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SAVE YOUR EYES FROM SUN GLARE!

the best protection for tho tropics is the tinted-SIR WILLIAM CROOKES LENS.

We have the GENUINE longos and can make them up without optical power or to your own prescription.

LAZARUS

The only European (Optician)

in the Colony.

URITELEPHONES.

DETAILS OF NEW SCHEME.

BETTER SERVICE.

The Legislative Council is on hursday to be asked to approve

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1852

No. 12.814

RECENT ROBBERY,

·日七十月四

NEW SCHOOL. .

二拜禮

號九十月五英港香 TUESDAY

HONGKONG

MAY 19,

1925

WIN. SECURITY PACT.

"CONVICTION ON NEW

TRIAL.

GREAT STRUGGLE IN INTERPORT.

GERMAN MINISTER'S

A MAMMOTH LOCAL SCHEME.

7 RUNS DECIDE.

the for

STATEMENT.

SINGLE: COTT 10 DENTA 936 PER ANNUM

Royal Enfield Model 35h complete with Electric Lights 3-speed-gear and "Speedo. meter.

Ready for the Road

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR. CO., LTE.

NANNY VALLEY,

$600.

PEAK AND KOWLOON.

ANOTHER COMPARISON.

We have received the follow ing lotter for publication:

Sir, I am glad to see that one

33 WONG NOI CHUNG AD.

LOW BASEMENTS.

HOUSEHOLDERS BREAK, THE LAW.

After a lengthy hearing of the case against the three men, Chan

NO AGGRESSION.. ON 23-ACRE SITE. of your readera has come forward SERVICE OF NOTICES. To-ka, Young Sap-yat and Chan

to show that Posk people aro Ki, who were charged yostarday

Berlin, May 18 Hongkong will soon have an now very much penalised when A brief telegiam received at

Recent activity by the local with robbery at Kowloon City,

In the Reichstag, the Minister educational establishment which compared with the more fortunato Sanitary Department has resulted where they were alleged to have the Hongkong Cricket Club at

timo

Hott will be one of the finest through-folk who live in Kowloon, conveyed

Foreign

in quite a number of householders Affairs,

As your dorrespondent says, receiving notice that the base- he scheme for the acquisition of entered the Lee Yun house, and tiffin

news that Hongkong Strosemann, reviewing the situaout the Far East. We refer to e Colony's telephone service by after terrorising the inmates, glad

the new Diocesan Boys' School time was when there was a myth monts of their premises are not of new local company, the capital stole various articles, the jury had beaten Shanghai in the

now under construction near abroad that Peak residents were sufficient height for use as sor- cricket match by which is to bo five million found the first prisoner guilty, interport

Homuntin, which, it is hoped, will regarded with special favour by vants' slooping quartors, and they At the close llars. This new concern is to the second prisoner not guilty coven runs.

be ready for occupation by next the authorities, but whatever may have to discontinue such usage, cure a monopoly for fifty years and the third guilty by four to of play yesterday, Shanghai,

Chinese New Year. Recently, be true of the past that does not The height of any basement so om July 1st next, and, accord three. His Lordship (Mr. Justice with 69 for nine wickets, required

we had an opportunity of going hold good to-day.

usad has to be at least nine feet g to the terms of the agreement, Wood) sontenced the first prisoner seventeon runs to win, the mon

over the site, and were greatly It is about time the public from floor to ceiling. to pay to the China and to soven years with hard labour, left in being Rogerson not out 15 apan Telephone Company $1,- and ordered a ratrial of the third and T. W. R. Wilson not out 0. $5,000 for plant, 8491,335 for land prisoner.

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prisoner.

"

The Shanghai pair played care- nd buildings, besides cost of A new jury was. empanelled fully and had carriad, the total aditions from January lat to this morning for the re-hearing to 98 when Bowker trapped une 30th, 1925, and value of of the case against the third Wilson and dismissed him by the

On this basis. tores in hand.

caught and bowlad.route, after 1,400,000 is, to be paid to the

Rogerson The defence put up was to the having scored four. elephone Company in shares

affect that prisoner was intending was not out with 20 to his credit. nd the balance in cash.

to go into the house to discuss the Subscribers' rates are sat forth sale of some stoves for which he the agreement, and it is provid had been negotiating for some, d that if these are insufficient to time, and ho found the robbery in ay shareholders oight per cent, progress when he arrived. He hey may .be raised. The ran away when the police-arrived Government is to receive 魄 and was shot down.

royalty of 64 in'rospect of each frect exchange line telephone,

ertain percontages.

Bowkor and Reed come, outi with splendid bowling analyses; Bowker having taken 5 wickets for 47 in the second innings, and wickets for 100 for the match: and Reed having taken 4 for 37 in the second innings and "6 for 91 for the whole game. Walker, who took 3 for 21 in the first in-

thatho had taken in consideration out the fact that prisoner was The full text of the resolution, wounded. which is to be moved by the Hon. Colonial Secretary at Thursday's Legislative Council meeting, is

s follows:

i.

Herr Stresemann.

struck with the extent of the realised that the Peak is no longer schome. The new building, which the preserve of the super-rich. It is

and

Evidently most householders.

has

is in the shape of a double-sided to-day inhabitated by people have not troubled to measure the "E" has been planned on com-who are not out Bast for their height of their basements, and the prehensive lines, and some idea bealth but who have to work just use of same as servants' quartera of its size may be gained when it as hard as anybody else. That has long been the practica. Wa is stated that it covers as much boing so, we have a right to understand that, chiefly owing to land as the whole of the Hong-expect equal treatment with other the scarcity of accommodation

overcrowding that kong Cricket Club ground. parts of tho Colony. As your THE SITE AND BUILDINGS. corpespondent remarked, Kow-resulted, there is hardly an loon has good transport facilities, occupied house in the Colony The aros of the site is 231 with promise of even better which has not somebody living in acres, or over one million square services, whilst the poor Peak the basement. Owing to a recent- feet, and it is situated on three ories in vain for a new tramway iy-inaugurated campaign against bills to the N.E. of Youmati rall-service, to feed the outlying overcrowding, on the part of the way station. On the north side Magazine Gap residential district, sanitary authorities, inspectors of the site there is a 100 foot road Kowloon, also has its Fire Brigade; have been going round taking The jury unanimously found

from Lai Chi Kok via Samsuipo whilst the Fesk folk have to measurements, and the crop of and Yaumati to Kowloon City;!

notices has been the result, nd provisione are made for prisoner guilty and a sentence of

Then, sir, let us contrast Peak In many cases, householders eduction of subscribers' rates in five years with hard labour was nings, took 0 for 11 in the second, tion, anticipated an early settle on the east side there is another make their own arrangements. he event of the profits oxceeding passed, his Lordship m-ntioning the tenth man having been run ment of the disarmament ques- 100 fest road from Kowloon via travelling facilities with those of were quite innocently breaking fion, which should not only result Yaumati to Kowloon City. The Kowloon. It looks to me as the rules and regulations, and Hongkong's representatives did in the immediate evacuation of site is thus almost in the centre wonderfully well to pull tho game the Cologne zone but also in the of the Kowloon peninsula and is though the Peak Tramway Com now there is much grumbling at round after being twenty-two tackling of the problem of general very easy of access by rail and any considers its patrons as being unable to find alternative runs behind in a match marked disarmament by the other Powers. road. Almost adjoining the site doing them a special favour by accommodation for domestice. He derided the idea of any are the Ho Mun Tin and Kowsing the tram, whereas the Very many houses, we are told, the Interpretation Ordinance, by such low scaring, though Whereas the Government 1911,

(ii) within the without a doubt the fact that the danger of a German attack, and loon Tong Garden Cities. All boot is on the other foot. If a have inadequate servants' quar have to pay fifty cents extra. intention of the builders that the District, as as had under consideration Peak

defined wicket was ideal for the bowlers declared that Germany was justi- the land to the N.E. of the rail-ate car is run, even ticketholdersters, it evidently having been the

to their fied in demanding the protection way is a European reservation- proposals for the formation of a by the Peak District Reservation contributed largely

of her frontiers against a powerful that is, for houses built in Euro The Kowloon Ferry often ruas basement should serve. but sub- Buccoss. acal Company to acquire the Ordinance, 1904,

neighbour by means of a security pean style. To the wast of the late boats ater theatres free of obarge. Moreover, the "Star"! 700 feet" for "788

railway is a large piece of land ndertaking of the China and stitutiag.

This 18 Hongkong's third pact. Japan Telephone and Electric feet"; (b) $108 within a radius of

The Minister admitted that no-reserved for a Govorament Park, Ferry over charges for parcels, however big: the Peak Tramway. With regard,

A representative of the Tele- Company Limited and to provide one mile from any exchange that successive win over Saanghai,

body in Germany could honestly so rumour has it. acknowledge that the Eastern to the site of the school itself, the Company demand payment even graph has made onquiries from on a 15-lb. package. In other Mr. A. E. Wright, the Building frontiers were immutable. In fact site formation of two hills is words, if I want ics for my house Authority, who explained that the there could be no settlement of a costing $150,000. The hills are without paying for transport, I law requires that no building or security question which included not being levelled to the level of must order less than 15 lbs, with premises without a clear space fresh recognition of those fion-the road, but the whole site is the result that when the coolio of 9 fast from floor to roof shall tiers, but Germany had neither being kept up about 120 feet above arrives topside I'm lucky if I get be used for human habitation. the power nor the will to alter sea level: the third hill, on 10 lbs. after ordering 12, for oven This is the absolute minimum, her eastern frontiers by force. which it is planned to build staff the Peak Tramway Company and applies to boryants quarters,

houses later, is not at prosent must realise that ice melts.

It has boon the law "since 1903, being developed,

"Hoping someone will champion and subsequent amendments have The school buildings, which cover an area of land about the the cause of Peak people in these not altered this provision.

and other questions. same size as the Hongkong

J Yours etc. Cricket Club ground, are being

PATIENT PEAKITE. placed at the north end of the site and face the south; in front Hongkong, May 19th, 1925.

and

n improved telephone service; may hereafter be opened outside the areas referred to in (a); (0) "This Council hereby approves the following conditions, subject An additional charge of $50 por

mile or part of a mile measured

to which and to the terms of an Ordinance such Company shall outwards from the nearest point

be permitted to operate :-

of the boundary of the areas

referred to in (a) and (b); (d)

1. Such Company shall be For extension telephones, bolls, styled the Hongkong Telephone switches, switchboards, power- Company, Limited, and it shall circuits, removals, and othor

of

"FLAPPER WIFE,"

Reuter.

ADDITIONS BEING CONSIDERED.

of the buildings will be about! twelve to fifteen arres of playing

...

London, May 18.

BUILDING AUTHORITY

EXPLAINS:

A FINE FOX-TROT.

Yesterday, afternoon we worg be registered under the Com-services of like nature, such given an opportunity of being panies Ordinance, 1911.

chargos 28, the Governor in present at a rehearsal of the new

Mr. Wright pointed out that no foxtrot, "The Flapper Wife, by PATROL BOATS. "2. The Directors of such Com-Council may approve..

plans for a house had been passed bany (hereinafter referred to as 10. Should the charges above the combined orchestras of the

unless there was an undertaking the Company) shall be not less referred to be insufficient to Hongkong Hotel. From the first

where the basement was less few bars it was evident that the than four and not more than

the shareholders

than 9 feet in height, that it was pay to eight in number, and all the the Company minimum composition is one that contains

only to be used for storage Directors shall be bona fide ro-dividend of Eight per cent. per plenty of pep, while the chorus

fields on one level. Immediately in the middle wings. The size of the purpose. ident in Hongkong.

Generally annum on the paid-up capital of produces one of the most haunt-

there speaking. "3. The Oriental Telephone the Company for the time being ing melodies wo have heard for

race about two hundred and forty under it is a-covered playground. appeared to have been breaches.

of this law owing to, over- and Electric Company, Limited, after making provision for main some time. The arrangement is WEST RIVER NEEDS. front of the buildings will be a ter- hall is 100 feet by 50 feet and feet long and 20 feet wide. With At the north of the hall are a

and erowding,

the sanitary during such period as it holds not tenance and efficient service, excellent and gives scope for the

In the House of Commona, Mr.regard to the buildings themselves in ge stage and two retir ng authorities were taking action. 8888 than 100,000 fully-paid depreciation, reserve or sicking air being, effectively taken re- shares in the Company, shall be fund and managing expenses, the spectively by saxophones, cornets

As regards European dwelling H. W. Looker, formerly of Hong- these are in three parallel blocks rooms, above which is washing, and banjoes. at liberty

space for boarders. to nominato two above rates shall be raised so as

kong, asked whether the Ad-linked up by a large hall; each

Between the six wings of the houses, Mr. Wright added, the Directore, provided always that to enable the shareholders to re- After hearing it so well render-miralty proposed to provide for block of buildings is three storeys

original requirement had been a such Directors shall be bona fide ceive a minimum of Eight pered, it is easy to understand why the construction of additional high, about two hundred and forty buildings there are four qua-minimum of 12 feet for bedrooms, resident in Hongkong and that cent. per annum after making the "The Flapper Wife" has achieved patrol boats, for service in the feet long and faces south, along drangles and at the north of the

such cases as Peak résidences, tho, total number of Directors aforesaid deductions.

11. The net profits of the the United States, and it is a safo of new construction now being block, which is the only part of 70 feet in size.

such outstanding popularity in West River, China, in any scheme which side there are verandahe.

In the centre of the main front hall is a fifth quadrangle. Those but this had operated harshly in shall not exceed eight.

quadrangles are about 80-feet by

exposed to gales, which thus "4. The capital of the Company Company after providing as prediction to make that in a week considered.

The whole building will be dom-offered a higher surface to the wind. Furthermore, the London shall be $5,000,000, divided into aforesaid shall be used firstly in or two Hongkong will also have.

Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, the First the buildings which is four storeys

requirement for a living room 500,000 shares of $10 each. payment to the Government of a fallen under its spell. It will be Lord of the Admiralty, replied high, is a store room on the groundinated by a tower about 100 feet

floor above which are officos, and

high. 45. The capital of the Companyroyalty of Four Dollars in respect beard in public for the first time that the whole question was now above that two' storays of four The approach drive from the was only Big' feet and in other shall not be increased, except by of each direct exchange line at the 'special Dinner Dance on being considered.-Peuter. permission of the Legislative telephone which has been used Saturday night next in the Grill

quarters. In the cast wing of main gate at Ho Mun Tn is parts of England it was 9 feat. for a European dwelling house this block there are changing and about 420 yards from the main o eventually the requirement Was reduced to the prosent cloak rooms and shower baths gate to the main entrance to on the ground floor, three class the buildinge. There will be a

private entrando to Yaumati figuro, 10 feet,

For servants quarters in such rooms and one waiting room railway station and another from houses the requiremont is 9 feet

the first floor and four he road to the north of the site.

(hence the basemeat question). staff and mess rooms on the About three quarters of a mile but for Chinese tenement houses. Becond floor. In the west wing there are changing rooms, etc. away, and easy of accese, is the usually crowded, the minimum

new Kowloon Hospital,

height of a living room remains four classrooms and four rooms In addition to the cost of form at 12 feet. for matron and lady teachers.

ing the site ($150,000,) the cost of In the contre block there are the buildings now being built and two wings. In the cast wing onto le completed by Fe: ruary, 4 for 43. Dick Tyldesley in the the ground floor will be found a 1926, ie 8530,000 second innings took 4 for 19: boiler room, a receiving room, a

FINANCIAL POSITION. Lancashire compllod 326 for 3 tuck shop and a games store; on and declared, Hallows contribut-the first floor, there will be n As to the financial position the FRENCH PLAN MENTIONED. ing 100, and E Tyldesley 110, not bookstore and three classrooms, sale of the school's old site, tha out.-Reuter,

Council

and paid for during the whole Room previous Twelve months by a

In anticipation of hearing the *6. The consideration in respect bona fide telephono subscriber or of the acquisition by the Company One Dollar per direct exchange new fox-frot, bookings of tables

of the undertaking of the Chino line telephone for each period of for Saturday's carnival dance aro very brisk, and those who intend and Japan Telephone and Electric Three months or less.

being present. are adviosd to Company, Limited, shall be:~(a)

"12. The said not profits shall made their reservations without $1,155 000 for the plant; (b) the landed cost of additions made to secondly be applied in payment delay. the plant and property between to the shareholders of the Hong- the 1st January and the 30th kong Company of the minimum Juno, 1925; (c) $401,335 for land dividend of Eight per cent. per

COUNTY CRICKET.

LANCASHIRE'S FASY.

VICTORY.

London, May 18, At Liverpool, Lancashire boat Worcestershire by an inninge and 108 runs. Woroester scored 121

and buildings; (d) the value of annum rising to Twelve per cent INDIAN EXCHANGE, and 97, Parkin taking 5 for 52 and

stores in hand or contracted for per annum.

COMMITTEE TO REPORT.

London, May 18.

**13. In the event of the net on the 30th June, 1925; which con- sideration shall be met. as to $1,-profits exceeding Twelve por cent." then as to the 400,000 in the allotment of 140,000 per annum fully paid shares, and as to the difference between Twelve por cent, and Eightoon por pont. half balance in cash.

In the House of Commons, IB- "7. The Company shall have thereof shall be distributed in the solo right to supply a public further dividends and the remain-plying to Sir Frederick Wiso, Earl telephone service during a period ing half by way of reduction of Winterton pointed out that the of fifty years from the 1st July, the subscription rates; the divid. Viceroy on January 20th, made a and payable to shareholdere boing forecast of the appointment with- 1925.

"8. The Company shall, within limited to a maximum rate of in a year, of a committee to examine and report upon the position of Indian exchange euch period as the Governor in fifteen per cent.

PRINCE'S TOUR.

rooms: each storey for

on

staff

WAR DEBTS.

Paris, May 18. and above this a large bathroom Government grant, subscriptions and a amail dormitory for 25 and the school reserve fund total

The Temps understands that the boys. In the wost wing there is a $659,000 but with cost ef site, Franch Government within a fort- box and store room on the ground building, equipment and fittings, night will submit to the United floor, science rooms on the first sports ground, headmaster States and Great Britain a defin- floor and a bath room and house, oto., a sum of $265,000 is ito plan for settlement of the war dormitory on the second floor. still Leeded. In this connection, debts-Reuter. EXTENDED A WEEK.

In the north block of buildings the scholars are trying to raise Cape Town, May 18. there are on the ground floor a $42,000 towards the equipment, Council may determine to bo "14. Any additional surplus currency, if the movement to

It is officially announced that large dining room, kitchen and and donors of $1,000 and mero reasonable, provide an improved shall be used solely for the reduo-wards more stablo economic con- the Prince of Wales' tour in South service rooms and a large board-will be called Founders, whilet telephone service to be approved tion of subscription rates. ditions continued.

Africa has boon extended a week.ers' play room. On the first floor those who give $3,000 or moro by the Governor in Council.

"15. The rights and obligations Lord Winterton pointed out Ho departs from Capo Town on there are seven large classrooms will have part of the building | "9. The Company shall bej authorised to charge the follow of the Government and of the that the re-establishment of the July 29th, instead of July 22nd. and lavatory accommodation called aftor them.

A special appeal is being made ing annual rates to subscribors, Company shall be set out in detall gold standard had removed one of as originally arranged, allowing a and on the second floor a large with offeot from the 1st, July, and embodied in a bill which shall the difficulties in connexion with week's rest at the end of the dormitory for 100 boys with two for the money still needed so that 1925(a) $108 within (1) Victoria bo introduced as soon as may be the question of rupos exchange, actual tour in the country.masters' rooms at each end. The this fineschool may start under the hall links up the front block and best possible financial conditions. and Kowloon, as defined by lin the Legislative Council."

-Reuter.

Reuter.

TO-DAY.

Closing Exchange 28. 2. 15/16 Lighting Up-Time 6,57 p.m.

2.p.m: 29,"7 Temperature Barometer,

Humidity

2. p.m.

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