MONDAY, JULY 19,
1926.
RECORD H.K. DELUGE !ng Home last year.
(Continued from pago 1.).
QUEEN'S ROAD SCENES,
cases and stands:
The deep' drain measuring 14 feet'merces, which was built to deal with the water from the hills, was com- pletely covered with mud and Band. Two waterfalls were seen later in the morning when the water flowed across the road into the drain and again from there to the race track.
BRIAND'S FALL.
HIS GOVERNMENT AGAIN DEFEATED..
Paria, July 17. : The Gov..ment was defeated. by 290 votes to 243 on the motion of confidence.
CHINA MAIL.
THE
LOCAL IMPORTS.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT.
LAST FORTNIGHT.
The chapter on local imports, in the latest fortnightly report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce renda:
Once again Queen's Road Central has suffered untold damago, in the shops on the south side which are
More Confusion,
M. Briand has resigned. so much lower than the road level,
Behind the Jockey Club stand,
The Chamber was crowded for Hitherto ao-called" "water gates"the Protestant Cemetery wall the fateful debate, wherein the
Hongkong, July 16. bad proved effective, but the gave way for a considerable dis- Finance Committee submitted a Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy Invading elements beat everything.tance and the earth, brought down Bill definitely limiting the powers Cotton Goods-There is nothing to Muddy water swarmed up show with the torrent filled the pre-of M. Caillaux. The latter simul. report. Market at a complete stand- trying to shift goods as there was Cement boulders which lined the sure, mentioned, last night.
It was no use mises to a depth of several feet. taneously submitted his own, mea- still. Deliveries exceedingly pont. Latest Cotton quotations to hand no dry spot to put them.
side of the course behind the M. Herriot opposed the Gov-
are those of July 15, Everywhere vehicles found di-small ticket office were bodily re-ernment and declared that if the 18.15d. Mid. Amor. "Spot" 9.89d.
Eg. Sakel culty, not in swimming through moved and placed on the course. prerogatives of the Chamber were
Cotton Yarn: The demand has miniature lakes and rivulets, but Slabs of granite brought from the diminished he would resign continued good and a fair amount in scraping over the sticky, sucking road were seen everywhere on the Presidency of the Chamber: He of business in spot and forward has Pedestriane who wore storm boots grounds. What was left of a tea "Messieurs le Government, co-advance of 62 to 83 por bale, owing race track and inside the football made an impassioned appeal: been put through. Prices show an found it almost impossible to walk booth was seen against a portion | operate with Parliament. Do not to the decline in exchange. through as their feet-became-en-of the race track railing." Flower suppress it!"
Quotations are purely nominal: tangled in inches of slush, a pots which adorned the track
No. 10s. $150/168 No. 128. $155/185.
surfaces of mud at the bottom.
the
MR. DOOLEY AGAIN.
REMARKS' ON. FOOTBALL.
The admired Mr. Dooley, after a long and lamented absence, is with. ustomgain, and in the American magazine "Liberty", expounds his philosophy to the faithful, Mr. Hennessy.
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The latter having seen in the papers that the colledges are thinkin' about bolishin', futball," he remarks extentiously: American citizen ought to study and masther th' gr-rent questions that our national existence hinges on, so that he can undherstand thim; or annyhow talk about thim,”.
footballer who had thried to get And being zeminded of a college
tion an' his need jy money," he a job fr himself suited to his Laca-
an ex-President-there's hardly follows up: "A futball star is lfka
Somebody said that water had edge were taken away by the food Parliament, asking it to increase No 16s. $175/185. No. 208. $190/anny way. he can "arn his livin' an'.
entered Queen's Theatre where the film room at the back of the stage had three feet of the water. What. then, about the auditorium??
:
was quickly ablaze and
together with the bank on which they stood..
Bridge Threatened.
M. Briand made a statement to its reputation in the eyes of the country by sacrificing its preroga- tives..
195.
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Arrivals 500 bales. Shipments NIL Salos 3,000 balee. Unsold stock 5.000 bales., Bargains 3,000 Woollens-No change from last
bales.
"The Opposition moved to discuss the Finance Committee's Bill which M. Briand announced would be made a question of confidence.report. After the vote M. Briand an- nounced his intention to resign.— Reuter..
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Dictatorship Resented.
It will take several weeks of soil CRACKER FACTORY BLAZE. to remove the mountain of sand and mud on the premises and racetrack, People living in the Ma Tau Kok At the Craigengower Club, the district, Kowloon City Road, were water just, reached the door and startled early this morning (about furniture left in the verandah was 7.30) by an explosion even louder carried away and a part of it was than the terrife. thunder clips.
recovered this morning. Garden This was
caused through the seats both here and at the other striking by lightning of a daryo) clubs were reduced to useless wond.
Paris, July 18 Fear lest France be placed at: godown in which the products f With the torrent flowing into the Kwong Man Loong Craker Bowrington Canal, a portion of the the mercy of foreign banks, with the Chamber helplessly gagged, is factory are stored, The godown road at the end of the bridge near mainly responsible for the Gov-
Tramway three" the
offices opposite engines were despatched to the Craigengower collapsed and the ity of the Deputies are opposed to ernment's downfall. The major- spot from the Kowloon Fire Bri-mhaonry portion of the bridge at
the raieing of credits abroad; also gude. After working the greater this spop was swept away by the the Washington, if not the Lon- part of the morning the firemen Bood Encceeded in quelling the flames The railway track of the Sangdon, agreement. Many Deputies after fully half of the building had Lee contractors on the other side jibbed especially at the idea of been destroyed. As may be im-of the canal also suffered con-
entrusting M. Caillaux with dic- agined, they were faced with asiderable damage by the founda- tatorial powers. In the course of task of considerable difficulty with tops being "washed away.
the debute the Opposition quoted extracts from the Rubicon a explosions all around them as the
treatise in favour of a dictator- fames reached store after store of
ship, discovered during the War crackers. If it had not been for
in a safe in Florence, the author- the deluge there would have been no hope of saving even part of the
ship of which they attributed to building.
M. Caillaux...
FACTORY IN DANGER
The paper mill at Aberdeen (Tal Shing Paper Mill Co.) is reported Having got the flames under and to be in danger owing to the pri diapensed with two of the machines,vate reservoir at the top of the the Brigade was called to a house building having been carried away collapse at Kowloon Tong.
and a retaining wall threatening other parte of the building.
"
SWIM TO ASSISTANCE.
Police Quarters Struck The chimney of Acting Chief Bluejackets armed with shovels.Inspector Aris's quarters at the picka, axes and other tools were Police quarters in Caine Road was Busy at the Naval Yard trying to struck in the early hours of this clear the choked drains which
blocked water from the direction of Seven and Six Penny Hill and flooded the yard and the residential quarters. In the early morning several had to swim across in or der to render assistance. "The workshops were all closed and un- der flood.
morning and considerable debris
fell inside the house. As the re maining portion of the chimney is considered to be in a dane tous condition, the quarters in question have had to be vacated.
OLD MEMORIES,
Later President Doumergue accepted the Government's re- signation and is likely to summon M. Herriott, who leads the largest party in the Chamber-Reuter.
NO CANCELLATION.
AMERICAN ATTITUDE MADE
CLEAR.
مید
Washington, July 18. Replying to the Massachusetts lawyer, Mr. Fredrick Peabody, who recently issued an open let. ter to President Coolidge propos ing cancellation of war debts,
Trafic with the town was cut, off until late hour when several
That memorable flood of May, Mr. Mellon writes that the United braved bunkers of mud and got 1889, exceeded to-day's
in States Government would be across. Motor cara.and taxis which
shirking its duty as a trustee of attempted to cross either got stuck
the taxpayers if it sanctioned such or else had to retreat." The worst
& cancellation. He declares that portion was near the Sailors' Club.
the American people do not de-
TOMMIES TURN OUT,
violence, Mr. Yee Cheong, the portrait painter whose studio is next door to the "China Mail" was an eyewitness.
•
He maintains that the torrente mand cancellation. of water, which swept down He cannot agree that Britain Wyndham Street were even great-is on the edge of destruction, It er 37 years ago. As to-day, is very sound at heart, as its re- he said, the rain "scraped out all cent solution of the general strike the loose mud of the higher levels has shown. and deposited them in the flat streets. It took months to clear away the mess.
Murray Barracks Garden Awash.
The garden at Murray Barracks was almost awept away. and des troyed. Half of the railings on that portion of Queen's Road was taken away with the cement pillars Mr. Yee Cheong also says that and placed across the road. Man the previous storm started at of the Surrey Regiment were busy almost the same hour as that of clearing the earth her. Lieut. Col. to-day, and ended by the after Montague Bates was present on noon. the scene.
He saw a European lady swept News came through at about 11.30 down Wyndham Street and only that there had been a house col-saved by the presence of mind of lapse at Cross Street, near the a Portuguese resident who closed No. 2 Police Station, and an at- manhole and prevented the lady
was made to get a from falling into it. ambulance and fire engine across. In those did days, there was a The ambulance went with difficulty big square nullah under the as far as the Naval Yard gate and strect surface. The echo of big had to return.
granite boulders being washed down the nullah, could be heard from above and sounded like omnious explosions,"
tempt
Fire Engine Stuck.- The engine got stuck in the mud opposite the Murray Barracks,, and the Surreys men had to surrender their implements to the fire party to get the engine out.
It was expected to get the engine An actor, rather shabbily dress out and make an attempt to reached, was standing outaide a theatre the Wanchai collapse via Kennedy at the close of the evening per
Road.
formance..
Raw Cottons:-No sales to report Metals:-Market dull, nothing
doing.
Patent
Flour Market Report:-- Stocks: About 250,000, ' Market: Steady, Quotations-American. $4,20 per sack; American Straight 45 per sack; American Cut off 8.45 per sack; Australian No. 1 3.06 per sack. 3.50 per suck; Canadian Cut
Sundries." Window Glass:-Local stocks plentiful
Sugar:-Market dull. Saltpetre:-Stocks 12,000 bags. dead market with Absolutely nothing Interesting to report.
AT THE QUEEN'S.
SEE THE BANDOLERO"
TO-DAY.
| keep his dignity. There was new- thin' left open to this hero but a job as profissyonal fut-ball-player or aellin' rale estate in Floridy.
He was competent f'r ayether. To to be muscular an' feet iv foot. Ho sell Floridy rale estate a. man has
must use the stiff right arm to sell the lot an' He must hurry to th' bank with th check.
r,
"Well air, th' minylt th' sorrel- top gladyator decided to do some- thing, an' I frget now what it was.. there was an outburst iv rage fr'
wan end to th' other this gr'rent land.
'It's a nàytional scandal' says th' public. It brings discredit on our institutions Iv larnin' whose proud boast it's been that they turn out nawthin' but.amachoors in ivry line. Manny remedies were offer ed to cure this here canker that was
atin' into our body poNtik. Some was in favour wabolishin' futbalk Others iv elcain" the colledges. Billy Borah intḥrajooced a risolo- ∙tion into the Sinfi to investigate thia cry in evil, an' th' Prisidint was ordhered be. th. Anti-Saloon. Longue- to proclaim a day iv fastin' an' prayer to stave off th' consequinces iv this hurt to our counthry's honour.
"It was turible while it lasted. Showing at the Queen's Thes- I cudd'nt sleep nights thinkin' iv it, tre to-day is "The Bandolero" But it didn't last long, thanks be (The Bandit). Made for the most to Hiven. Like all th gr-rost part in Cuba, and in authentic questions that shake th' hearts in locations in Spain, this picture th American people it was soon centres around the picturesque f'rgot. We pass fr'm wan convul- character of Dorando, played by sion to another. We have a fit Ivry Pedro de Coroba, who throws up day about something. Forchinitly, his commission as captain of whin we come out it wan we don't dragoons in Seville and becomes a remember what it was all about." Robin Hood type of outlaw leader In the mountains after his wife is brutally murdered in a fight that results from his discovery of the Marques de la Torre (Gustav von Seyffertitz) forcing unwelcome love upon her.
The action is developed upon the revenge which Dorando has sworn to have upon the Marques, and upon the romantic attach ment which develops between the Marques's son (Manuel Granado), whom Dorando has kidnapped and hidden in the mountains, and daughter (Renee Dorando's Adoree)..
The dramatic situation is fur her complicated by the intrigues of Concha (Dorothy Ruth), who In all the other countries "the aucceeds in inducing, Ramon to people are in monetary difficulbecome a bullfighter in Seville. It ties, but the very acuteness of the is in a great bullfight scene that disease has brought a clear under the unique picturesque quality, of to the causes and this photodrama is said to reach standing as
its climax. proper remedies. I don't despair of Europe."-Reuter's American Service.
Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN THE "MAIL"
Entertainments.
of the Night."
July 19, 21.--Brick MOTAB's
California Collegians, the World's Greatest College Entertainers will appear at the City Hall.
Jaly 19 and 26--Preliminary vocal rehearsals of "The Pirates of Ponzance" at Cathedral Hall, 6.30 p.m.
..were
And, having thus pricked the Iridescent bubble of fame, Mr. Dooley appears to heave a philoso phic aigh as he draws the conclu- ston:
"So futball is safe an' a young man who enters wan iv our univer- sities can be pretty sure he's goin' to come out well grounded in th' fundymintala iv knowledge iv what to do in his contact with th' wur ruld whim some wan gives him a If he can't do kick in th' ahin. anny betther lie larns to cheer an to sing an' to throw his hat over a goalpost no mane accomplish- ments f'r a youth who has to make his way in life.
"Annyhow, it's glad I am that th' infuryated pathrites didn't abolish F' th'time baln? th' game.
there won't be anny Nineteenth Amindment to supprisa th' forward pass.
"No," sir, futball wil niver be abblished while th' fathers iv th This bullfight is not at all of the land have annything to say about usual variety. It was made posit. They'se no futball enthusyest sible only after many disappoint- that's as wild as a man who afver ments, when Tom Terriss, pro- took more exercise in his life thin ducer of the picture for Metro- sprinklin' th' lawn, if he has a boy' Goldwyn release, secured the Berat colledge. Whin Aloysius comes vices of Canero, reputed to be the home with spectacles on an' told most renowned bullfighter in ye he'd passed th' examination in Spain. Canero on his white coonic sections, ye said: Splendid: horse, which is said to be valued Ye take afther me. I was good in at $10,000, evades the bull's joggerphy, too, whin I was young' charges by the narrowest possible An' thin ye f'rgot about it. While July 19-Queen's Theatre; "The margin, vaults over the bull's th day Patsy turned up with Bandolero."
back, and finally despatches him stickin' plasther on his nose ya July 19-Star Theatre; "The from the saddle..
wint. through th' roof. "Who give Still Alarm.".
It might be mentioned in pass- ye that?! saye ye. "Young Grogan,' July 19-World Theatre: "Ladying that Mary Pickford and says Patsy. I'll go out an' hand Douglas Fairbanks, then on their that rowdy's gran'-futher a talkin' way to meet the King and Queen to says yo, grabbin' ye'er black- of Spain, were guests of Mr. thorn cane, which is a gr-reat help Terriss, during the making of the to conversation on family subjicks bullfight scenes, which
in this neighbourhood Ye'll And staged in Granada near the him in th' hospital,' says ye'er little storied Alhambra against the gran'-son What's he doin' there?! background of the biggest holiday says ye. I hope th' poor man ain't
hurted. He's waitin' at the hospi festival of the year....
tal till Felix's leg is set," says the kind little fellow, 'Ye didn't break London, June 24.-Peeresses from it, did, ye, ye rough young divvle ?! July 20-Third annual meeting the Gallery of the House of Lordsye says, grabbin' him in ye'er arme. of the. Hongkong Taxicab Co., 33 closely followed the arguments No, sir, says Pack; it was th' fence Des Voeux Road, Central, noon.
when. Lord Astor moved the second did it, he says. An' that night July-22- Twenty-ninth annufr reading of the Parliament (Quall didn't see ye walkin' arm in arm 'meeting of the China Provident. fication of Peeresses) Bill to en-with th' assassin past, Grogan's After Jess had been at the board Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd., Stable women holders of English house?" ing house a few weeks, she began. George's Building, 11.30 am.
titles in their own right to exer signing her letters home, Tessica." August Meeting of creditors cius equal sitting and voting powers Residents at Happy Valley and Brother Tom thought he would of the Oriental Commercial Bank with men in the House of Lords, the neighbourhood spent an an-give her a little dig about it, no Ltd., at 25, Des Voux Road, Central. if otherwise qualified, and also pros xious night with the flood which he wrote:-"Dear Jessica, Dadica & p.m.
vided that women bolders, of Scot commenced to rise shortly after and Momica have gone to visit August 9-General meeting of tiah and Irish titles should be aunt Lissica. Uncle Samica is Luen Mow.S.S.. Co., Ltd., 65, Con qualified to vote at the election of The race couras this morning talking about having new naught Road, Central, 2 p.m. representative peers for Scotland was transformed into a lake and mach'neten' but he doesn't know
and Ireland. The mover said 20 a raging torrent of water brought whether to get a Fordics or a
women at present were affected by down from the hills flowed be- Chevica. The old cow had a caifica,
tha Bill Lords Hanbury and tween the Police and Craigen- and I was going to call it Nellica, "It is an erroreous idea that Birkenhead, opposed the Bill, while gower Clubs
but I changed it to Jimies because capital is needed to succeed in Lords Cecil Haldane and Buck A mialature Niagara Falls was it was a bullies. Your affectionate Australia; the essential is not master supported the measure, created near the old scene of dem brother, Tomica Frederick J. capital but character."Lord which ultimately was rejected by age below the Yeung Woo Nurs- Johnson
Forster
128 votes to 80 Times of Ceylon
In the morning, another fire engine was observed struggling along Des Vaux Road Central, tow ed by a team of Post Office mes. Bengers, firemen, and volunteers, under a European who in the mist looked to be the Hor, Mr. E, D. C. Wolfe, the C.S.P.
LAKE, NOT VALLEY.
Residents' Anxious Night.
midnight.
A well-dressed, pompous-looking man came out, and, mistaking the actor for an "unemployed," said to him:
"Just call me a taxi, will you, my man?""
"Certainly," replied the other. Sir, you are a taxi," and, raising his hat, he passed on.
August 6-Band night at Volun teer Headquarters, 9 pm.
Meetings.
Mr. Murphy was complaining bitterly about the conduct of his son to his old friend Muldoon. He related, at great length the young man's escapades and follies.
You should speak to him with firmness and recall him to ala duty," said Mr. Muldoon.
"But, sure, he pays not the least attention to what I say. He listens only to the advance of foola. I with Pat, you would talk to him." replied Murphy.
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