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THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1926.
WHAMPOA PIRATES,
U.S. SHIP "EELBECK" ANNOYED,
ATTACK BY NIGHT.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
CHINESE LABOUR,
MODERN STANDARDS STILL PREMATURE,
MA
COUNTRY, NOT READY.
(Reuter's Service.)
Geneva, June 2 At the Labour Conference Mr.
Chinton. June 1. The American steamer "Eel- beck," loading 1,200 tons of gen- eral cargo about one mile from Whampoo, has been annoyed on two consecutive nights by river pirates. The night before last, the pirates charged the lighters surrounding the freighter, scared all the coolies onto the ship's deck, and obtained considerable loot, Now the lighter coolies refuse to work after 4 p.m. The "Belbeck"
Condition of Women, is loading direct for New York,
Miss Bondfeld. rejoiced at the has a crew made up entirely of Americans, and belongs to the improvements that had already India and Japan occurred in American Pioneer Company.
The "Chung Sun," the ferry the result of the work of bont pirated about three weeks the Labour Conferences, but she age, has been returned to Cantor, till viewed with horror the reports. of the condition of women in China and with it seven of the people who were taken prisoner and held
ANTI-LEPROSY CAMPAIGN. for ransom by the pirates.
INDIA'S FIRST YEAR'S RESEARCH WORK. Simla, May 4-It is just more than a year since an anti-leprosy campaign was inaugurated by Lord Reading's public appeal for funds in its aid. The work that (From Our Own Correspondent.) has been carried out so far by the Indian Council of the British Empire Leprosy Association is ambodied in a short report. Pakkai, Kongmoon, May 25. Pirates are active at Kamchuk. The estimated number of lepers They threaten to blow up all pass-in India is 200,000, which is four ing vessels by the use of mines in times that of the West African the river. At first, the tow- Colonies and about seven times boata proposed to stop, After negotiation, each coat is to pay the pirates $100 per month for
safe conduct."
The "Chung Sun" was discover ed about sixty miles from here by a form of 100 country guards, who gave battle to the pirates, and drove them away.
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Monthly Pay.
C.I. MISSION.
SIXTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATED.
BAND WHO LANDED IN 1856.
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Shanghai, May 27.--Yesterday was the sixty-first anniversary of the sailing of the "Lammermuir
from London
currying, among
others, a band of twenty-two mis.
sionaries and their children whe
were the nucleus of the China
Inland Mission, 1427
organisation
which how extends over most of Northern. Central. and Western.
case
the
COURTS OF INQUIRY.
SHOULD THEY BE MODIFIED?
THE CHINA MAIL.
not
MISS LEE WHITE.
SUES MR. WILFRED. COTTON FOR WRONGFUL ARREST:
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Inquiry must depend on the cir cumstances of each case, but........... it would be well if greater uniformity could be obtained in this matter, as at present the Captain is faced with the life-
A Melbourne message states: It may come as a distinct sur-long uncertainty of accidents prise to many British semen on which may arise to the most skil- that Mies Lee White, the come the China Coast, where practical-ful and cautious, but he is also dienne, has issued a writ against ly the slightest casualty to a faced with the uncertainty as to Mr. Wilfred Cotton, the theatricul British vessel promptly calls forth whether a comparatively trivial producer for 23,500 damages for the cumbersome, machinery of an accident may result in his profes- wrongfully causing her Chu, in a speech, assured the con- official Court of Inquiry, that the sional ruin, simply because it arrested and imprisoned.
This action is a sequel to the ference that the Chinese Govern assembling of the Court of In- happened near a port where the ment continued to show a keen inquiry which sat recently in Lon-authorities are prone to order an arrest of Miss Lee White and her terust in applying at an early date don to inquire into the loss of the Inquiry on a very slender pre-husband, Mr. Clay Smith, the standarda laid down by the in- British s.s. "Antinoe" on January text, which the authorities in March 5, for their alleged failure
might
consider to satisfy a court judgment order ternational labour organisation, but 28 last, in a terrific storm in the London modern labour standards could not Atlantic, has called forth vigor-suficiently important to warrant ing them to Bay M:. Wilfred Cot- ous protests from Shipping inter- the expenditure of public funds on ton £3.600, said to have been ad-
The objection an Inquiry. No finding of an vanced by him to finance a tour. wisely be applied until China had
Both were subsequently rolensed reached the stage of modern induuests at Home. trialism. He hoped that China in the case of the "Antinoe" ap- overseas Court affecting a Board would be liberated from the yoke pears to be that the facts of the of Trade certificate should be on security advanced by a friend. were well-known, as the ratified without the concurrence They appeared before the registrar of unequal Treaties
master of the rescuing steamer, of the Board of Trade in London, in Bankruptcy, when Mr. Clay American s... President Similarly, if the Dominions wish Smith is reported to have stated Roosevelt," had given the world it, no Colonial certificates should that his abilities wore £7,511 and the full story of the last hours of be dealt with in the United that he had no assets.
The bankruptcy judge at the the "Antinoe" and the indomitable Kingdom until ratification by the
Government which time made an order permitting struggle of her crews It is con- Dominion tended that the facts, too, con-issued it... The British Mer-them to continue their tour for six cerning the ship, her equipment chant Shipping Act provides that weeks. The six weeke were up.
Alas White and her husband left and loading were also available. Inquiries shall not be held in and hence the "costly Inquiry buildings used ordinarily as a England in the latter part of 1924 which took place seems somewhat Police Court no other accommoda- for an extended Far Eastery tour. a work of supererogation. It is tion is available......The past. They appeared in Hangkong early were certain tion of a man who has done his last year. Mr. Wilfred Cotton is true that there allegations by members of the best in the few seconds at his dis- the husband of Miss Ada Reeve, crew as to the condition of the posal arraigned before a tribunal for whom he acted as manager for vessel, but these were thoroughly which will have hours in which to many years. and clearly proved to have been adjudicate upon his action, is without foundation; and it really bitter enough, without the addi- seems that some simpler means tional stigma of a Police Court The whole official attitude to- of sifting the matter could have atmosphere."
"All the Court been found. achieved was to emphasise, anwards Courts of Inquiry into the
the circumstances attendant truth, that "Antince" succumbed to a storm casualties to British ships calls. its for a wide revision, a revision almost unprecedented in
which will have to come, яooner: severity.
But on the China Const it does or later. In the meantime, it is that of the East African Colonies, not need a casualty of the serious not too much to hope that in cases ginald Denny in "Skinners Dress In South Africa the figure is about ness of that which befell the of trivial accidents no Court of Sult." 3,600, which is thrice that of the "Antinoe" to bring the fall Inquiry will be assembled unless Straits Settlements. Thus, India machinery of a Naval Court of either the conduct of the master contains the largest number of Inquiry, into operation. There on his officers or some other seri- was one case only a few months ous issue is at stake; and that lepers of countries within the Bri- tish Empire. The appeal of Lord ago where a British vessel went where it is found necessary to Reading in January, 1925, to ashore for a couple of hours and hold an Inquiry, it will not be gether with the appeals of the was refloated without the slight-held in a place where criminals Governors of Provinces, and est damage having been sustain- and others are wont to stand their Princess in their own States, re-ed: yet there was a full official trial Naval Courts of Inquiry in v. Capeil's pupils at City Hall, 280 sulted in a handsome collection of Court of Inquiry, at which the Shanghai invariably take place in pm. Rs. 20,22.000. Bombay contri-conduct of the master and his one of the Court rooms of the Bri- June 9 The pupils of Miss as thoroughly in-tish Consulate, and we know for a Violet Capell will dance at the "buted Rs. 3,10.000, the Punjab officers » was
Rs. 2,17,000, the Central Pro-vestigated as though they were fact that many officers who have City Hall, at 6.10 p.m.
suspected of one of the most had their conduct investigated serious offences against the ethics there strongly resent the atten- The Merchant dant stigma which, while probably of humanity. Shipping Act is supremely inde- neither implied nor intended, is finite on the subject, and in no always present to some degree. case does it say when an Inquiry shall be held. All it does is to say under what circumstances an In the Inquiry may be held.
obvious
vinces Rs. 2,13,000, the United Provinces Rs. 1,84,000, Bihar and Orissa Rs. 1.71,000, Madras Rs. Central India, Rs. 1,58,000, 128,000, Bengal Pa. 1,01,000 Other Provinces and Indian States also contributed. The appeal was closed in January this year but in addition to the sum collected, China, and has nearly 1,200 per Mr. Jammajay Chubildas of Bom-rase of Courts of Inquiry into bens under ite control. Special services were held yesterday morn
bay promised a donation of Rs. 1 casualties to British ships in Ear ing and afternoon in the mission lakh from the state of his father Eastern waters, the great majori- compound in Woosung Road, which to be spent in building a skin clinic ty are convened under Section were attended by
in the island of Bombay. Nego 480 of the Merchant Shipping 21 large number of missionaries connected tiations are in progress for utilis Act, which states that with the C.I.M., and other missions. ing that offer.
There were three persons pre- sent at yesterday's ceremony whe were witness of the cailing of the "Lammermuir" on May 26, 1966, There is one other in Shanghai whe made the trip, but she was unable to be present yesterday on account
Plan of Campaign, The Executive Committee con- sidered the plan of action and manner of campaign. It decided to capitalise the entire collections and to spend only the revenue thereof, and, accordingly, resolved that for the immediate future the of age.
The twenty-two sailed under the Council should concentrate on (1) guidance of Mr. J. Hudson Taylor, research; (2) provision of short founder of the C.L.M., and had no courses of training for medical men in the diagnosis and treat- written agreement of any kind as to their means of subsistence onment of leprosy; and (3) pro- arrival in China, a country which was then regarded na barbarous in the extreme by persons at Home The trip, according to accounts which still exist,
paganda. The two points made clear during the research work so far carried out and which form the basis of teatment are:- was peaceful (1) That leprosy; as it is found. until the ship reached the China in India, is capable of easy diag sens, where she encountered two nosis by clinical signs in its early typhoons, which so battered the stages and that patients whose vessel that all hands, included the diseases is diagnosed early and women, had to work the pumps. who undergo efficient treatment The "Lammermuir" was towed into for a sufficient period under rea- Shanghai on September 30, 1860, in sonably favourable circumstances sen-worn condition.
have every hope of recovery and unless at any future time their general health is lowered they can look forward to continued freedom from all signs of disease.
When it was known that the mis- sionary band intended to go into the interior of China, they had to "encounter "a"great deal of criticism fiom, un uneyrapathetic foreign population here, and it was even hinted in, the local press that they were not quite sane. The success of their work, however, can. to-day be seen on all sides, and that band of pioneers deserves the respect which is usually given to heroes.
(2) That any treatment for leprosy will not go very far unless it puts in the forefront the neces sity of raising and maintaining a general resistance of body, both by avoiding other debilitating diseases and by due attention to exercise, "diet, and climatic and hygienic conditions.
A Court (in this act called n' naval court) may be summon- ed by any officer in command of any of His Majesty's ships on any foreign station, or, in the absence of such an officer by! any "Consular officer, in the following cases p---...
(1) Whenever a complaint which appears to that officer to require immediate investigation is made to him by the master of any. British ship, or by certificated mate, or by any one or more of the seamen be longing to any such ship:
(H) Whenever the interest of the owner of any British ship or the cargo thereof appears to the officer to require ft; and
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"THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRIT WORLD?
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Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL"
Entertainments,
June 3-Queen's Theatre; Re-
June 3-Star Theatre: Low Cody in "Revelation."
June 3-World Theatre: Brond- way Rose."
June 5-Special King's Birthday dinner dance in Hongkong Hotel roof garden, & p.m. to midnight.
June 5-Dancing display by Mies
Sports.
June 6 Third Race Meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club, at tha Race Course, Happy Valley.
June 12-Members of the "Euro- pean YM.C.A., Kowleon, hold their frat bathing picnic.
Auctions.
June 4 At No. 90 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Lammert Bros, will auc tion household furniture, 11 a.m.
June
London, May 10-Existence of the spirit world has been proved,
4-Household furniture Sir Oliver Lodge, famous scientist and leading British spiritualist, de- at No. 2 Armand Building (ground. clared to a church convention, floor), Kowloon, by Lammert Bros.,
"The world is still young," he2.45 p.m. said, "and has many millions of "Company Meeting. years to go. Already we are be- ginning to know of intelligences that we had suspected."
"I believe that the existence of the spiritual world is established. The mind can and does operate apart from the organs of the body. Those living in the flesh and those living in the spirit alone are not separated as people think. Al are equally at home.".
June 10-Forty-afth meeting of Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., at Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's
offices. Podder St.. noon,
June 10-Annual Meeting of China Association in the board som of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd... 5.15 p.m.
Miscellaneous.
June 3-King's Birthday parade at Happy Valley, 9 a.m. "Fish Lan tern" Processton, 9.45 p.m.
Sir Oliver says that churches are making it impossible for modern
June 3--Reception at Govern- church-goers to follow their beliefsment House in honour of the King's because they try to force people birthday. to too many things people cannot believe.
that modern
June 7-General meeting of the Hongkong Philharmonic Society at the Cathedral Hall, 5.80 p.m.
"Perhaps nations will be a little June 14-Second annual meeting more shy of asking for revenge of members of Hongkong Angling when they realise that to do so is Club in the Board Room of Messrs. not a proof of virility."-Maude Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd.,
(iii) Whenever any. British ship is wrecked, abandoned or otherwise lost at or near the place where that officer may be, or whenever the crew or part Royden. of the crew of any British ship which has been wrecked, aban. "doned or lost abroad arrive at
that place.
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The point of view of the ship- master in this important matter. a matter affecting his very live lihood, is admirably summed up by Captain Coombs in "The Nation'a Key Men," as follows:---
"Apart from the slight interest the Board of Trade shows in a youth's indentures and the very close attention it pays to his subse quent examinations for certi- Regarding training, it is con- ficates of competency, it shows templated that, in the first in- but little interest in his career, stance, doctors will be drawn in It is only when disaster comes At Messrs Lammert Brothers batches from various Provinces to and the question of blame arises Sale rooms yesterday afternoon, undergo a short course of train- that the Board of Trade really No. 49, Bonham Strand was aoking at the School of Tropical comes in contact...
PROPERTY AUCTIONS.
In the
by public auction. The property Medicine and Hygiene, Calcutta. event of a casualty resulting in has an area of 14130 square feet, These doctors would on return to loss of life, or serious material a Crown rent of 185,75, and a 999. their respective Provinces be damage, the Merchant Shipping years'. lease from 1862
placed in charge of clinics, or Act provides for the setting up Commencing at the upset price otherwise employed where they of a formal investigation into the " $50,000, bidding was fairly would train others, so that in the matter. There is......room brisk and the property was knock-course of time a large propor- for improvement in this connec ed down to Miss Lee Yan-jeung tion of the medical profession tion. The actual ordering of for $54,600.
would possess an expert know this formal investigation seems to The Ming Yuen Gardens and ledge of the latest treatment of He, in practice, In the discretion Nos. 21 to 24 Hill Road, also ad- the disease.
of the Department of the Sollet-- vertised for sale, were withdrawn. Two classes were held in tora of the Marine Department The China Auction Rooms dis November when 24 doctors at-of the Board of Trade. Very posed of Nos. 201 and 203 Portland tended, in all 10 of whom were considerable delays arise before it treet, Youmati, the property hav-aont by the Central Provinces. It is known if an Inquiry is to be ing an area of 1,872 square feet, is proposed to hold two classes held. Apart from the mental with an annual Crown rent of each year, but, in order to divide anguish of those concerned which 70.95 and 31.28 respectively. them more equally throughout is sometimes almost intolerable, Bidding rose from $10,000 to the year, they will probably be it frequently happens that con- $12,800, at which figure Mr. Jul held in November and in Febru- tact may be lost with very Cheung, of 26. Bonham Strand äry, both of which months the material witnesses, The, deci Wert, became the purchaser. weather in Calcutta is tolerable. I sign us to the necessity of an
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