HEAVY RAINS ADD TO MISERY.
THE MISSISSIPPI VICTIMS' ORDEAL.
RICH AREAS ARE RUINED.
their homes by the formation of a to
"THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH.
AMERICANS RESENT
NOTE.
MUCH INDIGNATION SHOWN.
Washington, May, 5. Correspondents of the New York papers are outspoken with regard to the effect produced by the Bri- tish Note.
New Orleans, May 6.
The Herald Tribune states that Heavy rains are adding to the misery of the quarter million it has aroused more indignation people who have been rendered and resentment in official circles homeless by the floods, while over than has been manifest for some 45,000 inhabitants of the northern time. There is no doubt the Pre- and central parishes of Louisiana ident stands squarely behind Mr. arguments. Treasury are threatched with eviction from Mellon's
officials were so anxious to obtain the necessary authority from Mr. Kellogg for the issue of Mr. Mel- Jon's rejoinder, that they got in touch with him at the 18th hole of the Chevy Chase golf course," wher he immediately approved of the publication at Washington.
Officials are chiefly surprised that the Note was sent in order to answer a semi-private letter by Mr. Mellan.
great late there owing breaches in the levees.
Nearly half a million arres of rich cotton and sugar lands have been flooded. Three million acres of land are flooded in Louisania alone.--Reuters American Service.
Terrible Plight of Prople,
Later.
The food refugees are huddled spread under strips of canvas from the branches of trees, or are crowded in tents. Others travelling in mutor-ears, astride of" mules, er afoot, alting all the roula of central Louisiana, to
#TH
The New York Times states that the Note has completely surprised officials--Reuter's American Ser-
eier.
Press Approval.
London, May 5
safety; hut a worse case is that The British Note to Ameria
the
ruge
of
Wild Animals Grow Tame. The agimla For the Singer rearve have lesh" driven
in Britain. Krater,
ENTERTAINING THE SERVICE-MAN.
UNION JACK CLUB'S GOOD WORK.
THE KING'S RECENT VISIT.
Ever since the influx of Service men to Hongkong, owing to the increased garrisoning in China, the question of entertaining them has Been to the fore. The" Y.M.C.A.
FRIDAY,
HIDE AND SEEK.
SEQUEL TO BULLY BERT
THEETS.
MAY 6, 1927.
FOLLY OF STRIKES.
MEETING OUR COMPETITORS.
In view of the passage. f the accond reading of the Trades Charges of theft of six tins of Union Bill in the House of Cam- compressed beef, the property of mons, reported by Reuter to-day, the War Department, from the the following, to hand by a mail No. 6 Godown at Holt's whard paper, is of special interest · were preferred against a coolie foreman and a watchman, before garding Industrial pence was vele The point of view of Labour re- Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowlooned by Mr. J. A. Seddon, past Magistracy this morning.
president of the Shop Assistants' Sergeant Barnicle, in describing Union, at the weekly luncheon Club, held in the North British the case to his Worship, said that meeting of the Edinburgh Rotary is doing a great deal, and has pro-Staff Quarter Master Sergeant Station Hiatel.
Moss saw the two defendants on)
Mr. Seddon prefaced his re- videti club rooms and periodical on-the bridge leading from the No. marks on "Peace in industry” by This recalis the 6 to the No. 2 godown. The men saying that industrial peace was. tertainments,
other places--at Home had emerged from the former one of those things which, in the werk in and in the colonies of Union Jack down, which had been taken words of Lord Sands, everybody ovor by the military. They had
wanted, therefore nabody tried to clubs, and it may be that some no right to be in the premises at secure. The way to perdition, he day similar institution will make all, and on seeing the Quarter said, was pared with good inten- Referring to the general strike, its appearance here too. A Union Master Sergeant the two men rantin Jack Club was opened in Singa-
The first defendant was seen to Mr. Seddon said that this feature fore, it FY5:43 be mentioned, some
he earrying his hat across his in the Industrial life of the coun-! Readers familiar with waist. onion will retall
On checking the goods in try was not a sporadic thing, but the one that he godown, Q.M.S. Moss is the result of some eight or ten
The preparation. has been opened near Waterloo covered that six tins of beef had years
years ago.
Station.
away.
full been stolen, and the matter was effects of the strike had not yet H.M. the King paid a surprise visit to this institution in mail ported to Mr. II. Teale, the been felt by the commercial in- had been enough to show to them and the defendants, whom Q.M.S. week and displayed great inter-wharfinger. Enquiries were made ferests of the country, but there What a repetition of such a mad apest in the various arrangements Moss had
Mr. described to
venture might bring, for promoting the comfort and
Teale, were arrested. happiness of sailers, soldiers, and
i necessary to When questioned, the men airmen who find
the
The King arrived at the Club at a quarter to four, and remained just over half an hour. Nobody was near the entrance of the Club when he arrived, but a large crowd collected before he left.
Lesson of the Strike,
with the strong of those who, having followed the meets
Emphasis is highway as far as possible, nowproval of the Press. crouch on the top of the levees laid on the friendliness of the The Note and the necessity of combat- exposed to elements, awaiting the coming of ting the prejudice done to Britain spend the night in London, or de-denied the thefts, but they lator Mr. Seddon thought there was in Europe by Mr. Melion's missire to get food and recreation at each produced one tin of begone good thing about the general relief boats.
The Beres have given way at taken assertions. The Morning a place specialy devoted to their which had been hidden among the strike. It brought the country two new places, and millions of Port trusts that Mr. Mellon will interests, and carried on, not with cargo in the No. 2 Godown. They with a sudden jerk to a realisa- to withdraw hia the idea of making profit, but of were handed over in the Police,tion of the danger within the con- gallons of muddy water have been see
The Tim catering for Servicemen in
and later two other ins
Immediately were fines of the land. added in the stupendous foederroneous statement.
is particularly recheapest and most efficient manner
the danger was seen the nation produced. sweeping over thirty doomed says it
routable that Mr. Mellon should possible. counties.
The defendants denied that thesponded to the call of the Government, and the demonstra- have appeared to sacrifice to the demands of domestic polemies, the
were responsible for the's and tion and response that was then stated that they had heard of the scrupulous accuracy he might so
our national life. asily have observed with regard
argenes and where the goods had made was a redeeming feature in Stressing the folly of a strike been hidden. at of their himes and are zeúrek.
A General Thesis,
The Brat gefendant explained his in a country such as Great Britain, ing for aches 19 Jough placed for
Washington, May 5.
The King was received by Sir behaviour by saying that he was dependent for four-fifths of her) them by agrafa of the conAPṛVA-
Mr. Mellon har maile tion department.
He found the seas, Mr. Seddon said that they The wild turkeys are so the lengthy statement in walch he said Walter R. Lawrence, and firiga the Military godown supervision; stenance from countries
der General Sir Fredertek Gas-ig work.
This owing to hunger, that they gather that while the treasury does not coigne (the Comptroller).
seemd deren last on the premises must bear in mind that Britain at the very edge of the desire a controversy wilk Beal, was the fifth visit paid by the and had been playing hide and was no longer the workshop of the lie was chasing world. Many other nations had refugee camps-kartels Amerierat derms it its duty in view of the Kiner to the Club. In 1904 he laid with him.
British Note to present facts and
the foundation stane, and on the the seed defendant when he entered the lists as potential com- explain differences.
1 July, 1907 Tu received his
was seen by the Quartermaster peliturs for world tande. There follows a statement by father King Edward, on the oc-
Mr. Seddon made particular Sergeant:
Up to a Mr. Mellan who says in his com-usion of the opening ceremopry. New Orleans. May .
munication to Mr. Hibben that went again in 1911, and, ac-
His Worship convicted both de-reference to America,
few years ago, he said, the U.S.A. was content to rely on her own Although the majority of the insituin was only mentioned as in-companied by the Queen, paid ants, and passed beatones of habitants of the threatened parfeldental to a general thesis and further visit in 1917 for the pur- one month's baid-labour of each.
markel, and her surplus for export ishes Red before the approach of the figures in the British Note pose of seeing what was being done
bore no relationship to the expert the flood, the community of "water-were apparently used inadechnical for the seldiers home on leave
trade of this country. They were dwellers" remains.
aventing sense, and this is the from the Great War. He was in-
How learning that by mass pro- The angry foods hold no terror real raise for the apparent dis-formed that the Club catered prin-
duction they could make a bold for thest trappers whose homesreement.
cipally for warrant officers, petly
bid for the export trade of the As regards facts he declares that heers, non-commissieted officers i
world. Hale also was one of our are mostly built on raised plat-
most formidable competitors in forms on the marshy banks of a the British Government now offi- and men serving in lis Majesty's myriad of small backwaters which ally confirms the principal poin. | Forces, food annually. They have remade by ir Mellon in his lefer to
the world to-day.
BOW
Service.
Water Dwellers Remain.
SCOTLAND MARU REPAIRED.
Sir Walter Lawirner informed fused to leave and every family Mr. Hildes, namely that begin-lain that these were 208 hedvomnes has from one to a dozen "picogues" pine with Sapt. 1, 1928 and assumin 1907, but -day there were (small canoe-like boats) also small in that the French debt agre "shanly-boats" wherein they livement is ralified, it will rewive
"Are they all-oned?" inquired during the season.
from its own debtors and from These have now become the Germany soms sufficiel to raver the Kings. The reply was that it
t-to-hing the number only homes of many residents who the current paytäents, due to theirs and sailors who wented in the harbour on Tuesdag,
States Government.ge will use the "pirogues" to trans Unitert
The Club and very rarely indeed port supplies.Renter's American | Realer's American Scenice,
were any of the bite opty for a Service.
night.
A "BROTHERLY" ARGUMENT.
MEDIATOR ASSAULTED.
IMPROVEMENT AT NANNING.
THIRTY “REDS" ARRESTED.
I
Memorial Stones.
OVAT-
TO SAHL, ON THURSDAY NEXT.
Appeal to Employers, Repairs to the Scotland Maru, which grounded on Tathong Point
They could not get commercial on April 12 and was subsequently prosperity when these responsible beached in Kowloon Day with Nos. for it were thinking about divid- 1, 2 and 3 holds leaking, have beening profits before production took completed, the vessel being berth-pince. The mentality of the rank and file at the present time was all wrong. They were looking The Scotland Mart is now lond-round for a scapegoat for the ing, and will probably be despatch general strike; they were founder- ed for Japanese ports on Thursdaying about nat knowing where they were going. In the old days the bust, May 12.
strike was the only weapon, but Trade Unions and strikes were the a period in their that 110
The members of the Executive and members of the Club Come mittre were presented, and the
A Chinese hoy, twelve years of creatures of King talked to many of them age was admitted yesterday to the national development He was delighted to Rud how great Gavernment/Civil Hospital in anlonger existed. The strike as it Word fra Nanning, eated April a voire warrand ficers, petty unconscious condition. The ad weapon for settling disputea was 220. states that the sum of the others, on-commissioned officers, fed over the wall of the St Lewis as antiquated as the old blander- Postal Commissioner, Mr. Cheng, and pea of the Royal Navy, the industrial School in Heard Street. la which a Chines was Man Ling, who was kidnapped Arng, the Royal Marines, and the charge with assault, before M some time ago has been returned Doyal Air Force had in
unharm
"
The coxswain of a Prison launch
appeared as complainant
Case
R. E. Lindell this morning.
in a
1 appears from the evidence
the
management of the Inalitution.
|
The boy's release, and that of
In the cone of his four, which
that a brother of a member of the other
erew on the launch bad a dispute
with the defendent's brother. The quarrel best to a fight, in which
brother helped brother.
through information which
WIN
is not yet ascertained how the ecldget occurred.
bas.
Mr. Seddon toid members that they bad not done their duty by merely being content to carry on their business as best as they Sir John Gilmane, in reply, could. The workers were looking child, Was obtained extended to the principal parts of Mr. T. Johnston in the House
for right leadership. They had divulged by a captured robber, the Club, the King inspect the Commons, said up to a month ag learned a bitter lesson in the The military authorities obtained two memorial stones which re- the number of esses diagnosed its eral strike. It was up to tho the boys' frase by threatening cord the laying of the foundation smallpox in Dintire was 6, exclad who had the opportunity to do so, The coxswain can along the complet, destruction of a vista by himself, and the opening ing three cases on a steames which and those in positions of respon- mediate, but Lite defendant tar-lage, situaded abou: 901 (80 miles) his father. He also went into had arrived with a cargo of jite sibility, to try and change the men- the V.C. Memorial Ball, and afters from Calutta. Of those of eases. Gtality of the worker, to reverse the red on him and assaulted him. A from Nanning.
The situation at Naming seems warda went into the brillarda been removed to hospital. Upold arder. They had got to take few other men helped defendant
in the present. So school children the worker into their confidence. fracas to be improving. The local au- roms and reading rooms, and met The. the assault. occurred in Connaught Road West, thoritities have received instrua number of mes in uniform. He had heen vaccinated,
tions to arrest all the Communists stayed and watched a game of A Chinese constable varing en the scene, and the crowd dispersed, and some 30 "Reds" including billiards for a few moments until but the constable followed defen-three of the Executive Committee the players, becoming aware
Otherwise, local his presence, left off and stood dunt who, when he was cornered, were arrested. jumped into the harbour, fe conditions have continued ponce stinly to attention. The King was fished out with a bamboo pols which had a hook at the end.
♫
in
The defendant made a complete denin of the assault. He WHA found guilty and sentenced to seven days' hard labour.
PITCH AND TOSS.
MAGISTRATE STOPS STREET GAMBLING.
Looking out of his verandab Major C. yesterday,
Willson observed that five Chinese youths were making a great noise and gambling
Roal, in Arbuthnot which runs past the Magistracy, He telephoned to the Central Police Station and the baya were arrested.
This morning they appeared before Major Willson, and four of them, who admitted they were gambling, were each fined $8. They said they were playing game of "pitch and toss,"
4
The fifth youth, who said he was merely looking on, was dia- charged.
ful.
31.
of
Their motioned them to go attitude was that practically all the men whom the King saw.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.They all stand to attention on his
SHANTUNG PROMONTORY
Appearance, and remained at at- tention antil he passed out.
At the end of the visit the King' taid his conductors that he was pleased with all he had seen, and SIREN ESTABLISHED.
was satisfied that the institution The following notice to mariners was doing its best to meet the pur- has been issued by the Marine De pose for which it was established, partment of the Maritime Customs and that he felt quite sure the at Shanghai, under date April Union Jack Club was of enormous the benefit to those serving in 28:
Nolice is hereby given that a forces,
Members assembled in the exit new first order for siren has been
the North-east hall to cheer the King when he established at
Promontory Light-left, and the cheers were taken up Shantung station at the site of the former by the crowd outside. siren signal.
The siren, which will be sounded
during fongy or thick weather on
}
A general meeting of members of
and after May 15, will give three the Hongkong General Chamber of blasts of equal pitch and each Commercs has been called for Mon- of two seconds duration, every 1% day, May 10, in the City Hall, to nominate a member of the Chamber minutes, thus:
for appointment to the Legislative Council for the usual torn of four years, as the Chamber's prosent re prosentative, the Hon. Mr. D.G.M. Bernard, will in future remain a member of the Council on appoint ment by HE. the Governor.
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