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to be practicable, there was no doubt that it was perhaps not a rash prophecy to the, postal service could he materially predict that the next generation, woubl improved to places within a radius of see its railways and its steamships supple- Bay, 100 to 800 miles. If business cormented by a complete system of imperial' respondence posted at the end of the day communication by air. It needs only to in London could be delivered early next he added that notwithstanding that un morning in Copenhagen, Hamburg. Ber- the whole the experience of mail services lin. Prague, Vicuna. Berne, Milan, or by aeroplane has not been highly satis Marseilles, the fadueenient to the public factory, Major-General Braxexxa (Diret- to send its letters by air, he said, would | tor of Civil Aviation) expressed himself clearly be enorniously increased, Even at the Congress as 'confident that in the if night flying prayed to be impineticable future the air mail would be the normal in present conditions, there was a certain means of carrying first-class mail matter. scope for a combined maft service, the What is needed apparently to ensure sue mails being despatched by boat or traineess is some means of securing greater at night, nul taken by air in the morning regularity of service in bad weather, and There was a useful field here for inter-sonic international arrangements, permit- national co-operation to improve comting of night flying, and it is claimed that munications with the more distant parts progress is being made towards both of Europe.
these objectivest
Regarding the London to Paris service. Brigadier-General Wigiamsos said that
Information has been received that quarantine against arriva's from Hong kong has been withdrawn by Amoy.
A Chinese hawker was knocked down by 'n motor bus outside the Po Hinx Theatre on Sunday and was removal to the Kwong Wah Hospital for trentament. His injuries were found to be not of a serious naturë, „
FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. BUROPEAN POLICE SERGEANT
KILLED. AT FANLING.
A shocking mator accident occurred near Fanling yesterday evening about six o'clock, resulting in the death of Polica Sergeant Henderson, "-
Details of the fatality were not to hand at the time of writing and the newa ro ceived over the telephone at & p.m. by the Police in Hongkong from District Inspector Boulger, in charge of the polies in the New Territories at Tai Po, was to the effect that Sergt. Henderson was killed whilst riding an A.J.S. motor-cycle near Fauling. The Inspector was then investigating the sad affair and had sot learned the full particulars.
The deceased Sergeant was in chargi of a small Station near Tai Po, and the A.J.S. maebine was a comparatively new
Station recently. one which had been supplied, to the
-Sergeant Henderson was very popu far in police "eireles and during his ten years' service with the police has figured prominently as a footballer for the Police Recreation Chib. He has seen service at the various Police Stations in the Colony and returned from Home leave last November, hringing "out-with biti his bride. Much sympathy will be felt for Mrs. Henderson and her baby son in their sudden and sad bereavement.
at the present time the weight of air The silk which left here by the P. & 0. mail despatched to Paris was very little s.8. Maire on July 11th was delivered more than was sent at the beginning of in Marseilles on August 11th. the service. The most valuable improve- meat, in the service was the facility afforded for the despatch of late letters to overtake the Indian mail train in Paris. The advantage gained by the high speed of the aeroplane was discounted by the distance of the aemdromes at each end from the point at which mails were accepted or delivered. The inevitable irregularity experienced in the winter was also a serious drawback. At was, in fact, doubtful whether, under such conditions as must be faced with the English climate, it was worth, while to attempt to continue mail service, throughout the winter. Not only was the flight efficiency much ship they had come to Hongkong to looking or a charge of demanding money be lower than in the summer months but,
for work." Mr. Wood remailed the case Messrs. Macdonald & Muir what was deplorable from the postal until this morning to consider his deci
is now being bottled
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AIR MAIL SERVICES.
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Three alleged stowaways from Mauritius by the 9 Hulle were brought before Mr. J. R. Wood sesterday and charged with the offence. The men told his War
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standpoint, there was sometimes rio ser. vice for five or six auccessive days. It Two brothers were sent to the Govern could not be doubted that the effect on ment Civil Hospital as the result of the prestige of the air mail of a few injuries resulting from quarrel. They bad cases of delay was much greater lived together in Shing Hing Street and than that a hundred successful Bights. they are said to have quarrelled over one exception to the general money matters. One had a stab woutid rule that air services hetween London in the right side of the chest and the nud the nearer Continental towns ther had a black eye.. gave little improvement in the time of the transmission of mails was, he said. the parcel post, which in ordinary course is much slower than the letter post. Ex- perience has proved that the air, trans mission of parcels has met a public need.
Fer distant destinations, however, id)
or apprec tices. There are said to be about 1,200 was indicated that there is a future for air mail services: The Post Office was
coopers in the Calony and half this num enabled by the co-operation of the Airber are members of the local guid. Ministry to make an exceedingly interest. The Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden has | ing experiment" text: the usefulness of been closed until further notice and air services which offered a substantial dinner dansants will be he'd nightly in reduction in the course of posts to distant the Grill Room (Sundays excepted). A destinations. The Air Ministry. in Dinner Danaant is announced to be held August, 1921, inaugurated a system under
Local Chinese coopers have presented a demand through their guild" to their employers for an increase of wages. They are demanding 40 cents increase in minimum wage of 94 a month for pay per day three meals a day and a
SALE OF CROWN LAND.
ALLEGED "INTIMIDATION.
Eleven inen appeared before Mr J. R Wool at the Magistracy, yesterday morn- menaces from a fisherman at Chai Wan
1.Saturday,
The complainant is the master of a bont and it was alleged that que of the defens there he was set upon dants"persuaded him to go ashore,. Once others and given a good hiding
by a number of They then took him to a house and there to have told them to send for his wife who demanded $40. Thé complainant is said would probably be able to give them $10. One of the defendants went to the bout then get wind of the affair and the defen- and the money was produce. The police
dants were arrested,
Mr. Macnutanta appeared for four of the defendants and the case was remanded.
COOLIE
ELECTROCUTED.
On Sunday night at 10.30 o'clock a enolic was electrocutest in a house in the course of”. demolition at the back of the Dairy Farm Cold Storage Depot, Causeway Bay, The colis was engaged in rolling up a quas tity of electric wire which was being taken from the walls, when he suddenly fell for The police were sent for and it was dis ward, and apparently died instantaneously. covered from the marks on the mau": body that he had been electrocuted,
HONGKONG'S BIG OPIUM SEIZURE.
THE TRAFFIC FROM THE PERSIAN GULF..
which the service flights between Egypt Repulse Bay Hotel on Saturday, and Iraq, which had to be undertaken August 23th, and thereafter on wich Wed- as a part of the ordinary military train. nesday and Saturday. It is also an ing, were carried out at regular intervalaaounced, that on.. week days during the and utilised for the carriage of mails, summer season, an Orchestra will be in
The followinare extracts from fans. Although the actual distance from Cairo attendance from 8 pm until midnight,vt ar to Baghdad, some 830 miles, is not very and on-Sundays during tilin and tea. Mr. Albert Bennett. To ask the Coder- great, the linking up of these two places
Secretary of State for the Colonies, if he Several Chinese arrested: by the Police will gave the full available facts regard enabled. An aceptionally great saving in from the Central Station, on an Island ing the recent seizure at Hongkong, of tinic to be effected. The ordinary course
eight tons of smuggled Persian Opium; at Cap Sui Mun were charged before Mr. and whether, seeing that Sir Jordan of post is a Bombay, Karachi, and the J. R. Wood, at the Magistracy, yesterday, statel at the Geneva meeting of the Persian Gulf, and the transit time, from with unlawfully having 13 cases of Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opia Cairo, from twenty to twenty-three days. dynamite, detonators, and fuses, in their shipped the opium and the name of the that he know the Company which had Proqness in civil aviation has not been As the air transit normally occupied possession. The hearing of the case was vessel which had conveyed it, he will say made at the rate many people pre-about two days only-it has frequently postponed. Acting en information a large what action the British Government bas presented so the Undersigned on or before the
stated in discussions which took place at is denly three weeks, or probably more to raid a house where the dynamite was The facts, as reported by the Governor. All Claims against the Steamer must be DOG. While Pater on Neck, from the dicted. Some of the reasons for this wero į been, dane in one-the net gain in. time party police were sent out to the Island taken in the whole matter, - 21st inst, ur they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods ar
2nd July, 1923. to be left in the Gedowns, where they will be
an International Congress of people in than could be obtained by an air service concealed. The dynamite is said to have of Hongkong are na follows: On the 17th terested in aeronautics which was held in to any part of the Empire. The remark been recently imported and that, smart of Jantary, the Hongkong Police received London last month. Hitherto the general able fact about the Baghdad air mail, the
information: that a fishing boat lying at mail services would prompte commercial more than 22 per cent. of the letter mail to fishermen. idea has heen that a development of a Director said. is that at the present time of the explosive had already been sold of the Colony had a quantity of arms and. La the police were no less than 100 lbs. anchor near a small island in the water
aviation, but we gather from the disces (excluding newspapers, etc.) from Great
mmunition on board, and that the oc- sion that experience of the aerial posts Britain, in addition to a considerable
cupants were acting as watchman on C has so far not proved very encouraging volume of official correspondence, is being
cave where opium, was concealed. Acting. on this information, the police proceeded A very interesting speech was made at carried by air. As a mail carrier on the
to the island, arrested the occupants of the bont. in which were found two mauser the Congress by Brigadier-General. Hui-imperial routes, the Director of
SHAUKIWAN· LOT SOLD.
pistola, some ammunition and a pair of WILLIAMSON, Director of Postal Services Postal Services considered the future lies
binoculars, and then searched the island.). There was another large attendance of They discovered 81 tons of raw Persian at the General Post Office in Loudon, who with the airship, whose possibilities in Chinese at the Volunteer Headquarters, opium packed in flour bags, each contria- gave the general conclusions reached this connection have yet to be explored yesterday afternoon, where Mr. Parkering 8 parcels of 5lbs. This is the ordinary after three years' experience of air-mail The airship can travel continuously night Rees conducted a sale of one lot of Crown No information has yet heco obtained
packing for retail purposes sidered, for internal air-mail services in overall speed is quite comparable, with area of 10,332 square feet. The upset -portation of the opium, and in charge services. There was little scope. be con and day, so that for long journeys its land situated at Shaukiwan, having an as to the persons responsible for the in- the British Isles, because the distances that of the day-lying acroplane, whilst its price was 81 per square foot Unlike last of the boat failed to obtain a conviction
ceedings against the persons were so short and the existing means of carrying capacity is enormously greater, week's sale when there was a rapid suc ao far as charges connected with the communication so complete and so good This would not exclude the aeroplate, session of small bids, there was at yes- opium were concerned, although one of that air services, in spite of their very which would perform a useful function in terday's sale a rapid succession of big iment for a period of five assion of these persons was sentenced to imprison- high speed, could offer little advantage acting as feeder to the airship on branch, hids until the price got to within easy charge of being in illegal possession of to the public. The same considerations, routes. One might look forward, he said, distance of the figure at which it was present: no evidence of the name of the arma His Majesty's Government has at he said, applied with almost equal force with a fair degree of confidence to future ultimately purchased. to the air-mail services now maintained imperial airship routes to Canada, and each drove the price up to $20,000. Then the vessel which had conveyed it, and is Bids of $1,000 Company which shipped the Opium or of between London on the one hand, and possibly the West Indies, on the one single hid brought it to $25,000. At not therefore in a position to take action. Paris, Brussels, Cologne, Rotterdam, and hand, and to Egypt, India, the Straits 327,000 there were signs of halting no information has been supplied by Sir:
against any firm; and I understand that Amsterdam on the other. The advantage Settlements, Australia, and New Zealand amongst the 'hidders who advanced the J. Jordan. The traffic in opium between afforded to the poster was, on the whole, on the other, with connecting airships price by bids of $100. From $30,000 the heen engaging the attention of the Hong the Persian Gulf and the Far East has substantially greater than would he pos- from Egypt to West, Central, and South price was raised mainly by $500 and $100 kong Government and the Imperial Gov sible in the inland service; but here again Africa, and aeroplane services working bids, and at $30,000 bold offer ofernment for a considerable time, as it existing means of communication were so from Uganda (for East Africa and Zan another $1,000 had the effect of silencing has frequently been carried on under the very good that there was practically no zibar), from Bombay. Calcutta. Singa- the auctioneer called out $37,000 for the from foreign ports to Singapore and a number of timid prospective buyers and covor of bogus declarations of clearance public demand for an air mail. The ad- pore, and Port Darwin, to carry mails second time heldre the price was moved Hongkong, Endeavours are being made vantage of the high speed of the aero- for important centres away from the main upwards by another $100. The bidding to cope with this traffic and suggestions plane increased in proportion to the dis routes. Buchi developments might come by $100 hids to $38,500 at which figure itment for strengthening the local law on was 'now confined to two parties and rose have been made to the Hongkong Govern- tance covered, and if night firing proved in the near or distant future, but, he said, was knocked down to a Chinese syndicate the subject.
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