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No 41.9
二拜禮 九月三英港香
TUESDAY, MARCH 9.
1926. 日五十二月一
DANGERO
PLANS. EUROPEANS INJURED IN L33 CRIPPLED.
THE PROPOSED NORTHERN EXPEDITION.
TWO OBJECTIVES. Reports are to hand from 'Can- ton in regard to the suggested mill-
AUCIDENTS.
LADY THROWN OUT OF RICKSHA.
POLICE SERGEANT HURT. Mrs. Staple, the wife of Mr.
SUBMARINE STRUCK BY
TAI O FERRY.
STERN DAMAGED. The British submarinė "L 33," floating serenoly on the top of the
KOWLOON
CORNER
STRONG PLEA FOR URGENT. ACTION.
UNOFFICIAL IGNORANCE.
There have been several occa-
HOUSING NEEDS.
PROBLEM FOR MALAYA EUROPEANS
CHIEF FACTORS.
In nearly every town in Malaya
SINGLE: COPY 10 DENTO
38 PER ANNUM
THE DRABUN MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
13 WINO'RDI CHUNARE, HAPPY VALLEY
SERIOUS TROUBLES IN RUBBER ISSUES..
SHEKKI.
REFUGEES FLOCKING INTO HONGKONG.
BIG STRIKE REPORTED.
NEW PROVIDENT FUND SCHEME.
LABOUR PROBLEM.
Considering that hitherto it has. Some thousands of refugees been one of the most precarious
slons in the past when the Unof. (says the Telegraph 3ngapore from Shekki have arrived in Hons professions in the world (says " tary expedition against the North. K. K. Staple, an overseer of tho water just off Green Island short-cial Members of the Legislative correspondent) an acute housing, It being stated that the plans are/Public Works Department, waay, after ten o'clock this morning, council have displayed a most}
rapidly neuring completion.
injured yesterday by being thrown was considerably damaged in col-
and struck her, it is said, bow on.
regrettable. ignorance regarding
shortage.is being felt by the Eur
pean community, and very little is
consequence of troubles in that district. Most of them have reach-
kong during the past day or two in the Telegraph Singapore corres- Fondent) the planting industry has been fortunate in the type of
it has obtained. The majority of planters are public- schoolmen, and it may be doubted whether any other type
have presented a pitiable plight on arrival here.
The trouble, frat started in
In this connection, it la stated out of a ricksha in Queen's Road lision with a fairly large ferry the subject matter, under discus. being done at present to meet the led the Colony via Macao, and they that orders have been given to the East when the vehicle came into Boat which came up from the rear glon, but we have known of no re- 20th Super-Disciplined Division, collision with a motor car.
The chauffeur has since made u The ferry; the Yew Sing, was under 'Wong Pak-ling, to be in
report to the police that the ac-bound for Tai O, Lantau Island, readiness for inspection at a mo ment's notice by General Changcident ocurred when he swerved her normal trip, having left her to one side of the road to avert wharf, near Jardine's wharf at Ki-shek. Since the troops of that Division are stationed at dica collision with another car which West Point, at approxmately ten ferent points, the 2nd Regiment had overtaken and passed ahead o'clock. which is at present quartered of him. The second car did not Nam Tong, on the outskirts of stop after the accident,
Mrs, Staple was not seriously Canton, will be inspected Arst, the other two regiments to be inspected injured, though the force of the impact could be judged by the fact Regi- by rotation, the 2nd ment then being sent out to tem-that one of the wheels of the re-
porarily relieve the regiments sta- tioned outside.
It is further reported that since the return of the representative of
Fong Poon-yan, Tupan of Kiangai,
sha was smashed. Mrs. Staple was taken in the car to the Naval
Hospital," where her injurica "were attended to.
NERGEANT INJURED.
Sergeant Simpson, the Police
A telegram has been received from footballer, was injured in an ac- Nanchang stating that the Kiangsijcident brought about in a curious army against Wu Pel-fu is now way, in the New Territories yes. terday. It appears that while the Hupeh on being mobilized
driving his motor cycle and side- car on the road between Sheung- frontier under the chief command of General Chang Chok-pun. The shui and Lokmachau, he overtook strength of this army is said to be a bus, from which a bamboo pole protruded. The sharp end of this three divisions. In view of this
pole caught, him in the side and information, the recent council, of caused a rather serious wound the high military officers in Canton which has necessisted the Ser-
is said to have. unanimously ap proved an early declaration of war
against the Northern War Lords.
Since then, four Russian officers
have been assigned as military ad-
geant's removal to hospital. ".
MISSING DEBTOR.
demand, at any rabo s far as the resident who is az ato fond cent occasion on which a greater lack of knowledge was shown than for himself in the matter of hous- yesterday afternoon, when the Fining is concerned. The Government Shekki as a result of employees of
Municipalities. provide
the fish and vegetable markets ance Committee of the Legislative and
The Labour Council considered a vote for the quarters for their officers, and in going on strike.
Department at Canton pent a ing the Po Hing Theatre corner, it complction of the work of improv-cidentally, it is always easy to teill the junction of Nataan and Carons- an official house in the Singapore deputy to the spot in order to The coxswain, so far, has not on Roads, Kowloon. The vote suburbs by its frånk and expensive arbitrate in the dispute, but latest
was not approved because it was returned to the office of her agents felt that "the matter was one which ugliness. On the other hand, the reparts show that the negotiationa to give his version of the accident, might be left over until later" and quarters built for the subordinate fell through. The situation has having apparently continued his we would like to know now many services are very successful, both
THE NORTHERN WAR.
Yesterday's Bombardment of
Tako.
Tientsin, March 8. Three gunboats took part. in this morning's bombard- ment of Taku.
Communications between Chinwangtao and Tongku are now completely cut off, owing to the blowing up of the bridge over the Han River.
"The Peking-Mukden Rail- way now only holdsone day's supply of coal, whilat the Kailan Mining Administra- tion has notified the news- papers that no further orders for coal can be accepted, the sales offices closing to morrow until further ordòrs.-Reuter.
of our Unoticisi Members know of the state of that corner to-day, be- cause if they had known what that corner was like now, they could never have come to such a ridicul- ous decision.
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So far as the actual roadtrack is concerned, the obstructing hill mas' all been removed, even some of the Kerbing has been laid; there was a steam roller at work on Sunday and the road only needs a little maca- dam and some tar and the thing (so far as actual traffic needs are con
The vote of cerned) is Anished. $55,000 which was shelved must either be for work that has already. been done and not yet paid for, or for a lot of work extraneous to finishing off the roadway, and we wish to enter as strong a protest as possible against leaving the cor- ner in the state it is to-day.
i
It is over seven years that Mr. B. L. Frost, later President of the Kowloon Residents' Association; be- gan to agitate for the removal of the hill. The detour was danger- cus-obviously so; and after many representations the Government de-
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RUBBER ATTACKS. Sir Joyuson Hicks Lets Out.
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London, March 8. Sir Joynson Hicks, who was to principal guest at the annual dinner of the Institu- tion of the Rubber Industry' in London, in 4 speech declared that attacks on the Stevenson scheme were
unjustifiable. absolutely (Choers). We had made the rubber industry and we had a right to do our best in tho intorests of ourselves and for that industry. Other nations had the same opportunity as we had of developing those great rubber plantations but failed to do so because they had not the imagination, in- sight or courage to do what Britain had done.-Reuter,
visers to each of the six Army ADJUDICATION ORDER MADE. trip to Tai O, but it would appear cided to put the work in hand, from the practical and the aesthetic
man
handle native labour and al
the numerous responsibilities at. tached to the charge of an estate division as successfully. But from the financial point of view the planter's lot has always compared. unfavourably with that of the "office wallah" in Singapore or Penang."
aince become." very serious, All the Labour Unions, having a mem-
In theory, a planter should have bership of more than 100,000, havo
no difficulty in saving money, but became Involved in the strike.
in practice it requires consider- Communication by land and water able ingenuity, not to say will- is seriously interrupted.
The people in Shekki and the power, to do so. He has to run a surrounding villages are in a state bungalow, keep a couple of ser of consternation and anxiety, and Yants, and get his stores from the nearest Chinese village, where the there is a fear that the present
compensates astute shopkeeper situation may be seized as a golden himself for very generous credit opportunity for the bandits who are known to infest this district in by judicious manipulation of his price-list. Probably the planter no small numbers. Latest reports state that everything is at a stand-Indulges in the luxury of cold still.
storage supplies from town once or
It is reported from another twice a week, and any savings that accumulate while he is on source that in view of the gravity may
LOCARNO TREATY.
MATTER FOR IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
once
of the situation at Heungshan, the estate melt like snow in. which may spread to other adjacent the sun when he comes down to districts, the Canton Government Singapore to taste of the delights
again. The- has deputed both civil and military of civilisation high officals to settle the matter lessons of the slump, when hund- reds of men were thrown out of with all despatch.
their jobe, and Europeans were driving taxis on the Singapore streets to make a living, are likely to live in the memory of the gene- ration which lived through those distressful times, and it was there. fore with very great relief that the planting profession and the coun- try as a whole hailed the announce- Some time ago a Chinese, named that he did not sight the sub- Ever since, the place has been point of view, and the neat and quarry attractive terraces to be found
Rugby, March 8.;
ment that a Provident Fund for Pang Lai ting, was publicly cross-marine until too late, for the turned into a common
Mr. Amery, Secretary for the planters was at last an accomplish V. Sung, the Treasurer, has been examined in the Bankruptcy Court launch seems to have run straight place where the working and dress.
ing of stone has been put foremost bere and there in Singapore repre
The difficulties in the ed fnet. of questions in the House of
y were vary considerable, and ordered to set aside five million after which he disappeared, and a
warrant was issued for his arrest. into the stern of the naval craft, to the task of clearing away a dan-sent the first local attempts to get Dominions, replying to a number Commons, said it was proposed' dollars for the exclusive use of the
The case was mentioned by the "sitting" on her stern, smashing gerous traffic obstruction... In the away from the shop-house idea.
The reason why European, houses to discuss fully the Locarno they would never have been sur- troops in the Northern campaign. Official Receiver, at a Bankruptey both propellors and her rudder meantime, the growth of traffic has, with the development of the mo- This money is to be the reserve"
since the debtor had absconded, and and leaving her practically helptor bus services and the opening are so hard to find is that very Trenty with the Dominions at the mounted but for the genuine de- up of Shamshuipo and Mongkok, little building was done during the forthcoming Imperial Conference. sire of the planting companies to
On the question as to whether see the scheme established." fund of the Army an active Her- adjourned meeting of the creditors less.
communications which had companies, have agreed to
between the "The submarine was just off on been enormous, but, in suffering slump years, while the European
British tribute dollar for dollar, and the vice. Funds are to secured had been held, and a resolution for from the Land Office taxes. on adjudication in bankuptey passed.
à Southern cruise, but the damage the tardiness of the P.W.D. and its communities in the larger towns the
contractors, motorists and road have probably increased. Unfor- passed The resolution was: that, the
Corps.
Another report says that Mr. T.
be
Court this morning. He said
She has
R
The
con
a new scale of taxation, these toomeial Receiver be appointed is so extensive that her departure users generally have been consoled tunately this field does not seem to Government and the Dominions scheme should remove the worst who will tell you that the prices of said that they were official com- his inability to make provision out be entirely devoted to the require-trustee. There was a further pro for Singapore, which we under-by the thought that when all the interest the speculative builder, would be published, Mr. Amery bogey of the planter's existence-
labour and materials are such that munications leading up to a of his salary for retirement,
com- For the former generation of ments of the coming campaign. vision that & special manager stand was her destination, will be stone has been worked and play
with the road will be opened.
Cabinet, planters there were opportunities of should carry on until a certain
munications within indefinitely postponed,
And now, when everything has he cannot build, having regard to decision of policy, like
no longer Land was plentiful, and now been towed back into the been done except the very last the rent he would receive; and it
character which it was "desirable exist, atage, our Unofficials calmly say is true that it would require a small and were not always of a making money which
to publish.-British Wireless. there was no difficulty about get- Naval Yard.
that the matter is not urgent and fortune to erect protc-types of the barnlike edífices which
ting it on casy terms, so that the suggest a postponement of its com- huge,
our suburbs. But
average planter, if he had The Director of Public sprawl across is plotion.
modicum of business instinct, be- came in the course of time proprietor. Nowadays, good be paid
Military circles state that in the date, but as a matter of fact the campaign one. Army Corps will be business had been disposed of assigned for service in co-opera- An order for adjudication was tion with General Tang Sang-che, Tupun of South Hunan, to attack
Two
refusing to carry out the agrop- ment, recently come to. The ob jective will be Wachang. Army Corps are to be allotted to co-operate with Klangsi, their ob- jective also being Wuchang; while threa Army Corps are designated
made.
No person was injured." The owner of the Yew Sing
an
it was
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a very bad turning, but a European, does not realise that THE MYSTERY SHIP. Chao Hing-teh in the event of his U.S. MINE DISASTER. Mr. Ng Yee-po, of 14, High Street, Works had the grace to argue that the local speculator, who is rarely and her agents are the Tung there is something really ludicrous European tastes and standards in
houses when he and the Chairman of the the matter of housing are chang-
are H.M.S. DURBAN OFF BIAS BAY. jungle land has to
for handsomely, Shing, of the same address.
even if it one hears FORTY-EIGHT MEN
Lator information received Committee (the Colonial Secretary) ing. These large
atate that the greatest danger in legacies of a more lavish genera-AND-
H.MS. Durban, sent out on a is available, and ENTOMBED.
states that the Yuw Sing has been not completing the work now, will tion, of the spacious days of New York, March 8. damaged bolow water near her arise from mosquitoes breeding in colonial life, and very roomy and nildnight chase of the mystery rumours that estates are finding Reuter's 'correspondent at Blue bows, but the extent thereof can- the water pools left by Government pleasant they are to live in, but ship which passed Waglan on it difficult to get land, although workmen. Surely, they ought to nowadays they require too much Saturday evening without acknow- there are huge areas of "jungle until to enter Fukien and Chekiung if Fields, West Virginia, states that not be ascertained'
Jection against the corner-its to keep up, and the small, compact anchored off Bias Bay and up to 193 the estate assistant is concern- fortune no longer exist, and pro- Sun Chuan-fang comes into alli-a double explosion occurred in a examination of the hull is made. have kept in mind the original ob- furniture and too many servanta ledging signals, spent last evening left in the country. But as far
dangerous nature, Hundreds of type of bungalow, with three bed-the time of our going to press had led, the chances of making
dining room, and not returned.
motion is slow these days, so that "wobbly" motor buses, crowded rooms,
There is no further news rea- from every point of view the Pro- with passengers, slowly negotiate verandah, and a tennis court in that curve every day, and if only the compound, is all that is wanted. pecting the vessel, which was vident Fund-which makes the our Unofficial Members would have This type is now beginning to described by the lighthouse-keeper planter who joins it save money the grace to go and have a look appear in Malayan towns, and as resembling a river steamer of whether he wants to or not-is at the place and so know what they especially in Singapore, where the about 300 tons. In the first place the best thing that has ever hap M. BRIAND MAY STAY.
are talking about, they might come Harbour Board, driven by the a suspicion arose that she was a pened in the planting profession.
COMPLAINTS OF ORIMPING." to the conclusion that, in the in- necessity of housing their large Macao atuamer, but no vessels on
Since the Admiralty have Paris, March 8.-
terests of public safety the comple-European engineering and wharf that run have been reported
"crimped labour for the naval M. Briand on his arrival here on of the new line of roadway, so stuff as economically as possible, missing.
The informalion relating to a base, with complete disregard` of from Geneva said he was most that it can be used by traffic, ishava "done" valuable pioneer work
in this direction, and any of their emaller, steamer which had been the requirements of estates on satisfied with the results of his urgently desirable.
neat iltile bungalows which fall pirated and which was found by Singapore Island, it is scarcely vecant are always eagerly sought the Durban, has not been added to. surprising if an occasional mana trip to Geneva,
after by outsiders, an
ance with Feng Yu-helang and the mine near Eccles." Canton Government.. Otherwise, Twenty-night miners were on- the objective will be Nanking. tombed by the first shock and! Should these two objectives, bo twenty by the second.
attained, it is. intended to convoke Escaping gas prevents rescue
a National Convention for the purwork being carried out.-Renter's, pose of forming a People's Govern- American Service.
ment, declding where the capital of
the Republic shall be, and fram- ing a Constitution.
COBHAM'S FLIGHT.
DELAYED BY BAD WEATHER.
U. S. & WORLD COURT.
LAWYER'S MOTION REFUSED.
The
FRENCH CRISIS.
FURTHER PROGRESS
Washington, March 8. United States Supremo
M. Briand, after visiting Presi- CAIRO-CAPE FLIGHT. Court has refused to entertain a dent Doumergue, at the Elysee, Rugby, March 8.
motion by Lawyer Benjamin conferred at length with parlia
The general Alan Cobham, who was to have Catchings to restrain the United mentary lenders. left Cairo to-day for Sollum on States from participating in the impression is that he will form a his return to London, has been World Court on the alleged ground Cabinet retaining most of his ex- delayed by unfavourable weather, that participation would be un colleagues, with M. Caillaux or M. The Royal Air Force flyers have bet hopas to proceed to-morrow constitutional Reuter's American Poret, as Minister of Finance British Wireless..
Service.
Reuter.
DEPORTED.
London, March: 8.
arrived at
Reuter
Malakal, Sudan
The plight of the houseless mem bers of the European community 18 Intenslied by the fact that the demand for "desirablo, detached residences" is not confined to thein,
FRANC STEADY.
London, March 8. French france have remained
ger up country follows their ex- ample. There is still a great. shortage of labour throughout the. peninsula, and Chinese coolies- "are" - déïanding" and getting the equivalent of five shillings a day. In fact, Chinese labour is getting
for one result of business prosperity is a genéral movement steady and closed at 184.45-80 difficult to handle that even
(Continued on Pag (Continued on Page 18.1 Reuter,