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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18th, 1928.
NANKING AGAINST THE NEW CHAPEI WATER-CORRESPONDENCE.
JUDGE LOO.
KIANGSU GOVERNMENT'S
ORDER UPHELD."
PREJUDICED INVESTIGATORS.
on
WORKS.
FILTERING WOOSUNG WATER,
PLANT NOW IN FULL WORK. ING ORDER.
נו
CIVIL SERVANTS' SALARIES.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HÔNG XONG DAILY PRESS.**]
SIR,-The announcement made in this morning's newspapers of a revision of the Civil Servants' «salaries on a sterling basis did not come as any great surprise. It has been known now for some time that
SHANGHAI, July 14th. SHANGHAI, July 14th.
A decided improvement in pro- The long expected decision.
viding water for the Chinese dis- the question of the legality of the trict of Chapei has taken place in Kiangsu Government's recent order the past three weeks as the result diamissing Judge Loo Hsing Yuan of the inauguration of the new from the Presidency of the Shang Chinees. Waterworks intake and hai Provisional Court was made pumping system down the Whang-gold basis; and none will grudge known yesterday in Nanking by the
peo, just a short distance above
Committee of the Disciplinary Wansing.
Punishment of Judicial Officials ac- cording to local Chinese papers.
The
representations had been made for an increase in the salaries of officials receiving their salaries on
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their good fortune. On the basis of the rate of Exchange now ruling, The new waterworks сад be
the married officers will be entitled identified by a five-storeyed, pagoda to an increase of 12 per cent, while The exact terms of the decision of white and black, topped by the single officers will receive & per have not yet been published, but cone of colours, which lifte its head cent. more in dollar equivalent of it is understood by the local Chi- above the flat countryside about their salaries. nese press that the Committee found mile inland from the low shoreline. that the labourer is worthy of his On the principle
the order of the Provincial Govern.: The pump. house contains two hire ratepayers will not be ment valid. on the ground that pumps alternatively in use. three of the five charges have been cement house containing the pre-recommendation
ungracious ad to kick against a on which the substantiated,
liminary machinery for pumpioa Unofficial members of both Councils ▲ Blasged Investigator. the water in for dietribution and been consulted and recommend- Exactly on what evidence these through the long main to the gate, ed and now sanctioned by the charges have been proved, apart house where the coagulation sham Secretary of State: So far so good. from the allegation of the Provin- bers are found, is a neat building cial Government and Mr. Liang Jen in which the constant whirr of Chie; one time Judge of the Pro-machinery contrasta strangely with visional Court, our Chinese contem. the water buffalo generally seca porary is also not yet informed, browsing in the lush grass skirting but it is significant to note that the the water's edge. Extending be. decision was arrived at directly bind the pump house for 400 mow after the report of Mr. Liang Chun is the property of the new Chapei Lih, secretary to the Disciplinary Waterworks. A considerable por Committee, had been received. Mr. tion of the land has been filled in Liang came to Shanghai last Mon- to raise the level, as the red pipe day to conduct the official investiga-line of the Whangpoo Conservancy tion and spent exactly five hours Board which carries the filling-in at the Provisional Court examining mud inland will testify. various documents regarding the]
case.
Half a mile from the causeway of the pumphouse is the gate house Mr, Liang is the author of an where the firet parification process article published in the Contem takes place by means of alam. A porary Review, a Chinese weekly little further are the settling basins of June 30th, which expresses vio where sand and gravel act as the lent views antagonist to the Pro-ext agents of purification. Under- visional Court and to Judge Leo.neath these basins is a reservoir It is obviously most improper that which contains approximately one
half million gallons of a body of the supposed standing
stored water. Ao the whole system is the of the Disciplinary Committee should employ a man so clearly pre-not necesary to store
rapid filtration," however, it is
C
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judiced to conduct the investiga-water as is customary in the older
method of slow sand filtration.
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SPRING RUNNING IN SZECHUAN.
FIVE, GENERALS' RESUMING THEIR ANNUAL WARFARE.
WHO CARES FOR THE
PEOPLE?
CRENOTU, Sze; June 5th. The Spring buge or microbes that almost annually enter the blood of the restless Szechuanese, causing
CONDEMNED MEN IN SHANGHAI COURT.
AGRIM CEREMONIAL,
EXECUTION FOLLOWS
IMMEDIATELY.
SHANGHAI, July 13th. For the usual practice of identi- fication and formal confirmation of their death sentences, soven Chinese made their appearance in the Pro-
The hon. member was speaking at riotous action or civil war, have visional Court Yesterday morning. the time on the continually rising not failed in their gruesome work Three of the condemned men were cost of living in this Colony and this year, writes a N.-C. Daily arrested by Det.-Inspr. Quayle and advocated the holding of a repre- News correspondent: May and staff in connection with the kidnap sentative fuquiry to go into the June are the best trouble-brewing ping on April 2nd of two wealthy question.
months for this province. The con- Chinese. The arrests took place So far as the ratepayers are ditions now existing afford a rich three days ofter the crime, and they concerned the community is entirely soil for there breeders of discon were found in possession of two in the dark as to the justifying an adjustment of the tent and bloodshed. Five ambi- pistols, their victims then being re- salaries of the Sterling" paid tious Generals all on a fairly equal leased. Seven, others were also officials and at the same time with footing, all suspicious of their charged with participation in the holding an increase from those neighbours, all desirous of supre- abductions, one receiving life im- in
macy, are somewhat of a liability prisonment, another 12 years, whi'e recent public occasion I for the masses who struggle day the other five worn found not guilty, urged that the incidence of the and night to make ends meet
A boatman and a house-boy were higher cost of living in the Colony especially the ende demanded to was becoming more burdensome to the smaller man who enjoy neither keep up the non-productive hosts the benefit of free quarters nor the needed by each General to main advantages of paid passages out of tain his stronghold. aad back to the Colony on leave of
earning their more modest salaries
absence.
"The intrepid Yang Sen is usually Council have thought fit to recom- scheme, and, true to form, has led If the Unofficial members of in the thickest of any ambitious mend an increase of salaries, to off the first war-dance of the sea- Government employees earning.
sentenced to death for stealing 88,329 worth of jewellery on Septem- ber 9th, 1997, at 774 Yangtzepoo Road, when they held up the in- mates at the point of a pistol. The
part of the proceeds of the robbery latter was arrested in possession of "
at
Farce To Cheat The Consuls.
Washing The Water.
Shanghai North Railway Of course, the proceeding has
their salaries on a gold basis, BOD.
Station, and from statements made After passing through the settling curiosity impels the question for from beginning to end been a farce, haeins, the water is pumped to the what good reason have they not in conflict around Wanhsien there was gang were taken into custody. While opposing armies were in to the police, other members of the performed to make a prefence of siter house where 12 chambers with engaged in the Colony and who considerable anxiety in Chengtu. Further inquiries resulted in the all equity pleaded for men of and
satisfying the requirements of cer- tain treaty stipulations. It is a
gravel and sand of varying sizes to have good and special claims to The two Generals residing in the Police adding other charges of provide thorough filtration, relieve considerate treatment. au the well known fact that the Consula the water still further of patho- Hong Kong with a diminishing command, and it is quite under od murder. Six members of this.
ground of higher living costs in Capital have strong forces at their armed robbery and two of attempt
the silver dollar? value in the purchasing power of stood that their attachments are gang were sentenced to death, but discrimination in the past of the diere fully armed slept on strategie their sentences changed to life im- divided. For several nights. Bol after a re-trial four of them had There has been far too much local men and always to their corners, evidently an outguard tu prisonment on account of the fact
better will the Colany become from disadvantage and the sooner this
that the Bandit Laws did not inequality is done away with the an economic, no less than from a
apply. social, point of view. Yours faith fully,
J. P. BRAGA. Hong Kong, July 17th.
had insisted that no dismissal of logical bacteria and Mr. Loo could be recognized unless Each of the 12 filter basing has five organisms. and until the regular legal prose troughs through which the water dure had been properly applied...
The Government
passes to be "washed," and after accordingly made haste to publish a new eet of connecting with the pagoda tank. that it is pumped to a pump house rules for the Committee of Di In the final stage of the purifica ciplinary Panishment of Judicial tion, chemical treatment is given Officials, widely different from the by means of a Wallace & Tiernan eld ordinance of 1915 both in the automatic chlorine apparatus which provision for the composition of the regulates with absolute precision Committee and in the scope of its the required amount of chlorine for discretionary powers. This was be complete chemicalization of the cause they had found that the
water. After that the water is charges preferred against Mr. Loo pumped to the 100ft. high pagoda, both then and now, even if ther one pipe going up and one coming were proved, would not warrant the down, the latter to intensify pres punishment of dismissal under the eure for sending the water through
the connecting main to Chapei. Waterworks are being retained by "The reservoirs of the old Chapel
old ordinance.".
In this way it was made possible for the Government to claim that
SAIGON RICE MARKET.
DECLINE IN PRICES.
case of a sudden attack.
"
Money Market Blumps.
that the two Generala had outlined Court were finished, the prisoners Later the people were informed When the proceedings at the
a policy that would keep western were transferred to the prison van, Szechuan free from entanglements in charge of Sergt. J. Gavin, and with the eastern section." The taken to the Chinese authorities at the Nantao District Court, who im- money market is still confused mediately carried out the decision." The half dollars that were in cir- of the Court.-N-C! Daily News. sulation at par with the dollar coins at the beginning of the year de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient in dollare. This is a great loss to
The Compagnie de Commerce &
are required to. purchase 100 big their report on the rice market those who had large supplies of dated Saigon, July 19th, state half dollars and has effected the active, but the demand being small market has been During the last fortnight the paddy
business prosperity of the city. little more
Supplies continue on a small scale. The rice market has shown some activity but exporters having soyer- have declined again. ed their requiremente, the prices
B
it had lived up to the letter of the the new company for the time the prices have elackened off agaid
to all,
--
LONDON 'BUS'S WILD
CAREER.
PASSENGERS ALARMED BY DRUNKEN DRIVER.
law totally regardless of the spirit being and distribution takes place essential to justice in all civilized countries, that one cannot make a
through the mains already in use. Further facts pointed out by those new law to suit a particular case
in charge of the new waterworks In an interview with a high
Regarding brokens, the market is official of the Provisional Court and purifying capacity of the plant India and Java..
plant are that the present pumping firm with an upward tendency owing to a continued demand from yesterday morning a representative is 7,000,000 gallons during eight The total amount of rice export- driver employed by the Premier of the North-China Daily News was hours. This can
Charles William Beel, aged 41, a he raised to ed from January 1st to June 30th, Omnibus Company, pleaded guilty told that no official notification as 15,000,000 gallone should the round 1938, is 918,234.786 tons against at West London Police Court. to to the decision has been received of the clock be worked. The game
902.052.592 tons, in 1927.
having been drunk while in charge but that the news came as a shock directorate has charge of the new rice No. 1 25 per cent. brokens ous driving,
We quote to-day white Saigon of a motor-omnibus and to danger plant as controlled the old Chapei per picul of 134 lb, f.o.b. Saigon that on the night of June 15th Beel round grain; Hong Kong $6,70 Charges Trumpery And Untrue.
Mr. F. Powell, for the police, said Waterworks, and a Chinese engi se, 10d. per cat. fo.b. Saigon; was seen driving the omnibus along, Of the five charges made against neen is in chargé of the plant. Judge Loo four had been resurrect
Yen 6.25 per pieul of 134 lbs. I.o.b.Hammersmith-road at about 40 Baigon ed from those on which it was
miles an hour in zig-zag fashion. The plant is declared to have White Saigon rice No. 2 sifted A passenger was standing on the Bought ta evict him last October, cost 83,000,000 for construction
Japan quality: Hong Kong $6:38 conductor's platform shouting to and were implicitly quashed by the under the supervision of German per pical of 134 lbs. fo.b. Saigon: police officers to stop it. All the and Swiss engineers, and with pro- 3d. per ew, fo.b. Saigon other paetengers had got off in Nanking Government's suppression per supervision will eliminate any Ten 5.85 per picul of 134 lbs. fo.b. alarm, of the whole attack; while the fifth, fear of epidemics of intestinal
Baigon. accusing him of being responsible nature, attributed to contaminated For July/August ehipment. for the congestion at, the Provi- population. It has been in opera water supply among the Chinese sional Court was, in every partition, for the past three weeks. cular, the exact reverse of the although a portion of the settling truth.
plant and other details are not yet. completed Grass plots are already
A ̈$3,000,000 Plant,
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Beel turned the omnibus inte Edith-rond and pulled up. Ser- geant Tilburn, finding him drunk, arrested him. Beel became vio lent, used disgraceful language, and at the police station offered to fight.
THREAT TO OXFORD.
APPEAL BY PRESERVATION
TRUST.
A manifesto issued by members of the Appeal Committee of Oxford Preservation Trust states:
Oxford is spreading fast be yond its old boundaries. Unleas this growth is guided in such a way as will meet economic needs, but at the same time preserve the loveliness of the city and its sur- roundings, the beauty of Oxford will be irreparably defaced.
The unique beauty of Oxford lies in the green belt of park and meadow which girdles. the an- cient city, The green belt is threatened.
*
The loveliness of the distant views of the city from the aur- rounding hills will be lost if the green foreground of the grey buildings is scarred by new streets. Oxford should grow be yond its green belte a d
To work in harmony with the Oxford City Countil and with the neighbouring local authorities in such a way as to secure for them the effective support of public opinion is one of the main tasks of the trust.
It needs funds to buy estates" and plots of land which the city council has either no power to acquire or which, in view of its Mr. Bingley said that ́in view of
other obligations, it cannot be ex- A more scandalous story, or one being laid for a garden with which at the above School fo-day. Beel's excellent war record be
pected" to buy. reflecting greater discredit on it is the hope of the company to The children will give thres little would not send him to prizon. He Among the signatories are Lord everybody concerned, except Judge surround the plant as soon as pos- plays commencing at 10.30a.m. would be fined £10 with £3 coats Blannaburgh, Lord Bearsted Sir
eible, in order to conform with the after which, visitors are invited to on the drunkerness charge and Bobert Witt, Mr. Philip Guede Loo, it would be difficult to imagine, general idea of a neat, well-groomed ree the work in the various class-lined Es on the charge of danger Sir Philip Sassoon, and Sir A. -N-0, Daily News,
waterworks.
ous driving.
TOOTE
Anderson.