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Mrs. J. Gibson, who was injured on Saturday night as the result of a bus hitting her richsa, in Nathan Road, is progressing favourably, i although it may be a week or more before she can leave her house.
S. Sai, a hawker, stated to be from Japan, was arrested yesterday afternoon, charged with assaulting an Indian Police Constable in the execution of his duty in Shanghai Street. Accused will appear before the Kowloon Magistrate to-morrow.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1929.
CROWDED
) GRAVES
Proposed Exhumations At Happy Valley
1 MISGIVINGS ALLAYED
Catholic Priest In Charge Interviewed
Above the signature of the Rev. and Zoroastrian-a "China Mail" re- Fr. L. M. Rossi, the priest in charge presentative decided to investigate of the Catholic Cemeteries, the fol- the proposed exhumation at the Catholic Cemetery, with the view of lowing notice is posted at the en- The weekly return of notifiable trance of the various Roman Catho-allaying the misgivings of the Ca- diseases shows two cases of small-fe Churches and also at the Ceme- tholics concerned. pox and 10 cases of enteric fever tery in Happy Valley:- with four fatalities. The enteric fever cases were one British, one Annamite (imported), and eight Chinese (two imported). On Monday one case of smallpox was notified.
A District Court Martial was held at Gun Club Hill Barracks when Gunner Kartar Singh, and Gunner Daswanda Singh, both of the H.K.S. Brigade R.A., were charged with striking 3 superior officer. The Court found the accused guilty and ordered them to undergo detention for 56 days.
Order for Exhumations The Rev. Fr. Rossi was accord-
The Catholic Community are hereby informed that it has been ingly interviewed yesterday after- decided to carry out systematicnoon, and he explained that the ex- exhumations in the Catholic. humations, are being undertaken as the result of communications re- Cemetery at Happy Valley, on Section Nos. 1, 3 and 6.
eeived from the Sanitary Depart-
The remains will be re-interred ment and the Colonial Secretariat in a suitable place.
that the graves in Sections Nos. 1, The undersigned will be pleas-3 and 6 are too crowded together needed be ed to receive any suggestion and more space was which the relatives of the deccas. tween each grave, ed persons whose remains are to be exhumed may wish to make.
Names and numbers of graves will be posted six months before the exhumation at the entrance of the Cemetery and at the door of the Churches.
Rumours and the Walls This notice has given rise to
Elsewhere in this issue will be found a reference at the Sanitary Board meeting yesterday to a case of, plague. On Monday afternoon a rumours that the walls of the Come- representative interviewed Dr.tery, against which is Section No. 1, is to be taken a few feet inside the Fawcett, M.0.H., on the subject but then nothing was available for pub-bounds of the Cemetery in order to lication. Indeed, it was hardly to make room for the widening of the be expected that, busy as he is, the road which runs between the Hong Kong Jockey Club's premises and M.O.H. could have had fixe to com- the various. Happy Valley Came plete his records of the case.
teries.
, and
If such a plan is true, it is obvious that all the other Cemeteries will
HAWKER'S DILEMMA be affected equally. with the
SAYS THE CONSTABLE IS “TELLING LIES”
FOREIGNERS DISTURBED?
A Chinese licensed female hawker. Kowloon morning at the was this Magistrate before Mr. T. S. Whyte- Smith charged with crying her wares
Defendant pleaded, most indignant-
to say.
Catholic, and as on miquiry it was ascertained that no exhumations ure being undertaken by the author- fties of any of the other Cemeteries Mohammedan, Protestant, Jewish
BOLD ROBBERS
ENTER CHINESE FLAT AT DAWN
GOLD BANGLES STOLEN
A robbery occurred in the Chinese section of the City early this morning.
but they were not armed.
It is in compliance with this Gov- ernment edict that the Catholic are under- Cemetery authorities taking the exhumations in the three sections which have been singled out as crowded. As section No. 6 is some distance from the front walls of the Catholic Cemetery and should not have been affected if the reason for the exhumations is the
moving in of those walls, it will readily be seen from this, and from
Bot the fact that the other Happy Valley being dis- Cemeteries are
rumours which turbed, that the have been current with regard to the widening of the road is ground- #7
less.
No Government Communication
When spoken to about these rumours, the Rev. Fr. Rossi said that
he had heard them, too, and assured our representative that no communication had been receiv ad from the Government with re- gard to the moving in of the Catho lie Cemetery.. walls. He added that if this had been the intention. of the Government, notice would have been given to the Cemetery authority long before now not to buy any more persons in the sec- tion abutting the front walls of the Cemetery,
The fact that only recently a per- son was buried in the section abut- ting the front walls should serve to allay all mie- givings to which these current rumours have given rise. As the Rev. Fr. Rossi remarked, it would' be highly improbable to bury a per- son in a grave and then receive an official order to remove the body to another part of the Cemetery a
in a prohibited area, to wit, Homuntin. crew-that would be, in every ly, "not guilty." respect, an air liner. The "Graf In his evidence P.C. D292 said: I Zeppelin" evidently comes within was on duty in Homuntin yesterday afternoon, when at 2.30 pm., I heard that category, but it may safely the woman shout "Fruits for sale," be predicted that the poten-frait for sale," at Liberty Avenue. Two men were concerted in the raid, went up to her and warned her...." tialities in this direction are much Defendant: It was 3.30, not 2:30, The premises visited were the second greater than has yet been see!
floor of No. 45,. Eastern-street, and achieved. Both the British and His Worship: With you keep quiet? the report of the affair was made at. The P.C continued: At a p.m. Police Headquarters by a Chinese the Americans have the problem returned and she was still there, so I woman named Li Ho (57). well in hand and any day now will asked her for her licence, but she re- She said that she, together with her probably spring a big surprise fused to produce it. I then arrested husband and daughter, lived on the couple of months after burial.
her and took her to the Station,
premises with three other families. with regard to an up-to-date air His Worship: Any questions to ask When she went to the kitchen. 'at' witness, or anything more you want about 5.45 am, the staircase door had liner.
already been opened by another inmate Defendant: (to the P.C. You saw who had gone out to work. of British aviators have been con- me at & and not any earlier. I was About three minutes after Li Ho had centrated on linking up long dis-only walking with the fruit in the entered the kitchen, the saw a man baskets. I was hot shouting. You are come upstairs and go past, as if ke tances within the British Empire, lying.
was proceeding to the upper floor. and what has been done His Worship: I will have to fine Then he doubled back and entered her
vou. You see that they are European flat. the flights from Lon-
quarters, and it is not nice to go He went straight to the kitchen don to India, South Africa shouting out in the afternoon when where he seized hold of her and gagged and Australia' has been ex. people want to sleep.
her with a piece of white cloth which Defendant: know the regulations, he took from his pocket. ceedingly satisfactory. Further
I know the prohibited areas.
An Accomplice important developments are mere
Then entered another man who re ly a matter of time. "Slow but His Worship: British people cannot lieved her of a pair of gold bangles of cow's nose link pattern,' worth $65. The notable performance of the sure" is the motto of the British sleep with a noise going on, but you The robbery was completed in less than
in aviation as in other things,
Chinese can sleep with thunder over "Graf Zeppelin" in reaching
your heads. and it is an especially sound motto Defendant: "No, no, Mr. Interpre Japan, non-stop from Germany in
for pioneers of aviation to adopt. ter. I did not shout. a little over four days, must not
The British hold. the motor car, stable arrest you?
His Worship: Then why did the con-
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five minutes, and then the men ren downstairs and disappeared.
If it is the intention of Govern- ment to move back the front walls of the Cemetery, one may expect at least two years' notice, during which time no more burials would take place in the section affected.. The Remains Affected In conclusion, the Rev. Fr. Rossi said that the only remains which will be exhumed in Sections Nos. 1, 3 and 6 are those of persons who had been buried many years ago, and those in graves which have been purchased wall not be touched and w remain where they were originally buried in the three sections.
be allowed to pass without com-motor launch and seaplane speed His Worship: Did you ask her for that whilst she was on the verandah, Cemetery authorities to suggest a
ment and congratulations.
The
P.C.: Yes, your Worship. His Worhip: When? His Worship: You then thought of arresting her!
chief characteristic of the flight excellence of the material they
records a tribute not only to the ker licence?. seems to us to have been the ex- use but also to the wonderful treme ease with which it was ac- skill of those who effected complished. No attempt, we the records. Shortly, British understand, was made to rush to supremacy in seaplanes will be her?
P.C. Well, I warned her first. His Worship Anything known of Sergt. Barnide: No, your Worship.
Tokyo from Friederickshaven, challenged by the United States His Worship: Convicted and fined perhaps because there was no re-and Italy with the result that the two dollars. cord to break, the "Graf race for the Schneider Cup-the Zeppelin" being the first airship most wonderful race in the world The British
to fly from Europe to the Farwill take place
PINE TREES
SAYS MAGISTRATE
TRESPASSERS FINED
East. The flight has, of course, gladly accept the challenge, and "DO NOT GROW LIKE WEED” been accomplished (in stages) by it is certain that almost incredible the representatives of several speeds will be accomplished on nations in aeroplanes, but until this occasion. Truly, we live in now it was regarded as a very an age of aviation and speed, and
Two Chinese were at the Kowloon❘ hazardous undertaking. The the wonders that are now being Smith this morning charged with Magistracy before Mr. T. S. Whyte- "Graf Zeppelin appears to have effected in both are probably but trespassing on Government Planta- kept up her usual speed and to the mere pioneer efforts of what tion No. 9 at Custom Pass. have encountered tho serious will yet be seen.":
difficulties en route Her itiner
ary had, however, to be diverted
Li Ho said that when she discussed the robbery with a woman living op- posite her house, the latter told her
she saw two men come out of the staire of Li-Hola house and run away in the direction of Tai-ping-shan.
Respectably Attired
The Police, have secured descriptions of the two robbers who, according t Li Ho, were between 20 and 30 years. of age, were neatly dressed in white with shoes and socks, and generally presented a respectable appearance, which did not lead her to suspect that they were robbers when she first saw them. Neither men spoke 8 word whilst they were in her house, so Li Ho was unable to say what their dia- ject was.
Criminal Investigation Department men are. investigating the affair.
BACK TOO SOON
BANISHEE SENT TO JAIL FOR
ONE MONTH
The remand case in which Char. Fuk, who was charged with returning from Inspector Phillips stated that at banishment in August, 1919, for 10 the time of the arrest, the two de- years two days too early, was con
at the Kowloon Magistracy fendants had with them a bamboo-cluded
owing to the probability of en-harbour to-day.
Five Blue Funnel steamers are in pole with a catch on top; with which this morning before Mr. T. S. Whyte-
Smith. they ripped branches off large pine Sergt. Fowlie: My instructions are countering unsuitable weather,
trees. They also had with them to press the case, and thus the intention to fly over One case of enteric fever was not. two bundles of wood which they had His Worship Accused get twelve Moscow was abandoned. But this fied yesterday (Chinese).
collected
months in 1918, for stealing. It must minor modification seems to have
His Worship trade it clear to the have been a pretty bad theft The Messrs. Shewan, Tomes (agents defendants that the Government reason why the Police arrested him been the only diversion from the for Scott's Emulsion) have sent the spent any amount of money yo
on the was for suspicion I suppose you as- original plans, and Tokyo appears "China Mail a few fans, artistically planting of those trees, and that sure that he has been in the Colon
for some time, Sergeant Fowliet I to have been reached without decorated.
they did not grow like weed. assume that he was not caught for The Inspector asked his Worship anything with which he could be charg- any difficulty. The feat is
one
Any claims against the late Mr. to press the case as there was con- el. His sentence will be one month's that says much for the suit JE Hancock should be forwarded siderable damage done to the young jail with hard labour. ability of airships over aero to Mr. J. N. Owed, care of Dodwell trees when trespassers raided the planes for vast distances, especial. & Co, Limited
ly for non-stop flights.
Ten years ago British aviators were convinced that such was the case, as in 1910 they were the first
Chin
plantations.
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
Both men were fined $5 or, in For the larceny of ten wooden, default, seven days' jail each.
A Chinese named Lo Chot (18), em- boards from the Kwang Hop
ployed at Stali: 62 in the Mongkok scaffolding shop at 120 Shanghal Several passengers complained of Market, was this morning at the Row was at the Kow shock and four of them were treat-loof Magistracy before Mr. S tenced to three ed for injuries at. Lewisham Hos- another employee during a quarrel.
Whyte-Smith, charged with killins ET. Spital when two tramway cars collid-
Detective Inspector C. P. Fallon Ask morning. The ed at the trioway terminus at ed for one week's formal rewind. The
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rship, as they were the first to Whyte-Smith, this
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application was, granted.
As the exhumations will not take place until at least six months from now, the Rev. Fr. Rossi was unablo to discuss the ultimate resting place Gov- of the remains so exhumed. ernment have asked the Catholic
suitable site to which to remove the exhamed remains, and the notice quoted above is now posted with the view of securing sugges- tions from relatives of those con- cerned on this point.
Six Months' Notices As stated in the notice, the names. and number of the graves to be ex- humed will be pasted for general in- formation six months before the actual ¿pening of the grave, by which time the site for re-interment of the remains will have been de has been given to the suggestions cided upon after due consideration
which the relatives concerned will put forward, and consultation with' the Government for the latter's ap- proval
From time to time, before the final decision is made, notices concern- ing the contemplated exhumations. will be posted at the doors of Churches and also at the Cemetery.
METEOROLOGISTS
HOLDING WEATHER FORE CASTING CONFERENCE
LORD THOMSON'S PROPHECY
London, Yesterday. Leading meteorologists of the
British Empire to-day met at the Air Ministry to discuss weather forecasting in its bearing on the Empire generally, and aviation and also agriculture.
The Minister for Air, Lord Thomsun, presided, and hoped the conference would arrive at soins common methods of communicating with ablos. Ne visualised the time when airships and heroplanes would be guided, like shing by meteorolo gical stations.
The conference will sit in pri vate till September 2, and lasue daily communique. Reater,