WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1933.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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'UNCLE ARTHUR To-Day's Short Story.
Kowloon Coal Dump TO STAND AGAIN
Protest
Delegation To Interview Colonial Secretary
"A CONTINUOUS NUISANCE"
FOR PARLIAMENT |
Effect On Disarmament Work
"THE TIMES" COMMENTS:
THE TUNNEL
ZITH W
By John Metcalfe.
an unspoken curse his head, the thing dismayed and Pietro Succi gave his head baffled him. Hardly a board that London, To-day.
down-ward, peck-like jerk, stayed the tunnel's sides of which Commenting on the decision of twisted his shoulder round, and he should not know the form and Mr. Arthur Henderson to stand as bit his upper arm. The fit of feel by heart, hardly a acar upon the Labour candidate for the Clay coughing which he stified in his the stubborn soil to which he Cross Derbyshire constituency, sleeve convulsed his frame, pass-might not give a proper story and Over sixty property
ed, then returned more violently, a date, yet of the grave miscalcu owners hand experiences,
"The Times".states that what mat-And each time that he coughed lation which had brought him up and residents in the vicinity of
A "Nuisance."
ters is the extent to which his re-Pietro bit.
against the lower courses of the Blackhead Point. Kowloon, at- In view of what we have heard.turn to party' business will affect At last the paroxysm left him. wall instead of several feet tended a meeting at the Peninsu there can, I think, be no doubt his task as President of the Disar He raised his head and with abeneath it he could remember la Hotel last evening to protest that a nuisance exists which remament Conference.
cautious venom spat out the earth nothing. It must have added at in respect of the alleged nuisance/quires abatement; the Committee
Mr. Henderson has just returned;
which filled his mouth, gritted be-the least a fortnight to his tale of created by the presence of a coal to which I referred earlier have to London. from
His body was strenuous days, for it entailed an a tour to Paris, tween his teeth. dump on the railway lands near carefully considered the various Rome, Berlin and Prague, to discuss damp with sweat. He was weak awkward dip and, till he worked Chatham Road.
methods of securing our ends Disarmament and has gained the and panting from strenuous exer- beyond it, a painful cramping of The meeting unanimously open to us, and are unanimously conviction that every Government tion and from his smothered rage the limbs. Strange that he should adopted the following resolution: agreed that unless and until we desires a working arrangement by against the cough which nearly have so forgotten! For some mo "That this meeting of tenants are aware of Government's in- which nations will be spared a sense. had betrayed him.
ments be regarded it perplexedly,
and owners of household pro tentions and policy no useful pur-less competition in weapons of The narrow tunnel at one end of then with a sudden passionate in- perty in the vicinity of Chatham pose would be served by petition destruction which is as oppressive which he crouched was perhaps take of the breath he turned. Road, Kowloon, deprecates most ing His Excellency on the mat for national budgets as it is damag. twelve yards long, but Succi rer Enough that it was passed. An- strongly the use of ground on the ter Bearing in mind that suching to international confidence. koned it in years. Two yards other hour and he should be free. sea front in this locality for the petition always remains to us Europe is still distracted by the Year. that made six years. That Feverishly he recommenced his purpose of storage of coal; they as a final resort should it be rights of France and the wrongs was the time it took a man to bur-labouring. are unanimous that the exist-necessary, the Committee have of Germany, but all are agreed that TOW downwards through the ence of this dump constitutes drafted a resolution for adoption some limit of armament is better earthen flooring of his cell, to nuisance to the tenants of neigh-by this meeting, and propose than no limit, that control of private drive a level passage underneath bouring houses. renders the that, subsequent to the adoption manufacture of arms neighbourhood. undesirable as of that resolution, a deputation that a system of supervision must
is desirable, the prison wall, to start at last
with feverish hands and wildly; residential district and seriously of, say, four interested parties bete established and that a permanent beating heart upon the upward depreciates the value of adjacent appointed to interview the Disarmament Commission is neces trending slope that led towards property, and are of opinion that Colonial Secretary with a view to sary for this purpose and that air freedom and the light of day, it should be removed at the ear-ascertaining the actual policy of bombing should be barred as an in- Hest possible date," and appoint-Government with regard to the strument of warfare ed Messrs. J. A. Tarrant, E. A. dump. The resolution as drafted civilised nations. Sykes, R. J. Shrigley and C. E. reads as follows:
between
Meanwhile, one country after another has shown readiness to make concessions. These are objects, adds "The Times". for which the General Commis- aion can continue to work.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Blind Justice," by Ethelreda Lewis.
He
Humped half-asquat within the elbow of this gradual ascent, ¡Sueci could catch the glimmer, of
He was still panting from ex- the lamp that shone all night out-citement and from the violence. of Terry as delegates to interview "Resolved, that this meeting of
Iside his cell. The light had to his toil, The sweat which had the Colonial Secretary with a tenants and owners of household
pass through the grating over his chilled upon his body made him view to obtaining information as property in the vicinity of Chat-
door, to filter downwards through shiver till his renewed exertion to Government's intentions and ham Road, Kowloon, deprecates
the boards that screened the open-warmed him, once again, policy with regard to the dump. most strongly the use of ground)
ing of his burrow, to struggle worked with both hands clasp-| Mr. C. E. Terry, President of on the sea front in this locality Mr. Henderson has in mind a fur-finally along the horizontal pas ed about the handle of а the Kowloon Residents' Associa-for the purpose of storage of ther tour of European capitals in age. Yet by this niggard chisel, prising and clawing, using tion presided and stated that the coal; they are unanimously September as a
radiance Succi could see as plain-his fingers to tear out the loosened KR.A would undoubtedly make agreed that the existence of this liminary to the meeting of the Gen-ly as most men in the daylight, clods. The earth fell pattering. some form of representation to dump constitutes a continuous eral Commission in Geneva, an Octo-He could see the knots in the round him in a chilly, softly erum the authority entirely distinct nuisance to the tenants of neigh-her 16 the paper states.-British boards which he had used to revet bling shower, matting his hair, from that of the meeting.
bouring houses, renders the Wireless Service.
the sides of his tunnel, could even tickling inside his loosely Atting Mr. Terry said: Ladies and neighbourhood undesirable as a
see the blood that dulled the glit-shirt, filling his eyes and Gentlemen, "Before proceeding residential district and seriously
ter of the nail upon a lacerated making him choke. and grunt. with the business of the meet-depreciates the value of adjacent
finger. He had developed the eyes Once, in a frozen rage, he stopped ing, I feel some explanation is property, and are of opinion that COOLIE FINED FOR
of a bat or of a mole.
again to clap his mouth, against due to you of my presence in the it should be removed at the
With a curious illusion of re-his sleeve, fearing a fresh attack chair to-night. I do not own carliest possible dute."
moteness the shadowy vista of his of coughing, but presently the property on the Chatham Road
burrow stretched 'in a dwindling irritation passed and he continued.
Residents Speak.
frontage, neither do I live there;} Brigadier R. R. Cousens said
necessary pre-
RECEIVING
пове
Lady's Handbag Found ring toward the grudging trickle A cough now, he fancied, so short
In His Possession.
CHILD WELFARE.
Address To Local Rotary Club,'
than
which my Committee may take smoke from the engine was bad ful possession of the hand-bag to
was altered from one of unlaw- Gloucester Building.
As President of the Kowloon that he spoke as tenant of a flat în
of the light, but closer, at a little la distance from the surface, might. Residents' Association, however, Lyeemoon Buildings, which were
farther than his hand might reach, well be heard above. The sound I am naturally concerned with particularly affected by the pre-
the upper portion of its circle was might carry upwards... And any matter affecting the ameni-sence of the coal dump. Not DESCRIBED BY POLICE AS That was the bottom of the prison wrecking of the work of years, a occluded by a straight, black edge. then, perhaps, detection, and the ties of Kowloon and the comfort only was their view from the
A "SCALLYWAG" of the residents of any locality building badly interfered with,
wall, he thought. He looked at, it thing for him far worse in the Peninsula, and it is at the but, since the dump had been in
and frowned. invitation of the gentlemen res existence, dust and dirt had be- Shing Wo Street, appeared at air, a bare two yards maybe above he had burned. his boats behind Mr. A. P. Delgado, of 19,
jdeath, a thing to crack the heart, Even now, with liberty, fresh He strove in desperate haste, for ponsible for convening this meet-come very noticeable. It was evid- the Central Court this morning ing that I am acting as your ent that property-owners too to claim the lady's black leather
thith. It was now or never. The would be affected if this state of hand-bag which was found in the Chairman to-night.
(work that he should do to-night It was in the course of en-affairs continued. He himself quiries instituted as a result of was due to move shortly and an- possession of Fung Yip, an un-
would, at an earlier stage, have complaints received by the Kow. other tenant had been intending employed Chinese, at Wanchai
taken him six months. He had cal- culated matters to a nicety. Now, loon Residents' Association, both to take over the flat, but had on Friday night.
Mr. Delgado said that the bag! from members and non-members, now abandoned the iden, owing belonged to his wife, who had
on the final lap. It was no longer necessary to carry back the earth that I came into touch with the to the conditions created by the left it on the tram last Wednes
laboriously to his cell, plaster It promoters of this meeting, and I dump. should like to make it perfectly
Mrs. E. W. Gardiner, support-tal Theatre.
day, when she went to the Orien-
evenly upon the floor and cover it The Rev. J. R. Saunders, Super-with straw. He bad merely to let clear that, although I representing, said that the dump was loss of the bag to the Tramway Home, gave en interesting addreas ly downwards with his feet.
She reported the intendant of the Pu Kong Children's it fall about him, packing it rough- the Association, any action de nuisance to all the residents in Company but not to the police, on the subject of Child Welfare, at less
Un- cided on by you to-night will be the neighbourhood. The railway,
he had seriously under- entirely distinct from any steps with its shrieking whistles and
The charge against Fung Yip yesterday's Rotary Club tiffin at the estimated his distance from the surface there would always be an I may say that the complaints enough, but to fill up the only that of receiving.
He pointed out that such work opening left to breathe by have received the serious con- remaining open space on the har-
was the basis of international sideration of, the General Com-bour front with coal was a dis-
Mr. Schofield, the Magistrate, friendship and service, and referred upward trend. Behind him lay the The tunnel took increasingly an mittee of the Association and, grace to Kowloon. If it was ne- that the accused was a snatcher's Kong in this connection.
remarked that it was not clear to the worthy contribution of Hong little pile of boards which he had although of course I cannot prog. (cessary to have a coal dump, why nosticate what form their action could it not be placed in some
brought to prop the sides. They confederate.
Mr. T: B. Wilson presided, and at were the last the Governor bad will take, I can, I think, assure non-residential district?
Detective Sergeant Donovan his request members, stood in alience sent him, the remnants of a pack- you that some form of repre. Mr. R. J. Shrigley said he spoke that he was. The bag had been Mr. James Davidson, the Rotary he had been allowed to occupy his [replied that the police believed for a minute in memory of the late ing-case. After the first two years sentation to Government will un both as representing the lessees doubtedly be made by the Asso of Lyeemoon Buildings, and also given to Fung Yip by a man organiser, who came to Hong Kong time in fashioning as best he as a tenant. He was the reci-whose reputation as a snatcher in December 1981 to establish the might from rude material such as Preliminary Meeting... pient of numerous
was well known to the police. (local Club. There is no need for me to re- from other tenants of the pro scallywag that we are trying to V. F. Smith of Victoria, B.C., and table even and an ornamental complaints The defendant is the type of Rotarians E. Sum of Canton and brackets and little cabinets, a this a host of worthless trifles- view the reasons for calling this perty and, as a resident himself, meeting to-night. They are bet- could endorse them. It was no get rid of," said Sergeant Dono- Major Barker and Mr. Liu Yan-suen, stool. Of what became of them he ter known to you who have suffer longer possible to keep their van.
were welcomed as guests.
ciation.
ed from the presence of the coal windows open and enjoy the cool conviction, and fined the accused The Magisirate registered a
dump than to me. A preliminbreezes from the Lyeemoon Pass,
ary meeting of owners of proper because of the dirt that contin- 50, in default one month's hard
ty in the Chatham Road district
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and principal tenants was held
TYPHOON RESCUE,
ing forward concrete proposalá
last night with a view to bring
for your consideration to-night, Two Soldiers Saved Off
Stonecutters”."
Labour.
TRESPASSING ON
CROWN LAND. Cutting And Removing Shrubs.
and as an outcome, of that meet- ing a working Committee of five] was appointed to consder what steps could best be taken to en Two .soldiers of the Royal sure the removal of this nuisance. Artillery, Bombardiers Fellon and This Committee consisted of Barrclough, were picked up out of Messra. E., A. Sykes, R. Jthe water near Stonecutters Island Shrigley, F. H. Loseby, Dr, J. by a boat from the "Lungshan," Durran and myself, and their which had taken shelter there from 18 Chinese women were fined $5 proposals will be laid before you the expected typhoon on Saturday each. in default seven days'- hard in due form later on. Before do-night.
18 WOMEN FINED.
News In Brief. ⠀
had no notion, nor, was he curious to inquire. They were removed as soon as made, gravely, without com- ment, but with the suggestion of a [stern pity, by the sphinx-like The forthcoming marriage is an- warder, who carried him the wood. nounced between Francisco Ernesto Enough that they had served hig the Dollar Steamship Lines and the boards, he would hardly need Carajota Fernandes, book-keeper of turn, they and the chisel. As for
Felicia da Purificacao dos Santos of the burrow should be inverted, and No. 28, Estrado do Repouso, Macao, then.
With a tightening at his chest,
The forthcoming marriage bes curious prickling and tingling of tween Bak Mal-maher, manager of his skin, he realised that at. last] the Kee Sing Steamship Co., and the time had come, the moment he Chenng Suey-man, School-teacher, is had longed for, the distant goal of announced.
years, the crowning of his days of planning, stolen nights of toil.] Already be was actually, outside] Labour, at the Central Police Court JAPANESE : WARSHIP IN PORT the prison wall, even his toes, had ing so, however, we would wel. According to Captain Fritchard this morning, for trespassing on the pain free passagem de a passed that fatal boundary. The come the views of any one pre of the "Lungshan,” cries were heard Government plantation above Pak- H.IJ.M.8. Sagă- arrived from tarth rained round him in 'a steady sent, and I should be glad if for from the water and a boat was fului Road near the site of the Canton yesterday evening and and increasing shower. It was the benefit of the general public lowered. The two soldiers were Government Civil Hospital
anchored in the harbour. The much softer to work than he had some of you who have experienc-found drifting and broughton | Mr. Twemlow of the Forest Be- This morning at Sṭum, a salute of thought. The going was strangely, ed the inconvenience and discom- board, one a state of exhaustion, ........partment, said that the women, who 11 guns was paid to the Commodore, unexpectedly easy. For a second fort occasioned by the presence They spent the night on board the came from Telegraph Bay, cut small Captain Frank Elliott, EN, OBE, he stood puzzled, vaguely discon- of the coal dump would let us"Langshan" and returned to Stone quantitier of shrubs and took them by the Saga, the Tamar returning a certod,» have the benefit of your first cutters in the morning.-
similar salute.":
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