NEARLY MAXIMUM
LOCAL ESTATES
PROVED.
SUPPLY.
HIGHEST WATER STORAGE FOR TWO YEARS.
COLONY'S POSITION.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30. 1930.
OUTSIDE HARBOUR WAR OPERATIONS UNSOLVED MURDER
LIMITS.
CONTRACTOR LEAVES OVER A} JUNK MASTER WHO BLAMED
MILLION DOLLARS.
WEDDING PROVISION.
THE TIDE.
CAUTION OF BENCH.
IN KWANGSI.
HOPES OF TRAPPING THE REBEL TROOPS.
CASES.
UNUSUALLY LARGE NUMBER LAST YEAR.
MOTOR CARS' HELP.
IRONSIDES RETREAT.
Canton, July 20. The tide running at the time
The unusually large number of With an addition of more than Local estate to the value of
The Nationalist forces are unsolved murder mysteries in 1929 429 million gallons during the past $1,316,000 was left by Fok Lau, was blamed by the master of a week, the reservoirs on the island. alias Fok To (or Toh) Kai, retired trading junk when he was charged claiming successes all along the is commented upon by Vice-Ad- died at No.] at the Marine Court this morning, line against the Kwangsi rebels miral Sir Charles Royds, Assist- are now almost. up to maximum contractor, who storage point. The total contents T2, Kennedy Road, on September before the Hon. Commdr. G. F. and General Chang Fat-kwei'sant Commissioner of Metropolitan on Monday were 2,018.99 million 16, 1929. Probate has been grant- Hole, with leaving the harbour Ironsides. These latter have re- Police, in a report giving a general
Kwei up the
Kiang survey of crime in London in that gallons, which is only 100 millioned to Fok Pak-wing (eNest son) without the necessary clearance treated
(Cassia River) and are now pre- year. gallons less than capacity.
and Fuk Pak-yuen (seventh son), from the Harbour Office.
Defendant denied the charge. paring to defend Kweilin," their It was as far back as June, 1928, both of whom are living at the
Kennedy Road address.
Sgt. Bowers, who prosecuted, last stronghold. that the island reservoirs were last
General Chan Chai-tong Com Testator directs that the sum of stated in evidence that whilst on full to capacity, and the present
of which duty on No. 5 Police Launch at mander-in-Chief of the Nationalist set aside, storage is the highest since that $30,000 be
about 6.15 p.m. yesterday, he ob-forces in South China, held an date. All the reservoirs are over $10,000 shall be appropriated as flowing excepting Tytam Tuk marriage expenses for the seventh served defendant's junk proceed-important Military Conference at which was lo-day about-three feet daughter, and $4.000 shall be paid ng ina westerly direction. Wit-his headquarters in Wuchow at as toilet money to five otherness went after him and stopped the end of last week, at which daughters. The income of the re-him about 200 yards outside the nearly all the divisional como- sidue is to be divided into 30 parts harbour limits. Defendant could munders operating against the for distribution among the family.
below overflow.
On the mainland, the reservoirs are full, this being the first time since October last year that the maximum has been reached.
The position is explained in the following oficial statement issued yesterday:
Kong Cham, who died at No. 36, Tai Ti Old Street West, Suburb Canton, on March 4, 1930, left Hongkong estate which has been valued at $28,600. Probate has The total storage in the island been granted to his son, Kong Man reservoirs on the morning of Mon-sking, a reporter, to whom every- day, July 28 amounted to 2,018.99 thing is bequeathed.
million gallons shewing an in- Mr. Tom Haviside, ship broker, crease of 129.07 million gallons who died at No. 27. Routh Road, during the past week; the amount Wandsworth Common. Surrey, on collected from streams being 489-March 14, 1930, left local estate to 80 million gallons,
The week's consumption amount the value of $11,200 while
personalty elsewhere amounts of
net
been
ed to 8.11 million gallons which £5.566 84 5d. Testator appointed includes 22.38 million gallons from his cousin, Cecil Brodrick as the the Shing Mon Supply.
The total storage in the main-sole executor. Re-sealing of cer- land reservoirs on the morning ofied copy of probate has Monday, July 28 amounted to 1-ranted to Mr. M. H. Turner, of 51 million gallons shewing an in-
of 21 million gallons Testator during the past week, all reser-things, £100 to his housekeeper for voirs being now full.
her dutiful and affectionate ser-
crease
Deacons.
left, among other
The week's consumption, not in-vice to his late wife and to himself cluding Hongkong supplies and during 25 years. 2.10 million gallons delivered to
Water Bonta at Lai Chi Kok, amounted to 31.09 million gallons. The yield from the Shing Mun River and streams during the week was .78 million gallons.
DIPLOMATIC WIVES SUGGESTED.
I
CONSULAR SERVICE HOPES
AND FEARS.
Assistant Under-Secretary of
QUEENSLAND MINE INQUIRY.
Continued from Page 1
corruption as their chief weapon against Labour, and they have persisted in their calumnies against Labour, and they have persisted in their calumnies against me personally with peculiar malig
nancy...
As I never had any interest m
COMING SOON.
Herta Zand, dramatic soprano, who will appear, very shortly Rt the
Queen's Theatre with "The Mont-
martre Follies."
not produce his clearance when asked to do so, and witness then arrested him.
His Worship: What direction was he heading?
Witness: West, your Worship.
were present.
There were, however, only 10 enses of murder of persons over the age of one year, against an annual average of 22 during the last 20 years. One of the 10 cases was committed, during 1928, though discovered during 1929.
In three cases of poisoning in
in- the same family prolonged Ironsides and Kwangsi rebels quiries by coroners failed to satis- fy any of the juries as to the Immediately after the Confer-authorship of the crimes. In the ence, all the Commanders return case of a young woman found dead ed to the front, and, acting accord-discovering the identity of the of
on a railway line, the chances of ing to plan, have advanced
fender, in the absence of any clue, towards the north-west in pursuit of the rebels, but up. to now no serious encounter has been report ed. The Nationalist forces under General Yu Hon-mau of the 59th Division and General Li Yang-king are now preparing for a final drive on Kweilin and Liu Chow in an endeavour to wipe out once
and for all these troublesome rebel- troops.
were from the outset, it is stated, of the slenderest.
Croydon poison mysteries, and the Presumably these cases were the death of Airs. Winifred East on the railway near Eltham Kent.
Manslaughter.
In two
murder cases the culprit committed of the remaining aix
suicide. In the other four charges were made, resulting in two ver- dies of guilty and two acquittals.
Manslaughter cases were nearly double those of the previous year. mainly due to reckless driving of motor-cars. This is not the only reference to the effect of the motor- car on criminal statistica.
News has been received that reinforcements for the Nationalist forces have entered' Kwangsi from the North in an endeavour to catch the rebels between two armies. These re-inforcements consist of two divisions of troops from Kweichow under General The number of house-breakings Wong Ka-lich and General Yeung (2,543) and shop-breakings Lan-leung, and they are (1.539) appears formidable at first advancing on Kweilin from the sight, but, we are told, if all the north-west and expect to cut off factors are taken, into consideration the retreat of General Chang Fat-the rapidly-increasing area kwel.
vered by buildings, "the 'case with In view of the improved situa- which motor-cars may be procured tion in Kwangai and the great for criminal purposes, and, it must amount of banditry at present be added, the indifference of many prevalent in the Swatow district, the 62nd Division under General protection--the figures cannot be iners of valuable property to its Chang Mai-son, which had been regarded as surprising. operating in Kwangsi, has been transferred to Swalow to augment the garrison there and to assist in
the suppression of bandits. This
How was the tide at the time? division left Canton yesterday. I didn't notice.
Statistics issued by the Military
Co-
Improved police distribution can make some difference, it is pointed out, but much more could be done by owners and inaurers of property than by any police force. in redueing the number of thefts
in rooms,
Sgt. Clark, who was on duty Headquarters of the Provincial Solid locks and window fasten- When Sir Hubert Montgomery,
with Sgt. Bowers on the Police, Government state that there are ings and storage of valuable articles the Mungana Company or in the Launch, corroborated the previous at present 54 wounded officers and in antes (which should not be placed State in the Foreign Office, wits Mungana leases, I naturally feel witness's statement, adding that 1,116 wounded men receiving he noticed that the wind was treatment in various Government giving evidence regarding the Con- that I have been the victim of an
but in passages) are He also did not Military hospitals in Canton; all overlooked. Recent cases of shop-
precautions which are too sular Service before the Royal atrocious injustice. However, the blowing W.S.W.
often Comission on Civil Service in Lon-matter cannot remain where it is. notice the tide.
having been wounded in Kwangsi.breaking show, too, that under pre- on he was asked by Lord Tom-
I am entitled to a judicial investi- Defendant stated that he intend-Our Own Correspondent.
sent conditions a sheet of glass is in why all Diplomatic and Con- gation of the charges. As regardsed to go to Kennedy Town from
not a sufficient protection for sular Services were reserved for my intention for the future. I must the Junk Anchorage, but the
jewellery of great value, which can plare myself anreservedly, in the wind and tide carried him away
be rendered unidentifiable in a very hands of my party.
and he was forced to go outside
short time, and easily disposed of. the harbour limits in order to get to his destination.
Confidence Trick.
men.
Sir Habet replied that so far as the Diplomatic Services were concerned, women would be unable to get on proper terms with foreign officials.
31.
Complete Vindication. Me. A. E. Moore. Premier of Queensland, replying to Women were also hardly like Theadore's allegations of political ly to be useful in the Consular partisanship, stated that Mr. Me- Service owing to the fact that Cormack, when Premier, refaend many of those posts were un repeated requests for a Commis- healthy and dangerous. These sion to inquire into the Mungana officers were often called out to Company's affairs. In the election settle disputes, and when station-
campaiơm Ba year Mr. More ed at ports they had to deal with
jeromod that it returned to power sailors who were not always sober, he would appoint a Commission, and who were likely to become fully
to inventiate the matter, abusive, daughter.i
but, he said, he delayed doing zo Lord Tomlin: It is an Irish immediately at Mr. Meton marks woman whois Chilean Vice-Consul request to enable Mr. McCormack at. New York.
to visit England Mr. Moore stid: "The Commission's report is Complete vindication of the
The Ambassadress.
If women were allowed in the 3 gider of the Government."
Diplomatic and Consular Services and were permitted to get marri ed, Sir Hubert pointed out, their husbands could not carry on any business occupation at the post "where they were appointed,
Lord Tanlin: That would mean that the unfortunate Ambassa- dress would have her husband hanging about the house all day. (Laughter).
MOSQUITO NUISANCE
SUMMONSES.
A KOWLOON TONG CABE ADJOURNED.
at
A summons against Mr. B. Mrs. Wintringham. M... sup- Montague Ede, of the Kowloon gested to Sir Habert that if the Tong and Now Territory Develop- women in foreign countries had been given Consular and Diplo failing to abate a mosquito nuis- ant Company, accusing jym of matic posts, British women oughtance on property at Kowloon Tong to have a chance. She thought was mentioned before Mr. Whyte that the experiment ought to be Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy tried in one or
two places, at this morning. least.
Samples of explosives used by burglars have been submitted to
It was intimated that the rum- mons had not been served, as Mr. Montague de had left for Ameri- ca on húsiness.
the Inspectors of Eplosives by the Chief Sanitary inspector A. K. police for expert evidence. Thin Taylor stated that Mr. E. D.
is one of the unusual investiga-Shank
was alan a Director of the firm and asked for an 3 week. The nuisance had since been abated. he said.
tions which the Inspectors have been called upon to make during adjournment for 1929, according to their annual report, just issued. Six cases of boys who were injured by playing The sunimons was adjourned for, with detonators is reported. In one week.
one case two lads found 75 detona- In the case of a contractor en- tors in a hay shed. They had gaged on work at the corner of been there for 25 years, but when Nathan Road and Prince Edward - they took one home and put a Road, his Worship imposed a fine match to it for fun oné boy had his | of $25 on a summons accusing the hand injured. Altogether during defendant of having failed to 1929 344 accidents were, reported, abate a mosquito nuisance in com- causing 88 deaths and injuries to pliance with a notice served on 316 persons. There were no him by the Sanitary Department. deaths during the year owing to The defendant was stated to have fire or explosion in any licensed since filled in the sump where the factory.
larvae was breeding.
There were anxious moments on board the good ship Friendship, moored at Charing Cross Pier. A happy thought had suggested that
The report says that the growing
His Worship: don't see how the inaugurel dance of the Federa-use by expert thieves of motor-cars
you had to go so far out.
Defendant:-You must
overlook the wind and tide. Worship.
tion of British Typists should be (generally of the most powerful your eraft. But when the band should range of their opportunities, and not held below deck aboard the old type) has materially increased the
In what direction was the tide to be seen. What had happened?scape before the
I have struck up, no orchestra was their chance of making good their flowing-West,
His Worship: find you guilty.heard over the silent Thamed the
| Prosently,, however, there were covered, There is, however, something in strains of "The Volga Boatman." what you say. I will caution you and cheers on deck told that the
OCCASIONAL RAIN.
forchestra, dropping down the river on the ebb-tide, had pulled along side arid come aboard, It had that the typhoon is shown as a deep Monica Palmer,
The Royal Observatory reports been a device on the part of Miss depression NNW. of Foochow secretary, and Mr. Peter Hop the organising moving north. The local forecast wood, who assister, to add one --Wex winds, Tresh; generally more surprise to the ship-board overeasa; perasional rain.
JŪNIA MEA GEDDES MIC
merriment.
"She says she saw my picture in the newareel; showed a fleet of battleships taken from an aeroplane."
crime is dis-
It is almost incredible that more than three-quarters of a million sterling worth of property was stolen, more than one-third of that in the previous year, and still more remarkable that this increase is due to the "confidence" trick and, the
long, firm fraud."
Among the other interesting points made.are these:
Finger-prints now total 464,-
COO.
Strong measures against night
clubs have reduced prosecutions.
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"Danger steadily increases with the number of vehicles on the road,” it is stated, "but the continued casualness of many pedestrians suggests that the extent of the risk is not fully realised.
"Twenty-two pillion riders lost their lives in collisions, and in four cases both the driver and pillion rider were killed"
The police box. system is to be extended, having shown' its utility at Richmond and Wood Green. The area south of the Thames is being surveyed, with a view to the application of the system to this part of the Metropolitan police dis- trict.
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