1927-02-01 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1927.

MORE ROBBERIES. THE F.M.S. FLOODS. MANSION "AS A CLUB.

ROGUES ON LANTAO.

The report of another armed rob- bery on Lantau has been made to the Police,

NATIVES REFUSE TO HELP.

HIGH WAGES ASKED.

DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH'S

WEDDING GIFT.

Negotiations are in progress for the sale of Sauderland House, the grent Mayfair mansion which the Inte W. K. Vanderbilt gave as a wedding gift to his daughter Consuelo, on her marriage to the Duke of Marlborough.

Although for the most part the Chinese and Malay residents of the areas affected by the heavy fonda did their share in the relief men that the syndicato intends to con- The Evening News understands

sures inaugurated when the im-vert the house into a club, adding provement of conditions permitted, another story as bedrooms for instances of their refusing to parti-members. cipate in recae work, or of holding out for exorbitant payment for doing so, are contained in reports of events subsequent to the floods

The club will probably be the Junior Automobile Club, which is in progress of formation,

Sunderland House cost £500,000'

A amill house on the top of a "peak and used by an elderly Chinono run, was visited by man on the evening of Thursday last, who knocked at the door and begged for cooled rice. The nur answered him from inside without opening the door, telling him that she had no cooked rice and that he had bet ter try at the Chek Chung Monus try which is hot far away. The man persisted and, being joined by two others who had been lying in walt near by, forced open the door, One man was armed with a knife, and they made the nun cover her head with her robe while they ran says the Singapore Free Press sacked the place. They stole cloth-Thus, it was stated by Mr. H. Gild, ing and other properly, valued at

who returned to Singapore from $64.

This property was eventually Pahang recently, that it cost as of Marlborough and went back found by the police in the posses fuch as woven dollars à gantang to it as the wife of the French sion of three Chinese who were ar-to transport 1,121 gunlægs of rice Colonel Jacques Balsan. She then rested in connection with an armed'] from Ranh; via Renta, to Jerantut, fannounced that it was her inten- robbery (préviously reported) | to sell there at 90 cents a ganlang: |tion to drop her titlé and that she which took place on the follèwine | Another, instance is recorded of a desired to be known as Mme. day at Tung Chung on the same Malay refusing to assist in the re- Eatsai. island. The men were also identi-scue of two then who had been ear- fied by the Chinese man, and they] ried away on a teniporary crust. are now in gustody un-sharken in connection with the two incidents.

HAWKER ROMHED,

A park hawker, who has a stall at Taip, has reported in the police that he was walking near Tin Kok on Friday Just when he was joined by a man who walked along with

RICE TRANSFONT.

to build and the purchase price said to be between £70,000 and under the present negotiations i

£80,000,

Mme. Balsan, who is disposing of the house, left itins the Duchess-

When an Evening News repres sentative culled at Sunderland House he found only servants there

Sunderland House would make house (he magnificant elab writes), with its 50 spacious room and fine noble halls and staircases.

Food supplies in Jerantut were trolled by Mr. L. Lawrence, a planter, why after taking stock of the foodstuffs, applied a system of control, which was officially ap i found the great ballroom, with Proved by the D. . at Rauh, with its lavish decoration in gold and when communication was establish its enormous crystal chandeliers, him for some way, and who suddened by a Bengali watchman who spotless and bright with the sun ly attacked him, felling him to the took four days to cover the two picking out old corners and the argund with a large stone.

places. Rice had to be transported pillars beautifully carved hawker's chopper was taken from

cross the Batu Ballf River, the extravagantly gilded."; " his basket and used by the bridge over, which had been washed to threaten him. The hawker was

away by the flood. In the process, robbed $12.80.

a raft on which were a Malay and Tamils was caught by the current and awept down-stream. ;

The

thief

"The police report that the robber we has since been arrested.

OBITUARY.

SIR ROBERT JARDINE.

REFUSED TO RESCUE. Afr. Lawrence, who was in an necomimaging sarapan, called upon a Malay onlooker to get into the sanipan and paddle downstream to their rescue, as he himself was junable to use a dayòng, but the Rugby, Jan. Ist. The dealf is announced of Siralalay, after, asking how much he Robert Jardine, head of the great was to receive, for the work, finally Chinay firm of Messrs. Jardine, refused and Mr. Lawrence was Matheson and · Company. compelled to go back by road for Robert died suddenly yesterday, a couple of miles to get two Malays British Wireless.

from one of the kampongs, who succeeded in rescuing the men on hour later.

Sir

- Sir Robert William Bughango Jardine, born in 1808, was the

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ELINGING TO THE ROOFS.

of the first baronet, Sir itsbert Jardine; whose baronetcy was "enn- ferred upon him in 1885. In 1905.. The manager's bungalow and Jerangson the firm of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe the goolie lines on son & Company was converted into Estafe were swept away by the a privale Limited Liability Com-floods, the water rising above the pany with the baronet who has tops of the rubber trees, and those Just passed away as its first Gor who engaged in relief work had to erning Director, and with Messr,carry out their difficult operations Wm. Keswick, M.P., W. J. Gresson and Heary Keswick as its Manag. ing Directors.

of floating colle lines.

and

During the war this was used by the Office of Works and later was occupied by the Secretariat of the League of Nations..

The hall is 30 feet high, and has marble columns' and panelling.

Many West-End mansions have been converted for club purposes in the last year, or two, including Lord Ridley's old house in Carlton House-terrace, Lord Oxford and Asquith's former house in Caven- dishesquare, and Lord Leconfield's

house.

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CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.

On Wednesday, the 2nd February the G, P. O. and Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed, and on Thursday, the 3rd February they will be open from 8 a.m. to tam.

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Dartmouth House, Charles-

On Thursday, the 3rd February there will be one collection from street, has been acquired recently the pithir-boxes, and one delivery of ordinary, correspondence us on Sun- as a home for the English-speak-days, and also one delivery of registered corespondenca from the G. P. O. The Money Order Office will be entirely closed during the Holidays. ing Union.

Message may now be accepted for Kongmoon under the same conditions and at the same rates as for Canton.

Recently the Evening News announced that Eart Spon- ver had leased Spencer House to the Ladies' Army and Navy Club, and the Harrington "House," o!F Whitehall, had been purchased by the Government and was to be a telephone exchange,

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on improvised rafts, making slow progress by pulling themselves from tree to tree, and thus taking

BRESLAU THE FIRST TOWN The late Sir Rober, who, was food to coplies isolated on the

TO BE SUPPLIED. educated at Eten and Mugdalene" roofs College, Cambridge, married in Malnys, it is reported, refused to. assist in getting cooked food to

Berlin, December 16-A project 1801 Miss Ethel Mary Pierey, a daughter of the te Benjamin the coplies, although they were by means of which German cities offered anything in reason for will be supplied by gas from the Pigrey, of Marchwiet Hall, Wrex- ham, Lady Jardiac was a few doing so. Taking food to three pithead instead of from the local years, ara decorated with the starving coolies clinging to the gasworks is approaching materiali- was unable to take them off for has always understood the art of

& S. Africa, fear of hla raft collapsing, He, making the State help' to pay for Shanghai, Japan and Europe via in England as a prominent race therefore, built, another raft and costly experiments which are ob-

Siberia (Letters and postcards

superscribed horse owner, his connection will went back to rescue them, but viously likely to benefit the com

Siby

only) Mathean nud Co., Ltd, being coming to the lateness of the hour munity in the end. This time Amoy and Formosa fined mostly to the firm's Londan had to spend the night on the roof work is to be found for Germany's Fort Bayard, Hoihow, Pakhai and

of another building, and took them of the following day. Forty Tamil and Telegus were rescued and taken to higher ground. '

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Order of the British Empire. The roof of a building Air. Lawrence sation. Cerman heavy industry Strails, Ceyles, India, Mauritice, E.

decensed baronet was well-known

the business of Messrs. Jardins

house.

The successor to the title John William Jardine, son of the deceased, who is 27 years of age and who, in 1921, married Jean, younger daughter of Lord Ernest Hamilton and granddaughter, of the 1st Duke of Abercorn.}

TRYING TIMES.

(Continued From Page 1.)

SALUTARY WARNING.

:

LIVING ON COCONUTS,. Suveral efforts were made to get rough from Pulo Tawah 10 Jerantut by boat, but it was not possible until January 2, when quantity of rice was brought back to Tawah and distributed among e refugees, who had been 'sub-

Haiphong ***

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Angkor

unemployed by constructing the plant and conduit pipes to feed the Straits' and Calcutta eity's gna supply. It is perfectly natural to suppose that the muni- Amoy elpal gasworks themselves are not loihow, Pakkoi and Haiphong Interested, in a project likely to Butavia.... make them superfluous in a future Shanghai and Europe via Sheria (letters and postcards specially possibly not, so far ahead. There

superscribed "vin Siberia" only)

C. are definite risks about the new Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., undertaking which will not be dis ant S. America and Europe vis Victoria, BC. and Europe via covered until costly experiments

Siberia (letters and postcards have been undertaken.

specially superscribed "via Siberin" only)

The mine-owners are unanimous

siding largely on cocoanuts.. in their opinion that this centrali-

At Tawah the water rose 20sation of gas production will result feet, the flood rising above the in a cost price of four pfennigs a

of of the recently built over-cubic meter, about one halfpenny, Manila ser's, quarters, while it was re- in contrast to the present cost Shanghai "The Chinese had not thought ported that the coolid lines at S. price of nine pfennige (about one Shanghal It possible for the vessel to apkan had disappeared and that penny). There has hitherto been Straits, Ceylon, India, inuritus, E and S. Africa, Aden, Egypt and proach any nearer, as the water the mandore at S. Salim had been no mention of the cost of transport

Europe via Marseilles was very low. Turning to the drowned. The floods have left through the conduit pipes, so that crowd, which was also rather non-considerable quantity of silt and,

tages gained is not possible. The plussed, the picket shouted, "The stinking mud in their wake, which an exact calculation of the advan- British will fire!" No other warn-in some places is as much as three mine-owners are asking from the ing was needed and in a momont in depth and will, of necesReich, or from the Prussian State,

take a considerable time to

a subsidy of 35 million marks. Saigon clear away.,

This sum is to be regarded as be- Swatow, Amoy and Foochow

Amoy ing used instead of an unemploy Swatow, Amoy and Formosa rent dole.

Sandakan Most probably the first city to Amoy

the wharf was clear and nothing remained for the marines to do than hoist us' on board the Wood- cock." It was good, to see a blac jacket!" she added appreciatively, and then spoke of the kindness of

everyone,

now in "safety," she "We are said, "but there are many of us left behind. And there are three Jadies: Miss Row, Miss Shivonen and Miss Webber; who are being held as hostages in Kian in Kiang al

Straits and Calcutta

Manila

A modern jazz orchestra, made up entirely of blind musicians, be supplied with gas direct from Swatew, Amoy and Foothow with a blind lender, recently was the mine will be Breslau, in Sile

Swntow organized, under the auspices of aia, from pipes, leading from a cen- Haihow and Haiphong.. the New York Association for the tral station at Waldenburg in the Straits, Coylon, India, Mauritius, E.

The Blind. All instruction le vocal, Silesian mining district.

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