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Kotoloon Supplement When The Volunteers Stormed

HONG KONG, APRIL 20, 1933.

IS IT PROGRESS?

Kowloon City

CUSTOMS OFFICIALS WHO CARRIED

THEIR LIVES IN THEIR HANDS

On the Kowloon and Macao | into Chinese pockets. All night frontiers women would carry opium iong steam launches and other boats slung in bags in plain view of the plied back and forth crowded with Customs

passengers-Chinese and foreign- between the Colony and Kowloon. The best of cigars, winca, ham- sandwiches and champagne were liberally served to those who cared for them. Thousands of dollars were won and lost-generally lost

Is Kowloon progressing, or are the signs one sees those of a purely superficial and temporary charac ter The answer is that in some ways, at least, Kowloon is undoubt edly making progress. For instance, great blocks of Bats, both foreign

guards, while armed style and Chinese, are rising one bandits occupied vantage points on after the other. Yet, in spite of

the various hill-tops until the this activity in the building trade,

women had got safely away with the the place remains depressing. I contraband, is another of the is not empty, but it appears to be amazing allegation made by Mr. L. s. The streets are mostly wide, but.

C. Arlington, an ex-official of the the crowds one would expect to

Chinese Maritime Customs, in his by those who expected to make a meet are not there. After the ar

book of reminiscences, Through fortune playing fan-tan or puchi. rival of each ferry a swarm of

the Dragon's Eyes." He continues: The Hong Kong Government had buses dashes away, mostly empty,

"A Customs officer in the Kowloon requested the Chinese Authorities except during the rush hours. The territory in those days-and prob times out of number to have those streets and pavements are neglected as though the Peak dwellers on the ably even yet-risked his life at all gambling dens closed, but without hours of the day or night while on

result-since the Chinese officials staff of the P.W.D. had little time

preventive duty. Things eventually were getting their share of the pro to consider a place so remote as

got so dangerous on the Kowloon fits, of at least so much for each Kowloon and deigned not to bot-

China boundary that the Customs table operating. I discovered this her their heads whether the Main officers were afraid to carry or be in a curious way while at Chang- land residents walked in cleanly escorted by lights during the night chow. The Viceroy sent down pro- comfort on concrete pavements or waded in red mud. In some streets vigils, since they were often fired slamations prohibiting gambling on there are footpaths on one side of by pirates or smugglers covering the islands and instructing that all their confederates running con- gambling establishments were to be the street only, in others none.

trabari.

closed forthwith. A copy was sent Formerly it was possible to cross

**En 1909, when the general

to me to be posted up, I further the Railway line nad stroll along.

Chine territory being instructed to invite the local the sea front: to-day one can walk scramble for

officials to come to the Customs from Holt's Wharf to the bridge began, the Hong Kong Government, over the railway before one can find not being satisfied with a large slice House and after showing them the

of Kowloon, decided to

take the proclamation to inform them that anything but n neglected, rusty

I had received orders thereafter to fence and some padlocked gates.

rest of it, including what was Near this fence are a few benches known as thegald Kowloon City. report any gambling going on. They set in a wilderness of unout grass, So one dark night, the Hong Kong said that they would abide by the instruction, but gambling proceed- Volunteers crossed the Harboured se before. I was then instruct some actually pushing its way through the slats of the seats, in-and, scaling the walls of the Oity ed by the Commissioner of Customs of Kowloon, took possession of it. (Mr. H. M. Miller), to whom I had stead of which trim lawns and flow. or-beds might alleviate the monotony the departure of the British forces to seize and close any establishment The Viceroy at Canton demanded reported the matter; that I was

since the British were in the right had already closed one shop, and but his demande fell on deaf ears, found breaking the Viceroy's orders. according to the Kowloon Exten- sion and Wei-Hai-Weu Agreements the local official, came to me and was about lo seize another, when which had then just been signed offered me 81,000 Peking had probably kept the Can-wink the other eye," Said this a month "to ton Viceroy in ignorance of the new official; You know that nearly all Agreement till the last moment for the officials hereabouts, numbering fear of an uprising on the part of some fifty, have a share in the the Cantonese; and, indeed, there gambling. profits..

The gamblers several tussles between the have to pay 830 per table each a Hong Kong Police and the local day, and, as there are only twenty- Chinese before the British succeeded five tables running, we ought to get in fully establishing themselves in about $25 for our share, but we their newly acquired territory don't, because the higher, officials "One of the reasons why the zet by far the largest percentage. Hong Kong Government wanted they share is only 810 a day, and I Kowloon Extension was to get Mirsam the highest official here on the Bay and Deep Bay for proper de- island, so you see many fence and protection. There was lower officials get very little!' also an even more significant reason Naturally. I refused to accept the for the Extension; gambling was bribe, or to allow them to continue so prevalent on the Kowloon side that much of the wealth of the Colony filtered slowly but surely

י

were

gambling."

(To be Continued)

of the

of the scene.

Like most towns and cities in the world, the trend of development is Westwards, towards Laichikok and Castle Peak, and that is the direc tion in which land values have risen., The sale of land, in con- sequence, has very materially help ed the revenue of the Colony; in fact, Kowloon has been the goose that lays the golden egg and unless the Government reciprocates by nursing that goose, it will die a natural death. What we mean is that money in the form of land sales, Crown rents, rates and taxes in. Kowloon had been diverted in unfair ratio to the needs of Hong Kong, and Kowloon has been left to wallow in its own puddles.

When and if the bus services come under unified control it may be possible to catch a 'bus every two or three minutes instead of, as is now the case, there being a convoy of buses all starting at the same time and all converging on. one spot; the Star Ferry, Mean- while, whoever is responsible for STALL-HOLDER SUMMONED inspecting the buses periodically

natives as shot for their old muzzle- might turn their attention to their

loaders) fired at close range, man- interior cleanliness on some of the

Laged to drag himself to the box sent For failing to notify the authori-routes in which it is impes ble ta

of the coach and drove them, most ties of a case of small-pox, the travel without one's clothes being master of a stall at Mongkak | soiled by the filthiness of the sexta.

of the time under heavy cross-fire, An interesting summons relating Butters at Kowloon Magistracy of the grouses which the average Market was summoned before Mr. The above constitute a few only

to safety. Though all the Volan to alleged accusations made through a loud speaker was heard by Mr.

yesterday.

teers were recommanded for the resident in Kowloon feels justified

The friends of Major Lewis Wynne-Jones at

Victoria Cross for conspicuous Inspector Knight, of the Sanitary in making on occasion, and it is Cassel, O.B.E., formerly of Clare- Central Magis tracy yesterday when Leung Yat Department, said that while visit questionable whether a district in San, the master of a shop at 13, ing the Market ke noticed & foki which there is so much neglect and mont Hotel, Kowloon, will learn gallantry under fire, only the leader of patrol received it, Queen's Road Central, waS in No. 4 stall who appeared to be imperfection can be sală to be with regret that he was removed moned for making accusations suffering from small-pox. He at making progress. The fact that to Hospital yesterday afternoon

as the others, not being Members against two neighbouring shops of once rang up Dr. J. M. Gray, who buildings are being erected all over suffering from what is believed to

of Her Majesty's Armed Forces, selling Japanese goods.

examined the foki and confirmed the Mainland does not in itself. his suspicions.

mean that the place is any better be an abosss of the knee, in which were ineligible for this decoration.” Defendant said his jaki conf, though it should suggest to the he was wounded in 1806 during one Throughout the Great War, as is stracted small-pox in the country. Lovernment that Kowloon is of the native wars in Africa well-known, Major Cassel Was the defendant was represented by He was under the impression that deserves better facilities than it is Though not generally known to the General Staff Officer and Deputy large and ever-growing town which

ACCUSATIONS THROUGH LOUD SPEAKER**

COMPETITION BETWEEN CHINESE SHOPS

suin-

Mr. F. X. D'Almada, jun., ap

peared for the complainant, while

Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton,

MARKET

the man was all right again.

MAJOR L. CASSEL

FORMER GENERAL STAFF OFFICER IN HOSPITAL

getting now. There is no doubt present generation, it is of interest Assistant Adjutant and Quarter feet were covered with crusts, which

Dr. Gray stated that the man's that it would take vast uma of to seall the circumstances in which master-Gmeral of the China Com- were still infectious

money to remedy all the wrongs to

which we have from time to time Major Cangel who wounded. In his mand, for which services he was The case was adjourned for a drawn the attention of our readers, despatch to the High Commisioner decorated with the Order, of the and it would be unreasonable to of Bouth Africa, the late General British Empire, Military Division. expect everything to be put right

One of the complainants, in the box, alleged that defendant firm shouted through the instrument, the following words-There are three Loung Sum Kees in one row. The one in the centre is genuine. The week. two neighbouring ones

not gesuite. The centre is the

one genuine Leung Sum Kee of the double cross."

are

| the two neighbouring shops, so that

the noise would drown the other.

at once. The residents of Kowloon, Anderson said: “He formed one He is now proprietor of "The however, pay their share of rates of party of thirteen man, who | Critic.” and taxes and they have a right to volunteered to rescue some women demand that certain essential ser- At this stage, Mr. Wynne Jones His Worship' suggested the par- vices, such as that of education and and children who were murrounded said, the public must be defended ties come to an agreement whereby the provision of adequate accom by a stern of houtile natives. On against noise and suggested that the kund speakers be withdraw modation for the papils of Govern: the return journey, the driver of the loud speakers be removed from the three shops.

Mr. Hall Brutton: I agree, your Cross-examined by Mr Hall

Worship. There is a terrific din Brutton, witness admitted he had there. installed a loud speaker in each of His Worship adjourned the hear (Wontinued at foot of neat Column)ing for one week.

ment schools,, should receive promj“.

For returning to the Colony after ter attention than they have in the the armoured coach containing the having been banished for ten years, past. There are many municipal rescued party having been killed, two Chinese were sentenced to ten reform possible in Kowloon, none Louis Cassel, though grievously months and one years hard labour of which need cost the authorities

respectively by Mr. Butters st more than a small percentage of the wounded in the knee by a revenue derived from the Mainland leg" (leg of a cauldron used by the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.

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