THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933.
UNANIMOUS PROTEST WOODIN MAY
and
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SHING MUN DAM
Site Now Definitely Decided.
ONE OF THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD
now
THE
RESIGN AS US.
TREASURER
Senator Couzens To Succeed?
W. E. C. DELEGATE FAVOURED IN WASHINGTON
CHINA MAIL.
To-Day's Short Story.
BLIND JUSTICE
By Ethelreda Lewis.
goes
the
"I fully realise that there might be a big reclamation scheme in the mind of the Government at North Point, but the profit to be derived from such a scheme is totally out-
TNTO his clay models Sandasathe for drift where water some weighed by the necessity of provid
I put all his memories of vision: times runs faint and shallow. Over ing cheap recreation for the thou-
It was as if sight, deprived of one the stones and sometimes Washington. sands of Chinese who use the sheds. "For example." Mr. Luke went on,
Revival of reports that Secretary abiding-place, were clamouring rushing and roaring in the very "an Association was recently form- As the result of a large amount of Treasury Woodin will resign through the fingers, filling dull same place. They hear the tran- ed to provide free sports-gends and of exploratory work in the Shing were followed by predictions in matter with light, piercing quil sounds that outline the move- ments of cattle and, goats. They This Mun Valley, in the search for a some circles that he would be sue through solids to find form. equipment to poor children. Association has had the sympathy satisfactory foundation for the dam. ceeded by Senator James Couzens Before he lost his sight Sandasa know the rhythm in the stirring of the actual support of many (a new mite, considerably further who is returning from the World bad earned a merry, living, sitting the pot and the grinding of praminent European and Chinese down stream than that originally Economic Conference at London, on the edge of a city pavement. corn. The crescendo of the young merchants. Yet the benefits reaped jselected for exploration, has
Secretary Woodin has declined to He would set out rows of oxen, of girls approaching from the fields, by such a small number of children been definitely fixed.
comment on the reports
since a sheep and plumed ostriches and for from the river with the full are only a fraction in proportion to, The selection of the new site, Senate committee investigation re-warriors, hippos and, giraffes and waterpots; the diminuendo of their and the benefit, which thousands of which is below the high waterfall in vealed that he had participated in quilled porcupines, to catch the dally departure in song. adults and children have in the use the gurge proper, calls for a special several stock market deals of the eye of strangers and white chil- laughter or quarrelsome speech- dren. In the laughing young native these are the music of the blind, of the North Point bathing sneds. type of dam and, in order to main-Morgan banking interest.
tain the same top water level of the It is generally felt, however, that children recognised a grown-up who Yes, in the kraal they are wrapped "Why should not the Government lake as that originally fixed, the Mr. Woodin, whose health has not saw life as a child eces ita mat-jin the safe mantle of the familiar, give due consideration to the dam has to be some 50 feet higher been of the best in the last month, ter of mud-pies and serious pre-Faint smiles come and go on their They join eagerly in the unanimous wishes of the Chinese than would have been the case had would soon make way for a man occupation, followed by laughterfaces. residents in the Colony? Personal-it been possible to build it above more in sympathy with President and forgetfulness and moments of talk where there is nothing to be
Roosevelt's economic programme.
destructive excitement. For, to afraid of. There is nothing pase- ly. I have a private sned at Stanley, the waterfall. but my ardent
Close friends of the President say amuse them, he would sometimes ing by that will harm them. It now becomes one of the highest Chinese should. have the privilege dams in the world and actually, it that he believes that Senator Couzens anatch up the nice little sheep to of enjoying this
has done as much to help his pro-and oxen and, pressing them healthy summer is believed, the highest of its type recreation. I think the Chinese so far designed.
gramme as the leading Democrats gether, remould them into some population of Hong Kong have a Estimates of cost show that this and that as he had given the Trea- grotesque creature of the imagina- type of dam, in spite of its extra sury post to the Progressive Repub-tion, such as a crocodile with the height and the great amount of licans would be a logical successor. horns of an ox, or an elephant with material it contains, can be built At the time Secretary Woodin was quills. No shopwalker exhibiting within the estimate submitted to appointed Senator Couzens ques- expensive fur-clad lious and tigers the Government by the Engineers tioned his ability to qualify for the ever seemed ready to play such office because of his business affilia- pranks for their entertainment.
Unanimous Pratest,
that the wish is
right to it," said Mr. Luke.
Mr. Luke went on to Kay that 10,000 people used the bathing sheds at North Point at all hours during the day. Any alternative site, especially on the mainland, would be out of the question from a point of accessibility.
Kowloon's Drowbacks.
some time ago.
The decision with regard, to the site of the dam was received from the Engineers in London last week. "Very few bathers from Kowloon and the local engineers have al-. use the sheds at North Point. mere-ready fixed positions for the ne ly because it is too far for them. cessary machinery and plant It for How then, can bathers from Hong it hoped that the excavation Kong be expected to go to Kowloon? the foundations will start in three te asked.
weeks time, and be ready by the "Another handicap lies in the fact end of the year. that the Kowloon beaches elose at Its design, while not completely
middle-class Chinese who has sweat-itures, and consists of a concrete ed all day at his work, to obtain any idam of a section which is of itself form of summer recreation in the unstable, but which is made stable evening.
tions.
TOKYO.
Nothing..
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "Dr. Abboul's Mystery Patient," by Peter Cheyney.
Neither could he have produced from the ruins such alluring fan-
No footstep they must not miss. tasies of the imagination.
No voice amongst a thousand "Buy me that, please, Mummy!" jarring sounds, a voice for which "Oh, no, dear; that's just rub-the very hearing in spread as a net bish. Not a real animal at all is spread to catch.sh. You shall have this nice pair of joxen instead."
And at night they sleep as safely
aun-
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CHINA YEAR BOOK
(Fifteenth Edition) 1933.
"An old copy of the Year Book is almost as out of date
as an old almanac, changes take place so quickly.in.China.
The current edition contains :
The The New Customs Tariff,
Who's Who of the 1,000 principal Chinese, Consular Regulations' for Importers,
The Latest Treaties with Foreign Countries, articles on the Chinese Government, the Kuomintang, labour conditions, railways and rivers, wireless and telegraph developments, and a mass of other necessary information
to the newspaper reader and the business office.
Reports that there were sharp differences of opinion be- tween President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull have died out and it was re- ported to-day that he will re- main in his post.
in the warm hat as they slept away The differences never were of a
And
the child, sighing at the the safe daylight hours in the serious nature, friends. 'of the strange, wasteful ways of big warm sun. President said.
people, would coldly clasp the oxen
But in the town the blind sit and move away with backward still; so cold and still. They may dark, rendering it impossible for aloriginal, has several original fea: DISSATISFACTION IN looks at the forbidden creatures of not move after the moving
fantasy still held out to him by the beam as in the kraal, amongst young native. And the eyes of the familiar objects that guide them child and the sculptor would meet almost as if they loved the feeling! by a very heavy rock fill behind it. Uchida Diplomatic Policy and linger in 2 moment of hand-the huts, the warmth of "This is only possible for nim at The completed dam will necessi-{
ineffable understanding before the fires, the kraal wall of dead bush Criticised. North Point, and to take away the tate the quarrying of approximate-|
crowd parted that glance for ever.and stones. "This way, Sandasa," aheds at this beach will mean either ly 1,000,000 tons of rock.
Sandasa, too, would sigh and they whisper, "this way." total inability for them to obtain The dam will contain a tunnel
Tokyo. hide away the felitious monster in this recreation of bath body and through its widest section at river Dissatisfaction with the diplo-the box where he carried stock and
Oh, no; in the street you are led mind, or force them to turn to the level. This will be big enough to matic policy of Count Yasuya the day's food.
by a child to one spot for the day, less beneficial forms of gambling, carry flood water during construc-Uchida, the Foreign Minister,
jand then the child will return for smoking and spending their time at tion and another tunnel at a high-is evident among Foreign Office]
you at night when the blind are. But now Sandasa was blind, and weary and dazed from the constant cabarets," said Mr. Luke.
er level will carry the water from officials. Concluding. Mr. Luke said that he the lake through the dam to the During the past four months the impulses of those merry fingers clanging of the trams and the felt sure his opinions were fully conduit in which it will take the since Japan's secession from the were changed and sombre. Also bootings and swiftness of the endorsed by his colleagues occupy-first stage of its fourney to Hong League of Nations. Japan has the Big Town suited him no more, motor-cars and the passing of feet ing the other bathing sheds at Kong.
In the kraal the blind sit and and the talk in inany tongues that [only concluded one arbitration no North Point.
Spillway Decision. positive action has been taken by listen to the rustling voices of the is so rarely directed to a blind 0888SSEUSESTESSASCERCLETUS: A final decision has not yet been the government in connection mealie stalks, to the crackling and man's car. taken with regard to the spillway, with the questions affecting purring of the fire, to the sound of you, but, the child does not come but this will probably be con- America, Soviet Russia and
Sai Wan Unsuitable.
UNOFFICIAL COUNCIL MEMBERS' VIEWS.
The
representatives of the Chinese bathing clubs called on the Hon. Sir Shou Son-chow, C. M.
structed in the form of a concrete
China, which lesser officials con- granite-faced bell-mouth about sider most important in Japan's!
diplomacy. 100 feet in diameter with its lip at the top water level of the lake.
The uneasy atmosphere sur- The flood-water will pass down rounding Japan's relations with bell-mouth into a tunnel with Soviet Russia and China remains G., and the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kote-about 16 feet diameter driven as it was four months ago, these wall, L. 1. D., C. M. G., yesterday through the hill on the north side officials say, while the Foreign morning, appealing to them for of the dam, discharging into the Office has not taken steps in the their support in the petition which tiver downstream of the dam. they intend to forward to the
Government.
It is understood that the repre- sentatives were informed by Sir Shou Son-chow and Dr. Kolewall that, in addition to the letter al- ready seni to the Government. they were in consultation with the other Unofficial. Members of the Council, with a view to saving
POSSESSION OF AMMUNITION.
$50 Fine Imposed.
Before Mr. Schofield at the Cen-
North Point for the bathing clubs.tral Police Court this morning, Tae
due to its inaccessibility.
Anglo-Japanese situation despite the economic situation of Japan. -United Press.
ARMED ROBBERY
CHARGE.
Accused Discharged For Lack Of Evidence.
*
*
LOCAL ESTATES
Penang Landowner Leaves $12,000.
PROBATES GRANTED
And the sun leaves)
to help you. and it. He will noti And then, atj come till nightfall. nightfall, stiff and shivering you rise and follow the child across
after street
street and again! street after street-for as long as in the country you would take to And walk three or four miles. still you cannot escape the trams and 'the motor-cars. And then you turn up a narrow alley and into a Chow Seng, otherwise spelt door. And there is warmth but no Chau Sbing, alias Chow Ah-sang, room, as there is in the rounded landed proprietor, late of 97, kraal huts. And the white woman' Kuala Kangsar Road, Penang, who lives opposite with a coloured S.S., who died on August 23, man begins to shriek and cry and 1918, in his sixty-fourth year, say bad words with the drink she ¡left local estate valued at $12,000, bas had. And
the Httle A petition by Chow Kok-chor. children begin to cry when they alias Chow Kok-choy, gentleman, bear her. But you eat, and pre- like a log; sleep for letters of administration de sently sleep
dare in the bania non with the will annexed as you did not
fear you should be robbed. You Letters of administration in sleep. And another day dawns For the sun can never Isunless.
ali
Sir Shou Son-chow and Dr. Kete-Hing was charged with the posses-peared at the Central Police Court was granted.
Wong Ng, a shop-coolie, who ap to the estate of the deceased, long vigil in, the town for wall, both expressed their viewssion of 108, rounds of 44 Winches-this morning on a charge of taking that the Government offer of Sai ter ammunition, at Eastern Street. part in an armed robbery. at 1A the estate of Kwan Shu-sam, Wan would be totally unsuitable, Mr. H. L. Dennys, for the accused. Queen Victoria Road on August 23, gentleman, late of Tung Shing reach your side of the alley. promised, however, that they would him by a friend, who ran away when and a quantity of jewellery, was dis-died intestate on March 10, 1953, sat in a street all day. But he They said the ammunition was given to 1991, and stealing $1,000 in money Sup Kamn Fa Yuen, Peking, who Yes, Sandnes was blind now and not relax in their efforts on behalf accused was arrested. of the Clubs.
aged 63, leaving local estate never slept, nor did the day seem long. Shall the span of twenty- month's hard labour, was passed, police were unable to obtain any and the ammunition confiscated. Iwitnesses.
NAVAL RATING
· · ARRESTED. ·
Deserted From The Medway.
TWO MONTHS SEARCH
charged for lack of evidence.
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granted to Kwan Leung Lai, ching, concubine.
{seem long when for twenty years Letters of administration in you have listened for a voice, a the estate of Mak Wan-hing, footstep? (merchant, late of 125, Con Resides, Sandasa's work was Inaught Boad Central, who died different now. It is true he still intestate on January 18, 1923, made a few oxen and sheep for the leaving local estate valued at children; and the tourists who $8,800, have been granted tos little feathered warriors. They were strange to Africa would buy After an absence from ble ship Renovation of the two stotions The Senate plans than included Lim-Kee-hin, merchant, late of were still set out on the kerb be
Mak Kau, gentleman. without leave for two months, a will proceed simultaneously with
Iside him. And bolboxen and war- naval rating, A. B. George Shaw, of the modernization of the battle the replacement of obsolete sir Cho Pinng Village in the Profors, were far more beautiful now H. M. S. Medway, was arrested ear ship fleet, for this money has al-carriers, cruisers, destroyers and vince of Kwangtung, who died in than when. Sandasa had been a ly this morning, in Wanchal. He ready been set aside, A part of submarines for the purpose of local estate valued at $4,300.
testate on March 3, 1983; · left)
merry young boy of twenty, who had previously eluded
the Naval the work will be done by the Navy building the navy up to Treaty Letters of alministration in the and whose shining teeth were the laughed Into the eyes of children Police after being caught on July staff and the remainder by cfttiimits.
above estate have been granted samiration of white people. {Mans,—United · Press.·'
26.
'A' B. Shaw deserted bis abip sbortly before she left for Home, and until the night ́öf July 26 no frace of him was discovered. ¡ ̈· On · that day, he was arrested by Sub- Inspector:A. V. Baker and handed over to the Naval authorities, but he escaped from his escort on Mon, day night, ALON
"Navy Drive" At Last Congress.
PLANS FOR NEW CRUISERS
A ̈“Biz Nury" drive was'institut ed at the last session of the Unit-
*** The plans, likewise would sub-to Lim Shai-fung, worka" fore- stitute for five of the 15 10,000, man. ton 8-Inch gun cruisers, authorized |
TO-DAY'S WEATHER
Yes, the little clay models were beautiful now from the Berative Angers which have" to see is well in 1929 but outlawed by the 1930
as feel. Also, in, the box in which London Treaty, fiye. 10,000-tons,
The carried his stock-in-trade there 6-Inch gun cruisers which would The typhoon is situated at about was always other work of bis come under the London Treaty 800 miles East of Shanghal moving beyond specifications,
Northward."
Let me see what you've got." Other provisions called for two Fair to showery weather with Open your box, please. These oxen. It is understood that Bhaw, who:ed Blates Congress, when a Bill to additional air-craft carriers and moderate South-West winds is fores are--they're sculpture. Not clay is now under arrest, will be dealt provide a big building programme another 10,000,-ton, 6-inch gun lerated in the report fasued from the dolla.”: with by the Naval authorities. was introduced
"cruiser with a flying dec
Royal Observatory" this morning.”
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