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NEW 1929
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No. 27,207
ASSISTANCE TO CAR WHICH TURNED OVER
HONG KONG
GENERAL BOOTH DEAD
SILK STOCKINGS FOR GOOD SAMARITANS
K.O.S.B.
A LOCAL VOGUE
EVIDENCE ON THE STORE
KEEPING SYSTEM QUARTERMASTER EXAMINED
to investigate the charges prefer-
ISLAND-ROAD MISHAP
3ST.
BLISHÐD
1846
MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1929.
EX-HEAD OF S. ARMY
RELAPSE
SON OF ARMY'S 'FOUNDER
..London, Yesterday,
PRICE $3.00
Per Month.
SOCCERITE TO WED FENG DEADLOCK NOT
SUEN KAM-SHUN, INTERRØRT FORWARD
“IRON THIGH" WARRIOR”.
Footballers in Hong Kong will¦ congratulate Mr. Suen Kam-shun. the Interport player, on his ap- proaching marriage to Miss Rosie Santos of No. 12. Prince'a Ter-
race,
SOLVED?
"Your Eyes Are Safe With `Ug”
N. LAZARUS Hong Kong's Only European Optician
Established Over Forty Years). Manager:-RALPH A. COOPER,
Registered Optometrist by Canadian Govt. Exam. F.LO. (London) (Personal Attention).
OTHERS' MONEY
ESTATES IN THE PROBATE DIVISION
FORMER LOCAL RESIDENTS
LIGHTERS
BRINGING
WATER
TO FILL TANKS
Particulars of the estates of THREE MILLION GALLONS A DAY
-former local residents have been gleaned from the probate division of the Court as follow:--
siderable ray of hope for the com-
STATES HIS TERMS
Good Samaritans in Revenue DIES AFTER AN UNEXPECTED
WANTS. WITHDRAWAL OF Officer W. Ward, Mr. John Arnold
ORDER FOR ARREST
IF SCHEME SUCCESSFUL (Secretary, Hong Kong, Canton & and
DENIES THAT HE IS A RED
FIRM'S SPLENDID ACTION Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.) the latter's son, Mr. T. Arnold,
Shanghai, Saturday. Mr. Reginald Joseph Birbeck, It is learned offcially that the A peculiar system af store helped to rescue a party of Chia-
The death is announced of Gen- Because of his sturdy build, Mr. General Fong Yu-hsiang'a delega Government schoolmaster, left scheme for bringing water in from keeping was revealed at the Genese who were in great danger in eral Court Martial sitting in the motoring accident on the round-eral Booth, ex-leader of the Bal-Suen was dubbel the "ro thigh' tion, including Ting Chun-ko and $2,900 in Hong Kong and £100-7-9 Wangmoon in lighters affords a con-
vation Army.
warrior" by the Shanghai verna- Tang. Taeth, again proceeded to In Britain. Officers' Mess at Murray Barracks the island road yesterday.
Towards 6p.m, public motor-
Liter. cular papers. He has represent Taiyuan on June 14 to negotiate Mr. Edward Clark Rock, manager, munity of the Colony, as, it is car No. 258 was between Aber- General Booth's death occurred ed Hong Kong in Interport with General Yen Hai-shan for Jockey Club atables, Causeway Bay, estimated, if it meets with success red against Major G. M. H. Ogilvy deen and Little Hong Kong when at his house near Barnet, Hert-matches and played successfully terms relating to the disposition of left $30,700 here, and £100 at Home, that is expected, it may be possible for alleged negligence during the time he was president of the Re-n swerving to avoid running over fordshire, following an unexpert here and on tour.
Mr. Alexander Cooper, foreman to supply the community with three a dog. it ran off the road and overed relapse which had set in earlier eft inside forward is his usual event of his leaving China. A of the Royal Naval Trockyard, left million gallons of water per day. gimental Institute.
the ambankment opposite be in the day-Reuter.
position with the 1st XI of Chin-satisfactory agreement is said to $400 here and £659-18-9 in Britain. The water so brought in will be dis- Paper Mills, to roll over and be
ese Athletic Association, with which he won a league champion- ship medal last season, but he has played in other positions with equal facility in the front line, and most of the honours of the gasse have come to him although he is only 22 years of age.
This morning was the twelfth hearing of the case. Lieut. Quar- termaster Pyper, of the King's cross- Own Scottish Borderers, examined by Major Miles, defend- in officer. said that his storeman
was responsible for the custody of the P.R.I. stock, because he kept the key.
Witness Admonished Questioned about the bale
of
vious day said that he had seen in the store-room in January, 1927, witness corrected himself by had not actually saying that he
He had only pre- seen the bale. sumed that there was a bale.
The Judge Advocate (Mr. Somerset Fitzroy) then told the witness to be very careful of what he said adding:-
caught by a tree. Had there bern. no tree the car might have gone much further.
Engine Still Going
Mr. Ward, who was following the public car in his small Morris, stopped and proceeded to extricate the party of five. Mr. Arnold and his son, who were ahead of the
hose tops which he had on a pre public car, turned round and im- mediately shut off the engine of the public car and also rendered assistance.
Beyond 2 bad shaking and bruises, none of the Chinese (a man, three women, and a child) suffered much injury, although it took considerable time to release some of them from under the car. All declined to go to hospital and were conveyed to their house, No. "I am not questioning your intention of telling the truth, 77. Wyndham-street, by Mr. Ward
but you
knew very
well that and a friend, who were thanked,
what you said about that bale profusely.
was not true. It was only what
you deduced.
your evidence
you
You must give of things that saw, and not what you
ANOTHER FALL
Inspector Hooper's Car Down Embankment
A moter accident which was luckily not attended by injury to road last evening. anyone occurred on the Castle Peak-
think. You have to be very careful and please don't let this happen again," thus ad- monished the Judge Advocate. Witness then said that he ac tually saw a large quantity of
Sanitary Inspector J. H. Hooper hose tops, some of which were on had been out in his car for a spin the shelves, some in opened boxes and, when dusk came at 7.30 p and some of which were lying loose. In his estimate there must he decided to turn and return home
to No. 1, Cox-road. have been about 600 pairs.
Major Miles: If I suggest that there were between 900 to 1,000 pairs, is there any reason why I should be wrong?
Quartermaster Pyper: I don't think it could be as many as that There might have been 700 pairs
but no more.
The turning of the car was at tempted at a fairly broad streich of the road about half way between the Nos. 10 and 11 milestones.
Mr. Hooper had to back the car in
order to turn it and, in the dusk, he misjudged the width of the road,
Mr. Suen's address is given as No. 303, Praya East. His father is & Government pensioner. being ex-Principal Chinese Detective Suen Tye, who was wounded in the Gresson-street siege of 1918.
Other Announcements Notice of the following forth. coming marriages has also been given to the Registrar:
..Captain Richard Henry Ruže, master mariner, No. 13, Cameron- road, Kowloon, to Mrs. Marion Mack of the same address.
Feng Yu-hsiang's forces, in the
"FAIR TO SHOWERY"
"S.E. winds, moderate; fair to showery" is the forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-morrow.
Rainfall during the 24 hours ended at 10 am, to-day (as re- corded at the Observatory was. only 0.04 inch. Other figures of interest are:
Temper ature.
89
2 p.m. yesterday 6 a.m. to-day -82
HumÏ- dity
65
25
At 10.40a.m. to-day the Ob- servatory reported:-"Pressure is highest in the Pacific to the east of Guam; depressions are situated over Hokkaido, the Yangtze Valley and Tong- king.**
Mr. E. C. Rock
Died in France
charged into the tanks along the Mr. Birbeck taught for many water front, of which thirty are now relieve the years in the Colony. His address, functioning. This will when he died at St. Raphael in storage in the reservoirs consider- France on June 19, 1928, was given ably even if the rainfall within as the Hong Kong Club. He be the next few months does not come queathed everything to Mrs. Mar. up to expectations-all depending. jorie Slade, a wicow, of Paris, to of course, on
the incidence of whose attorney, Mr. G. G. N. Tinson typhoons and their attendant rain It is estimated, that from (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & storms. Master) has been granted re-seating sixty, to seventy lighters will be of certified copy of probate of the required to bring the water from will..
Wangmoon. The cost of the scheme to the Colony will be some- where in the region of two lakhs of Mr. Rock only lived in Hong dollars ($200,000) per month. Offi- Kong a few years, coming here from cials of the Public Works Depart- Shanghai, but he made himself very ment visited Wangmoon yesterday popular in his caparities as manager in contection with the scheme. of the Jockey Club stables, official
Reserve for Kowloon measurer (of ponkes) and assistant
With the above scheme in full clerk of the course His only living operation and a further half mil- Mr. Luiz Maria Xavier, clerk in
relative is Mrs. Elizabeth Mustoe, lion gallons coming in from other the Netherlands-India Commercial
a grandmother, of No. 150, Bristol sources, it is intended to close down Bank, of No. 5, Minden-avenue,
road, Gloucester, she being "the operation on the Laichikok source, Kowloon, to Miss Aurelina
only person entitled to the estate of the object being to conserve this as Antonia Gomes of No. 10. Austin- have been reached. General Yen the said intestate." Re-sealing of much as possible for the future avenue, Kowloon.
Hsi-shan, Tang Seng-chi and Ho certified copy of letters of ad-needs of the Peninsula. Cheng-chun will cable jointly to ministration has been granted to
It may be also necessary to con- recom- the Hon. Dr. S. W. Tao, O.3.E., vert the Elliott filter beds into a Marshal Chiang Kai-shek mending the proper steps to be LL.D. (of Messrs. Teo & Hodgson), tank for
storage purposes, taken to ensure Feng Yu-hsing's who is Mrs. Mustoe's attorney. Mr. water to be chlorinated before be-- New York, Yesterday. The death is announced of the personal safety. They may recom- Rock, it will be recalled, died in ing released for consumption. well-known
scientist mend also the withdrawal of the hospital here on July 27, 1928. American electrician, Mr. Charles order for his arrest-Nan, Chung in 1882 Miss Florence Eleanor Soper. Francis Brush, Pioneer of electric Kuo News Service. public work in 1874. He had travel-vice. Be was educated vately and began lighting.-Reuter's American Ser- Hits Back at Nanking
Shanghai To-day. led extensively in
Europe, America:
General Feng Yu-hsiang's atti- Canada,
India, Australia, New Zealand; had been Chairman of the
tude is extremely doubtful. in spite of the reported good result of the SA. Assurance Soc., the SA. Fire Insurance Corporation, and the Reli-
Taiyuan conference. Yesterday he ance Beak: Joint President Temper-
sent a telegram to General Yen Hsi- ance Council of Christian Churches:
shan stressing his innocence of Chief of Staff, Salvation Army, 1880-
the charge laid against him of hav ing been in conspiracy with Russia.
He aiso alléged certain "faulty deeds" against the National Government. Nan Chung Kuc News &ervice.
General Booth
General Booth's Carett [General Wm. Bramwell Beeth was the eldest son of the Salvation Army's founder, the late General Win. Booth, sad on the latter's death in 1912, he succeeded him in the leadership of the Army. Booth was born in 1856 and married and
Branwell
New
1912; a Vice-President of British and Foreign Bible Society and we made Freeman of Halifax in 1926,
"Books 15 publicans included. "
"Servants Master
His
SCIENTIST DEAD
To-day's rainfall
(to 10 a.m.) 0.04 inch
1929 rainfall
Average ....
Deficit
..11.28 inches
with the result that the car fell
embankment that Bless!" Questioned further by Major backward down an Miles, witness said that he could The car overturned, but Mr. Hooper of All"; "Social Reparation"; "On of the River":"Bible not recollect whether there were was lucky to fall clear of it and, the Banks any hose tops left in the store beyond a shaking, was not injured. Battle-Axes"; "Life and Religion": "Memories and Echoes"; "General when the battalion moved from The car was partly damaged.
Booth's Journal" and many pamph- Egypt, and that he was not cer
lets or social and religious abjects. A few months ago, following serious illness, General Booth was de-counted.
tain whether he had seen the en- tire quantity of hose tops in January, 1927.
When in Egypt
Major Miles: Whilst you were quartermaster in Egypt were the
SOCIETY WEDDING
New York, Yesterday
Mr. Owen Young was present at the wedding in Cleveland, Ohio,
31.99 inches
20.71 inches
DON'T WASTE WATER!
William Booth at that
posed from the leadership by the ac time was 49-years of age. tion of the Salvationist's "Grand
Council," which met at Sudbury,
Again, it was Mr. Bramwell
England, for the purpose. The meet- Booth working behind the scenes of his son Charles to Miss Esthering and its object evoked wry con- and pulling all the strings, who
siderable public interest and much hose tops kept in the quartermas Christensen, the beautiful daugh- sympathy was felt for ter's store? To the best of my ter of the Danish Consul in that nate. General] knowledge they were.
city, Reuter'a American Service.
Defending officer then referred witness to an invoice for 500 paire
of hose tops from the Cawnpore
Woollen Mills, dated September was quite possible that the Com- 23, 1926. He asked witness if he manding Officer had suggested to had any knowledge that that con him to make the negotiation. He signment was pat on board the however, reported the result of his investigation to Major Ogilvy because he was under the impres sion that it was a matter for the Pl. He had kept no record of the quantity of silk stockings come ing into his store.
[Earlier cables on page 73
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ST. ANTHONY
FEAST CELEBRATED AT WEST POINT
the
Owing to the distance between the Mr. A. Cooper
pumping station and Tytam Tak Mr. Alexander Cooper died in the reservoir it is not deemed practical Royal Naval Hospital, Hong Kong, to pump water straight into the on October 30, 1927, while he was a reservoir, whilst it is generally foreman at the R.N. Dockyard. His found that the weather outside is address is given as No. 57, Albert-too heavy to permail of lighters com- road, Southsea, Portsmouth. Re- ing in and discharging water into sealing of probate of the will. has the reservoir by means of pumps. been granted to Mr. Henry Marlow, an assistant cashier.
21 YEARS' SERVICE
DEATH OF A CHINESE DETECTIVE
VICTIM OF FEVER
The Intermediate reservoir be- tween Tytam and Tyłam Tak is at present practically empty.
Fine Co-operation
It is learned that a most praise- worthy scheme has been inaugur- ated for the people of Yaumati by the Hong Kong Wharves and Godown Company, which will in- doubtedly evoke the warmest ap- The death occurred at the Kowloon prociation of all concerned. They Hospital, on Saturday night, of Chin-are utilising two lighters and have ese Police Sergeant No. C236, Lan Yat-erected two tanks into which water Death was due to ferar and he had is supplied from a well, specially been in hospital several days.
Lan Yat, who has had almost. 21 sunk. Furthermore, they supply years 'service with the Hong Kong special buckets to the women and CHURCH CROWDED
instead of Police, had a good recurd and was one children at Yaumati When Government took over the of the most valued of the Chinese leaving it to the Chinese to utilise the inferta-edged his father away from con-
any old receptacle of their own. In cluding sp alliance with the site on which once stood the Church officers.
He joined in 1908 and had been on addition, they are able to supply Church of England in the early of St. Anthony, and built on it the uniform duty until 1917 when he was their own launches, the Star Ferries, eighties. Archbishop Benson was magnificent building of King Col appointed a Sergeant and was attached and P. & 0. launches with water, anxious to conclude that alliance, lege, the congregation dispersed, to the then detective staff, now the They are thus able to supply 10,000 The terms did not and no more yearly celebrations, at Criminal Investigation Department of gallons per day, thus relieving the seem altogether onerous to the least on the usual grand scale, were Police Headquarters.
CHARACTER SKETCH
Delighted "In, Fighting The Devil"
on terms.
Police Station.
TEN ROBBERS
old General, who was rather fond held in honour of St. Anthony. Deceased remained almost continous-situation to a considerable extent.
No Canton Supplies Because General Booth wears a of meeting dignitaries But Mr. However, followers of the Saintly at headquarters until recently when
It is understood that it is not uniform he commands the public Bramwell Booth would hear of no have soon discovered that some he was transferred to the Shengshui curiosity, but because of that concession which weakened the where in Third Street, West Point, Tungkin and was 16 years of age. transport at Colombo.
He was a native of possible for the authorities in Can- ton, much as they would like to Witness said that he had had
curiosity the public, perhaps, Army's authority in the slums and adjoining St. Louis Industrial
oblige, to permit any supplies coming. no knowledge as to that.
misses his considerable abilities which would also eventually weak- School, is a little church dedicated Major Miles: Here is another
and his singular attraction. His on its authority in the world. to St. Anthony, and that residents
to Hong Kong owing to the supply there not being Bullicient. Neither invoice dated August 25, 1927,
worst enemy is his frogged coat. He refused to acknowledge any ser in the neighbourhood and Kennedy which refers to 500 khaki hose
Attention is diverted from his vice or rite of the church as essen- Town are in the habit of frequent-
can any water be supplied from Shareen. tops, and was addressed to the A Sort of Dumping Ground head to his epaulettes. He de-tial to the salvation of men. If ing this place of worship.
Rain Makers CO., K.0.8.B. at Hong Kong, Re-examined by Major Armitage, serves, I am convinced, a more in the Lord's Supper "wete essential The feast of St. Anthony was
Ten robbers' raided an unnumbered It is understood that the first Now would that consignment on witness said that he usually mide telligent Inquisitiveness, wrote the Army would have it, but the revived last year, and
very few arriving in Hong Kong come to five inspections a year of his stock "The Gentleman with a Duster," Army had proved that no other heard of, but, yesterday, many loon-chal at 1a.m. on Saturday, and this morning and made the first. hot occupied by a pig breeder in Kow-aeroplane from Kat Tak went up your knowledge?--I would have in order to check up with the (Mr. Harold Begbie) some time power was necessary to the working found their way to this little church, got away with $120 in money no knowledge unless it was plac- ledger.
experiment of discharging kaolin To do that he would ago in the New oYrk "Herald.” of miracles in the sculs of men and taxed it to the utmost capacity, According to a report made to the into the clouds. ed in my store and if my store- personally check up the value To begin with, he is to be re-beyond the direct mercy of God Even the compound adjoining it was Police by Ngau Sam, a married About 10,20 there man reported to me.
garded as the original founder of acting on the centre of true penit- full.......⠀
woman, she, her husband, and their
"Silk Stockings Conference" To another question, witness said that he could remember consignment of 500 pairs of hose tops coming into his store some time in January or February,
of his stock, by looking inside all
the boxes, excepting sealed ones
RAID ON HUT OF A PIG BREIDER
ed to search them
was a fairly
that remarkable and truly catho ence. He was the uncompromising The Kwanti band, composed of little son were asleep when the rob-heavy shower in the Colony, and it Questioned by the President, lie body of Christians known as protagonist of conversion, and his boys from the Industrial School, bers entered by forcing the side of remains to be seen whether this witness that there was no possi- the Salvation Army. He pie- father came to agree with him. under the shle guidance of its con- the hut. They rubbed pepper on the should be attributed to the aero- bility of his stock and that of the turesque father and his wonder Elders Were Too Human
ductor, rendered many selections faces of their victims and then proceed-plane's experiment, P.R.I. getting mixed, S
ful mother were the humanity of Neither the old General nor his and also functioned at the proces- The woman was relieved of a canvas Pressed again, witness was in that movement, but their son was inspired wife, admirable as reviva sion which took place afterward. belt in which she kept $120 which,
TANKS IN KOWLOON 1927. He was in camp at the derstood to say that these two its first impulse of spiritual fanalists, had the true fire of fanatic- After the Benediction of the she said, was the proceeds of the sale [To the Editor of the “China Mail.") time, and he also remember stocks might get mixed up through ticiam. The father was theism in their blood. They were too Blessed Sacrament, the majority of or some pigs on the previous day. ed that he did not tell accused an oversight of his storeman. It dramatic "showman" of this warm hearted. That strange un the worshippers left the Church, personally of the arrival of that was also possible for the Audit movement, the son Its fire. The earthy fire burns only to its whitest some, however, remaining for ten 'consignment,
Board to come to his storeriom mother endowed it with the heat, perhaps, in veins which are
cold and minds which are hard. It
does not easily make its home in
DRY LAW COST
benevolent and philanthropic ME.
Washington, Yesterday tures, certainly never in purely Official figures compiled by the Com sentimental natures. I think it missioner of Prohibition show that the
OPIUM TRAFFIC
PUMELOS AS A HIDING PLACE
VA Chinese was the morning charg
When he was quartermaster in and check the PRI. stock with energy of a deep and tender emo Sypt, the accused was not P.R.L out his Enowledge
tion, the son provided it with There were hose tops in store, and The Judge Advocate then asked machinery. they came and went. From this witness if the arrangement was
Influenced His Father fact, he would say that there was not such that goods from the 10 necessity to make any definito PLI might be dumped into bis It was Mr. Bramwell Booth, opening is made not by love but by Federal Government's expenditure in ed at the Central Nagistracy, with the mrangement with the accused store whether he was there or not, with bis young friend, Mr. hatred. A man may love God with he administration of the dry law during unlawful possession of a quantity of when taking hose tops into his and that he (the quartermaster) Railton, abetting him, who, dis all his heart all his mind and all the past nine years was £40,000,000
would give no receipt for the contended with the dullness and his soul without feeling the epur Renter's American Service. Lasked about the silk stockings, goods so damped into his store conservation of the Christian Mis of fanaticism in his blood. But witness said that that vogue came Witness would, however, insist onion, drove the Rev. William let him hate sin with only a part into en tence in Hong Kong, as getting a receipt when making an Booth, an ex-Methodist Minister of his heart, mind and soul and ho i result of conference held by labue Witness agreed that that proaching repentance in the becomes a fanatic. His hatred will alume, to ding? traint of every grow till it consumes his whole kind to the winds and to in beings
storeroom:
the company commanders. At was the exact position..
The conference he
gloned to make negotia for the purchase of silk stockings, t
Case proceeding,
for religion as if it were indeed
EA report of Sturday's proceedings
the only thing in the world that
(Continued on Fue 2).
Sir, I have to-day addressed the attached letter to the Water Emergency Committee. If you deem it of any interest to your readers, will you please find space for its publication and oblige
Yours, etc., A
......... J. P. BRAGA. Hong Kong, June 17..
[Copy
The Secretary,
Water Emergency Commitice. SirThe erection of the two
prepared non-Government opium,
Soon after the arrival of the Wochow boat syesterday, the accused was seen coming sahore with a pair of pumelos WAR DEBTS
In each hand. He had removed the Washington, Yesterday capa of the pumelss, scooped out the large tanks on Waterloo-road, Eleven foreign Governments, includ- contents and then led the skins with Kowkon, for storing the water ing Britain, Italy, and Belgium, have opin
s from the well in the Homuntin paid, war debt instalments to the Unit H Worship imposed a fine of $900 Cemetery is the subject of critic ed States stalling £16,000,000 —–Reu- or nine months' hard labour and order- ler's Amerian Service,
(Continued of Page 8.)
ed the confiscation of the opium,