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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast, and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.15 p.m., stated:-
quoted various recommendations made by Mr. HENDERSON regarding ways and means of ensuring a more adequate supply of water, some of these suggestions going back as far as 1924 As this happens to be the The typhoon now exista ab continental depression over the year 1999, antiquarian researches of province of Kiangai probably filling
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News and Views.
One case of diphtheris and one case of enterie, both Chinese, were reported on Thursday.
Cargo from the Lok Sun is being sold by auction to-day and the furniture of the Instone Bank is being
auctioned on Monday.
The resolution which was even tually passed at Thursday's meet- ing really means nothing at all, whereas in its original, form it did mean something definite. As Empress of Russia on June 26 amended to meet the wishes of the arrived in New York (St. John's
Silk forwarded from here by
The salvage ships Artiglio and A New Expansira Toy, Rostro returned to Brest last month There was a private demonstra- without having succeeded in identition in the West End of London fying the object which they found last month when the latest thing a few days earlier as the wreck in expensive toys. was
on view. of the P. and O. liner Egypt. This is a seventy-five-guiges cabinet. though further dragging confirmed which combines a five-valve wireless its position and strengthened the
set, a gramophone, and a minia- belief that it was the wreck of a ture talking-film apparatus. "At- steamer. Father Innocent, Piovera, a Capucine friar who has perform in its best style after the of first this latest marvel refused to
been very successful in finding normal gramphone and wireless re- water and metals with the divincital had been given, but after ing rod, went to sen in the Artiglio some hesitation it displayed on and made some interesting experi- miniature screen some talking films ments over the supposed wreck. which aroused expressions of ad-
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Night Editor (Wanchai Office): Government, it merely expresses a Park) on July 17 having beer 21 From the deck of the Artigilio be miration among the assembled cri-
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The Baily Press.
Hora Koxa, July 20, 1929.
MORE WATER-ON PAPER.
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending July 6 amounted to 93,685 tons, and the sales during the period to 62,698 tons.
The local office of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., Ltd., advise senders of telegrams that owing to faulty cable connection telegrams to and from Shanghai and beyond are subject to abnormal delay.
According to a police report &
to
boy in Nathan Road yesterday and inflicted such serious injuries that the youth had to be taken the Kowloon Hospital. The animal escaped but was shot an hour after wards by the police. The carcase was taken to the Bacteriological Institute for examination.
was able to detect the infuence of ties. The actual synchronisation of metallic mass, and when he was sound and action was wonderfully. taken to and fro over the spot in a small boat the ash twig rapidly accurate. This latest novelty is an invention. The ap- twisted in his hands. "Father Inno-American cent believed that a large wreck paratus resembles an prdinary cabi- lay below, and thought that it pro-
net, for wireless reception or bably contained gold.
gramophone, and the projector re- flects on the miniature screen from a movable arrangement fixed in front of the cabinet. It provides a great improvement on the home cinematograph, and some City men
Banned Boycott Continues.
The Anti-Japanese Association, which has conducted an unofficial boycott against Japanese goods for several months, has got into a dis- pute with the Mayor of Peping General Chang Yin Wu. General Chang, when he was garrison con- mander of the city ordered some foolscap paper from Japan. The paper arrived after he had become Mayer, and the Anti-Japanese Association agents confiscated it. When the Mayor ordered them to return it, they refused, saying that no patriotic Chinese should buy Japanese goods. The Mayor made headquarters, and told officials that a special, trip to the Associatioz'a. this was the climax of a series of illegal acts performed by the Asso
returned eastwards with an impres sion that before long the prosper- ous will be enable to enjoy winter nights by the fireside with only the
theatre as an occasional entertain- meat needing a venture into the cold and wet of English winter evenings,
Tourists with Modest Purses,
pious but vague hope that "some-days in transit, Lane, thing" will be done with the utmost despatch. In its original form, it expressed the opinion, that the plans already drafted by Mr. HENDERSON should be completed without delay. Does the absence,gf The Waterworks Engineer's name in the amended resolution mean that the Govern- ment does not approve his pro- posals H.E the GOVERNOR said that the second stage of the Shing Mun scheme is in a somewhat THE temperature inside the Legis-hazy condition at the moment." lative Council Chamber on Thurs- But why The Secretary of State day appears to have been consider-for "the Colonies nearly four years ably higher even than the mercurial 480 agreed to the details of this dog belong to Mr. Esa of No. 34, reading outside.
Certainly the scheme being worked out immediathan Road attacked A Chinese
as it was obvious the work amount of light thrown on the ately"
would be necessary before long. water problem was out of all pro- portion to the heat generated. Six Why, then, the haze now hanging HENRY POLLOCK rightly protested at over the Shing Mun valler? Surely the somewhat cheap gibe" of the period of four years is sufficient Colonial Sceretary, who said the for the working-out of details of We are told that Mr.
ciation in the name of the Govern- hon. member had strayed rather scheme?
ment. The Association was ordered HENDERSON has not yet decided far from the subject under discus
disbanded by the Nanking Govern- sion. Sir HENRY'S "offence" lay where to build the dams therefore!
mebt after the negotiations with Japan over the Tainan incident had simply in suggesting that people the cost of the work cannot be
Among passenger leaving for been concluded, but declined to dis living on the Peak should make use decided. But why is it that the Home to-day by the a.s. Khiva is band. The boycott has been con- of water-butts for catching and Water Engineer has not reached air. W, Latham of the Naval Dock tinued, and a dispute between the storing rainwater. Nothing start decision? Has he been urged to do yard Constructive Department. At Chamber of Commerce has become couriers.
Association and the Peping General lingly original about that idea, but, or has he been dissuaded and Naval Dockyard Club gathering so acute that several merchants a thoroughly sound one all the discouraged! We are also told that a few days ago Mr. Latham, re- have closed their shops because zo Bame, and one which the Govern- when the haze now enveloping the ment might do worse than encourage Shing Mun valley has at last lifted, -and not only on the Peak. it will be necessary to obtain the little propaganda work among the sanction of the Secretary of State Chinese community regarding the before being able to carry on with catching and storing of rainwater the scheme. But Sir HENRY POL- Locx declares there can be no diffi- in this way would result in an enormous amount of water being culty in financing this work, as utilised which now runs to waste. the Secretary of State some years In most hot countries full use is 480" sanctioned “a loan for the last two months, over twenty cases railway station the morning that made of tanks and casks for catch-urpose. That being so, it is not fair to put any responsibility on ing rainwater, and Sir HENEY
Whitehall for the delay in carrying POLLOCK might have been thanked-
out the Shing un scheme. instead of rebuked-for making an incidental reference to this plan for saving not only water but the cost and labour of getting it."
A
"That, in the opinion of this "Council, it is imperative in the interests of this Colony, that all the
permanent measures
The
A King for Two Minutes..
ceived from his colleagues a silver much of their stock was confiscated. tea set, the gift being handed him by Mr. S. R. Tickner, Chief Con- structor, who spoke in terms of very high praise of Mr. Latham's
services,
Kidnapping of children is still extremely common and during the
Abramowitch, had never dreamt of The peppermint pediar, Jadock being proclaimed King of Egypt. It was the day that Egypt's rea. King, Fuad, arrived in Berlin that the vendor of peppermints found himself playing the role of His Majesty. Tens of thousands of Berliners 'jammed the streets to the are reported to have occurred in Fund's luxurious train arrived
President Hindenburg, Yäumati. On Thursday, nine, wo- men and a man, the parents of lost Cabinet members, along with dozens of other notable dignitaries, went children, went to the Tung Wah to the station to greet the Egyptian Hospital, asking for help. They monarch. But tens of thousands of were told by the secretary that the Berliners, unable to push through Directors of the Hospital has al-ile away, craning their necks for the crowds, shuffled along half-a-
ready brought the matter to the special notice of the Secretary for Chinese affairs.
German
glimpse of the King and the German notables. Jodock Abramo witch, dressed in the elegant uni- form given him by the peppermint factory, tired of standing, sat down The work of clearing the ss. Lok op a bench along the river Spree. He discarded his tray laden with
Mesars. Carmichael and Clarke inform
Catching Up Light.
thusiastic about the popularity of London shopkeepers are not en- the third-class tourist returns from New York. Contrary to po- pular belief, only a small propor- tion of American visitors to Eng- land spend much money. To-day- with the vast inclusive travel schemes that are arranged in New York, only a section of the migrant tourist population from the States arrives in England unchaperoned by travel agency guides and All their expenses in mest cases are paid before they start-food, hotels, fares, prices of admission, and even tips. Europe,
that is London, Paris and Strat- ford-on-Avon can be done for £100, or thereabouts, and the visitor who agencies has no personal expenses. takes advantage of the cheap travel apart from tobacco and postcards. According to the manager of a well- known American bank in London, hundreds of Americans arrive in England with no more than five or ten dollars to spend. Many. Lon- don shopkeepers say that Americans are the worst of all foreign eusto-
mers, that they insist on seeing everything in stock and that they buy nothing. If that is so it must only balance the account, for all the most expensive hotels in London are crowded by Americans' who are
buying without question at the most
quire about prices. It is a ques- expensive shops and who never in-
tion, too, if many English tourists who are now visiting America on one-class ships spend much money there. It is not unsatisfactory that · there is now a two-ways pilgrimage. between the United States and Eng-': land for people who come not to
The plain fact is that, for reasons not yet disclosed, the Shing Mun scheme has not been worked, cut in detail us by now it should have The proceedings in the Legislative been.
Like the pipe line scheme Council on Thursday suggest that across the harbour, it has been the Government very strongly re- shelved, but by whose instruction? sents anything but praise of its The plan to bring water to Hong CHRONICLE attitude and action. It refused to Kong from Kowloon was talked of San of her cargo is still in pro- peppermints, which he carries in my but to see.
accept Sir HRY POLLOCK's motion for years, and in 1928 was post-gress and when completed it is front of his robust stomach, A as drafted, but accepted a subse- poned" not for reasons of economy, hoped to make a careful survey with child, playing, saw Jodock, dark- upturned, quent modification of the resolution. but because it was thought Kowloon 1 view to carrying on the work of Mitary Westache, toyudals Looking Back 25 Years, The original and amended motions would need the water. Three years" zalving the ship. The agents, gleaming on his peppermint uni-
Two Russian Valunteer cruisers. Fuad! Fuad!" shouted and a torpedo-boat are cruising in" are worth looking at in parallel: afterwards it becomes necessary to
send the Waterworks Engineer form us that the position of the the child. The refrain was taken the Red Sea, looking,, it is believed, up by scores of pedestrians. Not for a particular steamer bound for specially to London to pray for ship has remained unchanged since until Jodock clutched his pepper Japan. The British newspapers official sunction to lay the line as a she grounded last Saturday night mints and began offering them for are raising an outery against the and they can make as yet no state-sale did the crowd realize its error.
double character of the cruisers, measure of urgent necessity. increase the
which passed the Da danelles un- ment as to the chances of getling
der the commercial and are now fly- water supply, which are referred haze" over the harbour has lifted, the vessel off the rocks."
but has now settled over Shing
ing the naval fag and stopping to in the report of Mr. R. M. HEN-
The success of a Preston photog- British vessels. The Petersburg Mun. It is a pity Mr. HENDERSÓN DERSON, dated the 20th February,
-Two" fires occurred in the small rapher in taking a photograph in (one of the cruisers) has seized the 1998 (other than those which have has not yet returned to dispel this No. 25, Nam Cheung Street, Sham- is an astonishing achievement, but, hama, in the Red Sea, and is now
bours of yesterday morning, one at one-five thousandth part of a second
P. & O. Malacca, bound for Yoko- already been completed) be proceed. strange fog-or, if it is merely a suipo and the other at No. 314, scientifically handled, it might be conveying her w Suez, and the ed with and completed as soon as smoke-screen, to explain how it was Queen's Road Central. As both come a great deal more. It is well Smolensk (the other cruiser) has raised, and why. The Waterworks places the fire was brought under know that the human eye is capable boarded the German mail steamer possible."
control before it could do any of receiving, in a given time, only Prinz Heinrich, compelling her to "That in the opinion of this Engineer has time and again de damage. Oddly enough both were a very limited number of sensory surrender 31 sacks of letters and 25 Council, it is imperative in the in-clared that the good luck which has joss paper shops. The fire in Sham-impressions. That means that we sacks of parcels for Japan. The terests of this Colony that perman- favoured the Colony for so long in suipo is believed to have been have only the very crudest iden of German Government is awaiting ex- started by an imbecile who was 12- movement. Whether movement is planations, but the Government ent measures to increase the water regard to water supply cannot be conscious, having been overcome by continuous or not, it is utterly im- Press already minimising the supply of this Colony should be expected to last for ever. With an anoke when he was discovered by possible for us really to see it as matter. The Malacca had two
pas.. pressed on with the utmost dea- eye to the future, he has drafted fremen. He was taken to the Kow- Buch; a series of successive images sengers for Hong Kong according
loon Hospital.
impinge upon the retina, and it is to the latest lists-Major C. L. certain preliminary plans, and in
the function of our nerves and brain Gosling and Mr. D. Clark-Hong 1925 the Home Government urged It will be seen that reference to that the details be worked out The Royal Navy Olab.
to translate the series into a con- Kong Daily Press; July 20, 1904. tinuum. Now a causers is capable Mr. HENDERSON'S report has been "immediately." To-day, with the The customary dinner of the of receiving light in a very much Looking Back 50 Years. deleted, and instead of urging that Government can only tell us that to entertain the First Lord of the and Mr. Speed, the Preston photog Justice French in the Wu Shih better part of 1928 already past, the Royal Navy Club of 1763 and 1785, smaller space of time than the eye The judgment delivered by Chief "the" permanent measures be com- nothing has been decided, and that Admiralty and to commemorate rapher, has been able to extend that Shan case is one which, so far as pleted as soon as possible, it is the whole project is in a some the capture of Gibraltar (July 24, capacity to сл unprecedented it deals with the issues, must com-. suggested that "permanent mea what bary condition." But why 1704), was to, take place at the degree. He has been able to mend itself, to the approval of all this hazy condition should exist is Hotel Victoria, London, last night photograph a bee in fight and to who followed the proceedings in sures" should be pressed on with not explained, and in fairness to (July 19)." Admiral of the Fleet the utmost despatch. Sir HENRY the community in general and to Lord Jellicoe was to preside, and perfect clarity, although
record every vein of the wing with that interesting and important. bee is trial. ... It was the first trial POLLOCK was careful to give his Mr. HENDERSON in particular it the guests of the evening were calculated to work its wing at over of the kind, and the fact that the must be explained. There must be to be the new First Lord, four hundred beats to the second. Chinees should have come, into an definition of a satisfactory perman- some reason why a scheme drafted Mr. A. V. Alexander, the civil Morover, he himself does not believe English Court to assert rights as ent water supply. In his view, it four years ago has not yet been members of the Board of Ad- that he has by any means exhausted against the missionaries, instead of means an adequate water supply worked out in detail. Is history re-miralty, and the Adjutant-Generai, the possibilities of quick-fire photo- leaving the matter to be settled-or, throughout the year, "free from peeting itself! The pipe-line was Royal Marines, General Lewis graphy. The next step forward rather perhaps, to form the subject.
T.C.. first shelved, then rushed; the Shing S T. Halliday,
C.B. and it is a very long one--will be and remain, unsettled-of-diploma any restrictions even in the dry fun scheme has been shelved,-will This dinner to the First Lord has when Mr. Speed or some other ex- tie communication, is full of signi- season." No wonder the Govern this, too, be a "rush job" when been given by the club for over a perimenter succeeds in taking two ficance. It cannot be doubted either finally approved Or does the dis century. It was originally beid by or more successive pictures of a that the Chinese intended the case ment was not very pleased with Sir ·
appearance of wir. HENDELION'E the Navy Club of 1785, and when moving thing, As the time taken. to be looked upon in a certain sense. HENRY's speech. Restrictions of name from the resolution passed by the amalgamation with the Royal in photographing approaches the as an indictment against the pro- some sort or other upon the water the Legislative Council mean that Naval Club of 1703 tock place in infinitesimal, so will the resultant ceedings of missionaries generally the Government is not prepared to 1880, it was resolved that the an series approach the record of a con- in regard to the acquisition of land. supply have for years been a regu- carry on with his scheme? The anal dinner to the First Lord and tinnum and in this way give sen- This is unquestionably a sore point. lar institution, and to suggest that public is left to draw any cen- other officials of the Admiralty sary support for a conception which with the natives, and there is, no- a precedent thus firmly established clusions it likes from Thursday's should be continued by the united scientists have never been able to doubt, reason for
the sorenesB. regard as more than a working Some of the missionary societies apar convinced by the speeches made tant fejür s· Keguli upon Bolshevism!
To make mat the question of water supply has more than one guest is invited to getting near the core of the nature others.-Hong Kong Daily Press worse, Sir HENRY POLLOCK' been handled efficiently.
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