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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd, 1927.
THE DEFENCE OF SHANGHAI.
BRITISH FORCES NOW INCREASED TO 4,000.
BRITISH SOLDIERS AND PUNJABIS THERE
FIELD HOSPITAL ALSO ARRIVES.
Every day sees the Shanghai Defence Force assume more
definite shape as British troops arrive in Shanghai to protect
lives and property from the dangers which the present political situation way have in store, says the Shanghai Time of Inat Thursday. The strength of British forces here was increased to 4,000 men by the arrival of the troopship Sirdhana from Calcutta
battalions with two
of 1,800 men belonging to the Punjab Regiment. The vessel tied up at Old Ningpo whart after being fog-bound of the river mouth at Woosung for a day.
The arrivals on the Sirdhana Hal-Price At Theatres. belong to the 4th battalion of the
Through the offices of the Union 1st Junjab Regiment and the 3rd Shanghai have agreed to admit the Jack Club the various theatres of -battalion of the 3rd Punjab soldiers to their performances at gliorat who were last stationed at half-price, a similar agreement hav Calcutta. They left India on Janu-ing been reached for the bencât of the Navy and Marines sometime ary 30th and proceeded direct to
ago. Shanghai.
THE ROYAL MARINES FOR SHANGHAI.
FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFI- DEB AT THAT PORT RETURNING.
Captain R. C. A. Glunické, for- mer Intelligence Oficer at Shang- hi, is among the officers of the Royal Marine Battalion despatched
LONDON'S HOUSING
PROBLEM.
THE AREAS GROWING
COMPLEXITES OF THE
SITUATION.
The shortage of houses in Greater London was computed in 1919 at 50,000 by the end of last Septem-
to Shanghai as part of the defence ber the shortage had grown to forces.
This statement is embodied in a Captain Glunicke is a graduate,
War.
•
69,000.
የ፡
of the Naval Statt College and report by Col. Lavita, Chairman of belongs to the Chatham Division. the London County Council Hous- He was promoted captain in ing Committee. September, 1913, and served on "It officially confirms the gravity of the housing situation and pro- the Hyacinth, Bagship at the Cape,vides proof that the need of houses during the first two years of the is more acute to-day than at the end Afterwards he was lent to of the war-when 1,000,000 new
dwellings were required. Shanghai for Home only very house-building arrears in Greater
Captain Glunicke left the army,
The increase of 12,000 in the
recently.
London is not due to neglect. On the contrary, there has been con siderable building to the fallost possible extent, according to Col. Levita. In fact, in the first nine months of last year, the building Sgurea were higher than in any full preceding year.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Car- penter, O.B.E., D.S.O., is in com- mand with Major St. George F. Gordon Caulfield as second-in-com- wand.. Major Caulfield served at the depot at Deal before leaving for Shanghai.
At
This only emphasises the gravity of the problem and the imperative. necessity of grappling with "it on bolder lines than, hitherto
In 1921 the London County Council estimated that the normal Banual need of Greater London is 17,000 houses, of which 19,300 are required for the working classes. It is obvious, therefore, that the result of all the activity since the 1919 calculation has been to in crease the arrears by nearly one year!
The Causes,
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CHAIN OF RICK FIRES AT WOKING.
UNKNOWN WOMAN
ARRESTED.
The Union Jack Club also Ands The Sirdhana came upstream and its quarters rather cramped to care reached the wharf at 7 am, on for unusual demands now being Wednesday last. The men on board placed upon it. The club rooms
Born on January 23th, 1883, ho here were not removed shore until have been re-arranged and can now the next day, when they went into take care of three times as many is the son of Brigadier General J. billets at the Shanghai Waterworks as before. The bowling alleys have E. W. 8. Caulfield, and has been at Yangtzepoo, and also out at bean converted into a. dining room in the Royal Marines since 1896. Baikal Road, near the Moutrie seating 80 in addition to the regular He was awarded a medal and opiano factory. On Wednesday, dining room. Other facilities for diploms by the King of Italy for they went for a route march through the recreation of the troops offered services rendered during the relief Tangtazapeo for exercises and un- by this organization include two operations after the Messina earth- dertake another march on Thursday bars, two billiard rooms, a writing quake in 1905. Early in 1914 he
became Intelligence Officer for a similar purpose.
rem, games room, library, baths
Colombo, and during the WAI The arrival of the Suffolk batai dormitory.
served as G.S.O., and grade, at talion, which was then expected The Military Hospital Ship.
this base, and later na G.S.0., Ist from Hong Kong in a few days and as now arrived will complete Carrying various details made up grade, at Malta, with the tempor the present military provisions of of several different units of anary rank of lieutenant-colonel."
Captain Humphry T. Tollema
Colonel Levita, who has devoted a brigade for Shanghai. The other army, the transport Rhona reached two divisions will be stationed at Shanghai from India last Thurs che, Adjutant of the Battalion, Hong Kong and will not be sent to day and-berthed at the Shanghai belongs to the Portsmouth Division, himself zealously and vigorously to Shanghai unless the need demands and Hongkew, Lower Wharf short- and was promoted last September the problem for the past six years,
He entered the Royal Marines as explains the cause in this way: As a result of these arrivals, the ly alter 1.30 p.m. She is known as
"Only the London County Coun. original Junjab battalion sent from the military hospital ship and, probationary second lieutenant on Hong Kong to cover the emergency spart from the field hospital and September 7th, 1915, and, being cil has been pulling its weight, he the equipment for field ambulance promoted to lieutenant. year said, standing before a huge map in will be sent back to the Colony.
work, the transport brought to later, was posted to the battleship his room at the County Hall. He Shanghai twelve British Red Cross Bellerophon in the Grand Fleetpointed to the various estates that Nurses in charge of a Matron. The Since the war he has been in the are being developed all round the total number of the troops for battle-cruiser New Zealand, the County Council area.
and at the We are building every house various units brought from India erniser Cambrian,
we humanly tab. by this transport is in the vicinity Portsmouth Division.
We cannot Major C. of 1,400, including officers
E. Sykes Wright, "spend all the money wa have voted. There is a shortage of O.B.E., third senior officer, has
labour, plasterers mainly, and been serving recently at Plymouth.
they are the key maa. To cope with this difficulty we are building He has been described as the cham
wooden bouses and steel houses. pion linguist of the Navy, for be
Colonel Levita admitted, frankly, is a qualified interpreter in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Swedish. From 1922 to 1925. he was harrowing, and he is engaged on a Superving Intelligence Officer determined crusade against cellar
Exhausted Brigade. Sir M. Culme with Admirals
dwellings.
Members of the local fire brigade, Seymour and Sir James Ferguson.
"Collar life is one of the most on the North American Station.
offensive forms of existence in Lon who are all volunteers, were nearly exhausted by their three days of don," he said, "but we have enor mous difficulties to overcome. Some Guildford road was stopped for Are fighting. Traffic on the main
British Forces At Shanghai. British foreca ELE present in Shanghai are BR follows:-
2nd battalion Gloucestershire Re
giment.
2nd battalion Durham Light Inj
fantry.
4th battalion, 1st Punjab Re-
giment.
Offcors On Board. The Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion, 14th Punjab Renew reinforcements is Major B. E. Hartwell recently attached to the giment. 5th battalion, 2nd Punjab Re-4th Ghurkas at Lahore and the Matron Miss Brownlow is in charge giment.:
Misses Sizer, Williams, Rigby, Phillips Davies, Turner, Adams, Leighton, Bremper. Trawnsell, Cheetham and Long
T
While firemen, who had been work ing for nearly three days and nights fighting a series of rick fires near Woking were engaged on two new outbreaks at farms at Westfald, & village close by, the local police began to search for a woman who had been seen in the vicinity during the day.
A woman was arrested at West- taken to Woking field" and
She was charged Police Station. bury Farm, occupied by a Mr. Mar- with stealing a blanket from Barns shall, which stands a few hundred yards from the rick which caught alight on a Saturday night and started the series of firea.
Was
The woman, who refused to give
As the present defence force of the following staff of nurses: Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and that conditions in many cases are her name and address, was remand-
entirely British, only British pro perty is being used for billets and quarters, although the huts erected en Municipal property will be tenanted provided the defence force. is internationalized by the decision of other Powers to land troops in Shanghai. Provision for billets has
1
Complete Field Hospital. The field hospital is fully equip- ped with all the latest medical and
and others in the outer neighbour. hose-pipes across it. About half the surgical appliances for field work THE 'MASCULINE' WOMAN. people refuse to go cut of the slums, ten-hours owing to the presence of
hoods object to slum dwellers com-
been made on British property at and the medical staff and assistants
many points in the Foreign Settle-are all experienced in feld am. Every now and again the "masing into their midst. Unfortunate./hay was saved from the nine ricks
ment, while headquarters staff ar balance and war work. rangements are rapidly being com- pleted. Headquarters staff is quar tered at the Chartered Bank build-are a aumber of sappers, miners, is the cause. ing on the Bund, where vacant space is being converted into offices.
culine woman myth is resurrectly, there are still people who rip Included among the new detailsed. Perhaps some athletic exploit up the lavatory scate for picture
The Punjabis.
The arrival of the Punjabis makes the third batch of British troops te arrive here, but there were few people waiting at the wharf to greet
them.
Two New Battalions. Colonel D. V. Willoughby, D.S.O., commands the 4/1 Punjabis and Licat-Col. C. F. Stockley, D.S.O., C.B.E., M.C., commands. the 3/14 Punjabis.
mule drivers, hospital orderlies, cooks, bakers, inale nurses and other feld ambulance attendanta. Apart from the equipment necessary for many of these departments, the transport brought approximately 200 horses, ponies and mules.
involved.
EXCHANGE.
OPENING QUOTATIONS.
Or it may be frames."
Not Only & Blum Problem. eademic and professional successes
He was glad to acknowledge, how- that loosen tongues against the modern manliness of Eve.
ever, that the standard of liter de- When University doors first openmanded has considerably improved ed to women it raged virulently, and that the problem is not one of Or Loxton- Again, there were fresh outbreaks when the first woman barrister was briefed and when the pioneer of lady Channel-swimmers reached Dover.
& MAN,
slums only,
The cost of land is not so im-
he remarked. "Oac ball per cent. portant to us as the cost of money." extra or a £600 bouse means £3 a
exigencies of the hunt for employ ment This raises the traffic prob-
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NEW YORK-
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Talegraphie Tranfer
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lem in acute form, and we have such Fox Calcuttamete anomalies as men living in North Kensington and working at Wool wich, and Woolwich dwellers work-Os
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ahin Transfar Telegraphie Bank Bills, on demand.. SuANGAL Fark Bills, st: Incidentally, he touched on the
Privata, 30 day
days bridges problem and report. It is OK YOKONAY-On demand... 100 a beautiful dream," he commented. ON MANIA-On demand
demand... "but I don't see how more bridges Of SINGAPORE-On
O BATAVIA,On demand are going to help, for the main On Harrox. On demand...
On Battono demand" streams of traffic run east and west Har
BANGKOK. On demand ... 921 and "the bridges run Borth and
BOTIINION, Bank's Baying rate $9.65 south.
Skyscrapper Homes.
GOLD LEAF, 100 fine, par tael... Ban Sivan, par on
Ghurkas On Board. The Phone which bears the official No. I painted at the bow, left Cal-
Yet these things had to come. cutta on February 1st and proceed Woman's freedom was born when rea
Colonel Levita mentioned that ed direct to Shanghai without stop the law gave her rights of her own. ping at Hong Kong. The men re. It was weaned amidst male has many workers cannot possibly think ceived very short notice to prepare tility-the period of fighting for of acquiring houses of their own for embarkation and some of the emancipation.
through the owing to the uncertainty of the cale of their work. officers had less than a week to make
to make glamour of N and the Entertaining Tommy.
The London worker lives, in his Or The streets of Shanghai new Preparations for the voic, it
their departure from their various
an average for three swarm with men in khaki and on stations in the Funjab. Very low maturity. Now, when the last bathouse on
tlement has fallen, the parrot-ery years," he said, owing to the every hand are seca evidences of the of the officers came from the same goes up that woman has become warm welcome Shangbai has in regiment and were ordered to China store for the troops. Soldiers from various parts of India.. meet-
Granted that fashions change, can stationed out at the Waterworks are ing the transport at Calcutta. For hearts do likewise! Apart from seen motoring into town in the the greater part, the men come from the poseurs, is it possible that private cars of residents and in the the Panjab, but from different rewomanly ideals have perished be central district many groups of giments. Among the 1,400 were cauce & new outlet has been dising in North Kensington." soldiers are being taken around the quite a large number of those covered for their grace? In a word, town as the guests of Shanghai-warthy and redoubtable hillmen, is Eve false to herself because she landers anxious to show their sp-the Ghurkas, carrying as part of now standa on an equality with preciation for the coming of the their equipment the well-known Adam
In Boldiers.
the old days womanliness" With the coming of the Glouces
The trip from India was without was a term beloved by sentiment tershire and Durham detachments the number of armed forces of incident apart from the fact that lists. It stood for the gentle yir- various nationalities in this district one of the best mounts in the outet tues charity, love, sympathy, un has been increased to almost 10,000 died on the voyage. Both officers derstanding, and the rest. To-day
A to tall buildings as a means of sailors and marines. Those and men, like those who arrived it has lost nothing of its meaning; institutions like the Union Jack before them, felt the effects of the its aphere has merely changed from Clab and the Navy Y.M.C.A. find sudden change in the climate but the narrow confines of home to the solving the problem of Metropolitaz
wider spaces
of the world in congestion, Colonel Levita does not see how they can be avoided, nor were cheery, withal, and anxions themselves running to capacity and efforts are being made to augment to get ashore and make their first general.
Only by & perverted sense of how it is possible to check the com- their facilities by various organize acquaintance with Shanghai, the
justice can we grude woman the mercial encroachment in central tions in the city.
city they have come to defend.
right to fight the battles of her sex London, which in driving out popula in person, And now that he is tion from those areas. quietly abouldering responsibilities to economic normality, is not need of every kind, the so called mascu- ed to meet any pressing emergency, line privileges are surely her per- but," as has been explained by the quisite as well. Yet there are still BIU LOAN AT PER CENT Finance Minister Herr Reinhold, those who condemn ber because she to the Press, has been floated at the takes what was never hers by cus
but always hers by right. take advantage of the momentary
GERMANY'S FINANCIAL
RECOVERY,
kukris
Fi
Little more than three years after present moment mainly in order to to ever a woman
goes,
the
After all, he pointed out, financial life blood of London is its tateable value, and this is improved by the commercial structures. It is inevitable that the population must move out."
This emphasises a point only in touched upon by Colonel Levita
the mark was stabilised in the pro extraordinary fluidity of the money pleasure, sport of business, the the Greater London, problem. It is portion of 1,000,000,000 to, one of market. It is also hoped to stau radiates her anmistakable refine an old story that whenever the Lon its original value the German Godardize the rate of interest at 6ment. She purifies whers fouincas don County Council select an out- erament is able to borrow 500,000,000
at 5 per cent per cent, and thus facilitato large was before; he brings chivalrous side district for housing develop marke (25,000, combination of Bnancial operations by private incentive to an atmosphere of ment they become engaged in a fight (issue price 92). "A leading banks flost 500,000,000 the the local pubs
and the rest appears to have dered nessary by industrial expan true womanliness; the complete a local councils complain that the in- boon already taken over as a fim ion later in the year. The loanswer to the accusation that she has fix of people will add to their rates investment by the railways, Post itself is to be spent eventually on become unsexed. So long as it re, because of the extra cost of the ser Office, and other Government in public works, especially canals mains, she cannot wander far from vices. The LC.C. Have admitted stitutions. During twenty-five years beginning in 1934, the loan will be redeemed at par by annual-draw ings.
This loan, which is a further as tonishing sign of Germany's return
Some newspapers seem to doubt whether, Government borrowing is really necessary, and whether the contemplated expenditure might not have been covered by the con- world. And who can say that they don are a powerfal plea for a
are wrong?.
Greater London. tinued expansion of revenue.
the highest ideals of her tradition. this, and have suggested-equalising There are some who point to rates, but the local authorities feminine, influence as the white opposed
The acute housing needs of Ion hope of a modern topsy-turvy.
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