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Hong Kong. Thursday, June 26, 1930,
Where Will It Fall?
"The axe is raised... "Where will it fall?
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1930.
The farmers of Swatow have, in SEQUEL TO MOTOR
a letter to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, lodged a strong protest against the use of foreign fertiliser.
LORRY SMASH.
Two Chinese boys, when brought Driver Admits Wanton before Mr. Whyte-Smith at
the
Kowloon Magistracy this morning and Furious Driving.
on a charge of fighting, declared In- that they were merely playing. spector Marks stated that both
threw stones at each other, which ended in a stand up fight. His Worship cautioned them.
SENTENCE DEFERRED,
"REDS" IN SPAIN.
| STRIKE ATTRIBUTED TO THEIR
INFLUENCE.
TROOPS NOT EMPLOYED.
Seville, Yesterday. There is a distinct improvement Fong Yee-chon, the driver of in the "strike''situation, which is Lal Kau (26), employed at the the motor lorry which figured in munistic origin. The Governor authoritatively ascribed to Com- South China Knitting Factory, 61 the alarming "accident on the does not intend to employ troops, Shantung Street, Kowloon, received Aberdeen Road early on Tuesday but the police have been instruct- Injury to his left arm yesterday
as result of it being accidentally morning, was produced before Mr.ed to maintain order and to pro-
tect willing workers.-Reuter. caught in the machinery of a steam R. E. Lindsell to-day charged on driver which he was tending at the two counts as under:--
factory. He was taken to Kowloon Hospital.
According to a circular
the
letter
read out at the monthly meeting of
(1) wanton and furious driving of the lorry, thereby causing bodily harm to 25 persons, at 7 a.m., on June 24; or
(2) reckless driving to the dan-
the Chinese General Chamber of ger of the public. Commerce yesterday, It would ap-
The accused admitted. the first pear that the stabilisation of the charge, but was not asked to plastre and franc in Saigon has plead with regard
to the other,
Traffle Inspector Alexander said that at the time of the accident
had disastrous effects on the rice which was an alternative charge. market. It also appears that rice merchants have suffered losses amounting to 2,000,000 plastres the larry was being driven past since the beginning of this year.
the Tai Hang distillery, Marks on a slight incline on the road Kiding in a motor bus goinghowed that for over 200 feet the from Shataukok to Fanling yoster- larry had swerved from side to day, a Chinese youth named Ip Fat side four times before it struck (18) played the senseless prank of the right hand side of a bridge putting his right arm out of the on the road and then toppled over window as the vehicle was passing on its side. The woc len supports another bus in Samchuen village. une iron railings of the bridge Ils arm was fractured through here brought down by the impact. ing caught by the front of the other bus, and he is now in the Kowloon When the lorry fell over, Hospital.
this
Pinned Under Vehicle.
[Serious disturbances arose as a result of a report that a factory girl had died following wounds received on Friday in the course of a collision be
A tween police and strikers. general strike was proclaimed, nails being scattered in the main streets in order to impede tric. The mobs stoned the tramears and forced them back the depots, the police charging on repeated occn- sions.]
to
FLYING.
LECTURE ON ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES.
AT V.D.C. HEADQUARTERS.
last evening, members
At the Volunteer Headquarters of the Hong Kong Flying Club heard an. 2interesting lecture on the elemen- people who were riding on it tary principles of flying, by were thrown out, some being pin- Squadron Leader S. Freeman. Holding that the evidence did ned under the overturned vehicle.
He said that if air flows past a If the Government should not wholly satisfy him. Mr. Whyte Three persons wero seriously in body it exerts a force on it, and decide to sacrifice the younger Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy jured, one of them more gravely the size and direction of the force morning, convicted and than the others. In view of this depends on the size and shape of men who have but recently joined cautioned a Hokle on a charge of be asked the Magistrate to sus the hedy and the velocity of the the Service in Hong Kong, and the theft of a jacket from 55 Pilkem pend sentence for one week na, if air flowing past it. The most retain the older ones whose Street.
It was stated by a foki ary one of the injured persons suitable shape for causing a re- powers have declined and who are that defendant took the jacket from died, the accused would have to action at right angles or nearly so, close to the pensionable age, it an iron hook behind the counter, face the more serious charge of to the wind. is not a flat plane but Altogether, there one of a tapered section--a body and, when chased, was, arrested in manslaughter. would be an injustice. This is not Parkes Street by P. C. Hemsley.
were at present 12 persons in hea of a shape which is called an aero- to say that all the young men are
pital, but nine are not in danger. foil (a plane wing). This aero- necessarily more efficient and
The Inspector added that after foil is thicker at the front edge "There is enough water for the accident it was found that the and tapers towards the back: edge, more vitally useful than their everybody at present. You should seniors, merely because they are not quarrel over it now," remarked chassis of the lorry was in good The air flows round an aerofoil of mechanical condition and the such a shape that it results in an youngstera. That would be a
Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon brakes in working order, so that increased pressure at the bottom basely illogical assertion.
Maglatracy this morning, when he
the Police were able to drive it and a reduction of pressure or It ordere an elderly Chinese lad to hould be remembered, however, pas $2 as compensation to a smaller that quite a large percentage of boy whom he struck on the side of His the men who joined the Service the head with a dipper. fifteen, twenty, thirty years;
Worship described the defendant's or attitude as cowardly and bound him more ago were not qualified en- over. Sergeant Feely stated that gineers or civil servants as we the younger boy had to have a understand the term nowadays. stitch put in. Some were not even properly educated beyond mathematics and possibly the principles of sanitation. A few
elementary
MME. A. CAROLA.
1
CONCERT.
Headquarters under its own
power.
Remand Granted, The Magistrate granted a week's remand.
suction on the top.
The angle between the aerofoi! and the air flow is known as the angle of incidence. As the angle of incidence increases, the lift component of the reaction in- creases.
The lorry in owned by the Les Hing Motor Transport Co., and chartered by the Fing On fish The wings which lift an aero- dealers of Aberdeen.
plane are designed so that when When inspected in the Police moved through the air horizon- compound this morning it was tally the force exerted on them seen that the only part which was by the air is as nearly vertical as badly smashed was the driver's possible, since it is this force that box, which was knocked clean off, lifts the weight of the aeroplane. seat and all. The wood on the
AIR FATALITY.
Chinese Instructor and Student Killed.
intact.
were little better than plumbers FAREWELL TEA DANCE AND eldes of the body of the lorry was or joiners. Yet, by the curious processes of the law of necessity, assisted possibly by the complica- tiona of the Great War, these men
i
Many friends gathered at a fare:
were promoted to high positions well tea-dance and concert held at while others, far younger
the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden per-yesterday in honour of Madame "Oh, woodman, spare that haps, yet often fully qualified, Anna Carola, who is leaving for
tree."
highly educated and with war ser- Home on Saturday, vice, were relegated to low posi- In the mualcal programme
(Old Rhyme).
Nobody knows, in fact. The axe may fall on you, should you
tions and low a, iaries.
COWARDLY MAN.
- BABY'S LIFE PLACED IN
JEOPARDY.
Canton, Yesterday.
A fatal accident occurred this morning, about 7.30, when 30 Avro-Avian 'plane from the Taishatau aerodrome, while flying several hundred feet above Shaho, in the north-eastern suburbs of Madame Carola was heard to ad- Before Mr. Whyte-Smith at the the city, was seen making two or vantage in two short ballads, whilst Kowloon Police Court, this morn- three spins, then nosing down If the Government were to re, Mr. Li Chor-chi showed a clearing, Chinese was charged with with terrific speed and striking happen to be a Civil Servant. sign a number of the older men diction and pleasing tone-production having assaulted a married the concrete portion of the Sam
a few years of in his songs, which included La women in Shanghai Street. He Man Heroes Cemetery.
Serenata (Tosti) and Serenata admitted the charge and said that: Immediately the petrol burst of its actions, is liable to be attaining their pensionable ages, (Toselli). Mr. H. S. Yung played he lived with her for a month in into flames, and Incinerated the erratic in the operation of Its re- it would save the Colony, on an the violin obligate with skill and March last year. She then ran two persons on board, almost bo- trenchment plans. What policy average, approximately $1,000 sympathy.
away and took with her some yond recognition.
For the Government, as in most
who are within
who
tinct success with a vocal item of
He did not see her till yester-In the vicinity of the accident was
shall dictate to the Government in per month per head. Their places Miss Daphne Leigh, scored a dis-clothing, which he had bought. An official who happened to ho this most difficult of tasks? Shall could be given to younger and the teen sehool, and Mr. S. B. the lamb be placed upon the sacri-more qualified men,
are Tan contributed a carefully-studied Scial altar, or shall it be the loyal able to do the jobs as well and violin solo. but aged sheep? The risk of in- frequently better than their Messrs. Longyear and W.
efficient Fleming made panista.
Madame Carola was later pre-
creasing salaries has to be met; seniors.
day when he demanded the return among the first to arrive at the of the clothing or the money spot. The plane was already en- which he had paid for the gar veloped in flames, and it becama time had her baby strapped on impossible for the bystanders to. struck her. The woman at the try to rescue the two men, who accomments.
She refused. and he were probably dead through the and it is not always he who calls There should be a process of
her back..
{fall before "they were consumed by His Worship regarded the de, the flames. the tune that pays the piper. weeding. The young men in any sented by her friends with a fendant's behaviour as disgrace- The Aviation Department was This feverish game of economical departments who are found, upon bouquet, and Mr. Fleming, in' a ful, and queried if it was
the immediately communicated with, see-saw is bound to throw some-a thorough enquiry, to be in-short speech, thanked the guests for custom in China that if a man and officers
were sent down to lived with a woman body off with a bump.
he was to Shaho to investigate the accident. efficient or otherwise undesirable, their attendante
Music for dancing' was supplied (buy the clothing, and that if the Let us take a single depart[should be resigned; but except by the Columbia
It is learned that the unfortunate Kolster Electric woman left he could claim it all victims were Mr. Chang Ai-tung, ment; for example, the Public for those in administrative or Gramophone, through the courtesy back
instructor, and Mr. Al Yang, The Interpreter replied in the student.Canton News Agency. Works. It is a worthy body, with directorial positions whose ser- of the Wo, Shing Co., Ltd.
negative. many worthy public servants em-vices are proved essential, all the ployed in essential labours. But elderly men should be pensioned there are several among its vari-off immediately. It may seem e DARING ARMED ROBBERY. ous staffs whose services could be hardship, but it is the penalty that| dispensed with without any great has to be paid for increased ex- disadvantage to the Colony, penditure. Even Government ser- broad daylight occurred. at 88, If these were to go, our roads vanta, cannot have jam on both Nathan Road, Kowloon, yesterday. would still be maintained up to sides, although some with a quita According to a report made to their present state of efficiency; unparalleled conception of their the Police by a Chinese named Wan Yau, he was alone in the the water supply schemes would value may seem to think that they house when a lock came on the SECRETARY OF SHANGHAI CLUB application in respect of a private continue; there would still be are entitled to it.
somebody capable of putting up
the bunting and the flags GN public occasions. Yet, just as there are men whose elimination would not be missed might even be an advantage in many ways so are there men the loss of whose vices would have a detrimental These latter are most-
News in Brief.
A laring armed robbery
in
The Magistrate held that the man might have killed the baby had the woman fallen backward, and sentenced him to three weeks" hard labour.
PISTOL TRAGEDY.
KILLED.
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China 'Mall," June 6, 1020.J
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The dollar is worth 8/7
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Loans to Home Builders. H'. "Owing to great pressure of work in the Secretariat, no
stair floor at about. 10.40 nm. |
residence has as yet been dealt. |with: We offer our sympathy to When he inquired who was there, a volco replied: "Mr. (a). Shanghai, Yesterday, the 23 applicants whose time and Wan please open the door." Mr. C. W. Marshall, the Secre- trouble has been wasted, and re Thinking it was a messen- tary of the Shanghal Club, was commend them to forget it. The ger, Wan opened the door, cleaning a pistol in his office this Government is not cager to lend whereupon two men, both armed afternoon when a report was heard, at five per cent, to private citi- A Chinese, who stole a red blanket with dangers rushed in. They A number of Club members in- zens. The risk is too great. It from a fellow countryman, who was bound and gagged him, placed a vestigating the sound, found Mr. prefers to lend the cheap money to sleeping on the pav
towel over his head, and pushed Marshallying on the floor, erious- the capitalists, to erect flats and Reclamation: Street Inst. was him on to a bed in the rear cubicle. ly wounded, with a bullet mark in hotels. That's the impression wa at the Kowloon Ma
this They then searched the fat and the region of the heart, A
get from the last Council meet- weeks decamped with jewellery worth He died shortly afterwardsing. We may be wrong. They..
megangkan segala ka say we often are.
ng sentenced to
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