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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST

CORRESPONDENCE NEW STEAMER LAUNCHED. PRE-HISTORIC CLTY CEREMONY AT TAIKOO DOCKYARD. REVEALED BY EARTHQUAKE

IN KANSU,

ONONOKOK ... MALI 49 KOLIES MILL OS)

DAILE PRESI."']

Bu-According to the Official Report the Civil Governor of Kansu Province North China), the recent terrific earth. Apake, which affected the whole province, has done incalculable damage to cities and villages, and destroyed about 400,000 of the inhabitanta.

Mountains "have collapsed and dis appeared in the bowels of the earth, and the surface of the land has undergone a wondrous change.

There was launched, yesterday, at noon, from the Taikoo Dockyard the steel screw steamer Xuangiung, a finely- modelled vessel of the following dimen sions: length 321 feet, beam 44 fact, depth moulded 23 feet, and having a gross too page of about 2,500 tons.

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THE RENTS ORDINANCE.

FURTHER LITIGATION SON “EJFCTMENT.

Another case under the Renie Ordin alles was beard by the Paisne Judge (J. R. Wood), in the Summary Court, yesterday, when the Tal Tung Firm claimed-from the Fook Tung Firm possession of the house and premises known as No, 23, Connaught Road

Central.

MOTOR CAR COLLISION.-

OURIOUS" CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE.

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Mr. R. E. Lindsell, yesterday, heard in which the evidence driver of motor car No. 238, owned by the Breezy Garage, was summoned for reckless driving, colliding with and up- setting a ricksha containing a Chinese detetive, at the junction of Queen's

The detective said that the accident The Rod Central and Jubilee Street. occurred at 9.10 p.m., on Sunday. car, which was going at a high speed, collided with the ricksha from behind and threw the withess out. The splash-

Mrs. STEPUER, wife of the Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation performed the On Mrs. Stephen launching ceremony. pressing the switch and breaking the bottle of ahampagne on the bows, the ship immediately glided "smoothly down G Alabaster, instructeddy" Vesars ] board of the ricksha was damaged. the ways to the water.

Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by fears, Johnson, Stokes & Master, appeared for the plaintifs, and Hr. C.

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An Indian Sergeant who said that he saw the accident, gave the tin as 7.33 p.m.

d'Almada & Mason, for the defendants. Mr. EDKINS, the Hongkong Manager of Mr. C. D. Wilkinson, of Messrs. Mesars Butterfeld & Swire, thereupon Wilkinson & Grist, was present in the At Tong Chuan immense abyss, have asked those present to join him in wish-interests of the Tenants' Association. opened in the earth and fire and smoke,ung and continued prosperity to the ing: a prosperous career to the Kwong-

Mr. Jenkin explained that the defend and black and red streams of water are China Navigation Company. He midants, as tenants, claimed the benefit offor a trip round the laland. They had gdaling from numerous fissures, which dis-that the name of the vessel was a fitting ons representing as it did one of the gure the surface of the land.

great provinces of China, with which the But, most marvellous to relate, a moun-trade of the vessel would be concerned. win in the Nan Hsiang District, has comThe ship was designed to trade between

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pletely disappeared from view, and five * from Po Shan, a wonderful pre-

historia city, covering an area of over 300 mow. has suddenly emerged from the Loess deposit of the plain.

The inner walls of this upheaved city are about forty feet high and the outer walls about seventy feet high.

Forta command the unbattlemented walla on all sides, and they appear to be in perfect condition. I am now greatly interested to know what this city con- tains, and I am confident that future excavations will result in archeological discoveries, which will astonish the world. I am intensely gratified to know that my anding and conviction, that great antediluvion cities and monument are buried deep in the extensive Loeu déposits of the differelt provinces of the Fellow River Valley District of China, Las so Loon been verified and confirmed by this wonderful det of God; and perhaps the following letter, which I addressed to the Chinese Scientific Association of Peking on the 8th August, 1921, will be of interest to your readers:-

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Hongkong, 8th August, 1991.

To the Hon. Secretary,

Bet.

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Bangkok and Swatow, the second largest port in Kwangtung.

After the company had responded cordially to the toast, Mr. Edkius, asked on to join him in "thanking Mrs. Stephen. He commented on her good nature in coming, during the great bent of the day, fo give the ship a good send- off, and, in thanking her, Mr. Edkins mentioned that between the Hongkong and Shanghai. Bank and the China Navigation Company close relationships had existed for many years.

Mr. Edkins asked Mrs. Stephen to Accept a small fouvenir of the occasion.

The Hon. Mr. STEPHENS, in responding on behalf of Mrs. Stephen, said that it had been a great pleasure to his wife to be asked to christen the Kwangtung. It bad been a new experience for her. had always been a pleasure to him to come into touch with the Taikoo Dock yard which he regarded as a testimony to the shterprise and efficiency of the great Swire firm. What they had seen that day, and what he had always noticed in the past in his association with the doings of the firm, made him feel that the enterprise of the firm, in conjunction with the thoroughness and good work of their employés went to make "Taikoo " spell efficiency. He wished them all con tinued success.

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Mr. EDKINS congratulated the staff of the dockyard on the cars and skill they had shown in the construction of the vessel.

Mr. REID, Chief Manager of the Dock yard, suitably acknowledged the compli

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the Roats Ordinance, while the plaintiffs, as lessors, claimed that they were on eject titled to an order for possession ment on two grounds, the first was this: The defendants agreed in writing on Hay "th, to quit on July 2nd. In order to establish a right to an order on that ground it was necessary to show that the landlord had, as a result of that agree ment, acted so as seriously to prejudice himself. The landlord had started a partnership called the Tai Tung Firm and engaged a large number of fokis and made arrangements to business as a Californian merchant. the present moment he was carrying on business in very restricted accommoda- tion and was greatly hampered through inability to obtain the premises occupied by defendants.

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Mr Benjamin Young, a Eurasian youth, who was a passenger in the car, said that He engaged the ear at 7 pm, cupleted the round, and were returning to the garage when the accident occurred. near the Central Market. They arrived at the garage at 9.40 p.m., so he cal culated the accident must have occurred at 0.38 The car was travelling at a moderate pace. A Chinese carrying bamboo and two baskets ran in front of it: The driver slowed down to about 3 miles an hour and swerved to the left and bumped slightly into the ricksha which sustained very little damage: The driver stopped the car for a few minutes alter the accident, and then proceeded to the garage.

Having decided that the difference in the times did not affect the case since the collision was admitted, the Magistrate of told inspector Garrod that he was opinion that the car manst "have been going dead slow at the time of the colli- sion, otherwise the ricksha would have been severely damaged.

The second ground was that, under

The Inspector said that that was the Section 1 E. of Section 4 of the Renta Ordinance, plaintiffs could show that impression he got when he first examined they reasonably required the premises for the witnesses before issuing the summons. He could not understand why the wit- themselves and, their whole-time ployees. Furthermore, there was alternesses should change their story to make native accommodation available for the it appear that the car ran into the

rickson from behind. defendants.

The Magistrate dismissed the summons,

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For the last three years, continued counsel, the premises in question had been occupied by the defendants on s monthly tenancy from the superior land- lord. On May 4th of this year the pre mises wore leased to the plaintiffa by the landlord for 36 Chinese lunar months commencing on June 4th On May 4th the defendants were notified of the lease, both by the superior landlord and the They thereupon approached plaintiffs. the last named for an extension of their monthly tenaney hy one extra month, admely until the 97th day of the sun

moon.

Applications for this were refused, but the tenants continued as tenants on sufferance.

were

TRESPASSER AT DAIRY FARM.

A MAUISTERIÁL SUGGESTION. Before Mr. G. N. Orme, at the Magis tracy, yesterday, a Chinese, found on the Dairy Farm Company's premises at Pokfulum without authority, was charged

a vagabond. with being a rogue and

Mr. Thomas Oliphant assistant man- afer of the Company, said he was making Sunday when he discovered the defen- usual rounds at about 6.18 a.m., on dant, washing himself in one of the cowabeds. He recognised the man as no old servant of the company who had been tionnded a few years, admitted he had

the, defendant,

no permission to be there and witness took him to the Police Station.. The Company had had a lot of trouble over unauthorised persons frequenting their

The Magistrate observed that ou the primi bos

evidence he was only,

a trespasser. Mr. M. Turner, who represented the Company, said that under the Ordinanca it was extremely dificult to take action against persons found on premises with-

The

2-Proofs of The Deluge. The Up-required," and the fore and after peaks as suitable for them under the meaping out permitrate: You should draft a

Lake. Bible.

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The

The Chinese Scientific Association,

Peking, China.

The Kwangtung was bulit to the order DEAR SIR-I have the honour to pre- of the China Navigation Co., Ltd. for their Bangkok trade, and has two decks, sent your Association with the under-

a long combined poop and bridge deck As defendants had not vacated by mentioned books and supplementary pam-

and

Accommo July 2nd proceedings.

started top gallant forecastle, phlets, which record my discoveries and dation is provided on bridge deck smid- against them. On July 2nd defendants undings of the year 1914, and I hope you ships for the officers, engineers and first solicitors wrote a letter stating that their will be pleased to translate them into

class passengers. Cabin. accommodation

clients had obtained other premises but Chinese for the information of the is to provided at the after-end of the were unable to move in as the tenants Citizens of the Great Chinese Republic: upper deck The 'tween decks have also thereof had not moved out. The letter The Creation; The Origin of the been made suitable for carrying passen added that as soon as defendants were Chinese (Chinese Edition) Six Copies. gors. The cargo gear consists of eight.

Supplementary Pamphlets (7)-One steam winches and derricks capable of able to obtain possession of the new pre with weights up to 30 tons. The mises they would vacate those leased by dealing

Wilson plaintiffs.

**I shall establish," added Mr. Jenkin, 1-The Cradle of The Human Race, steam steering gear is of

fitted in house aft and type The Cause of The Deluge, and The controlled from amidships by telemotor that the alternative accommodation Change in the Antediluvian North gear. The cellular double bottom is con- referred to not only existed then but Polar Regions

structed for the carriage of oil fuel, if exists now. It is available now and is heaval and Subsidence of Continents, can be used as trimming tanks The proof the Reats Ordinance as the premises

by law and send it to the legislature. and the Change in the North Folar polling machinery consists of a set of they now occupy." Régions

Brown-Curtis

Mr. Jenkin then dealt with the posi- I am sure they would pass it hurriedly. type of turbines, com-

Mr. Turner: They might or might not 3.-The Beal Sitaation of Eden,prising of H.P. and L. P. turbines, com-tion that the defendants had agreed to

bined with stern turoines, driving a quit. He said it was a matter of law do that. They might take about threa and Proofs of The Deluge and the single propeller through double reduc- that, in all teenancy agreements, if there ears and we want to stop this port of

ibing now... Great Upheaval of Central Asia. Origin tion gear, and capable of maintaining was no express covenant to surrender, of Loess Deposits, Salt Lakes and

Magistrate: I think the easiest a total combined shaft horse power of there was an implied term that vacant Deserts.

1,600 on ordinary sea service, with the possession should be given at the expira.way would be to drop on" the em ployee and hold them responsible. I 4.-China in time of The Deluge, and turbines running at 3,500 revolutions per tion of the tenancy.

don't think thero is anything to show The Origin of Crustaceans of Ta. Hu minute and propeller at 102 revolutions Counsel also described the ways in

China the "Shinar" of The per minute. This machinery is supplied which the plaintiffs had been prejudiced that this man was there except in a

trespasser. with superheated steam from one large by inability to secure the premises. The defendant was, accordingly enation. Why the Ancients of The West- failed multitabular manne boiler at a working An alternative point was that plained and discharged. Afterwards. as the

pressure of 200 lbs. per square inch. The boiler is fitted so that either coul or fuel tiffs reasonably required these premises Dairy Farm's premises Pokfulum have

area, he wa oil can be used for generating stea themselves and their employés.

for their occupation as a residence for been declared an infer

The disinfected. fic proofs of the Truth of the Biblica! under forced draught on the "Howden - Record of "Eden " and the "' Flood,”

systém. The vessel is also fitted with defendants in their affidavit claimed that 6-Chinese Turkestan-The Cradle of "Cochran" donkey boiler and all the they required three floors for domestic The Humed Race, Fallacy of the four latest auxiliary machinery, and is lighted purposes. Therefore it was not area-51 MILES UP IN THE AIR. "Great Ice Ages,"

by

Messrs sonable for plaintiffs to require two floors 7-The Origin and Age of Ancient Scot

Scotts tricity

Shipbuildoughout.

and Engineering for the same purpose. Co

Ltd.

the builders Greenock of

Mr. Alabaster: Our occupants' number Human Bones of Mexico Bolution of of the turbines and gearing, while the 30, against your 17. "The Dark Mystery of The East."

boiler and all appartenances have been Mr. Jenkin: At the present moment, No doubt you will be pleased to know made by the builders of the vessel. premises in Des Voeux Road West have that all my books and pamphlets have bean most cordially welcomed by the great Awangtung, which was launched two

The Euangchou sister ship of the been vacant, waiting for the defendants Mr. Alabaster addressed his Honour, Universities, and Scientific and Gen- months ago, is almost completed and at some length, in support of the con graphical Booieties of The World.

ready for trials. A third vessel of this tention that he had no case to answer. I sincerely hope that your Association class is under construction and will be "The object of the Ordinance." he said. will co-operate with the Scientific Expodi launched shortly. The Taikoo Dockyard is to protect my clients from such per tion, which has been despatched to the are new in a position to undertake con- sons as Mr. Jeakin's clients, my client Central Asian Plateau by the American struction as well as repairs of turbine having been a tenant throughout, who is Asiatic Society under the leadership of machinery in their own workshops, which paying and has always paid, the Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, and that your have recently been extended and equip standard rent. Mr. Jenkin's client, on. united labours and researches in Chiness ped for this purpose.

the other hand, is one of the very people Turkestan, the Tionghan District, Mon-

that tha Ordinance was made to prohibit - person who, between December. last year, and July this year, gets posses lord by offering: a higher rent because he hopes to recoup himself by so doing. by making its provisions retrospective.

Ordinance especially attacked.

to discover China

5-Historical, Geological and Scienti

golja, and the provinces of the Whang Ho

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FRENCH. AIRMAN ENJOYS FINE WEATHER IN THE CLOUDS.

George Kirch, the famous airman and.. colleague of Sadi-Lecointe, alighted recently at Le Bourget nerodrome, after mounting to 9,000 metres (nearly miles), !

Although he had failed to beat the altitude record ol 10,030 American metres, he laughingly remarked that he had thoroughly enjoyed the weather during the 36 minutes climb into the clouds.

River Basin, will confirm the truth of my COOLIE WOMEN KILLED, ATion of the premises from the over-land reach 8,000 metres. At the thirty-eighth i

discoveries.

I also hope that the Chinese Govern

KOWLOON,

What was the

The high flight was made in a Neaport biplane, driven by a 300 hp motor. It took Kirch eleven minutes to climb the first 5,000 metres, and 20 minutes to minute the barograph registered 0,000 metres, and, as the thermometer at that moment marked 50 degrees centigrade below Zero, Kirch decided not to take too much of a chance, and downed." until

serious préidhe reach ground, where the same ther-

ed WREATH IN A BLOCK OF ICE.

ment will carefully watch and super- intend the excavations in. Chinese Tar Two coolie women met their death kestan, the Tianshan District, Mongolia, yesterday morning by the subsidenes of the and the extensive Loess area of the side of a trench, six feet deep, on a site that the other side. had show Whang Ho River Valley, where I am off the Nathan Road, near Park Street, Mr. Alabaster. That they had let themometer marked plus 98 degrees centi- positively certain great prehistoric (ante where excavations are in progress to lay premists to some body else 1 That, grade. dilavian cities and monuments, lie the foundations of a new building. Only they wore liable to be shot at No. buried under the Loese deposits.

part of the trench had been shored with They merely wanted to carry on buss- timber. The two women coolies were acts which had never been fully started. With heartiest greetings and best engaged in the unfinished part of, the and to do so by turning out a very much wishca-Yours sincerely,

trench when the side gave way and they older ride had to prove that the Boldiers' Association of Western Austra

The Perth branch of the Returned were buried: " ̈Both were dead when taken The other

alternative accommodation was reason-lia reo nt y despatched a beautiful-wreath. equivalent in all respects their of wild. Bowers, to England, to be placed ably said it was not rensopably.cquivalent.” Westminster Abbey. The wreath Was His Honour demarred but at Mr. fruen in a solid block of ice, and when Alabaster's request, innse of art appeal, it has been thawed the flowers will be na made a note on the noint

free as when gathered some six weeks Utimately, His Honour ruled that previously. The wreath is expected to there was a cans to answer,

rath to don in time for. Mr. W. M. "Evidence was called and the Court ad Hughes, the Australian Fremier, to place journed:

it on the grave before his departure. ⠀

to

~(80) Tak TBAN TAL Hoping that The Chinese Scientific Association will immediately send an expedition to Kansu Province

horoughly explore this ancient city and ita, surroundings, and thanking you for the insertion of this letter-Yours, etc. ATSE THAN TAI Hongkong, 24th August, fozi,

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