WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1926.
LEAGUE COUNCIL.
“CECIL" PLAN HOLDS THE
FIELD.
BRITISH POLICY,
Rugby, Aug. 24.
11
AIR PROGRESS.
CROSS-CHANNEL SERVICES
REVIEWED.
SPLENDID RECORD,
Rugby, Aug. 21.
The first
OUR FINANCES.
SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATES
FOR 1926..
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION, 18
The Finance Committee of the
156 Puble Works, Extraordinary.
THE CHINA MAIL.
RAILWAY REPORT.
HOW BRITISH SECTION FARCED IN 1920.
STRIKE EFFECTS.
The following items are extract-
OUR GIRL GUIDES.
WORK IN HONGKONG."""
Guide work in the Colony, is progressing slowly but surely. The. excellent work achleved by Lady Stubbs and Lady Stuart Taylor is being carried on with The Committee on the composi- | The cross-Channel air services Legislative Council at its next meet-ed from the annual report on the equal enthusiasm by Lady Cle
menti as Colony President and tion of the League of Nations celebrate their seventh birthdaying will be asked to voto the follow Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Mrs. W. B. A. Moore as Colony Council, which consists of repre- to-morrow, and British air inersing Supplemental Estimates for Section) for 1920, by Mr. H. P. Secretary. Mrs. W. T. Southern
Winslow, Manager:-- sentatives of Afreen countries, in-have in that time flown over 1926:
The extension to workshops in Ceylon has been appointed Col- (formerly Chief Commissioner cluding all those with seals on the 7.000.000 miles. There have been Council, together with Germany, 100,000 passengers carried across New Kowloon. 57, Extension or started in June, 1924, was comony Commissioner. The Local As-
together re-assemble in Geneva next the Channel,
with Kowloon Catchwater. Contract No. pleted in April and handed over to sociation is at present, composed
the Locomotive Department. The of the following members: Monday.
£17,000,000 worth of goods. in-12 of 192", 3-4,000,00
of Lord fell will represent Great cluding 210.000.000 gold
blacksmiths moved into the now 157 His Excellency the Governor,
Lady Clementi. M.B.E. (Presi- Britain, and he is expected to bullion.
Persons noluments, 6. 13, leave portion of the building, and the dent), Mrs. Laard, Mrs. Stirling, The progress made in air trans-pay of Sir R. E. Stubbs, $1,381,00.
old smithshop was overhauled and Mrs, R. M. Dyer (Vice-Presi take an early opportunity of
the first passenger view port since
converted into a Store for tools. again emphasising the
158 Charitable Services. Passukes
dents). Mrs. W. T. Southern, Mrs. The Fanling Branch Line (2ft. Creasy, Mrs. Duppuy, Mrs: Fergu- strongly held by the British Gov machine How to Paris from Houn- sume that Germany's "entry slow on August 26, 919, is shown and Relief of Destitute. P. 107, tom, gauge) was closed for trafic son, Mrs. T. H. King, Mrs. Minett,
jon December 31.
M.D., Mrs. G. Murray, Hrs. E. B. into the League and the allocation not only by the growth in the size yer anticipated claims to the end
of the year. $2.000.00.
Considerable dumnge to the Reed, Mrs. Roffey, Migs Sawyer. to her of a permanent sent on the of aeroplanes but by the greater
169 Treasury, Other Charges: Railway was caused by rainstorms Mrs. Smalley, Miss Woo, M.B.E.. Council should be given priority regularity of service.
aircraft was a converted war nero-Incidental Expenses. 8. 18, to cover in July which culminated in a Mrs. J. R. Wood, Mrs. Boylan ever ad other consideration.
The Committee will present its plane driven by a single Rolls anticipated deficit on normal heavy downpour on the 16th when Smith. Mrs. Sorby and Mrs. W. B. report to the League Council, Royce engine of 360 h.p., and asenditure during remainder of the 18.18 inches of rain were register-Moore,
Mrs. Dyer acts as Hon, Trea- which is expected to hokhits first the traffic grew it was followed in year, $140.00.
14-senter passenger sitting next Thursday, and that 1923 by
160 Treasury. Transport, p. 13, Station was choked up by debris surer of the Guide Association, body will in turn make its, recom-machines which, although only to cover anticipated deficit on nor-from private works on the bill-Mrs. Boylan-Smith as Badge and mendations to the League Assem fitted with two Rolls Royce an-mal expenditure during remainder side above, and the line flooded Literature Secretary
with shurry. Later a heavy slip Reed as District Captain." bly the first session of which is, gines of 180 h.p.. carried seven of the year, $28.00: fixed for September 6,
times the number of passengers. 1 Police, Special Expenditure, took place and buried both tracks
On May 8 the annual oem- Lart vecil leaves for Geneva This year bas seer the biggest 500 sets Motor Vehicle Plates, Cost to a height of four or five feet. petition for the Prince of Wales
thus interrupting traffic. At Mile Banner was held in the grounds! on Saturday. and the Secretary step forward, when Imperial Air-for Vehicle Plates. $167.00:
34, private works caused a diver-of Government House, by kind for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen ways superseded their single-1
182 Kowloon-Canton. Railway,
Rainstorm sion of the flood waters which cut permission of H.E. the Governor. Chamberlain, who will represent jengined aircraft, by putting into Special Expenditare, Great Britain on the Commeil service she first of 20-seater Arm- Damage. 19th July, 1926, Clearing away the railway bank for some The 1st and 2nd Kowloon Guide lenges on Monday, ..
straps. Whitworth Argosy air rack. Nullahs. Repairs to Build hundred yards, and all traffic had Companies took part in the com
to change chains.at either side of petition and the latter Company The view is maintained here liners which are fitted with three links. utc., etc.. $2.700,00, -
Each are de- Total $10,420.00.
the breach for two days, that the so-called "g plan. jengines of 400 h.p.
succeeded in retaining the ban The Workshops were which involves the creation of¦signed to fly in case of emergency
very ner for the second year in suc- greatly handicapped during the cession. Lady Clementi present- certain semi-permanent seats" with one engine out of action.
middle of the year by the strike. fed the Arrangements have also been on the Council offers the only
banner to the winning) All the No. I's. however, remained Company. practicable method of securing an completed for exsending the Bri-
......$1552769.16 and with their assistance the enely and reasonable settlement, tish air lines outside Europe, and
10.000.00 train service was maintained. of the problem. That plan was Imperial Airways will open on approved in the, fommittee's in- January 1 the Cairo-India air
During the greater part of a 14,000.00 menth, vunning repairs of all terim report, which received a route via Bagdad; Basra, and the
kinds were done by these few unanimous ferst reading when the Persian Gulf. matter was.considered in the Spring British Wireless Sex
vice.
GERMANY GLAD:
SUPPORT FOR SEAT FROM PIRKIGULA YE
No passenger has been killed or injured since 1924 in British machines on the Continental ser- vices although they have carried; 65 per cent of the total traffic, British Wireless Service.
Frenchman Creates New Record.
Paris, August 24
136.9
Memorandum,
amount' exponded to end
of 1925 1 amount rotet for 1926. Amount required for
1926
Excess for which supple. mentary supply" is re- quired
.$
4,000.00
jed. A 3-foot culvert at Yaumati'i
men.
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and Mrs.
An' Officers' Training Class was held every Monday by Mrs. Reed at Government House (by kind permission of His Excellency)
at the end of July and there: was an average attendance of A Bad Year.
||twelve. The year 1925 has again proved The
L Hongkong c'ompang Only $10,000 for retention money an unfortunate one for the Exil-which had speed, has been reform- was provided in the 1926 Estimates,way, directly attributable to the ed-under Mrs. Greenamith as cap Tas the works should have been com-conditions obtaining in thetain assisted by Miss Olive Xavier pleted last year. st the close of Kwangsung Province. thens Livutenant. The Colony Com which there was an unexpended Through and Joint Sectional Traf-missioner enrolled twelve Guides at balance of $18,851.4
fic being suspended throughout | Alnunthin. Lodge where Lady The aviator Marlizn broke "the 157. Members are referred to the year with the exception of 166|| Clement kindly entertained the height record reaching 12.800 Bems 157 to 1925) and 3 of 1926) Slow Through trains. The whole Company to tea. metro
in Message No. 1 of the current Through Slow Service suspended There are
tourishing Two airmen, Challe and Van (year. Crown Agents Accounts in 1024 was resumed on March 17. Brownie Packs, the Peak, the Gar : (wudenberg, hopped off this morn, have now been received and shew The Chinese Section passenger rison Schook the Quarry Bay and is ds learned on reliable authorits inx in the direction of the Persianitbat December (1926) salary stock, however, was found to be the Kowloon Packa, that Uruguay will support Com jelulf in an attempt to break the amounting to $3.368,412 was charged in such a bad state of repair, that many's claim for a rermanent seat word for flying in a straight line, to January (1926) account, and that it was considered inadvisable to in the Bonach at the forthcoming
Sir R. E. Stubbs' leave expired onfallow it to ran over the British- meeting of the Assembly of the
the 12th and at 30th of April On Section as had been done in the trict Commissioner, East Herts) League of Nations at Genévan
halance therefore there is an excess bust, and passengers were there-and Miss Wanklyn District Com Rouder.
A pararbute fifty feet diameter, of $1,383.52 over the sum voted for fore conveyed to and from the missioner Cheshunt) are coming to Spain's Claims.
invented by naval engineer for the current year for which a cover-border in stock provided by the the Colony to conduct a four London August 241
saring neroplanes, was successfullying vote is necessary, Senhor Yangon's announcement tested and brougt safely to earth Items 3 of 1923-Vetes that he will not attend the Ebaguay eeroplane from a height of
for Sir R. E. Stubba' 12.500 feet. mettings at Geneva does not pro-
The machine linded.
saliery mise, well for a smooth discussion the side of a hill and smashed the propeller, but otherwise it was not damaged. Reuger.
Maple Videos, Augnât și,
on the wurstion of Germany's 'ple tron to a sta dhe Council. Thej claims of Paland and Snain to d manent spots" hava hawn particle! given noaminence and though i jaj
kete that Poland will consent th.. a compromiso thank hoge benny mast signs,af viola in, the
Spin Indeed the nnasibility" bo been dienssed of Shain retirine from the True if Germany 1 planted,
-flavas,
A New Invention.
Los Angeles, August 24.
GOOD
RESULT.
EAST ASIATIC AND P. (0.
Crown Agents Jungary account for Sir R. E. Stubbs' December, 1926 salary Crown Agents February account for Sir R. E. Stubbs' January, 1926 salary Crown Agents March account for Sir R. E. Stubba February. 1926 salary
Agents April account for Sir R. E. Stubbs' March and 1st
Copenhagen. August 24.. The East Asiatic Industrial" and The Trane pronoprement Plantations Company's report. Crown Genema - Prime de Rivers that shows a surplus of 663,300 kroner Tangier ault" to be in indu* 14 ineinding 908,00 kroner brought! the Spanish Protectorate has forward
The Board recommends enused: astonishment in France; that thousand kroner beenrried where the claim is regarded as alto the Dispositions Fund, that a bargaining counter in the Council dividend if 16 per cent, be paid, and Most discussions. The importance that they carry forward 722,000 of the Pabinet meeting at which krohen,-keuter:
Senhor Yigua anaonncert his de- elsion not to un to Geneva is em phasised by the fact that at Madrid, in spite of a temperature of 105 in the shade. King Alfonso has re mained in the capital to, presidei over the Cabinet; and the British Ambassador, contrary to custom. isl this season remaining in Madrid Instead of going to San Sebastian. the Court's summer residence."
Senhor Yangea at the conclusion
their deliberations related to
to 12th April, 1928 salary
Excess..
$ 13.218.00
It is hoped to start the first Chinese Cufde Company shortly.
In November Miss Trotter. (Dis-
months training of Guides and Guiders.
British. Section.
The through service was again suspended from June 1. to 17
It is interesting to realise that; Or Sunday, June 21. a general at the present day the Guides strike of Chinese in the Colony 613.209. The success of the Move-
throughout the world number? Icommenced and through traffic was again interrupted and was
ment is greatly due to the ""sweet not
reasonablensas" of the leaders. Sir resumed during the year. 3,368.42 Between June 23 and July 11 there! Robert Baden Powell at Lady was a general exodus of strikers Baden Powell, who realise that from the Colony, 24.361 passen-world must be adapted to local Gaiding in different parts of the igers being carried to the border.
conditions; Therefore in Eastern countries where Eastern girls join in this world-wide sisterhood, con- cessions are given to the customs of the country,
3.363.42
Ticket Collection.
The practice of collecting tickets. on the trains has not proved satis- factory and this system has now 3.428.57 been abolished in favour of ticket
collection.. at stations.
The ar- rangement was put into force on August 17. and has proved highly satisfactory.
J
4,932.11
fireman
During the period of October 8 to November 2, the launch service 15.097.52 between Taipo and Sha U Chung was suspended owing to pickets $1,388.52 refusing to allow passengers to 158. Owing to unusually heavy land at Sha U Chung, calls on this subhead the full sum voted $2,500 has already been spent. were kidnapped on the Branch:
Two drivers and one Proportionate provision is asked for! to cover the remaining months of ber 11, and, in view of the pickets Line at Sha Tau Kok on Septem- in this neighbourhood being par 159. The Assessor undertakes ticularly active, it was thought! the painting of numbers on houses better not to continue Rome, August 24.
to stable and any necessary alteration in the the engine and stock at Sha Tau The Vatican announces tha! no numbering. More numbering and Kok during the night. The train communication has been received re-numbering than was anticipated
MEXICO'S FEUD.
THE VATICAN AND THE
BISHOPS.
the current year.
from Mexican Episcopal leaders has been found necessary during Chung Au
was therefore stabled, at Shek
The keynotes of the Movement are Service for others, and Cultiva- tion of all the Womanly Virtues: fa quote Lady Baden Powoll:-The aim of the Girl Guide Movement is
make efficient future women riti- mothers." „24-114, good housekeepers and
PASSENGER LIST.
a.ar
ARRIVALS.
Hongkong per
List of passengers arrived at "Tanda" on August 25.
From Yokohama for Hongkong: Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Keaton.
From Kobe for Hongkong: Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Tratman, Miss M. Lockle, Mr. and Mrs. J. S of the Cabinet meeting said that with regard to the reported nego-the year. The Estate Duty Com-
Gillingham, Miss P. Gillingham, Miss M. Gillingham, Mrs. W. Faid With the exception of deprecia- Tangier and the League of Nations is added that no instructions were a notification in the local Chinese not been dealt with, all outstand: Miss V. Story. Mrs. A. B. Story,
tiations with President Calles. It misaioner found it desirable to issue)
tion on rolling stock which has and Mrs. J. Fenton. and dwell upon the world-wide in given to Mexican Bishops autheris- Press. The need of this was not
From Yokohama for Sydney: terest of General Primo de Rivera's Ing them to change the policy of anticipated when the estimate was to account. The balance at Pro McLeod, Mrs. E. Loftus, Mrs. E
ing items have now been brought Mr. F. MeLeod Sanr. Mr. the Roman Catholic Church towards framed. the Inical laws of Mexico.-Reuter.
fit and Loss Account "stands at Sutton. Miss McConnell and Misa|| 160. The Assessor has made $815.092.39 and is transferred to unexpected calls on the Transport Surplus Appropriation Account.
Swanzy.
pronouncement.
It is said that at the meeting in Geneva, on the 30th instant, the Committee will discuss the sents question, which is regarded as the culminating event in international polities and the most important, for 'Spain.
It is regretted that diplomatic negotiations now proceeding will prevent a fuller statement.--Reu-
IRISH LOSS.
DEATH OF MR. JOHN SWIFT MACNEILL.
F. H.
Vate owing to the need of verifying The total deficit at the end of the Mr. and Mrs. H. Jumon, Miss A. From Yokohama for Melbourne: claims to special refunds on account
year was $4,804,620.05.
B. James, Miss M. W. Tweedie, Mr. W. Stewart, Miss M. Stewart, Misa B. Kinnear, Mra E. Stavely, Capt. Roberts.
From Kobe for Sydney: Mr. J.
of vacancies allowed by the recent Rating Amendment Ordinance.,
161. A sum of $1,500 was pro- vided in Estimates to cover cont of 500 sets of motor vehicle plates.
.."The man in the automobile Rugby, August 23.
be The sum of $167 now required to may
opposed to the Jacka. Making Sure.
Death occurred to-day of Mr. supplement this vote is due to Eighteenth Amendment, but he From Moji for Melbourne: Miss Berlin, August 24. John Gordon Swift MacNeill, aged difference between estimated and will instantly discharge a drink-' A G. M. Skinner It is officially stated that the 77, who was for 33 years' Irish Na-actual cost, made up as followsing chauffeur."-Senator Borah. Harla Ryang. fierman delegation to the League tionalist Member of Parliament. Casting 1,000 pluten
ter.
ייך
of Nations will leave for Geneva
He was a prominent figure in all Painting
only when it is definitely establish- debates on Irish affaire prior to Machining
ed that there will be no obstacles
: to Gormany's admittance.-Router.
REPARATIONS.
NEW CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION.
Paris, August 24. M. (Chapail (France) has been unanimously elected President of the Reparations Commission in auc- "¡cession.to.ML. Basthow-Bouter.
the settlement of the Irish, question, Labour and was an authority on constitu- tional low. British Wireless Se1-1 vice.
GREEK REVOLT.
OLD PRESIDENT BACK IN OFFICE,
"
Estimates 1926
Difference
$1,507.77
100.00
50.00
8.59
$1,866.36
1,500.00
166.36
These plates ars sold at $3 a sot. 162. Cost of clearing track; ullahs, repairing slopes and channels in No 1 Cutting, Station buildings and staff quarters, and also damage to cuttings,, inverts of Bridges and abutments Vanling Admiral Kondouriotis has re-branch line--caused by the rain- sumed the Presidency.--Reuter, storm, on July 19...
Athens, August-24.
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