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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FLOOD DAMAGE.
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926.
GERMAN WARSHIP:
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTES FIRST TO VISIT JAPAN SINCE
$600,000.
THE WAR.
PROPERTY SALE.
KENNEDY, TOWN' GODOWN FOR $78,000.
A godown, situated on the Now Praya, was put up for sale at the China Auction Rooms yesterday by Mr. E. V. M. R. de Soush, and after some high bidding, was knocked down to Mr. Fok Pak Yin for the sum of $78,000.
There was a fair attendance
At a meeting of the Finance Com
Tokyo, July 23. mittee yesterday $600,000 was The German training cruiser voted for repairing storm damage Hamburg" arrived in Yokohama caused by the floods last Monday. this morning. the first German It was stated that in all the repair warship to visit Japan since the work would coat about $1,000,000. outbreak of the World War. The The Chairman, the Hon. Mr. W. | Gerinan Embassy staff. high T. Southorn, Colonial Secretary. Japanese naval officers, and other said there was one other matter. Government officials greeted the when the sale opened, the lot con- not on the agenda which he wished arrival of the vessel. A series off sisting of Section B of Marine Lot are planned. No. 245, together with the godown;
thereon known as No. GG · New Praya, Kennedy Town, having an area of 7,809 square feet at on annual Crown Rent of $87.47 and held for the unexpired residue of a torm of 990 years from 1892.
HEAT WAVE DEATHS.
to bring before the Committee, entertainments He wanted Its authority for pro- | Reuter. » ceeding with the work of restore. tion following the flood of Sunday "night. A formal vote would be put before the Committee at its noxt meeting when more accurate de- tails would be available. In an- ticipation of the Committee's ap- proval His Excellency had ordered the Public Works Department, to proceed and he wished the 'ap proval of the Committee to carry
on to the end of the present year. The tentative figures were Hongkong $510,000, Kowloon and New Kowloon $50,000 and New Territories $30,000, a total of six Jahks: but he was afraid they
would not get off with that figure as it only represented what the P.W.D. thought they would want up to December 31. Until they got accurate estimates they could not give details and he thought the total amount would be about a million dollars.
The Hon. Mr. Creasy: So far as we can say at present.
The vote of $600.000 was ap proved,
FATAL CHAR-A-BANG RIDE.
New York, July 28, "The city is sweltering in a heat degrees in the shade. There were wave, the temperature being 97
Other
seven deaths yesterday. victims include eight women and two girls killed and 32 injured, some fatally, by the capsizing of a.char-a-bane in which a number of Brooklynites were engaged in a day's eating to the Hudson River to escape from the stifling. town. -Reuter's American Service..
UNDERGROUND STRIKE.
Opening, at $50,000 with bids of $500 acceptable, the first raises were in thousands, which quickly brought the price to $62,000, From this point the bids were ju there was one increase of $1,500. mainly at the minimum, although
The salu concluded stated.
44
above.
THE FRENCH CRISIS.
A HOSTILE CROWD.
A crowd last evening collected at a point on the Boulevards where motor coaches assemble førn daily tour of the capital and hooted foreign passengers, Demonstra lors became so threatening that
were compelled to.
LEADER SAYS THE MEN HAVE sengers
LOST.
and
descend. Finally two coaches The Death Roll.
succeeded in pushing their way Four bodies were recovered from
through the people barring the New York, July 23. the harbour on Thursday and It is
road. The Police were summon- Lavin, the leader of the under-ed and extricated British presumed that these lives were 16st in last Monday's storm. One ground motor and switchmen who American tourists from the crowd. body was seen
have been striking since July 6. Acating off the Praya, and no fewer than fifteen declares that the men have lost and messages were sent to the Central
advises them to march to the com- Police Station reporting its pre-pany's yards to-day and ask for re-instatement.Reuter's American
sence.
Three other bodies were recover- ed from various parts of the har- bour, and their condition suggested that they had been in the water some days.
Happy Valley. More damage was
caused at Happy Valley on Thursday by the typhoon storm. The wooden structure used for bringing the oarth down from the ridges on
Servico
BIG MERGER.
AMERICAN STEEL FIRMS
UNITE.
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Cleveland, July 23. The merging is announced of
M. Poincare's Cabinet.
Later.
M. Poincare has formed a cabinet, the portfolios going to M. Poincare, M. Barthou, M. Briand. and M. Sarraut as forecasted. M. Herriot has been given 'Public Instruction; M. Leygues, "Marine; M. Painleve, War: M, Tardieu,. Public Works: M. Marin, Pensions;" M: Perrier, Colonies; M. Boka- nowski, Commence. The portfolios: of Labour, and Agriculture are not i yet allotted Reuter.
London, July 23. Frane is steadier and
The
Stubbs Road was partly destroyed the Central Steel Company of Mag- opened at 215-Reuter. earlier in the week, and the re-tion and the United Alloy Steel. mainder, was blown down On Thursday.
The various club grounds were again silted up and a huge boulder is reported to be in a dangerous position and likely to roll down the hill.
HONGKONG BANK WINS.
A WAR TIME, CLAIMS SUCCEEDS.
Corporation of, Canton (Ohio). under tire title of "Central Alloy
exceed $80,000,000 gold-Reuter's Steel Corporation." The assote American Service,
CHILDREN KILLED.
11
WÄR DEBTS,
MELLON SILENT. ·
Cherbourg, July 23.
Mr. Mellon has arrived here but declined to express an opinion an Mr. Winston Churchill's state. ments, saying he was holiday AEROPLANE ACCIDENT IN making-Reuter.
JAPAN.
Tokyo, July 23:
THE BAD OLD DAYS
This afternoon a military aero-when it was deemed necessary to London, July 23. plane, when taking off at Kas- swallow large harah purgative Before the Anglo-German Mix-hara, Gifu prefecture. accident pilts, or nauseous draughts of. ed. Arbitral Tribunal, which ally killed three children and castor oil to remedy liver and deals with settlement of war-seriously injured two who time commercial debts, the Hong- watching. Reiter.
were intestinal troubles have gone for good, for now-adays Pinkettes, the dainty. little laxative liver regulators, are used, instead.
FINED FOR PHOTOS.
AMERICAN CONSULAR CLERK FOUND GUILTY,
Pinkettes
kong and Shanghai Bank estab- lished a claim against Giesel and Company for 7,107.62 Shanghai taels with interest in respect of bills of exchange. The Tribunal held that the proper date for ascertaining the rate of, exchange for converting the amount pay- uble in Shanghai thela was the date whereon the debt became.
Tokyo, July 25, payable. Furthermore the credi- Mr. Vogelweld, the American tors are. entitled to recevor Consular clerk who was arrested amounts of bills converted into on the charge of photographing Piles. Your chemist Bolly Shanghai taols on dates when the the Sasebo fortifications and was Pinkettes, or post .free, 60 centa bills were dishonoured by nonac- tried by a secret court in Naga- the vial, from Dr. Williams' ceptance. No award was made saki on the 10th inst., has been Medicine Co., 60 Klanges Road, respecting costs-Router.
fined 150 yen.--Reuter.
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