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AFTER 36 YEARS.
THROUGH PLAGUE AND TYPHOON.
MR. J. KERR, A.S.P. RETIRES.
Thirty-six years residence in
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1925.
PRATAS TRAGEDY.
FAILURE OF ISOLATION EFFORTS.
WATER DISTILLATION,
From further advices regarding
WAR IN SOUTH.
SAVY CASUALTIES
REPORTED
ANTI-REDS RETREATING.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
TRADE LOAN,
AN, OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMITTEE.
VIEW PO
THE CHINESE VIEWPOINT,
offer no apolotry
UNRULY CONDUCT.
AMERICAN SEAMAN FINED
NO RECOLLECTION PLEA.
E. Lindseli at The intracy this morning Hiringer stoker, Us S
was charyal en
the end of this month with that difficulty should have been experient Kungyick General Tangkay segurance that. I am not being the defendant was creating a dis-
amount of service here to his credit, will leave a very different him than those in which he first set foot in 1890 when he arrived member of the Hongkong
Hongkong and Kowloon behind
as a
Police Force.
This naturally applies to Kow. loon more particularly, which for
An officer from the vessel ipoke on behalf of the defendant and rave him a good character.
Gentlemen News from the front regard" ady part of the globe, even with a the tragedy enacted on Pratas ing the shern, war in Kwang for addressing you anonymous stable community, would of neces shoul when over sixty Ningpe lung province Is contained in through, the medium of the sity entall, the witnessing of many Chinese engaged on the construe following letter from the China on the subiect, of the fade changes, but to few places would tion of the wireless station were Mad Fakka Kongmoon) cor for this subject vitally concerne
the cell at No Folice this apply with such force as to farried off by a terrible scourge raspondent, deliveret late on the public, and I feel that you wil Hongkong where the development of beri-beri and others, conveyed Saturday afterroog giving the interested to hear about
hopes and expectations of the
Detective Sergeant Donovan the Police visited Tür has been so comparatively quick to hospital at Amoy it is evident events from day to day
FIGHTING NEAR KUNGYICK. Chinese regarding this matter stated that although there is ne fatural
October 28 Fighting has out their anxieties and dis Yuen Street at 7 pm. yesterday and remarkable...
Mr. J. Kerr. Assistant. Superinrinking seater on the island there
Appointments. But I do offer you following a report. received that tendent of Police, who retires at was a condensing plant and ha broken out at Tin Shui Hau
Fun-yan (General Chan"Kwimbare La
Retuated by any, ulterior motive turbance. Defesant was arrest enced in obtaining pure water
It would appear that a Chinese mink subordinate in the south that I have no axe to grind" and ed, and placed in the cell, but he Government representative inde captured Paksha. Trains on the that, personally, I am in no way broke the lock and came out after
also damaging the floor." visit last month when two cases Suning Railway have stopped interested in the Loan
Defendant pleaded that he had of the disease were reported. The
October 29 Over 2,000 Now, what was the financial contractors at Shanghai who by Hunanese mercenaries, under situation of the Colony prior to no recollection of the incidents of the announcement of the loan 7 It hast night. He remembered aak- their contract are regarded as in Yin-hoi, have arrived liable for maintenance of com- munication with the mainland and reinforce the Red garrisons, I think, no exaggeration to saying a Chimede outside the cell r
Shui-hau. All tow-boats ha doubtless for good reasons, which refused. some time after Mr. Kerr arrived, medical attention, were advised proceeded immediately to that it was grave The Banks a drink of water, but this was that the employees should be en commandeered and can I do not profess to know-refused was practically all hills with a road as far as Austin Road. From taken off. the building construcmunication with Kongmoon is to lend one money, irrespective of the amount or quality of the here to any other spot in thation now having been completed
October 30-Because of short-securities offered Creditore were direction one had to clamber over and the installation of the instruirely severed.
ments being the only work out Page of ammunition and a threat pressing debtors for repayment, rocks and boulders, Kimberly
to his rear at Hakahan by Red The vitality of credit was gone. Road led one then to the water.tanding.
In the meantime efforts were front only. The New Territories
made 10 isplate the two cases until brops from the West River, Gen-Cash appeared to have completely eral Tang has retreated to Yan- vanished from the market. The
MOST ACTIVE. were not then ceded, and Mr. Kerr
Another chameleon: gen-linese were driven to appeal to remembers the bamboo border they could be removed but the fence stretching from Kowloon spreading of the disease is said to ping.
STRIKE NICKETS AT Joined General Tang with Com-A Chinese Delegation, headed by City to Shamshulpo with Chinese have been caused through the era in Leung Hung-lam has the Government for assistance. the Chinese members on the
SWATOWA "braves" on the other side attired disinclination of the two-in quemander Li Yat-njok and others. in picturesque garb, their coatsion to separation from their
Conditions RN, D bearing Chinese characters. Their fellows. Repeated efforts were ctober 31:-Racks (other re- Legislative Council, waited on porta state mines have been ta Government, and the whole duties were connected with the made by the contractors to get placed in the watersite Kongmoon outlook was exhaustively and
stated by their taining before SwatÓW. WAS Customs. The main ferry ran in into communication with Fratas from Ngolhof, Sam-kong-hau and impressively those days from a point some but the rough weather made it Erot Beak Channel The only spokesman. Thank to his mhs by the anti-Redu. are where in the neighbourhood of impossible for the boats they senthirance is from Liu Fa Hill, via terly presentation of the case, and there and pickets are rep the new main office buildings of to land. It was then that the Canton. A military censorship is to the sympathy of Sir Edward most active in preventing the land
Stubbs, the Government was ing of foreign cargo, the Wharf and Godown Company Revenue cruiser put out from in force... and there being no Salisbury Road Amoy and achieved, its object Fighting continute, with heavy within the space of only a few The B.B. Fydrangea...
casualties to both sides. Although days, able to announce that the lease Hoogkong again for Sw in those days loose boulders ex-after a very rough trip. « tended about as far as the, now,
they lost over 1,000 men the Reds Home Government would at once. just at present. continue to push forward and the place at the disposal of the railway station.
anti Reds are felling
Colonial Government a sum not exceeding 28,000,000, which was the figure suggested by the Chitone Belegation.
TRYING TIMES
THE WRONG MAN NAVAL MAN CATCHES THIEF.
THREE MONTHS JAIL.
The local Red authorities baze inglied on a contribution of one month's rent, hair to be paid by owners and the other half by tenants...
Recently the native banks and
T
His Warship imposed a fine of on asch charge, and payment. of $2 to make good the damaged done to the cell.
jaken
LORRY ACCIDENT.
Fleading guilty his courge of Anot reporting a pantor actiden. 10. the Police, the Chinese driver of a motor lurgy was fined $25; or one month, by Mr. E W Hamilton the Kowloon Magistracy th morning.
Sergeant Smith said the charge related to an incident on October 29 since when defendant had ab- sconded.dll his arrest, on Satur day, at Pakhol Street
One of Mr. Kerr's earliest and most trying experience was 'con- | nected with the first outbreak of
The effect of this announcement was marvellous and instantaneous plague in Hongkong when deaths
The whole tone of the financial were taking place at the rate of 112 a day with some 3,000 in all, A Chinese was charged before pawnshops closed their doors as a situation at once improved. Faith Public servants, the military and Mr. R. AD. Forrest at the protest aggain a "loan" of $900 in the Colony Immediately revived civilians combined in combating Central Magistracy this morning from each firm, demanded by the All hoped that with £3,000,000 this terrible scourge and times with the theft of £2 from H. Reds. They have now resumed available to be heat on good were doubly trying for the police, Lesser, seaman of the U.S.S. business.
Faecurities, of which there were for there was a certain amount of "Helena," at Queen's Road The three Canton gunboats, ample, the nightmare of enforced each with two funnels, "Kong sales and wholesale insolvencies, unrest. The plague was so Central on Saturday evering.. virulent in its deadly effects that The complainant stated in evid Tal, "Kong Kung" and "Kong would exist no more. Surely the Defendant was returning from numbers were dying almost im-ence that he was walking near the Koo, are here, commanded by money would be fortscoming Un Long. On the Tsun Wan Road mediately admittance to Queen's Theatre in company with Russian officera........
within one week? Two weeks? at the hill near the new jail at Lai- hospitals and ignorance and two shipmates when the defendant. At Ngai Wan de railway pon Three weeks? One month? chikok, the lorry turned over a superstition associated this with bumped into him and ran away toon has been sun, at a boom ta
Then as the weeks passed and the roadside and it was presumed foreign "devilry," the use of ice to with two dollar notes he had in block the entra to Kungyick
still not one dollar came out froth that defendant was going very bring down the temperatures of the jacket pocket. He gave chase
kets have been the loan to relieve the financial fast One of the passengers was those affected being cited and and caught the man, who threw or fed by Leds to mobilise
aslon, people began to get injured fog the souther there being much talk of open re- the money on the road.
makamxious and even in bellion and violence. Tung Wah Mr. H. A. P. Meik, chief officer: hospital officials were, in fact, on a local bost, corroborated ah mobbed.
part of the complainant's evid- that Sheki Mr. Kerr has still in his posses-ence..
the anti Reds: sion a medal awarded, for ser- In spite of defendant's prètests Canton force vices at this time. On one side of that he was innocent, and a vietini
it are a patient on a stretcher, aof mistaken identity, the Magis-EXPORTIN nurse and doctor warding off the trate held him guilty and sen- angel of death, a bucket of white-tenced him to three months bard wash and brash and on the other labour.
side are Queen Victoria's head and an inscription. The whitewashing reference is. to the method of stamping out the disease-the. burning of all belongings of in fected persons and the white- washing of their premises.
STREET ACCIDENTS.
COLLISIONS AND MINOR MISHAPS.
MONEY.
IGNORANCE:
"And
In the consideration of each
redulous. As usual rumour suc state
Poded rumour The Government Been vacated by
approach of would lend only to finance, busi- or higher return.
ness hot, to ward of depreciative and rulbous sales. In any case, application, 1 subunit the sole test Pridienbus margins demanded to be applied i8+Doer the loan Be Government would render tend to maintain or restore credit ?. If it does, then I appeal to you the loan commercially useless. Indeed was the money really to treat the application, not in any dggardly spirit, but with sym- available at all ?
as the rumours increas pathy and even geberosity, bedr ed the situation gradually drifteding in mind that the present value to the old days of despon of securities can not depreciato lal stagnation much further unless indeedm elava me, every possible thought HongKong it. the the task self were to go to the dogs h
And above all, Gentlemen, I ap peal to you to act quickly. chink it was Lord Reading, who once said that Justice Delayed is, Justice Dented. I suggest that Per talerzel-nigh this aphorism equally applies to
SAMARANG VISITOR'S
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A well dressed) Chi the wife of W.
was the def
Fre Lin
Work of superintendence in The week-end was attended connection with the removal of with a series of trame accidente, the dead in the typhoons of 1900 but in three instances the injuries char and 1906 also fell to Mr. Kerr's to pedestriane were not serious her lot. The typhoon of 1900 was on except in the case of a Chinese November 10, the latest in the merchant whe was taken to host year one is known to have taken pital after he was knocked dow place here, and many craft were by a motor car at Math caught. The havoc wrought in Street. The vehicle, it was that of 1906 was terrible, some ed by the injured man, ROOFING 10,000 people, it is thought, without stopping having lost their lives inside of accident
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On Saturday, Mr. Kerr's rise in the force has motorcars callid been steady is appointment as Road East, one of them agatatu Sergeant was in 1899, 3rd class damage to the mo Inspector in 1908, 2nd class in In swerving to avo
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1916 Mr. Kerr was appointed market a Chief Inspector and in 1922 he wall of was appointed to the rank at one of the which he is retiring
Many years of active life should awalt M Körr who by Do stretch of the word could: erm
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vice of Hongkong.. He seriding down
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