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BIRTHS.
DOWN SOUTH.
CONDITIONS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
NEW INSURANCE SCHEME.
MONDAY, JULY 19, 1926,
POLICE REPORT.
THE STRIKE AND 1925
CRIME..
C.SP.'S REPORT.
STORM VICTIMS.
ADVENTURES IN ROWING BOAT.
OCCUPANTS' ESCAPE..
Two well known 'members of the Present-day conditions in New The difficulties with which the South China Athletic Association, South Wales under the Labour local Pollen force were faced in Messrs. Ho Ka-iau and Yew Man-. Government are portrayed by a view of conditions arising out of kit, who went out for a row on letter which Mrs. Maud Woods the strike and boycott are the sub-Saturday afternoon had a narrow has received from her sister, fect of reference in the report for escape from death as a result of dated June 23-
the year 1925 of the Captain Super- the squall which sprang up towards "I have my money in industrial intendent of Police..
six o'clock. shares, steam, coal and breweries, The report refers to the excellent The boat was near Gust Rocks etc., but I'′ 1 in for a bad time morale of the force and the when caught in the squall and row- with reduced dividends which | abéence of any but a few desertions ing became very difficult. The two are inevitable, owing to this due to strike conditions. In occupants eventually determined to Labour Government, making gods cidents in Hongkong and, on the conserve their energy and let the of the workman. It is a new frontier which the object of these boat drift and fortunately the set set of State insurance laws, concerned was to cause loss of of the current was towards Kow-.- operating on July 1, and is killing life are detalled and another aspectloon Bay instead of the numerous every one but the working of the strike and boycott problem frocks in the neighbourhood. They man. For instance a gardener, referred to is, the increase of were able to reach the shore and for whom one paid 188. per annum crime which followed the events after sheltering for a time, in a insurance against accident in the which led up to them, due to the farmer's house they arrived at past, has now to be paid £5; a anreat and partly to the with- Kowloon City: man employed in a brewery, for-drawal of Police for other duties merly 138. 6d. per annum," now I connected with essential services. It certainly excelled the best des- 73s. 9d.; bakers, similar trades, The salutary effect of the raide cription of lightning ever. penned and so on, and milk carters from carried out with the assistance of in a novel. But even in the dense 40s. to, 1408.; a miner from 310 the military is the subject of re- to £50; and there are hundreds ference, also the beneficial "rasults Chinese quarters of the city there and hundreds, close to a thousand, which followed the institution of the Labour Protection Bureau was nothing approaching a panic, all taxable. If I can get a paper even when the storm was at its 1 have to keep the one I have) formed for dealing with intimida will send it to you. It is reallytora. and the excellent work of the zenith; indeed by many It was unbelievable.
special constables. The C. 8. P. treated with contumely and in- "The Insurance Companies will pays tribute to the work of Mr. difference. And evidence of the reap a harvest and I don't own one T. H. King, Director of Criminal "THE STILL ALARM" SHOWS share in them. Just imagine, Intelligence, who was responsible lighter side of the storm was say, in Farmer & Co., something
for the preliminary anti-striko forthcoming from certain Euro-ike 1,000 hands employed, having arrangements until the return of pean houses to the effect that to pay 48s. 9d. instead of 10s. per their servants slept soundly right head, and I see in the list that domestic servants have to be in- through the night and innocently sured at 526, 6d. a head, instend enquired this morning when the of 6s. Every trade, musicians in cluded, are in the list. A boy who In our news columns will be ployer 70s. instead of 128. a year.
delivers newspapers costs his em-strike was followed by an increase (other days with his successor of found a complete account up to 1 could go on for the next hour of crime the figures for the year the picturesque horse-drawn ap-
thunder started!
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and never finish.
"Wharf labourers, who are paid
Serious offoncos directly con-
Their relatives and friends had náturally become very anxious as to their nafety is nothing had beer. heard or seen of them in spite of repeated searchings by a Water Police launch. They assured by the telephone message which the two victims of the 'storm wore able to send about 11 p.m.
AT THE STAR.
TO-DAY:
were re-
con-
For real hair-raising tinuity and action, "The Still
the C. S. P. from Wei Hai Wol. nected with the strike during 1926 Alarm" which will be screened at were:-Border gutrages, 30; Bomb the Star Theatre, Kowloon, to- Throwing, 5; Possession of Sedi-day, can be recommended.
Universal, who made the fim, tious "Documents, 20
Although the outbreak of the have linked the fire-fighter of to-day. On to the screen dash
show less crime than turing 1924.
The total number of enses re- Paratus of the past and then with
by the Steamship Companies ported to the Police during the year the lapse of time, 18 years, comes
the time of going to prese of the havoe and the list of casualties As the rain has not yet spent it have a lot of shares in those) are. self it is obvious that the tale of increased from £8 to 440 annual damage is not concluded. Housesy. So the poor shareholders in all those Companies will suffer. are in danger of collapse, and re- Clerical workers are let down the BAULD-On July 12, at the Victaining walls and bridges are lightest, so the shares in offices to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bauld, what can be anticipated with a disastrous time that's ahead!" toria Nursing Home, Shanghal menaced. That again, is only and banks will not be affected My broker told me about the BURCH. On July 11. at the Vic-rainfall, that exceeds anything the toria Nursing Home, Shanghai,known in the history of to Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Burch, Colony since meteorological re- a daughter. GARDINER On July 9, at the corda were first taken. We can Fearn Sanatorium, Shanghai, merely pray that the Colony will to Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gardiner, be spared a repetition of the Po i daughter,
Hing Fong disaster-exactly a year HOWELL.--On July 6. at St.
Marie's Hospital Shanghai, to agoon July 17-when a retain Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Howell, ing wall at the back of a block of houses came down during a heavy MOLLAND-On July 7, at Peking,
to Mr.
and Mrs. Charles thunderstorm and demolished five houses, 73 persons being killed and 20 injured.
son.
Edwin Moiland, a daughter. SOLOMON-On July 11, at the New Country Hospital, Shang- hal. to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Solomon, a son....
MARRIAGE.
WEBB-PALMER.-On July 12, at H.B.M. Consulate-General, Shanghai, Violet, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Palmer, of London and Shanghai, to
Joseph Victor, eldest son of Mr and Mrs. J. F Webb, of Liverpool.
DEATH.
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FOSTER-HALL-On July 10, at Tientsin, Margaret, only child
OBITUARY.
MR. JAMES F. ABBOTT.-
A Rongo despatch
1925 was 16,783 as against 17,569 in 1924 being a decrease of 789 or 4.4%. The average for the last five
years is 14.947.
There were 3,771 serious cases in 1926 as against 4.509 serious cases in 1924, a decrease of 788 cases or 16.4%. There were 13,012 minor cases in 1926 as against 13,060 in 1924, à decrease of 48 cases or 0.4%.
Prosecutions Instituted under the Traffic Regulations were 5,358 in 1926 as compared with 4,799 in
1924.
Police and Health.
the powerful motorised apparatus. of to-day. Fire scenes, with their flame, the working firemen, and clouds of smoke and tongues of the endangered people, are as realistic as anything could be out o "Helene Chadwfék, in the lead- side of a real fire. ing feminine role, gives a sym- pathetic conception of the char- |acter, of Lucy Fay, wife of Fire- Dick Fay, struggling man between love for her husband and hatred of the drudgery of house- work and desire" for fine clothes. She finally succumbs to the lure of the charmer, deserts her hus- The report refers to lack of bos-band; and next we see her as pital accommodation for police Madame Celeste, proprietress of officers of the New Territories who the smart modiste shop in which suffered in health. The mattor is she has been placed by her lover. William Russell as Dick Fay, stated to be a serious one especially in cases of men suffering from the herofc fireman without false malaria who were thereby unable to heroics, the distraught and de- James Francis Abbott, who was
obtain proper treatment and in con-serted husband without too much born at Greeley, Colorado, sequence were constantly aick-in sentimentality, does excellent
work. Two deaths and two men injureducation at Leland Stanford. Jr.
September 27, 1876, received his station.
The ravages of malaria at Sha Richard Travers is a notable ed are reported as the result of University, California, and as
Tau Kow led to the replacement ["villain" polished and gentle- an accident at No. 3 Pumping special student at the Imperial practically of the whole station manly. You hate him, yet ad-
The mire him. Station, and so far as is officially University of Tokyo. He became a three times during the year.
John T. Murray and Dot Farley known this completes the list of Professor of English at the Im malaria figures for the Castle Peak
Several
perial Japanese Naval Academy station are also inordinately high provide the picture with much casualties.
from 1902 to 1903, was Professor From a purely health point of view rollicking comedy. Edna Marian; - of Theology at the Washington
the immediate surroundings of the as Drina Fay, is winsome and University from 1004 to 1914 and details certain conditions. Attenterisation of the young girl of to- station are bad, says the report, and winning in a sprightly charac- was appointed Commercial Attachétion is being concentrated oa mak day. Others in the cast desery. to the American Embassy in Tokyo,
mention are Erin La.
narrow
escapes there have been, it is true, but on the whole, the immunity from death or accident has been truly remarkable.
PASSENGER LIST.
DEPARTURES.
from San Francisco announces the death there on July 5 of Mr. James F, Abbott, former Commercial Attaché An the United States Embassy at Tokyo.
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In 1919 Between 1917 and 1918 ing all stations mosquito-proof. ing. he held the rank of Captain in the The draining of padi fields in the Bissoniere and Jacques d'Auray. Military Intelligence Division of tions appears to be of little real immediate neighbourhood of Sta- the General Staff at Washington,) D.C. In 1921, he was a member of also to lack of funds, the Botanical Owing to the strike and
the American Delegation to the who left
Washington Conference on the
List of passengers of Mr. and Mrs. B. Foster Hall," Hongkong for San Francisco via Chinese Maritime Customs, Porta per s.. "President Taft" on Shanghai, aged two years and July 18:-- two months.
Mr and Mrs. L. H. Emmerson, Master F. M. Emmerson, Mr. and Hongkong, Monday, July 19, 1928. Mrs. W. T. Lyan, Miss B. Lyon. Master Wm. Lyon. Rev. and Mrs.
STORM HÄVOC.
Limitation of Armaments.
The
General
late Mr. Abbott was the author of several books, including The ele mentary Principles of Biology, which was in its 7th edition in 1916, four years after publica tion: Japanese Expansion
and
value.
and
Was
WORLD THEATRE.
Forestry Department
Picturegoers who find that the unable to carry out its full pro-two-days run at their favourite haps have been compelled to miss gramme of clearing the grass and theatre is too short, or who per- undergrowth from around stations,
some of the best screenings owing to circumstances over which they have no control, should keep an eye on the programmes at the
At the western, house, all the
Fire Brigade. Owing to the low salaries, the Fire Brigade service has proved
R. W. Brachtell, Mr. C. E. Sanstrum, Américap Policies, 1915, and Nicht unattractive in the past, but in World Theatre,
Mrs. R. T. Cepen, Miss H. Capen, Bel Mondal (Japanese), 1918, Master. C. Capen, Mrs. L. Johnson,
lady.
BARROW GULICK WEDDING.
November 1925 the pay was raised
85.
and several recruits were obtained: [ better pictures are given a second Mr. Lee Jow, Mr. Lau Pak-hang. He was a member of the Amer The position at the close of the run and, whilst the situation of At the moment of writing it Mr. Lu Wai-soon, Mr. Chow Hong. ican Association for the Advance- is too early to attempt to assess Mr. Dong Gee-wing, Mr. Dong Dai, ment of Science, of the American year was nevertheless unsatisfac-the theatre is not perhaps as con- the damage caused by the great Mr. Lee Sue, Mr Poh Yark, Mr. Society of Naturalists, of several tory, as there were only 36 Chinese venient as that of the Queen's,
along Des Voeux Road. Leung Fook-yaw, Mr. Ng Lun-shem, Greek-Letler fraternities and of the fremen out of an establishment of nevertheless, it is but a step storm and unprecedented rainfall Mr. Ng Nay-leong, Mrs. Quan Shee, Tokyo and Yokohama Cluba,
During the year there were 130 It is comfortable and cleanly that followed in the wake of the Master Jew Men, Mrs. Young, Mr.
In 1904, he married a California calls responded to, 124 for fires, 19 and as much attention is paid to typhoon menace. That the Chan Cham-chun, Mr. A. G Waller,
for chimney fires, 12 for collapses orchestration and presentment as Mrs. N. Gray, Mrs. S. Sheahan,
or landslides and 25 for false at the other houses under the Colony has escaped the greater Mr. and Mrs. F. V. de Weerd, Mins
alarms, nine of the latter being control of the Hongkong Amuse danger-that of the typhoon-is G. M. Langdon, Mr. S. H. Smith,
maliciously given, six due to electri- ments. naturally a matter for congratu-Mr. and Mrs. William Snaith, Mr.
"cal faults, and the remaining 18 The programmes for this week There are as follows:-To-day "Lady of lation. That it should emerge W. A. Hemingway, Mrs. Yong Tong,
given with good intenti Master Too Pai-yau, Mr. and Mrs. altogether scathless from the E. Keene, Mr. and Mrs. H. 8.
were 32 calls more than the year the Night" Tuesday and Wed-.."
nesday, "One Night in Rome;" violent storm that raged all dur Leggatt, Mr. and Mrs. T. Nakata,
The cost of the Brigade was Thursday to Saturday, "Come on ing the night could not perhaps Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Miss J.
$53,840, as compared with $199.570 Over." be expected, particularly in view Wheeler, Master C. Wheeler, Mr.
in 1924 and $166,780 in 1923. This
The Paris record of 14 husbanda increase was partly due to the addi tion of sew equipment
shot in both by angry dr Thirteen persona lost their lives | disappointed "wives is not only ex-
of the incessant fall of rain; and Mr. Chan Yin-tin, Mr Chan Koon-the United States aboard the Pre-
sident Fierce next: Sunday. Mr.
before.
...
Kobe, July 7-The wedding took Place this morning at the City Office of Ethel Gulick, missionary teacher of Kwansal, and John G. Barrow of the Canton Christian College. It is understood that Mr. J. Guevincau, Mr. Sun You-ming. and Mrs. Barrow are leaving for
val Mrs. Jim Shu, the only thing to marvel at latin, Mr. Chan Hi-wa
Mr. Wong Quan-bat, Mr. Stanley that the casualty list is not conBençs, Miss L. "Oulton, Miss Barrow Intends to take up post at fires or received such Injuries || cessive from the English point of siderably higher than has been Stewart, Miss A. Bredin, Mr. E graduate work at Yale University that they subsequently, succumbed, view it would seem so even in while seven persons received minor New York or Chiengo. French in and will probably remain so far reported.
Fujioka, Miss Wong Pol-chen, Miss America for several years, sab injuries. Forty-three persons were and American courts resemble one- Within the memory of the Wong Woon-chan, Mr. Lum Hosequently returning to missionary rescued from collapses and land- another in this as in other things. slides, and 81 corpses were re- The wife, who shoots has an ex- chiu and Mr. Wong Tze-fung. oldest European resident nothing
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The sensation was tied with scores of 285 each.— nothing if not weird and eerie. | Reuter.
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