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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1930.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore. east and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 6.30 p.m., stated:-
hire of chair, food, and lodging of 819, with estimated earnings of #27. There is a monthly balance of 88 after meeting the bare necessities of existence, and out of that sum the chair-coolie has to pay for his Depressions are central over N. quarterly licence and allow for or China, Tongking and to the Sensional fines at the police-court of the Loochoos. There are in.
for some minor trafic offence. How dications of a typhoon forming to
much he puts away in a savings. the E. of Luzon,
bank we do not know, but can guess. One man, asked what hap pens when he fell ill, replied quite seriously-"We have no time to
Local Forecast:-SE. winds; moderate; Fair.
BIRTHS. AGREN-On July 24, at the Paulan Hospital, Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs. E. AGREN, I SOD, BREDE.-On July 28, at the Coun- try Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr.
and Mrs. H. F. BREDE, a son. KARANJIA-On July 3, at the St. Maric Hospital, Shanghai; to Mr. and Mrs. N. J. KARANJIA,
u son.
KURT NOLL, a son.
WALL-On July 28, at Shanghai, to Dr. and Mrs. A. D. WALL, a daughter.
be ill 1"
When a typhoon is known to be heading for Hong Kong, the Obx servatory staff naturally want the linea cleared in order to enable information to be passed without delay to the Harbour Office, the Water Police, and others directly concerned with the safety of ship- ping.
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★ News and Views ⋆
The Prussian Ministry of the widely broadcast in the world Press Interior formally denies the report to the effect that the Berlin police have been fitted out with gas pistols While fully admitting the reason-
political demonstrators. It is point ableness of the rale which forbids for use in street riots or against private inquiries being answered ed out that only a very small by the Observatory at such critical number of such pistols have been times, we are of opinion that the purchased by the police, that they can be used only within a confined regulation should be relaxed in space and are being issued only to favour of the Press. An inquiry special officers charged with arrest be armed and indoors. The gas for information by a representa ing dangerous criminals known to tive of a newspaper is not a per-used leaves no ill trace on the health sonal inquiry to satisfy any selfish and merely produces a temporary
It is a request for in.incapacity, interest. formation on behalf of the com- munity, and in replying to such inquiries the Observatory officials
Sigora Elvira Puccini, widow of· failure at Milan, last month at the the great composer, died from heart age of seventy,
women, who lost their sons or hus Four hundred and fifty Negro bands in the war declined to sail for Franco recently to visit the graves because the War Department segregated them from the white Protests have bean mothers and provided inferior ao made to President Hoover, that commodation. whilst death knew no colour line, negro women on pilgrimage to the be herded like cattle," and a num tombs of their loved ones are "to ber of the women in a manifesto to the President declare: "We who
Now for the rickshawman-ad- mittedly a most exasperating per- son at times, but a very great convenience at others. He pays a dollar a day of 24 hours for the
The strike of the fishery seamen hire of bis rickshaw, but if he can make arrangements with a friend
at Hamburg is assuming larger pro-are coloured are insulted by the im they split the cost of hiring and
portions and threatens to paralyre plication that we are not fit to No-On July 30, to Dr. and Mrs work in two. twelve-hour shifts. would not be wasting their ad- the fishing trade. Seven of Ham-travel with the other bereaved
burg's largest trawlers could not go ones." Most of these men... frequent, mittedly valuable time, but be co-to sezon account of the strike.
around Wanchai operating with a very valuable lodging-houses and Causeway Bay, where they pay medium for passing information about ten cents a night-or day promptly on to the public, thereby DEATHS.
Observatory's one of about thirty beds supplementing the COUSLAND-On July 7, at Victoria,
B.C., PHILIP BRUNELLESCHI squeered into a small house. Foodown efforts at publicity. We can no reason why the Press costs about 50 cents a day, making think of COUSLAND, M.B., C.M., LE D.
at thea NEWTON-On July 26,
total monthly expenditure of should not be permitted to engage Country Hospital, Shanghai, about 833, plus cost of licence and in telephonic communication with KENNETH FORMBY NEWTON, aged six months. The dearly loved reserve against fines for däitering the Observatory at all times. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. H. and such offences Earnings vary more critical the situation, the F. NEWTON.
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WILSON.On July 23, at Port
mouth, Hants, THOMAS MILLER WILSON (late of Shanghai Municipal Police), in his 1st
year.
Editorial and Business Offices: 11, Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tol. 24511.
London" Office: 3, Fleet Street,
.E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG," AUGUST 5, 1930.
for
very considerably, bad weather, of more reason for giving wide pub- course, being good from the rick-licity to the latest information
His available..
I might quite easily shawman's point of view.
The Rev. J. Pyddoke, rector of Pleaaley, near Mansfield, who is 60, piloted a plane overhead, and did various air stunts including loop- ing the loop and side stalling, while
garden party was being held in the rectory grounds.
A tax transfer has revealed that the estate of the late ex-Senator Chauncey Depew exceeded a value of G.817,000,000. Yale University will receive G.81,000,000 from the Depew ostate, by terms of the will. The widow is to receive half of the There were three other residue. large bequests and many of all assist a clever son was disclosed at size.
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A devoted father's self-denial to
an inquest at Liverpool last month on Mr. Joseph Lunt, aged sixty, of Alderson-road, Wavertree, a rail-
A scientific institute for the study and teaching of questions connected way foreman, who was killed dur
was entitled to retire oa pension but with co-operative agricultural working shunting operations. Mr. Lunt will be organized in Moscow short continued to work because he want- hatch of hundred peasants from co- tion period. The son, Joseph Albert takings appear to range from 50 happen that news of an alarmingly. Within the present year a first ed to help his son over his examina cents to $1.50 a day, giving anor possibly reassuring-nature operative farms will be enrolled as Eunt, secured his degree of Bachelor of Science & few days previously. average of about a dollar-nët would be in the possession of the students of the new institute.
There were rejoicings in the family The disclosure WILS made last and the father expressed his readi enough to cover the expenses as Observatory five minutes before the estimated! Either he spends less papers must go to press, If that in week by Mr. Charles Tuttle, U.,neas to retire owing to the boy's than 50 cents a day on food, or he formation were given by telephone District Attorney here, that he had success. A verdict of Accidental must earn more than a dollar, but to the newspapers asking for it, spent the sum of G.$15,000 during death" was returned.
the last three months in collecting in either case it is only a meagre it would be promptly broadcast to evidence for the biggest narcotic existence-and this in spite of the the public-and not everybody has raid in the history of the United fact that fares were raised in 1954,
a wireless set to pick up the hourly States" Mr. Tuttle indicated that Owing to the much higher cost of bulletin given out by radio. It his evidence had come wholly from European sources. None, he said, hiring their vehicles, the rickshaw-might be necessary to take precan come out of the Far East. men Bre
considerably worse of tions against unauthorised persons than the chairmen, and moreover making use of the name of a news- there is much more competition from rival pullers.
In view of these facts--and "we have every reason to believe that LIFE ON A DOLLAR A DAY. the information here given is
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A soldier, who wanted cigarettes pulled the communication cord of
near Romford, fast train from Liverpool Street to Southend, wher Essex, station. He was fined £1.
Charles Edward Street, aged forty-six, company quartermaster the Secord Cavalry sergeant in Divisional Train, R.AS.C. (Terri- torial), was at Birkenhead police- court sent to prison for a month for embezzling £16 188 belonging to the battalion and falsifying accounts.
It was suggested at an Isleworth (Middlesex) inquest that a prick paper and so obtaining information from the thorn of a rose caused the improperly, but this trick could be death of Mrs. Winifred May Gench, aged 63. Mr. Geach stated that on very easily prevented. We suggest, June 28 his wife complained that then, that the officials at the Obser- ber thumb was painful. She was
The Danish Government are about vatory be instructed to reply at very fond of flowers, and he thought all times to all Press inquiries con- that she had pricked herself with
a thorn. She died at the West to establish a new Ministry whose function it is to be to educate the cerning typhoon movements, and so Middlesex Hospital on July 7. which is freely at their disposal was due to heart failure after a septic hand and toxemia. A ver- for making authentic weather re-dict of Accidental Death was re-
turned. ports widely and quickly known.
reliable-there seems to be a very good case for revising the existing Not many of the coolies who carry scale of fares, in spite of the thake full use of the machinery Medical evidence showed that death i Danish people to drink, less alcohol. chairs and pull, rickshaws are Colonial Secretary's opinion to the
regular readers of newspapers, contrary. These men have a very The cheapest of our Chinese con- hard life, exposed to all weathers, temporaries costs three cents, and and working long hours. So long as the authorities permit them to the others five, and men of the
pursue their calling under licence, class mentioned have little money they should be allowed to charge to spare for such luxuries (to them) fares which will give them as newspapers. Consequently, few
reasonable margin over the cost of of them appear to know that their
bare necessities. The rickshawman affairs bavo been recently discussed
particularly has to meet very keen briefly-in public. -though very
competition these days. He is The Colonial Secretary, at the
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Danish Government, will have a Propaganda, in the view of the more sobering effect on Denmark than Prohibition.
Local Notes and Events
The Hon. M. Queson; the famous. Mr. C. Armstrong, A.D.C., to the Looking Back 25 Years,
statesman, arrived in Governor-General of the Philippine Filipino Hong Kong yesterday by the 2.3. Islands, accompanied by
Ag Chow Chi was walking along Mrs. Queen's Road Central on Thurs-
per annum for delivery in Eongance and the latest available info Legislative Council meeting last being rapidly driven off the main.President McKinley. He is accom- Armstrong, arrived yesterday by day a coolie stopped him and in-
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HALLIFAX recalled the fact that the
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coat. was unclean. While Chow was straining his neck to catch a A fatal accident occurred in O'Doharty, Archbishop of Manila.
glimpse, of the unclean part, the the present scale of fures. M. the real reason for refusing to Mongkok on Saturday when a
In addition to the cinema" pro coolie who accosted him and two Chinese youth was knocked down
were decamping scale was raised six years ago, and raise fares? The increase in the by a lorry at the junction of gramme to-day at the Star Theatre, others quickly went through his appeared to think that observation cost of living since 1924 affects Nathan Road and Argyle Street. Kowloon, there will be a special pockets. They
these coolics just as it affects the The unfortunate lad was removed attraction in the dancing of Rowing with the booty obtained therefrom. effectively answered any suggestion
to Kowloon Hospital where he died and Dandolo. These two are acro- when the complainant's first ac of a further increase. But a good rest of the community, and seeing
batic dancers who have come to the quaintance was arrested by an In- many salaries have been increased that compensation for H.CL has three hours läter.
East on a short tour, after starring dian constable who had seen the" sinco 1924, including the Colonial become so general, it is most unfair to deny them the opportunity of
For stealing 14 iron bars from at the Folice Bergere, Moulin trick. The other two coolies escap. Secretary's own increment. His fur-
similar relief
the Gloucester Building, a Chinese Rouge, and other principal Con-ed. The man arrested was charg ther reference to the recent reduction
was sentenced to three weeks' hard tinental Theatres. They will pro-ed before Mr. F. A. Hazeland and in the cost of licences for public
labour by Mr. TS. Whyte-Smith vide a welcome variation in the sentenced to three week's imprison- rickshaws in Hong Kong does not
at the Kowloon Magistracy yes usual cinema entertainment. meet the case either. From the infor-
terday. It was stated by Sergeant mation we have obtained it appears
that accused "was
TYPHOON WARNINGS.
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caught in Nathan Road carrying the bars ia a basket covered with straw.
A 16-year-old Chinese girl, who told the Police that she had left
ment with hard labour and six hours stocks.-Hong Kong Daily Press, August 5, 1905. Looking Back 50 Years,
that these coolies are just making TUCKED away in a corner of the Humphreys $1.00
The decision given in the Strath- a bare living, and no more. Some latest issue of the Government
her parents in Canton to come to the Colony for adventure, is being more collision case stands out pro- details obtained firsthand and care Gazette is a request addressed to
looked after by officials of the minently from among its fellows fully checked-will interest and the public by the Colonial Secre- possibly surprise many of our tary. Thanks to the local Press, A Chinese appeared before Mr. S.C.A. and the Po Leung Kuk because of the principle it estab T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kow-found wandering aimlessly at the lishes that, when a foreign steamer readers to whom the facts, are un-
the request has been given that
and a native junk come into colli familiar.
wider publicity which is necessary
a Railway Station at Kowloon, the loon Magistracy yesterday on Take the case of the chair coolie. to make it effective. The publie charge of possessing 49 po piu girl attracted the attention of a
police searcher, who handed her Blon, the latter may be found in the It costs four dollars a month to is requested not to call the Obser- tickets. It was stated that the ac
a black
Admiralty Court of Hong Kong hire a chair, this amount being vatory by telephone when
cused was arrested in a barber's over to departmental officials. The Wrong. The judgments of the Vice- have hitherto upheld the contrary $4 each divided between the two men. They typhoon signal is hoisted," and the shop in Kowloon City following a girl is being lodged in the Po
usually arrange with another couple public is also informed where the raid made by the police. Defend Leung Kuk, and attempts are being doctrine, and with such frequency
made to get into communication
and consistency that foreign ship-" to work two twelve-hour shifta, and Intest information concerning ty- ant was fined $50 or in default one
with her parents.
owners and shipmasters have been their earnings range from 80 cents phoons is regularly displayed for month's hard labour...
Being an acrobat, even a motion: driven to a verge of despair, Con- to $3 per day, divided equally be their inspection. All this is quite tween the two bearers. This shows in order, and no exception can be
The rifling of a safe of the picture acrobat, is no joke, accord-sidering in what large numbers
ing to the combined opinion of an average of 827 per month per taken to the attitude of the autho- man, but the figure varies consider rities in regard to individuals Radio Supply Company, of 195, Mae Clarke, Robert Ames, and Wil-native craft swarm on the coast of ably Wet weather means much making-or wishing to make-in. Des Voeux Road Central, resulting Ham Harrigan, the leading trio China, the comparative rarity of duction of "Nix On Dames," now surprising. The fact bearing the more business; cool and dry wea- quiries for the latest news regard in a considerable sum of money in the Fox Movietone talking pro- collisions in that locality is truly ther means less. Food costs at least ing the movements of a typhoon being stolen, was reported to the being shown at the Queen's Theatre, most comforting testimony to the police by the manager of the firm. The story requires them to be tugbakill and carefulness of common- Auch time the forms At the
He undersoner link-ur-Retarday lere in fact a yell as in name, ders and officers of foreign vessels likely to cents--which is $15 a Observatory have their bands full morning someone stole from his the in trafftrading is thecounters. Notwith.. month, and a bed in the coolie- They have no time to talk with jacket pocket a wallet containing of the merciless camera, which per-standing ung Yet, the rohk lodging houses in Elgin, Peel, and anxious mothers whose children 10 and a bunch of keys, which in mits of no faking. Fortunately, hitherto been that whenever a dis Aberdeen Streets costs about 10 have gone for a picnic to Castle cluded the safe keye. Subsequently however, while, none of the three aster. arises, the foreign ship has be discovered that the thief had were ever professional acrobats, invariably been held wholly or in
Press, Angust 5, 1880. Cents, or 83 a month. This gives Peak, nor with wives whose hus made use of the keys and had taken they have all had extensive train-part to blame-Hong Kong Daily
∙ing sa dancers. total monthly expenditure on bands may be out at Fanling. I away a sum of $104.04.-
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