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& HONG KONG, DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1933.
ECHOES OF 1858
61.-Fire Fighters of Seventy Five Years Ago
DECEMBER 7, 1858.
was in the most imminent Jeopar- dy. The Treasure and even the The fire on Sunday originated in furniture were moved, and its fate Hinnam's shop, two doors west of appeared sealed for some time. but Webster's bazaar, and was caused the exertion of the men-of-war's either by sparks setting are to the
men and the "admirable devices celling, or by a man having left planned by their officers, even- his oplum pipe burning. Hinnam's tuated in complete success and the shop had lately been opened and
valuable establishment was saved. contained a valuable stock of
Towards the bay, the fire was goods estimated at £2,000. Many checked by the exertions of the of these were of an indammable! sailors also, who of course had nature, and within fifteen minutes abundance of water there. after the first alarm, the premises" were hopelessly in flames. The Police and other fire engines soon appeared on the ground, and so long as the water lasted they did essential service in preventing the fire from spreading Westward but the Union Chapel tank falled, and the pipes of St. Paul's College tank becoming choked, the en- gines would have been useless but for the water supplied by the sal- lors, who had been sent under proper officers from H.M. Ships. The hose of one of the police en-! gines burst, and the other engines had not suction höse long enough to be of any service: The tem-
TANG YU LIN
Said To Have Joined Manchukuo
Changchun, Aug 29-The asher. tion that Tang Yu-lin, former Chin- ese governor of Jehol province, had cast his los completely in with Man- chukyo and Japan was made to-day in an announcement of operations in Charhar, given out at Japansee military headquarters
Tang, it was stated, commanded uns section of a Manchukuo-Japan- ese expedition which has success- fully completed the eviction from eastern Charhar af elements said to be menacing the western frontier of
Jebol.
With seasoned Japanese troops as the backbone of the expedition, Kuymn. southwest of. Dolonor, strategic border point, was occupied- Friday after heavy fighting. The Looking at the ruins of the fire, defenders, estimated in the com- it seems incredible bow it could munique to number 8,000, were de have been stopped under the circlared to have fled, leaving to kill-f cumstances. The houses destroyed ed on the battlefield.
Tang was governor of Jehol when appears to have been and really were, a small portion of a dense that province was added in March mass of buildings of a most frá- to Manchukuo by a Japanese mili Elle and combustible description. tary campaign. He made propara- Nothing but the pulling down of tions for defense, but fled to the the surrounding houses and there. Jeho border with his retinue after by circumscribing the limits of putting up virtually no resistance the fire, could possibly have er-when the Japanese vanguard ap fected this successful achievement. proached Jebol City.
Japanese military officials said 'as The heat was so great that the
the opposite side of the campaign started they expected houses on Queen's Road, which our readers Gen. Tang might decide to declare are aware is 50 feet wide, caught allegiance to Manchukuo, following the example of lesser leaders, Chiu- porary check which the engines are several times. The doors andese commanders loyal to the Nan- windows of many of them are king government barred the Great had given to the progress of the progress of the flames Westward charred and bilstered. What it Wall gates to prevent his fleeing to must have been at the Oriental North China and for days his had been most beneficial-the ve- randahs of the adjourning houses, Bank, which is not more than ave whereabouts were a mystery. were knocked down and all ex-feet from the ruins, may be readi-Tang has been reputed to be im- mensely wealthy, gaining most of posed woodwork removed. These ly conceived. wise measures leaving the flames Had this are been allowed to his riches from an opium monopoly nothing to feed upon. entirely have its own way, as the previous in Jehol. He had a large fleet of stopped the progress of the fire disasters of a similar nature in motor cars. Westward, but Eastwards the ef- this Colony have had, the conse- forts were not so successful. The quences would have been most house adjoining Hinnam's of tearful, to say nothing of the im course WES Joon enveloped in mense amount of private property flames, and being situated on the which would have been, burnt, the corner, was only separated from trade and permanent prosperity Messrs. Schaeffer and Co.'s house of this Colony would have suffer by the narrow Alley which leads ed materially. There is some talk to Webster's Bazaar. As far as of a "foating engine again. This the front upon Queen's Road was would be a complete shirking of concerned the flames were pre- the duty of the legislature. A half vented from spreading, but as both measure, of a trimming character, the China shops, an fre and highly characteristic of the Hong Messrs. Schaeffer and Co.'s house | Kong Government. Let them con- stood on the narrow alley above struct proper water works-the I described, na footing could be db-force of the water led down the
tained there and consequently hill in pipes, would dispense, with 1 Messrs. Schaeffer's house fell a prey to the flames. The Oriental -Bank stood within four or five feet from Messrs. Schaeffer and
the necessity of engines, and it could, if pipes' were so laid, be ap- pltet ad bitum on the instant of the alarm of fire being given.
END OF THE E.M.B.
Agreement With Dominions
CERTAIN SERVICES TO CONTINUE
(Special Air-Mail Service)
LONDON, Aug. 18.
The Japanese-Manchukuo expedi- tion into Charhar was organized following the recapture of Dolenor by a force led by a heutenant of Marshal Fang Yu-hsiang, whose anti-Japanese movement in Char har recently collapsed."
BYRD OFF TO
SOUTH POLE
EXPEDITION NEARLY
READY
New York, Aug. 27. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd revealed to-day that his second" Antarctic expedition will start in about two months on its long route to the South Polar Ice Cap.
The expedition will include 'the former cutter Bear, veteran of 58 years of service in Arctic waters the supply ship Pacific Fir and special plane able to carry 18 men. The Bear was selected by Byrd as the "only ship in the world suitable for the job."
press his thanks, as chairman of the Empire Marketing Board... to all those who, whether as represen tatives of the United Kingdom, the
His old ship, the City of New Dominions. India, or the Colonies, have served on the Board or itsYork, in which he made his earlier Committees, or in other ways have trip to the Antarctic, is not large given their voluntary, expert, and enough for a "one-vessel" expedi- successful service to its work in tion. This time Byrd wants
carry his entire outfit and person- the past seven years.
nel inside one hull.
Colonial Interest"
The discontinuance of the Board The announcement in The Times will be a great disappointment to
of August that the Government those members of the House of
the
to
The Bear's sturdy hull is of solid oak, enclosed in a sheet of cop- per and reinforced to resist the squeeze" of drifting ice. Her iron- shod prow, can bite through the ice-fields capably.
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Commony who have been pressing. She was built in Greenock Scot- had decided to discontinue the Em-that the Board should be continued land, as a whaler, but in 1881 she pire Marketing Board after Sep. tember 30 was officially confirmed as a body under charter on the was purchased by the United same lines as the Imperial War States government for the third last night, when the following Graves Commission, and the sub- attempt to rescue the fl-fated statement wus issued by
ject will certainly be raised again Greely party, which it did, earn- Dominions Office:-
when the House reassembles in ing a $25,000 reward offered for The Report of the recent. Imperial November. Mr. Thomas made it the first ship to reach the maro- Committee on Economic Consulta. tion, and Cooperation, 1933 (Cmd clear in his statement before the oned survivors. 4335) was considered at a meeting recess that he would be ready at in 1886 she was placed in the any time to cooperate with the Alaskan patrol service, in which between representatives of the Gov-Dominions if it was found possible she continued until 1929, when she ernments of the United Kingdom, Canada, the Common-wealth of to develop the Board again, but was given to the city of Oakland, Australia, New Zealand, the Union the Government are convinced that Calit, as a museum ship. of South Africa, the Irish Free nothing more can be done at the State, and India, at the end of present juncture July. It was intimated that the
The matter was fully discussed Governments represented at the with the representatives of the moeting accepted generally the re Dominions who attended the World van in the Boston navy yard. commendatione in the Committee's
of the earth. In 1928 he flew in Report. Accordingly action is be-Conference, and the papers on the Byrd has down over both poles subject were in their possession a plane piloted by Floyd Bennett ing taken to carry those recou some weeks before the meeting at over the North Pole from Spitz mendation into effect.
the end of last month at which the bergen and return. In 1927 he and recommendations of the Imperial three companions flew from New Committee on Ecchomic Consulta York to France. In 1929 he new tion and Cooperation were accept over the Bouth Pole on his first Marketing Board, as such, will be ed generallyTROLL Antarctic expedition. Bu
T
It follows from the acceptance of the recommendations in the Com
mittee's Report that the Empire
discontinued after September 30, 1933;
Byrd obtained the Bear from Oakland, and brought her to the Atlantic Coast, where she has been undergoing engine repairs and re-
TOBACCO FACTORY
STRIKE
The official announcement shows that the periodical market intelli. Certain of the economic and gence notes, and the World surveys statistical services at present car of production and trade are to be Hed on by the Board-namely, (1) continued is part of the work of periodical market intelligence notes the Imperial Economic Committee, and (2) world surveys of produe but this does not inevitably mean tion and trade-will, however, be that all the other nelivities of the continued, and will he financed on a Board will disappear. The various cooperative basis as part of the Government offices affected are work of the Imperial Economic about to examine the other work Committee, NA
performed by the Board to see transpor It is also contemplated that the whether a gond case can be made the Fritish- Executive Conncil of the Imperialout for taking for helps from the along the Agricultural Bureaux should be in- Treasury to tranfer any of this joined the vited to consider forthwith what work to the appropriate. Depart factories, thus fielding up the ship résearch activities should, dú ita ment. The Colonial Office in parti-ning of the company's rolled truso- opinion, be conducted in future on a cular will consider whether it is co to the outports, according to cooperative basis.
posible to take over any of the ex-Chibere press reports
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THE EX-KAISERH
Clocking-in at Detroit in the Ford Motor
Works
A plate of pickles was on the table at which Frince Louis Ferdinand; favourite grandson of the ex-Kaiser and a correspondent chatted like old
ent chatted like friende,
The Prince was about to start on his return to the United States, where he is employed at the Ford Mobor Works at Detroit.
Hitler, the German Chancellor.
Over an aperitif Prince Louis began to talk of his life..
He
is, as he puts it, studying
human nature in the flesh.
"I have graduated," he told me, Vin economics in Berlin, but of what use, is such a diploma without prac tical experience of the world in which we live?
"I believe in mankind, and I want to know more, in fact, everything I can, about the ordinary everyday
man in the street.
I work for my Living "I work for my living at Detroit, where I live with the people and share their pleasures and sorr)WI I love them because among them "I find a spirit of disinterested ser-
He is tall, dark, remarkably like his father, the ex-Crown Prince,vice distinguished in the Anglo-Saxon way, and democratic,
Prince Louis is subject to the rigorous discipline of the Ford He, lelt Barthampton last mouth organisation at Detroit. He works in the North German Lloyd liner an eight hour day, and a fire-day week for a trags of a dollate a Europa for New York
The Prince has the appearance of day. (20%. at par).- He, clocks - in a. · · full-blooded democret, has a 1 with the rest, and enjoys it. He is roving eye expressive gestures and out of bed at six every morning racy speech His sympathies are and clocks in at half past seven. definitely with the lame dog, whom "The foreman keeps an carde eyn he genuinely wants to help.te on me, and at the first sign of slack- . Although he ill not admit it tăng get kick in the pants," he and will not disa the subject, his bald, laughing, but it a worth every
the Fifth District Holled Tobacco Trade Workerî Union will alsq. to discuss way and means of
the situation;
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