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KWANGTUNG'S RECONSTRUCTION
PLANS.-
ROADS. RAILWAYS, TELEGRAPHS AND HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS.
RECONSTRUCTION COMMISSIONER'S SUGGESTIONS AND ESTIMATES,
'EVERYTHING TO BE MODERNIZED.”
(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
Az elaborate and comprehensive programing of reconstruction in Awangtung has been drawn up by Mr. Wu Teh Shing, Commis- dioner of Reconstruction, and approved by the Províncial Adminis- tration. This remarkable doenment written,
course,
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Chinese consists of over twenty-thousand characters. When it is fully carried out, Kwangtung will become a new provmce, progres- ang, properous and enviable. No other province in China will approach it for chciens transport services, river conservancy, - modern highwaya, wireless telegraphy, aertal navigation, and rail- ways. Everything will be modernized and brought up to date. Should the reforms materialize, Kwangtung will be comparable to a progresive European State." Financially the scheme is perfectly feasible-if no money is spent on military adventures, and there are no "leukuges."!
The ache is divided into two parts. Part one deals with the repairing of provincial highways, telegraphic communications and the three railways of tar province. Part two.deals with the con- struction of more provincial highways, telegraphic communicatione, and a railway connecting Fatshan and Kongmoon, which wall be. an extension of the present Kwang Sham Railway. A stupendous amount of money will be necessary and years of uninterrupted work will also be required.
A translation of the proposed scheme as submitted to the Provincial Administration is, in part, as follows:
'IMPROVEMENT. WORKS.
"needed.
IMPROVEMENT OF PROVIN-
CIAL HIGHWAYS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 24th, 1928.
THE "KUO MIN SIN WEN." U.S. ASIATIC FLEET.
· PAPER THAT. FOUGHT COMMUNISM.
MARSHAL LI RETURNS TO RIGHTFUL OWNERS.
(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
SQUADRON AT HONG KONG.
ADMIRAL BRISTOL'S OFFICIAL LANDING,
BOATWOMAN'S DEATH.
POSSIBILITY OF FALL OVER. BOARD DISMISSED.
HUSBAND'S EVIDENCE
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ACCEPTED.
At the Kowloon Magistracy, yes
HEARTY WELCOME EXTENDED terday afternoon an inquest was
H.M.S.
With airplanes from Hermes and the BAF, section By ing overhand and performing com plicated
UHLÉDLUVTes
part
of
The Canton Avo Min Sin Wea newspaper syndicate, one of the two official organs of the Kuomintang, has been ordered to close down and the plant to be given back to its owner, Mr. Chiu Si Kan, from whom it was taken by the Govern- ment when the latter was under the the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, headed by influence at the Bolsheviata. The the U.S.S. Pittsburg (fagship), Kua Min Sin Fen was a private came into port yesterday morning newspaper under the management of Mr. Chiu Si Kan and hostile to
at eight o'clock. The Pittsburg Communism, one of its moves being was accompanied by U.S.S. Paul to offer a prize for the best article ones, the U.S.S. Beaver and a against Communism.
fetilla of six submarines. .
Article after article boldly appear ed, vehemently denouncing Com monisin as impracticable in China.
The Canton Government at that time was under the influence of M. Borodin and the Communists, who ordered the suspension of the pub- lication of the Ano in Sin Fen and the arrest of Mr. Chiu Si Kaa. In the midst of the confusion con- Bequent upon the raid on the Aud Jin Sin Fen offices, Mr. Chiu escaped to Hong Kong.
Further units of the Asiatic Fleet will arrive here on Tuesday morn ing. These will comprise the U.S. destroyers Gladiator, Henderson, Parrott, Edsall, Maclaich, Simpson, Bular and McCormick.
On arrival, the "Pittsburg gave the customary salute to port. This was replied by gun fire at Marine Hill and the usual naval salutes were then exchanged.
After the raid the paper was wrested from its owners and trans- formed into an official organ of the Kuomintang under the editorship The local American Consul Gen- of Kan Nai Kwong, then a young erah, Mr. R. C. Tredwell, paid an graduate of the Lingnan University. The editorial staf has changed many official call cu Rear-Admiral Mark times, according to which faction L. Bristol on board the U.S.S. was in control of Canton.
held into the circumstances of the death of a Chinese beatwoman who who died from unknown causes on February 28th Mr. W. Schofield acted as Coroner and was assisted by a jury.
Dr. E. C. Chan, of the Kwong Wah Hospital, stated that the body of deceased was brought to the hos Pital on February 28th by a man
who said he was her husband. The woman was dead, but the doctor could form no opinion as to the cause of death, except that the husband said that she had, had a cough.
Dr, Chan formed the opinion that death was due either to paeumonia or to asphyxia from drowning, but all declared that as far as they the relatives of the deceased had knew, the deceased had never been in the water at all. The doctor suggested that she may have fallen overboard, but there was nothing to prove this
Dr. J. E Dorey, of the Kowloon Mortuary, stated that he examined the body and found the lunge solid from pneumonia. There were symptoms of drowning but no water in the stomach.
Dr. Dovey said that he agreed neumonia could have caused the leath of the deceased but there were also symptoms of drowning,
petition, Marshal Li Tani Hain bas he left the ship about half an hour with Dr. Chan's daignosis. The
In compliance with Mr. Chiu's Pittsburg at nine o'clock, and when decided to return the paper to its later, he was saluted with eleven rightful owners. The Marshal was most generous in this matter and warmly praised Mr. Chin and his colleagues for the bold stand against Communism when it was st` the
The provincial highways, parti-height of its influence. Mr. Chiu, connecting Whampoa and Canton, he intends to take over the news cularly the Chungahan Highway in an interview with the correspon
dent of the Daily Press, said that are in, sore need of improvement.paper as soon as sufficient money The estimated cost of repairing the is secured for running it. The Chungahan Highway is
name Kuo Min Sin Wen will be 9159,000. All this money should be
retained. drawn from the Provincial Trou
about
CONSERVANCY WORKS.
All the expenses have, to come, for the time being at least, from the Provincial Treamry. Public services to be improved and put right will include the three exist ing railroads of the Province, teie graphic communications, and the provincial highwaya. All of thess Government undertakings are in a
asked to be responsible for the bir state of decay and repar sorely Proposed improvement of
in monthly instalments,
ing and dismissal of road workers. the telegraphic comunications of Should the funds derived from 1. Proposed improvements of the Province, According to the this source be lasufficient, the Pro the three railroads of the Province: Bureau of Telegraphy the estimat vincial Treasury should give the (a) The Canton-Hankow Railway. phic communications throughout
ed cost of putting all the telegra | balance. The repair work on this railroad the Province in sound working is to be divided into two periods, order will be about $930,000 Mex.
In 1923 the Board of Conservapes At present the expenses of the each of six months duration. The Bureau of Telegraphy are much
estimated the cost of improving estimated cost for the first period greater than its income. Telegra Canton Harbour and dredging and will be about @1,321852; and for phy in Kwangtung is therefore a deepening the waterways of the Canton Delta to be in the neigh- losing proposition. The Govern- the second period about $1,608,350 ment is requested to give the
bourhood of 83,800,000 Hong Kong total of $3,020,200.
Bureau
To carry out this pro- monthly subsidy of currency. $10,000 towards its apkeep and set the Government is requested maintenance. The Government to levy appropriate fees and duties further requested to confer with the Hong Kong Government with regard to the reverting of the Hong Kong Chinese Telegraph cial Government. This is a matter of national sovereignty and should revert 10 Chinese control, the in- be insisted upon. Should the Office come of the Bureau of Telegraphy of the Province will be greatly in- creased.
"(b) The Kwang Sham Rail way. The estimated total expenses for putting this railway into sound running order will be about
$535,800.
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guns.
The Government Analyst, Mr. E. Davey, stated that he examined the stomach for poison but none was found
Admiral Bristol Lands,' Gathered at the Queen's Pier to await the landing of Admira
The Governor, Major Altan, repre- past two months with a cough which Bristol were Captain A. J. L.
The husband of the deceased said Whyte, A.D.C, representing H.E. that his wife had been ill for the seating H.E. Major General C. C.adually grew worse. Her last meal. Luard, Sir Victor Mackenzie, Bart. D.S.O., M.V.O. Commanding the Scots Guards, and Mr R guard of honour drawn from
Tredwell
C.
the
Admiral Bristol, on landing, was greeted with the usual salute. He inspected the guard of honour, atter which, he proceeded by car to Government House accompanied by Capt. Whyte and Mr. Tredwell. H.E. The Governor Visits U.S.S.
"'xistaburg."
H. E. Sir Cecil Clementi, K.U.M.G., paid an official visit to Admiral Bristol on board the U.S.S. Pittiburg later in the day. on alf ships passing in and out of Uther distinguished visitors were the Canton Harbour and the Cap-H.E. Major General Luard, Com- ton Delta. The Maritime Customs modore Pearson and Captain Hop- should be asked to collect these this method of getting revenue should prove unsatisfactory, the
The engineering work Office to the control of the Provin- revenues for the Government. Food, of H.M.S. Hermes."
will likewise be divided into two periods of six months each. The expenses for the first period will be about 8358,300, and the second €477,500,
(c) The Canton-Kowloon Rail- way. The repair work for this railroad will be similarly divided into two periods of aix months railing stock, etc., will be about 8771,200, and for the second period Approximately 8329,400. The total for putting this line into running order will thus be about $1,093,800.
"The total expenditures for the first period on the three railways in question will be approximately 82,403,250; while for the send period it will amount to about 82,408,250.
Government may provide, other means as it sees fit and give the money for the work in monthly instalments.-.
WHAMPOA. “With regard to the opening up port and the completion of the o! Whampoa as a commercial sea- Canton-Hankow Railroad, a stup- endous amount of money will be
CONSTRUCTION WORKS. Such works include the widest scope and cannot be easily accomp lighed. They require a great deal of money and such technical adrequired.
At present the following ice. advantage. items may be carried out with
hands of private merchants.
Programme Of Entertainment. his staff were entertained to several Yesterday Admiral Bristol and
private social functions. During their stay in Hong Kong, Admiral
Bristol will attend an official dinner at Government House. H.E. Major General Luard and Commodore Pearson will also entertain the A dinner distinguished visitor. Consal General and there will be will be given by the American
other private functions.
was taken about half-an-hour priori to her death, and she took some Chinese medicine at the same time. :
had fainted twice. She died in his had violent fits of coughing and Ca the day of her death, his wife
armant 3 pim. He hired a motor- boat, brought the deceased to Yau- funeral, took her to the Kwong Wah mati. and after arranging her
Hospital.
that his wife had fallen overboard. The bontman emphatically denied
He was continuall with her and three relatives who also lived on the boat with them would have known if such a thing happened..
In summing up his Worship, said to the jury: "There are two pos sible views of the case. The first is that the death of the deceased was due either to pneumonia or drown- ing and the second that death was due entirely to pneumonia. The only evidence for drowning was de duced firm the pat-sortent, and to the presence of an unusual quan- tity of salt. found in the body... ed a verdict of death from natural The jury without retiring return.
causes.
MORE OPIUM CASES,
ALLEGED SMUGGLING BY FIREMEN.
Three Chinese firemen of the sa Haihong rere charged before Mr. R. E. Lindselt at the Central Magistracy yesterday morning with being in possession of 1,000 taels of Wychow opium. The value of the opium scited is nearly $70,000.
Mr. Leo d'Ainada e Castro, Bar., appeared for the second defendant, who with the other two men, were
ployed on the Canton steamer Tung remanded until Tuesday morning. In another cast, a carpenter em. On was charged by a revenue officer with the possession of 12 tacis off Canton opium which was found hidden under his clothing. The Magistrate imposed a fine of 9000,
Mrs. Bristol, wife of the Com- Such an amount cannot at pre-mander-in-Chief, arrived in the sent be raised by the Government. Colony yesterday by passenger However, it is suggested that the liner. The extension of the Kwang Government make the proposition
To Visit Canton. Sham Railway from Facsban to attractive enough to induce wealthy The U.S. Asiatic Fleet will stay Kongmoon. The land has been sur- veyed and plans completed. merchants to invest their money in in the Colony for about ten days such an undertaking. If this is not estimated cost of this extension, ac possible, the Government can fia-
It is likely that a visit will be paid cording to railway exports, is about ance the enterprises at the begia- Admiral will take the destroyers to Canton on March 30th. The drawn from the Provincial Trea-fruit, bonds should be issued by the $4,000,000. The money should be ning When it begins to bear with him. xury in monthly instalments: or if Government for raising the neces The U.S.S. Pittsburg and the After deducting all expenses, the this proves to be inconvenient, the eary money. These two enterprises other vessels of the Asiatic Fleet total profits from these three rail- undertaking can be placed in the the opening up of Whanges to a will leave Hong Kong early in world seaport and the completion April for Chefoo, where the annual roads for the past six months have
The erection of wireless of the Canton-Hankow Railway-target practice will take place. or six months bard labour. been 81,043,100. This money-in-stations in various parts of the are matters of prime importance Admiral Bristol's Career. eludes all the taxes and other this project is between $200,500 and earliest moment.
Province. The estimated cost of and should be attended to at the assements which the Government 8303,000 Goldi. has levied on passengers and on 3 The construction of more The following goods in transit. It has been the public highways,
highways "should be constructed custom to turn over all this money The Kwong-Far highway, estimated to the Provincial Treasury. Now to cost, 8380,000; the Canton-Tang if the three railroads retain this 35,000; the Lang Ngan Tung Tai shing highway, estimated cost, money for improvements only Wo Shi highway, estimated cost, 81,410,250 will have to be drawn $150,000; the projected completion from the Provincial Treasury in of the highways in eastern Kwang the first period, and $1,955,150 in and the projected completion of the Lung, timated cost, 82,700,000; the second. A
highways in the southern part of the Province, estimated cost, 83,600,000.
In view of this heavy expendi-
CHINESE GETS THREE
Rear-Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol has had a very distinguish- POSSESSION OF SEDITIOUS * SUCH ARE THE PLANS."boro, New Jersey, on April 17th, |ed career. He was born at Glass
LITERATURE. "Such are the plane for the re- 1868. After graduating from the construction of Kwangtung. The United States Naval Academy in Provincial Government in earnestly 1857, he was made an Ensign two at its earliest convenience. requested to begin the good work years later. He was promoted to The captam in 1913 During the years required money for the execution he has been afloat, be has served of these Inage projects should be in all classes of warships and has given by the Government in wreath had an unusually varied experience
of foreign service. ly instalments.
The money to be.
MONTHS' GAOL.
Charged with being in possession of seditious literature a Chinese appeared before Mrt H. E. Lindwelt at the Central Magistracy yester day. Defendant's plea was that be found the documenta in a dust bia and he had no idea of their contcata
by the He was in command of the U.8.8. Government should be allotted to Teras during the Battle of San- periods, each of six months durelaga Admiral Bristol also served tion. During the first period, the through the Spanish | Amarican
Among the seditious gamphlets ture the Provincial Administration
The construction of public high-anount should be $600,000 a month, War. He was responsible for many found on the defendant were several should decres that on and after ways in the western and northern while that given daring the second modern developments in the gun Red placards containing the April 1st, the General Directors of regions of Kwangtung could be and third periods should be 8750.000 nery of the United States. The usual slogans and offers of promo
postponed, as the West River and and 81,000,000 per month respective Admiral is also ATL expert in tion to Communist adherents to the these three railways retsin, all pro the Canton Hankow Railway can be ly. All this money should be de torpedoes and aircraft
rank of Red Terror Comrade fita and revenues from taxation for conveniently used for transporta posited in the Central Bank of From 1913 to 1016 he had charge On the defendant was also found said railways, instead of sending tion purposee
China or in some other equally of the seronautical section of the the address of house in Cross The trades for the upkeep and secum banks. No money should be Navy. In 1917 he commanded the Street, which the police subsequent- such money to the Government as maintenance of public highways allowed to be withdrawn except on North Carolina convoying troops ly raided and in which more they are now doing. The balance throughout the Province in the checks signed both by the Commis to Europe during the Great War seditious documents were found in- of the money necessary for the impaat have been about 8800,000 ioner of Reconstruction and the and later he was captain of the cinding translations of the Red provement should be taken from the per annum. Now as this amount Commissioner of Finance Oklahoma which served in Eure Flag, described as Communistic
is für from rough to meet "These projects, when carried pean waters in 1018. A subsequent | literature. Treasury. In a year from now the the needs of the projected plan, out will transforms Kwangtung into appointment was to the Con- Government will be reaping & all magistrates and road super- a most progressive and prosperous mand of the US Naval Base heavy pront from the investments intendents should be noted to province. Such economic develop at Plymouth Admiral Bristol was thus made. This is the only way to raise a certain amount of the necesmente will raise the standard of also one of the members at the en stave off bankruptcy and put pub- sary funde from their respective living of the people, promote their quiry into the Greek occupation of lic services on a sound business localities. They should also be welfare and bring them untold Smyrna in September and October
(Continued on next Colman), blessings.
basis.
1919,
· "A man and a woman were charg-
The defendant was sentenced to three months' hard labour, baki
ed in connection with the literature found in No. 7, Orow Street, but the evidence edered by the police
was not sufficient for a conviction.
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