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TYPHOON GALLANTRY.
BRAVE MEN THANKED BY
THH HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TU1SDAY, AUGUST 2811, 1928.
RE. THE GOVERNOR.
CEREMONY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
CRIMINAL SESSIONS. [Heronx TUR CHIEF JUSTICE (SIR WILLIAM REES DAVIES).]
CHINESE CHARGED WITH MURDER.
OUR LATEST TYPHOON..
People crossing by Terry yesterday morning were surprised to find that there was n typhoon in Jose proximity of Hongkong. The red cone was at the mast heads and nccording to the noth issued by the Royal Observatory the post,
An interesting ceremony took place at tion was shown as being uncomfortably
Government Honse yesterday moon, elnse to the Colony. At 7,20 m, it was stated to be somewhere within the when HE the Governor expressed the vicinity of Lat, 24 N. and Lang 114 E, thanks of the Government and of the
The Attorney-General (Hon. Mr. J. H. though at that time ita exact position | Colday to the master and officers of the
Ken. K.C.) prosecuted for the Crown, was uncertain. During the morning the Borres Castle, “änd se Ables Seaman
for the defenre, No. 3 signal was run up 7gale expected Tragus, HM.S. Taber, for the heroismd Mr. Campbell Prosser was counsel from the N.W. to S.W.) and sampans and rescue work they performed slucing the junks hurried to the shelters at Cause- typhoon, way Bay and Yaumati
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A Chinese rattan dealer, named Mok Tak, was indicted for the murder of a neighbouring rattan dealer, Lai Fang, alias Lai Fung Sang.
The Attorney-General stated that the two men were hath rattan dealers, and their shops were a few doors away from each other in Mêtiregor Street, Wanchai. At about eight o'clock in the evening of the 13th June deceased was walking along
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The veremony took place in the hall- The ferry services were reduced to a round there were also present, as half-hour service after 9 p.m.
well as His Excellency and the indivi- The report, issued by the Royal Obser duals concerned in the rescue Com vatory, yesterday, aut 12.25 m. states:modore H. E. Grace, attended by his the street towards his shop. As he reach-cription payable as to 21.25 per share en application and the balance will be The depression in the China Sea has Secretary Pay. Máster Lieut.-Commander ['ed the accused's premises, five or six meu - developed into a typhoon apparently. At R. E. Worthington, D.SC.; the Hon. jumped out on him and altarked him with feulled up on subsequent démail na and.
present it appears to be less than 100 miles Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, Q.M.G.. C.B... daggers. He fell to the ground with when further capital is required.
The members of the Consulting -Com- off Waglan, moving North of X.W.”* - Colonial Secretary: Cmainander Beck wounds in the chest, abdomen, and legs.
According to the notice issued at the with. R.N., Harbour Master: and Captain The police were informed, and defen-mitting are. Mr. W. Adamson, Mr. M. Star Ferry Wharves at 245 pm. theR. A. N. Neville, R.M.L, L., A.D.C. dant's shop entered, int he had disap- Nemate. Mr. Li T Fong, Mr. W. J.
Carroll, and Mr. C. B. Brooke. typhoon is within a radius of 60 miles of His Excellency, shank hands with all of peared. The following day, for some
The subscription Est opeus to-morraw Lat. 2 (N.) and Long. 16 (E) and its the recipients-Able Seaman Treagus. reason not known, he returned to the direction is shown as N... Ti con Lieutenant-Commander W. S. Done shop, and was then arrested. The maand closes on Saturday, September 1st, this course it will probably R.X.R. (naster of the Burs (le), der had been witnessed by the deceased's The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking strike the coast in the vicinity of Honghai Mr. J. Cropper (Chief Officer); Mr. (,wife, and two brothers, and they would Corporation are the Company's Baukera. Bay, about 100 miles to the North of Jenkins (Third Officer), Mr. G. T. B. Hongkong,
Huggins (Cadet), and Mr. G. Pearson assailants. Last evening" the typhoon was reported
(Wireless Officer), 50 mile from Hongkong moving "N.N.W.
tinues on
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The weather forecast for the next 24
hours is "Cyclonic gales, uverrast, rain.
TYPHOONS IN THE NORTH.
The losses of the Peking-Hunkow, Tientsin-likon, Peking-Makden and Lang-Hai Railways, as a result of the recent typhoon and floods, are estimated at more than 2 million.
Speaking to the gathering generally, His Excelleney id: Gentlemen,-I have invited you here this morning so that may, on behalf of the community of Hong kong and on behalf of His Majesty
your heroic
Government, thank you for
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kwear to seeing the acensed among the The deceased lived some
STREET ACCIDENTS. little time after the attack, and made a
BABY IN A PRAM KILLED, dying deposition in hospital. He then
A Chinese girl, agst three years, of stated that the artused was one of the men who attacked him, and that he Bullock Lane, was killed on Saturday wounded him in the leg with the knife.
afternoon by a motor-lorry, belonging to, It was the abdomenal wounds which had the Public Works Department, colliding proved fatal. but he reminded the Jury with the Chinese perambalator in which thurt in a case where a number of men the child was lying. The perambulator gathered together and plotted to kill had been left at the side of the roul, and another man, then all the assailants, the lorry in passing grazed and overturn- irrespective of who delivered the fataled it, the child being thrown heavily to Death was blow, were equally guilty of murder. The the ground on its bend neensed had alleged at the Magistracy instantaneous that he had nothing to do with the mur- der, and that deceased had neensed bit because of a grudge he alleged the dead man bore him over a quarrel. The
deeds during the typhoon on August 18th. To Captain Donohue and his officers, His Excellency said: On behalf of the community and on behalf of His Majesty's Government" I wish to express my heart Extensive damage seems to have been feit thanks for the gallant work you did lone in the vicinity of Kuling by a recent under exceptionally dangerous circum typhoon On the plain the motor-road statives in organizing a Rocket Brigade has been washed out at the Three Eye Bridge halfway meross with the result and lowering, a hónt during the height of that a system of running cara from each the storm, whereby you were enabled to end to most in the middle has had to be save three valiable lives, You, une and Attorney-General suggested to the Jury adopted. It is interesting to know that! the debris left by the water, making the el, and the four Chinese members of the that a man on his deathbed would hardly height of rise of the streams is about five crew, most nobly upheld the best tradiceuse another mun of murder in revenge feet over the normal Several native tions of the British Mercantile Marine in for some trivial guarrel which occurred houses are said to have collapsed during putting out in a boat under such hazardonths before. The trouble mentioned the storm Bad damage is also reported to have been done to the Russian Pool ous circumstances. which will prevent it from being further nsed this season.
Turning to Able Seaman Trëagus, His Excellency said: Mr. Treagus,-By your A typhoon that recently, swept the gallant action on August 18th you were Shanghai district eventually arrived in instrumental in, saving the life of an Northern Korea, where according to the officer under most hazardous circum- Yogamaki Pro, it did great damage. A valuable salt-bed was flooded by sen-water stances. By your gallant action, in risk- and destroyed with fifty million king of ing your life to save another, you have salt, the financial loss being estimated most nobly upheld the best traditions of four million yein, Some loss of life is feared. An extensive tract of farmland that very, ne branch of His Majesty's and hundreds of houses were flooded in Navy, the submarine flotilla. On behalf the same district. The River Yala over of the community and His Majesty's Howed ite banks and many houses were inundated. It is feared that 000 Chinese Government I thank you. were drowned or injured, Traffic, on the South Manchurian Railway was inter rupited by food.
THE HONGKONG TYPHOON.
A SHANGHAI COMMENT
In the course of a leading article on the typhoon which did so much damaze in Hongkong on August 18th the JAC. Daily News say79 2 -
The Harbour Master (Cunamander C W. Berkwith, R.N.) had 'called' the atten- tion of His Excellency to the conduct of these officers and men, and this little ceremony was the result. The names of the officers, combined with an account of their deeds hus been forwarded to the Board of. Trade, together with a recon- meudition" that they be suitably re
had to do with" certain lads connected with the reused playing football in the street and kicking, their hall into the deecased's shop. Out of this a fight arose between the netsed and the de ceased nin's foki.
Witnesses were then called.
CAKE
The case for the prosecution was con- timed in the afternoon, and the adjourned till today.
[BEFORE THE PUJSNE JUDGE (818 HONOUR M. H. J. GOMPERTZ).] EUROPEAN LADY'S JEWELLERY STOLEN.
Leung Chun was indicted for the theft of a quantity of jewellery, the property of Mr. Winifred 31. Prisons, of No. Broadwood Terrace. The goods stolen were valued at. 8550.
hat
Mr. Dyer Ball. prosecuting on behalf of the Crown, told the Jury that tho theft
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A coolie, aged 55 years, was knocked down by another motor-lorry, No. 638, owned by the Kang Yik,poultry shop. on Sunday afternoon in Queen's Road- C'entral. He was slightly, injured ́ ́and sent to the Government Civil Hospital for attention,
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development of wires, have not just The great cable concerns, in spite of the faith in the future of their enterprise, says a service paper. No fewer than ten cablo-laying and repairing vessels have been put into commission since the end of the war. Now comes the eleventh in the cable steamship Mirror,, built by Messrs, John Brar al Co., Limited, for the Eastern Telegraph Company, while addition two more able ships are to jain the firet of the. Eùstern Associated Com panies within the next few months,
The Birrer is about leave Plymouth, and will take up her station in the Red Sea. Locking more like a private yult than a commercial vessel, she is constructed to serve in tropical climates. There is accum modation for a total complement of 50, with hospital, surgery, cablesesting room refrigerating chamber, chart-room, and the n-ual workshops and store-rooms, The Mirror possesses, three tanks, two of which maximur capacity for carrying cable is contain portable inner tanks, and her
over 500 miles. Cable hr these tanks can be uncoiled and laid in deep sen at the rato| of eight miles per hour.
PHILIPPINES.
A CIVIL ACTION INVOLVING ELEVEN MILLION PESOS.
It is a commonplace that when Naturecognised. Four Chinese sailors who were occurred from Mrs. Parsons dressing A FAMILY DISPUTE IN THE Mays, she is mora ruthlessly destructivo also concerned with the rescue work have room on the night of June 5th. She left than are the most evil inventions of man. A freshet on this Han river wipes out ten been recommended for the Belilios Medala quantity of jewellery on the dressing- thousand in a few seconds; in the and a gratuity. Other officers and man table, and the next morning it had dis deadliest hours of the Great War the
aily victims of shot and shell were at concerned in rescue work, and who are appeared. At about 10 am, on the fol- que time aferior in number to those of now out of the port, will be similarly lowing day the "neensed was discovered De so-called Spanish influenza; and when recognised on their return,
by a Chinese Police Sergeant attempting ever a volcanic eruption occurs, the rest
After the ceremony refreshments were-to-pawn a gold Langle, one of the pieces of the world exclaima in amazement that people can be so foolhardy as to live in served, including champagne, and His of jewellery missing. He was searched family is suing another. such a "neighbalirhood. From which we might deduce na explanation of why Excellency the Governor proposed the 2nd other pieces of the missing jewellery by the head of the Tunson family, Antonio
It will be remembered that Able" Sea-
Hongkong remained barren, fever toasts of the Royal Navy and the British stricken rock till conded to Great Britain Zercantile Marine. in 1841. the Chinese officials of previous! ages not desiring to encourage people to go to an island so exposed to typhicons man Treagus was, responsible for saving Unfortunately the equal failure of China's Lieutenant Dickson, R.N., from drowning. officials to develop other places not liable to Nature's furics and since grown out The officer was washed from the deck of of knowledge" under foreign hands, for the ill-fated submarino L9, and clung to bida any such theory. For all its typhoona and native unhealthiness Hongkong is one a buoy. In the height of the typhoon of the most beautiful spots in the British the sailor awam out to him, a distance Lubire, as it is certainly one of the most of some fifty yards with a line, and both striking examples of the British knack of got safely ashore. eslonizing. It has weathered warse
A civil suit which has been filed in the Manila Courts involves property valued at eleven million pesos. It is a family dispute in which one branch of the Tuason
The suit involves a certain property left
Ile hid Tuasori - It is claimed that Antonio were found on his person. alleged that he had been employed by Tutson, having established his right of a mun as a coolic, and was given the preprogeniture which was then allowed by Jaw as regarded inheritance, established however, his story was that he had stolen Spain on February 25th. 1794, and among jewellery to pawn. At the Magistracy, such right with permission of the King of
some of the jewellery, but not all.
the provisions of the statement made by Accused repeated his story that another which provided that one-fifth of his pro- him regarding his property appeared one and engaged him as a coolie, and perty would go to the near members of asked him to pown the jewellery.
Sentence of five years hard labour was passed.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF ARMS.
his family. After his death the defend. ants in the present it appear to have taken possession of the property left, which, included the Santa Mesm ostale, the Maysilo estate in Caloocan, the Nangka estate, the Mariquina estate and building and fand situated on Calle Rosario and Calle Nugva.
It appears so that the plaintiffs in the suit had been receiving from the "de-"
typhoons than that of the day before yes. The action in which the affieurs of the terday, yet its development has gone for; howes Castle figuréid so conspicuously ward almost unchecked, the ravages of the tempest quickly made good and consisted of lowering a boat in heavy seas charity lavishly outpoured to succour the and rescuing three nen. Volunteers families of those whom wind or wave des the bont were Mr. Cropper, Mr. Jeaking, troyed. It is an object lesson Both in energy and the sense of comminal respon. and Cadet Huggins, and the four Chinese munition, was sentenced to four years stopped. "The plaintiffia claim that the
sibility on which one cannot but dwell, in sailors already mentioned.
A Chinese, found guilty of being in illegal possession of two revolvers, an Ammunition belt, and a quantity of am-
hard labour. contrast with the lack of these qualities The Boues fuafle was anchored south
on the mainland. To each his taste, and
Mr. Dyer Ball, prosecuting, stated that doubtless, much of the polished efficiency of Cheung Hue, and seeing a quantity of the defendant was arrested near Tai O of Hongkong is the outcome of desires wreckage floating Eastward of him Cap-village on the night of July 6th. He was which oriental nature does not feel. But thin Donohue organized, a rocket crew, now longings and dissatisfaction unknown
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to its fathers are bremming visible in the and endeavoured to throw lines over the crying a bag and the arms and the belt Jounger beteration of China and one derelicts hy means of rockets. would hope that the time is, not far of! who she too will battle with the political storms, that rend her, and will arise re newed with fresh life from all their Mock every typhoon, unconquered and was published among the typhoon news wreckage, as Hongkong arises from the
wademayed.
given in the Dašky Preen last wek
The Egremont Castle, not now in port, assisted in this rescue work, and an inter view with Captain Cann on the subject
fendants their hare from the ealite up to 1921 when the allowance given them was
defendants have not given them what they were entitled to from the property; ings- much as the property had gone up in value, the defendants being charged with concealing the real value of the property. The plaintiffs nek that the defendants he ordered to render an accounting of the
were found it. The revolvers, were receipts and expenditures in connection with the property in question since loaded, though one was found to be February 4th, 1874, up to the present ['unserviceable.
Selveteres in time; they the defendants be ordered ta Sentence of three years hard abour pay then what they have coming to them was pareci, on another man found to be from the property with the interent and
that the defendante be milered to recog in unlawful possession of a dagger in the nize the rights of the plaintiffs to the
income from the property.
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