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DR. SUN YAT-SEN'S CABLE.

To British Labour. Leader.

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Canton, December 20th delayed).

HONGKONG'S

DECEMBER 22.

SATURDAY

BUILDING LAWS.

THE PROPOSED CHANGES EXPLAINED.

A Vital Matter of Public Health.

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RECOGNITION TO BE CONSIDERED.

(Reuter's American Service.)

A DISTRESSED LEVIATHAN,

HUGE LINER GOES ON REEF.

emanates from

New York, December 21.

if an open space is equal to une. third of the roofed-cver ател then it is equal to one-fourth of į the whole plotk The Section further provides that compens sation shall be paid to the owner for any such public sexvenging lane, the amount to be determin- ed by arbitration. The Ordinance

Washington. December 21. also gives powers to the Gover- Following the introduction of s resolution by Mr. Berah urging - nor-in-Council and the Building President Coolidge to extend recognition to the Soviet Government, Authority to grant modifications the Senate has authorised an extensive study of the entire Russian of the provisions upon such con- question. by the Foreign Relations Committee, of which Mr. Lodge is There has been a lot of confus light. That is surely a reasonable ditions as may be deemed ex-hairman. Mr. Borah alleges that there is no proof of Russian ed thinking and loose talking with proportion in the interests of pedient.

propaganda activities in the United States; meanwhile the conten- reward to the Government's pro- public health. With regard to!

That is the law as it stands tion in some quarters favourable to the communists that the pro- BLAME FASTENED ON BRITISH OFFICIALS.psal to amend the building laws erection or re-erection of domestic todas. We understand that paganda for a proletarian revolution in America

of the Colony. At last week's property on land freshere there have been cases in which the Communist International and not the Soviet Government is meeting of the Chinese Chamber the passing of the Em Dalinance the scavenging lane required by regarded us a subterfuge by American administration officials, who In Commerce une speaker referred it was enacted that an open Section 180 has been provided by consider it impossible to distinguish between the two bodies.

to the Government's intention to space equal to one-fourth of the the owner and has remained a

of land. müst "reduce premises by half" whilst area

be private lane, no compensation enactment being paid. There have been anther speaker pictured the provided. Such an proved

have numerous cases in which the I have had some difficulty in Securing a copy of Dr. San's Government in time taking the has been message to Mr. Hamsay Macdonald, to which I referred in an whole building for the provision been a mistake, because it has lanes provided under this Sep earlier mission day. "Government circles here appeared to appres of open spaces. The Hon. Mr. meant one law for the purchasertion have been taken over by the head that the bal publication of the complete text of the message Chow Shou-son said it was de-ir-of new land and another law for Government as public scavening might be interpreted more aan attack on the British officials able that the Government should the owner of old land. It has lanes, the amount of compensa mentioned in it than as a necessary reference to what is regarded as be informed once and for all that meant also that old domestiction paid by the Government

The s.s. Leviathan, inward from Cherbourg, grounded in New an essential fact in a communication to a leading British statesman, the Chinese would never allow buildings could be pulled duster being generally settled by agree-York barbour after leaving the quarantine anchorage. I have, however, dissipated this apprehension by pointing to th such an Ordinance to be passed and re-creeted with only unde- ment, sometimes by arbitration. In response to the Leviathan's signals, halt a dozen tugs tried emphas laid in the message on the necessity of developing and ex- without objection and from such quate pravision for ventilation. There have been numerous cases to drag her off Robins Reef, but hitherto unsuccessfully. It is ba Ay so great a proper in which modifications have been tiered the haze way responsible for the Leviathan getting out of her tending the China market for British goals as a parthunt on a remark it would appear that the and light. sideration which would possibly make a strong appeal to a great proposals are specifically ditvetesition of the domestic property in granted, allowing the scavening course. centre of Brinch trade like Hongkong

Against the Chinese. instead of the City is built on and leased line to count as part of the open It is stated that the Leviathan is in no danger. The passengers Dr. Sun, it is undersmed, is of the view that Mr. Ramsay Mac. being designed cover all before 1901 that we shall always space required, but in such cases are being taken off in tugs, in order to obviate delay in landing.

lane has remained the donalt, as leader of the British Labour Party, and whose views on domestic property in the Colony, have a lack of reasonable ventila-the ming subjects are shared by him may probably be at the head of In the hope of enlightening our tion in some districts unless the private property of the building the British wernment in the course of the coming yan and, in readers on the nature of the Government brings all property owner

and ne compensation All it is now seeking has been paid. Such modifications this event, imag la His Majesty's Foreign Minister ble being ontroversy and for the purpose into line. Premier. Ian's rate to Mr. Ramsay Madinali reais as of making the Government's in-ft do is to make all new buiklingshare only been granted where

tentions clear, we propose stating and re-erections subject to the the new holdings are of moderate! just what the fiets are, and why frame equal law. It has to be ad-length or where they are, so de- this new legislation is necessary,mitted that it is rather late in the signed as to provide ample light-

The Evils of Overcrowding. day to start rectifying the mis-ling and ventilation

for each mistakes that (stores of the building. There surely can be no doubt takes of the past

The Proposed law.

Athens, December 21. in any man's mind that the have given as cur squalid and

The intention of the Govern- jovercrowding of domestic dwell-congested streets and streets of

Great efforts are being made to induce M. Venizalos to return ings in the City constitutes bouses

but if we are ever quitment now is to repeal Section 180. to Greece from Paris. The officers corps propose to telegraph Hingkong's most serious menace clean up this City we have to and to amend Section 179 so as to urging him to return. The Liberals have telegraphed hira, but the to health. Housing congestion make a start sometime.

make it apply to all new build- Democrats refused to countersign the message as their views do not The Present, Law. here, from a health point of view.

ings, irrespective of the date of a together coincide with his It is felt it will not be fitting tô invita has been referred to by experts In addition to the provision of the Tetse of the land on which him to refum until the constitutional question be definite- land medical men in the strongest open spaces there is the exed they will stand. If this proposal y sellana. A matter of fact a changa of regime is already con- of condemnatory terms. Dr. W. J. question of scavenging lanes and becomes law all new domestic sidered a fait accorabil. The portraits of the Sovereigns have been Simpson. a specialist" who was it would, perhaps, be as well buildings" must be provided with removed from the Government departments. According to the Ré- sent here from England in 1903 to state the full provisions of the open spaces equal to at least halfpublican organ Democratic, Admiral Coadouriotis has declared the prevalence of existing law and then state the of the roofed-over area which is he altogether favoured the formation of a Democratic Government. report on piague, said that one of the main provisions of the proposed law. one-third of the whole plo:) and. causes of that disease was "the Section 179 of the 1903 Ordinance in addition, must have a lane or insanitary aad overcrowded provides that every new bufiding street at the rear for scavenging

land condition of most of the Chinese erected or reerected on

purposes. No compensation will houses, with

eroptional leased from the Crown after be payable in respect of any bpart of darkness and fed February, 1903, shall be provided scavenging lane. The resulting im- Leafletion of the room." Dr. with a scavenging lane unless provement to the general sanitary P. K. Olinsky, of the Rocke- such a lane already exists or has conditionoftheColony, particulat feller Institute. New York, who been provided for by the Goveraly came to Hongkong in 1918 to re- ment. (Any existing street, the of which allows of port to the Government on the level

There has been a lot of talk ents, eight. utbreak of cerebro spinal men-access for scavenging purposes to about hardship on owners and of ingitis. stated. in the course of the back yard of the new building the housing shortage, but, iz his report that overcrowding here is, of course, accepted as a must he pointed out that proposed was a serious merace. In de existing scavenging lane for amendments provide power for of the original Liberal candidate, resulted in the Conservative," the scribing that overcrowding he the purposes of this Section) the Building Authority to modify said: In the first place there The Section further provides that the provisions of Section 179 in are too mang houses on too in addition to the scavenging lone any case in which he thinks fit small a space, in this way caus- there must be an open space, and, no doubt, this power will be

follows:

HAMSAT MADONALD, House of Cummons, London, "I have to ask you to bring to the notice of the British people. particularly the workers of your country, the crave Situation which His Majesty's representatives in Chinu have been mainly instrumental in creating at Canton.

"My Government here is being threatened with acts of war by an international forer consisting of nearly & scute of cruisers and gunboats with armed British soldiars. already landed at Shamsen. This is the work of the Diplomitiv Fly at Peking. taken at the instance of the" British Minister on the advice of the Senior Consul at Cantun, who is British Consul-General, and the Inspector- Generd of Chinese Maritime Customs, who is a British nationi.

This action is being taken because my Government swlach, in spite of changes in personnei, hus «xistôt and ruled an important block of territory in South China since 1917 claims the Customs revenues collected within its territory after deducting our proper share of the funds required for the service of foreign debts, consisting mainly of the punitive indemnites inflicted on (ing for the Boxer Trouble in 1941.

"My Government is compeller to insist on this claim in order to end the repeated invasions of our territory which the Peking Government has been able to organize and fin- ance out of fund that would not be available for the purposeif the entire Customs from our territory were not remitted to Pesing as is now being done under the existing extra-treaty arrangement imposed by the Foreign Powers on China."

In view of the Diplomatic Body's categorical" adınis- sign that the disposal" of the Chinese Customs surplus is wholly a Chinese internal question, it is difficult to explain rationally the present threat of hostilities directed against my foveranent by the British representatives and others.

"May I remind the British people the ultimate masters of the men who are injuring the name of England bere--that the problem of unemployment, which is vexing the governing mind of Great Britain, can never be com- pletely solved unless your foreign markets are developed and extended. China is admittedly one of the richest, markets for British goods. This market, however, cannot be secured by the gunboat policy of the old diplomacy.. though it can be won by a policy aiming at the capture of Chinese goodwill. To menace us with acts of war is hardly likely to yield such goodwill, however much it may be an expression of the diplomacy which sacrifices right and justice to the false gods of power and presitige. Stx

TAT-SEN."

CONDENSED CABLES.

THE MEXICAN REVOLT.

By Reuter's American service it is reported from Mexico City that President Obregon thinks

S. S. SHANTUNG.

CHARGE OF MALICIOUS DAMAGE.

in crowded areas, is obvious Objections Answered.

(Reuter's Service.)

THE GREEK SITUATION.

END OF MONARCHY FORESHADOWED."

THE HOME ELECTION.

FINAL STATE OF PARTIES.

London December 21. The final state of the parties is Conservatives, 257: Labour, 192; Liberals, 153; and Independ

A Conservative Gain.

The election at West Derbyshire, postponed owing to the death Marquis of Hantington, gaining the seat from the Liberals.

QUESTION OF GERMANY'S FOOD.

BAILWAYMEN ACCEPT WAGES VARIATIONS.

London, December 21.

ing structures to be la close pror-which must be provided by the as sympathetically exercised in imity. In turn this gives rise to owner, exclusively belonging to future as it has been in the past insufficient ventilation and for the new building and "equal in Further, it must be remembered

AMERICAN AT HEAD OF BUDGET ENQUIRY. the most part very little light. area to not less than one-half of that it is now almost the invati- arva of able custom to erect four-storeyed The areaways and the streets the roofed-over

Paris, December 21. and lanes are so narrow

such building. That is to say houses where the width of the

The Reparations Commission has unanimously decided to refer that not only ventilation and Apart from the scavenging lane, street permits in place of the old Germany's food credit request of December 16th to the Governments light becomes deficient but the one-third of the area of the build- two and thres-storeyed houses for instructions, and in the meantime to request the guarantees air is always damp from wet- ing land must be left as open There should be no great hard-committee to report as soon as possible on the situation in Germany ness of the passageways." We space. (There has been a great ship on landlords and very little as regards cereals and fats. are even now in the throes of deal of confusion over this pro-less accommodation for tenants. The Commission has decided to invite the American expert, outbreak of small-box. portion of open space required, We think the bona fides of the General Dawes, to accept the presidency of the enquiry committee

to reason the great enemies of which are but it stands

that Government are established by with regard to the German Budget, light and ventilation. In the if an open space is equal to the fact that no open space is matter of tuberculosis grave half the roofed-over area then required in the case of non-

one-third statistics have often been given it is equal to

of domestic buildings. Any building and attention has often been the whole plot). There is no pro occupied only by caretakers is called to the evils of overcrowding vision in Section 179 for the pay- unaffected by the proposed legis- and the lack of light and air. The ment of any compensation, and lation, a proof, we think, that the The railwaymen's conference has decided after soma bestod only reason why the Government there is no power to grant modi-Goverment is not concerned argument, by a very large majority, to accept the findings of the desires to enact the proposed fication of its provisions.

with getting free streets but only Wages Board, which will involve only slight variations in wages, legislation is to make Hongkong Section 180 of the 1903 Ordin-with the bealth of the occupants;

every new of domestic dwellings.

(Other Telegrams on Payes 2 and 3) The bo'sun of the China Naviga healthier and better place to ance provides that

Chinese landlords are building erected or re-erected on The general public should not ation steamer Shantung, which live in. vessel is now undergoing repairs opposing that object. The Gov. land leased from the Crown be-forget that the, objections are, at the Taikoo Docks, was brought ernment is not trying to get land "fore February, 1903, shall be pro- being raised by land owners, a before Mr. N. L. Smith, at the for road widening purposes for vided with a scavenging lane, un-highly-prejudiced class in such a of recruiting.

In the Objects and Police Court this morning, in nothing, as was suggested at the less such a lane already exists.matter." that the

connection with B charge of meeting of the Chinese Chamber, (Any existing lane or street the Reasons of the proposed Bill it rebellion is doomed owing mali-iously damaging the ship. but it is trying to protect Chinese level of which allows of access is plainly stated that "for reasons

indifference of the in.

The case was brought under the and other resideats against disease for scavenging purposes to the of public health it is considered Merchant Shipping Act, and an- and ill-health.

back yard of the new building is, that the minimum amount of other man, a dockyard workman, A Mistake of the Past. of course, accepted as an "exist open space laid down in Section was also brought into the case on Let us now see, broadly, what ing scavenging lane" for the pur-179 should be applied to all new According to well-informed

e charge of aiding and abetting. it is proposed should be done, and pose of this Section). The Sec-buildings." In abolishing com- Club against the Navy at Happy circles, says Reuter, the British

The case for the prosecution, for that purpose it is neces- tion further provides that in addi-pensation for scavenging lanes Valley this afternoon in the first military position onthe North West which was conducted by Mr. sary to

lane the Government wisely argues cup-tie of the season:-King (15); Skinner (11), Easterbrook (12), Frontier has not been rendered Bennett, was that defendants In that Fear an Ordinance above referred to there must that "while scavenging lanes are

worse by

recent events. were discovered in the act of was passed in which it was stated be 30 сред space, which indirectly an advantage to the Cleland (13), Logan (14): Clerk Beports from the frontier sbo" | removing a plate from the bow that on all land leased after the must be provided by the public they are primarily naces(9), Bowker (10); Forsyth (1), that even the worst spot has been of the steamer and replacing it passing of the Ordinance owner, exclusively belonging to sary for the health and convani-Baston (2) Adams (3); Day (4), materially improved recently, and by another so as to leave a domestic building could be the new building and "equal in ence of the occupants of the Miller (5), Jones (6); Groves (7), that practically all sections of crevice for an unlawful purpose, erected unless it had an open area to not less than one third of building. When the objectors to Andrews (8). Referee Mr. G. Mahsuds have come to terms In a discussion of the bail, space at the back or side of it the roofed-over area of such the Bill state that the Govern

Players will be distinguishable with the British.

his worship remarked that the equal to one-third of the plot building. That is to sayment desires to widen roads at accused might find it difficult to Since that time, therefore, when Apart from the scavenging lane. the expense of landlords they are on the field by the numbers writ Indian Elections.

raise the sum of $1,000, but on anyone has leased a plot of land one quarter of the area of the mis-stating the facts. The Gorten after names above. It is reported by Beuter from Mr. Bennett pointing out that it he has known that he cannot building land ist be left as erament desires but to protect the The game is of special, interes

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RUGBY.

TO-DAY.

Closing Exchange 28. 3. 13/16. Lighting Up-Time 5.44 p.m.

The following will represent the

THIS AFTERNOON'S CUP-TIE.

G. N. Tinson.

NEWS IN THE 'ADS.

There will be a Christmas Carol Bervice at St. Aufew's Church Kowloon, tomorrow evening, commencing at 6 p.m.

Notices have been posted in the usual Clubhouses giving details. of the New Year competitions at Fanling

The Happy Valley Golf Courses

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