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The
Hongkong Telegraph
[FOUNDED 1981
No. 21.06
一拜禮
號四月一英港香
WHITE GLOVES.
MONDAY,
JANUARY
1926. 4.
HONGKONG HOTEL FIRE.
THE LOW WATER PRESSURE
**
EXPLAINED.
BUSINESS AS USUAL.”
Your Day the Hongkong Hotel is observing Business as usual"
Despite the handicap caused by the disastrous fire of New
as its alogan,
It is now clear that by the time the Fire Brigade was sun- moned the outbreak had agguuled serious dimensions on the top floor. With regard to the low water pressure, the need for special pump equipment in high buildings is stressed, reliance on street: mains boing unwise.
of the affair.
ing acids or alkalaids, is spilled annually out of trucks and bags
PRESENTATION AT POLICE
COURT.
On Wednesday last, there were no new cases down" for hearing
CANTON ARMY.
BIG NEW YEAR'S DAY REVIEW.
日十二月一十
SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.
BRITISHER SHOOTS HIMSELF.
"Oh! I'm fed up!"
These are the last words attri- buted to Wallace Powell, a British
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13 WOND NA CHUNG RE, HAPPY VALLEY
THE ATHERLEY TRIAL.
PRISONER'S TRANSACTIONS · WITH
SHARE
BOTTOMLEY
BROKERS.
CASE QUOTED.
employee of S. J. David and Co Ltd., who rose from his dinner table on Christmas Eve, walked across to a cabinet, and shot him- self, dying on Christmas Day in the Shanghai General Hosptal
The trial of Mr. J. E. Atherley, ex-manager of Mossra. Gota
Burlington Hotel, Bubbling "Well says the Shanghai Times.
Brothers and Co. (of the Orient) Ltd., commenced at the Criminal The tragedy occurred at the Sessions before Sir Henry Gollan this morning.
Mr. F. C. Jonkin who is conducting the case for the pro- Road, and Mr. and Mrs. Powell secution, made a lengthy opening detailing Atherley's transactions were dining together. in their with sharebrokers in 1934, and pointing out the coincidences of pay- ment into his own account of sums exactly similar to those he re- room.
ceived from his compradore on behalf of his firm.
he did.
on one side of the head, the shot
He had to
acid or alkaloid attacks the hose In replying Mr. Lindsell said: well established on the top floor- and rots it. "There have been sev- "I thank you for this interesting /cers included Generais Chang Kai to the General Hospital, and at 1924, a sum of $79.50; and (4) on in California.
before Mr. R. B. Lindsell, at the GEN.CHANGPRESENT Central Magistracy, and aa this constituted à uniqué, event in the General Chang Kai-shek arrived history of the Colony. It was de- cided to present Mr. Lindsell with at Whampoa on the last day for a pair of white gloves.
the year, and paid a short visit to the Captain Superintendent of the day he went up to Canto
The presentation was made by the Milltary Academy. Later in
Police. Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, CIF, this morning. He said: making his landing privately. Con
If I may be allowed to interrupt.sequently no demonstration of any
wish to econgratulate you. 1 think last Wednesday there was kind took place. On the following
During the course of the meal, not a single ense in this Court morning, at an early hour he pro
it appears, deceased had some The case in which James Edward Company here. The great fire at the Hongkong There has been much comment not even a hawkers I think this coeded to Government Hoge difficulty with the servants, but Atherley, former manager in Hong- One of the prime duties of the Hotel still remains, and will re- on the fact that leaky hose pipes event is probably absolutely unique present his New Year greetings there was no indication that he kung of Messrs. Getz Brothers of compradore, under his agreement. main for some days to come, the caused much loss of water and in the annals of the Colony, main topic of local interesi. Now lack of pressure at the nozzles, but all hope, for the good of the and rospects to the Committee of was about to take the grave step the Orient, is charged with mis-was to collect from various debtors main topexetentent of the actual we are in a position to state that Colony and the neighbouring pro-political Affairs, and after The Bubbling Well poilce station to the firm, opened before the in respect of gouda ordered. Is an Appropriation of monies belonging gums which were due to Getz Bros. happening has passed off, it is pos- the Fire Brigade hore is all prac- vinces, that the present state of he took part in the grand review was immediately Informed of the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) dition to that the comprador had sible to collect the authentic facts tically, new and of the best pose affairs may soon come to an end of the troops on the East Parade afar, and Insp. Foley, Det. Sub- at the Criminal Sessions this morn-another obligation: It was part
sible quality. Much of the leuky and normal communication be re-
Insp. W. J. McDermott and othering. Accused is indicted on four of his duty to pay over all such It must largely remain a matter hose was that belonging to others stored. Yet, from the purely Ground.
officers went to investigate, arriv-counts of fraudulently converting monies receiveiras and whenever of conjecture as regards the origin and used mainly by appliances police point of view, we should
This review of troops was the ing "at the Hotel at about 9 am to his own four sums amounting received, and was part of his of fire, although it is clearly es pumping water from the Praya, Alike the present conditions to re- tablished that it started in the lift curious fact in connection with main as they are. I have now biggest ever seen in Canton. Over They found Powell lying uncense to $3,276, these counts being: duty also to keep full accounts of
There was a bullet wound shaft. I was some little time hose in Hongkong is the rapidity much pleasure in handling to you two hundred civil and military off us.
(1) That on the 24th March, monies received both In Chinese after eight o'clock that the first with, which it rots and perishes this pair of white gloves to markcers and more than 20,000 troops going right through and passing 1924, he did fraudently convert to and English, books, signs of fire were noticed on the after having been used in the West the occasion:" ground floor level, and the out- Point district. The theory is that Mr. Leo Almada auid, as the took part. Among the civil officials out at the other side. The bullet his own use and benefit the sum produce these books for the inspec
account on
of Messrs. Get Intter was the sole representative break was subdued, in the opinion mush native merchandise, contain only solicitor in Court he wished present the most prominent were was found embedded in a wall. By of $1,641 received by him for and tion of Merley, because the of the employees who attacked it.
to associate himself with Mr. Messrs. Wang Ching-wat, Chan loaded revolver but for the shot Brothers of the Orient; (2) on the of Getz, Bros, and his vote all the side of the man was a fully But, meanwhile it had ascended
Wodehouse's remarks. He con-
25th March, 1924, a Bum of matters was the voice of the Com the shaft and had started a serious by carrying coolles and that when gratulated Mr. Lindsell on behalf Kang-pok. Kum Kal-kwong, and which ended his life; fire on the top floor. It was not a hose is laid on a wet road this of the profession.
G. C. Wa, whilst the military off-
$1,102.82; (3) on the 26th March, pany, the head office of which was Counsel next dealt with the rou- until 9.08 a.m.-after the fire was
the 28th March a sum of $447.68.
tine as carried on while the The accused returned a plea of accused was in control of the that the Fire Brigade, was called,
not guilty to all counts. two calls being received simul
Hongkong branch. He detalled taneously, one by street alarm and
Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by the process, which, in brief, con- one by telephone. No. 6 fire ap- pliance was sent, followed by No. There has, up to the present,
Kiz attended the hospital mor- Mr. Pryor, of Messrs. Wilkinson alsted of a system of promissory tu and opened an inquest on and Grist) appeared for the pro- notes required from all the Chinese 11, and a district call brought in been no official report of the fire
tody. Only evidence of iden-section, and Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn the appliances from Wanchai and prepayed either by the Police or
After the inspection Mr. Wang taon was taken... (Instructed by Mesers. Hall and Kennedy Town and the fre floats. the Fire Brigade, these being in
hing-wei and 3 Borodin address. R. W. MacCabe, manager Hind) defended the accused. There can be no possible fault hand at the present time.
ed the rank and file and compl- the Burlington Hotal. recognized that of Wallace found with the work of the
mented the troops, on their smart the body as Brigade, because there was a seri-
appearance, They also thanked, Powell, who had been living at ous fire on top floor of the hotel
on behalf of the Government, both the Hotel since March 1st.
The inquest proper will be held by the time it was called to the
officers and men for the many A fatal accident hefell a Chinese, deeds of valour performed during upon the completion of medical member of the Hongkong
the recent operations in the jeast, and police investigations, Brigade at Wanchai. It appears west, and south, and south sectors. Mr. Powell, it is understood, that the man, whose name is Wong Mr. Wang urged the troops to fur-served during the war in Meso- San, living at 4 Irving Street, and who only recently joined the brither efforts in the cause of the potamala, where he suffered a seri-
revolution, which he said, lay near-ous attack of sunstroke. gade; was on a hook ladder on a structure for drying hose at the ext to the heart of their late chef. Wanchai Fire Brigade station, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who, in his wi when the ladder swayed, and the enjoined them to carry out
Three People's Doctrine. both in man fell to the ground, a distance of forty feet. He was taken to spirit and in letter and with unre times, have been but small pres- | So far as the Hotel itself is con- the Government, Civil Hospital, mitting effort to prosecute the re- volutionary movement to its final sure on the fifth floor of the hotel eerned, business as usual is being where he later succumbed.
accomplishment: where the water was most neet-1 carried on in the undamaged new
After the review, a portion of ed. Assuming that the height portion. The Cafeteria, Bessie's
cession organized by the member of the Kuomintang and of the Kwangtung Unification Assocition.
scene.
orál cases where brand new hose, used by the Kennedy Tow station has perished after only one use.
There was only one fatality.the unfortunate death of A. B. Batche- lor-and no serious casunity. Mr. Mandelli, of the Hotel staff, only remained in the G. C. H. for # short while, others who received THE WATER PRESSURE. " Regarding the absence of water minor hurts being attended to on pressure in the Hotel's fire hyd- the spot by ambulance men and rants, a Telegraph representative doctora.. has been making enquiries, and
The Fire Brigade remained on learns that the mains in Pedder duty until tifin time yesterday and Street, by which the fire hydrants have been at work in the smoulder are fed, are usually kept at about ing ruins severals times since. 65 s. to 70 lbs, pressure, sa.that Small outbreaks will possibly even if the pressure had been at reeur. its height there would, at all
of the top floor is about 100 feet, there is a drop of 50 lbs. pressure by the time the water reaches that height, because there is a drop of
THE HOTEL SERVICES.
token of recognition for an event, shek. Tan Yen-kai, Che Pui-tel. which, I agree with you, is, so far Chan Ming-she, Wong Kong-now, as 1 know, quite unique. At the 1 Fook-lum and othegenerai. same time, 1 think it is rather you and your force
that should by Chu Pui-ten was the Gekrul On hunked. 1 thank you."
FIREMAN'S DEATH.
FATAL FALL AT WANCHAI.
Fire
een Commanding
thel
Bar, Dining Room, Roof Garden BULGARIAN CABINET. the troops took part in a big pro- Tea Dances and Garage Service are
all functioning as before, whilst meals a la carte (Grill Room style)
1 lb. pressure for every two feet can be ordered in the Dining!
The hotel's temporary
RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED.
!
Mr. Powell was removed at once Arst it was thought he would re cover. He died, however, on Christmas morning.
Q December 26th, Mr. G. W.
MARRIED AT SEA.
SHANGHAI MAN'S XMAS
dealers, for their respective shares in a consignment of goods Import- ed on their orders from the Head Office of Gotz Brothers in Call- A JUROR'S NAME.
fornia. By this means, a
com- The jury having been called, plete check could be made of all counsel for the defence raised the the goods ordered, so that when point that the name of one of the the Head Office drew upon its jurymen (Mr. A. A. da Roza) was branch for the amount of each con- reminiscent of one of the witnesses signment, the names, as well as the to be called for the prosecution. amounts which collectively made Mr. Zeitlyn asked if Mr. da Roza up the consignment could be in- of the jury was indentical with Mr. stantly, traced by this universal
da Roza for the prosecution.
Sofia, Jan, 3.. The procession was a monstrou.:/on December 26th by means of a tion that Mr. Atherley be permit both gold and Mexican currency,
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The Chief Justice acquiesced.
PROSECUTION OPENS.
system of promissory notes. The It was explained to the satisfac obligation fell upon the compra- tion of counsel that Mr. F. X. da dore and his department of collect- Roza, employed by Messrs. Getzing on these promissory notes and Brothers, the witness referred to, entering them in his books when was a different person from Mr. he received the amounts and of A. A. da Roza of the jury.
reporting such amounts to the Manager by filling a document Piror to the opening of the case, which would be referred to con- DAY WEDDING.
Mr. Zeitlyn sald that owing to the stantly in the case, and would bo fact that accused, was not released known 08 the "deposits slip." News of the marriage of Mr. on bail, his preparation of the This deposit slip would contain Maurice Benjamin to Mrs. Rose defence had been considerably the numes of the dealers and the Chase was received in Shanghai hampered, and he made an applica-mounts received from them, in
radio message to a friend. ted to be seated next to counsel at according to the nature of the up. Taking off a further 10 158. Room,
The Zankoff Cabinet, which has one. There were over 160 Unions:
The ceremony took place on the table, so as to be conveniently amounts. They could trace by pressure for pipe friction, etc., main office is at the entrance to long been in a precarious position, and sociaties represented, whilst Christmas Day aboard the s.8. at hand.
this slip, also, both receipts and there would only be a pressure of Mac's Cafeteria, which now becomes resigned to-day-Reuter.
students of forty schools took part President. Jefferson, when the
payments into the Bank, in the demonstration. The whole vessel was one day's journey about 15 lbs. on the fifth floor the main entrance of the hotel. All
These same particulars also even though the pressure in the the undamaged bedrooms near to
city was in gala attire and the from Shanghai, on her way to
Agured in the paying-in book when.
the made into street mains was
Mr. Jenkin, in opening the case deposits were at the full the Queen's Road end of the build-pictures appearing elsewhere in Nationalist flag could be seen fly-Hongkong. The master of the When people on the second, third, ing are either in occupation or this issue to-day, the two bottoming from every house. Many by-Jefferson, Capt Nichols, united and fourth floors were tapping,
pictures on the page are by Ming standers carried miniature Na-the couple, who will spend their for the prosecution, said that this Chartered Bank, who were the They would open for engagement.
indictment was in respect of four Company's bankers. A the supply at the same time, it
Mesar's. Thos Cook and Son were Yuen, and the remainder by Mee tionalist flags.. It is said that honeymoon, extending over
suis totalling $8,275, belonging to thus ahow, the sums received by was inevitable that at the fifth this morning carrying on in their Cheung.
took nearly two hours for the pro- fortnight, in Hongkong. floor, there would be no water.
Mr. Maurice Benjamin is a the accused's employers, Messrs. the Company in the course of the COMPANY'S TRIBUTE.
cession to pass a given point.
In the ordinary well known Shanghai resident Getz Brothers of the Orient. Mr. day's business. It has been technically explain- old premises, but new offices are,
we, understand, being arranged for, Mr. W. J. Hawker, Manager of
and was at one time a member of Atherley was manager in Hong- course, the monies received would ed to us that it is no use putting The men's department of Messrs. the Hongkong and Shanghai
the Municipal Council." He is a kong of that, Company and was be paid into the Bank by the com- fire fighting equipment in a build- wm. Powell Ltd., has been trans- Hotels, Ltd., writes us, ander to-
director of the Shanghai Land appointed to that post in or about pradore's staff and would corres- Ing and relying on street malas ferred to the main store in Des day's date as follows: "I beg
Investmont Co., Ltd, and has the month of August, 1922. pond to the total sums received": pressure unless the known pres Voeux Road, whilst the ladies' de- you to be so kind as to permit me
other business in-Messrs. Getz Bros. were well-known from dealers in the course of each sure in the particular street is
to them as a Californian Company day. sufficient to. give 60s, at the top, partment of Messrs Lane Craw-on behalf of The Hongkong and FIVE RETURN TO HONGKONG. | tèrests in Shanghai.
and beat-known to the public for! of the building, after allowing for ford, Ltd., has been transferred to Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., to give ex-
the jewellery department.
the importation into the Colony of
The second point dealt with by various well-known branda of pavement in Messrs.
tinned provisions and foods. They counsel, after the matter of office did a considerable business with routine, was that of dates which Chineso dealers. The office counsel commented
friction.
Each
and the trams are
Architects and usual, have been surveying the
STRIKE DELEGATES.
+
in the Hong on Saturday by the s.8. Lung Shan.
Des kong Hotel on the 1st instant.
nurkarous
AMATEUR RADIO.
UP FROM HOME.
".
AN IMPORTANT DATE
on
18 оде
pression in your columns to the
Five out of the six representa- the decrease which comes because Pedder Street, excepting the thanks of this Company for the tives of the Hongkong merchants | of height and
Jardine, splendid services rendered by so who went up to Canton on Thurs high building ought to have as- sociated with its fire pipes and Matheson'a side, remains closed, many willing helpers during the day last, returned to Hongkong hose, a special-pump which will bamboo railings guarded by police fire that occurred
officers having been erected,
On the same day, at 8 o'clock In' ensure 60 lbs. pressure on the top Vaux Road has been re-opened, The Fire Brigade, the Police, the the evening, the 58 Paul Bean HONGKONG NEWS PICKED staff, over which Mr. Atherley possessing great significance:
running as Navy, the Army, Government, Lrought back 190 of the Fraternity experts officials, Hospital and Ambulance Party. The remainder havo obtail- ruins services, Boy Scouts-all were red special permission from the taken to prevent falls of charred strenuously at the task of over and they will return later on. to work that a fire at the top of a and cracked masonry. Big "Dan- coming the fire. Had such assis- building can be effectively.com-ger" notices have been posted tance not been readily forthcom- In the case of the Hotel, there everywhere leading to dangerous ing, there is no doubt but that the
points.
results of the outbreak, serious as Curious freakish inciderite have they are, would have been tor- It is with
floor, because the pressure in street mains generally is not sum- cient to give It. Otherwise it is only when a fire engine arrives
and runa out its hose and gets and precautions will have to be presented, and everybody worked strike Unlon to remain in Canton working on his solf-made set, on Messra, Gotz Brothers was engaged Atherley opened a private account
batted.
was reliance on mains pressure
and that pressure was insufficient. With so high a building, fire in the roof-always
狙
the
come to light now that an explora-rible in the extreme,
SYRIAN PEACE.
FRENCH COMMISSIONER'S
· ADVICE.
Paris, Jan. 2.
presided as Manager, of necessity March 24th, 1924, counsel said, included a compradoro's depart was one of great significance in ment. This was not unusual the case,
On March 24th, 1924, Mr. A local wireless enthusiast, In foreign firms, and in the case of Jaunary 2nd picked up the news mainly for the purpose of collect in his own name and in another of the Hongkong Hotel fire as ing from Chinese debtors of the bank, the International Bank. broadcasted from the new station frm amounts which were due to March 24th, 1924, was also the at Rugby, England. The Home Getz Brothers in respect of goods eve of the March Settlement Day publia were given full details of
the fire and informed that H.R.H. Imported on the orders of these of the Local Share Exchange.
The office staff On March 24th, 1924, the office". Chinese dealers. Prince George took some part in tion of the ruins is more or less the deepest sympathy that the
the organisation of the naval proper would, of course, be dla routine of the local branch of Gets tinguished from the compradore's Bros. was changed in a "very possible. Quite a number of death of one herole helper has to
branchof the fire-fighting services. staff, in that the compradore's radical manner under the Instruc hardest to fight in any building those whose rooms were in the be recorded, and no words can
On the previous day the same Aeroplanes yesterday droppad a was extremely difficult to get at actual fire area have found that express our heartfelt regret. för
On March 24th, 1924, for quickly on the part of the Fire their rooms have escaped being the loss of the gallant seaman. proclamation from M. de Jovenel person listening in picked the staff came directly under the com- tions of Mr. Atherley.
time, the monies Brigader but when the hoses were gutted and much personal pro- To all who so generously assisted to the Drusos, advising peace Rugby broadcast of the New pradors's supervision, although, in run and a position, the appliances
the knighthoods conferred on His tain of the compradore's staff in the Company, instead of provod efficient to pump a good porty, previously thought destroy in the time of trouble, the Com-Tho proclamation stated: The Year Honoure giving the nowe of this case, as in many other, cer- the frat
ed,, left almost intact
pany is deeply indebted and sin- only way for you to win is to lay celleney The Governor and on wore, under the compradore's going into the Chartered Bank to
down her arms -Indopacifs B1 Ongy. About son
agreement, made employnes. ULOKSININ REOROgarding the page of excellent cerely grateful"