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Hongkong, Wednesday, April 21, 1926.

UTILITARIAN SLAVES.

COUNCIL MEETING.

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED.

TO-MORROW'S MEETING.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1926,

BANKRUPTCY ECHO. RED BUSYBODIES.

FALSH INFORMATION

ALLEGED.

POLICE COURT CASE

Mr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared

PROPAGANDA TO SUPPORT BRITISH. MINERS,

"RIGHTEOUS STRUGGLE;"

(Reuter's Serviss.)

Amsterdam April 20.

The following questions will be askod in the name of Hon. Mr. F. for the prosecution in a case, men-: Holyoak:

tioned before Mr. R. E. Lindsell 1) What steps are being taken to at the Central Magistracy this M. Losovsky: General Secretary improve the Fire Brigatie Ave morning when he put in amend of the Red Trade Unions Internu- #ghting appliances and watered charges against a Chinese who totals, has sent a message to the pressure in the mains of the was 'alleged to have made material International Federation of The lo Colenyt

mis-statements or information Unions from Moscow asking the

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their

(2) Will the Government appoint a given to the Official Receiver re- Facuration to telegrupir the place Committee of Enquiry into latiye to the affairs of the Wing and time at which representatives of these mutters?

Shing Shur firm No. 38, Kothe two Internationales en meet (3) What steps are being taken

Shing Street,

to elaborate forms and methods (a) to foster and develop the The case was fixed for hearing of supporting the British miners

eultivation of poultry, vege-on Tuesday afternoon. The ques tables and food supplies. ition of bail being raised by Mr. against the offensive of unised and righteous struggle the New Territories?

M. Watson for the defence,vell-organised (b) to assist the cultivation and this was placed at $10,000.

growth of ginger root, and foster the ginger industry in the Now Territories? Repulse Bay, Hon. Sir H. E. Pollock,, K... will

(1) Will the Government appoint &

Committee for the purpose of considering and reporting to this Council on the following questions in connection with Repulse Bay, namely:-

DOG BITES

TWO EUROPEANS AND ONE

NOTHER CASE.

daughter of Mr. R. E. Hoare

Marjorle, the three-year old!

ving at the Cosmopolitan Docks,

capital."

NEW PROPOSALS.

Concession Made by Owners,

(British Wireless Service.)

Rugby April 201 Mr. S. Baldwin, Prime Minister, has arranged to meet the represen- tatives of the coal owners to-morrow afternoon

(a) The feasibility of providing was bittem yesterday by a dogmet in London to-day to complete

better bathing accommoda-

tion.

(b) The feasibility of enlarging the area of the beach which can be bathed from by the removed of rocks from the western end of the Bay. (c) The provision of the proper sanitary conveniences for those resorting to Repulse Bay.

raised by Dr. Koch is the menace jaak: to the public health. The in- sanitary conditions prevailing cannot but lead to the breeding: of flies which, again, are the worst. carriers of germs on food. Hong- kong as was stated in a recent article, in this paper, can thus far! pride itself on its comparative scarcity of flies, but this pleasing. state is not likely to continue if') the Government closes its eye" to the deplorable conditions prevail- ing not only at Repulse Bay but in the villages in the urban areas. It appears to be about time that the Government set down to work to tackle the whole health prof blems of the entire Colony, thus obviating such exposures as those recently made by Dr. Koch and Supported by his unofficial con- frères on the Sanitary Board.. Should that task be too gigantic Det it create a Public Health De- partment to deal with the urban areas and a Municipal Council to function within the city limits...

an

LEPROSY.

If local Chinese gentlemen form auxiliary of the Mis-

(d). The regular removed by scavenging coolles of rubbish and refuse and tins from the houses and beach, (e) The regular inspection by a

Sanitary Inspector" of the septic tanks and crainage and other outlets, for the purpose of ensuring that the same are working effectively and without danger to the public health..

(8) The cutting and keeping, cut.

tee.

The coal owners" representatives details of their proposals for a new wage agreement which they will submit to the Prime Minister. It

owned by a Chinese working there The child was taken by her mother to a private doctor for treatment and the animal was. sent to understood that In this draft Kennedy Town.

Anaval man, Thomas Helmes, the coat ownera think that it ia. agreement will appear as much as was treated at the Naval Hospital possible to settle on a national for a bite by a dog at Whitfield basis Barracks. The animal, owned by Gunner Foat of 38 Pack Battery is now at Kennedy Town.

la another case in which a Chinese girl of seven years was bitten and sent to the Government Civil Hospital, the animal escaped and has not been traced..

BANK HELD UP.

MANAGER'S PLUCK IN. PORTSMOUTH.

THRILLING STREET CHASE.

London.. March 29: *-

This concession to the demands or the miners for a national settle- ment is being made, it is stated, in response to a request made by Mr. Baldwin when he intervened in the dispute at the end of last week..

Important Condition.

It is understood that the coal owners are prepared thus to depart from their demand for district settlements and to concede the principle of a national agreement on condition that the miners will discuss the "downward revision"" of the minimum additional percentage: as auggested by the Coal Commis- afon in its report..

Apparently the prospect of a

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and the removal of all rub- bish and refuse, and tins from, the long grass and other undergrowth below the A Bank Manager's pluck, follow-settlement turns at the moment. Hotel Garage, and in euched by a thrilling street chase, upon the attitude of the miners

Loward the coal owners' new pro other places as are recom-frustrated a daring attempt to. mended by the above Commit-hold up the Copner branch, in posals,

Portsmouth of Lloyds Bank. (z) Generally, the making of A smartly dressed young man such recommendations as entered the premises, presented a may tend to improve the revolver, and told the Manager: bathing and pubile, healthGive me all you have got. This conditions at Repulse Bay is loaded" The Manager edgad und to check the breeding of to the side of the door. The in Aies and mosquitoes..

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Will the Government also em-ruder ondered him to halt and grabbed fifty pound notes and

It is probable that after the Mr. Baldwin to-morrow afternoon owners have shown their plan to they will meet the miners later in the day, and it is possible that Mr. Baldwin may be present at this Joint meetings

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FIRES IN JAPAN.

DESTROYED.

VILLAGE OUTBREAKS.

(Reuter's Service.)

ion to Lepers, it will but show that once. Chinese sympathies are: aroused, a prae- tical plan receives earnest com According to Dr. Koch, we are sideration. One of the most de(2)

power the above Committee to the slaves of the utilitarian and pressing sights in Chine-as consider and report upon the dashed out. The Manager pursued cannot combine picturesqueness elsewhere-is the spectacle of

him, and a Fe and ery followed OVER 200 HOUSES COMPLETELY feasibility of inaugurating a with it which seems to be a na- those suffering from this dread'

new publie bathing, beach in the fugitive, who mounted an un- the neighbourhood of Stanley?

attended bicycle, but a motor car tional failing. This forceful and disease. A more depressing sight;

chased him and ran him down.. Orders of the Day.. outspoken member of the Sanitary Is perhaps sufferers remaining un- The following are the orders of The bandit, whe was not hurt, Board was talking of the scandal-tended-shunned by all. There,

the day:

sprang to his feet, fired his re- Hon. Attorney General: ous conditions prevailing at the are many in China-how many reading of a Bill intituled An Or

volver and smashed the windscreen: First beach at Repulse Bay, The we know not in this plight, but dinance to amend the law relating amenities there gave, he said, the there are those, segregated, who to the Post Office impression of a seaside village in are looked after, and who have reading of the Bill intituled An Or Hon. Attorney General: Second Malaya and the Philippines, which the latest treatment administered dinance to regulate the issue "of" appears to be a distinct libel on

to them. Pakhoi, within threeHongkong Treasury bills in Hong- Malaya,, which is not likely to be

days' journey of the Colony, has kong. overlooked by the Press of the Straits Settlements.

FORECAST TILL TO-MORROW AT NOON.

and burst 4 tyre,

Tokyo, April 21, Messages from various parts of

place this afternoon.

A policeman boarded, a lorry Japan report that fires are taking caught him up, and leapt out and

bandit."Times of Ceylon."

arrested the overpowered and

راحة

WITCHCRAFT CASE.

DRAMATIC SCENE AT BURNING GHAT.

WOMAN ARRESTED...

Calcutta, March 80. The story of alleged withcraft, suld to have been practised by, an elderly. up-country. woman.

with fatal results has been re- Sarapatia Dosadin, on a child

ported to the Calcutta North Dis-

The Royal Observatory reports at 11.10 a.m. to-day:

Pressure has decreased con-trict Police. siderably over N.E..Japan. It has Increased considerably from Vlad

stock to Peking, and at Shanghai. and slightly elsewhere.

The northern depression is mov ng eastward to N.E. Japun.

The anticyclone is now central near Shanghai.

"

In the

The two principal outbreaks are at. Noda in the Chiba prefecture, where 120 houses are completely destroyed and 50 partially des troyed, and a village in the Nagano prefecture where 100 houses: have been destroyed.

Owing to a breakdown in talo- graphic communications. "further" details are not available.

NAVAL DISASTER.

EXPLOSION CAUSES GREAT.

CONCUSSION.. /^

PROMPT RESCUE WORK.

(Reuter's American

Service.)

According to the father of thê child, the woman, who was a well- known witch of the locality, had New London (Connecticut), Apr. 20. Twelve of the crew of the sub- a quarrel with his wife. course of the quarrel Sarapatia marine S49, which was moored to Dosadin muttered something to the the dock, were injured in an explo- effect that she would see that the sion in the afterBattery as the result child died, and the child was found of escaping gas fumes.

The explosion produced a tre- dead yesterday. The father traced the woman and begged of her to mendous concussion, which hurled bring the child back to life. She the men in the steel-walled com- father to take the child to a burn-arme agreed to do so, and asked the partment against the side of the

Hon Attorney General: Secondi a leper compound, under foreign reading of the Bill intituled An Or. | It is worthy of note, however, supervision; where, for many dinance to regulate the issue of that although Dr. Koeh threw out years, ameliorative efforts have Hongkong Treasury bills in London. another feeles to the Government been carried on. No "invasion SOME RAIN. As to its policy in respect of the of the place by militarists and no retention or abolition of these un-outbreak of feeling against for sightly matsheds at Repulse Bay, eigners has interfered with the with not even primitive con- work, or deterred those whose veniences available for the public, privilege it is to administer to the Government nominees on the humanity in one of its worst pre- Board maintained a rigid silencedicaments. And the tales that unless they enunciated the policy can be told of maimed and dis- to be adopted when the Board membered lepers who appreciate went into Committee. Still, the what is done for them! It is published reports of the meeting strange that in the Colony there furnish no cluc, and we are left to la no depot for the sale of the infer, if we care, that nothing will excellent lace made in the com-

A shallow depression is central be done and that, the Government pound-safely sterilised before near Tourane. will continue to be imbued with being sent to England for sale.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 the utilitarian sentiment at the Such a depot would bring to mind hours, ending at 10a.m. to-day: 0.62 cost of both hygiene and pic-the condition of a less fortunate inches, against an average of 9.50 Inch Total since January 1, 19.71

turesqueness.

number, and kindle sympathy of a inches.

ing ghat. This was done. There Fire alarms immediately brought Dr. Koch is not alone in desir-practical nature. Should a local Forecast for the 24 hours ending the woman went through a pro- scores of rescuers to the scene, ing to know why it is not possible auxiliary be formed, it should winds moderate, overcast some did not show any sign of life the

noon to-morrow 22nd Ecess of sorcery. But as the child equipped with gas masks, and they for the beach to be laid out some-prove but another instance of the rain thing after the style of beaches in possibility of Chinese and for- foreign watering-places. The eigners combining, in a common local resident has wondered the effort that has nothing to do with same thing for years and years-race, colour or creed; but sets and is likely to be kept wondering itself to relieve the sufferings of Tourist ships are welcomed here those unable to help themselves. and the strangers within our gates are hurried off to view the "sights" of Hongkong, including the unsightly sights at Repulse

The building belonging to the Bengal were rendered homeless by woman's father-in-law, two China tornado yesterday. Bay, which are a positive disgrace

ese knocked at the door of the Many houses have been burnt cheque made out. in London was It is positive that Dr. C. C. Wurst floor and asked to be shown is heavy-Associated Press of down. The number of casualties to the whole Colony and must Mayor of Canton, did not arrive the top floor which was vacant India. leave the globe-trotters grateful in the Colony by the Steamboat The woman, accompanied by a that tline does not generally per- Co.'s vessel yesterday

Servant went with the men and. mit of more than one visit to the However, the steamer brought on the second floor three others down almost 500 passengers the joined them. The victims were amenities of "Repulsive" Bay majorly being of the batter class bound and gagged before their be

CANTON STEAMER.

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY,

violence took place yesterday A case of armed robbery with

afternoon at Wing Fung Street, Wanchai, a Chinese woman being robbed of jewellery and money to

matter was reported to the Police who took the woman into custody to-day." Associated Press of Indfa."

INDIAN, TORNADO.

Calcutta, March 31. Four hundred families in the the value of $136 and a servant Faridpur district of Easterc girl losing a $5 ring.” -

MOVEMENT OF STEAMER

descended Into the submarine and quickly removed the injured men. WIRELESS CHEQUE.

SENT BY PHOTOGRAPHY

·TO NEW YORK.

DULY HONOURED,

(Reuter's Servies.)

London April 20

A new wireless record was established yesterday when a

graphy in twenty minutes to New transmitted by wireless photo-

Tork, where the Bankers Trust Company duly honoured it

The cheque.which was for $1,000, was made payable to the

The CPS. R.M.S. "Empress of Radio Corporation of America and

Of course the most serious Chinese and this number is the longing were removed. The Russia from Hongkong on April signed by General Harbord, Pre- aspect of the whole question highest for many months...

robbers made their escaper

12 arrived at Vancouver on April 19. Jsident of the Corporation.