Page
CORRESPONDENCE
RECONSTRUCTION AND THE RENTS ORDINANCE-
{TER MOTOR OF “THE HÔNGKONG DAILY FRES."]
THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS,
WANCHAI HOUSE COLLAPSES.
THREE-STORIED
BUILDING
TOTALLY WRECKED.
FOUR PEOPLE. INJURED: MARVELLOUS RECAPT OF 17 OTHERS.
THE WARFARE IN KWANGTUNG.
KWANGSI FORCES ON THE OFFENSIVE AGAIN.
MOVING TOWARDS CANTON, Sir, I was hoping to see a reply in your Rond completely collapsed yesterday bouring province, seems to have under- A three storied house in the Wanchai
The military situation in the neigh-
apor to the letter, dated 5th inst.. under
words in reply,
latter.
Elrely subjects him to criminal liability.
situated at the cross reads on the Praying to information from official sourers.
tonants WETO
MLS
All that
SATURDAY, APRIL 28TH, 1938.
OUR EXACTING GOVERNMENT COLONIAL TREASURER SUES FOR THE RECOVERY OF FIVE CENTS.
Rich. na the Hongkong Government is it does not earn to as in Court for the recovery of the infinite imat sum of five cents. It will go to ecusiderable trouble and expense over the recovery of A
he signature of the Hon, Mr. H. . morning, and though there were twenty gone a marked change during the past nickel piece The Colonial Treasurer) Pollock, K.C., but as none has appeared! *ly people in it at the time, -oue received few days Though our Crinton contem will sook the assistance of the Assistant I hope you will permit my saying a few any serious injuries. The house is No. 113,porary of yesterday tells us that, accord-
Crown Solicitor. A writ will issued, just opposite No. Police Station. The reports received from different pointsmads all the more imposing by the figore Mr. Pollock's "integrity and habitual desire to protest the weak from the strong cleaner's shop, and the first and second nation frem other sources goes to show will be despatched, even to the hinterlands. ground floor was occupied by a dyer and at the front are reassuring," the infor form of a $1.50 stamp. & Court bailiff head of His Majesty the King in the Ja well-known; but it is a little surprising cors were uwd ar tenements. All the that the position is far from satisfactory of the Colony, to serve the notice to the that a man of his judicial training could give expression to such unfair and un-minutes past ten in the morning the people Chinese, At about ten
to Dr. Sun Yat Sen the bare statement judicial views as those contained in his in the shop hear un ominous rumble and
made apparently on official authority
delinquent personally, creaking. The next thing they knew was
that “concentrations
No wonder that when such a cure was are made at He wants to muke it ou criminal that the house was trembling violently.
several centres probably for a general mentioned at the Supreme Court yester Offence" for a landlord to give a faulty Ther had only time to get no fur
offensive" makes it quite clear that the day morning in summary jurisdiction notice to quit. Now, if the landlord the stairs before the whole house enme revolt is far get from being brushed." that His Lordship, the Chief Justice re kors he has no right to give the notice down with a terrilie crash. but gives it mala fide, then Section 20 could be seen when the dust had cleared Kwangsi troops strengthened by rein. swell the revenue of the Colony" to Our information, in short, is that the marked "Is this the way in which you.
was a huge pile of stones, and chunks of the forcements from the North, are success which Mr. Hazlerigg (the Assistant If, on the other hand, the landlord in roof lying in the roadway. Women were fully advancing in both the North Crown Solicitor) replied "We should giving such notice was under an honest shrieking at the top of their voices, and River and West River regions, General ever get paid at all if we did not do but mistakon view of the law that he was big crowd had gathered. Police poured out Wa Pei Fu has evidently supplied the it ent tird so to do, then two positions will from the No. 2 Station, but they could get main force in the North River region with .aris: (1) the tenant knows of the in.
Hia Lordship, of course, granted an validity of the notice and does not act on
no sense from anyone in the road. No-one, a couple if armoured trains mounted order with costs which means that the it, (2) the tenant, 100, shares the land. knew whether there was any person lying with a few machine-guns, and with this bill of only fire cents has to pay the cost defendant instead of having to meet a underneath the wreckagy, and all sorts of support the army has been able to ad of issuing the writ, the cost of serving rumours were going round as to the extent vance down the Canton-Hankow railway it and other incidentals, amounting to of the damage. Insporter Cockly exam- as far as Saikun, which is only about protruding from a pile of bricks, and two Canton terminus. aning the wreckage, saw a woman's arm half a dozen miles or other women pinned down among the and nursing his leg. With the help of debris. He also saw a man sitting down other police he extricated them, but, much to the amazement of everyone, they were not seriously injured.
man's
so from the
HEAVY FIGHTING UP WEST RIVER.
West River region is reliably reported to A Kwangsi army operating in the
gaining ground." A Naval wire
#
several dollars.
were
This was culy one of a number of
which small amounts .caཔ་་ྟit claimed by the Government's Colonial Treasurer, including one for 10 cents and another for 95 cents and in each case an order was granted.
It is rather interesting to note how
land from the Government at a very In the hinterlands villagers rent their some of these, small debts are incurred,
Final sum. In the case in question the "The *s. Taming and s.3. Korbor rental fee was five cents. The villagers returned last night and stated they had where such sanall gums are concerned heen stopped by Cantonese, warning them that they could only procred at will not pay up until a writ has been. their own risk. Heavy fighting in issued and then they rush to Hongkong inf middle Ling Ying gorge and Kwangs eager haste to get it settled before it sbouid troops appear to be gaining ground-get into the Court. Of course, the Court The traffic above Sam" Shui is totally bailiff does not make a special trip to
Jord's ignorance and nets on the notice.
In case (1) obviously no harm is done to anybody; in case (2), why, in the name of fairness and fairplay, should the landlord be nado criminally fiable! Unless, indeed, it be a crime to be a landlord at all-
As regards Mr. Pollock's suggestion that, in the event of a landlord giving notice to quit on the ground that he requires possession of the premises. for reconstruction to such an extent as to muke the premises a new building," he had gathered round, and it was almost the Commodore at Hongkong sout of
By this time a huge crowd of Chinese as message from H.3LS, Tarantula should be made to obtain from the Build-impossible to move, despite the efforts of Thursday rend -- ing Authority and attach to his antice a the palien to keep them back. Even at certificate that much reconstruction will this period it was not known whether there make the premises a new building, I think was still anyone Buried 'under the stours,. the iler excellent. But where the inter- for the pile was so high that n tion is to pall
tho premises body could be completely hidden under- -compl-tely and to reconstruct, such a cath. The Wanchai Fire Brigade was certificate is obviously useless and un called out, and two engine, were sent down necessary. Here, again, if the landlord from the Central Fire Station. They fails to begin the work of palling down rendered what assistuned they could, but -pr reconstruction within one month after stepped only a short time, for they were "the leasco shall have given to the lessor af very little as in the circumstances. segion of the domestic tenement, Meanwhile Dr. Lyon Brown happened to ehall fail to carry out the sail work with be passing in his car, and he imidiately reasonable expedition, the lessor shall, un pulled up on seeing the accident, and less the contrary, be proved, be deemed, for stopped to render any assistance he could. able to numinister a certain amount of re. lief to they suffer:ra straight away, and direct the'r removal to the Government Ciril Hospital. Polios also, came down from the Central station,
הגינון.
suspended."
FEVERISHLY RECRUITING. IN
CANTON,
situation we learn that there is feverish In consequence of this turn in the recruiting in Canton and large rein- forcements have been sent out from the e'ty to stem the advance of the Kwangsi
the New Territories to serve one writ for the sake of a few cents. He will prob ably serve many others in the same dis trict at the same time.
THE CATHOLIC CEMETERY,
the purpuso of Section 20, to have, in His pres noe was invaluable, for he was foress. Any man who has any acquaint. / COMPLAINT CONCERNING GRAVE
giving such notice, done au act mala file with intent to induce the lessee to give up possesión," and is, therefore, eritninally liable. (Section 4 (1) (b) ).
I can see, therefore, no reason for any aditiqual amendment, such as that the
Assessor should certify the desirability of permissible reconstruction,
The last suggested amendment is the most surprising of all, namely, that in
*2 respect of **now** house (to brem
LANDLORD.
ang with a ride,s given one and sentj forthwith to the front.
RECORDS.
From a correspondent who adopts the There is a good deal of trench digging om de plums "Requem in pace" wo going on in the outskirts of the city. have received for publication a letter The Constitutionalists, as Dr. Sun Yat which is intended to call the attention of in a row. There wore at one time eix, but he suffered very considerable less alleged to be the inefficient manner in This particular house was one of four a iscellaneous forces are called, the Catholic community to what is the other two were pulled down recently
!
by the P.W.D. and a new house built on The Yunnanese forces constitute the back which records are kept of graves in the one of the sites thus rendered vacant. It hone of his arms. They are generally re- Cathole cemetary. It appears that a was the intention of the P.W.D, to pall garded as superior in every respect to number of exhumations are about to take structed) landlord should be compelled down all six buses and rebuild them, and any other group of soldiery operating place, and a long list of the decrased to let the premises back to the old tenant the turn of this particular house for demo in the province. at a rest to be ngroad, or settled by thelition was to come next. To prevent its 10,000 strong, but their strength has been transferred is posted on the door of the Originally they were persons whose remains are about to bo Акског It is a round-about-way sug gestion that the Reats Ordinance should falling in, the wall which was exposed was much reduced by the recent fighting. eemstery. Our correspondent complains apply to now lenses, which is diametrically well ahored up. The scaffolding, however, Computations by foreign observers who that the priest in charge of the cemetery oppusite to the solemn pledge given by the proved of 'littic use, for judging by the are in a position to form some idea of does not appear to know, in very many Government. I cuclos, my card. Yours way in, which it fell, the building simply the extent of the casualties, put the leases, the names of the deceased persons, faithfully,
caved in at the middle, and dropped to Yunnanese losses at about 2,000. All the or the days of burial, and our surrcs. the ground. The scaffolding would, only ariales have been hampered by inadequate pondent deeply resents the fact that there have prevented its falling over sideways, supplies of munitions but the appearaner sald be an incognito? buried in a and that was not what happened. poles, in fact, were not disturbed at all.of armicured trains and machine guns as Catholic cemetery. This particular row of houses is very old, dating from the early days of the Colony, The three houses left standing are in an
deemed it wise to turn all the occupants out extremely rickety Atale, and the police
for fear that they too might collapse. Within three quarters of an hour of the It seems to us, therefore, that if happening, workmen were on the scene from Europeans of nstlerate means want the P.W.D. busily shoring up the exposed their own reservation, they must then wives make it. We will show hout if wall of the house next to the one which
THE HOUSING PROBLEM.
HOW TO GET A EUROPEAN RESERVATION,
article On
さ
The Upagkong Telegraph in a leading the Housing question on Tuesday night winte:-
The
part of the equipment of the Kwangs attacking force suggests that supplies of these graves were purchased for the One of his complaints is that some of munitions from the North must have reburial of these whose remains are there, ently reached them.
The sum of it all is that the growing in charge to disturb them....
and he challenges the right of the priest military concentrations point conclu- sively to further fighting on a big scale within the next few days.
BY BANDITS
to the sale of graves.
Another allegation in the letter relates
These are obviously matters which should be brought to the notice of the that the members of the Catholic com- Bishop, but our correspondent is noxious
munity (and he assumes every one of them to be interested) should read tho and he says they will receive a great shock.
would he date. It & scorn or so of lapard Whilst they were at work HONGKONG MAN CAPTURED such Europeans form themselves into cordons of police clearedo'an area up the
Building Society of their own, apply road for about fifty yards, allowing neither MR. H. C. ROWSTON HELD TO list naill to the door of the cemetery
10 the Government for the lease of people nor traffic of any sort to pass by plot of ground, on low terms, sufficient
to accommodate twenty houses, and for fear of a further collapse.
When
ránom.
of
RANSOM...
also for loans at a reasonable rate of interest The let them build, having
the accident happened there were .A.T. CO. MAXE REPRESENTATIONE TO BRITISH previously worked out a scheme by People on every floor. One of the wozzen
CONSUL FOR HIS RELEASE which each, an occupation of his house, who was on the top floor at the time was pays a certain sun monthly into the pinned under the falling stairs, and yet tarday by telegram that Mr. H. Cpanied by his interpreter for the purposo Word was received in Hongkong Yunnast for Pakhoi on April 8th accom Mr. Rowston left Hongkong on the 6.8. Society's funds, the house eventually received only very slight injuries. The to become his own property. Doubtless the monthly contribution could be four injured people were sent to the Tohacer Company, has been captured by the firm in the Pakhoi district. The
Rowston,
the British American of visiting the various xales centres of worked out at even a less sum than Government Civil Hospital and after bandits, who are asking $30,000 for, his locality surrounding Mowli, where the ordinarily paid for rent, and arrange medical treatment they were allowed to ments could be made for transferring return to the Wanchai Police Station.
bandite made their appearance has not The information to land is got too good a reputation, but Rowston one's interest in the property in case, a member lefty the Colony. But the
vary meagre, but it states that the un was warned before leaving Hongkong not At the time of the collapse the 22 people fortunate young man was captured at to run any undue risks, so that it can backbone of the scheme (ita main essen in the house were distributed on the Mowli, which is approximately 80 milea eumed that he was taken by el- tial if the reservation ideal is to be various floors as follows:-6 on the top to the north of Pakhoi and about half last that was heard of him by the firm fulfilled) would be a binding agree meat jamongst the members never to floor, 18 on the second and 6 on the way between Pakhoi and the towo of was a letter dated April 18th, written from prise while travelling northwards. The Bell: their houses to other than Euroground floor. As to how they were so Hengchow, which is on the West River, a place called Shakhong. In his letter ho peans. Thus, by a aplf-denying ordin- fortunate as to recapo being buried in the The telegram. giving the information was stated that there were plenty of soldiers ance, & ren European reservation debris is a mystery, but experts who sent by dr. Howston's interproter from about but that everything was orderly. It would be created. We have no doubt that such a scheme in practical? *|- visited the scene shortly after the accident
Lim Chow, veget
was his intention on completion of the tour No roan has an entire monopoly of are of opinion that they probably owe their Hongkong the Company communicated of Hainan as well before returalng to Directly the news was received in of the Pathoi District to cover the Island idens, on this subject, we suppose, but escape to the fact that the flank wall by telegram with the British Consul Hongkong, the foregoing appears to be but a para caved outwarda and that the floor's caved Jamicon, CMG), who,
General At Canton (Mr JW. phrase of suggestions set forth & month
The captured man has been with the firm ago in the columns of the Hongkong inwards, throwing the people against the promptly asked the Canton Govern from London to join the Swatow branch.
no doubt for come three or four years, coming out, Dally Press by correspondent who flank wall of the adjoining house and at, ment to immediately Instruct the Magie He was transferred to Hongkong last and for some months he had correspondent will doubtless be flattered
was rando, to secure Mr. Rowmon's Bowston is a young man and saw consider
(Continued at fook of next column.)
able servico during the Great War. He was an officer in the Boyal Air Force,
wrpte over the initiale "W.IH." Our the same time giving them artritrats of the district where the capture residing at the Penk Hotel. Mr.
by auch evidence of the fruitfulnessmount of protection from the falling loase, of the seed bo nowed.
debris.
boen
FINE GLACE KID
LACE SHOE
AN EASY WELL-MADE SHOE THAT GRIPS AT THE HEEL.. AN IDEAL SUMMER SHOE THAT IS A PLEASURE TO WALK IN
DESCRIPTION.
SUPERFINE GLACE KID OXFORD SHOE SOFT AND COOL, LEATHER LINED, LIGHT RELIABLE SOLE, EASY SHAPE, PERFECT" HEEL GRIF AND NEAT FINISH.
A NICE MODEL
IN WHITE SHOES.
WALK OVER
A LUXURIOUS SHOE FOR YOUR LEISURE HOURS, IT LOOKS COOL AND FEELS COOL AND THE SHAPE GIVES PERFECT FREEDOM TO THE FEET;
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
LANE. CRAWFORD
LIMITED.
EST. 1850,
SHIPCHANDLERY DEPT.
COMPLETE SHIPS' OUTFITS.
DECK AND ENGINE ROOM STORES.
OILE. PAINTS AND VARNISH IMPORTERS.
ENGINEERS' TOOLS, INDICATORS, COUNTERS.
PACKING AND ASBESTOS GOODS.
AGENTS FOR DOBBIE MCINNES' NAUTICAL SPECIALTIES
COLUMBIA
LATEST
DANCE RECORDS
LITTLE ROVER PEGGY DEAR..
FOX-TROT
I'VE BEEN WANTING YOU THE CLINGING VINE STARLIGHT BOY DEAREST
AGGRAVATING PAPA LOOSE FEET
ANDER
OFFSITE WISEMAN'S.
Powell
TELEPHONE 0, 3871,
PERAMBULATORS
Few Good Models Just Arrived
$85.00 to $125.00
"SWAN
Foʻding Baby Cars In New Desfgas
Rugs, Blankets, Pillows for above.
TEL 1389