THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
STEADY GROWTH OF MACAO.
CRIME,
SINGAPORE'S WAVE OF SEQUEL TO SHANGHAI
HOLD-UP.
HARBOUR WORKS WEATHER | PROBLEM OF, DEALING WITH
THE TYPHOON.
NEW TRADE WITH TIMOR.
TONG WAR. ·
COULD HONGKONG ADVISE!
One day thie week, says the Straits Times, & Singapore Chinese said to a European friend, "I think" you sometimes go for walks at night." The European said that he did, upon which the Chinese went on, "I should advise you not to, for these
CHINESE APPEARS FOR TRIAL
FRIDAY,
OBJECTION TO KILTED WOMEN.
THE BRAEMAR HIGHLAND GAMES.
GIRL DANCERS BANNED:
London, Sept. 1. The decision to eliminate pro-
SEPTEMBER
COLOMBO AIR MAIL SERVICE?
THE TANJORE AERODROME PROPOSAL
LINK WITH KARACHI.
1927.
EUROPEAN ROBBED.
Madras, Aug. 29. Alleged proof that shots fired
The Associated Press under- The exceptional violence of the typhoon that passed over Macao
by the Municipal Poltee "petting"
forthcoming Braemar Gathering service from Colombo to Tanjore on August, 20 last, apart from its destruction, has subjected the sys-
party took effect upon a gang of fessional girl dancers from the stands that the opening of a mail tem of breakwaters of the new
would-be armed robbers on Hang- has created consternation among to Madras, and from Madras to harbour and the channel dykes to
jao Rond, Shanghal around mid- the numerous professionals in Bombay: Calcutta and Karachi, is When the proposal become a and elsewhere, who have previous- a severe tost, the outcome of
night on. August 30, was forth- Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow in contemplation. which is more than satisfactory, following the information given
coming at the Provisional Courtly figured prominently during the reality, postcards will be charged out by the Department concerned. santly true that anyone taking a there last Friday, when a Chinese attendance of the King and Queen. at the rate of two annas and letters There is a likelihood that the The Secretary of the Gatheringthree annas, in all. The breakwaters withstood the walk abroad at night runs a seri-arrested by the Chinese police and violent strain to the point of com-ous risk of finding himself in handed over to the Settlement au- explains that the female entries big maidan (open space of level had increased in recent years, ground) near the Bristol Institute, ing out of the storm practically shooting affray. In the hear of
causing congestion of the pre-Tanjore, will be utilized for the
construction of an aeródreme. intact, except for some minor battle bullets are apt to fly wildly, thorities made his damage, which, however, did not go boyong previous expectation.
Much credit goes to the authori- ties in this particular instancé, as, it serves to contradict the possi- mistic belief that "nothing would remain of the harbour if it enme to be struck by a violent typhoon"
revolvers have no
eyes and no sense." It is unplea
appearance
even when fired by the most expert charged with being concerned in gunmen, and although other Chin-the attack upon the police that ese are the objects of the shootings night and upon certain civilians the innocent bystander stands a on previous nights. One of the good chance of being hit. This civilians, a Mr. Atkins, who was week has seen a recrudescence of robbed of $10 by armed robbers, crimes of violence in Singapore, appeared in Court as a witness. both shootings and stabbings, and in most cases the culprits have
Detective Sub-Inspector C. E. Heary conducted the prosecution.
gramme.
Moreover, added the Secretary, there were indications of the feel-
of a Highland Gathering. ring that kilted girls and women did not accord with the traditions Therefore, the only wearers of the kilt at this year's Gathering
and local boys and girls.
A Tilt at the Kilt. In commenting on the above, the Ceylon Times says:-
Colombo Uncertain.
Colombo, Aug. 30. Interviewed to-day, Mr. M. S. Sreshta, Postminster-General, said he had absolutely no information regarding the 'nbove proposal.
For some time the possibility of
The steamer Wing-Woo, caught been able to escape. In one stab-|The accused, he said, was a wheel will be men participating in the managed to reach the entrance of trate, Mr. C. II. Dakers, was an eye-from gunshot wounds in the back, by the storm outside of Macao, bing case in which a police reagis-barrow conlie. He was suffering dancing and heavy athletic sports Colombo being included in one of the harbour quite easily, and took witness and was able to help to The police had been armed with When to it for much needed shelter. arrest two of the miscreants, he shot-guns on that night. This was efficiently provided, as commented on the fact that out of the robbers attacked the police, the vessel was anchored in the
a large crowd of Chinese standing who were disguised as joy-riders, harbour throughout the typhoon round none attempted to interfere. some of them being dressed in and sustained no damage of any The passiveness of the by-standers female attire, an exchange of shots special concern, although wind is, of course, for the very good was held in the course of which was registered at an average of reason that they do not wish to be the robbers took to fight across 180 kilometres per hour during the the subsequent subject of atten- the peak of the storm. This is not tion of the secret society for which pursued and traces of blood found contradicted by the incident of the the murderers are acting. It is along the trail they had taken cruiser Republica which, with the well-known that practically all showed that some of the police No ar- ship's own anchorage broken, had these shootings are the outcome shots had taken effect. to steam
channel of secret society disputes. There rests were made that night, how out to the through the harbour's main exit. Much is to be said for her officers and ratinga that there is no life or material loss. to regret.
lished that the new artificial har bour provides an adequate and efficient shelter.
Apprehensions were felt as to how the breakwaters and dykes of the channel would behave under such a severe test; however, much the relief of all, the result would satisfy the most sceptical minds. The full equipment of the har- bour is now occupying the atten- tion of those concerned, and with the necessary. wharves for river and ocean traffic, the harbour is nearing its completion. A new law governing the lease of the re- claimed grounds is now under consideration, by which graat facilities are accorded to those desirous of acquiring ground from harbour reclamation.
ever.
'r
open
fields. They were
Bloodstained Coat.
Following the incident, the in-
wearers
The Karachi-Cairo air mail ser- vice will connect at Port Said with
the steamers of the P. and O. Com-
Compared ith sea transit via Bombay the gain in time on letters posted in Ceylon for the United Kingdom and vice versa" will be 1 or 2 days.
the Empire mail services has been considered likely, but so far, the only advance made is the intended accoptance of Ceylon mails for transport in the aeroplanes to fly between-Karachi, Iraq, and Cairo, The popular notion outside Scot- As is well known the British Air land is that the Scots are an al Ministry has entered inte anar- most barbarous people, with pecu-rangement with the Imperial Air- liar customs. and strange modes ways, Ltd., for the maintenance of
tween these places.
At the commencement," the air of dress. It is thought that the. a weekly acroplane mail service be- staple diet is porridge and whisky, and that the kilt is considered the mail service will be utilised for only fit adornment for the lower the conveyance of ordinary 'regis extremities. The Scots are atered and unregistered articles hardy race, but they are not so only. It is proposed to use in the are said to be three sccieties in
hardy as all that. It will, how Indian air mail postage stamps in Singapore which resort to methods
ever, come as a shock to many to prepayment of air fees on articles of violence, and now, so report
learn that, the organizers of the posted in Ceylon intended for goes, two of them have combined The fact is undisputably estab-against the other, with the result spoctor in charge of the Siccawei Braemar Highland Gathering take transmission by air, and these will for women and if they can' possibly Offices at their face value convert- that there have been more mur-police station detailed a party of objection to the kilt as a garb be available at all Ceylon Post ed into Ceylon' currency. The alr ders during the past few days than police to ascertain the cause of for some weeks past. Wherever the outbreak One of the detach arrange it the only The water rose to a height of they go Chinese take their secret menta, whilst patrolling in the of the kilt at this year's Gathering mail fee would be thirty-eight Ordinance Societies or "tongs" and the ac- vicinity of the Japanese college will be the men taking part in the cents, per ounce from Karachi to en Hangizo Road, approached two heavy athletic sports and local Cairo and nineteen cents, per nearly 20 feet above
of whom had juveniles. In view of the move ounce from Karachi to South pedestrians, one Datum, i.e, over 9 feet of the esti-companying feuds with them.
New York and San Francisco have bloed strains or his coat. In the ment which has been gathering Persia and frag; the ordinary pos- mated full tide for that date.
had the same trouble as Singapore course of investigation, the police force during recent years to on- tage to the country of destination fins to endure, Tong wars have learned that he was. Kying Pao- courage the wearing of the na- should be paid in addition to the been common in Singapore since dien,
a wheel-barrow coolie by tional garb, the attitude of the air mail fec. the settlement, was founded, but
He sion some surprise. Of course, whereas in the old days the Bght-profession, residing in a country Braemar authorities inay occa
house off Hupgiao Road. ers were generally
armed with stated that he left his home early the ban on kilted women may only sticks and resorted to the knife that morning and proceeded to be an indirect means of populariz-ny occasionally, the revolver is now Foh Sin Kyung village, where he ing the national dress. If she is until late in the not to be allowed, to wear the kilt the usual weapon, and cases of its was detained use accur almost every day. It night. In consequence, he was the Scotswoman is not likely to seems to be the fate of Singapore obliged to return home without cast it aside as useless. She may, to suffer from gunmen more than the wheel-barrow. Whilst pro-if it is at all probable that a Secots- any other place, and it has rapidly ceeding to his home via Columbia woman would give away anything, agang pass the offending garment over to gained the unenviable distinction Avenue he was met by of being the most lawless town of armed robbers, who relieved her athletic brothers who will be under British administration on him of $6 and a cotton jacket. able to den it and cut a pictures- the East. The cases which are During the robbery he received que figure at the Highland Gather- ing, without protest. It is more reported in the Press are sufficient three or four shots. indication that there is no exag-
probable, however, that she will geration about this statement. It
use the nine yards of tartan which Development Hindered.
was hoped that the state of affairs Immediately after the accused are embodied in the kilt for mak- If
London, Sept. 15. The present unsettled conditions which has existed since the begin had unfolded his tale, a Chapel ing tartan skirts and plaids. of China, have somewhat hindered ning of the year would lead to a detective visited his house and this is done the disearded kilts will
It is estimated that the Treasury found that he, had left the house
innumerable provide
week in is receiving £10,000 a the development of the harbour, special effort on behalf of the au but is with pleasure that one thorities to clean up the town, but an hour previous to the shooting dresses, especially if they are
When the rest of the made to conform to modern dress entertainments tax and betting tax notice's the harbour being visited although the police are as vigilant | affray. by navigation now plying between as their numbers allow there has police arrived at the place they fashions. We sympathize with the from the boom in greyhound
members of the Braemar authorities in their at-racing.
Race meetings in various parts this port and Australia, thus been no special drive such as was found all the serving the Portuguese colony of expected. To the layman it does shooting gang inside. On enter Timor, which for lack of shipping not seem an impossibility for the ing the police were greeted withitude. They feel that kilted girls of the country have been in pro- has suffered from
enforced authorities, with the powers that a valley of pistol shots by the and women do not accord with the
ing, and certainly it is better that Treasury during that period has about £100,000.- stagnation. Another line is being they have, to be able to round a gangsters, who made good their traditions of a Highland Gather-gress at least ten weeks, so that the
the women should be dressed dif- benefited by
British Wireless. considered from Macao to Timor, the leaders of the three tongs escape through the back door. through the Dutch East Indies which are responsible for all the According to D. S. 1. Henry, the Terently from the men. It would. and Singapore, and the Govern- present trouble. Every Chinese in story of the accusód as to how be intolerable, however, if the au- ment has already voted a substan- the town knows of their existence he was robbed and shot by armed thorities had the temerity to in- the style of garb tial subsidy to cope with the and their methods. When a thing robbers was a deliberate fabrica- terfere with initial financial difficulties. This is as generally admitted as the tion, which he asked the Court which men athletes and spectators new line should be inaugurated secret society menace is it should to disregard. From the evidence have traditionally worn at these by the end of November. be possible for these who have available it is to be adduced that gatherings. It would be unthink- member of the able, for instance, if they attempt- Timor, with an area of ap-made Chinese their study to sug-accuse was u
ed to regulate the length of the proximately 20,000 sq. kilometres gest the lines on which action can gang. and an immensely rich and fertile be taken.
The ease was remanded to en-kilt worn by competitors, for soil, should be able to supply
able the police to effect more ar- Scotsmen have never been troubed with the seasonal dictates of fash- Macao and environments with its
rests.
ion. There has never been any question as to whether the kilt had
Lesson in Hongkong.
,
Gang Found.
tartan
TREASURY GETS EASY £100,000.
FROM GREYHOUND RACING CRAZE,
EX-KING SEEKS THRONE.
WAITING FOR CALL FROM GREECE.
WAS
Bucharest, Sept 9.
with funds, Again supplied natural products, receiving in When societies, are so wides-
former King George of Greece is exchange the products of local in-pread as these are it is impossible
to be worn two inches longer or reported to be seeking to regain dustry, some of them of wide im- to say who are in them and who
The the throne from which he
by revolutionalists in portance, such as native preserves, are not. Common rumour is that to work. It is a melancholy re- shorter during any season. which in native communities find Chinese in government employ areflection that Hongkong, though on effect of any curtailment or evicted
be disastrous. 'It' an excellent market. A native just as likely to be under secret the doorstep of the territories from lengthening of this picturesque December, 1923.
George is known to be in fre- touch with Influential preserve factory Wad recently society influence as those outside which most of the "bad hats" garb would erected at Patane (Macao), and It, 30 the case may be one in which come, has far less crime than Sin- would also be ludicrous if the vil- quent
of course, Inge blacksmith and the Police Greeks in Athens. He has been ita production for one year has European officials have to a large gapore. There are, already been sold to Chinese extent to work alone. In this con- murders and robberies, and acca- champion had to toss the caber quoted as saying, "The Greek firms in America.
nexion the experience of Hong-sional street shootings, but there arrayed in drab and undignified people will soon sicken of the re- The city is undergoing a com- kang may be of interest. A year is not the wholesale lawlessness trews. There is, however, a Scot volutionary leaders," and call me plete change. Asphalt roads are or so ago, when Hongkong was which is to be found here. The tish proverb that you "canna tak back." Associated Press, being made in substitution for suffering from a good deal of law- difference between two places so the breaks off a Hielan'man," but some primitive systems. Electri-lessness, the experiment was made similarly situated is striking, and if any attempt is made to take city is available at any time, and of bringing in about two hundred prompts the reflection that there the kilk off this same individual HOW MUCH DO YOU at present 98 per cent of the Chinese, from. Wei-hal-wei to be must be something wrong in Sia trouble will be brewing. local industries are electrified trained as police and it was found gapore's The Power Station was recently that they turned out remarkably Hongkong can be kept in fair or- equipped with A further 1,000 well. North and South do not mix der and Singapore cannot. If it is B.H.P. "Diesel generating set. in China, and these Wet-hai-wel which reflects the constant in- men had nothing in common with creasing demand for power from the people against whom they had the developing city.
Apropos, it will be opportunate
-.
Administration when
true, that outside advice is to be sought Ilongkong appears to be the place to seek it rather than India or Ceylon, and we are sure that
BRITAIN RECEIVES
£5,000,000.
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS,
The following general know? ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Express.
Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 11 of this issue.
What is a light-year?
e What is an elephoni's trunk? .
3 What are hormonest
Which in the swiftest bird?·
the experience of the Hongkong REPAYMENT OF WAR DEBTS. to state that the repair work of years back considered na quite pro-Government would gladly be plac
London, Sept. 15. fallen aerials due to collapsingsperous.
ed at the Straits Settlements' dis- trees, etc. was most excellently
Ample, facilities are given to all posal. A situation in which shoot-
The Italian Government has organized and performed, light desirous of doing business in inge, are of almost daily becur- duly paid to the British Govern- having been again supplied to the Macae, and now that the harbour rence and Chinese openly express ment to-day a sum of £2,000,000, elty on the night following the can be safely relied upon to stand their dread of the powers which being the fourth instalment pay- typhoon.
the most unfavourable weather rule Chinatown surely indicates able under the Italian war debt The population of the town in conditions, and the authorities that more resolute action is need- funding agreement of January 27, 1918 averaged 80,000, and in 102:
have the development of the it reached 167,000, almost double Colony well at heart, it is to be ed. The boycott movement wore 1926.
itself out; disorderly processiona
The French Government also in 9 years.
Due to well known facts, busi- of the XVI and XVII centuries, ure inspired by agitators were effe paid to-flay a sum of £3,000,000 to miss in 1926 was somewhat dull in store for his Colony, which tively taken in hand. It is time
come from? In 1927, however, an ascendant stands as a brilliant land-mark of now for the authorities to deal the British Government: as the
French war debt.-British Wire- 11 What is hay fever! tendency was registered, and stati-
Lega.
Je How long may a tree live?· stics shows an average superior to the pioneers of civilisation in the firmly with the secret societies third payment on account of the 10 Where did the oxygen of the air
Far East-H. M. T: MACHADO, which terrorise the Chinese popu-
lation. the corresponding periods of some
(Macao).
hoped that better days, those days
0
What is the centro of the earth? What becomea of a stag's cast antiere?
7 What is the bird's ncat soup?
8 Why is the sea salt?
What is the use of wuapał
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