TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1928.
SPECIAL OFFER $1: FOR 1 CENT
We mean this. We will send a free sample copy of the CHINA JOURNAL,
which costs $1.00, to any address in the world on receipt of a postcard which costs you One Cent.
TRY IT TO-DAY
THE CHINA JOURNAL
8 Museum Road.
Shanghai.
K. M. A.
CERAMIC & REFRACTORY PRODUCTS
CLINKER.
PAVING.
BUILDING
& FIRE
BRICKS
STONE-
WARE
PIPES &
GLAZED
TILES
Ask for our Illustrated Catalogue-Compare our Prices and Inspect our wide Range of Samples
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION. DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hongkong.
THE
HONG KONG
DOLLAR DIRECTORY
Hong Kong's most Accurate, and
Cheapest Directory
NOW ON SALE
AT
THE HONGKONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO.
3a, Wyndham Street.
and at WHITEÄWAY. LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
KELLY & WALSH.
LEE YEE (D'Aguilar St.)
KOWLOON WHARF.
·MASSEUR R. SHIMIDŽU. MASSEUSE 8. HONDA MASSEUSE S. KIBAKE, Expert Japanese Masseurs. 24, WYNDHAM STREET. Tel: C. 4945.
AK YAU-(H.K. Ferry Wharf). AH YAU—(Peak Tram Station).
HUNG CHEONG-(Kowloon);
MASSAGE NAKAMURA
23, Stanley Strest,
2nd floor.
$1,000 DAMAGES.
AGAINST AN EARL'S SON.
THE CHINA MAIL,
LIGHTHOUSE VIGIL.
MEN RELIEVED AFTER 14 WEEKS..
EGYPT'S SEARCH.
FOR NEW WATER SUPPLIES.
LIBELLOUS LETTER. WIVES NIGHTLY SIGNALS. EX-MINISTER'S VIEW.
*Remarkable letters were read The fourteen weeks' vigil of Cairo: The presentation of a in the Herefordshire Assize Court the keepers of the Longships Supplementary Estimate for the in an action for Hbel brought by Lighthouse, who have been barrage at Naghamadi in the was made the Alderman John Riley, of Ledbury, marooned by heavy. Atlantic gales Senate Herefordshire, against Lord for six weeks beyond their usual occasion of a remarkable speech Garioch, son of the Earl of Mar. period of duty, has ended. by the former Minister of Public He was awarded £1,000 damages. Their relief was effected, and the Works, Ismail Sirri Pasha, who Lord Garioch was not present two men--Nicholls and Davies was intimately concerned with in court, but admitted writing the were landed at Sennen after the the drawing up of a comprehen- letter which constituted the libel, relief boat had battled for four sive scheme for the development and the only question for the jury hours with heavy sens.
of Irrigation works with British was the amount of damages. A wireless receiving set is in-engineers twenty years ago,
Mr. C. F, Vachell, for Alderman stalled on the lighthouse, but the Sirri Pasha has frequently ex- Riley, said it was one of the most battery was taken ashore at the pressed in public condemnation of malicious and atrocious libels that time of the previous rellet, and the Egyptian Government's act- any one man could write about the men had been deprived of its ion in suspending the construction another. Alderman Riley had comfort. The only communica-of the Gebel Awlia barrage, for lived in Herefordshire since 1872, tion they had had with the outer which he considers a further and had devoted practically the world during' their long duty had heightening of the Assouan Dam whole of his time to public work been effected by means of sema- cannot provide a substitute, even In the county. He was chairman phore flags. Their wives had be- if it be practicable, a point which of the Ledbury Bench of magis- come adept at signalling across he contests. He maintains that trates, was Deputy Lieutenant of the angry waters, and the flutter- the Gebel Awlia barrage is an the county, and had been High Ing flags carried Christmas and essential part of a comprehensive ¡Sheriff.
New Year messages to the light- scheme of irrigation works of
1
Lord Garioch had bought trom house. Every night Mrs. Davies which the Delta barrage would be Mr. Riley a residence known as flashed from her bedroom window the commencement, the culmina Putney Court, Ledbury, and there with a signalling lamp, "Good tion to be a mighty barrage by was trouble about some plants night, and Good bless you" to her which Lake Albert, which is the and shrubs which the alderman husband. At week-ends a friend of headwater of the Nile, would be took away.
Lord Garioch de the marooned men signalled the converted into a huge natural re- manded that the plants should be football results.
servoir.
The vast scheme, which would returned, and in answer to a let-
Dangerous Enterprise, take at least thirty years to ter from Alderman Riley's soli- citor, stating that apart from one Contrary to the custom at other achieve, is designed to ensure a of water for shrub plaintiff had only removed lighthouses, which are relieved by sufficient supply a few plants, leaving, plenty of Trinity House, the relief of the Egypt, and also for the Soudan, each variety, and that he did not Longships Lighthouse is under- even during the years of lowest feel disposed to return them. taken by fishermen at Sennen Nile flooda. It would likewise pro- Lord Garioch wrote: "Mr. John Cove. For six weeks they had vide for all possible developments Riley being, I believe, a county been standing by daily in readi- in the direction of the extension magistrate, his reply makes ness to take out the men waiting of areas of cultivation. rather sad reading. It is a poor to relieve their comrades, and But the achievement of this look-out for the Bench and a fresh provisions. Owing to the scheme will be impossible with- shocking example to the people." continuous gales, however, this out the construction of a series
In another letter to Mr. Riley's has been impossible.
of "balancing barrages" Between
solicitor, Lord Garioch wrote: During the Saturday night the the Delta and the sources of the "In view of the seriousness of the wind abated somewhat, and, seiz. 'Nile, of which series the Gebel situation which his letter involves ing the opportunity, the boat left Awlia barrage would be one. I should be glad to know if he is Sennen Cove about ten o'clock Hence whatever local benefit prepared to resign from the in the morning. The expedi- might be derived from a further Bench of magistrates."
ition was full of danger. Great raising of the Assouan dam, this, Advice to Retire.
seas driven in from the Atlantic according to Sirri Pasha, will not A further letter ran: "I hope dashed against the rocks on which further the general scheme, the you will be able to persuade your the lighthouse is built, at times fulfilment of which he declares to client to retire from the position sweeping over the platform at the be absolutely essential if the which is at once a disgrace and a foot of the lofty column on which growing needs of the faat In-
Is erected scandal."
a crane for raising creasing population of Egypt be
The boat considered. Some time later the Ledbury men and provisions.
Because he considers that the Rural District Council complained had to approach as near as possi- ¡that Lord Garioch had closed a ble to the rocks, and ran the con- Gebel Awlia dami should have! public path through his grounds stant danger of being smashed to been constructed before the dam at Naghamadi, Sirri Pasha refus. jat Putney Court, and after a good pieces. Ideal of correspondence Lord. The relief operation was car. ed to vote for the Supplementary Garioch wrote the letter contain- ried out by throwing a rope from Estimate, as a protest against the of the scheme ling the libel. Addressed to the the foot of the lighthouse to the carrying out
clerk of the Rural District Coun- boat, and making fast on board. 'authorised by the Cabinet in 1925, . cil, and read publicly at a meeting The men and food were then pull but suspended by the next of that body, it stated:
ed up the rope by pulley through Cabinet for purely political rea-
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN
HONG KONG.
sons, a popular delusion being that the Gebel, Awlia dam would give the British complete control over Egypt's water supply.
The prospect of a shortage of water during the coming summer, which has been the subject of an official warning by the Ministry of Agriculture, affords an indica- tion of the grave responsibility incurred by the Government in allowing political considerations to interfere with the development of a scheme of vital importance Sunrise. Sunset. for the welfare of the nation. The habitable area of Egypt at #.FT. p.m. 6.14 6.39
present is only two-thirds that of Ireland, but it has thrice the population of Ireland, and the population of Egypt, 1,500 to the square mile, is one of the densest 6.41 in the world and is steadily in-
creasing.
The chairman of your High- the waves. ways Committee' (Mr.. Riley) has! admitted that he has committed theft. Then, after admitting it, he said that it was ignorance. Again, he subsequently said he committed the theft because he thought the articles he stole would not be given him. This is the individual whose testimony as Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong to the paths in my woods you during April, 1923, standard time have the assurance to present to for the 120th meridian, East or mc. A thief, a man who says he Greenwich, is as follows:- does not know what belongs to him or to other persons, who stole because he could not obtain other- wise the chairman of the Led- bury magistrates!. A Deputy- Lieutenant of the County! the This, Sirs, is tion in which your Coun- cil finds itself. I Bay without the slightest fear of con- tradiction that there is nowhere in the kingdom another Bench of magistrates, nor even a Rural Dis- trict Council, who have
a self- acknowledged thief amongst them. It is a scandal, a shocking! example to the people.
6.39
6.43 6.43
3rd
4th
6.13
5th
6.13 6.40
posi-
6th
6.12 8.41
7th
6.11
6.41
8th
6.10
9th
6.09
6.41
10th
6.08 0.42
11th
12th
6.07 8:42 6.06 6.42
13th
6.06
14th
6.04
15th
16th
6.03 6.43
·6.02 6.44
There have been in this unfor- tunate village during my short
17th
6.02 6:44
18th
.6.01
6.45
residence here two incendiary
19th
6.00
6.45
fires. I say "unfortunate" because a village that has been dominated for half a century by a moral de- generate is unfortunate.
20th
21st
22nd
How.
23rd
with justice, could you proceed against anyone who has commit- ted the incendiaríam when the chairman of the magistrates is a self-admitted thief?
24th
25th
26th
6.55
6.48
27th
5.54 6.49
"
28th
These are not times for one law for the rich and another for the poor. Your position, the position
29th
80th
5.58.
6.48 5.52" 6.49 5.52 6.49
Trying to Raise Tone."
6.00 6.46
1
5.59 6.48 5.58 6.48 5.67
.6.47 5.57 6.47 5.56 6.47
Hence the vital necessity of rendering possible an extension of the cultivatable area, although this cannot be enormous, and also the conversion to perennial irriga- tion of land still under partial irrigation, by which only one crop yearly can be obtained.
By attaining the 100,000 mark in the matter of population, Hagen, in Westfalia, has been admitted to the select company of German "grent towns." The baby which brought this coveted honour received an official souvenir of its achievement.
them:-
PARAL
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL.
Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI."
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring/ Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.,› All Trams pass in front of Hotel.......... Most Moderate Rates in the Colony. Hotel Launch meets all steamers.
Tel. Add: "Victoria.” Telephone No. C. 373.
J. H. WITCHELL Manager.
ADELPHI HOTEL.
SINGAPORE,
THE ONLY HOTEL IN SINGAPORE FITTED THROUGHOUT WITH MODERN SANITATION AND SHOWERS IN
EVERY BATHROOM,
TEA DANCES
EVERY TUESDAY
AFTER DINNER DANCES
EVERY WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
ROOF GARDEN CINEMA
EVERY SUNDAY ́and MONDAY EVENING. LADIES' LOUNGE PALM COURT
ADELPHI HOTÉL, LTD., HARRY H. WILLIES,
Cables? Adelphi
ADVERTISE
Managing Director..
WHERE YOU
OBTAIN SERVICE
THE CHINA MAIL OFFERS YOU SERVICE AND FULL ADVERTISING VALUE
We offer to you our full advertising, mat service free We will give you free of charge, expert advice on advertising; changing, writing and making up of
advertisements,
OUR MOTTO IS SERVICE AND SO GIVE YOU THE BEST RETURN FOR YOUR MONEY.
Phone up our Representative ut any time:
TEETHING TROUBLES -Ended In Singapore By BABY'S OWN TABLETS of the Ledbury bench of magis-
Whether they live in the cold trates, is an impossible one to con-
bleak North or under the blazing tinue with any semblance of authority. It is an insult to the Riley, that he should publicly sun of the Tropics infants and acknowledge the defamation and little children, when ailing, find public and a blot upon the name of give a donation of £100 to the ever-ready help in Raby's Own the county.
Tablets. Here is what a father in Cottage Hospital," " In a subsequent letter to Alder-In summing-up, Mr. Justice Singapore gratefully says about "At the age of seven months my man Riley himself Lord Garioch Roche, commenting upon Lord
Garioch's absence, said: We baby daughter began to suffer with said:
The Lord Garloch writes to in- have not seen him, but no doubt teething, troubles. She was badly form Mr. J. Riley that in anything he does not look as foolish as he constipated, feverish, and subject really is. He has not come here to attacks of convulsions: Nothing he has said or done he is not to apologise, but has apologised did the child much good until 1 actuated by personal feeling against Mr. Riley, for whom he is through his counsel, and it is in tried Baby's Own Tablets. Then sorry that he should have brought the power of the jury to make him the results were wonderful. My this trouble upon himself, with pay for the privilege of not being baby at once became brighter, her feverishness and constipation dis- all his other troubles, at an ad- man enough to say it himself. appeared, she is now well and Tel. C. 22. vanced age. Lord Garioch is. Heir of Premier Earl. happy however, beyond all else a lover of John Francis Hamilton Sinclair The writer of the above is Mr. truth and honesty, and is trying Cunliffe Brooks Forbes, Lord Osman bin All, clerk to Messra. to raise the tone of this part of Garioch, is the only son and heir Rodyk & Davidson, solicitors. the country of the Earl of Mar, the Premier Singapore. Parents all over the In defence Mr. Bosanquet, K.C. Earl of Scotland and a Represen-world who have tried Baby's Own said that Lord Garioch admitted tative Peer for Scotland, now in Tablets for their little ones praise always keep them handy in the that the extravagant and ridicul his 92nd year
them. In equally high terms and ous letters ought not to have been Lord Garloch, who was born in home. Of chemists3verywhere, written. He had been perfectly 1862, married, in 1903, Siby! also post free, 60 cents the vial, willing to apologise, but not on Mary Dominica, only daughter of from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60 the terms put forward by Mr, the late Robert Heathcote. Kings Road, Bhanghai,
your
THE CHINA MAIL
3a. Wyndham Street.
CHI WAH.
>TAILORING.
Once known as Chison. "Parfect fit guarante
9 Wy
TelfC 4641:
TANG YUK, DENTIST
My Buccessor to
the late SIEN TING. 14, D'Aguilar Street.
THRMS-VERY HODEB