WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1925.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Garden Road. Danger.
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Local: Radio.
(To the Editor of the China Mail] (To the Editor of the China Meil),
Sir-The Roads Department are
17
to be congratulated on having put
Sir, Your paper is performing
THE CHINA MAIL.
COMPANY MEETINGA
HONGKONG, TERRITORIAL
ESTATES.
POSITION EXPLAINED.
JUDGE'S PRAISE.
EUROPEAN WHO STOPPED FUGITIVE.
WHE SKY IS BLUE:
LIGHT SCATTERED BY MOLECULES.
"ATTEMPTED
ROBBERY.
in hand much needed improve-ja service in keeping the need for ing of shareholders in the Hong was commended by St. Henry Recond of his course of four.lec-1 ment la Garden Road. But are they the provision of radio facilities going to stop at the end of the before the public and far be it Detention Barracks wall? Surely from me to act as a wet blanket. the most dangerous part of the I will tell you what happens with road is higher up. particularly nie, however, when after great pains I have managed to get opposite the Peak Tram station.
The danger of cars stopping through to Shanghal or Manila at the Cathedral or to change and invite my friends round to rejoice with me" like the good gear lower down, thus putting. drivers pehind them in a quan- woman in the Bible did when dary, is as nothing to that of she found something she didn't the station expect to get. cars stopping at where the road is so narrow that
a
Why the sky is blue was ex- plained by Sir Ernest Rutherford, Mr. S. C Feltham of the P.W.D., when, in the theatre of the Royal The first ordinary annual meet-
Institution, he delivered. the Territorial Estates, Cowper Gollan for his action in
"The Counting. of kong and Limited, was held at noon to-day stopping and handing over to the tures on at the offices of Messrs. Shewan, police a man who was this morning Atoms." He explained that the Tomes & Co. (General Managers) found guilty of taking part in incessant movement of minute Mr. R. G. Shewan (Chairman) robbery with violence at Hunghom particles was first observed by an The man in Englishman named Brown' in presided. Members of the Con-(Chatham Road). sulting Committee, present com- question was found to have a 1827 and was now called the Brownian movement. It is now arised Messrs. T. G. Weall. Tsang revolver in his possession.
B. M. He was charged together with known that this constan: ngitą- Foo, Tong Hok-ting.
having tion is a necessary consequence of- Raymond, and W. E. L. Shenton, another Chinese, there Others present were Mr A. Braun been, in all, according to evidence the invisible and irregular move (Secretary), Messrs. H. H. Taylar, a gang of six who entered the ments of the molecules of the Oh, it's not a bit clearer than I. W. Shewan, R. Farrant, D. W. house in question in the absence of surrounding fluid. to be expected even if a motor bike is coming the gramophone," or words to that Munton, J. Toppin, and A. A. the men of the household. The on the kinetic theory of matter. two prisoners who appeared at the Examples of this Brownian move down the opposite way it becomes effect, are almost invariably the Botelho (shareholders).
ment shown by minute collardal impossible for anyone following only thanks I get for my trouble The notice conventing the meet Sessions this morning, also
the third who was too ill to appear in particles viewed through a high, to pull out and pass. I know there never a word as to how wonderfuling having been read by
the chairman then the dock, are the only ones who is the wall of the Bank's mess a thing it is that messages of any Secretary
in, a.striking way by a cinemato premises to prevent expansion and sort can be transmitted at all addressed the meeting as follows:- have been arrested in connection power microscope were illustrated.
With your permission we will with the attempt which I suppose it is too late now to talk And talking about gramophones,
accounte frustrated by the blowing of a graphic film. The behaviour of a of having those premises removed there are machines and records take the report and
obtained from an emulsion of gum or taken further back. But what a which can be used in connection which have been in your hands whistle by one of the women at large number of equal spheres. pity the Tran station was ever with broadcasting entertainment for over the prescribed period which the gang took fright.
of tone
which is
The two prisoners, in previous Arabic or mastic was carefully examined by Perrin: He showed way the
confessed to allowed to develop that
The accounts show a deficit of statements, had- instead of at the side where the that it would take an expert
People will to tell whether or not they were $185,253 71 which at first sight participation but the evidence had that they behaved-in. exactly the same way as an atmosphere of exit is at present.
That is something may appear disappointing, but is to be given this morning as
They molecules of very great size and have to come off the path that is the real thing.
this not really so when you remember both pleaded not guilty. gging to be provided round to the the Company that takes entrance as it is, at present and matter over in accordance with the that in this, the first year, only admitted having been at the house weight, and that the concentration regulations the nature of which ploneer work in building and but denied attempted robbery of particles with height fell off violence. One of the according to the same law as an herela.fies the greatest danger, ·
Yours etc.,
you have indicated might bear in developing could be done, as is with
with such prisoners said he had not pointed isothermal atmosphère. Know case would help them always the P.-E. R mind. It
his revolver at the women but at a ing the mass and radi of the considerably in what is going to companies as this.
drops, he was able to deduce from Hongkong May 20.
be rather a difficult problem, for! Our business may be divided table.
Mr. HK Holmes, Crown Soli-the distribution of particles the here in Hongkong it is not going into three sections
Avogadro constant for a gas, tha to be easy to find local or even
citor, prosecuted.
Evidence against the third man fixing the number of molecules in passing through" talent sufficient for daily broadcasting.
who could not appear and with a known weight of matter. About number WAA also whom the two others were alleged the same
Hongkong University. (To the Editor of the Chine Mail).
Sir,-In your columns of yester days' issue, Lina' stated that the course is divided into sections... If then this is true, annual examina- tions are better in that the pro- spective doctor, in failing, has to go through all his work instead of from one section only. Also, fear
such as read.
Yours sincerely, HOPING TO BE HELPFUL Hongkong, May 20.
Another "Bathing Scandal?".
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905
There is frat, Kowloon Marine Lot No. 39, an open lot with no permanent buildings, the develop ment of which was the original object for which the company was incorporated. At the time bought it, it was bringing in a very small income and it was quite understood that it could not be made remunerative at the price we paid for it, which with legal and
Wils
of failure will stimulate the under (To the Editor of the China Mail), other charges comes to $2,129,291, and sentenced to five years im graduate to more diligent applica. tion to work.
that the
He acknowledges standard aimed at is very high and will not this be better main- tained by yearly examinations, since more is learnt in a year than
in six months.
Yours etc..
INTERESTED Hongkong, May 20.
"Oppressed. Chinese Seamen. - (To the Editor of the China Mail).
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Sir.-In regard to my contentionment. that a launch party was curtly in directed by a naval officer to move further along near the rocks when they went to bathe at the Stonecutter beach last Saturday and the remarks appearing in your columns of yesterday bearing on on this incident, I fail to under- stand what further information is required by the P.W.D. or why it should be necessary to report to them direct when the facts are
already known.
At the time I wrote my letter Sir-fn- referénce to your I had no idea that the P. W. D. euferette on the above subject, was responsible for controlling the it may interest you to know that bathing parties by arrangement confirmation of the gist of the with the military authorities, and statements made in the circular therefore did not know where to referred to, could be easily obtain address a
complaint." Nor ud, together with definite facts, would I, as an individual. have figures, from the masters, officers cared to address a communication and engineers on board the coast-to that department on a matter ing and river steamers sailing out which affects the public when the
Press is available for that purpose of Hongkong: * *** ****
I respectfully suggest that the The crew are engaged and paid by one of the numerous "owners" PW.D. be shown this correspon- or one of his minions, and though dence and that they be requested they sign on the articles for the to ascertain from the military wages agreed upon, after the sea- authorities why they prevented men's strike, between the Sen-people from landing at the part of men's Union and the owners, it is the beach away from the rocks an absolute eertainty that not in last Saturday. It is possible that more than half a dozen companies, there was some good reason, but at the most, do any of the crew surely the department concerned can publish this, so as to serve as a get what they sign on for.
In the UK.. according to the guide for the future.
Yours, etc Merchant Shipping Act, the crew
WATER WINGS, " are paid by the master, and woe hetide any master, or owner, who might try to play tricks with the portage or wage-bill.
It is not within, my knowledge that any locab Act has ever been pussed which negatives that clause in the Home Merchant Shipping Act. but, H.K. fashion, a custom has grown up, by which the master has nothing whatever to do with either paying or engaging the crew,
Hongkong, May 20.
CONSTABLE WOUNDED..
SEQUEL TO desperate
STRUGGLES.
HUNGHOM SENSATION: "
to have been in co-operation could įdeduced from the actual move- not be given directly at this ment of individual drops, and but it from the rate of rotation of a morning's "proceedings transpired that he had been found large selected drop, showing that to have on him at the time two the equipartition of energy held gags and lengths of tape. The for large particles as well as for a two prisoners were found guilty gas. Finally, the Brownian movement of a small oll drop in Air has been accurately measured by Fletcher, and has given a very concordant value for the QUOTATIONS.Avogadro constant, Thèse ex- periments had, in addition to serving as a method of counting the molecules, given a complate verification of the kinetic theory, of gases, so the speed and num ber of collisions a molecule makes per second can be estimated with certainty.
what SHANGHAI
The following, kindly supplied by Messrs. J. Gould & Co., were the opening quotations on the Shanghai Market this morning
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(as per balance sheet) without Prisonment, a large expenditure on develop. We are now receiving
half storages about we pay out in interest on mortgage, and although these rents are sill increasing, we cannot, of course. expect to cover the full interest without further capital expenditure The site is a very valuable one
Tis. situated immediately adjoining the
26 Buyers. Yaumati Police Station, and our Langkats... present idea is to develop. it with Ewos
11.50 Buyers
An aceņunt was then given of! and Shanghai Bocks......131 50 Buyers." houses first-class Chinese
... 9 Buyers the late Lord Bayleigh's theory. 3.75 Buyers of the blue of the sky, which was banking premises for which there N Engineerings is a demand on the back portion of Orientals. the lot, leaving the front portion Shanghai Cottons 57 Buyers. ascribed to the scattering of the light of the sun by the moleculea with the marine and pier rights for
of air in its path. This scatter- storage purposes.
ARRIVALS,
S, from
The second section comprises LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. ing is analogous to the scattering Marine Lot No 286 known as "St. George's" Building. This was acquired last January, but we could not enter into possession antil August, and, of course, the rents under the old leases leave a deficit after payment of interest. Some of the old leases have since run out, and by next October every one of them will have expired and the new rents that have been agreed upon will leave us a fair return on our investment.
The third section covers the Remaining Portion of Sec. A of Inland Lot 905 and Sub-section 1 of Sec. A of Inland, Lot 905 known as the Kennedy Town pro perty on which we began to build the moment we came into posses- sion, and we are now just complet- ing a block of 37 four-storeyed Chinese dwelling houses`and shops for which there is a strong demand in that neighbourhood and which we estimate will bring us a net retum of seven pec, ceat, on our outlay.
Shantung, (B) B., & Shanghai, Amoy.
Kuelchow, (Br.) B. & S., from Tientsin, Wei-bai-wei.
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SEWER MYSTERY.
WOMAN'S TERRIBLE
ORDEAL.
The gossips and police of Brie Comte Robert are now sxercising
of light by fine particles, shown long ago by Tyndall at the Royal Institution. Experiments were shown to illustrate the polarisa- tion of light by liquids and gases containing fine particles. in suspension, and the cause of the red sunset. The present Lørd and... Lok Sang, (Br.) J. M. & Co., from Rayleigh,
afterwards Shanghai, Swatow.
Cabandes, showed experimentally West Chopaka, (Amer.) S. that this scattering of light by their ingenuity and imagination en Barr, from San Francisco, Shang- gases could be measured in the mystery which seems at present
unlikely hai.
ever to be solved. laboratory. The variation of the Deroubaix, a gardener, was return- Maud, (Nor. Thoresen & Cointensity of the sun's light at dif-ing to his house one morning, when fromi Saigon.
ferent zenith distances gives an he heard a woman's voice calling Dovre, (Nor.) Kuen Sang, from actual measure of this scattered for help. There was no person to Bangkok, Kohsichang.
light, and from this the number sight, and the voice seemed to Produce, (Nor.) Kwong Mow Tal, of molecules in a cubic content of come from the ground. At length from Newchwang
air can be directly deduced. Deroubaix found that it came from Imataca, (Nor.) K. Larssen, from This value is in good accord with a sewer grating to which a woman Saigon.
was clinging with torn and bleed Celebes Mam, (Jap.) O. S. K., other data.. from Nagasaki, Moji.
ing bands. The grating formed. the top of a shaft leading down fato the sewers, and, though she was torcibly injured, the woman
Dairen, Wei-hal-wei.
Nitto Maru, (Jap.) O. S. K, from
Paling Maru, N. Y. K., from LUXURY FOR TRAMPS. had climbed up this shaft, as her Shanghai.
Morioka Maru, Uap.) N.. Y. K., from Shanghai.
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Mishima Mara, (Jap.) N. Y. K.. from Yokohama, Nagasaki..
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KIDNAPPED STUDENTS.
BY BANDITS.
only chance of escape from the RESCUED AFTER CAPTURE, dark labyrinth under-ground. Now with regard to finance so
Blood was clotted on her head, far we have called up only one
and her head and face bore wounds
Prompt action by the Canton: half of the subscribed capital; iẹ,
apparently inflicted with a heavy police has saved five kidnapped In the belief that a taste of real blunt instrument. Her shoes were students from a long period of $500,000, and the remaining half is not due til July 15 this year.
corafort will make trampe disatin worn through at the toes and her captivity and payment of ransom fed with the wandering life, the knees and feet were bleeding money. This small amount went but a little
Poor Law authorities of Nuneaton from the wounds sustained by the way to help us in acquiring such
Five students of the Wüll One reason is that the crew are
large properties and naturally we
· Argun Maru, (Jap.) O. S. K., for have turned the local workhouse woman as she crawled along College went together to attend paid monthly, though the articles
into a work-mansions
the drains. But she would give the anniversary ceremony of the are for six months. Every month, attack by two Chinese at Hunghom for new buildings and provide
As the result of a desperate had to borrow heavily to pay Yokohama, Kobe, Ch
Morioka Maru, (Jap.) N.. Y. K., They have abolished the old casual or a word of explanation as to Put Ying Academy at Pati lat therefore, each member of the yesterday afternoon, Indian con-margins for the purchase of the for Calcutta, Singapore.
wird--a whitewashed room for how she came lato such a plight. Saturday, Ma crew signs for his wages as a stable Abdul Khalit was seriously Yau rati Lot and "St. George's"
Celebes Maru, (Jap.) O. S. Kished with wooden bunks, badly. She is a widow named Pughe, aged On their way, they fell among a advance. He is actually paid wounded and is now lying in the Building. Our total expenditure for Bombay, Singapore.
lighted, and atnated over a stable 45, who lived alone in a villa gang of armed robbers near the anything from 10 to, say, 80 per Government Civil Hospital
[in interest as mortgages came to
Saarland (Ger) "Arnhold & Co, and have replaced it with a cheer some distance from where she was Orphanage. The robbers seized cent. of his wages, and signs a
pful, room which would encourage found. When pressed to tell her the students and carried them off One of the assallants drew a ($180,453.37 in addition to $52,458 28 for Hamburg, Manila: receipt in full. He dare not do dagger, and the constable gat into on temporary loans, all of which
Mishima Maru, (Tap.) N. Y. K., any casual to finish his allotted story, she would only reply: "Ith to a small hut in a near by village, otherwise. Should the shipping grips with him. The other man has been charged to Profit & Loss for Melbouras, Manila
work quickly.
a secret which I shall keep until reports the "Canton Gazerts.” master ask any questions when drew the constable's revolver from account. Salaries and wages and
Sekko Maru, (Jap) O. S. K. For the walls there is a bright may death." Witnesses have told color scheme in red and green. that recently they beard revolver the crew are signing off at the the holster and fired; wounding Crown Rent, insurance, preliminary for Bangkok
West Jena, (Amer.)- Columbia | Electric light and central heating abots near the widow's house, and end of the six months, this receipt the policeman in two places. The expenses and depreciation, etc. would be produced..
lätter struggled back to the station bring the total to $281,637.32 and Pacific, for Portland, Kobe are provided, the floors are covered it bas proved that the woman her The only remedy at all possible, and made a report.
against this rent storages and in- Tal Lee, (Cini.) Yeo Tal (long, with linoleum, and the inmate is self could not have moved the is to enforce the M. S. Act, and Police officers scoured the neigh. terast brought us to $96.383.6: leav. for Foochow Me able to take his choice of comfort-heavy gratfogs which are the only of access.The police' make the master responsible for bourhood immediately after and ing a shortage of $185,253 71, which Tean, (Br) B&S for Hollowable chairs at a long, polished table, means
Dukat, (Nor) Thoresen & Ca. For the evening a reading there are asking whether the story that the engaging and paying. of the succeeded in arresting a man is accounted for by the simple fact
is & ampply of newspapers and Pugh refuses to tell and which crew-if not the engagement, at with the constable's revolver, it is that, as we had to pay for our pur. for Bangkok een least all payments.
chases at once, we lost interest Sarpedon, (Br) B & S for Anally, spring mattressed beds wait may yet end lo her death, for she Incidentally alleged, in his possession.
which we could have fairly charged Dalny, Shanghai, farthing for tired heady. Comfort ha is very seriously hurt, is not one to capital account until all our pro Drafu, (Nor) Kwong Hang heen primary consideration of jealousy sad vengeance, prés perty was fully developed This, Hing, for Salgon however, we have not done, as Kansas (Br) Bank Line, for although St. George's" Building New York, Manila.
RUBBER,
CURRENT SHARE
it may, or may not, be news, that there are many Europeans paid. on exactly the same system. They sign on for the full wages, and as the price of keeping their job, have to hand back an agreed amount to somebody at the office. I am referring to Chinese owners, and even then, there are still a few who do not descend quite so low, but unfortunately"China Mail" that they have receiv- not nearly enough, and a fasted the following quotations from been seconded I shall be pleased Mr..). Toppin seço
and the Kennedy Town property Yat Shing, (Br. J. M & Co., for
Tsingtao, Sfratów. will be soon yielding full returns,
diminishing band.
Aawest staté of things truly, i and how it has been allowed to gu on for so long is past comprehen- sion.
Yours, etc
Hongkong May 19,
QUOTATIONS,
Messrs. Carroll Bros advise the
their Singapore friends, w
Basselt. Indra Jeram
Uta
to develop the Yaumati, alts will
take both time and money,
I now beg to propose the adoption of the report and accounts mittee for the pres
as presented, and when that has proposed by Mr.
to answer any questions that unanimously. gashareholders.mazzichini M sukkers were no questiona,ubično-i
574
35.60
R. Fatrant seconded, pad the Bir
motion was carried unanimously
The re-election of
WAKIl, Tashe 200, Tan
Por
ERM. Raymondraad W. ESL and the pr Shenton as thea Consalting. Com-unanimousl
throughout.
The regular inmates have a pano Hand wireless gut and cheerful accommodation and for the children there is a supply of toys, Mom Macli, as people in the district admire the spirit of humanity which hheted to the extension of this com was forb to counds, they are, wondering Nuneaton will become the
tiff the me
STEAMER NOVEMENTS.
The B. L. 18. • Beamsedbal” from geporn for this port on May la anı Middlesbru, antwerp and London. dus to arrive here to day,
The U.P.8, EMS. *Empres Q asds? was dus at 1020 10:0
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