THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, -- THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928.
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Singapore, Aug. 8. Sensational rumours are rent in Singapore féllowing the disastrous outbreak of fire at the Sumbawn Road factories of Mr. Tan Kah Kre yesterday event.
It is suggested that the build- luga were deliberately fired by Communists as an act of revenge. for Mr. Tan Kab Kee's refusal to contribute to their funds, and stories of the existence of a were being circulated yesterday morning.
The fire was one of the fiercest ever seen in Singapore, It com- pletely destroyed a factory three hundred feet long, one hundred feet wide, and two stories high packed with inflammable materials and valuable michinery.
The binze was visible all over Singapore, and attracted thoo- Bands of spectators, while motorists caught in the torrential
And downpour
thunderstorm which passed over other parts of the island saw a spectacular glow, with an ccensional fonatain of aparks, against the lenden sky,
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Singapore, Aug. 7.
The adventurous side of police work In Singapore was illustrated by the capture during the week-end jat Rochore of four runmen, who desperately resisted the police and, in the case of two of them, attempt. ed to use their pistols,
The men wero captured by Mr, C. II. Nicol, officer in charge of Ro- chore Police division, and Inspector Cowie, in a Victorin' Street house.
The men were in a room on the second floor, and when the officers forced the door three of them were lying on a bed. The fourth was sented on a chair. The European The first motor waterbout In W. Macfarlane and A. Macfarlane, oflicers were accompanied by a rates will be sold until September the Colony, built to the order of Dairy Farm: 1. E. Hoare, Supt. party of plain clothes men, 21 and will be valid for the return the Union Waterboat Company, Cosmopolitan Dock; C. C. Stark, One of the gunmen surrendered, massage up to three months from was inspected by a large and re- Vacuum 'Oil C6.; Capt. A but the other three put up a deter- date of issue, by any steamer of presentative gathering yesterday C. Kennedy, Marine Supt, Indo- mined resistance. Two of them the American Mail Line, or Dollar afternoon when an inspection and China: Messrs. W. Sanderson, were armed, one with a pistol with Steamship Line (Round World-Ser-demonstration took place at Little Supt. Engineer, Indo-China; J. eight rounds in the magazine and vice).
Sai Wan, on the Invitation of Crooktdake, M. R. Bell and one in the chamber, and the other A vessel of one of these lines Messrs. Dodwell and Co., Ltd, Sturgeon. Hongkong and Wham- with a fully-loaded revolver. Both sails from the ports to which the The boat, "al Yat," has been pon Dock Co.; A. L. Shields, men, drew their wenpóns, but were reduced rates apply, every few constructed by the Hongkong and Shewan Tomes & Co., C. Gordon finally overpowered.
Whampuu, Dock Co., and is equlp-|Mackie, Gibb days.
Livingstone: J. Another firearm and a dagger pod with Gardner Engine and au- Johnstone, Sup... Union Water were found under a mattress, and xillaries, supplied by Messrs Boat Co.; T. G. Weali, N. Owen, the man who was scated on a chair Dodwell and Co., and installed by R. K Valentine, M. A. Johnson had a danger. It is believed that the Dock Company. The vessel, and 1. G. Dodwell, Dodwell and the gang were in the room prepara- tory to setting out on a robbery! which in design follows the usual Co. practice of waterbonts, is capablę
They were remanded before the The most interesting part of the Second Police Magistrate (Mr. of carrying 270 tons of fresh
concerned the water and has a speed of slightly demonstration aver seven knots. It replaces one pumping auxiliaries, which are of of the old steam hoats and is the a specially adapted type so as to Much amusement was caused at first of the type to be engined give varying speeds of pumping,
internal combination en- Half the party was conducted. the Kowloon
this with an Magistracy
by the launches "Choi Chuk" and morning when an elderly Chinese Kine.
Much interest was displayed by Vnemum 2," boll Gardner engine. couple who were fined $2 each for hawking in Kimberley Road, which those present, among whom were launches, which were kindly lean- is withiti market limits, had an the Capt. Supt. of Pollen, Cindr. Jed for the occasion by the Kow! argument about the surname of B. Newill, Deputy Harbour Mus-loon Wharf and Godown. Company the wornati.
ter; Mr. Chittenden, Government and the Vacuum Oil Comunny Office; N. respectively. The remainder of On each being fined $ the man Marine Surveyor's informed his Worship that they Garland, Government Marine Sur-the party travelled by the "Tean were husband and wife.
veyor; W. S. Bailey, Bailey and Cheang" and Diana."
Bathing was later enjoyed, and On discovering that the sur-Co., Ltd.; C. F. Mendham, Bailey No official opinions to the names of the two defendants were and Co., Ltd.; A. E. Stone and the company was entertained to cause of the fire is held at present, the same, his Worshi asked the W. A. Butterfield, A.P.C.; J. A. ten and refreshments. although the Fire Brigade officers woman what her name was. She Shaw, Standard Oil Co.; F. W. suggest that spontaneous combus-insisted that it was, Young, the James, Marine Sun. B. and S.
Crapnell, F. tion was not "impossible, It is same as the man's, whereupon the stated in some quarters that aihusband reprimanded her for her About 6.30 an 'explosion wafoolishness and said that her heard and a column of flame shotame was Chan. into the air.
Apart from the danger to Mr. Tan Kah Kee's entire group of factories around Sumbawa Road, which represent a total capital of nhoul $8,000,000, there was a very real mennee to the congested shop house district of the Rochore Canal, and the successful isola tion of the flanies must be ranked as a magnificent achievement for the Singapore Fire Brigade.
Awe-Inspiring Sight,
KOWLOON COURT.
"Why should i tol his Worship This wat net confirmed by Mr. that my name is Chan when it is Tan Kah Kee this morning, In Young?" asked the woman of her conversation with a Straits Thates husband, who then track his representative, but at any rate the
fire started in the felt hat factory
wife's hands and told þer that that was not her name.
and spread with amazing quick- His Worship, remarked that they
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THE HARMONY CLUB.
AN ENJOYABLE INAUGURAL
GATHERING, ·
A very enjoyable function was held in the Harmony Club, Chimn Building, last evening to mark the opening of the Clab quarters by Dr. S. W. Tso, LL.D., O.B.E. The Harmony Club is a reorganisation of the Chinese Philharmonic So- elety which was formed last year. The Club room, tastefully furnished with green and Ivory fountain pen. He threw the docu-cane furniture and green wall hangings, was crowded from 7.30 ments from him on the appearancem. by members and their friends the officers, Incriminating who drank heartily to the success documents were found on two, of the Club after a pleasant tile discourse by Dr. Tao on the attitude of Chinese towards music and the great importance of cal- tivating harmony-in other senses
of
other accused,
than muaic.
the
Givhly evidence regarding these documents, Mr. Gatfeld, Chinese Secretariat, said they appeared to When the firean arrived were presumably man and wife
be the papers of a branch of the en the scene'ten minutes later the and had got their surnames mixed in Singapore are being put by Com South Seas Labour Union. There
As a memento of the occasion, flames were through the roof all
up. The fines in each case were munists was shown in a case were instructions on how to carry
a model piano ash-tray, silver along the factory,
which came before the District out propaganda, and there avns, When the roof fell in the blazeresfuced to $1.
[Judge (Mr. J. L. McFall), last week. among other things, a statement mounted and sultably, inscribed, rose to, a tremendous height, and the spectacle, as the henvy!
Twenty Hylams were produced that picket parties would be re-Was presented to Dr. Tso, and the machinery came crashing down, CRUELTY TO FOWLS. an a charge of being members of warded with $20 for dealing with gathering then repaired to
building of the Chinese Compra- wits an awe-inspiring one.. There
unlawful society, and Chief the heads of traitors and leaders of more spacious rooms in the same
the Kuomintang, was a strong wind blowing from
dores' Association, kindly lent for Juspector Prithvi Chand said that
Is Honour: Dealing with the the evening, whore dinner for the men, and twice the big factory 【FIVE FOUND DEAD IN CRATE (when Mr. O, Onract, head of the
bonds? on the west side of Sumbawa Road:
CL.D., and witness raided the
Witness:- suppose he means over sixty members and their guests was served. Later, the caught alight, but each time it
Charged with cruelty to chic Phui Yok Hylam School in Kal-
cutting off their heads. was saved by the firement. People kena by overcrowding, a, Chinese lang Road on July 12 they found a
All the acessed said they had following concert programme was dance in the neighbouring shophouse pleaded that the fowls were im-meeting in progress of what was
submitted, followed by a and buildings were cleared out by ported Fato the Catony from War later discovered to be a Communist gone to the school to meet friends. which was kept up long after mid- In reply to His Honour, Chief night: Pianoforte solo, Mr. Harry the police, and the firemen als how and that they had na con-organisation.
Court Inspector Nicol said that no Ore; violin solo, Miss Neesa Long; sucereded in saving valuable pro-trel nyie the manner in which the Against the first accused was a list was found on which the names song, Mr. Li Chor Chi; anxaphone perty at both ends of Sumbawa sellers sent the fowls to Hongkong further charge of managing an un- of the accused appeared us of soló, Misss Mina Long; violin duet, Road and on the canal bank,
The police informed the Magis
meeting. Started in Empty Factury.
trate that 75 chickens were found awful society, and it was stated persons present at
Recitation, Miss Necsa Long; Bong, In, a erate that should hold at the that when the C.III. party entered The accused were arrested there, Mesara, S. B. Tan and H. S. Yung; Mr. Alfred Lee; planoforte solo, The cause of the fire is the more most only 50. Moreover there he was presiding at the meeting and if s mysterious in that the first factory, was no matting at the bottom of from a rostrum. Minutes, freshly at the documents it would be plain Prof. E. Gualdi,
Messrs. Harry Hong Sling and where it started, had been closed the crate. Five of the fowls were entered, were before him, and that a meeting was in progress.
Li Chor-chi, the energetic Chair for a month pending the removal found dent.
man and Secretary of the Club, with their supporting Committee are to be congratulated on the successful debut of their Club which promises to be the rendez- vous of the artistic section of the Chinese community.
of chinery, When it was six-
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The defendant said the shipping
covered it had got much a hold people would not allow them to
it
wharfinger
that any attempt at extinguishing handle the chickens while on
und was hopeless,
it board so that, any intention to quickly spread through a store transfer the fowls to regulation containing thousands of pairs of crates was out of the question. completed shoes, a rubber con- H Worship:-Then you can do
the it on the wharf! pounding department, and power station, Two sources of Defendunt: The great danger were the fuel off would not allow that. tank of the power station, contain.. Inspector Clarke, prosecuting, ing about two hundred gallons, said that he was sure that the and two underground benzino | wharfinger would not ruise any ob tanks. Fortunately the efforts of | jection to the chickens being trans“, the firemen in keeping these tanks, forred to proper baskets drenched with water were success on the wharf. ful. There were two boilers on
the premises, but one was not in ase, and the fire in the other imme.
whilst
A line of $15 was Imposed.
diately quenched, so that possible was also gutted. This "station supplied power for the entire explosions were averted,
The factory which was destroy-group of factories, and Mr. Tah ed had a capacity of 12,000 pairs Keele arranging to use a 300 h.p. of shoes a day, and as eighty retail oil engine in his other shoe fac- stores in Malaya, China the Dutch [tory and obtain the balance of the Indies, and other countries depend required power from the. Munici- on theso factories for their goods, pality. Fortunately the Majority it is satisfactory to know that Mr. of the stock was not affected, Tan Kah Kee is arranging to speed Five material stores are intact, up production in the old factory and four other stores, containing to meat a demand of 15,000 pairs 650,000 palms of shoes, will form a a day if necessary.
1,000 Unemployed.*
useful reserve. Of 000 sewing machines only 187 were in the |ravaged" area," and of three main About a thousand men and wo-departments only one was affectel.
Tho buildings, stock men have been thrown out of em-' ploymont, but Mr. Tan Kuh Kee is machinery affected were insured arranging to employ them In ahifts, for a total of $389,000-machinery and also to feed them while they $200,000, buildings 879,000 and are out of work. About 160,000 stock $110,000. The risk da shared pairs of shoes awaiting shipment by a number of companies and no were destroyed, and also raw single firm is likely to Jose heavily. rubber stock valued at $30,000. The building has been quoted at a The power station plant, which special rate by the Tariff Com- consisted of two 330 h.p. Ruston-mittees of Insurance Companies Hornby engines and two 250 h.p. because the premises are situated Thagye engines, was valued it in what is regarded as a confingra- $100,000, and a huge switchboard on area.
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Honour looked
"Gee, I'm tired, I'll do well to struggle through the next
chorus."
"Goin' to the dance after the show ?"
"Sure, wouldn't miss it."
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FRAUDULENT SALE OF
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Ipoh, Aug. 9. Gulab Singh, a Sikh clerk who was temporarily engaged for the sale of sweep tickets at the recent charged Ipoh race meeting, was before the maglstrate with the fraudulent sale of 42 $5 ticketa which had not been included in the draw.
The tickets were all sold to an- othor Sikh, who accidentally dis covered that his tickets were un- like the series drawn and there- upon interviewed the Club officials, The search for the clerk was un- successful for several days, but he was eventually arrested in Penang, having shaved his head and beard, changed his name to Georgo Stovens, and tried to secura a job on an outgoing steam-
or.
Perak Turf Club officials gave evidence in the police court, and the accused was sentenced to six months, rigorous imprisonment, It transpired during the hearing that he had previously worked as R stationmaster with the F.M.S. RailwaysStraits Times..
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