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THE TYPHOON

Chance To Replenish Reservoirs?

SUDDEN APPEARANCE SUNDAY NIGHT

Is history going to repeat itself? The question, standing alone, con- veys no meaning whatever, but to

THE RE-BURIAL FRAUDASE

Evidence Of S.C.A. Officer

CHAOS OF BONES AND GRAVE STONES

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933.

CHINA AND THE SINGAPORE AND 3 HOURS FROM EVEREST SUMMIT

LEAGUE

CHARITY

Significance Of New Plight of Unemployed Climbers Recall

Policy

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Geneva,The League of Na- tions, humbled in its initial at- tempts to persuade Japan to re- store. Manchuria to the Chinese.. has embarked upon a long-term Important evidence" bearing on programme which eventually may those old enough to remember, the the alleged misrepresentation of assist China to "settle" with the last record dry month, we had pre- the number of graves transplanted Japanese. vious to the August just ended. | from Pokfulam Cemetery to Ap- Dr. L. Rajchman, director of the was in August 1906. On Septem-lichau was given by Inspector A.League's Health Section, has been ber 18, Hong Kong was visited by H. Elston of the S.C.A. at Central assigned to China to assist the the memorable typhoon of '06". Magistracy yesterday during the National Economic Council of What happened then needs no re- further hearing of the case in China put into effect a vast, pro- capitulation. Those who are old which three Chinese, Chan Kau. gramme of national "reconstruc- enough to remember it still shake

Wong Kwai Chi and Kui Kwongtion their heads sadly

are charged with swindling the when speaking

Tung Wah Hospital with regard to of it, while the younger people the removal of human remains have no doubt, heard all about it trom the new G.CH. site at Pok- many times.

fulam to ApEchau. Cemetery.

It does seem signifcant, there- It will be recalled that when the fore, that after a dry August such

case started five Chinese were ac- as the one we have just exper-cused, but the charge against two lenced, we should be threatened by a typhoon, and if only for the

at

‚' sake of relieving the water short-

age. It is to be hoped, that least the call of it will pass by close enough to bring with it a nlentiful replenishment to our de- pleted reservoirs.

On Sunday night there was no fridication, to the layman at least, that a typhoon was forming any- where near us, but this one had apparently developed so "health- lip" that shortly after 7 a.m. yes- terday, the No. 7 Signal was hoist

ed.

The harbour was filled with junks and sampans running for safety, the Kausing was under way, ships were getting up`steam, and Star Ferry passengers 'looked anriously, a the

rain laden clouds.

Nothing exciting, however, hap- pened during the day, and up tik about 6.30 p.m. all we had was some rain, heavy clouds, and a little bit of a breeze.

On calling at the Royal Obser- vatory, our representative was told by Mr/ C. W. Jefferies at “át 11. a.m. the typhoon was, situated about 90 miles 8.8.E. of Hong Kong, moving W.N.W. Present in- dications are that it will pass about 50 miles south of Gap Rock and will enter the coast to the West of Macao."

of them were withdraWIL.

Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the prosecution.

Chinese

Singapore, September 4. Mr. A. B. Jordan, Secretary, for

·Chinese Affairs, says no Chinese need starve in Singapore but

Mr. Lim Kee Cheok, chairman of the Asiatic Unemployment: Com- mittee, declares that, in fact, they are!

Considerable comment has arisen

Adventures

DETACHED IN FACE OF

DEATH

(Special Alr-Mail Service)

London, August 23. How narrowly the 1933 Everest as a result of an inquest recently Expedition missed the final success an out-of-work, a Chineseof reaching the summit was re- sailor who had burned himself to |lated by the first two members of death.

the party to return home, Mr. J. The Coroner. Mr. F. G. Bourne, L. Longland and Mr. P. Wynn advised his starving wife to ap

Harris. proach the Chinese "Protectorate and added:-'

"A alender time margin-three hours-divided the climbers from

a British Colony people can anal cone may be," said Mr. Harris

"It is inconceivable to me that their last objective::

"No one knows how dificult the

Always careful not to tread on anyone's corns, the League has carefully specified that this colla boration with China will be strict-starve to death like this." ly "technical, impartial and non- political." But political experts know the League is shooting for bigger game.

May Have To Walt

If China gets her national plant Mr. P. T., K. Kemble was for the-railroads, schools, telephones, first defendant and Mr. F. X.telegraphs-running at a modern D'Almada, sar. appeared for the pace and if political unity ensues, second and third.

then League officials figure. China with her vast resources and popu lation will be ready to average Japan's "rape" of her three Eas-

The first witness called yester- duy was Wong Sun, the Chinese detective of the 9.0.A. who, was sent to Aplichau to, over-see thetern Provinces. work of re-burial.

It may mean waiting 25 to 50

In answer to Mr. Kemble, he said years but the League, like the Ro- that he had nothing to do with man Catholic Church, does not the writing of bamboo slips at mind if eventually what it consi- all. ever, he said that he had written that the League might have done Fressed on the point, howders a wrong is righted. Much

on one but that was at the Coffee to assist China to resist the Jap- Plantation and not at Aplichau. anese Invasion of Manchuria at When asked how he had esti- the outstart was circumvented by mated that the number of bones China's disorganization, both poll- was 11,000-that being the number|tically and economically. This he had given Inspector Elston- gave League members an oppor- witness said that he had counted tunity to dilly-dally long enough the numbers up to 8.000 and had to permit Japan to so strongly con- solidate her position in Manchu- ria that all later efforts of the League to dislodge her were un- avalling.

worked out the rest..

Mr. Pan Wah Po, secretary to the Chairman of the Tung Wan Hospital," said he and others had gone to Aplichau to inspect the number of human remains.

"To Restore Order

inclined to help a member state Members of the League are dis- who cannot or will not help her- self. During the Sino-Japanese debates in Geneva there were re-

Mr. Lo: As a result of your ex- aminations what would you say was the total number of remains taken from

the Tin Sin Kong burial ground?

Witness: 11.446 of which 7,449 current criticisms of China's poll- When you were at Tin, Sin Kongtical and economic disunion. This did you see the head-stones lying condition, League officials hope, I be remédied at least in the. Mr. Kemble, in "cross-examina-economic and social field, by the 3tion, suggested that as not all the technical assistance of League ex-

remains were counted there was a perts.

Mr. Jefferies added that p.m. the position was about the same except that the typhoon was a little nearer us. He did not however, expect it to come this way and ended up by saying that he hoped it would bring a steady rainfall in its wake for the next few days.

MEDITATION

were registered.

in a ravine?—Yes.

į likelihood that the cumber check-

Interviewed a day or two later, to a representative of "The Dally one of the points Mr. Jordon made Telegraph," "but had Wager and was: Cases of that type are ex-

I, during our attempt, reached the ceedingly rare. I mean cases where rocks beneath the cone at 9.90 ine a woman of the coolie classes—or įstead of 12.30 there was a strong starving. The reason is the won-been conquered. even a man or child-are definitely possibility that Everest would have

cerful family or clan system of the "Those precious three hours had Chinese.

been spent on a reconnaissance, however, and we had..to turn back. When Smythe' later made his at- tempt, he reached the place we had got to with the three hours in Hand-but the conditions were not then so good as they had been for

The present case, he stated, was an exceptional one,

Though the fund of which he is chairman provides relief for the clerical class only." many ap- plications are received from arti- sans and coolles and their wives and families, stated Mr. Lim Kee Check.

No One to Go to.

help

"Limited as we are, we cannot them," he told the Free Press. At that, they go away and we do not hear of them again. Can you appreciate how, they feel? There definitely no one to whom

they can go.

"It is true, as Mr. Jordan says. that the family or clan spirit amongst the Chinese is a very real thing and that there are district societies established with the idea of supplying food to local immig- rants from the particular district in South China whence they come.

But it is equally true that the

able one. That has been my ex- public of Singapore is not a charit- perience. These artisans," they come from many different parts of China but to my knowledge no clan society has thought of taking the lead to provide for those who have fallen on bad times."

Hungry Suffering in Silerice. “ To talk to Mr. Lim Kee Cheok and to hear of some of the cases which have come to his notice is to be persuaded that there is a large working class population, hungry and suffering in silence."

The recent appointment of Dr. ed by witness might have been Rajchman as liaison officer. be- different from the actual number, | tween the Chinese Government but Mr. Pun sald that the margin and the League reveals the Lex- The older people go to the of error could only be

one.

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a small gue's

Mr. Lo. in his re-examination, again drew from Mr. Pun that he had counted the registered sets of remains one by one.

Shul Wing Han, the undertaker to whom, and five other firms, the Tung Wah Hospital had given their contract, sald that he had sub-contracted the work to Wong

Mr. Geoffrey Hodson's Kwai Chi and Hul Kwan. He sald

Lecture

Mr. Geoffrey Hodson gave 蟲 -lecture last night on Meditation "

Society.

Like his previous lec- tures, last night's address was most interesting.

bones Ix

determination to proceed Chinese Protectorate for assistance with the internal reconstruction to return to China" continued Mr. of China's communications, an- Lim Kee Cheok but I'm sure by ance, education and health. At far the larger number have not the request of President Chiang the courage to go there. : Kai-shek and Mr. T. V. Soong the League initiated its technical co- operation with China in May of

1931.

and

Us.

"The party is confident that Everest can and will be climbed, given reasonable weather condi- Моля But there is no doubt that the final 1,000ft, of "cone is more difficult than had been thought." " Diet That Palled. Both Mr. Longland and Mr. Harris were bronzed, and obvious- ly in excellent condition and spirits. Of slight and wiry bulid, they appeared to have made a fine recovery from the great mental and physical strain of the expedi- tion.

Yet," said Mr. Harris, "we All lost about two storie in weight. and in a photograph taken of us when we all got back again--well, really, we look like the 'starving Russians, or something-like that.

**If I start talking about diet I shall be apt to use strong lan- guage." he laughingly added. " Be- Hleve me, condensed milk, chicken essence, infant foods and pre- served ginger begin to pall after the first week at that altitude:

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A very Interesting fact was this previously it had been thought that the appetite almost completely disappeared above 23,003 feet. But, thanks to our gradual and scientific acclimatisation, we found a large number of foods de- finitely palatable in our imagina tions.

"A scream was sent down the phone for variation in the diet, and when some bully beef and plckles, were sent up we tell on them like wolves."

"In North Bridge and Tiong Bahru Roads I have come ACTOSS

Porters' Lost Fingers. whole families, six, seven and

Mr. Longland told me something eight in, number, living in one

of his hazardous descent with a small room, with hardly any turni-band of weary porters in the teeth ture, practically starving",

of a raging storm after Camp 'VI., Some time ago Singapore took the highest of all, had been estab Penang to account for allowing a, lished. certain Chinese to suffer from privation to such an extent that he tainted when he went to the office of the unemployment com- mittee to ask for food.

Experts On Ground' Several League representatives that Wong Kwai Chi did not re- have already visited China and port to him how many sets of elaborated various proposals for bones were removed from Tin Sintechnical assistance. At present Kong. He was to pay them 35 there are about a dozen such ex- cents each set of unregistered perts actually in China, including expert in health, civil engineering answer to Mr. D'Almada agriculture, silk-growing, civil ser-

At that time Singapore could at in the hall of the Theosophical witness said he had heard of IPvice, telephone, telegraph

least claim that it had a relief Kwong but did not know him.

Mr. D'Almada: Wong Kwai Chi education. Dr. Rajchman, who scheme in operation, whereas the has been to China several times but now it looks as if Singapore Penang scheme was in abeyance, told you their work had been sub-

and is the personal friend of many will have to pluck out the beam contracted to Ip Kwong?—Yes, Mr. Hodson said that happiness prior to the Tin Sin Kong con- Chinese statesmen. will be liason in its own eve before giving moral between these League experts, the advice to the Northern Settlement. Chinese Economic Council and the Inspector Elston's Evidence. League.

"It is true," said Mr. Lim Kee Cheok, so far as I know, that Inspector Elston, who had been As the programme may become there is no agency in Singapore present in Court all through the politically important in the deve- to which a starving family of the hearing on behalf of the S.C.Alopment of a New China the artisan class can go for aid."-- now went into the box himself. He United States has manifested con- Singapore Free Press said that on April 12 he received siderable interest in it. An Amer notice that work had started at Ican diplomat,

Mr. B. Paul presided.

was the goal of human life, but few of us discovered real happiness because we did not know how and where to seek it. He said that happiness could only be found in things that were beautiful, things that were eternal and things that did not finish.

tract.

:

Mr. Theodore,

Tin Sin Kong, and he sent District. Marliner, Counsellor of the Ameri- Watchman No. 25 to over-see the can Embassy in Paris, was present operations. On June 13 he received at the meeting when Dr. Benjamin Information, which he 'reported to was named. the S.C.A. and which resulted in special instructions being given to the Watchman.

wan burial-ground."

HONG KONG FINE ARTS ACADEMY

NEW PREMISES. AND MORE PUPILS.

The Hong Kong. Fine Arts "Academy has moved to No. 8. Dės

*I learnt a few words of their language on the boat going, out,"!! he said. body of men, Sherpas from Nepal, "They were a splendid

and Bhotias trom Thibet, tough fellows, the former small and the latter of medium height-all very cheerful and plucky.

about frost-bite and did not try to "They are apt to be careless:

get back circulation directly they spite of the two pairs of woolly felt themselves going numb. In

gloves and a third pair of wind- all provided, three of them lost proof ones, with which they were fingers.

"As the anidous descent con- tinued I-was myself most terribly. tired. Some of the porters kept wanting to sit down. I had to keep talking to them and uring them to go on.”....

'

Could See Nothing.. "It was a great descent," inter Jected Mr. Harris. "It was a' mar- fellous effort"on Longland's part. During part of the time he could not see anything out of either aye."

"How did you yourself talk to Voeux Road. Centrally located the porters?” amid pleasant surroundings the

“Mr. Harris laughed. "On, I just and pointed. school is rapidly increasing its said Alley-oop numbers. The principal and per- The porters were fine right to

They understood, sonal instructor. Mr. Tatz is most many of the students have made Bratified with the progress which and entertains high hopes of what

plish.

The sages of the past have taught us real happiness, but the human being had found it unsc- ceptable. If we wanted happiness we must pursue it and to do so we must leave the humdrum world behind us. To do that two things were essential. There must be a certain attitude of mind during On July 19 he went to the ceme-

Tin Sin Kong ground." At this one the whole day long, permeating tery at Aplichau. There he saw of the party, who said he was em everything we do and say. This Fang. Hoy of the Tung Wah Hos-ployed by the second defendant. required a good deal of discipline. pital, the first defendant, and bolted. I arrested Arst defendant Then there must be a habit of others; measuring ground. He for having damage the graves and regular withdrawal from the world went to the crest of the hill where he was later sent to prison." and of centering the whole of our he saw a plot of ground newly dug

Mr. Lo: What inference did you thought with our eternal self. up in which urns were exposed.

draw from the state of things? Mr. Hodson then described many In the centre of this plot was a

decided that the first defendant ways in which one could meditate, bamboo tally with Chinese charac satisfy the Tung Wah Hospital had not shown enough graves to

the end. So long as there is not pointing out

an actual" crash withi Ions of lirḥ preferably be regularity, privacyTin Siri Kong No. 1."

that there should tera which he was informed read people and was cóimting Kailung the school may eventually, accom Even a fall of a couple of hundred they don't mind what happens! and the correct posture. Thought Continuing. Mr. Elston said: Formal evidence of the arrest of was the next point and the begin- "I knew this ground was not Tin

feet so long as there is no serious ner in his meditation might feel Sin Kong ground; I knew it was the other defendants was also

Morning and evening classes are damage, would probably not shake It was a sign that something was nearby I found 1,804 grave stones other date should be fixed for school and drawing and painting number of specimen work which some pain. If that was the case. Kallungwan. In a gully in a ravine given by Inspector Eiston and Mr. held and special lessons can be arteir nerve. They are all keen to

D'Almada then proposed that a ranged. Interesting models are go again wrong and that should be righted carelessly thrown in. Many of

employed to sit regularly for the at once...

them were broken and bones had cross-examination. also been thrown into the ravine.

The hearing was accordingly ad- from life is taught by the principal were then exhibited. The need for The uras appeared to be well dug journed till. Wednesday, the 13th..

himself. All interested in Art are a school of this nature has long into the ground as if they had

Cordially invited to visit the been fent in the Colony and, now been burled some months.

school, where the work of the stu- that Mr. Tatz hìa takên the lend dents is displayed in the studio, it is to be hoped the will receive- together with some fine specimens the support which he deserves. of Mr. Tata's own painting. Mr Tatz has been commissioned to HONG KONG'S MOST MODERN paint the portrait of a well-known

ACABARELIGION resident, of Hong Kong and the

NOW OPEN 7 honour to acknowledge with grate will be pleased to discuss sittings the work is practically completed, He

YELLOW DRAGON

following donation towards the Those who did not view the ful appreciation and thanks the with anyone interested

DANCING ACADEMY Hospital Comforts Fund Anony-recent exhibition may still see

Frame:21 Address; 2

KINGS THEATRE BUILDING 6TH FLOOR (Continued on next column)

Fearing a scolding by his father for the loss of a fountain pen, a I called the working party ub and sent for the sexton. He ac-

Chinese youth, 15, stole four song cused the first defendant in the books from 199, Hollywood Road, presence of the others of having in order to sell them to buy a new come some days before with some pen. Brought before Mr. Wynne. men pulled out these stones and Jones this morning in the Central threatened him with death if he Police Court, the defendant w ordered, to receive eight strokes of the cane,

interfered with them.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE

The Hon. Treasurer has

The sexton said that that ground was Kallungwan ground and not

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