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TYPHOON DAMAGE. KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN PRAYA WALL DAMAGED.

The heavy seas that rolled up from Stonecutters on Friday have done con- siderable damage to the sea wall in front of the Kowloon Godowns. Right along the whole of the sea wall large pieces of of concreta have been lifted out of posi

T&F HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 30cm, 1998..

CORRESPONDENCE.

-THE MISSING LINK."

{TO THE EDITOR OF "TER HONGKONG'

DAILY PRESS

"STANDARD "RENT"

IMPORTANT JUDGMENT IN THE SUMMARY COURT.

Judgment was delivered on Saturday morning in the Summary Court by the Puisne Judge (Mr. H. H. J. Gempartz) fin a case brought under the Rents Ordi-

St-As noted in an editorial in your, last issue the question of means communication between Hongkong and Kowloon which shall be independent of

pance.

The case was one in which a teuant at

ENGLISH LADY'S MYSTERIOUS |

DISAPPEARANCE

Much, core-en is felt at the mysterious WONDERFUL VALUES,

disappearance of Miss E. A. Card, an English lady who had been residing at Kingsclere private bote! for nearly two years, Miss Card left the hotel on Friday night-in typhoon weather-at 11.30 o'clock with a shawl wrapped round

tion and according to Mr. Brown, the typhoons naturally suggests, itself whon No. 134, Peel Street (ground floor), sued her head and a waterproof over her white Secretary of the Wharf and Godowa Cum. weather conditions such as those of the his sub-tenant for $77, the amount being dress. She has not been seen sinco

pany, it will east lots of money to re-

last few days supervene. Nevertheless, 1

pair the damage." The damage is prin. venture to express the opinion that, how the case it was established that the ten- little over two years, bring employed at·|

cipally confined to the content bedding

ever full may be the Treasury, the oner- mous expense of constructing a tunnel

"between the crane lines near the edge of under the Harbour-apparently the on/Portion of the floor for $77 a month.

feasible method of achieving indepen. dence of typhoons-will not be justified for many years to come.

the sen wall and to the edge of the wall itself. The surging water ripped up the concrete and tossed large blocks higgledy piggledy across the crane linės.

After all, Sir, when typhoon winds do It is not known yet whether the founda blow, the main business of the Colony, tion to the sea wall have been damaged.o the working of cargo, the tranship- and, as Mr. Brown stated, this cannot toont of commodities and the removal of be known until divers have been sent goods out of and into godowns, mast down to make an inspection. The cease. Winclies and derricks are idlo, wharves, he continued, were but slightly cargo junks take shelter, steamers leave damaged, here and there a plank had the wharves for safety's sake, water-gaten been lifted, but this only required" a are fixed in position in front of godowns. nail of two to put it right again. the humble carga coolie, be he never so

strong, is physically unable to carry accustomed burdens against the force of

Speaking of Friday morning's high tido. Mr. Brown described it as the highest he had seen since the 1903 the storm. tyy hoon, which caused such havoc and losof life. The whole of the godown frontage was under water for most of the day, but, thanks to their experience of the 1006 disaster, not a bit of damage was done inside the godowns Not on package of cargo had been damaged.”.

Asked if the 5.8. Macedonia, which rode Gout the storm at one of the wharves, had

bia

Why then, burrow under the Harbour, at Heaven knows what cost, in order to bring over office workers who will have very little to do in the way of current work and will be able to accomplish, at most, "a good day's clearing up." They will be better occupied at home helping to secure their premises against the onslaught of the gale.

rent in arrears. During the hearing of Miss Card has been in Hongkong a

ant poid 837 a month rent unl sub-let a | Messrs. Butterfield and Swife's ng cou fidential secretary and office assistant, Mr. M. M.. Watson, solicitor for the She came from Vancouver to join the firm plaintiff, argued that though it seemed of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. Miss rather hard that the sub-tenant had to Card, we understand, had gained the pay $77, when the lessco had only to pay high respect of her employers and she 837 a month, the sent the lessee charged was popular amongst the residents, at was the standard. runt under the Ordi. Kingsclere. · ·

She is of medium height, 32 years of Mr. M. K. Lo (for the defence) demirage, fair complexion and has fair, hair red to this and submitted that if the cir.which she wears bobbed. cumstances, were not in conflict with the Ordinance they were obviously against the principles of the Ordinance.

nance.

On the day of her disappearance Miss Card is stated to have been in good health and went to work as usual. Directly her In delivering judgment his Lordship prolonged absence from the hotel was said: The facts of the case, which are noticed inquiries were set ou foot to dir. quite short, have been agreed between cover her whereabouts, but without-rogult, the partics." The plaintiff is tenant of the Search parties were then sent out from ground floor of 13A, Peel Street. The the hotel the European residents assisting standard rent of that floor is 837 per and the police were informed of the Thes also joined in the mensen. In about the "third moon this seturretice. year a portion of the floor was sub-let to search, whilst Messrs. Butterfold and the defendant at a rent of 877 per men- Swire organised another search party, sem. It is agreed that the ground floor All day Saturday and throughout the and also the portion of that floor now sub-let to the defendant was its first let ting.

I am asked to decide whether it is

better

caused any damage to the wharf,, Mr.working" day on account. of suspension of the standard rent of tuc portion sub-jotless Other parts of the Island have alsá |

Brown said he was not aware of any and as far as he knew no damage had heen caused. It is stated that the reaso why the vessel did not move out into the harbour was that her windlass was rar- ried away as she was coming alongside. the wharf and she had to stay there.

STEAM LAUNCH BUNK.

Has any one kapt count? I do not think the Colony has Jost more than one the ferry service in 1921, 1929 and 1993, so far as it has gone.-Yours, etc.,

DENT & CO, SHANGHAI (TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

X.

SIR-With reference to paragraphs ap- On Friday shortly after noon a steam pearing in your issues of Wednesday and Thursday, July 25th and 26th, concerning launch Fai Oh, was" sunk inside the receiving order, said to have been made Yautati typhoon shelter. The launch against the firm of Dent & Co. in Shang

hai, we are instructed by Messrs. Herbert was lying at anchor opposite the Kai Ping Dent & Co. of Canton to ask you to he coal yard. There was a strong sea good enough to publish a definite con running inside the shelter and her anchor tradiction to the statement you issued on chain breaking she was dashed against July 20th, that the Shangnai receiving the coal yard pier and sunk in a very order concerned the firm of Herbert Dent short time. Fortunately no lives were & Co. in Canton.

loati

LANDSLIDES.

There is not, and never has been, any Connection whatsoever between the firnis of Dent & Co., Shanghai, and Herbert Dent & Co., Canton,Yours faithfully,

In the hill districts a number of land: slides bave occurred as the result of the

GILMAN & CO., LTD., heavy rains. There was a considerable

A. MISKEN, Director. subsidence at the Peak near the junction [It was the intention of the paragraph of Mount Kellet and Chamberlain Roads we published on the 26th inst. to make and the rul de aut at Magazine Gap Road it clear that the proceedings at Shang- is blocked by a fall of earth. According hai in relation to the firm of Dent & Co. to the Police Traffic Department, Stubbs did not concern the firm of Herbert Deut Rond, between Barker Road and Mount & Co. of Canton, but by an unfortunate Gough Police Station, is closed owing to omission by the printer of the word & washout which occurred thero on not," the paragraph bore a moaning Saturday morning.

directly opposite to what it was intended to have.-E., II.D.P.]

A retaining wall in Robinson Road bas also collapsed.....

Owing to typhoon, damage tus public bathing beaches at Kennedy Towa and North Point are closed temporarily but the Public Works Department hope t have them re-opened during the early. part of the week.

At Kennedy Town the sen water flood-

THE GOVERNMEST CRISIS. IN THE PHILIPPINES. NEW YORK PRESS COMMENT.

ed many godowns" in the neighbourhood La Vanguardia (Manila) published the of Belcher Street and a considerable following cable from New York last amount of damage was dope to cargo week:- stored there.

NEW YORK, July, 20th.

As to rainfall, since Thursday morning. American Press exhibits great excite we have had a total fall of about 9ment and interest over wholesale resigna- inches. This still leaves us below the tions of Becretaries" and Council" of average. The total since January 1st in Į State. "" given as 40.48 inches, against an Average All New York papers have been giving of 50.65 inches.

prominent space relating in detail stories YACHT CLUB BOWLING GREEN

covering Conley affair wired here by As sociated Press.

DAMAGED.

Some of the New York papers editor The heaty seas of Friday did consistorially denounce bitterly Wood's attitude. able damage to the "new sea wall in front The New York World' demands immed- of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club at late and sympathic attention from Wash North Point. The extreme corner of the ington for Filipinos grievances saying Club's newly reclaimed land upon which that Wood must assume all blame be the new bowling green has been laid out cause his policy was founded on dis has been holed, the waves having washed belief in Filipinos tuces for self-govern- out the concrete surface at the top of the meat, also distrust of American doctrines wall and carried away about half the by which Filipinos had been taught to wall at the corner. A few square yardle look forwards to autonomy and ultimate of the bowling green turf have been also independence." carried away.

SHANGHAI `MISSIONARY’B SUDDEN DEATH. WHILE PLAYING TENNIS..

rison.

. . . . . .

The New York World adds that Wood's actions discourage hopes of Filipinos for realization of aspirations by reversing policy of former Governor-General Har The World says his (Wood's) prelimin ary report was calculated to alarm Fili- pinos. That Wood as administrator is guilty of military authority and manner. sms that would not be tolerated in any American State Capitol.

A very well-known member of the "American Presbyterian Mission in Shang, hai, the Rev. Harrison King Wright, died

The New York Evening Post believes Jast week in particularly tragic circum that Filipinos interpret Wood's tendency mances. So far as was known, says the towards Autocracy as an attempt to re N.-U. Daily News, Mr. Wright was got pudinte all American promises grintallized in bad health, but whilst he was playing in Jones Act, The Fes Fork Evening tepuis on the courts of the Dixwell Road Pust gives this editorial advice "I w Tennis Club he suddenly collapsed. He want to avoid growing friction with was taken at once to the Victoria Nursing Philippines, we should again make clear Home, but a doctor there could only the conviction of the great mass of ertify that he was dead and it is believed Americans, that Filipinos must be train that he must have had a sudden hearted for independence at earliest possible attack."Mr. Wright leaves, a widow, who moment."

The plaintif contends that it is. If I nold that $77 is not the standard 'reut, I am asked to fix the standard rent.

Now it in freely admitted that if the plaintiff's contention is right, any person may take a house, a floor, or a room, at the standard rent. Then, while he ro

part of yesterday the anxious searchers scoured the hills, nooks and crannies from the lower levels right up to the Peak but their efforts proved fruit.

been searched by the police and up to last evening no trace could be found of the missing lady. It is supposed that Miss Card has met with a serious accident or that some seriong barin has come to her.

tanins in occupation, he may make many MONGOLIA'S BANDIT MENACE times the amount of that standard reat by aut-letting portions of bis tenement.

A claim similar to that of the plaintif

ENTRANCE OF RUSSIANS ALSO RESENTED.

Because of political trouble in Poking which prevented the answering of former notes, the Princes appealed to General Chang.

in this action was made in England in General Chang Tso Lis to dispatch The Mongolian Princes have asked 1920, in the case of Woodward v.three brigades to the Mongoliau borders Samuels-reported in 122 Law Tines and prevent the further influx of Rus

Peking. Reports, p. 081. The County Courtians, according to a message received in Judge held that the standard rent of a dat was the rent at which it was firit let The Divisional Court pointed o the difficulties of the question, but finally They said that in the last few months concluded that the ease was met by sec-3,000 new Russian soldiers have arrived, tion 2 (3) of the Act of 1915, and that to but that they do not suppress bandits arrive at the standard rent of the flat it who work in outer Bongolia robbing

berdors and caravans. was necessary to 'apportion thy standard ront of the entire house.

I share the difficulty felt by the learned Judges at Home, but I have ne corre sponding scution in our Ordinance to assist me. It is agreed that there is in our law no general power to apportion Our section 8 (1) in net the equivalent of the English section-it has a very limited application.

The case was exhaustively argued anu many decisions were cited for the defen dant. But they turn on other circum stances and a different law, and I can get Un no material assistance from them. the whole, I think that the plaintiff is right and that the standard reat of this portion is the rent at which it was first let, that is $77. There must be judgment for the plaintiff, with coste, which, agree, should, in view of the importance

of the case, be of the third scale.

Russians, says the note; control the affairs of Government but do little except the administrative work and do not pre- tend to stabilize the interior of Mongolia. HARBIN CHINESE AND THE RUSSIANS.

Chinese residents in. Harbin have organized an association to urge the Chinese aathorities to take a strong stand with Russia in all diplomatic affairs and especially in cases where Chinese along the bordor are mistreated by Russians. The residents were moved at Heiko where several merchants and others reported that they had been subjected to ill-treat- The rules of the ment by Russians.

call for financing the association. association with contributions from tha Chinese Commerce bodies in North Man. churia.

REPRISALS AGAINST RUSSIANS.

As a protest against the alleged ill- treatment of Chinese residents of Siberia by the Russians, the Chinese authorities in Manchuria havo confiscated several corrals of trainloads

grain and destined for Siberia by railway and n number of water shipments of heans op the Amur and Sungari rivers.

THE HARBOUR RESCUE. SEQUEL AT THE MAGISTRACY. The Chinese, who attempted to commit suicide with his wife at the Canton Wharf during the typhoon and who was rescued by Chief Proveative Quicer Clark, was charged at the Magistracy on Saturday with the murder of his wife, who died shortly after being taken from BANDITS RANSOM FOR CHINESE. the water.

The case was formally remanded for a week.

ECHO OF PAOTZUKU.

Somowlers between the contributors to

We learn that Chief Preventive Inspet the committed organized to release Chinese tor Clark, in effecting the rescue, slightly captives from the bandit stronghold at injured his shoulder turough being Photzuku, there was a financial delay and thrown against the pilings of the wharf now some of the Shantung officials are whilst he was in the water, Mr. Edley, being accused by the bandits of not play- who assisted him in the rescue, is bettering fair. known to shippers and passengers using 1,000 to pay the bandits for releasing The commission promised to raise the Canton steamers as Hill Edley. He is the wharfinger at the Hongkong the Chiness, according to the officials. and Macao Steamboat Company's Canton The prisoners work. sent to their homes Wharf. His gallant rescue work during but the funds did not arrive. the 1906 typhoon is still a feature of the typhoon gossip amongst old resulcuts.

CIRCUS CLOWN AS MALARIA INSPECTOR,

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Bandit leaders accused the officials of holding the money and to prevent trouble, they say, they raised a fund of 84,000 and promised to get as much more s possible. Before this amount was paid the bandits threatened not to temain in the National army but when the funds were in their hands, according to the ro Criticism of a scathing character was port, they pledged allegiance and wont to

Mosquito Brithe barracks. directed against the gades," which have boon maintained by the Corporation of Caleutia for some time, at a Corporation meeting, and by in Shanghai, and a son at Peitaibo, The New York Times columns sur-la majority of one it was decided that for whom the greatest sympathy is felt. reptition ay denounco Filipino leaders as the Brigades ought to be abolished. Mr. Mr. Wright was a graduats of the insincere, stating that a group of poli D. C. Ghose said that some time ago in Vaion

College and the Union Theolo-ticians headed by Quezon and Osmena Connection with an inquiry in district 4 gical Seminary, both in New York; andmerely desire to show off because they it had appeared from the evidence that he originally came to China in charge of become heroes before Filipino eyes when one of its sub-inspectors had been former had allegedly re-started before the plain- Presbyterian Boys Academy at they oppose American administration in ly employed as a circus clown. (Laugh- tif had alighted Plaintiff claimed that Ningpo

Later he was associated with | Islands. The Times concludes by saying tor.) Mr. P. Lovett: A circus clown is as a result of negligence on the part of the Christian Literature Society for some that it has ever been a Filipino political & most agile person, and it requires the Company's servants or agents she years and he had been in Shanghai custom to seek credis and strength especi-agility to catch a mosquito. (Renewed sustained severe injuries, including coa altogether for about 10 years. He was 47 aily before election time by anti-Ameri- laughter.) He did not believe in these cussion. The Jury gave a verdict for the

scientific fada.. can outbreaks.

plaintiff for Taels foo and costs.

years of age,

An action was heard is the Supreme Court at Shanghai last week in which 85,000 damages were claimed against the Shanghai Electric Construction Co, Lul, for injuries received by Mrs. Ada Rog gers while alighting from a tram which

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