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AGENTS IN HONG KONG:
VICENTE ATIENZA & Co.
No. 54, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.
TEL. K 155.
WHITEAWAYS.
LAST
TEN DAYS
OF
WHITEAWAY'S
GREAT
SALE
DO NOT MISS
THE
BLUE TICKET BARGAINS.
WHITEAWAYS
"
has vida genit 10 vhuld
THE STORE FOR VALUE.
PROTECTION OF
FORESTS.
NEW GOVERNMENT BILL.
an
POWER TO DECLARE PRO-
,: HIBITED AREAS.
·
The following Bill, which it is pro posed to introduce into the. Legis lative Council at an early date, is published for general information in the current Government Gazette.
The Bill in question is intituled Ordinance to enable certain areas to be declared prohibited areas with a view to the protection. of afforestation operations. The Bill has been made necessary by the practice of cutting down and spoil. ing trees planted by the Forestry Department. It gives the Govern- ment power to exclude everyone any afforested area and one such area has been proclaimed between Tai Tam harbour on the West and Big Wave Bay and Shek O on the East. The Ordinance is to he termed the Prohibited Areas (Afforestation) Ordinance, 1927.
The clauses states:-
It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to declare any area to be a prohibited area'it he considers it desirable to do so with a view to the protection of afforestation ope rations.
No Trespasser, Every prohibited area shall have its boundaries marked or indicated, by means of fire-barriers or other wise.
WU-PEI FU.
KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL
Note Reduction In Prices.
Orderi should be sant
THE BLOOD OF A STORK.
CHECKED AGAIN BY FENG
USED TO POISON CONDEMNED PRISONERS.
In Lots of not less than
-ton-
Delivered to
Peak District
FLIGHT TO SZECHUAN.
д
PEKING, August 8th. General Yu Hsueh Chung, commander under Marshal Wa Peil Fu, arrived in Peking from Hankow vid Shanghai.
STRANGE HISTORY OF PEKING DRUG STORE.
PERINO, August 6th. According to the Chiasse Press, the sale of Hai Ho Nian Tang, one When Wu reached Nanyang from of the oldest and most noted of the Kunghsien Yu still had 80,000 men drug stores in all of China, is an under him. Wu suggested to Yu event of considerable significance.
It was established "a bali century that they should fight their way out | of the district and join hands with ago by the partners Yu and Wang, General Chang Tsung Chang. Although at the beginning the especially as Marshal Feng Yu
capital invested was only two thou- siang had not settled down and sand theis, it rapidly grew until it the whole province was in a state became one of the largest in the
Yu approved of the of turmoil. proposal but was opposed by his oficers, many of whom had been in secret communication with Marshal Feng, Wu finally was obliged to fet to Srechuan vid Hupeh. Yu seeing him off at the border.
Red Spears Active..
country.
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According to the old Peking residents, the store was formerly noted for the sale of the blood froin the head of & stork. This blood is repused to be exceedingly poison- ous, and a few drops is said to kill a man. In the late Ching dynasty,
Tu also had to see for safety executions were always carried out when he discovered that one of his in the Tsai Shih Kow. The mat- divisional commanders had declar-shed of the officer supervising the ed for the Fucminchun. Accom- executions was erected on the left panied by a bodyguard of 20 he side of the drug store. made for Hapeh. He was attacked. It so happened thas many of the by bands of Red Spears on the way prisoners who were of high rank and when he arrived in Hankow he were taken to the store just before had only four soldiers with him. their execution. As they sat on the His presence in the Nationalist broad berch outside the counter, district was not noticed, as the they would be handed a towel to public was busily occupied with wipe their faces with, while at the quarrels between the Communists same time a clerk would hand out and the Wuhan Government He
a cup of the stork-head blood, thus later took a steamer for Shanghai, averting the pain and disgrace of whence he sailed for North China execution. However in late years the store has only sold common drugs,
Notices both in English and Chi nese stating that the area in ques-Kuo Web. tion is a prohibited area shall be placed along the boundaries at in- tervals not greater than four hub- dred and forty "yards.
The prohibited areas shall be under the control of the Superinter- dent of the Botanical and Forestry Department.
Every person who without lawful. authority or excuse enters a pro- hibited arca shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
This Ordinance shall not apply to the New Territories (other than New
THE BEAUTY SPOTS OF
PEKING,
PREMIER'S ORDER TO STOP
· VANDALISM.
(above Bowen Road), $24.00 per.ton.
Delivered to Bowen Road and Lower Levels, $22.00 per ton
Delivered to
Kowloon,
$20.00 per tone
For Price Apply to
in writing.not
by telephone
at least 24 hours, before the Coal Is required
All orders must be ae- companied by Cash, Cheque, or Compra- dore Order payableto The allan
Mini Ad- ministration."
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hong Kong.”
RECENT FLOODS"IN",
MALAYA.
CPWARDS OF TWO MILLION
DOLLARS DAMAGE.
During the meeting of the Federal Council at Kuala Lumpur on August 6th several financial votes were passed to meet damage, relied and compensation in connection with the foods in Malays at the end of last December and early in
January,
THE ĶU KLUX KLAN.
ŠOME SENSATIONAL "DIS- CLOSURES."
BY A CONVICT OFFICIAL.
Sensational disclosures (writes a Manchester Guardian correspon dent). now being made in Indiana prove how far from the truth is the
widespread opinion that the terrors of the Ku Klux Klan" are known and felt only", in the Southern States. Waca, after the war, the Kan was revived in the backward
Damage to the Baliways. The Acting Financial Adviser said that the estimated cost of the regions of the South its organisers damage to railway open lines under were hardly less astonished than the headings of Biling is breaches, the general public to discover how elearing slips, consolidating am- strongly its secret rites and pro- bankments and cuttings, repairs to gramme of intolerance appealed to buildings and replacement of cer the Nordic" communities of cer-
Indiana, typically..
tain bridges either badly damaged tain States.
or wholly washed away, is appro- middle-western" in position and
Klaa above the dividing line b
tween the North and South.
Some time ago the Grand Dragon of the Elan in Indiana, D. C. Ste phenson, was convicted of assauit and murder in a horrible case, and
The
In the 12th year of the Republic the old storekeeper was dismissed, and eighteen of the clerks resigned ximately $1,900,000. Abon: 20 per sentiment, became, "as à matter of cut of loyalty: Since that time
cent. of this is on account of the fact, the greatest stronghold of the there has been constant corruption and the store has lost a great deal damage to the open line stretching from Bukit Mertajam to Johore of money. One accountant escaped with twenty thousand dollars, an- | Bahru and the balanes on account other took thirty thousand and still PEKING, August 4th. another made away with ten thou- of damage to the line in Pahang The Government has decided to sand. These losses coupled with and Kelinths where the floods were
others soon put the store in 'debt, greatest. stop the work of vandals who have antil at the present time it is re-
The damage may be roughly al-was sentenced to "a long term of been playing havoc with the beauty ported to owe between thirty and
located as follows:-Filling in imprisonment with the emphatic spots of Peking during the past few forty thousand dollars. The famous years.
The Premier, Mr. Pin Fu, id store has been bought by a breacher, clearing slips and con-approval of public opinion.
Mr. Liu, for a price said to be solidating embarkments $700,000; revelations then made of KKK has appointed two men to hold an | 849,000. inquiry into the demolition of vari The sign board alone of the store repairs to buildings 8100,000; tyranny and corruption were start- ous parts of the walls of the For-is said to be worth over twenty pairs and replacement of bridges Ling enough, but they were nothing thousand dollars. In this case it $430,000; superintendence, wages, by comparison with those that are bidden City and the sale of bricks consists of two wooden boards said materials Rad engine power now being made by Stephenson. therefrom with the object of find- to have been written by Yen Sung,
He is telling, from jail, alï he knows ing out the real culprits.
about the Klan's organisation of" The police ramen, the Péking
political corruption-the buying of Municipality and the Ministry of
elections, the levying, of tribue the Interior are ordered to co-oper
upon the State Legislature, and ate with the investigators in this
what not. The Klan, it is believed, The objects and reasons state ****
work. The investigators are co- The afforestation operations of the titled to summon all the necessary Botanical and Forestry Department witnesses and interrogate them as tre greatly hampered by the prac-
to who is responsible for the order tice of cutting and stealing the trees to tear down the walls and sell the in the afforestation areas. Very bricks, and where the proceeds young trees are sometimes also cut
Kowloon).
OBJECTS "AND REASONS.
CUTTING AND STEALING OF
YOUNG TREES.
a Prime Councillor in the Ming 2870,000. dynasty, who was very noted for The approximate expenditure to his excellent handwriting. These the end of June was 8500,000 so valuable boards and several eases that the week of replacement may the police as security for some out. be said to be well is hand. of drugs have been sealed up by standing debts.-Chung Mei.
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COLONY'S FINANCES.
THE STATEMENT FOR MAY.
Losses in Pahang.
In the three Western States, the flood damage was confined to only a few districts, but in Pahang it may almost be said to have been universal and the estimated cost of the damage is nestly double that
from the sale have gone. In case INCOME INCREASES, EXPENDI in the three Western States taken
TURE LOWER.
The Order says that the walls of The Enancial statement for the the Forbidden City are a delight to month of May, this year, shows that the eye and one of the allurements the revenue from May. 1st to 31st preserved as part of the national $1,339,50 of the Capital They should be was 81,620,527, and the expenditure treasure.
together.
has been rapidly, declining for, some years, as one after another of its leaders have been exposed. Ste- phenson's confessions should avail to make an end, before the next Presidential election, of an intoler able menace.
POSTE RESTANTE.
• CORRESPONDENCE," ETC., AWAITING CLAIMANTS.
THE OFFICIAL. LIST.
the
in the course of grass cutting. The any delinquency is found, the cul- areas in question are so widely prits will be severely punished. spread that it is difficult to detect
The Coast Districts of Pekan andĮ Kuantan were the chief sufferers, "and catch"offenders. One expédient adopted by them is to hide their
the damage being estimated at cutting implements in a plantation,
8320,000, but Lipia with an estimate so that they are not found approach-
of 8213,000 and Bentong with In order to facilitate The balance of assets Over ing the plantation or coming from traffic several gates have been bored abilities W&S increased from $196,000 and Raub of 8154,000 do it with any cutting implements. during recent years, but these were $1,100,001 to 24,411,316,-
not come far behind.
A Post Office notification of Further, while engaged in done after careful consideration and The revenue shows an increase on
Landslips.
Saturday's date gives particulars cutting in 4 plantation they investigation by competent authoritat of May, 1996, when it was
of the following correspondence, aee forest
The sum of 8000,000 was asked, etc. awaiting claimants at guards approaching, ties.
$1,508,958. The total revenue up to they hide their implements and,
The edict goes on to say that May 31st for the year comes to for and was on account of removing G.P.O. merely passing through the planta erament organs secretly contracted for the same period last year. when questioned, say that they are recently employees of certain Gov-33,309,551, compared with 88,123,804 landslips, construction of retaining R. T. Boffa, Raul Bigazzi, E. tion.
The forest guards have to with uascruplucus merchants for
The expenditure for May of this walls, repairs, and removals to Bolton, J. J. Booth. E, K. G. B proceed on their patrol and the wood stealer can then recover his the demolition of certain parts of year, has been also less than for buildings and repairs to bridges Brodsky, Alex Black, S. L. Burdett, the walls and sale of bricks taken the same period of 1928, when it and calverto, etc, but it did not G. Bonavita Henry Carter, A. W. implements and continue his cutting therefrom. This is a serious offence was $1,986,849. The total expendi- include the cost of re-erecting some Coverdale, D. Y. Costan, E. Dew- This Bill is an attempt to pre-punishable under the Chinese ture up to May 31st was 87,444,525,00 Government buildings which stoe, H. A. Epston, C. G. Fuson, serve the plantations from such criminal code.
compared with 80,167,100 for the depredations by making it
same period of 1920 offence to enter any prohibited, The two investigators, are Cheng
¤Assets and Lisbilities on May forestry area without lawful authofen and Kao Chung Chi
are officials attached to the Cabinet
31st, 1927, rity or
It will be much
Officer, Kuo Wen,
Liabilities. easier to detect and prove presence in such an area than to prove actual cutting or stealing.
extust.
Бл
.
Both
The area will be declared by, the As the prohibitish will be ab- Governor in Council in each case to iolute, regulations in the Schedule be a probibited area, and the boun to the Wild-Birds Ordinance, 1922, daries will be marked or indicated Ordinance No. 13 of 1922, are being by means of fire barriers or other-amended so as to prohibit the shoot- wise. Warning notices in English and Chinese will be placed along the or taking of game in an atea prohibited under the present Ordin- boundaries at intervals not greater ance, or the entry into such an area than 440 yards.
in pursuit of game or for the pur pose of taking nests or eggs. The regulations in question will be far-
Prohibition, Öf Entry To Apply To All.
account an
58,453.01 287,715.86
Briant, M. L. Brodie, Mr
were completely washed away... Fong Sau Ling, H. A. Finnie, Most of the latter were pre-war Miss M. Girdlestone, Go Sho & buildings whose efiginal cost was. Hollenweger, Mrs. R
Co.,, Haily & Co., W. M. Hewlett, some $300,000 but which at present Hatchens, Hong Kong Corp. (Tele day prices would cost more than
IN
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Deposits not available...81,697,190.00 double to replace Their re-eree gram), M. Ide, A. R. Jones, Mrs. Coal account ..............
5,184.95 tion as and when required would be M. B. Jones, S. Jones, B. M. John- Postal agencies
14,537.81 spread over the estimates of future 602, Theo Lowther, Y. Lloyd Suspense account.........
724,018.34 years.
LW Malby, Mra A. Moore, M Crown agents current
M. Morgan, Rev., J. C. Morrison, Much progress had been made in E. Kauneio, Lee Nagel, Giovanni Adjustment of exchange
the first six months of the year on Nicolis, Mme. Poneau, Miss Rose this work of reconstruction, à sum Piaget, Michel Prankoff, Alex of over 8000,000 already having Ramsay, C. E. Richardson, W. F. Total liabilities ......$2,537,099.46
been spent, and the greatest credit Richardson, W. F. Bidebotham, Baladce
4,441,318.45
is due to the P.W.D. in Pahang Mrs. Claude Thurston, W. Tesch, Total 7,308,413.91 in re-opening, communication be Tait & Co., H. Ward, Lomblot
tween the various districts and in Yenry. trying as far as possible to effect
N
Assets.
......$1,719,962.83 839,078.24 1,700,659,33 83,843,55
9,551:18
410,734:45
It is obviously necessary to make ther amended so as to provide for Bubsidiary coins the prohibition of entry into the the insertion on the form of game Advances prohibited area an absolute one licence of a nots drawing attention Building loans applying to all persons, because it to the probibition now proposed. Imprest
clearly impossible to distinguish A draft of the proposed regulations House service account... Unallocated étores the class of persons who would be is published with this bill.
The Ordinance does not apply to (PAW.D.) likely to cut and steal wood. This absolute prohibition, which thus the "New Territories (other than Unallocated stores
(Railway) seems to be necessary in any case. New Kowloon), and the only area
has the additional advantage of which it is at present proposed to Investment account tending to prevent damage by fire declare a prohibited area is a cer-Lorry haulage account... or by trampling, which might be tain portion of the hillside between Balance at banks...... caused through the carelessness of Tai Tam Harbour on the west and
-Totul shooting and pienio parties.
Big Wave Bay and Shek O on the
(Continued on next Column)
east.
a return and normal conditions Straits Times.
HOSPITAL COMFORTS.
Unpaid Correspondence.
A Gabarelia, D. Garcia, Khajan Sighn M. B. Long. --
Registered Covers..
M. L. Brodie, Mrs. R. Brodsky, Miss Chen. Luan Tan (c/o Lim Thaun Ging, St. Stephen's College), The Committee begs to acknow Antonio Cadiz, Chan Wai Yin 173,732.27 ledge, with many thanks, receipt (HK University), H. L. Huang, 1.734,414.03 of parcels of literature from Mrs. A. B. Jones, Mr E N. Litvikoll 3,314.00 Handyside and Mrs. A. Morris AB. Mehta, Miss H. Wilson 600 126.68 also, packs of playing-cards from Unclaimed Parcels
Mrs. Bridger, Mr. Ho Kom Tong, Bata 87,309,415,010.BE and Messm Gande, Price Miss EH Bell, Central MeÉRI.
Store, Fung-Ng Muy
& Ca.