1936-05-20 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1936.

Million Dollars Expenditure For Hongkong Ship-owners NEW SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA LAWS

TO BE APPLIED TO COLONY ON JULY 1.

MANY SHIPS MAY HAVE TO BE

LAID UP:

OWNERS UNEASY

"Telegraph" Special Representative

New Safety of Life at Sea regulations will be enforced in Hongkong on July 1.

In order to comply with them, local ship-owners may have to face an expenditure exceeding a million dollars,

Shipping and business firms believe that the new scheme of reconditioning and re-equipping existing ships

p.m. on Friday,

Wilhelm Kenol, the German viste with Hongkong Government passenger licences to enable tor to Hongkang who will give a them to comply with rules drawn up at the Simla Con-oncert at the German Club at 5.30 ference for the Safety of Life. at Sea will prove af disquieting problem of expenditure.

LUXURY RAIL CAR FOR K.C.R.

A rebuilt luxury rail car will shortly be placed into service by the Kowloon Can. tón Railway Administra- tion.

I will accommodate only 25 passengers, as compared with the 18 previously accommodated;

lave 14 comfortable arm. chairs In widch passengers can reeline full length if they wish;

have two Isxarious seilces, each capable of holding four passengers; be fitted with a special parlour, with seven revolving bar seats;

be equipped with either thermo Tankpunka louvres, ar electric

fati

Resources of local ship-wieners, it is pointed sat, here been 80,100 BODIES La computation air. Scott

severely fared in past pears through adverse trading conditions,,

and it will be some pears before they will be able to regain the EXHUMED

prosperity that characterised British maritime operations on the China Coast two drendes ago.

Although several vessels have already been recon- structed in accordance with the new requirements, there' are still a number carrying passengers which have not yet done so.

IN COLONY

RETURNED TO LAND

E RADIO BROADCAST

Jazz Recital On Two Pianos

RECORDED PROGRAMMES

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 1356 metres (846 kilocycles):

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programnic.

7 p.m. Military Band Music. Clarinet Concerto No. 1 (Weber); Zampa--Overture (Herold, urr. Go- Foreign Lands (Roberts); Pas Des frey): Old Folks at Iloine and in Cymbales (Chaminade).

Ralinds by Percy

7.30 p.m. Heming (Baritone).

(n) Fairings (b) Come to the Fair (e) Jock the Fiddler (d) The Ballad-

The car, which can either Monger, Easthope-Martin; off to drive under its own power from Philadelphia (Haynes); Chorus, Gen-

150 horse power Hall Scottlemen (Lohr).

7.45 p.m. be attached as special observa- Celeste Octet.

The J... Squire tion car to ordinary trains, will Memories of Chopin (arr. Willough- he one of the most luxurious Batiste).

by); Cavatina (Raff); Andante In G seen in the Far East.

It will be the first silver ear to' be seen in Ilongkong, and will be known as the "Taipo Belle". The exterior painting will be dane with aluminum.

ends.

the

OF ANCESTORS I have been informed from sections of the Convention, but no one source that several Hong-Provision was made regarding wireless ! Ancestar worship dominates,

Entrances will be from the cen- certificate kong owners are still hesitating

the lives of all Chinese. Equallyre of the car and not, as with between selling their vessels,

Crem It therefore became necessary, bo dominant is the feeling, cherish existing rail motors, scrapping them or reconstruet-fore the Convention could be adopted, jed through the ages, that the re- for a Government wireless school to mains of a Chinese who had died ing them.

l opened in order to train practically abroad from the land of his the whole of the wireless operators employed on Hongkong registerra janenstors should be returned. ships,

No matter where a Chinese may Team-to the goldfields of Austra lin, the steppes of South Afrien or the icy wastes of the Yukon-his remnina will. If it in humanely possible, he returned.

The Safety of Life at Sea Con; vention was evolved in 1932, and Hongkong in one of the very few countries in the world that has not yet ratified .

Appliention to shiprout in the Colony cannot, it is said, be past poned much longer.

Hongkong, in the past, issued its own Special "A" wireless certificate, held by practically all the operators, but this was inadequate under the Convention for passenger sanips tra But when it da applied here, it will ing more than 20 miles from the incan heavy expenditure on the part nearest land or 200 miles in the open

of some of the leis well-found shipping | sen between this consecutive parts. companies and owners, in order

make their ships conforte quirements.

to

In

EXCELLENT RESULTS,

uf Life at

In Hongkong alone the remaina of over 80,000 Chinese have, during

E

nouncements,

8 p.in. Time, Weather and An- .8.05 p.m. The Boswell Sisters (Vocal) Rudy Slarita (Xylo- phone),

3.

1. Xylophone Dance of the Rain- drops; The Punch and Judy Show: 2. Vocal-Lullaby of Broadway;

lophon Rio de Janeiro; Jory the Clown; 4. Vocal-Why Don't you Practice Wint you Preach ?; 5. tion before the members of the:

It took six weeks experimenta Dance of the Paper Dolls.

Xylophone-The Squirrel Dunce: KC.R. staff in charge of construc-

8.30 pm. Musical Comedy, tion of the luxury car were satis way, Rubby and Waller; Vocal Gens Selection-Princess Charming (Sir- fied with the design of the arm-Yes, Madam (Weston, Lee, Waller "hairs.

and Tunbridge): Selection The Cat Special parties will be able to hire and the Fiddle (Harbach and Kern); the car for trips to Canton or inter-Selection-Tulip Time (Sievier and mediate stations, either as an adjunct Work). to the ordinary expresses or to travel; 9 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin

and Amouncementa.

9.20 p.m. Richard Crooks (Tenor) Fritz Kreisler (Violin). 1. Sang-Cood-Bye (Tosti); Violin Solo Shepherd's

under its own power.

It will be placed into service in

the present decade, heen exhumed the near future. from Chinese cemeteries, to be re-

2.

Madrigal

turned to the lands of their ances EMPIRE DAY CONCERT (Kreisler); 3 Song-Vionan City of

tors.

EAST LANCASHIRES BAND PROGRAMME

will have to be installed on ship Batavin, India, Manila,fect in some measure the financial Peninsula Hotel on

have to cy

i

Empire Day,

Programme

at 9

I understand, that such excellent re FAR-REACHING EFFECTS

sulta Enve been achieved by the Most of the remains of Hourkong Government wireless school that prae- Chinese were sent to various parts of When the Convention comes batu: Ugully all of the wireless operators Kwanglung. But many have been force on July 1 it will have far with "A" Class

certificates have sent to much more distant parts of applied to sit for examination for China. renching effects.

Many wireless installations at pre- 2nd Class Madrid Convention Certi sel carried on ships registered in ficates, which are required is the Price 1936), rontained in the Annual Band of the 2nd Battalion, The East

The figures for Government and By kind permission of by private exhumations in the Colony Colonel A. C. Marsh and Offers the Lient. Hongkong will have to be replevd. į Wireless direction Ruding apparatus trading between Hongkong and Reports of the Sanitary Board, reLanenshire Regiment will play at the

Certificated Japan and Australin. Ships trading depression through which China has Sunday, May 24 commencing แ certain Lounge wireless operators will have to be along the China Coast are exempt passed.

p.m. carried, But

apparatus will from the Madrid Certificate require

In 1930, a total of 10,216 exhuma- AMADEmenta:-----

The programme for the occasion-is As were made by the Government, given below: In addition every ship must, before

A recommendation was made to the totals increased in 1931 to 12,688 and 1,808 by private persons. There 19-10, instal continuous wave wireles Board of Trade in the middle of last 1,588 respectively, while in 1932 they transmitting apparatus. This will

rear for the issue by the Hanlong were 11,575 and 1,928 respectively. mean the scrapping of alimust

Government of a Second Class (Re-In 1933 they reached a peak of 1,302 entire

range of transmitters at present tricted) Fertifiente in Hen of the in operation.

for Government exhumations and Hongkong Special "A" Certificate. [ The Convention makes it obligatory The new

exhumations. for ships to be efficiently subdivided which has been given by the Beard that year only 9,010 exhumations

private ex Certificate, approval for for

Then, in 1984, came the stump. In watertight compartments and of Trade, is restricted to British ships were carried out by the Government bulkheads, Lifeboats and buoyant registered in Hongkong, and trading and 2,212 by private persons, apparatus (For, which there

are between Hongkong and all ports in minimum requirements, according to China: Siberia, Japan, Korea, For- the number of passengers carried) are the subject of stringent regula Philippine Islands, and the Dutch mosa, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, East Indies. WILL COST MONEY

All of which, when applied to Hongkong ships, will cost monez;

All ships with a-tohnage exceeding 60 tons will come under the Regulations.

Into

tions.

the

eame

Many vessels have already been modified to the satisfaction of the local authorities, but with older skips, it is doubtful whether the requirements of the Convention

can ever be applied in toto.

Enforcement of some

of the

Hongkong Becomes Cleaner City

Hongkong. is becoming

provisions of the Convention to cer- cleaner city. inin ships registered in this Colony

will have to be scrapped.

last year the totals showed slight increases to 9,620 and 2,957 res- pectively.

The totals for the present decade are 66,111 Government exhumations

13.650 and

private exhumations, making a grand total of 80,100.

Overture. "Tannhauser" Wagner. 1 March "The Empire" Tulip 3 Valse.

"Destiny"

Baynes. 1 Piccolo Solo, The Joy of Living"

Cole. 5 Selection "La Gioconda"

Panchlell, Clarinet Concertino

Weber.

7 Selection.

my dreams (Sieczynski); 4. Violia Solo-Marguerito (Rachmaninoff, arr. Kreslor); 5. Song-Springtime re minds me of you (Rotter).

9.10 p.m. From the Studio. Doreen Ma and George Bond on Two Pianos.

10

p.m. Big Ben from Daventry. Orchestra.

10 p.m. Albert Sandler and his Indiana Sweetheart (Hansen); Love in Ileness (Macbeth); Le Chaland (Cremieux); Masquerado (Loeb); I qui Passo (Bixio); Love's last Word want your heart (Haydn Wood); Pale Moon-Indian Love Song (Logan); Allegro (Piocco); Amoretten Tanze (Gung'); Blen Aimes-Valse (Wald- teufel).

10.30 p.m..

Dance Musle by Jack Hylton and his Orchestra.

11 pm. Close Down.

ZEESEN PROGRAMMES

Special

PROKIAINEN Lar Far Hirmers wil be broadcast from Zeroch ma

DJU

19.74 m 18,200 kJ.30-3 19.74 m

Eastern

7.73.

4

15,200 kr 4.5-8.15 p.m. 11.45 m 0,540 kr 4.45-8.15 p.m.

DJN D30 19.74 m 15.200 ko 9p.m~12.30 ..

SOUTH ASIA ZONE Bouth Asia Zone, broadcast from

Interval

"LS. Pinfore"

Sullivan. fottawa: 8 Cornet Solo. "Land of Hope and

Glory"

Elgar. 9 Excerpts from the Opera "Aida" Verdi. 10 Selection. "The Student Prince" (19.74

Romberg. "La Palomn"

Yradior 12 Fantazia "Festival of Empire" MacKenzie-Rogam. Regimental Marches:The At- tack" and "Lancashire Lad,"

İSON BORN AT SEA 11 Entrete TO GIRL OF 13

ENROUTE FROM FAR EAST --'-'

God Save The King. Conductor:-MT, A. B. Yule. These musical concerts of which there have already been two this year Plymouth, May 15. Ten days before a liner rench-the Peninsula Hotel, have accorded

very much pleasure to

the large England one of the

Jas-gatherlags present, and their popu engers, a girl of thirteen, gave Empire Day Although, every effort Tarity suggests a capacity house on birth to a son. She was return will be made to provide extinct ing from the Far East with her commodation for all, carly attendance parents and her younger brother, is suggested to avoid disappointment. No charge is being maile for ad- seven years old. **

mission.

will, it is stated, mean that they Each year more and more re-

fuse goes to the incinerators or led to the Kun Tong reclamation. At When the Convention is appited, the existing passenger certificates the latter place it helps add new will be superseded by Certificates land to the Colony as part of issued under the Simla Convention. Iongkong's great reclamation The practice hitherto in Hongkong scheme. has been to issue two forms of certi- ficates. The first is a Class 1

fleate, which could be used anywhere The collection of refuse is one of

Ten days ago the boy was taken in the Far East.

the major tasks undertaken by the with Influenza, which developed, Because the Australian Govern-Urban Council. As the Sanitary De-nto bronchial-pneumonia. ment refused to accept the Glass January 1 this year) the Council last She was taken to the ship's hospital, partment (the name was changed on Wednesday his sister also collapsed, certificate, vessels trading to the year collected a total of 114,302 and was reported to be progressing. Antipodes

had to obtain a Class 1A cortificate, which strictly conforms to tons of refuse. Adding to this the the British Board of Trade regula refuse taken to the depots by private contractors, a total of 167,333 tons

- STUMBLING BLOCK

of the

favourably.

CHELSEA SHOW

metres) and DJN (37.45 metres).

4.50 p.m.

4.35 m.

6.10 p.m.

5.45 p.m.

German Folk Song.

Greetings to our Hafeners,

DJE,

A p.m. Mule by a Reichswehr Banel.

News and Review In English,

fy Flame 'tin on the Ballo Share," 6.45... News and Review In German. 1 p.If. &p.m.

Concert of Light Music.

News in English.

8.13 p.m. Canrers of Light Munte feon-

tinted).

KAST ASIA ZONE

10.63 metres (15,280 .c.) 1.80-3 p.m. Concert, Fest Asia Zone howdesst through DJQ on news pitn

9.05 p.m. firman Folk Rong.

1.20 p.m. Greetings to our Listeners, 1.16 .. News and Ruciex in German, 8.30 pm. Virtues Flute Iasic,

9,45 p.. Inge Wolf's "Hienon" Bonga.

10 pm. News and Review in English on

DJN. DIE.

10.15 p.m. Today in Germany. 10.30 p.m. Toplent Talk.

10.45 p.m. German Opere Programme,

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wave-Imgths and frequeles Are observed. by Daventry.

Sign -Freegency Wavelength

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On

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VISITED BY QUEEN MARY AND DUKE OF KENT

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On Thursday when her father went to inquire about her hu was told, to his astonishment, that she had just given birth to a son.

tions, and which is universally re-were disposed of during the year." cognised as an equivalent 3.0.T. Certificate.

Almost twice as mucir refuse comes from the island of Victoria as, from "This is a complete surprise," he the entire mainland, the figures for bald on arrival. One of the stumbling blocks to the last year being 75,400 and 30,680 tons enforcement of the Safety of Life at respectively. An average of 310 tourly ill, was brought ashore on

The young mother, who was critieni. Sca Convention by the Hongkong were handled each day during the stretcher and taken to hospital. A Government, was the serious lack of year, this constituting a record.

wireless operators with appropriate Certificaten

the

London May 10. Duke of Kent this morning paid n Queen Mary accompanied by the

Show which is one of the principal private visit to the Chelsen Flower outdoor events of the London season, As is usual at the Spring Exhibi- tion of the Royal

Horticultural Society outdoor rock

gardens

and ornamental gardens, which have been Since the beginning of the present decade

A public lecture In English will be under preparation for many weeks A draft Ordinance for the adoption handled a total of 623,718 tons, Aleem Siddiqui, the Muslim theologian pital, Chelsea, oro popular features Sanitary Board has given by Maulana Muhammad Abdul past in the grounds of the Royal Hos- of the Safety of Life at Sen Conven- 407.048 tons of which came from the who is visiting, the Colony, at the of the show, while exhibits under tion: was submitted to the Secretary islund.

Gloucester Hotel to-day at 5.30 p.m. present a gorgeous" spectacle.

canvas covering more than 2% acros of State for the Colonies for approval

The subject of as long ago as 1933.

his address last "Universal Religion. All will be Exhibits are drawn from all parts year's contribution to this huge total, welcome. Because of the clause relating to it cast Hongkong $341,107, as com

of the British Isles and many foreign Wireless operators, application had to pared with $370,735 in 1934. Tm-

gardeners are also represented. be postponed.

proved handling methods was respon-

The Japanese garden constructed Hongkong, hitherto has been par-sible for the dearcase in handling is that of Mr. W. R. E. Stephenson an Interesting feature of the show.— Among recent colonial appointments by a Japanese landscape architect is: mitted modifications under certain charges from $2.36 to $2.03 per ton.

to be Assistant Auditor, Hongkong. British Wireless.

Το

collect and

remove

is

51.470 k.c

T6.204 *.c. 21,540 kr. .4.150 ke..

$9.50 metres ALAS metres

•31.35 metres 31.33 metres 25.28

19.51

1484

bretres

zetne 11.37 metren 19.06 16.50 metres

metres

49.10 metres

Transmission 1'

108.N., G.B.D.) 12.30 p.m. ile Ben, "This IH!la Neck." 13.61 0.m. Walter Clocking (Pianoforte).

"Foreign Affairs,” 1.15 p.m. Quentin Marleen, al the Organ of the Trocadero Cineme, Elephant and Cutle. Greenwich Time Bignal at 1.30 ..

1.30 p.m. Balelena Stephen, Comedian. 140 am. Quentin Maclean, at the Opus of the Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Castle (cont'd).

"Atarlight," Number Thres The News and Announcem was targ

1.45 p.

2 p.m.

Transmission 2.

(1.9.6., 0.8.1.)

Die Ben A Recita! by Margaret

Good (Planefarta),

IC. Empire, Orchestra,

1.15 p.m. The

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8.10 p.m. Opintle Music. 3.15 p.. Jack Valls Down and res

his Crownt Hewawich Time Signal at

pm.

p.m.

The Naws and Announcements.

1.20 p.m. Muskal Interlade,

2.15 p. “Living in the Paoli Having a

Lip p.m. Eavel.

Transmission 3.

(0.8.0., 6.5.1, 0.8.D.)

10 p.m. Ulg Ben. A Racial by North

Country Folk-Bongs.

.10.16 p.m. The Bournemouth

Municipal

Orchestra.

11.25 pm. "Four-fooled Things." A solles- tion of words and male about animals, and a few thoughts about the animals' possible polat f view.

11.5

m. The News and Announcementu Bromwich Ness Slanal at it 1.3. 17.15 am. The U.D.C. Dance Orchestra directed by Kvary fluit.

13.30 am. "Down to the Bee in Ship

Bee Communication: 8. Rannlog the Bhip (1), Liners,"

12,5 m. The B.B.C. Dance..........Orchesita

"(cont'd),