THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1936.
Million Dollars Expenditure For Hongkong Ship-owners NEW SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA LAWS
BE APPLIED TO
TO COLONY ON JULY 1.
TO
MANY SHIPS MAY HAVE TO BE
LAID UP:
OWNERS UNEASY
"Tolegraph" Special Representative
New Safety of Life at Sea regulations will be enforced
in Hongkong on July 1.
In order to comply with them, local ship-owners may have to face an expenditure exceeding a million dollars.
Shipping and business firms believe that the new
will give
scheme of reconditioning and re-equipping existing ships| Wilhelm Kempf, the German vial- with Hongkong Government passenger licences to enable or to lungkeng whe them to comply with rules drawn up at the Simla Con-concert at the German Club at 5.30 ference for the Safety of Life at disquieting problem of expenditure.
Sea will prove а
Resources of local ship-owners, it is pointed out, have been: severely taxed in past years through adverse truding conditions, .and it will be some years before they will be able to regain the prosperity that characterised British maritime operations on the China Coast two decades ago.
Although several vessels have already been recon- structed in accordance with the new requirements, there are still a number carrying passengers which have not yet! done so.
D.m. on Friday.
LUXURY
RAIL CAR FOR K.C.R.
A rebuilt luxury rail car will shortly be placed into service by the Kowloon Can. ton Railway Administra- ition.
It will accommodate only 25 passengers, an eqmpared with the 48 previously accommodated;
have 14 comfortable arm chairs In which passengers can recline
full length if they wish;
bove two luxurious settees, each Care of holding four passengers; |
fitted with a special parlour. with seven revolving bar seats;
be equipped with either thermo tank punk louvres, or electric
fans,
·
The car. which can either Idrive under its own power from
RADIO BROADCAST
Jazz Recital On
Two Pianos RECORDED PROGRAMMÈS
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (816 kilócycles):
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7 p.m. Military Band Music. Clarinet Concerto No. 1 (Weber); Zampa-Overture (llerold, arr. God. frey); Old Folks at ilome and in Foreign Lands (Roberts): Pas Des
(Chaminade), Cymbales
7.30 p.m.
Ballads by Percy Heming (Baritone).
to
(a) airing (b) Come to the Fair (c) Jock the Fiddler (d) The Ballad- Munger, Easthope-Martin; off Philadelphia (Haynes); Chorus, Gen. tlemen (Lohr). 7.15 p.m.
The J. H. Squire Celeste Oetel.
Memories of Chopin (arr. Willough ((Batiste),
a 150 horse power Hall Scott by: Cavatina (Raff); Andante in G
80,100 BODIES internal combustion engine, or EXHUMED
IN COLONY
RETURNED TO LAND OF ANCESTORS I have been informed from sections of the Convention, but no
Ancestor worship dominates one source that several Hong-provision was made regarding wireless
certificates.
the lives of all Chinese. Equally kong owners are still hesitating between selling their vessels, It therefore became necessary, bedominant is the feeling, cherish scrapping them or reconstruct-fore the Convention could be adapted, fed through the ages, that the re- ing them.
The Safety of Life at Sea Con- vention was evolved in 1932, and Hongkong is one of the very few countries in the world that has not yet ratified it.
Application te shipping in the Colony cannot, it is said, be post poned much longer.
But when I is applied here, it will mean heavy expenditure on the part of some of the less well-found shipping companies and owners, in order make their ships conform quirements.
to
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re-
FAR-REACHING EFFECTS When the Convention comes into force on July it will have far- reaching effects..
♫
for n Government wireless school to be opened in order to train practically the whole of the wireless operators on Hongkong registered employed ships.
Hongkong, in the past, issued its own Special "A" wireless certificate,
held by practically all the operators, but this was inadequate imder the Convention for passenger snipa trad- ing more than 20 miles from the nearest land or 200 miles in the open sea between two consecutive ports.
ments.
EXCELLENT RESULTS
Class xerüßeater, have
mains of a Chinese who had died abroad from the land of his ancestors should be returned.
No matter where a Chinese may roam-te the goldfields of Austen- lis, the steppes of South Africa or the ley wastes of the Yukon-fa remains will, if it is humanely possible, be returned.
In Hongkong alone the remains of over 80,000 Chinese have, during the present decade, been exhumed from Chinese cemeteries, to be res turned to the lands of their ancen-
tors.
Most of the remains of Hongkong Chinese were sent to various parts of Kwangtung. But many have been sent to much more distant parts of
8 p.m. Time, Weather and An- be attached as special observa-nouncements. tion car to ordinary trains, will 8.05 p.m. The Boswell Sisters be one of the most luxurious (Vocal) Rudy seen in the Far East.
It will be the first sliver car to be seen in Hongkong, and will be known as the "Talpo Belle". The exterior painting will be
done with aluminium.
Entrances will be from the cen tre of the car and not, as with existing rail motors, from
ends.
the
It took six weeks experimenta- tien, before the members of the .C.R. staff in charge of construc- tion of the luxury car were satis- fed with the design of the arm chairs.
Speclat parties will be able to hire the car for trips to Canton or inter- mediate stations, either as an adjunct to the ordinary expresses or to travel under its own power.
It will be placed Into service in the near future.
ADMIRALTY CONTRACTS
phone).
Starita
(Xylo
1. Xylophone-Dance of the Rain- drops; The Punch and July Show; 2. of Brandway; 3. Vocal-Lullaby
5.
Dance;
phone in de Janeiro; Joey the 4. Vocal-Why Don't you Practice What you Preach ?;
Squirrel Xylophone-The Dance of the Paper Dolls.
8.30 p.m. Musical Comedy. Selection--Princess Charming (Sir-
Hubby and Waller; Vocal Gema Yes, Madam (Weston, Lec, Waller and Tunbridge): Selection The Cat and the Fiddle (Harbach and Kern); Selection-Tulip Time (Sievier and Wark)
2.
9 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin and Amouncements.
9.20 B.RI. Richard Cropite (Tenor) Fritz Kreisler (Violin). 1. Song--Good-Bye (Tosti); Solo Shepherd's Violin
Madrigal (Kreisler); 3. Song-Vionna City of 4. Violin my dreams (Sleczynski); Solo-Marguerite (Rachmaninoff, arr, Kreisler); 6. Song-Springtime re- minds me of you (Rotler).
9.40 p.m. From the Studio. Doreen Ma and George Bond on Two Pianos.
Big Ben from Daventry.
10 p.m. 10 p.m. Albert Sandler and his Orchestra.
I understand that such excellent re- suits have been achieved by the Government wireless school that prae- tically all of the wireless operators China.
The Agures for Government and
Indiana Sweetheart (Hansen); Lovo with "A" applied to sit for examination for private exhumations in the Colony
qui Passo (Bixio); Love's last Word Many wireless installations at pre- 2nd Class Madrid Convention Certi- since 1930, contained in the Annual PLACES ORDERS FOR in Juleness (Macbeth); Le Chaland
which are required by the
the Reports of the Sanitary Board, re-
NEW DESTROYERS (Cremieux); Masquerade (Loeb); I aent carried on ships registered in ficates,
want your heart (Haydn Wood); Pale Hongkong will have to be replaced. Safety of Life at Sen Convention for flec: in some measure the financial
ships
Moon-Indian Love Song (Login); between Hongkong and depression through which China has trading
London, May 19. Wireless direction finding apparatus Singapore, Batavia, India, Manila, passed
Subject to the settlement of certain Allegro (Finceo); Anjoretten Tanze will have to be installed on ships of
In 1930, a total of 10,216 exhuma-points of detail, the Admiralty has (Gung'); Bien Aimes-Valse (Wald- Japan and Australia, Ships trading: Certificated tonnage. certain
be along the China Const are exempt tions were made by the Government,
inte
10.30 p.m. Tribal class destroyers of the wireless operators will have to
Dance Music by carried, and emergency apparatus will from the Madrid Certificate require and 1,898 by private persons. Thus decided to entrust the construction of teufel).
Lotals increased in 1931 to 12,688 and 1936 programme to the following Jack Hykon and his Orchestra. -have-to-be-lustalled.
1.888 respectively, while in 1939,
-11-pm-Close Down, A recommendation was made to the were 11,675 and 1,928 respeelvely firms: In addition every ship must, before
Hunter and Wighamn 1940, instal continuous wave wireless Board of Trade in the middle of last In 1933 they reached a peak of 13,302 Richardson, of Wallsend-on Tyne- transmitting apparatus. This will year for the issue by the Hongkong for Government exhumations and Two vessels, with machinery by the
the Government of a Second Class (Res 2,776 for private exhumations. scrapping of almost mean
Then, in 1934, came the slump. In Wallsend Slipway and Engineering steme will be broadenit from Zersen 24 entire range of transmitters at present irleted) Certificate in lies of the “g
exhumations only 9,040 Hongkong Special "A" Certificate, that The Conscation makes it obligatory The hot Certisente, approval for were carried out by the Government for ships to be efficiently sub-divided which has been given by the Board and 2,212 by private persons.
Last year the totals showed slight into watertight compartments and of Trade, is restricted to British ships
to 1,620 and 2,967 res- bulkheads. Lifeboats and buoyant registered in Hongkong, and trading increases apparatus (for which there are between Hongkong and all ports in pectively. minimum requirements, according to China; Siberia, Japan, Korea, For- The totals for the present decade the number of passengers carried) mona, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, are 66,441 Government exhumationing Company, of Greenock; two
18,659 private are the subject of stringent reguln-Philippine Islands, and the Duteli and
making a grand Lotal of 80,100, East Indies. tions,
the
in operation.
WILL COST MONEY
All of which, when applied to Hongkong ships, will cost money,
All ships with a tonnage exceeding tons will Come under The Regulations.
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Many vessels. have already been modified to the satisfaction of the local authorities, but with some older ships, it is doubtful whether the requirements of the Convention can ever be applied in toto.
Hongkong Becomes Cleaner City
becoming Ilongkong is
Enforcement of some of the provisions of the Convention to cer- cleaner city. tain ships registered in this Colony
'જ્ઞ
SON BORN AT SEA TO GIRL OF 13
ENROUTE FROM FAR EAST
Plymouth, May 15. Ten days before a liner reach- ed England one of the pas
will, it is stated, mean that- they | Each year more and more re-sengers, a girl of thirteen, gave fuse goes to the incinerators or birth to a son. She was return
Swan,
Company;
Denny und Brothers, of Dumbarton) -Two vessels;
Parsons. Marine Steam Turbine Company, of Wallsend-on-Tyne- Two vessels, the hulls by Vickers, Armstrongs;
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineer:
vessels:
A. Stephen and Sons, of Govan, one vessel-British Wireless,
NO WATER FOR POULTRY
TWO STALLHOLDERS FINED
and Chan Yee Wong Sau-hing master of poultry stalls No. 10 and 11 at the Sai Wan Ho Market, were
erates
ZEESEN PROGRAMMES Specim DTOETAMBE tor Far Eastern
follows:
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19.34 P
DJH IJN
DJD
10,200 1.30-3 p.1. 19.74 m 15,250 kc -4.45-8.15 p.m. 23.49 m2 9,540 ke 4.40-6.15 p.m. 10.74m 1500-ke #p.m.-12,50 mm.
SOUTH ASIA ZONE South Asia Zone, broadcast from DJO. (19,74 metrea] and DJN (81.48 metres).
4.30 p.m. German Folk Song.
4.5 p.m. Greetings to our listeners.
Music by Reichawehr land. 5.30 p.m. News and Review in English, 0.43 p.m. "My Home. 'tis on the Baltic
Shore," 6.15 am. News and Harlew in German. 1 p.m.
Concert of Light Husle, A p.sa.
News in English.
8.15 p.m. Centert of Light Music (con-
tinued).
EAST ASIA ZONG
East Asla Zone, broadrast through D3Q on 10,63 metres (18,280 kr.) 1.30-3 p.m. Concert, news at 2.0.
9.05 p.m. German Folk Song.
9.10 p.m.
9.16 B.m..
9.10 p.m.
Greelinge to our Lisioners. News and Review In German. Virtuosa Flute Micule.
9.45 pam. lings Woll's “Miznon" Hangs.
10 p.m. News and Review in English on
DJN, DIE.
10.16 p.m. Today in German), 10.30 p.m. Topical, Talk.
10.45 pm German Opere Programme,
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following ware-lengtha and frequencies.
Big are abserved by Daventry,
GSA GSD
Gac
GJE GSF
Froomey
4,050 .. 1,410 1,895 k.c. 11,759 k.. 11.145 ks
C8Q
cal
Wavelength
49,59 metres 31.55 metres. 31.80 metres 26.63 metres 25.15 vires 18,240 ke. 19.02 17,300 k.. 26.00 priva 21,470 k.. 53.07
melere 18,260 k.c. 19.38
metrem 21.540 k.. 15.40 maires 6,116 k.. 49.30 karired
Transmission 1
GAJ GAL
(0.8.N., G.S.D.)
Ben. This Little Neck." 13.83 p.m. Walter Glunking (Pianoforte). 1.3.2. "Foreign Affıtn♫
will have to be scrapped.`
the Central Magistracy this morning, each ined $5 by Mr. W. Schofield, at is applied, to the Kun Tong reclamation. Ating from the Far East with her for having caused unnecessary suffer When the Convention the oxisting
of geese by failing to provide passenger coriificates the latter place it helps add new parents and her younger brother, ing to ave crates of ducks and six them with a supply of fresh water at will be superseded by Certinentes land to the Colony as part of seven years old. issued under the Simla Convention. Hongkong's great reclamation Ten days ago the boy was taken 10.55
.65 a.m. on May 9:
of G. Fowler,
the Inspector hitherto in Hongkong The practice
i with influenza, which developed
attention was Hinto has been to issue two forms of cert scheme..
bronchial - pneumonia. On S.P.C.A., aaid his fientes. The first is a Class I corti-
The collection of refuse is one of Wednesday his sister also collapsed, drawn to defendants' atalla by the ficate, which could be used anywhere the major tasks undertalten by the She was taken to the ship's hospital, noise being made by the birds. He in the Far East.
Because the Australian Govern partment (the name was changed on favourably.
Urban Council. As the Santiary De-and was reported to be progressing found that there was no water in the crates. He asked defendants to put ment refused to accept the Class 1 January 1 this year) the Council last On Thursday when her father went it had been done, and the birds had some water in the crates, and after certificate, vessels trading to the
year collected, a total of 115,382
to inquire about her he was told, to
down. The crates ce.ilicate, which atrietly conforms to refuse taken to the depots by private
were perfectly the British Board of Trade regula-contractors, a total of 187,635 tons
given birth to a son,
dry." tions, and which is universally were disposed of during, the year.
This is a complete supprise," he cognised as an
aid on arrival.
The Empress of Canada is due, here equivalent of the
The young mother, who was critical-from Shanghal at 6 p.m. on Thursday. 1.10 p.m. Stalnirea Htephen, Comedian, Almost twice as much refuse comes
brought ashore on from the island of Victoria as from ly, was the entire mainland, the figures for stretcher and taken to hospital, One of the stumbling blocks to the last year being 75,405 and 39,686 tons enforcement of the Safety of Life at respectively. An average of 316 tons Sea Convention by the Hongkong were handled each day during the Government was the serious lack of year, this constituting a record, wireless operators with appropriate Certificates.
Antipodes had to obtain a Class 1A tons of refuse. Adding to this the his astonishment, that she had just satisfied their thirst, the noise died
B.O.T. Certificate.
STUMBLING BLOCK
Since the beginning of the present Board has decade the Sanitary
A draft Ordinance for the adoption handled
Д total of 623,716 tons,
of the Safety of Life at Sea Conven- 407,048 tons of which came from the
tion was aubmitted in the Secretaryland.
of State for the Colonies for approval To collect and
as long ago as 1933.
removo
last
MORE MUI-TSAI CASES
SMALL FINES ON WOMEN-
a
year's contribution to this huge total, Summoned before Mr. W. Schofield, Because of the clause relating to it cost Hongkong $341,107, as com- at the Central Magistracy this morn- wireless operators, application had to pared with $370,735 In 1934. Iming, for failing to report the intended proved handling methods was respon- be postponed.
Hongkong hitherto has been per-sible for the decrease in handling removal from the Colony of her registored muttai, Wu Pul-wa, mitted modificationa, under certain charges from $2.36 to $2.03 per ton. married woman, realding at
Bonham Strand East, third floor, was fined $10.
Defendant stated that she was call- ed away to Canton owing to the death of her mother.
Inspector H. W. Fraser, of the S.C.A., said defendant left the Colony on March 28. The girl was very well treated.
Mak Ho, married woman residing at & Tal Yizen Street, second floor, was fined $5 or failing to report the change of address of her registered mul-trai
Inspector Fraser said defendant had
fendant had on two previous occasions stated she was ill at the time. De- 67 reported her change of address.
12.10 p.m.
. p.m. Questis Maclean, at the Organ
of the Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Challe Grewwich Th:79 Bignal at 1.30 pm.
140 am. Quentin Hatleen. at, the Organ of the Trocadera Cinema, Kiephant and Cuitle (cont'd).
1.53 p.m. "Starlighk""" Nomber Three.
p.m.
The News and Announcements.
Transmission 2
(0.5.0, 0.81)
7 p.m. Dig Ben, A Recital by Margaret
Good (Planeforte), 7.15 pan. The B.B.C. Emplry Orchestra. 8.15 p. Operašte House, #.25 .m
Fuck Fall Down and Breske Ma Crow.
Greenwich Time Signal at p..
Thea Nowa and Annannésements. -3.24-pum-Maalee)--Interluder
9:38 Dan "Llying in the Taatı, Having - #
Mel**
9.10 p.m. Enrol,
Transmission 3 (0.3.0.. 0.8,P., (,S.D.).
10 p.m. Big Beh. A tacital by North Country Folk-Bongs,
Bournemouth 19.15 p.m. The
Monletpat
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Break of Joumey Permitted
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Appearing on remand before Mr. 11.15 p.m. "Four-footed Things". A cele Macfadyen a the Kowloon Magis- tion of words and mule about tracy this morning, Cheung - Wal- animale, and a few thoughts abort
an unemployed the animals possible patat et Jeung, aged 25,
teacher, charged with uttering and +11:45-pame=/The-Dewa-and- Aknenntaments possession-of-a-forged $50-banknote ̈
Greenwich_Time Signal at (18' a.m. 12.JB... The 11.B.G. Danes - Orchestra, of the Hongkong and Shanghai
directed by Henry Hall.
Banking Corporation, was remanded 11.30 am. Down to the Sea in Chise unul 230 p.m. on May 26, when the
Sea Communications, Reneinrhearing will commence.
Detective- the Bhip (1) - LineTM," Dante it.50 am. The UB.C.
Orchestra Songeant J. Hunter appeared for the
prosecution.
(cont'd).