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P.W.D. PLANS FOR KOWLOON.

SCHEMES FOR OPEN SPACES, BETTER ROADS AND LIGHTING.

THE CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND BEGUN AT LAST.

Great improvements in Kowloon have been planned, and are: already being started upon by the Rublic Works Department. It is already too late to do much that is desirable in the way of town planning, but the scheme of general improvement outlined by Mr. Newhouse to a Daily Press representative yesterday gives a vision of not only a brighter but a healthier and happier Kowloon in the not too distant future. The work of resurfacing the main roads, as all residents are well aware, has begun, a gang of coolies are working on the site of the new children's playground, and a few grass plots with shrubs planted on them are giving promise of restiul oases along busy roads.

PERMANENT ROAD SURFACING.

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The work being done at the southern end of Nathan Read, is the beginning of elaborate scheme of road surfacing which will, in time, embrace all the main roads on the Perinsula. The aim of the P.W.D. is to build "perman. ent ways" which will need very little regular attention and will not be torn up every month or so in order to lay fresh pipes. Mr. Newhouse told our reprezentative that the various companies whose activities take them underground-the Gas and Electric Companies, the Tele- phone Company and the P.W.D. water and sewer engineers-had undertaken to do all the work at present needed, and to provide amply for future requirements, on each section of the main roads be fore it was re-surfaced, and he seemed hopeful that, in conse- quence, the new roads would not be torn up at any point before they had given many years service. Such a prospect seems too good to be true to the man in the street who is accustomed to finding the rond outside his door taken up for some mysterious purpose about once a month, but it will be a much stiffer proposition to dig a hole in a road of reinforced concrete than to remove a few inches of tar inncadam. Should trench work be absolutely necessary an ingenious system of dovetailing has been..de rised which will prevent any set tling of the surface when the trench is refilled, the strain being taken by the part of the road, on either side of the trench, which hus not been disturbed..

Reinforced Concrete Surface.

The new road surface is of re-

Another work which will be begun in the near future is the resurfacing and levelling of Castle Peak Rouds but it will not be a concrete rond.

Green Oases Where Possible. Realising that the making of Kowloon has robbed the mainland of its natural beauties, and that the town has been allowed to grow up without sufficient lungs being left for either henithful or aesthetic needs, the P.WD, are making efforts to provide" green patches wherever possible along the main roads, and where there is still an opportunity to do so, are securing certain areas to be preserved as open spaces, There are two dif- ferent schemes for the main roads. Where the road is wide enough to allow it there are to be at regular intervals, islands in the middle of the road which will be turfed over and planted with shrubs of small flowering trees.

This is alrendy being started on Laichikok Road. Gascoigne Road provides an ex ample of the alternative scheme for a main road, which is at present sufficiently wide, but may need widening as traffic increases. Here the green oases are put at intervals along either side of the road. fine trees which are a beauty of Nathan Road are to be preserved, but the traffic is too heavy to allow of any enclosed spaces,..

The

ULLMANN'S JEWEL ROBBERY.

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VALUABLES IN A MILK BOTTLE.

MISSING GOODS FOUND.

Shanghai:The digging propen- sities of the thieves who recently tunnelled through two brick walls to rob Messrs. J. Ullman's Nanking Road jewellery establishment of 'some $60,000 worth of valuables, was equalled by the police when After excavating some six feet of carth in a vacant plot in the Western district, they recovered some of the stolen property huried in four tin boxes and an ordinary

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selves as antisfied that the rest will appear in due course.

The hiding place was revealed after the police had secured & con- frasion from one of the six Rus sins arrested for complicity in the affair.

Split Reported in Gang.

He admitted that he had waited for the thieves with an autombo- bile in the vicinity of the store while the goods were being removed but be denied playing an betive part in the actual robbery.

The recovered goods include a quantity of watches, rings, diamond studded rings and jewelled orna- ments of almost every description. It is believed that the worth of the valuables recovered amount to full 840,000 but no valuation would be given by the owners until the goods have been thoroughly ap praised.

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A letter, unsigned, was recently received by Mr. J. Blum, manager of the shop, in which was contain- ed a list of names of Beveral Rus- sians who were said to have first hand knowledge of the theft. On police investigation considerable importance was attached the my sterious message as it contained names on which the authorities had already

Police been working. efforts were renewed and faced with more information than be believed the police had, and information of the gang's doings which he knew SHENSI FAMINE REFUGEES.. to be authentic, the informant laid his cards on the table and the re covery was a matter of minutes.

The Coup.

It was learned, that the tunnel- ing of the three foot brick wall in the cubbyhole under the stairs of the American Drug Co. started on Saturday night, October 5, and that the gang worked all that night and also through the evening of the following day. On Monday every thing was in readiness for the final push through the wall of the Ullman premises and preparations were made for the work to go through without a hitch.

the employees of the establishment The gang was acquainted with

guard posted outside the store to and as an added precaution bad a

interruption to their plans. give warning should there come any

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NEW PADRE FOR KOWLOON..

WELCOME IN ST. ANDREW'S

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urging im- mediate adoption of a set of relief A very pleasant little social measures for the rapidly increas-gathering took place last night at St. Andrew's Church Hall, when ing number famine refugees in the congregation of St. Andrew's, Shenai has according to the Canton Kowloon, welcomed their new Gazette, been jointly submitted by priest, the Rev. E.. A. Armstrong. the Shenai Provincial Government After the introductory speeches, a and the Shensi Provincial Famine spirit of happy informality took Relief Committee

to the State charge of the gathering and the Council.

rest of the evening was spent in mitted in accordance with a recent welcome interval for refresh- The proposed measures were sub-games and dancing with, of course,

ing the formulation of relief mea- order of the State Council instruct-ments.

The Rev. C. B. Shaan, in intro- aures by the various Provincial during Mr. Armstrong, said that authorities concerned in order to he wanted to assure him how much ernment.. facilitate relief work by the Goy- he was welcomed, and he hoped that those prescut would make The proposed procedure includes: themselves known to Mr. Arm- 1. Employment of famine re-strong that" evening. fugees for the construction of The Rev. E. A. Armstrong's Reply. wer of the upper reaches of the

inforced concrete, and is laid like the floors of a building of that material, the concrete being streng thened with interlocked sheets of steel netting. It is obviously waste of time to lay such a surface, seven inches thick, on a road which has not had time to settle properly, and work is being started on the oldest Part of the road, as it must be a future citizens of the Colany. An and it was an easy matter to get factory to utilize the hydraulic po

was closed for the tiffin hour, the Promptly at noon when the store

started and the plan worked to attack on the Ullman wall was,

store came out behind a showcase perfection. The tunnel into the

through this and secure the wanted valuables by forcing, open the

The Children's Playground. It is extremely satisfactory to see. that the work of leveling and clear. ing the patch of ground on Middle end, which is the site of the new children's playground, has begun. Still more satisfactory to learn that several of the suggestions put for ward by the Daily Prey for the the P.W.D. It is perhaps too much playground have been adopted by

mediately, but with so good a site to hope for the ideal ground im and the present scope of the plans, other improvements may be added that the present undertaking will as funds permit. It is estimated

to spend on the welfare of the cost $8,000 which is not too much

long time before the whole scheme excellent feature of the plan is that is completed for it can only be a part of Middle Rond (from the proceeded with each year according steps leading up to Signal Hill to to the amount of money voted for its junction with Salisbury Road) the purpose. The newer portions will be made part of the play up into small packages to attract Ones secured, the loot was made of the road, built on reclaimed land, ground. This will reduce traffic no attention and the party made will therefore, have settled before dangers in the neighbourhood of off in the automobile kept waiting their turn comes for resurfacing. The the playground, and will also pro- with a running motor. work was to have been started from vide an area where the children Kowloon Point, but as the ques tions of parking and traffic control at the Point have not yet been decided it will be only between the South end of Nathan Road as far as Prince Edward Road. Later, Salisbury Road will be remade. About 200 men are. at present engaged on the work.

various counter cases.

The first intimation of the rob-

scooters and bicycles. There is to can take exercise on roller-skates,bery come when the clerks return- ed from tifin and found the store be also a strongly built shelter within disorder. seating accommodation, and a row

The open showcases gave eloquent testimony of what of acata under Signal Hall facing had happened and the presence of the harbour. Maypoles, see-saws other valuables which had been left and swings will be erected, and we behind bore witness that the thieves were pleased to learn of the inclu-hed selected only the best, sion of a much needed reform in Once the remaining missing ar- It has proved necessary to do the proposed provision of separate ticles are recovered the gang will side arterica of Nathan Road hope that our further suggestion of will have been solved. a certain amount of work to the lavatorics for boys and girls. We he brought to book and Shanghai's greatest robbery, in the past decade owing to the raised level, but these attendants in charge and a regalar Amaller ronds are not being surfaced | inspection of these places will also with cement.

be adopted.

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HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS.

For the week ending October 19:

Plague. Alexandria: canes, 1 death. Baghdad: 2 cases, 1 death. Rangoon: 1 death...

Colombo: 2 cases: 1 death, Soutabaia: I case.

Cholera.

·Calcutta ; 31 deaths, Rangoon death." Tuticorin: 10 cases, 3 deathr. Bangkok: 1 case.

Ppom Penh: 33 cases, 27 deaths. Shanghai: 2 cases.

Swatów: "8 deaths.

Small-pox.

Berbera: 2 cases, 2 deaths. Aden:,, 3 cases,

2:

Bombay: 4 cases, 5 deaths. Calcutta: 4 cases, 4 edaths. Cochin 6 cases.. Karachi: 1 case. Madras: 16 caver, 1 death, Pondicherry:1 caso. Batavia: 3 cases, 2 deaths. Samarinda: 2 cases, 2 deaths. Shanghai: 1 case.

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FINAL PERFORMANCE TO NIGHT AT THEATRE ROYAL.

PROBATE CASE. ENDED.

TANGLED WILL PROBLEM,

Probate has been granted in con.

Yellow River.

2. Building of embankments for downwards so as to provide em- the Yellow River from Lungmen ployment for the farmers who can not yet return to their work due to the drought..

3: Reclamation of the marshes on both sides of the Yellow River. 4. Afforestation throughout the entire province.

Sianiu section of the Lung Hai 5. Construction of the Lingpao.

Railway.

6. Construction of embankments of the Hwei and Lo Rivers:

7. Opening of a silk flature in north-western Shensi, near Tung- kwon.

SHANGHAI-HAŃKOW AIR ROUTE.

causing a good deal of laughter by Replying, Mr.. Armstrong, after

his "humourous references to him- self as a geranium in a flower show, of a Japanese room, said that he and the solitary picture on the wall

had a pleasant duty to perform in conveying the kind remembrances of the Rev. and Mrs. Lindasy' and the Rev. W. and Mrs. Rogers. He wished to thank Dean Swann for coming to preside at the rocia! and Mr. and Mrs. Shann for all

churchwardens of St. their many kindnesses, also the Andrew's and all those who were present sympathy and prayers and remind- that evening, Ho naked for their

ed them that they were all work- ing together.

The Dean's Welcome. The Dean of St. John's Cathe dral (the Very Rev. A! Swain) saið that he wished just to say how sorry the Bishop was that he had not been able (owing to his ab sence from the Colony) to be there that evening. He must explain that he was not presiding but was

guest of Mr. and Mrs. Shann He felt that Mr. Armstrong's com ing was going to make a big dif. ference to Kowloon, the work was growing as quickly as the place and The first flight of the newly- Mr. Armstrong would have no easy. of the China: National Aviation Armstrong's coming, was going to organized Shanghai-Hankow branch task. He felt certain that Mr. Corporation, was made last week help forward the Kingdom of God. with complete success. The Shang-in this place. hai aeroplane, a Lorning-Keystone Amphibian took off from the Lung-

... SUN FO

pection with the will of Hung | INAUGURAL FLIGHT. BY MR. Kwai Cheong, alius Hung Sing, at one time a medical practitioner, of 350, Queen's Road Central, who left estate in the Colony worth 89,700. Two wills figured in this case when bitigation occurred in the tice Court before the Chief (Sir Henry Gollan).

...

The Warwick Revue Company's

Relying on a will alleged to have season will close to-night with a been made the day before, hie fifth final presentation of that delightson, Hung Sai Chuen applied for

hua landing stage carrying Mr.which was Mr. Price, former. fully witty and sparkling revue probate. A part of the document

read "I note. my fifth son, Sai Bun Fo, president of the Corpara American Consul at Nanking. "Airy Nothings."

Chuen, has always proved methe- tion, his secretary. Dr. T. C... Tsich, The prices asked for the trip are The local public have thoroughly affairs and amicable to all his rele Shun in addition to a cargo of Shanghai to Kiukiang. 8140, and dical in his management of all and a passenger, Mr. Chang Bho from Shanghai to Nanking 840, enjoyed all the Revuei put on by tives and friends."

mail.

Shanghai to Hankow 8200 for one this talented company, and no Judgment was given against Sel The trip was without incident way tickets. For the round trip doubt there will be a bumper house Chuen on August 15 when his coun- and stops were made at Nanking the charges are Shanghai to Naa- sel, Mr. F. C. Jenkin, announced and Kiukiang. The machine was king 260, Shanghai to Kiukiang to-night at the farewell perform during Sai Chuen's cross-examina-piloted by Mr. Birgen Johnson 8210, and Shanghai to Hankow.and.

tion by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, it had with Mr. Hayden, mechanic, also return, 8300 been decided not to proceed further in the cockpit.,

In this connection, it is of in- in order to save something, il

Mr. Sun Fo expressed himself as terent to note that the National possible, out of the small estate.

well pleased with the performance Aviation Corporation has written Probate has now been granted of the machine and the daily trips to the Chiaotungpu Shanghai- to the successful parties to the setion, Hung Sai Kat, Hung Li Shi schedule of the Corporation. On to start a service to Hankow, sug- will become a part of the regular Chengtu Air Bervice, which is soon will leave for and Hung Sai Man, with power to the way up they met the machine gesting that there should be co- Shanghai tomorrow where they make a like grant to Hung Sai coming down from Hankow on operation in order that the services will undoubtedly score another big Fook on his attaining the age of

may be run smoothly and efficient bit.

121 years.

(Continued or foot of next column.) | ly-N.-Q. Daily News.

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