BANKS REOPEN.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18421, 30 June 1925, Page 9

BANKS REOPEN.

HONGKONG RESUMING

BUSINESS.

SHANGHAI TRAMS STONED. (bt cable—press associatiox—COrTElGHT.) (renter's teleghams.) PEKING, June 23. The Chinese bankers in Hong-Kong, at a meeting, carried a resolution to reopen on Monday. The Committee of the Sharebrokers' Association decided to fall in line with this action, and the Stock Exchange will reopen on July 7th. Naval ratings with stores havo been sent to Shamecn. A gang of coolies, under police protection, discharged cargo from the German 'steamer Anhalt at Kowloon wharf. The Chinese crew tampered with tho engines of one of the Kowloon ferry boats before deserting. Tho French Admiral has gono to Canton from Hong-Kong. Shanghai reports that stone-throwing is rife. Passengers in tram-cars and a party of Japaneso in a motor-car were pelted. The crowd was most hostile to the police, who made efforts to protect them. One policeman was badly injured and sent to hospital. British bluejackets unloaded the Bteamer Empress of India and will unload other incoming British vessels if tho coolies continuo to strike.

RUSSIANS ARRESTED.

TROUBLE AT HOI-HOW. (beutee's telegrams.) (Received June 29th, 11 p.m.) PEKING, Juno 28. According to a Shanghai telegram, on the arrival of tho P. and O. steamer Mantua, two Bussians, Dosser and his wife, suspected Bolsheviks, were arrested.

Tho couplo went to Hong-Kong from Shanghai a few days previously en routo to Canton to tako charge of tho interests of a Soviet oil syndicate. Tho Hong-Kong police refused to allow them to land and sent them back to Shanghai, where they wero searched and a quantity of Bolshevik literature found in their possession. Tho labour situation at Shanghai is unchanged, but thero is continued stonothrowing at tram-cars and omnibuses. At Hoi-how tho demonstrations havo become moro violent, and tho position is acuto. Students aro pouring in and stirring up trouble. Tho British submarine- Loo has arrived at Poochow in consequence of rumours of an attack on tho cable station. Tho British Consul requested protection from tho Military Governor, which was granted.

ENCOURAGING STRIKERS.

A MISSION FROM MOSCOW. (AVSTBALIAiT AKD X.B, CABLE ASSOCIATIOX.) MOSCOW, Juno 28. The Soviet Government is sending a Trades Union delegation' to Shanghai to .encourage tho Cbinoso strikers, Tho Chinese .Trades Union Federation has telegraphed to tho chairman of the Soviet Trades Union saying: "Warmest gratitudo for tho moral and material assistance bo far rondored." TO LEAVE SHAMEEN. REQUEST TO FOREIGNERS. (BEUTEH'S TELEOKAItB.) (Received June 30th, 12.5 a.m.) HONG-KONG, June 28. Tho British and Fronch. ConsulsGeneral have requested all foreigners, other than Britishers and French, to loave Bhamccn as a precautionary measure. The Chinese banks have reopened. BRISBANE! RETURNS SOON. (Australia*- a:;d x.z. cable association.) (Received June 29th, 11 p.m.) MELBOURNE, June S9. It is officially announced that the cruiser Brisbane is duo back ia Australian waters early in August. [When the Labour Party protested in the Federal House of Representatives against an Australian cruiser being used in a foreign dispute without Parliament's sanction, Mr Bruce (Prime Minister) replied that the Brisbano was attached to a British squadron under the exchange agreement with the Admiralty.] '

PLAGUE NOT PROVED. (Received Juno 29th, 11 p.m.) BRISBANE, June 29. The suspected plague patient is convalescent, and with the passage of time it appears that the bacteriological tests will give only negative results.