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LECTURE AT "INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS.
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POSSIBILITIES IN SOUTH CHINA.
Mr. Walton Schmidt representing the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce of New York gave an excellent lecture last night at the rooms of the Institution of Engineers and Ship- builders of Hong Kong.
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Mr. L. C. E. Bellamy proposing a vote of thanks to the lectur er said that it was the most interesting and instructive lecture he had heard in the Colony. That bad roads cost more than good ones was the burden of Mr. Schmidt's discourse and be illustrat ed his point very clearly by cinematograph films. He also pointed out forcibly the possibilities of the motor trade in South Chian, and the opportunity opened for Hong Kong as the distributing centre of that ares.
The lecturer was introduced by Mr. W. J. Stokes, president of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders and by Mr. P. M. Hodgson, president of the Hong Kong Automobile Association, who said that Mr. Schmidt had been very well received wherever he had lectured, and thanked the Institution for the use of the
room.
CHINA'S NEED.
about 18,000 miles of roads over which a motor car gna travel in China. It is true that most of them are only dirt roads and that they are not connected up by bridges, but nevertheless it is a
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cut.
In the country we find that our American farmers are 65 per cent. more efficient sines the introduction of motor transportation and trac tora. The farmer has a wider choice of places in which to dispose of his products. And the farm which is twenty miles away from the city and a whole days journey in the old days, is now reached in. an hour in a motor car. And by the way, the automobile is about the only thing you can buy for less money that before the war. Mass production and improved man ac turing methods give you a much better car for 25 per cent. less than what you would have paid in 1914. Your food, your rent, your clothes in fact the price you pay for every inanufactured article is higher to day than before the war.
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"I can't help it if two men want to fight about me," said Mary Rice laconically when informed that two men of colour had fought a duel on her account...
SINGAPORE DETECTIVE'S
METHODS.
CURIOUS EVIDENCE IN GANG ROBBERY CASE.
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curious insight into methods of the, Chinese detective was afforded by a case heard in the Singapore Second Police Court.
The magistrate was inquiring in-
One of the men, William Ruston, les seriously wounded in an Atian- tie City hospital; but he is expected to recover. The other man, Charles to a charge of armed robbery Seiwert, is held by the police. against a Chinese, who was alleged His story of the duel le straight-to have taken part in the hold-up forward. He says:
Economic Progress Of China, Mr. Walton Schmidt said:--
All signs point to the fact that On behalf of the National Auto-
China has decided to buy motor mobile Chamber of Commerce, I
cars and that the appreciates the want to say that it gives us great
advantage of motor transport over pleasure to bring to Hong Kong
ather forms "of transportation some of the motion pictures we If you have not been to Canton Then she must remember that a have shown in New Zealand, Aus- recently you will be amazed by the large investment in motor vehicles tralia, India, East Africa and South improvements there. I was taken by any country without adequate Africa, as part of a world wide over six miles of very good asphalt provision in the way of good roads campaign for good ronds, reason- pavement and three or four miles for these motor vehicles to run able taxation and regulation of the of excellent concrete construction. pon, will mean such high operat- motor vehicle and accident prevent ten places within the city limits for good roads whether she has ing costs that she will be paying road widening and construction was them or not. I am going to prove I want to express my apprecia underway and I was told that half this to you by our experience in tion of the fact that to-day's meeting a million gold dollars was being is being held under the auspices spent in this work in 1998. The America. We have made testa in America where we have taken of the Hong Kong Automobile new streets which have been cut
motorcars and operated them for Association and I also wish to through the former narrow alleys definite period of time over dif- thank the Institute of Engineers are wide and spacious and the ferent kinds of road surfacing. for the loan of their rooms. I am main boulevards with their round. We have kept careful records of also under great abligations to the ed corners are models of the latest the gasoline consumption, of the American Consul-General,
Mr. ideas in safety. You may be in wear and tear on the car, and of Roger Tredwell, and his staff for terested to know that six hundred tire mileage, and we know for a the assistance they have so freely miles of motor road has been built positive fact that it coats 25-per given to me in my work in Hong in Kwangtung province, 500 miles cent. less to operate a motor ja Kong.
in Hainan Island and 600 miles in vehicle over a concrete road." Kwangsi province.
tion,
Importance To Hong Kong. Our goal in this educational work is to have motor travel conditions
I propose to divide my lecture into three sections and illustrate my remarks with motion pictures:
1. The economic value of motor
transportation.
The importance of good roads as a means of lowering ope rating costs of motor trans- portation. 3.-The American method of rais. ing funds for road construc-
tion.
Economists tell us that the pro- gress of any country can be mea- aured by the effort that country is making to reduce the cost per ton mile of transportation. Our tests show that on a dirt road you will
I was coming from Egg Har- of the inmates of a Chinese tow- bour when I met Ruston, who kay's house in Garden Street some began kidding me about Mary time last month and the robbery I didn't like being kidded. I
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went to tell Mary about it, and of 93,000 in jewellery and cash, As, I was leaving her home this Chinese detective told the big six-footer came up and said, magistrate that at 9.30 pm. one "What do you want to do about evening towards the end of May it You know I am a good ahooter." I answered that good he was about to enter the Surina shooters were not the only people Theatre in North Bridge Rond who could handle guns.
when he heard that a robbery had We agreed to shoot it out. Ruston was back, first. I said, just taken place in Garden Street. Wait until I get my place." He bought his ticket, and entered Then I said, "Are you ready the theatre, and there he saw the He said Yes. Then I said, accused, whom he had known for "Let her ge.!!..
about a year and who, he knew, was acquainted with the owner of the house in which the robbery had just taken place. He mentioned asked him to make enquiries. the robbery to the accused, and
We both shot together. Then he jumped over a fence and ran
away.
down the road by a motorist and Ruston was found staggering
was taken to hospital. Seiwert, who is the elder man, rang up the police and told them that he would
await their arrival.
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The accused left the theatre and
favourable in all countries and to have motor products made at a price available for all. Under auch conditions there will be plenty of
get about 14 ton miles to the gal
returning after a few minutes, sup-
business for every high grade com-
lon of gasoline, on a good gravel
plied the information that a cer- tain person, known to the detec pany whether American or British.
road about 21 ton miles and on L
tive, had taken part in it. There paved road 31 ton miles. A ton The thought may be in some your
upon the detective rang up the minds Why bring educational
mile is the movement of one tou
Detective Station, and learning statistical term. Remember in con- one mile. This is a convenient pictures.concerning good roads and
Bond issues should always be the that Acting Chief Det-Inspector taxation to Hong Kong. Here we
means employed for Baancing high-Johnson had already left for the sidering these figures that a ene have good roads and reasonable 25 Thousand Motors In China.
way construction, and our experi-scene of the robbery went there ton truck loaded with another ton
cace has always been "that where himself, with the accused who wait taxation " Our reason is thra:
From the best figures I am able of goods means that two tons are this is done, the increase in wealthed outside. The detective.com- Hong Kong is the great distribut to obtain there are about three moving over the highway. ing centre for South China. If thousand motor vehicles on the you got seven miles to the gallon returned dividends more than ade information he had obtained from So if and the lowering of operating costs municated to another detective, the peuce and prosperity come to China island of Hong Kong, and some with such a load on dirt road Hong Kong will prosper. Peace thirty miles of fine motor roads you would be getting fourteen tonquate to defray the entire cost of the accused and the second officer
the development.
suggested he should be brought in may come to Ching but prosperity Compare these figures with China. miles. We have also proved that cannot come without good roads In the whole of China including your tires will last six times as fee and a gasoline tax. The gaso
We believe in a low registration j to interview the inspector.
The accused was brought in, and and motor transportation, Hong Manchuria there are less than long on a concrete or paved road line tax is a tax based on highway immediately identified by one of Kong business men, both European twenty-five thousand motor vehicles. as on a gravel road, and of course, and Chinese, are constantly in touch That makes China the biggest coun- 18 you reduce the wear and tear
use. The heavy truck uses more the ladies of the house as one of the men who had held them up not with what is going on up country, try in the world with the smallest on the car, you reduce the cost of line than the light truck and
thus pays for the extra wear and half an hour previously. He was I want to tell you something of quots of motor vehicles. I have repairs and the car lasts longer.
tear on the highway. The man who thereupon arrested. what China has already done in heard it said that during the period
So if China invests large sums of does not use his motor car very The inquiry was adjourned.- the matter of roads and by means of reconstruction China should not money in motor cars she will want much pays less than the man who Straits Times. of these pictures we hope to make be encouraged to buy motor cars-
to operate these ears as cheaply uses his car and the highway con- you enthusiastic couverts to the that there are other things of more possible, especially in a country stantly. Certainly motor doctrine of good roads so that you importance to the welfare of the where the initial cost of the car is should be such that they will not will preach the gospel of the im- people on which they should spend on high and where you pay so much check the economic ase of motor portance of motor transportation their money, China cannot afford for fuel. By building good roads vehicles. Every country seeking to in the rehabilitation of China on not to use motor transportation as
she can reduce the cost of operation. keep its place among the nations of CHARGE AGAINST GIRL OF 19. That is what every other country is the world needs additional motor every' possible occasion.
Chinese Motor Roads,
Our pictures have been shown in Tientsin, Shanghai, Hangchow and Canton. Ever since I arrived in China I have been impressed with the fact that motor roads are con- stantly mentioned when government officials discuss reconstruction pro- grammes how to be undertaken.
of the Government.
taxes
a means of taking her place, amongdoing in its efforts to compete with transportation cheaply produced.
the great nations of the world In America our citizens are so convin- cd of the necessity of economical individual transportation as repre- sented by the motor car that last year they spent over thres and a half billion, gold dollars on motor cars, trucks and buses. "
A Billion A Year On Roads,
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CONCEALING A BODY.
MURDER TRIAL SEQUEL,
PARIS..
If a country puts high taxation on other countries.
Paying For Good Roads, motor vehicles it will not get the And now we come to the imperadditional motor transportation it tant point of paying for the con- needs and such moter transporta struction of new roads and maintien as it does get will not be cheap-years-old sister-in-law of Mestorino, taining and improving those ally produced.
ready in existence. The first thought is "Tax the motor vehicle which uses the roada" That is a The plan which has been put for- We have over 23,000,000 motor good theory, but a country in an ward to use soldiers disbanded from vehicles in operation on our high-initial state of road development the armies on road construction ways. Over 600,000 miles of our cannot afford to wait for good roads seems to be a splendid step in the three million miles of highways until taxation from motor vehicles right direction and a most prac have been hard surfaced. To this provides enough money to build tical one.
we are adding about 40,000 miles, roads. It is a mistake to consider The former president of the a year, America is spending over improved roads as luxuries to be National Good Roads Association: a billion dollars a year on highways enjoyed "if they can be afforded, of China, Dr. C. T. Wang, is now construction and maintenance and but not essential to the economic the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the important thing about that health of the community. The the Nationalist Cabinet at Nanking. is that by keeping motor taxation fact is that we lose more by failing His complete knowledge of this low and using bond issues to build to improve our main highways than subject will undoubtedly stimulate roads we have so encouraged the it costs to improve them. For, whe the road building policy and efforts use of motor vehicles that the ther we build and maintain ade I had the motorists of the country are con- quate highways or not, such high- honour of a long interview with tributing 75 per cent of the money ways as we have are used daily by Dr. Wang, and his interest was spent on roads through direct taxe increasing number of motor demonstrated by the fact that he tion en motorists as a class. If it vehicles. As I have mentioned be made a special trip from Nanking is extravagant to spend money on fore, for the movement of every to preside over my meeting in motor cars and on roads for them vehicle there is a certain cost Shanghai.. Through Dr. Wang much to operate upon then America cost which is less if the road be im- of our road building data is being should be a poor country and in a proved than if it be left in a státe translated into Chinese and placed bad financial condition for she has of nature. Therefore, in order to at the disposal of the provincial been spending these great sume for get all the benefits of motor tran authorities in the various provinces. the past ten years. The point is sportation and the benefits of low You may be under the impres that it is not extravagant for a operating costs which come with sion, as I was, that there are prac. country to spend money on motor good roads, we believe in America tically no motor roads in China. cars because they earn their keep that there should be general taxa That is a mistake. In spite of the and leave something over for proht. tion for highway construction and war which has been going on, road This is proved by the fact that special taxation of the motor building of a kind has been going America, while spending these great vehicle and gasoline, for mainten on all over the country, particularly sums for cars and roads, has during suce. That is Bociety-as-a-whole, in those provinces remote from the the past ten years registered great including owners and non-owners actual scene of combat, Miss Viola gains in all forms of anvings.
of motor vehicles, should pay gen Smith, American Trade Commis-
eral taxes to provide the, capital sioner at Shanghai, has just com-'
inveatment necessary to construct pleted and published a pamphlet For instance, in America life in improved roads, but the motor entitled Motor Roads in China surance in force is more than two vehicle owners and users, as: 1 which gives a complete description and a half times as great as it separate and distinct class, should of what has been done in each was ten years ago. Savings debe called upon to pay special taxes province. This booklet revenis the posits are doable and individual to maintain improved highways. amazing fact that there are really bank deposits are nearly three (Continued on next Column).
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THE FILMS.
Mlle. Suzanne Charnaux, the 18-
the Paris jeweller who was ICH- tenced to penni servitude for life -for the murder of Gaston The cinematograph pictures within St. Lazaro Prison...
Truphème, a jewel broker, is now which the lecture was illustrated
She has heen. charged with re- and the audience was in particular and abetting in the concealment of extraordinarily interesting, coiving stolen jewels, with aiding impressed by the enormous size of a body, and with theft. some of the machines shown doing road making work. The picture of tried before the assizes, but before It is probable that she will not be the first Ford constructed in 1910 the Correctional Court. shows what starting progress has been made in motor manufacture, poison on hearing her husband's Mme. Meatorimo, who swallowed from those days to the modern condemnation, has not yet recover- Ford and the machines which diged from the effect of the drug. ditches, shovel snow, and lay con- It crete as they drive along..
was stated at the hospital that she is still in a comatose com- Detailed pictures of the making dition. of various types of roads used in America were lecturer remarked that dirt" shown, and the roads were all right where there was very little motor traffic, not more than 500 vehicles in one day-
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A Comic With A Moral The comic film which followed 'the' lecture, caused a good deal of laughter, but the leason it taught was very clear and will not be us that he has just received. tele- forgotten by any motorist who saw graphic confrmation that he has it. The tyres went on strike owing secured the sole rights for the Far to ill usage and ds each one ex- Eset for the following shown to be hibited its wounds, the method of produced by his English Comedy avoiding such damage was explain Company "Thark,
Rookery ed,
Nook, Cuckoo in the Nest, An educational film entitled Edgar Wallace's great show "The Safety First closed the lecture. Binger," The Terror," The Instances of careless driving and Joker""Number Seventeen" and careless walking were given and the Two White Arms," résults of both shown dramatically. He adds: This repertoire needs Mr. L. CF. Bellamy thanked the little comment as it will no doubt lecturer and remarked that it was appeal to you as being the very the most interesting lecture he had best that could, be secured in Loa heard in Hong Kong,
don at the present time.