THE
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HONGKONG HOTELI REPULSE BAY HOTEL, PEAK HOTEL
* AND
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ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTELI MAJESTIC HOTEL
HOTELS
LIMITED.
in association with the Grand Hotel Des. Wagons Lits, Peking.
Hotel SAVOY
The Newest and Finest w Hostelry in THE Colony
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
BIG POST OFFICE
SURPLUS.
HIGHEST RECORDED IN ITS HISTORY.
WIRELESS RECEIPTS.
London, Jan. 31.
A surplus of £9,000,000 in. re- vealed in the Post Office commer- cial accounts for the year ended March last This is the highest
SATURDAY
BUILDING CRASH IN SHANGHAI.
SEVEN KILLED: MANY
INJURED.
NEW STRUCTURE GIVES WAY
ERE CEMENT SETTLES...
recorded in the history of the Post RUSH TO COMPLETE. Office.
The igures are:-Postal aur- 'plus, £9,250,000, telephone surplus, £500,000; telegraph deficit, £725,-
000.
The cash receipts for wireless licences totalled £1,358,187 against £1,234,808 for the preceding year. After 121⁄2 per cent. had been credited to the Post Office for ex penses of management, etc., balance remained of £1,179.501, of which £887,616 was paid over to the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion and £291,885 accrued to the Exchequer-British Wireless.
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etors by FRIDERICK PERCY In the City of Victoria
RUSSIA.
Shanghai, Jan. 27. - Seven men were killed out right and 11 were injured seri- ously yesterday morning in the collapse of a partially completed on building of three stories Minghong Road near the West Gate in Chapei. All those in- jured were workmen.
The accident, one of the most serious of its kind within recent months, was said to have been caused by the greed of the con- tractor who was working under heavy pressure to have the stru- ture completed within one month to earn a special bonus of $400 which had been promised by the A "TOO SENTIMENTAL" VIEW owners in the event of its hasty erection. Had the completion been delayed the bonus would have been reduced to $200.
OF LENIN,
The Soviet Union maintains what is perhajis the most complete and efficient system of control over the printed word in existence anywhere in the world. At the apex of this Byslem is the Glavlit, a sort of supreme board of censorship. Without its stamp nothing may be printed in Russin, and it decides what foreign books and periodicals may be brought into the country, The leader of the Glavlit, M Lebedev-Palyansky, recently out- lined the principles and methods of Soviet censorship.
these
Cause of Collapse. Experts from the Nantno fire brigade and foreign engineers visit ing the scene of the ghastly affair Inter in the day said that the collapse had come about through Insufficient time being allowed for the cement to harden before additional weight was put upon it in the haste to get the building completed.
The cement was still moist umt pliable, nevertheless the building was rushed and the result was that the reinforced steel girders which of "the cement formed, the core stanchious buckled under the strain and the whole affair came] down when, the "weight" grew too much.
FEBRUARY
AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS
MR. J. C. FLETCHER INVALIDED FROM SERVICE:
DEPARTURING TO-DAY,
Amongst the passengers loud- ing by the P. and O; liner Mun- tua to-day is Mr. J. C. Fletcher, of the Colony's Educational De- partment, who has been invalided out of the service. Hongkong thus loses one of its best-known schoolmasters, who has enjoyed wide popularity, amongst a large circle of friends, and colleagues.
Mr. Fletcher entered the Government service as long ago as .1916, prior to which he had bean for several years with the Ellis Kadoorie School in Canton and later with the school of the same name in Hongkong before it was taken over by the Govern ment. During the Great War, he was seconded for military service, being absent from the Colony for a period of fifteen months.
For many years past, he has been on the staff of Queen's College, teaching in the higher classes, and he will be especially remembered for his keenness in the organis- ing of school athletics.
Mr. Fletcher has also been for many years an ardent Volunteer, having held the rank of Sergeant in the Corps, and he was one of the original members of the Scot- tish Company. An enthusiastic member of the St. Andrew's So- ciety, he has served for many years on committees in connexion with the annual ball.
His many friends will hope that he may enjoy many years of health and happiness in the Old Country.
HONGKONG LOSES GOVERNOR.
(Continued from Page 1.)
"In general," he said, "books
was appointed to Governorship in 1925, when his amazing knowledge which are published. must. correa- pond with the policies of the gov-
of the Chffieae was of the greatest aid in the troublous times through ernment. When
polictes change the censorship undergoes
which he Colony was then passing. From 1809, when he came to corresponding modifications. At
a endot, Sir Cecil the present time, for instance, we
the Colony as served until 1913, a period of 14 should not permit the issue, in large and popular editions, of any works The building which was compos.years. He then saw service in which contradict the fundamentaled of garage space on the ground British Guiana and in Ceylon, economic objectives of the present floor with living quartera above, after which he returned to period: the industrialfention of the was to have been finished to-day nauume the Governorship of Hong- country and the collectivisation of and turned over to the owners and kong. agriculture. Somewhat more latin the race to get the structure tude in such matters is granted to scientific publications with limited circulation."
completed within the contracts time, the workmen were adding the finishing touches yesterday.
Whole Building Goes.
Less than one per cent, of the books which are submitted to the Glaviit are forbidden publications. This is partly because, as Mr. A score of these, plumbers, Lebedev-Polyansky remarked, carperters, masons, etc., were "people. who are hostile to the working mostly on the lower floërs Soviet regime.usually do not write yesterday morning when with a books," partly because the Glavlit sickening lurch the whole build- acts in close co-operation with the ing slid aideways and came down chief publishing houses, which are with a tremendous crash that was consequently likely to reject unsuit-heard blocks away. able manuscripts on their own initiative.
New paper Control.-
Immediately the scene was one that is difficult to describe.. Huge erowds gathered and the adjacent buildings diagorged their tenants The control of the Glaylit ex-who became panic stricken at the tends to newspapers and periodicals. Hight of what had taken place. The In the case of newspapers it is district for hundreds of yards wasS especially supposed to prevent the in utter confusion with crowds publication of military or economic milling in every direction. for a considerable time before the police could clear the scene and bring. succour, to the injured,
secrets.
.
able to cope with them and they were allowed to tear the wreckage away in the effort to locate the
His new appointment is that of Governor of the Straits Settle- ments and High Commisioner of the Federated Malay Statos, a higher salaried, and more impor tant post, but it can never be doubted that Sir Cecil's regreb at leaving Hongkong is as deep-ns that of the Cilony at losing him.
FRENCH SUBMIT A COMPROMISE.
(Continued from Page 1.). Jordans, with Its Quaker associa tions, to Penn, and to Great Hamp den Churchyard, where John Hampden, the Cromwellian Parlia mentarian is buried.
The American delegates will be particularly interested in the tour, for these places are historically with the Pilgrim associated Fathers.-British Wireless.
London, Jan. 31 Gossip outside the naval con- ference to-day centres round the so-called "Second Committee" which was the subject of Mr. Stim. son's resolution yesterday...
It is not yet functioning. In deed, it has been described as
Pornographic booke, posters, and advertisements fall under the ban of the Glavit, and Mr. Lebedev-
Frantic Wives. Polvansky declared that special ef forts were made to stop the publi
Meanwhile frantic wives, mo- cation of songs with revolutionary thers and children appeared from themes accompanied by vulgar all parth of Shanghai to plunge words. He named five books on past the police lines and burrow political, economie, and general frantically in the debris for their "atill-born." The reason surgest topics which had recently failed to loved ones. The police were uned Is that the Dominions demand pass the censorship. One of these attempted to defend the "kulak," or well-to-do pensant, and another act out to prove the thesis that the Russian village could not stand the Revolution.....
The brunt of the collapso came who were Publication was likewise refused on the unfortunates to the reminiscences of a Czarist working on the lower floors and at Attorney-General who wished to a late hour yesterday afternoon the justify his actions during the 1906 death list was put at seven but Revolution, to an appeal to the was incomplete due to the inability Christians of Russia" by the Old of the officials to get at the bottom Believers, and to a work, "Lenin of the ghastly heap of dead and Among Children," which was held dying who were pinned under the to draw an over sentimental picture mass of wreckage, of the Bolshevik leader.
No Religious Books,
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victims..
Units of the Chapel fire Brigade reponded as did ambulances from every hospital in Chapel and several from the Settlement and No religious iterature may be the work of burrowing for the printed in Russia at the present time, with the exception of limited victime went on well into last Issues of the Bible, the Talmud, evening
and the Psalms, for which per- Lotes Husband and Sons... mission was granted. There are
still in existence. seven religious One unfortunate woman lost a periodicals, as against five which husband and two sons and the are exclusively devoted, to propa-scenes about the wreckage us the ganda for atheism; but the latter grief stricken families sought fes are allowed to print very much their relatives was pathectic in the
·larger numbers of copies... extreme.""
The general rule in the case of Meanwhile the police are main promising young authors, accord- taining a strict guard over the ing to Mr. Lebedev-Polyansky, is scene and the Fire department to permit them to publish their units are standing by to give what works for two or three years, even ald they, can.
if the idealogical content is regard-
ed as unsatisfactory. If they fail
to mend their views under the pre- standardising the expression of ssure of criticism by the end of that expression of thought a role vory period, the doors of publication are similar to that of the Soviet State apt to be closed to them.
economic organisations in control All in all, it may be said that the ling and standardising Industrial Glavlit plays in controlling and production.
representation on the Committee, which would mean an all-British representation of six or seven as compared with the two each of the other Powers.
Three American women, necom- panied by two Japanese women, arrived in London to-day to sub- mit to the Nuval Conference anti- war petitions signed by six million women and 180,000 American Japanese women-heater
It is learned that a new attempt on the world's long-distance flight record is to be made by the Royal Air Force, and that preparations will be begun when the technical report upon the accident to the machine of Squadron Leader Jonca Williams and Flight Lieutenant Jenkins has been considered by the Air Ministry,
The new attempt, will be the aixth made by R.A.F. pilots. Flight Lieutenant Carr mindo three and Squadron Leader Jenos-Williams two. Bad luck has attended every one of these attempts, Flight Lieutenant Carr made a forced landing in the Persian Gulf on the first occasion; he made a forced landing at Martlesham Heath aero- drome shortly after leaving Cran- well on the second attempt; and made a forced landing in the Danube on the third attempt...
Squadron Leader Jones-Williams and Flight Lieutenant Jenkins auc- gooded in flying non-stop as for ds Karachi last April, but this was not a world's record, although it sum romains a British record..
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