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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1935.

SHING MUN DAM

TALK TO ROTARY

CLUB

MORE NANKING RESIGNATIONS

NEW FOREIGN MINISTER

After three years of worry and anxiety in the construction of the xigantic Shing Mun Dam, future

Nanking, Aug. 13. water supplier to the Colony, only

Mr. Wang Shih-chich, Minister one more important decision re of Education, and Mr. Pang the .uf Director' mains to be taken, said Mr. G. B. Hauch-pol,

Department of Gifforil Hull in a broadcast ad- Political dress to the Hongkong Rotary Executive Yuan, have resigned. Clubs yesterday.

HONGKONG TRAVEL

ASSOCIATION

APPEAL TO LOCAL FIRMS

The Hongkong Travel Association has addressed a letter and memoran- dum to a considerable number of firms and companies in the Colony, request. ing their co-operation and assistance tho in furthering the objects ok

Association. The memorandum em-

the

The President of the Club, Pro-/ General Ho Ylag-chin has with bodies the proposed first year pro- |

drawn his resignation, Reuter.

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leasor L. Forster, presided at the luncheon, and the following guests

M. H were introduced: Lt. Col. Davis, Engineer Captain Hugli, R.N., F. W. James, Hongkong; and E. H. H. Higham, Shanghai.

The speaker sald that the last time he had addressed the Club they were concerned as to what site to adopt for the dam and, after that, as to the particular design of dam which would be most suitable. Hundreds of holes were drilled to determing the nature of the rock underneath, and about July 1933, it was possible to fix the site of the dam below the first waterfall and in the middle of the gorge,

Better Prospect Chengtu reports state that Mar- pointed by demands after demands by Japan and wants to put an end to this external pressure. Ife in said to be relying more on the Occidental group of Nanking of ficials than on the pro-Japanese faction, says the Canton Daily Sun. This view is more in harmony with the stand of the South-west, and it is believed that there is more common ground for co-opera- tion between Marshal Chiang Kai- shek and the South-west.

Resignation of Mr. Wang Ching- The waterfall was about 40 feet wel an President of the Execu- and. concurrently high which meant increasing the tive Yunn

of Foreign Affairs height of the dam by that amount. Minister

It was decided to build a "gravity" creates some uncertainty and an- type' of dam, but owing to the huge xiety in Shanghai and Nanking, amount of concrete which would The Canton Kung Ping Po stated have been required in the standard that certain high Chinese officials gravity dam-about 400,000,000 Shanghai and Nanking are un- eable feet in this case-it was easy der the surveillance of the Blue to see that this was impracticable. Shirts. At 2.30, 5.20,

Instead of the dam being homo- damy were con- geneous most 7.20 9.20 p.m. atructed primarily of a wall of concrete from one alde of the valley to, the other-they had to bulld something to support the thrust block. The main wall would not have been of sufficient stability of

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itself to resist the water, and to make it more stable they had to place behind it one million tons of hand-picked rock. There was 40 feet of earth over the rock on this site but they merely stripped two

rock on the soil.

gramme of netivities, including pro- paganda and advertising.

In the course of the letter to local firms, It is pointed out that the project of stimulating tourists traffic

Hongkong Hongkong was first sponsored by the late Chairman of the General Chamber of Commerce, the

Hon. Mr. C. Gordon Mackie, in the strongly supported by the Senior Legislative Council last year, and was Chinese Representative, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotowall, C... The proposal was further developed by the recent Economic Commission, on which sat many of the most prominent business men of the Colony, and the sanction given by Government, in generous practical form, to the formation of the Association la the first open stop taken to implement the recommendations of the Commisalotz, 1

The Amociation tooks confidently for support, therefore to the busines community of Hongkong. Contribu- lone should be sent to the Hongkong Travel Association, Post Office Build- ing. Top Floor.

The Memorandum The Assuciation's memorandum is! as follows:

from

New Foreign Minister Only?

The Hongkong Travel Association has been established as a result of the Nanking, August 13. Dr H. B. Kung. Interviewed definite recommendation to Govern- to-day, after he had attended the ment of the recent Economic Com- are as follows:The Commission are meeting of the Central Executive mission, excerpts from whose report Council, intimated that the Cen-strongly of the opinion that the tral Government might, accept Mr. Government would be well advised

Act Overeens Wang Ching-wei's resignation as actively to encourage tourism whether

will urge maintain

or from Chion. They should the Government Foreign Minister, but him to continue as Chairman of

sponsor

sor the development of tourism and should afford some financial aid the Executive Counell..

thu for such

as is done in the development Kingdom and elsewhere.

The that there is scarcely a Political entity having attractions to offer to tourists and holidaymakers which does not In many countries. make sume organised effort to en courage visitors.

national organization, apart municipalities each have their own organisations for the encouragement and promotion of amenities for the visitor and for the issue of suitable propaganda calculated to attract the visitor from abroad to the areas which they administer.

feet from the surface and laid the Foreign Minister. 'Dr. Kung added i Ulesion is apprised of the fact

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Reservations of the Reception Ofier, H. K. Hotel.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.

The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of

6 Queen's Road Central.

The million tens placed in this settle itself, and If placed in con- tact with the thrust block receiving the down stream of water, the settlement would probably cause cracks or twists in the wall. To prevent this a wedge of sand was luid between the thrust block and the supporting mound to net the part of a cushion.

With regard to his successor us. that the Central Government will ask Mr. Wang to select his own nominee.

He stated that Mr. Wang'a resignation will come before the next meeting of Central Political Council this week.-Wah Kiu Yat

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London, Aug. 13. Loudon newspapers concurrently give prominence to the resignations

"It is recommended that Govern- Cabinet and the

ment should place a sum of money at As to the concrete used in the in the Chinese

the disposal of the Committee who murder of General Nagata. work, he would point out that con-

The Daily Herald links the two will decide on a system of subscription crete was nai a standard article and could be strong or otherwise. The events and suggests that the Japan-or membership fees from members of forcing the the Travel Association. With the ug will requirement of a gravity dum was mainly weight and Bufficient changes at Nanking in order to of such funds and such aid as

obtain more pliable instruments in be able to obtain from Government strength to withstand the ordinary

the Chinese Government, and in and the larger organisations interested

The Association. hopes also with stress and work in the thrust block.

of the Association will publish and Fifty Dollars but it in confidently ox- The face of the thrust biock, how doing so will thus safeguard their in the Tourlat Traffic, the Committee

own position as against the Japan-distribute suitable literature regard-pected that many local interests likely the co-operation of the Post Blaster. General to arrange for broadcast. ever, was lined with extra strong

ing Hongkong.

to benefit directly from an increase talks on Ilongkong's attractions as A concrete, and along the top of the ene Army extremists. dam were a series of buttresses The Manchester Guardian Bays

"Generally the Committed is un- In the number of visitors to the tourist resort and these talks, by forming Inspection

mission, will be heard in many far posts from that it was hardly to be expected

that the "Patriots" would not find animously of the opinion that there Colony, will contribute generously in means of ZBW's short wave trans- facing which the condition of the

distant parts of the world. The pro- could be inspected from behind. an answer to General Hayashi's should be a movement to make Hang- excess of that sum He hoped that there would be no sweeping staff changes affecting kong as attractive a place as possible 4,700 officers. If General Hayashi in which money will be spent and circulated. It is envisaged that such crucks in the Shing Mun Dam.

a movement will in time more than Previously he had spoken to them resigns there may be a return to of the rise of temperature which extremism, with all it means. In pay for the cost" came from contact of concrete with any case the "Patriots" have de- water,

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of 72 degrees monstrated that a handful of des- perate men may guide the destinies Fahrenheit being sometimes. re-

of a great nation. corded at this particular dam. This was sufficient to cause serious shrinking cracks in the face of the thrust block and to obviate this the face had been made in small panels of about 24 feet width each, the Joints being overlaid with copper strippings.

con-

Objects and Organisation

The Committee estimated that at duetion and distribution of cinema. least $50,000 to $60,000 per annum films depicting scenes and life in is essential if the Association is to Hongkong may also in time be taken: make a proper start and that addition-up by the Association. al funds will be necessary to continue

The Value of Advertising. the work adequately, that is to any $25,000 to $35,000 in public contri butions will be required to enable the

A Committee was then appointed by Government to consider this sugges tion and to make detailed recommenda- Association to put into operation it

first year's schedule, tions. The Committee's report was published in the пенараретк of May 17.

was generally agreed that this was tons of Hongkong in order to en. courage visitors to come to the Colony only the usual precautionary mark-

and to arrange facilities for their ing down by jobbers and was deamusement and recreation while in the void of real algnificance.

Colony. Circles interested in China re-

mediate

Propaganda Work

neighbours and

It is not considered necessary hero to stress the valus of advertising. There is, however, great deal of indiscriminate advertling done in Market Reaction

Hongkong, much of which must be unprofitable. It is suggested that Chinese loans firmed up yester-

The Association hopes arstly to many firms who have so advertised in day on Sir Frederick Leith Ross's

The objects and purpose of the departure, but they cased off slight-

ambng promiscuous advertising subscribing the to the Hongkong Travel Association ly when the news of the Nanking Association are: To make known in popularise Hongkong among our im the past caminste much of this resignations became known, but it various parts of the world the attrac- foreign people who are already in and thus, joining in with the rest of

in Chinese

both Far East. For North and South China, Hongkong the Colony. In advertising Hongkong offers excellent facilities for ses a whole to the general; lement of bathing in the Summer, and for the community. Europeans and others in the Far

Whether the Association, is to be. is an ideal resort in

a success or not depends entirely on East Hongkong In a Winter for

temperate

*** the support 'It receives from the com- Anta

there-mersial community of Hongkong.. fore being CORN in and around the

Far benefit from its activities in the long Direct advertisement accom run although the potential benenf panied by Bluetrated articles will must oberlously be greater to some furnish in these places the latest in than to others. Those who will pro- formation on the attractions and at directly from an increase in the amenition of Hongkong.

number of visitors to the Colony

gret the resignation of Mr. Wang shali serve without emolument for male made for a newspaper Tha Association believes that hi wi

In Between Seasons The speaker explained the system by which a diversion tunnel enabled the area of the site to be kept clear

was being whilst the dam structed. When

diversion Ching-wel, as he was regarded an a the tunnel was closed the dam would stabilizing influence, upholding the term,

civilian balance in the Cabinet, and begin to fill.

un able Foreign Minister.

-It was pointed out, however, that has weathered many Nanking atorms since 1928 and crises were unlikely on the eve of the visit of RONA Commission.- the Leith Reuter

The first Board of Directore, who

oľ three years, has been appointed by Government, as under:

Air. W. J. Carrie. Hongkong Government, Chairman.

Mr. C. II. Benson, General Manager, American Express Co., Inc.

Mr. M. K. Lo, Solleitor, Mesura, Lo and 1.

Mr. Ma Man Fal, Chief Manager, Sincere Co., Ltd.

arc

Secondly, we must go further allow hotels, shops dealing in curios, silks and try to interest the globetrotter, and eastern goods generally, shipping the tourist, and those who embark on companies, local transportation com- pleasure cruises and persuade them paaie, zaregos, departmental stores, to spend a greater part of thele time banks and merchants generally

ditional responsibility. guess when the last typhoon flood

Mr. J. II. Taggart, Managing Direc-at. Hongkong. For this purpose the asked to realise that they have sex ad- would happen bofore closing the

distribute an illustrated brochure or The Board of Directors feel it would diversion tunnel for good. A Burator, Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Association intends to publish and folder and multicoloured posters estimate was beyond the power of Ltd,

showing the beauties and attractions be improper for them to rely solely

on the general taxpayers' money. of Hongkong and containing for that is what the Government grant Mr. R. D. Walker, Manager and Peal to tourists and others to pay an of $25,000 representa-if the com

Chief Engineer, Kowloon Canton Rail-

man, and if they should close, the Mr. N. J. Perrin, Manager, Messrs, tunnel and the flood then came, the Thos. Cook & Son, and Bankers, Ltd. water would rise against the face of the thrust block. Perhaps the water would spill over the top of the thrust block and sweep away the million tons of rock and the sand wedge which had not entirely settled yet.

way.

Subsequent Directors will be elected by the members of the Association.

extended visit to the Colony.

Recreation and Amusement

mercial interests more directly invol- ved in the promotion of tourist traffic do not respond to the full.

com- Plans for the dam were

From November pleted in 1993. unwards there is a dry weather Reason here and the question arose whether they could lay the founda- tion of the thrust block and get the diversion tunnel made before the rainy months came, Taking every- thing into considoration It did not seem a very wine thing to attempt, and therefore they divided the foundation into two parts and started work on the down stream part. They had to move 8,000 tons of rough boulders before they could get to the original river bed. The Coundation was completed by March 1934 just five days before the rain came, and they were then free to build na high as they liked on this first section. During the wet senson of 1934 they actually built about 150 feet high. It then

The Government has subscribed to Association gradually to extend such appeals in view of the early approach bocamo particularly urgent to put in the front part of the dam during in September, and soon, the Colony the funds of the Association the sum facilities and endeavour to

of It is hoped, therefore, that con- the few months of the next dry would be getting a supply of 100,- of $25,000 and it is hoped that this (with proper safeguards): many of is at its best. pant

sum will be met, dollar for dollar, by the social institutions and means acason, and in September n care 000,000 gallons of water.

to the transient visitor. fully calculated programme of work The speaker was thanked by Mr.subscriptions from the public of recreation at present almost closed tributions will be forwarded as soon

Hongkong. was drawn up. By January, 1935 L. W. Amps, who said Mr. Gifford

The Association fatends, also

Six cases of Diphtheria with one they had the foundations out and Hull was by reason of his pro- after February they were at last fession a pioneer worker. He had to the funds of the Association must organise an Information Bureau where free from anxiety of any flooding. described his work as prosaic, but be faith in the future prosperity of visitors may obtain both verbally and death, four cases of Typhoid (one From then on the work had gone they know that behind his cheery the Colony. If he has this faith he in booklet form essential up-to-date Imported), one case of Meningitis and can afford to look upon occasional set information regarding sight-seeing. 04 deaths from Tuberculosis were amoothly building up until the pre- smile he had encountered, great backs in his interests with equanimity, shopping and so forth in the Celom.roported to the local Health authori sent time.

difficulties and they greatly ad- Contributions will accordingly be A site for a small kiosk near the ties last week. On Monday One Caro mired the fob he had done and the welcomed towards this work and may wharves at Kowloon Taking a Risk.

manner he had carried it out. An be directed to the Chairman, Hongd tatively selected. They were now in the closing Interesting question following the kong Travel Association, Post Office stages of the wet weather, and the completion of the dam would be the Building, Top Floor. dem was completely built up to development of the very beautiful about 170 feet. Now they had to area in which it was located.

Nevertheless, added the speaker, the tunnel would probably be closed

Finance Matters

The first principle of the subscriber

The minimum annual subscription, for membership of the Assoplation,

The Board of Directors is anxious

Belter facilities are necessary for the recreation and amusement of our visitors when they have arrived in to make an early start particularly

of the cool weather when Hongkong open

the Colony. It will be the aim of the with reference to the Far Eastern

as possible.

to

has been ten-of Diphtheria and two

Typhold were reportedi

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