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THE SWATOW DISASTER. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SUBSCRIP

TION FUND OPENED

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 918,

CASUALTIES: ESTIMATED AT

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TSE TSAN TAPS ADVICE TO-DR, SÜN TAT SEN.

THE DES VŒUX-ROAD

"ROBBERY.

Mr. The Tran Tai, of Hongkong, has ARRESTED "MAN COMMITTED TO addressed the following letter to Dr. Sun Tat Seh, at Coutop:-

The Deputy-Commissioner is.quoted by the officers as having estimated the total With the re-opening of business offices, killed and wounded in the whole district yesterday, "after" the public holiday, the at no less than 30,000; in fact, he believed MY DEAR FRIEND,-Having watched Chairman of the Hungkong Generalit to be nearer 70,000 than 50,000. In your career from the date of your in Chamber of Commive (the Hon. Mr. A. Jonë village alone, only 23 people were niguration as President of the Republie O. Lang) received many requests in the saved out of 10,000. The dil not appear of China at Nankin, and your resignation first few hours of the morning, that a to be sieh n great shortage of water as of the Presidency in favour of the late Subscription fund should be opened for had been feared; food was the argentan Shi Kai in February, 1912," and not the relief of sufferers in the Swatow requirement. The business of the town is wishing to se disaster betall you and typhoon disaster, That public aympathy paralysed and it will be some time before the members of your Party, I cannot

merchants will be able to receive cargo.frain from offering you a few words of There is talk of closing the port against friendly advice at the present critical the importation of cargo except "essential juncture of your career. stores, foodstuffs, building materia), ete"

had been profoundly moved by the full accounts of the tragedy published during the week-end was quite clear. Arrange ments were made, inrthwith, in open # public subscription fund through which the 'British and foreign community may contribute towards the relief of the dis

FEARS OF BANDITS.. The town is quiet, and there have been Iress. Subscription formis will be Avail few attempts at looting: Bandits on the able every day at the offices of the General outskirts of the town have been reported. some 3,000 unarmed Chamber of Comme.er in Chartered Bank it is said that Buiting. It is expected "that a substan- bandits have taken up strong positions ial list of contributions will be available in the locality and have threatened to for publication by this evening. Samsloot the whole, district unless the muni collected will be used for relief under|cipal authorities guarantee them a sum proper supervision in Swatox,-probably of not less than $100,000. In view of this in collaboration with the British Consul martial law has been declared and any there who is also distributing the moner person seen in the streets"after dark and supplies voted by the Hongkong without a lantern is liable to be shot on Goseriment. Thus, duplication and waste sight. will be avoided. It is hardly necessary

We are now both old men, and you will no doubt remember that after the late Yeung Ku Wan and I joined hands with you and your friends and established the Hing "Chang" Wadi in Hongkong in March, 1998. and after our failure. captum Canton City on 26th October, 1895, it was who advised the Inte Yeung Kn Wan to rezign the Leadership

THE SESSIONS.

Ho Se, one of the two men arrested in connection with the daring daylight robbery at No. 17, Des Vaux Road West, was yesterday morning committed to the Criminal Sessions for trial.

The robbery cecurred in one of the busiest parts of Les Voux Rond West, in short distance from where the tram line branches off the Penyn and where there is a junction of four busy streets. Outside the shop there is a street fountain and, at the time of the robbery, a long queue off people were waiting there to draw water. The robbers were armed with toy pistols, After binding and gagging the inmates they stole a handbag containing $900. They also attempted to open a safu" by The sale is said to have contained $40,000 removing the dias, but in this they failed. collected on the previous day.

witnesses could identify him as one of the the secand defendant was the man who robbers. The first defendant alleged that

supplied the arms

Sergt. Dick, giving evidence as to the on visiting the gardens he found in one of aerest of the first defendant, said that

the cubicles the brass disc which had been removed from the safe. The leather

On information received the man who was committed for trial was arrested at the Chean Lok Gardens, Yaumati on the of the Party in your favour so as to pre-day following the robbery. The second rent Farty strife, when you, expressed the defendant was arrested on information given by the first defendant, but he had desire that he should do so, after his re-to be discharged as none of the police turn from his Mission to South Africa, India, and the Straits Settlements, and After his interview with you in Japan in Some of the officers of the Hai Chiny March, 1905, when you were busy organiz went on shore for a short time during ing the Tung Meng Whui with Wu Han their stag at Swatow but so horrifyingan, Wong. Hing and others, wre the sights and so polifted, the air

After returning to Hongkong, and after with noisome odours that "they, soon re-

the collapse of the Wei Chow movement, Chinose sympathisers are bring reached turned to the ship. People who are com- by the Chinese Chamber of Comineree, inpelled to go about the town do in, with the late Yeung Ku Wan was assassinated conjunction with the Tung Wah Hospital their nostrils covered in a cloth or hand-in his school-room at No. 52, Gage Street authorities who do so much for the relief kerchief, containing soft balls of can- of suffering, in this part of Chian.

The arch for bodies still con phor. A meeting in support of the relief funds istinues and on the day the Hai Ching to be held as the Tung Wah Hospital this was in port no less than 2,500 were taken

to appeal to everyone to give. necording to his gircumstunersgtowards the allevia- tion of the awful ralamity that has ever

taken Swatow,

afternoon,

LONGNONG GOVERNMENTS

SYMPATHY AND AID."

The Colonial Secretariat notifies us that the following, communication was forward ed yesterday LO FI.B.M. Consul, at

Switow.

the 10th January, 1001, and you issued his Obituary Notice from Japan in the following month. You will also remem- ber that I remained inactive after my failure to capture Canton City with the help of my late father, and Hung Fook. from the water. All efforts at the prLi Pak, Dr. Yung. Wing, LLD., Sir Kai sent anument are concentrated in clearing, Ha. Kai, "Kt.. C.A., and others, on the away dend bodies which, as they are night of 29th January, 1903, when collected, are piled up in front of the expected your co-operation from abroad. Temple near the Band. Only one tele-started in October, 1971, and the Revolu Subsequently, the Wuthang movement phone pole in every ten is left standing. tion rapidly became a success.

we

After the ousting of the Manchus and the establishing of the Chinese Republie in 1911, and not wishing to become a party man or to participate in the Civil war fare, which I knew would certainly follow your resignation of the Presidency in favour of the late Yuan Shi Kai, I retired Wfrom the political arena, as I dreaded to standing by in the hopes of being able to see Chinese killing Chinese in a selfish render aid to the strandeď vessels.

Ma Su Island, where there are a num- ber of residences belonging to the foreign Siram directed to forward the pilots of the port has been completely enclosed copies of wireless telegrams which were sent to you on the 3th, schwrecked and scarcely a house has been and 8th August. I am at the same time left standing. "When the Hai Ching, left to acknowledge the receipt of your for Hongkong H.M.S. agradie marssage of the 74 August, transmitted by H.M.S. Magnolia, to the effect that the threatened food and, water famine appeared to have been averted for the present.

-H, E. the Officer Administering the Government asks that you will be good as to express to the Swatow authorities on behalf of this Colony ite most sincere sympathy in the appalling elisaster which has befallen the port and district, and if you will at the same tinic acquaint this Government of the nature of the assistance which is incat immediately required,-I ALI, ST. Your obedient servant,

(Sd.) A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Colonial Secretary.

suicidal struggle för rank and power.

handbag was also found badly mutilated. A number of gags and pieces of string were also discovered

A PLUCKY CONTRACTOR, "SUCCEEDS IN ARRESTING AN ARMED ROBBER.

The hearing of an armed highway rob- ! very case in which a paint-scraping con- tractor was held up in a public ricksha at the railway bridge near Hung Hom by Magistracy, before Mr. Hamilton. There four men was opened yesterday at the

ware two defendants, the first being a young Chinese who was captured on the spot after a great struggle by the con tractor. The other moan was arrested some days later on information received and picked out at an identification parade as one of those who took part in the robbery. The contractor was returning home to Hunghom from Yaumati, on the early morning of July 18th. Near the railway bridge four men stopped his ricksha It has been most painful and distress-saulted the ricksha paller who, on re- THE STRANDED STEAMERS.

ing to me to witness the turmoil; suffer took to his heels The robbers said. McMurray, Marine Superintendent of in China, since the founding of the

Interviewed yesterday afternoon, Mr. ing, and bloodshed that has taken place they were policemen and that they wished to search him. The contractor said he ears. Jardine Matheson Co., who Republic.

was quite prepared to be searched at the has been to Swatow to examine the And, in order to prevent further blood. ucarest Police Station, but refused to be damaged sexails, said that it was prae- shed and misery in Ching, and to put searched there. The men dragged him out ically hopeless to save the us hayan end to the fratricidal and senseless of the ricksha and roughly handled him she has a long hole in her bed and issulting in the dislocation of trade, and watch and 31.70 in money. Just as the and she is likely to become a total wreck laughter of Cantonese by Cantonese, re- and stole his jacket, containing a gold lying about two miles inhand

very indescribable misery and sufering of men were preparing to move off, the con- narrow, shallow channel in about four millions of your fellow provincials, tractor seized the man who stole the jacket fert of water.. No lives were lost in the earnestly beseech you to sacrifice self and and yelled for assistance: The man he position, and to sink personal feeling and attempted to hold and another stabbed There is some hope of salving the party differences, and get reconciled to him three times on the back and arms. Tungshing despite the fact that she has General Chen Chiung Ming, before it is Hearing the sound of approaching font- been badly holed in two places, but the the inte. After being reconciled, you steps the three men maile off, leaving their holes are not too large to clos

There is also some hope of saving the could retire to Shanghai, where you might confederate still in the arms of the con-

devote your time and energy to reorganiz tractor. A watchman from the Kowloon 8.9. Shantang, Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's vessel, which Bes on some rocking your Party by a wise selection of Canton Railway came on the scene and off the Kakchin Promontory. The vessels capable and experienced men, and by the between them they succeeded in arresting stem and stern posts are broken. By careful weeding out of "undesirables." the man.

And, whilst in Shanghai, you could co- digging a channel it may just be possible operate with President Li Tuan Hung to reflost her into, deep water!

and other patriots in the great work of Reconstruction, and Unification of China, and act as the "Guardian" of the Great Chinese Republic

Chopiany,

The Hongkong Government has so far sent by the, es. Haihong, which sailed from Hongkong on Saturday, 100 bags, 240 lbs. each rice and 132 bags, baskets and packages biscuits and 4 bags bread, contributed by the Hongkong Gorein ment for the destitute, at Swatow, On Sunday, 267 more bags were sent and the British Consul has been asked to dele- graph what further assistance is required. Yestering a further wireless message wasp

ing sent reading:-

Please telegraph whether further immediate assistance is required. Is there urgent need of matched poles and other materials for construction of tem porary buildings and are more food stuffs wanted???*

THE SWATOW NATIVE PRESS. The Maa Sing Po. & Swatow native of Monday's date, has the follow-

RELIFE "ORGANISATION.

The relief committee with a number of sub-committees has been appointed by the Commissioner of the Port to bury the dend, to look after "wounded people, and to distribute free " congee. A large sum of money has been raised for immed-

the Mission Hospital and the local troop www. of hop-scouts have volunteered their ser

Although I am an unworthy man and have long retired from polities, I earn- estly hope that you will not ignore the humble advice of.-Your old friend and well-wishery

TSE OSAN TAI,

BOYS WILL BE BOYS."

POLICE, ROUND UP. STREET- FOOTBALLERS.

The first witnces called yesterday was the Medical Officer in Charge of the Kwong Wab Hospital, Dr. Ip, who stid that the complainant's injuries were not serious, but might have been as the wound in the back if it had gone a little deeper would have pierced the man's left lung.

Purely formal evidence as to the arrest by the watchman was next taken and the caar was put back for further hearing.

NEW BARRISTER ADMITTED.

In the Supreme Court, before the Chief The Colonial Secretariat states that theiate relief. Medicul practitioners from

Justice (Sir William Rees Davies), yes terday morning, Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the

the Attorney-General (the Hon. Mr. J. E. Kemp: E_C.) made Superintendent of Imports and Exports vicce Arrangements have been made by

an application for the admission of Mr. have been asked to keep in touch with the these two latter partits to pay house-to-

house visits for the purpose of rendering Boys will be boys" the wide world Elsley Zeitlyn to practice as a barrister Chinese Community with regard to, the

medical aid. A house for destitutes is in over and even when they have their little the Supreme Court of Hongkong.

MF. Zeitlyn was called to the Middle general question of the relief required and the course of erection and this it is hoped game of soccer in Royal Statue Temple in May. 1900. He read with the any enquiries or suggestions should be will be completed in the course of the Square or in Robinson Road, they do not present Lord Chancellor, then Mr. F. E.

next few days.

realise the risks they run in being caught Smith, and went to the Northern Circuit, the fastly moving traffic of Hongkong to the membership of which he was pro neither do they realise the annoyance posed by Sir Rufus Isaacs, now Lord they cause to pedestrians and household Reading. He was accended by Mr. FE ens in the neighbourhood. For sometime Smith

ad supported as Sir Lancelot past the police of Hongkong have busied Saunderson,. themselves clearing the streets of these Bengal

Dow Chief Justice.

addressed to them.

The Municipality is also offering re wards to those people who will assist in the burial of the dead."

LOOTING.

of

A further consignment of 100 tons of rice was sent to Swatow by the Hong kong Government yesterday afternoon,

The British-American. Tobacco Company.

Offcial notices have been issued, pro have cabled to their Swatow. agent, "to donate. $1,000 to the relief fund at hibiting rice-profiteering. The mob on youngsters and on one or two occasions The Chief Justice granted the appli Swatow and have undertaken, also, to Sunday, incensed at the action of two the Magistrates have warned boys against cation send a shipment of rice, within the next. native deslers in raising the price of the practice of playing football: in the

day or two, for distribution to the

people. O

'doors.

THE WATER SUPPLY.

S FOR THE YOUNG: "THE JUNGLE GODDESS," :

rice; attacked and wrecked their shops, streets that street football A pants followed and what few shops Yesterday two youthful street football- The 5.8. Hai Ching, the Douglas Steam there were open at once closed their ers were brought before Mr. Hamilton and charged with having played the game ahip Company's vessel, arrived in Hong-

in Robinson Road. Originally three boys kong, yesterday afternoon from Swatow.

Bare-handed Sights with ferocious lions, The fai Ching was at Amoy during the The waterworks supply has now been were arrested, but one of the three failed typhoon where strong gales and heavy resumed on a very small scale, temporary to appear in Court and estreated his bail, terrife jungle battles with hordes of Stan were experienced. Prior to leaving repairs to

having been of $10

tigers and leopards, daring escapades in Amoy the officers of the ship heard that efected the wate

The boys admitted the offence, and Mr. aeroplanes and a fearful sea voyage Bwatow, had suffered in the typhoon but On the 8th inst. a letter was sent by Hamilton pointed out that it was against aboard a schooner in which wild animals Kobody expected more than that a few the local Magistrate (Mr. Wong) to all regulations to play football in the are in command, are some of the thril houses would be damaged and small craft H.B.M. Conmal at Swatow, thanking the streets. What was more, it was a very lag episodes which find inclusion in wrecked. As in the case of other vessels, Hongkong Government on behalf of the dangerous practice and likely to cause "The Jungle Goddess, the hair-raising the Hai Ching was unable to discharge sufferers for the shipment of 236 packages serious motor-car ariidents. The parente jungle adventure serial the third and argo at: Swallow and had to carry the of rice and buscuits per the a.. Hai of the two boys were called and told fourth episodes of which are being consignment on to Hongkonggo m

Hong

... that it was their duty to keep the boys screened at the Kowloon Theatre to-day. On their arrival at Swatow, tha Deputy.

at home?". The: Magistrate warned, the To introduce the picture the kiddies of Commissioner of the Port came on board The Ngoi Sha village situated on the boys if they were brought into Court Kowloon were given a free show when the and appealed for foodstuffs for the famine coast in the Ching Hai district was des again they would be given a severe beat, first two episodes were shown last week Btricken people. This procedure is being troyed by the typhoon. It is estimated ing. They were then discharged and they went into cestasien, over it. It adopted with all vessels entering the port. that over 10,000 inhabitants perished in Another small boy, said to be a waiter in unfortunate for our youngsters that we Unfortunately, the 2 Ching was und this village alone. The corpses from in a Chinese tea house, was also charged never get a real live circus in Hongkong aware of the serious state of affairs and this district have damned the river and with a similar ofence in the Statue but pictures like The Jungle, Goddess had only sufficient food for her own crow the Bow of water has been practically Square. He also was admonished and go a long way to make up for thir for the round-trip.

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