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China Mail
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No. 27,230
HONG KONG
SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929.
ENGLAND'S BOWLERS 85 MILLION GALLONS
IN FORM
MORE WATER
EVE OF THIRD TEST LONG WAY TO GO YET
GLOUCESTER CHECKED, BUT LARGE INCREASE IN STORAGE |
LEAD COUNTIES
IN RESERVOIRS
KENT COLLAPSE
AND WIN KOWLOON ALSO IMPROVES
Water Reflections
HOW AN OFFICIAL OP- POSED THE GOVERNOR
Was
his
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
THE LANCS. COTTON: THE UNEMPLOYED
CRISIS
MASTERS' ACTION
FURTHER STEP IN WAGES REDUCTION PROPOSAL
2/6 IN THE £
London, Yesterday. The Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations have balloted in favour of the wage reduction proposal in both the American and Egyptian sections.
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PROBLEM
‘GETTING ON "
MR. THOMAS EXPLAINS THE DEVELOPMENT FUND
OPPOSITION APPROVAL
London, Yesterday.
"Your Eyes Are Safe With Us"
N. LAZARUS Hong Kong's Only European Optician
Established Over Forty Years), Manager:-RALPH A. COOPER.
Registered Optometrist by Canadian Govt. Exam. F.LO. (London) (Personal Attentiory.
IS THAT SO ?
Thoughts Terse, Perverse—and Worse
The big dew-overdue.
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A little drop of "juice" can't do us any harm-three inches of it in one day.
Reference
made in the "China Mail"
to yesterday differences in the Legisla- tive Council, in the year While one of the batsmen provi- Between 7 a.m. yesterday and 7 1859, between H.E. the Governor sionally selected to play for Enxam. to-day the reservoirs of Hong (Sir John Bowring) on the one land to-day in the Third Test against South Africa at Leeds ap- Kong Island have taken in 85.26 hand, and other members whom he pears to have done anything of million gallons of water, after de alleged sinisterly opposed note in the ramas, which ended ducting the quantity consumed. On scheme for constructing the praya. yesterday and probably some of the estimate of about 3 million least that is the impression derived One of the alleged opponents-ar them were not engaged at all- the names of three of the Test gallons a day (restricted supply) on reading between the lines of an bowlers are in the cables among this means that the Island has authoritative. treatise-was' those who have returned fine "gained" almost a month's waterį W. T, Mercer, the then Colonial pound, to take effect from July 20. the Culonial Stock Act and will 80od water supply idea may
analyses.
These are "Farmer" White (the
rations.
Mr.
be
The Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association have sent out notices of a wage reduction of 2/8 in
Renter.
HAN FU CHU
the
The House of Commons has agreed to the Money Resolution, moved by Mr. J. H. Thomas with reference to the Colonial Develop ment Bill, which will be shortly in- This will provide for troduced. the establishment of a Colonial Development Fund of $1,000,000 The extension benefits per year.
facilitate the borrowing by certain Protectorates and mandated Ter-
ritories, and the Amendment to the Palestine and East African Loans" Act.
Secretary, who apparently desired that certain surplus funds in the Hong Kong Treasury should diverted towards the Colony's initial waterworks.
Shanghai, Thursday. Such a state of affairs now is be- General Han Fu-chu, hitherto It will enable the interest to be Fancy, in the of Feng Yu-hsiang's Kuominchun, added to the capital during the yond imagination
of grace 1929, a Governor has, offered to resign. year
General period of construction and increase "stating publicly that some of the Han is officer commanding in Ho-the period of the lean. opponents of his prava scheme had nan-Nan Chung Kuo News Ser- openly avowed.... a sinister pur- vice. two
Doss,"
An
As compared with the steady" captain), Tate of Sussex. and of Thursday and the 12 million gal- "Tich" Freeman of Kent, who was lons of yesterday, this iøvery an- chosen for the First Test, did not couraging indeed but there is still play on account of an injury, and a long way to go. About a fort- was omitted from the Second. night ago, it was stated officially Among the six centurions, how-that about 30 inches of rain were ever. is R. H. Catterall, one of the required to fill the reservoira. fow in the South African team expert opinion to-day is that, in who has visited England before, view of the last
days and an opening bat. He scored. rain having come two weeks after 117 against Wales and Vincent the estimate was made, at least took five wickets in the same another 24 inches or so are requirį
ed! And it bas to come soon with very few intervals, so that the ground in the water storage area will not become dry again.
Record for This Year
match.
Results at a Glance Freeman (Kent)
J. C. White (Somerset)
The 85 million gallons is easily
85 a record for Hong Kong this year
6 28 and Kowloon has a similar tale to
47 tel). The increase, in the 24 hours
23 up to 7 a.m. to-day on the main- |
27 land is 41.4 million gallons.
5 for 99
Mitchell (Derby)
4
19
#
and 4 22
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Tate (Sussex)
7
48
1
Root (Worcester)
7 21
Barnes (Wales)
3
Macdonald (Lanes.)
6
ň
Nichols (Essex)
2nd f
23
C. L. Vincent (South Africa) 5
Six Centurions
70
Although the rainfall varied.: Tytamtuk, the biggest reservoir
E. H. Cattera (South Africa)
117 last 24 hours being;-
O'Connor (Essex)
116-
Inchee
Langridge, J. (Sussex)
110
Bates (Wales)
Tylam
2.65
102
Ames (Kent) ....
Tytamtuk
3.80
101
Wong-nei-chung
3.22
Pokfulam
1.85 3.45
Lee (Derby)
in the Island, appears to have had 118 most this time, the rainfall for the
Lancashire led Gloucester on the 1st innings.
Kent beut Essex by 72 runs, Yorkshire lost first innings' points to Worcester.
Somerset lost to Derby by 132 runs, Sussex beat Northants by an innings
und 107 runs.
Gentlemen drew with Players.
Wales lost to South Africans by 10
runa.
Kowloon
Shingmun (average
of 3 guages) ... 2:43
Unexpended Balances
Mr. Thomas emphasised that the unexpended balances of the Deve- Old Strong Times
lopment Fund would not be carried Although the Council in the old Government to supply water out of forward, as in his opinion this days had very few members, in- 20***53*5530201052
public funds. All that need be would make the colonies speed up said is that most, if not all, of his their development plans. 'RAIN" FORECAST successors have taken the opposite He estimated the Fund would en- view, even if some of them were able £40,000,000 worth of work much too short-sighted in calculat- being undertaken because many of ing how the population-and its the Colonies were prepared to needs would increase.
carry out certain work if the Im-
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"S.E. winds,
moderate;
ig the local
cloudy, rain" weather forecast for the 24 hours ending at прод ton
ΠΟΥΤΟΥ.
For Formosa Channel it is "Light variable winds."
At 11.03 a.m. to-day the Observatory reported "Pressure
is highest in the vicinity of the Borins and is relatively low over S. Manchuria and Tong- king."
FOIBILIENBERS@5686ee dividual opinions of Officials were not a dead letter, in fact very much the reverse. Nowadays, although
But Sir John calls a waterworks perial Government guaranteed half scheme in Hong Kong a speculation! [of the interest for the period. Comment is superfluous.
Mr. Thomas instanced as under- takeable schemes the Sierra Leone
i
near
Watson & Co.'s depot did the watch
When the big tank burat man sing "A Life on the Rolling Deep?"
If much more rain falls many a be
washed out.
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"Crops are affected" by the drought in Swatow. Here the barbers report business as troppy as usual.
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"Water Return" said a newa- head line. Where, oh,
paper where?
Those who swear by the Chin- ese calendar swore still more on Monday-the hottest day Summer, according to many folk --when the aforesaid called it "Slight heat.".
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of the
calendar
Taikoo
Neil Drummond, the skip, wants to know who was the Guy who whacked him so badly
on the KBG.C. green.
The Silva lining was no good
The gravity of the gravity supply to the Peak is still present.
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The rain ought to have washed
away many prejudices regarding one's own favourite water scheme.
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The buckets and tins may be in water queues, but
evidence in the
where, oh, where, are the jugs and -well, we know where the mugs are!
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The despondent critics ought to have a good supply of wet blankets in store by this time.
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Boys' Brigode in China--Prob- The "Telegraph" refers to the
ably where the juvenile odes on brigs come from.
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In Singapore there is claimed to be a demand for a real women's page in the local papers. How women in this
about the real Colony?
Some men are born to fame; others have it thrust on them- hence the "Telegraph" report of at the Hamilton Magis-
a case
tracy,
A Chinese
been discovered with opium in her
official's wife has
baggage on arriving at San Fran- cisco. The little baggage!
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The hoods and side screens of
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were ready for the scrap heap.
- Co Encouragement is better than carping criticism; a pat on the back is just as easy to give as a dig in the ribs.
His hint of turning the job over to a joint-stock company at once Drainage, North Rhodesian Govern- to the Club de Recreio when they leads the trend of thought to the ment Service Extension with a view fell to the C.CC. (and Brightman) many of the chairs look as if they present tendency to float public to copper developments there and by five shots. works loans, after capital expendi- the construction of a railway to the ture had been provided out of Kenya and Uganda mainline. revenue for, many years.
Opposition Support Perhaps
Mr. Artery, Sir Hilton Young, the financing by loans, of water and other works, is the via media and Mr. Ormsby Gore supported between paying out of Government,
the resolution.-Reuter. revenue and assignment to a public utility company.
Chinese Difficulty
MYSTERY"
MORNING
'PLANE
was
The "Daily Press" pleads for an infant welfare clinic for Hong Kong-three months after was opened!
J
one
Did the K.CC. skip who lost by 25-13 against Moss jib, son, when the "S. C. M. Post"-and the "Telegraph," of course-changed
Some girls in Kowloon can string a romance on the most slender of threads.
Will the Shanghai jockey, W. E. Tingle, make the faces of the Australian riders tingle when he gets there?
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nothing is laid down in law, the Official members are expected, as a matter of course, to vote "for the collect a water rate from the Chi-į
Sir John said it was difficult to FLIGHT OVER KOWLOON THIS his name to G. Jibeon? Government." Disobedience of this
nase community. in modern
At least one of tacit understanding, times at least, has been unknown; endorsed his opinion in this respect his successors must have heartily
WAS SHE FRENCH?
The second team of the E.C.C. must have been Raven mad when and if any Governor-in-Council,
Interest ran high and there
the Yacht Club skip imposed the This acting in the exercise of his dis-for, when meters were proposed for is explained by the fact that when cretion, preferred to spend the houses served from rider-mains (in Kowloon this morning as to the iden- They were evidently caught in much speculation among residents of penalty for being a man short?
Says the Telegraph": "Hugc sections of masonry were preci- other words, the classes invariably tity of a strange aircraft, which many the Webb and couldn't Lasham pated all over the roadway. The first in the front line when war on cbserved to be flying over the Penin- enough! wastage Is declared) wholesale sula. opposition was raised by the Chi- The machine passed over the Kai masses and the project was Tack aerodrome at 8.20 a.m., and at- tempts were made to signal to her but without success. She then flew over Kovicon coming as far out as Tsim-
nobody
to
on any public but waterworks, there
Ray. Bay him need consider, only in his
nese
Own
There is not much difference be- tween the rainfall of the last 24 hours and that of the preceding 24 hours; but the "gain" is 85 million gallons to-day against 12 Counties' Positions
million gallons yesterday. Gloucester, the leaders in the the readings
were taken yester Colony's money county championship, retain first day, the full benefit from Thurs- works place although they only obtained day night's rain had not accrued. is three points
a possible In the same way, there should be All that he eight. They visited the holders, still further additions to the re- and Lancashire. Kent, by a victory-servoirs to-day-and it is still mind, would be public opinion and after a collapse following a good raining.
its effect at Home. lat innings' score-against Essex, go up to second place, supersed- ing Notts who were not playing. Notts are third. Next are Derby- shire and Lancashire. The post- tion of the leading counties is:-
Gloucester
Kent
Notts
Derby
Lancashire
Yorkshire
out of
Games Points
Played Gained
16
92
16
90
14
83
14
82
16
$2
14
14
72 69
ILLICIT DRUGS
NO SEIZURES IN 1928 IN BRITAIN
QUANTITIES SMUGGLED
that
shelved.
re-
shatsui,
conie ย
"The King of England has be
symbol" trumpets the Rev. A. Swann-Scottish, Irish and Welsh symbols may for ever hold their peace.
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It appears to be a Gamble whether the Boys' Brigade will be a success in Swatow in future.
The Chinese suspected the scheme Happily the stormy times of the as a new method of adding to taxation; an existent economica! first few decades of Hong Kong are
difficulty was the sub-letting of unlikely to recur. That is why
houses into flata and the the Governor's wide powers are not subletting into cubicles and bed challenged and, because of this, Unofficial members have, very of dividing the water bill.
attendant puzzle spaces, with the casionally, raised their voice against the solid Official majority in Coun
Pay Gladly Now ell...
Rates (13 per cent, except in the outlying areas) are collected in There were no seizures of illicit Preposterous and Prophetic drugs in Great Britain in 1928
However, Mr. Mercer suggested Hong Kong, inclusive of the general aviators at Kai Tack who in a port Water."
Those with meters states the British Government's the Pokfulam reservoir acheme, water service. report to the League of Nations. with connection with the city via constitute a minority. They pay Illicit traffic in drugs exists in an aqueduct, at an estimated cost a rental for the meter and also for Great Britain
Now to quote the his- excess consumption. (ie., quantity eatly taking a bird's eye view of Kow" hearse their parts? very small of £25,000.
London,, Yesterday.
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Middlesex
The Gentlemen drew with the scale. On the contrary reports of Players and had the better of the seizures have been received from draw.
British Colonies and Dominions, Derbyshire only made. 94 at the particularly from India and Canada, first time of asking against Somer-the United States and other
set yet they won, thanks to a fine countries, which showed that the recovery and good bowling by illicit traffic was carried on vigor Mitchell. On the other hand, ously throughout the year. Great Kent started off well and then quantities of drugs were smuggled collapsed.
particularly to North America, Egypt, India and China.
Another unusual feature was the 1st innings' check on the re- doubtable Yorkshire by Worcester shire.
(Continued on Page 15.)
BRITAIN TWO DOWN
EUROPEAN ZONE FINAL IN DAVIS CUP
GERMANS WIN SINGLES
Berlin, Yesterday, Germany is two up in the final of the European zone (qualifying competition) in the Davis Cup lawn tennis, winning both the singles matches from England on the first day of the contest.
Prenn (Germany) beat Dr. J. C Gregory (Britain) 6-3, 6-3, 6-2; and Moldenhaeur (Germany) beat H. W. ("Bunny) Austin (Bri tain) 6-4, 6-2, 6-3.—Reuter,
[Ench the consists of four singles and a doubles match so that of the two remaining singles and the doubles, Germany, needs Cooly to wing one to qualify for the inter-zone final, gainst the winner of the American Zone, the ultimate winners to meet France in the challenge round]
torian:-
Residents of the European Y.M.C.A., who were having breakfast at about the 'plare when she passed fairly low. a quarter to nine had a close view of | There were no colours painted on the machine, so that it was not possible de finitely to identify her nationality, but observers judge from the shape of her engine that she was a French aircraft:
This is confirmed to a degree by our to Command Headquarters stated "it is believed to be French."
After flying about. for a time appar-
used above the allowance given in Joon, the 'plane flow. out to sea in the ratio to the rates paid. Individually general direction of Macao. "Sir J. Bowring, however, opined
If, as it is supposed, the aircraft is inte that it was not the business of the
the Treasury).. And, pro- Government "to furnish individuals bably because the pendulum is now French territory at Kwong-chan-wan, French, she is apparently bound for with water any more than any other swinging the other way, the number and had most probably come from Indo- necessaries of life and that therefore of Chinese, both shopkeepers and Chins on a test fight. No attempt was the annual income of the Colony was not fairly, applicable to such specu- householders, who desire a water made to land here. lations. Sir John suggested the meter on the present terms, or any formation of a joint-stock company, other reasonable terms, has increas- but pointed out, at the same time, ed largely. the diffenlty of collecting a water
rate from the Chinese population." And if, to-day, there were a Reading it to-day, such a state-levy of so much per flat or house ment is preposterous but one part is
per morth for water through the house taps, firat pumped into
A BIG DIVIDEND
The unusually high figure of $87 per cent. in a local bankruptcy has been declared by the Official Recef er, as a first and final dividend, în
In spite of the vast fortunes. offered for water slogans & cer- tain paper has had to fall back this journal's "Don't Waste
On
"All the world's a stage."--But how many are given a chance to re-
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spelling seems to have fallen over a precipice.
Newspaper heading: "The Spirit of China Revealed."-Samshu vie- tims ask where, oh! where?
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Newspaper heading: "Chile To- day"-But Chile is not Hong Kong and Hong Kong is not
Chilly.
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Asbestoes gas helmets are men- tioned in a "Daily Preas" par. What kind of toes may these be?
"Most pleasures have an after- math of pain."-Small size in shoes, for example, offen means large sighs for our girls.
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A lucky impetuous American
youth is reported by the "Tele- The modern girl is a masterpiece graph" to have apled his financee and, of course, hand-painted.
"Telegraph (and
"Strawberries in Cartoons"
"TS. C. M. Post") advt."Mr. Punch" and Phil May please copy!
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The first time.
she's supposed to be surprised; the Dian kisses a girl second time she is sir-prised.
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on the pier.-Moner made the mare to go?
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"Women are becoming bald.”—- In one estimation no woman is becoming when bald.
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cribe the actual working of the "At present an attempt to des-
telephone exchange futile," ejaculates
would be
the
Great Britain continued to work in close co-operation with the Dominions, India, the Colonies, prophetic. United States and other countries.
Onus on Government Tytamtuk reservoir from outside. Bankruptcy No. 15 of 1928, re Kagraph" talks of. "the first fineness in graph" Crect for once! with a view to the suppression of
First of all, this former Governor the Chinese would pay cheerfully. the traffe.Reuter.
denies that the onus is on the [More "reflections" on Monday.]
A Bridge "expert" in the "Tele-
Lun Fook Kee, No. 94, Jervois the Club suit." Seems to be a street, plece goods merchants. rather fine point to finess.
Blue Funnel Tender "Poseidon" Founders
in Harbour
Jondawin's Causeway Baywarka
to having taken Lighters alongside the Chine Sugar Refining Co.'s whari at, high tide, the Blue Fennel Line's tender. Vedne day through the water having receded and took a list of 45 degrees After which the began to fill. The poop and funnel can be seen in picture an the tender to a lighter to keep her up. Photo in centre shows the Hat and some of the salvage crew facing the camera. Their feet are just above. of the stern and funnel of the "Poseidon," after the startling events of Wednesday,
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We couldn't all be Solomons even if there were enough women to go round,
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"Telegraph" heading: "Italy Flies Over Dardanelles."-Prob- ably shifted up there by an earth- quake!
Reuter's messages are -some- times rather puzzling. Recently a cablegram stated "Slessor sworn in Lord Justice", which the "H.K. Telegraph informed its readers meant that Sir Henry Slessor had beer appointed "Lord Chief Jus- tice The "South China Morning Post," of course, said "ditto." The "China Mail" stated that the appointment was that of "LONE Justice of Appeal," to which the "H.K. Daily Press said "ditto Home papers to hand prove us to have been correct Sir Henry Slessor succeeded Lord Justien Sankey as a "Lord Justice of Ap- peal." You see the difference be tween the local papers?
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