REAL RAIN ARRID
TWO INCHES IN TWO DAYS! '..
KOWLOON'S SUPPLY NOW ASSURED.
NO SLACKENING OF GOVERNMENT
PRECAUTIONS.
During the 24 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday the rainfall was 1.45 inches of rain, and for the 24 hours before that .55 of an inch, according to the Royal Observatory guage. „
We have thus had exactly two inches in 48 hours,
This has been the only appreciable fall, except for two days in May, since last summer. On May 2 this year 1.79 inches was mea- sured and on May 7, 2.16 inchas. „May's rainfall was 7 inches and April's only 1.5.
Yesterday afternoon the rain stopped at about 2.30 p.m. and by the evening there was a cisar sky. The weather report, how- 0781, is "832asional rain" zo we hope for the best.
YESTERDAY'S DOWNPOUR.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1929.
AT LAST!
OPENING OF WELLS.
ATTITUDE OF SANITARY BOARD.
At the reting of the Sanitary Poard yesterday D. W. V. M. Koch asked whether the President 'could say anything on the subject of the re-opening of welis, and the" water conditions in genersk
Mr. Wo J. Carrie (President) replied that he was not sorry to hase this opportunity of saying something about the opening of wells. The resolution carried at their last meeting had been that the Board were against the re-opening
of walls which had been formally losed by their order. If other wells and new wells were opened by the Government, they would inves- tigate the water and report on it.
Samples of water had been obtained from all the newly opened
The fall on Monday was only STORAGE AND CONSUMPTION wells, and nullah supplies, and ali
half an inch at Kowloon and about one-third of an inch over the Island reservoir area.
The water authority considered it a most disappointing fall, the show. ers being local in character, and at the end of the day it was found that the reservoir supply had fallen by half a million gallons. This meant that some 3) million gallons had been collected, reckoning the Island's daily supply at four million gallons.
Yesterday's. rain was of quite a different category. The heavy clouds enveloped the whole Island | and the Kowloon Peninsula and the downpour was evenly distri. buted and everywhere continuous, it cleared at about 9 p.m., but the weather still looks satisfac tory unsettled.
Officials at the Water Works Office were in a most optimistic mood and said that at last a real increase in
had been analysed. In many cases Hong Kong Water Works,
the water was not abore suspicion The total storage in the Island and notices had been posted warn- reservoirs on Monday morning.ing people that the water must be June 24, amounted to 177.82 million boiled, or that it was unft for gallons, showing a decrease of 13.13 drinking according to the analyst's million gallons during the past findings The Medical officer of week: the amount collected from Health was working in close con- streams being 6.11 million gallons, junction with the Director of The reduction of 13 hours per day | Medical and Sanitary Services and in the hours of supply introduced with the PW.D. list Tuesday is resulting in a saving of about half a million gallons per day from the city mains.
The week's consumption totals 7.4 million gallons and is made up as follows:—
City mains Taikoo
21.21
.42
Lai Chi Kok
4.39*
Taun Wan
2.12*
'Steamers, etc.
.98*
27.14
-To traks, Kowloon Water Works.
He had been asked to second three qualified sanitary inspectors for | work under the Government analyst in the examination of water sup- plied from the tanks on the water- Iront
CORRESPONDENCE.
TUNG WAH EASTERN HOSPITAL APPEAL.
DAILY PRESS."]
SINGAPORE CONVICT ROUND THE COURTS,
CAUGHT.
POLICE COMB. OUT S.S. TILAWA.
DARING GAOL ESCAPE RECALLED.
When the s.8. Tilawa steamed into Harbour yesterday she was met by Police launches and no one was allowed to leave the ship until the Police flag was hauled down.
COMMUNIST SLOGANS ON DOCKYARD WALL.
A number of pamphlets were found on two Chinese who were ar- rested on Saturday night in the net of writing Communistic slogans on the walls of the Royal Naval Dockyard in Queen's Road Central. The documents are being translated at présent and the two men, who were charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday, were remand-
A party of palice, under Chiefed for a week. waited for several hours for the Detective Inspector Reynolds had
arrival of this steamer as a cable from the Singapore Police bad
would possibly be found amongst stated that certain escaped convicts
the passengers 3:1
AN EXCITING SPECTACLE.
"I can't make anything out of this. You are all fined $10 or 14 days and bound over to keep the Qu boarding the ship, the Police peace." These remarks were address- learned that there were seven huned to three women who were, charg dred male and 133 female steerage passengers. These were all segre gated to one end of the ship and were later examined, one by one, by the party of eight European and thirty Chinese detectives. The passengers were made to pass along a gangway and each was searched and questioned as he left. process occupied two and a half hours, at the end of which, the police took two men with them to the Central Police Station.
A Cantonese Offender,
The
Of these two men, one was iden- tified as a convict who escaped from Singapore Criminal Prison on March 24, details of, which escape will be found below. The other man was examined by the police, who later released him on their being satisfied that he was not an escaped criminal.
The arrested man has been iden- sified as Lo Sul Koon, a Cantonese twenty-four years of age who was doing a sentence of ten years' im prisonment. The Police were in
the reservoirs might be expected, The Storage in the mainland re- and according to reports the nullahsservoirs on Monday morning. June [To THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG possession of a picture and descrip and catchments had been discharge amounted to 100.28 million ing briskly. The actual report will10.1 gallons during the past week.
gellons, showing an be available to-day.
increase of
The yield from the Shing Mun River and streams during the week is, therefore, 32.82 million gallons
MAGAZINE NULLAH
CLOSED.
PROMPT ACTION BY GOVERNMENT.
n
tion of this man, which gave minute details of scars and moles, which were checked beyond doubt. The man mingled freely amongst the passengers and was quite well dressed, and but for the portrait- in the possession of the Hong Kong Police, he would probably have got through.
The Escape.
The story of the escape as culled fram a Singapore paper is as foflows:-
The week's consumption, exclud-1" Sin. Thanks to the efforts of The Shing Mun To The Basene.
ing supplies to Hong Kong, is 10.67 Mesars. Li Hoi Tung, San Sing million gallons plus 0.38 million Kowloon's more serious troubles gallons from the Tsun Wan supply" Sam, Ng Yu Hồn, Tong Shun, should now be over. Last week the making a total of 11.03 million Lab Suen, Sau Pok Hing, Au Karun
gallons. yield from the Shing Man was 33.82
Yu, To Chak Map, Lui Ka Or, million gallons and yesterday's rain
Yung Kwun Man, Cho Shuk Hor, should see a very appreciable effect
Lo Kung Muk, Lam Sin Po, Wong upon the reservoir, with both the
Chi Kan, Sun Tai, Tang Shiu Kia, Lau Sing Chong. Soo Shau Nam, river and huge big catchment area to supply it. It is estimated that
As Lim Chuen, Leung Pat U, Ng "Kowloon gained ten million gallons
Yu Chim My Wah Kok Chuen during the 4 hours up to 6
Li Yik Mei, Tam Woon Tong, Ngan It was on March 24 that thirteen a.m. yesterday-the "unsatisfactory.
Shing Kwan, and T. N. Chau, men long sentenced convicts escaped period" for Hong Kong.
bers of the Building Fund Com- from the Criminal Prison, Sepoy Emergency Measures to go Ahead.
mittee committee created upon Lines, daring the morning. The Hon. Mr. J. P. Brega was the inception of instrumental in having the Colony But the Government is in no from a probable source of disease Scheme a few years ago and which Cantonese, one a Tiuchiu, and one the Building The men, eleven of whom were position to relax its emergency the other dag, when he took prompt has been functioning ever since- They are going ahead action in informing the Chairman and to the labour of the sabual with the plans for the conversion of the Sanitary Sub-Committee of Roards of Directors of the Hos and the President of the Sanitary pital, the total amount of subscrip Board, of a report which had been tions actually received up to the made to him regarding the water in the Magazine and Murray Nullahs.
end of last year is $350,607.40.
The following further donations are gratefully acknowledged:- The Hong Kong Tramways,,
Limited
measures.
of the V.B.C. swimming pool into a reservoir and careful investiga tions are necessary to make it en tirely watertight. It will hold about 500 tons.
the Water Emergency Committee,
Mr. Braga personally investigated the report before notifying the The two new tanks near Bow-authorities and his findings were as
follows:- rington Canal have been completed and are furetioning satisfactory. Only one more tank remains to be finished and the full scheme will have been carried through.
The pipe at Tsun Wan is being duplicated and it is hoped to get two million gallons daily from this source alone...
Police launches are drawing their supply from Tai Shui Hang in Lantau, the work there having been completed. To-morrow officials of the Water Emergency Committee are visiting Northern waters," and will make a report on the pos- sibilities of the streams running into Plover Cove..
were
*
1.That there is no denying the fact that the water dammed in these nullahs is partly discharged from houses on both sides of and above the said nullahs, and is, according to the Chinese, dan- gerously polluted gutter water.
Mr. Eldon Potter: K.C. The Hong Kong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.
Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist... Meas. Davie Boug & Co.,
Ltd
Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith
8500
950
100
the Prison There were over fifty so employed in a courtyard.
Suspicions seemed to have been
a Kheb, were in laundry work' at
first aroused when a certain well-
known convict was found a be missing A roll call was imme- diately takers and the absence of the thirteen was established."
The alarm was given and the
Police informed. It is understood that the means by which the men made their escape was
& drain, Teading from the courtyard to 50 Outram-road. One of the two thick ac iron bars set across the opening
bad boca cut through, leaving a aperture sufficient to allow the Laage of a human being.
Two of the convicta, very pro- last year (which are being acknow-bghly the last of them, were seen men and women were seen draw ledged in the Chinese Press) is emerging from the drain, quickly
2.By the stand pipes at the bottom of the nullaha notice are posted in English and Chinese. The English notice reads: "This water must be boiled," and the Chinese was translated as "This water may be used for drinking after boiling
3.-Though the water was of a distinctly offensive odour a few
$1,170
Total donations from Chinese sub. scribers received since the end of
$14,216.91.
ing it from the taps connected with Magazine Nullab. At a
This makes point higher up the hill, the water collected into the nullah 808,594.31.
from a small channel, was like
a grand total of
disappearing.
The men must have received some outside assistance and the theory is As stated in the recent appeal, aheld that it may have been an ex-
ed before Mr. E. V. Hamilton with behaving in a disorderly manner, The Police stated that the women were seen rolling on the ground and that great crowd of people had gathered to watch the progress of the fight. Recriminations were exchanged in Court by the women. One said that the other had run
away with her husband, and com- pliments about each others morals were freely exchanged.
NOT ENOUGH MONEY.
When a public driver was called to answer driving and for failing to exhibit summons for dangerous
his badge, a Chinese stepped for. ward and stated that he represent- ed the defendant. He told his Worship that be had 913 to meet the fines. Remarking that the money would not be sufficient, his Worship imposed a fine of $5 on the charge of failing to show the badge, while on the count of dan- geros driving, the summons was adjourned for a week so that the defendant could appear in person in Court.
AN OLD OFFENDER.
TENNIS RACKETS
STRUNG EXACTLY AS YOU.
•
SPECIFY
SLAZENGERS FRAMES
THE 'PRIMORIS '
'QUEERS'
'I Z⭑
(NEW STOCK)
SPALDINGS FRAMES
[OP FLITE'
'ALL ENGLAND "
CENTRE COURT' 'GOLD MEDAL'
ALSO
SQUASH & BADMINTON FRAMES
FOR THE LARGEST SELECTION OF --
ALL SPORTS GEAR
COME TO SPORTS DEPT.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
To-days Newest / Dance Successes
Seven convictions this year wer proved against a Chinese chauffear who
WIS summoned before Mr. Hamilton on four counts yester day. The defendant failed to ap- pear in Court, but seat a substi tute. His Worship did not, impose a fine but recommended that the man's license be dealt with. The substitute was sent away with in- structions to return the money given to him to meet the fines.
KIDNAPPING" CASE DISMISSED.
The case against a Chinese who was charged before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon Magis tracy with kidnapping a Chinese of the principal boy, the son tenant where defendant had stayed од a short visit, was dismissed yesterday by his Worship who held
that there Was not sufficient evidence to prove the charge. It was stated that a few days after defendant had left the flat, com- plainant's son disappeared and that defendant had been seen at a tea-house with the kidnapped so
Detective Sergeant Fitches who was in charge of the case said that he could not proceed owing to the sudden disappearance of his wit nesses. The defendant wad repre- sented by Mr. F. X. J'Almada, Jr.,
PERFIDY THE SEXTON
TANGO OF THE DEATH MARENKA..
MIDNIGHT.
NEAPOLITAN NIGHTS
$8007F
38010F
190957
15300
1635 D
1 CARMEN Z
+4
RAMONA
1337D
SONNY BOY.
'BOUND EVENING
{ MY__INSPIRATION IS YOU
+
RECOR
TANGO
POLKA
WALIZ
+
Fox-TROT
•
**
141
"
2
"
T23
IN MY BOUQUET OF MEMORIES-
WALTZ Fox-TROT
ANDERSON MUSIC Co., Ltd.
DIRECTORY
OF
THE FAR EAST
1929
black slush, and the sight of it very substantial further amount is convict, who knew the possibilities He had a mole on the chest and Classified List of Manufacturers
was sufficient to indicate that was heavily charged with sewage.
Tell-Tale Marks, Rewards were offered by the Singapore authorities for the re arrest of the criminala, and their pictures and descriptions were post ed in Singapore. One of the post
several below the right jaw. Car- tain marks on the stomach were described and the circular added that the criminal had a scar above his left elbow and a mole on the right shoulder. Small wonder it is that the man was picked out from seven hundred passengers, for it. seems that the Singapore Police ers is in the possession of the Hong have left nothing to cbance in Kong Police from which it is spreading the not gleaned that the man, who was fugitives I
Imported Supplies.
required in order to enable the of such an escape and may even The A,P.C. tanker Fuk Wang was
4-In the opinion of the Cha Eastern Hospital to be opened in have held conversation along the yesterday discharging 800 tons of rene there is no certainty that
a few months' time, and the Tung drain Shanghai water and it was hoped to
Chinese of the poorer classes living in the district are not using Wah Hospital earnestly appeals for. send her to Wangmoon at daybreak' this water for patable purposes.subscriptions. All donations should this morning.
At the meeting of the Sanitary be sent direct to the Hospital, or Other abips arriving yesterday Braga asked whether any action had
Board yesterday the Hon. Mr. J. P. to any of the directors or members been taken pursuant to his letter."
of the Building Fund Committee, President The result of your Chehues should be made payable to S.S. Kwong Sang (J.M.)... 972 letter was that the nullah was closed the Turg Wah Hospital, and cross- S.S. Foochow (B. & 8.)
Mr. Braga: It is good to hear ed "Tang Wah Hospital A/c Hong S.S. Haining (Douglas) ...... 280
that, for though as a Board we have Kong & Shanghai Barfing Corpora- The Tjilsboot (J.G.J.L.) · is ex- | nothing to do with the water supply, tion."Yours truly, pected, pa Surday with 000 tors and we have a duty to the Government
1K 10.... the Tjikembang (J.C.LL) with
Chairman of Directors.. 100-1,000 tons on 'July 4.
Hong Kong, June 23, 1927.
Топв.
...... 370
at once.
polluted sources of water are avail- able.
around the
arrested yesterday had got a scar Since the escape, a number of the Jan ha forellad and me in theright Fronius harg, born recaptured int
side of his face near the temple, it is believed that four of them are. "(Continued at foot of next column), still at large.
and Merchants in Japan,
China, Straits, Etc.
Hong Kong Daily Press Office.