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WEATHER REPORT."

Yesterday's weather report, fore cast, and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.30 p.m., stated:---

The typhoon in the China Sea appears to be central off the SR coast of Hainan, moving porth

ward.

Local Forecast:-East winds, strong possibly increasing to a gale; overcast -rain,

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

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lunatio in possession of a rifle or

with the policy of watchful waiting revolver, it is never safe to assume

adopted by his subordinate officers, that the weapon is unloaded, or, and failed to see what advantage if loaded, that the holder of it would have been gained by enter does not know, how to use it effecing the police-station earlier than tively Tense situations of this it was entered, under his direction, tort usually arise very suddenly. As things turned out, probably leaving the unsuspecting victim no nothing would have been gained time to make full use of his reason by an earlier entry into the station, ing faculties. Days or weeks later, but nobody know that at the time. when all the facts are known and The Inspector-General did admit can be calmly reviewed, it is a very that if his subordinates knew that simple matter to show what might the station-guard had come out of have been, and explain how wrong the building at 6.50 and gone back: it was to have done those things without being fired upon by the that were done, and to have left madman, it would have been quite The following message

was undone

e the very things which reasonable to rush an entry to the received from the Government Tele- should have been done. Circum-station. How was it that very im- graphs, Hong Kong, yesterday stances alter cases, and it does not portant fact was not known to the

always follow that the critics who officers in charge of operations? evening:-

Typhoon about 930 miles SW. of are wise after the event would have Hongkong. Present condition in-acted in similar circumstances in. |dicates possibility of moderate gale any other manner than did the men

whose conduct they c at Hong Kong in morning..

criticise. The coroner's inquiry into the has been received by the American recent tragic affair at Lok Ma Chau brought to light a number of remarkable facts, together with some disquieting revelations and an interesting recommendation by the jury. In summing-up the Coroner had said it was perfectly clear that all the Indian police at the station "practically lost their heada" when the trouble started. The one man who might have done something to check the madman'ssary for the officer remaining at murderous fury:" did not appear to have made the attempt." More over, the coroner declared this Indian constable's evidence was

unreliable," entirely are being issued, but all friends however failing he was in his are welcome at the Church and duty, and however shameful his the reception to be held after- wards at the home of Mr. and conduct," he could not be held Mra C. P. F. James, 5, Minden legally responsible for the death of Villas, Mody Road, Kowloon.

the unfortunate English woman who [9833 had been left alone in the station.

The following typhoon warning:

Consulate-General from the Manila Observatory :-

Manila,, September 13, 11.45 a, m. Depression northern part China Sea, advancing westward.

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★ News and Views

The population of Australia has | Official figures just published been estimated by the Common-show that on August 31 there were wealth Statistician (ME C. H. in Germany 2,800,000 unemployed Wickens) at 6,429,417 persons, an of which nearly two millions were increases of 72,847 on the estimate in receipt of dolea. for March 31, 1999. Particulars of the population are as follows:-

New South Wales. Victorian Queensland South Australia Western Australia Tasmania

2,483,783 1,783,692. 934,639

390,958

Northern Territory Federal Capital Ter-

ritory

417,433 215,972 4,584

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While M. Angelescu, Minister for the Interior at Bucharest, was read- inga memorial from four students one of them, Beza, drew a revolver and fired four bullets into the Min- ister's face, cheat, shoulder, "and arin. M. Angelescu, despite loss of blood, grappled with his assailant, and prevented the discharge of the fifth shot. The students were ar- Excess of births over deaths ne rested and the victim was taken. counted for a total of 68,739, and to hospital. He is expected to re- The jury have recommended that excess of arrivals over departures cover, as no bullets remain in the are Dobrud- at all outlying police-stations one!

accounted for the remaining 3,000 body. The studenta persons. In New South Wales the jaites, who resent the new law European officer should be always excess of births over deaths was dealing with small holdings, for in the building, even if this means 28,172, and the State gained an in-which M. Angelescu is held respon creased population of 1416 through augmentation of the staff. migration. Between the census certainly will mean that, if the taken on April 4, 1991, and March A message from Budapest states moter ear containing five Government acts upon the jury's 31 last the population of Australia that a suggestion. We believe there is a increased by 093,589 persons, made persons collided with a railway

up of a natural increase 701,758 train

level crossing. The rule-cither written or understood persons, and net migration, 291,921 shock was a terrible one, and the that when one of the two Euro-During May last, according to motor car inmediately took fire.

migration statistics supplied by Mr. Three of the passengers were com pean officers now appointed to New Wickens, departures from Austra pletely burned, while the other two Territory stations goes out on duty, lia, 7,515 persons, exceeded the ar- are in a dying condition. the other shall remain behind, but rivals, 5,265 persons, by 3,230,

During May, 1929, the departures To commemorate his wonderful this is merely a theoretical plan totalled 6,091 persons, and exceed work in allowing only six byes to which very frequently does noted the arrivals (5,485 persons) bypass him during the 10 hours oc- work in practice. It is often neces 606. People of British nationality cupied by the Australians in som comprised 79 per cent, of the do- piling their record innings score of partures during May last, p

729 at Lord's, George Duckworth, the Lancashire and England wicket. King Ibn Saud of Hedjas has, keeper, has been presented by Mr. According to Press reports from Findlay, secretary of the MCG, Warsaw, presented President Mos with the ball used in the latter part ciecki and Marshal Pilsudski with of the innings. Around the ball is two valuable Arab steeds which are a silver band on which is inscribed being shipped to Poland in the particulars of Duckworth's feat. A Polish freighter Cracow which stand on which the ball will be brought a consignment of Polish mounted is also being sent to Duck arms and ammunition to a Hedjse worth. port

the station to go out before bis

colleague returns as happened at Lok Ma Chau. We were surprised, and also disappointed, to note that though the jury made no reference to the practice of sending married men to what are called "putlying sta tions." Those who only know the New Territory as a picturesque resort for golf, racing, bathing, or motoring do not and cannot realise

Miss H. KORTE and Mr. C. C. The coroner made no comment upon the weary lonesomeness of life for England to. Australia, around the by reason of the heavy rain. Thou-

friends

HICKLING invite their to their wedding at Union Church, Kennedy Road, October 1, at 3 p.m., and after wards in the Church Hail:

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The tributaries of a Brahmaputra, Squadron-Leader Bert Hinkler in the province of Assam, have will shortly attempt to fly from overflowed in an extensive manner Commonwealth, and back to Eng sands of square kilometres have woman in these remote and land within one month. He in been covered by the water, and the long interval from the time

isolated police-stations. Married tends commencing this flight early over 1,290 kilometres the destruc police reinforcements arrived at Lok Ma Chau until the station was

men should not be sent to these in September. He will be accom- tion is serious. It is stated that panied by Mr. McIntosh, who was there have been a large number of actually entered. He contented places, where their wives have to associated with him on previous deaths and many houses and cattle

distance flights. Together have been carried off by the foods. himself by reminding the jury that live under conditions which are long

these two aviators once attempted a they could say something on this good neither for body or mind, world's non-stop distance record, The association of Latvian rail- KENT-WAINWRIGHT. On August 18, point if they wished-and they did. Cramped living quarters, without but had a forced landing at War way employees and workers which tri-motor is a sort of bourgeois trade union at Henley-on-Thames, LIONEL

Fokker Avro 10, fitted with three has taken up negotiations with HORACE, elder sua of Mr. and The jury was of opinion there was any of the physical and moral saw. They will fly Mrs. P. H. B. KENT, of Tien undue delay." in entering the amenities and comforts which go Armstrong Siddeley engines, each similar organi ations in Eastern tsin, to MARY LONGWORTE, only police station after reinforcements to make life in town tolerable of 220/240 h.p., similar to the mone Europe and Scandinavia in order daughter of Dr. and Mrs. LONGWORTH WAINWRIGHT, of had arrived, but the frequent during tropical weather, are not planes used by Australian National to form an organisation combining Henley-on-Thames. ...

changes in command mitigate the suitable for women unless they are Airways, Ltd., on the Brisbane all similar bourgeois-democratic. Sydney-Melbourne routes. This in trade unions based on neither the NOCK-NASTASHEVBKY.At H.B.M. responsibility of any particular by nature most unusually patient formation was contained in a cable principles of the Third Internation- Consulate General, Shanghai, officer." The jury also expressed and optimistic. The suggestion by from the head office of C. C. Wakt al nor on those of the Social on September 9, ESTHEL, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. the view that the Indian police the jury that these outlying stations held & Co., Ltd; to Mr. Cyril L. Democratio parties. The first pre-

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Riga within the next few months. NASTASHEVSKY, of Shaighai, to inside the station were lacking should be so staffed as to allow one west, the company's general liminary meeting will be held irr CLIFFORD, younger son of the in initiative in handling the situs

Hardly is the long textils workers. W... Nack, of Swindon, Wilt- tion, which called for prompt mea-building would mean that three the Bank Station Sidney Whiting, strike in Northern France over than men would have to be stationed of Eastcheap, EC, struck a 16 trouble bas arisen among the miners where there are now only two (one year-old porter who was sweeping whose federation last week decided cause the train had gone. Whiting of 24 hours in support of their de.. frequently having his wife with the platform, blaming the youth be to call a preliminary general strike him). If this threeman plan was fined £s with a costs at mands for a reduction of the age should be adopted, it would afford the Mansion Houst, for assault limit and the granting of a fixed. an excellent opportunity for recall-Whiting said the youth was trucu-yearly holiday.

lent. He was not in the humour We have already said it is easying all married police officers from for that sort of thing, so he tried Following the detention of the to be wise after the event. We have stations in the New Territory to cuff the youth, but only hit the Japanese hip Kokusai Maru at admitted that it is easy to criticise, (where they should never have been broom. He thought that in some

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allowance for those unknown quan- tities which complicated the prob- lem confronting the police on that grim evening, we think most people will agree there was undue delay in entering the station. Let it be granted that, even had an entry been forced several hours earlier, there would have been no life saved. Eet it be granted, alag, that, an carlier attempt at catey might have led to further loss of life though in the light of evidence heard at the inquest, this now seems improbable. Granting these very Hong Kong, Szpizmaze 15, 1930. important points, it still seems

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LOK MA CHAU-LOOKING

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extraordinary that from five o'clock in the afternoon until nearly mid- night no attempt was made by a large force well-armed and (pre- sumably) well-disciplined men to MANY a man, bent upon commit enter a building approachable ting some criminal offence, has been simultaneously on four sides, and checked by the timely fourishing from which no shot appears to have of a briar pipe held in the manner been fired after half-past six.

Local Notes and Events

Regulations 30 and 31 of the securing the safety of the public, have been amended according to notice in the Government Gazette,

It is notified in the Gazette that f the name of the International Electricity Supply Ordinance, for Trading Company, Limited, hae been struck off the register of Com- panies.

According to the Gazette, the Government intends leasing about 160,500 square feet of foreshore and seabed at Tai Wan The upset premium is $980,875, and the annual rent $1,474.

mongrel dog belonging to Chan Mui, 13, Reclamation Street was sent to Ma Tau Kok for ob servation on Friday after it had bitten Cheung Tim Yau (13) of 201, Shanghai Street. -

It is notified in the Gazette that at the expiration of three months, the Seen Been Co., Ltd, and the Wo Fat Steamship Co., Ltd., will, unless cause is shown to the con- the companies will be dissolved."

of a pistol. Many an inoffensive Everyone realises that a cessation | trary, be struck off the register and citizen has been held up and of firing does not necessarily imply robbed by a footpad whose revolver that ammunition is exhausted, or was not loaded in any one of its that the person who had been shoot. five or six chambers. It is aways ing is either dead or disabled. The easy to be wise after the event, and sudden silence may be merely a the victims of such circumstances ruse, though it is unlikely that as have been described, were no a homicidal maniac-having run doubt desperately angry when and amok would be able to restrain if the simple transparency of the his fearful passion completely for fraud practised upon them became hours at a stretch. The Inspector known With a desperado or a General of Police found no fault

Major Malcalm, of the Military Hospital, Bowen Road, informed the police on Friday that at 7.15 p.m. Miss Robinson, a sister of the Hospital, was bitten by a dog be- longing to Mr. Skinner, of Mac, donnell Road...

Observatory returns for August show that the average mean tem perature was 82.1, the highest being 91.7 and the lowest 73.2. were 256.9 hours of sunshine and 6.06 inches of rain. The average humidity was 82.

There

ILE. the Governor-in-Council has ordered that the duration of the rights, powers and privileges granted, made and maintained under, the provisions of the Rope Company's Tramway Ordinance. 1901, shall be extended for a period of one year from December 15, 1930

His Excellency the Governor and Lady Feel were present at the 0,20 performance of Caught Bhort at the Queen's Theatre last evening A Chinese was sentenced to six This film is one of the most-amus-months' hard labour by Mr. Whyte pictures shown in the Colony Smith at the Kowloon Magistrsey for a long time, and those who on Saturday for stealing a purse have not seen it and who enjoy containing $14: Inspector Marks first class humour should make a told his Worship that the com- point of going to the Queen's to plainant's pocket was picked as he day. The picture is being shown was slighting from a bus ontside

the Kowloon Magistracy. for the last time to-night.

Three new medical officers have. been appointed to Hong Kong. They are Mr. P. F. B. Court, M.A.OS. LR.C.P., Mr. G. Y: A Grifth, M.B., B.C., B.A.O., and. Mr. J. B Mackie, MB., Ch.B.

Before Mr. T S Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy an Saturday, Mr. C. E. L. Griet made an application for reduction of bail on behalf of a Chinese who was charged with distributing sedi- tious literature at the Kowloon Godowns. Sergt Humphreys, how- ever, told his Worship that the police took a serious view of the cuse. His Worship, after reading the pamphlet, remarked that the refused to reduce bail, which was contents were very seditious. Ho

fixed at 81,000, and remanded, the accused till October 1.7

The opening ceremony of the Bouth China Motor-Shipbuilding and Repairing Works, Ltd., will be performed by the Hon. Dr. R. HL Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., to-day at 3.20 p.m. at the Company's Ship- yard at To Kwa Wen, Kowloon

Bay. For the convenience of guests, a special service of No, a bus will. be run from the Kowloon ferry terminus. By an unfortunate over- sight.it was stated in our last isete that the opening ceremony would take place on Saturday, We regret the error, and trust no great incón- venience was caused by the mis-

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