malaya batted first, and were all out for 98' runs just before the tiffin interval; be- ing at the wiriots exactly 100 minutes.

Some details of the play. will be found on the back page.

Ing of the Legislative Council, it the costs. The provision scents is proposed to introduce a new unnecessary in the Bill "to regulate the printing of criminal proceedings because I proceeds of the harvest, would go newspapers and the keeping and the powers of arrest which exist to the authorities, the farmers to

aupun get the rest. The owners of the namCASIONAL CHEN use of the printing presses."

and would get nothing and if they should complain the punishment guards, who were soon pouring in volfeys at the mutineers. He also would be death.

All the business shops in the summoned the police and National various villages have been placed Guards, who arrived with rifles under the supervision of the "Red" and tear gas bombs.

The convicts kept half a dozen

the cell-house The warders in authorities who will get half of the profits of these shops. result has been that all the bigger hostages.-Reuter's American Ser- shops have closed their doors, vice. rather than suffer such interfer ence. Some small shops are still open, however.

Men Surrender.

Goneral Wang Ki-cheung, the daling Canton, when he heard the news of the fire immediately sent out a battalion of soldiers and as a result twenty labourers believed to be involved in the alleged in- cendiarism were taken into cus tody.

SUGAR PRODUCTION CONTROL.

DUTCH INTERESTS AGREE.

Amsterdam, Nov. 25;

Chelsea models are said

to be agitating. for higher Prob- wages, ably, they are

tired of making

only B bare

living.

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Turkey atro-

cities are about

due to com- mence, on the mainland.

The sugar negotiations on be

If half of Cuba, whereby. It is ex- pected to institute international those control of production, have been and concluded, Holland coming in to the ring.

A communique states that both will keep in touch with each other, and con- parties concerned

the tinue to co-operate within as limits of their mutual interests.

They intend to meet again in 1928 and discuss further Co- operation. This result was gen- erally anticipated, in view of the non-committal attitude of the Java producers. Reuter,

It is explained in the "Objects tion is that the provision refers and Reasons that this new Or only to libel, whereas a much more dinance repeals and re-enacts, serious case is that of scuition. with alterations, the Printers and The bond provisions have thord- Publishers Ordinance of 1886, fore been abandoned. Section 9 of Section 3, which gives power to the new Ordinance simply provides make regulations, and prescribe that the proprietor, printer, puis fees, is new. No fees are in con- lisher and editor of any newspaper templation. The Section status shall be liable criminally for any that "It shall be lawful for the illegal matter contained in any Governor in Council to make such issue of the newspaper, and that regulations as he may think at the printer of any other document

The convicts who matinied with reference to the registration shail similarly be liable for any

Of the refugees who arrived at at, Folsom have surrendered. of newspapers and their proprie illegal matter contained in sun tors, printers, publishers and document. The necused will not Hongkong recently, most of them Router's American Service. editors, and with reference to the be liable under this section if he are homeless and they say that the keeping and use of printing proves that the matter in question suppression of this "Red", ter- presses, and to prescribe fees." was printed without his authority, rorism is unlikely, as the new

Every newspaper shall be regis consent or knowledge and that the "Leftist" Government in Canton MR, CARBERRY'S TRIP LOCAL BANKRUPTCIES.

TO AFRICA. tered. The names of the propria printing thereof did not arise from has to pay so much attention to tor, printer, publisher and editor want of due care or caution on his the probable counter-attacks of the Kwangsi-ites that they will not part. must all be given, and provision Section 10 provides that any

be able to spare troops to recap- is made for registration by a com- evil or criminal process addressed ture Haifung and Lukfung from

to the proprietor, printer, publish- the lawless "Reds."

pany or firm.

Licences.

RESERVISTS GET HOME.

HELD UP BY WEATHER CONDITIONS.

APPLICATIONS FOR DISCHARGE.

The Gazette 'contains a notifica- Malta, Nov. 25. tion concerning the bankruptcy of Mr. Carberry (formerly Lord Joseph Louis Durand and Marle Carberry), who is on a long flight Flint, partners in the business on under the to Africa, has landed at Helfar formerly carried aerodrome.

styles or firm names of The Cafe The resumption of his journey Restaurant Parisien, Au

er or editor of any newspaper shail be deemed to be duly served if Section 5, which deals with the left with an adult at, or sent by licensing of printing presses, ro- post to, the registered address of places section 18 of Ordinance No. the office of the 'newspaper. 4 of 1886. The new section is Section 11 requires a copy of based on section 3 of the Straits "every edition of every newspaper. Settlements Ordinance No. 1 signed by the printer or publisher, GREETED BY MOTHERS AND depends on the weather. Reuter. Parisien, Madame Flint, the Beauty

WIVES.

London, Nov, 25.

had

Chic

A message of Nov. 18 stated: Parlour Parisiana and The Europe- (Printing Presses). Like the Ang to be delivered to the Registrar of

Mr. Carberry, by which name Asia Trading Company, at Pedder tion in the Straits Settlements Newspapers. The copy so deliver-

Lord Carbery chooses to be known Building, Pedder Street, and at Ordinance, it gives power to refuse ed is to be evidence in any legal

since he renounced his title to the No. 11, Ice House Street.. a licence, subject to a right of proceedings against the printer,

Mothers and wives who

peerage, left Croydon Aerodrome! This states that M. Durand,, and appeal to the Governor in Council, publisher, proprietor and editor of trudged through miles of docks to-day in 4 Fokker monoplane Madame Flint, having applied to

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some

of

Wongs Chans

would stage a fight at the City Hall, per- haps this Can- ton business would be fixed in one hit.

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Nov. 30.

**I WA8 Your husband's

greatest friend. Did he leave anything behind which I might have to remember him by

"He only left me!"

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Homeside headline: "Miss Gleitze

Falls.

Submarine Exploit.!! Another Nolson touch 7

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Dempsey was.

In a lift crash the other day but, he is used to bouncing and. being dropped,

A contem - porary adver tised ****The

Waning Sor" as cinema

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feature. The amah was duly

called upon to suspender judg- ment on the shrinkage.

The Police Reserve having Local news item: "The Nan- formed a sharpshooter company, king troops have reached Hankow, which is quiet but jumpy." There dogs are liable to be hit..

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is no immediate fear, however, the Continuous increases in the troops being perfectly calm, albeit membership of local clubs, sug- somewhat agitated. gest that none of them have yet reached saturation point.

"The intelligentsia of America

is committing race suicide." this good, or bad news?

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0.0 Headline in a Manila paper "Leon Trotsky Is Reported Shotsky."

Last Sunday's "blow" supports the theory of a former Director that the Judging from a recent case, of the Observatory

in Hongkong some policemen have got a local typhoon season

begins on January 1st and ends Indian's goat.

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on December 31st.

Shanghai seems to have effected" a straight settlement, while some of our cricketing visitors Singa- pore song.

"Canton Turnover" says a head-

If some of our Government. oficials. would only say what they think, they'd be speechless.

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News from a contémporery: "oproved the provisional contract line. Some sort of jamb inside. "The Portuguese Government has Mr. Beatty looked like figuring for the establishment of tele- piratical episode. "phonic communication between in another What Price Glory?

Portugal and Spain. Spain will thus be able to have news of re- Some of the exponents of

go.

the volutions half an hour ahead of

The Governor in Council is given the newspapers. The copies so in the morning mist were the first by a mecbanió, on a flight to the Court for their discharge, the Strathspey would make St. Andrew any one else." power to cancel a licence after delivered are to be paid for by the to hear the marching songs which Capetown. He hopes to accom-Court has fixed Saturday, the 17th

Cross.

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A Hongkong lady has had her notice. Powers of seizure ad Government. The only substantial

Henry Ford states that he has a face lifted. Her husband's fell forfeiture are given in the sectio. difference between the section in heralded the return of the Reser-plish the journey in record time, day of December at 10.30 o'clock

8.5. estimating that he will reach in forenoon for hearing the, ap-leaning towards reincarnation. when the bill arrived: Section 6, which requires, books, the bill and the section in the Coy-vists from China by the

Karmala. The authorities closed Cairo in four days and Capetown plications,

Now we know where the old ones newspapers and documents printi lan Ordinance is that in the bill in the Colony to bear the prints.'s the delivered copy of the news-their eyes when 1,200 men broke in a week. His first halt will be name and address, replaces sectia paper is to be evidence against the the non-smoking rule in the docka. at Lyons. His departure was The men hurried to waiting made without any preliminary an- 12 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1886, editor as well as against the pri-

Section 7 of the new Ordinance ter, publisher, and proprietor, troop trains, while most of the nouncement and only a few people replaces section 11 of Ordinance The Ceylon Ordinance does not oflcers were collected in motor- saw him off. From Capetown, No. 4 of 1886. The chief, dia- refer to editors,

cars by their families.-Reuter. ences in the new section bro as Section 12 of the new Ordinance follows: (a) A copy must be kept provides a general by the printer for one year instead penalty of $1,000 or six months THE ITALO-ALBANIAN

maximum

TREATY,

of six months; (b) If the name of imprisonment. This is the penalty the printer is Chinese it must be under sections 4 and 18 of Or- given in Chinese characters; (e) dinance No. 4 of 1880, except that The offence is left to the ordinary in those two cases the imprison- penalty under the Ordinance. ment must be without hard labour BRITAIN IN THE DARK.

Section 8 of the new Ordinance while here it may be with or with- provides for powers of search, out hard labour.

London, Nov. 25: seizure and forfeiture.

Section 14 suspends the com- A communique issued in Rome: Ordinance, contains the text of the Italo-A)-

Criminal Liability.

mencement of

tho

This is inserted in order to give banian Defensive Treaty, which

The provisions of sections 18 to time for preparation of the regis-it is announced, was signed last 17-of Ordinance.No. 4 of 1888 do ters and to give time for news Tuesday.

HOME BY-ELECTION.

D.

D.D. Chiang is still determined to marry, It looks as if trouble in The Shanghal detective who China will continue for some time shot three robbers single-handed longer..

Is stated to be of a modest and We should retiring disposition.

This week's Dewariem: "To-dar hate to meet a really audacious women display more backbone.

than men.".

officer., London, Nov, 25.

Mr. Carberry will dy to Kenya, INCREASED LIBERAL VOTE, where he has an estate and where he already has two other aero- planes which he uses for trans- port and survey work. One of these la flown by his wife.

JUMPED INTO HARBOUR.

AN OLD MAN'S DEATH,

The Canterbury by-election, due to the elevation to the Peerage of Mr. Ronald McNeill, resulted as follows:

Sir W. Wayland (Conser-

vative) Colonel D. Carnegió (Li-

beral)

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DO The Hankow Fire Brigade after A heading we may yet, live to

"Education Director De many montha have received their read: wages. They were naturally in a precates Examinations: Says Not blazing temper and much put out. Cricket".

D'O If China would only go to peace instead of pieces! й

The cemetery landslide was a 13,667 dead loss for the contractor.

D D It would appear that our In Hongkong, it's not so much administration favours local what you were as how you wear. At the last election, Col. Car-residents taking less water than

10.175

A Chinase. seventy-one years of negic polled only 7,061 against over.

not appear in the new Ordinance. papers to regiater and for the The British press has so far re-age, attempted to commit suicide 16,693 palled by Mr. McNeill. They provide that the printer or keepers of printing presses to ap-frained from comment, since the yesterday by jumping into the Reuter. publisher of a newspaper must ply for licences.

give a bood in the sum of $1,200 conditioned that he will pay any

figé or penalty imposed on him, or

any person acting for him in his

terms of agreement were not Harbour from the Mongkok Ferry hitherto available, and since noth-launch, Min Shing.

POLICE RESERVE.

Entirely New Ordinance.

ing was known in London, even In official quarters, about such a

The man's act was observed by the mistress of passenger boat No.

It is also proposed to introduce treaty until the British Govern- 2283, who picked him out of the

absence. by reason of any con a Bill "to provide for the forma- ment was officially notified of it. water. He was later eant to the

viation for libel, and also that he vill pay all damagear auxi, caste

(Continued on Page 18.).

signature British Wireless.

Government Civil Hospital, but he dfod shortly after admission.

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand Lighting-up

2/- 6/16.

6.38 pm

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According to a writer in the Post, the most prominent batsman This naval contest appears to be on the Malaya side "first sent a one of cruiser weights.

cut to the public stands, then a glance to the pavilion."

After

A local radio fan disagrees with that, we presume, he looked to his

a bull on wireless must con

sider himself a rodeo export.

How wicked, for these Jockey Club stable hands to gamble.

laurels.co

Reduced prices for air travel are no insurance against a drop In security.