Discussing Partitioning Of Palestine
As Arabs Throaton Wido Boycott
London, July 12. The House of Cornmona will debate the Palestine. Royal Commission's Report on July 20, during the dis- cussion of the Colonial Office vote.
This Morning's Mail Bag
THE HONGKONG
BUILDING COSTS IN HONGKONG : · NEED OF INVESTIGATION
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY
Sir. I was particularly interested; is undoubtedly a fuct that where there in your leading article of three days are no quantities most of that care ago on the cost of building in the is wasted since lenders do not reflect Colony. Your article suggests to me the savings which have been made that three aspects at least need in- in careful specifying, but the full The report recommends the vestigation, viz., costs as compared value is, sure to be obtained if the
methods of con- quantities.system, is usert. partitioning of Palestine to three with other places, contractors. parts, giving the Jews sovereignty intracting, and une, the Arabs sovereignty in test- other, and Britain mandute over the third portion, which will include the holy placen and a wide outlet to the sea which Arabs will be free to use-Reuter,
ARABS THREATENING
Regarding comparative costs: The difference in costs between Great Britain and Hongkong are very pro- nounced. It is quite impossible to Rive exact comparisons. A certain for similar class of building used purposes in the two countries costs about one shilling per cubic foot in England and about five
pence Hongkong, but it must be remember- that the cubical content of the ed tha
here Is about one-third building
verandahs and greater, owing to
thence greater storey heights
the impossibility of exact comparison).
It is abvious, however, that in com- parison with Great Britain costs here It would take are about one-half. 100 long in this letter to analyse the
it anti-British boycott reasons, beyond saying that is accounted for by tower cost of labour (which constitutes from 10 per cent.
35 to per cent of the total cost of
Jerusalem, July 12. Aunt Bey Abdulad, leader of the Istakallst Independents, who seek an autonomous Palestine within a wide Arab federation, is hending an Arab delegation of five to Geneva in Com- August when the Mandates
for mission will discuss the plan partioning of Palestine.
The Arabs here are stated to be organising an
from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean, If the partitioning is completed-Reuter Special
BILLIARDS CHAMPIONS DUE HERE
Inman And Lindrum Arriving July 12
Melbourne Inmun and Horace Lindrum, two of the world's greatest billiards and snooker players, will arrive in Hongkong on July 21.
Mr. Melbourne Inman, writing
The conservative retention of old ideas and systems in the face of the in evolution that has taken place Great Britain is detrimental to the Colony. Some people here appear to be under the impression that they know better than the lenders of the industry and the learned institutions of the professions allied to it. It is a big mistake.
It is also a mistake to underestim- ate the intelligence of the competent Chinese contractors, who should be led on to the better methods rather than "played down" to. In Great Britain building is regarded as on important industry, while in the Far East it seems to be regarded as a necessary but unfortunate nuisance. I grant that it will always be a nuis-
is arce unters
scientifically operated.
Until the present, the evolution of the quantities method has been ham-
a building). lower cost of locally pro-pered by Inck of trained quantity
AL
are duced materials, and lower overhead surveyors. present there
(exclusive of their changes (absence of unemployment about a dozen insurance, workmen's compensallon, clerks) in the P.W.D. and Fighting lower rents, etc.). The difference in Services, Hongkong at present there
sex fore is well enough served by the labour cost is very big. To some ex-
the quantity surveying profession to tent these savings are offset by higher cost of imported inaterials, bring its methods up-to-date. but, strangely this not as much a might be
thought, due to special sell- ing arrangements and price agree- An Explanation Of
(This
point arose in Malaya over Governinest purchases through the Crown Agents).
ments.
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Sinus
X, Y, Z.
Striving To Put Stop To Intervention
Britain Pursuos Delicate Task
13, 1937.
E RADIO BROADCAST
Rotary Club Speech From The Hongkong Hotel SONGS FROM THE STUDIO London, July 12. In the course of a long statement Radio Programme Broadcast by non-intervention discussions Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 335 metres metres (9.52 curried out last week, Mr. Anthony (845 kc.'s.), 31.49 Eden, Foreign Secretary, declared to-m.c's.), day that witle conscious of the dif flculty of their tusk in accepting the mandate to seek an Agreement on non-intervention, British slatesmen considered it their duty to make the attempt.
They recognised, too, that reallsa tion of their nins must depend large- ly upon an increased international co-operation..
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4-2 p.m. Chinese Programme. 1 p.m. Dance Musk. Fox-Trot-Jolly Wog; Fox-Trot- Birmingham breakdown; Waltz- Three minutes of heaven; Fox-Trol Ring dem bells; Fox-Trol-My first all your thrill; Fox-Trot-May troubles be little ones; Fox-Trot- Turn your face to the sun; Fex-Trot Red salls in the sunset; Waliz When you're only seventeen; Tango Sorrento by the sca
7.30
p.m. Closing
local
Stock
The Government is fully aware of the urgency of the problem and is at present actively engaged on the
It is the Govern-Quotations and Hongkong Exchange necessary work.
Market Report. ment's intention, said Mr. Eden, to the Non- report
7.35 p.m. Irish Music.
Medley make
Orchestral Savoy Irish Intervention Committee this week-
(per. Somers)....New Mayfair Or COMMONS QUESTIONS
chestra; Instrumental-Rakes London, July 13. Clonmell-Jig; Mason's Apron-Reel Murphy (Accordion); Friday next has been fixed as the Frank date for the meeting of the Non-Song-She is far from the land at which (Lambert) John McCorminck Intervention Committee. the British Government will report (Tenor): Violin Solo-Londonderry on the inundate entrusted to it of Air (arr. Kreisler)....Fritz Kreister: solution to the present Songs-Sweetly she sleeps, my Alice Anding a deadlock over the Spanish sen obser-
Jair: Jeanic with the light brown.
McCormack hair (Foster)....John (Tenor).
vation scheme
The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, when questioned on the subject in The House of Commons, said the Government were conscious of the difficulty of their task and were fully aware of the urgency of the problem, which they would discharge 415 rapidly and efficiently as possible. They were at present actively en- gaged in necessary work in connec- tion with their report.
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8 p.m. Big Ben. Variety: Music- Hall artists compered by Ccell John- son and supported by Van Straten and his Rand.
and
9 p.m. From the Studio. Crista Womack (Vocal) and Doreen Mn_(Piano),
"Viktoria
Her 8.30 p.m.
(Abraham), Hussar Voent Gems by the Light Operu Company,
8.9 p.. Military Band Music. The Voice of the Bells (Luigin, arr. Miller): Tarantelle de Concert (Green- ..Band of H. Referring to the announcement by wood, arr. Godfrey).arche Herol- the French Government that as from M. Grenadier Guards to-morrow they
(Massenet, arr. will suspend the
que de Szabady facilities now afforded! 10 In Singapore, it used to be gener
foreign Godfrey); The Sololst's delight (God- Sir-In your issue of last Satur-
observers
the Franco-Spanish frey)....Band of H. M. Coldstream ally accepted that S.S.$12,000 (exclu-
Patrol sive of cost of land) was the min- day you included an item headed frontier unless control on the Portu-
MacGregor Guards: Wee build a
guese frontier has been previously (Amers); 2 bedroom, Devils Fight Me", which purported
Policeman's Holiday int required to
to describe how a woman committed re-established, ir. Eden said that (Ewing)....Band of II. M. Cold- 2 bathroom, 3 reception room, ser-
was suffering observers would be allowed to re-stream Guards. wants quarters and garage type of suleide because she
main at their posts and that mean- house for European occupation. The from the disease known as Sinus, employment of a building economisted affliction. The correct word is in force.
I should like to explain that dread-while, the French decrees still remuin i.e. a chartered quantity surveyor)
Sinusiters. In our heads we have a
questions When supplementary makes difference. Last year a
number of bone cavities known either addressed to him regarding the na- Arm with which I am acquainted was
as Sinuses or Antrums. The two from Rules Hotel to the Sports with to build a house of the above most susceptible are in the frontal ure of the British proposals to be high, swing low; My Kingdom for a
entrusted with a small legacy where- accommodation, and
nly $8,300, in-bone just above the eyes and at the put before Friday's meeting, Mr. kiss; Supposin'; Songs-Muste Eden declined to give further in- May; A thousand dreams of you. In general they have formation. and top of the nose. cluding modern
Violin Solo by Ileifetz. 1.20 p.m. architects fees was expended, and the two or more uses: either as ventila- In answer to other questions relat-
Caprice, Op. 1, No. 24 (Paganini, result is generally admired. I have tors to coul the blood stream in the ing to the Spanish war, Mr. Edenarr. Auer).
(and both) as semi-ex- or
9.30 p.m. London-News and An- definite proof that costs in Hongkong bead are lower than Singapore by at least cretionary channels. One can easily said he was fully alive to the import- 20 per cent.
understand that if the blood is giv-teers out of Spain and of establishing
ance of getting non-Spanish volun-nouncements.
9.55 p.m. The London Palladium Regarding methods of contracting, ing up a large number of dead
{ administered impartially. It was Lightening Switch (Alford); In the the Far East has always lagged be- molecules and other foreign bodies air control and naval control, to be Orchestra, bind Great Britain, a point not com
that the sinus or antrum is going to the desire of the British Government, moonlight (Ketelbey); Dawn; Sunset become filled up, thereby causing he
further ques he stated, in reply to mon to all Colonies, Kenya being a
(Matt).
p.m. Dance Music and noted exception. In Tungkong, the pressure and consequent inflammation tion, that the Consul should return
of the bone. If this state is neglected to Bilbao as soon as possible, and the Vox-Trots-Saving up my time to P.W.D. has given a fairly good lead by being
offlelal had afrendy proceeded to that so than sony up-to-date (more it
but that lead not followed by private interests. The War Department, save for a few
Editor of the Telegraph says:
"I have much pleasure in inform- ing you that that Mr. Horace Llu- drum and myself will arrive in Hongkong on July 21. 1 min not sure where we are playing yet, but Meases, Lane, Crawford's are acting: ns our agents."
Upon enquiry I find that it hus been Impossible to make any sort of arrangements for the visitors to play here as they originally request ed a fee of 40 guineus for one dis- play, and this the Hongkong Billiards Association feels it cannot afford to guarantee as this is the close season and interest in the game at the ma- unent, is at its lowest.
Nevertheless the Association is nerfectly, prepared to stage some- thing so long as it will not involve any great financial loss
anil
the H.K.B.A. offelals will await the arri val of Innon and Lindrum in order to discuss the position with them.
If the players are willing to give an exhibition and to be satisfied with the proceeds therefrom, the Billiards Association will be perfectly pro pared to make such arrangements. It would be disappointing it two famous personalities visited Hong- kong and left without giving a dis- play. Inman is one of the greatest personalities the game has known and he has been Immortailsed by Tom Webster the Daily Mail car- toonist. Inman won the Daily Mail gold cup in 1936, white Lindrum is The Australian champion wizard with the cue.
and
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Fifteen Cases
Of Dysentery
Reported In Colony Last Wook
Nu fewer than 15 enses ol dysentery, with five deaths, were reported in the Colony during last week. Eleven were from Victoria, three from Kowloon and one from rural Hongicong. Three further cases, one imported, were notẞed yesterday.
Last week's return also shows nine enses of typhoid (three deaths), two of cerebro-spinal fever (une death), one fatal ense of puerperal fever, A rabid animal was reported from ruro! Hongkong. There were
deaths from tuberculosis.
04
Yesterday's return shows two fur- ther cases of typhold and one small-pox.
"Nothing To
Do With Free State
"
Belfast, July 12, Northern Ireland to-day cele- brated the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne and 40,000 Orangemen paraded It Belfast. before the Mayor of the City,
In an address to the matchers,
the Mayor' declared:
"We have our own constituilon and our own Parliament. We *have nothing to do with the Irish Free Slate."--Neuter Bulletin Service;
date methods,
sanitation
will necessitate an operation:
entails sometimes It
bealth.
three or four
Songs Why wasn't I told?: Dye bye Bindkhird: Plano Solos-Swing
in
operations and often permanent ill. city in order to take possession of the spend on you; Crazy with love.... consular offices and archives. With Ambrose and his Orchestra; Tungo This disease can be cured effec-Eden stated that no negotiations had, Dance Orchestra: Choral-Ten Green reference to the bilbao mines, Mr. Veni Pebeta....Dajos Bela and his
lapses, are also using fairly up-to-tively and often permanently provid-so far as he was aware, been started Bottles, John Peel N Harold Wil-
room
concerned. British Wireless,
Orchestra-In
In my humble opinion, there is stilling the patient, continues a steady between General Frenco and repre-lams and the 13. B. C. Male Chorus:
for improvement all round. life. One should always consult a The Jump sun contract, based on doctor at the slightest sign of head sentatives of the British interests drawings and speelfieation only, has pains near the eyes. for a good many years been almost prolete in Great Britain for work over £500 in value, whereas the con- tract based on a bill of quantities has been in almost universal
Primary object of this letter. how- ever, was to point out that your re- port left the impression that sinus was a disease. The foregoing should but satisfy that sinus itself is a normal here the former is still used in the part of the unsturny, and that the vast majority of contracts. The for- | Affliction which the unfortunate mer is unscientifle and denies analysis; | woman suffered was a disease of the
is usually inequitable to the con- sinus.
190;
tractor and indefinite in the obliga- Fellow sufferers who read the re- tlons it imposes, with the result that port will doubtless agree with me tenders are higher, competition is that the young woman in "Devils
undermined because of lack of a uni- | Fight Me" unhappily took the wrong form basis, and general control is turning. virtually impossible. The "quanti-
ties contract approaches very close
RICHARD C. B. HOLTON.
to the ideal and remedies all the Se-me-tri or above defects, giving much cheaper results. In this I am not making a statement which I am unable to prove with facts and figures.
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Se-me-te-ri ?
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CARDINALS RECOVER
Giants Beaten By Philadelphia
New York, July 12. Philadelphia whipped the New York Giants In the National League fo-day, six to three, thus cutting down the average of the League's second rank- ing team of the moment.
Brooklyn's game with Boston was postponed on account of rain.
St. Louis made up for yesterday's serious double-header loss to Pitts-
a Vienna Beer Garden ...Mantovani and his Tipin Orches- tra; Waltz-Will you remember?. Louis Levy and his Gaumont British Symphony: Orchestra Moonlight and shadows; How could you?.... Orchestra: Anson Weeks and his Vocal-Rose Maric: Lover, come back to me.....Charles Kullman (Tenor); Waltz-Lovely Lady; Fox- Trot-Alone at a table for two.... The H. B. C. Dance Orchestra: Fox- Trois-Accent on Youth; Car of dreams....Jack Hylton and his Or- chestra.
11 p.m. Close Down.
Thefts From Europeans
One Man Receivės Gaol Term
at
Merchants will charge the highest Sir-Your "Is Your English Cor- price they can get for the materials rect" published in Saturday's Picture burgh by cutting down the Pirates
very interesting, they sell, and only competition wil Supplement
attacks, hitting 11 and scoring six. keep prices at reasonable levels. The especially the comments under the Pirates hit 11 also, but could only control made possible by the quanti-sub-heading "rables", which observe ties contract tends to stimulate com- that the word does not rhyme with or five.
The Chicago-Cincinnati game was petition, if full advantage is taken of "bables", and that it should be pro-
also
cancelled, but the Cubs are still Two cases of larceny from Europe- dealt with by the possibilities, and, further, the
fan residences were unced as a three-syllable word.
the Central Would you be good enough to in- well out ahead in the League table. impossibly low tenders being elim-
The only two fixtures in the Ameri-Mr. W. Schonchl inated by the system, the merchant's form your readers about the word
vun League. Cleveland against Magistracy this morning. fear of bad debts is reduced. This "cemetery"? Strictly speaking. I
Chicago, Philadelphia against New Ventris Road, was the complainant The Rev. D. B. Chtide, of No. 15 tear usually entails a risk allowance believe, the final syllable should
York, were both postponed because added to the price,
rhyme with very". It should be pro-
in the case in which Mok Wah, 28, of rain-Beuter. A few years, ngo, therr
anounced as a four-syllable word as,
unemployed. was bound over in $25 powerful "ring" of Chinese contrac-1 think, is indicated by the English
for larceny of # palr of cotton lors In Singapore whose methods Oxford Dictionary: am I correct?
trousers. were quite ingenious. I can definitely I shall appreciate this courtesy and say that the lilroduction of the quan- the public will be interested. I am titles system defeated them. The certain. "ring" consisted of brokers,
L... no
not
J. W. MAYHEW. competent builders, with a few com- Editor's Note:-Reader Mayhew is addition to the O, E. petent builders wholly in their power, correct. In The brokers were incapable of prie Dictionary, the 20th Century volume ing the bill of quantifles and, due to of the Standard Dictionary points out their Ignorance, were frightened by that in its pure pronunciation "ceme- it, and it was found that they con- tery" 15 pronounced se-me-te-ri, Aned their
of
titlest
"Japan Wants Inspector Baker, prosecuting, satd
Peace"
Says Japanese Consul In Canton
the trousers were hipnging out to be dried at the back of the house and defendant took them off the line.
In another case II' Sau, 28. un-
employed, was charged with (8) lorceny of two safely razors and one safety razor case from No. 234 Wan- cheat Rond, and (b) with being
nellvilles to contracts though na se-ml-trl. It should, General for Japan et Canton, inter-
found in enclosed premises, namely, colloquially it has come to be Mr. Toyolchi Nakamura, Consul- the back-yard of No. 230 Wanchai where there were no bills of quan-so be noted that strictly pronounced viewed by a Daily Sun ripresent-
Road. A very great deal can be saved by all of the 'E's' have the same volusive in connection with the events in Inspector Baker said that No. 234 careful choice of materials and band are pronounced ns In "red" North China expressed great concern
was the residence of Saaltary In- carefully prepared specification. It Thus se-mee-te-ri is incorrect.] over the happenings there.
specter Stevens, and defendant got "Last Saturday" he said, "things into the house at 4 a.m., and stole appeared to take a
outlook.
the articles. Regarding the second brighter The withdrawal of the two armies 230 in an attempt to escape.
charge, the man had gone into No. Chinese and Japanese, near Wang- ping was completed and between Defendant, who had a previous them were stationed the Pro-An-Tui conviction, plended that he had Mr. M. C. Avis, President of the the Peace Preservation Corps and stolen this time because he wanted Seymour-Sheldon organisation, Eng- everything looked calm. The terma money to go back to the country land. Continent, South Africa, Japan for withdrawal were
where his mother was . & South Chinn, is in Hongkong and both parties." is staying at the Repulse Bay Hotel. The Cabinet and the people In Japan do not at all desire fo bound over in $50 for one year by Nakamura. "They will be pleased to
Leung Plog, 36, street coolie, was aggravate the situation," and Mr.
Mr. W. Schofield at the Central treat the whole as ++ local incident and Magistracy this morning when he
settle
accordingly. But the moves of
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
ROB THE AVERAGE MAN OF HIS LIFE-
ILLUSION AND YOU FOR HIM OF His HAPPINESS AT THE SAME TIME-Ibsen,
The French Consulate in Hongkong will be closed to the general pubile to-morrow (Wednesday), being the
French National Day.
Accepted
by
Dr. Chadwick T. Kew, of Shang-pleiied guilty to the larceny of the 38th Army may be ominous." hal, brother of the well-known local about five cattles of charcost from a "Japanese leaders have no desire to land and share broker, Dr. Fred Kew, basket at Wing Lok Street near the crente a crisis with China. We want will be returning to the Northern fruit market. Inspector Mair said peace, but if our hands are forced by Port to-morrow by the a. Kwong-the coat was being unloaded from a the Chinese Army at the front, we chow after spending a short holiday lorry and defendant come niong and may perhaps have to act," said Mr.
Nakamura. hero.
Istole some of it from a basket.
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Sentence of six months' hard labour was passed on the two charges.
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