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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926.
IF IT CAME.
WHAT HAPPENS IN CENTRE OE TYPHOON.
LOCAL EXPERIENCE.
Since 1923, Hongkong has not
SMART RUSE.
JUMP THE MOON" LODGER ARRESTED.
CONCEALED FAN,
With more brains than honesty,
di house attempted to "jump the moon but was arrested when trying to make off with an electric fat.
in harboud early there the Torce of the file morning decorated with hunting Then the wind velocity reached a in honour of the millionaire ship | record of 130 miles an hour. ping magnate, Capt. flar, who is aboard.
Robert
Capt. Robert Dollur is some what of a national hero, not only on account of his organisation of
Some residents are anxious to know what conditions are like when in the thick of a cyclone.
Hitherto Mr. T. F., Claxton. Director of the Enyal "Observa- an idea of what
Central Calm Area.
two or more ad-
at the
He now his six was in wish qqu shink of another use or at least. the intervals between hard labs each day in the jail for that period.
auch being the sentence on him. This bright lad entered the beard. ing-house with a grip and paid_52 As deposit. He then asked for a fun for his room, same being sup
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COAL CRISIS.
DRIFT BACK VIRTUALLY STOPPED.
NEW STOCK OF
DELEGATES' CONFERENCE,
London July 30.
After several rainy week-ends, Honghengites will all be hop-Che National Miners' Delegato ing
weather will be Conference in London considered favourable for August bank holi- the reports "Trom districts, particu
larly the Midlands, where, it was day on "Monday.
seelarek, the drifs back to work has
The typhoon is not threatening Hongkong. Till noon to-morrow the forecast is fine.
It is now evident that the ty. phoon is swerving towards the north, away from Hongkong.
w practically stopped, and they
also discussed the memorandum of the proposals of the Bishops, and Free Church leaders, providing an immediate resumption "on
pre strike conditions, and a negotiation of a national settlement within four months, the disagreements existing For the Formosa thereniter to be referred Channel: NJ, to S.W. winds, arbitratur, strong.
The official forecast reads:-- For Hongkong and adjoining coast! Moderate South-West winds: fine.
At 11:25 am, to-day, the Obser- vatory reported -- siderably from N.E.
Pressure has increased enn.]
China to N.E. Japan, and slightly from E. China to the Bonins and over the
Tang Shayi atthis time 'aptain (B) 2.4 miles to eastward the basket but the vigilance of one of Philippines.
a vast shipping concern with inter-tory, gave esis all over the worhi but on a-would happen if a, typhoon cume codint of the good work he has in Hongkong. done in maintaining good rein- tion between America and the
The passage of the centre of aplied na an "extra" After a while, nations of the world, particularly Chan is interesting to recall typhoon over that he was one of the first pro-jacent stations affords a means of out. pient American citizens to be determining the diameter of the a baskey Sitting down in the room far another brief period he went approached regarding recogni.calm area which exis
out again, taking the busket with. If for instance, at one station him, and locking the door berind tion of the Chinese Republie in centre of a typhoon. 1:1.
In the course of interyjews | (A) the calm lasts for twenty him.
The fan was hidden inside the with-Br. Sun Yi-sen and Mr. minutes, while at another station
the "Boys" was too much for him. was not ripe for inaugurating the typhoon is travelling north at and he was arrested as he was od into the Pacific. new regime and that considerable the rate of 12 miles an hour, then walking down the stairs, fgli or culty would be experiene in the diameter of the calm urea dignity and ignoring the shouts of the issue was forced before the would be 12 miles. pec ple of China were educated up. At a third station (C) 9 miles to a standard at which the work to the east of (A) the calm would ing of a Republic would be possi would last 50 minutes also, but! the wind would veer, whereas at A and B të would back. C being on the opposite side of the entrƐ to A and B.
Dollar warned them that the time calm lasts, 50 minutes
Lble.
and the
Even more then-his-association. with the Dollar shipping lines and the prominent part he was played
The centre calm, or eve of the in important world isques, Cap-
it is called, differs, ini tain Dollar's genial and forceful storm as personality is better known to the different typhoons. He diameter
the varies from about 7 to 25 miles. through kened public' medium of the popular writer, Peter Kyne, who has made of him his hero, Cappy Ricks, figuring in a series of widely read stories dealing with life in the lumber
I the las
Former Lumber Jack
2
Typhoon Varieties. Sometimes.ap almost absolute calm oecurs and sometimes light, variable winds are prevalent. Sometimes the skies clear, com pletely sometimes partially and sometimes the heavy nimbus veil of merely gives way to at thinner cloud..
the servant who chased him."
MEN OUSTED?,
WOMEN TAKING PLACES IN TEA-HOUSES.
SEX COMPETITION.
Because of young Chinese women taking up" employment as waitresses, employees of local sen- houses are said to be to king steps
The Japan depression has pass-
11
A feeble anti-cyclone is central to the south of the Bonins.
The typhoon at 6 a.m. to-day was in Lat, 23 N.. Long. 122 E. moving N.N.W. It is not threat- ening Hongkong.
Lo 11
M. Cook and other lenders, how- vey, advised the delegates, that the Federation' did not agree with the question of hours being referred to an arbitrator--Reuter,
Emergency To Continue.
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London, July 30 The House of Commons adopted resolution by 230: votes in Nd continuing the Emergency Regula-1 kinne for a month.---Reuter,
Surrender of Polley.
London, July 30,
At the miners' conference, there was a most animated discussion on Further information about the the arbitration" proposal in the track of the phon has been Bishops memorandum, 10 de cabled by the Manila Observatory glaring that its adoption would bes to the American Consulate-Sen- toker weakening. teral in Hongkong as follows:--
2.45 pm. yesterday: typhoon in ahoux Lat. 20 N. Long. 123
E.. moving N.N.W.-
9.30a.m. to-day: typhoon in about Lat, 21 N. Lons. 123 E. moving N.N.W.
ensure their means of livelihood. Most of the men gonerned are
From these two gables it will be members of the Teal use Em-seen that the cyclone has moved lovecat Union, stated that more to the north than in the over a hundred are you die and direction of Hongkong and that it becoming a burden to the Union, is still well out of the 300 miles
The same source gives the num- ber of wajurasses new employed in Hongkong as over eight hundred this from a small beginning when commenced and there was then a real shortage.
Petitions have been presented by the men. A suggestion has been made that to safeguard their em-
2012.
It was as a lumber jack that Captain Robert Dellar first com-
The barometric minimum menced hi aruggie in life and which varies from 27 inches to 'although his clever dealings since 29 inches) is said to occur some his rise to prosperity have stamp, times at the beginning of that strike ed him as a man who was bound calm, sometimes shortly before. to rise very considerably from and sometimes shortly after; but that estate it was a stroke of luck as the time-scale of the ordinary which hrst set his foot on the barograph is usually very cor- larider of success. As a skipper tracted and the driving clock anployment the masters cease to cm- stranded without a cargo in the imperfect timekeeper, it is fre-ploy waitresses.
That the novelty has caught on Philippines he risked taking
quently impossible to say within
is evident from the vernacular ad- cargo of copra on his return 5. 10, or even 15 minutes,,, when
vertisements which have appeared San Francisco-the first of its the minimum pressure occurs. kind to be taken there. It caught Probably it is within a few announcing that Miss So-and-St on with the result that its export minutes of the calm. When the has now accepted an appointment there has reached twenty million diameter of the calm area is with a certain 6rm-this fact be .. Poll dollars a year,
hak An intresting situation Captain Dollar, although ad- large, and the sky clears, the tem-treated as a drawing "eard."
rises ax the centre
and developmenta vanced in years, has preserved all
passes, otherwise there is no per- arisen these qualities of character and ceptible change... keen faenkies which have en-
to reach his present- abled him position. In appearance he is
perature
Incredible Violence. Typhoons vary considerably in
trin almost to elegance and it may strength. In some the violence. e that in his very quietness and of the winds even 100 miles from absence of itster, the first thing the centre beggars description which strikes one in conversation while in others a vessel may pass with him. lies the secret of get actually through the centre with- ting through the work which he out sustaining sericus damage. recommends to the young man anxious to get on in the world. Work, hard work, and plenty of is the only sure way to success" s his advice,
On June 2, 1916, the Observa- tory in Kowloon was on the edge a small of the calm centre of typhoon, moving north-east and The wind, evidently Elling up. which had been strong to fresh,
awaited.
PERJURY.
DRAFT OF NEW BILL.
TYPHOONS.
PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.
WORK OF TUG.
The following is published by the Harbour Master in the Gov ernment Gazette"
· Thera was very frank criticism of the leaders' suggestion to com- promise on wages, whilst defend- ing the existing hours at all ceste." some delegates describing this as
"urrendes of policy." Eventually the conference decided a large mujority to send the Bishops' proposals to the districts fra zote, with a recommendation that they be adapted.
It was agnonneed that altogether 6.100 Texeluding safety men had, resumed work on the whole coal fields.
It is pointed out that even if the Bishops proposals become the official basis of the negotiations there is no likelihood of immediate) discussions on it as Mr. Baldwin has already refused the subsidy "necessary to make the proposals
possible.
The delegates to-day contemplat Fed a struggle extending to the end
of September-Reuter
COMING YOTE.
What It Means to Both Sides,
Rugby July 30. At the conference of miners'
dafontes which was held to-day Mr. Herbert Smith, President of the Miners Federation, called upon the delegates to give reports on the position in their districts and the
1. "When there are immediate Rre prospects cf the weather condi- tiens becoming so bad as to place the native craft in the Harbour in danger of being unable to make ahelter on their own account, a rad ensign will be hoisted at the Harbour Office indicating that the Rescue Tug Kau Sing will be available to assist to tow.. such
numbers of men who had return A. Bil to amend the Perjury craft to shelter.
ed to work. It is stated that it was Ordinance it is proposed to intro- 2 The Rescue Tug Kau Sing found that in the "aggregate 6,100 duce into the Legislative Council will fly the Red Ensign at the men had resumed work in all the Masthead by day and three Lightscoal Belda, excluding safety men. shortly.
The objects and reasons state-vertically Green Red Green by The men who had returned were
night and will proceed down to the
not necessarily coal, getters, but This Bill proposes in effect... minor amendment in the Perjury Central and Southern Fairways to generally embraced every class of
mine workers. Ordinance, 1922.
Section 10 vi
mercantile or private craft, which
Whilst in Hongkong, Captained away completely between that Ordinance makes it possible the limit of the shipping, and af |Dollar will make the acquain-1 p.m. and 2 p.m. increasing again when a witness has made two con desire to avail themselves of
of the Dolar lines. He will leave with fresh squalls from north-tradictory statements, to charge now to sheiter should be ready
ward by 4 pm. No damage was him with having made the con- with their ropes to be taken incutive that the peace proposals for Manila on Sunday afternoon. done. In contrast to this may be tradictory statements and to obtain
fance of the local representatives
PROPERTY BOOM? ·
OWNERS ASKING FOR"MORE *TIME.
no
tów as the Tug returns.
mentioned the Mauritius typhoon a. conviction on proof of this co- 3. All craft will be towed to- of April 29, 1892, in which 10,000 adiction without the necessity people were killed.
"If"In Hongkong.
In those days little was known by the public about typhoons, and the central calm was mis-
There was afterward a discus- alon on the general position and on the recommendation of the Exe-
framed in conjunction with "the Bishops and the Free Church leaders should be accepted.
It is understood that the discus-
of proving the truth or falsehoodwards Yaumati Refuge.
4. If the wind is blowing from of either statement. This section riginally appeared as section of the Eastward, assistance to the Section shipping at the Western end of 12 of the Perjury Ordinance gives the Harbour will be rendered first.
5. Native craft are not to de-question of hours, but delegates Judge, or Magistrate power" so
Ordinance No. 7 of 1857.
sior was at times very animated. The Executive had ruled out of the proposals any arbitration on the
taken for the end of the storm. direct a prosecution or perjurypend on the Rescue Tug Kau Sing from some of the larger districts:
a severe
to make shelter.on their own ac- and to commit the accused for trial entirely but should endeavour
count, as early as possible.
will be used only in emergency,
6. The Rescue Tug Kau Sing
arbitration on wage reductions. are stated to have objected alao to
At the close of the conference.
it had been decided by a very large however, it was officially stated that
7. No responsibility for dam-majority to send the proposals to
BUILDING COVENANT. People therefore opened hurricane shutters, and left their houses,
There is no or to admit to ball. hose who argue that landlords some never to return and others to
similar power to order a prosecu- should be protected point to the find them if ruins, or blown to need of asking for time to built, another street by the terrific tion for an offence against section as a criterion of there being hurricane which followed the 19 Clause 2 of the Bli propones
to give this power.
age done during towage will be the districts to be voted upon, with centrul calm,
a recommendation that they be ne- property boom at present.
Even if fully prepared Hong- According to the vernacular
The following have made ap-taken by the Government,
8. Towing charges will be made cepted. who pupers, peeple
previously kong would suffer considerably.
Whatever may be the result of the plication to be appointed auditors bought and from the 'Government should the centre of
for the purposes of the Com- in accordance with the following
district vote, there will remain the 1911 and scale:- are now devising means to obtain typhoon pass over the Island.
1.While Red Signals are fact that the primary proposal is "an extension of time in which to Ancient (and some modern) panies Ordinances, build. (On building convenant houses would collapse and prob-1925, and that they are, in the
2. While Black Signals are period of four months at the ald rate of wages whilst negotiations panies, qualified to perform the certain penalties are implied if the ably a certain portion of the ships opinion of the Registrar of Com- hoisted 1/20 of annual licence Fee. that work shall be resumed for a purchaser fails to construct a cer-in shelter would be blown ashore duties required by the Ordinances hoisted of annual licence Fee.
3.-White Black Cross is hoist are proceeding, and that financial tain type of building within a and their decks swept clean,
to be performed by an auditor:
Assistance shall be given by Govern-" stated period).
Many trees would be blown down.
Thus, a first class passengerment for this purpose. The Govern- The Hongkong and Kowloon The greatest danger to pedes Messrs. Maurice Jenks, F.C.A.,ed of annual licence Fee. has trians would be from tiles and John Edward Percival, F.C.A., Property Owners Association
such further subsidy or loan is to pay:- been naked to help, states the re- corrugated iron hurtling through John Casburn Pidgeon, F.C.A., toat, licence fee $12, would have ment has definitely stated that no Alfred Ernest Copp, A.C.A., and, port, and a meeting has been held. the air.
Messrs. Maurice Jenks, Percival 1.-$0.60. 2-$3.00. 3. $6.00. possible. If the vote is favourable, A cargo boat of 600 to 700 however, it will at least mean that
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