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COLONY'S WATER.

RESERVOIR SITES CONSIDERED."

DISTILLING PLANT MOOTED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

VISCOUNT CECIL'S SHARE DEALING.

RESIGNATION.

DISAGREES WITH POLICY ON DISARMAMENT.

NAVAL PARLEY RECALLED.

London, Aug. 29.

The references in the draft Loan Ordinance to provision far the waterworks of the Colony, The newspapers state that as a draw attention to one of the most result of Viscount Cecil's talk with urgent considerations, as regards Mr. Baldwin, yesterday evening, he public welfare, that the authorf (Lord Coci) has agreed to defer i have to facci It will be re-his resignation until Mr. Baldwin tiled at, only a few years ago, returns from the Continent.

Reuter.

Later.

there was a succession of com- phratively dry seasons which

This has reference to a report necessitated the introduction of last week that Lord Cecil intended water rationing, and this was resigning. owing to differences in great hardship to the poorer the Cabinet regarding the League classes, besides being an incon-of Nations.) venience to nearly the whole popu- lation. It drew attention more urgently to the water supply pro- blem, and emphasised the need for It was announced definitely this an increased number of reser afternoon that Lord Cecil had con voirs on both sides of the har-firmed his resignation from the bour. Praetically, public interest Cabinet on the ground of dissatis- in the subject was really roused faction with the course of its policy about four or five years ago?

on disarmament. Lord Cecil therefore will not go to"Genova.

Since then, there have been certain improvements. On the island: catchment arcas have beon extended, and a few small

Viscount Cecil has resigned from the Cabinet.

QUESTION OF BOOKS AND ACCOUNTS.

LOCAL BROKER'S CLAIM.

The share case in which Mr. M. A. Razack, the local share- brokor, claims $33,818.98 from Mr. P. N. Cooper, was continued before the acting Chlef Justice,; Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Supreme Court this morning, when plaintiff was again cross-examined by Mr. F. C. Jenkin,, counsel for

the defendant.

1927.

30, TUESDAY, AUGUST

IN CANTON FROM DAY HANKOW PROBLEM

TO DAY.

“RUN" ON THE CENTRAL BANK CONTINUES.

ANTI-JAPANESE INCIDENT.

(Our Own Corresaondent.)

Canton, Aug. 20.

Finance are making frantic efforts Oficials of the Ministry of to restore the credit of the Central Bank of China, the "run" on which is still continuing. Large crowds are besciging the Bank and its branches, attempting to redeem its noles.

On account of the large

Plaintiff was questioned about the sum of $1,730, which he alleg- ell became due on May 1, 1925, Mr. Jenkin suggested that witness number of people demanding got into a heat on June 23 and specie er coins, the Bank now per decided to aut Mr. Cooper for the mits one person to cash not more balance due on the April settle-than $300 in one day. ment account, and asked witness It la understood that negotio which book he referred to when tions are still going on between he wanted to find the balance due. Treasury officials and merchants Witness referred to several ac- for a loan of $3,000,000 in order count books and said eventually to strengthen publie faith in these that he did not know which book banknotes. The Government the account, was shown, owing officials declare that they can Letter to the Premier.

to' the fact that his brother had easily restore the credit of the charge of them. The account Bank. Lord Cecil's letter to Mr. Baldwin must have been shown in the ball emphasises that his resignation is and doubtful debtors' account in no way due to any personal dif- book, although there must be re ficulty. On the contrary, he pays ferences to it elsewhere. tributes to his colleagues for theired, plaintiff agreed that the buck

Preas kindness and consideration. "Least handed to him by counsel contain M. W. C. Bridgeman, with whomed the only account showing that which to congratulate Itself, I have worked in the closcet agree there was a balance of $7,925 due owing to the ease with which cerment at Geneva," but on the broad from Mr. Cooper. tain physical features there lend policy of disarmament the majority themselves to utilisation. The of the Cabinet ånd himself had hot Shing Mun Valley scheme, estimat ed at the time of its Introduction

reservoirs are near completion here and there, such as at the head of Happy Valley, but these are hardly to be classed in the category of water works designed

to meet an extensive need.

The peninsula has had more on

of all have I any grievance against

on

Defence of Eastern Districts,

A VERY GRAVE FOOD SHORTAGE.

DRIFTING INTO PERIL.

The food shortage in Hankow has now become a matter of deep concern to the foreign community who are compelled to' reside here. For months past residents have

continuously on the up grade, sonr had to remain in exasperating helplessness and watch prices, to heights which now render it almost impossible to live on salaries which a year ago, were in, the majority of cases, ample for the requirements of decent existence. The past six months has seen an increase ranging from 100 to 400 per cent in practically every commodity." Storekeepers informed customers that the rise was due in the first place to in creased taxation. When the pro portion as between the rise and the extent of extra taxation was de monstrated, it was due to the di culty of renewing supplies, later it was ascribed to the terrifie handling coats by coolies and stil later to exchange difficulties.

Careful, observation taken of the whole position by purchasers The Iron General," Cheung has revented the fact that store mander to Canton to form a new utilise the excuse offered by a de Fat-ui, has sent his vice-cont-keepers have not scrupled to Army for the defence of the preciated, currency to plunder all, Eastern districts, in view of the and sundry among the foreigners of who have had no option but to sub approaching "Red". forces General Tip-ting. In an inter-mit to the extortion. A risc of view, Cheung Fat-fui's representa- 200% in one article ascribed to' tive denied that the general had the currency was on silver being ever accepted Soviet doctrines, but offered reduced by twenty per he strongly disapproved, of, the cent. only, the grounds that the of Marshal possession of silver was illegal, that it could not be used for re- Chiang Kai-shek.

Immediately upon his return purchasing on account of the em sum, it is understood, ordered article would cost more than the several divisions of troops on the 200%, objected to. At the moment be moved to the Eastern districts of almost everything edible out- where Communist movements are side of tinned meat. No vege- active. It is generally believed tables are coming into the market, will remain in power for some be purchased surreptitiously by time, provided the "Rods" in the old customers by private arrange- has to be killed secretly, is liable North, East, and South are suppient, and what fresh meat there is to be ralded at any time, and we pressed or eliminated.

are meatless.

Annoyed by a Letter really agreed.

Mr. Jenkin Therefore,

you told your He expresses the opinion that the June 23" when about four years ago to cost, even limitation of armaments is the most brother you were going to sue M. "one-man show". tually, approximately $17,000,000 and to require about 18 years for important public question of the day Cooper, it would be to that book and that the chief energies of the that you would look for the fig completion, has been considerably Government ought to be concen-ures? Yes, the bad and doubt from Kwaigal, General Li Chal bargo, and that to replace the curtailed, owing to the needs of trated on this. Lord Cecil also ful debt book. economy, but the preliminary alludes to the spring session of You were in particular idea has been carried out, and for the preparatory disarmament con- rage with Mr. Cooper on June Northern border to get ready to Hankow is suffering from a dearth

this a large part of the proposed loan is intended. There has also ference, when he was compelled 23 when you made up your mind been the appreciable extension repeatedly to maintain proposito sue him for every indebtedness tions which were difficult to re-to you?-On that day I asked my of the flow into Kowloon Reconcile with a serious desire for brother to 'get me the April ae- that the present regime in Cantorno fish, no fruit,. a few eggs may servoir, by the construction of the small impounding area at uccess. Neverthelesa he weat to count

the recent conference believing Sheklaipai, where an elevated

I put it to you that you did not village was razed and then sub-that an agreement could be reach- ask your solicitor to make any merged when a dam was throwned. Unfortunately, failure follow-cinim in connexion with the $1,730, across the lower end of a small ed, and the causes for this may because it was not due? It was valley. The writer was present have to be probed when Parlia due. I am not here to tell lies. I am here to tell the truth and all at part of the operations in con-

I can remember. I had forgotten nexion therewith, and recalls that the scheme at Sheklaipui was

that amount at the time.

When Mr. Coopery through his regarded as a mere nothing to all

solicitors, denied that he owed which have occurred in Honam ing the approach of the pre- that it was planned would be done terms which would have sacrificed anything for the Tramway shares, and Fong Chuen and in which his sent position for weeks'

in Shing Mun.

ment meats. In the meantime it is

sufficient to say that he is out of sympathy with the instructions he received, and he believes an agree ment might have been reached on

no essential British interest.

'Mr. Baldwin's Reply.

A Forgotten Item.

Japanese Complaints.

The Japanese, Consul General in

Gradual. Growth. Carton has lodged a complaint

This is not a sudden climax. with the police authorities against Most people have been watch- anti-Japanese demonstrations

Japanese

It is said that in some instances these anti-Japanese demonstra- in soldiers' uniforms. Upon receipt of this complaint, the police in No. 12 sub-police station ents have been ordered to keep a sharp look-out for trouble makers.

Cadets Return.

and which meant that he was repudiat-compatriots suffered losses and we have been more than sur ing an item of $20,000, that letter personal insults. The Shing Mun Scheme,

prised to find that no one has Briefly, it may be remarked,

must have made you extremely women, it is stated, were jeered at bestirred themselves to arouse the foreign authorities to actioh. the Shing Mun scheme, in its en-

angry with Mr. Cooper?--I did not by several Chinese youths and a Mr. Baldwin, in the course of a tirety, was to comprise the tap letter accepting Lord Cecil's re-

see it until the next day:

tennis court belonging to a So long as the boy is capable of ping of the river flowing through signation, is of the opinion that eulli and he

It was shown to you by Mr. Ar- Japanese Society was invaded and producing something from a tin for their consumption, they appear to that very picturesque, valley, with Lord

took your instruca bamboo partition broken: Cecil exaggerates eventually several reservoirs, one differences

be content until the bills come in. any tibns?-Yes.

Months ago certain Britishers were that have arisen, That attitude of Mr. Cooper of which would have entailed the whether recently or in earlier must have made you quite madtions were participated in by nien. and stocks of linned foods were laid stirred to action by the community submergence of a village and days, in there was also to be a pipe. line cites a passage in the speech by noyed over it.

the Government, and with him? Yes, I was Father an

in. These are now being heavily across the harbour, bringing the Sir Austen Chamberlain at Geneva,.

drawn upon, not by British resid- Did you get into a towering

only but all in the surplus water to Hongkong. In shortly after the Government came ruge about it Well, not that ex its broadest aspect, however, the to office, dwelling on the

port, and whether these, stores sym-actly, Shing Mun scheme is essentially pathy with peace ideals of the

were originally purchased for the benefit of those who regarded, in official quarters, as British Empire, as to which suc- mainly Intended for Kowloon and cessive British administrations,

subscribed to the fund alone the New Territories, so that in the with the full approval of the $1,730, Mr. Jenkin asked why

Again referring to the item of A battalion of the Whampao makes no difference to the issue, event of the peninsula developing| Dominions, had not only favoured laintiff did not instruct Mr. Ar- Cadets arrived here from Shang- the fact remains that they will have in future years into a very po-arbitration theoretically but had culli to sue for it. Witness said hai yesterday. They were recent to be and are being distributed to pulous district, the island would also availed themselves of this in have to give up its "tapped" supp a practical manner, and had dia- he did not recollect the item until despatched to Nanking to take part in the Shantung campaign, In reply to further questions but since Marshal Chiang Kai- about the bocks, plaintiff said heshek has given up his post as Com

these Cadets likely to arrive for a good many The Premier, emphasises that was unable to explain certain al-mander-in-Chief, years yet, so the final Shing Mun this policy does not differ materia terations. He had found that his were no longer required by the

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from Lord plan was a pipeline supply

Cecil's,

brother did not keep the books ex-Nanking Generalissimo. Hongkong, which would have re- Whatever differences have brigen properly, and he then employed an account to go through them: months ago. He had been told to shire, Lord Methuen said: Re- That accountant died about three: Speaking at Chippenhain, Wil:- provide witness with a statement confly at the ton and arrow The major project having been

of his general financial position. match I was sitting between the postponed indefinitely, it is in-

Still further questioned about Prime Minister and Lord Radnor. teresting to refer to what has ac-

The Naval Controversy.

the booka Mr. Razack said "I am I said to the Prime Minister, "My

TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS. tually been done. The only part

ignorant of accounts. I know heart rather fails me, sometimes of the scheme to be taken in hand As regards the preparatury com- nothing about them. I left them because I do not attend to my The following general know- for the present is the tapping of mission, the Premier says, "You to my brother."

duties in the House of Lords as Iledge paper has been taken from the Shing Mur river, by means of presided over a sub-committee Mr. Jenkin; There is nothing ought to Fam one of the buck the Daily Express. a diversion of some of its waters which was preparing the British very complicated about them apwoodsmen, Mr. Baldwin replied, into a conduit and, tunnels by case, and practically drafted yourparently. which the water is brought own instructions."

10 Kowloon peninsula.

ly across the harbour, and resort armed to the limits of national to its own reservoirs. That time safety. was naturally looked upon as not

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moved all apprehensions of water famine, for a long time to

come.

do not relate to

the

and

broad

policy of peace disarmament 80 much as on the means whereby this policy may effectively be forward- ed.

he went into the accounts.

"Take my word, you people in the Mr. Jenkin: Is there any record country are doing far better and Mr. Baldwin at present refrains of Mr. Cooper having paid you more useful work as backwoods- So Kowloon is now adequately from entering into details of the 34,000 and $1,0007 I can't find it. men than you would be attending, catered for. The island, however, naval conference, but repeats that but we gave him a receipt. divisions In the House of Lords." still has to depend on the water Lord Cecil, exaggerates whatever Have you the counterfoil of the [} caught in its own reservoirs and differences existed, and denies receipt book? understand it was thus there must be some early that the Government is to be blam-lost when my solicitor moved his provision in this direction,"

ed in connexion with the break office.

"Rotten System.”

Boosted Figures?

whatever foreigners require them. One or two meatless days a week harm nobody, but it is not this that the people of Hankow are faced with, unless prompt action is taken. It is a complete dearth of practical- Continued on Page 11.)

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

Answere, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14 of this issue.

1 Why is Simon de Montfort famous in the history of our Parliament?

2 in 'whose reign did'the Friars como to England, what were their chief orders, and how uere they recognisable by their drosa?

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Who was the "Mail of Norway”?

4 Who was the first son of a King

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of England to bear the title of

Prince of Wales, and why?.

At what battle and under whom what did the Scota defeat English king in 13147

& What were the three great English victorics in the Hundred Years' War with Franco with datcs, and to what weapon d their the English chiefly Gwe allecoan?

7 What were

It will not be out of place to down. On the contrary, it worked

Mr. Razack, said he did not discuss briefly the drawbacks from for a compromise to the last, and

agree, and Mr. Jenkin invited him which Hongkong "suffers in the refused to shere Lord Gecil's pes- Mr. Jenkin There is no other to point out a similar account: case of its water supply. There simism.

record? It is curious, is it not? Asked again If it was unique, Mr. are two marked weather phases-

answer, and in He quotes the progress made in It is a rotton" system of account-Razack did not wet season extending over the other if less ambitibus methods, ing, isn't it? You agree with reply to further questions whether summer and typhoon months and like the Washington conference, me?-Yes, I agree.

it showed a balance outstanding the early autumn, and a dry Locarno treaty, and settlement Mr. Jonkin pointed out that the or not, said he did not know, as period, roughly lasting from with Turkey, all of which and led method of entering Mr. Cooper's his brother kept the books. November to March. When it rains heavily herd it does so with to a measure of disarmament: He account differed with that of In connexion with an Item of points out that Britain's expendi- others," and said that in every $430, Mr. Jenkin suggested that a vengeance, and then, in a single ture on armaments has fallen each other case the books showed the plaintiff had been endeavouring to twenty-four hour period, one can

that and hopes

even balance due. He suggested that account for the difference by cal- year. seo half-empty reservoirs filled to

the recent naväl

conference certain entries in connexion with culating brokerage and stamp duty overflowing. One can also nee

may. yet. result not only Mr. Cooper's account had been put and that he had failed to account numerous streams running to

in an early reduction of naval in recently.

for it them. Mr. Razack agreed expenditure, but ultimately in a Mr. Razack: Oh no, they haven't that he had tried to account for the better understanding of each Nothing of the kind..

sum by brokerage and stamp duty. other's problems.

Mr. Jenkin: Our case is that Mr. Jenkin: I put it to you that Mr. Baldwin acknowledges that $27,000 was taken for quick settle you were boosting the figures and The problem is, then, to the difficulties are many and great, ment; and I suggest that that is trying to got them up to $430. Two 10 preserve as much as possible of but that is no reason for throwing consistent with no balance being weeks ago you had no explanation this surplus; and in this con- up the sponge. It is a task for shown as outstanding. I think it all, and now you came into Court 11 What King of England, in what nexion there is at present an en-statesmen to learn from failure no you will agree with me when I say and say that you told your brother quiry being conducted by the less than from success, especially that the account shown in the to waive the $430. Authorities immediately con-en this age-long problem, which book is unique, that is stands out Witness: admitted telling his

brother that. cerned.

The case is proceeding.

waste, millions of gallons being lost in the sea and in the case of the overflows from the reservoirs, this is a regrettable, loss of water which may be urgently required! later.

(Continued on Page 11.)

hitherto has baffled all efforts at a by itself as different to all the permanent solution.-Reuter.

others?

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the troo famous plague epidemics in England? Who said, and on what occasion, "I am your captain and your king. Follow me"?.

D Why in Wyclife, famous in the history of the English Church; and what were his followere called?

The "Wars of the Rosco," why sworn they so called?

year, was crowned by whom, oA what battlefield, with a crown found in a thorn bush belong ing to what other kingi ai

12 How there the crops cultivated "under the three-field svetom?

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