MONDAY, AUGUST 6. 10:28
TYPHOON BLOW AGAIN.
WEEK-END SPOILT.
RAIN CAUSES LANDSLIDES.
REVIEW.
"THE SIBILANT WHISPER."
y
THE
BORDER TROUBLE.
SHUM CHUN'S ANXIOUS TIME.
SURPRISE ATTACKS FEARED.
CHINA MAIL.
WATER SUPPLY.
RIDER-MAIN, DISTRICT COMPLAINTS.
TROUBLES EXPLAINED.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
COMPANIES WINDING-UP NO. 1 OF 1921.
IN THE MATTER of the
It is stated that on Saturday, the Chinese troops across the border
The local vernacular paper Wah were particularly active. Chinese Tee Yat Po says that the Hon Mr. with headquarters at Shum Chun: employees of the Railway are R. H. Kote wall and the Hon. Mr. stated to have said that the troops Chau Siu-ki, the Chinese repre-
Companies Ordlancos 1911 have been mobilised and ordered sentatives on the Council have re- RF THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE surprise attacks may be made by ceived a reply from the Secretary to prepare for eventualities as other elements. One result has for Chinese Affairs on the subject
--19#1.
"The Sibilant Whisper" is the title given to a collection of six short stories by Nigel Van Bienet Giving notice of his intention on who we are told in a foreword is Friday afternoon just in time to only seventeen years of age. create a cankering doubt as to The nature of the stories" may whether plans made for outdoor be guaged from the quotation fixtures were likely to mature, from L. Vio Portacela (1683) with Hongkong's regular and unwel-which the book opens:-"The visitor, Mr. Sibilant Whisper" is for each man's come week-end Typoon-Blow, came along ОП
car. Like a dark thought,it parades been to scare all the shopkeepers of the water-supply to houses fed by an Order dated the 20th day Saturday evening with a sufficient the human soul and they call it and house-holders into closing from the rider mains. The Chinese supply of wind and rain amongst fear, the fear of things and of their doors and suspending busi- ness. It is not expected that the next things that are not... The youth-market day will be held as people his luggage to
things
fulness of the author is likely are loath to venture out of doors thoroughly unpleasant.
The heat was stifling on Saturday to disarm serious criticism of when a state similar to martial law afternoon but the rain held off until his work. There is in these short prevails.
make
stories evidence of craftsmanship
Thing of Wood" which is
ARMS HIDDEN IN FALSE BOTTOM.
were
DE CHINE
of the
JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
representatives are said to have Moeting to be convened of the of July 1993 the Court has directed a passed on complaints of there being Unsecured Creditors of the Hongkong no water in some houses and the Branch of the above named Banque low pressure obtaining in others,
Industrielle de Chino for the purpose of The reply is to the effect that the considering and if thought fit approving mains in three districts burst at (with or without modification) the about 8 o'clock in the evening when it began to come down, con- a little out of the ordinary, giving TRAVELLERS; LUGGAGE. These breaks have now been re under French Law) proposed to be different times causing a low Scheme of Arrangement (formalated pressure in the districts supplied. under the Reglement Transactionpol vincing the last optimist on the promise of greater and better Easma Club committee that it
The stories
paired. As to flats not being ablo made between the said Banque and was going to be no night for work in the future.
to get water, the authoritles various classe of its creditors. The open-air dance carnivals. Hong. seem to be modelled on the style
explain of Poe, The question of fear
that this is due said Meating will be held at the kong woke up
Sunday 071
10 ground floors as a Two arma seizures were effected their taps turned on during the WEDNESDAY the
having City Hall Victoria Hongkong na morning to find a disconcerting predominates and death drizzle which put a stopper on all result is stressed. The stories are by the Water Police on the arrival whole of the two hours in which December 1923 at 3 o'clock in the 12th day of ideas of sport except possibly a simply constructed and the of the ss President Cleveland: the rider-mains are opened. An alteracan at which time and place all round of golf between the showers culmination of each is reached In a false bottom of a basket belong example of this is given in the the said Unsecured Creditors of or a game of ping-pong on the din. without strain. "Fear," and "The fing to a Chinese passenger there recent application by over thirty the Hongkong Branch ing room table. During the mor- ming, at 11.25, the No. 1 typhoon described as perfectly fine are Mauser pistol, one holster, four pipes entirely disconnected as they Bush Unsecured Creditors may attend found two revolvers, one families to have their taps and said Banque are requested to attend. signal which had been up since probably the best in a series of magazines, one cleaning brush and were getting no water at all on the Meeting and vote thereat whether 5.45 p.m. on the Friday was taken stories which show no signs of 512 rounds of ammunition.
account of the lower floors mono- In person or by proxy provided that all down and the black ball which in- weakness but have flights of fancy,
The man was charged before Mr. polising the supply,
AYO A few other proxies deposited dicates that a gale is expected from and imagination worthy of the. R. Wood by Sub-Inspector Spear pipes were slightly choked and Provisional Liquidator at bis ofice
highest encouragement. the west was run up in its place. The Sibilant Whisper Nigel this mounting. A remand was grant the necessary repairs have been situate at the Courts of Justics Victoria The harbour got steadily more
Hongkong not later than 12 o'clock angry until at about 3 o'clock the Van Brene The Shanghai Sports ed till to-morrow on defendant's
$1-}
application as wished to produce! Messrs. Kotewall and Chau are
noon on SATURDAY the 8th Decom- Star Ferry Service stopped running
ber 1923. for the rest of the day and the
the alleged owner of the arms. Bail reported to have asked Chinese was allowed in the sum of $2,000, they have to them.
residents to send in any complaints harbour was deserted. Torrents of
which was forthcoming. rain fell during the afternoon and the night and blew the water across the road- way in sheets. Altogether it was what sailors would call a dirty day and this Bank Holi- day morning, though the wind has gone down and so has the typhoon signal and the harbour is its usual calm self, the skiesare still grey and spasmodically weeping.
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POLO high wind WATER
LEAGUE.
SATURDAY'S MATCHES AT V.RC.
effected.
Another Chinese passenger was charged with the possession of arms found in some figs. They comprised two Mauser pistols, two holsters, STOLE THE WATCH. two roagazines, and 250 rounds of ammunition.
On Saturday night in the V.R.C. Water Polo League, two more MR. matches were decided, the United Athletic Club defeating the
HARDING'S
DEATH.
with the
A copy of the aid Scheme a report thorson by the Administrator appointed by the French Court a summary there- of and a proper stamped form of proxy can be obtained from the undersigned, By the waid Order the Court has sppointed the Provisional Liquidator of the sald Banque to bo Chairman of the DISHONEST HOSPITAL FOKI | meeting and has directed the Chairman,
to report the result thereof to the Coart
The above mentioned Scheme of
The typhoon, it seems, started R.A.M.C. team by 6-1 and the HONGKONG GOVERNMENT'S old Happy Retreat at Happy Val-subsequent approval of the Court.
out about a week ago in about Lat. 14 long. 138 and after moving west, curving north and switching around to the west again took a north-westerly course io a point a little south of Swatow.
Not Much Damage. Not much damage seems to have been done this time. Happy Valley, of course, was flooded again and landslides interfered for a time with the tram service between Quarry Bay and Taikoo, It seems almost unnecessary to state that the hoarding around the Peninsula Hotel site at Kowloon was blown down.
R.G.A. winning from the Kowloon Boys' School Former Pupils' Association by 4-2. Gunner Mc- Dade scored all the winners' points in the second match.
SUCH IS FAME!
JIGGS IN HONGKONG.
SYMPATHY.
Amongst the many messages of sympathy forwarded to the Amer ican Consulate-General in connec tion with the death of President Harding was the following note from His Excellency the Gover
nor
;
A nurse and foki of the Chinese nursing home converted from the Arrangement will be subject to the ley, figured as complainant and defendant, respectively, in a case Dated the 3rd day of August 1929. of larceny before Mr. J. R. Wood DEACON, HARSTON & SHENTON this morning. The coolie was
1 Des Voix Road, charged with the theft of a wrist- watch belonging to the nurse.
It was stated that on August 2, the nurse left her watch on the window-sill of the operating thea-
• Victoria, Hongkong, Solicitom for the Company.
Government House, Hongkong, tre at 4 a.m. before commencing TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND
4th August, 1923. work on a patient. At 8 a.m.
OTHER INSTITUTIONS, My dear Consul-General,--I have she sent a foki for the watch instructed my aide-de-camp to call which was not to be found. Jiggs, the principal character upon you officially this morning to Enquities revealed that accused ALL preliminary notices of forth- in "Bringing up Father" famous express the great regret with which was absent that mooming coming meetings, lectures and all over the world and regularly have received the news of the sad and suspicion fell on him. He entertainments, seat for insertion In featured on page 10 in each night's death of President Harding. returned after noon when he ad- the news columns of the China-Mail, issue of the China Mail and as On behalf of the British committed to the police that he had are charged for at the rate of $1 each. (as announced in May and June of regularly enjoyed, is being depict-munity here, I desire to express our ed with telling effect. in sympathy with the American peo
1922) providing that they do not The telephone cable connecting Queen's Road Central, With ple in their great loss. Hongkong with Kowloon was a beaming smile, redolent of
Believe me,-Yours sincerely,
future if this space is exceeded they damaged by the blow and during an anticipated visit to Dinty
(Signed) R. E. STUBBS,
'will be placed in the 'advertising the morning it was impossible to Moore's establishment, Jiggs life-
Governor.
columns at the prevalling rates. get through to the other side. The size is shown walking jauntily clerk-in-charge at the telephone ex- into a general store in a block change seemed however, to think which formerly contained the old that everthing would be alright | Fire Brigade Station Buildings in latter on in the day.
Kowloon Cut Off.
Streets Flooded.
SUNDAY PAPER,
HONGKONG SPORTS" FIRST
ISSUE
Queen's Road. The poster attracts large crowds of amused sight-seers and doubtless proves the old When the rain was falling in adage that "sweet are the uses torrents at about eight o'clock last | of advertisement." night, several streets were flooded through the drains being choked or the side channels being too small to cope with the sudden volume.
At nearly every part of Queen's Road Central, where it meets a down hill street there were about six inches of water. In some places. the flow was so strong the ricshas proceeding along the road were
The first issue of Hongkong retarded. At least one chair was Sports, a new weekly journal, made seen to fall as the result of the its appearance yesterday. The front coolie.missing his footing.
The junction of Queen's Road object of the paper is to fill the and Queen Street was under more Monday with a paper dealing gap between Saturday mid-day and than a foot of water. The flood
primarily with all the sports that go rose above the pavements and on in Hongkong" whilst other sub- street-sleepers who had started to jects will be dealt with. Allowing make a night of it were washed for the initial difficulties out. A little further west, where
separable from the Hollywood Road joins Queen's Road, water was coming down the incline at such a rate that three large pieces of granite were lifted out of the road. Sutherland Street, written having an appeal to sports- which was under sea-water during men and to others who dearly love
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in- issue of newspaper, there is raison d'etre being fulfilled. Each evidence of the Editor's feature is lightly and brightly
the last typhoon, was again flooded a story or a bright piece of gossip. last night but to a lesser extent.
Landslides Close Roads.
and
That part of the round-the-island road between Tytamtuk Stanley is closed to all traffic as the result of a landslide, on a fairly extensive scale, which was
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FIRE FAKE.
The Central Fire Brigade receiv ed a report at 3.30 last night that a discovered early this morning. fire had broken out at the Hong-
Another landslide occurred at Stubbs Road above the cemetery
kong Hotel. A response was made at once but it was found that
entrance to the road and this a false alarm had been raised.
thoroughfare has been closed till the debris is cleard.
This morning the management of the Hotel stated that,"it was
A fandslip is reported from fake" as, they did not call the Magazine Gap Road which is also Brigade at all. closed.
At Robinson Road near Glenca-} ly alarge branch of a tree was blown down by the wind last night and impeded traffic this morning.
TYPHOON WARNING.
Dr. S. J. Scholfield, professor of physical and structural geology at the University of British Columbia, has been given a year's leave of absence to conduct explorations in China, with headquarters in Hong kong. It is understood; that while
A telegram from the Manila he is in China the question of ap Observatory received at the plying the British Boxer indemnity American Consulate General at 11 fund to the education abroad of this morning reads: selected Chinese students will be o'clock Typhoon in about 140° Long, E., taken up, following the example 13′′ Lat, N., moving N,W.
set by the United States.
taken the watch. He brought them had taken the watch to be repaired. to No. 519, Queen's Road, where he
after he had dropped it.
His Worship passed sentence of one month's hard labour.
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