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HONGKONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1919.
THE GAOL SENSATION.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
MORE FLATS.
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The interview with Mr,, Hanry Humphreys which we published in our issue of Saturday was in- teresting as showing that whilst
the Government is still consider ing measures to cope with the hoasing shortage, others are tak ing action in the matter. Enter- prise bas certainly been shown
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
NO HABIT IS ACQUIRED WITH MORE DIFFICULTY THAN THAT OF ACKNOWLEDGING ONE'S ERRORS,
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. M. Fletcher left for Shanghai by the as Chenen.
H. E. the Governor is to open the Repulse Bay Hotel at 3 p.m. on New Year's Day
Mr. F. W. R. Plummer and Mr. E. J. Grist arrived in the Colony by the Empress of Russia.
Saturday's health return shows three casce of enteric fever (two British and one Chinese), one of which ended fatally.
The Toro Kisen Kaishe has issued a striking wall calendar the decorative part of whick includes a picture of Fujiyama.
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CURRENT COIN.
(BY "MERCATOR “)
One of the features of the week's commercial happenings was the sharp spurt in China
CORRESPONDENCE.
To The Editor of the Hongkong Thingraph."
THE SHIPPING DISPUTE.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
THE CHEUNG CHÓW. MURDER.
Before the Chief Justice (Sir Sit-"Ajax" in his letter of William Rees Davies) the Decem
on the Jury-Messrs. H. C. Best, The following were empanelled D. Abbey, G. H. da Silva, J. Mo Cubbin, K. Sayce, A German, and J. Caer Clark. Mr. Mc Cubbin was chosen foreman.
Sugars, which were done in the the 16th says that during the bor Criminal Sessions were con- carly part of the week at #193 war was the time to strike and tinued this morning. There was and were soon rushed up to $211 then we would have had the only one case for bearing, this for cash and $227 for March shipowners in a tight comer. being in which Tse Shui Shing delivery. This is attributed to He seems to overlook the fact was charged with murder of a by the Humphreys Estate and
the report current in the share that the nation Finance Company by the
was in woman at Cheung Chow. erection of modern flats, and we
market that the Company has a tight corner then and many of The Hon. Attorney General made a profit of a million-and-a- the Mercantile Marine be calls (Mr. J. H. Kemp, KC., C.B.E.) pro- do not doubt that the new blocks
half of dollars for the year.
rejections" (several of whom I secuted for the Crown, and prisoner of buildings which are to be
To what extent this is true few know) had been torpedoed and was defended by Mr. F. U.Jenkin, provided by the Company in
can say. It would be interesting arrowly escaped with their C. B. E. (instructed by Mr. Ga Hongkong and Kowloon will be
to know how much sugar the lives, and if "Ajax" will have R. Haywood): quickly saapped up by tenants
Company has in stock and the talk with any of them as to once they are completed. Any
purchase price of same. If the how they returned to Hongkong concern putting up houses or fats
Company's stocks of sugar have they will certainly present him nowadays is not likely to have its
been procured at cheap prices, with an Iron Cross with "Liar" property iring idle. The demand
then it is not improbable that big 01 the back. for accommodation is still much
prosts have been earned. The
Other classes of labour did in excess of the supply. All the
world's production of beet sugar strike at that critical war time same, we rather regret the ten-
is about 2,400,000 tons, which is but not the Mercantile Marine case, Mr. Kemp stated that the In outlining the facts of the dency to concentrate almost
short of the average, but on the and instead of throwing pepper in murder took place in a house on entirely on fats, for, convenient
other hand the world's production their eyes be ("Ajax") ought to Cheung Chow island on Novem as they are in many respects, they The remaining two subscription of cane sugar exceeds the average give them credit for the noble ber 2ad. On the night in quest- suitable griffins which have arrived by the by 1,800,000 tons, leaving thereby work they did in helping to win ion the deceased woman, with her.
s.s. Sinkiang, will be drawn for a shortage of 600,000 tons. The the war. to-day at 5.30 p.m. at the Hong-Sugar Controller in England has
mother and some children, ware He should also credit them sleeping in the house alone, the kong Jockey Club Stables,
already raised the price of sugar with lining up at the right time deceased's husband being aboard by 1d. a lb. to the consumer and (after the war), for every certi- the Cheung Chow ferry boat. In has limited his consumption to 80 ficated man, deck and engine the early hours of the morning much. Drastic steps are being this the time to level the gap in the ounces per week, which is not without exception, considered the old lady was awakened by taken at Home with regard to the their remuneration between the "save life." On getting up she deceased crying out sales of sugar to retail dealers. It outside ships and, their more saw two men in the house coming is due to the foresight of the Sugar fortunato brothers
the direction of the Controller at Home, who made
"Ajar" must have been re-deceased's cubicle. One of the people in the Home Country are danger tone and with his scath-cut her on the neck. She knew extensive forward purchases, that jected as unfit to go in the two men rushed up to her and able to obtain their sugar sting letters trying to create one the these prices.
very well and: Since 1916 the of his own design without leav-identified him as the prisoner. has not paid any dividend to its he can pick is that a few of them the China Sugar Refinery Companying the Colony. The only fault After the men had rushed out of house she found her shareholders, the dividend that over-indulge but prohibition will daughter lying in the cubicle with early months of this year the year being 12 per cent. In the rectify all that. price was quoted at $79, against $211 of to-day.
are not the most
type of building for the East. Flats serve a very necessary purpose in large cities at Home, where suitable sites are scarce and where it is essential for peo- ple to live within easy reach of their businesses, but there is little excuse for their existence in a locality like Kowloon, where there are still large tracts of undeveloped land, some of it, we fear, "cornered" by owners who are holding on in the anticipation
of a rise in value. MODERN HOUSES BETTER.
to the tenants to have kitchen
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Amongst those who left the Colony од Saturday on the Mishima Mara were Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Marley and Mrs. Ralphs, bound.
Homeward
who
The Star Ferry Company's revised time-table is now in oper- ation. It follows the line of the recent experiments of running & five-minute service hours of the day for the con at certain venience of business people.
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PERISCOPE. Hongkong, Dec. 22, 1919.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
house an old resident-went to British Banks would be affected possible with all the China pro- the nearest pawnshop, and, sure had that day been pawned. They lief is perfectly silly. The Ameri- placed articles are hard hit. enough, found that the blankets is uncalled fot. The Times ducts, owing to competition, and
re in his possession again, but can Banks cannot do exchange
in giving expression to such a be- dealers in these less fortunately at the pawnbroker's price.
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man
Mr. Kemp explained that an- other man had been arrested, but he was subsequently discharged
Mr. Humphreys appears to think that flats are more popular than houses, and in order to substantiate his belief he cites the
Unlike last year, most of the fact that all the Company's flats local stores are this year issuing
her throat cut. The matter was - reported to the deceased's bus- are occupied and that there is a dainty wall and desk calendars.
band, and they informed the police. lang "waiting list" of the names of people willing to become tea-the Queen's
We are in receipt of one from
By the time the police arrived the deceased woman was dead. Sub ants when vacancies occur.
Dispensary. the But subject of the illustration thereon In this connection, I may men-
sequently the prisoner was arrest- that, to our way of thinking, is
ed in a matshed near by and in that It is very easy to be wise after an event, but it is a great deal more in the nature of proof of the being Charles Russel's "Off to tion that at present there are in-
the Wreck." more to the credit of public authorities when they have enough fore- shortage in housing accommoda.
discriminate deals in futures on
matshed, under a bed which the prisoner used, was found a chop- sight to be wise before one. It has had to cost the life of a European tion than of any preference for
the Stock Exchange, and unless and an Indian to put the Hongkong authorities wise, to the extreme-flats. We are at one with Mr. Lusitano, which was interrupted are that that it will end in a day evening of Lieut. Col. J. R. anything about the matter, but The annual ball of the Club this is curbed the possibilities was the guest at dinner on Satur- charged he said he did not know His Excellency the Governor per. When the prisoner was ly bad conditions of supervision at Victoria Gaol. And it has really Humphreys when he says that last year owing to the assassin-crash some day. Why cannot Wyndham and the Officers of the when he was before the Magis cost a great deal more. It has cost a considerable amount of public flats are more popular confidence, and quite a deal of reputation. These may sound strong terrace houses, but it is semi- Paes, will be held this year as in Stock Exchange put a ban on burgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment at showing that he did know.. than ation of late President Sidonio the Committee of the Hongkong 2nd Battalion the Duke of Edin- trate he made 2 statement words to use but they are in every way justified by the little less detached houses or bangalows former years on the 31st of dealings in futures? than startling disclosures made during the enquiry into the circum-that are wanted, not monotonous December. By kind permission, has it that a number of share
Rumour Murray Barracks.
He said:"I cannot remem- stances under which Warder J. L. Speed and Warder Harnam Singh rows of residences of the same the orchestra of the 2nd Battalion brokers are in a sorrowful plight
ber the exact day, but one met their deaths during the gaol-breaking escapade of four Chinese type. Mr. Humphreys makes the Wiltshire Regiment will provide cwing to their clients failing to countries in the world and al-asked me
day a friend of mine Laf Óbeung prisoners. No-one could have read the evidence, Mr. J. R. Wood's wrous comparison when he coa-the music.
to go with him to a summing up, or the Jury's verdict without being forced to the contrasts the ordinary house" in
take up shares on forward con though the output has fallen off cake seller's house to steal some clusion that it was something approaching a disgrace to ever allow Hongkong with fats. It is true.
tracts. Some of the brokers are the conditions to prevail that did. The statement made by the as he says, that it is an advantage of Mr. M. S. Northcote to the I am told a few cases will soon responsible for the recent jumps where the murder took place,
With regard to the appointment involved in very large sums, and
as a result of internal warfare, cakes to satisfy our hunger.” the limitation of export is (Cakes were sold at the house Assistant Superintendent of the Gaol himself constitutes a con- demnation of the system he had to work. And the public are very ranges, bot water apparatus and caused by the resignation of Mr.Court. It would be interesting economic position of China as a we had better take knives for vacancy on the Licensing Board appear on the list of the Supreme in the price of silver. The explained Mr. Kemp.) He said rightly wondering why it is that the wisdom born of tragedy and modern sanitation provided by Shelton Hooper, he was the only to watch these proceedings as sensation could not, in the main, have been gained before.
the landlord, but what reason is candidate nominated,
grez: exporting country is at self-defence, but I said it was no If one were to take all the unsatisfactory points brought out there why these conveniences contest
and Д the Ordinance strictly lays down and detail then wristim they would make an eloquently lengthy should not be installed in semi-necessary. Mr. Northcote was forward date without specifying and in the rate of exchange.
was therefore un-that share contracts made for a These rises in the price of silver going to steal
present serious in the extreme, use taking knives as we were not clothes, jewels list. But to consider just one or two of the more important:-The detached houses Or bung-
or chattels, He said 'You had prison is extremely badly lighted. There are no lights in any of alows, just as they are in modern proposed by Sir Paul Chater and the numbers of such shares on further rises being confidently better take one. He took one and the cells (perhaps wise), but there are no means of better lighting flats? The old type flats did not seconded by Mr. Harry Hancock. the contract are null and void.
expected in well-informed circles, I took one. He brought a smaller the corridors in case of emergency, and Wardera have to carry have them; the new bare. Then search-lights for inspection work. Cells have wooden doors from surely they could be provided in annoying experience a few days American Treasury to sell silver China and Hongkong as affecting not know what he was doing. I A European resident had the
must be of the greatest import-one; it was a butcher's knife. He The announcement of the ance to the producers of articles in went inside the cubicle. I did out of which it is possible to cut the locks-und all the locks are, new houses. There are many apparently, alike, because with one key en escaped man opened objections to the flat system, and
ago of having to buy back his dollars to China through the the price they will receive for their waited outside and beard a voice four cells. Searching is so ineffectively done that a man could if residents had the choice of been placed on a line in the yard her has created a good deal of to lead to, nobody seems to know. The old lady raised an alarm and secret & bottle of green paint, an auger, a borer, a large corkscrew. flats or convenient-sized houses, of the house to air
medium of the American banks exports. Where all this in Japan cry out from within the cubicle. three chisels, a screw driver, a small spanner and two pieces of both with the same modern ap-enterprising thief managed to Hongkong. What the exact effect needed all over the world and if knife to threaten the old lady. I wire, besides some knives. They were either secreted or else there pliances, we feel sure they would make off with them. On being ll be on business in the price has to be raised the con- cut her throat during a straggle. interest in commercial circles in Most of China's products are I did as I was told and used my was collusion between prisoners and the searching warder. Out of plump for the latter. 35 people on duty at the time only one was a European and he was the that fats are seldom idie has
street door and both of us went The fact informed, later, of what had general cannot be stated, but the sumer has no option but to pay Lai Cheung then, opened the only man armed beyond possession of the ordinary truncheon. The nothing to do with the ques- European staff is supposed to be 25, but it was seven (or 25 per cent.) tion; people have to live some-
out." under-strength. Of this number only eleven were available for duty where, and if there on the day and night of the occurrence. The Indian and Chinese staff at available, they will occupy are only was eleven men short of the proper number. Mr. Franks very freely them, however much they may stated these staff deficiencies, and said that it was because of the in-prefer dwellings of another type adequate number of Europeans that the gaol lacked proper supervi- Mr. Humphreys says flats are sion. In fact one had only to read Mr. Frank's statement to learn of cheaper in the matter of rentals. a surprising state of affairs. As regards the verdict and the many They are atrociously high in this will be enhanced this festive recommendations appended, the Jury displayed a grasp of essentials respect, anyhow; and the worst week and the management of the easily. The Americans do not yam has caused a considerable law regarding men acting in con- that is not often shown by Hongkong juries. After calling attention of it is that rates are continuous- Coronet Theatre, ever Cognizant enjoy such advantages, their drop in the price of yarn in Japan. cert, pointing out did not com to "the unsatisfactory state of affairs" and the collusion between y being pushed up, for no other of the needs of the public, are sphere of influence," so to speak, As a result of the action of the the prisoner himself did not com- prisoners and staff, they proceeded to make a number of reccm-reason, apparently, then the led the way with an arrange- Shanghai In other ports in the yarn is being exported to Hong- guilty of murder if he acted in mendations touching all the most glaring inefficiencies. The ques- When will the Government come productions which, cramped into with
heing restricted to Manila and Japanese Government a lot of mit the murder he would be shortage tion of better lighting; the alarra system; the need for two Europeans
ment for a number of super- Far East they cannot compete kong from Bombay, and this has concert with the other man. to be on duty at night; the lacking sytem; and the insufficiency of to the relief of the peuple? the European staff were commented on. With those recommenda- PHONING TO CANTON,
the span of a week's screening, Banks.
the British Exchange had the effect of making for a Evidence was then taken. will provide unflagging enjoyment the action of the American tions having been sent to H. E. the Governor it is reasonable to hope
told that lower Eupee exchange rate. that steps will be taken to put them into effect, and that from out of of direct telephone communica- To lead the way for this big trade in China and not to stabilise started to close the financial
The question of the provision at this well-known little theatre. Treasury is to
LOCAL FIRES. the tragedy will come the badly-needed improvements.
aid American Wisdom has again been gained at a very big price. It needed & Canton, raised in our issue of which had its first screening last marked may give temporary re./stable door after the moneyede fire which broke out at No. 84,
tion between Hongkong and programme is "Les Miserables," exchange.
Serious damage was caused by fire and heavy loss of life to abolish the maatsheds at Happy Valley; it Saturday, is one of considerable night, and it can be said to be one lief, but it is quite possible that gently warted in the form of yesterday. The conflagration needed the murder of a European Sergeant at Tai O to convince the importance to business people. of the best productions by the the fresh supply of bullion will
horse has escaped. Cash is Bonham Strand at 1.50 a.m. stations; and one could go on multiplying instances where a long for letters to pass between cently produced authorities of the necessity of having two Europeans at out-It is true that it does not take Pathe Company. It is magnil soon after its issue. cease to loans for which a very fair in. started in the cookhonse, and · little foresight and liberal provision would have saved a sacrifice. the two places, and that there is should miss seeing it: The fact that seems to be lost sight of is that Hongkong, bythe ordinary telegraph service the very nature of its population and structure, cannot be available, but for administered on lines that would be adequate at Home. There house to be able to get through excitement in Wyndham Street
There was quite business
deal of is a dangerous, fearless and callous criminal class; there is by phone either to a cosmopolitan population among which much corruption is branch
ita own on Saturday evening. Just after possible; there are modes of living strange to the West; the recital another hong would mean a big the South China Morning Post
Canton in
or to seven o'clock the watchman at and could go on almost indefinitely. One can legitimately say that there additional advantage over exist offices discovered two men trying that the new arrangement will amongst those are many extraordinary circumstances here that call for extraordia- ing facilities. Politically, too, to force open one of the safes.
out My personal view is are to be paid away monthly amount, which, however, is who have covered by insurance with ary measures, but how often is it that crdinary measures are used, the development would be "of/On surprising the burglars he have little or no effect on the rate
the loan various Chinese companies. and sometimes less than ordinary measures? Gaol staffing at Home immense value. If the matter was threatened with violence but, and that the rate will fluctuatej of becoming rich in a hurry has sions broke out at Nos. 5 and 6
this: While on New York and San Francisco, i
attractive form Another fire of small dimen- could not be less than that here as now revealed. There seems to cannot be dealt with by private calling for help, he secured one between 97 and 101. The Inter, drawn a plentiful harvest of Cheung San Street, West Point. be needed a new outlook, a revised assessment of what is necessary enterprise, then why could not of them, the other one getting national Banking Corporation and hard cash from all quarters It was quickly extinguished, for the safe protection of life and property. And speaking about the Government take it up, as it safely away. Police whistles, the Asia Banking Corporation property, are the authorities waiting for a few more collapses has the provision of railway blown later, attracted a big will act in Hongkong as agents of before they condemn some of the jerry-built, ant-eaten houses in facilities? Let the Chamber of crowd. Bergeant Jackson was the American Treasury for the House of Commone appears to inadvertently misquoted in one the world generally, the Mr. Henry Humphreys WES the Western and Eastern districts? It is not because of ignorance Commerce and the Government quite near at the time and placed that things generally are allowed to be as they are; it is because of put their heads together, and see the caught man under arrest. Aexsention of its plan.
be puzzling out whether money part of our interview with him the spirit of "make do" that seems to be a more or less, general what can be done.
could or could not be obtained by which appeared on Saturday. Ho possession of public officials. Hongkong is a rich community and
search of the premises revested
this system. What amount bas said "If you, take our Kowloon ita annual Budget is of sufficient dimensions to permit of a liberal
that entry had been effected by The Exchange situation is he been subscribed for to the and Hongkong projected building treatment of all the problems of administration and replenishment
means of a rope through the coming decidedly that call for handling. The community's safety stands first in the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie's was stolen. At the Police Court the decision of the Mexican heavy to affect the
The public is reminded of the skylight of a lavatory. Nothing last straw on the camel's back is known, but it must have been amount to seven lakhs of dollars. worse. The Franch Premium Bonds is not constructio i together it will duty of any Government, and it is a greater evil to err on the side of lantern lecture at 5.30 p.m. to-day to-day the arrested man was sen-Government to limit its export of exchange as a result of the re of land, levelling and so forth. rate of This sum includes, of course, cost parsimony with its attendant inefficiency than it would be to over at Union Church Hall ou "The fenced to six weeks hard labour silver by one-half. Mexico has mittance to Paris after the closing It is not a bad sum to US? provide. A broader outlook, a more liberal provision, and a quickened Planetary System. Commsdore on a charge of feloniously enter for generations been one of the date for receiving applications especially for a comparative sense of Hongkong's needs constitute the first requisites;
Gurner will be in the chair. ing the premises.
small Company.
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The control of exports of had nothing to do with the matter all over and can get cover more of the duty in Japan on imported went on to explain the rule of The popularity of cinemas Baoke as the latter have branches Japanese yarn and the suspension and was a stranger. Mr. Kemp
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circulate. The moment this terest is offered. France, like quickly spread to the upper supply gets into the interior it most others of the belligerent storeys of the buildings. The will be absorbed and hoarded. It nations, is in need of money, Fire Brigade were unable to
The only difference cope with the outbreak and t will thus defeat the object of the too
is that she knows how to get it. adjacent house, No. 86, was also scheme. The question bristles with difficulties. We shall wait She has floated a gigantic Pre-more or less completely gutted. mium Bond loan by which fortunes The damage runs to a large 自四 how it yans
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