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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
OVE
TOTAL
DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER HAS NO EQUAL
SATURDAY, JULY
DAY BY DAY.
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1928.
DE FEARFUL ONLY OF THYSELF, AND STAND IN AWE OF NONE MORE THAN OF THINE OWN CONSCIENCE.-— Thomas Fuller."
LETTERS FROM HONGKONG. 12. Hongkong Lastl
It must be remembered in this cou nexion that the great, majority of these men are in military ser- vice because of poverty. A pro: posal is made that a sum of three hundred million dollars shall be raised to cover the cast of this dis
The 8.8. Kochow has been re- bandment theme, but the securing of such, a sum is clearly not olugated and is on her way back to with any sort of expectation, for world seems, nt arst blush, of littin
Hongkong.
to be an easy matter.
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The P. and O., s.. Khyber as Muckaren, Mr. P.T. Carey, brought to Hongkong Lt Col and Mas P. Nelson and Miss Roid,
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The Sanitary Board advertises in this issue a notice drawing the attention of the public to the dan- ger of eating uncooked vegetables.
One other question to which we are glad to see attention was given by the Economic Conference is that of the rehabilitation of China's railways. The suggestion put forward is that a fund shall be created for the purchasing of roll- ing stock and other equipment as well as Lig repair of permanent ways. Here again the need for action parent. We know in Hongkong of the state of disrepair Into Wald the Chinese section of the Canten-Kowloon Railway has
His Excelleney the Officer-Ad- fallen and how seriously the con- ministering the Government has dition of its rolling stock has de-appointed Captain Robert Francis the result of past Wright, Royal Artillery, to act as preciated us
his. Aide-de-Camp. NO PERIODIC REFILLING Rexlect and mismanagement. CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE
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And what is true of that Railway is equally rue of may another, The late Dr. Sun Yat-sen saw the necessity for railway development in China very many years ago, but in spite of his keen advocacy there- of, the cantry is to-day extremely ill-served in this respect. What KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd. is more, wen those-railways which
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SATURDAY, JULY 7. 1928.
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The silk forwarded from long- kong by the Empress of Canada on Jane 13th arrived in New York (St. John's Park) on July 4th, having heen 21 days in transit.
The Third Destroyer. Flotilla, which came out to Chinese waters about fifteen months ago, is leave Ing Hongkong to-morrow to rejoin the Mediterranean Fleet.
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Are you waiting, dear friend, truth, money in this part of the some panegyric of the journey's account. “Nobody ever wants you end; that we sailed in the dancing to pay. You can take a gallon of light of a lovely morning, between petral from a perfect stranger by streaks of orange on the hills, into and part friends. green grass-clad islands with the roadside and sign a chit for it "the most beautiful harbour in the K met us at the boat and intro- world that there. we found en-duced us to our hotel, abominably compassed in one small community, furnished, but pleasantly runs by the luxury of Port Said, the law a Manager and a number of excel- Port Sudan, the ent Chinese "boys." There are and order of
and merchandise 01 no worhen at all on the staffs of colours Colombo, the teeming, Chinese life chose establishments, or, if there of Singapore; and, above all, aare, they keep well out of sight, à striving, soutient, highly intelligent matter which chused Mary at first His Excellency the Officer Ad-mass of human beines such as is some slight embarrassment.. ministering the Government has not to be found in any of these How much wore wa' to pay for our room? We would stay a week. appointed Chief Inspector Walter places?
I think perhaps I will leave the The Manager suggested $12.50 Kont to be an Assistant Superin- tendent of Police
human beings for a little. Some of day. K. thought $10 a day would them you know already, for they be quite enough, and the anagor came with us in the boat. As for readily assented.
Su did Hongkong receive us the other-well, we must go warily, Quite early in my Hong- kindly, quietly, without any fuss
came across the fol- and gradually, one by one, her kong carcer lowing paragraph In a local wonders and curiosities began to paper-New arrival: "Honkong unfold themselves. At night we people, are so interested in me." made our first acquaintance with a It was this little piece of en- mosquito curtain, neatly tucked in couraving welcome that gave me all found except for one place left my first insight into that problem for us to crawl in by: In the morn- which looms as a background to all ing when the "boy" brought us our our discussious; the Civil versus ton he said "Excuse me," and earc- the Military outlook. Perhaps it fully pulled it out, tivisted it, and a. deft movement, threw it is not "Civil versus Military" at all, with but "Resident versus Newcomer," over the canopy of the bed, only that the soldier renians a new
The next day we unearthed, our comer, while the civilian is in the end absorbed:,"*"
poor old car from one of the go- However, journalists are notori downs on the wharf. We had been. hav-allowed as a special favour to bring are in exilence have been badly
ously thick-skinned, and mismanaged. In the matter of mitted into hospital yesterday, clear of bare knees, tobacco, and that we made no claim for any A butcher's assistant was nd-ing steered with circumspection it on a stcurage deck, en condition railway reform, the problem is, having been badly gored in the leg dogs, I have so far received no kind of loss. An English engineer apart from good administration, aby an infuriated bull at the Ken- withering replies.to any of my and his Chinese assistant knocked letters, beyond a perfectly justifi- the crazy crate from it and pushed financial the. Indeed, this is true nedy Town Slaughter onse.
able complaint Trom the General it off to his lair down in Yaumati of practically all the reconstruction
An order made by the Governor-Manager regarding the speed of to inspect the damage. When we Adwent there later, he had put it out question. And it is to this aspect in-Council provides that an addi- the ship that carried us. of the whole general problem that tion of 39 to the annual rate of mittedly we have taken a terrible in the sun to dry. He said when the Nationalists will now have to $108 payable by telephone sub- long time to get here, but we have, he first went to it he was repelled in the course of our journey, touch- by a storm of lea. So he took ft scribers has been approved Lurn ther attention.
ed on many scenes, and made the out and shook it and left it there. from the end of 1928.
acquaintance of one or two human We now went over it cautiously, beings whose likenesses can be The transport companies had dealt Two men who yesterday took out found without any too far-fetched with the cover of the petrol tank, two bicycles from a shop at Shamimagery within the frame, of this the number plate, and the luggage Airships and the Future.
abuipo which hire these machines little Colony.
carrier, while everything that could have rusted up, had.Curtain--of If the Nationalist Government
When Commander Burney, the ont, have failed to return, and a re-
First impressions of a sunny city the passengers or crew had also acts upon a tithe of the proposals designer of the ginnt airship port has been made to the police.
addresses should be, and usually are, gay.divested her of both lamp burners, R-100, visited America recently, he they gaye were false,
But alas for first impressions; two all her tools, the spare tyre, pump, put forward at the recently-en-visualised wonderful pessibilities
days out from Hongkong we were several nuts, and had filled every cluded Economic Conference in of travel in the future, picturing
It is notified that, at the expira-stricken, Mary and 1, with influenza, possible crevice, the whole of the superhuman inside of the car, tool-box, and hood, Shanghai, it will have done sore- the time when Transatlantic air-tion of three months, the Tinguen and it was only by
of food, and thing towards substituting order ship journeys will be common-Company; Limited will, unless effort, backed by a Dover powder, with ten, remnants
་་ for the prevalent chaos. It doet place, and when the world will be be struck off the register and the soul, that we managed to pack and assistant and went through the
cause is shown to the contrary, hot mustardy liquid for the feet, bits of torn clothing.
The engineer collected a Chinese and hot alcoholic liquid for the not require' much understanding of [mapped with airship routes. Company will be dissolved.
stagger ashore at all. We crawled motions, of rubbing one of the sad- the situation to realise that, o fur Commander Burney evidently talk.
into Hongkong as it were like looking surfaces. from the Nationalists having aced with a large measure of en- To the list of medical practi- larvae and grew into the place "Make um allee same now," ho complished what they set out to do, thusiasm, and some degree of con- tioners has been added the name of gradually, receiving our impressions said.
We left Die Chinese to his hope- their real task has not yet beenfidence, for he seems to have con- Dr. Choe Chin-haf of the Govern- as through a haze of gradually
less task, and went home in one of entered upon. That task is one vinced E's audience to the extentment Civil Hospital, Bachelor of diminishing discomfort.
Medicine and Bachelor of Survery
I was conscious at first, mainly the miraculous Fords run by a before which even the world's most that his visions have already been of the University of Hongkong. of a very hot sun and dry sandy Motor Bus Company, a type of streets and of being pulled about in vehicle which I suppose will soon be experienced statesmen might quail; translated into concrete schemes
for the mass production of craft on The Gazette contains the draft rickabas by wonderfully clean, well no more, either in Hongkong or in for it is no less than the rehabilita-the lines of that just completed at of an Ordinance to amend far-with them a clean towel, sometimes Kowloon they are already being re- set-up Chinese coolles, who carry any other quarter of the globe. In tion of a huge country which has Lowder Aerodrome. If, however, ther the Companies Ordinance, been in the throes of civil war for Americh is a trifle premature, 1911. Its object is to reduce the in one hand, sometimes wound placed by enormously efficient Ley- to whom, for lands, carrying. I don't know how round their necks, more than a decade now. All that British ambitions
passengers, are brought annual China Companies fee from every ten-minutes run, one gives many the prepent generation of China's closer to the mind and tangibly dollars of paid up capital. In the told, the purchasing power of a said, quite definitely unmagnetic, 14 cents to I cent per hundred a ten-cent piece, a coin with, we are character, is Topsy would have new leaders can hope to accomplish nearer development by the com- case "of private companies sub-penny and the exchange value of I suspect, however, that the sight is to lay the foundations for a bet-missioning of the R-100 on Thurs- stantially all the shares in which twopence halfpenny, but which of them is balm to the progressive ter era; they will have passed long day. A preliminary trial of her are held by a parent company. look to me very much more like souls of the Kowloon Residents' As- sixpence. "You will soon learn toqciation, a body whose importance before the fruits of their efforts six Rolls-Royce engines has been
agon made manifest to us completely successful, and very, It is notified for general in-packet your change from a dollar was shortly her airworthiness will formation that powerful lights like so much chicken food," said through the columns of the local be subjected to severe tests. The have been fitted on the Observa- our light-hearted friends. And in Press. results will be of supreme impor- tory radio-must, by means of which lance shee further construction the 9 p.m. timu signal will be re- depends entirely on all specifica-peated at 10 am.. and tion conditions being met. Many Hongkong Standard Time, while years of research, lessons learned the time ball is out of action. from experience, have gone to-The lights may be observed with wards the fashioning of the air-field glasses or small telescopes, ship as she now appears, and Com- mander Burney has alrendy taken
BIG PROBLEMS,
are gathered in. It is something
to the good, however, that bankers and practical men of business have been called together in Shanghai for the purpose, of offering their advies, and we sincerely hope that something tangible will rosult from their obviously sincere discussione of the problems which lie ahend.
One of the biggest issues to be faced, of course, is that of troop disbandment. Under this heading, the Economic Conference suggested
that the Army should be reduced
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of
|HONGKONG FINANCES.
FURTHER INCREASE IN
BALANCE..
THE TEST BANKING RETURNS.
The road running west from
The returns of the average it for gmnted, more or less, that Hongkong Electric Sub-Station, amount of bank notes in circula-tinue to make a satisfactory show- the verdict of the experts will be Robinson Road, to the bridge tion and of specie in reserve in ing. The credit balance at the favourable. A ship as large as an under Hatton Road south of Inland Hongkong, during the month end-end of March was $5,452,167, as Atlantk liner, the R-100 is thought Lot No. 2422 is in future to be
Banks are:
Banka
Hongkong's finances stil! con-
to be capable of riding the worst known as Kotewall Road whilated 30th June, 1928, as certified by compared with $5,268,676 at the storm she is likely to encounter in the road running east from Bridge the Managers of the respective end of February." the blue vaults of the heavens, under Hatton Road south of to half a million men, and that while overy offort has been made Inland Lot No, 2422 in the direc- big schemes should be devised for by providing luxurious accommotion of Queen's Gardens will be dation is persuade passengers that the purpose of employing the dis- it is really unlikely they are in the known as Po Shan Road,
and safety another. The success
?
Averaga Amount
$26,056.244
Specia In Reserve.
revenue
During March the totalled" $1,770,546,, as against $1,689,742 for the same month last 6,900,000* year; whilst the exporditure was H. K. & Shanghal Bank 45.411.631 34,000,000 $1,576,955, compared with $1,485,- Mercantile Bank ....... 1,802,548
Chartered Bank
Tukaj
466 in March, 1927,
For the first three months' of the -year, the income Was
• In addition Sterling Securities are depoalte $5,790,255, as compared with $4,958,188 last year, the Te
ed with the Crown Agente valued at 21,274,000.
In addition Securities deposited with the spective expenditure figúros bo-
Crown Agents and Straits Government ing $1,828,849, and $3,204,550. valued at £3,818,110,"
In addition Becuriles deposited with the
Crown Agents valued £150,000.
I am sorry, to say, writes the Dean in Cathedral Notes, that Rev.
[banded soldiery on' such work as air at all, but in a much safer
G00,000$ Among the Hongkong passengers railway reconstruction, river con-place. But comfort is one thing arriving on the P. and O), 8.B. Kashmir
.........$61.768,320 40,500,000 servancy, and port development of the venture essentially depends were Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Church, Of the need for a substantial re- on the margin of safety offered: Mr. WJ. Clerk of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Lt-Comdr. J. duction in China's armies there Is confidence justified? We think Drummond, Mr. and Mrs. R. Fowler, can be no question. The country there need be no argument regard- Mr. and Mrs F.F. Jackson, Mr. and ing the superiority of lighter-than- Mrs. OJ, Kingdon, Miss H.AL Mahy, has been cursed with militarisraair machines over aeroplanes for Mr. H.V. Poarse, Mr. 8.3. Platt, for many long years now, How ocean travel, and for ather Bandmaster H. Perry, Miss A.J.. many millions of dollars have been journeys, over long distances. Smith, Mr.G.A. Sharman, Mr. S. frittered away in the upkeep of Man experiences a thrill and is Steele, Mr. and Mrs. T.S.W. West, filled with admiration by the bril- Mr. E. Ruckor and Mr. C.A. Willis.
The health bulletin of Eastern H.B. Smith of Leicester, whom I these armed forces it would be im-liant non-stop flight of Captain 15 A
ports for last week, issued by the asked to como as. our Second An possible to say; and all this non- Ferraris and Major Del Prete, the After presenting a statement of Director of Medical and Sani-sistant Chaplain, in charge of contains the St. Peter's Church has written productive expenditure has been at Italian airmen, from Italy to South
Amerie, but at best such feats are of accounts covering the first five tary Services, the expense of the people who have little more than a glorious adven-months of the year at a recent the following cases, the figures saying that he cannot accept the been ground down-under a ter ture. If aerial travel is to be meeting of the Cathedral Church, in parenthesis indicating deatha: post I have also heard from Can- (7), Phom op B. K. Cunningham, ). Westcott Body Mr. Cassidy proposed and Plague, Rangoon rifle burden of taxation for the commercialised, romance must to Pattendon seconded the fol- Penh 1 (1), Bagdad: 1 (1): House, Cambridge, who is kindly
a large extent disappear, and we mere mile of bolstering up the think that Commander: Burney's lowing resolution: That about Chelers, Calcutta, (58), Madras acting for me in England in this of self-centred War foresight will go a long way to $30,000.00 at present in, or about (9), Negapatam (13), Vizagapa-matter, that he has no one else at Lords. It is said that there are wards is end. Britain can claim to be placed a current account, tum (1), Phom Penh 8 (3), Saigon present to suggest, Ifa tells me to be far ahead of the rest of the be invested in local shares at the 1, Canton 1 (1); Small-pox, Bas-hat my brother, who goes in Sep world in the airship (field, and discretion of the Honorary Trea rah 1(1), Bombay 17 (11), Cal-tember to Cairo aa Sub-Dean, has there a every Indication that much suror. Hongkong Land vor Hopy-cuttn 16 (14), Madras: 13 (4), also so far been quite unable to more will be done in this way to kong Fire Insurance shares to be. Moulmein 1 (1), Negapatam 6 (1), find anyono to take his place in shorte Empire: communications purchased possible. The shards Rangoon, 8 (2), Pondicherry 2 (2), Nairobi, Kenya Colony, Clergy and thus bring still greater unity to be registered to the name of Belawan Delt 2, Dairen 11 (7) are hard to find, in these days, for apart from finding employment for and inderstanding into Empire the Trusters of St. John's Cathe- Mukden 1 (1), Osake 2, Beirut-4,work abroad Engiend Itself-ti
dralk. This was carried.
Bagdad 3 (1).
short of them, those disbanded, is a colossal, one relationships
ambitions
in Clina to-day close on five million men under arms. The lask of cutting this hiige Army down to the level suggested, quite