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KONG MOON CITY REBUILT.

LARGE AREAS RAZED TO THE GROUND NEW" STREETS AND BUND.

ERA OF PROGRESS AND EXPANSION.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Kong Moon, June, 1.

widened. Thousands of houses and Although the summer, weather shops along these formerly narrow. does not afford the most favourable streets wore razed nun large con- conditions for picking up long discreto sewer pipos made in the city fance stations on the radio, one of were put down.

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not long ago in getting messages sent, from the 8.a. Homerin on "the"]· -* Atlantic, 600 miles out from South- ampton on the way to New York A gentleman on Boord was 'spenki, ing to Sydney, Australia. This was about two o'clock a.m., Hong Kong time. On the same night he was successful in listening in on a lecture broadcasted from London, KEZ station in Bolinas, Call fornia, was heard quite distinctly talking with Bangkok.

A Splendid Bund,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1931.

HONG KONG STOCK

MARKET.

CROUCHER & CO,'S, DAILY REPORT.

The market was rather quiet with. a fair demand for investment shares,

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Banks and Unions are quict at quotations. The London rate for the former is £10.

Watorboats are better at 828.00 and Steamboats changed hands ́at. 827.70 for the Settlement.

Wharfs came to business at. $160) and closed with buyers offering $168:00,

Constructions firmod up to 89.50;

at which rate shares can be placed.

Hotels were easier on opening at $17.95 caah, 917.40 June. Business was done at $17.65 for July. In the afternoon, the market was Airmen, sales taking place at $17 cash and 817.78 July,

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From a hill behind the city earth was carted to raise the level of the streets and a splendid Band ex- tending along the waterfront has been constructed with a good foundation of heavy stones. The Bund and the city streets are well paved and lighted with electricity applied by the city fiant. Along these newly paved streets shops of

Lands are wanted at: 294 cash, two, three and four storeys have been, and are being erected. These sales taking place at $96.50 August Humphreys are easier at $22.50, shops and houses are substantially

Realtys are wanted at $1400 built with considerable quantities of

Utilities are in good demand and steel and solid concrete. They aro well lighted, in great contrast, to are the outstanding feature of to the one storeyed, filthy and poorly-day's trading, sales of China Lights

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.

WHAT THE AEROPLANE IS DOING: LONG JOURNEYS IN DANGEROUS COUNTRIES ELIMINATED.

THEATRES.

CURIOUS HABIT OF STARING IN T

An interesting insight into the lives and social customs of the pooples of Central and South America was given yesterday by Mr. William Moss, Director of the foreign sales department of the Dalton Adding Machine Co., in an address to local Rotariaņā,

Mr. Moss pointed out that many long and tedious journeys are now rendered quite’plsssant by the introduction of aeroplanes. He used maps 'to' illustrate his talk and although his address was necessarily brial by reason of the limited time at his disposal, it. was highly interesting throughout

ADDRESS TO LOCAL ROTARIANS.

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After referring to the good work, malalics in the tropics, the ther- being done by Rotary in many parts mometer, in Guatemala city-stays of the world, Mr. Moss, in describ between 62 to 77 degrees all the year ing his journey by aeroplane over round. It shows us the volcanos,

one of which, in 1918, killed' 1,000′ people and did $30,000,000 worth of damage.

Central and South America, said We leave from New York and come down to Colombia, Between Cal and Bagota" you go part way by

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dealing with other interest- motor-car from Armania to Thague ing places, including Antigua, the reaching a height of 12,000 ft-original capital of Guatemala, dangerous trip, best made at night Salvador and Nicaragua; Mr. Mos because of the precipitous curve went on to speak about Panama.

departments to another in Colom bia, baggage is searched for liquor, tobacco, etc.

The City of Kong Moon will, in the near future be supplied with ice from an ice plant now in course of erection. This will be a great boon to the citizens in this large and ...enterprising city. This ice plant lighted buildings which for decades taking place at 827.50, Ferrios 97, When going, from one of the ten He said: It took the United States

have done service in the old city. will undoubtedly prove to be a

On the hill behind the city a paying concern. The need has been Jong felt, and the people are look-commodious public park has been ing forward to a more plentiful and cheaper supply of this most neces sary commodity. For some time ice

opened, well laid out with walks, along which are found beautiful flowering plants and shrubs, A has been brought up in small quan provided in the park, while in cement concrete tennis court has:

tities from Hong Kong.

A New Olty,

Trams $21.75 and Hong King Elec- trics at 883.

Dements were quiet with shares offering at 821.40. slight improvement. June 2, 5 p.m.

Dairy Farm at $30.75 show a

EARLY MORNING BLAZE.

HOUSE IN WANCHAT GUTTED.

FINE. WORK BY BRIGADE.

the centre of the grounds stands the memorial public hall erected to the memory of Suen Chung Shaan. The park is lighted by electricity, the citizens young and old, to spend the giving an opportunity to

evening in healthful and pleasant surroundings. The city is now well supplied with bus and motor-car service. The rickaha pullera now

A house in Matheson Street was ply their trade on the city thorough- fares, while the city is connected gutted in a herce early morning with Sun Woai city and with Padblaze yesterday. The Wanchai Fire Kaai on the West River be well Brigade and the Central Brigade constructed public high-ways.", received a summaons from Mathison Street at about 6.20 am, and although several appliances were rushed to the scene, the fire was so furious that at least one loups wne completely involved when they ar rived.

ten years and cost about $400,000,000 to bailt the Pannu Canal. The United States Government has al There is a wonderful aeroplane hundred years' lease from the Re sórvice which has been operated for public of Panama and keeps under the last eleven years in Colombia military contrál a strip of land by Germans under the name of about 50′′ miles long and ten milea Scadta, which has been a life-saver wide extending from the Atlantic insofar as spood and convenience is to the Pacific. Panama itself has concerned. One can go from Bagets no port of entry so the United by aeroplane and train to Medellin States Government undertakes the in less than 30-hours,

work of collecting duties and ex- Between Puerco Berrio on the amining the baggage of travellers Magdalona river and Medellin it entering the Isthmus The failure

was formerly necessary to get out on the part of the French to built of the train and cross the the Canal was tragic. It was due mountains by mule pack or motor to great engineering difficulties, in- car, a distunes of over twelve miles sufficient knowledge of sanitation, The Americans completed a tunnel lack of capital and the corrupt use through the mountains in less than of money to hand. Between 1880 the agreed time of two years with and 1004,, they spend $300,000,000. the result that Antioquians sing the and innumerable, lives were lost. praises of Americans.

Keng Moon City, the centre of an ever-increasing import and export trade, has been practically" made over" during the past four years, The changes which have been effect ed during these few years, involving the expenditure of an immense amount of physical energy, and the sponding of vast sums of money, simply challenge the admiration of those who know what has actually been accomplished. The fact, that large areas of the city have been razed to the ground, and that a new city, rebuilt and remodelled, has rison in place of the old city, proves conclusively that the Chiness people, given half a chance, will show to the world what they can the district, thus enhancing the work of the firemen that it was are hard workers and shop open is noout an hour by train from do with their great, and extended value of property, and insuring for confined to the one house wherent seven and close between 5.30 and

country, BOUYCON,

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About five years ago the muni- cipal authorities proclaimed, that all the shops and houses on the ex- tended water-front must be torn down to make way for the building of the Bund. In a few wocks the streton-of-city-along more than half mile of river-front was a scene of desolation with piles of bricks and old timbers. Early in the year 1098 the order went forth that the main atroota of the city were to be

PEDDER STREET AFFRAY.

SOLDIERS GIVE EVIDENCE FROM WITNESS.BOX.

SELF DEFENCE CLAIMED,

An Era of Expansion. With the past tree months the Sun Woo Magistrate has moved his public hendquarters from Sun Wool" to Kông Moon. This move. will tend to make Kong Moon more than ever the strategic centre in

the future, an era of progress and expansion. What a change in the brief span of four years! One can not but wonder where the monoy is found for all these expensive public works and improvements. Appar ently the merchants of the present day are asked to provide the neces sit finances, as we do not know of any definite system of deben tures. Doming generations will reap the benefits of the sarcifcea, now demanded from a long-suffering and patient people.

SEVEN YEARS IN CAPTIVITY,

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The pier at Puerto Colombia, said. Mr. Moss, extends out to nearly a but also in South America. They mile-a remarkable job. This place

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0 p.m.. Many do not close for mid- Barranquilla and there is a mar- day meals.. The possibilities of vellous piece of work, known as the feared at first that the fire would the firemen were successful in pre-instance, in the department of the interior, town of Barranquilla. development in Boca de Cenizas for dredging, the assume alarming dimensions, but Colombia are still enormous. For river from the ocean so as to make

transportation venting the spread of the flames to Antioquia, there is no big town out an open port. 175) (2 the adjoining houses.

side of Medellin, most of the four- ner being done by mule pack or automobile. It takes about three days to go from Medellin to Mani-

zalca.

In addition to the inmates of the house involved, panic-stricken residents in the district rushed to the street at the first sign of fire. In spite of the early hour, there

From Medelia to Barranquilla were the usual crowd of sight-core by way of Porto Berrio including whom the police had great difficulty train and heroplane journeys and in keeping at, o distansin

The ground floor of the houes in- one night at Puerto Berrin, the volved, No. 20, is a grocer's shop.urney can be made in about 27 hours, incredible, when compared The second and third floors were with the usual methods of trans. practically gutted. ·

portation which may take from thros to ten days according to the state of the river.

YOUNG MAN RETURNS TO HIS OLD RESIDENT'S SUDDEN

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-DEATH.

MR. L.L LOPES.

The deceased was well-known and highly respected in Hong Kong. Ho. was formerly employed in the Chineso Maritime Customs from which he recently retired.

Grown almost to manhood and hardly recognisable, a young Chi nese, who was kidnapped from Mr. L. L. Lopes, an old resident Kowloon when he was twelve years of the Colony, collapsed on Monday of age, returned to his parents re-night at a house in Peel Street A complete denial of the allege coatly after spending practically where he was visiting some-friends tions made against them was made the whole of the past seven years in the company of Mr. P. M. da by Privatea P J. Brain and H.in captivity.

Silva. He was removed to the Jaimes, when they appeared again yesterday bofore Mr. D. H. Wil- A report of his unexpected re Government Civil Hospital but died

before admission. liains on, an assault charge preturn has been made to the polica. ferred against them. Private Brain, by his mother, Lenog, Fuk, of 88, giving evidence on oath, said he Wuhu Street, Hunghom. She and James, together with another stated that the fad, Ng Ping. Wah, soldier named Booth, left Barracks was mised from his home in about 8.30 p.m. on the day in quos September, 1924, and returned on tion, and after visiting Happy Saturday last. Valley and the Cheero Y.M.C.A. went up Pedder Street. He and James wont into the Bluebird Cafe to purchase cigarettes, and on com ing but saw the two Chinese girls The girls spoke to them, and the Chinese detective intervened. Wit

· ness got hold of one of the girl's nrms and drow her across the pare ment non which the detective push cd witness up against, a gate. The man showed willingness to fight and Brain retaliated in self defence, He admitted that he hit the detective, but did so in self James ran away, They were arres ted only, a few feet away from the

Much sympathy will be felt for his widow and daughter in their The youth, in reporting to the sad bereavement. authorities the circumstancos of the The funeral took place yesterday, kidnapping, stated that ho was the remains being interred in the accosted in the street by an un-Roman Catholic Cemetery. There known Chinose who took him to & was a large attendance of friends ten house prior to leaving by train at the graveside. for Sha Kiu village, in the Tai Shan District.

He was subsequently sold for $130

to Chan Wah Hing, the master of the Mei Yin carpenter shop, where

BIG ITALIAN LOAN.

Salvador now has an outlet for her coffee on the Atlantic side wid Zaonpa, Gautemala, the railroad from San, Salvador to this city having been, opened last December,

The ports of Ceos, Champerica and Ban Jose are open roadstends. Ships must lie off shore when the weather is bad and loading must be suspended. The more threat of such interruptions militates against the coffee producer when he is mak ing contracts for, delivery to Ameri- can and European markets.

Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic aide has a landlocked harbour with a modern pjer affording facilities for loading and unloading vessels and operated by the International Railways of Central America, a

Barranquilla is rapidly forging to the front as one of the great cities of Colombia. It takes one hour to go from Barranquilla to Cartagena and from there less than five bours by aeroplane to Cristobal, In Guatemala city it was vDTY Panama From Cristobal, one can delightful to watch, in between the proceed by aeroplane to San Jose, dancing at the hotel that the Costa Rica, vica Puntarenas. couples, instead of standing and Speaking of the methods of check chatting on the floor waiting for ing the possibility of a citizen voting the music to begin, again, simply twice en election, day, Mr. Moss re dropped into a march, one, behind ferred his audience to a quaint the other, walking, around the hall method adapted at Santa Domingo.in beautiful formation, for about a He said: After the voter deposits minute until the music started his ballot the hair on the wrist of again. When the danco ended, if Jis right hand is shaved to provmit any couples preferred to talk rather his voting again on that day. The than sit down they continued this ballot, is given only to those who parade round the floor, one behind have hair on the wrist.

the other as long as they felt like it.

he worked until a few weeks ago HEAVILY OVERSUBSCRIBED.uld be developed on a much

when, having in the incantime saved

small sum of money, he escaped.

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Male Mannikins. Juan to the Virgin Islands of which St. Thomas is the leading city. The

Speaking of, Argentina Mr. Moss population of the Virgin Islands Trow attention to a curious custom.... group in 1917 shortly after the He said the townspeople walked up United States purchased them for $25,000,000 from Denmark, showed and down the main street from five 20,000 people Today they have to seven in the orening and an, in 20 22,000. The Islands are steadily de-teresting sight was that of two men, who wore male fashion plates, and Wining in population and import- ance for various reasons one of the who walked up and down the mid- dia of the street during this period principal ones, being, that St. Thomas bae lost its strong position to demonstrate the Intent in men's Another curio america, was that coaling station. Tourist busi: fashion way we values aut

tral, and South America,

copla were in the habit of staring

so that they would even stand up during the intermission and, look Around them. Some of then looked you over through lorgnoltes, which. stable's story of his running away the amount of bonds, applied for Speaking of Guatemala, Mr. Mossara properly called in Spanish James corroborated, spy-

and being arrested after the conceaded 3,000,000,000 lire, the figure said: One of the most interesting pertinentes. It is wonderful to tast when he came out of the stable bad overtaken him. He which the Government had reysights at this place is a gigantie Bee how the girls can be stared at Bubird Cafe, he saw Brain and witness) was the champion quar quest astonishing result gives of the race course. It is approximant on their part, although of rolief map situated on the ground indefinitely without any embarrass the detective a, gripa,,, and, heter mile and half-mile runner of the separated theme, did not strike Colony, and could easily have osgan: ample proof of the great trust and mately 150 feet square carefully course, they are taking, it all in 4%blow, be defective seemed to ed if he had been punning away.complete confidence the Italian worked out in every detail of moun,It is when a girl is not stared at want to fight and hip, and Brain He had served fire and a half years population and expecially the emali tain, ravine and river. To stully it that she begins to worry. (Laughter.) closed in again Watnesa denied, with the Regiment but lind never inventor and working class have in is to study a republic about the site Sir William Hornell, on behalf is being ridiculous, the Indian con- beep to India, neither did he know their Government and also refutes of North Carolina, with seaports of the Rotary Club expressed thanks

in word of Hindustani.

the rumours of an Italian loan on both the Atlantic and the Pacific, to the meaker for his delightful (Continued în fitzt Uolumn.) The case was adjourned.

It shows us why although Güata-·· address.

defence. He denied that he, and and from there came to Hong Kong Italian lire, the bonus being thrown there appears to be bitterly opposed at each other in theatres, so much

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