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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY AUGUST 7, 1933
TYPHOON HAVOC
IN HAINAN
THE CATHEDRAL GOVERNOR VISITS
NORTH POINT
DROPS IN ON WAY TO SHEK-O
WORST STORM FOR FORTY YEARS
KACHER, July 31. On Sunday morning, July 30, a very destructive typhoon swept across the central part of Ha nan. The weather was oppressive on Saturday, with some rain that afternoon and at intervals all the
Structure Perfectly Sound
ARCHITECTS MAKING FULL EXAMINATION
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The situation has been some-
WOMAN KILLED FOR $50
Murder Gang At Au Tau
'GRIM' TRAGEDY AT
LONELY VILLAGE
As a result of arrangements made by the Hon. Mr. B. H. Kotewall; His Excellency the Governor ac companied by Lady Peel, Mr. R.. Poel, his son and Mr. H. Gascoigne paid a visit to the Chinese Bathing Pavilions at North Point yesterday The Police are now on the lookout afternoon at 4.30 p.m.
for three armed, men who were re- The party was met by Mr. M. K.sponsible for a grim tragedy, at a what exaggerated," said the Rev. Lo, the president of the South lonely village in the New Terri N. Y. Halvard, when interviewed China Athletic Association, and tories in the early hours of Sun yesterday by a Daily Press tapre other officials including Mr. O. W. day morning, when a sampan wo White anta Luke, Mr. J. D. Bush and Mr. C.man was done to death and her
husband gravely injured.. question"
N. Young. the The speaker said that there was no cause for alarm and there was cer- tainly no fear whatever of the roof falling in.
evening and all night. The typhoon wiud struck Kachek mar ket about 5.30 a.m. on Sunday, almost directly from the north.mentative The most severe blows were from the north between 7 and 8,30 and between 10.30, and 19 noon, after
the wind had shifted to the east. Contrary to the usual belief, it did not seem to shift clear to the south before the storm ceased, and the weather was showery all the rest of the day and most of the night. hut without any more wind,
The Chinese here, say they can only remember one typhoun, Öçeur- ring about forty years ago, that was more destructive than this, but one in September, 1911 (of which
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Cathedral.
They took a walk over the pre mises of one of the bathing clabs and showed extreme interest in the arrangements. Although the busiest There is no doubt that white time at the beaches is generally be nuts have got at some of the wood-tween five and even in the evening, work," said Mr. Halvard, "but there was a considerable number of by no means all the main beams people in the sea and on the bridge are affected. As a matter of fact when His Excellency arrived. After our architects have still to send in a brief stay the government House their report, but until they do so, party left for Shek-O. I cannot say what the extent of the damage is like."
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The man was in too serious a con-
dition to relate what had happen- ed and the only report made to the Police yesterday was by a girl of 17 a daughter of the injured man who happened to be near the sam- pan that was the scene of the tragedy."
SHANGHAI MOVES WESTWARD
Progress of Columbia Circle
FORTY NEW HOMES SITES BOUGHT THIS YEAR
SHANGHAI, July 31. During the past week, a total of 39 move of land in Columbia. Circle has been sold by the Asis Realty Company, involving 8480,000.
Forty new home sites have been bought by purchasers in Columbia Circle since the first of this year, and well over half of these are now being developed in choice, modera
residences.
Columbia Circle, as one of the leading residential areas of the
attractiveness as well as value since City, shows a remarkable growth in 1929 when the first house was oc- She stated to the Police that at 2.0 a.m. she was asleep in a matcupied. In four and a half years more than fifty homes have been shed in Shapo village when she built, and many more lots acquir heard her father cry out "Save Life ed by prospective builders..
Robbery." Her father and her
Less than five years ago there step-mother were at the time sleep were no houses, no electricity, no
were
the American Presbyterian Mission locate the headquarters of the in- SMOKING AND LIP in a sampan close to the hut.
has a record) was almost as bad, This one will go down in native In Kachek annals as very severe,
17 Mr. Igglesden ig trying to sects and exterminate them but it is not an easy job. The Cathedral resources have been drawn upon heavily during the last two or three years and just as we were congra-
ourselves on tulating
CANCER
getting Sir George Newman &
market several buildings collapsed completely and eight or ten people were killed by falling timber and debris. The Peace Theatre col-straight again we receive this bad If the report of the archi tect reveals serious damage, the Council are going to have a difficult task."
lapsed entirely. The barracks, just outside the north" gate of the market, are a complete wreck, without one brick left upon an. other. Eight or ten soldiers who were sick and unable to escape when the buildings began to lift up from their foundations, were crush ed to death and a few more were
injured. Temporarily the soldiers took refuge in the church but soon found other places,
Mission Building Damaged, Damage done at the American Presbyterian Mission compound "will amount to several thousand dollars. The newest residence o the compound suffered the most severely one gable end of the building collapsing entirely, and the tile being stripped from both sides of the opposite third of the roof. Damage to the other build- ings consiste principally of roof tiles being ripped off, and in the case of the comparatively new hos- pital plant window frames ripped' off and some eighty pones of glase broken. Cocoanut palms were up- rooted as were also large. Pride ol India trees: betelnut palms and eucalyptus trees were broken off, and camaring trees laid flat on the ground. The hearts were literally blown out of any number of cocoa- nut palms, a sign of the extreme. violence of the wind,
Damage in All Directions.
Reports of damage are coming in from all directions, Hothow appar. ently suffered very little if any damage, Bach-in market in Vun- sio district felt the full force of the
blow, which came on across the "country in a swatch that struck Liang-do-sang village, Ui-diok (Yel low Bamboo) market, Doa-lou (Big Rond) market where shops were
news.
The interior of the Cathedral has been transformed by the scaf felding which. is necessary tu enable Mr. Igglesden .und his assistant to move freeip over the roof, Arrned with a fashlight and hammer the inspector subjects each beam to a close suruting, and then with a light tap of the hammer teste its soundness by ear. When necessary the beam is drilled and the interior examined. "
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Women Victims
PROBLEM OF SHAVING
CUTS...
The possibility of smoking 'being responsible for lip cancer among women is mentioned by Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer of Health, in a prefatory note to a Ministry report on Cancer of the Skin.
The girl got out of bed and rushed out of her matshed just in time to see her father being knocked down by a man dressed in black clothing Although it was very dark at the
time the girl noticed that her step mother was lying prone in the sand with a pool of blood around her. She did not see anybody strike"her. The girl also says that she saw a man dressed in white searching her father's sampan. At this time
по sewerage. The roads were simply cut in mud through the fields. There was no bridge at the head of Avenue. Jofre on Jor- dan Avenue to connect with the Columbia Circle area, and Colum-
bin Rond itself was practically
blocked by hold-out, squeeze pieces being retained by street frontage
owners. -4
Story of Acquisition. The officers of Asia Realty Com-
a neighbour came out of his mat-pany recount an interesting story," shed and running up the main road, romantic in spots, of the acquiring blew his palice whistle. Meanwhile of the property, which, incidental- the the robbers had decamped with 850 ly, commenced in 1924, and in money and a small quantity of securing of utilities and road sur- jewellery. Two Indian constables facing. They refer with obvious arrived on the scene later and at appreciation to the constructive tended to the needs of the injured and helpful attitude of the Water man. The woman was found to be Works, the Power Company, Tele- Public phone Company and the dead, while the man was seriously Works Department of the Muni- injured.
cipal Council for their part in this large, modern improvement of and IN addition to Shanghai:
The annual number of details for Mr. Halvard concluded by saying England and Wales in males. twelve as the architect's he states, was roughly goon (Messrs. Leigh nad Orange) report times as high as in females (about DIVORCE LAWS was ready, it will be given to the 286 as against 3 at the present time), the percentage of deaths from lip cancer to the total for cancer in "males being 1.1; and in females 0.1.
Press.
MOLLISONS FETED IN
NEW YORK
CHEERING CROWDS AND
GOLD MEDALS..
New York, Aug: 1.-Behind police sirens and under a storm of confetti and ticker tape, the Molli- sous rode the heroes' route to the city hall for an official, reception to-day.
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Two gold medals were presented the famous flying couple, James A. and Amy Johnson Mollison, by Mayor John W. O'Brien Police estimated that g00,000 persons lined lower Broadway, and there was a deafening roar of shouts and nose makers as the Mollisons rode by in an open automobile,
Recall Lindbergh's Reception.
The demonstration, recalling that staged when Charles A. Lindbergh turned in 1927, from his epic solo flight from New York to Paris, was the second of the kind in the last two weeks,
SPAIN
Difficulties were encountered, some serious, some merely amusing. All the gamut of usual Shanghai difficulties was run through, from. the removal of old graves and pay- ment for land which disappeared under the strain of the surveyor's measuring tape, to the building of a fence across the road by an irate. farmer.
Visitors to Shanghai who much
CO'S NOT ALLOWED TO MARY
Madrid Anew and
Bince no appreciable difference between the sexes in respect of curability had been demonstrated, it could be taken that the incidence was considerably higher in males.
Cancer in the lower lip in both sexes outnumbered that of the stricter marriage code shortly will upper lip in the ratio of, perhaps, be set up by the Spanish govern 20 to 1. Cancer in the upper lip ment. was relatively more frequent in The breach between church and collection of the city. women than in men, which caused reflections on causation. Occupa tional risk seemed to play little part in the male predominance.
Smoking Burns.
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state in Spain gave rise to the necessity of a new code, and while it is shout it, the government plans to lay down regulations looking Tobacco smoking had long trward a higher eugenic and moral
plate among contracting couples. rested under suspicion," he con- The old code, in deference to the tinued, "not necessarily the effect upon the tissues of the product of great number of Catholics combustion (a matter still under Spain, recognized church marri- investigation), but the result of reages as sufficient, provided some representative of the civil govern peated minor injuries and burns. shaving have also been given some
"Minor injuries as the result of ment was present.
significance.
"Conceptions of this kind leave unexplained the higher rate for the Nogle "pper lip in women. satisfactory explanation of these seemingly stable differences of in- cidence has been advanced, and they may well be the resultant of number of factors. some still undetermined."
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Columbia Circle now almost in-RECENTLY CUT-OUT FROM GENERAL CATALOGUE variably carry the impression of it as an important part of their re- A recent visitor to the United States says that it was mentioned to him no fewer than a dozen times in the course of his visit there.
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Movement Westward. Shanghai is developing westward steadily and consistently. The old. timer will recall the development of the park tract from farm land in 1910. This is the area bounded by Rue Lafayette, Route Vallon, Rue Pere Robert and Rue The number of Catholics have Massenet. He will also recall the of the American development not decreased, but Spain has broken away from Church, domi-School tract in 1832 from bare land nion, it has taken education out of where now residences and apart-
Route the bands of the religious and ap-ment houses fill the blocks formed Kaufmann, Route propriated church properties for y purposes, and the breach became Frelupt Roate de Sieyes and still wider with the recent excom- munication of the entire Spanish government from having legalized what the Catholic church termed "illegal confiscation."
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ing was to some extent responsible It was said that if tobacco-smok-
Under the new code a church for lip cancer the growth of the marriage alone will not be regard habit among women in recent years ed as legal. A church wedding will provide further evidence, but may follow a civil ceremony in view of the long latent period" desired, but to be legally recogniz required for the production of edo as marriage the couple must cancer by similar means, such evi- have appeared before a municipal dence might not become available judge and been formally united in in convincing amount for & genera- the presence of two witnesses, and a great number of qualifications must have been established.
Age Idmit,
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The members of the Asia Realty Company are justly proud of these three steps, the Park Tract, the American School District and Columbia Circle in the march of Shanghai's progress westward.
PROGRESS IN FUKIEN
Bath fliers still wore bandages on their foreheads as a result of the crash that ended their record fight across
the Atlantic from levelled to the ground, the school Wales, ten days ago at Bridgeport, buildings utterly wrecked. and Conn. people killed and injured; Kheng- dong district city. Do-fo market, Dian-lam market on the sea, Liang kin on "the border of Vang-neng district, and Zinng-kiang, up the Kachek river in Lob-hoe district At Bak-ngau harbour, some twelve or fifteen miles below Kachek, it is reported that ten or more junks were sunk, besides a great number
Last Wednesday ticker tape of small craft. Villagers report bowered down on Wiley Post, who every house as damaged, some completed a solo flight around the more and some less; The one re-
world" in 7 days, 15 hours and 49 deeming feature all the
way minates, and on July 21 60,000 per- through is mentioned again and sons jammed City Hall park as again—it was exceedingly fortunate | honours were paid to General Italo "The high curability rate of skin that the blow came in the daytime Balho and his 96 Italian naval cancer resulted in its accounting Some of the more important of instead of at night.
trans-Atlantic airmen
for a low proportion only of the these requirements are: that the Underfakng non-stop fight total deaths due to cancer (less prospective husband be at least from Pending Wales, to New York than 2.5 per cent, in males and 1.5 sixteen and the girl at least four ST. JOHN Airmen 1NCE IN at Bridgeport the night of July 23 proportion had remained remark. 21 (ages of majority in Spain) gress. On the return to Amoy of City, the Mollisons ran out of fuel per cent, in females). This low teen; that if he is under 23 and she when only sixty miles from their ably steady over the whole period
have secured they must goal, and crashed in trying to land covered by the national records, parents' or guardian consent at the airport.
and, translated into actual deaths, they must establish freedom from may be stated as rather more than insanity of sterility: they must not 600 for males and over 400 for be related within the second degree females at the present time.
of consanguinity
NEW TERRITORIES
CASES TREATED DURING
JULY 1933
Station Cheung Chau Tsun Wan Kam Tin
General Maternity
2,189
27
1,017 1,098
14
13
437
937
1,060.
1,076
1,760 368
Ting Kok Ha Tsun
Fan Tin Shataukok Fanling Shatin
Sight Injuries.
tion or more.
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High Rate of Gure.
SUSPICIOUS AROUSED BY RUMOURS OF FOREIGN LOANS.
Tokyo, July 27-According to in-. formation supplied by Mr. Take uchi, the zoting. Consul at Amoy to the Foreign Office, the scheme for building the Changchow-Lungyen railway is making favourable pro their Mr. Lin Ying Show from Nanking. which he visited to confer with the Nanking Government shout the scheme, the Preparatory Committee was held to approve the arrange ment affected by him with the Nang king authorities and to draw up the regulations for the raising of funds, ste, donate ba
A widow may not re-marry with in 30 days of his or her mate's
After a night in the hospital, where their alight injuries were treated, they came on to New York TRAGIC DEATH OF LITTLE death, an adopted may not marry the following day in a borrowed plane. Their mishap resulted in cancellation of plans to fly from here to Bagdad, and theere back
to the British Isles.
It was the second east-west cross-
GIRL
DROWNED AT LANTAO.
To Manila for Money, bud It is further reported that Mr. Li Ching Chuan, a member of the Railway Fund Committee, left for Manila on the 17th instant on the
with an aduptor, nor can a divorced person marry the correspondent who figurad in his or her divorce.
Vialation of say one of there regulation will immediately render. Jean Lucille Snyder, (5) met her nuil the marriage should it have ing of the Atlantic for. Mollison, death in tragic circumstances on been performed before the nullify mission, it is supposed of raising who last year became the first to Saturday, at Lantac, where the ing factor came to light. So also an American loan for the construc fly alone from Britain to the Ameri- missionaries are at present holding shall the practice of deliberate de tion of the railway. Another report can continent, but it was the first camp. such ocean fight for his equally
ceit concerning an important fachas it that the 19th Bouts Army is famous bride of less than a year.
The little girl who is a daughter tor about one's self; i. failing to planning to lay out a big aerodrome of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Snyder of advise the other contracting party with foreign capital... the American Presbyterian Mis of a criminal career, hereditary Fukien province, in which these
Strategic Considerations. sion, was playing with another tiny weakness, etc. The new code als schemes are rooted, being located. friend, aged six at the edge of a outlaws the military" wedding. "How are things goin' on the old į pool when she slipped and feel in, place?" asked the neighbour.
Foreigners will be subject to the 1st opposite Formosa, across the her head apparently striking
same regulations as citizens should and also because, sequel to the Sino-Japanese War, there "Better' answered Farmer Corn-mock With great presence of mind they desire to
exists a tresty between Japan rød vived, but twins had been dead be a great help."
the water, and when Jean did not
China that Ching will make no cer some time before birth.
Does he know anything about speak, the playmate went to the re
sons to foreign powers in the pro farming ???
Missionary Camp to say that the dead The remains were con vince the action of the Nanking Government in regard to these No, but he is in line for a goy little girl would not speak to me to Hong Kong, and later to ernment job and will be able to Aeveral people hurried to the where the funeral took place schemes is being watched closely by pay board"-B'ashington Star, spot to find that Jean was already
the Government, says the Asahi,
10,407 -80 Four ses of twins. Two cases. necessitating 8.0.8. calls-one at Cheung, Chau which was an opera- tive case, mother and one baby survived, and one on the frontier
beyond Sheung Shui-mother su tassel.. "My boy Josh is goin' to her little friend pulled her out of matry in Spain,
There were also ten bospital case, 3 each at Kam Tir, Shatau kok and Fanling and I at Ting Kong
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