THE DANGEROUS RAYS OF SUNLIGHT. The ultra-violet and infra red raya aro aspecially prosent in Hongkong un- light. The bout protection is the Sin William Crookes (British) lens, which absorbs the dangerous rays. We have the genuine (there are many imitations), made by Chance Bros, Birmingham, England If-you-profor an almost colourless lons, with high absorptive qualities, we recommed the Vitrox "a Britiab lons backed by British scientists.
N. LAZARUS Hongkong's Only. European Optician, Manager-Ralph A. Cooper, Registered Optometrist (Canada)."
The
Hongkong Telegraph
-POUNDED 1881
No. 21,947.
FLOOD DANGERS. INDIAN CONSTABLE
DR. KOCH'S » COUNCIL SPEECH.
PLEA FOR COMMISSION.
The Hon. Dr. W. V M. Koch moved the following resolution at this afternoon's meeting of the Legislative Council:
Government be .."That the pleased to appoint a Commission to search for, examine, and report on, the vulnerable parts of the Colony and raainland contiguous to houses and rooda which are
DR. KOCK'S MAIDEN SPEECH.
MURDERED.
SHOT WITH HIS OWN REVOLVER..
NEW TERRITORY AFFAIR.
四拜禮 號六廿月八英港香
Shot from behind, and a serious wound being inflicted in his back P. C. B202 Fakir Mahomed died this morning, at the Government Civil Hospital following on an operation. The deceased was the victim in a murder case, which occurred under somewhat unusual circumstances in the district of Mataukbk, New Territories, late last, night.
WAR DOINGS.
NAVAL ATTACK ON KWANGTUNG?
INTERESTING AMOY REPORT.
THURSDAY AUGUST 26, 1926. 日九十月七
$36 PER ANNUM ........ INGLI COPY 10 GENTO
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REPORTED SPLIT IN AERIAL SURVEYS. PICKETS WHO TURNED
KUOMINTANG.
SCHEME TO..OUST CHANG KAI-SHEK.
WORK IN THE FAR EAST.
·SEAPLANE AT SINGAPORE. LATEST CANTON REPORT:
So much has recently been writ- Reporto are current in Canton ten on the subject of the develop
Malaya. stimulated greatly, no
PIRATES.
JUNK LOOTED IN CHINESE WATERS.
ON TRIP TO HOIHOW.
"
Details of the piracy of another Hongkong junk in Chinese watera
THE INABON MOTOn:
CAR CO., LTD
23 WONE NDI CHUNG NI
HAPPY VALLEY)
$1996
NOTED FIGURE:
DEATH OF CHINESE INDUSTRIALIST.
PASSING OF CHANG CHIEN.
¿
EARLY SUCCESS.
A report is to hand from Amoy to the effect that the Warships of
A notable figure in the Indus- the Fukien Squadron have been that Mr. Chau Lu, former Comment of aviation in British is to hand, when armed mon in trial life of China has passed gradually recommissioned, with missioner of Finance of Kwang-doubt, by the visit of Mr. Ain a boat flying the strike pickot lag Chien, the well-known Nantunge away by the death of Mr. Chang officers and men from the North, and that a naval attack on Kwang tung, and General Hsu Sung-cht Cobham on his flight to Australin, got away with a considerable chow industrial lender, news of tung will most likely be made by former Commander-in-Chief of the that it is with something, appro-amount of loot -
which was contained in a Reuter's. telegram from Shanghai last even- a special squadron consisting of Canton Army, the latter of whom aching surprise that the public the best ships of the Northern,
will read of the existence of the The junk which fell a victim to ing. A noted scholar, the deceas Yangtze and Fukien Squadrons, General Chang Kai-shek "forced Air Survey Company, Limited, the pirates is described in the ed who was 74 years of age, had, within a space of forty yeat or as both Wu Pel-fu and Chang Tso-out of Canton by his coup d'etat in which has been operating for the
pact two years with plenty of suc-police reports as No. T. 4684. so, created great, industrica for It has since been shown that the in have agreed on a common August last year, are directing a luble to storm water damage, and constable was shot with his own policy to eliminate all "Removement by disappointed Kuo- the unexpected arrival in Singa- Hongkong with a general cargo Nautungchow, once a wretched cess. Hence the explanation of The master states that he left which China 18. economically suited, and transformed his native make recommendations which revolver."
from China, before dealing with might-tend-to-prevent-tho-occur. In accordance with the usual the reform of the Central Govern mintang politicians to oust Gen- pore on the 19th inst. of a seaplane rence of such damage. Such Com- practice of night patrols being ment.
eral Chang Kai-shek from the piloted by a Britisher.
for Hoihow on August 18th. habitat of still more wretched" cut in pairs, Fakir mittee to consist of experts out carried
It is also reported from Amoy Party. Mr. Chau and General The company above referred to About midnight on the 19th, when people, into a city that is hailed as side the Government service who Mahomed was patrolling the that the forces which have been Hsu are said to have already pro- undertakes survey work, on a big would be associated with other Tokowan Road in company with ordered to co-operate with the cured the secret support of cer- seale. Formed in 1924, the Com-in Shek Wan Bay, he saw a boat model of modern China. experts in the Government service another Judian policeman. He Northern Army in Klangsi have tain officials now in Canton, pany put into operation the approaching them, and as it was to be nominated by the Govern-became separated from his com- received counter-orders to proceed It is known that within the method of mapping districts and a bright moonlight night, he was
Born in 1863 of parents whose areas by means of photograplis ment."
panion on leaving the road and to Tung On to join hands with Kuomintang Party there are two from the air. The concern is fable to see that the boat con- pride consisted in bolonging to going towards the seashore for a Chang Ye, whose headquarters are strong rival elements-the so-limited company in no way sub-tained eight men and flew a strike Nantung, Kiangsu, a district about the industrious farming class of few moments. Not long after now at Wan Sui. This movement called "Reds," or Communists, and sidised by Government and it can picket flag. In putting the resolution, Dr.wards, a shot was heard, and P. C. indicates that Kwangtung is likely the Right Section, or non-Combe safely said that it is the only
a hundred miles up on the north Mahomed Fakir was found by his to be attacked from Fuklen, while munists, General Chang Kai-shek British company in existence that
The boat came alongside the bank of the Yangtze, Chang Chien In bringing forward this resolu- companion lying in a serious con- Kiangai will be reinforced by Sun who had become dictator before he is really carrying on and produce junk and five men, all armed with was destined to be a scholar. Hig
[dition on the bench.
Chuan-fang, whose forces are re- It appears, from the statement ported to be on the way to Nan- made by the wounded man, that, chang Troops from Foochow are whilst squatting on the ground, concentrating on Wo. Ping, Chang his revolver, which he had dis-Poo, Wan. Sui, Cheong Chow and It is stated that the carded and left. lying a few Amoy. feet away, was picked up by Fukien units have been given the a Chinese who suddenly appear work of dispersing the People's The Army, which is mostly to Kuomin- When the typhoon of '06 caused cd from behind a rock. such loss of life and destruction man turned the weapon on the constang in personnel, and that fresh to shipping, the Government and table on being challenged, and fired troops will be despatched from the the people were stirred and public shot which hit the latter in the North to carry on the campaign. steps were taken to try to avoid lower region of the back. He then future dangers of a similar kind. ran away, taking the revolver with In consequence, at 'considerable him. exponse, the typhoon refuge on the other side was built and it has afforded excellent accommo- dation for craft daring these severe blows, so that we have not had any repetition on any large scale of the destruction of 1906.
Koch said-
tion for the ncceptance of the Council, I would like to say a few words to recommend it to you. It will be in the minds of the older residents that years ago, typhoons and rainstorms did not create so much damage on-land as they have within recent years.
Now, since the last five years, the island has been opened up by serles of roads most excellently devised and well built, but I have. noticed that every year, one might Bay without exception, at the period of these heavy rainstorms there have been landslides all along these roads and, this year, in the New Territories, causing them to be blocked to traffic for an appreciable length of time.
1
The wounded man was removed
to the Government Civil Hospital, where he succumbed, to-his injury at 10.30 this morning
MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
1!
LORRY RUNS, INTO PADDY
FIELD.
3
Because the driver of a lorry could not see, owing to his eyes being filled with dust, he lost on trol of the vehicle, with the result that it ran into a paddy field. Eight Chinese on the lorry" were all injured.
CANTON CLAIMS VICTORIES.
1
RECENT OPERATIONS.
was made Chairman of the Kuo ing these maps without any out-revolvers and rifles, cHmbed childhood differed little from any mintang and Commander-in-Clef side assistance whatever
aboad and said they wanted to ordinary child of a respectable examine the cargo. The master family. He was under, tutorage of all the Kuomintang Forces, is
was also asked from which place in the classics at an early age, and said to have the support of the
In 1924 the company undertook he had come and he replied Hong-with what conscientiousness he Red' element. Taking advantages
mastered his studies may be gloam- of his absence from Canton many the survey of the Irawadi river kong ta so-called "anti-Reds, particularly for the Burma forest reserve de. The pirates then took six bags ed from the fact that before he reached his sixteenth; birthday her discontented Kuomintang officials, partment, a survey covering some of flour (worth $90,) two boxes
was arrayed with the formidable are now said to have formed a plot 1,400 square miles. A survey was of clothing ($100), $40 in Chinese scholastic title of Halu Teal. As and the junk's Hcence, if the study of the classics were to end his power in the Southern also done of the Yengeanyound money,
Oil Fields for the Burma Oil Com- They then left and sailed for the absolutely necessary to his exis- capital,
General Li Fogk-lum; officer pany. Then the company tackled shore.
tence he plunged into its study commanding the 5th Kuomintang the Tenasurum forests for the The junk then continued on its with renewed efforts, which soon Army Corps, denies that he has Burma Government and a survey way to Hoihow, and the master enabled him to annex, the degree joined the movement against 'Gen- of Rangoon has also been done to reported the matter to the local of Chin Shih and later the oral Chang Kai-shek. Some of his the scale of 12 inches to the mile. police on his return yesterday. transport vessels along the West The last mentioned work was car River have been captured by the tied out for the Municipality of "anti-Reds" and thoir Kuomintang Rangoon.
F
TAXI CO. SUED.
Optimus, the highest. degree 'ob tainable. His house, in which be was reared and in which he lived to the end, was and siimple and unaffected, unscrupulously clean he never favoured ostentation, and `this characteristic attended his entire career. Pressed by the Manchus, he declined all official appoint Two minutes was sufficient for ments except acting once as ad-
SUMMARY COURT ACTION:
FAILS.
An offelal communique issued in Canton announces the capture Bf Yo Chow by the left wing of the Nationalist Army on the 22nd fast. There is also published an earlier telegram from General Chang Kai-shek, to the effect that red flags, substituted by the five- Operations in Borneo which fol on the 20th instant the left wing coloured flag of the Chinese Re-lowed shortly after, covered some crossed the river and captured Sin public. This change of colour 2,000 square miles-the various She, Cheung Lok, Wukow, Chang was, he says, necessitated by the oil fields of the Anglo Saxon Petro- Chung Ping and Cheung Chia fortunes of war and is not a result leum Company in Miri and the Yuan, whilst on the 19th inst.. the of his having deserted the present surrounding places. 12th Division of the 4th Army regime in Canton: Some reports Recently, the company complet- Corps captured Ping Kong city state that the "anti-Red" have nowed a 2,000 square mile survey for Mr. Justice Wood to dispose of aviser to the Board of Communica as many as oight launches along the Sarawak forest reserve de-case which came before him in the tions.. However, at the conclu and a large quantity of arma and
sion of the Boxer Rebellion, he ammunition, the defeated troops the West. Biver to prey on Kuo- partment. Thus, it will be soen,
company Summary Court this morning.
prepared a paper entitled "A retreating in the direction of Poomintang troopships or transports, up to the present the
has actually surveyed by means. A Chinese motor driver, living Level-Headed Suggestion for Re Chi and Tung Cheng.
of air photography and reconnal at West Point, claimed $1,000 from form." During the rebellion he sance, somewhere in the vicinity the Hongkong and Kowloon Taxi-ullled himself with the viceroys
of the Liang Klang and Liang Hu A feature which can at once be cab Company, being damages for Liu Kun-vih and Chang Chi-tung, recognised is the ability of the alleged breach of contract by the to prevent the southeastern pro- A COURAGEOUS PILOT. company to photograph the dis- defendants under an agreement to vinces, from joining in the fanati-
trict to be surveyed and produce a employ the plaintiff, and $100 cal movement... Rugby, Aug. 25. fair map such as is supplied by an
DIG PROJECTS. A series of 25 daring experi- ordinary surveying party where which sum he deposited with the ments, conducted by Flight-Lieu- work from the ground would be Company.
Thence onwards, Chang Chian's tonant Scholéfold for the purpose difficult or impossible. As far as Mr. W. B. Hind, who appeared interest was mainly engrossed in of removing the dangers of flying possible, the work is assisted by for the plaintiff, said he had seen industrial and commercial affairs, in fog, are described in a technical ground surveyors who supply con- documenta in the possession of and it is this phase of his life report of the Aeronautical Re- trol points from which the posi- Mr. L. D. Turner, defending, and search Committee. Lieut. Schole- tions of the locality photographed he had decided that it was hope- which revealed his constructive field, with observers, tested a from the air are fixed on the map. less to proceed any further with and, energetic personality, Chang Chi-tung, recognizing the intent of device designed to assure safety In In Borneo, for instance, the the case.
this noted Hanlin scholar, com-
Chinese news agencies do not consider that any of the engage-
DEFECTIVE ROAD CUTTING.
The lorry was being driven from ments so far fought are decisive, DARING EXPERIMENTS. of 20,000 square miles Now, there seems to be no doubt Fanling to Yaumati, and when since the main forces of the that there is something defective near the ninth milestone some dust opposing armies have as yet not in the cutting of the roads. These got into the driver's eyes which come to a clash. The Northern troops are rapidly concentrating' roads have for the most part been caused him to lose control." The at places on the frontier, and in cut through soft, disintegrated, lorry swerved into a paddy field
a few days it is expected that the and what I might call, rotten and turned over on its left side. first decisive battle will be fought. soil and these cuttings have been It is understood that no-one was
As Wu Pel-fu is reported to have left as they were made without any very seriously injured.
arrived at Hankow, in the next precautions having been taken to
couple of weeks there should be prevent what would strike anyone
some severe engagements fought. aa the probability of these slips.
TO JOIN "ANTI-REDS,"
A motor driver reports, that when he was driving a motor car along Connaught Road West, near Not only that, but on these main whitty Street, at 1.30 this morn- rands the Government has takening, a taxi came from the opposito According to neutral reports, advantage of the boom. in direction and collided with the car. Tuchun Chow Yin-jen of Fukien land some years ago to sell plots The car and taxi were damaged has definitely decided to join the
for building purposes which seem- to the extent of $20 and $30- "anti-Red" movement.. Ha is with his bands off the control which the photographs are pre-costs.
to me to bo most insecure.
Un-
less they are built in a man
lity of a Collapse of retaining walla during these heavy rain-
respectively. There were no per-ordering details of the Fukien Army to attack the Kuomintang er that would obvlate any possibi-sonal Injuries.
Army in Kwangtung from five different directions, the objectives
Chiaoling. Taipo, Yaoping, and Swatow. General Chan King- ming is said to be co-operating
storms there will ever be present THE SNATCHING CASES. being the districts of Yungyun,
the danger of such happenings as Oceurred a few months ago leading to the flogging of Happy Valley and as occurred again last month lead- Ing to a great deal of damage on Stubbs Road.
ป
A CHINESE ARRESTED.
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landing even when the ground is ground surveyors gave trigonome His Lordship accordingly gave missioned him to organize a not visible, by making a descenttrical points fixed on a map from judgment for the defendants with spinning and weaving mill, the_
levers. The experiments were pared and so co-ordinated with the successful but the report refers to surface on the map the courage and judgment required by the pilot, who, time after time, risked death in obtaining the re- quired data-British Wireless.
with Tuchun Chow in the move TANGIER AND GENEVA be commenced. The work has been
What is regarded as an impor- ment
A Tientsin report says that tant arrest was effected at
Marshal Chang Tso-lin is offering Aberdeen early this morning when to despatch 20,000 men to Central a man was taken into custody by China to nasist Marshal Wu Pei-fu detectives from the Wanchal in his "anti-Red" campaign in
Hunan and Hupeh.
PAST EXPERIENCES. Then, also, there is no doubt that thore should be some method of dealing with pullahé, especially at their source, which would obviate Station who were pursuing investi
the torrible damage that occurs. gations into the three recent
HELF FROM SUN.
PROBLEMS.
capital of which was Tls. 1,000,000. With what success he carried out this mission may be gauged from SERIOUS TROUBLE IN the fact that shortly afterwards
PHILIPPINES.
he was again instrusted · by Viceroy Chang to, organize, four additional mills at Wuchang; the
A "WELCOME" DISPUTE outcome fully justified the conf
dence. At this stage he also initiated other important, projects,
Manila, Aug 26.
Chang Chien, however, did not
WORK IN
IN THE F. M. S When the seaplane with its pilot leaves Singaporo, a survey of the coast of the Malay Peninsula from Port: Swettenham to Port Weld will
undertaken on a contract with the F. M. S. Government; the object A conflict between Moros and notably the colonization of Man being to, produce maps of the man- Filipinos was barely averted at churia by poor people, the Huat grove swamp areas on, the coast. Zamboanga on Tuesday, on the ar- River Conservancy project, and SPAIN PRESENTS NOTE TO
It is work which cannot be carried rival of Colonel Carmi Thompson, the formation of Sino-American ITALY...
out by ground methods for reasons when the Moros charged the Filf enterprises po which suggest themselves. Ground pinos with having broken in Rome, Aug. 25 According to the newspapers the work would be impossible owing to agreement each to share equally in
stage. Although he had repeated- ly been offered high officials posts, from time to time owing to their snatching incidonts on the middle The return of Marshal Wu Ret. Spanish Government has presented the nature of the country and the welcoming the President's invest totally disappear from the political
to the Foreign Ministry, a Note on high trees, although it would be gator, Presi
Two thousand Filipinos assem including at one time the Premier- being blocked by boulders and so
fu to Hunkow is giving the "anti- the Tangier question, said to be on possible to map out the district on overflowing and washing away
Reds" fresh heart, and since. Signor: Mussolinis suggestion that small scale by means of bled at the docks, but Colonel Ste-ship of the Republle, he refused ronds and bridges.
traverses. Further, we are told, vens, Commanding the Constabul them all, but he was willing to Whether or not the arrested
August 24th constant military con- And a third matter that I would-Chincio 18 the samo man who gultations,
e have taken place at the problems of Tangier and the forest department will be ableary, boarded Colonel Thompson's: como out in 1908-18 chairman of draw attention to is the damage.
Marshal Wu has Geneva require "greater precision to distinguish from the photo ship and informed him that it snatched Miss Mickey's handbag Hankow. that is done by boulders slipping
graphs the different types of trees would be dangerous to land before the Kiangsu Provincial Assembly. assured all concerned that hie and definitiveness."--Router
and also they will be able to judge the Moros were pacified, a Directly after the Revolution in away from their beds and smash- and on two successive occasions associate, Marshal Sun Chuan
1911 broke out he was appointed where the forests are thickest, and Two companies of infantry mean- ing up houses and doing damage made unsuccessful attempts on fang, is sending re-inforcements
where thingst, lun
while intervened and prevented the by imperial edict Governor of Miss Levay and the wife of the to Hunan by way of Kiangel plan to property
and Pacification Com- Some yours ago, a huge boulder Portuguese Consul will probably Since the reported fall of General Choo Hong-ti, Tuchun
Meros from attacking the Filipines Kiangsu slipped down Morrison Hill and be established to-day when the Yochow into the hands of the of Hunan, who was ousted from
The Moros were disarmed a missioner of the same province, damaged three housos. Two victims will be asked to pick out Kuomintang Army, the Yangtze Changsha before the Red revolt
though they retained their knives and still later Imperial Minister yeara ngo; another huge boulder the man whom they saw from a Flotilla has withdrawn further by General Tang Seng-chi, is now
Colonel Thompson, later landel of Commerce, all of which he de alipped down from the Admiralty Tow of men which will include the towards Wachang, the next objec-in Hankow planning a come
and said he would cancel he visits, clined. Upon the establishment grounds on the Peak and smashed prisoner, at an identification tive of the "Reds, according to back to Hunan with the aid of ried out every day. The greatest if necessary, to uvert bloodshed of the Repablic he became (Continued on Page 7) Reutor (Continued on Page 19).
parado + Police Headquarters. General Chang Kai-shek's military Marshal Wa Pu
levels.
Surveys of this nature are done from heights varying between eight and ten thousand feet and each photograph covers a square mile
Weather pormitting, work in car
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