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Lady Pollock informed our re- presentative yesterday that Bir Henry Pollock was going on a well as possible. The doctors have decided not to operate.
and the prospect of heavy fines and possible imprisonment for the slightest mistake is so clear, that the merchants have virtually gone on strike. Forty-eight trades wero
A report was made to the Polica represented at a large meeting held by Mrs Withers, who stated that while she WAS walking along at the Swatow Guild which resolved
Nathan Road at. about 7.20 p.m. to stop all exports until the Tax yesterday, a Chinese came up from behind and anatched hor handbag, Burea altered ita rules.
which contained £15 and some sub Such is the actual commercialsidiary coina. The man made good
his escape position at our very doore Now it is interesting and instructive to turn to the rubbish which is being circulated in America in relation to it. Commenting upon the visit of Sox Fo to New York, the Christian Science Monitor, &res ponsible paper with a world-wide reputation, says "This American- trained Chinese patriot is to attend conferences preparatory to enlist ing the co-operation of govern- mental and industrial leaders in the States in the upbuilding of the amorphous Asian Republic into a modern nation. He summarizes his mission in this way:
"BATHING EAR.”
CONDITION OF PUBLIC
BEACHES,
DETAILED FINDING OF SANI
TARY BOARD,"
QUESTION OF A REFUSE DESTRUCTOR.
At the fortnightly meeting of the English barristers in future must Sanitary Board held yesterday, Mr. not dabble in journalism. Owing J. P. Braga asked four questions to the members of the Bar having of considerable interest to all resi- given legal advice in newspaper
FIRE IN CANTON HOTEL.
YOUNG WOMAN AND FOKI KILLED,
FIRE BRIGADE ARRIVE IN
·HALF AN HOUR...
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT,)
CANTON, September 18th.
A big fire occurred yesterday. morning at about half past four on the second floor of the Boston Hotel and Café, near the East Gate woman and a foti, Wu Shang, were Bridge of Shamcen. “A young killed, and several persons injur
articles, the General Council of the dents of the Colony who use theed. The owner of the hotel, a British Bar has issued a warning to mem- public bathing beaches. It is well merchant, pamed Mr. Galoway, at bers of all Inns. An official of the known that at certain states of the once raised the alarm. The Fire Bar Council states that disciplinary tide and wind some of the popular Brigade promptly responded to the action might be taken against any beaches are so bestrowa with rub call and arrived as the burning barrister who might be proved to bish and garbage sa to make it building at about 8 o'clock, half have committed a breach of the re-creedingly unpleasant for adults an hour later. But by this time guiations. The offending member and quite impossible for children the fire had become a raging con- would be reported to the Bench of to bathe from them. The answers Bagration. The fire shot up through his Inn, and in consequence he given to Mr. Braga seem to suggest the third floor to the roof and sot. might be suspended from practising that this state of things is to a the sky in the Western section of or disbarred. A notice circulated large extent preventible and hold Canton, aglow, The firemen were to the various Inns states:-The out hope that it may be remedied hard at work till a quarter past six and the fire was not completely ex- attention of the General Council of before next reason the Bar has been called in the in-
tinguished until 9.30, creasing practice of legal journals Our régime seeks to initiate a
advising, or professing to advise, programme of general education their subscribers. Recently a firm and reconstruction work through of publishers offered gratuitous out China, and to push it as
advice on conveyancing questions may be. Avoiding to all subscribers to one of its rapidly as details at this time, it will be
The even more serious question of infection of the external ear owing to bathing in polluted water was not answered quite ao satia. factorily.
answers he received were as fol- Mr. Braga'e questions and the
-Buggestiva enough to say that the i Publications. It is believed that lows:-.
scheme includes the rebuilding of our lately chosen national enpital in the South and the extension of a complete system of commu nications. This last will mean the construction of about 100,000 miles of railwaye and more than 1,000,000 miles of motor roads.. We must link up our 4,000,000 square miles of territory. This is imperatively essential if we really are to unify our people and remember, please, there are better than 130,000,000 of us.
"comments the
"Here,
then,"
in some cases the advice is repre- sented as being 'counsel's opinion'. The General Council resolved that it is contrary to professional etiquette for a barrister to answer legal question in newspapers or periodicals, whether for a salary or ordinary literary remuneration, whether his name is directly or in directly disclosed, and whether the questions answered have reference to concrete cases that have actually arisen or are likely to arise for decision. <
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i. Has it been brought to the matics of the Medical Officer of Health that several cases of acute infection of the external car have recently occurred among bathers in some of the most popular bathing beaches of Hong Kong
The answer to the first question is in the negative.
ii. Is there any connection be tween those cases of infection and the pollution by prevent ible means of the sea water in the best. frequented bathing grounds of the Colony 1
It is highly probable that poliu- tion of the sen water does tend to raise the incidence of infections of It is doubtful, how- this nature.
whether this pollution is
ever, preventible.
Subsequently investigation show. ed that a woman, aged 20, who was sleeping on the 2nd floor, had been burned to death. Her body fell to
occupied that part of the building the ground floor and was picked up in the Shing Hing Bank which
A man believed to be a foki af the hotel made a spectacular escape from the first floor through the drainage pipes down to the street to safety. We Shang, an employee. of the café, fail to make good his escape and fell into the fames..
No estimate as to the damage zustained could be obtained, but more than half of the building was. destroyed and the loss must have been over $10,000.
GENERAL WONG SHIU HUNG.
ARRIVAL IN CANTON.
(Wah Te Tat Pao):
CANTON, Sept. 18th. General Wong Shiu Hung of Kwangsi," accompanied by four representatives of the Kweichow Administration, arrived at Canton this afternoon on board the gun. boat Kong Fu.
News from Riga regarding Russian affairs is not always to Vanitaris encouragement for hopes in the Enomintang's per be relied upon, but the cable pub- manent success. The ancient land lished in these columne yesterday. it now administers needs industrial concerning the grain situation is recuperation more than any other probably near the truth. For some one thing. With all of which weeks there have been rumours. of will have to go, of course, financial large purchases by Russia of grain progress; to be seen as re-organisa in foreign markets, owing to a tion rather than recuperation mere shortage of the domestic crop. ly. At this a beginning has beenThese reports had been regarded. made Tarifs figure here, as of doubtful accuracy, but the naturally, and although that fact Riga message quotes the Russian automatically brings the inter-
papers as stating that owing to national factor into the equation, the collapse of the grain supply, this phase of the complex subject the idea of exporting wheat this is not now again to be discussed. winter must be abandoned. Fur- It is enough, at this writing, to ther, it is stated that a special set the emphasis upon the large commission has been appointed to and instant need of economic prosecute officials who do not obey officers of the Department that the of Kwangtung to attend confer "revival" below the surface": it is the Government's instructions for reply is in the negative. I regret ences in connection with relations that which (appropriately to the the collection of grain. It is the that I cannot wholly subscribe to between Kwangtung. Kwangi and
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Judging by the letter from our Swatow
correspondent, published in this morning's paper, however, the position of the Canton mer. chants is a happy one compared with that of their colleagues in the more northern port. Swatow, of courec, comes under the jurisdiction of Canton but apparently little or no Government control is exercised
over the subordinate officials in charge of affairs. They have been given a free hand with disastrous results, for the crisis, foreshadowed and feared in Canton, has actually been reached in Swatow. The mer-
chants there, driven to desperation by the steadily growing extortions of the tax collectors have resolved to stop exporting goods and are threatening to cease importing also únicas there is a distinct improve ment in the situation very shortly, HONG KONG, SEPTIX 1, 1928, With the end of the import and
The Daily Press.
MERCHANTS: REVOLT IN
SWATOW.
A week or two ago we warned the Canton Government that, in its eagerness to raise money for expon
respect of the Shin Act, 1894, in sive schemes of reconstruction, it {
TAIKOU MING
export trade all shops in the town will be ordered to close
The trouble arises out of the two
and a half per cent. surtax imposed as a temporary measure in 1928 to provide compensation for the striker This tax has been paid in Swatow, as elsewhere, without very much complaint and probably
Disposal of City Rafuss, Are the bathing beaches of the Colety subject to poliution by the existing methods of dis posal of city refuse by the Sanitary Department?
Interviewed by Pressmen, Gen- It is impossible to give a cato-eral Wong states that their visit gerical reply to this question. to Canton is to answer the invita
here is a general opinion among tion of the Branch Political Council
spectacular events that lie the what are known as "grain coller- consisting of the President, Mr.
WEATHER REPORT, foundation stones of national traitations" in December, January, and Smith, the Vice-President, Mr. "and economic conditions, upon February, by buying from the per-Creasy, Dr. Koch and Dr. Macgowe which must rest whatever ultimate surplus grain.
The to enquire into and report on the
Yesterday's weather report, fore- tructure is to prove enduring-tament needs these applies to question of Reface Destruction and Chinese traits are provedly depend-feed the populations in the towns, the possibility of its adoption in cast and remarks, issued by the They obtained ex Royal Observatory at 8p... able; economic conditions in China and
to export grain in return this Colony,?
such essential imports,
as pert opinion on various points and stated:- seemingly, are being improved. A for vast deal remains to be done before machinery. Considerable trouble their report was adopted by the The anti-eyelone to the north of the future of to-day's genuinely was experienced during the last Board on the 10th August, 1920. Japan has strengthened. Pressure "new" China is safely to be des 14 grain collections" as a result of This report is interesting and is is relatively low to the west of cribed as assured, but a deal, too,
Local the peasants refusing to sell their available for anyone who may wish Luzon.
Forecast:-N.E. winds, is occurring this very moment grain, and strenuous work by the to read it. The following opinions especially beneath that surface responsible oficiale was necessary
were expressed by the witnesses moderate, cloudy, some rain. which often is the sole content of to bring the returns up to the quan- examined by thie Committee:-- the news cables. It is this which tity expected. Last autumn sowings (i) At least 50 per cent, of the were below normal, and the Govern- gives promise for the years ahead."
refuse sinks at once and after ment made vigorous efforts to see twenty-four hours less than 10
per cent is still floating. that spring sowings were well above the average, and so make up the (ii) The refuse is dumped off Kau difference. Russian peasants, how-
I Chau, 4 miles from the centre of Victoria. The site ever, are difficult people to handle, even for the Soviet Government, and if they are not inclined to sow their full official quota of corn, nothing can compel them to, do it, any more than they can be com pelled to sell grain if they feel hoard it. A certain degree of inclined to turn it into vodka or to coercion can be applied against the (i) peasants by the Soviet officials entrusted with the task of collect- ing. grain, but the last thing that the Government wishes to do is to alienate the mass of the peasantry..
We have endeavoured to show. surface in China, but we do not that much is happening" below the think that Swatow merchants would agree that it gives great promise for the years ahead.
The report of the Medical Officer of Health for the 24 hours ended September 17th is as follows: Two cases of amall-pox and one of
enteric, all Chinese.
The case in which Tain Sze Kee is suing Li Wah Shek for $1,000 was adjourned sine die at the Summary Court yesterday after
Mr. Justice Jacks held that the note was insufficiently stamped.
noon.
The draft citimates of revenue
and expendibifer for 1929 give the royalty payable by the Hong Kong Telephone Co., Ltd., as $32,500 as compared with $28,500 in 1928; that payable by the Hong Kong Tram- way Co., is increased to 855,000 from
$45,000.
JOCKEY CLUB STABLES FIRE.
ENGINES RACE TO THE VALLEY.
Was
fire wood portion of the refuse likely to flost shold be treated with various dyes. These details can be worked out later.
I regret having to make such a diffure reply to a "simple question carefully chosen many but the only reply I can make to."
consultation question" 3 is that I personally am years ago after with the Harbour Master. still in doubt.
Al Floats were releasedat states of the tide and only two were recovered, one at Kennedy Town and one at Cheung Sha Wan
The refuse occasionally seen floating near the beaches comes' from junks and ships. Many thips, retain their refuse, ac cumulated during their stay in barbour, until they are outside harbour limite which is just beyond Green Island and then dump it, often near Cheung
Chau.
A Refuse Destruction.
iv. Will the Government consider,
the advisability of substituting the prevent method of refuse disposal by the erection of a Refase Destructor, thus mini- mising the dangers of pollution of the waters of the Colony within harbour limits by the drifting thereto of Boating matter containing the germs of infection 1'
The question of Refuse Destruc- tore has frequently been consider- ed by the Government during the Experiments With Floats.
last twenty Feare. The Committee As a result of this report further of the Board in 1928 made certain experiments with Boats were car- suggestions which are now being ried out from November 15th to followed up. The late Mr. Jack December 15th, 1828. Fifty floats man, during his absence, on leave Racing enthusiasts were much
wers released under European in. 1996, made careful investigations disturbed by the news which spread
afternoon, a careful record being Refuse Destructors in use in vari The Hong Kong Volunteer De in the town yesterday evening at supervision each morning and each and examined different types of fence Corps are arranging another about 8 o'clock that there was kept of the exact time and of the ous citics in England, India and promenade concert to be held on fire at the Jockey Club and many
weather conditions.. Of the 3,000 the Straits Settlements. His draft the Volunteer Parade ground on set out to investigate. Even the
notices covered although
were chews the unlikelihood of any Friday, September 21st, at 9.15 Fire Brigade had been put a wrong floats released, not one was re report on this subject, although it p.m. The music will be provided scent as the engines which raced in broadcasted requesting any found economical use being made out of
of Happy Valley
to be returned to the Sanitary refuse destructtion in Hong Kong. by the band of the 1st Batt. The the direction
quickly altered their course to Queen's Royal Regiment.
Causeway Bay in finding nothing Department. The Police Inspector suggests the desirability of intro- at Cheang Chau was in particular ducing an up-to-date unit of one The report of the Medical Officer wrong at the race course,
The fire was at the Jockey Club instructed to watch the beach of the most successful plants de of Health for the week ending
in the there. The experiment was inscribed as a nucleus of a Refuse September 18th is as follows: Stables at Causeway Bay
teresting but it fails to convince Destructor installation Cholera 2 new cases and 5 deaths servants quartere
me personally because of the time Members may also have seen the (Chinese), one (British) death from
Appliances from Central and
was, however, on the advice of the in his report on the possibility of fever, 3 deaths (Chinese), one a few minutes after the report was (Chinese) death from puerperal received, but on arrival their ser Harbour Master that the experi- using sea water for flushing pur fever. Eleven cases of death from vices were not called upon, the firement was not made until after the poses, laid before the Legislative influenza are also reported having been extinguished by the typhoon season If the Board Council on June 28th, 1928, regard-. of mafoos on the spot, together with wishes I would suggest that a aiming the use of the heat generated A fatal collision pecurred early a number of soldiers engaged on lar experiment be conducted next by a destructor for the purpose
season. Should a typhoon happen These matters are now before connected with the Tattoo
On enquiries being made it was in the middle of the experiment the Government. found that the fire was caused by the barges will probably be held Mr. Braga said in reply that he man for the very complete answers The this will not invalidate, the "whole the fusing of an electric wire and up for about twenty four hours but felt deeply indebted to the Chair- that no damage was done. excitement increased among passera experiment. It has been suggested which he had made to the quer
Laithful to me also that instead of wooden tions, and for the by when some of the maforo marched their masters floats which might prove useful as trouble which must have been ponies out into the street.
of Hong Kong, Oficial Number 187676 was running considerable danger would be paid in future if it were diphtheria, eix cases of enteric Wanchai Stations were on the scene of year when it was conducted; it suggestions made by Mr: Newhouse
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of killing the goose" that laid the golden egge. The great bulk of
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the
levied in proper form on schedule of the Maritime Customs. But now the Swatow officials want cial activity, and if trade is unduly to go a step further and to establish
• to “ TENTAI” and to have her of HONG KONG as owned by CHINA hampered by taxation it will auto that which amounts to a Oustoms yesterday morning between a motor- the Sookunpoo ground in work year but during the actual bathing pamping the sea water."
Kame
matically stop. The warning was Any Objections to the proposed Obsnge uttered-because the Canton mer Service of their own. They have lorry and a scavengers truck at Canton Road, Yaumati. The driver. of Name must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Hong Kong within Beven chants were-protesting that the secured an examination shed and of the lorry was knocked off his Days from the appearance of This burdens being placed upon them domand that all merchandise should vehicle. He sustained serious in juries and was taken to, hospital Advertisement.
Dated at Hong Kong this 12th day of were becoming greater than they be opened and examined by their where he died at 12.30 p.m. The driver of the truck is stated to have September 1934 hould be was considered that own inspectors. This offers a drive the red at the Yaumeli
(Signed) NEILAGE BROWN
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