1929-03-20 — Page 12

FEDERAL TRUCKS. 1-7 Ton Capacity.

Sole Agents:— KIN CHEONG HONG. 37, Connaught Rd. C. Tel C, 6.

THE

The

China Mail

FUNNE

BLUE

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICES|

LONDON SERVICE.

**CALCHAS"

Apr. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg, *'ANTENOR" Eth A. Marseilles Loulon Rotterdam & Glasgow **MENELAUS" 3th Apr. Marseilles London, Rotterdam & Hamburg LIVERPOOL SERVICE.

KERMUN

2010 Mar. Genca, Esvre, Liverpool & Glasgow EURYPYLUS" 20th Apr. Genen Havre, Liverycol & Glasgow PACIFIC SERVICE.

via KOBE & YOKOHAMA "PROTESILAUS"

"TALTHYBIUS"

S0th Mar. Victoris, Vancouver & Seattle 20th Apr. Vieloria Vancouver & Seattle

NEW YORK SERVICE.

"LAOMEDON" "RHEXENOR"

10th Apr. New York. Boston & Baltimore

8th May New York, Boston & Faltimore

INWARD SERVICE.

"AJAX" Due 27th Mar For Eai, N'saki, Maji Kobe & Yhim. "OANTA" Ilue 28th-Mar. For Shanghai, Moji Kobe & Yokohama PASSENGER SERVICE.

ANTENOR "

*" HECTOR"

Baile a daylight

17th Apr. Eingapore, Manilles & London

01: May Singapore; Marseiller & London

Also cargo steamers with limited passenger accommodation at specially reduced farea.

For freight, passage rates and information apply to

Butterfield & Swire.

Agents.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

LIST OF VESSELS EXPECTED TO BE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH HONG KONG TODAY? Kcemun, Tjisondari, Santhia, Darcoila, Karmala, Protesilaus, Tulma, China Arrow, Daishu Maru, Hukata Maru, Matsumoto Naru. Patroclus, Aki Maru,

INWARD MAILS.

From

Pe:

Amoy

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20,

Talma HURSDAY, - MARCH 21. Strafts and Londor (Parcels Mail, London,

14th Feb.)

Karmala

Yuensang

Aki Maru

Yingchow

Hakozaki Mara

.Khyber

Europe via Negapatam (Letters only, London,

London, 21st Feb.)

Australia and Manila

Shanghai and Amoy

ESTABLISHÁD

1846

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1929.

GERMANY'S ARMY OF DEATH ROLL NOW 11

100,000 2,700 OF A STAFF

CRITICISM ON THE MILITARY BUDGET

KING EDWARD HOTEL FIRE KING

DISASTER

ROOM "BOY" SUCCUMBS

THE VICEROY OF INDIA

AN INVITATION

GOING TO ENGLAND ON SHORT LEAVE

The death roll in the King Edward Hotel fire on March 11 becomes eleven with the addition of the name of To Chat, 52 years of FOR PERSONAL DISCUSSION 483,474,000 MARKS. NEEDED

ge, a room "boy" on the third:

London, Yesterday. Berlin, Yesterday. floor. He was burned and jumped from the verandah, sustaining in-

It is officially announced that the The Military Budget, excluding juries. Progress was shown in the secretary of State for India (Lord the Navy, totals 483,474,000 marks Government Civil Hospital and Peel) has invited Lord Irwin, the and comes up in the Reichstag short-there were hopes of recovery but Viceroy, to England in June on short ly when it is likely to be consider-To Chat died on Monday evening leave not exceeding four months in order to secure an opportunity for ably reduced in view of the state of after a relapse.

The funeral was held yesterday personal discussion with the Viceroy. the national finance's criticism at

the proprietors of the King Edward The latter has accepted the invita present is being directed to the fact Hotel paying all expenses and alltion provided the state of public that the Army of 100,000 men need the members of the staff attending affairs permits. jan administrative staff of 2,700.-

Reuter.

DOCTOR PRAISED

EULOGIES FROM SANITARY BOARD

SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC

*-Dr. Lee Ying-yau,

medical practitioner of Kowloon, was high- ly praised at yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board for services rendered in the small-pox epidemic.

The attendance comprised Mr. W. J. Carrie (President, Head of the Sanitary Department), Dr. H. A. Fawcett (Medical Officer of Health), the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, the Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E., |LL.D., Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Dr. W. V. M. Koch, and Mr. J. Watson (secretary).

bad a The President said hë very pleasant duty to perform As all members of the Board were aware, there had beeh, an epidemic of small-pox in the Colony. It was also known that the Department had been short-handed in the way of staff, but the Senior Inspector in Kowloon had done very well in ceed.

were

However, there

matters which required to be put in the hands of a qualified doctor and there were instances of concealed eases and anonymous reports which had to be, investigated. Senior In- spector Duncan in Kowloon bad been compelled to enlist the ser- vices of Dr. Lee Ying-yau and had gone to him frequently, always re ceiving an immediate response.

Appreciation

At the Coroner's inquest it was stated that To Chat was awakened at about 3 a.m. by Mr. Cheung Fu- kwong, one of the partners, to un lock a room. To Chat then shouted "It is too smoky" to the lift boy who had brought Mr. Cheung up and found himself trapped shortly afterward.

Another room boy, Leang Kwan, was killed outright, The third member of the staff in the casualty list was a cook who has been dis-! charged from hospital.

A

GIRL ENTICED?

A TRIO CHARGED WITH HARBOURING

H.M. the King has approved the appointment of Viscount Goschen, Governor of Madras, to act *5 Viceroy during Lord Irwin's ab-- sence. Reuter.

RAN AMOK

TWO CHINESE GIRLS KILLED.

BROTHER'S ESCAPE

Yesterday the "China Mail" re- ported the removal to hospital of a the 14-years-old Chinese youth, son of a cargo boatman, who was suffering from cut wounds stated to have been inflicted by a foki of his father's boul with a chopper.

A Chinese man and two women were yesterday produced before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, at the

It has since transpired that the Kowloon Magistracy, charged with youth was not the sole victim of the harbouring a young Chinese girl.

chopper attack, but his two sisters, Mr. H. R. Butters, of the Se-aged 19 and 17, respectively, were cretariat for Chinese Affairs, pro-alac assaulted by the foki and secuted.

hacked to death.

The male accused said that the The two girls, Cheung Fo (13), girl was fond of him and went to and Cheung Fo-kam (17), daugh- live with him of her own free will.ters of the master of cargo boat He admitted, however, that he did No. S-1038-V, boat went ashore at· not make any inquires with regard 2 p.m., to look for business for their

her parents.

boat. About 6 p.m., the father: The first woman said that she sent their brother, Cheung Kau, and introduced the girl to the man at the feki, Chan Kau in a dinghy, to the request of the other woman, pick the girls up at Wing Lok whilst the latter claimed to be the wharf. girl's aunt, and said that the girl The dinghy did not return for herself wanted to live with the a couple of hours, and accordingly.

тал.

!

He made a

search for

run amok

the boat master went ashore to Mr. Butters said

that the girl,' inquire. He learned that all four whose parents are in the country, missing persons had been observed lived in Hong Kong with the wo boarding the dinghy at the wharf man who was supposed to be her at 9 pm. aunt. In December last year she the best part of the night and, this was enticed by the other woman to proving fruitless, went to the Police. The President added that Dr. leave her aunt and go to live with It was then that he learned that His

her in Yaumati

aon had been taken to the hospital. Lee had an extensive private prac

The man was then introduced to From the latter he learned that tice but, in spite of this, he had given his services most readily and the girl who went through a bogus, the foki had suddenly had also used his own car, putting marriage ceremony with him, under with a chopper, hacking at him and himself to a certain amount of per the impression that it was genuine. his two sisters, both of whom he She subsequently lived with him as saw slaughtered. After he had sonal expense. He thought, there his wife. Later she ran away to the been slashed several times, the son FRIDAY, MARCH 22.

fore, that the Board should express

and, returning with her jumped into country

the water and Was Japan and Shanghai

its appreciation of the services Shanghai and Europe via Siberia (London,

mother, went to the Police accom-rescued by sampans in the vicinity. rendered by Dr. Lee in the small-panied by the aunt. There was no The Police took ap the 27th Feb. 2nd Mar.)

MARCH

pox epidemic and suggested that a 29.

for the SATURDAY,

missing Jetter should be written by the evidence against the second woman search ....Président Johnson U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai

Secretary to bim in the name of except what the other female had dinghy and eventually found it MONDAY, MARCH 25

alleged against her.

drifting in the vicinity of Green the Board.

This woman was discharged by Island, at 10 o'clock yesterday Manila

the Magistrate, who gave an ad- morning. On it was the body of Journment in the case against the the younger girl with brutal other woman and the man

wounds on the head, arms and body. The other girl and the foki have not yet been found.

OUTWARD MAILS.

WEDNESDAY,

Sam Shui and Wuchow

Shanghai and Japan

Manila

THURSDAY,

Amoy and Formosa via Swatow Bangkok

Fort Bayard

Swałow

Amoy

Shanghai and Europe via Siberia Registration 5 p.m. Letters 6 p.m.

Japan

Per

MARCH 20.

Sanning

Kitano Maru

New, York

MARCH 21.

President Jefferson

4 p.m. 4.30 p.m. 5 p.m.

8.30 a.m. Noon. 1.80 p.m 2.80 p.m. 6.p.m.

Deli Maru

Botnia

Tai. Poo Sek Hydrangea Santhia

Karmala.. FRIDAY, MARCH 22.

Aki Maru

9.30 a.m.

Talma

Hai Ching

Yuensang Kueichow

1 p.m. 5 p.me 5 p.m.

Straits and Calcutta. Parcele 11

a.m. Letters Noon

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow

Amoy

Wei Hai Wei

Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauri

tius, L. Marques, *E & **S. Afries.. Aden, *Egypt and

*Europe. via

Marseilles-due-

Marseilles, 21st Apr. K.P.O. Re-

gistration (Mar. 22) 4.30 rm.

Egypt and Europe via Marseilles

Letters (Mar. 23) 0 a.m. G.P.O. Registration (Mar, 28) 8.45 a.m.

Letters (Mar. 23) 9.30 a.m., Hakozaki Maru

Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius,

L. Marques, E. & S. Africa,

-due Marseilles, 30th Apr. K.P.O. Parcels (Mar. 22) 4.30 p.m. Registration (Mar. 23) 9: a.m. Letters (Mar. 23) 10 am. G.P.O. Parcels (Mar. 22) 5 p.m. Registration (Mar. 23) 9,45 a.m. Letters (Mar. 23) 10.30 a.m..

SATURDAY, Java via Batavia

*Correspondence bearing vessel's name only.

The Hon. Dr. Tso seconded and suggested that in view of the public spirited way in which Dr. Lee had come forward in the pre- sent epidemic. the Secretary for Chinese Affairs should be sequaint-

}

It fa surmised that the elder

ed with the services he had render ward so that the Board had opgirl's body was dumped overboard portunity of thanking Dr. Lee for

ed.

Colony's Thanks

Wether the foki is dead or alive

his work. He hoped that any let by the foki. The Hon. Mr. Braga said that aster of appreciation sent to him the Kowloon member of the Board, would be referred to the Colonial he would like to associate himself Secretary for the attention of

with the remarks of the President H.E, the Governor.

and the Hon. Dr. Tao. He thought Mr. Carrie said it might be sug- that not only was the board in-geted that no expression of the debted to Dr. Lee for his services Board's appreciation should be at a time when the Department made until the epidemic of small- was short-handed but the Colony pox was over, but the department as a whole owed him its thanks. now had an Assistant Medical Om- Mr. Braga said he was glad the cer of Health and the Senior In- President had taken the opportun- spector in Kowloon would now be ity of bringing his services for able to call upon him.

TO-DAY ONLY! at 2.30, 5.20, 7.15 and 9.15 p.m.

66

WILLIAM FOX presents:

SUNRISE”

With

JANET GAYNOR, GEORGE O'BRIEN.

1

Described by the "Daily Mail" as an exceptional achievement, and a film which will provoke discussion

Khyber

MARCH 23...

Tjisarosa

AT

THE

2:30 p.m.

MAJESTIC

NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.

is a matter for conjecture, but the Police are offering a reward of $200

for information."

CAR. FATALITY .

UNLUCKY COOLIE KNOCKED DOWN

RUSHED TO HOSPITAL

As the result of being accidental- ly knocked down by motor eár No.. 948, owned by Mr. Chan Wai-yan, of No. 28, Kai Tack-road, a coolie received severe injuries to his head, with fatal effect.

The accident occured at 7 p.m., yesterday, just outside, the Kowloon City Police Station, as the car was being driven homeward by Mr. Chan's driver along Kai Tack-road.' The unfortunate coolie suddenly made a dash across the road, and before the driver could apply the brakes the man was knocked down. He was rendered unconscious and Immediately rushed off to the Kow- loon Hospital in the car. In spite of every effort to save the patient'a life, he never recovered conscious- ness and died at 5.40 this morning having sustained à fracture of the base of the skull

“OVERLAND CHINA MAIL”

SEND IT HOME!

THE WEEK'S NEWS

ILLUSTRATED.

25 cts.

25 ets.

LON CHANEY

IN

in the most remark.

able role of his career, as

a clown who finds love

for one fleeting moment,

and then loses it, hiding

his heartbreak behind a

painted smile!

LAUGH,

CLOWN LAUGH

AT THE

DIRECTED BY THE MAN WHO MADE "BEAU GESTE” AND “SORRELL AND SON"

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9:20.

Laughs, thrills and delightful romance in a splendid story of Continental Life! A German Production.

CONRAD VEIDT

IN

IMPETUOUS YOUTH

with NORA GREGOR, WALTER RILLA AT THE

WORLD

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Orchestra 5.15 & 9.20 Only,

2.30 & 7.15, Chinese Picture, "TWO HAWKS.”

A GREAT SPECTACLE OF STAGE LIFE!.

A thrilling story of three beautiful chorus girls and of their adventures in the night life of a big city!

SALLY, IRENE MARY

With

SALLY O'NEIL

JOAN, CRAWFORD, CONSTANCE BENNETT

AT THE

STAR

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30 & 9.20. TO-MORROW AT 5.30 & 9.20.

Its Your Move -

B

AX

BAYER

E R

to avail yourself of an effectual cure for headache, toothache, Rheumatism, Pain in Joints and limbs, Gout, Chill. Neuralgia, etc., etc., by taking

'Bayer' ASPIRIN

~CHY LOONG.

NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER. Best quality-Prompt attention to Exporters. Office:--291, Queen's Road Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2534,

Factory:-500-504; Canton Road, Yaumati

Tel. K 869.

Printed and published for the Proprietors The Newspaper Enterprise Limited, by DAVID CHRISTIAN WILSON, business manager, at 8s, Wyndhara Street, Hong Kong