THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY JULY 21, 1933,
VIOLENT JAPANESE ABUSE OF GREAT BRITAIN
BITTER CAMPAIGN IN CHIEF STRANGE INCIDENT ON
King Feisal of Irak, who left Eng- land for Switzerland yesterday, cia seen shaking hands with Dean Norría after a visit to the grave of the Un- known Warrlor In Westminister Abbey.
MACAO WATER-WORK
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BIG SCHEME BEING UNDERTAKEN
PURIFICATION PLANT
(Our Own Correspondent).
Macao, July 20.
Hongkong readers are familiar with the water problem af Macro, for, whereas there are occasional shortages of water in Hangkong, the problem at Macao has been a perpetual one for the last 50 years.
It is not surprising therefore that the Portuguese in their endeavours to secure sufficient sup- plies of water for the needs of the residents of the colony should have spent at least $2,000,000 in the making of exhaustive studies and the acquisition of materials and the carrying out of certain works to provide Macao with wi- tor for drinking purposes and also for fire fighting and the watering
of atreets.
A visit to Macao at the present time offers an added attraction to those of a technical turn of mind by reason of the works being carried out there by the Macao. Waterworks Company,
of a
Id
NEWSPAPERS
RIVER GUNBOAT
THE SOVIET ALSO BRITISH SIDE OF Lacy niso ordered Stoker Patty
ATTACKED
LAMPOONED AND
DENOUNCED ·
FOREIGNERS
CALM
Tokyo, July 21..
A crusade against Britain
STORY
SEVERE. JAPANESE DUMPING
DISCUSSION IN ∙COMMONS
(Continued from Page 1)·
Dock. Engine Room Artifteor
Officer Johns to proceed to the Quarter Deck where the case was investigated by Lieut. E. I. Dyke, who placed accused in the Captain's Report and put him un- der close-arrest.
MEDICALLY EXAMINED.
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the Medical Officer, Surgeon Llout. "Accused was later examined by
W. S. Davidson, who reported that he found accused in perfect health and quite clear mentally. He was quite aber but his breath amelt
slightly of alcohol.
tu
At the conclusion of the report
AWAITING REPLY
London, July 20. and Russia, in which editorial ment of the House, the Commons On a motion for the adjourn abuse sets itself no limits, is discussed Japanese competition being conducted by the Japa- in silk and cotton goods.
the Court, Lieut. Commdr. The Reichswehr have recently been nese Press.
Bockett-Pugh eald he investigated equipped with now uniforms, Photo Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister ad- the case on the following day when shows the old and the now with the London is their target because mitted that the preferences in the the accused was charged with
now of the right. of the increase in the tariff on Colonies were quite inadequate to striking Stoker Petty Omeer N. S. Importa into India, and Moscow cope with the dumping, in some Johns, his superior officer, being is suffering because of h renewed cases, the duties would have to be in the execution of his office. lie outburst against
increased by two hundred per varned accused that he was net Communism shaping Itself..
obliged to say anything unless he Besides the two countries being lampooned in the daily newspapers sent negotiations with Japan were neat he might make
He was certain that if the pre- wished to do so and any state- night be and articles in the leading Japan- unsuccessful, the Colonies would en in evidence. Accused no-ANOTHER ADJOURNMENT OF eso magazines, posters, bitterly take steps to protect British in-nitted Atriking Stoker Polly denouncing Britain and 'demand- torests. Reuter.
Officer Johns and stated that he had no reason to put forward for
For a reply to be received perturbation, 20 doing, Accused signed the from the Vice-Consul at Manila as greatest which is shared by many mer-statement. chants in the Colonies, is felt by
to whether he had really intended British manufacturing interests
tho visacs to cover
pasange whose marks are being dislocated
ing a severance of diplomatic re-
lations with Russia, placarded.
are being
VIRULENT OUTBURST. Forelyn quarters view these Journalistic eruptions calmly as one of the virulent outbursts of zenophobia which, they assert, the Japanese Press chronically dis plays.
sun-
cent.
The
ACCUSED'S STATEMENT.
OF CONSUL
PASSPORT CASE -
The statement in mitigation of through a British Colony; Mr. by the importation of increasing punishmont made by accused was Wynne-Jones in the Central Police quantities of such commodities as then read as follows:- cotton pleco-goods, silks, hosiery,
Court this morning, adjourned
INDECENT PICTURE
IN PAPER:
MANAGER OF-TEA FIRM. CONVICTED
fortunately put the onus on tho prosecution to prove their cOSO. The two points which the prosecu- tlon were bound to prove, were (1) that the defendant had published · the picture in the_newspaper with culpable Intention to demoralise the public-that was the ordinary rulo. A conviction was registered by of the law, (2) that some member Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central or members of the public had been i Police Court yesterday afternoon demoralised by the picture, or by agalust Wan Chi-ming, manager its publication. These two grounds" of the Wah Sang Tea Merchants, would not have arisen if the picture Queen's Road Central, in connexion had been, on the face of it, indecent" with the publication of an ad-On the evidence produced by the vertisement for the "Lalcheo" and prosecution, he submitted, there "Rose" brands of ten, in the Chi-was not a tittle that could prove, nese newspaper Teun Wan Yat Po these two elements. Mr. Thompson which contained an alleged indecent had admitted in his evidence that drawing. Defendant WAR dis- the picture as it stood upright was, charged on the undertaking by him not indecent.
In this Colony...
never to publish this or any other There was no direction" on the similar picture in an advertisement picture to convey, Indecency,' and' Mr. W. P. Thompson, A.D.C.Lthe public to, turn the picture up- further, there was no direction for (Special Branch) conducted the side down, prosecution, while Mr. Loo D'Almada, junior, appeared for the Worship, sitting as judge and jury,
Ho put it with confidence to his.
defence.
Ho Chun-young, a clerk attached that a merchant using an advertise- to the Secretariat for Chinese ment for tea required to show that: Affairs, produced twelve copies of the picture had a tendency or the Teun Wan Yat Po, containing allusion to the kind of ten. If the the advertisement.
same advertisement wore for re- Gross-examined by Mr. Djuvenating pills. it would be in Almada, the witness said it was the decent. The attention of the public censor's duty to read the Chinese was not drawn to the four small
characters. The defendant used, Bled newspapers. Witness daily Chinese papers.
the picture because the two Indles were holding flowers in their hands. Bir. D'Almada-This prosecution There were numerous constructions
is not prompted by the S.C.A.?
the
Magistrate-le cannot speak to to be placed on the words.
Indecency would have been
that,
Witness stated the four small proved if there had been a fencing. characters between the two ladies or a dotted line on the picture, and in the picture meant "This picture the reader had been directed to contains a meaning."
turn the picture upaldo down, or Mr. D'Almada asked if the word fold the paper into half, but there.
(meaning) could also mean was no indication of any sort. "purpose."
Magistrate You are in fact to ask that from this witness.
Magistrate-Most unfair for you asking me to accept that the in- decent part of this picture is pures
will note that I asked the question
Mr. D'Almada Your Worship ly accidental.pn and that you objected."
shoes, hats, and even fruit, at "Having plended "Guilty" to the prices which are in most cases but charge, I wish to say that I very until to-morrow the case in which With Britain and Russin in dis- fraction of normal production much regret striking Stoker Petty Eugene Sbitsky, 29, mechanic of favour, America is now basking costa.
Officer Johns but I have a very hazy In the rather unaccustomed
idea of the matter and can think of Poland, and Victor R. Borovaky, SOME EXAMPLES. shine of calogistie tributes from.
no reason why I should have done 26, of Manchuria, were charged writers who not lene ago were of British goods by Japan is shown
The extent of the displacement so. more inclined to hurl verbal brick-by what is happening in the pleco-
with entering the Colony without hats at that country.
"The only reason I can give is valid passports. goods trade. Ceylon imported that I had a touch of the sun or ANTI-BRITISH ATTITUDE. during the first quarter of last something that happened to my Defendants at the Inat hearing Observere believe the campaign Year 2,502,982, yards of Japanese brain which made me lose control claimed they had passports. First against Britain will be quickly piece-goods out of a total importa- of myself, as I can give no reason defendant stated he was a Russian (dwelling, inhabiting or, suspended if satisfactory agree corresponding period of this year that a Stoker Petty Officer should naturalised Chinese.
tion of 0,401,386 yards; in the for making the ridiculous request ments are reached as a result of the Japanese share was 4,249,740 do duty with me down below as the projected truce parleys in yards out of a total of 6,828,516 this has never been customary In Simla or London, while the ter- yards. In 1930, Jamaica imported the Clealít, · mination or continuance of the cotton piece-goods and some other villification of the Soviet is like-textile commodities from Japan to
BROKE LEAVE,
"On the day in question 1 land-
Det-Sergeant Mottram said that on Friday lust the I.G.P. wrote to the Consul but no reply had yet ly to depend largely on the out- the value of approximately £34,-
been received. A.mail from come of the present negotiations 000; in 1981 the figure had risen
Manila arrived this morning, but for the sale of the Chinese Eastern to £52,000 and last year to £183,-ed at 1.16 p.m. and went to the the Superintendent of Malls, had Railway-Reuter.
000. Nyasaland took from Japan Canteen where I had some beer informed the officer that there was last year about:44 per cent. of the to drink, walked around for about
no letter from the Consul, An- total amount of piece-goods im- one hour, then had a couple more The treated water passing ported, while the British share bears but seem to have forgotten other mail was expected later in through Coagulation Tanks, sheds was only 13.1 per cent, India what happened as I broke my leave the day. most of the remaining matters having 20-per-cont. The fact is by 40 minutos, a.thing that I have in suspension, such mattere being quite clear that, in many trades, not done before in the ship in discharged through channels into Japan making substantial which I have been for 2 years und then sacrifices in order to capture ex- three months. I went to sleep gravity tenaive markets, with grave effects until supper time. From the time.
upon British trade.
the sea. The clear water passes through rapid Alters of the Reisert type.
It is noteworthy, in passing, to state that the type of Blter being installed at Macno is the latest produced by the well known Ger man makers, the system of flush- ing being of the very simplest.
Is
MADRID POLICE FACE DANGER ·
the water HUNDREDS NOW OUT
OF ACTION
· NOT PROVOKED.
A SYMPATHETIC MAGISTRATE
DEALS LENIENTLY
WITH WOMAN.
:
Mr. D'Almada-Yes, quite ne cidental.
Magistrate He did not claim to
Counsel proceeded to explain that be an interpreter. You are not during the Chinese New Year being unfair to anybody else, only season, defendant received a greet- ing card the back of which con- unfair to him.
Yeung Man-yuk, Interpreter, tained the picture. In May, he Central Magistracy, for the suddenly realised that the picture Cantonese dialect, said he held a would be "a lovely advertisement second class Interpreter's cor for his "Lalchee" and "Rose" "tea. tificate. The four small characters It was the picture of the two in the picture were-Wah (ple ladies holding the flowers that ture), chung (centre or in), 1t prompted him to use it. He would to live put it strongly to his Worship, that in) (a meaning, Idea, opinion). even Mr. Agassiz would not have He would say the four words to seen anything in the picture, and gether meant "There is an in-it would have appeared in the Gov herant meaning in the picture." ernment Gazette. Thompson, read from dictionaries ters are on this card. This card Witness, at the request of Mr. Magistrale-Those four charac- by Giles and Eitel, the meaning of has got nothing to do with tea and ya ut, which was to entertain a therefore the four characters which thought."
were on the card and which appear- Replying to Mr. D'Almada, the led in witness said tu vi was a classical nothing to do with tea,
this advertisement have phrase. The public could possibly
Mr. D'Almada-He thought that take the word yi to mean purpose or because of the flowers,... idea. The curious minded man would be lend by the words to look.
Magistrate The two bunches of
for the puzzle in the picture.. On flowers may be in his mind. Your the question of seeing the four suggestion about the four charac characters, witness said it all deters does not hold water. It must pended on the reader's eyesight, mean something else because it is If witness had time, after seeing not connected with rose or lafchee. the words, he might seek to solve His Worship sald ho was afraid the puzzle. He often saw characters he could not agree with counsel. with approximately the same mean- The whole of the case turned entire- ing on handbills but not in news-ly on the four characters. To his parers. The handbills were puzzle, Worship's mind "(and counsel" had pictures.
already demonstrated the charac
Counsel's Plen.
:
went into the engine room until I saw the medical officer one and ja half hours afterwards I have a very hazy idea of what happened. PURIFICATION PLANT.
It all seems like a dream, I can give no reason for it as I had had Close to Green Island, made
no previous argument or anything famous by its association with the
with Stoker Petty Officer Johns.
Sympathy was extended by Mr.
Witness did not agree with ters' had no reference to tea) the Cement Company which derived.
PUMPING SYSTEM.
Perhaps the beer and the sun had | Wynne-Jones this morning to a counsel that the four characters characters solely referred to the its name from this island (the
From the filters
young Chinese woman who was something to do with it,
may also mean "There is a puzzle." picture.They had evidence that island being now completely link- ed to the colony), the Waterworks and is kept there in
The word puzzle was very rare in these four characters had been enters the pure water reservoirs,
charged with the possession of
the Chinese language..
seon on puzzle picturés." The ordina Company, is carrying out its opera-
" constant
210 po plu lottery tickets. She had
[ary person on seeing them would tions for the installation
state of movement, passing into
Madrid. "I have only ifteen more months in her arms a three months old
know there was something in the complete purification plant for
u pump well at, the lowest part of The archives of Madrid's to do in the Service and as this baby girl, and stated ́tliat be- water gathered from the river.
the works. From this chamber "Scalland Yard" reveal that the will seriously affect my pension. It cause of poverty she carried the Detective-Sergeant
Evidence of seizure was given by picture. If those characters had
Ellis, the water is drawn up by high life of a plain-clothes It would by no means bo cor-
who not appeared in the picture his policeman seems impossible that I should rect to, suppose
stated that at the Wah Sang Tea Worship would have thrown the that Macao
lift pumps and delivered into the in the capital in not a happy one. have done this thing unless I had tickets to earn 25 cents. totally without water up to the pro
mains, chlorine gas being intro-A bomb in the Calle Alcala has ac- been very much provoked which
Merchants shop, they found ten tins casa out long ago, but, his Worship duced at this stage.
His Worship cautioned de-
of tea, which when prised open were
held; the normally educated Chinese sent, for there are many streams
The water counted for the hundredth death was not the caso. All I can do is fondant, but warned her the next each found to contain on reading them, would realise being delivered into of good water and many of the
the mains in this corps.
to express my great regret for walls in the colony contain water
is kept at a steady pressure, all
what has happened, and again to time she would be punished.photographic copy of the advertise there was something in the picture. that is drinkable. Macao's major
excoss flow rising to a Balance Since its establishment 25 years state that I can give no reason for
ment. Defendant told witness ho His Worship decided to register "You got seven dollars wages a supply, however, has come from
Reservoir 260 feet above the level ago, hundreds of these detectives so doing."
burnt the remainder of the picturesa conviction, as stated above. month, and you spend thirteen on hearing of the Police visit to the sources outside the colony. All
of the elly. When this reservoir, have been placed out of action by
Summonses against the editor and RAPID PULSE.
on po piu lottery" · snid: the Tsun Wan Yat Po promises. ~ these sources of water
which has a capacity of 500,000 serious wound caused not by the
publisher of the Teun Wan Yat Pot do not
magistrate in imposing a fino of
Mr. D'Almada submitted therein connexion with the same publien Provide nearly sufficient water for Kallons, is full, the pumps stop men they were attempting to cap.
Evidence was given as to accus. $10 or two weeks, on
was really no case to answer, un tion, were adjourned sine die at the the needs of the population and
functioning and the water flowing ture but by the crowd or passers-
a Chinese ed's condition by Surgeon Lieut. W. youth, on a charge of possession. charged under an ordinance which is for the defence.
two grounds only. Defendant was previous hearing. Mr. Kwan for many years the Portuguese
back into the mains keeps up the by who took them for criminals, have endeavoured to furnish a sup-
prossure, the pumps resuming They have been chased by night, S. Davison, who said, he examined their work when this reservoir is watchmen, shot at by civil guards, accused about one and a half hours ply that will be both adequate and
and mobbed by indignant onlookers after the incident and found him anfo. The story of the efforts of empty. tho Portugueso to get water is
The work of erection of the forgetting that detectives wear in perfect health, though somewhat buildings and the various unita plain clothes.
: excited. There was a alight rise well known and they met with in-
for the purification process has
in his femperature and he had different success. It was only
Recently in a town noted for its been carried out by the Hongkong Catholic sentiments, a detective symptoms partly could be attributed rather П rapid pulse. These aftor studies had been made by n
Engineering & Construction Co, was obliged to draw his revolver te
Private Company that anything Ltd., the Managing Director of reduce a malefactor to obedience to the excitement of the moment.
like a thoroughly adequate scheme was drawn up.
LARGE RESERVOIR.
The Macao Watorworks Com- pany, in carrying out their works near Green Taland, have been busy in preparing for the first stage of their engineora' project. This comprises the taking of water from the river and storing it for
a suficiently long period to casso
In answer to a question, witness
which, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, in the public thoroughfare. By has taken special interest in the crying out that he was a monk in work being carried out by his firm. mufti; the man was able to draw stated that when examined accu- nn angry crowd cager to protected seemed quite responsible for the servant of the Church. The his actions, but the time which elapsed between the Incident and
VALUABLE ASSET,
The local authorities have paid detectivo barely escaped with his
no less attention to the progress fo.-Reuter.
of the works and both his Ex- collency Lt. Col. Antonio Jono
Bernardes de Miranda and Dr. P.
the examination would have made a difference to his responsibility for his actione,
GOOD CONDUCT,
Lieut. Commdr. Ian H. Bockett-
Rocha Santos, Acting Governor, purified by modern means for the the greatest part of matter in have followed the progress of the first time in the history of the colony suspension to be precipitated, bo work most carefully. Dr. J. and the Announcement of the In fore the water so stored, be sub- Perolra Magalhaes, who, as Act nugural date is keenly awaited by Pugh, captain of the Cicala, stated Jected to chemical treatmenting Governor when the schema the residents of the colony, the that during the past eighteen that it may be suitablo for use, was first formulated, gave so Chinese no less than the Por-months ho had hind no complaints From this big stórago‘reservoir, much encouragement, continues to tuguese, both communities having Whatever about the conduct of the with a capacity of over 80,000,000 show the same interest in the contributed to the realisation of accused Ho set an example, and Wades de travmannspra, development to Mich pedang ke-23 this splendid mark of development was a hard worker, and must have
* mixing chamborelli la traated tran automatically by the Adilition of eluding calumina
colonyain many ways, and atrod new: industries and bring krent
Entertainment De Luxe
Also
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At the
Majestic
By Popular Request
The Imperial Trio
Singing & Entertaining with New Numbers.
Friday & Saturday Nights
JULY 21st & 22nd.
MIS