HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 100
HONG KONG'S AIR PORT POSSIBILITIES. Fully occupied getting 8,000 miles
TWO IMPORTANT VISITORS ARE SURVEYING THE LAND.
1992.
MONEY AND PROPERTY MISSING.
to Hong Kong by the Jonkhoor G.ELIOT HALL THEFT. from England to the Cape and in Sandberg, Lieutenant Aviatour in Land, aftor that service is antislao the Dutch Air Force, Demonstration torily naugurated, to push one Pilat seconded to the Fokker Mann- through from Karaobito Australia,facturing Company and Jatecfor 8,000 miles more. Compared with designals of the Royal Dutch Air these, statogical, well as com Lines. Lt. Jonkheur Sandberg, with mercial undertakings, Hong Kong his title, equivalent in English to Baronet, His excellent flying abili 2. tios, and his qualidations as an avcont" or lawyer, came to Hong, Kong specially to investigate and, if possible, to negotiate an air link between this Colony and the Dutch Air Lines operating to and through Bangkok
NETHERLANDS COMPANIES INTERESTED. is off the m.p.b.
BY MAJOR E. B. BRASTER-CREAGH, MC.].
Those who have read my articles, national? The line, if such a one published in the columns during ever comes here, must be either a September and October of last your, brunett of Imperial Airwaya or of will recall my opinion that wherens, some Chinese company. One, in all matters of trade, the eyes bitten with a sudden interest, prosa- of Hong Kong mist naturally boed on me the paramount importance turned directly towards China, in of a direct Hak between Hong Kong matters of air trafie, as indeed in and Singapore, Hong Kong," he matters of ocean shipping, our out-claimed," in British, and must link look must exclude China to a great itself with the next British posses extent while looking to the othersion.*
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nations of the Far East for co- operation.
Why Come to Hong Kong?
5 days Frop London
Hong Kong's Value. - To go back to the first remark, Hong Kong is a valuablo place on in ite relation to places farther off on the routes to which it lies To the east, these are, Shanghai, Japan and tho Philippines,
It is because of these, and be cause of Imperial Airways, K.LM. and the Air-Orient approaching from Europe, that any line serving Hong Kong must be international No national line could withstand the jealousies unless it be a Chinese one and the Chiness, as I have said, will not play...:
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Hong Kong-Singapore.
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10 day.a Feath London
Two Events. '
If Hong Kong did not stop to
Big Companies Interested. The Companies; represented by Lieutenant Sandborg have a capital of over 25,000,000 and both their main line (KM) to the east and the subsidiary (K.N.ILM.),
the
Netherlands operating in Indios, are making profits. They
17 days
From London
from! Lomba
| come, to Hong Kong with their ever looking en and, through it. They see the great chances which I have set on paper and they facend to take a pars in capitalising them. Vore, they come offering, co-opera- tion.
If this thing comes through, Lieut Jonkheer Sandberg will, in all likelihood, be the active Dutch Director, yet he was taken prac tically ro notice of whilst in Hong
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in the reverse order. Firstly, a re-think; others have seen some point Reference to the map re-printed gular direct flight of 1,800 miles in my prophesy and I have to-day to above will show how I foretold the from here to Singapore would re- report two very interesting events.
aerial route quire traffic as heavy as that be- The first afera to Air-Commodors. constructions of an (marked in small ring-dots)-con-tween Earis and London to make Kingsford-Smith, the famous flyer, pecting Rangoon or Bangkok, in the it pay; machine of 80 tons weight and the first to cross the Pacific by west, with Yokohama, in the east, to make it safe, and it would have air, wha is now the moving spirit of thus linking together and directly to be flown entirely over water to the Australian Commonwealth Air the two chief termini of existing save it from being international. At Lines" and is now so actively try world traffic in this area.
present such a scheme is imprae- ing to connect Australia with Eng:
land. I have been in touch with Kong... My prophecy did not arouse much ticable.
Kingsford-Smith since last Septem- enthusiasm in Hong Kong and I As regards the Chinese,,,they are
ber and I can use his name sa
I am luthorized to state, how- may frankly say that I was accused not signatories of the Air Conven- by many of my friends as being an tion, and their country cannot be opinions as expressed in the Ronging through here again he has gone a wholehearted supporter of roy ever, that he will probably be pass impossible idealist.
"Why," omo entered except under conditions Keng Daily Press.
to Peiping-on his way through to said, "should anyone want to come which would make the air of China
Batavia, and I sincerely trust that to Hong Kong There would be little free to us. This they will not enter-
Hong Kong" will, by then, have or no business for them here." teinin short it won't work. On the
formulated the proper sort of recep Others, why make it inter- other hand, Imperial Airways are
tion for him.
HABITUAL THIEF.
"DIGHTEEN YEARS SPENT IN CAOL.
ANOTHER TERM FOR THEFT
OF QUILTS.
An unusual request was made by by a prisoner when he was convict- ed at the Criminal Sessions yes-
It was the only cass in this month's calendar, and Chan Wing. the prisoner, saved the time of the Court and jury by pleading guilty to the charge.
A Netherlands Visitor. The cond item of news is the visit paid during the last fortnight
The man was seen to walk away be honest by hawking. I cannot get and the complainants were informed a licence.
Request for Licence,
when they returned and discovered their loss. One of them set of on his bicycle in the direction the thief that was probably due to his bad When his Lordship remarked that had taken, and in the course of record, prisoner replied:-That is visiting pawnshops in the district, not it. As soon as I get a stock he finally came upon prisoner in and lay out my stall I am arrested one of them trying to pawn the quilts. He was arrested.
sions.
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MURDER ON THE PEAK.
COOK STABBED WITH KNIFE.
and charged with obstruction and AMAH DETAINED BY POLICE, lose all my capital
After his Lordship had passed
sentence as stated above, prisoner
A Chinese cook employed by Mr. asked if his Lordship would issue | C. A. L. Rickett at 112, The Peak, to him a hawker's licence, but his (Mountain View) was early yester Lordship replied that prisoner
day morning stabbed to death in the would have to apply for it in the proper quarter when he came out kitchen of the hapisa of gaol.
Prisoner: That "will be no good.
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OPENING OF SYDNEY BRIDGE.
It appears that shortly after 8 a.m. Mr. Bickett was attracted to the kitchen by the noise of a dis- turbance, and found the cook lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Ha at first thought the man was suffer. ing from internal hemorrhage, but an examination revealed the fact that there was a wound in the left
Convicted. When a Boy.. As regards prisoner's record, terday on a charge of larceny. He | Counsel said that he was convicted naked the Pulsne Judge (Mr for stealing in 1008 when clovon Lindsell) to give him a hawker's years of age, and was sent to goal licence, but when he was told to for 21 days. Subsequently he had: make the application after his dis-been convicted no fewer than 31 charge from gaol he remarked that times and bad been charged before it would be no good..
the Criminal Sessions on six occa
He had spent 18 years of his life in gaol and appeared to be
The Australian Oriental Line, side of the chest, and a doctor was addicted to housebreaking and email larcenies.
Ltd, are advertising & cheap return telephoned for and the police inclusive rate by s.s. Changte, which formed. After remarking that prisoner will leave Hong Kong on February | Dr. Anderson arrived and reader seemed to like being in gaol, Mr.: 20 and arrive in Sydnoy on Marched what attention was possible to Fitzroy said that, inaide the gaol, 30. The Changte will leave Sydney the injured man, but he died soor he was a good prisoner and worker, on the return trip on March afterwards. When Impector Ches for prisoner being sent to the He obeyed the prisoner regulations arriving in Hong Kong on April 19.tor-Woods reached the house he took Sessions was because of his pre- able to turn his hand to any trade a short holiday, lasting just under the affair, a young amah named and gave no trouble. He was also This is a splendid opportunity for into custody the only eye-witness of
vious record. The complainants and it was hard to understand why two months, and the return · fare: Chau Sim, aged 18. ult. lived at a house in Boy Street, he did not try to earn an honest quoted in 208.0.0 which includes Police investigations were produé Mongkok, and on the morning of living.
hotel expenses, sight seeing trips, tive of the theory that the man had the day in question they went to
eto, for the 13 days passengers will been stabbed with a breakfast knife, work as usual, after which some
spend in Sydney.
but which was found on the kitchen one broka a glass window of the
Full particulars may be had on table and which boro blood stains, oubiela, lifted the bolt, entered, and
application to Messrs. Butterfeld & At a late hour last night the amal stole the quilts,
·was still in custody."
Explaining the facts, Mr. Bomer set Fitzroy said that the sole reason
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His Lordship, addressing prisoner, said:-You. appour to profer being in anol then outsidy it.
Prisoner: That is not the case,
I have no alternative. If I try to Bwire.
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BOY SUSPECTED.
A well-planned theft was com- mitted in Eliot Hall, Hong Kong University, on Sunday at about The thief, it is alleged, is nboy who, since noon that day, has not made am appenrarICE.
noon.
One student lost a new suiteuse containing a few articles, and u blanket, which are valued at $80, Another student (the Hon. Secre tary of the hostol), lost a hat and 8190 pash which he had deposited ins side his trunk. !
It appears that the boy got haju of the key, apaned the trunk, took the money, and looked it again. He took away the kay so that there should be a delay in the owner's search. Towards evening, when the absence of the boy seemed signi ficant one of the students broke open his trunk, and was surprised to and that his money had diasp peared. The matter was at once rundrted to the wardea (Mr. R. A. Hill) wo, in, turn, communicated with the police.
Further Sum Missing.
Further inquiries show that the boy had been questioned by another boy that day as to where he was going, He replied that he had been in- structed by a student to carry some suitcases over to Kowloon, When his room was examined, nothing valuable was discovered. His bed was intact, however, giving the im pression that nothing was wrong..
Beside the $120 and the suitcase, the boy is alleged to have decamp ed with a sum of $300 which was catrusted to him by a friend, to be banded over to the No. 1 Boy.
LOSS TO ARGYLLS.
DEATH OF C.Q.M.S. MULLENS.
The death took place at the "Mili tary Hospital yesterday morning of C.QM. Edward Kullens of the 2nd Batt: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The deceased was very popular with all ranks.and through his death the regiment has Flong qbe of its, most valued, warrant
officera.
C.Q.M.S. Mullens was admittel to the hospital only about a work ago, suffering from pneumonia, and at ene stage it was hoped that he would pull through. Unfortunale-i ly however, he had a relapse" (› which he succumbed.
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Although only 39 years of age, he had about twenty years', ac rvice with the Argylls with whom he saw active service during the War. He was awarded the 1914 Star. Bri- tish War Medal, Victory Medal and long service and good conduct decorations,
The deceased leaves a widow and eight children to mourn his loss and much sympathy will be extend- ed to them in their "ead barenre- ment. The funeral takes place at Happy Valley this afternoch, paag- ing the Monument at 4.30 p.m It will be recorded full military hon pure with the fifes and drums and regimental band preceding the cor- tags
EMPRESS
INCIDENT.
ALLEGED ASSAULT ON ENGINEER.
A rather unusual case came" for bearing before. Mr. J.-A. Fraser at- Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when two Chinese, stoker named Sung) Ping and a trimmer called Cheung, Wan, both of the R.M.S. Empress of Australia, were charged with_as saulting the fourth engineer, Mr.
Galloway in the stoke-hold-
of the vessel while she was on the 'high seas.
Detective Sub-Inspector Elstor. appeared for the prosecution, and, addressing the Court, said that the veel left. Victoria B.C.. on Decen- ber 19, and on the following night the complainant went on ·watch; when he had shargs of No. '‘2 stoke. hold.
Continuing, the officer anid that the two defendants were" on, duby at the Aims, and as he was not quite satisfied with the way they dia their work, he gave orders for them to go about is properly. J wan alleged that the first defendant then picked up a shovel but the compininant matched this away. Later the man picked un an iron bar and with this he inflicted a blow on complainant's head. Mean while the socond man armed himself with a shovel with which he struck Mr., Galloway on the shoulder. The latter was so badly injured that he had to he under medical care „for weight days, wadhamal dan lang! After evidence had been given by the modical officer on the vousl and the staff-captain, the case was adjourned.
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