HIGH HAND AT WUCHOW.
CHAIRMAN OF CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE-SHOT.
FRICTION BETWEEN HER. CHANTS AND SOLDIERS.
WEDDING.
MANN-ROBERTSON,
At St. John's Cathedral on Satur-
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 3. 1929.
CORRESPONDENCE. ROUND THE POLICE WHITE SHADOWS IN
IMPORTANCE OF WELLS FOR HONG KONG.
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day the wedding was celebrated of (TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONG KONG Mr. W. G. Robertson, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Robertson, of Liverpool, and manager in China, of the Colasses Co. (Hong Kong), WELL-TO-DO. PEOPLE LEAVE.Ltd., to Miss Doris V. Mann, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Mann, of London.
O OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
The Dean (the Very Rev. A. Swann) officiated, and Mr, H. Roa, of the Netherlands Consulate, was
SIR," Water from "wells contaminated and dangerous to health."" "Water from wella may cause cholera and kindred diseases." "Wells should be condemned and closed." Such is the cry if those who have, not scientifically studied the geological formation of the land." (Hong Kong Island and the main land)..
I would be one of the first to con- demn the use of water from wells
COURTS.
ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES AND THREATS.
TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES: MAGISTRATE'S WARNING.
The case against Douglas Gifford and two Chinese who are charged with false pretences and attempt ing to obtain a sum of money from Chinese woman in Canton Road by means of threats, was continued before Mr. T.. S.. Whyte Smith at Satur- Kowloon Magistracy on day.
THE SOUTH SEAS.
A FILM OF AMAZING BEAUTY.
A MODERN MONTEZUMA,
White Shadows in the South
mcst
Seas," showing to-day, to-morrow and Wednesday at the Queen's Theatre is, perhaps, the
seen in Hong' beautiful film yet
In this industrial age of Kong. big ugly city, of crooks and million- aires, the beauty and simplicity of the South Sea Islands exercise a terrible fascination over westera
But this film shows that ļ
CANTON, June 9. Startling reports have been re-best man,
The bride was given away by ceived from Wackow to the effect that the President of the local Commander J. B. Newill, D.S.Q.,
The defendants are alleged to minds Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Ngai R.N. (retired), and attended by one Shung Man, has been executed. bridesmaid, Miss Irene Butler. The in sub-soil and reclaimed areas for have conspired against the com- there can be no happy mingling of the the West and the South. As hun- There was a raid on the Chamber's bride looked very charming in drinking purposes, as such well-plainant and, according to premises last Tuesday when Mr. wedding gown of ivory charmeuse
water is liable to be contaminated prosecution, they passed themselves dreds of writers have already pro- Ngai was arrested and detained, with a close fitting bodice and long with sewage matter and other dan. off as representatives of the China claimed, where the shadow of the under close confinement at military skirt, trimmed with pearls. She headquarters. He
was charged wore a tulle veil held in place by
white man falls the noble savage-
wrenth of pearls and orange with refusing to help the Govern- ment to raise 8300,000 which had blossom, and married a sheaf of
arum lilies.
F
been demanded for war expenses from the merchants. He was also
The bridesmaid was dressed in accused of being a reactionary." mauve net, with a gold girdle and a After accret trial he is supposed mauve picture hat. She carried a to have been taken to a quiet spel bouquet, of orchids. on the outskirts of the city and shot.
A well attended reception was held in the Hong Kong Hotel, where There is intensely bitter feeling the usual toasts were honoured, and against General. Wong Shiu Hung, where the many beautiful and valu- who is said to have been respon.able presents were on view. sible and there is a general atti- The bridegroom's gift to the bride tude of passive resistance to the was a diamond and platinum wrist- Government. The merchants took let watch.
the lead and nearly all of them closed their shops when the news became known.
There is considerable distress in the city and most of the oficials and well-to-do people are leaving or have already left. Practically every hotel and boarding house is empty and business is at a stand- still. The Government and the military are also making themselves unpopular by forcing the merchants to accept par payment in depre cinted Ewangai notes. These notes are down to about 20 per cent of their face value as against silver currency and yet soldiers are make ing the top people, accept them at nominal value.
Brawle are numerous nad the merchants' strike is largely due to this currency
trouble.
"KWANGSI LEADERS
GIVING UP?
The honeymoon will be spent in
Berous impurities, no matter how it
is treated and boiled.
The sub-soil areas round the City of Canton for example are breeding grounds of disease, and the well- water from such areas is generally found to be charged with disease germs from the sewage saturated soil, and should never be used for potable purposEX
But, the water from the old wells of Hong Kong Island is distinctly different from that of the wells of
the sub-soil areas of Canton City.
Hong Kong Island is of a rocky formation, and is quite free from
the
contaminating influence of sewage-impregnated areas (reclaim- a trip to Japan. The bride's goinged areas excluded). away dress was of blue flowered chiffon with blue crinoline hat to match.
+2
ARMED ROBBERY IN KOWLOON.
i
"CHINESE BOAT BUILDING
YARD ENTERED.
An armed robbery was committed shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday morning according to a report made at Shamshuipo Police Station.
Five "men armed with revolvers raided the Shing Hing Boat Build- ing Yard at Cheung Sha Wan. The gang appears to have divided into two parties, a couple of them deal-
Two of the principal gab-soil areas are the Wong Nei Chung and Tai Hang Valley's, and water from wells in these two localities should not be used for drinking purposes.
manded money in return for not Light & Power Company and do bringing a charge against ber of stealing electricity.
and suck there are, despite all sneers of home-staying authropolo gista-wilts and decays.
In this story
Sergeant Fitches who conducted
"a young doctor, the case for the prosecution, asked Matthew Lloyd, not perfect, but a the complainant if she had been man of considerable idealism in cast approached and told not to testify up on a lovely and anspoiled island. against the accused. The com- The good natured chief and his plainant said that the mother of people welcome the "white god" third defendant had approached and in a way he anttles down among them, And yet, he cannot settle. Despite the perfection" of scenery, the unclouded ease and the love of the chief's exquisitely beautiful daughter he pines at heart
her.
His Worship on hearing this re- marked that he would like all parties concerned to know that anyone interfering with witness
would be severely dealt with.
Douglas Gifford when naked if he wished to question complain ant, stated that he never said, that he was a "taipan" of the Electric Company, nor did he speak to her about any money. He merely ask
ed for a box of matches
The hearing was adjourned.
KEEPING A GAMBLING HOUSE.
for his own way of life-the ugly cities that he hates, the men and women among whom he was never a success. He finds pearls in the oysters fished by the natives and he starts collecting them. Then in a deserted part of the island be lights
signal fires. His lovely young wile finds him and for her sake be stamps out the fire, fings away the pearls and comes back to her. But you see the island is telling on him, that he is not wholly sane.
The Despoilers.
Hong Kong is noted for its springs and perennial flowing mountain streams, and the water from such sources is of the greatest parity, and owing to thousands of years of
A "Chinese and his wife living infiltration is absolutely free from ac. No. 30, Reclamation Street were contarainating influences. The water convicted before Mr. T. S. Whyte.
His signals has attracted a prowl- from these streams should be col-Smith at Kowloon Magistracy on ing schooner owned by a gang of lected and trained into tanks instead Saturday morning of keeping a the lowest type of white sharks, a of allowing millions of gallons of this
common gaming house. Sergeant gaug with whom the bero has been precious fluid to run to waste daily. Fitches, who
charge in confict already for fouling an- other South Sea Island. Despite I have studied the geological.com- of the
case produced ditions of the China Coast from ber of lottery tickets which he Swatow to Canton and I find that said were being printed at the pre- all this length of coast has been mises. Both defendants denied
Was
in
#
num-
ing with the employees sleeping on smothered and drowned by the sub-this, and said that the tickets were
the first floor while the others residence of a large mass of con- merely waste paper. sacked the ground foor occupied by tinental land in the Pacific Ocean.
A further report has been receiv-the master. ed that General "Yi Tack Pak, who
is in command of the troops now! 8200 were stolen.
fi
TUG ENGINEER'S DEATH AT NAVAL HOSPITAL.
The numerous island groups of A sum of 8300 and jewellery worth Polynesia and Melanesia” are also
the remains of this submerged can tinent (see my 1914 publications). This great subsidence of land hap pened at the same time as the great upheaval in Central Asia, and Hong Kong Island and all the islands of the China Coast are the romains" of submerged highlands and moun- The death had to be recorded attains. This is conclusively provel on board a gunboat to be tried the Royal Naval Hospital yesterday by a close study of the rocks and
attacking Wuchow from the West River, had left for Hong Kong where he is negotiating terms of surrender with the Kwangai leaders. Wong Ying Yi, the captured Kwangel general who was brought to Canton some time ago after the defeat of, the Kwangsi troops at Pei Nai, has been sent to Nanking
there.
KWANGSI LEADERS.
MB. C. COLUMBUS.
The funeral took place in the afternoon at the Protestant Ceme- tery, Happy Valley.
TERMS OF SETTLEMENT?
LATER.
It is reported that an armistice on the following terms has been ar- ranged
boulders which litter the coast and which strew the shores of Hong Kong Island and all the islands in its neighbourhood. This is why the Island of Hong Kong is a rock, and practically free from sub-soil areas.
Consequently, all water from the springs and streams of the Island is of the purest quality, and no better water could be found for pot able purposes.
What if the walls of our reservoirs
should collapse at any time through earthquake or faulty construction, na has happened in other parts of
the World.
The man was fined 8150 or three months' imprisonment and the woman discharged, the Magistrate remarking that there was nothing indicate that she co-operated with the man.
to
看
A BEGGING TEAM AT WORK.
Lloyd's warning the white men are hospitably received and they an
ounce their intention" of opening"
a store and starting a pearl fishery. Lloyd appeals to the traders to leave the island unspoilt and in response to their jeers he lays out first one and then the other with his fists in the vain hope that the natives will follow up his attack. The schooner captain shoots him dead and the natives dy in terror..
One hopes the old chief will rise to the occasion, but like Montezuma A strange partnership between of ancient Mexico he is afraid of three beggers. was revealed in the white men... In the last scene they on have their store and their cabaret, Major C. Willson's Court
dresses and the debauchery of the Saturday when two persons were they have sold their ugly unhealthy charged with begging.
Sub-Inspector Field, who pro-island is complete.
Despite the bitterness of the last: secuted, said that there were three men concerned, but since one of scene the film is essentially one of them had neither arms nor legs he sunshine and happiness a carefree was kept in a cell, waiting to be people living under perfect condi sent away. The two accused were tions. Much of it recalls that won-
them stood some distance away a finely constructed drama is staged partners of the "erippic." One of derful idyll "Moana," but here and his duty appeared to be to in this setting of pure romance. move the cripple from place to The storm in which Lloyd's ship place on his back. The second is wrecked, the mystic pool where an assisted in completing a most the girls of the island bath, the unpleasant picture by pretending feasts and the dancing are all a The acting is extremely to be suffering from a running delight. wound in the leg. This effect was good. Monte Bine Ав Lloyd. produced by an application of wax thoroughly understands the char- and red paint.
acter he portrays and Baquel Torres as his island wife is a wonder of native beauty.-B. Be
morning of Mr. C. Columbus, chief engineer of HM tug Poet Chaucer, A HARD PRESSED CITY.
Mr. Columbus was to have gone Home by the P. & O... Morea PRICE PLACED ON HEADS OF on May 25, but it is understand that a few days before the sailing According to the vernacular of the vessel he was taken ill and papers it was originally arranged had to be sent to hospital. He was that the attack on Wuchow should about, 40 years old and leaves a wife be left to the Nanking troops-who and two children at Home. are mostly Kwangei men-support. ed by Canton gunboats and aero planes. The Nanking senjor offi. cers, General Li Ming. Shui and Yang Tang Fai, bave, however, asked the Canton Government to
I am therefore in favour of a provide two brigades and "this is
careful inspection of all localities to be done. The Nanking troops
suitable for digging and boring wells are now said to number 8,000 men.
by experienced engineers, and such The Kwangsl troops have aban
wells should be made a permanent 1. Generala Pei Chung Hsi, Li source of the Colony's water supply doned Dosing and are preparing to
CINEMA NEWS. defend Wuchow. If driven out Tsang Jen, and Wong Shiu Hung
are to retire from both military as it is wise and necessary to guard there they will retreat to Tent, and civil posts in Kwangsi.
against disaster.
"MAN, WOMAN AND SIN." haien, on the West River, the next
2 The posts of troop disband. All existing spring wells, which defensible point.
ment commissioner and chairmen
are free from contamination by
John Gilbert as a newspaper
"Man,' About five regiments of Kwei- of the Provincial Government will
reporter is the beru of chow troops have arrived in We reserved for Tu Tacks Pak and sewage matter should be immediate fluid in times of drought and water,
Li Ming Shui.
ly re-opened and cleaned for use. scarcity.
Weman and Sin, which will be chow after a severe beating by the
The water from such wells need shewn at the Queen's from Thurs 3. All troops in Kwangs shall With a proper system of control-
not be used, when the full supply Yunnan troops. They are in had automatically come under the com-led wells, pumps and tanks, the from the Colony's reservoirs is day to Saturday. "Jeanne Eagles condition and of little use. The mand of Li Ming Shui and Yang Colony need not look to the main- turned on, but it
always wine to appears in the leading feminine Tang Fai lack of food and ammunition is
role. The story is an original by 4. All Kweichow troops now in land for its water supply in future, be on the safe side, and to have a
and we shall be freed from a repeti- plentiful reserve of pure spring Monte Bell who also directed the likely to decide the fate of Wu Kwangsi shail return to their own chow. The Yunnan troops are at province at the expense of Kwangsi. tion of the hardships which the in- water always ready at hand in case
of drought and emergency as at pre-picture. The Embassy Ball, Wash habitants of Hong Kong are ex-
sent. Kweiyang, the capital of Kweichow, Fro-Kwangai circles, while admitperiencing to-day.
ington's largest social affair, is one "Canton Military Headquarters ting that. Yu and Yang have made
If not useil for drinking purposes, - Hoping this matter will receive overtures to the Kwangsi, leaders,
Government and the authoritics con film. such well-water could be used for the favourable consideration of the of the spectacular details of the washing, bathing and flushing pur noses and would mean an immense cerned Yours, £
ISE IBAN TAI saving of the precious drinking
Continued at foot of next column), Hong Kong, June 1, 1929.
have placed a sum of 830,000 each deny that either Li of Kang would ww the heade of Foi Chung Heidare to auggest such terms to their and Li Tsung Jen, and 80,000 for former superior, bf Taung den and Wong Shi Hung, alive or dead. Pei Chung Hsi-Nan Ohung Kuo
News Service. (Continued on next Column).
The three men were arrested in Wellington Street and one of them had $2.15 in his possession. Fines'
alternative of one week's hard. of $5 each were imposed with the
labour.
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