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graceful and well deserved recognition of the authorities and of the Chinese community; but that recognition can well be anti- cipated as indeed it has been by hie fellow-rescuers ---. în the columns of the "China Mail," on behalf of the whole Colony.
Enquiry Needed.
MONDAY, JULY 20, 1925.
BIGGER PROFIT.
EASTERN EXTENSION
TELEGRAPH.
CO-OPERATION,
WHAT CHINESE BUSINESS MEN PRESCRIBE.
Presiding at the annual meet-
A combined meeting of the ing of this company, held at Electra House, E.C., the chair- Chinese Chamber of Commerce man (Sir John Denison-Pender, and representatives of Chinese: G.B.E., K.C.M.G.) said that he commercial organizations, labour was sure the shareholders would guilds, and industrial organisa- agree with him that the result of tions was held on Saturday after- their working had been satisfac- noon at the premises of the Chin- tory.
ese Chamber of Commerce in
possible.
A Coroner's inquest will no, doubt be held to enquire into the
From a comparison of this, Connaught Road "for the purpose deaths caused by the collapse at
of discussing a settlement of the Po Hing Fong. The pen of with the previous year's message criticism must therefore be held and other receipte, there was an present situation." There was a This very large and representative at- until such times as the inquest is increase of over £77,000. held and a verdict given. But it was attributable to a slight, but tendance, which was presided over is permissible to suggest that at very slight, improvement in Far by Mr. Li Yau-chun, who was the close of the enquiry there Eastern and Australian trade con- supported by the leaders of com- should be instituted the moat ditions noticeable in the laster merce in the Chinese community. The proceedings were natural- searching investigation as to the part of 1924, but he was afraid building of retaining walls and they would have to wait for somely conducted in Chinese, but it the oversight exercised in general time yet before these conditions was evident that the majority aftended with a real desire to do showed any material building matters by the Public really
something to end the present posi- Works Department. Why, for improvement.
tion of stalemate and thus effect a not at all instance, should a number of Although he was shopkeepers be put to worry, in- pessimistic as regarded the cur- change for the better in the trade of the Colony with which ia inter- convenience, and the possibility of /rent year, it was too early to fore- woven the success and prosperity cast the effect of the reduction of loss, each time there is an exces- sive fall of rain? Queen's Road tariffs to Australasia from 3. to of loyal Chinese who have a large
stake here and are determined to g was raised several inches, making 2s. 6d., as that took effect only do their utmost to bring about à L
from December 1, 1924. Al- certain shop fronts very much below level. No effort has been though they could not look for return to normality as quickly as made to prevent water entering ward as in former years to a
The, discussion was of a pro- shops and doing damage to stocks. traffic to counterbalance the loss being mentioned as likely to ease rapid increase in the volume of tracted nature, various points I is admitted on all-hands that of revenue caused by this reduc- the present position. It was the excuse offered for the almost tion of rate, as to-day the public stated by one gentlerman that the continual flooding of Happy enjoyed other classes of traffic at mechanics at Taikoo, Kowloon Valley and the danger occasioned reduced rates, such as deferred Dock and the Naval Yard had the villagers of Wong Nei and daily letter telegrams, which already returned to work, and Cheong, are, in the main weak, they did not in former years, the there were indications that others unbusiness-like, and unworthy of board considered it necessary; would return as soon as employ- experts. It has been alleged that having the future in view, and ment could be found for them. there is no cohesion, between the porhaps more particularly to pro- departments comprising the
It was ultimately decided, it is vide as far P.W.D. To assure public con- against interruptions of their the members of the Chamber of as was possible understood, to ask the support of fidence there should be a commis-main route to Australia-two of Commerce and of masters and sion of enquiry, and the same which occurred in 1924 through mer belonging to the various local holds good regarding the building faults in the Ferth-Cocos cable-guilds for the recently formed and supervision of retaining to duplicate this section, and they Chinese Trading Trade Mainten- had placed a provisional order ance Association, of which Mr. with the Telegraph. Construction Ho Sai-kwong is chairman. The and Maintenance Co. for manu latter body will in turn seek the facturing and laying a cable of
co-operation of the Chinese mom- the new "loaded" type.
bers of the Legislative Council in influencing the Government to extend its protection to any mea- sures that may be adopted with a view to carrying on the business life of the Colony independent of the strikers in Canton.
to
walls.
An Arctic Epic.
•
YEAR'S RESULTS.
The world paid more attention to the return of Amundsen and
Turning to the expenditure his party from the Arctic regions side, while there was a slight in- than to the European security crease in working expenses at pact and the ferment in this part stations, almost wholly due to of the world. The knowledge annual increments granted to that the explorers had returned to staff, there was an actual de- life out of the very maw of death crease in expenditure of £66,000.
The opinion was naturally" ex- stirred the imagination of man- This was mainly accounted for by pressed that the meeting had no kind. Just as all the world loves the reduced amount allocated to power or influence in the direction a lover, so all the world loves a the maintenance ships' reserve of actually ending the strike- hero, because heroism is some- fund. Taxation, also, payable in this resting not with the loyal thing apart from considerations England was lowered by £21,300. Chinese in Hongkong but with. of gain, a passage upon heights With the recent reduction of Canton-but it was hoped that by which all men see and most income-tax this item should show doing all possible to return to yearn to conquer. Some realise & further decrease in their next normal conditions as speedily as their vision. For nearly all the report.
possible, a powerful moral effect vision is lost in the fog of the
would be exercised over Canton. commonplace until some deed The balance they had to deal
Trade Maintenance Association. blows away the mist and reveals. with was that is in his mind is the effort to for one brief hour a shining and a carry-forward
£846,896, plus the
It may be stated here that the from 1923
of inauguration of the Chinese save life.
splendour. Amundsen and, his £412,244, making # total of Trade Maintenance Association - That'truit has been brought out men have reminded us of the con- £1,259,140. From this sum.
was held on the first floor of the (Every evening except Sunday. Arenal
stant glory. subscription.
to the utmost degree in connec- brought back with them excluding
But they have £450,000 had been placed to, the City Hall on Thursday. Mr. LI postage abroad, H.K. $36, payable
more general reserve fund, against Yau-chuen, Chairman of the in advance. Local delivery free.)
tion with Friday's disaster. Athan a message to the soul and £260,000 for 1923, but they must Chinese Chamber of Commerce casual onlooker at the work of spirit of men. Denied the Pole, not overlook the £100,000 they presided, and there was also pre- rescue on Friday and Saturday they observed, we now learn, used in that year to pay for their sent a large number of prominent much of scientific value. From new ship, therefore, the actual Chinese merchants, including Mr. could not but be visibly moved at their aerial heights the explorers addition to reserve was really Ho Sai-kwong and others. Upon the superhumar manner in which recorded extensive masses of mist only £100,000 more than for the motion of Mr. Li Yau-chuon The noble band of rescuers per- in the polar regions hitherto be. 1923; £400,000 paid in dividends; seconded by Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. Ho severed in what might have lieved to have been local pheno- and £409,140 had been carried Sal-kwong was elected Chairman seemed a forlorn hope. To many too, established the existence of a
mena only. Ocean soundings, forward.
of the Association. Thanks to the good offices of
Proposed by Mr. Ho Sai-kwong it might have appeared a sheer wide ocean between Spitzbergen, the Netherlands Government, the and seconded by Mr. Li Po-kwal, waste of energy-at least after the North Pole and North Green licence to land a duplicate cable Mr. M. K. Lo was elected as legal Friday evening-to endeavour to land, "The expedition has observ- between Singapore and Batavia adviser of the Association, and rescue any more of the unford a total of 160,000 square kilo was granted by the Netherlands Mr. Le Woon-cho as ita Hon. tumate victims alive. But the old areas," states Amundsen.
metres of hitherto unexplored Indian Government on November Secretary.
Sub-Committees, re- That 25, 1924. and that the cable was presenting the different lines of adage that "where there is life is the terse summary of the ex- immediately laid and opened for business, including shipping, rice, there is hope" was never
pedition's achievements. more
Fur-traffic on January 29 last. Their sugar, aundry goods, marine pre- ther positive and negative results new fitly illustrated.
repairing steamer, The diets, brass and iron, tis, pieco will be made manifest, no doubt, Cable, was taken over from the goods, cotton yarn, etc., were In another column to-day is when the observations recorded the details of the gallant thoroughly sifted. More details Leaving London soon afterwards, tection be applied for from the
are builders on October 20, 1924 appointed.
It was decided that police pro- rescue of a girl of thirteen years when the party seemed "caught December 1, and had been in come delivery of and shipping cargo. of the epic struggle with the ice, she arrived at Singapore on
Government of age, who was brought out alive like rats in a trap will be await mission at that station since
for the taking on Sunday morning. A perusal ed eagerly. For the present the December 12, Her machinery of these details is worth while, tule stands in its broad outlines, had worked from the first without They show that the highest tradi-
the record of a magnificenta. hitch, she had already carried tions of the Navy were fully upheld by Mr. Cargin, an officer
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BULLOCK.
At Woodlawn, Oxford, on the 19th July, Mrs. T. Loundes Bullock, mother of Lady Severn.
Hongkang, Monday, July 20, 1925.
PLUCK AND HEROISM.
failure.
out several cable operations, and she had in all respects proved herself a most efficient and use-
OBITUARY,
Quebec, July 19.
The death is announced of
of H.M.A.S. Brisbane, assisted by LOCAL. & GENERAL. ful vessel... Their new offices at Cardinal Begin-Reuter's Ameri-
A member of the crew of the German 9.3. Fulda died from heart failure, reports the master, who arrived with his ship yesterday fram Bremen and Manila.
Singapore had been completed at can Service. a-net cost of *£91,108.
CONDITIONS IN CHINA.
Mr. H. Braga, in toiling hour after hour in a position of great danger to accomplish the safe extrication
Hanoi, July 18.-An Annamite of the little victim after being
negotiations conducted through who was recently sentenced to death He regretted to state that revolutionary, named Pham Boichau confined in a living temb for
out the past year with the Chin-in Contumacian on forty-two hours. The gallantry, of
ese Telegraph. Administration by attempting to poison the Hanoi a charge of the deed evoked the spontaneous
the Great Northern Telegraph Co. garrison bus arrived, here under The ordinary time-table was and themselves had not come to escort from Shanghai-Beuter, congratulations of Mr. D. Burling resumed from to-day on the any satsifactory conclusions. When the official history of the ham, Deputy Superintendent of Kowloon-Canton Railway after a There was, however, he hoped, Peking, July 18.-Cheng Chen, rainstorm disaster of Friday Police, Mr. H, T. Brooks, Super-slight interruption owing to a now some prospect of an agree the Civil Governor of Kinngau, hos comes to be written the tragic and intendent of the Fire Brigade, and wash-out near bridge number 9, ment being reached before long. wired to the Government stating pathetic circumstances of the other leaders of the rescue party,
When he last addressed the that the prolonged strike is soriously calamity, which has evoked the who themselves had laboured have entered the shelter by the China. These showed no signs of settle the Bhanghai and other in- Owing to a quantity of allt financial conditions ruling in und he urges the Government to shareholders he referred to the affecting the workers' conditions utmost concern and sympathy of from the earliest hour on Friday Walterloo Road rullah, the east improvement, but as it was excidents with the Diplomatic Corpe the whole Colony, non-Chinese as without relaxing. their efforts channel of the shelter is not pected that the Treaty between as soon as possible, so that work well as Chinese, cannot fail to be even for rest.
navigable. A bost displaying a the Powers, dated Washington, may be resumed. He suggests that relleved by the unadorned tale of Mr. Cargin brought not only his rod flag by day and a red light by February 6, 1922, relating to the larger demands can be discussed. pluck and heroism of the Euro-technical knowledge and
night is anchored in this channel. Chinese Customs Tariff, would afterwards.~Reuter. his peans who worked incessantly at expert skill to bear on a most
shortly be ratified, there was a The 8.8. Empress of Russia left hope that China's finances would the grim and risky work of trying and difficult position, which for Manlia shortly after 5 p.m. on be placed on a satisfactory basis. rescue. The average Briton might easily have been-attended Saturday having been excused Recent events which have unfor remuneration of the directors was knows neither fear nor danger by the loss of his own life, but he quarantine anchorage (an Ameri- may perhaps cause a delay. The the Rt. Hon. Viscount Inchcape, the full term of detention at tunately occurred in that country passed and the retiring directors, when confronted with the relief demonstrated that when gallantry can lady in the second class con- Chairman concluded by moving G.C.S.I., G.O.M.G. KCIE., and of suffering humanity. The and pluck are called for in the tracted, smallpox between Shang- the adoption of the report and the Vice-Admiral H. W. Grant, C.B., greater the risk the more pro- saving of life the British naval hai and Hongkong) The ship payment of a dividend of 10 per were re-elected. nounced is his daring. There is man is "ready, aya ready" There taken. The services of four men The report was unanimously appointed, a vote of thanks to the
was fumigated and all precautions cent, free of tax.
The auditors having been re- not the slightest thought of is little doubt that his herofum volunteers for stewards were adopted. making of himself a hero. All will in due course receive the accepted from Hongkong.
chairman, directors and staff The resolution Incrossing the brought the meeting to a close.
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