1930-02-10 — Page 2

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THREE BURIED.

VERANDAHS CRASH IN

QUEEN'S ROAD.

An accident which could casily have turned out far more serious, occurred yesterday afternoon, when all the verandahs of two houses in Queen's Road Central collapsed. Fortunately, nobody was killed, but three Chinese are now in the Government Civil Eos- pital suffering from more or less Berlous injuries.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1930.

COLRESPONDENCE.

Green Island Cement Co. Ltd.

[To The Editor of Hongkong. Telegraph.]

Sir,-At the Extraordinary meeting of shareholders of this Company held on 5th inst. It was decided to remove Messrs. Shewan Tomes & Co. from the office of General Managers and to pay them compensation "for such removal any such sum as the Company in General Meeting may hereafter decide, and an able plea for ado- quate compensation to Messra. Shewan Tomes & Co. was made by

The two houses involved are Nos. 74 and 74A Queen's Road Central, near Pottinger Street, They are two of a row of three storeyed house, all the verandahs of which are supported by cast-Hon. Mr. Braga in seconding the iron pillars.

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resolution. As 1 shall be absent The ground floor of No. 74 is from the Colony and therefore un- occupied by Der A. "Wing, who able to attend the confirmatory have just moved in, and No. 7A meeting of 26th inst I now with by the Kwang Pui photographers. your permission endorso fully the It appears that at 3.25 p.m. aplon of Mr. Braga for liberal.com- Hongkong Hotel bus was proceed-pensation to Mossra, Shewan ing in an casterly direction with Tomes. |P.W.D. Jorry No. 826 following

close behind. According to eyeservation of the working of this

My knowledge and personal ob wilnesses, the latter vehicle swerved to the right in trying to Company extends over the whole overtake the bus, but when he had forty years so ably covered by Mr. got to the other side of the road. Braga in his speech, and i well re The driver of the lorry found an-

member the shares quoted at $1.- olher hotel bus, No. 55, coming" în 90, and the very trying periods in the opposite direction. It was too the Company history which he has late for either to atop. The lorry so well described. In addition to the driver apparently tried to avoid a

vital assistance of Mr. Shewan at collision by swerving into the that time, as stated by Mr. Braga, pavement, and his vehicle hit a I would refer to the sound judg- pillar, but even then he could not ment of Mr. Shewan in selecting avoid the collision. Although and managing his Staff, the then the west-bound bus was not going Works Mannger and Chief Eugi- very fast, the driver could not stop heer" being men of extraordinary it in time to avoid colliding with ability and character, and with the lorry.

their assistants devoted to the in- terasta and reputation of the Company not

cont of whose money was knowingly wasted, Was of course con- tinuous day and night and Sunday. work in the Factory in the heat and cement dust, and I well re- member the European Staff them- selves stoking the old style kilns and training the workmen. It was killing work, the Stall wishing their throats. a mile long for cold drinks, and the living conditions ut Green Island by no means ideal. But the Manager and Staff who were called out at any time during the night never relaxed or became disheartened. but strove con- tinuously to keep the Factory go- A large crowd had gathered by ing under great difficulties and at this time, and several people the least possible cost. The same assisted the police in keeping back economy and maintenance of the L:0 crowd, Ambulance men, highest standard of quality. Scouts, and a sprinkling of exiels at the Factories to-day soldiers and sailors, did whatever and right through these forty they could, either in helping to years the main apring of clear the huge pile of debris or this devotion; loyalty, and un- Lo keep order,

The pillar which was hit broke into pieces, and ne it was the only means of support to the front part of the two houses involved, all tha six verandahs came down with a crash, burying several people.

Aid for Injured.

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A number of men from the Indian Division of the St John Ambulance Brigade, a few sailors and others rushed to the scene' on hearing the crash, and were the first to render assistance, An A.B. from the H.M.S. Kent did very valuable work in clearing away the debris, and with the assistance of others, extracted a man within five minutes.

The first man extracted was Sound to be suffering from Injuries to the forehead and body, Messrs. J. Hoquen, A. M. Wahab, R. A. Razack, C. Dragon and Revenue Officer Ward rendered first aid to this man, and he was, immediately sent to the G.C.H.

Arriving soon after the mishap, Aremen set to work with will and it was not long before their Jabours were rewarded. Another man was taken out from a pile of debris, but great difficulty was ex- perienced before this was accom- plished. His lower limbs were badly hurt, and he was im- mediately rushed to hospital.

The Third Rescue.

The last taken out was an old man. He is believed to have been passing by when the accident occurred. He was dug out from a big pile of bricks and mortar outside the "photographers'. A conlle was the first to notice him, and drew the attention of those, in charge rescue operations.

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The lorry was badly damaged, but the hotel bas only slightly,

Both were covered with debris and the rest of the afternoon, un til 6 p.m., was spent in extricating them and clearing the street to allow traffic to resume.

Fortunately there was nobody in the hotel bus at the time except the driver and the conductor, both off whom escaped none the worse for their experience.

Enquiries made last night. gave the names of the injured as follows: Ho Chung-hing, hawker, living at No. 43 Aberdeen Street.

Chin Din and Ng Fook-ng, both

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selfish service has been the en- couraging personality, ability and tact of Mr. Shéwan himself who financed the Company when moribund and bankrupt, has never lost faith in it and hus lived to see the Company able to run under its own Directors, pay nearly $10,- 000,000 in dividends and Its capi- tal increase from $200,000 to $3, 400,000 s athted by Mr. Braga. In view of the foregoing facts and those given by Mr. Braga my vote is for liberal compensation to Messrs. Shewan Tomes.

W. S. BAILEY.

"RED" UPRISINGS.

LOOT AND MURDER IN HUPEH,

Hankow, Feb. 9. Communist uprisings are reported to have broken out in various dia- triels in Hupel, «

The town of Kionli has been captured and, looted by Reds, and

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Heungyang has been burned, the magistrate killed and merchants curried off for ransom.

The towns of Sienning and Puchi, on the Wuchiang Changsha Railway, Are now being menaced-Reuter.

living on the first floor of No. 74 Queen's Road Central.

STRONG INDICTMENT BY..."

THE POPE.

Vatican City, Feb. 9,

In a letter which his Holiness the Pope has published, deploring the persecution of religion in Russla We were informed that their and inviting the whole Christian injuries are not considered very world to join in an appeal to God serious, and all three are getting for Russia on March 19, when he along as well as can be expected. will celebrate at St. Peter's a Mass

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against religion and for the spiritual health of the Russian people, the Pope recalls that since the begin, ning of his Pontificate he has re- doubled the efforts to stop the ter

The rible persecution in Russia. Papacy, by means of its envoys, saved 150,000 children in Russia from horrible death, until the Soviet forced it to cease its efforts,.

He announces that he has ap pointed a Special Commission for Russia, presided over by Cardinal Sincero-Reiter.

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