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HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 27, 1929.
THE DEFENCE OF HONG
KONG..
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1929.
aggressive object in view, bus for purely defensive purposes. That particular ples carries no convic
tion.
It must be assumed from the speech made by H. E. the GOVERNOR that the Admiralty fully approves the proposed establishment of a Volunteer Reserve in this Colony. Mine-sweeping gear and a gun'are to be loaned, and naval officers and instructors provided "for the pre- sant' to assist in training the volunteers. That qualification as to time certainly seems to confirm Sir HENRY POLLOCK's suspicion that larger annual grants would be called for in the not distant future, in spite of the official assurance that there is no prospect of the Colony being committed to increas- ing expenditure. But it is not the question of money which comes first
in this matter it is the question of establishing what is practically a mall but new arm of defence at a time when the Great Powern are seriously and sincerely studying ways and means of reducing arms- We are told that as it is
ments.
News and Views.
One case of typhoid (British) was reported on Wednesday,
Judge G. W. King of H. M. Supreme Court has returned to Shanghai from a short holiday
spent in Dairen.
The preacher in St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on Sunday morn- ing will be the Rt. Rev. C. R Duppuy, D.D., Bishop of Victoria.
guilty to a charge of carrying a A married woman who pleaded chicken by the wings was fined is by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at Kow- loon Magistracy.
A fine of $200 or, two months jail was inflicted on an unemployed Chinese by the Kowloon Magis rate for preparing a quantity of opium at 430, Shanghai Street
At Kowloon Court a villager was fined $5 for allowing his dog to be abroad without a muzzle, while an- other was fined $5 for keeping his dos without a licence.
Times Square in New York City. Chinese press telegrams say that, a though the Diplomatic Body have declared by some to be the busiest agreed to appoint representatives spot in the world, has more than to negotiate with the National Gov-million persons, passing through ernment concerning the rendition it every day. Twenty-five years ago of the Shanghai Provisional Court, Times Square was famous as the they insist that the Chinese dele centre of the harness and carriage gates should approach the Shang-trade, to-day it stands as the centre, hai Consular Body with a view of the theatrical, hotel and shopping tó a settlement,
district. The famous spot which never sleeps is the tub of the city's The No. train of the Shanghai. transit. Surface cars and subways Hangchow-Ninpo Railway caught connected Times Square with rail. fire for the fifth time, within thres way stations, ferries, bridges and weeks when a 4th-class passenger all manner of New York trans carriage was found to be on reportation. when the train approached Kashing Station. The train was immediat A abort man dressed as a post- ly brought to a stop and the fireman was seen last month attempt put out. A big hole was found to have been burned in the carriage Kensington-square, Bayswater, by to "open pillar-boxes, in which was inter taken to Shanghai means of keys. He failed to open for repaira
the boxes and then walked, sway, but he had completely disappeared before the information reached the police. It is thought this man may have 'some connection with the re- cent disappearance of mails from St James's-street post ofice, when
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October 10 is the 'anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Republic, and has hitherto been a public holiday in Houg Kong. The Government has now decided that in future it shall be observed as a
• bogus postman asked for the re- general holiday, and the banks gistered mail-bag and walked out have agreed to this proposal. Octo- of the office with it. The man was ber 14 is also a holiday, and will described as tall, whereas the man be so baerved this year. Subse seen in Kensington-square WIS quently, however, it is probable stated to be short, with "ginger that only the 10th will be observed | hair.. as a holiday.
The feet is gradually returning to. Haag Kong from Weihaiwei where they have been spending the sum
All but 1.
one of the Hth
The engagement is announced of Destroyer Flotilla Miss Elia Marco, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Marco to Mr. Sammy Judah, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Judah of Shanghai.
are now
in
harbour. The flotilla lender, H.MS. Bruce; entered port yea terday and was followed by HM. ships Seppy, Somme, and "Sirdar, H.M.S. Titania and the submarines of the 4th Flotilla, and H.M.S. Marazion" and HMLS. Ber-
Six weeks' hard labour was the sentence passed by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon Magiswick" have also returned. of a camp bed from a seaman on tracy on a Chinese for the theft.
the 4.5. "Helican," lying in the harbour.
A fine of $10 was imposed on ench of four Halka women, by Mr. T S. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon Magis tracy. They pleaded guilty to charges of trespassing on the Gov- crament plantation as Custom's Pass.
Chinese religious organizations are making preparations to take part in the International Religious impossible to maintain the fighting Peace Conference which will be held
in the Far East next year. services of the Empire at full war strength in time of peace, it is It is significant that the opposition necessary to make provision for ex- in the Legislative Council to the pansion in the unfortunate event creation of a Royal Naval Volunteer of war. Owing to the distance of Reserve. based on humanitarian Hong Kong from the United King- grounds, came from Sir SHOU-80x dom, local requirements must in Crow as spokesman for the Chinese war be met from local resources, members. Sir HLSRY POLLOCK (3 and those requirements are prin leading spirit in the local branch cipally counter-rucnsures against of the Navy League) opposed the mines and submarines. But surely Government's proposal mainly on the British Navy is not going to the principle that naval work desert Hong Kong entirely! If it should be left to the Navy. He is, we shall need rather more than also considered the "scheme would thirty RN.V.R. men on board the renet unfavourably upon the Volud Kau Sing to keep enemy submarines teer Defence Corps, and suspected and mine-layers at a respectful that the small sum of money now distance, to say nothing of cruisers. naked for would very soon show an On the other hand, if the Navy increase in the annual Estimates. is to continue using this port as a The Chinese members of the Coun-base, we agree with Sir HERT❘ ei based their objections" on
APOLLOCK that nave' work should be different argument, and Sir Saov-left to the Navy. The Senior Ber- SON Crow made a very "eloquent vice can be trusted to deal effective. proposai be withdrawn. He point ed out, and with reason, that fur ther expenditure upon the defends of the Colony was against the spirit of the times--" alien to the spirit of international concord and fraternity which is rapidly gather 1929 Editioning weight and momentam." True,
DELICIOUS FLAVOUR
Charged with the unlawful pos- session of 803 po piu lottery tickets valued at $500, a Chinese woman pleaded guilty at Kowloon Magis- The tracy and was fined $75. tickets were ordered to be destroy- ed.
!
Many industrial centres in the Walloon districts of Belgium are re- ceiving large contingents of Polish, Italian, Czech and other foreign workmen, who are being brought in to supplement the meagre labour. forces in various industries, notably the coal industry. There is already a large alien element in the popula- tion of the Charleroi, Soignies, and Thuin districts. In the Charleroi district, where some tens of thou sands of Flemish workers are Already living besides the indigen- Notice has been given to the Reous Wallcons, 3,000 permis de sejour gistrar of the following forth- were issued in 1928 alone to immig- coming marriages-Mr. Malcolm rants from 44 different countries. Morrison, shipwright, 3, Stanley- Poles are the most numerous, and terrace, Taikoo. to Misa Marion Italians come next. Many Algerians Roberton, Newton, Ardvasar-and Moors have definitely settled in street, Isle of Ekye; Mr. Eduardo Belgium. Guilherme da Luz (clerk in the Union Insurance Society of Can- ten, Ltd.), of 2 Fence-avenue, The Tallest King. Homuntin, to Miss Olga Maria dos The tallest of European kings, Remedios (of the Advertising & and one of the most popular, was Publicity Bureau), 17. Naoking-fitnine years of age yesterday. street, Kowloon.
King Christina X. of Denmark,, still one of the keenest of Royal Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Douglas are sportsmen, was toasted in thou- leaving the Colony for good by the sands of Danish homes, for he is. P. and O. 6.5. Mantun on Satur-immensely loved by his people. day Mr. Douglas was for some Christian X. came to the Danish years with the, P. W. D., but later throne in 1912, and be reaches his left the Government service to join fifty-ninth year in excellent phy- the Asiatic Petroleum Company. Sical and mental condition. Company's London office. During decrease in his interest in sports. their residence in the Colony, both His ten-metre yacht Rita in a. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas have made familiar figure on the Riviere dur many friends, who wish for them ing the yachting season. He is en- many years of happiness and pros-thusiastic about winter sports, and especially keen an iceboating. The perity in the old country.
King is also an enthusinatie horse- woman, involved in the kidnapping of Christian X. on both formal and Five kidnappers, including a man and hunter. The informality of Mr. Wang Yu Ping, general informal occasions is well-known, nisnager of the Fub Usin No. 7 and he often walks unescorted Flour Mill, appeared before Judge through the streets of Copenhagen.. Chien of the Shanghai District
A.S. WATSON & Co., though fruitless-appeal that the ly with whatever difficulties may volutionary literature seized by the He
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arise in the unhappy event of war but why anticipate such a contin. geney in these days of permanent peace making!
A large quantity of counter-re local Gendarmerie Commissioner's officers this year was burned at the Lunghua, fying field at Shanghai in the presence of a number of Chinese officials.
Summer Diseases Hospitals wound The Hungjao and the Kiangwan up their work last week. In the former instituation more than 1,500 cases were treated, 105 being in of true cholera. Eleven deaths were recorded. The figures vet been made. of the Kiangwan hospital have not
stancca
Sir SHOU-BON CHOW took a very proper attitude when he opposed the R.N.V.R. scheme from the point of view of international peace. The Singapore scheme is purely defen. sive, and everyone knows what the reaction was to that project. The admittedly very modest proposal to strengthen the defence of Hong Kong will produce a precisely similar reaction, though, of course, beat Mesars, O. P. Shen and Y. C. in less degree. In view of the Yeo on the Sinza station courts CHRONICLE ception. Right round the world fact that the Admiralty is willing pire the match, presented silver 0-1,01,8-1. Inspr. Milne, who um. spoons to the winners.
DIRECTORY
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to the Usual Lists of Firms, an
expenditure, of $28,000 on the R.N.V.B. in Hong Kong is an absurdly small sum compared with the millions of pounds spent on the Navy, but it is the principle rather than the cost to which the Chinese members of the Legislative Council take ex-
the Chinese clerks of the SMP In a tennis,competition among Mesara S S. Lee and Y. L. Yao
is now being transferred to the King's advancing years sce
tigations.
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for
The
Do
Court, Chow Hain Hao. one of the five accused, was arrested by the
information led to the arrest of the with Bureau of Public Safety and his members, of the Greater Shanghai Looking Back 25 Years."
The sixty-one Russian marines, four officers, who were four other accused. All five a brought back to Hong Kong by the cused ally denied complicity 80s. Humber, and faterned here, A remand was ordered to enable left the Commodore's ahip Tamar the police to complete their inves yesterday morning for the quarters the tendency is to reduce arms to support the scheme, it seema im-
orepared for them at King's Park, Kowloon. Military transport. off- ments, and to prevent war by inter-probable that the opposition of Un-
Britain and the Bremen's Record national compacts pledging the official Members of the Legislative various Chinese seamen unions of
cera superintended their remova! The Sinvanpas says that the
It seems that same credit is due
to the camp of interment," the with sil Modera Conveniences, Drying Directory and Chronicle rent action. Admittedly, this plan Whitehall, but it is to their credit passed to appoint a committee to Shortly after the order for the ship they may have to abide a very long signatories to refrain from bellige Council' will carry much weight in Shanghai are agitating for increas- to Britain for the recent record moving occuping about an hour.
ed wages and resolutions were Bremen
breaking trip of the N.DL. Very comfortable quarters they across the Atlantics. found in the cantonment, where to "outlaw" war is not quite so that they made protest, in discuss the question and to present was decided oa, the propellers, as comprehensive and complete as it effectual though it may be. And their demands to the various Chin- also those
time. The officers have spring mat might be, but it does very clearly since the Kau Sing is so closely ese shipping companies.
the sister ship tresses and mosquito-nets, and the Europa, were ordered from the two men can scarcely complain at the concerned in this question, we take indicate the direction in which the opportunity of expressing re
·lending English firms who speci- accommodation Defrauding a grocer's shop in
provided.-Hong world opinion is moving.
gret that no action is contemplated Reclamation Street by ordering in this diues of work. It is, Kong "Daily Press, September 27,
Over 1004. Sir SHOU-BOX CHow said it would port with a really efficient life- then giving a fictitious address/estimate the importance of the pro-
by the Government to provide this goods to the amount of $1.95 and of course, impossible to be a happy gesture if the Govern- Looking Back 50 Years, ment withdrew its demand for a ourselves about enemy submarines fore Mr. T, S. Whyte-Smith, at the ability of the material to stand us take a look at the various craft in respect of their eficiency - and Before finally leaving Canton let and mines in these waters, Vote to pay for the establishment should give serious thought to the guilty he was fined 810.
we Kowloon Magistracy, Pleading
up to the conditions involved by at anchor on or moving up and in Hong Kong of a' Royal Naval proved and admitted short-comings
the transmission of such enormous down the river. It is a peculiarity set, of the one vessel which the Govern
That London fires, in of the old Chinese vessels that they Volunteer Reserve. Such an
In the last stages "af exhaustion, Power. he said, would show that the Colony ment has at its disposal for resene following what appears to have spite of the difficulties ruling, have an eye painted on each side work at sea. It is not necessary to been a lang immersion in the har surely a very fine compliment to look ace" the Chinese boatman
should
secure, these contracts is the bow; "No got eye how can was in line with the Empire in recapitulate the depressing facts;
hour, a Chinese, was taken to the
will ask. The largest kind" of advancing the cause of peace. The they have been stated time and time Kwong Wah Hospital. He was the excellence of British products
found lying on the shore in the Local Osteopath Honoured.
juzko will carry several hundred Government, however, persisted in again, but nothing has been done
ions; these are the immense, lum- to remedy the situation. Possibly Kowloon Naval Camber. How be its attitude, but urged on senti- the Navy is looked to for aesist came to be in the water is not re
While attending to a few patients bering equared stern, squared-bow mental grounds that no division be ance in an emergency, but it may vealed.
at Peitaiba Beach (Mr. James craft which, under the name of Tai-.. Stewart, Tientsin, Mr. J. Bardaangan-kai, or. large-eyed fowl, cir-` taken. Instead, the objection of happen that the Navy, though will-
Manager, French Chinoise Bank, rid the oil, and lycheen, the gums ing enough, is not in a position to respond promptly to the call when pipe picker. a Chinese bricklayer Secretary, British Logation, Pep the South up to Tientsin in the For injuring a lad with an opium Peping, and Mr. Eric Tichmann, and spices, and other produce of it comes. All we need say on the appeared at Kowloon Magistracy ing) during the early part of spring, and returned laden with subject is that for $145,000 capital He complained that the lad had August, Mr. P. P. Murray the the dried plums, hams, silk, bean- expenditure, and a very nominal entered his house at a.m. to see osteopath, had the pleasure of a cake, and merchandise of the North Colonics, whose sanction is neces-
aantal sum for upkeep, Hong his daughter. The man and the call from Mr. Li Chiu Chingre in the autumn, thus making only Bury before the money can be spent. Kong could be most efficiently lad were each bound over in per presenting General Han Liu Chun one voyage a year. The gorgeous- H.E. the GOVERNOR took great! Serious marine disasters in these the peace for six months:
equipped for life-saving at
sonal bonds of 850 each to keep of Mukden, enquiring whether orly-decorated stern and the amount IMPORT AND EXPORT pains to explain that, in the Gov-dangerous waters are happily rare,
not he would care to proceed to of carving about the vessel generally Mukden to examine the General, would show that in former days The League of Nations For who was stricken with. paralysis much ernment's opinion, there need be, but are not so remote a contingency MERCHANTSTM
care, and attention was no fear that the catablishment of as the state of affairs envisaged East Opium Investigation Party some twenty months ago. In com- bestowed on the poor craft. Most. the R.N.V.R. in Hong Kong will by those supporting the R.N.V.R. lelt Geneva on September 6 and, pany with Mr. Li Chin Ching, Mr. of them are. now laid up. Some
echeme. "Be prepared!" is an ex-
after investigating the opium con- Murray departed from Peitasho on of those down the river, appear to in any way militate against the cellent motto, but it should apply ditions in the Malay Islande and August 00, ariving at Mukden these looked on be a kind of wood growing spirit of international in other directions than defence the Dutch East Indies, is due to following morning. Mr. Li Chiu mine, from which fire-wood may be Concord and amity. It was purely should apply to one of the greatest of March, 1930.
against aggression. Certainly it arrive in Shanghai about the end Ching accompanied by Mr. Han dug a required, and are thus
The party will (brother of the General and Dirce slowly falling to pieces. The im a defensive measure-an adaptation shipping ports of the world in the then leave for Dairen, Port Arthur tor of Mukden Line) took him out mensely heavy iron-wood masts, of local resources and personnel for matter of rendering prompt assist. and Japan.
to examine the patient to find that however, are still untouched by use in time of war, as a measure shame we must still confess Hong ance to ships in distress-ut to our
the General is semi-paralysed (the time and good as the first day they A fight between two barbers in right side of his body being of defending the shipping of the Kong is not so prepared. Yet the Shan Tang Street, Mongkok was paralysed), I have hopes of cur sixty years ago, but the rudders were put in, perhaps some fifty or
have in riost instances disappearo 88 Colony. But all armaments are sum which has been just asked for mentioned at. Kowloon Magistracy ing him of his complaint. Of
to buy two new launches for the when one of the men was charged course, it will take time owing to from the curiously constructed defensive. Every Government in Harbourmaster's Department only with cutting and wounding the the serioumers of the ease as well longitudinal up-and-down nociteter the world is and always has been need be doubled, and this port other, who was detained in hospital as the length of time that has in which they were fixed in such most emphatic in explaining that would be most efficiently "drmed!! as a result of the wounds inflicted. Lapsed since he was stricken," saya a way that they could be lowered
to defend ships and men of every The alleged nasailant was remand Mr. Murray, who was born in wholly or only partially its military and naval programmes nationality against disaster, which ed for one week, pending the com- Hong Kong and was a popular pleasure.-Hong Kong Daily Press, were not drawn up with day may also mean death.
painant's recovery.
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