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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
EXPLORER WHO WAS KAI TACK WORKS.
HELD-UP.
MR. HEDGES SETTLES LIBEL ACTION,
WILL BE COMPLETED
BY GOVERNMENT.
THE POSITION EXPLAINED.
"
PEAK CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS.
WHY IS PEAK SCHOOL PLOT NEGLECTED?
P. R. A. CORRESPONDENCE.
THURSDAY, JULY 28. 1927.
SHORT-WAVE - RADIO. TESTS.
CULTURAL UNITY.
TO BRIDGE EAST AND WEST.
INTERVIEW WITH DR. TAGORE.
NO LOCAL RECEPTION YET REPORTED.
LONDON MUSIC RELAYED.
SEQUEL TO ROAD INCIDENT.
An Order-in-Council, which ap-
Poet and philosopher, a poot who An incident on the Ripley road peared in the Government Gazette We have to-day received the is not content with the portrayal
While, at the moment, no report on the night of January 14, when of July 8th., stated that the Gov-following letter and correspon of his visions of an uplifted human-has been received that any local Mr. F. A. Mitchell Hedges, the ex-ernment had decided to resume dence from Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, ity, a philosopher who is not listeners were successful in pick- plorer and writer, reported that he work on what is known as the Kal the Hon. Secretary of the Peak content to let his labour cease with ing up the special short-wave and other passengers in a motor Tack Reclamation scheme, on the Residents' Association:
his theories of life, but must labour transmissions sent out by the car had been held up, and that an foreshore at Kowloon City.
Sir, I shall be much obliged if for their material fulfilment in the Dutch station PPJJ on Tuesday attache case containing highly This decision, it is further you can kindly find space to to create a common aim that shall is not yet safe to assume that the most sublime effort of modern times night and Wednesday morning, it valuable documents had after-stated, has been made in view of publish the attached correspon unite this striving, warring world station was not heard in the vicin- wards been found to be missing, the fact that a portion of the re-dence in your columns in view of of ours-a structure which it is ity of Hongkong, was mentioned in the King's Bench claimed area is required for the Government's request that an hoped will banish that distrust that Division, London, in mill week.
public purpose, and as private endeavour should be made to in- has ever been the gulf across which An netion for alleged libel, negotiations for the purchase of fluence members of the P. R. A.. to the hands of two nations have never brought by Mr. Mitchell ledges these lots have been abortive the get their children to use the play-yet met in truc friendship. That and by Mr. Colin Edgell against said property and all rights, etc., ground below the Peak School in is Dr. Rabindranath Tagore, now the Liverpool Daily Post, was will be resumed by the Crow on preference to the playground at in Singapore. brought to the Lord Chief Justice's expiration of four months from Jardine's Corner. notice as having been settled out the publication of notice. Com-
In an interview he granted a of Court,
It is perfectly true that. the Straits Times representative Dr. pensation in respect of such re sumption will be awarded in the lower large grassy playground is Tagore went straight to the subject Messrs. Philips, and the special
so close to his heart. manner provided by the Crown almost entirely neglected for some Lands: Resumption Ordinance; reason, and, in view of the fact
that it is undoubtedly A 1900.
much j
In allowing the action to be withdrawn the Lord Chief Justice, After listening to statements made'| by counsel, said:--The whole mat- ter seems to be extremely mysteri OIN. I shall say nothing about it except that the rigord is with Mr. Stenham, for plaintiff, Mr.
drawo.
Edgell, asked leave to make a state- ment. On the night of January 14, he said, Mr. Colin Edgelf was motoring from London into the country with his frient, Mr. Mit chell Hedges. Mr. Elgell was the honorary secretary of the London Young Liberal Federation, and as anch had a political reputation. He was by occupation advertising manager to a Lidor firm.
He had on this peensión been engaged on political business, and was going into the coatry for a week-end. When the ear grip suie- where near Ripley it was inter- cepted, and in response to some suggestion that there was a man If on the road, the occupants of the car got out. Shortly after there was a struggle, and an attempt was made to tie up the ocenpanta of the car.
"A Publicity Stunt."
A Widening Gulf.
:
It is a well-known fact that a number of ships' operators have interested themselves in short- wave work, and there is still a pos- sibility that an incoming vessel may report that the Dutch station whs, received..
The Dutch station is worked by
24-hour transmission was sent out, on Tuesday in order that the range of the station could be de-
Heard in Australia.
safer place for the children to "The gulf that has always exist-termined. It has been clearly The project, which was complay in, I trust that this appeal between East and West," he heard in Shanghai, Singapore and menced in 1916, was undertaken will receive the careful considera-said, has been widening of inte. the Dutch East and West Indies, by the Kai Tack Land Investmention of all parents who are in the When I went to England after the its wavelength being 30.2 metres. Coutputy, and it was originally planned to reclaim about 12,000,- habit of sending their children to war. I received a great reception the playground at Jardine's from the West and it made me 000 square feet of the Kowloon Corner-Yours, etc.,
think greatly. I saw that it was not anything that they found in my works it was the note of humanity had struck that made them feel. I belonged to no country, which appealed to them. It was not my literary wark, for they could know very little of that, owing to the fact that just fraction of it had been translated.
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City foreshore. Work continued uninterruptedly until the 1925 strike caused a temporary pension, by which time the above- nuntioned form had expended, ap- proximately. $2,000,000.
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E. B. C. HORNELL,
Hon. Secretary.
(COPY)..
This station, made it possible for Australia to hear the well- known London station, 2L0. The concert from 2L0 was picked up at Eindhoven. and re-broadcast on
short wavelength. At Sydney the transmission was received by the Chief Engineer of a broad- casting station, who re-transmit- ted it through the local station on "I was very deeply touched, in- & wavelength of 363 metros,. ennbl deed, when in Sweden, some one ing Australia to hear the concert told me that the reception I had in progress at the London studio.
Calcutta wireless enthusiasts received from the Swedish people was very unusual: that they do not also received the London
chimes of Big ramme, and the the manner that they did when I Ben have been heard there. List- was In Sweden: that they were air eners in New Zealand also report- aristocratic people, and that the re-ed receiving the Dutch station att ception they gave me was an un- good strength and quality.."
While it is admitted flat long common one.
asited why?
distance, wireless reception „in "They said it is because you Hongkong is made diffient by belong to us all."
Work Suspended.
To the Hon. the Colonial Secre- Conceived at a time when the. Tum Han. Sec. P. R. A. general outlook Tor the Colony's Sir, I have been requested to development seemed good it was draw your attention to the Chil- hoped that the scheme would he dren's Playground situated at Jar attractive To bailers on account dine's Corner apposite No. 260 of the advantages of locality. A { Peak. garden city was to have heer de As you are aware, this play-often demonstrate their feeling in voloped and a step in the dires-ground is, enclosed by a granite tion of the realisation of this idea retaining well, surmounted with a was taken by commencing the co-convex cament coping. This wall struction of four big mullahs for is about 3 feet high on the inside, draining the newly-reclaimed area. ant varies on the outside from Much difficulty was experienced roughly 4 feet at each end to by the Kai Tack and Investment 10 feet at the corner where cement Mount Kelteit Company in the mutter of Alling steps lead up to
Road. material a suficient quantity of
An attache case belonging to Mr. which was unobtainable from the
Mitchell Hedges was
abstracteil
from the ear. Bali Mr. Hedges/Surrounding hills to complete, theer of children (mostly aged 4 to
reclamation.
ground.
popular amusements with a num- It appears that one of the most
The 1025 strike re
6 years) is to run around the cop- and Mr. Edgell complained to the tarded progress, but, when a suping and jump down in to the play- local police.
nly of labour later became avail- Shortly afterwards there apa, the Investment Company, for peared in the defendant newspaper some reason or other, did not an article dealing with the matter Tally resume the work, and in the bearing the titles “Fake Hold-Up" | middle of last year operations
Explorer's Adventure on the were suspended altogether. Ripley Road"-"A Publicity Stunt" "How Mr. Mitchell edges's Less was Arranged."
Counsel went on to read an ex-| tract from the body of the report when he was interrupted by the Lord Chief Justice..
His Lordship-1 don't want to
Provision for Wharves, On enquiry on Tuesday, a Tele graph representative was informed that the proposed resumption by the Government is in respect of certain areas within the reclama tion which have not been bail on, and that what is known as the
interrupt you, but you are con sertion," where houses have plaining that these statements are libellous, are, you not? Yes. erected, is excluded, and will His Lordship Then why adver- be retained by the Kai Tack Con
pany as their own property for tise them further?They have been very widely advertised al-disposal as they deem it...
ready. I am only mentioning them show what the gist of the
'to
matter was.
On the afternoon of the 27th instant one little boy of about 4% years mounted the wall near the corner and was preparing to jump down when another child caught him by the ankle. The boy stag- gered backwards but fortunately recovered his balance. Had he not done so he must have fallen back- wards, a drop of 10 feet on to the concerete steps below and a very serious or possibly fatal accident would have occurred.
of
A Common Humanity. "They had found the note common humanity in my works. Germany, how the people were at- "I realised the same thing in
tracted to me. I remember one day, when I was in my hostel, noticed two Gorman girls hovering about my room. I could see that they wanted to come to me, and 1 backoned to them. and offered me said: 'We love India.
" asked why. "They answered, 'Because India loves God?
They came in and two roses
pro
weather conditions, there seems little doubt that the time will come when listeners in Hongkong will be able to hear wireless concerts from the Continent, "if not from Home.
Shock to Imperial Pride. Short-wave transmission is mak-
ing rapid strides, and the records set up by the Dutch station have proved that amazing distances can be spanned with the short-wave system. It is to be hoped that the Dutch station will persist in its efforts to cover even greater dis- tances, and that more long-period
transmissions will be sent out to enable attempts to be made in
"That idea that every country must love itself, this nation wor-Hongkong for the station to be ship, worship of egotism, which is received.
The Empire, of course, is still ly in charge of amahs, but these the present day, we do not have without
The children are, of course, most represented in the rationalism of
wireless programmes women seem to have little if any it in Indis, which loves God and broadcast direct from Britain, and control over the children, and are therefore loves the humanity that Imperial pride has received n left to do more less as they like.
belongs to God, and that is why shock since it has been left to a Apart from the question of res- received that homage, from commercial station in Holland to ponsibility, the fact remains that these two girls which touched my puss on the voices and music of the mother-country to the English- the playground as it stands is a heart.
Domínions overseas. speaking
aerious danger to the children who
It appears that the Government bas in view the completion of the whole of the ruckumation pray there, and I trast that imme-
originally planned. This means that one third, representing date measures may be taken to
on to the wall.
"When I returned to India from that visit and Europe, I thought my mission should be to unite the
-through a cultural unity.
Pointed questions are being asked why the initiative in this matter
counsel who appear for 1,000,000 square feet, has yet to Prevent the children from getting two hemispheres--East and West should belong to another country."
His Lordship-I can't andër- stand why, when libel actions are settled, the plaintiff read, put the words complained.of.
he weclaimed from the seat Far- ther filling material being unaval able inland, the Government is
Counsel-It is done sometimes to surmounting this difficulty by get contradiction in as wide an dredging. This portion of the area as was given to the original work, which was completely taken matter complained of.
over from the Kai Tack Company Counsel, proceeding, said the sometime ago when the change of suggestion was that a mock battle
status of the reclamation Scheme had heen fought, that the whole was proposed, is now in the hands -matter had been arranged, and of the Netherlands Harbour Works
that Mr. Colin Edgell was a party Company to this scheme, which was intended to hoax the public and get wide advertisement for Messrs Mono- mark. It was suggested that Mr. Edgell had lont his name and reputation to the furtherance of this scheme. As a result this action had been brought.
The Aerodrome.
side of the wall would probably. A bamboo fence round the in-
serve the purpose.--- Yours, etc.
June 20, 1927.
Scholars from the West.
"With that end in view, I widen, HOW MUCH DO YOU
ed the rope of the institution at Santiniketan, which had al- ready startad, and invited scholars from Europe to come and work
KNOW?
To on. Sec. P. R. A. from Colonial Segretary's Office:-
and inspire the Urdu Scholars and TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS. Sir- am directed to acknow-receive something in return for the fedge the receipt of your letter of great idealism that we Indians
29th June, 1927, in connexion with the Children's Playground at far- "Wine's Corner, and to inform you' That which has been reebimed that the coping of the wall in ques- so far represents an appreciably tion will he splayed and an trop large area. A certain portion has fencing erected thereon. Should given over to the Aerodrome be glad to show it to you at this heen built on, and another section you desire to see the design I should
The four mullahs have been com-office.
have inherited from our fathers.
The following general know- foresledge paper has been taken from
the Daily Express.
"They responded to my call and came and worked., and an almos- phere of fellowship was establish ed between highly cultured people of different races, and to my mind, this is the greatest work I have ever started, ...
"Many people think that the University is merely an education- al institution. But the education
pleted, while the sea-frontage has. I ain at the same time to draw been defined to a great extent by your attention to the fact that a the completion of a large section large grass playground, which of the sea wall. where is now would appear to be entirely safe, that is needed how is that which available a depth of from aine to has been provided below the Peak kes men fit to know, snelr other 22 feet of water. According to School, but that amahs apparently I am to suggest the original plan, provision was to refuse to use it.
A New Mentality.
Not an Advertisement.
Inasmuch WA the defendants said they were not responsible for the article but had copied it from another newspaper, and inasmuch as they did not suggest that there
"The different races in these was any truth in the suggestion have been made for the construe that you should endeavour to in- that Mr. Edgell was a party to the ton of wharves and other berthence the members of your Asso-n.odern days are brought in close scheme, and were ready and willing facilities for sea-going ships ciation to make their children playeontact, but we have not yet ac- when the reclamation work was upon this, at all events in fine weaquired the mentality to translate completed, and as far as can be therYours, etc.
July 28th, 1927.
ing to apologise publicly to Mr. Edgell, it had been possible to arrange a settlement of the action. His Lordship-I see the plain- tlff is described as an advertising manager. Am I assisting in an
learned, this idea is still retained
in the Government scheme.
advertisement at this moment?--- possible to ask for leave to with
draw the case from the list.
No.
ECHO OF THE VIENNA RIOTING.
is
this great thes. What we need for the students of the present day universal outlook, to enable the great problem, the race pro- lem, to he successfully grappled
with and overcome,
"I
have come to this coun-.. try, which is very cosmopoli- itan. I find here a great races and hope that the atmosphere of mutual sympathy and co-operation. In this Malay State will provide a proper soil for the idea which I represent. "Each nation has its depart-
Counsel added that both plain-
Mr. C. N. Cahn, counsel for the diff and defendants wished to with- draw the record.
defendants, expressed his clients' SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT CENSURE mixture of Given appeared in the regret. The defendants, he said, second action on behalf of Mr. did not originate the article, but Michell Hedges. The suggestions it was copied in good fulth from a made against Mr. Mitchell Hedges, London newspaper. At the same
'Mr.
FAILS.
Vienna, July 27. The National Assembly has
Common Ground of Culture,
"But on the common ground of
he said, attributed conduct ex-time, it was always appreciated virtually passed a vote of con-ment of individual interest-like tremely detrimental to him. From by the defendants that there was idence in the Government, by re- politics, commerce, ote. "There it the very beginning there had no defence to the action, and at been no suggestion by the present no time was the plea for justifica-jecting a Social-Democrat motion would be difficult to meet.
of censure, which demanded.n defendants that there was any tion put forward. The defendants Parliamentary investigation into truth in the allegations made. added counsel, expressed their re-
Defendants wore withdrawing gret that the article ever appear the recent riots, an amnesty for been made against Mr. Hedges drawn. The whole matter is ex-for the victims and their relatives, can meet-and it is my hope that any imputation there might have ed, and it is unreservedly with the minor demonstrators, pensions culture, of selence, of religion, we
and the withdrawal of had been said. In these circum- nothing about it except that the against the Socialist uniformed provide a common meeting ground,
guards Implicated in the Schatten-
(Continued on Page 14) stances, in this action also, it was record has been withdrawn.
dorf disturbances.-Router.
Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14
of this issue.
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