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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 3.45 p.m. stated:-
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News and Views.
The Chinese medical practitioners in the Colony are organising štem- selves into an association,
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There was a glean bill of health in the Celony on Sunday according to the report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The June number of the Silver
CORRESPONDENCE.
INFANT MORTALITY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."}
months ago is not yet answered. Shanghai-but what of that? 1t Why did the Government pass the has never been suggested that the Harbour Master's suggestion on to Kan Sing is incapable of doing the Chamber of Commerce to de- the ordinary work of a tug-boat; liver judgment upon? The gentle what has been suggested is that she men who negatived Commander is incapable of doing work which BECKWITH's proposals included two would be beyond the capacity of the north-east of the Bonins. A
master mariners accustomed to an ordinary tug-the work which depression covers Tongking.' The typhoon is situated to the east of deep-sea ships, a naval architect, Commander BECKWITH, had in mind
S13,-I have read with much the Bashi Chamel, moving NW. a shipbuider, and a marine sur when he made the suggestion that
interest the leading article contain- Local Forecast:-Westerly winds, | veyor, but no engineer and no
a rescue-tug be built, capable of
ed in your to-day's issue under moderate, fair, some local thander man with experience in handling rendering effective service in
the heading "Begin at the Begia- The Typhoon.
such a craft as that which was typhoon weather, at the shortest,
sing," in which you referred to the The American Consulate-General under discussion. In the Chamber notice.. has sent us the following typhoon of Commerce report just published After five months of backing and
question of infant mortality in. Hong Kong and the correlated warnings from the Manith Observa considerable emphasis is laid upon filling, the position is precisely as
subject of Infant Welfare Clinics. tory:-
the peculiar and special qualiñcuit was when the Hsin Wah founder-
Whilst I agree that there is in Mamila, Janly
a. m.tions of the successful tug-mastered in January ten miles outside Typhoon in about 195deg. Long, E. Possession of a master's ticket-or the harbour with the less of threlf is to hand and in addition to Hong Kong scope for radical im-- its usual cheery contributions this provement as regards such „ques- and 20deg. Lat. N., moving N.W.
even that of extra master-does not hundred lives. The Harbour Master number includes several articles tions, I feel, however, that there Manila July 80.30 (b.I.--
the man thus of Hong Kong has no craft at his relative to Typhoon in about 123deg. Long. E necessarily mean
the Scout, movement are some facts which may not have. and 21deg. Lat, N., moving N.W. 'qualified eau do the work of a tug- disposal capable of proceeding at
which will prove specially income to your knowledge. Mantia, July 8 sp.m.-Typhoon in master as well as another who, short notice in bad weather to
teresting.
To begin with there are a number nhout 199deg. Long. E. and dec. never having taken a bearing or reader assistance to a ship in dis-
of maternity hospitals or clinics Lat. N., moving N.W.
If it should happen that an been, on blue water, has spent a treas
In
QU? report yesterday of in the Colony, and I think I am accident occurs in fine weather, Sunday's Thanksgiving Service at right in saying that, in all these there is one police launch capable Union Church, Hong Kong, we places, before the mother and her of answering a call for help; if a
stated inadvertantly, that the Matil- baby leave, the former is always disaster happens in weather so bad dn Hospital had purchased three instructed in the elementary prin-r that the No. 1 typhoon-signal has grammes of radium for
ciples of infant hygiene, and is en- been already hoisted, then the Kanreatment: This, of course, should couraged to bring the child back Sing is able to get away promptly have read three grains. But if a ship gets into difficulties when only a moderate gale is blow- A collision occured en Sunday ing, the one craft in port at the night between a private car driven disposal of the Government which by a Europein lady and a car be could possibly render assistance is longing to H.E. the Governor which herself unable to get under way was carrying no passengers. No in less than twelve hours. And one was hurt though both the ears this is not all-having slipped her involved suffered damage. The ac- moorings, the rescue-tug Kau Singcident was in Queen's Road East is herself declared to be practically near the junction of Arsenal Street unmanageable in typhoon weather H.E.'s car running into the other when attempting to get alongside from behind.
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lifetime pulling and pushing big ships about in docks and rivers. This is granted, and neither does it follow that a committee on which there is no marine engineer is qualified to judge the comparatiye merits of various types of engines or boilers, The Government's own officer makes a suggestion in regard to the efficient working of his de partment. Instead of showing con- fidence in its executive staff, the Government prises his proposal en to a third party for an opinion, ind actually accepts that decision in preference to the views express ed by the Harbour Master.
Plans and specifications for a rescue-tug were accordingly drawn
up on lines precisely contrary to
those suggested by the Harbour HONG KONG'S LAME DUCK: Master, and the ship was built, but by this time another gentleman was appointed to take charge of water. Front affairs, The new Harbour
another vessel, The Harbour Master
cancer
för treatment should any unfavytiri able symptoms develop.
Clinic the number of confinements In the Tung Wah Maternity during the year 1928 was 1,886, and the number of confinements which have taken place this year up to
date is 881.
In April this year Dr. M. Woog, the Superintendent of the Western Department of the Hospital, in- Clinic, at which, every Wednesday augurated an Infants' Welfare | afternoon, he and his wife, who is qualified doctor in Canton and who gave to the Hospital gratuit- ously the benefit of her experience and services, together with surges, There was a robbery at the Yeung attended the infants, weighed them. Shing jewellery shop on Sunday and kept detailed medical data of them, gave them medical treatment night when a Chinese smashed open where necessary, and advised the a glass showcase inside the shop mothers as to bringing up their and succeeded in making off with children. Since Dr. Wang's depar
pudence of the attack took the fukia tinued under Dr. Lai Kwong Yuk, jewellery valued at $300. The im-ture on neccunt of ill-health a few weeks ago this work is being enn- by surprise and by the time they and the Hospital's nurses. realised what had taken place, the thief had had time to make his
officer permanently in command of escape. A description of the stolen jewellery has been given to the Police.
her. The present Harbour Master
The Hong Kong Tramways Limit- ed have completed the new tran to Happy Valley via the tracks Bowrington Canal and we learn that cars will use this route next week instead of going through Per
structures which were laid down by ival Street. The delay is due to the fact that certain Concrete the P.W.D. in Praya East are not quite hardened, and will require at least another week. The new most welcome to route wi
The following figures of the num- ber of cases treated each week are interesting as showing the growing appreciation of the public of the value of the Clinic:-
April 24
Number of Cases
3
May 1
10
B
8
19
15
18
+1
22
2
17
23
June
3
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attributes this diffoulty to the fact that she is a single screw ship; the Chamber of Commerce suggest that not the ship but the sailor is to THE sad fate of the man who tried
blame. It is pointed out that the to hustle the East, is well-known. It was not in Hong Kong that the Master declares the Kau Sing is Kau Sing has little opportunity of officer appointed to navigate the rash attempt was made, but the not a success (1) because being a result would have been precisely single-screw ship she is difficult to gaining experience in handling the the same had the foolish fellow been handle in typhoon weather, and (2) vessel. This is perfectly true, as it is also true that there is no in this Colony. Fully five months it takes twelve hours to get up have passed since the capabilities | steam. In other words, the hau of the Kau Sing were the subject | Sing is not suited for the work she of considerable comment, most of is supposed to be capable of doing, proposed that a European máster mariner be appointed to command | it unfavourable. Four months ago simply because she is not a vessel the Colonial Secretary aanounced of the type originally proposed the Kau Sing, and train her crew in boat drill and life-saving work, that the Government had instructed | The Government tacitly agrees the Harbour Master to submit a with the Harbour Master, But The Chamber of Commerce strongly report on the vessel. After an in- promptly passes the responsibility supported the suggestion, and the terval of two months that report on to the Chamber of Commerce, three months later changed its wind Government approved it, but
was published, and within the next But the issue is not to be shirked few days the Chamber of Commerce so easily as that. It was the Gov and announced that the duties announced that it was preparing a crament who passed Coromander would be performed by one of the sticment for publication, replying BeckwITH's suggesion on to a third boarding-masters attached to the to certain criticisms of Heng party for consideration, and it was Harbour Office. This decision, we assume, was inspired by motives Kong's Lame Duck" which appear the Government who accepted the ed in our columns. All this hap decision of that party in preference of Scotch for water-tube boilers, of economy, like the substitution CHRONICLE Pened carly in May, and we have to the proposals of its own ear and a single for twin screws, but
been first patiently and then intive officer. The Harbour Master
The story that a small child was it is doubtful whether any real drowned in a water tank on the patiently waiting to know what wanted a twin-screw ship, with saving has been effected by all this, Prays is not true. An official of the Water Control Commission re- the Chamber of Commerce had to water-tube boilers and oil-fiel- whereas it is quite certain that marked grimly. "It takes three owning the only launch of the kind'
the vessel which could get away quickly say regarding ita ahare in Directory and Chronicle matter. At last the statement has and be easy to handle. The Gov- the red lives were loat when days for a corpse to come to the in the waters of the Colony, but it the Hain Wah foundered. The Kau surface, but we should probably will be seen from an advertisement seen, published-and let us admit ernment built a single-screw ship Sing Cost the community 2250,000 have heard of it before then!" A appearing.to-day on our front page that the Truscott Boat Manufactur- to once that the delay is not the with Scotch boilers-a vessel which to build; to keep steam up in readi. being slaughtered in one of the U.S.A., & firm which has recently
Chinese report that "bullocks were
ing Company, of St. Joseph,
bulls, like one sees in the British harbour for inspection by anyone brick tanks" is also satrue. That opened an agency in Shanghai, has they would have had to be winged a sample motor launch now in the museum, had escaped these scare
OF THE
DIRECTORY
AND
The 67th Annual Issue
OF THE
OF
HONG KONG,
THE TREATY PORTS OF
fault of the Chamber. The draft takes twelve hours to get up steam
of its report was practically finish from cold, and even with banked
Happy Valley residents as there is a certain samount of delay under the present system.
Dame Rumour.
hour would cost $30,000 per annum; neys to get away within half an ed early in May, but could not be fires under one boiler cannot safely to put in Diesel engines would CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO.
CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS completed until replies to certain go out of the harbour until steam cost 8320,000, Jess 896,000 which mongers! SETTLEMENTS, MALAY question had been received from has been raised in the other. On possibly might be obtained for the
STATES, NETHERLANDS
PHILIPPINES, Etc.
This Large Volume of approximate
the "Government. Administrative the respective merits of single and
discarded machinery. Such 11
t)
July 3
Tours faithfully,
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53
M. K. LO, Chairman of Directors.
Hong Kong, July 8.
Looking Back 25 Years.
A motor-launch in Hong Kong. We believe Messrs. Blackhead & Co. harbour is something of a novelty.
have at present the distinction of
interested. The boat is 21ft. in length has a 3 h.p. motor, and is capable of travelling eight knots an Naval Promotion Prospects. hour. Undoubtedly for small craft at least, the motor-launch has many The half-yearly list of promo- INDIA, BORNEO, THE machinery always works slowly, if twin screws experts will agree only change is obviously impracticable- tionis in the Royal Navy includes advantages over that driven by
not surely, but eventually the de to differ, and the untutored ingman either we must keep the Eau Sing tan Commanders who advance to
"steam, and in quite recent years has sired information was forthcoming, will hesitate to express any opinion as she is, with all faults and the rink of Captain, and twenty- rapidly grown in popularzuneh
Yet it is accepted pa a and the Chamber's report made at all.
five Lieutenant Commanders who Europe and America. errors, or dispose of her complete secure the much striven-for brass which Mr. Janson, the Shanghai twin- ET public. Certain specific statements general principle that made by the Harbour Master con. screw ship is easier to handle than fetch is the open market as
ly, as she lies. What she would hat." The, Lieutenant-Commander representative of the Truscott Boat tug romotion zone now consists of Company, has brought from Shang- cercing the Kau Sing are chal one with a single screw, though is doubtful, but a first-class motor initially trained at Osborne and
hai uses gasoline as its motive po- officers of the New Scheme who were
wer, and those who have been out lenged, so we assume the Govern this is not to say that every ship lifeboat of the largest and most Dartmouth Naval Colleges. A in the launch have been greatly ment in due course will publish with two screws is more manage powerful type could be bought for
of youngsters joining impressed by its capabilities, and that gentlemen's'reply. As we shall able than any ship with one.
simultaneously consisted of some
particularly by its advantages over $145,000, possibly less. If the seventy would-be Admira's
the steam-launch in the matter of of
cost. It is well worth inspection
is 2,000 Pages gives, in addition to the Usual Lists of Firms, an Alphabetical List of Residents in the Far East containing the
Names of Nearly
20,000 FOREIGNERS.
"team"
Arranged, with the initials as well not expect to see any such state- Further, in comparing the Kau Government cannot afford to pur- these some ten leave after a year's Hong Kong Daily Press. July 9,
Az Sarnames in strict alphabe tical order so that any name can be found instantaneously.
CLASSIFIED LIST
OF
IMPORT AND EXPORT MERCHANTS
ARD
MANUFACTURERS
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ment for at least three months, we propose to review the position in the light of the Chamber of Com
merce report.
trial
run. Of the 180 who
1904.
every year about 130 (taking pro. Looking Back 50 Years, seriously embark on a naval career
Sing with Admiralty tugs and chase such a vessel, possibly the similar vessels on the Thames and various shipping companies making the Mersey, the fact must not be regular use of the port would be motions to Commander E. into If it be true, as reported by overlooked that the Kau Bing is willing to contribute a part, if count) are left at the first selective Reuter, that the British offerre expected to do her work at a time not the whole, of the cost. promotion, so the anxiety on enter employed under the Japanese
the ing when all ordinary shipping a England recently the P. & promotion zone may be imagin we shall have some disappointed Lieutenant-Commander Government have been dismissed, tivities are suspended by stress of group, the Royal Mail, Caioned. Every list causes surprises and Naval officers coming home again. bitter disappointment. When one Not a few have occupation at the
In
First of all, it will be advisable to summarise the points raised in our comment last May-that in 1993 the then Harbour Master suggested weather. It is precisely at the Castle, and White Star lines remembers that now only some score Naval College, and on board the
a twin-screw vessel, with water tube moment when every other vessel is generously responded to an appeal of officers reach Captain's rank training-ship. But perhaps the boilers and ail-fuel, be provided for either safely at anchor or bastily by the Prince of Wales to assist every year, and further that an Japanese Government is taxing a rendering Resistance to craft in the seeking shelter that the Kiu Sing the Royal National Lifeboat In- extremely small proportion who lesson from the Chinese, which so harbour in need of help; that this has to elip her moorings and There are more than a score of employed at sea, it will be realised of Captain Luxmore when they stitution by presenting lifeboats, struggle on to flag rank are ever woolly dispensed with the services proposal was passed on by the" bury her nose in it." How, then, great shipping companies trading that the principle of the survival of thought they had gained enough Government to the Chamber of is it possible to compare the simple in and out of Hong Kong, and the fittest is carried to an extreme information as to how it is done
$3,000 from, each would give this length. In point of fact, many of Commerce for consideration; that and straightforward taska" of tuga port vessel which could render the ablest naval officers step into Japanese and the Chinese have not in the English Navy. Both the a special sub-committee recommend on the Thames or Clyde with those life-saving service all round the shore, jobs, notably in armament beon slow to make use of our Navy $12
this ed a single-screw vessel with Scotch confronting the Kau Sing when clock any day in the year. The firms, sooner than face the extreme as a training school, and
she is called into action? Such a
Government could certainly afford hazard of attaining success com-time there are three officers of the $8 boilers; that the Government ac
the cost of maintenance, and we mensurate with their abilities. As first-named nationality on board cepted the views of the committee comparison is absurd. We are told should then have a craft really to those who get there," some are our ships, and he many as eleven and rejected the proposals of their that the Hong Kong Naval Yard capable of promptly saying life marked out for it at their first term Chinese. But they are very jealous instead of a lame duck which takes at Osborne. And the others of having any of our officers in wharbour offer. Then frats 5 thn Kau Sing tour to get marted on her well, the Iron Duke himself their overa are not cannot be disputed, but and that similar vessels are giving and may even need assistance her notoriously stupid boy but developmenta-Hong Kong Daily Press,
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