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INJURED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 5rv, 1918.
FUND.
ALLOCATIONS AND ACKNOWLEDG MENTS.
tions, including car-marked sumas, made expenditure up to March 15th, 1915. by the War Charities Committee covered Since that date a total of £31,300, pro coede of St. George's Day, has been ve mitted through the
War Charities allocations as made by the St. George's, account; and a detailed statement of the Committee ill be published in ac
The last detailed statement of alleen-
meeting place, stall wonder that solici Ludg for the welfare of sailors, active in ordinary times, should now-a-daya rendily embrace such an opportunity as that pró- vided by your appeal. The response to it testifies to the admiration felt in the traditions of the sen have been upheld by Conny for the way in which the best George's Fund is being raised.” the men
for whose benefit the King.
The Secretary states in his repin': -- "A letter of thanks will be forwarded to Hongkong in due course, and, as you can been greatly appreciated by those who' Well imagine, this handsome gift han
he proposed to send to the Press.
minister the Fund." He encloses copy of a highly appreciative acknowledgment.
LAND-SLIDE AT MORRISON HOUSE COLLAPSE AT WEST HONGKONG WAR CHARITIES of the many sea-routes of which it is the
HILL ROAD.
·YOINT. FIFTY-TON BOOK CRASHES INTO ONE PERSON KILLED AND FIVE
ROW OF HOUSES.. SIX. PEOPLE KILLED; TWO INJURED. Another tragedy occurred shortly after Yet another tragedy has oueurred, in part of the top-floor of a house collapsing 5.30 p.m. in Second Street, West Point, Hongkong. Yesterday morning at 10 and killing one q'clock, as a result ca land-side, twounding two women, two men, and
man instantly
and Bouldersme reported to be about fiftyle boy, The wounded-except the weight £10 & other about httle boy who was only very slightly in twenty craned into the rear of a row red-were immediately remared in am. of noises an atorrison Hill Rong, kuggalances six people and injuring LWO.
to the Government Civil Hospital, and their condition is reparted The row of houses, whic is fuainly Decupied by chinese and Portuguese, 15
o be critical..
The alarm which was given brought atuated on the right of Morrison Inspector Macdonald, who is in charge Road, and just bead it a dick, of the district, on the scene, followed about 200 feet nigh. No-one ever imaginea shortly afterwards by the members of St. shat any of the rocką jutting out or the John's Ambulance Brigade, who rendered side of the hill could be dispiacal, except frst aid to the injured; and the Fire by dynamite. The constant heavy rain, Brigade, who had already done duty in however, must have lossened the sand in Morrison Hill Road. The work of excava which they were embedded, the tion was immediately commenced, an Bumentable result described.
wrix. It is stated that several hawkers army of coolies working to remove the had their sinds just underneath the building at the time of the collapec, and it is feared that they are among the victims. work of excavation was carried on till Depite the heavy rain, the late Inst night when it was reported that no further bodies had been discovered.
As far as car be ascertained, a about 10 am.. when the female occupants of the houses were getting the breakfast reads, they heard a sound similar to a ruff of thunder. They aid not pay any parti- cular attention to this, but, suddenly, two rocks, which came hurtling down the aide, crashed into the back portions of Nos. 14, 16, 18 and 20. The walls imme diately collapsed. Those who were in the front part of the houses rushed into the street, but, except in one intance: those who were in the cook-houses, were pinned underneath the débris,
An alarta was raised at once, and the Police of No. Station arrived of the sea, fellowed in a few minutes by The Fire Brigado and members of St. Jabu Ambulance Brigade, and the ditheute work of excavaton was promptly commenced. Two Chinese women, who apienred to be slightly injured, were taken out of the buildings, and received They refused to go to the. Hospital, and were conveyed by their freds to a neighbouring house.
first aid.
in the
By this time a large crowd had collect. ad on the seene and a cordon of police was detailed to keep order. Wene fearing that the worst had happened to
retallaves, Wore Weeping streets. Alter about teen or twenty minutes steady digging, the dead body of a Chinese anah was discovered, the Inwer part terribly mangled. The re-
the is
mmins were removed, to the 'Public Mor.
OTHER COLLAPSES AND DAMAGE.
Bourse.
The Secretary of Dr. Barnardy's Homes ear-marked and allented, sabscriptions In addition to this total, the following
writer! have been made between 15th Marching to you to know that probably of and 2nd August from the General Fund all the British Dominions across the seas "Such gifts from friends overseas are most hearing.. Dicers Families Fund 6811.12.7 Hongkong stands out as the most liberal It will be gratify..
British Red Cross Pipe Fund Prisoners-of-War Y.M.C.A.
by comparison with its size, and I have mentioned this fact in paragraphs in the Scottish
Overs Club publications, in the Weekly National Homes
edition of the Times, the Daily Mail (Quarrier's Home)
Oveness, and other publications which Imperial Merchant Service
circulate in the British Dominions." Guild
"Sir Arthur Pearson writes:
2 Hats YMCA or Church
Army It is further reported that a portion of
Farm Colony for Sailors and the hill at West Point, just behind Ye
Soldiers suffering. "frosn th terrace,, in the neighbourhood of the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors
Tuberculosis Chinese Restaurants, came down on Fri-Boxing" Glave Fund day ging. Fortunately, the land-slide Soldiers and Stilere Fami stapped half-way, and the Police were able to shore it ups,
esible that if the present heavy rainfall It is, however, continues it may come down Bad cause serious damage to life and property,
A cock-house is reported to have caused in Chung Street, in
the vinity of the Empire Theatre, but there was no loss of life,
that, owing to heavy squall at Yaumati A report has been received to the effect on Saturday, two boats were damaged.
reported to have collapsed in Kowloon The front portion of a building is City Rarl. yesterday morning, but no castalties vecarred..
THE RAINFALL,
10 st. on Saturday just on 9 inches of Daring the twenty-four hours ended at rain tell. From 10 a.m, on Saturday to 10 p.m. sesterday, 6285 inches fell.
HONGKONG CONSCRIPTION
THE
ALLOWANCES
APPROVED SCHEME.
3,828. 0.11 5,103.14. 9
6. 7.
1,200.
500
1,000.
1,200
· 500.
4,307, 4, 6 66.18.5
20.13, 8
lies Assca. Central P.O.W. aje Naval Royal Flying Corps Hospital 2,000.
Prisoners-of-War Ladius Emergency Committee
of the Navy Leaguo..... Scottish Women's Hospital
for Home and Foreign. Service British and Foreign Sailors"
Society French Red Cross..... Lord Reberta' Memorial Paddington VA L. Hospital
Workshops Peterhead Minesweepers and
Patrol Flotilla Fund For benefit of wounded in. King George's
Zeebrugge Action
Fund for
Bailors Surgical Requisites Associa
tion Dr. Harnardo's Home
Store Sub-Committer
1,000.
538.14. 8
503. 1. 9
have received your letter of the 97th May with the enclosure of further contribution towards the funds of St. Dunstan's of £3,750 From the Hongkong Har Charities Committee. Receipt for this donation is enclosed,
I propose to devote this sum to the up- keep of Convalescent and week-end resid ences for officers who have left their sight in the War. These are at Brighton in the winter and Bourne End on the Thames in the summer, and they are of very great value to us in our work. It nearly always happens that no officer is dis- charged from Hospital before he is really fit enough to take up arious work al St. instan's, and we find that a stay at Brighton or Bourne End has a mar. vellous effect upon his general health. Outdoor recreation ngain- either walking, swimming, rowing of riding--has a most beneficial effect upon the general tone of a young blinded officer, and our week-end 555.1.houses are of great use to us in affording facilities for these amusements and sports which do so much towards the social re. education of the officers, which is, of, course, of as much value to them as the inore practical business re-education for which they study at St. Dusntan's during the week.
15, 3,000,
701.13. A
1,000.
4209. 4. 3
55. 1
1,00
...892,392.56
Heuse No. 16--occupied by Mr. Baker, of the China Sugar Refinery, who was
trust that this suggestion will meet away at work at the time of the col-
with your approval and that of the Hong lapse was ta most severely damaged.
£36,028.10.8 kong War Charities Committee. The back portion was simply reduced to
I hope you will convey to the members rabble and even the front windows were
of the Committee an expression of my broken. Mr. Baker's wito (Chinese) and following scheme for Subsistence Allow
The Government Gazette contains the
very sincere gratitude for their untiring her amah, it is stated, were in the kitchen ances to the whes, families, and depen£30,028,108 was sent by telegraph in two The greater part of the amount of
interest in, and generosity towards, our at the time, and it is feared that their dans of persons enrolled in the General separate remittances, to the earlier of for the cause for which we are fighting, work. My thanks are offered on bebalf Lodies are pinned beneath the rock itself. Military Service Forge of Hongkong which only replies have so far been re-
of the gallant officers who gave their sight Mr. Baker's youngest son and a nice,under Ordinance No. 9 of 1918:-
girl, also
to have.
ecived, and extracts from the correspond. beer doing some work in the vicinity of Classes, 3, 4. nur 5, the Coverament of Stewart are appended for the informatiu lile in the field."
and who are giving as brave a lead to the Subject to the provisions (1)
of enco received through the kitchen for to trace has been founet 11ongkong will pay monthly subsistence tion of subscribers.
Mr. Murray fortune here as the lead which they gave men who are their companions in mis- of them. The only person who mapiged allowances to the wife and family of to escape from the building was str. every person whose name appears in the
The French Finbassador in Lund these short extracts are taken is open to The full correspondence from which Baker's eldest daughter, who was sleeping Gate as being deemed to have been
writes:- in the front portion of the house and ran Military Service S to, the General!
enrolled in. and to
any who may desire to see it at the offer Hallifax). War Charities Committee, of the Tor Beeretary (the Hon. Mr. E. Post Office Building.
-accan
into the street. Nearly all the furniture in the house was reduced to matchwood, Mc Allen, & Portuguese gentleman, was occupying the top-flair. of No: 15 He, too, was away at the tue. His vire and family escaped from the building in the nick of time, but their amah was crushed to death. Only the back portion of the building was dumuged.
The back portion of No. 14 was slightly damaged, but there were no casualties.
On the top-floor of No. 20, Mr. Lech a. marine engineer, and his family were.j living. No one was injured, though the house was damaged: 3t appears that Mr. Leuch bud his attention drawn to the rock coming down and he raised an alarm, but with little or no result
Various stories were current yesterday ats to the narrow escapes that several people had experienced. Is one instance it
stated that Chinese lady, 4 mars old,, and her children were
· Was
10
having their breakfast when the felt the shock. No sooner had they left the table and got out of the building than they heard the rock crash The Foree of the concussion was even felt in the opposite row of buildings. A lady. who lives near No. 2 Police Station states she heard the crash as far as her house. Another case is reported of a lady who had all her gas lights burning at the time, as it was rather dark, and, hearing the alarm, ran out of her house, but, fearing that an explosion might occur, hastened to the nearest telephone and asked the Gas Company to cut of the gan at the main, thus preventing a fire.
the following sesle:-
*
of Hongkong, on
Resident in
the Colony
ngd China,
Wife (not of pure Euro-
pein descent) Each son not over 18 years
Not resident in-
the
Colony
or
China
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th May endosing. cheque of £2,000 for the General Funds of the French Red Cross from the Hong- kug War Charities' Committee. Our Te ords show that this is the sixth eontri bution which you have made, amounting in all to no less than £4,320.
HONGKONG DEFENCE CORPS.
ADMINISMATIVE ORDERS BY MAJOĖ H. A. MORGAN, ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT.
ENGINEER COMPANY.
Members of the Engineer Company when attesting should ask for the follow- ing remarks to be entered on the atestation paper:---
Attested for General Service.
Served
such and such time in the Engineer Company and is desirous of being posted to an Engineer unit.
APPOINTMENT.
The life-and-death struggle in which our troops are, at this ament engageil shoulder to shoulder with the gallan soldiers of our Allies is in itself a sof Wife (of puto European
c. s. d. ficient measure of the immenso task which descent)
confronts our Red Cross. The bitter. ..200.00 20 00 Bacrifices which all nations engaged in Each son not over 18 years
this war are called upon to make are in of age.
25.00 2 10`0' | Each daughter not over 20
our case accentuated by the accident of.) years of age
25.00 2 10 locality, which has made France the battle- ground and deprived her, since the ear- liest days of the war, of the wealth and. material produced in the manufacturing regions of the north. The 'spontaneous H. E. the Governor has been pleased to realisation of these circumstances and the resulting generous help of our Allies source of untold gratification and strength in all our works of succour has been i to our people and to our soldiers. I beg Hongkong War Charities' Committee and of you, therefore, to convey to the to all other subscribers my very sincere thanks on behalf of the brave men who will benefit from their generous flp.
"I have transmitted your cheque to the British Committee of the French Red.
of ga
100,00 10 0 0
Each daughter zat over 20
12.50 150 years of age.
12.50 1
50 Claus I shall be payable from the date (2.)-The allowances Specified 14 of demeture from Hongkong of the per- son eurolled, or, if the circumstances re- quire it, from such earlier date as the Governor may decide.
(3)-The total sum payable under Clause 1 shall not excced the werage monthly earnings of the person enrolled during the twelve months prior to the first day of May, 1918.
(4) The separation allowances granted Cross, of which I am President, and by Ilis Majesty's Government to the deasked them to send to you their official pendants of person enrolled in His receipt. Majesty's Fores will be deemed to be Clause 1. included in the allowances specified in
From all the damaged houses the Clause 1 will not be payable to the wifo (5.)-The allowances specified in furniture was removed to places of safely of an enrolled person who shall have A word of praise is due to Mrs. Sim, married since the with day of May, 1918, wife of the Police Inspector of the (6.)-A person enrolled with depen- District, who busied herself in attending dants (other than wife or child) who 4o the unfortunate women and children would suffer hardship owing to his en- who escaped, finding temporary shelter, rolment, may apply in writing giving etc., for them from the heavy rain. Mr. full articulars to the General Military King (4.S.P.), Mr. A. E. Wright, Chief Service Tribunal who may recommend to Inspector Kerr, and Inspector Sim, were Government allowances for such depen- all actively engaged....
dante. Owing to the difficulty of moving the Note-A schieme of insurance of enroll boulder endeavours are being made, toed perons will be published later. alore it up, and then to work underneath it with a view to recovering the bodies towing persons shall, as from the data It is notifed in the Gazette that the fol. With the aid of four electric lights the of publication of this List (August 2nd) work of Excuration
was continued will be deemed to have been enrolled in, throughout the right. Up to the time and to belong to, the General Military of gong to press no further bodies had Service Force of Hongkong: been recovered.
It is reported that a similar land-slide occured a few years ago, at the same place. On that occasion, also, the whole forer of the slide was received by House No. 16, and one Chinese, amali was killed
MINOR LAND-SLIDER --
Two or three minor landslides, also, v taken place in Morrison Bond near Lo the Royal Naval Hospital. There was also a land-slide in Stone Alley Jane, just opposite the District watchman's quarters. This locality is thickly popu lated, but fortunately no damage w done,
ADDITIONAL ENROLMENTS.
Victor Charles Labrum. Arthur Mountain.
Angus MacKinnon Henderson, James Bell Spiers.
PERMITTED TO PROCEED HOME
The following have been permitted Lo proceed to the United Kingdom for the purpose of enlisting in His Majety's regular forces:
J. R. Irvine.
E. Johnstone. R. W. McIntyra, R. C. Witshell.
FOR AUSTRALIA.
The following has been permitted to proceed to Australis for the purpass of in His Majesty's regular
The Race Couras at Happy Valley, re enlisting semblers lake, the whole of it being forces: under water.
W. E. Cook
Mr. Stewart writes:-
Naval Prisoners-of-War.-I sent £500. to the Ladies' Emergency Committee of the Nary League, officially recognised as £500 to the Committee which takes care the caretaker of seamen prisoners, and
I had ascertained that rather more then of those belonging to the Royal Marines half of the naval prisoners-of-war belong I hope you will approve of the contribu to the Marines, and, in view of this fact, tion being thas divided."
Emergency Committee, Navy League, The Honorary. Secretary of the ladies" writes:
appoint Mr. F. C. Hall to be a 2nd Lieutenant in the Hongkong) Dolence Corps, with effect froru 29th July, 1018. 2nd-Lieutenant F. C. Hall is posted to "A" Co., No. 1 Platoon.
ORDERS
No.
FOR INFANTRY BATTALION BY MAJOR
K. A. MORGAN,.......
PARADES A COMPANY.
1 Platoon.-The parades ordered for 7th and 9th instant are hereby can- celled and the following substitut. ed:-
Wednesday, 7th August:-
5.30 pm Nos. 1 and 2 Sections (ex- cept men who passed the Test on 2nd instant) at Kennedy Rond Range T.E.T. Grouping. Dress: Friday, 9th August:-
: Drill order without rifles.
5.30 p.m. Nos. 3 and 4 Sections as for
Nos. and 2 above. Nos. 3 and 4 Platoons.
1918
The time of. parade on Friday, 9th instant, iz 5.30p.m., and not as stated in Corps Order No. 9, dated 2nd August,
G. H. STEWART, Capt.,
Adjutant, H.K.D.C. Hongkong, 3rd August, 1918, HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE. GADEES ISSTED BY MX. 1. C. JENKIN, Cai
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"My Committee feel they cannot thank you sufficiently for your kindly and most real godsend, as we really require just over efficient help. Your cheque for £500 in that amount per week for the food parcels for the R.N. prisoners only, and I find it more and more difficult as Hon. See to obtain the accesary funds from All Inspectors and Sergeants of No. 3 the general public.
"Will you please convey our most sincere. thanks to the War Charities Committee of Hongkong. I am enclosing some letters (cópies) which may be of interest 50 extracts from Prisonere-of War latters to our kind friends overscas," (Some are attached to this acknowledgment. A number of them are from exchanged pris. and, it is of especial interest to note that all the letters agree in saying that the parcals in Germany are received regular- ly, and that without them life would be almost impossible.
To the King George's Fund for Sailors Mr. Stewart writes:-
The prosperity of the Colony being chiefly dependent upon the maintenance
COMPANY, ETC.
Comparay, Ambulance and Drum- moers are required to attend al this Offion at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Augal 6th The Chief and Staff Inspectors concerned with those units will also attend. Uniform optimal.
WEEKLY PARADE REPORTH.
These reports must show men on long
leave (ie., exceding 7 days) from the Colony, and also those general. ly exempted. The abbreviations, L.L and G.E. should be used.
BAND PRACTICES, 6 P.
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