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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1935
FAREWELL TO
SIR WILLIAM PEEL
(Continued From Page 1)
the Governor and Lady Peel madeį their farewells to the members of the
UNCLAIMED LAND IN CANTON ORDERS
ENGLAND
Ownerless Property Now Becoming Fewer
ALL WILL BE ACCOUNTED
FOR SHORTLY
Legislative and Executive Councils, the Judges, the GeneralThere are plots of land in Ens |Officer Commanding the Troops!
STRUCTURAL
INVESTIGATION
Sequel To Collapse Of School Wall
REBUILDING NECESSARY IN `SEVERAL CASES
[From Our Own Correspondent)
2 Canton. To-day- More than 10 municipal pri- mary schools are to be rebuilt Officials of the Municipal Bureau owing to straetural weakness.
of Public Works are making an inspection of all school buildings. to see whether they are safe for school children.
the Senior Naval Officer, the Senior land for which no owners can be Air Force Officer other senior found. but they are getting rarer. Army, Navy and Air Force Officers,
Scattered here and there about Senior Officers of the Government, the country, they were years ago the Consular Corps. Chamber granted to or bought by people long since dead. And, either because of Commerce. and representa-: itives of the
not be traced or European and the heirs could Chinese communities, gathered for through some flaw in a will, they the purpose on the pier. The bril-are left without a legal owner. liant uniforms and the play of
In country districts where the colours of the ladies dresses made land is not of much value the situa-
On Friday last week a wall in a fine show in the rather bleak sar-tion often pasess unnoticed, and oca municipal primary school at roundings, caused by light rain. casionally the plot gradually by Kwong Ngar Lee. Ha Kau Po, Again there was a large gathering right of use becomes common land collapsed. and killed two girls of the general public in the special But where building sites are co-aged seven and nine years, res enclosure, adding their contrion-cerned other considerations arise. pectively. Since then public "In London, although cases of the works officials have been investi-
tion to the official farewells. ».
Col. Morriss.
Crashing Salute
ones
Dangerous Structures
Lady Peel was the recipient of kind are very rare instances have gating the structural conditions several bouquets including
occurred. Some years ago, for ex-of other primary schools.
a valuable plot! Six persons were killed on from Lady Southern Lady Hoample, there was Tung. and Mrs. Morriss, wife of of land in the City which the April 10 at the Capitol Theatre owner vested in his wife. She outjat Sap Yat Po by the collapse of lived her husband. and at her the ceiling above the front stalls. His Excellency stepping off the death, it was found that she was Four theatres have since been soil of Hong Koar was the signal illegitimate, and having no chil-required to undergo repairs in
heir to whom order to reinforce weak parts. for a crashing salute of 17 guns, dren, there was no fired by the Hong Kong Brigade.the property could revert. After Further investigation is likely Hong Kong and Singapore Royal an inquiry, the site was declared to, reveal that many other public Artilleries; and later, when with escheat to the Crown
buildings need repairs or rein- Their Excellencies safely on board. į
forcements. the giant Empress slowly began to
In the offices of the London Some of the primary schools! steam out of the barbour, the final County Council there are scores of have already suspended classes official tribute to the retiring maps containing a complete ground for the purpose of effecting re- Governor was afforded by another plan of the Metropolitan Area, on pairs. After reconditioning they salute of 17 guns.. fired by H.MS. which all freeholders are marked will open earlier in the Autumn Suffolk, and an eventful ̈chapter inj But, owing to the complicated than other schools. their lives, which Sir William and series of leases and sub-leases com- Lady Feel will probably always on in London, it is often difficult treasure in their memories, was to find the actual person respon- over...
sible for the property. Especially Hong Kong's farewell was ad-is this true in the case of danger- equate, dignified and enthusiastic, ous structures, since owners of the and the Colony says good-bye to leases sometimes mysteriously dis- the Governor and his Lady with appear, and there is no responsible real regret.
person to be found · upon whom a The RMS. Empress of Japan dangerous structure notice can be was gaily dressed with fags. She served.
this occasion.
CUSTOMS OFFICERS WOUNDED
Shooting Incident In Chingwangtao
counted for.
CANTON TAKES STEPS AGAINST
SHANGHAI FIGHTS
ILLITERACY
Chinese Characters Must Be Studied
The Shanghai City Government is making arrangements to launch:
campaign for the enforcement of
should have left at noon to-day, butį. Plots of "ownerless land" are, a special concession was made for however, steadily becoming more the, study of Chinese characters rare. and it seems likely that in a among the illiterate in the Chinese
territory. commencing few years there will not be a square!
on July 1 yard in England that cannot be ac-and to be completed in a year.
It is estimated that there are approximately 500,000 illiterate adults (between the ages of thir- teen and fifty) and some 150,000 illiterate children (from six to twelve years old) out of the 21 |000,000 residents under the juris-||
diction of the City Government. Lights for the Tien Ho aero-The authorities have set aside tao Customs were wounded or drome have arrived here and are $200,000 for the campaign. April 21 by a Korean who fired being installed -around it seven shots at the officers. The Lights for the planes are also ex-
Two officers of the Chingwang-
Korean was found in a
AERIAL ATTACKS
(Continued from Page 1)
Peipin-ipected shortly, when night flying
Shanhaikwan train in possession will be practised
of a big case" containing $20,000 Travellers back from Europe worth of silver.
declare that another world war
FREEMAN 14 FOR 115
(Continued from Page 1)
The Customs officers tried to is unlikely in. the near future Townsend, who came into the Įtake him to the police station Dangers from a Japanese inva-limelight on the West Indies tour, whereupon, the Korean produced a sion of China are out of the ques saved the northern visitors with gun and wounded two ofcers. The tion, now that. Nanking and an innings of 89, Korean was later arrested with Tokyo are becoming more friend-Storey 60 and 210 (P. G. IL Fender the assistance of Japanese gend-ly. Still, Canton believes in air Derbyshire: 253 (Townsend 89) and 19
:84, Mitchell 3 for 78).
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