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The China Mail.

Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 15, 1932,

The Colony's. Water Supply.

attitude, by residents here. More concern will have to be shown and efforts to apply an immediate remedy should not be abated now that the danger for this year is past. The future of the Colony is affected, quite apart from the per-

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1932,

TRACES FOUND OF LYTTON REPORT IN

HANS BERTRAM.

Airmen Missing

Over Month.

TOOK TO BUSH.

Seaplane Found on N.W. Coast of Australia.

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AUGUST.

To Visit Japan, MASS OF DOCUMENTARY

EVIDENCE.

are available.

THE WEATHER PROPHET.

Mr. Jeffries Explains Typhoons.

FORECASTING SYSTEM.

Peking, Yesterday. The forecasting system at the Members of the Lytton Com- Observatory and an explanation of mission, which has been investi- typhoons, was given by Mr. C. W. gating conditions in Manchuria, Jeffries. F.R.A.S., Director of the Wyndham, Yesterday. this evening issued a statement Royal Observatory, at the weekly After nearly a month, word that their report will not be titin of the Rotary Club, held at has been received of Captain Hans written continuously and entire- Lane, Bertram and his three companions, ly in one place, but will be begun yesterday, under the chairmanship Crawford's Restaurant who were lost while attempting to in Tokyo, and completed at Pek- of the Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o, O.B.E., cross the Timor Sea on a flight to ing, where relevant documents LL.D. Australia,

The chairman welcomed Mr. R. His seaplane has been found near Lord Lytton, interviewed, de St. J. Braddell, President of the the Drysdale River Mission Station, clared that the Commission would Singapore Rotary Club, who lonely outpost in the North-West of go to Japan on June 22, depend-livered a short address on Rotary, de- Australia, together with a message ing on the arrival of Dr. Welling-stressing the atating that the airmen had gone ton Koo, Chinese Assessor, who meetings.

value of weekly into the bush,

will leave for Peking on Friday! On behalf of the Club, the Hon. An Australian Airways plane or Saturday. has left to search for them.-Reu- Lord Lytton said that the re- Jeffries for his interesting talk.

Mr. W. E, L. Shenton thanked Mr. ter.

port and conclusion would be de-

Modern Forecasting.. In Wildest Australia. pendent on final discussions re- Mr. Jeffries spoke of the founda. Captain Bertram was a well-garding them with the Japanese tion of modern weather forecasting known German aviator. Along Government: The report would as being the synoptic chart or with 3 companions he was engaged be published in Japan and China weather map. The wind direction in a flight from Germany to the simultaneously in the English arrows in the synoptic chart had East Indies, a month ago they set and French languages. out to cross the Timor sea and until

a tendency of flying from regions The Commission would endea of high barometer pressure to re- the discovery of their seaplane they your to get the report to the gions where it is low. across the had not been heard of.

League of Nations by the end of lines of equal pressure known as The district in which they landed August, but it might possibly not isobars. The practice of weather is regarded as the most desolate in reach it before the middle of forecasting depended mainly upon Australia, being rugged and rocky September, because an enormous conclusions derived empirically amount of documentary evidence from the study of synoptic weather must be assimilated.

He was of the opinion that as a Origin of Typhoons. DRAMATIC ESCAPE OF commendations contained in it, typhoons, Mr. Jeffries said that result of the report, and the re- Dealing with the origin of the League would probably any the older books stated that vigor- to the parties concerned: "Arejous convection of the air in tropi- you prepared to negotiate on the cal regions, aided by the earth's

Reuter. basis of this report."

rotation are jointly responsible for

and heavily timbered.

HAUSNER.

Sighted as Darkness

Was Falling.

AVIATOR EXHAUSTED AND BRUISED.

charts..

a spinal motion of the winds round a centre or vortex. Of late years much of this had been doubted,

PHILIPPINE ISLAND particularly the vortical nature of

JUDGE.

Mr. J. A. Ostrand

Returns to Manila.

MISHAP TO ARGYLL

the central region, much that is destructive had a written, and little that was constructive.

Local Effect.

London, Yesterday, The dramatic story of the res-

The Arst effect of a typhoon upon sonal and medical aspect, as the cue of Stanley Hausner, the New The lifting of the water restric-authorities will shortly have no by the steamer Circle Shell on ark airman, who was picked upj

Hong Kong, he said, is usually a tions will be hailed with great alternative but to prohibit im-Sunday, has been wirelessed by

spell of bright and hot weather. Judge J. A. Ostrand, one of the As the typhoon approached the satisfaction and residents will now migration and check expansion un- the captain of the steamer.

The Circle Shell is at present the Philippine Islands, was among storm's track may be gathered from members of the Supreme Court of clear sky becomes clouded, and a be compensated for the inconfess an adequate

first rough approximation of the water sup- In mid-Atlantic, and the message the passengera passing through the nature of the clouds. The pro- venience of the past few weeks. ply can be assured to the rapidly states that the aeroplane was Hong

It is a matter for congratulation increasing population. Formerly espied in the distance as dark- Coolidge.

Kong on the President

gress of a typhoon may be estimat- that the hardship entailed was not the reservoirs were sufficient for lowered into the rough sea and of the First Instance, he was later barometer.

ness was falling. A life boat was Formerly a judge of the Courted by observing the fall of the any greater and the welcome heavy the needs of the Colony, but the picked up Hausner who was ex- chosen to act at the Supreme Court

Storm Warnings, rainfall of the last few days, par-large development and growth of hausted, bruised and lacerated as on account of his great judicial

All information regarding the ticularly the phenomenal fall of the Colony has increased the popu- a result of his eight days of abilities. He is one of the oldest typhoon le passed to the public over 5 inches yesterday, was very iation

watery ordeal. effort no

American residents in the Islands, without delay. Storm warnings welcome. While only seven hours' been taken to effect a

He is now recovering.-Reuter, having spent the best part of his were the cause of much incon-

life there.

venience and loss of valuable. time water supply was permitted the ponding increase in the water sup

in the commercial activities of position was endurable even

if! ply.

News in Brief.

Hong Kong but they should be re- undesirable, but when the supply

garded as an insurance premium Accepting the position as it has

One case each of typhoid and

against possible disasters, and ac- was later reduced to only three boen for the past few years, it meningitis were notified to the

cepted as cheerfully as possible. hours per day personal discomfort cannot be said that the authorities M.O.H. on Monday. was not only caused but the health have shown much ingenuity in Cheung Chau-hung, a P.W.D. of the Colony was threatened. The coping with the shortages. This employee, sustained shock and in continuance of the drought and the year no action was taken until the juries, when he accidentally fell failure of typhoons which ap-reservoir levels were so low that

into the Tai Hang Nullah, and was

isept against the rocks. proached, but did not arrive, creat action was imperative. Then,

While driving a car along N than ed a gloomy situation which was restrictions were hastily imposed, The incessant heavy rain, caus-of the Argyll and Sutherland High- Road yesterday, Privato. A. Scott

saved only by the present excep- and the

ed a rack at Belchers Fort hillside landers, suddenly collapsed over hours were further tionally heavy rainfall. Now the shortened as the drought continu struck Ho Sam (23), a male, injur

to become dislodged. In falling. it

the wheel. position is assured, but satisfaced. If rain had not fallen as it ing his right leg. The man was tion should be tempered with re-ald further drastic restrictions working at the time. flection on the water problem in would have been necessary and re-

Falling from the top bunk, the Colony. There will be a ten-sort would probably have been height of seven feet, at 134, Apliu dency to accept the matter as made to the same methods employ. Street, an Apprentice painter, settled, but it should be remembered in 1929. Better foresight.could Kwong Wah Hospital in an un- Wong Po (18) was sent to the ed that the fortune which has be shown and the imposition of conscious condition. saved us this year may not always sudden and

severa restrictions"

PRIVATE.

Overcome by Exhaust Fumes.

The car stopped in the middle of the road, and he was found un- conscious, apparently overcome by the exhaust fumes,A Д

Hospital and regained conscious- He was removed to the Kowloon ness during the evening. His con- dition is not serious, ra

occur, and the Colony is still open could be avoided if a few precau- A woman, Ng Slu-heung (29). DECREASE IN SERIOUS

1929.

certain

living on the second floor of 91,

CRIME.

H.K. Police Report for 1931.

1

6 lust he handed a pair of gold tording to the Annual Report of baggles, valued at $300, to a man the Hong Kong Police, although the named Lau Kwok-chung with a kidnapping of children increased to view to selling it, The has since an alarming extent absconded withɛ the bangle, part of the

inca

to a recurrence of the shortage of tians were taken in the winter. Wuhu Street, Hunghom, was found The position should be wastage cannot be avoided. alto hanging from a typhoon shutter remedied, and at once. There has gether but much water could be with a rope coiled twice round her Seneck Suicide is suspected. The been too much apathy on the part saved in the winter it more cars body was removed to the mortuary of the residents and for that mat were observed. Water could ba ter, on the part of some officials conserved, if, during

Wong Wing-hing, a broker liv- and it is only when the shortage periods, or possibly all the winter, ing at 13, Sai Kung Street, lins re- Serious crime in the Colony show-

ported to the Police that on Juno ed a welcome reduction in becomes serious that any live in- the supply were cut off for a cer terest la evinced, 4 healthy,

ac-tain time at night. Little incon tive interest in any such public venience would be caused and the always aoslate in the necessity for severer measures in solution of the problem and the early Summer would be obvist manifestation of Tome feeling by ed residents would be attended by effective results. At the moment the local administration is await ing sanction of the Home authori tled in order to proceed with the Shing Man scheme. Indications have been given that the Colonial Secretary

mattor

gency of the question Kong, and

TARIFF REVISION IN JAPAN

New Measure Passed by Both Houses.

The Report ofthe Official Be ceiver for the year, 1991, shows that the {22%petiffons, were presented,

assets collected

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JUNE SESSIONS LIST.

Opens on Monday Next.

Ona murder charge appears on the June Criminal Sessions List, which commences at the Supreme - Court, next Monday.

2.

The list of cases is as follows:- Before the Chief Justice, (Sir Joseph Kemp)-Rex versus Cheung: Sau-fu, on two charges of deliver- ing letters demanding money with menaces, and Rex versus Cheung Sau-fu' on a charge of murder. »

Before the Pulsne Judge (Mr. Justice Wood)-Rex versus Chan: Chok, on a charge of arson.

SERIOUS TROUBLE IN

Tibetan Troops in Unprovoked Attack.

Nanking, Yesterday." Telegrams from Chingha

states that serious trouble has marred arisen in that province, as & re-

thesult of the Tibetan troops mak ing an allegedly, unprovoked at- tack on Chinese Territory

General Ma. Lin, Chairman of

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