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Hongkong, Thursday, Nov. 19, 1925.
MALARIA,
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have to be carried out. But that
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1925,
ls all. We can appreciate the fact SHREDS AND PATCHES.
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Not much is known he was badly wounded, and is locally of Stanley Mel quite a new type of politician. bourne Bruce who has
There will be many who emerged victorious in the recent
will echo Sir Matthew Australian elections. His middle name is taken from the city of his birth. He was a famous Cam bridge rowing "Blue" of the early part of the century. He rowed at in the Cambridge crew which achieved a notable victory in 1904. He likewise coached the successful crew ten-years later. He served with distinction in the war, when not built?
TOOK FRIGHT.
Nathan'a regret that the. Post Office has no clock tower. The Shreds man has before him. from so far back as 1906, a view showing the Post Office building as it was originally planned; and there is shown a beautiful tower with a clock in It. Why was it.
that to mitigate the mosquito nuisance entirely we should need "to get into Chins." That is I'm- possible. But the day is coming S.M.B. when the enlightened sanitarian's of China and those of Hongkong and other places will join hands in a concerted effort to reduce the pest to a minimum. Meanwhile the labouring and poor classes are with us, providing reservoirs, and, by the conditions which prevall making malaria an ever present The re- and disturbing element. solution carried at the meeting is- not very determined in character. "The Board respectfully recom- mends that the Government take such steps as are possible to undertake a thorough and compre- hensive anti-malarial campaign." So does the public......In any event, the discussion will have done good if it only draws atten-
The evasion, of a police searcher! In presenting the statement of tion to the danger of malaria, and at Sai Wan Ho led to the arrest accounts for 1924 and a report of to the fact that some are imprag-of a man on auspicion of having the Society's work during the first nated when a little trouble would been concerned in a robbery nine months of 1925, the Council have obviated the greater one. In which took place there earlier in of the Society of St. Vincent de
the day.
Paul feel that they can again ap- some things it is every man's He was taken to the police peal with confidence to the gen "look out." Mosquitoes may be station and at an identification erosity of the Hongkong public on one of them.
parade was picked out by one of the occasion of the street sale of the inmates of a house in Tai On roses on Wednesday, December 2 Street as the man who came in and at the 42nd al fresco fête company with three others when which will be held on December 6. KOWLOON SHOOTING. the master of the house was away. In spite of the reflection of the
ACCUSED COMMITTED TO SESSIONS..
SAI WAN HO ROBBERY SEQUEL..
FIVE YEARS' SENTENCE.
WORK OF MERCY.
ACTIVITIES OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES, ....
to be to
In evidence at the Criminal prevailing conditions in South Sessions this morning the woman China upon Hongkong, the de- said that the prisoner had been serving nature of the appeal will armed with a dagger, had taken doubtless ensure the generous rings from her and gagged her. support with which it has met in An amah ran to a little iron bridge previous years from the public of The three men arrested in connee outside the room adjacent to the the Colony. For the worthy. tion with the shouting affair at street and called "gave life" The nature of the charitable work car- Chatham Roadi on Friday night prisoner tried to drag her back but ried out by the Society were again before, the Kowloon was unsuccessful and the robbers appreciated one has only Magistrate yesterday, when ovi-then took fright and ran away. examine the report and statement dence of the shooting at Sergeand When the police called they found of accounts in which every tran Clarke was taken and details were that two daggers had been cast saction carried out in connection given as to the arrest of the two away as the men left, also wire with the works of charity under the aegis of the Society is clearly men at the evidence of. Captain and wood to be used for gags, · Jolr.
The prisoner was arrested after set out.. Mr. Les d'Almada appeared for evading a police searcher who fired Over $23.000 was handled by the man charged with unlawful at him and brought him down the Society during 1924 and the possession of a revolver and shout Nothing was found on him and largest asum expended was for re- ing at Sergeant: Clarke, Another when charged with complicity in lief in money and provisions, the mun was charize with unlawful the robbery he said "I did not application of this following visits paid to the homes of the know she had been robbed." passession of the revolver. The
poor. It should be borne in mind The jury convicted and the
case against the third man was one prisoner was sentenced to five that in this as well as in other
of unlawful assembly, and this was adjourned for a week to be dealtyears' hard labour. with summarily.
Capt. L. D. Joll, tastified to! being the owner of the revolver, which when he went to camp he bit in a drawer. The second accused was previously engaged by him as oook, and had borne a very good character.
Mrs. Joll gavo evidence of hand- ing, over to the police the revolver
CRUEL CONSTABLE.
SERIOUS
ASSAULT ON OLD MAN,
JAIL WITHOUT OPTION.
aspects of the work there is; no distinction of nation, class or creed and that no work of charity, Is foreign to the Society,
POOR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION. Another branch of work in which the Society is particularly interested is that of educating the children of the poor, to ensure the efficient management of which, an Education Sub-Committee has been organised by the Council of
An Indian Constable was charg-the Society, their chief duties be-` which she found in a drawer, after ed at the Kowloon Magistracy this ing to examine and sign the week- a second search. The weapon was morning with misconducting him-ly school reports of the students, at the rear of the drawer and wit-self and assaulting an old man at to look after their moral and in- ness could not say whether it was No. 112, Appiu Street, on Octo-tellectual improvement and to pre there when she first searched but ber 15.
vide them with clothes, shoes,
take their duties seriously, and
was of the opinion, after the The evidence way that at books, stationery, etc., when the result is more often than not, arrests of the two men in the house, 8.30 p.m. on the day in question required. It is gratifying to note some illuminating discussion on a that the revolver was put in the an Indian constable visited the that this new branch has been first floor of the house to search working very successfully to the pressing medical or sanitary pro-drawer after her first search.
Lient. Anoots, R.A., stated that for opium. An old man objected satisfaction of both teachers and blem. The debate on malaria and
on being naked by Mrs. Joll, on to this intrusion and was struck parents.
Owing to many of the poor hav- the suppression of the mosquito at their return to the house, to close Rcross the head with a stick by the the last meeting of the Board was the doors and windows, before rear constable. Police whistles were ing to live in small premises and certainly interesting The Pre-Ting, in case the servants should blown, and a Chinese constable congested areas constituting not sident of the Board was admirably gain admittance, though-them, hesaw the defendant in the street only a danger to their own health concise and convincing in his noticed a leg protruding from under when he should have been on duty but a grave moral danger for their
at Cheung Sha Wan
children, it is gratifying to note Becount of the work done by his bed in a spare room. The mant
Defendant, denied the charge that improvements have been Department, and in view of the 48 pulled out and was followed: by and also an allegation that he left effected and flats and cubicles in
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the second and third.
The two accused were committed for trial at the Criminal Sessions.
DEATH INQUIRY.
WEST POINT
less overcrowded districts have
been secured.
another constable with whom he went on duty at 8 pm
His Worship said that he had Other works of mercy under- gone carefully into the case and taken by the Society are in con- could see no possibility, of defen- nection with temporary relief and dant's innocence on the evidence passages to Europeans and other before him. A fine of $25, or one destitutes from outside
the month's hard labour, was imposed Colony, the relief of the aged poor on the first charge. In respect of of the Colony at the Home in the second charge. His Worship Kowloon Tong, general medical said that a very serious assault help and supply of clothing and had been committed on an old shoes, and finding for the children Af a death inquiry conducted by man, and he could not give defen-under their care suitable employ
ment. In this connection most Mr. H. E. Lindsell at the Central dant the option of a fine. The valuable emergency work was Magistracy yesterday, the fury sentence was two months' hard
MYSTERY.
MURDER OR SUICIDE:
fact that the problem is an almost insoluble one more so when money to cover the cost of con- tinuous "propaganda” is limited the Sanitary Department deserve some praise for what they have done and are doing. But we And it discouraging to read that people who decide to "live in the country" must do so at their own risk. In other words that they are foolish to think of doing so where no
were asked to determine whether | labour on this charge. anti tomiurial work has been done. it was a case of suicide or murder. This is discouraging to those who The inquiry was into the death desire to see the New Territories of a Chinese who was found in a peopled, sa na to relieve some of house at West Point, with his throat cut and a chopper beside the congestion to be found on the him. While Investigations made island where, if we understand by the police practically satisfied Dr. Koch aright, malaria is to be them that the man's injuries were found on account of this conres self-inflicted, Dr. E.P. Minnett con- sidered from an examination.made tion, particularly among the of the body and the nature of the labouring classes, who, presum-wounds that there was less pos- ably being of the lower classes," afbility of them being self-inflict ed. There had been three distinct are riddled with malaria, and
blows on the neck Death was in the fact the reservoirs OL
stated to have been caused by „From this it must be
haemorrhage and shock that the Hving conditions labouring cia and that if t
Bisto bè
After further evidence the in- quiry was adjourned till Wednes day afternoon,
REDS ON TRIAL.
SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY
DENIED.
(Reuter's Servios.).
London, November 18,
done in the strike for which the Society has been especially thank- ed by the Government.
MEXICO'S DEBTS.
(Reuter'a American Service, )
New York, November 18,
It is learnt that a ffodified
At the resumption of the trial of the 12 Communists at the Old agreement for the resumption of Mexico's external debt of five Bailey, the case for the prosecu the payment of interest on tion closed. defence and submitted that the ary has been approved by the Sir Henry Slesser opened the hundred million dollars, in Jazu- documents or extracts from de- English, French, Dutch and Svelas fendants' newspapers cited by the sections of the International Com prosecution did not constitute mitte of Bankers. seditious libels, and said defen dants had not conspired to publish them.
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