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PEACEFUL AND BUSY KWANGSI.

A EUROPEAN'S TRIBUTE.

GENERAL WONG "SHIU HUNG'S GOOD WORK.

SPECIAL VIGILANCE FOR COMMUNISTS.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

"CANTON," August „30th.

Mr. Harold H. Snuggs, manager of the Stont Memorial Hospital, a. Baptist Mission, in Wuchow, in a letter to Hong Kong gives inter- eating information of the recon- struction work now in progress in Kwangsi. Mr. Snuggs had a per- sonal interview with General Wong Shiu Hung of which he says:-

"One of the topics, touched upon by General Weng Shin Hang during my interview with him, was the establishment of the new Kwangsi University. The proposed institu- tion is at Sami Kok Tsui, a place facing the eastern side of Wuchow and separated from the city by river, which is crossed by ferry in a few minutes.

General Wong said that the formal inauguration of the Univer- sity is to take place in about two weeks' time.:

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[The writer understands from an- ather Wachowsource that the main building of the new Univer- eity is of concrete, in the most modern model and is connected with the General District of Sam Kwok Tsui by broad maloo & mile long. The first term begins on the 10th of October, the 17th Anniversary of the Republic. General Wong Shin Hung intends to appoint Mr. Ma Chun Wu, former Civil Governor of Kwangsi, as ita Brat Chancellor.]

General Wong,' Baya

Mr. Snuggs, "next referred to the new motor roads, which are under con- struction in many parts of the, Province. He stated that the Government's plan is to develop her projected roads in the interior first and that the last step will be to link up Nanning, "Kweilin, and other districts with Wuchow. Nanning has a water, way connec- tion with Indo-China and Wuchow. with. Hong. Kong and Canton. By. the end of the year it will be pas- sible to motor from Wachów to Nanning and from Nanning to Liu- chow and to other interior districts. It will be no exaggeration to say that, by that time, one should be able to breakfast at Wuchow and motor up to Kweilin in time for dinner."

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Kweilin is one of the interior centres and is about 170 miles from Wuchow.

"The now motor ronde in Kwang-

si are," says Mr: Snuggs, "wide enough for three motor vehicles to pass at the same time."

To encourage the Kwangai people to buy motor-cara, General Wong Shiu Hung has issued an order that imported motor-cara will not have

to pay the surtax, and he hopes, in time, not even the custom's duty,

THE PEEL STREET CASE. DEFENDANT SENTENCED ON ONE CHARGE.

NEW CAPITAL FOR

KWANGSI.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS; FRIDAY,

ROUND THE POLICE CIVIL AVIATION FOR

COURTS.

HONG KONG

ANOTHER CYCLING

PROSECUTION.

AT THE KOWLOON MAGIS. TRACY.

Li Liu, pig dealer, was fined $10 by Mr. W. Schoßeld at the Kow- loon Magistracy yesterday morning for cruelty to a pig.

* -Inspector-O'Brien of the S.P.C.A prosecuted and told the Magistrate a gruesome story. It appears that when the train from Canton reached Yaumati at 11.30 am. on Wednes day, the Inspector noticed the defendant who had crates contain. ing pige. The orates тего not matting for the animals to rest in thus causing them great pain and one unfortu nate beast had all four legs cut by the bamboo strips of which the crate was constructed.

At Wuchow, according to Mr. Snuggs, rumour has it that the Government intends to remove the Capital from Nanning to Liuchow. It is also stated that the Govern ment is to levy a new tax on the Province in order to raise is million dollars, to be devoted to the reprovided with construction of Liuchow into modern and model city.

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Much attention has been paid to the development of Wuchow itself, according to Mr. Sangga A new The defendant pleaded guilty but said he was ignorant of the motor concrete road, some two laws of the Colony, Inspector miles long, has been completed O'Brien, however, informed his.

Worship that not long ago a mem parallel to the Bund.

ber of the firm which employed the defendant had had a similar conviction, and that be therefore was probably not, as ignorant as he maintained.

At San Kok Tsui, near the now University, there is the electricity plant, which supplies all the elec. tricity demanded by Wuchow, and is working very satisfactorily.

WATER SUPPLY.

The water of the West River is very muddy and the problem of a good water supply has exercised the Wachow authoritier, who are now drawing up plans to build a new reservoir at the south-eastern side of the city. The reservoir is to derive its water from the Fu River, the water of which is admir- ably clean. Some $500,000 have been appropriated for the project.

SA MANUFACTURE OF..

AMMUNITION.

Fines of each were imposed on two other Chinese, who were charged with carrying a pig in a crate which had no matting at the bottom. In this case the Magis | trate, remarked that he was impos ing a smaller fine as it appeared to him that the animal was not injured.

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WITHOUT A LIGHT.

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for riding a bicycle without a light A Chinese who was summoned got off with a

caution, as the evidence pointed to the fact that his light had gone out when he fell off the "machine,

It appears that the defendant & learner who was smitten with the usual terror of other vehicles and fell off just in front A new establishment of the of a 'bus. Kwangsi Government is the new had been noticed by an Indian When he saw that he Sulphuric Acid Plant under the constable he picked himself up supervision of some 15 German and and tried to get away Swiss experts.

on his The Government machine.

Schofield that having noticed his He explained to Mr. light was out he got off to relight it and was thus caught by the pur suing constable.

has put aside something like half a million dollars far the mainten- ance of this plant, which is to pro duce chamicals for ammunition and explosives.

anti-

were

PICKET ACTIVITY.

**The pickets of the Japanese Boycott Sobiety still active," aaya Mr, Snuggs, "when I was leaving Wuchow and they searched all imported, goods, even hospital supplies Curiously enough, the pickets refused to read the invoices, which distinctly stated the origin of the goods. I believe, however, that the boycott will soon

die out.

Generally, the conditions at Wuchow and very quiet and there is

FAILING TO REPORT.

Leung Wai was put on

twelve months police supervision on January the 3rd and it was hie month to the police station but he duty to report himsel! every had never done so. He protested that he had been in Canton for five months, and in July when he was back in the Colony he was too if to report, and in August he was too deeply engrossed in his work to do so. He had every intention

of reporting when September came Unfortunately, Mr. Schofield did

not the slightest doubt that peace round.

and order will be the rule as long not believe in these good intentions as the present Government con- and fined him $75 or two months' tinues in power. Since the Comhard labour. munist disturbances in Canton last December, the Wuchow Police have, exercised the greatest vigilance in THE CENTRAL MAGISTRACY. searching all inward steamers to see that no Russian and Chinese Com- munist propagandists enter Kwang si. The Police makes a search be fore, the arrival of the Customs officials. Recently, all outward steamers are searched in like man- ner."

TWO GUNNERS IN TROUBLE.

"YESTERDAY'S COURT MARTIAL

ARRESTED AT STAR. FERRY

WHARF.

The Chinese woman who Was charged with procuring a young Chinese girl under the age of 19 and harbouring ber at No. 12, Peel Street, was found guilty on the charge of harbouring and sentenced call and drunk near the Star Ferry That they were absent from roll to three months hard labour by wharf on August 15th, at about Major C. Willson at the Central 10.43 p.. were the charges pre- Magistracy, yesterday afternoon.

His Worship dismissed the first ferred against Gunner Benjamin two charges procuring and keeping house on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

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Cotton and Gunner. William Edward Shipley, at the District Court Martial held yesterday at

the Victoria Barracks.

Mr. H. T. Williams of the S.C.A. prosecuted while Mr. Hin Shing Lo G. R. Pendergast (President), 1st The Court was composed of Major was for the defence.

The Magistrate told Mr. Lo that Bn. Queen's Royal Regiment, Capt. be had decided to dismiss the first R. Perfect, K.O.S.B., and Lieut. two charges, but was, satisfied that K. W. Morris Jones, R.A.

EXTRADITION AND AN ALLEGED MURDERER.

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Tsang Yu, wanted" by the Canton Government, came before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy to charges, of kidnapping a boy at Kau Kong (Chinese territory) last year and murdering, him sub. sequently in a private lair.

Boswer to two

On the application of Mr. T. Murphy, Acting Director of Criminal Investigation, who pro secuted the case was adjourned till the 6th September. The Canton Government has applied for the extradition of the défendant.

PRESENT POSITION AND PROSPECTS.

PROPOSED BRITISH AERIAL TRANSPORT COMPANY,

THE VALUE OF AN AERIAL TAXI SERVICE.

[SPECIALLY WRITTEN, POR THE “RONG XONO DAILY PRESS " BY ME.

R. VAUGHAN-FOWLER.]

enthusiasts have made attempts to In the past several aeronautical

start aviation in the Colony, Unfortunately these efforts have not met with any great success, and all' hare fizzled but through one cause or another.

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AUGUST 31st, 1928.

and Manila routes, and one for the aeroplanes that will be employed on the services to and from the interior of China.

The experience gained in England and in other parts of the world in the lay-out of modern air ports, has been brought to bear upon the plans for Kai Tak, and when finish- finest air ports of the world. ed Hong Kong will have one of the

CIVIL AVIATION FOR HONG KONG.

There are two distinct aviation movements on foot in Hong Kong at the present time;

(1) Commercial Air Services; (2) The Seaplan's Flying Club. Both are "progressing favourably, but the plans cannot be speeded up because the foundation of civil avia- and truly laid, otherwise the two tion in the Colony must be well proposals will be a failurs. PROPOSED AERIAL TRANS-

PORT COMPANY. -It is proposed to fum & British Company in Hong Kong to operate the air lines.

When these attempts were made aviation had not reached the ad.

As the plans are drawn up at vanced stage that it has to-day, the present, there will be daily services to Cantor and Macao, with a week. machines available were unsuitable for the work; and nobody bad any

ly return service to Shanghai, call- experience of commercial aviation. ing at Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Under these conditions the promo

These services will be extended or tors were fighting against almost increased as necesary, and in ad- impossible odds, and they deserve dition there will be machines avail considerable praise for the courageable for an Aerial Taxi Service; they displayed in their pioneer this will enable anybody, to charter

a special machine to take them any-] work.

where at any time.

Present day commercial aviation owes a lot of its success to the early failures, and we must not think that because air services were a failure years ago they are going to be successful in the future. SAFETY AND RELIABILITY.

Owing to the dangers and dif- culties experienced during the early years of aviation, and the high percentage of casualties in the dying public are rather apt to look upon services during the Great War, the flying as dangerous.

Imperial Airways, Ltd., during the last three years have not-till ed bae paying passenger, and there have been no serious accidents in British Commercial aviation during that period.

I think even the most ardent

this record is proof of the safety opponent of aviation will agree that and reliability of British aircraft and aero-angines.

MODERN COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT.

Commercial aircraft are no longer in the experimental stage, and when a new air, route is "contem- plated the type of machine to be used is very carefully considered If it does not meet all the require ments the necessary modifications are carried out; by this method the

for the work". most suitable machine is obtained

It would be just as unreasonable to attempt to cross a thousand

would be to employ the wrong type of machine on an air route.

AERIAL" TAXI SERVICE.

As an example of the Aerial Taxi Service; a business man wishing to visit. Swatow could hire one of the

small machines, fly there in two hours, transact his business, and be back in Hong Kong long before his office closed.

MACHINES, STAFF, AND

ADMINISTRATION...

The machines that will be em- ployed on the regular services will be seaplanes of the very latest type; they accommodate # or 8 passengers, mails and freight, they zre fitted with a British built engine of 500 h.p. and they have & speed of 127 m.p.h, and will normally cruise at 110 m.p.h.

The staff will be British and the Company will run on similar lines to Imperial Airways, Ltd., and will comply with all the Air Ministry standard rules and regulations, as required by the International Air Navigation Convention of October, 1919.

CHINESE AIR SERVICES.

The Nationalist Administrations in various parts of China fully realise the paramount importance of aerini transport.

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China is faced with the problem of re-organisation, and it would seem that before she can tackle the situation in satisfactory manzer she miles of desert on a bicycle, as it methods of communication.

must improve her

To build railways and roads takes a considerable time, but to establish a chain of aerodromnes or seaplane bases is not such a difficult problem and takes only a few months; there- fore air services throubout. China can be started almost immediately.. There are many proposals on foot, but space does not permit their examination in detail. Some of them have only just been put forward, but there are several that are well planned, and there is every reason to hope that they will come into operation in the very 'near future.

COMFORT. Particular care has been taken to make the passenger accommoda- tion really comfortable, no longer is it necessary to travel in an open cock-pit and arrive at the journey's end in a "blown, to bits" condi- tion. Instead the passenger is ac commodated in a well-appointed cabin, in which he can read, write, talk, eat and sleep in comfort; in short air travel is luxurious.

Sea-sickness, or rather "air-sick- ness is seldom experienced, and practically all cases of passengers who suffer severely from sea-nick- ness it is found that they are un- effected by air-sickness; the sex- aation of giddiness is also absent.

LOCAL CONDITIONS.

"

I have heard people who don't fly, say that flying in or around the Colony is more dangerous and difficult than in other parts of the world, owing to the climatic con- ditions.

In actual point of fact, prac. tically all the year round the local weather conditions are ideal for

CORRESPONDENCE. lying. The same people look upou

GOVERNMENT SALARIES.

typhoons as a danger, but thanks to the regular and accurate reports issued by the Royal Observatory, and also to the fact that the air- craft's speed makes avoiding a [TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG typhoon an

easy matter for the DAILY PRESS."]

pilot, they present no danger to aerial navigation.

SIR-With reference

to

the

article in your issue of to-day on the defendant had a case to answer defendants being absent from Tattoo things being equal, those of the L/Bdr. Neres deposed to the the subject of Civil Service Salaries I am of the opinion that, other on the third charge. Mr. Lo said roll call on Stonecutter's laland on subordinate staff who are fortunate that he did not wish to bring ang the night in question at 10 p.m. enough to be working in a depart evidence for the defence on the third charge as it would entail a L/Cpl. Dowse of the K.D.S.B., who ment in which the head has some prolonged hearing and necessitate was on police patrol and L/Cpl.

say in the matter of promotion in the calling of a number of wit- Scarborough gave evidence of ap the service, such as being a alem- Desace including the defendant and prehending, the defendants outside the two Police interpreters And the Star Ferry wharf at about 10.45 ber of the subordinate staff board. since his Worship had decided in drunkenness. It was stated that being promoted over their seniors on the night in question for alleged then they stand a good chance of

which were of a more serious nature he would ask him to dis- with the accused. The latter turn-

There is no standard on which miss the third charge.

ed out to be Warder Hodge.--

to base the ability' of the in- The Magistrate; Am I to under-

The Court's finding will be pro-dividual members of the subordi- stand that you wish to leave the mulgated in due course

nate staff of the service and you matter entirely in my hands i

can easily see that the favoured Mr. Lo: I can go as far se that

departments have the better paid staff. your Worship."

Enclosing my

card-Youre faith.

YL QUIT |--August 30th, 1928-

his favour on the first two charges there was a civilian, named Hodge ability or no special ability

in other departments, special

over the period of the hearings and impose a sentence of three months' The Magistrate said that he hard labour to commence from July would take into consideration the 30th, the date of the first hearing.fully, long-ranfinement of the defendant. The fint two chargen were di (Continued at foot of next column.) missed.

Unfortunately, the problem is not quite so simple as it would at first

appear, the routes have to be care- fully surveyed, suitable landing grounds and seaplane bases must be prepared, the machines must be obtained from some foreign country, and experienced staffs munt be found.

The promotors of these services hope to have the machines operat ing in a very short time, but if they are going to make a success of the services they must pay con siderable attention to the ground organisation that is required to keep, the machines in the air..

By ground organisation I mean, the organisation of proper landing grounds along the routes, wireless services; meteorological services, efficient workshops to carry out the repairs, petrol and oit supplies, and the numerous other services that are required to make a commercial air line a success. GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE. Not only must the Governments concerned safeguard the public by making certain that the operating repairs and overhauls to ensure Companies carry out the necessary safety, but they must support the Companies.

KAI TAK AIR PORT. Reports have appeared in the press concerning the Air Port of details of design are not available Kai Tak Unfortunately the actual for publication, but there are certain points that deserve attention.

The position of the Air Port is

Support can best be granted by as ideal as it would be possible to the Government or Provinces find, because it combines a large affected if they establish the sero- aerodrome with an excellent sen- dromes, landing grounds, wireless plane base...

service and meteorological reports, There is no Air Port in Europe and maintain them at the public serving so important a place as expense. Also during the first five Hong Kong that can claim to be years the Companies should be base. The value of London's air a joint aerodrome and seaplane granted a subsidy, to enable them.

to get over the pioneer years. port at Croydon is considerably re- If this assistance is forthcoming duced because it is impossible to the prospects of commercial avia- obtain these ideal conditions.

tion in China are very great, as II, this combined air port were there is an unlimited field, no' op- not possible at Kai Tak, Hong Kong position, and there is no country would require two air ports, one that requires speeded up communi- for the seaplanes and flying boatstations more clin China: that will be working the constat

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