HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
GENERAL
NOT PROVIDED WITH HEAVY RAINFALL OF WEEK
ADEQUATE DETAILS
U.S. Red
Red Cross Protest Against H.K.
H.K. Govt.
FOLLOWING CLOSELY UP ON THE COMPLAINT BY THE ' AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT that the Hongkong. Government has not kept it fully Informed regarding its evacuation plans, Manila is now also making the same complaint. The U.8. Red Cross, according to the Manila Bulletin, has protested against not belas provided with adequate information regarding the intentions of the Hongkong Government.
Omcials in Manila' had made arrangements for embarking more than 450 passengers last Wednes- day, but sent a request for more definite information on the future movements of ships in order to organise plans for embarkation."
ROUND THE POLICE COURTS
AT CENTRAL
CHARGE WITHDRAWN The charge against Wong Kau,
CAUSE WIDESPREAD HAVOC
HILLSIDE COLLAPSES: EIGHT STILL
BURIED UNDER TONS OF DEBRIS . THAT GREAT DAMAGES bave been wrought as the result of the abnormal fainfall of the past few days are now revealed as more re- ports of landslides, collapsed houses, blocked roads and other accl- dents came to hand yesterday.
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Following the disastrous landslide wall has also subsided "about six in Talpo on Saturday, in which inches and bamboo props have seven inmates of a house were been erected to prevent further sec- crushed to death, another landslide tions from collapsing.,
tragedy occurred in the same dis- trict at 7:40 mm. yesterday mien- Ing.
Some 100 workers were clearing the railway line on the south side
PIPES REINFORCED
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Gas pipes were also reinforced by workmen on Sunday,se that there would be no leakage should the road collapse further.
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of Taipo Tunnel, which was block- A notice warning motorists of
ed following, a landslide on Satur- the closure of this road had been day, when the top of the hillside, posted up at the Star Ferry came crumbling, down onto the Wharves
workers..
but 15. of them under the avalanche. ;
The majority: got clear It is understood that repairs to were caught render this road" open again for traffic would take at least one month, possibly longer if the pre- sent heavy rains continue.
STUBBS ROAD CLOSED
The landslide 'which occurred on Saturday on the south side of the
The evacuees who left Manila on Thursday numbered 217 and
SEVEN RESCUED were from Bagulo and the remain-
Seven of these men have been der from Manila. The American
rescued with only slight injuries. authorities had made arrange-
but up to late yesterday morning ments to embark 1,000 women and
the other eight men were stul Talpo Tunnel has interrupted rail children. They had apparently
tradle between Kowloon and Lowu. buried under many feet of earth. "not been informed that only one
The Police and the Fire Brigade
E.C.R. LINE BURIED ship would arrive, three being ex-32, unemployed, principal tenant
Though 100 coolles have been as- pected at first, and those who of No. 31 Water Street, second were summoned and rescue workers were notified previously had to be floor, for keeping the floor as a started digging" operations at once signed to clear up the line which several feet of notiped again of the delay. brothel was withdrawn yesterday. in the hope of rescuing some of is buried under
earth and rocks, the through train Defendant was remanded from the men alive. It has been confirmed that the
service will not be resumed, until batch of evacuees left on board a Saturday and Sub.-lasp. R. Cun-
As the result of a portion of the Wednesday. Normally there are Juxurious 10,700-ton Rotterdamningham, prosecuting, told the Lloyd liner were all family of Magistrate, Mr. H. G. Sheldon, road having subsided on Saturday, eight trains on this service but two
that there was no evidence the foundations apparently having of these have been cancelled British naval personnel.
against defendant.
been: affected by the heavy rains, shuttle service, however.. is being Stubbs Road, above Magazine Gap, carried out with the others. The position was still vague in ALLEGED ROBBERS REMANDED has been closed to traffic, the Peak Another landslide, which' qecur- regard to the week-end departures
being the only fred on Saturday. has completely from Manila. An 11,636-tom Rot- further remand of 48 hours Tramways now terdam Lloyd liner and a 10.475-was granted by Mr. Sheldon yes-access to The Peak apart from blocked the Shing Mun Road at:
Pineapple Pass Dam. ton Nederland Mail liner were due terday on the application of Det. pedestrian passage.
ROOF CAVE IN The length of the road affected Sub-Insp.. W. N. Darkin who -sald at Manila on Saturday and Sun-that inquiries by the Police had by the collapse is about 100 yards A 40-year-old woman and a 19- day, respectively, and were to
along Stubbe Road just above M-year-old youth were seriously in- have departed during the week- not yet been completed.
The accused are Ip, Chuen, 2,gazine Gap Road and the No. 2jured when the roof of No. 257 end.
Tsang Sheung, 20, Wu Tin. 26, Fan Traffic Fost Cheung. 31, and Ip Chau, 24. A sixth mani Mak Chu, was charged besides the first five defendants yesterday.
POSITION VAGUM
Another ship due was the Union
Steamship Co.'s trans-Tasman liner Awatea, 14,000 tons. She was expected last week but, according to the latest information, she has not yet arrived.
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They are alleged to have robbed, on July 22, Ma Kwok-leung, of No. 10, King Korg Street, second floor,
WINDSOR HOUSE of $110, two fountain pens and a
MISHAP
WOMAN IN SERIOUS CONDITION
on
metal wrist watch.
BARBERS IN COURT Two barbers appeared before Mr. KMA. Barrett yesterday When Yiu Ping. 30, charged with
assaulting Chan Ming. 27. was fined $5. Both men were also or- Losing her foothold the dered to sign bonds of $10 for six scaffolding on which she was months...
The two men were employed in working yesterday morning, a Chinese female labourer fell from the same barber shop and the the third floor of Windsor House, assault took place as the result of now under construction, to the a quarrel over a customer. side lane next to Messrs. Crawfords.
Lane,
She sustained a deep cut on the forehead and severe brcises to the body but fortunately her fall was broken several times by the bamboo scaffolding...
She has been sent to the Queen Mary Hospital and enquiries elicited the information that she is in a serious condition.
"EVACUEES”. DROWNED
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ACCOUNTANT IMPRISONED Ho Hin. 42, accountant, charged with embezzlement of $3.412,89,
was sentenced to six months' im- prisonment with hard labour by Mr. Barnett yesterday,
The amount embezzled WIS monies received or taken into cus
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The embankment Portland Street, Kowloon, suddenly caved in at 7.30 pm, on Sunday
the Kowloon Hospital,
CHEUNG CHAU night. They had been admitted to
ACTIVITIES
Annual Meeting Of Residents' Assn.
The root of the kitchen, of No.. 257 Des Voeux Road, West, also collapsed on Sunday afternoon. Fortunately, no one was injured.
Awater pipe line was damaged, on Saturday when, uprooted as the result of a landslide, a tree crashed The annual meeting of the into the rear of a house in East Cheung Chau Residents Associa Street. Quarry Bay, tion was held in the Assembly
Hall, Cheung Chau, on Monday, at 10 a.m.
The retiring President, Rev, A. G. chair and Lindquist took the after prayer made his opening specch. The usual reports of the Secretary and Treasurer, and of the various committees were read and discussed, and Mr. D. 0. Silver was elected President for:
il the ensuing year 1940-1
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6. 1940. --PAGE 5
AFTER SALE
LBARGAINS
LADIES SHOES
OF
ALL DESCRIPTION
STILL AT
GREATLY
REDUCED PRICES
LANE CRAWFORD LTD.
The House of Quality & Service
400 H.K. Evacuees Leave Manila Reluctantly
For Australia
The following, taken from the Manila Bulletin, of August 1. describes how 400 women and children, who were evacuated from Hongkong to Manila, started on their second sea voyage to Aus- tralia, according to official plans, on July 11.
leave
Railroad
The new president then took they
MANILA, Aug. 1-Busloads of buses of the Manila chair and the following committees were appointed:-Vice-Presidents, women and children evacuees from Company which took them to the J. Smith and H. Smyth; Secretary Hongkong who had been living Manila Club, where they stayed in Manila and in until 7 pm, when the buses took and Treasurer, Mrs. L. Franklin; temporarily
Finance Committee, Mrs. Bazuto, some of them laughing them to the pier. Manila Electric tody for the complainant, Ho Man; Franklin, Mieg H. Mulliken, Mrs. and singing and some weeping, Company buses picked up about banker, trading as the Ling Hol Bank, of No. 44, Ke Shing Street.. Mcclosky, Mrs. A. E. Zeigler, boarded the Rotterdam Lloyd liner 180 evacuees from Manils and
Indrapoers at Pier 3 last evening, transported them to the pler Mr. M. A da Silva appeared for Mrs. A. G. Lindquist the complainant, while Det. Sub- Transport Committee, J. Smith, but instead of sailing, spent the Insp. T. Cashman represented the D. Bilver, A. G. Lindquist w.night in port.
They are scheduled to Burnside; Police.
Recreation Committee, Mrs. E about noon today for Australian SENTENCED REDUCED Lockwood, Mrs. M. W. Rankin, ports, where they will stay until Lat Man, 17, appeared before C H Relber D. Ray, H. Gravem; permitted to return to their hus Mr. Barnett Festerday for sen-
Sanitation Committee, Mrs: R bands and parents in Hongkong
RECOND GROUP : tence and was sent to gaol for Ray, Mr. A. H. Van Etten, Mrs. S. Lindell, A Buche, Dr. A. F. three months with hard labour,
Lal, who was remanded from Thomas; dren who "evacuated from Hong- Saturday to allow him to help the Religious Committee: E Jones, kong last month. were drowned Police to arrest his accomplice, H. Hill, G. Erickson, Mrs. A G. when their boat "capsized in a was charged with stealing 300 Lindquist, Mrs. H. Gravem, C. I
from his foster father," Lal Kam, Reiber, Mra, IL. L. Clift. The boat left Cheung, Chau alias Cheng Kim, shop master.
After further discussion it was Island on July 23 with some In passing sentence the Magis- decided to use up the balance in persons on board and after en-trate remarked that considering hand, by placing $400 on deposit, countering heavy seas and severe the fact that defendant had help-donating $200 to the British War squalls capsized two days later. ed the Poller he had reduced the Fund giving $25 to each of the Awatea, and the fourth and fifth four Chinese churches and 125 groups will leave on the Rotter-
BOAT
CAPSIZES IN HEAVY SQUALL
Some 50 men, women, and chil-
squall
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There are about 400 women and
SINGING AND CRYING The oracuees began to arrive at the pier shortly after 7 pm, many of them. singing Show Me the Way to Go Home, bymns and English .songs. Several were crying as it loath to go All evacuees from Baguio ex- children in this group, the second pressed their gratitude for the to leave Manila. The first group. fine treatment given them, al- composed of about 565 evacuees, though they regretted rains spoil- left Sunday evening on the Nedered some of their fun. They said and Mail Itner Christaan Huygens, not one small unpleasant incident The third group, composed of marred their stay and that they about 1,000 women and children, would have preferred to stay here are scheduled to leave tomorrow instead of going to Australia. on the British passenger liner
KIND TREATMENT
One of the women, holding her.
Det, Sub-Insp. T. Cashman pro- each to the two hospitals on "the dam Lloyd Liner Slamat and the small daughter in hand, said that
Two of the occupants of the sentence. boat, managed to cling to some wreckage and after floating about secuted.
for several days were picked, up by a passing junk and taken
to Macso
on
News of the tragic disaster were revealed for the first time Sunday when these two survivors arrived back in Hongkong.
AT KOWLOON
SNATCHER CONVICTED · Charged with larceny of a wrist
Island,
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"we shall never forget your kind Nederland. Mall liner Johan de
treatment." Bhe stated that her Witt on Saturday and Sunday. At the close of the meeting
The evacuees leaving this morn-departure made her feel very sad, three new trustees were elected Ingwere originally scheduled to as she felt that she was "being to replace: those retiring in rota-leave yesterday, but the ship they completely separated from my hus- tion on the Board of Trustees were leaving on was delayed com- band in Hongkong # for the Assembly Hall.
She feared it would be a long ing in and although they were on fboard last night did not leave for time before the could return to
watch from a woman in Nelson JAPANESE MOVE
Street near
Nathan Road) on
Sunday, Chan Kamp: 19, was sen-
tenced to two months' hard labour RAIL MATERIAL
some reason which could not be her husband. Then she inquired
ascertained. The ma, Indrapoers what was the use of the "terrifie
was expected at noon yesterday, expense and terrific work" entall
MUCH SAME AS
but did not arrive at the break-ed by the evacuation, first to by Mr. E. Himsworth yesterday,
All railway trucks and materials water until 4.30 pm. the docked Manila and now to Australia. WHEN BEGAN Sentence of six weeks' hard
PREFER TO STAY- labour was passed on Luk Ming, on the newly completed line from a few minutes after 6p.m. She
Other women expressed similar Another Japanese mopping up 17, charged with snatching a Tatong in Kwangs!, to Shulting, came from Balikpapan.
HEAVY LUGGAGE". sentiments, "most of them openly operation in North-West Shans purse from a woman in Nathan in Kwangtung, are reported to have has, ended up much the same as Road near Kansu Street. He will They have been sent to Yamchov to Australia, the Indrapoera took country and its people and their been removed by Japanese troops. Preparatory for the long voyage expressing their admiration for the when it began three weeks ago.be, recommended for expulsion.
Split into nine columns, about Lau Ming, 32, charged with lar-where auxillary vessels will ship on last night 100 tons of fuel oli reference to stay here rather supplied by the Asiatic Petroleum than to go farther away to Aus- 20,000 Japanese were engaged in ceny of a copper tank. from the them away. the drive thrusting, southward. Kowloon Docks, was fined $30 or This strange move may mean Company, fresh water and provirali, Many inquired if there Chinese forces, however, succeeded one month. He was stated to be that the enemy has abandoned the fons ship holds were also filled were any indications they could in dislodging the enemy from Ho-former employee who had been construction of a rallway from with heavy Inggage of the eva return soon to their homes in cha Paoteh, Linhalen and, Hsing-| dismissed.........
Yamehow to. Nanning.
cuees as they were allowed to take Hongkong. Their separation from hilen east of the Yellow River. Lee Leung-chol, 34, who climbed About 4,000 alck and wounded with them to their cabins only that husbands and parents in Hongcom made the evacuees long Other Japanese. contingents at into a shop over a wooden door Japanese troops were conveyed by their light baggage,
Wat Kachalen and Kaofeng, west of shutter to take a half catty of lorries from Kwang to Yamchow About 217 evacuees from Bugalo for home and feel defected Hainghsien are being enveloped- peanuts, was bound over on $20 to to be sent home for medical treat arrived by train 480 p.m. yes- leaving a place only two days away.
be of good behaviour:
ment International). (International)
terday and were picked up by from Hongkong by steamer.
STOUT FELLER
"Where are you going with that ‚aze ?·» "I'm going to ? va little deforesta tion, Bertie. There's a tree outside I've taken a dislike to. I shall fell it with one fill swoop.”
*Rather early in the moming for tree felling, in't it? **
"The early, woodcutter guts the first tree, you know. Besides-it's an ugly tree. There is something offensive about that trees Come to think of is, is rather reminds me of ‹. you, Bertie.
Well I must confess I didn't expect to see you chopping trees this morning and smoking" a
Tel. 28151
JESUSZSASZTATÁSRA.
whacking big black cheroot. Not "after last night ........
“I don't like the way you say * nos after last night. I detect a certain any in the tone a certain under- current of bitterness, You ought to be overjoyed to see me absolutely bristling with joi-de-vivre.” "I merely marvel at your powers of recovery."
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"You needn't, Bertia. "It's all due to Rose's Lime Frace, you knowC Prevents mornings after the night before. Just the thing befors your go- to bed," "And hot, Bertie, with your. permission, I'll step out and dea our unnupecting arboreal friend a couple of thread cracks with iny little axe.”
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