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REACHED CANTON.
DANISH WORLD FLIGHT PROGRESS.
UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL.
Following Captain D'Oisy's Footsteps.
(Au Occasional Correspondent.)
2
ESTABLISH)D
HONGKONG,
DR. HO'S OFFER.
WILLING TO FIGHT ANOTHER ELECTION,
AN APPEAL LODGED..
Dr. S. C. Ho has sent to us, with a request for publication, a copy of the following letter in re- gard to the Sanitary Board elec- biont-
1845
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1926.
RAY OF HOPE.
ATTITUDE OF BOYCOTT" COMMITTEE,
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
OBITUARY.
WELL-KNOWN SHIPPING
ENGINEER.
LATE MEA, W, J. HOT GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE.
(Wah Ter Yat Po
We regret to record the death of Mr. A. W. J. Hoy, engineer, of Canton, April 13. Holt's Wharf, which occurred at So Shiu-ching, chaliman of the Kowloon Hospital at 2 am to Mr. Hoy, who was 39 years of Hongkong, April 13, 1926, the Boycott and Strike Executive day. Dr. F. M. G. Ozozio, Hongkong has signified to the Causage, had been connected with
Canton, April 12, Rather unexpectedly although they were two days late, the Dun-yesterday's election was unsatis-settlement, Government guidance ish world Hier, arrived here this factory both to you and myself will be accepted without pula
as the candidates, and to the tions
afternoon.
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ngkong's Only European Optician
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CHINESE HUMOUR.
AN ARTICLE IN A LOCAL NEWSPAPER.
R SUMMONED
PUBLISHER SU
The "Tai Kwony Po" nowapeper: was summoned to appear before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy publishing matter in the Chinese language without the permission of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
Sub Inspectix hide Mall that
this morning for
mitting for censorship, He
At the outset, Mr. ES. C. Brooks, defending, tendered a plea of guilty
Dear Dr. Ozorio,-As I feel that ment that in matters relating to the Holt's Wharf for eight years and the article which appeared in the [
and Hongkong. Prior to settling mitted to the S.CA. although a was very well known in Kowloon issue of April 2 had not been so down here he had been an en- warning had been issued last month gineer on Blue Funnet ships en- At first the airman was due on electors who evinced such publicDuring the last few days, thera gaged in the China trade and for not to publish matter without sub- Saturday. Inclement weather, spirit in the matter as to turn out have been persistent rumours that period he held a responsible posi-thought the present article was of boisterous wind poor visibility, in such large numbers, but only to Leny ruin and generally un- be literally "shut but, I write to the strike will be settled shortly;tion in connection with harbour an anti-foreign nature and bote a
supervision in Singapore..
hidden meaning, which was that the favourable flying conditions led inform you that, if you are desir-and that the Canton delegates (for As a non-playing member of the Chinese are willing to how-to, to local people to think that the de-ous of standing again and of hav- the conference) will leave for Kowloon Football Club he took a Europeans and not help their own parture from Hanoi would not being another election forthwith, 1
keen interest in the welfare of the people. made for some days,
shall be very happy to do what Hongkong.
team and he was also a playing. About 1 pm. to-day, the aero-ever I can to achieve this object.
member of the Kowloon Bowling plane was over the city. After I notice in to-day's issue of the
Green Club. looking about the airman found South China Morning Post" that. the landing place at Tai-sha-tan you are reported to have said: and came down safely. Only "p few guards and a mechanic or two were on duty. They helped the visitor to put away his machine in the shed, and a telephone mes- sage was sent through to the Aviation Bureau. The Chief and abcut twenty others immediately rushed down to Tai-sha-tau to the East Bund) to welcome the fier:
After the usual felicitations, it was decided to accord the official welcome on April 18 (yesterday).
OTHER FLIGHTS.
"Ithink the election was very- unfair The electors didn't. have a chance to vote I knew
CANTON HEALTH.
WHAT, PUBLIC BUREAU DOES; IN A MONTH:
I had at least 700 to 800 votes, LEPROSY AND SMALL-POX
and most of them were not re-. corded"
Some very interesting informa
:
The late Mr. Hoy will be missed and asked for leniency by pointing out that the censorship was institut by the Institute of Engineers anded during the commencement of the Shipbuilders, of which he was a strike and that the regulations were Committee member..
not strictly carried out now,. as they News of his death came as a were no longer necessary. Ho great shock there as elsewhere termed the article in question as for Mr. Hoy was of good physique mild satire in regard to a gentle- and prior to going to Hospitalman who gave $10,000 for a chari- had complained merely of a severe table cause and refused to allow time to a tenant to pay his rent of $30.
I sympathise with you that so many of your supporters weretion is given in the monthly recold. not. given a chance to vote, but port of the Canton Bureau of
Public Health. feel that I can claim your syn pathy when I tell you-in fairness. to my own supporters that very many of them found the Registry
Dr. Sze-to, the Commissioner. is a highly-respected official He refers to work for lepers and a
'
attributed
to
· Deathe is pneumonia following an attack of pleurisy. Mr. Hay had been in Hospital since Friday.
The translation of the article stated that a fat, rich gentleman sitting in a rocking chair with Masonic Activities, '
spring wind all over his face The late Mr. Hoy was also well (meaning an affable countenance) known in connection with local was chatting with a long-nosed Three cases of air-bleyen and Masonic activities, holding the gentleman, the result being that the position of Master of "Zetland latter secured a cheque for $30,000 water-injected pork for le were Lodge and being a member of the which was later ascertained to have reported against butchers
At the request of the Bureau District Grand Lodge of Hong-gone to the authorities at "I port" of Public Safety for the vaccina kong and S. China.. He was third for a building fund. The next day tion of the police, inajuations principal of the Victoria Chapter a thin man dressed in rags ta pea- were given to the various public and a member of other Masonie sant) appeared before the gentle man in the rocking chair to ask for health organisations and hospi-institutions in the Colony.
an extension of time to pay his rent tala to vaccinate all menbers of
of $30 owing to the failure of his crops, but the gentleman's coun tenance turning to one of anger, the person refused hearing their and driven by a servant.
the police force.
18 lepers were detected and aent to the new Le Heap lout the
var
I am told that the aviatoran impregnable fortress and were campaign against small-pix. His effected a good landing He left unable even to obtain admittance,eport includes:- Hanoi at 8 pm, and flew the 550 You may recall that, at the miles in five hours. It is not time, I myself suggested that in known when he will put off for view of the circumstances--and I feel that the authorities were not Shanghai.
to blame, because they could hard- ly be prepared for the unpre- cedented Interest takeri by the public-the election should be Captain D'Oisy, the French adjourned to another date so as to aviator also took five hours to do give all a chance to vote. I re- the Hano-Canton stage, His collect that I could not enlist your machine was of 400 horse-power support in this regard, indeed, I and his speed of 110 miles (for gathered that your view was that that leg) was described as extra the election had better. go..om ordinary. D'Oisy also landed at
Holding the same views before Tai-shu-tuu, shortly after the pre-as well as after the election, I any mature report of the death of Dr. only too anxious that the electors Sun Yat-sen,
should be given every opportunity: Major Zanni, the Argentine of returning to office the, can- thier who was nearly drowned ascicate of their real choice, ant 1 the result of a collision (while in have no wish to act as a member a small boat) in Hongkong, failed of the Sanitary Board unices I feel to arrive in Canton as his aero-that I have the confidence of the plane was damaged while putting majority of the electors... off from Hano. He then used 'his seaplane, came on "to" Hongkong and proceeded North where earlier the delay prevented him from completing his flight.
Details of the Venture.
Will you kindly inform me as soon as possible of your views in this matter.
As the question of election is a matter of great public interest I am sending a copy of this letter
S. C. Ho.
Two land machines, built into the Press-Yours faithfully, Denmark and equipped with Lorraine-Dietrich 400 h.p. motors
of the newest model, started
from Copenhagen on March 16.
Dr. Ozorie's Reply. Dr. F. M. Graca Ozorio, aends.
and released after due examina- tion.
On March 25, 15 lepers, male and female, were handed over to.
The late Mr. Hoy had lived for some time at Windsor Lodge, Kowloon. He leaves, a wife and child who left for Homewo months ago and with whom ger er sympathy will be felt sudden beren ramme hie
The "Rev. G. R.. Lindsay conduct the funeral service.. The funeral passes the
the Leprosy Hospital at Shoklung.ment at 5 p.m. to-day..
The water of the Water-works
on two occasions was reported to
be below the standard of purity,
1:1 coffins were temporarily. sheltered in the public mor- tuaries: 12 removed therefrom. and 11 transported to and from out-districts...
for sale of two Licences given. kinda of special drugs after analysis.
Lau Ah-sam a Canton citizen, who had kept his dead fathers coffin (bier,) within his residence for a long period, was ordered to remove it for interment within 3
Small-pox Campaign.
The following route was folus for publication the following
days. copy of his reply to Dr. Ho's lowed: Lemberg, Constantin-letter: ople. Aleppo (March 22), Bagdad, JDÜÜÜDÜRDÜBuschir. Bender Abbas, Karachi,
Agra, Calcutta (March 31) and Dr. S. C. Ho, Rangoon April 3),
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CUPID'S DART,
An infetter of the S. de parṇment w questionen His Worship as to the impression gain monu.ed by a reader of the article.. He said that the "long-nosed gentle- map" was an allusion to a European And that "X port" stood for Hong- kong. His Worship remarked that he gathered the Chinese were open- handed with foreigners but close- Asted in dealing with their own people.
MATCH-MAKER WHO WAS NOT SATISFIED.
A COURT SEQUEL.
The protracted stay of a match- maker at the house of a Dairy Farm employee whom he had united to a woman from Macao led to trouble and he had to appear at the Central Magistracy this morning on a charge of possession of a dagger and larceny."
Evidence was given that the de-
The case concluded with a fine of $100.
STRIKE PICKETS.
WARRANT FOR ARREST OF NO. 2 CHIEF.
ALLEGED DISAPPEARANCE..
In order to guard against small-fendant received $30 for arrang- According to Canton vernacular pox, special attention was deing the match.. but continued to papers, a warrant has been issued Hongkong.
voted to a campaign for vaccina atay in the house at Pokfulam. (not by the Government but by At Rangoon, Lieut. Herschend
The husband of the woman-even-the Strike Executive) for the Dear Dr. Ho, I have to tion. was forced to land 28 miles away, acknowledge the receipt of your In the crowded parts of the city, tually had to put him out. Re-arrest of the deputy chief of the
account of engine trouble letter of yesterday' with thanks.54 centres were selected for turning one morning at 5 o'clock Communications Department." Lieut. Botved has since: con-
The Communications Depart After perusing the contents carrying out a vaccination cam-during the absence of the hus therein I am very pleased to note paign On March 8, a joint con-hand, he demanded money from ment is in charge of pickets. the spirit of self-sacrifice, which ference was convened at the the woman. On being refused, Whilst the chief was away from is such a dominant trait in the Municipal Hospital, at which the he threatened to kill the husband, Canton, on duty, the No. 2 is medical profession, is so well re-staff and students of the Hackett, and walking into the house he took alleged to have acted for him, and
ected in you.
Medical School, the Kwong Wah some copper cents from a till. He then to have absented himself on As you are well aware, the rea-Medical College; the Sino-Franco was stated "to have carried the the No. 1's return.
Canton papers also refer to on for my accepting my nomina- Medical College, the Medical Divi-knife in his hand at the time of tion was the sense of civic duty, alon of the National University, his visit.
tinued the fight to Bangkok and Hanci, and his arrival at Canton is now reported.
The next stop is Shanghai, 800 miles away. D'Oisy went from Canton to Shanghai in 914 hours.
The rest of the projected trip
is by way of Peking. Taiku, and
Tokyo, and return by the same
route:
a non-commissioned officer,
17.
FANLING HUNT
the detention, in Chinese territory. which also undoubtedly actuated the Tau-keung, the Women and Defendant was convicted and just across the Macao-border (in Each of the two Danish Flying your acceptance. The large rum-Children's Hospital, etc. attended sentenced to four months hard Chinshan) of the second prin-
ber" of electors who went to the The vaccinators started work in labour. Corps officers is accompanied by poll on Monday last, belied the the various sections from March Baying that civic spirit in Hong 4 to March 11 for one week, with The machines are marked
kong is dormant
the result that 81,018 persons "Denmark RI" and "Denmark As the last election, as you were vaccinated. R2, with the red and white yourself expressed, was unsatis-
This campaign aroused wide- colours. Two extra motors were factory to all concerned, and in spread public interest and chowed forwarded to Tokyo-one to justice to the electors, I have had that the citizens of Carton readily Bangkok and one to Karachi...
no recourse but to lodge a protest appreciated the value of this It is not known which machine with His Excellency the Governor prophylactic measure, The report was flown by Lieut. Botved, and in Council against the validity of closes by stating that the train- which was the one that is still the sald election, a copy of which ing of the Sanitary Police will supposed to be at Rangoon.
I am enclosing for your informa-be continued. tion.
FISHERS PATRON SAINT
To-day according to Chinese superstition, is the festival of the patron saint of fishermen.
It is the birthday of Puk Tal.
As the matter la sub-judice. I
regret I cannot accept or refuse The Coast Inspector for Shang your very kind and sporting offer. hai has issued a notice that on or though I am grateful to you for about May 4, 1926, the ""Tungsha" it and must awalt and abide by light-vessel, moored in the South the decision of His Excellency, the Channel entrance to the Yangtze Governor in Council River, will be withdrawn from ber
cipal Chinese police detective of Macao, by the boycott pickets. It is stated that a death penalty has been applied for on the grounds of alleged lack of sym Arrangements for the Fanling pathy when the anti-Canton ris- Hunt this week-ond are:---- ing (by so-called pro-Chan ad- Saturday: Hounds to meet at herents) in the Heungshan dis- Sheung-shut at 2.45 pm. for fox trict last year, caused some of hunting.
the pickets to seek sanctuary 'in, Sunday: Hounds to meet at the or near, Macao. Au-tau police station at 10 am for drag hunt. There will be a train at 8.88 m., to Sheung-shul and a. moton, bus.
HARBOUR COLLISION
Damage only to the extent of 815 was done to (the rudder of a local cargo boat in the Barbour, en Mon-
The new Wing Fook when proceeding to:
with the junk anchorage, Corema
For being found asleep while in charge of the Praya East Police Station, a Chinese constable Wak Ained 650 at the Magistracy this morning. During six months of the man's total service of one year, the record showed that he had ten
At Cheung Chau Island, the I am sending a copy of this let-station and eplaced by the new day, when collided with the reports, all of a serious: nature. celebrations last several days, the ter to the Press, not only because feature being a theatrical show in the election is a matter of pub
a huge matshed, with the image interest, but to take the oppo
of Puk Tal (removed from the tunity of tendering my thanks temple nearby) occupying the Beat you publicly
of honour
Hundreds of local fishing boats are en fete at Cheung Chau
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