SERVANT BOY'S TÅLE. REVOLVERS, BEATING AND A "DISLIKED WOMAN."
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At the Magistracy, yesterday, Mrs. Mary Harrow, do Military Quarters, Chinese Kennedy Boo mummoned
ervant boy," twelve years old, for leaving
bay service without notice.
Defendant whid that on April 25th be felt ill and asked Mrs. Harrow for leave to go home. She refused and accused him of only pretending to be ill. She threaten ed to arrest him and called an Indian notice constable, who, however, took no
She next called, a And went away.
European Sergeant whe, slapped him on the face and pointed a revolver at him. The amah interfered, teiling the Sergeant that the boy was sick. She, too, was struck and kicked and a revolver was pointed at ber
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Mr. Hutchison: Is it true or are you making it up?
Defendant: I can bring the amah to "verify what I say.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 19TH, 1920.
TRIAD SOCIETY MURDER. DISTRICT WATCHMAN STABBED
TO DEATH.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, two Chinese youths were charged with the mur- der of district Watchman. No, 18, wo to Sing Street on May 3{rd,
The victim who had been attacked un- awares while on duty, and had been brutally stabbed, managed to make his way to hospital, where he died some time after an operation had been performed on him. Detectives instituted enquiries resulting in the amazing revelation that the Trind Society was at the bottom of the murder. They arrested one of the prisoners who accused the other. The man said that he had been offered $50 by the Society to mirder the Watchman. Ho refused. and the second prisoner undertook to do it for $30 on the understanding that he would be given one of the highest ranks in the Sority. He and another man, who not in custody, accompanied the assailant to the scene and witnessed the murder.
The case was formally remanded for a
werk.
FORTUNE LEFT IN A CHAIR. RETURNED BY UNSUSPECTING
COOLIES.
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RIVER CONSERVANCY IN KWANTUNG.
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE
SURVEY REPORTS.
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but it not shown how this estimate is arrived at. The financini sile appears to ba the weak spot of the scheme, the purely engineering features are well worked "out, but before so large an expenditure" is undertaken it would appear advisable to go-into-a little more detail as to the area which will be benefitel and as to the actual extent to which that area is gely to be Devoted It is not suggested kuat kue propad axpenditur, is rajastinee, DAL rates is just out a little more early as 1
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The disastrous floods which occurred on the Were and North rivers in 1911" were the immediate cause of the establishment of a Hoard of Conservancy Works" for Kwangtung. It does not appear that any actual work has yet been indertaken and the disturbed state of the country may well
Turning no to the question . unvigi account for this, but several reports have tion. Report 11. deais exhaustively with been issued and a large amoung of valuable the improvement of the approaches to The Canton turpour. The present conditions information has been accumulated,
are briefly these : The Canton river technical work under the advice of though if recesses in its lower reaches the Captain H. von Heiderstam, Engineer-in waters of the Fast and orthrivers and Chief to the Whangroo Conseraney Board in food times, some water from the West Shanghai-placed in charge of Captain river, is in the main a tidal crees with From the G. W. Oliveerona of the Royal Swedish an innignificant drainage an Corps of Engineers. Captain Oivecrons, river bouth at Boes Tigris to Lanten is with the assistance of a small stuff of Euros nautical miles. About two-thirds of the "pean engineers and a larger one of Chinese way up at Wnampes the river divides, the engineers and students has produced three shorter channel, The Front Heden, in un
The West River Survey fortunately much more shallow us the reports:-1, 1015, 11., Project for the Improvement ouger on the Back Hene," and is seri- of the approaches to Canton III..
The North River System Regula-sly restricted in width where passing be tween Canton City and Hennin lu the tion, and a supplementary repart open part of the catuary, known as the improvement of the Dosing
broadway," below Boca Tiget, a depth of ports I and III. deal with the question about 20 feet is available at low water- of minimising the damage caused by floods, II. and the Supplementary Repertove bocu Tigris the first obstruction is with matters of navigation. The outstand ing physical fact which runs through all the reports is, the huge amount of flood water to be dealt with. The West River is not very conspicuous un an ordinary
on the
can
Second Bar "half way up so whaus pon, with 17 feet at w water Above Woumpou the Back Heach is onstructed by the remains of several artines, barriers, erected in former years with protect Canton from Foreign aggression and by our natural sponk Tushek barrier; the trim as Tanel gross,
a View po
se is in
map of Chinn and the North River Maitland Pussigë; the second is known as
resuit of these obstructions is that if it 19
Coniplainant vaid she engagal the boy in December a: 20 a month, Batween them and April he was continually absenting himself from work, despite the fact that she had raised his wages to $9. On April Bath he asked her for $2. saying that his
scarcely be identified, bus the former
drainage area as large as that of the father was poor. She refused and the
Caited Kingdom and flood discharge, next day when she" asked him to do. Two chair-enolies' misse) a fortune on oval to that of the Ganges and Peri-1.ing; and the fast as honain spit, l'he net! Train piece of week-bapaluxd_to_ohey Thursday evening, although it would have little inferior to that of the Yangtse, while washed to reach Canton at any state of i
A-the North Riger. with a drainage about ber. When she insisted, be complained come to thems by dishonest means. "of feeling ill, He absolutely refused passenger, by the name of Mt. Bakuksky, equal to that of the Seine at Paris has a flood discharge aine times a great as by orders and she called an English who arrived in the Colony in the Kitana that river. These are the figures
Flood Sergeant who smacked the boy on the Maru engaged the chair to take him up
discharge cubic feet face because he was insolent. The ser- the higher levels, and, passing the men,
-per second. geant smacked the amah as she, too, was at the conclusion of his journey, inadvert
2,063,000 insolent. The boy then left and she didently left a parcel, containing G.81,000 in
336,000 the chair. The coolies went away and
2,040,000 not see him after th
$750,000 Mrs. Harrow when Mr. Bukuksky reached the hotel he!
$9,000 Amahs were being discovered his low. He immediately re- a most parted the matter to the Police and gave She was
them the number of the chair, which he Mr. Harlow. I hari. Treated bin had fortunately noticed The detectives better than an English child.
managed to trace the bearers and found The Defendant; You still owe me a work's the parcel intact. in the chair. coolies were taken to the station
- Defendantagia always scolded him. continually changed. disliked woman.
wages.
Mr. Hutchin orfeited the « week's money was returned to the owner who
warded the conligs wage and fined the boy 84.
ARMED-MEN-ARRESTED FORI DISAPPEARS WITH
ENEMIES FRAMED THE
CHARGE
FORTUNE
ONE MAN DETAINED
-The
A
Drainage
V3IL
quare iniles.
West River 121.000 North River 12 16,000 Ganges .....$70.000 Yangtae .731,000 Being 15,000.
coun-
The Police have received a report to Sub-Inspector Murphy and a party of Police raided house in Reclamation the effect that a Chinese foki has dis Street on Thursday and were successful appeared with $11,000 which had been The master gave in discovering a revolver, which was fully entrusted to his care, loaded, and four" daggers. The weapons the money to two men instructing them to. were wrapped up in paper box in the pay certain persons. One of the men rascents without question. The not-technical
ing no more than pine mel ot Water. in the one must travel in a vessel draw. Yes-cla drawing afteen teer can reach Can i too at spring tides only. Owing to the restricted depth the Broadway below Boca Tigris it is not proposed to attempt any extensive works in the upper reaches, but by cutting off superfinous channels, aredging, and training is proposed to improve the Back Reach so that vesels of 14 feet draft can navigate it at all times and vesser of 20 fret draft at ring tidas The extinted cost of these works amounts to $2,517,000.
it havin
A Supplahentary riport deals with thei inprovement of the Dosing bar which is the great obstacle to the navigation of the West River befor Wuchow." savigable depth of only & feet at average low water necessitating transhipment in bad winters for a period as long as five montba. By a combination of training work and dredging it is proposed to lower the river bed set by s means, at
No satisactory explanation is given of this excessive discharge. We all know. the way the water tumbles off these Hong kong hills and we know we have, a record of 34 inches of raid in 24 hours, but it cannot be expected that any such down. pour will occur simultanentialy over an arn measured in thousand of square miles. The rainfall observations are meagre and re" show less rain in the interior than near the coast. At Sam Shui the annual rain- fall i . inches, at Wuchow 34 inches, cost of $118,000, it is estimated that a Nanning 50 inches, while in the extreme vessel 3 et grant wil be able to crom. wat in the neighbourhood of Yunnan Fu the bar during 297 days in the year; under the annual rainfall is as low as 35 inches. existing circumstances a rewel of 10 feet Information
the nature A to B
of the druig can say crome during 200 days. Thệ irs is also not very informative. We are pura mestoms have supplied tou that the main part of the West River: much information repecting the water- and its tributary pases, though a Ways dirt Child it in fatisfactory-to mountainous region and that learn that surveys are being made of the the grains are generally hurren, Kyangtang Province by the military, This would lead one to expect a heavy ran authorities. The scale on which these are off, but later on is the statement, that the pubished, 1935.600, is nearly the same as geological formation of the country is of our New Territory Maps One of the first imestone and sandstone, on which one requirements for the opening up of China would expect, considerable absorbtion. is a good survey of the country, and it However, the fact of the immense run off will as some compensation for the losses caused to China by her anruly soldiery observer visiting Wucher in the winter has if such a survey can be produced by the reaching up to high water line to realize to some extent the large volume of water which must be passing when this expanse is covered. It is the shepherding of huge volume of water
the breaking of banks and flooding of towns and cultivated heads which is the great problem before the Board of Conservancy. Many projects to Some months ago Captain Vaughan attain this cad are discussed such as: Williams discovered in Windsor "Great losing the small communication which Park, near Bears Railings, the site of now exists between the upper waters of supposed palace of Edward the Con- the West River and the Yangtse: Creating fessor. The find was due to the burrow- a new Outles to the Sea: Enlargement of ing of rabbit». Captain Williams im the River Bed: Diversion Chuanets;mediately opened the ground at the spot Storage Reservoirs, and Afforestation, and found extensive ruins of the Saxon But the conclusion arrived at is that the period, and many relies, including a only feasible means of preventing foods Cornelian with black rim and red centre is by the extension and improvement of the stone, which undoubtedly had been used dyke systems which border the rivers wherever they pass through low-lying on the vestments of a Saxon priest. This ground. These dykes are in places from was given to Princess Alice.
Among other things unearthed are 20 to 30 feet above the adjoining land
did
The
to the HC
SAXON REMAINS UNEARTHED DISCOVERIES IN WINDSOR GREAT- PARK.
kitchen, Seven men, who were on the returned in the evening and told the master only to mark the vast expanse of shore Military Authorities, mises at time of the raid, were arrested that the other man told him to go to the and taken to the Central Police Station Post Office and wait for him and he where, subsequently, four were released, The other, man never turned up. One man is being detained for further Police have detained the man who return
ed. investigation. The remaining two were charged, yesterday, at the Magistracy, and, in defence, said that they were businessmen and that their enches had framed the charge against them.
The case was remanded, bail being fixed
8200 and 8100 respectively.
BLUFFING AN INDIAN
SERGEANT.
AN UNAUTHORISED VISIT.
PRISON CELL-
to
A. Chinese, whoys brother has been arrested by the Police and placed in on of the cells in the Central Station, walked the Indian Sergeant on duty at the up to
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SERVICE AGREEMENTS.
A RESTRICTION FOR LIFE VALID IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES."
In the Court of Appeal on May 4th--the Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices Warrington and Younger-a decision of Mr. Justice Eve was affirmed. The plain- tiff in the action was a solicitor, and he employed the defendant as maanging clerk, There was an agreement by the clerk to serve the plaintiff for three years or more and not to be concerned-in-the business of a solicitor within a radius of seven miles after the expiration of the agreement, Mr. Justice Eve had held that although the restriction on the defendant was for life, it was valid in the circumstances.
CORPS.
ORDERS POR CADET COMPANY BY LIEUT. A. 0: BRAWN.
PARADE-BATHING.
without
in many cases they have been well designed what is thought to be the dedication stone and well built, but their upkeep, or want of the Saxon place of worship, with a" of upkeep, is typical of two well-known mark of crows and what looks like some Chinese characteristics a failure to co-Saxon lettering on it; the remains of. a operate for the common good, and neglect kitchen and banquet hall; the remains, of anything in the shape of maintenance probably, of Roman baths; and the floor of engineering works. The foods at Can- of the portion of the Royal apartments. ton are found to be caused by the water On the site of the chapel, which was dis from the North River flowing eastward covered some time ago, an extension of These creeks it is proposed to close by foundation, which was evidently a small The church (which is regulators so that no more water wil be tower or bellfy.. allowed in than they can safely carry apart from the chapely is 40ft. long and
It is disc proposed to close by a regulator ends in an ape, but not a round apse. the junction channel between the North It has two mali altars on each side. and West Rivers at Samshui. The dyke tops on the West River are to be 2 feet above the highest food level, raised to
gates and telling him that he had received HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE through creeks which are dry in the winter, the wall has been found, ending in a square permission from the Inspector on duty demanded that he be allowed to prisoner. The Bergeant was satisfied and let the man in. When he reached his brother's cell the man was seen by a Euro. 1ean Bergeant, passing a parcel. The Sergeant immediately arrested they mar ad examined the parcel, which contained (two jackets. The man was charged at tha Magistracy, yesterday, with trespass. and was severely warned, as the Police said that the man had received no permis. -ion.It was romariced that he might
have passed a weapon to the prisoner.
Weather promitting launch will leave
Blake Pier on Wednesday, the 18th & feet in places where wave action is ex- SWORDS FOR AIR OFFICERS. inst at 3.15 p.m. and call at Kowpected; on the North River a margin of loon ten minutes later,
"U. F. E. HAPBON, Bt.-Major,
Adjutant,
"Hongkong, June 11th, 3020
1 foot only is provided for: A top width
Captain Wedgwood Benn (L·Leith)
of 10 feet, adequate slopes protected where recently asked the Secretary for War and necessary by stone pitching and above
H.K.V.D.Centralised administration which wiAir whether swords formed part of the have charge of the upkeep of all main uniform of Air Force officers; and, if so,
why they were required, a river dykes seem to give fair prospect of adequate defence from Bloods.
GERMANY TO RETURN YACHT RACING TROPHY.
Mr. Churchill stated that swords had always formed part of the full-dress uni Two-further-reports on-the-flood ques-form-officers of the 6ghting Services. tion are promised; one for the East River Mr. Lambert (L. South Molton)-Hax and a revision of the West River Report.not the sword become an chsolete 'weapon 1. The original one was published in 1816 M: Churchill-Even civilian officials of Mr. Gerald Wasson, Secretary of the since when considerable further informa Government Departments and Ministers FISHING-BOAT UPSETS IN A Royal London Yacht Club, Cowes, has tion has been collected. A provisional en ceremonial occasions wear swords,
received a communication from the trustees estimate for dealing with all three rivers Mr Lambert Are civilians who wear of enemy property in Berlin, stating they places the total cost at $35,000,000 -- have instructed the Norddeutscher Yacht Agures given in justification of this expers words expected to fight f
Mr. Churchill-The wearing of a sword Club, Hamburg, to return the interna diture are not as conclusive as one would implies no obligation to, use it.
(Laugh- The cultivated area affected is tional siiver challenge eng presented by like. Sir Herbert Barlett, Commodore of the estimated at 1,380,000 acres; for the West Royal London Yacht Club. The trophy and North rivers alase the estimated ex Capt., Wedgwood Bennould it not [be better to differentiate ng thị Air amounts to per
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