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KWANGTUNG TEACHERS CONFER.

AGAINST CO-EDUCATION.

STATE AID DISCUSSED.

(TOM OUR CHINTAR CORRISPONDENT. }

CANTON, August 5th.

Au educational conference for the whole Province is being held in the auditorium of Sun Yat Sen University. Its aim is to draw up educational plan for Kwangtung, to improve and systematize, the

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school curricula, to method of ipereasing and guaran teeing the budget for educational purposes, and to discuss sny, other suggestion which might add to the efficiency and improvement

CANTON'S PUBLIC ́

SERVICES.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9th,

WORLD TOUR FOR CHINESE?

A MARKED IMPROVEMENT. | TRADE, "EDUCATION AND

WATER IN RELAYS.

PROM OUR CHINESA CORRESPONDENT.)

SIGHTSEEING.

15,000-TON SHIP TO BE CHARTERED I

'CANTON, August 8th. The consul of a certain South Following the very straight warn-American republic, according to ings of the Municipal Bureau of the Canton Gazette, who has been Public Utilities, the Canton Elec in China for the past thirty years. trie Light and Power Company has has conceived the idea of organis been giving a much better service to ing a Chinese tourist party for a the people of Canton. The supply 15,000 tons is to be chartered for trip around the world. A ship of or electricity last night was prae- the purpose. tically continuous except for two

The plan is fer à six months cruise and the itinerary covers breaks which lasted only ten or visits to all the principal countries fifteen minutes. The whole city was

in Europe and South Ameries.

It is said that the consul hai in. almost its well if self again. The terviewed several of the leading Canton Water Works is also in-officials of Canton with regard to proving and is embarking on a new. this project.,and all were greatly ber of Commerce who were inform- interested. Members of the Chain-

ed of this scheme were equally en- thusiastic, and promised support.

af scheme for supplying the city with primary and secondary education.water Instead of trying to serve The Conference is presided over by its clients altogether, as it has been Mr. Wong Tsit, Commissioner of Education, and some 230 delegates have come to Canton from various parts of the Province. They are being lavishly entertained by the

tion of the city at a time. Thus doing, it is now supplying a por-

from 10 to 19 a.m. and 10 p.m. to 1a.m. each day, the water mains for Saikwan, Tai Ping Xiu, Yas

A Travelling Fair. The ship is to be divided into three divisions. The first division will be the exposition section, in which will be displayed all articles of Chinese manufacture. All ar-

Government and by Commissioner Yan Li, Shang Hai Kau Po, Tai ticles for exhibition will be accept :

Wong. They hold their meetings in the morning, and in the after. Luk Po, and other places in the noon they are taken out to visit Western section of the city, are shut places of interest in the city. Bana to increase the pressure to quets are daily given by the supply the rest of the city. In a eireular notice to its custeniers, the various Government departments.

Water Company urges people to Among the "resolutions regarding

store up water in large earthen"

finances so far passed were the fol-jars during the supply hours.

lowing:

Owing to the small capacity of First that all the running ex- the plant," it says, "this rotation penses for the provincial schools in of supply seems to be the only way Canton and the districts should be to solve the problem of water." paid the Provincial Department of

As a result of this the people Finance, and that their apportion-in Canton are now fairly well map- ment should be uniform and fixed plied with electric current but so as to provide an equal oppor scantily supplied with water. tunity for development by all to the resignation of Mr. Fung educational institutions. ",

Secondly that the expenses for educational purposes should be in- creased, guaranteed and made it dependent.

As

Wal Chief of the Municipal Bureau of Public Utilities, which was reported in these columns, it is learned that Mayor Lin has urged him to remain in office and with draw his resignation. The Mayor recognized that his resignation was the outcome of the unkind eriti- cisms arising from the failure of The Mayor the public services.

The second resolution is deemed of first importance, as the Provin cial Treasury has not been very prompt in its payment of money for running "the schools. The ap portionment of the annual expenses further recognized that such things for running each secondary school, could not be helped and that it is wise policy to change an percentage basis not a and passed at the Conference, is as official on this account.

He has, follows:-

therefore, determined not to accept the resignation of Mr. Fung.

calculated on

Salaries for the secretarial

staff Salaries for

stai

:.... 10-15% the teaching

50.

sp. - maps,

Workmen's wages

For repairs an

Incidental expenses Miscellaneous expenses For medicinal purposes For purposes not humerat-

ed here

1%

But Canton has no Government For books.

paratus, etc. ....... 38 Secondary school for girls, although For schools fixtures, etc. .... 2-4 there are several private ones. The For athletic purposes... about 1% Commissioner, however, has not For laboratory experiments,

been daunted by this, and has al- and the like, ate.

"e-10% For stationery and stamps 47% ready ordered that the buildings on 4-7% the premises of the Women's Ath- 36%letic Association be converted into a 4-8

The secondary school" for "girls. 12 work has been started, and all the rooms are being, replastered and made suitable for class rooms. Beginning next term girl students attending the secondary school, will have to be transferred to this one if they want to continue to receive Government education. If they do not want to go to this school exclusively for girls, they can of course always apply to one of the private institutions, such as the True Light Middle School for Girls in Pak Hok Tung, or the Pooi, Te Middle School for Girls in Tung-

1%

Beginning with the next academic year the grant to each provincial accondary school be made as tabu inted. Those for primary schools

are more or less the same.

The Conference will last for several days yet. Other probleme will be brought up and discussed "as the Conference progresses.

ahan.

Moreover, Commissioner Wong has ordered that all the private their

schools

must

adbere

to

ed on the recommendation of the

Chambers of Commerce. A limited number of representatives from the Chambers of Commerce will be permitted to join the party to con duct the exposition and attend to sales, and these men will be provid ed with accommodation free of charge, but in return for this con- cession, twenty per cent. of the pro- ceeds of all sales made during the voyage are to be contributed to the

funds of the ship.

School For The Young. In the second division will be formed a college and school for the younger members of the party. This will be conducted along similar lines to the recent floating university party conducted by Americans.

Tourists-Pare And Simple, The third division will consist of tourists, pure and simple.. The approximate cost of participating in this tour has not yet been de bubly be made in the case of termined, but reductions will pro families joining the party.

The tour is expected to start in July next year. The first port of call on leaving Hong Kong will be Singapore. From thence the ship will touch at parts in India, Asia Minor, Egypt, Italy. The travel- lers will have the option of travel- ling overland from Rome to Paris. England, Spain and Portugal will be visited. The ship will then cross the Atlantic to New York. From New York the cruise will continue to the Panama Canal, Peru, Chile, and other South American coun tries. San Francisco, Honolulu, and the Philippines will be visited on the homeward leg of the trip.

CANTON WHARVES.

TO BE REMOVED FROM CENTRAL BUND:

CAPTAIN'S GRIM FIGHT WITH

MUTINOUS CREW.

CORNERED ON BOARD' S.Š. “DAVID C. REID.”

THREATS TO BLOW UP THE SHIP.

U.S. CONSULATE TO TAKE STERN MEASURES.

As briefly reported in the Daily Press yesterday, a sensational incident occurred on board the 1.å. David C. Reid on Tuesday afternoon while she was lying alongside the AP.C. Whar! at North Point. The crew set upon the master of the ship and a fight ensued of the kind that one often reads about în sex romances « or witnesses, on the screen. During the struggle, the skipper had to fire two shota from his revolver to keep his sisailants at bay, - but one of the men braved the revolver shots and entered the tap- tain's cabin, and a terrible £ght followed for the possession of the revolver the intruder having flung himself at the skipper and got a grip upon his throat.

Our representative was able to obtain a graphic account of the fight between Captain A. W. Krishjan, Master of the David C. Reid and his crew who were apparently maddened by whisky and amahu. The official report states that the fight started on the bridge, when three men set upon the skipper, but the lalter being a man of six feet and two inches and broad in proportion was able to give a good account of himself, with the result that before he was chased back into his cabin, he had left his marks on the faces and noses of his assailants.

The grim battle inside the cap- tain's cabin then followed and the master had to use his revolver,

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master and the intruder. The cap- tain fired one shot on the floor in an attempt to scare off the attac The police were eventually in- kers, but this, did not daunt them," formed but the man calmed down! Another shot was fired on the floor on the arrival of a strong detach- and this also had no effect of the ment under the C.S.F. himself. crew, The captain then managed Our representative was told by the to struggle free and ran off the U.S. Consulate that they will co-ship with the intention of report- operate with the Police Authorities ing the matter to the American ia prosecuting the ringleaders. Consular Authorities. The draw of The “ David 0, Esld.**

The David C. Reid is an

Ameri can oil tanker and is on a trip under charter, by the Asiatic Petroleumis

Company.

an

American ship, her officers must be American citizens. Capt. Krishjan and two mates are Americans, and the crew, thirty eight in number, consist of Germans, Norwegians, Scandinavians, Russians and other

nationalities.

The vessel left-Mobile, Alabama, for San Pedro, where a cargo of crude oil was loaded. for. the A.P.C.-in Hong Kong. The voyage occupied fifty-four days, the ship arriving here on Tuesday morning, and going alongside the A.P.C. Wharf at North Point Walls The Captain And Mate Were Away.

From an official account given to the U.S. Consular Authorities by Captain Krishish, and confirmed by witnesses, it appeared that soon“ after the vessel was berthed, the skipper and the mate went ashore to attend to the routine business in connection with the ship at the Harbour Office and with the charterers.

"To Blow Up The Ship," While the captain was making his way to the Bay" View Police Station the Filipino steward came rushing after him and told him that the men were trying to blow up the ship by throwing lighted matches and cigarette ends in and around the tanker.

Bay View Police Station where he Captain Krishjan arrived at the

at once got in touch with the American Consulate by telephone. Mr. Jester of the U.S. Consulate phoned the Central Police Station and in company with the Hen. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.S.P. and a squad of polies officers went on board the David C. Reid. In the

meanwhile a police launch was

also despatched from the Water

Police Station.

The crew calmed down on the arrival of the Police, who at once took matters in hand. They found two men slightly wounded and they were sent away to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital. Two others refe taken to the Central Police Station where they were detained The Police decided so as to en- sure the safety of the ship to place an armed guard on board through- out the night and they allowed no

one ashore.

and it

Mr. Sam Ngai, Head of the Land

During their absence, the ship Bureau, has forwarded a recom-

and the crew were in charge of the mendation to the Municipal or third mate. It was stated that one

How The Hon were Injured. ernment suggesting that all the member of the crew weht shore and obtained a bottle of whisky. lower class wharves lying along the He took it back to the hip, and showed that the captain had not Investigations made yesterday Central Bund between the Govern the bottle of whisky was soon con- Bred at the men at all, as was at ment Tin Tze Wharf and Saibotau he transferred to the end of Shakee sumed. It did little more than first reported. The two bullets Road and the East Bund. It is stimulate thirst of the hetero-fired were found lodged. In the said that this step would remove geneous crew who obtained a fur-floor, and this bore out the cap- the heavy congestion along the ther supply of Chinese samshu tain's story that he only hot at Central, Bund and would popu- from some sampans lying close to the floor to scare the men sway. the ship. They had no money to The seamen who had a wound in larise the localities to which it is

pay for the supply and had to sign the side of the head and on the proposed to transfer the wharves.

The bund at the end of Shakee chits for the liquor.

knee, respectively were said to have. Road and the Eastern Bund have Apropos these chits, Mr. Jester received them in the struggle with beth in a state of decline for some of the American Consulate laugh the captain inside the cabin when time. It is believed that by con- ingly said to our representative, he knocked them against a book- why, these sampan folks came case, Medical examination showed truoting wharves at these parts hollering for their money this MR. WONG TSIT'S REFORMS.

these localities would flourish. It ring and had to be based is that the wounds were caused by splinters of the glass and not is therefore suggested that the Second and Third Class wharves the ship."

bulleta. One of the most notable things original intention. Thus original he removed from the Central Bend Captain Krishjan returned to As to the man who had his anger

iy, the Tsap Surf School, was a done by Mr. Wong Tsit, the Come school for girls, but later on, boys Road, while the Fourth and Fifth found his crew hopelessly inebriat-jan explained that while he left and located at the end of Shakee the ship in the aftercoon and almost bitten off, Captain Krish- inissioner of Education, since his awere admitted and the institution

Classes be transferred .to the

ed. He went to his quarters the ship to communicate with the

and three sumption of office, has been the became co-educational. That school

Eastern Bund. In this way ac baft the bridge. has now been ordered to go back to

U.S. Consulate, another fight, took segregation of the sexes in the its original system and admit nativity would be distributed evenly members of the crew followed him place among the men, secondary schools. Heretofore co- more boys. The authorities have over the whole length of the Bund, there. They demanded money say thought that the man received his

and the heavy congestion at the ing that they wanted to get ashore injury then. education has been the practice. The complied with the order and have

centre portion would be relieved. and have a good time. Captain told their male students to go else- Commissioner said this free ming where.

Canton Gazette.

Krishjan told thein that he had been to the agents for money to As to this man, it was stated ling of boys and girls should not be

pay the crew, but as no authorisa- that he was discharged from the allowed in the secondary schools HEADMASTERS SUPPORT,

tion had come from the owners, a hospital yesterday and allowed to "The National Education Con-

MR. WONG.. :

table was depatched and that pend-go back to the ship. He was said ing a reply, he could get no money to be quite happy to be back, to ference held some months in Naz" |

In conversation

work and, felt very repentant for with several

to pay them. king," he added, has definitely headmasters from the Province our

The Fight

the share he took in the assault.

The other man who was injured decided that." Mr. Wong who is correspondent learned that a great

Considering the circumstances it by fragments of broken glass was of a conservative type of mind scas majority of the teachers are against Gazette, that Mr. Fung Wai, Com was not surprising that the men sent to the Central Police Station

co-éducation in secondary schools. danger in co-education in secondary They look upon Mr. Wong Tait's missioner of the Bureau of Utili were not satisfied with the explans to join the two who were detained. ties, is, carrying out a series of in- tion and set upon the master. In conversation with an official -schools. He is reported to have no order for segregation of the sexes vestigations into the adequacy or Captain Krishjan was hit in the of the U.S. Consulate, our repre objection to co-education in the move in the right direction, otherwise bf the lighting of the mouth and nose. He retaliated sentative was informed that the primary school, and colleges, for i told, who see no harm in care rather dimly lighted, in some attackers received from the burly with the Police in the prosecution There are a few, our correspondent bity stretta. Many of the streets and in the fight which ensued, the American Consulate, will cooperate in the primary schools the pupils education. They think that the places the lights themselves being masters dote of their own medi- of the three hen now detained. are too young and in the colleges students should be "led and guided dim, und in other localities the cine. However, numbers told, and They are doing do in compliance the students are sufficiently learned as regards moral conduct" and not lights are placed somewhat too far the skipper was chased into his

repressed as the Commissioner is doing. They want co-education part to afford the desired degree own cabin. He at once seized his with the Ordinances of Hong Kong

of lighting.

revolver, and threatened to shoot governing forage ships in bort, the danger zone. The boys and and argue that there is a lot ofA thorough overhaul of the en- the first man who dared to enter, and also to act as a deterrent to girls of the secondary schools are good to be derived from it. This tire city's lighting system is con In the meantime more, members of others who feel inclined to mis are is exactly what the United States templated, and when the investiga the crew had gathered, and en- behave themselves. It is believed however in the "difficult period"

that thres men will be brought and better apart.

co-education, exists even in the high mendations are corried into tflect, the, men entered and seized the before the Court to-day

The David C. Beid lift the (Continued on nezt Columni).

schools. Perhaps their opponents considerable improvement may be captain by the throat A, B A.P.C. Pier yaterdos and is bor have been in England!"

expected.

struggle took place between the

nachored at Kowloon Bay.

and advanced in age to be out of

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