TWO HOURS' HEAVY RAIN.
PARTIAL COLLAPSE OF HAPPY
VALLEY HOUSE.
records
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
BRITISH NOTE TO.
WASHINGTON,
BERMUDA TREATED AS IF AMERICAN.
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1923.
MUSICAL JOTTINGS.
NO MORE LICENCES.
Big Works Recently Recorded- Backhaus and Chopin's *Studies-Lane, Crawford's Trio.
'MAGISTRATE, DOUBTS WISDOM
OF DECISION,
was
When a Chinese woman brought before Lt. Col. F. Eaves, Washington, May 3.
acting Arat Magistrate, this morn- On April 6 last Sir Esme Ho-
[BY "ALLEGRO."] ing, charged with hawking sweet NATHAN ROAD IN DARK ward sent a Note to the State De
potatoos without a licence, the partment reciting the facta re-
Schumann's Quintet for Plane police told his Worship that the Hongkong has been visited ported to him by the Governor of and Strings, which has been re-Hawkera Department were not is- quite a "heavy fall of Bermuda concerning the entry into recorded electrically by the Victor saing any new llechces and even if rain within the last twenty- the harbour of St. George of the Company, should be included in the woman had tried to obtain one four hours, the
up coastguard cutters Travis and the library of every gramophile, she would have falled,
Ile Worship:-I don't know how Fuller Maitland says that it has till noon to-day showing an aggre- Cuyahoga.
It gate of 2.29 inches at the Royal! The two vessels, without resort-earned for itself n position second person is to live like this. Observatory.
ing to the usual courtesy of ask-only to the finest works seems better to have every man As is to be expected, the falling permission to enter, which is Beethoven.. "Ilere in England, and woman in the Colony licensed rather than to allow them to go has not left the Colony free of the restriction imposed under in-has outlived the howls of execra
The Magistrate imposed a fine untoward occurrences, the partial ternational law upon arned ves. tion with which it was at fire.about to stenl. collapse of a house at Happy St. George as if it was an Ameri sels of another nation, went into
of $2. Valley, fortunately unattended by any casualties, being reported. can port and remained there for Otherwise, there have been no several days, but without notify- ing the authorities their reason notifications of serious damage for being there. to road surfaces or buildings,
although some minor landslides
havo, occurred.
Until six o'clock this morning, the Observatory reports slight drizzle, on and off, but after that hour the rain increased in inter- .sity until 7.30. In the course of
the next hour, an inch of rain foll, and from 8.30 to 9.30 à fur- ther .69-inch.
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It will be observed that within the period of two hours, there fell practically 75 per cent. of the past twenty-four hours' fall.
years.
House CollapsES.
Towards four'o'clock this man- ing, residents in an adjacent block of buildings, including a number
of
at the present time no more greeted by the sapient critics, and genuinely popular piece of con certed music can be found, unlest
it be the Kreutzer Sonáta of BETTER WEATHER PROMISED Beethoven. And it is not only beloved and admired by cultivated.
SINGAPORE'S FIRM STAND.
SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR CRIMINALS.
"CAT” NOW IN VOGUE.
aro
It is clear from a perusal of the sentences inflicted at the present session of the Singapore Assizes (says the Straits Times) that the determined to authorities stamp out crimes of violence in Singapore with no tender hand. The following are some of the gen- unces that have been recorded to
date:
Ponal servitude for life and 21 strokes of the cat for a Chineno convicted of possession of acdi- tious literature and explosives,
Seven years and 24 strokes for a Chinese convicted of attempted murder.
Seven years and 15 strokes for offence. two Chinese convicted of a similar Seven years and 12 strekes for a Chinese convicted of armed rob-
between the British and American ed, though, of course, a more states: The anti-cyclone has weak-
The informal agreement made
musicians, but it can also be enjoy. To-day's observatory report Governments, permitting American Coastguard cutters to enter Balin-limited degree, by the general ened and is central to the south of man waters, does not extend to the public, and even by the lowest Tokyo. The Hainan depression is Bermudas, and consequently the class, Rocially speaking, that can now central over the Gulf of Tong-bery. passage of American vessels ia be got together, as has been proved king. Another depression has de- governed by the established rules over and over again, when it has veloped to the cast of Formosa. been played to audiences in the Bie, forecast up to noon to-morrow East End of London, and listened la: South-east winds, moderate; to with the greatest and most overcast, with rain at first, improv- evident pleasure."
ing later.
of International law.
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be avoided if officers of the Const guard were instructed to respect the law of nationa..
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Ten years and 24 strokes for four Chinese convicted of armed gang robbery.
two Chinese convicted of being in Three years and 12 strokes for
possession of arms!
Six years and 24 strokes for a Chinese bomb-thrower.
had 'n
The State Department has now replied to Sir Esme Howard's Note of April 5,, which incidentally the Department takes pains to explain
Another big work recorded for was not a "protest," but was the first time (by H.M.V.) and the Squire Celeste Octot, who merely an informal Note. This is Brahms' Violin Concerto, played Come into the Garden, Maud. which flogging was ordered, and
unfortunately chose.Killarney and
"These are only the cases in somewhat of a 'quibble. Towards 8.30 a.m., within the
by Kreisler with the Berlin State Sir Esmic Howard's was, of Orchestra.
The recording is Perhaps the most popular records it will be noted that they are all first, two hours of the downpour, something approaching a cloud-course, worded in friendly an- splendid for although there is lighter vein will be the "Song cases in which violence was either burst occurred over Kowloot For Losy for which he is noted in all work the fnstrument is not pushed organ, six songs by Layton and to a rather general impression, the Ruage, and couched in the cour-heavy orchestration and in the its" in four parts played on the used or contemplated. Contrary half-an-hour before the downpour his communications. renched its greatest intensity, the less, it called attention to the flag and passage-work, the violin part Dwyer on a double-aided 10 inch, 24, is by no means a
Neverthe- to the fore by marked technique Johnstone, and a humorous parody highest number of strokes order- on Broadcasting by Clapham and ed by M. Justice Sproule, namely mainland was shrouded in a pall of rant breach of international law, comes through quite distinctly.
record for semi-durkness, and buses on their and the implication was there The composition is a favourite
Singapore, this number having ordinary-routes had to use their
Chopin's Studies ari always been frequently, imposed in the headlights. It brightened at plain enough that friction would among Brahms admirers.
being recorded by different planists past though not in recent years. o'clock, however, but the rain pour
This being Schubert's centenary, have done one of the sets (Op. 10)roughs of the worst type, accus- but for the first time, the H.M.V. The arrival from South China of ed stendily down, almost a third
all the Companies are turning out of an inch being added to the
Mr. Kellogg has now informed a fair number of records of his systematically, and next month's tomed to the use of arms and care- gauge before eleven o'clock.
our Ambassador that the cutters works. While, Schubert wrote list will contain the twelve Studies less of human life, has, however, went into St. George not to wateli Bonte beautiful things, esneriscomprising that opus, played by forced the Government to make great use of the cat and the rotan The collapse referred to occur stress of weather, having encoun- he also wrote many things which several sets. We shall then await has been used very effectively In
rum-runners, but were driven by noted for their flow of melody, Backhaus on three records.
hope Moutrie's have ordered for crimes of violence. The cat red at an old house in Happy tered severe storms on their, pau-have not become popular. His Valley. Situated at 75, Wongneisage and being short of fuel and songs, are his principal contribu-the twelve Studies, Op. 25, which England to deal with gangsters chong Road, below Broadwood provisions and in need of repairs. tion to Musle, yet the ramophone are equally attractive. Backhaus and participators in the white Ridge, it is an old red-brick build-
companies have so far practically has already recorded Op. 10, slave traffic, and there is no rea ing, familiarly known as "Cam-
The Rent Culprit. -
Nos. 1, 2, 7 and 12. ignored them.
Recently son why it should not be equally Both 1.M.V. and
Paderewak! hus given us No. 3 effective here. Although it is bridge House." It is dilapidated It is one of a long series of Columbia have brought out this and Moiseiwitch Nos, 4, 10 and 11, not quite as terrible an ins- and has not been occupied for Notes that has passed between the month his C major symphony while No. 5 (the Black Key Study)trument as it was in the days
Embassy and the State Depart-What a pity that they so frequent-
been frequently played, when each of its nine lushes ment. The fault appears to lie ly produce the same works almost as
lenden weight nt 11:0 not with the State Department at the same time, when there is lowever. Nos. 6, 8 and 9 will be but the Treasury, or rather the such a mass of music of merit un-quite new to the gramophone end of it the cat is still à punish- consiguard service. The State recorded.
In the notes supplied catalogues, I think, and at any rate ment which will make any Chinese a crash, as a portion of the veran Department, apparently anxious to with the symphony we read that it is worth having the whole set desperado think twice before he when Mendelssohn tried so that they may be played with preys upon society, and Govern- dan on the left hand side gave avaid friction, but having no con- way, and with it tore down por- trol over the Treasury, and Pro- rehearse the work in England in out interruption, as they are on ment has the full support of public tions of the outer wall.
hibition enforcement being in the 1844, the orchestra was restive in any planists' programmes. It is opinion, European and Asiatic, in The house stood back from the hands of an extreme Prohibition- the first three movements buta pity that Buckhaus is the pianist using this instrument to strike ter main road, with a small garden ist, no remonstranen was effective, when they came to the Finale with chosen to interpret Chopin, forror into the hearts of the denizens
its persistent tripleta their although he is absolutely a wizard of our Singapore underworld. plot in front, and the debris was
Coastguard vessels are usually behaviour became positively in- of the keyboard and can probably distributed inside this area, under the command of warrant leaving the rond clear of olistruc officers, as were the Travis and the obtaining an adequate perform of the Studies with as great an sulting, and, despairing of ever overcome the technical dimeuities
Hundreds of business people in Cuyahoga, and these men, ignor- There were 110 casualties, unt of international law, are en-ance, Mendelssohn withdrew the anae and play them as faultlessly Manchester closed their shops to work. Some people heari the as any living pianist, his inter-attend the funeral of Dr. Salomon, altho
search was made for trusted with delicate missions re- symphony will be mystified that pretations are cold, unemotional who for forty-five years was Rabbi coolies, who have sometimes used quiring not only much tact but its firat reception was unfavour-und exact far more suited to at the Great Synagogue in that acity. Special police were required. the building to sleep in during the great courtesy,
secret Bach and Beethoven than to able; others will have a Under the circumstances, it is
to control the dense crowds. The night.
those unruly romantic composer. sympathy with
Lord Mayor or not surprising that the Colonial musicians. After the death of
Manchester "Cambridge. louse" is an
I am glad to see that. Lane, and the City Stipendiary at- extremely old building, and has a authorities should be irritated by Schubert in poverty-this Avm-
the elty the high-handed proceedings of reputation for being haunted,'
the coastguard officers, and that phony, together with other un- Crawford's Restaurant has again tended, Its dilapidated condition has
a non-jazzmast. The Chief Rabbi, Dr. Hertz, for 8/6. It was discovered and providing music of been hastened by he-wood hun-Sir Esme Howard should have to Pished manuscripts, was sold made a move in the direction of at the Town Hall, was it ha ters who have stripped the interior write Notes to the State Depart performed by Schumann ten years nature, by engaging a trio which travelled from London to take the on the whole is an improvement service at the synagogue. One on anything heard there. For a hundred motor-cars were required almost bare of wood work. The ment, voicing the complaints of later
the Colonial authorities. flooring was torn up in many parts,
Among the other Columbia re-time, jazz-playing was again the to convey the mourners to the while even the boards of the stair.
always support its men and en-cords is Brahms' Piano Quintet (a order of the day, and I understand burial ground at Crumpaali. case were cut away,
deavour to discredit the reliability beautiful · work). It has been it was difficult to get together a of the evidence presented on the done before but this is the best trio to play music of a rather There are the better class. The fact that they other side, the situation might be recording of it.
contributions by made easier. The case of the Isle usual
Pati-persevered until they get one of June, which was fired on by a man, who plays hymns and fox-shows that they can be progressive constguard cutter off Miami, is trots on the organ, St. George'e in other spheres besides those of still pending, as further affidavits Chapel Choir, Cassado, the cellist, tiffins and teas.
of police officers, were startled by
Lion.
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If the coastguard service did not
For many years the house had the reputation of being tenanted by ghosts, until public imagination was disillusioned by police officers who, informed of mysterious tap pings and hammerings proceeding from the interior, went in to in- vestigate. They morely found two "Chinese making firewood of the of her master and passengers re-
flooring and other wood-work.
garding the actions of the cutter.
MOTOR CAR TOUTS.
THREE MORE FINED TO-DAY.
Once again a number of motor car louts appeared at the Magis- tracy this morning for creating a nuisance to the public.. The venue of police activities yesterday seem- ed to have been at the Ming Yuen Gardens, where no fewer than three touts were arrested.
Appearing before Lt. Col. Enves this morning, two of these men were fined $2, whilst the third, who had a previous conviction, was fined $5. Another man who was caught touting outside the Talping. Theq- tre was fined $2.
are being forwarded to the Em- bassy to support the contentions
PRINCE'S OWN AEROPLANE.
MACHINE RESERVED FOR HIS USE.
In future the Prince of Wales, who is a group captain in the R.A.F., may use a Service nero- plane for getting to some of his engagements out of London.
For some time a Bristol Fighter has been kept in readiness at Aerodrome for the Northolt Prince's use, and a week or two ago he went for a flight.
"His Royal Highness will only use the machine, if at all," said Sir Godfrey
Prince's Thomas, the secretary, "if he has a public en- ex-gagement in some part of the coun- try to which there is not a con- yenient railway service, and if there is an aerodrome near."
It is advertised that the chango banke will be closed to the transaction of public business on Monday, June 4,
Bir Godfrey added that there was no question of the Princa learning to fly so as to be able to pilot the machine himself.
In connexion with the collection of funds for a Chinese Faculty In The machine has been already the Hongkong University threo named by the mechanics as the more contributions were re "Prince's Own." ceived yesterday; from Fung Wei-
shing $500, and $300 from each
of the following; the Kung On
Over 500 people attended the
Insurance Company and the funeral service at Greenwich Sincere Insurance and lavest Co. Parish Church of Sir George Row- So far the fund committee le saidland Hill, pioneer of the Rugby to have gathered $182,500.
Unton, of which he was president,
ÖLIGA, ET NGA BENICE, INC.
to
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"You can take my turn at bat; I'll watch the baby."
and
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The Advisory County Cricket Committee at Lord's approved the recommendation sub-committer's that in the senson of 1929 no county should be eligible to com- pete unless it arranges 28 matches with other counties. Percentages are to be abolished, but the method of counting points has been re- ferred back for redrafting.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
The following general know- ledge paper has boen taken from the Daily Bapress.
Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14 of this issue.
1
On what British island were a number Q people recently marooned?
(a)
2 What articles of food are 'gaso-
ciated respectively with; Melton Mowbray; (b) Cheddar (o) Cumberland; (d) Wiltshire? When was the London University founded? When was it granted
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Who wrote the following: '(a) "Landon Snow"; (b) "Cargaca";
(e) "To the Cuckoo"; (d) "O, my
Lazoo's like a red, red Roks"?
5 What tille in held by the wife of a
viceroy?
7
What is a Eurasian?
2
By whom was the National Trust
for Places of Historic Interest
and Natural Beauty formed!
8 Who were the editors of "The
New English Dictionary:
A
What two explorers given up as
fost are now reported to be aufor
10 Who said, "Military tactles
change every ten years"!
11 What colour results when oranga
und green are mixed
18 Who originated the "Blue Train"?
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