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ANDERSEN MEYER & CO LID
The
Hongkong Telegraph
FOUNDED 1881
No 12437
式拜體: 每月八英攤
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1922.
BIG FIRE IN DUDDELL STREET. oh greater.
THE → EGYPT" ENQUIRY.
More Allegations Against Lascars.
(Beularin Seesice.
London, July 31. On the resumption of the Board of Trade enquiry into the loss of ho P. &O, liner Egypt, the headwaiter. Mr. Miles, declared that
he discipline of the Indian crow was not very good."
Replying
a quastion, he admitted there was nothing like order round the Date and nothing like boat-drill was carried out. The whit
ow tried to do their duty.
With regard to the lowering of basts, & stewardess said obe saw batloads of Indians leaving the ship looking scared.
Another stewardess declared that the Indians were panic- ricken and rushed about the decks. She descended a rope into a Jat which was full of men. chiefly Indians. Sbe and a nursing
ter each took an oar. She heard shots.
A quarter-ma-ter gave evidence that his bost drifted from the He and another quartermaster tried to get the boat back;
Ke, But the Indians backed cars.
Another quarter-master said he found his boat full of Langars. He ordered them out, but they seemed paralysed with terror. He gut away in another boat.
to the i tated that **
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TURCO-GREEK DIFFERENCES.
Greece Assures the Allies.
LIQUOR SMUGGLING.
A Fresh American Suggestion.
London, July 31.
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PRINTING WORKS DESTROYED.
HOTEL BADLY DAMAGED.
WORST OUTBREAK FOR MANY YEARSH
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SINGLE COFF: 10 GTE.
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SHANGHAI DOCES
Reduction in Capital. Shanghai, August 1-138
relieved that the damage was not) All this time the ground floor was not touched, but it looked as Carlton Hotel is not closed," though the enormous mass of said Mrs. Cameron: "had this barning material above must happened the other night when crash through in the end. How- there was a high wind, the main ever, the floors held and it was Supreme Court has sanctioned a building would have been con possible for the firemen to enter reduction in the capital of the Shanghai Docks and Ecgineering jsumed too; as it is, I am con- the building.
8000
With the oldest of coping with por smuggling, the T'aited laouflagration spread with terrible traved of sperdent and delight taurine & clens view of the flow, bon us shoufig of all thei
Srates has fortatively szzza ter ko Britain that reciperal arrange rents be enn red into to extend the territorial water's limit to twelve
oles, arronpanied byłą right to search vessels.
Nr. Lloyd George the House of Commons, stated that thercege, twit po«s'e were being fiven attention.
BROADCASTING" IN FRANCE.
Permissive Bill Under Consideration.
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A Shanghai Comment. Shanghai,
general feeling that exclusion Ordinances bavo bad their day, that hostilities cannot be kept up for ever, sud that we may as well cognise this now that the war is over-Reuter
-News in To-day s New Advertisements.
taning business in the main Taking their lives in their Company from Tasis. 5,270,000 {building. Tenty bedrooms are hands, some, of the fire fighter divided into shares of Taals 100 farrilsbla, and though for a day or then went into the rooms, en, the sach, to Taela 4,177,500, divided Įtwo, guests have to dine out, now ground, floor and from this point into shares of Taeis 75 anch.---
cookhonse and
dining-room played jets of water into the Rester. arrangements are already bng burning rooms abort. It was a taken in hand, and meals all ha durea que task and tra* *** * RETUÏLN" ( ) GERMANS. iserved again within a few days” (husa oi'anxious expectation when It may be mentioned that whanis cruah was heard and a mass of Mr. Cameron's predecessor bad burning timber, with sparks flying
August 1-The the Hotel it sonsisted only of one in all directions, fall with a rend- bellding: Mrs: Cameron extended ing ngise into the lower part of th-1 Nurth China Daily News, come. the fact that the it using the original building as building. Had some unfortunate menting on the Annexe (where the fire was). been trapped "All right," sang Hongkong Ex-Enemy Restriction The building on the Queen's Road out a cheery voice, and everyone Ordinance bas now hutomatically expired, says the feeling that it is sido of Ice House Street was then haared a sigh of relief.
The continuous streams of an-English to maintain the feud made the main Hotel, with en-i
water began to take effect. ischecked by an honest difficulty. of trance from No. 20.) Another quarter-master said that when he returned to pick up
Last nigh: Daddell Street, with [opposite (the lower) da
"We shall have a no new
The fira fighters persistent in getting over abborrenes at the survivors ne found a boat läden with Indians whilst the passengers
was the Duddell Street. At first the fire. The Lascars tried to rush the rescue boat, which had the surrounding area
>handicapped dining-room" said Mrs. Cameron; efforts were rewarded in the end. manner in which Germany.con- were wir king.
scene of the largest fire that the fighters keep away, but he finally rescued the ladies.
Colony has witnessed for some through insufficient by saileand no time is being lost in pre-At midnight the walls were still ducted the war. While the news sbis standing and things looked more paper remarks that there is a pös The whiney was adjourned.
years.
The outbreak was first pressure. This being reisdied,paring in- $3 perceived about 9 p... and the party of firemen sent theater-and the new cooking gaatters hopeful. Before one o'clock the ability that this abborrence is laines gathered so speedily that stream across the interning bara been fixed op, which will fames were under control and something webught not to drop too. in a few minutes they were plain-space through the windows of the be very quickly, we shall be part of a seemingly doomed build-easily, it admits that there is a
ing saved. Unfortately, carrying on as usual” ly visible on the Kowloon side, blazing
Fire Officer's Story. Meanwhile Mrs. Cameron is was able! London, July 31,
ane hose notwithstanding :bat the structure only
but this the providing room accommodation. In conversation with Station this side. of £for u ons, at question time. Mr. Lloyd George first affected was a comparatively on
directed tarna family of ten b.isg about to Officer Muss, of the Fire Brigade. Same day the Greek Nate with regard to the low building This was the pre-are-üchters state aple was received. the British represents-misse occupied by Messrs: Kelly into the different rooms and on arrive, besides which the pro-representative of the Telegraph ace with instructions from London warned and Walsh and the Hongkong to the with excellent prietress of the Carlton is exsect was informed that the first call at the Central Gr
of the serious consequences of such a step Electric Co. The lurid effect was judzment and persistence. After sing the customary contingent of was receivers
Station at 9:10pm, and this was Cheers!, Free* Foreign Minister, in reply, gave a positive assur-heightened by the reflection in the while the water flow to that ose guests from the s..." Nanking."
Mrs. Cameron paid a tribute to retransmitted through to the nce that
Within wwwbcause for alarm, and that Greekforess would on sky, which quickly drew spec- came to a stop, giving the Sames
He had fio account enter the neutral zone without Allied consent.
A fresh chance, but scan the the work of the firemen, who, as Wanchai sub-station tators from all quarters.
hose was in action agaie, play-she observed, "did splendid work," two minutes, the three engines
Lammert Bros. are selling ince reathirmed this assurance. The action of the Greek Government,
Terrible Rapidity.
part what carrying out their arduous duties turned out and arrived de theoul yard, etc, at their auction. ing a brave apparently, was due to a desire to expedite a Near East settlement.
Precisely how the fire originated
of extreme scene, but when it was realised looked ati unequalxyggle junder conditions
rooms to-morrow.-Pagod.. is not kcowa at the moment, but it was remarkable bow in diffints, owing to the insccan-that the extent of the conflagration the premises occupied by Messrs. resisted the heat of the digible nature of the ground where would require, the services offall There are three his tactions at the Corset Theatre to-night. Kelly and Walsh and the Electric
available men, the,general sların
-Page 7. Co. contained some highly iz rooms, bor could the store terhe fire started.
-A Top-End View. was also sent over to Howlpon. Dameron the Kowloon flammable "material and the Pressure break them at Tek
some cases the unuses and of Ire Heiss The presare wasmatzcuadoras Colorld certainly rapidity The Fire Brizado was
4 sufficient Login Loaring Road" is eraging in a stondwire called at 9 10 and the first set o!
-- apparatus "was promptly on the competition to oregen
and obstinate glass. The troboom /Albert Road was packed with Log into sit one rincipa@kin; kénight at the Star- dense smoke
Asiaticsmediate both Europeans and
An extraordinary 1835 fumes from the printing works barricades sin esibirais proposing ones the terrible con requirements. It will be a sur
thesolves to swing
Imembers of the Jackey Club is flaccation. The first Density
Many viewed the rise to the public to be informed
that no le than 6,000 feet of called for August 15-Page 4. hindered operations.
round to abstractive an„les.
from Ise House mac through
hose Was approach I
used in last night's Meanwhile a hose wat also proceedings
Officers and men of the Mercan Mesars W. G. Humphreys
operations and even ther the blaze
tile Marine who applied at the viowa, which happily, was operating upon the freat of the Street and hundreds were dotted
hotel, at first with indiferent all over the hillside Paris, July 31. recently rebuilt as a fireprost
results, but with increased effect these two streets. Some even had got such a hold on the in Harbour Office for war medalt
flammable material with which the
should now see the Harboo The printing office i
lower building was stocked, that
Master.-Page 4. The Pat Puristen sngs that the Wireless Committee has drafted structure.
bar Masonic as timi-went on. At the back of climbed trees in the vicinity to
The Diocesan Girls' School, Bill which will operat soon permitting the erection of private or was, between
From this vintage point it was Mr. Moss acknowledged it to be fighters had been wazing a celing-sets subject merely to a declaration by the owner, but the Lodge and the section of the the hotel the fire and the firs- set a better view.
servant possible to look right into the one of the hardest tasks that had Kowloon, re-open on Tuesday, the
within his experience. September 12th-Page 4. require the Carlton Hotel located in
contest over stablishment of private transmitting-stations
Hotel come Huase Street on the upper
the rooms of the Carlton
There wa & Darrow passage. The Pacific Steamship Com- quarters, connecter with authority of the Under Secretary of State.
side of Duddel! Street. (thin building of britzea. Risk anexe. The top store from between the lower building and
the Carlton Hotel Anude)
of an extension of the fire in shortly after ten o'clock was the hotel snoere, and Grenien pany has removed its offices to the new Hongkong and Shanghai attempt
that direction, which might simply & blazing inferno.
Bank Building. imrade to bring the hose to beat have involved the Masonic Hall were played from the balcony of/#bo ventured into this to get al
upon the flames from the bale by Moscow. July 31.
of the Masonic building. But it was increased by the woodwork the Masonic Hall, from Ice flouse good bead for their hoses on to smoke and fumes from the tar- The University for Eastern workers in the Communist ragse is,
soon became only too clear that covering to the bridges. It was Street and from the Carlton the fire were driven out by the covered wires and cables stored Water was pursed by in issuing a curcular inviting students from all Asia for gratuitous teachen became only tools and touch and yo. but eventually the Hotel proper. ing and hoarding. It has promised that the principal subjects shall be the Electric Co's premises, at any re was stopped in that quarter.
enzine stationed just outside the in the portion occupied by the instruction in languages and political science on Communistic lines.
rate, were doomed. The building The Ground Floor Saved.
Dairy Farm. The jets came out testing department of the Hong-
Favourite Dance records are was, in fact, consumed with
Mr. Moss said that the fire Unfortunately, the efforts of of the hoses at high pressure, but kong Electric Company. CITY EQUITABLE CO. DIRECTOR:
almost incredible rapidity, and
the Fire Brigade to restrict the the windows acted as a barrier
"Sir-Shooter Andy" is a thrill- before long looking down upon fire in the Hotel annexe did not to the water getting inside the is supposed to have originated advertised by Anderson'. Sentenced by Vienna Court
it spread towards the hotel anWorld Theatre.-Paze 12. the terribly impressive spectacle
prevent it from spreading down-blazing building. Willing helpers in the electric store, whence ing picture now showing at the
this difficulty from the verandah of the main
The Tabaqueria Filipina is hold- The Court of Appeal has reversed the decision of the Lower Carlton Hotel building, practical structed over thirty years ago, with a few well directed missiles, exe, the first and second floors
fing a sale.-Page 4.., That the ground floor
Mesara Kelly and Walsh Court aquitting Mr. G. L. Bevan, of the City Equitable Co, for viol-ly nothing remained to be seen
in a measure immune from floor beneath was also doomad.stant streams of water soon began eally resisting arrest and has sentenced him to two months hard but a glowing mass in the vaul; and it became apparent that she and, the glass broken, the con-of which were soon lavolved.
Mr. Moss anounce that owing-to-last the conflagration labour fron. the date of his arrest on June 13th.
of the premises fast mentioned. The question than was whether to pour into the burning rooms. To falling a portion of the the fire would reach the ground The conflagration, however, had
attributed to the protection night's fire their printing basi- Bevan's extradition has been granted.
ness is temporarily suspended.-- flour. This calamity was averted, secured a firm hold. All the top
Paze 4 portion of the walls of the verants or the Duddell Stree: Bs about midnight the manful storey and in the centre of the afforded by the lower stone
The Carlton Hotel is being side of the Carlton Hotel main forts of the Fire Brigade had building the
carried on-as-usual.-Page 4. flame. For Duddell Street building. of hailding.
The N.Y.Kadvise consignees Extension to Carlton Hotel. resulted in the flames being one Riza, July 31.
A problem that confronted the that the Atsata Maro has arrived brought wodet something fika the first hour or so the hosen But this was not all. Messrs. control, though it is to be feared seemed to have little effect, bur M. Joffe, former Soviet envoy to Berlin. who was recently
godown
that much damage was done by the fire-fighters, nothing daunted, firemen when it was seen fist the from Europe.-Page 4. appointed plenipotentiary envoy to China, left Moscow for Peking Humphrey's fireproof On July 27th, The Soviet Government announces officially that he is acted as a barrier on one side. the delage from the hoses. By persevered and, although the buildings involved were gone be- is no telling bow o'clock this morning the fixmes blaze was making strong headway, yond hope of saving, was that
was on through the printing gear, including hig Street
The roof soon went, the timbers bose spread along Duddell
sbould be understood that it was towards Queen's Road. Not so the interior of the Hotel rooms crashing into the top bed-rooms, Masonic building and on to the stock of type, are reported by the on the other side. Sparks from that was destroyed: the outer threatening to break through the roof, and from this vantage proprietor of the Local Printing floors into the rooms below. For point the hoses were played on the Press to have been absolutely the original fire, dying upward, walls are still standing. London, Joly 31.
caught the top rear verandab of A European lady guest managan boar it was "s terrible con- burning mass below. It was a ruined, who places the damage on The demoralisation of the mark has caused general unsettle the Carlton Hotel Acere. ad to get two boxes out, but a flagration, and it seemed as if matter of congratulation for those conservative estimate at $20.000.
that this building. This was covered by insurance.
The stocks of Messrs. Kolly and ment in the London and foreign exchange markets, Marks sold down Presumably it was the timber Chinese lady was less fortunate, every minute the floors of the concerned to 3,049, after wide fluctuations, and closed at 2,940.
work of the verandah that fed nothing beyond the night attire upper storey must give way and except for sundry panes of glass the flames, which in a very short which she wore, and a Chinesa the flames spread to the lower which cracked under the great Walsh's printing establishment scorching of are covered by insurance, it was while made their way into the
loft practically ascertained this morning. the cellings of the first floor held. wall, was rooms from back to front.. Boon gentleman who had just arrived rooms. But, except for the centre, heat, and
lost everything
The fire gave Mr. G. Saunders, the fire was darting through" the A venerable. lady, admirably Even the curtains on the centraljundamaged. But of the annexe 700f and the front windows,
different tale to tell. The his first time experience of Igoal be seen in Ice House Street when some time.
The terrific heat and the weight former, bought by Mr. H.M. H. conditions in fire-fighting. Mr. threatening the balcony in Ice calm in the circumstances, was to floor remained untouched for and the lower building there is a new officer arrived from Home House Street and singeing the the fire broke out. It was Mrs. overbanging trees. The Dantesque Cameron, proprietress of the began to tell towards the end, Neszes from Sir Paul Chater for Saunders, we learn, Was for eleven illumination revealed crowds of Carlton Hotel, who effected the bowever, and soon after eleven sum believed to be in the neigh-years in the Metropolitan Fire spectatora in occupation of every rescue of her favourite dogs and o'clock the sparks could be seen bourhood of $60,000, is stated in the Brigade, and arrived from Home coign of antage, a multitude of birds, despite the peril from falling dropping into the lower rooms, official report to be not insured about a week ago to take charge Chinese boys naturally assembl-
scorching debris, Mr. The flooring betime weaker and The hotel furniture contained of the Kowloon Station ing along Lower Albert Road Cameron is a sufferer to the weaker and the falling burning therein was likewise not covered, In the astrow conines within and the overlooking slope. It was extent of some $10,000 in respect maesen larger and larger. The and the loss resulting to Mrs which the firemen mored last.. curious to see the upper storey of furniture, degotiations for the curtains went up in sheet of Cameron, the proprietress of the sight, a turntable ladder, such of the Carlton Hotel Annexa
Home, would hate proved, ex- blazing while the floor badeath insurance of which had not been flame, then the msttrends caught Carlton Hotel, is assessed at as the one already ordered from
and in a short time the rooms $10,000, Z completed:
fare well alight."
The basement of the annexe, tremely / vainablő, * With the loearer to the burning printing-
Water was pinyed on the Bames occupied by the Local Printing height of such a ladder -some almost Interview with Mrs. Cameron, works, was first
Been this morning, by from all angis, but so fierce was Press and the Indo China Trading ninety-five feet-it would The Fire Fighters
Telegraph representative, Mrs. the conflagration that there wase Company, which was left un bean possible,, Mr. Mose sald, to Another hose, was brought into Cameron was beating up wonder may among the huge crowd touched by the damer, was got wikim any distance of the
whơ - thought the building was under negara Inches of water part of the outbreak And operation from an upper room of fully under her ordeni, Indiae
when inspected, this warning, checkift. doomed the Carlton Hotel building on the the Carlton proprietress spp
COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA.
Free Teaching and Board.
Vienna, July 31.
SOVIET ENVOY TO CHINA.
To Negotinte With Japan.
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wari. The buildings were 3000 overcame
8901
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first floor=W25
The Damage.
STRA
LISTEN! When you advertise you are
Friend Public.
putting through a de" with
invested with extraordinary powers in order to negotiate with Japanels the fire might not have had definitely been subdued. It over gase up hope the ti of saving the Masonic Hall & All the stores of paper and
THE FALLING MARK.
Over 3,000 to the £.
BRITISH COAL FOR THE US. Shipping Board Vessels Put On.
Washington, July 31. The Shipping Board has ordered thirty-five of its vessels tied up off New York to be put on the coal-carrying trade between the United States sad Britain.
TROOP MOVEMENTS.
London, July 31. ./The 2nd. Dorsets and the 1st. North Staffords are shortly pro- ceeding to Constantinople, whore, with the 2nd. Royal Sussex from Malta they will replace the 2nd. Essex and 2nd. Sherwood Foresters, who are going to India. The 1st Loyals are going to North China M. POINCARE'S LONDON VISIT.
London, July 31.
It is understood that M. Poincare has been invited to come to untouched London on August 7th. Mr. Lloyd George suggests that the dis-{-} cussions at the meating be confined to reparations. Italy and Belgium ive been invited to send representatives."
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