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S.S. PRESIDENT. TAFT.
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The Dollar Steamship Line an- now sees that the shiling of the st. President Taft from all ports has The conference on slum clearance
been advanced one day to permit of arranged by the Association of
that eteamer arriving in San Fran- Municipal Corporations was held
A dramatic scene, in which six cisco on the morning of December in the Central Hall, Westminster,
men, alleged to have been concem-23. The President Taft will 1st month, under the chairmanshiped in the theft of a steel sale, were now sail from Hong Kong at d af Lord. Islington. About 600 re presentatives of large municipali- ties were present.
"trapped" in a house by a police a.m, on Monday, Deceraber 1. inspector, was described at West London Police Court.
This will allow 48 hours' travel- ling time to passengers whose homes Seven men were remanded on are east of San Francisco. With charges of being concerned in break the advantage of air travel now ing into a lock-up shop at Norland serving various western cities, the lord, Notting Hill, and stealing à sailing of the President Taft will steel sale containing £388 in cash, particularly appeal to persons who the property of Mr. Arthur Pearce, { desire to remain in the East as long master butcher, and receiving the as possible and still reach home for property.
Christmas..
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In a paper which he submitted to the conference, Alderman Henry Prince, chairman of the Housing Committee of Wandsworth, stated that, although the general volume of overcrowding had decreased in Iondon, there wew indications, Gincomparatively small in number, that the worst forms of overcrowd.
Détective aspector Sharpe said ing, had shown a definite increase. Some of the reasons given for this that on the previous Sunday even vers that tenants in areas which ing he went to a House in Bronden were desired for rebuilding for bury Villas, Kilburn, accompanied commercial purposes
were given by three detective sergentits. The door was opened by Saunders, who Jump sums to give the owners
was told that the detectives intend vacant possession. Another vensbli given was the exceptional developed to search the premises for atoled ment of light industring in districts outside the county boundary. ··
Owing to the diminution of the İnambers employed in the heavy in Justries in the north, this develop ment had further complicated Lo don's housing problem, for it was a well-known fact that the provin cial, when he came to London and was genuinely seeking work, got a job, and also managed to get some kind of housing accommodation, with a celerity which astounded
The following passengers arrived the Londoner. The promised now Town Planning Bill should provide Saunders said," Deb't tuke, myjon Sunday by à.. Pres. Pierce- for the complete co-ordination of mother. She knows nothing about Mr. and Mrs. Newland Baldwin, town-planning powers in the Gren-it. I take the responsibility."
rs. Cheung Yang Wah, Mrs. Guy ter Landon area.
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The following passengere arrived basement, and they passed through yesterday by a. Atsutn Maru :-- the kitchen into the scullery, Mrs. Jane Ann Lawrance, Miss and down through a door to an Dorothy Joan Lawrance, Master underground cellar, where safe Leslie Thomas Lawrance, Master weighing about five hundredweight Raymond Leonard Lawrance, Mas. was found. It was partly covered ter Edward Neville Lawrance, Mias with a travelling rug, and on the Fern M. Taplin, Miss M. 31yrthe top of it lay a butcher's cleaver and Metzger, Mr. Armando Nardi, Mr. à steel, a jemmy, and a chisel. Pio U.. Ortiz.
House Surrounded.
He was taken to Kilburn Police A. Harrell, Miss Juho Harrell, Mr. Station, and the inspector arranged
for police to surround the house in and Mrs. John W, Haussermann, concealment while he stood inside Mr. Henry P. L. Jollye, Mr. the basement door.
Sabure Kawabe, Mr. Les Toh, Miss "At 11.40 p.m. there was a knock Leong Yung. Tai, Miss Telora at the door," said Toeptctor Sharpe. Ewald E. Selph, Mr. Simson Go, Manuel, Mr. Martin Schulz, Mr. "I opened it and saw all the others. Tai Say Way, Master Leong six men standing outside. One call-
"I replied,Come right is,' They all at once. came into the house except Penny, who hesitated. I said to him, Come on, hurry up,
N. Watkins, Miss Wong Kul, Mr. Yang Shiu Po, Mr. Callos Young.
Dr. Raymond Unwin said there wae need for rational town plan- ning in the London aren. Com- menting on the designs of houseCS built round the large towns, ho said many of thoay built by muni- cipalities wore a credit to them, and even their worst compared welled Buckingham said, Where is Chip Feng, Roy, and Mrs. Lawrence
Joe i with what the speculative builder was doing. The standard of de sign of the houses that were being uilt round the big towns was a disgrace to the builders and a de gradation to the people who lived them. The greatest part of the uglincts was due to the patching on to buildings of so-called orraments, It was a disgrace to a people who bad-the finest tradition of good, simple cottage architecture in the world that they would allow the resigns of their buildings to de. generate to such a low average that it was a positive pain to go about in the new roads and streets and I see the way in which they were disfigured for want of design. We could design better, it was out duty to do so, nid it, did not cost more. The well-planned, well-ar- ranged cottage was in itself an legant thing, and it was the oasiest thing in the world to main- trín.
The following passengers arrived on Friday by s.8. Coblenz:-Ar. Hu. Did Ng, Miss K. J. Hung, Miss H. Hung, Are. Ethel Jinson, Miss and the other name of Penty. O Lim, Miss Mary Schnepel, followed the others in.
Miss Evelyn Walker.
Departures.
"All the meh went without any guidance through the kitchen into the scullery, and into the rellar The following passengers left on where the safe was. I followed Saturday by ss. Coblenz:-Mr. J. them and said, 'You are trapped. V. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs, G. van I am a police inspector."
Wylick, Master E. van Wylick,
"By fat time the other police Mies Claire van Wylick, Mr. Paul. had entered the house, and the men Halemann, Mr. Ishii, dr. F. H. were told they would be arrested Charter, Mr v. Buenaucesco, Mr. on this charge.
Blimey! I half smelt it when you
Penny said, E. Evangelista, Mr. M. J. Paruinn. asked us to come in The other men said nothing,"
Inspector Sharpe added that Hitchcock was carrying an over font in which was concealed a ti box containing minety steel drills. Buckingham was carrying na över ecat, in one of the pockets of which, were sixteen steel drills. One had. Mr. A. W. Smith, secretary to an electric drill partly concealed
Inured to Squaler.
The Don Line s.s. Benrinnes-from Middlesbro, Antwerp, London and Straits left Singapore for this port on November 16 and is due to nr- rive here on November 19.
the Corporation of Bristol Hous-under his cont. Penty won currHONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL ng Estates, said one of the dilling an overront in which were con calties of rehousing the slum popu: etaled Afty-two steel drills.
lation was the 'mental áttitude of
many people who had resigned shemselves to squalid surroundings, au attitude which could be express- ed in the phrase, "Here I am and hers I remain."
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It was not enough.
to rebouse those people; now fn: erests had to be aroused in them, and facilities provided for socia intercourse. Alderman D. B. Fos ter (Leeds) suggested that gardens should be itached to the holisen tó 'which slum dwollers were removed, Work in the garden and contact with Mother Earth would have an exoollent inßuence upon those poo-, ple.
Mr. Frank Hunt, who spoke of the special difficulties of housing reform in the London, pren, said that, with the bit will in the world, full preparation of London's. housing programme for the next five years would be impossible with-- In the time fixed by the Housing
con-
HEALTH OF EASTERN PORTS.
The following health bulletin of Eastern ports dated November 8. has been issued by the Director of Medical and Banítáry Services:—
·Plague
Tamalave Alexandria
Beirut
Bombay Calcutta Slangni gio
Emall-poz
Tamatave Basrah ... Calcutta Cochin.... Madras Negapatam... Penan Shanghai
Chaba. Deaths
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HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.
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A resolution was passed, in viow of the special circumstances of Lon- don, requesting the Housing Com- mittee of the association to sider the desirability of making representations to the Minister of Health and the London County Council sa to the necessity for fix- The Moth neroplane in which M ing a later date for the submission48-Butler secured-rond-place- of the quinquennial statement res and the prize for the fastest time ferred to in Section 11 of the in the King's Cup race has, sub
rh.th. "It Is. Housing Act, and the possibility jet to official confirmation, woh of a conference on the subject, be the Zenith Cup for the fastest fight Toss. 18 & 186 7.97,019 a 29 tween the London County Council over a French circuit of 1,030 miles
Wed. 10 9 3 and the Metropolitan boroughs. in a competition restricted to wors
818 7 6 Resolutions wore so passed as planes of an empty weight of not
Fhur, $ 10.86 5 suring the Minister of Health of more than 8501. This maching, the determination of the authors bought from Mr. Butler and pilot Sri.
$1m 112. ties represented at the conference td by Mr. Edward Bret, an offi
12. to exercise the powers conferred or in the French Air Porco, mnde Bat upon them by the Housing Acts of an average speed of 119 miles an
Bana 1024 and 1930 to eliminate slums hour, though there were live opm- zad provide sucht-housing all the cirqul ön
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