THE HAICHING PIRACY.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1929.
THE LATE CAPTAIN CORRESPONDENCE.
A: H. WALKER.
HOW THE GANG INVADED BURIED AT HAPPY VALLEY.
"THE CITADEL."'
THROUGH A COAL CHUTE?
f
vard conducted the service.
The funeral of Captain A. H. Walker, who passed away at the French Hospital on Monday, took place at the Protestant Cemetery, The Haiching came alongside the Happy Valley, yesterday, the atten- Douglas Company Wharf early yes-dance including representatives of terday afternoon and the passeng Measra. Butterfield & Swire on gers-luggage was removed under whos-vessels he had formerly served. Belice person. The work went as faster. The Her NV. Hate on till nearly 5 p.m. when the Press
Miss Dorothy Avenn (step- were allowed, after a lengthy parley daughter) and Messrs. R. A. Cole. with "police guards, to join those man and F. P. Leniestey (brothers- in-law) were chief mourners, among already inspecting the weasel. Tothers present being Movers, C. M. Manners, 4. E. Anderson, E. J. the end there seemed great uncer- »tainty, abaye who could and who Ainslie, Wm. Anderson, C. C. Nel son. F. E. Lawrence, Mrs. Spittles, could not get on board..
Capt Ahly and Capt. Robertson.
Included in the wreaths sent by Where the bridge, the senior officers enbins and the guards family were those "From his loving wife." Mater and Dad, quarters were situated amidship, is Dorothy, sisters and brothers in a heap of cinders and twisted iron.law. Dede, Freddie, George, Ron The passengers quarters below the and Edna. Sis and Gerald, Lionel
and Myrtle,, Hoba and family. main deck are in confasion but not badly damaged. The fore hold han Jen badly burled, anden pungent vegetable smell pervaded this part of the vessel.
MORE ABOUT HIGH" RENTS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.''}
SIR.-The case as presented by ** Common your correspondent Sense" against Tent reduction sucks a good deal of indugenee in the silly prejudice of landlords, and lest your readers be misled by being sinew-with-facts-and-e-
what Common
planations, the writer feels con- strained to point out again where some of the falincies e.
issue, is it not?
DR. SHELLSHEAR ST. VINCENT DE
LECTURES."
PAUL BAZAAR.
PRE-HISTORY OF H.K, AND RESULT OF RAFFLES, ETC.
THE NEW TERRITORIES.
PRIMITIVE MAN A TRAVELLER.
Children of Mary Stall-$1 Raffle.
1st Prize. Ticket No. 1; 2nd, 230; 3rd) 463; 4th, 74; 3th, 80; 6th, 990; 7th, 4; 9th, 184; Dth, 160; lotb, 43; 11th, 30; 19th, 435..
Guessing/Competitions.
At the Helena" Muy Institute yesterday, Dr. J. L. Shellshear gave athost interesting lecture on "The Pre-history of Hong Kong and the The following the correct New Territories".
On the cases the workmanship. screen were dashed enlarged photo graphs of these specimens.
guesses —
Goose: Ticket No. 120.
Ham Ticket Nos. 5, 37, 50, DS,. 13 and 133.
American Stall (Special) Lottery,
Book No. 1-1st Drawing:-lat prize, doll, N. Tae (85); 2nd, 1 porcelain tea set, A. Gramelli (79); 3rd, 1 doll, F. X. L. Paris (3); ath, Eureka set, II. J. Goodman (10); 5th, 1 doll, Yeung Sum (33).
It is impossible, to say what mest of the many people who went to listen to the lecture expected to Consider for instance, "Common Sense advocates that the long- hear, probably something of the history of the early days' of the suffering tradesmen or tenants in the hands of the merciless landlords Colony, or perhaps à description of the only inhabitants of the Island put up their shutters in disgust, the lives of the fisher folk who were which is tantamount to telling A
to Great ceded Was at if he gets kicked in the shin before it.
Britain. Very few would have by a bully, Bear it all with a patient shrug, making no attempt guessed that the lecturer was going to bring him to task. It is equally to take them right back through analogous to saying why the British time, to see primitive man squat
Book No. 2nd Drawing:-1st Cavernment takes all the troublesting polishing his stone weapons on tor appoint Commission after Com the slopes above the sen shore.
On the table before Dr. Shell-prize, 1 doll, J. M. Alves (16); 2nd, sca, Mollie Tong mission to enquire into this, that
(100); 3rd, 1 rooster. Logan Among other floral tributes were and the other problem concerning shear lay a collection of stone im- porcelain tea kens from Mr. and Mrs. C. P. public grievances in unemployment, plements, scraps of pottery and
curious disks of quartz, ench of P.W.D.) (43); 4th, 1 doli (green), T. Stanton (os), 5th, 1 game, C.P.S. (30). Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tully,enal crisis, and the like. Brush Mr. and Mrs. P. Bunje. Mr. aside all these problems awaiting which he handled with loving care, and Mrs. J. D. Danby, Mr. and solution, and everything wil adjust explaining their uses, and in some Mrs. W. F. Hart, Mrs. Capell and itself. That is sheerly dodging the family, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin,
At this juncture tenants in the Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Goggin, Mr. and Mrs. H. Taggart, Mr. and Colong cannot lie on their backs Mrs. F. W. Stapleton. Mr. and and let landlords trample, on them. at their own sweet will. The fact Mry, B. Pasco, Mr. and Mrs L. Jack, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Ainslie, to be fare squarely is that long Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Anderson, Mr.eetablished shopkeepers in certain and Mrs. C. C. Nelson, Mr. and vicinities have time and again Auf- Mrs. F. F. Lawrence, M. and Mrs. fered losses in consequence of M. Manners, Capt. and Mrs. speculative landlords trying to ex-. Allan If Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. ploit high rents. For example, it A. E. Fenton (Shanghai), Miss is the wont of Chinese tradesmen, to In conversation with Mr. Kewell, Susy Higgins, Mrs. Spittles, Mr. 1.. the second gngineer, our repro-1. Blackburn and Miss Blackburn. sentative was informed that the
Capt. R. Ashby, Capt. Robertson, engines had not been damaged. The Capt. E. D. Perhale. Mes Kenneth engine room was captured early in Greig. Mr. J. E. Hansen, Mr. the light by men who appeared. Thayer, Mr. T. H R. Shaw, Mr.sensical of Common Sense to Auddenly from the hunkers i They Weller, Messrs. Butterfield and made Mr. A. de Mello, the engineer Swire, Taikoe Dockyard and En- officer on duty, stop the engines and gineering Co., Taku Pilots. Tien- the dynamo and ordered him to sin, W. M. aui Brethren of Rogal show them the oil store. While Sussex Lodge No. 301, E.C. Shang going on ahend "to show pirates the way Mr.. Mella made
It is thought that the pirates gain ed necess to the main deck near the guards' and officers' quarters amid ships (and under the bridge) by means of an insecurely fastened enal chute. Their first act of shoot ing a guard in his bunk gave the Captain and other senior officers, cinas by, the alarm which enabled them to get up on the bridge before the pirates could prevent them.
Engines Intact.
the hii.
a dash for freedom and gained the bridge.
Mr. Kewell, who was on the for- ward well deck, while talking to our representative explained clearly the perikus nature of the rush across this open space which divid
EUROPEAN WILLS. THRER LOCAL APPLICATIONS
GRANTED.
The will of Dame Hester Jane
sea..
Boat Builders and Stone Adzes, Dr. Shellshear described their finding, one by one, Neither he, no others associated with him here in the same work, had, he said, so far found anything more than 8c yards from the seashore. The finds were mostly made on the slopes of hills overlooking the The people who made and used these one locality necord-implements must have been fisher ing to their respective lines of bugi: folk, and the lecturer said that he ness, drugs in one, sen-products in believed that the stone axes, of another, and so on. If that be the which he has a fire collection of cake. it would be illogical and non various sizes and shapes, were used for boat building. Many of them suggest to the aggrieved shopkeep have more the appearance of adze ers to puit up their shutters in than, axes. disgust." if the speculative and merciless landlords should force them out of their vantage-ground.
concentrate
Book No. 3-3rd · Drawing:---let prize, table lamp, J. M. Botelho (17); 2nd, 1 poreciain tea ect, th Sugar Baby (34); ard, 1 cooking stove," Spero," e/o T. E. Pearce: 4th. 4 doll, Dr. W. Koch; 8th, game, LA. da Costa.
Book No. 4th. Drawing:-Can- Chances sold transferred celled.
to Book No. 3.
Book No. 5-3th Drawing:-1st prize. I tea set, C. F. Alexandre (51); end; 1 doll (blue), F, F. da Eureka set, Roza (64); 3rd, 1 Myquet Morbyerusin (21); 4th, 1 doll, F. Giles (54); 5th, 1 doll, S. C. Yung (11).
Buck No. 6-6th Drawing:-ist prize, large doll, F. Costa (15): 2nd. I doll. R. H. Larken (49): 3rd, Eureka set, J. M. Alves (91): 4th, game, L. B. Gomes (07); 5th, 1 doll, S. Danenberg (31)."
Book No. 7-7th Drawing:-Can- celled..
He was, he, said in communica tion with archeologists who were doing similar work up North and in Does it not involve no inconsider
the Philippine Islands, and they able outlay of expenditure, time,
were finding implements precisely and energy to he established in any like those he had unearthed here. Book No. S-Sth Drawing -ist business district 1 Would a month's What was still more interesting was prize, 1 large doll, Browns, 0/0 that some of the pottery had ornn-Central Police Station (78); 2nd, 1 notice be ample for a tradesman to readjust himself to new conditions?mentation familiar to that done by doll, W. B. Whislaw, Police Dept. Then, again, would a pawnshop ou peoples of early civilizations in (70): 3rd, 1 porcelain tea set, M. Queen's Road or the tower level dis- very distant lands. Some students). Carrie (Sauitary Board) (54): trict or the Chinese boarding-houses
civilization was of Egyptian origin. along the Prays and Des Voeux Road uht, in fact, that the Malayanch, 1 kuitting set, M. Bermes (19) be expected to carry on business. He had discovered near the bench with the shadow of a chance, if suddenly forced to move up to, for Island a highly polished stone äxe
1st Prize. 1 case of champagne. the sake of argument, May Road or which was the common form of
stone found in the Polynesian Jose da Graca (135); end. 1 care of the upper level?
Islands. Of one thing he felt con-Johnnie Walker whisky, Max Aân
primitive man
Gomes (44) 3rd, 1 case of Elbach- fident that great traveller-before the begin-oos beer. H, R. Irane, 45 Wayd
ham Street (270).
ed the junior officers quarter ft Hart, widow of the late Sir Robert and the raised bridge deck amid-Hart, G.C.M.G.. who died at the
which ships, under
at the northern end of Lantao the pirates Imperial Hotel, Bournemouth, on eroüches!.
April 20, 1925, discloses estate in Hong Kong worth 86,500 and £42,778 at Home. Acting as attorney for
What is more, say what Common testator's son, Sir Edgar Bruce Hart, of 35, Praycott Place, Lon-Sense "will: there is no blinking don, who is the sole executor named the truth that there is an inter-
the will, Mr. G. 0. N. Tinson, dependence between tenants and ring of Egyptian history,
To wake up to the of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and landlords. Master, has been granted exempli Fation of resealing of probate in
Frantic Towards the End. "As far as I could judge," he said, "they were running round in a pretty well frantic state before the d. We had killed several and the leaders were gone-one fellow with a big, automatic, who seemed in Tharge, had been dropped fairly early on.
I don't think they were parti-spres of the local estate, eilarly well supplied with weapons, or none of us would have survived.
A Valuable Hint,
"It was the first time I had ever fred revolver," said Mr. Kewell, so I wasn't an expert shat; and beside that my gun got jammed. 1 Book it to and of the Iulian guards and he put it right for me
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Mr. Jeanie Brown Hogg for Melaren), widow of the Inte Mr. Daniri Alexander McLaren, a tim Eer erehant of Avondhe, Grange mouth, left $18,500 in Hong Kong, and estate worth £5,514 in Great Britain. The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, of Messrs. Deons, has inen granted resealing of testament- dative of the will.
Local estate worth $1,100 and Since we live to be ready to
in England fare this kind of thing any time, personal estate it seems strange that we are not valued at £1.671 was left by Mr. made to bronie proficient in the orge Heyes, a builder, formerly war of firearms. I never thought of No. 1, Florence Avenue, Balby, much of it before this is the first Doncaster, who died at St. Kilda,' Douglas hat piracy, for 39 years, er Road, Cleethorpes, Lincoln, on and we never expected such a August 12, 1927. Re-sealing of pro- hate has been granted to Mr. David thing. But see now, it would help a lot if every officer-engineers James Gilmere, of the Chartered and deck officers alike-had to be Bank, Hong Kong. The will con- come a useful shot. We need ains a mitter of family bequests. regular revolver practice, like the
Naval people have. We might have been able in that case to hit
a few more ugly fares,
I
realization of this fact is more vital than to cling stubbornly to the idea. of supply and demand in time of severe trade depression, as at the moment. If the landlords persist in their mulish stubbermess, the con- sequence will be to plunge into the précipice.
1.5 ቢ
6th. I get liceka, A. J. Basto (49). Wine Raffle,
American Stall.
Beautiful 'Disks and Arrow Henda.
A series of beautifully nude diska
1st Drawing:-1st prize, 1 doll, of quartz were interesting beenuse
A. Kinchin (15); 2nd, 1 sey of the lecturer said he could give no
cooking utensil, Li Yat Choi (52); explanation of their purpose or meaning. They were found wherard, 1 dol, J. McCutcheon (55); 4th doll, J. M. McCabe (87); ever stone axes and scraps of pot tery had been unearthed, so they 5th, 1 game (cate), H. Dixon (103).
"2nd Drawing 1st prize, 1 AL Common Sense ** also argues were obviously used and made by that it is the duty of the Govern the same people. Among the arrow tea set, Nauelli (36); 2nd, i horse heads were two of particular in-and wheel, Lucy Yang (13); 3rd, ment Assessor and his staff to see that no evasion of rates," but the terest, one which is most perfectly 1 doll. R. W Gallagher (27); 4th, writer still maintains that if this cut. and another with well shaped doll, H. Diadn; 5th. I counting
and defined grooves. This latter, board, Mollie Tong (50). matter were investigated minutely.
the lecturer said, he believed to be there would be much that could not see the light of day, and that the a copy in stone of a bronze lange evasion amounts to a huge sum that or narrow head, made no the begin- may well be contributed towards thening of the bronze age by sent man expenditure for public weal. Things who could not afford metal. are not what they seem, Common other find was Tang coin of the Sense "!!
period of 900 A.D.
AD
doll
3rd Drawing:-1st prize, 1 (yellow), T). Asjoe (107): 2nd, 1 A), ten set, a Muler (64); 3rd, 1 doll, Miss B. da Silva, Macao (10%); 4th, 1 knitting set. Luen Tai (115); 5th, 1 doll, O. K. Wong (8).
"For the moment," Dr. Shell,
1th Drawing-st prize, 1 A!. Whilst on the subject of evasion
shear concluded, "we can offer no
tea set. F. C. Laurel (98) 2nd, 1 of rates, it may be mentioned, too, that Chinese landlords pay their chronology, but can become horse and wheel, A. Kinchin (116); rates to the Government according more closely associated with those rd, doll, Leonel Silva (87); 4th, to the solar calendar, but collect who are working on the same linesdell. M. Assumpeno (72); 5th, 1 their rents by basing all transactions in the North and in the Philippines, doll. J. A. Cotton (31). on the lunar reckoning, thus making and I feel certain, that with their making a gain of ten days' rentalhelp we shall in time be able to date
sonie of these specimens." The work of examining the pas-in one year and one full month in three years for each landlord it is quite needless to dwell on this point further.
Few Convictions Likely,
Continuing, the young officer said sengers at the police station went that as far as he knew the Win-on yesterday, and of the 330 persons chester rifles on board had not been detained, 20 have been released satisfactory and he saw two which including 35 women, 28 children and had become jammed.
the men accompanying them.
Later the suspects, at present 8 number will be paraded for Identification but, as far as can be gathered, the prospects of many
The Ship Anchored. **Was the ship drilling while the fight was on the writer, naked.
"No, quite soon after we started the Captain signalled through to the boatswain who was up on the
There is still another argument set forth by "Common Sense" that i calls for a retart. It is said that if one month's notice is too short, the obvious solution is for the tenant. to make a lease with his landlord: but- Common Sense" overlooks Of the dead, it appears that a
the Sale Clause in the usual lease, woman, aged 35 and a girl of 14 allowing much latitude to the land- have been identified by an elderly lords to terminate or wriggle out Chinese inly, who said that the of any binding agreement. younger woman was her daughter-
convictions are faint.
forecastle to let go the anchor, and he succeeded in doing that.
The Chinese crew all behaved very well, and made the dash across in-law and the girl amin. Her the well deck to the bridge, when three little grandchildren travelling we called them: that was after the firing had pretty well died down, with their mother are all missing, though you never knew when you were going to be' potted.'
Suspect Dies.
The suspect" who was brought "We took to the boats when the ashore in a critical condition, died, Sames had driven us back and back we understand, at the Civil Govern- till we were nearly up against the ment Hospital yesterday afternoon. grilles at the after part of the ship. His name is given as Lo Sui Fan.
We at once pulled round to the (30) classified as à "shop waist- stern and called to
the three ant." American Indies on board.
This increases the known death
Yours, etc..
A SUPPORTER OF THE RENT PROBLEM COMMITTEE.
Hong Kong, December 10.
SANITARY BOARD.
MAJOR CHEYNE TAKES HIS
SEAT..
The Captain all the while roll to 12, 10 Chinese, Mr, Wood-red at yesterday's meeting of the through was thinking and speaking ward and the Indian guard.
No discussions of any kind occur. Sanitary Board, all business being of a purely formal_nature. M.C., R.A.M.C., took his seat as a Major D. G. Cheyne, O.B.E.,
new member of the Board vice
CUSTOMS REVENUE FOR SHANGHAL NOVEMBER FIGURES SHOW
**DROP"
In the early part of this year Customs statistics were available
tor publication month by month, but it has been considered advisable by the Chinese oficial, that this practice should be discontinued.
It is, however, possible to secure round figures and from these it can be said that the Shanghai re venue collection for November in- dicates that trade is on the down grade, there having been a drop of something like six lakhs of tacts as compared with the figures for the corresponding month last year. It is, however, a fact that the total duties received are still well over three million taels ahead for the year to date, as compared with the corresponding period last year.
The last available figures were those for July: the monthly collec tion then was Tis. 2,801,100, a6 com- pared with Tls. 2,718,200 in July Lt. Col. J. S. Bostock, C.B.E.. last year. The total collection from January to July was Tla. 21,114,197, as against Tls. 17,822,756 in the same period last year, in- crease of Tis. 3,201,441.
R.A.M.C.
5th Drawing:-ist prize, 1 doll (yellow), Sun Choy Hing (94); 2nd, Al, cooking set, Paice (40); 3rd, 1 Eureka set, R. II. Larken (110): 4th, 1 doll, J... S. Rosario (114): 5th motor 'bas, F. E. Shuster (45).
6th Drawing at prize, 1 doll in cradle, Terese Chan (94); 2nd, 1 cooking stove. Charles Lee (69) 3rd, 1 doll. Mrs. F. Rosario (24); 4th, 1 game, 31 Blake (87); 5th, counting board, Carlos N. dn Silva (50).
7th Drawing:-1st prize, 1 AL tea set. Ranner (63); 2nd, 1 doll, A.7 (39) 3rd, 1 Eureka set, 31. Blake (91) 4th, 1 doll, A7 (19); 5th, 1 doll, C.A.P. (33).
8th Drawing:-1st prize, 1 doll, D. K. Kharas (32); 2nd, 1 porcelain tea set. . Blake (94); 3rd, 1 doll, Mrs. Reynolds (47); 4th, 1 bath set, Nanelli (14); stb, bus, Bobby Head (78).
HARBOUR PIPE LINE.
WORK ON SHORE CONNECT- ING PIPES
of them because, of course, the The number drowned is still un- pirates were in control of all that known, bat there seems little reason part of the vessel,
for reducing the estimate below However, they refused to join some fifty presengers. us and the destroyers came soon
Mr. C. G. Perdue.. afterwards.
"She's a fine shio and, of course, Mr. C. G.Perdue, A.S.P., who you know the good reputation the was accidentally shot in the foot Company has, said Mr. Kewell in and is at Kowloon Hospital, was re- conclusion. The only suggestion I ported, yesterday, to be going on want to make is the one about re- fairly well, but he will probably be Solver practice or R HETTA
for some namanyaabtained feanmhaistosinadaging kantsex service officers and engineers." Mr. Perry and the wounded guard acquiescence and the meeting then has never yet been published this will be finished by about December
(Continued on next Column.) are both going on. well,
terminated..
year.-C. Daily News
The Western half of Queen's The Chairman proposed, that the
Pier will be closed from December io until further notice for the pur- next meeting of the Board he post poned until Tuesday, December 23,
pose of Exing the shore connecting in place of Wednesday, December These figures represent, only the pipes for the Cross-Harbour Pipe 24, as was originally intended. The old 5 per cent. collection.
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