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HONGKONG INCIDENTS.
Former Customs Commissioner's Memoirs.
How the Hongkong market was sometimes manipulated by means of fast-sailing vessels which got ahead of the Mail is described in a recently published book on the Chinese Customs Service by Paul King, some time Commissioner of Customs in China.
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"In the old opium days at cables. This was to prevent Hongkong," he writes. the forcible removal by a passing
Glengyle' left Calcutta a day typhoon."? after the Indian Mall and arrived When Mr. King first made his outside Hongkong a day or so voyage to the East as a junior he before her, remaining in hiding had a letter of introduction- hear the Lye-Moon Pass. Her tickets for soup they were called first mate, disguised as a Chinese. in those days to Sir Arthur landed alone, and delivered mail Kennedy, the Governor of Hong- advices to the firm that owned kong, and spent a pleasant after- her. When the Indian Mail had noon at Government House play- rrived and the letters were dising croquet with his daughter and tributed in the usual way the a young curate, like himself, just Glengyle also came into port and out from home.... registered her arrival..."
Meanwhile the "Beutipos sidentes of the latest news had been enabled to anticipate, intel- ligently to anticipate,' market conditions, very much to her own benefit.
"She was a beautiful built ship and her yacht like' lines gave her "what in those days was very great speed-of course she carried no |heavy cargo. But the installa- Lion of telegraphic communication Spoilt her little game, and she sank to the level of the ordinary coast boat. Regrets at her loss. were more sentimental than real, as she was an expensive boat to run and for her size a small carrier. Stil her anchor chains and deck fittings were a sight for the gods, and no wonder hér loss nearly broke Captain Martin's heart." Peace be to her bones 'neath the China Sea."
Mr. King was acting Commia- sioner of the Kowloon Customs for a period and has some inter- esting observations to make on Hongkong past and present,
"Hongkong was a very differ- ent-looking place to the present city. One landed from a six- oared gig at steps just below the Clock Tower. The old Club and the old Hongkong Hotel were close by, both very comfortable places if not quite so much up-to- date as the present buildings. But deep verandahs
jat valuable adjuncts in the almost perpetual heat of Southern China and with majestic slow-moving punkahs had much in them to in-- vite comparison, not altogether to their disadvantage, with the blaze of electric lamps and the whirl of mechanical fans which often fail either to soothe or to. cool.
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BRIAND SPEAKS.
ATTITUDE TO THE NEW GOVERNMENT.
A TRUCE.
No Chinese War During Festivities.
LULL FOR SEVEN DAYS..
(Reuters Service.)
Shanghai, January 23, The Chinese pape announce
that a seven day once China New Year has been declared between Lu Yung-barang and Chih Sich-yuan
LOCAL OPTION.
DUTCH BILL AGAIN
THROWN GUT.
(Reuter's Service.)
The Hague, January The first Chamber Had again rejected the Bill introduing local, option "regarding alcoholic Iliquors.
WATCH YOUR NAILS.
MEDICAL
CONGRESS ADVICE,
"DANGER OF LEPROSY.
Disease Scratched Into The System,
Care of the nails : one of the most important of hygienic principles and in a lectur- on leprosy delivered to medical conference indicated the terrible consequences which might follow neglect in delegates at the Hongkong University this morning Dr. Muir
this respect.
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Dr. Muir, who was the recipient tropics, he stated, was that the of one of the honorary degrees little clothing worn made it easier bestowed at the opening of the for the nails to come into contact conference on Tuesday, has been with the akin.. working on leprosy research work for years. At this morning's lecture he said that the baccili of leprosy entered the blood in the majority of cases by getting under the nails and being scratched into the system.
One of the reasons why the dis case was more prevalent in the
PRINCE OF WALES TO VISIT THE ARGENTINE.
The surprise of the King's speech at the opening of Parliament was the announcement that the Prince of Wales is to visit the Argentine this year at the invitation of the Fresident and Government. The Argentine Minister in London has stated that the date of the visit and its duration has not yet been fixéd. The Prince's acceptance, he said, would give the greatest pleasure to the people of the Argentine. Our photograph shows His Royal Highness with the President of the Argentine during the latter's visit to London last year.
SAVING ST. PAUL'S,
LONDON COUNCIL TAKES LEAD
ANOTHER FINE DONATION.
(Reuter's Service,)
The court of the Common
DRASTIC NEED.
BACK TO GOLD.
BRITAIN'S CURRENCY
PROBLEMS.
POSITION REVIEWED.
(Reuter's Service.).
London, January 22,
KILLED BY ROBBERS.
"FATE OF ENGLISHMAN IN
GUATEMALA, "
ASSAILANTS DECAMP;
(Reuter's American Service.)
GERMAN CABINET.
(Reuter's Service.)
What to many will appear a somewhat startling claim was put He said forward by Dr. Muir. that leprosy was not a fatal dis ease and less than four per cent. of infected people died of it Its chief dread for people who got it or were likely to get it was its lack of fatality. Many people who had
been to him for diagnosis when told that they were not suffering from it had told him that they had quite made up their mind to commit suicide if they had found they had the disease.
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A belief which the lecturer said was common even to medical men and "for which there was foundation was that lepers with sores and ulcers were the most dangerous. To test this he had once examined "such patients in the largest leper hospital in India' |and of the 250 examined only, three
had the leper baccill in them.
Paradoxical though it seemed, they were lepers yet not suffering from the disease of leprosy, They were merely in a similar condition to people, who were marked from the effects of small-pox.. "You would not think of opening an infectious disensek hospital for pock-marked people." said Dr. Muir "But," he added, “a man is not in law a leper in india upless he has an ulcer
That leprosy can only get a hold on a person when the resistance of the body has been lowered, by some other disease was another hypothesis put forward by the lecturer, and he said that much of the work being done in the com- bating of the dread disease was by treating the patients for dis-- eases which lowered the resist- ance, particularly syphilis and hookworm.
In nearly all cases the disease manifested itself first through the nerves such as by superficial anaesthesia. This could be ascer« tained by means of skin tests, touching parts of the arms or legs and asking the patient to indicate the parts.. If there was infection there would be parts he would not know had been touched.
The reason why leprosy had not been studied, much by the medical profession was that it had been regarded as an afffiction sent from God for some sin in a former life, Bald Dr. Muir.
The delegates are studying phases of the treatment of leprosy during the rest of the Session.
JOHNNY DUNDEE. BARRED FROM FIGHTS IN
FRANCE.
(Reuter's Service) ·
Paris, January, 22. Notwithstanding the arrange- ments made for the fight at Bretonnel on January 21 for which thousands of tickets had been sold, Johnny Dundee sailed for New York on January 17 wirelessing en route that his heaty departure was due to his wife's illness...
PEAK RAIL A 'DREAM.' "However, one must not be Laudator temporis acti, only in {" the bustle and bustle of daily life as now.obtaining in the Far East one looks back affectionately at the calm dignity of old time 'Raffles' at Singapore, and at the quiet and spacious interiors' of
Boston, January 22. a bye-gone age in Hongkong. The
*An Englishman named Peak Railway was still a dream. I Council of the City of London Messrs. Montagu's annual bul.] scaled the Rock on foot with to-day voted 5,000 guiness for the lion letter says that when the cost Wiggine, an inspector in the chair following, and came down St. Paul's Cathedral Restoration of living, labour, and raw material United Fruit Company, has been the same way. A few hardy Fund.
on the Continent becomes adjusted murdered in Guatemala by rob- pioneers had bungalows on the
to the depreciated exchanges and bers, who decamped with $2,000. mountain-side. I noticed one
relations between employers and Later. bungalow with
roof securely
employed inBritain have improved, moored to the soil with stout The 5,000 guineas voted by the the return of the United Kingdom City Council to the St. Paul's to an effective gold standard will be much simplified. Several Euro- Cathedral preservation fund is in|
pean countries, for instance addition to the £4,000 already Switzerland land Holland, are now
Berlin, January 22. contributed. The chief com- considering a return to the gold
The Reichstag has passed a moner, proposing the resolution parity, non must the anxiety of
South Africa to make its gold vote of confidence in the Govern- in this connection, said it was in standard euective be overlooked. ment by, 246 to 160 votes. cumbent on the Corporation to The lett dwells on the absorp The Democrats abstained from give a
lead to the movement to tion of go by India which is in voting and the left wing of the voted against the restore a monument dear not strong cost to the present Centrists merely to Londoners but to the problemt of the anomalous position
amall acquation by Europe. The motion: Empire and the, world, as an in-of the Indi currency is hardly centive to people throughout the soluble unit the United Kingdom subject India to a severe rise of is again working freely on the gold internal prices involving new Empire.
standard. Meanwhile the mora A special committee was ap-gold Indiskes, the longer is the demands for increased salaries and pointed to confer with everyone return offthe United Kingdom to wages. Moreover, India being a great importer of gold, they were concerned, including the Dean an extent gold standard de-not able to know what would be the
ferred. A
effect of cheapening gold in terma and Chapter of St. Paul's.
of allver. No ratio was sacrosanct. NOT WANTED. India's Problem.
They must find one which was {"Polhi, January 22.
| attainable and 'could be maintain- U.S. MINISTER TO IRISH egislative Assembly, ed. The time had not yet arrived
FREE STATE. kett Introducing the to constitute a currency.com. mendment bill with a „mittee. He bill was in the nature (Reuter's American Service.) iding a hundred crores of interim legislation to avoid stand eighty-five crores possible risks, but the position of Washington, January. 22.
kexonsive","monetary, the Indian currency · was " Batia- The House of Representatives ome critics want. factory and would remain so even has rejected Mr. Boyland's»» Bill was still if the proposed maximum of empowering the President to ap- tol's Hundred, drares was reached a point a Minister to the Irish Free
The debate was adjourned:
(Reuteria Service.)
Paris, January 22. Before a packed Chamber eager to hear his first tribune speech
since his fall, the ex-Premier, M. Briand, killed doubts as to his atti- tude toward the Government by expressing his entire approval of its foreign policy except as regard the Vatican. He declared that it Councillor Pakeman said that drastic measures must be taken, WAS France's interest to be offi-even to the extent of closing the cially represented at the Vatican edifice for a considerable period. as at Moscam and Geneva the He hoped the committee would seats of the three great inter- approach the Government besides nationals PANTALLA the Cathedral authorities.
He urged M. Herriot to sub- It is noteworthy that the public ordinate Party considerations to has already subscribed £144,000 rational interests, although it to the St. Paul's Cathedral preser- meant a breach of the election vation fund through the columns pledge given by the Left Parties of The Times.
The French Boxing Federation has decided that Dundee and his manager, Johnson, be permanent- ly barred from engaging in fights in France. The Federation has appealed to all.countries affiliated with the Bonting Union to impose a similar penalty.
[Dundee is the featherweight champion of the world at boxing.]
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