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and create a German will to pay
ho seems to have created ́à, will not to pay, instead the reply avers the French determin- ation "not to abandon one centime of reparations, or the pledge she holds, until reparations have been completely paid."- The italics are cura. France"
up. bolds the legality of the Ruhr occupation,"
"which will only "be modified" when passive resis- tsude ceases. We shall leave out the discussion of iator.~Allied debta, on "which an understand-
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THE FELLOW WHO MAKES HIS OWN WAY GENERALLY HAS HIS oWN WAY.-Coleman Cox.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
Sir Jehangir Kothari, O.B.E. left by the Empress of Australia. Mr. Au Sim has been appoint ed Director of the Government Mirl in Canton.
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Kowloon Motor Buses.
SUB-LETTING PROFITS.
Judgment in Rents Case
Re-hearing.
A judgment of more than usual Sir,-After witnessing another interest to landlords, tenants, sube discourteous action on the part of tenants, the Jegal profession and one of the drivers of the Kowloon probably more particularly to.. Motor Bus Co. to-day, may I draw those who make the Colony's laws, attention through the medium of was delivered in the Summary the your correspondence columns to Court by Mr. Justice Gompertz,
general impertinent and this morning." uncouth behaviour of a good many
The case concerned the letting
many, received by us to-day, had witnessed? marke. stamps on it to the valuo of 1,200.
of the employees of this Company, of promises in Peol Street. The as this is by no means the first tenant paid $37 a month rent for An ordinary letter from Ger-instance of such conduct I have a whole floor, while ba charged Ming can more readily be arranged;
the sub-tenant $77% manth for a But when it comes to extraotion
This being a general utility portion. When the caso first-case concern, one would think that the before the Court, His Honour held of payments from a country
management would endeavour to that the law allowed the tenant. while berchief industrial area.is The local Stadium Committee instil in their employees' minds to do this. Application was made nearly non-productive, we fail to forwarding proposed rules in that by being courteous to all for the case to be re heard. His connection with the suggested passengers they attract trade, hut Honour re-heard the case last Asee how French expectations are Stadium and is asking for a site take the case to-day, referred to week and this morning delivered
going to be realised. Worst of to be selected. If a suitable site above."
his decision, for the second time all, in view of the wide differences is secured, the financial side of A lady with a small child wish-holding that the local Ordinance Nof opinion still exhibited, we osn
the question will be taken up. ed to alight from Bus No. 936 (did not probibit the tenant took the number of this particular making this sub-letting profit bot ses how the whole tangle of
Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Messrs. Horley, F.:C, Dewley (bus), near the Bus Co.'s Garage reparations in conjunction with and H. Barnicle are the 1stest or Office, but although the Mr. M. K. Lo put the sub-ton-
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his Hongkong conductor blew whistle ani's case and Mr. M.M. Watson We regret to have to state that tarday by the P. and O. liner dividual took it into his head to
Police Force. They arrived yen-for the driver to stop, this in-appeared for the tenant.
His Honour said:"On the we fear there is little prospect Mantua. All are ex-members of refuse to do so because there was first hearing of this case I gafe- now of further Allied unity.
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the Royal Irish Constabulary. a stopping"post" about fifty yards judgment for the plaintiff. It baa away, although he had previously been pointed out that my decision For being in possession of 920 stopped many times on the is of importance both to tensats percussion caps, # returned journey from the Star Ferry and to landlords, and that it is Chinese from the United States where there were no "posts."
desirable that the point of law Yesterday the S. C. M. Post had was fined $50 by Mr. C. D On principle I fail to see where should be argued by counsel. I few observations regarding roofs. Melbourne at the Magistracy this the contention of such drivers bare, therefore, re-opened the As our contemporary rightly says, morning. The cape were
comes in that they will only case for argument.
The enquiry here must be at the typhoon has revealed that the cealed in three tios of talcumstop where there are "posta." KREMER.On the 23rd.weakness of many Hongkong powder, An order for confises-when they actually stop many what date is the actual rent of August, at the French Consulate, buildings is to be found in the tion was made by the Magistrate times for passengers to alight at this tenement to be taken for the 13 Peak Road to Mr. and Mrs. roofs. There are to-day, especially
places all along the routes where purpose of determining its stand- Paul Kremer, & daughter, Mario, on the Peak, many residences
there are Masters of all vessels are re-
no such things as ard rent. There was an earlier Madeleine, Paule.
wearing a very tattered and torn quested to give a wide berth and poste," and having witnessed letting of the whole floor at $37 appearance by reason of the roof to reduce speed when passing this anomaly on quite a number per month and a later letting. tiles having been partially or North Point cable area, as tho of occasions by drivers of the that is to say in the third moon, wholly stripped off. Luckily, it is telephone across the harbour Kowloon Motor Bus Co. I can of a portion of the floor, the tene that it mustment with which I am now con very rare that we got wind of the from North Point to Hunghom is only conclude velocity of that experienced last being examined and repaired.be because they do not wich cerned, at $77 per month. Saturday. Indeed, the marvel is Craft engaged on this work will to oblige the public
"I have already held that as HONGKONG, 24th August, 1923.
that even mora "damage was not show the usual red flag by day general but individuals only, there is no power of apportion dono. All the same, it bas bien and the red light by night.
Against this the Kai Tak ment under the Hongkong law, ----- | amply proved that tiled roofs do
Motor Bus Co., practically stop the later date, that of the separate not withstand the ravages of galos At the National Rifle Associa- and as they also stop at most of date.
whenever called upon to do so, letting, must be the appropriate too wall in this part of the world. tion meeting at Bisley, on July the stopping places to which the We imagine, therefore, that the 20, the China Challenge Cup, Kowloon Motor Bus Co. Jay English eager,
It is now put to me that the Marchbank V. demand in future will be for flat which is shot by County Territorialaim I do not see how the latter Campbell, 1923, 1 K.B. 245. Just as there are two sides to concrete roofs, upon which the al Texas of 6, was won by the Company can actually every question, there are means wind can get little, if any, bold. County of London with 283 these stopping places as their own 25s; R. v. Marlebone . Court olaim Woodhead v. Putnam, 1923.1 K.B. of each side presenting its parti. Those houses which escaped points. The city of Londo cular point of view in the best serious damage on Saturday wero, acored 272 pointe, West Lanc personal property.
Judge, 1923, 1 K.B. 365, show for the most part, residences with ashire and Kent 271 each, Sussex Company running a service it there
Now that there is an opposition that the crucial test is whether light. Thus we find much in the flat roofs. There is another point 269, Essex 265, East Lancashire, may interest the management of structural alteration. If there has been substantial French reply to the British Note that might be mentioned. At Gloucestershire, Dorsetshire, De this company to know that a has been no such alteration, then that appears favourable to our least one instance has come to vonshire, and Hampshire 262 little courtesy to the general the date is that of the first letting Ally. The whole point of the our notice in which many of the each, Suffolk 256, Surrey 253, and public is necessary and any dis of the whole terement. But none
tiloe were stripped off from quits Glamorganshire 251. contentions put forward by a new roof. Examination showed
{FRANCE REPLIES.
| France is her strict adherence to the terms of the Treaty of Ver sailles, Seemingly she still thinks
that the mortar used for laying" Wo fear there is far too much of the tiles was little other than mud. this kind of thing happening in
it possible, despite modifications local building construction. What
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in
courtesy only reacts in the of these cases, in fact, depart from receipts of the company con- the principle of the reasoning in cerned.
Woodward v. Samuels, 122 T.L.R. It would probably also be to 681. Where you have two. the bonofit of the Kowloon M.B. dates to select from, and the Co. to instruct their drivers in legislature bas provided fot- Bafety first" and the rules of apportionment, it has manifeated
that have been Decessary with is needed is more mortar-testing. There was another quick. mail
A few surprise visits paid to delivery yesterday, due to the the road, as some of them appear its intention that the appropriate other treaties that with Turkey; houses in course of erection might early arrival of the P. & O. 8.8. to have very hazy ideas of those date is that which fixes the for example-that the pact of result in some of these cheating Versaills can be carried out to contractors being brought to book the letter. At the same time she Kowloon Police. appears willing to modify the The Government cannot agree
the Police
Forca in
Yours etc.
ORIENTAL. Kowloon, Aug. 23rd., 1923.
She carried mail principles. despa thed from London on the evening of the 26th July and arrived in Hongkong at 5.30 p.m. Feste day-28 days from London.
TYPHOON VICTIMS.
Memorial Service to be Held.
ANOTHER MURDER.
Coolie Killed With a Hammer.
standard rent of the whole. Then, if there hne been no substantia- structural alteration, apportion. ment comes in to ascertain the rent of the part But actual amount of the reparations that
where there is no provision for claim. The French 'reply, in this Kowloon is altogether inade.
apportionment, there is then only quate,
one date which can be taken-the says Mr. conpection, rightly points out{
Fletcher in replying to the complaints
date that is to say of the separate that concessions to Germany in made by the K.R.A. The point,
letting of the part, the date that the past have merely been follow. it seems to us, is whether it is in-
it becomes a domestic: tenement- otherwise there is no means of ed by further defaults. In con adequate in any respect. We are
officially assured that the Force In connection with the loss of Another murder has come to fixing a standard rent of the part. sidering this aspect of the matter has been recently strengthened life in the recent typhoon, we light in a report received fror: This, as was pointed out by Salter one cannot help feeling that the and that it will be further aug-learn that a memorial service has Stanley this morning, Palice Jin Woodhead v. Putuam, 1923, German people themselves, who mented if necessary. All we can been arranged to take place in officers arrived at a matshed near E. B. at p. 256, can only be done. are the sufferers, have been say is that Kowloon résidents St. John's Cathedral.
the Tytamtuk reservoir last night by apportionment.
"But Mr. Jenkin carries bis noticed tho not shamefully "let down" by their crease-It certainly is not per- Friday, 31st instant, at 5.30 p.m. that the fatal injury resulted from rent of the whole is-say X
The service will be held on to find a man lying dead on A
bedstead. Investigations reveal argument further. If the standard leaders. To a great extent they ceptible, they say.. In any case,
the a blow on the stomach inflicted then
standard their the Government's statement is in
Teat of now reaping what
with an instrument believed to be the part cannot be more than rulers have sown. It is claimed distinct conflict with the exper
iences recently recited by Mr. TYPHOON PICTURES a hammer.
X, and the plaintiff bere by the French Government W. S. Bailey, who is on the spot
The dead man, whose name cannot, at any rate, recover more
than X-that is to say $37, that Germany's capacity and and knows what he is talking Two Pages To-morrow. was. Tang Sang, was one of
a force of two hundred coolies "The Brawer to this is that the resources should be estimated about. In recent years, Kowloon has grown tremendously, and
Those who wish to secure good employed in the construction law has made no such provision. periodically; at the same time there is a distinct feeling in the to send Home to their friends, resez voir. The question of accom- connection in Leung Lin-san Y, pictures of the typhoon damage, of the new catchwater for the As Wood 3. observed in another it is declared that " 'Germany's peninsula that police protection will do well to buy to-morrow's capacity to pay is zero, by wish has not kept pace with the graw Telegraph, which will contain two difficult owing to the havoc P. 55, The Ordinance bas provid madation, which had become Him Sang fat, 16 H.KL.R, at of the German Government." Weing needs of the settlement across pages of excellent illustrations.
the harbour. And we fear that
wrohght by the typhoon on the ed no machinery by which the imagine that the capacity to pay the Government assurances have been published by us before, and the motive for a quarrel which is only of a domestic tenement.
None of these pictures have matshede, is said to have supplied Court can deal with box-ians is likely to remain near zero for not succeeded in removing that they will include one showing the known to have broken out between "In my opinion, therefore, the a long time yet, avon were the impression.
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the deceased and other workman, standard rent of this part in the When the police arrived sub rent at which it "Was first sequent to the report sent in the separately let, that is $17, and murderers bad cleared. The fatal the plaintiff keeps his judgment. assault, it is said, occurred in the Costs on the highest scale.” open. The deceased sought flight and returned to his matshed, wbeze he died two hours aftor- wards.
· CHINA'S PRESIDENT.
NEW D.P.W.
Hon. Mr. T. Hi Creasy Arrives.
authorities to desire otherwise. This point is, according to the French contention, to be left to
EUROPEAN Y.M.C.A. the Reparations Commission, for "a veluation by experts would bei
Government Presents the useless," and "to substitate ex-|
Site.
ports, for the Reparations Com-
Wo learn that the official The Board of Directors of the documents in connection with the mission would be contrary to the Chinese Y.M.C.A. met last oven-Government'e gift of a site for Treaty of Versailles." So there ing and appointed Mr. Taui Mo the European Y.M.O.A. in we are, back at the beginning fat as Acting General Secretary Kowloon have been forwarded to again, and with small prospectį
in the place of the Iste, Mr. Hob the Hon. Mr. H.E. Pollock, K.C., Shiu-lau.
the President of that organisation. Preliminary Election Soon. of Allied unity on one of the
The new Secretary is a grad- There is thus completed a most: main principles of the con-uate of Canton Christian College munificent gift. The area of land. Feking, Aug. 23,--This after-Works (Hon. Mr. T H. Creasy) and has been Educational Direc-is 30,100 square feet and if put up noon's information states that a arrived resterday from Colomba tor of the Hongkong Chinese (for auction it would have an meeting of the two Houses decided by the P. and O. liner Mantua But that is not the only grave Y.M.C.A. for the past six years. upset price of about $230,000, but that the preliminary elcation of a He was met on arrival by feature of the disagreement. De He was also for a year Executive would certainly fetch much more. President be Geld any day before officials.
Secretary of the Senior Division, claring that France did not go to and has therefore had sover of the new Y.M.C.A. building, consult with the Administrative over the duties of his new office Actual work on the foundations September 13. Wu Ching-lion will We learn that Mr. Creasy took the Ruhr to find money for re- years' experience of Y.M.C.Adjoining the Post Office, Kow- Committee of the Senate on the to day. He is staying at Govern- parations but to seize pledges work here..
joon, has now begun.
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ment House for the present,
troversy.
The new Director of Public