1925-07-16 — Page 1

VICTOR CYLINDER HEAD GASKETS" We carry an ample stock of these for Dodge Brothers, (akland, Oldsmobile, Forippa- Booth Maxwell, Ford, Chevro let, Marmon, "Hudson, Elgin, Grant Six, Hupmobile, Essex, Briscoe, Oleveland, Jewett, Bulok, Chandler, Overland, and Paige Motor Cars.#

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

China Mail E

No. 15,548

SPECIAL

SALE

BIG RAID.

TROOPS AND POLICÉ CO-OPERATE.

IDLERS DEPORTED,

OF

MEN'S

GOLF

AT

HOSE

WHITEAWAY'S

In order to clear up our HOSIERY fixtures and make room for New Stock coming forward, we have decided to offer for a few days only our entire Stock of. FANCY and 'PLAIN GOLF HOSE

At

GREATLY

REDUCED

RATES

DO NOT MISS

THIS

OPPORTUNITY

OF

REPLENIS BING

YOUR

WARDROBE WITH

GOLF HOSE

AT MUCH BELOW

USUAL PRICB

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD HONGKONG,

SIKELL

ASPHALT

ros

ASHT

HEAVY WATERPROOFING

ENVELOPE

ROBINSON'S

SHED

A LONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1925.

LUMP OF MUD.

ENGINEER'S UNPLEASANT

EXPERIENCE.

SUSPECT ARRESTED.

CANTON REDS.

REPORTED BE GAINING GROUND

POOLING PRIVATE PROPERTY.

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

SHARE BILL.

"IN COMMITTEE ON.

SATURDAY,

INVITATION TO "APPEAR.

BLED TO DEATH.

EUROPEAN LADY SEIZED BY SHARK

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY..

That the deportation order is. Mr. E. S. Carter, engineer of not a mere bluff has been proved, by the large numbers of idlers who have come under its provi- sions and have been despatched to Canton and other ports. That the Veux Road West yesterday, a As previously, reported, differ- object of the order is not merely lump of mud being thrown at ences appear to have been vindictive but solely to give him from the verandah of a house. smoothed over on the surface. opportunity to those who are not. With the assistance of Mr. R. G. Now. Indications have become working to do so and justify their Witchell, of the Sanitary Depart-apparent that the section of the subsistence on the Colony is also ment, the alleged culprit was Kuomintang described by one proved by a police report of a maid subsequently arrested and releas. Home paper as the Leftists of the on Belchers Street, West Point, ined on bail after being charged at Young China Nationalists, a term the course of which one of the the No. 7 Police Station.". which may serve for the time ringleaders of the striking The accused failed to appear being the section which has butchers was found. He returned before Mr. S. B. B. McElderry at displayed. pronounced Commun- to work immediately on being the Central Magistracy this morn-istic leanings is gaining the threatened with deportation to ing to answer the charge. His upper hand and gradually assert- Canton,

Worship estreated the bail and ing its power behind the scenes This raid was on a large scale ordered a warrant to be issued for if not actually laying down the and was made at 7 a.m, on Tues-his arrest,

law on the strface.

Politically, there is no telling The following has been sent to From Our Own Correspondent:) the Public Works Department, what may happen in Canton the "China Mail" for publica had an unpleasant experience within the next few weeks, tion: whilst doing duty in connection writes the "China Mail" corres- with motor lorry services at Despondent.

day. A cordon was drawn around Shortly after the issue of the

Council Chamber,

Singapore, July 15.

A terrible tragedy occurred at the Singapore Swimming

July 15, 1925.

th. It is proposed to consider there a young European June and July Settlement. Billy. „wyer Smyth, whfist-bathe. in Committee of the Legislative ing yesterday, was seized by a Council at noon on Saturday, shark when forty yards from the July 18.

shore.

She was rescued but was bled to death.

Any interested party is at liberty to appear before the Committee to make such repre- Isentations as he may wish

(Sgd.) A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

AMENDING BILL FURTHER EXPLAINED.

NOTE JULY 21.

The accident is exceptional 23 sharks are never known clone; to the shore at this point.

TYPHOON 'NEWS.

PREPARATIONS ON THE

PRATAS.

STATION. PROGRESS.

In these abnormal times the the area by troops, whilst the order, Mr. W. W. Lo attended to Government must needs find searches were carried out by the defend. He submitted to His revenue, especially as the ruling police. No arms were found, but Worship that there had appar-body has declared its intention of

A new Bill Which passed its 41 persons were arrested and ently been some misunderstanding shunning the gambling and opium first reading at the Legislative the Central Police on the part of the accused as to revenues. As was the case a year Council meeting yesterday after- Station. Of these, 34 were subse- the" time for attending Court. or twe'sgo, attention has again noon provides for the extension of quently released and the remain. The accused had no intention of been diverted to private property; the June settlement over four the Kiangsing, from Shanghai, ing seven were sent to Canton. running away, and he asked His So-called nationalisation is one of days (July 14 to July 17) and for Those released had all got employ-Worship to stay the execution of the main planks in the Leftist the carrying through of the settle. put in at Hongkong from Pratas |

platform, and it is very difficult

taken to

ment and were not strikera. In the warrant. addition several butchers were

provisionally detained, being re- was fixed for hearing to-morrow, This was allowed, and the case leased at the request of Sanitary Inspector Knight, who explained that there was no work for them at the moment.

. Among those present at the raid were the C.S.P. (Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.LE.), the D. C. I. (Mr. T. H. King), the D.S.P. (Mr.

42

CORRESPONDENCE.

A TACTLESS" CASE.

out now.

once threatened will be carried Henry Follock, K.C.) explained to ascertain if the programme ment on one date (July 23).

The Attorney General Sir the clause providing an option to are, of course, the buyer who wished for an attached to these movements in extension of time until September the background: One to which 22 for taking up shares. A mere considerable credence has been

Rumours

A Chinese Naval transport ship,

this morning and the usual Har

500 tons of building material bour Office form contains the information that she discharged there and encountered heavy w.S.W. gales.

The

The skipper of the vessel told a "China Mall' reporter that he given by the merchants is known request, he explained, was not had been unable to discharge more sufficient, but concurrently with as the four-four-two plan. Given it the buyer must pay to the seller than half his cargo owing to the for what it is worth, the story all interest, brokerage and stamp

severity of the weather. D. Burlingham), and the A.D.C.L. | (To the Editor of the China. Mail), goes that is sponsors have in duty and where the price at which material, he stated, was for the mind the pooling of private the buyer had bought was greater Admiralty and Maritime Customs station which the Chinese Si-May I be permitted 10 of the proceeds to go into Gov-ence as well. Such obligations as tions for this meteorological and owned property-forty per cent. than the flat rate also this differ are erecting there. The founda-

(Mr. L. H. V. Bocth).

Folice raids of a similar nature

are to be carried, out so long as

the present situation continues.correct a wrong impression that mayernment cohers, forty per cent.well as the request for the exten-wireless station were complete |

be formed in the minds of those who Tung On's Load read the report of a recent case in The s.s. Tung Oo, temporarily which the Magistrate referred to a being run by the Government, on want of tact. its last run to Canton took up 168 deportees. The run to Kongmoon will not start until to-morrow morning, when it will leave its temporary quarters at the Doug;

las wharf.

SERVANTS' WAGES.

OPINION OF MID-LEVEL RESIDENTS.

As a result of a meeting at the Ladies' Recreation Club yesterday evening, a Mid-levels and Sur- rounding Districts

Residents'

|

to the Labour movement, and the

original owners.

The situation is neither tense The Magistrate evidently took the amah's statement, as reported, to nor normal People seem to be be true. This statement I absolutei e, the Left, and those who do of the opinion that neither side. ly dery; her story is a fabrication. and one which I did not get a chance

to refute.

The facts are as follows :- 1.-The defendant was a wash amah and nothing else; neither was she called upon to perform any other duties, was malently employed, and lived on my premises. 2.-She had never, cither before or after the baby amah had left, been asked to perform any duties for my child, in fact she had never come in contact with her in any way. 3.-She left on the 6th inst, with-

out giving notice. 4.-She admitted in Court that abe

Association was constituted and by an overwhelming vote ita first resolution was that it was the opinion of those present that no wages be paid servants for the month of June in cases where certain periods of service had been rendered prior to the "walk be out." It was also decided to ap- by proach other Associations with a for. view to a joint decision

on the servant problem.

remaining twenty per cent, to the must be made on or before and nearly all the materials for July 215- stones the eréction were at hand. now; The flat rate, the Attorney-given good weather, a few months General explained, meant the would see its completion.. schedule and any not so included quotation for shares set out in the the Governor had power to fix by enquiry. In the attached schedule the flat rate for Hongkong Tram- ways appeared as $874 and as he had been informed by the Stock-

ing

not approve of their teachings, feels strong enough to risk test ita: strength, but unforeseen circumstances may precipitate a crisis.

that

SPECIAL POWERS.

EMERGENCY REGULATIONS

AMENDED.

rather

Ad

He

The wireless equipment was not“ yet assembled, according to the "China Mail informant, but use was being made of an army wire- less field set by the operators. (This is probably the source of the messages received at Hong- kong and referred to by the Colonial Secretary a few days

Valuable Information with re

The Storm.

Empress of Russin.

A Hongkong vernacular paper brokers' Associations that this per-reports that strike pickets.com-was an error he wished to make

prising men in uniform are now an amendment to that effect. The ago). on duty on the Canton Bund, correct rate was $372. collecting $25 from every Chinese happened himself, said. the gard to the position and probable who wishes to leave for Hong Attorney General, to have spotted course of typhoons will be sent kong, There may be truth in a mistake in regard to Singapore from Pratas when the station is this, but it is doubtful if the schedule and this was obviously and South China will greatly Trams. $22 appeared in the in working operation. Hongkong money thus taken finds its way a misprint for $2. Amidst smiles benefit from it. back to the Strike Executive.

the Attorney-General remarked that he did not know whether this was intended as a form of intelli-i-

No landslides are reported as a had been induced to leave my

gent anticipation.

result of last night's heavy rain, employ by the coolie or boy of

Although the legislation seem- but Happy Valley has suffered her new employer.

exceptional, con- severely again, the race course From the foregoing I think it will

tinued the Attorney General, the and football ground being inun- In order to provide for an Government had been careful to dated and soil washed down from agreed that the remarks passed

the Magistrate were uncalled extension of the powers under take the opinions of the leading the gap in the retaining wall, the section 8 of Ordinance 6 of 1922 brokers in the place and also of collapse of which resulted in se (relating to infliction of punish the Chief Maneger of the Hong- much damage being done on the Yours, etc.,

H. E. BORIVEN.

ment) this section was amended kong and Shanghai Bank and they occasion of the last heavy flood. at the Legislative Council yester- were of the opinion that the clause The Chairman (Mr. J. S.

Bengkong, July 15, 1925.

day afternoon. The original was the best which could be Point was struck by lightning and

A tramway standard at West2 Gillingham) in outlining the

[Much as we dislike publishing section limited punishment to a devised under the exceptional the overhead wires brought down, position, said that there had been suggestions before but it was left comments on the judgment of a fine of $1,000, and imprisonment circumstances now existing in the but this damage was repaired. tux critical time like the present Magistrate, who is not naturally in for any term not exceeding a year Colony. It was regrettable that

Queen's Road was flooded to the for the residents of the Mid-position to reply, we publish Mr.but amended it allows of other it had been found necessary to depth of a foot. Levels to realise the need of co- Scriven a letter or the assumption punishment or penalty where the bring forward this Ordinance at operative action. Queen's Gardens that, through ignorance of Court emergency regulation provides such comparatively short notice were the first to art and they dealt procedure, he did not realise that for it.

but the Government had done the every opportunity would have been with food supply and transport on afforded him to state his case before Attorney-General, which gives disposal in consulting those who delay of the s.8. Empress of Clause of this Bill, said the best it could in the time at its The typhoon has led to the mutually beneficial lines. So suc- the Magistrate. Ed. "C. M.") cessful was this-venture that it

rétrospective effect to this present seemed to be most competent to Russia which was to have arrived was felt the activities might be

Ordinance, is intended to validate advise with regard to this form Hongkong to-day with passen- extended, and accordingly the

a certain set of regulations which of legislation. The help of Mr. gers and mail from Europe via meeting was called. The repre-

were passed very recently indeed, Mattingley, of Messrs, Deacons, Siberia. It is expected to make sentatives of Queen's Gardens! There has been no great scar- and under which, I may say, no who had assisted the Attorney port at daybreak to-morrow.

A strong S.W, monsoon with METAL ROOFING present at the meeting pronounc- city of eggs since the strike began, proceedings at all have been General in the drafting of the

ed themselves in favour of the but it was noticeable in the taken, and as it is necessary to Bil, was acknowledged by the rough seas, squally, is the report resolution constituting the body. markets yesterday and this morn-validate, or desirable to validate Attorney General and when the of weather conditions of the Views favourable to the forma ing that the demand was likely to that set of regulations retrospec- Colonial Secretary had seconded master of the Dutch 8.8. Ombilin tion of the Association had exceed the supply. The result tively, clause of the Bill is the Bill passed its first, reading which arrived yesterday from

Stojer (Dutch East Indies), already been received from others was that no eggs of any descrip. drafted in such a form that it will and the Council adjourned until The Song Eo, which brought 48

Queon's Garden tion were to be obtained under: 60 validate, If validation be neces- Saturday at noon.

bags of mail from Haiphong, re- scheme, said the Chairman, and it cents a dozen.

sary, which I do not consider it is, Other provisions in the Bill ports having experienced very was thought that the Association, It is said that dealers have not merely the regulations I have explained by the Attorney General rough seas between Gap Rock and Samples and particulars on application. if formed, should follow the plenty of stocks in cold storage, referred to, but also any other referred to (1) the possibility of Hongkong.

general lines of the Peak Resi- but are unable to get the labour to emergency regulations which have a seller who had bought short denta and Kowloon Residents take delivery.

been made since June 21, 1925. squeezing a buyer. It was obvious Associations. Certain of the

His Excellency remarked that that if the seller had no shares to rules of the P.R.A. were then With the expressed intention of an emergency existed making it deliver he had no right to discussing means whereby a settle-necessary for the Bill to pass call upon the buyer to carry out Mr. Chesterton was appointed ment of the present trouble may be through the remaining stages, in his contract. The clause provided provisional secretary of the meet- arrived, pt" a combined meeting of one sitting and that it was essen that the seller on request, must ing and a provisional committee of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce tlal that the Government should supply the buyer the script num- nine members was then elected and representatives of guilde, com have the right at the earliest bers of the shares (2) The consisting of Mr. Harman, Mr. merial soeties and labour organ possible moment to exercise the possibility of a buyer who had Brister, Mr. Hiciding, Mr. Back isations, lias been arranged at the powers conferred on them.

complied with the regulations house, Mr. Dowley, Mr. Pethick, Chinese Chamber of Commence on pileAttorney-General-then regarding postponement of the

Frost, Mr. Motherr 1971 Baturday át 1:00 preved the mapension or

Kints of taking or the shares zot Standing Orders in order to :

am up at the stated of the Bill being passed at the

time that case secrekvided that

ASBESTOS

PROTECTED

Sola Agents:

DAVIE, BOAG & CO., LTD. outside the

• Bank of Canton Buliding.

FOR REAL FINE MAJONG SETS

-MARE OF-TWORT:~AND~HOME: SOLD. AT

Lowest Possible Prices SUNG SAN-CHAN 140, Wellington Street.

Cheoy Ba Lan

read,

Mr. Brooks

A vote of thanks was unanf mously accorded to the Ladies Recreation Club for the use of the premises for the purposes of hold on ing the meetini"?

EGG SUPPLIES,

...

TO-DAYS. DOLLAR -

closing rate demand to day was

» seller

Was Pro

Suld have

LITTLE HSU."

CHINESE MISSION FOR MOSCOW.

(Reuter a Service

LAZARUS

Hongkong's

only European Optician

AERTEX

CELLULAR WEAR

E EASIEST

TO

WASH

COOLEST

TO

WEAR.

VESTS SHIRTS DRAWERS COMBINATIONS

TENNIS SHIRTS,

MACKINTOSH

CO., LTD.

--Man's Wear Specialista.

Alexandra Building, ↑

Des Voeux Road...

Sommer Batterick Quarterly,

Animals of all Countries

(completo) Children's Encyclopedis (com2

p'sts)

Housebold Encyclopedia" (orka-

plete)

World's Library of Best Books;

(DOW)

Romance of Famous Lives (new) Home Doctor (parta 1-15). Countries of the World. (now) Business Encyclopedia: (parts 1-8) Wonders of the Past (25 parts)

at

LEE YEE

No. 12, D'Agullar Street,

HONGKONG.

FINE JEWELLERY ngagem Leeper, & Walding Rings

SPECIALTY.

All of ki, Las grada in the Colony. WINDSOR BROS. No 56 Nathan Boad, Kowloon,

LEE KEE

Agent, for

HENRY. RICHARD TILF CO'S.

"We have a'large stock of Whica Glazed Wall Tilem, 'Galent Glazed Wal

Trimpkotian Invited.

21, Wellington Bs.