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COLONY'S SHIPPING JAPANESE FLEET

FIGURES.

LAST YEAR ESTABLISHES UPWARD TREND,

FOREIGN TRADE BOOM,

The upward trend of, the Col- ony's shipping drade was definitely established once again in 1927, wind this in spite of the fact that the China Navigation Company's

GOMING.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SQUADRON OF TWENTY SHIPS.

SIX THOUSAND 'MEN TO BE ENTERTAINED,

steamers were held up by a strikeFINE BATTLESHIPS. for over two months,

The ocean-going figures reveal

THURSDAY. MARCH 29, 1928,

KING AMANULLAH HABEAS CORPUS

IN NORTH."

VISITS BIG INDUSTRIAL FIRM

AT MANCHESTER.

TRIP DOWN SHIP CANAL

London, March, 28. King Amanullah of Afghanistan spent this morning ylalting Indus- trial worka at Manchester.

Liverpool.

APPLICATION.

FURTHER ARGUMENT IN COURT.

AUTHORITY OF LI CHAISUM IS QUESTIONED.

IMPORTANT BILLS IN COUNCIL.

WATCHMEN'S POWER OF ARREST LIMITED.

DANGEROUS DRUGS.

A meeting of the Legislativo Council was held in the Council Chamber at noon to-day,His Excellency tho Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, K.G.M.G., presid- ing.

of Chinese Affairs, was sworn In Mr. R. A. G. North, Secretary

prior to commencement of the Council's business,

At the factory of the Metropoli- tan Vickers Electrical Company he NOT PEKING OFFICIAL saw, some of the largest electrical plant yet manufactured in Great] The forthcoming visit to Hong Britain and was shown the latest

The hearing of the application tan encouraging advance on tho kong of a powerful Japanese electrical devices. figures for last year, 25,700,164 Naval Squadron, comprising three

for a writ of Habeas Corpus in Four now Bills passed their tons entering the port, a figure battleships, cruiser and 10:

Later the King of Afghan respect of two Chinese whose first avading this morning these

extradition is Rought by the Can-being, over 4,000,000 tons above last year, destroyers, is

(1) An Ordinance toj arousing much Journeyed in n launch down the ton Government for various crimes amend the Pensions Ordinruce and only exceeded by the peak public interest. The event will be Manchester Ship Canal towards in the province of Kwangtang was 1862, (2) an Ordinance to provide -year of 1924, and by a little over the first time that a Yoreign launch carried the Afghan continued in the Supreme Court for the incorporation of the two hundred thousand tons in Squadron, of such large dimen- 1928,

sicus has ever paid a formal visit Bag and each ship berthed in the this morning, before Mr. Justice Secretary for Chinese Affairs,

Wood.

(3) an Ordinance to amend the canal dipped her colours as the to this port..

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, instructed | Dangerous Druge Ordinance, 1925, launch passed,

The canal banks were lined at by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, for the and (4) an Ordinance to give effect Crown completed lils, contentions to the change in the name and different points by groups of that the prisoners should be sent style of the office heretofore people who cheered and waved to back to Canton and Mr. Hin Shing-known as that of the Principal King Amanullah, who standing on lo, instructed by Messrs. Leo and Civil Medical Officer. the captain's bridge, acknowledged

Russ, commenced his arguments cheers by raising his hat..

to the effect that the detained men should be given their liberty.

These figures do not represent the entire foreign trade, as the linking of river-steamers and junke, brings the total number of vessels entering the port. engaged in foreign trade to 51,280 with a tonnage of 16,834,014 as compared with 30,234 vessels and 28,371,104 bons last year.

Full Comparison.

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The full comparison shows in croasos under all heads except one, a most romarkable slump' in traffic

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2.

With the arrival of the Fleet on Easter Monday. Hongkong will give a hearty welcome to no fewer than 6,000 men, and the task of entertaining them has not daunted official and Japanese circles who are busy making arrangements to render the stay of the men from the visiting Flect an enjoyable

Precisely at what hour on Easter Monday the Fleet will arrive here is not yet known, and

The launch want as far as the Barton Vinduet which was swung back so that the King could see this marvel of modern engineering. In the afternoon King Amanul- lah visited a coal mine on the out- the time of the official landing of skirts of Manchester and inspect- in local trade being recorded; par-Admiral Kato ntid his Staff is afed the mine workers.--British tially due to an extension of the detail which depends on this in- | Wircicas. Harbour limits, witch how include formation. places for which statisties, werej formerly required. The decrease ahown is 280,269 launches repro denting 8,178,174 tona.

The Harbour Master's' Report, from which these figures are derived shows that total shipping ontering and clearing ports in the Colony during the year 1927 amounted to 298,707 vessels of 44,127,161 tons, which compared with the figures of 1926 show a „decrease of 201,566 vessels and

an increase of 330,725 tons.

There was an increase in British ocean-going shipping of 400 ships of 403,023 tons.

Foreign ocean-going vessels show an increase of 2.290 ships and an increase of 3,982,445 tons,

River Steamers,

British river steamers show an

To Stay Five Days.

The Fleet is, however, scheduled to remain here for five days, after which, it will return North. It is understood that the British naval authorities here are making clabo rate preparations for the duc honouring of the foreign visitors, who will be received with all the

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CONFIDENCE "TRICK AGAIN.

Mr. Hin Shing-lo asked whether there was any special reason for the absence of the detained men, saying that as their liberty was at stake they were entitled to hear what was unid.

The third reading of the Ordin- ance providing for the registra- tion and regulation of watchmen, proposed by the Attorney General,: was left in Committee until the next meeting of the Council this day week. It was hinted by the Attorney General that interested parties, "might," If they desired, Mr. Fitzroy replied that they submit their views on the partí-] were not arguing the Habcas Corculure of the Bill, through pua but the rule nisi and therefore counsel, at that sitting. their presence was not necessary, but he had no objection.

Fugitives Attend.

Dangerous Drigs,

The Attorney General, Sir Joseph Komp, 'In moving the first reading of an Ordinance to amend His Lordship said he had decid- the Dangerous Drug Ordinance, ed ln his own mind to send for the 1923, said: "Thie Bill is intend- fugitives oventually, but if counseled to enact legislation required to desired, the Crown would arrange give effect in Hongkong to the for them to attend this afternoon. terms of the International Con- Referring to the question of the vention of Opium and Dangerous A report was made to the police Extradition Ordinance being ultra Drugs, which was signed at

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ceremony customary to naval yesterday by a Chinese woman, viree, Mr. Fitzroy said there could Geneva on the 19th February, 1925 HONGKONG REALTY & TRUST

etiquatto.

The battleships Nagato, Mutsu and Faso belong to the First Bat the Squadron, which with the First Cruiser Squadron, the First Flotilla of Destroyers, the First Submarine. Flotilla, two aircraft carriers and other special service vessels, constitute that powerful entity regarded as Japan's first line of naval defence.

herself As

stranger to the Colony, to the effect that she was robbed of the sum of $500 and a pair of car-rings by two men.

had been passed at the express re- legislation had already anticipated bo no question as to its power, as it Our existing 'Dangerous Drags quest of His Majesty's Government. in some respects the requirements|| He further submitted that the of the Convention, but it has been Court was not entitled to look at the found necessary to make various requisition and that the period of technical alterations in the law the men's detention, 19 days, for and it is also necessary to make which the magistrate was respon- certain alteration in our Danger- sible, was not an unreasonable one. ous Drugs Regulations. Referring to the point that there was no evidence that the fugitives were subjects of China, Mr. Fitzroy said that was covered by the Ordin- ace Itself. IIe submitted that the application should fall.

According to her story, she met the two men in Connaught Road Central at 3 p.m. They told her they were strangers to the Colony and that although they had plenty of jewellery on them, they had no It is the usual practice of this ready cash and asked the woman increase of 3,273 ships and an urge Fleet to cruise in Formosan to be good enough to take some of increase of 1,820,663 tons. This and Chinese waters every year, in their jewellery to pawn for them, increase in ships and tonnage is addition to home watera. Last promising her a commission for due to the vessels again running on visited Amoy and this year it has The woman was then given a the fugitives and the Court, quoted Mr. Hin Shing-lo, after referring year the First Battle Squadron her service.

to the positions of the Executive, The Canton, and West rivers.

Foreign river steamers shows an been decided to pay Hongkong an parcel wrapped up in n handker-Sir Francis Figgott, a former Increase of 5.064 ships with an in-official call.

chief. As she was about to leave Hongkong Chief Justice, to show However, only part of the Flest the men, one of them asked her that in English law extradition creash of 453,420 tons. In steam- shipa not exceeding 60 tons em- will come here. The three battle to leave some security behind, as could not he effected without full ployed in foreign trade there is an ship and 16 destroyers, with the mark of good faith. She hand-authority of treaty and statute. increase of 5,061 Hhips with an in- light cruiser Tenyru neting used the men $600 in notes and a crease in tonnage of 146,044 tons, destroyer-leader, will be includ-pair of ear-rings. When she ar Junks in foreign trade show and in the visiting Squadron, rived at the pawnshop, the parcel

Increase of 9,027 vessels, and an but the cruisers and other proved to be nothing but a bundle craft will, it is stated, be diverted of newspapers, with a piece of iron to Shanghai. Particulars of the added, to give it weight. visiting ships are as follow:

increase of 1,651,325 tons.

Junka in lopal trade show a decrenec of 2356 vessels and au increase of 46,989 tone.

The Rattleships.

Státus of Government.

Shing-lo aubmitted that the Canton

"The chinnges made are largely in the nature of provisions to stop up various loopholes which it has been found dosirable to stop up, so as to strengthen the position of the Colony and the world in gon-

dangerous drugs was made by the eral against dangerous drugs. One important addition to the lists of recent Geneva Convention, namely, the drug which under various names but derived from the Indian hemp plant. Our legislation

was known

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a little further than the Conven- tion in prohibiting any possession. that an extradition requisition was

Dealing with Mr. Fitzroy's point of the plant in Hongkong.

"The tincture derived from this between two Governments, Mr. IIin plant has a medicinal value and 18 included in the dangerous Government, as at present consti-drugs, but the plant itself is tuted, could hardly be considered a totally prohibited and that is the The total revenue of the Har-

Mr. W. R. Lysaght, managing Power signatory to the Tientsin plant which is also used in the bour Department during the year The, battleships. Nagato and directors of Messrs. John Lysaght, Trenty.

form of hashish and this is a drug was $1,000,229.80 03 against Mutsu are sister ships. The sheet iron manufacturers, was ati

Another point made by Mr. Fitz-which has very deleterious effect. 8820,888,39 collected in the pre- former was launched in 1919 and Newport presented by 10,000 work-roy, continued counsel, was that The other drugs in the Bills are a vious year showing an increase of the latter a year later. Of 33,800 men and staff with an illuminated they could not go behind the order matter of detail and need not be $179,341,41 or 17.92%.

tons displacement, they are 600 address to mark his completion of of the Governor. It was true that mentioned at this stage." 285,593 emigrants left Hongkong feet in length, with turbine engines 18 year's connexion with the his order was necessary, but hów

The. Watchman's. Bill. for various places during the year developing 60,000 h.p, and a speed firm. Mr. Lyanght said that dur-could the Governor lasue such an

The Attorney General moved 1927 (216,527 in 1920). Of these of 23 knots,

ing the 50 years there had been order for the arrest of a fugitive that the Bill entitled an Ordinance 38,269 were carried in British A protective 12-Inch armour belt no strikes, thanks to the loyal co-without previously receiving a re- to provide for the registration and Ships and 147,380 in foreign ships. runs along the water-line. The operation and affection of the quisition? He considered that regulation of watchmen be recom- 181,100 returning emigrants gun-turrets are plated with armour workmen and staff and to the cx- the Court had full right to enquire mitted in order to substitute the were reported to have been of slightly greater thickness, while collent work of the Conciliation, Into the legality of the surrender-word "police" for the word "re- brought to Hongkong from the the direction tower is also well of which he had been chairman (Continued on Page 8.) 'soveral places to which they bad protected, in these vessels. Vital for 25 years.

emigrated either from this Colony For from Const Ports, as, against 128,651 In 1926. Of these, 160,883 arrived in British ships and 80,211 in foreign ships.

ESTATE OF HONGKONG BARRISTER.

parts of the ship have also been given special attention in the de- signer's plans, and thick armour protection over the machinery and boilers is a noteworthy detail.

The main armament in these battleships is powerful: It com- prises eight 16-inch guns mounted in pairs on superimposed turrets, -four guns in the front and four aft. The Nagato and Mutsu are, In fact, the first vessels in the Japanese Navy to carry guns of this extraordinarily large calibre. The Nagato also carries; as Mr. V. Findlay Smith, a barria-secondary armament, twenty-two ter-at-law, formerly residing at 6.6-inch guns disposed in batteries, the Peak Hotel and prattišing in while the Matau has twenty.

THE LATE MR. V. FINDLAY SMITTI.

Each of these vessels also carries eight torpedo tubes, above and under water.

The full complement is 74 officers and warrant officers, and 1,258 men.

the Colony, who died on March 7 Four anti-aircraft guns are last year at Mount Pleasant Hotel, placed on the super-structure, two Funchal, Isle of Madeira loft on each side of the forward funnel. Hongkong estate to the value of $78,100. His property in England amounts to. £43,864 and he has also left estate in Shanghai,

Mr. Findlay Smith once realded at Blackbridge House, Tueshwater, Isle of Wihte. He bequeathe everything to his widow, "Mrs. A. M. Findlay Smith, who is the sole Executrix.

$

Re-scaling of the will has been granted to Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, of Mesars. Deacone.

Post-War Efficiency.

The Nagato and Mutsu repre- Bent a class of capital ship in which are embodied all the latest Japanese ideas of post-war Emciency. Two others, of this. The late Mr. Findlay Smith was class were to have been construct- called be the Bar on November 17, cd but for the limitation imposed 1915 and was admitted to practice by the Washington Conference before the Supromo Court of which arrested construction work

Hongkong on February 18, 1910. which had already been put in land. These other battleships, were the Kaga and the Tosa, which were to be considerably larger, of no less than 40,600 tons, and they were to have mounted ten instead of eight 16-inch guns. The Kaga has since been converted into an

"(Continued on Pago 8,)...

For the first time in its history of 70 years, the Mill Close lead mine, near Matlock, has ceased production owing to the low price of lead in the market; due to for eign competition.

1828, 'ST BEA BENIGE BG.

Saleswoman: This is my pet, dearfe—I don't show it to every customer 'eause I don't want to so it go out of the shop.

gistered" in Clause 12,

The clause in question reade "Every registered watchman shall, while acting in the discharge of his duties as a watchman, have the same powers of arrest as a police officer."

In moving the recommital, the Attorney General said: "The Bl is to be recommitted for two pur poses. Firstly, in order to amend Clause 12 so as to make it refor only to police watchmen. That is the clause which gives power, of arrest to watchmen.

At pre- sent the clause as it stands gives power of arrest to every register- ed watchmen. It is proposed that that should, be altered 60 86 to give power of arrest to only police watchmen.

"The other abject of recommit ting the Bill is that certain inter- ested parties may, if they, so choose, appear by counsel before the full Council at the next.mect- ing this day week and make any submission they may wish to put forward in regard to the particu- inrs of the Bill."

Tho Bill was allowed to remain in Committee until the next meet ing of the Counell,

MORE RAIN PREDICTED,

The Royal Observatory weather report states:The anticyclone Is now central over mid-Japan. A depression lies over Indo-China. There is now no indication of a depression to the East of the Balintang, Channel. Moderate monsoon may be expected along. the South-East coast of China and over the Northern portion of the North China Seal

ER The forecast till noon to-morrow Is-North East winds, moderate generally overcast, some rain.

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