Mr, J. Owen Hughes has been nominated by the General Chamber} Jot Commerce to be a representative!
the Legislative Council from that} organization. The present incumbent Mx, D. G. M, Bernard, but he has invited by the Covernor to fill the place on the Council vacant, by the departure of Mr. Il. W. Bird. Mx. Hughes has been in the Colony' for a great number of year and is} the kead of Messrs. Harry & Wick-in Jin connexion with the firing on th str. Lunguhan by cadets of th Whampoa Alilitary Academy, it is undersized that the British Consul in Canton has sent a protest to the Chinese authorities. Officers of the ship state that soldiers lined up in regular order, some standing and ing down, 'They were all in' uniform.
It is evident from an examination] of the scarred paintwork of the steamer that the passengers had a narrow eceape. Immediately the firing began, the captain ordered full speed ahead, and all the passengers} and deck-tunds took cover. Many} fof the shots struck the upper deck, ly the navigation of the vessel.
According to information from the compradore's department of the vessel, the cadets thought that the Lungshan passed through whampoa in contravention of the order prohibiting vessels entering before 6 am. but according to the ship's officers it was then 7 am.
General who was imprisoned in Canton at the order of Genera! Chiang Kai-shek, been released, and now ing Quietly in a well-furnished house in the luxurious suburb of Kowloon. General Leung formerly was _a superior officer under General Li Chai-asin, the Canton military chief, Dut was suspected to have strong! Janti-Red tendencies and, in order to please the Russians, General Chiang] Kai-shak had him arrested. There were constant rumours that he had been shot.
Canton, May 18.
Reports have reached the government that former Communist leaders have been seen by various persons on the Hongkong steamers, returning to this city from Hankow, Shanghai and other ports. Who: ther their arrest will be sought oF not is uncertain—probably not, if they behave themselves—but the government is concerned to know when ther a new plan aimed at its overthrow is on foot, To throw fear into the hearts of the radicals, raids on the three Kuomintang newspapers were conducted on May 9 and 10 and 1 employees were taken into custody, They belong to the Compositors Union, one of the ultra-radical labour organizations. It was the compositors who proposed joining with the seamen in brining about a city-wide strike which—would paralyze essential industries, the idea being to remain away ' from work until the government should release all Communists arrested on April 15, Nine compositors fell into the government's net on that date. Despite this determination to et the radicals know that ith the upper hand, the government feel it has full control of the situa and a notice has been put out doing away with semi-martial law, which has been in force here for almost a month,
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