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DRUGS HAUL.
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H.K.S.P.C.A.
LOCAL HUMANE WORK IN JUNE.
INSPECTORS' REPORT:
The report of work done during
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A large quantity of prepared opium and cocaine was discovered June by the inspectors of the Hong- ingeniously hidden in the panel kang Society for the Prevention of ling of the smoking room on board Cruelty to Animale reads
Transport. the 8.8. "Kutsang" which arrived from Amoy on Sunday,
It was reported to Captain' V. Mc C. Liddell that a needed replacing in the panelling. Signe of tampering with being noticeable, the master ordered a stretch of the panelling to be re- moved and found the druga hid- den in the cavity.
screw
Revenue officers were called in later and made a further search of the vessel without result. In quiries are being made, but, so far no arrests have been made.
The opium weighed 2,300 taels and the cocaine amounted to 25 pounds.
THE MODESTY STRIKE.
MARINERS PLEA FOR DECENCY.
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Cattle in junks and ferries Cattle. ashore Sheep in junk Cages of birds Degs for anle
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STRONG PROTEST.
NAVAL OFFICER'S DISMISSAL ASKED FOR,
'CLOSURE" OF WUCHOW.
Canton's Despatch to British Consul-General.
To the British Consul-Generaloin Canton, the Ministry of Foreign Affaire has protested against the 108 closure of the port of Wuchow, on the West River, by the Naval gun- 29 boats, sa a sequel to the death of 250 Mr. J. M. Philips of the up-country
staff of the A.P.C..
851 26
As published in the “China Mail” last week, the British commander 110 naked for pilots, which were ulti- 946 mately forthcoming, after consider.
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in Taipo
12
Cats for sale in Taipe
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against the mosquito but against all else that tends to breed disease and lower the "vitality of the community. In every school | attention will automatically be given to instruction in the pre- vention of disease and in the ways of the mosquito and its equally deadly neighbour-the house fly. the telegrams recently The children of a generation America describing the necessity
of compelling seamen to undergo Monkeys hence will be veritable walking | an 'extra medical examination encyclopaedias on public health stripped naked and herded together problems. Even amongst the will read the following comment Pigs illiterate masses there will be more enlightenment on the things that matter the "things that keep down mortality and sickness --and for that, too, the Departing New York who, in complying Markets ment of Public Health will receive every credit. Just now; of course -in this year of grace 1926-it
COLONY'S HEALTH,
Poultry, crates
able ne oblation, but not till the movements to close the port had actually been made,
"Illegal Action."
In addition to protesting. Mr. Chen Yu-jen (Mr. Eugane Chen), acting Foreign Minister, also claims 2,693 an apology and an indemnity, and 12,959 asks for the dismissal and punish- 2,107 ment of Commander J. U. P. 580 Fitzgerald, R.N.. the Senior Naval. 1 Offeer, who was on H.M.S. Taran- 1 tule."
The "China Mall has received
68
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from the Director of the Bureau
1
of Information, Canton, a copy of
12
Mr. Eugene Chen's despatch to
Exports.
with Interest.
The
Cattle average seafaring man, whether he be American or of any Sheep and goata other nationality, will have nothing Gages of birds but sympathy for the seamen of Monkeys various nationalities on ships visit.)
Visits.
with "the latest American medical Landing place at Kennedy stunt." as it has been appositely Town described by the National Sailors' Poultry depots and Firemen's Union, have to strip Cattle depots
examination began towards the end.
taken the matter up with their
were
Miscellaneous.
rected in
Case investigated on report
Marketa watched, times.
received
Dugs admitted to Home dur-
ing month
H.M.'s Consul-General. Extracts
17 from the communication, which is 192 too long to publish in full, are given 306 below...
239
0.
"To protest to you in the 15 strongest terms against the unex-
8ampled and illegal action of..
€4
Insult to Intelligence.
After a reference to the proceed- pings between the Commissioner for 61 Foreign Affairs, Wuchow, and the 58 S.N.O. the despatch quotes a reply
19 by Commander Fitzgerald. as.
follows:-
84
30.
3
21
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"The rate of $1,800 a week is
all sounds like a fairy story: too | naked and apparently parade whole-Dogs home
sale for a second medical examina- Birdshops good to be true. But we are
tion before they are permitted to Pig pens at Yaumati optimistic, and we are still hopeland on American soll. This im- Railway stations
an insult to my intelligence and ful that one day the general pub- | position of ย second medical
is equivalent to refusing me the right to use the river. This is a lic as well as the entire Press will
violation of treaty rights, which I awaken to the need for a central of May, and is causing great dis-Ignorant crualty cases 'cor-
24 have reported to my Government.'” satisfaction among the crews of Department of Public Health foreign ships, who rightly have Ferries-watched, times
The SN:0; is quoted further and demand it. Then the powers
"Under this special cireum- that be will wonder why such was interesting to note that in the Various representative unions. It
stance I am prepared to pay $15 1 Hongkong currency per diem for not initiated years before and House of Commons on June 16. 3ir
a pilot. Also platae inform them. will apologise for having being Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of
61 that unless they accept this rear 30 sonable rate of wages and supply prodded so often to take action in State for Foreign Affairs, replying Dogs destroyed during month
8two pilots before midnight on June to à number of questions on the Dogs died during month ... this laudable direction.
subject, made an extremely weak Dogs claimed during month
'24 | 22,' shall consider the river vir- answer to the effect that the exa-Dogs sold during month 11tually closed to me." And he add- mination to which British and
ed:-This. I shall regard as a hos- other European seamen
Britannic tile act against His LAST WEEK'S RETURN OF objecting was heid under the
Majesty's Government and shall take the following measures!—' United States Immigration Regu DISEASE.
lations of 1925, and that he did not cedure to be gone through in New from daylight 24th June the part. consider that a useful purpose York by foreign seamen-we are of Wuchow will be entirely closed could be served. by making repres are subjected to the same exaini- flag."
not told whether American seamen to all shipping under the Chinese sentations on the matter, although nation-recalls the great strike of the cases mentioned were rather an exception to the usual practice." It is readily to be understood that, when Havelock Wilson was reads:- the United States, like any other attempting to form the organisa- "This menace elicited an im- tion now known as the Sailors and mediate protest from the Commis- country, is desirous of keeping out, even for a short period, anyone and Firemen's Union, when the famous siener for Foreign Affairs who em- everyone tainted with disease; but Father Hopkins, (known and be-phasised the obvious fact that the what is not cusily to be understood loved by thousands of scamen As Seamen's Union was not a Govern- harbour chaplain at Calcutta in the ment body and its members were is the so-called necessity of com- pelling decent and respectable sea-
'nineties) and the irrepressible wholly private individuals who, by Captain Tupper took up cudgels on Chinese laws, were free to engage behalf of the seamen. It may be or refuse their services to whomso recalled by many, that quite apart ever they pleased; and, with refer- from the demand for increased once to the wages claimed, the wages which was the main cake Commissioner pointed out that the of practically every European na of the strike, another demand was same. were not excessive in view of " tion) before they left their port of the elimination of
& procedure the great increase in the cost of departure, and have also been which British seamen had to living. At any rate the question ing, to be as keen on the The Rev. G. T. Waldegrave examined by the quarantine au- dergo at certain Continental ports of wages, could furnish no possible. slaughter of mosquitoes next conducted the funeral service thorities at New York. This extra such. Sas Hamburg. Rotterdam, morning! Some time ago, in re- yesterday
Protestant examization, conducted, in a man-Antwerp, etc. It seemed that at the Port of Wuchow especially, in ferring to the anti-malarial cam Cemetery of Mrs. K. K.. Staple, ner which cannot be anything but that time a new system had been view of the unquestioned fact that whose death took place on Mon humiliating, is apparently an idea introduced under which, on a the Commissioner for- Foreign paign, we suggested that models day.
of the immigration authorities at British seaman being discharged at Affairs and other Authorities at of the anopheles mosquito should"] Among those present were, Mr. New York, who have never been any Continental post, his forearm wachow-though under no treaty be procured from Home and placed K. K. Staple, Mr. R. S. Logan noted for their consideration of was market, by the British Con obligation to do so-were then (brother) as chief mourners, the feelings of those who puse 9ular authorities, with a rubber in every school and other promin-Messrs. F. P. R. James, C. Sara, i through their hands, and whose stamp making an indelible mark doing their utmost to assist the
OUR MOSQUITOES.
Last week's return of notifiable According to the article con- diseases for the Colony com tributed to the University Medi-prised:-- cal Society's journal by Dr.
Small-pox: 1 case, Chinese; 1 death. (Note: A case reported A. G. M. Severn. Medical Officer on June 26 has been withdrawn of Health, the research work car from the list). ried out by Dr. John C. Thomson
Diphtheria: 2 cases (1 Chinese, 1 British); 1 death.. and subsequently by Dr. H.. Enteric fever: 2 cases (1 Chin Macfarlane has been followed up ese, 1 British). in a very praiseworthy manner.
Deaths from influenza, which is But how many will be really in not "notifiable":--two.
On Monday, the following were terested in Dr. Severn's valuable reported case of diphtheria, article? It is one thing to ejacu-1 case of enteric fever, both Chin- late Drus that mosquito" when it ese from the city district. arouses you from sleep. It is an other thing, generally speak-
FUNERAL
al the
men to undergo the indignity of an extra medical examination, stripped naked and herded together, after they have been medically ex amained in the case of the ships
British seamen exactly fifteen years
Cost of Living Blumed. 'Mr Chen's despatch then
pretext for a British blockade of
British Senior Naval Officer to
of stimulating the campaign and Kynock, T. W. Carr, T. Bolt, F. years quite as much by Americans only the neumers, but from others, secure pilotage.
Wheeler, S. A. Robert, J. M. Jack,
་
..that the
A crisis
the
ent places in this Colony by "way W. L. Walker, J. Fraser, J. H. actiona have been criticised in past There was a great outcry from not
War Movements Effected. strengthening the hands of the R. S. Vergette, T. V. Harmon, cal examination may, of course, be the marking of carcases of frozen as by foreigners. The extra med the stamping being compared with
"As it appeared to the Authori- medical authorities. That sug- A. E, Clark and many others.
necessary, though it is difficult to meat wher they enter the country."ties of Wuchow gestion was received with frigid Wreaths were sent by the see why, after the men have pre- It was, we believe, made a condi- British Senior Naval Officer was, silence both by the educational following: Husband, mother, viquely been examined at the Quar. tion of the settlement of the strike bent on precipitating
brothers and sisters, Win. and antine Station at New York. and that this detestable stamping which would gravely interfere with and medical authorities, whilst George and Lawrence, Jess and it is strongly to be hoped that if should be stopped immediately. the movement of Nationalist Gov- none of the general public appar-Bob, Betty and Betty Jean, Mrit cannot be done away with Amer-Stopped it was, and public opinion erament troops in connection with eritly could be sufficiently en-fand
Mrs. R. Bell, Mr. and can public opinion, as much
as was solidly with the seamen, the defensive plan of campaign Mrs. G. W. C. thused to support the suggestion.
Burnett, that of other countries, will bring There is a certain analogy in the against Wu Fel-fu's operation for Mr. and Mrs. Bigg, Mr about a change of method more in present trouble at New York. It is the invasion of the Liang-Kuang In some things-and those the and Mrs..A. E. Clarke, Mr. D. H. keeping with decency and the self true that the men are not being (Kwangtung and Kwangel) most vital to our health-we are Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. H. respect of those who have, to be marked like the carcades of eattle, Wuchow authorities informed the truly an apathetic community. Connant, Mrs. J. I. Callanan, Mr.examined. Even during the war, but they are being subjected to an British Senior Naval Officer that and Mrs. W. E. Douglas Mr. when men were drafted overseas in indignity in a manner which no they themselves would pay the And yet, so perverse are we in E. H. Edmonds, Mr. and Mrs. batches of hundreds, the medical self-respecting man would "tolerate wages claimed by the pilots and the mass, that in the event of a W. J. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. W. authorities somehow found time without protest, The number of would secure two pilota on the fol serious epidemic of malaria fever, Farmer, Mr. A. Gibson, Mr. and and went to the trouble to give each seamen and the variety of their na-lowing day, l.a. June 24." we would instantly assume the Mrs. D. A. Goodwin, Mr. L. B. mat, in tire final inspection, a care. tionalities who have struck against The despatch continues by re-
Games, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hynes, ful look-over in private,
the examination is sufficient proof, viewing the later facts, leading up. role of critics of the Medical De- M. E. E. Hagger, Mr. A. W. The present objections to the pro- if proof were needed, of the unto the sending of two "pilots on partment and demand the intro-Heron, Capt. and Mrs. H. Inries,
popularity and undesirability of board, and concludes with the de- duction of a systematic campaign Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Jones, Mr.
the examination being proceeded mand for apology, indemnity, dis- with in its present form; and the missal and panlehnent. against the obnoxious mosquito Kern, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Labrum, F. P. R. James, Mr. and Mrs. E.
average reasonable American, as which worries us not at all when Mr. and Mrs. LE Longbottom,
much as the average reasonable we are in the enjoyment of good | Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Labrum, Mr.
foreigner, will surely realise and 0. Lambert, Mr. and Mrs. B.
"appreciate the position and feel- health.
Pasco, Mr. and Mrs. D. J.
ings of the seaman concerned, and Some day, of course, things will Purver, Mr. S. A. Roberts, Mr.
do what can be done to get what be quite different. There will be G. B. Slipper, Mr. F. Wheelers
undoubtedly is a most obnoxious examination either eliminated" or drastically modified. In such a man ner as to remove ita most objections able features. Shipping and E- aineering"
a properly constituted Depart Mrs. F. Wheeler and Annie, Mrs.
ment of Public Health, one
FORGE NON L. Weill, Mr. R. S. Verrette,
whose duties will be the
Members of the Kowloon Cricket Club, the European Staff
tion of a campaign not only | (3.0.0.), PWD.
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