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TERRIBLE FAMINE.
PATHETIC PETITION TO HONGKONG.
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1929.
HON, MR, SOUTHORN SWORN IN.
LABOUR POLICY:
"GOVERNMENT'S DIFFI
CULTIES.
OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT. The Hongkong Chinese Chamber
London, Oct. 1. of Commerce has received from
Last evening, "an interest- Addressing the Labour Party the Famine Relief Committee. i
took place ut Conference, Mr. J. H. Thomas petition for funds to assist in the ing ceremony. work of relieving the suffering of Government House, where the stressed the dimculties of tackling the millions of people of Kansu Hon. Mr, W. T. Southern, C.M.G., the unemployment problem, and and Shensi, who are on the verge was sworn in by His Honour, Mr. said that despite the flattery of starvation, as a result of the Justice Wood, upon taking office heaped on the Labour Government, combined effects of civil war, as Officer Administering the Goa real attack was coming on the plague, floods, drought and ban-vernment. The appointment was unemployment issue, when Parlia
ditry.
At the monthly meeting held yesterday afternoon the Secretary of the Chamber read the letter to the assembled members. The relief Committed explained that in 92 districts, Having a population of several million people, the famine conditions were 20 severs that after having consumed all the things eatable they could find, the people had been forced to fall back on the seed set aside for the crops for the coming. Benson, Bo that without outside assistance in the
provision of more seed they will not be able to plant their lands,
50,000 People Perish.
The petitioners state that by far the worst conditions exist in the Mo Kung district' which was badly devastated by war and then stricken with the prolongued drought. It is claimed that from
40,000 to 50,000 people perished in this district alone, and 90 por cent of the remainder of the population are famine-stricken.
published as a notification In a Government Gazette Extraordinary issued yesterday evening, in which the following appointments were also gazetted: -
Mr. D. W Tratman to act as Colonial Secretary.
Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones to be Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils.
Captain A. J. L. Whyte, Royal Engineers, to be Private Secretary to the Officer Administering the Government..
The following officers to be Afdes-de-Camp to the Officer Ad ministering the Government
Captain P. Perfect, K.O.S.B., to be Alde-de-Camp.
W. R. Scott, Assistant Stendent of Police to be Honorary. Aide-de-Comp.
Subadar Major Sultan Ahmed; 3/15th Punjab Regiment, to be Honorary Aide-de-Camp.
Subadar Major Mungul Singh. Hongkong and Singapore Brigade, R.A. to be Honorüry Aide-de- Camp..
CORRESPONDENCE.
A Cruet Nuisance.
To The Editor of Hongkong ·
Telegraph.]
The Famine Relief Committee have established a number of de- "pots in the famine stricken areas where they are distributing free congee and other food stuffs. Some of the sufferers have had to travel many miles to reach these. depots and often when they arrive they drop from exhaustion and.ex- posure. Many have dropped dead at the very doors of the depots. Sir, I beg to draw attention to The one great thing needed is the perpetration of a cruel nul- funds to purchase supplies of food sance by Sang Lee and Co. tho and clothing for the coming win-contractors, with the sanction of ter and to keep the depots open, It is estimated that one depot will cost $100 a day.
After the reading" of the peti- tion by the Secretary, Mr. M. K. Lo, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Tung Wah Hos- pital announced that that institu- tion had already sent $12,000, Hongkong money, to the Relief Committee and that he would do all he possibly could to assist the Chamber of Commerce to collect
funds.
The Chamber passed a resolu- tion for the appointment of a joint committee of the members of the Chamber, the Tung Wah Hospital and other 'Chinese charitable ins- titutions to carry on a campaign for the collection of funds. This subject is to be left to the decision of the executive committee of the Chamber which is to meet in day
or two.
the Public Works Department, on the residents along Kai Tack Road and that neighbourhood. A few months ago, sputtering engines at tached, to earth trucks began to operate, from morning till night, sending volumes of suffocating smoke into the houses; but this in convenience has to be tolerated, as there is réclamation work to be done at the Aerodrome for the Government.
ment reassembled.
emphasised that progress as being made with municipal, road and colonial schemes, which were producing results, not mere ly paper talk, but providing em- ployment,
Trade Prospects.
Mr. Thomas divulged that he took a shipload of British coal on his recent visit to Canada, which the Canadian railways tested. Ha encountered opposition from Nova Scotian colliers, but brought back samples of Nova Scotian coal in order to demonstrate that a blend of British and Nova Scotian conl would beneat Canada.
He also interviewed steel im- porters, and secured a promise of orders, which hitherto he had not -announced with a view to prevent- ing Americans jumping the market and offering to undersell.
He hoped Lancashire would bene. At from his Candian trip, inasmuch as the British cotton industry was hampered by Canadian imperial preference, given conditionally upon fifty per cent. of the labour used in This the article being British. condition was impossible, as the raw cotton was mostly purchased outside the Empire. He hoped to be able to say, definitely that the raw material henceforth would be excluded from those conditions. Reuter.
BOTNIA PIRATES.
MR. WESTERHEIM'S VERY
SEVERE ORDEAL..
Shanghai, Oct. 1. Mr. Westerheim, the chief officer of the pirated as. Botnia, arrived in Shanghai this morning, and was immediately taken to hospital.
the pirates to their lair and res cued Mr. Westerheim after a sharp fight, in which there were several casualties on both sides.
When Chinese soldiers-pressed Lately, however,
on his captors, the latter conveyed these engines have been even more him to a cave, from which he at- intensively exploited and in the tempted to escape. In a fight with quiet of the evening, the nerve his guards he received severe racking noise and health-destroy blows on the head with a large ing smoke do not cease until mid-stone. The soldiers finally traced night. I have to submit that a resident is entitled to his, sleep from 9 pm, without organised dis- turbance and, that the Public Works Department should not, in the interests of the public, permit these engines to operate after that hour. The assistance of the Director of Public Works is here- real grievance.
THE NEW BANK RATE. invoked to remedy a
SAID TO ADD TO COUNTRY'S DIFFICULTIES.
A
RESIDENT.
Labour Party policy in this 'con- nexion was now supported by some London, Oct. 1.
of the leading organs in the City. That the increased bank rate Ho believed it would be possible will intensify the Government's to control credit without endanger- difheultios was omphasised by Siring the financial stability of the Oswald Monley in a speech at copatry. Hove.
At the Labour Party Conference, He declared the Bank of Eng. Mr. J. H. Thomas confessed that land, with its present power, could he was disturbed by the increase doprive two men of work for every in the bank rate, which moreover one the Government provided with was not likely to achieve its object. employment. He stated that the-Reuter.
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The military captured two of the gang and brought them to Mr.. Westerheim for identification, then summarily shot them on the beach.
Mr. Westerheim's' wounds are not expected to prove fatal..
It is noteworthy that Capt. Hanland, of the Botnia, was also battered on the head with a stone and left for dead, before the. pirates · abandoned him during their flight, but he is now recover- ing-Reuter.
A Shanghai massage of Sep- tomber 30 stated that a dramatie message was received by Messra. Wallem and Company, the Shang- hal agents for the s.s. Botnia, from Mr. Westerheim, chief officer of the boat, as follows. Leaving to-day Jardine steamer Yusang. Send motor-car to Woosung and arrange hospital as I am badly 'wounded."]
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