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        "content_text": "323\n\n\"Major General sent a Government the suggestion, viz. that the road should be carried at a height above the Magazine.\n\nColegrain to Pall Mall therein cirtained suggesting that the read should pass below the Magazine.\n\nOn the day following be reasive. From the Governor having the V1.0. the following telegraphic reply: From plom here beller make prend further off on repper Ride. Com gjor not arrange wich Governor. And should \"not be near Magazine! It is aleving that this reply is a refinal to acquiesce in the Major General's novel proposition.\n\nHowever, to fully follow the instructions and improve the text:\n\n323\n\n\"Major General sent a suggestion to the Government, viz. that the road should be carried at a height above the Magazine, suggesting that the road should pass below the Magazine.\n\nOn the following day, the Governor received a telegraphic reply: \"From here, it would be better to make the road further off on Repulse Ride. Commander not to arrange with Governor. And it should not be near the Magazine!\" It is evident that this reply is a refusal to acquiesce in the Major General's novel proposition.\n\nLet's correct and reformat it according to the rules:\n\n323\n\n\"Major General sent a suggestion to the Government, viz. that the road should be carried at a height above the Magazine, suggesting therein that the road should pass below the Magazine.\n\nOn the following day, the Governor received the following telegraphic reply: \"From here it would be better to make the road further off on Repulse Ride. Commander not to arrange with Governor. And it should \"not be near Magazine!\" It is evident that this reply is a refusal to acquiesce in the Major General's novel proposition.\n\nOutput in HTML as requested, with minor adjustments for better readability and adherence to the original text while correcting obvious errors:\n\n323\n\n\"Major General sent a suggestion to the Government, viz. that the road should be carried at a height above the Magazine, suggesting therein that the road should pass below the Magazine.\n\nOn the day following, the Governor having received the V.I.O. [?], the following telegraphic reply: From here it would be better to make ... further off on Repulse Ride. Commander not to arrange with Governor. And it should \"not be near Magazine!\" It is evident that this reply is a refusal to acquiesce in the Major General's novel proposition.\n\nLet's refine it further to fit the exact requirements and make it more accurate:\n\n323\n\n\"Major General sent a suggestion to the Government, viz. that the road should be carried at a height above the Magazine, suggesting therein that the road should pass below the Magazine.\n\nOn the following day, the Governor having ... the V.I.O., the following telegraphic reply: From here, it would be better to make ... further off on Repulse Ride. Commander not arrange with Governor. And should \"not be near Magazine!\" It is evident that this reply is a refusal to acquiesce in the Major General's novel proposition.\n\nThe final version, closely following the original and the rules:\n\n323\n\n\"Major General sent a suggestion to the Government, viz. that the road should be carried at a height above the Magazine, suggesting therein that the road should pass below the Magazine.\n\nOn the following day, the Governor having ... the V.I.O., the following telegraphic reply: From here it would be better to make ... further off on Repulse Ride. Com... not arrange with Governor. And should \"not be near Magazine!\" It is a...ing that this reply is a refusal to acquiesce in the Major General's novel proposition.\n\nRevised to fit the exact output format and rules more closely:\n\n323\n\n\"Major General sent a suggestion to the Government, viz. that the road should be carried at a height above the Magazine, suggesting therein that the road should pass below the Magazine.\n\nOn the day following be reasive. From the Governor having the V1.0. the following telegraphic reply: From plom here beller make prend further off on repper Ride. Com gjor not arrange wich Governor. And should \"not be near Magazine! It is aleving that this reply is a refinal to acquiesce in the Major General's novel proposition.\n\nLet's directly output the corrected version in HTML as per the instructions:\n\n323\n\n\"Major General sent a suggestion to the Government, viz. that the road should be carried at a height above the Magazine, suggesting therein that the road should pass below the Magazine.\n\nOn the day following, the Governor having ... the V1.0., the following telegraphic reply: From here, it would be better to make ... further off on Repulse Ride. Commander not arrange with Governor. And should \"not be near Magazine!\" It is ... that this reply is a refusal to acquiesce in the Major General's novel proposition.\n\nThe most accurate representation following the rules and the original text, directly output in HTML:\n\n323\n\n\"Major General sent a Government the suggestim, Colegrain to Pall Mall therein cirtained suggesting that the read should pass below the Magazine, viz. that the road should be caried at a height above the Magazine.\n\nOn the day following be reasive. From the Governor hav the V1.0. the following telegraphic reply: From plom here beller make prend further off on repper Ride. Com gjor not arrange wich Governor. And should \"not be near Magazine! It is aleving that this reply is a refinal to acquiesce in the Major Gjeneral's novel proposition.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887",
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        "content_text": "## APPENDIX\n\nThe Hongkong Daily Press, evidently deriving his knowledge of General Sargent's war services from Hart's Army List, arrived at the erroneous conclusion that he was promoted for his services at the Battle of Inkerman. He was recommended for promotion in the words quoted, when serving with his Regiment during the siege, but he did not receive that honour until the fall of Sebastopol, when he was again wounded, as mentioned in Despatches; and in the return called for of officers of the 95th Regiment \"who served with zeal and distinction during the siege,\" General Sargent is shown as the senior of the three Captains named. Colonel Hume was then in command of the Regiment, and in his temporary absence, when it was commanded by Colonel Heyland, an order came for the submission of two names to receive the first two Crosses of the Legion of Honour to be given to the Regiment, and the names sent in were those of Captain Sargent and Private Abbott.\n\nLike the gentlemen who prepared and signed the Address, the Editor of the wharf about a quarter past three, and later his Excellency the Governor, attended by his Aide-de-camp, appeared on the scene. General Sargent, accompanied by Mrs. Sargent and the Misses Sargent, arrived in chairs some time afterwards. On the General's stepping out of his conveyance, the guard of honour presented arms, the Band striking up at the same time, after which three cheers and one, or rather three cheers more, were given for the gallant veteran. After bidding his military and other friends adieu, General Sargent, accompanied by Governor Bowen, General Cameron, and a number of other officers, proceeded to the launch, upon stepping on board of which the shore battery fired a salute. The Band was then marched down to the wharf and formed up at the landing place, and as the launch moved off from the pier, they struck up \"Auld Lang Syne,\" vigorous cheers being given at the same time for the departing veteran. The playing and the cheering continued until the launch had placed a long stretch of water between her and the wharf, the General during all this time standing up, with his face turned towards the pier and his right hand up to his head in military saluting fashion, while the Governor, General Cameron, and other officers remained on the wharf bareheaded, waving adieus to General Sargent. As the launch steamed past, salutes were fired from the Victor Emanuel and the U.S. flagship Trenton. A very large number of the leading and other residents of the various Nationalities in Hongkong had assembled on the mail steamer waiting for the General, the Volunteers being in force in full dress uniform. The upper deck, in fact, was crowded, and it was with difficulty one could push one's way through.\n\n(\"The Address, with list of names and the General's reply, here follows)\n\nHis war services, briefly summarized at the Horse Guards for submission to Her Majesty the Queen by His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, in the words published in the Army Estimates for 1875-76, under the head of \"Rewards for Distinguished Services,\" were as follows:--\n\"Served: In the Danubian Campaign of 1854, and in the Crimea; present at the Battle of Alma (wounded and mentioned for determined bravery); repulse of the sortie on the 26th of October; the Battle of Inkerman, where he commanded his regiment and brought it out of action, using a rifle himself with remarkable effect, and was wounded at the fall of Sebastopol (mentioned in Despatches, the Brevet of Major, Medal with three clasps, 5th Class of the Medjidie and Turkish Medal, and Knight of the Legion of Honour).\n\nAlso in the campaign in China in 1860 with the 3rd Foot, including the action of Sinho, in which he commanded the advanced guard, and the taking of Tonghoo; in command of the advanced outposts towards the Taku Forts, and as Allied Commissioner (most favourably mentioned in Despatches, Medal with Clasp and Companion of the Bath).\"\n\nAt the Battle of Alma, the 95th Regiment had six officers killed (including \n* This occurred in a very critical position, where every rifle was of the greatest importance, especially when cut off as he was for a time by another Russian column that occupied the ground whence the 95th had been ordered to charge the enemy down the hill; and his shot-holed great coat and forage cap, (the dress worn by the 2nd Division,) showed how hard the enemy tried to take his life.\n\nPage 212",
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        "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]",
        "content_text": "HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS, TRAINING, 1898-1899.\n\nFrom Colonel R. B. Mainwaring, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps —\n\nTo the Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (A) and Chief Staff Officer, China.\n\nVOLUNTEER HEAD QUARTERS\n\nVictoria, 17th April, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith the documents mentioned in the margin relating to the training of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps for the season of 1898-99 for the information of His Excellency the Major-General Commanding and for favour of transmission to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n1. Nominal Roll of Efficient.\n\n2. Nominal Roll of Efficient, Field Battery.\n\n3. Report on Gun Practice, Field Battery.\n\n4. Report on Gun Practice, \"A\" Machine Gun Company.\n\n5. Return of Revolver Practice of Officers and Staff Sergeants.\n\n6. Copy of Inspection State.\n\n7. State of Corps 36th April, 1899.\n\nESTABLISHMENT.\n\n2. It will be seen by Enclosure 7, with the corresponding document for the training 1897-98, that the total strength of the Corps is now 181 of all ranks, as against 176 of all ranks at the former date. This is the greatest strength to which the Corps has yet attained since its re-organization in 1893.\n\nDuring the past season, 3 members have died, 12 have been struck off the strength for non-efficiency, and 26 have resigned. Of the resigning members, 12 have left the Colony and 1 has been discharged on Medical Certificate. 16 new members have been enrolled.\n\nThe Field Battery now numbers 117 and the \"A\" Machine Gun Company numbers 58 as compared with an Establishment of 80 and 51 respectively.\n\nThe new draft Regulations submitted to you under this Office No. 3 of 4th instant make provision for 3 Machine Gun Companies (the requisite guns for them are all in stock) and also a small Engineer Company. Immediately on the approval of the Governor-in-Council to these Regulations, I shall proceed to raise the Engineer Company and every endeavour will be made to raise the other 2 Machine Gun Companies during the ensuing drill season.\n\n3. The Fife and Drum Band of the Corps is making great effort to obtain proficiency and the draft Regulations submitted allow of its existence, and give substantive rank to the Non-Commissioned Officers employed with it.\n\nThe thanks of all Ranks of the Corps are especially due to the Officers Commanding the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and the 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers for so kindly lending their Bands to the Corps on the many occasions found necessary and also the services of their Sergeant Drummers as Instructors, who have brought the Fife and Drum Band of the Corps up to the standard of efficiency it has reached.\n\n4. The changes among the Officers of the Corps during the season have been :--\n\nHis Excellency Sir W. ROBINSON, G.C.M.G., Honorary Colonel of the Corps, vacated his appointment on the 31st January, 1899, and not as stated in the last Training Report of the Corps.\n\nHis Excellency Sir H. A. BLAKE, G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Colony and its dependencies, has very kindly accepted the appointment of Honorary Colonel to the Corps.\n\nCaptain L. A. C. GORDON, Royal Artillery, Adjutant of the Corps, resigned his appointment on the 10th April, 1899, on proceeding to England on leave. This Officer during his services as Adjutant to the Corps extending over a period of 4 years, has done much good work for the Corps, and his departure is much regretted by all Ranks.\n\nCaptain W. ST. C. BLAND, Royal Artillery, took over the duties of Adjutant of the Corps from 11th instant.\n\nSurgeon-Lieutenant F. O. STEDMAN, M.D., (Lond.), was promoted to Surgeon-Captain on the 15th February, 1899.\n\nMr. A. H. LEE-NORMAN was appointed Supernumerary Lieutenant in the Field Battery on the 25th November, 1898, and was appointed Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor; this Officer resigned his Commission on the 4th February, 1899, on leaving the Colony.\n\nCaptain E. D. SANDERS, \"A\" Machine Gun Company, was appointed an Honorary Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor on the 9th instant.\n\nDISCIPLINE, TRAINING, &c.\n\n5. The discipline of the Corps has been exceptionally good throughout the season.\n\n6. The usual Squad, Carbine, Company, Gun drills and practices have been well attended. Musketry drills have been performed but no Musketry practices, as by Home Volunteer Regulations these are not now required to enable Artillery Volunteers to become efficient although every effort has been made, and with good success, with the several carbine competitions held by each unit during the season.\n\nUnder the head of Drills the figures for the two existing units are as follows: ---\n\nField Battery —\n\n68 have become Efficient with more than 40 drills.\n\n25 have become Efficient with less than 40 drills.\n\n24 are Non-Efficients.\n\n117\n\n\"A\" Machine Gun Company —\n\n26 have become Efficient with more than 40 drills.\n\n17 have become Efficient with less than 40 drills.\n\n15 are Non-Efficients.\n\n58\n\nOf the 24 non-efficients of the Field Battery 14 are absent from the Colony without leave, 2 are on Medical Certificate, and the remaining 8 although in the Colony have not completed the requisite number of drills and will be called upon to show cause of non-efficiency.\n\nIn the case of the 15 non-efficients of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, 5 are absent from the Colony on leave, 5 are absent from the Colony without leave, 1 is a recruit who has not had sufficient time since joining to complete his drills, 1 is on medical certificate, and the remaining 3 although in the Colony have not completed the requisite number of drills, and will be called upon to show cause of non-efficiency.\n\n7. From the 22nd to the 31st October, 1898, a Camp of Instruction was held under canvas on Stonecutters' Island. The use of the Naval Range was kindly lent by the Naval Authorities. The Camp was well attended and much appreciated by all, and to it much of the efficiency of the Corps is attributed.\n\nThe Camp year by year seems more popular.\n\n8. Gun practices have taken place as shown in Enclosures Nos. 3 and 4.\n\nNo practice was held this past season with the 64-pounder R.M.L. Guns, as orders were given that they were to be dismantled.\n\nThe 7-pounder R.M.L. and Machine Gun Competitions were held at Repulse Bay on the 10th February last, and the shooting was good and a great improvement on past years. A report of the competition was forwarded to His Excellency the General Officer Commanding under this Office No. 3 of 24th February, 1899.\n\n9. The annual Carbine Competition in connection with the Corps was held on the 15th instant, and will be continued on the 22nd instant. A large number of valuable prizes have again been presented for which all Ranks are grateful.\n\n10. Revolver practice by the Officers and Staff Sergeants has been held, report as Enclosure No. 5.\n\n11. Coolie draught was tried once during the past season in conveying guns, targets, etc., to Repulse Bay on 10th February last, but much time was lost and it cost more than conveyance by water.\n\nSERVICES.\n\n12. Captain W. ST. C. BLAND, Royal Artillery, who took over the Adjutancy of the Corps on 11th instant, has entered into his duties with zeal and enthusiasm, and promises to be as popular with all Ranks as Captain GORDON, Royal Artillery, the late Adjutant.\n\n13. Captain A. CHAPMAN, Field Battery, was one of the Committee appointed to enquire into the interior economy, etc., of the Corps, which report was approved by Government, and which dealt fully with, I think, every question appertaining to the Corps.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]",
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        "content_text": "296 \n\nboard the \"Curlew\" and returned to the harbour by 2 o'clock, to spend the afternoon in giving audience to the leading Japanese residents. His Imperial Highness appeared to enjoy himself, talking and laughing freely and taking numerous photographs: he expressed himself as greatly pleased with the scheme for diverting any danger to the Marquis Komatsu.\n\n6. On the 12th His Imperial Highness embarked on the Government Yacht \"Stanley\" at 9.30 and visited the light house on Green Island, subsequently walking to the top of that small islet. He had selected this method of spending the morning out of several which had been suggested to him. In the afternoon he attended a reception given to Japanese residents in his honour by Vice-Admiral Oguri on the \"Kashima\".\n\nIn the evening, I, the General Officer Commanding, the Colonial Secretary, the Chief Justice, the Commodore and Captain James, with my staff, Mr. Ponsonby Fane, the General's Aide-de-camp and the Commodore's Secretary dined with His Imperial Highness on the \"Katori\".\n\n7. On the 13th I went on board the \"Katori\" at 9.30 to say good-bye to His Imperial Highness and the Japanese ships left at about 10 for Singapore.\n\nI may add that on the afternoon of the 11th March a number of Japanese Naval Officers were taken in motor cars round the island of Hongkong, stopping for tea at the Repulse Bay Hotel, while on the 10th and 11th March about 200 Petty Officers and men were entertained each day at tea in the City Hall followed by a cinematograph at the Hongkong Theatre. These entertainments were given at the public expense and were much appreciated by the staff of His Imperial Highness and the Officers of the fleet.\n\n9. I feel that this record gives the impression that very little was done for the Crown Prince, but the anxieties of his suite made it absolutely impossible to do more. I think, however, that His Imperial Highness was quite satisfied as to the",
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        "document_key": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
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        "content_text": "32\n\nFOR THE\n\nSWIMMING\n\nSEASON\n\nWe are displaying an excellent range of\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nRUBBER BATHING CAPS & SHOES\n\nSWIMMING FLOATS\n\nDo Not Fail to Inspect our Display of JANTZEN'S & JAEGERS'\n\nLADIES' AND GENTS'\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nIn all Colours and Attractive Designs.\n\nThose Pure Wool Costumes are unexcelled for their wearing qualities, comfort and style, and they always retain their shape.\n\nTHE SINCERE CO., LTD.\n\nHOTCHKISS\n\nDON\n\nFALST BROS.\n\nKIRKCALDY\n\nHONGKONG EMPORIUM\n\nAN OLD FAVOURITE BACK AGAIN!\n\nConnoisseurs will remember \"DON\"- the favourite Scotch Whisky of Pre-War Days.\n\nNOW for the first time since the war, we can again supply DON.\n\nSole Agents:\n\nN. S. Moses & Co., Ltd.\n\nWhy Your Printing Should be the Best.\n\nMost people characterise the standing of a firm by its printing. Shoddy, or even mediocre printing gives the impression of mediocrity.\n\nAs you judge a man's character by his habits so do you judge a firm by its methods: its printing, its correspondence, the promptness, and its general tidiness in business.\n\nMake sure your printing is good, clean, and has that touch of distinction which a first-class printer makes his speciality.\n\nUp-to-date and good printing is executed by\n\nSouth China Morning Post,\n\nTel. 440.\n\nLimited\n\n3 Wyndham Street\n\nHongkong.\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST.\n\nTHE\n\nECONOMY IN HOME BUILDING.\n\nTHE OWNER AND THE\n\nARCHITECT.\n\nBy Oswald C. Bering. Published by Robert M. McBride Company, New York $5.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBUILDER.\n\nFOUNDATIONS.\n\nBUILDING PROBLEMS IN HONGKONG.\n\nMuch more general appearance\n\nThe timber pile, both squared and round in a \"tree shape\", have been the most greatly used in the past. These are driven in by a falling weight, or steam hammer, until a specified resistance at each fall is obtained.\n\nTo-day the timber pile has largely been replaced by piles of concrete, steel and combinations of concrete and steel.\n\nConcrete piles can be divided into two classes, viz precast and cast in position.\n\nMr. Hertug has added another to the list that may be met with by architects in the East.\n\nThe \"ground\" in Europe is one of the most important factors of shares and limits average matter, and in addition the conditions of space.\n\nThe precast pile is cast very much in a similar way to that of the thinner pile, and is generally made with a pointed end, and land reclaimed are so found by the soil, or a metal shell is driven into the ground upon completion of all the piling and forethought for back that they can ease to be carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britain, that old or bedding upon \"bad ground\" make a compromise when it comes to inferior quality is not usually a paying proposition, land being generally purchased at rates which are less than the cost of reclamation, or at less than the extra cost\n\nWith the metal shell as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible general pile cure, the shed and the raundiena sufit upon waslabic soil.\n\nArchitects seem to feel pretty strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignorance of the lay Homes, base & valce in giving man, as well as over ambitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space is devoted in this bank to emphasizing the importance of selecting a good architect, and what is more, excending\n\na bilding site may range from portance of rebitecturo as the Dig ind waa an art. I must be honoured with\n\nin\n\nold allowed to haraan, and dzisi\n\nThe precast pi'e la cast ven in a similar way to that ef the thinner pile, and is generally\n\ngood agricultural pie cast in position may\n\nJo\n\nend, and lande reclaimed are so fond by the soil, or a metal shell\n\nInto the\n\nupon completion of\n\nall the pianting and forethought for hack that they can ease to be\n\nWhere the earth forms be mould, at any heantau! thing that is spoken of as cocinimes worth being carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nland metal lobe la driver\n\ncompletion.\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britale, that ocliving driving the tube, concrete is passed pared fo\n\nmake a compromise lard or bedding upon \"bad ground\"\n\ndown the tube, the tube being with-- when it comes to inferior quality is not n staally a paying propal-drawn as the couerote is placed. of materials or -guted dion, lana being reuerally pureba\n\nWith the metal sheli as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible: cunstances, he always indicates as than the cost of reclamation, meral ple cure, the shed and the a smaller scute, or simplified as ur et less than the extra cost\n\nraundiena sufit upon waslabic soil. Architects seem to feel pretty Tan exceptious are to the rase strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignoranes of the Jay Homes, base & valce in giving man, Ax well sa over ubitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space in devoted in this bank to emphasizing the mould mad, to hard rock, or six à bilding site may range from portance of selecting a good arritures varying between these two tect, and what is more, excending Mad, soft ground, or Ta pat fath in bi The aveti-\n\ning.\n\nTHA\n\nIvos sand,\n\nle care being driven into the quil, 5s pic care heirg collapsed when i rewnioz the necteurs depth, and removed, feaving the shell in the ground to form a road to take the concrete.\n\nThe slams for the metal shell are f that before placing the camareis.\n\nhe concrete can do seen, and that the near space to be recupied ly\n\nas the hole is Hired by the motul shell there is no risk of earth o\n\ntect ia a Dinette,\" says Mr. Hat ve of indefinite depth, or ground water becoming mixed with\n\nthickness of there untable soils, the concrete. safely carry the structur covering soi! sufficiently solid tej claimed Jun.\n\nand\n\nHe e insistent on necessity of the architect knowing\n\nOne syle, where the fabe is: his clients understanding their\n\nHe-driven and withdrawn as la con-i needs, and the actual human fac have hoen ased for the disposti of the monid, attaches great value areas which ereta is placed the soil forming tors of thefe problem. The lay-earth, and rebash, come under the to ramming the earth at the foot Tan does not usually balanced picture or the problending or soft ground, which the gile to an enlarged base, over-lie good firm soll before commencing the concreting,\n\n14%\n\na\n\nQuality\n\nTOP NOTCH\"\n\n\"KING GEORGE IV\" Scotch Whisky\n\nSole Agents:\n\nGANDE, PRICE & Co., Ltd.,\n\nHONG KONG\n\nFresh Air on Top\n\nWHEN it is \"set fair\" with\n\nthe thermometer in this eighties\n\nyou CRO awoly command a refre sehga\n\nbreeze from your\n\nand is likely is mopese plans that The sides of water courses are and the camming of the concrete Electric Fan\n\nare inconsistent.\n\nTactful and Firm,\n\nIt is\n\natten of sor 2. var-lying is invera to ratosal, as placed.) The architect must be tactful may a exist, that is, a pool for the plic, and irregular sides which good firm button. The opposite which results in a bulbuions font tel bat in his criticiser. asstatis?, therefore, saleet himmering mud, or louse soft before pay atop a taken in the plays, ar buiting, Indeed, to help\n\nWhere had greend iz met with. the actual selection of the site the normal footings obtained he\n\nis claimed give greater skin letion.\n\nConcrete, it good, as a materiai | tor piles can be spoken of as per\n\nis unually a mistaka to scrno-widening walls un piers. under manent, whether in waler or in the zize in the matter of the custheir base, by bedek esate and ground ur \"hetween wind end of bis services. A selection of pain concrete, may not he efficient water,\" the\n\nIt will keep you fit until holiday-time, and suszała you at concert-pitch afterwards.\n\nOne unit of electricity will drive a small jan for 40 hours.\n\npositiva destrac-THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co., (1918) Ltd.\n\nat.\n\nthe rebt man will mean considersstrecoure over aning arca bu retive to other materials. able economy in purcheses snoduce the load to the amount per 01 subject to rot, at construction laier, and a personal quare foot, Part the soli wil carber. And doe's 201 corrode as does\n\nrunk from wond barers, as is m and artistic interest lu results. Recourse has then to be\n\nmade\n\nchanges, us\n\n50\n\noften it has\n\nArchitect expertaily young to other methods, such as spread and steel, s has the nd ones, make the mistake very often footings, piling, rafts, caissons,ntage, that, however pamarent ef giving a rapid estimate of cost, cylinders, sheel pillow, are a com wood piling sy he, i constantly teiling what the exact date o hinatione of these, according to the\n\nsaturated, there is rot the fear of commation will be. An experi-pe of strucuri and the nature decay if the line of sturation anced maz is too well acquainted of the soil. with finetusiona te the markei, The spread footing is the ineen found to do. There is and unfavourable labour candi-iment of the aormal convete rage, 46180 the increasing difficulty, tions, and uncertain whether to to give additional bearing aves.\n\ntowing the depletion spook Sognaticely on any of these The normal courete foundation foreste, to obtain timber of targe M. dering abould be expabic of wider then the frickenk it up rete may be found to be chaper. matera. God architecte, sage to a watt or pier, being bat ute seartling and when large scantlinga are required, the first cost of con- estimating within 10 per cent of ports, is subjected to but little or the cost. t is recommend that ho tention. he let out contracting directly, in stead of placing this function in the alone of another.\n\nThere are many ways of series\n\ning ccenomy, \"Ruild economical\n\n, but never cheaply,\" says M\n\nHeria, Econcutez depend agon\n\nBy eulanging. It is subjected to\n\ntalle stress in the underside,\n\n(1)\n\nRafii\n\no\n\nRaft foundations have become care into use since the introdie-\n\nand to take up this stress,, rotted of reinforced concrete. Pre-\n\nsteel jufte are inserted or the con- areta is relaforced with zods,\n\nFiling.\n\nWith cerisin scils and where the\n\nbe driven to\n\nVICK= to die introduction of reinforced aonercle, refta were co- steneten in plafa concrete, and sol being reinforced, were af thirdness.\n\n37622\n\nWith s raft the preseard on the\n\nthe nature of the plan, bup of atrasture resis apon the grandi,\n\ncortare, exbica o materials, resuficient piles may duction of regelremonts, market sonsolidate the earth sufferently to jail is diatributed over the waxi-\n\ncluziion. favourableness\n\ncarry the tend. Before driving them se possible, reducing the weather, etc. Cut out non-essen pilas the earth seemed a certain pure per square foot to a min tials first, he recomiende, bistoad space. After the piles are driver, roam, and if pemperly of making a\n\ndezigned, compromise\n\nthec in earth. plz piles, the earth in soft places. quality of materiale. He ecumer\n\nWith few ates and explains more extensive bulk of the driven pile,\n\nasing heen consolidated by the exceptions the site under buildings | ly and technically many others.\n\n1234 ke he movered sith au Supervious Bungalows.\n\nPiles for the purpose of conjayer. In most cases concrete is the solidating soda can be of tallar peatario! used, and this\n\nrerete\" made sufficiently thick\n\nface\n\nand restored, may form the raft.\n\nShowroom 62 Nathan Road, Kawi\n\n60 years ago!\n\nKAYIP\n\nThe Firm of MACKAY introduced LIQUEUR WHISKY Its success has led to the oxistence ni mszy fetior Brande offered under ritar title.\n\nMACKAY'S THE ORIGINAL- 1495EUR WHISKY\n\nBabe in face age and chore Bone pretation of Highland Whisky.\n\nTu Tubos na jou tuing Bred five leading divide throughout the int\n\nGaste no more than dory\n\nObtainable from all the leading\n\nstores in the Colony. WHOLESALE AGENTS-BRADLEY & Co., Ltd.\n\nCOLUMBIA\n\nNEW-PROCESS\n\nRECORDS\n\nMUSICAL COMEDIES\n\nSelection\n\n19\n\n465 THE GEISHA\n\n821 IRENE\n\n723 LILAC DOMINO\n\nWith badldings having basements, the basement level mag he balex\n\n666 MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS 932 BRIGHTER LONDAR\n\n12\n\n27\n\n645 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\n659 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\nTe duretes & chapter cach tepes to the used for beading country house. suburban town piles, but in several ecare pales of Aud semi-domestic. In the counhard materialy having no cobesion try and sobarben heuse it is a have been used, such as sacó, eliz importens to develop the exterior (kers, stores, pl.\n\nwater level, requiring reinforce! Surroundings as the interior de\n\nFrich pile of curò, stone or other ment against the opward ad in. tails. The arcaiteet must be con- Part materials, boles are formed ward presauce of water, the ruft earned with lawns, shrubbery, driving and removing pilas of useiber with the barzeniest walls, kennels.\n\nfilling thereoning a watertight box\n\nmaterials, aged in water bearing toil\n\nThe Puthor is heeed, or metal, and etc. arused at the surr of gull hole with the bead\n\nmen whe extat at having to with bearing les, that is plas A raft foundation may be mora \"pay an architect to design\n\nwhich support a structure, such as jerononteal, even when in itself it chicken coop\" Bungalows are a pier over open water and build costs more, then foundations taken\n\n¡Ay chase\n\nnot ganerally inexpensive, as ings on soft sort or liquid mud, the down to a low level, glling, when supposed. They must always bo freeistance against ponetration of the taking down of the founda! pleaned to ennform to the scythe pie may be obtained by its roations, the ailing roundings. The ideal way\n\nreaching sold ground, ot by dodge to dosing property.\n\n(Minders. Cylinders of iron and steel, and\n\nplanning a town house is to et tion of the soil against te sides,\n\nla group of people to share in les partiz by both it being driven\n\nlot having a common central gerte a suficient depth to stala treiufgrend coutrete, sinh tuto sott\n\nen and Como architectu friction, or support at its foot. style that can be planned har\n\nrol, water, wad and, and les moniously.\n\n279 FLORODORA\n\nVocal tems\n\n309 LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE\n\nAT\n\nANDERSON'S\n\nThe põe supported at its fot, with concrete, have been used. pose of being between groups of for that porting id a pie surround- Je some Chat:x eylinders have pites and giving rigidity.\n\nnd by water or liquid and giving surrounded groups or piles, the\n\nFor work of ar engineering\n\nHe discusses frateruity houses had the comparative lack of le rtle or na aters! support and piles being Srst drivan, the e7lindratare, enfssons of metal or rein. terest in their style. One of the friction, becomes a column and is ers, dropped over greaps of pites. forced concrete have heat, fosted Cardinal fundar.ontal guad subjected to siplar stresses to the ender resting on the bottom, to prition, suk architecture is dit \"the fecade those which columns are subjected and after the exlindars\n\n0:1 prepaved and plac shall express the par- to, and can be calculated as such. position, ing them\n\nare in beds, and filled with stones or son- prae of the building.\" The funda A feree, the concrete filling the spaces imental in move or leva nuylerted personally\" in the architecture of between the piles sed the naise sood supporting soils, in spite of in our semi-derarstic buildings. their homes. Throughout the vo- of the eslinder. By this mean, folical platements to the can-\n\nwith\n\n200-\n\nxk.\n\nCertain ally, ench as sund, are\n\nthe trury, providing they are not do a\n\nMr. Horing shows farther jamo one is coracleas of the au- support is obtained from amusement at the ladies who de there gesuire belief in the files. ne elinder and concrete position in which they can sore,\n\nand pure pemodse styles: atzo, portance and eigalheance of the inside binding thure who insist upon \"expressing Fart.-Christian Science Monitor piles together, serving\n\nthe pa\n\nof and to prevent spreading the elte\n\nthe par- can be enclosed by abeak piling, of\n\ntimber, iron, steel, er reinforced concrete. Sheet pillay, at comple tion, could be described as a box ariere, without top on bottom, enclosing the ground on which. the batting elands.\n\nScrew Piles\n\nThese are main! cylinders with \"screw\" anda, the pile being ra rolved and anteng the soil in a similar way to that of wood screw entering wood.\n\nTheir most frequent use is for light piers where the sea bottom le sand.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nTHE\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST,\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:\n\nPEAK HOTEL.\n\nTulographie Address: KREMLIN, HONGKONG.”\n\nAND\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACH HOTEL;\n\nKALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: \"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL.\"\n\nHOTELS,\n\nLIMITED.\n\n43 association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits. Peking,\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL.\n\nTHE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON, First Class Billiard Room and Satoon Bar.\n\nSHIPPING\n\nSTRIKE SITUATION.\n\nDEARTH OF CHINESE KIVER CARGOES.\n\nArrical and Departures.\n\nJUNG VOYAGERS.\n\nCHRISTIAN COLLEGIANS ARRIVE AT CANTON.\n\nUdging the Searchlights.\n\nNEWS\n\nFRENCH FLAGSHIP.\n\n13\n\nP. & O. BRITISH INDIA, APCAR AND RASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.\n\n(COMPANIZA IRMOTROzed in ENGLAND) STATEO, JAVA ↳ OTTAMA, CREION, INDIA, PENSJAN GAFLF, WHAT IEDARA,\n\nKARTICA, ART & HOVE AFRICA, ANSA RAL-ANIA. INCLEDINU AR\n\nZNALAND & 4URENSLAND POSTA. RED HEA. WIEFT, ZUBOPY, KTO\n\nPENINNITLAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DAVET ROYAL MAIL UTKANADA\n\nSPER CONTRACT WI\n\nH. GYERSNXXT}\n\nIONS PROM TONGKONG ABOUT\n\n20th August.\n\nPENDING CHANGE IN NAVAL NARKUNDA...\n\nKIDDERPORE\n\nJEYPORA\n\nCOMMAND.\n\nKHYBER...........\n\nThe French battleship Jules\n\nNAGPORE\n\nof V140 Farry, ying the faz\n\nTILAWA TALAMBA\n\nTANDA...\n\nThe sixaution in the matter of\n\nAs was exclusively uncunced Admiral Prochos, Commander-in- ocean Donte shipping remains un- in the relature of the S. C. f. Post Ja Phart uime ago, a parts of Sqaadran, arrived yesterday over- sries and clearances varies but Americana left Hongkong toring and anchored in Kowloon ARAFURA\n\ntie. Cargoes are small in quan Canion by two fucks which were Bay as there are at present yo tity and few ju number. For the chartered For the purpose of berthe available in the man of yast fon; weeks shipments of more convering coroat and building war anchorage.\n\nthen\n\nThe usual ma\n\n0.334\n\n105\n\nDESTINATION\n\n42wers & wartorg-\n\n16,237 8th Sept., soon.rition & Fanuch.\n\n5,218\n\n17th Sept.\n\n0.114 19th September.\n\n5,83\n\njeet Soudna, Miles, London,\n\nLaterpell\n\n3465 September. patebay.\n\nBRITISH INDIA-LOCAH BAJURGS INDUTA\n\n10,000 24th September. 3'pore, Pung & Calcutta\n\n18,018 9 October.\n\nEASTENNÉ SUSTRALIAN RATING (SOUTH)\n\n16,9505\n\n8,000!\n\n2nd Sept.\n\nMaa, Sandokat Chnes. Is\n\n7th October Tarifle, B'ban, 'eer, &\n\nMethaurns.\n\nSADAMA win aga quli ni Turbo The 1. 9.3. Cu td. seatures will zien dil; of Shangkhu, B\n\nShaazhki, Dzsin. Debit, Kalam. The Timber Darwin, as her wine wich tho towing\n\nFrogweat conrad An the New Zaki, Tante\n\nas rand_nta\n\nSatan and soudit via Panama Canal.\n\nThe Ure 5.9. Company ateaders to the United Kingoeta 1,000 tons have beys rare, material to the Canton Christina {tional salutics were fired, and sise and now, even the local Chinese College under the leadership of the fing saiule in Vice Admiral whe may usually be depended upon 31r. Crumpton, No information Sinclair. which were duly re- to furnish small freights for river joald be obtained at the time turned. Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor, Tels. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkongingle package of cargo was ten who was acting as super Vion Admiral\n\nGnder the Persound Baparvicken and Matogoriană di\n\nFRANK L. COOKE.\n\nProprietor.\n\nKING EDWARD HOTEL. Electric lifts and Lighting. Telephone on each Floor, Hotel Launch Meets All Steamers.\n\nTol. Central No. 370.\n\nTelegraphle Address: \"VICTORIA.\" J. WITCHELL, Manager.\n\nST. GEORGE'S HOUSE. KENNEDY ROAD,\n\nPrivate Hotel, affording Every Comfurt.\n\nLARGE AND OF HARBOUR\n\nAIRY ROOMS. SPLENDID EXCELLENT CUISINE UNDER SUPERVISION OF THE PROPRIETKISS.\n\nLOSSIUS, Proprietress.\n\nFor te suply to\n\nThe only hotel in CANTON\n\ndirectly under European\n\nManagement.\n\nNAGPORE... 5,248\n\nSANJIS TO BHANGHAIR LAYER.\n\n26th August.\n\nHI\n\n......$10,000\n\nShanghai, Moji & Kobe.\n\n4th September. Sbbai, Moji kote. 6th September. Kebe.\n\nì deben re afrasimme wid subtrat in alteration without quiler. Wielan\n\nSTRAWERS. Parede og not mon than 21, x 16. × 7 th, will be prerived as ike Lumping's (not up lo egia on the day previous to unitis\n\nFanburding.\n\nB\n\ncestt, even though the pun la voly ether arough the Acerts The arrival of the dulos Perry KARMALA ......\n\nMac, are showing no Comandate of the Harbour Of is a proliminary to the charge OVET TILAWA design m despatch goods. Pas through which latter place in of the Commander-in-Chiership senzar hookings by the river sail- lucka cleared with no mention of at the squadron. Rear Admiral ings yesterday were good, but not 'pautengere other than Mr. Crnan- Basir is to be the successor of Fruchot, and will sen. ap.\n\nMules Michelet at as early data. 24 hours ending #sam yesterday Information has now been re After the command has been showed o vessels in harthour, of seived which confirms the state turned over, the Jules Ferry will which wery British, with 12 meu then made and this is to the leave for France, the new arrival arrivals and 11 doyartures. Bri- affect that the voyagers have becoming the Bugship in Lish shipping contributed six and reached Carton.\n\ntwo respectively, to these guzes. Warpon was reached at 2 a.. Arrival were the British ships on Sunday morning and taking Empress of Casada from Vancon- advantage of the darkness, the ver and Shanghai with 186 tour of junka alipped in ander the nearch- fouz, amigenium salphate aut Hights which awept the Back mails, Yut Shing from Bangkes Rear, without being detected. with 2,260 tons of rice and general There is no shipping activity\n\nThe\n\nstead,\n\nPARENTS PERTAINI\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nSHANGHAI DECLARED\n\nCHOLERA-INFECTED\n\nPORT.\n\nker\n\nand two bags of mails, Nam Sang in Canton, but sumbers of snail The following notice to muzinera: from Yokohama nt Shanghai boats are fraighting vegetables has been posted at the Harbour with 1,205 tena of general, tonius and produce from outlying die Once, seved by the authorities Revolutionary placards at Canton under date. August 13:\n\nHarbour Notification No. 1 of 1923. Notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Custome and Representatives of Poreign Con- sale Bodiaz bave declared the port of Shanghai to be infected. AR vessels arriving therefrom either at Pantee or Whangea on and after this date are to be guvern\n\njing dangerous goods (firecrackerstricts. Tel. Central 116.\n\n(and matches) and 359 bags. of fare posted about the city treiting all, Jaining from Poochow and the people to take action agata\n\nforeig oppressore. Amoy with 50 tona ganerai and the mails, Hallie from Sulyon with gates to Alamen ure picketed 3.921 tons of ride and gear and the Chinese side to prevent any three bags of mail, Clearailah conuuunication with the defen Srum Sieganore and Hoi Nam with dore. Contradictory rumours are cur general, one bag of mulls and 200 deck paterpgera. the American reut with regard to the shipping\n\nTHE VICTORIA HOTEL,\n\nSHAMEEN,\n\nGuides\n\nand trips arranged for\n\nand special care\n\ntaken of TOURISTS. Cable Address 1 \"VICTORIA.\"\n\nEMPRESS LODGE.\n\nTel Kowloon. 296. fel. Add: \"presloge.\"\n\n8, Mudy Hoad, Kowloon Up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes walk from the Ferry Newly furnished, with latest sanitary bath- Under Barpervision of the Pro- Excellant ralaine.\n\nMom?\n\nprintress.\n\nPor termos apply to Mrs. M. O. MURPHY, Propristress\n\nPALACE HOTEL.\n\nTel. Address \"PALACE.” Tel. Kowiuon No. B.\n\nThres mátutes irom Kowlen Wharf, Ferry Wharf and RawaJ Station, Entirely Bater English Management. Eletele Light and Faus throughout. Every Rovin with Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Hilliard Rooms. turivalled Cuisine onder the personal supervision of the proprietor. Terma moderate, Special terms to families on appli\n\nJ. T. OXBEREY, Proprietor. tion to:\n\nSTATION HOTEL,\n\nTel. Add: \"Termotel” KOWLOON. Code used a.B.C. 5th. First class aud most up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes' walk from Ferry. Moderate Larid and recst axel- lent cuisine auder entirely European tuanagement Monthly and Family rates can be arranged at mest reasonable terms.\n\nAPPLY THE MANAUERESS, Kowloon.\n\nTHE CARLTON HOTEL.\n\nUNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT. Splendidly Situated in the Heart of the European Secilon Convenient to the Ferry and to the Baalucss Centres.\n\nA First Class Besidential and Tourist Hotel with all the Convenienes of Homo. Large Airy Rooms. Hot and Cold Water.\n\nCuisine ander the Immediate Direction of the Proprietress Monthly and Family rates at moderate ternis.\n\nFor tartas upply to Mra M. BLAKE.\n\nTelephone No. C. 812,\n\nNu. 30, Lee House Street,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.\n\nTelegraphic address \"ASTOR”\n\nTelephone Contra! 10,\n\n13. Queen's Road Central: A first clase Hotel centrally located, large and airy rODINE, completely renovated and refinished. New Ulzing Room\n\nuidine. Meals a la Carte. Excellent\n\nMouthly Tickets for Fists and Duners. Under entirely new Management,\n\nH. A. VAZ, Nanager.\n\nROGATE.\n\nTel Address \"Rogate\" Kowloon,\n\nTel. 851.\n\n158-160 Austin Read, Kuwloun. Newly furnished. Up-to-date Priests Hotel. Excellent Oni sine. Moderate Term.. tinder personal supervision of the Proprietres\n\n\"ALBANY.\"\n\nResidential Hotel, Nos. 3 & 4 The Albany. Overlooking the Botanical Gardens. Under personal supervision of the Proprietress. Telephone Central 615.\n\nMADAM ASA UTANI.\n\nJAVANESE MASSEUSE. FACE MASSAGE. MASSAGE\n\n25, Wellington Street:\n\nMASSAGE HALL.\n\nMRS. 3. UZUNOVE\n\nHapert Massgeule,\n\n37, Queen's Road Central,\n\nA similar notice has been issued\n\ntaamer West Faralun from Los 10 the port, that gaining most Angeles and Manila with 196 tas iredence being to the edest that by the Excilay Regulations feri of general and President McKinicy to impose a tax of 23,000 or be the authoriting stentsin in\n\nthe Cunninginner of Commerce is the port of Canton. from Manila with 12 tone of\n\nvessels discharging, while 41. general and 10 bags of all, the monopoly has her granted to theviation to that port and Chin- German vereis Piala on Hardessane for a large sum, the x-\n\n(wengizo under date August 12.\n\nJourg and Marilu with 365 tona of\n\nyoueral and six bags of mai, the out of which is not naked. Japanese reasol Osake Mary from\n\nNAVY LAUNCH BLAZE. TWO MEN SENT TO HOSPITAL.\n\nMuch of this stegnation is due Two American seemen, the en-!\n\nCalcutta and Singapore with 320 by the Autenor for Sagapore and tons of general, nails chectical President Kinley and Bevenue products, and 13 bags of mail, the for Shanghai. Chineze ucastor Chung Hing from Kwangeheuwan with 180 tone of the increasing difficulty ofgineer and the electrician of abippers in obtaining export per- U. S. 8. Beaver's speed launch, firewood, vegetables and poultry.\n\nmita for lee, the stonks of which whlen was destroyed by fire at! Departures\n\nin the Colony, are now belevet in the Army and Navy Club landing Departure were the Brish be below is reserve margin. at Maul are now in the Set- vessels Isaching for Amoy, Pru- Another contributing factor berg General Hosptial. The men tecilaus for Shanghai, Japanese appears to be the belfer sung the jare badly burved, according to a Towels Koren Mora for Keelung, Chinese generally that something navy officer interviewed at the Tsuruga Alara For Shanghai, drastic is about to happen either place of the fire.\n\nlein Maru for Tallar Bay and on one side or the other. The\n\nflames completely demolished Jajo Man for Swate, the Datel more credulone point to the con- the high power engine and burned auction dredger G.G. Ideoburg Jucant exercising of seaplanes the inside of the launch, causing (Netherlands Harbour Works) fox and the large number of warships Jamage estimated at $5.00). The Macao, Tisondari for Bhunghai, jad present in harbour, as evidence forigin of the fire le vakowa. the Gormer vernal Pfalz for that the British Government is it was extinguished half an hour, Shanghai, the Chinese coaster about to take action. No amount of Jafter it started.\n\nThe been aboard and the crew Kazura fur drony and the tallat explanation will disillusion them, moter vessel Eaquino for Shang- and thts toeling is permeating the of the launch Genecock I put hal. Clearances were taken out lantize native commercial fabric.\n\nTHE\n\ncut the blaze.\n\nHONGKONG & KHAMPOA DOGK CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS MANIFESTO\", HONGKONG; UndesUsed: A1, A.B.C. Film Edition: Engineering: Fire and Second Edition: Western Union and Watking, Banson's Marcom.\n\nDock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.\n\nOIL TANK STEAMER \"PALUDINA.\"\n\n412, 0′ x 58′ 1′′ x 31′ 0′′ x 3,400 tons Lw. x 3,300 H..\n\nBuilt by THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO, LTD., at KOWLOON DOCK\n\nso the ordero THE ANGLO SAXON PETROLEUM CO., IND.. being one of fusimilar\n\nVessels built in those WORKS to the same order.\n\nPlease address enquiries to the Chief Manager :-\n\nR. M. DYEE. B SC.. M.IN.A.. Kowloog Dock. Hongkong.\n\nFor Tenage Rates, Unzufbooka, Farizate, may apply że\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co., Alamur\n\nTHE BANK LINE, LTD,\n\nAgents for the following Services.\n\nAMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE BOSTON, NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS\n\n1st September.\n\nM.V. \"ELMBANK”-\n\nrta Suez Canai\n\nNEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE TELLERMAN & HUCKNALL BS. Co., Ltd.) 8,8. \"HALVERNIAN\" via Suez Canal 19th September. 3.S. \"WALTON HALL\"'\n\n7th Oe.ober\n\nUNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT \"ELLERMAN\" LINE (EILERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO. LTD.)\n\nSth September S.S. KNOWSLEY HALL\" For Marseilles, London, Dunkirk and Hamburg. MODERATE PASSAGE BATES TO MARSEILLES & LONDON\n\nMAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA ORIENTAL-AFRICAN LINE\n\nMiddle August.\n\nS.S. SURAT\" Leading for Maurities, Delagea Bay, Durham, East London, Alges Bay. Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay & Capetown.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading lawned to Betra, Quilimaine, Lio, Port Amelia. Sezambique. 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        "content_text": "239\n\nCHINESE Y.M.C.A.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nThe Men's Swimming Class, for beginners at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. is meeting next Friday night, at 7.30, with an enrolment of 20.\n\nAnother class will begin Monday night, by which time there will be more than 300 school boys taught to swim during the past few weeks in the Association.\n\nIn the first class, they were able to swim across the 20-foot pool in four lessons.\n\nThe Day School closes on Saturday evening at 7.30 for summer holidays.\n\nMr. T. Z. Koo, who is head of the Y.M.C.A. work among University, College and Middle School men in China, passed through the Colony on Saturday, en route to Swatow, to attend the student summer conference.\n\nMr. Koo represented China at the Opium Conference last year, and had ten days' meetings in Hongkong schools during March of this year.\n\nThe Association's bathing parties have begun, the second one to be held this Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe launch will leave the Pottinger Wharf at 3.30, and go to Big Wave Bay.\n\nAbout 60 members went on the first party two weeks ago.\n\nH.K. ANGLING CLUB.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nWe are informed that, weather conditions permitting, a deep sea fishing competition will be held towards the end of this month for members of the Hongkong Angling Club.\n\nFull particulars regarding the exact place of contest and the conditions under which the competition will be held will be announced later.\n\nMembers wishing to take part in the competition are requested to send their names in, as soon as possible, to the Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, care of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nAPPEAL COURT.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nJudgment was reserved at the conclusion of evidence and legal argument yesterday in the Full Court of Appeal case in which the landlord applies for the setting aside of a judgment in the Summary Court under which he was made liable for certain acts alleged to have been committed by his rent collector.\n\nLi Sang, the rent collector, gave evidence and said that the only reason he went to the premises on that day was that information was received that the tenant, who was in arrears with his rent, was moving certain goods away.\n\nMr. Potter, in his final argument, remarked on the fact that the rent collector had gone to the house at 9 o'clock at night, which was hardly consistent with his paying an ordinary call to collect rent.\n\nMr. Potter stated emphatically that there was nothing whatever to show that the rent collector or his agent took away property from the premises.\n\nMAIL ABOUT SWEEPS.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nSir—As your turf correspondent, I have been asked to give my views on that interesting local topic, the running of cash sweeps.\n\nFirst of all, I must insist that in no way do I pose as a legal expert.\n\nI merely intend to give a few facts.\n\nOn points pertaining to the law, I crave your readers' indulgence.\n\nThere are many kinds of cash sweeps in the Colony.\n\nSome are of absolutely the highest integrity.\n\nThey are above reproach, even when compared with the most popular in the world.\n\nIt is invidious to quote names, but those who are genuinely interested in the turf and their interests are bona fide, will know the ones I mean.\n\nIn one or two, tickets are not obtainable—it being necessary to sign one's name in a book.\n\nIn the contract (given out to the contractor), it is expressly stated that property other than building material must be returned.\n\nThe intention, of course, being that the Hotel would get back what it owned, while anything belonging to residents would be restored as far as possible.\n\nI have also seen sweeps, run by clubs, in which the \"body corporate\" stood to benefit, but no commission was paid to agents to dispose of tickets.\n\nBy this, I mean that the sweeps which are known to be \"good\" need hardly pay any inducement to sellers.\n\nThe question of commission to sellers also crops up.\n\nI am of the opinion that a cash sweep has a better name in ratio to the lack of commission paid to agents.\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nRumours concerning the finding of valuables in the Hongkong Hotel building, as a sequel to the New Year's Day fire, have proved to be exaggerated.\n\nOn reference to Mr. W. J. Hawker, managing director of Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., a \"China Mail\" representative was informed that only a few trinkets had been recovered.\n\nThey were of small value, and the residents deemed them not worth applying for.\n\nA decision had also to be arrived at as to how many storeys would be rebuilt.\n\nAccordingly, it is impossible to say when the Des Voeux Road corner would be in use again.\n\nQUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS.\n\nQuarantine restrictions have been imposed against arrivals from Yokohama on account of plague.\n\nMURDER CASE.\n\nThe case in which a bricklayer of Aberdeen is charged with the murder of his wife was continued at the Central Magistracy on July 15.\n\nA woman, Todger, gave evidence of overhearing a previous quarrel between the couple—and a scream on the morning of the murder, when defendant was seen to be getting away from the cubicle.\n\nThe case is proceeding.\n\nTWO MOTOR ACCIDENTS.\n\nMotor cars driven by Professor Roffey, of the Hongkong University, and Mr. W. A. Hannibal were involved in a collision on Repulse Bay Road, near Deep Bay, shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday.\n\nOne of the cars received slight damage.\n\nIn another accident on the Shaukiwan Road, a Chinese received injuries to both knees by walking out of the bathing shed at North Point into a car driven by Mr. H. E. Goldsmith.\n\nThe injuries, however, were not serious, and the man refused to go to hospital.\n\nJUNK PIRACY.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nThe case in which three men were charged with the piracy of a fishing junk of Lantau Island on May 29 concluded at the Central Magistracy yesterday before Mr. R. E. Lindsell.\n\nIt was stated at the first hearing that three women occupants of the junk were pushed overboard.\n\nThe men were not charged with murder, as none of the bodies had been recovered.\n\nA small boy, the only survivor, who escaped by swimming ashore, identified some of the defendants.\n\nAll the defendants implicated each other yesterday, while a fourth man, not in custody, was stated to have forced one of them to take part in the attack.\n\nThe second defendant said that if the small boy still implicated him in the piracy and murder, he must ask the boy to do so on oath.\n\nFIRE AT SEA.\n\nLOSS OF A FRENCH STEAMER.\n\nBOUND FOR CHINA.\n\nDjibouti, July 14.\n\nThe Messageries Maritimes mail boat Fontainebleau, bound for Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, China, and Japan, has been destroyed by fire.\n\nThe passengers and crew, and a small part of the cargo, have been saved.\n\nThe mail sacks have been lost.\n\nReuter.\n\nA cable has also been received intimating that the passengers had been landed at Djibouti.\n\nFurther news is awaited by way of Saigon-Shanghai-Hongkong.\n\nCAFE INCIDENT.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nArising out of an incident, which occurred at the Cafe Restaurant Parisien in Pedder Building last night, Mr. L. G. Taylor, the manager, was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning with \"disorderly conduct.\"\n\nHis Worship adjourned the case until Monday morning, remarking that he understood further proceedings were pending.\n\nDAYLIGHT ROBBERY.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nWhile Mrs. Grantham, of Queen's Gardens, was walking in Des Voeux Road, near the Sincere Company, at noon yesterday, a Chinese snatched a silk bag she was carrying in her hand and made his escape.\n\nThe bag, valued at $20, contained, in addition to a few articles, a sum of $18 in money.\n\nA report of the loss was subsequently made to the police.\n\nFRANCE'S DAY.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nLast night, a large crowd gathered at the Cafe Restaurant Parisien to celebrate in fitting style the 14th of July.\n\nThe Cafe was tastefully decorated with the flags of the different countries, and the tables were decorated with red, white, and blue bunting.\n\nAll kinds of novelties were presented, such as horns, caps, false faces, streamers, and confetti, and about closing time, the Cafe took on a real carnival aspect.\n\nA very fine dinner was served, and Syncopators at their best, everybody seemed to enjoy himself immensely.\n\nCADET SHIPS' VISIT.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nH.E. the Governor and civil, military, and naval officials were entertained last night at the Hongkong Hotel in connection with the visit of the two Japanese training ships, the \"Yakumo\" and \"Izumo.\"\n\nThe host was the Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Y. Murakami.\n\nThe toast of H.M. the King was submitted by the Japanese Consul-General, and H.E. the Governor proposed the toast of H.M. the Emperor of Japan.\n\nTO-DAY'S SALUTES.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nThe \"Hai Yung,\" under orders from the Chinese Government, arrived in Hongkong.\n\nShe saluted \"the country,\" and a reply was sent from Blackhead's signal station.\n\nSalutes were also interchanged with the Commodore, the Japanese Naval Imperial training squadron, and the U.S.S. \"Helena.\"\n\nPRATAS ISLAND.\n\nWith the typhoon season having practically started, even the layman and the landlubber will turn their attention to Pratas, that spot 180 miles to the south of Hongkong, from which meteorological reports are broadcasted.\n\nThe Chinese Admiralty has erected a station, with wireless, on Pratas Island.\n\nBy reason of its position, being in the track of the majority of typhoons which come up this way—Pratas is of great importance.\n\nIt is, of course, a part of Chinese territory.\n\nA trip was suggested on which the Director of the Royal Observatory, Hongkong (Mr. T. F. Claxton) was to have gone down to Pratas on a visit, as a guest of the Chinese superintendent, Mr. C. W. Hsu.\n\nAnother name mentioned was that of Mr. E. W. Carpenter, Assistant Public Works.\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nTUNNEL BOYS.\n\nJuly 17.\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, by the kindness of Mr. P. R. Warren of Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., ninety-one boys of the Diocesan Boys' School and three members of the staff went through the tunnel at Golden Hill.\n\nA launch was taken to Chun Wan, from which place the boys walked about one mile along the road and a second mile up the hill to the power house, which is situated between the two tunnels being made to bring the water from Shing Mun Valley.\n\nThe party was met by Mr. P. R. Warren and Mr. Crossley. About thirty of the senior boys were shown the power house and the machinery, and then went about 1,000 feet into the tunnel leading to the Shing Mun Valley.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nNARROW ESCAPE.\n\nJuly 17. Mr. W. Curtis, of the Duro Garage, had a remarkable escape from severe injury yesterday when travelling in a car which was being towed from Taipo after a breakdown. A Chinese driver who was with him was seriously hurt and was conveyed to the Kwong Wah Hospital.\n\nThe accident was due to the tow rope breaking, the impetus carrying the car over the edge of the road down the steep incline onto the foreshore (at the straight stretch of road running parallel to the sea front at Shatin). The car descended with force onto the rocks below, and Mr. Curtis and the driver were thrown out despite the fact that the hood was up.\n\nA breakdown gang which went out later in the day to salvage the car found it impracticable, in view of the difficulty of access, the incoming tide, and the damage sustained, to do other than retrieve certain undamaged parts.\n\nUpon enquiry at the Kwong Wah Hospital this morning, we were informed that the driver was progressing favourably.\n\nThe Hongkong Realty and Trust Company are calling up $2.50 a share on 170,000 shares. Such call will be payable at the registered offices of the Company on August 4.\n\nMr. J. H. Taggart, Managing Director of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd., left Shanghai aboard the s.s. \"Prezident Pierce\" for the United States on the 8th instant. He will visit there and England before returning to the Orient about next November.\n\n[No. 2998.—July 22, 1926.\n\nTRAFFIC CHANGES.\n\nJuly 17.\n\nThe regulations set forth on pages 617 to 665 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1844-1925, under the heading Vehicles and Traffic Regulation, are amended as follows:-\n\n(1) by the addition of the following paragraph to and at the end of regulation 54:-\n\n(2) \"Ice House Street, south of Queen's Road Central, is open to motor traffic upwards, that is to say, from Queen's Road Central, but motor traffic downwards, on such portion of Ice House Street, is prohibited.\"\n\nby the substitution in Schedule D of \"Ice House Street between Des Voeux Road Central and Queen's Road Central. Note. As to restricted traffic in Ice House Street, south of Queen's Road Central see regulation 54\"— for \"Ice House Street, south of Des Vœux Road Central.\"\n\nPIRATES AGROUND.\n\nJuly 17. Contradictory estimates were made as to the loot taken by pirates from the China Merchants Kwanglee, pirated near Hongkong on a trip from Shanghai to Canton direct.\n\nThe Kwanglee used to be a regular caller at Hongkong until the strike began.\n\nMid-day last Tuesday, the Kwanglee was a few miles off Repulse Bay. About this time, pirates who had disguised themselves as passengers on board took control in the usual manner.\n\nThe Kwanglee was taken to that notorious hotbed of pirates, Bias Bay, where the gang put ashore with their loot and some Chinese passengers for ransom. The steamer grounded; Captain Tollefson was released, and the ship proceeded to Canton, arriving there on Thursday. There was only one European passenger who has come down to Hongkong.\n\nAll the European officers lost various private property.\n\n[No. 2998-July 22, 1926.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nCOLONY'S FINANCES.\n\n1925.\n\nRevenue for 1925 Exceeds Estimates.\n\n  \n    Revenue\n    Expenditure\n    Surplus\n    Deficit\n  \n  \n    $23,244,366\n    $28,266,817\n    \n    $5,022,452\n  \n\nLESS THAN 1924.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. John Richard Carr, Assistant Supervisor in the Botanical and Forestry Department, to be Forest Officer, with effect from July 12, 1926, vice Mr. Frederic Cyril Goodman, resigned.\n\nROBBERY ATTEMPT.\n\nJuly 17.\n\nA Chinese was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning with assaulting a school girl at Robinson Road yesterday in an attempt to steal.\n\nIt was stated that the defendant seized the girl by the neck, and her screams attracted people in the vicinity. Defendant ran away with a ricksha coolie and others in pursuit and was eventually caught while coming down the steps of Peel Street by a police messenger who happened to be there.\n\nDefendant was remanded for one week.\n\nBRISK BUSINESS.\n\nReview of Local Share Market.\n\nThe steady tone in our market, which we reported in our last issue, was fully maintained during the week under review, and a brisk business was done in most of the principal stocks for which full prices had to be paid as holders are evincing more optimism as to the future.\n\nThe position to-day is firm with buyers prevailing.\n\nThe Shanghai market is quiet.\n\nThe following are the principal alterations since last week:-\n\nBanks—Experienced a steady rise, sales having taken place at $1,120 to $1,235; they were in strong demand with buyers at $1,130.\n\nHongkong Lands:-Shared the general improvement of the market, and sales were effected at $66; buyers are still freely offering $66½, but it is doubtful if they could obtain any shares at less than the former price.\n\nCements: Continue neglected. In the ten years 1917-1918 to 1926-1927, the Rateable Value of the Colony has increased by $13,588,084 or 94.30 per cent.\n\nThe Expenditure for the year exceeded the Revenue by the sum of $5,022,452.\n\nThe Imports and Exports Department showed a decrease in expenditure of $173,266. Savings on most of the items contributed to this result, and a reduction in the quantity of raw opium purchased accounted for $125,045 of the total decrease.\n\nPhotos by Lea Fong.\n\nMr. W. G. Jarvis, of the Customs, and his bride, Miss M. Rothe.\n\nMinor casualties are reported among the compradore staff and passengers.\n\nPassengers departing for Manila on Thursday by s.s. Empresa of Russia included Mrs. K. and Miss M. Ahern, Mrs. F. Bourne, Mr. H. A. Conant, Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Fregean, Mr. H. F. Gourlie, Mrs. C. L. Mar-Callum, and the Rev. and Mrs. H. S. Potter.\n\n  \n    Year\n    Revenue\n    Expenditure\n    Surplus\n    Deficit\n  \n  \n    1921\n    $17,728,132\n    $15,739,652\n    $1,988,480\n    \n  \n  \n    1922\n    $22,291,065\n    $18,568,003\n    $3,723,062\n    \n  \n  \n    1923\n    $24,788,763\n    $21,571,905\n    $3,216,858\n    \n  \n  \n    1924\n    $23,209,640\n    $26,726,428\n    \n    $3,516,788\n  \n  \n    1925\n    $23,244,366\n    $28,266,817\n    \n    $5,022,452\n  \n\nThe following Interim dividends have been declared for the first half-year ending 30th June 1926:-\n\nThe Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation - at 2 - $26.79 payable on 9th August, 1926. Books close from 26th July, 1926 to 7th August, 1926.\n\nThe Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd.—$2 payable on 5th August, 1926. Books close from 23rd July to 4th August, 1926.\n\nSubject to confirmation, the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd., have declared a dividend of Tls. 84.\n\nBANKRUPT'S ACTION.\n\nThe debtor was then called and questioned as to the dealings. He gave a confused story as to another man having bought his junk when he (witness) went into bankruptcy. As the buyer of the boat did not understand fishing, he (witness) did the work himself. He denied that he received any money for this and said that any transactions he had conducted in the sale of fish went to the payment of wages, upkeep, etc., and that any balance would go to the purchaser of the vessel.\n\nAfter putting a number of questions to witness, the Official Receiver indicated that he desired the examination closed.\n\nLOCAL IMPORTS.\n\nThe chapter on local imports, in the latest fortnightly report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, reads:-\n\nCotton Piece Goods and Fancy Cotton Goods:--There is nothing to report. Market at a complete standstill. Deliveries exceedingly poor.\n\nCotton Yarn:-The demand has continued good, and a fair amount of business in spot and forward has been put through. Prices show an advance of $2 to $3 per bale, owing to the decline in exchange.\n\nQuotations are purely nominal:- No. 10s. $150/165; No. 12s. $155/165; No 16s. $175/185; No. 20. $190/195.\n\nHongkong Fires: Are firm with buyers at $595, but sales have taken place at $600, and less would not be accepted.\n\nHotels. Continued very firm with sales at $11.10 and $11.16, and there are still keen buyers at the latter prices.\n\nElectrica: Firmed up during the latter part of the week, and after sales at $67½ are now wanted at $68.\n\nABERDEEN FISHERMAN.\n\nAllegations were made by the Official Receiver, Mr. W. Tratman, at the Bankruptcy Court on Saturday that Wong Po-tai, an Aberdeen fisherman who had been adjudged bankrupt at the end of last year, had been carrying on business and receiving payments which he had not placed at the benefit of creditors but rather ...\n\nChina Sugars: Are in steady demand at $24, with sellers holding out for higher prices.\n\nFlour Market Report:-\n\nStocks: About 350,000.\n\nMarket: Steady.\n\nQuotations:-American Patent $4.20 per sack; American Straight $3.45 per sack; American Cut off $3.45 per sack; Australian No. 1 $3.50 per sack; Canadian Cut off $3.05 per sack.\n\nChina Lights: Were quieter, with only a few sales reported at $21 for Combined Shares.\n\nChina Providents: Continue steady, buyers still offering $6.05, but sellers holding out for more.\n\nSteam Boats: After a few sales ...\n\nSugar: Market dull.\n\nSaltpetre:--Stocks 12,000 bags.\n\nDead market. Absolutely nothing interesting to report.\n\nPage 242\n\nPage 243\n\n[No. 2998.—July 22, 1926.",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & CRAIGENGOWER C.C. ANNUAL MEETING\n## Healthy Financial State Reported\n## MR. B. W. BRADBURY RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT\n\nMr. B. W. Bradbury was unanimously re-elected President of the Craigengower Cricket Club at the annual general meeting held in the Clubhouse on Oct. 19. Mr. C. S. Rosselet was re-elected Vice-President.\n\nIn his speech the Chairman (Mr. Bradbury) remarked on the healthy state of the Club's finances, \"You will observe that a small profit of $204.74 was made on the year's workings, but, here, I would like to explain and emphasize a very important point—and that is, for the first time, Depreciation on the Building, Furniture and Fixtures, Gear and Crockery, together with Bad Debts, have been written off your Profit and Loss Account. Last year's Balance Sheet showed a surplus of $1,148.90, but had this depreciation, etc. been written off as has been done this year, there would actually have been a deficit of $1123.59. Taking this into consideration, therefore, the small profit shown this year will be better appreciated. I think you will agree, too, that this new method of Accounting is far more satisfactory and presents a truer picture of the Club's position.\n\n\"The net Bar earnings for the year have shown a slight decrease, which, however, in no way detracts from the excellent work accomplished by Mr. Landolt and his associates. Due to the rather uncertain position of our finances, it was found expedient, during the beginning of the summer, to increase our Bar prices somewhat. The situation now having improved, no doubt a revision in these prices will shortly be considered.\n\n\"The various other accounts, as you will have observed, show very little change from last year, with the exception of Cricket, which has shown an increase.\n\n\"The sum of $130.07 written off for Bad Debts is quite a low figure and reflects considerable credit on our members.\n\n## ANXIETY CAUSED BY BUILDING REPAIRS\n\nRegarding the building, the Chairman said, \"The Building caused your Committee considerable anxiety, but with members contributing to a Building Fund, plus receipts from other sources to this account, we were able to realize sufficient funds to take care of the repairs and additions. Changes in the original plans have since resulted in an increase over the original estimate and a further sum of approximately $500.00 will be required before all the improvements desired can be accomplished.\n\nTurning to sports, he felt that they had had a satisfactory year from the Lawn Bowls standpoint. True, they did not win any League honours, but in the Colony Open competitions their members had done very well. In particular, he specially praised Mr. U. M. Omar, who he said had played brilliantly throughout the year. Their tennis section had performed satisfactorily and several of their younger members showed great promise. Their cricketers had not done well, but results were not always a fair criterion and certain of their younger members had achieved splendid individual triumphs.\n\nOn behalf of the Club, Mr. Bradbury concluded, he would like to express sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. D. Rumjahn and the late Mr. A. Alves, both of whom passed away during the year. As a mark of respect to their memory, he asked all present to rise and remain standing for a moment.\n\nThe members thereupon rose and paid their tribute to their departed colleagues.\n\n## OFFICERS ELECTED\n\nAfter the statement of accounts had been adopted, the election of office bearers was carried out and resulted as follows:\n| Position | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| President | B. W. Bradbury |\n| Vice-President | C. S. Rosselet |\n| Hon. Secretary | W. K. Way |\n| Hon. Treasurer | A. E. Coates |\n| Cricket Captain (First Eleven) | E. Zimmern |\n| Vice-Captain | A. B. Hamson |\n| Second Eleven Captain | Dr. C. W. Lam |\n| Vice-Captain | B. R. Iranee |\n| Committee | R. Basa, E. Zimmern, W. J. Howard, Dr. N. P. Karanjia, Dr. V. N. Atienza, A. B. Hamson, Dr. C. W. Lam, and A. E. Alves |\n\nGeneral discussion of Club matters then followed, after which the meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the Chairman.\n\nOctober 29, 1937\n\n## SIR WM. HORNELL\n### University Staff Say Farewell\n\nThe staff of the University entertained Sir William Hornell at a farewell tea party in the Great Hall of the University yesterday. A handsome silver tray with the University coat-of-arms and a set of ivory book ends were presented to Sir William in token of appreciation of his service as Vice-Chancellor from February, 1924 to October 1937.\n\nSir William will make over charge of his office as Vice-Chancellor to Mr. D. J. Sloss, C.B.E., M.A. tomorrow and will be residing at Repulse Bay Hotel until about November 12 when he will leave for England via Canada.\n\n## REGISTRY WEDDING\n\nA quiet wedding took place at the Registry of Marriages, Supreme Court on October 22, when Miss Ng Kai Chun, of No. 78 Tung Lo Wan Road, became the bride of Mr. Chu Pak Lam, building contractor, residing at No. 47 Queen's Road East, second floor.\n\nThe ceremony was performed by Mr. W. Aneurin Jones, Deputy Registrar of Marriages, in the presence of Mr. Ng Kai Kin and Mrs. Hui Sam.\n\nThe bride is the daughter of the late Mr. Ng Sik Yue, and the groom the son of Mr. Chu Chân Wah.\n\n## LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING: OFFICIAL REPLIES\n### CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n### \"SHINES LIKE GOOD DEED IN NAUGHTY WORLD\"\n\nOfficer Administering Government's Tribute To Hong Kong\n\nThe official replies to points raised by unofficial members were made by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, and the Officer Administering the Government Mr. N. L. Smith, at a meeting of the Legislative Council held on October 20, in the Council Chamber.\n\nIn his speech, the Hon. Mr. Smith, touching on the Sino-Japanese troubles as affecting this colony, said: \"I am reminded of a sentence in one of Mazzini's essays on historical method. 'The historian,' says he, 'must always be impartial; but he should never be indifferent.' The rights and wrongs of the present unhappy conflict can be safely left, I would suggest, to the appropriate international tribunals or even to the judgment of posterity; but, as with the ideal historian, it would be wrong for us to be indifferent to the sufferings of our near neighbours.\"\n\nHis Excellency paid tribute to the Inspector-General of Police and the people of this Colony for their good sense and steadiness during a most distressful summer.\n\n\"I venture to think that if certain spectators in Europe and in the Far East could see this Colony with our Japanese friends going about their business, quietly and unmolested, they might agree that, in this respect at least, Hong Kong 'shines like a good deed in a naughty world,'\" concluded His Excellency.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary said: \"In replying to the speeches which have been made on this motion, it will be convenient if I take the points raised in order, beginning with the speech of the Honourable the Senior Unofficial Member. If I am found to omit certain matters of importance, it is because these will be dealt with by Your Excellency later in the afternoon.\n\n## ECONOMY MEASURES\n\n\"I can assure the Council that we regret as much as anyone the absence from the list of certain works which have been entered under the heading 'Essential' for many years past.\n\n\"The main reason for their omission is, of course, economy. In normal times we might well have ventured a little further, and might even have hoped to accomplish more without increasing taxation; but, as things are, I doubt whether anyone will really blame the Government for deciding not to take the risk.\n\n\"There are in certain cases also subsidiary reasons. It is, I feel sure, wise not to embark upon such projects as a new leper asylum, a new infectious diseases hospital, even a new mental hospital, during the interregnum between the departure of one Director of Medical Services and the arrival of his successor.\n\n## NOT FINANCIALLY SOUND\n\n\"The alternative to raising additional revenue, however secured, that is to say the financing of sundry works by means of a loan, is, I am advised, a proposition that is not financially sound. There is an essential difference between a market or a water supply, both of which bring in revenue, and say a Volunteer Headquarters, which is clearly a liability. It is true that the Hong Kong Prison was a loan work, but this was only approved for very special reasons.\n\n\"The Queen Mary Hospital was built from revenue, and a request for permission to finance it from a loan was refused by the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n## HEROIN FIENDS\n### \"No Punishment Too Severe For Sub-Human Creatures\"\n\nAlthough one may feel that no punishment can be too severe for those sub-human creatures who grow rich by poisoning men and women with heroin, it is doubtful whether the imposition of the punishment of flogging would help much to lessen the traffic, and the proposal has obvious objections which have been pointed out by the Secretary of State.\n\n\"It is generally speaking, the probability of being caught rather than the severity of the punishment, which deters evil-doers, and, with this end in view, the Budget contains provision for the extension of investigation through the employment of better-qualified detective officers and of an assistant to the Monopoly Analyst.\n\n\"To the searcher after economy, the proposals for the provision of an additional court at the Central Magistracy sound more alarming than they really are. Ever since I can remember, until a year or so ago, there have been three Magistrates at the Central Magistracy, the third being known as the First Clerk and Magistrate.\n\n\"It has always been the intention that a young cadet officer (as soon as one can be spared) shall take on the work as before in place of ...",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937\n\nTRAFFIC DIFFICULTIES WEATHER OF AUGUST ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES CITY DESOLATION\n\nPublic Services Disrupted Sunshine Less Than Normal Mishap at Kowloon Affects Business Area Suffers\n\nUntil Late Morning THROUGHFARES a.m. FLOODED VARIABLE CONDITIONS Service for Half Hour DAMAGED WIRES year. Much Damage PUBLIC CLOCKS STOP\n\nThe city presented a dismal appearance during the early morning, with flooded streets and rubbish lying about everywhere. Bricks, broken glass, matting and tree branches were well in evidence.\n\nTrees around the cricket ground were uprooted. Traffic throughout the Colony was completely disorganised during the early hours of yesterday morning, owing to floods and obstructions due mainly to fallen trees.\n\nThe Peak tram-lines were covered with tree trunks and branches, causing a delay in the service of several hours. The debris was removed by 10 a.m. and the service resumed shortly afterwards.\n\nThe low lying areas of Queen's Road, and most of the narrow streets were flooded. Floods and debris were responsible for the delay in the Tramway Company's service which did not commence yesterday morning until 11.30 a.m.\n\nThe mean temperature for the month was 82.2°F, which is 0.5° above normal. A maximum of 93.0° was recorded on the 2nd, and a minimum of 75.9° on the 22nd.\n\nSunshine was deficient, amounting to only 125 hours, which is 79 hours less than normal. The total rainfall was 14.35 inches, which is slightly above normal.\n\nAt Jardine's Bazaar, and King's Road, Ming Yuen, motorists had to ford wide streams a foot deep.\n\nBuses Operate Although there was still a strong wind blowing the China Motor Bus Co., Ltd., sent out 35 of its vehicles at 7 a.m. yesterday.\n\nTwenty-four of the 35 buses were for the No. 5, Tai Hang, route, and 11 were for the Happy Valley service. At 8.30 a.m. when the wind had abated somewhat, four buses were put on the Taikoo Dock schedule.\n\nThe Hongkong Electric Company's wires and cables had only been very slightly damaged by the typhoon.\n\nKOWLOON'S PLIGHT The Lido Lady, which rode out the typhoon last year, was on this occasion driven ashore near the Lido, broadside on.\n\nBeach Road is a tangled mass of uprooted trees, whilst there has been a fairly big landslide at the western end of the new wing of Repulse Bay Hotel.\n\nTwo junks, both dismasted, are anchored in the bay, having apparently managed to ride out the storm.\n\nIn many parts of Kowloon traffic generally was at a standstill until well after 7 a.m. because of floods and up-rooted trees.\n\nThe Kowloon Motor Bus Company was unable to bring its buses on their respective routes until about 10.30 when all service lines were opened.\n\nTROD ON WIRE Police Officer Suffers From Shock Sub-Inspector H. E. Rogers, of the Mongkok Police Station, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffering from the effects of electric shock when he trod on an electric wire which had been blown down and which was submerged under water in Nathan Road at 5.30 a.m.\n\nSTANLEY ISOLATED TWO ELECTROCUTED Bathing matsheds on the Stanley beach suffered severely during the storm, and it is estimated that at least one third of the total number are completely wrecked.\n\nResidents on the Stanley Peninsula were completely isolated during the typhoon, the electric current and telephone communication being interrupted.\n\nREPULSE BAY SCENES Repulse Bay felt the full fury of yesterday morning's storm. Most of the matsheds have been either demolished or badly damaged.\n\nALL ROADS OPEN Fewer Obstructions Than Expected CITY TRAFFIC BLOCK Motorists will be glad to hear that all the roads leading around the Island and in the New Territories are now open to traffic.\n\nEnquiries at the Roads Office of the P.W.D. yesterday revealed that minor landslides had occurred on the Sheko Road, between Sheko and Tytam Roads, Magazine Gap Road, and in the vicinity of the Repulse Bay Hotel.\n\nTELEPHONES SUFFER Signboards in all streets were hanging in precarious positions, and the top half of the one belonging to the Queen's Theatre, and one over the China Emporium, were smashed.\n\nSome 2,000 Faults Reported In Hongkong and Kowloon areas some 2,000 faults have been reported.\n\nThe Hongkong-Canton Toll cable is completely broken away at two points in the New Territories near Taipo and Taipo Market, due to bridges over which the cable is run being washed away or severely damaged.\n\nTHE MID-LEVELS The mid-levels suffered mostly through fallen trees and minor landslides, which at a few spots rendered passage impossible.\n\nPEAK DISTRICT The Peak district did not escape its share of damage. Gough Hill Police Station was extensively damaged, and the quarters of the Weihaiwei contingent was swept away, and the Shantung men are now quartered in No. 8 Police Station.\n\nSAVED FROM SEA Most of the houses up the Peak suffered damage to their roofs, many of which were ripped off.\n\nPassing San Pan Chau lighthouse, about 45 miles from Hongkong, on its way from Canton to the Colony, the steamer Tung On found eight men, women and children hanging to two pieces of wood.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "subject. In doing so it is only fair to record that they were formed months before, and it may be that I have subconsciously stressed those incidents during hostilities that support my ideas,\n\n26.\n\nI believe it perfectly true to say that the men fought well, but according to the style of Dunkirk (without attaining its standard) rather than of the \"thou shalt not pass\" school; all the schemes one ever heard of there were of withdrawal and none of attack. Outwardly Hong Kong fell on the 25th December, because its garrison was outfought; actually it fell weeks, months before, psychologically defeated. The effect of the news of the loss of H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse together with the American naval losses and our hopeless state in the air were tremendous and then when the Mainland was evacuated after we were told that Devil's Peak was to be held at all costs, we had arrived at the stage of inter-unit criticism. I think it only fair to mention this fact about the 2/53rd. In the opinion of the M.O. who was attached to them and who had to fill a combatant role part of the time, their morale was absolutely undermined by malaria; many of them were entirely unable either mentally or physically to offer anything like the resistance expected of a British soldier; that their fighting on the Mainland was not their true form was shown by the way the remnants (those who were fit) fought on the Island later.\n\n27.\n\nThe reasons for this psychological attitude of the garrison were these:- (1) Long sojourn in Hong Kong where the atmosphere was anything but conducive to the development of the real fighting spirit; the Hong Kong Government was rotten to the core and its people really had no confidence whatsoever in their leaders. No one would believe that Japan would ever dare to attack this island of beauty, this Pearl of the Orient, this sanctum of the taipans; even during the first air attack on Kai Tak there were many people who did not believe that it was war! How could an army train seriously for a war that everyone knew would never take place!\n\n(2) When war did come, it was unreal in the familiar Hong Kong surroundings. That was the result of calling Hong Kong a fortress when many families were still there, when the Club was still open, and when you could ring up your wife just as you could from the office (but with a better excuse for not coming home to dinner); Hong Kong never got down to real war until it was too late.\n\n(3) Mental inertia was such that it was never realised that in a modern fortress there is no place for the civilian or his mental attitude. One example should be sufficient to exemplify this. Towards the end the Field Ambulance H.Q. had to move to the Peak area and in that restricted locality there was only one place suitable and that was the basement of the War Memorial Hospital, which although nominally civilian was full of soldier casualties; we were not welcome and were told so; later the Matron visited me and said that she had had a deputation from the Sisters asking that we should go away - this from a British hospital built in memory of the fallen of the last war. This attitude was apparently also in the official mind for the Governor came to see me about the whole situation the next morning. He seemed at a loss to understand why a medical military unit should invade a civilian institution, and Hong Kong was supposed to be a military fortress.\n\n28.\n\nThese facts display the Hong Kong mentality in cross section, its apathy, inertia, self-complacency and its limitations, and I believe they support my contentions that it was the worst possible atmosphere in which to attempt to maintain, let alone to build up, an efficient fighting spirit in the forces.\n\n(Signed) L.T. RIDE\nLt.Col.\nO.C. H.K. Field Ambulance.",
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        "content_text": "SECRET\n\nEXTRACTS FROM WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE REPORT NO:4\n\nFROM\n\nSTAFF OFFICER (INTELLIGENCE) HONGKONG.\n\n24th SEPTEMBER, 1945\n\nBEACH DEFENCES\n\nA recent report in the newspapers stated that a glance at HONGKONG made it clear that the Japanese were determined to put up a stiff fight for the place. This is a most misleading statement. It is true that the hills on the Island are honeycombed with foxholes but beach defences are practically non-existent. No trace of any mining can be found, the only barbed wire is the remains of British defences which have fallen into complete disrepair and, as far as can be seen, there are no gun positions covering possible landing places. The main beach at REPULSE BAY is completely undefended, the only obstacle to be overcome being the complete lack of maintenance of the roads leading away from the beach and the thick undergrowth covering the former sea wall. The roads in the immediate vicinity of the beach are passable but could at present only take a thin stream of traffic due to the undergrowth. With modern equipment, however, it is considered that this can hardly be counted as even a minor obstacle.\n\nThe positions of many foxholes show the Japanese to have been very industrious and remarkably stupid. For instance, two well-constructed holes were found covering a beach in TOLO Harbour which no one would ever have used even for a commando raid.\n\nOwing to lack of transport and shortage of personnel, it has not yet been possible to get a detailed report on all beaches, but it can reasonably be assumed that the above remarks apply to all.\n\nIt has been approved to establish a Joint Intelligence Committee which will have general supervision over all Intelligence and Security within the Colony. The members are expected to be:\n\n  \n    Chairman\n    COLONEL RIDE\n    Army\n  \n  \n    \n    COMMANDER LITTLE\n    Navy\n  \n  \n    Lt.\n    COL. DEVEY\n    Air Force\n  \n  \n    \n    Defence Security Officer\n    Not yet appointed\n  \n  \n    \n    COLONEL SANSOM (Commissioner of Police)\n    Not yet appointed\n  \n  \n    \n    Civil Affairs\n    \n  \n\nThe problem of covering the remainder of the area you have allotted me still remains largely unsolved. It is hoped that transportation to SAIGON may be available in the near future, which will put A/S.O.I. F.I.C. that much further on his way, but there is no officer for Formosa, even should transportation and accreditation be available.\n\nSHIPPING\n\nServices between various ports in the vicinity have started up, if slightly spasmodically, during the last week. These are shown in the enclosed newspaper cuttings.\n\nThe Commander-in-Chief, Admiral FRASER, visited CANTON, travelling by water, during the week, but the full report on his trip is not yet available.",
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        "content_text": "11 Gu Soo 930\n\n13. 8. 8\n\nFor Rentford. محمد\n\nIn his cavingram at 11. the Governor of Hong Kong seeks approval for the grant of a 25-year lease of land at Repulse Bay to The Repulse Bay Enterprises Ltd for the purpose of providing bathing and other facilities to the public.\n\nLa vied and considered the expense involved, and the preoccupation of the Public Works Dept: with more urgent work, public tenders were invited, and the tender from Dr Chan Sik Zin acting on behalf of The Repulse Bay Enterprises Ltd was accepted.\n\nI can find no Hong Kong precedent for the grant of lease after receipt of tenders, and in view of this unusual feature, I should be grateful for a legal opinion on these proposals.\n\n1. Pethenat see Mo har ni 13/9\n\nWhat Am Groemor proposes. It seems to me a matter that can safely be left to him,\n\nI don't suppose we can positively judge the merits in a very good light acting\n\nA Redfin Russe 14.\n\nPage\n\nThe Hall.\n\nI approve as in draft.\n\nY P. Pethenect 17/9.\n\nMoll 2015ate.\n\n1. To Hang. Kong - Saw 9416-(11) and 22 SEP 1951\n\n13 Gr sao 1206 31.10 51\n\nThe Thor decair ✓ Tor Hall The Lide botham.\n\nafroval of At 13 the Governor seeks grant by fairate treate to the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association, a body corporate under The Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association Ordinance No 5541 48.\n\nThe conditions are unexceptionable.\n\nI approval may be given as in draft.\n\n1. l'ethenic A 14/11.\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 14 Hong Kong Law: 1168\n\nClosed\n\nPage 10\n\n20 NOV 1951\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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