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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 3, 1933.

CAPT. YOSHI OKUNO

LINK, WITH RICHARD TREVITHICK

GREAT-GRANDSON

ין

LOAN APPROVED

COMPLETION OF CANTON. HANKOW RAILWAY

FOOCHOW CALMS Swiss Women

DOWN

The Best

STUDENT AGITATION Housewives

CEASES

(Our Own Correspondent).

FATHER OF THE UNDERGROUND

HONOURED BY PARIS CITY FATHERS

Parla.

An underground railway station is to be named for the "father of the underground," Inspector Gener- al Bienvenue.

Placo

Nanking, July 1. After considering the matter for nine months, the beard of the Chinese-British Boxer Indemnity Fund has approved the loan of

WORKS SEVENTEEN 4,300,000 for the completion of the

HOURS A DAY Canton-Hankow Railway, of this Captain Yoshi Okuno, who will sum, £1,200,000 will be secured bý

Foachow.

Progue. be well known to many Hongkong the flotation of bonds.

Fortunately thero has been no A list of the world's hardest residents who have travelled to The delay is due to the Board's apparent sequel to the protest by working housewives has been com- cided that the Place du Maine shall The Municipal Council has do- England on the N.Y.K. liner carefulness regarding security,

students and others against the piled by a Czechoslovak paper. But henceforth be known as Hakusan Maru де

its popular which will consist of a surcharge Armistice in the north. It would Englishwomen are not

counsels

included Bienvenue, and that the station's commander, is a great-grandson of on passengers and freight on all seem that wiser

had because:- Richard Trovithick, the noted national railway _revenues on the prevailed; and the students have

name shall be changed from Maine "It is impossible to calculate the to Blonvenue, in honour of the Cornish Inventor, whose centenary Peking-Hankow Railway, the Nan-one on quietly with their lawful number of hours devoted weekly eminent engineer who has played is celebrated this year. Christen-king-Pukow train ferry, and the avocations, and have been busy by the Englishwoman as she does a leading role in planning and con- ed Richard Trevithick after his section of the

Canton-Hankow during the last couple of weeks in not take it seriously enough." this structing the Paris great-grandfather and grand- Railway between Canton and the preparing to persuade thoir ten journal has decided.

underground father, Captain Okuno, many Kwangtung border.-Router.

chers that they know a great deal The woman who works in har

system.

years ago, assumed Japaneko, na-

more than they really in other house harder than any other is the for the honour as it is near the

The station Maino was choson. tionality, and took the name of

words swotting up for examinn Swiss. She puts in 16 to 17 hours Gare Montparnasse. where M. his mother, a Japaneso Jadý,

a day at housework.

Bienvenue arrived when he frat Even the opposition to the Gov American women are found to came to Paris from his native ernment's "Uniform Examination" have the easiest time with "only Brittany. It is an intersection of for boys and girls finishing their 68 hours a week" or about 10 two lines planned by him-Reuter, school courses has come to a

hours a day spent on household sudden and satisfactory concludaties. alon, thanks mainly to the firm trical "gadgets," gas and central household work by a modern wom- The paper points out that dloc-the number of hours required for nose of the Government AU- thorities, who made it clear that heating have considerably reduced an.-Reuter. refused to take the Exam would any private school whose pupils be forthwith deprived of its re- gistration and all privileges con-

This relationship was discovered by Mr. Alfred Hicks, editor of the Hongkong Telegraph, who recently

leave left Hongkong on Home aboard the s... Hakusan Maru, accompanied by his wife. Mr. Hicks, whilst having a chat with | Captain Okuno, in the latter's

FOREIGN FIRMS HIT.

GOODS STILL HELD UP AT POGRANITCHNAYA

great losses as a result of the

tions.

nected therewith.

London, July 1. Foreign firm who are suffering cabin, noticed a photograph of a holding up of their freights at statue of Richard Trevithick, the Pogranitchnaya, owing to the sua inventor; occupying a prominent place, and when he inquired into pension of through traffic between Captain Okuno's interest in the the Ussuri and North Manchurian subject of the photograph,

Railways, are vigorously pratcat- the

This enabled the heads, of latter replied: "I am Richarding, according to reports from schools, some of whom had n}- Trevithick's great-grandson.” Khabarovsk.

most openly sympathised with In the course of further conver-j

The responsibility for the loss, their pupila in opposing the Gove sation, Captain Okuno stated that according to the Manchurian au-ernment, to threaten strong ac- his father, Francis Henry Tre- thorities, Iles with the Soviet, tion against any who jeopardised vithick, a grandson of the inventor whom they accuse of refusing to the existence of their schools, | went out to Japan in 1876 as chief organise trans-shipment for im-and the result has been that all superintendent of the locomotive port and export freights at the the pupils have taken the Exam. department of the Japanese Gov- frontier station-Reuter. ernment railways, and as adviser

In connexion with, the construction

since.

evor

of Japan's first railway line, from the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and ob- stained command in 1016. He has Tokyo to: Yokohama. "As grandfather could claim to have remained in this company been the pioneer of the locomotive, so could my father claim to have been the pioneer of railways in Japan," remarked Captain Okuno.

Took to the Sea.

Capt. Okuno's father remained

Captain Okuno's father died in 1931, and it was a fortunate circumstance that the son was in England at the time and was able to be present at the funeral.

Proud of the Link

Capt. Okuno, who is an extreme-

This refers to Foochow and North Fukien.

re-

In South Fukien and Amoy, have been much more serious, and according to all acounts, things violence has been shown, by the students. The Educational Com- missioner has despatched a presentative to see what can be done about it. But meantime the Foochow students are hoping that, as they were so good as to go in for the Exam in the end, the In Japan until 1897, and during y popular commander on the NY. examiners will be specially, lenient, his lengthy stay there he married Line, and who speaks English, and allow them all to pass. a Japanese lady. There were four French, and Japanese fluently, still The weather of late has been children by the marriage, Capt. maintains regular contact with his what we usually have In June, Okuno being the eldest. The brother

and sister, and always and the less said about it the children remained in Japan for stays with them at Birmingham better. We look forward to the many years, with their mother. when his ship touches at London, autumn with its dry, bracing air, after their father returned to Twice married, on each occasion to warm days, and cool nights; but England. . After the mother's a Japanese lady, ho has two sons,

the time is not yet. death, one of the four children, a one by each wife. He is very girl, died; Captain Okuno remained proud of his link with the inventor In Japan for a time, and a brother of the locomotive, and amongst the adopted a seagoing career. From and sister came to England, whero rost treasured of his possessions is 1901 to 1904, he served his timo they are still living, in Birming- a model of a hammer, made lo gold in salling ships, and then succes- ham. It is interesting to note and silver, with a suitable inscrip- sively joined the Bucknall Line and that both these children recently tion, which was presented to his the Atlantic Transport Line attended the Trovithick centenary father -by tha' Japanese Govern-offloor. Later, ho took Japaneso service in Westminster Abbey. In ment on the 60th anniversary of nationality and his mother's name 1801, Captain Okuno camo to the introduction of railway ́into and became an officer in the lead- England from Japan, having Japan.

ing Japanese steamship company,

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