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AND

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Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 6 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets all steamers.

above Hotel). ·

Tel. Add:Victoria."

Telephone C. 878

J. II. WITCHELL,

Manager.

DISTINCTION

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

EARLY MORNING CHASE.

EUROPEAN, SERGEANT'S

CAPTURE.

|TWO TAKE UP PURSUIT.

After along chase by two police officers, acting In ignorance of cach other's presence, an unemployed Chinese who was seen climbing a water pipo

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1928.

PICKETS PARADE NEW ANTI-FOREIGN

MERCHANT.

SHANGHAI DEALER'S

"CRIME."

LED THROUGH STREETS FOR SELLING JAPANESE GOODS.

CAMPAIGN.

LYING POSTERS DISPLAYED

IN PEKING.

ALL NATIONS BLAMED.

to the first floor of a house in Re- EFFECT OF BOYCOTT have appeared suddenly in all

clamation Street in the early hours this morning was arrested by Ser geant Williamson.. On 'investiga- tion of the man's record. it was

found that he had returned to the

Colony from banishment.

On being brought before Mr. W Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on a charge of dis oboying, la banishment order dated 1926, requiring his absence from the Colony for a period of ten years, the man pleaded guilty. ·

Inspector Marks prosecuting,

Peking, July 23. Violent anti-foreign, postora, showing by, pletures and cartoons China's domination by the avari- cious and rapacious foreigner, public places in Peking. Incidents for several years, in which for Shanghal Aug. 4. Accused of disobeying the oignors are alleged to have masa- de. patriotic injunction to stop doaling acred helpless Chinese, are In Japanese goods, a Chinese mer pleted graphically from, the Kuo- chant named Chang Lung-sing, minating point of view.

Americans, Britons, Frenchmen owner of a shop in Nantao, was the cantro of a remarkable spectacle on and Japanese all come in for Thursday afternoon when, as pri- their share of blame for China's Boner of pickets of the anti-Japan- present woes, in these posters, ese boycott committee, he was which are splashed on the walls paraded through the streets of Nan- of imperial palaces, on the lovely Eno and Chapel carrying a poster porcelain pilaus in the old Man

($25 for thirty Tin Tickets can be had at the Office of the said that whilst on duty at about 5 which declared to all and sundrychu pleasure-gardene, and in the o'clock. Uhis morning, Bergeant that die was an unpatriotic mer-public parks, obviously by official Williamson enw the defendant run chant who had continued commer- permission. Into Shanghal Street from Re-cial dealings with the "dwarf One largo pleture shows soveral representing foreign clamation Street, The officer gave slaves," the propagandist term for figures chase and called upon the man to the Javanese.

nations, with the American parti- stop but the defendant ignored the

The man was arrested on Wednes-cularly evident by his horn-rimmed cart challonge. Sergeant Williamson day when pickets visited his shop glasses, riding in à crude drew his revolver and on scoln the and seized a quantity of Japanese Chinese lying under its wheels,

which is going over recumbent weapon the defendant dashed up the goods.

British Another shows stairs, of a house in Shanghai Street.

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It was declared that he had dis-French soldiers ruthlessly shoot- He was ordered to come down and obeyed the order of the pickets and ing down Chinese, men, women obeyed. On reaching the street he had continued to sell Japanese and children the Chinese con- was promptly seized but he strug-goods. Thereupon, he pied with the officer with the result cibly seized by the pickets who in 1926. Another shows a great was forception of the Shameen Incident that one round was discharged he took him to their headquarters and fat man, labelled "the Foreign cidently. No one was hart ner was detained him.

Imperialist," astride a fence, with

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The Japanese come in for more than their share of the posters, with pictures of alleged atrocities in Shantung, Japanese soldiers bayonetting Chinese women, and He was paraded for about two one shows a large Japanese hours by his captors who shouted wooden clogs dragging after him out the record of his "crime," and a cur dog labelled Chang Tso- was then taken back to his place lin. Posters crying "Down" with of detention, which is stated to be the unequal treaties" have appear- the premises of the City Chambered everywhere-United PrcEB. of Commerce in Chung Wha Rond.

The defendant was overpowered ind it is then that a district watch- On Thursday afternoon, he was man arrived on the scene and said paraded through the streets under that he had been chusin e de-an escort of pickets, and exhibited fendant whom he saw climbing to public gaze, while the Chinese drain pipe to the first floor of a police and military in the streets house in Reclamation Street. declined to interfere.

Defendant was sentenced to a term of imprisonment six years ago for being a and vagabond while three years inter he received n further sentence for stealing. In 1926 he was banished for a peribd of ten years.

Sentence of nine months' hard in- bour and twenty strokes of the birch was imposed.

FRACAS ON U. S. STEAMER.

(Continued from Page 1.) board, whilst Jeoffrion is a fire-

man...

Police investigations into the affair are still proceeding and this morning, the Captain and other members of the crew were seen in the Detective Office of the Central Police Station. It in probable, if any charge is brought, that the hearing will take place at the Marine Court.

The David C. Reed was formerly the Silverbrook of 3,530 tons net tonnage. She was built in 1919 by the Chester S. B. Co. of Chester, Pa and has special cylindrical tanks for the carriage of petro- leum She is owned by the Unit ed States Shipping Baird and la operated by the Columbia Pacific Shipping Company,

On her present trip the vessed carried 4,000 tons of oil from San Pedro to Hongkong, arriving here yesterday morning.

FENG'S DENIAL.

SAYS HE IS NOT A COMMUNIST.

Boycott Hits Trade.

PRINCE VISITS THE BATTLEFIELDS.

FRENCH POPULACE GIVES HIM ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME.

1.

Although no official figures have been tasued, it is reported that the anti-Japanese boycott is begin- ning to have a serious effect on Japanese trade in Shanghai and the lower Yangtze, especially in the cotton business. Labourera and boycott committees spent another busy day on Thursday, and ameng the seizuren at shops and wharves were quantities of tin plates, cot- ton yarn, plece goods, stockings,BIG SERVICE TO-DAY. shirts and gramophone records. While much of the seized goods are being detained in godowns, some of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales them are reported to be stored at landed in France to-day to visit the the City Chamber of Commerce. battlefields of the Great War in

Japanese commercial interests association with the 11,000 pilgrims in Shanghai are greatly appronen who had already arrived from Eng- sive of the possibilities likely to land." unaue if the seven interim regula- tions, devised by the Nationalist Government to apply on the expica- tion of treaties, are introduced now that Nanking has declared the Sino-Japanese Commercial Treaty.

Mill Owners Are Worried. According 20 the Shanghai Mainichi one of the local Japanese newspapera, mill-owners are parti- cularly worried, and they state the future situation, if the regulations are introduced, in the following

terms:

London, Aug. 7.

Arriving at Boulogne, H.R.H. wna received at the quayside by Major Horten, the Mayor and a body of local British Legionmen. He was greeted with loud cheering, which he smilingly acknowledged.

After lunching simply at the Station refreshment buffet with General Trotter, he proceeded by to St. Omer, motor-car

the British General Headquarters, and Bethune.

At Bethune, His Royal Highness was again welcomed with the greatest enthusiasm, not only by According to a notice at the In view of the spread of anti-the pilgrims but by the local po- Harbour Office, the boat has now Japanese sentiment as a result of pulation. In the Market Square, left the A.P.C. Pier at North Polat the complications through the Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe, and gone out to Kowloon Bay, treaty and the Tainanfu incident, President of the British Legion, re- dafs which, radical elements are likely to createceived the Prince on

bedecked with British and French labour troubles.

The consumption of manufac-anga, had been erected in front of tured goods will decrease as the the famous belfry of Bethune,

As the Prince reached the square,;} anti-Japanese boycott is intensi-

he was received with a fanfare of fied.

Heavy taxation on goods and cot-trumpets, His Royal Highness ton mills is likely to be imposed by thanked the Reception Committee the Chinese authorities, in accord- of the Departments of Somme

Pas de Calafa Peking, July 16.

ance with article six of the regula-and In the course of a speech here, tons, because of the Chinese len- arrangements which they had made Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang repudi-

pilgrims. ated the rumour that he and Mar.dency to levy taxes indiscriminate for the reception of the British

ly.

The Princo then went on to Lille, where he will stay for the night. Complications regarding Japan-He proceeds to-morrow to Ypres to ed, they hnd not "bolshevised" the ese milla gitunted outside the attend the great memorial service people upon their arrival in Pe- Foreign Settlement, but opposite at Menin Gate.-British Wireless. king. However, he said that it le Settlement, territory, already very imperative that the people should have a "red heart and red blood" serious, are likely to increase,

The newspaper, declares that Japanese mill owners and busi- nessmen are watching the situation very carefully

shal Chiang Kai-shek were. Com- Labour unions must be recognized

munistic.. He declared that al- though they have been so regard-

in saving their nation and their

brothers.

The treacherous actions of which he had been accused was He refuted by Marshal Feng, then referred to his coup do'tat in- the thirteenth year of the Re- public. He said he had pre- arranged with General Sun Yuel, whose troops opened the city.gates to admit the Kuominchun and he did so in order to save the people, who were thon under a corrupt government.

Berlin, Aug. 7.

by the mill-owners.

TURKISH OIL CO.

for

An oucast girl adrift in the South Seas !

AT THE

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IN

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TO-DAY to SATURDAY

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The amusing story of a bashful youth who tried to make love by the book, AT THE

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INDIAN GOVERNMENT

LOAN.

MANY APPLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Bombay, Aug. 1

AMERICAN INTERESTS NOW Subscriptions to the Government

- PARTICIPATE.

London, Aug. 7.

of India Loan opened to-day and will close on the 18th instant.

The Loan and bond issue, re-

It is announced that negotin-deemable In 1994, total. Rs. 350,- tions have been concluded for the 000,000, both being at 41⁄2 per The Loan is issued at Da participation of American oll in- cent.

Applications received amount to

Company, which has a concession

A successful trial flight interests in the Turkish Petroleum and the bonds at 97%. Travemuende harbour has been made of the world's biggest fiying boat "Itomar" which weighs fifteen tons. It rose in fifteen seconds and manoeuvred in the air for a quar

in the Bagdad and Mosul vilayete. approximately Rs. 220,000,000,

In future, 28.75 per cent. of the Reuter, shares will each he held by tho Anglo-Persian, Royal Dutch,

FLOODS IN SIBERIA:

ter of an hour, Two similar min- Fronth and American groups, and chines are being constructed at the remaining 5 per cent. being

Moscow, Aug. 7. the Rohrbach Works, to be utills-held by Mr. Gulbenkian, bagno, Fresh floods, have occurred in cd ps passenger planta on the

According to the announcement, various parts of Siberfu, as a re- South Atlantic service which is be the Anglo-Persian Company's insult of the cyclone from Japan, Ing planned.-Reuter,

terest has been halved.Router.- Reuter

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