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FOUNDED 1881

No. 14011

四拜禮 號十月八英鸿香

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1933.

日九十月六

SINGLE COFT 10 CENTS

$36.00 PER ANNUM ·

WHITEAWAYS

SUMMER SALE

NOW PROCEEDING

EVERY

PURCHASE

SOUND

INVESTMENT

GOVERNMENT HOUSE IN BOTANICAL GARDENS?

An Interesting Suggestion: New City Hall

BIG GOVERNMENT

PROGRAMME

AMBITIOUS PLANS FOR CITY DISTRICT

AT LAST APPROVED BY WHITEHALL

THE MOST COSTLY DEVELOPMENT SCHEME EVER EMBARKED UPON BY THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT, INVOLVING AN EXPENDITURE OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, HAS NOW RE-

H.M.S. RODNEY TO RESCUE

Scout Saved by Signals From Flashlamp

London, Aug. 9. Flash-lamp signals by. a former army signaller visit. ing Plymouth led, to the rescue of a boy scout by a launch of the battleship. H.M.S. Rodney, which was lying in the Sound last night.

The scout was uncon- scious, in a dangerous posi- tion at the foot of the cliff over which he had fallen, ...when he was picked up under the Rodney's search- lights.-British Wireless.

CRICKET SENSATION

JARDINE AND 1934 TESTS

UNLIKELY TO BE

CAPTAIN

LARWOOD ALSO DOUBTFUL

D. R.Jardine, successful captain of the English Test team in Australia last winter is not likely to lead England against the Australians in 1934 or in any future Tests It is stated.

Jardine has had to relinquish the captaincy of the England side

Test to-morrow owing to injury.

A NAZI SHIPPING MONGKOK BLAZE

ORDER

Passenger · Booking

Restrictions

Berlin, Aug. 10,-

DISASTER

Foreign shipping com- FOUR KILLED; SIXTEEN

panies may be forced to close their German offices following an ambiguously worded order which con- siderably restricts the free- dom of German passengers to book passages with a foreign company.-'

The interpretation of the new order is very difficult - at present.-Reuter,

THE C.E.R. STRUGGLE

CEIVED THE APPROVAL OF THE SECRETARY TEMPORARY against South Africa in the Third HEATED ARGUMENT

OF STATE AND SITE PREPARATION IS EX- PECTED TO COMMENCE IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.

The scheme envisages

A new City Hall

A new Government House and

New Government offices.

It has been rendered practicable by the sale of part of the City Hall site to the Hongkong and Shanghai. Bank and, in fact, when all plans have been completed, it is anticipated that not only will the community be absolved from any`contribution towards the cost, but a substantial profit in hand will accrue to Government.

The original proposals have been modified. The new City Hall will not now include administrative offices, while much less definite is a suggestion that the Government House be built in the Botanical Gardens.

new

SITE PREPARATION TO BEGIN SOON

GAOL

nn

It is not suggested that this is the cause for to-day's bomb- shell, and actually no reason has NEW STRUCTURE AT been offered for such an

nouncement. LAICHIKOK

TO RELIEVE THE CONGESTION

An-

On top of this comes the re- volation that Harold Larwood's future is in jeopardy.

OPERATION USELESS.

IN HARBIN

POWERS OF SOVIET MANAGER

INJURED

GRAPHIC STORY OF RESCUE WORK

DRAMATIC RESCUE SCENES WERE WIT- NESSED AT MONGKOK-IN THE EARLY HOURS ́OF THIS MORNING WHEN A DISASTROUS FIRE BROKE OUT IN RECLAMATION STREET, CAUSING FOUR DEATHS.

- Ten persons were gravely injured. They were trapped in the rear of No. 393 and when a spectacular rescue was effected, wore in a serious condition. They are now in Hospital.

The Davies fire escape and hook ladders played a prominent part in the heroic efforts of the firemen, which enabled many lives to be saved.

GRIM STORY OF FIRE DRAMA

DA für

the

Harbin, Aug. 10. To-lay's four-hour heated conference between the Manchu- kuo directors and the Soviet

·Seldom in the recollection of 'drainpipe Bruised and battered by the directors of the Chinese Eastern local firemen has such intensity love) of the lower floor, whion hard Australian wickets," it has The increasing congestion of bean discovered that the fast Railway only discussed the ques-been attained by an outbreak as in he was caught in a sheet of flames prisoners at the Victoria Gaol, broken bones it his feet and that powers of the Soviet General terval it took to rush

bowler is suffering from two tion of the limitation of the this case within the very brief in belching through an open window.. the average number of-inmates one of his big, toen has gone,

the Are The next instant he had released Manager of the Railway.

fighting equipment to the spot.

his hold and dropped with a sick- has made it imperative for the having roached the 900 mark, An operation would make itį. The Manchukuo representatives Prison authorities to find addi-

impossible for Larwood-to-bowl- auggested that the Soviet General the Mongkok sub-station less than He was aged 18, a pastry cook-

The first appliance arrived from ening thud to the ground. again, asserts the doctor,

Manager and the Manchukuo 300 yards away to find the two by the name of Poon Sam. tional accommodation. Towards Larwood's only hope is consider-assistant manager should in buildings well in the grip of tho this end a scheme is in hand for able rest, and it is therefore likely future jointly sign all railway flames, with off-shoots curling up fractured skull, he is now in Hos- Receiving injuries including a building a new one storey block that both Jardine and Larwood documents. at Laichikok to hold 200 prison- Tests. Reuter.

will be missing in next year's

from under the verandahs, and it pital, but is not expected to live. Tho Soviet representatives appeared that the chances of os-long.. countered with the statement that cape for any loft on the premises.

FIFTEEN SAVED. equal and joint administrative were meagre, as the wooden stair- powers were impracticable, and case running up between the two The rescue of the other, fifteen RETROCESSION Proposed that the question be buildings, was practically burnt inmates, some in a state of col

ers.

The above information was given to the Telegraph this morning in an futerview with Mr. F. A. Hop- Use of 11.E. the Governor shouts, Assistant Superintendent of be built at Magazine Gap.

Prisons.

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In an Interview this morning, a Government spokesman said that) following the sale of the old City

Mr. Hopkins stated that the con- Hall alte and the demolition of This has come as rather a sur-gestion at Victorja Gaol was caus- Beaconsfield Arcade, there will be. Prise proposal and it is noted by the, number of oplum offen- within the next year or so, exten-thought likely that it will meet ders committed and this additional sive development in that portion with the approval of those,most i building would be utilised for hous of the city.

intimately concerned.

|ing short time men leaving more

ment offices.

new

the

Given favour-

At one time, it was intended to The original plan to include room at Victoria Gaol for erect on the slopes of the hill near government offices is the new City longer term prisoners, Beaconsfield Arende, a new City Hall having been dropped,

The site in Laichikok had been Hall, combining with it Govern-office blocks, including a new Legi-selected And work will proceed al-

slative Council Chamber and at Immediately. Colonial Secretariat, will also be able conditions the block should be months, The built in the vicinity of the new finished in four

storey somewhat higher building will be one

and That scheme, however, is likely City Hall, on

will house batches of fifty in compartmenta ranged on either side of a grilled passage.

NEW CITY HALL. -

to be dropped and it is anticipated that when final plans are prepar ed, the now city ball will be con-

ground,

DWELLING HOUSES.

A small staff, consisting in the

structed further to the west, on a) The existing Government House main of Indian warders will

ite somewhere between Beacona-and grounds will, under the gen-employed at the building. field Arcade and the commence-eral scheme as detailed to a ment of Battery Path. The new Telegraph representative, be sold City Hall will not, under revised eventually and probably be deve- plans, contain any Government loped as an area for dwelling

cos..

The Beaconsfield. Arcade Bite!

hounes.

It is understood that the Sucre-

SPILL AT

be

INCOMPLETE

JAPANESE STILL IN SHANHAIKWAN

NEGOTIATIONS NECESSARY

Peking, Aug. 10. That the Japanese withdrawal from Luantung is far from com- plete la shown by the statement of Mr. Llu Shih-shen, a member of the Retrocession Committee, when Interviewed by Reuter's cor- respondent.

Ho said that retrocession from

considered by a special com out. mission.

DECISION DEMANDED.

The Manchukuo directors then demanded an immediate decision for-an agreement In principle.

No decision was reached and the conference adjourned until to

morrow.

In this connexion it should be remembered that the Soviet General Manager latterly has had practically dictatorial powers.

TRAGIC DEATH OF YOUNG CRICKETER

the Walled City and Shanhalwan "Jackey" Hung Succumbs

After Typhoid Attack

required further negotiation with the Commander of the Japanese Garrison nt Tientsin, and he was leaving to sed Genoral. Nakamura vory soon.

Inpse, was effected in trying condi-

In such dire circumstances, the tions, but none the leas gallantly alarming discovery was made that and effectively. Officer Cash from the Mongkok Station went down a large number of the tenants the hookladder, and one after the were still in the buildings.

By common instinct, they had

other the victims were assisted to

all rashed in one direction, which safety, either up the ladder or, as was that taking them farthest the more helpless cases, by away from the dames-in a kit-means of the Davis escape ling now convincingly demonstrating chen in the rear of the topmost its utility in actual service condi storey of No. 395,-

tions.

SIXTEEN IN KITCHEN.

The rescue operations al thin while were threatened by the Herded within an area measur- flames which having rapidly gain- ing some ten feet by five feet, no led houdway, were omorging at the fewer than sixteen mon, women back of the buildings. By this and children, wore being suffocat-time as the engines hitched up to ed when roscue came for many of jan ample water supply, a number them in the very nick of time. of jets came into play, the espe

With their experience of these clal object of those assisting in native tonement houses, the fire this part of the work being to beat

men had worked round to the rear them back from the ladders and

of the block, where a narrow scu- from the kitchen where the rescues venging lane enabled them to reach were proceeding. In this; they a tiny yard directly below. the were successful, all fifteen victims. kitchen where the trapped in being safely removed. The death occurred early this mates were. Their perilous posi morning at the St. Paul's Hospital tion was revealed when lights

BOYS

will be sold and it is expected tary of State for the Colonies linsHE VALLEY lo expressot the hope that the of Mr. "Jacky" Hung, the fourth were fashed and they could be-It is regretful that having-done

that new shops and offices will be constructed thereon.

..

approved of the essential details

of the general scheme and that

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the site preparation for some of DR. MACGOWN GETS

BAD SHAKING:

Moon as the

THROWN BY NEW PONY

S SUFFOCATED. problems of through-traffic caused. by the retrocession from Shiig son of Mr. Hung Hing-fat, after seen straining out of two win-as much as the firemen did, the middle of the month-Reuter halkwan would be settled by the

A short illness,

dows, through wisps of smoko by lives of two could not be saved. He was a brother of the well this time beginning to issue from Two young boys, both aged 0, were know local sportsman, Mr. W. C. the lower windows.

found to have died from suffoca- Kung, and was himself a kean

tion. N cricketer. The played for the Craigongower Juniors and was

FIVE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

וי ་

RESCUE WORK.

They were Young Sap-tak and. The situation called for the Chu Taal,

Another death occurred in Hob- year won the junior champion-exercise of unusual resourceful- ship.

nees, and the Fire Brigade roso pital at 0 o'clock this morning, of

member of the team which last

BATTERY PATH TO GO...: the works contemplated will bo commenced within the next year. The plans imply that Battery It is also understood that the re- Path will disappear but it is con-maining portion of the City Hall templated that a new road will be site will be sold constructed from Queen's Road, Hongkong and Shanghai-Bank has rasing behind the Cathedral and completed its now building and jolning Garden · Road in the vacated its temporary quarters.

Dr. J. C. Macgown had a vicinity of the Peak Tram Station, Should it finally be decided to rather nasty spill at Happy Val- GHASTLY TRAGEDY AT Gilman & Co. and possibly passing into the junction build the new Government House ley this morning when trying

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of Lower Albert Rond; which is to at Magazine Gap, It is probable out one of the new batch

be widened.

ed.

that for big public functions, auch Australian ponies. as the King's Birthday Ball,

use

With the sale of the City Hall will be made of the new City Hall, sito. to the Hongkong and Shang-for the convenience of the public.

Chai Bank, a start is likely to be -made in the near futuro, on the work of constructing à now Gov- bernment House, Government's | mind is not entirely made up upon the question of the site.

It is thought likely that it will be erected--at-Magazine-Gap. where the old Naval Senatorium (used toïatand; but, art:Interestäl

ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE

TREATY PARLEYS

RESUMED

of

contracted

He was employed by Messrs, gallantly to it. A rescue party LoFock, mother of Young reckloss of unusual risks, got on Sap-tak,who dind from HONOLULU

typhoid some two months ago. He to the burning roof. A hook shock attendant on her experience was on the way to recovery when ladder was dropped down to the and on the news of the loss of Honolulu, Aug. 10. relapse occurred and he passed lovel of one of the kitchens and hor offspring. An additional

(Continued on Page 11.) It was hoped also to reach the [V A ghastly aeroplane crash oc-away this morning. The pony, which was originally brought to the Colony for the curred here to-day, when five

The funeral takes placs this window also from the ground by Hon. Mr. C. Gordon Mackle, is United States airmen were killed evening, the cortege passing the means of an Ajax ladder, but it being offered for sale and Dr. Mac- [and one injúrodzaj

University pavillon at 5.45 pm..

failed to span completely the 60 HEAT WAVE OVER feet. Igown, a prospecive buyer, was giv-|- The planby, crashed" as it was

Ing the pony i try-out.

carrying 'asib, a normal spractice On entering the saddling on night closure after a run, the Autmel be No detalla, ute, yet, to hand gan to buck considerably and Dr. Rantéress Margown was thrown. He was vory: fortunato: In- not being seriously, hurt, although he was badly slinken:

AIR ARMADA AT TAGUS

NO FURTHER MISHAP

AIN FLIGHT

While these preparations, which

also embraced the employment of Davis escape lines, ware proceed- Ing, with considérable difficulty, EIGHTY as can well be Imagined in the darkness and confualon, and bus fore they could be complazad, one of the victima decided to make?" bid for safety on His Becount AÍN

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