1928-08-08 — Page 11

President Liner

SAILINGS

Weekly Trans-Pacific Service

t

To San Francisco and Los Angeles

The Sunshine Bell via Honolulu Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays,

Pres. Madison

Pres. Jackson "Pres. McKinley

Pree. Grant

·

Tuesday, Aug. 14th, 8 a.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 28th Tuesday, Sept. 11th Tuesday, Sept. 25th

To Seattle and Victoria The Short, Straight Rante to America Fortnightly mailings on Tuesdayım,

Pres. Pierce

Pres. Taft

Pres. Jefferson Pres. Lincoln

Tuesday, Aug, 21st Tuesday, Sept. fth Tuesday. Sept 18th Tuesday, Oct. 2nd £120, 112 Special through rates to Europe via United States. Direct

connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.

Europe and New York Direct

ROUND THE WORLD

Fortnightly sailing on Sunday via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria Naples. Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston.

Pres. Barrison Son, Aug. 19, 9 am. Pres. Monro Sun. Aug. 26, 8 a.m. Pres. Wilson Sna, Sept. 9,9 am Pros. Van Buren.San..Sept. 23,8 s.m.

Prax. Hayes.....Sta. Oct. 7,5 sm. Pras. Polk ......Sia. Oct. 21,8 a. Pres. Adams ....Saa., Nov. 4. 8 a. m. Pres. Garfield ...Jan., Nov. 18, 81, n.

To Manila

Pres. Fiarce...Aug. 14th, dp.m. Pres. Jackson Aug. 18th,. 6 p.. Pros. Taft

..Aug. 28th, 6 p.m. Pros, McKinley.Sept. 1st, 6p.m.,

Pras, JeEstein Sept. 11th, 6pm. Pros, Graub ...Sept. 15th, 6p.m Pros Lincoln Sept. With 8pm Pres. Cleveland Sept. 9th, 6p.m.

For Bookings, Pasroger and Freight tafarmssion apply to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795

Cable Address "Dollar" -

CANTON BRANCE :—–304, Ka Naain Tong Building.

American Mail Line

and

Dollar Steamship Line

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD:

COPENHAGEN.

The M.S. "DANMARK "

loading on or about 27th August

For

PORT SAID, ANTWERP HARVE, ROTTERDAM.

AMSTERDAM. HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN AND OTHER SCANDINAVIAN & BALTIC PORTS.

OTHER SAILINGS:-

M.S. "Java"

M.S." Chile"

MS. "Asia"

SAILING LIST.

Shanghai, etc

6th Sept.

Continent, 6th Septe Zist Sept. Continent. 18th Oct.

Optional Bills of Lading issued to United Kingdom Ports.

For further particulars, please apply to :——"

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

* Telephone C. 4973.

Agents -

N.Y.K. Special Summer Excursion Tickets.

£14

จ

Far Eastern residents,and theas who have come thus far from home should not miss the opportunity of taking a trip to Japan, na use N.Y.K. are offering Special Reduced Bound-trip Hates as follows:

From Hose Kone to SHANGHAI and Katurs H.K. $120,00

NAGASAKI

**

» ΚΟΒΕ

"

H

YOKOHAMA,

Validity of Tickets-3 Months.

165.00

210.00

235.00

Period of Issue From 11TH JUNE to 21 BEPTEMBER. For Further Information Please Apply to'

HONG KOXO

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

No. 8, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL.

Pyoi C. 2.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8th, 1928.

LONDON POLICE BRIBERY CHARGES.

BARRISTER M.P.'s GRAVE SPEECH.

"CORRUPTION AT THE VERY TOP."

Grave charges of corruption were made against the Metropolitan Police in the House of Commons by a well known barrister M.P., Mr. T. J. C. O'Connor (Con., Luton).

His speech was made in the course of a debate on the appointment of Lord Byng as Chief Commissioner.

"You don't bring a man of 63 into the Metropolitan Police, and a relactant man at that, if everything is plain sailing in a body of that sort,

asserted Mr. O'Connor.

Had there ever been a period in the history of the police force, he asked,

when at one time three special commissions were necessary to investigate the relations between the police and the public? He did not think it was an experience that ever appeared to be necessary with the provincial police..

He thought it right the Home Secretary, Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, should know some of the things that had. after investigation, given Serious cause for alarm.

The Home Secretary must know that it was alleged that third digies methods were not uncommon at Scotland Yard and that the case investigated by the Savidge Tribunal could not possibly have occurred as an isolated incident.

Taxicab Charges. The Home Secretary must have in his mind the Goodwood convic tions of a couple of years ago when provincial policemen of whom the country could not be aufficiently proud thought it their duty to lay information and bring for convic tion members of the Metropolitan Police.

It is rumoured among taxicab proprietors, proceeded Mr. O'Con- nor. that lubrication has to be employed to get their taxicabs pass- ed by Scotland Yard. It is not tittle-tattle. If the Home Secretary will approach any taximen in the rank in any part of London he will give him his own personal ex- perience.

THE ROMANCE OF LABRADOR.

A WINTER SURVEY.

NEWFOUNDLAND AND ITS TASK.

59

The recent decisium of the Privy Vuurčil plated Nedfoundland in undisputed possession of a large part of the Labrador peninsula. The present winter is being devoted in a thorough exploration of the potential wealth of the territory in water-poirer and wood-pulp. [BY THE HON, VICTOR GORDON, HIGH COMMISSIONER FOE

NEWFOUNDLANDA]

God made the world in five anys, Labrador on the sixth, and conducted by geological experts dis- 35 per cont. Recent investigations, ant the seventh throwing stones

patched by the Quebec Government have confirmed the accuracy of Mr. at it was the dictum of an 18th-Low's report, and there is no reason century sailor, but Alaska was long known to the American people as Seward's Folly." after the states man who purchased it from Russin in 1887 for $7,900,000. To-day Alaska has long ago proved itself an exceedingly pofitable invest. ment for the United States, and now evidence is accumulating that Labrador is a land of potentialities economic development to become a which only await intelligent and great Imperial asst.

Geographers are now agreed that! the first European who sighted these forbidding shores was probably Biarne, the Norseman, who in 950 sailed southward from Greenland and skirted the coasts of North America as far south as Nova Sectia. Ten years later Liet Eric on actually landed, and other daring Norse navigators paid visits in succeeding years, but Labrador still remained a terra incognita until more than a century later. By 1578, the year after Martin Fro- bisher paid a visit and established the first ties with Britain, the cod fisheries of Labrador and New. found laud had grown so rapidly that 150 French craft as well as 200 vessels belonging to other nations were engaged in it. In 1800 a charter *25

granted to the Governor and Company of Ad. venturers Trading from England course of time the Company estab- into Hudson's Bay and in the lished posts along the Ltbrador coast.

Practically all the settlers were migrants from Newfoundland, and consequently Devonian and Cornish blood predominates. hundred years there has been very In the last

little change in the life of the It was flagrant that women were

people of Labrador; they are a arrested and charged as common

hardy seafaring folk who year in prostitutes and the whole of their and year out wrest a precarious previous career was recalled, whichising from the ocean and have was not permitted in the case of

learnt to face it in the fiercest monds and to accept with stoical any other kind of offence.

fortitude its deadly devastations The story of the Spartan lives of the people who dwell on the Labra dor canst has been finely depicted by the self-sacrificing doctor. Sir Wilfrid Grenfell, who has devoted himself for many years to the amelioration of their lot, and the fortune which found them such a

A few weeks ago a woman charged by the police was found on examina- tion to be virgo intacta, That ought to have been impossible it sach a charge was preferred...

11

CANADIAN PACIFIC Announce Special Round-Trip Summer Excursion Fares.

Effective immediately the following Specially Reduced Round-Trip Fares are available for this Company's Steamore:

From HONG KONG to SHANGHAI, and Return...E.K. $120.00

M

NAGASAKI KOBE ТОКОНАМА

...H.E. 3165,00

...H.K. $210.00 H.K. $235.00

Tickets sold at above Rates will be valid for Return Passage up to 3 Months from Date of issue. Final Limit of Sale 21st SEPTEMBER, 1929.

For Further Information and Reservation. Apply to:-

CANADIAN PACIFIC

TONG KONG.

COENZA PIDEER ST. & CHATEZ ROAD.

TELEPHONE C. 752.

why the success which has attended! the manufacture of electrolytic steel should not be reproduced in Labra on the Italian side of the Alps dor. Only systematic prospecting will reveal what other mineral re sources exist in the country; traces of gold and silver have been found, but a gold rush, stimulated by uni scrupulous speculators in the years for a line which would connect these 1923-25, which brought hundreds of prospectors, and

two points and be extended through CONSIGNEE NOTICES. adventurers to the hinterland to Quebec City.. Labrador, has left unhappy me. There are enthusiasts who demon. mories.

atrate that a railway through the Labrador peninsula would enor- mously shorten the sed voyage to Britain because Hamilton Inlet is 730 miles nearer Liverpool than New York and 450 miles nearer than Montreal, but the Canadian co operation which would be essential THE SF KHARTOUM for such an enterprise can at pre-haring arrived. Consignees of Cargo by sent be dismissed as unattainable.

her are informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whence Delivery may be obtained.

Yet the most reliable source of wealth awaiting exploitation prob. ably consists of vast tracts of apruce, birch, fir, poplar, and other trees, which are to be found in the basin of the Hamilton River and other parts of Labrador: and in them exists the basis for an exten- sive pulp and paper industry There is considerable divergence of view about the seriousness of the depletion of Canada's forest re sources, but clearly they are inexhaustible, and the time is com ing when other sources must be tapped to fill the seemingly in satiable maw of the printing presses of the United States. Various in terests have undertaken surveys of

not

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

ELLERMAN" LINE

FROM EUROPE...

Steamship

Goods remaining undelivered after Goods have loft the Godowns, and all No Claims will be admitted after the

Rent 13th Augart, 1998, will be subject to

The Hunter's Lure. There is a lure in Labrador, as there is in most of the wild lands to the north, but this country is great Empire-builder, Donald A not a place for weaklings, One Smith, afterwards Lord Strath- cona and Mount Royal, spent many of his early years there as, agent the pulpy ood resources of Labra- for the famous

All Claims against the Steamer must dor, and this winter the Interventurers Trading into Hudson's not be

pioneers. the Governor and Company of Ad before 20th August, 1928, or they will".

presented to the Undersigned on or national Paper Company, the great Bay. The efforts of that Company American corporation which has have long been maintained and are Goods are to be left in the Godowns,

recognized. All brokou already acquired a

chafed and damaged

land, is maintaining in the coun- that exist on the coast.. empire in Canada and Newfounding and in developing the fisheries Tuesdays or Fridays, between the Bours to-day being extended in fur-trnd- where they will be examined on say timber cruisers and other experts of the stern stuff of Britain, have

a well-equipped party

cf 10.45 am. and Noon, within the Free Hunters and aportsmen, too, made | Storage period of One Week.

No Fire Insurance has been affected. who are making an exhaustive revisited and frequently returned to port upon the, local forests and Labrador, and their records tell of

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

THE BANK LINE, LTD., Power sites.

General Agents Hong Kong, 5th Aug., 1929, (6579

The Fisheries.

veritable

of

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL

STEAM NAVIGATION Co.' STEAMER "KALYAN."

A HONG KONG ow

4TH AUGUST, 19

FROM ANTWERP.LONDON, GIBRAL TAR, MARSEILLES, MALTA, PORTSAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND DTRAITS.

were the gipsies on Epsom Downs sympathetic chronicler has given improvement in prices, and if some air, and a great concourse of white JUNSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-

named Vessel are hereby intermed that their Goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR ABX in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where Whart and Godown ao Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery, sa obtained as the Goods are landed.

Optional Goods will be landed here aalene Instructions have been given to the contrary Six hours before arrival of the Steamer,

the presence of barren ground caribou, showing fine antlers, to be coast, however, are still the main hundreds of thousands" on their The Esheries of the Labrador aren, according to one writer,in economic buttress of the community, trek away from these animals all and in the summer months the little hopes of food supply in the north settlements, which have been so they resort to territory nearer the faithfully described by Sir Wilfrid const and seek out wooded landa Grenfell in his books, are busy hives and feed precariously upon any of industry. Since the War the folinge accessible in the snow. In fishing industry has been hard hit Northern Labrador polar bears are by the io prices for dried fish; found and black bears are quite change situation in Mediterranean wolves have been seen, but these are one adverse factor has been the ax- common in the south. Lynx and

quantities of fish before the War, the countries which used to take large not supposed to be plentiful. For shotgun there are willow and another has been the keen com grouse, ptarmigan, geese, and black petition of Scandinavian exporters. dick in good quantity,

'Salmon But the past season has seen some innumerable were leaping in the scientific organization were applied bears were diving after them." to the industry and better trans. This was said in 1775, and to-day portation secured the undoubted the salmon are there in no less richness of the Labrador fisheries abundance. The angler has scope could enable them to hold their own for his activities in the innumerable against any rivals. In this sphere lakes on the peninsula and in the the Hudson's Bay Company is now many rivers emptying on the const giving a useful bought is how giving a useful lead. great hopes that the grant to them fend. Having The people of Newfoundland have Having bought out the interests of of such a wide territors, for the its reat rival, the Revillion Frères, acquisition of which, they aave ex- in 1923 and acquired control of all pended so much effort and expense, the stores and factories of the will return to them a hundred folding date of arrival, will be subject to Moravian Missions in the following all they have sacrificed.The Timer. year, it now enjoys a virtual trad ing monopoly in Labrador and has beca embarked upon. an energetic policy of development HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL fjords and rivers of Labrador team The with salmon of the finest quality and the Hudson's Bay, Company is now landing them fresh in the Another Niagara.

London market. The sealing indus Since this century began there has try, which yields oil and skins is been no more outstanding economic also receiving attention, and in the development on the North American factories taken over from the continent than the rapid increase Moravians new methods of refining of the utilization of water power seal oil have bern introduced. for the generation of hydro-electric There is also afoot project for energy. Canada to-day can boast the importation of reindeer, which in Alaska have yielded a very pro the second largest installation of bydro-electric power in the world, fitable return for their venison, and Weather but it is an anthentic fact that bides, and the abundance of caribou Bain ... Labrador possesses a single great moss justifies the assumption that great open-ar Temperata, th: 87 series of power resources which, if the experiment would be successful Lowest open-air Temperaturs, 7th: 80 haroessed, could produce almost as and solve one of the local problems much electricity as a!! the existing of food supply. Labrador will B-Blue sky; OCloudy; D= plants in the Dominion. Through never be an agricultural country in Drissie; F-Fog; L-Lightning;

The Gipses At The Derby. There were instances almost ad lib. that could be given. There during the Derby. They roped off them a publicity which they might portions of the downs, which they have waited generations to secure. had no earthly right to do, and But what Labrador needs to-day is stuck up notice boards charging 75. not publicity but schemes of deve o 10s. to introduce a motor car. lopment which will raise the stand The Metropolitan Police assisted ard of living for its inhabitants them to regulate traffic. All these and attract fresh population. A things would not brook. denial, year ago a decision of the Judicial He could give the Home Secretary Committtee of the Privy Council the ease of a chief constable of a terminated in favour of Newfound- county who was asked by a judge land an ancient controversy about of assize how he came to have

the ownership of Labrador, and as arrested certain receivers in Lon-

a result the island colony is now don. The chief constable's explana the possessor of some 120,000 square tion was that he was not, taking any miles of the mainland of North chances, as too many receivers had America. The acquisition of this got away when he had communicat-prize caused great rejoicing in ed with the Metropolitan Police through the ordinary channels.

His criticisms were not directed against the man in the street, who was the victim of pernicious system. A great deal of the cor- ruption began at the very top, and when there was suspicion of those at the top that suspicion percolated right down, and the man in the street was suspected in consequence.. "Flagrant Violation."

J

If the Home Secretary would re- fer to his dossier he would see that last year he (Mr. O'Connor) had given him detailed particulars of 4 person whe was committing an offence-particulars of which could have been obtained from any person moving in the ordinary way in London

That

been person had brought to justice, but for over 12 months the flagrant violation of the law went on, and when that person was brought to justice, it was not by the particular police whose duty it was to bring that justice, but aa- other body altogether."

пож

There were good grounds for saying that reasonable people felt

AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION CO. methods or go by the ordinary

S.S. "CALULU”

Will be despatched from Hora Kove on the 11TH AUGUST, 1928

For SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE

via ILOILO, COLAMBUGAN, TARAKAN; SANDAKAN, BALIK- PAPAN, RABAUL, SAMARAI and PORT MORESBY.

For Freight and Passages, Apply to

DODWELL & CO. LTD.,

Queen's Building. :

Tel. Na, Central 1030.

that public confidence had been shaken in the Metropolitan Police. For the task of restoring that cop fidence they could not use ordinary routing of promotion. As a House they should wish Lord Byng God- speed in his difficult task.

The Home Secretary said that Mr. O'Connor had made several allegations.

I hope he will send on full. details, so that I can ask for a Commissioner's inquiry to be set up into them."

14

Д

A Socialist motion to reduce the Home Secretary's salary a1 qprotest against the appointment of Lord Byng was defented by 231 to

100.

Newfoundland, hat there are sober observers who realize that it may well prove a white elephant" less its vast and varied resources can be profitably developed.

REGISTER.

Hong Kong Observatory, August 7th.

Prorious On Dat jou Date

Day

st

42 pm 8 am 1 p.m.

Barometer... 29.54 94.49 29.47- Temperature 80 Wind Humidity...

Direction Force

un Thunder. amazing growth in the long summer naughton, in his recent life of Lord daya--and Professor John Mac-

Strathcona, record the enormous size of the pumpkins and cauli flowers which his here, then a young fur trader, was able to raise 70 years ago in his Labrador garden.

80

85

91

78

9 3

Ca'm

ESE

U..

1

0o

P

0

Q

0.24 0.00 0.56

HONG KONG, TIDE TABLE.

From August 8th to 14th, 1928. HIGH WATE, “

of the peninsula of the hormal sense, but it can pro--Mist; 0-Overcast; P-Passing the centre Labrador flows a mighty stream, duce a wide variety of foodstuffs; showers; Q-Equalis; I-Esin; T- the Hamilton River, and at one vegetables of all kinds show point in the course of five miles and then, with a roar audible 20 it drops 200ft. in tremendous rapids |

miles away, it makes a final plunge into a circular basin 315ft. below, Here is a dataract as large as Niagara, and experts have calculat ed that more than 1,300,000 horse Yet hydro-electric energy is useless power could be obtained from it. unless it can be applied to some task, and happily there is no dearth of natural materials which only await the application of electrical her for their transformation into marketable commodities.

Iron, Ore.

Date of

Manth

Low Wirk.

Hong

Horg

Kong

Kong

Standard Standard

Tizao.

Height

Timas.

***

Goods not cleared within 8 days, in-

Beat.

No Fire Insurance, will be effected by m in any one whatever.

Damaged Packages must be left in the

| Godowni for examination by the Con. sigasos, and the Company's Burveyors, Mesara, Gunnan & Douglas, at 10, on Mondays

and Thursdays, within the Free Storage period

Ali Olaims against the Steamer met

be presented to the Undersigned on or before 24th August, 1928, of they will not be recognized.

So Claims will be admitted after the Goods bare left the Godowns.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.

Agenta. Hong Kong, 4th Aug., 1928. [6574

CONSIGNEES NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

CON

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANT-

WERP, LONDON & STRAITS,

The Steamship "BENALDER." YONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hare Kore And Kowloon WELLY AND GUDOWN COMPANY, LA, whence, and/or from the wharvaz Delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered alter, the So. 10th instant will be subject to Bent.

..:

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 24th instant, or they will: not be recognised.

All broken, phafed and damaged Goods.. 42 10 786 are to be left in the Godowns, where 0 32 a 17 they will be examined on the 9th 364.1

intant, at 10

at 10 am, by Messrs, Goddard

other untapped regions of this But undoubtedly Labrador, like earth, cannot hope for much econo mic progress without better trans- portation. At present her inhabit ants are dependent for communi Wed. "8165 m 828 cation with the outer world upon a

$295 2

8 B3 2 8 spasmodic steamer service with St, Thur, 9m 80 56 16 27 John's, Newfoundland and the

164581583 Within a radius of 75 miles in a waterways and rough forest trails Fri.

103

3:19 160 ml 4023 northward direction from Grand afford the only access to the in-

Bat

11 a Falls the Canadian geologist, A. F. terior. The resources of the Grand Low, in 1993 discovered in Cam Falls area cannot possibly be devo

Bun. 12 brian formations immenso oro loped without a railway to tide. bodies of hematite, magnetite, and

water at Hamilton Inlet, but there Mon. siderite, rich in manganese, and are no serious engineering difficul their yield of metallic iron was ties and 1 charter already exists | Tuen: estimated a varying between 40 and (Continued on next Column).

59

170

843 42

11 338 1511

587 3 0 6 8 38

13

9 35

14

דון

4 11 9 380 8

m 7 54.7 6m 1 8. 8.7.

10 14 a 4.41 1. 180 6

and Douglas,

No Fire Insurance has been sffected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD

Agents. Hong Kong, 3rd Aug, 1928. 16572