THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1933.
SCHOOL OF MANNERS FOR BUS CO. EMPLOYEES
LORD BEATTY ON NAVAL NEEDS
BRITISH CRUISER. SHORTAGE
URGES EARLY REMEDY
London, Oct. 19. Another warning regard-| ing Britain's naval weakness was sounded to-day by an Admiral of high reputation, none other than . Admiral Lord Beatty,
Lord, Bentty was, addressing a meeting of the Navy League and he declared his earnest bollef that the situation was serious, that Britain's weaknesson must be rectified at the naval conference to be held in 1986.
Britain, ho Bald, had re- atored her credit but at "terrible risk."
She urgently needed at least soventy Arst-class eruisers and yet, at the best, she cannot have more than fifty by 1936.
Moreover, he said, the Navy'a personnel had been dangerously reduced.
COMPARISONS.
Ho showed that the United States personnel of 107,000 re- presented an Increase of alxty per ceat, on the figures for 1914, While Japan's 88,000 in 1931 re- presented an increase of seventy- four per cent.
Britain, on the other hand, had only 90,000 officers and men in! the Royal Navy, representing a docrease of 35 per cent. on thei 1914 Agurce.
MAINTENANCE COSTS.
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AN AMERICAN WARNING
'TO BRITISH-NÀVY-
LEAGUE
Unique Venture by Kowloon Concern
REORGANISATION SCHEME
EX-FOKI'S THEFT · |EUROPEAN ENGINEER
OPIUM DIVAN
DISCHARGED
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Having robbed his Tormer stick. Ho then hit the decensed minator of a box containing cloth-over, foll on top of him, and ing. Wong Ping, 20, talked in tight ensued, an opium divan in Moon Street of his good fortune in having been j. left the clothing. A report was made to the Police.
times, the situation was not re- TALKS TOO MUCH IN lieved when, as often happened, offlee workers and school-children' attending the many Institutions that had begun to grow: In those districts, all endeavoured to crowd into the first bus to come along.
It was well, Mr. Lam commented, to call attention to (a) this diver sion of one of the two feeder routes residents had become
tendency to overcrowd, lest these two facts wore lost sight of in the general inclination to pick out flows where in reality, those flaws were not of the Company's own making.
PLANS FOR IMPROVING habituated to; and (b) this general
SERVICES
GETTING DOWN TO PROBLEMS
UNECONOMIC ROUTE.
Was this diversion in part, com- pelled by their contract, worth while? The Company's Secretary's settled view is that it was not, whether from the standpoint of A SCHOOL OF MANNERS for drivers and con-convenience to residents of Kow- *ductors, where in the evenings when off duty they may loon Tong, or from that which was
learn the rudiments of proper relations between bus employees and passengers, in addition to rules of the road and technical knowledge;
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The establishment of filling stations along the
the Company's peculiar concern--. revenue,
In support of his contentions he produced the following statistica compiled of monthly returns. of passengers using the No. 8 Route since its diversion to the Jordan
pany took over management
June 11:
MEDICAL EVIDENCE.
BIG GAME HUNTING
IN U.S. 15,000 YEARS AGO
NEW EVIDENCE REVEALED.
Dr. Davey, of the Govoramal Civil Hospital, then described his He was charged before Mr.examination of the deceased and Police the post-mortem he had held, Schofield in the Contral Court this morning and sent to which resulted in the discharge
of the accused. priegn for eix weeks.
He said that the deceased, was Sub-Inspector Nolloth Bald de-admitted into the receiving room, hunters lived in North America fendant was dismissed about 9 and was in a very violent con- fully 15,000 years ago, was described month ago for laziness and haddition, but more or less sem in a report from Edgar B, Howard, since been out of employment, conscious. He had a cut at the
Philadelphia, Pa. Now evidence that big game
He knew the time of day the com back of the head, but it was im-a Philadelphia archaeologist, who plainant would be 'cut and took possible to dress him as hels excavating New Mexico, the opportunity. Defendant was was so violent, and they had to formerly employed as a bricklayer. be content with just putting a
PETTY THEFTS
PRINTING FIRM'S LOSSES
down to the ward and fastened to the bed.
STRAPS BROKEN.
The and is an unusual stone
routes to avoid the necessity for buses to turn into the Road pier. when the presont Com- of Ye Olde Printerie, China Build Sister, who said that the deceased also revented campfire ashes of depots;
bandage, on his head. The do- spear head, exceedingly slender, ceased was then given a quarter of skilled craftsmanship. It was grain of morphia and carried found near Clovis, N. Min geological formations which In- dicate its approximate date.
Similar formations yielded hones That same night, continued of elephants and camels, long witness, he was rung up by the extinct in the Southwest. They Two messengers in the employ
had broken all his straps. Ha man. oning, were brought before Mr. then went down and repeated the
The profusion of animals l Balfour in the Central Magistracy
The deceased taken to mean that either the dose of morphia. this morning, charged with steal-finally went into convulsions, Southwost was then a more rainy ing n bottle of kerosene and a
which were typical of acnemic country, or that at the time the Lottle of disinfectant.
epileptic form. He then gave him spearman lived it was still in hyacine, which controlled his suficiently early stages of drying convulsions, but about twelve up to support the big game which noon he became moribund, and he hunted. died at 12.50 p.m. -
Variations of some of the existing routes, particular- ly of those showing no sign of economic return;
Conversion of buses into Diesel-engined vehicles; Extension of the New Territories services, with a new fleet of buses.
These are among the more important measures planned by the Kowloon Bus Company under a re- organisation scheme designed to remedy existing faults and causes for complaint, and outlined in an interview by the Telegraph.
DIESEL-ENGINE EXPERIMENTS
other trafic regulations and
requirements; and
"NIGHT SCHOOL"
These are
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BUS TROUBLES.
Juno 11-30
Nil
July Aug. Sept.
00
B0
1st 2nd Class Class 3,750 10,000 4,800
86
6,100
"I wanted the oil to clean the clock," said Pun Cheuk.
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Dr. Howard's report outlines
"I wanted the disinfectant to HEAVY LOSS.,
kill bugs," remarked Wong Yat, The largo number of 2nd class in reply to his Worship,
- Witnesa Bald that he then rang passengers shown by these re: leniency. Mr. V. G. Labrum, of to perform à post mortem imdications that man lived in North Both defendants naked for up the police as he had decided previously found "impressive in- turns in relation to the other class was explained by Mr. Lam et conts would not be taken it was not an ordinary case of ago." It starts with the finding of the complainant firm, said the mediately. He was entlafied that America perhaps 15,000 years to be duc to the majority travelling only one
way; tram back, and both were bound over, conçuesion. So he asked the Kowloon Tong, but alighting at|==
police to inquire whether the de intermediate points...
ceased was an epileptic,
FUTURE PLANS:
an
NO BRUISES,
human pelvic bong among extinct. animals near Natchez, Miss., In": 1346. It ends with Gypsum Cave, Nevada, whero campfire ashes estimated at nearly 20,000 years old were found about thrco years ago.
MEXICO DISCOVERIES.
On this comparatively little present experimenting with differ used Route four buses were being ent types of engines and bodies. The creation of a School of But when his Company took over each of from $30 to $35, or a total able (a) for present urgent needs maintained at a daily average cost in order to discover the most suit-
lle started the post mortem at He also drew attention to the Manners may sound odd, but it has general control some of these fact that Britain's naval main been recognized as a necessity by extra buses, which are over and monthly cost of over $3,800. Thi and (b) for the time (anticipated 1.15 p.m.. Externally there whe tenance expenditure totalled only the Bus Company.
was. above official requirements, being
to be compared with the to be not far abend) when a system an irregular cut across the back
of the head. There were 110 The discoveries this £48,000,000 annually,
After a full survey of local in point of fact to more than monthly receipts shown by the making for a standard uniformity bruises round the ent, of which he New live, i tay summer in trasted, with the United States conditions since taking over the voluntary concessions to the Fassenger returns of $600 and attendant economy in ruing annual expenditure of £76,000,000, various routes on the mainland, public, were for good and suffl-heavy excess of expenditure, ove: expenses, will be evolved for the made a special note. It was how perfectly into this picture of an
As regards cruisers, hu did not they are persuaded of this neces-cient reasons withdrawn, with the income which nevertheless had to network of routes, covering Kow-over deep enough to expose the ancient past for America.
ter-bone. There was no bruising "A study of the artifacts, he, cavil at the American demand for sity, and in their scheme of result that the noticeable gaps be borne for so long, Mr. Lam leon Proper and the outer about the face, and there were explains, "articularly the 'spear- parity, but Britain's acceptance of reorganization which is being created may have given a wrong saki, as it was deemed desirable ritories.
no finger marks in the neck to points found at many of the sites A MENAGERIE. Afty when she nooded seventy was speeded up at the moment because Impression where in reality the by the Government to continue
suggest throttling. There was mentioned and those secured in a grave and deplorable blunder of complaints, they have included regular schedule was being strict each service.
The present fleet of buses, Mr.no other evidence of external New Mexico (this Summer) reveals this institution where, in addi-ly adhered to.
Lam describes as a menagerie of bruises anywhere. tion to what is considered becom
dfilerent types, but must neces- He then removed the scalp, but that they were not made like any ing in a conductor and driver, their
The Company's Secretary next sarfly be given their normal spell found no evidence of a fracture of the more recent ones. employees are also taught
"One of these spear points, a outlined a number of proposals in of existence. The present times do He removed the skull and the (n.) the rules of the road and
Ho suggested this misapprehen his opinion making for an improve not favour any too ambitious com- brain, but there was no evidence most unusual type, is four inches complaints, but that was not say and necessarily for a smoother moment propitious to carrying out skull
lon as possibly behind most of the ment in the present traffic system miltment; but while waiting for the of fracture to the base of the long from its point to the place where it is broken; two and five- ing he was not fully cognisant of (b.) what to do in an emergency, other and bona-fide factors having functioning of the various service:ltimate designs, the Company la There was a bruise, not very sixteenths of an inch wide nearest
accident, or breakdown..nterfered with the desired smooth as a whole.
laying the foundations.--
extensive-below-the-right front the base, and only one-eighth of an One of these proposals is to functioning of the lines-causes
In the selection of a suitable of the brain, but otherwise there Inch thick at its thickest place. to be largely traceable to the poor merge the No. 4 with the No 11 all-round service engine, it is con- was nothing to suggest violence.
"Bringing these facts together not satisfied that this the main features condition of the vehicles leaving Route, this to be secured by ox sidering the possibilities of Diesel He was Washington, Oct. 19.
haemorrhage was due to violence wo have an association of a spear The American Navy League has Mr. Lam Ming-fan, the Secretary very much to be desired when his tending the No. 11 Route now rude oil engines,
cave with extinct Shamshulpo, to A Gardner unit which has taken because there was no bruising at point in a prepared a letter for delivery to of the Bus Company, claims Company by the conditions of starting from
older gasolene the back of the skull, unless it animal bones and charcoal, and for the new School which has now their franchise, were compelled. Include Canton Road, Jordan Road the place of British Navy League warning that "continued British been functioning for some little more or less, to take over from ferry, Jordan Road and Tokwawan engine in a 36-senter bus, appears actually happened at the same the point is the same type nd that (Balley's Shipyard), and also to have responded well to recent time as the cut of the back of found in other sites associated antagonism towards the United time.
Three evenings a week, conduc-
taking in both the Hunghom and tests, and if eventually adopted for the head.
with extinct animals. States anval building policy would
Most of these vehicles had Kowloon City areas now being the Company's standard require block the absolutely essential cotors and drivers off-duty are as-
been in service for a number of served by the other,
monts, is estimated to reduce fucl operation of the two nations.sembled in a building attached to
years and when turned over to At the same time, he further costs by about 90 per cent. through
"It would seem that it is about them, were in a state that would suggests, the No. 5 Route (a highly the substitution of erude for re-by hitting his head on the ground time for us to recognize a culture
This cut could have been cousterl have made their further employ- unprofitable one as it now standa). ined oll, ment on the road without exten- may well be extended to the junc
or If he had hit a lamp-post or the in this country older than the sive repairs, a hazardous and tion of Jordan with Gascoigne
kerb There was also no evidenco basketmaker, mord than likely a. perilous undertaking.
Road, in order to serve not only While these researches are being of dislocation of the vertical hunting culture following large efficient worker, the exemplary em- ployee, and the courteous official too
the points hitherto included, but carried out, Mr. Lora claims that a column. He then felt, that de heards of animals, frequenting the often missing from our buses and
also other localities now without present urgent need is about to be consed had died of natural causes; open country of the West and the Southwest, and perhaps extending trams.
It was found the engines need-' a bus service. The fall itinerary satisfied for the New Territories so he examined the kidney.
He sent the blood from the to, other parts of the country, This gesture on the part of the ed extensive replacements in will then be as follows: Jordan where a new fleet of 36-seater buses
the Company seems an adequate reply pants; which meant that spare Rond and Gascoigne Road via appears to be called for, and in kidney and one kidney to
"It should not stratch our to some of the complaints of bus-parts had to be sent for all the Salisbury Road, Haiphong Road respect of which the Company are Government Analyst, and later
the received a report. The report on imagination too much to picture a users; and if the unique scheme-way from the manufacturers at Carnarvon Road, Kimberley Road, now. in communication with London, Oct. 19. It must surely be without its like Home, this in turn protracting the Austin Road, Tak Shing Street responsible authorities. A British the blond showed that the uroya people living at a time when the
delay before the whole number of and Jordan Road.
Leyland gasolene engine of which was much higher that normally, mammoth and other animals, now The royal research ship, "Dis- anywhere in the world-does not buses as originally required could|It will then be possible to bring the Company are the agents, ap-being in fact seven times abova extinct, livad.. We know that man: covery" II, leaves London on attain the full success desired for
tula route into uniformity of fares pears to meet local requirements, the normal He then diagnosed lived with the mammoth in Europe, Saturday on a voyug, to Antarciicit, Mr. Lam enn assume nothing be put into service.
He was in a position to promise with the others by the two classes and its adoption is being consider the case to have been suffering and why should he not have lived waters for Oceanographic surveys more than that conductors are that with the arrival of these instead of only the First Class ed.
from uremia.
here under somewhat different and a research into the lives and psychologically hard to train and spare parts at about the end of necessarily being asked for on
The report on the kidney from conditions? Reuter, the public hard to satisfy.
the present month, the necessary the present shorter No. 5 Route;
the Bacteriologist showed that it PUBLIC CRITICISM.
repairs would be speeded up. with the additional advantage
Turning to the two routes joint of a much larger area being coverments are being sorved. Mr. Lam diseased kidney. These reports doubt whether it would be worth
Workshop and garage require was grossly diseased. The cause of death was uremia following a
Mr. Schofield. I vory much ly serving the Kowloon Tong and ed.
says, by a number of stations in- were. typical of the type of while going on with the case.. cluding the Company's own pre-epiliptical convulsions from which
at Mongkok
and
Reuter,
the workshops at Kowloon, where, by means of lectures and demons-j trations by competent oflleials, they are taught the casentials of their
“DISCOVERY" OFF work, and of conduct befitting the
TO-MORROW
FOR RESEARCH OF THE ANTARCTIC
habits of whales.
Sho will call at Tristan do Cunha with male afterwards |
JAPANESE AIR PREPARATIONS
NEW BASES · FOR NAVY PLANES
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the previous Companies.
ENGINE REPLACEMENTS.
routes.
NEW BUSES,
NEW FLEET.'
THE NEW TERRITORIES,
the
DOCTOR'S CONCLUSION.
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MAN AMOK?:
A NEW CULTURE.
Froceding to the Falkland Islands) The public criticisms of the and South Georgin, where she will Kowloon Bus Company, bringing Homuntin areas, and regarding begin her lonely patrol of the into question the efficient control which many complaints are said to
On the New Torritories where mises fringe of the Antarctle continent.and management of the various have beon received from residents,
the he died. Haemorrhage in the Mr. Murphy-I would liko ir -British Wirelesss.
routes and the number of vehicles Mr. Lam proceeded to explain an Increasing development is to one it has leased from
Company at Kow-brain was very common in kidney you would let it stand over for s
few days. required for a regular and reliable where possibly they had been at be looked for, a direct service is previous servico, are aimilar to those error in thinking that his Company being proposed between Un Long loon City. These are to be disease.
SELF-DEFENCE. answered by Mir, Ngan Shing-kwan had not been doing their best. and Taipo. The presont service further, Improved in the case of
Dr. Dover, then described the on behalf of the franchise-holding He reeniled that, formerly, direct from Un Long ventures only as the Mongkok premises, which are Company on the Island.
connection with the Star Ferry far as Sheungshui; and the doot also its head-offices..by the roofing injuries, on the accused, which be Mr Cole, who le appearing for On the mainland, a special case was given not by one, but two weary traveller proceeding to over of the castern side of the said consisted of see the defence, objected to this saying Taipe has to walk to Fanling there compound to provide more cover which might have been inflicted on the doctor's evidence the ac to board another bus on the ronded-in space for the Company'a Since his Company took over between that point and his, dos-large fleet of vehicles; and In the by blows from a cane. They cused should be discharged.;. control, however, it was com. polled the commitments of tination. The extension suggest case of the Kowloon City depot, were all severe, and compatible Mr. Murphy-I should not Hice their costract with the Governed, will span the intervening gap by constructional work to cover with having been received from a to put any hardship in the way of
man running amok, "ment to divert the No: 9-Roote between Shounushul and Fanling, part of the 60,000 sq. ft. of spaen
Continuing, the Doctor and that the nocused, but If your Worship to the Jordan Road vehicular and connect the two existing lines, | available. ferry, leaving No, 7 alone to The points then enabled to be Un Long as the future centre the resentment of his solicitation has decided, I am quite prepared to serve the mass of the Kowloon covered in a continuous journey envisaged or all New Territories being refused might be sufficient accept your decision. Tong and Homuniin residents will be Un Long-Shengshul routes, already well served with to contribute the donth. In this
a large donot; while another im- caso, ho inferred that the Mr. Schofield. Even if wo as for whom it had been more con- Fanling-Taipo,
Those different proposals it is provement that will be appreciated deceased's brain had given way sure that defondant had caused the venient to take the Star Ferry.
learned, are being considered Infarn proposed filling-stations. at probably through the bursting of thern Hondo, and at Sacki, in Ming-fan in the Telegraph inter-
RUSH HOUR PRESSURE. conjunction with the Police and convenient points on the routes, an artery, and this had caused excitement from which tho des the Kowloon Residents Associa- doing away with the nocessity of more violent excitement ceased died, I don't think wo are castern Kyushu, ."
had then developed tion, and if officially, approved, will tanks being filled from the depots. In reply to Mr. Murphy, the entitled to hold that such excite squadron a Port Arthur also is up, as he connected it with a mis naturally a general concentration,e put into effect, with the lenst
The establishment of an air View, particularly desired to clear
Ultimately, it is hored to con- Doctor stated that the other annrehension. Ho pointed out with a tendency to overcrowd en possible delay,
traline the whole trame system in organs were healthy, but the ment would be likely to cause his. On the question of now and one depot at Lafchikok, but it is a stomach was very contuated and death. It certainly. · seems that All these points would he strztes that all previous Companies had the single Star Forry line, leading
con-wollen. The deceased was whatever the accused did was fa ric in the event of hostilities with made a practice of running extra to a marked congestion on the No. daltional buses, the information detall not frat now being Soviet Russia, which has strong buses in addition to the regular 7 route at rush hours. Despite the was received with Interest, that sidered beside other and more very strongly built man, and
about 42 years of age,
self-defenco. - Discharged. naval and air base nt Vladivostok. five or ten minutes time table, addition of extra buses at those the Kowloon Bus Company are at pressing work.
appears to have been made out of an alleged inadequacy of service for the two residèntial districts of Kowloon Tong and Homuntin, kwhich it is recalled led to recent Tokyo, Oct. 17. [Court proceedings being instituted Coincidentally, with the partial on. the ground that a strict con- aubsidence of the latest Russo-requirement of the official time- Japanese war scare, the Navý an-table was not being adhered to. nounces the catablishment at an early date of new navilafr squadrons at Ominato, in nor
under, consideration.
A MISAPPREHENSION.
It was this point which Mr.. Lam
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