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WATER SUPPLY.

SANITARY BOARD TO BE QUESTIONED.

Pursuant to notice, Dr. E. W. Tao will ask the following ques- tions at the Sanitary Board meet ing to-morrow. -

MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1928.

FAMOUS TOMBS ROBBED.

HAUL ESTIMATED AT $30,000,000.

Peking, Aug. 4. The vernacular papers claim that the Peking Police have un- (1) "Are the following state earthed an extraordinary instance ments as appeared in the Chiness of sacrilege on the part of some newspapers, purporting to be defeated Northern troops belong made by the Water Authority in ing to General Chu Yu-pu, explanation of the condition of It appears that some weeks ago, water supply in the Central and after retreating from Tientsin, Western districts, correct? name- General Tang Shoo-ching, divi- sional commander under General ly:

Chu Yu-pu, was ordered by Chu (a) that the fullest capacity of Yu-pu to break open the eastern the Tokfulam Reservoir tombs at Chileien, 140 miles sast which supplica the Central of Peking, in order to take away and Western districts is jewels and precious works of art sixty-six million gallons; out in the tombs...

of which five million gallons are useless,

Thirteen cams were taken out, including those of the Emperor Chien Lung (who reigned 60 years (b) that 20 days before the re-and was one of the most famous étriction on water supply in of the Manchurian" dynasty), of the Central and Western dis- Princes and other. Chinese royal- tricts commenced Pokfulam tics.

Reservoir waé fall to over-

Now,

(c) that, on full supply, the Con

Booty of $40,000,000.

Among the valuables taken was

tral and Western districts a full-size water melon Larried consume three million gal-out in precious stone.

lons daily,

(d) that the Tai Tam Reservoir can give a supply of eight million gallons a day,

The total booty taken is CA- timated between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000.

The Police became suspicious when some special'valuables came on the Peking market. It is claimed that the Police seized one of the curio dealers' shops in which some of the booty was

(e) that during the period of restriction the Pokfulam Re- servoir supplies to the Cen- tral, and Western districts found, -750,000 gallons per day and

The Police are reticent, but it the Tai Tam Reservoir appears that the dealer in 760,000 gallons; making a question decamped, and the Police total supply of 2,500,000 are very busy tracking General gallons per day,

Che Yu-pu's.agent.

that the force of the water. Empress Dowager's Crown? from the Tai Tam Reservoir

It also appears that after the to the Central and Western Police, suspicions had been districts is weak because the aroused, they arrested an officer supplying pipe to these dis among the reorganised troops triels is small; and because formerly belonging to Chu Yu-pu, every one draws water at the who confessed to the whole same me during the hour story, stating that Chu Yu-pu's of supply the water cannot men, drove away the guards who be forced up to the upper had all along bech maintained floors of the houses in the at the tomba, rlder-main districts,

Then it took a fortnight's ex- envations before the collins were (r) that the difference in rain { found. From Emperor Chien fall between the Tal Tam Lung's tomb they took four area and the Pokfulam area melons made of emeralds, while is that while Tai Tam gets from the coffin of a highly-placed 8.86 inches Pokfulam gets court Indy reported to be the only 3.35 inches."

Empress Dowager-they, took a huge diamond formerly worn in a crown. Most of the loot has been sold in-Tientsin.

(2) If the above statements are correctly reported the difference

Yen Hel-shan that the Peiping police began to prosecute en- quiries-Reuter,

on full supply and restricted sup-, It was on the orders of General ply in these two districta is only 500,000 gallons per day. What is reason or cause therefore that the Tai Tam Reservoir could not give thene two districts an additional 500,000 gallons a day in order to keep them on full supply!

Important Arrest Made..

Peking, Aug. 5,

In connexion with the desecra- tion of the Manchu tombs the Pel- (3) What are the measures, ping pollee have arrested Tang temporary or otherwise, taken by Sung-ting, a brother of Tang Shoo- the Government to deal with ching, whose forces were responai- shortage of water supply to these ble for the excavations. two most populous districts dur- ing the hot senson?"

NAVAL AGREEMENT.

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London, Aug. 4.

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MR. BALDWIN OUTLINES PARTY POLICY.

Londen, Aug. 4.

An important stalement of policy

SOVIET ISOLATION.

KELLOGG TREATY'S AIM SAYS, M. CHICHERIN,

Moscow, Aug. 5..

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in contained in a letter frem M7, designed to isolate Russin," declar- Stanley Baldwin to Sir Eyres Mon-led M. Chicherin in. an Interview, sell. It says that the safeguarding in which he cited passages in the in Tientsin and Peiping on behalf of industries is the law of the land negotiations, like the inclusion of of his brother, was found by the since it was established as the League Covenant, the Locarno police in à bath-house, He is principle by the Lloyd George Go- Agreement and the French treaties odors, officer of the Chihli-Shantung Ivernment of 1921. It was our within the scope of the pact, in troops now re-orgunlisted under the policy at the last general election support of his contention that it Nationalists. His bodyguard fired and will be continued, but we shall is an integral part of a preparation on the police, who, however, per continue to bo pledged not to in for war against the Soviets, and sisted and arrested, Tang and troduce protection and not to im suggesting that If the Powers lodged him in the military gaol. pose any taxes on food.

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ing Act, based on four years' ex- The latter perience, may enchle the simpli negotiate provided it is made prepared to

cedure.. No manufacturing in-pondence exchanged in the course fication of certain details in pro-acquainted with all the corres dustry will be barred from present of the negotiations between the ing its case before the appointed other Fowers, but the pact at the tribunal

present time la weakened by the fact that it does not involve obligations regarding disarmanent.

Reuter.

The scope of the new Anglo-Properly guard the vinlated tombs, French Naval agreement remains One vernacular report says that very secret, apart from "leak- ages" in the French Press, claim-coffin of the Emprcas Dowager, a magnificent pearl taken from the ing to be more or less inspired. was sold in Tientsin for $50,000.-

From there the Manchester | Reuter. Guardian's Paris correspondent deduces that the new Entente Cordiale achieved is at least as equally important as that of pre-

war days, not only involving sortie- thing In the nature of the pooling

of the two fleets but covering the whole political field so that Britain

ESPERANTO CONGRESS.

The whole energies of the Party are necessary to carry through the derating scheme, the boldness and Joriginality of which has captured [the imagination of the country and The twentieth Universal Con-which is doubtless the reason why

Antwerp, Aug. 6.

is ranged on the side of France Bress of Esperanto was inaugurat- the Opposition parties are trylug

London, Aug. 5,

pending controversies on military ed here in the presence of 15,000 to drag in the protectionist "red" The latest bulletin reports no im- dfearmament at Geneva and other delegates from thirty two coun-herring" in a vafn hope of causing portant change in the condition of matters like the evacuation of the tries. An International Univer- dissension in a party whose unity Sir Austen - Chamberlain, whose Rhineland and the Austro-German sity course of Esperanto was also and enthusiasm arousca their strength is well maintained-Reu- union-Reuter.

opened-Reuter.

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