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Hong Kong, Monday. Aug. 12, 1929.

SEA WATER SCHEMES

the domestic supply of rain water. The Government has always in its employment ex- perts, by whom it must be guided before it commits itself to any scheme affecting the public purse. These experts have been more or less busy for years submitting reports on the possible use of sea water for fire-fighting, the flush-

MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1929.

MR. F. W. BLACK

TION & SOCCER CLUB

PLAYER AND LEGISLATOR

Representatives of all prominent

CHOKED TO DEATH

EXECUTION METHOD BY ORDER FROM NANKING

MURDERER'S FATE

In these days when Mr. C. T. Wang,

work. Officialdom alone is in a position to test its approximate accuracy. The real point, though,PRESENTATIONS BY ASSOCIA is the value of a sea water in- stallation during a water famine. And an equally good point is the value of a sea water scheme in fire fighting on the occasion of football Clubs met at dinner at the Kuomintang Minister for Foreign, Messrs. Lane, Crawford's restaur Affairs, claims that foreigners should conflagrations involving the loss ant on Saturday night to bid fare actually be made subject to the juris- of lakhs and lakhs to the business well to Mr. F. W. ("Dai") Black, adiction of his own race, it is interest-

BS ing

well AS horrifying community. On these two points former player and football adminis- to observe how the people of alone the technical experts of the trator, who is leaving the Colony for Nanking treat their criminals

Home.

deinned to the last dread penalty of Public Works Department might Officials of the Hong Kong Foot- death. well concentrate in considering ball Association present included the latest scheme that is being 1r. R. M. Dyer (President), Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.I.E. (Vice- placed before them. In regard to President), Mr. E. Hall (Chair- The following account appeared in the second point, it might like man), Mr. W. E. Hollands (Hon. the "China Press" of Tuesday, July 31, wise be found feasible to call upon Treasurer), Mr. Ip Kau-ko (Hon. ploy towards the condemned

the method, these people em- Secretary), Mr. G. T. May (Hon. 1920, the various fire insurance com- Assistant Secretary), and the fol The strangulation of a condemned

CON-

Readers will realise that present-day Chine is still in the days of Tyburn, and of its horrors.

panies to defray a part of the lowing Councillor's Messra. R. K. criminal by means of a crude wooden cross in the shape of a crucifix about cost of a sea water scheme. Even Duncan, G. Rodger, J. Ormiston, ten feet in height, conceived to be. a. in times of water in abundance F. H. D. Byron, B.N. (representing would-be criminals was a gruesoma H. K. Lee, J. S. Shak and Comdr. very cruel And awe-inspiring to conflagrations will occur, but that the Royal Navy), Lieut. W. R. spectacle Monday morning. The pri alone need be no deterrent to George, R.A.M.C. (representing the poner was formally identified in the the introduction of a sea water Army). supply to supplement that from the mains.

One case of diphtheria and two of enteric fever were notified during the week-end. All were Chinese.

The motor bus companies in Kowloon advise the discontinuance of Route No. 9 service from mid- night on Thursday.

Provisional Court and after being al- lowed a last request-to write a letter to a friend at the Hanyang Arsenal, in the Hupen province-was led away to the Municipal Black Maria.

A

Tower of Strength Mr. R. Hall discharged the duty of making the principal speech, de- livered as follows:-

A Horrible Device "Mr. President, Gentlemen-We The condemned man was asked to are gathered here this evening to take a look at the awful device with do honour to our esteemed guest, which his life was to be ended. Mr. Black, on the occasion of his A shudder went through bis -pending departure from the Colony.frame, and he became virtually oblivi

Mr. Black's name has been iden-ous to all that went on around him. tified with football ever since his is hands were tied together behind arrival in the Colony. As a player and he was made to stand or a wooden he was much in the public eye be stool at the foot of the crucifix.

rope tourniquet was then fastened tween the years 1915 and 1920; he round his throat while the other end was a tower of strength as a full of the

tied firmly back playing for the Hong Kong to the cross section of the For trespassing on the railway at Football Club, when the Club was device. The stool was then kicked off the Yaumati Station, two Chinese at its best and boasted such from under his feet and the victim left were fined $2 each, by the Kowloor players as McCubbin, Hamilton, to choke to death.

Jack Rogers, Chassells and others To precipitate the end, two exezu- Magistrate, this morning.

of note.

tioners caught hold of the struggl- "I am very much disappointed ing man's feet as he writhed and Jean Cochet, one of the tennis that Mr. Au Kit-sang is not here twisted in the agony of pain. Yet, "Big Four of France, passed to-night. I can well remember him twenty minutes later, he was still through Hong Kong on Saturday on as a worthy football antagonist of alive, his legs were twitching weakly the 8.5. "President Wilson," bound Mr. Black in those days when the and his eyes and tongue bulged out Chinese were coming into their own of his head. The execationers, ex- for Manila.

was rope

in the realm of football, I men- asperated with their unsuccessful tion this because of the inevitable attempts to force out the life more Several hawkers were again in tussle that was bound to ensue be quickly, kicked with all their might

on Saturday for tween the two whenever the rival Kowloon Court

at the stomach of the man twice, petty offences no licence and ob- Clube met, and you'll note neither struction-and were fined, on the of these gentlemen looks a bit the average, $2, by Mr. T. S. Whyte-worse as a result of their youthful, Smith.

encounters.

Most Popular Figure

which sufficed to end the criminal

career of their victim.

Emergency Committee. The scheme warrants greater publici- ty than that afforded to it by only one morning newspaper. Evid ently the Sanitary and Publicity Sub-Committee overlooked their own title in not informing all the newspapers of the meeting in time for the latter to be duly re- presented. That method of pre cedure is regrettable from the Sub-Committee's own viewpoint -that of securing the greatest possible publicity, to the scheme under discussion. It is hoped that

The body of a cook employed at yet, in spite of all adversity, we find the Tai-O Station, who had been that Mr. Black has outlived it all the Press as a whole will be re missing since Saturday morning, and is to-day the

most popular membered by the same Sanitary was yesterday picked up by the figure in local football circles, as and Publicity Sub-Committee after Water Police in the harbour and illustrated by this gathering to- the scheme has been carefully removed to the Kowloon mortuary. night, met to show its appreciation considered by the technical ad-swimming in the sea off Tai-0.

The man had been drowned whilst of the goodly services he has ren

dered the great cause of football visers of the Public Works De partment.

Chen Chun-zen, for that is the name of the man who paid the ex- treme penalty, alias Tal Han- For the theft of a plank of wood "After an absence of five years, chwang, was 22 years old, and (worth 30 certa) from the No. 4 Mr. Black returned to the Colony native of Hupeh province. He was Hut, Cheung-sha-wan, a Chinese in 1925 and renewed his activities convicted by the Provisional Court was fined $5 or, in default, seven in the local football world; this of slaying Tai Ping-shih, a Chinese days' hard labour, by the Kowloon time more as a legislator and news merchant, on Hupeh Road last Police Magistrate on Saturday.. paper eritic. than ая player,

Spring. Neither of these callings can be said to be, conducive to popularity

Meanwhile, it has to be remem bered that no non-technical man, however intelligent he desires to appear, can "ley down the law,"

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"Extraordinary what a lot of girls don't want to marry nowadays.”

"How do you know?" "I've asked them."

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Boarder: "Your cook would have, been invaluable, Mrs. Smith, on a man-o'-war in the good old days.”

Landlady: "I agree that she is

"I might say that our worthy Pre- sident has asked how Plymouth a very able person, but what would A Chinese was discharged Argyle managed to incorporate she have done in that particular on Saturday.

It was only line 7" at the Kowloon Argyle' in its name.

Boarder: "Why, she would have Magistracy, by Mr. T. S. Whyte- to-day that he noticed that Mr. Black Smith, because the Government lays strong claims to Scottish been invincible in repelling boar Analyst certified that the supposed nationality. On the other hand, Mr. ders!" raw oplum in his possession when Bishop has sung "Glorious Devon'

Doris.'

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as it were, in regard to affairs he was arrested in Shanghai Street, which, in view of the circumstances, The beacher was explaining that baffle experts. The most he was, on examination, found to be might have been "Wee Deoch an' things to his class. "For instance," he said, "I want to introduce water can do, if he considers that the some other drug.

"Mr. Black, I can assure you we into my house. The pipes and taps experts might be at fault in their

are sorry to lose your genial pre- are in order, but I get no water. calculations, is to suggest the en A Promenade Concert is to be sence and the benefit of your ripe Can any of you tell me why ?"

He expected the children to see gagement of outside experts who held at the Volunteer Headquarters, counsel will indeed be missed by

next Friday commencing at 9.15 all. In conclusion, I would ask our that it was because he had not could examine the whole question pm. The Band of 2nd Batt. the worthy President to present you turned it on, but the boys looked with a fully detached mind and King's Own Scottish Borderers (by with a small souvenir from the puzzled. quite unbiased by ever changing kind permission of Major B. C. Hong Kong Football Association as "Can no one tell me what I have

Lake, D.5.0., Commanding, and the a token of esteem and a means of neglected ?" asked the teacher, or ever wavering local opinions. Officers) will play selected Items, perpetuating your association with Then, were that to be done, he would be free to express his own individual views on which set of experts is the more likely to be correct and which ought to be considered by the Government

in addition to those rendered by the Corps Band. A capital programme is assured.

football in Hong Kong.”

Association's Gift

The speeches were punctuated with

"I know," replied one boy at last.

"You haven't paid your water rate.”

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A very irritable old lady, whose applause and the "Symphonic chief pastime seemed to consist of

gramme of entertainment.

she re

It must ever be regarded as strange that an island with con- tinued water famines has no

Whilst on her way to attend the azz Gäng" lent spice to the pro-finding faults and lodging general complaints, approached the inspec- system installed for the use of

funeral of her daughter, yesterday, On behalf of the Hong Kong Foot tor of an electric tramway. sea water as a means of saving with whom the last word a Chinese woman was knocked down ball Association, Mr. Dyer presented] "Inspector!" she exclaimed, "I'm by a motor car on the Aberdeen a blackwood tray inlaid with silver sure there's something wrong! As invariably lies in the light of road. She sustained a broken leg designs emblematic of things Chin-1 stepped on that tramline, I'm present and public imperative and was taken to the Government ese to Mr. Black

sure I felt an electric shock, right up Civil. Hospital. The woman's A tribute from the Chinese "soc-one foot!" needs.

daughter died from shock through cer? Institutions of Hong Kong was "Are you certain, ma'am? said It may be an interesting specu-being scalded with boiling water on paid by Mr. H. K. Lee, after which the inspector.⠀⠀ lation

to consider how much Saturday morning.

Mr. Black was greeted with prolong- "Absolutely certain!” el applause on rising to reply.

plied. money the Colony would have

Mr. Black concluded by saying

"Then," replied the inspector, been saved this year alone in Special celebrations of the feast

"Gentlemen, I am very lucky; gravely, you must have inadver emergency measures if the salt of the "Seven Sisters" were held at don't deserve it," his speech being tently placed your other foot on the water scheme of 1921, estimated terday evenings. Tableaux depict football in Hong Kong, based Lee Garden, on Saturday and yes.

a detailed constructive review of overhead wire!” ing of sewers, and the washing to cost four million dollars, hading the legend were erected in the on his experience as a player] of streets. All they have been been proceeded with as a Garden and these attracted large during his residence from 1915 te able to place before the Govern means of conserving the supply crowds from early evening until 1920, and as an official from 1925

to 1929, 19 ment is a formidable array of of filtered rain water. But specus about 10,000 persons, including Club's Memento

lation of this kind cannot do some foreigners, witnessed the statistics with regard to estim-

On behalf of the Hong Kong Foot-ment aught but serve as a guide in celebrations each evening. ated expenditure on a sea water | stea

ball Club (which Mr. Dyer reminded The irreproachable catering was assaying the ultimate value of installation and in regard to the pot

the gathering is the home of foot part of a very enjoyable evening for any sea water scheme that might| Yesterday a Chinese sandalwood ball in Hong Kong), Mr. C. W. E convivial, and informal, gather estimated saying of filtered rain

[be recommended now or in the worker named Lo Kan, living at No. Bishop presented to Mr. Black a case ing, the menu being as follows. Water.

126. Second-street, West Point, was of pipes and a tobacco pouch with Black v. The Rest near future su

murdered whilst asleep. The tragedy his monogram engraved - thereun. Teain:-Hors d'Oeuvres

Now, after the advisability of

midnight. It is estimated that

Vice-President, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D. LA

Mr. Ormiston thanked those who had contributed to the entertain-

Snipe on

In a Sessional Paper issued last was discovered at 6:30 am, and Lo Mr. Bishop, inter alis, paid a exlogy Rodger Tomato Cream Soup by a sea water scheme for the pur year the Director of Public Kan had then been dead for some to Mr. Black's beroic performance in W. Blick Fillet of Fish per J

McCubbin, Tillet of Beef in Aspic roses mentioned, has been em Works stated that the quantity of time. He had a deep cut in his 1927 when he played full back for (McBride's Favourite), phasised for many years, a fresh filtered water

Weakness), Roast saved was estim-throat, and near at hand were a the H.K.F.C, under Mr. Bishop's Toast (Stewart's start has been made. Mesara ated at only 94.5 million gallons believed to have been

chon and chisel, which were leadership, to defeat the redoubtable Saddle of Lamb (Watson's Long Wong Kwong-tin and E. Butler per annum. Here, again, the murdered man

used on the 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Suit); Hall's Potatoes, May's Marrow, Fruit Engate by George, a man named Borderers in the 2nd round of the Dyer's Ice Cream, Bishop's Coffeer have prepared a scheme, which element of speculation comes in Yam

who shared Shield—and then to lose -nil to Reserves: James Port, Ormiston has been submitted to

Brandy Waite's Wine and Byron's meeting An outsider cannot say that this

was at Kowloon FC The motive After Mr. Black had replied Mr. Beer

Colours All Shades

Referco resent not ap Wodehouse paid him a tribute, Broadcaster, Linesmen: Rover and

speaking for himself and the other Short Head.

lodg

Tested of the Sanitary and Publicity startingly low estimate is or may the crim Sub Committee of the water be correct or may be pare guess- parent.