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TUESDAY

JULY 26, 1927.

21C CAMIRIA

TIREM

DEMPSEY V. TUNNEY. FLOOD PROBLEMS. RUSSIANS REPORTED. THE NEGROS DISASTER.

CHICAGO ENTERS BID FOR

BATTLE.

Chicago, July 21

HOW KWANGTUNG CAN SOLVE THEM.

$35,000,000 REQUIRED.

EXECUTED.

MEN ARRESTED IN CHINESE RAID.

BOARD'S SEVERE FINDING.

The special Board of Investiga- tion which has been enquiring into the disaster to the 8.8. Negros, Dempsey's Victory over Shar

The fate of the six Russians which sank on May 26th. while key has inspired Chicago to make

arrested on Monday last week engaged on interisland trading,” a bid for the world championship between Dempsey and TunneyWe have received the seventh aboard the steamer Henli, Soviet and which resulted in the drown The city hopes to land the big annual report of the Board of chartered ship, is shrouded in ing of 65 passengers, 12 crew, mystery. Chinese military off Capt. J Altonago and the Chief fight for Soldiers Field here. Conservancy Works of Kwangelais questioned on Wednesday, Engineer, has just returned its Rickard is said to favour the plan. tung, covering the period July 1, either stated that they did not finding, which constitutes a severe

The Soldier Field stadium could 2025, to June 36, 1926, showing know or gave unsatisfactory ans criticism.

The Finding renda as follow- doubtless accommodate a suf- the projected schemes in flood cfent crowd to live up to the pro prevention and control In that wers, says the Shanghai Times.

The raid on the ship took place "After carefully reviewing all be-province, as well as the work

con- the evidence presented and conel- motors expectations Once fore there werb 110,000 in the already accomplished. The on Monday night and was stands alone, and plenty of room report is signed by Mr. E. S. Tai, ducted by Chinese military au doring the facts and circumstances was left in the field itself for an, the Board's director, and Major thorities who boarded the vessel concurring in this sad disaster, additional 40,000 around the ring. G. W. Oliveerona, the Engineer- as she was lying in the river at the Board finds:

Pootung, directly across the1 That the weather prevailing Rickard, himself, however,

in-Chief.

stream from the Settlement Bund. at the time of the loss of the would be barred the provisions of

It was freely predicted on Wed- "Negros" was not sufficient to the state boxing law, which re

nesday that the 14 Chinese ar have caused her to capsize had she quire the promoter to be a resi

reated in the raid will be dealt been seaworthy, ie, in a stablo dent of Mlinois.

stvore punishment, probably ex- condition; ecution. The game fate may be 2 That due to the negligence meted out to the Russians, or pos- of the Captain and Chief Officer, sibly has been done so already, it she was, improperly loaded and carried an excessive number of was stated.

passengers improperly accommo dated; w

Tox might be able to get around this by standing the battle in the name of an associate-Associated Prcus.

Two Big Fights.

New York, July 21. Two big fights to-day blazed the trail Jack Dempsey has map ped out to carry him back to box ing supremacy over all the world.. The Arst is a return fight with Gene Tunney in September. The third is a bout not later than Sep- tember, 1928, for defence of the title Dempsey would win back by downing Tunney, Ka

Dempsey is bronzed and heal thy, carefree and confident, weigh ing less than 200 with the slightess bit of overfullness in his cheeks."

He looks great to me," ex claimed 'Rickard on Dempsey's arrival yesterday. "Snappy, light on his feet, clear eyes! and He carries himself as he did when he was a kid in this business."

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'U. S. BASEBALL.

THE LEAGUE STANDINGS.

The following were the League standings, on Saturday:-

National League.

Chicago' Pittsburg

St. Louis Now York Brooklyn Cincinnati

Boston

Philadelphia

W. L. Pct.

55 89 .625

51 33 07

50 36 581 48 40 511 40 48 .456 30 61 349 34 49 409 34 52 .395

American League..

New York Washington Detroit Chicago Philadelphia Cleveland St. Louis. Boston'

W. L. Pct. OG 25 ran 51 30 588. 18 88 658 47 44 510 44 44 500 38 53 418 36 50 418 26 64 .281

RUBBER OUTPUT QUADRUPLED.

NEW PROCESS WILL... REVOLUTIONISE INDUSTRY.

New York, July 20. Scientists experimenting in rub- ber plantations in the Dutch East Indies owned by American tyre; companies have developed a system of bud grafting whereby the yield of rubber trees can be increased four-fold, aecording to an article in the Herald Tribune of to-day. S

The report opens with a synopsis, in which it is stated

The political unrest in the Pro vince has, natatally, much hampered the Board's Work during the period under review. The prevailing unsafety to life and limb, when travelling in the country, together with a dis- organized political adminiátration; made it difficult for the Board to carry on necessary feld work and to put into execution, various works for which the country people had alrendy declared their willingness to subscribe funds.

Funds Limited.............

Local projects for flood prote? tion; all over the Province, are urgently calling for attention; but owing to limited funds the Board is continually unable to finance either the local projects or their

own

extensive schemes." *The

to limit Its activities to such work

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Five of the six arrested Rus aians, are alleged to have been prominently identified with Com munistic and Soviet affairs.

Their Careers,

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former

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3. That the above conditions of the ill-fated vessel rendored her. unstable and, therefore, unsta worthy, and caused her to capsize and sinky, dekan de

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One man, Serge Rolland, is re-

4. That a considerable number ported to have been

of persons wore carried on board chief military advisor to Chiang as passengers and members of the Kai-shek and quito recently was

crew whose names do not appear chief of staff to General Gallen either in the passenger manifesta

3. Daillin, another of the sex or in the shipping articles; tette, la said to have been the organizer of the Young Com-5. That the number of persons munist Party in China and also carried on board at the time was her life-saving equipment (life- Board hus, therefore, been obliged agent of the Third Internationale. in excess of that provided for by Two others, one Sergieff and boats and life-rafts), and per one Tolstoy, were formerly con

Certificate of mitted by her as can be met by available means, nected with the aviation depart-Inspection: but at the same time the Board has ment of the Wu-Han Government, That for such excess of par- acted an advisory authority to a

it is alleged. Grishin, the fifth

sona, no special permit was number of communities, which man, was on his way to Soviet secured from the Bareau of Cas- has local flood protection projecta

The Russia from Canton at the time toms; programme. on their financing of the Board's schemes of his arrest,

From Chinese sources it was is a problem, the gelation of which has still to be faced. Without a learned that the accused, includ- strong public support it' will noting the Russians and one man who be possible for the Board to carry claims to be a Korean will be ex- out its plana It is, therefore, ecuted if found guilty by a mill-ed for such emergencies at den ab necessary that the public as well tary court, Rumours were current as the provincial Government, that the trial of the men was held should give to the Board adequate on Tuesday night and that the ex- financial as well as moral ecution took place on a plece of

vacant gound near Chinese mill encouragement:""

The work at the hydrographic tary headquarters on the follow stallons has been carried on as ing morning. This, however, during preceding years, but only could not be verified....

a few surveys have been made.

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new outlets to the sea is out of the question; thirdly, that reservoirs, even if possible to construct, would only give a very slight re. lef from floods, and would in time lose their storing capacity Gn account of silting and fourth, that cut-offs and dredging of the river bottom, though advisable in some s tances, would not alone bo effec

tive in lowering the water to level that would give permanent security against overflow of the

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7. That negligence on the part of the Captain, Chief Officer and Engineers contributed to the un- necessary heavy toll of life;

8.That the crew were untrain-

... 1 been neglected; and w fire and boat drills on board bad 9. That there was general neg- ligence and lack of discipline, particularly on the part of the Captain and Officers, both deck and engine, tantamount to irres- ponsibility and incompetense

certain The Board also "made recommendations.

THE EGYPTIAN, KING VISITS 'CHANGE.

BUSINESS SUSPENDED FOR THE TIME.

London, July4352" King Fuad of Egypt visited the

He was given a cordial rezep- Stock Exchange to-day: 4850 tion, and business was practically his stay.-- suspended during

British Wireless.

In regard to construction work some dyke repairs have been made on the North and East rivers, and also some complementary work in connexion with the Lupao control sluice. The major part of the year's work has been carried out at Sunglung on the West River, where the construction of the co trol sluice was resurded at the beginning of the low water season. Simultaneously the reconstruction of the Silum, Tallam and King Fook dykes on the same river was carried on, and partly completed. The conditions during the flood season of 1925 were favourable, present dykes,

The previous investigations All the rivers showed exceptional show that an improvement of the ly low waters.

general flood conditions; ing During the first month of 1926, within limits of availablo re however, the West River rose 12 sources, cannot be derived from need to have the same height as several occasions to heights an efforts to reduce the High water the main dykes, but could be of a usual for this season of the year, level: The remaining means to be much cheaper structure. In other causing interruption of the work taken into consideration agree words they would become of only for a time, but without any with the conception of previous secondary importance, and would serious calamities to the farmers. generations that an effective sys-be needed only for local purposes, tem of dykes bordering the main

More Velocity, blagos The Whampo Scheme...

river as well as the tributaries and Concentrating the flow in a few Bv request of the Commissioner channels, where adjoined by Jow channels will naturally increase of Reconstruction and the Mayor lying land, thus confining the its velocity, but this would only of Canton, the writer has compiled floods within stable limits, would be an advantage. The silting preliminary scheme for the con- give the protection needed against would decrease, and the river bot-

tom be lowered by scouring. struction of a commercial harbour inundation.

Following the course of the at Whampoa. This scheme hay,

Proposals of The Board, however, not been made public by

West River, the first dyke system. I will now give you a short de-rhet with above Shiuhing, Tho the New York Rubber exchange, vlding an outer harbour for Can seription of the principal feature dykes on both shores should be re-

Frank Henderson, president of the Board, as the question of pro-

hus constructed on the whole: length says that the discovery is tremen-ton has been entirely left over to of the work which

8 special commlasion. gath dous and means that the rubber The following amounts inter been proposed by the Board l'down to"Motomun, and the necES- of Conservancy Works,sary food gates and regulation industry has solved its problems from the inside, without the need alic, were actually expended dur-in order to prevent the yearly dams erected. In the Dolta a recurring flooding of the river number of channels ghould be per- of going further with synthetic the period under review:

On repairing the Cheklingh valleys and delta 4manently closed by embankments manufacture,

wash-out, East River section,

The present dyke systems alongThe same principle should be $10,360 Hongkong currency; in the main should be strengthened applied to the North and Bast the North River region, the by substantial earthfill, and pro- River..... Fulkong dyke, Sambhul, WA8 strengthened in part at a cost of tested on the river side against Regarding the Pearl River HK $2,220; work on a rivulet of touring Their heights should dykes, their upkeep will become a the Sunglung control sluice and be increased to lovel at least purely local affair, as the pro- dykes, West River, afterwar is feet above the expected highest posed regulation dams at Lupaé, washed away and thus wasted, waterlevel! "The highest water Sninam; and Shahow will:"make H.K. $3,000; and main work on level shall be determined with possible sach reduction of the the Sunglung Valley scheme, H.k.thegasumption that the river flow that no danger of flooding is

carrice its totalmaximum die expected. $265,083.

It is evident that the closing During the scal year, the charge between the embankments. amounts received from land rents, Where do dykes exist, new ones up of several channels during flood conservancy and flood thecounts, should boy constructed. Crecks time by means of gates and dams and so forth, amounted and chadhele now breaking off the is objectionable if looked upon

fcontinuity in the dyes systoms from the interests of the shipping;" H.K. $364,375.

should be closed; the smaller ones but this nuisance would only last by ordinary food gates, iperman for short period every year. tantly shut during flood time; the The salvation of the people from good as a deed, was the opinion the students of the Canton Chris-large ones by movablog: dame. the frequent inundations must of the French Minister, M. Andre tian College, recently, Major which will permit the regulation carry more weight than, fow. Tardieu, in an outspoken interview, Olivecrona sketched the flood proof flown these channels. By weeks inconvenience in transpor declaring that as France regards blem of Kwangthing in n very able thus confining the floods to the tation. Secure to the people. her debt as part of the United and comprehensive manner. Hay main rivers, an immense length favourable conditions of life and States contribution towards the Ing dealt in detail with all the dykes which now border the 'menns will be found to satisfy

French Government points requiring consideration da innumerable:branch channels, will ather needs

con be unperfucus. It must be borne would take the responsibility of the various districts. ha

n-mind that these dykok penetræk binding France to 62-year debtcluded:

Summing up what has been ing far into the interior, must, payments

Ho ascribed the bulk of the gold, it is obvious that: firstly, conditions are at present, be con- Franco-American misunderstand-toforestation as a means of lower structia to the same height and ings to America's "wonderfuling the present foods-is not to be strength as the objects along the Assurance that the tone knows relied upon, but would even if it main river In cases where these what is right, and this adsutanice should have some influence on the dykes should be necessary to main is based on the worship of world flow, postpone the anlvation of tain, as for instance along a chan the country for an indefinite period nol in which the flow is restrict ly goods."Reutor's American Service.

of time; secondly, that creating ed by a movable dam, they do not

The principles of bud grafting were evolved by Luther Burbank The article predicts that the price of crude rubber will be cut from 25 cents (gold) to 10 cents pound, through development of the new bud grafting system--Asso

ciated Press,*****

OUTSPOKEN: FRENCH MINISTER:

AMERICA'S ASSURANCE

EXPLAINED...

Washington, July 25:

The Mellon-Barenger debt agree- ment between France and the

Flood Problems.

United States of América ta nài In the course of a lecture

War,

to

.Probable, Cost, Finally, a few words regarding the cost that would be involved in the completion of the scheme.

West river work, H.K. $19,500,- 000; North River. H.K. $10,900,- 000 East River, H.K $4,600,000; a total of H.K. $85,000,000:"122

The total area that would, ba saved would include, 8,000 square miles of cultivated land,