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Public Interest and the Water. Problem.
means an
News in Brief,
The next meeting of the Legisla- tive Council is fixed for Thursday, June 30, at 2.30 p.m.
O.B.E.,
Major C. M. Mariners, manager of the Kowloon Godowns,
FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1932.
Anglo-French Accord At
Lausanne?
(Continued from Page 1)
Meanwhile, to agree to a mutual reduction of has notified the Police that yester-mediate consideration.
stole he had nothing to add to the state-a third, but it is feared that Japan day afternoon, some person
of his col-
110 packets of zazor blades, valued ment he had made at Geneva. Delegates' Visit Home. at $220, from a case in the godowns.
Sir John Simon was in com- Mr. E. V. Searle, of the Jardine munication with some Engineering Company Ltd., has re-leagues this afternoon, and to ported to the Police the loss of a morrow will attend the Cabinet It is expected that he gold ring set with diamonds, which meeting. he alleges was taken from his jacket will return to Geneva later in the pocket while on a visit to the Dairy week. Farm Co.
would be unduly weakened if the present inferior strength were re duced to a third.
..
So far as capital ships are com cerned, it is hinted that Japan might agree to the total abolition, thus making all equal, although she would be unable to agree to the reduction of, a third, leaving The French Premier M. Herriot, Japan still inferior in that respect. will also meet his Cabinet colleagues'-Router,
arrangements having Favourable View In England. An aged Chinese woman, Ho to-morrow,
for him to feave
London, Yesterday. Tim-tai (73) living at Woosung been made
A bold stimulating plan with ¡Street, was bitten by a dog yester- Lausanne to-night.
She was The German Chancellor will also great merits, providing a basis for day, but not seriously. treated at the hospital and allowed leave to-morrow on a short visit to action. This is the general tener The dog has not Berlin-British Wireless Service. of the reception accorded to the to proceed home.
Japan Unaffected By War Debts, Hoover proposal by the British been captured.
Tokyo, Yesterday. newspapers, Commenting on press reports on
The Times describes the plan as Lee Lal, (12) a girl living at 30 Chak Yuen Village, dled in the Mr. Hoover's proposals, the naval trenchant and far-reaching and Kwong Wah Hospital last night, as authorities intimate Japan's pro- says it includes features which sustained bable readiness to support the have hitherto found most favour at the result of injuries when she fell from a tree which she abolition of chemical warfare and Geneva. The British Empire, It.
5 aerial bombardment of cities, and goes on, can face the implication was climbing at the village, at
the reduction of aircraft carriers, of the scheme as far as it effects p.m. She died two hours later.
although the advisability of land armaments without misgiving, Yeung Tim (27) a plumber of abolishing bombers is doubted, but an official examination of the Tal Wong Street was sent to the while drastic cuts in capital ships, naval proposals are a matter of in- Government Civil Hospital yester-land cruisers is absolutely opposed.terest to Great Britain.
The military authorities appear The strongest argument in its
of
that Japan views armament reduc the tion primarily from the angle of and safety of Interests in Manchuria,
Other Conservative comment. finds nothing but support for the proposals, though the ultra-Con- Bervatives cavil somewhat at the prospects of further reductions and suggest that is would be false economy to reduce to far the only insurance yet devised sort of against the risks of war.
The Liberals hail the Hoover proposal as a magnificent lead and urge France to play her part.
Labour journals are generally glad that something practical is offering, bat are resentful at Sir John Simon's lukewarmness in re- ception.
The only doleful comment comes from City circles which tend to regard America's Insistence upon disarmament as an interference in and a factor hazarding the success
in whereas the aspect of war debts of the Lausante Conference owing in and reparations, which are bound to the unlikelihood of France's ac
to influence Europe, hardly concern, ceptance.
is re- Japan.
Sir John Simon's return Thirdly, if the naval armaments garded as indicative of the Import- of Britala, America and Japan are ance which the Cabinet attaches to squal, Japan will be more, ready, the proposal-Rauter..
day auferty from scalp wounds, sustained as a result of falling a sceptical as to the workability of favour is its effective implementa height of 12 feet from a scaffolding the proposals, which they consider, tion to render the violation of the erected at a building under con-almost as impracticable as the Kellogg Pact a material' impossibl 'struction in Gloucester Road, Soviet's proposal for the total lity. -
abolition of armaments. They are Wanchal
inclined to doubt Mr. Hoover's Four cases of cholera are shown' sincerity, as they consider that they in the return of notifiable diseases are primarily intended to court for the Colony, for the 24 hours favour in the elections. "Too Drastic." ending June 23. Two cases of
"Too drastic to be acceptable enteric fever and one case The China Mail. yield a supply of over 9 million paratyphoid fever, are also shown. in toto, but highly laudable and
gallons, which
ad-With the exception of one case of meriting the fullest consideration," of over 6-million enteric fever all the cases shown are appears to sum up the initial Hong Kong. Friday, June 24, 1932. dition
The dam is estimat-reported from the Victoria regia- reaction in official circles, although gallons a day.
It is emphasised that there has not tration district.
yet been time to study the plan in led to take five years to construct atj an inclusive cost of $9,300,000. Mesars. Manch Wong. Young detall. Indications are that Japan, Thus the Colony will be exposed to Tal-yaung, Yaung Chau-yen, Ling will await the reaction of other the danger of a recurrence of the Kin-fung, and Teang Kac-fong will powers before declaring her own, give an exhibition of their paintings although it is intimated firstly that $1929 shortage for the next five at Athena, Gloucester Building, Japan's attitude is largely depen- The danger of a water shortage past, and the restrictions abolish-years, although the danger will be West Arcade, Tel. 28877, from June dent on the Soviet's, and secondly
as while the 24 to 30.
These artists belong to ed; public interest in the Colony's lessened each year,
a correspondingly modern School of Painting. most pressing and urgent problem work progresses has dwindled. This is not surpris- greater supply of water will be their work is known to be rich The site chosen for the creative imagination, and deep ing but is disturbing to note re- available. turn of the old apathy towards dam is that originally selected by the meaning of life. any matter of local importance. the P.W.D. the centre line being The imposition of restrictions pushed some fifty feet upstream to
Mr. Russell Owen, the correspon- brings home the matter forcibly to allow for the extra width at the
The actual second section of dent of the New York Times, re- residents but once personal incon- base. venience is ended most people the Shing Mun Scheme as now pro- turned here from Manila on the 5.8. It jected is the construction of a President Taft, and will proceed treat the problem as settled. is all the more gratifying, there mastary dam giving an approximate with the ship to Shanghai.
of the depth of water of 200 feet on a site: fore, to note the action Kowloon Residents" Association, immediately upstream of the Shing which has forwarded a comprehen-Mun Gorge, giving a storage capa- THE LATE MRS. USUF sive letter on the question to the city of approximately 3,000,000,000 | Colonial Secretary. Any manifes- gallons, and also of a subsidiary cut tation of active public interest is off masonry Dam at Pineapple Pass a healthy sign and the activities approximately 60 feet high. of the K.R.A. give an encouraging direct catchment area of, this Re- Indication that an improvement servoir is 2,900 acres which includes may be effected in this respect. the 2,400 acres now partially tapped Conditions in the Colony are vast,by the existing Shing Mun intake. It is indeed statisfactory that the ly different to conditions in Eng- land but a complete neglect of Colony is now assured that the Rumjaha, wife of Mr. Uauf Rum attached no blame to the driver be- local matters is not justified. On solution of its major problem will be jahn, and mother of the well-known fore the accident but in view of local sportsmen, Messrs. A. H. and charges pending against a driver, vital problems the opinions of res- settled within five years, but it
A. A. Runijahn, took place at the Chan Tak-sun, arrested in connec- Cemetery, Happy tion with the accident, they indicat ponsible bodies is not only wel-must be remembered that the usual Mohamedan come but is also of value, and the precautions will have to be observed Valley, last evening, according to cd their desire to make no further
Moslem rites... until the scheme is completed, with K.R.A.'s action is commendable,
Personal Pars.
RUMJAHN.
The Funeral a Happy Valley
Yesterday.
MOSLEM RITES.
The funeral of Mrs. Fatoma
Many floral tributes were sent to
HENESSY ROAD FATALITY.
Verdict of Accidental Death.
www.
A verdict of Accidental Death was returned in the Central Magis. tracy yesterday, with Mr. Schofield sitting as Coroner, at the inquest Into the death of a 7-year-old. Chinese girl who was killed by a car on June 5 in Henessy
motor Road.
In the evidence, it was alleged that the driver, failed to stop after the accident.
In returning the verdict, the Jury
comment...
The driver in question is appear- In the letter itself considerable the danger always existing of hard- the house in Arbuthnot Road, but ing before Mr. Wynne-Jones in the By according to Moslem, custom, they Central Police Court this morning, eriticism fa expressed of the ship through a drought.
when a date for the hearing of the methods of the authorities dur-exercising wise management the au- were not placed on the grave.
thorities can minimise the inconcluded Messrs. A. A. and A, H.
Those present at the Cemetery case is to be fixed. It ling the recent drought.
veniences to the public, and advice Rumjahn (sons), D. Rumjahn, S. A. such as that offered by the K.R.A. Rumjahn, M. D. Rumjshn, E. will help to accomplish that end. Sadick, A. G. Suffiad, A. H. Madar,
M. P. Madar, A. M. Rumjahn, S. R. (Continued from Page 1.) Curreem, G. S. A Curreem, A; Rgreater production with fewer 'Abbas, O. el Arculli, E. el Arculli, men at work, and dogs A. H. Fattydad, A, Rabmin, A. K.
is
all
not possible to deal with
these contentions at
the moment and the Government's reply will probably explain many of the alleged discrepancies. On the face
BALDWIN ON BRITAIN ECONOMIC POSITION.
of It, the figures quoted by the PORTUGUESEN LADY ́S A. Areuili, Ahmed Noor, Bishen Facing the Blizzard.
DEATH.
Miss
nez Maria Vieira.
her
Britain was, however, facing Singh, Badan Singh, M. P. Talati, the blizzard better than any other! Ho Kwong, Ho Wing. P. Madar, country. In regard to unemploy C. G. Anderson, M. R. Deb, A. Ament, while not wishing to mini, Samy, A. H. Hamid, H. M. Hmise their hardships, relatively Esmail, 3 A. Ismail, U. M. Omar, speaking, the British people were F. Roberts, J. J. Bush, A. T. Barms, better off than the people in any Yue Hang-kin, E. Moosdean, Ho other country, exp
K.R.A. support the assertion that!. the harbour pipe line was kept in operation fir too long, although an ulterior motive may supply the rea- The letter is made more valu- BOX. able by reason of the constructive criticism and recommendations
The death occurred contained, particularly in regard to
parents residence, St Joseph the suggestion that, the full use of Terrace, yesterday afternoon,, the maximum depth of storage at Miss Iguez Maria Vieira, daughter penstocks to the Kowloon spillway of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Vieira
She was about 80 years of " should be insisted upon, may prove and well known among the local
community, Death oc
long illness.As Jaar
place at HAD ssing the
The report made yesterday
D.PW. on the Shing
its of inter
to note that the new res
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
Markets opened very quiet this morning, and there was also some recession in rates, partly due, no doubt, to the approaching settle- ment.
Sales.
Hong Kong Banks, $1,440. Hotels (Cum. Rights), $114/ $11.80.
Hotels (Rights), .70/80 cents.. Hong Kong Realties, $11.95. Ewo Cottons, Tis. 13.80. Hong Kong Electrics, $722 Cements (Combined), $182. Hong Kong Ropes, $13.10. Dairy Farms, $284.
Buyers.
Canton Insurances, $1,200. China Fire Insurances, $600.. Douglases, $26.
H.K. & W. Docks, $18. Providents (Old), $4.90. Ewo Cottons, Tis. 13.20. Yaumati Ferries (Old), $8374- Yaumati, Ferries (New); $82. Hong Kong Electrica, $72. Cements (Combined), $18.20. Lane, Crawfords, $54. Constructions (Old); $5.10.- Constructions (New), $155. H.K. Government Loans, 2 par
tent. Premium. By"
Bellers.
Union Insurances, $440. Underwriters, $3.30, South China Motors "B", $11. Kumphreys, $164.
Ewo Cottons, Tla, 182. Hong Kong Electrics, $18,0 Cements (Combined), $18.80. Watsons (Old); $15.
On charges of failing to stop Kal-aft, E. Abraham, Chan Tin-son, The Government would do what after a fatal motor accident la MP. Lo, V. Rupchard, Sirdar they could and enter into confer 1 Hennessy Road on June 5, and fail- Khan, R. Nazarin, S. D. Mehal ences and consider anything that ing to report the accident to the A.K. Minu A E. Minu, might be arranged between coun- Police, a chauffeur, Chan Tak-san, lazial, S. Haroon, A. 3. Sumad, tries, but in the meantime, the appeared again before Mr. Wynne-- M. O. Hoosen, R. M. Omar, K. M. world had to carry only Vojis Jones in the Central Police Court
and Yel Arenili sme v One of the great objects of the this morning.
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