THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XCIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News
Hongkong
Mui Teai in Hongkong
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD., 1921.
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The Sanitary Board................................................................................ ..... ... 214 Leading Articles :-
Random Reflections
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.... 217 ....218 219 .........227 Hongkong and the Water Carriage System........... 227 Hongkong Book-keeper's Sharp Sentence
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Japanese "Aggression" in China
Japan in China and Siberia
The Central Yangtsze Situation
The British in South China
Wedding in Kowloon......
"Hongkong Daily Press
Hongkong Legislative Council....
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company
Correspondence :-
An Inaccurate Report
Suspected Arson
Chamber of Commerce
Thieves Still Busy
The Cassel Mining Agreement..
What Kansu's Earthquake Cost the Province ...230
St. Joseph's College
Bank of East Asia
281
The Bank of China
Mr. Stevens's Kidnapper
The Law Courts..
231 231 232
The War in Hapeh
234
Far Eastern Cable News...
Wireless Telegraph Communication with China 234 Local Sport
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Famine Committee and a Bank Fraud
...236
Republicanism" in China
237
Firing on Ships on the Yangtsze......
..238
Company Meeting :-
Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. ..
Shipping
..239
The Upper Yangtze Trade
Commercial....
BIRTHS.
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CARTER.-At Shanghai, on August 21st, to Mr. and Mrs. D. CARTER, a daugh-
ter.
CHAPEAUX.-At Shanghai, on August 26th, to Mr. and Mrs. ALBERT CHAPEAUX,
a son.
MOONEY REED.-At Shanghai, on August
19th, AUSTIN JAMES MOONEY to ANNE CONSTANCE REED.
on
NICHOLLS-INWOOD --At Shanghai,
August 13th, HARRY CHARLES THOMAS NICHOLLS, of Shanghai and Bristol, to EMILY INWOOD, of Shanghai and London.
DEATHS.
BONE.--At Studley, Warwick, England, on the 26th August, Mrs. C. BONE. beloved wife of the Rev. C. Bone (formerly Pastor, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wanchai). By cable. HARDY. At the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, on August 24th, HERBERT JOHN HARDY (Shanghai Gas Co., Ltd.), aged 47 years.
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By order of the Canton Government 140,000 taels of opium, worth $400,000, which had been confiscated by the customs and police authorities from Smugglers, were publicly destroyed by fire on August 27th on the East Parade Ground.
Advices from Washington state that Mr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, author of "Contemporary International Politics," has been invited to serve as an adviser on Far Eastern affairs to the American State Department for the Pacific Confer- ence. Mr. Hornbeck, who has been travelling in China, Japan and the Philippine Islands for the past 18 months, will return to Washington next week.
Mr. W. S. Fleming, the American Attorney, who has been very prominently in the limelight lately at Shanghai, sail- ed, last week, for America, but sent to the Press a parting letter in which he wrote:- There is no reason to camou- Eng-flage my purpose in leaving China, as I am going straight to Washington, D.C., in response to telegraphic advices I have received to be there in connection with an investigation I initiated in the De- partment of State early in March of this year. Lest certain evil-disposed persons should misrepresent the purpose of my departure I would ask you kindly to publish this at an early date."
JENNER. At Shanghai, on August 22nd.
ELI WILLIAM JENNER, of Kent, land. aged 28 years. LINN-At the General Hospital, Shang- hai, on August 24th, CATHERINE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Linn, aged 7 weeks. RAWLINGSON.-At Shanghai, on August 26th. Captain W. J. RAWLINGSON, of Shanghai.
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
LANE. At Tientsin, on August 13th, to
Recent floods not only interrupted Mr. and Mrs. R. W. LANE, a daugh-traffic on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway by washing away the tracks, but washed away a bridge on the Peking-Mudken Line, near Shanhaikuan.
ter.
MURPHY.-At Cork, on August 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. MURPHY. of Shanghai, a son.
PRITCHARD.-At Yunnanfu, on August 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. PRIT CHARD, a daughter. REIS.-In Manila, on Sunday, the 21st inst., at 8.40 a.m., to Mr. and Mrs. F. A. REIS, a son, PEDRO FAUSTINO.
MARRIAGES.
OLIVER-KAY.-At the Abbey Hotel, Jedburgh, Scotland, on July 19th, by the Rev. Stewart Burns, M.A., St. Mary's, Hawick, MICHAEL OLIVER, China Navigation Co., Hongkong, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Oliver, 20. Slitrig Crescent, Hawick, to AGNES ROBSON, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Kay, Hill View, Jedburgh.
Sir Arthur Whitton Brown, the Trans- atlantic airman, who paid a visit to China on behalf of Messrs. Vickers, a few months ago, has undergone an opera- tion for appendicitis since his return to England.
The late Admiral Sir James Andrew Thomas Bruce, K.C.M.G. (75), who saw service in Nigeria and was second in command in China at the time of the Boxer outbreak, formerly A.D.C. to Queen Victoria. left estate of the gross value of £20,957.
have
After a full day's proceedings, inves- tigation of the charge against J. G. Gardiner, alleged to
stolen 50 barrels of cement, the property of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, was completed at H.M. Police Court at Shanghai, on Aug. 24th, before Mr. G. W. King, when the defendant was discharged.
Certain Chinese now in London, says a London paper, are demanding that the
value of two sacred golden bells taken
from the Temple of Heaven in Peking during the Boxer rising shall be restored that the bells were found under piles of to the temple authorities. It is stated
rubbish, and that one of them was taken by British troops to Delhi and there melted down, the gold being sold for £25,000. The interested Chinese now point to the special clause in the Ver- sailles Treaty whereby the ancient astronomical instruments looted by the Germans during the capture of Peking were returned to China, and demand that the sacred bells, or their value, shall also be restored to the Temple of Heaven.
HONGKONG.
Owing to the recent heavy rains the road from Laichikok to Castle Peak is closed.
It has been decided to admit women to Hongkong University and the first girl student has already been registered.
Mr. Percy Smith, who has been taking the waters at Marienbad, is expected to return to Hongkong in the middle of October.
Mr. B. Tanner, Head Master of Queen's College, who has been Home on leave, returned to the Colony on August 31st by the Kamo-maru.
On one day last week seven opium raids produced 45 defendants in the dock at the Magistracy and a haul of thousands of taels of opium.
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