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MONDAY, June 24th, 1929.

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KOMAGATAKE

THE CHINA MAIL,

WHAT THE INVESTIGATIONS HAVE REVEALED

MIRACULOUS ESCAPES

Tokyo, Yesterday. Although the Komagatake eruption has miracalously resulted in only one death and a few casualties, investiga itions reveal that over 38,000 acres of fields and forests, and 3,250 acres of tillable larid have been laid waste.

Villages, whose annai Industrial output, averages. Y.3,000,000, have been destroyed, while the depth of lava covering the local electric tramway renders reconstruction gonomically in practical;

Photographs of the stricken districti reveal a scene of utter desolation re miniscent of sections of France and Flanders during the war. There are ruined farmsteads, gaunt blasted tre trunks, and the whole face of the ccun try-side buried under a thick manth of stones and ashes and lava without a vestige of vegetation visible.-Reuter

السلام

CONSUL MARRIED

CEREMONY IN FAR-OFF YUNNANFU

Yunnanfu, June 8. Miss Sybil Esme Sandys was married to-day to Mr. Cyril Augustus Kirke, C.BE., H.B.M.'s Consul-General in this city.

The reremany was held in St. John's Church, the oficiating clergyman being the Rev. R. F. Lankester of the Church Mission ary Society. The service was well attended, all the Consuls being present and almost all the for eign community.

WATER COMMITTEE

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EXCHANGES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

On London Bank, wire

1/11 Bank, on demand 1/11 3/18 Bank, 30 days' sight Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 Credits, 4

months sight Documentary 4 months'

sight

On Faris On demand Credits, 4

Bight-

SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929.

2/- 1/8

2/-

1197

months*

1272

JUST RECEIVED,

46%

'On Berlin.

save the On demand.

Land Investment Co. Following the excellent example of the Hong Kong & Kowloo1 Wharf & Godown Co. the Hong Kong Land Investment, & Agent Co., Ltd, have for some time de vised means to reduce le a minimum any deraard on the Government

their large. mains for water for blocks of office buildings in the City. To this end the Company is sinking. a well within its premises on 2, Connaught Road at a cost of over.. $1,500, including connecting pipes and accessories, so as to water from the tanks in the build- ings. Water drawn from the well will be need for floor washing and general cleansing purposes. Like the Kowloon Godown Co. the management of the Land Co. has shown a commendable spirit of operation in order to minimise the inconveniences to the public due to the water shortage by voluntarily making as little demand se possible on supplies obtained from the pub lic mains and making provision for water for use in the servants quarters through the Company's arrangements that leave the Govern- the community ment supply untouched.

to

Bowrington Canal An experiment is being made with the Bowrington Canal to be used as a reservoir. Work in on- nection with the building of a dam in Leighton Hill Road end of the Canal is going on. The reservoir will be about a quarter of a mile in length.

The quality of the water 30 stored in this reservoir, will very much depend on the canal wall, because if there is any seepage it will come through that source.

The bride wore a travelling dress of vieux rosa, covered with old lace, also a sash of the same colour. Her hat was of old gold, trimmed with, roses, the bouquet being of roses and honeysuckle.

A reception was held house of Mr. and Mrs. Lankester ITALY'S BIRTH RATE

at the

where refreshments were served, and a congratulatory speech wis made by the French Consul in behalf of the Consular body.--Our awn correspondent.

PEKING - HANKOW LINES

DECLINE NOTED: SIGNOR MUSSOLINI'S WARNING

On New York on demand Credits; 60 days sight 48%.

On Bombay-

Wire

on demand

Wize On demand

129%

129%

On Calcutta-

129%

12911⁄2

On

On Singapore- demand

On Manila-

832

94

On Shanghai-

81

On demand

On demand

30 day's sight (private

paper)

On Yokohama— On demand

Gold Leaf, 100 Ane

(per tel) Sovereigns

(Bank's

106

buying rate) 10.00 24% Silver per oz.)

Kong

Nominal Bar Silver in Hong

Nominal Copper Cash Copper Cents

4% prem. Rate of Native In-

terest

... 7% p.a. Chinese Sub. Coin. 29% dis. Hong Kong Sub. Colt Par.

LONDON EXCHANGES

Rome, June Replying to a Deputy, Signor Mussolini deprecated optimis re- garding the Italian birth rate. Con- trary to the questioner's assertion, he declared that the birth rate was Hankov, Yesterday. falling while the death rate was The Peking-Hankow

Vienna Railway rising. If the present situation administration reports that continued the Country's democratic policy was threatened with disaster.

Trans-Ocean.

pairs to the Yellow River bridge have been completed and through traffic on the line has again con- menced. Reuter.

..

OUR BACHELOR PRINCE

London, June 13. An authoritative denial has been secured of the rumours linking the names of the Prince of Wales with that of Princess Ingrid of Sweden, who is now in London-Singapore Free Presa.

R.A.F. FLYING BOATS

LEAVE PENANG FOR VICTORIA POINT

Penang, June 13. The R. A. F. Flying boats which arrived from Singapore on Monday afternoon under the command of Squadron Leader G. E. Livock, left for Victoria Point this morning.

London, Yesterday.

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In the

City draws the largest part of its water supply. At -the right is eladiwern i velue coking into the present

Giant Bore Through Rock Will Bring Water

bore, a duplicate of which la ta be made under the city to give idditional facilities to the inhabitants of Brooklyn and Queens: as thown on the mapanga

Aeternallons strand New) Croton reservoir system, and 70 rent. will be excavated to 19 feet per cent of thidi. la supplied by diameter, which will evolve the callid water. The present aisti biesting and removal of almost four |bution system har long been recog milionable yards of bard rock. inartenite for Future Lining the tunnel to 1 fest diam- Dede, and even at the present the ster and incidental construction is not large enough to maintain work will require the placing of sullable precaure in the boroughs of 584,000 cible yards, ita concrete, Broslyn and Que

TAGS THE work together with other pisted in turné will be 20.2 miss minor itens, is to be l be 17 leat in diamter 70 month

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